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Andy Borowitz | Nunes Says He Held Russia Hearings Alone in His Apartment and They Went Great

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06 February 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News Andy Borowitz | Nunes Says He Held Russia Hearings Alone in His Apartment and They Went Great  Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker   Borowitz writes: "Representative Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told reporters on Wednesday that he just spent several days alone in his apartment holding hearings on President Donald J. Trump's ties to Russia and that those hearings 'went really great.'"   READ MORE Carter Page on Good Morning America. (photo: ABC News) Carter Page Admits to Advising the Kremlin and Trump, but Doesn't Understand the FBI's Suspicion   Aaron Rupar, ThinkProgress   Rupar writes: "During an interview on Good Morning America on Tuesday, Carter Page admitted that he served as an adviser to the Kremlin before joining Donald Trump's campaign for president. But he doesn't think the FBI had good reason to view that as s...

The Daily 202: Why Trump flippantly accusing Democrats of ‘treason’ is not a laughing matter

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     Why Trump flippantly accusing Democrats of ‘treason’ is not a laughing matter Trump: Democrats’ behavior during State of the Union speech was ‘un-American’ BY JAMES HOHMANN with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: A president loosely accusing the opposition party of treason represents a greater danger to the long-term health of the American system than a 4.6 percent drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. President Trump said Monday that it was “un-American” and “treasonous” when some congressional Democrats did not applaud during last week's State of the Union address as he touted the  low rates of black and Hispanic unemployment . “Even on positive news like that, really positive news like that, they were like death and un-American,”  Trump said at a manufacturing plant outside Cincinnati . “Somebody said ‘treasonous.’ I mean, yeah, I guess, why not? Shall we...