David Kurtz
NYT: “Republicans close to the White House are increasingly concerned that a bloc of senators could emerge, including some they suspect might not run for re-election, to break with the president.”
The extreme antics on Fox News give away how bad Bill Taylor’s testimony was for the President.
Elijah Cummings, 1951-2019
The 68-year-old Maryland Democrat who chaired the House Committee on Oversight and Reform died Thursday.
His wife, Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, the chair of the Maryland Democratic Party, released the following statement:
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is grilled by the Nashville NBC affiliate about whether he met with Rudy Giuliani when they were both in Warsaw in February. Pompeo wilts, but refuses to answer:
Will the impeachment inquiry be able to keep up with an ongoing series of high crimes and misdemeanors?
It’s not exactly a secret. You can see who works at TPM right there on the masthead.
But many times over the years, new hires have come aboard only to wonder where everyone else is.
“Is this it?”
“This is everybody?”
We talk a lot around here about doing a lot with a little, about punching above our weight. Our ambition regularly exceeds our resources. But we sometimes forget that for many readers, we manage to project that we’re a much bigger, more robust outfit than we in fact are. Until a new member of the staff looks around and realizes there’s no wizard behind the curtain. It’s just us and a lot of hustle.
As we crank up our membership drive and ask you to join TPM Prime, I mention our small size this week for a couple of reasons.
Trump really wants to make the business dealings of the candidates’ children an issue in the 2020 election? Okay then.
It’s so deeply conflicted and perverse that it almost speaks for itself. But it’s still worth listening to what the legal and ethics experts say about Trump’s public play to host the next G7 meeting (G8 if Putin and Trump get their way!) at his own resort. Josh Kovensky reports.