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It does seem like it's slow news again, but a few things going on. For example, the president has canceled the expensive military parade. Yay. I'm very happy that that parade got canceled, and it got canceled for exactly the right reasons. It sends a really good message, doesn't it? The president asked for something, then he got the price, and then he said the price is too high, and then he cancel…

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Let's talk about the news reports about Brennan losing his security clearance. Now, the way it was reported is that the president changed his story because the original reason given was that Brennan was erratic. His behavior was erratic. And apparently that's sort of a magical word when it comes to security clearances. If somebody is erratic, then they don't get their security clearance. So that was the original reason given. And then later President Trump said that the reason was the Russia hoax. And so the news reported that as inconsistent. But was it? Is that inconsistent? The first version is Brennan is erratic. The second version is that Brennan was pushing this Russia conspiracy narrative. Those are the same thing. What was he being erratic about? The Russia conspiracy thing and the way he reacted to it. So to call those two different stories is a bit of a stretch. It's a bit of a stretch, wouldn't you think? Because his erraticness was all about that topic. Nobody's complaining about, you know, how he is at home. It was just about that. We haven't heard him say anything else, right? Has Brennan talked about anything else? It's the only topic. So that's your fake news flag for the day.

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Now some of you are watching the story about apparently CNN and some other outlets, Politico, I forget which others, might be Washington Post, might be New York Times, the way they've colluded to try to get the judge in the Manafort case to allow them to have the names and addresses of the jurors. Now I didn't know a lot about the topic of jury privacy, but apparently in normal regular cases the j…

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