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Last December, President Trump's son, Don Jr. called on the House intelligence Committee to investigate information that was leaked from his closed interview the week before.

"This committee should determine whether any member or staff member violated the rules by leaking information to the media concerning the interview or by purposely providing inaccurate information which led to significant misreporting," said Trump Jr.'s attorney, Alan Futerfas.

In addition, his letter charges that members of the House committee "began disseminating wildly inaccurate information" to reporters that formed the basis of an erroneous CNN report on an email that Mr. Trump and other members of the Trump campaign received in September 2016.

The CNN report relied on two unnamed sources who described an email purporting to show that Mr. Trump and other campaign officials had received advance notice about a cache of hacked Democratic documents that were about to be posted by WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group. In fact, the email had been sent the day after the cache was posted publicly. CNN later corrected its story. -NYTimes

"These disturbing circumstances warrant examination," concluded Futerfas.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who will lead the House Intelligence Committee, told the Los Angeles Times on Monday that he will revive the investigation into so-called "Russian collusion" - vowing to go after Trump's personal business interests.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)

"The president has sought to keep that off limits, but if that's the leverage Russians pose that's a real threat to our country," said Schiff.

Schiff insisted in March that there was "more than circumstantial evidence" connecting Trump to Russia, however despite the best efforts of the US-UK-Australian intelligence community and the DOJ/FBI's multi-year counterintelligence "sting" and now probe, no such evidence has emerged.

Maxine Waters

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), meanwhile, who has repeatedly called to impeach President Trump, is set to lead the House Financial Services Committee. As chair, she will be able to subpoena officials at financial regulatory agencies for testimony and other information.

In September, Waters renewed her calls to impeach Trump - and told a crowed of constituents at a rally that she would "get" Vice President Mike Pence once Trump was gone.

Vice-President Mike Pence

"I had a conversation here today with someone [who] asked, 'Well, what about Pence? If you are able to impeach, Pence will be worse,'" said Waters. "And I said, 'Look, one at a time. You knock one down, one at a time. You knock one down, and we'll be ready for Pence. We'll get him, too."

The US president clashes with a reporter from CNN, yet the fallout turns into an argument about whether a young female White House staffer was inappropriately touched. This is American politics in 2018, ladies and gentlemen.

The bad tempered back and forth between CNN's Jim Acosta and Donald Trump was the kind of exchange where it's hard to pick a good guy.

Acosta attempted to lecture Trump about his views on immigration while hogging the mic, and Trump called Acosta "rude and terrible". Just standard stuff. Like a couple of toddlers interacting, only one has nuclear weapons and the other has a primetime TV audience.

The journalist has since had his press credentials for the White House revoked, not because Trump doesn't like him, but because, according to Trump's Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, he placed "his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern."

Didn't see that one coming did you?! Acosta responded by calling the accusation 'a lie.'

Here's a completely objective, non-partisan, non-political description of the incident that led to this accusation against Acosta.

The CNN correspondent was refusing to give up the microphone, a female White House intern attempted to take the microphone off him. She was a bit snatchy, he was overly-determined to keep hold of the mic, the two came into very brief contact in the strictly non-Weinstein sense of the word, then it was over. Watch the video.

So, why then has this blown up into a debate about who touched who, where and how?

Another commentator accused the staffer of "blind obedience" to Trump for trying to do her job. That's a pretty harsh character assassination based on one single 10 second non-incident.

One of the reasons is that in the current political climate, it doesn't really matter what the video shows, or what actually happened because political ideology will drive peoples' conclusions.

On the one hand you have the White House making accusations of hands being placed inappropriately which seems a little strong, but is good enough for right-wing pundits to take at face value and run with.

Then, rather than rise above the bait, some liberal commentators decide to counter by claiming that actually, it was the intern that touched Acosta! One even made a Monday Night Football style slow-mo analysis to make the point.

The person who really deserves sympathy is the intern. She attempted to do her job, didn't get the mic and will now have to answer questions about whether she felt she was touched inappropriately.

If she says 'yes' she will upset the press corp and the Trump-hating left who would normally be on her side in issues of consent. If she says no, she'll make the White House look stupid and upset Trump. She is a victim of the polarisation of politics when truth is not what you see, but what you need it to be.

In the meantime, Trump manages to divert attention from a wobbly economy and the fact he just lost control of the House, and Acosta gets a few publicity points too.

Jim Acosta's Wednesday went from bad to worse after the CNN correspondent fought with US President Donald Trump in front of the world's media, was accused of assaulting an intern, and then lost access to the White House.

As if to add insult to injury, security had some trouble extricating Acosta's White House pass from his lanyard as he waited awkwardly before them, camera in hand.

Standing out in the cold, night air and with a distinct air of pathos, Acosta filmed the cringeworthy encounter with a Secret Service agent. In a possible appeal for clemency, or perhaps just passing the time now that he can't enter the building, the journalist explains that he's reported from the White House for five years as the agent struggles with his lanyard.

One viewer of his video showed their empathy for Acosta's very bad day at the office by adding a fittingly melancholic violin melody to the footage.

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