INTERVIEW – JOE DIGENOVA – legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney to the District of Columbia
- Justice Dept official with ties to Fusion GPS to testify before Senate Intel.
- White House Disputes ‘Rumor’ That Trump Plans To Fire Mueller.
- On Russia, the Senate Intelligence Committee is expected to hear closed-door testimony from two key figures in the Russia investigation
- On Tuesday, Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe is set to appear before the House Intelligence Committee behind closed doors and face questions about Peter Strzok’s role in the Hillary Clinton email investigation..
- Eric Holder calls for mass, peaceful protests if Trump fires Mueller
- Trump transition lawyer: Mueller improperly obtained documents in Russia probe
- Trump’s lawyers to meet with Mueller on Russia probe: report
- Lisa Bloom Sought 6-Figure Payoffs for Donald Trump Accusers. Left-wing feminist attorney Lisa Bloom, who represented two of the women who made sexual harassment allegations against President Trump during the 2016 campaign, sought payoffs as high as six figures for her clients, according to the Hill. From the beginning, Trump has denied any and all wrongdoing. Moreover, he has argued that the allegations were part of an overall plot to personally destroy his candidacy with lies. The Hill obtained contracts and text messages that show Bloom sought to sell the stories of alleged victims to television outlets; one proposed deal included an offer of $750,000 to a woman who eventually declined to come forward. Bloom also sought to convince a donor to pay off the mortgage of a woman who did come forward.
- Metro defends its policy barring Catholic Church’s Christmas ads from its buses. Metro told a federal appeals court on Friday that a lower court was right to reject an injunction that would have let the D.C. archdiocese advertise a Christmas campaign on city buses. Metro defended the lower court’s ruling denying the Archdiocese of Washington’s “Find the Perfect Gift” campaign in a 32-page filing entered in response to a new emergency motion for injunction pending appeal currently being considered by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The archdiocese sued Metro in U.S. District Court in Washington last month after the transit agency refused to let it advertise a website,