Sean Spicer will cooperate with Judiciary Committee probe: "There’s nothing that I have to hide” – AOL
Sean Spicer will cooperate with Judiciary Committee probe: "There’s nothing that I have to hide” – AOL

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer vowed to cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee probe into President Donald Trump’s businesses,  campaign and administration.

“I will do everything to facilitate this investigation, and there’s nothing that I have to hide,” Spicer told Fox News in an interview Tuesday. “So I want a swift conclusion to this whole thing as soon as possible.”

Spicer is one of the 81 individuals from whom Democrats are requesting documents as part of their investigation of possible power abuses. The extensive list includes Trump associates and family members, federal agencies and other organizations.

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White House Communications Director Sean Spicer holds the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S. February 2, 2017.

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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer (L) takes questions during a daily briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House January 23, 2017 in Washington, DC. Spicer conducted his first official White House daily briefing to take questions from the members of the White House press corps.

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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds the daily press briefing January 23, 2017 at the White House in Washington, DC.

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U.S. President Donald Trump (L-R), joined by Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice President Mike Pence, senior advisor Steve Bannon, Communications Director Sean Spicer and National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, speaks by phone with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 28, 2017.

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White House spokesman Sean Spicer takes questions during his press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 30, 2017.

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Rivals Brad Woodhouse (left) and Sean Spicer pose for a photograph outside Bullfeathers in Washington, D.C. on November 08, 2011. Sean Spicer and Brad Woodhouse (spokesmen for the RNC and DNC) hosts Congressional and other flacks to the 1st Annual ‘Flacks for Flacks Who Wear Flak Jackets’ Benefiting Military Public Affairs Officers serving in Afghanistan.

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Trump advisor Steve Bannon (2L), White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus (R), and White House spokesman Sean Spicer look on before the announcement of the Supreme Court nominee at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 31, 2017. President Donald Trump nominated federal appellate judge Neil Gorsuch as his Supreme Court nominee, tilting the balance of the court back in the conservatives’ favor.

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Sean Spicer, White House press secretary, center, attends a swearing in ceremony of White House senior staff in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. Trump today mocked protesters who gathered for large demonstrations across the U.S. and the world on Saturday to signal discontent with his leadership, but later offered a more conciliatory tone, saying he recognized such marches as a hallmark of our democracy.

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Sean Spicer, left, is the new communications director for the Republican National Committee, and Rick Wiley, is the RNC� new political director.

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Sean Spicer, White House press secretary, arrives to a swearing in ceremony of White House senior staff in the East Room of the White House on January 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. Trump today mocked protesters who gathered for large demonstrations across the U.S. and the world on Saturday to signal discontent with his leadership, but later offered a more conciliatory tone, saying he recognized such marches as a ‘hallmark of our democracy.’

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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer makes a statement to members of the media at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House January 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. This was Spicer’s first press conference as Press Secretary where he spoke about the media’s reporting on the inauguration’s crowd size.

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Stephen Miller(L) and Sean Spicer, arrive to meet with US President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York on January 10, 2017.

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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer makes a statement to members of the media at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House January 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. This was Spicer’s first press conference as Press Secretary where he spoke about the media’s reporting on the inauguration’s crowd size.

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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds the daily press briefing January 23, 2017 at the White House in Washington, DC.

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Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer takes a photo with his cell phone on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. In today’s inauguration ceremony Donald J. Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States.

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Sean Spicer, a spokesman for the House Republican Conference, updates waiting media on progress of the meeting as House Republicans, eager to put a fresh face on their leadership team as they head into difficult November elections, chose John A. Boehner of Ohio as their new majority leader. Boehner beat out interim Majority Leader Roy Blunt of Missouri on the second ballot, 122-109. John Shadegg of Arizona, a late entrant into the race, was knocked out on the first ballot, when he drew 40 votes to 79 for Boehner and 110 for Blunt. Jim Ryun of Kansas drew two votes.

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Sean Spicer, incoming press secretary for President-elect Donald Trump leaves from Trump Tower after meetings on January 5, 2017, in New York.

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Chief Strategist and Communications Director at the Republican National Committee, Sean Spicer is interviewed in his office at the committee’s headquarters on Monday August 15, 2016 in Washington, DC.

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National security adviser General Michael Flynn (L) arrives to deliver a statement next to Press Secretary Sean Spicer during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington U.S., February 1, 2017.

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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks during a daily briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House January 23, 2017 in Washington, DC. Spicer conducted his first official White House daily briefing to take questions from the members of the White House press corps.

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Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks as television screen displays journalists who participate in the daily briefing via Skype at the White House in Washington U.S., February 1, 2017.

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former assistant to US President Donald Trump Anthony Scaramucci attending a meeting on the opening day of the World Economic Forum, on January 17, 2017 in Davos, and White House spokesman Sean Spicer during a press briefing on June 20, 2017 at the White House in Washington, DC.

Sean Spicer resigned as White House press secretary Friday in protest at a major shakeup of Donald Trump’s embattled administration, an official told AFP. Spicer — the administrations most recognizable face after the president — resigned after just six months in office, having been increasingly sidelined in recent weeks. Spicer reached breaking point on Friday, the White House official said, when Trump appointed Anthony Scaramucci to be the new communications director, a bid to reset the scandal-wracked administration.

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While Spicer acknowledged the committee’s responsibility to serve as a check on the executive branch, he called its work a “potential fishing expedition,” arguing that going through the president’s history of financial dealings seems a step too far.

The motivation behind the committee’s dig for documents, Spicer implied, was a realization on behalf of Democrats “that while some people did some bad things, that there were some people that clearly interfered with the last election, that there was no collusion.”

However, that assessment amounts to mere speculation, since special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has yet to be released.

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A snub and a last minute Hail Mary. Trump’s tough lesson in North Korean diplomacy – CNN
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    It was partially enacted as a response to Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign, which he lost to Hillary Clinton. Sanders ran as a Democrat but was a longtime independent and self-described democratic socialist. Some Democrats had worried during the primary fight that Sanders could run as an independent if he lost to Clinton, something Sanders did not do. 

    There was also question over whether Sanders should qualify for the primaries since he was registered as a Democrat. 

    Sanders caucuses with Democrats but has consistently run for office as an independent, including on Monday when Sanders filed to run again for his Senate seat in 2024, according to NBC News. 

    Since the 2016 race, the DNC has also scaled back the role of superdelegates in presidential nominations, which Sanders and his supporters rallied for. 

    The change came after complaints about party insiders’ incredible influence in the primary process. Superdelegates announcing support for Clinton gave her an early advantage in the primary, and their role was a major point of contention for Sanders’ supporters.

    CLOSE

    Just one day after announcing his 2020 presidential bid, Bernie Sanders’ campaign reports raising big bucks. Veuer’s Justin Kircher has the story.
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    Why Mueller’s report might be a letdown for Trump critics – Reuters
    Why Mueller’s report might be a letdown for Trump critics – Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A lavishly detailed 445-page report by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr released by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998 concluded that President Bill Clinton “committed acts that may constitute grounds for an impeachment” and paved the way for an unsuccessful attempt in Congress to remove him from office.

    But Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s impending report on the findings of his investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election may far fall short of the searing and voluminous Starr report, legal experts said, in part due to constraints on Mueller that did not exist when Starr produced his report.

    The Starr report presented explicit details about Clinton’s sexual encounters with a White House intern named Monica Lewinsky and accused Clinton of specific crimes including perjury, attempted obstruction of justice, witness tampering and “a pattern of conduct that was inconsistent with his constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws.”

    Starr operated under an independent counsel law that has since lapsed. Mueller’s powers differ from those of Starr, and Justice Department regulations place limits on him that Starr did not face. Mueller since May 2017 has looked into whether Trump’s 2016 campaign conspired with Russia and whether the president unlawfully sought to obstruct the probe.

    Trump has denied collusion and obstruction. Russia has denied election interference.

    Here is an explanation of some of the factors that may limit what ends up in Mueller’s report to U.S. Attorney General William Barr and what ultimately may be released to the public.

    WHAT DO JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REGULATIONS CALL FOR?

    Congress let the independent counsel law expire in part because of concern among some lawmakers that Starr had exceeded his mandate. The Justice Department then crafted regulations to create the job of special counsel in 1999, with certain limits on powers.

    The department’s No. 2 official, Rod Rosenstein, appointed Mueller to take over the Russia investigation after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, whose agency had led the probe, and directed Mueller to abide by the special counsel regulations.

    But the regulations provide only limited guidance on the parameters of Mueller’s final report, stating that at the conclusion of his work he should provide the U.S. attorney general, the nation’s top law enforcement official, with a “confidential report” explaining his “prosecution or declination decisions.” The term “declination decisions” refers to judgments that Mueller made not to bring criminal charges against a given individual. Mueller already has brought charges against 34 people – including the former chairman of Trump’s campaign Paul Manafort and other campaign figures, Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen and former national security adviser Michael Flynn – and three Russian companies.

    The regulations require Barr to notify the top Republicans and Democrats on the House and Senate Judiciary Committees that Mueller’s investigation has concluded. The Justice Department’s policy calls for Barr to summarize the confidential report for Congress with “an outline of the actions and the reasons for them.” According to the regulations, Barr “may determine that public release of these reports would be in the public interest, to the extent that release would comply with applicable legal restrictions.”

    WHAT HAS BARR SAID ABOUT WHAT HE WILL RELEASE?

    In his January Senate confirmation hearing, Barr provided some insight into his thinking. He said that “it is very important that the public and Congress be informed of the results of the special counsel’s work.” Barr added, “For that reason, my goal will be to provide as much transparency as I can consistent with the law. I can assure you that, where judgments are to be made by me, I will make those judgments based solely on the law and will let no personal, political or other improper interests influence my decision.”

    House Democrats have vowed to subpoena the report and go to court if necessary to win its full release.

    WHAT WILL MUELLER’S REPORT LOOK LIKE?

    Some legal experts said the text of the 1999 regulations and the context under which they were written in the aftermath of the Starr report signal that Mueller should not write a lengthy narrative like Starr did, but rather deliver straightforward and concise findings. The regulations were intended to give a special counsel some independence while ensuring a degree of accountability and oversight by the Justice Department.

    But some experts said Mueller would be well within his power to provide Congress with information it can use to conduct further investigations. Leon Jaworski, who served as a special prosecutor during President Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, adopted this approach when he finished his investigation. Jaworski’s “road map” document, which helped prompt Nixon’s resignation, remained secret until 2018.

    Comey, in a Washington Post opinion piece on Tuesday, urged Barr to make an expansive release, saying “a straightforward report of what facts have been learned and how judgment has been exercised may be the only way to advance the public interest.”

    PROOF BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT

    There is a tension between a decades-old Justice Department policy against public comment on decisions not to bring criminal charges and the requirement in the special counsel regulations that Mueller explain which criminal cases he brought and which ones he declined to bring. Rosenstein in February said, “If we aren’t prepared to prove our case beyond a reasonable doubt in court, then we have no business making allegations against American citizens.”

    This policy might lead Mueller to keep his explanations of his declination decisions brief, legal experts said, and Barr subsequently could opt not to disclose those parts of the confidential report. Department policy, presented in a 1973 Nixon-era memo and reaffirmed in a 2000 Clinton-era memo, is that a sitting president cannot face a criminal indictment.

    Some lawyers have said this policy, combined with the practice of generally not explaining decisions not to prosecute someone, limits what Mueller can put in the report about Trump’s conduct. Other lawyers have said Jaworski, who had an analogous role, set a precedent that Mueller would be within his power to lay out a case for removing Trump from office through impeachment, as Starr did with Clinton in 1998.

    Reporting by Jan Wolfe; Editing by Will Dunham

    Source Article from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-report/why-muellers-report-might-be-a-letdown-for-trump-critics-idUSKCN1QN1EH

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    Michael Cohen’s Congressional Testimony Leaves Big Unanswered Questions On Trump – NPR
    Michael Cohen’s Congressional Testimony Leaves Big Unanswered Questions On Trump – NPR

    Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Trump, testifies before the House oversight committee on Capitol Hill Feb. 27, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

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    Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Trump, testifies before the House oversight committee on Capitol Hill Feb. 27, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

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    Michael Cohen is scheduled to return to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a fourth session with members of Congress within two weeks — but even that likely won’t exhaust the subject of his decade of work for President Trump.

    For as much information as Trump’s former lawyer has given Congress — and prosecutors — about his previous life, there are as many questions raised by his testimony that don’t yet have clear answers.

    Democrats have seized on the leads Cohen offered to unleash a swarm of requests for interviews, documents and other materials as part of the investigations they promised to launch into Trump’s election, business and more.

    The president, meanwhile, says that virtually nothing Cohen has said is true, and that Democrats only want to harass him to hurt his re-election chances.

    As the political skirmishing heats up, here are four big questions that remain unresolved.

    Why did the Trumps keep Cohen out of the June 2016 meeting with the Russians?

    Cohen told members of Congress he didn’t have any “direct evidence” the Trump campaign conspired with the Russians who attacked the 2016 election, but that he had his “suspicions.”

    Cohen said he didn’t know in June of 2016, for example, that Donald Trump Jr. had received, via intermediaries, an offer of help from the Russian government that prompted him to convene a meeting with a Russian delegation in Trump Tower.

    A Russian lawyer who has since been charged in an unrelated case gave Trump Jr., then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner a political tip about Democratic fundraisers.

    People who have talked about the meeting said the tip did not involve easy-to-exploit dirt about Hillary Clinton that Trump Jr. had expected and he said he took no further action after the meeting.

    The elder Trump denies he knew then what was happening or about the Russian overtures to his campaign. But Cohen said media coverage in 2017 caused him to remember a conversation “probably in early June of 2016” in which Trump appeared to authorize Trump Jr. to go ahead with the meeting in Trump Tower.

    The fact of the meeting has been established and investigated exhaustively. And Cohen isn’t the first to say that he believes the elder Trump authorized the meeting — which would suggest he was aware, in real time, of Russia’s interference in the election.

    But so far there isn’t any public evidence to support Cohen’s claim beyond the circumstantial observation that nothing in Trump world happened without Trump’s say-so. Democrats and Trump’s opponents had hoped phone records might help prove the elder Trump knew of the meeting in advance and gave his approval, but they did not.

    Cohen might not be telling the truth and last week Republicans battered him for hours over his confessed false statements, including to Congress.

    Even if his account is accurate it still doesn’t explain everything. What made Trump decide when to involve Cohen and when to exclude him?

    Trump trusted Cohen enough to negotiate with powerful Russians about a potential Trump Tower real estate project in Moscow — a project about which Trump and the White House encouraged Cohen to lie to Congress, Cohen alleges.

    Trump also trusted Cohen to handle so much other alleged dirty work — from paying people off to threatening reporters to quibbling with Forbes over Trump’s ranking on its list of wealthy people.

    So why didn’t Trump and his son trust Cohen enough to bring him up to speed about the meeting with the Russians?

    Did the Trumps do anything beyond welcome the work of WikiLeaks?

    Cohen told Congress he was in the room when GOP political consultant Roger Stone phoned Trump to say he’d just talked with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Assange was about to release a stink bomb that would hurt Hillary Clinton’s campaign, he said.

    “Mr. Trump responded by stating [words] to the effect [of], ‘wouldn’t that be great’?” Cohen told the House oversight committee last week.

    That corresponds with an account given in the indictment unsealed against Stone in January, which described him talking with Trump campaign officials about WikiLeaks throughout the year.

    Stone and Assange both deny they spoke on the phone, as Cohen described. Stone also has pleaded not guilty to the charges that he lied to Congress and obstructed congressional investigators’ efforts to find out what happened.

    But Justice Department prosecutors do suggest that Stone might have been able to communicate with Assange via a series of intermediaries.

    What isn’t clear is what else Trump and his camp might have done besides simply welcome the free help they were getting in the campaign.

    Did they ask Stone to ask Assange to arrange releases on specific dates? Did they ever ask who was behind the material that Assange was releasing?

    Roger Stone, arrives at the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., on February 21, 2019.

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    Investigators have established that the emails and other documents released by WikiLeaks in 2016 were stolen in cyberattacks by Russian intelligence officers, including a dozen who have been charged by Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller.

    What prosecutors have alleged in Stone’s indictment is that Trump’s campaign welcomed all this, tried to find out more about it and looked forward to the effects on the political environment — but not that they actively conspired with the Russians who were behind it all, or even that they asked Assange to do anything.

    The tape

    On Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, for example, The Washington Post revealed the now-infamous 2005 Access Hollywood tape on which Trump is heard making lewd, politically embarrassing remarks about women. WikiLeaks released a tranche of emails, stolen by Russia’s GRU spy agency, on the same day.

    Trump’s camp, according to the Stone indictment, had been expecting something from WikiLeaks all week.

    Trump’s campaign welcomed the email releases and praised Stone, according to the court papers, but there is no allegation in the Stone indictment that Trump’s aides asked him to ask Assange to unleash the material in order to soften the political impact of the Access Hollywood tape.

    Cohen also was asked directly last week about whether Trump coordinated or signaled for the release.

    “I am unaware of that,” he said.

    There could be other evidence not yet public that draws a stronger connection between Trump, WikiLeaks and the Russians or suggests an as-yet unknown cause-and-effect chain of events.

    But based on what’s available today, the campaign appears to have simply embraced what the Russians were doing on Oct. 7, as opposed to having actively colluded with them to bring it about.

    Stone says he didn’t have any inside line to WikiLeaks. He was just making it appear to Trump’s people that he did.

    And Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani has said that Trump didn’t get a heads-up about WikiLeaks in 2016, but even if he did — as Cohen and prosecutors both now say — that wouldn’t be against the law. Giuliani compared it to getting a call from a newspaper that was about to publish a big story.

    The version of events given by Cohen and prosecutors undercuts those denials about the facts. If this is all there is, though, it falls short of an active conspiracy in which the Russians and Trump’s campaign were working hand-in-glove to try to win the 2016 election.

    The question now is whether this really is the entire story, or whether Congress — or Mueller — has more evidence about active involvement by Trump or the campaign.

    What else is in the “treasure trove?”

    Although Cohen says he wasn’t involved with any Russia collusion, he was the key player on dealing with another big project for Trump ahead of Election Day in 2016 — hush money.

    Cohen arranged to pay two women who said they’d had sexual relationships with Trump in order to keep them from talking publicly at a critical time in the presidential race.

    “I don’t think anybody would dispute this belief that after the wildfire that had encompassed the [Access Hollywood] tape that a second follow-up to it would have been pleasant,” Cohen said. “And [Trump] was concerned with the effect that it had on the campaign, on how women were seeing him, and ultimately whether or not he would have a shot in the general election.”

    To get control of the situation, Cohen paid $130,000 to an adult film actress named Stormy Daniels. And he worked with American Media Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer, to arrange for the company to pay $125,000 to a former Playboy model, Karen McDougal. Trump has acknowledged the payment to Daniels but the president denies the claims of both women that he had extramarital relationships with them years ago.

    Trump reimbursed Cohen for the Daniels payment but never paid AMI, which is run by his friend David Pecker. Cohen said that wasn’t the first time Pecker had done such work for Trump but not been repaid.

    “Catch and kill”

    In fact, there was a whole playbook used by Trump, Cohen and AMI for these situations: “catch and kill.”

    The publisher would buy material or the legal rights to a person’s story, but never use them. People — like McDougal, before she later went public — were in the position of not being able to talk publicly about their own experiences because they’d sold those rights to AMI.

    AMI and Pecker amassed what Cohen called a “treasure trove” of documents and other materials about Trump, including rights to stories that weren’t even true — but which were at least kept out of circulation.

    When Pecker was attempting to take another big publishing job as the boss of Time Magazine, Cohen even looked into trying to buy the trove from AMI, he told members of Congress last week.

    The big question that raises is: what else is in AMI’s Trump treasure trove?

    How credible is Cohen?

    Trump’s former attorney has caused a lot of political problems for his onetime patron, but Cohen may have brought on a few of his own.

    The president’s allies have underscored what they’ve called false statements that Cohen has made to Congress even since his federal guilty plea for lying to Congress.

    Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows, two influential Republicans who both sit on the House oversight committee, have asked the Justice Department to investigate what they called Cohen’s false statements, including about his criminal record and the position they say he sought in the Trump administration.

    Cohen acknowledged his past untruths but said he doesn’t need to lie anymore because he has broken free of Trump’s thrall. The questions raised by Jordan and Meadows, however, suggest that Cohen’s situation now might be more complicated — and leave a question mark about everything else he has said.

    Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2019/03/06/700411541/the-big-unanswered-questions-after-michael-cohens-capitol-hill-marathon

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    Reporter’s Notebook: Kim looks to prosperous neighbors and contemplates a choice for North Korea’s future – Fox News
    Reporter’s Notebook: Kim looks to prosperous neighbors and contemplates a choice for North Korea’s future – Fox News
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    US, North Korea trade blame for failed negotiations

    Many headlines from Hanoi read “Trump/Kim Summit Ends in Failure.”

    Having just returned from reporting on the summit from both Vietnam and South Korea, the reality requires greater nuance.

    South Korea and Vietnam have this in common: Each has served as the theatre of battle for two brutal and lasting wars with significant American involvement. And each has a valuable lesson for North Korea.

    These days, West Hanoi is booming. Reportedly, Vietnam’s GDP has been growing at 7 percent for six years. But to my eye, it seems closer to 500 percent. Tall buildings that serve businesses and provide housing have sprung up from former shanty towns. Farmers, who for generations have toiled in the fields outside Hanoi, are moving to the city and joining the burgeoning working middle class.

    TRUMP WAS ‘ABSOLUTELY RIGHT’ TO END TALKS IN VIETNAM, SAYS NORTH KOREAN DEFECTOR

    There is a stunning JW Marriott in West Hanoi where President Trump and his traveling crew stayed during the week.

    Downstairs where Trump held his press conference, there is a bar called the ‘Cool Cats Jazz Club.’ The bartender – born in June 1992 – says the surrounding area and its growth has surprised even him. “This used to be a few low-lying buildings and the rest was rice fields,” he says.

    Vietnam embarked on specific market reforms, but kept the ruling Communist Party in control. It is a saggy form of Communism, and not something Lenin would have accepted in the Soviet Union. Yet, it seems to benefit both the locals who emerge into a different, prosperous life and the loyal party members, who keep their positions in government. So far, it seems as if everyone is winning.

    But the Vietnamese government will admit that its current economic boom – which helped move this country from its former Third World status to “an emerging market” – did not begin until it normalized relations with the United States 23 years ago, during the administration of President Clinton.

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    Years ago, I was in Vietnam just before the change occurred. As a 26-year-old backpacker, I took advantage of the changing laws and toured Vietnam in December 1992. Locals were allowed to take partial ownership in cafes and hotels. The country seemed to be on its hands and knees from years of war, searching for a new, secure footing. Travel was basic, barely manageable.

    The pitch from President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo might appeal to many: You give up your nukes, we will end the sanctions and North Korea can prosper like your neighbors to the South and your Communist brethren in Vietnam.

    Today Hanoi bustles with commerce and motor scooters. They seem to buzz like hornets in an immediate and unstoppable hurry. And every driver has a smartphone in their pocket. There is a revolution of accessible information underway globally.

    They are on IG and WhatsApp and Facebook and they are connected to each other and to a world outside their own borders. Information influences policy, it moves society and it can wield the power to change governments.

    Chairman Kim Jung of North Korea knows this. The information revolution has him surrounded and it is only a question of time before it slowly corrodes his iron grip.

    The arc of modern development currently runs against his hermetic kingdom. I believe he is, in fact, trying to adopt certain market reforms that will improve the standing for many within his own country and lead to a more secure economic future. This is why he is insistent on getting sanctions relief. He needs to meet and satisfy the inexorable pressure that comes in a world that is increasingly global.  At the same time, he wants badly to maintain his nuclear capability, the key to his family’s grip on power. But when information is so easily transportable, secrets are harder to keep. Autonomous rule is harder to maintain.

    TIMELINE: TRUMP-KIM SUMMIT JOINS LONG LIST OF KEY MOMENTS BETWEEN WORLD LEADERS

    So how does he do it? How does he move toward market reforms, maintain power and keep at least part of his nuclear stockpile?

    That is his dilemma. Call it Kim’s choice.

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un listens as he meets with President Donald Trump, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

    Of course, he can look to his southern neighbor to see the progress first hand.

    I visited South Korea on my way home from the summit. Seoul is a massive city – population 10 million plus. And it is bumping.  Modern and clean and efficient. In my 25 hours there, I only scratched the skin of this deeply textured country. I joined a group to visit the DMZ, about an hour’s drive north from Seoul.

    A short drive out of the city, the left side of the road is lined with barbed wire. Incursions by North Korean spies, explains Grace, our guide, have made it necessary. To depart such a modern, developed world capital and to be immediately consumed by the long-standing and unsettled conflict is startling.

    The DMZ visit reminded me of being in West Berlin in 1986.  Confined, surrounded by a system of demand and decay. You know instinctively it can’t last. But how much longer can it withstand the pressures of a world in a constant bull market? Kim knows this.

    I called Grace over for a question. “Do you believe your country would have developed the way it has without the presence of 28,000 American forces?”

    “No,” she says flatly. “Not possible.”

    Peering through a high powered set of binoculars across the 1.6-kilometer stretch of the DMZ, I spotted two people who were walking through a field and climbing over a berm. They were dressed in dark, colorless clothing characteristic of a Communist regime. The most wily among their leaders – the most paranoid, the most ruthless – make it their business to last as long as possible.

    Back in Seoul, I sat in my hotel room watching television news recapping Chairman Kim’s visit to Hanoi in Korean. He stayed an extra 36 hours for an official visit after Team 45 was wheels up for Washington. It strikes the obvious as you watch a background report on North Korea’s nuclear program – Kim had completed something that was started by his grandfather. In the midst of his starving, forbidden kingdom – with limited access and limited assistance from outside his sealed borders – he achieved nuclear status. In this world today, he stands out.

    The pitch from President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo might appeal to many: You give up your nukes, we will end the sanctions and North Korea can prosper like your neighbors to the South and your Communist brethren in Vietnam.

    It is a compelling sale, but today there is no sign Kim is willing to embrace it. After Hanoi, he seems to be moving forward at his own, self-preserving speed.

    Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/reporters-notebook-kim-looks-to-prosperous-neighbors-and-contemplates-a-choice-for-north-koreas-future

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    Hillary Clinton lights up the internet with ‘Mean Girls’ tweet – AOL
    Hillary Clinton lights up the internet with ‘Mean Girls’ tweet – AOL

    Hillary Clinton on Tuesday was quick to fire back after President Trump mocked her for not running in 2020.

    The exchange started with a tweet by Trump: “‘(Crooked) Hillary Clinton confirms she will not run in 2020, rules out a third bid for White House.’ Aw-shucks, does that mean I won’t get to run against her again? She will be sorely missed!”

    Minutes later, Clinton posted a “Mean Girls” meme on Twitter.

    The New York Daily News notes her tweet included a GIF from the cult classic movie featuring Rachel McAdams and Lindsay Lohan. The captioned text read: “Why are you so obsessed with me?”

    Hours prior, in a News 12 interview, Clinton had ruled out a 2020 presidential bid.

    “I’m not running, but I’m going to keep on working and speaking and standing up for what I believe,” Clinton said. “I’m not going anywhere. What’s at stake in our country, the kind of things that are happening right now are deeply troubling to me.”

    Hillary Clinton

    Trump’s nickname: “Crooked Hillary”

    US Attorney General Jeff Sessions

    Trump’s nickname: “Mr. Magoo”

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    Steve Bannon

    Trump’s nickname: “Sloppy Steve”

    (Joshua Roberts / Reuters)

    Elizabeth Warren

    Trump’s nickname: “Pocahontas”

    Former FBI director James Comey 

    Trump’s nickname: “Slippery James Comey”

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    Kim Jong Un

    Trump’s nickname: “Rocket Man”

    Chuck Todd 

    Trump’s nickname: “Sleepy eyes / sleeping son of a b—h”

    (NBC NewsWire via Getty Images)

    Marco Rubio

    Trump’s nickname: “Little Marco”

    Dianne Feinstein

    Trump’s nickname: “Sneaky Dianne Feinstein”

    (Joshua Roberts / Reuters)

    Ohio Governor John Kasich

    Trump’s nickname: “1 for 38 Kasich”

    (REUTERS/Aaron Josefczyk)

    Bob Corker

    Trump’s nickname: “Liddle’ Bob Corker”

    NBC correspondent Katy Tur

    Trump’s nickname: “Little Katy”

    (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

    Chuck Schumer

    Trump’s nickname: “Cryin’ Chuck / Fake Tears Chuck”

    Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ)

    Trump’s nickname: “Jeff Flake(y)”

    (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

    Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL)

    Trump’s nickname: ‘Wacky Congresswoman Wilson”

    (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

    Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)

    Trump’s nickname: “Little Adam Schiff”

    (REUTERS/Yuri Gripas)

    Journalist Megyn Kelly

    Trump’s nickname: “Crazy Megyn”

    (Mikhail Klimentyev\TASS via Getty Images)

    The New York Times

    Trump’s nickname: “Failing New York Times”

    (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)

    Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)

    Trump’s nickname: “Lyin’ Ted”

    (REUTERS/Joshua Roberts)

    MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski

    Trump’s nicknames: “Crazy Joe Scarborough/Psycho Joe” and “Dumb as a Rock Mika”

    (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo)

    Jeb Bush

    Trump’s nickname: “Low energy Jeb Bush”

    (REUTERS/Mike Blake)

    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

    Trump’s nickname: “Crazy Bernie”

    (REUTERS/Joshua Roberts)

    Jim Acosta

    Trump’s nickname: “Crazy Jim Acosta of Fake News CNN”

    (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)

    CNN 

    Trump’s nickname: “Clinton News Network”

    (Photo by John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images)

    Former Sen. Al Franken

    Trump’s nickname: “Al Frankenstien”

    (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

    Democratic congressional candidate for Pennsylvania’s 18th district Conor Lamb

    Trump’s nickname: “Lamb the sham’

    (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

    ‘Good Morning America’ anchor George Stephanopoulos

    Trump’s nickname: “Little George”

    (Photo by Ray Tamarra/GC Images)

    Face The Nation

    Trump’s nickname: “Deface the Nation”

    (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

    Former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond

    Trump’s nickname: “Mad Alex”

    (Photo by Chris Radburn/PA Images via Getty Images)

    Former Vice President Joe Biden

    Trump’s nickname: “Crazy Joe Biden”

    (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)

    Former U.S. President Barack Obama

    Trump’s nickname: Cheatin’ Obama

    Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg

    Trump’s nickname: “Little Michael”

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    When Officers Aren’t Charged in Police Shootings – Rolling Stone – Rolling Stone
    When Officers Aren’t Charged in Police Shootings – Rolling Stone – Rolling Stone

    California has an assisted-suicide law. It was in effect when Stephon Clark went running into his grandmother’s backyard nearly a year ago, pursued by two Sacramento police officers who shot and killed him there. But the state’s End of Life Option Act didn’t apply to Clark. Sacramento district attorney Anne Marie Schubert, who announced Sunday that she wouldn’t charge his killers with a crime, knew that Clark wasn’t terminally ill. But Schubert, who put up fences on public property outside her G Street office in downtown Sacramento last March to shoo away protesters, went further. She also heavily implied that Clark was suicidal at the time of his death.

    In both her 80-minute press conference and the report that followed, Schubert noted Clark’s inexcusable history of domestic violence against his fiancée and the mother of his two children, Salena Manni. She also mentioned his fear of being incarcerated again for a new incident that occurred two days before he died. The report indicated that the contents of Clark’s cell phone, the same one that the cops mistook for a gun that night, showed that he’d been doing searching for “information related to suicide the day before and the day of the fatal shooting” and had sent a text to Manni on the 17th that read, “Let’s fix our family or I’m taking all of these.” Pictured, according to Schubert’s report, were a handful of Xanax pills.

    Even if Clark hoped that the pursuit would end in his death, it isn’t necessarily legal for police in California to help him commit “suicide by cop.” That phrase, a convenient fiction since it absolves those doing the actual killing, has been used to both explain why people are the victims of officer-involved shootings and to excuse the officers who perpetrate the acts. But here’s the rub: Schubert later denied that she intended to convey that Clark had a death wish. So why, then, did she bring up his mental state at all? She claimed that it would have been admissible in court had the case gone to trial. So what? That doesn’t fully explain what happened that night, nor why she filed no charges.

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    Reached by Rolling Stone for comment and clarification, Schubert’s office said the District Attorney “is not available for follow-up interviews or further statements.”

    The district attorney’s decision was the result of an unjust process: Cops investigate other cops, then a prosecutor — who works with those cops all the time on cases — relies upon their judgment. This one also relied upon their cash: Schubert took in $13,000 in campaign donations from law enforcement last March less than a week after Clark was shot. No matter how many outside experts she lined up to bolster her decision, the D.A.’s Sunday announcement not to prosecute the officers with murder or another related crime was injury enough. This is a Sacramento community that has seen the newly re-elected Schubert investigate more than 30 such police shootings and not file a single charge. It was an insult to African-Americans throughout the nation who have seen district attorneys give cops a pass for these types of incidents all too regularly.

    We may have expected Schubert to exonerate the officers, then all but prosecute the dead victim. It’s one thing for the Sacramento D.A. to describe why the case is not winnable, or why the cops allegedly didn’t break any laws. It is quite another for her to sully the memory of a dead man and the reputation of his family with previously undisclosed facts that bore no relevance to the guilt or innocence of the officers involved. She did the latter on Sunday and impugned the mentally ill in the process by insinuating that Clark’s desperation would cause him to act criminally and to put police in a life-threatening position.

    Stevante Clark, the brother of Stephon Clark who was killed by police last year, speaks during a news conference at the Genesis Church in Sacramento, Calif., on March 3rd 2019.

    Even now, 352 days after the incident, we still don’t know how many times Clark was shot. Schubert reports seven times, though she doesn’t detail how many bullets the cops fired at him. (It was 20, by most reported counts.) The independent autopsy findings released last March by forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu, which Schubert disputed in her report, concluded that Clark was shot eight times — including six times in the back. Not once was he hit in the front of his body, Omalu concluded, despite the Sacramento police claim that he was in a “shooting position.” Well, why would Clark be in a shooting position if he didn’t have a gun?

    Clark’s brother, Stevante, has rebounded from a well-publicized hospitalization for his mental health issues since Stephon’s death. A nationwide study published last summer concluded that when police officers kill unarmed black people, it damages the mental health of African-Americans living in those states. 

    Sacramento police arrested 84 people Monday night at a protest, including a Sacramento Bee reporter. They were demonstrating because they want the officers who killed Clark fired. I also believe these men should lose their jobs. But fundamental to any civil rights demand is a call for increased mental health awareness among law enforcement. Not only can cities save lives with properly trained personnel to handle and de-escalate situations, but in circumstances like Clark’s, that awareness can ensure that a person’s despair won’t be weaponized against them once they are dead and buried. From Dontre Hamilton to Freddie Gray, mental illness has played a part in police killings — either making them more likely, as per studies, or used as an excuse even when the justification is sketchy. To even imply that Clark wanted to die is to use a person’s pain in their absence, to damn them once by killing them and then again by speaking for them out of turn.

    What happened in Sacramento that night was the logical conclusion of “broken windows” policing at its most extreme: a helicopter and several officers pursuing a potential vandal in a residential neighborhood. Schubert is part of a larger criminal justice apparatus that has gone awry in California, the state where police are most likely to commit lethal force first against black people. But that is why the district attorney’s report, while it offers a token note of sympathy for Clark’s family at the end, could have instead done some critical thinking about how we ended up here in the first place. Holding the police accountable may be too much to expect from the prosecutor who literally fenced out nonviolent protesters, only to later cast blame upon a dead man for his own demise.

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    Medical marijuana dispensaries bill passes Georgia House – Atlanta Journal Constitution
    Medical marijuana dispensaries bill passes Georgia House – Atlanta Journal Constitution

    The Georgia House approved a bill Tuesday that would allow medical marijuana oil to be sold to registered patients, giving them a legal way to obtain a drug that they’re already allowed to use.

    The legislation, which passed on a 123-40 vote, would permit medical marijuana growing, manufacturing, testing and distribution. Sixty dispensaries would serve the state’s rising number of physician-approved medical marijuana patients — more than 8,400 so far. Marijuana would remain illegal for recreational use.

    Georgia has allowed patients suffering from severe seizures, deadly cancers and other illnesses to use medical marijuana oil since 2015. But it’s against the law to grow, buy, sell or transport the drug, leaving patients no permissible method of obtaining it.

    “These aren’t people who are seeking a recreational high. These aren’t people who are seeking to use illicit drugs,” said state Rep. Micah Gravley, a Republican from Douglasville. “These are people who have tried and failed with opioids. These are people who want their children to suffer less seizures.”

    The measure, House Bill 324, now advances to the state Senate. Gov. Brian Kemp has previously said he’s open to “research-based expansion” of medical marijuana.

    If approved, Georgia would join 31 states that already allow some form of marijuana cultivation, according to the Joint Commission on Low THC Medical Oil Access, a group of lawmakers and stakeholders that recommended licensing marijuana growers, manufacturers and dispensaries.

    Opponents of the proposal, including sheriffs and some religious groups, say it could lead to outright marijuana legalization.

    “The path Georgia is taking now is a very treacherous and dangerous path,” said Terry Norris, the executive director of the Georgia Sheriffs’ Association. “The sheriffs are serious when they say that marijuana is a dangerous, addictive gateway drug. Even though we’re not taking about legalizing for recreational purposes, we believe all the notoriety of this discussion will lead to increased marijuana use by children.”

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    The legislation would prohibit smoking or vaping medical marijuana oil.

    Georgia’s medical marijuana program allows registered patients to use marijuana with up to 5 percent THC, the main psychoactive component of the cannabis plant.

    The law covers 16 conditions, including severe seizures, deadly cancer, peripheral neuropathy and multiple sclerosis. Patients who register with the state are protected from criminal prosecution for possessing up to 20 fluid ounces of low-THC oil.

    Last year, the General Assembly added post-traumatic stress disorder and intractable pain to the list of conditions eligible for treatment by cannabis oil.

    “It was hypocritical to me to pass bills to let this substance be available to the sickest folks that needed it, the worst, and yet we didn’t give them the access to get it,” said Regulated Industries Chairman Alan Powell, a Republican from Hartwell. “There’s nothing in this bill that will encourage recreational use.”

    This year’s legislation proposes that the state license a total of 60 medical marijuana dispensaries, split between large growers and distributors, smaller-scale companies and stand-alone retailers.

    Initial licenses would cost $150,000 for large companies, $37,500 for smaller companies and $30,000 for retailers. Businesses would also have to pay annual license renewal fees ranging from $10,000 to $50,000.

    Licenses would be approved by Jan. 1, and state-sanctioned medical marijuana products would be available to patients within 12 months of the license date.

    A separate bill that the state House approved last week would allow hemp farming in Georgia. Hemp, with less than 0.3 percent THC, could be processed into CBD oils that are legally sold in stores.

    Stay on top of what’s happening in Georgia government and politics at ajc.com/news/georgia-government/.






























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































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    With Trump silent, no ‘sheriff’ in town on Pakistan-India crisis, ex-diplomats say – NBC News
    With Trump silent, no ‘sheriff’ in town on Pakistan-India crisis, ex-diplomats say – NBC News

    When India and Pakistan stood on the brink of war in 1999, President Bill Clinton waded into the crisis with personal diplomacy, forceful letters and stern warnings, threatening tough economic action against Islamabad unless it backed down.

    But as tensions escalated last week between India and Pakistan, President Donald Trump and many of his senior aides were preoccupied with a high-stakes summit with North Korea, as well as a heated congressional hearing featuring his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.

    It was the most serious confrontation between the South Asian nuclear-armed rivals in decades, but the Trump administration was effectively a bystander — it did not seek to mediate the standoff as the U.S. has in the past, several former and foreign diplomats told NBC News.

    Activists of Pakistani Peoples Party (PPP) burn an effigy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an anti-Indian protest in Karachi on March 1, 2019.Asif Hassan / AFP – Getty Images file

    “The U.S. government doesn’t appear to be engaged on this issue at a senior level,” said Daniel Feldman, former special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan under the Obama administration. “It demonstrates not only a lack of focus, but how diminished our capacity is with so many senior positions, across a number of key agencies, vacant or held by acting officials.”

    At the height of the crisis last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, national security adviser John Bolton and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford made phone calls to their counterparts in Islamabad and New Delhi, which were important but not close to the type of shuttle diplomacy that played out in previous crises, former officials said.

    In 1999, Clinton worked the phone with both of his counterparts and helped resolve the showdown. But that was not the case this time.

    “For the first time in over 20 years, Washington was not an active player in trying to calm down an Indo-Pakistani crisis,” said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer who served on the National Security Council under Clinton. “The president didn’t talk to the protagonists.”

    Administration officials rejected the criticism, saying the United States was one of the first governments to condemn the suicide bombing last month that killed 40 Indian troops — triggering the crisis — and repeatedly appealed to both sides to defuse the conflict. Pompeo “played an essential role in the de-escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan,” speaking to leaders in both countries and his counterparts, a State Department spokesperson said.

    Washington was also in continuous contact through the U.S. embassies in New Delhi and Islamabad, the spokesperson said, adding: “While not all diplomacy can be conducted in public view, the United States will continue to engage with India and Pakistan to de-escalate tensions through all appropriate channels.”

    Washington has no ambassador to Pakistan and it was only in December that the White House finally submitted a nomination for the senior position at the State Department that oversees South and Central Asia. Other senior State Department positions handling South Asia have undergone frequent turnover, and former officials say the White House has often had other priorities that have pushed aside the long-running dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir.

    Former Defense Secretary James Mattis, well-versed in the history and politics of South Asia, stepped down in December after clashing with the president over Syria and international alliances. His successor, Patrick Shanahan, is a former Boeing executive inexperienced in foreign policy.

    “In the past, we’ve been the sheriff in this region. Now, there’s no one in our police station who’s willing to intervene,” said Harry Sokolski, a former Pentagon official and now executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. “Who is our diplomat who is going to intervene here?”

    At least one U.S. agency had concerns in the past few months that tensions were rising between the two adversaries. The concerns prompted the CIA to beef up its commitment to the region, two U.S. officials, who were not authorized to speak on the record, told NBC News. They offered no further details.

    Other regional experts said while Washington had played a more limited role, India and Pakistan were not necessarily keen to see the Trump administration serve as an interlocutor. Unlike previous standoffs, the Trump White House was ready to grant India the room it needed to resolve the situation.

    “It has been a little less of an aggressive posture by the United States to try to intervene, but that’s mostly by design because India is a much different place than it was 15, 20 years ago,” said Rick Rossow, senior adviser at the Center of Strategic and International Studies think tank.

    Washington sees India as “a responsible player,” with sufficient power and skill to take care of its interests, he said.

    As the U.S. has grown frustrated with what it considers Pakistan’s failure to crack down on extremists, Washington’s ties with Islamabad have frayed while it has forged increasingly close ties to India, a country it sees as a crucial counterweight to China, according to Shuja Nawaz of the Atlantic Council think tank.

    “This has been the policy for some time now. There’s been a discernible shift to India starting with the Bush administration, and it stayed on course during the Obama period and has continued under Trump,” Nawaz said.

    Although the crisis appeared to ease after Pakistan released a captured Indian fighter pilot last Friday, the two sides exchanged artillery fire over the weekend in the disputed province of Kashmir, killing several civilians. And the underlying disagreements — over Kashmir and Pakistan’s support for militants — remain unresolved.

    The standoff was triggered by the Feb. 14 suicide bombing that killed 40 Indian troops in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed claimed responsibility for the attack, and India responded with an airstrike inside Pakistani territory that it said targeted a training camp for the militants. Pakistan retaliated by sending aircraft to bomb targets in India. In a dogfight, both sides claimed to have shot down aircraft, and an Indian fighter pilot was captured after his plane went down. Islamabad then released the pilot Friday in what it called a conciliatory gesture.

    By ordering the first air raid across Pakistan’s border since 1971, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi signaled his government would respond sharply to terrorist attacks it believes are linked back to Pakistan, and he has cited Israel as a model for his approach.

    The stakes are now higher for the next time tensions erupt, and former officials said the Trump administration appears ill-prepared, with its chaotic decision-making and chronic understaffing.

    “This is a wake up call,” Riedel said. “The Trump team is not ready for a real world crisis. It’s been lucky for two years.”

    Dan De Luce is a reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit. 

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    Robert Windrem is an investigative reporter/producer with NBC News, specializing in international security.

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    Prosecutors Don’t Plan to Charge Uber in Self-Driving Car’s Fatal Accident – The New York Times
    Prosecutors Don’t Plan to Charge Uber in Self-Driving Car’s Fatal Accident – The New York Times

    Mr. Douma said prosecutors’ announcement Tuesday tracked with how typically people, and not car manufacturers, are held responsible for crimes they commit behind the wheel. But, as autonomous vehicles become more sophisticated, he said, such cases raise questions about that way of thinking.

    “Is this driver, or was this driver, behaving in any way different than what most drivers are going to be behaving like when the car is doing this much driving?” he said. “It’s a very conventional way of thinking to say we can expect and we should expect people to sit and monitor technology that is otherwise doing all the decision-making.”

    The Yavapai County Attorney’s Office did its review at the request of the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, which had a potential conflict of interest in the case because of an earlier partnership with Uber in a safety campaign. The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office did not respond to requests for comment on Tuesday.

    The New York Times reported last March that Uber’s autonomous cars in Arizona struggled to meet the company’s expectations and required drivers to intervene more frequently than those of the company’s competitors.

    Uber suspended testing of self-driving vehicles after the crash. In December, the vehicles returned to public roads, though at reduced speeds and in less-challenging environments.

    In a preliminary report about the crash released in May, the National Transportation Safety Board said the Uber car’s computer system had spotted Ms. Herzberg six seconds before impact, but classified Ms. Herzberg, who was not in a crosswalk, first as an unrecognized object, then as another vehicle and finally as a bicycle.

    The Uber car, equipped with Uber’s sensing technology, comes with an automatic emergency braking system from the manufacturer.

    Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/technology/uber-self-driving-car-arizona.html

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    The Trump tax return fight is coming back in a major way – CNN
    The Trump tax return fight is coming back in a major way – CNN

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Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) controversial comments about Israel, he would not remove her from her seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.”},{“title”:”McAfee: North Korean hackers targeting US businesses “,”duration”:”02:16″,”sourceName”:”CNN”,”sourceLink”:”https://www.cnn.com/”,”videoCMSUrl”:”/video/data/3.0/video/politics/2019/03/05/north-korean-hackers-target-us-business-kim-jong-un-brian-todd-dnt-tsr-vpx.cnn/index.xml”,”videoId”:”politics/2019/03/05/north-korean-hackers-target-us-business-kim-jong-un-brian-todd-dnt-tsr-vpx.cnn”,”videoImage”:”http://www.noticiasdodia.onlinenewsbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/180220073131-cnnmoneynorthkorea-large-169.jpg”,”videoUrl”:”/videos/politics/2019/03/05/north-korean-hackers-target-us-business-kim-jong-un-brian-todd-dnt-tsr-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/”,”description”:”A group of North Korean hackers is believed to be actively targeting US businesses and \”critical infrastructure,\” a report released this week by cybersecurity firm McAfee said.”,”descriptionText”:”A group of North Korean hackers is believed to be actively targeting US businesses and \”critical infrastructure,\” a report released this week by cybersecurity firm McAfee said.”},{“title”:”Poll: 64% think Trump committed crimes before presidency”,”duration”:”01:10″,”sourceName”:”CNN”,”sourceLink”:”http://www.cnn.com”,”videoCMSUrl”:”/video/data/3.0/video/politics/2019/03/05/quinnipiac-poll-trump-crimes-impeach-borger-tsr-vpx.cnn/index.xml”,”videoId”:”politics/2019/03/05/quinnipiac-poll-trump-crimes-impeach-borger-tsr-vpx.cnn”,”videoImage”:”http://www.noticiasdodia.onlinenewsbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/190305183523-quinnipiac-poll-trump-crimes-impeach-borger-tsr-vpx-00002401-large-169.jpg”,”videoUrl”:”/videos/politics/2019/03/05/quinnipiac-poll-trump-crimes-impeach-borger-tsr-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/”,”description”:”Nearly two-thirds of registered voters think President Donald Trump committed crimes before assuming the presidency, according to a new poll taken in the days after Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen testified to Congress. 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    North Korea Has Started Rebuilding Key Missile-Test Facilities, Analysts Say – The New York Times
    North Korea Has Started Rebuilding Key Missile-Test Facilities, Analysts Say – The New York Times

    “Based on commercial satellite imagery, efforts to rebuild these structures started sometime between February 16 and March 2, 2019,” 38 North, a website specializing in North Korea analysis, said in a report about the Tongchang-ri facilities on Tuesday.

    “On the launchpad, the rail-mounted transfer building is being reassembled,” it said. “At the engine test stand, it appears that the engine support structure is being reassembled.”

    Beyond Parallel, a website run by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, published a report with similar assessments on Tuesday.

    “Commercial satellite imagery acquired on March 2, 2019, shows that North Korea is pursuing a rapid rebuilding of the long-range rocket site,” it said. The renewed activity “may indicate North Korean plans to demonstrate resolve” after the Hanoi summit, it said.

    Officially, North Korea says it no longer needs to carry out nuclear or missile tests because it has finished developing its nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles and begun mass-producing them. But some Western officials and analysts still doubt that the country has mastered the technologies needed to reliably strike a target across an ocean with a missile.

    In his Singapore meeting with Mr. Trump, Mr. Kim made a vague commitment to “work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.” But the North has since balked at taking specific actions toward dismantling its nuclear and missile programs, criticizing what it called Washington’s “unilateral, gangster-like demand for denuclearization” and insisting that it will not move toward denuclearization unless the United States takes “corresponding” steps.

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    Trump Organization’s insurance records subpoenaed by NY financial regulator as investigations widen – USA TODAY
    Trump Organization’s insurance records subpoenaed by NY financial regulator as investigations widen – USA TODAY
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    President Donald Trump Tuesday denounced a Democratic sweeping new probe of his presidency as “the witch hunt continues.” (March 5)
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    NEW YORK – A state regulator has subpoenaed an insurance provider for The Trump Organization, opening a new front in the widening investigations focused on President Donald Trump, his business, family, and White House administration.

    Aon, a London-headquartered financial services company that is one of the world’s largest insurance brokerages, said it was served a subpoena on Monday by the New York Department of Financial Services. 

    Donna Mirandola, Aon’s vice president of global content marketing, confirmed the subpoena. The insurance brokerage intends to cooperate with the request but would not “comment on specific client matters,” she said in an email response.

    Another person with knowledge of the subpoena confirmed that the request sought records of communications involving Aon, Trump and his company, as well as internal documents for related insurance coverage. The person declined to be named because the subpoena had not been disclosed publicly. 

    A spokeswoman for The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

    The New York action, combined with moves by the Democratically controlled House, represents the latest in a series of new investigations that could target Trump through the second half of his White House term.

    News about the subpoena, first reported by The New York Times, comes less than a week after former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen testified at a congressional hearing that his ex-boss inflated the value of his financial assets to obtain more favorable insurance rates and loans from banks.

    Separately, the House Judiciary Committee on Monday requested records from 81 “agencies, entities and individuals” linked to the Republican presidential administration along with Trump’s family members, present and former associates and his private businesses.

    Additionally, the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday announced new hires, including a former federal prosecutor with expertise in battling Russian organized crime. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who chairs the panel, has signaled plans to continue an investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

    Criticizing the new investigations, Trump tweeted on Tuesday that Democratic House committee chairs “have gone stone cold CRAZY” and “won’t get ANYTHING done for our Country!”

    More: Trump immigration policy under scrutiny at simultaneous congressional hearings

    More: FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb resigns

    Special Counsel Robert Mueller also is focused on Russian interference with the presidential election; his report could be imminent. Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have investigated Cohen, hush money payments to women who said they had sexual affairs with Trump, and other matters.

    The New York regulator is part of the administration of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a frequent Trump critic. The Department of Financial Services oversees all insurance companies that do business in New York, as well as many banks, credit unions and consumer credit reporting agencies.

    The regulator does not have review authority over Trump or his business, nor does it have prosecutorial power. However, the regulator can refer findings to law enforcement authorities.

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    I’m Jewish, and the hypocrisy of GOP islamophobes hounding Ilhan Omar is breathtaking | Opinion – Newsweek
    I’m Jewish, and the hypocrisy of GOP islamophobes hounding Ilhan Omar is breathtaking | Opinion – Newsweek

    Representative Ilhan Omar is facing censure in the House, brought in part by her own party leaders. She is also facing shockingly Islamophobic attacks calling her a terrorist, simply because she is a Muslim. And all the while, other congressional leaders are tweeting out unabashedly anti-Semitic messages with abandon.  

    The hypocrisy is breathtaking enough at its own right, but it is also an indicator of the fight between an emerging progressive coalition that seems different than Congressional generations of old, and which increasingly integrates Palestinian rights into its agenda, based on universal rights and the need for equality and freedom for all people.

    Representative Ilhan Omar is also part of a class of newly elected Congresspeople who don’t look much like Congresspeople of generations past: dynamic women of color from communities (Black and Muslim in Ilhan Omar’s case,) who face some of the fiercest racism and xenophobia in this country.  

    Not coincidentally, it is young people, women, and people of color who make up the emerging coalition of progressive people that support Palestinian rights as a natural part of an agenda based on fairness, dignity and freedom. This is the context around the accusations of anti-Semitism and islamophobia in the last weeks centering on Representative Omar. While some critics of Representative Omar’s tweets made them in good faith, too often they were part of a cynical strategy to paint this emerging progressive coalition as anti-Semitic.

    As one of two of the first Muslim-American women in Congress, Ilhan Omar is facing a specific set of demands and attacks. Accusations of anti-Semitism are being used to silence her criticisms of Israel. An obvious form of Islamophobia coming from the right is attacking her directly for her identity. A soft form of Islamophobia is evident in the lesser degree of concern expressed for the far more outrageous attacks on her personally.  And many more liberal elected officials and others are making a false claim of equivalence between calling out of Omar’s tweets (which were about Israel) and calling out Islamophobia against Omar herself.  

    Rep. Omar has engaged with critics who brought up good faith critiques of her language and has shown true commitment to live up to her values—unlike other members of Congress who continue to promote anti-Semitic messages

    Even before the West Virginia GOP posted a heinous Islamophobic poster linking Representative Ilhan Omar to the attacks of 9/11 because she is Muslim, the Islamophobia at play in the attacks on Omar was blatantly clear. As Omar tweeted: “My Americanness is questioned by the President and the @GOP on a daily basis, yet my colleagues remain silent.” At he same time, Congressional leaders are making actual anti-Semitic statements – like the tweet posted over the weekend by Rep. Jim Jordan, spelling Tom Steyer’s name with a dollar sign instead of an S, or then-Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s tweet about Jewish donors which are going all but unnoticed, and certainly unpunished.

    anti-Semitism—specifically as an expression of right-wing white supremacy—has never been in such proximity to power, at least in my lifetime, and Jewish people from across the political spectrum are rightfully frightened. Charlottesville, what feels like a cascade of graffiti and physical attacks on Jewish people—and above all else, the murderous attack in Pittsburgh—are making many of us revise our belief of our safety in this country, especially those of us who are white and who have not been singled out as directly for abuse, in recent lived experience.

    That makes it confusing when critiques of Israel, support of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), or even anti-Zionism are presented as part of the continuum of anti-Semitism that Jews in the U.S. are facing in this era. 

    It has never been more important to be able to distinguish between the critique—even the harshest critique—of a state’s policies (Israel,) and discrimination against a people (Jews.)  Israel does not represent all Jews.  Not all Jews support Israel. Speaking out for Palestinian human rights and their yearning for freedom is in no way related to anti-Semitism, though the Israeli government does its best to obscure that.  And yes, there are anti-Semites who support Palestinian rights. They have no place in any movement for justice, which Palestinian leaders of the movement have made very clear.

    We also know that in the last several months, leading Black scholars and activists, from Angela Davis to Marc Lamont Hill to Michelle Alexander have spoken out strongly on behalf of Palestinians—and found themselves targeted in return. The policing of people of color, including Ilhan Omar, who speak out on Palestine—the higher standards to which they are held, and the assumptions of bad faith by which their words are judged make their leadership on this issue all the more remarkable, but it means they are also paying an almost unbearable cost.

    The exhaustion and rage that so many people—Muslims, Palestinians, Black people, Jews of color, and Jews who support Palestinian rights—are feeling as these battles continue to play out does have one silver lining. The only antidote to the pro-Israel lobby is building a strong, grassroots movement of people willing to stand up for Palestinian rights. That’s what ended U.S. support for apartheid in South Africa, its what won limited civil rights victories for Black Americans, and it’s what shifted American views on gay marriage over the course of ten short years. And that’s what we’re seeing today.

    It is no surprise that the first elected officials defending Palestinian human rights are facing such fierce opposition from defenders of the status quo. Omar herself is not backing down, firing back at her critics: “Being opposed to Netanyahu and the occupation is not the same as being anti-Semitic. I am grateful to the many Jewish allies who have spoken out and said the same… We must be willing to combat hate of all kinds while also calling out oppression of all kinds.”

    Omar will be joined by many more, but only if we’re willing and able to fight to defend them—by speaking about anti-Semitism with precision, by challenging racism and islamophobia, and by holding our institutions and elected officials accountable.

    Rebecca Vilkomerson is Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace

    The views expressed in this article are the author’s own.​​

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    Payments to corporation owned by Ocasio-Cortez aide come under scrutiny – The Washington Post
    Payments to corporation owned by Ocasio-Cortez aide come under scrutiny – The Washington Post

    Michelle Ye Hee Lee

    March 5 at 8:22 PM

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)’s chief of staff helped establish two political action committees that paid a corporation he ran more than $1 million in 2016 and 2017, federal campaign finance records show.

    Brand New Congress LLC, the corporation owned by Saikat Chakrabarti, was also paid $18,880 for strategic consulting by Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional campaign in 2017, records show. The following year, he worked as a volunteer to manage her campaign, according to his LinkedIn profile.

    The arrangement, first reported by conservative outlets, left hidden who ultimately profited from the payments — a sharp juxtaposition with Ocasio-Cortez’s calls for transparency in politics. She has called dark money “the enemy to democracy.”

    The money that flowed to her chief of staff’s corporation have subjected the first-term congresswoman to critics’ charges of hypocrisy. On Monday, a conservative group filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that the PACs failed to properly disclose their spending.

    David Mitrani, attorney for the PACs, the LLC and Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign, said in a statement Tuesday that all four entities “fully complied with the law and the highest ethical standards.”

    He said that Chakrabarti never received any salary or profit from the corporation, the PACs or the campaign.

    “There is no violation” of campaign finance law, Ocasio-Cortez told Fox News on Tuesday. It is unclear whether she had knowledge of the payments to Chakrabarti’s corporation.

    Limited-liability corporations, which in some states are not required to disclose details about their owners or spending, have played an increasing role in politics in recent years. Critics say such entities allow both donors and vendors to mask their activities, making it difficult for the public to trace who is giving to campaigns and profiting from them.

    Brand New Congress LLC, initially called Brand New Campaign LLC, was formed by Chakrabarti to serve as a “campaign in a box, a one-stop vendor for communications, field, online organizing, fundraising and the like,” Mitrani said in his statement.

    Among its clients were two PACs — Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress — which worked to recruit progressive and nontraditional candidates to run for Congress, he said.

    Chakrabarti identifies himself as a co-founder of both groups on his LinkedIn page.

    In 2016 and 2017, the two PACs reported paying the LLC $1.07 million, records show.

    Campaign finance experts said the relationship between Chakrabarti’s PACs and the limited-liability corporation obfuscated who received the payments — and raised questions about who benefited.

    “In a normal situation, if all you saw was a PAC that disbursed hundreds of thousands of dollars to an affiliated entity to pay the salaries of people who were really working for the PAC, that looks like . . . a PAC that takes in money to engage in political activity but is actually enriching its owners,” said Adav Noti, former Federal Election Commission lawyer who is now chief of staff of the Campaign Legal Center, a group that advocates for greater transparency in campaign finance.

    In his statement, Mitrani said that the PACs did not disclose information about the ultimate recipients of the money because they were not required to do so by the FEC.

    “If the PACs and campaigns were required to provide additional information on subvendor payments made by Brand New Congress LLC, it would have done so,” he wrote.

    He provided a January 2017 contract between the Justice Democrats PAC and the LLC showing that the corporation charged the PAC a monthly retainer fee of $60,000. The fee was to pay employees, subcontractors and agents, according to the contract.

    The contract shows that the primary consultants for the project were Chakrabarti; Nasim Thompson, then the LLC’s chief operating officer; and Corbin Trent, a consultant who is now a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez.

    Correction: A previous version of this story misspelled the name of Ocasio-Cortez spokesman Corbin Trent.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/payments-to-corporation-owned-by-ocasio-cortez-aide-come-under-scrutiny/2019/03/05/ae5045ee-3f61-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html

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    Southern border at ‘breaking point’ after more than 76000 illegal immigrants tried crossing in February, officials say – Fox News
    Southern border at ‘breaking point’ after more than 76000 illegal immigrants tried crossing in February, officials say – Fox News
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    100,000 illegal immigrants may be arrested at the border in March: report

    More than 76,000 people tried to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in February — a “remarkable” leap that more than doubles the number of border apprehensions during the same period of time last year, and is also the highest number of any February in the past 12 years, according to officials.

    The system is “well beyond capacity, and remains at the breaking point,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan told reporters on Tuesday as the agency released the “record numbers” of those trying to enter the U.S. through the southern border.

    67 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FOUND IN DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS INSIDE TINY NEW MEXICO ‘SHED’: ICE

    Officials said that 76,103 people — an increase of 31 percent over January — were apprehended. Of those, 7,249 were unaccompanied children, and 40,385 were family units — totaling 60 percent of apprehensions.

    Brian Hastings, the chief of law enforcement operations at the agency, told reporters that historically, 70 to 90 percent of apprehensions at the border included Mexican nationals.

    As of Tuesday, he said, 70 percent of those arrested for attempting entry without proper documentation are from the “Northern Triangle of Central America,” which includes Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

    “It should be very clear from these numbers that we are facing alarming trends in the rising volumes of people illegally crossing our southwest border, or arriving at our ports of entry without documents,” McAleenan said.

    NEARLY 200 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS APPREHENDED CROSSING BORDER IN NEW MEXICO

    While fewer people overall are being apprehended crossing the border illegally each year, he said the increased numbers are “currently at our highest levels in over a decade both a border security and humanitarian crisis.”

    The commissioner added that border patrol is also noticing a “stark increase” of those seeking asylum. Since October, there’s been a 90 percent increase over the “record levels” of asylum seekers since the last fiscal year, according to the agency, which added that 60 percent of those trying to enter the U.S. without proper documentation are “making claims of fear of return to their home country.”

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    Officials on Tuesday announced plans for a new processing center in El Paso, Texas, to manage the record number of people crossing the border. While not a permanent solution, it will be better suited to manage families and children, and handle medical care concerns.

    “While our enhanced medical efforts will assist in managing the increased flows, the fact is that these solutions are temporary and this solution is not sustainable,” he said.

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    After two illegal immigrant children died while in Border Patrol custody, the agency stepped up medical screenings and announced sweeping changes that include more rigorous interviews as they enter into the system.

    The data released on Tuesday comes as the GOP-controlled Senate plans to reject in a vote next week President Trump’s national emergency declaration at the border that would send extra funding there.

    The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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    President pressured staff to grant security clearance to Ivanka Trump – CNN
    President pressured staff to grant security clearance to Ivanka Trump – CNN

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    Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump pressured his then-chief of staff John Kelly and White House counsel Don McGahn to grant his daughter and senior adviser Ivanka Trump a security clearance against their recommendations, three people familiar with the matter told CNN.

        CNN’s Gloria Borger and Maegan Vazquez contributed to this report.

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