Newsmax Chief Political Columnist and White House correspondent John Gizzi breaks down today’s big stories

Vladimir Putin wants 20% of American’s uranium supply because the Russian economy is teetering on the brink. When the Greek PM Cyprus went to Moscow for a state visit and asked for some help with his own country, Vladimir Putin had to decline. Putin is hurting enough in his own country that he needs money from somewhere or else forget about Russia bailing out Greece. So he’s trying to get money through the United States. So basically Putin wanted to sell Uranium on the World market. 

Russia wants influence in many different countries, so they would pay the Clinton Foundation.  I believe they wanted to get a toe-hold in the United States, never minding which candidate they’re aligned with just as long as they are players in the game. 

Ben Rhodes, formerly Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser, is set to testify Wednesday before the House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. The House panel is one of a handful investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible ties between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. 

The committee, led by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., also is looking into why Obama administration officials "unmasked" Americans after their communications were intercepted by U.S. intelligence officials. The committee identified Rhodes as a “person of interest” in the growing “unmasking”scandal in which top Obama officials spied on Trump campaign aides and transitioned to track their contacts with foreign government leaders, The DCNF reported in August. 

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