A Complicated Racial History Underpins Politics In Virginia – NPR
A Complicated Racial History Underpins Politics In Virginia – NPR

A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee stands at the center of Lee Circle along Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. The commonwealth of Virginia has a complicated racial history which underpins many of today’s political controversies.

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A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee stands at the center of Lee Circle along Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. The commonwealth of Virginia has a complicated racial history which underpins many of today’s political controversies.

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Political enemies and allies alike are calling for Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, a Democrat, to step down after a racist photo from his 1984 medical school yearbook was uncovered. But Northam has shown no inclination to do so. Now the two Democratic officials in line behind him to assume the governorship are both embroiled in scandals of their own.

The controversies rocking Richmond are a reminder of the complicated racial history that underpins Virginia politics.

Northam had strong support from African-American voters in his 2017 race for governor. Now black leaders say they’ve been let down after seeing the racist photo in his medical school yearbook.

“Because those images bring back hate, bring to memory … things that we are trying to heal over, get over, put it in the past,” says Robert Barnett, vice president of the Virginia NAACP, which has called for Northam to resign.

The weight of history is strong in the Commonwealth.

“The system of enslavement that we know in America really was born here,” says historian Gregg Kimball with the Library of Virginia.

“You don’t overcome a legacy like that overnight,” Kimball says. “And even though we see advances in terms of different people that have different ethnicities and races serving in politics, there’s still this undertone.”

Richmond is a walking tour of American history: Thomas Jefferson designed the capitol building, the White House of the Confederacy is located here, and it was the site of one of the nation’s busiest slave markets. Yet there has been a concerted effort to move from Old South nostalgia to telling the broader story of Virginia’s history.

The American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Va., creates a space to bridge Virginia’s past and present.

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The American Civil War Museum, which operates the White House of the Confederacy and a museum at Appomattox, is creating a new space along the Richmond riverfront expected to open later this year. It’s a modern glass structure built around the brick ruins of the Tredegar Iron Works which once supplied the U.S. Navy and the Confederacy.

“We really wanted to create a space where immediately coming into it you see this connection between past and present,” says CEO Christy Coleman.

A Ku Klux Klan parade through counties in northern Virginia in March of 1922. An image in Virginia Gov. Northam’s medical school yearbook shows someone wearing KKK garb, leading to many calling for his resignation.

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A Ku Klux Klan parade through counties in northern Virginia in March of 1922. An image in Virginia Gov. Northam’s medical school yearbook shows someone wearing KKK garb, leading to many calling for his resignation.

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Coleman says the scandals rocking the capitol reveal the need for a deeper understanding of history and what the Ku Klux Klan and blackface actually represent.

“Those images, even if they’re 35 years ago, still have a real power and they have an ugliness,” Coleman says. “Because they’re both tied to a form of domestic terrorism that the nation still deals with right?”

Not many politicians have stood by Northam.

But today, Republican state senator Richard Stuart, a friend, came to his defense. “I think we need to give him the chance to stand up and work through this and I think that in the long run can be very helpful to the commonwealth and the country,” says Stuart.

He says poor judgement years ago should not outweigh Northam’s service given that racial attitudes in rural Virginia at the time were far different than they are today.

The head of the state’s Republican party is not buying that defense.

“If you’re in your mid 20s dressing, in blackface or a KKK robe, that’s a little bit beyond youthful indiscretions at that point,” says Jack Wilson, chairman of the Virginia GOP.

The party is calling on both Northam and Attorney General Mark Herring to resign.

Herring came forward on Wednesday to acknowledge that he, too, had worn “brown makeup” at a college party in 1980 to impersonate a popular rapper.

Northam has said he’s not in the photo after first indicating he was.

Regardless, Wilson says Northam should resign so the state can move on. He likens the situation at the capitol today as a “power vacuum.”

Democrat Kimberly Gray is on the Richmond City Council. Her district includes Monument Avenue, a street famous for civil war figures. Under the imposing and controversial Robert E. Lee memorial, Gray reflected on how this episode in Virginia politics is yet another chapter in navigating a fraught past.

“This is our history and it is part of who we are,” Gray said. “We need to figure out how to reconcile it.”

Gray, who is biracial, says although she’s disheartened, she’s hopeful that talking honestly can help move the Commonwealth forward.

“We’re a strong community of people. We do love each other,” she says. “The vast majority of us are not racist, but we have to come together and we have to embrace each other.”

As for the governor, Gray says she doesn’t see how he can remain in power because he can no longer be a unifying force.

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Here’s a flowchart of Virginia’s line of succession for governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general – Washington Examiner
Here’s a flowchart of Virginia’s line of succession for governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general – Washington Examiner

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, and Attorney General Mark Herring are all facing calls to resign. What happens if they do?

So here are the eight possibilities:

  • Only Gov. Northam Resigns: Gov. Justin Fairfax (D), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), Attorney General Mark Herring (D)
  • Only Lt. Gov. Fairfax Resigns: Gov. Ralph Northam (D), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), Attorney General Mark Herring (D)
  • Only Attorney General Mark Herring Resigns: Gov. Ralph Northam (D), Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D), new AG named by GOP legislature.
  • Northam and Fairfax Resign: Gov. Mark Herring (D), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), new AG named by GOP legislature.
  • Northam and Herring Resign: Gov. Justin Fairfax (D), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), new AG named by GOP legislature.
  • Fairfax and Herring Resign: Gov. Ralph Northam (D), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), new AG named by GOP legislature.
  • Northam, Fairfax, and Herring Resign: Gov. Kirk Cox (R), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), new AG named by GOP legislature.
  • Nobody resigns: WTH?

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Trump calls Schiff ‘political hack’ as Dems open new Russia probe, send transcripts to Mueller – Fox News
Trump calls Schiff ‘political hack’ as Dems open new Russia probe, send transcripts to Mueller – Fox News
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Schiff announces investigation into President Trump ‘beyond Russia’

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff looks to expand scope of Russia probe; Fox News contributor Trey Gowdy reacts.

One day after President Trump decried what he called “the politics of revenge” and “partisan investigations” in his State of the Union address, Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff announced a new, wide-ranging probe into the president’s foreign business dealings and Russian election meddling.

The move was fiercely condemned by Trump, who called Schiff a “political hack” on a partisan search-and-destroy mission.

The Intelligence Committee on Wednesday also voted to hand over a slew of interview transcripts to Special Counsel Robert Mueller that were generated by the panel’s previous Russia investigation, which was conducted under GOP leadership and concluded last March. That investigation found “no evidence” of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government in the 2016 election.

Republicans had previously voted to release the transcripts publicly, but that has been held up by an intelligence community review to ensure no sensitive materials are disclosed.

The flurry of activity comes shortly after Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley said he expected Mueller’s final Russia report “within a month.“

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Although the precise nature of the new Democrat-led House probe is unclear, Schiff said the investigation will include “the scope and scale” of Russian intervention in the 2016 presidential election, the “extent of any links and/or coordination” between Russians and Trump’s associates, whether foreign actors have sought to hold leverage over Trump or his family and associates, and whether anyone has sought to obstruct any of the relevant investigations.

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., now ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, exits a secure area to speak to reporters, on Capitol Hill last March. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schiff, D-Calif., charged late last year that Trump’s financial records with Deutsche Bank and Russia might reveal a “form of compromise” that “needs to be exposed.”  Schiff has long maintained that there had to be some reason that the German banking giant, which has what he called a “history of laundering Russian money,” was willing to work with the Trump Organization.

In response, Trump told reporters at the White House that Schiff was grandstanding.

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“He has no basis to do that. He’s just a political hack who’s trying to build a name for himself,” Trump said. “It’s just presidential harassment and it’s unfortunate, and it really does hurt our country.”

Trump, who last November called Schiff “little Adam Schitt,” warned during his State of the Union that an “economic miracle is taking place in the United States — and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics or ridiculous partisan investigations.”

Russians attempt to discredit Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation

Confidential material was released as part of a disinformation campaign.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., characterized Trump’s remarks as threatening.

“The president should not bring threats to the floor of the House,” Pelosi said.

For his part, Schiff said Trump’s comments would not deter Democrats.

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“We’re going to do our jobs and the president needs to do his,” Schiff said. “Our job involves making sure that the policy of the United States is being driven by the national interest, not by any financial entanglement, financial leverage or other form of compromise.”

While it was unclear whether Mueller had requested that the Intelligence Committee turn over the interview transcripts, Republicans unanimously voted in September to release the documents, pending a review for potentially sensitive contents. Democrats have long vowed to turn over the transcripts to Mueller.

President Donald Trump announces his nomination of David Malpass, under secretary of the Treasury for international affairs, to head the World Bank, during an event in the Rosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

That investigation, which Democrats said had been concluded prematurely, found “no evidence of collusion, coordination or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians.”

Since then, both former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone have been charged with lying to the panel. Cohen pleaded guilty in November to lying to the House and Senate intelligence committees about his role in a Trump business proposal in Moscow. He acknowledged that he misled lawmakers by saying he had abandoned the project in January 2016 when he actually continued pursuing it for months after that.

Stone pleaded not guilty to charges last month that he lied to the House panel about his discussions during the 2016 election about WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group that released thousands of emails stolen from Democrats. Stone is also charged with obstructing the House probe by encouraging one of his associates, New York radio host Randy Credico, to refuse to testify before the House panel in an effort to conceal Stone’s false statements.

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Schiff on Wednesday also announced a delay in an upcoming closed-door interview with Cohen, “in the interests of the investigation.” The interview was originally scheduled for Friday. It will now be held on Feb. 28, Schiff said.

Schiff said he could not speak about the reason for the delay. Hours after the meeting was pushed back, a document was filed under seal in the criminal case against Cohen brought by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office. The court’s docket did not contain any details about the nature of the document.

Special counsel spokesman Peter Carr declined comment, as did Lanny Davis, an attorney for Cohen.

Fox News’ Alex Pappas and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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‘She knows’: Nancy Pelosi’s daughter reacts to mother’s viral clap at Trump during SOTU – USA TODAY
‘She knows’: Nancy Pelosi’s daughter reacts to mother’s viral clap at Trump during SOTU – USA TODAY

After President Trump said “we must reject the politics of revenge, resistance, and retribution – and embrace the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise, and the common good,” Pelosi looked at Trump, he turned around, and the viral moment was born.
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Elizabeth Warren’s slow-motion nightmare continues – Washington Examiner
Elizabeth Warren’s slow-motion nightmare continues – Washington Examiner

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., directly claimed to be a Native American in the 1980s when she worked at the University of Texas law school, contrary to what she has suggested in previous statements.

In 1986, Warren scribbled “American Indian” on the line that says “race” on her State Bar of Texas registration card, according to a Washington Post report published Tuesday evening.

“The Texas bar registration card … removes any doubt that Warren directly claimed the identity. In other instances Warren has declined to say whether she or an assistant filled out forms,” the Post noted.

It added: “The date coincided with her first listing as a “minority” by the Association of American Law Schools. Warren reported herself as minority in the directory every year starting in 1986 — when AALS first included a list of minority law professors — to 1995, when her name dropped off the list. Warren also had her ethnicity changed from white to Native American in December 1989 while working at the University of Pennsylvania. The change came two years after she was hired there.”

In 1995, just a few months after Warren began working at Harvard Law School, she gave the go-ahead for the school to list her ethnicity as Native American.

“Harvard listed Warren as Native American in its federal affirmative action forms from 1995 to 2004,” the Post reported.

The registration card is also notable because knowledge of its existence comes after the senator released a stash of documents last summer that she said proved she didn’t try to use ethnicity as a means for professional advancement. Oddly enough, Warren’s stash didn’t include the registration card, which NBC News host Willie Geist characterized Tuesday as the “ definition of cultural appropriation.”

Warren and her team are already issuing apologies.

“I can’t go back,” the senator told the Post. “But I am sorry for furthering confusion on tribal sovereignty and tribal citizenship and harm that resulted.”

A Warren spokeswoman, Kristen Orthman, said separately that the senator “is sorry that she was not more mindful of this earlier in her career.”

The apologies mentioned in the Post report come after Warren already spoke privately with Bill John Baker, the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, to apologize for the disastrous DNA test she released last fall.

“I told him I was sorry for furthering confusion about tribal citizenship,” Warren said. “I am also sorry for not being more mindful about this decades ago. We had a good conversation.”

And to think: This all started with a misguided attempt to “own” President Trump.

In October of last year, Warren was so smug, so sure of herself, when she announced that she had submitted herself to a DNA test that she said would prove Trump was wrong and racist to mock her claim to Native American heritage.

But then the test results came back, and they showed that the senator could be anywhere between 1/64th and 1/1,024th Native American. What was billed briefly as a definitive put-down of Trump soon turned into a rolling nightmare, and it just won’t stop.

Warren has been criticized fiercely for using the science of DNA to “prove” her heritage. The test itself revealed her claim was even flimsier than originally imagined. She did all of this while also rolling out a “ fact squad” website that, amazingly, compiles every lunatic allegation about her into one space. The senator quietly tried to apologize to the Cherokee Nation, but those efforts were met with a response that can best be described as tepid. She is now doing a much louder and on-the-record apology, but only after the Post uncovered physical proof of her past claim to Cherokee Indian heritage. Proof, by the way, that managed somehow not to make it into the document dump she released last summer.

The DNA test has been an unmitigated disaster from the beginning, and it has done more damage to Warren’s credibility than any number of attacks from President Trump ever could. She is her own worst enemy.

If I’m Trump, and I want a second term in office, my sincerest hope is that Warren becomes the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee. She makes it too easy.

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Democrats just called Trump’s ‘investigations’ bluff – CNN
Democrats just called Trump’s ‘investigations’ bluff – CNN

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(CNN)In his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, President Donald Trump minced no words when it came to the ongoing — and planned — investigations into him and his Cabinet. 

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Here’s a flowchart of Virginia’s line of succession for governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general – Washington Examiner
Here’s a flowchart of Virginia’s line of succession for governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general – Washington Examiner

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, and Attorney General Mark Herring are all facing calls to resign. What happens if they do?

So here are the eight possibilities:

  • Only Gov. Northam Resigns: Gov. Justin Fairfax (D), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), Attorney General Mark Herring (D)
  • Only Lt. Gov. Fairfax Resigns: Gov. Ralph Northam (D), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), Attorney General Mark Herring (D)
  • Only Attorney General Mark Herring Resigns: Gov. Ralph Northam (D), Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D), new AG named by GOP legislature.
  • Northam and Fairfax Resign: Gov. Mark Herring (D), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), new AG named by GOP legislature.
  • Northam and Herring Resign: Gov. Justin Fairfax (D), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), new AG named by GOP legislature.
  • Fairfax and Herring Resign: Gov. Ralph Northam (D), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), new AG named by GOP legislature.
  • Northam, Fairfax, and Herring Resign: Gov. Kirk Cox (R), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), new AG named by GOP legislature.
  • Nobody resigns: WTH?

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Gas explosion in San Francisco shoots fire that burns multiple buildings – NBCNews.com
Gas explosion in San Francisco shoots fire that burns multiple buildings – NBCNews.com

SAN FRANCISCO— A gas explosion in a San Francisco neighborhood shot flames into the air Wednesday and burned five buildings, sending panicked residents and workers fleeing into the streets.

Utility crews put out the fire about three hours after private construction workers cut a natural gas line, igniting the towering flames, San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said. Authorities initially said five workers were missing, but the entire construction crew was found safe, and no other injuries were reported.

Officials evacuated several nearby buildings, including a medical clinic and apartment buildings, Hayes-White said. Vehicles on a busy street got rerouted as authorities cordoned off the bustling retail and residential neighborhood.

Pacific Gas & Electric spokesman Paul Doherty, from second-left, and San Francisco Fire Department Chief Joanne Hayes-White, from second-right, speak in a press conference as firefighters battle a fire sparked by a ruptured gas line in San Francisco on Feb. 6, 2019.Stephen Lam / Reuters

The fire damaged a building housing Hong Kong Lounge II, a popular dim sum restaurant frequented by students at the University of San Francisco and tourists. The restaurant made many “best of” lists.

Caroline Gasparini, 24, who lives catty-corner from the fire, said she and her housemate were in their living room when the windows started rattling. She looked up to see flames reflected in the glass.

“We went into crisis mode,” Gasparini said. “We grabbed our shoes, grabbed our laptops and grabbed our passports and just left.”

Gasparini said they saw employees of the burning restaurant run out the backdoor and people fleeing down the block.

Nick Jalali, 28, was cooking at home when the electricity cut out.

“We didn’t hear anything,” he said. “We just felt the shaking, and the next thing we knew, people were banging on the door to tell people it’s time to start evacuating.”

Firefighters worked to keep the fire from spreading while Pacific Gas & Electric crews tried to shut off the natural gas line.

“It’s complicated,” Hayes-White said of stopping the flow of gas through the damaged pipe. Though she later acknowledged that “as a fire chief and a resident, yes, I would have liked to see it mitigated.”

The fire began around 1:20 p.m., apparently by crews working on fiber-optic wires, Hayes-White said.

San Francisco firefighters battle a fire on Geary Boulevard in San Francisco on Feb. 6, 2019.Jeff Chiu / AP

Joseph Feusi lives four blocks away and said he was awoken by what sounded like a jet engine. Feusi, who works nights and sleeps in the afternoon, said he could see the towering flames from his home.

“I think the eight guys are really lucky they didn’t get blown to bits,” he said.

PG&E spokesman Paul Doherty stressed that the workers who cut the gas line are not affiliated with utility, which is under heightened scrutiny over its natural gas pipelines. A PG&E pipeline exploded under a neighborhood south of San Francisco in 2010, killing eight people and wiping out a neighborhood in suburban San Bruno.

A U.S. judge fined the nation’s largest utility $3 million for a conviction on six felony charges of failing to properly maintain the pipeline. California regulators also fined PG&E $1.6 billion, and the utility remains under a federal judge’s watch in that case.

Associated Press writers Paul Elias and Olga R. Rodriguez in San Francisco contributed to this report.

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Hill negotiators listen to experts on best ways to secure border, but hear what they want – CNN
Hill negotiators listen to experts on best ways to secure border, but hear what they want – CNN

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    Here’s a flowchart of Virginia’s line of succession for governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general – Washington Examiner
    Here’s a flowchart of Virginia’s line of succession for governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general – Washington Examiner

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    • Only Lt. Gov. Fairfax Resigns: Gov. Ralph Northam (D), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), Attorney General Mark Herring (D)
    • Only Attorney General Mark Herring Resigns: Gov. Ralph Northam (D), Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D), new AG named by GOP legislature.
    • Northam and Fairfax Resign: Gov. Mark Herring (D), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), new AG named by GOP legislature.
    • Northam and Herring Resign: Gov. Justin Fairfax (D), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), new AG named by GOP legislature.
    • Fairfax and Herring Resign: Gov. Ralph Northam (D), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), new AG named by GOP legislature.
    • Northam, Fairfax, and Herring Resign: Gov. Kirk Cox (R), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), new AG named by GOP legislature.
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    Trump calls Schiff ‘political hack’ as Dems open new Russia probe, send transcripts to Mueller – Fox News
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    One day after President Trump decried what he called “the politics of revenge” and “partisan investigations” in his State of the Union address, Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff announced a new, wide-ranging probe into the president’s foreign business dealings and Russian election meddling.

    The move was fiercely condemned by Trump, who called Schiff a “political hack” on a partisan search-and-destroy mission.

    The Intelligence Committee on Wednesday also voted to hand over a slew of interview transcripts to Special Counsel Robert Mueller that were generated by the panel’s previous Russia investigation, which was conducted under GOP leadership and concluded last March. That investigation found “no evidence” of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government in the 2016 election.

    Republicans had previously voted to release the transcripts publicly, but that has been held up by an intelligence community review to ensure no sensitive materials are disclosed.

    The flurry of activity comes shortly after Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley said he expected Mueller’s final Russia report “within a month.“

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    Although the precise nature of the new Democrat-led House probe is unclear, Schiff said the investigation will include “the scope and scale” of Russian intervention in the 2016 presidential election, the “extent of any links and/or coordination” between Russians and Trump’s associates, whether foreign actors have sought to hold leverage over Trump or his family and associates, and whether anyone has sought to obstruct any of the relevant investigations.

    Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., now ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, exits a secure area to speak to reporters, on Capitol Hill last March. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    Schiff, D-Calif., charged late last year that Trump’s financial records with Deutsche Bank and Russia might reveal a “form of compromise” that “needs to be exposed.”  Schiff has long maintained that there had to be some reason that the German banking giant, which has what he called a “history of laundering Russian money,” was willing to work with the Trump Organization.

    In response, Trump told reporters at the White House that Schiff was grandstanding.

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    “He has no basis to do that. He’s just a political hack who’s trying to build a name for himself,” Trump said. “It’s just presidential harassment and it’s unfortunate, and it really does hurt our country.”

    Trump, who last November called Schiff “little Adam Schitt,” warned during his State of the Union that an “economic miracle is taking place in the United States — and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics or ridiculous partisan investigations.”

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    For his part, Schiff said Trump’s comments would not deter Democrats.

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    “We’re going to do our jobs and the president needs to do his,” Schiff said. “Our job involves making sure that the policy of the United States is being driven by the national interest, not by any financial entanglement, financial leverage or other form of compromise.”

    While it was unclear whether Mueller had requested that the Intelligence Committee turn over the interview transcripts, Republicans unanimously voted in September to release the documents, pending a review for potentially sensitive contents. Democrats have long vowed to turn over the transcripts to Mueller.

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    That investigation, which Democrats said had been concluded prematurely, found “no evidence of collusion, coordination or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians.”

    Since then, both former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone have been charged with lying to the panel. Cohen pleaded guilty in November to lying to the House and Senate intelligence committees about his role in a Trump business proposal in Moscow. He acknowledged that he misled lawmakers by saying he had abandoned the project in January 2016 when he actually continued pursuing it for months after that.

    Stone pleaded not guilty to charges last month that he lied to the House panel about his discussions during the 2016 election about WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group that released thousands of emails stolen from Democrats. Stone is also charged with obstructing the House probe by encouraging one of his associates, New York radio host Randy Credico, to refuse to testify before the House panel in an effort to conceal Stone’s false statements.

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    Schiff on Wednesday also announced a delay in an upcoming closed-door interview with Cohen, “in the interests of the investigation.” The interview was originally scheduled for Friday. It will now be held on Feb. 28, Schiff said.

    Schiff said he could not speak about the reason for the delay. Hours after the meeting was pushed back, a document was filed under seal in the criminal case against Cohen brought by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office. The court’s docket did not contain any details about the nature of the document.

    Special counsel spokesman Peter Carr declined comment, as did Lanny Davis, an attorney for Cohen.

    Fox News’ Alex Pappas and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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    How Amy Klobuchar could win – Washington Examiner
    How Amy Klobuchar could win – Washington Examiner

    ” Amy’s Making a Big Announcement,” posted Sen. Klobuchar, D-Minn., from her Twitter account just hours after the State of the Union. Absent from the presidential tease were mixtapes, celebrity headlines, and Instagram livestreams. Instead, Klobuchar just posted one single boomer image macro, and unless she’s taking to the stage over the weekend to announce that she’s definitively not throwing her hat into the already-crowded ring, it’s now clear: She’s running.

    Klobuchar might be the first interesting candidate to enter the race in this entire season. Unlike Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., who have spent the better part of the past two years auditioning for the presidency at every televised turn, or Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, whose bid was as unpromising as it had been unexpected, Klobuchar may just turn out to be the dark horse of this race.

    Either in their pursuit to trigger President Trump, or to tax and nationalize America into socialism, nearly every professed and prospective 2020 candidate has swung slightly to the left of Eugene V. Debs. Kamala was a cop, but now she wants the state to eliminate private health insurance. Booker began his Senate career with the promise of bipartisanship, and now he wants a multi-trillion Green New Deal that would, by use of unicorns and rainbows, reach zero carbon emissions while banning nuclear energy and carbon trading. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., who was an immigration hawk not long ago, has now endorsed abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

    The only Democratic front-runner remotely aligned with Obama-era liberalism is his former Vice President, Joe Biden, who hasn’t even announced whether he’s running. Unlike Harris, Booker, and the rest, Biden still has Rust Belt appeal and doesn’t engage in the sort of “intersectional” silliness that has driven the white working class into the arms of Trump. And unlike Harris, Booker, and the rest, Biden has consistently topped primary polls without even trying. But a recent Emerson poll confirmed a key concern for Biden acolytes — that he may just be too old to run. Just one-third of those polled said that there’s no age too old to run for the presidency, whereas 27 percent said that anyone over 75 would be too old, and another 27 percent said anyone over 70 would be too old. Biden is currently 76, and if he won the presidency, he would be 82 by the end of his first term.

    That leaves a massive void of moderate liberalism for a younger candidate to fill. And Klobuchar might have positioned herself to do just that.

    Unlike her Democratic colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Klobuchar didn’t make a mockery of herself in an attempt to score a viral moment owning Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings. Whereas Booker, Harris, and Sen. Maizie Hirono, D-Hawaii, threw cheap shots and leading questions at the judge, Klobuchar’s line of questioning was tempered and reflective of her record as one of Minnesota’s top prosecutors. It’s also worth noting that while Booker and Harris desperately tried to trip up Kavanaugh to no avail, Klobuchar actually managed to get Kavanaugh to question her during the hearing, immediately eliciting an apology from him.

    Klobuchar also hasn’t taken the bait on Medicare for All. While single-payer may seem like all the rage, polling that includes its consequences crashes its favorability with the public. Only 37 percent of those polled by the Kaiser Family Foundation support single-payer when made aware that it would eliminate private insurance and raise taxes, and just a quarter still support it when told Medicare for All would cause shortages — an inevitability when considering that its $32.6 trillion price tag over 10 years implies that physicians and hospitals accept a reimbursement rate 40 percent lower than average private standards. Without that favorable assumption, the price becomes much higher.

    As Democrats have rapidly turned their backs on Israel and embraced the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement against it, and as they have warmly welcomed one-state-solution backers such as Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Klobuchar stood alone as the only 2020 senator to vote with Republicans and a shrinking segment of pro-Israel Democrats on a bill allowing states to withhold business from companies engaging in anti-Israel BDS.

    So what does Klobuchar stand for? Basically everything that made pre-2014 progressivism viable in elections. But as it turns out, it may not matter too much.

    Fifty-seven percent of voters currently say that they won’t vote for Trump. But given the choice between our blustery president and a Democrat who wants to nationalize one-fifth of our economy with single-payer, abandon Israel, chase the wealthy out of the country, and legalize third-trimester abortion, that number would surely either sink or fracture among third-party challengers. So the Democrat who could beat Trump is one who simply isn’t insane or a socialist.

    But is that enough to win a primary? It may very well be. According to Monmouth, 56 percent of Democrats would prefer a candidate whom they may not agree with but would have better odds beating Trump, as opposed to 33 percent who’d take the reverse. As much as Democratic leaders may claim that the only way to beat Trump is to become his antithesis on the issues, the statistics tell a different story.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/how-amy-klobuchar-could-win

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    Peggy Noonan says Ocasio-Cortez has ‘rare bad night,’ freshman rep responds – Fox News
    Peggy Noonan says Ocasio-Cortez has ‘rare bad night,’ freshman rep responds – Fox News
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    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responds to criticism from Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan

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    U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded to criticism from a top columnist on Tuesday that she had a “rare bad night” during President Trump’s State of the Union speech.

    Peggy Noonan, the Wall Street Journal columnist, tweeted that the 29-year-old Democrat looked “sullen, teenaged and at a loss” during a night where the freshman rep kept mostly silent and refused to applaud president Trump’s remarks as he touted his administration’s low unemployment numbers and efforts to cure AIDS and stop sex traffickers.

    Ocasio-Cortez – a frequent critic of Trump – took to Twitter to defend herself.

    “Why should I be “spirited and warm” for this embarrassment of a #SOTU? Tonight was an unsettling night for our country. The president failed to offer any plan, any vision at all, for our future. We’re flying without a pilot. And I‘m not here to comfort anyone about that fact,” she wrote.

    Ocasio-Cortez did clap when Trump recognized the number of women in Congress.

    Trump’s appeal for unity is unlikely to win over many of his Democratic critics in Congress. Before Trump even delivered his speech, California Sen. Kamala Harris, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, said, “We will hear insincere appeals to unity.”

    Also in the audience were several other Democrats running to challenge Trump in 2020, including Cory Booker of New Jersey, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York.

    Noonan tweeted, “This has been a deeply adept speech in terms of policy. He cut to the muscle on legal and illegal immigration, on abortion and infanticide, on foreign wars. His vow on socialism will be remembered. Great heroes in the balcony, a real American panoply.”

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    San Francisco explosion: Huge gas line explosion in San Francisco creates inferno – CBS News
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    A gas line explosion caused an inferno in a San Francisco neighborhood Wednesday, the city’s fire department said. San Francisco Fire Department spokesman John Baxter said an unknown number of rescues took place.

    The incident happened at the corner of Geary Blvd. and Parker Ave. around 1 p.m. Wednesday in the city’s Jordan Park neighborhood, CBS San Francisco reports. A two-story building on a corner, the site of Hong Kong Lounge II restaurant, had been engulfed in flames.

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    A work crew using a backhoe was in front of the building at the time of the explosion. The backhoe was consumed by flames. Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said workers apparently cut a natural gas line while installing fiber-optic wires at a business.

    “We were in the store, we heard almost like an air noise,” Michael, a worker at a nearby Verizon store, told CBS San Francisco. “It sounded like pressure was building up. I saw people running across the street so I ran out. We saw flames everywhere. Construction workers saying get back. They said someone is probably dead. I’m just hoping everything is okay.”

    San Francisco police had asked people in nearby buildings to evacuate and have closed neighboring streets in the Richmond District, The Associated Press reports.

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    Ken Cuccinelli: Got governor trouble? Here’s how Virginia’s succession law works – Washington Examiner
    Ken Cuccinelli: Got governor trouble? Here’s how Virginia’s succession law works – Washington Examiner

    Citizens from all over America suddenly have a keen interest in the order of succession for the Virginia governorship.

    This began with Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s statement last Wednesday indicating his support for deciding whether a child born alive would get to live or die after birth. That appears to have led to the Friday revelation of then-medical-school-student Northam’s 1984 yearbook in which he appears to be in either a Ku Klux Klan outfit or in blackface.

    Northam immediately apologized for the offense, but then on the next day (Saturday) came out and said that he didn’t think he was in the offensive photo … but, oh by the way, he did dress up in blackface once anyway as part of a dance contest. (He said he won the contest, by the way, and he nearly showed off his moonwalk during the presser before his wife intervened).

    Needless to say, Northam’s infanticide comments did not stir Democrats at all, but once the racist photo came out, they (along with Republicans) were calling on the governor to resign. And not just within Virginia — the Democratic 2020 candidates were racing one another to call for Northam’s resignation.

    If the governor were to resign, the lieutenant governor — Justin Fairfax — would assume the office of governor for the duration of the governor’s term. That is what people thought would happen … until Sunday.

    On Sunday, allegations surfaced that Justin Fairfax had sexually assaulted a woman at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Justin Fairfax immediately denied the allegations but said the Washington Post knew about the allegations and refused to print a story because they found numerous inconsistencies and “red flags” in the accuser’s story.

    With surprising speed, the Washington Post called Justin Fairfax a liar. The Post said they didn’t run the story because they could not get past the “he said/she said” nature of the story. That is a far cry from LG Fairfax’s initial public denial.

    First as a college student, later as a prosecutor, I spent years working to prevent sexual assault. From that background, I don’t mind saying that it ticks me off to see Fairfax’s first reaction is to attack the person accusing him instead of offering facts that might corroborate his denial of the allegations. But in any case, if the situation cannot be moved from the “he said/she said” category, how is that to be handled? Only time will tell.

    If the lieutenant governor were elevated to the governorship or if the lieutenant governor resigned — now a genuine possibility — then the current president pro tempore of the State Senate “assumes the duties” of the lieutenant governor. Note that the president pro tempore does not assume the office of lieutenant governor. It is a subtle difference, but the office of lieutenant governor would be left open until the next statewide election in 2021.

    The current president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate is Sen. Steve Newman of the Lynchburg area. Newman is a Republican — a mild-mannered conservative who is well-liked on both sides of the aisle.

    Interestingly, he would not have to give up his Senate seat as he assumed the duties of the lieutenant governor. That means that he would get his vote as a state senator, and he would also get to vote to break any ties that arise in the chamber.

    It is worth noting that the entire General Assembly is up for election this year and the state senate is currently 21-19 in favor of the Republicans. If the Democrats take control, they can elect their own president pro tempore of the Senate, who would then have his or her own senate vote and also be able to break ties.

    That gets us up to Sunday of this incredible week. Since then, things have become even more strange.

    Among those who were calling on Gov. Northam to resign was the third person in the line of succession behind the lieutenant governor, namely Virginia’s attorney general, Mark Herring. On Saturday, Herring said: “It is no longer possible for Gov. Northam to lead our Commonwealth, and it is time for him to step down.”

    But after all that — after calling for Gov. Northam’s resignation for his blackface/Klan photo — Herring today admitted to wearing blackface himself when he was a young adult in college.

    Suddenly, Democrats like Sen. Mark Warner, who were calling for Northam to resign are pointedly not calling for Herring to resign. Why? Because he is the last of the three Democrats in the order of succession to the governor’s office. Next in line would be the Republican speaker of the House, Kirk Cox.

    You may recall in December 2017 when one of Virginia’s House of Delegates races ended in an exact tie, and so was determined by drawing a name out of a bowl. That name was a Republican, giving the GOP a meager 51-49 majority — the majority that elected Kirk Cox as speaker.

    If for some reason Cox couldn’t ascend to the governorship, the final element in the Virginia succession is for the House of Delegates to elect a new governor.

    Aside from whatever Northam decides to do, there is a very real (now expected) possibility that Herring will have to resign as attorney general. If he does so while the General Assembly is in session, they elect a replacement for the duration of the term. If the attorney general resigns while the General Assembly is not in session, then whoever is governor at that time appoints a temporary replacement to serve until the next General Assembly session, at which time the General Assembly elects a replacement to fill that term.

    The logical selection to fill the position is Republican State Sen. Mark Obenshain. Obenshain lost the race to then-state-senator Mark Herring by only a few hundred votes out of more than 2 million cast. Surely, had the people of Virginia known of Herring’s blackface antics, it would have cost him tens (hundreds?) of thousands of votes, and Obenshain would have won anyway.

    In a year when the entire General Assembly is up for election, with both houses divided by two seats each, this set of disasters for the Democrats is truly unprecedented. And every last bit of it is self-inflicted.

    Ken Cuccinelli, a Republican and the president of the Senate Conservatives’ Fund, served as Virginia’s 46th attorney general from 2010 until 2014.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/ken-cuccinelli-got-gov-trouble-heres-how-virginias-succession-law-works

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    Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring Says He Wore Blackface At College Party – HuffPost
    Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring Says He Wore Blackface At College Party – HuffPost

    Herring, 57, said he was “deeply, deeply sorry for the pain that I cause with this revelation.”

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    House intelligence chair announces sweeping investigation into Trump’s finances and Russia – CNN
    House intelligence chair announces sweeping investigation into Trump’s finances and Russia – CNN

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    Trump’s State of the Union showed he represents the people, not the swamp – Washington Examiner

    In his State of the Union address, President Trump encouraged all of us to strive for greatness. He also made a direct appeal to Congress to reject socialism, the very antithesis of our inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

    In the past two years, Trump has delivered on many of his campaign promises. This alone has been a breath of fresh air to voters who believed the idea of elected politicians “doing what they promised” has been lost for decades.

    There’s no question the economy is strong. We’ve hit 3 percent economic growth and unemployment is low across the board. The economy surpassed expectations and added more than 304,000 jobs in the month of January alone, despite a government shutdown.

    Through tax reform, deregulation, criminal justice reform, and other meaningful reforms, Trump’s policies have made life better for people from all walks of life. America is once again open for business.

    Thanks to a robust deregulatory agenda, the growth of government has been cut by nearly 96 percent compared to the Obama administration. Our prosperity has come from hard-working Americans, not federal programs.

    Because of the Trump administration’s focus on bipartisan justice reform, our streets are safer and inmates have the tools to re-enter society as contributing members. To be smart on crime, which the First Step Act promotes, is the best way to be hard on crime.

    Small government and individual liberty are what make America exceptional. Our nation was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and the rights of the individual are sacred.

    With the rest of his first term, and most likely a second, Trump has the unique opportunity to build on his accomplishments and enact substantial changes that will bring us back to our founding principles.

    Conservatives are confident that Trump will continue to shrink the size and reach of government and return power to the individual. It’s no wonder the president enjoys such widespread support from the grassroots — they want small government and they can count on Trump to deliver.

    Unfortunately for Democrats, the Trump economic agenda is diametrically opposed to their vision. We’re seeing it from presidential hopefuls and House Democrats alike: higher taxes, socialized healthcare, expensive and unreliable energy, and restrictions on free speech. They oppose the very foundation of the American experiment in self-governance as they seek to control nearly every aspect of our lives.

    Trump made it clear in his address that he represents the people, not special interests in the Swamp.

    He must stay the course and seize on this momentum. The only true way to achieve greatness is for government to get out of the way and allow us all to be great.

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    Banks weigh whether to embrace or avoid progressive firebrand Ocasio-Cortez – Reuters
    Banks weigh whether to embrace or avoid progressive firebrand Ocasio-Cortez – Reuters

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    Barely a month into the new Congress, financial lobbyists in Washington are already strategizing how to handle the star power of rookie Democrat lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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    Richard Hunt, chief executive of the Consumer Bankers Association, said he had not encountered a lawmaker like Ocasio-Cortez in more than 20 years in Washington. “She has the ability to influence unlike a lot of other freshmen.”

    The youngest woman ever to serve in Congress, Ocasio-Cortez has become a social media phenomenon with her posts and live-streams on everything from climate change to skin care tips attracting millions of followers across Twitter and Instagram.

    The New York native has proved adept at using humor to explain complex concepts or rebuke opponents, often while preparing dinner or hanging out in her pajamas. A video of the lawmaker dancing outside her Congressional office last month has been viewed 21 million times.

    An economics major and self-confessed “science nerd,” Ocasio-Cortez campaigned on issues that put her at odds with the financial industry, including separating commercial and investment banking, breaking up large banks, and forgiving student debt.

    Central to her campaign has been the rejection of corporate campaign dollars, closing off a traditional avenue for industry access and influence on Capitol Hill.

    Now lobbyists fear that her enlarged platform will help the first-term junior lawmaker push her ideas into the mainstream and are trying to figure out how best to respond.

    Lobbyists representing big banks, such as JPMorgan Chase & Co, Citigroup, Bank of America Corp, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley, which have embraced progressive causes such as diversity, inclusion, gun control or above-minimum wages, want to push these credentials. They also want to highlight how they employ thousands of people in Ocasio-Cortez’s district in Queens and the Bronx, they said.

    Smaller and mid-size firms, meanwhile, want to distance themselves from Wall Street titans and emphasize their critical role as community lenders.

    Several financial lobbyists, noting she lacks a financial services background, said they were keen to meet with Ocasio-Cortez to explain their business models and issues.

    Paul Merski, executive vice president at the Independent Community Bankers of America, said the group had contacted the lawmaker’s office and was hoping to schedule a meeting. He added his focus would be to draw the distinction between larger financial firms and ICBA’s members, which as small community lenders have built-up “tremendous goodwill” across the aisle.

    Spokespeople for JPMorgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Morgan Stanley declined to comment.

    Speaking to Reuters on the sidelines of a Capitol Hill event on Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez said the appointment of progressives like her to the panel “sends a very powerful message” to the financial industry.

    She said she wanted to pursue aggressive oversight and expose financial corporations’ role in broader areas of concern, such as the detention of children in privately-funded facilities on the Mexico border.

    “We can leap back in and say, what does a responsible financial sector looks like?”

    “LIKE TALKING TO THE FBI”

    Other lobbyists worry, however, engaging her could backfire, especially if Ocasio-Cortez uses social media to publicize the meeting. For example, she went on Twitter to name and shame corporate lobbyists at a Congressional freshman orientation event in December.

         “The fear is, it’s like going in to talk to the FBI, anything you do or say can be used against you,” said one lobbyist for a major bank.

    Lobbyists note how Ocasio-Cortez has already ignited a public debate on climate change and inequality by calling for a Green New Deal and proposing a 70 percent tax on income exceeding $10 million, an idea Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman has endorsed.

        Waleed Shahid, a former campaign aide and a spokesman for Justice Democrats, the progressive group that recruited Ocasio-Cortez, said her ability to raise public awareness about complex issues had caught the establishment’s attention.

    “She can really explain what is happening with Wall Street in a way the public can understand it, and that’s why Wall Street is terrified.”

    Speaking to Reuters, Ocasio-Cortez did not rule out listening to industry concerns to arrive at responsible regulation, but said “they have more than enough sympathetic ears” on the committee.

    “We also saw in 2008 just a lot of advocacy for policies that were at its core totally irresponsible. But they were dressed up as conservative fair-minded measures,” she added.

    The financial industry faced a similar challenge in 2012 when newly elected progressive firebrand Elizabeth Warren joined the Senate Banking Committee and her grilling of bank executives and regulators won her a national following.

        But while Warren was well-known as a consumer advocate before joining Congress, she did not have the same social media platform as Ocasio-Cortez. Isaac Boltansky, director of policy research at Washington-based boutique investment bank Compass Point Research & Trading, said that whichever bank slips up next will get “taken to the woodshed in a way that we haven’t seen before.”

    Often caught flatfooted by Warren, the industry hopes to rebuild bipartisan support it enjoyed in Congress before the 2007-2009 financial crisis. And with many incumbent centrist Democrats smarting after Ocasio-Cortez called them out for doing big business’s bidding, some see an opportunity to divide and conquer.

        Several lobbyists told Reuters they believed they could isolate Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives on the financial services committee by building coalitions with moderate Democrats, such as fellow New York Representative Gregory Meeks, and centrist Republicans.

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        They said they would also lean on Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters, a Democrat and a liberal who has pledged to work across the aisle, to rein in the progressive wing.

    A spokeswoman for Waters declined to comment.

        In a statement, Meeks said his priority this Congress would be to promote policies that “support our financial system, but ensure everyone benefits from its successes.”

    Reporting by Pete Schroeder and Michelle Price; Editing by Neal Templin and Tomasz Janowski

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    Lawyers may appeal suicide case to US high court – Valley News Live
    Lawyers may appeal suicide case to US high court – Valley News Live

    BOSTON (AP) Lawyers for a woman who as a teenager encouraged her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself say they will consider appealing her involuntary manslaughter conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court.

    Attorneys for 22-year-old Michelle Carter say in an email Wednesday they are disappointed Massachusetts’ highest court upheld her conviction in the 2014 death of Conrad Roy III.

    Carter’s lawyers say they continue to believe Carter didn’t cause Roy’s death. They say they will examine all legal options, including a possible appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

    Carter was sentenced to 15 months in jail, but has remained free while she pursues her appeals.

    Her case drew international attention due to the thorny legal questions and the insistent tone of her text messages to Roy.

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    California revels in a rare wet winter, and more storms are in the forecast – Los Angeles Times
    California revels in a rare wet winter, and more storms are in the forecast – Los Angeles Times

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    Source Article from https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-wet-year-california-snow-20190206-story.html

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