As far as Nunes can tell, none of us have even met with Trump

[PerkingFaintly]

Devin Nunes Gets A Pretty Basic Fact Wrong In Defending His Memo
Nunes suggested that Donald Trump had never met with George Papadopoulos. There's a photo of them sitting at the same table.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/devin-nunes-memo_us_5a788b57e4b01fe513a60603

And we certainly didn't have a national security meeting right here:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3150505-The-one-in-which-Trump-orders-his-staff-to-fire-Mueller-and-they-give-him-the-finger?pg=1

Luck and spare capital.

Spencer Ackerman
@attackerman
At Monday HPSCI, Schiff gets specific with what he says GOPers are blocking subpoenas on: Michael Cohen's bank/travel/comms records; Don Jr; Deutsche Bank; Don Jr Twitter DMs; Roger Stone Twitter DMs. Turner countercharges Dems want to "prove [dossier] they funded is true"

The Hill
@thehill
#BREAKING: Kelly told Trump he'd be willing to resign: hill.cm/daXVkjF

Alec MacGillis
@AlecMacGillis
BREAKING: Kushner Cos. has opted to move the tenants' lawsuit filed against it back to state court, even tho that means facing a Baltimore city jury, after a judge ruled that keeping the case in federal court would require disclosing the Kushner investment partners. More TK soon.

Why on earth should Kelly think Scrotus wants him to resign? He didn't say anything different than what Scrotus himself said in his nonsensical comment on Porter's departure.

It's all such a huge pile of horseshit anyway. They knew. They knew and they didn't care. I can picture the three of them drinking Scotch and talking about how they (the ex-wives) shouldn't have made Porter mad because then he wouldn't have had to hit them. See what they made him do? Patriarchal bastards.

Matthew Dowd
@matthewjdowd
The important thing to keep in mind in all this is Donald Trump wouldn’t be able to pass an FBI background check and get a security clearance if he was a staffer at the White House.

Mieke eoyang
@MiekeEoyang
Things that would trouble FBI if Trump applied for a security clearance:

1. Unreported Russia contacts
2. History of lying
3. Financial distress
4. Domestic violence allegations
5. Inappropriate disclosures of classified info to uncleared foreign nationals
6. Living outside means

Rachel Brand, the No. 3 official at DOJ, is leaving:

No. 3 Official at the Justice Department Is Stepping Down

<a class="break-all" href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/us/politics/rachel-brand-justice-department.html?referer=t.co/b5kR3zFgoq?amp=1#click=t.co/b5kR3zFgoq" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/us/politics/rachel-brand-justice-department.html?referer=t.co/b5kR3zFgoq?amp=1#click=t.co/b5kR3zFgoq

Two more officials cited in FBI texts step down

The FBI's media chief and the head of the Justice Department's anti-espionage section are both departing.

www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/02/08/fbi-texts-officials-resign-400533?__twitter_impression=true

So Fridays that kick off half term holidays are more potent than normal Fridays. Figures.

Rachel Brand who would be in charge of overseeing mueller if rosenstein were to go

The Intercept
@theintercept
Exclusive: U.S. secretly negotiated with Russians to buy stolen NSA documents — and the Russians offered Trump-Related material, too interc.pt/2C7QXUR by James Rise

Rachel Maddow MSNBC
@maddow

One week ago today

And

Neal Katyal
@neal_katyal
This is huge news that the highly respected No. 3 official at DOJ is out, and makes Rod Rosenstein's job as the Deputy Attorney General even more important. Very bad sign that she lasted 9 months. Great reporting by @ktbenner

Matthew Miller
@matthewamiller
Who the administration makes acting Associate AG is a critical thing to watch. If Rosenstein has to recuse (and I don't get how he hasn't yet), that person is suddenly Mueller's boss

[i think the “and I don’t know how he hasn’t yet” about being recused was to do with rosenstein being a witness to comeys firing, what with the letter he wrote too, and therefore being a witness to potential obstruction of justice, as being investigated by mueller]

Jason Leopold
@JasonLeopold
UNREAL

In my/@BuzzFeedNews ongoing #FOIA lawsuit against multiple govt agencies for documents on Mikhail Lesin, the founder of RT who authorities say got drunk, fell down numerous times in his DC hotel room and died, DOJ just sent me 32 pages of this.

mobile.twitter.com/JasonLeopold/status/962053889724792832

Caroline O.
@RVAwonk
NEW: Trump says the White House is "going to issue a letter soon" regarding the Democratic memo.

A letter. Not the memo

Trump says White House to issue letter on Democratic Russia memo

<a class="break-all" href="http://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1FT2NP#click=t.co/W1kPjs4oyw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1FT2NP#click=t.co/W1kPjs4oyw

This is not surprising but still deeply upsetting and enraging. But of course, he has a vested interest in the “the women are lying!” narrative

In Private, Trump Voices Doubt About Rob Porter’s Accusers

amp.thedailybeast.com/in-private-donald-trump-voices-doubt-about-rob-porters-accusers?via=twitter_page&__twitter_impression=true

Josh Dawsey
@jdawsey1
Deputy chief of staff Jim Carroll is leaving the West Wing, as first reported by CNN.

The Baxter Bean
@TheBaxterBean
JUST IN: Trump campaign chair in KY pleads guilty to sex trafficking of minors: 21 counts against 19 victims, to get 20 yrs in prison, “felony trafficking of a minor, felony inducing a minor to engage in sex, and a third count of giving alcohol to a minor”
kentucky.gov/Pages/Activity-stream.aspx?n=AttorneyGeneral&prId=497

Should Sessions be wary?

Fox News @FoxNews
47m47 minutes ago
More
'Let's Get Rid of Him': @jasoninthehouse Says Sessions Is 'Worthless Attorney General'

thehill.com/homenews/administration/373124-trump-prefers-oral-report-to-reading-daily-intel-briefing-report?

The “Sessions should go” tweet was followed immediately afterwards with this.

Fox News @FoxNews
38m38 minutes ago
More
.@redsteeze: John Kelly needs to go

Friday night.

Aaand... there's more of them

Brian Krassenstein@krassentein
This is Utah Republican Rep. Jon Stanard
He voted for tougher penalties for prostitution.
He has just resigned amid allegations that he used taxpayer money to pay for hotel rooms with a prostitute.
It would really be a shame if everyone RETWEETED this picture of him.
twitter.com/krassenstein/status/962038137651425280

They really don't care any more do they?

Fox News exec says US Olympic team is too gay to win medals

Fox News executive editor John Moody worries that the "darker, gayer" athletes competing in the winter games will cost Team USA victory.
shareblue.com/fox-news-exec-complains-us-olympic-team-gay-win-medals/

Well it looks like somebody did care...

Just in: Fox News has just taken down the column analyzed below. “John Moody’s column does not reflect the views or values of FOX News and has been removed,” says a Fox News spokesperson.

Fox News eliminates column by network executive blasting Olympic diversity as 'Darker, Gayer, Different
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/02/09/fox-news-exec-questions-whether-more-diverse-u-s-olympic-team-was-selected-by-merit/