Pelosi slams White House for blocking coronavirus task force members from testifying: 'They might be afraid of the truth'

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Monday blasted the White House's move to restrict officials leading the nation's coronavirus response from testifying before Congress, suggesting that the Trump administration "might be afraid of the truth."

The Trump administration on Monday issued new guidance instructing coronavirus task force members not to accept invitations to participate in congressional hearings this month unless approved by White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. The move came after the White House late last week blocked Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, from testifying before a House committee hearing scheduled for Wednesday.

Pelosi said Congress needs to hear from officials handling the COVID-19 response to help lawmakers determine how resources should be allocated in upcoming coronavirus relief legislation.

"The fact is that we need to allocate resources for this. In order to do that, any appropriations bill must begin in the House. And we have to have the information to act upon," Pelosi said during an interview on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer."

Pelosi added that Meadows, who recently resigned from Congress to serve as President Trump's latest chief of staff, knows House Democrats will be "very, very strictly insisting on the truth."

"And they might be afraid of the truth," Pelosi said.

She panned the move as “business as usual” for the Trump administration, which has blocked witnesses from testifying before the Democratic-led House on numerous other occasions, such as last year’s impeachment inquiry into the president’s efforts to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate his political opponents.

The White House said it is limiting officials' appearances before Congress so they can focus on response efforts instead of spending hours preparing for and giving sworn testimony on Capitol Hill.

“The demands on agencies’ staff and resources are extraordinary in this current crisis. Agencies must maximize their resources for COVID-19 response efforts and treat hearing requests accordingly,” the guidance says.

“Given these competing demands in these unprecedented times, it is reasonable to expect that agencies will have to decline invitations to hearings to remain focused on implementing of COVID-19 response, including declining to participate in multiple hearings on the same or overlapping topics,” it adds.

The White House blocked Fauci from testifying before the Democratic-controlled House Appropriations subcommittee overseeing the Department of Health and Human Services. But Fauci is expected to appear before the GOP-controlled Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee later this month.

The House Appropriations subcommittee will instead hear from Thomas Frieden, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/496070-pelosi-on-white-house-blocking-coronavirus-task-force-members-from-testifying

Some Democrats say charges against Biden merit independent investigation

A few Senate Democrats are saying there needs to be more investigation of former aide Tara Reade’s accusation that Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in the Senate 27 years ago, a charge Biden has vehemently denied.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who is in the midst of a tough primary race against Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.), said Monday that there needs to be an “independent” investigation.

“We need an investigation that has independence that will then ensure that the facts are established,” Markey said on his way to a late afternoon confirmation vote in the Capitol.

“It should be independent,” he added.

Markey said he hadn’t yet thought about who should conduct the investigation but said Biden himself “has called for it, and I think he’s right to do it.”

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) also called for an independent review of the charges.

“I think it’s important to have appropriate independent scrutiny brought to bear to help inform all of us about the situation,” he said. Like Markey, he hasn’t give much thought about who should conduct the probe.

“It’s a good question … because we’re not in a situation where there’s a member of the Senate or a member of the administration” facing charges, Merkley noted.

Reade in mid-March claimed that Biden pushed her against a wall and assaulted her in 1993.

Biden declared that “it never, never happened” during an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday, his first media interview on the subject.

The former vice president, who served in the Senate from 1973 to 2009, last week asked Secretary of the Senate Julie Adams to make public any record that might exist of a complaint Reade said she filed. Adams replied on Monday that Senate rules and current law prohibit her from making public any information related to a workplace complaint or harassment claim.

In a statement released Monday morning, the secretary of the Senate said that “strict confidentiality requirements” in the law allow for “no discretion to disclose any such information” requested by Biden related to Reade’s accusations.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/496079-some-democrats-say-charges-against-biden-merit-independent-investigation

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is Latest Democrat to Join Long List of Communist Ass Kissers

Democrats have a long history of coddling the Communists–

1970 — John Kerry secretly meets with representatives from the Vietcong in France while the Vietnam War is raging in southeast Asia.

Front Page reported:

John and Julia Kerry travel to Paris on a private trip. Kerry meets with Madam Win Thi Binh, the Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam (PRG) — the political wing of the Vietcong — and with representatives of Hanoi who were in Paris for the peace talks.

1984 — Former Senator Ted Kennedy asked Russia to intervene in the 1984 election to help defeat President Ronald Reagan.

According to an earlier report by Forbes:

Picking his way through the Soviet archives that Boris Yeltsin had just thrown open, in 1991 Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times, came across an arresting memorandum. Composed in 1983 by Victor Chebrikov, the top man at the KGB, the memorandum was addressed to Yuri Andropov, the top man in the entire USSR. The subject: Sen. Edward Kennedy.

“On 9-10 May of this year,” the May 14 memorandum explained, “Sen. Edward Kennedy’s close friend and trusted confidant [John] Tunney was in Moscow.” (Tunney was Kennedy’s law school roommate and a former Democratic senator from California.) “The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov.”

Kennedy’s message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. “The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations,” the memorandum stated. “These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/speaker-nancy-pelosi-latest-democrat-join-long-list-communist-ass-kissers/

>>9031835

sure looks that way

Man Arrested 3 Times In 1 Day Under California’s Coronavirus-Based Zero-Bail Policy

GLENDORA, CALIF. — On Wednesday, at about 8:28 a.m., officers responded to a call of man who was attempting to break into a vehicle in the 1400 block of South Grand Ave. Officers contacted Dijon Landrum, 24, from Monterey Park, as he was attempting to drive away in a stolen vehicle. The vehicle had been stolen out of East Los Angeles. In addition to driving a stolen vehicle, he had stolen property and narcotics with him. Landrum was arrested.

Due to the California Zero-Bail Policy, he was issued a citation and released.

Approximately one hour after Landrum was released, at about 2:20 p.m., police received a call of a man in the area of Bennett and Pennsylvania. He was carrying a box, and was walking through front yards of residences. It appeared that he was placing items in this box as he was walking through the properties. When police arrived, they contacted Dijon Landrum a second time.

Due to the California Zero-Bail Policy, he was issued a citation, and the property was recovered by our officers.

Several hours later, at 8:49 p.m., police received a call of a vehicle that had just been stolen out of a parking lot in the 1300 block of South Grand Ave. Officers were able to track the vehicle and found it westbound on the 10 freeway in the area of La Puente. With assistance from outside agencies (LA County Sheriffs and California Highway Patrol), they located the vehicle and a pursuit began. The pursuit ultimately ended in Pasadena, and Dijon Landrum was again arrested for being in possession of a stolen vehicle, and also for evading officers.

Due to the California Zero-Bail Policy, Landrum was released with his third citation of the day.

https://breaking911.com/man-arrested-3-times-in-1-day-under-californias-coronavirus-based-zero-bail-policy/

Judicial Watch files lawsuit seeking Dr. Fauci, WHO records

https://youtu.be/sVdIlkjA3mY

MASSIVE REVELATION: NYC Hospitals are Killing Black & Latino People to Increase Covid-19 Mortalities

NEW YORK CITY [FRN] – NYC nurse Nicole Sirotek comes forward with a shocking first-hand account of ‘holocaust-like’ treatment of Covid-19 patients. In this must-see video, below, Ms. Sirotek explains how the NYC hospital she has been assigned to appears to be intentionally mismanaging the care given, particularly (we are to infer) to patients of color (black and latino patients) in the ICU and in relation to Covid-19 diagnosis. Or it may be the case that the hospital, in pushing up Covid mortalities, does so without particular regard for race but as a matter of location would have more patients of color.

A shattered and demoralized ICU nurse, Ms. Sirotek explains clearly that these patients are not in fact dying of Covid-19, but of criminal degrees of mismanagement and professionalism to such an extent that it cannot be a mistake.

This account mirrors a related story out of New York which FRN featured last week. In that account, a nurse speaking on behalf of an anonymous friend, relayed nearly identical information – they are ‘murdering’ patients and labeling the deaths ‘Covid-19 presumed’.

Watching these two side by side creates a better picture of how this situation, what Mike Pompeo referred to as a ‘live exercise’ has played out in NYC hospitals.

Click on the image or here , to go to this parallel story from late April 27th.

https://youtu.be/IUVyeilcPXw

https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/05/massive-revelation-nyc-hospitals-are-killing-black-latino-people-to-increase-covid-19-mortalities/

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>>9032024

possibly seems this is used to push a race war