Happy Birthday to a friend of Gabriel Allon and a real life hero Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

Always the case with Daniel Silva books. Always the waiting, followed by quick action and back to the waiting.

What I Saw at Columbia’s Demonstration from ⁦Peggy Noonan⁩ wsj.com/articles/what-…

Death toll in Sudan's war could be as high 150,000 by now, US envoy Tom Perriello has acknowledged at a Senate committee hearing.
Existing estimates of 15,000 to 30,000 could be an under-count 'by a factor of 10 to 15,' he said. 'Some think it's 150,000.'
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Trump suggests he won’t accept 2024 election results. Watch the full video here: tinyurl.com/3s66re7k

CNN's Shimon Prokupecz travels to the University of Pennsylvania to talk with protesters to see if any are actually students.

New- Trump Refuses to Commit to Accepting Election Outcome in Milwaukee Interview - The New York Times ⁦The New York Times⁩ nytimes.com/2024/05/01/us/…

Noa Fay, a Jewish Columbia student says this about her Jewish classmates involved in the pro-Palestinian protests:
“Take them as seriously as we all take Blacks for Trump and Gays for Trump. It’s absolutely a fair comparison, it’s the same tokenization. That’s how seriously we…

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David Urban: Interestingly, no networks showed the protests happening outside the WHCD last night.

Dana Bash: We did.

Urban: Well, I didn't see it.

Bash: You were inside drinking!

Standing ovation… thank you Larry Klein and all the amazing musicians. #LeonardCohen #KennedyCenter #NSO

Alexander Hamilton “was willing to set aside his tribal loyalties and support a man whose policies he vigorously opposed,” Charlie Sykes writes. “About 220 years later, Republicans face the same choice.” theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

At Donald Trump's hush-money criminal trial in Manhattan, the former president demands praise and concedes no faults, robbing his lawyers of time-honored defense tactics. nyti.ms/3y4Sdun

NEWS --> Prominent conservative Michael Luttig excoriates the right wing SCOTUS justices as 'radical,' predicting that in the 1/6 case, they'll protect Trump entirely.

“I now believe that it is unlikely Trump will ever be tried,' Luttig tells me.

Link:
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Former NY State Supreme Court Justice Jill Konviser, who has known Justice Juan Merchan for more than 15 years, tells Anderson what she thinks about the first full week of testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial.

Columbia student protest leader who said in video 'Zionists don't deserve to live' was banned from campus, university spokesperson says cnn.it/3QnB45v

.Liz Cheney weighs in on Supreme Court and the immunity case.

.@judgeluttig weighs in on the Supreme Court arguments on immunity

Justice Barrett just got Sauer to concede that there are private acts alleged in the indictment—so that the trial could go forward at least in part.