Posted on 10/21/2018 4:30:08 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
October 21st, 2018
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.; Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz. The panel will be Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House; Marc Short, University of Virginia Miller Center of Public Affairs and former White House director of legislative affairs, Trump administration; Jane Harman, president of Woodrow Wilson Center and former Democratic congresswoman from California; and Charles Lane, editorial writer for The Washington Post. The program salutes José Andrés, Michelin star chef and founder of World Central Kitchen, on his new book “We Fed an Island.” He is in the Florida Panhandle helping feed victims of Hurricane Michael.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C.; Anthony Scaramucci, former White House communications director and author of “Trump, the Blue-Collar President.” The panel will be David Brody of CBN News and co-author of “The Faith of Donald J. Trump: A Spiritual Biography”; Peggy Noonan, columnist at The Wall Street Journal; Eugene Robinson, columnist at The Washington Post; and Katy Tur of NBC News and host of “MSNBC Live.”
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Preempted for the London, UK, NFL game between the Tennessee Titans and the L.A. Chargers.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas; Rep. Beto O’Rourke, R-Texas; Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; FiveThirtyEight Editor-in-Chief Nate Silver; Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.; Tom Bossert, former Trump homeland security adviser. The panel will be ABC’s Mary Bruce, Republican strategist Alex Castellanos, Wall Street Journal columnist Kim Strassel and Fox News’ Juan Williams, author of “What the Hell Do You Have to Lose? Trump's War on Civil Rights.”
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Attorney General Pam Bondi, a Republican; Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla; and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla; Symone Sanders, former national press secretary for Bernie Sanders 2016; Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., author of “Them: Why We Hate Each Other — and How to Heal,” and Democratic Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles.
SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va.; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; John Solomon, journalist. The panel will be former Sen. Al D’Amato, R-N.Y., and David Avella, GoPac chairman.
Dems take over...we've got data that supports that.
Republicans hold: we've got data that supports that too.
THOUGHT BUBBLE: We don't have an F'N clue, but we'll interpret it the way we want to see it...which is: Trump loses !
What I want to get a back story on is the Harris/L3 merger.
WTF?
Soros wants to use whoever he can, the media, Dems., students, elected officials, migrants etc. to turn this country Socialist. They all will dance to the well-funded machine.
Someone should ask the janitor WTF is going on.
They see EVERYONES dirt.
The entire scenario makes no sense. If the CP wanted to assassinate Khashoggi, he could have done it without any association with the Kingdom. It sounds like the CP is being setup. The question is by whom.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-14/did-saudis-cia-fear-khashoggi-911-bombshell
The apparent abduction and murder last week of Jamal Khashoggi seems such an astoundingly desperate move by the Saudi rulers. More evidence is emerging from Turkish sources that the journalist was indeed lured to the consulate in Istanbul where he was killed by a 15-member hit squad.
Reports are saying that the alleged assassination was ordered at the highest level of the Saudi royal court, which implicates Crown Prince MBS. Why would the Saudi rulers order such a heinous act, which would inevitably lead to acute political problems, as we are seeing in the fallout from governments and media coverage around the world?
Over the past year, the House of Saud had been appealing to Khashoggi to return to Riyadh and resume his services as a media advisor to the royal court. He declined, fearing that something more sinister was afoot.
When Khashoggi turned up in Istanbul to collect a divorce document from the Saudi consulate on September 28, it appears that the House of Saud decided to nab him. He was told to return to the consulate on October 2. On that same day, the 15-member group arrived from Riyadh on two private Gulfstream jets for the mission to kill him.
Official Saudi claims stretch credulity. They say Khashoggi left the consulate building unharmed by a backdoor, although they won’t provide CCTV images to prove that. The Turks say their own CCTV facilities monitoring the front and back of the Saudi consulate show that Khashoggi did not leave the premises. The Turks seem confident of their claim he was murdered inside the building, his remains dismembered and removed in diplomatic vehicles.
The two private jets left the same day from Istanbul with the 15 Saudis onboard to return to Riyadh, via Cairo and Dubai. To carry out such a reckless act, the Saudis must have been alarmed by Khashoggi’s critical commentaries appearing in the Washington Post.
The columns appeared to be delivering more and more damaging insights into the regime under Crown Prince MBS. The Washington Post this week is reporting that US intelligence sources knew from telecom intercepts that the Saudis were planning to abduct Khashoggi. That implicates the House of Saud in a dastardly premeditated act of murder.
But furthermore this same disclosure could also, unwittingly, implicate US intelligence. If the latter knew of a malicious intent towards Khashoggi, why didn’t US agents warn him about going to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul? Surely, he could have obtained the same personal documents from the Saudi embassy in Washington DC, a country where he was residing and would have been safer.
Jamal Khashoggi may have known too many dark secrets about US and Saudi intel collusion, primarily related to the 9/11 terror incidents. And with his increasing volubility as a critical journalist in a prominent American news outlet, it may have been time to silence him. The Saudis as hitmen, the American CIA as facilitators.
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MBS would have been 15 years old during 911 to think that he has any jeopardy in the fiasco would be insane.But, the older Saudis, the old kingdom has all kinds of jeopardy if the truth gets out.Could this be who took out Jamal? Even accidentally, as they claim through enhanced interrogation due to choking (Saudi style evidently).Could well be,its my guess.
Shouldn’t we know what happened before we call for a lynching? These Repubs are so predictable with their being cowed by the mediots.
Poor ol Peggy Noonan needs a shawl and a cup of tea.
And some white toast with sugar and cinnamon.
Holy Cow....liberal wacko Katy Tur on MTP admits voters don’t give accurate info to pollsters, this feels like 2016, and nothing Trump is conventional.
Exactly there is nothing substantial about wall ass at all.
thanks very much bud,everytime I here Jamal Khashoggi described as a reporter i cringe, that’s about last on his list of occupations.
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F.Chuck pulling out every statistic he can to show that the dems will pull off a huge victory in two weeks,signs of desperation all over dem land today.
Anyone who knows the history of the Saudi Royal Family realizes that the internecine warfare within the ruling family is complicated and unknowable outside the family. Assassination and other means have been used before to determine succession. MBS has made many enemies. This all smacks of a framing of MBS to remove him. I suspect it will be successful. It will satisfy all the critics in the US and provide the necessary cover to maintain our existing bilateral relationship. MBS will be the scapegoat—as planned.
WTF is up with Scaramouchie? This guy is like a bad penny, he keeps showing up.
No one ever heard of him before
Pretty soon we will be way back in the woods away from prying ears.
But someone always smells the beans and comes snooping around LOL
The Khashoggi incident is just another weapon to use against Trump. And as for the rest like Newt and Graham, it is about phony moralizing and possible pressure from the Saudi lobby to get rid of the CP.
Again, this reminds me of the Carter human rights campaign that greased the skids for the removal of the Shah. The real test should be our own strategic national interests. We deal with corrupt, tyrannical dictators around the world. It is not a choice between good and evil, but rather the lesser of two evils.
Money and power usually rule the day.The Saudis may not have infinite oil reserves and they need the leadership capabilities of an MBS. No one else is even close to what he can do.
I see him surviving that hit on him.
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Some black woman supposedly in charge at the WaPOst doing a crybaby chat about how all journalists are in danger now if they have an opinion that is not in favor.blah blah blah.
She forgot to mention however Jamal's history which is not important it's everything.
Driveby journalism at it's finest hour leaving out all the important facts about the situation.
Somehow and in some way,I see the hand of Brennan in this killing. His hatred of this POTUS is boundless and I think he lives his life thinking up ways to harm him and his agenda for America.
You are right that there is no much more to this story.
2017 Crude Oil Exports
1. Saudi Arabia US$133.6 billion
2. Russia $93.3 billion
3. Iraq $61.5 billion
4. Canada $54 billion
5. United Arab Emirates: $49.3 billion (5.9%)
6. Iran: $40.1 billion (4.8%)
7. Kuwait: $38.2 billion (4.5%)
8. Nigeria: $33 billion (3.9%)
9. Angola: $30.5 billion (3.6%)
10. Kazakhstan: $26.6 billion (3.2%)
Exactly the Saudis have been less than perfect ever since they were corrupted by 41 decades ago.Since then little has changed until Trump made deals with MBS.After that everything changed. Those who want to alter that are either cabal/deep state or brain dead.
...because a fake journalist who was really a Muslim Brotherhood propagandist was killed on Saudi territory in Turkey.
I know that our press pals will stay mum on this, just as they ignored Obama's silence when journalists were slaughtered in Charlie Hedbo's offices in France or American journalist James Foley was beheaded.
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