Follow Margaret Hoover and Meghan McCain: Start asking real questions about Women’s March anti-Semitism – Washington Examiner
Follow Margaret Hoover and Meghan McCain: Start asking real questions about Women’s March anti-Semitism – Washington Examiner

Margaret Hoover asked members of the Women’s March leadership the question that no journalist dared ask them for more than two years now: Does Israel have a right to exist?

Women’s March co-president Tamika Mallory, fresh off an appearance on “The View” in which she refused to condemn blatant anti-Semitism spewed by Louis Farrakhan, joined the “Firing Line” host on Thursday night. Naturally, the conversation turned to the scandal that has engulfed the Women’s March in recent weeks.

Hoover asked Mallory if Jews, who have had a presence in Israel for the past 3,000 years, are native to the region.

“I understand the history that there are people who have a number of sort of ideologies around why the Jewish people feel this should be their land,” Mallory said. “I’m not Jewish. So, for me to speak to that is not fair.”

The rest of the exchange is worth reading in full.

HOOVER: If you’re willing to say that the Palestinians are native but not the Jews are native, I mean you’re not Palestinian either.

MALLORY: Because I’m speaking of the people who we know are being brutally oppressed in this moment. That’s just the reality.

HOOVER: Is it your view that Israel has a right to exist as a nation?

MALLORY: I have said many times that I feel everyone has a right to exist. I feel everyone has a right to exist. I just don’t feel that anyone has a right to exist at the disposal of another group.

HOOVER: In your view, does that include Israelies in Israel?

MALLORY: I believe that all people have the right to exist. And that the Palestinians are also suffering with a great crisis. And that there are other Jewish scholars who will sit here and say the same. I’m done talking about this. You can move on.

Every single reporter in the county ought to study this exchange and take note. This is journalistic bravery — running into a burning building to salvage the truth and bring it to light, so to speak. Just as reporters have nailed Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, with specific questions to prove his belief in white supremacy, journalists must use their power to expose anti-Semitism veiled under intersectionality. And that starts with the question of Israel’s existence.

To be clear, criticizing the policies, actions, or methods of the Israeli government is not racist or anti-Semitic. Supporting a two-state solution is not racist. Advocating for the humanity of Palestinians is not racist.

But the logical conclusion of a call for the eradication of Israel, the sole and historic state of nearly half of the world’s Jewish people, necessarily implies the genocide or ethnic cleansing of millions of Jews. Especially as Jews have been forced to flee the increasingly anti-Semitic Western world for their ancestral homeland, calls to eradicate Israel are a call to arms against its people.

Mallory’s devotions of Farrakhan and Jew-killing terrorist Rasmea Odeh were red flags enough, just as King’s continued dog-whistling toward neo-Confederates and white nationalists should have led to more conservative concern over the obvious. But with Hoover’s line of questioning, Mallory just lost whatever scraps of plausible deniability that remained.

Consider this: A sitting member of Congress, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., is now openly embracing the eradication of Israel, while progressives tout her as the next best thing since Beto O’Rourke. In this context, it is incumbent upon journalists to ask an increasingly anti-Semitic faction of the progressive Left these sorts of questions.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., took to USA Today to excoriate the Women’s March, emphatically denouncing its leadership as “peddlers of hate.” It was the bold sort of declaration that should have accompanied the Democratic National Committee’s decision to withdraw from the March, and one that all Democrats who still claim to be liberal and stand up for Jews must emulate.

When Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., claimed total ignorance this week as to why Jewish-Americans would be offended by her classic anti-Semitic tropes, she faced zero pushback from reporters Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto. They should have followed Hoover’s lead to get the real story.

Furthermore, it’s telling that outside of a handful of reporters such as CNN’s Jake Tapper who have asked Women’s March leaders about their unsavory associations, the figures driving the push against this racism masked as progressivism haven’t been reporters at all. Why is Meghan McCain among the first to hold these haters accountable, when the reporters covering them have ample opportunity to ask questions?

For all that President Trump enjoys dunking on media coverage that he doesn’t like as “fake news,” the Fourth Estate is a vital organ in the body of democracy. The refusal to ask tough questions and bring bigotry into the national spotlight is an abdication of that responsibility, and one that should be condemned.

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Trump to make new offer to Democrats as government shutdown drags on – The Washington Post
Trump to make new offer to Democrats as government shutdown drags on – The Washington Post

Katie Zezima

January 19 at 10:13 AM

President Trump is preparing to make a new offer to Democrats that could end the record-breaking government shutdown in a rare Saturday address from the White House, while stopping short of declaring a national emergency on the southern border.

With the shutdown in its 29th day, Trump was expected to propose items he believes Democrats favor as part of a broader border-security package, according to two people familiar with White House planning. The hope is the proposal would revive negotiations with congressional Democrats, which have been nonexistent for days.

Although the president has threatened for more than a week to declare a national emergency, such a drastic step was unlikely to occur in Saturday’s address.

The individuals, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations, stressed late Friday that the planning remained very fluid and that nothing is firm until Trump makes his announcement.

Trump is scheduled to speak at 3 p.m.

Aides to the top Democrats in Congress — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) — said late Friday that they had received no new offer from the White House.

The ongoing shutdown of some 25 percent of the federal government was triggered by Trump’s demands for $5.7 billion to build more than 200 miles of new wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Pelosi calls the wall “immoral,” and Democrats are refusing to offer more than $1.3 billion to extend existing funding levels for border barriers and fences. Democrats also frequently point out that Trump long claimed Mexico would pay for the wall.

Absent negotiations, the impasse has devolved into bickering between Trump and Pelosi, offering little comfort to the 800,000 federal workers who have gone without pay since Dec. 22 and have been forced to rely on food banks or other jobs.

A proxy battle — a political clash like few others — emerged over the past week between the leaders of two of the nation’s three branches of government as they leveraged the powers of their offices against one another, all the while trying to shape public sentiment.

Pelosi suggested this past week that Trump reschedule his Jan. 29 State of the Union address on Capitol Hill due to security concerns stemming from the nearly month-long partial government shutdown. He retaliated with a last-minute cancellation of her trip with other House members to Afghanistan using a military aircraft.

The fight escalated on Friday as Pelosi accused Trump of putting herself and fellow lawmakers in danger by publicizing their plans to travel to Afghanistan, forcing them to abandon the trip. Pelosi said the State Department had determined that the trip, even using commercial aircraft, could no longer be made without endangering the safety of lawmakers, as well as of troops and support personnel due to the president’s actions.

“You never give advance notice of going into a battle area — you just never do it,” Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters at the Capitol. “Perhaps the president’s inexperience didn’t have him understand that protocol. The people around him, though, should have known that, because that’s very dangerous.”

The White House has forcefully denied Pelosi’s claims.

Meanwhile, the furloughed workers and those forced to work without pay will soon miss another paycheck unless the shutdown is somehow resolved, a fact that White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Friday made it imperative for Pelosi to stay in the country this weekend.

“That’s one of the key reasons that the president did not want Speaker Pelosi to leave the country, is because if she did it would all but guarantee the fact that negotiations couldn’t take place over the weekend,” Sanders told reporters at the White House.

But Pelosi’s spokesman, Drew Hammill, said the White House had not sought to schedule negotiations with the speaker for this weekend.

The impacts from the shutdown have spiraled in various directions despite efforts by the administration to limit them by calling workers at agencies including the IRS and State Department back to work, in most cases without pay.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams on Friday said the shutdown had created “head winds” to economic growth, and a key measurement of consumer confidence — released by the University of Michigan — has fallen to its lowest level of Trump’s presidency.

The administration moved forward Friday with a broader crackdown on congressional travel: Acting White House Budget Director Russell T. Vought said in a memo, “Under no circumstances during a government shutdown will any government owned, rented, leased, or chartered aircraft support any congressional delegation, without the express written approval of the White House Chief of Staff.”

The White House and Democrats are in agreement on the need for border security generally and even on some specifics of what that would entail — just not on the wall.

Next week the House will take up another batch of spending bills aimed at reopening the government without funding the wall that will include some spending directed to the border. One bill will include $563 million for immigration judges, the same figure Trump has requested; another will include $524 million to expand facilities at ports of entry along the border.

Philip Rucker, Paul Kane, Damian Paletta and Erica Werner contributed to this report.

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Mueller team disputes BuzzFeed report claiming Trump told Cohen to lie – Fox News
Mueller team disputes BuzzFeed report claiming Trump told Cohen to lie – Fox News
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Trump team slams Buzzfeed report that he instructed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office on Friday issued an extraordinary statement disputing a bombshell news report that claimed President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie about the timing of discussions over a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow.

“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,” Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller’s office, said.

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The statement is remarkable in that Mueller’s team rarely issues statements in response to news stories. But BuzzFeed’s story sparked immense interest from Democrats, who called for renewed investigations and even suggested the allegations could be a basis for impeachment proceedings.

Buzzfeed’s Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith tweeted after the release of the statement Friday: “In response to the statement tonight from the Special Counsel’s spokesman: We stand by our reporting and the sources who informed it, and we urge the Special Counsel to make clear what he’s disputing.”

The statement reiterated an earlier tweet from the Buzzfeed PR Twitter account, which said the publication “stands by this story 100%.”

“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,” Trump late Friday night. “A very sad day for journalism, but a great day for our Country!”

In a story published Thursday, BuzzFeed cited two unnamed federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation on the matter who said Cohen acknowledged to Mueller’s office that he was instructed by Trump in 2017 to lie to Congress about the now-abandoned real estate deal to build a Trump Tower in Russia.

The report said Mueller’s office first learned of the directive from interviews with witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company email, text messages and documents.

The report, which was not been confirmed by Fox News, was immediately dismissed by President Trump’s legal team.

“Any suggestion – from any source – that the president counseled Michael Cohen to lie is categorically false. Michael Cohen is a convicted criminal and a liar,” Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said. “… Today’s claims are just more made-up lies born of Michael Cohen’s malice and desperation, in an effort to reduce his sentence.”

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After the special counsel’s statement on Friday, Giuliani praised Mueller’s team “for correcting the BuzzFeed false story.”

“I ask the press to take heed that their hysterical desire to destroy this President has gone too far,” he wrote in a tweet. “They pursued this without critical analysis all day.”

Earlier Friday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., whose committee is already investigating the president and his ties to Russia, called the allegations in the report “the most serious to date.”

“The allegation that the president of the United States may have suborned perjury before our committee in an effort to curtail the investigation and cover up his business dealings with Russia is among the most serious to date,” Schiff said in a statement. “We will do what’s necessary to find out if it’s true.”

Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., said the House should begin to “establish a record” of whether Trump “committed high crimes,” repeatedly hinting on Twitter at the potential for impeachment proceedings.

“Based on the Buzzfeed report and numerous other articles showing @realDonaldTrump committed Obstruction of Justice and other possible felonies, it is time for the House Judiciary Committee to start holding hearings to establish a record of whether @POTUS committed high crimes,” Lieu tweeted.

Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, called for Trump to leave office or face impeachment if the report is accurate.

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“If the @BuzzFeed story is true, President Trump must resign or be impeached,” he said.

The BuzzFeed report claimed Trump directed Cohen to lie in his congressional testimony, though according to court documents and the statements Cohen made publicly, he has acknowledged that his actions were taken out of “loyalty” to the president.

In November, Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the Trump real estate project in Russia as part of Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling and potential collusion with Trump campaign associates in the 2016 presidential election.

Cohen entered into a plea deal with the special counsel to cooperate on “any and all matters” deemed relevant. The maximum prison sentence for Cohen is five years, plus fines of up to $250,000.

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In court in November, after entering his plea, Cohen acknowledged his work for Trump as counsel and adviser.

In a separate case brought by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, Cohen pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws by helping orchestrate payments to former Playboy model Karen McDougal and adult film star Stormy Daniels in exchange for their silence about alleged sexual encounters with the president years before he took office. Prosecutors and Cohen himself said the former Trump fixer orchestrated those payments at Trump’s direction.

Cohen is slated to appear for public testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Feb. 7.

Fox News’ Jake Gibson and Elizabeth Zwirz contributed to this report.

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Alan Dershowitz: BuzzFeed report (and Mueller rebuke) a vivid example of “Get Trump” media mindset – Fox News
Alan Dershowitz: BuzzFeed report (and Mueller rebuke) a vivid example of “Get Trump” media mindset – Fox News
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Alan Dershowitz Blasts Disputed Buzzfeed Report

Alan Dershowitz Blasts Disputed Buzzfeed Report

As soon as I read the explosive BuzzFeed News report alleging there was evidence that President Trump had directed his former attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress, I was very suspicious.

Even before the Office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller issued a statement Friday night saying that the BuzzFeed account was “not accurate,” I wrote an op-ed for the New York Daily News raising questions about whether there was actually credible evidence that Trump suborned perjury or obstructed justice by telling Cohen to lie to lawmakers.

It seemed obvious that there were no smoking gun emails containing any such direction from the president. Nor would there be eyewitnesses to any such alleged conversation.

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

Unlike the obstruction of justice case that led to articles of impeachment being drafted against President Nixon and his resignation – where tape recordings proved criminal conduct by Nixon – the accusations against President Trump would have to rely on the credibility of Cohen, who has a long history of lying and little if any credibility.

In fact, Cohen was sentenced in federal court in December to three years in prison after pleading guilty to lying to Congress, campaign finance violations and financial crimes.

President Trump’s spokeswoman and his lawyers strongly disputed the BuzzFeed report, which was published Thursday, even before the statement from Mueller’s spokesman knocking down the story.

“Two words sum it up better than anything anybody else can say, and that is ‘categorically false,’” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Friday.

The anti-Trump pundits have been wrong so often that the only people who persist in believing them are Trump opponents who dream of seeing him forced out of office and maybe even winding up in prison.

That was followed by the Friday night statement of Mueller spokesman Peter Carr, who said: “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.”

But despite the obvious weakness of the BuzzFeed report, many members of the “get Trump at any cost” brigade were busy digging Trump’s political grave and getting ready to dance on it soon after the BuzzFeed report became the focus of massive news coverage.

Prominent congressional Democrats speculated about impeaching President Trump or calling for his resignation – and made plenty of false analogies to the articles of impeachment that had been drafted in the Nixon case.

As is typical of the “get Trump” media, wishful thinking took the place of thoughtful analysis and journalistic skepticism.

The anti-Trump pundits have been wrong so often that the only people who persist in believing them are Trump opponents who dream of seeing him forced out of office and maybe even winding up in prison.

By any objective standard, these self-appointed media “experts” have lost all credibility.

I wish the media would go back and show the categorical statements and confident predictions of their paid commentators who have been proven wrong so many times. Their record of accurate predictions is nothing to brag about.

In fact, BuzzFeed itself has repeatedly misreported allegations against President Trump. Even after Mueller’s office made the rare public statement Friday night to say that the BuzzFeed reporting was not accurate, BuzzFeed defended its accusation that President Trump had told Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations by the Trump Organization to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.

BuzzFeed Editor Ben Smith tweeted Friday night: “We stand by our reporting and the sources who informed it, and we urge the Special Counsel to make clear what he’s disputing.”

Cohen had testified before Congress that negotiations on the Trump Tower deal – which never was finalized – ended in January 2016, before the beginning of presidential primaries. But prosecutors said later that the negotiations continued as late as June 2016, after Trump was clearly going to become the Republican presidential candidates.

Now that Mueller’s office has stated the BuzzFeed report that Trump told Cohen to lie to Congress about the negotiations was not accurate, how can the BuzzFeed possibly say the special counsel’s office is wrong?

Do the journalists at BuzzFeed know something the special counsel and his team of prosecutors and investigators don’t know? Do these reporters and editors think the special counsel is not being accurate? Or are they doubling down to avoid the embarrassment of admitting they were wrong?

The American people are the real victims of “wishful thinking” journalism – the reporting of items journalists wish were true rather than items that pass journalistic standards.

The public has no way of discerning good reporting from wishful reporting, particularly when the reporting is based on unidentified sources.

The worst offenders are the so-called expert commentators who pollute the media with unfounded and biased speculation based on partisan agendas rather than real expertise and experience.

The media should have standards – based on proven track records of accuracy – that their commentators must satisfy before they can opine or predict.

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I must admit that my hope for more accurate reporting and less partisan commenting is itself wishful thinking, but there is a place for such thinking. That place is not in reporting facts or predicting outcomes.

The job of the media is to report the facts – not to engage in endless speculation without a factual basis.

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Trump plans to make Democrats an offer to end shutdown, not declare national emergency, in Saturday speech, official says – CNN
Trump plans to make Democrats an offer to end shutdown, not declare national emergency, in Saturday speech, official says – CNN

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(CNN)President Donald Trump plans to offer Democrats another proposal to end the shutdown when he addresses the nation from the White House on Saturday afternoon — what officials are describing as his third offer to end the shutdown, according to a senior administration official.

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Bush calls on Trump, Democrats to ‘put politics aside’ and end the shutdown – Washington Examiner
Bush calls on Trump, Democrats to ‘put politics aside’ and end the shutdown – Washington Examiner

Former President George W. Bush on Friday called on President Trump and congressional leaders to “put politics aside” and end the partial government shutdown, which is about to enter its fifth week.

“Laura W. Bush 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,” Bush said in a social media post showing him delivering pizza to federal workers. “And we thank our fellow citizens who are supporting them.”

“It’s time for leaders on both sides to put politics aside, come together, and end this shutdown,” he added.

As of Friday, there was no sign the shutdown was about to end. Trump canceled a congressional overseas trip that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other House members were scheduled for over the next week. That trip included stops in Brussels and Afghanistan.

Trump’s move came shortly after Pelosi called for a delay in the president’s State of the Union address, which is slated for Jan. 29, due to security concerns as the Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security are unfunded due to the shutdown. Republicans rejected Pelosi’s move as a political stunt and said the Secret Service was able to handle the event.

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BuzzFeed’s story depends on Trump being heard on tape – Washington Examiner
BuzzFeed’s story depends on Trump being heard on tape – Washington Examiner

BuzzFeed’s extraordinary report last night suggests that President Trump conspired to induce perjury and obstruct justice. It has excited many Democrats. But even if BuzzFeed is correct in its central assertion — that two federal law enforcement sources say Trump told his former attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress — I’m not convinced it’s a major problem for the president. Unless, that is, law enforcement has audio recordings of Trump or his most inner circle speaking to that effect.

The key here is the burden of proof. According to BuzzFeed, he “personally instructed [Cohen] to lie” to Congress about when the Trump organization ended its effort to build a hotel in Moscow. If this is true, Trump would appear to be guilty of at least three federal criminal offenses: obstruction of justice, perjury, and conspiracy.

But it’s not enough for prosecutors to believe this to be true; they must be able to prove it. And from BuzzFeed’s report at least, it’s not at all clear if they have the means of doing so.

BuzzFeed claims that emails and interviews from Trump organization staffers have corroborated investigators’ belief in Trump’s guilt, but that’s unlikely to be enough to prosecute. What investigators need is a forensic, unimpeachable link that ties Trump to an unlawful conspiracy.

I sincerely doubt that emails or other notes would be enough because Trump’s defense team could allege someone else sent those notes without Trump’s knowledge or without his approval. But the biggest weakness here is Cohen himself. Whether you believe Cohen’s cooperation with the government is an act of contrition or an act to save himself from even more prison time, Cohen is ultimately a weak prosecution witness. He is a proven liar with an obvious conflict of interest. Any defense team would have a field day with Cohen. They would suggest that everything he says is about saving himself by offering up a bigger fish.

A winning prosecution would need forensic evidence that someone very close to the president, such as his son-in-law Jared Kushner or son Donald Trump Jr., was engaged in a conspiracy on the president’s behalf. Indeed, prosecutors would likely decline the case on the basis that the presumptive harm to the nation would outweigh the low likelihood of conviction.

This is not to say that Trump is out of the woods. He may face significantly more damaging revelations in relation to Russia in the months ahead.

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Nancy Pelosi has a blank check, and she’d rather spite Trump than cash it – Washington Examiner
Nancy Pelosi has a blank check, and she’d rather spite Trump than cash it – Washington Examiner

The president and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., have made it abundantly clear that this is all a performance to them.

Trump had two years of Republican control of the House and Senate and failed to prioritize his premier campaign promise: increased border security. A GOP-controlled Congress didn’t pass so much as an e-verify expansion bill, let alone secure funding for his wall. He waited until the eleventh hour before he lost control of the House to stamp his foot and demand last-minute funding for the wall. He then shut down the government and declared it an act of bravery.

In theory, Trump handed a blank check to Pelosi. Trump owns the shutdown, and he needs to end it. For $5.7 billion in wall funding, Pelosi can ask for almost anything she wants.

But she hasn’t. Rather than secure the fates of 700,000 Dreamers and demand that the president grant them amnesty in order to achieve his beloved wall, she’s simply sneered in his face, glowing in the approval of the #Resistance for hurting Drumpf’s feelings and refusing to give him what he wants. You want your wall? Well you can’t have it, loser! Take that, President Cheeto!

Think about it. Pelosi has a blank check that costs a mere $5.7B, a drop in our multi-trillion dollar budget. Yet she’d rather spite Trump and leave hundreds of thousands of government workers without paychecks than actually cash in her potential prize.

The generous conclusion here is that we’re being ruled by children. The honest one is that we’re ruled by tyrants.

Our corrupt ruling class would rather posture to their bases than actually win anything for them. The shutdown’s economic costs aren’t just threatening our gross domestic product and stock markets. There are actual lives in financial and physical danger.

The shutdown will put the safety of the border, the very entity the president shut down the government to protect, in real jeopardy if it continues. The shutdown has effectively halted all Border Patrol training, and because most Department of Homeland Security recruiters are furloughed, the department is hemorrhaging staffers without hiring new ones.

If the shutdown continues for another week, federal district courts will run out of funds, halting civil proceedings. Federal workers will go a second pay cycle without a check.

States are clamoring to issue February food stamp funds to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients early, as the program has no proper funding past January. By March, the 38 million SNAP recipients — the majority of whom are children, elderly, or disabled — will likely receive no funding for food.

All of this ignores the businesses, from Walmart to local grocers, who rely on SNAP spending and customers who are federal employees without pay for their revenue.

And according to congressional staffers talking to McKay Coppins at the Atlantic, the politicians orchestrating the whole charade couldn’t care less. Coppins reports:

I spoke to one congressional staffer who wondered aloud whether it might take a stressed-out air-traffic controller causing a plane crash to bring an end to the shutdown. And several aides worried that some kind of terrorist incident would end up serving as the catalyst to get the government up and running again …

Even if some of their worst-case shutdown scenarios remain unlikely — there are still plenty of paths forward that don’t include body counts — the defeatism on display is revealing. It exposes the extent to which the latter-day crisis of faith in America’s core political institutions has infected even the members of the institutions themselves.

On Wednesday night, I spoke with a Democratic House aide who confessed that she was ambivalent about the shutdown. The battle had unified her party, with Democrats linking arms in defense of their ideals and in defiance of Trump. Polls suggested that a majority of Americans were with them, and that the ‘optics’ of the fight were good. ‘While it may be horrible for the country,’ she said of the shutdown, ‘it’s fine for the party.’

I’ve already made the case that the government is an unreliable employer, and the shutdown demonstrates the number of agencies, from the Transportation Security Administration to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, that must be privatized, downsized, or abolished completely. But those should be thoughtful, intentional decisions, not based on political posturing that punishes and blindsides millions of average Americans as collateral damage so our wealthy overlords can pander to their fans.

Trump needs to sit the speaker down and offer to fill that blank check with something significant enough that she can call it a win. Pelosi needs to accept the political opportunity of strong-arming Trump into a valuable concession that could help, say, 700,000 people in legal jeopardy who have already assimilated with our culture and contributed, as well as the moral cost of continuing this shutdown, all to keep a few billion bucks from the president’s hands.

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China’s proposed trade deal is a con job designed specifically for Trump – Washington Examiner
China’s proposed trade deal is a con job designed specifically for Trump – Washington Examiner

On Friday, markets jumped in response to news of a potential deal to end the ongoing trade war between the United States and China. Naturally, investors are happy just to hear that. But China’s proposal, to boost imports of U.S. goods and cut back on America’s trade deficit with China, won’t solve any of the core issues that sparked the trade war in the first place.

Does China cheat on trade? Definitely — and unfortunately, this proposal won’t stop Beijing from doing so. It merely indulges President Trump’s obsession with the trade deficit.

But trade deficits are not an economic problem. They reflect the fact that that U.S. consumers, with more buying power than their Chinese counterparts, purchase more goods. When Chinese companies profit from that spending, they look for profitable ways to invest that money. That means that they often look to the United States with its strong economy and currency, investing in companies, real estate, and industry. That investment is a good thing for the economy.

But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t real problems with Chinese trade.

As Trump has pointed out, Chinese companies have repeatedly engaged in forced technology transfer, the practice of compelling U.S. companies to hand over intellectual property to Chinese counterparts in exchange for market access. Chinese firms have also flat-out stolen technology for U.S. and other foreign companies. In addition, China confers unfair legal advantages on its own companies with state support. They exclude foreign competitors almost entirely from certain markets, such as the Internet, and they fail to uphold intellectual property protections.

Perhaps most worryingly, China has also used interactions with foreign companies for military and state security gains. Companies that obtain foreign technology have been implicated in sharing that technology with the Chinese military and government. Huawei, for example, has recently been accused of violating international sanctions, supporting rogue states such as Iran as well as acting as a state-sponsored espionage threat as it partners with countries to roll out 5G networks.

Those are very real and serious concerns, and none of them are addressed in the current proposal.

Investors, however, seem pleased that there’s a chance to end the trade war that is costing the economy at least $1.4 billion each month. But this deal, far from being an economic cure-all, might actually exacerbate some of the real problems. Indeed, the U.S. has already moved to limit what types of goods can be exported to China for fear of their use in military operations.

Even if the U.S. goes for the current deal and ends the tariffs, Washington will still eventually have to deal with real trade issues presented by China. With this proposed deal, China is playing Trump at his own game: talking up his misguided understanding of trade deficits while pitching a “fix” that solves none of the real trade problems.

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President Trump, North Korean Leader Kim Agree To Second Meeting Next Month – NPR
President Trump, North Korean Leader Kim Agree To Second Meeting Next Month – NPR

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Trump shake hands prior to their meeting in Singapore in June 2018.

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President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have agreed to a second meeting following their initial summit last year.

“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 President looks forward to meeting with Chairman Kim at a place to be announced at a later date,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced after Trump met Friday in the Oval Office with the North Korean envoy.

Trump first met with Kim in June 2018 in Singapore, and the two appeared to form an unlikely bond after Trump had previously criticized Kim on Twitter, slamming him as “Little Rocket Man.”

But at the summit, Trump touted securing a commitment from Kim for North Korea to move toward denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula. However, reports since then have suggested the country has continued to develop nuclear weapons and missile technology.

Sanders told reporters after the 90-minute meeting, which Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also attended, that sanctions would remain on North Korea until the White House sees the country achieve full denuclearization. However, she said the administration had seen “good steps and good faith moves” from North Korea, including releasing three American hostages just before the first summit.

The prospect of a second summit has long been talked about. South Korean President Moon Jae-in returned from a meeting last fall with Kim saying the North Korean leader wanted to meet with Trump again.

Kim reiterated his wish for another meeting with Trump during a New Year’s address, however he also warned he might ramp up the country’s nuclear weapons production if the U.S. does not end its economic sanctions against North Korea.

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Three Parts to This Weekend Winter Storm – LEX18 Lexington KY News
Three Parts to This Weekend Winter Storm – LEX18 Lexington KY News

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U.S. regulators have met to discuss imposing a record-setting fine against Facebook for privacy violations – The Washington Post
U.S. regulators have met to discuss imposing a record-setting fine against Facebook for privacy violations – The Washington Post

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Tony Romm

Elizabeth Dwoskin

January 18 at 4:09 PM

U.S. regulators have met to discuss imposing a record-setting fine against Facebook for violating a legally binding agreement with the government to protect the privacy of its users’ personal data, according to three people familiar with the deliberations but not authorized to speak on the record.

The fine under consideration at the Federal Trade Commission, a privacy and security watchdog that began probing Facebook last year, would mark the first major punishment levied against Facebook in the United States since reports emerged in March that Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy, accessed personal information on about 87 million Facebook users without their knowledge.

The penalty is expected to be much larger than the $22.5 million fine the agency imposed on Google in 2012. That fine set a record for the greatest penalty for violating an agreement with the FTC to improve its privacy practices.

The FTC’s exact findings in its Facebook investigation and the total amount of the fine, which the agency’s five commissioners have discussed at a private meeting in recent weeks, have not been finalized, two of the people said. Staff has briefed the commissioners about their probe, the third person said, and plan to issue a formal recommendation for a fine soon — a move that would then trigger a vote by the commissioners.

Facebook also has talked with FTC staffers about the investigation, one of the people familiar with the probe said, but it is unclear whether the company would settle with the FTC by accepting a significant financial penalty.

The FTC, which has been shut down amid the lapse in government funding, could not be reached for comment. FTC Chairman Joseph Simons did not respond to a request for comment. Facebook declined to comment.

On Friday, privacy advocates strongly urged the FTC to take aggressive action against Facebook. “The agency now has the legal authority, the evidence, and the public support to act. There can be no excuse for further delay,” said Marc Rotenberg, the executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which helped to bring about the FTC’s 2011 charges against Facebook.

The key question for the FTC is whether Facebook’s business practices — and the protections and privacy controls it afforded consumers — violated requirements spelled out in a consent decree brokered by the agency the last time it accused the tech giant of deceiving its users. Only through such a finding could the FTC levy a fine.

The agreement requires Facebook to notify users, and seek their permission, before data is shared with third parties in a way that differs from existing privacy settings. The legally binding order also mandates that Facebook obtain users’ affirmative permission before sharing their data with third parties, and requires the tech giant to tell the FTC in the case others misuse that information. It prohibits Facebook from making deceptive statements about its privacy practices and institute outside checkups on the way it uses data.

Privacy advocates have charged that Facebook violated the terms of that agreement repeatedly, as evidenced by its entanglement with Cambridge Analytica. The data firm, which had ties to the Trump campaign, improperly harnessed personal information about the social networking site’s users to better target voters with political messages. Cambridge Analytica relied on researchers to assemble a quiz app that collected names, locations, interests and other data from those who installed it, as well as their friends.

The incident, brought to light by a former Cambridge Analytica employee, sparked an international backlash. Regulators around the world threatened to punish Facebook and rein in the data-collection practices of its Silicon Valley peers. Lawmakers in the U.S. Congress summoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify for the first time on Capitol Hill, where he apologized to lawmakers for the privacy violations.

Since the Cambridge Analytica probe came to light, other privacy troubles with Facebook have emerged — including details about its data-sharing agreements with smartphone and TV device-makers, banks and other major businesses and a full roster of third-party apps. More federal fines could still follow as the FTC investigates those matters, two of the people familiar with the probe said.

The penalty would mark the toughest punishment to date levied on Facebook for mishandling its users’ data. Regulators in the United Kingdom assessed a roughly $640,000 fine that Facebook is appealing. The attorney general of the District of Columbia has mounted a lawsuit against the tech giant for its missteps.

The FTC has issued large fines in recent years against companies that deceive consumers. It required Volkswagen in 2016 to spend more than $14 billion to settle charges related to its mishandling of emissions tests, for example, and it forced LifeLock, an identity-protection company, to pay more than $100 million for failing to secure its data. Some of that money was returned to LifeLock consumers.

Recommendations for fines made by FTC staff, however, are not always adopted by the five-member commission. In a 2012 investigation against Google, agency staff concluded that the search giant had abused its monopoly power and issued a formal recommendation to the commissioners challenging Google’s practices. The commissioners voted unanimously to end the investigation after Google agreed to voluntarily change some of his practices, a move that led to widespread frustration among agency staff, one of the people said.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/01/18/us-regulators-have-met-discuss-imposing-record-setting-fine-against-facebook-some-its-privacy-violations/

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Nancy Pelosi has a blank check, and she’d rather spite Trump than cash it – Washington Examiner
Nancy Pelosi has a blank check, and she’d rather spite Trump than cash it – Washington Examiner

The president and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., have made it abundantly clear that this is all a performance to them.

Trump had two years of Republican control of the House and Senate and failed to prioritize his premier campaign promise: increased border security. A GOP-controlled Congress didn’t pass so much as an e-verify expansion bill, let alone secure funding for his wall. He waited until the eleventh hour before he lost control of the House to stamp his foot and demand last-minute funding for the wall. He then shut down the government and declared it an act of bravery.

In theory, Trump handed a blank check to Pelosi. Trump owns the shutdown, and he needs to end it. For $5.7 billion in wall funding, Pelosi can ask for almost anything she wants.

But she hasn’t. Rather than secure the fates of 700,000 Dreamers and demand that the president grant them amnesty in order to achieve his beloved wall, she’s simply sneered in his face, glowing in the approval of the #Resistance for hurting Drumpf’s feelings and refusing to give him what he wants. You want your wall? Well you can’t have it, loser! Take that, President Cheeto!

Think about it. Pelosi has a blank check that costs a mere $5.7B, a drop in our multi-trillion dollar budget. Yet she’d rather spite Trump and leave hundreds of thousands of government workers without paychecks than actually cash in her potential prize.

The generous conclusion here is that we’re being ruled by children. The honest one is that we’re ruled by tyrants.

Our corrupt ruling class would rather posture to their bases than actually win anything for them. The shutdown’s economic costs aren’t just threatening our gross domestic product and stock markets. There are actual lives in financial and physical danger.

The shutdown will put the safety of the border, the very entity the president shut down the government to protect, in real jeopardy if it continues. The shutdown has effectively halted all Border Patrol training, and because most Department of Homeland Security recruiters are furloughed, the department is hemorrhaging staffers without hiring new ones.

If the shutdown continues for another week, federal district courts will run out of funds, halting civil proceedings. Federal workers will go a second pay cycle without a check.

States are clamoring to issue February food stamp funds to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients early, as the program has no proper funding past January. By March, the 38 million SNAP recipients — the majority of whom are children, elderly, or disabled — will likely receive no funding for food.

All of this ignores the businesses, from Walmart to local grocers, who rely on SNAP spending and customers who are federal employees without pay for their revenue.

And according to congressional staffers talking to McKay Coppins at the Atlantic, the politicians orchestrating the whole charade couldn’t care less. Coppins reports:

I spoke to one congressional staffer who wondered aloud whether it might take a stressed-out air-traffic controller causing a plane crash to bring an end to the shutdown. And several aides worried that some kind of terrorist incident would end up serving as the catalyst to get the government up and running again …

Even if some of their worst-case shutdown scenarios remain unlikely — there are still plenty of paths forward that don’t include body counts — the defeatism on display is revealing. It exposes the extent to which the latter-day crisis of faith in America’s core political institutions has infected even the members of the institutions themselves.

On Wednesday night, I spoke with a Democratic House aide who confessed that she was ambivalent about the shutdown. The battle had unified her party, with Democrats linking arms in defense of their ideals and in defiance of Trump. Polls suggested that a majority of Americans were with them, and that the ‘optics’ of the fight were good. ‘While it may be horrible for the country,’ she said of the shutdown, ‘it’s fine for the party.’

I’ve already made the case that the government is an unreliable employer, and the shutdown demonstrates the number of agencies, from the Transportation Security Administration to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, that must be privatized, downsized, or abolished completely. But those should be thoughtful, intentional decisions, not based on political posturing that punishes and blindsides millions of average Americans as collateral damage so our wealthy overlords can pander to their fans.

Trump needs to sit the speaker down and offer to fill that blank check with something significant enough that she can call it a win. Pelosi needs to accept the political opportunity of strong-arming Trump into a valuable concession that could help, say, 700,000 people in legal jeopardy who have already assimilated with our culture and contributed, as well as the moral cost of continuing this shutdown, all to keep a few billion bucks from the president’s hands.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/nancy-pelosi-has-a-blank-check-and-shed-rather-spite-trump-than-cash-it

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Here’s why Trump should worry about the latest report on his directing Cohen to lie to Congress – Washington Examiner
Here’s why Trump should worry about the latest report on his directing Cohen to lie to Congress – Washington Examiner

President Trump now stands accused of directing his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress about Trump’s attempt to court Russian President Vladimir Putin during the campaign and build a hotel in Moscow.

After two years of “bombshell” reports that proved duds, and “this is the beginning of the end!!!” declarations from the press, it’s natural to be skeptical of the import of this one. Also, after the biggest earlier bombshells turned out to be factual errors by the media, it’s natural to be skeptical of the validity of this one.

BuzzFeed’s report is based on “two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter.” They are obviously anonymous. They may or may not be working with the special counsel’s office, and they reportedly were working on the Moscow Tower case ” before Mueller.”

[UPDATE: The reporters didn’t see the documents, we should note. They spoke to sources who say the documents exist. Also, one of the BuzzFeed reporters, Jason Leopold, has copped to inventing sources in the past. The other reporter, Anthony Cormier, says they have sources beyond the two who were willing to talk “on the record.”]

So everyone should replace their freak-outs with patience for now.

But until we hear more, here are the reasons to take this latest report from BuzzFeed news seriously.

It’s not merely Cohen accusing Trump of ordering him to lie.

Trump’s shady lawyer Michael Cohen is known to lie about important things — that’s probably what he’s most known for. That’s why Trump’s team responded with snark: “If you believe Cohen I can get you a great deal on the Brooklyn Bridge.”

But if BuzzFeed’s sources are telling the truth, one doesn’t have to believe Cohen in order to believe Trump told Cohen to lie.

Here’s the key sentence: “The special counsel’s office learned about Trump’s directive for Cohen to lie to Congress through interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents. Cohen then acknowledged those instructions during his interviews with that office.”

If this is accurate, it means more than one Trump Organization employee accused Trump of this, and that printed records may confirm it — all before Cohen confirmed it. That would be pretty solid evidence against the president.

Of course, I’d want to see the texts, emails, and other documents before assuming they show what these anonymous sources say they show.

Telling someone to lie to Congress is obstruction, according to Trump’s attorney general nominee.

I’ve been skeptical about the other legal arguments against Trump. The campaign finance argument regarding Trump’s payoffs to a porn star seemed like a legal stretch. The idea that firing Comey was corrupt never seemed proven. The whole notion of “collusion” has been left fairly vague.

But instructing someone to lie to investigators looks a lot like obstruction of justice. That’s at least the opinion of William Barr, Trump’s nominee to be attorney general.

In a memo Barr wrote in June 2018, “obstruction laws prohibit a range of ‘bad acts’ — such as tampering with a witness …” He also wrote, “if a President knowingly destroys or alters evidence, suborns perjury , or induces a witness to change testimony, or commits any act deliberately impairing the integrity or availability of evidence, then he, like anyone else, commits the crime of obstruction.”

The relevant language, distilled: “if a President knowingly … suborns perjury … then he … commits the crime of obstruction.”

If Trump knowingly told Cohen to lie to Congress — lying to Congress is its own crime, similar to perjury — he did something pretty darn close to what Barr has previously said was obstruction.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated to add more background on the reporting.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/heres-why-trump-should-worry-about-the-latest-report-on-his-directing-cohen-to-lie-to-congress

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Trump and Kim Jong-un to Hold Second Summit Meeting Next Month – The New York Times
Trump and Kim Jong-un to Hold Second Summit Meeting Next Month – The New York Times

The first step the North Koreans were expected to take after the June meeting was a detailed inventory of their nuclear assets. That was to include the number of weapons they have produced — variously estimated at 20 to 60 — the locations of those weapons, any nuclear materials used to produce new weapons and a detailed list of their missiles and missile launchers.

The United States wanted to use the list to truth-test the North, comparing it to what American intelligence agencies have gathered over the past 30 years. But the North Koreans have complained to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other visiting Americans that the inventory would amount to a targeting list, telling the United States what to attack should Mr. Trump ever order a pre-emptive strike.

For months that issue produced a stalemate in diplomatic talks, along with the American insistence that major steps toward denuclearization would have to precede any initial lifting of sanctions.

But in November, Vice President Mike Pence began to loosen the conditions, telling NBC News that North Korea did not have to turn over its inventory in order to secure a second meeting with Mr. Trump. At the time, Mr. Pence seemed to acknowledge that the Singapore meeting had resulted in agreements so vague that they allowed the North to drag its feet.

“I think it will be absolutely imperative in this next summit that we come away with a plan for identifying all of the weapons in question, identifying all the development sites, allowing for inspections of the sites and the plan for dismantling nuclear weapons,” Mr. Pence said, noting that it was time to “see results.”

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/us/politics/trump-kim-summit.html

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City: Winter weather preparations consider a ‘worst case’ scenario – wpta21.com
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The Los Angeles teachers’ strike has cost $97 million. Now both sides are negotiating again – CNN
The Los Angeles teachers’ strike has cost $97 million. Now both sides are negotiating again – CNN

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    East Point woman among 19 killed in suicide bombing in Syria – Atlanta Journal Constitution
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    An Arabic interpreter from East Point was among 19 people killed in a suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State in Syria Wednesday, a gruesome attack that came just weeks after President Donald Trump called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops and declared the terrorist group had been “largely defeated.”

    Tri-Cities High School graduate Ghadir Taher, 27, who immigrated with her family to America from Syria, died from injuries she sustained in the blast, her younger brother, Ali, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Friday.

    “Her smile lit up the room. She was kind,” Ali Taher said, his voice edged with emotion. “You could go on for hours, talking to her about your worries and about your troubles. And she would make them seem like they were hers.”

    The family, he said, learned about her death Wednesday from her employer, Valiant Integrated Services, a defense contractor.

    “We are extremely saddened by the tragic and senseless passing of Ghadir Taher,” Valiant spokesman Tom Becker said in an email. “Out of respect to her family, we will make no further comment at this time other than to say she was a talented and highly-respected colleague, loved by many, who will be dearly missed.”

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    On Friday, the U.S. Defense Department identified three other Americans killed in the attack: Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jonathan Farmer, 37, of Boynton Beach, Fla.; Navy Chief Cryptologic Technician Shannon Kent, 35, of upstate New York; and Scott Wirtz of St. Louis, Mo., who was assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency as an operations support specialist.

    Trump touched on the Islamic State — also referred to as ISIS — and the U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria in a series of Dec. 22 Twitter posts.

    “On Syria, we were originally… going to be there for three months, and that was seven years ago — we never left,” he tweeted. “When I became President, ISIS was going wild. Now ISIS is largely defeated and other local countries, including Turkey, should be able to easily take care of whatever remains. We’re coming home!”

    Vice President Mike Pence went a step further in his condemnation of the attack Wednesday.

    “Thanks to the courage of our Armed Forces, we have crushed the ISIS caliphate and devastated its capabilities,” Pence said in a prepared statement. “As we begin to bring our troops home, the American people can be assured, for the sake of our soldiers, their families, and our nation, we will never allow the remnants of ISIS to reestablish their evil and murderous caliphate — not now, not ever.”

    Critics have questioned whether the president’s comments emboldened the Islamic State. They have called on him to reconsider his decision about the withdrawal of troops.

    “My concern, by the statements made by President Trump, is that you set in motion enthusiasm by the enemy we’re fighting. You make people we’re trying to help wonder about us. And as they get bolder, the people we’re trying to help are going to get more uncertain. I saw this in Iraq. And I’m now seeing it in Syria,” Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Wednesday.

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    Being pro-life isn’t about immigration, healthcare, or the environment – Washington Examiner
    Being pro-life isn’t about immigration, healthcare, or the environment – Washington Examiner

    Lately, there has been an increased and intensified discussion about what it means to be authentically pro-life. We have both witnessed a concerted effort among some members of the faith community and others, including friends and colleagues whom we deeply respect, to broaden the scope of pro-life concerns to encompass everything from race and immigration to healthcare and the environment.

    Certainly, these are serious matters that affect each one of us. As men and women who believe that every human life is sacred and valuable, and as concerned and engaged citizens, we are bound by our faith and by conscience to care deeply about these issues and any issue that speaks to the dignity and worth of human beings created in God’s image.

    Yet, there is a priority and urgency to the protection of the unborn.

    Our culture is sadly confused about the inherent dignity of the unborn child. Tragically, in the last 46 years, over 55 million Americans have been denied the most basic human right: life. Unborn children are the poorest of the poor in our world, the most vulnerable population.

    Today, over 100,000 Americans will gather in Washington, D.C. for the 46th annual March for Life. We march to remember those lost and to work toward the day when every life is protected. With the stated mission of ending abortion by uniting, educating, and mobilizing pro-life people in the public square, the March for Life has become the world’s largest annual human rights demonstration.

    We have seen great advances in that mission in recent years in terms of lower abortion rates, favorable legislation, scientific advances, and a shift in public opinion toward a more pro-life perspective.

    The inherent dignity of the human person is the foundation for our work and mission. From the moment of fertilization, a person possesses inherent value simply because he or she is a person and therefore has human dignity. Our human dignity does not depend on intellect, beauty, lack of disability, utility, race, religion, color, or size, etc. It simply is, because of our humanity.

    The great physician and bioethicist Leon Kass differentiates between “human dignity” and the “the dignity of being human.” The first, “human dignity,” relates to life and death issues. The second, “the dignity of being human,” refers to living life to the full and the potential for human flourishing. They are obviously both important, but the second is not possible without protection of the first.

    Let us resist the temptation to conflate all of these issues in the name of life. As blogger Trevin Wax noted last year, “By confusing ‘pro-life’ with a certain stance on immigration, or a certain view of gun control, or opposition to capital punishment, we lose momentum in maintaining unity around the central goal of protecting the unborn.”

    There are many worthy groups, faith-based and otherwise, speaking out on these broader issues of human dignity and flourishing. We applaud them for their efforts and pray that they succeed. But we must also acknowledge the priority of protecting first the most basic human right, life. Without life, nothing else matters.

    Jeanne Mancini is president of the March for Life. Jim Daly is president of Focus on the Family.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/being-pro-life-isnt-about-immigration-healthcare-or-the-environment

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    Nancy Pelosi’s very big accusation against the White House – CNN
    Nancy Pelosi’s very big accusation against the White House – CNN

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      Here’s why Trump should worry about the latest report on his directing Cohen to lie to Congress – Washington Examiner
      Here’s why Trump should worry about the latest report on his directing Cohen to lie to Congress – Washington Examiner

      President Trump now stands accused of directing his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress about Trump’s attempt to court Russian President Vladimir Putin during the campaign and build a hotel in Moscow.

      After two years of “bombshell” reports that proved duds, and “this is the beginning of the end!!!” declarations from the press, it’s natural to be skeptical of the import of this one. Also, after the biggest earlier bombshells turned out to be factual errors by the media, it’s natural to be skeptical of the validity of this one.

      BuzzFeed’s report is based on “two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter.” They are obviously anonymous. They may or may not be working with the special counsel’s office, and they reportedly were working on the Moscow Tower case ” before Mueller.”

      [UPDATE: The reporters didn’t see the documents, we should note. They spoke to sources who say the documents exist. Also, one of the BuzzFeed reporters, Jason Leopold, has copped to inventing sources in the past. The other reporter, Anthony Cormier, says they have sources beyond the two who were willing to talk “on the record.”]

      So everyone should replace their freak-outs with patience for now.

      But until we hear more, here are the reasons to take this latest report from BuzzFeed news seriously.

      It’s not merely Cohen accusing Trump of ordering him to lie.

      Trump’s shady lawyer Michael Cohen is known to lie about important things — that’s probably what he’s most known for. That’s why Trump’s team responded with snark: “If you believe Cohen I can get you a great deal on the Brooklyn Bridge.”

      But if BuzzFeed’s sources are telling the truth, one doesn’t have to believe Cohen in order to believe Trump told Cohen to lie.

      Here’s the key sentence: “The special counsel’s office learned about Trump’s directive for Cohen to lie to Congress through interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents. Cohen then acknowledged those instructions during his interviews with that office.”

      If this is accurate, it means more than one Trump Organization employee accused Trump of this, and that printed records may confirm it — all before Cohen confirmed it. That would be pretty solid evidence against the president.

      Of course, I’d want to see the texts, emails, and other documents before assuming they show what these anonymous sources say they show.

      Telling someone to lie to Congress is obstruction, according to Trump’s attorney general nominee.

      I’ve been skeptical about the other legal arguments against Trump. The campaign finance argument regarding Trump’s payoffs to a porn star seemed like a legal stretch. The idea that firing Comey was corrupt never seemed proven. The whole notion of “collusion” has been left fairly vague.

      But instructing someone to lie to investigators looks a lot like obstruction of justice. That’s at least the opinion of William Barr, Trump’s nominee to be attorney general.

      In a memo Barr wrote in June 2018, “obstruction laws prohibit a range of ‘bad acts’ — such as tampering with a witness …” He also wrote, “if a President knowingly destroys or alters evidence, suborns perjury , or induces a witness to change testimony, or commits any act deliberately impairing the integrity or availability of evidence, then he, like anyone else, commits the crime of obstruction.”

      The relevant language, distilled: “if a President knowingly … suborns perjury … then he … commits the crime of obstruction.”

      If Trump knowingly told Cohen to lie to Congress — lying to Congress is its own crime, similar to perjury — he did something pretty darn close to what Barr has previously said was obstruction.

      EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated to add more background on the reporting.

      Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/heres-why-trump-should-worry-about-the-latest-report-on-his-directing-cohen-to-lie-to-congress

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