Plus, sex trafficking victim responds to senator misappropriating her story
Israel. US intelligence report states Netanyahu's viability to lead is in jeopardy. Anti-Netanyahu protests are expected and a more moderate government is possible. Details. Trump and despots. Former advisers sound the alarm that Trump praises despots in private and on the campaign trail. Former chief of staff describes Trump comments about Hitler. New book from CNN's Jim Sciutto. Princess Kate. We don't usually include news about the British royal family here. But this business about Catherine, Princess of Wales, is a bizarre story. The princess apologized after releasing a photo of herself and her children that news organizations later recalled for being doctored. The princess herself said she did the doctoring. Instead of quelling festering rumors about her time out of the public eye after surgery, the incident has fueled them. It's also yet another warning that these days everything is not always what it appears to be. More. |
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| CNN's Katelyn Polantz, Kaitlan Collins and Jeremy Herb have an exclusive interview with a key figure in one of former President Donald Trump's coming criminal prosecutions. Brian Butler was a longtime valet at Mar-a-Lago. In the indictment alleging Trump and Mar-a-Lago employees conspired to obstruct justice and keep classified material from the government, Butler is known as "Trump Employee 5." He is a former close associate and friend of Carlos De Oliveira, who is accused by special counsel Jack Smith of helping Trump and his aide Walt Nauta try to delete surveillance footage and obstruct the federal investigation. The accused deny wrongdoing. Unlike the other employees mentioned in the indictment, Butler has declined to accept an attorney paid for by Trump or Republicans and is speaking out against his former boss. Butler could end up being a pivotal witness in the classified document case. Read more. Speaking of classified documents... Special counsel Robert Hur, the Trump-appointed former US attorney who determined that President Joe Biden should not be prosecuted for his own handling of classified material from the years when he was a private citizen, will testify on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. I spent a good portion of Monday going back over Hur's 345-page report. Hur is likely to face questions along two key lines. 1. Republicans will allege a double standard. They will be frustrated with Hur's decision to not prosecute Biden. Hur said that even if DOJ policy did not forbid the prosecution of a sitting president, he would still make that assessment. 2. They will want to know about Biden's age and memory. Hur created something of a firestorm when his report argued Biden's poor memory and sympathetic nature would make him impossible to convict. Republicans will be very interested in that aspect and will demand to see a transcript of Hur's questioning of Biden. Ultimately, Hur offered the best explanation for why Trump is facing prosecution but Biden is not. Biden, when his lawyers discovered the documents, turned them back over to the government. Trump, on the other hand, refused. And then he allegedly tried to obstruct the investigation. Read more. |
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: Sex trafficking victim responds to Sen. Katie Britt |
Here's an important story from CNN's Rafael Romo and Melissa Alonso. They write: The woman whose story Alabama Sen. Katie Britt appeared to have shared in the Republican response to the State of the Union as an example of President Joe Biden's failed immigration policies told CNN she was trafficked before Biden's presidency and said legislators lack empathy when using the issue of human trafficking for political purposes. "I hardly ever cooperate with politicians, because it seems to me that they only want an image. They only want a photo — and that to me is not fair," Karla Jacinto told CNN on Sunday. CNN's Freedom Project, which seeks to raise awareness about modern-day slavery, previously profiled Jacinto's story. Jacinto told CNN that Mexican politicians took advantage of her by using her story for political purposes and that it's happened again in the United States. "I work as a spokesperson for many victims who have no voice, and I really would like them to be empathetic: all the governors, all the senators, to be empathetic with the issue of human trafficking because there are millions of girls and boys who disappear all the time. People who are really trafficked and abused, as she [Britt] mentioned. And I think she [Britt] should first take into account what really happens before telling a story of that magnitude," Jacinto said. See her comments: |
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: The truth about Biden's chances |
The What Matters inbox was full of mail after Friday's edition in which I wondered which Biden we would be seeing for the next eight months — the one from the State of the Union address or the one portrayed by Republicans. Many readers felt the assessment was unfair to Biden. Biden supporters should be clear-eyed about the difficulties he faces in the coming election. CNN's Harry Enten looks at the available polling and argues that even if the economy continues to improve, it will be difficult for Biden to win the election. Previous presidents who were as unpopular as him — George H.W. Bush and Trump — both lost. There are special circumstances here, including that Trump is unliked by a large portion of the population. But Enten's analysis, which accounts for the criminal indictments Trump is facing, is worth reading. Enten's conclusion: Perhaps the big question over the next eight months is whether Trump's weaknesses will start to outweigh Biden's. If they do, it's probably the president's best chance at earning another term. Read more. |
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