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Friday, February 24, 2017 8:22:07 AM

Full Show - Ted Nugent: We Are Winning - 02/20/2017

Published on Feb 20, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg / http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel , http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel/videos ]

On this Monday, Feb. 20th 2017 edition of the Alex Jones Show [with appearances by Jerome Corsi and Roger Stone], we'll discuss Trump's ongoing battle against establishment politicians and media outlets. Constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein joins the program to explain the legality of some of Trump's more controversial policies. The Motor City Madman, rock legend Ted Nugent also joins this broadcast to share his thoughts Trump administration's first month and how the left is handling it, and about the potential of Nugent running for office in 2018.

Trump’s Labor nominee oversaw ‘sweetheart plea deal’ in billionaire’s underage sex case

Labor secretary nominee Alexander Acosta’s involvement in the saga could be personally or politically awkward for President Donald Trump.
02/16/17 Updated 02/16/17
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/alexander-acosta-trump-jeffrey-epstein-plea-235096 [with comments]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_aIrHAxkDQ [with comments]

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Pence Joins The Globalists

Published on Feb 21, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

Today, President Trump named the National Security Advisor replacement for Gen Flynn. Meanwhile, Vice-President Pence travelled to Munich on Saturday & Brussels on Monday where he channeled Neville Chamberlain in his attempt to appease the globalists. Despite declaring his undying loyalty to the EU, Pence & Trump were immediately slapped by the EU’s Tusk as representing “brute force, egoism & arrogance”.

[from the February 20, 2017 Infowars Nightly News]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9FC1rqtV60 [with comments]

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Donald Trump's foreign chaos

All In with Chris Hayes
2/20/17

Both the Vice President and the Secretary of Defense, traveling abroad, are trying to walk back or explain some of President Trump's more inflammatory and confusing comments. Duration: 5:23

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/donald-trump-s-foreign-chaos-881281091586

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Robby Mook: Russia can do to GOP what they did to Hillary

All In with Chris Hayes
2/20/17

Amid news of a back channel between Trump associates and pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine, the former Clinton campaign manager calls for an independent commission to investigate any links between Trump world and Russia. Duration: 4:57

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/robby-mook-russia-can-do-to-gop-what-they-did-to-hillary-881282115795

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Pursuit of shady oligarch a test of DoJ integrity under Trump

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/20/17

Rachel Maddow reports on the murky overlap between Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash, Vladimir Putin, and the Donald Trump campaign and alerts viewers to watch for whether the Department of Justice under Trump continues to pursue a case against Firtash. Duration: 21:00

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pursuit-of-shady-oligarch-a-test-of-doj-integrity-under-trump-881324611851 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8GIVHivbkI [with comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128883766 and preceding (and any future following)]

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New Trump NSA pick, McMaster, known for speaking truth to power

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/20/17

Courtney Kube, NBC News national security producer, talks with Rachel Maddow about the record and reputation of Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, chosen today by Donald Trump to serve in the National Security Adviser position vacated by Mike Flynn. Duration: 5:56

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-trump-nsa-pick-mcmaster-known-for-speaking-truth-to-power-881330755973 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb2XlsL7tIY [with comments]

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Trump deportation memos show stripping of immigrant protections

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/20/17

Franco Ordoñez, White House correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers, talks with Rachel Maddow about new drafts of Trump administration memos on changes to immigration enforcement. Duration: 7:12

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-deportation-memos-show-stripping-of-immigrant-protections-881345091856

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The most dangerous man in Trump's world

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/20/17

There's a way to remove Donald Trump from office without impeachment. It comes from another section of the Constitution – and the man who controls most of that power is Trump's Vice President: Mike Pence. Duration: 10:53

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/the-most-dangerous-man-in-trump-s-world-881331779817 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atrrVuRqMOs [with comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128885786 and preceding and following, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128889749 and preceding and following]

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Trump attacks on the press out of an authoritarian playbook

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/20/17

Trump continues to denounce the media as "fake news" – which, as Republican Sen. John McCain says, is how dictatorships start. Lawrence discusses with MTV's Ana Marie Cox and Susan Glasser, who was based in Moscow 2001 to 2004 and co-wrote "Kremlin Rising." Duration: 4:48

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/trump-attacks-on-the-press-out-of-an-authoritarian-playbook-881333315673

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Lawrence on 'the enemy of Trump lies'

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/20/17

Donald Trump calls the media "the enemy of the American people." Lawrence says that really means the media is the enemy of Trump lies – a title Lawrence says he will proudly accept. Duration: 4:15

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-on-the-enemy-of-trump-lies-881334851578 [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128888381 and preceding and following, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128889792 and preceding and following]

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Reporter to Pence: Should European leaders listen to you or...

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/20/17

Vice Pres. Mike Pence was part of a team the White House sent to speak with European leaders, and Pence was press on seemingly conflicting messages from Trump and others in his administration. Duration: 3:21

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/reporter-to-pence-should-european-leaders-listen-to-you-or-trump-881345603808

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What we know about Trump's Natl. Security Adviser Gen. McMaster

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/20/17

MSNBC Military Analyst Gen. Barry McCaffrey has known Pres. Trump's new National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster for years. He shares what he knows about the new member of Team Trump. Duration: 5:18

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/what-we-know-about-trump-s-natl-security-adviser-gen-mcmaster-881343555641

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One month in, the Trump presidency has been anything but usual

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/20/17

Donald Trump is now one month in to his presidency, and so far it's been a roller coaster ride. MSNBC's Brian Williams takes a look back day by day of month one. Duration: 3:29

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/one-month-in-the-trump-presidency-has-been-anything-but-usual-881342019684 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1VDYuQdqFM [with comments]

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Milo Is A Victim Of Sexual Abuse, Does Not Promote Pedophilia

Published on Feb 20, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

Alex Jones covers the latest on accusations by globalist controlled media that Milo Yiannopoulos is promoting pedophilia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utgpi2AcAfI [with comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) the other current reply to the post to which this is a reply, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128898668 , and following]

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Is Milo Promoting Child Rape?

Published on Feb 20, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwLiU6YqeBs [with comments]

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Secret Enemy Of Donald Trump Discovered

Published on Feb 20, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S86sVssbNYE [with comments]

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Sorry ISIS, You Lost The Title Of 'Enemy Of The American People'

Published on Feb 21, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig/videos ]

Even the world's most ruthless terrorist organization can't displace the mainstream media as President Trump's most despised group.

[originally aired February 20, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzKiSoSn9qA [with comments]

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Never Fjorget What Happened In Sweden

Published on Feb 20, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

In response to Trump's false claims of a terror attack, Sweden's Prime Minister asked, 'What has he been smoking?' Stephen has a theory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbN4QGhrkxg [with (over 4,000) comments]

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Trump Attacks the Press, Gets Mocked by Sweden: A Closer Look

Published on Feb 20, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVTyTA7-g9nopHeHbeuvpRA / http://www.youtube.com/user/LateNightSeth , http://www.youtube.com/user/LateNightSeth/videos ]

Seth takes a closer look at Trump hitting the 2020 campaign trail, attacking the press and Sweden's reaction to his false claim of a terrorist attack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5iBZ-8wkdQ [with comments]

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Full Show - Google Partner Bans Conservative Advertising - 02/21/2017

Published on Feb 21, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

On the Tuesday, Feb. 21st 2017 transmission of the Alex Jones Show, we break down the controversy surrounding Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopolous, continue looking at the migrant crisis raping its way through Europe, and examine how congressional Republicans are throwing wrenches in Trump's agenda. On today's show, Alex Jones talks with former Congressman Curt Weldon and investigative journalist Jerome Corsi about the Clinton's and the former Congressman goes all out revealing just how much dirt he has on the Clinton crime family. And former CIA operative Robert David Steele reveals the inside baseball on the deep state going after Trump. Also, author and activist Mike Cernovich breaks down the globalist coup within Trump's administration. And investigative journalist Tim Pool joins the program to discuss his future trip to Sweden.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OeY0AFdqoE [with comments]

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LIVE: Milo Press Conference - Free Speech Under Attack

Streamed live on Feb 21, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq09BEp8Z_8 [with comments] [and again, see also in particular (linked in) the other current reply to the post to which this is a reply, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128898668 , and following]

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After Emanuel shooting, Dylann Roof stopped at another AME church in Jedburg

A list of churches was found in Dylann Roof's car after he was arrested in North Carolina following the shooting at Emanuel AME Church. New documents show he stopped at a second AME church shortly after killing nine people at Emanuel on June 17, 2015.
February 21st 2017
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The pastor at Branch AME told the Associated Press on Wednesday that he was shocked to hear his church may have also been targeted by Roof. But, he said no one was at the church that night, fortunately.
The Rev. Rufus Berry said he canceled a Bible study scheduled for the Branch AME Church in Jedburg on the evening of June 17, 2015 because he was late getting off from his regular job.
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http://abcnews4.com/news/emanuel-ame-shooting/after-emanuel-shooting-dylann-roof-stopped-at-another-ame-church-in-jedburg

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Why Google Wants To Censor The Internet - Revealed

Published on Feb 21, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw058T-TWJA [with comments]

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What Somalia Got Wrong: Special Report

Published on Feb 21, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYlHg65wQYg [with comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=116290235 and preceding and following]

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Ignorant Media Set To Red-Pill The Masses

Published on Feb 22, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

90 Independent cinemas in the US to show 1984 as a Trump protest.

Leading US locations Alamo Drafthouse, IFC Center, and Film Society of Lincoln Center - will screen the film on 4 April.

The move is surely going to wake up the next generation to the reality that Trump is the enemy of Ingsoc, which is why they've gone into overdrive trying to destroy him and the movement that elected him.

[from the February 21, 2017 Infowars Nightly News]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgjD664zaVw [with comments]

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Trump finally condemns anti-Semitic attacks

All In with Chris Hayes
2/21/17

After twice declining to condemn the rise in anti-Semitism, the president spoke out today - though plenty remain unsatisfied. Duration: 7:03

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-finally-condemns-anti-semitic-attacks-882071619871

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Town hall eruptions for Republicans

All In with Chris Hayes
2/21/17

Town hall meetings across the country bring angry constituents to the forefront for Republican members of Congress. Duration: 4:46

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/town-hall-eruptions-for-republicans-882071619631 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KhVeM1eKZc [with comments]

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Rep. Maxine Waters: Trump advisors with Russia ties are ‘scumbags’

All In with Chris Hayes
2/21/17

The Democratic congresswoman from California calls the president’s friends and advisors with ties to Russia and oil and gas interests ‘a bunch of scumbags.’ Duration: 2:57

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-maxine-waters-trump-advisors-with-russia-ties-are-scumbags-882069059871 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CIf7A2CvQs [with comments]

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Democratic recruiters see new zeal for public service in office

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/21/17

Rachel Maddow reports on the surge in enthusiasm that Democratic Party officials are seeing while recruiting new candidates for local legislative office, and the energized crowds that members of Congress are encountering in their home districts. Duration: 23:33

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democrats-see-new-zeal-among-new-candidates-882113091802 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHwiaAzHjR4 [with comments]

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CIA analyst quits over Trump disregard for intelligence

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/21/17

Edward Price, former CIA analyst and NSC spokesman, talks with Rachel Maddow about how his dismay and alarm at the conduct of the Trump administration led him to quit a job he thought he'd never leave. Duration: 7:31

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/cia-analyst-quits-over-trump-disregard-for-intelligence-882137667672

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FEC commissioner resigns citing 'dysfunction and deadlock'

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/21/17

Ann Ravel, former FEC commissioner, talks with Rachel Maddow about why her frustration with the lack of action by the Federal Election Commission led her resign to find a better way to serve the public. Duration: 7:46

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fec-commissioner-quits-citing-dysfunction-and-deadlock-882140227835

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Donald Trump makes GOP town halls great again

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/21/17

The same day red-state GOP lawmakers were screamed at about Trump's agenda, Trump denounced anti-Semitism at DC's African American History Museum. Steven Goldstein, Exec. Dir. of the Anne Frank Center, says words don't make up for actions. David Corn also ... more Duration: 10:55

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/donald-trump-makes-gop-town-halls-great-again-882137155870

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The GOP's conversion to a 'political sociopath'

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/21/17

Conservative commentator George F. Will left Fox News and the Republican Party over his views of Trump – who he has called a "political sociopath" (and much more). Will joins Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss why intellectual conservatism and Trumpism are incompatible. Duration: 10:54

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/the-gop-s-conversion-to-a-political-sociopath-882135107713

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Mental health experts say Trump is unfit to serve

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/21/17

Some psychologists and psychiatrists are speaking out about Trump because of a duty to warn. Lawrence talks to two experts with this view: Dr. Lance Dodes and Dr. John Gartner, whose online petition of mental health professionals has more than 26,000 signatures. Duration: 6:26

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/mental-health-experts-say-trump-is-unfit-to-serve-882688067737

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The SCOTUS case testing Trump's national security powers

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/21/17

The Trump Administration will be closely watching a Supreme Court case that may be a test U.S.-Mexico relations, as well as Trump's national security power. MSNBC's Ari Melber discusses with immigration lawyer David Leopold and political commentator Ana Marie Cox. Duration: 6:14

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/the-scotus-case-testing-trump-s-national-security-powers-881939011694

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After days of questions, Trump denounces anti-Semitism

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/21/17

For some critics of the Trump White House, the President's comments denouncing anti-Semitism were too little too late. MSNBC's Brian Williams speaks to his panel of political experts. Duration: 9:45

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/after-days-of-questions-trump-denounces-anti-semitism-882146883834

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'Panic, fear, & terror' over Trump changes to immigration policy

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/21/17

The Dept. of Homeland Security has outlined changes to immigration policy. MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to immigration reporter Alan Gomez of USA Today to get the sober facts. Duration: 2:25

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/-panic-fear-terror-over-trump-changes-to-immigration-policy-882147907527

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Voters shout down Republican lawmakers at town hall

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/21/17

Don't call it a vacation! On a break and back in their districts, GOP lawmakers are facing down furious voters. MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to Charlie Sykes. Duration: 4:58

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/voters-shout-down-republican-lawmakers-at-town-hall-882144835803

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Today Trump Honored Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington And... Ben Carson

Published on Feb 22, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The President makes a speech at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and somehow manages to make it all about himself.

[originally aired February 21, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6OJfviiUJY [with comments]

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Jordan Peele Revives Obama Impression

Published on Feb 21, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers

Jordan does his Barack Obama impersonation for Seth and speculates what the former president is thinking about the country right now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu2U-zOyWkA [with comments]

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‘Have You No Ethics?’: Anne Frank Center Chief Slams CNN’s Trump Surrogate

This debate on live TV got heated fast.
02/22/2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/anne-frank-center-cnn-kayleigh-mcenany_us_58ad2004e4b04a0b274e181a , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kHDBG5sgSw [embedded; with comments]

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Jamie Foxx Target Of Racial Slur While Out Dining [in Croatia]
The two men involved have been charged with disorderly conduct.
02/22/2017 Updated February 22, 2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jamie-foxx-racist-slur-croatia_us_58ad936ae4b04a0b274e6570?76j63hroe191qncdi [with embedded videos]

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Poll: Majority of Americans Worried About War, Feel Favorably Toward NATO
Feb 22 2017
http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/data-points/poll-majority-americans-worried-about-war-feel-favorably-toward-nato-n723931

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National poll shows Trump popularity 'sinking like a rock'

President Donald Trump gestures after taking the oath of office during the 58th Presidential Inauguration on Jan. 20, 2017 in Washington, D.C.
February 22, 2017 Updated: February 22, 2017
President Trump’s “popularity is sinking like a rock” after just one month in office, according to a new Quinnipiac University Poll [ https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2431 ] released Wednesday.
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http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/National-poll-shows-Trump-popularity-sinking-like-a-rock.html [with comments]

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Trump's disapproval rating keeps creeping up

Despite President Donald Trump’s critical review of the press, which he repeatedly assails as “dishonest” and calls “fake news,” voters trust the media more than Trump.
02/22/17
A majority of voters disapprove of Donald Trump’s handling of the presidency, according to a Quinnipiac University poll [ https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/us/us02222017_Urj52hkb.pdf/ ] released Wednesday.
Less than five weeks into his presidency, Trump has an approval rating of 38 percent and a disapproval rating of 55 percent.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-disapproval-rating-235270 [with comments]

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Full Show - Infowars Under Attack: Defense Of Liberty 13 Hour Broadcast - 02/22/2017

Published on Feb 22, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

On this unprecedented Wednesday, Feb. 22 edition of the Alex Jones Show [with appearances by Roger Stone and Steve Pieczenik], we are broadcasting for 13 hours straight to underscore the war against free speech in America as the establishment attempts to curtail independent thought. Scott Greer of the Daily Caller explains how college campuses are turning Orwellian. Jordan Maxwell explains the false reality that we're living in, and at 8pm we present the Alex Jones AMA on Reddit. We also look into the destruction of the mainstream media as a series of upcoming sting videos reveal how CNN intentionally lies to its audience to control public opinion. MSNBC's Brzezinski even had the audacity to claim the media's job is to control "exactly what people think."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcbTBjldp14 [with comments] [live-streamed version at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt8Jmo3OfwU (with comments)]

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The Defense Of Liberty 13 Hour Special Broadcast - Infowars Being Shut Down - 02/22/2017

Streamed live on Feb 22, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

Alt-Right ‘PizzaGate Expert’ Starts GoFundMe for Her Podcast, Internet Revolts

Conservative activist and “PizzaGate expert” Brittany Pettibone.
01/30/17
http://observer.com/2017/01/gofundme-pizzagate-podcast-brittany-pettibone/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHoEl-wvs_Q [with comments]

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The Defense Of Liberty 13 Hour Special Broadcast: The Infowars Nightly News - 02/22/2017

Streamed live on Feb 22, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6mDVDNDuUs [with comments]

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The Defense Of Liberty 13 Hour Special Broadcast: Epic Alex Jones AMA - 02/22/2017

Streamed live on Feb 22, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NB8PEG63II [with comments]

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Avoiding questions about Trump’s mental health is a betrayal of public trust

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump walks off stage after speaking at a campaign event at St. Norbert College in Wisconsin, Wednesday, March 30, 2016.
(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

By Lee Siegel
February 22, 2017

Just about every week, the media invites a psychiatrist or psychologist to admonish other psychiatrists or psychologists for calling Donald Trump mentally ill. This has become the default recourse when it comes to the question of Trump’s mental health for a media relentlessly accused of being partisan, “fake,” and deliberately dishonest.

But leaving the question of Trump’s mental condition to a group of professionals is an avoidance strategy that is becoming more transparently irresponsible by the day.

Since Trump declared his intention to run for president, there has been speculation on his mental state. Terms like “narcissistic personality disorder” and “borderline personality” began to appear more and more frequently in references to him, both in the press, and in the words of his opponents and their proxies.

For journalists, the conflict over how and whether to address the issue is growing with every one of Trump’s outbursts. At what point do the news pages (in addition to the opinion pages) weigh in? Is there a danger of trivializing mental-health issues through armchair commentary? Is this even a useful storyline, given that the president’s true mental state is essentially unknowable to any outsider, not least reporters?

The journalistic conflict came to a head about a week ago with the publication, on two consecutive days, of two letters in The New York Times. The first [ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/opinion/mental-health-professionals-warn-about-trump.html ], written by two psychiatrists and signed by, as the Times stated, “33 other psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers,” began by attributing the “silence from the country’s mental health organizations”—and by implication, the media where these organizations could make themselves heard—to the “American Psychiatric Association’s 1973 Goldwater rule,” an edict that must have been as obscure to other readers as it was to me. This rule, the letter explained, prohibited the psychological evaluation of public figures.

The decree came in response to a survey published during the presidential election in 1964 by Fact, a muckraking magazine published by Ralph Ginzburg, known for his legendary run-ins with the Supreme Court over the issue of obscenity. Fact asked 12,356 psychiatrists if they believed Senator Goldwater was “psychologically fit” to be president. Of the 2,417 people who responded, 1,189 said that they believed Goldwater was not. Goldwater successfully sued Ginzburg on defamation charges, the suit eventually reaching the Supreme Court, which refused to overturn the lower court’s decision.

Alarmed by the incident, the APA concluded that such speculation about a politician’s mental health by mental health professionals who had not examined him or her was “irresponsible, potentially stigmatizing, and definitely unethical.” The APA then published the Goldwater Rule as an annotation in a book called the “Principles of Medical Ethics with Annotations Especially Applicable to Psychiatry.” The organization feared that such speculation would make the public lose faith in the profession. The authors and signatories of the letter that appeared in the Times disagreed. They argued that “too much is at stake to be silent any longer.”

The next day, another psychiatrist named Allen Frances, the chairman of the task force that compiled the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV—the diagnostic bible of the psychiatric profession—laid into the previous letter. He lamented [ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/opinion/an-eminent-psychiatrist-demurs-on-trumps-mental-state.html (and see in particular {linked in} http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128832391 and preceding {and any future following})] “fevered media speculation” that has “encouraged mental health professionals to disregard the usual ethical constraints against diagnosing public figures at a distance.”

Frances explained that he “wrote the criteria that define narcissistic personality disorder,” the condition some mental health professionals, and journalists, have said they believe Trump suffers from. But, Frances asserts, Trump does not meet those criteria “because he does not suffer from the distress and impairment required to diagnose mental disorder.” He goes on to argue that:

Mr. Trump causes severe distress rather than experiencing it and has been richly rewarded, rather than punished, for his grandiosity, self-absorption and lack of empathy. It is a stigmatizing insult to the mentally ill (who are mostly well behaved and well meaning) to be lumped with Mr. Trump (who is neither).

Frances concludes his argument that no mental health professional who has not examined Trump should be allowed to publicly say what he thinks Trump’s psychological motivations might be by declaring that Trump’s “psychological motivations are too obvious to be interesting.” A few days later, a Times writer on mental health issues, Richard Friedman, concurred, also citing the Goldwater rule and adding his own new wrinkle: judging Trump mentally ill would let him “off the moral hook.”

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Six and a half years ago, the Times entered this morass, in a Sunday Review piece [ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/opinion/sunday/what-happened-to-obamas-passion.html ] speculating about the mental state of former president Obama. Drew Westen, a professor of psychology at Emory University, wrote about what he saw as Obama’s passivity, a trait that progressives and some liberals had loudly complained about. Calling it a “character defect,” Westen speculated that Obama suffered from a “deep-seated aversion to conflict,” was caught in a “pattern of presenting inconsistent positions with no apparent recognition of their incoherence,” and displayed “tic-like gestures of compromise.” He finished his essay by stating that Obama did not “know who he is and what he believes in.”

There was indeed an outcry against Westen for presuming to speculate about Obama’s state of mind—though Westen hid the term “psychology” in the folds of the word “character.” It is quaint now, almost surreal, to think of Obama as mentally unfit to be president. But at the time, Westen’s essay, for all the anger and indignation it provoked in some quarters, was accepted as part of the legitimate democratic discourse about a president’s state of mind and motives.

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It was the sociologist Christopher Lasch who made the term and the clinical condition “narcissism” famous when he published his bestselling 1979 book, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. Lasch argued that a host of economic factors, especially rampant consumerism, had converged to make people self-obsessed and self-loathing, hyper-competitive and afraid of competition, cut off from reality, erratic, unempathetic, angry, vindictive. Recent arguments that the stock market’s unprecedented gains are proof of the business community’s faith in Trump, and therefore evidence of his mental fitness, would have made Lasch smile.

There are plenty of flaws in Lasch’s jeremiad, as there are in any set of sweeping generalizations about a society. But many of Lasch’s perceptions could just as well have been written yesterday. As a result of people disappearing into their own psyches, radically estranged from other people and from social norms, “truth has given way to credibility, facts to statements that sound authoritative without conveying any authoritative information.” Rival commercial claims for a product have the general effect of “[blurring] the distinction between truth and falsehood in a fog of plausibility.” (To drive home his point, Lasch cites the example of Nixon’s press secretary, Ron Ziegler, who at one point “admitted that his previous statements on Watergate had become ‘inoperative.'”)

Lasch’s most prescient insights are about individual character. The narcissistic personality, Lasch wrote, will “display… the prevailing obsession with celebrity and a determination to achieve it even at the cost of rational self-interest and personal safety. The narcissist divides society into two groups: the rich, great, and famous on the one hand, and the common herd on the other. … [Narcissists] worship heroes only to turn against them when their heroes disappoint them. … The narcissist admires and identifies himself with ‘winners’ out of his fear of being labeled a loser. … his admiration often turns to hatred if the object of his attachment does something to remind him of his own insignificance.” Lasch did not allow himself to get lost in pondering the question of whether narcissistic personality disorder should be considered mental illness. For Lasch, a person possessing such traits was able to function on various levels of practical endeavor, but unable to function as a rational or trustworthy member of society; that is to say, as a human being capable of kindness, empathy and attentiveness to others people’s reality. And Lasch was not even talking about presidents.

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Up to now, Trump’s behavior has been analyzed as political inexperience, everyday insecurity, lack of attention span, calculated disruption, autocratic eruptions—even relished as a type of diversion that can be satirized by comedians. Whenever the question of his mental fitness is explicitly raised, the professionals are brought in to declare the issue unethical.

The most frequent argument is that calling Trump mentally ill, and deriving from that judgment the conclusion that he is therefore unfit to serve in the White House, will stigmatize mentally ill people. Yet every sane person knows that there are as many varieties of mental illness as there are varieties of what passes for mental health—and that sometimes the line between the two is blurry, arbitrary, or downright illusory. And who among us is so certain of his or her own sanity not to doubt it from time to time?

As cavalier as this may sound, mental illness does not need to be professionally diagnosed. We don’t need to be told by a doctor that the guy who is coughing and sneezing at the other end of the train car is probably sick, though we don’t know if it is a cold, the flu, bronchitis, pneumonia, or an allergy. All we know is that the safe thing to do is to stay away from him. When someone is compulsively lying, continuously contradicting himself, imploring the approval of people even as he is attacking them, exalting people one day and abusing and vilifying them the next, then the question of his mental state is moot. The safe thing to do is not just to stay away from him, but to keep him away from situations where he can do harm.

In a different set of circumstances, it would be better for the press to ignore the question of a president’s mental fitness altogether. But this is not a normal set of circumstances. There is not necessarily, to use what has become an obnoxious buzz phrase, a “new normal.” There is either a shift from what we are used to that occurs within the boundaries of what is rationally and morally acceptable, or there is a shift from what we are used to that occurs outside those boundaries. We are now in the latter situation. It is new, but it is anything but normal.

If you watched Trump’s news conference last Thursday and thought, “This is Trump talking” then you would not have been sensitive to the profound transformation in the country that has occurred beneath all the distracting upheavals. But if you watched from a distance, as it were, thinking, “This is the American president talking,” then you would have been alarmed in a new kind of way.

Psychiatrists can and should argue about whether they should speculate publicly about Trump’s mental state. But it would be a mistake to marginalize that issue by specializing it and leaving it to the psychiatrists. The mental condition of the president of the United States is as legitimate a subject of journalistic concern as it is of everyday conversation.

No journalist or editor needs to be told that there is both cause and justification for addressing the question of Trump’s mental condition. Everyone knows that, if the question were addressed in a systematic way, it would have to be done in the kind of detached, objective, rational manner that would give it credibility. Especially in the current moment, when Trump has turned the press into an automatic scapegoat for his own missteps, the media would have to be very careful how it raised the subject.

Op-eds questioning Trump’s sanity would have to be counterbalanced by op-eds asserting his sanity; reporters recording doubts about Trump’s sanity among ordinary people as well as politicians and former statesmen would have to present opposing opinions; editorials concluding that he is mentally unfit to be president would have to acknowledge the arguments against and the perils of saying so, and the possible ensuing consequences.

The manner in which the question of Trump’s mental health has to be handled once it is raised is obvious, of course. The more contentious question has been whether to raise it, and to keep raising it. At this point, not to do so, especially for journalists, is a betrayal of the public trust, a denial of human nature, and an insult to posterity.

Lee Siegel is the author of five books and the recipient of a National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism. His forthcoming book, The Draw: A Memoir, will be published in April.

© Copyright 2017 Columbia Journalism Review

http://www.cjr.org/analysis/trump-mental-health.php

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As SEALs Fought For Their Lives, Trump’s Account Sent And Deleted A TV Tweet
The president[, who was at the White House,] was not in the Situation Room that evening. But his Twitter account, at least, was active.

President Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka board Marine One at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 1, 2017.
02/22/2017 Updated February 23, 2017
WASHINGTON - As a team of elite U.S. commandos found themselves under unexpectedly heavy fire in a remote Yemeni village last month, eight time zones away, their commander in chief was not in the Situation Room.
It’s unclear what he, personally, was doing. But his Twitter account was busy promoting an upcoming appearance on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
“I will be interviewed by @TheBrodyFile on @CBNNews tonight at 11pm. Enjoy!” read a tweet from President Donald Trump [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/donald-trump ]’s personal account [ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump ] on Saturday, Jan. 28.
Whether it was Trump himself or an aide who sent out that tweet at 5:50 p.m. [ http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/#/archive ] - about half an hour into a firefight that cost a Navy SEAL his life - cannot be determined from the actual tweets, and the White House isn’t saying. Likewise, it’s not clear who deleted the tweet some 20 minutes later, or why the new president, just a week on the job, chose not to directly monitor the first high-risk military operation on his watch.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-yemen-raid-twitter_us_58ae0acbe4b057efdce8c07c [with embedded video]

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Former Aides Explain How They Shielded Trump From Twitter Destruction
A steady diet of praise kept tantrums at bay.
02/22/2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-twitter_us_58ade36be4b03d80af71bdef?96lkhzc1h6fbyy14i [with embedded video]

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Chief digital officer steps down from White House job over background check

Getty

By Tara Palmeri and Daniel Lippman
02/22/17 02:16 PM EST

White House Chief Digital Officer Gerrit Lansing was among the six staffers who were dismissed from the White House last week after being unable to pass an FBI background check, according to sources.

A source close to Lansing said the issue with the background check was over investments.

Lansing previously led the digital department for the Republican National Committee.

The background check, security questionnaire SF86, must be completed by White House staffers for positions that cover national security.

President Donald Trump's director of scheduling, Caroline Wiles, was also among the six staffers who did not pass the intensive FBI screening. She is the daughter of Susan Wiles, Trump’s Florida campaign director. Caroline Wiles resigned Friday before the background check was completed.

She was appointed deputy assistant secretary before the inauguration in January. Two sources close to Wiles said she will get another job in the Treasury Department.

Lansing left Feb. 9; his official file says he left on his accord.

The intensive background check includes questions on the applicant's credit score, substance use and other personal subjects.

© 2017 POLITICO LLC

http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2017/02/gerrit-lansing-trump-digital-chief-ousted-235268 [with comments]

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Police Are Investigating Online Threat To Muslim Activist Linda Sarsour
The incident will be treated as “aggravated harassment,” the NYPD says.

Muslim activist Linda Sarsour received online threats last week.
02/22/2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/muslim-activist-linda-sarsour-threatened-on-social-media_us_58adfcc0e4b05ca474a05192

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Trump Rescinds Rules on Bathrooms for Transgender Students

Several hundred protesters outside the White House on Wednesday chanted, “No hate, no fear, trans students are welcome here.”
FEB. 22, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/us/politics/devos-sessions-transgender-students-rights.html [with comments] [an earlier version of this article at/see (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128919531 and preceding and following]

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Trump: Budget proposal will focus on spending cuts
It's one of three major upcoming legislative proposals
Trump is aiming to release his budget blueprint by mid-March
February 22, 2017 Updated February 22, 2017
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/22/politics/white-house-budget-donald-trump/ [with embedded videos]

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What Trump Means for the World’s Poorest People

It seems likely that humanitarian aid to countries like Haiti will decline during the Trump Administration, but by how much is less obvious.
February 22, 2017
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/what-trump-means-for-the-worlds-poorest-people

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Mexico slams US immigration plan as Tillerson arrives
Tensions in US-Mexico relations are at a high not seen in decades
Trump has railed against Mexico and NAFTA
February 22, 2017 Updated February 22, 2017
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/22/politics/tillerson-kelly-trip-to-mexico/ [with embedded video]

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Mexico will not accept Trump's immigration plans, says foreign minister
As US envoys visit Mexico City for talks, Luis Videgaray says his government will use the UN to defend migrants from deportation

Mexico’s foreign minister, Luis Videgaray, leaves the US Department of State after a meeting on 8 February in Washington.
22 February 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/22/mexico-trump-immigration-foreign-minister-luis-videgaray [with embedded video]

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Mexicans weigh the daunting prospect of deportee camps

Wilfredo Mendoza, of Boston, left, and Christina Villafranca, of Malden, Mass., right, displays a placards during a rally called "We Will Persist," Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, in Boston. According to organizers the rally was held to send a message to Republicans in Congress and the administration of President Donald Trump that they will continue to press for immigration rights and continued affordable healthcare coverage.
Feb. 22, 2017
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/e5b367d3be2d404d9d22316047a6d735/mexicans-weigh-daunting-prospect-deportee-camps

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Mexico may strike back. Here’s how.

A sign at the U.S.-Mexico border in Santa Teresa, N.M.
Editorial
February 22, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mexico-may-strike-back-heres-how/2017/02/22/5d1e8f56-f949-11e6-bf01-d47f8cf9b643_story.html [with comments]

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Mexico bristles at 'hostile' Trump deportation rules before U.S. talks
Feb 23, 2017
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mexico-idUSKBN16127O [with embedded video]

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Trump and Black History Month

President Trump attends a Black History Month event on February 1st, the same day he described Frederick Douglass as “somebody who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more.”
February 22, 2017
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-and-black-history-month [ http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-and-black-history-month?mbid=gnep&intcid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true ]

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Michael Moore explains how to stop Donald Trump

All In with Chris Hayes
2/22/17

Activist and Academy Award winning filmmaker Michael Moore joins Chris Hayes to talk about his ten point plan on how to stop Donald Trump. Duration: 11:18

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/michael-moore-explains-how-to-stop-donald-trump-882882627548

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Montana GOP chair warns too much voter turnout favors Democrats

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/22/17

Rachel Maddow reports on a special election in Montana to happen in the likely event that Rep. Ryan Zinke becomes Donald Trump's Interior Secretary, and the expressed concerns by the state Republican Party chairman that easier voting favors Democratic candidates. Duration: 19:03

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/montana-gop-chair-warns-too-much-voter-turnout-favors-democrats-882954307844 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuSUvWbI2To [with comments] [also at/see (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128964622 and preceding and following]

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GOP balks at cheaper way to reach more voters in Montana

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/22/17

Montana Governor Steve Bullock talks with Rachel Maddow about how a common sense solution to conducting a less-expensive statewide election turned into a partisan issue when the state Republican Party decided more voting is bad for them. Duration: 5:32

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-balks-at-cheaper-way-to-reach-more-voters-in-montana-882976323742

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Texas sheriff rejects immigration enforcement role

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/22/17

Sheriff Ed Gonzalez of Harris County, Texas, talks with Rachel Maddow about how asking his police officers to be immigration enforcers strains both department resources and the trust of the community. Duration: 8:57

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/texas-sheriff-rejects-immigration-enforcement-role-883006531988

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Kitchen table issues blur red/blue divide

The Rachel Maddow Show
[from the "Trump: The First Month" special which followed Rachel's show]
2/22/17

Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews and Brian Williams discuss the newly energized town hall meetings across the United States and what they mean in the broader context of U.S. politics. Duration: 7:14

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/kitchen-table-issues-blur-red-blue-divide-882993731688 [also, slightly edited, at http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/health-care-repeal-a-huge-issue-at-fiery-town-hall-events-882960963859 ], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CGr_p4FMgE [with comments]

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One month in, Russia factor looms over Trump White House

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
[from the "Trump: The First Month" special]
2/22/17

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow speaks to a team of national security experts [including Malcolm Nance] about the allegations of ties to Russia that still loom large for Pres. Donald Trump. Duration: 10:05

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/one-month-in-russia-factor-looms-over-trump-white-house-882970691519

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Thomas Friedman: Trump comments have been 'very worrisome'

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
[from the "Trump: The First Month" special]
2/22/17

After a month of the Trump presidency, New York Times columnist Thomas Friend joins MSNBC's Brian Williams and Chris Matthews to talk about the mixed messages coming from the White House. Duration: 7:43

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/thomas-friedman-trump-comments-have-been-very-worrisome-882966083933

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Fmr. CIA boss Panetta: I worry about 'chaotic' Trump presidency

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
[from the "Trump: The First Month" special]
2/22/17

In our special coverage, Trump: The First Month, MSNBC's Brian Williams speaks with former CIA Director and fmr. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta about the Trump presidency. Duration: 6:20

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/fmr-cia-boss-panetta-i-worry-about-chaotic-trump-presidency-882957379917

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What do town hall protests mean for Trump presidency?

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
[from the "Trump: The First Month" special]
2/22/17

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, Brian Williams, and Chris Matthews speak to Ezra Levin, co-author of 'Indivisible Guide' about how opponents of Trump may look to obstruction as a tactic. Duration: 9:10

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/what-do-town-hall-protests-mean-for-trump-presidency-882973763600

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Trump Bravely Calls Slavery 'Not Good'

Published on Feb 23, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

America's highest office has gone from home of 'The Great Communicator' to home of 'The Guy In Need Of A Thesaurus.'

[originally aired February 22, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x96JSyxNMk8 [with comments]

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Infowars' Alex Jones Is Trump's CAPS LOCK Advisor

Published on Feb 23, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Trump's new confidant is a right-wing conspiracy theorist whose rants are best enjoyed on mute.

[originally aired February 22, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-HUbdEAxo8 [with (over 8,000) comments]

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If 'President Trump' Is Hard To Say, Try 'Senator Kid Rock'

Published on Feb 23, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Kid Rock is running for Senate in Michigan, and there's only one man standing in his way.

[originally aired February 22, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uH7Hk65lUI [with comments]

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The Late Show Presents: Presidential Leak-Crets

Published on Feb 23, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Late Show welcomes an anonymous, Stephen-shaped guest who spills the beans from inside Trump's White House.

[originally aired February 22, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzMHZMeMIXI [with comments]

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Trump's Wall and Immigration Policies: A Closer Look

Published on Feb 22, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers

Seth takes a closer look at the Trump administration's major changes to immigration policy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh1v74YFpSs [with comments]

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Late Night White House Press Conference

Published on Feb 22, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers

Seth holds his own press conference with President Donald Trump.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac_C6Js3Iac [with comments]

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‘Goodbye, Racist!’: Passengers Cheer As Unruly Man Gets Booted From Plane
“This is not Trump’s America!”
02/23/2017 Updated February 23, 2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alleged-racist-kicked-off-plane_us_58ae514ee4b05ca474a0a9c3 [with embedded video]

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A majority of Americans are embarrassed by President Trump

February 23, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/02/23/a-majority-of-americans-are-embarrassed-by-president-trump/ [with embedded video, and comments]

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Nearly six in 10 don’t think Trump understands the complicated problems a president faces
February 23, 2017
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nearly-six-in-10-dont-think-trump-understands-the-complicated-problems-a-president-faces/

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Poll: More Americans Trust The Media Than Donald Trump

President Donald Trump takes questions from reporters during a news conference on February 16, 2017.
Feb 23, 2017
Despite President Donald Trump’s relentless attacks on the “fake news” media, a new poll [ http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/22/media/trump-media-trust-quinnipiac/ ] from Quinnipiac University finds that more Americans trust the media than Donald Trump.
A majority of Americans, 52%, said they trust the news media over Donald Trump to tell the truth about important issues. Only 37% said they trusted Trump more.
"The media, so demonized by the Trump Administration, is actually a good deal more popular than President Trump," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
[...]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brettedkins/2017/02/23/poll-finds-that-more-americans-trust-the-media-than-donald-trump/

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GOP lawmakers cling to Trump at their peril

President Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
By Jennifer Rubin
February 23, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/02/23/gop-lawmakers-cling-to-trump-at-their-peril/ [with comments]

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Alan Colmes, co-host of ‘Hannity & Colmes’ and liberal in ‘lion’s den’ of Fox News, dies at 66

February 23, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/alan-colmes-co-host-of-hannity-and-colmes-and-liberal-in-lions-den-of-fox-news-dies-at-66/2017/02/23/e95ddfae-f9d9-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html [with comments]

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Trump on deportations: 'It's a military operation'
February 23, 2017 Updated February 23, 2017
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/23/politics/donald-trump-deportation-military/ [with embedded video]

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Trump touts recent immigration raids, calls them a ‘military operation’
February 23, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/23/trump-touts-recent-immigration-raids-calls-them-a-military-operation/ [with embedded video, and comments]

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Federal agents in Texas move hospitalized Salvadoran woman awaiting emergency surgery to a detention facility

The Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, is seen in this Sept. 15, 2016, photo.
February 23, 2017
A critically ill woman from El Salvador who was awaiting emergency surgery for a brain tumor was forcibly moved from a Texas hospital to a detention center by federal agents, raising concerns about President Trump [ http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-all-things-trump ]’s directive to more aggressively pursue people living in the country illegally.
Sara Beltran-Hernandez, 26, a mother of two young children, was bound by her hands and feet and removed by wheelchair from Huguley Hospital in Fort Worth late Wednesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who brought her to a detention facility in Alvarado, Texas.
[...]
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-hospital-seizure-20170223-story.html [with comments]

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Alt-right leader expelled from CPAC after organizer denounces ‘left-wing fascist group’

By David Weigel and John Wagner
February 23, 2017

Richard Spencer, a founder of the alt-right movement that seeks a whites-only state and that strongly backed Donald Trump for president, was expelled from the Conservative Political Action Conference after being criticized from its main stage, then giving interviews to a growing crowd of reporters.

“People want to talk to me,” Spencer told NBC News from outside the Gaylord National Harbor complex. “They don’t want to talk to these boring conservatives. They want to learn about ideas whose time has come, not whose time has passed.”

Spencer, who has frequently attended CPAC without incident, became a minor media sensation during and after the 2016 election. One of the first speeches at this year’s conference challenged the media to stop referring to the alt-right as conservative.

“There is a sinister organization that is trying to worm its way into our ranks,” said Dan Schneider, the executive director of the American Conservative Union, which runs CPAC. “We must not be deceived by [a] hateful, left-wing fascist group.”

Over a few confusing minutes, Schneider argued that the alt-right was philosophically left-wing because it departed from his definition of conservatism, in which “the individual” is sovereign.

“They hate the Constitution. They hate free markets. They hate pluralism,” Schneider said. “Fascists tend to want big government control.”

The argument wasn’t unique — in “Liberal Fascism [ https://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Fascism-American-Mussolini-Politics/dp/0767917189 ],” the National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg drew a zigging line from the fascism of the 1930s to the welfare state liberalism of the Clinton/Obama era. But it made little impact in the conference’s main ballroom, and a few listeners walked out.

One of the walkouts came from Spencer himself, who attracted such a large crowd of reporters that security staff asked him to move away from the entrance, which was rapidly being blocked. More and more cameras and recorders were shoved toward Spencer as he reminded reporters that the self-appointed guardians of conservatism had trusted Trump long after the alt-right had.

“’Donald Trump isn’t a conservative’ — that’s what they were saying a year ago,” said Spencer.

As the throng of reporters moved, Spencer was stopped by JP Sheehan, a CPAC attendee wearing a black-and-gold Make America Great Again baseball cap.

“Praise kek!” said Sheehan, posing for a selfie with Spencer and repeating a meme that had been adopted by the alt-right. “He’s the coolest guy.”

The growing crowd attracted more nervous attention from security, and after a few more minutes, they arrived to expel Spencer.

“I’m not welcome on the property?” Spencer asked.

“I’m not going to debate this,” said the guard. “This is private property. They want you off the property.”

After Spencer asked if he could stay if he would simply “stay out of trouble,” he said a hashtag — “Free Spencer” — into the cameras, and posed for another photo as he was taken outside.

Spencer, who became somewhat infamous after leading a cry of “hail Trump, hail victory, hail our people” at an NPI conference, was gone. But nationalist themes remained in the mix all day. When White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon took the stage, he joked that Breitbart News, where he had been CEO, used to hold forums with controversial speakers, under the title “The Uninvited.”

“Everybody’s a part of our conservative family,” said the ACU’s president, Matt Schlapp.

© 2017 The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/02/23/cpac-organizer-denounces-alt-right-as-left-wing-fascist-group/ [with embedded videos, and comments]

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Steve Bannon’s not-so-subtle threat to the media

By Chris Cillizza
February 23, 2017

It's no secret that Stephen K. Bannon, the past chairman of Breitbart News and now a senior strategist to the president, is behind much of Trump's anti-media rhetoric. The idea of the media as the “opposition party” or the “enemy" — two phrases Trump has used of late to describe those who cover him — is pure Bannon.

So, there was no reason to think that Bannon was going to be anything but confrontational with the media during a joint appearance with Trump White House chief of staff Reince Priebus at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday afternoon.

But, even by Bannon's standards, he seemed to ramp up his attacks on the media and offer a very clear message to political journalists: You think this is bad? Just wait.

“It's going to get worse every day for the media,” Bannon said, insisting that the “corporatist” media would continue to see Trump pursue exactly the sort of economic nationalism that journalism allegedly despises. Then he added this call to arms: “If you think they are giving you your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken.”

The message from Bannon was unmistakable: The enemy of Donald Trump and those who think like him is not, really, Democrats but, in actuality, the media. And the only way to combat the media is to fight like hell against them on everything and anything.

As I've noted before, presidents (and their staffs) always have an adversarial relationship with the press. The administration insists the press isn't telling the story of the White House right. The press complains about a lack of access to the key players in the White House. It's been that way for as long as I can remember.

But what Bannon and, by extension, Trump are up to is something very different than simply an adversarial working relationship with the media. Bannon doesn't want to change the media. He wants to totally dismantle the media. He wants to break its back and leave it for dead by the side of the road. And he's not afraid of telling the media to their faces about that plan.

That was the message Bannon wanted to get across at CPAC. That Trump — and he — would never back down. That the perceived scorn of the so-called “mainstream media” only made him more convinced that the course Trump is taking is right. And that things are going to get plenty worse for the media over the next four years.

It's a remarkable declaration of all-out war on the media from one of the most powerful people in the Trump White House.

© 2017 The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/23/steve-bannons-not-so-subtle-threat-to-the-media/ [with embedded video, and comments] [also at/see (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128963219 and following]

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Full Show - The War Against The Fake-Stream Media Begins - 02/23/2017

Published on Feb 23, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

On this Thursday, Feb. 23 edition of the Alex Jones Show [with Jon Rappoport guest-hosting the fourth hour], we will begin with a rebroadcast of last night's Reddit AMA with Alex. On today's broadcast constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein will be discussing how Trump should deal with the military-industrial-complex. Also, former U.S. Army intelligence officer and survivalist author James Wesley Rawles will explain how Micro SD cards can be used to clandestinely transmit messages and photos. We'll cover the Veritas Project's CNN leaks, the ongoing fight against illegal immigration and much more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC_45yw6cfM [with comments]

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Donald Trump Must Go | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ

Published on Feb 23, 2017 by GQ [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsEukrAd64fqA7FjwkmZ_Dw / http://www.youtube.com/user/GQVideos , http://www.youtube.com/user/GQVideos/videos , http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0hKMB1-xkc-XWNf9VL-LxVYysdHpjyMF ]

Donald Trump is not fit for his office.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWnyG0brpSg [with comments]

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Bannon: Trump’s war with press ‘going to get worse’

Hardball with Chris Matthews
2/23/17

Kasie Hunt joins Chris to discuss Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon’s joint appearance at CPAC and their controversial remarks about Trump’s relationship with the press. Duration: 7:53

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/hardball/watch/bannon-trump-s-war-with-press-going-to-get-worse-883703875669

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Report: Priebus asked FBI to refute Russia stories

All In with Chris Hayes
2/23/17

Former Justice Department Spokesperson Matt Miller says White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus “has to go” if the report is true that he asked the FBI to knock down stories about communications between Trump and Russia. Duration: 7:11

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/report-priebus-asked-fbi-to-refute-russia-stories-883746371737

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Muslim adviser quits after 8 days of Trump admin.

All In with Chris Hayes
2/23/17

Rumana Ahmed quit her job as a senior adviser at the National Security Council just eight days after Donald Trump took the oath of office. Duration: 6:13

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/muslim-adviser-quits-after-8-days-of-trump-admin-883746371908

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The town halls are working

All In with Chris Hayes
2/23/17

As constituents around the country continue to confront lawmakers, the effort to repeal Obamacare is going in the wrong direction for the GOP. Duration: 4:41

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-town-halls-are-working-883742787890

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Maddow: Is the Trump administration stupid or nefarious?

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/23/17

Rachel Maddow reviews a litany of mistakes and infractions committed in the opening month of the Trump administration and wonders if they're a sign of malice or just incompetence. Duration: 21:01

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-is-the-trump-administration-stupid-or-nefarious-883783747527 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qft97GKiF4 [with comments] [also at/see (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128966626 and preceding (and any future following)]

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Trump indifference to responsibility reckless, dangerous

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/23/17

Colin Kahl, former national security adviser to Vice President Biden, talks with Rachel Maddow about the uncomfortable mix of incompetence and malice at play within the Donald Trump administration. Duration: 9:03

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-indifference-to-responsibility-reckless-dangerous-883801667887

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Pruitt mails show lobbyists seeking puppet

The Rachel Maddow Show
2/23/17

Rachel Maddow looks at new reporting into newly confirmed EPA chief Scott Pruitt's e-mails as Oklahoma AG that includes not only a close look at his ties to the oil and gas industry but also his role in a horrifically botched execution. Duration: 7:39

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pruitt-mails-show-lobbyists-seeking-puppet-883810371725

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The most powerful person in the Trump White House

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/23/17

Lawrence explains why Donald Trump's Chief Strategist, Steve Bannon, proved he's the real power center of the Trump White House with his appearance at CPAC. Lawrence discusses the Bannon vision with David Corn and Christopher Dickey. Duration: 16:22

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/the-most-powerful-person-in-the-trump-white-house-883809859826 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9NXz7qRjLE [with comments]

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Trump's mental health: 'The elephant in the room'

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/23/17

As psychologists and psychiatrists continue to warn about President Trump's mental health, the Columbia Journalism Review called Trump's mental health "the elephant in the room. Lee Siegel, who wrote the CJR column, and Dr. Lance Dodes join Lawrence. Duration: 7:04

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/trump-s-mental-health-the-elephant-in-the-room-883814979800

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Bannon & Priebus take Trump's 'new political order' to CPAC

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/23/17

MSNBC's Brian Williams and his panel of experts discuss the day's biggest headlines including the vision of America laid out by Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus during their CPAC appearance. Duration: 9:36

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/bannon-priebus-take-trump-s-new-political-order-message-to-cpac-883831875513

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VP Pence: Activists at town halls won't stop Obamacare repeal

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/23/17

Reacting to the scenes of anger from constituents at town halls across the country, Vice Pres. Mike Pence says they won't stop the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Duration: 4:42

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/vp-pence-activists-at-town-halls-won-t-stop-obamacare-repeal-883821635683

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What will Trump say at CPAC? Let's look at his past appearances

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/23/17

Not since Reagan has a first term Republican president been to CPAC. On Friday, Donald Trump will change that. We preview his speech with a look back at his past CPAC appearances. Duration: 1:54

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/what-will-trump-say-at-cpac-let-s-look-at-his-past-appearances-883826243586

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The One Bathroom Privilege Trump Won't Take Away: Toilet-Tweeting

Published on Feb 24, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

There are now tighter rules on who's allowed in school bathrooms than who's allowed in the Oval Office. (Thursday monologue pt. 1)

[originally aired February 23, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwdZVbVvEL8 [with comments]

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'Real News Tonight': A Reliable Source For News Trump Will Like

Published on Feb 24, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

After learning that staffers allegedly planted flattering news stories to stave off Trump Twitter tirades, Stephen offers to help out. (Thursday monologue pt. 2)

[originally aired February 23, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLsFOnkxmOw [with comments]

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Advice For Avoiding Campaign Scandals: Get It Out There

Published on Feb 24, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

In his effort to get out ahead of any embarrassing campaign revelations, Arizona senatorial candidate Noah Dyer opted for an epic overshare. (Thursday monologue pt. 3)

[originally aired February 23, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQpck6ZW2Vc [with comments]

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Republicans Face Town Hall Protests, Trump Golfs: A Closer Look

Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07

"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790

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