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As 2020 Democrats embrace ‘free everything,’ Klobuchar distinguishes herself by being realistic – Washington Examiner
As 2020 Democrats embrace ‘free everything,’ Klobuchar distinguishes herself by being realistic – Washington Examiner

With an announcement on Vermont Public Radio Tuesday morning, Sen. Bernie Sanders I-Vt. entered an already crowded field of Democrats hoping to land in the White House in 2020. Bringing his signature promises of free healthcare and the free college tuition to an already promise-heavy field, Sanders also joined the competition to tell voters only what they want to hear — not what is actually possible.

The night before, however, another Democratic candidate, Amy Klobuchar, offered a dose of reality — refreshing because of its rarity.

Speaking at a town hall in New Hampshire, she refused to back free four-year college. “If I was a magic genie and could give that to everyone and we could afford it, I would,” she said. When pushed on the subject and asked specifically about high debt burdens facing students, she held her ground, telling host Don Lemon:

That’s a remarkably candid and balanced approach to tackling a real problem of ballooning higher education costs.

And Klobuchar didn’t stop there. In the same town hall, she called the “Green New Deal” “aspirational” and characterized “Medicare For all” as something better suited to the future than a workable policy proposition in the present.

Klobuchar is right, and her fellow Democrats would do well to pay attention. Pragmatic policy might not be as flashy as grand promises of free goodies, but in the long run, Klobuchar is well on her way to differentiating herself. All she has to do is meet the low bar of being somewhat realistic.

Sanders and the Democrats who have been quick to embrace his proposals as party orthodoxy aren’t “magic genies” any more than Klobuchar is. The difference is that unlike Klobuchar, they aren’t ready to admit that.

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Mike Flynn ignored White House staff warnings, pushed plan to build nuclear reactors in Saudi Arabia: Report – Washington Examiner
Mike Flynn ignored White House staff warnings, pushed plan to build nuclear reactors in Saudi Arabia: Report – Washington Examiner

A new congressional report says President Trump’s former national security adviser Mike Flynn worked with a group of retired U.S. generals to push a plan to build dozens of nuclear power reactors in Saudi Arabia.

Flynn’s work with the retired military officials, who had formed a private company to promote the plan, was detailed in a report by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Flynn and Derek Harvey, whom Flynn hired to oversee Middle East affairs on the National Security Council, ignored several legal and ethical warnings from career White House staff about the proposal. The National Security Council’s top lawyer even ordered the pair to stand down, but they went ahead working to get the proposal on Trump’s agenda during a call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the president’s May 2017 trip to Riyadh.

An unnamed official in the House report referred to the proposal as “a scheme for these generals to make some money.”

Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said the panel would be making requests for documents from the White House and other agencies as it continues to investigate the matter.

In February 2017, two weeks into the fledgling Trump administration, Flynn resigned from the White House after it was revealed that he had lied to Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.

He pleaded guilty in December 2017 to a lying to the FBI about his two contacts with the Russian ambassador and agreed to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Flynn participated in 19 interviews with prosecutors, who called his cooperation “substantial.” In exchange, Mueller recommended no prison time for the former Trump aide.

Flynn was supposed to be sentenced in December in the case, but a judge postponed the sentencing, asking both sides to update him on the case in March.

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Dan Bongino: Like Comey and Brennan, McCabe finds impetus of Trump probe ‘inarticulable’ – Fox News
Dan Bongino: Like Comey and Brennan, McCabe finds impetus of Trump probe ‘inarticulable’ – Fox News
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McCabe says he briefed Congress on Trump probe with no objections

Did you notice how, during the Andrew McCabe interview with “60 Minutes,” the former FBI acting director kept talking about “articulable facts?”

Like ex-CIA boss John Brennan and disgraced former FBI Director James Comey, McCabe was coining his own phrase to explain why the intelligence community started spying the Trump team. But the justification for mounting a probe should not lie in weasel words. It belongs in something known in law enforcement circles as “Paragraph One.”

Paragraph One in federal investigations lays out precisely why the investigation began and how. You can’t skip over it with fanciful phrases or empty verbiage. Yet, in the case of the counter-intelligence probe that targeted Team Trump, it has been two years and we are still waiting for someone to articulate a clear reason why the program began.

MCCABE: ‘NO ONE’ IN CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP OBJECTED WHEN TOLD OF FBI’S TRUMP PROBE

McCabe told Scott Pelley the FBI had a bunch of “articulable facts,” but he didn’t bother to articulate them. Earlier, Comey told Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier the investigation was justified by a “mosaic of facts.” The impetus was described by Brennan in still another interview as the “corpus of intelligence.”

Is anybody ever going to describe what this is? Put yourself in Trump’s shoes. He is being investigated as a potential traitor to the United States for colluding with a foreign power and no one has yet described why they were investigating the Trump team during the campaign.

Here’s why they can’t say what the “articulable facts,” “mosaic,” or “corpus” really are. Because it was the dossier, commissioned and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and later thoroughly discredited that prompted the never-ending probe. It was compiled by Trump-hating ex-British spy Christopher Steele, on behalf of Fusion GPS, which was hired by a law firm which in turn contracted with Clinton to get dirt – real or fake – on Trump. The dossier was the “predicate crime,” but now that it has been debunked, it is pretty hard to acknowledge what a house of cards this whole investigation has been.

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McCabe has already admitted the Justice Department would never have gotten a FISA warrant to investigate Trump, which gave them the power to monitor him, without the dossier. But you won’t hear him, Brennan or Comey say that anymore.

When the truth is no longer “articulable,” you have to get creative.

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‘Moderate’ a dirty word? 2020 Dems cringe at being labeled less than liberal – Fox News
‘Moderate’ a dirty word? 2020 Dems cringe at being labeled less than liberal – Fox News
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Senator Klobuchar becomes the latest in growing pool of 2020 Democratic contenders

Jacqui Heinrich reports.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar is highlighting her work bridging the political divide as she embarks on a 2020 presidential campaign – just don’t call her a “moderate.”

The day after the Minnesota Democrat declared her candidacy, she pushed back against the label, telling Rachel Maddow, “I think [voters] should see me as a progressive because I believe in progress and I have worked towards progress my whole life.”

KLOBUCHAR DISMISSES LIBERAL LABEL

The senator then touted a litany of “progressive” accomplishments during her years in Washington and at the state level.

The response underscored how even those candidates considered within the party’s center-left are reluctant to be seen as somehow ignoring the wishes of the – vocal and influential – liberal base. The label “moderate” is scorned, avoided as a potentially fatal term in a primary campaign stacked with left-wing heavyweights like Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Kamala Harris of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey, who speak glowingly of big-government policies like the Green New Deal. Most recently, populist firebrand Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont on Tuesday launched his second straight bid for the Democratic nomination. And progressive champions Sens. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Jeff Merkley of Oregon may soon join the 2020 melee.

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Self-described centrists are few and far between. What is emerging is a field where candidates who might otherwise brand themselves moderates are pushing a message of unity while still highlighting their “progressive” bona fides — or, in the case of once-moderate-leaning figures like Beto O’Rourke or Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, openly aligning themselves with the party’s left flank.

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a possible 2020 candidate, pushed back on the “moderate” label during a visit to New Hampshire last week. “I think in many ways I’m more progressive than a lot of these other folks. We’re actually getting it done,” he said.

Last week, former Rep. O’Rourke of Texas, who appears to be leaning toward a presidential bid, called for tearing down existing wall along the U.S.-Mexico border in his home town of El Paso. His push may have been a move to highlight his progressive credentials, following coverage of his voting record in Congress which was more conservative than the average Democrat’s.

Asked about O’Rourke’s comments, Gillibrand signaled a willingness to consider the idea. The New York senator years ago was known for pro-Second Amendment views and strong opposition to illegal immigration. She has since backed calls to eliminate Immigration and Customs Enforcement, telling “60 Minutes” last year she’s “ashamed” of her past immigration stance.

“It’s clear at this early stage that the most energy is around progressive candidates,” said Wayne Lesperance, New England College vice president of academic affairs and a political science professor.

DEM HOPEFULS SHIFT TO THE LEFT

Lesperance has seen many of the candidates in action as they’ve made their way in recent weeks through the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire. He argued that “self-proclaimed moderates have a tougher path to navigate. And those who have taken moderate positions in the past find themselves having to explain those positions — never a good place to be while running.”

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Defending such accomplishments that may not sit well with the increasingly liberal progressive base may be an issue for former Vice President Joe Biden, who’s seriously mulling a White House run. While he’s credited with pushing progressive policies during his years as vice president, his more conservative record in the Senate may not play well on the 2020 campaign trail.

The percentage of Democrats identifying as liberal averaged 51 percent in 2018, according to Gallup polling. That’s up from 50 percent in 2017, marking the first time a majority of Democrats have adopted this term, following gradual increases since the 1990s.

But there may still be an opening for a moderate. The Gallup survey found that 47 percent of Democrats still identify as moderate or conservative. And the survey indicated that a majority of Democrats and independents who lean toward the party would like to see the party move more to the center.

Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg appears to have no issues being labeled a moderate or centrist. The billionaire media mogul who’s contributed millions to fight for gun safety and battling climate change recently took aim at the Green New Deal, “Medicare-for-all” and other progressive proposals during a recent stop in New Hampshire, as he weighs launching a presidential campaign.

The Democrat turned Republican turned independent, who returned to the Democratic Party last year, called for “realistic” proposals that could win support from both Democrats and Republicans.

DELANEY TAKES AIM AT GREEN NEW DEAL

Count former three-term Rep. John Delaney of Maryland in that camp.

With many of his rivals for the nomination running to the left, Delaney highlights how he’s carving a more moderate path. And he’s taking aim at both the Green New Deal and “Medicare-for-all.”

At a speech last week at “Politics and Eggs,” a must stop for White House hopefuls campaigning in New Hampshire, Delaney called for a “sense of common purpose and unity” and described himself as a centrist, “which I don’t think is a dirty word.”

Asked by Fox News if many of the other Democratic White House hopefuls are too far to the left, Delaney said: “I think I’m the only one running as a problem solver. And I think there are two ways to seek the presidency. You can try to divide and create some goals that are unrealistic. I think that’s wrong … or you can actually try to unify the country.”

But Democratic strategist Jesse Ferguson pushed back against labeling the contenders as progressive or moderate.

Ferguson, who was a senior spokesman for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, told Fox News that “voters are far more concerned with who you’re going to stand up for and why you’re going to do it than they are with any label you’re given. They want to connect with a candidate, believe what they are saying and see them as the antidote to Trump.”

“Voters don’t care what labels get pushed onto candidates because those labels don’t reflect the ideologies at play anymore,” he emphasized.

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Roger Stone Ordered To Appear In Court Following Post That Criticized Judge – NPR
Roger Stone Ordered To Appear In Court Following Post That Criticized Judge – NPR

Roger Stone has been ordered to appear in court on Thursday following an Instagram post that criticized the judge in his case. The judge may reconsider her gag order or Stone’s bail.

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Roger Stone has been ordered to appear in court on Thursday following an Instagram post that criticized the judge in his case. The judge may reconsider her gag order or Stone’s bail.

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The federal judge in Roger Stone’s case has ordered him to appear in court this week following a critical post about her that was shared on his Instagram account.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson scheduled a hearing for Thursday at which Stone will be required to argue why Jackson should not alter the gag order she has imposed or reconsider the bail Stone was granted after his arrest.

A post appeared on Stone’s Instagram account on Monday with a caption that criticized the “show trial” over which Jackson would preside, the latest element in a publicity campaign Stone has been carrying on since he was charged.

The caption that accompanied the photo of Jackson alluded to legal machinations by the “Deep State” that had set Stone up for a “show trial” in Jackson’s court.

The Instagram post was deleted, and Stone submitted documents apologizing to Jackson.

The judge had held open the prospect of modifying her gag order on Friday in the order that made clear she was trying to preserve her ability to seat an impartial jury and “maintain the dignity and seriousness of the courthouse and these proceedings.”

Stone, meanwhile, has been trying to raise money for a legal defense fund and told supporters in an earlier email that he has been reduced to surviving on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

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Bernie Sanders Announces 2020 Presidential Run – The New York Times
Bernie Sanders Announces 2020 Presidential Run – The New York Times

Born in Brooklyn, with an accent to match, Mr. Sanders ran unsuccessfully in the 1970s for governor and United States senator in Vermont before being elected mayor of Burlington in 1981. For 16 years, he served as the only congressman in the state before he was elected to the Senate in 2006.

Mr. Sanders has been a modest legislator and something of a lone wolf in Washington, promoting largely the same legislative agenda since his early days as a mayor. He voted against the Iraq War and, in 2008, he was one of roughly two dozen senators to vote against the $700 billion bailout of big banks.

And while he is often viewed as a pesky left-wing gadfly, he is also known to reach across the aisle, working on legislation with Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa and Senator John McCain of Arizona, both Republicans. He has rationalized voting for the 1994 crime bill, now heavily criticized for some its draconian provisions, by saying he had favored progressive parts of the bill, including the Violence Against Women Act, while strongly opposing measures that would lead to mass incarceration.

Mr. Sanders is the longest-serving independent in congressional history, a point of pride for him but one of consternation and annoyance for some Democrats who are quick to suggest he does not have the party’s interests at heart. Some Democrats blame him for Mrs. Clinton’s loss in 2016, saying his anti-establishment rhetoric during his campaign inflamed divisions in the party that proved insurmountable.

Mr. Sanders largely avoided scrutiny during his 2016 presidential run but he will likely face more direct attacks from his opponents and more attention from the news media in a second bid for the White House.

One 2016 campaign issue that will almost certainly resurface is his past record on gun control, Democratic strategists have said, given the intensity of the debate around gun violence following recent mass shootings. In 2005, Mr. Sanders voted for a law that granted immunity to gun manufacturers and dealers from most liability lawsuits. Mr. Sanders has also come under fire for support he received from the N.R.A. when he was running for Congress in 1990, in part because he vowed not to support a bill that mandated a waiting period for handgun sales.

Though his message is well worn, Mr. Sanders has indicated recently that he is trying to remedy weaknesses from his first presidential campaign. In recent months, he has made a series of trips to the South, where in 2016 he drew less than 20 percent of the black vote. On the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday this year, he made a two-day swing through South Carolina — where black voters made up about 60 percent of the Democratic primary vote in 2016 — that included addressing supporters and students and speaking with lawmakers.

He has also tried to shore up his foreign policy credentials, becoming a vocal critic of the United States support of Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen. Late last year, the Senate passed a resolution, which Mr. Sanders helped introduce, to end American military assistance for the kingdom’s war there.

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Trump mocks California over ‘Fast Train,’ firing back at emergency declaration lawsuit – Fox News
Trump mocks California over ‘Fast Train,’ firing back at emergency declaration lawsuit – Fox News
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Trump may veto legislation that blocks national emergency declaration

The White House is defending the president’s declaration to get funds to build the border wall and says Trump will protect it ‘guaranteed’; John Roberts reports.

President Trump on Tuesday ridiculed California for its “failed Fast Train project” as he fired back at a multi-state lawsuit opposing his declaration of a national emergency on the southern border.

“As I predicted, 16 states, led mostly by Open Border Democrats and the Radical Left, have filed a lawsuit in, of course, the 9th Circuit! California, the state that has wasted billions of dollars on their out of control Fast Train, with no hope of completion, seems in charge!” he tweeted.

NEW YORK, CALIFORNIA, 14 OTHER STATES SUE TRUMP IN NINTH CIRCUIT OVER EMERGENCY DECLARATION

Trump was referring both to the lawsuit and to California’s high-speed rail project from Los Angeles to San Francisco, which was canceled last week amid delays and cost overruns. The $77 billion project would dwarf the cost of a wall at the border — estimated to be $20-25 billion.

“The failed Fast Train project in California, where the cost overruns are becoming world record setting, is hundreds of times more expensive than the desperately needed Wall!” he tweeted.

The lawsuit, filed Monday by attorneys general of California, New York and 14 other states in the Ninth Circuit, challenges Trump’s announcement on Friday declaring a national emergency over border security — a move that allows him to potentially access more funds for the proposed wall on the southern border.

The lawsuit seeks an injunction to prevent Trump from shifting billions of dollars from military construction to the border without explicit congressional approval. The suit also asks a court to declare Trump’s actions illegal, arguing that Trump showed a “flagrant disregard of fundamental separation of powers principles engrained in the United States Constitution” by violating the Constitution’s Presentment and Appropriations Clauses, which govern federal spending.

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The litigation also includes allegations that Trump is violating the National Environmental Policy Act, by planning to build a wall that could impact the environment without first completing the necessary environmental impact reports.

HILLARY CLINTON SLAMS TRUMP’S NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARATION IN TWEET

“President Trump treats the rule of law with utter contempt,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Monday. “He knows there is no border crisis, he knows his emergency declaration is unwarranted, and he admits that he will likely lose this case in court.”

Trump had previously predicted that opposition to his declaration would come through the Ninth Circuit, a court he has had issues with before. The San Francisco-based circuit has long been a legal stumbling block for conservative policies, and the White House has sought to appoint conservative justices to thin out the liberal ranks on the court. Last year, Trump bypassed traditional protocols and ignored the concerns of the state’s Democratic politicians to nominate prominent conservatives to the Ninth Circuit.

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Trump announced his decision to declare a national emergency on Friday after a compromise spending bill to keep the government open gave only $1.4 billion for barriers, and that money came with strings attached about where it could be used and on what barriers. It was well short of the $5.7 billion Trump had demanded.

A senior administration official told Fox News the White House is planning to move $8 billion in funds toward the wall, $3 billion of which would be diverted with help from the emergency declaration.

Fox News’ Gregg Re, John Roberts and Barnini Chakraborty contributed to this report.

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The Calm Before More Snow – WXOW.com
The Calm Before More Snow – WXOW.com

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Ocasio-Cortez raises eyebrows after comparing Trump’s border wall to Berlin Wall – Fox News
Ocasio-Cortez raises eyebrows after comparing Trump’s border wall to Berlin Wall – Fox News
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compares Trump’s border wall to Berlin Wall

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) compares Trump’s border wall to the Berlin Wall during a livestream.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised eyebrows after comparing President Trump’s border wall plans to the Berlin Wall separating communist Germany from the free world.

The New York Democrat made her remarks during a livestream for supporters on Friday, where she spoke out about the scrutiny she received ever since she won the election last year and dethroned top Democrat Joe Crowley.

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“No matter how you feel about the wall, I think it’s a moral abomination,” Ocasio-Cortez said on the issue of the border wall that Trump has been pushing for since getting into office.

“I think it’s like the Berlin Wall. I think it’s like any other wall designed to separate human beings and block out people who are running away from the humanitarian disasters. I just think it’s wrong,” she added.

The Berlin Wall, which became the most notable border of the “Iron Curtain” during the Cold War, was built following the Soviet Union’s recommendation amid exodus of Germans living under the communist rule in East Germany following the World War II and the partition of the country.

The wall, guarded by soldiers on the East’s side, was a way to block the East Germans from fleeing communism to West Berlin and West Germany, a free and Democratic country. Multiple people were shot by the soldiers in their desperate efforts to escape East Berlin.

“Dear @AOC: Let me serve as your private professor here. The Berlin Wall was meant to keep people inside the socialist/communist utopia and stop them from fleeing to the decadent capitalist west. So as the New Millennial Lenin, you might want to refrain from using this example,” Gad Saad, an evolutionary behavioral scientist at the John Molson School of Business, tweeted.

NEW YORK, CALIFORNIA, 14 OTHER STATES SUE TRUMP IN NINTH CIRCUIT OVER EMERGENCY DECLARATION

“People who compare the US-Mexico border wall to the Berlin wall failed or slept through the easiest history classes in middle school and high school,” wrote another Twitter user.

President Trump’s proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, meanwhile, has been touted as a deterrent against drug and human trafficking, in addition as a way to reduce illegal immigration numbers.

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The White House is planning to move $8 billion in currently appropriated or available funds toward construction of the wall. Of that, $3 billion could be diverted with help from the national emergency declaration.

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N.J. weather: Up to 6 inches of snow in forecast. Latest update on winter storm timing for Wednesday. – NJ.com
N.J. weather: Up to 6 inches of snow in forecast. Latest update on winter storm timing for Wednesday. – NJ.com

A winter storm watch for will be in effect beginning Wednesday morning until Wednesday night for mainly the western half of the state, where snowfall totals are expected to be highest. Those counties include Salem, Gloucester, Camden, northwestern Burlington, Cumberland, Hunterdon, Somerset, Middlesex, Mercer, Sussex, Warren and Morris. 

Ice won’t be much of a factor with this storm for most with just a few hundredths of an inch are expected in northwestern counties.

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Memo to Trump: If this be ‘treason,’ make the least of it – Washington Examiner
Memo to Trump: If this be ‘treason,’ make the least of it – Washington Examiner

When ordinary people too cavalierly throw around the word “treasonous,” they devalue civil discourse and constitutional understanding. When a president wantonly uses the word, he himself is being almost, well, treasonous.

And if that second sentence above is a slight overstatement, even with the modifier “almost” included, well, it’s still a lot closer to truth and reason than it was for President Trump to tweet the accusation Monday morning at two top law-enforcement officials. Trump concluded a series of tweets by saying that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and then-Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe had done something “ illegal and treasonous” in questioning his fitness for office.

No, Mr. President. What they did was patriotic by some lights, and at the very least was dutiful. But what you do by your charges of “treason,” coming from the Oval Office, is to dangerously ratchet up the political temperature. The president is not a king. Opposition to him is not a crime. And mere consideration of a constitutional provision to remove him is nowhere near treason.

Trump was reacting to McCabe telling TV newsmagazine “60 Minutes” that he and Rosenstein were at least somewhat serious in wondering whether Trump was mentally fit for office, and in trying to figure out ways to ascertain the answer in a way that would be dispositive – including including a wiretap if it could be done legally. In doing so, they were in the very earliest stages of considering use of the Constitution’s 25th Amendment, a section of which allows for the removal of an incapacitated president.

It is almost inarguable that Trump acts strangely sometimes, and mercurially and rashly. It is beyond question that a spirited public debate was occurring about whether Trump was indeed mentally unfit in 25th Amendment terms. The amendment is there for good reason. Prior presidents have suffered incapacitation. Witness former President Woodrow Wilson, who suffered a stroke and was forced to rely on his wife to carry on his official duties.

The amendment is not to be used lightly, and it contains significant internal safeguards against misuse. It was a well-considered reaction by the public at large, supported by two thirds of Congress and by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states, to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.

To even suggest that the mere consideration of beginning a process of ascertaining a president’s mental fitness is illegal, much less treasonous, is to suggest that the 25th Amendment itself should be ignored. It is to suggest that the American people acted illegitimately in instituting the amendment, and that public officials are acting unlawfully by taking it seriously. It is to suggest that the president is a law unto himself, and that the mere act of questioning his fitness is not just a crime, but also is the single worst crime against the state itself that the Constitution recognizes.

A president holds a unique position of power. When he yells “treason,” it carries particular weight. And when he uses it to suggest that questioning him is illegitimate, he at least suggests that he is above the law.

For Trump to use the word treason in this way, as he now has done several times during his presidency, is to create a public impression which, if it takes hold, would undermine our constitutional order.

Of course, we all know that Trump tweets with abandon and often from ignorance. We know we aren’t supposed to take all his tweets literally. But that doesn’t excuse him. It just means we have even more reason to question his judgment, even if not his sanity.

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Trump declares ‘socialism is dying’ amid Venezuela ‘catastrophe,’ promises ‘this will never happen to us’ – Fox News
Trump declares ‘socialism is dying’ amid Venezuela ‘catastrophe,’ promises ‘this will never happen to us’ – Fox News
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Trump: A new day is coming in Venezuela and Latin America

Socialism is dying and liberty is being reborn, President Trump tells supporters in Miami, Florida.

President Donald Trump, speaking in a major foreign policy address in Miami to members of the Venezuelan community, declared Monday that “a new day is coming in Latin America” and issued a stark assessment that “socialism is dying” across the world.

In a wide-ranging rebuke of socialism that seemed targeted as much at Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua as it was at congressional Democrats, Trump remarked: “We know that socialism is not about justice, it’s not about equality, it’s not about lifting up the poor — it’s about one thing only: power for the ruling class. And, the more power they get, the more they crave. They want to run health care, run transportation and finance, run energy, education, run everything. They want the power to decide who wins and who loses, who’s up and who’s down, what’s true and what’s false, and even who lives and who dies.”

Before a supportive and raucous crowd at Florida International University in Miami Trump announced, flanked by large American and Venezuelan flags, “This will never happen to us. … To those who would try to impose socialism on the United States, we again deliver a very simple message: America will never be a socialist country.”

The president’s vow came as Democrats have proposed an evolving agenda of “Medicare-for-all,” free college tuition, minimum wage increases and even guaranteed basic income.

“When Venezuela is free, and Cuba is free, and Nicaragua is free, this will become the first free hemisphere in all of human history,” Trump said.

The address was the second time Trump publicly and forcefully has condemned what he has called “the horrors of socialism and communism” and “massive wealth confiscation” in recent weeks, following his similar vow during the State of the Union address that “America will never be a socialist country.”

That remark, which left Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., stone-faced, came as part of a larger condemnation of disputed President Nicolas Maduro for “turning that nation from being the wealthiest in South America into a state of abject poverty and despair” through a mixture of “brutality” and “socialist policies.”

Venezuelan boys holding cups of a grape-flavored drink, part of the free lunch that is given out daily at the “Divina Providencia” migrant shelter in La Parada, near Cucuta, Colombia, on the border with Venezuela, on Monday. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

On Monday, Trump hammered that theme repeatedly and called on Venezuela’s military to rise up and take on Maduro, who has blocked U.S. humanitarian aid shipments.

“We know the truth about socialism in Venzuela, in Cuba, in Nicaragua, and all around the world. Socialism promises prosperity, but it delivers poverty,” Trump said. “Socialism promises unity, but it delivers hatred and it delivers division. Socialism promises a better future, but it always returns to the darkest chapters of the past. That never fails. It always happens. Socialism is a sad and discredited ideology rooted in a total ignorance of history and human nature, which is why socialism, eventually, must always give rise to tyranny — which it does. Socialists profess a love of diversity, but they always insist on absolute conformity.”

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As the crowd chanted “USA,” Trump, who was joined by first lady Melania Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and National Security Adviser John Bolton, asserted, “The people of Venezuela stand at the threshold of history — ready to reclaim their country and to reclaim their future. Not long ago, Venezuela was the wealthiest nation by far in South America. But, years of socialist rule have brought this once-thriving nation to the brink of ruin.

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“The results have been catastrophic,” Trump continued. “Almost 90 percent of Venezuelans now live in poverty. In 2018, hyperinflation in Venezuela exceeded one million percent. Crippling shortages of food and medicine plague the country. Socialism has so completely ravaged this great country that even the world’s largest reserves of oil are no longer enough to keep the lights on.”

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As the monthslong political crisis in Venezuela continued, Trump took multiple generalized shots at socialism that pointedly were not limited to the country’s borders.

“America will never be a socialist country.”

— President Trump

“The days of socialism and communism are numbered not only in Venezuela, but in Nicaragua and Cuba as well,” Trump said, as the crowd roared. “Do we love Cuba? Do we love Nicaragua? Great countries. Great potential.”

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Trump again declared that Guaido was the country’s rightful president amid what he called an unprecedented “humanitarian disaster.” He also made a public case to Venezuela’s military, which has remained loyala to Maduro and could play a decisive role in the stalemate, to support Guaido’s government.

Trump issued a dire warning to Venezuela’s military that if they continue to stand with Maduro, “you will find no safe harbor, no easy exit and no way out. You will lose everything.”

Trump added: “We seek a peaceful transition of power, but all options are open.”

Trump urged the Venezuelan military to accept Guaido’s offer of amnesty and refrain from violence against those opposing Maduro’s government. And he praised the Venezuelan opposition, saying of the people of Venezuela, “They are turning the page on dictatorship and there will be no going back.”

Free lunches prepped with lentils, a slice of bologna, rice and a piece of plantain ready to be served at a migrant shelter in La Parada, near Cucuta, Colombia, on the border with Venezuela, Monday. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

The Maduro-controlled military has blocked the U.S. from moving tons of humanitarian aid airlifted in recent days to the Colombian border with Venezuela. The aid shipments have been meant in part to emphasize the hyperinflation and shortages of food and medicine that are gripping Venezuela.

“Unfortunately, Dictator Maduro has blocked this life-saving aid from entering the country. He would rather see his people starve than give them aid, than help them,” Trump said. “Millions of Venezuelans are starving and suffering while a small handful at the top of the Maduro regime plunder the regime into poverty and death. We know who they are and we know where they keep the billions of dollars they have stolen.”

The aid is supposed to be moved into Venezuela on Feb. 23 by supporters of Guaido. But, Maduro has called the aid unnecessary and said it constituted an attempt to destabilize his government.

Trump delivered the remarks to a supportive audience at Florida International University in Miami. South Florida is home to more than 100,000 Venezuelans and Venezuelan-Americans, the largest concentration in the country. Trump has largely been spending the holiday weekend at his private club in West Palm Beach.

Juan Guaido speaking during an economic forum in Caracas last week. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Critics said Maduro’s re-election last year was fraudulent, making his second term illegal.

On Sunday, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio — whom Trump invoked in his Monday address — visited a border staging point for U.S. aid to Venezuela and warned soldiers loyal to Maduro that it would be a “crime against humanity” if they blocked entry of the goods being channeled through Maduro’s rivals.

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An enthusiastic throng of Venezuelan migrants, some chanting “Rubio! Liberty,” met the senator as he visited Cucuta and held a news conference in sight of a border bridge that has been flooded in recent months by people escaping the hardships of Venezuela’s hyperinflation and severe shortages of food and medicine.

While Russia, China, Turkey and a large number of Asian and African countries still back Maduro, Rubio dismissed them, saying in English: “The countries that support Maduro do not surprise us. All of them are corrupt and none of them is a democracy and many of them are owed billions of dollars that they want to get paid by the corrupt regime.”

Fox News’ Greg Wilson and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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    READ: Lawsuit challenging Trump’s national emergency at southern border – CNN
    READ: Lawsuit challenging Trump’s national emergency at southern border – CNN

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    (CNN)Sixteen states filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration for the southern border.

    The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

    The attorneys general from Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and Virginia joined California Attorney General Xavier Becerra in the lawsuit.

    Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/18/politics/states-national-emergency-lawsuit/index.html

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    Trump Warns Venezuelans Who Support Maduro: ‘You Will Lose Everything’ – NPR
    Trump Warns Venezuelans Who Support Maduro: ‘You Will Lose Everything’ – NPR

    President Trump speaks to Venezuelan Americans in Miami Monday, denouncing the Maduro government and military members who support it.

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    At a campaign-style speech in Miami on Monday, President Trump said the Venezuelan military should not interfere with humanitarian aid coming into the country, or resort to violence, as the U.S. and other nations throw their support behind parliamentary leader Juan Guaidó as interim president over the current leader, socialist Nicolás Maduro.

    Trump cautioned that time is running out for Maduro and that those who have been slow to embrace the opposition leader, whom the U.S. recognized as that nation’s legitimate president last month, are confronted with a perilous choice as the world watches.

    Trump specifically addressed the military, saying that backing Guaidó would lead to “a safe and prosperous future for all of the people of Venezuela.” But continuing to back Maduro, whom Trump called a “Cuban puppet,” would lead to a world of personal suffering.

    “If you choose this path you will find no safe harbor, no easy exit and no way out. You will lose everything,” Trump said to cheers from the crowd. “They are risking their lives and risking their future for a man controlled by the Cuban military.”

    Trump accused Maduro and the handful of elites he said run the country of plundering the nation “into poverty and into death.” And Trump railed against what he described as the “tyrannical socialist” governance that has brought the once-wealthy nation to the brink of ruin.

    He urged military leaders to turn away from socialism and toward democracy, reiterating Guaidó’s promises of amnesty under which military leaders would be allowed to live life “in peace with your families and your countryman.”

    “End this nightmare of poverty, hunger and death for your people,” Trump pleaded, noting that the U.S. delivered a shipment of humanitarian assistance for Venezuela to Colombia over the weekend, including thousands of nutrition kits for children.

    As NPR has reported, U.S. officials have admitted the delivery is part of a sweeping effort in the past two weeks to amass such a vast supply of much-needed food and medicine just out of reach of the desperate population, that Venezuelan military officers will be forced to capitulate and defy Maduro by allowing aid to enter the country.

    So far, the Venezuelan president has refused to allow the foreign aid to cross the border, insisting it is “a Trojan horse” and “a precursor to an American invasion,” NPR’s Eyder Peralta told All Things Considered.

    The supplies remain stuck, blocked by Maduro’s army at the Colombian-Venezuelan border.

    During the speech Trump said the U.S. seeks a peaceful transfer of power in Venezuela, but he added “all options are open.”

    The spirited speech did not contain any specifics regarding imminent diplomatic or policy changes. But, in what’s likely a field-test of some of Trump’s 2020 re-election themes, the president continually bashed socialism in the swing state of Florida before an audience of Venezuelan exiles and Cuban-Americans.

    “The twilight hour of socialism has arrived,” Trump said, adding that the 50 nations that have recognized Guaidó as the legitimate leader of Venezuela have a “shared interest in preventing the spread of “socialism.”

    Trump also condemned the “ugly alliance” between the Cuban and Venezuelan governments, which he said propped one another up.

    “To those who would impose socialism on the U.S.,” he said, “we again deliver a very simple message: America will never be a socialist country.”

    Trump’s speech came on the same day that Maduro’s government expelled a group of European Union diplomats who planned to meet with Guaidó .

    Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2019/02/18/695797870/trump-warns-venezuelas-maduro-supporters-you-will-lose-everything

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    Migrant dies while in custody of Border Patrol in Texas, reports say – Fox News
    Migrant dies while in custody of Border Patrol in Texas, reports say – Fox News
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    Mexico announces plans to close shelter housing 1,600 migrants: Will they go to Texas?

    A Mexican national who was detained by Border Patrol for illegal re-entry died Monday at a hospital in Texas, becoming the third detainee since December to die while in custody.

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman said the 45-year-old man was initially apprehended Feb. 2 and requested medical attention.

    He was taken to a medical center and later cleared to return to the Rio Grande City Border Patrol Station.

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    “This loss of life is tragic. Our condolences go out to the family and loved ones,” CBP said in a release. “CBP remains committed to ensuring the safe and humane treatment of those within the care of our custody.”

    The next day, he requested medical attention again and was taken to a hospital where he stayed until he died Monday.

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    Meehan says the official cause of death is not yet known, but the medical center diagnosed him with cirrhosis of the liver and congestive heart failure when he was admitted.

    The death is under investigation.

    The Associated Press contributed to this report

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    Ren Zhengfei described the arrest of his daughter as politically motivated. – BBC News
    Ren Zhengfei described the arrest of his daughter as politically motivated. – BBC News

    The founder of Huawei has said there is “no way the US can crush” the company, in an exclusive interview with the BBC.

    Ren Zhengfei described the arrest of his daughter Meng Wanzhou, the company’s chief financial officer, as politically motivated.

    The US is pursuing criminal charges against Huawei and Ms Meng, including money laundering, bank fraud and stealing trade secrets.

    Huawei denies any wrongdoing.

    Source Article from https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-47286906/ren-zhengfei-described-the-arrest-of-his-daughter-as-politically-motivated

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    Kamala Harris Faces Questions About ‘Democratic Socialist’ Label and Jussie Smollett in N.H. Debut – The New York Times
    Kamala Harris Faces Questions About ‘Democratic Socialist’ Label and Jussie Smollett in N.H. Debut – The New York Times

    The audience also responded heartily to her veiled references to President Trump, whom she did not name. They rose to their feet and cheered when she denounced “his vanity project,” the wall on the southern border with Mexico.

    Although Ms. Harris’s lack of history in the state might fly in the face of New Hampshire tradition, it does not seem to have hindered her in the slightest.

    “There was some question about whether she was going to campaign here,” said Michael O’Leary, 62, a retired insurance manager. “But she made that commitment to retail politics, and that’s what people here expect.” He called her “fantastic.”

    Ms. Harris has already hired a state campaign director, Craig Brown, as well as a political director here, Meredith Shevitz.

    Dante Scala, a political scientist at the University of New Hampshire, said that with Ms. Warren and possibly Mr. Sanders in the race, New Hampshire was not an essential win for Ms. Harris, which may partly explain her late start.

    “A third-place showing here would be fine,” he said. “For her, South Carolina is more of a make-or-break state.”

    And in any event, he said, “she has California waiting for her,” referring to the earlier-than-usual 2020 primary in her home state that could play a major role in the nomination contest.

    Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/us/politics/kamala-harris-town-hall.html

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    Illinois State Police acknowledge it wrongly issued a gun license to Aurora shooter – Chicago Tribune
    Illinois State Police acknowledge it wrongly issued a gun license to Aurora shooter – Chicago Tribune

    Illinois State Police acknowledged Monday that the agency wrongly issued a gun license to the shooter in the Aurora warehouse murders, but in a detailed statement the agency also suggested that the Aurora Police Department may have failed to do its part to ensure the man no longer owned a weapon.

    According to state records, Gary Martin applied for a firearm owner’s identification card on Jan. 17, 2014. He provided his name and birth date for a background check, and falsely answered “no” when asked if he had ever been convicted of a felony.

    A records search only returned Martin’s criminal history in Illinois, a series of minor infractions that did not disqualify him from owning a gun. The screening process failed to detect a mid-1990s felony conviction for aggravated assault in Mississippi for which he served five years in prison and was released in 1997.

    Martin received his gun license on Jan. 31, 2014. Less than five weeks later, he purchased a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson from an Aurora gun dealer. The purchase was approved March 6, 2014, after Martin’s name and birth date cleared a second background check.

    Source Article from https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-aurora-shooting-gun-license-illinois-state-police-20190218-story.html

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    Commander of US-backed forces fighting ISIS asks US to keep troops in Syria – CNN
    Commander of US-backed forces fighting ISIS asks US to keep troops in Syria – CNN

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    On wall, Trump made the worst deals — with worse to come – Washington Examiner
    On wall, Trump made the worst deals — with worse to come – Washington Examiner

    It would be nice if, just once, one of President Trump’s fervid supporters would admit just how stupendously incompetent he is proving to be.

    The latest example is perhaps the most egregious. The very fact that this president is trying to use dubious executive authority to solve a spurious “national emergency,” to finance a wall he said Mexico would pay for, to make an end-run around a Congress that had offered him more wall money than he eventually settled for, after costing taxpayers billions of dollars and a nightmare of lost services in a government “shutdown” he deliberately engineered while having no idea how to “win” it, should make it blindingly obvious that he is as feeble a negotiator as the Oval Office has ever seen.

    Toto has pulled back the curtain. The wizard is a blowhard and a fraud.

    Trump was the one who elevated the “wall” from a moderately important need to a symbol of totemic importance. Trump was the one who said he could make it happen, and that it would be easy. It was Trump who said he would make Democrats bend to his will on the issue, thus turning a give-and-take negotiating scenario into a test of testosterone. How ironic that he lost that particular test to the nation’s first female speaker of the House.

    Trump was effectively the head of a party that held both houses of Congress, yet could not pass the healthcare reform he so loudly promised. Trump could have insisted that Congress take another bite at that apple in 2018, but didn’t, thus demoralizing the Republican economic “base.” Trump, having been told Democrats were making mincemeat of Republicans on the campaign trail specifically on healthcare, could have countered with a message talking about Republicans’ own healthcare successes: Lower premiums. More options. No unwanted “mandate.” An end to a potential “death panel.”

    Or, he could have taken the copious advice he received to the effect that he should make the 2018 campaign all about the apparently booming economy.

    But no: Trump insisted this was a race about “the wall.” In event after event, he may as well have been Pink Floyd, insisting his imaginary wall was the be-all and end-all, not only keeping criminals out of the country but keeping Democrats out of power.

    In short, he put all his eggs in a lopsided basket resting on the wall and dozens of Humpty Dumpty Republicans then lost their seats. All of Trump’s billions and all of Trump’s blather couldn’t put Trump’s majority back together again.

    When Trump’s own miscalculations cost his party control of the House, Trump lost his bet on the wall right then. Trump chose the issue, Trump chose the message, and Trump chose the high-noon showdown. Result: The Democrats played Trump like a chump. To repeat: Trump ended up with less wall money than Democrats had offered him several different times before the government shutdown began.

    So now Trump has declared an “emergency” for a project he himself said he “ didn’t need to do” right away. He has set a precedent that future Democratic presidents will gladly exploit. He has obliterated the spirit and design of the Constitution’s intention that only Congress can appropriate taxpayer money. And he has invited a major rebuke from courts across the land, including, I predict, from a unanimous Supreme Court — including two of his own appointees.

    Trump promised the best deals, but now has delivered the biggest “fail.” At the border, the lone and level sands stretch far away.

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