Green Party's Jill Stein Says She'll Happily Testify About Her Support For Putin's Ideas

Politico writes that the Green Party candidate has no regrets, even as she's coming into the spotlight over questions about her own presence at Putin's Mike Flynn table at the RT dinner.

Congressional Dems want to talk to her as well, and given the insidious level of lies and treachery in the 2016 Congressional election -- and the Russians' co-opting Berners on social media -- we want to know why she was celebrating RT, owned by the Russian govt. Was she paid as Flynn was?

For the Congressional investigation to be valid, all stones must be unturned. That includes Stein and anyone else involved with the Russians, no matter what party.

Stein can shrug it off all she wants. Stein is a traitor to us -- not for Hillary, but for Trump. Only a truly narcissistic personality could sleep at night over her actions, after Hillary won the primary. ~ Anne

Related: Foreign Greens Think the US Green Party Needs to Ditch Jill Stein VICE

Amal & George Clooney Host April 16 Hillary Clinton Fundraiser In LA, April 15 In San Francisco

Superstars George and Amal Clooney will be co-hosting cocktails and dinner with Hillary Clinton in April fundraisers in Los Angeles on April 16 and San Francisco a day earlier. Proceeds will go to the Hillary Victory Fund.

The Clinton campaign is running a contest that gives supporters across America the chance to meet Clinton, George and Amal at their home. Would-be guests can text CLOONEY to 47246 and donate $10 to enter the lottery.

George Clooney has nothing but praise for Hillary Clinton, while agreeing that candidate Bernie Sanders has offered much critical conversation to the public dialogue. Without mentioning Donald Trump by name, George Clooney refers to the GOP frontrunner's slogan and rhetoric in his letter to friends and potential donors.

“If you listen to the loudest voices out there today, you’d think we’re a country that hates Mexicans, hates Muslims, and thinks that committing war crimes is the best way to make America great again,” Clooney writes.

“The truth is that the only thing that would prevent America from being great would be to empower these voices.”

It's important to note that Clooney has not hesitated to criticize Clinton in the past. Today Clooney sent out a letter about theClinton April 16 LA fundraiser, praising her as the only candidate ready to lead America. 

“In all of this clutter, there’s been one consistent voice — a voice of tolerance and experience from a candidate who’s spent a lifetime fighting for the rights of the less fortunate,” Clooney says of Clinton, the “only grown-up in the room” and the leading Democratic contender for the presidential nomination. “A candidate who knows firsthand the complexity of our international relationships. That candidate is Hillary Clinton.”

Co-sponsors for the Clooney LA event are Jeffrey and Marilyn Katzenberg, Steven Speilberg and Kate Capshaw, and Haim and Cheryl Saban. HIllary will be in Los Angeles on Thursday, March 24 for a series of fundraisers, including an event at the nightclub Avalon Hollywood and a reception at the home of ICM Partners’ Chris Silbermann and Julia Franz.

About Victory Funds

In late February 2016, the Washington Post reported that a record 32 state parties signed onto the Democratic National Committee's victory fundraising committee. Thanks to a much disputed 2014 US Supreme Court decision that eliminated a cap on how much donors can contribute to federal campaigns in a single year.

Victory funds allow candidates to pool large amounts of money from a single donor. They work like this, explains US News: An individual can give $2,700 for a candidate's primary campaign, another $2,700 for the general election, $33,400 every year to the party and $10,000 per year to each state party.

That means a victory fund like Clinton's, which is aligned with 33 state parties, can — and does — take checks of more than $350,000.

Obama and 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney both used those fundraising devices in the last election, but they became even more powerful in 2014, when the Supreme Court struck down the cap on what any one donor can contribute each year.

The Democratic National Committee began 2015 $1 million in the red, a situational that Clinton remedied with fundraising efforts that had the DNC closing out the year with $17 for Democratic candidates. Bernie Sanders has raised nothing for other Democratic candidates at a moment when Democrats see the opportunity of regaining the Senate. A Trump candidacy could potentially even put the House of Representatives in play.

African American Heavyweights Rep. Jim Clyburn, Clyburn Women & Morgan Freeman Embrace Hillary

US Rep Jim Clyburn, the third most powerful Democrat in Washington, acknowledged the influence of his wife and daughters in his decision to endorse presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ahead of the South Carolina's Feb. 27 primary. The females in Clyburn's family are all in for Hillary. 

Previously, Clyburn has remained neutral with endorsements until after the primary, although he tangled with an angry Bill Clinton in 2008 over what the highly-regarded politician perceived as use of racially-tinged comments from the former president in the 2008 battle between now president Obama and Hillary Clinton. 

Clyburn joins his close friend Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, who has also endorsed HIllary Clinton and her commitment to the African American community since the days of America's civil rights movement. 

Jim and Emily Clyburn have three daughters, Mignon, Jennifer Reed, and Angela Hannibal; two sons-in-law, Walter Reed and Cecil Hannibal; and three grandchildren, Walter A Clyburn Reed, Sydney Alexis Reed, and Layla Joann Clyburn Hannibal. Speaking yesterday about his decision to support Hillary Clinton, Clyburn explained that the women in his family pressed him very hard to put his heart and head out there in a public embrace for Clinton. 

Clyburn's daughter Mignon is a Commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission, nominated by President Barack Obama, nominated in June 2009 and sworn in on August 2009. Jennifer Clyburn Reed, Ed.E is a professional educator in Columbia, South Carolina. Angela Clyburn Hannibal is an assistant program coordinator at Benedict College in Columbia. 

Previously this month, Hillary Clinton received the endorsement of the Congressional Black Caucus PAC, and yesterday actor Morgan Freeman endorsed Hillary and released a very special campaign ad. 

Morgan Freeman for Hillary

“Her life’s work has been about breaking barriers and so would her presidency, which is why for every American who’s not being paid what they’re worth, who’s being held back by student debt or a system tilted against them, and there are far too many of you, she understands that our country can’t reach its potential unless we all do," Freeman explains in the ad, which the Clinton campaign confirmed as new. "Together. A stronger country.”

Freeman was candid about his unflinching support for Clinton, telling CNN's Don Lemon that he has absolutely no trust issues with Clinton. 

"Not with me, she doesn't," Freeman said in an interview that aired Friday on "CNN Tonight." "I can't say that she doesn't, because all you need in some cases for people is to say it. Just put it out there and it gets legs. The Clintons have been being beat down ever since way back, so she just was going along with that legacy that she's inherited over the amount of time she's been in politics, which is a long time."

Freeman added, "I think this is just made-up stuff, just, you know, it's political hogwash."