Posted on 03/18/2018 5:02:51 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
March 18th, 2018
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas; Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Anus King, I-Maine; South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Rep. Adam Schitff, D-Calif.; Mayor Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sens. Paul, Jeff Ima Flake, R-Ariz., and Linda Graham, R-S.C.
That's what I thought. But, in an area where English is always a second language anything goes.
And this one: CrowdStrike, The DNC’s Security Firm, Was Under Contract With The FBI
CrowdStrike has brought on board senior FBI executives, such as Shawn Henry, former executive assistant director (EAD) of the FBI's Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch, and Steve Chabinsky, former deputy assistant director of the FBI's Cyber Division. CrowdStrike has received $256 million in funding from Warburg Pincus, Accel Partners, and Google Capital.
Trump is flushing out rats.
Brennen protests to much.
Votes CPUSA to much and sympathizes with Islam to much.
Stand by Brennen...
Give them all something to bitch about Mr President, let it all out..
Exactly! I just heard stuffy stephy say the vote is down to 60 ahead for the dem which is just fine with the drivebys. None of them calling for a re-count.Their guy won “fair and square” never mind all the allegaitons of voter fraud.
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A Republican source familiar with the campaign said that the GOP planned to petition for the voting machines used in all four counties to be impounded, pending a recount.
>> READ MORE: Pa. 18 congressional district results and updates: Democrat Conor Lamb maintains lead with absentee votes counted
It is not yet clear where such a petition would be filed. But Republicans are investigating a number of purported Election Day irregularities including problems with the machines, voters being told to go to the wrong polling places, and Republican attorneys being barred from overseeing the counting of absentee ballots in Allegheny County.
County spokeswoman Amie Downs said that on Election Day there had been discussions with Republican attorneys about their ability to oversee the vote-counting process. Under the state Election Code, she said, such observers must have a signed authorization from the chair of the county committee. “They didn’t produce that until the very end of the evening, when the ballots had already been scanned,” she said.
Mark Wolosik, who directs the county’s elections office, said that late Tuesday morning, “a call came in asking about people being able to observe the [counting] process on Election Night.”
Usually, he said, “people ask ahead of time” rather than on Election Day itself.
>> READ MORE: Why the tight House race in Western Pa. should worry Trump and the GOP
Phone messages were exchanged over the following hours, and eventually two Republican attorneys arrived at the central tabulation center, located in Pittsburgh. Wolosik said that an attorney identified himself as being “from the Saccone campaign” but the Election Code only allows political parties, not candidates, to deputize observers. A lawyer later produced an email purporting to show such authorization, but Wolosik said he couldn’t accept that because “there was no signature.” He swore in the observer after receiving a signed authorization.
The absentee ballots themselves are run through an optical scanner that records the vote, and the ballots are preserved afterward, meaning a recount is possible should one be ordered. Ordinarily, for both absentee and in-person voters, election workers compare the number of votes cast to the number of voters logged in by poll workers on Election Day, to make sure the numbers correspond. Court challenges could of course complicate that process, but otherwise, “if there’s no discrepancy on the face, then we accept the count as accurate,” Wolosik said
Ultimately, the count is certified by the Board of Elections, which consists of Allegheny County Exeuctive Rich Fitzgerald and the two at-large members of Allegheny County Council: Democrat John DeFazio and Republican Sam DeMarco. The board is slated to meet April 2.
D. Raja, the chair of the Republican Committee of Allegheny County, did not immediately return a call for comment Wednesday morning.
Downs added that prior to providing the authorization, the Republican observer was allowed to watch from the doorway, and that the Democrats had no observers on hand for the ballot counting in Washington County.
There were numerous reports Tuesday of voters being confused about whether they lived within the 18th Congressional District, whether as a result of a saturation-bombing TV campaign or of confusion stemming from a court battle over whether district lines should be redrawn later this year.
But Allegheny County reported only a couple isolated problems with voting machines, including low battery power and a blank screen on one machine. There were no reports of “calibration errors,” Downs said, in which touching the screen in one place results in a box elsewhere being checked.
LOl blue wave yeah sure,only blue wave is in 300’ of water off Islamorada......
Exactly! When you consider just how bizarre a lie they told about Trump collusion with Russia and how it is still going on and how it was used as a basis for a FISA warrant you have to just shake our head and wonder how and why it actually happened.
When I was in Germany, circa 1993-1997, I lived in a small village among the schnapps makers. They made Kirsh (Cherry), Pflaumen (Plum), Birnen (Pear) and Mirabellen (cross between a peach and a cherry—not sure) Schnapps.
The place was beautiful in the Spring when everything was in bloom...
Anyway, I helped a lot. I had brought my Ford Pickup truck from the states, first to Italy (what stories I could tell about driving that there!), and then to Germany. So I hauled a lot of barrels of mash to the village distillery.
Anyway, I brought back about 25 quart bottles with me. Since then I just don’t drink at home like I did in Germany, so I still have about 20 full bottles. They have aged from 25 to 22 years. I think I’m not going to finish all of them before I die, but they are well aged!
Unlike me.
Rand Paul is a true village idiot.
With McCain’s health issue their will be quite a cat fight for top beltway “maverick”. Rand is firing his shells now.
Exactly! If we don’t fight them with all they give us and give more back we should not expect victory!
Wow-Clarice really hit it out of the park with her column. She seems to know alot about the nature of the Swamp.
Trump is flushing out rats.
Brennen protests to much.
Votes CPUSA to much and sympathizes with Islam to much.
Stand by Brennen...
Give them all something to bitch about Mr President, let it all out..
We are of like mind... Go Donald... MAGA, part of which is “ drain the swamp”
Was that mayor named Curly? Didn’t he get reelected while in PRISON?
I believe Joe Kennedy was one of Curly’s protégés...
You’re right about Rand Paul.
I am sick of that man who comes out with holy self-righteousness for the attention it gets him.
He’s not clever, cute, intelligent or an asset to the GOP.
Now he’s going to vote against Trump’s nominee because using his self-righteousness he becomes GOP-e but in disguise.
The problem is that the Russians, Norks, Iranians, Hezzies and so many others are always trying to hack into the US govt. it never ends.
So knowing that its always an easy con to claim that the Russians are hacking our stuff, since they always are!Now what success they have compared to an insider with an inside look is a whole different ball game. ................ On another front seems the dems will not oppose the Gina Haspell nominstion a real surprise for me!!
Brennan is becoming more vocal because he is the target of an investigation. He wants to portray the investigation as being political in much the same way that McCabe and Comey are. Hillary is also making more attacks against Trump. They know what is happening behind the scenes. The release of the IG report will trigger a tsunami of actions by the FBI and DOJ. The dam will break.
Let’s have a party!! and just drink it all up
Hope you are well, soon! (Me Scottish blood don’t really care, tho...hahaha) But, thanks for the SUNDAY funnies!
Exactly, problem is many on our side think a lack of knowledge= a lack of production. Not always the same.
That may very well be true, however Mueller is clearly NOT a good choice for this part. He will hardly investigate his own involvement as FBI head in the Uranium One sale scandal, nor has he shown any willingness to investigate his friend Comey's illegalities (or any of the other FBI and Clinton crimes, for that matter). Yet he's obsessively hunting a myriad of other witches for things that happened long before the 2016 presidential race.
He is clearly taking advantage of the media meme that "only banana republics criminalize members of previous administrations". That's a false narrative when the previous administrations committed treason. He should be fired.
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