Politics

It took minutes, not hours, for top congressional Democrats to call on Trump's Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign on Wednesday evening after the WaPo reported that he had allegedly met with the Russian ambassador in the months before the election, meetings that Sessions did not disclose during his confirmation hearings.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) led the effort late on Wednesday night, accusing Sessions of "lying under oath" during confirmation proceedings about his contacts with the Russians.

Via George Friedman and Jacob Shapiro of MauldinEconomics.com,

Via Ted Galen Carpenter of The Strategic Culture Foundation,

Former Democratic Party donor Jennifer Garner has delivered a ringing endorsement of President Trump, promising to help him deliver on campaign promises he made to working class Americans. “I’m looking forward to helping him make good on what they saw as promises, a mandate from him, that he was going to make their lives better,” Garner told the Washington Post. Proving she is not as out-of-touch as her Hollywood peers, the West Virginia born actress said, “If he’s willing to help the poor kids who got him elected, then let’s do it.

President Trump has confirmed that he is officially reviewing the United States’ participation in the “corrupt” U.N. Human Rights Council.  The Trump administration warned on Wednesday that it would look seriously at whether it is in the interests of the United States to continue dealing with an international body who seems to be “obsessed with Israel.” Erin Barlacy, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state, blasted the Council in Switzerland earlier this week, saying that the U.S. was reconsidering its relationship with the organization.