Various versions of this latest news are being reported. But I’m going mainly off the live report broadcast over CNN a short while ago. In brief, it seems the story of that missing Malaysian jet disappearance is dramatically different than we thought.
Again, going on this report (and given what’s happened so far I don’t think we can assume this latest ‘news’ won’t change), around the time it was entering Vietnamese airspace, the planes transponders turned off. Around that time, the plane appears to have made close to a u-turn back toward Malaysia. It flew for roughly an hour, which took it across Malaysia and over the Straits of Malacca where it finally dropped off radars entirely off a small island between Malaysia and Indonesia.
You should take the time to either read or watch Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s explosive statement this morning on the Senate floor about the Senate Intelligence Committee’s battle with the CIA over the committee’s access to CIA documents, the agency’s access to committee computers, and competing allegations of potential criminal wrongdoing. We have the video and the statement posted here.
All modern day presidents and arguably every president in history has tried to go around the dominant media of the day. But TPM Reader JA notes that usually this is done in the context of a campaign or for an explicitly political purpose. Here, though, there’s a difference …
It goes without saying that any handwringing over President Obama’s appearance on an online comedy talk show is at best hypocritical coming from the Beltway press corp. and right wing. Afterall, where were these people when George W. Bush took photos of himself looking for WMDs in the Oval Office for the WH Press Corp. Dinner, or when Richard Nixon went on “Laugh In” and said “Sock It To Me”?
Bill O’Reilly is pretty sure Abe Lincoln would have never appeared on “Between Two Ferns.”
Two quite contradictory polls out this morning about President Obama’s standing in the polls.
If the GOP does re-take the Senate next year, Sahil Kapur reports on which Republicans are likely to become chairmen of major committees (emphasis on the men).
Arizona’s Gov. Jan Brewer, who brought us some of the craziest and most unexpected headlines of the past several years, announced today she’s retiring and won’t challenge the state constitution to run for a third term.
We’ve got all the latest Obamacare enrollment numbers mapped by state — and we’ve broken out separately the state-level enrollments in the 11 tightest Senate races.
President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act four years ago this month and yet here we sit going into the third national election since then with the political impact of the law still unresolved.
A few new data points today that show just how up for grabs the Obamacare narrative remains: