The press is reporting that Jared Kushner's days as a White House power may come to an end, due to a flurry of reports about his meetings as a Trump adviser with foreign officials and corporate execs who are in a position to help out his family's troubled real estate company - as well as Kushner's considerable innocence when it comes to foreign policy. The knives are out, and the latest reports are that Donald Trump himself wants his son-in-law to disappear.

The New York Times editorial board says Kushner "flames out." It says his only legacy ought to be anti-nepotism laws that would forbid the ascension of someone so unschooled in the ways of Washington.

At this point, the right question to ask is why Mr. Kushner still has any diplomatic role at all.

The Washington Post predicts "the fall of the House of Kushner" (a good Poe pun):

Once the prince of Trump's Washington, Kushner is now stripped of his access to the nation's deepest secrets, isolated and badly weakened inside the administration, under scrutiny for his mixing of business and government work and facing the possibility of grave legal peril in the Russia probe.

Kushner's tensions with chief of staff John F. Kelly have spilled into public view, while other dormant rivalries have resurfaced. Some colleagues privately mock Kushner as a shadow of his former self; one official likened the work of his Office of American Innovation to headlines in "The Onion," the satirical news website. Others said fear of the Russia probe has made some officials wary of interacting with Kushner on sensitive matters. And his reputation as an interlocutor for foreign governments has been undermined by the lowering of his security clearance level, which generated embarrassing headlines worldwide.

One state is fighting back against the unconstitutional powers granted by the NDAA with a bill that would make it illegal for the government to indefinitely detain citizens without due process.

A state is considering a bill that would counter one law that is rarely mentioned by the mainstream media - which just happens to be the one that gives the president the power to enforce indefinite detention of American citizens - the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

While most states ignore the overreaching power granted by the NDAA, the state of Idaho is fighting back against it. The Idaho House of Representatives passed House Bill 473, the Restoring Constitutional Governance Act, in a landslide vote of 63-4 this week. The bill specifically targets the most egregious constitutional violations that are allowed by the NDAA:

"The purpose of the Restoring Constitutional Governance Act is to restore the constitutional protections usurped by certain provisions in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act ("NDAA"). Sections 1021 and 1022 of the 2012 NDAA, Public Law 50 U.S.C. 1541, authorize the violation of no fewer than 14 provisions of the Constitution including over half of the Bill of Rights. The sovereign government of the Great State of Idaho has a duty to protect the rights of citizens and other persons within Idaho's jurisdiction against such violations and from Federal overreach."

Marine Le Pen could face up to three years in prison after a French judge opened a criminal probe into her posting of graphic images to her Twitter feed in 2015. The tweets showed victims of Islamic State executions.

Three images, one showing the decapitated body of US journalist James Foley, were posted to the National Front leader's social media account. The pictures were captioned: "Daesh is THIS!"

Le Pen later removed the image of Foley following protests from Foley's family, but left another showing a tank running over a man in an orange jumpsuit and another of a man being burned alive in a cage. The far-right politician posted the images in response to some French media equating aspects of her political party and the terrorist group.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that sanctions are the best way to punish the Russians for their attempted meddling in the 2016 election.

"Sanctions saying this person can't travel, this person can't visit. You have to remember, the reach of the United States is very broad, and so when you're listed by the U.S. it really has an effect on what you can and cannot do," Ms. Rice said on Fox News.

She did caution against wide-ranging economic sanctions, saying that the younger generation of Russians need to be separated from President Vladimir Putin and his "inner circle."

After embarrassing Canada during his recent trip to India, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looked like a complete fool trying to explain Canada's trade surplus, or deficit, or surplus...with the United States.

Try not to laugh, watching the Canadian prime minister talk trade...

Tehran has repeatedly slammed Israeli and US claims of Iran's military presence in Syria as groundless, though admitted sending military advisors to help Damascus fight terrorism.

Israel is not interested in the escalation in Syria, but will respond if Iran continues to "provoke" the situation on the Syrian border, Foreign Ministry's Deputy Director General Alexander Ben-Zvi said Monday.

"I hope that this will not happen ... Of course, if they [the Iranian armed forces] attack the territory of Israel - and we regard the drone incident as a direct attack on the territory of Israel - then we will not have any other way out. We will not sit back. And anyone who wants to take some steps, should understand that there will be retaliatory measures," Ben-Zvi told reporters, commenting on Ban's statement.

According to him, Iran's military presence in Syria allegedly escalates the confict, while Israel will make every effort to prevent it from becoming permanent.

The US White House has accused Russia of "killing innocent civilians" in eastern Ghouta, Syria. It accuses Moscow, which has been striving for a ceasefire and exit corridors for civilians, of "ignoring" a UN resolution.

"The United States condemns the ongoing military offensive that the Assad regime, backed by Russia and Iran, is perpetrating against the people of Eastern Ghouta," the White House said in a statement on Sunday.

It went on to accuse Moscow of ignoring the conditions of the 30-day humanitarian pause in Syria introduced by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), claiming it had violated the cessation of hostilities "to kill innocent civilians under the false auspices of counterterrorism operations," in a strongly-worded statement.

The Syrian leader vowed to continue the operation in eastern Ghouta, underlining its importance in the fight against terrorism. He said that it would be conducted in parallel with work on allowing civilians to leave the area.

"We will continue to fight terrorism... And the Ghouta operation is a continuation of the fight against terrorism," Syrian President Bashar Assad said in broadcast comments to journalists. "There is no contradiction between a truce and combat operations. The progress achieved yesterday and the day before in Ghouta by the Syrian Arab Army was made during this truce."

"Therefore we must continue with the operation in parallel with opening the way for civilians to leave." An "overwhelming majority" of the civilian population in eastern Ghouta "wants to break out from terrorists' hands," Assad said.

It's the same gang of deep-staters, in cahoots with each other.

• The viciousness of their pursuit of Manafort is payback for his pre-2014 support of the pro-Russian president. British intelligence in the person of Christopher Steele, who collaborated with Victoria Nuland in the Ukraine, is part of the plot.
• Senator Cardin is another active plotter.
• Pro-Trump Republicans like Devin Nunes are aware of the connections, and are exposing the malfeasance.

It is not exactly a secret that so-called neo-conservatives in the U.S. State Department and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), in conjunction with "left-wing" speculator and City of London operative George Soros, collaborated in the regime change coup in Ukraine in February 2014, which overthrew the democratically-elected government of Viktor Yanukovych. Former Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs, the unabashed neocon Victoria Nuland, bragged that the U.S. and related agencies, such as the NED, spent $5 billion to lay the groundwork for the coup. She keeps popping up in all the wrong places

What is not generally known, however, due to the lying coverage in the Transatlantic "Fake News" media, is that included in this unholy alliance of coup plotters were armed militia units made up of neo-Nazis, who were responsible for the bloodshed on Maidan Square in Kiev, and which threatened the ethnic Russians, which constitute the majority of the population in the eastern Ukraine regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.

Friday night on his radio show, LevinTV host Mark Levin went off on the media and the Democrats for their attacks on President Trump and his family, calling their relentless assault "unparalleled in American history!"

"I have never seen anything like this in my entire life ... these people have done nothing to deserve this kind of treatment," Levin said. He also broke down how leftists in the government and media have sought to undermine Trump since the beginning of his campaign.