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Eight days in May: New revelations about intrigue to remove Trump – Washington Examiner
Eight days in May: New revelations about intrigue to remove Trump – Washington Examiner

There are new revelations about what took place in Washington during the extraordinary period from May 9, 2017, when President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, to May 17, 2017 when Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed.

The short version is: The reports were true. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein really did discuss wearing a wire to secretly record the president. Rosenstein and others did discuss invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office. And the FBI did adopt an aggressive new investigation strategy, targeting the president himself, almost instantly after the Comey firing.

It’s all true, that is, if revelations in an upcoming book by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe are accurate. The bottom line on that is that, at least from what we know now, McCabe’s story seems consistent with information congressional investigators have been able to glean elsewhere.

“It’s just like we thought all along,” said one House Republican upon hearing the news. “If McCabe’s account is true, it confirms what we thought, that Rod Rosenstein was serious when he talked about wearing a wire and invoking the 25th Amendment. Rosenstein should be under oath answering our questions. We need to know who was in the room and what was said.”

Whether that happens, in the House at least, is up to the new Democratic majority. But Rosenstein has so far declined to answer congressional questions on the wearing-a-wire and 25th Amendment matters.

To promote his book, McCabe has done an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes.” Correspondent Scott Pelley appeared on CBS Thursday morning with a preview. “There were meetings at the Justice Department at which it was discussed whether the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet could be brought together to remove the president of the United States under the 25th Amendment,” Pelley said. “These were the eight days from Comey’s firing to the point that Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel. And the highest levels of American law enforcement were trying to figure out what to do with the president.”

As another part of his book promotion, McCabe published an excerpt Thursday morning in the Atlantic. The theme of the excerpt is that, after the Comey firing, McCabe was determined to cement in place a Trump-Russia investigation that could not be stopped by the president.

It might be more accurate to say “investigations.” McCabe wrote that he ordered an “overall review” of the FBI’s Trump-Russia work. “Were there individuals on whom we should consider opening new cases?” he wrote. “I want to protect the Russia investigation in such a way that whoever came after me could not just make it go away.”

The New York Times reported last month that in that period, the FBI opened up a counterintelligence investigation focused on the president himself. “Counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether the president’s own actions constituted a possible threat to national security,” the Times reported. “Agents also sought to determine whether Mr. Trump was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under Moscow’s influence.”

That is one sort of investigation. The other probe McCabe wanted to nail into place was what became the Mueller investigation. Describing the decision to appoint Mueller — the decision was actually made by Rosenstein — McCabe wrote, “If I got nothing else done as acting director, I had done the one thing I needed to do.”

And then there were the talks about secretly recording the president and using the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. According to CBS, top law enforcement officials were discussing which Cabinet members might be persuaded to go along with an effort to remove Trump. “They were counting noses,” Pelley said on CBS Thursday morning. “They were not asking Cabinet members whether they would vote for or against removing the president, but they were speculating.”

Much, if not all, of what McCabe reports has been reported before. But an eyewitness, insider account lends new weight to the idea that the highest levels of the national security apparatus experienced a collective freakout in the days after the Comey firing.

In particular, it intensifies questions about Rosenstein’s behavior in those eight days. Remember that Rosenstein played a key role in the removal of Comey. A few days later, he was talking about removing the president for having removed Comey. The sheer audacity of that has stunned even experienced Capitol Hill observers.

“The guy who wrote the memo providing the justification for firing Comey is then upset that the swamp is mad at him for helping fire Comey and then comes up with a plan to wear a wire and invoke the 25th Amendment,” said the House Republican.

After the CBS report, the Justice Department, on Rosenstein’s behalf, issued a statement saying McCabe’s account was “inaccurate and factually incorrect.” Rosenstein, the Department said, “never authorized any recording that Mc. McCabe references.” That was not exactly a denial of the basic story that Rosenstein discussed wearing a wire.

One final note. The frenzy of May 2017 set off investigations that continued previous investigations that, as far as the public knows today, have not uncovered evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to fix the 2016 election. And if those investigations have not found that proof by now, they certainly had not found it in May 2017. And yet the investigations multiplied, and are still multiplying to this day.

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Manafort’s Breached Plea Agreement Should Make Senate Reconsider – Bloomberg
Manafort’s Breached Plea Agreement Should Make Senate Reconsider – Bloomberg

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‘El Chapo’ heading to Supermax prison? Who else is inside the hellish ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’ – USA TODAY
‘El Chapo’ heading to Supermax prison? Who else is inside the hellish ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’ – USA TODAY
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U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue says this is a victory for the American and Mexican people along with anyone who has lost a loved one to the “black hole of addiction.”
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It’s been described as a “high-tech version of hell” and it holds some of the nation’s most dangerous criminals – including, maybe soon, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

The federal government’s ADX “Supermax” prison in Florence, Colorado, is “the prison of all prisons,” said Louisiana State Penitentiary maximum-security warden Burl Cain. 

It makes sense that a drug lord who’s already escaped two high-security Mexican prisons would be sent there. In 2001, Guzman bribed his way out of prison in a laundry basket. In 2015, he escaped out of another penitentiary in a movie-style jailbreak: crawling into a hatch beneath his shower and hopping on a waiting motorcycle through a tunnel dug underground. 

Federal authorities haven’t confirmed exactly where Guzman will be held, but U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue said Thursday that Guzman faces “a sentence from which there is no escape and no return.” 

Here’s what you should about his possible new home:

How secure is it?

The prison, also called the “Alcatraz of the Rockies,” is surrounded by razor-wire fences, gun towers, heavily-armed patrols and attack dogs. Snipers guard the grounds in gun towers. No inmate has ever escaped the prison. 

More: ‘El Chapo’ escaped from two prisons. This time, he’s probably headed to the ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’

What’s a prisoner’s day like?

Inmates spend about 23 hours of every day in solitary confinement inside a 12-by-7-foot cell made of concrete with a small window. The room is designed so that inmates cannot have contact with others or much of the outside world. 

“You’re designing it so the inmates can’t see the sky. Intentionally,” former Supermax prison warden Robert Hood told CNN. “You’re putting up wires so helicopters can’t land.”

Each cell contains a toilet, shower and bed (a concrete slab with a thin mattress). Meals are slid through openings in the doors.

“This place is not designed for humanity … It’s not designed for rehabilitation,” Hood told The New York Times. 

An hour of outdoor time for inmates placed in restraints is allowed some days inside a cage slightly larger than the cells. Travis Dusenbury, who spent 10 years locked up in the prison, told Vice that that was the only contact he had with people, if his neighbor’s schedule lined up with his.

“The closest human contact you could get was what we called ‘finger handshakes’ through the fence,” Dusenbury said.

Notorious criminals who are there

  • Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, who is serving a life sentence for a series of mostly mail bombs that killed three people and injured 23 others over 17 years. 
  • Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who faces a death sentence after setting off bombs near Boston Marathon’s finish line in 2013, where three people died and more than 250 people were injured. He has been convicted of 30 charges, including conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction.
  • Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui is serving a life sentence for conspiring with hijackers to kill Americans. 
  • Shoe bomber Richard Reid, who is serving a life sentence for charges including use of a weapon of mass destruction, attempted murder of aircraft passengers and attempted homicide of U.S. nationals overseas.
  • Oklahoma City bombing accomplice Terry Nichols is serving a life sentence for planting a bomb that killed 168 people in an Oklahoma City federal building. 
  • Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph, who is serving life sentences for a series of bombings including one at the 1996 Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta that killed two people and injured more than 100.  

Contributing: Marina Pitofsky and The Associated Press. Follow Ashley May on Twitter: @AshleyMayTweets

 

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U.S. Congress pushes border security bill without Trump border wall – AOL
U.S. Congress pushes border security bill without Trump border wall – AOL

By Richard Cowan

WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress on Thursday aimed to end a dispute over border security with legislation that would ignore President Donald Trump’s request for $5.7 billion to help build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border but avoid a partial government shutdown.

Late on Wednesday, negotiators put the finishing touches on legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year, along with a range of other federal agencies.

Racing against a Friday midnight deadline, when operating funds expire for the agencies that employ about 800,000 workers at the DHS, the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Justice and others, the Senate and House of Representatives aimed to pass the legislation later on Thursday.

That would give Trump time to review the measure and sign it into law before temporary funding for about one-quarter of the government expires.

RELATED: Trump visits border wall prototypes amid protests




Failure to do so would shutter many government programs, from national parks maintenance and air traffic controller training programs to the collection and publication of important data for financial markets, for the second time this year.

“This agreement denies funding for President Trump’s border wall and includes several key measures to make our immigration system more humane,” House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey, a Democrat, said in a statement.

According to congressional aides, the final version of legislation would give the Trump administration $1.37 billion in new money to help build 55 miles (88.5 km) of new physical barriers on the southwest border, far less than what Trump had been demanding.

It is the same level of funding Congress appropriated for border security measures last year, including barriers but not concrete walls.

Since he ran for office in 2016, Trump has been demanding billions of dollars to build a wall on the southwest border, saying “crisis” conditions required a quick response to stop the flow of illegal drugs and undocumented immigrants, largely from Central America.

He originally said Mexico would pay for a 2,000-mile (3,200-km) concrete wall – an idea that Mexico dismissed.

Joaquin, 36, a chef from Guatemala who says he was deported from the United States, builds a bed in a tree, near a section of the border fence separating Mexico and the United States, in Tijuana, Mexico, February 26, 2017. “I’ve tried to cross so many times that the (U.S.) border guards even got to know me, but I never made it back,” said Joaquin, who makes a living by collecting trash in Tijuana that he tries to sell to a local recycling plant. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido SEARCH “FENCE GARRIDO” FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH “WIDER IMAGE” FOR ALL STORIES.

Joaquin, 36, a chef from Guatemala who says he was deported from the United States, poses for a photograph while leaning on a section of the border fence separating Mexico and the United States, in Tijuana, Mexico, February 26, 2017. “I’ve tried to cross so many times that the (U.S.) border guards even got to know me, but I never made it back,” said Joaquin, who makes a living by collecting trash in Tijuana that he tries to sell to a local recycling plant. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido SEARCH “FENCE GARRIDO” FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH “WIDER IMAGE” FOR ALL STORIES.

Mexican architect Carlos Torres, 68, adjusts signs near the double border fences separating Mexico and the United States, in Tijuana, Mexico, February 25, 2017. “Walls won’t halt immigration,” Torres said. Trump, he said, “doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Here at this fence, people keep crossing every week.” REUTERS/Edgard Garrido SEARCH “FENCE GARRIDO” FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH “WIDER IMAGE” FOR ALL STORIES.

Mexican architect Carlos Torres, 68, is reflected in a glass window of his house near a section of the double border fences separating Mexico and the United States, in Tijuana, Mexico, March 1, 2017. “Walls won’t halt immigration,” Torres said. Trump, he said, “doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Here at this fence, people keep crossing every week.” REUTERS/Edgard Garrido SEARCH “FENCE GARRIDO” FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH “WIDER IMAGE” FOR ALL STORIES.

Joaquin, 36, a chef from Guatemala who says he was deported from the United States, sits underneath a tree near a section of the border fence separating Mexico and the United States, in Tijuana, Mexico, February 28, 2017. “I’ve tried to cross so many times that the (U.S.) border guards even got to know me, but I never made it back,” said Joaquin, who makes a living by collecting trash in Tijuana that he tries to sell to a local recycling plant. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido SEARCH “FENCE GARRIDO” FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH “WIDER IMAGE” FOR ALL STORIES.




Trump has not yet said whether he would sign the legislation into law if the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives and Republican-led Senate approve it, even as many of his fellow Republicans in Congress were urging him to do so.

Instead, he said on Wednesday he would hold off on a decision until he examines the final version of legislation.

But Trump, widely blamed for a five-week shutdown that ended in January, said he did not want to see federal agencies close again because of fighting over funds for the wall.

Senator Richard Shelby, the Republican negotiator who is chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said in a Twitter post he spoke to Trump later on Wednesday and he was in good spirits. Shelby told Trump the agreement was “a downpayment on his border wall.”

‘NATIONAL EMERGENCY’

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who is in regular contact with the White House, said Trump was “inclined to take the deal and move on.”

But Graham also told reporters that Trump would then look elsewhere to find more money to build a border wall and was “very inclined” to declare a national emergency to secure the funds for the project.

Such a move likely would spark a court battle, as it is Congress and not the president that mainly decides how federal funds get spent. Several leading Republicans have cautioned Trump against taking the unilateral action.

Under the bill, the government could hire 75 new immigrant judge teams to help reduce a huge backlog in cases and hundreds of additional border patrol agents.

Hoping to reduce violence and economic distress in Central America that fuels immigrant asylum cases in the United States, the bill also provides $527 million to continue humanitarian assistance to those countries.

The House Appropriations Committee said the bill would set a path for reducing immigrant detention beds to about 40,520 by the end of the fiscal year, down from a current count of approximately 49,060.

Democrats sought reductions, arguing that would force federal agents to focus on apprehending violent criminals and repeat offenders and discourage arrests of undocumented immigrants for minor traffic violations, for example.

Pastor Jose Murcia, 47, preaches to migrants, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America traveling to the U.S., outside a temporary shelter in Tijuana, Mexico November 24, 2018.

(REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis)

Nicolas Alonso Sanchez, 47, from Honduras, part of a caravan of thousands of migrants from Central America traveling to the U.S., poses for a picture as he holds a cross at a temporary shelter in Tijuana, Mexico November 24, 2018. “God helped me and gave me the strength, helped me to make my dreams come true. God gave me all the strength to get all the way here,” Sanchez said. 

(REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis)

Migrants, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America traveling to the U.S., pray before food distribution outside a temporary shelter in Tijuana, Mexico December 1, 2018. 

(REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis)

Juan Francisco, 25, from Honduras, part of a caravan of thousands of migrants from Central America traveling to the U.S., shows his tattoo of the 23rd Psalm of the Book of Psalms as he poses for a picture outside a temporary shelter in Tijuana, Mexico November 26, 2018. 

(REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis)

Victor Alfonso, 29, from Guatemala, part of a caravan of thousands of migrants from Central America traveling to the U.S., poses for a picture as he wears charms depicting the Virgin of Guadalupe at a temporary shelter in Tijuana, Mexico November 26, 2018. 

(REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis)

David Amador, 25, from Honduras, part of a caravan of thousands of migrants from Central America traveling to the U.S., poses for a picture as he holds a cross at a temporary shelter in Tijuana, Mexico November 28, 2018. 

(REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis)

Migrants, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America traveling to the U.S., raise their hands while praying before moving by buses to a new shelter, in Tijuana, Mexico November 30, 2018. 

(REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis)

A migrant, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America traveling to the U.S., is wrapped with a banner depicting the Virgin of Guadalupe in front of a riot police cordon, as migrants try to reach the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico in Tijuana, Mexico November 25, 2018. 

(REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis)

Herso, 17, from Honduras, part of a caravan of thousands of migrants from Central America traveling to the U.S., poses for a picture as he wears a t-shirt depicting the Virgin of Guadalupe outside a temporary shelter in Tijuana, Mexico November 24, 2018.

(REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis)

A booklet of Psalm 119:105 is left on a self-made tent at a temporary shelter of a caravan of thousands of migrants from Central America traveling to the U.S., in Tijuana, Mexico November 27, 2018.

(REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis)

Migrants, part of a caravan from El Salvador traveling to the U.S., pray as they are blocked by the Mexican police during an operation to detain them for entering the country illegally, in Metapa, Mexico November 21, 2018. 

(REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis)

Migrants, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America traveling to the U.S., raise their hands as they listen to the preaching of pastor Jose Murcia (not pictured) outside a temporary shelter in Tijuana, Mexico November 24, 2018. 

(REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis)

A migrant, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America traveling to the U.S., sleeps with a book in Spanish “What does the Bible teach us?” in a temporary shelter in Tijuana, Mexico November 24, 2018. 

(REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis)

A writing “Jesus Christ is the Lord” is seen on a car window outside a temporary shelter for a caravan of thousands of migrants from Central America traveling to the U.S., in Tijuana, Mexico November 24, 2018. 

(REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis)

Elmer, 29, from Honduras, part of a caravan of thousands of migrants from Central America traveling to the U.S., poses for a picture as he holds an icon depicting Jesus Christ and the Virgin of Guadalupe while lining up for food distribution outside a temporary shelter in Tijuana, Mexico November 24, 2018. 

(REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis)

Juan Francisco, 25, from Honduras, part of a caravan of thousands of migrants from Central America traveling to the U.S., shows his tattoo reading “I can do everything with Christ who strengthens me” as he poses for a picture outside a temporary shelter in Tijuana, Mexico November 26, 2018. 

(REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis)

An image of the Virgin of Guadalupe is seen in a tent of migrants part of a caravan of thousands from Central America trying to reach the United States, on a street in Tijuana, Mexico, December 15, 2018.

(REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins)




The Senate Appropriations Committee, which is run by Republicans, said there were provisions in the bill that could result in an increase in detention beds from last year.

Lowey said the bill would improve medical care and housing of immigrant families in detention and expand a program providing alternatives to detention.

The wide-ranging bill also contains some important domestic initiatives, including a $1.2 billion increase in infrastructure investments for roads, bridges and other ground transport, as well as more for port improvements.

With the 2020 decennial census nearing, the bill provides a $1 billion increase for the nationwide count. Also, federal workers, battered by the record 35-day partial government shutdown that began on Dec. 22 as Trump held out for wall funding, would get a 1.9 percent pay increase if the bill becomes law.

(Reporting by Richard Cowan Editing by Robert Birsel and Chizu Nomiyama)

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Manafort bombshell deepens mystery in Russia probe – CNN
Manafort bombshell deepens mystery in Russia probe – CNN

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    Poll: A Year After Parkland, Urgency For New Gun Restrictions Declines – NPR
    Poll: A Year After Parkland, Urgency For New Gun Restrictions Declines – NPR

    In the immediate aftermath of the mass shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., a year ago, 71 percent of Americans said laws covering the sale of firearms should be stricter. Now, it’s 51 percent.

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    In the immediate aftermath of the mass shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., a year ago, 71 percent of Americans said laws covering the sale of firearms should be stricter. Now, it’s 51 percent.

    Scott McIntyre for NPR

    One year after the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., the urgency for new gun restrictions has declined, but roughly half the country is concerned a mass shooting could happen at a school in their community, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds.

    In the immediate aftermath of the mass shooting that killed 17 people on Valentine’s Day, 71 percent of Americans said laws covering the sale of firearms should be stricter. Now, it’s 51 percent.

    When it comes to whether stricter gun legislation should be an immediate priority for Congress, 42 percent say it should be. In April 2018, it was 10 points higher.

    Still, a solid majority — 59 percent — say their first reaction when hearing about mass shootings is that the country needs stricter gun laws. Only a quarter say their first thought is that more people need to carry a gun.

    And 53 percent of Americans are concerned that a mass shooting could happen at a school in their community. By a 63-to-43 percent margin, women are far more concerned than men about that possibility.

    “Not surprisingly, the results show that the outcry against gun violence has lessened from what it was immediately following the shooting at Parkland,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. “Yet, there is a strong consensus that gun violence is a serious problem and action needs to be taken.”

    There are also big partisan, racial and age divides. Republicans are less likely than Democrats to support gun restrictions, support for which has decreased over the past three decades; nonwhites are more likely to be affected by gun violence and more likely to want gun restrictions to be an immediate priority for Congress; and two-thirds of people 18 to 29 would rather control gun violence than protect gun rights.

    A memorial garden for the 17 people that were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. When it comes to whether stricter gun legislation should be an immediate priority for Congress, 42 percent say it should be. In April 2018, it was 10 points higher.

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    The decline of support for gun restrictions and the NRA’s role

    Since 1990, the number of people saying they support gun restrictions has decreased.

    In this poll, 51 percent said the laws covering the sale of guns should be stricter, while 36 percent think they should be kept the same.

    But that’s far lower than 1990, for example, when violent crime was higher, 78 percent said they were in favor of increased restrictions, Gallup found.

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    And there is a huge partisan divide on this question — 80 percent of Democrats and 53 percent of independents think gun laws need to be stricter, while 59 percent of Republicans think they need to be kept as they are.

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    A big reason for the decline in support for gun restrictions and the increase partisanship is the National Rifle Association, the most powerful pro-gun lobby in the country.

    “There’s been a change in the message from the NRA [since 1990], from guns not just being something used for recreation, but their change and their move to guns being one [a message] of protection,” said Barbara Carvalho, director of the Marist Poll.

    Because urgency for action peaks right after a tragedy, the NRA routinely stays quiet in the immediate aftermath, waits and then goes on offense.

    A week after the Parkland shooting, NRA chief Wayne LaPierre went to the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, and called for “hardened” schools. In other words, adding teachers and resource officers armed with guns to schools.

    Just hours after LaPierre made his remarks, President Trump echoed that language, seemingly reading right from the NRA script.

    “We have to harden our schools, not soften them,” Trump said then.

    Americans broadly in support of specific gun restriction policies

    Despite the NRA’s efforts, Americans are still broadly in favor of various gun restrictions the organization has lobbied against.

    According to the poll, while Americans favor employing school resource officers or armed guards in schools (72 percent said it would make a difference), arming teachers was the least popular (39 percent) in a list of policy options to reduce gun violence.

    The list included requiring background checks at gun shows or private sales (82 percent); requiring mental health checks (79 percent); banning high-capacity ammunition clips (65 percent); creating a national database to track all gun sales (64 percent); and banning the sale of semi-automatic assault-style weapons (60 percent).

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    Many of those are measures Democrats have pushed, but the NRA is firmly against and Republican elected officials have opposed. But Republicans are overwhelmingly supportive of some of these measures – 70 percent think requiring background checks would help and 74 percent think the same of mental health checks.

    Americans have a mixed view of the NRA with 42 percent having a favorable opinion of it and an equal 42 percent with a unfavorable one, according to the poll.

    Among gun owners, 62 percent have a favorable view of the organization, while 24 percent do not.

    The NRA struggled in the months following the Parkland shooting. It reported a revenue drop of $55 million. Executives cut budgets, and its streaming TV arm, NRATV, was hit with layoffs.

    But there’s some evidence opposition to the NRA may be softening some. In March 2018, 40 percent said they were more likely to support a brand or company that had cut ties with the NRA. That’s down to 31 percent now.

    Thirty-seven percent of Americans say they less likely to support a brand or company that has cut ties with the NRA, the same percentage as in March 2018, according to the survey.

    An NRATV host was critical of the Parkland students and parents speaking out and calling for new gun restrictions. But Americans overall have a pretty positive view of the students — 58 percent have a favorable impression of them.

    Nearly two-thirds of Americans also believe the Parkland students are having at least some impact on gun reform.

    Racial divisions are acute

    Nonwhites are also 15 points more likely than whites to live in fear of a shooting in their community schools (39 percent to 24 percent). And they are twice as likely to express a great deal of concern about the possibility of a mass shooting at a school in their community (28 to 13 percent).

    Nonwhites are also 17 points more likely to have either been or know someone who has been threatened with a gun or been the victim of a shooting (48 to 31 percent).

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    Perhaps not surprisingly then, nonwhites are far more likely to urge immediate action on enacting gun restrictions (53 percent versus 35 percent).

    And among nonwhites, there is a nearly 30-point gap between those who say it is more important to control gun violence (67 percent) compared to those who say it is more important to protect gun rights (28 percent).

    There are also political divides, especially when it comes to the importance of the Second Amendment compared to other key constitutional protections — 58 percent of the country says it is just as important as other constitutional rights, such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion or freedom of the press.

    But while 74 percent of Republicans think so, 56 percent of Democrats do not.

    The survey of 880 adults was conducted from Feb. 5 through Feb. 11 by The Marist Poll for NPR and the PBS NewsHour. Results for all Americans have a margin of error of +/- 3.9 percentage points. There were 722 registered voters surveyed. Where they are referenced, there is a margin of error of +/- 4.3 percentage points. There were 314 gun owners surveyed. Where they are referenced, there is a margin of error of +/- 6.5 percentage points.

    Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2019/02/14/694223232/poll-a-year-after-parkland-urgency-for-new-gun-restrictions-declines

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    ‘Yes’ on borders, ‘yes’ on walls where appropriate, ‘no’ on emergency powers – Washington Examiner
    ‘Yes’ on borders, ‘yes’ on walls where appropriate, ‘no’ on emergency powers – Washington Examiner

    Despite the good news of a pending deal for government funding, Washington is still very far from a reasonable consensus on the border and a wall.

    We fear the Democrats’ facile political slogans are fueling a dangerous new set of beliefs on that side of the aisle. And we fear that President Trump will continue the destructive tradition of expanding executive power and abusing emergency declarations.

    A proper discussion on border enforcement will begin only when Democrats can embrace the very reasonable idea that Trump likes to communicate: A country without borders is not a country. Democrats go so far in their resistance to Trump’s immigration stances and rhetoric (some of which we have also opposed), that they often end up calling for open borders. Just beneath the surface in Democratic talk is the notion that the U.S. is morally required to admit all comers. This is why Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said that “ a wall is an immorality.” This is not only untrue, but embarrassing.

    Citizens’ demand for an orderly immigration system is not immoral. It is a rightful expression of their self-governance. The requirement that all migrants present themselves at lawful points of entry and that they be deterred from illegal crossings, is not only a moral requirement but an essential one if any orderly immigration system is to exist. The rule of law depends on it.

    The Democrats’ open-borders stance, intended as an expression of tolerance and openness, is instead an attack on the principles of self-governance.

    Most of California’s border with Mexico has walls or wall-like barriers such as fences. Surely, Pelosi is aware of this. If a wall in San Diego is moral, then how is a wall in the Rio Grande Valley immoral?

    The question was never over whether to build “a wall,” but whether to upgrade or extend existing walls. This is quite obviously a matter of prudence. In some places, walls are more or less needed. In some they are more or less feasible. A rational Congress interested in border security and the rule of law would give Homeland Security the funding it needs to build barriers in the highest-value places.

    And there may be plenty that Trump’s DHS can do, even with this slender congressional support, to fund enhancements of border barriers. But we reiterate our earlier warning that Trump would be exceeding his proper authority if he tried to use emergency powers to fund wall-building that Congress didn’t fund.

    Presidents have for decades stretched the definition of “emergency,” and it would undermine the constitutional order to aggressively stretch emergency powers. The border situation is bad, but it’s not a crisis and it’s not getting worse. If immediate action were needed before Congress could act, we would understand an emergency declaration. Using emergency powers because Congress won’t act in the way Trump demands would make Trump a one-man legislator.

    With the passion of a potential government shutdown apparently behind us, we hope that on immigration, Washington can come to its senses.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/yes-on-borders-yes-on-walls-where-appropriate-no-on-emergency-powers

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    Gavin Newsom talks state’s high-speed rail decision, gets compared to ‘The Simpsons’ character – Fox News
    Gavin Newsom talks state’s high-speed rail decision, gets compared to ‘The Simpsons’ character – Fox News
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    California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been unable to escape criticism after announcing he is pulling the plug on the state’s massive high-speed rail project. One Twitter user compared him to an over-promising, fraudulent salesman on ‘The Simpsons.’

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been unable to escape criticism after announcing he is pulling the plug on the state’s massive high-speed rail project from Los Angeles to San Francisco that was more than a decade behind schedule and billions in the red.

    “Let’s be real,” Newsom said in his first State of the State address on Tuesday. “The current project, as planned, would cost too much and respectfully take too long. There’s been too little oversight and not enough transparency.”

    The embattled $77-billion bullet train has been an embarrassment for the Golden State and has been plagued by problems almost from the start.

    CALIFORNIA TO PULL PLUG ON BILLION-DOLLAR BULLET TRAIN, CITIES BALLOONING COSTS

    Newsom took his pitch to Twitter following the announcement, saying he is still going to “make high-speed rail a reality” despite the bullet train misfire.

    “This is so much more than a train project. It’s a transformation project. Anchored by high-speed rail, we can align our economic, workforce, and transportation strategies to revitalize communities across our state,” he tweeted.

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    “For those who want to walk away: Abandoning high-speed rail means we will have wasted billions of dollars with nothing but broken promises and lawsuits to show for it. I’m not interested in sending $3.5B in federal funding–exclusively allocated for HSR–back to the White House.”

    However, the tweets didn’t go over well with all.

    NEWSOM SLAMS TRUMP’S BORDER POLICIES, SAYS CALIFORNIA WON’T BE PARTY TO ‘POLITICAL THEATER’

    “Didn’t think that seeing your ‘spin’ on the destruction of an important project to CA could make me any more irritated but I was wrong. You can’t slash it and claim to save it,” one person tweeted.

    “This decision is the path to the end of your political ambition. Your lack of leadership is truly and deeply disappointing,” another wrote.

    One tweet connected Newsom to Simpsons’ character Lyle Lanley, who, in an episode of the iconic TV show, tricked Springfield residents to spend millions building a monorail in the city only to pocket the money himself and flee.

    NEW CALIFORNIA GOV. NEWSOM MAKES EARLY GUN CRACKDOWN PUSH

    But it wasn’t all bad reviews for Newsom, as others backed his comments.

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    “We are the only country in the civilized world without high-speed rail. Bravo Governor let’s not stay stucked (sic) in a world of 20-years ago,” one person wrote.

    “I agree. The way the country has resisted High-speed rail is mind-boggling. We need to move ahead into the 21st,” another added.

    Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gavin-newsom-talks-states-high-speed-rail-decision-gets-compared-to-the-simpsons-character

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    El Chapo escaped two prisons in Mexico — but no one’s ever busted out of the American ‘ADX’ – The Washington Post
    El Chapo escaped two prisons in Mexico — but no one’s ever busted out of the American ‘ADX’ – The Washington Post

    Deanna Paul

    February 14 at 5:58 AM

    There’s a supermax prison in Florence, Colo., two hours outside Denver. It’s the highest-security penitentiary in the United States. Since opening in 1994, no prisoner has escaped from the Administrative Maximum Facility — known as “the ADX” — one reason former members of federal law enforcement expect the Sinaloa cartel drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán will spend the rest of his life there.

    “For him to escape, he would have to have a warden in his pocket,” said a retired federal corrections officer, who spoke to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity. “It’s a very controlled environment. No one moves there without permission at all. No two inmates move in the facility at the same time.”

    The retired officer, who was assigned to ADX, described the entire penitentiary as a singular special housing unit. The special housing unit (or “the SHU”) is solitary confinement. Prison officials at ADX did not respond to a request for comment.

    Guzmán would be in rare company at the ADX, joining 400 male inmates and a roster of infamous convicted felons: Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber; Terry Nichols, co-conspirator in the Oklahoma City bombing; Robert Hanssen, the traitorous double agent; and Zacarias Moussaoui, al-Qaeda operative and 9/11 conspirator.

    Duncan Levin, a former federal prosecutor, described the penitentiary as a secure housing unit for “the most dangerous and notorious criminals in the world.”

    [Drug lord Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán found guilty on all counts in federal trial]

    For many ADX visitors, the most memorable part of the penitentiary is the eerie silence that encases the hallways.

    “I don’t think I saw another inmate while I was there,” former federal prosecutor Allan Kaiser said of visiting his client, Sal Magluta, who was convicted of leading a massive drug organization in South Florida and sentenced to 200 years. “It was immaculately spartan: The floors just shined, the walls were clean, the hallways were empty. There was no one around, no sounds.”

    ADX inmates are locked in small cubicles the size of a bathroom for 23 hours per day, according to Deborah Golden, staff attorney at the Human Rights Defense Center, who has visited the ADX several times. Each austere cell is adorned with a bed (a concrete slab covered with a thin foam mattress) and a three-in-one “combo toilet, sink and drinking water unit.” Some inmates may luck out with a single slit in the door that shows a sliver of the hallway.

    There are two types of prisoners serving time at the ADX, Golden explained: The vast majority of inmates were transferred to the ADX for disciplinary or management reasons. A smaller number were sent there directly based on their conviction or previous history.

    Golden said Guzmán (who escaped from two maximum-security Mexican prisons — in 2001 with the assistance of prison guards and in 2015 through a tunnel underneath the shower in his jail cell) would be a “direct commit.”


    An aerial view of the federal correctional complex in Florence, Colo. Clockwise from lower left is the minimum-security federal prison camp, the high-security U.S. penitentiary, the maximum-security U.S. penitentiary and the federal correctional institution. (Kevin Kreck/AP)

    According to Golden, the administrative super-maximum program offers a completely different, more isolated approach. With 400 inmates, the ADX also has the highest prisoner-to-guard ratio, allowing increased and personalized attention per inmate.

    In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the country became increasingly concerned about violent crime. The stereotypical “superpredator” loomed large in the public mind — conscienceless criminals who lacked empathy and were so reckless they impulsively killed, robbed and raped. The tough-on-crime stance that evolved under President Bill Clinton’s administration came and went, yet many of its policies and programs, including the administrative super-maximum security prisons, are still enforced.

    In a 2017 news conference, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Robert Capers, said the U.S. government assured Mexico it would not seek the death penalty if Guzmán were extradited, standard procedure for U.S.-Mexico extraditions, according to law enforcement.

    Having been convicted Tuesday of running a drug trafficking enterprise, Guzmán faces multiple life sentences; he will be sentenced in federal court June 25.

    “I expect the Bureau of Prisons would be concerned about El Chapo’s communication access; his phone calls, email access and letters are likely to be more closely monitored than the average prison there for federal drug possession,” Golden said, adding that the bureau should account for other factors, such as medical needs, security and communication needs, housing availability, and space.

    When you go inside most prisons — even high-security prisons — they’re busy. People are walking around. But not at the ADX.

    “The segregation is intense; it’s a punitive environment as harsh as any place on Earth,” Levin said. “It won’t be a coincidence if El Chapo is sent there.”

    Read more

    Sen. Ted Cruz’s solution to border wall impasse: Make El Chapo pay for it

    El Chapo trial provides a deep look inside the Sinaloa cartel’s drug empire

    As El Chapo trial opens, attorneys offer contrasting portraits of ‘mythological’ drug lord

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/14/el-chapo-escaped-two-prisons-mexico-no-ones-ever-busted-out-adx/

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    Andrew McCabe says he ordered the obstruction of justice probe of President Trump – 60 Minutes – CBS News
    Andrew McCabe says he ordered the obstruction of justice probe of President Trump – 60 Minutes – CBS News

    Soon after speaking to President Trump about the firing of his boss James Comey, Andrew McCabe, who became the bureau’s acting director, began obstruction of justice and counterintelligence investigations involving the president and his ties to Russia. In his first television interview since his own firing, McCabe tells 60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley he wanted those inquiries to be documented and underway so they would be difficult to quash without raising scrutiny.

    “I was very concerned that I was able to put the Russia case on absolutely solid ground, in an indelible fashion,” McCabe tells Pelley in the interview. “That were I removed quickly, or reassigned or fired, that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace.”

    The interview with the veteran FBI agent who rose to acting director of the bureau will be broadcast on 60 Minutes, Sunday, February 17 at 7:00 p.m., ET/PT on CBS.

    “I wanted to make sure that our case was on solid ground and if somebody came in behind me and closed it and tried to walk away from it, they would not be able to do that without creating a record of why they made that decision,” McCabe said.

    The White House responded to the opening of that investigation, calling it a “completely baseless investigation.”

    The first excerpt from the interview was broadcast on “CBS This Morning” Thursday as Pelley appeared on the program to talk about his report on McCabe.

    Andrew McCabe tells “60 Minutes” why he opened investigations involving Trump

    “The most illuminating and surprising thing in the interview to me were these eight days in May when all of these things were happening behind the scenes that the American people really didn’t know about,” Pelley said on the show.

    “There were meetings at the Justice Department at which it was discussed whether the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet could be brought together to remove the president of the United States under the 25th Amendment,” Pelley said. “These were the eight days from Comey’s firing to the point that Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel. And the highest levels of American law enforcement were trying to figure out what do with the president.”

    Pelley said McCabe confirms in their interview that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein considered wearing a wire in meetings with President Trump. Previously, a Justice Department statement claimed that Rosenstein made the offer sarcastically, but McCabe said it was taken seriously.

    “McCabe in [the 60 Minutes] interview says no, it came up more than once and it was so serious that he took it to the lawyers at the FBI to discuss it,” Pelley told “CBS This Morning.”

    McCabe has written a book, “The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump,” in which he describes his career, and the FBI investigative process.  It’s an insider’s account that details FBI decisions in the 2016 election and what took place at the bureau in the days between the firing of Comey and the appointment of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller to probe Russian influence in the election. 

    Source Article from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andrew-mccabe-says-he-ordered-the-obstruction-of-justice-case-of-president-trump-60-minutes/

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    Google joins Apple in probing Saudi app that lets men control where women travel, as pressure piles on the tech giants to kill the service – Business Insider
    Google joins Apple in probing Saudi app that lets men control where women travel, as pressure piles on the tech giants to kill the service – Business Insider

    Google has joined Apple in promising to investigate a Saudi app that lets men control women’s travel, as pressure from rights groups and international lawmakers builds on the tech giants.

    Google will review the app to determine whether it violates its policies, a spokesman told The New York Times on Wednesday. Earlier, Apple CEO Tim Cook pledged to investigate as well.

    “A Google spokesman confirmed that the company is assessing the app to determine if it is in accordance with its policies,” The Times reported.

    Google and Apple have failed to respond to repeated requests for comment from Business Insider.

    Business Insider’s sister website INSIDER revealed details about Absher earlier this month and published criticism from human-rights groups, which triggered US politicians to call on the tech giants to rethink the app.

    #DropTheAPP

    Numerous high-profile US politicians condemned Apple and Google on Wednesday. They called on the tech giants to kill the service from their app stores.

    “Absher is a patriarchal weapon: it allows Saudi men to track women, restrict their travel, and enable human rights violations,” the Democratic Party Caucus’s vice chair, Rep. Katherine Clark of Massachusetts, tweeted.

    Rep. Katherine Clark addressing Congress.
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    “#Apple and #Google must stop facilitating this dangerous tool of control,” she added.

    Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York also tweeted: “An app available on Google/Apple’s App store helps Saudi Arabia enforce its guardianship system that doesn’t allow women to travel without permission from a male guardian. No company should help w/ oppression of women!”

    Maloney also encouraged the hashtag “#DropTheAPP.”

    On Tuesday, Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon wrote to Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai demanding that they “immediately remove” Absher from the App Store and Google Play.

    The app “flies in the face of the type of society you both claim to support and defend,” Wyden wrote. “American companies should not enable or facilitate the Saudi government’s patriarchy,” he said, calling the Saudi system of control over women “abhorrent.”

    On this Absher form, guardians can say where women have permission to go, how long for, and which airports they can use.
    Absher

    Before Wyden wrote to the CEOs, the two tech companies faced challenges from Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the women’s-rights activist Yasmine Mohammed.

    “Apps like this one can facilitate human rights abuses, including discrimination against women,” Rothna Begum, a Middle East researcher for Human Rights Watch, said.

    Read more: Q&A: The hurdles and obstacles Saudi women runaways face

    “There’s a definite tragedy in the world’s most technologically progressive platforms, Apple and Google, facilitating the most archaic misogyny,” Yasmine Mohammed, an activist who campaigns and writes on women’s rights, said.

    European and Australian lawmakers pile on

    Lawmakers outside the US chimed in as well, with Dutch MP Kees Verhoeven tweeting: “Apple and Google offer the Saudi government app Absher, which limits the freedom of women to travel.” He added it was right for Amnesty and Human Rights Watch to “call the tech giants to reconsider offering them!”

    Sen. Eric Abetz of Australia published a detailed press release condemning Google and Apple for hosting the app. “This app is being used as a tool of oppression and to restrict the free movement of people in Saudi Arabia,” the release said.

    Read more: Saudi Arabia runs a huge, sinister online database of women that men use to track them and stop them from running away

    The UK government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office would not condemn the app directly but said it wanted to see an end to the guardianship system in Saudi Arabia, which the app encourages.

    A page on Absher where a guardian can see which permissions are active and easily change them if needed.
    Absher

    “We continue to call for an end to the guardianship system to allow women to fully participate in Saudi society,” a representative of the office said. Addressing the specific travel function on Absher, Renate Künast, the chairwoman of Germany’s Alliance ’90/The Greens party, tweeted: “Why do @Apple & @Google condone this? @GoogleDE Are you campaigning against it?”

    Her ministerial colleague Tabea Rößner tweeted: “Don’t be evil! -Experience shows, however, companies that are concerned with maximizing profits have no conscience.”

    Concerning the app’s travel-permissions function, Nate Schenkkan, the director for special research at the human-rights group Freedom House, tweeted that “technology can be used to reinforce oppressive social structures.”

    The app raises awkward questions for Apple and Google, two of the biggest players in Silicon Valley, where tech firms have well-established links to Saudi Arabia.

    Both firms hosted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman last year. The crown prince got a rare tour inside the $5 billion Apple Park campus, in California, which included face time with Cook and other top executives.

    Do you work at Apple or Google? Got a tip? Contact this reporter at wbostock@businessinsider.com, on Signal +447873371206, or Twitter DM at @willbostockUK. (PR pitches by email only, please.) You can also contact Business Insider securely via SecureDrop.

    Source Article from https://www.businessinsider.com/google-joins-apple-probe-saudi-absher-app-2019-2

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    California’s Gavin Newsom throws Green New Deal train network under the bus – Fox News
    California’s Gavin Newsom throws Green New Deal train network under the bus – Fox News
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    New California governor kills plans for a new high-speed rail

    Chuck Devore, former California assemblyman, says the cost of high-speed rail tickets would cost twice as much as an airline ticket.

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom, under budgetary pressure to provide more government health care for illegal immigrants and more housing for the working poor, just threw the Green New Deal’s nationwide train network under the bus by canceling the state’s high-speed rail project.

    Speaking Tuesday at his first State of the State address, Gov. Newsom admitted there “simply isn’t a path” to finish the train.

    Instead of running 520 miles, connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles, Newsom proposed that the system will run just 150 miles – in the middle of the state’s Central Valley agricultural region – connecting Bakersfield, Fresno and Merced (with a population of about one million of the state’s 40 million residents).

    AMERICA, DON’T BE LIKE CALIFORNIA – MISERY LOVES COMPANY

    Initially sold to the public as a clean, high-speed way to get from the Bay Area to L.A. for about the time and cost of an airplane ticket, the government train project was promised to cost $40 billion with no tax money to operate. With big companies and organized labor promoting the plan, it passed with 52.7 percent of the vote in 2008 (an election with Obama at the top of the ticket).

    Reality quickly mugged the dream. Soon after the voters approved borrowing almost $10 billion to kickstart the project, planners were forced to admit that instead of being operational by 2022 and costing $33 billion, the effort would consume $77 billion to $98 billion and take years longer to finish.

    Furthermore, instead of traveling from L.A. to San Francisco in 2 hours and 40 minutes – compared to commercial flights taking an hour, plus TSA security time — the travel time for the fastest train stretched out to more than 3 hours.

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    The projected ticket prices doubled – more than airfare would cost – as expected ridership plummeted.

    Lastly, not a penny of the billions in expected private investment ever materialized, leaving California and federal tax payers on the hook for billions, with about $3.5 billion in federal funds spent and about a similar amount of state funds – much of it from California’s costly cap-and-trade climate change program, which has increased gasoline prices by 10-12 cents per gallon.

    A spokesperson for Gov. Newsom insisted that the governor really isn’t canceling the project, he’s simply trying to finish what was started while working on environmental planning for the longer route, “…that would allow the project to continue seeking other funding streams.”

    What he really meant to say is that California wants to avoid being found in breach of its agreement with the federal government and at risk of having to refund $3.5 billion.

    So California will pretend to work on the train to avoid having to return the billions – money that could be repurposed to pay for more than half of President Trump’s wall. In the meantime, at the rate money is being spent on the project, it would take more than 100 years to finish.

    That California, America’s most populous state led by its most progressive politicians, would abandon a government-run high-speed rail system within a week of the Green New Deal’s introduction in Congress says much about the Green New Deal’s viability.

    The Green New Deal plan, introduced on Feb. 7 by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , D-NY, and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., calls for “investing in … high-speed rail” as part of a 10-year national effort. The FAQ accompanying the congressional resolution, since removed from Ocasio-Cortez’s website, envisioned a “build(ing) out (of) high-speed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary.”

    It’s important to note here that California voters approved their high-speed rail project more than 10 years ago — and not a single passenger has yet ridden the train. And there’s no operational date in sight.

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    The fact is that America is a continental nation. They may have high-speed trains in France and Japan, but Texas is the size of France and California is about the size of Japan. Most Americans would scoff at the quaint notion of boarding a train in Boston and arriving in L.A. 15 hours later.

    The Green New Deal’s dirty little secret is this: its revolutionary backers want to make cars and planes so expensive to use that only the rich will be able to afford them. The rest of us can take the train – whenever it arrives at the station.

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    Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/californias-gavin-newsom-throws-green-new-deal-train-network-under-the-bus

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    ‘Yes’ on borders, ‘yes’ on walls where appropriate, ‘no’ on emergency powers – Washington Examiner
    ‘Yes’ on borders, ‘yes’ on walls where appropriate, ‘no’ on emergency powers – Washington Examiner

    Despite the good news of a pending deal for government funding, Washington is still very far from a reasonable consensus on the border and a wall.

    We fear the Democrats’ facile political slogans are fueling a dangerous new set of beliefs on that side of the aisle. And we fear that President Trump will continue the destructive tradition of expanding executive power and abusing emergency declarations.

    A proper discussion on border enforcement will begin only when Democrats can embrace the very reasonable idea that Trump likes to communicate: A country without borders is not a country. Democrats go so far in their resistance to Trump’s immigration stances and rhetoric (some of which we have also opposed), that they often end up calling for open borders. Just beneath the surface in Democratic talk is the notion that the U.S. is morally required to admit all comers. This is why Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said that “ a wall is an immorality.” This is not only untrue, but embarrassing.

    Citizens’ demand for an orderly immigration system is not immoral. It is a rightful expression of their self-governance. The requirement that all migrants present themselves at lawful points of entry and that they be deterred from illegal crossings, is not only a moral requirement but an essential one if any orderly immigration system is to exist. The rule of law depends on it.

    The Democrats’ open-borders stance, intended as an expression of tolerance and openness, is instead an attack on the principles of self-governance.

    Most of California’s border with Mexico has walls or wall-like barriers such as fences. Surely, Pelosi is aware of this. If a wall in San Diego is moral, then how is a wall in the Rio Grande Valley immoral?

    The question was never over whether to build “a wall,” but whether to upgrade or extend existing walls. This is quite obviously a matter of prudence. In some places, walls are more or less needed. In some they are more or less feasible. A rational Congress interested in border security and the rule of law would give Homeland Security the funding it needs to build barriers in the highest-value places.

    And there may be plenty that Trump’s DHS can do, even with this slender congressional support, to fund enhancements of border barriers. But we reiterate our earlier warning that Trump would be exceeding his proper authority if he tried to use emergency powers to fund wall-building that Congress didn’t fund.

    Presidents have for decades stretched the definition of “emergency,” and it would undermine the constitutional order to aggressively stretch emergency powers. The border situation is bad, but it’s not a crisis and it’s not getting worse. If immediate action were needed before Congress could act, we would understand an emergency declaration. Using emergency powers because Congress won’t act in the way Trump demands would make Trump a one-man legislator.

    With the passion of a potential government shutdown apparently behind us, we hope that on immigration, Washington can come to its senses.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/yes-on-borders-yes-on-walls-where-appropriate-no-on-emergency-powers

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    Paul Manafort: Trump ex-aide lied to prosecutors, judge rules – BBC News
    Paul Manafort: Trump ex-aide lied to prosecutors, judge rules – BBC News

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    Paul Manafort was found guilty of multiple fraud charges in 2018

    Donald Trump’s former election campaign chief Paul Manafort breached his plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller by lying to prosecutors, a US judge says.

    US District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that Manafort “made multiple false statements” to the FBI, Mr Mueller’s office and a grand jury.

    Mr Mueller leads a probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 US election.

    Manafort has pleaded guilty to some charges, avoiding a separate trial.

    He was convicted of financial fraud in August, relating to his work as a political consultant in Ukraine.

    He then accepted a plea deal on other charges in return for co-operating with Mr Mueller’s investigation.

    In her ruling on Wednesday, Judge Berman Jackson said there was evidence that showed Manafort had lied about three different topics, including his contacts with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian political consultant. Prosecutors claim Mr Kilimnik had ties to Russian intelligence.

    However, the judge cleared Manafort, 69, of allegations that he lied on two other subjects.

    The verdict means that Manafort – who has been held in a detention centre in Virginia since June – could now potentially face harsher sentences or have charges against him re-filed.

    Last year, Mr Mueller said that Manafort lied “on a variety of subject matters” after signing the plea deal.

    Media captionDonald Trump: “I feel very badly for Paul Manafort”

    What was the plea deal?

    Last August, Manafort was convicted on eight counts of fraud, bank fraud and failing to disclose bank accounts.

    A month later he pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy against the US and one charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice in a plea bargain with Mr Mueller. The agreement avoided a second trial on money laundering and other charges.

    The plea deal meant Manafort would face up to 10 years in prison and would forfeit four of his properties and the contents of several bank accounts – but deadlocked charges from the previous trial would be dismissed.

    It was the first criminal trial arising from the Department of Justice’s investigation into alleged Russian interference in the presidential election.

    However, the charges related only to Manafort’s political consulting with pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine, largely pre-dating his role with the Trump campaign.

    How did we get here?

    Manafort worked for the Trump presidential campaign for five months in 2016 and was in charge when Mr Trump clinched the Republican party nomination.

    President Trump has branded the Mueller investigation a “witch hunt” and insisted there was no collusion between his team and Russia.

    Manafort was charged by Mr Mueller last October and during the trial he was accused of using 31 foreign bank accounts in three different countries to evade taxes on millions of dollars.

    Prosecutors presented evidence of Manafort’s luxurious lifestyle, saying it was only possible because of his bank and tax fraud.

    Media captionManafort’s indictment: Where did all the money go?

    Source Article from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47234491

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    What you didn’t see at El Chapo’s trial – CNN
    What you didn’t see at El Chapo’s trial – CNN

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    Much of the rainfall and strong gusty winds arrived Wednesday morning, snarling morning commutes, delaying flights, toppling trees and spawning scattered power outages, washouts, sinkholes, mudslides and local roadway flooding.

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    Roger Gass, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said this storm is a “typical” atmospheric river setup, where cities in the South Bay “see significantly less rainfall” than the North Bay and coastal mountains.

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    The Carmel River near Robles Del Rio in Monterey County, however, had been added to the flood watch list Wednesday night. As of 10 p.m., Pi said water levels were at 5.6 feet and were expected to reach flood levels of 8.5 feet by 6 p.m. on Thursday.

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    City Manager David Sykes said the city is coordinating earlier and much more closely with the water district.

    Wednesday’s storm brought “some of the strongest wind speeds I’ve seen so far in populated areas,” Rowe said. Monterey airport saw gusts up to 59 mph, San Francisco’s airport reported gusts up to 46 mph, and offshore gusts in Monterey Bay reached 56 mph Wednesday afternoon. Exposed peaks saw even stronger wind gusts — 75 mph at Mount St. Helena’s 4,300 foot peak, and 61 mph at Mt. Diablo.

    Rowe said it hit 70 degrees in Monterey. “We got these strong southerly downslope winds that cause air to warm,” Rowe said from the weather service’s Monterey office. “It’s warm and windy here (and) feels almost tropical.”

    Fears of mudslides prompted Caltrans to keep sections of Highway 1 closed south of Big Sur.

    The extremely wet start to 2019 in Northern California has allowed most cities to overcome early-season rainfall deficits. Through Monday, most cities were at or near their historical averages for this time of year, including San Francisco (13.72 inches, 90 percent of average), Oakland (10.84 inches or 85 percent) and San Jose (9.27 inches, 98 percent.)

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    Staff writers Emily DeRuy, Joseph Geha, Rick Hurd, Harry Harris and Erin Baldassari contributed to this report. Check back for updates to this story.

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    California Gov. Gavin Newsom, under budgetary pressure to provide more government health care for illegal immigrants and more housing for the working poor, just threw the Green New Deal’s nationwide train network under the bus by canceling the state’s high-speed rail project.

    Speaking Tuesday at his first State of the State address, Gov. Newsom admitted there “simply isn’t a path” to finish the train.

    Instead of running 520 miles, connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles, Newsom proposed that the system will run just 150 miles – in the middle of the state’s Central Valley agricultural region – connecting Bakersfield, Fresno and Merced (with a population of about one million of the state’s 40 million residents).

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    Reality quickly mugged the dream. Soon after the voters approved borrowing almost $10 billion to kickstart the project, planners were forced to admit that instead of being operational by 2022 and costing $33 billion, the effort would consume $77 billion to $98 billion and take years longer to finish.

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    A spokesperson for Gov. Newsom insisted that the governor really isn’t canceling the project, he’s simply trying to finish what was started while working on environmental planning for the longer route, “…that would allow the project to continue seeking other funding streams.”

    What he really meant to say is that California wants to avoid being found in breach of its agreement with the federal government and at risk of having to refund $3.5 billion.

    So California will pretend to work on the train to avoid having to return the billions – money that could be repurposed to pay for more than half of President Trump’s wall. In the meantime, at the rate money is being spent on the project, it would take more than 100 years to finish.

    That California, America’s most populous state led by its most progressive politicians, would abandon a government-run high-speed rail system within a week of the Green New Deal’s introduction in Congress says much about the Green New Deal’s viability.

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    Mr. Manafort’s lawyers had suggested that Mr. Manafort had only wanted to share public data in the interest of promoting himself and maybe winning lucrative work overseas. The oligarchs and their allies had paid Mr. Manafort tens of millions of dollars in Ukraine to help Viktor F. Yanukovych win the presidency there. Mr. Yanukovych was forced out of power in a popular uprising in 2014 and fled to Russia.

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