Wednesday, February 08, 2017 5:46:23 AM
Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles
Kellyanne Conway, left, Hope Hicks, Jared Kushner, Stephen K. Bannon, Reince Priebus and Stephen Miller, all members of President Trump’s senior staff, last month at the White House.
Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
President Trump, leaving the White House last month, has been increasingly frustrated that his whirlwind start has not been sufficiently appreciated.
Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
Mr. Bannon, the chief strategist, and Mr. Priebus, the chief of staff, are the two clashing power centers of Mr. Trump’s White House.
Al Drago/The New York Times
By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMAN
FEB. 5, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Trump loves to set the day’s narrative at dawn, but the deeper story of his White House is best told at night.
Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room. Visitors conclude their meetings and then wander around, testing doorknobs until finding one that leads to an exit. In a darkened, mostly empty West Wing, Mr. Trump’s provocative chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, finishes another 16-hour day planning new lines of attack.
Usually around 6:30 p.m., or sometimes later, Mr. Trump retires upstairs to the residence to recharge, vent and intermittently use Twitter. With his wife, Melania, and young son, Barron, staying in New York, he is almost always by himself, sometimes in the protective presence of his imposing longtime aide and former security chief, Keith Schiller. When Mr. Trump is not watching television in his bathrobe or on his phone reaching out to old campaign hands and advisers, he will sometimes set off to explore the unfamiliar surroundings of his new home.
During his first two dizzying weeks in office, Mr. Trump, an outsider president working with a surprisingly small crew of no more than a half-dozen empowered aides with virtually no familiarity with the workings of the White House or federal government, sent shock waves at home and overseas with a succession of executive orders [ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/us/politics/trump-agenda-tracker.html ] designed to fulfill campaign promises and taunt foreign leaders.
“We are moving big and we are moving fast,” Mr. Bannon said, when asked about the upheaval of the first two weeks. “We didn’t come here to do small things.”
But one thing has become apparent to both his allies and his opponents: When it comes to governing, speed does not always guarantee success.
The bungled rollout of his executive order barring immigrants [ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/us/trump-refugee-ban-muslim-executive-order.html ] from seven predominantly Muslim countries, a flurry of other miscues and embarrassments, and an approval rating lower than that of any comparable first-term president in the history of polling have Mr. Trump and his top staff rethinking an improvisational approach to governing that mirrors his chaotic presidential campaign, administration officials and Trump insiders said.
This account of the early days of the Trump White House is based on interviews with dozens of government officials, congressional aides, former staff members and other observers of the new administration, many of whom requested anonymity. At the center of the story, according to these sources, is a president determined to go big but increasingly frustrated by the efforts of his small team to contain the backlash.
“What are we going to do about this?” Mr. Trump pointedly asked an aide last week, a period of turmoil briefly interrupted by the successful rollout of his Supreme Court selection [ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/us/politics/supreme-court-nominee-trump.html ], Judge Neil M. Gorsuch.
Chris Ruddy, the chief executive of Newsmax Media and an old friend of the president’s, said: “I think, in his mind, the success of this is going to be the poll numbers. If they continue to be weak or go lower, then somebody’s going to have to bear some responsibility for that.”
“I personally think that they’re missing the big picture here,” Mr. Ruddy said of Mr. Trump’s staff. “Now he’s so caught up, the administration is so caught up in turmoil, perceived chaos, that the Democrats smell blood, the protesters, the media smell blood.”
One former staff member likened the aggressive approach of the first two weeks to D-Day, but said the president’s team had stormed the beaches without any plan for a longer war.
Clashes among staff are common in the opening days of every administration, but they have seldom been so public and so pronounced this early. “This is a president who came to Washington vowing to shake up the establishment, and this is what it looks like. It’s going to be a little sloppy, there are going to be conflicts,” said Ari Fleischer, President George W. Bush’s first press secretary.
All this is happening as Mr. Trump, a man of flexible ideology but fixed habits, adjusts to a new job, life and city.
Cloistered in the White House, he now has little access to his fans and supporters — an important source of feedback and validation — and feels increasingly pinched by the pressures of the job and the constant presence of protests, one of the reasons he was forced to scrap a planned trip to Milwaukee last week. For a sense of what is happening outside, he watches cable, both at night and during the day — too much in the eyes of some aides — often offering a bitter play-by-play of critics like CNN’s Don Lemon.
Until the past few days, Mr. Trump was telling his friends and advisers that he believed the opening stages of his presidency were going well. “Did you hear that, this guy thinks it’s been terrible!” Mr. Trump said mockingly to other aides when one dissenting view was voiced last week during a West Wing meeting.
But his opinion has begun to change with a relentless parade of bad headlines.
Mr. Trump got away from the White House this weekend for the first time since his inauguration, spending it in Palm Beach, Fla., at his private club, Mar-a-Lago, posting Twitter messages angrily — and in personal terms — about the federal judge [ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/827867311054974976 ] who put a nationwide halt on the travel ban. Mr. Bannon and Reince Priebus, the two clashing power centers, traveled with him.
By then, the president, for whom chains of command and policy minutiae rarely meant much, was demanding that Mr. Priebus begin to put in effect a much more conventional White House protocol that had been taken for granted in previous administrations: From now on, Mr. Trump would be looped in on the drafting of executive orders much earlier in the process.
Another change will be a new set of checks on the previously unfettered power enjoyed by Mr. Bannon and the White House policy director, Stephen Miller, who oversees the implementation of the orders and who received the brunt of the internal and public criticism for the rollout of the travel ban.
Mr. Priebus has told Mr. Trump and Mr. Bannon that the administration needs to rethink its policy and communications operation in the wake of embarrassing revelations that key details of the orders were withheld from agencies, White House staff and Republican congressional leaders like Speaker Paul D. Ryan.
Mr. Priebus has also created a 10-point checklist for the release of any new initiatives that includes signoff from the communications department and the White House staff secretary, Robert Porter, according to several aides familiar with the process.
Mr. Priebus bristles at the perception that he occupies a diminished perch in the West Wing pecking order compared with previous chiefs. But for the moment, Mr. Bannon remains the president’s dominant adviser, despite Mr. Trump’s anger that he was not fully briefed on details of the executive order he signed giving his chief strategist a seat on the National Security Council, a greater source of frustration to the president than the fallout from the travel ban.
It is partly because he is seen as having a clear vision on policy. But it is also because others who had been expected to fill major roles have been less confident in asserting their power.
Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, occupies a central role in the administration and has been present at most major decisions and photo ops, but he is a father of young children who has taken to life in Washington, and, along with his wife, Ivanka Trump, has already been spotted at events around town.
Mr. Bannon has rushed into the vacuum, telling allies that he and Mr. Miller have a brief window in which to push through their vision of Mr. Trump’s economic nationalism.
Mr. Bannon, whose website, Breitbart, was a magnet for white nationalists and xenophobic speech, has also tried to reassure official Washington. He has been careful to build bridges with the Republican establishment, especially Mr. Ryan — whom he once described as “the enemy” and vowed to force out. He now talks regularly with Mr. Ryan to coordinate strategy or plot their planned overhaul of the tax code.
Before he was ousted in November as transition chief, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, the Trump adviser with the most government experience, helped prepare a detailed staffing and implementation plan in line with the kickoff strategies of previous Republican presidents.
It was discarded — a senior Trump aide made a show of tossing it into a garbage can — for a strategy that prioritized the daily release of dramatic executive orders to put opponents on the defensive.
Mr. Christie, who agrees in principle with the broad strokes of Mr. Trump’s immigration policy, says the president has been let down by his staff.
“The president deserves better than the rollout he got on the immigration executive order,” Mr. Christie said. “The fact is that he’s put forward a policy that, in my opinion, is significantly more effective than what he had proposed during the campaign, yet because of the botched implementation, they allowed his opponents to attack him by calling it a Muslim ban.”
In the past few days, Mr. Trump’s team has stressed its cohesion and the challenges of jump-starting an administration that few outside its group ever thought would exist.
“This team spent months in the foxhole together during the campaign,” said Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary. “We moved into the White House as a unified team committed to enacting the president’s agenda.”
As part of Mr. Trump’s Oval Office renovation, he ordered that four hardback chairs be placed in a semicircle around his Resolute Desk now heaped, in Trump Tower fashion, with memos and newspapers. They are an emblem of Mr. Trump’s in-your-face management style, but also a reminder that in the White House, the seats always outlast the people seated in them.
But finding enough skilled players to fill key slots has not been easy: Mr. Spicer is serving double duty as communications director, a key planning position, in addition to engaging in day-to-day combat with the news media. Mr. Trump, several aides said, is used to quarterbacking his own media strategy, and did not see the value of hiring an outsider.
An early plan was to give the communications job to Kellyanne Conway, his former campaign manager and top TV surrogate, but the demands of the job would have conflicted with Ms. Conway’s other duties as a free-range adviser to Mr. Trump with Oval Office walk-in privileges, according to one aide.
Mr. Trump remains intensely focused on his brand, but the demands of the job mean he spends less time monitoring the news media — although he recently upgraded the flat-screen TV in his private dining room so he can watch the news while eating lunch.
He often has to wait until the end of the workday before grinding through news clips with Mr. Spicer, marking the ones he does not like with a big arrow in black Sharpie — though he almost always makes time to monitor Mr. Spicer’s performance at the daily briefings, summoning him to offer praise or criticism, a West Wing aide said.
Visitors to the Oval Office say Mr. Trump is obsessed with the décor — it is both a totem of a victory that validates him as a serious person and an image-burnishing backdrop — so he has told his staff to schedule as many televised events in the room as possible.
To pass the time between meetings, Mr. Trump gives quick tours to visitors, highlighting little tweaks he has made after initially expecting he would have to pay for them himself.
Flanking his desk are portraits of Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. He will linger on the opulence of the newly hung golden drapes, which he told a recent visitor were once used by Franklin D. Roosevelt but in fact were patterned for Bill Clinton. For a man who sometimes has trouble concentrating on policy memos, Mr. Trump was delighted to page through a book that offered him 17 window covering options.
Ultimately, this is very much the White House that Mr. Trump wanted to build. But while the world reckons with the effect he is having on the presidency, he is adjusting to the effect of the presidency on him. He is now a public employee. And the only boss Mr. Trump ever had in his life was his father, a hard-driving developer the president still treats with deep reverence.
With most of his belongings in New York, the only family picture on the shelf behind Mr. Trump’s desk is a small black-and-white photograph of that boss, Frederick Christ Trump [ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/us/politics/fred-donald-trump-father.html ].
© 2017 The New York Times Company
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/us/politics/trump-white-house-aides-strategy.html [with (over 3,000) comments]
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On foreign policy, Trump still speaking campaign language
In this Feb. 2, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump speaks during his meeting with House and Senate legislators in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. For all of the White House's early bravado, Trump has taken office with few concrete plans for how to make good on his pledge to unravel President Barack Obama's foreign policy and tackle some of the biggest national security challenges facing his administration.
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al Safadi at the State Department in Washington, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017.
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis answers questions during the joint press conference with Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017. During the news conference, Mattis says the U.S. cannot afford to ignore destabilizing moves by Iran, but has no plans to respond by increasing American military forces in the Middle East.
(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
By JULIE PACE
Feb. 4, 2017 8:53 AM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — For all the White House's early bravado, President Donald Trump has taken office with few concrete plans for how to make good on his pledge to unravel President Barack Obama's foreign policy and tackle some of the biggest national security challenges facing his administration.
In calls with European leaders, Trump is said to have described his plans for confronting the Islamic State group with the same hard-charging but vague rhetoric he used in the campaign, promising strong, but unspecified action.
Pressed privately by allies about how he plans to pursue a better relationship with Russia, Trump sticks with his public assertion that a better relationship with Moscow would be beneficial for the West. But he hasn't said how he plans to get there.
He's indicated in some of those same conversations that while he believes the Iranian nuclear accord is a bad deal, he will not move quickly to withdraw, according to U.S. officials and others with knowledge of Trump's discussions with world leaders.
Ambiguity was a hallmark of Trump's campaign. He has said he believes the U.S. should not tip its hand on national security matters. But the fact that Trump is using vague language in private discussions has left both allies and officials in his administration uncertain whether he has policies in mind to back up his rhetoric.
A town hall for National Security Council staff on Tuesday offered few clues on the administration's approach.
One official in attendance said that when Michael Flynn, Trump's national security adviser, and his deputy, KT McFarland, were asked to describe specifically what the president's "America First" mantra would mean for policy, they largely reiterated Trump's campaign assurances that he could put U.S. interests ahead of those of other countries.
Three U.S. officials and three others with knowledge of the White House's foreign policy dealings spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were restricted from discussing the president's private conversations and other internal matters publicly.
Trump has moved swiftly on the immigration-related national security issues that were the centerpiece of his campaign. He ordered the government to start work on his proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. He also signed a refugee and immigration executive order, though the decision-making was tightly held in the West Wing and the initial implementation chaotic. A federal judge late Friday put the order on hold; the White House promised to appeal.
"The team that we've seen in action over the last few weeks is the White House team," said Nicholas Burns, a longtime U.S. diplomat and professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. "That team is breaking a lot of china."
Trump, who spent his career in business before running for president, has shown keen interest in trade and America's economic standing with other countries in his discussions with foreign leaders. But his direction on many other foreign policy issues remains hazy.
He has pledged to destroy the Islamic State group, but hasn't said whether he will commit U.S. combat troops to do so. He's asked for a 30 day review of the policy.
He said he would stop North Korea from building a long-range nuclear missile, but hasn't said how. And he's made little mention of Afghanistan, where about 8,400 U.S. troops are still fighting America's longest war.
White House officials note that Trump is just getting Senate confirmation for his national security Cabinet secretaries, including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who was approved on Wednesday. Trump spokesman Sean Spicer has blamed Democrats for stalling on the president's nominees, saying lawmakers from the opposing party are "holding up the confirmation of these highly qualified people."
Some early moves by Trump officials have given hints about their priorities — and raised concerns within the administration.
Senior officials have been soliciting guidance from national security agencies on how to improve relations with Russia, asking what Washington could offer Moscow and what Trump should seek from Russian President Vladimir Putin. Tillerson requested a briefing on moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, one of Trump's campaign promises.
According to one U.S. official, national security aides have sought information about Polish incursions in Belarus, an eyebrow-raising request because little evidence of such activities appears to exist. Poland is among the Eastern European nations worried about Trump's friendlier tone on Russia.
At the National Security Council, a policymaking body within the White House, officials were startled when drafts began circulating of an executive order that would have opened the door to resuming torture and CIA "black site" prisons. NSC officials were asked to submit comments on the order, according to two U.S. officials, but the directive was ultimately scrapped, in part because Defense Secretary Jim Mattis opposed the measure.
Spicer insisted the order did not originate in the White House.
NSC officials did voice substantial concerns with the executive order halting the U.S. refugee program and temporarily banning all entries to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority nations. But officials said lengthy comments appeared to have been largely ignored by the Trump political advisers who oversaw the order, namely chief strategist Steve Bannon and senior policy adviser Stephen Miller.
While Flynn is involved in Trump's calls to foreign leader and in other national security discussions, officials say he so far does not appear to have the same level of influence as Bannon. Flynn is also said to have been more attuned to some of the troubles with the execution of the refugee and immigration ban than others in the White House.
But some officials fear the White House is taking the wrong lessons from the flawed rollout of the refugee ban.
Amid a flurry of leaks about that process, as well as leaked draft executive orders and details of the president's calls with foreign leaders, career officials and policy experts are being looked at with more suspicion and getting cut out of additional discussions, according to people with knowledge of the processes.
Those longtime policy hands fear their influence could be further marginalized by an in-house think tank Bannon is said to be working on. The project, known as the Strategic Initiatives Group, could focus on both foreign and domestic policy issues, potentially giving the president's chief strategist even broader sway in the administration.
Associated Press writer Bradley Klapper contributed to this report.
© 2017 Associated Press
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/foreign-policy-trump-still-speaking-campaign-language
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Donald Trump Says Your Opinions Are Fake If You Don’t Like His Policies
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.
6:01 AM - 6 Feb 2017
[ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/828574430800539648 (with {over 63,000} comments)]
The president is in dangerous territory referring to anything he doesn’t like as “fake news.”
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!
6:07 AM - 6 Feb 2017
[ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/828575949268606977 (with {over 59,000} comments)]
02/06/2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-negative-polls-fake_us_58988431e4b040613137c6ee [with comments]
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President Trump’s simplistic, illogical worldview, in one tweet
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.
6:01 AM - 6 Feb 2017
[ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/828574430800539648 (with {over 63,000} comments)]
President Trump speaks on the phone with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 28.
February 6, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/06/president-trumps-simplistic-illogical-worldview-in-one-tweet/ [with embedded video, and comments]
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Why Nobody Cares the President Is Lying
Bráulio Amado
By CHARLES J. SYKES
FEB. 4, 2017
MILWAUKEE — If President Trump’s first tumultuous weeks have done nothing else, at least they have again made us a nation of readers.
As Americans grapple with the unreality of the new administration, George Orwell’s “1984” has enjoyed a resurgence of interest, becoming a surprise best seller and an invaluable guide to our post-factual world.
On his first full day in office Mr. Trump insisted that his inaugural crowd was the largest ever, a baseless boast that will likely set a pattern for his relationship both to the media and to the truth.
At an event marking [ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/us/politics/trump-black-history-douglass.html ] Black History Month last week, the president took a detour from a discussion of Frederick Douglass — he described the abolitionist as “an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more” — to talk about the press. “A lot of the media is actually the opposition party — they’re so biased,” he said. “So much of the media is the opposition party and knowingly saying incorrect things.”
Mr. Trump understands that attacking the media is the reddest of meat for his base, which has been conditioned to reject reporting from news sites outside of the conservative media ecosystem.
For years, as a conservative radio talk show host, I played a role in that conditioning by hammering the mainstream media for its bias and double standards. But the price turned out to be far higher than I imagined. The cumulative effect of the attacks was to delegitimize those outlets and essentially destroy much of the right’s immunity to false information. We thought we were creating a savvier, more skeptical audience. Instead, we opened the door for President Trump, who found an audience that could be easily misled.
The news media’s spectacular failure to get the election right has made it only easier for many conservatives to ignore anything that happens outside the right’s bubble and for the Trump White House to fabricate facts with little fear of alienating its base.
Unfortunately, that also means that the more the fact-based media tries to debunk the president’s falsehoods, the further it will entrench the battle lines.
During his first week in office, Mr. Trump reiterated the unfounded charge [ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/802972944532209664 ] that millions of people had voted illegally. When challenged on the evident falsehood, Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, seemed to argue that Mr. Trump’s belief that something was true qualified as evidence. The press secretary also declined to answer a straightforward question about the unemployment rate, suggesting that the number will henceforth be whatever the Trump administration wants it to be.
He can do this because members of the Trump administration feel confident that the alternative-reality media will provide air cover, even if they are caught fabricating facts or twisting words (like claiming that the “ban” on Muslim immigrants wasn’t really a “ban”). Indeed, they believe they have shifted the paradigm of media coverage, replacing the traditional media with their own.
In a stunning demonstration of the power and resiliency of our new post-factual political culture, Mr. Trump and his allies in the right media have already turned the term “fake news” against its critics, essentially draining it of any meaning. During the campaign, actual “fake news” — deliberate hoaxes — polluted political discourse and clogged social media timelines.
Some outlets opened the door, by helping spread conspiracy theories and indulging the paranoia of the fever swamps. For years, the widely read Drudge Report has linked to the bizarre conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who believes that both the attacks of Sept. 11 and the Sandy Hook shootings were government-inspired “false flag” operations.
For conservatives, this should have made it clear that something was badly amiss in their media ecosystem. But now any news deemed to be biased, annoying or negative can be labeled “fake news.” Erroneous reports that the bust of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office or misleading reports that sanctions against Russia had been lifted will be seized on by Mr. Trump’s White House to reinforce his indictment.
Even as he continues to attack the “dishonest media,” Mr. Trump and his allies are empowering this alt-reality media, providing White House access to Breitbart and other post-factual outlets that are already morphing into fierce defenders of the administration.
The relationship appears to be symbiotic, as Mr. Trump often seems to pick up on talking points from Fox News and has tweeted out links from websites notorious for their casual relationship to the truth, including sites like Gateway Pundit, a hoax-peddling site that announced, shortly after the inauguration, that it would have a White House correspondent.
By now, it ought to be evident that enemies are important to this administration, whether they are foreigners, refugees, international bankers or the press.
But discrediting independent sources of information also has two major advantages for Mr. Trump: It helps insulate him from criticism and it allows him to create his own narratives, metrics and “alternative facts.”
All administrations lie, but what we are seeing here is an attack on credibility itself.
The Russian dissident and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov drew upon long familiarity with that process when he tweeted [ https://twitter.com/kasparov63/status/808750564284702720?lang=en ]: “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
Mr. Kasparov grasps that the real threat is not merely that a large number of Americans have become accustomed to rejecting factual information, or even that they have become habituated to believing hoaxes. The real danger is that, inundated with “alternative facts,” many voters will simply shrug, asking, “What is truth?” — and not wait for an answer.
In that world, the leader becomes the only reliable source of truth; a familiar phenomenon in an authoritarian state, but a radical departure from the norms of a democratic society. The battle over truth is now central to our politics.
This may explain one of the more revealing moments from after the election, when one of Mr. Trump’s campaign surrogates, Scottie Nell Hughes, was asked to defend the clearly false statement by Mr. Trump that millions of votes had been cast illegally. She answered by explaining that everybody now had their own way of interpreting whether a fact was true or not.
“There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts,” she declared. Among “a large part of the population” what Mr. Trump said was the truth.
“When he says that millions of people illegally voted,” she said, his supporters believe him — and “people believe they have facts to back that up.”
Or as George Orwell said: “The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” But Ms. Hughes’s comment was perhaps unintentionally insightful. Mr. Trump and company seem to be betting that much of the electorate will not care if the president tells demonstrable lies, and will pick and choose whatever “alternative facts” confirm their views.
The next few years will be a test of that thesis.
In the meantime, we must recognize the magnitude of the challenge. If we want to restore respect for facts and break through the intellectual ghettos on both the right and left, the mainstream media will have to be aggressive without being hysterical and adversarial without being unduly oppositional.
Perhaps just as important, it will be incumbent on conservative media outlets to push back as well. Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter. There may be short-term advantages to running headlines about millions of illegal immigrants voting or secret United Nations plots to steal your guns, but the longer the right enables such fabrications, the weaker it will be in the long run. As uncomfortable as it may be, it will fall to the conservative media to police its worst actors.
The conservative media ecosystem — like the rest of us — has to recognize how critical, but also how fragile, credibility is in the Orwellian age of Donald Trump.
Charles J. Sykes (@SykesCharlie), a former talk-show host in Wisconsin, is the author of the forthcoming “How the Right Lost Its Mind.”
© 2017 The New York Times Company
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/opinion/sunday/why-nobody-cares-the-president-is-lying.html [with comments]
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Full Show - Warning: Goldman Sachs Is Planning To Implode The Economy - 02/06/2017
Published on Feb 6, 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. 6th 2017 edition of the Alex Jones Show, we analyze Trump's fight against Soros foundations trying to radically alter America forever. Milo Yiannopoulos joins us to talk about the recent Berkeley riot and how the snowflake leftists are controlled like zombies by the power elite. Also, Washington insider Doug Hagmann reveals the ongoing war against pedophile rings in DC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2dZeGXp-R8 [with comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=124782441 and preceding and following, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128428382 and following, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128431364 and preceding (and any future following)]
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Bible Codes - The Proof of God
Published on Jul 4, 2012 by TheCompleteTruthBlog [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqQMh3rEZnadVHvqXanSsDA / http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCompleteTruthBlog , http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCompleteTruthBlog/videos ]
http://the-complete-truth.blogspot.co.uk/ - THE WHOLE STORY LINKED TOGETHER
This is a complete video examining the story of the Bible Codes and how they were discovered, Centuries ago Rabbi's spoke about the code hidden within the Torah or the first 5 books of the bible, with computer technology we can find them MUCH easier, and the Codes we have found deny any possibility of chance, believing these codes are ALL here by chance is like believing a man can be struck by lightning a million times consecutively, its just not reasonable to believe it happened by chance, it was put there by our Creator, and that same Creator will judge his creation one day, you prepared for that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYlKkIoavnA [with comments]
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Goldman Sachs Practicing Economic Terrorism Against Trump
Published on Feb 6, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLz4mZxoK0E [with comments]
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President Trump speaks at MacDill AFB: Allow those into US who 'want to love our country'
Published on Feb 6, 2017 by WFLA News Channel 8 [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDvJcb8Adv-_bOrtnRLmiDw / http://www.youtube.com/user/wflatv , http://www.youtube.com/user/wflatv/videos ]
President Donald Trump on Monday visited MacDill Air Force Base, which is the headquarters for U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command.
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Read President Trump's Speech Claiming the Press Doesn't Report Terror Attacks
Feb 06, 2017
TRUMP: Thank you, everybody.
(APPLAUSE)
Thank you very much. It's so nice. A lot or spirit. Great spirit for this country. Thank you all.
(APPLAUSE)
We have tremendous spirit, and I want to thank you.
We had a wonderful election, didn't we?
(APPLAUSE)
TRUMP: And I saw those numbers, and you liked me, and I liked you. That's the way it worked.
(LAUGHTER)
I'm honored to be here today among so many of our really and truly great heroes. I want to begin by thanking General Votel and General Thomas for their distinguished leadership and service on behalf of our country. Very, very outstanding people.
I'll also like to thank General Dunford, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. That's big stuff when you have the chairman.
Where is -- Joe, stand up for a second. This is one of the great people.
(APPLAUSE)
Thank you.
Also, Commander Vogel and everyone serving at MacDill Air Force Base. Quite a place. And we're going to be loading it up with beautiful new planes and beautiful new equipment. You have been lacking a little equipment. We are going to load it up. You are going to get a lot of equipment. Believe me.
(APPLAUSE)
So importantly, also let me thank all of the coalition partners and their representatives assembled here today.
We proudly, very proudly, stand with you. And we will be fighting for your security. They're fighting for our security and freedom.
TRUMP: Let me recognize our great governor and a very good friend of mine, and somebody who endorsed me. That makes him a better friend of mine.
(LAUGHTER)
If they don't endorse, believe me. If you're ever in this position, it's never quite the same, OK? You can talk, but it never means the same.
But this man is a great, great governor and has done a fantastic job. Rick Scott, governor, stand up, please.
(APPLAUSE)
Thank you, Rick.
Finally, on behalf of the entire nation, let me express our gratitude to all members. And I mean all members of our military serving in the United States Central Command and the United States Special Operations Command. We salute the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard, along with our civilian defense personnel who are so important to the success of what we're doing.
Let me also recognize the military families and spouses who bravely shoulder the burdens of war. I want every military family in this country to know that our administration is at your service. We stand with you 100 percent. We will protect those who protect us. And we will never, ever let you down.
As your president, I have no higher duty than to protect the American people, highest duty we have. I said it the other night. Great, great Supreme Court nominee. You all saw that.
(Inaudible) to myself, perhaps the only thing more important to me definitely is the defense of our nation. Supreme Court's so important. But we have to defend our nation. And we will do that, believe me.
(APPLAUSE)
We will do that. And each and every one of you is central to that mission.
The men and women serving in CENTCOM and SOCOM have poured out their hearts and souls for this country. They've really experienced things that very few people get to experience.
You've shed your blood across the continents and the oceans. You've engaged the enemy on distant battlefields, toiled in the burning heat and bitter cold, and sacrificed everything so that we can remain safe and strong and free.
Our administration will always honor our sacred bond to those who serve. And we will never, ever forget you. Believe me, we will never, ever forget you.
We will ensure that the men and women of our military have the tools, equipment, resources, training and supplies you need to get the job done. You've seen me say we've been depleted.
Our Navy is at a point almost as low as World War I. That's a long time ago. That's a long time ago. It's not going to happen anymore, folks. It's not going to happen anymore. Not with me.
But we will ensure no taxpayer dollars are wasted. I have already saved more than $700 million when I got involved in the negotiation on the F-35. You know about that.
And I want to thank Lockheed Martin. And I want to thank Boeing. And I want to thank all of the companies that have really opened up.
And when I say opened up, Rick Scott understands this very well. Opened up and cut their prices, OK. Because that's what they did. And we've got that program. It's going to be back in really great shape from really being very troubled. And we are going to be taking care of our great veterans.
We will make a historic financial investment in the Armed Forces of the United States and show the entire world that America stands with those who stand in defense of freedom. We have your back every hour, every day now and always. That also means getting our allies to pay their fair share. Been a very unfair to us.
We strongly support NATO. We only ask that all of the NATO members make their full and proper financial contributions to the NATO Alliance, which many of them have not been doing. Many of them have not been even close. And they have to do that.
TRUMP: Central Command and Central Operations Command are at the very center of our fight against radical Islamic terrorism. America stands in awe of your courage. Those serving at CENTCOM have bravely fought across the theater of war in the Middle East, and bravely battled a viscous enemy that has no respect for human life. Today we express our gratitude to everyone serving overseas, including our military personnel in Afghanistan.
SOCOM has dispatched its legendary warriors to the most secret, sensitive and daring missions in defense of the United States of America. No enemy stands a chance against our Special Force, not even a chance.
They don't have a chance. And that's the way we're going to keep it. And you're going to be better off because you're going to have the finest equipment known to man. Going to be better off.
The proof that our nation has been blessed by God, look no further than the men and women of the United States military. They are the greatest fighters and the greatest force of justice on the face of the earth, and that the world has ever known.
The challenges facing our nation, nevertheless, are very large, very, very large. We're up against an enemy that celebrates death and totally worships destruction. You've seen that.
ISIS is on a campaign of genocide, committing atrocities across the world. Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland, as they did on 9/11, as they did from Boston to Orlando to San Bernardino and all across Europe.
You've seen what happened in Paris and Nice. All over Europe it's happening. It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported. And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it. They have their reasons and you understand that.
So today we deliver a message in one very unified voice to these forces of death and destruction. America and its allies will defeat you. We will defeat them. We will defeat radical Islamic terrorism. And we will not allow it to take root in our country. Not going to allow it.
You've been seeing what's been going on over the last few days. We need strong programs so that people that love us and want to love our country and will end up loving our country are allowed in. Not people that want to destroy us and destroy our country.
(CHEERS)
(APPLAUSE)
Freedom, security and justice will prevail. In his first State of the Union message, President George Washington wrote that "to be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
Almost 200 years later, as the general was also speaking about Ronald Reagan, he said that "wisdom comes in three very, very strong words. Peace through strength."
I've said it many times during the campaign, speak it in front of tens of thousands of people at one sitting. And I'd always mention America first, a phrase that you probably never heard, "make America great again."
(CHEERS)
Anybody ever heard that?
(APPLAUSE)
And "peace through strength."
The men and women of the United States military provide the strength to bring peace to our troubled, troubled times. We stand behind you. We support your mission.
We love our country. We are loyal to our people. We respect our flag. We celebrate our traditions. We honor our heroes. You are our heroes. And we are prepared to fight. And we pray for peace.
Thank you. God bless you, and God bless America. Thank you very much.
(CHEERS)
Thank you. Thank you.
(APPLAUSE)
Thank you.
(UNKNOWN): Thank you very much.
(APPLAUSE)
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http://time.com/4661658/donald-trump-terror-attacks-speech-macdill-air-force-base/ [with embedded video] [official White House transcript at https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/06/remarks-president-trump-coalition-representatives-and-senior-us ]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe1LwxsGrNs [with comment]
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Trump Says Journalists ‘Have Their Reasons’ to Play Down Terror Threat
FEB. 6, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/us/politics/donald-trump-centcom.html [with embedded video]
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This Is Madness
Getty Brendan Smialowski
What about the people who might have to follow this guy's orders?
By Charles P. Pierce
Feb 6, 2017
Today, the president* went to McDill Air Force Base to chat with some of the members of the military of whom he is the commander-in-chief, god help the civilized world. His basic pitch to them is the same as his basic pitch to everyone these days—to wit, was that an awesome campaign or what?
"That's so nice. A lot of spirit. We have tremendous spirit. We had a wonderful election, didn't we?"
Then it was time to discuss the terrorist threat.
"To these forces of death and desiccation, America and it's allies will defeat you. We will defeat them. We will defeat Radical Islamic terrorism. The challenges facing our nation are very large — very, very large. We are up against an emery that celebrates death and worships destruction. Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland, as they did on 9/11, from Boston to Orlando to San Bernadino."
Not a single one of the terrorists involved in the referenced attacks came from any of the seven countries named in his executive order. Neither were any of them five-month old babies who needed heart surgeries.
"It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported. And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it… They have their reasons and you understand that."
Got that? There are terrorist attacks happening and the media not only are not reporting them, they don't want to report them because reasons. There probably was a massive truck bombing right at the end of your street last night and it didn't even make the local evening news because the anchor team of Todd Coiffure and Kim Kimclone are secretly sympathetic to ISIS and kept the news from you. Before we go to Tony al-Baghdadi with tonight's weather, here's a word from the great folks down at Caliphate Trucks.
This is madness. Worse, this is madness presented as leadership to the people who may have to react and respond to actual acts of actual terrorism, and who have bigger problems with which to cope than whether or not the C-in-C's elevator goes all the way to the penthouse. I have absolutely no idea what would go through the mind of a rookie airman who hears this fantastical drivel and wonders how he has come under the command of a guy who seems to be channeling Alex Jones through the fillings in his teeth. It's every day now, and I can't even imagine what a critical mass of this craziness would look like, and I'm pretty sure I don't want to know.
©2017 Hearst Communications, Inc.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a52873/trump-speech-military-terrorism/ [h/t arizona1, (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128481443 and preceding and following]
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The 50 Craziest Things Trump Has Done As President | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ
Published on Feb 6, 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 hasn’t even been president for a month yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bwj_CGFaEU [with (approaching 4,000) comments]
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Bill O'Reilly's exclusive interview with President Trump
Published on Feb 6, 2017 by Fox News [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXIJgqnII2ZOINSWNOGFThA / http://www.youtube.com/user/FoxNewsChannel , http://www.youtube.com/user/FoxNewsChannel/videos ]
Bill and President Trump discuss Iran, Mexico and the future of healthcare on 'The O'Reilly Factor'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8PLR9uzlhw [with comments]
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Putin Critic, Who Said He Was Poisoned in 2015, Falls Into Coma
Vladimir Kara-Murza has fallen into a life-threatening coma caused by an unknown poison, his wife said on Monday.
Al Drago/The New York Times
By ANDREW E. KRAMER
FEB. 6, 2017
MOSCOW — A leader of the Russian opposition who has been a vocal critic of what he calls a Kremlin policy of assassinating political enemies has fallen into a life-threatening coma caused by an unknown poison, his wife said on Monday.
The diagnosis of what ailed Vladimir Kara-Murza came at a delicate political moment for the United States and Russia [ https://www.nytimes.com/topic/destination/russia ], as President Trump had just brushed aside criticism of Russian President Vladimir V. Putin [ https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/vladimir-putin ] as a “killer.”
“There are a lot of killers,” Mr. Trump had said in the interview on Fox News on Sunday. “You think our country’s so innocent?” The Kremlin then demanded that Fox News apologize for the host Bill O’Reilly’s characterization of Mr. Putin.
In Moscow, Mr. Kara-Murza, 35, has been in a coma and at the center of a politically hued medical mystery since Thursday as doctors puzzled over his symptoms while keeping him alive on artificial respiration.
Mr. Kara-Murza suffered similar symptoms in 2015 [ https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/world/europe/vladimir-kara-murza-russia-opposition.html ] and later said he had been poisoned. Then, a French laboratory found elevated levels of heavy metals in his blood but was unable to pinpoint any specific poison.
Doctors determined the cause this time as “acute intoxication by an unidentified substance,” Mr. Kara-Murza’s wife, Yevgeniya Kara-Murza, said in an interview. His condition was stable but critical, she added.
“The onset was just as sudden as last time,” Ms. Kara-Murza said. “He is all surrounded by machines and covered in tubes.” Other than poisoning, she said, “We don’t see any other explanation.”
Ms. Kara-Murza said samples of her husband’s blood, hair and fingernails had been sent to laboratories in France and Israel in an effort to identify the mystery toxin.
After the 2015 episode, Mr. Kara-Murza recuperated in the United States and suffered lingering nerve damage for about a year, but returned to his political activism in Russia [ http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/russiaandtheformersovietunion/index.html ] despite threats. The leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov [ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/world/europe/chechnya-ramzan-kadyrov-donald-trump.html ], for example, posted a photograph of Mr. Kara-Murza in cross hairs.
Last month, Mr. Kara-Murza submitted a letter critical of Mr. Putin’s government to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during cabinet confirmation hearings for Rex W. Tillerson, the secretary of state.
“There are higher risks than slander or imprisonment for those who oppose the regime,” Mr. Kara-Murza wrote. In Russia, he had been traveling to provincial cities to show a documentary about another Russian politician, Boris Y. Nemtsov [ https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/world/europe/march-in-moscow-to-honor-putin-critic-boris-nemtsov.html ], who was shot and killed on a Moscow bridge two years ago.
On the Fox program, Mr. Trump said he respected Mr. Putin and hoped Russia and the United States could join forces to defeat Islamic terrorism. The host, Mr. O’Reilly, responded: “He’s a killer though. Putin’s a killer.” It was unclear whether the characterization referred to the unsolved assassination of dissidents, muckraking journalists and opposition politicians or allegations of war crimes in Syria, Ukraine or Chechnya.
The Kremlin’s spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, told reporters Monday that the description was “unacceptable, insulting.”
The Soviet Union operated a secret laboratory to research untraceable poisons that were tested on condemned gulag prisoners, security service defectors have said.
In 2006, a Russian law legalized targeted killing abroad. Russia has never acknowledged using the authority under that law and has specifically denied any government ties to high-profile poisoning cases.
But after whistle-blowers and opponents of Mr. Putin in recent years began dying from exotic poisons, including radioactive plutonium and a rare Himalayan plant toxin, critics of the Russian government and independent researchers have asserted that the post-Soviet government has turned again to its poison arsenal.
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The devastating “Saturday Night Live” caricature of Sean Spicer that aired over the weekend, played by Melissa McCarthy, did not go over well internally at a White House where looks matter.
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For Trump, it's not bad news. It's fake news.
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The president and his staff see paid protesters, made-up polls, and imaginary massacres everywhere they look. Duration: 8:50
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/for-trump-it-s-not-bad-news-it-s-fake-news-871401027638
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http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gen-mccaffrey-trump-is-betraying-the-people-who-voted-for-him-871398979761
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http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/-fake-news-so-called-judge-trump-attacks-media-courts-871479363506
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http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/gen-mccaffrey-trump-s-comments-on-putin-are-appalling-871476803640
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Trump Threatens To Pull Berkeley Funding After Protests
Published on Feb 6, 2017 by Mike Malloy [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpU4j-LN_aibXA1gONvWzxw / http://www.youtube.com/user/hschulein , http://www.youtube.com/user/hschulein/videos ]
President Donald Trump threatened to withdraw federal funding from the University of California at Berkeley over its decision to cancel an event at which Breitbart News writer Milo Yiannopoulos, known for his provocative and often misogynistic stances, was scheduled to speak.
“If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS?” Trump wrote on Twitter on Thursday morning.
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Full story:
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Published on Feb 7, 2017 by Mike Malloy
President Trump and his aides have repeatedly suggested that the executive order temporarily barring refugees and blocking citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States is an outgrowth of Obama administration policy.
Mr. Trump’s statement on Facebook, Jan. 29:
“The seven countries named in the
Executive Order are the same countries
previously identified by the Obama
administration as sources of terror.”
What really happened:
The seven countries were largely
chosen by the Republican-led Congress.
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[originally aired February 6, 2017]
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[originally aired February 6, 2017]
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Published on Feb 7, 2017 by Mike Malloy
[originally aired February 6, 2017]
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Is Steve Bannon the Real President? - The Daily Show
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA/videos ]
President Trump gets defensive after the media speculates that his chief strategist Steve Bannon may be the one who is really making major policy decisions at the White House.
[originally aired February 6, 2017]
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Stephen Colbert's Exclusive Post-Game Interview With President Trump
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig/videos ]
When our host sat down with the leader of the free world, no topics were off-limits, including the New England Patriots, Lady Gaga, and Vladimir Putin.
[originally aired February 6, 2017]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cE-rz6R8lA [with comments]
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Big Game Review: Are You Ready For Some Locker Room Talk?
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen looks back at the shocking win by the Patriots, Lady GaGa's spot-on halftime performance, and the party attended by President Trump.
[originally aired February 6, 2017]
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Trump Is Literally Keeping His Staffers In The Dark
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen chats with one of the President's staffers who just can't seem to find a working light switch at The White House.
[originally aired February 6, 2017]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYWa1ahbQRg [with comments]
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Trump Says Voter Fraud. Stephen Says Bull.
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen looks into President Trump's claim that three to five million people voted illegally and runs the numbers for himself.
[originally aired February 6, 2017]
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Stephen Colbert Is A Bowling Green Massacre Truther
Published on Feb 6, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Late Night White House Press Briefing
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Sean Spicer holds an impromptu press briefing with Seth and the Late Night press corps to answer burning questions, like what does Melania say to Donald after kissing?
[originally aired February 6, 2017]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2RxeZu7NXM [with comments]
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How President Trump Could Seize More Power After a Terrorist Attack
President Trump and his top White House aides have been obsessed with highlighting a threat that does not exist.
PHOTOGRAPH BY AUDE GUERRUCCI / GETTY
By Ryan Lizza
February 7, 2017
Since September 11, 2001, ninety-four people [ https://www.newamerica.org/in-depth/terrorism-in-america/what-threat-united-states-today/ ] have been killed in the United States in ten attacks carried out by a total of twelve radical Islamist terrorists. Each of the attackers was either an American citizen or a legal resident. More than half of the ninety-four murders occurred last year, when Omar Mateen, who was born on Long Island, killed forty-nine people at a night club in Orlando.
According to the comprehensive terrorism database maintained by the New America Foundation, since 9/11 there have been three hundred and ninety-six people involved in American terrorism cases, which New America defines as “individuals who are charged with or died engaging in jihadist terrorism or related activities inside the United States, and Americans accused of such activity abroad.” Eighty-three per cent of these individuals were American citizens or permanent residents. (Seventeen per cent were non-residents or had an unknown status.)
And yet, for more than two weeks, President Donald Trump and his top White House aides have been obsessed with highlighting a threat that does not exist: jihadist refugees and immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.
It’s true that both worldwide terrorist attacks and terrorism-related cases against plotters in the United States have spiked since 2013, an increase largely attributed to the fallout from the Syrian civil war and the rise of the Islamic State. I talked to several counterterrorism experts this week, and they all believe that there will be another attack.
“I do believe the world faces a serious and growing terrorist threat,” Evan McMullin, the former C.I.A. officer and Republican who ran for President as an independent candidate against Trump [ http://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/evan-mcmullins-quest-to-save-democracy ], said. “But Trump, either by ignorance or malice, is distorting the nature of that threat by targeting very well-vetted immigrants, including legal permanent residents and refugees. He simply does not have a strong national-security case to make against these people, which is why it is reasonable to wonder if he has some ulterior motive for taking such extreme steps against them.”
Yesterday, Trump’s campaign to highlight this threat took a bizarre turn when he accused the media of burying coverage of terror attacks. “It’s gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported,” he said in remarks to troops at MacDill Air Force Base, in Tampa. “In many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it. They have their reasons.” The White House later released a list of attacks since 2014 that it insisted had not received enough attention.
This is the second time in a week that Trump has accused others of not understanding the threat posed by terrorism. Over the weekend, he used Twitter to attack the federal judge who put a halt to Trump’s immigration ban. He called James L. Robart, who was appointed by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the Senate, a “so-called judge,” and later added, “Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. If something happens blame him and court system. People pouring in. Bad!”
One of the questions raised by Trump’s claims that the media and the courts have endangered the country is what he would do in the event of a terrorist attack.
Jack Goldsmith, a former senior Justice Department official in the George W. Bush Administration, who helped design the post-9/11 anti-terror legal architecture, recently suggested [ https://www.lawfareblog.com/does-trump-want-lose-eo-battle-court-or-donald-mcgahn-simply-ineffectual-or-worse ] that Trump might actually want his travel ban to be overturned. That way, in the wake of an attack, he can use the judiciary as a bogeyman and justify any new efforts to push through more extreme measures.
I asked Goldsmith and others what the menu of options might be for a President Trump empowered by the justifiable fears Americans would have in the aftermath of a serious attack. “If it is a large and grim attack, he might ask for more surveillance powers inside the U.S. (including fewer restrictions on data mingling and storage and queries), more immigration control power at the border, an exception to Posse Comitatus (which prohibits the military from law enforcement in the homeland), and perhaps more immigration-related detention powers,” Goldsmith wrote in an e-mail. “In the extreme scenario Trump could ask Congress to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, which would cut off the kind of access to courts you are seeing right now for everyone (or for every class of persons for which the writ is suspended).”
He pointed out that President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus and ignored courts that insisted he didn’t have such power. “The point of the example is that the only question is not what powers Trump might ‘ask for,’ ” Goldsmith said, “but also what powers he might assert or assume or grab, and what he can get away with.”
John Yoo, who as a lawyer for the George W. Bush Administration was the fiercest defender of its most extreme post-9/11 policies, including the use of torture, recently wrote an Op-Ed in which he said he was alarmed by Trump’s attempt to expand the powers of the executive branch [ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/opinion/executive-power-run-amok.html ]. (This was as if Trump had written an essay arguing that he was concerned about developers adding their names to buildings in lettering that was too large.) Yoo told me, “If there is another terrorist attack, I could see Trump seeking all of the powers that the President can exercise during wartime. The domestic powers would have to be approved by Congress, such as limitations on habeas, domestic warrantless surveillance, and an internal security act. We really haven’t had a system like that since the Second World War or the Communist cases of the nineteen-fifties.”
Matt Olsen, the former head of the National Counterterrorism Center, told me that he didn’t agree with Goldsmith’s suggestion that Trump actually wants the executive order overturned, but he said that he thought Trump was laying the groundwork for arguments he might make after an attack. “This is a win-win for Trump,” Olsen said. “We can assume there will be another terrorist attack in the U.S. If the executive order is in place, he will point to the attack as support for the executive order and the need to expand it to other countries with bad dudes (Muslims). If the executive order has been struck down, Trump will blame judges and Democrats for the attack.”
Olsen was also concerned that Trump might undo many of the changes that Barack Obama put in place to rein in the excesses of the Bush era. “As for other options in a post-attack scenario, just look back to 9/11,” he said. “C.I.A. black sites, enhanced interrogations, Gitmo, and warrantless surveillance will all be on the table. In addition, regardless of nationality, there will be changes to immigration and refugee policies.” He added that he could also imagine an effort to loosen restrictions on surveillance inside the United States.
Todd Breasseale, the former assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, was also alarmed. “I had a very similar discussion with a former senior intel official on this very issue, before Jack’s column,” he told me. “We both wholly believe that Trump needs a bogeyman. But, more importantly, he needs distraction and a blame source. In terrorists, he has his bogeyman. In his control of the prevailing press narrative via tweet, he has distraction. And, in the judiciary, he has a source of blame for why his way was right from the beginning.” Breasseale added, “I am fully confident that an attack is exactly what he wants and needs.”
Breasseale said that he was most concerned about the potential of Trump using existing D.H.S. tools. “He could create a registry of various religions, sects, and provenance—all within the law—all to amp up fear and suspicion, releasing the information in ways that meet his narrative,” he said. “D.H.S. has a means to track this information and publish it in real time. It gets very specific: military-aged males from East Timor, geriatric women from Japan, Muslim children from Pakistan—you name it. You can see how the right information with the wrong context could manipulate public angst. He could also order raids and removals within the law. Worse in some respects: he could remain unpredictable, continuing the chaos we saw with the Customs and Border Patrol folks.”
Trump’s efforts to hype the threat from terrorism during a period of domestic calm should be regarded with extreme skepticism. As McMullin noted, “Trump’s strange focus on the terrorist threat” was “out of step with reality at the moment” and was “a telltale sign of a leader contemplating policies that would otherwise be unacceptable.”
© 2017 Condé Nast
http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/how-president-trump-could-seize-more-power-after-a-terrorist-attack
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WATCH: President Trump Meets With Sheriffs From Across The Country
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by FOX 10 Phoenix [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJg9wBPyKMNA5sRDnvzmkdg , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJg9wBPyKMNA5sRDnvzmkdg/videos ]
Trump makes false statement about U.S. murder rate to sheriffs’ group
February 7, 2017
President Trump met Tuesday morning with a group of sheriffs from the National Sheriffs Association, a group that consists of more than 3,000 sheriffs from around the country. And to this sworn group of law enforcement veterans, with reporters taking notes, he again repeated a falsehood about the murder rate in America.
Trump told the sheriffs, “the murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years.” He blamed the news media for not publicizing this development, then added, “But the murder rate is the highest it’s been in, I guess, 45 to 47 years.”
The country’s murder rate is not the highest it’s been in 47 years. It is almost at its lowest point, actually, according to the FBI, which gathers statistics every year from police departments around the country.
The murder rate is defined as the number of murders and non-negligent homicides per 100,000 residents. Beginning in 1957, when the rate was 4.0 murders per 100,000 residents, the rate rose steadily to a high of 10.2 in 1980. It then steadily dropped, to 7.4 in 1996, to 6.1 in 2006, to 4.4 in 2014. It went up in 2015 to 4.9. But that is less than half the murder rate of 1980, while the population has risen from 226 million in 1980 to 321 million in 2015.
The violent crime rate in America also has plummeted over the years. Defined as including murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, violent crimes peaked at a rate of 758 per 100,000 residents in 1991, and the rate was about 373 violent crimes per 100,000 in 2015, again a decline of more than half.
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Here are Trump’s exact words to the sheriffs:
“And yet the murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years. I used to use that, I’d say that in a speech and everybody was surprised. Because the press [gestures to reporters] doesn’t tell it like it is. It wasn’t to their advantage to say that. But the murder rate is the highest it’s been in, I guess, 45 to 47 years.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/02/07/trump-makes-false-statement-about-u-s-murder-rate-to-sheriffs-group/ [with embedded videos, and comments]
Trump Jokes, Of State Senator, 'We'll Destroy His Career'
President Trump speaks to county sheriffs at the White House on Tuesday.
February 7, 2017
At a gathering of sheriffs at the White House on Tuesday, President Trump joked about destroying the career of a Texas politician who is trying to set limits on an often-criticized police practice.
The remark came after a participant at the sheriff's roundtable raised the issue of asset forfeiture — that's when the government seizes "suspicious" assets and keeps them, even if the person who had the item was never convicted (or even accused) of a crime [ http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/10/363102433/police-can-seize-and-sell-assets-even-when-the-owner-broke-no-law ]. The resulting funds often go directly into police budgets.
Taking property from people who haven't been convicted of a crime is legal, but controversial.
"Police confiscate cars, jewelry, cash and homes they think are connected to crime. But the people these things belong to may have done nothing wrong," NPR's Laura Sullivan explained a few years ago [ http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/10/363102433/police-can-seize-and-sell-assets-even-when-the-owner-broke-no-law ].
"Prosecutors say the seizures are helpful tools to combat drug dealers and drunken drivers," Laura wrote. "But for people who haven't committed a crime, the cases are expensive to contest and often disproportionately affect people without means or access to a lawyer."
One sheriff at the gathering mentioned that some critics have said the practice violates due process, and called for limits. Trump responded: "I'd like to look into that ... There's no reason for that," suggesting that only "bad people" would want to reform or limit asset forfeiture.
A few minutes later, the following exchange occurred, as transcribed by the White House [ https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/07/remarks-president-trump-roundtable-county-sheriffs ]:
"PARTICIPANT: Mr. President, on asset forfeiture, we got a state senator in Texas who was talking about introducing legislation to require conviction before we can receive their forfeiture.
THE PRESIDENT: Can you believe that?
PARTICIPANT: And I told him that the cartel would build a monument to him in Mexico if he could get that legislation.
THE PRESIDENT: Who is the state senator? Want to give his name? We'll destroy his career. (Laughter.) Okay, thank you."
The remark made [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/07/well-destroy-his-career-trump-quips-about-a-texas-state-senator-at-odds-with-a-county-sheriff/ ] national headlines [ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-well-destroy-his-career/vp-AAmHCV8 ].
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http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/07/513976112/trump-jokes-of-state-senator-well-destroy-his-career [with embedded video] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=90696887 and preceding and following]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNxBMs8p1QE [with comments]
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Full Show - Top Putin Advisor Joins Infowars / Democrats Show Signs Of Alzheimer - 02/07/2017
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
On this Tuesday, Feb. 7th 2017 transmission of the Alex Jones Show, an MSNBC host compares Trump to Putin and says he may start killing journalists. And overwhelming evidence shows Trump was right about massive voter/election fraud. Philosopher Dr. Aleksandr Dugin joins the program today to expound on Trump's swamp metaphor and provide his take on Putin and Trump as two poles of a new world vision. On today's show we also welcome University of California Professor Darrell Y. Hamamoto to discuss the riots at UC Berkeley over the weekend, and the California secession movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JNLU7LpTXE [with comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=106299022 and preceding and following, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=124782441 and preceding and following, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=125582447 and preceding (and any future following), http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=127542637 and preceding and following]
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Bible Code Student's Shocking Discovery: Rev 12 Prophecy, God's Roadmap to the End & Sept 23 2017
Published on Oct 4, 2016 by TheCodesearcher dotcom [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbAvR6nJrUt8Gk4-TGwDe5Q / http://www.youtube.com/user/TheMatt71269 , http://www.youtube.com/user/TheMatt71269/videos ]
This shocking video reveals one of the first Codesearcher School bible code tables. This startling and detailed bible code discovery reveals and confirms end times constellation event.
Here's the PDF of the table: http://thecodesearcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Revelation12Prophecy.pdf
First, it supports/validates the videos titled: "God's Roadmap to the End". Here's the playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=god%27s+roadmap+to+the+end
You can watch the video about the Revelation 12 Prophecy here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp4u-9EH1MQ
The confrontation between the Red Dragon and the Man Child is revealed in the heavens, the Revelation 12 prophecy in scruipture and in the bible codes. All aligned and support the others.
Note: With this table we are making no predictions. Nor are we assigning identities to the Man Child or the Virgin. However, scripture does tell us the Red Dragon is Satan.
This September 23 2017 constellation event can be viewed using the software Stellarium. You can download it here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/Stellarium-win64/0.15.0/stellarium-0.15.0-win64.exe/download
If you feel called by Father to search the codes, you can apply here: http://thecodesearcher.com/apply/
We are also including below a work-in-progress description to most of the matrix ELS terms so that you can see the meanings, Strong's numbers etc. This table will continue to be updated.
Note: Location denotes first letter of ELS term. Left, middle, right and upper, middle, lower are divided by approximately one thirds, allowing for nine approximate search areas for the first letter in each ELS term, the ELS terms may be in a combination of areas where applicable.
Please be aware that some ELS terms may join others, I have tried to leave the colour of the first letter as denoted in each search term description but this may not have always been possible.
Legend: UL= upper left (of matrix), ML=middle left, LL=lower left, UM=upper middle, MM= middle middle, LM= lower middle, UR= upper right, MR=middle right, LR=lower right.
Original bible code axis search term – Jupiter purple/pink- dark letters. MM.
Bible code words found:
AKaL H398-99 to devour, burn up, consume, eat up, purple/ Lt blue letters below Jupiter. MM.
DoKiY H1796 to break, destroy in pieces, bruise, collapse, mutilate, purple/Lt blue letters above Jupiter. MM.
MiDDaH H4060 a measure, a piece, a portion, purple/ mid blue letters. UM.
Raa H7489 break, bruise, spoil, break to pieces, afflict, harm, hurt, vex, purple/ Lt blue letters, top of 18 letter combination with Jupiter. UM.
Year 2016 light blue/yellow letters UM,UM,ML,MR.
MaTzaLaH H4208 Planet, constellation, zodiacal sign, “raining down”, light blue/red letters. MM.
MaTzaRaH H4216 noted constellations/Zodiacs (of distinction), mid grey/ red letters. LL.
Planet orange/yellow letters. LL.
ShuwBaR H7729 a return, returning, purple/ white letters. UM,UR.
Nibiru purple/ dark blue letters. UM.
LAaNaH H3939 Wormwood, yucky dark pink /blue letters. MM.
KoWKaB H3556 star, blazing star, shining star, yellow/ blue writing. LM,LR.
Virgo mid green/ yellow letters. MR.
SheMeShaY H8121-H8124 sun, sunshine, light blue/black letters. MM.
Solar yellow/ red letters. LM,UR.
MiTzaH H4199 to faint, fear, burn, terror, dark brown/ white letters. ML,LR.
MuWtH H4191-H4194 to die, death, dead, kill, destroy, slay, black/red letters. ML,MM,LL,UR,MR,LR.
ShaMaYiM H8064 heavens, the domain of celestial bodies, burnt orange/black letters. ML,MR.
YaLaD H3205 travailing in pregnancy, mid grey/ blue letters. MM,MM.
NaPhaL H5307 fall, smite, cast down, orange/ green letters. MM,MM,UR
LaHBaH H3852 fire, flames, flaming head of arrow, light grey/yellow letters. LR.
Dwarf brown/ green letters. MM.
RaPhaH H7497 giant, brown/ white letters. ML.
ShaBaR H7665 break down, break off, in pieces, bring to the birth, destroy, tear, to burst, hurt, red /black letters MM,MR.
ShaBaB H7616 broken in pieces, a fragment, ruin by force, red/black letters. LM,MR
ABaQaH H80 – H81 volatile particles, dust, powder, float as vapour, red/blue letters. UM,MM,LM,MR.
TiShRiY Hebrew month (Sept/Oct) dark grey/black letters . UL,LM,LM,MR,MR.
ELuL Hebrew month (Aug/Sept) dark grey/yellow letters. UM,UM,UM,UM,UM.
TaNiYN H8577 dragon, serpent, sea monster, whale, Lt green/red letters. UM,MM.
TaNiYM H8577 dragon, serpent, sea monster, whale, , Lt green/red letters. UR
ADoM H119-H122 red, blood, man, human, flush, ruddy, light green/ yellow letters. UL,UM,UM,MM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WJI4X1D3vY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWlg8xmNNQI [with comments]
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BACKSTAB: Republican Leaders Funded By Soros
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Donation records show that George Soros not only funded Hillary, but also the campaigns of Paul Ryan, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Marco Rubio, and Jeb Bush - attempting to stop Donald Trump at all costs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv31NoCwWUY [with comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=13899092 and preceding and following]
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Kellyanne Conway's full interview with Jake Tapper
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by CNN [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCupvZG-5ko_eiXAupbDfxWw / http://www.youtube.com/user/CNN , http://www.youtube.com/user/CNN/videos ]
Counselor to President Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway speaks to CNN's Jake Tapper about Trump's latest attacks on the media.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flyW41U7XPw [with comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128513580 and preceding and following]
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The hearing was titled, ‘Making EPA great again.’ Scientists are afraid the opposite will happen.
Chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) said the EPA has had a political agenda for the past eight years, not a scientific one.
February 7, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/07/the-hearing-was-titled-making-epa-great-again-scientists-are-afraid-the-opposite-will-happen/ [with comments]
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17-35105 State of Washington, et. al. v. Donald J. Trump et. al.
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeIMdiBTNTpeA84wmSRPDPg / http://www.youtube.com/user/9thcirc , http://www.youtube.com/user/9thcirc/videos ]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPOFowWqFGU [with comments]
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Sen. McConnell Refuses to Let Sen. Warren Speak About Attorney General Nominee Sessions
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by Senator Elizabeth Warren [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTH9zV8Imw09J5bOoTR18_A / http://www.youtube.com/user/senelizabethwarren , http://www.youtube.com/user/senelizabethwarren/videos ]
Senator Elizabeth Warren was cut off from speaking on the Senate floor about Attorney General nominee Senator Jeff Sessions [by reading Coretta Scott King's 1986 letter, already entered into the Senate record last month, opposing the federal district court judgeship nomination of Jeff Sessions], by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, on February 7, 2017.
McConnell: Warren’s blistering Sessions speech broke Senate rules
02/07/17
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/318422-mcconnell-warrens-blistering-sessions-speech-broke-senate-rules [with embedded video, and comments]
GOP moves to punish Sen. Warren for attacks on AG nominee Jeff Sessions
February 7, 2017
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/7/elizabeth-warren-punished-attacks-jeff-sessions/ [with comments]
Document: Coretta Scott King 1986 letter opposing federal court nomination of Jeff Sessions (pdf)
http://www.msnbc.com/sites/msnbc/files/scott-king-1986-letter-and-testimony-signed.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVyq6kAN6u4 [with comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=127878638 and preceding and following]
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Exclusive interview with President Trump, Part 3
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by Fox News
Bill and President Trump discuss the media, the left and working in the White House on 'The O'Reilly Factor'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn9V73kjAlE [with comments]
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For Trump, it's nighttime in America
All In with Chris Hayes
2/7/17
The White House wants you to know that the earth is a very dangerous place. Duration: 8:29
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/for-trump-it-s-nighttime-in-america-872212547680
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What can Betsy DeVos do to American schools?
All In with Chris Hayes
2/7/17
Rep. Dan Kildee joins Joy Reid to talk about DeVos' record in Michigan and what she will have the power to do as she takes the helm at the Department of Education. Duration: 5:27
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-can-betsy-devos-do-to-american-schools-872219203670
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McConnell objects to Warren reading Coretta Scott King letter
All In with Chris Hayes
2/7/17
The GOP Majority Leader would not allow Senator Warren to read a letter written by Coretta Scott King opposing Sen. Jeff Sessions’ judicial nomination. Duration: 6:41
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mcconnell-objects-to-warren-reading-king-letter-872220739685
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Trump's USDA drops animal abuse reports, tries to blame Obama
The Rachel Maddow Show
2/7/17
Rachel Maddow reports on the USDA under Donald Trump dropping public reports on puppy breeder compliance with the Animal Welfare Act, and their clumsy attempt to blame the change on the Obama administration. Duration: 14:08
USDA abruptly purges animal welfare information from its website
February 3, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/02/03/the-usda-abruptly-removes-animal-welfare-information-from-its-website/ [with comments]
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-usda-drops-animal-abuse-reports-tries-to-blame-obama-872280131542
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Senator Tester: 'Plenty of reasons to vote no' on Jeff Sessions
The Rachel Maddow Show
2/7/17
Senator Jon Tester talks with Rachel Maddow about Mitch McConnell's effort to suppress Coretta Scott King's criticism of Jeff Sessions, and why he feels Sessions is not suitable for U.S. attorney general. Duration: 6:23
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senator-tester-plenty-of-reasons-to-vote-no-on-jeff-sessions-872282691525
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McConnell silences Warren on Sessions with obscure Senate rule
The Rachel Maddow Show
2/7/17
Senator Elizabeth Warren talks with Rachel Maddow about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell using an obscure Senate rule to silence Warren on speaking anymore on the Jeff Sessions nomination because she read from a Coretta Scott King letter already in the Congressional record criticizing Sessions. Duration: 5:24
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mcconnell-silences-warren-on-sessions-with-obscure-senate-rule-872244803614
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The arguments against Trump's travel ban
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/7/17
Lawyers for the Department of Justice tried to defend President Trump's travel ban in court but were caught in tough spots several times. MSNBC Legal Correspondent Ari Melber walks us through what happened in the courtroom today. Duration: 6:34
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/the-arguments-against-trump-s-travel-ban-872276035527
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Exclusive: WA Atty. Gen. on fighting Trump ban
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/7/17
The state of Washington made the case against Trump's travel ban in front of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson gives his first reaction to MSNBC's Ari Melber. Duration: 3:30
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/exclusive-wa-atty-gen-on-fighting-trump-ban-872274499941
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Profit and being First Lady
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/7/17
Melania Trump is suing The Daily Mail for libel, claiming her brand "lost significant value" after an unflattering story. It raises concerns about how the Trump family plan to make money while Donald Trump is president. Catherine Rampell & Joan Walsh join Ari Melber. Duration: 4:15
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/profit-and-being-first-lady-872275523791
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Trump travel ban case may go to Supreme Court
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/7/17
After a panel of federal judges heard oral arguments in the case over the Trump administration's travel ban, NBC News's Pete Williams joins MSNBC's Brian Williams to discuss the future of the case. Duration: 8:10
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-travel-ban-case-may-go-to-supreme-court-872307267968
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Legal experts react to Trump travel ban oral arguments
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/7/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz and ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt about what we learned after the oral arguments in the Trump travel ban case. Duration: 7:46
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/legal-experts-react-to-trump-travel-ban-oral-arguments-872308803834
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White House paints dark picture in support of travel ban
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/7/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams discusses the dark warnings coming out of the Trump administration in support of the president's travel ban with Nicolle Wallace, Heidi Przybyla, and Charlie Sykes. Duration: 6:41
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/white-house-paints-dark-picture-in-support-of-travel-ban-872308803924
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McCain blasts Trump comments, calls Putin a 'butcher & thug'
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/7/17
In some blistering remarks from the Senate floor, Sen. John McCain said there is no moral equivalence between the U.S. and Russia. MSNBC's Brian Williams discusses with his panel. Duration: 4:24
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/mccain-blasts-trump-comments-calls-putin-a-butcher-thug-872311363845
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President Trump Has The Art World On Edge
Published on Feb 8, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
These great works of art can't believe that the President plans to de-fund the National Endowment for the Arts.
[originally aired February 7, 2017]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KILF0ZxJ45U [with comments]
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Betsy DeVos: Donating More So Our Schools Get Less
Published on Feb 8, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen kicks off his monologue with some advice for Steve Bannon, before unpacking how exactly Betsy DeVos became our new Secretary of Education.
[originally aired February 7, 2017]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jExQVdQGju4 [with comments]
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Stephen Presents President Trump With Robe Force Once
Published on Feb 8, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Despite evidence to the contrary, Sean Spicer claims Donald Trump doesn't own a bathrobe. Stephen seeks to remedy the issue.
[originally aired February 7, 2017]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVyYcbhvQQg [with comments]
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John Oliver Doesn't Think He'll Get Deported, But He's Being Cautious
Published on Feb 8, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Host of 'Last Week Tonight' John Oliver swings through to talk with Stephen about the current state of American politics and his own immigration status.
[originally aired February 7, 2017]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJR9QjezRGg [with comments]
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The Check In: President Trump's Federal Hiring Freeze
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seth checks in on the impact of President Donald Trump's executive order freezing federal hiring on veterans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emfEPLc7Q0I [with comments]
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Kellyanne Conway, left, Hope Hicks, Jared Kushner, Stephen K. Bannon, Reince Priebus and Stephen Miller, all members of President Trump’s senior staff, last month at the White House.
Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
President Trump, leaving the White House last month, has been increasingly frustrated that his whirlwind start has not been sufficiently appreciated.
Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
Mr. Bannon, the chief strategist, and Mr. Priebus, the chief of staff, are the two clashing power centers of Mr. Trump’s White House.
Al Drago/The New York Times
By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMAN
FEB. 5, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Trump loves to set the day’s narrative at dawn, but the deeper story of his White House is best told at night.
Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room. Visitors conclude their meetings and then wander around, testing doorknobs until finding one that leads to an exit. In a darkened, mostly empty West Wing, Mr. Trump’s provocative chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, finishes another 16-hour day planning new lines of attack.
Usually around 6:30 p.m., or sometimes later, Mr. Trump retires upstairs to the residence to recharge, vent and intermittently use Twitter. With his wife, Melania, and young son, Barron, staying in New York, he is almost always by himself, sometimes in the protective presence of his imposing longtime aide and former security chief, Keith Schiller. When Mr. Trump is not watching television in his bathrobe or on his phone reaching out to old campaign hands and advisers, he will sometimes set off to explore the unfamiliar surroundings of his new home.
During his first two dizzying weeks in office, Mr. Trump, an outsider president working with a surprisingly small crew of no more than a half-dozen empowered aides with virtually no familiarity with the workings of the White House or federal government, sent shock waves at home and overseas with a succession of executive orders [ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/us/politics/trump-agenda-tracker.html ] designed to fulfill campaign promises and taunt foreign leaders.
“We are moving big and we are moving fast,” Mr. Bannon said, when asked about the upheaval of the first two weeks. “We didn’t come here to do small things.”
But one thing has become apparent to both his allies and his opponents: When it comes to governing, speed does not always guarantee success.
The bungled rollout of his executive order barring immigrants [ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/us/trump-refugee-ban-muslim-executive-order.html ] from seven predominantly Muslim countries, a flurry of other miscues and embarrassments, and an approval rating lower than that of any comparable first-term president in the history of polling have Mr. Trump and his top staff rethinking an improvisational approach to governing that mirrors his chaotic presidential campaign, administration officials and Trump insiders said.
This account of the early days of the Trump White House is based on interviews with dozens of government officials, congressional aides, former staff members and other observers of the new administration, many of whom requested anonymity. At the center of the story, according to these sources, is a president determined to go big but increasingly frustrated by the efforts of his small team to contain the backlash.
“What are we going to do about this?” Mr. Trump pointedly asked an aide last week, a period of turmoil briefly interrupted by the successful rollout of his Supreme Court selection [ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/us/politics/supreme-court-nominee-trump.html ], Judge Neil M. Gorsuch.
Chris Ruddy, the chief executive of Newsmax Media and an old friend of the president’s, said: “I think, in his mind, the success of this is going to be the poll numbers. If they continue to be weak or go lower, then somebody’s going to have to bear some responsibility for that.”
“I personally think that they’re missing the big picture here,” Mr. Ruddy said of Mr. Trump’s staff. “Now he’s so caught up, the administration is so caught up in turmoil, perceived chaos, that the Democrats smell blood, the protesters, the media smell blood.”
One former staff member likened the aggressive approach of the first two weeks to D-Day, but said the president’s team had stormed the beaches without any plan for a longer war.
Clashes among staff are common in the opening days of every administration, but they have seldom been so public and so pronounced this early. “This is a president who came to Washington vowing to shake up the establishment, and this is what it looks like. It’s going to be a little sloppy, there are going to be conflicts,” said Ari Fleischer, President George W. Bush’s first press secretary.
All this is happening as Mr. Trump, a man of flexible ideology but fixed habits, adjusts to a new job, life and city.
Cloistered in the White House, he now has little access to his fans and supporters — an important source of feedback and validation — and feels increasingly pinched by the pressures of the job and the constant presence of protests, one of the reasons he was forced to scrap a planned trip to Milwaukee last week. For a sense of what is happening outside, he watches cable, both at night and during the day — too much in the eyes of some aides — often offering a bitter play-by-play of critics like CNN’s Don Lemon.
Until the past few days, Mr. Trump was telling his friends and advisers that he believed the opening stages of his presidency were going well. “Did you hear that, this guy thinks it’s been terrible!” Mr. Trump said mockingly to other aides when one dissenting view was voiced last week during a West Wing meeting.
But his opinion has begun to change with a relentless parade of bad headlines.
Mr. Trump got away from the White House this weekend for the first time since his inauguration, spending it in Palm Beach, Fla., at his private club, Mar-a-Lago, posting Twitter messages angrily — and in personal terms — about the federal judge [ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/827867311054974976 ] who put a nationwide halt on the travel ban. Mr. Bannon and Reince Priebus, the two clashing power centers, traveled with him.
By then, the president, for whom chains of command and policy minutiae rarely meant much, was demanding that Mr. Priebus begin to put in effect a much more conventional White House protocol that had been taken for granted in previous administrations: From now on, Mr. Trump would be looped in on the drafting of executive orders much earlier in the process.
Another change will be a new set of checks on the previously unfettered power enjoyed by Mr. Bannon and the White House policy director, Stephen Miller, who oversees the implementation of the orders and who received the brunt of the internal and public criticism for the rollout of the travel ban.
Mr. Priebus has told Mr. Trump and Mr. Bannon that the administration needs to rethink its policy and communications operation in the wake of embarrassing revelations that key details of the orders were withheld from agencies, White House staff and Republican congressional leaders like Speaker Paul D. Ryan.
Mr. Priebus has also created a 10-point checklist for the release of any new initiatives that includes signoff from the communications department and the White House staff secretary, Robert Porter, according to several aides familiar with the process.
Mr. Priebus bristles at the perception that he occupies a diminished perch in the West Wing pecking order compared with previous chiefs. But for the moment, Mr. Bannon remains the president’s dominant adviser, despite Mr. Trump’s anger that he was not fully briefed on details of the executive order he signed giving his chief strategist a seat on the National Security Council, a greater source of frustration to the president than the fallout from the travel ban.
It is partly because he is seen as having a clear vision on policy. But it is also because others who had been expected to fill major roles have been less confident in asserting their power.
Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, occupies a central role in the administration and has been present at most major decisions and photo ops, but he is a father of young children who has taken to life in Washington, and, along with his wife, Ivanka Trump, has already been spotted at events around town.
Mr. Bannon has rushed into the vacuum, telling allies that he and Mr. Miller have a brief window in which to push through their vision of Mr. Trump’s economic nationalism.
Mr. Bannon, whose website, Breitbart, was a magnet for white nationalists and xenophobic speech, has also tried to reassure official Washington. He has been careful to build bridges with the Republican establishment, especially Mr. Ryan — whom he once described as “the enemy” and vowed to force out. He now talks regularly with Mr. Ryan to coordinate strategy or plot their planned overhaul of the tax code.
Before he was ousted in November as transition chief, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, the Trump adviser with the most government experience, helped prepare a detailed staffing and implementation plan in line with the kickoff strategies of previous Republican presidents.
It was discarded — a senior Trump aide made a show of tossing it into a garbage can — for a strategy that prioritized the daily release of dramatic executive orders to put opponents on the defensive.
Mr. Christie, who agrees in principle with the broad strokes of Mr. Trump’s immigration policy, says the president has been let down by his staff.
“The president deserves better than the rollout he got on the immigration executive order,” Mr. Christie said. “The fact is that he’s put forward a policy that, in my opinion, is significantly more effective than what he had proposed during the campaign, yet because of the botched implementation, they allowed his opponents to attack him by calling it a Muslim ban.”
In the past few days, Mr. Trump’s team has stressed its cohesion and the challenges of jump-starting an administration that few outside its group ever thought would exist.
“This team spent months in the foxhole together during the campaign,” said Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary. “We moved into the White House as a unified team committed to enacting the president’s agenda.”
As part of Mr. Trump’s Oval Office renovation, he ordered that four hardback chairs be placed in a semicircle around his Resolute Desk now heaped, in Trump Tower fashion, with memos and newspapers. They are an emblem of Mr. Trump’s in-your-face management style, but also a reminder that in the White House, the seats always outlast the people seated in them.
But finding enough skilled players to fill key slots has not been easy: Mr. Spicer is serving double duty as communications director, a key planning position, in addition to engaging in day-to-day combat with the news media. Mr. Trump, several aides said, is used to quarterbacking his own media strategy, and did not see the value of hiring an outsider.
An early plan was to give the communications job to Kellyanne Conway, his former campaign manager and top TV surrogate, but the demands of the job would have conflicted with Ms. Conway’s other duties as a free-range adviser to Mr. Trump with Oval Office walk-in privileges, according to one aide.
Mr. Trump remains intensely focused on his brand, but the demands of the job mean he spends less time monitoring the news media — although he recently upgraded the flat-screen TV in his private dining room so he can watch the news while eating lunch.
He often has to wait until the end of the workday before grinding through news clips with Mr. Spicer, marking the ones he does not like with a big arrow in black Sharpie — though he almost always makes time to monitor Mr. Spicer’s performance at the daily briefings, summoning him to offer praise or criticism, a West Wing aide said.
Visitors to the Oval Office say Mr. Trump is obsessed with the décor — it is both a totem of a victory that validates him as a serious person and an image-burnishing backdrop — so he has told his staff to schedule as many televised events in the room as possible.
To pass the time between meetings, Mr. Trump gives quick tours to visitors, highlighting little tweaks he has made after initially expecting he would have to pay for them himself.
Flanking his desk are portraits of Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. He will linger on the opulence of the newly hung golden drapes, which he told a recent visitor were once used by Franklin D. Roosevelt but in fact were patterned for Bill Clinton. For a man who sometimes has trouble concentrating on policy memos, Mr. Trump was delighted to page through a book that offered him 17 window covering options.
Ultimately, this is very much the White House that Mr. Trump wanted to build. But while the world reckons with the effect he is having on the presidency, he is adjusting to the effect of the presidency on him. He is now a public employee. And the only boss Mr. Trump ever had in his life was his father, a hard-driving developer the president still treats with deep reverence.
With most of his belongings in New York, the only family picture on the shelf behind Mr. Trump’s desk is a small black-and-white photograph of that boss, Frederick Christ Trump [ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/us/politics/fred-donald-trump-father.html ].
© 2017 The New York Times Company
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/us/politics/trump-white-house-aides-strategy.html [with (over 3,000) comments]
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Donaeld The Unready
@donaeldunready
The best early medieval King out there. I'm just great. I'm the bretwalda. The bestwalda. I've got great swords, everyone says so. Make Mercia Great Again.
helpful reference links, via http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-medieval-king-twitter_us_5899caefe4b0c1284f280324 :
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Kings-Queens-of-Mercia/
http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/vikings_2.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical_History_of_the_English_People
https://twitter.com/donaeldunready
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On foreign policy, Trump still speaking campaign language
In this Feb. 2, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump speaks during his meeting with House and Senate legislators in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. For all of the White House's early bravado, Trump has taken office with few concrete plans for how to make good on his pledge to unravel President Barack Obama's foreign policy and tackle some of the biggest national security challenges facing his administration.
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al Safadi at the State Department in Washington, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017.
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis answers questions during the joint press conference with Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017. During the news conference, Mattis says the U.S. cannot afford to ignore destabilizing moves by Iran, but has no plans to respond by increasing American military forces in the Middle East.
(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
By JULIE PACE
Feb. 4, 2017 8:53 AM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — For all the White House's early bravado, President Donald Trump has taken office with few concrete plans for how to make good on his pledge to unravel President Barack Obama's foreign policy and tackle some of the biggest national security challenges facing his administration.
In calls with European leaders, Trump is said to have described his plans for confronting the Islamic State group with the same hard-charging but vague rhetoric he used in the campaign, promising strong, but unspecified action.
Pressed privately by allies about how he plans to pursue a better relationship with Russia, Trump sticks with his public assertion that a better relationship with Moscow would be beneficial for the West. But he hasn't said how he plans to get there.
He's indicated in some of those same conversations that while he believes the Iranian nuclear accord is a bad deal, he will not move quickly to withdraw, according to U.S. officials and others with knowledge of Trump's discussions with world leaders.
Ambiguity was a hallmark of Trump's campaign. He has said he believes the U.S. should not tip its hand on national security matters. But the fact that Trump is using vague language in private discussions has left both allies and officials in his administration uncertain whether he has policies in mind to back up his rhetoric.
A town hall for National Security Council staff on Tuesday offered few clues on the administration's approach.
One official in attendance said that when Michael Flynn, Trump's national security adviser, and his deputy, KT McFarland, were asked to describe specifically what the president's "America First" mantra would mean for policy, they largely reiterated Trump's campaign assurances that he could put U.S. interests ahead of those of other countries.
Three U.S. officials and three others with knowledge of the White House's foreign policy dealings spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were restricted from discussing the president's private conversations and other internal matters publicly.
Trump has moved swiftly on the immigration-related national security issues that were the centerpiece of his campaign. He ordered the government to start work on his proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. He also signed a refugee and immigration executive order, though the decision-making was tightly held in the West Wing and the initial implementation chaotic. A federal judge late Friday put the order on hold; the White House promised to appeal.
"The team that we've seen in action over the last few weeks is the White House team," said Nicholas Burns, a longtime U.S. diplomat and professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. "That team is breaking a lot of china."
Trump, who spent his career in business before running for president, has shown keen interest in trade and America's economic standing with other countries in his discussions with foreign leaders. But his direction on many other foreign policy issues remains hazy.
He has pledged to destroy the Islamic State group, but hasn't said whether he will commit U.S. combat troops to do so. He's asked for a 30 day review of the policy.
He said he would stop North Korea from building a long-range nuclear missile, but hasn't said how. And he's made little mention of Afghanistan, where about 8,400 U.S. troops are still fighting America's longest war.
White House officials note that Trump is just getting Senate confirmation for his national security Cabinet secretaries, including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who was approved on Wednesday. Trump spokesman Sean Spicer has blamed Democrats for stalling on the president's nominees, saying lawmakers from the opposing party are "holding up the confirmation of these highly qualified people."
Some early moves by Trump officials have given hints about their priorities — and raised concerns within the administration.
Senior officials have been soliciting guidance from national security agencies on how to improve relations with Russia, asking what Washington could offer Moscow and what Trump should seek from Russian President Vladimir Putin. Tillerson requested a briefing on moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, one of Trump's campaign promises.
According to one U.S. official, national security aides have sought information about Polish incursions in Belarus, an eyebrow-raising request because little evidence of such activities appears to exist. Poland is among the Eastern European nations worried about Trump's friendlier tone on Russia.
At the National Security Council, a policymaking body within the White House, officials were startled when drafts began circulating of an executive order that would have opened the door to resuming torture and CIA "black site" prisons. NSC officials were asked to submit comments on the order, according to two U.S. officials, but the directive was ultimately scrapped, in part because Defense Secretary Jim Mattis opposed the measure.
Spicer insisted the order did not originate in the White House.
NSC officials did voice substantial concerns with the executive order halting the U.S. refugee program and temporarily banning all entries to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority nations. But officials said lengthy comments appeared to have been largely ignored by the Trump political advisers who oversaw the order, namely chief strategist Steve Bannon and senior policy adviser Stephen Miller.
While Flynn is involved in Trump's calls to foreign leader and in other national security discussions, officials say he so far does not appear to have the same level of influence as Bannon. Flynn is also said to have been more attuned to some of the troubles with the execution of the refugee and immigration ban than others in the White House.
But some officials fear the White House is taking the wrong lessons from the flawed rollout of the refugee ban.
Amid a flurry of leaks about that process, as well as leaked draft executive orders and details of the president's calls with foreign leaders, career officials and policy experts are being looked at with more suspicion and getting cut out of additional discussions, according to people with knowledge of the processes.
Those longtime policy hands fear their influence could be further marginalized by an in-house think tank Bannon is said to be working on. The project, known as the Strategic Initiatives Group, could focus on both foreign and domestic policy issues, potentially giving the president's chief strategist even broader sway in the administration.
Associated Press writer Bradley Klapper contributed to this report.
© 2017 Associated Press
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/foreign-policy-trump-still-speaking-campaign-language
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Donald Trump Says Your Opinions Are Fake If You Don’t Like His Policies
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.
6:01 AM - 6 Feb 2017
[ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/828574430800539648 (with {over 63,000} comments)]
The president is in dangerous territory referring to anything he doesn’t like as “fake news.”
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!
6:07 AM - 6 Feb 2017
[ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/828575949268606977 (with {over 59,000} comments)]
02/06/2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-negative-polls-fake_us_58988431e4b040613137c6ee [with comments]
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President Trump’s simplistic, illogical worldview, in one tweet
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.
6:01 AM - 6 Feb 2017
[ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/828574430800539648 (with {over 63,000} comments)]
President Trump speaks on the phone with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 28.
February 6, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/06/president-trumps-simplistic-illogical-worldview-in-one-tweet/ [with embedded video, and comments]
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Why Nobody Cares the President Is Lying
Bráulio Amado
By CHARLES J. SYKES
FEB. 4, 2017
MILWAUKEE — If President Trump’s first tumultuous weeks have done nothing else, at least they have again made us a nation of readers.
As Americans grapple with the unreality of the new administration, George Orwell’s “1984” has enjoyed a resurgence of interest, becoming a surprise best seller and an invaluable guide to our post-factual world.
On his first full day in office Mr. Trump insisted that his inaugural crowd was the largest ever, a baseless boast that will likely set a pattern for his relationship both to the media and to the truth.
At an event marking [ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/us/politics/trump-black-history-douglass.html ] Black History Month last week, the president took a detour from a discussion of Frederick Douglass — he described the abolitionist as “an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more” — to talk about the press. “A lot of the media is actually the opposition party — they’re so biased,” he said. “So much of the media is the opposition party and knowingly saying incorrect things.”
Mr. Trump understands that attacking the media is the reddest of meat for his base, which has been conditioned to reject reporting from news sites outside of the conservative media ecosystem.
For years, as a conservative radio talk show host, I played a role in that conditioning by hammering the mainstream media for its bias and double standards. But the price turned out to be far higher than I imagined. The cumulative effect of the attacks was to delegitimize those outlets and essentially destroy much of the right’s immunity to false information. We thought we were creating a savvier, more skeptical audience. Instead, we opened the door for President Trump, who found an audience that could be easily misled.
The news media’s spectacular failure to get the election right has made it only easier for many conservatives to ignore anything that happens outside the right’s bubble and for the Trump White House to fabricate facts with little fear of alienating its base.
Unfortunately, that also means that the more the fact-based media tries to debunk the president’s falsehoods, the further it will entrench the battle lines.
During his first week in office, Mr. Trump reiterated the unfounded charge [ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/802972944532209664 ] that millions of people had voted illegally. When challenged on the evident falsehood, Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, seemed to argue that Mr. Trump’s belief that something was true qualified as evidence. The press secretary also declined to answer a straightforward question about the unemployment rate, suggesting that the number will henceforth be whatever the Trump administration wants it to be.
He can do this because members of the Trump administration feel confident that the alternative-reality media will provide air cover, even if they are caught fabricating facts or twisting words (like claiming that the “ban” on Muslim immigrants wasn’t really a “ban”). Indeed, they believe they have shifted the paradigm of media coverage, replacing the traditional media with their own.
In a stunning demonstration of the power and resiliency of our new post-factual political culture, Mr. Trump and his allies in the right media have already turned the term “fake news” against its critics, essentially draining it of any meaning. During the campaign, actual “fake news” — deliberate hoaxes — polluted political discourse and clogged social media timelines.
Some outlets opened the door, by helping spread conspiracy theories and indulging the paranoia of the fever swamps. For years, the widely read Drudge Report has linked to the bizarre conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who believes that both the attacks of Sept. 11 and the Sandy Hook shootings were government-inspired “false flag” operations.
For conservatives, this should have made it clear that something was badly amiss in their media ecosystem. But now any news deemed to be biased, annoying or negative can be labeled “fake news.” Erroneous reports that the bust of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office or misleading reports that sanctions against Russia had been lifted will be seized on by Mr. Trump’s White House to reinforce his indictment.
Even as he continues to attack the “dishonest media,” Mr. Trump and his allies are empowering this alt-reality media, providing White House access to Breitbart and other post-factual outlets that are already morphing into fierce defenders of the administration.
The relationship appears to be symbiotic, as Mr. Trump often seems to pick up on talking points from Fox News and has tweeted out links from websites notorious for their casual relationship to the truth, including sites like Gateway Pundit, a hoax-peddling site that announced, shortly after the inauguration, that it would have a White House correspondent.
By now, it ought to be evident that enemies are important to this administration, whether they are foreigners, refugees, international bankers or the press.
But discrediting independent sources of information also has two major advantages for Mr. Trump: It helps insulate him from criticism and it allows him to create his own narratives, metrics and “alternative facts.”
All administrations lie, but what we are seeing here is an attack on credibility itself.
The Russian dissident and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov drew upon long familiarity with that process when he tweeted [ https://twitter.com/kasparov63/status/808750564284702720?lang=en ]: “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
Mr. Kasparov grasps that the real threat is not merely that a large number of Americans have become accustomed to rejecting factual information, or even that they have become habituated to believing hoaxes. The real danger is that, inundated with “alternative facts,” many voters will simply shrug, asking, “What is truth?” — and not wait for an answer.
In that world, the leader becomes the only reliable source of truth; a familiar phenomenon in an authoritarian state, but a radical departure from the norms of a democratic society. The battle over truth is now central to our politics.
This may explain one of the more revealing moments from after the election, when one of Mr. Trump’s campaign surrogates, Scottie Nell Hughes, was asked to defend the clearly false statement by Mr. Trump that millions of votes had been cast illegally. She answered by explaining that everybody now had their own way of interpreting whether a fact was true or not.
“There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts,” she declared. Among “a large part of the population” what Mr. Trump said was the truth.
“When he says that millions of people illegally voted,” she said, his supporters believe him — and “people believe they have facts to back that up.”
Or as George Orwell said: “The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” But Ms. Hughes’s comment was perhaps unintentionally insightful. Mr. Trump and company seem to be betting that much of the electorate will not care if the president tells demonstrable lies, and will pick and choose whatever “alternative facts” confirm their views.
The next few years will be a test of that thesis.
In the meantime, we must recognize the magnitude of the challenge. If we want to restore respect for facts and break through the intellectual ghettos on both the right and left, the mainstream media will have to be aggressive without being hysterical and adversarial without being unduly oppositional.
Perhaps just as important, it will be incumbent on conservative media outlets to push back as well. Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter. There may be short-term advantages to running headlines about millions of illegal immigrants voting or secret United Nations plots to steal your guns, but the longer the right enables such fabrications, the weaker it will be in the long run. As uncomfortable as it may be, it will fall to the conservative media to police its worst actors.
The conservative media ecosystem — like the rest of us — has to recognize how critical, but also how fragile, credibility is in the Orwellian age of Donald Trump.
Charles J. Sykes (@SykesCharlie), a former talk-show host in Wisconsin, is the author of the forthcoming “How the Right Lost Its Mind.”
© 2017 The New York Times Company
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/opinion/sunday/why-nobody-cares-the-president-is-lying.html [with comments]
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Full Show - Warning: Goldman Sachs Is Planning To Implode The Economy - 02/06/2017
Published on Feb 6, 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. 6th 2017 edition of the Alex Jones Show, we analyze Trump's fight against Soros foundations trying to radically alter America forever. Milo Yiannopoulos joins us to talk about the recent Berkeley riot and how the snowflake leftists are controlled like zombies by the power elite. Also, Washington insider Doug Hagmann reveals the ongoing war against pedophile rings in DC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2dZeGXp-R8 [with comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=124782441 and preceding and following, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128428382 and following, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128431364 and preceding (and any future following)]
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Bible Codes - The Proof of God
Published on Jul 4, 2012 by TheCompleteTruthBlog [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqQMh3rEZnadVHvqXanSsDA / http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCompleteTruthBlog , http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCompleteTruthBlog/videos ]
http://the-complete-truth.blogspot.co.uk/ - THE WHOLE STORY LINKED TOGETHER
This is a complete video examining the story of the Bible Codes and how they were discovered, Centuries ago Rabbi's spoke about the code hidden within the Torah or the first 5 books of the bible, with computer technology we can find them MUCH easier, and the Codes we have found deny any possibility of chance, believing these codes are ALL here by chance is like believing a man can be struck by lightning a million times consecutively, its just not reasonable to believe it happened by chance, it was put there by our Creator, and that same Creator will judge his creation one day, you prepared for that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYlKkIoavnA [with comments]
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Goldman Sachs Practicing Economic Terrorism Against Trump
Published on Feb 6, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLz4mZxoK0E [with comments]
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President Trump speaks at MacDill AFB: Allow those into US who 'want to love our country'
Published on Feb 6, 2017 by WFLA News Channel 8 [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDvJcb8Adv-_bOrtnRLmiDw / http://www.youtube.com/user/wflatv , http://www.youtube.com/user/wflatv/videos ]
President Donald Trump on Monday visited MacDill Air Force Base, which is the headquarters for U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command.
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Read President Trump's Speech Claiming the Press Doesn't Report Terror Attacks
Feb 06, 2017
TRUMP: Thank you, everybody.
(APPLAUSE)
Thank you very much. It's so nice. A lot or spirit. Great spirit for this country. Thank you all.
(APPLAUSE)
We have tremendous spirit, and I want to thank you.
We had a wonderful election, didn't we?
(APPLAUSE)
TRUMP: And I saw those numbers, and you liked me, and I liked you. That's the way it worked.
(LAUGHTER)
I'm honored to be here today among so many of our really and truly great heroes. I want to begin by thanking General Votel and General Thomas for their distinguished leadership and service on behalf of our country. Very, very outstanding people.
I'll also like to thank General Dunford, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. That's big stuff when you have the chairman.
Where is -- Joe, stand up for a second. This is one of the great people.
(APPLAUSE)
Thank you.
Also, Commander Vogel and everyone serving at MacDill Air Force Base. Quite a place. And we're going to be loading it up with beautiful new planes and beautiful new equipment. You have been lacking a little equipment. We are going to load it up. You are going to get a lot of equipment. Believe me.
(APPLAUSE)
So importantly, also let me thank all of the coalition partners and their representatives assembled here today.
We proudly, very proudly, stand with you. And we will be fighting for your security. They're fighting for our security and freedom.
TRUMP: Let me recognize our great governor and a very good friend of mine, and somebody who endorsed me. That makes him a better friend of mine.
(LAUGHTER)
If they don't endorse, believe me. If you're ever in this position, it's never quite the same, OK? You can talk, but it never means the same.
But this man is a great, great governor and has done a fantastic job. Rick Scott, governor, stand up, please.
(APPLAUSE)
Thank you, Rick.
Finally, on behalf of the entire nation, let me express our gratitude to all members. And I mean all members of our military serving in the United States Central Command and the United States Special Operations Command. We salute the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard, along with our civilian defense personnel who are so important to the success of what we're doing.
Let me also recognize the military families and spouses who bravely shoulder the burdens of war. I want every military family in this country to know that our administration is at your service. We stand with you 100 percent. We will protect those who protect us. And we will never, ever let you down.
As your president, I have no higher duty than to protect the American people, highest duty we have. I said it the other night. Great, great Supreme Court nominee. You all saw that.
(Inaudible) to myself, perhaps the only thing more important to me definitely is the defense of our nation. Supreme Court's so important. But we have to defend our nation. And we will do that, believe me.
(APPLAUSE)
We will do that. And each and every one of you is central to that mission.
The men and women serving in CENTCOM and SOCOM have poured out their hearts and souls for this country. They've really experienced things that very few people get to experience.
You've shed your blood across the continents and the oceans. You've engaged the enemy on distant battlefields, toiled in the burning heat and bitter cold, and sacrificed everything so that we can remain safe and strong and free.
Our administration will always honor our sacred bond to those who serve. And we will never, ever forget you. Believe me, we will never, ever forget you.
We will ensure that the men and women of our military have the tools, equipment, resources, training and supplies you need to get the job done. You've seen me say we've been depleted.
Our Navy is at a point almost as low as World War I. That's a long time ago. That's a long time ago. It's not going to happen anymore, folks. It's not going to happen anymore. Not with me.
But we will ensure no taxpayer dollars are wasted. I have already saved more than $700 million when I got involved in the negotiation on the F-35. You know about that.
And I want to thank Lockheed Martin. And I want to thank Boeing. And I want to thank all of the companies that have really opened up.
And when I say opened up, Rick Scott understands this very well. Opened up and cut their prices, OK. Because that's what they did. And we've got that program. It's going to be back in really great shape from really being very troubled. And we are going to be taking care of our great veterans.
We will make a historic financial investment in the Armed Forces of the United States and show the entire world that America stands with those who stand in defense of freedom. We have your back every hour, every day now and always. That also means getting our allies to pay their fair share. Been a very unfair to us.
We strongly support NATO. We only ask that all of the NATO members make their full and proper financial contributions to the NATO Alliance, which many of them have not been doing. Many of them have not been even close. And they have to do that.
TRUMP: Central Command and Central Operations Command are at the very center of our fight against radical Islamic terrorism. America stands in awe of your courage. Those serving at CENTCOM have bravely fought across the theater of war in the Middle East, and bravely battled a viscous enemy that has no respect for human life. Today we express our gratitude to everyone serving overseas, including our military personnel in Afghanistan.
SOCOM has dispatched its legendary warriors to the most secret, sensitive and daring missions in defense of the United States of America. No enemy stands a chance against our Special Force, not even a chance.
They don't have a chance. And that's the way we're going to keep it. And you're going to be better off because you're going to have the finest equipment known to man. Going to be better off.
The proof that our nation has been blessed by God, look no further than the men and women of the United States military. They are the greatest fighters and the greatest force of justice on the face of the earth, and that the world has ever known.
The challenges facing our nation, nevertheless, are very large, very, very large. We're up against an enemy that celebrates death and totally worships destruction. You've seen that.
ISIS is on a campaign of genocide, committing atrocities across the world. Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland, as they did on 9/11, as they did from Boston to Orlando to San Bernardino and all across Europe.
You've seen what happened in Paris and Nice. All over Europe it's happening. It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported. And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it. They have their reasons and you understand that.
So today we deliver a message in one very unified voice to these forces of death and destruction. America and its allies will defeat you. We will defeat them. We will defeat radical Islamic terrorism. And we will not allow it to take root in our country. Not going to allow it.
You've been seeing what's been going on over the last few days. We need strong programs so that people that love us and want to love our country and will end up loving our country are allowed in. Not people that want to destroy us and destroy our country.
(CHEERS)
(APPLAUSE)
Freedom, security and justice will prevail. In his first State of the Union message, President George Washington wrote that "to be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
Almost 200 years later, as the general was also speaking about Ronald Reagan, he said that "wisdom comes in three very, very strong words. Peace through strength."
I've said it many times during the campaign, speak it in front of tens of thousands of people at one sitting. And I'd always mention America first, a phrase that you probably never heard, "make America great again."
(CHEERS)
Anybody ever heard that?
(APPLAUSE)
And "peace through strength."
The men and women of the United States military provide the strength to bring peace to our troubled, troubled times. We stand behind you. We support your mission.
We love our country. We are loyal to our people. We respect our flag. We celebrate our traditions. We honor our heroes. You are our heroes. And we are prepared to fight. And we pray for peace.
Thank you. God bless you, and God bless America. Thank you very much.
(CHEERS)
Thank you. Thank you.
(APPLAUSE)
Thank you.
(UNKNOWN): Thank you very much.
(APPLAUSE)
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http://time.com/4661658/donald-trump-terror-attacks-speech-macdill-air-force-base/ [with embedded video] [official White House transcript at https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/06/remarks-president-trump-coalition-representatives-and-senior-us ]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe1LwxsGrNs [with comment]
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Trump Says Journalists ‘Have Their Reasons’ to Play Down Terror Threat
FEB. 6, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/us/politics/donald-trump-centcom.html [with embedded video]
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This Is Madness
Getty Brendan Smialowski
What about the people who might have to follow this guy's orders?
By Charles P. Pierce
Feb 6, 2017
Today, the president* went to McDill Air Force Base to chat with some of the members of the military of whom he is the commander-in-chief, god help the civilized world. His basic pitch to them is the same as his basic pitch to everyone these days—to wit, was that an awesome campaign or what?
"That's so nice. A lot of spirit. We have tremendous spirit. We had a wonderful election, didn't we?"
Then it was time to discuss the terrorist threat.
"To these forces of death and desiccation, America and it's allies will defeat you. We will defeat them. We will defeat Radical Islamic terrorism. The challenges facing our nation are very large — very, very large. We are up against an emery that celebrates death and worships destruction. Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland, as they did on 9/11, from Boston to Orlando to San Bernadino."
Not a single one of the terrorists involved in the referenced attacks came from any of the seven countries named in his executive order. Neither were any of them five-month old babies who needed heart surgeries.
"It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported. And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it… They have their reasons and you understand that."
Got that? There are terrorist attacks happening and the media not only are not reporting them, they don't want to report them because reasons. There probably was a massive truck bombing right at the end of your street last night and it didn't even make the local evening news because the anchor team of Todd Coiffure and Kim Kimclone are secretly sympathetic to ISIS and kept the news from you. Before we go to Tony al-Baghdadi with tonight's weather, here's a word from the great folks down at Caliphate Trucks.
This is madness. Worse, this is madness presented as leadership to the people who may have to react and respond to actual acts of actual terrorism, and who have bigger problems with which to cope than whether or not the C-in-C's elevator goes all the way to the penthouse. I have absolutely no idea what would go through the mind of a rookie airman who hears this fantastical drivel and wonders how he has come under the command of a guy who seems to be channeling Alex Jones through the fillings in his teeth. It's every day now, and I can't even imagine what a critical mass of this craziness would look like, and I'm pretty sure I don't want to know.
©2017 Hearst Communications, Inc.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a52873/trump-speech-military-terrorism/ [h/t arizona1, (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128481443 and preceding and following]
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The 50 Craziest Things Trump Has Done As President | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ
Published on Feb 6, 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 hasn’t even been president for a month yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bwj_CGFaEU [with (approaching 4,000) comments]
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Bill O'Reilly's exclusive interview with President Trump
Published on Feb 6, 2017 by Fox News [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXIJgqnII2ZOINSWNOGFThA / http://www.youtube.com/user/FoxNewsChannel , http://www.youtube.com/user/FoxNewsChannel/videos ]
Bill and President Trump discuss Iran, Mexico and the future of healthcare on 'The O'Reilly Factor'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8PLR9uzlhw [with comments]
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Putin Critic, Who Said He Was Poisoned in 2015, Falls Into Coma
Vladimir Kara-Murza has fallen into a life-threatening coma caused by an unknown poison, his wife said on Monday.
Al Drago/The New York Times
By ANDREW E. KRAMER
FEB. 6, 2017
MOSCOW — A leader of the Russian opposition who has been a vocal critic of what he calls a Kremlin policy of assassinating political enemies has fallen into a life-threatening coma caused by an unknown poison, his wife said on Monday.
The diagnosis of what ailed Vladimir Kara-Murza came at a delicate political moment for the United States and Russia [ https://www.nytimes.com/topic/destination/russia ], as President Trump had just brushed aside criticism of Russian President Vladimir V. Putin [ https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/vladimir-putin ] as a “killer.”
“There are a lot of killers,” Mr. Trump had said in the interview on Fox News on Sunday. “You think our country’s so innocent?” The Kremlin then demanded that Fox News apologize for the host Bill O’Reilly’s characterization of Mr. Putin.
In Moscow, Mr. Kara-Murza, 35, has been in a coma and at the center of a politically hued medical mystery since Thursday as doctors puzzled over his symptoms while keeping him alive on artificial respiration.
Mr. Kara-Murza suffered similar symptoms in 2015 [ https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/world/europe/vladimir-kara-murza-russia-opposition.html ] and later said he had been poisoned. Then, a French laboratory found elevated levels of heavy metals in his blood but was unable to pinpoint any specific poison.
Doctors determined the cause this time as “acute intoxication by an unidentified substance,” Mr. Kara-Murza’s wife, Yevgeniya Kara-Murza, said in an interview. His condition was stable but critical, she added.
“The onset was just as sudden as last time,” Ms. Kara-Murza said. “He is all surrounded by machines and covered in tubes.” Other than poisoning, she said, “We don’t see any other explanation.”
Ms. Kara-Murza said samples of her husband’s blood, hair and fingernails had been sent to laboratories in France and Israel in an effort to identify the mystery toxin.
After the 2015 episode, Mr. Kara-Murza recuperated in the United States and suffered lingering nerve damage for about a year, but returned to his political activism in Russia [ http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/russiaandtheformersovietunion/index.html ] despite threats. The leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov [ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/world/europe/chechnya-ramzan-kadyrov-donald-trump.html ], for example, posted a photograph of Mr. Kara-Murza in cross hairs.
Last month, Mr. Kara-Murza submitted a letter critical of Mr. Putin’s government to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during cabinet confirmation hearings for Rex W. Tillerson, the secretary of state.
“There are higher risks than slander or imprisonment for those who oppose the regime,” Mr. Kara-Murza wrote. In Russia, he had been traveling to provincial cities to show a documentary about another Russian politician, Boris Y. Nemtsov [ https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/world/europe/march-in-moscow-to-honor-putin-critic-boris-nemtsov.html ], who was shot and killed on a Moscow bridge two years ago.
On the Fox program, Mr. Trump said he respected Mr. Putin and hoped Russia and the United States could join forces to defeat Islamic terrorism. The host, Mr. O’Reilly, responded: “He’s a killer though. Putin’s a killer.” It was unclear whether the characterization referred to the unsolved assassination of dissidents, muckraking journalists and opposition politicians or allegations of war crimes in Syria, Ukraine or Chechnya.
The Kremlin’s spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, told reporters Monday that the description was “unacceptable, insulting.”
The Soviet Union operated a secret laboratory to research untraceable poisons that were tested on condemned gulag prisoners, security service defectors have said.
In 2006, a Russian law legalized targeted killing abroad. Russia has never acknowledged using the authority under that law and has specifically denied any government ties to high-profile poisoning cases.
But after whistle-blowers and opponents of Mr. Putin in recent years began dying from exotic poisons, including radioactive plutonium and a rare Himalayan plant toxin, critics of the Russian government and independent researchers have asserted that the post-Soviet government has turned again to its poison arsenal.
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Russia Moves to Soften Domestic Violence Law
JAN. 25, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/world/europe/russia-domestic-violence.html
Putin Says Accusations in Trump Dossier Are ‘Clearly Fake’
JAN. 17, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/world/europe/putin-trump-memo.html
© 2017 The New York Times Company
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/world/europe/russia-vladimir-kara-murza-putin.html
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Putin critic in 'grave' condition after suffering full organ failure
Doctors say 'toxic substance' to blame for Vladimir Kara-Murza's illness
Yevgenia Kara-Murza says husband has suffered 'full organ failure'
Updated February 7, 2017
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/europe/vladimir-kara-murza-suffers-organ-failure/ [with embedded video]
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White House rattled by McCarthy's spoof of Spicer
The devastating “Saturday Night Live” caricature of Sean Spicer that aired over the weekend, played by Melissa McCarthy, did not go over well internally at a White House where looks matter.
02/06/17
As the press secretary for a president who's obsessed with how things play on cable TV, Sean Spicer’s real audience during his daily televised press briefings has always been an audience of one.
And the devastating “Saturday Night Live” caricature of Spicer
[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWuc18xISwI (included in/see (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128444408 (two posts back) and preceding and following; with (over 17,000) comments] that aired over the weekend — in which a belligerent Spicer was spoofed by a gum-chomping, super soaker-wielding Melissa McCarthy in drag — did not go over well internally at a White House in which looks matter.
More than being lampooned as a press secretary who makes up facts, it was Spicer’s portrayal by a woman that was most problematic in the president’s eyes, according to sources close to him. ...
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/melissa-mccarthy-sean-spicer-234715 [with comments]
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For Trump, it's not bad news. It's fake news.
All In with Chris Hayes
2/6/17
The president and his staff see paid protesters, made-up polls, and imaginary massacres everywhere they look. Duration: 8:50
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/for-trump-it-s-not-bad-news-it-s-fake-news-871401027638
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Gen. McCaffrey: Trump is 'betraying the people who voted for him'
All In with Chris Hayes
2/6/17
President Trump's strange and repeated defense of Russian President Vladimir Putin has hit a new low. General Barry McCaffrey responds. Duration: 5:47
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gen-mccaffrey-trump-is-betraying-the-people-who-voted-for-him-871398979761
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Appeals court to hear Trump ban case Tuesday
The Rachel Maddow Show
2/6/17
Rachel Maddow reports breaking news that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in the case against Donald Trump's travel ban on Tuesday with arguments to be streamed live online. Duration: 1:31
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/appeals-court-to-hear-trump-ban-case-tuesday-871483459587
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Russia propaganda turns up in US foreign policy query
The Rachel Maddow Show
2/6/17
Rachel Maddoow reports on Russia propaganda about Poland invading Belarus, which would be an obscure story except that senior White House officials have reportedly made inquiries about it, leading to questions about where the White House is getting its information. Duration: 16:06
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/russia-propaganda-turns-up-in-us-foreign-policy-query-871470659984
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Trump loses first legal round on travel ban, next steps announced
The Rachel Maddow Show
2/6/17
Bob Ferguson, Washington state attorney general, talks with Rachel Maddow about his success so far challenging Donald Trump's travel ban in court, and expectations that other states will join the lawsuit or file their own. Duration: 6:03
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-loses-first-legal-round-on-travel-ban-next-steps-announced-871472707990 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvZqpkm_NZY [with comments]
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Questions of accuracy dog Trump SCOTUS pick Gorsuch biography
The Rachel Maddow Show
2/6/17
Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate, debates with Rachel Maddow the significance of questionable claims of charity work in the biography of Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick, Neil Gorsuch. Duration: 8:31
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/questions-of-accuracy-dog-trump-scotus-pick-gorsuch-biography-872037955706
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Trump FDA pick a 'seasteading' advocate, no medical background
The Rachel Maddow Show
2/6/17
Rachel Maddow reminds viewers of the peculiar ideas of Jim O’Neill, Donald Trump's pick to lead the FDA, and the threat he poses to federal drug safety regulations. Duration: 3:17
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-fda-pick-a-seasteading-advocate-no-medical-background-871457347981
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President Trump equates USA to Putin's Russia
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/6/17
Republicans spent two days trying to not get tied to Trump's comments defending Putin by implying the U.S. is responsible for crimes comparable to Putin, who has allegedly had political opponents assassinated. David Frum, Rick Wilson & Neera Tanden join Ari Melber. Duration: 15:27
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/president-trump-equates-usa-to-putin-s-russia-871464003947 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOhO3059mRI [with comments]
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Why Trump lost: Judge slams alternative facts
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/6/17
Lawyers defending President Trump's travel ban lost a major battle in court. How did they lose? The judge did not buy the "alternative facts" argument. Ari Melber explains. Duration: 7:12
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/why-trump-lost-judge-slams-alternative-facts-871464003958
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'Fake news' & 'so-called judge': Trump attacks media & courts
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/6/17
Using increasingly harsh words, Pres. Trump continues attacking courts over his travel ban and the media for critical coverage. MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to Ashley Parker & Nicolle Wallace. Duration: 10:29
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/-fake-news-so-called-judge-trump-attacks-media-courts-871479363506
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Gen. McCaffrey: Trump's comments on Putin are 'appalling'
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/6/17
Decorated Army General and MSNBC Military Analyst Gen. Barry McCaffrey blasted Pres. Trump for saying the U.S. isn't so innocent when Trump was asked about Vladimir Putin being a 'killer.' Duration: 7:01
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/gen-mccaffrey-trump-s-comments-on-putin-are-appalling-871476803640
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Trump Threatens To Pull Berkeley Funding After Protests
Published on Feb 6, 2017 by Mike Malloy [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpU4j-LN_aibXA1gONvWzxw / http://www.youtube.com/user/hschulein , http://www.youtube.com/user/hschulein/videos ]
President Donald Trump threatened to withdraw federal funding from the University of California at Berkeley over its decision to cancel an event at which Breitbart News writer Milo Yiannopoulos, known for his provocative and often misogynistic stances, was scheduled to speak.
“If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS?” Trump wrote on Twitter on Thursday morning.
The university opted to cancel Yiannopoulos’ speech roughly two hours before it was set to begin after a protest against his presence on the campus turned violent, CNN reported. The school blamed “150 masked agitators” with igniting the violence, which included Molotov cocktails and fireworks launched at police. Protesters also threw rocks at officers and smashed windows at the U.C. student center, where Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak.
Full story:
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-uc-berkeley-milo-yiannopoulos-234530
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-tnUlkr53c [with comments],
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aZ5Utc9km4 [with comments]
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Trump Lies Three Times In One Facebook Post
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by Mike Malloy
President Trump and his aides have repeatedly suggested that the executive order temporarily barring refugees and blocking citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States is an outgrowth of Obama administration policy.
Mr. Trump’s statement on Facebook, Jan. 29:
“The seven countries named in the
Executive Order are the same countries
previously identified by the Obama
administration as sources of terror.”
What really happened:
The seven countries were largely
chosen by the Republican-led Congress.
Full story:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/06/us/politics/why-trump-chose-the-seven-countries.html
[originally aired February 6, 2017]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUQTTkisI2w [with comments]
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Trump Hates America
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by Mike Malloy
[originally aired February 6, 2017]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_jKAXt0uSw [with comments]
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Trump Has His Fingers On The Nuclear Button
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by Mike Malloy
[originally aired February 6, 2017]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paxD9u2_4vg [with comments]
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Is Steve Bannon the Real President? - The Daily Show
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA/videos ]
President Trump gets defensive after the media speculates that his chief strategist Steve Bannon may be the one who is really making major policy decisions at the White House.
[originally aired February 6, 2017]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60q4UrjlvAA [with comments]
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Stephen Colbert's Exclusive Post-Game Interview With President Trump
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig/videos ]
When our host sat down with the leader of the free world, no topics were off-limits, including the New England Patriots, Lady Gaga, and Vladimir Putin.
[originally aired February 6, 2017]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cE-rz6R8lA [with comments]
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Big Game Review: Are You Ready For Some Locker Room Talk?
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen looks back at the shocking win by the Patriots, Lady GaGa's spot-on halftime performance, and the party attended by President Trump.
[originally aired February 6, 2017]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhnvzheL8Fo [with comments]
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Trump Is Literally Keeping His Staffers In The Dark
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen chats with one of the President's staffers who just can't seem to find a working light switch at The White House.
[originally aired February 6, 2017]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYWa1ahbQRg [with comments]
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Trump Says Voter Fraud. Stephen Says Bull.
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen looks into President Trump's claim that three to five million people voted illegally and runs the numbers for himself.
[originally aired February 6, 2017]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn1m3IRztfk [with comments]
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Stephen Colbert Is A Bowling Green Massacre Truther
Published on Feb 6, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen won't rest until the media doesn't release reports that that non-existent reports on the Bowling Green attacks that did not occur.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imKdxHCaCds [with comments]
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Trump Lashes Out Over Travel Ban and Putin: A Closer Look
Published on Feb 6, 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 the Trump Administration's attempts to make up fake tragedies and openly blame the court system for future terror attacks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwmi6eYmD3g [with (approaching 4,000) comments]
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Late Night White House Press Briefing
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Sean Spicer holds an impromptu press briefing with Seth and the Late Night press corps to answer burning questions, like what does Melania say to Donald after kissing?
[originally aired February 6, 2017]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2RxeZu7NXM [with comments]
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How President Trump Could Seize More Power After a Terrorist Attack
President Trump and his top White House aides have been obsessed with highlighting a threat that does not exist.
PHOTOGRAPH BY AUDE GUERRUCCI / GETTY
By Ryan Lizza
February 7, 2017
Since September 11, 2001, ninety-four people [ https://www.newamerica.org/in-depth/terrorism-in-america/what-threat-united-states-today/ ] have been killed in the United States in ten attacks carried out by a total of twelve radical Islamist terrorists. Each of the attackers was either an American citizen or a legal resident. More than half of the ninety-four murders occurred last year, when Omar Mateen, who was born on Long Island, killed forty-nine people at a night club in Orlando.
According to the comprehensive terrorism database maintained by the New America Foundation, since 9/11 there have been three hundred and ninety-six people involved in American terrorism cases, which New America defines as “individuals who are charged with or died engaging in jihadist terrorism or related activities inside the United States, and Americans accused of such activity abroad.” Eighty-three per cent of these individuals were American citizens or permanent residents. (Seventeen per cent were non-residents or had an unknown status.)
And yet, for more than two weeks, President Donald Trump and his top White House aides have been obsessed with highlighting a threat that does not exist: jihadist refugees and immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.
It’s true that both worldwide terrorist attacks and terrorism-related cases against plotters in the United States have spiked since 2013, an increase largely attributed to the fallout from the Syrian civil war and the rise of the Islamic State. I talked to several counterterrorism experts this week, and they all believe that there will be another attack.
“I do believe the world faces a serious and growing terrorist threat,” Evan McMullin, the former C.I.A. officer and Republican who ran for President as an independent candidate against Trump [ http://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/evan-mcmullins-quest-to-save-democracy ], said. “But Trump, either by ignorance or malice, is distorting the nature of that threat by targeting very well-vetted immigrants, including legal permanent residents and refugees. He simply does not have a strong national-security case to make against these people, which is why it is reasonable to wonder if he has some ulterior motive for taking such extreme steps against them.”
Yesterday, Trump’s campaign to highlight this threat took a bizarre turn when he accused the media of burying coverage of terror attacks. “It’s gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported,” he said in remarks to troops at MacDill Air Force Base, in Tampa. “In many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it. They have their reasons.” The White House later released a list of attacks since 2014 that it insisted had not received enough attention.
This is the second time in a week that Trump has accused others of not understanding the threat posed by terrorism. Over the weekend, he used Twitter to attack the federal judge who put a halt to Trump’s immigration ban. He called James L. Robart, who was appointed by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the Senate, a “so-called judge,” and later added, “Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. If something happens blame him and court system. People pouring in. Bad!”
One of the questions raised by Trump’s claims that the media and the courts have endangered the country is what he would do in the event of a terrorist attack.
Jack Goldsmith, a former senior Justice Department official in the George W. Bush Administration, who helped design the post-9/11 anti-terror legal architecture, recently suggested [ https://www.lawfareblog.com/does-trump-want-lose-eo-battle-court-or-donald-mcgahn-simply-ineffectual-or-worse ] that Trump might actually want his travel ban to be overturned. That way, in the wake of an attack, he can use the judiciary as a bogeyman and justify any new efforts to push through more extreme measures.
I asked Goldsmith and others what the menu of options might be for a President Trump empowered by the justifiable fears Americans would have in the aftermath of a serious attack. “If it is a large and grim attack, he might ask for more surveillance powers inside the U.S. (including fewer restrictions on data mingling and storage and queries), more immigration control power at the border, an exception to Posse Comitatus (which prohibits the military from law enforcement in the homeland), and perhaps more immigration-related detention powers,” Goldsmith wrote in an e-mail. “In the extreme scenario Trump could ask Congress to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, which would cut off the kind of access to courts you are seeing right now for everyone (or for every class of persons for which the writ is suspended).”
He pointed out that President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus and ignored courts that insisted he didn’t have such power. “The point of the example is that the only question is not what powers Trump might ‘ask for,’ ” Goldsmith said, “but also what powers he might assert or assume or grab, and what he can get away with.”
John Yoo, who as a lawyer for the George W. Bush Administration was the fiercest defender of its most extreme post-9/11 policies, including the use of torture, recently wrote an Op-Ed in which he said he was alarmed by Trump’s attempt to expand the powers of the executive branch [ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/opinion/executive-power-run-amok.html ]. (This was as if Trump had written an essay arguing that he was concerned about developers adding their names to buildings in lettering that was too large.) Yoo told me, “If there is another terrorist attack, I could see Trump seeking all of the powers that the President can exercise during wartime. The domestic powers would have to be approved by Congress, such as limitations on habeas, domestic warrantless surveillance, and an internal security act. We really haven’t had a system like that since the Second World War or the Communist cases of the nineteen-fifties.”
Matt Olsen, the former head of the National Counterterrorism Center, told me that he didn’t agree with Goldsmith’s suggestion that Trump actually wants the executive order overturned, but he said that he thought Trump was laying the groundwork for arguments he might make after an attack. “This is a win-win for Trump,” Olsen said. “We can assume there will be another terrorist attack in the U.S. If the executive order is in place, he will point to the attack as support for the executive order and the need to expand it to other countries with bad dudes (Muslims). If the executive order has been struck down, Trump will blame judges and Democrats for the attack.”
Olsen was also concerned that Trump might undo many of the changes that Barack Obama put in place to rein in the excesses of the Bush era. “As for other options in a post-attack scenario, just look back to 9/11,” he said. “C.I.A. black sites, enhanced interrogations, Gitmo, and warrantless surveillance will all be on the table. In addition, regardless of nationality, there will be changes to immigration and refugee policies.” He added that he could also imagine an effort to loosen restrictions on surveillance inside the United States.
Todd Breasseale, the former assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, was also alarmed. “I had a very similar discussion with a former senior intel official on this very issue, before Jack’s column,” he told me. “We both wholly believe that Trump needs a bogeyman. But, more importantly, he needs distraction and a blame source. In terrorists, he has his bogeyman. In his control of the prevailing press narrative via tweet, he has distraction. And, in the judiciary, he has a source of blame for why his way was right from the beginning.” Breasseale added, “I am fully confident that an attack is exactly what he wants and needs.”
Breasseale said that he was most concerned about the potential of Trump using existing D.H.S. tools. “He could create a registry of various religions, sects, and provenance—all within the law—all to amp up fear and suspicion, releasing the information in ways that meet his narrative,” he said. “D.H.S. has a means to track this information and publish it in real time. It gets very specific: military-aged males from East Timor, geriatric women from Japan, Muslim children from Pakistan—you name it. You can see how the right information with the wrong context could manipulate public angst. He could also order raids and removals within the law. Worse in some respects: he could remain unpredictable, continuing the chaos we saw with the Customs and Border Patrol folks.”
Trump’s efforts to hype the threat from terrorism during a period of domestic calm should be regarded with extreme skepticism. As McMullin noted, “Trump’s strange focus on the terrorist threat” was “out of step with reality at the moment” and was “a telltale sign of a leader contemplating policies that would otherwise be unacceptable.”
© 2017 Condé Nast
http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/how-president-trump-could-seize-more-power-after-a-terrorist-attack
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WATCH: President Trump Meets With Sheriffs From Across The Country
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by FOX 10 Phoenix [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJg9wBPyKMNA5sRDnvzmkdg , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJg9wBPyKMNA5sRDnvzmkdg/videos ]
Trump makes false statement about U.S. murder rate to sheriffs’ group
February 7, 2017
President Trump met Tuesday morning with a group of sheriffs from the National Sheriffs Association, a group that consists of more than 3,000 sheriffs from around the country. And to this sworn group of law enforcement veterans, with reporters taking notes, he again repeated a falsehood about the murder rate in America.
Trump told the sheriffs, “the murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years.” He blamed the news media for not publicizing this development, then added, “But the murder rate is the highest it’s been in, I guess, 45 to 47 years.”
The country’s murder rate is not the highest it’s been in 47 years. It is almost at its lowest point, actually, according to the FBI, which gathers statistics every year from police departments around the country.
The murder rate is defined as the number of murders and non-negligent homicides per 100,000 residents. Beginning in 1957, when the rate was 4.0 murders per 100,000 residents, the rate rose steadily to a high of 10.2 in 1980. It then steadily dropped, to 7.4 in 1996, to 6.1 in 2006, to 4.4 in 2014. It went up in 2015 to 4.9. But that is less than half the murder rate of 1980, while the population has risen from 226 million in 1980 to 321 million in 2015.
The violent crime rate in America also has plummeted over the years. Defined as including murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, violent crimes peaked at a rate of 758 per 100,000 residents in 1991, and the rate was about 373 violent crimes per 100,000 in 2015, again a decline of more than half.
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Here are Trump’s exact words to the sheriffs:
“And yet the murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years. I used to use that, I’d say that in a speech and everybody was surprised. Because the press [gestures to reporters] doesn’t tell it like it is. It wasn’t to their advantage to say that. But the murder rate is the highest it’s been in, I guess, 45 to 47 years.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/02/07/trump-makes-false-statement-about-u-s-murder-rate-to-sheriffs-group/ [with embedded videos, and comments]
Trump Jokes, Of State Senator, 'We'll Destroy His Career'
President Trump speaks to county sheriffs at the White House on Tuesday.
February 7, 2017
At a gathering of sheriffs at the White House on Tuesday, President Trump joked about destroying the career of a Texas politician who is trying to set limits on an often-criticized police practice.
The remark came after a participant at the sheriff's roundtable raised the issue of asset forfeiture — that's when the government seizes "suspicious" assets and keeps them, even if the person who had the item was never convicted (or even accused) of a crime [ http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/10/363102433/police-can-seize-and-sell-assets-even-when-the-owner-broke-no-law ]. The resulting funds often go directly into police budgets.
Taking property from people who haven't been convicted of a crime is legal, but controversial.
"Police confiscate cars, jewelry, cash and homes they think are connected to crime. But the people these things belong to may have done nothing wrong," NPR's Laura Sullivan explained a few years ago [ http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/10/363102433/police-can-seize-and-sell-assets-even-when-the-owner-broke-no-law ].
"Prosecutors say the seizures are helpful tools to combat drug dealers and drunken drivers," Laura wrote. "But for people who haven't committed a crime, the cases are expensive to contest and often disproportionately affect people without means or access to a lawyer."
One sheriff at the gathering mentioned that some critics have said the practice violates due process, and called for limits. Trump responded: "I'd like to look into that ... There's no reason for that," suggesting that only "bad people" would want to reform or limit asset forfeiture.
A few minutes later, the following exchange occurred, as transcribed by the White House [ https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/07/remarks-president-trump-roundtable-county-sheriffs ]:
"PARTICIPANT: Mr. President, on asset forfeiture, we got a state senator in Texas who was talking about introducing legislation to require conviction before we can receive their forfeiture.
THE PRESIDENT: Can you believe that?
PARTICIPANT: And I told him that the cartel would build a monument to him in Mexico if he could get that legislation.
THE PRESIDENT: Who is the state senator? Want to give his name? We'll destroy his career. (Laughter.) Okay, thank you."
The remark made [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/07/well-destroy-his-career-trump-quips-about-a-texas-state-senator-at-odds-with-a-county-sheriff/ ] national headlines [ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-well-destroy-his-career/vp-AAmHCV8 ].
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http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/07/513976112/trump-jokes-of-state-senator-well-destroy-his-career [with embedded video] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=90696887 and preceding and following]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNxBMs8p1QE [with comments]
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Full Show - Top Putin Advisor Joins Infowars / Democrats Show Signs Of Alzheimer - 02/07/2017
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
On this Tuesday, Feb. 7th 2017 transmission of the Alex Jones Show, an MSNBC host compares Trump to Putin and says he may start killing journalists. And overwhelming evidence shows Trump was right about massive voter/election fraud. Philosopher Dr. Aleksandr Dugin joins the program today to expound on Trump's swamp metaphor and provide his take on Putin and Trump as two poles of a new world vision. On today's show we also welcome University of California Professor Darrell Y. Hamamoto to discuss the riots at UC Berkeley over the weekend, and the California secession movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JNLU7LpTXE [with comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=106299022 and preceding and following, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=124782441 and preceding and following, http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=125582447 and preceding (and any future following), http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=127542637 and preceding and following]
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Bible Code Student's Shocking Discovery: Rev 12 Prophecy, God's Roadmap to the End & Sept 23 2017
Published on Oct 4, 2016 by TheCodesearcher dotcom [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbAvR6nJrUt8Gk4-TGwDe5Q / http://www.youtube.com/user/TheMatt71269 , http://www.youtube.com/user/TheMatt71269/videos ]
This shocking video reveals one of the first Codesearcher School bible code tables. This startling and detailed bible code discovery reveals and confirms end times constellation event.
Here's the PDF of the table: http://thecodesearcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Revelation12Prophecy.pdf
First, it supports/validates the videos titled: "God's Roadmap to the End". Here's the playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=god%27s+roadmap+to+the+end
You can watch the video about the Revelation 12 Prophecy here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp4u-9EH1MQ
The confrontation between the Red Dragon and the Man Child is revealed in the heavens, the Revelation 12 prophecy in scruipture and in the bible codes. All aligned and support the others.
Note: With this table we are making no predictions. Nor are we assigning identities to the Man Child or the Virgin. However, scripture does tell us the Red Dragon is Satan.
This September 23 2017 constellation event can be viewed using the software Stellarium. You can download it here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/Stellarium-win64/0.15.0/stellarium-0.15.0-win64.exe/download
If you feel called by Father to search the codes, you can apply here: http://thecodesearcher.com/apply/
We are also including below a work-in-progress description to most of the matrix ELS terms so that you can see the meanings, Strong's numbers etc. This table will continue to be updated.
Note: Location denotes first letter of ELS term. Left, middle, right and upper, middle, lower are divided by approximately one thirds, allowing for nine approximate search areas for the first letter in each ELS term, the ELS terms may be in a combination of areas where applicable.
Please be aware that some ELS terms may join others, I have tried to leave the colour of the first letter as denoted in each search term description but this may not have always been possible.
Legend: UL= upper left (of matrix), ML=middle left, LL=lower left, UM=upper middle, MM= middle middle, LM= lower middle, UR= upper right, MR=middle right, LR=lower right.
Original bible code axis search term – Jupiter purple/pink- dark letters. MM.
Bible code words found:
AKaL H398-99 to devour, burn up, consume, eat up, purple/ Lt blue letters below Jupiter. MM.
DoKiY H1796 to break, destroy in pieces, bruise, collapse, mutilate, purple/Lt blue letters above Jupiter. MM.
MiDDaH H4060 a measure, a piece, a portion, purple/ mid blue letters. UM.
Raa H7489 break, bruise, spoil, break to pieces, afflict, harm, hurt, vex, purple/ Lt blue letters, top of 18 letter combination with Jupiter. UM.
Year 2016 light blue/yellow letters UM,UM,ML,MR.
MaTzaLaH H4208 Planet, constellation, zodiacal sign, “raining down”, light blue/red letters. MM.
MaTzaRaH H4216 noted constellations/Zodiacs (of distinction), mid grey/ red letters. LL.
Planet orange/yellow letters. LL.
ShuwBaR H7729 a return, returning, purple/ white letters. UM,UR.
Nibiru purple/ dark blue letters. UM.
LAaNaH H3939 Wormwood, yucky dark pink /blue letters. MM.
KoWKaB H3556 star, blazing star, shining star, yellow/ blue writing. LM,LR.
Virgo mid green/ yellow letters. MR.
SheMeShaY H8121-H8124 sun, sunshine, light blue/black letters. MM.
Solar yellow/ red letters. LM,UR.
MiTzaH H4199 to faint, fear, burn, terror, dark brown/ white letters. ML,LR.
MuWtH H4191-H4194 to die, death, dead, kill, destroy, slay, black/red letters. ML,MM,LL,UR,MR,LR.
ShaMaYiM H8064 heavens, the domain of celestial bodies, burnt orange/black letters. ML,MR.
YaLaD H3205 travailing in pregnancy, mid grey/ blue letters. MM,MM.
NaPhaL H5307 fall, smite, cast down, orange/ green letters. MM,MM,UR
LaHBaH H3852 fire, flames, flaming head of arrow, light grey/yellow letters. LR.
Dwarf brown/ green letters. MM.
RaPhaH H7497 giant, brown/ white letters. ML.
ShaBaR H7665 break down, break off, in pieces, bring to the birth, destroy, tear, to burst, hurt, red /black letters MM,MR.
ShaBaB H7616 broken in pieces, a fragment, ruin by force, red/black letters. LM,MR
ABaQaH H80 – H81 volatile particles, dust, powder, float as vapour, red/blue letters. UM,MM,LM,MR.
TiShRiY Hebrew month (Sept/Oct) dark grey/black letters . UL,LM,LM,MR,MR.
ELuL Hebrew month (Aug/Sept) dark grey/yellow letters. UM,UM,UM,UM,UM.
TaNiYN H8577 dragon, serpent, sea monster, whale, Lt green/red letters. UM,MM.
TaNiYM H8577 dragon, serpent, sea monster, whale, , Lt green/red letters. UR
ADoM H119-H122 red, blood, man, human, flush, ruddy, light green/ yellow letters. UL,UM,UM,MM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WJI4X1D3vY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWlg8xmNNQI [with comments]
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BACKSTAB: Republican Leaders Funded By Soros
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Donation records show that George Soros not only funded Hillary, but also the campaigns of Paul Ryan, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Marco Rubio, and Jeb Bush - attempting to stop Donald Trump at all costs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv31NoCwWUY [with comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=13899092 and preceding and following]
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Kellyanne Conway's full interview with Jake Tapper
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by CNN [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCupvZG-5ko_eiXAupbDfxWw / http://www.youtube.com/user/CNN , http://www.youtube.com/user/CNN/videos ]
Counselor to President Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway speaks to CNN's Jake Tapper about Trump's latest attacks on the media.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flyW41U7XPw [with comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128513580 and preceding and following]
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The hearing was titled, ‘Making EPA great again.’ Scientists are afraid the opposite will happen.
Chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) said the EPA has had a political agenda for the past eight years, not a scientific one.
February 7, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/07/the-hearing-was-titled-making-epa-great-again-scientists-are-afraid-the-opposite-will-happen/ [with comments]
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17-35105 State of Washington, et. al. v. Donald J. Trump et. al.
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeIMdiBTNTpeA84wmSRPDPg / http://www.youtube.com/user/9thcirc , http://www.youtube.com/user/9thcirc/videos ]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPOFowWqFGU [with comments]
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Sen. McConnell Refuses to Let Sen. Warren Speak About Attorney General Nominee Sessions
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by Senator Elizabeth Warren [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTH9zV8Imw09J5bOoTR18_A / http://www.youtube.com/user/senelizabethwarren , http://www.youtube.com/user/senelizabethwarren/videos ]
Senator Elizabeth Warren was cut off from speaking on the Senate floor about Attorney General nominee Senator Jeff Sessions [by reading Coretta Scott King's 1986 letter, already entered into the Senate record last month, opposing the federal district court judgeship nomination of Jeff Sessions], by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, on February 7, 2017.
McConnell: Warren’s blistering Sessions speech broke Senate rules
02/07/17
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/318422-mcconnell-warrens-blistering-sessions-speech-broke-senate-rules [with embedded video, and comments]
GOP moves to punish Sen. Warren for attacks on AG nominee Jeff Sessions
February 7, 2017
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/7/elizabeth-warren-punished-attacks-jeff-sessions/ [with comments]
Document: Coretta Scott King 1986 letter opposing federal court nomination of Jeff Sessions (pdf)
http://www.msnbc.com/sites/msnbc/files/scott-king-1986-letter-and-testimony-signed.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVyq6kAN6u4 [with comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=127878638 and preceding and following]
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Exclusive interview with President Trump, Part 3
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by Fox News
Bill and President Trump discuss the media, the left and working in the White House on 'The O'Reilly Factor'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn9V73kjAlE [with comments]
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For Trump, it's nighttime in America
All In with Chris Hayes
2/7/17
The White House wants you to know that the earth is a very dangerous place. Duration: 8:29
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/for-trump-it-s-nighttime-in-america-872212547680
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What can Betsy DeVos do to American schools?
All In with Chris Hayes
2/7/17
Rep. Dan Kildee joins Joy Reid to talk about DeVos' record in Michigan and what she will have the power to do as she takes the helm at the Department of Education. Duration: 5:27
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-can-betsy-devos-do-to-american-schools-872219203670
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McConnell objects to Warren reading Coretta Scott King letter
All In with Chris Hayes
2/7/17
The GOP Majority Leader would not allow Senator Warren to read a letter written by Coretta Scott King opposing Sen. Jeff Sessions’ judicial nomination. Duration: 6:41
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mcconnell-objects-to-warren-reading-king-letter-872220739685
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Trump's USDA drops animal abuse reports, tries to blame Obama
The Rachel Maddow Show
2/7/17
Rachel Maddow reports on the USDA under Donald Trump dropping public reports on puppy breeder compliance with the Animal Welfare Act, and their clumsy attempt to blame the change on the Obama administration. Duration: 14:08
USDA abruptly purges animal welfare information from its website
February 3, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/02/03/the-usda-abruptly-removes-animal-welfare-information-from-its-website/ [with comments]
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-usda-drops-animal-abuse-reports-tries-to-blame-obama-872280131542
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Senator Tester: 'Plenty of reasons to vote no' on Jeff Sessions
The Rachel Maddow Show
2/7/17
Senator Jon Tester talks with Rachel Maddow about Mitch McConnell's effort to suppress Coretta Scott King's criticism of Jeff Sessions, and why he feels Sessions is not suitable for U.S. attorney general. Duration: 6:23
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senator-tester-plenty-of-reasons-to-vote-no-on-jeff-sessions-872282691525
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McConnell silences Warren on Sessions with obscure Senate rule
The Rachel Maddow Show
2/7/17
Senator Elizabeth Warren talks with Rachel Maddow about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell using an obscure Senate rule to silence Warren on speaking anymore on the Jeff Sessions nomination because she read from a Coretta Scott King letter already in the Congressional record criticizing Sessions. Duration: 5:24
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mcconnell-silences-warren-on-sessions-with-obscure-senate-rule-872244803614
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The arguments against Trump's travel ban
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/7/17
Lawyers for the Department of Justice tried to defend President Trump's travel ban in court but were caught in tough spots several times. MSNBC Legal Correspondent Ari Melber walks us through what happened in the courtroom today. Duration: 6:34
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/the-arguments-against-trump-s-travel-ban-872276035527
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Exclusive: WA Atty. Gen. on fighting Trump ban
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/7/17
The state of Washington made the case against Trump's travel ban in front of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson gives his first reaction to MSNBC's Ari Melber. Duration: 3:30
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/exclusive-wa-atty-gen-on-fighting-trump-ban-872274499941
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Profit and being First Lady
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
2/7/17
Melania Trump is suing The Daily Mail for libel, claiming her brand "lost significant value" after an unflattering story. It raises concerns about how the Trump family plan to make money while Donald Trump is president. Catherine Rampell & Joan Walsh join Ari Melber. Duration: 4:15
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/profit-and-being-first-lady-872275523791
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Trump travel ban case may go to Supreme Court
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/7/17
After a panel of federal judges heard oral arguments in the case over the Trump administration's travel ban, NBC News's Pete Williams joins MSNBC's Brian Williams to discuss the future of the case. Duration: 8:10
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-travel-ban-case-may-go-to-supreme-court-872307267968
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Legal experts react to Trump travel ban oral arguments
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/7/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz and ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt about what we learned after the oral arguments in the Trump travel ban case. Duration: 7:46
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/legal-experts-react-to-trump-travel-ban-oral-arguments-872308803834
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White House paints dark picture in support of travel ban
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/7/17
MSNBC's Brian Williams discusses the dark warnings coming out of the Trump administration in support of the president's travel ban with Nicolle Wallace, Heidi Przybyla, and Charlie Sykes. Duration: 6:41
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/white-house-paints-dark-picture-in-support-of-travel-ban-872308803924
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McCain blasts Trump comments, calls Putin a 'butcher & thug'
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
2/7/17
In some blistering remarks from the Senate floor, Sen. John McCain said there is no moral equivalence between the U.S. and Russia. MSNBC's Brian Williams discusses with his panel. Duration: 4:24
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/mccain-blasts-trump-comments-calls-putin-a-butcher-thug-872311363845
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President Trump Has The Art World On Edge
Published on Feb 8, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
These great works of art can't believe that the President plans to de-fund the National Endowment for the Arts.
[originally aired February 7, 2017]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KILF0ZxJ45U [with comments]
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Betsy DeVos: Donating More So Our Schools Get Less
Published on Feb 8, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stephen kicks off his monologue with some advice for Steve Bannon, before unpacking how exactly Betsy DeVos became our new Secretary of Education.
[originally aired February 7, 2017]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jExQVdQGju4 [with comments]
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Stephen Presents President Trump With Robe Force Once
Published on Feb 8, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Despite evidence to the contrary, Sean Spicer claims Donald Trump doesn't own a bathrobe. Stephen seeks to remedy the issue.
[originally aired February 7, 2017]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVyYcbhvQQg [with comments]
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John Oliver Doesn't Think He'll Get Deported, But He's Being Cautious
Published on Feb 8, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Host of 'Last Week Tonight' John Oliver swings through to talk with Stephen about the current state of American politics and his own immigration status.
[originally aired February 7, 2017]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJR9QjezRGg [with comments]
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The Check In: President Trump's Federal Hiring Freeze
Published on Feb 7, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seth checks in on the impact of President Donald Trump's executive order freezing federal hiring on veterans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emfEPLc7Q0I [with comments]
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