NEW — The son of one of Trump’s pardon recipients gave $85k to Trump victory this August. His wife gave $50k that same month. On top of that, they made an in-kind contribution for $75k in air travel.

So the sequence here appears to be. 1. DNI gets intel that Russia is interfering again in the election 2. Acting DNI briefs lawmakers about the threat. 3. Trump finds out 4. Trump berates acting DNI 5. Trump replaces acting DNI with political stooge/ally

NEW — Nikki Haley sent classified information over an unsecured email system because she forgot her password, new emails reveal. Via @csdickey 

So Collins and Alexander confirm that CHIP, a program that gives health care to 9m kids and whose money expired in Sept, won’t be renewed this year. Maybe next year. 9 million klids.

This is a bombshell that isn’t getting much notice. But the top diplomat in Ukraine was texting in real time that we were withholding security funds to help with Trump's political campaign

Imagine President Hillary Clinton hosting a NYE’s event at the Clinton Foundation HQs and charging people to attend. It would cause a country-wide fever panic… and for good reason. This isn’t even for a charity. It’s for his own club.

So the crowd that asked the Russians and Wikileaks to help obtain Clinton’s emails is now upset with Mueller for obtaining emails through the General Services Administration?