NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 3/24-MONDAY 3/25/2019
A summary of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller's report was sent to Congress Sunday by Attorney General William Barr and its conclusion is that there was no collusion or conspiracy with Russia by President Trump or his campaign in 2016.
"Total EXONERATION"
was part of President Trump's Twitter post in response to the news.
Some other reaction. One of the President's attorney's, Jay Sekulow, spoke on the "Bill Cunningham Show" Sunday night saying that the outcome was "good":
"for the country"
and:
"for the justice system".
One of the President's friends in the UK is "Mr. Brexit" Nigel Farage who tweeted in part:
"...apologies are owed to @realDonaldTrump and his family"
And from the Kremlin the Russian News Agency Tass quotes spokesman Dmitry Peskov:
"We have not read the report"
A surprise interview in Israel Saturday night as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left for his trip to the United States.
Netanyahu answering concerns about submarine sales involving Israel and his involvement in them.
It all happened suddenly with anchors of the news on Channel 12 having short notice of Netanyahu's appearance on the set for a live interview.
A story about what happened was done by the French AFP news agency and published by the "Times of India"..... LINK NETANYAHU SUBMARINES-AFP-TIMES OF INDIA
Channel 12 was the media outlet that leaked out word the other week that Netanyahu's primary opponent in Israel's April 9th election, Benny Gantz of the "Blue and White Party", had been victimized with Iran hacking his phone.
This information leaked out from Israel's intelligence community and led to talk of a "sex tape" of Gantz existing and the notion that Iran had compromised the former IDF Chief of Staff. Gantz denied the reports as "political gossip".
LATE BREAKING NEWS FROM ISRAEL:
A ROCKET FROM GAZA HIT A HOUSE ON A COLLECTIVE FARM IN CENTRAL ISRAEL NORTH OF TEL AVIV WOUNDING SEVEN PEOPLE, TWO OF THEM MODERATELY. OTHERS IN THE AREA WERE TREATED FOR SHOCK.
HAMAS CLAIMS THE ROCKET FIRE WAS ACCIDENTIAL BUT ISRAEL IS MOBILIZING RESERVE FORCES AND PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU HAS HAD A CONFERENCE CALL FROM WASHINGTON WITH SECURITY OFFICIALS IN ISRAEL.
NETANYAHU WILL MEET PRESIDENT TRUMP MONDAY THEN RETURN HOME TO ISRAEL EARLY SKIPPING A PLANNED SPEECH AT THE AIPAC CONFERENCE.
Two more nations recognizing Israel's capital as Jerusalem and setting up their embassies there. Romania and Honduras announcing their decisions.
"I remember that a police officer charged me and afterwards I do not remember anything"
That's what 73-year old Genevieve Legay told her daughter who she didn't recognize at first following a police charge into Yellow Vests protesters in Nice, France Saturday.
She is hospitalized for observation with several skull fractures.
A lawyer for Mrs. Legay's family says a complaint will be filed with prosecutors Monday and the prosecutors office says its opening an inquiry to determine how she was hurt.
Police were enforcing a ban on Yellow Vests protests in the center of the Nice amidst a crackdown on Yellow Vests in the 19th week of their protests in France.
Weighing in on Mrs. Legay's wounding by police President Emmanuel Macron in an interview with the Nice newspaper "Nice-Matin". Macron wishing her a "speedy recovery" but he included more in his comments.
Macron saying:
"you do not go to places that are forbidden and you do not go into situations like this. I wish her a speedy recovery, and perhaps a form of wisdom"
Legay's lawyer Arie Alimi responded to Macron's comments on BFM-TV Monday morning:
"the elderly can not express their beliefs in the street. These remarks, beyond the legal debate, seem particularly rude and indelicate to me"
The Battle of Brexit and talk of a change at Number 10 Downing Street, but the political machine isn't planning a change in the direction of its policy steering away from the Brexit option now most popular, a "No-Deal Brexit" to pull out of the European Union.
Multiple options being bandied about including going back to voters in a second referendum, even though they approved Leave in the 2016 vote.
There may be parliamentary votes and or a political shakeup in the hours and days ahead with Prime Minister Theresa May stepping down. Stay tuned.
"We should not back down, we should not be scared because the opponent takes offense and attacks us with the anger of the people who are exposed"
The tough talk of Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban as the campaign for the European Parliament elections in May heats up.
Orban's party was suspended from a mainstream "conservative" grouping in the EU parliament over its media campaign against EU Commission President Jean Claude-Juncker and billionaire George Soros.
In a Hungarian TV interview Orban noted the Dutch provincial election results that will dramatically change the Senate in the Netherlands.
Depending on the election results in May, Orban said his party may look for new political parties to align with in the European Parliament.
Two Russian military aircraft arrived in Venezuela on Saturday. One of the planes that landed in Caracas carried 35 tons of supplies, the other about 100 members of the Russian military.
Russia says its soldiers are in Venezuela to fulfil military contracts.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has written to British Prime Minister Theresa May calling on her to adopt a definition of Islamophobia favored by his Labour Party and the Liberal Democratic Party in the UK.
The definition reads:
Two Russian military aircraft arrived in Venezuela on Saturday. One of the planes that landed in Caracas carried 35 tons of supplies, the other about 100 members of the Russian military.
Russia says its soldiers are in Venezuela to fulfil military contracts.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has written to British Prime Minister Theresa May calling on her to adopt a definition of Islamophobia favored by his Labour Party and the Liberal Democratic Party in the UK.
The definition reads:
"Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness"
Khan says that the Conservative Party needs to set "the strongest possible example to society" to deal with Islamophobia that he says has crept into the mainstream of British society and debate.
He also cited the recent mass murder attacks on mosques in New Zealand saying that Muslims in the UK needed reassurance.
Khan's Labor Party has taken a beating in the last year or so with accusations of Anti-Semitism in its ranks.
Elections in Thailand, the first since a military coup took over the country, with the military party leading in the race. The results aren't official yet but it looks like the military backed political party will defeat the civilian party of the former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
However, later word on this story is that the Election Commission is delaying official results amid conflicting counts over how many seats the military party and the opposition actually won.
And that's the way it really is on this Monday morning March 25th, 2019.
Elections in Thailand, the first since a military coup took over the country, with the military party leading in the race. The results aren't official yet but it looks like the military backed political party will defeat the civilian party of the former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
However, later word on this story is that the Election Commission is delaying official results amid conflicting counts over how many seats the military party and the opposition actually won.
And that's the way it really is on this Monday morning March 25th, 2019.
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