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Opinion | Take the Trump-Russia Quiz – New York Times
Opinion | Take the Trump-Russia Quiz – New York Times

In our never-ending search for cheerful news, today we note that Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general says the Mueller probe is not a “witch hunt.”

On the downside, William Barr doesn’t seem to think the final Mueller report on Trump’s Russia ties should be made public. While the innate leakiness of Washington will overcome this problem, it’s still a bad attitude. We’ve been waiting so long for that report to actually come out, we’re in danger of forgetting everything Robert Mueller was supposed to investigate.

So let’s try to get back up to speed on all things Russia. Well, some. Pick the right answer:

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/16/opinion/collins-trump-russia-quiz.html

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L.A. teachers union announces that it’s ready to return to the bargaining table – Los Angeles Times
L.A. teachers union announces that it’s ready to return to the bargaining table – Los Angeles Times

The preliminary count, which includes nearly all schools, was 132,411, about 27% of district enrollment. This figure compares with Tuesday’s adjusted total of about 35%, which was a slight improvement over Monday, the first day of the strike.

Source Article from https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-edu-lausd-teachers-strike-20190116-story.html

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Michael Gove annihilates Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership credibility – Washington Examiner
Michael Gove annihilates Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership credibility – Washington Examiner

Britain’s House of Commons is at its best when members of Parliament deliver passionate, persuasive speeches on matters of national consequence. We saw one such moment on Wednesday, when environment secretary Michael Gove of the Conservative Party attacked Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Gove’s address came just before a parliamentary confidence vote in Prime Minister Theresa May. That vote was won by May a few minutes later. Still, Gove’s speech was a tour de force. It was angry but not fanatical, passionate but not somber, and intellectual but simply put.

Gove focused on what makes Corbyn most weak: his policy positions. Gove described how Corbyn rejected NATO, seeks Britain’s unilateral nuclear disarmament, opposed military action against the Islamic State, and repeatedly deferred to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Gove asked, “If he cannot support our fighting men and women, who does he support? Who does he stand beside?” Gove answered his own question by recalling Corbyn’s homage to the graves of Palestinian terrorists.

But then Gove moved to his climax. Raising the concerns of various female Labour MPs that they have been subjected to harassment by Corbyn’s supporters online, Gove asked that if Corbyn couldn’t protect his own parliamentarians, “How could he possibly protect this country?”

It was a good question to cap off an excellent speech. It speaks to why Corbyn and his crazed supporters continue to trail May in the polls.

You can watch Gove’s speech below.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/michael-gove-annihilates-jeremy-corbyns-leadership-credibility

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Agency Ignored Constitutional Questions About Trump Hotel Lease, Report Finds – The New York Times
Agency Ignored Constitutional Questions About Trump Hotel Lease, Report Finds – The New York Times

The agency’s deliberation spanned several months before and after Mr. Trump took office.

Fearing public controversy, which might damage the government’s financial interests, the agency did urge that Mr. Trump divest himself of his financial interest in the property in a Jan. 31, 2017, meeting with his oldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, the report said. After his election, Mr. Trump turned management of the business over to them.

The contracting officer on the case “pushed hard for divestiture” in that meeting, but did not insist upon it because he did not believe that the new president’s interest in the property, a historic building known as the Old Post Office, created a problem that constituted a breach of the lease, the report said.

Two months later, the contracting officer, Kevin Terry, issued a certificate declaring that the Trump Organization was in full compliance with the provisions of the lease and that the lease was “valid and in full force.” Although Mr. Terry knew the constitutional issue was open, “nonetheless, he did not qualify his certification,” the report said.

Agency officials acknowledged that they may be forced to revisit the lease, depending on what the courts decide. But the inspector general, Carol F. Ochoa, noted that the agency has already agreed with the Trump Organization that President Trump’s interest does not violate the lease’s language prohibiting profits to elected officials. The report identified that as a “problem.”

It recommended that the agency’s lawyers conduct a “formal legal review” on how the emoluments bans relate to the agency’s business.

In his response to the report, Jack St. John, the General Services Administration’s general counsel, said he was “gratified” that the inquiry found no evidence of political interference in the agency’s decision-making.

“In fact, your office found no undue influence, pressure or unwarranted involvement of any kind by anyone, including the Executive Office of the President,” he wrote in response to the inspector general.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/us/politics/trump-hotel-emoluments.html

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Kirsten Gillibrand has only one narrow path to the presidency — but it’s a very exciting one! – Washington Examiner
Kirsten Gillibrand has only one narrow path to the presidency — but it’s a very exciting one! – Washington Examiner

Kirsten Gillibrand will finish out her Senate term as promised. That’s because she will never be president.

Well, OK — there’s one scenario that could actually give her a minute but tangible shot.

Gillibrand’s positions have flip-flopped on everything from gun rights advocacy (she once had a 100 percent rating from the NRA) to immigration. She now supports single-payer healthcare and tries to posture herself as a champion of the people all while waiting on Wall Street on bended knee for campaign cash. The former proud moderate has the single most anti-Trump voting record in the Senate, “evolving” into a #Resistance hero, coincidentally just in time to run for president!

[Read: Kirsten Gillibrand launches 2020 bid for the White House]

Gillibrand’s electoral issue, however, is less about her blatant political opportunism and more about the current landscape of the Democratic Party. The socialists and hard-leftists don’t trust her coziness with Wall Street, and she hasn’t exactly positioned herself well to claim the mantle of centrism or Rust Belt friendliness. She’s a white woman running in a primary race where as many as half of the voters have heard of “intersectionality” and think it actually matters. Although she doesn’t suffer from the same obvious unlikability factor plaguing Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Gillibrand hardly oozes charisma.

Plus, an entire coalition of Clinton and Al Franken acolytes already have their knives out for her. Gillibrand, recall, spearheaded the push to oust Franken from office for his sexual predations, and she also denounced Bill Clinton’s treatment of women.

But this is where a target on her back can become an asset.

There’s just one issue that Gillibrand has been earnestly consistent on, and that’s advocating for sexual assault victims. Although her push to oust serial predator and former Sen. Al Franken from office earned her left-wing ire, it was probably one of the most honest and genuine things she’s done in a very opportunistic political career. We cannot know her motive, and it’s fully possible that she turned on Franken out of political expediency. But given the continued grudge held by Franken fans and donors levied against Gillibrand, it seems unlikely that she did so out of sheer political calculus. Her advocacy for sexual assault victims has spanned from those in the military to college campuses over her entire career in national politics. If Gillibrand has one “passion” that doesn’t seem to have come from a public opinion poll or campaign strategist, it’s justice for women.

Gillibrand doesn’t have a real constituency or base yet. Her biggest selling point at the moment is that she’s not as insane as many of her peers and has actual experience with a legislative record to speak of, unlike (ahem) a very popular failed Senate candidate from Texas. But what if Gillibrand could turn the Franken and Clinton outrage in on itself, making lemons into lemonade?

It would be bold and extremely risky for Gillibrand to open fire on hypocritical liberals who were more than happy to destroy Brett Kavanaugh’s life without a shred of evidence, but proudly defend Al Franken and Bill Clinton to this day. But it would be a masterful relitigation of 2016 and a stunning rebuke of President Trump at the same time. If executed correctly, it could even could have bipartisan appeal. If Gillibrand went kamikaze on her own party, forcing Democrats to take sides on #MeToo, either to expose themselves as hypocrites or stand with her, then she could buy herself time to build a base.

Then, if she did secure the nomination, she would have an easy pitch to suburban voters in the general election: I’m a non-insane Democrat who stands with women instead of groping them.

This isn’t a likely scenario, but it’s the only one where Gillibrand emerges with her image empowered instead of corrupted and her career doesn’t fade into irrelevance.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/kirsten-gillibrand-has-only-one-narrow-path-to-the-presidency-but-its-a-very-exciting-one

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Pelosi claims State of the Union could be postponed over security threats; Homeland Security and Secret Service say she’s wrong – Washington Examiner
Pelosi claims State of the Union could be postponed over security threats; Homeland Security and Secret Service say she’s wrong – Washington Examiner

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has proposed that President Trump postpone his Jan. 29 State of the Union address until after the partial government shutdown ends, arguing that a lack of funding for Homeland Security and U.S. Secret Service agents presents a serious security risk to the White House and Congress.

The agencies charged with protecting the nation’s lawmaker, however, are disputing her suggestion that they are unable to perform their duties on account of Washington gridlock.

“The Department of Homeland Security and the US Secret Service are fully prepared to support and secure the State of the Union. We thank the Service for their mission focus and dedication and for all they do each day to secure our homeland,” Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said in a statement released hours after Pelosi first pitched her proposal in a letter delivered to the White House.

Nielsen’s pushback is especially notable considering she is mentioned by name in Pelosi’s letter.

“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. 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,” Pelosi’s letter reads.

It continues, explaining that the Secret Service is the agency responsible for planning and protecting “National Special Security Events.”

“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.”

Pelosi’s supposed safety concerns are unfounded, according to a Secret Service official who spoke with NBC News.

“It’s a no-fail mission,” the official told NBC News’ Pete Williams, adding that the “intelligence and protection functions” are “fully staffed” even though the government is shut down. “We’ve been planning for this for months, as we always do. It didn’t start up 29 days ago.”

Of course, did anyone really need remarks from a Secret Service official or Kirstjen Nielsen to know that Pelosi’s stated reason for wanting to postpone the State of the Union address is almost certainly political theater?

The speaker extended the invite to President Trump on Jan. 3, 12 days into the partial government shutdown. We’re to believe that she just now decided that a lack of government funding might potentially create security risks for the president’s televised, in-person address before Congress? Come on.

Pelosi, for her part, is sticking to her story, contradictory statements from the people charged with the president’s and Congress’ safety notwithstanding.

“I have made it clear,” Pelosi told the Washington Examiner’s Susan Ferrechio Wednesday. “This is a continuation of government issue that we have the proper security for such an event.”

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/pelosi-claims-state-of-the-union-could-be-postponed-over-security-threats-homeland-security-and-secret-service-say-shes-wrong

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Fox’s Griffin: Was told by diplomat that Syria attack was ‘direct result’ of US pullout decision | TheHill – The Hill
Fox’s Griffin: Was told by diplomat that Syria attack was ‘direct result’ of US pullout decision | TheHill – The Hill

Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reported that a senior foreign diplomat had told the network that the deadly suicide attack on U.S. troops in Syria was a “direct result of the announcement made by President TrumpDonald John TrumpVeterans groups demand end to shutdown: ‘Get your act together’ Brown launches tour in four early nominating states amid 2020 consideration Pence on border wall: Trump won’t be ‘deterred’ by Dem ‘obstruction’ MORE that U.S. forces are pulling out.”

“U.S. allies remain up in arms about the U.S. announcing it is pulling out of Syria,” Griffin reported on Fox News chief anchor Shepard Smith’s newscast on Wednesday afternoon.

“A senior foreign diplomat tells Fox News, ‘This attack today is a direct result of the announcement made by President Trump that U.S. forces are pulling out. These troops had a bulls-eye on them when the president telegraphed that he was ordering a pullout’,” she added.  

Griffin did not name the diplomat.

The White House did not immediately reply to a request for comment from The Hill.

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for an explosion that killed four Americans, including two troops, during what the U.S. military called “a routine patrol.”  

The White House condemned what it called a “terrorist attack.” 

“President Trump and I condemn the terrorist attack in Syria that claimed American lives and our hearts are with the loved ones of the fallen,” Vice President Pence said in a statement. “We honor their memory and we will never forget their service and sacrifice.”

The causalities included two U.S. service members, a defense contractor and a Defense Department civilian. 

In a surprise move, President Trump tweeted on Dec. 19 that the U.S. would pull the approximately 2,000 troops stationed in Syria, saying ISIS had been defeated. 

The action helped spur the resignation of Defense Secretary James MattisJames Norman MattisGOP reasserts NATO support after report on Trump’s wavering Overnight Defense: Trump faces blowback over report he discussed leaving NATO | Pentagon extends mission on border | Senate advances measure bucking Trump on Russia sanctions Trump suggested withdrawing US from NATO: report MORE.

However, the U.S. has since gone slow with the pullout, with national security adviser John Bolton saying last week that there is no concrete timetable for withdrawal. 

“There are objectives that we want to accomplish that condition the withdrawal,” Bolton told reporters during a trip to Jerusalem. “The timetable flows from the policy decisions that we need to implement.” 

Source Article from https://thehill.com/policy/international/terrorism/425733-foxs-griffin-was-told-by-diplomat-that-syria-attack-was-direct

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Michael Gove annihilates Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership credibility – Washington Examiner
Michael Gove annihilates Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership credibility – Washington Examiner

Britain’s House of Commons is at its best when members of Parliament deliver passionate, persuasive speeches on matters of national consequence. We saw one such moment on Wednesday, when environment secretary Michael Gove of the Conservative Party attacked Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Gove’s address came just before a parliamentary confidence vote in Prime Minister Theresa May. That vote was won by May a few minutes later. Still, Gove’s speech was a tour de force. It was angry but not fanatical, passionate but not somber, and intellectual but simply put.

Gove focused on what makes Corbyn most weak: his policy positions. Gove described how Corbyn rejected NATO, seeks Britain’s unilateral nuclear disarmament, opposed military action against the Islamic State, and repeatedly deferred to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Gove asked, “If he cannot support our fighting men and women, who does he support? Who does he stand beside?” Gove answered his own question by recalling Corbyn’s homage to the graves of Palestinian terrorists.

But then Gove moved to his climax. Raising the concerns of various female Labour MPs that they have been subjected to harassment by Corbyn’s supporters online, Gove asked that if Corbyn couldn’t protect his own parliamentarians, “How could he possibly protect this country?”

It was a good question to cap off an excellent speech. It speaks to why Corbyn and his crazed supporters continue to trail May in the polls.

You can watch Gove’s speech below.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/michael-gove-annihilates-jeremy-corbyns-leadership-credibility

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Watchdog: Federal property managers ignored whether Trump hotel lease violated Constitution – USA TODAY
Watchdog: Federal property managers ignored whether Trump hotel lease violated Constitution – USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – Federal officials who leased the Old Post Office Building to President Donald Trump were aware of constitutional provisions that could breach the lease, but “decided not to address those issues,” according to a government watchdog report Wednesday.

The lease for the Trump International Hotel a few blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House remains contentious both because foreigners stay at the hotel, which enriches the president, and because Trump oversees the agency that holds his lease.

A 47-page report released Wednesday by Inspector General Carol Ochoa found “serious shortcomings” at the General Services Administration, which manages federal property, for not asking the Office of Legal Counsel to study constitutional issues related to the lease.

GSA selected Trump to convert the 1890s building into a 260-room hotel in February 2012. The lease calls for at least $3 million in rent per year. The Trump International Hotel officially opened Oct. 26, 2016 – days before he was elected president.

The crux of the problem outlined by the inspector general for GSA is a set of provisions in the Constitution called emoluments clauses, which basically prohibit the president from profiting from foreigners or from getting additional compensation during his term in office.

“GSA’s analysis should have considered whether the Foreign Emoluments Clause or the Presidential Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution barred the President’s business interest in Tenant,” the inspector-general report said. “GSA’s decision-making process related to Tenant’s possible breach of the lease included serious shortcomings.”

But Jack St. John, the GSA’s general counsel, said investigators interviewed two dozen employees and reviewed 10,000 documents and found no political influence exerted to obtain the lease.

“Any commentary resulting from the report that suggests the agency took any action in order to protect the President’s business interests is therefore plainly meritless,” St. John wrote. “We also note that the report, despite its lengthy historical analysis of the Emoluments Clauses, does not find that any constitutional violation occurred.”

The White House didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.

Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., who heads the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees GSA, said the agency’s disregard for the Constitution “is beyond troubling.”

“The GSA is required to act in the best interest of the American people and is expected to hold the President accountable should he attempt to exploit his office for personal gain,” Quigley said. “Unfortunately, the GSA ignored that responsibility, turning a blind eye as the resident continues to personally profit from his hotel in violation of the lease agreement.”

Noah Bookbinder, executive director of advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said the advocacy group filed a complaint with GSA “seconds after President Trump took the oath of office” because of the lease and days later filed a lawsuit.

“President Trump stood in violation of the Constitution the moment he took office, and compounded the problem by improperly holding the lease on a government building,” Bookbinder said. “The corruption of the presidency has never been clearer.”

The uncertainty over whether the emoluments clauses breach the lease remains unresolved, according to the report.

“According to one senior attorney, the emoluments issues did not become a hot button issue until after the election,” the report said. “One attorney told us they decided not to ‘spin their wheels’ on something that was not before them and, if necessary, they could address the issue another day.”

More: President Donald Trump met twice with officials over replacing FBI headquarters, watchdog says

More: House Democrats demand answers from Trump administration about plans for FBI headquarters

 

 

Source Article from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/16/trump-international-hotel-lease-general-services-administration-emoluments/2597541002/

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Kirsten Gillibrand has only one narrow path to the presidency — but it’s a very exciting one! – Washington Examiner
Kirsten Gillibrand has only one narrow path to the presidency — but it’s a very exciting one! – Washington Examiner

Kirsten Gillibrand will finish out her Senate term as promised. That’s because she will never be president.

Well, OK — there’s one scenario that could actually give her a minute but tangible shot.

Gillibrand’s positions have flip-flopped on everything from gun rights advocacy (she once had a 100 percent rating from the NRA) to immigration. She now supports single-payer healthcare and tries to posture herself as a champion of the people all while waiting on Wall Street on bended knee for campaign cash. The former proud moderate has the single most anti-Trump voting record in the Senate, “evolving” into a #Resistance hero, coincidentally just in time to run for president!

[Read: Kirsten Gillibrand launches 2020 bid for the White House]

Gillibrand’s electoral issue, however, is less about her blatant political opportunism and more about the current landscape of the Democratic Party. The socialists and hard-leftists don’t trust her coziness with Wall Street, and she hasn’t exactly positioned herself well to claim the mantle of centrism or Rust Belt friendliness. She’s a white woman running in a primary race where as many as half of the voters have heard of “intersectionality” and think it actually matters. Although she doesn’t suffer from the same obvious unlikability factor plaguing Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Gillibrand hardly oozes charisma.

Plus, an entire coalition of Clinton and Al Franken acolytes already have their knives out for her. Gillibrand, recall, spearheaded the push to oust Franken from office for his sexual predations, and she also denounced Bill Clinton’s treatment of women.

But this is where a target on her back can become an asset.

There’s just one issue that Gillibrand has been earnestly consistent on, and that’s advocating for sexual assault victims. Although her push to oust serial predator and former Sen. Al Franken from office earned her left-wing ire, it was probably one of the most honest and genuine things she’s done in a very opportunistic political career. We cannot know her motive, and it’s fully possible that she turned on Franken out of political expediency. But given the continued grudge held by Franken fans and donors levied against Gillibrand, it seems unlikely that she did so out of sheer political calculus. Her advocacy for sexual assault victims has spanned from those in the military to college campuses over her entire career in national politics. If Gillibrand has one “passion” that doesn’t seem to have come from a public opinion poll or campaign strategist, it’s justice for women.

Gillibrand doesn’t have a real constituency or base yet. Her biggest selling point at the moment is that she’s not as insane as many of her peers and has actual experience with a legislative record to speak of, unlike (ahem) a very popular failed Senate candidate from Texas. But what if Gillibrand could turn the Franken and Clinton outrage in on itself, making lemons into lemonade?

It would be bold and extremely risky for Gillibrand to open fire on hypocritical liberals who were more than happy to destroy Brett Kavanaugh’s life without a shred of evidence, but proudly defend Al Franken and Bill Clinton to this day. But it would be a masterful relitigation of 2016 and a stunning rebuke of President Trump at the same time. If executed correctly, it could even could have bipartisan appeal. If Gillibrand went kamikaze on her own party, forcing Democrats to take sides on #MeToo, either to expose themselves as hypocrites or stand with her, then she could buy herself time to build a base.

Then, if she did secure the nomination, she would have an easy pitch to suburban voters in the general election: I’m a non-insane Democrat who stands with women instead of groping them.

This isn’t a likely scenario, but it’s the only one where Gillibrand emerges with her image empowered instead of corrupted and her career doesn’t fade into irrelevance.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/kirsten-gillibrand-has-only-one-narrow-path-to-the-presidency-but-its-a-very-exciting-one

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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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    Pelosi only gives Trump a bigger audience by canceling State of the Union – Washington Examiner
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      Two days after the Times reported on Obama’s hot-mic comments, the paper’s editorial board excoriated and mocked Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for labeling Russia as the U.S.’s “No. 1 geopolitical foe.”

      “His comments display either a shocking lack of knowledge about international affairs or just craven politics,” the Times said. “Either way, they are reckless and unworthy of a major presidential contender.”

      In 2012, when it involved criticism for Saint Obama, any talk of the Russian threat and confronting it smacked of “craven politics.” In 2016, on the other hand, we are supposed to be suspicious of everything Putin does and worry that the current president is in his pocket.

      The Times on Monday, without irony, criticized Republicans who “quite recently regarded [Russia] as America’s chief rival.” There is no reason for anyone to take the Times seriously — the paper that not only failed to take Russia seriously until it was politically convenient, but actually mocked and derided those who did as “unworthy” to participate in modern politics.

      Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/new-york-times-wasnt-always-so-suspicious-of-secretive-communications-with-russia

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      Trump says a border wall would ‘help stop drugs.’ El Chapo’s smugglers suggest it won’t. – The Washington Post
      Trump says a border wall would ‘help stop drugs.’ El Chapo’s smugglers suggest it won’t. – The Washington Post

      Accused Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and his attorney, left, are seen in this courtroom sketch in federal court in Brooklyn on Jan. 3,. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters)

      Kristine Phillips

      January 16 at 7:00 AM

      For years, they smuggled drugs through tunnels. But as law enforcement learned about these underground channels, they turned to other means: trucks and other vehicles, stuffed with drugs in inconspicuous and creative ways, passing through legal ports of entry into the United States.

      These details emerged from testimonies of former associates of the notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who is on trial in New York over accusations that he led a multibillion-dollar enterprise that funneled drugs into the United States for more than two decades. These testimonies, reported by CNN and other media outlets, coincide with a budget impasse in Washington, where President Trump continues to push for funding for one of his signature campaign promises: a wall along the border with Mexico that he says will help keep illegal drugs and criminals from infiltrating the United States.

      But the court testimonies are further evidence that a physical barrier, whether it’s fencing, steel slats or a concrete wall, would probably not stop drug trafficking. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s 2018 report, the majority of the heroin sold in the United States is channeled through legal entrances, and only a small percentage is moved “between ports of entry.”

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

      “The best evidence suggests that the vast majority of hard drugs that enter the United States are smuggled in vehicles passing ports of entry. Clearly, if we want to make a smart investment that would slow down … drug trafficking, they would need to be at the ports of entry, not building a wall,” said Christopher Wilson, deputy director of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

      Jesús Zambada Garcia, a former leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, testified this week that for years smugglers used trucks and other vehicles with hidden compartments to ply their trade. Witnesses also testified about the use of fishing boats.

      The testimonies seem to be corroborated by the federal government’s own findings. The DEA report says private vehicles and tractor-trailers passing through ports of entry are among the primary methods of smuggling drugs across the southwest border, with traffickers mixing contraband with legal goods.

      Authorities have long said that tunnels are used to smuggle drugs. More than 200 tunnels have been discovered in the Border Patrol’s history. The longest was a half-mile tunnel, equipped with ventilation, rails and electricity, found in 2016 leading into San Diego from Tijuana.

      “If you can tunnel underneath something, obviously a wall wouldn’t stop that,” Wilson said, adding that tunnels are usually built in areas where walls and fences, sometimes double or triple fencing, already exist.

      [As Trump pushes for a wall, authorities keep finding drug tunnels under the U.S.-Mexico border]

      Still, the president has continued to push for a wall, tweeting Tuesday that it’s the “only” way to keep the country safe. The stalemate between Trump, who refuses to budge from his demand for about $5.7 billion to start a physical barrier along the southern border, and Democrats, who are firmly against more money for the wall, has resulted in the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history.

      Guzmán’s trial began in November. He was extradited to the United States and charged in early 2017. Federal prosecutors allege that he led the Sinaloa cartel for 25 years, earning more than $14 billion in cash from selling drugs throughout the United States and Canada. They say he orchestrated the killing and torture of anyone who posed a threat to his drug empire. During opening arguments, prosecutors portrayed him as a ruthless man who used all sorts of mechanisms to traffic his drugs, earning himself the nickname “El Rapido” for the efficiency with which he was able to move cocaine and marijuana.

      His attorneys argued that he’s a mere scapegoat whose “mythological” status is essentially a creation of the Mexican, U.S. and other governments looking to distract from corruption in their own ranks.

      Guzmán has twice escaped from maximum-security prisons in Mexico. In 2015, he broke out of his native country’s most secure prison via a mile-long tunnel. He was recaptured in 2016, and Mexican authorities decided to send him to the United States to face trial.

      Matt Zapotosky, Joshua Partlow and Ruby Mellen contributed to this article.

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      Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/01/16/trump-says-border-wall-would-help-stop-drugs-el-chapos-smugglers-suggest-it-wont/

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      As Brexit deal goes down in flames, exasperated Europe wonders what the Britons want – The Washington Post
      As Brexit deal goes down in flames, exasperated Europe wonders what the Britons want – The Washington Post

      Michael Birnbaum

      January 16 at 5:57 AM

      BRUSSELS — European Union leaders on Wednesday called on Britain to give them a clear plan to split from Europe, amid growing concerns that the political chaos that led to a historic defeat for British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan could lead to a chaotic, uncontrolled crash out.

      May had been widely expected to lose Tuesday’s vote, but the definitive scale of her rejection — 432 to 202 — helped feed a growing sense in the rest of the European Union that the March 29 Brexit deadline would need to be postponed, even if just to give both sides extra time to prepare for the turbulence that will result from having no safety net of a negotiated transition plan.

      The defeat has resulted in a no-confidence vote for May set for Wednesday. If she loses, British politics would plunge into even deeper turmoil. But even if she survives — as she is expected to do, given the math — there are still no clear indications what further plans she might propose or whether she can hold on long enough to deliver any Brexit deal.

      But European policymakers also gave little ground on their insistence that any withdrawal deal adhere broadly to the principles of the one that was incinerated in the House of Commons. They said that the onus was on British lawmakers to come up with a proposal — any proposal — that could win a majority at home, so that there could be a basis for continued talks between the sides.

      So far, Westminster appears unable to do so, with a clear majority only agreeing on scenarios that would be unacceptable and with no common vision for a single path forward.

      The vote was a “crystal clear” rejection of the withdrawal deal, the E.U.’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, told the European Parliament on Wednesday. 


      Anti-Brexit demonstrators react after the results of the vote on British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal were announced in Parliament square in London, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. (Frank Augstein/AP)

      “This vote is not a clear manifestation of a positive majority which would define a positive alternative to the proposal on the table today,” Barnier said. “It’s up to the British government to indicate how we ought to take things forward on March 29 toward an orderly withdrawal.”

      But he said that the current agreement was the “objective” outcome based on Britain’s own red lines, including a vow to uphold the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that quelled a long-running insurgency in Northern Ireland. That agreement depends on an open border between the Republic of Ireland, which is remaining in the European Union, and Northern Ireland, which is departing the European Union along with the rest of the United Kingdom. 

      Ireland has insisted on keeping the border open, and the British government has also said that is a priority, even as lawmakers have objected to the steps to do so in the deal.

      [Parliament rejects Theresa May’s Brexit deal]

      European leaders said they would not abandon their red lines — and their Irish allies — just to ease the life of an unruly departing member.

      “We won’t, just to solve domestic British issues, not defend the interests of the Europeans,” French President Emmanuel Macron said late Tuesday, hitting the British Brexit debate for being based on what he said were false promises from Brexit advocates. “Good luck to the U.K. representatives implementing a thing that doesn’t exist and explaining, ‘You have voted on something based on lies.’”

      European policymakers said they planned to wait for the debate to calm in Britain rather than offer any proposals of their own, given the uncertainty about what might pass muster with London. But many leaders seemed to feel more time to talk might be needed.

      “When parliament needs more time, then this is something that will have to be considered by the European Council, and personally I would see that as a reasonable request,” influential German minister Peter Altmaier told the BBC. An extension would need the consent of the remaining 27 E.U. leaders. It would be relatively easy to offer one until July, when a new European Parliament needs to be seated, but anything longer would embed the E.U. in a thicket of legal issues.

      French leaders, concerned about the ticking clock, appeared to be trying to light a fire under British bottoms on Wednesday, 

      “It is not up to us, Europeans, to tell to the British what they should do, besides hurry up,” French Europe Minister Nathalie Loiseau told France Inter, a broadcaster.

      Quentin Ariès contributed to this report.

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      May’s Brexit debacle reaches a new low

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      Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/as-brexit-deal-goes-down-in-flames-exasperated-europe-wonders-what-the-britons-want/2019/01/16/33abb552-1979-11e9-a804-c35766b9f234_story.html

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      The Trump administration keeps making more government workers essential, making thousands return to work without pay – CNN
      The Trump administration keeps making more government workers essential, making thousands return to work without pay – CNN

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        New York Times wasn’t always so suspicious of ‘secretive communications’ with Russia – Washington Examiner
        New York Times wasn’t always so suspicious of ‘secretive communications’ with Russia – Washington Examiner

        Newsrooms turned their attention again this week to the never-ending Russia investigation and their storylines on President Trump’s relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. So it’s as good a time as any to recall the New York Times’ posture on Russia before 2016.

        The Times editorial board on Monday listed all the ways Trump is perceived by Democrats and liberals in the news media as working to advance Russian interests, including his “secretive communications with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.” In this case “secretive communications” is short for: Trump had a meeting with Putin, but Trump asked that the American interpreter not share details of the encounter with others. (So “secretive” was the meeting that our top diplomat, then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, was present for it.)

        But the Times was much more generous in describing what you might otherwise call “secretive communications” with Russia when Barack Obama was president. In 2012, during his re-election campaign, Obama was caught by a hot mic whispering to then-President Dmitry Medvedev that he was potentially willing to roll back missile defense initiatives in Europe, something the Russians wanted very much, but not until the 2012 election, the last chance for voters to hold Obama accountable, was over.

        “On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this can be solved, but it’s important for him to give me space,” Obama told Medvedev, referring to Putin, who would be taking Medvedev’s place in two months. “This is my last election,” Obama continued. “After my election I have more flexibility.”

        Unlike Trump’s meeting with Putin, which Tillerson witnessed, Obama’s conversation about his explicit willingness to bow to Russian interests wasn’t supposed to be heard by anyone at all. And yet a Times news story charitably described the exchange as “a private moment of candor.”

        Two days after the Times reported on Obama’s hot-mic comments, the paper’s editorial board excoriated and mocked Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for labeling Russia as the U.S.’s “No. 1 geopolitical foe.”

        “His comments display either a shocking lack of knowledge about international affairs or just craven politics,” the Times said. “Either way, they are reckless and unworthy of a major presidential contender.”

        In 2012, when it involved criticism for Saint Obama, any talk of the Russian threat and confronting it smacked of “craven politics.” In 2016, on the other hand, we are supposed to be suspicious of everything Putin does and worry that the current president is in his pocket.

        The Times on Monday, without irony, criticized Republicans who “quite recently regarded [Russia] as America’s chief rival.” There is no reason for anyone to take the Times seriously — the paper that not only failed to take Russia seriously until it was politically convenient, but actually mocked and derided those who did as “unworthy” to participate in modern politics.

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        Most voters back Ocasio-Cortez plan to tax richest Americans up to 70 percent: poll – Fox News
        Most voters back Ocasio-Cortez plan to tax richest Americans up to 70 percent: poll – Fox News

        U.S. Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., asks 2014 Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai a question at the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 6, 2018. (Associated Press)

        A majority of voters support a proposal floated by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to dramatically increase the highest tax rate on the wealthiest Americans to as high as 70 percent.

        Around 59 percent of registered voters support the idea, according to a Hill-HarrisX survey, which was conducted Jan. 12-13 after the New York Democrat set off a nationwide debate with her comments on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that she would support the increase to fund her climate change plan.

        The proposed tax hike would affect those making $10 million or more, she said.

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        “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,” Ocasio-Cortez said during the interview.

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        During the “60 Minutes” interview, Ocasio-Cortez referenced tax rates returning to levels seen in the 1950s and 1960s, when the richest Americans were taxed at up to 90 percent.

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