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Trump downplays Mueller investigation charges in Super Bowl interview; won’t commit to making report public – Fox News
Trump downplays Mueller investigation charges in Super Bowl interview; won’t commit to making report public – Fox News
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Trump is expected to call for unity in his upcoming State of the Union address

In the second part of a wide-ranging interview that aired on Super Bowl Sunday, President Trump downplayed the numerous charges brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller – saying many of those charged in the investigation had nothing to do with him – while giving no clear answer to whether he would make the report public.

Reiterating his stance that the Mueller investigation was a “witch hunt,” Trump said that the majority of the people charged so far in the investigation were “bloggers from Moscow” or “people that got caught telling a fib.”

“Of the 34 people, many of them were bloggers from Moscow or they were people that had nothing to do with me, had nothing to do with what they’re talking about or there were people that got caught telling a fib or telling a lie,” Trump said in his interview with CBS. “I think it’s a terrible thing that’s happened to this country because this investigation is a witch hunt.”

TRUMP, IN SUPER BOWL SUNDAY INTERVIEW, SLAMS ‘VERY RIGID’ PELOSI, REVEALS TROOPS’ MISSION IN IRAQ

When pressed by interviewer Margaret Brennan about the recent charges brought against Trump’s longtime adviser and confidant Roger Stone, the president distanced himself from the eccentric Washington insider and his role in Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

“Roger Stone didn’t work on the campaign, except way, way at the beginning long before we’re talking about,” Trump said. “Roger is somebody that I’ve always liked…Roger’s a character, but Roger was not- I don’t know if you know this or not- Roger wasn’t on my campaign except way at the beginning.”

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Stone pleaded not guilty last week to felony charges in Mueller’s Russia investigation after a publicity-filled few days spent slamming the probe as politically motivated.

There has been widespread talk that Trump would pardon Stone should he be convicted, but the president said in his interview that he has “not thought about it” and Stone “looks like he’s defending himself very well” in court.

ROGER STONE SLAMS MUELLER INDICTMENT, SAYS HE’S PREPARED FOR THE FIGHT OF HIS LIFE 

The indictment does not accuse Stone of coordinating with Russia or with WikiLeaks on the release of hacked Democratic emails. But it does allege that he misled lawmakers about his pursuit of those communications and interest in them. The anti-secrecy WikiLeaks website published emails in the weeks before the 2016 presidential election that the U.S. says were stolen from Democrats by Russian operatives.

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The president would not say whether or not he would make the Mueller report public once it was completed, adding that would be determined by the attorney general and that he has “no idea what it’s going to say.”

“So far this thing’s been a total witch hunt. And it doesn’t implicate me in any way,” Trump said. “There was no collusion. There was no obstruction. There was no nothing. Doesn’t implicate me in any way but I think it’s a disgrace.”

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Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said last week that the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and any potential ties between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin was “close to being completed.”

Shifting gears to foreign policy and the ongoing crisis in Venezuela, Trump said he has not ruled out a military intervention in Venezuela – a position he has hinted at before – and that he is currently against negotiating with the disputed President Nicolas Maduro.

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“So many really horrible things have been happening in Venezuela when you look at that country,” he said. “That was the wealthiest country of all in that part of the world, which is a very important part of the world. And now you look at the poverty and you look at the anguish and you look at the crime and you look at all of the things happening.”

The White House last week announced billions of dollars in new sanctions against Maduro and the country’s state-owned oil monopoly PDVSA, less than a week after President Trump formally recognized Venezuelan National Assembly leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s legitimate leader.

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Donald Trump: Sending US troops to Venezuela ‘an option’ – Aljazeera.com
Donald Trump: Sending US troops to Venezuela ‘an option’ – Aljazeera.com

President Donald Trump has said deploying the US military to Venezuela is “an option”.

“Well, I don’t want to say that. But certainly, it’s something that’s on the – it’s an option,” Trump said on CBS’s Face the Nation programme on Sunday when asked if he would use the American forces during Venezuela’s crisis. 

The US recognised Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, who declared himself interim president on January 23, and is leading an international campaign to drive Nicolas Maduro from office.

Trump also said Maduro requested a meeting with him “a number of months ago” but he declined it.


“I decided at the time ‘no’ because so many really horrible things have been happening in Venezuela,” he said, citing the “poverty, anguish, and crime” in a country that was once one of the wealthiest in Latin America.

Trump again praised Guaido describing him as “a young and energetic gentleman”. 

“If you talk about democracy – it’s really democracy in action… I think the process is playing out – very, very big tremendous protests.”

Four major European nations – Britain, France, Germany and Spain – said they will recognise Guaido unless Maduro calls new presidential elections by midnight on Sunday.

Trump has repeatedly warned “all options are on the table” in Venezuela, as his administration ramps up pressure on Maduro through economic sanctions and appeals to the country’s armed forces to switch allegiances.


‘Point of no return‘

The US, Canada and several Latin American countries have disavowed Maduro over his disputed re-election last year and also recognised Guaido as the interim president.

Maduro, however, maintains the powerful backing of Russia, China and Turkey. Russian foreign minister said on Sunday that Western meddling was instigating Venezuela’s troubles and punishing millions of its people.

“Venezuela has reached a point of no return,” political analyst Marco Terugi told Al Jazeera. “We now have a government that was democratically elected, and a parallel government controlled and led by the US.” 

Russia’s foreign ministry said on Sunday the international community should focus on helping to solve Venezuela’s economic and social problems and refrain from any “destructive” interference.

“The international community’s goal should be to help without destructive meddling from beyond its borders,” Alexander Shchetinin, head of the ministry’s Latin American department, was cited by Interfax news agency as saying.

Journalist Robert Valencia from Global Voices said global geopolitics could be coming to a head, noting Russia deployed two nuclear-capable bombers to the Latin American nation in December – a move that riled the US. 

“I think we’re talking about a new tug-of-war between two current powers in the world – the United States and Russia. We are seeing something that has happened in Syria and now could be moved into Venezuela… This is going to be a new struggle for the balance of power,” he said.     

At a crossroad 

Tens of thousands of people thronged the streets of various Venezuelan cities on Saturday to protest his government and a senior air force general recognised Guaido.


The Trump administration last week issued crippling sanctions that are likely to further weaken the country’s struggling oil industry – by far Venezuela’s greatest source of income.

While that could weaken Maduro, it risks also exacerbating Venezuela’s economic collapse.

Venezuela is suffering medicine shortages, malnutrition and hyperinflation that has prompted millions to emigrate in recent years.

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El Chapo trial shows how ‘rampant,’ ‘systemic’ corruption impedes drug war – NBCNews.com
El Chapo trial shows how ‘rampant,’ ‘systemic’ corruption impedes drug war – NBCNews.com

In the same Brooklyn courthouse where jurors have heard testimony about Mexican politicians protecting Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s drug empire, a former Mexican state attorney general pleaded guilty last month to taking bribes from narcotraffickers.

The juxtaposition underscored a recurring theme of Guzman’s New York trial: how pervasive official corruption in Mexico complicates American authorities’ efforts to investigate and apprehend those involved in the drug trade.

Jurors are expected to begin deliberating Monday after 11 weeks of testimony that included a parade of Guzman’s former associates who told of massive bribes paid to high-level officials.

One testified that the Sinaloa cartel paid $10 million, twice, to a top commander in the Mexican Federal Police. Another said Mexico’s former federal security chief got a $6 million payoff while a general got $100,000. Witnesses testified about Guzman getting a police escort after a prison escape and politicians who asked for help shipping 100 tons of cocaine in an oil tanker. In the most sensational claim, one of Guzman’s former aides said he’d heard him boast about having paid former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto $100 million.

“The corruption has been rampant, and it’s systemic,” said Arturo Fontes, a former FBI agent who spent years investigating Guzman’s drug syndicate. “We always knew there was a risk of information getting to the wrong people.”

The accused Mexican leaders have all denied the bribery allegations as the fabrications of criminals. And the corruption allegations have been mostly a sideshow in the trial of Guzman, who is charged with leading a cartel that smuggled tons of cocaine to the U.S. His lawyers have said he was not the real boss and that its true head is still at large in Mexico, protected by a web of bribes.

But colorful testimony about graft provided a window into the challenges U.S. law enforcement agents face when working with Mexican partners — and the great lengths they went to in the Guzman case to ensure it wasn’t compromised.

Underscoring the risks of sharing information with Mexican law enforcement, several months ago, a former Mexican intelligence-unit commander was sentenced to three years in a U.S. federal prison for leaking American investigative secrets to cartel bosses. Last month, Edgar Veytia, the former attorney general of the Mexican coastal state of Nayarit who is known as “Diablo,” admitted to using his badge to help drug-trafficking organizations smuggling narcotics into the U.S., according to the Justice Department.

Mike Vigil, who was a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent for many years, said not even Mexico’s military or federal police will work with authorities at the state and municipal level due to their “cancerous” propensity for being on the take.

“They are squarely in the pockets of the drug cartels, to the point that they engage in the smuggling and transportation of drugs and the killing of cartel enemies,” Vigil told The Associated Press, referring to local police forces. “If you can’t work with them it, it makes it really hard to carry out some of the missions.”

But during the trial, jurors heard testimony about one successful partnership between U.S. and Mexican authorities: the operation that led to Guzman’s capture in 2014 after he escaped from a Mexican prison for the second time.

DEA operations are restricted in foreign countries, but the agency trains “vetted units” of Mexican federal police officers to conduct American-led operations. Members of the units are subjected to polygraph exams and required to pass background checks and urinalysis tests. The DEA taps these officers to conduct surveillance and interdict drug shipments, among other tasks.

DEA agent Victor Vazquez told jurors he would only work with the Mexican marines when trying to capture Guzman and other leaders of the Sinaloa cartel because that wing of the armed forces is viewed as less susceptible to corruption.

He testified that the marines operated from a base outside Mexico’s Sinaloa region because the assumption was that everyone there, including police, were eyes for the cartel.

“You’re driving around in a lion’s den, and you really can’t trust anybody,” Vazquez said.

After a first near-miss, where Guzman escaped by fleeing through a tunnel, Mexican marines finally captured him at a hotel in Miramar.

Supporters of Peña Nieto have pointed to the capture as proof that he was hunting Guzman, not protecting him. Peña Nieto’s former chief of staff, Francisco Guzman, said in a Twitter message that the bribery allegation, made by a Colombian former aide to Guzman, was “false, defamatory and absurd.”

Guzman’s lawyers have also denied that he paid off Peña Nieto but nevertheless have called the Mexican government “crooked.”

During the trial, U.S. prosecutors sought to limit testimony about the alleged bribes to Mexican officials, citing the potential to harm relations between the two countries and also foreign governments’ willingness to extradite defendants to the U.S.

Mexico got a new president while the trial was under way who has vowed to make battling corruption a central part of his administration.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has proposed creating a 50,000-member national guard, initially composed of members of the military and federal police, that would fight the drug cartels in the place of local police forces deemed too corrupt to be trusted.

López Obrador has said he isn’t interested in punishing past governments for corruption but has promised zero tolerance for corruption at all levels of government going forward.

While corruption is widespread, Jeronimo Cortina, associate director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Houston, said testimony from drug traffickers should be taken “with a grain of salt.”

If Guzman really paid a $100 million bribe, Cortina said, “it was a bad business decision considering he was nevertheless extradited to the United States.”

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Pressure builds for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to resign amid blackface photo controversy – USA TODAY
Pressure builds for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to resign amid blackface photo controversy – USA TODAY
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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam insists he was not either of the men in an offensive photo of one person in blackface and another wearing a KKK hood that showed up in his 1984 yearbook.
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The drumbeat grew louder Sunday for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to resign his post as controversy roiled over a racially insensitive photo in his 1984 medical school yearbook. 

Former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, like Northam a Democrat, and Rep. Donald McEachin, a Virginia Democrat and member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said Northam must go.

“It doesn’t matter whether he was in the photo or not in the photo at this point,” McAuliffe said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We have to close that chapter. It is heartbreaking, but Virginia has to move forward.”

On Friday the governor apologized for being in the photo, which depicted one person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe. But on Saturday he reversed direction, saying he doesn’t believe he is in the photo and calling it “disgusting, offensive, racist.”

Northam did admit to blackening his face with shoe polish for a Michael Jackson costume at a dance contest in the 1980s. But the governor, elected in 2017, said he is determined to complete his term. Virginia governors are banned from serving consecutive terms.

McAuliffe said Northam never displayed any racist sentiment while serving as his lieutenant governor. McEachin said he considered Northam a friend but added that the governor has lost the “authority” to lead.

“You know, we’re certainly grateful for the contributions he’s made to the betterment of Virginia,” McEachin said on ABC’s “Meet the Press.” “But the question now is, is can you lead? Can you help us heal? And given the actions that he’s demonstrated over the past 48 hours, the answer is clearly no.”

Virginia’s Democratic senators, Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, have called for Northam to resign. Virginia’s Legislative Black Caucus issued a statement expressing “deep sense of betrayal, pain and disappointment.”

The Legislature could try to remove Northam from office, although the rules don’t address past behavior. Virginia’s Constitution says elected officials who commit “malfeasance in office, corruption, neglect of duty, or other high crime or misdemeanor” may be removed.

Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, told USA TODAY “nothing that has happened so far is grounds for removal” under the state’s under the state’s provisions for impeachment.

“I know Ralph very well,” McAuliffe said. “It will not come to that.”

The Northam controversy comes a week after the Republican-led Virginia Senate insisted on continuing a decades-long tradition of honoring slave owner Robert E. Lee “as a great Virginian and a great American.”

If Northam exits, Democratic Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, would become the state’s second African-American governor. Doug Wilder was the first – elected six years after the photo was published.

Northam grew up on Virginia’s rural Eastern Shore. He is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute in 1981 and the Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1984. He served in the state Senate from 2008-2013 and as lieutenant governor from 2014 to 2017 before succeeding McAuliffe as governor.

Last month, Northam went home to Accomack County to have his memories of African-American blacksmith Samuel Outlaw recorded for a documentary. Northam said Outlaw used to fix tools, tractors, bicycles and other items his family brought into the blacksmith shop.

“Growing up, the way we were raised, my brother and I, we didn’t see color — and I don’t think he saw color either,” Northam said. “He just treated everybody as human beings. I think that’s a lesson that everybody needs to hear.”

President Trump referenced the controversy on Twitter: “Ed Gillespie, who ran for Governor of the Great State of Virginia against Ralph Northam, must now be thinking Malpractice and Dereliction of Duty with regard to his Opposition Research Staff. If they find that terrible picture before the election, he wins by 20 points!”

Contributing: Carol Vaughn, Salisbury (Maryland) Daily Times;  The (Staunton, Virginia.) News Leader

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‘El Chapo’ accused of drugging, raping girls as young as 13, according to court documents – Fox News
‘El Chapo’ accused of drugging, raping girls as young as 13, according to court documents – Fox News
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‘El Chapo’ accused of drugging, raping girls

Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman is being accused of drugging and raping girl as young as 13 years old, according to court documents.

The accusations against Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman grow more disturbing by the day, as recently unsealed documents reveal that the drug lord had sex with girls as young as 13, often after drugging them, and referred to the pills as the “vitamins” that give him “life.”

The new and disturbing details were made during Guzman’s trial at the U.S. Federal Court in Brooklyn, New York on Friday. The witness, his former personal secretary Alex Cifuentes Villa, said that he would sometimes help Guzman incapacitate the girls by placing a “powdery substance” in their drinks, the New York Times reports.

Guzman’s lawyer said in a statement that the drug lord denied the allegations, which he called “extremely salacious.”

“Joaquin denies the allegations,” his lawyer, Eduardo Balarezo, said. He added that the claims “lack any corroboration and were deemed too prejudicial and unreliable to be admitted at trial.”

Balarezo also questioned the timing of the documents. “It is unfortunate that the material was publicly released just prior to the jury beginning deliberations,” he continued. The documents were unsealed by Judge Brian Cogan in response to a request by Vice Media and the New York Times.

‘EL CHAPO’ DEFENSE ASKS JURY NOT TO ‘GIVE IN’ TO DRUG LORD’S ‘MYTH’

In this courtroom sketch, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, center, listens as a prosecutor delivers closing arguments during his trial, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, in New York. Guzman was portrayed Wednesday in closing arguments at his U.S. trial as a ruthless Mexican drug lord who also became skilled at evading capture and escaping prison because he feared facing justice on American soil. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Guzman’s former secretary Cifuentes alleged that the young girls were brought to the drug lord by a woman named only as “Comadre Maria.” She “regularly” sent photos of girls for Guzman to choose from, and would allegedly send his selections to his home in the mountains to engage in sexual activity for a fee of $5,000.

PROSECUTION RESTS IN ‘EL CHAPO’ TRIAL AFTER CALLING 56TH AND FINAL WITNESS

“Comadre Maria” was brought up another time in the trial, for her alleged role as an intermediary when Guzman reportedly paid a $100 million bribe to former Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.

Guzman, 61, has been on trial since November, when he was extradited to the United States to face a litany of charges. He is accused of leading the Sinaloa drug cartel, largely considered to be one of the most powerful and ruthless criminal organizations in existence.

He is facing 10 total charges, including engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to launder narcotics proceeds, international distribution of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and other drugs, and use of firearms. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

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The jury begins deliberation on Monday after hearing from a total of 57 witnesses: 56 presented by the prosecution and one called by Guzman’s defense team.

He faces life in prison if found guilty.

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Brooklyn prison: Power and heat failure sparks protest – BBC News
Brooklyn prison: Power and heat failure sparks protest – BBC News

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The protesters included relatives of inmates who have not heard from them in days

Friends and relatives of inmates stuck in cells without power or heat at a prison in New York have held a protest against their detention conditions.

Protesters outside the Metropolitan Detention Center, a federal facility in Brooklyn, chanted: “Where is the heat”?

Many inmates have not been able to contact the outside world for days, following a partial power failure.

Members of Congress who visited the prison on Saturday described the situation there as a “nightmare”.

How bad are the conditions?

“It is like living in a closet without lights,” said Representative Nydia Velázquez, a Democrat whose district includes the prison.

She said temperatures in some cells were as low as 49 F (9.5C).

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The Metropolitan Detention Center houses more than 1,600 inmates

Jerrold Nadler, another US House member for New York, condemned the authorities’ “total lack of urgency and concern”.

He told the crowd outside the prison – which houses more than 1,600 inmates – that power was unlikely to be restored until Monday.

The protesters carried signs reading “Shut it down”, “Torture at the MDC”, “United in outrage” and “Turn up the heat”.

One tweeted that the prisoners were banging windows as the demonstrators were gathering outside.

What are authorities saying?

Officials say the failure was the result of a fire that destroyed an electrical panel. The fire melted a switch designed to turn on a back-up generator.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons said officials were “working to restore power as expeditiously as possible”, adding: “Inmates have hot water for showers and hot water in the sinks in the cell. Essential personal hygiene items and medical services continue to be provided.”

The bureau also said that the building had emergency lighting.

In a tweet late on Saturday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio condemned the federal authorities and said the city was providing blankets for the prisoners.

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Trump refuses to comment on whether Mueller report should be made public – The Washington Post
Trump refuses to comment on whether Mueller report should be made public – The Washington Post

Josh Dawsey

February 3 at 10:52 AM

President Trump declined to say Sunday whether he wants the findings of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation made public, instead promising to defer to the Justice Department. 

“Totally up to the attorney general,” Trump said. “That’s up to the attorney general. I don’t know. It depends. I have no idea what it’s going to say.”

William P. Barr, Trump’s nominee to be attorney general, has not said whether he plans to release information to the public — be it the report he receives from Mueller or a different summation of the report. Some Trump allies and aides fear the findings will be damaging, and the president’s lawyers have said they are crafting their own report to counter Mueller’s.

[Barr vows to protect Russia probe but says Mueller report might stay secret]

The president’s comments on the investigation, which the acting attorney general said is wrapping up soon, came in a wide-ranging interview with CBS News. Among the highlights of the interview: The president said he is keeping another government shutdown on the table, outlined disagreements with top intelligence officials, argued that keeping troops in Iraq is vital to watching Iran, contended that having a Cabinet packed with interim secretaries is a plus for his administration and again attacked former defense secretary Jim Mattis by falsely saying he forced him to resign.

“I don’t take anything off the table. I don’t like to take things off the table,” he said when asked to rule out a second partial government shutdown in 12 days, when the government again runs out of money. Trump endured a political shellacking during the last shutdown, according to public polls, with his approval rating dropping below 40 percent as he kept the government closed for 35 days because Democrats would not give him more than $5 billion for a wall along the Mexican border.


President Trump, first lady Melania Trump and son Barron Trump walk to Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, en route to Palm Beach, Fla.

He also referenced declaring a national emergency to build the wall — an alternative that aides say is likely but that has drawn sharp resistance from Senate Republicans — while complaining that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is “very rigid.” Pelosi has said she supports money for border security but won’t give the president a dollar for a wall, his signature campaign promise. “She doesn’t mind human trafficking,” he said, without offering any evidence for such an incendiary claim.

Much of the interview with host Margaret Brennan focused on foreign policy — one of the biggest areas of disagreement between Trump and Senate Republicans. Asked about dozens of members rebuking his foreign policy moves in a recent Senate resolution, he said he beat his 16 Republican opponents in 2016 “very easily.”

Trump intimated that the U.S. government is close to a deal with the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan. “I think that they will,” he said, “ . . . I think everybody’s tired.”

He said he wanted to keep troops in Iraq so he could “watch” Iran, bemoaning the country but saying he was not interested in a military action there.

And he seemed to hedge on when troops would be coming home from Syria, saying it would be in a “matter of time.” Trump previously ordered an expedited removal of the 2,000 troops in Syria, which led to the departure of Mattis.

Trump said the slower departure in Syria was due to a need to protect Israel, among other reasons.

He repeatedly cited the costs of having troops all over the world as a reason to bring them home. He struggled to reconcile his criticisms of Obama for telegraphing withdrawals of troops but now doing it himself. “I’m not telegraphing anything,” he said, minutes after explaining what he wanted to do in Syria.

Trump revised history again concerning the departure of Mattis, saying he asked Mattis to resign in December. “I told him to give me a letter,” Trump said. “He resigned because I asked him to resign.” At the time, White House and Defense Department officials said Mattis, upset with Trump’s impulsive moves on foreign policy, arrived at the White House with a letter rebuking the president and quit. Trump praised Mattis on Twitter later that day and agreed to let the general stay until the end of February. But days later, as TV coverage of the departure grew increasingly negative for Trump, he told Mattis to leave within a week. 

The president again disagreed with his intelligence chiefs, saying there is a “very good chance” he can make a deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to give up his nuclear weapons at a summit next month, which the president said was already scheduled. Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats said last week on Capitol Hill that it is highly unlikely the country would ever give up its nuclear weapons. The president struck a more buoyant tone, citing his personal abilities as a dealmaker. 

“I get along with him great. We have a fantastic chemistry,” he said of the North Korean dictator, who starves his people. “We have had tremendous correspondence that some people have seen and can’t believe it.” He said the country could become an “economic powerhouse.” 

“I’m in the real estate business. What a location,” he said of North Korea. 

The president also referenced the failures of intelligence leading up to the Iraq War as one reason he is skeptical of intelligence officials, whom he suggested should “go back to school” and called “naive” last week on Twitter. White House aides have long said the president is skeptical of intelligence officials who give him information that is contrary to his beliefs, and he usually receives a briefing only three times a week. 

“I disagree with them,” he said, when told again by Brennan that his intelligence chiefs say Iran is abiding by the terms of the nuclear deal. “I have intel people, but that doesn’t mean I have to agree. President Bush had intel people that said Saddam Hussein . . . had all sorts of weapons of mass destruction. Guess what? Those intel people didn’t know what the hell they were doing.” 

The president said he was perfectly okay having an acting chief of staff, acting interior secretary, acting defense secretary and acting attorney general, among other acting roles, in an administration known for its turnover. In some ways, the president said, he prefers it. “It’s easier to make moves when they’re acting,” he said. “It gives me more flexibility.” 

He poured cold water on the discussions Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is having about running for Senate, telling Brennan that his favored Cabinet member had given him assurances that he would not seek the seat in 2020. Pompeo has said he has spoken with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), among others. Trump deemed that “fake news” before he was corrected that Pompeo had admitted it. 

Trump again called for the Mueller probe to end, labeling it a “political witch hunt.” He defended his friend and former adviser Roger Stone, calling him a “character” who was defending himself well but declining to say whether he would consider a pardon for Stone.

Asked about the 34 people Mueller’s probe has indicted, the president said none of the charges were related to him or collusion with Russia. In fact, Mueller’s team has indicted a number of Trump campaign or administration officials for lying about their interactions with Russia.

“Even the Mueller report said it had nothing to do with the campaign,” the president said inexplicably, given that the report has not yet come out and is probing the actions of people involved in the campaign.

The president said he rejected a meeting two months ago with embattled Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. “I turned it down because we’re very far along in the process. You have a young and energetic gentleman, but you have other people within that same group that have been very very — if you talk about democracy — it’s really democracy in action,” he said. The Trump administration is pushing for Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader, to take over in Venezuela. 

[Venezuela’s opposition leader calls movement against Maduro ‘unstoppable’]

The interview, slated to air Sunday just before the Super Bowl, also focused on the president’s tense relationship with the NFL and race.

Asked whether kneeling NFL players had a point about police brutality against black Americans, the president demurred and noted that he passed a criminal justice reform bill last year. “I think that when you want to protest, I think that’s great. But I don’t think you do it at the sake of our flag, at the sake of our national anthem,” adding that NFL ratings were now “terrific” because players were not kneeling and the league was not battling him. 

The president also said that a lower unemployment rate among black Americans was a defense against charges that he is not handling race relations well. A CBS poll last week showed 63 percent of Americans disapprove of the president’s work on that front. “In terms of race, a lot of people are saying, well, this is something very special that’s happening,” Trump said.

Trump said he would encourage his son Barron not to play football, given the potential for head injuries. “And he actually plays a lot of soccer. He’s liking soccer. And a lot of people, including me, thought soccer would probably never make it in this country, but it really is moving forward rapidly,” Trump said. 

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God allowed Trump to become president. That doesn’t mean he endorsed him – Washington Examiner
God allowed Trump to become president. That doesn’t mean he endorsed him – Washington Examiner

Perhaps more so than previous years, the 2016 presidential campaign was about good versus evil in the eyes of the faithful members of each party.

The GOP was eager to destroy any chance the “inevitable” Hillary Clinton had at capturing the highest office in the land. After eight years of unchecked progressivism, Republicans countered with a president who declared he would nominate right-leaning justices and make America great once more, among other things.

While a fair number of President Trump’s grand promises are left waiting, some have been fulfilled. Many who voted for Trump continue in their belief that he will see his agenda through to completion.

In addition, some believe he has been specifically chosen by the Almighty to stem the leftist tide. On Wednesday, press secretary Sarah Sanders expressed this very sentiment during an interview with Christian Broadcast Network News:

It’s always dangerous to conclude that an event or a person’s rise to power is supported by God simply because it happened. This is true not only when Republicans connect religion to politics, but when Democrats do it, too. The practice further blurs the line between faith and political gain, areas of life that should be clearly delineated. There is certainly nothing wrong with saying your faith informs your choices, but it is another thing entirely to equate personal wants with the mind of God based on outcome alone.

If people of faith have no qualms stating that Trump was wanted by God, then shouldn’t the same be conferred upon his predecessors? God was also in control when former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and all previous presidents won their respective elections. God did not sleep while Obama served two terms. The Almighty was not unaware that his name was invoked as a parting blessing in 2013 by Obama in a keynote speech at a Planned Parenthood conference. Surely, the Creator does not bless an organization whose top executive recently stated that destroying life through abortion was their “core mission.” Yet, these former presidents were victorious and these words were stated. Does that not indicate heavenly endorsement?

Not one individual who serves our country as commander in chief will carry with them the mantle of perfection. That we may agree with them and support them on Election Day does not mean they are without flaw.

Trump’s rise to the White House is an indication that God has allowed his success in the political field. However, the same exact reasoning can, and should, be used when discussing any who has either gone before or will follow in his footsteps. Permission to inhabit a space in time and history is not a tacit endorsement.

Trump’s words and actions making a mockery of others’ looks and abilities are part of his presidency. Clinton fooled around with an intern and lied while in office. That behavior is part of his presidency.

People of faith, no matter their political leanings, must be careful in how they discuss the hand of God in the lives and missions of those who lead our country. Allowing a presidency to come to pass is not the same as endorsing it. Without that distinction, Christianity will easily seem emptier, phonier, and more self-serving in the eyes of non-Christians than secularism.

Kimberly Ross (@SouthernKeeks) is a freelance writer and contributor to the Washington Examiner ‘s Beltway Confidential blog.

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Trump said he has not thought about pardon for Roger Stone – CNN
Trump said he has not thought about pardon for Roger Stone – CNN

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Trump rejects meeting Maduro, says sending U.S. troops to Venezuela ‘an option’ – Reuters
Trump rejects meeting Maduro, says sending U.S. troops to Venezuela ‘an option’ – Reuters

WASHINGTON/CARACAS (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said that sending the military to Venezuela was “an option” as Western nations boost pressure on socialist leader Nicolas Maduro to hand over power to opposition leader and self-proclaimed President Juan Guaido.

The United States, Canada and several Latin American countries have disavowed Maduro over his disputed re-election last year and recognize Guaido as the rightful leader of the economically troubled OPEC nation.

Maduro however still maintains the powerful backing of Russia, China and Turkey, whose foreign minister said on Sunday that Western meddling was fueling Venezuela’s troubles and punishing millions of its people.

In an interview with CBS on Sunday, Trump reiterated that military intervention was a possibility.

“Certainly, it’s something that’s on the – it’s an option,” Trump said, adding that Maduro requested a meeting months ago.

“I’ve turned it down because we’re very far along in the process,” he said on a CBS “Face the Nation” interview. “So, I think the process is playing out – very, very big tremendous protests.”

Tens of thousands of people thronged the streets of various Venezuelan cities on Saturday to protest his government and a senior air force general recognized interim-chief Guaido.

France and Austria said on Sunday they would recognize Guaido if Maduro did not respond to the European Union’s call for a free and fair presidential election by Sunday night.

The Trump administration last week issued crippling sanctions that are likely to further weaken the country’s struggling oil industry.

While that could weaken Maduro, it risks also exacerbating Venezuela’s economic collapse. Venezuela is suffering medicine shortages, malnutrition and hyperinflation that has prompted millions to emigrate in recent years.

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It is unclear whether Maduro’s government, which denies the country is suffering a humanitarian crisis, will let any foreign aid through.

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Trump Describes Northam KKK Pic as ‘Unforgivable,’ And Slams Virginia Governor for Abortion Comment – Newsweek
Trump Describes Northam KKK Pic as ‘Unforgivable,’ And Slams Virginia Governor for Abortion Comment – Newsweek

President Donald Trump in a tweet Saturday described a picture in which Democrat Virginia Governor Ralph Northam allegedly appears in blackface as “unforgivable.” 

In a medical school yearbook photo that emerged Friday, one man, alleged to be Northam, appears in blackface, while another wears a KKK hood. 

Northam initially admitted to being one of the men in the photo, then on Saturday withdrew his admission, and claimed that allegations he was in the photo were not true. 

Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Ralph Northam waves as he arrives to speak during a campaign rally in Richmond, Virginia on October 19, 2017. Getty Images

Trump on Saturday criticized Northam for the conflicting statements, and for recent comments about a Virginia abortion bill that Northam’s critics claim defended infanticide. 

“Democrat Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia just stated, “I believe that I am not either of the people in that photo.” This was 24 hours after apologizing for appearing in the picture and after making the most horrible statement on “super” late term abortion. Unforgivable!” tweeted the president. 

The president went on to find fault with the election team of Republican Ed Gillespie, who unsuccessfully challenged Northam in 2017. 

“Ed Gillespie, who ran for Governor of the Great State of Virginia against Ralph Northam, must now be thinking Malpractice and Dereliction of Duty with regard to his Opposition Research Staff. If they find that terrible picture before the election, he wins by 20 points!” tweeted Trump. 

The Democratic National Committee called on him to resign after the pictures emerged, as well as the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus and the House and Senate Democratic Caucus. 

In his statement denying he was in the pictures, Northam also revealed that he had appeared as Michael Jackson with his face smeared in boot polish at a Texas dance contest. 

In comments in a radio interview Wednesday, Northam was asked what would happen if a child was born after a failed attempt at late term abortion. 

He said, “the infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”

The pictures round which controversy has centred on appeared on a far-right website soon after Northam made the comments. 

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‘Unforgivable!’: Trump Slugs Northam Over Racist Photo – HuffPost
‘Unforgivable!’: Trump Slugs Northam Over Racist Photo – HuffPost

After previously admitting to appearing in the image, which showed a man in blackface next to another clad in a Ku Klux Clan hood, Northam backpedaled during a press conference, claiming he actually wasn’t in the photo.

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Powerful storm hits Southern California, flooding highways – KCRA Sacramento
Powerful storm hits Southern California, flooding highways – KCRA Sacramento
LOS ANGELES (KCRA) —

The second in a string of powerful storms battered California on Saturday, shutting key highways after water and mud rushed into lanes from bare hillsides in wildfire burn areas where thousands of residents were under evacuation orders.

Flash flood warnings were issued for huge swaths of Southern California and forecasters said the system brought more than 4 inches of rain at lower elevations and several feet of snow in the mountains, where whiteout conditions closed roads.

A wind gust in Santa Barbara County topped 80 mph as the storm moved south and at one point dropped more than a half-inch of rain in five minutes. Trees and power lines were down across the region.

In Malibu, where the Woolsey fire last year destroyed homes and burned hillsides bare, officials closed Pacific Coast Highway and many other roadways after mud carried trees and rocks into lanes. Residents whose homes survived the flames barricaded their properties with sandbags to protect their properties from floodwaters.

Carol Cavella was evacuated during the November fire and again Saturday when the creek behind her house threatened to overflow and inundate her backyard.

The 86-year-old put her cat in the car and drove to a coffee shop on higher ground, her son-in-law, Warren Bowman said.

“She does not scare easily, but she got a little scared watching that water rise,” Bowman said. He was trying to convince her to come to his house in Los Angeles but she said she’d rather wait to see if the waters recede and she can return home.

The California Department of Transportation said Saturday night in a tweet that the southbound lanes of U.S. 101, a vital route between Los Angeles and points north and west, have been reopened, while the northbound lanes of the highway remain closed from State Route 150 to Milpas.

Earlier Saturday, in the Montecito area of Santa Barbara County, several miles of U.S 101 were closed because of flooding.

Elsewhere in the county, evacuations were ordered or recommended for neighborhoods near the Thomas, Whittier and Sherpa fire scars.

“This is a dangerous situation,” the National Weather Service said, warning that the high rates of rain could send boulders sluicing down denuded hillsides along with the mud and debris.

It has only been a little over a year since a downpour on the huge Thomas Fire burn scar unleashed a massive debris flow that destroyed or damaged hundreds of homes in the seaside community of Montecito. The disaster killed 21 people, and two others have never been found.

Rescue crews scrambled Saturday to pluck motorists from cars caught in rising waters, said Mike Eliason, a spokesman for the Santa Barbara County Fire Department. He urged drivers who come upon flooded intersections to find alternate routes.

“Turn around. Driving through is going to be a costly error in judgment,” he said. “It’s just not worth it.”

Multiple accidents were reported on slick highways, including a crash on Interstate 5 that killed a volunteer member of a sheriff’s search and rescue team, and injured several others.

The team from Ventura County was on its way to a training exercise when members stopped to help at the scene of a single-vehicle rollover crash.

A minivan carrying a family was traveling too fast for the wet conditions, lost control and plowed into members of the team, Los Angeles County fire Capt. Tony Imbrenda said. Nine people were transported to hospitals, including three members of the team. The victim, Jeff Dye, was a volunteer with the Fillmore Mountain Search and Rescue Team, the sheriff’s department said.

“This is a very unfortunate situation that could’ve been avoided,” Imbrenda said, warning motorists to slow down in the rain.

In the Holy Jim fire area southeast of Los Angeles, where an August blaze scoured tens of thousands of acres in the Cleveland National Forest, volunteers using heavy equipment removed debris and deepened a creek bed to help prevent flooding.

The National Park Service warned visitors to Yosemite National Park of possible road closures and advised drivers to bring tire chains in the event of snow or icy conditions.

Winter storm warnings were in place for the Sierra Nevada along with avalanche warnings on the Nevada side of the range. The Sierra is already loaded with snow from a series of storms in January. The weather service said areas could see accumulations of up to 10 feet over the next few days.

The weather service lifted flash-flood watches for areas burned by the Mendocino Complex, Camp and Carr wildfires in Northern California. About an inch of rain was recorded in the San Francisco Bay Area before the storm moved south early Saturday.

A weaker storm soaked much of the state on Thursday Two cold weather systems will follow on Sunday and Monday, bringing additional widespread showers and snow, forecasters said.

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(CNN)Eastern Virginia Medical School has promised an investigation into all past yearbooks in the wake of the controversy surrounding the state’s Gov. Ralph Northam.

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    The troubling history behind Ralph Northam’s blackface Klan photo – The Washington Post
    The troubling history behind Ralph Northam’s blackface Klan photo – The Washington Post

    Ralph Northam’s page in the 1984 yearbook of Eastern Virginia Medical School has a photo of a man in blackface and another man in a Ku Klux Klan costume. (Obtained by The Washington Post)

    A viral photo of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) overshadowed the first day of Black History Month. As an expert in the history of amateur blackface minstrelsy, I was not surprised to see that a young Northam had a blackface Klansman photograph included in his 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook.

    I spent a decade poring over blackface composites from yearbooks and fraternal orders, watching cracked film footage and cataloguing more than 10,000 blackface plays at Harvard University. Those plays and Northam’s racist photo show us the centrality of amateur blackface minstrelsy to American cultural life and universities. They show how upwardly mobile white men concentrated white-supremacist political power in the century after the Civil War, using the profits of amateur blackface to build white-only institutions and using blackface performances to articulate to voters their legislative commitment to white supremacy.

    They also show how persistent those power structures remain.

    Though blackface was the No. 1 entertainment form throughout the United States in the 19th century, it has a particularly notable legacy in Virginia. The first globally famous minstrel troupe hailing from New York City rebranded itself as the Virginia Minstrels in 1843. Dan Emmett, the group’s founder, understood his minstrel troupe needed to project a sense of authentic, stereotypical blackness. Virginia, a state that imported enslaved Africans as a colony as early as 1619, embodied the complex relationship between blackface entertainment, slavery and American culture in a single word. The troupe did not just borrow Virginia’s brand, but shaped it: Its song “Dixie” became the unofficial Confederate anthem.

    That legacy can be seen in the history of blackface at the University of Virginia, founded and designed by another Virginia governor: Thomas Jefferson. Virginia was a state built on enslaved labor, and U-Va. was no different. Beginning in 1830, the university would “hire out” enslaved people from the surrounding area. Eventually, U-Va. purchased humans like “Big Lewis” Commodore in 1832 at auction for $580, permanently separating him from his family.

    Virginia’s slave empire ended when African American slaves fought for their freedom in the Civil War. After 1865, Lewis Commodore was free. But when slavery disappeared, fundraising with amateur blackface minstrel shows and city minstrel parades emerged. They featured fictionalized blackface slaves and their Klansman counterparts — a pairing on display in the Northam photo — to sustain Virginia’s infrastructure and segregated economy, as well as to inculcate new generations into a form of white supremacy associated with collegiality, school spirit and patriotism.

    The era we now call Jim Crow America was named after a famous blackface minstrel character. His signature debut song “Jumpin’ Jim Crow” reached global fame in 1832, but it wasn’t until the 1860s that everyday Americans bought commercially packaged how-to minstrel blackface plays to perfect these racial stereotypes. A new era of segregation, mass culture and blackface emerged, where blackface-imitating pro-Klan movies such as “Birth of a Nation” were the go-to entertainment form for young men.

    In Jim Crow’s century-long reign, a strange, visible and highly pervasive world of blackface minstrel shows took hold in nearly every city and town in the United States. Amateur blackface minstrel shows and parades were so central to civic and campus life in 20th-century America that it’s hard to find a university yearbook without a blackface image or a town that didn’t hold such a parade.

    U-Va.’s love affair with — and financial reliance on — amateur blackface grew during Reconstruction. A rumor circulated throughout U-Va. that “some of the students are forming themselves into a negro minstrel troupe” to perform on campus and in the local towns in Virginia. In 1886, the official University Minstrel Troupe donated the proceeds of its minstrel show to the construction of the University of Virginia Chapel, where hundreds of couples continue to marry each year. The show, which included a “stump speech” — a stand-up comedy routine lampooning black politicians — also featured a “Berlesque of Mikado,” likely in yellowface.

    Throughout the First Klan era, the U-Va. minstrel troupe “sweetly” sang in “darky dialect” to raise funds. During World War I, a university-sponsored minstrel show took place on the white steps of the Rotunda, where Lewis Commodore used to be enslaved. Scores of U-Va. yearbooks named “Cork and Curls” (minstrel slang for the burned cork used to blacken faces and the curly Afro wigs that were signature costume pieces) show blackface was omnipresent on campus.

    Blackface was a fundraising and socialization tool for white, all-male, Christian civic organizations such as the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks. The Ku Klux Klan and the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Virginia used blackface in raids to confuse victims and in comedy shows to recruit members. In 1924, as Charlottesville erected its infamous Robert E. Lee statue, the Charlottesville Elks Minstrel show ran ads ridiculing black American soldiers. They all solidified the relationship between slavery, blackface, white-supremacist political power, segregation, business and university life.

    As late as Gerald Ford’s administration in 1974, the annual Charlottesville Lions Club Minstrel show was still so popular it was recommended in travel guidebooks. It has proved to be a hard cultural habit to break. In November 2002, U-Va. made national headlines when three students arrived at a joint Kappa Alpha and Zeta Psi Halloween fraternity party in blackface. As recently as March 2017, mere months before the horrific events in Charlottesville, the obituary of a member of the Retail Merchants Association in Charlottesville cited his participation in the annual minstrel show of the Charlottesville Lions Club, of which he was a member for 64 years.

    When white supremacists set U-Va.’ s lawn aglow on Aug. 11, 2017, the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow that stretched between the governorships of Jefferson and Northam materialized in the plume of tiki-torch smoke. The photographs of the rally mirrored the magic-lantern slides I studied in U-Va.’s library, which depicted amateur blackface minstrel shows that were hosted by Charlottesville firefighters, and Confederate veteran parades between 1900 and 1910.

    The young men who encircled counterprotesters and the statue of Jefferson in 2017 were part of an exceptionally long history of clean-cut, suburban, civic-minded, young white-supremacist groups on American college campuses celebrated for their patriotism and public service in the 20th century. Northam’s blackface yearbook spread is a small shard of an expansive and ever-present national story, one that shows how racism defined what it means to be a patriotic, successful and civically oriented white man in modern America.

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    Trump didn’t kill the INF Treaty. Putin did – Washington Examiner
    Trump didn’t kill the INF Treaty. Putin did – Washington Examiner

    The Trump administration was right to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. But it’s inaccurate to say the U.S. is scrapping the treaty. Russia scrapped it years ago.

    Russia has flagrantly violated the treaty for at least the past three years and utterly rejected demands to return to compliance. Not only that, Russia also rejected repeated NATO requests to verify its claims that the illegal weapons, the Novator 9M729 intermediate-range cruise missile system, actually complied with INF strictures.

    So Russia was not merely violating the treaty on substance, but it was also refusing to go through the charade of trying to fool its enforcement mechanisms.

    But America’s withdrawal is no small matter, and it has costs. It will hinder our ability to monitor Russian missile deployments, and it will probably prompt Russia to increase its production and deployment of missiles. Such things matter, especially when we’re talking about the world’s deadliest weapons.

    Yet Russia’s flagrant violations are about more than a single treaty. If the U.S. did not withdraw, we’d be signaling American weakness to Russian President Vladimir Putin, spurring him to further international outrages. Abiding by our treaty obligations while Russia flouted its own would show the Kremlin it could get away with anything without Washington making a fuss.

    All NATO’s 28 member states agree that Russia is “in material breach” of its obligations under the INF Treaty. Speaking to the Washington Examiner last Sunday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg explained that Moscow’s deployment of the Novator is designed to split the U.S. and Europe.

    On Friday, he tweeted that “Russia is in material breach of the #INFTreaty and must use next 6 months to return to full and verifiable compliance or bear sole responsibility for its demise. #NATO fully supports the US suspension & notification of withdrawal…”

    President Trump’s suspension of the treaty, then, is no tantrum. It helps the NATO alliance. The U.S. sought Russia’s permission to analyze the Novator system forensically but was rebuffed. Instead, Putin put on a Potemkin demonstration of the Novator in which foreign military attaches were shown a mock-up of the system from a distance. That sounds like a joke, but it’s a sick one.

    Putin’s antics are intended to tell European powers that Russia can strike its interests without risking nuclear retaliation from the United States. If Trump were to let that pass, how could NATO trust the U.S. to come to a member’s aid in the event of conflict? Credibility matters, and it is measured in moments such as this one.

    This was a complicated decision, and we hope Russia will soon behave in such a way as to make the treaty more than a worthless piece of paper. But that’s what it is now. Trump didn’t kill it; Putin did.

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    Trump slams Ralph Northam yearbook photo controversy as being ‘unforgivable’ – Fox News
    Trump slams Ralph Northam yearbook photo controversy as being ‘unforgivable’ – Fox News
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    “Democrat Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia just stated, ‘I believe that I am not either of the people in that photo.’” Trump tweeted. “This was 24 hours after apologizing for appearing in the picture and after making the most horrible statement on ‘super’ late term abortion. Unforgivable!”

    Earlier Saturday, Northam said during a news conference that he was not in the 1984 yearbook photo that depicted a man dressed in blackface and another in a KKK outfit. His remarks conflicted with those he’d made a day earlier, when he apologized for appearing in the picture.

    However, he did concede Saturday that he had “darkened” his face for another event that same year, when he claims to have dressed as singer Michael Jackson for a talent contest.

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    The president also appeared to make reference to Northam’s comments earlier this week about a controversial abortion bill that one sponsor said could allow women to terminate a pregnancy up until the moment before birth.

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    When questioned about those comments, Northam, a former pediatric neurologist, said that third-trimester abortions are performed with “the consent of obviously the mother, with consent of the physician, multiple physicians by the way, and it’s done in cases where there may be severe deformities or there may be a fetus that’s not viable.”

    “So in this particular example if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen, the infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”

    Some conservative commentators and lawmakers interpreted the remarks by Northam to mean he was discussing the possibility of allowing a newborn to die — or even killing it outright.

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    Northam’s office pushed back, saying his comments were limited to actions physicians might take in the case of “tragic or difficult circumstances” such as a non-viable pregnancy or “severe fetal abnormalities.”

    Trump, in a followup tweet on Saturday, mentioned Ed Gillespie, who unsuccessfully ran against Northam in the midterm elections. The president suggested that had Gillespie’s team discovered “that terrible picture before the election,” the Republican would’ve bested Northam by a wide margin.

    “Ed Gillespie, who ran for Governor of the Great State of Virginia against Ralph Northam, must now be thinking Malpractice and Dereliction of Duty with regard to his Opposition Research Staff,” Trump tweeted. “If they find that terrible picture before the election, he wins by 20 points!”

    After the yearbook photo surfaced on Friday, calls for Northam to resign poured in from lawmakers and officials.

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    Among them were Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, as well as Rep. Bobby Scott – Democratic Virginia lawmakers – who on Saturday released a joint statement calling on the beleaguered governor to “step down and allow the Commonwealth to begin healing.”

    “After we watched his press conference today, we called Governor Northam to tell him that we no longer believe he can effectively serve as Governor of Virginia and that he must resign,” the statement said. “Governor Northam has served the people of the Commonwealth faithfully for many years, but the events of the past 24 hours have inflicted immense pain and irrevocably broken the trust Virginians must have in their leaders.”

    Fox News’ Adam Shaw, Alex Pappas, Mike Emanuel and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

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    Powerful storm hits Southern California, flooding highways – The Associated Press
    Powerful storm hits Southern California, flooding highways – The Associated Press

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — The second in a string of powerful storms battered California on Saturday, shutting key highways after water and mud rushed into lanes from bare hillsides in wildfire burn areas where thousands of residents were under evacuation orders.

    Flash flood warnings were issued for huge swaths of Southern California and forecasters said the system brought more than 4 inches (10 centimeters) of rain at lower elevations and several feet of snow in the mountains, where whiteout conditions closed roads.

    A wind gust in Santa Barbara County topped 80 mph (128 kph) as the storm moved south and at one point dropped more than a half-inch (1.27 centimeters) of rain in five minutes. Trees and power lines were down across the region.

    In Malibu, where the Woolsey fire last year destroyed homes and burned hillsides bare, officials closed Pacific Coast Highway and many other roadways after mud carried trees and rocks into lanes. Residents whose homes survived the flames barricaded their properties with sandbags to protect their properties from floodwaters.

    Carol Cavella was evacuated during the November fire and again Saturday when the creek behind her house threatened to overflow and inundate her backyard.

    The 86-year-old put her cat in the car and drove to a coffee shop on higher ground, her son-in-law, Warren Bowman said.

    “She does not scare easily, but she got a little scared watching that water rise,” Bowman said. He was trying to convince her to come to his house in Los Angeles but she said she’d rather wait to see if the waters recede and she can return home.

    The California Department of Transportation said Saturday night in a tweet that the both the northbound southbound lanes of U.S. 101, a vital route between Los Angeles and points north and west, have been reopened. Earlier Saturday, in the Montecito area of Santa Barbara County, several miles of U.S 101 were closed because of flooding.

    Elsewhere in the county, evacuations were ordered or recommended for neighborhoods near the Thomas, Whittier and Sherpa fire scars.

    “This is a dangerous situation,” the National Weather Service said, warning that the high rates of rain could send boulders sluicing down denuded hillsides along with the mud and debris.

    It has only been a little over a year since a downpour on the huge Thomas Fire burn scar unleashed a massive debris flow that destroyed or damaged hundreds of homes in the seaside community of Montecito. The disaster killed 21 people, and two others have never been found.

    Rescue crews scrambled Saturday to pluck motorists from cars caught in rising waters, said Mike Eliason, a spokesman for the Santa Barbara County Fire Department. He urged drivers who come upon flooded intersections to find alternate routes.

    “Turn around. Driving through is going to be a costly error in judgment,” he said. “It’s just not worth it.”

    Multiple accidents were reported on slick highways, including a crash on Interstate 5 that killed a volunteer member of a sheriff’s search and rescue team, and injured several others.

    The team from Ventura County was on its way to a training exercise when members stopped to help at the scene of a single-vehicle rollover crash.

    A minivan carrying a family was traveling too fast for the wet conditions, lost control and plowed into members of the team, Los Angeles County fire Capt. Tony Imbrenda said. Nine people were transported to hospitals, including three members of the team. The victim, Jeff Dye, was a volunteer with the Fillmore Mountain Search and Rescue Team, the sheriff’s department said.

    “This is a very unfortunate situation that could’ve been avoided,” Imbrenda said, warning motorists to slow down in the rain.

    In the Holy Jim fire area southeast of Los Angeles, where an August blaze scoured tens of thousands of acres in the Cleveland National Forest, volunteers using heavy equipment removed debris and deepened a creek bed to help prevent flooding.

    The National Park Service warned visitors to Yosemite National Park of possible road closures and advised drivers to bring tire chains in the event of snow or icy conditions.

    Winter storm warnings were in place for the Sierra Nevada along with avalanche warnings on the Nevada side of the range. The Sierra is already loaded with snow from a series of storms in January. The weather service said areas could see accumulations of up to 10 feet (3 meters) over the next few days.

    The weather service lifted flash-flood watches for areas burned by the Mendocino Complex, Camp and Carr wildfires in Northern California. About an inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain was recorded in the San Francisco Bay Area before the storm moved south early Saturday.

    A weaker storm soaked much of the state on Thursday Two cold weather systems will follow on Sunday and Monday, bringing additional widespread showers and snow, forecasters said.

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    Virginia lieutenant governor condemns racist photo in Ralph Northam’s yearbook: ‘I cannot condone the actio… – Fox News
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    Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax reacted Saturday to the controversial photo that appeared on Gov. Ralph Northam’s 1984 medical school yearbook page, which showed a man dressed in blackface and another in a KKK hood and robe, saying the imagine had  “shocked and saddened” him.

    While Fairfax did not explicitly call for the Northam’s resignation — several other lawmakers, including multiple 2020 presidential candidates, have done so since the photo emerged — he said he couldn’t “condone the actions from his past.” He also said Northam had personally reached out to him to express regret.

    The yearbook image is “an example of a painful scourge that continues to haunt us today and holds us back from the progress we need to make,” Fairfax, whose great-great-great grandfather was a slave in Virginia, said in a statement posted on Twitter.

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    “As we commemorate 400 years since the first enslaved Africans were brought to Virginia, it is painful to experience such a searing reminder of the modern legacy of our nation’s original sin,” he continued. “And, as someone whose great-great-great grandfather was enslaved in Virginia, this episode strikes particularly close to home.”

    The embattled Democratic governor during a news conference Saturday said he was not in the racist photo, despite apologizing for appearing in the photo a day earlier. However, he did acknowledge darkening his face for another occasion that same year, when he dressed as singer Michael Jackson as part of a talent contest.

    “When I was confronted with the image, I was appalled that it appeared on my page, but I believed then and I believe now that I am not either of the people in that photograph,” he told reporters at the governor’s mansion.

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    He apologized for the picture appearing on his page, calling the image “offensive” and “racist,” but said that he had nothing to do with the preparation of the yearbook, and that he did not purchase it.

    In regard to his “Michael Jackson costume,” Northam said he regrets “that I did not understand the harmful legacy of an action like that.”

    The photo was first published by Big League Politics on Friday and led to numerous officials calling on him to resign. The governor on Saturday continued to say that he would not step down from his post amid the controversy.

    Fairfax on Saturday wrote that he was pleased Northam apologized, adding that the governor, with whom he has long worked with, contacted him “to express his sincere regrets and to apologize.”

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    “While his career has been marked by service to children, soldiers, and constituents, I cannot condone the actions from his past that, at the very least, suggest a comfort with Virginia’s darker history of white supremacy, racial stereotyping, and intimidation,” Fairfax said of the governor.

    He added that Virginia and the country needed “leaders with the ability to unite and help us rise to the better angels of our nature.”

    Fox News’ Adam Shaw, Alex Pappas and Alexandra Pamias contributed to this report.

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CNN.MobileWebFloatingPlayer.transition,onPin: function () {playerInstance.hideUI();},onUnpin: function () {playerInstance.showUI();},onPlayerClick: function () {if (mobilePinnedView) {playerInstance.enterFullscreen();playerInstance.showUI();}},onDismiss: function() {CNN.Videx.mobile.pinnedPlayer.disable();playerInstance.pause();}});/* Storing pinned view on CNN.Videx.mobile.pinnedPlayer So that all players can see the single pinned player */CNN.Videx = CNN.Videx || {};CNN.Videx.mobile = CNN.Videx.mobile || {};CNN.Videx.mobile.pinnedPlayer = mobilePinnedView;}if (Modernizr && !Modernizr.phone && !Modernizr.mobile && !Modernizr.tablet) {if (jQuery(containerClassId).parents(‘.js-pg-rail-tall__head’).length) {videoPinner = new CNN.VideoPinner(containerClassId);videoPinner.init();} else {CNN.VideoPlayer.hideThumbnail(containerId);}}},onContentEntryLoad: function(containerId, playerId, contentid, isQueue) {CNN.VideoPlayer.showSpinner(containerId);},onContentPause: function (containerId, playerId, videoId, paused) {if (mobilePinnedView) {CNN.VideoPlayer.handleMobilePinnedPlayerStates(containerId, paused);}},onContentMetadata: function (containerId, playerId, metadata, contentId, duration, width, height) {var endSlateLen = jQuery(document.getElementById(containerId)).parent().find(‘.js-video__end-slate’).eq(0).length;CNN.VideoSourceUtils.updateSource(containerId, metadata);if (endSlateLen > 0) {videoEndSlateImpl.fetchAndShowRecommendedVideos(metadata);}},onAdPlay: function (containerId, cvpId, token, mode, id, duration, blockId, adType) {/* Dismissing the pinnedPlayer if another video players plays an Ad */CNN.VideoPlayer.dismissMobilePinnedPlayer(containerId);clearTimeout(moveToNextTimeout);CNN.VideoPlayer.hideSpinner(containerId);if (Modernizr && !Modernizr.phone && !Modernizr.mobile && !Modernizr.tablet) {if (typeof videoPinner !== ‘undefined’ && videoPinner !== null) {videoPinner.setIsPlaying(true);videoPinner.animateDown();}}},onAdPause: function (containerId, playerId, token, mode, id, duration, blockId, adType, instance, isAdPause) {if (mobilePinnedView) {CNN.VideoPlayer.handleMobilePinnedPlayerStates(containerId, isAdPause);}},onTrackingFullscreen: function (containerId, PlayerId, dataObj) {CNN.VideoPlayer.handleFullscreenChange(containerId, dataObj);if (mobilePinnedView &&typeof dataObj === ‘object’ &&FAVE.Utils.os === ‘iOS’ && !dataObj.fullscreen) {jQuery(document).scrollTop(mobilePinnedView.getScrollPosition());playerInstance.hideUI();}},onContentPlay: function (containerId, cvpId, event) {var playerInstance,prevVideoId;if (CNN.companion && typeof CNN.companion.updateCompanionLayout === ‘function’) {CNN.companion.updateCompanionLayout(‘restoreEpicAds’);}clearTimeout(moveToNextTimeout);CNN.VideoPlayer.hideSpinner(containerId);if (Modernizr && !Modernizr.phone && !Modernizr.mobile && !Modernizr.tablet) {if (typeof videoPinner !== ‘undefined’ && videoPinner !== null) {videoPinner.setIsPlaying(true);videoPinner.animateDown();}}},onContentReplayRequest: function (containerId, cvpId, contentId) {if (Modernizr && !Modernizr.phone && !Modernizr.mobile && !Modernizr.tablet) {if (typeof videoPinner !== ‘undefined’ && videoPinner !== null) {videoPinner.setIsPlaying(true);var $endSlate = jQuery(document.getElementById(containerId)).parent().find(‘.js-video__end-slate’).eq(0);if ($endSlate.length > 0) {$endSlate.removeClass(‘video__end-slate–active’).addClass(‘video__end-slate–inactive’);}}}},onContentBegin: function (containerId, cvpId, contentId) {if (mobilePinnedView) {mobilePinnedView.enable();}/* Dismissing the pinnedPlayer if another video players plays a video. */CNN.VideoPlayer.dismissMobilePinnedPlayer(containerId);CNN.VideoPlayer.mutePlayer(containerId);if (CNN.companion && typeof CNN.companion.updateCompanionLayout === ‘function’) {CNN.companion.updateCompanionLayout(‘removeEpicAds’);}CNN.VideoPlayer.hideSpinner(containerId);clearTimeout(moveToNextTimeout);CNN.VideoSourceUtils.clearSource(containerId);jQuery(document).triggerVideoContentStarted();},onContentComplete: function (containerId, cvpId, contentId) {if (CNN.companion && typeof CNN.companion.updateCompanionLayout === ‘function’) {CNN.companion.updateCompanionLayout(‘restoreFreewheel’);}navigateToNextVideo(contentId, containerId);},onContentEnd: function (containerId, cvpId, contentId) {if (Modernizr && !Modernizr.phone && !Modernizr.mobile && !Modernizr.tablet) {if (typeof videoPinner !== ‘undefined’ && videoPinner !== null) {videoPinner.setIsPlaying(false);}}},onCVPVisibilityChange: function (containerId, cvpId, visible) {CNN.VideoPlayer.handleAdOnCVPVisibilityChange(containerId, visible);}};if (typeof configObj.context !== ‘string’ || configObj.context.length 0) {configObj.adsection = window.ssid;}CNN.autoPlayVideoExist = (CNN.autoPlayVideoExist === true) ? true : false;CNN.VideoPlayer.getLibrary(configObj, callbackObj, isLivePlayer);});CNN.INJECTOR.scriptComplete(‘videodemanddust’);

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