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   Experts on national security said it was exceedingly damaging with one   
   panelist adding that Donald Trump gave the Kremlin the “green light” by   
   cozying up to Vladimir Putin.   
      
   “The discovery suggests that the scope of the hacking, which appears to   
   extend beyond nuclear laboratories and Pentagon, Treasury and Commerce   
   Department systems, complicates the challenge for federal investigators   
   as they try to assess the damage and understand what had been stolen.”   
      
      
   the Russians appear to have implanted the malicious code, malware, in a   
   software security update that was utilized by hundreds of thousands of   
   customers including those you listed,” Bash told host Geist. “This is an   
   epic national security bombshell in our history and the incoming Biden   
   team is going to have a monumental task. First they’ll have to do a   
   comprehensive damage assessment. That can’t be done in hours or days,   
   that will take weeks and months to figure out exactly what the Russians   
   now have their hands on.”   
      
   “It’s complicated by fact that the Russians will be watching every   
   single move we make in our network. They’ll literally be reading the   
   emails of the IT and security professionals who are responsible for this   
   and they have to figure out how to kick the Russians out of the network   
   and that could take years.”   
      
      
      
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   Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee,   
   gave notice this week that his committee intends to pursue the subpoena   
   of former White House Counsel Don McGahn. You will recall that McGahn   
   was not allowed to testify before Congress on the basis of a novel legal   
   concept called “absolute immunity” which, if allowed to stand, would   
   render congressional oversight practically impotent.   
      
   So while Democrats continue to pursue the subpoena as a means to push   
   back against a legal principle that attempts to usurp their oversight   
   powers, they will undoubtedly follow up on just what happened with all   
   of that obstruction of justice Trump committed. They may not be able to   
   sanction Trump for it, but they need to build the record — after all,   
   this guy may try to bust his way back into power in four years.   
      
   Meanwhile, we have also learned that the Manhattan District Attorney and   
   the New York Attorney General’s cases are proceeding apace. These cases   
   are beyond the scope of any federal pardon, as you know, so Trump may be   
   seeing the inside of a courtroom whether he pardons himself or not.   
      
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   Federal deficit in Obama’s last year: $585 billion.   
      
   Federal deficit in Trump’s final year: $3.3 trillion.   
      
   Jobless claims December 2016: 245,000   
      
   Jobless claims December 2020: 885,000   
      
   Individual #1 - Worse job record ever recorded in US history.   
      
   Individual #1 has become the first President on record — going back to   
   President Harry Truman — to leave the White House with fewer jobs than   
   when he started.   
      
   Comparing presidents’ jobs records in their first 44 months in office   
   over the same time period, Trump comes last.   
      
   President George W. Bush lost jobs during his first term in office   
   following the recession that came after the dot-com bubble burst. In the   
   first 44 months of the Bush administration, 605,000 jobs were lost.   
      
   Government records of monthly jobs numbers go back to 1939, the middle   
   of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration.   
      
   20.6 million continuing claims in the last week of November, according   
   to the most recent data. The Labor Department notes that the number of   
   claims may be larger than the total number of people receiving benefits.   
      
      
   On top of that, 617,000 women dropped out of the labor force in   
   September. Half of them were between 35 and 44, the prime working age.   
      
      
      
      
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