Senate Intel leaders Feinstein and Grassley grim and silent after Trump-Russia briefings with Comey

After closed door meetings with FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday, top members of the Senate Intelligence Committee looked grim and rattled and refused to divulge the contents of the meeting to reporters.

At around 5 p.m. E.T. on Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) faced reporters but revealed little about their meetings with Comey.

“This briefing was all on sensitive matters,” Feinstein said, “and highly classified and it’s really not anything we can answer any questions about.”

Comey has been at the center of multiple controversies lately, from his decision to make a later-discredited announcement about Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s email server in the days before the 2016 election, to whether or not his agency is currently investigating Donald Trump’s campaign for colluding with the Russian government.

Comey was asked by Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham to state by Wednesday whether his agency is actively investigating the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.

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Repeal of Health Law Faces a New Hurdle: Older Americans

WASHINGTON — Republican plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act have encountered a new obstacle: adamant opposition from many older Americans whose health insurance premiums would increase.

AARP and its allies are bombarding congressional offices with objections as two House committees plan to vote on the Republicans’ bill this week.

If the law is repealed, the groups say, people in their 50s and 60s could see premiums rise by $2,000 to $3,000 a year or more: increases of 20 percent to 25 percent or higher.

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Trump Reverses Pledge To Mandate U.S. Steel For Keystone Pipeline. A Direct Beneficiary Is A Russian Oligarch With Close Ties To Vladimir Putin

After green lighting the continuation of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline in an executive order January 24th, President Trump declared as recently as last week that the pipeline had to use American made steel “or we’re not building one.”

But on Friday, Trump spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that the directive would apply only to new pipelines or those currently undergoing repair.

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NEWS “You’re In Trump Country Now!”, Gay Couple In Florida Got Attacked In Sickening Way

The gay couple, named Kevin Seymour and Kevin Paul Taylor, were finishing dinner where they live in Key West, Florida, when they got attacked by drunken Trump-supporting tourists. Wrote Taylor on his Facebook page, “Feeling disheartened because we were victims of a hate crime last night biking home from dinner and a drunk tourist on a scooter harassed Kevin Seymour and me all the way down Duval, calling us faggots and a slew of other anti gay remarks such as “I bet you faggots voted for that bitch Hillary–well you live in Trump Country now.” He kept stopping in front of us and swerving into us. Finally Kevin got ahead of him and the guy charges him with his scooter and runs into him and knocks him off his bike. Kevin is okay. Luckily it happened right in front of a business with lots of cameras and also there was a witness on the porch that gave a sworn statement to the police. Thankful Kevin is okay and our emotional wounds will heal. The license plates on the scooter MCUT33. I think the cops will be able to track him down.” Are you sick of this virulent Trumper bigotry?

President Donald Trump Accuses Obama of Wire Tapping Him in October

President Donald Trump, in a series of early morning tweets Saturday, accused former President Barack Obama of having tapped phone lines into Trump Tower, an accusation for which the current president provided no evidence.

No law enforcement agency or credible source has publicly asserted that Mr. Trump’s phone lines were tapped. Mr. Trump provided no evidence for his assertions, which marked a return to the caustic tone that has often characterized the president’s remarks.

It wasn’t clear what Mr. Trump was reacting to, but the conservative media outlet Breitbart, whose former chairman Steve Bannon is Mr. Trump’s political strategist, published an article Friday based on the claims of a right-wing radio host that intelligence agencies were conducting a “silent coup” against Mr. Trump.

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Trump Snaps & Makes Early AM ‘Apprentice’ Announcement – He Lost His Mind

While the world continues to go on about its business around him, the man who is supposed to be leading America’s role in all that business is tweeting about reality television.

Quite simply, ratings don’t fire people, people fire people, and the former California Governor is, in fact, leaving his spot as host of “The Celebrity Apprentice” entirely of his own accord. You can read about that at this link.

What Trump’s tweet does is drive home the point that we’ve really, seriously, elected a reality tv star to the presidency. He’s not a changed man; he’s the very same person as that man who sat at the head of the table in “The Apprentice,” wagged his spindly finger and shouted “You’re Fired!” over and over and over again. Donald Trump still operates according to the same personal principles as if he’s starring in a reality tv show — he’s just the president of the United States now.

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Is this Presidential behavior? I say nope.

QUESTIONS MUST BE ANSWERED

Those of you who have read the blather I post here are aware that I was a Hillary supporter. Some of you probably think that when I post political stuff here, it's because I was a Hillary supporter.

Actually, as an American citizen, I have concerns that there might have been some kind of shenanigans happening in the recent Presidential elections. Questions need to be answered before we can automatically assume that this election was fair, square, and on the up and up.

Trump campaign peeps Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Jeff Sessions, Jared Kushner, Carter Page, J.D. Gordon (whom we know of) all had some form of meetings with known Rooshians. Questions include, WHY? IS THIS TYPICAL PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BEHAVIOR? WHY DID TRUMP DENY THESE MEETINGS OCCURED? WHY ARE THE MEETINGS SO FREQUENT? More importantly, DID THESE MEETINGS RELATE TO ROOSHIAN INTERFERENCE IN THE ELECTION? WHY DID CANDIDATE TRUMP INVITE ROOSHIAN SPYING ON HILLARY'S CAMPAIGN, SUCH SPYING BEING CLEARLY ILLEGAL? WHY DID THE ROOSHIANS INTERFERE IN THE ELECTION? WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO GAIN? DO ROOSHIAN OLIGARCHS HAVE A FINANCIAL HOLD ON TRUMP? IS THAT WHY HE WON'T RELEASE HIS TAX RETURNS? IS THIS WHY TRUMP HAS BEEN SO "NICE" TO ROOSHIANS LATELY?

The intel community has concerns about all this. If they have concerns, why in the world wouldn't you and I have concerns, too?