Weekend Winter Storm (Saturday Morning Update) – LEX18 Lexington KY News
Weekend Winter Storm (Saturday Morning Update) – LEX18 Lexington KY News

The rain has started to move in from the west as the weekend winter storm continues to track eastward. Rain will be the main form of precipitation today. Roads will be slippery and minor flooding can occur, but for the most part, today will have the lesser of impacts. Starting late tonight, the rain will begin transitioning to snow, and tomorrow will see all snow in the morning before the entire storm wraps up.

Timing:

Rain has already started and will continue through the day. Heavy showers are expected midday as the front pushes closer. This will be the time that flooding has the best chance. Watch for streams, creeks, and rivers to start swelling. Ponding on roads is also possible and may lead to hydroplaning. Rain will begin to slacken in the afternoon, but may not completely finish.

As we approach midnight, temperatures will begin cooling rapidly. We’ll quickly drop to freezing by midnight and a brief line of freezing rain or wintry mix will slide eastward. Ice amounts will be minimal with this feature. Still, some light ice accumulations are possible on bridges and overpasses. Snow flakes will begin to mix in, but the main show is still a few hours out.

As we move into the early hours of Sunday, snowflakes will become more plentiful and as surface temperatures drop to freezing, sticking will occur. Sticking will occur first on non-road surfaces like grass, sidewalks, roofs, and cars. It will take a while for road surfaces to drop to freezing. When they do, snow will have a chance to start sticking to the roads.

Snow will wrap up before noon for Central Kentucky, and around noon for southeastern counties. Late day sun is possible, especially for the Bluegrass region.

Amounts:

Amounts with the winter storm will be heavy in rain, and mainly light in snow. Rainfall amounts will range in the 1” to 2” with some localized spots up to 3” through today. Once again, minor flooding is possible as the heavier rains and rain rates arrive midday.

Snow amounts will be fairly minor. That being said, caution must be exercised during travel overnight and tomorrow morning. Heavier amounts will be seen closer to the Ohio River where 3” to 6” will fall. The Bluegrass and east along I-64 will range between 1” to 3.” Southern and eastern counties will see the least amount with accumulations up to 2.”

One note to make with the rapid freezing overnight is the formation of ice on roads. Water will still be around on roadways after the heavy rains today. If the wind doesn’t dry the roads before the temperature drops, ice will have a good chance to form. Keep in mind that roads could be icy tomorrow morning before the snow starts and even under the snow. Try to stay off roads at all costs tomorrow morning.

Hazardous Travel will be present in areas that see between 3” and 6” of snow. Roads in the red shaded areas should be avoided at all costs through Sunday at noon. Major roads included are I-64 West of Lexington, I-75 north of Lexington, I-71, The Bluegrass and Western Kentucky Parkways. Some impacts will be seen on roads elsewhere across the state. Those looking to get on the roads Sunday morning should avoid driving unless you absolutely have to.

The WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY is in effect for all Kentucky Counties until noon. This will be the areas that could see as high as 3” of snow. The counties that are expected to receive up to 6” of snow are under a WINTER STORM WARNING.

Due to the winter weather overnight and tomorrow morning, the Winter Threat Index has been raised to a Level ONE or SLIGHT.

Stay with the StormTracker Weather Team for more information and the latest updates with the weekend winter storm. More information can be found on the LEX 18 Weather Page.

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Democrats ‘like’ it: The secret to Ocasio-Cortez’s social media success – NBC News
Democrats ‘like’ it: The secret to Ocasio-Cortez’s social media success – NBC News

WASHINGTON — Less than three weeks after being sworn in as the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez already has more Twitter followers than Speaker Nancy Pelosi, more interactions than Barack Obama, one of C-SPAN’s most-watched congressional floor speeches of all time and a ubiquitous nickname that doubles as her Twitter handle — “AOC.”

Democrats want to learn from her, Republicans want to destroy her and many in Washington fear being “dunked on” by her. The 29-year-old House freshman from New York is showing her older peers what the future of politics might look like once the digital natives like her take over, for better or worse.

“We’ve just never had someone who matches both our demographics and our politics,” said Waleed Shahid, who worked on her campaign and is the communications director of the left-wing group Justice Democrats. “Bernie (Sanders) matches our politics, but he doesn’t match our demographics.”

Democrats were not exactly thrilled when Ocasio-Cortez ousted the veteran lawmaker in line to be their next speaker in a Democratic primary last year and marked her first day on Capitol Hill by joining a sit-in in Pelosi’s office. But increasingly, if begrudgingly, they seem to have concluded, “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.”

Party leaders tapped Ocasio-Cortez to lead a social media training for her House colleagues last week, and presidential candidates seem to be cribbing from her cooking-while-Instagraming playbook, broadcasting themselves cracking beers in their kitchens, getting a dental cleaning and other vignettes of their daily lives.

“This shift is exciting to us as it demonstrates an understanding by these campaigns that the more authentic and native their digital content feels, the more online audiences are likely to engage with it,” the Democratic digital firm ACRONYM wrote in a newsletter alerting subscribers to the trend of “the ‘casual’ campaign video.”

After all, politicians are in a sales business. Their product is themselves and their ideas but many voters aren’t buying it because of the carefully controlled way they’ve been pitched for years.

“People have exquisitely well-developed bullshit meters,” said Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., who helped led the social media seminar with Ocasio-Cortez last week. “Almost every real tweet is going to involve a little bit of risk. It’s going to be a little bit of opening the kimono into a member’s private life, because a little bit of risk is authentic.”

Himes, a white 52-year-old Goldman Sachs alum who chairs the centrist New Democrat coalition, looks and sounds very different from Ocasio-Cortez, a Bronx-born Latina Democratic Socialist.

Incoming Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez waits for a House of Representatives member-elect welcome briefing on Capitol Hill on Nov. 15, 2018.Yuri Gripas / Reuters file

But Himes said he and Ocasio-Cortez, who did not respond to an interview request, both offered similar social media advice to their colleagues, whom he acknowledged have a lot of catching up to do.

“We were both trying to hammer home this message of, ‘Speak like yourself, be a human,'” said Himes. “Anything you can do to close the gap between the blow-dried, poll-tested, bullet-pointed politician and the people.”

That doesn’t mean mimicking Ocasio-Cortez — “You don’t need be hip, in fact it’s probably disastrous to be hip,” Himes quipped — but rather, as the age-old dating advice goes, being yourself.

So while Ocasio-Cortez posts videos of herself dancing and switching from flats to heels on the subway, Himes shares photos of him tapping maple trees for their syrup and sampling his home brewed mead.

John Dingell, the 92-year-old former Michigan congressman, and Chuck Grassley, the 85-year-old current Republican senator from Iowa, have both built followings on Twitter by leaning into their get-off-my-lawn personas. Grassley once declared to the world, “I now h v an iphone,” while Dingell pondered the Kardashians.

Politics is increasingly an exercise in digital marketing and creating content that has to compete for eyeballs with everyone from teenage influencers to major news outlets.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has his own talk show and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke starred in what was essentially a low-budget reality show about his Senate campaign last year, broadcast live to fans by his staff on Facebook.

Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton’s former 2016 campaign manager, said he counsels 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls to modernize their thinking beyond old-style retail politicking in Iowa or New Hampshire.

“This is a national campaign, and its headquarters is in cyberspace,” he said. “You have to build ground operations in those early states, but Bernie Sanders had almost no organization in Iowa, Donald Trump had no operation — both came in second.”

Ocasio-Cortez is hardly the first politician to “get” social media.

Almost a decade ago, when he was the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Democratic Sen. Cory Booker was famous for showing up at his constituents’ doors with a snow plow or diapers or whatever else people told him on Twitter they needed.

“If Cory Booker is pretty good at Instagram as far as politicians go, the vibe’s still sometimes like your Bible study leader is giving you a college campus tour,” wrote Katherine Miller of Buzzfeed. “Ocasio-Cortez uses Instagram like the rest of us do — reflexively, incidentally.”

And there will be many more where she came from.

Before the new Congress was sworn in this month, the average age of its members was about 60. That made the 115th Congress one of the oldest in history and, on average, 20 years older than the American public at large.

The 101 new members of the 116th Congress, however, include 26 millennials (up from six in the last Congress), and 18 more GenXers. Baby Boomers still make up a majority of lawmakers overall, around 54 percent, but their ranks are thinning quickly, according to Pew.

Meanwhile, millennials are projected to overtake Baby Boomers sometime this year as a share of the overall U.S. population, and 85 percent of them use social media, compared to 57 percent of Boomers.

Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., takes a photo as she attends the Member-elect room lottery draw on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 30, 2018.Susan Walsh / AP file

Lawmakers’ bungled questions to tech executives at recent hearings have shown just how many in Congress remain woefully ignorant about even the basics of technology that is now integral to the lives and political reality of tens of millions of Americans.

So it’s not surprising that Democrats turned to their youngest new member for some advice, just as grandparents might ask their grandson for help setting up Facebook.

But if this is the future, even proponents worry about some pitfalls.

Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., built a huge social media following during the rise of the anti-Trump “resistance” with acerbic and timely tweets about the scandal du jour that have earned him close to 1 million followers.

But it’s not always possible to know whether a joke will land effectively on Twitter, even for Lieu, who cited a recent tweet he sent mocking Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., where the sarcasm didn’t quite come through to some followers.

“Elected officials are just people, like everyone else,” Lieu said. “We have our strengths and weaknesses and we’re just people.”

Others have argued that politicians who are superficially charming on social media are given a pass on the substance of their job.

That’s a point conservative critics, along with some mainstream journalists and fact checkers, have made about Ocasio-Cortez, noting she has whiffed on some facts and figures, like when the Washington Post fact checker gave her four “Pinocchios” for tweeting a mangled comparison of the cost of Pentagon waste with that of a Medicare for All health plan.

Some on the left, meanwhile, make that same case against O’Rourke, worrying that progressive voters are blind to the vein of centrism that has run through his political career because they think he’s cool.

Ocasio-Cortez distilled her formula best in a tweet from the early days of her campaign: “Bernie + Cardi = @Ocasio2018.” Cardi is Cardi B, the rapper who went viral last week for explaining the government shutdown in a decidedly NSFC (Not Safe For Congress) video.

Should politics on social media be more like Cardi B? Many are likely uncomfortable with that.

“It’s a little bit like love,” said Himes. “You want to be real, you want to be honest, but you always want to leave a little bit of mystery there. I’m not sure that photographs of dentists drilling into my mouth leave quite enough mystery.”

Alex Seitz-Wald is a political reporter for NBC News.

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Photos: The Women’s March In Washington : The Picture Show – NPR
Photos: The Women’s March In Washington : The Picture Show – NPR

Editor’s note: This report includes images that some readers may find offensive.

Tanya Brooks rode on a bus overnight from Bay City, Mich., to attend the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. She also attended the inaugural Women’s March in 2017.

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Crowds gathered in Washington, D.C. for third annual march despite reports of rain and snow.

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Medea Benjamin (left), who lives in D.C., and California resident Ellen Sturtz greet each other at the Women’s March. The friends hadn’t seen one another for a number of years.

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Demonstrators raised signs about LGBTQ rights, #BlackLivesMatter and immigration, as well as a myriad of posters referencing President Trump.

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Fire turns Chico, California, into a boomtown, but at what cost? – NBC News
Fire turns Chico, California, into a boomtown, but at what cost? – NBC News

Now, the population has spiked by 10,000 to 20,000 because of people who fled the fire, not to mention hundreds of repair and restoration workers from state and federal agencies and from the Pacific Gas and Electric utility. That has pushed the population of the city — an hour and 45 minutes north of Sacramento on California Route 99 — to about what had been expected two decades from now.

“The growth happened overnight. It’s kind of amazing,” Orme said. “It feels like a city within a city.”

The result has been a boon to many businesses, and a windfall for homeowners ready to move on, but a costly and vexing challenge for an overburdened city government and people who yearn for the old, pre-fire Chico.

Housing already had been tight, before the Camp Fire drove thousands of residents out of the Sierra Nevada foothills and into Chico and other communities. Now, home sales have doubled and prices jumped 21 percent in December, compared to the same month in 2017.

Earlier this month, Realtor.com designated Chico the hottest market in the country, based on the number of listing views online and the short length of time homes stay on the market, an average of 37 days in December.

“This is more like what you would see in the dense urban areas on the coast,” said Dan Jacuzzi, CEO of a chain of more than 60 real estate offices in Northern California and Northern Nevada. “We have never seen a market in the Central Valley with 17 and 20 offers on a single listing and homes selling for $50,000 over the initial asking price and above.”

After almost 40 years in real estate in the region, Jacuzzi said, “This has truly been an unprecedented market.”

Cindy Cosby, a realtor who has mostly represented buyers in Chico, said the spike in prices has been less due to owners pushing up asking prices than to buyers bidding the price up.

A house listed for sale for $350,000 in Chico on Jan. 18, 2019.Peter DaSilva / for NBC News

There hasn’t been a sign yet that price inflation has slowed. A three-bedroom fixer-upper on La Mesa Drive in the northeast part of the city went for $230,000 right after the fire, or about $228 a square foot. By mid-December, a similar house on the same street went for $360,000, or $312 a square foot, according to Cosby. That home was in slightly better condition, but the higher price was mostly due to the increasing desperation of buyers to land a home, Cosby said.

Many of them have already received payouts from insurance companies for their homes in Paradise, Magalia and other communities. But they aren’t ready, or able, to wait the two to three years many have predicted it will take to rebuild. (Officials say it will take that long to repair water and septic systems, review plans and complete construction in an over-burdened market.) With cash to spend, and in temporary quarters where they may not be able to remain for the long term, many are buying now.

Cosby, who works for Century 21 Select, said some sellers are uncomfortable with their windfalls, because they do not want to appear to profit from the misfortune of others. She called the market “overpriced” and said it was hard to see buyers left on the sidelines for homes that would have been affordable just three months ago. “It’s sad,” she said. “I hate watching it.”

Becky Kambourian has been living with her husband and three children in a rented Chico guesthouse since their Paradise home burned. They have hesitated to even bid on a new house, with prices spiraling upward.

“Every day the prices seem to get worse,” Kambourian said. “There are just more people than there are places to live, so I think it’s going to take a while to even out.”

Jacuzzi, the real estate veteran, agreed, saying: “We feel like the increases will slow but we aren’t anticipating a pullback in price, because the demand pressures are not going to go away quickly. And the ability to replace that many houses is a multi-year process.”

The availability of willing, cash-rich buyers also has induced some owners to push out renters, in order to sell. That’s putting additional pressure on an already tight rental market.

With population up a minimum of 11 percent, and hundreds of recovery workers still in town, businesses have reaped the benefits.

The Tin Roof Bakery and Cafe’s pastry manager brings out fresh trays of lemon meringue tarts. Peter DaSilva / for NBC News

The Tin Roof Bakery and Cafe saw business jump 25 percent in December, compared to a year prior, said Jordan Vogel, the general manager. Restaurants that normally ordered 20 to 30 loaves of bread a day have doubled their orders, he said.

Danny Solis, owner of Danny’s Barbershop downtown, said he has seen receipts climb about 20 percent, with his eight barbers taking on as many as 100 new clients a week, many of them utility workers helping with the massive rebuilding of Paradise’s electrical grid.

Cocodine Thai Cuisine sits just off the highway that most people use to travel between Chico and Paradise, 12 miles away. It has seen business jump as much as 30 percent, said owner Terry Kulimakin. “People have insurance money to spend and don’t feel like cooking, with all the other stresses,” Kulimakin said, “so they come out to eat.”

Booming commerce would seem to bode well for Chico’s finances. But it’s not that simple.

The destruction of most of Paradise has reduced the overall property tax base for Butte County, and state law requires that communities absorb such disaster losses equally. So Chico’s property tax revenue will decline by an estimated $900,000 in the first year.

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Former Chicago Officer Sentenced to Nearly 7 Years in Prison for Killing Laquan McDonald – Inside Edition
Former Chicago Officer Sentenced to Nearly 7 Years in Prison for Killing Laquan McDonald – Inside Edition

The former Chicago police officer who killed Laquan McDonald was sentenced to nearly 7 years in prison Friday.

Last year, Jason Van Dyke, who is white, was convicted of second degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated assault and battery– one for each bullet fired at the 17-year-old, who was black.

Dashcam video illustrated how the horrifying event played out in October, 2014.

It showed McDonald, who had been high at the time, ignoring the officer’s command to drop a knife he’d been carrying. The release of that video one year later, led to protests across the country.

Many believed the shocking visual would help secure a harsher prison sentence for Van Dyke than the 6 years and 9 months he’d received.

Family members of McDonald, along with activists thought the sentence was too light– especially since it is possible Van Dyke could serve only half of that time.

Of the sentencing, McDonald’s great uncle, Rev. Marvin Hunter, said it “suggests to us that there are no laws on the books for a black man that a white man is bound to honor,” according to CBS News.

In a statement to the judge, Van Dyke acknowledged his actions, saying “as a God-fearing man and father, I will have to live with this the rest of my life.”   

The Chicago Tribune reports the decision came one day after a separate judge acquitted three other officers of charges that they allegedly conspired to justify the shooting by falsifying documents and claiming McDonald was the aggressor.

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Trump offers immigration compromise to end partial shutdown; Dems cool to offer – Fox News
Trump offers immigration compromise to end partial shutdown; Dems cool to offer – Fox News
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President Trump outlines new border security proposal to end partial government shutdown

President Trump, in a televised White House address Saturday, offered Democrats a compromise package on immigration in an effort to end the nearly monthlong partial government shutdown — although some prominent Democrats were dismissing the olive branch as a “non-starter” before Trump even spoke.

Trump announced that he was prepared to back a three-year extension of protections for 700,000 immigrants who came to the country illegally as children and were shielded from deportation under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This, in exchange for the $5.7 billion he has requested for a barrier on the southern border with Mexico.

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“Walls are not immoral,” he said, adding that a wall “will save many lives and stop drugs from pouring into our country.”

“This is not a concrete structure from sea to sea,” he said, addressing some previously expressed concerns about the so-called “wall.” “These are steel barriers in high-priority locations.”

The offered deal would also extend protections for 300,000 recipients of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program — which protects immigrants from designated countries with conditions that prevent nationals from returning safely.

“Our immigration system should be a source of pride, not a source of shame as it is all over the world,” Trump said, before urging politicians to “take off their armor” and find solutions.

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It would allocate $800 million for drug detection technology to secure ports of entry, 2,750 new border agents and law enforcement professionals, and 75 new immigration judges to reduce an immense backlog of asylum requests.

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He said that all his proposals have been supported by Democrats before.

He spent much of the address talking about the dangers that an open border presented, describing a “very wide and open gateway for criminals and gang members to enter the United States.” However, he also teased the possibility of future, broader immigration reform if his proposals were accepted by Congress.

“If we are successful in this effort, we will have the best chance in a long time at real, bipartisan immigration reform, and it won’t stop here, it will keep going until we do it all,” he said.

Government sources told Fox News before the announcement that the speech would form the basis for new legislation he hopes to get before the Senate next week. The proposal is similar to a compromise put forward by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., that would include three year work permits for DACA recipients and extension of legal status for TPS holders, in exchange for the wall funding. Graham called the proposal “fantastic” in a tweet after the announcement.

“Let’s get it done,” he tweeted. House Republicans were scheduled to be briefed about the proposal in a conference call at 5 p.m. ET.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., praised Trump for his “bold solution” to re-open the government.

“Compromise in divided government means that everyone can’t get everything they want every time,” McConnell said in a statement. “The President’s proposal reflects that. It strikes a fair compromise by incorporating priorities from both sides of the aisle.”

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Likewise, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, voiced support for the president’s compromise plan, pledging his support for it via Twitter.

“@POTUS has put forth a reasonable, good faith proposal that will reopen the government and help secure the border. I look forward to voting for it and will work to encourage my Republican and Democratic colleagues to do the same,” Romney wrote.

But Trump’s proposal was quickly swatted down by Democrats. Indeed, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi came out ahead of the announcement to say the anticipated proposal comprised a “compilation of several previously rejected initiatives, each of which is unacceptable and in total, do not represent a good-faith effort to restore certainty to people’s lives.”

“It is unlikely that any one of these provisions alone would pass the House, and taken together, they are a non-starter,” she said in a statement. “For one thing, this proposal does not include the permanent solution for the Dreamers and TPS recipients that our country needs and supports.” 

Striking a similar tone, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said it was unfortunate that in an effort to resolve the shutdown, Trump “keeps putting forward one-sided and ineffective remedies.”

He urged the president to open up the government as a prelude to productive and bipartisan solutions on immigration and the southern border.

“It was the president who singlehandedly took away DACA and TOS protections in the first place,” Schumer’s statement read. “Offering some protections back in exchange for the wall is not a compromise, but more hostage taking.”

The partial government shutdown, which has dragged on for 29 days and led to hundreds of thousands of federal workers being furloughed or working without pay, is the result of Republicans and Democrats being unable to come to an agreement over Trump’s demand for wall funding. Trump has said he will not sign a bill to open the government unless it includes that funding, while Democrats have refused to consider the $5.7 billion figure, instead offering $1.3 billion for general border security.

Trump’s move marks a rare outreach in a week where both sides appear to have hardened in their positions, with Trump canceling a Democratic delegation’s military flight to Afghanistan after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on him to delay his State of the Union address earlier in the week. On Saturday before the speech, Trump described Pelosi as being “controlled by the radical left.”

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Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., also rejected the proposal ahead of the announcement.

“First, President Trump and Senate Majority Leader [Mitch] McConnell must open the government today. Second, I cannot support the proposed offer as reported and do not believe it can pass the Senate. Third, I am ready to sit down at any time after the government is opened and work to resolve all outstanding issues,” he said in a statement.

Pelosi said that Democrats intended to pass six bills next week and other legislation to open the government, “so that we can fully negotiate on border security proposals.”

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“The president must sign these bills to re-open government immediately and stop holding the American people hostage with this senseless shutdown.  Each day he prolongs this needless crisis, Coast Guardsmen, FBI agents, border patrol officers, TSA agents, and hundreds of thousands more workers are forced to live without knowing how they can feed their families or pay their bills,” she said in her statement.

Fox News’ John Roberts, Chad Pergram, Ben Florance and Jason Donner contributed to this report.

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Teens in Make America Great Again hats taunted a Native American elder at the Lincoln Memorial – CNN
Teens in Make America Great Again hats taunted a Native American elder at the Lincoln Memorial – CNN

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Inside the Mueller team’s decision to dispute BuzzFeed’s explosive story on Trump and Cohen – The Washington Post
Inside the Mueller team’s decision to dispute BuzzFeed’s explosive story on Trump and Cohen – The Washington Post

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Devlin Barrett

January 19 at 7:25 PM

When a BuzzFeed reporter first sought comment on the news outlet’s explosive report that President Trump had directed his lawyer to lie to Congress, the spokesman for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III treated the request as he would almost any other story.

The reporter informed Mueller’s spokesman, Peter Carr, that he and a colleague had “a story coming stating that Michael Cohen was directed by President Trump himself to lie to Congress about his negotiations related to the Trump Moscow project,” according to copies of their emails provided by a BuzzFeed spokesman. Importantly, the reporter made no reference to the special counsel’s office specifically or evidence that Mueller’s investigators had uncovered.

“We’ll decline to comment,” Carr responded, a familiar refrain for those in the media who cover Mueller’s work.

The innocuous exchange belied the chaos it would produce. When BuzzFeed published the story hours later, it far exceeded Carr’s initial impression, people familiar with the matter said, in that the reporting alleged that Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and self-described fixer, “told the special counsel that after the election, the president personally instructed him to lie,” and that Mueller’s office learned of the directive “through interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents.”

[BuzzFeed’s stumble is highest-profile misstep at a time when press is under greatest scrutiny]

In the view of the special counsel’s office, that was wrong, two people familiar with the matter said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. And with Democrats raising the specter of investigation and impeachment, Mueller’s team started discussing a step they had never before taken: publicly disputing reporting on evidence in their ongoing investigation.

Within 24 hours of the story’s publication, the special counsel’s office issued a statement doing just that. Trump, who has called the media the “enemy of the people,” on Saturday pointed to the special counsel’s assertion as evidence of what he sees as journalists’ bias against him.

“I think that the BuzzFeed piece was a disgrace to our country. It was a disgrace to journalism, and I think also that the coverage by the mainstream media was disgraceful, and I think it’s going to take a long time for the mainstream media to recover its credibility,” Trump said Saturday. “It’s lost tremendous credibility. And believe me, that hurts me when I see that.”

BuzzFeed has stood by its reporting.

“As we’ve reconfirmed our reporting, we’ve seen no indication that any specific aspect of our story is inaccurate. We remain confident in what we’ve reported, and will share more as we are able,” Matt Mittenthal, a spokesman for the news outlet, said Saturday.

People familiar with the matter said Carr told others in the government that he would have more vigorously discouraged the reporters from proceeding with the story had he known it would allege Cohen had told the special counsel Trump directed him to lie — or that the special counsel was said to have learned this through interviews with Trump Organization witnesses, as well as internal company emails and text messages.

Carr declined to comment for this story beyond the special counsel’s office statement issued Friday.

After Carr declined to comment to BuzzFeed, but before the story was published, he sent reporter Jason Leopold a partial transcript of Cohen’s plea hearing, in which Cohen admitted lying to Congress about the timing of discussions related to a possible Trump Tower project in Moscow, according to the emails BuzzFeed’s spokesman provided. Cohen had claimed falsely that the company’s effort to build the tower ended in January 2016, when in fact discussions continued through June of that year, as Trump was clinching the Republican nomination for president.

“I made these misstatements to be consistent with Individual 1’s political messaging and out of loyalty to Individual 1,” Cohen said at his plea hearing late last year, using the term “Individual 1” to refer to Trump.

Carr, people familiar with the matter said, hoped Leopold would notice that Cohen had not said during the hearing that Trump had explicitly directed him to lie. But Leopold, who co-authored the story with reporter Anthony Cormier, told the spokesman he was not taking any signals, and Carr acknowledged the point.

“I am not reading into what you sent and have interpreted it as an FYI,” Leopold wrote.

“Correct, just an FYI,” Carr responded.

A person inside the Trump Organization said a BuzzFeed reporter also talked with a lawyer for the organization hours before the story posted and was warned that the story was flawed and should be scrutinized further. Mittenthal said, “We trust our sources over the organization still run by Donald Trump’s family. That organization is directly implicated in the allegations related to the Trump Tower Moscow project, and refused to speak on the record for our story.”

The language Cohen and his representatives used in court had been ambiguous. Cohen had pleaded guilty in two cases — one for lying to Congress about the Moscow project, and another involving campaign finance violations for hush-money payments to women who had alleged affairs with Trump.

While neither Cohen nor his representatives had ever said explicitly that Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress, Guy Petrillo, Cohen’s attorney, wrote in a memo in advance of his sentencing, “We address the campaign finance and false statements allegations together because both arose from Michael’s fierce loyalty to Client-1. In each case, the conduct was intended to benefit Client-1, in accordance with Client-1’s directives.”

Client-1 refers to Trump. Petrillo declined to comment Saturday. It is unclear precisely what “directives” Petrillo was referring to, though he did not allege elsewhere in the memo that Trump explicitly instructed Cohen to lie to Congress. He wrote that Cohen was “in close and regular contact with White House-based staff and legal counsel to Client-1” as he prepared his testimony and “specifically knew . . . that Client-1 and his public spokespersons were seeking to portray contact with Russian representatives in any form by Client-1, the Campaign or the Trump Organization as having effectively terminated before the Iowa caucuses of February 1, 2016.”

People familiar with the matter said after BuzzFeed published its story — which was attributed to “two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter” — the special counsel’s office reviewed evidence to determine if there were any documents or witness interviews like those described, reaching out to those they thought might have a stake in the case.

They found none, these people said. That, the people said, is in part why it took Mueller’s office nearly a day to dispute the story publicly. In the interim, cable news outlets and other media organizations, including The Washington Post, dissected its possible implications — even as their reporters were unable to independently confirm it.

Told of the special counsel’s failure to find support for the story, Mittenthal, the BuzzFeed spokesman, said, “Our high-level law enforcement sources, who have helped corroborate months of accurate reporting on the Trump Tower Moscow deal and its aftermath, have told us otherwise. We look forward to further clarification from the Special Counsel in the near future.”

Two people familiar with the matter said lawyers at the special counsel’s office discussed the statement internally, rather than conferring with Justice Department leaders, for much of the day. In the advanced stages of those talks, the deputy attorney general’s office called to inquire if the special counsel planned any kind of response, and was informed a statement was being prepared, the people said.

Around 7:30 p.m. Friday, Carr distributed it to numerous media outlets via email.

“BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony are not accurate,” he wrote.

People familiar with the matter said the special counsel’s office meant the statement to be a denial of the central theses of the BuzzFeed story — particularly those that referenced what Cohen had told the special counsel, and what evidence the special counsel had gathered.

BuzzFeed, though, asserted that the language was not specific about what was being contested.

“We stand by our reporting and the sources who informed it, and we urge the Special Counsel to make clear what he’s disputing,” BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith said in response to the special counsel’s statement.

Cohen has not addressed BuzzFeed’s reporting, and BuzzFeed has made clear he was not a source for its story. Lanny J. Davis, a legal and communications adviser to Cohen, said before the special counsel statement was issued, “Out of respect for Mr. Mueller’s and the Office of Special Counsel’s investigation, Mr. Cohen declined to respond to the questions asked by the reporters and so do I.” He declined to address it after the special counsel’s office released the statement.

Cohen declined to comment Saturday.

Shane Harris and Tom Hamburger contributed to this report.

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White House: Next Trump summit with Kim Jong Un will take place near the end of February – CNBC
White House: Next Trump summit with Kim Jong Un will take place near the end of February – CNBC

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President Donald Trump will hold a second summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in late February as the U.S. pushes Pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear and missile programs, the White House said Friday.

The Trump administration said it would announce a location at a later date. The plans emerged after North Korean envoy Kim Yong Chol’s meetings Friday with both Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

“President Donald J. Trump met with Kim Yong Chol for an hour and half, to discuss denuclearization and a second summit, which will take place near the end of February,” the White House said in a readout of Trump’s meeting with the North Korean representative. “The President looks forward to meeting with Chairman Kim at a place to be announced at a later date.”


While Trump has worked to thaw relations with Kim over the last year, including through an unprecedented face-to-face meeting in Singapore, North Korea is reportedly still working on new missile development projects. In July, an NBC News report, citing U.S. intelligence assessments, said that North Korea had increased production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites in recent months.

Meanwhile, under Kim, the reclusive state has conducted its most powerful nuclear test, launched its first-ever intercontinental ballistic missile and threatened to send missiles into the waters near Guam.

Since 2011, North Korea has fired more than 85 missiles and conducted four nuclear weapons tests — which is more than his father, Kim Jong Il, and grandfather, Kim Il Sung, launched over a period of 27 years. As it stands, North Korea is the only nation to have tested nuclear weapons this century.

Read more: A timeline of North Korea’s defiant rocket launches in 2017

The Pentagon did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request to comment.

The second meeting extends a turn toward diplomacy after Trump and the North Korean regime made repeated threats in the early months of the U.S. president’s tenure. As Pyongyang continued testing missiles, Trump said in August 2017 that North Korea “will be met with fire, fury and frankly power, the likes of which the world has never seen before.”

On New Year’s Day 2018, Kim — who Trump once labeled “Little Rocket Man” — said he had a nuclear launch button ready at his desk at all times. The president responded by tweeting: “I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”

The two leaders have recently been more conciliatory. Even though reports showed reasons to doubt North Korea’s commitment to denuclearization, Trump heaped praise on Kim last year. In September, Trump said the two leaders “fell in love” after exchanging “beautiful letters.”

Trump has defended his first summit with Kim as necessary to preserve peace, after critics said he legitimized a dictator with a dismal human rights record.

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Activist On Jason Van Dyke Sentence In Laquan McDonald Murder: ‘Slap In The Face’ – HuffPost
Activist On Jason Van Dyke Sentence In Laquan McDonald Murder: ‘Slap In The Face’ – HuffPost

William Calloway, a Chicago community organizer, told reporters on Friday that he and fellow community members were “devastated” after learning about Van Dyke’s sentencing. The activist was instrumental in helping to release the police dashcam video in 2015, that showed the white officer shooting the black teenager 16 times, including after McDonald was on the ground.

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Fact-checking Trump’s border speech and DACA offer – CNN
Fact-checking Trump’s border speech and DACA offer – CNN

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Trump calls release of BuzzFeed report ‘a sad day for journalism’; Giuliani urges DOJ pursuit of leakers – Fox News
Trump calls release of BuzzFeed report ‘a sad day for journalism’; Giuliani urges DOJ pursuit of leakers – Fox News
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Is debunked Trump-Cohen report a huge blow to BuzzFeed’s credibility?

President Trump on Friday night slammed a BuzzFeed News report, which alleges the president has been implicated in a crime, saying its release marked a “very sad day for journalism” after Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team released a rare statement claiming the outlet got its facts wrong.

Trump went to Twitter to remind his 57.5 million followers that BuzzFeed, an outlet he once called a “failing pile of garbage,” once also published the unverified and salacious dossier by former British spy Christopher Steele that was used to justify the FISA surveillance warrant against Carter Page, a former campaign adviser to then-candidate Trump.

BUZZFEED ROCKS MEDIA INDUSTRY AFTER MUELLER TEAM DISPUTES REPORT: ‘MEDIA ERRORS ARE ALWAYS ANTI-TRUMP’

“Remember it was Buzzfeed that released the totally discredited ‘Dossier,’ paid for by Crooked Hillary Clinton and the Democrats (as opposition research), on which the entire Russian probe is based!” he tweeted. “A very sad day for journalism, but a great day for our Country!”

Trump’s comments came after Mueller’s team detoured from its “no comment” media strategy and released a statement refuting the BuzzFeed story, which alleged that Trump instructed his former attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress about real estate deals in Russia.

“BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate,” special counsel spokesman Peter Carr said in a statement Friday.

But while the language of the denial was tepid, Mueller’s rare statement suggested that none of the assertions in the BuzzFeed story are correct, the Washington Post reported.

MUELLER TEAM DISPUTES BUZZFEED REPORT CLAIMING TRUMP TOLD COHEN TO LIE

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The BuzzFeed report, based on two anonymous sources, claims that Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress about a Trump Tower project in Moscow during the 2016 presidential election.

BuzzFeed also claims Mueller learned of the instructions to lie to Congress from “interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents.”

Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer, also issued a rare statement of praise of the Mueller team for refuting the story and suggested the Department of Justice should go after the leakers of the false information.

“Now the DOJ must reveal the leakers of this false BuzzFeed story which the press and Democrats gleefully embraced. And maybe House Dems should wait to investigate until the Mueller report is filed. 4 have started already. There may be nothing to legitimately investigate,” he wrote in a tweet.

“I commend Bob Mueller’s office for correcting the BuzzFeed false story that Pres. Trump encouraged Cohen to lie,” Giuliani added. “I ask the press to take heed that their hysterical desire to destroy this President has gone too far. They pursued this without critical analysis all day.”

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BuzzFeed’s editor-in-chief, Ben Smith, issued a statement reiterating that the outlet stands “by our reporting and the sources who informed it” and urged the special counsel “to make clear what he’s disputing.”

Fox News’ Alex Pappas, Brooke Singman, Jake Gibson contributed to this report.

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Dangerous winter storm disrupts travel across U.S. – CBS News
Dangerous winter storm disrupts travel across U.S. – CBS News

Officials warn of flight disruptions

Officials have warned of flight disruptions at airports, as well as possible changes in train schedules.

By Saturday morning, 1,135 flights within, into or out of the U.S. were canceled for Saturday, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware.

Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport reported that airlines there canceled nearly 470 flights “due to overnight snow and strong winds expected throughout the day.” It advised travelers to get updates from airlines.

Amtrak canceled some trains Saturday from Chicago to Washington and New York and between New York and Boston and Pennsylvania on Sunday.

Chicago is forecast to receive as much as 8 inches by Saturday and wind gusts in the Chicago area are expected to reach 35 mph.

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George W. Bush calls for an end to the shutdown through pizza deliveries – CBS News
George W. Bush calls for an end to the shutdown through pizza deliveries – CBS News

Grace Segers is a politics reporter for CBS News Digital.

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Native American Vietnam Veteran Speaks Out After MAGA Hat-Wearing Teens Harass Him – HuffPost
Native American Vietnam Veteran Speaks Out After MAGA Hat-Wearing Teens Harass Him – HuffPost

“I heard them saying ‘build that wall, build that wall,’” Phillips said while wiping away tears. “This is indigenous land, you’re not supposed to have walls here. We never did for a millennia. We never had a prison; we always took care of our elders, took care of our children, always provided for them, taught them right from wrong. I wish I could see that energy … put that energy to making this country really, really great.”

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Trump to target shutdown with immigration offer, still demands wall money: source – Reuters
Trump to target shutdown with immigration offer, still demands wall money: source – Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will propose an immigration deal on Saturday in a bid to end a 29-day partial government shutdown, a source familiar with his plans said, but as details emerged Democrats were quick to dismiss it as inadequate.

The president has not budged on his demand that $5.7 billion to fund a U.S.-Mexico border wall be part of any bill to fully reopen the government, an ultimatum Democrats oppose. But Trump is expected to try to pressure Democrats in other areas.

In a speech scheduled for 4 p.m. EST (2100 GMT), Trump will extend support for legislation to protect young undocumented immigrants, known as “Dreamers,” as well as holders of temporary protected status (TPS), the source said, confirming a report by Axios.

Vice President Mike Pence, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and a White House aide, helped craft the offer, the source said.

A Democratic aide said Democrats were not consulted on the proposal and have previously rejected similar overtures.

“It’s clearly a non-serious product of negotiations amongst [White House] staff to try to clean up messes the president created in the first place,” the aide said. “He’s holding more people hostage for his wall.”

The source familiar with the speech said Trump does not plan to declare a national emergency along the U.S.-Mexico border, a step he threatened to take earlier in his struggle with Congress over the shutdown triggered by his wall-funding demand.

Declaring an emergency would be an attempt by Trump to circumvent Congress and its power over the federal purse strings to pay for his wall. Such a step would likely prompt a swift legal challenge over constitutional powers from Democrats.

As the shutdown passed the four-week mark, making it the longest in U.S. history, about 800,000 federal workers were still at home on furlough or working without pay, a situation that was threatening public services and the economy.

Polls showed Americans increasingly blaming Trump for the shutdown, the 19th to occur since the mid-1970s. Most past shutdowns have been brief. The current one has had no impact on three-quarters of the government, including the Department of Defense, which has secure funding.

“IT’S NOT PERSONAL”

Trump told reporters on the White House South Lawn on Saturday that he has no personal feud with House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the top U.S. Democrat.

She and other Democrats oppose Trump’s demand and the wall, calling it too expensive, ineffective and immoral.

“Whether it’s personal or not, it’s not personal for me,” Trump said, adding he was concerned about more immigrants moving north through Mexico toward the U.S. border.

“I’m disappointed that Mexico is not stopping them,” he said. “If we had a wall, we wouldn’t have a problem.”

The Dreamers, mostly young Latinos, are protected from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects certain people who illegally entered the United States as children. It provides about 700,000 immigrants with work permits, but no path to citizenship.

Former Democratic President Barack Obama put DACA in place in 2012 through an executive order. The Trump administration announced in September 2017 it would rescind DACA, but the policy remains in effect under a court order.

Axios reported that Trump would throw his support behind the BRIDGE Act, which would provide three years of temporary legal status and work authorization for the Dreamers. The act was first proposed in 2016 by Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican close to Trump, and Democratic Senator Dick Durbin.

Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is given to nationals from designated countries affected by armed conflict, natural disaster, or other strife. TPS holders are permitted to work and live in the United States for limited times.

The Trump administration has shown a deep skepticism toward the TPS program and has moved to revoke the special status for immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras and other nations.

Reporting by Steve Holland and Jan Wolfe; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh and Leslie Adler

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Trump calls release of BuzzFeed report ‘a sad day for journalism’; Giuliani urges DOJ pursuit of leakers – Fox News
Trump calls release of BuzzFeed report ‘a sad day for journalism’; Giuliani urges DOJ pursuit of leakers – Fox News
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Is debunked Trump-Cohen report a huge blow to BuzzFeed’s credibility?

President Trump on Friday night slammed a BuzzFeed News report, which alleges the president has been implicated in a crime, saying its release marked a “very sad day for journalism” after Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team released a rare statement claiming the outlet got its facts wrong.

Trump went to Twitter to remind his 57.5 million followers that BuzzFeed, an outlet he once called a “failing pile of garbage,” once also published the unverified and salacious dossier by former British spy Christopher Steele that was used to justify the FISA surveillance warrant against Carter Page, a former campaign adviser to then-candidate Trump.

BUZZFEED ROCKS MEDIA INDUSTRY AFTER MUELLER TEAM DISPUTES REPORT: ‘MEDIA ERRORS ARE ALWAYS ANTI-TRUMP’

“Remember it was Buzzfeed that released the totally discredited ‘Dossier,’ paid for by Crooked Hillary Clinton and the Democrats (as opposition research), on which the entire Russian probe is based!” he tweeted. “A very sad day for journalism, but a great day for our Country!”

Trump’s comments came after Mueller’s team detoured from its “no comment” media strategy and released a statement refuting the BuzzFeed story, which alleged that Trump instructed his former attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress about real estate deals in Russia.

“BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate,” special counsel spokesman Peter Carr said in a statement Friday.

But while the language of the denial was tepid, Mueller’s rare statement suggested that none of the assertions in the BuzzFeed story are correct, the Washington Post reported.

MUELLER TEAM DISPUTES BUZZFEED REPORT CLAIMING TRUMP TOLD COHEN TO LIE

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The BuzzFeed report, based on two anonymous sources, claims that Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress about a Trump Tower project in Moscow during the 2016 presidential election.

BuzzFeed also claims Mueller learned of the instructions to lie to Congress from “interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents.”

Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer, also issued a rare statement of praise of the Mueller team for refuting the story and suggested the Department of Justice should go after the leakers of the false information.

“Now the DOJ must reveal the leakers of this false BuzzFeed story which the press and Democrats gleefully embraced. And maybe House Dems should wait to investigate until the Mueller report is filed. 4 have started already. There may be nothing to legitimately investigate,” he wrote in a tweet.

“I commend Bob Mueller’s office for correcting the BuzzFeed false story that Pres. Trump encouraged Cohen to lie,” Giuliani added. “I ask the press to take heed that their hysterical desire to destroy this President has gone too far. They pursued this without critical analysis all day.”

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BuzzFeed’s editor-in-chief, Ben Smith, issued a statement reiterating that the outlet stands “by our reporting and the sources who informed it” and urged the special counsel “to make clear what he’s disputing.”

Fox News’ Alex Pappas, Brooke Singman, Jake Gibson contributed to this report.

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-blasts-buzzfeed-over-botched-report-alleging-he-told-cohen-to-lie

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Michael Cohen Leaves Hospital With Arm In Sling – HuffPost
Michael Cohen Leaves Hospital With Arm In Sling – HuffPost

In a rare statement, special counsel Robert Mueller’s office has said BuzzFeed’s story is inaccurate, though the outlet is pushing for clarification from Mueller on the particulars.

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George W. Bush Makes A Pizza Delivery During Shutdown – Fortune
George W. Bush Makes A Pizza Delivery During Shutdown – Fortune

After Canadian air traffic controllers sent their U.S. colleagues pizza amid the U.S. government shutdown last week, former President George W. Bush followed suit by hand delivering pizza for his unpaid Secret Service agents on Friday.

Bush uploaded an Instagram photo showing him greeting his employees with a handful of stacked pizza boxes.

“@LauraWBush and I are grateful to our Secret Service personnel and the thousands of Federal employees who are working hard for our country without a paycheck,” he wrote in the caption. “And we thank our fellow citizens who are supporting them.”

Bush ended his post with a call for bipartisanship. “It’s time for leaders on both sides to put politics aside, come together, and end this shutdown.”

As the shutdown enters its 29th day, some 6,000 Secret Service employees are among the 800,000 federal workers not receiving paychecks, reports The Washington Post.

Source Article from http://fortune.com/2019/01/19/bush-government-shutdown-pizza/

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Romney backs Trump in shutdown showdown, questions Pelosi – ABC News
Romney backs Trump in shutdown showdown, questions Pelosi – ABC News

U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah said Friday he supports President Donald Trump‘s push for a border wall that has led to a government shutdown and questioned why Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won’t agree to “another few miles” of barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Romney also said he plans to keep working with other senators to find interim solutions, such as legislation that would make sure essential government employees still working get paid now.

The 2012 GOP presidential nominee and new Utah senator acknowledged that it “takes two to tango” but backed Trump’s position and chided Pelosi for hers. That’s noteworthy from Romney, who despite being a Republican like Trump, has frequently criticized the president.

“You (Pelosi) and your fellow Democrats have voted for over 600 miles of border fence in the past, why won’t you vote for another few miles now?” said Romney, speaking in the northern Utah city of Ogden after visiting with county commissioners about the shutdown’s impact on the community. “I don’t understand their position, I really don’t.”

He implored the two sides to “make a deal” and end the suffering of federal workers who aren’t getting paid, suggesting Pelosi should offer a certain amount of money for the border wall and make a proposal to the president about border security. He said Trump is willing to allow participants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to stay in the country.

“On policy, it strikes me like there’s not a big gap but the politics have drawn people into different corners,” Romney said.

Romney said the country deserves border security, which includes more barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border. He said there is “humanitarian pain” being suffered by people entering the country illegally and being stopped at the border.

The backing for Trump in the shutdown dual illustrates Romney’s stated goal of calling the president out when he disagrees while supporting him when he feels he’s staking out the right position.

His most recent critique of the Trump came two days before he took office in an op-ed for The Washington Post in which he said Trump’s conduct in his first two years in office had “not risen to the mantle of the office.”

Romney said he backs an idea by Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin that would enssure essential government workers who are still working, but without pay, get paid. He said the goal is to get legislation before the president.

“It doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense to me that we ask people to work, we insist that they work, we tell them that if they don’t work they may lose their pension and may lose they their job, so they show up, but we aren’t paying them,” Romney said. “Somehow that just doesn’t seem right.”

Romney met Friday with Weber County Commissioners about the impact on the city of Ogden, home to about 5,000 federal employers who work for the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Forest Service.

About 3,750 workers IRS workers in Ogden were on furlough, though about 1,000 were called back this week to prepare for tax-filing season.

The city of 87,000 residents is about 35 miles north of Salt Lake City.

After meeting with Romney, Weber County Commissioner James H. Harvey called it a “desperate time” for federal workers and their families.

“We want those messages heard so that there will be some action,” Harvey said.

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Police officer Jason Van Dyke case prompts look at Cook County judge selection – Crain’s Chicago Business
Police officer Jason Van Dyke case prompts look at Cook County judge selection – Crain’s Chicago Business

Like a bad movie or a Chicago winter, the horrors of our criminal justice system seem never-ending. The latest headlines prompt the question of why, after a jury found officer Jason Van Dyke guilty of second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery in the killing of Laquan McDonald, three of his police colleagues were found innocent yesterday of charges that they conspired to cover up his misdeeds.

Like most of you, I wasn’t in the courtroom and didn’t follow the cover-up case blow by blow.  Maybe there’s some detail or nuance I’m missing.

But from my vantage, it looks like both the jury in the Van Dyke case and Cook County Circuit Court Associate Judge Domenica Stephenson reached utterly different conclusions about what to believe, even though both reviewed basically the same evidence. So, why? Did the jury get bamboozled? Or is it that Judge Stephenson, a former prosecutor, viewed everything through the lens of a tough-on-crime cop?

I’d like to think it’s not the latter. But it sure looks like the judge, who didn’t return my phone call, essentially bought the line that any policeman anywhere can shoot you dead and ask questions later if you don’t instantly follow orders and throw yourself to the ground. After all, that cellphone in your hand could be a revolver, especially if you’re not an old white guy like me but a black guy in dreads or a Latino with tattoos.

Actually, in this case, it goes further than that. According to mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor who later headed the city’s Police Board, Stephenson and the key defense attorney in the cover-up case worked closely with each other in the Cook County state’s attorney’s office earlier in their careers, a fact that was not known to prosecutors until just before the case went to trial.

Had they known earlier, the special prosecutors handling the case could have asked the judge to recuse herself, Lightfoot says. Or the judge could have come to that realization herself. But it didn’t happen. It’s the latest in a series of high-stakes trials in recent years in which judges, who perhaps don’t want to rile politically powerful police unions, tend to let police off the hook, however strong the evidence.

There’s been lots of contentious debate lately about what’s needed to finally fix our criminal justice system. And some good things are happening, so don’t lose hope. The terms of a federal court consent decree laying out specific improvements are all but hammered out. More time, effort and money are going into better training police. Steps are being taken to extend special help to officers, who literally put their lives on the line, in the event the job becomes too much.

But almost nothing has been said about fixing the broken system in which we select the final arbiters of justice: judges. Instead, we stick with a ridiculous election system in which we all troop to the polls every couple of years to elect or retain dozens of officials whose performance we’re in no position to evaluate. We have no firsthand knowledge of who we’re voting for, so we rely on others to make the choice, and that almost always results in political insiders controlling the outcome—insiders such as Ald. Edward Burke. In case you’ve forgotten, he’s in charge of Democratic organization slating for judges, and those candidates almost always win.

The current system “is a total joke,” says Lightfoot, and she’s absolutely right. Stephenson hasn’t yet faced voters, since she was appointed by other judges to fill a vacancy—a process that’s is even less transparent than meaningless elections.

So, amid this mayoral race, let’s have some renewed discussion about “merit selection” of judges, with appointments made based on recommendations by panels of experts who are far more qualified to make a choice than a voter buttonholed by a precinct captain. 

Will that be perfect?  No, but that’s the way it works in most states.   

Is there a risk big law firms will dominate the process and leave out minorities? Absolutely. But tell me you have any faith at all in the current system.

For Chicago’s policing system to work, we need police to be accountable and held to the highest standards, and we need a civilian population that trusts and works with them to fight crime. We also need judges who know what they’re doing and are held to equally high standards of accountability.

Let’s have that conversation.

Source Article from https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/its-time-talk-about-way-we-choose-judges

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