Lo que el ‘hacker’ Andrés Sepúlveda le está contando a la Fiscalía apunta a que los escándalos recientes de chuzadas ilegales obedecen a oscuros intereses.
El domingo pasado, a las 20 horas, sucedió algo que todavía me tiene maravillado: se estrenó La semana con Ilana Sod en MILENIO Televisión.
¿Y? ¿Qué tiene esto de emocionante? ¿Por qué todavía me tiene maravillado?
Porque es la primera vez, en años, que veo un noticiario diferente. ¿Sabe usted lo que esto significa en un país como México que produce más noticiarios y mesas de análisis que series y telenovelas?
¿A qué me refiero cuando digo diferente? ¿Acaso es un programa frívolo e intrascendente que en lugar de informar, desinforma?
¡No! ¡Eso es lo más admirable! La semana con Ilana Sod tiene las noticias del momento, las rudas, las crudas, pero también las otras, las que a todos nos interesan pero que por no coincidir con las agendas ni de los canales ni del “círculo rojo” muchas veces ni se toman en cuenta.
Noticias que tienen que ver con cuestiones de género, de diversidad sexual, de cultura, de espectáculos. Noticias que nos afectan y que nos invitan a tomar decisiones exactamente como le enseñan a uno cuando estudia periodismo en la universidad.
¿Dónde está la diferencia? En que son noticias de autor. La semana es lo que es porque su conductora y directora es Ilana Sod, una de las periodistas más audaces y preparadas de nuestro país.
Usted seguramente también la sigue y la admira desde hace mil aventuras. Bueno, ella está haciendo historia en MILENIO Televisión porque estamos hablando de un espacio propio en un canal que transmite noticias las 24 horas del día.
Y es muy bueno, y está perfectamente bien estructurado, y es muy dinámico y yo no sé como le hace Ilana pero todos sus invitados son como de concurso.
Saben hablar para televisión. Ella los hace decir lo que tienen que decir, en el ritmo en que lo tienen que decir.
Por si esto no fuera suficiente, Ilana no solo se concreta a conducir y a tronarle los dedos a sus reporteros.
Ella misma sale a la calle a cazar la nota, no le tiene miedo a la gente, ni al público ni a las fuentes y esto, que suena tan obvio, no lo hace cualquiera y es sensacional.
MILENIO Televisión no sabe la joya de programa que acaba de presentar porque si así fuera, lo estaría promoviendo por todos lados.
La semana con Ilana Sod es el noticiario que los millennials estaban esperando, el espacio que a muchos nos hacía falta.
Por favor búsquelo todos los domingos de 20:00 a 20:45 en MILENIO Televisión. Le va a gustar. De veras que sí.
LISTO, ADN40
A propósito del mundo de las noticias, este lunes sucedió algo fundamental: se terminó de construir ADN40 como el primer canal privado nacional abierto de noticias y de opinión de todo el país.
Ya no hay “huecos” desde las 6 a.m. hasta poco después de la medianoche. Todo, ahí, son noticiarios, incluso de corte deportivo, y programas de opinión.
Ni siquiera en los tiempos del legendario Sistema Informativo ECO tuvimos algo parecido.
ECO tenía una vocación internacional de paga, medio llegó a rellenar algunos espacios en frecuencias como Las Estrellas y GalaTV, pero nada más.
Esto es un acontecimiento porque no es una masa de noticias. Cada espacio, de lunes a domingo, tiene su estilo y a su conductor titular,
No es lo mismo ver a Carlos Mota a mediodía que a Mónica Garza y a Manuel López San Martín por las mañanas, que a Jorge Fernández Menéndez y Bibiana Belsasso en las noches, que a Raymundo Riva Palacio casi al despertar. Por razones de espacio no voy a alcanzar a profundizar, pero hay algunos puntos que me interesa señalarle.
Con todo y que esto es un canal completo de noticias, Hannia Novell sigue conservando su espacio estelar, Ana María Salazar tiene un noticiario en inglés imperdible e Inbox con Juan Pablo de Leo se me hace una revelación por su agenda diferente, fresca, de autor.
Se nota que Lilly Téllez, Carlos Zúñiga y José Luis Mora son gente de televisión. Cada uno, en su propio noticiario, devora la pantalla.
Ver a Leonardo Curzio es una oportunidad genial porque es tener lo mejor de las noticias, pero también lo mejor del círculo rojo. Su potencial es tremendo.
Pero mi mayor orgullo como crítico y como espectador son los nuevos talentos como Juan Manuel Jiménez, Max Espejel, Jorge Armando Rocha, Romina Ramos y Vaitiare Mateos.
Cada uno de ellos es una oportunidad para una nueva generación en una época en la que nadie apuesta por los jóvenes. Y Vaitiare, de manera particular, me enloquece.
Ella comenzó como “la chica del tiempo” en Hechos AM y creció, y creció, y ahora tiene su propio espacio. ¡Y es excelente! ¡Se lo ganó! ¡Se lo merece!
Si lo suyo son las noticias y la televisión abierta, busque ADN40. El canal, a pesar de su escasa promoción fuera del circuito de Tv Azteca, ya quedó listo y representa una opción importante.
En Ciudad de México está en el 40.1 y en los estados, en el 1.2. Vale la pena. ¿A poco no?
The vehicle, he said, matched the make and model and license plate of Hernandez’s vehicle, a black GMC Acadia. Hernandez, 40, has been missing since April 17.
“Our condolences go out to the family as they go through a painful time of waiting for a positive identification,” Deese said.
He said he could not comment on whether the unidentified body showed signs of foul play.
Deese said police gathered information with the FBI that led them to the small man-made lake in Pearland’s Shadow Creek Ranch subdivision. There, near the intersection of Reflection Bay and North Clear Lake, officers found evidence that a vehicle struck a curb and entered the body of water, Deese said.
He said the dive team was called and quickly located the vehicle at the bottom of the lake, which ranges in depth from 8 to 15 feet. Deese said the SUV appeared to have been in the water since Hernandez was first reported missing.
Officers noted damage on the SUV consistent with striking a curb, Deese said. Investigators believe the crash likely occurred in the early-morning hours, when “no one would have heard anything,” he said.
Pearland police will lead the investigation into the death.
“We won’t definitively say the search for Erica Hernandez is over, because there is a process that still needs to be followed,” Deese said.
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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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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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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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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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.
Cal Cunningham, the Democratic candidate in North Carolina’s US Senate race, pointed out that the US is capable of coming together for the national good — just not, apparently, on Covid-19.
“If it had been a terrorist attack, there would have been an address to the nation, probably to a joint session of Congress. There would not have been a hesitation to invoke things like the Defense Production Act,” Cunningham, a military veteran, told me in a phone interview. “There would have been clear communication from the top to every corner of America about how we fight that enemy. Here, we were told it was a hoax.”
So I followed up: Why do you think this administration is treating the pandemic different from a terrorist attack?
He says that he has been “incredibly laser-focused on Senator [Thom] Tillis and the role a senator should play in a moment like this” — one that he’s found lacking.
Cunningham contrasted Tillis with Sen. Tom Cotton, a resolute conservative who still, to his credit, warned about the need to prepare for the worst after sitting in on a classified briefing in January about the Covid-19 threat.
“My guy, the person I hold accountable in this race, was not one of them,” Cunningham argued to me. “He has demonstrated an unwillingness and an inability to ask the tough questions when a US senator, in a coequal branch of government, should be doing exactly that.”
With a deftness that reminded me of Joe Biden’s convention speech, when the Democratic nominee never once named his opponent while still panning his record, Cunningham made clear the problems with President Trump’s approach to the pandemic — nobody else in a position of power was calling the coronavirus a “hoax” or hesitated to invoke the DPA — and yet when given the chance, he elided any more direct criticisms of Trump and instead stayed “laser-focused” on his own Republican opponent.
Cunningham’s critique overall — directed at the federal government broadly and Tillis specifically, with glancing blows to the man in the White House — was represented in his explanation of how his military experience had informed his own beliefs about crisis response:
“It requires the whole of government, led by an administration and a federal government that deploys all available resources. It is hard for us to come to any conclusion other than the federal government has dropped the ball with respect to some of the most basic building blocks of, first, containing the virus and containing the impacts of it.”
So I was curious: How are other Democratic hopefuls running against Republican incumbents in key swing states talking about Covid-19 and Trump? As it turns out, several of them sound a lot like Cunningham.
Take this ad from Theresa Greenfield, running against Sen. Joni Ernst in Iowa. She starts off by saying the Covid-19 pandemic had revealed “the worst in Washington” before transitioning into a populist critique portraying the original GOP Senate coronavirus relief package as a slush fund for corporate America (the same words used by Senate Democrats at the time, Politico reported).
Neither Donald Trump’s visage nor his name appears.
A new ad from Jon Ossoff, the Democrat challenging Sen. David Perdue in Georgia, likewise eschews any direct attack on Trump while still making his meaning perfectly clear. Ossoff says straight to the camera, after reminding viewers his wife who works at a hospital tested positive for Covid-19, that we need to listen to medical experts, we need a national testing strategy, and “we” need to stop politicizing masks.
Sara Gideon, running against Sen. Susan Collins in Maine, wrote a whole op-ed in the Portland Press Herald lamenting the shortcomings of “Washington’s COVID response.” The Trump administration doesn’t get mentioned until one of the last paragraphs, lumped together with Washington Republicans who “have focused on winning partisan fights and allowing the wealthy and well-connected to skip to the front of the line.”
Some of this is tried-and-true strategy for challenging an incumbent: associate them with “Washington” (a place nobody but the people who live here seems to like) and the status quo.
Some of it is triangulation on the part of Democrats running in states Trump won: The president’s approval rating in North Carolina is hovering around 45 percent; it’s about the same in Georgia and Iowa, per the most recent polling.
That’s not great, but it’s better than the national average. In all three of those states, the incumbents are running a few points behind Trump in the Real Clear Politics polling average, indicating there is some number of voters who are locked in for Trump but not as sold on their Republican senator. That is good reason to be less direct in critiquing the president and more focused on your actual opponent if you’re the Democratic challenger.
But I think there is one other way to understand the Democratic approach to Trump and Covid-19 in these Senate races. Trump’s failures, documented so well by my colleague German Lopez, are plain for all to see. There is no need to belabor the point because the public’s approval of Trump’s Covid-19 response is already disastrously low. When you talk about not bringing the full power of the federal government to bear or politicizing masks, people know who it is you mean.
The goal, then, seems to be making sure these Republican senators own that failure, too.
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New York state lawmakers on Friday moved to strip Gov. Andrew Cuomo of temporary emergency powers he was granted last year to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic.
The state Senate, in a 43-20 vote, approved the bill, which would revoke Cuomo’s power to issue new orders related to coronavirus, while allowing current orders to remain in effect, albeit with great legislative oversight.
The bill still was being debated Friday in the Assembly, which is expected to pass it.
Cuomo has suggested he is willing to sign the bill.
“I think everyone understands where we were back in March and where we are now. We certainly see the need for a quick response but also want to move toward a system of increased oversight and review. The public deserves to have checks and balances,” said Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Westchester County.
“This legislation creates a system with increased input while at the same time ensuring New Yorkers continue to be protected,” Stewart-Cousins said.
Cuomo has issued nearly 100 orders related to the coronavirus pandemic, according to debate in the Senate on Friday morning.
Sen. Andrew Lanza, R-Staten Island, on Friday complained that the bill would not prevent Cuomo from acting unilaterally and continuing directives he has issued under the emergency powers authorization.
Lanza, who said he would vote against the bill for that reason, blasted “one-man rule” and the effects from “when you have one man have absolute power over your lives” since last March.
“If I would have told anyone two years ago that we were going to stand by and let a governor to tell student athletes that they couldn’t play” or tell students they could not put on a play “people would say, you’re crazy, no way, no how is that happening,” Lanza said.
The move to strip Cuomo’s powers underscore what has been a growing rift between the governor and lawmakers from his own party.
Cuomo for years has been able to enforce his political will with less effective pushback from the Senate and Assembly than his predecessors faced.
“Many nursing home residents died from Covid-19 in hospitals after being transferred from their nursing homes, which is not reflected in [the Department of Health’s] published total nursing home death data,” James said at the time.
On Thursday night, The New York Times reported that top aides to Cuomo last June rewrote a state Department of Health report to take out the fact that more than 9,000 nursing home residents as of that month had died of the coronavirus. The move came as Cuomo was starting to write a book about what at the time was his widely praised handling of the pandemic.
The Times report contradicts the recent claim by Cuomo’s aides that the death data was suppressed to keep the information from being used as a political weapon by the Justice Department, which at the time was under the control of Attorney General William Barr, a loyal ally of then-President Donald Trump. The Justice Department’s query for the data, however, came months after the Cuomo aides removed it.
The suppression of the nursing home data has perplexed many because it did not change, in any way, the official death tally for Covid in New York. Instead, the move undercounted deaths related to nursing homes while reporting those deaths elsewhere.
“Not only did they withhold the information, they changed the information,” Lanza said Friday.
“A lot of bad things happen when you give power to one man,” he said.
Cuomo’s special counsel Beth Garvey on Friday afternoon issued a lengthy statement on The Times article, suggesting there was no intent to mislead the public or lawmakers.
“To be clear, multiple times during the time the July 6 DOH report was being developed, public statements were made during the daily briefings and in the press regarding the existence of the data, but noting that the deaths were being counted in the facility where individuals died,” Garvey said.
“There were repeated public statements acknowledging the out of facility deaths were not being listed as a subset of nursing home deaths stemming from concerns related to potential for double counting and consistency and accuracy.”
Garvey said that no members of the governor’s staff “changed any of the fatality numbers or ‘altered’ the fatality data.”
Instead, she said, staff asked Health Department questions about the source of previously unpublished data, “to which there were not clear or complete answers,” and probed whether the data “was relevant to the outcome of the report.”
Then, Garvey said, “a decision was made to use the data set that was reported by the place of death with firsthand knowledge of the circumstances.”
Garvey said that decision “gave a higher degree of comfort in” the data’s “accuracy.”
Cuomo earlier this week refused to resign over claims by two former aides and a woman who worked in the Obama White House that he sexually harassed them.
But in his first public comments on the women’s allegations, he also said, “I now understand that I acted in a way that made people feel uncomfortable. It was unintentional.”
The nursing home death data is the subject of a federal criminal investigation, while James is overseeing a probe of the women’s allegations.
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Aún se desconoce quién está detrás de los ataques.
Ataques con misiles contra al menos cuatro hospitales y varias escuelas del norte de Siria dejaron más de 50 muertos.
Fuentes de la Organización de Naciones Unidas dijeron que dichos ataques “son una clara violación de las leyes internacionales”.
La organización Médicos sin Fronteras, MSF, dijo que uno de sus hospitales, en la ciudad de Maarat al Numan, en Idlib, fue bombardeado deliberadamente.
También aseguraron que habían confirmado la muerte de siete personas y que ocho estaban desaparecidas.
Otro hospital de la misma ciudad también fue atacado.
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Grupos de activistas aseguraron que los bombardeos fueron llevados a cabo por tropas rusas.
“Ataque deliberado” sobre el hospital de MSF
La organización humanitaria precisó que sus instalaciones en Idlib fueron alcanzadas por cuatro misiles en un margen de minutos, lo que les lleva a pensar que “no fue un ataque accidental”.
Mego Terzian, presidente de MSF Francia, le dijo a la agencia Reuters que “o el gobierno sirio o Rusia es claramente responsable”.
Pero el embajador de Siria en Moscú, Riad Haddad, responsabilizó a Estados Unidos, algo que el Pentágono desestimó como “claramente falso”.
“No tenemos ninguna razón para atacar Idlib ya que el autodenominado Estado Islámico no está activo allí”, declaró el portavoz del Pentágono capitán Jeff Davis.
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Qué dice el derecho internacional sobre el bombardeo de hospitales
El derecho internacional humanitario prohíbe cualquier ataque sobre pacientes y personal médico o sin duda cualquier ataque sobre instalaciones médicas, que son zonas que se deben respetar bajo las normas de la guerra
Incluso si los combatientes se resguardan en ellos, no deben ser atacados
Bajo las normas establecidas por la Corte Penal Interncional, cualquier incidente de este tipo tendría como consecuencia un elevado número de víctimas civiles, lo que se conoce como la regla de la proporcionalidad.
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Evacuación en el hospital de Azaz, cerca de la frontera de Siria con Turquía.
Los ataques siguen un patrón de bombardeos sistemáticos sobre instalaciones sanitarias en Siria, añade Mark Lowen, reportero de la BBC ubicado en la vecina Turquía.
Reincidencia
Mientras, dos hospitales y una escuela de niños en Azaz, cerca de la frontera con Turquía sufrieron también ataques que causaron la muerte de al menos 12 personas.
No es la primera vez que una instalación gestionada por Médicos sin Fronteras es objeto de un ataque.
En octubre del año pasado, Estados Unidos bombardeó por error un hospital de esta organización en Kunduz, Afganistán, causando la muerte de 30 civiles.
En un comunicado, el portavoz de Naciones Unidas Farhan Haq dijo que los ataques “ensombrecen” los compromisos adoptados por las potencias internacionales la semana pasada.
El jueves pasado, líderes mundiales se comprometieron a trabajar por el cese de hostilidades en Siria en una semana.
Pero Rusia alega que “el cese” no aplica a los ataques aéreos, que han desequilibrado la balanza de la guerra en favor del gobierno de Siria.
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El canciller francés calificó el ataque sobre las instalaciones de MSF como “crimen de guerra”.
El presidente sirio Bashar al Assad declaó que cualquier cese el fuego no significa que “cada parte dejará de usar armas”.
En comentarios difundidos por televisión, al Assad puso en duda que las condiciones para el alto el fuego se puedan dar en una semana.
“Crimen de guerra”, dice Francia
Francia condenó el bombardeo del hospital de MSF en términos contundentes, con el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores, Jean-Marc Ayrault calficándolos de “crímenes de guerra”.
Estados Unidos también condenó los ataques y aladió que despiertan dudas sobre “la disposición de Rusia o su capacidad para ayudar a poner fin a la continua brutalidad del régimen de al Asad contra su propio pueblo”.
El emviado de Naciones Unidas para Siria, Staffan de Mistura, está en la capital siria, Damasco, como parte de su esfuerzo para la reanudación de las conversaciones de paz.
Former president Barack Obama touched on growing divisions within his own party, warning against pushes for ideological purity that can result in a “circular firing squad” in a town hall organized by The Obama Foundation in Berlin on Saturday.
While taking audience questions about the frustration that comes with lack of change, Obama expressed concern about a lack of compromise in Washington, and said he specifically worries progressive politicians could be alienating potential allies.
“One of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States — maybe it’s true here as well — is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, this is how it’s going to be,’” Obama said. “And then we start sometimes creating what’s called a ‘circular firing squad’ where you start shooting at your allies because one of them is straying from purity on the issues.”
The former president said he believes this approach “weakens” movements, and that those that would like to see a progressive agenda “have to recognize that the way we’ve structured democracy requires you to take into account people who don’t agree with you.”
Obama ended his speech by advocating for patience and incremental change: “We have to be careful in balancing big dreams and bold ideas with also recognizing that typically change happens in steps. And if you want to skip steps, you can. Historically what’s ended up happening is sometimes if you skip too many steps you end up having bad outcomes.”
What else did Obama talk about?
Obama took several audience questions, and used them to speak at length about issues facing Europe and the United States.
While the former president did not directly address President Trump’s recent meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg or Trump’s criticisms of the organization (the current president has said “NATO is as bad as NAFTA,” for example), Obama explained why he believes NATO is important.
“I can’t say exactly what the United States and NATO are doing right now,” Obama said. “I recognize that there are some strains. … I think it’s important not to separate military alliances — the strength of Europe over the last 20, 30 years has not been because there were a bunch of missiles fired. It was because — thankfully — it was because ideas won.”
Speaking about immigration in Sweden, Obama said, “We can’t label everybody who is disturbed by immigration as racist. You know, that’s a self-defeating tactic. You push away potential allies, people who maybe just haven’t thought about it … but if they’re exposed to new information and they’re meeting people from other countries and they understand the nature of these different traditions and they see that others are eager to work with you, then suddenly they go, ‘Ah, okay.’”
Obama also encouraged people to take a more active role in government, arguing citizens with new ideas should reach out to politicians who are open to them.
“Sometimes we think of the government as this ‘thing’ that is separate from us,” Obama said. “But if we’re active citizens, then part of our job is not just to get government to respond to you — it’s also to improve the government.”
He added, “The point I’m making is, in addition to electing good people, one of the things that you can do, I think, is encourage and work with governments to identify where are bottlenecks, where are inefficiencies that could potentially be solved and then finding allies to help improve processes inside of government.”
Obama has called for “new blood” in the past — and some of that new blood is at tension with the establishment over ideological purity
In an Obama Foundation event earlier this year, Obama called for “new blood” in the political ranks, but new, progressive House Democrats have at times found themselves at odds with more established party figures over issues from refusing to take corporate PAC money to big ideas like Medicare-for-all and the Green New Deal.
For the most part, however, Democrats have been following Obama’s lead and been careful to maintain unity in public.
As Vox’s Ella Nilsen notes, when Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded to a question about the Green New Deal championed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) by saying, “It will be one of several or maybe many suggestions that we receive. The green dream or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they’re for it right?” Ocasio-Cortez didn’t take it as a slight. Instead, the freshman Congresswoman said, “I think it is a green dream. I don’t consider to be that a dismissive term.”
Similarly, policy divides between Democratic 2020 candidates on issues like trade, reparations, and even eliminating the filibuster have not led to open hostilities — at least not yet.
When Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) clearly stated “we should get rid of the filibuster,” Friday, she did not impugn any of her fellow Democrats, instead arguing, “For generations, the filibuster was used as a tool to block progress on racial justice. And in recent years, it’s been used by the far right as a tool to block progress on everything.”
Tiroteo en discoteca y agencia bancaria de Independencia. | Fuente: RPP Noticias
Eduardo Glicerio Romero Naupay (32 años) convirtió una cálida noche de viernes en un infierno. Alrededor de la 10:30 p.m., este vendedor ambulante de sánguches asesinó a cuatro personas luego de disparar en el centro comercial Royal Plaza en Independencia y dejó en su camino al menos a seis heridos. El número pudo ser mayor, pero un policía vestido de civil abatió a Romero.
Hasta el momento, las cuatro víctimas son Susan Sujhay Pilco Juárez (27 años), César Arellano Chumacero (32 años), Nicole Stefany Muñoz Peña (19 años) y Gloria Mostacero Cruz. Los heridos ingresaron por emergencia a la clínica Jesús del Norte, donde permanecen en cuidados intensivos.
Ruta de sangre. El jefe de la región policial Lima, el general PNP Gastón Rodríguez, dijo en RPP Noticias que todo comenzó en la zona de discotecas del centro comercial, ubicado en la cuadra 4 de la avenida Carlos Izaguirre. Ahí disparó contra César Arellano y Susan Pilco, quienes trabajaban como seguridad de la discoteca Zeven. El primero murió en el acto.
Luego se dirigió hasta el área de bancos, donde disparó sin control y acabó con la vida Stefany Muñoz, una joven estudiante. El director de la Clínica Jesús del Norte confirmó que Susan Pilco llegó con vida, pero falleció en la unidad de emergencias. También dijo que Gloria Mostacero murió este sábado en la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos (UCI).
El origen del casos. El alcalde de Los Olivos, Pedro del Rosario, confirmó a este medio que el asesino trabajaba como vendedor ambulante en su distrito, cerca al centro comercial. Minutos antes del tiroteo en el Royal Plaza, se realizó un operativo para desalojar a los comerciantes. En ese momento, Eduardo Romero disparó tres veces a un fiscalizador, quien quedó gravemente herido.
Ninguna autoridad ha confirmado la causa que lo llevó a este hombre, oriundo de Huánuco, a cometer el crimen.
Eduardo Glicerio Romero Naupay nació en Huánuco el 29 de marzo de 1984. Tenía licencia para portar armas de fuego y en su cuenta de Facebook, desde hace varios años, publicaba fotos con ellas y amenazaba con usarlas. Parecía una broma. No lo era.
Diosa Arellano en la morgue de Lima. Pidió ayuda económica para poder llevar el cuerpo de su sobrino César Arellano a su natal Piura. Él fue una de las tres personas asesinadas por Eduardo Romero. | Fuente: RPP Noticias
Eduardo Glicerio Romero Naupay (32) fue el asesino de tres personas la noche de este viernes en Independencia. En su cuenta de Facebook se lucía con armas de fuego. Contaba con una licencia vencida para portarlas. | Fuente: Facebook
“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C
Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production
Miami – July 31, 2014 –Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C. The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol. “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.
“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming. “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”
“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel. Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.
President Donald Trump on Monday attacked the whistleblower at the center of the growing Ukraine scandal and House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, after promoting comments from a supportive pastor who told Fox News that impeaching the president would lead to a “Civil War-like fracture in this nation.”
Trump’s comments on Twitter came as he faces an impeachment inquiry in the House over a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in which he asked Zelenskiy to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s family. The Trump administration, around the same time as that July conversation, placed a hold on hundreds of millions of dollars in Ukrainian military aid, only to release it earlier this month.
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Trump on Monday called the whistleblower complaint at the center of the scandal “fake” and said it was “not holding up,” even though it lined up with a record of the July 25 call between the two presidents that the White House released, was deemed credible by a Trump-appointed intelligence community inspector general, and was authored by a whistleblower who the Trump-appointed acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire told Congress last week had acted in “good faith.”
Then Trump went after Schiff, who he said “illegally made up a FAKE & terrible statement, pretended it to be mine as the most important part of my call to the Ukrainian President, and read it aloud to Congress and the American people.”
“It bore NO relationship to what I said on the call,” Trump added. “Arrest for Treason?”
Though the remarks Trump was referring to, which Schiff made during the hearing with Maguire last week, did not line up verbatim with the detailed summary of the call released by the White House, they did mirror its description. Schiff himself made clear during the hearing that his remarks were “the essence” of what Trump said during the call.
Trump’s attacks came after he promoted remarks Sunday night from the evangelical pastor and Fox News contributor Robert Jeffress — one of Trump’s most prominent backers — during a Sunday interview on “Fox & Friends.”
Jeffress, who leads a Baptist megachurch in Dallas, was asked to respond to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s comment Saturday that impeachment marks a “very sad time for our country,” one that requires Americans being “somber” and “prayerful.”
Jeffress said it was “hard to take” Pelosi’s “call to prayer seriously,” adding that evangelical Christians have “never” been “more angry over any issue than this attempt to illegitimately remove this president from office, overturn the 2016 election and negate the votes of millions of evangelicals in the process.”
“And they know that the only impeachable offense President Trump has committed was beating Hillary Clinton in 2016,” he claimed. “That’s the unpardonable sin for which the Democrats will never forgive him. And I do want to make this prediction this morning: If the Democrats are successful in removing the president from office, I’m afraid it will cause a Civil War-like fracture in this nation from which this country will never heal.”
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., condemned Trump for promoting the remarks, calling them “beyond repugnant.”
“I have visited nations ravaged by civil war,” Kinzinger, who is a military veteran and a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard, tweeted. “@realDonaldTrump I have never imagined such a quote to be repeated by a President.”
Jeffress is no stranger to controversy. During the 2012 election cycle, he said President Barack Obama was “paving the way for the future reign of the Antichrist.” Additionally, Jeffress has said Islam promotes pedophilia, called Catholicism a “Babylonian mystery religion,” and labeled Mormonism “a cult.”
Trump faces a growing scandal over his actions involving Ukraine, which included the call to investigate Biden’s son Hunter, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company that had previously been under investigation by that country’s former top prosecutor. There has been no evidence of wrongdoing by either Biden.
The whistleblower filed the complaint, which relied on the accounts of White House and other U.S. officials, out of a belief Trump was “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country” in the 2020 election.
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Days before the Senate voted down the creation of a 9/11-style commission to investigate the Capitol attack, the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, was adamant: he would oppose the bill, regardless of any amendments – and he expected his colleagues to follow suit.
The commission that would have likely found Donald Trump and some Republicans responsible for the insurrection posed an existential threat to the GOP ahead of the midterms, he said, and would complicate efforts to regain the majority in Congress.
McConnell’s sharp warning at a closed-door meeting had the desired effect on Friday, when Senate Republicans largely opted to stick with the Senate minority leader. All but six of them voted to block the commission and prevent a full accounting into the events of 6 January.
But it also underscored the alarm that gripped McConnell and Senate Republican leadership in the fraught political moments leading up to the vote, and how they exploited fears within the GOP of crossing a mercurial former president to galvanize opposition to the commission.
The story of how Republicans undermined an inquiry into one of the darkest days for American democracy – five people died as a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol and sought to hang Mike Pence – is informed by eight House aides, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The prospect of a commission unravels
Surrounded by shards of broken glass in the Capitol on the night of 6 January, and as House Democrats drew up draft articles of impeachment against Trump, Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, made her first outreach to canvas the prospect of a commission to investigate the attack.
In the immediate aftermath of the insurrection, Pelosi had reason to be hopeful. Spurred on by the threat felt by many Republicans to their personal safety, a swelling group of lawmakers had started to agitate for an inquiry to reveal how Trump did nothing to stop the riot.
But what was once heralded as a necessary step to “investigate and report” on the attack and interference in election proceedings unravelled soon after, with the commission swiftly reduced to an acrimonious point of partisan contention in a deeply divided Capitol.
Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi preside over a joint session of Congress to certify the 2020 electoral college results after a mob stormed the US Capitol on 6 January. Photograph: Erin Schaff/AFP/Getty Images
The main objection from House and Senate Republicans, at first, centered on the lopsided structure of Pelosi’s initial proposal, that would have seen a majority of members appointed by Democrats, who would have also held unilateral subpoena power.
And only weeks after the riot, the House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, was already advancing the complaint for his ultimate opposition: that the scope of the commission did not include unrelated far-left violence from last summer, a political priority that stalled talks.
With little progress three months after the Capitol attack, Pelosi made a renewed effort to establish a commission on 16 April, floating a revised proposal that mirrored the original 9/11 commission with the panel evenly split between Democrats and Republicans.
Pelosi briefed her leadership team that included the House majority leader, Steny Hoyer, the House majority whip, Jim Clyburn, the assistant speaker, Katherine Clark, and notably, the chair of the House homeland security committee, Bennie Thompson, about the proposal the following Monday.
During that meeting, Hoyer first raised the prospect of also extending equal subpoena power to Republicans – a concession that would allow Democrats to meet all of Republicans’ demands about the structure of the commission – which Pelosi adopted a few days later.
By the penultimate week of April, Pelosi had deputized Thompson to lead talks as she felt the homeland security committee was an appropriate venue, and because the top Republican on the committee, John Katko, was one of only three House GOP members to impeach Trump.
With the House on recess, Thompson made enough progress in negotiations to brief Pelosi and her leadership team on 8 May that he secured a tentative deal on the commission, though Katko wanted to wait on an announcement until Liz Cheney was ousted as GOP conference chair.
Tensions within the House Republican conference had reached new highs the previous week after Cheney continued her months-long criticism of Trump’s lies about a stolen election at a party retreat in Florida, and Katko was wary of injecting the commission into the charged moment.
“As soon as the vote on Liz Cheney is taken, he will be prepared to do a joint statement,” Thompson said in remarks first reported by CNN.
Minutes after House Republicans elevated Elise Stefanik to become the new GOP conference chair on 14 May, Thompson and Katko unveiled their proposal for a bipartisan 9/11-style commission.
McConnell cracks down on the bill
The ouster of Cheney solidified Tump’s outsize influence on the Republican party, and set the scene for the weeks to come.
McCarthy almost immediately sought to distance himself from the commission and was non-committal about offering his endorsement. Asked whether he had signed off on the deal, McCarthy was direct: “No, no, no,” he told reporters in the basement of the Capitol.
By the following Tuesday, top House Republicans were urging their colleagues to oppose the commission bill, with McCarthy positioned against an inquiry on the basis that its scope focused narrowly on the Capitol attack.
As Hoyer had anticipated when he suggested that Pelosi also offer equal subpoena power to Republicans, McCarthy struggled to demonize the commission, and several House Republicans told the Guardian that they found his complaints about the scope unconvincing.
Kevin McCarthy on Capitol Hill on 20 May. Photograph: Ken Cedeno/Reuters
The Senate minority leader, meanwhile, had until then denounced Trump, who he faulted for inciting the insurrection, and publicly seemed open to a commission. But as it became clear the scores of House Republicans would vote for the bill, his calculus quickly changed.
Two days after the Senate returned for votes on 17 May McConnell informed Senate Republicans at a private breakfast event that he was opposed to the commission as envisioned by the House, and made clear that he would embark on a concerted campaign to sink the bill.
Underpinning McConnell’s alarm was the fact that Democrats needed 10 Senate Republicans to vote in favor of the commission, and seven had already voted to impeach Trump during his second Senate trial – a far more controversial vote than supporting an inquiry into 6 January.
Cognizant that Senate Democrats may find three or four more allies in uncertain Republicans, McConnell cracked down.
After announcing at the breakfast event that he would oppose the commission, McConnell railed against the bill as being “slanted and unbalanced” on the Senate floor, in biting remarks that represented a clear warning as to his expectations.
He kept up the pressure all afternoon on that Wednesday, so that by the evening, McConnell had a major victory when Senator Richard Burr, who voted to impeach Trump only four months before, abruptly reversed course to say that he would reject the commission.
In the end, only six Senate Republicans – Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy, Rob Portman, Lisa Murkowski and Ben Sasse – voted to move forward on the commission.
As the final vote hurtled towards its expected finale, the Senate minority whip, John Thune, who also switched his position to side with McConnell, acknowledged McConnell’s arguments about a commission jeopardising Republican chances to retake majorities in the House and Senate.
Summarising his concerns, Thune said: “Anything that gets us rehashing the 2020 elections I think is a day lost on being able to draw a contrast between us and the Democrats’ very radical leftwing agenda.”
Donald Trump called Nancy Pelosi a “sick puppy” on Monday, after the House speaker said the president’s mishandling of the coronavirus crisis would contribute to deaths in the US that might have been avoided.
“She’s a sick puppy … that’s a terrible thing to say,” Trump said in a rambling hour-long call-in interview to the cable show Fox & Friends. “My poll numbers are the highest they’ve ever been because of her.”
While the president was attacking his adversaries, the top infectious-disease expert in the US warned that smaller cities were about to witness a rapid acceleration in coronavirus cases.
New Orleans and Detroit are showing signs that “they’re going to take off” and other, smaller cities are “percolating”, Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told ABC News.
According to researchers at Johns Hopkins University, by Monday nearly 143,000 Covid-19 cases had been confirmed in the US, with more than 2,500 deaths. New York is by far the state worst hit, with nearly 60,000 cases and about 1,000 deaths.
Widespread testing remains unavailable in most of the US, healthcare workers and local leaders raise a daily alarm about dire shortages of medical equipment, and state leaders have imposed a patchwork of restrictions – or declined to impose restrictions – in what emergency response experts have described as a vacuum of federal leadership.
In news conferences, Trump has swung between false assurance – that business as normal would resume by Easter – and crediting himself with avoiding what early models showed could be a worst-case scenario of millions of deaths.
In his interview on Monday, Trump told the Fox News hosts he had saved the country from “deaths like you have never seen before”.
‘As the president fiddles, people are dying’: Nancy Pelosi slams Trump’s coronavirus delays – video
Pelosi told CNN on Sunday that “the president’s denial at the beginning was deadly” and said “his delay in getting equipment to where it’s needed is deadly … As the president fiddles, people are dying.”
Trump also repeated a baseless claim he made on Sunday, accusing states including New York, which has had to erect emergency medical facilities in Central Park and move in refrigerator trucks to temporarily store bodies, of squandering medical equipment.
Trump’s charges drew fire from New York’s mayor.
“I find that insulting to our healthcare workers,” Bill de Blasio told CNN. “I find it insensitive.
“What the president should be doing is praising our healthcare workers, not suggesting somehow they’re doing something wrong with the supplies that have been sent. That’s just insensitive and it’s unhelpful.”
The long-running feud between Trump and New York state leaders simmered as dramatic pictures emerged of the US navy hospital ship USNS Comfort arriving in New York harbor. The ship, which can accommodate about 1,000 patients, will not treat coronavirus victims but will take other patients to relieve hospitals on land.
“Welcome to New York, USNS Comfort,” Governor Andrew Cuomo tweeted. “We knew from the outset that expanded hospital capacity was critical. We asked and the federal government answered.”
The New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, in Manhattan as the USNS Comfort arrives in New York. Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters
Other states continued to ramp up their responses. The governor of Maryland issued a stay-at-home order effective from Monday evening, becoming the 23rd state to do so. Michigan extended unemployment programs to workers who do not qualify for state benefits, including independent contractors, the self-employed and seasonal workers.
Vermont issued an order requiring any person coming from outside the state “for anything other than an essential purpose” to home-quarantine for 14 days. Arizona announced that schools would remain closed through the end of the spring term. And the Republican governor of Florida, who has resisted issuing a statewide stay-at-home order, urged residents in four southern counties to stay home through “mid-May”.
In California, the San Francisco Bay Area’s shelter-in-place rules were extended on Monday through the end of April. The state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, announced at a press conference that the number of patients hospitalized had doubled and the number of patients admitted to ICUs had tripled over the past four days.
The governor called on healthcare professionals who have recently retired and those who are nearing completion of nursing and medical degrees to meet the “human capital surge” and join the frontline fight against the virus as part of a new initiative. The professionals Newsom wants to enlist in the new California Health Corps include medical doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, behavioral health scientists, pharmacists, EMTs, medical and administrative assistants, as well as certified nursing assistants.
Fauci said at the weekend the US could see more than a million cases and suffer 100,000 to 200,000 deaths. “I don’t want to see it, I’d like to avoid it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw 100,000 deaths,” he said on Monday.
As recently as late February, Trump claimed publicly that the virus would simply “disappear”. But on Fox & Friends he credited his administration with avoiding a death toll in the millions.
“That’s a lot,” he said.
Political leaders from both parties have indicated that Washington could follow its $2tn coronavirus relief package with more stimulus bills, but Trump on Monday criticized Democrats’ demands for protections of the 2020 election in November.
As part of the initial relief package, Democrats sought a provision, later discarded, that would allow all voters to cast ballots by mail.
“The things they had in there were crazy,” Trump told Fox & Friends. “They had levels of voting, that if you ever agreed to it you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”
The interview with Lemon aired hours after Fanone testified before the House select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, which resulted in the deaths of one Capitol Police officer and four others. Fanone, who suffered a heart attack, concussion and traumatic brain injury, was dragged down the Capitol steps, beaten and Tasered until he shouted that he had children, inspiring a few in the crowd to protect him and pull him back up the stairs to other officers.
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