INTERVIEW – JOE DIGENOVA – legal analyst and former US Attorney to the District of Columbia
SUPREME COURT NOMINATION PREVIEW:
>> SCOTUS nominee to be announced tonight at 9 pm
– Trump tweet: “Looking forward to announcing my final decision on the United States Supreme Court Justice at 9:00pmE tomorrow night at the @WhiteHouse. An exceptional person will be chosen!”
– Top rumored three Supreme Court nominees: Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Raymond Kethledge
– Dick Durbin: Blocking Trump’s Supreme Court pick more important than red state Dems getting re-elected
– Durbin says just one Republican voting no could stop Trump’s nominee… suggesting Dems are ready to vote no before anybody is announced
MUELLER / MANAFORT / PRESS
> Mueller’s ‘Pit Bull’ Arranged Meeting With Reporters To Discuss Manafort Investigation (Daily Caller) — Justice Department documents released on Friday confirm that the DOJ attorney known as Robert Mueller’s “pit bull” arranged a meeting with journalists in April 2017 to discuss an investigation into Paul Manafort. The documents show that Andrew Weissmann arranged a meeting with DOJ and FBI officials and four Associated Press reporters on April 11, 2017, just over a month before Mueller was appointed special counsel. Manafort’s lawyers obtained the documents on June 29 and revealed them in a briefing filed in federal court in Virginia. The attorneys are pushing for a hearing into what they say are possible leaks of secret grand jury information, false information and potentially classified materials from the meeting.
