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âDespite the government shutdown  (the department) determined the operational necessity of television and radio broadcasts constitutes them as essential activities â  chief Defense Department spokeswoman Dana White  said. âWe will continue to find solutions to support our troops at home and abroad.â
 Her  announcement followed outcry about overseas U.S. service members not being able to see the two games Sunday afternoon  particularly since officials have said military personnel wonât get paid during the furlough  which started overnight Friday.
 White  described some legal and manpower maneuvering to get the games on air.  She  said two of the eight Armed Forces Network channels -- news and sports -- will remain on  despite the network being run by civilians  who have been furloughed in the shutdown.
âWith minimal manning  we can keep the sports channel up without incurring any additional cost or manpower-complying with shutdown guidance  " White  said in a statement. âThanks to uniform leadership at AFN  our comptroller and legal team.â
 She  said the news channel remains on because the contract has already been paid and the sports channel was turned on because âit doesn't cost any more money or manpower to manage a second channel.â
Still   White  had some sharp words for Congress  whose failure to pass a temporary spending resulted in the shutdown.
âThe shutdown requires us to do a lot of tedious work â  she  said. âCongress needs to pass a budget.â
Overseas troops will see Sunday NFL games despite government shutdown Defense Department says

Trump  was aware of the issue a couple of weeks before a conversation with then-FBI Director James B. Comey in which Comey said the president asked him if he could be lenient while investigating Flynn  whom  Trump  had just fired for misleading Pence about the nature of his conversations with the Russian.
According to notes kept by Comey   Trump  asked if he could see “his way clear to letting this go  to letting Flynn go.”  Trump  fired Comey in May.
In a pre-dawn tweet Sunday   Trump  issued a fresh rebuttal to Comey  writing: “I never asked Comey to stop investigating Flynn. Just more Fake News covering another Comey lie!” The tweet was part of a running commentary from  Trump  that began Saturday  a day after Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and indicated he would cooperate with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III  who is probing Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Dowd confirmed Sunday that he had drafted the tweet for  Trump  and acknowledged that it was sloppily worded. He said it was inaccurate to say  the president  was told that Flynn had lied to the FBI. Dowd said Sunday that  Trump  knew only what acting attorney general Sally Yates had told the White House counsel: that Flynn’s accounts to the agents interviewing him were the same as those Flynn gave Pence  and “that the [Justice] Department was not accusing him of lying.”
Dowd played down the significance of  Trump ’s tweet. He said he did not intend to make news and declared  “I’m out of the tweeting business.”
[Graphic: Here’s what we know so far about  Team Trump’s  ties to Russian interests]
If  Trump  knew that Flynn might not have been accurate with the FBI  it could provide motivation for any alleged effort to obstruct justice  said Barak Cohen  a former federal prosecutor who does white-collar defense work at the Perkins Coie law firm. “It bolsters the intent for committing obstruction ” he said.
The person  who  like others  spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly  said that White House officials quickly realized the tweet could significantly assist Mueller if he chooses to pursue an obstruction case. The development sparked particular concern because others around  Trump  were not certain that  Trump  knew Flynn had made a false statement to the FBI at the time he fired him  the person added.
McGahn was told Jan. 30 that the material was ready for his review  the officials said. On that night   Trump  fired Yates over her refusal to defend his travel ban.
A person familiar with McGahn’s account says the White House counsel did not give  Trump  any indication in January that Flynn had violated the law in his FBI interview or tell  the president  that  he  believed Flynn was under criminal investigation.
As controversy built Sunday about  Trump’s  actions  he sought to focus attention on news that Peter Strzok — the former top FBI official assigned to Mueller’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election — was taken off that job this summer after his bosses discovered that he and another member of Mueller’s team had exchanged politically charged texts disparaging  Trump  and supporting Democrat Hillary Clinton.
“Report: ‘ANTI-TRUMP FBI AGENT LED CLINTON EMAIL PROBE’ Now it all starts to make sense!”  Trump  wrote.  He  also criticized the FBI and promised to bring it back to “greatness” under  his  administration.
“After years of Comey  with the phony and dishonest Clinton investigation (and more)  running the FBI  its reputation is in Tatters - worst in History!”  Trump  wrote on Twitter. “But fear not  we will bring it back to greatness.”
Trump lawyer says president knew Flynn had given FBI the same account he gave to vice president

Greg Zanis  first heard the news about the Las Vegas shooting when an employee from ArchAngels Biorecovery showed up at  his  door around 7:30 Monday morning with a check from the Aurora clean-up company for $1 200.
The donation was gas money for  Zanis  so  he  could take a pick-up truck filled with crosses to Las Vegas  where at least 59 people have been killed and more than 500 wounded after a gunman opened fire at an outdoor Jason Aldean concert on Sunday evening.
"At first  when  he  told me what happened  I didn't believe  him  " said  Zanis  of  his  early-morning visitor. "And then I just cried."
It wasn't long before the phone calls started coming in to  his  home on Church Road. From the media  of course. And more importantly  from the mayor's office in Las Vegas  asking Zanis to bring his unique anti-violence crusade to the desert city that has become the latest — and sadly  the largest — mass murder site in this country.
 Zanis  is hoping that by Wednesday morning — after  he 's received the identities and photos of the victims and attached them to the crosses —  he  will be ready to head to Vegas  where the crosses will be planted on Sunday.  Zanis  says  he 's already made a trip to the local pantry to get the food  he  will need for the trip. Money is tight  as always  but having made more than 20 000 crosses since this crusade began 20 years ago — all of them chronicled in more than 77 notebooks  Haas noted — the retired carpenter always finds a way to create the white crosses and get them to their destinations.

Aurora man heading to Las Vegas with truck full of crosses continuing anti