Unlike the geopolitical-related oil surges during previous tense periods in the Middle East, the price now may not inflate as much as it may have because of the growth of U.S. oil output in the last decade. The U.S. is now the world’s top producer, pumping 12.9 million barrels a day.
Yergin said oil prices have been responding more to trade matters than geopolitics recently, and that could change with the approach of the signing of the phase one trade deal between the U.S. and China. Trade worries had been outweighing other factors before the U.S. and China signaled a deal was close at hand. The concern was that the trade war would hurt demand globally, and there is a better market for oil and other commodities if tensions remain at bay.
“Shale has changed the psychology of the world oil market,” he said. Growth in U.S. production has been rapid, with more than 1 million barrels added this year, but that growth could slow. The U.S. growth spurt has also helped mitigate the impact of the loss of oil output from both Iran and Venezuela, also under U.S. sanctions.
“I think we’re not going to see the kind of volumetric increases of the last few years. This year, we expect the U.S. will add about 400,000 to 450,000 barrels a day. Capital discipline is going to put a big cap on production of shale. The U.S.is still going to be a 13 million barrel a day plus producer. This production is not going away,” said Yergin.
The U.S. has changed the oil market, but it could still remain elevated because of uncertainty which may not go away for some time.
“There are times when the geopolitical risk premium is inflated and other times it’s nonexistent. It’s getting inflated again,” said Kilduff.
However, Ed Morse, Citigroup head of commodities research, says that could be temporary.
He said there could be attacks by Iran in the near-term but ultimately the situation could be bearish for the oil market if it ends in Iran and the U.S. ultimately negotiating a new deal on Iran’s nuclear program.
“Despite clear short-term oil market concerns, there could be bearish factors at work later in 2020, with the possibility that Iran and the US could find common purpose in working out a new agreement,” Morse wrote in a note. “The push and pull on politics in Iran have involved three different parties— the clerical establishment, elected officials in parliament and the administration, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and their Quds forces, whose leader has now been eliminated by US attacks. Of the three, the Quds forces have been the major target of US sanctions. They and the IRGC have been the one party least interested in a bilateral accord with the US.”
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Estados Unidos y otros países guardan vastas reservas en barriles de petróleo de las que pueden echar mano en caso de desabastecimiento.
Estados Unidos ha estado guardando algo importante y valioso en la costa del Golfo de México.
En cuatro discretos puntos seguros yace una cantidad de petróleo equivalente a 700 millones de barriles.
Está enterrada en una red de 60 cavernas subterráneas talladas en roca de salina, en lo que constituye la enorme Reserva Estratégica de Petroleo (SPR, por sus siglas en inglés) de EE.UU.
La infraestructura fue creada hace 40 años y hoy existen varias reservas más alrededor del mundo.
De hecho, toda una serie de países han invertido miles de millones de dólares en desarrollar este tipo de instalaciones.
¿Por qué alguien vuelve a enterrar el crudo de nuevo bajo el suelo?
La respuesta se remonta a la crisis del petróleo de 1973.
Los exportadores de petróleo árabes habían cortado los suministros a Occidente como castigo por el apoyo de Estados Unidos a Israel durante la guerra del Yom Kippur.
Este conflicto, también conocido como la guerra árabe-israelí de 1973, fue librado por una coalición de países árabes liderados por Egipto y Siria contra Israel desde el 6 al 25 de octubre de 1973.
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La guerra árabe-israelí llevó a que EE.UU. se quedara sin suministro de petróleo desde los países árabes.
En aquel entonces el mundo era tan dependiente del petróleo de Medio Oriente que los precios del carburante se dispararon.
Eso se tradujo en racionamientos en las estaciones de servicio de EE.UU.
La gente comenzó a temer que le robaran la poca gasolina que tenían, por lo que algunos comenzaron a proteger sus coches con armas de fuego.
Un par de años después EE.UU. comenzó a construir su SPR, la red de cavernas subterráneas llenas de crudo.
Gracias a estas reservas, aunque fallara el suministro, EE.UU. podría enfrentar el alza del precio y la presión de los mercados globales sin problemas.
“El formidable tamaño de la SPR la convierte en un importante factor disuasorio ante los cortes en la importación de petróleo y es una herramienta clave de la política exterior”, asegura el gobierno estadounidense en su página de internet.
No es por nada que el presupuesto del año en curso para el mantenimiento de esta reserva estratégica es de US$200 millones.
Guardados con sal
Bob Corbin, del Departamento de Energía de EE.UU., es la persona encargada de que ese dinero se gaste de forma inteligente.
“Todos nuestros puntos (en los que se guarda petróleo) están situados en lo que llamamos cúpulas de sal“, explica.
“La sal es impermeable al crudo. Así que ambas sustancias no se mezclan, y tampoco se crean fisuras, por lo que son un almacén perfecto”.
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Debido a la crisis de los años 70, lmuchos en Estados Unidos temieron que el poco combustible de que disponían les fuera arrebatado.
Corbin, quien sirvió como militar en la Guardia Costera durante 22 años, está orgulloso de los cuatro almacenes en que se distribuyen las cavernas.
Estos se extienden desde Baton Rouge, en el estado de Louisiana, hasta Freeport, en Texas.
Es en este último punto donde se ubica el más grande de los cuatro.
Se refiere a las enormes cámaras de almacenamiento como “mis cavernas”.
“Son muy impresionantes”, añade.
Sin embargo, no es algo que se pueda apreciar desde la superficie, desde la que apenas se ven unos pozos y algunas tuberías.
Pero Corbin dice que gestionar estas infraestructuras tiene sus propios retos. Las cavernas de sal no son del todo estables, por ejemplo.
A veces se desprenden pedazos pequeños de las paredes, causando daños en la maquinaria.
Por eso los empleados no pueden acceder a estos almacenamientos.
Así que la única manera de reemplazar las máquinas estropeadas es remotamente.
Y hay varios instrumentos que ayudan a visualizar el área de trabajo.
“De forma periódica las cavernas se vacían, por lo que se pueden tomar imágenes de sónar del interior”, explica Corbin. “Eso te da una idea tridimensional” del espacio.
Recurso de política exterior
Algunas de estas cámaras tienen formas curiosas, añade.
Por ejemplo, una de ellas parece un platillo volador.
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Los acuerdos internacionales señalan que las naciones miembro de la OIEA deben guardar reservas de petróleo equivalentes a 90 días de importaciones.
Tal como señala la página web del gobierno, la SPR es un recurso para la política exterior.
Y en esa línea, ha ayudado a EE.UU. a salir airoso de varias situaciones difíciles.
Así ocurrió durante la primera Guerra del Golfo (2 de agosto de 1990 -28 de febrero de 1991), un conflicto entre Irak y una coalición de países liderados por Estados Unidos en respuesta a la invasión iraquí de Kuwait, cuando se interrumpió el suministro de petróleo desde Medio Oriente.
Y también cuando el huracán Katrina azotó el Atlántico en 2005.
Las peticiones de carburante de emergencia se aprobaron durante las 24 horas posteriores a que la tormenta tocó tierra.
Reservas mundiales
EE.UU. no es el único país que ha invertido grandes cantidades de dinero en reservas estratégicas de petróleo.
Japón, por ejemplo, tiene unas reservas equivalentes a 500 millones de barriles en enormes tanques.
Están en la superficie, eso sí.
La infraestructura de Shibushi, en el suroeste del país, está justo en la costa.
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Los tanques en Shibushi, en Japón, que algunos temen puedan ser vulnerables a terremotos.
Tras el terremoto y el tsunami que azotó el país en 2011, se pensó en ampliar las reservas por si volvía a ocurrir una catástrofe similar que pudiera obstaculizar la distribución de petróleo.
El Organismo Internacional de Energía (OIEA) supervisa la emisión de petróleo a partir de estas reservas.
“Cuando un país se subscribe a la OIEA adopta varias obligaciones”, explica Martin Young, director de la División de Políticas de Emergencia del organismo.
“Una de ellas es que debe mantener las reservas de petróleo en una cantidad equivalente a las importaciones de 90 días”.
Pero no todas las naciones tienen cúpulas de sal para almacenar crudo bajo tierra. Tampoco otro tipo de instalaciones que puedan utilizar con ese fin.
Reino Unido, por ejemplo, no tiene nada de eso. Así que su obligación es hacia la industria.
Debe lograr que las empresas petroleras tengan más petróleo del que tendrían normalmente para que el gobierno pueda disponer de él de forma inmediata, explica Young.
También China
Dos naciones que no son parte de la OIEA, India y China, han destinado fondos a sus reservas estratégicas en los últimos años.
Pekín, en particular, tiene planes muy ambiciosos, que prevén una gran variedad de lugares de almacenamiento, infraestructuras estatales y comerciales, que puedan albergar tanto crudo como EE.UU.
China no posee cavernas de sal, así que tiene que optar por una forma de almacenar mucho más cara: en tanques en la superficie.
Estos depósitos son fáciles de identificar con Google Earth y en fotografías satelitales: forman filas y filas de puntos blancos.
En Zhenhai, en el sureste del país, a día de hoy se almacena una cantidad de petróleo equivalente a 33 millones de barriles.
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Las cavernas de petróleo de Estados Unidos son preservadas con sal.
“Es grande”, dice Young, quien visitó la instalación hace varios años.
“Lo que ves es todos esos tanques de crudo colocados junto a un par de refinerías”.
Narongpand Lisapahanya, un analista de petróleo y gas del grupo de inversiones CLSA, dice que invertir en la construcción de estas reservas estratégicas forma parte del plan de China para ser tratada como una superpotencia a nivel internacional.
Así, “si en una situación de crisis otra potencia pidiera que se libere más petróleo, China también podría participar en ello”.
Manipulación del precio
Lo cierto es que ninguna superpotencia está completa hoy sin una SPR.
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Corea del Sur tiene acceso a las reservas de Japón en una emergencia.
Al mismo tiempo, existe la preocupación de que los países que no pertenecen a la OIEA podrían utilizar sus reservas para manipular los precios globales del petróleo.
“Cuando se creó en 1975, el propósito de la SPR era proteger la economía estadounidense de los fuertes aumentos de precio de los productos domésticos derivados del petróleo”, explica Carmine Difiglio, del Departamento de Energía de EE.UU.
Pero eso es diferente a utilizar esas reservas a propósito para manipular los mercados internacionales, asegura.
Y Martin Young es también enfático al respecto: “Las reservas de petróleo no existen para la gestión de precios”.
“Están ahí para corregir una escasez en el mercado debido a la interrupción del suministro”, asegura.
Pero más allá de estas opiniones, existe todo un debate sobre cómo deberían usarse estas reservas de emergencia.
Y es que hay expertos que dicen que EE.UU. siempre se ha aprovechado de su SPR, valorado en US$43.500 millones.
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El petróleo es un recurso estratégico para todos los países.
Mientras, otros creen que el petróleo de esas reservas debería salir al mercado de forma más agresiva.
“Algunos solo ven estos 700 millones como un montón de dinero”, comenta Sarah Ladislaw, del Centro de Estudios Estratégicos e Internacionales de Washington, EE.UU.
Juego de números
Según la experta, son pocos los que apoyan iniciativas para cambiar el uso que se hace de las reservas de emergencia en EE.UU. o en cualquier otro lugar.
Ladislaw insiste en que el énfasis debería ponerse en el planeamiento para las emergencias y en la mitigación de problemas de suministro.
Para prepararse para esas situaciones de crisis, los gobiernos y la OIEA planifican cómo y en qué condiciones extraerían el crudo de las reservas.
Incluso tienen empresas que los asesoran.
Una de esas compañías es EnSys y ha desarrollado un sofisticado modelo de computadora para simular las futuras fluctuaciones de precios de la industria petrolera.
Gracias a ésta puede aconsejar a los organismos que controlan las reservas de emergencia cuándo y por qué deberían considerar distribuir petróleo a las refinerías locales.
Tal como explica su director ejecutivo, Martin Tallett, es un juego de números.
¿Cuántos barriles menos tendrías en una situación de crisis, ante un corte de suministro? ¿Cuánto petróleo tendrías que sacar de las reservas para aliviar esa escasez?
“Lo que haríamos es sentarnos con alguien y decirle: ‘Bueno, se ha interrumpido el suministro en Medio Oriente, y puede que también en el norte de África’”, explica.
“Comencemos a hablar de números directamente en vez de gastar un montón de tiempo tratando de entender en profundidad las maquinaciones geopolíticas que pudieron haber causado la interrupción del abastecimiento”.
Así que, mientras los gobiernos y los organismos de energía sigan preparándose para lo peor, las reservas de crudo van a seguir aumentando.
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El mundo todavía depende en gran medida de los combustibles fósiles.
Es obvio que EE.UU. y otros países creen que sus SPR son una buena inversión.
Pero a pesar de toda la preparación, aún es posible que, durante una crisis de abastecimiento, el crudo no se distribuya lo suficientemente rápido desde las reservas a las refinerías.
¿Podría entonces repetirse una crisis como la de 1973?
“No quisiera especular sobre qué puede o no puede ocurrir”, dice Corbin.
“Nosotros estamos preparados para distribuir (petróleo) siempre que lo necesitemos“.
Republican Sen. Mike Braun reacts to the latest in the impeachment trial as senators enter day two of the question and answer period.
CNN anchor John King defended Republicans on Thursday, arguing they made a “legitimate point” in asking why the intelligence community whistleblower — who brought the complaint that prompted Trump’s impeachment — hadn’t been questioned.
“You’re asking the Congress, the Senate now, to remove the President of the United States,” King said. “It’s a legitimate point for the president’s team and the Republicans to say: ‘Shouldn’t we go to the very origin of this?'”
His comments came after Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., tried asking a question that mentioned the name of a person reported to be the whistleblower. Chief Justice John Roberts shut down the question, which Paul described as “atypical.”
Fox News has not confirmed the name of the whistleblower.
King said he wouldn’t help Paul “air his grievances” over the issue, but proposed certain questions for Democrats.
“Republicans make a good point — the whistleblower started all of this. Why hasn’t the whistleblower been questioned?” he said. “Shouldn’t the House Democrats have found a secure way to do that? It’s a legitimate point of debate as we go through this.”
“Is outing the whistleblower in a public setting the way to make your point? I think we could have a conversation about that … the Democrats’ argument is that just about everything the whistleblower alleged has been proven through other sources, so we don’t need to do this.”
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The chief justice, who plays the rare role of fielding questions during the impeachment trial, had communicated through his staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office that he did not want to read the whistleblower’s name, according to a Republican unauthorized to discuss the private conversation and granted anonymity.
Senators faced eight hours of final questions Thursday ahead of an expected vote Friday on whether to call additional witnesses. Senators could also vote Fridayon whether to end the trial with the expected acquittal of the president.
U.S. military forces have returned to eastern Syria weeks after President Trump ordered the complete withdrawal of American troops from the area. The move comes as the top Kurdish leader of a U.S.-backed militia accuses Turkey of “continuing its war” against the Kurds in Syria.
A U.S. military spokesman tweeted early Wednesday the Army National Guard’s 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team, known as “Old Hickory,” arrived in eastern Syria to protect oil fields the Pentagon does not want to see fall back into ISIS hands.
The Guard soldiers come from North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia, according to a tweet by Col. Myles B. Caggins III, a U.S.-led coalition spokesman, in announcing the deployment.
The Guard soldiers come from North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia, according to a tweet by Col. Myles B. Caggins III, a U.S.-led coalition spokesman in announcing the deployment. (@OIRSpox)
Another tweet by the U.S. military’s Special Operations Joint Task Force in Iraq and Syria says the new U.S. forces are “repositioning” to “Deir ez Zor Syria to continue partnering w/ [Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)] to defeat ISIS remnants, protect critical infrastructure, & deny ISIS access to revenue sources. @30thabct mechanized forces provide infantry, maneuver, and firepower.”
Roughly 500 Guard members will be part of the deployment to eastern Syria’s Deir ez Zor to protect the oil fields, according to officials.
A photo of the Guard unit arriving earlier this month to Kuwait were posted to a Pentagon website.
Earlier this month, the unit, including its MIAI Abrams main battle tanks, trained at Fort Bliss in Texas, according to the Pentagon:
It’s not clear if the tanks will also be deploying to eastern Syria, along with Bradley Fighting Vehicles in photos the Pentagon released when announcing the deployment to eastern Syria.
The announced deployment of more troops to Syria from the region follows a series of what some critics are calling contradictory statements from the White House over its Syria policy.
President Trump said last week in a tweet about Syria, “COMING HOME! We were supposed to be there for 30 days – That was 10 years ago. When these pundit fools who have called the Middle East wrong for 20 years ask what we are getting out of the deal, I simply say, THE OIL, AND WE ARE BRINGING OUR SOLDIERS BACK HOME, ISIS SECURED!”
Former Director of Communications Jonathan Wachtel weighs in on what foreign policy challenges still remain in the Middle East.
But just two days prior to the tweet, in a White House speech announcing a cease-fire agreement between Turkey’s President Erdogan and U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, the president said that not all U.S. troops would be coming home.
“A small number of U.S. troops will remain in the area where they have the oil,” President Trump said on Oct. 23. “We’re going to be protecting it, and we’ll be deciding what we’re going to do with it in the future.”
In a tweet from his recently created Twitter account, established after the cease-fire was announced, Kurdish Gen. Mazloum Abdi said Thursday:
“Turkey has not adhered to the ceasefire agreement with USA and is continuing its war. Turkey with Jihadists, began to occupying Christian villages and trying to break into Tall Tamir predominantly Assyriens, threatened with annihilation. USA must fulfill its obligations.”
Protecting the oil could mean U.S. forces defending the oil not just from the 15,000 estimated ISIS fighters remains in Syria and Iraq, but from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s troops, Russian and Iranian-backed forces as well.
Last year, Russian mercenaries along with “pro-Assad” forces advanced near the oil fields guarded by U.S. Special Operations forces along with their Kurdish allies. When they began taking fire, the U.S. troops called in devastating air strikes from orbiting Apache helicopter and AC-130 gunships to annihilate the Russian troops, as then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis later characterized the engagement to lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
The president also acknowledged in a recent statement that a small number of U.S. troops would remain at a garrison in southern Syria to block a well-known smuggling route used by Iranian-backed forces to move weapons from Iran to Damascus and Beirut. ISIS is not known to inhabit the area.
The president said U.S. troops leaving Syria would, “stay in the region,” in the days since his abrupt order to pull all American forces out of northeast Syria after speaking to his Turkish counterpart on Oct. 6. Turkey launched an invasion of northeast Syria days later. U.S. Special Operations forces ordered to retreat from the Syrian border felt they were abandoning and betraying their Kurdish allies. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) lost over 11,000 fighters battling ISIS over the past five years.
Despite President Trump wanting to pull American forces from the Middle East and end what he called “endless wars,” the Pentagon recently said just the opposite is happening.
In a statement on Oct. 11 announcing roughly 2,000 more troops would be deploying to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said: “Since May, the Department of Defense has increased the number of forces by approximately 14,000” to the Middle East.
Tras dos semanas de campaña, los militantes del PSOE deciden quien será el sucesor de Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba.
Los tres candidatos, Pedro Sánchez, Eduardo Madina y José Antonio Pérez Tapias, coinciden en proponer un partido más abierto y participativo e incluyen reivindicaciones tradicionales socialistas.
El PSOE ha adjudicado a cada uno de los tres un despacho propio provisional desde donde podrán seguir en Ferraz la votación, el escrutinio y el anuncio de resultados.
Las principales propuestas de los aspirantes a este proceso:
Pedro Sánchez
– Una regeneración profunda de la política: promover la limitación de mandatos en la Presidencia del Gobierno, fin del aforamiento de los cargos públicos, supresión del indulto por motivos políticos y desbloquear las listas electorales.
– Elecciones primarias abiertas para la elección del candidato o candidata a la presidencia del Gobierno.
– Cambio en la ley electoral y la financiación de partidos políticos para eliminar la financiación privada superior a 2.000 euros por persona y año.
– La reforma de la Constitución en clave federal de España, para que las comunidades autónomas ganen en autogobierno, con igual financiación y garantizando la solidaridad.
– Una renovación alianzas del PSOE con UGT y colectivos sociales.
– Abrir todas las agrupaciones locales del PSOE para que los españoles vayan a aprender, estudiar, compartir y debatir.
– Defensa de una política inequívocamente de izquierdas: laica, federal, con valores republicanos, feministas y comprometidos con el medio ambiente.
– Recuperar Educación para la Ciudadanía para educar en la diversidad y para fomentar el respeto al diferente.
– Ley de Muerte Digna.
Eduardo Madina
– ‘Un militante, un voto’ en la elección de todos los secretarios generales.
– Primarias abiertas para la elección de candidato a la Presidencia del Gobierno de España, de las Comunidades Autónomas y a alcaldes.
– Establecer la imposibilidad de, después de haber ejercido un cargo público, realizar tareas de dirección, gestión o asesoramiento de empresas privadas relacionadas con el área de decisión desarrollada en el cargo.
– ‘Una persona, un cargo’: Cada afiliado socialista no podrá ejercer más de un cargo.
– Limitación del número máximo de mandatos en los cargos de dirección del partido.
– Garantizar en la Constitución un mínimo de inversión en Educación y Sanidad.
– Defensa de la Ley de Dependencia
– Impulsar la dación en pago como solución a los desahucios y desarrollar el derecho de los jóvenes a la emancipación y a un proyecto de vida propio.
– Puesta en marcha un plan nacional para formar al 40% de la población activa que en España está sin cualificar.
– Aprobación de una Ley de Igualdad de Trato, una nueva Ley Integral de Transexualidad y defensa del Derecho a la Reproducción Asistida.
– Ley de Muerte Digna.
– Reforma en profundidad del sector energético.
José Antonio Pérez Tapias
– Primarias abiertas para candidato a Presidencia del Gobierno: un simpatizante, un voto, sin avales y con doble vuelta.
– En contra de la duplicidad en cargos orgánicas institucionales.
– Elección directa de los secretarios generales bajo la fórmula: ‘un militante, un voto’.
– Elección de delegados a Congresos y conferencias políticas así como de los candidatos a los parlamentos y concejales por listas y primarias abiertas.
– Limitación efectiva de mandatos a dos en el ejercicio de cargos institucionales y orgánicos.
– Renovación cada ocho años en los cargos.
– Consulta a los militantes para toma de decisiones relevantes.
– Apoyo al revocatorio para que los incumplimientos del programa deban explicarse y someterse a consideración ciudadana.
– Ningún imputado por malversación de caudales públicos u otros delitos asociados a una responsabilidad política) estará en las listas ni en los cargos.
– Homologar el permiso de paternidad al de maternidad como proponía la Directiva Europa del 2012.
– Reforma del artículo 135 de la Constitución que garantiza el pago de la deuda.
– Implantación de una normativa de segunda oportunidad de forma que se paralice el desahucio de los hogares insolventes. Asimismo, promoverá la creación de un parque público de viviendas de alquiler.
You won’t see millions of people piled into Times Square tonight – thanks coronavirus – but, as they say, the show must go on.
The new year of 2021will ring in with a ball drop in New York City’s Times Square, the first since 1907 without the public in attendance. Instead of cheering crowds and confetti, the dropping of the giant sparkly orb and the big countdown will be broadcast live online and via TV.
The Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment are teaming for a commercial-free webcast and TV pool feed of the ball drop. Headlining the event will be singer Andra Day who will perform her single “Rise Up.”
There will also be live performances by Gloria Gaynor, Pitbull, Anitta, Jennifer Lopez, Billy Porter, Cyndi Lauper, Jimmie Allen, Machine Gun Kelly, The Waffle Crew, and USO Show Troupe. Host is Jonathan Bennett of “Mean Girls” and Hallmark Holiday film’s “The Christmas House.”
Events will start with the Ball Raising at 6 p.m. EST (5 p.m. CST) on Dec. 30, 2020 and end at 12:15 a.m. EST (11:15 p.m. CST) on Jan. 1, 2021. The show will be streamed live on multiple websites, including TimesSquareNYC.org, NewYearsEve.nyc, Livestream.com/2021, and TimesSquareBall.net.
The ball drop will also air on CNN, Fox, NBC, TBS and many other networks. You can also watch on fubo or Hulu.
Counting down the seconds until 2020 is done? Watch live below:
Pero este no será el único cambio. La pareja de presentadores formada por Matías Prats y Mónica Carrillo se pone al frente de las ediciones de fin de semana. Mientras que Álvaro Zancajo y Sandra Golpe presentarán el informativo de las 21:00 horas de lunes a viernes. Vicente Vallés y Lourdes Maldonado se mantienen en la edición del mediodía. También lo hacen María José Sáez y Esther Vaquero, en la edición matinal.
Juego de colores en el plató | Foto: Atresmedia
Antena 3 mantiene su apuesta por la mejor información deportiva con Manu Sánchez, en Antena 3 Noticias 2; Ainhoa Arbizu, en la primera edición; Javier Alba en Las noticias de la mañana; y Óscar Castellanos, en el fin de semana.
Una temporada más, la información meteorológica sigue a cargo de Roberto Brasero, director de un equipo integrado por Himar González, Gema Chiverto y César Gonzalo.
Junto a ellos, ha regresado hoy ‘Espejo Público’, el magazine producido por informativos que presenta Susanna Griso y que se mantiene fiel a su seña de identidad: la actualidad y la información, incorporando nuevas caras a las distintas secciones del programa como Lara Álvarez, Estíbaliz Gabilondo y Diego Revuelta.
Como en cursos anteriores, Antena 3 Noticias volverá a contar con los principales protagonistas de la actualidad en directo en su plató. El líder socialista, Pedro Sánchez, acudirá al plató de informativos a las 21:00 horas para inaugurar la temporada de entrevistas de la directora general de Antena 3 Noticias, Gloria Lomana, el próximo miércoles 10 de septiembre en prime time.
Los informativos de Antena 3 se mantienen como referencia informativa en televisión. Antena 3 Noticias 1 es la edición líder absoluta de las Sobremesas de lunes a viernes en lo que va de año, con una media del 14,1% de cuota y 1.864.000 espectadores.
Los fines de semana, Antena 3 Noticias 1 es además el informativo más visto y líder absoluto con una media en 2014 de 15,4% de share y 1.942.000 espectadores. ANTENA 3 Noticias fin de semana lidera también con una media de cuota de pantalla del 13,4% y 1.783.000 espectadores. Los informativos Antena 3 han conseguido una audiencia media de todas sus ediciones de 12,7%.
Con la nueva temporada, los informativos de Antena 3 estrenan nueva identidad gráfica que incorpora el rojo para elementos destacados, así como cabecera. ANTENA 3 Noticias jugará con los colores en función de las diferentes ediciones y del contenido informativo. El imponente plató se aligera y se hace más versátil y mantiene una de sus ya clásicas señas de identidad, la redacción como fondo. Un segundo y polivalente set servirá de apoyo al principal. La realización se adapta al nuevo espacio para aprovechar al máximo la puesta en escena.
Pedro Sánchez, secretario general del PSOE, ha elegido Antena 3 Noticias para conceder su primera entrevista a un medio audiovisual (televisión y Radio). La entrevista, en directo y en horario de máxima audiencia, estará realizada por Gloria Lomana, Directora General de Antena 3 Noticias, y responde una vez más a la vocación de los servicios informativos de la cadena por la actualidad y por llevar al espectador los mejores contenidos informativos.
El plató de informativos volverá a recibir en este curso a grandes figuras de la política y la actualidad para ser entrevistados por Lomana. A la vanguardia de la innovación y la modernidad y fieles al compromiso con la actualidad
Antena 3 noticias se mantiene a la vanguardia de la innovación y la modernidad desde que hace cuatro años revolucionara la forma de ofrecer la información con su nuevo plató que incorporaba la mayor pantalla táctil del panorama televisivo español (11 x 2,5 metros), con tecnología LED y emisión en Alta Definición como una ventana al mundo.
Además, los informativos de Antena 3 sostienen su compromiso con la actualidad y potenciarán su cobertura en los momentos informativos que así lo requieran. Los presentadores continuarán saliendo de la redacción central para recorrer la geografía española y compartir y trasladar los acontecimientos más relevantes con el espectador, allí donde se produzcan.
São Paulo – The government of the state of São Paulo has devised a strategy for offering leisure options other than football games to foreign and domestic visitors expected in the namesake capital São Paulo during the FIFA World Cup. This Wednesday (9th) saw the launch of a travel guide listing attractions available in the capital and the rest of the state. São Paulo is expecting 1.2 million visitors during the Cup, 300,000 of which will be foreigners.
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Ilhabela: an option in-between matches
“Our job is to showcase what our state has to offer,” says Carolina Fontes, the events manager of Comitê Paulista 2014 (the 2014 São Paulo State Committee), an organization linked to the state government in charge of handling World Cup-related affairs. Past experiences have shown that World Cup tourists want to do other things as well, hence the guide, according to the events manager.
Another important piece of information on crafting the guide is the fact that World Cup tourists don’t travel farther than 300 kilometres or longer than 3 days, because they take their trips in between games. The guide has 236 pages and features 55 routes in 49 municipalities, with options lasting one, two or three days. It is divided into four sections – beach and sun, culture and leisure, food and beverage, adventure and nature – and there are versions available in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
The guide will be distributed to travel agencies and organizations, airlines, consulates, football federations in World Cup participating countries, city halls, and the press. It features information on destinations, but not complete travel packages. According to Fontes, agencies will be allowed to based their packages around it, and tourists will be able to refer to the guide with no need for a travel agency, if they choose to travel by themselves. The information is expected to reach foreigners via the press, agencies and consulates as well.
Fontes believes the most successful routes among foreigners will be beach and sun and adventure and nature. “The profile of the World Cup crowd, mostly young men, they will be seeking leisure,” says the manager. The majority of foreigners travelling to Brazil will be actual national teams’ members. There are fans who will travel alongside their national teams. Algeria is the sole Arab country playing the 2014 World Cup. The Algerian team will stay in Sorocaba, in the state of São Paulo.
The guide is fairly didactical and comprehensive. It includes information on the state and the services available, such as airports, roads, how to make telephone calls, a section with information on the World Cup in São Paulo, profiles of football players born in the state, and then the routes. One-day tour suggestions include a visit to Santos; two-day tours include gastronomical tours in Campos do Jordão and Santo Antônio do Pinhal; the three-day options include trips to the waterfalls and beaches of Ilhabela and São Sebastião.
The city of São Paulo is hosting six World Cup matches. The first one is the opening match, on June 12th, between Brazil and Croatia. The second match is due on June 19th, Uruguay vs. England, the third one is on June 23rd, Netherlands vs. Chile, and the fourth one will be played on June 26th, Belgium vs. South Korea. The last two matches will be played on July 1st and 9th, the former being a part of the round of sixteen, and the latter a part of the semi-finals. The teams playing these matches will depend on the results of prior matches.
Paul Manafort was placed in solitary confinement leading up to his sentencing; Doug McKelway has the details.
With the release of the “Mueller Report” reportedly just around the corner, the sentencing Thursday of one-time Trump presidential campaign manager Paul Manafort to 47 months in prison offers a timely reminder that the whole Russia collusion narrative was never more than a fantasy of the Democrats and the mainstream media.
As numerous investigations and witness testimonies have already demonstrated, there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to elect Donald Trump as president. The entire justification for the Mueller probe was a farce, invented by former Hillary Clinton presidential campaign manager Robby Mook and the rest of the Clinton brain trust to justify their humiliating defeat in the 2016 presidential election.
Even U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III acknowledged that Manafort’s convictions were completely unrelated to the Russia collusion, about which the judge had previously expressed skepticism in open court.
“He is not before the court for anything having to do with colluding with the Russian government,” Ellis said in court.
It’s near-universally assumed by now that Mueller’s final report, however much of it the public eventually sees, will fail to show any evidence of collusion. So the same talking heads who’ve spent nearly two years whipping half the country into a frenzy about Russian collusion have to cling to what they do have: Manafort.
Manafort, plain and simple, is going to prison for things completely outside the original scope of Mueller’s investigation. All of his convictions stem from the shady lobbying businesses he ran with his associate Rick Gates long before joining the Trump campaign in 2016.
The problem for them is that Manafort’s convictions illustrate just how empty Mueller’s net has come up after more than 21 months in this putrid fishing hole.
Paul Manafort was found guilty of tax fraud, bank fraud, and failure to report a foreign bank account. In addition to the 47-month prison sentence that Ellis gave him Thursday, Manafort will serve even longer because the judge in his other criminal trial threw out his guilty plea after determining he lied to Mueller’s investigators.
This is all very serious — and all very irrelevant to Russian election interference.
Manafort, plain and simple, is going to prison for things completely outside the original scope of Mueller’s investigation. All of his convictions stem from the shady lobbying businesses he ran with his associate Rick Gates long before joining the Trump campaign in 2016.
The same could be said about any of the myriad other indictments Mueller has brought against Americans who were unfortunate enough to have ties to the Trump campaign. The only illegal conduct Mueller uncovered either predates the Trump campaign or involves “process crimes” directly linked to Mueller’s investigation, such as those of George Papadopoulos, the former Trump aide who got a whopping 14 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
The fact is that after nearly two years of work, we still have no indication that the Mueller probe found so much as a single instance of actual Trump-Russia collusion. Cases such as Manafort’s are typically relegated to no more than a moment’s mention on the nightly news, but not this time.
The fake collusion narrative is simply too important to the media. They’ve invested too much of their capital and credibility, so they have no choice but to present Manafort’s crimes as evidence not only of Donald Trump’s supposed culpability but of Mueller’s efficacy.
For their part, the president’s detractors on Capitol Hill, particularly Democratic committee chairmen Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff, need the artificial stench of the Manafort sentencing to hang in the air as long as possible so that they can prepare to launch the second wave of their vile, politically motivated attack.
With the Mueller probe’s long reign as “The Resistance’s” best hope for overturning the 2016 presidential election quickly coming to a close, the Democrats hope to simply transition to their own witch hunts.
As Manafort’s sentencing on charges unrelated to the 2016 election reminds us, the coming congressional investigations will fare no better than Mueller did in the hunt for evidence of the collusion that never was.
Este lunes en Mis Tres Marías: Leo será sentenciado a 25 años de cárcel y enloquecerá al no poder ver a sus hijas, sin embargo una inesperada noticia encederá una luz de esperanza en su trágica vida.
La esposa de Leo le enviará un misterioso video. ¿Será que regresará finalmente? ¿Dónde estuvo todo este tiempo? Muchas interrigantes y una sola verdad. ¡No te pierdas un infartante capítulo de Mis Tres Marías este lunes a las 9:30 p.m.
The documents will be placed on the docket Tuesday, according to a brief order by U.S. District Court Judge William Pauley III.
Included in the approved redactions are Cohen’s phone numbers, apartment number, and safety deposit box number.
The materials were obtained as part of an FBI raid of Cohen’s New York City home, office, and safety deposit box last April.
Cohen pleaded guilty in August to tax and bank fraud, and to violating campaign finance law by arranging payments to silence women alleging affairs with President Trump. In November, he pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about efforts to open a Trump Tower in Moscow.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Tuesday that he would ease the state’s restrictions on barbershops and hair salons for some counties in the state that meet certain health criteria.
The state, which issued one of the earliest statewide stay-at-home orders in mid-March, has been reopening its economy statewide in phases. The state is currently in phase two of its reopening plan, which has allowed for the resumption of retail businesses and manufacturing jobs with modifications.
Counties in the state that meet certain health criteria, including less than 25 new cases per 100,000 residents in the past 14 daysor less than 8% testing positive in the last week, are allowed to move further into the state’s reopening plan.
Newsom said 47 of the state’s 58 counties have “self-attested” to meeting the state’s criteria to move further into phase two, and starting Tuesday they will be allowed to reopen barbershops and hair salons with modifications, he said, including enhanced cleaning protocols and face covering requirements.
“Those counties will begin to allow for those kind of operations with meaningful modifications, with the appropriate protective gear, particularly face coverings that are so essential in that environment, sanitation requirements and the like,” Newsom said.
So far, those 47 counties have been allowed to reopen dine-in restaurant services with enhanced sanitation practices and modifications. Newsom has yet to lift restrictions on nail salons, bars and wineries, nightclubs and theme parks, among other businesses.
“We are advancing conversations with the legislature in particular supporting efforts to put out guidelines on nail salons and personal care, personal services,” Newsom said. “The issues there require, I think, a little bit more specificity, a little bit more nuance and details in terms of the guidance to satisfy our health experts.”
Some of California’s largest counties, however, like San Francisco and Los Angeles County, have yet to move further into the state’s reopening plan. Newsom has allowed cities to follow their own stay-at-home orders and ease restrictions when officials felt it’s safe to do so.
Both the Bay Area and Los Angeles have issued their own stay-at-home orders. Barbara Ferrer, director of the Los Angeles County department of public health, has indicated that the county’s stay-at-home restrictions will likely remain in place in the county through August, according to reports from NBC Los Angeles.
Newsom said that the hospitalization rate for Covid-19 cases in the state has remained stable and there’s now more intensive-care unit beds available, although he said the number of people in the ICU remains “stubborn but stable.”
“All of these numbers are part of those indicators that have to turn yellow to green so we can continue to march forward and indeed, they are turning yellow to green and we are marching forward as it relates to these modifications to the stay-at-home order,” Newsom said.
Already active in the local civil rights movement, he left for Mississippi after seeing scenes in the news of Black people picketing and sitting at lunch counters across the South. The images “hit me powerfully, in the soul as well as the brain,” he recalled in “Radical Equations.”
His natural confidence and calm demeanor drew people to him, and he soon became something of a civil rights celebrity. He was a hero of many books on the movement, and an inspiration for the 2000 movie “Freedom Song,” starring Danny Glover.
Eventually the fame got to be too much — not only because it added to the stress of an already overwhelming task, but also because he thought it was dangerous for the movement. He resigned from the Council of Federated Organizations in December 1964 and from S.N.C.C. two months later. He was, he said, “too strong, too central, so that people who did not need to, began to lean on me, to use me as a crutch.”
Mr. Moses grew active in the movement against the Vietnam War, and in April 1965 he spoke at his first antiwar protest, in Washington, D.C. “The prosecutors of the war,” he said, were “the same people who refused to protect civil rights in the South” — a charge that drew criticism from moderates in the civil rights movement and from white liberals, who worried about alienating President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Not long afterward, he received a notice that his draft number had been called. Because he was five years past the age limit for the draft, he suspected it was the work of government agents.
Mr. Moses and his wife, Janet, moved to Tanzania, where they lived in the 1970s and where three of their four children were born. After eight years teaching in Africa, Mr. Moses returned to Cambridge, Mass., to continue working toward a Ph.D. in the philosophy of mathematics at Harvard.
In addition to his wife and daughter, Mr. Moses is survived by another daughter, Malaika; his sons Omowale and Tabasuri; and seven grandchildren.
On early Sunday morning, President Trump retweeted a video of a white man yelling “white power” to protesters in a Florida seniors community called The Villages. Beyond its shocking reflection of the President’s current state of mind, the now-deleted Tweet also reflects a frightening observation of America in the summer of 2020:
White nationalism is no longer in the shadows of America’s towns and villages — it is uncomfortably out in the open for all the world to see.
The troubling early morning Tweet, in which the President referred to the protestors as “great people,” is another instance of Trump using social media to flirt with white nationalism. It continues his string of comments that seemingly endorse the tacit racism of white supremacists. For example, following the 2017 “Unite the Right” in Charlottesville, Virginia, after a white nationalist rally turned violent, Trump said: “You had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.”
In another example of his race-baiting language, in 2019, Trump tweeted about four Women of Color who serve in the Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna S. Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, incorrectly suggesting they were not U.S. citizens. “Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” the President tweeted. Trump also uses language such as “invasion” and “thugs” to describe immigrants to the United States, particularly with respect to those located near our southern border with Mexico. He does not shy away from violent rhetoric, recently tweeting that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” in reference to Minneapolis protests that turned violent following the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by four police officers.
But it’s not just the President’s own Tweets that spark controversy. He regularly traffics in the racist and conspiratorial Tweets of others, seemingly using the words of others as proxies for his own beliefs. Given his large following, those Tweets are often shared by millions of others, which encourages the spread of hateful rhetoric. Many far-right activists see the President’s language as “dog whistles,” or signals that, despite his own vows that he is not racist, Trump is empathetic to their views.
Regardless of what Trump truly believes, one fact is certain: since Trump’s election in 2016, the nation has seen a rise in white nationalism. A recent Anti-Defamation League study showed a nearly 123 percent increase in white nationalist propaganda in a single year, surging from 1,214 incidents in 2018 to 2,713 in 2019. This is the highest level of white supremacist activity that the organization has ever recorded, the ADL said.
President Donald Trump delivers remarks on Medicare at the Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center, … [+] Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, in The Villages, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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The increase in activity is only exacerbated by the pandemic and the recent social protests that have gripped America in the wake of the killings of unarmed Black people, including George Floyd in Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor in Louisville, and Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta. Some white nationalists are aligning themselves with other groups that have surfaced over the past several months, such as the Boogaloo movement, that sees America as heading towards a new civil war.
Most disconcerting, however, is the way some white supremacist language is becoming mainstream, as Trump’s early Sunday morning Tweet suggests. For a nation that has been jolted to confront its history of systemic racism and discrimination, the video of a white man unabashedly yelling “white power” to protesters in an upper middle-class area in the heart of Florida is as chilling as it is worrisome. And in a country that is already deeply divided on many issues around race, the fact that such a troubling video was shared by a President shows a willingness to break all convention as he seeks reelection is disturbing.
How will America stem the troubling tide of white nationalism that is seemingly unencumbered by shame? It will not be an easy fix. Once the flames of hate are fanned, it is not so easy to extinguish them. But as America heads into an autumn of decision after a spring and summer of struggle, it is clear that more than election is at stake…
LONDON — Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, announced Monday evening that his bloc in Parliament would support a second referendum to stop what he called “a damaging Tory Brexit.”
While Labour Party activists have been pushing their leader for months to back another public vote on Brexit, Corbyn had been cold to the idea. Many Labour voters — especially in Wales and the north of England — want Britain to leave the European Union.
Corbyn’s shift comes after he was battered by the abrupt resignations of nine Labour lawmakers last week. The defectors, who support remaining in the European Union, complained Corbyn lacked leadership on the greatest issue facing Britain in a generation, and they urged more Labour members to quit.
Corbyn’s late support for a second referendum does not mean another public vote will happen. Prime Minister Theresa May, her government and most of her Conservative Party remain opposed to a do-over.
Nor was it clear Monday what kind of second referendum Corbyn supports. Brexit opponents want voters to be given a clear choice of leaving or staying in the European Union. Others say a second referendum, if it ever took place, should be more limited — asking voters, for example, if they support the deal May has negotiated with the European Union.
This week will see lawmakers putting forward motions seeking to delay Brexit beyond the scheduled departure date of March 29. Other amendments will try to stop Britain from leaving the European Union with no deal — a scenario that could cause economic chaos.
Corbyn said Monday that Labour would also introduce its own amendment, laying out his party’s alternative deal for a much softer Brexit than May has negotiated with the Europeans. The Labour plan would keep Britain in an E.U. customs regime and single market. Such an arrangement probably would mean that Britain would have to continue to accept the free flow of immigrants from Europe.
Corbyn said that only if Parliament — and the government — rejects Labour’s vision for Brexit would he and his party rally around a second referendum to stop May’s deal.
Conservative Party Chairman Brandon Lewis charged that Corbyn seeks to “betray the will of the British people and ignore the biggest democratic vote in our nation’s history.” Lewis said, “A divisive second referendum that would take us back to square one. Once again, it’s clear: Jeremy Corbyn is using Brexit to play his own political games.”
May spent the weekend in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, at a meeting of the leaders of European and Arab states, seeking support for additional language to her Brexit deal that would make it palatable to her party.
Many Conservative Party lawmakers have rejected May’s Brexit deal because it could keep Britain too closely tied to Europe to guarantee that there would be no return of a hard border in Ireland.
While in Egypt, the British prime minister resisted calls to seek a delay for Brexit.
“A delay in this process doesn’t deliver a decision in Parliament, and it doesn’t deliver a deal,” she said at a news conference Monday. “What it does is precisely what the word delay says, it just delays the point in which we come to that decision.”
Corbyn’s spokesman said the Labour leader believes May is “recklessly running down the clock” in an attempt to “force MPs to choose between her botched deal and a disastrous no deal.”
Corbyn’s move toward backing a second referendum was applauded by Labour leaders who don’t like Brexit. Labour lawmaker David Lammy tweeted, “This is a big step towards uniting our party and most importantly our country. No Brexit deal meets the fantasy promised in 2016. So the only way any specific form of Brexit can be made legitimate is through ratification in a #PeopleVote which includes the option to remain.”
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said in a statement that a second referendum would be “the right decision for London — and for the whole country — to give the public their say for the first time on a final Brexit deal. I hope members of parliament will support this move, which is vital to protect jobs and growth. The prime minister must now withdraw article 50 to prevent Britain crashing out of the EU without a deal within weeks and to give us time to sort out her mess.”
Campaigners for a second referendum are hopeful that if the Labour leadership fully lines up behind the cause, they could have a fighting chance at a second vote.
But others said this seemed like a ploy by Corbyn to stop further splits in his party.
Tim Farron, a former leader of the pro-European Liberal Democrats, said, “This is so weak. Or utterly cynical. One or the other.”
Luciana Berger, one of the Labour lawmakers who defected, tweeted, “This. Is. Not. A. New. Announcement. And yet there are just 23 working days to go until #Brexit.”
The Labour Party officially endorsed a second referendum at the party conference in September, but until now it was not fully adopted by Corbyn.
Chris Leslie, another former Labour lawmaker and member of the new Independent Group, said: “Getting Labour to back a People’s Vote has been like extracting blood from a stone. There are no more excuses left — and the question should be put this week without any further prevarication. Let’s wait to see the detail though. We are too used to reading the small print and finding there’s more to this than meets the eye.”
Former DOJ prosecutor James Trusty weighs in on a whistleblower complaint that President Trump encouraged the Ukrainian president to investigate Joe Biden’s son’s business dealings.
President Trump on Sunday said he wants to meet the whistleblower who filed a complaint about his July phone call with the Ukrainian president and to have House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., questioned for “fraud and treason.”
“Like every American, I deserve to meet my accuser, especially when this accuser, the so-called ‘Whistleblower,’ represented a perfect conversation with a foreign leader in a totally inaccurate and fraudulent way,” Trump tweeted. “Then Schiff made up what I actually said by lying to Congress.”
He continued: “His lies were made in perhaps the most blatant and sinister manner ever seen in the great Chamber. He wrote down and read terrible things, then said it was from the mouth of the President of the United States. I want Schiff questioned at the highest level for Fraud & Treason.”
Trump last week released a transcript of the call with President Volodymyr Zelensky, which along with the complaint, detailed how he urged his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. The incident has set off a formal impeachment inquiry.
But Schiff opened Thursday’s hearing on Capitol Hill with Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire with an exaggerated reading of the phone call, which he later walked back as a “parody.”
Trump on Friday blasted Schiff for the fictional summary and demanded his immediate resignation.
In the series of tweets on Sunday, Trump not only doubled down on meeting his accusers, both the whistleblower and the person who supplied the information, but also questioned whether he was being spied on.
“In addition, I want to meet not only my accuser, who presented SECOND & THIRD HAND INFORMATION, but also the person who illegally gave this information, which was largely incorrect, to the ‘Whistleblower,’” Trump tweeted. “Was this person SPYING on the U.S. President? Big Consequences!”
“We are taking all the precautions we can to protect the whistleblower’s identity,” Schiff added. “With President Trump’s threats, you can imagine the security concerns here.”
Fox News’ Adam Shaw and Andrew O’Reilly contributed to this report.
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