Mueller findings should have been referred to Congress, not Barr

Look at the history here.

This history is VERY important. https://t.co/dzPwD8jLfR
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) March 25, 2019

Blues guitar instrumentals from the 1950s

These were classified as blues but I think you can call them R&B too. They feature three of the best guitarists of the era playing loud.

“Canton Mississippi Breakdown” (1954) has Elmore James and Ike Turner on guitar.

“Boogie Uproar” (1953) is by Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown. “Space Guitar” (1954) is by Johnny “Guitar” Watson.

The sax solos look back to the 1940s but the guitar solos are headed into the future.

The Federal Reserve should be independent but Trump makes everything political

Trump and his appointees should shut up about the Federal Reserve.

White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow called on the Federal Reserve to “immediately” cut interest rates by a half percentage point https://t.co/fXMDUnjVJ7
— Bloomberg (@business) March 29, 2019

Gotta love the tension between "the Trump economic agenda will create untold prosperity" vs. "if the Fed raises rates above 2% the whole thing will be wrecked" https://t.co/tkUaG2aELe
— Neil Irwin (@Neil_Irwin) March 29, 2019

Baltimore Colts moved 35 years ago today

Bob Irsay moved the team in the middle of the night. When I moved to Baltimore in 1976, the Colts games sold out. By the early 1980s, the team stunk and attendance was low. I saw a few games then. In one game, the only Colts touchdown was on a broken play when the running back (Joe Washington) threw a TD to a receiver (Mike Siani).

The Blu-ray of ESPN’s 30 for 30 on the Colts marching band has a supplement featuring Irsay’s apparently drunken press conference at the airport. He said he wasn’t going to move the team.

#OnThisDay in 1984, Bob Irsay, owner of the once-mighty Baltimore @Colts, moves the team to Indianapolis in the middle of the night, while the city of Baltimore slept.https://t.co/lanBVOASdg https://t.co/059zsTUCfY https://t.co/o1TwXUAc2H #NFL @JimIrsay pic.twitter.com/RTJpqfeSZ1
— Ben Bryan (@Ben_Bryan) March 28, 2019

Baltimore Colts were stolen away in the middle of the night 35 years ago https://t.co/HaGIoMIU5N
— BaltPostExam (@BaltPostExam) March 28, 2019

The midnight move in March of 1984 came as a shock. https://t.co/bynSyM691w
— USA TODAY Sports (@usatodaysports) December 2, 2022

Trump reverses plan to eliminate funding for Special Olympics

DeVos lied – she defended Trump.

Keep in mind, she went and defended this cut on behalf of the administration in Congress this morning — for the second time this week — even though she didn't personally order it. Hours later her boss is like, "sike.." https://t.co/OdiXUrht3w
— Erica L. Green (@EricaLG) March 28, 2019

It's sort of amazing how many stupid, unforced errors the White House makes, a lot of which seem almost contemptuous toward people outside of Trump's base, which is not large enough to get him reelected by itself. https://t.co/olYuFEJ3Jd
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 28, 2019

Trump only cares about his base. He is counting on them to vote in order to win re-election.

Look, I’m not perfect but at least my obituary won’t say, “and in 2019, he defunded the Special Olympics.”
— Conan O'Brien (@ConanOBrien) March 28, 2019

I see Betsy DeVos and the GOP are doubling down on their Anti-Everybody agenda by working to cut Fed funding for *the Special Olympics.*

The good news? You elected a House Dem majority, so we can halt it.

Now: who are your favorite disability advocates to follow? Share below ⬇️ https://t.co/8LSl5RSed7
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 28, 2019

In 2011, the opening ceremony of the Special OlympicsWorld Games was held at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. The Greek Army Chief invited me & I remember him saying: “This event shows why the US is the leader of the world…you care about all people.” I’ll never forget that.
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) March 28, 2019

“I still can’t understand why you would go after disabled children in your budget,” Representative Barbara Lee, a Democrat of California, told Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday. “You zero that out. It’s appalling.” https://t.co/7O587CwGz1
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) March 28, 2019

I don’t trust Barr

He is not objective. He is a Trump employee. The Mueller report should be reviewed by a bipartisan panel. Otherwise, I won’t believed we’re getting the whole story. I am skeptical about the comprehensiveness of the four page summary. The report is over 300 pages long. Hiding it makes it look like you have something to hide.

The irony is that this may turn out like the Clinton email server. Trump did things that were wrong but not crimes.

If a future Democratic Attorney disagrees with Barr’s conclusion that Trump didn’t obstruct charges, I hope they indict Trump. He will be a private citizen by then.

In the last 24 hours:

-Barr refused to commit to making the Mueller report public

-Mitch McConnell blocked a vote to release the full report

-We learned the report is 300 pages

-A poll found 88% of Americans believe the full report should be releasedhttps://t.co/V8Zquj2QZ9
— Nate Lerner (@NathanLerner) March 28, 2019

Barr is entitled to a presumption of good faith—at least as an initial matter. The public is also entitled to push him to see the full report, or as much of it as possible. https://t.co/JOH5g3l5R3
— Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic) March 28, 2019

We’ll see

84% of U.S. Voters Want to See #MuellerReport, Poll Finds; Dems Divided on Support for Israelis or Palestinians https://t.co/7404ESmN33
— Quinnipiac University Poll (@QuinnipiacPoll) March 26, 2019

I continue to be confused as to why republicans are working so hard to suppress the contents of a report that exonerates Trump and utterly discredits Dems + the media. https://t.co/ms6NGPf3hq
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 28, 2019

Whoops, here is the correct link. https://t.co/6LqQOSDro9
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 28, 2019

Since the release of the Barr letter, Fox's prime time ratings have popped while CNN and MSNBC's #'s have been below average. That makes sense: On the right, the letter is being celebrated like a sequel to election night… https://t.co/OscY6Q32jT
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 28, 2019

BREAKING NEWS: Cliff Notes is bringing a defamation lawsuit against all the people who have called the 4-page Barr summary of the Mueller report a "cliff notes version" of the Report.
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) March 28, 2019

This piece by @NatashaBertrand is a must-read and ought to be a key point in media coverage https://t.co/NCxYuJUeL4
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) March 27, 2019

You might notice no Republican or Russiagate skeptic is asking what were the findings of Mueller's counterintelligence investigation, which looked at whether Russia was manipulating or influencing Trump or people within his circle. This is different than collusion but important.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) March 28, 2019

Revising my prior on "Barr substantially misrepresented the Mueller Report" from "unlikely but not unthinkable" to "not the modal outcome but well within the thick part of the probability distribution". https://t.co/yztamRfaCG
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 28, 2019

The Mueller report is more than 300 pages long.

Compare that to Ken Starr's 445-page report and the 567-page report on the 9/11 attackshttps://t.co/0cySL7mNSb
— Axios (@axios) March 28, 2019

2,800 Subpoenas

500 Search Warrants

500 Witness Interviews

230 Communication Records

40 FBI Agents

19 Attorneys

300+ Pages of Report.

We got 4 pages and 3 days of press coverage. #ReleaseTheFullMuellerReportNOW
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) March 28, 2019

Why didn’t the Attorney General want anyone to know the Mueller Report was over 300 pages during the 2 days when he read it and shared his own view of the obstruction evidence that went beyond Mueller’s findings?
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) March 28, 2019

Here’s the thing, it explicitly didn’t exonerate him. The best you can say is Mueller decided not to indict him. Why keep lying? Because Mueller clearly tee’d the issue up for Congress & the GOP seems to think best defense is a weak offense? https://t.co/5VMLm9n5Ws
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) March 28, 2019

It's simply amazing that news orgs are reporting with a straight face that Trump and Republicans are "on offense" over the Mueller report's findings — even as Republicans are blocking those findings from getting released.

Our discourse is a disaster.https://t.co/GTW4u1ULF2
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 27, 2019

On today's Daily: the entire point of having a special counsel is that an independent investigator comes to independent conclusions. So why did Robert Mueller punt to a political figure, Bill Barr, on obstruction? @nytmike explains: https://t.co/ZoJtY3mOSi
— Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) March 26, 2019

House Intel chair Rep. Adam Schiff doubles down, saying "there is ample evidence of collusion in plain sight."

"There's a difference between there being evidence of collusion and proof beyond a reasonable doubt of a crime," he says of the Barr summary. https://t.co/F57dY62XXE pic.twitter.com/GHiC5YY4Hq
— CNN (@CNN) March 28, 2019

Mueller report: Majorities across party lines want full report released (CBS News) details: https://t.co/SVINttJXxH pic.twitter.com/FBKP4GjOX7
— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) March 28, 2019

“Other information”? This is just unreal. https://t.co/W3EoP6yJvN
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) March 27, 2019

Secret authorizations to sell nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia

Oh. https://t.co/SreQhWfvi0
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 28, 2019

Live fact-checking thread of Trump’s Michigan rally 3/28/19

THREAD: We're fact-checking President @realDonaldTrump's speech tonight in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Trump is expected to cover AG Barr's summary of the Mueller report, increased apprehensions on the border and auto manufacturing #TrumpGrandRapids #GrandRapidsRally pic.twitter.com/VjL9tDj6a7
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) March 28, 2019

Fact check: At his Michigan rally, President Trump misstated the findings of the Mueller investigation, misleadingly promised to protect patients with pre-existing conditions and falsely described funding for a restoration program for the Great Lakes https://t.co/BwXEoUSckx
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 29, 2019

"If you wanted a taste of President Trump’s 2020 Make America Great Again Again pitch, you got a steaming farrago of it in Grand Rapids on Thursday: boasting, horseshit, and red meat, spiced with outright lies," writes @TheRickWilson https://t.co/hKdRGXGSXg
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 30, 2019

Eh they probably had a guess? https://t.co/GPujGOdcgm
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 28, 2019

Trump is out of control now that he thinks he has been cleared.

Trump says Democrats need to decide if they're going to continue to defraud the public "with ridiculous *bullshit*"
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) March 28, 2019

A disgrace. https://t.co/3WsrEHOW1x
— Nicholas Burns (@RNicholasBurns) March 29, 2019

President Trump made a lot of claims during his Grand Rapids rally, and not all of them were true: https://t.co/SoN5ksFzJi
— WOOD TV8 (@WOODTV) March 29, 2019

Fact check: President again twists truth and bends reality as supporters roar in key state https://t.co/Q3JEAJZEIj via @RollCall
— John T. Bennett (@BennettJohnT) March 29, 2019

Trump said Democrats want open borders. Here's our previous check on a similarly false claim https://t.co/oloyREp7rb
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) March 29, 2019

Less than two minutes into President Donald Trump’s speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he lied about special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report.https://t.co/EPVEJ8DzUj
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) March 30, 2019

Trump said last night he won Michigan even though Barack Obama "and Michelle" campaigned there at the last minute.

Michelle Obama didn't campaign there. This is the second place Trump has falsely said Michelle campaigned and lost, along with Georgia in the 2018 governor race.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 29, 2019

"Trump did not seem so much a vindicated president as a vengeful one, whose political calculus involved none of the reaching out to disaffected voters that more conventional politicians might attempt at such a moment," writes @sbg1 https://t.co/m9X1J8ECh6
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) March 29, 2019

This is the same crazy lie that Meghan Mccain was spouting on The View. https://t.co/ZsYSvshX6T
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) March 29, 2019

The State Department may have lied

Senate Foreign Relations Dems are calling for an investigation into the cancellation of @JessikkaAro's International Women of Courage Award and are calling into question the @StateDept explanation it was an error (w/ @mkraju) https://t.co/y1WecGLURN
— Jennifer Hansler (@jmhansler) March 28, 2019

Trump wants to destroy the ACA to please his base

He doesn’t care what happens to people who would be affected by the end of the ACA which include many of his cult members.

How did #Trump decide to have his administration support a wacky lawsuit to destroy the #AffordableCareAct?
"It does not appear that questions about the law or the real-world impact" of the lawsuit "weighed heavily on Trump’s mind."@ThePlumLineGS
Why does this not surprise us? https://t.co/Q8Wg0TrIEI
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) March 28, 2019

"Either Trump actually believes Republicans will come up with a plan to mitigate all this damage (in which case he’s dangerously incurious about the policy complexities involved), or he doesn’t care if they do not (in which case he’s dangerously venal and reckless)." https://t.co/e02sYdbmwT
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 28, 2019

White House has no 'fresh' health care proposal, but plans to send one to Congress this year https://t.co/MzlThQG7kL
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) March 28, 2019

The fate of Obamacare could — once again — hinge on the Supreme Court, which has installed two conservative justices since it voted to uphold the landmark health-care law. If the courts were to overturn the ACA, around 20 million Americans would lose their health coverage.
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) March 27, 2019

BREAKING: ACA enrollment numbers are out just as Trump aims to eliminate it.

11.4 million enrolled. Rates down 1.5%.
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) March 28, 2019

Trump won’t publicize the rate decrease.

Worth remembering that after the government shutdown + last failed ACA repeal vote, McConnell is happy to let Trump own his own thoughts. https://t.co/rS30r0Ymwh
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 28, 2019

Trump says he's asked a small group of senators including Barrasso, Cassidy and Scott to come up with a "spectacular" health care plan. Says plan is being worked on "now" but "there's no very great rush" as Texas Ocare case is still in court. https://t.co/BOgkLQYil4
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) March 28, 2019

Republicans have tried and failed to come up with a plan.

I’m proud to join my colleagues in introducing legislation to protect the millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions, stabilize the ACA and make health care more affordable. With 6 bills advancing in @EnergyCommerce’s markup yesterday, we are fighting to #ProtectOurCare pic.twitter.com/20N8iqhQR4
— Rep. Frank Pallone (@FrankPallone) March 28, 2019

Michigan, in your state:

✅618,000 have gained coverage from the ACA
✅4.1 mm have a pre-ex condition
✅Medicaid expansion has kept rural hospitals alive

Trump is holding a rally in MI tonight as he aims to end your coverage.

This will shadow Trump every place he goes. 👀
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) March 28, 2019

One of Trump’s health-care initiatives intended to undermine Obamacare suffers a crucial defeat https://t.co/ltXoslpVUK
— Bloomberg (@business) March 28, 2019

In light of renewed ACA repeal talks, I looked at the most recent CCES data. (n=59,899).

Repealing the ACA is unpopular. Support among moderates is comfortably below 50% and only the most extreme conservatives support at a rate as intense as the least extreme liberals oppose. pic.twitter.com/PVj4i7We6v
— Faith Davenport (@faithjdavenport) March 28, 2019