NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 1/18/2019
When you have a President of the United States who has a close friend named Vince McMahon, you can expect a good fight show.
Earlier this week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urged against President Trump making his State of the Union speech due to the partial federal government shutdown.
On Thursday President Trump cancelled use of a military aircraft by Pelosi and other Democrats for an overseas junket this weekend, citing the shutdown.
The Democrats were headed to Brussels, Egypt and Afghanistan.
The President wants Congress to approve funding for a barrier on the nation's southern border but the Democrats do not support it and the impasse continues which has caused a partial government shutdown.
There's a big buzz in the media about President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen this morning with the report that Cohen told the Special Prosecutor Robert Muller that Mr. Trump told him to lie to Congress about Trump business dealings in Russia.
Responding to it, Rudy Giuliani, one of the president's lawyers saying that Cohen has a:
"great deal on the Brooklyn Bridge"
A top North Korean official carrying a note from that country's ruler Kim Jong-un has arrived in Washington for a Friday meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
General Kim Yong-chol is considered the right hand man of Kim Jong-un and he was in Washington last year to deliver a note that led to the first summit meeting between President Trump and the North Korean leader.
There is speculation about a possible Trump-Kim summit sometime next month in Vietnam.
Twenty were killed and dozens more injured in a car bomb attack in Colombia's capital Bogota Thursday.
The 57 year old man who was the driver of the car also killed. No group has claimed responsibility
for the attack at the entrance to a police academy where a promotion ceremony for cadets was being held.
Colombia's President Ivan Duque is calling it a:
"crazy terrorist act"
Act 50 of the European Union treaty invoked for Brexit explicitly states that if there is no deal to withdrawal a member nation can leave without one.
Opposition politicians and others are calling on Prime Minister Theresa May to develop a new approach to Brexit that rules out a no deal exit from the EU after her plan was rejected in Parliament earlier this week.
But last night in London "Mr. Brexit" Nigel Farage and others of the "Leave Means Leave" group held a rally in London calling for a no-deal exit from the EU based on World Trade Organization rules.
"Back to Paris" is the message on Facebook in France as Yellow Vests plan to return to the capital Saturday for Act 10 of the protest. At least 18-thousand reported interested. Protests are expected in other cities and towns across France on both Saturday and Sunday based on social media posts.
President Emmanuel Macron meeting with another group of hundreds of mayor's today Friday as part of his "great debate" campaign in response to the Yellow Vests protest.
Controversial Macron like policies could be on the way in Sweden soon as a new government has been formed today Friday. Pro-business anti-labor parties are influencing the new four party arrangement designed to exclude the anti-mass immigration Sweden Democrats from power.
While Social Democrat Stefan Lofven will be Prime Minister, the Center and Liberal parties with their "crony capitalist" policies are involved. The fourth party, the Greens, will be able to say that possible policies like new taxes on less wealthy Swedes are "Green" policies that help the Earth.
The fifth party involved, the former Communists of the Left party, were the last party to stand in the way of forming the government.
In the end the Left chose not to join the government but they also refused to vote it out today creating a minority government that for now will keep the Sweden Democrats out of power.
Israel's Channel 13 reporting on details of President Trump's "Deal of the Century" plan for a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians this week.
The media report says some major Jewish settlement blocs like Ariel will remain in Judaea and Samaria, commonly called the "West Bank", but that 90 percent of the territories including other settlements will be given back.
A US representative in Israel for the plan called the report "inaccurate" but Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked of "The New Right" party in Israel are concerned about the plan and don't think its a good idea.
When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called elections for April 9th the US decided to delay public release of the plan.
A "sex for judgeship" scandal in Israel with the Chairman of the Israel Bar Association arrested this week by police, then released to house arrest. Effi Nave is alleged to advanced the career of a woman appointed to a judgeship in exchange for sexual favors. Plus he's suspected of accepting sexual favors from the wife of a male judge in exchange for advancement to a higher court.
In Chicago today the sentencing of Jason Van Dyke, the police officer who shot black teenager Laquan McDonald in 2014. Van Dyke shot McDonald 16 times with the shooting captured on police dashcam video.
Yesterday a judge acquitted three others accused of covering up the shooting.
The African Union has called on the Democratic Republic of Congo to postpone today's final proclamation of presidential election results.
Opposition candidate Martin Fayulu says he is the winner and Roman Catholic Church, which had 40-thousand election observers monitoring the vote, says that the candidate official results show the winner Felix Tshisekedi did not win the election.
Late word is that the government will go ahead and officialy announce a winner in the questionable election today Friday.
In the UK, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, involved in a traffic accident Thursday afternoon. The Land Rover being driven by the 97 year-old husband of Her Majesty The Queen collided with another vehicle as it emerged onto a highway from the Sandringham estate.
Witnesses who helped those involved in the accident said Prince Philip was "very shocked and very shaken" as he was taken from his vehicle, which overturned. He was later seen by a doctor.
Two people in the other vehicle taken to hospital with minor injuries and released.
Police will be conducting an investigation into the accident. They say both drivers tested negative when given breath tests.
And that's the way it really is Friday morning January 18th, 2019.
In Chicago today the sentencing of Jason Van Dyke, the police officer who shot black teenager Laquan McDonald in 2014. Van Dyke shot McDonald 16 times with the shooting captured on police dashcam video.
Yesterday a judge acquitted three others accused of covering up the shooting.
The African Union has called on the Democratic Republic of Congo to postpone today's final proclamation of presidential election results.
Opposition candidate Martin Fayulu says he is the winner and Roman Catholic Church, which had 40-thousand election observers monitoring the vote, says that the candidate official results show the winner Felix Tshisekedi did not win the election.
Late word is that the government will go ahead and officialy announce a winner in the questionable election today Friday.
In the UK, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, involved in a traffic accident Thursday afternoon. The Land Rover being driven by the 97 year-old husband of Her Majesty The Queen collided with another vehicle as it emerged onto a highway from the Sandringham estate.
Witnesses who helped those involved in the accident said Prince Philip was "very shocked and very shaken" as he was taken from his vehicle, which overturned. He was later seen by a doctor.
Two people in the other vehicle taken to hospital with minor injuries and released.
Police will be conducting an investigation into the accident. They say both drivers tested negative when given breath tests.
And that's the way it really is Friday morning January 18th, 2019.
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