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LONDON — While Prime Minister Theresa May was visiting European leaders to find support for improving her deal for Britain’s exit from the European Union, some of her own party’s members of Parliament were preparing a no-confidence vote against her leadership.

On Wednesday, the process came to a head. Here’s a guide to how it unfolded.

At least 15 percent of her party’s lawmakers — at least 48 members of Parliament — submitted letters demanding a ballot to the chairman of the 1922 committee, the body that represents Conservative backbenchers.

The chairman, Graham Brady, announced on Wednesday that he had received more than the required number of letters, and that the no-confidence vote would proceed.

Conservative lawmakers gathered in Westminster on Wednesday evening to give Mrs. May a chance to address them.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/world/europe/no-confidence-vote-brexit.html

WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was not concerned that he would get impeached and that payments made ahead of the 2016 election by his former personal attorney Michael Cohen to two women did not violate campaign finance laws.

“It’s hard to impeach somebody who hasn’t done anything wrong and who’s created the greatest economy in the history of our country,” Trump told Reuters in an Oval Office interview.

“I’m not concerned, no. I think that the people would revolt if that happened,” he said.

Court filings last week drew renewed attention to six-figure payments made during the 2016 campaign by Cohen to two women so they would not discuss their alleged affairs with the candidate. Democrats in Congress said Trump could face impeachment and jail time if the transactions violated campaign finance laws.

Adult-film actress Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels speaks to the media outside US Federal Court on April 16, 2018, in Lower Manhattan, New York.
President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen has been under criminal investigation for months over his business dealings, and FBI agents last week raided his home, hotel room, office, a safety deposit box and seized two cellphones. Some of the documents reportedly relate to payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, who claims a one-night stand with Trump a decade ago, and ex Playboy model Karen McDougal who also claims an affair. / AFP PHOTO / HECTOR RETAMAL (Photo credit should read HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images)




Cohen is scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday in New York for his role in the payments to the women. Trump has denied affairs with Stormy Daniels and the other woman whom Cohen said was given hush money, former Playboy model Karen McDougal.

Prosecutors say the hush money payments violated campaign finance laws and were directed by Trump himself to cover up affairs he had in 2006 and 2007.

Earlier this year, Trump acknowledged repaying Cohen for $130,000 paid to porn star Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels. He previously disputed knowing anything about the payments.

Prosecutors on Friday sought prison time for Cohen, Trump’s self-proclaimed “fixer,” for the payments, which they said were made in “coordination with and at the direction of” Trump, as well as on charges of evading taxes and lying to Congress.

Trump, who has criticized Cohen and called for him to get a long sentence, said his ex-lawyer should have known the rules.

“Michael Cohen is a lawyer. I assume he would know what he’s doing,” Trump said when asked if he had discussed campaign finance laws with Cohen.

“Number one, it wasn’t a campaign contribution. If it were, it’s only civil, and even if it’s only civil, there was no violation based on what we did. OK?”

Asked about prosecutors’ assertions that a number of people who had worked for him met or had business dealings with Russians before and during his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump said: “The stuff you’re talking about is peanut stuff.”

He then sought to turn the subject to his 2016 Democratic opponent.

“I haven’t heard this, but I can only tell you this: Hillary Clinton – her husband got money, she got money, she paid money, why doesn’t somebody talk about that?” Trump said.

(Reporting by Jeff Mason and Steve Holland; Additional reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh and Peter Cooney)

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Jeannie Rhee, with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, said Cohen has been honest.

“He has told the truth,” she told the court.

Last week, the special counsel’s team released a memo about Cohen saying he has cooperated with its inquiries.

After Rhee spoke, Assistant US Attorney Nicholas Roos addressed the court on behalf of the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

“For all the hypothesizing that Mr. Petrillo has done, Mr. Cohen can’t have it both ways,” he said, referencing Cohen’s lawyer, Guy Petrillo’s speech to the court. “There is a standard way this office conducts cooperation.”

He added: “We’ve treated Mr. Cohen just the way we treat every other defendant that deal with the us attorney’s office.”

The Manhattan US attorney’s office has asked for Cohen to receive a “substantial” sentence of roughly four years. However, Cohen and his legal team has asked for no prison time, citing his cooperation with multiple investigations — including the special counsel’s Russia probe.

Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/michael-cohen-sentencing/index.html

Any normal person who watched the on-camera Oval Office back-and-forth between President Trump and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., would come away thinking, “Wow, they have some disagreements. I wonder if they’ll work that out before a government shutdown.” But liberals instead watched it and felt they needed to comfort the delicate Pelosi.

Trump views Pelosi just like anyone else; liberals see her as just another woman who needs their help.

New York Times editorial writer Michelle Cottle said that Trump had “mansplained” to Pelosi “ how the legislative process works.”

“You don’t need Trump or anyone else to mansplain her,” former Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly said in the Washington Post. “She knows what she’s talking about…”

Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., told the Post, “I don’t think he knows what to do with a strong woman. His actions just showed that he’s a chauvinist when it comes to dealing with women in power.”

Because there was cross-talk during the meeting, which also included Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Atlantic magazine’s Amanda Mull asserted that, “Not even the most powerful women in America get to finish their thoughts.”

This is revisionist history by deluded liberals who can’t watch a woman interact with a man without crying “sexist!” or “harassment!” Conveniently forgotten is the fact that the meeting only became truly contentious when Pelosi asserted that any shutdown would be a “Trump shutdown.” That’s when the crosstalk began.

Pelosi then dared Trump to call on House Republicans to vote for a bill that funds a border wall. Trump maintained that such a vote would be pointless because there aren’t enough votes in the Senate to move it through Congress.

Here’s from their exchange:

Pelosi: You have the Senate. You have the House of Representatives. You have the votes. You should pass it right now.

Trump: No, we don’t have the votes, Nancy, because in the Senate, we need 60 votes and we don’t have it.

Pelosi: No, no, but in the House, you could bring it up right now, today.

Trump: Yeah, but I can’t — excuse me. But I can’t get it passed in the House if it’s not going to pass in the Senate. I don’t want to waste time.

Pelosi: Well, the fact is you can get it started that way.

Pelosi later on womansplained the Constitution to Trump, declaring, “We’ve come in here as the first branch of government: Article I, the legislative branch.”

Following their meeting, Schumer and Pelosi hosted a separate press conference, wherein she told reporters, “I didn’t want to, in front of [the press] say, ‘You don’t know what you’re talking about.’”

She also reportedly told Democrats privately later on that the border issue is “like a manhood thing for [Trump], as if manhood could ever be associated with him.”

Pelosi takes a knife to all of her opponents, whether they’re Republicans or Democrats. Yet liberals talk about her as if at any minute she might cry.

Maybe the feminists are on to something; there really is a double standard.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/liberals-condescend-to-nancy-pelosi-after-her-meeting-with-trump

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A shooting in Strasbourg, France, on Tuesday left three people dead, several others wounded and is being treated as an act of “terror,” police and government officials said, adding that the gunman is on the run.

The suspect opened fire in downtown Strasbourg on Orfevre Street around 8 p.m. local time, government authorities Préfet de la région Grand-Est et du Bas-Rhin revealed on Twitter.

The gunman is known to police and has a criminal record, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner told reporters.

The suspect was shot and wounded before fleeing the scene, police officials told The Associated Press. Authorities had attempted to arrest the individual ahead of the shooting, a police official said, but it wasn’t immediately clear why.

The shooting death toll stood at three, according to Castaner. That’s despite an earlier report from police union officials that four people were killed. Officials did not explain the reason for the conflicting death tolls.

The country increased their security alert level hours after the attack occurred and will be dispersing additional security forces to Strasbourg, the interior minister said.

Part of the incident took place in a Christmas market at Rue des Grandes Arcades and unfolded on different streets in the city, Strasbourg Mayor Roland Ries said. Military forces were helping the police, according to the mayor.

In this image made from video, emergency services arrive on the scene of a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, on Tuesday.
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The Interior Ministry instructed people in Strasbourg to stay inside due to a “serious security event” taking place, The Associated Press reported.

Government officials in the region also took to Twitter, saying there was an “event underway in Strasbourg” and cautioned against spreading “false rumors.”

“Avoid the area around the police station,” the Préfet de la région Grand-Est et du Bas-Rhin tweeted.

That area is located near the city’s Christmas market, according to The Associated Press. Strasbourg’s well-known market is set up around the city’s cathedral during the Christmas period and becomes a popular gathering place.

The European Parliament, which meets in Strasbourg, was closed and nobody is permitted to leave, according to Jaume Duch, the institution’s director general for communication and spokesperson.

“The European Parliament has been closed and no one can leave until further notice,” Duch tweeted. “Deputies and staff have received e-mails or SMS” telling them to stay safe.

European Parliament President Antonio Tajani also tweeted following the shooting.

“I express all my sorrow for the victims of the Strasbourg attacks. This Parliament will not be intimidated by terrorist or criminal attacks. Let us move on. We will continue to work and react strengthened by freedom and democracy against terrorist violence,” Tajani said.

Strasbourg, located about 310 miles east of Paris, is on the border with Germany.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/world/france-terror-shooting-leaves-multiple-dead-injured-with-gunman-on-the-run-officials

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Three seemingly unrelated news stories about data theft, cybersecurity and sanctions, are converging as one big-picture issue related to President Donald Trump’s ongoing trade negotiations with China.

What happens next with any of them could have significant implications for that deal, the markets or both.

Marriott hack

Sources close to the investigation into a breach of the information of 500 million Marriott customers tell CNBC the initial phases of the probe are pointing to involvement by the Chinese government. However, it’s unclear the nature of China’s involvement.

In the past, these revelations may not have dinged the radar of a public used to major hacks. But the injection of a possible China connection, in addition to the massive scope of the breach and the fact the intrusion lasted four years, means Marriott’s troubles may have just become part of the wider market and trade dramas.

Huawei CFO arrest

Meng Wanzhou, CFO of Chinese hardware giant Huawei and daughter of its founder, was granted bail Tuesday night. Meng is facing charges in Canada related to alleged improper funneling of payments between Iran and the company via a third-party intermediary in Hong Kong. The U.S. wants to extradite Meng.

China has threatened retaliation. Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat, was arrested in China on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his diplomatic agency and saying they are working with Chinese officials on the matter.

Trump said in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday that he would consider intervening in the Justice Department’s case against Meng if it would help support favorable negotiations.

“If I think it’s good for the country, if I think it’s good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever made — which is a very important thing — what’s good for national security, I would certainly intervene if I thought it was necessary,” he said.

Justice Department

In addition to being on the hook for successfully arguing the case against Meng, the Justice Department is close to dropping new indictments on Chinese government-connected hackers, possibly this week, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Those indictments likely will focus on allegations that China tried to use large, U.S.-based enterprises that provide internet service, business, security, DNS and other services for large companies, as a conduit for hacking into their corporate clients.

The Trump administration has been considering using these indictments to make a broader call-out of China, adding to the pile of security and fraud related accusations, The New York Times reported this week.

For the internet service providers that may be named or identified in the pending indictments, this could mean they see their names dragged into the proceedings, too.

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday referred to the latest mass shooting in France, which French officials have labeled a terror attack, in urging Democrats to give him the funding he wants for his wall on the U.S. southern border.

“Another very bad terror attack in France. We are going to strengthen our borders even more,” the president said in a tweet, before appealing to House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. “Chuck and Nancy must give us the votes to get additional Border Security!”

French officials said Wednesday that they were hunting a suspect on a terrorist watch list after a gunman opened fire on a Christmas market in Strasbourg, killing two people, leaving one brain-dead, and injuring at least a dozen others.

The tweet comes one day after Trump’s explosive Oval Office meeting with Schumer and Pelosi, in which the press was invited to witness a testy exchange over money for the president’s long-promised border wall ahead of a government funding deadline.

During this negotiation, which featured contentious exchanges between the three while Vice President Mike Pence watched silently, Trump said he would be “proud” to shut down the government in the name of border security.

On the campaign trail, Trump promised that his wall would be paid for by Mexico.

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Nikki Haley, who is leaving as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at the end of the year, told NBC’s “Today” that she got things done by using President Donald Trump’s “unpredictable” nature to her advantage.

“He would ratchet up the rhetoric, and then I’d go back to the ambassadors and say: ‘You know, he’s pretty upset. I can’t promise you what he’s going to do or not, but I can tell you if we do these sanctions, it will keep him from going too far,'” Haley said in an exclusive interview which aired Wednesday morning.

“I know all of it,” she said in response to a question about the president’s bombastic, sometimes false statements in public and on Twitter. “But I’m disciplined enough to know not to get into the drama.”

At the United Nations, “I was trying to get the job done,” she said. “And I got the job done by being truthful, but also by letting him be unpredictable and not showing our cards.”

On one of the more delicate diplomatic issues on her watch, Haley said the United States must be careful in confronting Saudi Arabia over the brutal killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Haley made it clear that she blamed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the Saudi government for Khashoggi’s death, even as the president has said repeatedly that the United States has reached no final conclusion about the prince’s involvement.

“It was the Saudi government, and MBS is the head of the Saudi government,” Haley said Tuesday, referring to the prince by his initials. “So they are all responsible, and they don’t get a pass, not an individual, not the government — they don’t get a pass.”

At the same time, Haley stopped short of recommending giving Saudi Arabia anything more than stern talking-to, saying the Saudis were helping the United States defeat Houthi insurgents in Yemen, Hezbollah militanmts in Lebanon and “Iranian proxies” around the world.

“We do have to work with them in that case,” she said of the Saudis, adding: “I think we need to have a serious hard talk with the Saudis to let them know we won’t condone this. We won’t give you a pass. And don’t do this again.

“And then I think that the administrations have to talk about where we go from here. What I can tell you that’s so important is that the Saudis have been our partner in defeating and dealing with Iran. And that has been hugely important.”

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, nominee to be the US ambassador to the United Nations, walks through the Capitol to the Senate subway on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017.

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Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on her nomination to be to U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 18, 2017.

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Delegates pose for pictures with South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (C) on the floor during the third session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. July 20, 2016.

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U.S.Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley at the Federalist Society, 2016 National Lawyers Convention at the Mayflower Hotel, on November 18, 2016 in Washington, DC.

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Republican South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley delivers remarks at the Federalist Society 2016 National Lawyers Convention in Washington, U.S., November 18, 2016.

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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (L) and U.S. Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio react on stage during a campaign event in Chapin, South Carolina February 17, 2016. Haley announced her endorsement of Rubio for the Republican presidential nomination.

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Escorted by staff and security, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (C) moves from one television interview to another across from the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church June 19, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Haley called for the death penalty for Dylann Storm Roof, 21, of Lexington, South Carolina, if he is found guilty of murdering nine people during a prayer meeting at the church Wednesday night. Among the dead is the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the pastor of the church which, according to the National Park Service, is the oldest black congregation in America south of Baltimore.

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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, right, greets U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-SC, at the first church service four days after a mass shooting that claimed the lives of nine people at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Church June 21, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Chruch elders decided to hold the regularly scheduled Sunday school and worship service as they continue to grieve the shooting death of nine of its members including its pastor earlier this week.

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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley speaks to press outside the Emanuel AME Church June 19, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina.US police arrested a white high school dropout Thursday suspected of carrying out a gun massacre at one of America’s oldest black churches, the latest deadly assault to fuel simmering racial tensions. Authorities detained 21-year-old Dylann Roof, shown wearing the flags of defunct white supremacist regimes in pictures taken from social media, after nine churchgoers were shot dead during a Bible study class on Wednesday evening.

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Escorted by staff and security, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (C) moves from one television interview to another across from the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church June 19, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Haley called for the death penalty for Dylann Storm Roof, 21, of Lexington, South Carolina, if he is found guilty of murdering nine people during a prayer meeting at the church Wednesday night. Among the dead is the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the pastor of the church which, according to the National Park Service, is the oldest black congregation in America south of Baltimore.

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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley holds a news conference with fellow members of the Republican Governors Association at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce February 23, 2015 in Washington, DC. Republican and Democratic governors met with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House Monday during the last day of the National Governors Association winter meeting.

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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley waves on stage during the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on August 28, 2012 in Tampa, Florida. Today is the first full session of the RNC after the start was delayed due to Tropical Storm Isaac.

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Former Florida Governor and potential GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush walks with South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley during a visit to Sistercare, a non-profit that aids domestic violence victims and their children on March 17, 2015 in Columbia, South Carolina. Bush announced in December that he ‘actively explore’ a presidential run in 2016. He is currently on a two day tour through South Carolina and will attend several fundraising events.

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Nikki Haley applauds the Claflin College Choir after their performance during her inauguration as governor of South Carolina, Wednesday, January 12, 2011, in Columbia, South Carolina.

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US Republican Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on March 15, 2013.

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Republican candidate for South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R) smiles along with her husband Michael Haley (L) and daughter Rena (C) as they watch the runoff election results at the Columbia Sheraton on June 22, 2010 in Columbia, South Carolina. Haley defeated Rep. Gresham Barrett in a runoff election.

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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley speaks to the media prior to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway on May 12, 2012 in Darlington, South Carolina.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gives a birthday cake to South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley during a campaign rally at Charleston Area Convention Center on January 20, 2012 in North Charleston, South Carolina. Romney continues to campaign for votes in South Carolina ahead of their primary on January 21.

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Nikki Haley speaks to supporters as she comes onto stage during an election party for Republican South Carolina Governor candidate Nikki Haley at the State Museum on June 22, 2010 in Columbia, South Carolina. Haley defeated Rep. Gresham Barrett in a runoff election.

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Republican candidate for South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R) smiles along with her husband Michael Haley (L) and daughter Rena (C) as they watch the runoff election results at the Columbia Sheraton on June 22, 2010 in Columbia, South Carolina. Haley defeated Rep. Gresham Barrett in a runoff election.

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South Carolina State Rep. Nikki Haley from Lexington, pictured on May 14, 2009, is launching a bid to become South Carolina’s first female governor.

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Haley said that, in general, she was aware that some people believe that she and Trump aren’t always on the same page, but she said that’s only because “our styles are very different.”

“And, you know, I’ve always found that funny,” she said. “But the truth at the end of the day is I may be harder on some things or I may be tougher in some ways, but I’ve never strayed from where the president was or never strayed from where his policy wants to go.”

As for Heather Nauert, the State Department spokeswoman whom Trump has said he will nominate to succeed Haley at the United Nations, Haley said that while “I want her to be successful,” only time will tell whether her appointment was a good one.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a member of the Foreign Relations Committee whom Haley endorsed for president in 2016, has questioned Nauert’s qualifications for the sensitive post, asking whether she “has the detailed knowledge of foreign policy to be successful at the United Nations.”

But Haley noted, “a lot of people said that about me.”

“I think that we should give her the opportunity to prove to the American public what she can do,” she said. “I think that she has been working at the State Department on multiple issues for a long time.

“You know, time will tell how this works out, but I can tell you I’m going to support and help in her transition and her ability to move forward and be successful,” Haley said.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions

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White House Communications Director Hope Hicks reportedly announced her resignation after testifying about her job and being required to tell “white lies.”

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was fired by President Trump in March 2018.

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White House aide Omarosa Manigault insists she resigned and was not fired from her role in December 2017.

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned from his position on July 5, 2018 after a number of ethics scandals.

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Sally Yates was fired from her post as acting attorney general when she refused to enforce President Trump’s travel ban. 

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Rob Porter resigned as White House staff secretary in February 2018 amid abuse allegations made by his ex-wives.

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White House Counsel Don McGahn

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H.R. McMaster was replaced by John Bolton as national security advisor in March 2018.

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White House aide Kelly Sadler left her position in June 2018 after reportedly mocking Sen. John McCain.

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Director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn announced his resignation in March 2018 after becoming a key architect of the 2017 tax overhaul 

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Michael Flynn resigned as national security adviser in February after misleading Vice President Mike Pence about his interactions with Russian officials. 

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President Trump announced David Shulkin was out as secretary of veterans affairs by sending a tweet announcing he had nominated his personal physican, Ronny Jackson, to replace him on March 28, 2018.

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Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in early May.

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Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer resigned in July.

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Former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus resigned in July.

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Former advisor to President Donald Trump Steve Bannon resigned in August.

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Anthony Scaramucci, former White House communications director was fired in July after just 10 days on the job. 

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Trump fired Deputy Chief of Staff Katie Walsh amid White House leaks in April.

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Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price resigned in late September. 

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President Trump fired U.S. Attorney in Manhattan Preet Bharara in March.

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Mike Dubke resigned as White House communications director in late May.

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Walter Shaub, former Director of the United States Office of Government Ethics in Washington, DC resigned in July.

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White House deputy assistant Sebastian Gorka resigned in August 2017. 

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Rick Dearborn, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative Affairs, left the White House in December 2017.

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A shooting in Strasbourg, France, on Tuesday left three people dead, several others wounded and is being treated as an act of “terror,” police and government officials said, adding that the gunman is on the run.

The suspect opened fire in downtown Strasbourg on Orfevre Street around 8 p.m. local time, government authorities Préfet de la région Grand-Est et du Bas-Rhin revealed on Twitter.

The gunman is known to police and has a criminal record, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner told reporters.

The suspect was shot and wounded before fleeing the scene, police officials told The Associated Press. Authorities had attempted to arrest the individual ahead of the shooting, a police official said, but it wasn’t immediately clear why.

The shooting death toll stood at three, according to Castaner. That’s despite an earlier report from police union officials that four people were killed. Officials did not explain the reason for the conflicting death tolls.

The country increased their security alert level hours after the attack occurred and will be dispersing additional security forces to Strasbourg, the interior minister said.

Part of the incident took place in a Christmas market at Rue des Grandes Arcades and unfolded on different streets in the city, Strasbourg Mayor Roland Ries said. Military forces were helping the police, according to the mayor.

In this image made from video, emergency services arrive on the scene of a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, on Tuesday.
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The Interior Ministry instructed people in Strasbourg to stay inside due to a “serious security event” taking place, The Associated Press reported.

Government officials in the region also took to Twitter, saying there was an “event underway in Strasbourg” and cautioned against spreading “false rumors.”

“Avoid the area around the police station,” the Préfet de la région Grand-Est et du Bas-Rhin tweeted.

That area is located near the city’s Christmas market, according to The Associated Press. Strasbourg’s well-known market is set up around the city’s cathedral during the Christmas period and becomes a popular gathering place.

The European Parliament, which meets in Strasbourg, was closed and nobody is permitted to leave, according to Jaume Duch, the institution’s director general for communication and spokesperson.

“The European Parliament has been closed and no one can leave until further notice,” Duch tweeted. “Deputies and staff have received e-mails or SMS” telling them to stay safe.

European Parliament President Antonio Tajani also tweeted following the shooting.

“I express all my sorrow for the victims of the Strasbourg attacks. This Parliament will not be intimidated by terrorist or criminal attacks. Let us move on. We will continue to work and react strengthened by freedom and democracy against terrorist violence,” Tajani said.

Strasbourg, located about 310 miles east of Paris, is on the border with Germany.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May faces a vote on her leadership Wednesday, as debate rages on how Britain should exit the European Union. She spoke about the vote to the media outside 10 Downing Street in London.

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Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May faces a vote on her leadership Wednesday, as debate rages on how Britain should exit the European Union. She spoke about the vote to the media outside 10 Downing Street in London.

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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May is fighting to keep her job as members of her Conservative Party seek to oust her in a no-confidence vote. May has been unable to shore up support for the Brexit deal she negotiated with the European Union.

“I will contest that vote with everything I’ve got,” May said outside of 10 Downing Street, referring to the vote on her leadership that will take place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. local time (1 p.m. – 3 p.m. ET).

“If she wins, she can serve for another year without another challenge from her party,” NPR’s Frank Langfitt reports from London. “If she loses, this triggers a leadership contest within the Conservative Party. The winner of that contest would not immediately become prime minister and there could be heavy pressure to call a general election.”

If May loses her leadership post, it could trigger a “no-deal” exit from the EU when the deadline of March 29 arrives, meaning the country would have few formal trading mechanisms in place to interact with the union it’s belonged to for decades.

With all eyes now on the U.K. Parliament, there is speculation over what the outcome might bring. You can watch the proceedings in the House of Commons here:

“Traditionally, winning a no-confidence vote by a small margin might force a Conservative leader to step down anyway,” Langfitt reports, “but the United Kingdom is facing its biggest political crisis in decades, and past traditions seem to no longer apply.”

The call for a vote on May’s political fate comes two days after she delayed a vote on the Brexit deal she negotiated with the EU, acknowledging that it had no chance of being approved in Parliament.

May left Britain on Tuesday to meet with European leaders, hoping to get help in changing the deal enough to win over the doubters back home. But she returned home empty-handed — and she was briefly trapped in her own car as German Chancellor Angela Merkel awaited her. With the U.K.’s leader unable to get out of a German sedan, the moment was called both awkward and symbolic of her struggles in office.

The process of reaching a final Brexit deal has foundered, in large part, on the complicated and essential question of how the U.K. and EU will treat Northern Ireland (part of the U.K.) and the Republic of Ireland (an EU member) without enforcing a hard border.

To trigger today’s vote, Conservatives who are unhappy with the way May has managed Brexit submitted 48 no-confidence letters to the chairman of the 1922 Committee, a group that represents the Conservatives’ rank and file membership.

As for May’s public standing, George Parker, political editor for the Financial Times, recently told NPR that the prime minister seems to be more popular than her Brexit deal:

“She’s dogged. She’s determined. She’s got a real sense of duty. And it’s interesting that although the Brexit deal she’s negotiated seems to upset just about everyone, she herself has actually gone up in the public estimation over the last few weeks. I think people see her standing there hour after hour in the bear pit at the House of Commons being attacked by people on her own side – mainly men, it has to be said. And I think it – her sort of doggedness actually resonates with people. So although she’s often seen as rather an unimaginative politician and just really blundering her way through this Brexit morass, in the end, people quite respect the fact that she’s still there and she’s still standing.”

Both May and her political opponents have had an eye on the clock as the March 29 deadline approaches, with each side seeking to put pressure on the other to make concessions. And in the background, there has been a recognition that the Brexit process will not be a tidy and painless process, no matter who’s in charge.

When asked about a possible no-confidence vote yesterday, Parker said, “it will solve nothing. It will be an act of huge and damaging self-indulgence, I think.”

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President Trump and the 2016 campaign amount to a footnote in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s sentence filings on Michael Cohen, despite the news media’s heavily overstated narrative that the whole thing is about to blow the lid on a White House “felony.”

The documents are almost exclusively an indictment of Cohen as a tax evader and serial liar. The link to Trump, or of any allegation of wrongdoing on his behalf, has nowhere near the clarity liberals want you to believe.

One of Mueller’s filings demonstrates that Cohen repeatedly lied to Congress and to the Justice Department about the timeline of a business deal in Russia that he had pursued on behalf of the Trump Organization.

The other document is much worse for Cohen in detailing his own conduct.

“[T]he crimes committed by Cohen were more serious than his submission allows and were marked by a pattern of deception that permeated his professional life (and was evidently hidden from the friends and family members who wrote on his behalf),” the document reads at the start.

It goes on to accuse Cohen of evading $1.4 million in federal taxes by way of a taxi medallion scheme and by neglecting to claim sources of revenue, such as $30,000 in profit “from the sale of a rare and highly valuable French handbag.”

Just a reminder that I’m citing a court document on the crimes of Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer for Donald Trump, and not quoting the script of a movie starring Zsa Zsa Gabor.

The Mueller document also lays bare Cohen’s defrauding of banks that loaned him money. He failed to disclose to them millions of dollars of his personal debt and expenses.

Only after those astonishing revelations does the special counsel delve into the 2016 campaign and the payments to two porn actresses who allegedly had separate affairs with Trump. The document says that Cohen “admitted” that he “acted in coordination with and at the direction of [Trump]” and that Cohen “acted with the intent to influence the 2016 presidential election.”

Cohen, with the threat of harsh penalties related to tax evasion and lying to Congress, told prosecutors he committed the campaign finance violations.

[Related: Trump says Michael Cohen should serve a ‘full and complete’ prison sentence]

But Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer, maintains that the payments were legal, meant to settle lawsuits unrelated to the campaign, and that at least the one made to Stormy Daniels was the for the purpose of protecting the Trump family. This argument has been used successfully before a jury to justify a candidate’s secret, private payments to a mistress. The defendant in that case was former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.

What the Mueller documents make clear is that, in addition to being a tax fraud and liar, Cohen wasn’t much of a fixer. Cohen was able to temporarily quiet affair allegations from two women with more than $200K between them, and yet there’s no evidence either of them would have changed the results of the election if they had been made public.

What’s worse: Separate consensual affairs (which, again, Trump denies) or an audio recording of Trump saying his stardom grants him license to grab women by the crotch? The “Access Hollywood” video came out Oct. 8, 2016. Trump won the election one month later.

What’s worse: Two women who pose nude for a living gleefully selling their stories about Trump’s penis, or the list of nearly 20 women who over the course of the campaign accused Trump of inappropriate sexual conduct? Woman after woman came forward to accuse Trump of assault or general creepiness. Trump still won the election.

Daniels’ story about her supposed affair with Trump was so riveting that InTouch interviewed her about it in 2011 and only remembered seven years later. Incredibly, the interview wasn’t published until May of this year.

Maybe Trump did knowingly and deliberately violate campaign finance rules by using money to hush up two porn stars. But the Cohen documents don’t say that. Instead, they say that Cohen was a tax cheat and a liar. Trump and the campaign are an afterthought.

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The Westminster rumor mill is on fire with the expectation that British Prime Minister Theresa May faces an imminent vote on the floor of Parliament to oust her. I think that such a leadership vote is coming, but I also believe May will survive it.

First off, some context. The rumors on Tuesday follow the prime minister’s cancellation on Monday of a planned parliamentary vote on her Brexit withdrawal agreement with the European Union. That decision sparked great dismay across Parliament. The BBC’s chief political reporter notes that the leader of the “1922 Committee,” which governs Conservative leadership contests, is now believed to have received letters from 48 — or 15 percent — of Conservative members of Parliament stating their lack of confidence in May. If this is correct, May is likely to face a confidence vote by Friday, originating from within her own Conservative party.

To survive, however, the prime minister need only win a simple majority of MPs. And that’s why I think she survives. The simple issue in May’s favor is that while she is not adored by many Conservative MPs, neither is she disliked. Most Conservative MPs view May as a boring but hard-working prime minister who is trying to manage a near-impossible task in negotiating Britain’s positive Brexit withdrawal. These MPs know that May is more popular than the man they most fear: Labour Party opposition leader and far-leftist Jeremy Corbyn. The most recent leadership polls of the public suggest that while May’s approval rating is only 35 percent, Corbyn is just 29 percent. What’s also noticeable, however, is that May’s personal rating has increased by a few points over the past few weeks. Most Britons seem to think that May is doing the best she can with a difficult hand. Conservative MPs who might otherwise oppose May fear that to challenge her now would be to risk aggravating the public and building momentum in favor of Labour’s pressure to call a general election.

Moreover, it’s not clear who from among the Conservative ranks would replace May. While this would only become relevant were May to lose a confidence vote, it bears close consideration. The complexities here are abundant. For one, while former foreign minister Boris Johnson is favored by those who want a deeper break from the EU than May now offers, many other Conservative MPs view Johnson as an unreliable eccentric. Other possibilities include the more-Brexit-moderate but charismatic MP, Sajid Javid. Again, however, many Conservatives fear that the public might reject the party for being seen to betray May.

For all these reasons, I suspect May will survive the coming vote. Still, it will be a close run.

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When House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York tried to move their Oval Office debate with President Trump over border wall funding behind closed doors, Trump had the right response.

“It’s not bad, Nancy,” he said. “It’s called transparency.”

Too often, political leaders in pitched battles will appear before cameras ahead of high-profile meetings and have nothing but kind words to say, which obscures actual tension, political differences, and real policy disputes.

Pelosi, Trump, and Schumer have very real differences over funding for a border wall that could lead to a government shutdown. As those differences played out in front of the national media that was on hand for what is typically nothing more than a photo op, those differences became apparent.

Trump argued, “I am proud to shut down the government for border security.” He said that funding a border wall was central to the overall strategy of securing the border.

Schumer and Pelosi insisted that they wanted border security, but rejected the idea of a border wall, which they view as merely a campaign promise and not something that’s actually necessary.

In addition, there was an argument about the legislative process. Pelosi argued that House Republicans should pass a bill to get things moving, which Trump countered would be pointless, because Senate Democrats would block any bill from landing on his desk.

Schumer, meanwhile, dug into Trump, saying at one point, “When the president brags that he won North Dakota and Indiana, he’s in real trouble.”

Repeatedly, Pelosi and Schumer wanted to move things behind the scenes.

“Let’s debate in private,” Schumer said.

“I don’t think we should have a debate in front of the press on this,” Pelosi complained. Another time she lamented, “This is a most unfortunate thing. We came in here in good faith and we’re entering this kind of discussion in the public view.”

But Trump was clearly perfectly happy to let the press witness the confrontation.

Whatever one may say about Trump and his lack of civility and coarse tone, there is a positive side to dispensing with certain political niceties.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A jury recommended life plus 419 years on Tuesday for a man convicted of killing a woman and injuring dozens when he drove his car into counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia.

James Alex Fields Jr. stood stoically with his hands folded in front of him as a court clerk read the verdict, which now must be taken under advisement by the judge, who will issue the final sentence. Judge Richard Moore scheduled a sentencing hearing for March 29.

The jury reached its verdict after deliberating for about four hours over two days. Judges in Virginia often impose the sentence recommended by juries. Under state law, they can impose lower sentences than what the jury recommends, but cannot increase them.

Before issuing its recommendation, the jury asked Moore if the sentences would run consecutively or concurrently. He replied that sentences usually run consecutively, but that jurors could recommend concurrent sentences if they choose.

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The jury deliberated for just under two hours Monday after hearing emotional testimony from the mother of Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal and activist who was killed when Fields rammed his car into a crowd at a “Unite the Right” white nationalist rally in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, 2017.

Jurors also heard from several people who suffered severe injuries. A psychologist testifying for the defense said Fields has a long history of mental health issues, including bipolar disorder.

Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro, told the jury her daughter’s death has been like an “an explosion in our family.

“We are forever scarred by the pain,” she said.

Jeanne “Star” Peterson said her life has been “a living nightmare” since she was hit by Fields’ car. Her right leg was shattered, and she’s had five surgeries to try to repair it. She also suffered a broken spine and still hasn’t been able to return to work.

“I will be dealing with the aftermath of Fields’ choices for the rest of my life,” Peterson said.

Fields, 21, drove to Virginia from his home in Maumee, Ohio, to support the white nationalists. After the rally, as a large group of counterprotesters marched through Charlottesville singing and laughing, he stopped his car, backed up, then sped into the crowd, according to testimony from witnesses and video surveillance shown to jurors.

Wednesday Bowie, a counterprotester who got caught on the trunk of Fields’ car when he backed up and was then slammed into a parked truck and thrown to the ground, told the jury that in addition to a broken pelvis and other physical injuries, she has been hospitalized three times for post-traumatic stress disorder over the past year.

She told the jury: “Please know that the world is not a safe place with Mr. Fields in it.”

Testifying for the defense, University of Virginia School of Medicine professor and psychologist Daniel Murrie told the jury that while Fields was not legally insane at the time, he has a long history of mental health issues.

Fields had inexplicable volatile outbursts as a young child and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 6, Murrie said. He was later diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder.

Murrie said Fields went off his psychiatric medication at age 18 and built an isolated “lifestyle centered around being alone.”

A video of Fields shown to the jury during the first phase of the trial showed him sobbing and hyperventilating after he was told a woman had died and others were seriously injured.

Fields’ lawyer Denise Lunsford called him a “mentally compromised individual” and urged the jury to consider his long history of mental health issues when considering a sentence.

The Unite the Right rally had been organized in part to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Hundreds of Ku Klux Klan members, neo-Nazis and other white nationalists — emboldened by the election of President Donald Trump — streamed into the college town for one of the largest gatherings of white supremacists in a decade. Some dressed in battle gear.

Afterward, Trump inflamed tensions even further when he said “both sides” were to blame, a comment some saw as a refusal to condemn racism.

According to one of his former teachers, Fields was known in high school for being fascinated with Nazism and idolizing Adolf Hitler. Jurors were shown a text message he sent to his mother days before the rally that included an image of the notorious German dictator. When his mother pleaded with him to be careful, he replied: “we’re not the one (sic) who need to be careful.”

Fields is eligible for the death penalty if convicted of separate federal hate crime charges. No trial has been scheduled yet.

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One person has been killed and 10 others wounded in a shooting in the eastern French city of Strasbourg, police say.

The gunman has been identified and is being actively looked for, they added.

The French Interior Ministry confirmed a “serious public security incident” in the city, and residents in the Neudorf area have been urged to stay indoors.

The shooting is said to have happened close to a Christmas market in one of the central squares, Place Kleber.

Security officials have cordoned off the area and trams have been stopped, according to reports.

The motive for the attack is unclear, but the Christmas market has been the object of Islamist threats in the past, Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.

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Eyewitness Peter Fritz told the BBC he heard gunfire and found a person who had been shot, lying on a bridge. He said he tried to resuscitate him but the man died.

Some unconfirmed reports said three people had died.

Local journalist Bruno Poussard wrote on Twitter that there had been a dozen shots fired on his street in the city centre – one or two to begin with, then in bursts.

Emmanuel Foulon, a press officer for the European Parliament, wrote that there was “panic” in the centre following the sound of gunfire and that police with guns were running through the streets.

Strasbourg deputy mayor Alain Fontanel tweeted: “Shooting in downtown Strasbourg. Thank you all for staying home while waiting for a clarification of the situation.”

A shopkeeper told BFM TV: “There were gun shots and people running everywhere. It lasted about 10 minutes.”

The European Parliament, which has a base in Strasbourg, was sealed off with no-one able to leave or enter the building.

British MEP Richard Corbett tweeted that he was in a restaurant in the city and the doors had been locked.


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BEIJING—A former Canadian diplomat who researches North Korea and other issues for a global monitoring group has been detained in China.

Michael Kovrig, a senior adviser with Brussels-based nonprofit International Crisis Group, was detained after traveling to China this month to work on a research report on North Korea, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday.

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The Trump administration is planning a major change to a clean water rule in the United States, exempting certain types of creeks and bodies of water from federal protection in a move that may have wide-ranging impacts.

The proposal — a campaign promise to farmers who say the regulation created too many regulatory burdens — would remove federal protection on bodies of water like creeks and streams that are only wet after it rains, but federal officials do not have data on the number of bodies of water it would impact.

The change would also reduce protections on wetlands that aren’t connected to larger bodies of water.

“Our goal is a more precise definition that gives the American people the freedom and certainty to do what they do best, build homes, grow crops, develop projects, then improve the environment and the lives of their fellow citizens,” said EPA Acting Commissioner Andrew Wheeler.

The new definition of what counts as a “Water of the United States” is intended to clarify years of legal wrangling over the rule, which at this point is effective in some states but not others. Trump has often said the Waters of the Unites States rule, known as WOTUS, had such a beautiful name but was a disaster, citing concerns from farmers and developers that it put too many restrictions on their work.

American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall and representatives from farm bureaus in all 50 states attended the rule signing Tuesday. Farmers have widely criticized the previous WOTUS rule, saying it was expensive, imposed too many restrictions, and duplicated state and local rules.

It’s unclear exactly how many streams or creeks the rule would impact. Previous EPA estimates found that about 60 percent of streams in the U.S. flow inconsistently due to rain on seasonal changes, but not all of those would be impacted by the new rule. That number includes both streams that only flow after it rains, known as ephemeral, and intermittent streams that can be impacted by seasonal changes or groundwater. Ephemeral streams would no longer be federally protected under the Trump administration’s proposal but not all intermittent streams would be impacted equally.

Dave Ross, assistant administrator in the EPA’s water office, said they know how many bodies could lose federal protection under the proposal because that data doesn’t exist.

“Right now there really isn’t a map that shows how many are in our out,” Ross told reporters on Monday.

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But he said EPA will be working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, states, and tribal leadership to collect data to map out the changes. An EPA spokesperson confirmed there are generally more non-perennial streams in the west and southwest parts of the country. Some states like California already have strict clean water rules on the local level, but other states may not have as many resources to enforce rules as the federal government.

Ross said the Trump administration’s proposal is more legal than scientific, saying EPA went through multiple Supreme Court cases going back to 1985 to inform the proposed new rule. The proposal includes a new method of planning for flood events that will include more recent data, but they did not do any modeling on the impacts of climate change on drought conditions, flooding, or rain events and how that could impact bodies of water when drafting the new rule.

“I think that probably tells you everything you need to know about this rule is that it’s probably a political line-drawing exercise,” said Blan Holman, a clean water expert with the Southern Environmental Law Center.

Holman said advocates are concerned about areas like the San Pedro River in Arizona, which relies on ephemeral streams for as much as half of its water flow.

“Do you really want somebody dumping pollution into one of these creek beds that that day is dry but then it’s going to rain the next day and then it’s going to wash into the San Pedro River?” he told ABC News.

He also said the Southern Environmental Law Center estimates a majority of wetlands in South Carolina could be at risk of losing protections under the proposed rule, depending on the specifics of the rule, which have not yet been released. Wetlands provide crucial habitat and help control flooding and advocates are concerned the looser protections will open them up to development.

The EPA’s proposal will be posted for 60 days of public comment.

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“The Guardians.”

That’s what Time magazine is calling the journalists behind 2018’s “Person of the Year,” which was revealed exclusively Tuesday morning on “Today.”

With a record number of reporters behind bars around the planet — the Committee to Protect Journalists documented 262 cases in 2017 — an avalanche of misinformation on social media and government officials from the United States to the Philippines dismissing critical, real reporting as “fake news,” Time is spotlighting a handful of journalists who have one thing in common: They were targeted for their work.

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For them, pursuing the truth has meant prison and harassment. In some cases, it has meant death.

Jamal Khashoggi

Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on May 2, 2012.Ali Haider / EPA-EFE file

The Washington Post columnist and United States resident penned columns critical of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — and was brutally killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, in October. The CIA has concluded with “high confidence” that bin Salman ordered his murder, although President Donald Trump has seemingly dismissed that assessment, saying: “It could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event — maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!”

The Capital Gazette

Capital Gazette victims clockwise from top left: John McNamera, Rebecca Smith, Rob Hiaasen, Gerald Fischman and Wendi Winters.Baltimore Sun Media Group; via Facebook

Four journalists and a sales associate were gunned down in a mass shooting at Maryland’s state capital newspaper in June.

Authorities said the assailant — who had sued the newspaper and lost after it reported on his guilty plea in a criminal harassment case — targeted the paper in a “coordinated attack.”

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo

Detained Reuters journalist Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo arrive at Insein court in Yangon, Myanmar.Ann Wang / Reuters

A judge in Myanmar sentenced the pair of Reuters journalists to seven years in prison in September. Their crime? Breaking a colonial-era state secrets law while reporting on the military’s mass killing of Rohingya Muslims.

Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa, CEO and executive editor of Rappler, attends a court hearing in Pasig City, Philippines, on Dec. 7, 2018.Francis R. Malasig / EPA

The former CNN bureau chief started the online news site “Rappler” in 2012 and has reported critically on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, that coverage earned the site a “campaign of legal harassment” from Duterte’s Department of Justice.

CORRECTION (Dec. 11, 2018, 11:35 a.m.): An earlier version of this article misstated when the Capital Gazette mass shooting took place. It was in June, not July.

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President Trump and the 2016 campaign amount to a footnote in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s sentence filings on Michael Cohen, despite the news media’s heavily overstated narrative that the whole thing is about to blow the lid on a White House “felony.”

The documents are almost exclusively an indictment of Cohen as a tax evader and serial liar. The link to Trump, or of any allegation of wrongdoing on his behalf, has nowhere near the clarity liberals want you to believe.

One of Mueller’s filings demonstrates that Cohen repeatedly lied to Congress and to the Justice Department about the timeline of a business deal in Russia that he had pursued on behalf of the Trump Organization.

The other document is much worse for Cohen in detailing his own conduct.

“[T]he crimes committed by Cohen were more serious than his submission allows and were marked by a pattern of deception that permeated his professional life (and was evidently hidden from the friends and family members who wrote on his behalf),” the document reads at the start.

It goes on to accuse Cohen of evading $1.4 million in federal taxes by way of a taxi medallion scheme and by neglecting to claim sources of revenue, such as $30,000 in profit “from the sale of a rare and highly valuable French handbag.”

Just a reminder that I’m citing a court document on the crimes of Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer for Donald Trump, and not quoting the script of a movie starring Zsa Zsa Gabor.

The Mueller document also lays bare Cohen’s defrauding of banks that loaned him money. He failed to disclose to them millions of dollars of his personal debt and expenses.

Only after those astonishing revelations does the special counsel delve into the 2016 campaign and the payments to two porn actresses who allegedly had separate affairs with Trump. The document says that Cohen “admitted” that he “acted in coordination with and at the direction of [Trump]” and that Cohen “acted with the intent to influence the 2016 presidential election.”

Cohen, with the threat of harsh penalties related to tax evasion and lying to Congress, told prosecutors he committed the campaign finance violations.

[Related: Trump says Michael Cohen should serve a ‘full and complete’ prison sentence]

But Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer, maintains that the payments were legal, meant to settle lawsuits unrelated to the campaign, and that at least the one made to Stormy Daniels was the for the purpose of protecting the Trump family. This argument has been used successfully before a jury to justify a candidate’s secret, private payments to a mistress. The defendant in that case was former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.

What the Mueller documents make clear is that, in addition to being a tax fraud and liar, Cohen wasn’t much of a fixer. Cohen was able to temporarily quiet affair allegations from two women with more than $200K between them, and yet there’s no evidence either of them would have changed the results of the election if they had been made public.

What’s worse: Separate consensual affairs (which, again, Trump denies) or an audio recording of Trump saying his stardom grants him license to grab women by the crotch? The “Access Hollywood” video came out Oct. 8, 2016. Trump won the election one month later.

What’s worse: Two women who pose nude for a living gleefully selling their stories about Trump’s penis, or the list of nearly 20 women who over the course of the campaign accused Trump of inappropriate sexual conduct? Woman after woman came forward to accuse Trump of assault or general creepiness. Trump still won the election.

Daniels’ story about her supposed affair with Trump was so riveting that InTouch interviewed her about it in 2011 and only remembered seven years later. Incredibly, the interview wasn’t published until May of this year.

Maybe Trump did knowingly and deliberately violate campaign finance rules by using money to hush up two porn stars. But the Cohen documents don’t say that. Instead, they say that Cohen was a tax cheat and a liar. Trump and the campaign are an afterthought.

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