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44%
Gallup: “Forty-four percent of U.S. adults identify as Democrats or are independents who lean to the Democratic Party, while 37% are Republican identifiers or leaners. … Democrats have maintained an edge of between five and nine percentage points on this measure of party affiliation throughout 2017, after holding a narrow advantage in late 2016.”
“I have a lot of experience with John Dowd … in cases before my office, and he said then – as he’s saying now – a lot of incorrect, mistaken and on occasion ludicrous things. So I wouldn’t put a lot of stock into it.”
— Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, quoted by NPR, on Donald Trump’s lawyer claiming the president cannot obstruct justice.
“The President cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under the Constitution’s Article II and has every right to express his view of any case.”
— John Dowd, President Trump’s outside lawyer, outlining to Mike Allen a new and highly controversial defense in the Russia probe: A president cannot be guilty of obstruction of justice.
“Look, there’s not going to be a government shutdown. It’s just not going to happen.”
— Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), quoted by The Hill, noting he “can’t imagine” Democrats “want to shut down the government over an issue that’s not an emergency.”
$150,000
“As chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) used $150,000 in taxpayer dollars to settle with a former aide who alleged he was fired in part because he was not willing to focus his investigative work on Hillary Clinton,” the Washington Post reports.
“The Republican tax plan is the rare piece of legislation that manages to provide something for nearly everyone to hate.”
— Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders’ former campaign managers, Robby Mook and Jeff Weaver, in a joint memo.
