Donald Trump is reportedly being investigated for potential obstruction of justice

by the special counsel looking into Russias interference in the 2016 presidential
election. This marks the first time that the ongoing investigation, which has hung
over Trump since his inauguration, has potentially implicated the president
himself.

The Washington Post reported on Wednesday night that the federal probe into
the Trump campaigns ties with Russia during the 2016 campaign, being
overseen by Robert Mueller, has now expanded into whether the president
attempted to thwart that investigation.

The allegations of obstruction of justice apparently center on Trumps efforts to

encourage former FBI director James Comey to drop an investigation of former
national security adviser Michael Flynn. Comey testified under oath to Congress
last week that Trump told him in a private meeting, I hope you can see your way
clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let
this go. Trump has since said Comey said things that werent true while under
oath and that he was 100% willing to testify before Congress.

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Highlights from former FBI director Comeys testimony

Flynn, who resigned as national security adviser in February after serving in that
position for less than a month, had come under scrutiny for undisclosed
conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and then misleading
vice-president Mike Pence about the nature of his contacts with the high-ranking
Russian official.

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Comey was fired in May by Trump and the president cited this Russia thing as
a reason for the FBI directors sacking in an interview with NBC News. The White
House had initially claimed Comeys handling of the investigation into Hillary
Clintons use of a private email server was the reason for his firing before Trump
contradicted his staffs statements on the topic.

In addition to his alleged attempts to influence Comey, Trump reportedly

intervened with Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, in an attempt to
ask him to persuade Comey to back off the FBI investigation of Flynn, a close
Trump ally. In addition, Trump allegedly asked both Coats and Adm Mike
Rogers, the head of the National Security Agency, to issue statements denying
evidence that his campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 campaign. Both
men reportedly declined to do so.

Both the Post and the New York Times are reporting that Mueller is seeking to
interview Coats, Rogers and Richard Ledgett, the former deputy director of the
National Security Agency, in an attempt to gain more information about
potential efforts by Trump to obstruct justice.

The reported expansion of the investigation comes only days after speculation
mounted that the president might fire Mueller, stoked by a television appearance
by Trump confidante Chris Ruddy where he said terminating the special
counsel was under consideration. Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general
who would be responsible for making such a decision, told senators on
Tuesdaythat there was no secret plan to sack Mueller. However, White House
deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters late Tuesday,
While the president has the right to [fire Mueller], he has no intention to do so.

The White House referred a request for comment on Wednesday to Marc

Kasowitz, Trumps personal attorney. Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Kasowitz,
told the Guardian: The FBI leak of information regarding the president is
outrageous, inexcusable and illegal. In response to a follow up question about
whether anything in the Washington Post story was inaccurate, Corallo simply
reiterated his previous statement.

The FBIs press office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

t appears needlework is an art lost on the British, with a survey of more

than 2,000 people for the British Heart Foundation revealing that a mere four in
10 of us can muster the attention span or ability to replace a button on an item of
clothing, while half of us go creeping to mum with sewing woes. Heres a
beginners guide for sewing on a button to help save face.

You will need:

Button

Chalk

Needle

Thread

Cocktail stick or pin

Scissors

1. Line up the edges of your garment, then mark the button position with chalk.

2. Thread your needle, making sure you allow yourself enough thread to work
freely about 40cm/16in (halved once it has been thread) should do it. Tie the
two ends in a knot and make a couple of stitches on the back of the fabric by
pushing the needle through the first layer a couple of times.

3. Push the needle up through the back of the fabric and through one of the holes
in the button. Before bringing the needle back down, place a cocktail stick or
pin on top of the button as a spacer (this will ensure that the button isnt sewn
too tight to the fabric, a common rookie error). Make four stitches between the
two holes across the cocktail stick by pushing your needle and thread down one
hole and back up through the other.

4. Without removing it, twist the cocktail stick 90 degrees and make four stitches
across the remaining two holes. You should end up with a cross of thread
between the four holes. You want your last stitch to come up between the fabric
and the underside of the button.

5. Remove the cocktail stick, wind the thread round the stitching between the
button and fabric, pulling tight, then push the needle through the fabric until
youre back where you started. Snip the thread, leaving a couple of centimetres to
tie off as close to the back of the fabric as possible, and you are done self-worth
restored!

Name: Dithering.

Age: Let me look it up.

OK. So, age: Sorry, I got distracted by a picture of a dog on the internet.

Buck up! This is your job. Listen, dont blame me. Blame human nature.
Dithering is an important part of life.

Thats a terrible excuse. Oh, come on, are you saying youve never spent too
long agonising about what to watch on Netflix?

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Of course I have. And have you ever sent a waiter back because you couldnt
decide what to order in a restaurant?

Everyone does that, dont they? Precisely. We are a nation of ditherers. In

fact, a survey has just suggested that the average Brit spends more than two and
a half years of their life dithering.

That sounds like too long. Honestly, it all adds up. Apparently, it takes
people four minutes to decide what to wear every day, and nearly seven to decide
what to eat for dinner.

Really? But surely the answers to both of those dilemmas are

anything within reach that doesnt smell too awful. Well, arent you
Captain Decisive.

Why do we dither so much? Simple. Too much choice. Were adrift in a

universe of infinite yet near-identical options, and having to choose between
them all is wasting our precious time.

This is a capitalist nightmare. Its one of the reasons why Mark Zuckerberg
always wears the same thing. By removing meaningless choice from your life, you
allow yourself to concentrate on more important things.

What can we do to combat this? Well, the survey also revealed that 48% of
people would happily let someone else make all their choices for them.

Are you thinking what Im thinking? Yes! Lets set up a decision-making

firm for people. You! Wear the yellow blouse! You! Order the crab linguini!
You! Watch literally anything on Netflix that isnt an Adam Sandler film! This is
how we finally get to make our fortune.

What shall we call it, though? How about Decisions R Us? Or U-Choose? If
its U-Choose, then should we spell it U-Choose or U-Chooz? And what font
should the logo be? Are we going serif or not?

Oh God. Should we wear hats? If so, big floppy hats or little sparkly hats?

Do say: What are you doing later?

Dont say: Give me two and a half years to think about it.