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California’s housing affordability crisis looms over the state’s problems with teachers – CNBC
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California’s housing affordability crisis has made it more difficult for school districts to attract and retain teachers, a large reflection of a problem affecting education systems across the country.

The challenge of luring and keeping teachers is notoriously a problem for the San Francisco Bay Area, where housing prices are among the highest in the nation. But it’s become a difficult issue in other areas of the state, as well, and it has led to some districts fighting back with affordable-housing measures and other relief efforts.

“The main impacts have been in the Bay Area first and now we’re seeing it more and more in Los Angeles with rising rents,” said Eric Heins, president of the California Teachers Association, a 325,000-member union. “A one-bedroom apartment is $2,000 to $3,000, that’s pretty much a teacher’s take-home pay for the month (beginning teachers or even those in the middle part of their career).”

The challenges facing school districts in California were highlighted this week when thousands of teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District went on strike over a variety of issues, including pay. In Northern California, teachers at several schools in the Oakland Unified School District also are reported to be planning a one-day walkout Friday and asking for more pay.

Late Wednesday, the union representing the picketing Los Angeles teachers announced it would return to the bargaining table Thursday. This is the first teachers strike in 30 years in the second-largest school district in the nation. It follows teacher walkouts in at least five other states in the past year.

The strike comes amid a national teacher shortage and as California is losing teachers to other states, such as Texas, where the cost of living is lower. The teacher shortages are especially being felt in math, science and special education.

Housing affordability has been especially tough for teachers in the San Francisco region.

“In the Bay Area, the cost of living is so expensive that it’s proving more and more difficult to attract teachers to live here,” said Matthew Duffy, superintendent of West Contra Costa Unified School District in the city of Richmond. “If you want to live in any of the surrounding cities to us — Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco — it’s virtually impossible on a teacher’s salary.”

According to Duffy, for the past five years the East Bay district has been losing almost 20 percent of its teachers each year — a trend he blames on affordability. That is higher than the national average of 10 percent.

Similarly, other nearby Northern California communities also face low retention rates for teachers, including Oakland Unified. It has suffered from a nearly 19 percent teacher attrition rate for at least a decade and the constant threat of budget cuts haven’t helped.

Dwindling resources

The labor unrest by teachers in Los Angeles and Oakland public schools highlights the issue of dwindling resources in K-12 education.

“No matter how much money we get, we always get less than what we were promised, especially on the federal level,” said Emma Turner, president of the California School Boards Association, a group representing more than 1,000 California school districts and county offices of education.

The union for Los Angeles teachers is asking for higher pay in a district where the starting annual salary of teachers is $50,368, according to LAUSD. That is barely enough after taxes to cover the average Los Angeles rent of $2,265 per month, based on RentCafe data.

“In every part of California, housing is unaffordable for many people,” said Sara Kimberlin, senior policy analyst at the California Budget & Policy Center, a nonpartisan think tank based in Sacramento. “A lot of that really has to do with the fact that if you look at median rents, they have risen about 3 times as much as median annual wages over recent years. This is a problem facing all kinds of employers and certainly public-sector employees.”

The average salary paid in 2017-18 for teachers in the LA Unified district was under $75,000 per year, according to the state Department of Education. The agency data show the beginning annual salary of teachers in Oakland public schools is nearly $47,000 and the average about $63,000.

Teachers in the Oakland public schools have been working for more than a year without a contract. The Bay Area district has announced plans to reduce spending over the next two years and to close a number of schools.

“The cost of housing is a key driver of whether teachers’ compensation is going to be adequate to meet their needs,” said Tara Kini, director of state policy for the Learning Policy Institute, a national research and policy organization focused on education.

Importantly, the Los Angeles teachers strike also is about educators seeking smaller classroom sizes and more support staff, such as counselors, librarians and nurses.

The union, United Teachers Los Angeles, last week rejected as “woefully inadequate” LAUSD’s offer, which included a 6 percent pay raise and nearly 1,200 extra staff for only one year. The union wants a 6.5 percent pay increase and to have it retroactive to last year.

“This represents the best we can do, recognizing that it is our obligation to provide as much resources as possible to support our students in each and every one of our schools,” Austin Beutner, LAUSD’s superintendent, told reporters Friday.

The Los Angeles strike underscores challenges facing public school education in California, which is the fifth-largest economy in the world but ranks 40th among U.S. states in terms of per-pupil spending, according to the National Education Association. California’s K-12 schools serve nearly 6 million students, or about 12 percent of the total pupil population nationally.

“If we value education and we want to continue the economic growth that we are experiencing here in California it’s vital that we have a strong public education system,” said Heins, the CTA president.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a new state budget last week that includes about $2 billion for early childhood programs as well as money to spur more affordable housing in the state. Overall, it includes $60.5 billion in spending for kindergarten through grade 12 education, or about 30 percent of his $209 billion total budget.

However, critics say the state has failed to keep up when it comes to public education spending and now is paying the price with large classroom sizes. The increase in classroom sizes coincides with a sharp decline in the number of teachers credentialed through state colleges in the past decade.

California distributes its school funding in a way that doesn’t take into account differences in regional labor markets. As a result, Kini, of the Learning Policy Institute, said that makes it harder for teachers in some markets to be able to afford the cost of housing.

The monthly rent of apartments in the Bay Area is so high that there have been reports in recent years of teacher homelessness.

Efforts to fight back

Still, some districts are fighting back with special educator housing and partnerships that seek to keep them competitive.

In response to sky-high housing costs, the San Francisco Unified School District last year moved forward on building its first affordable teacher housing development. The educator housing includes more than 100 apartments and costs more than $40 million.

In addition, the Jefferson Union High School District in San Mateo County is building special housing for district teachers and staff. A bond measure approved by voters in June allows the district to borrow up to $33 million for the project.

The West Contra Costa district also has several initiatives to help school employees with affordable housing, including a partnership with Landed, a startup that provides a down payment to teachers and then makes its money when the house is sold or refinanced. The school district also teamed up with a Richmond city program that refurbishes blighted houses and sells them at below-market rates.

Duffy, the West Contra Costa school superintendent, said the key is figuring out where to find more education funding in general.

“I love supporting the work of teacher housing and the partnerships we’re creating, but at the end of the day I am not a housing developer,” he said. “My core business is teaching and learning and what happens inside the classrooms.”

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Pelosi finding out the hard way that you can’t out-troll Trump – Washington Examiner
Pelosi finding out the hard way that you can’t out-troll Trump – Washington Examiner

President Trump just grounded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

The White House published a letter Thursday afternoon announcing the president had canceled the congresswoman’s scheduled seven-day tour of Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan. Pelosi’s congressional delegation was slated to depart at around 3:00 p.m. Thursday, meaning they learned of the cancellation roughly 30 minutes prior to takeoff.

“Due to the Shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has been postponed,” the president’s letter reads. “We will reschedule this seven-day excursion when the Shutdown is over.”

“In light of the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay, I am sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate,” it adds. “I also feel that, during this period, it would be better if you were in Washington negotiating with me and joining the Strong Border Security movement to end the shutdown. Obviously, if you would like to make your journey flying commercial, that would certainly be your prerogative.”

As congressional delegations are typically flown by the U.S. military for overseas trips, the president does indeed have the power to cancel the trip. The commander in chief has oversight of the armed forces. That doesn’t mean this isn’t petty or ridiculous — then again, so is Pelosi’s talk of canceling the State of the Union.

Trump’s letter comes just one day after Pelosi sent the White House a letter proposing that the president’s Jan. 29 State of the Union address be postponed until after the partial government shutdown ends.

“In September 2018, Secretary Nielsen designated State of the Union Addresses as National Special Security Events (NSSEs), recognizing the need for ‘the full resources of the Federal Government to be brought to bear’ to ensure the security of these events,” Pelosi’s letter reads. “The extraordinary demands presented by NSSEs require weeks of detailed planning with dozens of agencies working together to prepare for the safety of all participants. However, both the U.S. Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security have not been funded for 26 days now — with critical departments hamstrung by furloughs,” the letter adds. “Sadly, given the security concerns and unless government re-opens this week, I suggest that we work together to determine another suitable date after government has re-opened for this address or for you to consider delivering your State of the Union address in writing to the Congress on January 29th.”

Like the flight cancellation, Pelosi’s proposal is a nakedly political calculation, as noted yesterday. Both the U.S. Secret Service and Homeland Security disputed the speaker’s suggestion that they’ve been hobbled by a lack of funding. The Secret Service revealed further that they weren’t even contacted by the speaker’s office regarding her supposed reason for wanting to postpone the State of the Union.

Pelosi’s concerns are obvious nonsense, given that she extended the invitation to Trump on Jan. 3, 12 full days into the partial government shutdown.

Pelosi tried to pull a power move on the White House. On Thursday, Trump landed a brutally timed counter-punch. His reasoning — that she should be in the nation’s capital to continue negotiating the end of the shutdown — is a scathingly shrewd touch. Also, just to rub some salt in the wound, a White House official confirmed to NBC News that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is still slated to fly to Davos, Switzerland, for next week’s World Economic Forum.

Like the GOP presidential field in the 2016 primaries, Pelosi may be learning the hard way that you can’t out-troll Trump. This is his bread and butter.

The ball is in her court now, and it’s unclear where she goes. When Trump trolls, “There are no lands beyond.”

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/pelosi-finding-out-the-hard-way-that-you-cant-out-troll-trump

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You Might Notice a Shrinking Netflix Library in the Next Few Years – /FILM
You Might Notice a Shrinking Netflix Library in the Next Few Years – /FILM

Posted on Thursday, January 17th, 2019 by

Even though Netflix keeps adding to their library every single week and announcing new projects pretty much every day, soon the streaming service will be losing a decent chunk of the offerings they have for subscribers. According to recent analytics, Netflix stands to lose 20% of their library as new streaming services from Disney, WarnerMedia and more start to debut this year.

According to the TV industry research company Ampere Analysis (via ComicBook.com), Comcast (or NBCUniversal), Fox, Disney and WarnerMedia currently account for around 20% of Netflix’s content library. And nearly all of them have announced plans to launch their own streaming services, which means each of them will likely not be sending nearly as much of their content to Netflix.

Disney is launching their Disney+ streaming service sometime late in 2019, and WarnerMedia has already detailed plans for their own streaming service in the same non-specific window of time. Meanwhile, Comcast (which owns NBCUniversal) just restructured their executive team to focus on a new streaming service for their television and film offerings, one that could take away staple shows like The Office from Netflix in the coming years. And finally Fox is being absorbed into the Disney banner, so a bunch of their movies and TV shows will likely be heading to Disney+.

However, this is merely a prediction based on assumptions. While plenty of programming will end up being exclusive to these streaming services and no longer available at Netflix, it’s not a forgone conclusion that all of that content will be exclusive. After all, Netflix has to pay these companies for that content, and if they’re willing to pay $100 million to WarnerMedia in order to keep all seasons of Friends through 2019, it might behoove these companies to still allow Netflix to keep some of their movies and TV shows.

It’s also worth noting that not every piece of content from the likes of Disney, Fox, WarnerMedia and Comcast is as valuable as something like Friends or The Office. So while Netflix stands to lose 20% of their library if these companies take all of their balls and go home, it may not that big of a loss for most subscribers out there. That’s especially true when you consider just how much original content Netflix is churning out, spending roughly $13 billion last year for new content.

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Source Article from https://www.slashfilm.com/netflix-could-lose-20-of-its-library-starting-in-2019/

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Rudy Giuliani just contradicted 18 months of ‘no collusion’ from Donald Trump – CNN
Rudy Giuliani just contradicted 18 months of ‘no collusion’ from Donald Trump – CNN

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    Watchdog: Thousands more migrant children separated from parents than previously known | TheHill – The Hill
    Watchdog: Thousands more migrant children separated from parents than previously known | TheHill – The Hill

    The Trump administration separated thousands more migrant children from their parents than was previously known, according to a government watchdog report.

    “More children over a longer period time were separated [at the border] than have been commonly described,” an official from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) inspector general’s office told reporters on Thursday.

    The report from the inspector general’s office said thousands of children have been separated from their parents during an influx that began in 2017, before the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy was enacted, and before a federal judge ordered the agency to reunite all the children who were separated.

    “How many more children were separated is unknown, by us and HHS,” the agency official said

    Under zero tolerance, children brought across the border illegally were separated from their parents, deemed “unaccompanied,” and detained by HHS in separate facilities sometimes hundreds of miles from their parents.

    The report confirms that family separations at the border increased months before then-Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsBudowsky: Senate must protect Mueller from Barr, President Trump Feinstein grappling with vote on AG nominee Barr Central American women fleeing domestic violence deserve refugee status MORE wrote the zero tolerance memo. It sheds new light on the administration’s efforts to use separations as a way to deter migrants from unlawfully crossing the southern border.

    House Democrats have vowed to investigate the policy.

    A federal judge in June ordered HHS to identify and reunite all separated children. As a result, the agency identified 2,737 children who were separated from their parents and placed into HHS custody.

    HHS has since reunited or otherwise released most of those children, but there are thousands more who were separated before that point. The total number is unknown, and officials also don’t know how how many of those children have been reunited.

    The efforts to reunite separated children were impeded by the department’s lack of a centralized database to track children.

    An HHS official said the agency now can “determine the location and status of any child in [the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s] care at any time” using an online portal. But the report found that ability did not exist until the judge ordered the reunifications. Tracking was largely informal until HHS scrambled to implement a better system.  

    In response to the report, HHS officials noted that they have accounted publicly for all children who were separated from a parent at the border by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and who were in the agency’s care as of June 26, 2018

    The agency also noted the investigation looked at children who DHS separated from a parent or legal guardian at any time, regardless of whether the separation occurred at the border, and regardless of whether, or when, the HHS refugee office discharged the child.

    The administration has also continued to separate children, despite the court order, the report found.

    From July 1 through Nov. 7, HHS received at least 118 children who were separated from their parents. DHS officials have only given HHS limited information about the reasons for these separations.

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    Trump offers ‘deepest condolences’ after deaths of four Americans in Syria – The Washington Post
    Trump offers ‘deepest condolences’ after deaths of four Americans in Syria – The Washington Post

    John Wagner

    Paul Sonne

    January 17 at 12:50 PM

    President Trump on Thursday offered his “deepest condolences” to the families of four Americans killed in Syria in a suicide explosion claimed by the Islamic State, an attack that came less than a month after he declared the militants defeated and ordered 2,000 U.S. troops in the country to be withdrawn.

    Trump offered his first public remarks on the deaths, which occurred Wednesday, during an address at the Pentagon on missile defense strategy.

    “My deepest condolences to the families of the brave American heroes who laid down their lives yesterday in selfless service to our nation,” Trump said of the deceased, who included two soldiers, a Defense Department civilian and a military contractor. “These are great people, great, great people. We will never forget their noble and immortal sacrifice.”

    Since Trump’s Dec. 19 announcement of the troop withdrawal, the administration’s strategy has been thrown into confusion, as Trump’s defense secretary resigned in protest. The announced pace of withdrawal has varied, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has sought aid from Arab allies. New conditions have been set for the U.S. departure, even as the president has said he is determined that the troops leave sooner rather than later.

    Other powers have rushed to fill the coming void, including Turkey, Russia and the government of Iranian-backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

    Vice President Pence, who introduced Trump at the Pentagon event, made clear in his remarks that the administration remains committed to bringing the U.S. troops home.


    President Trump gestures after signing H.R. 2, Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, during a ceremony at the White House in Washington on Dec. 20, 2018. (Zach Gibson/Bloomberg)

    “We will honor the memory of the fallen,” Pence said. “And their families and our Armed Forces should know, their sacrifice will only steel our resolve that as we begin to bring our troops home, we will do so in a way that ensures that the remnants of ISIS will never be able to reestablish their evil and murderous caliphate.”

    In his remarks Thursday, Trump also pledged “a new era in our missile defense program” as he rolled out an initiative to expand the scope and sophistication of U.S. capabilities on a scale not seen since President Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars.”

    [Pentagon seeks to expand scope and sophistication of U.S. missile defenses]

    Known as the missile defense review, the document that Trump formally unveiled Thursday morning marks the first official update to U.S. missile-defense doctrine in nine years.

    It comes as North Korea and Iran make advances in ballistic missile production, and as Russia and China press forward with sophisticated cruise missiles, short-range ballistic missiles and hypersonic glide vehicles that potentially threaten the security of U.S. forces and allies in Europe and Asia.

    The Trump administration’s response is to call for urgent new investments in missile-defense technologies across the board, many of which the Pentagon pursued during the Cold War but abandoned after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

    “Our goal is simple: to ensure that we can detect and destroy any missile launched against the United States anywhere, anytime, anyplace,” Trump said. “As we all know, the best way to keep America safe is to get America strong, and that’s what we’re doing.”

    In the 1990s and 2000s, the Pentagon focused on building interceptors to down missiles launched from rogue states. Now it is again broadening its ambitions, both in terms of technology and missions. Whether the administration secures enough money to tackle such lofty ambitions in missile defense remains unclear.

    In his remarks, Trump also touched on his ongoing impasse with Democrats in Congress over his demand for $5.7 billion in funding for a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.

    “We need strong barriers and walls,” Trump said. “Nothing else is going to work.”

    He again blamed Democrats for the standoff, asserting that “the party has been hijacked by the open-borders fringe within the party.”

    Karen DeYoung contributed to this report.

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    Pelosi jabs Trump: ‘Maybe he thinks it’s OK not to pay people who work’ – NBC News
    Pelosi jabs Trump: ‘Maybe he thinks it’s OK not to pay people who work’ – NBC News

    WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was canceling Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s previously undisclosed trip to war-torn Afghanistan, telling the woman second in line to the presidency that she can’t use a military jet but is welcome to fly commercially if she wants.

    A U.S. Air Force bus loaded with lawmakers, including Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., Elaine Luria, D-Va., and Mark Takano, D-Calif., held in place near the Capitol and returned to the building to let passengers off about 3 p.m. Thursday.

    Trump’s letter, which cited the ongoing partial government shutdown as the reason for his decision, comes a day after Pelosi told the president he should postpone his Jan. 29 State of the Union address or submit it in writing because the Department of Homeland Security hasn’t been funded for the current year.

    “Due to the Shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt and Afghanistan has been postponed,” Trump wrote. “In light of the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay, I am sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate.”

    Trump said in his letter that Pelosi could reschedule the trip after the government has re-opened.

    “It would be better if you were in Washington negotiating with me and joining the Strong Border Security movement,“ he wrote, but “if you would like to make your journey flying commercial, that would certainly be your prerogative.”

    Pelosi’s spokesman Drew Hammill pointed out in a multi-part response on Twitter that Trump visited U.S. troops in Iraq shortly after the partial government shutdown went into effect last month.

    The purpose of Pelosi’s planned trip “was to express appreciation & thanks to our men & women in uniform for their service & dedication, & to obtain critical national security & intelligence briefings from those on the front lines,” Hammill wrote.

    The itinerary included a required stop in Brussels to allow the pilot to rest, the statement said, adding that the delegation planned to meet NATO commanders, U.S. military leaders and key allies “to affirm the United States’ ironclad commitment to the NATO alliance.” The trip did not include a stop in Egypt, Hammill said.

    A White House official told NBC News that Trump had decided to ground all congressional delegation trips abroad during the shutdown.

    Trump’s campaign sent out a fundraising email shortly after his letter to Pelosi asking supporters to donate a total of $1 million over nine hours in response to her request that he not deliver the State of the Union address later this month.

    “Nancy Pelosi asked me to reschedule the State of the Union Address given the “security concerns” regarding the government shutdown,” Trump wrote. “What about the REAL security concerns at our Southern Border? What about the REAL security concerns of American Citizens and their loved ones?”

    Trump’s move earned a quick rebuke from one of his closest allies in Congress, Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C.

    “One sophomoric response does not deserve another. Speaker Pelosi’s threat to cancel the State of the Union is very irresponsible and blatantly political,” Graham said in a statement released to the media. “President Trump denying Speaker Pelosi military travel to visit our troops in Afghanistan, our allies in Egypt and NATO is also inappropriate.”

    Graham said that he is “glad the Speaker wants to meet our troops,” even though he is “disappointed she’s playing politics with the State of the Union.”

    House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer also slammed the decision. “It’s petty. It’s small. It’s vindictive. It is unbecoming of the President of the United States, and it is an unfortunately daily occurrence,” he told reporters.

    Earlier Thursday, Pelosi told reporters that her rationale for seeking to reschedule the annual State of the Union address came down to her and other Democrats not wanting to have security officials work the event without being paid.

    “Maybe he thinks it’s OK not to pay people who work,” she said, an apparent jab at the president over allegations that his businesses have stiffed contractors in the past. “I don’t. And my caucus doesn’t either.”

    Trump has said in the past that if his companies didn’t pay contractors or workers fully, it was because of dissatisfaction with their work, according to news reports.

    Pelosi said Thursday that she had “no doubt” that federal security officials were properly trained for the event and could perform their duties regardless of whether the government was shut down, but she said those workers “should be paid for this.”

    “This is why I said to the president that … if you don’t open up the government, let’s discuss a mutually acceptable date,” the California Democrat said, adding that the previously agreed upon date of Jan. 29 “isn’t sacred for any reason.”

    On Wednesday, Pelosi wrote Trump a letter saying he should either delay the address or submit it in writing, citing the security burdens that a speech before a joint session of Congress would place on the government during the partial shutdown.

    “Sadly, given the security concerns and unless government re-opens this week, I suggest that we work together to determine another suitable date after government has re-opened for this address or for you to consider delivering your State of the Union address in writing to the Congress on January 29th,” Pelosi wrote in the letter to Trump.

    Parts of the federal government, including some operations of the Department of Homeland Security, have been closed down since Dec. 22, when funding for several federal agencies lapsed amid an an impasse between Trump and Congress over his request for billions of dollars in funding for a border wall.

    In separate remarks Thursday, Trump blamed Pelosi and her party’s lawmakers for the partial government shutdown.

    “The federal government remains shut down because congressional Democrats refuse to approve border security,” Trump said, speaking at the Pentagon about the country’s missile defense system. “We’re going to have border security; it’s going to be tight, it’s going to be strong.”

    “While many Democrats in the House and Senate would like to make a deal, Speaker Pelosi will not let them negotiate,” Trump continued. “The party has been hijacked by the open-borders fringe within the party, the radical left becoming the radical Democrats.”

    “Hopefully Democratic lawmakers will step forward to do what is right for our country, and what is right for our country is border security at the strongest level,” he added.

    Trump’s comments come as the shutdown is in its 27th day. National polls show that a majority of Americans and voters blame Trump more for the partial government shutdown. They also place his approval rating below where it was on the eve of the 2018 midterms. A recent Gallup poll, for example, has Trump’s approval rating at 37 percent, down from 39 percent last month.

    Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen tweeted on Wednesday that her department is ready and prepared to provide security for Trump’s State of the Union speech.

    Responding to Nielsen, Pelosi said Thursday that the secretary “should be advocating for her employees to be paid.”

    Jonathan Allen is a Washington-based national political reporter for NBC News who focuses on the presidency.

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    Allan Smith is a political reporter for NBC News.

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    Michael Cohen Acknowledges Payments to Doctor Online Polls for Trump – The New York Times
    Michael Cohen Acknowledges Payments to Doctor Online Polls for Trump – The New York Times

    The Journal reported that in early 2015, before Mr. Trump declared himself a candidate for president, Mr. Cohen gave $12,000 to $13,000 in cash stuffed in a Walmart bag to John Gauger, the owner of RedFinch Solutions, who also works for Liberty University. The money was in exchange for help boosting Mr. Trump’s name in two online polls.

    Mr. Cohen was supposed to pay Mr. Gauger $50,000 for the work, the man told The Journal, but the full amount was never paid out. However, Mr. Cohen billed the Trump Organization $50,000 for technology services, according to federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who referenced the amount in a charging document.

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    Cohen says Trump directed him to pay for poll rigging – CNN
    Cohen says Trump directed him to pay for poll rigging – CNN

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    Shutdown enters 27th day with grim poll news for Trump – live updates – The Guardian
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    Giuliani flip-flops, now claims: ‘I never said there was no collusion between the campaign’ and Russia – NBC News
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    “There was nobody to collude with,” Trump said at a press conference alongside Vladimir Putin last summer. “There was no collusion with the campaign.”

    In a tweet from last February, Trump said his campaign “did nothing wrong — no collusion!”

    And prior to his former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s sentencing hearing last month, Trump tweeted that it was going to be “interesting to see what he has to say, despite tremendous pressure being put on him, about Russian Collusion in our great and, obviously, highly successful political campaign.”

    “There was no Collusion!” he added.

    Giuliani was also pressed on the new revelations regarding former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, whose attorneys appeared to accidentally reveal information in what was supposed to be a redacted court filing that showed Manafort shared Trump campaign polling data with a Russian linked to the nation’s intelligence services.

    “It’s not collusion,” Giuliani claimed. “Because polling data is given to everybody.”

    The attorney added that Manafort “shouldn’t have given it to them” and that it was “wrong to give it to them,” however. But he also said such internal polling data “is cooked” and “the most inaccurate stuff.”

    Allan Smith

    Allan Smith is a political reporter for NBC News.

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    FOX NEWS FIRST: Pelosi slammed for attempted shutdown of Trump State of Union; top Dem breaks ranks on wall – Fox News
    FOX NEWS FIRST: Pelosi slammed for attempted shutdown of Trump State of Union; top Dem breaks ranks on wall – Fox News

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, speaks to reporters as she leaves an event with furloughed federal workers amid the partial government shutdown, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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    Developing now, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019

    THE STATE OF THE UNION IS NOT SHUT DOWN: The Trump administration and Republicans are pushing back on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s suggestion that President Trump delay his upcoming State of the Union address because of the partial government shutdown … The president is slated to deliver his televised annual address to a Joint Session of Congress on Jan. 29. But with no compromise in sight to resolve the standoff over government funding for Trump’s proposed border wall — a stalemate that is in its fourth week, with the impact deepening for furloughed federal workers and others — Pelosi, D-Calif., suggested in a letter that Trump put those plans on hold, speak from the Oval Office rather than Capitol Hill, or submit the address in writing. The House speaker also cited concern over whether a partially closed government could provide proper security for the address — but was quickly rebuked.

    Though President Trump and the White House did not immediately respond to Pelosi, Republicans accused Pelosi of playing politics. House Minority Whip Steve Scalise tweeting that Democrats are “only interested in obstructing @realDonaldTrump, not governing.” Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen denied anyone’s safety would be compromised, saying that both Homeland Security Department and Secret Service “are fully prepared to support and secure the State of the Union.”

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    DISSENSION AMONG DEMS OVER THE WALL:  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., broke from other top Democrats and acknowledged Wednesday on Fox News’ “Special Report with Bret Baier” that border walls “obviously” work in some areas, and rejected suggestions that barriers should be removed where they already exist … In addition, the second most powerful House Democrat said the question of whether to fund President Trump’s proposed border wall is “not an issue of morality.”

    Hoyer’s comments were seemingly at odds with the positions of other House Democrats, most notably House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who have argued that border walls like the one Trump is proposing are ineffective and immoral.

    COLLUSION CONFUSION: President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, claimed Wednesday night that he “never said there was no collusion” between members of President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russian officials — but he did say that Trump himself never colluded with Russian officials … The former New York City mayor also said on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” that “if the collusion happened, it happened a long time ago. It’s either provable or it’s not. It is not provable because it never happened … I’m telling you there’s no chance it happened.” Trump previously denied any member of his campaign conspired with Russian officials. In May 2017, Trump flatly stated: “There is no collusion, certainly myself and my campaign.”

    MUELLER TEAM MEMBERS HAD DIRT ON DOSSIER: Details about Justice Department official Bruce Ohr’s meetings with the author of the salacious anti-Trump dossier were shared by Ohr with his expansive circle of contacts inside the department — including senior FBI leadership and officials now assigned to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, Fox News’ Catherine Herridge has learned … Ohr gave a closed-door transcribed interview last August sharing details of his 2016 meetings with British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who authored the dossier later used to secure a surveillance warrant for a Trump campaign aide.

    In a series of questions about his meetings with Steele — including one on July 30, 2016 — and about with whom he shared the information, Fox News has confirmed the Ohr transcript stated: “Andy McCabe, yes and met with him and Lisa Page and provided information to him. I subsequently met with Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, and eventually (an FBI agent). And I also provided this information to people in the criminal division specifically Bruce Swartz, Zainab Ahmad, Andrew Weissmann.”

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    Here’s how to get airport screeners paid during government shutdowns: Privatize the TSA – Washington Examiner
    Here’s how to get airport screeners paid during government shutdowns: Privatize the TSA – Washington Examiner

    Conservatives complain about government constantly. But if there’s one agency hated by people across the political spectrum, it is the Transportation Security Administration.

    This agency, created in late 2001, is known by alternative acronyms such as “Thousands Standing Around,” and anyone who has flown on a busy day understands why. On every trip, one inevitably gets the perception that innumerable TSA workers are lounging in the background.

    This complaint should resonate now, at a time when a government shutdown subtly threatens everyone’s ability to travel. Although both TSA and air traffic control workers are being made to work without pay, some TSA workers have already been caught staging sickouts and many are just quitting.

    One cannot blame them for insisting on jobs that actually pay. It’s fundamentally unjust that the nation’s transportation system should hinge for weeks or months on thousands of people working without a paycheck.

    That’s just one more reason the TSA should be privatized.

    The continued movement of passengers in the U.S. should not be left to something as fickle as the demands of politicians. Instead, let it depend upon the bottom lines of businesses that cannot afford a shutdown because they must turn a profit to survive.

    Note that even now, amid this shutdown, security screeners are getting paid at the nearly two dozen airports that wisely privatized.

    TSA is a total failure as an agency. Its workers have frequently been caught exceeding their authority: for example, stopping people carrying cash on domestic flights. They have opened people’s luggage to indulge their prurient curiosity. Several have even been caught stealing, either behind the scenes or flagrantly in the sight of passengers waiting in line.

    The worst part of all is that the TSA fails to stop real and perceived threats. Some pundits tried to blame the government shutdown for the recent failure by TSA in Atlanta to detect a gun in an international passenger’s carry-on. But the agency’s track record is no better when the government is open.

    In various tests, undercover inspectors have successfully smuggled mock explosives and banned weapons past security checkpoints as much as 70 percent or even 95 percent of the time. Think about that next time you’re forced into secondary screening because you accidentally left toothpaste or a shampoo bottle in your carry-on bag.

    We propose privatization not because we know that a private security firm would do the job better (private sector workers can be incompetent, corrupt, and power-hungry, too) but because we are certain that a private screening company could not do any worse.

    Airline security workers in the private sector would probably cost the taxpayers less, but that is beside the point. Even if an agreement were struck grandfathering in all current TSA workers at their current pay and benefits, they would have much greater incentive to show up for work, conduct themselves honorably, and be vigilant at their posts. The same aversion to getting fired that every private-sector worker in America feels at all times would be a great motivator for those who might otherwise sloppily overlook a gun or a bundle of dynamite in a carry-on bag.

    Meanwhile, their airport employers would also have a natural incentive that the federal government lacks — the profit motive — to avoid shutting themselves down for large stretches over personal or political disagreements.

    As many younger readers might have forgotten already, private airport security was the norm before 9/11. When debating the creation of TSA afterward, many members of Congress pointed out that although major reforms were needed in airport security protocols, there was no specific reason to think that government screeners would do a better job. They were right then, and they have been proven right in the intervening years.

    Private airline security already exists at 22 airports today, as of August, including some large ones, such as San Francisco and Kansas City. It’s time to privatize the rest so that commercial aviation is no longer at the mercy of the brinkmanship of politicians.

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    The Los Angeles teachers’ strike keeps growing as the standoff ‘feels like … playing chicken’ – CNN
    The Los Angeles teachers’ strike keeps growing as the standoff ‘feels like … playing chicken’ – CNN

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      ISIS-claimed attack on Americans in Syria renews criticism of Trump policy – CNBC
      ISIS-claimed attack on Americans in Syria renews criticism of Trump policy – CNBC

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      Wednesday’s attack on U.S. forces in Syria has stoked fresh criticism over President Donald Trump’s claim that the so-called Islamic State has been defeated renewed debate over his decision to withdraw all troops from the war-torn country.

      Around 1 p.m. local time, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a popular area of downtown Manbij, a northern Syrian city that’s been controlled by U.S.-supported Kurdish militias since it was wrested from ISIS in 2016.

      Four Americans were killed — two service members, a civilian Pentagon official and a U.S. contractor — and three more injured, U.S. Central Command confirmed in a statement, reportedly marking the largest single loss of American life since the counter-ISIS campaign began. Nineteen people are believed to have died in total, including civilians and local coalition partners, according to monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

      ISIS quickly claimed responsibility. While the group has not so far offered physical evidence to support the claim, critics have been quick to link the attack to President Donald Trump’s decision last month to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria.

      “Trump’s order was reckless and driven far more by domestic political concerns than it was by facts on the ground,” Charles Lister, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, said on Twitter Wednesday.

      Trump defended the troop pullout plans on the premise that ISIS had been defeated. The decision triggered rebukes from numerous lawmakers and security experts, who warned of the extremist group’s resurgence and lamented what was seen as an abandonment of local partners.

      “Sometimes reality catches up quickly with wishful thinking and political spin,” Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon official and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., told CNBC on Wednesday. “Historians will likely file Trump’s tweets announcing the ISIS defeat and U.S. Syria pullout alongside Bush’s 2003 ‘Mission Accomplished’ speech and Obama’s 2011 withdrawal from Iraq.”

      ISIS’ return in Syria is ‘inevitable’

      The counter-ISIS campaign, started under the Obama administration and continued under Trump, has decimated the group’s territorial hold and its numbers compared to what it controlled at its height. In January 2015, ISIS held an estimated 50,000-plus square miles in Syria and Iraq and fielded close to 100,000 fighters, according to some estimates. In December, top U.S. officials told CNBC the group only controlled 1 percent of what they once had.

      But the Manbij attack, and continued low-level kidnappings and attacks elsewhere in Syria and Iraq, are a reminder that its sleeper cells exist and its ideology has yet to be defeated.

      “The attack in Manbij demonstrates clearly that ISIS still has an extensive network of operatives throughout the areas it used to control in Syria, and that it wants the world to know that,” said Nick Heras, a Middle East security fellow at the Center for a New American Security and former research associate at the National Defense University. “ISIS likely timed the attack to send the message to Trump that he hasn’t beat it yet, and to the world that the Americans will lose the long war against it.”


      However, it’s important to note that this type of attack, carried out against U.S. personnel in a civilian area, “is a low hanging fruit operation” that ISIS could execute with or without Trump’s announcement of the Syria drawdown, Heras added. The group’s predecessors in Iraq carried out similar attacks frequently, and we should expect more of them in Syria moving forward, he said.

      “ISIS has an incentive to demonstrate to everyone that it is not dead, that it has agents and capabilities everywhere, and that its return in Syria is inevitable.”

      The White House has not commented on how the attack may impact U.S. plans to withdraw troops from the country, though the process has already begun, according to the Pentagon. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders expressed condolences to the families of those lost in a statement Wednesday.

      Just hours before the attack, Vice President Mike Pence told a group of U.S. ambassadors gathered in Washington that “The caliphate has crumbled, and ISIS has been defeated.”

      While Wednesday’s attack appears to prove that assertion wrong, terrorism analysts point out that “defeat” of a jihadist group may no longer even be relevant as a term if used in the sense of conventional warfare. ISIS, like many of its counterparts, can survive as an ideology without commanding a physical territory or army, they say, meaning that regardless of a territorial defeat, individuals and cells acting independently can theoretically carry out the group’s mission forever.

      Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass drove this point home.

      “The apparent ISIS attack in Syria a costly reminder that there is no such thing as victory in any traditional sense vs terrorists,” he said on Twitter. “This is one reason why ‘war’ is not a good term in this context as classic wars have an end but struggles vs terrorists are unavoidably open ended.”

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      Georgia man arrested in FBI sting for allegedly plotting to attack White House with rocket – USA TODAY
      Georgia man arrested in FBI sting for allegedly plotting to attack White House with rocket – USA TODAY

      Federal agents posing as potential terrorists and munitions sellers arrested a Georgia man in a plot to blast his way into the West Wing of the White House with an anti-tank rocket, according to court papers and prosecutors.

      Hasher Jallal Taheb, 21, of Cummings, Georgia, met with undercover agents on Wednesday and traded his car for semi-automatic assault rifles, remote-controlled explosives and grenades, and an anti-tank rocket, according to an FBI affidavit.

      He planned to blow out a door of the West Wing to gain entry, using as many weapons as possible to inflict carnage, court papers said. He also told at least one agent that he wanted to fire a rocket at the Statue of Liberty, the FBI said.

      Unbeknownst to Taheb, the weapons he received on the back of a tractor-trailer had been rendered inert by the FBI. He was arrested within moments of “obtaining” the weaponry, according to prosecutors.

      “It is important to point out that this investigation and arrest were the direct result of a tip from the community, another example of how important it is to contact law enforcement if you see or hear something suspicious,” said Chris Hacker, special agent in charge of the FBI in Atlanta.

      It wasn’t immediately clear whether Taheb had an attorney who could comment on the allegations, the Associated Press reported.

      The tipster alerted authorities that Taheb had recently become radicalized, changed his name and planned to travel abroad, the FBI affidavit said.

      The affidavit says Taheb told a confidential FBI source in October that he planned to travel abroad for “hijra,” which the agent wrote refers to traveling to territory controlled by the Islamic State. Because he didn’t have a passport, he couldn’t travel abroad and told the FBI source that he wanted to carry out an attack in the U.S. against the White House and the Statue of Liberty.

      Federal authorities say Taheb appears to have acted as a lone wolf in the plan.

      “All potential threats have been neutralized and under control from the inception of this case. Again, I want to clarify that there were no threats posed to any targets located in Northern District of Georgia, nor was the upcoming Super Bowl a target of his alleged activity,” said Byung J. “BJay” Pak, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. 

      He met with the undercover agent and the FBI source multiple times last month and was also in frequent contact using an encrypted messaging application, the affidavit says.

      During one meeting with the agent and the source, Taheb “advised that if they were to go to another country, they would be one of many, but if they stayed in the United States, they could do more damage,” the affidavit says. Taheb “explained that jihad was an obligation, that he wanted to do as much damage as possible, and that he expected to be a ‘martyr,’ meaning he expected to die during the attack.”

      At another meeting, Taheb showed the undercover agent a hand-drawn diagram of the ground floor of the West Wing and detailed a plan for attack, the affidavit says. He asked the undercover agent to obtain the weapons and explosives needed to carry out the attack, and they discussed selling or exchanging their cars to pay for them.

      Taheb told the undercover agent they needed a “base” where they could regroup and where he could record a video to motivate people: “He stated he would be the narrator, clips of oppressed Muslims would be shown, and American and Israeli flags would be burned in the background.”

      Taheb said they would approach the White House from the back road, causing a distraction for police and proceed to use an anti-tank weapon to blow open a door and then take down as many people and do as much damage as possible, the affidavit says.

      Taheb is charged with attempting to damage or destroy a building owned by the United States using fire or an explosive.

      Contributing: Associated Press

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      Poll: Trump Approval Rating Is Down, Has Slipped With His Base – NPR
      Poll: Trump Approval Rating Is Down, Has Slipped With His Base – NPR

      President Trump’s approval rating is slipping, and it’s largely due to cracks among his base.

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      While the longest government shutdown in U.S. history continues, President Trump’s approval rating is down, and there are cracks showing with his base.

      A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds Trump’s approval rating down and his disapproval rating up from a month ago. He currently stands at 39 percent approve, 53 disapprove — a 7-point net change from December when his rating was 42 percent approve, 49 percent disapprove.

      And the movement has come from within key portions of his base. He is:

      • Down significantly among suburban men, a net-positive approval rating of 51-to-39 percent to a net-negative of 42 percent approve, 48 percent disapprove. That’s a net change of down 18 percentage points;
      • Down a net of 13 points among white evangelicals, from 73-to-17 percent approve to 66-to-23 percent approve;
      • Down a net of 10 points among Republicans, from 90-to-7 percent approve to 83-to-10 percent;
      • Down marginally among white men without a college degree, from 56-to-34 percent approve to 50-to-35 percent approve, a net change downward of 7 points.

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      “For the first time, we saw a fairly consistent pattern of having his base showing evidence of a cracking,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted the poll. “Don’t know if that’s temporary — tied to the government shutdown — or a broader problem the president is having.”

      The percentage of people now saying they strongly disapprove of the job the president’s doing is up to 45 percent, the highest for President Trump since December 2017.

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      2020 headwinds

      The president also faces some significant headwinds for re-election in 2020. Just 30 percent of registered voters said they will definitely vote for Trump in 2020, while 57 percent said they will definitely vote against him.

      Just 76 percent of Trump supporters, 69 percent of Republicans and 58 percent of white evangelicals say they will definitely vote for him. Many, if not most, of them will likely vote for the president, but their softness in supporting him for re-election is a sign of vulnerability.

      For context, in 2010, when asked about then-President Barack Obama, just 36 percent said they would definitely vote for him, while 48 percent said they would not. Obama went on to win with 51 percent of the vote.

      But for Trump to have more than half the country already saying it definitely won’t vote for him indicates he is facing a difficult re-election.

      “The president has had his base and not much else,” Miringoff said, “and when you look ahead to the election … he enters with a significant disadvantage. His re-election prospects would definitely be in jeopardy at this point.”

      Trump has a lot of work to do to be able to reassemble the coalition that voted for him narrowly to win in the Electoral College in 2016. He lost the popular vote by almost 3 million votes and won just 46 percent of the vote. He won by about 70,000 votes combined between Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, all states that have trended away from the president during his first two years in office.

      The Democratic field

      As for who Trump would face, former Vice President Joe Biden stands apart from the Democratic field, in terms of how Democratic voters feel about him compared to others.

      Biden is the best-known potential Democratic candidate, and is very well liked — 76 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents have a favorable impression of him. Just 12 percent have a negative view.

      “If he gets in, he automatically becomes the front runner with numbers like this,” Miringoff said. “He becomes the candidate who you have to get into the mix with and be competitive with him.”

      Barbara Carvalho, director of the poll, added, “It is unusual to see a candidate, who’s been part of the Washington scene for so long, have such a low unfavorable rating.”

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      Bernie Sanders, the principal challenger to 2016 nominee Hillary Clinton, is well-known, but between 1-in-3 and 1-in-4 Democrats have a negative opinion of him. There are a lot of questions about whether Sanders will be able to keep his base of activist supporters together, four years later, now that Democrats have so many more options.

      Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has an almost equally high favorability rating as Sanders, but is not viewed as negatively. Others are potentially well-positioned, too. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke and California Sen. Kamala Harris are in a next tier and have a capability of taking off if they make a good impression as voters get to know them.

      The poll isn’t good news for all potential Democratic contenders, however. The Democratic primary electorate does not appear ready for a billionaire. As former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg weighs a run, Democrats are evenly split on their views of him, while about half of them haven’t yet formed an opinion.

      A primary challenge to Trump?

      There has been talk of a primary challenge to President Trump, but no candidate emerges with particular backing.

      Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Mitt Romney are viewed more unfavorably than favorably with Republicans and Republican-leaning independents — 24 percent view Kasich favorably, 28 percent view him unfavorably; 29 percent view Romney positively, while 48 percent view Romney negatively.

      Romney has been an outspoken critic of Trump, and the GOP base does not appear to appreciate that.

      “There is no strong support” for a primary challenge to Trump, Miringoff said. “Kasich is not well-known, and Romney is not particularly popular.”

      In the mood for compromise

      As this shutdown continues, 59 percent said they mostly blame President Trump or congressional Republicans for it.

      And more than 6-in-10 are in the mood for compromise — 63 percent said they want their elected officials to compromise with people they disagree with rather than stick to their positions, including a majority of Republicans. Just 31 percent overall said they want their elected officials to stick to their positions no matter what.

      Strong Republicans (50 percent), African-Americans (51 percent), Trump supporters (53 percent), Latinos (55 percent) and Gen Xers (56 percent) are among the least likely to say they want their elected officials to compromise.

      “People are looking for compromise right now,” Miringoff said.

      But neither side is seen as doing a very good job of it right now – 57 percent think the Trump administration is doing too little to work with Democrats in Congress; 55 percent think that Democrats are doing too little to work with the administration.

      Neither party is making a very good impression, either. Only about a third of Americans have a positive view of congressional Democrats (34 percent) while a majority (53 percent) disapprove of the job they are doing.

      An even lower number (29 percent) have a positive view of congressional Republicans and more view them negative (58 percent).

      The survey of 1,023 adults was conducted from Jan. 10 to Jan. 13 by The Marist Poll for NPR and the PBS NewsHour. Results for all Americans have a margin of error of +/- 3.8 percentage points. There were 324 Republicans or Republican-leaning independents surveyed. Where they are referenced, there is a margin of error of +/- 6.8 percentage points. There were 417 Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents surveyed. Where they are referenced, there is a margin of error of +/- 6 percentage points.

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      Pelosi urges Trump to delay State of the Union until partial shutdown ends – Fox News
      Pelosi urges Trump to delay State of the Union until partial shutdown ends – Fox News
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      Pelosi asks Trump to delay his State of the Union address until the government shutdown ends

      House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the extraordinary step Wednesday of urging President Trump to delay his State of the Union address until the partial government shutdown ends, or submit the address in writing.

      The president has been slated to deliver his televised annual address to a Joint Session of Congress on Jan. 29. But with no compromise in sight to resolve the standoff over government funding — a stalemate that extended into its 26th day, with the impact deepening for furloughed federal workers and others — Pelosi, D-Calif., suggested Trump put those plans on hold.

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      “On January 3rd, it was my privilege as Speaker to invite you to deliver the State of the Union address on January 29. The Constitution calls for the President ‘from time to time give the Congress Information of the State of the Union,” Pelosi wrote, but noted that “since the start of modern budgeting in Fiscal Year 1977, a State of the Union address has never been delivered during a government shutdown.”

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      She concluded: “Sadly, given the security concerns and unless the government re-opens this week, I suggest that we work together to determine another suitable date after government has re-opened for this address or for you to consider delivering your State of the Union address in writing to Congress on January 29.”

      Pelosi detailed the need for proper security at events such as the State of the Union, citing comments made by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen who recognized the “need for the full resources of the Federal Government to be brought to bear” to “ensure the security of these events.”

      “The U.S. Secret Service was designated as the lead federal agency responsible for coordinating, planning, exercising, and implementing security for National Special Security Events…” Pelosi wrote. “However, both the U.S. Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security have not been funded for 26 days now – with critical departments hamstrung by furloughs.”

      A senior Homeland Security official later told Fox News, however, that they have been preparing for months for the State of the Union event.

      “We are ready,” the official said. “Despite the fact members of the Secret Service are not being paid, the protective mission has not changed.”

      The official added: “It is a ‘no fail’ mission.”

      Despite Pelosi’s suggestion to come to an agreement on a new date, Pelosi did not rescind the president’s invitation. That decision ultimately rests with her, as speaker of the House.

      The address, historically, has not always been delivered in person. Thomas Jefferson started the practice of submitting the address in writing, and it was not until Woodrow Wilson’s administration that the speech was delivered in person again.

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      Pelosi’s letter to the White House comes as the shutdown, the longest in history, has left more than 800,000 federal employees and contractors without pay. Some employees are deemed essential to government functions and are required to work without pay. Others have been furloughed, and also do not receive paychecks.

      The government first ran out of funding on Dec. 22, as the president requested $5.7 billion in funding for border security and construction of a border wall or physical barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, citing an “invasion” and a “humanitarian crisis.”

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      Pelosi, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have vowed to block any spending proposal that includes funding for a wall.

      Negotiations between Democrats and the president have grown increasingly contentious. Last week, a tense White House meeting ended abruptly, with the president walking out of the room after Pelosi maintained that she would not accept a spending package with wall funding.

      Pelosi, after the meeting, said Trump was “petulant,” and Schumer added that Trump slammed his hand on a table in frustration and had a “temper tantrum” — a claim Trump, Vice President Pence and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., later denied.

      This week, Trump, instead, decided not to invite Pelosi to a border security meeting at the White House, but reached out to other rank-and-file Democrats to join his lunch with Republican members of Congress. All of the Democrats invited declined the president’s invitation.

      “The President offered both Democrats and Republicans the chance to meet for lunch at the White House,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement Tuesday. “Unfortunately, no Democrats will attend…It’s time for Democrats to come to the table and make a deal.”

      Sanders added that Pelosi and Schumer “refuse to negotiate.”

      However, some Democrats — including Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J.;  Abigail Spanberger, D-Va.; and Vincente Gonzalez, D-Texas — attended a meeting Wednesday with the Problem Solvers Caucus at the White House.

      “There is strong agreement across the aisle and around the country: We must reopen the government.  Our security, safety, and economy have been compromised, and millions of families are suffering,” they said in a statement Wednesday. “There is also strong agreement that if we reopen the government, the possibility exists to work together and find common ground to tackle some of our country’s toughest problems and fix them. But that conversation can only begin in earnest once the government is reopened.”

      Sanders on Wednesday said the meeting was “constructive.”

      “They listened to one another and now both have a good understanding of what the other wants,” Sanders said in a statement. “We look forward to more conversations like this.”

      Meanwhile, Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Chris Coons, D-Del., are leading a bipartisan effort urging the president to support legislation ending the shutdown in the short-term to give Congress more time to address his border security request.

      In a draft letter to the White House obtained by Fox News, Graham and Coons “respectfully requested” that the president support a short-term continuing resolution of three weeks, to re-open the government and “give Congress time to develop and vote on a bipartisan agreement that addresses your request,” including “debating and voting on investments on the Southern border.”

      Congressional aides told Fox News that the senators were still gathering signatures in support of their proposal.

      The president has repeatedly said he is willing to “compromise,” calling that a “win” for everyone involved. But Trump continues to insist on a border wall, even threatening to declare a national emergency over the lack of funding for border security. This week, the president warned of a “big new Caravan” heading up to the Southern Border from Honduras.

      “Tell Nancy and Chuck that a drone flying around will not stop them. Only a Wall will work. Only a Wall, or Steel Barrier, will keep our Country safe! Stop playing political games and end the Shutdown!”

      Trump and Pelosi have clashed several times throughout the partial shutdown, with the House speaker on Tuesday blasting the president for holding the paychecks of hundreds of thousands of federal employees “hostage.”

      Meanwhile, House Democrats have tried to pressure the Senate to take up bills funding parts of the government, to no avail. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., announced Tuesday that if the government remains shut down, the House will not have its planned recess next week.

      “If the government is not open, we will not have a recess,” Hoyer told reporters on Capitol Hill Tuesday. “That does not mean we will be here every day, members will be on 24 hours notice. We’ll have some votes next week…we’ll be here next week to do business.”

      Fox News’ John Roberts, Mike Emanuel and Chad Pergram contributed to this report. 

      EDITOR’S NOTE: A previous version of this report misidentified the state that Rep. Abigail Spanberger represents.

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      Rudy Giuliani Gets Heated With Chris Cuomo: ‘I Never Said There Was No Collusion’ – HuffPost
      Rudy Giuliani Gets Heated With Chris Cuomo: ‘I Never Said There Was No Collusion’ – HuffPost

      However, as special counsel Robert Mueller continues to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Giuliani conceded that “if the collusion happened, it happened a long time ago.”

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