Some love to warm your hearts - animal BFF photos for today's mental health break.

These animals live beyond any species boundaries or traditional ideas about who should get along with whom, and just love each other as fellow beings.

https://animalencyclopedia.info/16-unusual-animal-friendships-you-wont-believe/

16 Unusual Animal Friendships

Elizabeth Warren on Rachel for the interview soon. Rachel just announced it.

Just got back from Senator Wyden's town hall this afternoon, and he said that if Trump ordered

the bombing of cultural sites, he thought the military would refuse. Wow.

He said the Iran issue will be the biggest issue on people's agenda when they go back to DC tomorrow, and there is huge opposition both to what has already happened and even more to bombing cultural sites.

He talked about the issue for quite awhile, and mentioned the War Powers Act and that there will be a lot of action around it in the next few days. He said there has not been nearly enough oversight by Congress (as far as War Powers) for years now and pointed out that he was one of the lone votes against invading Iraq.

We will see what happens; if this is enough to get GOP on board with any kind of accountability or actual action.

Some pix with great timing to make you laugh, for your mental health break.

Schumer on Rachel now.

Lisa Page up soon on Rachel. Who's watching? This will be very good.

Rachel giving lots of background leading up to the interview.

RAchel: Trump called for Seoul to be "moved" during height of tensions with North Korea

When he found out Seoul was in striking distance of NK missiles, he said they have to move Seoul. And told his advisors to "go do it." Rachel talking about a new book that just came out...who caught the name? I missed it....too much too fast and i wasn't at my computer. And the book tells about him saying they have to move Seoul. THere is lots more...she's going really fast- but all of it crazy stuff.

ANyone watching Rachel on 2010 impeachment of Judge Porteus - Turley as defense, Schiff as. ..

Schiff mkaing the case for impeachment in the hearings. Porteus was impeached; Rachel showed clips of Turley offering BS defense and Schiff as the other side. Schiff was brilliant and Turley was offering the typical BS just like we are seeing now, referring to clear bribes Porteus took as "wedding gifts." SChiff brilliantly called him out on his BS.

Pelosi sure knew what she was doing when she chose Schiff to head things up.

New Yorker: The Inside Story of Christopher Steele's Trump Dossier (new book by Fusion GPS founders)

Great article:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-inside-story-of-christopher-steeles-trump-dossier

"On Tuesday, two of the President’s most prolific accusers plan to disrupt the narrative by telling their own story. Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, the co-founders of the Washington-based private-investigative firm Fusion GPS, which has mined deep veins of muck on Trump for years, at the behest of his various political enemies, will try to throw the book at Trump with the publication of “Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump.”

Fusion was the firm that hired the former British spy Christopher Steele to research Trump’s ties to Russia during the 2016 campaign. After nearly three years without a word from Steele, while the so-called pee tape and his other sensational findings sparked furious controversy, the former M.I.6 spy speaks directly and on the record about his own part for the first time in the book, an advance copy of which was given to The New Yorker.

Whether Simpson and Fritsch’s score-settling, tell-all account will change any minds remains to be seen, but they present a mountain of evidence that Trump’s dealings with corrupt foreign players—particularly those from the former Soviet Union—are both real and go back decades. Steele’s dossier has been debated, denounced, derided, and occasionally defended almost since the moment it was first published, in January, 2017, by BuzzFeed News, against Steele’s wishes. Although Carl Bernstein helped to break the news of its existence on CNN, his friend and Watergate-reporting partner Bob Woodward dismissed it almost instantly as “garbage.” During impeachment-hearing testimony last week, the former White House national-security adviser Fiona Hill, one of America’s foremost experts on Russia and a professional acquaintance of Steele’s, described the dossier as “a rabbit hole” and suggested that Steele may have been “played.” But the authors defend Steele’s work, and their own, arguing that it has proved “strikingly right.”

As the authors tell it, they became obsessed with Trump almost accidentally. Their involvement in his campaign began as a business proposition. In the past, they had worked mostly for corporate clients, but in 2012 they had also done some political-opposition research on the Republican Presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. (They declined to disclose their client.) So, in 2015, as Trump gained momentum, but before he clinched the nomination, Simpson and Fritsch again decided to look for political work. After firing off a quick e-mail to a big conservative donor they knew who disliked Trump, they were hired. They don’t identify that donor but note, helpfully, that he arranged for them to contract their opposition-research assignment through the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative Web site known to be funded by Paul Singer, a New York hedge-fund magnate. Once Trump secured the nomination, however, the G.O.P. donor fled."

Lots more at link.

Turn on Rachel if you arent watching. She's interviewing the Fusion GPS guys. They've

been investigating Trump since 2015. They are talking Steele dossier. They just published a book. They were shocked when Trump picked Manafort for his chair because he already had so much dirt on him.

Edited to add link to great New Yorker article about the book :
"The Inside Story of Christopher Steele’s Trump Dossier"
You will want to read this article. Lots of good info i hadn't heard before!
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212729777