Good morning.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of fifty-nine. Sunrise is 6:44 AM and sunset 7:15 PM, for 12h 31m 20s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 56.7% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the eight hundred sixty-eighth day.
On this day in 1939, the University of Oregon defeats Ohio State University 46–33 on this day in 1939 to win the first-ever NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
Recommended for reading in full:
Paul Farhi reports Rachel Maddow, the left’s powerhouse on cable, won’t let the Mueller probe go:
A day after Attorney General William P. Barr said special prosecutor Robert S. Mueller III hadn’t found collusion between President Trump’s campaign and Russian agents, Maddow — prime-time TV’s primary and most tenacious proponent of the conspiracy angle — still was not buying it.
Instead, Maddow moved on to two related questions: Did Trump obstruct justice? And did Barr let him get away with it?
“Whatever information [Barr] just received from Robert Mueller about the president’s behavior as it pertains to potential criminal obstruction of justice, Barr could have just passed that information on to [Congress] for them to decide what to do with it,” Maddow said on her MSNBC program Monday night. “But instead, somewhat inexplicably, he decided to take it upon himself to declare definitively, ‘Yeah, you know, I looked at all that stuff, and I can tell you there is no crime there, it’s fine.’?”
She added: “Where did this come from? I mean, on what grounds are you saying that you have concluded there is no crime here?”
Maddow’s monologue suggests that she is unmoved by the many attacks on her for promoting a Russia conspiracy that, at least according to the attorney general, seems to have run aground. Her nightly deconstructions of the case against Trump have made her the signal figure of the anti-Trump left and have abetted her rise to the most popular figure in cable news.
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As a parallel, she noted that Leon Jaworski, the special prosecutor in the Watergate investigation of President Richard Nixon, turned over his report to Congress in 1974, including damning grand-jury testimony against Nixon, without drawing conclusions about the president’s potential criminality.
She demanded the release of Mueller’s full report and underlying evidence, an idea the House endorsed unanimously earlier this month. She also raised 15 questions about Barr’s conduct, including the last, “Will Trump recognize Russia attacked our election?”
In all, it strongly suggested Maddow is not finished with Trump and the continuing investigations into his presidency.
(Good for her – there’s no reason to yield in the absence of a full and complete disclosure of the reasoned basis of Mueller’s report.)