Theresa May Pressured To Release Report Detailing Saudi Sponsorship of UK Extremists

Britain’s Labour party has joined with a group of US 9/11 survivors in demanding UK Prime Minister Theresa May release a government report detailing the flow of money from Saudi Arabia into extremist groups in the UK. After several months of heated debate, Home Secretary Amber Reid announced that the study would not be made public “because of the volume of personal information it contains and for national security reasons.”

The report, commissioned by former Prime Minister David Cameron, has been in May’s possession since late last year – with both the Labour and Green parties repeatedly demanding it’s release.

Green party co-leader Caroline Lucas ripped into the Prime Minister – asking “will she explain if her refusal is simply because the contents of the report would embarrass the government’s friends in Saudi Arabia? Or is it because ministers care more about arms sales to Riyadh than they do about public safety?”

May shot back, “There is certain confidential information in the reports, which means that it would not be appropriate to publish it,” adding that the report could be seen by government officials on a privy basis.

In early July, Lucas questioned the delayed report, stating “To defeat terror it’s vital that politicians have full view of the facts, even if they are inconvenient for the government.”

Arming Terrorists?

Lucas’ comments on arms sales to Saudi Arabia reference the £5.6 billion in weapons sold between 2010 and 2016 – a period in which Hillary Clinton sent a 2014 email to John Podesta revealing Saudi “clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region.”

Of note, the UK’s estimated 3 million Muslims are majority Sunni, including a reported 23,000 ‘jihadist extremists’ according to a May report by the Times of London.

Pandering to Islam

May’s decision to withhold the report is viewed by some as part of wide scale government efforts to normalize and defend Islam in the UK, given the religion’s growing population which has doubled in size since 2001. Under current British rule, criticism of negative Islamic values are considered hate speech, and Muslim criminals claiming cultural ignorance are often granted extreme leniancy when compared to native citizens.

This, despite 11,000 reported cases of Islamic “honor crimes” within the UK from 2010-2014, ranging from abductions, beatings, and murders – typically to women over perceived harm she has caused her family’s reputation.

“Unfortunately they [the figures] do not show the real extent of the problem. So many crimes are unreported because the perpetrators are often the victim’s own family.

“We need a national strategy for all agencies – including police forces, courts, and schools – to be trained and to work together to end this problem.” –Diana Nammi, Director Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organization

If the report Theresa May is withholding reveals that that Saudi Arabia has been providing “clandestine and logistic support” to Islamic extremist groups operating within the UK, the implications will be far reaching – especially when one ponders the Arab nation’s recently acquired seat on the UN Human Rights Council, or their March commitment to help eradicate ISIS alongside Israel and the United States.

President Trump made an astonishing statement to the New York Times on Wednesday, telling the paper that if he had known Attorney General Jeff Sessions was going to recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation, he would have picked someone else to head the Department of Justice.

Per the NYT:

In a remarkable public break with one of his earliest political supporters, Mr. Trump complained that Mr. Sessions’s decision ultimately led to the appointment of a special counsel that should not have happened. “Sessions should have never recused himself and if he was going to recuse himself he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else,” Mr. Trump said.

Trump went on to throw former FBI Director James Comey under the bus, accusing him of trying to leverage the 35 page Trump-Russia dossier to keep his job. Furthermore, Trump hated on acting FBI director Andrew McCabe – pointing out that his wife Jill received nearly $500,000 in 2015 from a PAC affiliated with Gov. Terry McAuliffe – a close Clinton ally.

Mulling over Mueller

Special Counsel Robert Mueller didn’t escape the President’s ire either – with Trump noting that several of the lawyers hired to investigate the Russia case contributed money to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Trump described interviewing Mueller to replace Comey, and hinted that there were non-public conflicts of interest to be revealed down the road.

“He was up here and he wanted the job,” Mr. Trump said. After he was named special counsel, “I said, ‘What the hell is this all about?’ Talk about conflicts. But he was interviewing for the job. There were many other conflicts that I haven’t said, but I will at some point.” –President Trump

When asked if Mueller’s investigation would cross a red line if it expands to the Trump family finances outside of Russia, the President said, “I would say yes… I think that’s a violation. Look, this is about Russia.”

Rod Rosenstein

Former Baltimore federal prosecutor and current Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein has stepped into the spotlight since Jeff Sessions recusal over Russia. Trump complained that Rosenstein was effectively playing both sides when it came to fired FBI Director Comey – as the Deputy AG both recommended firing Comey, and then appointed Robert Mueller – which Trump states was a clinflict of interest. “Well, that’s a conflict of interest,” Mr. Trump said. “Do you know how many conflicts of interests there are?”

Trump advisor Roger Stone has been dissing Sessions too… 

Veteran Republican strategist Roger Stone has been publicly critical of Attorney General Jeff Sessions in recent weeks, over Sessions’ hard-line stance on the Bundy Ranch standoff retrial – which began on Monday. Stone has taken up the defense of the Bundy family and co-defendants.

As The Gateway Pundit reports in an exclusive interview:

What makes Stone’s support of the Bundy family even more notable is the fact that the defendants in the 2014 standoff are now pitted against the very administration Stone helped into the White House. Attorney General Jeff Sessions drew criticism from the former Trump advisor when he said that “leadership requires, a lot of times, our people to step up and be accountable.” After claiming he would remain impartial, Sessions proceeded to compliment the U.S. attorney prosecuting the Bundy Ranch case – calling him a “top guy leading the battle, going to court, standing up and defending the office and the principles of the law.”

Stone is also an advocate for the legalization of medical marijuana, which Jeff Sessions is vehemently against.

So – both Trump and long time advisor Roger Stone aren’t happy with Sessions for different reasons, and it appears that Robert Mueller and Rod Rosenstein might want to start sending out resumes. One wonders how long it will be before Trump casts a lightning bolt in their direction and cleans house…

Jared Kushner attorney Jamie Gorelick announced late last week that she will be disengaging from all things Russia when it comes to the President’s son-in-law and advisor, and will instead focus on ‘wrapping up’ she said she was originally hired to do – a move which makes sense in light of Kushner’s announcement today that he will testify in front of congress next Monday. In Gorelick’s place, veteran criminal defense attorney Abbe Lowell will be handling responsibilities related to the Russia investigation.

The legal shakeup follows revelations that Kushner attended a now infamous meeting between an anti-Trump Russian lawyer, Donald Trump Jr., and at least five other people – including an associate of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm responsible for the salacious and largely debunked 35 page Trump-Russia dossier used as the basis of a FISA surveillance warrant on a Trump associate.

As details of the June 2016 sit-down have emerged, the meeting is looking more and more like a setup arranged by Rob Goldstone – another Fusion GPS associate according to White House outside council Mark Corallo.

“Specifically, we have learned that the person who sought the meeting is associated with Fusion GPS, a firm which according to public reports, was retained by Democratic operatives to develop opposition research on the President and which commissioned the phony Steele dossier.” -Mark Corallo

According to Axios, the President’s legal team led by Marc Kasowitz wants to ‘wall off” Kushner from discussing the Russia investigation his father-in-law.

Foreign contacts

Kushner has also come under recent fire for failing to include over 100 foreign contacts on a required federal disclosure form, after a member of his staff reportedly hit ‘send’ too early.

Kushner’s lawyers have claimed that Kushner’s initial filing of his SF-86 form did not mention any meetings with foreign officials whatsoever because an unnamed “member of his staff had prematurely hit the ‘send’ button for the [form] before it was completed.” –Breitbart

Considering the timing of Gorelick’s decision to pull back from Kushner’s Russia defense, perhaps the former Clinton Deputy AG smells smoke and doesn’t want to wait around for the fire.

Kushner Testimony

On Wednesday, ABC reported that Kushner has agreed to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee for testimony on Russian election meddling. Kushner’s new Russia attorney, Abbe Lowell, confirmed the meeting with ABC.

As Mr. Kushner has been saying since March, he has been and is prepared to voluntarily cooperate and provide whatever information he has on the investigations to Congress,” Lowell said. “Working with and being responsive to the schedules of the committees, we have arranged Mr. Kushner’s interview with the senate for July 24. He will continue to cooperate and appreciates the opportunity to assist in putting this matter to rest.” –ABC

Deep State of Affairs – Why is Gorelick Representing Kushner Anyway?

Jamie Gorelick has been a high level Democrat operative for decades. After serving as deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton, Gorelick – with no experience in finance – was appointed Vice Chairman at Fannie Mae from 1997 – 2003, where after just four years she received $26.5 million in compensation during a period in which the lender came under fire for a $10 billion accounting scandal and an executive bonus scandal which netted Gorelick $779,625 in ill gotten gains.

The D.C. insider has also made millions sitting on the boards of  United Technologies and Amazon.com – which President Trump criticized in June for “not paying internet taxes.”

The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they should) is FAKE NEWS!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 28, 2017

It should be noted that Amazon founder and co-board member Jeff Bezos also owns the deep-state leak factory known as the Washington Post – which Gorelick has contributed to for over a decade…

Gorelick’s Infamous Memo and 9/11

Gorelick raised eyebrows when she was appointed to the 9/11 commission, despite writing a 1995 DOJ memo which crippled national counterterrorism efforts – such as complaints the FBI received of Arab nationals taking flying lessons.

The memo became a surprise piece of evidence in the 9/11 commission when Former Attorney General John Ashcroft declassified it defend the FBI’s actions leading up to the attack – calling it “the single greatest structural cause for the September 11th problem” (which Gorelick refuted in a 2004 Washington Post op-ed).

…the FBI was operating under the constraints of the 1995 policy cited by Freeh.

Ashcroft said he had declassified the memo that laid out the policy so the commission could review it, noting that its author was a member of the panel, a reference to Jamie Gorelick, who was deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration. –NBC News

According to a 2004 Washington Times report, Gorelick rejected advice from a U.S. attorney not to limit investigative powers between agencies fighting terrorism:

Justice Department memos show that September 11 panel commissioner Jamie S. Gorelick was more intimately involved than previously thought with hampering communications between U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies fighting terrorism.

As the No. 2 person in the Clinton Justice Department, Ms. Gorelick rejected advice from the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, who warned against placing more limits on communications between law-enforcement officials and prosecutors pursuing counterterrorism cases, according to several internal documents written in summer 1995.

Defense of Hillary Clinton during 2016 election

When James Comey reopened his investigation into Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election, the Jeff Bezos-connected Amazon board member co-wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post entitled “James Comey is damaging our democracy, in which Gorelick argued the FBI investigation was “antithetical to the interests of justice,” and was “putting a thumb on the scale of this election and damaging our democracy.”

Gorelick was reportedly considered for Attorney General under a Hillary Clinton Presidency, and was also mentioned for the job during John Kerry’s 2004 run at the White House.

Out of the spotlight, still on stage

While Democrat operative Jamie Gorelick won’t be representing Jared Kushner in the Russia investigation any longer, the former deputy Attorney General, Fannie Mae executive, Amazon board member, and self-described Hillary Clinton supporter who visited the Obama White House at least 26 times since 2009* will remain the legal council to one of Donald Trump’s closest advisors.

One wonders why, given her history as a Democrat operative, Gorelick is allowed within 100 feet of the Trump administration – and whether she’s perhaps pulling out of the Russia investigation due to long-standing relationships with high level government officials involved in the ongoing Trump-Russia conspiracy.

*source: white-house-logs.insidegov.com

A battle has erupted between CNN’s Jake Tapper and left-wing Muslim activist Linda Sarsour, after Tapper called out the Women’s March group co-chaired by Sarsour after tweeting their support for convicted cop-killing domestic terrorist Assata Shakur, who has been ducking American justice in Cuba since 1984.

Shakur – aunt of deceased rapper Tupac Shakur, is a member of the far-left Black Liberation Army (BLA) and was convicted of the 1977 murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foster during a shootout on the NJ Turnpike. Shakur escaped prison in 1979, and after five years on the run fled to Cuba where she currently lives under political asylum.

In light of Women’s March tweet in support of Shakur, Tapper responded:

Shakur is a cop-killer fugitive in Cuba. This, ugly sentiments from @lsarsour & @dykemarchchi …Any progressives out there condemning this? https://t.co/rXnHLgE2hR

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 18, 2017

In response, Sarsour responded that the very liberal Tapper had joined ‘the ranks of the alt-right to target me online.’

.@jaketapper joins the ranks of the alt-right to target me online. Welcome to the party.

— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) July 18, 2017

Sarsour then slipped into the well worn reactionary identity politics of those with no argument – suggesting that Tapper was perhaps referring to her being a Palestinian, pro-immigrant Muslim.

.@jaketapper please share my "ugly" sentiments? Unapologetically Muslim? Unapologetically Palestinian? Pro-immigrant? Pro-justice? Shame.

— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) July 18, 2017

Nope! Tapper responded by calling Sarsour out for attacking actual feminist – Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former Muslim turned atheist and a victim of female genital mutilation (FGM).

Your comment about @Ayaan for one.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 18, 2017

Ali (@Ayaan) – a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and founder of a women’s rights organization, has been a vocal critic of Islam.

A must read article: https://t.co/IICLPmy006

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali (@Ayaan) May 17, 2017

Jake Tapper’s tweet referring to Sarsour’s comments on Ali was in reference to a 2011 tweet in which Sarsour said Ali and was “asking 4 an a$$ whippin,’

Kurt Eichenwald Seizes the Moment

After Sarsour’s alt-right comment Newsweek writer Kurt Eichenwald could no longer bite his tongue – letting Sarsour know that her attack on Tapper was a bad idea…

I've paid little attention to controversies involving you. But if ur calling @jaketapper alt-right? Not a big credibility boost for u.

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) July 19, 2017

Other reactions:

there are thousands of amazing activists to celebrate, but @womensmarch chooses one that's wanted for murder? idk what's happening anymore ? https://t.co/LEf6HtNbV1

— L*ci Green (@gogreen18) July 18, 2017

Terrorists Love Terrorists https://t.co/d8nRtTb93f

— ACT for America (@ACTforAmerica) July 18, 2017

I just agreed with @jaketapper ? pic.twitter.com/WmAKHGpIzn

— Mary Elaine (@PalmBreezy) July 19, 2017

Real feminists don't advocate destroying their opponent's vaginas while defending regimes that regularly mutilate women's clitorises.

— Maer Roshan (@MaerRoshan) July 19, 2017

I'm just happy that at least somebody in the media with an influential platform has sounded off on this. Thank you, Jake Tapper.

— Doubting Thomas (@OutrageDenied) July 18, 2017

@womensmarch She Not only shot and killed cops; she robbed a progressive poor church in Brooklyn

— Michael Powell (@powellnyt) July 19, 2017

#LindaSarsour pic.twitter.com/UZQ8ODOuL9

— Eric Allen Bell (@EricAllenBell) July 18, 2017

So liberated…

Steve Bannon does not mince words – especially when it comes to cucks like Paul Ryan. According to a new book by Bloomberg’s Josh Green, the 63 year old former head of Breitbart unleashed in an epic rant, calling Ryan a ‘limp dick motherf*cker born in a petri dish’ after Bannon caught wind of Ryan’s plan to install himself as the Presidential nominee during the 2016 primaries.

Per The Independent:

According to Mr Green, Mr Bannon flew off the handle when he learned of a Republican plot to install Mr Ryan as the presidential nominee at the 2016 Republican National Convention.

At the headquarters of his far-right publication, Breitbart News, Mr Bannon unloaded on Mr Ryan as a “limp-d**k motherf***** who was born in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation,” a conservative think tank.

Not content to leave it at that, Bannon then reportedly invoked the frog-God Kek, also known as Pepe…

A strong supporter of the emerging “alt-right,” Mr Bannon threatened to rally their young, far-right forces against Mr Ryan.

“Pepe’s gonna stomp their ass,” he reportedly said, referring to the movement’s cartoon frog mascot.

Based on results, Pepe did in fact stop Ryan’s ass – as the speaker of the house rolled snake eyes on both a run for the White House and his precious healthcare bill.

Paul Ryan can’t stop cucking around

As Breitbart reported in March, an audio tape surfaced of Paul Ryan on an October 2016 conference call with House Republicans, in which he said he was going to abandon Donald Trump and ‘never defend him again.’

In the Oct. 10, 2016 call, from right after the Access Hollywood tape of Trump was leaked in the weeks leading up to the election, Ryan does not specify that he will never defend Trump on just the Access Hollywood tape—he says clearly he is done with Trump altogether.

“I am not going to defend Donald Trump—not now, not in the future,” Ryan says in the audio, obtained by Breitbart News and published here for the first time ever.

Have a listen to this limp dicked motherf*cker:

There’s nothing liberal millennials seem to love more than free shit – and if you just ask one, ‘socialism’ is apparently the way to get it… you know, if you don’t mind all that death at the hands of socialist dictators.

Campus Reform points out a poll showing that 53 percent of Americans under 35 think socialism would be great for America, and that 45 percent of young Americans would be willing to support an openly socialist candidate.

While it’s clear that young people increasingly view socialism in a positive light, it’s also clear that many of them are uneducated about what it entails, or the impact it’s had throughout history.

The same poll found many millennials are unfamiliar with historical figures often associated with socialism, such as Che Guevara, Joseph Stalin, and Karl Marx. –Campus Reform

So what did Campus Reform do? Why, they went out to talk to a bunch of students in Washington D.C. to find out what in the ever loving fuck is wrong with them – only to find out that they’re total morons…

One student said of socialism, “I think people throw that word around to try and scare you, but if helping people is socialism, than I’m for it.”

When asked how she would define socialism, her answer was simple: “I mean honestly I’m not not exactly sure.”

“I guess just, you know, getting rid of that wealth gap in the United States?” ventured another.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the future. If one of these snowflakes is your kid, just helium bag yourself for your parental failure. Lord knows your idiot offspring won’t be able to take care of you in your old age.

Shares of Chipotle ($CMG) fell off a cliff today after Business Insider reported the closing of a Sterling, VA location following multiple reports of customers falling ill.

Customers reported symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, severe stomach pain, dehydration, and nausea to the website iwaspoisoned.com, which first alerted Business Insider to the issues at the Sterling restaurant. One person reported two hospitalizations as a result of the illnesses.

In total, eight reports were made to the website, indicating that at least 13 customers fell sick after eating there from July 14-15.

Chipotle told Business Insider that it is aware of the situation, and is “working with health authorities to understand what the cause may be and to resolve the situation as quickly as possible,” according to Executive director of food safety Jim Mardsen – who added “The reported symptoms are consistent with norovirus.”

BAD LUCK or CORPORATE ESPIONAGE?

Chipotle suffered a string of E.Coli and norovirus incidents throughout 2015, in what many believe to be corporate espionage.

The fast food chain which notably refuses to use ingredients containing Monsanto GMOs was also hit with a massive hacking attack in March after refusing to upgrade to chipped card readers, which Chipotle reported in May.

All in all, the stock is down over 50% since 2015…

Cascade

While shares of Chipotle shit the shower, ZeroHedge notes:

If you want to see the effect of ETF contagion, the rest of the restaurant sector is getting mini flash-crashed….

Scientists in China have discovered how to turn docile ‘loser’ mice into aggressive ‘super soldiers’ by shooting photons of light into an area of the brain responsible for ‘effortful’ behavior.

Ars Technica reports:

neuroscientist Zhou Tingting of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, joined with his colleagues to measure mouse dominance using what’s called the “tube test.” The tube test creates a scenario in which there’s not enough room for the mice to pass each other in the tube. Mice have to shove one another aside to get out. The mouse who shoves the most other mice out of its way will “win” the dominance game.

In a July 14 article for Science, Zhou and crew noted that “winner mice initiated significantly more pushes, and with a longer duration per push, than loser mice.”

Willpower

While winners weren’t necessarily stronger than losers – they were more persistent and aggressive. Researches discovered that the winner mice had more brain activity in a cluster of neurons called the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) – an area associated with ‘effortful behavior’ and ‘social dominance.’ Mice with weak dmPFC clusters always lost.

Universal Soldiers

Zhou and crew set off with the task of creating an army of ‘winner’ mice by stimulating the dmPFC regions of loser mice using a technique called ‘optogenticsm,’ which triggers neural activity using light and proteins.

When newly programmed loser mice took the tube test, they began shoving the winner mice vigorously – winning almost every time.

What does this mean for humanity?

Obviously, it’s universal soldier time if this technique works on human brains. Can we expect battlefields full of aggressive soldiers, charging towards the enemy with blinking brains implants? Probably not anytime soon…

What’s interesting, however, is that some mice retained their winner status, while others returned to a life of loserdom.

Perhaps more interesting is how researchers found they could permanently transform loser mice into winners, just by stimulating their brains six or more times in tube tests. “We observed that not all the mice returned to their original rank,” Zhejiang University neuroscientist Hu Hailan told the Guardian. “Some mice [did], but some of them had this newly dominant position.” Hu and the other researchers refer to this as the “winner effect,” in which one triumph can lead to more victories, due to a change in outlook.

Thanks to ‘neuroplasticity,’ every time a mouse with brain stimulation wins, it remembers – effectively rewiring some mice into more aggressive versions of their former selves. Light stimulation isn’t the only way to rewire the brain – it’s just one of the fastest. Animals can reprogram themselves through new experiences and learning.

Could the future of psychotherapy include implants to help people overcome social anxiety and fears? Or would we simply create an army of mass murderers overcome with primal rage?

Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice has abruptly canceled a Tuesday appearance in front of the House Intelligence Committee to discuss allegations that she requested the ‘unmasking‘ of various members of the Trump campaign on behalf of the Obama administration.

Rice’s cancellation comes on the heels of another nix’d testimony from Glenn Simpson – the former Wall St. Journal reporter who co-founded opposition research firm Fusion GPS – which was responsible for an embarrassingly amateur and largely debunked 35-page Trump-Russia ‘dossier’ used as evidence to request a FISA surveillance warrant on a Trump associate.

Simpson’s Wednesday cancellation in front of the Senate Intel Committee appearance followed revelations that two Fusion GPS associates were intimately involved in a June 2016 sit-down between Donald Trump Jr., a Russian lawyer, and 6 other people – a meeting which has the appearance of a political ‘setup’ meant to ensnare the Trump team.

The man who arranged the meeting, Fusion GPS associate Rob Goldstone, told Trump Jr. that the Russian lawyer had information on Hillary Clinton’s ties to Russia. A second Fusion GPS associate, Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin, attended the meeting as well.

Did Simpson and Rice cancel in light of the Trump Jr. takedown backfiring? 

Legal primer:

Susan Rice unmasking = felony

Don Jr adoption meeting = not a felony

— Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) July 18, 2017

‘Susan Rice has a history of dishonesty – from lying about her role in unmasking the Trump team which was exposed by journalist Mike Cernovich, to the true cause of Benghazi (which Hillary correctly told Chelsea was radical Islamists within hours of the attack), to the enormous wealth Rice has accumulated while in public service – the former National Security Advisor to Obama looks like nothing more than a well paid lapdog.

Unmasking bonus; $49,000,000

— ZeroPointNow (@ZeroPointNow) May 3, 2017

Spyin' Susan Rice now refuses to testify in Congress. Is she afraid a serial liar like herself would commit perjury? pic.twitter.com/aDiFYR3dB1

— Newt-Trump Fan Club (@NewtTrump) July 17, 2017

FISA Basis

Many are now suggesting that the Trump Jr. meeting was the basis for the Obama administration’s June 2016 FISA request to spy on the Trump team in light of the fact that another Fusion GPS-linked endeavor (the dossier) was used as the basis for a FISA warrant on Trump associate Carter Page.

If the Trump Jr. meeting was a setup arranged by Fusion GPS associates, it would make for the second incident in which the opposition research firm was linked to dirty work used to justify spying on the Trump team. If Susan Rice knows about any type of collusion between the Obama administration, Fusion GPS, and Hillary Clinton – a candidate running for President, heads could roll.

Perhaps this is why both Rice and the co-founder of Fusion GPS canceled their testimonies…

A side note – the Don Jr. Russian Conspiracy Theory is Toast

Many on the left have suggested that the meeting between Trump Jr. and the Russian lawyer was set up to establish a back-channel to the Kremlin. As journalist and author Jack Posobiec points out – why would Don Jr. need to do that if his father was colluding with Putin?

If Trump was really colluding with Putin directly, why would Don Jr waste time on a low-level nobody?

— Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) July 17, 2017

A sharp dropoff in the number of illegal border crossers coming into the United States from Mexico is “nothing short of miraculous,” National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told C-SPAN on Monday.

As far as the Trump administration’s efforts on immigration, this is something they campaigned heavily on.

We have never seen such a drop that we currently have.

There’s a vibe, there’s an energy in the Border Patrol that’s never been there before in 20 years that I’ve been in the patrol.  –Brandon Judd

Judd went on to say that Trump’s two Executive Orders instructing border agents to fully carry out laws is in sharp contrast to the Obama administration, which kept agents from performing their sworn duties.

The Washington Examiner reports a 53% decrease in apprehensions at the Southwest border compared to last year – a 6 year low:

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency on Friday reported a huge drop in arrests along the Southwest border, a likely result of President Trump’s aggressive effort to stop illegals from entering the nation and deport those with criminal records.

The agency said that apprehensions dropped 53 percent from a year ago. The number also includes those deemed inadmissible.

The NBPC President added that a southern border wall was necessary for select parts of the border, however he added that the entire border between the U.S. and Mexico does not need a full fence.

The Department of Homeland Security has been given $1.6 billion towards the wall – which, according to a report in the Texas Observer, is well underway.