Even those of us old enough to remember have probably forgotten that in the spring of 1979 the Attorney General of the United States appointed a special prosecutor to look into his own president's ownership of his peanut warehouse, to make sure that he wasn't, in any way, making money from his presidency. The special counsel was republican Paul Curran, and the Attorney General was Griffin Bell. The president, of course, was Jimmy Carter. Now we have a president who is trying to force world leaders into his own failing Florida hotel during its lowest season to jack up its revenues, the Attorney General is spending $30,000 on a Christmas party at the president's hotel in Washington DC, while the Air Force is pouring money into his failing Scotland property. And it all seems to be just fine with the same Republican Party that was hysterical that Jimmy Carter may have accidentally seen a balance sheet from the blind trust holding his peanut farm. How far we have fallen?

-Thom

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Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Inquiry Clears Carter Family's Peanut Business" by John F. Berry and Ted Gup.

Article: "Trump's Doral resort to host G-7 summit next year" by Brett Samuels.

Article: "William Barr: Trump's attorney general to host $30,000 Christmas party at president's hotel" by Lily Puckett.

Article: "The US military may have spent millions to help prop up a Trump resort" by Riley Beggin.

Article: "Trump Doral settles lawsuit over biting bedbugs" by Jose Lambiet.

Article: "Mick Mulvaney outright admits that Trump held up aid to Ukraine to get support for conspiracy theory" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "In Defending Trump, Mulvaney Admits Quid Pro Quo He Later Denies" by Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Ben Brody.

Tweet: "Wow. #Erdogan tells news conference the letter sent by @realDonaldTrump telling him not to be a 'tough guy' wasn't in line with diplomatic or political customs. He said they wouldn't forget the lack of respect. "When the time comes necessary steps will be taken"" by Jon Sopel (BBC).

Article: "Putin, Erdogan, Rouhani talk Syria in Sochi".

Tweet: "This is an obscene and ignorant statement. 200k innocent people displaced. Hundreds dead. Credible reports of war crimes. ISIS prisoners escaping. US evacuating and bombing its own positions or handing them to Russia. Two kids in a lot?" by Brett McGurk.

Article: "US conducts airstrike on weapons storage site as troops pull out of Syria" by Barbara Starr and Ryan Browne.

Article: "Poll Of Likely 2016 Voters" by GBA Strategies on behalf of the Progressive Change Institute.

Article: "Dean Takes a Shot at Media Concentration" by Bill McConnell.

Article: "Howard Dean Scream" by Brad.

Speech: "1944 State of the Union Address" (Second Bill of Rights or Economic Bill of Rights Speech) by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Article: "If It's Trump vs. Warren, Then What?" by David Brooks.

Article: "Rep. Carolyn Maloney becomes acting chair of House Oversight Committee after Elijah Cummings' death" by Yelena Dzhanova.

Article: "Carolyn Maloney" by Wikipedia.

Issues of the Day
- Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, U.S. Congressmember (D-WA, 7th District) & Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus / Senior Whip-Democratic Caucus & serves on multiple committees including the House Budget Committee & the House Judiciary Committee

Article: "Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cohen: Trump isn't joking when he says he can 'shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it'" by MSNBC.

Article: "Putin, Rouhani, Erdogan Hold Joint Presser After Talks on Syria in Sochi".

Tweet: "Just sent @SecPompeo a letter flagging that the Feb 2019 spending bill prohibits pay to federal officials who prevent other officials from communicating with Congress.
We refuse to bankroll this administration while they hold witnesses hostage. Sondland must testify on Ukraine." by Rep. Mark Pocan.

Article: "The tea party radio network" by Kenneth P. Vogel and Mackenzie Weinger.

Article: "Where Did Brett Kavanaugh's Tens of Thousands of Dollars in Credit Card Debt Go?" by Luke Darby.

Article: "Fast and Furious: Eric Holder held in contempt".

Article: "Contempt of Congress" (inherent contempt, criminal contempt, civil contempt) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

Bill: "H.R.1384 - Medicare for All Act of 2019" by Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7].

Letter: "Economists in Support of a Medicare for All Health Care System" by 247 economists.

Article: "Donald Trump Has a Conflict of Interest in Turkey. Just Ask Donald Trump." by Ashley Dejean.

Article: "Trump Towers Istanbul" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump's Doral resort to host G-7 summit next year" by Brett Samuels.

Article: "Democrats to probe into Pence's stay at Trump hotel in Ireland" by Reuters.

Article: "Air Force orders review of all international layover stays following bookings at Trump Scotland resort" by Ryan Browne and Kevin Bohn.

Article: "Trump emoluments case over his D.C. hotel gets second chance in legal challenge" by Ann E. Marimow.

Hour Two: Issues of the Day
- Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)

Article: "Pelosi calls Cummings 'our North Star' as Democratic leaders mourn his death" by Juliegrace Brufke.

Article: "Trump praised Erdogan for a cease-fire in Syria that Turkey says is 'not a cease-fire'" by Leah Millis.

Article: "Trump says 50 US troops removed from northern Syria" by Rachel Frazin.

Article: "Nancy Pelosi 'baited' Trump, and the president 'took the bait' in White House meeting, Sen. John Kennedy says" by Charles Creitz. "The Louisiana lawmaker claimed former President Thomas Jefferson's feud with his onetime vice president, Aaron Burr, set a "precedent" for what Trump is appearing to do."

Article: "Aaron Burr" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Justin Amash was part of the conservative in-crowd. Now he's trying to figure out who his real friends are." by Ben Terris.

Article: "War Powers Resolution" (War Powers Act, 1973) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Leave Yemen, Congress says, as it invokes the War Powers Act for the first time" by Tom Squitieri.

Article: "Trump Vetoes Yemen War Powers Restraint Effort" by Jeff Abramson.

Article: "Senate fails to override Trump veto of Yemen War Powers resolution" by Tom Squitieri.

Article: "House votes to restrain Trump on war with Iran, setting up showdown with the Senate" by Karoun Demirjian and Mike DeBonis.

Article: "Zantac recalled from U.S., Canada amid concerns over cancer-causing substance" by Reuters and Bianca Seidman.

Article: "2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Impeachment process against Richard Nixon" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "BERNIE SANDERS said this! Please get it right next time, MSM. #Bernie2020 "I get a little bit tired of Democrats who defend a cruel, dysfunctional health care system that leaves 87 million Americans uninsured or underinsured."" by Dr. Victoria Dooley.

Article: "Pete Buttigieg's latest television ad takes aim at Medicare For All" by Priscilla Thompson.

Article: "Mick Mulvaney acknowledges Trump held up aid to pressure Ukraine, then rows back" by John Fritze, David Jackson and Nicholas Wu.

Article: "Biden's trip to China with son Hunter in 2013 comes under new scrutiny" by Josh Lederman.

Article: "MSNBC's Rachel Maddow nails Trump administration for 'flailing' on latest attack on children" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Trump's travel restrictions will make Americans sicker, not safer" by William W. Pinsky.

Article: "California becomes first state to ban the sale of new fur products" by Sophie Lewis.

Article: "Republican Jim Sensenbrenner says no thank you to chance to sit in on closed-door House impeachment inquiry" by Craig Gilbert. "I have chosen not to do so because I can't talk (publicly) about what I find out inside those meetings"

Article: "U.S. to send additional troops to Saudi Arabia to boost defenses against Iran" by Dan Lamothe.

Documentary: Where to Invade Next - Michael Moore.

Article: "Rural Utilities Service" (Rural Electrification Administration, also telephone, water, sewer) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Take no salary" by Sophie Austin.

Tweet: "This is another clear conflict of interest. If the President truly doesn't seek to personally profit, then is he planning to do this at his property for free without charging American taxpayers?" by Rep. Ro Khanna (hosting of G7 at Doral).

Article: "So much for Gordon Sondland: Steve Duin column" by Steve Duin.

Article: "Ambassador Sondland Just Threw Rudy Giuliani Under the Ukraine Bus" by Greg Walters and Cameron Joseph.

Article: "Gordon Sondland testified he was fighting against conspiracy theories-that's not what evidence shows" by Mark Sumner.

Book: Bells of Hell, The by Michael Kurland.

Tweet: "No surprise that Trump's NY state tax filings are inconsistent with bank loan applications. Perhaps there's an explanation but it looks like either bank fraud or tax fraud & at a minimum, merits further investigation. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-never-before-seen-trump-tax-documents-show-major-inconsistencies" by Joyce Alene (Joyce Vance).

Article: "Never-Before-Seen Trump Tax Documents Show Major Inconsistencies" by Heather Vogell.

Article: "Why we're failing to stop teen suicide" by Marisa Fernandez.

Tweet: "According to the UN the chance of a 15-year-old boy dying by the age of 50 is now higher in America than in Bangladesh https://t.co/4o8x8gsdRH" by The Economist.

Article: "The UN revises down its population forecasts" by The Economist.

Article: "Rudy Giuliani: I'm "a Hero" And "should Be Praised" As Such!" by Bess Levin.

Article: "John Dean" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar to endorse Bernie Sanders, who announces plan to visit Rashida Tlaib in Detroit" by Gregory Krieg, Annie Grayer, Jeff Zeleny and Ryan Nobles.

Article: "Michael Cohen goes to prison, slamming Trump along the way" by Michael R. Sisak, Jim Mustian.

Article: "A Sitting President's Amenability To Indictment And Criminal Prosecution" by U.S. Department of Justice (OLC), 2000.

Article: "Re: Amenability of the President, Vice President and Other Civil Officers to Federal Criminal Prosecution while in office." by U.S. Department of Justice (OLC), 1973.

Article: "Ohio voter purge targets state's League of Women Voters head" by Igor Derysh.

Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000. "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States"

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "National Voter Registration Act of 1993" (Motor Voter Act) by Wikipedia. "The Congress finds that -
(1) the right of citizens of the United States to vote is a fundamental right;"

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2019" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Bill: "H.R.1562 - SAFE Act" by Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2].

Article: "Andrew Gillum" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stacey Abrams" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jim Mattis roasts Trump in keynote speech" by Michael Sykes.

Article: "John Bolton threatens war crimes court with sanctions in virulent attack" by Owen Bowcott, Oliver Holmes, and Erin Durkin.

Article: "Exclusive - John Bolton: Time to Abolish UN's Palestinian 'Refugee' Agency" by Aaron Klein.

Article: "Putin Pulls Russia Out of Convention on War-Crime Probes" (1949 Geneva Conventions' Protocol 1) by Stepan Kravchenko.

Law: "Alien and Sedition Acts", 1798.

Book: The American Revolution of 1800: How Jefferson Rescued Democracy from Tyranny and Faction - and What This Means Today by Dan Sisson with Thom Hartmann

Article: "Trump speaks with NASA astronauts on all-female spacewalk" by Morgan Chalfant.

Article: "666 Fifth Avenue" by Wikipedia.

Nurses Support Medicare For All & Here's Why
- Pattie Lockard, Executive Producer - Nurse Talk / Healthcare In America - project of National Nurses United & California Nurses

Article: "Medicare for All" by Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Overhead Costs for Private Health Insurance Keep Rising, Even as Costs Fall for Other Types of Insurance" by Nick Buffie.

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