Secret Meeting with Russians in Oval Office

 Donald Trump in a Washington Post article secretly had high Russian officials to the Oval Office where he shared classified information with them.  The meeting was so secret that reporters were not informed of it at all and our allies weren’t contacted.  They “planted the Russian flag” in the Oval Office.  This meeting came one day after Comey was fired and Norman sees a connection in that.   Meanwhile the polls continue to give President Trump bad ratings.  He has now fallen to 36% confidence.  74% of the American people believe that congressional or FBI investigation is not good enough to get to the bottom of the Trump Russian connection.  They all want a special prosecutor named, and conduct a "bi-partisan" investigation.  Last Sunday on Meet the Press, Senator Lindsey Gram indicated he wanted this Russian connection pursued to the max and Graham wants to see Russia punished- - even if as claimed the actions did not affect the results of the campaign.  That's like denying no insulin equals high sugar in the blood if you're a diabetic.  

There was a “kill” program to terminate the massive computer virus that was unleashed upon many nations’ computers around the world affecting hospitals and many other vital data center.  It’s the usual ransom ware where you get these red letters telling you to pay so many thousands of dollars or your data will be lost for good.  I don’t know if they pay up but I imagine if money is their goal they won’t ask an excessive amount.  However if their goal  is out and out sabotage than the money is an after-thought because nobody will be able to pay it.  Now they have some new terrorist program to defeat the new “kill” switch on the virus.  Apparently this virus was developed by the United States government itself.  Shame on us!  

This next story shows that this Supreme Court can side with the liberals on occasion and give them a break, even with the line-up of justices now.  They have sided with liberals a couple of times this way.  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday announced that it would stay out of a fight over a restrictive North Carolina voting law. The move left in place a federal appeals court ruling that struck down key parts of the law as an unconstitutional effort to “target African-Americans with almost surgical precision.”  As is the court’s custom, the justices gave no reason for declining to hear the case. But Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. issued a statement noting that there was a dispute about who represented the state in the case and that nothing should be read into the court’s decision to decline to hear it.  The leaders of North Carolina’s Republican-controlled Legislature seized on that point on Monday, all but stating that they would seek to enact new voting restrictions after their defeat.

Sixty Minutes had a good show.  Eye on LA was in reruns and I spent some time in the front room.  I also spent time in the front room earlier in the day.  FBI director Comey was interviewed in 2004 or something during the Andy Card and John Ashcroft Attorney General crisis in that period where Ashcroft was in the hospital and was prevented from signing off on a bold new surveillance plan.  Comey was Deputy Attorney General and he resigned in protest.  Then it was Bin Laden’s son during the middle segment.  He’s walking in Bin Laden’s footsteps and is calling for avenging the death of his father.  He is in his late twenties.  Then there was the Mars landing of Curiosity and other space rovers.  They had to use a special saucer device to land the Curiosity.  There was talk about Martian rocks being older than earth rocks and how we could learn from this.  Then it was NCIS Los Angeles.  I was almost asleep at eight thirty when Bill gave me a second pack of cigarettes, shades of Janet that one weekend.  I was grateful but also in his debt.  I watched “Madam Secretary” till nine thirty.  The bedspread was thin and the blanket wasn’t doubled over to I doubled over the bedspread and that worked a long with wearing the pajama bottoms.  I had a second cup of coffee after eight thirty.  You’d think I would sleep through the night but I didn’t.

The government said Monday it believes the Syrian government has built a large crematorium near the notorious Saydnaya Military Prison in an effort to hide mass atrocities carried out there, and placed the onus on Russia to rein in the regime.  Stuart Jones, acting assistant secretary for the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the State Department, laid out newly unveiled declassified intelligence in a series of photographs and said Russia, a supporter of President Bashar al-Assad, must use its influence to stop Assad's continued atrocities.  I just hope that Assad is not one of the brutal dictors whom President Trump is interested in having a positive relation with as is the leader of Turkey and the leader of the Philipines.  

The big news late last week was that there may be a taping system in the White House and that Trump was taping conversations with Director Comey in January.  Now Trump is saying for Comey not to "leak information" about the meeting or he'll release the tapes.  If there are tapes they will put Trump and not Comey in a bad light so I'd call his bluff.  They are going to do everything in their power to muzzle Comey and I would imagine that that includes not allowing him to testify before any congressional committee.  Most if not all of the stuff Shawn Hannity says about all this is pretty much non compus mentus.