Ex-CIA director: Russia will have recorded Trump’s meeting with Putin and will use it against him. Now we all know what Putin has on Trump. U.S. officials “at a fucking loss” over latest Russia sellout: The White House’s refusal to rule out turning over former U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul to the Russians has current and former State Department officials seeing red (and more). Senators are slamming Trump’s Putin meeting, but they aren’t going to do anything about it. Why won’t Republicans finally demand Trump release his tax returns? Martin Longman on why the GOP really needs Mueller’s report. Trump’s crisis of legitimacy: The president understands the stakes of the Russia story more clearly than most of his followers.
Trump’s actions in Helsinki don’t have to be treasonous to be impeachable. Putin’s attack on the U.S. is our Pearl Harbor: Hacking the 2016 election was an act of war — it’s time we responded accordingly.
