PBC News & Comment: Millions Bet $27 on Bernie

CNN rolls out the gaslights to greet Bernie Sanders’ entry in 2020 race, as his base donates $6 million in first day…--CNN’s Chris Cillizza starts with 5 loaded questions about Bernie  and listener Fred notes that Wolf Blitzer will host town hall with Sanders
--CNN names GOP attack dog Sarah Isgur as “political editor”
--after decades of abuse, Supreme Court finally puts some limits on civil asset forfeitures
--mainstream media are now admitting that the claims of nerve agents used by Assad in Douma last year were staged, but US retaliatory bombing was real
--rocker Roger Waters calls out Richard Branson’s Venezuelan fundraising concert as cynical ploy of US and other regime change backers
--bucking the corporate media, Yahoo News runs report asserting that socialism isn’t the problem in Venezuela
--thousands march in France to protest real anti-Semitism after cemetery is vandalized
--some American rabbinical students visit the West Bank and express compassion
--Michael Cohen granted 60-day delay to report to prison
--based on leaks, CNN says Mueller report may be finished “as soon as next week
--WashPost rehashes Trump/Russia connections, names some known unknowns
--NY Times megareport builds case for obstruction of justice, and exposes Trump call to acting AG Whitaker that Whitaker may have lied about to House committee
--reflexively, Trump attacks The Times as “enemy of the people”
--at Counterpunch, Matthew Johnson agrees with PBC: impeachment is the response to power grab on The Wall
--TrumpCo tries to grab back money from California’s high speed rail project
--Pope Francis labels PBC and other chronic critics of his church “friends of the devil”