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They were obsessed: ABC, CBS, NBC evening news shows have been dominated by one subject this week: Donald J. Trump Jr.s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower a meeting in which apparently no favors, money or meaningful information was exchanged, writes analyst Geoffrey Dickens, in a new study for Newsbusters.org, a conservative press watchdog.

In the past four nights, the Big Three networks devoted over 62 minutes of airtime to Mr. Trumps story he said, after tabulating the content of the coverage.

But those same news sources all but ignored Hillary Clintons Russia-Uranium scandal two years ago the analyst noted.

The total airtime for this subject amounted to a grand total of three minutes during the entire two-year period, Mr. Dickens found.

He recalls that Peter Schweizer author of the 2015 book Clinton Cash broke the story that a Canadian uranium company, seeking approval of a sale to the Russian government from then-Secretary of State Clintons State Department, had donated millions to the Clinton Foundation.

At the time, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was considered the favorite to win the Democratic nomination but the networks couldnt care less, Mr. Dickens noted in his analysis.

In just four nights the networks have swamped their evening news shows, he said, adding, that the Donald Trump Jr. coverage was 20 times more than what was devoted to the Clinton Foundation uranium deal.

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BY: David Rutz July 13, 2017 1:04 pm

Former Hillary Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon tweeted Wednesday that Democrats "erred" in their mocking of Mitt Romney in 2012 for calling Russia the nation's top geopolitical foe.

Fallon posted a tweet linking to a clip of Max Boot, who advised Romney on foreign policy in 2012, sparring with Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Wednesday evening. Boot criticized Carlson for being too soft on Russian President Vladimir Putin, which retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters also did on Carlson's show this week.

"Bravo @MaxBootfor calling out Putin lovers in Trump's GOP. We Dems erred in '12 by mocking Boot/Romney Russia worry," Fallon wrote.

Fallon, now a CNN commentator, served as the national press secretary for Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016.

Romney, the Republican nominee running against then-President Barack Obama, said in 2012 that Russia was "our No. 1 geopolitical foe." Obama's campaign and many members of the press derided the comments, with Obama himself quipping in a debate that "the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back."

"The Cold War's been over for 20 years," Obama said.

The media praised Obama's comment as a strong remark against Romney at the time.

Democrats have changed their tune on Russia since the U.S. intelligence community stated that the Kremlin was behind meddling in the 2016 election to try to help Donald Trump win the White House. The Russia investigation has dominated headlines throughout the Trump administration, with a sprawling investigation ongoing into whether the Trump campaign illegally colluded with Russian entities to affect the election.

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson said defeated 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton really won the election against Republican President Donald Trump last November and that it was stolen.

Jackson made his remarks Thursday during a labor breakfast at the annual conference of his organization, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, in Chicago.

Here are Jacksons words in context beforeintroducing Tom Perez, head of the Democratic National Committee:

To have a head of our party who is sensitive to the plight of working people is the order of this day, Jackson said. Dont forget when you lose, you tend to amplify woulda, coulda, shoulda. When you win, you cover up your sins. Dont let anybody fool you, we worked last year, we won the election. It was stolen.

A hesitant and mild applause followed and Jackson continued:

From John F. Kennedy to Nixon to Carter to Ford to Clinton to Barack, if any of them had to face the impact of Russian interference in such a bold way the foolishness of the Electoral College and the interference of the FBI none of them Hillary won in spite of having a 3-million vote lead. So were not gonna let anybody break our spirit. Were gonna keep fighting back. A big election is coming up this year, and we intend to win.

With that, Jackson introduced Perez.

You can watch Jacksons above remarks just after the 38-minute mark on the Rainbow PUSH Coalitions YouTube page.

Below is a shorter version of his remarks:

(H/T: The American Mirror)

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The Justice Department turned over paperwork Thursday morning showing that Attorney General Jeff Sessions didnt tell the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador when he applied for his security clearance.

The revelation came because a new watchdog group successfully sued for Sessions clearance application under the Freedom of Information Actthough the document they got was heavily redacted.

The Justice Department says Sessions wasnt obligated to tell the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador because he had them in his capacity as a U.S. senator. But Austin Evers, executive director of American Oversight, the watchdog group that got the DOJ to release the document, said Sessions should have revealed the meetings.

We are not talking about the ambassador from the Vatican or from Canada, he said. We are talking about the ambassador from Russia, about whom there is common knowledge there are significant espionage concerns. You should not get cute with questions from the FBI related to national security.

Evers would know. After all, he helped the State Department manage FOIA requests on Benghazi and Hillary Clintons emails.

Using his extensive FOIA experience, hes moved to the other side of those lawsuits, heading a group with six attorneys and three additional staffers looking to dredge up as much information as possible on the new administrationstarting with Sessions.

Through a failure of reading comprehension, they didnt realize we asked for Jeff Sessions signature block as well, said Evers. Theres nothing on the document that shows that its Jeff Sessions.

Sessions told the Senate under oath that he hadnt met with Russians during the presidential campaign, though he had had two conversations with the Russian ambassador. After news broke about those conversations, he recused himself from the Russia probe, which has since been handed over to special counsel Robert Mueller.

American Oversight will return to court next month in hopes of getting more information from the DOJ on Sessions clearance form.

But it isnt stopping there.

Evers and his group are also pursuing a host of other documents, including communications related to the health care bill. They got a tranche of documents from the Office of Management and the Department of Health and Human Services about the negotiations leading up to the passage of the Houses bill, and will get more emails July 31 and Sept. 5.

They are also digging for documents related to Ivanka Trump and are suing the departments of Commerce, Education, Labor, and Treasury for communications the presidents daughter has had with senior officials there.

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The group is small but could do to the Trump administration what Judicial Watch did to Hillary Clinton.

Evers is more aware than most of the extraordinary power of the Freedom of Information Act. A litigator himself, he spent two and a half years as an Obama appointee at the State Department, where he helped handle the release of documents from investigations into the Benghazi attack and Clintons personal email server.

As a political employee, Evers had no role in deciding which documents were released, or when. He told The Daily Beast his job was to ensure the various congressional committees investigating Clintons emails and Benghazi got documents that the agency released because of FOIA requests.

No investigator likes to be the last to know, Evers said. And so one of the main things that we did was to ensure that if a document came up in one context, that it was transferred over to the other investigations to ensure the disclosures went to everybody they should.

FOIA requests can have enormous political impact. The year before the 2016 presidential election, the State Department had to release thousands of pages of emails that Clinton sent through her personal server, and the content of those emails generated hundreds of additional stories.

The revelations put Clintons email server in the headlines for months and months, and did nothing to help her shake her reputation of being secretive.

That said, American Oversight is much smaller than Judicial Watch, which has been embarrassing both Republicans and Democrats with its own dogged litigation for decades.

Still, six litigators can do a lot of damage. The Trump administration will give them plenty to work with, and they know it.

Were holding the Trump administration accountablebecause Congress wont, reads its homepage.

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As President Donald Trump's approval rating remains historically low, the first lady's popularity has been blossoming as of late, surpassing not only her husband but now former first lady Hillary Clinton.

According to a new FOX News poll, Melania Trump holds a approval rating of 51 percent, an increase of 16 points since last August.

When Clinton was first lady, she was close behind at 49 percent. Former President Bill Clinton had the same approval rating as Melania his first year as president.

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Melania attends National Prayer Serviceson January 21, 2017, in Washington, DC. in Christian Louboutins.

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The first lady attends the 60th Annual Red Cross Gala on February 4, 2017, in pink Dior.

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FLOTUS turns to The Row and Derek Lam to watch the Super Bowl at Trump International Golf Club Palm Beach in West Palm Beach, Florida on February 5, 2017.

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Melania steps off Air Force One at the Palm Beach International Airporton February 10, 2017, in head-to-toe Michael Kors.

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US First Lady Melania Trump wears Calvin Klein as she tours the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach, Florida, on February 11, 2017, with and Akie Abe, wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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FLOTUS stuns in a black lace number with POTUS, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akke Abe at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on February 11, 2017.

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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump (in Karl Lagerfeld) welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, on February 15, 2017.

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US First Lady Melania Trump wears Alexander McQueen as she listens as her husband addressa rally in Melbourne, Florida, on February 18, 2017.

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US First Lady Melania Trump wears Ralph Lauren for the White House for a luncheon on International Women's Day on March 8, 2017.

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Melania Trump donned Alice Roi while departing the White House on March 17, 2017.

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Melania Trump walks into the East Room dressed in The Row to attend an event celebrating Women's History Monthon March 29, 2017.

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The first lady arrives in West Palm Beach, Florida, on April 6, 2017 in a patterned, belted black dress.

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FLOTUS sports a Hermes scarfwhile visiting the Bak Middle School of the Arts on April 7, 2017 in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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Melania visits the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on April 22, 2017 in Bethesda, Maryland in a short, tan trenchcoat and black pants.

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The first lady wears a navy blue suit with a large belt on her birthday on April 26, 2017.

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Melania wears a white eyelet dress as she takes part in a ribbon cutting for the Healing Garden at the Children's National Medical Center on April 28, 2017 in Washington, DC.

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FLOTUSwalks into the East Room for an event for military mothers on National Military Spouse Appreciation Day at the White House May 12, 2017, wearing wide-legged black trousers and a crisp white blouse.

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First lady Melania Trump walks across the South Lawn on May 19, 2017, wearing an orange leather skirt byHerv Pierre.

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US First Lady Melania Trump chats with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz al-Saud on May 20, 2017 in a Stella McCartney jumpsuit.

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Melania Trump wearing Michael Kors during an official welcoming ceremony on Trump's arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport on May, 22 2017 near Tel Aviv, Israel

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The first lady lays a wreath during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum on May 23, 2017, wearing Roksanda.

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Melania Trump wears a white fit-and-flare dress as she departs from Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv on May 23, 2017.

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Melania disembarks from Air Force One at Fiumicino international Airport in an all-black ensemble on May 24, 2017.

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Melania Trump dons Dolce & Gabbana again as she attends the La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra on May 26, 2017 at the ancient Greek Theater in Taormina, Sicily.

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First lady Melania Trump returns to the White House on May 27, 2017 in white culottes and a mint green cardigan.

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First Lady Melania Trump walks on stage in Monique Lhuillier during the annual gala at the Ford's Theatre to honor President Abraham Lincoln's legacy, on June 4, 2017.

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Melania Trump opts for flat,a shirt dress by Gabriela Hearstand a Michael Kors belt as she departs the White House for Camp David, June 17, 2017 in Washington, DC.

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Melania Trump leaves the MedStar Washington Hospital Center on June 14, 2017 inWashington D.C.

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U.S. First Lady Melania Trump poses in Michael Kors for photographs with Lorena Castillo Garca de Varela, first lady of Panama, near the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, June 19, 2017.

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First Lady Melania Trump arrive at the Congressional picnic at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 22 in aMary Katrantzou dress.

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The first lady turns heads in Emilio Pucci while meeting Indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modiat the White House on June 26.

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First Lady Melania Trump arrives in New Jersey to spend a weekend at the Trump National Golf Club on June 30, 2017, wearing a high-waisted patterned skirt, a tucked-in white blouse and matching white pumps.

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FLOTUSjoins in the singing of the National Anthem at a Fourth of July picnic on the South Lawn of the White House in Esteban Cortazar.

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Melania Trump wears DVF as she arrives in Warsaw, Poland on July 5, 2017.

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FLOTUS turns heads in Delpozo as she arrives at the G20 leaders summit in Hamburg, Germany July 6, 2017.

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The first lady poses in a flapper-style Michael Kors number prior to a concert at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, northern Germany, on July 7, 2017.

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Melania Trump walks to Marine One while departing from the White House on July 12, 2017, wearing black wide-legged trousers and a blazer.

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FLOTUS arrives in Paris in Dior on July 13, 2017.

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Trump though is slumping to an average of 40 percent since he took office, according to Gallup.

But who's the leading first lady? Michelle Obama, with a whopping 73 percent.

Still, Melania has come a long way. A year ago, only about a quarter of Americans approved of her, according to Gallup.

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