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New California governor kills high-speed rail boondoggle – Washington Examiner
New California governor kills high-speed rail boondoggle – Washington Examiner

Big news from California: Gov. Gavin Newsom, in his first State of the State speech, has said he is ending the state’s hugely expensive and hopelessly quixotic high-speed rail line. According to the San Francisco Chronicle website, Newsom said the high-speed rail, a project beloved of the just-retired four-term Gov. Jerry Brown, “would cost too much and take too long.”

Cost too much: an estimated $77 billion, far above the cost pitched to voters when the project was approved 52 to 48 percent in 2008. Take too long: its first phase had an estimated completion date of 2033, some 14 years from now.

I have written numerous times about this egregious folly. Brown seemed to think that high-speed rail was cutting-edge technology. Actually, the first high-speed rail line, Japan’s Shinkansen, was opened in 1964, 55 years ago and 69 years before the California high-speed rail’s latest estimated completion date.

A high-speed rail between the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay area makes no economic sense. Flights between these two metro areas take about one hour, to and from multiple major airports — five in metro L.A., three in the Bay area — while the supposedly high-speed train would probably cost more than a plane ticket and take four hours. Travelers with less money and more time can drive door-to-door between the two in about six hours.

Newsom did say that the state would continue to build the currently-under-construction link between Bakersfield and Merced. “He says building the line could bring economic transformation to the agricultural region,” reports the Chronicle. Though one might add that employing people there to dig holes and then fill them up would be about as productive. There’s a hitch to stopping now: “He says abandoning that portion of the project would require the state to return $3.5 billion in federal dollars.” That’s money the Obama administration sent to Brown to fulfill what he considered a dream, but for everyone else, has been a nightmare.

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Trump made $5.7 billion synonymous with border security. That was a mistake – Washington Examiner
Trump made $5.7 billion synonymous with border security. That was a mistake – Washington Examiner

President Trump made $5.7 billion into a magic number when he claimed that was what’s needed to secure the border. Democrats are never going to give him that amount. If Trump had simply focused on the policy of keeping the country safe, and not on a particular number, he might already be out of the current shutdown showdown with a win.

Instead, he latched on to the number and made his arguments as much about securing a dollar amount as the end goal. That primed his supporters to use billions to measure his success.

He refused to support a bipartisan compromise in February 2018 that would have given him $25 billion over 10 years, including $2.5 billion that year. Trump then rejected a stopgap spending bill in December that would have prevented a shutdown and left more time for lawmakers to reach a deal. Instead, he told now Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., “ I am proud to shut down the government for border security.”

The government did shut down, and even if Trump kept up his facade of pride, lawmakers didn’t. The stunt was an avoidable fiasco and everyone was relieved when Trump announced that he’d reopen the government to jump-start new negotiations.

Now, with the deadline to fund the government coming up once again, lawmakers on Monday night worked out a compromise to avert another painful and wasteful shutdown.

That deal would keep the government open and give Trump a chunk of money, $1.375 billion to be precise, for his border wall. It’s certainly not what the White House wanted, but it would prevent another costly shut down and get some of his wall built.

Trump should take it while he can. He should make a show of accepting the compromise, hold himself up as a leader, and then do a nice photo op as soon as construction starts at the border. He should talk up how he is building the wall, that he wants Congress involved, and how the $1.375 billion is simply a down payment, sure to be re-upped once everyone sees how well it works.

By all accounts, that would be a victory for the president marred only, of course, by the shutdown that didn’t seem so necessary after all.

But to pull that off, he’d have to stop talking about $5.7 billion as if extracting the money from Congress, dollar by dollar if necessary, was as important as starting to fix real issues at the border. Unilateral demands for money it turns out are not great material for the policy compromise necessary to keep the government running.

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Man attacks reporters, knocks over cameras during Trump rally in El Paso – Washington Examiner
Man attacks reporters, knocks over cameras during Trump rally in El Paso – Washington Examiner

EL PASO, Texas — A male attendee accosted reporters standing behind cameras at President Trump’s rally Monday night.

The unidentified man ran down a set of stairs in the press section in the El Paso County Coliseum and jumped onto a platform where cameras were recording Trump’s speech.

The man shoved a handful of cameras, causing them to topple, and pushed reporters, knocking some of them over the roughly two-foot-high ledge.

One reporter yelled, “Get the police, get the police.” Police were standing about 20 feet away near attendees in other sections. A police officer ran into the chaos after reporters had gotten a hold of the intruder, who yelled, “Fuck you. Fuck the media.”

The man was kicked out of the venue, according to a Trump campaign official.

Trump, recognizing the scuffle going on about 50 feet in front of him, asked if everyone was okay before returning to his speech.

It’s not immediately clear if anyone was seriously injured.

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Bill and Melinda Gates 2019 annual letter dedicated to Paul Allen – Business Insider
Bill and Melinda Gates 2019 annual letter dedicated to Paul Allen – Business Insider

As a signoff, Bill and Melinda dedicated this year’s letter to Paul Allen, who died in October 2018 at the age of 65. They said:

“Paul was a brilliant man with a wide-ranging mind and a special talent for explaining complicated subjects in a simple way. He loved to share his passion for music, science, the arts, sports, philanthropy, and so much more.

“He supported homeless shelters, brain research, and arts education. He helped us see how much good innovation could do in the world. He deserved more time in life, and his passing left a big hole in our hearts. We’ll think of him every time we hear Jimi Hendrix.”

Paul Allen’s love for Jimi Hendrix was well documented, and he even built a museum devoted to the rock legend.

You can read the letter in full here.

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Senate has uncovered no direct evidence of conspiracy between Trump campaign and Russia – NBC News
Senate has uncovered no direct evidence of conspiracy between Trump campaign and Russia – NBC News

WASHINGTON — After two years and 200 interviews, the Senate Intelligence Committee is approaching the end of its investigation into the 2016 election, having uncovered no direct evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to both Democrats and Republicans on the committee.

But investigators disagree along party lines when it comes to the implications of a pattern of contacts they have documented between Trump associates and Russians — contacts that occurred before, during and after Russian intelligence operatives were seeking to help Donald Trump by leaking hacked Democratic emails and attacking his opponent, Hillary Clinton, on social media.

“If we write a report based upon the facts that we have, then we don’t have anything that would suggest there was collusion by the Trump campaign and Russia,” said Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, in an interview with CBS News last week.

Burr was careful to note that more facts may yet be uncovered, but he also made clear that the investigation was nearing an end.

“We know we’re getting to the bottom of the barrel because there’re not new questions that we’re searching for answers to,” Burr said.

Democratic Senate investigators who spoke to NBC News on condition of anonymity did not dispute Burr’s characterizations, but said they lacked context.

“We were never going find a contract signed in blood saying, ‘Hey Vlad, we’re going to collude,'” one Democratic aide said.

The series of contacts between Trump’s associates, his campaign officials, his children and various Russians suggest a campaign willing to accept help from a foreign adversary, the Democrats say.

By many counts, Trump and his associates had more than 100 contacts with Russians before the January 2017 presidential inauguration.

“Donald Trump Jr. made clear in his messages that he was willing to accept help from the Russians,” one Democratic Senate investigator said. “Trump publicly urged the Russians to find Clinton’s missing emails.”

Those facts are beyond dispute. But they also have been known for some time — and have not seemed to change Trump’s political standing.

Democrats and other Trump opponents have long believed that special counsel Robert Mueller and Congressional investigators would unearth new and more explosive evidence of Trump campaign coordination with Russians. Mueller may yet do so, although Justice Department and Congressional sources say they believe that he, too, is close to wrapping up his investigation.

House Republicans announced last year they had found no evidence of collusion, but their report came under immediate criticism as a highly partisan product that excluded Democrats. Now in power, House Democrats recently announced an expanded probe that will go beyond the 2016 election to examine whether any foreign government has undue financial influence on Trump or his family. And New York federal prosecutors are pursuing their own criminal inquiry related to hush-money payments to women. The investigations into Donald Trump, therefore, are far from over.

The Senate Intelligence Committee has been conducting the sole bipartisan inquiry, led by Burr and ranking Democrat Mark Warner of Virginia. The committee has sifted through some 300,000 documents, investigators tell NBC News, including classified intelligence shedding light on how the Russians communicated about their covert operation to interfere in the 2016 election.

U.S. intelligence agencies assess that the operation began as an effort to sow chaos and morphed into a plan to help Trump win. It included the hacking and leaking of embarrassing Democratic emails and the use of bots, trolls and fake accounts on social media to boost Trump, criticize Democrat Hillary Clinton and exacerbate political differences.

Predictably, Burr’s comments led Trump to tweet that he had been fully vindicated, which is not the case.

“Senator Richard Burr, The Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, just announced that after almost two years, more than two hundred interviews, and thousands of documents, they have found NO COLLUSION BETWEEN TRUMP AND RUSSIA!” Trump tweeted Sunday. “Is anybody really surprised by this?”

Democratic Senate investigators say it may take them six or seven months to write their final report once they are done with witness interviews. They say they have uncovered facts yet to be made public, and that they hope to make Americans more fully aware of the extent to which the Russians manipulated the U.S. presidential election with the help of some Trump officials, witting or unwitting.

The report, Democrats say, will not be good for Trump.

But they also made clear they haven’t found proof of their worst fear: That the president formed a corrupt pact with Russia to offer sanctions relief or other favorable treatment in return for Russian help in the election.

After it recently emerged in court documents that Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort shared campaign polling data with a man the FBI says is linked to Russian intelligence, Warner called that the most persuasive evidence yet of coordination.

“This appears as the closest we’ve seen yet to real, live, actual collusion,” he said on CNN.

No evidence has emerged, however, linking the transfer of polling data to Trump. Also unclear in court documents is Manafort’s motive for sharing the information. Facing more than a decade in prison for bank and tax fraud, he has not been accused by Mueller of any crimes related to the 2016 election.

Burr, in the CBS interview, said the motivations behind the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russians were in some cases impossible to discern.

“There’s an awful lot of connections of all these people,” he said. “They may not be connections that are tied to 2016 elections in the United States, but just the sheer fact that they have a relationship — it may be business. It may be Russian intelligence. It may be they’re all on the payroll of Oleg Deripaska,” he added, referring to a Russian oligarch tied to Putin who had business dealings with Manafort.

The final Senate report may not reach a conclusion on whether the contacts added up to collusion or coordination with Russia, Burr said.

Democrats told NBC News that’s a distinct possibility.

“What I’m telling you is that I’m going to present, as best we can, the facts to you and to the American people,” Burr told CBS. “And you’ll have to draw your own conclusion as to whether you think that, by whatever definition, that’s collusion.”

Ken Dilanian

Ken Dilanian is a national security reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit.

Source Article from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-has-uncovered-no-direct-evidence-conspiracy-between-trump-campaign-n970536

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California Governor Announces Withdrawal of National Guard Troops From Border Duty – The New York Times
California Governor Announces Withdrawal of National Guard Troops From Border Duty – The New York Times

“This will not be a mission to build a new wall,” Mr. Brown wrote in a letter to Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of homeland security, and Jim Mattis, who was secretary of defense at the time.

“It will not be a mission to round up women and children or detain people escaping violence and seeking a better life,” Mr. Brown wrote, adding, “There is no massive wave of migrants pouring into California. Overall immigrant apprehensions on the border last year were as low as they’ve been in nearly 50 years.”

Mr. Newsom and Mr. Brown are both Democrats. So is Governor Grisham of New Mexico, though the predecessor whose deployment decision she reversed was a Republican.

Before the April deployment, there were about 250 National Guard troops serving in California, and 55 of them were stationed at the border. Under federal law, the troops are paid by the federal government but are under the control of the governor. It was not clear whether federal financing for the troops would continue after Mr. Newsom’s redirection order.

Mr. Brown’s letter authorizing the deployment was largely seen at the time as a denunciation of President Trump’s immigration policies, but many activists and elected officials in the state sharply criticized Mr. Brown for agreeing to any guard deployment at all.

Last summer, Kevin De León, who was then the State Senate leader, urged Mr. Brown to “not be complicit” in the administration’s hard-line immigration priorities, which he called “driven by racial animus.” Mr. De Leon, a Democrat, drafted the state law limiting coordination between local authorities and immigration enforcement agents, known colloquially as the “sanctuary state” law, which Mr. Brown signed in 2017.

Despite the criticism, Mr. Brown later extended state authorization for the National Guard presence at the border through March 2019.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/us/california-border-troops.html

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Why Tuesday will be a big day for Venezuela’s future – Washington Examiner
Why Tuesday will be a big day for Venezuela’s future – Washington Examiner

This week will be pivotal in the revolt against despotic ruler Nicolas Maduro. That’s because on Tuesday, Venezuelans will gather to demand Maduro’s resignation, and will also attempt to bring U.S. aid across the Colombian border.

Maduro has ordered his military to stop them. So will the military fire on fellow Venezuelans?

This week’s events differ from previous protests. Where previous street protests have signaled great discontent with Maduro, they have not directly challenged his control over the military. But Venezuelan activist attempts to bring U.S. aid across the border would force Maduro to decide whether to blink and allow the aid to enter, or order action to constrain it.

Maduro’s rival, interim president Juan Guaido, is hoping that Maduro will blink. Both he and Maduro know that the U.S. has warned that any action against U.S. personnel, some of whom will be supporting the aid convoys, or against Guaido himself are red lines. The implication is that any Maduro attack on the aid convoys will result in a military showdown with the U.S. that Maduro is sure to lose.

Guaido also hopes that Venezuelan midranking officers at the battalion or brigade level will refuse Maduro’s order and then unify against him. And if Guaido wins over the colonels, he pulls the rug out from under Maduro’s generals and forces the despot’s fall.

Still, the possibility of bloodshed cannot be ruled out. Maduro is convinced that the aid supplies are a pretext to overthrow his regime. And while most military personnel are now opposed to Maduro, they continue to follow his orders in the fear of Cuban-enabled reprisals against their families. As Adm. Craig Faller explained to Congress last week, “Venezuela has about 2,000 generals, more than all of NATO combined, and the majority of them are on the payroll of Maduro via illicit drug trafficking and corrupt businesses. And that’s what he’s using to buy their loyalty and their protection.” The admiral added that Cuba “pretty much owns the security around Maduro and is deeply entrenched in the intelligence service.”

The Trump administration must continue to support aid deliveries to innocent civilians who desperately need it. It must continue to warn that any harm against Guaido or U.S. diplomats will result in extreme reprisals. And it must keep up the pressure on Cuba, making clear that Havana’s continued support for despotism will lead to steadily escalating U.S. pressure.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-tuesday-will-be-a-big-day-for-venezuelas-future

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Bill Gates slams Ocasio-Cortez, says her tax policy is ‘missing the picture’ – Fox News
Bill Gates slams Ocasio-Cortez, says her tax policy is ‘missing the picture’ – Fox News
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Bill Gates slams Ocasio-Cortez, says her tax policy is ‘missing the picture’

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has disagreed with tax policies like the one put forth by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), saying they miss the larger picture and could create tax dodging.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who has a net worth approaching $100 billion, has slammed tax policies like the one put forth by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, saying they miss the larger picture and could create tax dodging.

Speaking on a podcast at tech website The Verge, Gates noted that while tax rates can be “more progressive,” going to extremes such as the one put forth by Ocasio-Cortez, which would tax income above $10 million at a 70 percent rate, misses the broader scope.

“Certainly, the idea of government being more effective in terms of how it runs education or social programs, there’s a lot of opportunity for improvement there,” Gates said in the podcast. “In terms of revenue collection, you wouldn’t want to just focus on the ordinary income rate, because people who are wealthy have a rounding error of ordinary income.”

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He continued: “They have income that just is the value of their stock, which if they don’t sell it, it doesn’t show up as income at all, or if it shows up, it shows over in the capital gains side. So the ability of hedge fund people, various people — they aren’t paying that ordinary income rate.”

“The one thing that never gets much press — the IRS shows the statistics for the top 400 people of the highest income and the rate they pay,” Gates went on to say. “Anyway, you should look at that. It’s about a 20 percent rate, so it has nothing to do with the 39.6 marginal ordinary income rate. So it’s a misfocus. If you focus on that, you’re missing the picture.”

Gates, who stepped down from leading the software giant in 2006 to focus on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, added that there are politicians who are so extreme with their policy proposals, that they would start to create tax dodging and certain disincentives, while causing “income to show up in other countries and things.”

The tech titan did concede that taxes “can be more progressive,” including issues such as the estate tax and the tax on capital, the way the FICA and Social Security operate. “We can be more progressive without really threatening income generation — what you have left to decide how to spread around,” Gates said.

Bill Gates
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During the podcast, Gates also weighed in on a number of ideas that Ocasio-Cortez and more progressive lawmakers, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have championed, including “modern monetary theory,” saying it is “some crazy talk,” adding “It will come back and bite you.”

As described by the American Monetary Institute (AMI), a non-profit charity funded to describe monetary reforms for the average citizen, MMT “shows a lack of respect for empirical facts” and “stretches and twists the meaning of words beyond normal usage.”

Ocasio-Cortez did not immediately return a request for comment from Fox News.

Earlier this year, Ocasio-Cortez, who became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, said in an interview on “60 Minutes” that her Green New Deal could be paid for in part by slapping a tax as high as 70 percent on top earners.

“But once you get to the tippie tops, on your ten millionth, sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60 percent or 70 percent,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “That doesn’t mean all $10 million are taxed at an extremely high rate. But it means that as you climb up this ladder, you should be contributing more.”

Fox News’ Adam Shaw contributed to this report.

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With Shutdown Looming, Border Deal Is Reached ‘in Principle’ – The New York Times
With Shutdown Looming, Border Deal Is Reached ‘in Principle’ – The New York Times

In private, Republicans responded with a plan that would exempt many detained immigrants from the cap, including those people either charged with or convicted of crimes, including misdemeanor drug offenses and violent felonies. That, in turn, was rejected by Democrats.

“You have ICE agents picking up mothers and fathers and children in their own neighborhoods. That’s why the beds issue is so much more important than the wall,” said Ms. Roybal-Allard, whose Los Angeles-area district is 85 percent Hispanic, the highest percentage of any district in the country.

The number of beds occupied by detainees fluctuates over time, influenced by a variety of factors, including ICE enforcement policies and the flow of migrants at the border with Mexico. The rate of that flow is unpredictable and determined by factors such as the performance of the economies north and south of the border, crime, gang activity and the business practices of coyotes paid to transport migrants from Mexico and Central America to California and the Southwest.

The number of monthly apprehensions of migrants at the border has averaged 25,000 to 40,000 for most of the past decade, but has risen to about 50,000 over the past several months, according to statistics compiled by the Department of Homeland Security.

If ICE does not have enough room to place individuals and family members they detain, they must loosen their enforcement actions, creating a powerful motive for new migrants to enter the country illegally, Trump administration officials say.

“You cannot have border security, without strong interior enforcement, whether there is a wall there or not,” said Matt Albence, the deputy director of ICE, on Monday in a conference call with reporters.

Republicans closed ranks to blast the plan.

“This is a poison pill that no administration, not this one, not the previous one, should ever accept,” Mr. McConnell said on the Senate floor. “Imagine the absurdity of this: House Democrats want to set a limit on how many criminal aliens our government can detain.”

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/us/politics/shutdown-deal.html

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Tentative Border Deal in Congress Leaves Shutdown Up to Trump – Bloomberg
Tentative Border Deal in Congress Leaves Shutdown Up to Trump – Bloomberg

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‘This is our answer to the White House’: California is bucking Trump’s controversial policies in an unprecedented way – Business Insider
‘This is our answer to the White House’: California is bucking Trump’s controversial policies in an unprecedented way – Business Insider

In recent weeks, California and its militia, one of the largest National Guard entities in the US, began signaling its disagreement with President Donald Trump on two contentious topics: the southern border and transgender service members.

Nearly a month after the Supreme Court decided not to stand in the way of Trump’s move to bar transgender people from serving in the military, the California Military Department’s second-in-command told policymakers the directive would not currently be enforced on transgender troops serving in the California National Guard.

“As long as you fight, we don’t care what gender you identify as,” Maj. Gen. Matthew Beevers, the California Military Department’s assistant adjutant general, said to the Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee last week.

“Nobody’s going to kick you out,” Beevers said, adding that transgender service members would still have to seek gender-reassignment surgery.

Trump’s ban has yet to be fully implemented, pending an injunction in place at the District Court of Maryland. US District Judge George Russell of Baltimore has yet to rule on the issue.

Beevers said he expects the ban “will be lifted again.”

Trump initially announced he would reverse President Barack Obama’s 2017 policy of allowing transgender people to serve. Trump said via tweet at the time that the military “cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.”

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A National Guard soldier watches over Rio Grande River on the border in Roma, Texas, April 10, 2018.
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One year before Trump’s announcement; however, a 2016 government-funded study found that “the costs of gender transition-related health care treatment are relatively low” for the 1,320 to 6,630 transgender troops on active duty. In its study, the Rand Corporation estimated a yearly cost of between $2.4 million and $8.4 million for gender-related surgical procedures, or about a 0.04% to 0.13% increase in health care costs for the active-duty military.

It was unclear whether Gavin Newsom, California’s newly elected Democratic governor who previously called Trump’s ban “reckless” and “the height of cruelty and ignorance,” played a role in the CalGuard’s decision.

“Military leaders, decorated veterans, and members of Congress from both parties have rightly come together to condemn what is – by the administration’s own admission – a cheap, cynical ploy to rally the darkest corners of Trump’s base against yet another invented domestic enemy,” Newsom said in a statement after Trump’s announcement.

“There is NO basis to Trump’s claim that the service of Patriotic transgender people impacts our military readiness,” Newsom added. “On the contrary, the President today has weakened our military and by doing so, diminished both our security and our standing in the world community.”

A spokesman for the California Military Department told INSIDER that the CalGuard would continue to abide by federal regulations and directed all other inquiries to the governor’s office.

The governor’s office did not respond to a request for comment on Monday evening.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom during a Capitol news conference, February 11, 2019, in Sacramento, California.
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‘We are not interested in participating in this political theater’

While the CalGuard’s disagreement with Trump’s policy may have been subtle, Newsom’s views were not restrained.

On Monday, Newsom made a move to undermine Trump’s plan to deploy an additional 3,750 service members to guard the US-Mexico border, a development that would have brought the total number of service members there to around 6,000.

In a press conference with the state’s National Guard and Highway Patrol chiefs, Newsom announced he would withdraw most of the roughly 360 California National Guardsmen currently deployed at the border to “focus on the actual threats facing the state.”

“The border ’emergency’ is a manufactured crisis,” Newsom said in a press conference Monday. “And California will not be part of this political theater. Which is why I have given the National Guard a new mission: They will refocus on the real threats facing our state.”

“This is our answer to the White House: No more division, xenophobia or nativism,” Newsom said, adding that the troops who were withdrawn will be assigned other missions, such as supporting fire-prevention efforts and the state’s Counterdrug Task Force.

Around 110 CalGuard troops from the border will be redeployed for “fire prevention and fire suppression efforts,” Newsom said. About 100 troops are expected to continue conducting “counter narcotics search and seizure operations targeting transnational criminal organization around ports of entry.”

The California National Guard and the federal government have long enjoyed a symbiotic relationship, particularly during national emergencies stemming from natural disasters.

Additionally, units from the Guard regularly travel for annual deployments in support of foreign allies, such as Ukraine, in addition to combat deployments during the War on Terror.

The California National Guard says it has deployed over 50,000 times since the 9/11 attacks, and responds to “an emergency incident” around once every three days in California.

One former senior CalGuard official described the focus on California fire-prevention as “a good use of National Guard troops.” State authorities are believed to be nearing the end of the “decision-making process” in allocating assets for the upcoming wildfire season after experiencing one of the deadliest fire seasons in the state’s history.

“In the end, I think National Guard troops are more suited, certainly for California, for things like wildfires,” the former official said to INSIDER. “It’s when they’re inundated with so many fires that all the fire-fighting capabilities in the state can’t keep up with the [operational] tempo.”

Source Article from https://www.businessinsider.com/california-national-guard-defies-trump-transgender-southern-border-policy-2019-2

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Advisers urge Northam to watch ‘Birth of a Nation’ to learn about race: report | TheHill – The Hill
Advisers urge Northam to watch ‘Birth of a Nation’ to learn about race: report | TheHill – The Hill

Advisers to Ralph Northam have reportedly urged the Democratic Virginia governor to watch the film, “Birth of a Nation,” to understand more about race in America amid the fallout over an old yearbook page of his featuring blackface and KKK imagery.

An unnamed adviser told BuzzFeed News that Northam was not aware of the movie’s racist associations.

The 1915 film is known for its offensive and disturbing depictions of African-Americans after the Civil War, including white actors wearing blackface to play black roles. 

Northam’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill. 

The move from the advisers comes as Northam continues to face backlash after a photo surfaced of a man in blackface standing next to another in a Ku Klux Klan robe in his 1984 medical school yearbook. 

Northam apologized for the photo after it surfaced, but later denied that he was in the picture in question. 

“When I was confronted with the images yesterday, I was appalled that they appeared on my page, but I believed then and now that I am not either of the people in that photo,” he said in a press conference earlier this month. 

Northam has faced calls to resign from a range fo Democratic and GOP lawmaker. But he has vowed to remain in office and focus on racial “equity” during the remaining three years of his term. 

He told The Washington Post last week that he’s been working to increase his understanding of racial inequality by reading “The Case For Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates and chapters of “Roots” by Alex Haley.  

BuzzFeed News reported on Monday that Northam and his adviser are also finalizing a statewide “listening tour” that will focus on discussions related to race in the U.S. 

An adviser told the news outlet that the goal of the listening tour is to talk to state residents and to discuss what he has learned from his own experiences.  

Northam is one of multiple top Democratic officials that have been ensnared in controversy in Virginia recently. State Attorney General Mark Herring last week admitted to wearing blackface to a party in college. 

Meanwhile, Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) is facing two accusations of sexual assault. Fairfax has denied both allegations, saying that the encounters were consensual. 

All three men have faced calls to resign.

Source Article from https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/429518-advisors-urge-northam-to-watch-birth-of-a-nation-to-learn-about-race

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The US is stepping up pressure on Europe to ditch Huawei – CNN
The US is stepping up pressure on Europe to ditch Huawei – CNN

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Hong Kong (CNN Business)US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned European countries on Monday that using technology from Huawei could hurt their relationship with the United States.

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    Freezing rain, snow causing messy commute, power outages, school closures; Ice Storm Warning continues – WGN TV Chicago
    Freezing rain, snow causing messy commute, power outages, school closures; Ice Storm Warning continues – WGN TV Chicago

    CHICAGO — An Ice Storm Warning (scarlet-shaded area on the headlined map) for freezing rain mixed with sleet and snow is in effect for much of the Chicago area along and west of the Fox River Valley tonight into Tuesday.

    At the same time, heavy snow 4 to 8-inches is expected in northern counties bordering Wisconsin, and a Winter Weather Advisory (purple-shaded counties) for primarily freezing rain/snow mix is in effect for the remainder of the Chicago area.

    Extremely dangerous conditions for outdoor activities and travel will exist area-wide. The Tuesday morning commute will be slowed by slick roads and snow-covered highways, and movement outdoors made extremely hazardous due to glaze covering a good portion of northeast Illinois into northwest Indiana.

    Several schools across the area are closed or opening late due to the hazardous conditions.

    Check our up-to-date list of local school closings here.

    Metra Electric train service has been suspended until further notice. Metra suggest customers seek alternate transportation at this time.

    As of 6 a.m., ComEd is reporting more than 7,000 power outages in Cook County alone. More outages expected.

    The center of an intensifying low pressure system will track south of Chicago into Lower Michigan Tuesday, heading into Ontario Canada later Tuesday night. A wintry mix of freezing rain/sleet and snow will lay out to the north of the low-pressure track, covering the Chicago area.

    A Wind Advisory is issued for the entire Chicago area later Tuesday/Tuesday night as the storm center pulls away, strengthening west to northwest winds eventually gusting 40 mph or higher will direct much colder air into our area, changing all precipitation to snow showers and potentially causing widespread ice-laden tree damage and subsequent power outages. As you go north, storm total snowfall looks to gradually increase from 1 to 2-inches along the Interstate-80 corridor to the 4 to 8-inches far north.

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    Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar apologizes for Israel comments, calls out ‘problematic’ role of AIPAC, ‘other lobbyists’ – Fox News
    Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar apologizes for Israel comments, calls out ‘problematic’ role of AIPAC, ‘other lobbyists’ – Fox News
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    Freshman Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar apologizes for tweet about AIPAC’s influence in US politics

    ‘Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes,’ tweeted Rep. Omar; chief congressional correspondent Mike Emanuel reports from Capitol Hill.

    Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., apologized Monday for comments in which she implied that a prominent pro-Israel lobby compensated lawmakers for their support of the Jewish state, but insisted on what she called “the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics.”

    PELOSI, DEM LEADERS CONDEMN REP. OMAR FOR ‘ANTI-SEMITIC’ LANGUAGE

    “Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes,” Omar wrote in a statement posted to Twitter. “My intention is never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole. We have to always be willing to step back and think through criticism, just as I expect people to hear me when others attack me for my identity. This is why I unequivocally apologize.”

    “At the same time,” she added, “I reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics, whether it be AIPAC [the American Israel Public Affairs Committee], the [National Rifle Association] or the fossil fuel industry. It’s gone on too long and we must be willing to address it.”

    Omar drew condemnation from members of both parties after she tweeted Sunday evening that AIPAC has been paying members of Congress to support Israel. On Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called on Omar to apologize, saying that “her use of anti-Semitic tropes and prejudicial accusations about Israel’s supporters is deeply offensive.”

    Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said it was “shocking to hear a Member of Congress invoke the anti-Semitic trope of ‘Jewish money.'” Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., called the comments “deeply disappointing and disturbing.”

    MCCARTHY ASKS DEMS TO DENOUCE ALLEGED ANTI-SEMITIC REMARKS: ‘THIS WILL NOT BE THE END OF THIS’

    “Her words are deeply hurtful and offensive, particularly as they build on a previous comment she made [in 2012] about Jews ‘hypnotizing’ the world in support of Israel — another old trope born of hate-filled texts like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” Nadler said. ” … In this fragile moment in our nation’s history, we must all redouble our efforts to engage in policy debates in ways that respect the dignity and humanity of all people.”

    Omar apologized last month for posting the tweet referenced by Nadler, which read: “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel. #Gaza #Palestine#Israel.” As of Monday afternoon, the messages that caused the most recent furor were still posted on Omar’s Twitter page.

    Last month, Omar argued in a Yahoo! News interview that Israel could not be considered a democracy and compared it to the Islamic theocracy in Iran.

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    “When I see Israel institute laws that recognize it as a Jewish state and does not recognize the other religions that are living in it, and we still uphold it as a democracy in the Middle East I almost chuckle because I know that if we see that any other society we would criticize it, call it out,” she said. “We do that to Iran, we do that to any other place that sort of upholds its religion. And I see that now happening with Saudi Arabia and so I am aggravated, truly, in those contradictions.”

    AIPAC responded Sunday night by tweeting: “We are proud that we are engaged in the democratic process to strengthen the US-Israel relationship. Our bipartisan efforts are reflective of American values and interests. We will not be deterred in any way by ill-informed and illegitimate attacks on this important work.”

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    Trump Took Fight For Border Wall To El Paso — Where O’Rourke Was Ready For Him – NPR
    Trump Took Fight For Border Wall To El Paso — Where O’Rourke Was Ready For Him – NPR

    President Trump speaks during a rally Monday in El Paso, Texas.

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    President Trump speaks during a rally Monday in El Paso, Texas.

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    President Trump took his fight over a border wall to the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday night, promising a crowd in El Paso, Texas, that he would press forward for its construction regardless even as news was breaking in Washington that a deal reached between congressional negotiators would fall far short of his funding demands.

    And in a near-showdown that seemed to mirror the ongoing political dispute over the border, Trump was greeted by a counter-rally led by former Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke. The former Texas lawmaker failed last year in his effort to unseat GOP Sen. Ted Cruz, but could parlay his newfound celebrity with Democratic voters into a 2020 bid to unseat the president — a White House bid that could especially challenge Trump over immigration policy, border security and the propriety of building a Southern border wall.

    But the bigger threat to the message about the need to secure the border that Trump was trying to deliver was coming from many miles away. As another partial government shutdown loomed, bipartisan negotiations on Capitol Hill emerged with a deal Monday night for $1.375 billion for “physical barriers” at the border (the same level that was agreed to in last year’s Department of Homeland Security funding bill). This will fund about 55 miles of fencing.

    On stage, Trump claimed he didn’t know the details and “didn’t want to hear about it,” sticking to his robust talking points on the border wall anyway.

    “As I was walking up to the stage, they said that progress is being made with this committee. Just so you know, we’re building the wall anyway,” he said to raucous applause, underneath banners that read “Finish the Wall.”

    Speaking in an interview with Fox News conducted on the sidelines of the rally, Trump suggested he didn’t know many of the specifics of the deal and said “we’ll see what happens.” About his push for a border wall, Trump said his desire for a physical barrier is about safety. “A wall is a very good thing, not a bad thing. It’s a moral thing,” the president also said in the interview.

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    The Trump administration has frequently exaggerated about how many new barriers along the border are being built compared to those being repaired. And the selection of a rally in El Paso was no accident either — Trump has often highlighted the border city as evidence that walls work, noting the low crime in the U.S. border town compared to its Mexican counterpart. However, statistics have shown that violent crime had already dropped well before the border wall was erected in El Paso.

    Trump dismissed those facts though, calling them “fake news” and saying people are “full of crap if they say it hasn’t made a difference.”

    The president also claimed that the 35-day partial government shutdown over the wall — the longest shutdown ever in U.S. history — “was a very important thing we did” because it turned attention to the border crisis, even if it did cause a “blip” in a rise in unemployment. Multiple polls also showed most Americans blamed Trump and Republicans for the shutdown, and his approval ratings also dropped.

    If Trump doesn’t accept the deal lawmakers will present to him this week, another shutdown could begin at just after midnight Saturday — though Trump has also threatened to build the wall via the declaration of a national emergency if necessary.

    The whole rally largely stuck to Trump’s usual talking points — ticking off economic successes, trade deals, boasting about his relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and rehashing much of what he had said last week in his State of the Union address.

    Former Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke speaks to a crowd inside a ball park across the street from where President Trump was holding a rally inside the El Paso County Coliseum in El Paso, Texas, Monday.

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    Former Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke speaks to a crowd inside a ball park across the street from where President Trump was holding a rally inside the El Paso County Coliseum in El Paso, Texas, Monday.

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    But Trump seemed especially attuned to and plenty sensitive about the split-screen image of the rally O’Rourke, El Paso’s former congressman, was holding outside in the heavily Democratic city. Exaggerating, as he’s prone to do, about his crowd size, Trump claimed that O’Rourke had only drawn 200 or 300 to his protest while they had 35,000 people trying to get into his.

    “That may be the end of his presidential bid,” Trump said, mocking O’Rourke as “a young man who’s got very little going for himself except a great first name.”

    “He’s supposed to win in order to run,” the president jabbed. “Beto was defeated,” Trump said referring to the race against Cruz, as the president boasted of his own undefeated record in his first bid for elective office.

    According to NBC News, O’Rourke’s team said there were about 7,000 people at his rally and mile-long march beforehand, per law enforcement. And Bloomberg News reported that O’Rourke’s rally had been estimated at 10,000 to 15,000, according to local police. At various points during his own rally, Trump claimed that 69,000 people had RSVP’d and that fire marshals allowed 10,000 people in with “tens of thousands” still watching outside. But NBC News reported that Trump’s rally was at its 6,500 capacity with 10,000 to 12,000 watching outside or in overflow areas, per the local police and fire departments.

    O’Rourke directly took on Trump over border security and Trump’s desire for a wall or other physical barrier. The former Democratic congressman said El Paso was a peaceful and safe city “because we treat one another with dignity and respect.”

    “We know that walls do not save lives; walls end lives,” O’Rourke also told those gathered at his rally.

    He also criticized the Trump administration’s treatment of immigrants, from separating children from adults at the border to housing migrants in detention centers, and just a general vilification of the contributions of immigrants.

    “We are making a stand for truth against lies and hate and ignorance and intolerance,” the potential 2020 Democratic candidate said. “We are going to show the country who we are. We’re going to make a stand to ensure that we live up to our promise, to our potential, to our purpose as a country.”

    “We will not take advantage of them,” O’Rourke added about immigrants. “We will not send them back to certain death. We will not believe that walls can or should keep them out. Instead, we welcome them with open arms.”

    People attend an outdoor rally for former Rep. Beto O’Rourke outside the El Paso County Coliseum where President Trump was holding his own rally in El Paso, Texas, Monday.

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    People attend an outdoor rally for former Rep. Beto O’Rourke outside the El Paso County Coliseum where President Trump was holding his own rally in El Paso, Texas, Monday.

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    Trump, meanwhile, at his rally painted a much darker image about the possible influx of new immigrants across the border, who he has characterized as bringing drugs and crime. Instead, the president argued that people should be allowed into the country based on merit.

    “The Democrat Party has never been more outside the mainstream. They’re becoming the party of socialism, late-term abortion, open borders and crime,” Trump said. He criticized Democrats for wanting to put a cap on the bed capacity at detention facilities, saying that would be “cutting loose dangerous criminals into our country.”

    “I will never sign a bill that forces the mass release of criminals into this country,” Trump said.

    Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2019/02/12/693773455/trump-took-fight-for-border-wall-to-el-paso-where-orourke-was-ready-for-him

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    Lawmakers announce a deal to prevent another government shutdown, but prospects remain uncertain – Los Angeles Times
    Lawmakers announce a deal to prevent another government shutdown, but prospects remain uncertain – Los Angeles Times

    Democrats initially proposed dropping the funding to a total to 35,520 detention beds, but ultimately have settled on funding for roughly 45,500, according to the senior congressional aides, with flexibility for more beds, if needed.

    Source Article from https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-government-shutdown-deal-20190211-story.html

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    Trump says Omar ‘should be ashamed of’ Israel comments, apology doesn’t cut it – Fox News
    Trump says Omar ‘should be ashamed of’ Israel comments, apology doesn’t cut it – Fox News
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    Freshman congresswoman Omar sparks outrage over anti-Semitic tweet

    President Donald Trump on Monday said freshman Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar “should be ashamed of herself” over tweets suggesting that a powerful pro-Israel interest group paid members of Congress to support Israel.

    “I think she should be ashamed of herself,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One while flying to a campaign rally in El Paso, Texas, according to The Hill. “I think it was a terrible statement, and I don’t think her apology was adequate.”

    DEM REP. OMAR APOLOGIZES FOR ISRAEL COMMENTS, CALLS OUT ‘PROBLEMATIC’ ROLE OF AIPAC, ‘OTHER LOBBYISTS’

    The Minnesota congresswoman “unequivocally” apologized earlier Monday after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats rebuked her.

    Omar said she had no intention of offending anyone and thanked her colleagues for educating her on anti-Semitic tropes.

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    When asked what she should have said, Trump replied, “She knows what to say.”

    The Associated Press contributed to this report 

    Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/president-trumps-says-rep-omar-should-be-ashamed-of-comments

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    Ocasio-Cortez spent the weekend lying about the ‘Green New Deal’ and the Washington Post is too scared to say so – Washington Examiner
    Ocasio-Cortez spent the weekend lying about the ‘Green New Deal’ and the Washington Post is too scared to say so – Washington Examiner

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., spent the weekend lying about the disastrous rollout of her preposterous “Green New Deal.” The Washington Post’s Fact Checker doesn’t dispute that. But it refused to give her any “Pinocchios” anyway because Trump.

    No, really.

    The paper has declined to flunk the congresswoman’s obvious falsehoods suggesting her House resolution is the target of a right-wing smear campaign, explaining that the president has made similarly misleading statements about the proposed bill.

    That one of the newspaper’s fact-checkers would go out of his way to soften what was an clear attempt by Ocasio-Cortez and her team to lie and mislead is bad enough. It’s made worse by the fact that the author of the Post article is also one of the reporters who awarded the president two “Pinocchios” last week when he said “ one in three [female migrants] is sexually assaulted on the long journey north” because, actually, “31.4 percent of women said they were ‘sexually abused’ on the journey, not ‘sexually assaulted’ as Trump says.”

    Ocasio-Cortez last week unveiled her much-anticipated “Green New Deal” proposal, which aims to remake the U.S. economy into a kinder and more environmentally friendly version of its current self. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the House resolution is absurd, especially the part where it calls for upgrading or replacing every single building in the country over a 10-year period “to achieve maximal energy efficiency, water efficiency, safety, affordability, comfort, and durability, including through electrification.”

    Adding an additional layer of unintentional humor to this unintentional comedy is the fact that the congresswoman’s staff circulated bizarre “ frequently asked questions” pages last week, one of which appeared on her webpage. The FAQs contained additional ideas and proposals not found in the actual legislation co-sponsored by more than 100 Democratic lawmakers.

    One FAQ made available to NPR claimed the bill’s aim is to lower fossil fuel emissions to “net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast.” The NPR FAQ as well as the FAQ that appeared on Ocasio-Cortez’s webpage boasted that the bill would provide “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work.”

    Perhaps realizing that they were making their position more difficult to defend, or take seriously, Ocasio-Cortez’s staff wisely pulled the FAQ from her webpage.

    This is where the congresswoman and her team made a concerted effort to mislead the public.

    “When your #GreenNewDeal legislation is so strong that the GOP has to resort to circulating false versions, but the real one nets 70 House cosponsors on Day 1 and all Dem presidential candidates sign on anyway,” the congresswoman complained on last Friday.

    Her tweet, which kicked off the narrative suggesting the ridiculous parts of her House resolution and FAQ pages were not, in fact, from her office, didn’t cite any GOP lawmaker or staffer. Rather, it cited only an obvious joke being shared by social media trolls “showing” the “Green New Deal” mandates that all men must urinate into empty milk jugs.

    Later that same say, Ocasio-Cortez advisor and Cornell University Law School Professor Robert Hockett was asked during a Fox News interview to explain the “unwilling to work” line. He responded by denying the authenticity of the FAQ page, saying, “I think you’re referring to some sort of document. … That’s erroneous. It’s the wrong document. That’s not us.”

    On Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff admitted the FAQs were authentic but continued pushing the line that her office had fallen victim to a concerted misinformation campaign. Hockett also said Saturday that the FAQs were indeed legitimate, saying, “It appears there was more than one document being discussed yesterday, only one of which I had heard about with any definiteness by last evening after a long day of media appearances — namely, the one referred to by the Congresswoman in her tweet.” But the congresswoman herself kept at it this weekend, suggesting legitimate criticism for her ridiculous House resolution is suspect because of a shadowy GOP-led campaign to delegitimize her proposal.

    “There are multiple doctored GND resolutions and FAQs floating around. There was also a draft version that got uploaded + taken down. There’s also draft versions floating out there,” she tweeted.

    The official response from Ocasio-Cortez and her team went from denying they wrote what they wrote and claiming to be victims of a vicious right-wing smear, to admitting they wrote what they wrote, while still maintaining they are the victims of a vicious right-wing smear. And all of this because the congresswoman and her team panicked after scrutiny was applied to language they included in documents they shared with the public. It would have been fine if the FAQs were circulated by mistake. It would’ve been written off as a gaffe and quickly forgotten. The problem here is the congresswoman is clearly trying to mislead the public about what really happened, pushing some cock-and-bull story about the GOP circulating doctored version of the “Green New Deal.”

    This is where you think fact-checkers would come in handy. But no. The Washington Post published a fact-check whose “bottom line” read:

    Trump is misrepresenting the Green New Deal as the plan is currently written. The resolution in Congress is full of sweeping ambition and grand goals, but it’s also vaguer and more moderate than he says. There’s nothing in there about putting an end to cars or cows or air travel or the military.

    It’s also misleading for Ocasio-Cortez to mention “doctored” materials as she responds to these attacks. Most of the criticism she is responding to was
    based on documents from her office, not on fake plans for “recycling urine.”

    There’s a case to be made that the criticism about ending airplanes and cows was a stretch to begin with, since the resolution didn’t mention any of that and the FAQs were not definitive on those points. But Ocasio-Cortez has now disowned the FAQs and the statements that went beyond the resolution. The line about providing for people “unwilling to work” has been walked back completely. So we won’t be awarding any Pinocchios in this kerfuffle.

    It’s amazing how quickly a fact-checking operation can go from awarding “bottomless Pinocchios” to waxing poetic on the nature of “truth” depending on the party affiliation of the person it’s covering. It’s even more amazing that the newspaper that ran a $10 million Super Bowl ad this year praising journalists for covering the D-Day invasion couldn’t bring itself to say a 29-year-old Democratic congresswoman lied.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ocasio-cortez-spent-the-weekend-lying-about-the-green-new-deal-and-the-washington-post-is-too-scared-to-say-so

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    Key leaders say they’ve reached deal to avoid shutdown – CNN
    Key leaders say they’ve reached deal to avoid shutdown – CNN

    Source Article from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9B-P03X4bc

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    Fact checking Trump’s snowstorm tweet – CNN
    Fact checking Trump’s snowstorm tweet – CNN

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