Six Degrees:  The House is planning to hold the attorney general in contempt and the Treasury Department is refusing to hand over the President’s tax returns. House Democrats and President Trump are about to have a legal slugfest.

  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee that the demand for the President’s tax returns “lacks a legitimate legislative purpose.” 

  Hmmm. Let’s see if we can think of a reason. Maybe there should be a law that the country has a right to know whether the President is financially beholden to foreigners. The law clearly says Ways and Means has a right to examine anyone’s tax returns.

  Texas Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett, a member of Ways and Means, said the Democrats have to fight. “If Trump once again faces only Republican silence and Democratic timidity, he will continue to erode our democracy by assuming more and more power.”

  On another front, the House is preparing to vote on holding Attorney Gen. William Barr in contempt for refusing to hand over the full unredacted Mueller Report. House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler said, “Even in redacted form, the special counsel’s report offers disturbing evidence and analysis that President Trump engaged in obstruction of justice at the highest levels.” 

  This all happened on the day that Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen reported to federal prison in Otisville, NY. He’ll be serving time with former “Jersey Shore” reality star Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino. 

  President Trump is only six degrees of separation from The Situation.

Royal Baby: Britain’s royal family has welcomed a new baby boy born to American Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The as yet unnamed child is the first British-American member of the royal family, and the first of mixed race in modern times.

Freedom of the Press:Two Reuters reporters in Myanmar who had been sentenced to seven years in prison for their work were released yesterday in a general amnesty in which thousands of prisoners have been freed.

  Before their arrest in December 2017, Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, had been investigating the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys by security forces and Buddhist civilians in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State during an army crackdown. 

Freedom Fighter: President Trump yesterday awarded pro golfer Tiger woods the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Evidently golf makes America free. The two are business partners. Over the years three other pro golfers have been given the medal.

The Roundup:President Trump granted a full pardon to a former Army lieutenant convicted of murdering an Iraqi prisoner in 2009. Michael Behenna, who had argued self-defense, was paroled in 2014 and would have remained on parole until 2024. — Rocky Mountain High. Voters in Denver today are expected to decriminalize hallucinogenic mushrooms. — The US stock market went into a slide yesterday as President Trump plans to levy new tariffs on Chinese goods starting Friday. — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is expected today to sign one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, making abortions illegal once a heartbeat is detectable in the embryo. 

Starbucks Name:“Game of Thrones” is one of the most watched and scrutinized television series of all time. Sunday night some obsessive fans noticed that in a banquet scene Queen Daenerys Targaryenhad a Starbucks cup on the table in front of her. At Starbucks she goes by “Dany.”

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