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Florida Republican Rep. Greg Steube weighs in on the growing crisis at the southern border.

Rep. Greg Steube R-Fla., said Sunday that House Democrats are unlikely to work with President Trump on immigration and won’t meet the Trump’s deadline to solve the crisis on the Mexico border.

Trump originally announced Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids would start in several major cities with the goal of apprehending thousands of illegal immigrants, but called off the operation at the last minute at the request of congressional Democrats. He then said Saturday he’d give Congress two weeks to come up with a solution before giving ICE the green light to proceed.

“I was in the Rose Garden with the president when he announced his immigration plan and then hours later Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi said it’s dead on arrival,” Steube said Sunday on “America’s News HQ.”

“We have had a Congress where Democrats have absolutely stalled on doing anything as it relates to the crisis on the border. Even now Democrats and the left are saying that we have a crisis on the border.”

Steube suggested House Democrats had no interest in attacking the issue head-on.

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“I sit on the immigration subcommittee on [the House Judiciary Committee] — they’ve done nothing as it relates to fixing this problem,” he said. “And, we as Republicans are fighting to do it. We have bills filed but they’re not wanting to move anything forward.”

Fox News’ Leland Vittert challenged Steube, saying Republicans had a chance to pass immigration reform after the 2016 elections when they had control of both congressional chambers and the White House.

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“I wasn’t in Congress when that happened but I will tell you that people in my district were upset that when the Republicans had the majority, they weren’t able to get that done, and I think — I’m certainly going to be fighting to bring the majority back to Republicans in the House and if we do win the majority in 2020 you will see all of us focus on this immigration issue,” he replied.

Vittert continued to press Steube asking why voters should trust Republicans to follow through when they couldn’t deliver on immigration the first time.

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“I think you have a president who is very focused on this issue,” he replied. “I wasn’t there so I can’t speak of what he was telling congressional leaders but… I came into Congress with a very conservative class of leaders from all across the country, and we all feel very strongly about this issue.”

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Steube also said Trump’s willingness to compromise with Democrats gave him hope that Congress could stem the tide of illegal immigrants pouring across the border, and finally find a permanent fix to the immigration crisis.

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“The president certainly is willing to make a deal. Look at the things that he offered. I mean, he’s willing to go a lot farther than the probably more conservative members of the House are willing to go to get a deal. I think with the president’s leadership on this, hopefully, we can get something done,” he said.

“But, all the Democrats are doing is stalling and doing nothing on this issue right now while hundreds of thousands of people every month are coming illegally into our country.”

Fox News’ Leland Vittert contributed to this report.

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Motorcycle community mourns 7 killed in ‘devastating’ New Hampshire biker crash – USA TODAY

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New Hampshire police said seven people were killed and three injured Friday when a pickup truck collided with several motorcycles on a two-lane road.
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The tight-knit motorcycle community was reeling Sunday after a horrific collision left seven people dead and three injured in a remote area of northern New Hampshire.

The group of 10 motorcycles collided with a pickup towing a flatbed trailer on Route 2 around 6:30 p.m. Friday in the small town of Randolph. The pickup caught fire, and witnesses described the scene as “devastating.”

Dawn Brindley, a woman riding with the group, survived the crash after getting off her bike and rolling away, New Hampshire TV station WMUR reported.

“It was just all fire,” Brindley told WMUR. “I just looked around. Somebody helped me up. I was just hysterical.”

Two of the three people injured and taken to hospitals were released Saturday.

Authorities searched for clues to the accident Sunday, and the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office released the names of the victims.

The crash involved members of Marine Jarheads MC, a motorcycle club in New England that includes Marines and their spouses.

Deadly collision: 7 dead, 3 hurt after motorcycles and pickup truck collide on rural road in New Hampshire

Members of the motorcycle community have already been offering to help victims’ families, said Cat Wilson, who organizes a motorcycle charity event in Massachusetts and is a friend of some of the victims.

“When something like this happens, we all feel it,” Wilson said. “There is no tighter community than our biker community.”

Investigators identified the pickup driver as Volodoymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, an employee of Westfield Transport, a company in Springfield, Massachusetts. Zhukovskyy survived the accident, did not need to be hospitalized and has not been charged, authorities said.

Dartanyan Gasanov, owner of Westfield Transport, told The Boston Globe that he planned to talk to investigators Monday and has been unable to reach Zhukovskyy.

Authorities have asked for the public’s help by providing any videos, photos or other information about the accident or the parties involved. One of the agencies investigating the crash is the National Transportation Safety Board.

“This is one of the worst tragic incidents that we have investigated here in the state,” New Hampshire State Police Col. Chris Wagner said. “It’s going to be a very lengthy investigation.”

Contributing: The Associated Press

Source Article from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/23/motorcycle-crash-community-mourns-7-killed/1540672001/

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2020 Dems won’t credit Trump for blocking Iran strike: ‘Like setting a fire… and then putting it out’ – Fox News

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President Trump calls off a retaliatory strike against Iran

Trump sends mixed messages on how he would respond to Iran downing a US drone before deciding to call off a retaliatory air strike; Karl Rove, Mo Elleithee, Emily Jashinsky and Howard Kurtz weigh in on the topic.

President Trump has faced criticism from his own party for not being tough enough on Iran, and now two of his potential 2020 opponents who have opposed escalation refused to credit him for exercising restraint.

After U.S. military officials said Iran shot down an unmanned U.S. drone in international airspace, Trump was evaluating plans for a counterstrike. Soon before it was set to take place, the president halted the operation, saying that the expected 150 deaths in Iran would have been too much.

“I don’t believe that anyone should receive credit for a crisis of their own making,” Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., said Sunday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.” “There is no question in my mind that the current occupant of the White House, President Trump, put in place a series of events that led to that event.”

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A recent wave of Iranian hostilities was believed to be a response to the president’s increased sanctions. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., warned that by not taking strong action against Iran, Trump may be sending the wrong message.

Also on “Face the Nation,” Harris’ fellow candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said that he would do “everything I can” to prevent war with Iran, but also criticized Trump. When asked if Trump deserved credit for not attacking, Sanders – like Harris — blamed Trump for the current state of affairs.

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“See, it’s like somebody setting a fire to a basket full of paper and then putting it out,” Sanders said. “He helped create the crisis and then he stopped the attacks.”

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When asked what she would do if she were in the White House, Harris said she would rejoin the Iran nuclear agreement, after Trump had pulled the U.S. out of it.

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“I would strengthen it. I would include ballistic- ballistic missile testing,” Harris added. She also said, “I think that we can strengthen what we do in terms of monitoring and verification, of progress.”

Trump himself mentioned the need to cover ballistic missiles during a conversation with NBC News’ Chuck Todd that aired Sunday morning. The White House has said it aimed to force Iran back to the negotiating table with a “maximum-pressure campaign” of sanctions.

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2020-dems-trump-iran-strike-bernie-sanders-kamala-harris

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Seven bikers killed after truck plows through riders in the US – TVNZ

The pickup truck was towing a flatbed trailer of the kind used to haul cars when it collided with the bikers on Friday (yesterday, NZT) on US 2, a two-lane highway in Randolph, police said.

Source Article from https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/seven-bikers-killed-after-truck-plows-through-riders-in-us

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Istanbul mayoral re-run: Erdogan’s ruling AKP loses again – BBC News

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Ekrem Imamoglu hailed the result as a “new beginning” for the city

Turkey’s ruling party has lost control of Istanbul after a re-run of the city’s mayoral election, latest results show.

The candidate for the main opposition party, Ekrem Imamoglu, won 54% of the vote with nearly all ballots counted.

He won a surprise victory in March which was annulled after the ruling AK party complained of irregularities.

His opponent, ex-PM Binali Yildirim, has conceded. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan congratulated the winner.

“I congratulate Ekrem Imamoglu who has won the election based on preliminary results,” he tweeted.

But the result is being seen as a major setback for Mr Erdogan, who has previously said that “whoever wins Istanbul, wins Turkey”.

Ambitious mayor takes on Turkish president

In his victory speech, Mr Imamoglu said the result marked a “new beginning” for both the city and the country.

“We are opening up a new page in Istanbul,” he said. “On this new page, there will be justice, equality, love.”

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Opposition supporters celebrated after the results were announced

He added that he was willing to work with Mr Erdogan, saying: “Mr President, I am ready to work in harmony with you.”

Mr Imamoglu’s lead of more than 775,000 votes marks a huge increase on his victory in March, when he won by a margin of just 13,000.

President Erdogan – the most powerful leader Turkey has seen in modern times – has just been dealt the biggest blow of his career.

This result shows that he made an incredible miscalculation by calling for the election to be re-run.

It will likely hasten splits in his ruling AK party and amplify talk of the post-Erdogan era. He will stress that he’s in power for the foreseeable future – elections are not scheduled until 2023 – but many will expect them earlier.

The result in Istanbul feels like it could be a precursor to them.

So how did the opposition win? Ekrem Imamoglu gave people the profoundly positive message they craved and rebuffed smears with smiles.

It was hugely effective, and showed the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has finally worked out how to counter the president.

They have waited 25 years to control this city and have long felt incapable of success. They are savouring this moment – after all, it could be a watershed one.

Who were the candidates?

Mr Imamoglu, 49, is from the secular Republican People’s Party and is mayor of Istanbul’s Beylikduzu district.

But his name was barely known before he ran for mayor in the March election.

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Binali Yildirim is an Erdogan loyalist

Mr Yildirim was a founding member of Mr Erdogan’s AKP and was prime minister from 2016 until 2018, when Turkey became a presidential democracy and the role ceased to exist.

He was elected Speaker of the new parliament in February and before that served as minister of transportation and communication.

Why was the previous result annulled?

Mr Imamoglu’s narrow victory of 13,000 votes in March was not enough for Mr Yildirim to accept defeat.

The ruling party alleged that votes were stolen and many ballot box observers did not have official approval, leading the election board to demand a re-run of the vote.

Critics argue that pressure from President Erdogan was behind the decision.

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Jubilation on the streets

By Cagil Kasapoglu, BBC Turkish, Istanbul

Hundreds of supporters of Mr Imamoglu have gathered here in his stronghold, Besiktas.

The cautious optimism that was prevalent during the early stages of vote counting has given way to a mood of total jubilation.

Hopeful youngsters are celebrating and proudly waving Turkish flags. Others are holding banners with pictures of Atatürk – the founder of the modern Turkish republic – on them. Some people are even wearing masks of Mr Imamoglu.

Many of these young people have only ever known President Erdogan’s AK party in government.

For them, this is an opportunity to push for change across the country.

“Many young people desperately want to leave Turkey,” Ayca Yilmaz, a 22-year-old university student tells me. “But now, we might consider staying here. We are hopeful once again.”

Why is this election so important?

Mr Erdogan, who is from Istanbul, was elected mayor in 1994.

He founded the AKP in 2001 and served as prime minister between 2003 and 2014, before becoming president.

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Mr Erdogan, seen voting, is a native of Istanbul and a former mayor of the city

But cracks in the party are now beginning to show and analysts suggest these could be exacerbated by this loss.

“Erdogan is extremely worried,” Murat Yetkin, a journalist and writer, said ahead of the vote.

“He is playing every card he has. If he loses, by whatever margin, it’s the end of his steady political rise over the past quarter of a century,” he added.

“In reality, he’ll still be president, his coalition will still control parliament – although many will perceive his defeat as the beginning of the end for him.”

Source Article from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48739256

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Trump brushes off calls to investigate Jamal Khashoggi’s death – The Washington Post

June 23 at 5:22 PM

Days after a U.N. expert called for further investigation of Saudi Arabian officials’ involvement in the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, President Trump declined to say whether he would hold the country’s leaders responsible and asserted that it was in the United States’ best interest to “take their money.”

In a Sunday interview on “Meet the Press,” Trump revealed that he recently had “a great conversation” with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in which he did not raise the issue of the U.N. report or Khashoggi’s killing in October.

“I think it’s been heavily investigated,” Trump said, when host Chuck Todd asked whether he would order the FBI to investigate, as the United Nations has recommended. “I’ve seen so many different reports.”

It was the latest instance of Trump prioritizing strategic and financial interest in the kingdom over the intelligence community’s assessment and concerns from his own party, which hold Mohammed primarily responsible for the killing of the dissident, who was a Virginia resident.

Although U.N. investigator Agnes Callamard did not find a “smoking gun” incriminating the crown prince, her report says that “every expert consulted finds it inconceivable that an operation of this scale could be implemented without the Crown Prince being aware, at a minimum, that some sort of mission of a criminal nature, directed at Mr. Khashoggi, was being launched.”

“Mr. Khashoggi’s killing constituted an extrajudicial killing for which the State of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is responsible,” the report states.

[U.N. investigator calls for probe of Saudi officials in Khashoggi killing]

The CIA concluded in November that Mohammed had ordered Khashoggi’s brutal killing, and Trump has faced pressure from politicians and activists who wish to see the kingdom punished. But the president’s relationship with the crown prince has endured, to the concern of Democrats and even some Republicans — including Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), a close ally of Trump.

Soon after the CIA revealed those findings, Trump issued a statement that his administration was “standing by Saudi Arabia” for strategic reasons having to do with Iran and because it had agreed to invest “a record amount of money” in the United States. As for Mohammed’s involvement in the death, the statement reads: “It could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event — maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!”

There were echoes of that justification on Sunday as the president said he remained focused on the business and strategic relationship with Saudi Arabia, which the administration considers a key ally in the Middle East and says “serves as a bulwark against Iran and its proxies’ malign activities in the region.”

Trump’s interview comes as tensions with Iran have escalated following explosions on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman and the downing of a U.S. drone, both of which the administration has blamed on Iran.

[The U.S.-Iran showdown: What’s happened in the week since two tankers were attacked]

“I’m not like a fool that says, ‘We don’t want to do business with them,’ ” he said when pressed about the humanitarian concerns raised against Saudi Arabia’s leadership. “Take their money. Take their money, Chuck.”

“We’re going to protect Saudi Arabia,” he said. “Look, Saudi Arabia is buying $400 billion worth of things for us. That’s a very good thing.”

Trump added: “They buy massive amounts, $150 billion worth of military equipment that, by the way, we use. We use that military equipment. And unlike other countries that don’t have money and we have to subsidize everything. So Saudi Arabia is a big buyer of American product. That means something to me. It’s a big producer of jobs.”

Trump’s commitment to working with Saudi Arabia has earned rare rebukes from his party. Last winter, the Republican-controlled Senate unanimously voted on a resolution holding Mohammed responsible for Khashoggi’s death.

And on Thursday, it voted to block planned arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a move the White House has said the president will veto.

Global Opinion: Read Jamal Khashoggi’s columns for The Washington Post

Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/23/trump-brushes-off-calls-investigate-jamal-khashoggis-death/

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Black residents of South Bend unload on Mayor Pete Buttigieg – Los Angeles Times

Unlike members of Congress, who can spend long stretches away from the job without being missed, mayors and governors are on point and get held accountable for all of the many things that can go wrong in their absence, be it natural disaster, a police shooting, municipal strike or other calamity.

Source Article from https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-2020-pete-buttigieg-mayor-police-shooting-black-voters-20190624-story.html

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Colorado man dies in Hawaii skydiving plane crash – KRDO

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