Barr to appear on Fox News from El Salvador on Friday

Fox News announced Thursday that Attorney General William Barr will be interviewed on the network Friday morning from El Salvador.

The televised interview will be Barr’s first since the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on his investigation into Russian election meddling in April and Barr's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month.

The sit-down with the attorney general will be conducted by "America's Newsroom" anchor Bill Hemmer, Fox News said.

"During the interview, Hemmer will speak with AG Barr about the Mueller Report and his testimony before the Senate, as well as his plans in El Salvador," the network said in a statement. Hemmer is a former CNN anchor who joined Fox News in 2005.

Barr traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday to talk about Department of Justice (DOJ) strategy regarding illegal narcotics, MS-13 gangs, illegal immigration and human trafficking, the department said.

The attorney general is meeting with DOJ personnel and officials from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala amid a growing crisis at the U.S. southern border.

Barr is also visiting the International Law Enforcement Academy while taking part in the Third Ministerial of the Northern Triangle Attorneys General in an effort to strengthen the U.S. working relationship with international law enforcement, officials said.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/443994-barr-to-appear-on-fox-news-from-el-salvador-on-friday

Missouri Senate passes bill to ban abortions at 8 weeks

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican-led Senate has now passed a bill to ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy.

Senators approved the legislation 24-10 early Thursday with just hours left before a Friday deadline to pass bills. It needs at least one more vote of approval in the GOP-led House before it can go to Republican Gov. Mike Parson, who voiced support for it on Wednesday.

Parson called on state senators to take action, joining a movement of GOP-dominated state legislatures emboldened by the possibility that a more conservative Supreme Court could overturn its landmark ruling legalizing the procedure. Their vote came only hours after Alabama’s governor signed the most stringent abortion ban in the nation on Wednesday, making performing an abortion a felony in nearly all cases.

The Missouri proposal includes exceptions for medical emergencies, but not for pregnancies caused by rape or incest. Doctors would face five to 15 years in prison for violating the eight-week cutoff. Women who receive abortions at eight weeks or later into a pregnancy wouldn’t be prosecuted.

https://www.apnews.com/34093a432fcc4c11acc295a609841c3b

White House says DACA protections too divisive to be included in Trump immigration plan

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday that President Trump’s new immigration plan does not address the fate of young undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children because the issue is too divisive.

Providing protections from deportations of such young immigrants known as “dreamers” has been a leading priority for Democrats ever since Trump sought to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

“Every single time we have put forward or anyone else has put forward any type of immigration plan and it’s included DACA, it’s failed. It’s a divisive thing,” Sanders told reporters at the White House, adding that the issue was “left out on purpose.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-says-daca-protections-too-divisive-to-be-included-in-trump-immigration-plan/2019/05/16/5ee50606-77e3-11e9-b3f5-5673edf2d127_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2e7c30ddca6f

Isaac Kappy's Last Phone Call

He says Kappy did not commit suicide.

Nellie Ohr Deleted Emails Exchanged with DOJ Husband Bruce Ohr

‘I’m deleting these emails now’

Judicial Watch today released an email revealing that Nellie Ohr, wife of former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, informed him that she was deleting emails sent from Bruce Ohr’s DOJ email account.

From: Nellie Ohr

Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 12:49 PM

To: Ohr, Bruce (ODAG)

Subject: Re: Analyst Russian Organized Crime – April 2016

Thanks! I’m deleting these emails now

The full email exchange is between Bruce Ohr, Lisa Holtyn, Nellie Ohr, and Stefan Bress, a first secretary at the German Embassy, and is part of 339 pages of heavily redacted records from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Judicial Watch obtained the records through a March 2018 Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed after the Justice Department failed to respond a December 2017 request (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00490)).

Nellie Ohr’s email has the same subject line as an email exchange with the subject line “Analyst Russian Organized Crime – April 2016” in which Bress initiates a discussion with Bruce Ohr and his top aide, Lisa Holtyn, proffering some “Russian analysts” to discuss a variety of topics with Ohr, Holtyn, and other DOJ officials. Among those topics to be discussed is “Impact of Russian influence operations in Europe (‘PsyOps/InfoWar’).”

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-nellie-ohr-deleted-emails-exchanged-with-doj-husband-bruce-ohr/

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Senate to vote this pm to confirm Jeffrey Rosen to be Deputy Attorney General.

9:30 AM - 16 May 2019

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