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Trump makes his critics insane: White House burger buffet edition – Washington Examiner
Trump makes his critics insane: White House burger buffet edition – Washington Examiner

We are more than two years into the Trump presidency, and his opponents still haven’t figured out that criticizing absolutely everything he says and does actually doesn’t turn people against him. You’d think the president’s critics in politics and news media would understand by now that nitpicking him over silly issues makes them look small and petty, accomplishing the exact opposite of attracting converts.

But you’d be wrong.

Yes, the White House served burgers, chicken sandwiches, chicken nuggets, salad, pizza, and french fries this week to the 2018 national college football champions. Yes, Trump bragged about paying to feed the Clemson Tigers out of pocket (there’s a shutdown, you know). Yes, the president exaggerated in his usual hyperbolic way about the amount of McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Domino’s, and Burger King served this week and how much it cost him.

Maybe burgers and pizza are not the sort of spread one would expect from the White House. But the Clemson players appeared to appreciate it, and everyone seemed happy. So, who cares, really? The most this incident deserves is maybe an eye roll. Maybe.

But this is the era of Trump, and most of his critics in the news media are nuts, so of course the Clemson dinner has sparked a serious, mostly humorless response from reporters and pundits.

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, for example, tweeted the perfect gotcha, writing: “So Trump served Burger King and called it ‘great American food.’ Am I the only one who thought to do a little research? Burger King is owned by 3G Capital, which is … Brazilian.”

Ah, yes. Who hasn’t taken a bite from a Whopper and thought, “This is Brazilian food!”?

And this keen fact-checker wasn’t about to let the president get away with it!

The Washington Post, meanwhile, published an analysis titled, “ President Trump’s extravagant, $3,000, 300-sandwich celebration of Clemson University,” exploring just how many sandwiches were served and what it likely cost the president. The “detailed Washington Post analysis” includes charts, graphs, and investigations of wire photos and social media posts. The article is clearly written in jest, but at nearly 1,000 words long, the author is maybe just a bit too committed to the gag, which ultimately is about proving whether the president is a liar and a skinflint. And all because the White House served burgers.

Then, there’s Vox, which used the meal and the president’s subsequent remarks as an opportunity to launch into a broader discussion about his tendency to lie.

On Monday, Trump told the players, “we have 300 hamburgers, many, many French fries — all of our favorite foods.” Tuesday morning, he tweeted that he paid for “over 1000 hamberders [sic] etc.”

For Vox, the discrepancy between the numbers suggests a more serious problem. “This particular exaggeration isn’t a big deal in and of itself, obviously,” the author claims in an article titled, “Trump’s tweet about ‘hamberders’ illustrates just how effortlessly he lies.”

The author adds, “But it does reflect how effortlessly Trump fibs about everything from steel plants to Democrats’ position on the shutdown to ‘hamberders.’”

For the record, the president also said that the stack of burgers was “piled up a mile high.” As the Post very helpfully noted Tuesday, that can’t possibly be true.

“At two inches each, a thousand burgers would not reach one mile high. Had Trump instead invested his entire net worth — $3.1 billion per Forbes last year — on $5 sandwiches, each two inches high? A stack of hamburgers nearly 20,000 miles high,” the Post noted.

Thank God for this press.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trump-makes-his-critics-insane-white-house-burger-buffet-edition

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Kirsten Gillibrand Launches 2020 Presidential Exploratory Committee – HuffPost
Kirsten Gillibrand Launches 2020 Presidential Exploratory Committee – HuffPost

Although Gillibrand has spent the previous two years courting the left wing of the Democratic Party, co-sponsoring Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All” bill and unveiling her own postal banking legislation, she emphasized to Colbert that she has experience finding common ground with Republicans on the September 11 health benefits bill and the repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” rule.

“I have a bipartisan bill with nearly every Republican member of the Senate,” she said, before noting that she had crafted legislation combating sexual harassment in Congress with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

Colbert also gave Gillibrand an opportunity to show her sense of humor ― and preview a potential network of political allies that she might be able to tap over the course of her run.

Focusing on Gillibrand’s apparent penchant for profanity, Colbert asked her whether she would refrain from swearing on the campaign trail.

“I’m gonna definitely try,” she replied.

He followed up: Which curse word would she miss most?

“It rhymes with duck,” she said, prompting laughter from the audience.

At the interview’s close, Colbert provided a bunch of gag gifts to help her in the early primary and caucus states: a corn cob for Iowa, a piece of granite for New Hampshire, barbecue sauce for South Carolina, and ― in a dig at Hillary Clinton, who was famously absent in key Midwestern states ― a plane ticket to take her to Michigan.

Gillibrand took the latter item as a cue to highlight her support for Michigan’s new Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, whom Gillibrand backed in both the primary and general elections last year.

“She crushed it in the last election,” Gillibrand said. “I helped her campaign and I helped her in the primary.”

On Tuesday, the senator also released a roughly 2-minute campaign announcement video, “Searching,” that highlights many of her legislative accomplishments:

Source Article from https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kirsten-gillibrand-2020-presidential-exploratory-committee_us_5c37a3e1e4b0c469d76c52f0

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Brexit vote debacle puts Theresa May and the UK in a tough, but not catastrophic, corner – Washington Examiner
Brexit vote debacle puts Theresa May and the UK in a tough, but not catastrophic, corner – Washington Examiner

Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal suffered an overwhelming parliamentary rejection on Tuesday, a rejection on the scale of Michael Dukakis’s rejection in 1988. The consequences for Brexit, as a reality as much as anything, are highly significant.

May must now return to the House of Commons within the next week to offer a pathway forward. If she fails to do so, members of Parliament will put forward their own alternatives for a vote. But as a first step, expect May to travel to meet top European Union officials in Brussels. May will beg, bribe (offering more money for EU projects post-2019), and cajole (perhaps threatening a hard Brexit and a cessation of much-needed intelligence alliances) the EU to give her more clarity on the so-called Irish backstop. The backstop pertains to a possible border arrangement between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, to enter into force if Britain and the EU cannot agree on a final status deal on all affairs by the end of 2020.

But the backstop is deeply unpopular in Parliament, with many of May’s fellow Conservative Party MPs believing it is incompatible with British sovereignty. May will now hope that the EU will give her some new concessions with which to consolidate MP concerns over the backstop and rally enough MPs to her corner for any new vote.

Will the EU agree to this? Beyond some small word changes, I doubt it. The EU believes it has given May all it can give her and has little incentive to give more. The political union has a vested interest in making Britain suffer. It hopes that by showing the other 27 EU states the costs of withdrawal, other separatist movements on the continent will lose power. The EU elites are ultimately interested in forming a United States of Europe, not a continuation of the present EU form. That interest drives their hard-bargaining with May.

So, assuming May cannot get EU concessions to alter the parliamentary math, where does that leave Britain?

Well, in a tough situation, but not a catastrophic one. While a vote of no confidence in the government will be held on Wednesday, the opposition Labour Party lacks the votes to win that vote and force an election. Yet, the fundamental problem for May is that she remains caught between two divergent blocs in Parliament: her own backbench Conservative MPs, many of whom favor a hard Brexit with a greater split from the EU, and others who want a closer alignment. I suspect May will come back from Brussels with a slightly altered deal but that she will warn Conservative MPs that if her new deal is rejected, she will accept soft-Brexit compromises offered by other MPs.

But the stakes and complexities here are immense. As one of May’s Cabinet officers put it, “Winter is coming.” And let’s be clear, as time goes on and the political uncertainties grow, the possibility of a second referendum will grow. In that scenario, Brexit itself might evaporate.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/brexit-vote-debacle-puts-theresa-may-and-the-uk-in-a-tough-but-not-catastrophic-corner

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Steve King’s Comments Prompt House Vote Condemning White Supremacy – The New York Times
Steve King’s Comments Prompt House Vote Condemning White Supremacy – The New York Times

The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a resolution condemning white supremacy by a vote of 424-1, reflecting the anger in both parties over comments by Representative Steve King of Iowa questioning why white supremacy is considered offensive.

The resolution begins by citing Mr. King’s remarks to The New York Times: “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” It says that white supremacy and white nationalism are “contrary to the ideals of the United States of America,” and details the increase in racist hate crimes over recent years.

The resolution also cites recent deadly shootings by white supremacists in South Carolina and Pennsylvania, attacks that targeted black worshipers and Jewish congregants, respectively.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/us/politics/steve-king-white-supremacy.html

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New Trump-Russia subplot: Mueller and Barr are ‘good friends’ – POLITICO
New Trump-Russia subplot: Mueller and Barr are ‘good friends’ – POLITICO

Attorney General nominee William Barr praised Robert Mueller’s “distinguished record of public service” and said that his probe is proper and should be allowed to conclude without interference. | M. Scott Mahaskey/Politico

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Trump’s attorney general nominee told senators the president knows about his 30-year relationship with the special counsel, whom Trump says is out to get him.

The president’s pick to replace Jeff Sessions at the helm of the Justice Department has known and admired the president’s bête noir, Robert Mueller, for 30 years — and somehow President Donald Trump seems fine with that.

The relationship, which Barr described in public at his Tuesday Senate confirmation hearing, is both a source of reassurance to Democrats worried about Barr’s attitude toward Mueller’s probe, as well as a reminder of the incestuously small size of Washington’s legal and law enforcement worlds.

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Why it isn’t more troubling to president Trump, whom Barr said is aware of the relationship, remains a mystery.

Barr and Mueller first crossed paths at the Justice Department during the George H.W. Bush administration. But the relationship goes farther: Their wives are close friends who attend bible study together, and Mueller attended the weddings for two of Barr’s daughters.

“They have a high level of respect for each other,” said Paul McNulty, a former senior DOJ official who led the department’s policy and communications shop while Barr was attorney general and Mueller served as the head of its criminal division. “They have maintained a good friendship ever since.”

During his Senate confirmation hearing, Barr praised Mueller’s “distinguished record of public service” and said that his probe is proper and should be allowed to conclude without interference. That’s a sharp contrast from the acting attorney general Barr would replace, Matthew Whitaker, who has called Mueller’s appointment “ridiculous and “a little fishy,” among other things.

Barr said that Trump knows about his friendship with Mueller, explaining on Tuesday that the topic came up during a June 2017 meeting he had with Trump at the White House to discuss the possibility that he might serve as Trump’s personal lawyer in the Russia investigation.

Trump directly asked Barr how well he knew Mueller, and Barr said he replied that the two families “were good friends and would be good friends when this was all over and so forth, and he was interested in that.”

Barr said Trump also asked him what he thought about the special counsel’s “integrity and so forth and so on.”

“I said Bob is a straight shooter and should be dealt with as such,” Barr said he replied, adding that he told the president he also wasn’t interested in working as his personal attorney and “never heard from him again” until the opening for the attorney general post came up again late last year.

The Barr-Mueller connection is all the more striking given Trump’s repeated complaints about the special counsel’s relationship with former FBI Director James Comey. Conservatives have long cited the bond between Mueller and Comey — whose firing by Trump prompted the special counsel’s appointment — as evidence that Mueller is hopelessly conflicted. Trump has piled on in Twitter missives and media interviews, calling the two men “best friends” working in tandem to tar his presidency.

“I could give you 100 pictures of him and Comey hugging and kissing each other,” the president told The Daily Caller last September.

Mueller and Comey are former Justice Department colleagues, but sources close to both men, and Comey himself, have insisted the president has exaggerated their bonds.

“I admire the heck out of the man, but I don’t know his phone number, I’ve never been to his house, I don’t know his children’s names,” Comey told Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) last month during a joint House hearing with the former FBI director. “I think I had a meal once alone with him in a restaurant. … We’re not friends in any social sense,” Comey added.

For their part, Trump and Barr do not appear to have very deep ties. While Barr donated $2,700 to Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, he initially gave $55,000 to a political action committee supporting Jeb Bush’s primary effort.

Barr told senators he “did not pursue this position” of attorney general under Trump, and the 68-year old lawyer initially resisted the Republican president’s overtures to again serve as attorney general.

Trump has only mentioned Barr once on Twitter, on the day he announced the nomination. Nor did he hold a White House event to announce Barr’s nomination.

If confirmed, Barr will supervise Mueller’s now 20-month old probe into Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, from the special counsel’s budget to subpoenas and criminal indictments.

It won’t be the first time Barr has been Mueller’s boss.

During the George W. Bush administration, the two men often worked directly together on sensitive issues.

At the department’s 1991 press conference rolling out its annual budget request, for example, then-deputy attorney general Barr was joined by Mueller, then the assistant attorney general leading the criminal division, to answer reporters’ questions about the Bush administration’s spending plans to combat white collar crime, combat defense procurement fraud and child pornography.

Later that year, during Barr’s confirmation hearing to serve as Bush’s attorney general, Barr noted that he was overseeing Mueller in a wide-ranging federal investigation into the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, a politically connected Luxembourg-based bank that would later plead guilty to running a wide-scale money laundering scheme.

They also appeared together at a press conference announcing the indictment of two Libyan officials who were charged with bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.

And just ahead of the 1992 presidential election, Barr and Mueller pushed back against House Democratic demands seeking the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration’s dealings with Iraq before the Gulf War. “No amount of hysterical rhetoric or political cheap shots can substitute for evidence that warrants triggering the statute,” Mueller told the congressional panel during a highly-charged hearing, according to a CNN report from the time.

Former Bush DOJ official George Terwilliger III, who sat behind Barr at Tuesday’s Senate confirmation session, told POLITICO in an email that the two men still share a “great mutual professional respect.

”In the sense that anytime you work extensively with professional colleagues, especially on matters of some moment, who become friends when there is such mutual respect, I would describe them as friends,” he said.

Michael Zeldin, a former Mueller aide at DOJ, said the Mueller-Barr relationship would help give the two men confidence in each other’s judgment and analysis.

But he doubted that either would make decisions based on those ties. “You just don’t see that at this level of the Justice Department,” he said.

During Barr’s hearing, senators from both parties pressed the attorney general nominee on whether he’d give Mueller the funding he needs to finish his investigation and see to it that a final recounting of the special counsel’s work gets made public. On both fronts, Barr said yes. He also said he would reject any presidential order that he fire Mueller.

Senators on the judiciary panel also pressed Barr for more details about the famously tight-lipped Mueller. Would Barr describe the special counsel as a fair-minded person, Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham asked?

“Absolutely,” Barr replied.

Graham followed up by asking Barr if he expected Mueller to be fair to Trump and the country? “Yes,” said the nominee.

Invoking one of Trump’s favorite epithets about the Russia probe, the South Carolina senator asked Barr whether he believes Mueller “would be involved in a witch hunt against anybody.”

“I don’t believe Mr. Mueller would be involved in a witch hunt,” he replied.

Source Article from https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/15/trump-russia-mueller-barr-friends-1102244

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Mueller confirms Kilimnik a focus of grand jury investigation – CNN
Mueller confirms Kilimnik a focus of grand jury investigation – CNN

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Washington (CNN)Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort spoke to a federal grand jury last fall about his communications with Konstantin Kilimnik, including regarding an in-person meeting with the Russian associate and an email with him, special counsel Robert Mueller revealed Tuesday.

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    ‘We live in a crisis in Honduras’: New US-bound caravan forms – Al Jazeera English
    ‘We live in a crisis in Honduras’: New US-bound caravan forms – Al Jazeera English

    San Pedro Sula, Honduras – It was still dark when hundreds of Hondurans set out for the border with Guatemala as part of new caravan of US-bound migrants and asylum seekers.

    “The economic crisis has been tremendous, with unemployment going up and corruption getting worse,” Daniel Munoz, a 38-year-old from Honduran department of Cortes, said as he joined his 16-year-old daughter and others on the second group of the caravan on Tuesday. Another group, which eventually grew to more than a 1,000 participants, left late on Monday.

    “These are the reasons why we must migrate to another country,” Munoz told Al Jazeera.

    The family, like so many that joined him on Tuesday morning, has seen their cost of living steadily increase in the last three years, but the amount that Munoz earned transporting sawdust was not enough to cover their bills.

    “The cost of water and energy went up,” Munoz said. “There are times when we did not have enough to cover the costs.”

    His daughter, Stephanie, hopes that she will be able to continue with her studies in the United States, and attend university where she wants to study journalism, and then get a job.

    Youth like Stephanie face a difficult reality in Honduras where there are few opportunities for work.

    “There are so many youth looking for work, but they are unable to find work,” she said.

    “People look, but they don’t have the education that is required,” she said. “It makes me sad that they are unable to find work.”

    Others caravan participants are fleeing violence or political persecution.



    Migrants and asylum seekers part of a new caravan leaving Honduras set off from San Pedro Sula [Jeff Abbott/Al Jazeera] 

    Marta Grady, who departed on Monday, said she cannot “endure this crisis (in Honduras) any more”.

    “There is no work here. How are we going to eat. Since (Honduran President) Juan Orlando (Hernandez) entered office, things have gotten worse. There are no solutions,” she told Al Jazeera. 


    The 35-year-old has owned different businesses, including selling fruit and selling fresh meat, but failed to earn enough to support her family. She began planning on leaving with the caravan in December when she first learned about the caravan.

    “We were not prepared when the first caravan left,” she said, referring to the thousands of Central Americans who left the region in October of last year. “Now we are ready to go. We are leaving everything.”

    The group will make their way to the US border over the next several weeks. They will eventually join the thousands from October’s exodus still at the border awaiting processing by US immigration authorities, who have implemented a “metering system”, limiting the number of asylum applications that are processed each day. Others from last year’s group have either crossed the border between official ports of entry, found work in Mexico or returned home.



    Carlos Maldonado holds a sign addressed to Trump outside the San Pedro Sula bus station [Jeff Abbott/Al Jazeera] 

    US President Donald Trump has attempted use the caravans as a way to sow fear among Americans and make his case for a wall on the US-Mexico border. Key parts on the US government shut down on December 22 after Trump refused to back down on his demand for $5.7bn in wall funding on the US southern border, saying there is a “humanitarian crisis” at the border. Critics, including Democrats, argue the wall is immoral and a vast overreaction. 


    Carlos Maldonado, a 26-year-old from Paradiso, sat next to Grady holding a sign addressed to US President Donald Trump.

    “Trump, we request humanitarian asylum,” the sign read. “We are fleeing gangs, extortion, sexual discrimination, violence and insecurity and corrupt politicians.”

    Maldonado said this is the only opportunity he has.

    “I need to take advantage of it,” he told Al Jazeera.

    Exodus from Central America

    Caravans from Central America are not rare. Those fleeing hope to find safety in numbers as they travel more than 2,000km north. According an Associated Press tally, nearly 4,000 migrants and refugees have died or gone missing along the route since 2014. 


    The Trump administration deployed thousands of active duty US troops to the border, falsely labelling the collective exodus an “invasion”.

    After a number of large caravans left Honduras in October, the Trump administration pressured the governments of Central America to stop the caravans from advancing. As a result, the governments of Honduras and Guatemala deployed military and police to the border crossing to turn back potential migrants and refugees headed towards the US.



    A family migrating with the Honduran caravan tails behind the rest of the group as it leaves San Pedro Sula [Jeff Abbott/Al Jazeera]

    In December, police and members of the US-equipped Honduran inter-agency task force, Maya Chorti patrolled the popular routes for migrants. The officers and soldiers stopped vehicles and asked travellers for identification and whether they had a visa to travel in Mexico. Those who did not were turned back. 


    The Honduran Government announced on Monday that it would uphold laws that cover child trafficking in the region. The Honduran Directorate of childhood, adolescence, and family issued a statement that reiterating that those that try to take children out of the country without the proper documentation could face up to three years of imprisonment. Some 60 children were stopped by Honduran authorities on Monday and Tuesday for not having proper documentation, according to officials.

    Citizens of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua are free to travel without a passport between the four countries due to an agreement signed between the governments in 2006.

    Source Article from https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/01/live-crisis-honduras-bound-caravan-forms-190115201938465.html

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    Teachers, undeterred by more rain, flood picket lines for Day 2 of the LAUSD strike – Los Angeles Times
    Teachers, undeterred by more rain, flood picket lines for Day 2 of the LAUSD strike – Los Angeles Times

    On Tuesday morning, LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner reflected about how Monday went without teachers. About 140,000 students went to school on the first day of the strike, roughly a third of the nearly 500,000 who would’ve attended on a “normal rainy day,” he said at a 7 a.m. news conference. “The strike is clearly having a big impact on the Los Angeles area,” he said.

    Source Article from https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-lausd-strike-day-two-20190115-story.html

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    Theresa May’s Brexit deal defeated by record margin: What happens now? – Fox News
    Theresa May’s Brexit deal defeated by record margin: What happens now? – Fox News
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    UK Parliament vote on Theresa May’s Brexit plan a make or break moment for the prime minister, exit movement

    In a devastating blow to British Prime Minister Theresa May, the British Parliament rejected a bill Tuesday that lists the terms of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union — more than two years after the country’s historic 2016 referendum that resulted in the decision to depart the E.U.

    The House of Commons voted 432 -202 against the deal, said to be the largest defeat in House of Commons history and catastrophic for May.

    May had urged Parliament to vote in favor of her Brexit deal, which she struck with the E.U. in November.  But ahead of the vote, signs were not pointing in favor of May, who has faced criticism from members of her own party for her handling of Britain’s departure from the E.U. and in December survived a vote of confidence in the leadership of her party.

    THERESA MAY FACES CATASTROPHIC DEFEAT IN MAJOR BREXIT VOTE AS ALLIES WARN: ‘WINTER IS COMING’

    A thumbs-down vote on the divorce deal throws British politics further into turmoil, just 10 weeks before Britain is due to leave the E.U. on March 29. It’s also possible the country could leave the bloc without a deal, which economists have warned could have devastating effects on the British economy.

    The deal faced deep opposition from both sides of Britain’s divide over Europe. Pro-Brexit lawmakers say the deal will leave Britain bound indefinitely to E.U. rules, while pro-E.U. politicians favor an even closer economic relationship with the bloc.

    Here’s what you need to know about Brexit and the departure agreement.

    First, what is Brexit?

    Brexit — or “British Exit” — refers to the U.K.’s choice to leave the E.U., which is an “economic and political partnership” that currently consists of 28 countries in Europe, according to the BBC.

    A list of countries that are part of the E.U. can be found here.

    What has happened since the U.K. voted to leave the E.U.?

    May and other U.K. leaders have worked with the E.U. to negotiate and agree on the terms of the country’s exit from the E.U., which will occur on March 29 whether or not there is a deal, the BBC reported.

    Negotiations between the two sides have led to a 585-page withdrawal agreement. The agreement, in part, details the terms of the U.K.’s departure from the E.U.

    Namely, this includes how much money the U.K. is required to pay the E.U., (estimated £39 billion or more than $49 billion), what will happen to the E.U citizens living in the U.K. and vice versa, and how to prevent a physical border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland “when it becomes the frontier between the U.K. and the E.U.,” the BBC reported. This has also been referred to as the “backstop plan.”

    The E.U. says that there can be no deal without the backstop to guarantee an open border along the U.K.’s only land frontier with an E.U. member state. But pro-Brexit supporters say this part of the agreement will bind the U.K. to many E.U. laws, CNBC reported.

    What happens now that Parliament voted “no” on Jan. 15?

    Now that Parliament has voted “no” on the deal, May has until Monday of next week to come back to Parliament with Plan B.

    If the deal is rejected by a narrow margin, the government could try again, re-submitting the agreement to Parliament after tweaking it or winning some soothing words from the E.U. to assuage lawmakers’ concerns.

    But while E.U. leaders have offered “clarifications” to the deal, they insist the 585-page withdrawal agreement cannot be reopened.

    Other options include possibly delaying Britain’s exit or holding a second referendum, which has been driven largely by supporters of the losing “remain” side last time around. But May and her government have firmly opposed this option.

    Additionally, there is the possibility that the main opposition Labour Party could call a no-confidence vote in the government if the deal is defeated. The vote would be an attempt to trigger a general election.

    The party has not disclosed the timing of such a motion, which could come as early as Tuesday night. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told colleagues on Monday that a no-confidence vote was “coming soon.”

    What’s the so-called “transition period” and why is it important?

    The transition period is a period of time between March 29 and Dec. 21, 2020 that will allow businesses to adjust to the new rules between the U.K. and E.U after Brexit formally begins.

    But the transition period will only occur if a deal is met between the E.U. and U.K.

    BRITISH MP DELAYS GIVING BIRTH BY TWO DAYS TO VOTE AGAINST BREXIT DEAL

    Economists warn that an abrupt break from the E.U. could batter the British economy and bring chaotic scenes at borders, ports and airports.

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    The British government has already reportedly started to plan for this potential outcome.

    Fox News’ Adam Shaw and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

    Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/world/uk-votes-on-theresa-may-brexit-deal-what-to-know

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    Here’s why the shutdown won’t end anytime soon – Washington Examiner
    Here’s why the shutdown won’t end anytime soon – Washington Examiner

    Shutdown writing is tedious because it tends to follow a pattern: Nothing has happened for weeks and nothing is likely to happen for the next couple weeks. Updates to follow.

    The wall isn’t even really the point anymore, as if $5 billion could ever do more than pay for a few hundred steel slats along the southern border anyway. Aside from the overflowing toilets at national parks and the army of inconvenienced furloughed federal employees then, the only question that actually matters is who the public will hold responsible when the government reopens.

    Of course, President Trump blames Democrats for the shutdown he at first took credit for. (“I would be proud to shut down the government.”) For the last three weeks though, he has been inviting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to make a deal.

    [Read: Federal employees file for unemployment as government shutdown becomes longest in history]

    This strategy isn’t working, and this shutdown won’t stop anytime soon. Recent polling shows why.

    The Washington Post and ABC News found that 53 percent of respondents blamed Trump and Republicans in Congress for the shutdown, 29 percent blamed Democrats, and 13 percent blamed both sides.

    After first glancing at these numbers, one would assume the White House would realize they were losing the messaging war. But a closer look shows why the shutdown will continue: Trump is getting good scores on this shutdown with Republicans.

    Trump promised his base a wall, and the GOP is increasingly getting on board even when construction seems impossible. As the Washington Post reports, support for the wall jumped 16 percent in the last year from 71 to 87 percent.

    And this is why the shutdown won’t end anytime soon. Trump continues to get what he wants, namely giving the impression to his supporters that he still fights. He does this by not doing anything. Until something changes drastically, nothing will change at all.

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    William Barr confirmation hearing: "I will not be bullied" — live updates – CBS News
    William Barr confirmation hearing: "I will not be bullied" — live updates – CBS News

    Senate Judiciary Committee members are grilling William Barr, President Trump’s nominee for attorney general, in his first day of confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill.

    At the outset, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, the new chairman of the committee, told Barr he should expect to face questions about a memo he wrote that contained language critical of the special counsel’s investigation into whether President Trump obstructed justice.

    “You will be challenged, You should be challenged. The memo, there will be a lot of talk about it, as there should be,” Graham said.

    Barr has been questioned by multiple senators about his views of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

    Barr has repeatedly been pressed to make the case for how he will be independent as the head of the Justice Department, given the president’s repeated berating of former attorney general Jeff Sessions, along with top FBI officials. Here is one such exchange between Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and Barr.

    DURBIN: “A number of my colleagues on both sides have asked, and I’ll bet you’ll hear more, questions along the lines of, what would be your breaking point? When would you pick up and leave? When is your Jim Mattis moment, when the president has asked you to do something that you think is inconsistent with your oath? Doesn’t that give you some pause as you embark on this journey?”

    BARR: “Uh, it might give me pause if I was 45 or 50 years old, but it doesn’t give me pause right now. I had a very good life–I have a very good life. I love it. But I also want to help in this circumstance. And I am not going to do anything that I think is wrong, and I will not be bullied into doing anything I think is wrong, by anybody, whether it be editorial boards, or Congress, or the president. I’m going to do what I think is right.”

    Source Article from https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/william-barr-senate-confirmation-hearing-attorney-general-watch-live-stream-today-2019-01-15/

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    Federal Judge Obliterates Trump’s Census Shenanigans and Dares the Supreme Court to Reverse Him – Slate
    Federal Judge Obliterates Trump’s Census Shenanigans and Dares the Supreme Court to Reverse Him – Slate

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    Los Angeles teachers are on strike, exercising a right not enjoyed by most educators – NBC News
    Los Angeles teachers are on strike, exercising a right not enjoyed by most educators – NBC News

    The strike by the union of Los Angeles teachers heads into its second day on Tuesday. In doing so, some 30,000 California-based teachers are exercising a right not enjoyed by teachers in most states.

    California is among the minority of states that do permit teachers’ strikes even though most states allow collective bargaining and wage negotiations for public school teachers.

    According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, as of January 2014, 35 states and the District of Columbia outlaw striking. Teacher strikes are legal in 12 states and not covered in statutes or case law in three.

    In 1935, Congress passed the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which was designed to achieve uniform, effective enforcement of a national labor policy. Congress intentionally exempted states and cities from the NLRA, because government employees traditionally didn’t enjoy a right to strike.

    Consequently, the protections of the NLRA apply to private employers, rather than public employers, and leaves states free to regulate labor relationships with their public employees. The result is a wide variation of rules that vary drastically from state to state.

    As a default rule, public employees have neither the right to strike nor the right to collectively bargain, unless such rights are provided by a state statute.

    In California, labor relations between most local public entities and their employees are governed by a state law called the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (MMBA), which recognizes the collective bargaining rights of public employees. The MMBA imposes on local public entities a duty to meet and confer in good faith with representatives of employee organizations, in order to reach binding agreements governing wages, hours and working conditions of the agencies’ employees.

    If negotiations break down, California allows public employees to go on strike to enforce their collective bargaining demands, unless the striking employees perform jobs that are essential to public welfare, like firefighters and law enforcement personnel. The state’s supreme court has long held that strikes by public employees are lawful, unless the strike creates a “substantial and imminent” threat to public health or safety.

    Danny Cevallos is a legal analyst for NBC News.

    Source Article from https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/los-angeles-teachers-are-strike-exercising-right-not-enjoyed-most-n958871

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    Former top FBI lawyer James Baker subject of criminal media leak probe, transcript reveals – Fox News
    Former top FBI lawyer James Baker subject of criminal media leak probe, transcript reveals – Fox News
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    Republican’s questions uncovered revelations that FBI leadership debated if Trump was directed by Russians to fire Comey

    Rep. John Ratcliffe confirms his questions to former FBI general counsel James Baker uncovered the claims first reported by the New York Times; Catherine Herridge has the details.

    The former top lawyer at the FBI has been under federal investigation for leaking to the media, a letter from House Republicans revealed Tuesday.

    The letter from GOP Reps. Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows cited the transcript of a congressional interview with former General Counsel James Baker and his lawyer last fall, where the probe conducted by seasoned U.S. Attorney John Durham was confirmed.

    “You may or may not know, [Baker has] been the subject of a leak investigation … a criminal leak investigation that’s still active at the Justice Department,” lawyer Daniel Levin told lawmakers, as he pushed back on questions about his client’s conversations with reporters.

    REPUBLICAN UNCOVERED SECRET FBI DEBATE OVER TRUMP MOTIVATION FOR COMEY FIRING DURING HOUSE QUESTIONING 

    Jordan and Meadows’ letter was sent to Durham, the U.S. attorney for Connecticut, and requested additional information about the probe later this month.

    “As we continue our oversight and investigative work, we felt it prudent to write to you seeking an update. Without being apprised of the contours of your leak investigation and Baker’s role, we run the risk of inadvertently interfering with your prosecutorial plans,” they wrote.

    James A. Baker, former general counsel for the FBI, was revealed to be the subject of a leak probe.
    (Michigan Law)

    The transcript of the closed-door interview and the letter do not include details explaining why the investigation is being led out of the Connecticut office. The status of the investigation is not publicly known.

    But the disclosure marks the latest confirmation of a leak investigation involving FBI figures who have since left the bureau.

    Last year, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe saw his leak case referred to the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. McCabe was fired for lying to federal investigators about his role in a media leak regarding the Clinton Foundation on the eve of the 2016 presidential election.

    DEFIANT COMEY LASHES OUT AT HOUSE GOP AFTER ‘FRUSTRATING’ HEARING

    The letter from the GOP lawmakers cited other concerns that arose as part of their own investigation when Republicans controlled the House:

    “The Committees learned that in some instances, high-ranking DOJ and FBI officials, including the FBI General Counsel James Baker and DOJ Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, took the self-described ‘unusual’ step of inserting themselves into the evidentiary chain of custody.”

    Documents reviewed by Fox News indicate that Ohr became the back-channel between Christopher Steele, author of the controversial and unverified anti-Trump “dossier,” and the FBI after he was fired by the bureau for lying about his contact with the media. According to a January 2018 memo by House Intelligence Committee Republicans on government surveillance practices, “Steele was suspended and then terminated as an FBI source for what the FBI defines as the most serious of violations — an authorized disclosure of his relationship with the FBI in an October 30, Mother Jones article.”

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    Fox News is reaching out to FBI and Baker, as well as the U.S. Attorney’s office in Connecticut, for comment on the new letter.

    Fox News’ Jake Gibson contributed to this report.

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