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Jeff Sessions Testifies on Capitol Hill

Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions testified on Capitol Hill to talk in front of the House Judiciary Committee. There wasn’t a lot of groundbreaking information that came out of the day-long hearing, but a couple interesting points were when he said that his "story has never changed" about his and other Trump campaign officials' connections to Russia. 

"I will not accept, and reject accusations that I have ever lied," Sessions said. "That is a lie!" 

Sessions told a Democratic lawmaker he stands by earlier testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia. But at the same time, the embattled attorney general said that he now recalls telling a foreign policy aide to the campaign that he was not authorized to represent the campaign with the Russian government or any other foreign government. 

Other than that, Democrats on the committee want Sessions to confess that he lied about Russians influencing the Trump campaign. Republicans want Sessions to appoint a special prosecutor to examine Hillary Clinton in the Uranium One affair, Fusion GPS, and the election. And that was it.

CNN goes crazy over Donald Trump Jr. and Wikileaks

Donald Trump Jr., son of President Donald Trump, repeatedly communicated with WikiLeaks in the weeks leading up to and after the 2016 election, The Atlantic reported Monday. 

Corresponding via Twitter private direct message, the organization sent an anti-Trump website -- putintrump.com -- and asked for a comment. Trump Jr. responded the next morning, saying he would "ask around." 

Correspondence between the two parties on this and other topics continued until at least July 2017, The Atlantic reported. 

The messages, which were turned over to congressional investigators, are troubling because intelligence experts believe the organization was cooperating directly with the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 election. According to some, Russian agents used WikiLeaks as a way to dump stolen material obtained via hacking. 

Over the course of their correspondence, WikiLeaks asks Trump Jr. for several favors -- including Trump's tax returns, the proclamation of the elections as "rigged" and even the appointment of Julian Assange as Australian ambassador to the United States. While most messages were sent by WikiLeaks, Trump Jr. responded to -- and even appeared to heed -- multiple messages. 

Trump Jr. responded to the report later Monday, taking to Twitter to pen a reply -- and publish images of the conversations in question. 

The transparency organization first reached out to Trump Jr, then aiding in his father's campaign, in September 2016. 

CNN's going hysterical about Donald Trump Jr. tweeting for a few weeks with WikiLeaks. And I'm going, why? What is that about? And then I read the analysis from legal experts who say, you know, anybody is allowed to do that. Doesn't look like there's anything wrong here. So why does a television network go hysterical about it? Well, we all know why.

What to do about Roy Moore?

It's a very bizarre story because of the political implications of it. So here you have a guy who is running for the Senate on the Republican side, way ahead before all these accusations of his Democratic challenger. And the Republican Party needs him in the Senate to keep their two-person majority. 

Well, now the Republican establishment, every one of them, has turned against Moore. And of course, the Democrats loathe him because he's really an ultraconservative man. And the press has basically said that he did a number of things a long time ago. And you know, it looks bad. Now, I say the same thing in all these cases. The American people should want one thing and one thing only: Justice.

So, anyway it looks to me like it would be impossible for Roy Moore to be a senator but it isn't. This is the really interesting thing. Voters in Alabama, or at least some of them, are so opposed to the Washington Post which ran the story about Gloria Allred, who somehow appeared in this story with a woman who said she was abused as a teenager by Judge Moore. But they're so loathed that there are voters who will say, you know, hey, I'm not going to believe any of it. Now, that's a shame.

Americans are tired of watching sports & media

In my Message of the Day, and I hope you read it, I say sports and news consumption in America is changing dramatically and quickly. 

I believe if you took Donald Trump out of the equation, and someone else were president that cable news operations would collapse. ESPN is already collapsing. People are angry. They're getting madder and madder at people who deliver sports and news. And the reason is what we've been saying for months now. It's so hard to get the truth.

Bernard Goldberg’s thoughts on the state of News and Sports in America

First of all, I have to say that I’m not against all boycotts, but I don’t like the idea of putting people out business, which is what boycotts tend to do. Media Matters is getting a free pass to squelch topics that they don’t agree with. If you go on their website 99% of their homepage is anti-FOX, which is comical. But, if advertisers think that Media Matters or similar groups will cause a problem for them, they will run for the hills. Media Matters is paid to destroy conservatives. 

On my blog, I was talking about how businesses succeed by giving their customers what they want. There is one exception, the news business. This is a business that should give the facts and tell the truth which unfortunately we don’t see much of anymore.

FBI Stats Show Rise in Hate Crimes Last Year

On Monday, the FBI released data revealing that hate crimes against nearly every demographic are on the rise. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, relied on reports provided by more than 15,000 law-enforcement agencies

• 2015: There were 5,850 hate crimes in the U.S.
• 2016: There were 6,121 documented hate crimes in the U.S.
  • In 2016, stats show that more than half were race-related.
    • The data show that nearly 60% of victims in 2016 were targeted for their race or ethnicity
    • 21% were targeted for their religion
    • 17% were targeted because of their sexual orientation
    • Of known offenders, 46% were white and 26% were black
    • More than 4,700 hate crimes were directed at people in the form of intimidation, assaults, murder and rape.
    • About 2,500 targeted property, the vast majority involving damage or vandalism.

Colin Kaepernick named GQ’s “Citizen of the Year”

Quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who began the movement of NFL players protesting during the national anthem last season and remains unemployed after parting ways with the 49ers in March, appears on the December cover of GQ as the magazine’s “Citizen of the Year.” 

Warriors star Kevin Durant, late-night host Stephen Colbert and actress Gal Gadot are among the other celebrities recognized in GQ’s “Men (and Woman) of the Year” issue, which will feature photographs of Kaepernick in Harlem, “intending to evoke the spirit of Muhammad Ali’s anti-Vietnam War protests in the neighborhood during the late 60s.” Kaepernick doesn’t go on record with the magazine, but the issue includes commentary from 10 of his closest confidants, including rapper J. Cole, former 49ers teammate Eric Reid, filmmaker Ava DuVernay and activist Harry Belafonte. 

Kaepernick, who filed a grievance last month accusing NFL teams of colluding to keep him out of the league, agreed to collaborate with the magazine on the special project in an attempt to “reclaim the narrative of his protest.” The 30-year-old became the first NFL player to take a knee during the national anthem last season to protest police brutality and racial injustice. 

“As his public identity has begun to shift from football star to embattled activist, he has grown wise to the power of his silence,” GQ’s editors write. “It has helped his story go around the world. It has even provoked the ire and ill temper of Donald Trump. Why talk now, when your detractors will only twist your words and use them against you? Why speak now, when silence has done so much?”

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