Nut Job: A senior White House adviser close to the president is a person of interest in the investigation into possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, according to The Washington Post.

The paper reports that, “The investigation also appears to be entering a more overtly active phase, with investigators shifting from work that has remained largely hidden from the public to conducting interviews and using a grand jury to issue subpoenas.”

The article does not name the White House adviser. At the end, the authors re-cap Jared Kushner’s meeting with the Russian ambassador and the head of a Russian development bank connected to the Kremlin.

On another front, The NY Times reports that Trump told the Russian foreign minister and ambassador visiting the oval office that he fired FBI Director James Comey to kill the Russia investigation. Citing an internal White House document, the Times relays that Trump said, “I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Mr. Trump said, according to the document, which was read to The New York Times by an American official. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.” Trump added, “I’m not under investigation.”

This means someone close to the Oval Office leaked the information. The Times said quotations from an official account of the meeting were read to them over the phone and confirmed by a second source.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer did not dispute the account. “By grandstanding and politicizing the investigation into Russia’s actions, James Comey created unnecessary pressure on our ability to engage and negotiate with Russia,” he said.

The Russia House: Speaking of James Comey, he has agreed to testify in open session before the Senate Intelligence Committee about the Russia investigation. He would appear sometime after Memorial Day.

Fighting Back: The Trump campaign organization has launched an internet ad campaign claiming there’s an effort to sabotage his presidency. An ad that can be seen on Facebook says, in part;

“What you’re seeing on TV is SABOTAGE. You read that right. It’s SABOTAGE.

The Fake News media is working hand-in-hand with Washington’s corrupt bureaucracy to try to slow and block out America First agenda. … The special interests know they can only win when you, the American people, lose … It’s now an all-out fight to save the great American grass roots movement that sent shockwaves around the world on November 8.”

It’s one of the scariest things we’ve seen.

World: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has won re-election in a landslide, giving him a mandate to bring moderate reforms and personal freedom to the country.

Justice Files: Former New York Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal felony for sending “sext” message to an underage girl. Weiner tearfully said that what he had done was “as morally wrong as it was unlawful.” He admitted that “I engaged in obscene communications with this teenager,” in messages that “included sharing explicit images and encouraging her to engage in sexually explicit conduct.”

Weiner, who is the estranged husband of Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, will have to surrender his iPhone and register as a sex offender. Abedin filed for divorce yesterday and Weiner faces at least 21 months in prison.

Dixie Down: New Orleans has removed its statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that has been a fixture on 60-foot column since 1884. It’s the last of four monuments the city has taken away in response to complaints that they memorialized slavery. Mayor Mitch Landrieu said, “These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, ignoring the terror that it actually stood for.”

The Big Melt: The NY Times reports in a series of stories that some scientists fear that Antarctica’s ice may have begun an unstoppable meltdown that ultimate threatens coastal cities like Miami, New York, Shanghai and many more. The paper reports that, “A rapid disintegration of Antarctica might, in the worst case, cause the sea to rise so fast that tens of millions of coastal refugees would have to flee inland, potentially straining societies to the breaking point. Climate scientists used to regard that scenario as fit only for Hollywood disaster scripts.”

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