Reuters

Michael Flynn and other advisers to Donald Trump’s campaign were in contact with Russian officials and others with Kremlin ties in at least 18 calls and emails during the last seven months of the 2016 presidential race, current and former U.S. officials familiar with the exchanges told Reuters.

Six of the previously undisclosed contacts described to Reuters were phone calls between Sergei Kislyak, Russia’s ambassador to the United States, and Trump advisers, including Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, three current and former officials said.

And here’s the kicker.  In January, the Trump White House denied any contact between the Trump campaign and the Russians.  Flat ass denied it.

Please remember that the day ain’t over and we’ve been averaging about 3 blockbusters a day.  Stay tuned to your local station for further instructions.

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Don’t even get me started.

By the way, I have a bet with Bubba that Trump could not name 20 past presidents.  That’s less than half.

As we all know by now, fired former FBI director James Comey left a paper trail of his conversations with Cheeto Jesus that will likely be damning to this president and carry great weight in the investigation of his and his cronies’ ties to the Russians.  Yesterday, though, there was a new twist to the story.  Pamela Brown is reporting on CNN that even though Comey routinely documented his conversations with Trump, he didn’t do so with his conversations with President Obama.  The reason?  Brown said,

“Even though he liked to create paper trails through his years at the Justice Department and the FBI, it was not common practice for him to document conversations with senior officials unless he thought it was significant. Conversations that Comey had with Trump he documented. In one memo, Anderson, he included a description of the President talking to him about crowd size at the inauguration. The source I spoke to said Comey did not do this with President Obama in part because he had fewer one on one conversations with the president, and as the source said, in Comey’s view, there was no need to document the conversations with people that are truthful or situations that are routine.”

Have a look:

Bob Mueller named Special Counsel for the Russian investigation.  He’ll be great.

Best news in a month.

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller has been named by the DOJ as special counsel in charge of the entire Russia investigation.

Here ya go.

Asked about Attorney General Jeff Sessions making a statement that pot was only “slightly less awful” than heroine, Willie came up with a stroke of genius – as Willie often does.

“I wonder if he’s tried both of them,” responded Nelson. “I don’t think you can really make a statement like that unless you tried it all. So I’d like to suggest to Jeff to try it and then let me know later if he thinks he’s still telling the truth!”

Willie also says that all those “Willie Nelson for President” bumper stickers gave him the thought that maybe he would … “I came close a couple times,” he said. “And then I sobered up.”

No, seriously, Willie for President.

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.