“We will begin negotiations to re-enter the Paris accord or an entirely new transaction, on terms fair to the US – it’s businesses, workers, taxpayers,” he added. “So we’re getting out, but we’ll start to negotiate, to see if we can make a deal that’s fair. If we can that’s great, if we can’t that’s fine.”

The US will now join Syria and Nicaragua in a rather ignominious and exclusive club as the only nations that are not part of the global effort to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Trump pulls out of Paris Climate Agreement.

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Mattis has repeatedly said that the US was committed to Article 5 of the NATO treaty, which is meant to deter Russian aggression by promising that an attack on one alliance member would be seen as an attack on all. If Vladimir Putin sent tanks into Estonia, for instance, Washington would have to come to the small nation’s defense.

Or at least it would if Drumpf were willing to explicitly and publicly endorse the provision. The problem is that he isn’t. During a speech in Brussels last week, he ignored the advice of Mattis and other top administration national security officials by refusing to mention Article 5, infuriating many European leaders.

Making matters more complicated, Politico reported that Mattis wasn’t told about Drumpf’s decision in advance, meaning the Pentagon chief was caught flat-footed — and undercut, yet again, by his own boss.

Mattis has long been seen as a voice of reason in the chaotic and impulsive Drumpf administration, a sober-minded and experienced national security professional who believes in the policies that have guided US presidents from both parties for decades.

He’s spent his first months trying to clean up the president’s messes, in Asia and elsewhere. The problem is that Drumpf keeps making more of them.

Comey's statement has already been released.

PDF warning:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/docume ... timony.pdf

I'll be eating popcorn tomorrow while the Comey inquiry goes down.

done! kaput!

lol no

he just getting started

done kaput finished stick a fork...

May 18th >


June 9th >

good job Dems produced all that salt post election, maybe enough for that huge Comey nothingburger

sniff , Please try not to quote that idiot. sniff Thanks.

Shit, i took the afternoon off, poured myself a large whiskey and listened to the whole damn thing. Very interesting.

Also what the fuck was with McCain. What a rambling fucknut.

If Mueller concludes that Trump fired Comey over the Russia investigation, nothing Sessions or Rosenstein said in their hearings will turn out to be false. Sessions denied any collusion with Russia, and Rosenstein said he’s leaving such questions to Mueller. But on the question of whether Trump fired Comey to obstruct justice, and whether the president orchestrated a cover story to conceal that obstruction, the two men Trump enlisted are taking care not to vouch for his innocence. Maybe that’s because they can’t. Maybe they know they were used, and they don’t want to get caught in a web of lies.

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