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Let's hope he is done soon.

Can’t bring myself to watch but the presser’s on at the moment

CBS News
@CBSNews
.@ZekeJMiller on Stormy Daniels payment: "Why the president was not truthful with the American people and with the people in this room?"
@PressSec: "This was information that the president didn't know at the time, but eventually learned." (link: cbsn.ws/2JMxw8o )

Philip Rucker
@PhilipRucker
WH lawyers McGahn and Flood were not aware that Trump repaid Cohen $130,000 for Stormy Daniels hush money until Giuliani said so on Fox

www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/i-was-going-to-get-this-over-with-inside-giulianis-explosive-stormy-daniels-revelation/2018/05/03/6937ac52-4ee6-11e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.html

A rocky presser, SHS did not have an easy ride today, Jim Acosta CNN gave her a hard time, deservedly so, as did others.

I believe the word 'lie' was actually used.

thehill.com/homenews/administration/386110-exclusive-giuliani-calls-for-sessions-to-step-in-on-cohen?__twitter_impression=true

Rudy Giuliani called for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to intervene in the Michael Cohen case and put the people behind the probe “under investigation” in a phone call with The Hill on Thursday.

“I am waiting for the Attorney General to step in, in his role as defender of justice, and put these people under investigation,” Giuliani said, reacting to an NBC News report that phones belonging to Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal attorney, had been tapped by investigators.

When they get to cozie's dessert it will involve flambé, a flambé ... fire.

thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/385989-giuliani-on-kushner-men-like-him-are-disposable

I have to admit between Giuliani contradicting Scrotus' lie that he 'knew nothing' about the payoff and the Cohen wiretaps (texts and emails as well as phone calls) I'm feeling a wee bit hopefully smug.

To paraphrase: "Oh Lordy, there ARE tapes! Just please let them have incriminating evidence on them."

Have you hear, recently, from DH's BFF, Across? I wondered how they're taking all of this?

heard

Mueller has applied for 70 blank subpoenas in VA it seems.

No idea what that means...

Manu Raju
@mkraju
Trump appears to have lied to his press secretary to mislead public. @acosta asks if Sanders lied in March or was in dark when she said she spoke to Trump who denied involvement in Stormy payments and denied all allegations. "I gave you the best information I had at the time"

Sanders later says she first learned last night about reimbursement to Cohen during Rudy interview with Hannity

All those shoes dropping! Trump must be feeling a bit claustrophobic

AFP news agency
@AFP
#BREAKING Twitter urges users to change passwords after data "unmasked"

Alex Moe
@AlexNBCNews
Here is the full letter Father Pat Conroy sent to Speaker Ryan today rescinding his resignation as House chaplain

cozie He and DH have an 'entente cordiale' in which they've agreed not to discuss the whole clusterfuck situation. Or rather, he's asked DH not to 'make remarks' (i.e. tell the truth) about Scrotus to him as it's 'upsetting'. Gee, I guess he can't handle the truth that he voted for a madman. He came 'thisclose' to admitting it was a 'mistake' but couldn't quite bring himself to do so. He always falls back on the 'I had to vote to protect my 2nd Amendment rights' bullshit.

My BFF (his wife) and I have come to a quiet understanding that, basically, he bullied threatened her into voting for Scrotus. Although I disagree with anyone allowing their vote to be used by another person in this case I have to reluctantly give her a pass. He filled out her ballot, bullied her into signing it, and mailed it himself.

lion 70 blank subpoenas? That's given me a bit of a tingle!

I guess he spoke to /heard from ........someone?

Yamiche Alcindor
@Yamiche

Fireworks today.

.@AprilDRyan: You were blindsided by the news of that the president repaid Michael Cohen for the $130K hush payment to Stormy Daniels.

Sarah Sanders: "With all due respect, you don't know how I feel."

April Ryan: I've been here 21 years, I know how this works.

I wasn't aware that you could apply for blank subpoenas?

Caroline O.
‏*@RVAwonk*

'Aaaand he did it again. Explaining why Cohen paid the hush money to Stormy Daniels, #RudyGiuliani says:

"Imagine if that came out on October 15, 2016, in the middle of the last debate with Hillary Clinton."

So... yea, he just tied the payment directly to the campaign.'

There's something else going on here. No-one can be that daft.

I thought it might be about Giuliani's own ambitions for an eventual shot at the top slot himself.

Maybe he's trying a Hail Mary pass?

The Pat Conroy thing is ........not insignificant.

Steady.

lawfareblog.com/presidential-norms-and-special-counsel-investigation-disclosures-congress

Whoops! Jared Kushner Made Even More Mistakes in His Federal Filings

It keeps happening. Jared Kushner filed the wrong information about two of his loans in Brooklyn. He has had to update his disclosure form at least 40 times.

www.propublica.org/article/whoops-jared-kushner-made-even-more-mistakes-in-his-federal-filings

Matt McDermott
@mattmfm
Is the last 24 hours we’ve learned the President lied to voters about his health and secretly paid hush money to a porn star weeks before the 2016 election.

Both demand congressional investigation.

The House GOP response? To instead nominate Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize.