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There were a lot of questions in the United States over the fact that President Donald Trump did not share the content of his conversations with President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, including with his official representatives.

Is the Kremlin influencing the transparency of these conversations?

It is difficult for me to comment on what is happening in the United States and President Trump accused of being a Russian agent. I would say this is a lowering of the standards of journalism for the American press and a thankless job.

I cannot believe that journalists in the United States sincerely and professionally deal with these problems. There is such a thing as the culture of diplomacy, the culture of negotiations, the culture of communication at the interstate level.

This implies following the decorum, approaches and norms accepted in each of the parties in interstate relations. As far as I know, the US Constitution authorises the President to set and carry out the country's foreign policy.

We know that this right is now being attacked by Congress. They write a lot about this, including your colleagues.

But this does not make these attacks constitutional or legitimate. I will not comment on the actions taken by the US Administration in accordance with the President's and his Administration's powers.

Since you have raised this topic, I would like to make the following point. Maria Butina is charged with having certain subversive motives for her interactions with Americans.

They could charge literally any Russian citizen, a public official or someone like Butina, who wants to receive an education and interact with American and other foreign colleagues.

They get accused of espionage and promotion of certain goals that are illegitimate and contrary to the interests of the United States.

But if you look at the circle of contacts of American diplomats in Moscow, the scope of their Russian acquaintances, you will see that the Russians, who are under illegal American sanctions, are primary targets for the attention of American diplomats.

Yet, no one charges US diplomats for communicating with people they are prohibited to contact and who are barred from entering the United States as outcasts.

There is another example of the absurdity of what is happening. Prosecutor Robert Mueller has been working for almost two years now. He interviewed dozens, if not hundreds of people, but found no leaks that would confirm alleged collusion between US President Donald Trump and the Russian Federation.

No facts and no leaks were presented, which is very strange for the American political system. Leaks usually happen instantly there.

There have been some; several facts have been mentioned regarding Ukraine's involvement in the US election campaign, but not Russia.

Here is one example. Michael Flynn served as President Trump's national security adviser for several days. I read with interest what he was specifically accused of.

Prosecutor Mueller accused him of two things: first, Flynn called Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak before President Trump's inauguration and asked him not to reciprocate in response to the sanctions that Barack Obama imposed on Russia in the last days of his presidency, urged us not to take the path of escalation and confrontation.

Was that so bad? Was it against the interests of the American people or the American government that a potential member of the administration urged us not to harm the American diplomatic mission in the Russian Federation, not to take away property or expel diplomats?

This was one accusation against Flynn. The second charge against him was that he also asked Ambassador Kislyak to influence Moscow's position on the resolution discussed in the UN Security Council, which required Israel to stop building new settlements in the occupied territories.

Since the Obama administration decided not to block adoption of this resolution and, unlike in the previous cases, to abstain rather than vote it down, Flynn, according to Mueller, asked the Russian side to veto this anti-Israeli resolution.

I am not talking about the substance of the mater right now, whether it was necessary to adopt that resolution or not. But he essentially called on the Russian side to defend the position that the United States had been promoting in the UN for decades.

Here are two accusations against this person. I do not know what sentence he will get. But the absurdity of the situation is obvious to me.

This is just one example of the bacchanalia going on around the so-called Russian dossier.

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Anonymous 'Senior Trump Official': Shutdown Will 'Smoke Out' the Resistance - Duration: 4:12.

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Lemon Trump's a bigot That's evidence, not my opinion - Duration: 2:27.

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Former ICE Director: Dems Won't Fund Wall Because They HATE Trump & That's It - Duration: 2:53.

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Trump's Economic Advisers Double Their Shutdown Cost Projections: Reports - News Today - Duration: 3:22.

President Donald Trump's economic advisers predict the ongoing partial government shutdown will have a substantially worse impact on the U.S. economy this quarter than they originally estimated, The New York Times and CNBC reported Tuesday.

The shutdown, which entered its 25th day on Wednesday, slashes quarterly economic growth by 0.13 percentage points for every week it lasts, Kevin Hassett, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, told the Times.

The CEA originally calculated a 0.1 percentage point loss every two weeks. The agency's latest calculation means the economy has already lost about half a percentage point since the shutdown began on Dec. 22, according to the Times.

Over 800,000 federal employees across several agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Interior Department, have been furloughed or, if deemed essential, continue to work without pay during the shutdown.

Federal workers will likely receive retroactive pay once the government reopens, but many are struggling to pay rent and buy necessities in the interim. Government contractors are unlikely to get back pay for work they've missed.

The shutdown has a domino effect on communities across the country. Financially strapped federal workers are likely to spend less, which has left some businesses reeling.

And there appears to be no end in sight for the shutdown ― the longest such closure in U.S. history. Trump has vowed to veto a spending bill that would reopen federal agencies affected by the shutdown if it does not include more than $5 billion for his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Democrats have steadfastly rejected his demand, calling the wall ineffective and immoral.

Hassett on Tuesday continued to blame Democrats for the shutdown, which Trump said in December he would be "proud" to take the blame for. The CEA chair claimed the economy will take a big hit from the shutdown this quarter but likely will rebound in the future.

"In the fullness of time, this should not have a long-run effect on GDP growth," Hassett told Fox Business Network. "It's something that is going to be very painful this quarter."

But some business executives and financial experts believe the shutdown could have long-lasting economic repercussions. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told reporters Tuesday that the budget stalemate could gut the economy.

"Someone estimated that if it goes on for the whole quarter, it can reduce growth to zero," Dimon said. "We just have to deal with that. It's more of a political issue than anything else."

HuffPost readers: Are you affected by the government shutdown? Email us about it. If you're willing to be interviewed, please provide a phone number.

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Watch: Protesters interrupt confirmation hearing on Trump's EPA pick - Duration: 0:57.

PROTESTER: I really must object to this hearing happening during a government shutdown.

PROTESTER: This man wants to deregulate. This is an outrage.

PROTESTER: Shut down Wheeler, not the EPA.

Please restore order in the committee room.

Shut down Wheeler not the EPA.

I'm honored and grateful that President Trump has nominated me for the position

of administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

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Liberal Athletes Snub Trump's WH Invite, Star Clemson QB Had Different Reaction - Duration: 4:49.

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'We're NOT going back till it's over!' Trump tells supporters he's prepared for a long shutdown - Duration: 17:25.

President Donald Trump told hundreds of state, local and community 'leaders' on a conference call Tuesday – four separate times – that he is prepared to ride out a lengthy government shutdown and won't reopen a long list of unfunded agencies until Congress appropriates money for his long-promised border wall

'We're not going back until it's over.We're going to build this wall.It's going to happen,' the president said

'If we just stick together, we're going to win.Because we're not going back until it's – until the Democrats do what they know they have to do,' he urged later

The White House's Office of Political Affairs organized the call Monday with invitations to the 2:30 p

m.Tuesday event, which lasted less than 14 minutes.It was promoted as a briefing 'not intended for press purposes,' and a call moderator declared at the beginning that it was 'not on the record

'DailyMail.com did not participate in or listen to the call in real-time.A registered participant provided audio afterward

Those in the call were not named by the White House and had been invited by its political office to participate, suggesting they were already committed Trump backers

'We need unity.We're going to stay out for a long time if we have to.We'll be out for a long time,' Trump said on the call, insisting that 'government's working well' despite the loss of about 380,000 workers and the frustrations of another 400,000 who are performing their mission-critical duties without pay

A federal judge in Washington had hours earlier refused to order the administration to pay them, and to allow those furloughed at home to find other sources of income while they wait

'We really appreciate the people that have sacrificed so much.And they're not being paid right now because of the Democrats,' Trump said

Trump also declared that Republicans in Congress are marching in lockstep: 'I have had nobody call up and say, "Gee, let's go back"

' He lapsed at one point into his campaign-year rhetoric, claiming migrants who stream north from Central America toward the U

S.-Mexico border aren't refugees, but the equivalent of economic sponges.'This has very little to do with fear

This has to do with economics,' he said, dismissing the 'fear' claims of asylum-seekers

'People are coming up, and in many cases they're not working.They're coming up to enjoy the fruits of a system that too a long time to build, that'll collapse under the weight of the millions of people that want to pour in,' he said

The president's morning Twitter diet on Tuesday included a message about 'a big new Caravan

heading up to our Southern Border from Honduras,' and a plea for his base to pester House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on his behalf

'Tell Nancy and Chuck that a drone flying around will not stop them.Only a Wall will work

Only a Wall, or Steel Barrier, will keep our Country safe! Stop playing political games and end the Shutdown!' he tweeted

Tuesday's call came after a meeting between Trump and House Republicans, after an attempt at a bipartisan negotiating session fell apart

Democrats declined the invitation.GOP members strode out of the West Wing, eager to talk to reporters, with one clutching a handout boasting of Trump's tough-as-nails border security positions

The sheet matched nearly identically one that the White House sent to reporters a full week ago, suggesting the president's team hasn't changed its messaging much since the partial government shutdown began 25 days ago

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen introduced the president minutes later on the conference call; no one else spoke other than Trump's Arizona law-enforcement guest

Dial-in participants were locked in 'listen-only mode.' 'Stay together.Be unified

We're not going back until we get what we have to get,' they heard Trump say, while insisting that 'the Republican Senate and the Republican House, members of whom I just left, are totally united for the sake of safety for our nation

' Trump mused that 'maybe it'll be 100 to nothing someday in Congress, and I guess I'll just sort of sit back and say, "Well, they're going to get it

"But I don't think so.' 'We'll get this up, we'll get it up fast, and it'll be like a different day,' he said finally, of his controversial border barrier

'Stay together, we're going to win, we're not going back until it's over.We're going to build this wall

It's going to happen.I've been promising.It has nothing to do with a campaign promise

It has to do with the fact that we need this for our country.' It's unclear how many people listened to Trump and an Arizona sheriff on the call

DailyMail.com's source said an automated system advised at the time his call connected that the number was in the hundreds

The White House's published schedule for Tuesday described the event as 'a briefing call on the border crisis with State, local, and community leaders' and said Trump would participate

A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The call came as the shutdown's effects spread, with chaos at airports as sickness levels among TSA staff hit three times the normal rate, and with Trump winning a court victory over a move by furloughed workers to seek paid employment elsewhere during the shutdown

The Transportation Security Administration reported a national absence rate of 6.8percent - about one in 13 - on Monday, to a 2

5percent rate one year ago on the same day.Monday marked the first business day after security screeners saw their first missed paycheck since the shutdown began

TSA officials remain concerned they could soon reach a 'tipping point' where large numbers of their agents quit and look for paid work elsewhere

At Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest, some passengers have had to wait more than an hour to get through checkpoints

'It's chaos out here,' passenger Vincent Smith said as he stood in a line that snaked through the Atlanta airport's atrium and baggage claim areas

'This line, I've been here about 15 minutes and it has moved two feet.' In a statement Tuesday morning, TSA officials said: 'Nationwide, TSA screened 1

89 million passengers yesterday.Overall, 99.1percent of passengers waited less than 30 minutes; 94

3percent of passengers less than 15 minutes.In TSA Pre Check lanes, passengers on average waited less than 10 minutes

' Federal judge considers ordering Trump to pay employees who say they're now SLAVES working for free during shutdown Judge Richard Leon decided Tuesday that he won't intervene in the 25-day-old government shutdown, refusing to force the Trump administration to release 780,000 unpaid federal workers from employment limbo A federal judge decided Tuesday that he won't intervene in the 25-day-old government shutdown, refusing to force the Trump administration to release 780,000 unpaid federal workers from employment limbo

Judge Richard Leon denied petitions from two government employees' unions and their members for a temporary restraining order that would have ended the practice of making some workers perform their duties without salaries and requiring others to stay home without earning money at other jobs

Leon said after hearing oral arguments that he sympathized with out-of-work federal employees

But the shutdown 'squabble,' he ruled, shouldn't be solved by using federal courts as a source of leverage by one side of a dispute against another

Some workers claim Trump is violating their Fifth Amendment rights by taking their property – their salaries – without due process

Others say he's unconstitutionally treating them like slaves, forcing them to work for free without sufficient reason

The National Treasury Employees Union and National Air Traffic Controllers Association say forcing government employees to work without pay violates the U

S.Constitution and the Fair Labor Standards Act.The air traffic controllers' lawsuit contends that government employees' salaries are their 'property,' and depriving them of that compensation without a sufficient reason runs counter to the Fifth Amendment's guarantee that no one can be 'deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law

'Their members, the union said, shouldn't be 'distracted by financial issues .caused by the government's unlawful taking of their property without due process

'780,000 federal workers have been off payroll since December 21; about half have been forced to come to work anyway since their jobs are considered 'essential' government functions A group of five individual plaintiffs also sued under the 13th Amendment, declaring that being forced to work without a predictable payroll is a violation of the 13th Amendment's prohibition of slavery

They claim the government has threatened to punish 'essential' employees if they don't show up to work despite not being paid, and that those sent home will be fired if they find other paid employment while they wait for the nation's longest-ever shutdown to end

Separately, the Treasury workers' union says Trump is violating the Anti-Deficiency Act, a 149-year-old law that prevents federal agencies from spending money Congress hasn't allotted to them

The law, passed during the Ulysses Grant administration, allows for the government to keep running, without funding, in the case of 'emergencies involving the safety of human life or the protection of property

'Congress added new language to it in 1990, saying that definition did not include 'ongoing, regular functions of government' unless life or property is threatened

The union says the White House is illegally lumping ordinary government tasks, like processing tax returns, in with vital functions like military defense in order to avoid a public backlash

Judge Leon, a George W.Bush appointee, consolidated all the cases and heard oral arguments Tuesday in Washington

The National Treasury Employees Union represents more than 150,000 federal workers in 33 separate agencies

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association has 15,000 members and is affiliated with the AFL-CIO

Treasury union president Tony Reardon said last week in a press release that '[i]f employees are working, they must be paid – and if there is not money to pay them, then they should not be working

'Congress has already passed, and Trump has signed, legislation requiring back-pay disbursements for affected federal employees as soon as the shutdown is over

Reporting by David Martosko, US Political Editor for DailyMail.com

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Sick Anti-Trump Bigwig Pushes Attack on Lindsey Graham - Cites Gay, Kink Accusations - Duration: 4:01.

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Grimace Puts Trump On The Hot Seat - Duration: 1:15.

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Late Night White House Press Conference with Trump: How's the Country Doing? - Duration: 5:25.

-Whenever Donald Trump holds a press conference,

his rambling, nonsensical answers

raise more questions than the answers,

so we decided to hold another one right here, right now.

That's right. Donald Trump and the "Late Night" press corps

are here in our studio and ready to go.

So without further ado, it's time for the "Late Night"

White House press conference.

[ Cheers and applause ]

♪♪

Mr. President. Mr. President. Yes.

Mr. President, yes, over here. Thank you.

Seth Meyers, "Late Night with Seth Meyers."

President Trump, you've been president for two years now.

How's the country doing?

-A dangerous, horrible disaster.

-And years from now when we look back,

how will people describe the 2016 election?

-An incredibly, I will say, wrong decision.

-Tell me something that you just learned today.

-This magnificent structure right behind you,

it's called the White House.

[ Laughter ]

-I have a question about your proposed border wall.

First, it was made out of concrete.

Then it was steel slats. And now it's, uh, what?

-The wall is peanuts.

-Where do your hands go when you talk?

-Up and down, left and right. East and west.

-What would you say

if the Russian Army invaded our country?

-Welcome to the United States.

[ Laughter ]

-I heard you really enjoyed the holidays. Why was that?

-I was here, my family was in Florida.

-What is your message to the meth cooks

that sneak all of their drugs across the border?

-Make your product in the United States.

[ Laughter ]

-Do you like to watch pornography on your phone,

and if so, do you do it a lot?

-That's the way I view it.

I've probably done more

in the first two years than any president,

any administration in the history of our country.

[ Laughter ]

-I know.

I know. We all know you to be a voracious reader.

What's the first line of Dickens' classic novel

"A Tale of Two Cities"?

-It's a good deal. It was a horrible deal.

[ Laughter ]

-I know you love being a dad. How many children do you have?

-Nine or six or three or two. Doesn't matter.

[ Laughter ]

-All right. You're going to call a girl on the phone.

What's your best pickup line?

-Hi. It's President Trump. What's going on?

[ Laughter ]

-Dude, what -- what is wrong with you?

-I could give you a list. It's pages long.

[ Cheers and applause ]

-What do you think people would say to you

if they saw you walk out to the end of a pier?

-I think they'd say, "Mr. President, keep going."

[ Laughter ]

[ Cheers and applause ]

-Now that he's gone, what do you really think

of your former chief of staff, John Kelly?

-Dick.

-What scores -- What scores have your three wives given you

in the bedroom out of a possible 10?

-1.6, 2.1, 2.5.

-All right.

[ Laughter ]

You're getting better.

What do you call your two adult sons?

-Drips and Drabs.

-[ Laughs ] Be honest with us.

How long have you gone without eating a vegetable?

-For years. 19 years.

-How much do you pay for your makeup?

-$2 a gallon.

[ Laughter ]

-Mr. President, I know you're happily married now,

but you were known for being

quite the romantic back in the day.

Walk me through what a perfect first date

would be like with Donald Trump.

-So, what happens is some are paid up front.

You make a deal up front.

And we're willing to do that in all cases.

And when they're unwilling to make a deal,

which also happens, then you go to court.

[ Laughter ]

-You love rock 'n' roll. Name the members of the Beatles.

-Chuck and Nancy and, uh, Stenny and Dick.

-Complete this famous lyric.

♪ It's fun to stay at the... ♪

-The USMCA.

[ Laughter ]

-What does Melania say when you offer her your hand?

-I'm not holding that.

-Mr. President, Russian colluder says what?

-What? -Ha-ha, ha-ha!

[ Cheers and applause ]

We're, uh...

We're almost out of time,

so I'd like to finish with a question I always ask.

Mr. President, how's your penis?

-One of the great disasters of all time.

-How's your penis? -There's no inflation.

-Your penis? -The worst thing in the world.

-And that's all the time we have.

So on behalf of the rest of the "Late Night" press corps, have a good night.

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Republicans Abandon Trump As Government Shutdown Drags On - Duration: 3:57.

Well, the government shutdown still going on, still no end in sight, still no buddy

coming to the negotiation table, whether it's from the Republicans or the Democrats.

Uh, and there's good reason for that.

I don't fault the Democrats for that.

Donald Trump has said he won't budge.

Democrats have said they won't budge.

So we're at an impasse now that we can do right.

Well, eventually this impasse is going to pass and it's probably going to happen sooner

rather than later because there are many, many cracks in the facade of the Republican

Party as Washington Post conservative columnists.

Jennifer Rubin pointed out this week, Trump has basically shown his hand.

He is holding nothing.

She says, you know, basically he's got a pair of Twos, but he keeps doubling down on it

and he can't win this.

There's no way he can win this.

He doesn't know what to do.

He doesn't know what his end game is here.

And more importantly, he is one of the worst negotiators that we have ever seen.

And the real irony there obviously is the fact that when he was elected and during the

campaign, he told his crowds that he was going to negotiate everything you need to negotiate

drug prices.

I'm going to negotiate with Democrats, I'm going to go negotiate with foreign countries

because look at me.

I'm a successful businessman and I negotiate a lot.

It's what I do.

I wrote a book called the art of the deal.

Well, here's the thing, Trump some moron.

He doesn't know how to negotiate.

And he has proven that day after day after day after day, since he was sworn in as president

of the United States, he doesn't know what he's doing.

But here's the thing, it's not just Jennifer Rubin, it's other Republicans who are joining

in with Democrats trying to get bills passed to reopen the federal government.

And then maybe later down the road talk about border wall funding, which promise you ain't

going to happen.

Um, but in the Senate, they keep getting blocked by Mitch Mcconnell even though other Republicans

have said, okay, yeah, we'll sign onto this.

We've got to get the government running again.

People in this country are suffering.

Our national security is suffering from this partial government shutdown, but Mitch Mcconnell

every time just says, nope, nope, nope, nope.

Not going to do it.

Not going to bring it to a vote.

Get the fuck out of here.

I don't care.

That's Mitch Mcconnell.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mitch Mcconnell and Donald Trump owned this shutdown.

There are plenty of Republicans, even some of the worst ones out there who have still

attempted to reopen the government to their credit, but you know who really does deserve

the credit here, the Democratic Party, you know, we.

We talked here at ring of fire throughout the entire Obama administration about the

fact that the Democrats were too willing to compromise.

They caved way too easily to Republicans even when Democrats had the majority's.

They haven't done that here and honestly, I do feel like that deserves a hell of a lot

of credit.

The Democrats are doing what we've been begging them to do for over a decade, which is fight

back.

Stand up to Republicans.

Do not let them push you around and Democrats are holding strong right now and what's happening

as a result of that is they're getting more and more republicans coming to their side.

They understand the damage they're inflicting on the United States and they want the government

reopened, but to people unfortunately are standing in the way and those two people are

Mitch Mcconnell and Donald Trump and that alliance have to right now is pretty powerful.

But as more and more Republicans continue to jump ship as more and more conservative

columnists come out here and say, Trump is an idiot and doesn't know what he's doing.

That alliance of two is going to get weaker and weaker by the hour and it won't be long

before those two idiots are forced to cave and give up their stupid dream of building

a wall along the southern border.

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Trump's "Hamberders" Tweet, Nancy Pelosi's Approval Rating - Monologue - Duration: 3:42.

-Let's get to the news.

President Trump misspelled the word "hamburgers"

in a tweet this morning. [ Laughter ]

And, sure, it's easy to make fun of Trump for misspelling a word,

so here goes.

[ Laughter ]

Normally, I would wonder if you didn't know how to spell it

or if you just made a typo, but this one is so bad...

[ Light laughter ]

...I think it's both. [ Laughter ]

I think you don't know how to spell it,

and then you made a typo... [ Laughter ]

...off the wrong spelling in your head.

[ Laughter ]

I think you looked at that afterwards and thought,

"Oh, man, that's supposed to have two D's in it."

[ Laughter ]

"I'm so emblaranced."

[ Laughter ]

Also, look at this part.

Of course you paid!

[ Laughter ]

Were you honestly considering asking Clemson to go Dutch?

[ Laughter ]

"Okay, let's see.

1,000 hamberders between 80 people.

I brought the weird candle so probably owe a little less."

[ Laughter ]

You know what? Just Venmo me. Venmo me."

[ Laughter ]

Attorney General nominee William Barr said today

that it would be a crime for the president

to offer someone a pardon in exchange for a promise

not to incriminate him.

And then, Rudy Giuliani went on CNN to say,

"Crime isn't even illegal!"

[ Laughter ]

According to a new poll, House speaker Nancy Pelosi's

approval ratings rose 6% since the start of the new Congress,

and her eyebrows rose 8%.

[ Laughter ]

President Trump on Twitter today continued to push

for his proposed border wall saying, "A big new caravan

is heading up to our southern border from Honduras."

Oh, my God. That means the only thing

between us and them is the border patrol, I.C.E.,

a fence, mountains, a river, Mexico, and Guatemala.

[ Laughter ]

Today was the 10th anniversary of the Miracle on the Hudson,

when a U.S. Airways jet -- [ Cheers and applause ]

Yeah. [ Applause ]

When a U.S. Airways jet

successfully made an emergency landing in the Hudson River.

Not to be confused with the Miracle on the East River

where a man swam all the way across without dissolving.

[ Laughter ]

A man in his 50s recently experienced so-called

debilitating night blindness after accidentally taking

an entire bottle of sexual-dysfunction medicine.

[ Laughter ]

Which makes you wonder,

what medicine did he mean to take an entire bottle of?

[ Laughter ]

That's right. He has debilitating

night blindness from taking sexual-dysfunction medicine.

Luckily, now he's got an excellent walking stick.

[ Laughter ]

[ Cheers and applause ]

Yeah. [ Laughs ]

So glad eight of you

peer-pressured the rest into applauding.

[ Laughter ]

Irish fast-food chain Supermac's

won a case against McDonald's today

which will prevent McDonald's from using a trademark

on the Big Mac, because in Ireland,

one out of every three people is named "Big Mac."

[ Laughter ]

And finally, a painting believed to be

the lost work of Renaissance artist Michelangelo

has reportedly gone missing from a church in Belgium.

Police don't have --

Police don't have a motive, but they do have a suspect.

[ Laughter and applause ]

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NUNES ANNOUNCES FBI EVIDENCE THAT WILL END THE INVESTIGATION ON TRUMP - Duration: 18:25.

NUNES ANNOUNCES FBI EVIDENCE THAT WILL END THE INVESTIGATION ON TRUMP

Nunes Announces FBI Evidence That Will End The Investigation On Trump

Why the Democrats chose to use Russia as the scapegoat for their 2016 election loss is

completely baffling.

After all, Russians and Democrats share the same economic ideals of socialism, and both

use terms like "worker's rights" and "equality" as a smokescreen to confiscate

people's wealth to give it to themselves.

But since they still can't accept the fact that the American people did not want Hillary

Clinton, they have to keep latching onto this narrative, in the hopes that they will eventually

uncover something they can use to impeach President Trump.

Still, this expensive and frivolous investigation begs an important question: how did the idea

that Russia meddled in our election even begin?

It's an important question, and one that too few have been asking.

But one Congressman has been looking into it, and his findings could stop the entire

witch hunt in its tracks.

From Fox Business: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin

Nunes said Sunday his review of FBI and Justice Department "electronic communication"

documents shows no intelligence was used to begin the investigation into possible collusion

between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.

"We now know that there was no official intelligence that was used to start this investigation.

We know that Sidney Blumenthal and others were pushing information into the State Department.

So we're trying to piece all that together and that's why we continue to look at the

State Department," Nunes told Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures."

Nunes is now turning the tables on the Left and is investigating the State Department

for their "major irregularities" regarding how information wound up in the hands of the

FBI.

He believes Blumenthal and other Clinton loyalists were behind it all, and continue to steer

the investigation.

Due to this mounting pile of evidence proving Trump is innocent, the president can and should

fire Mueller and his whole team without worry from Congress.

The real question is, when is Attorney General Jeff Sessions going to indict Hillary and

those around her for their crimes?

Rep. DeSantis recently sent a letter to Sessions cosigned by ten colleagues calling for an

investigation into several Obama-era officials for potential violations of federal statutes.

Former FBI Director James Comey, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Attorney

General Loretta Lynch, former Acting Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe, FBI Agent Peter

Strzok and FBI Counsel Lisa Page, are among the names on the list of people who are accused

of abusing our legal system for political purposes.

The sooner the fake Trump-Russia collusion story ends, the sooner the real investigations