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For many people who have hearing problems it is noisy environments, such as busy restaurants, that are their main problem. Hearing aids help somewhat, but even the most advanced ones can’t amplify only single individuals that the user is talking to when there are other speakers nearby. At CES 2020 we ran into OrCam, an Israeli company that has developed technology that combines computer vision with audio modulation to know who the intended speaker the user is trying to listen to and to only amplify that person’s speech. This is a smart reworking of a similar technology in OrCam’s other...

Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz were on Hannity last night (12/13/19) and Dershowitz mentioned a SCOTUS ruling that just came out that would make the obstruction charge (if voted for) go against the SCOTUS...

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The Democrats' drive to impeach President Donald Trump kicks into high gear Monday with a hearing designed for Democrats to make their case against the President. Lawyers for the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees will make opening arguments and present the evidence before facing questions from the Judiciary panel -- a lengthy event that's likely to be the final public hearing before Democrats take up articles of impeachment. The hearing sets the stage for a two-week stretch, in which Democrats are expected to introduce impeachment articles , debate and approve them in the Judiciary Committee and then take a vote...

Washington - The House Judiciary Committee will hear presentations from congressional investigators about the impeachment inquiry into President Trump's dealings with Ukraine as Democrats prepare to draft articles of impeachment. Monday's hearing will include testimony from Democratic and Republican attorneys from the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees. The House Intelligence Committee submitted its report last week on its investigation into Mr. Trump's efforts to get Ukraine to open investigations into the 2016 election and a company linked to the Bidens. **SNIP** House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said on Sunday that the committee will "presumably" introduce articles of impeachment this...

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On Wednesday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show,” Fox News Political Analyst and co-host and columnist for the Hill Juan Williams criticized that day’s impeachment hearing as “a distraction.” Williams said, “I don’t think that this is informing the public about much of the facts in any way. Because I don’t think we have any fact-based witnesses or evidence being introduced. So, what this is about, I think, is, you have scholars engaged in scholarly discourse with regard to whether or not what we know so far, in their opinion, rises to an impeachable offense. That’s the best...

This story will be updated shortly. An internal email obtained by this reporter shows a George Washington University student calling for GW Law Professor Jonathan Turley’s resignation following his testimony Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee as part of the ongoing impeachment probe into President Donald Trump. The email was sent to university deans, presidents, and a select few prominent student organizations. The email speaks for itself calling Turley a ‘sad excuse of a man.’ The email opened, “I hope this message finds you all well, ladies and gentleman. Aside from Mr. Turley, of course.” “I am writing you all...

This hearing is nothing more than a debate about WHAT TRUMP SHOULD BE IMPEACHED FOR.. Verdict FIRST, determination of charge LATER? THIS IS WRONG. THIS IS NOT AMERICA. THIS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING IN AMERICA. I agree with what some FReepers have said recently about this SHAM: "America is finished".. WHAT WE ARE WITNESSING IS A TRAVESTY and an AFFRONT to our Constitutional norms.. These hearings represent a Banana Republic MASQUERADING as a Constitutional Republic!

In Tuesday morning’s impeachment inquiry hearing, in the questioning of Lt.-Col. Alexander Vindman of the White House National Security Council and Jennifer Williams of Vice President Mike Pence’s staff, Democrats are pressing three misleading themes. First, Chairman Adam Schiff and the Democrats’ counsel, Daniel Goldman, have attempted to frame a dichotomy between President Trump and what they call “official” US foreign policy. It’s a false framework. Official policy is not, as they suggest, made by the so-called policy community (comprised mainly of the NSC, the State Department and government agents from the intelligence community and the armed services). The president...

They need to go after this Lt. Colonel. Self important deep stater!

An opportunity to watch the kangaroo democrats attempt to cover themselves from the coming firestorm of the IG report by wounding our sitting president. Watch this coup against our Commander-in-Chief.

Another insane opinion piece from the NY Times: Impeachment is a constitutional procedure that should be reserved only for extraordinary times with the most extreme examples of abuse of power by a president. That is why, in our country’s history, only two presidents have been impeached. But this is one of those times. The evidence of wrongdoing by President Trump is overwhelming. The impeachment inquiry has been conducted so far in a sober, responsible way. As Wednesday’s hearing made clear, the witnesses are credible and clear, and the story they tell is alarming. All members of Congress are now compelled...

Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski frustrated House Judiciary Committee Democrats during a contentious hearing on Tuesday they had hoped would fuel support for President Trump’s impeachment but instead devolved into chaos. Democrats repeatedly tried and failed to get Lewandowski, a close ally of the president, to talk about his conversations with the president. The White House has asserted those conversations should remain private due to executive privilege, and Lewandowski stayed within those limits.

SAN FRANCISCO, September 5, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – As the preliminary hearing for charges against pro-life investigators David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt continues, Twitter temporarily barred the pro-life Center for Medical Progress (CMP) from live-tweeting the proceedings – based on a misrepresentation of the tweets from Planned Parenthood’s attorneys, CMP claims. CMP has been locked in legal battles with Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation (NAF) since the summer of 2015, when their undercover videos revealed abortion industry insiders expressing interest in profiting off organs from aborted babies, which is illegal. The abortion groups accuse the pro-life investigators of breaking...

At the risk of beating a dead horse -- having made versions of this point in consecutive posts yesterday -- I feel compelled to share this video from the Mueller hearings.  As scintillating as the proceedings were, I did step away from watching for relatively short passages of time, and evidently missed this genuinely jaw-dropping exchange.  When I first saw the tweet below, I wondered if it could truly be an accurate representation of what occurred in the former Special Counsel's back-and-forth with a Republican Congressman.  Watch the video, and see for yourself: Here's the video where Mueller is confused...

After reading hundreds of replies, and comments on the “Performance” of Robert Mueller, in yesterday’s Democrat run, extravaganza, to force feed the American public the best democrat talking points in the Mueller report, with a side dish of Republican questions, it ended coming off as an Aging Mueller being beat up by the Republicans, causing confusion by him, and projecting the Republicans as mean, while at the same time displaying to the viewing audience, the democrats as patient, prompting replies, and genial.

Robert Mueller will have a prepared opening statement for his much-anticipated congressional hearing on Wednesday that has not been seen by the Justice Department, according to a spokesman for the former special counsel. The statement, which will likely not be released until Mueller starts his testimony, did not have to be cleared through the Department of Justice and no officials from the department, including Attorney General William Barr, have seen the document, the spokesman said. While the spokesman won't comment on how much or how long Mueller has been preparing, but would confirm that Wilmer Hale -- a Washington, DC...

Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s testimony before Congress could be delayed until July 24, a week later than originally scheduled, to accommodate questioning from more members, multiple media outlets reported Friday. Mueller and House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler have been negotiating the framework of the hearing for weeks and announced yesterday that the special counsel’s testimony, initially scheduled for next Wednesday, July 17, would last no more than two hours. The hearing set for July 24 has been lengthened to three hours.

One of the reasons why the Flynn legal situation is so interesting is not really because of Flynn himself; but rather because the Flynn situation is a likely example of President Obama’s surveillance network in operation. Tenuous legal theories (Logan Act) and obscure laws (technical FARA violations) appear to have been exploited by DOJ administration officials, in close ideological alignment with the Lawfare Group.  In association with overall Obama administration officials, the fellow travelers used the legal system to create a DC surveillance network.At the 30,000 ft. level Obama’s surveillance network looks like this:• White House identifies a target; •passes...