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PBC News & Comment: Mueller’s Cryptic Comments Spur Impeachment Calls

10 Dem Prez candidates and 40 House members support “impeachment inquiry” after Mueller statement; pundit says: Do Your Damned Duty!…..–Pelosi keeps her impeachment brakes on, but momentum is building

NY Times opinion columnist Charles M. Blow blows his lid in this op-ed

–lawyer, FBI agent and whistleblower Coleen Rowley exposes the real Bob Mueller

WashPost covers Fox “News” coverage of Mueller statement, notably ignoring Aaron Maté’s comments on Tucker Carlson’s show

–in comments in San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi rightly slams Facebook over doctored-video smear, then claims it proves FB was “willing enabler” of Russian meddling

–Trump tweets, then deletes, comment “I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected”

–Trump likes the idea that his fearful toadies ordered the Navy to keep the USS McCain out of the Don’s view in Japan, but says he didn’t know about it

–estranged daughter of GOP gerrymandering whiz Thomas Hofeller reveals her dead dad’s scheme to use census citizenship data for more gerrymandering

–after 500 tornadoes in 13 straight days from Ohio to Oklahoma, weather improves but flooding continues

–Trump administration launches new round of attacks on climate science

–PBC’s latest audio and video podcast features architect Vanessa Keith, who delivers a “Ted talk” on her vision for human adaptation to climate change

–unable to form a new government, Netanyahu prepares for election re-run, and Crown Prince Jared’s peace plan will likely be shelved, again

–well-connect Kushner family business gets $800 million federal loan guarantee

–John Bolton keeps making dire threats to Iran, says he will share evidence of Iranian attacks at UN next week as Trump undercuts him

–at The Intercept, Trevor Aaronson examines fears of “terrorist recidivism” driven by the release of John Lindh last week

–New Hampshire legislature overrides veto to abolish death penalty