3 Stories You Should Read 2/14/2019: R. Kelly, Impeachment, Syria
Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know.
In the category of: In case you didn’t believe the victims before.
CNN has seen tape Avenatti says shows R. Kelly having sex with an underage girl
Prosecutors investigating R. Kelly are looking into a newly surfaced video featuring the R&B superstar, lawyer Michael Avenatti told CNN.
In the category of: It’s about time.
House Democrats Are Taking Real Steps Toward Impeaching Donald Trump
“Every day it becomes more and more difficult to say we’re not interested in impeachment,” said one member of Congress.
There are already more than a handful of potential areas of inquiry that carry the hallmarks of impeachable offenses. Trump fired FBI Director James Comey to relieve the “great pressure” of the investigation into whether his campaign conspired with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election. Before that, he asked Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to intervene to stop the FBI investigation. Trump has also been named as the “Individual-1” in a criminal plea agreement who ordered Cohen to break campaign finance laws.
These are only some of Trump’s known actions that directly recall the Articles of Impeachment for President Richard Nixon. There are still questions about Trump’s potentially unconstitutional receipt of foreign emoluments, whether he violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by allegedly offering Russian President Vladimir Putin a $50 million penthouse condo in the proposed Trump Tower Moscow and whether he or his campaign conspired with Russia or another foreign country to illegally aid his election victory.
“At some point, it’s like if this guy did this bad stuff, he needs to be impeached and we need to do it ― even if there’s a political cost to it,” the Democratic member of Congress said.
In the category of: Go figure.
Russia, Turkey, Iran see US pullout from Syria as a positive step
Leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran say US withdrawal is good for the country as they meet in the Russian city of Sochi.
Moscow, Ankara and Tehran see the planned United States withdrawal from Syria as a positive step, leaders of the three countries said after a summit in Russia about the Syrian crisis.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, one of the Syrian government’s closest allies, hosted the summit in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Thursday to discuss the future of Syria with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and their Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani.
At a press briefing following the meeting, Putin said that the three leaders agreed that the US pullout from northeastern Syria “would be a positive step that would help stabilize the situation in this region, where ultimately the legitimate government should re-establish control”.
Confluence Daily is the one place where everything comes together. The one-stop for daily news for women.
