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“Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit."
Jim C. Hines



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"Build a Spliff " Sessions 






Scoop: Jeff Sessions urged FBI boss to make a "fresh start"
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has adamantly urged FBI Director Christopher Wray to make a "fresh start" with his core team, including replacing deputy director and Trump bête noire Andrew McCabe, according to a senior administration source.  According to this source, and two other sources briefed on the conversations, Sessions has been strongly urging Wray to do this for some time. Another person Sessions thought should be cleared from the core team: the FBI's top lawyer James A. Baker, who was "reassigned" in December.
"The conversations about McCabe and the core team started shortly after Wray was confirmed," said the senior administration source. "They intensified from there." The New York Times — and others — reported in December that McCabe "is expected to retire after he becomes eligible for his pension [in] early [2018]." But senior Justice officials are still not sure what McCabe plans to do.  An FBI spokesman declined to comment when presented with the facts in this story.
Trump and other Republicans have been hammering McCabe for months on Twitter.
  • On July 26, Trump tweeted: "Why didn't A.G. Sessions replace Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a Comey friend who was in charge of Clinton investigation but got...big dollars ($700,000) for his wife's political run from Hillary Clinton and her representatives. Drain the Swamp!"
  • Ironically, the White House chose McCabe to be acting director after Trump fired Comey.
McCabe remains at the FBI.
Behind Sessions' conversations: The Justice Department is conducting an investigation into how the FBI under former director James Comey handled the Hillary Clinton email investigation in 2016. There are also ongoing leak investigations, per the same source.

  • But even without all of these investigations, Sessions believes "Wray should have a fresh start with his own team," according to the senior administration source. [Axios Sneak Peek, January 21, 2018]



UNIONS

AFL-CIO NAMES NEW GRASSROOTS LEADER: The AFL-CIO named Julie Greene to head its grassroots political operations starting Feb 1. Greene is currently the director of the DNC's leadership office. "We are excited to have Julie at the forefront of our campaign efforts to win for working families," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in a statement. "Her valuable experience and expertise will lead our efforts to support political candidates who stand for good jobs, raising wages and the freedom to join together to negotiate for a fair return on their work." [POLITICO's Morning Shift, January 12, 2018]



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On the federal government and climate change: "I think that there is much that can be done to address some of the issues that we face with climate change that can be addressed through investments that we're making. When you upgrade your pipelines so you don't have methane emissions out of your gathering lines, you don't have seepage - you might not think of it in the perspective ... climate change policy - but are we making incremental gains in that way. ...  And I have to acknowledge: I'm dealing with an administration where some in the administration get really squeamish about anything that has the word climate in it. I'm not afraid to talk about that. I'm not afraid to bring anybody up to my state and show them the impacts we're seeing - whether it is to our runways, our coastal communities or to take them out in the interior and show them the impacts of additional fires that we haven't seen." [Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, POLITICO's Morning Energy, January 12, 2018]



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