HotAir Daily Express 05/17/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [At this point, Trump’s future may boil down to a matter of trust]( 5/17/2017 10:41:24 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Something has changed in Washington this week. While unpleasant to contemplate on some levels, what was once a complicated partisan divide (nothing unusual inside the Beltway, though perhaps more pronounced of late) feels as if it’s morphed into [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Convicted terrorist to be feted in New York City parade]( 5/17/2017 10:01:23 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments On Sunday, June 11th, the Big Apple will mark the 60th edition of the annual Puerto Rican Day parade. It’s always a huge event which brings out throngs of tourists and celebrants, but this year they will be featuring a very special guest of honor. 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Thom Tillis needed CPR [see update below] after collapsing at the ACLI Capital Challenge, but the 56-year-old from North [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Putin: Hey, I’ll provide the notes of Trump’s meeting with Lavrov; Update: Collins calls offer “absurd”]( 5/17/2017 8:41:59 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Troll level: Grandmaster. Vladimir Putin joked with Italian media today about America’s “political schizophrenia,” and scolded foreign minister Sergei Lavrov for not sharing Donald Trump’s secrets with him. But if Congress really [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [About face: Turns out Trump did discuss Pastor Brunson with Erdogan]( 5/17/2017 8:01:02 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Let’s get the retraction out of the way right up front as proof that my mind reading abilities are vastly overrated and that you miss some things if you go to bed too early. Yesterday evening I published a rather glum analysis of the Trump – [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Trump turning against … Jared Kushner?]( 5/16/2017 10:41:39 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments But Kushner’s in charge of the entire government! Is no one safe from the king’s wrath? This episode of “Game of Thrones” won’t end, suggests Drew McCoy, until Jared is sent packing and Ivanka is forced to marry a more [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [So that meeting with Erdogan was kind of a bust, huh?]( 5/16/2017 10:01:48 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This morning I did a preview of today’s meeting between President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, spurred in large part by the Washington Post publishing an op-ed written by exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen. At that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Trump’s discussion of classified intel with Russia endangered Israeli spy]( 5/16/2017 9:21:54 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Earlier today the NY Times revealed that the intelligence President Trump shared with Russian officials during an Oval Office meeting last week came from Israel (though Trump didn’t know that at the time). According to a report at ABC News, the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Retreat? DNC chair to offer fence-mending outreach to pro-life Dems]( 5/16/2017 8:41:52 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Aaaaaannnnnnnd … that’s all it will amount to being, too. The Atlantic reports on efforts by DNC chair Tom Perez to repair a self-imposed rift within the Democratic Party that just cost them a municipal election in Omaha, and might cost a lot [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN: The Trump administration asked us not to report the intelligence that Trump shared with the Russians]( 5/16/2017 8:01:53 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This clip helps clarify the underlying issue in Blabgate or whatever we’re calling yesterday’s story about Trump chattering to the Russians in the Oval Office. Take the headline above and substitute “British” or [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tucson man arrested for death threats against Rep. Martha McSally]( 5/16/2017 7:21:25 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A Tucson school district employee named Steve Martan was arrested yesterday after authorities identified him as the person who made death threats against Republican Rep. Martha McSally. From the Washington Post: “Yeah this is for Martha McSally,” Martan [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Only you can stop the scourge of white people wearing ponchos]( 5/16/2017 6:41:53 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I suppose the only truly shocking thing about this story is that it didn’t take place in Berkeley. At the University of New Hampshire a student activist group has identified what’s really wrong with this country and is making plans to set [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Comey memo claimed Trump asked him to shut down Flynn investigation in February; Update: Chaffetz threatens subpoena]( 5/16/2017 6:01:50 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments We should probably assume at this point that there’ll be a Trump-related bombshell dropped by some major paper or another around 5:30 p.m. every weekday until the end of time. Reading this, I had two quotes in mind from the past week of Comeymania. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Politico: Cruz, Paul readying fresh nuclear option in Senate]( 5/16/2017 5:31:16 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The assault on Senate tradition may not have stopped with Mitch McConnell’s nuclear option on filibusters against Supreme Court nominees. According to Politico, two of the upper chamber’s conservatives will take aim at reconciliation as well, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Oregon insurers request 17% average premium hike for 2018]( 5/16/2017 5:01:18 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Obamacare insurers in Oregon have submitted their rate requests for 2018 and those rates range from a 12% drop on some plans to a 66% increase on others. Charles Gaba at ACA signups calculates the weighted average of the requests is 17.2 percent. Gaba [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Californians finally striking back against Democrats who keep raising their taxes]( 5/16/2017 4:31:27 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Could it possibly be true? Is there some limit to the amount of progressive government “help” that finally crosses the threshold of what the residents of California are willing to tolerate? It may be too soon to get your hopes up just yet, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rush: Americans could die because WaPo has chosen to interfere with U.S. intelligence decisions]( 5/16/2017 4:00:00 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Usually we blame the guy who shared sensitive information with the other side, not the media for reporting on it, when divvying up responsibility for putting Americans at risk. But then, attitudes about leaks are as reliably partisan as attitudes about [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Michael Thielen, Jazz Shaw]( 5/16/2017 3:31:28 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. (If it’s muted, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Classified intel Trump shared with Russia was provided by Israel]( 5/16/2017 3:01:38 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The NY Times is reporting that the classified information President Trump shared with Russian representatives had been provided to the United States by Israel: The classified intelligence that President Trump disclosed in a meeting last week with Russian [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Kimberly Guilfoyle: Why yes, I am talking to the White House about the press secretary job; Update: Fox, Guilfoyle respond]( 5/16/2017 2:31:50 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To repeat a question I asked on Saturday, how is it that Spicer hasn’t resigned yet? How much more public humiliation is he willing to endure to cling to this terrible, terrible job? Kimberly Guilfoyle, the former first lady of San Francisco and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Capitol Hill to WH: Don’t look here for the next FBI director; Update: Cornyn withdraws]( 5/16/2017 2:01:31 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments First thought: The choice of the next FBI director carries too much freight in the middle of the investigation into possible Russian interference and collusion in the previous election to pick a partisan politician to replace James Comey. Second thought: [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Here we go: 2020 poll shows Trump trailing … The Rock]( 5/16/2017 1:31:17 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Good thing Dwayne Johnson’s a Republican. We might have had a problem otherwise. He … is still a Republican, isn’t he? That’s from left-leaning PPP, the industry standard for troll-poll questions like this one. The gender split [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump expands Mexico City rule, cutting foreign aid to groups that promote abortion]( 5/16/2017 1:01:23 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Days after he took office President Trump announced the return of the Mexico City Policy which prevents U.S. foreign aid from going to groups that promote abortion. But the President also ordered the Secretary of State to create a plan to expand the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [McMaster: Info Trump shared was “wholly appropriate … for common action”]( 5/16/2017 12:16:23 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “I understand you have another topic,” national security adviser H.R. McMaster joked with reporters at the beginning of his previously scheduled presser. The White House had already slated a briefing today to offer details on Donald [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Georgia is setting a bad precedent by suppressing “secret videos”]( 5/16/2017 12:01:26 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Georgia is one of several states which in recent years have come up with a good idea which may now be getting twisted around to cause more problems than it solves. They passed a law which was intended to protect (mostly) women from peeping toms taking [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Trump voters want jobs, not noise about Russia]( [Inside the Oval Office with Trump and the Russians: Broad smiles and loose lips]( [Story on DNC staffer’s murder dominated conservative media — hours later it fell apart]( [Nikki Haley: “I believe the Western Wall is part of Israel”]( [Trump officials on Comey memo: “Don’t see how Trump isn’t completely f*cked”]( [Obama officials: Trump transition staff removed classified material from secure rooms without permission]( [McCain: Trump scandals reaching “Watergate size and scale”]( [Breaking: Sen. Thom Tillis collapses during race, taken to hospital; Update: Dehydration]( [Gingrich urges Trump to shut down White House press room]( [“We are kind of helpless”]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? You can get your own free subscription to the #1 blog delivered to your email inbox early each morning by visiting: This newsletter is never sent unsolicited. It was sent to you because you signed up to receive this newsletter on Hot Air OR a friend forwarded it to you. We respect and value your time and privacy. If this newsletter no longer meets your needs we will be happy to remove your address immediately. [You can unsubscribe from the Hot Air Daily here](. Or Send postal mail to: Hot Air Daily Unsubscribe 1735 N. 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