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President of the Judiciary and Democratic Branch of New York Jerry Nadler "I am pleased to announce that the Department of Justice has agreed to begin complying with our committee's subpoena by opening Robert Mueller's most important files and providing us with essential evidence that the special counsel had used to evaluate "if Trump was clogged.

This news comes tweeted by the Washington PostAaron Blake.

Mike Pence praises Donald Trump's "firm stance" on Mexico

Potus just retweeted Veep (the Veep, not Veep, unfortunately) of yesterday, #ICYMI.

Mike Pence posted: ".@POTUSSolid position has prompted Mexico to do things it has never done before: 6,000 National Guards at the southern border, immigration checkpoints across Mexico and allowing ALL illegal immigrants from Central America to stay in Mexico while waiting for their asylum application. "

Hearing of the Judiciary Committee of the House on the Mueller Report

The hearing will be broadcast live on this blog when it starts at 2 pm local time in Washington.

The star witness is a former lawyer, lawyer and detainee at the Nixon White House, its current author and political expert – John Dean, who Donald Trump at decided is a sleazebag.

But there are also three other witnesses today.

Joyce White Vance is a former US District Attorney from Alabama (North), a law professor at the University of Alabama and a contributor to MSNBC.

Last night, she explained on Twitter that her job is to help people understand how DOJ prosecutors assess evidence and take action.

More to the right, there will be a lawyer John Malcolm, vice-president of the Institute for Constitutional Government, under the auspices of the conservative think tank Heritage Foundationn, in Washington, DC.

He is also Chair of the Criminal Law Practice Group of the Federalist society.

And, perhaps the fourth (chair) is with her, former US Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan and a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, Barbara McQuade.

Joyce White Vance tweeted what she called a "practical link" to Mueller's summary for each volume of her report. But, appointed by the Obama administration, his pinned tweet says this:

If you happen to see CNN, on the phone, in your newsroom, your waiting room for vets, your boarding room at the airport or, you know, the current salon (if you're happy, spend your day at work / retirement), keep an eye on Guardian senior journalist Jon Swaine.

It goes on air anytime (we literally expect anytime, but, according to CNN, "any moment" could mean any moment of the next hour … or more), to talk about his exclusive story today about: The company partly owned by Jared Kushner which has received $ 90 million of unknown foreign investors since 2017.

You can read the full version here.

And there is a very lively debate about it on Twitter.

US Supreme Court rejects challenge to firearms muffler regulations

As the short SupremeThe June ruling continues, the court announced that it was rejecting a challenge to the federal gun silencer regulations.

It's been just a few days since an armed man used one in the shootout that killed 12 people, mostly local government employees, at their workplace in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Judges did not rule on Monday rejecting calls from two Kansas men convicted of violating federal lawhe AP written.

Men argued that constitutional law under the second amendment "Keep and carry the arms" includes the silencers.

Kansas, Arkansas, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, South Carolina, Texas and Utah urged in a filing that the judges hear the appeal, saying the court should assert that the second amendment protects "mufflers and other accessories from firearms".
The Trump administration has asked the court to stay out of the case and leave the convictions in place.

In the meantime, the administration has done virtually nothing to advance gun control in the United States.

The police are still trying to determine the motive for the Virginia massacre, after a worker who had just resigned opened fire in a municipal building on May 31, armed with two semi-automatic handguns, gunmen, and police officers. a silencer and ammunition stores.

The shooter (whom we prefer not to remember the identity here) was killed during a long shootout with the forces of the order.

Mexico's Border Pact with the time purchased

Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard said Monday morning that the border agreement reached to avoid US tariffs purchased Mexico It is time to show that this can reduce flooding of Central American migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border.

Ebrard said the immigration agreement had postponed for the time being the Trump AdministrationMexico's request to accept becoming a safe third country, which would force migrants landing on its territory to apply for asylum on the spot instead of going to the United States. the Wall Street newspaper reports this morning.

Mexico persuaded US officials to give the measures time, he said, and agreed that if they could not reduce the flow of immigrants heading north, the parties would meet again to discuss new proposals from the United States.

According to the agreement reached Friday night, the Mexican President's Government Andrés Manuel López Obrador agreed to speed up the reception of returned migrants from the United States in the expectation of their asylum hearings in the United States in Mexico and to accelerate the deployment of the Guard national troops in border areas to support Mexican migration officials.

the short Supreme Monday refused to embark on the controversy of how far detainees held by the US military at the US Naval Base Guantanamo Golf, Cuba, may seek their release, dismissing an appeal by a man of Yemeni origin detained since 2001.

The court refused to consider an appeal from Yemeni detainee Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi, captured in Pakistan in December 2001, and detained without charge since, Reuters reports this time.

The government said that Al Alwi was involved in the fight against US and Allied forces in afghanistan and was closely linked to the Islamic militant group Al Qaeda.

Following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, the United States launched a long-running military campaign in Afghanistan targeting Al-Qaeda, which perpetrated these attacks, as well as the Taliban-led government that was protecting it. .

Justice Stephen Breyer, one of the four liberals of the court, issued a statement in which he stated that the court should intervene at some point to decide "whether, in the light of the duration and other aspects of the conflict in question, the Congress authorized and if the Constitution allows it. detention."
Al Alwi "has real prospects for the possibility that he will spend the rest of his life in detention because of his enemy combatant status a generation ago," Breyer added.

Al Alwi, born in 1977 and aged about forty, said he should be released, in part because the US conflict in Afghanistan had "effectively ended". His attorneys said that the US authority to withhold him has "unraveled" because of the length of the conflict.

In a decision rendered in 2018, the US District Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia rejected his claims.

Remarkable by its absence – Robert Mueller

D & # 39; agreement John DeanIs interesting. His testimony before the Judiciary Committee of the House could even be enlightening and important.

But there is still an air of House Dems marking the time that they can, hopefully, the lasso. Robert Mueller himself to appear on the hill and answer questions about his report, published in mid-April.

Mueller can say anything he wants "everything is in the report", but this cry seems less noble than plaintive while there are still so many unanswered questions, essays, underlying secrets and troubling perspectives.

If by "everything in the report" he means "to read between the lines", which was a bit like his little press conference (no questions and answers) last month, it shows all the more why he must submit to interrogation by legislators.

Chairman of the House Anti-Trust Subcommittee David Cicilline, Democrat of Rhode Island, told CNN Sunday why President Mueller had not been trained yet.
"We want to make sure we do things right … we want to be respectful to the special council … if that does not work, we will obviously to force one's presence. "

Watergate's star witness, John Dean, said he would provide a House panel "a bit of context" and a comparison between the investigations under Nixon's administration and those of Donald Trump. the written AP.
He told CNN he would say Monday at the Judiciary Committee of the House at the hearing that will begin in Washington at 2:00 pm: "How does the Watergate look like what we see now, as indicated in the Mueller report?

Dean says he will focus on the issue of obstruction of justice in his testimony.
Special advocate Robert Mueller investigated Russia's interference in the 2016 election and its contacts with the Trump campaign.

Mueller could not determine if Trump had attempted to obstruct the investigation by taking action such as the dismissal of FBI director James Comey.

Mueller said that to charge the president of a crime was "not an option" because of federal rules.
Dean told CNN that the dismissal of Comey "was certainly no different from some of the actions taken by Nixon."
In 1973, Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to remove Independent Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, but Richardson refused and resigned.
Trump has repeatedly called Mueller's probe a "witch hunt".

Senior Democratic leaders may not be in a hurry to launch an imputation survey, but today 's hearing is the first in a series on the Mueller report. .

John Wesley Dean III served as White House counsel to Nixon from July 1970 until his dismissal in April 1973. However, he attracted the attention of the Americans. However, during his televised testimony in June 1973 before the Senate Watergate Committee, the New York Times wrote: 2018.

Mr. Dean was sitting at a table – dressed in a light brown suit and wearing horn-rimmed glasses, his wife Maureen behind him – and told senators that Nixon was directly involved in the concealment of Watergate. He was one of the first officials of the Nixon administration to express himself.

Mr. Dean was worried about being put in place by his former boss to take responsibility for the break-in of five men in June 1972 at the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington.

Indeed, the White House called it "brain," reported the NYT in June 1973. For his part, Dean has long claimed that his colleagues sought to make a scapegoat.

He served a four-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to obstructing justice, in return for his help as part of the FBI's investigation into the scandal and camouflage. Dean was also struck off.

Trump calls Nixon's lawyer, John Dean, "sleazebag lawyer"

Has the President just been concerned about today's hearing of the Judiciary Committee of the House or is he reasonably criticizing what could be quite wrong? Showboat event on Capitol Hill today?

White House lawyer John Dean turned against his boss during the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the downfall of Nixon (and Dean's imprisonment). He testified in a devastating way before the Senate Committee on Watergate in June 1973, after warning Nixon, among the presidential lies and abuse of power, that there was "a cancer that was developing under the presidency".

46 years later, Dean is a CNN commentator and often criticizes the current occupant of the White House. He will testify again this afternoon at the Mueller Report Committee's 'explanation session'.

On Sunday night, Trump tweeted his rage that Democrats continue to investigate him, saying, "They even bring @CNN Sleazebag lawyer John Dean. Sorry, no Do Over Overs – Go back to work! "

Here's the tweet – and there are some great answers:

Before continuing with John Dean's breathless anticipation (from the White House no longer breathless) on Capitol Hill this afternoon and the Mexican-American immigration mess In progress, we must draw your attention to our scoop this morning.

Jon Swaine, of the Guardian, today announced that a real estate company partly owned by Jared Kushner has received $ 90 million of foreign funds from an opaque offshore vehicle since entering the White House as a senior advisor of his father-in-law, Donald Trump.

According to filed documents and interviews, Kushner has invested overseas funds in the Cadre company, while Kushner plays the role of international envoy for the United States. The money went through a vehicle driven by Goldman Sachs to the Cayman Islands, a tax haven guaranteeing corporate secrecy.

Kushner, who is married to Ivanka, Trump's eldest daughter, has retained a stake in Cadre after joining the administration, while selling other assets. His stake is now valued at $ 50 million, according to his financial information.

You can read his full report here.

The president is mad with anger over the New York Times for his coverage of his immigration deal with Mexico.

Learn more about this in our story today.

Our Oliver Milman reports that: Trump has returned to the offensive … accusing the New York Times of "sick journalism" for a report in which are described the key elements of the deal, announced on Fridayhad been agreed for months.

The President tweeted this morning about Mexico's mysterious "agreement" on tariffs and the cancellation of migratory flows in the United States, but it is still as clear as mud and as difficult to navigate as it is a swamp.

"We have fully signed and documented another very important part of the agreement on immigration and security with Mexico, which the United States has been seeking for many years. It will be revealed in the not too distant future and will require a vote of the legislative body of Mexico! ", Said Tweet One.

Followed by this: "… we do not anticipate a voting problem, but if for any reason the approval is not given, the rates will be restored!"

Happy Monday morning, it's gone for our daily blog on American politics. What is the agenda today in Washington and beyond?

• If you like to read Nixon, Watergate, Trump and Mueller in the same sentence, it will probably be a good day for you. Former White House lawyer John Dean, a key witness in the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, testifies today before the House Judiciary Committee at a hearing entitled Lessons Learned from the Report Mueller: presidential obstruction and other crimes. It is a 'plenary session'. 2PM HE. Donald Trump has just described Dean as "sleazebag prosecutor".
• Everything that comes out of the White House, the Department of State's Department of Homeland Security, is being closely watched to find out what steps Mexico could take to stem the influx of immigrants from Canada. Central America on the US-Mexico border. This follows the pause in Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on Mexico as of today. The threat has not apparently disappeared and is on hold.
• Most of the leading Democratic nominees for 2020 will continue their campaign in Iowa today, having saturated the state this weekend, looking for a early support to help them stand out in the early caucus state. The situation became rather chaotic Sunday with 19 contestants clashing at Cedar Rapids. Amy Klobuchar can today enjoy a wonderful breathing room in New Hampshire.