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V24, N16 Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018 Sen. Young surveys Saudis, tariffs, Mueller med bin Salman Freshman senator (MBS). President Trump has not ac- accepts intel on cepted those as- sessments, prompt- MBS, warns of Iran, ing Young and 13 seeks Trump plan Republicans to join Democrats in a on trade and tariffs delivering a his- toric rebuke to Saudi By BRIAN A. HOWEY Arabia, which Young INDIANAPOLIS – During says has indiscrimi- his two years in the U.S. Senate, nately bombed citi- Republican Todd Young has been zens and perpetrated a persistent voice on the plight of a famine that could people tormented by the Yemen kill 14 million people. civil war. He describes the current After that pro- situation as one of the most severe cedural vote last humanitarian disasters since World week, Young said in War II. a statement, “There Since October, events in are serious and Yemen have collided with Saudi legitimate concerns Arabia’s murder of Washington Post regarding human journalist Jamal Khashoggi, with rights in Iran. How- U.S. intelligence services directly U.S. Sen. Todd Young during his HPI Interview on Monday at implicating Crown Prince Moham- his office in Indianapolis. (HPI Photo by Brian A. Howey) Continued on page 3 Mueller endgame nears By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS – As the nation laid to rest Presi- dent George H.W. Bush Wednesday and today, we will soon bear witness to the legal and political tectonic plates that have been grinding – some in silence, others with a “One reason Dad knew how to fever Twitter pitch – for the past 18 months. die young was that he almost did The America we wake up to on Friday morning, or, per- it — twice. For Dad’s part, I think haps, next Monday could be as those brushes with death made different as the nation and world we knew in January 1989, and him cherish the gift of life.” the one emerging before our - Former President George eyes in the coming days, weeks and months. The “endgame” of W. Bush, eulogizing his Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s father, President George Russia collusion probe appears to be at hand. Where it leads us H.W. Bush Page 2 is anyone’s guess. It is hardly a leap The Michael Cohen plea agreement to suggest that it stands to reshape highlighted ... how little we know the governing, political and cultural about the business holdings, income, contours in a way almost no one can business partners, or investors in comprehend today. Donald Trump’s business empire. The Mueller has been a silent force first rule of any scandal is always the in the Capitol, methodical and menac- Watergate maxim: Follow the money. ing to President Trump. While there Who were (or are) Trump’s business Howey Politics Indiana have been spikes in his activities, with partners and what part of the 2016 the indictment of 12 Russian military election attack was played by any of WWHowey Media, LLC 405 apparatchiks last June while Trump them?” Massachusetts Ave., Suite met alone with President Putin, what Graff said on Sunday’s “Reli- 300 Indianapolis, IN 46204 we don’t know is akin to an Everest able Sources”: Trumpworld’s lies “sort www.howeypolitics.com brooding above the molehill we can of fold in on themselves in this story, fathom. lies on top of lies ... So you don’t even Where this leads our nation know which set of lies to believe ... Brian A. Howey, Publisher is as mysterious as lurking death or I think the biggest challenge in this Mark Schoeff Jr., Washington even the Creator. We don’t know if he story is trying to connect all of these Cameron Carter, Editor absolves President Trump, commenc- different dots, because we are really Joel Weyrauch, Editor ing the next six years of his gover- staring at the Mueller investigation Mary Lou Howey, Editor nance, or the advent of President Mike through little soda straws or individual Pence. puzzle pieces, not really sure how Mark Curry, Daily Wire, photo Scientists say that if the everything connects.” Jack E. Howey, Editor Cascade Subduction Zone snaps in On Friday, there will be the Emeritus the Pacific Northwest, the tip-off will Paul Manafort sentencing memo. be about 30 seconds of dogs barking Trump’s former campaign chairman across the neighborhood patchwork. was once a cooperating witness, but Subscriptions Today, these dogs are Mueller’s court Mueller now accuses him of serial HPI, HPI Daily Wire $599 filings, designed to influence the lying and, perhaps, transmitting info HPI Weekly, $350 looming sentences of the Michaels, back to Trump’s legal team. HPI Mobile, $5.95 monthly Flynn and Cohen, both of whom have Reporter Michael Isikoff of Ray Volpe, Account Manager flipped. According to Axios, the most Yahoo News is the one who says the conspicuous “flippers,” the Michaels “endgame” is at hand: “The Manafort 317.602.3620 and former White House counsel Don memo will be public. The Manafort email: [email protected] McGahn, have spent a combined 119 memo has been requested by the hours with Mueller’s team: 70 hours federal judge in his case so that with Cohen, 30 with McGahn and 19 prosecutors could, for the first time, Contact HPI with Flynn. CNN analyst Elie Honig spell out what matters they believe [email protected] provides perspective: “By the end of Manafort has lied to them about. The Howey’s cell: 317.506.0883 this week, we will know much more fact that Mueller is planning a public Washington: 202.256.5822 about the strength of Robert Mueller’s filing about Manafort suggests he may Business Office: 317.602.3620 hand and the threat his investigation no longer feel the need to withhold poses to President Donald Trump and information about his case in order to his administration.” bring additional indictments against © 2018, Howey Politics Flynn is the pioneer canary, others. That would be consistent with Indiana. All rights reserved. so helpful that Mueller writes that his messages his prosecutors have given Photocopying, Internet forward- early cooperation “likely affected the defense lawyers in recent weeks indi- ing, faxing or reproducing in decisions of related firsthand wit- cating that they are in the endgame of nesses to be forthcoming with the their investigation.” any form, whole or part, is a SCO and cooperate.” The filing indi- This week, America buried a violation of federal law without cates Flynn helped with three criminal one-term president. What the next permission from the publisher. cases. week brings may be beyond com- Garrett M. Graff, a Mueller prehension. For this, those in the biographer, writes for WIRED: “How government, policy circles, media, and closely related is the investigation caring citizens must prepare and brace of the 2016 election to the Trump for the unknown. It stands to shape Organization’s financial scandals? us moving forward. v Page 3 rial committee in 1984, and the former senator ardently Sen. Young, from page 1 encouraged him to accept that chair. During his political ever, those who would ignore or minimize the pattern of career, Young has been a money-raising machine. His path abuses by Saudi Arabia, including the murder of Khashog- to Congress is littered with defeated former members (for- gi, risk undermining their own credibility when speaking mer Reps. Mike Sodrel and Baron Hill in his 2010 pursuit of out regarding the very real human rights abuses in Iran. a U.S. House seat) and Reps. Marlin Stutzman and former The postponement of genuine justice for Khashoggi, the Sen. Evan Bayh in his 2016 breakthrough to the U.S. Sen- continuation of the Yemeni civil war, and the deepening of ate. the humanitarian crisis there will only increase opportuni- Here is our HPI Interview with Sen. Young: ties for Tehran to further its malign activities in the region.” HPI: Walk us through your stance with Saudi That statement and the fact that 14 Republicans Arabia. voted to begin sanctions on Saudi Arabia were seen as Young: I’ve been working since March of 2017 on warning shots for President Trump, who has cast doubts this issue. There are four major famines of great concern on U.S. intelligence assessments that MBS was involved. to the international community: Yemen, Northeast Nigeria, On Monday, after CIA Director Gina Haspel briefed a small south Sudan and Somalia. Yemen is actually the most seri- group of senators, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said he had ous humanitarian crisis since the 1940s, according to the a “high confidence” in the intel and added, “There’s not a United Nations. Fourteen million people are on the brink of smoking gun — there’s a smoking saw,” a reference to re- starvation. ports that one of MBS’s henchman showed up at the Saudi HPI: Is this a Saudi blockade? consulate in Istanbul with a bone saw that is believed to Young: This is a man-made humanitarian crisis have been used to dismember Khashoggi, a graduate of on account of an existing civil war going on for a period of Indiana State University. years, significantly exacerbated by the Saudi-led blockade On Wednesday, Young was part of a biparisan of the major port of Hodeidah, going on for a period of group filing the bill sponsored by years, where 80% of food and medical sup- Sens. Graham and Dianne Fein- plies and energy are typically delivered. Also stein. “This resolution — without exacerbated by the indiscriminate targeting of equivocation — definitively states civilians through air strikes and other viola- that the Crown Prince of Saudi tions of the laws of war.
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