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Pardon if posted already, Rudy on Ingraham Angle last night. For some reason 8kun doesn’t recognize the video link

link:https://video.foxnews.com/v/6116329049001

Rudy Giuliani, a personal attorney for President Trump, said Monday that he played a key role in forcing ex-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch from her post earlier this year, and claimed that he has evidence the Trump impeachment inquiry is a "cover-up" of Democratic malfeasance.

Giuliani, one of Trump's most loyal defenders, told Laura Ingraham on "The Ingraham Angle" that he helped forced out Yovanovitch because she was corrupt and obstructing the investigation into Ukraine and the Bidens

I think it’s interesting that our President has been using all the distraction by the Dems and press for the last 3 years to accomplish more than almost any other president in their entire time they were in office. No wonder he’s not phased by “The Resistance”

While House Democrats pursue their partisan impeachment charade, the Senate Republicans confirmed Donald Trump’s 50th circuit judge last week — helping the president continue to shatter the all-time record for the number of critically important federal circuit judges appointed at this point in any prior presidency

To put that number in context, President Barack Obama appointed 55 federal circuit judges during the entirety of his eight-year presidency; Trump has almost matched that in just three years. In doing this, the president has already appointed 25 percent of all active federal circuit judges around the country.

The two newest federal circuit judges are Patrick Bumatay and Lawrence VanDyke, who won Senate confirmation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit over ferocious opposition by Senate Democrats and their left-wing allies.

Bumatay previously served as a federal prosecutor, fighting illegal immigration, drug cartels, and other serious crimes on the southern border in Southern California. He also served as a top attorney in the Justice Department, playing an important role in the confirmations of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Bumatay graduated from Yale and Harvard Law, before clerking on the Tenth Circuit and then on a key federal district court in New York.

The Democrats and their left-wing allies have a long and well-documented pattern and practice of unfairly attacking conservative minority nominees – and they made no exception for Bumatay, who happens to be an openly gay Filipino. When Democrats claim they want more “diversity” on the federal bench, they really mean “liberal-judicial activists.”

Judge Lawrence VanDyke brings a wealth of legal experience to the position. He too graduated from Harvard Law, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He clerked on the prestigious D.C. Circuit for Judge Janice Rogers Brown, an African American conservative women (again) appointed over fierce Democrat opposition. VanDyke is the only person to have ever served as the state solicitor general – the top appellate attorney – for two different states. He’s had 24 federal appellate arguments and served as counsel of record for 39 Supreme Court briefs.

VanDyke is unquestionably qualified to serve on the Ninth Circuit. Yet, the liberal American Bar Association (inexplicably) claimed that he was “not qualified” to serve, a political drive-by shooting timed on the eve as his confirmation hearing. As the Article III Project (A3P) research has shown, the ABA violated its own rules during VanDyke’s evaluation. Thankfully, the Senate Republicans did not simply hand over their constitutional advice-and-consent duties to the ABA. The political drive-by shooting backfired and now VanDyke has a lifetime appointment.

Trump has already “flipped" the Second, Third and Eleventh Circuits from a majority of Democrat-appointed judges to a majority of Republican appointees

There are 29 active circuit judges on the once-out-of-whack Ninth Circuit. With the confirmations of Bumatay and VanDyke, Trump has appointed 10 of those 29. When Trump took office, the Democrat-appointed judges on the Ninth Circuit outnumbered the Republican appointees by 11. Now, that number is down to just three. And when Trump wins re-election, he could actually “flip” the Ninth Circuit – something thought nearly impossible before his presidency

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/house-democrats-trump-impeachment-transform-federal-judiciary-mike-davis

Saudi student, 27, 'had a kill list of a professor and past roommate' when he was arrested a day before he was set to graduate from the University of New Mexico

—Hassan Alqahtani arrested day before graduation from University of New Mexico

—Engineering student, 27, has been charged with illegal possession of a firearm

—Allegedly had 'kill list' of professor, former roommate and person he fought with

—However FBI Special Agent Jonathan Labuhn said this was 'more of a mental list'

A Saudi Arabian student who was arrested on a federal firearms charge had a memorized 'kill list' which included a professor.

Hassan Alqahtani, 27, was detained a day before he was scheduled to graduate from the University of New Mexico.

In August a tip was given to the FBI's National Threat Operations Center that the engineering student had the list which also included a former roommate and a person he had scuffled with. This was also the person who filed a complaint.

Alqahtani remained in custody Monday while his attorneys sought more documents from prosecutors.

The attorneys hope to discredit allegations that their client was in possession of gun and had created a list of people he wanted to kill.

Alqahtani was shackled and wearing a jumpsuit as he listened to the testimony of the lead investigator during a hearing Monday in U.S. District Court.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7801103/Saudi-student-kill-list-arrested-University-New-Mexico-graduation.html

Deep fakes return to the news

Instagram's war on fake news goes global: Social network recruits fact checkers to help expose deception in shared photos or videos

Instagram had rolled out a US-exclusive fact checking feature earlier this year

Posts identified as containing fake content will no longer appear in searches

Labels will also be added to such posts in order to highlight the misinformation

Facebook and Instagram will be sharing notes on fake content going forward

Instagram has taken its war on fake news global, announcing that it has teamed up with independent fact checkers to expose deception in user posts.

Shared photos or video deemed to be false will be hidden from the social media platform's search feature — and directly labelled as misinformation.

The Facebook-owned network launched a fact-checking program in the US earlier this year — but such will now go worldwide.

In addition, Facebook and Instagram will be comparing notes to tackle misinformation being posted to both social media networks.

In addition, the photo and video sharing platform announced that it would be expanding on the anti-bullying features launched earlier this year.

'Today's expansion is an important step in our ongoing efforts to fight misinformation on Instagram,' a spokesperson for the service wrote in a blog post.

'Photo and video based misinformation is increasingly a challenge across our industry and something our teams have been focused on addressing.'

Instagram has begun working with third-party allies in the US to help identify, review and label bogus posts.

Content deemed to be false is ignored by Instagram's search or recommendation tools — and is shown with a warning label if users do come across it.

'When content has been rated as false or partly false by a third-party fact-checker, we reduce its distribution,' the Instagram spokesperson explained.

'In addition, it will be labelled so people can better decide for themselves what to read, trust and share.'

Once a post is found to be deceptive, software searches for copies of it across Instagram's platform to brand it accordingly.

'We use image matching technology to find further instances of this content and apply the label, helping reduce the spread of misinformation,' Instagram said.

In addition, if something is rated false or partly false on Facebook, starting today we'll automatically label identical content if it is posted on Instagram and vice versa

And who are the third parties, Users, Yep that’s right users

Posts reviewed by Facebook fact-checking teams include content flagged by users, as well as material tagged by software that is continually being refined by the California-based media firm.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7799583/Instagram-says-fight-misinformation-fact-check-allies.html