Trump claims he gave China 90-day reprieve on increased tariffs, says farm exports to resume, but Beijing has different story…--as Trump embarrassed us again at world forum, his dinner with Xi Jinping produced very different reports
--Trump has been getting reports from Manafort’s lawyers on his “cooperation” with Mueller investigators
--last week, Luke Harding and the Guardian reported, with no evidence, that Manafort had met with Julian Assange on 3 occasions; Caitlin Johnstone takes them to the woodshed
--Michael Cohen’s new guilty plea suggests that the contacts with Russians in 2016 were about the elusive Moscow hotel deal, not election scheming
--Comey negotiates rules for testimony to lame-duck House Intel committee
--Adam Schiff, who will chair that committee in January, calls for perjury investigation of Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi
--House Dems will lead with campaign finance and corruption reforms they know will be DOA in the Senate
--in Wisconsin, lame duck GOP legislators rush bills to limit power of newly elected Dem governor and attorney general
--Al Franken resurfaces with a podcast about health care
--Neil deGrasse Tyson denies rape allegation, apologizes to women who reported sexual harassment
--Israeli police recommend bribery and fraud charges against Netanyahu
--CIA leak angers Director Haspel, revealing metadata of communications between MBS and Saudi assassins in Istanbul
--Qatar blames Saudis is it announces its exit from OPEC
--TrumpCo is fast-tracking process to drill in Arctic Wildlife Refuge
--in Paris, protests over Macron’s economy turn to riots
--in Hungary, rightwing strongman Orban expels university funded by George Soros
--Facebook document shows that “Definers” delivered intel on Soros
--listener John Zweibel thinks 5G critics are exaggerating risks
--media goes overboard, again, rewriting the history of GHW Bush
--former San Francisco radio host Ray Taliafero found dead in Paducah, KY
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