HotAir Daily Express 04/19/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Trump lawyer warns POTUS: Michael Cohen will roll over]( 4/19/2018 11:21:37 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Lefty Jonathan Chait noticed that no one in Trump’s orbit seems to dismiss the “Will Cohen flip?” question as unimportant since, after all, surely he and the president have committed no crimes together. The assumption seems to be that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Melania Trump will represent first family at Barbara Bush’s funeral]( 4/19/2018 10:41:58 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments First Lady Melania Trump will attend the funeral of former First Lady Barbara Bush Saturday. President Trump is not expected to attend. The funeral is by invitation only and will be performed at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston. The Bushes [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN: Republicans seem curiously reluctant to endorse Trump 2020]( 4/19/2018 10:01:10 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Maybe because it’s April 2018? True, Donald Trump has informally insisted that he’s running again, and a Trump 2020 campaign committee has already begun working on a re-election bid. For most Republicans contacted by CNN about their 2020 [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Miguel Diaz-Canel: Leader of a new Cuba, or a figurehead for Castroites?]( 4/19/2018 9:21:36 AM Taylor Millard 0 Comments Cuba’s new leader is someone who doesn’t have the last name Castro. Parliament named Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel as the lone candidate to replace Raul Castro today. The Independent reported Diaz-Canel is someone who tends to stay out of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Moon: No, really, Pyongyang wants “complete denuclearization”; Update: OK’s continuing US military presence?]( 4/19/2018 8:41:52 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments So what’s the catch on Kim Jong-un’s sudden desire to end all conflicts and achieve Peace In Our Time®? South Korean president Moon Jae-in insisted earlier today that there is no catch. North Korea wants denuclearization without conditions, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New air pollution report: California is the worst. So, don’t come here]( 4/19/2018 8:01:01 AM Andrew Malcolm 0 Comments Good news for those of us who think the nation’s most populous state should be a little less populous. Or a lot less. The American Lung Association has released its annual report on ozone pollution. And would you believe, eight of the worst places [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pilot who safely landed Southwest flight 1380 had ‘nerves of steel’]( 4/18/2018 10:01:36 PM John Sexton 0 Comments You’ve probably read about the near-disaster of Southwest Airlines flight 1380, which had to make an emergency landing after an engine exploded at 32,000 feet. It will be months before the NTSB releases a final report, but investigators are already [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democrats’ lead on generic ballot now smallest in almost a year]( 4/18/2018 9:21:23 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Note that it’s not any single poll that’s showing this, it’s the RCP average — the “poll of polls.” A single poll can always cough up a strange, unlikely outlier because of an odd sample or a pollster’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Karen McDougal freed from “catch and kill” deal as Stormy Daniels lawyer threatens Trump with defamation suit]( 4/18/2018 8:41:20 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This seems like the worst of all worlds for POTUS and Michael Cohen. They had two routes to choose from on the hush-money stuff. One: Don’t enforce the NDAs. Let Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal and whoever else say what they want publicly about [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Poll: Hillary’s favorability at a new low]( 4/18/2018 8:01:47 PM John Sexton 0 Comments NBC News and the Wall Street Journal released a joint poll today which found that Hillary Clinton’s popularity has declined significantly since the 2016 election and is now at a new low. From the WSJ: Right before the election, the share of people [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fresno State: Yes, the tenured professor who cheered Barbara Bush’s death could be fired]( 4/18/2018 7:21:16 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments So this idiot’s Twitter-puke is officially a news story now, huh? I heard about it last night and shrugged it off on grounds that of course some leftist jackholes would pop the rhetorical champagne upon hearing that a Bush had died, even if it [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Quinnipiac poll shows Ted Cruz in trouble in Texas]( 4/18/2018 6:41:01 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments C’mon, this “Beto!” thing isn’t really happening, is it? He hates the NRA, supports abortion, supports impeachment, and is in striking distance — in Texas? Note the spread across age groups. Young adults tilt as heavily [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pizza Rat 1, Mayor de Blasio 0]( 4/18/2018 6:01:27 PM John Sexton 0 Comments New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is on a campaign to wipe out the large populations of rats that plague the city and, in particular, some of the city’s housing projects. Yesterday, he gave a presentation on his plan while sitting behind a large [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics on Relevant Radio: Cardinal George’s legacy, free speech in Pittsburgh, movie talk, & more!]( 4/18/2018 5:21:30 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Once again, I get to step outside the box and guest host on Relevant Radio’s A Closer Look from 6-7 ET today! The Catholic talk-radio network is heard nationwide on the air after its merger with Immaculate Heart Radio, as well as online and through their [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Meghan McCain to Comey: You present yourself as apolitical but you sound like a political commentator to me]( 4/18/2018 4:41:19 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This criticism has been made often on the right but rarely (ever?) to Comey’s face. The guy all but endorsed the 2020 Democratic candidate for president, sight unseen, in his Stephanopoulos interview three days ago. It’s not about politics, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Actually, Comey had good reason to announce the Clinton email probe wasn’t over]( 4/18/2018 4:01:28 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Now that James Comey is on a book tour trashing President Trump, it’s easy to forget that for most of last year the left was furious with him. Indeed, despite his current trashing of Trump, many on the left are still furious with him. They believe [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Schiff: Let’s put some real oversight on Trump’s … pardons?]( 4/18/2018 3:21:02 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Looks like Congress picked the wrong week to give up publicity stunts and pointless gestures. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, announced today that he’s proposing a bill that will prevent “this [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NYT: Mattis pushed for Congressional vote on Syria strikes, but denied; Update: White House denies]( 4/18/2018 2:41:18 PM Taylor Millard 0 Comments Secretary of Defense General Jim Mattis was hoping the Trump Administration would get Congressional approval before launching last week’s attack on Syria. The New York Times reports Mattis pushed President Donald Trump on going to Capitol Hill for [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo: White House told Russia to ignore Nikki Haley after she said more sanctions would be coming]( 4/18/2018 2:01:20 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Lots of Haley fans were high-fiving last night after Larry Kudlow accused her of being confused about the policy and she sniffed in retort, “I don’t get confused.” No one messes with Haley! Having the West Wing dial up Moscow and tell [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [FBI is making progress investigating those sonic attacks in Cuba]( 4/18/2018 1:21:51 PM John Sexton 0 Comments In an interview with the Miami Herald, Sen. Marco Rubio revealed that he had recently been briefed by the FBI on the investigation into the mysterious attacks in Cuba which left some American and Canadian diplomats with serious health issues. Rubio says [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Parkland survivor files first victim lawsuit, pledges to go after “every single person responsible”]( 4/18/2018 12:41:22 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The Iron Man has filed the first victim lawsuit stemming from the Parkland massacre, but it certainly won’t be the last. Fifteen-year-old Anthony Borges took five bullets while barricading the door to save his classmates, and will have to use a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NYT: Republicans “whisper” about Pence/Haley ticket in 2020]( 4/18/2018 12:01:47 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments I’ll bet they’re whispering, but their relative closeness to the White House seems more debatable. Buried deep in a New York Times report on the disagreement over further sanctions on Russia is a strange nugget about presidential ambitions in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [The Comey-Trump dance]( [People are losing their minds over Starbucks]( [North Korea drops demand that U.S. withdraw troops in return for denuclearization]( [Mrs. No-nonsense]( [We must protect attorney-client privilege]( [Trump allies worry Cohen will flip]( [Report: Evan McMullin still owes campaign workers tens of thousands of dollars]( [Haley sets a red line for Trump]( [Whaa! 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