http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... ous-report
I can't wait to see how the pro-Trump forces are going to spin this. And also this:
Quote: According to a new book seen by the Guardian, [Steve] Bannon said the meeting that occurred during the 2016 presidential race was "treasonous" and "unpatriotic."
...After news of the meeting surfaced last year, Bannon reportedly said: “The three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the 25th floor — with no lawyers. They didn’t have any lawyers." “Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad shit, and I happen to think it’s all of that, you should have called the FBI immediately," Bannon said, according to the book.
The quotes were chronicled in the book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," which is scheduled to be released next week.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... ns-russian
Quote: According to MSNBC, which tweeted an excerpt from Michael Wolff's upcoming book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," Bannon said that it was likely Donald Trump Jr. took lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and others up to then-candidate his father's office during the meeting.
“The chance that Don. Jr did not walk these Jumos up to his father’s office on the 26th floor is zero," the excerpt reads.
Also, more news on the Bears Ears National Monument, in an opinion piece by the co-chairs of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition.
http://thehill.com/opinion/energy-envir ... bears-ears
Quote: Last month, President Trump issued a proclamation claiming to drastically reduce, and otherwise weaken, the Bears Ears National Monument in southern Utah. Our tribes, along with the other tribes of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, immediately sued the president, arguing that the proclamation was void because his actions were beyond the president’s authority. The Utah delegation seems to understand that our lawsuit against President Trump has the weight of the law on its side, and thus stands a high likelihood of success. That would leave President Obama’s visionary proclamation creating the Bears Ears National Monument fully intact.
Hence the introduction by Congressman Curtis of the Shash Jaa National Monument and Indian Creek National Monument Act, which would dismantle the Obama monument. If passed, the Curtis bill would leave just 15 percent of the land in monument status and would eviscerate the important collaborative government-to-government management role for tribes recognized and honored in the Obama proclamation.
...In characteristic Utah congressional fashion, Congressman Curtis developed this “pro-tribal” bill without ever consulting with our tribes, or any of the tribes of the five tribes coalition.