WASHINGTON (AP) — White House press secretary Sarah Sanders tried to do damage control on her credibility Friday, insisting that she hadn’t intentionally misled the American public about FBI Director James Comey’s firing despite telling the special counsel that her claim that “countless” agents had lost confidence in him was not founded on anything.

Sanders, who told special counsel Robert Mueller that her comment during a White House press briefing in May 2017 had been a “slip of the tongue” made in the “heat of the moment,” claimed in a series of television interviews that the sentiment behind her words — that many rank-and-file FBI agents had lost confidence in Comey and contacted the White House to say so — remained true.

“If you look at what I said, I said the ‘slip of the tongue’ was in using the word ‘countless,’ but there were a number of FBI, both former and current, that agreed with the president’s decision, and they’ve continued to speak out and say that and send notice to the White House of that agreement with the president’s decision,” she said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

“I said that it was in the heat of the moment, meaning it wasn’t a scripted thing,” she added on “CBS This Morning.” ”But the big takeaway here is that the sentiment is 100% accurate.”

Sanders is among scores of current and former White House officials who were interviewed by Mueller’s team during the nearly two-year investigation that examined whether Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russia during the 2016 election and whether the president tried to interfere with the inquiry.

Mueller concluded his investigation last month and Attorney General William Barr released a redacted version of the special counsel’s report on Thursday. Mueller found no evidence of conspiracy between the campaign and Russia but also made no clear verdict on the question of obstruction.

A section of the report that references Comey’s firing by Trump notes Sanders telling reporters that the White House had heard from “countless” FBI agents who had lost confidence in Comey’s ability to lead the bureau. She dug in when a reporter pushed back, asking, “I mean, really?”

“Between like email, text messages, absolutely,” she responded, claiming that there had been at least 50 contacts.

But Mueller’s report found that the “evidence does not support those claims.”

“The President told Comey at their January 27 dinner that ‘the people of the FBI really like (him),’ no evidence suggests that the President heard otherwise before deciding to terminate Comey, and Sanders acknowledged to investigators that her comments were not founded on anything,” the report said.

Sanders, who spoke to Mueller’s investigators under oath, told them her use of the word “countless” was a “slip of the tongue.”

“I’m sorry that I wasn’t a robot like the Democrat Party that went out for 2½ years and stated time and time again that there was definitely Russian collusion between the president and his campaign, that they had evidence to show it and that the president and his team deserved to be in jail, that he shouldn’t be in office when, really, they were the ones that were creating the greatest scandal in the history of our country,” Sanders said on ABC.

This isn’t the first instance in which the credibility of Sanders, who speaks for the White House and is paid by American taxpayers, has come under scrutiny.

She faced similar questions last year after Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump’s personal attorneys, surprised the White House by saying on national TV that Trump had reimbursed his then-fixer Michael Cohen for the $130,000 Cohen had paid porn actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign to keep quiet about an alleged past sexual encounter with Trump. Trump has denied Daniels’ claim.

The White House had failed to disclose the reimbursement. Sanders said she didn’t know anything about the repayment until Giuliani disclosed it.

At least one publisher said the credibility problems that existed for Sanders before Mueller’s report have worsened after it.

“This now documented, on-the-record, under-oath episode, I think it completely obliterates her credibility,” said Kyle Pope, editor-in-chief and publisher of Columbia Journalism Review. “I remember watching and thinking there is no way countless FBI people called up Sarah Sanders. It stretched credulity just on its face.”

Pope said the episodes raise questions about why any reporter would attend Sanders’ briefings, which she has scaled back from daily to about monthly, or “put stock” in what she says.

Frank Sesno, director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University, said credibility is the only currency a press secretary has to offer.

“When you throw it overboard or devalue it, you do so at your own peril. I think that Sarah has a lot of explaining to do, which should be done forthrightly and honestly about the disparity in her comment,” said Sesno, a former White House correspondent for CNN.

Sesno continued: “The public and the media expect partisans and press secretaries to spin,” or attempt to put a rosier face on less-than-flattering situations. “They don’t expect them to lie. If you’re caught in a lie, you should acknowledge it and figure out whether you can repair your reputation.”

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New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday lashed out at members of a militia group who are stopping migrants at the border, declaring “regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone.”

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico has demanded that Lujan Grisham and New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas investigate the militia organization, United Constitutional Patriots. Some of the group’s members are armed.

“That migrant families might be menaced or threatened in any way, shape or form when they arrive at our border — often times after an unimaginably arduous journey — is completely unacceptable,” Lujan Grisham said in an email to NBC News.

“It should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone,” she said. “My office and our state police are coordinating with the Attorney General’s Office and local police to determine what has gone on and what can be done.”

Balderas warned in a statement that “these individuals should not attempt to exercise authority reserved for law enforcement,” he said.

The ACLU of New Mexico raised the alarm about the arrests in a letter sent Thursday to Lujan Grisham and Balderas.

The letter said that on Tuesday members of the group arrested nearly 300 people near Sunland Park, New Mexico. The ACLU posted excerpts of the letter on its website with video that appeared to have been made by one of the militia members.

“The Trump administration’s vile racism has emboldened white nationals and fascists to flagrantly violate the law,” the ACLU said. “This has no place in our state: We cannot allow racist and armed vigilantes to kidnap and detain people seeking asylum. We urge you to immediately investigate this atrocious and unlawful conduct.”

According to Reuters, the group, made up mainly of veterans, has been patrolling in the area near Sunland Park since late February. They’ve been posting videos almost daily of members in camouflage and armed with semi-automatic rifles holding asylum-seekers who have crossed the border until Border Patrol arrives to arrest them.

Kevin McAleenan, acting Homeland Security secretary, said in a March 27 visit to El Paso, Texas, that Border Patrol did not help from “civil society groups” in policing the border, Reuters reported.

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(CNN)Two US soldiers were questioned by Mexican troops earlier this month while conducting a surveillance operation on the US side of the southern border, two US defense officials tell CNN.

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Members of the group allegedly broke into North Korea’s Spanish embassy and stole several computers and hard drives

American authorities have arrested a former US Marine who is allegedly part of a group that raided North Korea’s embassy in Madrid, reports say.

Christopher Ahn will reportedly appear in a Los Angeles court.

It would be the first arrest over the incident, which happened in February days before US President Donald Trump met North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Vietnam.

Free Joseon, a self-styled human rights group, says it was involved.

US federal agents have also raided the apartment of Adrian Hong, one of the group’s leaders, says the Washington Post.

The US Justice Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the BBC.

In a statement, Free Joseon said it was “dismayed” by arrest warrants being executed.

“The last US citizen who fell into the custody of the Kim regime returned home maimed from torture and did not survive,” said spokesperson Lee Wolosky.

“We have received no assurances from the US government about the safety and security of the US nationals it is now targeting.”

On 22 February, a group of at least 10 people stormed North Korea’s embassy in Spain, allegedly identifying themselves as “members of a human rights movement seeking to liberate North Korea”.

During the incident several embassy staff were held hostage, including an attaché whom they tried persuading to defect.

Members of the group allegedly made off with several computers and hard drives, data from which was allegedly passed on to American authorities.

North Korea has described the incident has a “grave terrorist attack”.

Free Joseon – formerly known as Cheolima Civil Defense – insists that its members were invited to the consulate.

A Spanish court document released last month has named leaders of organisation, some of whom are believed to live in the US. The court is seeking their extradition.

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Jaclyn Schildkraut, associate professor of Criminal Justice at SUNY Oswego, leads a lockdown drill at Ed Smith Elementary School in Syracuse, N.Y., last month.

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Jaclyn Schildkraut, associate professor of Criminal Justice at SUNY Oswego, leads a lockdown drill at Ed Smith Elementary School in Syracuse, N.Y., last month.

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On the morning of her 16th birthday, in her AP music class, Megan Storm thought she was going to die.

The sophomore at Lake Brantley High School in suburban Orlando, Fla., said she heard an announcement over the intercom that the school was in a code red lockdown — it was a drill, but Storm said students were not told that. She and her classmates hid in the dark, behind an instrument locker.

“It was just really quiet. And we all sort of huddled together,” Storm said.

In the 20 years since the Columbine High School shooting in April 1999, a generation of American children have learned not just how to prepare for a fire or tornado or earthquake — but also how to hide from a potential shooter. Some drills are sedate, where teachers lock doors, turn out lights and tell kids to hide in a corner. Others are hyper-realistic, with plastic pellets and fake blood.

Locks, lights, out of sight

There’s little academic, peer-reviewed research that can answer a big question for school administrators: What types of school security systems, including these drills, actually work?

At Lake Brantley High, Megan and her classmates heard loud noises that sounded like gunshots and door knocks. Other students were crying and texting their family and friends.

“I wish I had brought my phone,” she said. “I thought I was going to die.”

And then, a second announcement: The lockdown was just a drill. The loud noises turned out to be nearby construction crews. Megan resumed classes and went home at the end of the day. She then “got off the bus and just immediately broke down,” said Megan’s father, David Storm.

He and other parents were highly critical of school officials after that botched drill in December 2018. In response, district officials said future drills would be announced before they actually start.

Helping schools make informed choices

It’s generally up to state or local governments to decide how, or if, to drill their students. But they have little hard data to base their decision on.

“Research on security measures is in a very sad state,” said Jeremy Finn, a professor of education at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Just a three-hour drive east from Finn’s office in western New York, a researcher is trying to change that. Jaclyn Schildkraut, an associate professor of criminal justice at the State University of New York at Oswego, is helping the Syracuse City School District implement lockdown drills, and collecting data on how effective they are.

She decided to tackle the question, in part, because of the lack of research into school security overall. The relative rarity of school shootings makes it difficult work, and Finn added that it’s difficult to measure a security program’s effect on a negative — a shooting that didn’t happen. Schildkraut also said that too many schools have gravitated toward unproven yet tangible measures, like metal detectors and bulletproof backpacks.

“As a nation, we’re throwing a lot of money at problems and we don’t know if those things are going to work,” she said. “But they make us feel better because we can see them.”

Lockdowns, when well executed, can slow a gunman

If lights go out and doors are locked, Schildkraut said, the perpetrator will have fewer opportunities to kill students before police arrive.

So since last fall, Schildkraut and a team of undergraduate assistants have run drills at some 30 schools in Syracuse. They arrive, unannounced, at a school and ask the principal to read an announcement to inform students that a lockdown drill is about to start. Then Schildkraut’s team fans out and checks every classroom in the school.

“We look at the proportion of the rooms that are secured properly, the proportion that have their door locked, the proportion that have their lights off, etcetera,” she said.

Schildkraut keeps data for every classroom and then drills the same school again months later to check for improvements. She also surveyed more than 10,000 Syracuse students on how safe they feel at school, both before and after the drills.

She hopes to present some of her findings at the upcoming American Society of Criminology conference. Eventually, she’ll submit it to peer-reviewed journals. It would then be accessible to any school district in the country trying to make the tough decision of how to keep their students safe.

Schildkraut is understanding of parents who worry about lockdown drills and said they are clear examples of them getting out of hand. But she said they are as necessary now as fire drills, or duck-and-cover nuclear bomb drills 50 years ago.

“You have to give kids tools to keep themselves safe,” she said.

Her own motivations are deeply personal. Schildkraut grew up near Parkland, Fla., and her brother went to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which experienced a deadly shooting last year. The Virginia Tech massacre in 2007 pushed her to get back into school and pursue criminology. She has a newly published book about Columbine’s legacy.

“While I may only be one person, I really believe that I can make a difference,” she said. “And if it takes tough love, or it takes teaching moments, or it takes coming down on administrators, or whatever needs to be done, like they have to understand the seriousness of this. That ‘not one more’ really means, ‘not one more.’ And maybe that doesn’t mean not one more to everybody, but it does to me.”

Jahira Edwards, a sophomore at Institute of Technology at Syracuse Central, has been through a handful of Schildkraut’s drills. For one of them, she said she was momentarily confused as to whether it was just a drill. Then she figured it out.

“I knew it was a drill because somebody knocked at the door, and like everybody was scared. I’m like, ‘No, if he actually wanted to shoot us, he would come in, not just knock at the door.’ So I was like, ‘It’s a drill,'” she said.

Edwards is the type of prepared student Schildkraut wants. All the drills have had another impact on Edwards: They make her think about how vulnerable she is at school.

“I try not to think, ‘Oh, it couldn’t happen at my school,'” she said. “But I know it could.”

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Janelle Butler, a neighbor of Andrew “AJ” Freund, describes the scene in Crystal Lake as authorities search for the missing boy on April 18, 2019. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

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President Trump seethed Friday over the special counsel’s portrayal of his protracted campaign to thwart the Russia investigation and directed much of his ire at former White House counsel Donald McGahn, whose ubiquity in the report’s footnotes laid bare his extensive cooperation in chronicling the president’s actions.

Some of the report’s most derogatory scenes were attributed not only to the recollections of McGahn and other witnesses but also to the contemporaneous notes kept by several senior administration officials — the kind of paper trail that Trump has long sought to avoid leaving.

Many White House aides use pen and paper both as a defensive mechanism — such as when then-Chief of Staff John F. Kelly documented Trump’s move to grant security clearances to his daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner — and as a means of creating the first draft of a page-turning presidency.

But the fact that some of those notes became primary source material for Mueller to paint a vivid portrait of Trump’s efforts to derail the investigation angered the president, who was stewing over the media coverage as he decamped to Florida for the holiday weekend, according to people familiar with his thinking.

“Statements are made about me by certain people in the Crazy Mueller Report, in itself written by 18 Angry Democrat Trump Haters, which are fabricated & totally untrue,” the president tweeted Friday morning from his Mar-a-Lago Club. “Watch out for people that take so-called ‘notes,’ when the notes never existed until needed.”

Trump went on to claim that some of the statements made about him in the Mueller report were “total bullshit & only given to make the other person look good (or me to look bad).”

Trump attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani said that since obstruction-of-justice charges were not brought against Trump, Mueller should not have so thoroughly detailed the acts that were under examination, such as the president’s attempts to remove the special counsel and curtail the probe.

“The narrative is written as if it’s all true and somebody proved it. Nobody proved it,” Giuliani said in an interview Friday. “I’m frustrated by the report because in some ways I’d love to have a trial and prove that it’s not true.”

Giuliani singled out McGahn, noting that Trump waived executive privilege to allow him to describe episodes to Mueller.

“If McGahn thought any of those things were crimes, why did he stay there?” Giuliani asked. “They’re trying to make it out as if there’s something illegal about what happened with McGahn. The guy is a very good lawyer. If he believed that there was something illegal, he wouldn’t have stayed in his job.”

According to the account McGahn provided investigators, Trump directed him to call Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who supervised the Russia probe, and tell him to remove Mueller as special counsel. McGahn refused and prepared to resign but was persuaded by colleagues to remain as White House counsel.

McGahn did not respond to requests for comment Friday. One of his friends, who was not authorized to comment publicly about the matter and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said McGahn was focused on his work at the Jones Day law firm and was trying to lay low, hopeful of avoiding a dispute with Trump.

Trump had a tempestuous working relationship with McGahn, who departed the White House last fall, but a White House official who is friendly with McGahn said the president’s fury was driven in part by news coverage and therefore unlikely to last long. Several Trump advisers said they believed McGahn was being unfairly targeted inside the West Wing because of past tensions with Kushner and Ivanka Trump.

“If anything, Don saved this presidency from the president,” one adviser said, requesting anonymity to speak candidly. “If Don had actually gone through with what the president wanted, you would have had a constitutional crisis. The president’s ego is hurt, but he’s still here.”

Despite Trump’s angry tweets Friday morning about the Mueller report, the president was in a good mood as he dined on the Mar-a-Lago patio after landing in Palm Beach, Fla., on Thursday night. On Friday, he played golf with conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh, who defended the president on the air Thursday.

“My friends, I’m telling you, this report is made to order for the Democrat Party to ignore what is the only important thing about this: No collusion, no obstruction, period,” Limbaugh told his listeners.

After huddling with his attorneys, including White House lawyer Emmet Flood, Trump complained that the second volume of the Mueller report, which focuses on obstruction of justice, is a political document intended to make him look bad, according to a senior White House official.

Former Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller argued that the report’s revelations “are not necessarily vote-determinative issues.”

“Any of this type of West Wing inside-baseball drama, or somewhat contrived stories, nobody in the real world actually votes on that,” he said. “Nobody in the real world is reading all 450 pages of that.”

More than a dozen aides provided notes to the special counsel, with “notes” mentioned in the Mueller report at least 160 times. As evidence for the obstruction-of-justice inquiry, Mueller relied heavily on notes recorded by McGahn’s chief of staff, Annie Donaldson, as well as those taken by then-White House staff secretary Rob Porter and then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s chief of staff, Jody Hunt, according to the report’s citations.

The report also cited interviews with McGahn, Porter, former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon and former communications director Hope Hicks, among others.

Once Trump and his attorneys decided to cooperate with the special-counsel investigation, many administration officials voluntarily sat for interviews with Mueller’s team and shared their emails, notes and other records. Several witnesses said Ty Cobb, a White House lawyer who handled the Russia probe during its first year, instructed them to cooperate with Mueller, and they would have told Trump or his attorneys what they were prepared to say or what notes they were going to provide if asked.

Now, some of them said they are worried Trump may try to retaliate against them, as the president has in the past when he believed aides cooperated with some book authors.

Before becoming president, Trump left the impression with his employees that he did not want them to take too many notes, for fear of a paper trail that could haunt them down the road. Sam Nunberg, one of Trump’s former political advisers, recalled him saying, “I can’t believe what people put in emails.”

In the White House, many aides take notes — sometimes to memorialize strange moments or orders Trump gives that make them uncomfortable, and sometimes simply to remember one’s marching orders or what is agreed to during a meeting.

Trump sometimes warily views note-taking in the Oval Office. He rarely takes copious notes himself, aides said, but occasionally scribbles on the side of papers. During a briefing on cybersecurity hacks, for instance, Trump bragged to officials that he never used email and said companies would be better off without using technology that harbors such records.

Trump’s nervousness over there being a record of his private comments is evident in the requirement that guests at his fundraisers must put their phones in their bags — because, as he put it at a recent Texas fundraiser, he sometimes makes problematic comments.

Trump is quoted in the Mueller report admonishing McGahn for taking notes; he replied that he kept a record of conversations because he was a “real lawyer.”

Yet Trump understands the power of a written record.

In another scene from Mueller’s report, Trump instructs former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to “write this down” when he asked Lewandowski to help secure the resignation of Sessions as attorney general.

Mueller also revealed that Trump asked deputy national security adviser K.T. McFarland to draft an internal letter stating that he had not directed national security adviser Michael Flynn to discuss sanctions with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. McFarland declined, according to Mueller’s report, because she did not know whether that was true.

Anne Gearan in Palm Beach, Fla., contributed to this report.

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House Democrats will convene via conference call on Monday to discuss the next steps following the public release of special counsel Robert MuellerRobert Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE‘s report on Russia’s election interference and whether President TrumpDonald John TrumpGrassroots America shows the people support Donald Trump Trump speaks to rebel Libyan general attacking Tripoli Dem lawmaker: Mueller report shows ‘substantial body of evidence’ on obstruction MORE obstructed justice.

In a letter to House Democrats Thursday night, Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy Patricia D’Alesandro PelosiBoth sides were wrong about Mueller report, and none of it will likely matter for 2020 Elijah Cummings: ‘I am begging the American people to pay attention to what’s going on’ Angus King: ‘Mueller passed the obstruction question to the Congress and Barr intercepted the pass’ MORE (D-Calif.) told her caucus that they will talk about their strategy following the Passover and Easter holiday weekend, which will also offer lawmakers time to review the 448-page report in full.

Pelosi said the conclusion offered by Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrEx-FBI official: ‘Links and coordination’ with Russia happen everyday Dem lawmaker: Mueller report shows ‘substantial body of evidence’ on obstruction New normal: A president can freely interfere with investigations without going to jail MORE in his four-page summary and press conference that Trump did not obstruct justice was “directly undercut” by Mueller’s report. Pelosi added that the version of the Mueller report provided by the Justice Department was “disrespectfully late and selectively redacted.”

Pelosi cited a line from the Mueller report stating that “We concluded Congress has authority to prohibit a president’s corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice,” which “accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law.”

“Congress will not be silent,” Pelosi wrote.

House committee chairmen are pushing for a full, unredacted version of the report to move forward with their investigations.

Mueller said in his report that he was unable to “conclusively” determine that no criminal conduct occurred as to whether Trump obstructed justice.

But the report detailed several instances of potential obstruction, including Trump’s firing of James ComeyJames Brien ComeyDem lawmaker: Mueller report shows ‘substantial body of evidence’ on obstruction Mueller’s done, and Dems should be too — because Trump is no Nixon Time for Democrats to accept reality MORE as FBI director and attempts to order then-White House counsel Don McGahn to demand the special counsel be removed. McGahn refused to carry out the order and would not deny media reports about it despite pressure from the president.

Some Democrats renewed their push to impeach Trump following the report’s release, including Reps. Al GreenAlexander (Al) N. GreenMueller report poses new test for Dems George Conway calls for Congress to remove Trump: He’s ‘a cancer’ Dems plan Monday call on Mueller report: ‘Congress will not be silent’ MORE (D-Texas) and Rashida TlaibRashida Harbi TlaibThe Hill’s Morning Report — Mueller aftermath: What will House Dems do now? Mueller report poses new test for Dems Dems plan Monday call on Mueller report: ‘Congress will not be silent’ MORE (D-Mich.). Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-CortezThe Hill’s Morning Report — Mueller aftermath: What will House Dems do now? Mueller report poses new test for Dems Environmentalists see victory with Green New Deal blitz MORE (D-N.Y.) also announced Thursday that she is signing on to a resolution sponsored by Tlaib calling on the House Judiciary Committee to investigate whether Trump committed impeachable offenses.

But Pelosi and other members of House Democratic leadership have been cautious on impeachment, arguing that it should have bipartisan support.

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Louise and Daivd Turpin, who pleaded guilty to 14 felony counts for the abuse of 12 their 13 children, listened on Friday as two of their adult children testified in court.

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Louise and Daivd Turpin, who pleaded guilty to 14 felony counts for the abuse of 12 their 13 children, listened on Friday as two of their adult children testified in court.

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A California couple who beat, tortured and abused 12 of their 13 children for years were sentenced to life in prison during an emotional hearing that included testimony from some of the victims.

David and Louise Turpin pleaded guilty in February to 14 felony counts each, including counts of torture, false imprisonment, cruelty to dependent adults and child endangerment, after police discovered they had held their children captive, starving them and forcing them to live in horrific conditions.

“My parents took my whole life from me,” said one of their elder daughters, whose name was not revealed in court. She was one of the two adult children who read statements to the court before the sentencing. “Life may have been bad, but it made me strong. I saw my dad change my mom, they almost changed me. I’m a fighter, I’m strong.

“But now,” she said, “I’m taking my life back. … Life is great.”

Her mother wept as she looked on, the Associated Press reported.

“I cannot describe in words what we went through growing up. Sometimes I still have nightmares of things that happened, such as my siblings being chained up or getting beaten,” said the couple’s son.

“But that is the past and this is now,” he said.

Like his sister and at least one other sibling, he is enrolled in college and says he is optimistic about the future. He is studying to be a software engineer and has learned to ride a bike.

“I love my parents and have forgiven them for a lot of the things that they did to us,” he told the court, speaking slowly.

Both siblings sat in the courtroom accompanied by a support and comfort dog named Raider, from the Corona Police Department.

The sentencing came just over a year after the couple’s then-17-year-old daughter escaped through a window of the family’s Perris, Calif., home and called 911. It was the culmination of a two-year plan.

The girl directed police to the house where officials found the children — ages 2 to 29 at the time — living in appalling squalor. Some were “shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks in dark and foul-smelling surroundings,” according to the Riverside Sheriff’s Department.

They were so malnourished and emaciated that police mistook them for much younger children. In fact, they believed the 17-year-old was only 10. Police were also shocked to discover seven adults among the group, ranging in age from 18 to 29 — the eldest weighed 82 pounds when found. Officials also concluded several of the victims suffered cognitive impairment and neuropathy as result of the extreme and prolonged physical abuse.

Further investigations revealed the siblings were restrained by ropes and later chains as a form of punishment. They were often beaten, strangled or tied up for “weeks or even months at a time.” They were only allowed to shower once a year, and their parents often taunted them by keeping food and toys just out of reach.

The youngest child, who was 2 when the Turpins were arrested, was apparently spared the abuse, the Riverside County district attorney determined.

Both parents offered tearful apologies to their children in court, saying they acted out of love.

“I’m sorry for everything I’ve done to hurt my children,” Louise Turpin said, weeping. “I love my children so much. I’m blessed to be the mother of each one of them. I only want the best for them; their happiness is very important to me. They are very smart, amazing individuals. I hope they get all the education they need.”

Their father, David, spoke briefly before breaking down. “I am so proud of each and every one of my children. I miss all of my children and I will be praying for them. I long for the opportunity to have contact with them again,” he said.

His lawyer finished reading the statement saying, “My home schooling and discipline had good intentions. … I’m sorry if I’ve done anything to cause them harm.”

Judge Bernard Schwartz had harsh words for the Turpins and the irreparable years of maltreatment they inflicted on their offspring.

“Their lives have been permanently altered in their ability to learn, grow and thrive. You have delayed their mental, physical and emotional development,” Schwartz said.

“To the extent that they do thrive, and it appears from today that perhaps a couple are, it will be not because of you both, but in spite of you both,” he rebuked the pair.

The couple will be eligible for parole after 25 years.

Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2019/04/19/715313589/california-parents-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-after-years-of-torturing-12-child

The tragic murder of 29 year-old Lyra McKee in Northern Ireland on Thursday evening shows the ongoing threat posed by dissident Irish Republican terrorists. Fortunately, the identity of McKee’s killer will likely be handed in to the Police.

Journalist Lyra McKee who was shot and killed when guns were fired during clashes with police Thursday night, April 18, 2019, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Of course, that doesn’t diminish the misery of this moment.

McKee, a journalist, was shot and killed as she covered riots in Londonderry sparked by Police search operations in the city. Those operations were targeted at uncovering illicit weapon and explosive stocks held by the New IRA terrorist group. The police believe the New IRA (also known as the Real IRA) was responsible for McKee’s murder. The police had been the target, but the gunman fired indiscriminately in their direction, hitting McKee.

Such callousness figures. A mix of fanatics who are unable to accept the peace process, thuggish criminals, and idiotic young men who find cause in chaos, the Real IRA lacks any of the original IRA’s balancing of brutality to political guile. Instead, the group wants to rip Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom by force of arms.

But in 2019, the Real IRA’s violence is the exception to Northern Irish sentiment. And it is for that reason that the gunman will likely be turned in by his own Republican community. This is not to say that the Real IRA will surrender the gunman. But considering the close-knit Catholic communities where Real IRA operatives live and hide, it is highly likely that the rumor mill will lead to his name being delivered to the police. With more support than their often misunderstood predecessor, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, today’s Northern Ireland police force, the PSNI, retains more community cooperation. The PSNI’s struggle against the Real IRA also benefits from a well-resourced intelligence operation from Britain’s domestic intelligence service, MI5.

Still, this isn’t just about security operations. The police are greatly assisted by a political consensus that now firmly rejects terrorism. Evidencing as much, all the major Northern Irish political parties on Friday agreed a common condemnation of the terrorist attack.

“Lyra’s murder,” their statement said, “was also an attack on all the people of this community, an attack on the peace and democratic processes. It was a pointless and futile act to destroy the progress made over the last 20 years, which has the overwhelming support of people everywhere.”

Yes, the Real IRA remains an obvious threat, but its members will be held to account. Expect McKee’s killer to be caught quickly.

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In previous administrations, when it was revealed that press secretaries had delivered false statements from the White House podium, there was more of a reaction and often some soul-searching.

“She is in a credibility bind that in most White Houses would be disqualifying, but probably not in this one,” said David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama. “No matter how honorable you were coming in, when you sign up as the spokesman for someone who habitually lies, you, by necessity, become a habitual liar.”

In 2003, Scott McClellan, President George W. Bush’s press secretary, told reporters that two senior administration officials, Karl Rove and I. Lewis Libby Jr., were “not involved” in a leak about Valerie Plame, the C.I.A. operative.

Later, in his memoir, Mr. McClellan delivered a mea culpa, admitting that he had been given false information to disseminate to the press. “I had unknowingly passed along false information,” Mr. McClellan wrote, adding that five of the highest-ranking White House officials, including the president, had misinformed him.

Others have survived accusations that they lied. In 1983, Larry Speakes, a press aide to President Ronald Reagan, told reporters that the notion that the United States would invade Grenada was “preposterous.” The invasion took place the next day, and Mr. Speakes said he learned of it belatedly.

Jay Carney, Mr. Obama’s press secretary, took heat for helping to propagate the president’s message on the Affordable Care Act that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep it” after it became clear that the administration was unable to deliver on the promise.

But for veteran aides of the Trump White House, the furor over Ms. Sanders’s remark has only added to a bunker mentality shared by aides who feel they are constantly defending themselves, and the president, from unfair attacks.

And on the president’s favorite show, Ms. Sanders had the last word. “James Comey was a disgraced leaker who tried to politicize and undermine the very agency he was supposed to run,” she told Mr. Hannity. “Firing James Comey remains one of the best decisions that the president made.”

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/us/politics/sarah-sanders-mueller-report.html

The special counsel report makes three things clear: First, there was never any evidence to back up the collusion conspiracy. Second, there was not enough evidence to accuse President Trump of obstruction.

Third, the lawyers that put together the report were really disappointed with both findings. Trump was right all along that Robert Mueller’s team was “conflicted.”

Even though It specifically states that the investigation “did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated” with Russia, and that because “the evidence we obtained did not establish that the President was involved in an underlying crime,” it nudges House Democrats in the direction of impeachment anyway.

Attorney General William Barr accurately summarized the report Thursday morning when he repeated over and over again that the investigation uncovered no evidence to back up the ridiculous Russia conspiracy and that Mueller’s team deferred to his supervisors on the question of obstruction, which Barr and his deputy Rod Rosenstein settled themselves by saying there wasn’t enough there, either.

But the full report still contains little hints for Democrats that it’s possible there in fact was collusion (despite the lack of evidence) and that they would be justified in pursuing their own corruption case. Did they let Maxine Waters edit this thing?

After meticulously documenting the events of the 2016 campaign and finding nothing that showed Trump or his campaign coordinated on any criminal level with Russia, Mueller’s team slipped in this gem: “While this report embodies factual and legal determinations that the Office [of Special Counsel] believes to be accurate and complete to the greatest extent possible … the Office cannot rule out the possibility [that] unavailable information would shed additional light on (or cast in a new light) the events describe in the report.”

They might as well have ended the report with, “To be continued, maybe …”

Given unlimited time, money and power, the special counsel found nothing. Adding that caveat undermines the whole reason that the investigation ended. The point of concluding an investigation is that it’s done!

On the obstruction question, the report acknowledges three crucial reasons that it declined to make a prosecutorial decision. One of them is a longstanding Justice Department policy that a sitting president cannot be indicted. But the other two reasons are more important: that there was no underlying crime in relation to Russia and the campaign, and that there was “substantial evidence” that any of Trump’s efforts to curtail the department’s investigations (including with the firing of James Comey) were undertaken because he honestly “believed that the erroneous perception he was under [personal] investigation harmed his ability to manage domestic and foreign affairs, particularly in dealings with Russia.”

The report does lay out evidence to the contrary, suggesting it’s at least possible Trump was actually more concerned with the investigations turning up something criminal — such as when he told White House aides to say that Comey was fired over his handling of the Hillary Clinton email controversy, a clear pretext from the beginning.

But what the report doesn’t say is that Trump would have very obvious political reasons in choosing not to be up-front about that. It doesn’t take mental strain to guess how Democrats would have reacted if Trump had said he was firing Comey because he wouldn’t publicly state that the president wasn’t under investigation. That would have put us in the exact same place we are today.

That he thought Democrats would believe he had fired Comey over the Clinton controversy speaks to Trump’s self-delusion, not to criminality.

But in any case, the special counsel team admits there was no evidence of an underlying crime, and that there was “substantial evidence” that Trump’s actions in office regarding the investigation had a noncriminal motive. And yet the report includes a nice road map for Democrats who want to impeach him anyway, with a suggestion that even if Trump did not obstruct justice, he’s nonetheless corrupt.

“We concluded that in the rare case in which a criminal investigation of the President ‘s conduct is justified,” the special counsel team wrote, “inquiries to determine whether the President acted for a corrupt motive should not impermissibly chill his performance of his constitutionally assigned duties.”

In case the point wasn’t quite getting across, they added that Congress may still “apply the obstruction laws to the President’s corrupt exercise of the powers of office” because it “accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law.”

Is that tortured cliche really something we needed to hear again?

Democrats and liberals in the media threw a fit because Barr used the phrase “no collusion” in his press conference Thursday, because it’s the same one Trump has used. I’m sure they’re tickled pink, though, at seeing their own language — “no person is above the law! — used in the report, justifying their impeachment fever-dreams.

The special counsel team didn’t find anything on Trump. The report makes that much clear. But it also makes it clear that it’s not the result the special counsel team wanted.

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David and Louise Turpin, the California parents who beat, starved and held 12 of their children captive inside their home, were sentenced Friday to life in prison.

The husband and wife pleaded guilty in February to 14 counts each of torture, dependent adult abuse, child endangerment and false imprisonment.

During their sentencing, both cried and wiped away tears as some of their children addressed the courtroom. The judge ruled the couple will be eligible for parole after 25 years.

“My parents took my whole life from me, now I’m taking my life back,” one of the couple’s daughters said. “Life may have been bad, but it made me strong. I saw my dad change my mom, they almost changed me. I’m a fighter, I’m strong.”

Disturbing details of the abuse came to light in January 2018 after one of the daughters, who was 17 at the time, escaped their home in Perris, California, and used a cellphone taken from the house to call 911. The girl, who officers initially thought was a child because she was so emaciated, told police that her brothers and sisters were being held by her parents and some of them were chained, investigators said.

When authorities entered the house, they found the children — aged 2 to 29 — being held in “dark and foul-smelling surroundings,” authorities said.

Some were bound to their beds and furniture by chains and padlocks and many of the children told police they were “starving,” according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.

“I love both of my parents so much,” a statement read in court from another daughter said. “God looks at the heart and I know he sees theirs. I’ve prayed often for them.”

Twelve of the thirteen Turpin siblings were allegedly beaten, shackled to their beds, malnourished, denied access to the bathroom and only permitted to shower one time a year.TODAY

Louise Turpin read a statement in court, apologizing to her children.

“I’m sorry for everything I’ve done to hurt my children. I love my children so much,” she said. “I want them to know that mom and dad are going to be OK.”

David Turpin was so emotional, he had his lawyer read parts of his statement.

“I never intended for any harm to come to my children … I hope the very best for my children in the future,” the lawyer read.

Prosecutors said the Turpin children were given only one rationed meal a day and allowed to shower once a year. Their parents would bake pies and not let their hungry children eat them, and would buy toys but forbid the children from opening or playing with them.

The children were forced to spend most of their time in the house. Neighbors told NBC Los Angeles last year that they knew the couple had a lot of children but weren’t sure how many because “the kids didn’t come out very often.”

There were times the family was all out together, like on trips to Las Vegas where the Turpins renewed their vows. Videos showed the girls in pink dresses, white tights and heels. The boys wore dark suits with white shirts and red ties.

Kent Ripley, an Elvis impersonator who renewed the couple’s vows at a Vegas chapel, said the children were always quiet and well-behaved.

Louise Turpin’s sister, Teresa Robinette, said during an interview that the family gave the impression that they were “living the perfect life.” She recounted how her sister would tell her about the Vegas trips and vacations at Disneyland.

Investigators, however, painted a very different picture.

Only one of the children — a son — was allowed to leave home to attend classes at a community college but was always accompanied by his mother.

The siblings would also get in trouble for things like “playing with water” while they washed their hands. Prosecutors said the punishment ranged from being beaten and choked to being shackled to their beds with no access to the bathroom for months at a time.

One of the daughters was allegedly the victim of a lewd act by her father, prosecutors said.

Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said in January 2018 that the abuse “started out as neglect” during the 17 years the family lived near Fort Worth, Texas, and intensified when they moved to California in 2010.

The couple’s youngest child was the only one — of the 13 total — who appeared to have not been abused.

Despite the horrific torture authorities said the children endured, some of them told the courtroom Friday how much they loved their parents and said they did their best to raise them.

“I cannot describe in words what we went through growing up,” one of the sons said. “Sometimes, I still have nightmares from things that have happened. … But that is the past and this is now. I love my parents and have forgiven them.”

A statement from another daughter stated: “I want the court to know that our parents loved each other and loved each of their children. … I believe with all my heart that our parents tried their best to raise all 13 of us and they wanted to give us a good life.”

During a news conference after the sentencing, Jack Osborn, who represents seven of the adult children, said that his clients are “working very hard toward forgiveness” and said it was a “miracle” that they are thriving.

“Our clients are most of all survivors, they are not victims,” he said.

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I’m angry. I’m furious over how much damage has been wreaked upon my beloved FBI by supposedly impartial, unbiased, and honorable public servants.

Thursday’s release of the 448-page, partially redacted Mueller report was supposed to conclude our long national nightmare. But here we are, with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., subpoenaing the unredacted report and calling for Robert Mueller to testify on May 23.

Many media headlines ignored the report’s central findings and instead focused on the sordid details of a corrupt White House seemingly in chaos, a press secretary forced to admit to investigators her fabrication of particular events, and a president who escaped prosecution only due to long-standing Justice Department protocols and his own ineptitude to obstruct justice.

But I’m not here to defend or attack Trump. While our system of jurisprudence holds that where there may not be sufficient evidence to indict someone, that doesn’t mean a person wasn’t predisposed to or clumsily attempted to engage in criminal activity. Regardless, he’s not in my orbit.

But as someone who spent 25 years working for the FBI, every man or woman who has ever served within the FBI is in my orbit. For that reason, I view their conduct, as they should view my own, through a vastly more scrutable lens.

The events involving credible information and allegations that led up to the initiation of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane case occurred during the Obama administration. An intelligence community led by notable Trump critics John Brennan, James Clapper, Michael Hayden, Susan Rice, Loretta Lynch, and James Comey recognized the efforts from the Kremlin to sow chaos in our democratic system — dating back to the inception of the Cold War. Tradecraft has evolved significantly since the 1950s. Efforts to undermine our democracy are conducted in plain sight across the internet and social media platforms.

But no one, least of all Trump, expected Trump to win. The leader of the FBI at the time of the 2016 election, James Comey, nicknamed the “Cardinal” for his holier-than-thou mien and nonstop virtue-signaling, had surrounded himself at FBI headquarters with callow sycophants bent on career advancement who denigrated political candidates they loathed on their bureau cellphones. Afflicted with groupthink and endowed with a penchant for confirmation bias, these Comey idolaters were oblivious to their resemblance to the gaggle of admirers who couldn’t bring themselves to advise the naked emperor about his invisible threads.

No, the true disappointment for me and other retired FBI agents isn’t our president’s conduct. It’s the conduct of promoted-before-their time, panicked senior executives who made poor decisions in promoting a shoddily prepared, political opposition-financed, wholly unverified piece of garbage known as “the dossier” to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court.

Don’t tell me they didn’t realize what they were championing as evidence was dreck.

For the Adam Schiffs of the world, those who purposely mischaracterized and misrepresented what they claimed to have seen with their own eyes in closed chambers, shame on you. Your clownish double down is injurious to our justice system. Please stop. Your self-righteous, sanctimonious, pious indignation is a joke.

But cravenly misbehaving politicians aside, allow me to focus on the two men most familiar with the potent weaponization of the flawed cornerstone behind the predicate for spying on George Papadopoulos and Carter Page. James Comey and former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, please announce yourselves. Both of you shamelessly attempted to manage outsized expectations prior to the Mueller report’s release.

McCabe, in his recent book The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump, deftly leverages the bureau’s widely criticized decision to “announce a result that did not include bringing charges against anyone” in the Clinton email investigation. Comparing it to the collusion case, McCabe meekly allows that “the same might happen with the Russia case.”

Here’s the guy who sounded the alarm, supposedly discussed 25th Amendment provisions for presidential removal with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and offered the dossier as unimpeachable evidence for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant and three renewals.

This is the same man who in February said, “I think it’s possible” Trump is a Russian asset. McCabe signed off on the dossier multiple times as the predicate to continue re-upping the FISA warrant against the Trump campaign and had all the relevant information. Yet somehow the reality of the Mueller report, which found not a shred of evidence of Trump campaign collusion, let alone evidence of Trump being a Russian asset, was light-years away from McCabe’s judgment.

Shameful. But when one nurses at the teat of an FBI director whose ego grows with every word he hears himself speak, we understand.

Comey, of course, released a post-report Twitter follow-up to his “So many questions” forest photo of his gazing high into the redwoods. This one, simply captioned “So many answers,” featured the forest floor, with new growth flora emergent. The man who famously advised Katie Couric that “I hope to be forgotten” craves remaining a central figure in the continued diminution of the FBI. After disgracefully leaking FBI documents to the New York Times, he testified to the Senate to his fecklessness and lack of courage while at the helm. An overtly partisan second act beclowns him and adds fuel to the fire for those who always believed his FBI decision-making was tainted by political considerations.

His insulting pronouncement, “I have no idea what he’s talking about,” regarding Barr’s comments that the Trump campaign was “spied” upon are rich. This is the same Comey who, along with his ardent supporters, continues to argue that any criticism of the FBI’s actions in the Trump-Russia case are “corrosive attacks on our institutions of justice.”

Boy, please.

The reckoning is coming, folks. There are four ongoing investigations that will seek to explain why a collection of falsehoods, including pee tapes and meetings in Prague that never occurred, were eagerly accepted as fact by Comey’s Keystone Cops.

The Mueller report will assuredly marinate a while longer in the disappointed mainstream media echo chamber. Let’s face some uncomfortable facts when we can turn our attention to the pending inspector general report, the Senate investigation, the attorney general’s review of bureau actions, and Utah U.S. Attorney John Huber’s investigation into Crossfire Hurricane misconduct.

I bleed FBI blue and gold. I spent half of my life serving an agency I love dearly. But it’s time to cease the political papering-over of the Comey era. I’m angry, and you should be as well.

James A. Gagliano (@JamesAGagliano) worked in the FBI for 25 years. He is a law enforcement analyst for CNN and an adjunct assistant professor in homeland security and criminal justice at St. John’s University.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/mueller-report-is-another-embarrassment-for-james-comey-and-andrew-mccabe

This morning I was awoken by the Newstalk team asking if I would speak on last night’s tragic incident in Derry. On checking Twitter I found to my own personal shock that the young journalist killed by Republican paramilitaries had been named as Lyra McKee.

You will read a lot about Lyra over the next few days, mostly from people better placed than me to inform you about her work, her potential, and her endless struggle to be heard in a society which too rarely prizes someone of such a truly independent mien.

All I know is that she was indefatigable. Courageous. Unafraid to think the unthinkable and in a place that too often fails to look beyond the surface for fear of what it might find lurking there. Above Lyra was unencumbered by her class or background.

She was, as the papers say, a rising star of investigative journalism, but not, as so many are in these days of too easy digital contagion, driven by anger or personal disappointment. She had a genuine itch to understand what others (often much better rewarded than she ever was) failed to adequately explain.

Like all the best researchers she was driven by curiosity, but above all compassion. She used what she didn’t know as an impetus to drive further and try to explain to the rest of us what was happening in our world. From the most personal to the wider politics, this was the constant.

In 2014, Lyra penned this beautiful and moving letter to her younger fourteen year old self, which was later brought to life in a short made by Stay Beautiful Films:

Our own Alan Meban adds:

The fact that so many this morning from right across political and cultural spectrum speak of her friendship – even those with whom she had expressed diametrically opposing views – says something of hope for younger generation.

For me, Lyra was the calibre that Northern Ireland needs to help us beyond our bloody purgatory. For all the good things about the Good Friday Agreement that will be spoken of today by Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (to an empty Stormont) Lyra lived out the core promise of that Agreement far more faithfully than most of us.

And sadly, like others in the past, as paid with her young life. Let her example not be in vain.

Mick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking events across Ireland, the UK and Europe. Twitter: @MickFealty

Source Article from https://sluggerotoole.com/2019/04/19/lyra-mckee-embodied-the-patient-promises-of-the-belfast-agreement/

Late-night host Stephen Colbert knocked President TrumpDonald John TrumpGrassroots America shows the people support Donald Trump Trump speaks to rebel Libyan general attacking Tripoli Dem lawmaker: Mueller report shows ‘substantial body of evidence’ on obstruction MORE on Thursday by noting that “innocent people don’t react” by saying “I’m f—ed” when they hear they’re under investigation.

Trump said those words after Robert MuellerRobert Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE‘s appointment to special counsel, according to Mueller’s redacted report released by the Department of Justice on Thursday. 

Colbert tore into Attorney General William Barr’s previous summary of the report and Thursday press conference detailing the contents of the report, saying it looked like Barr “skipped a few pages when he was summarizing.”

“For instance, we now know how Trump felt about Mueller’s investigation,” Colbert said of the report. “When Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump: Some statements about him in Mueller report are ‘total bulls—‘ Colbert hits Trump after Mueller report: Innocent people don’t say ‘I’m f—ed’ The Hill’s Morning Report — Mueller aftermath: What will House Dems do now? MORE told Trump that special counsel had been appointed, ‘the president slumped back in his chair and said, ‘Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I’m f—ed.’ ”

“That’s actually what I said at the beginning of your presidency, and I’m guessing that’s not how an innocent person reacts,” Colbert quipped.

Colbert, a frequent critic of the president, read from portions of Mueller’s redacted report released by the Justice Department and asked why Trump thought the special counsel probe was so “terrible.” 

“Well because, according to Mueller, even though his report didn’t establish collusion with Russia, Trump was worried that ‘a thorough FBI investigation would uncover acts about the campaign and the President personally that the President could have understood to be crimes,’” Colbert read from the report.

“In other words, Trump probably thought he broke the law and now his past was coming for him, like in that movie, ‘I Know What I Did Last Summer.’”

The details of Trump’s reaction were included in notes obtained by Mueller from Jody Hunt, Sessions’s chief of staff at the time.

Trump was livid with Sessions after finding out about Mueller’s appointment and said his attorney general at the time should resign, according to the report.

“How could you let this happen, Jeff?” Trump asked Sessions, adding that he had “let [him] down.”

Sessions recalled that Trump said to him, “you were supposed to protect me,” or “words to that effect,” according to the Mueller report.

They reportedly agreed that Sessions would submit his resignation to the White House and Sessions handed in his letter the next day, according to Mueller’s report.

Source Article from https://thehill.com/homenews/media/439675-colbert-hits-trump-after-mueller-report-innocent-people-dont-say-im-f-ked

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Zoya Troshina said she plans to vote for a comedian for president on Sunday because she wants peace in her country.

“At any price,” the 69-year-old retired engineer added. 

The comedian, 41-year-old Volodymyr Zelensky, is the front-runner against incumbent Petro Poroshenko in Sunday’s runoff election, putting Ukraine on the cusp of becoming the latest nation to cast its future with an untested outsider. 

Driving Zelensky’s surge is voter disdain for Poroshenko, president since 2014, and widespread fatigue with the war against Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. Zelensky offers few policy specifics but the promise of a fresh start and the fantasy of the perfectly incorruptible leader whom he plays on TV. 

Polls have predicted a landslide for Zelensky, a star whose popular sitcom, “Servant of the People,” features Zelensky as a schoolteacher turned righteous president of Ukraine. His entertainment-driven campaign reached its apex Friday as he debated Poroshenko in a 70,000-seat stadium in Kiev — a spectacle proposed by Zelensky.

“Why hasn’t the war ended yet?” Zelensky shot across the stadium stage to Poroshenko. “That’s the kind of commander in chief you are.” 

A survey published this week by Rating, a Ukrainian polling firm, showed Zelensky leading Poroshenko 58 percent to 22 percent among those planning to cast a ballot Sunday, with 20 percent undecided. 

Other recent polls have shown Zelensky with a similar margin, while Poroshenko’s standing has been dragged down by the war, corruption scandals and a struggling economy.

“I want change,” said actress Yana Kozak, 48, a Zelensky supporter in Zaporizhia, an industrial city that is a few hours’ drive from the front line in eastern Ukraine. “I want the thieves to be punished and the war to be stopped.” 

Zelensky has no political experience — other than what has been scripted in his show. Its third season, which began airing last month, includes scenes of an imagined future Ukraine in the aftermath of the Zelensky character’s presidency, a country prosperous and free of corruption.

Zelensky has relied on his TV shows and Instagram account to reach voters, investing little in traditional advertising and largely avoiding unscripted interactions with journalists. 

That 21st-century campaign culminated in Kiev’s Olympic Stadium on Friday. Zelensky had challenged Poroshenko to the stadium debate — rather than a traditional one in a television studio — in a video posted to social media after taking first place in the first round of the presidential election last month. 

“I’m not a politician,” Zelensky said in the stadium debate, channeling his character in his show. “I’m just a simple person who came to break the system.” 

The organizers split the stadium field down the middle, with the thousands of opposing supporters on the field divided by a barrier and a phalanx of security personnel. Poroshenko organized buses to bring in his supporters from across Ukraine, and his larger crowd often drowned out Zelensky with chants. 

Poroshenko painted Zelensky as a slick entertainer who is a tool of the emigre Ukrainian billionaire Ihor Kolomoisky, who controls the television channel that airs Zelensky’s show. 

“You didn’t come here by tram and not even by bicycle,” Poroshenko told Zelensky, in a dig at his TV character, who prefers humble modes of transportation. “You are the main conduit for oligarchs and certainly of one fugitive oligarch.” 

While Zelensky blamed Poroshenko for the ongoing war, the incumbent said true responsibility lay with “Putin, the Russian army and Russian aggression.” 

Moscow annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in 2014 and backed a separatist war that the United Nations says has claimed about 13,000 lives. Zelensky has laid out few details on how he would stop the conflict in the east, other than to say he would not give up territory and was prepared to negotiate directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

But a Zelensky victory could spell a mandate for a different approach to the conflict with neighboring Russia as the Kremlin tries to keep Ukraine within a post-Soviet sphere of influence. 

It would also signal that many voters’ dreams of a more progressive state have been dashed five years after Ukraine’s pro-Western revolution, referred to as Maidan after the Kiev square that was its focal point. 

“Maidan was about better governance and a different state,” said  Balazs Jarabik, a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “Not about war with Russia, not about language.” Zelensky, Jarabik said, “gets it.” 

Poroshenko built his campaign around the slogan of “Army! Language! Faith!” — strengthening Ukraine’s army to better resist Russia, promoting the use of the Ukrainian language over Russian and forming a Ukrainian Orthodox Church independent from Moscow. A victory for anyone but him in the presidential race, Poroshenko said, would mark a victory for Putin. 

But analysts say the patriotic message rang hollow as many Ukrainians struggled to make ends meet, while a drumbeat of media reports alleged that members of Poroshenko’s inner circle have been enriching themselves at Ukrainians’ expense. International Monetary Fund data shows Ukraine fell behind Moldova in recent years to become Europe’s poorest country. Ukraine’s $2,963 gross domestic product per capita in 2018 was roughly one-fourth that of Russia and one-fifth that of neighboring Poland. 

Poroshenko has made a last-minute push to paint a Zelensky presidency as a gamble that puts Ukraine’s very existence at risk. “Most important: Don’t lose the country,” his new campaign billboards say. 

“I don’t really want to vote for him, but what to do?” said Tetiana Lisova, a programmer in Kiev who said she would reluctantly vote for Poroshenko. “Zelensky is a dark horse, and we don’t know whom he’ll bring with him.”

But polls suggest that many voters are willing to give Zelensky the benefit of the doubt. The comedian’s anti-corruption message — dramatized by his television show — also resonates. Reformers have joined Zelensky’s team, including former finance minister Oleksandr Danylyuk and anti-corruption specialist Ruslan Riaboshapka.

Zelensky’s ambiguous ties to Kolomoisky leave the candidate open to criticism that he could be swayed by Ukraine’s oligarchs, despite his rhetoric. Both men deny that Kolomoisky is behind Zelensky’s political ambitions. 

Artem Romanyukov, an anti-corruption activist in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, said Friday that he was still making up his mind as whether to vote for Zelensky or not vote at all. He said that even if the allegations that Kolomoisky holds sway over Zelensky prove true, one should keep in mind that Poroshenko — a confectionery magnate — was himself one of Ukraine’s richest men.

“Zelensky is a huge risk,” Romanyukov said. “In the worst-case scenario, we’ll simply replace one oligarch with another. This is bad, but not a catastrophe given the current context.” 

Oksana Parafeniuk in Kiev, Ukraine, contributed to this report.

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“If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment,” the report said. “The evidence we obtained about the president’s actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred.”

Representatives Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows, two of Mr. Trump’s staunchest allies in Congress, presented a two-pronged defense of the president during an appearance on CNN on Friday morning.

They repeated the bottom-line conclusions presented by Mr. Trump and Mr. Barr — no collusion and no obstruction — even though the report made clear that the Trump campaign expected to benefit from Russia’s election meddling.

And they attacked the origins of the special counsel investigation, echoing Mr. Trump’s comments on Twitter.

“What we have to understand is the predicate of this whole investigation,” Mr. Meadows said, suggesting that the officials who began and who oversaw the Russia investigation were anti-Trump. “To suggest that there was no bias at the predicate of this investigation is not accurate.”

Mr. Barr has said he will review the F.B.I.’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, including whether there was any “improper spying” by American intelligence agencies. During the early days of his presidency, Mr. Trump accused the Obama administration of spying on him.

— Katie Benner

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In a terse exchange on “Good Morning America,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders attempted to defend statements she made to the press that she later told Robert Mueller’s office were a “slip of the tongue.”

“That’s not a ‘slip of the tongue,’ Sarah, that’s a deliberate false statement,” ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos said.

They were referring to Sanders’ May 2017 claims that FBI members had “lost confidence in” former FBI Director James Comey. A redacted version of the Mueller report released Thursday said, “Sanders told this Office that her reference to hearing from ‘countless members of the FBI’ was a ‘slip of the tongue.’ She also recalled that her statement in a separate press interview that rank-and-file FBI agents had lost confidence in Corney was a comment she made ‘in the heat of the moment’ that was not founded on anything.”

“Actually, if you look at what I said, I said the ‘slip of the tongue’ was in using the word ‘countless,'” Sanders replied to Stephanopoulos, “but there were a number of FBI, both former and current, that agreed with the president’s decision, and they’ve continued to speak out and say that and send notice to the White House of that agreement with the president’s decision.”

“James Comey was a disgraced leaker and used authorization to spy on the Trump campaign despite no evidence of collusion,” she continued. “I stand by the fact, George–”

“Sarah, hold on a second,” Stephanopoulos said, pushing back on Sanders’ claims, which contradict what’s in Mueller’s report.

“The special counsel writes that those comments were ‘not founded on anything.’ That’s what you talked to the special counsel about when you were facing criminal penalties if you didn’t tell the truth, but now you’re trying to walk away from it. Why can’t you acknowledge that what you said then was not true?” he asked.

“I said that the word I used, ‘countless,’ and I also said, if you look at what’s in quotations from me, it’s that and it’s that it was ‘in the heat of moment,’ meaning that it wasn’t a scripted talking point. I’m sorry that I wasn’t a robot like the Democrat Party,” Sanders said.

Sanders, however, didn’t only reference the comments once in a “heat of the moment” environment. She made the same comments again the day before in a Fox News interview and in the next day’s White House press briefing.

“In fact, Sarah, what you did — Sarah, hold on a second. I let you speak,” Stephanopoulos said, as Sanders talked over him.

I’m not denying that he had involvement in what the statement said. That was the information I was given at the time and I stated it to the public.

“What you did repeat, time and time again, is that statement. You said that ‘countless’ FBI officials came to you. You repeated it on separate days, on separate occasions, and this was not the only instance the special counsel reported,” Stephanopoulos continued.

According to the report, while Sanders told the press the president didn’t dictate a statement about a June 2016 meeting with Trump campaign members and a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in New York after it was revealed by the press, the president’s lawyers later said otherwise in interviews with the special counsel.

“So why did you tell the press that the president did not dictate that statement, when he did?” Stephanopoulos asked Sanders.

“I’m not denying that he had involvement in what the statement said. That was the information I was given at the time and I stated it to the public,” Sanders said.

Stephanopoulos pushed Sanders on the question again. She responded that the president “weighed in as anybody would do, and that seems consistent with what took place that day.”

“Sarah, that’s just not what happened,” Stephanopoulos said. “You said the president didn’t dictate the statement. The president’s lawyer said that he did dictate the statement. That’s what they wrote.”

“My understanding at the time was that he hadn’t dictated but that he weighed in, George,” Sanders responded.

“Well then you’re saying the president’s lawyers weren’t telling the truth when they wrote that the president dictated the statement?” Stephanopoulos asked.

“I’m telling you the information I had was that the president weighed in on the statement, which he clearly did,” Sanders responded.

Sanders also argued that the “big question here was whether or not the Trump campaign colluded with Russia — and they didn’t,” she said.

“The big takeaway that I think we saw yesterday, and that we’ve seen over the last two-and-a-half years, is that there wasn’t collusion with Russia, and it should be a day that every American can celebrate and not be sorrowful like we’ve seen over the last 48 hours from the Democrats that are actually sad that the president didn’t work as a foreign agent,” Sanders said, adding that she hoped ABC News would push House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff and other Democrats “just as hard” in interviews for evidence.

The investigation did, according to the report, identify “numerous links between individuals with ties to the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump Campaign,” though Mueller did not find enough evidence to support criminal charges.

In an interview minutes later on “Good Morning America,” House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, who issued a subpoena for the full report Friday morning, called the instances documented by Mueller “disturbing.”

“One of the things that the special prosecutor finds is that the Russians were clearly out to help Trump, that the Trump campaign knew about it and welcomed their assistance, and in some cases knew about what they were going to do, what Wikileaks was going to do in advance. They couldn’t prove criminal conspiracy but they certainly proved cooperation,” Nadler said on “GMA.” “That is very disturbing to cooperate with a foreign power.”

The investigation also found that “several individuals affiliated with the Trump Campaign lied to the Office, and to Congress, about their interactions with Russian-affiliated individuals and related matters,” and that those lies “materially impaired the investigation of Russian election interference.”

Despite those portions of the report, however, Mueller found “the evidence was not sufficient to charge that any member of the Trump Campaign conspired with representatives of the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 election,” according to the report.

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From William P. Barr

“In assessing potential conspiracy charges, the special counsel also considered whether members of the Trump campaign ‘coordinated’ with Russian election interference activities. The special counsel defined ‘coordination’ as an ‘agreement — tacit or express — between the Trump campaign and the Russian government on election interference.’”

From Robert S. Mueller III

Vol. I, Page 2: We understood coordination to require an agreement — tacit or express — between the Trump campaign and the Russian government on election interference. That requires more than the two parties taking actions that were informed by or responsive to the other’s actions or interests.

In the second sentence, which Mr. Barr omitted, Mr. Mueller again emphasized that there can be a type of complicit conduct that falls short of how the special counsel defined coordination.


From William P. Barr

“After making a ‘thorough factual investigation’ into these matters, the special counsel considered whether to evaluate the conduct under department standards governing prosecution and declination decisions but ultimately determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment.”

From Robert S. Mueller III

Vol. II, Page 2: Second, while the O.L.C. opinion concludes that a sitting president may not be prosecuted, it recognizes that a criminal investigation during the president’s term is permissible. The O.L.C. opinion also recognizes that a president does not have immunity after he leaves office. And if individuals other than the president committed an obstruction offense, they may be prosecuted at this time. Given those considerations, the facts known to us, and the strong public interest in safeguarding the integrity of the criminal justice system, we conducted a thorough factual investigation in order to preserve the evidence when memories were fresh and documentary materials were available.

In his letter to Congress, Mr. Barr did not explain that Mr. Mueller was trying to leave open the possibility that prosecutors in the future, after Mr. Trump leaves office, could look at the evidence he gathered and decide then whether to indict Mr. Trump. That rationale — which stemmed from the view of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, or O.L.C., that sitting presidents cannot be indicted but former presidents lose such immunity — conflicted with Mr. Barr’s move to pronounce Mr. Trump cleared now.


From William P. Barr

“The special counsel therefore did not draw a conclusion — one way or the other — as to whether the examined conduct constituted obstruction. Instead, for each of the relevant actions investigated, the report sets out evidence on both sides of the question and leaves unresolved what the special counsel views as ‘difficult issues’ of law and fact concerning whether the president’s actions and intent could be viewed as obstruction. The special counsel states that ‘while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.’”

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