NBC First Read on the Giuliani Ukraine report: "How isn't this the biggest political story in America right now — Team Trump wants the help from another foreign government to dig up dirt on an opponent?" https://t.co/sIXT4BZHN5
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 10, 2019
I know we’ve become numb to the corruption of this Administration, but this story should be the total focus of the political class today. The President is openly asking a foreign government to investigate his political rival. This is next level. https://t.co/pboUJuCPoj
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) May 10, 2019
This story about the administration firing the ambassador to Ukraine this week after she took on the prosecutor Giuliani has been buddying up to merits a lot more scrutiny in light of tonight’s NYT story. https://t.co/IbmH2NqpNY
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) May 10, 2019
NEWS: Within a day of the release of the Mueller report, Trump sought to have Don McGahn publicly declare he didn’t consider Trump’s directive that he seek Mueller’s dismissal to be obstruction of justice. McGahn declined.https://t.co/ZNOCmbqoLX
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) May 10, 2019
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens accused President Trump of exceeding his presidential powers, saying in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that the President "has to comply with subpoenas" https://t.co/w7uMyKuyEU
— CNN (@CNN) May 10, 2019
"There are Democrats inching now towards the deterrence position and that's with or without these Trump, Giuliani reindeer games" – @AriMelber pic.twitter.com/e4tq5WHceI
— TheBeat w/Ari Melber (@TheBeatWithAri) May 10, 2019
As the U.S. more that doubles the rate of tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods, President Trump tweets trade negotiations are progressing in a "very congenial manner" and falsely asserts that the tariffs are going "directly" to the U.S. Treasury https://t.co/hbDVs5ziVQ pic.twitter.com/nQDWeiNT9x
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) May 10, 2019
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) issues subpoena to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig for six years of Pres. Trump's personal and business tax returns https://t.co/R85T6wJpr2 pic.twitter.com/AL8yBtd0E2
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) May 10, 2019
Great podcast summarizing the findings of the journalists who dug through Trump's tax info from '85 to '94. I hadn't yet fully copped to the fact that Trump just wasn't a bad businessman, he was *the worst* businessman in all of America.https://t.co/4VgNFXwD3h
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) May 10, 2019
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BREXITSHAMBLES BRITAIN
Excl: Sir Graham Brady reveals Theresa May is refusing to set a resignation date as she is convinced it would make her Brexit deal impossible to passhttps://t.co/liEYnTkin6
— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) May 10, 2019
BREAKING Former Conservative donor Jeremy Hosking revealed as £200,000 donor Nigel Farage's Brexit Party https://t.co/KT1StqFeqA via @Telegraph
— Christopher Hope (@christopherhope) May 10, 2019
Given a major conservative donor has gone over to the Brexit Party, and a lot of Lynton Crosby connected online antics are very Faragiste, you've got to wonder if that recent meeting between Farage and Boris Johnson was more than accidental. Both advised by Steve Bannon pic.twitter.com/8FefoKRmEN
— Peter Jukes (@peterjukes) May 10, 2019
EXCLUSIVE Former Cabinet minister Dominic Grieve faces deselection vote next month from Tory activists furious over Brexit https://t.co/FdLHjEgIoy via @Telegraph
— Christopher Hope (@christopherhope) May 10, 2019
NEW: both sides of Brexit divide tearing into support for two major parties ahead of EU elections
• Tories set for lowest ever vote share for ruling party in a nationwide vote
• Labour support falling
• Brexit party & anti-Brexit parties both benefiting https://t.co/M2vqJfOWy9 pic.twitter.com/tREoL0xIYf— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) May 10, 2019
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WORLD
JUST IN: Trade talks between the U.S. and China end without a deal https://t.co/FwpQrDLsIr pic.twitter.com/vfQCALepZf
— The Hill (@thehill) May 10, 2019
According to @bpolitics, the US has given China 1 month to seal a deal or face 25% tariffs on everything. If so, it means USTR would most likely issue a notice in Federal Register w/ a 30-day comment period, then be ready to rollout tariffs b4 Osaka G20. https://t.co/rA0CtCQLrr
— Scott Kennedy (@KennedyCSIS) May 10, 2019
The United States is hurtling toward a conflict with Iran, and it’s not clear that President Donald Trump has an exit strategy. https://t.co/ZLNllDeMwo
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) May 10, 2019
Joe Biden’s baffling misread on climate change – The Washington Post / His miscalculation, or sincere wrongness, only heightens legit doubt as to WHAT HE BELIEVES. https://t.co/KXXkEDQLvo
— Todd Gitlin (@toddgitlin) May 10, 2019
I am totally convinced that we need to use every lever of government to tackle the climate emergency we face. That also means ensuring that companies listed on the London Stock Exchange live up to their responsibilities too. https://t.co/YyBbFfyG8F
— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) May 10, 2019
Congratulations to Uber, the Worst Performing IPO in U.S. Stock Market History https://t.co/rLdJiqB2lJ via @gizmodo
— DoNotDisturb (@DoNotDisturb321) May 10, 2019
and, oh dear….
Barely 6 months after he credited Trump's tax cuts for creating a new economic boom, My Pillow boss Mike Lindell is laying off 150 employees pic.twitter.com/vjQWZ6tyFA
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 10, 2019