Donald Trump has many rhetorical tics: insisting that “nobody” can surpass him, reliance on the onomatopoeiac “bing,” and a penchant for saying “billions and billions,” to name just a few.
Another tic of “Trump-speak” involves contradicting himself within a single sentence.
Rob Porter stepped down after allegations of spousal abuse against him surfaced publicly. Joy Reid and her panel discuss why Porter was allowed to handle top secret documents without a full security clearance.
Trump accused of playing politics with security intel
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Donald Trump declassified the Nunes memo over the objections of the Department of Justice and the FBI, but will not do the same for the Democrats’ memo from the House Intelligence Committee. Joy Reid and her panel discuss what many see as the political use of national security information.
Trump defending alleged abusers opposes religious values
AM Joy 2/10/18
Donald Trump tweeted an apparent defense of alleged abusers, in the wake of a second White House aide stepping down after allegations of spousal abuse surfaced. Joy Reid and her panel discuss.
Why don’t Republicans seem to care about the deficit now?
AM Joy 2/10/18
The GOP tax plan and other Republican-approved policies will add at least $800 billion to the deficit, something they would have decried under President Obama. Joy Reid and her panel discuss.
Rob Reiner: ‘We are in a cyberwar with an enemy power’
AM Joy 2/10/18
Donald Trump as president has engaged in acts that concern icons of the intelligence profession, who share their views with Rob Reiner’s Committee to Investigate Russia. Malcolm Nance also joins Joy Reid to discuss.
Olympic athlete shines light on Mike Pence’s anti-LGBT record
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Out gay Olympic athlete Adam Rippon did not meet with Mike Pence, while the vice president disputes the alleged request. Gold medalist in figure skating Brian Boitano joins Joy Reid on her panel discussing how this highlights the anti-LGBT atmosphere of the Donald Trump administration.
William Alexander Morgan was no hero. But he died in revolution. His story is not uncommon, but important. This is an episode about brotherhood, war, and ideology. Cuba's revolution, in a nutshell.
Statement by the Press Secretary on the Situation in Syria and Israel
Issued on: February 10, 2018
Israel is a staunch ally of the United States, and we support its right to defend itself from the Iranian-backed Syrian and militia forces in southern Syria. We call on Iran and its allies to cease provocative actions and work toward regional peace.
On this edition for Sunday, Feb. 10, a conflict in the skies over Syria and Israel, and an effort to monitor political ads on Facebook through crowdsourcing. Later, pirates are returning to their old fishing jobs in Somalia. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York.
included segments, in order of appearance:
Israel strikes Syria after downing Iranian drone Tensions are high in the Middle East as Iran and Israel exchange fire over Syrian skies. It started Friday night, when Israel shot down an Iranian drone that entered the Israeli airspace from a Syria. Then Syria shot down an Israeli F-16 attacking what Israel said was an Iranian air base there. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Jane Ferguson joins Hari Sreenivasan from Beirut for more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwXibTIDWs [comments disabled]
Can Somalia’s fishing industry keep pirates out of business? From 2010 to 2012, pirates ruled Somali waters, costing commercial ships billions of dollars in ransoms. Over the last few years, increased naval patrolling and security improved the situation drastically and many former pirates turned to fishing to earn an honest living. However, NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Jane Ferguson reports that domestic conditions could reverse this trend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXU3DSmSPJM [comments disabled]
ProPublica tool finds misleading political ads on Facebook Amid an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Facebook came under fire for its opacity on how it targets political ads. A few months ago, ProPublica released Political Ad Collector, a tool that crowdsources the job of monitoring ads -- including those that might not seem political at first. ProPublica’s Julia Angwin shares the findings with Hari Sreenivasan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxSYd2KkS8s [comments disabled]
The logistics of Noah's Ark. People actually believe this story. It's time for a dose of reality. The YouTubers known as KaseyAkira, Bluetrilobite, and Vashcat encouraged me to debunk the story of Noah's Ark.
Go back and write it again! Trump blames Democrats for his refusal to release their rebuttal to GOP memo, claiming it was 'very political', too long and needs to be 'heavily redacted' President Donald Trump on Saturday blamed House Democrats for his decision to not release their formal response to a GOP memo He said the response was 'very political' and that the lawmakers knew information in it would need to be 'heavily redacted.' Trump blocked the release of the classified memo on Friday The memo bad been written by congressional Democrats to rebut a similar Republican document which was released on Monday in a 10-page document The White House cited 'national security concerns' for not release Dem version House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said the White House move is 'part of a dangerous and desperate pattern of cover-up on the part of the president' Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Trump's blocking the memo is 'hypocrisy at its worst' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5375815/Trump-tweets-reason-refused-release-Democrats-rebuttal.html
The White House Has Delayed The Release Of A Democratic Memo On The Russia Investigation, Citing National Security The House Intelligence Committee sent the Democratic memo to the White House on Monday night so the president could decide whether to make it public, as he did with a Republican memo the week before. https://www.buzzfeed.com/emmaloop/democrat-memo-house-intelligence-russia
'Hypocrite' Trump cites 'security issues' and refuses to release Democrat rebuttal to GOP Russian election meddling memo which he overruling the FBI's concerns President Donald Trump on Friday blocked the release of a classified memo written by congressional Democrats to rebut a similar Republican document The House of Representatives Intelligence Committee voted unanimously on Monday to release the 10-page document drafted by the panel's Democrats But the committee could not do so unless Trump reclassified the document Trump allowed the release of an earlier memo, made public on February 2, which was written by the committee's Republicans In denying to release the Democratic rebuttal memo, the White House cited 'national security concerns' House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said the White House move is 'part of a dangerous and desperate pattern of cover-up on the part of the president' Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Trump's blocking the memo is 'hypocrisy at its worst' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5374235/Trump-weighing-response-Democratic-Russia-memo-White-House.html
Mike Pence accused of hypocrisy for refusing to stand for Unified Korea during Winter Olympics opening ceremony - months after walking out of an NFL game because of kneeling players Vice President Mike Pence has criticized NFL players for kneeling in protest during the national anthem Critics say he is a hypocrite after he refused to stand for the unified Korean team during the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics Though the US is an ally of South Korea, the South and the North decided to merge their teams as one squad for the Pyeongchang Games http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5375621/Pence-accused-hypocrisy-not-standing-Korea-team.html
North Korean Olympians have a 24/7 surveillance team who will tackle them if they try to run away North Korean athletes are subject to round-the-clock security at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. Each athlete has a "minder" who will even follow them into the toilet so their whereabouts can be guaranteed at all times. Athletes from North Korea are "separated" from athletes from other nations. North Korea is paranoid that its Olympic stars could defect from the country. http://www.businessinsider.com/2018-winter-olympics-north-korean-athletes-under-surveillance-2018-2
Israeli air strikes against Syria 'biggest since 1982' Israel says it has inflicted huge damage on Syrian air defences after one of its fighter jets was brought down during a raid over Syria. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43019682
Way forward: Where are we on Brexit and the border? In the early hours of 8 December, the EU and UK reached a political agreement that there will be no hard border in Ireland. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-43017018
Northern Ireland border checks are now 'unavoidable' after Brexit EU's chief negotiator says a hard Brexit border with Northern Ireland is now "unavoidable." He says Theresa May's decision to leave the customs union makes border checks inevitable. Barnier hits back at David Davis after the Brexit secretary accuses him of being "discourteous." He says a transition deal is "not a given" if Britain remains inflexible. Davis accuses Barnier and the EU of wanting to "have it both ways." http://www.businessinsider.com/michel-barnier-david-davis-brexit-negotiations-2018-2
With its power over Britain, Japan is aiming to completely reshape Brexit There is no question what Japan thinks about Britain leaving the European Union. Ever since the UK voted for Brexit in June 2016, Japan has spoken out about the nation leaving the EU single market, which would create costly problems for companies operating within Britain. And because of Japan’s intertwined ties with Britain’s economy, it is fast trying to position itself as a key influence over what the final Brexit deal will look like. Yesterday (Feb. 8), Japan’s ambassador to the UK, Koji Tsuruoka, told reporters following a meeting between prime minister Theresa May and 19 top Japanese bosses that “if there is no profitability of continuing operations in the UK—not Japanese only—no private company can continue operations. So it is as simple as that.” It was the latest in a line of very blunt assessments about Brexit and what effect it would have on foreign companies operating in the UK. [...] https://qz.com/1203294/with-its-power-over-britain-japan-is-aiming-to-completely-reshape-brexit/
Trump launches into morning tweetstorm on Russia and White House domestic abuse controversy President Donald Trump tweeted about reports that a Russian with ties to the Kremlin sold purported dirt on Trump to US officials seeking to recover stolen cyberweapons. He also alluded to the abrupt exits of two former White House aides following reports detailing domestic abuse allegations against them. "I hope people are now seeing & understanding what is going on," he tweeted in response to the reports of US officials paying the Russian to recover hacking tools. In reference to the aides' exits, he tweeted that lives were "being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation." http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tweets-russia-cyberweapons-rob-porter-controversy-domestic-abuse-2018-2
Hope Hicks emerges unscathed as the White House battles fallout from the domestic abuse controversy Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, has come out relatively untainted as President Donald Trump's administration continues dealing with the abrupt exit of two key aides accused of domestic abuse. The development comes amid reports that Hicks was instrumental in crafting White House chief of staff John Kelly's response to allegations against Rob Porter, the former staff secretary whom Hicks is said to be dating. While Kelly and White House counsel Don McGahn have been roped into the controversy after reports surfaced that both men were aware of the allegations since last year, Hicks maintains strong support from Trump and other cabinet members. http://www.businessinsider.com/hope-hicks-emerges-unscathed-amid-white-house-domestic-abuse-controversy-2018-2
US Judge who President Trump repeatedly attacked as 'Mexican' and 'biased' during 2016 election says he inclined to asserts right to rule on border wall U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel said during 2½ hours of arguments Friday in San Diego that he was leaning towards presiding over the case Curiel asked the administration and wall opponents to file additional briefings by the end of Tuesday The state of California and advocacy groups want Judge Curiel to rule that a border wall with Mexico must go through normal environmental reviews Trump repeatedly criticized Curiel in 2016 as lawsuits against Trump University neared trial Trump suggested that the judge's Mexican heritage meant he could not be impartial At issue is a 2005 law that gave the Homeland Security secretary broad powers to waive dozens of laws requiring environmental and other reviews http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5375009/Judge-inclined-assert-right-rule-border-wall.html
Protesters Charged In Clash With Hate Group Accuse California Cops Of Collusion Prosecutors are pressing charges against those hurt in the violent protest, but not “the fascists who tried to murder people,” defense lawyers say. Lawyers for three people arrested after protesting a 2016 white nationalist rally in Sacramento have accused law enforcement of conspiring with a hate group to crack down on counter-protesters. In a 45-page motion filed this week, the counter-demonstrators asked a California judge to drop assault and riot charges stemming from violent clashes outside the state capitol. Multiple people were hurt in skirmishes between the opposing groups, including at least seven stabbings. The first arrests were made a full year later. The California Highway Patrol and the Sacramento County District Attorney’s office “colluded” with the white nationalist Traditionalist Worker Party to identify counter-protesters, the motion says, and are now “carrying out a political witch-hunt” against the defendants, Yvonne Felarca, Porfirio Paz and Michael Williams. The charges “constitute discrimination based on political viewpoint and race,” the motion alleges. Almost every person hurt in the violence was a minority. Matthew Heimbach, leader of the Traditionalist Worker Party, told CNN after the confrontation that party members armed themselves with knives and blades because they’d been threatened on social media. Traditionalist Worker Party, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has identified as an extremist hate group, obtained a permit from police to hold the rally. It was heavily promoted on social media by the white supremacist Golden State Skinheads “to make a statement about the precarious situation our race is in” after “brutal assaults” at Donald Trump’s events during the presidential campaign. Some 30 members of the supremacist groups who showed up for the rally found themselves confronted by nearly 300 counter-protesters — including members of Antifa Sacramento and the organization By Any Means Necessary. Violence quickly erupted. Felarca, a Berkeley teacher, was stabbed in the arm and struck in the head, and spoke on TV cameras with her head wrapped in a bloody bandage. The defense motion says the DA has chosen to prosecute the three counter-protesters, but “none of the fascists who tried to murder people.” It accuses police of “interrogating and harassing injured counter-protesters in their hospital beds while doing nothing to pursue charges against the Nazis who had stabbed them.” Police filed charges based on ”videos apparently copied from neo-fascist and alt-right Facebook pages and blogs,” the motion says. It argues that the “police policy of allowing the fascists to get away with their attack at the State Capitol in 2016 set off a chain of events that ... ended with the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville,” Virginia. Heyer was killed during a “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in October, when a man drove his car into counter-protesters. Steve Grippi, Sacramento’s chief deputy district attorney, denied the defense accusations, and said there has been no collusion between law enforcement and the hate group, according to the Sacramento Bee. The prosecutor said stabbing victims have been uncooperative with investigators. Grippi also noted that his office has filed assault charges against a Traditionalist Worker Party member ? Colorado white nationalist William Scott Planer, 35. Prosecutors say he bludgeoned an unarmed counter-protester unconscious in a confrontation captured on video. TV video showed police on horseback largely hanging back while protesters attacked one another. CHP investigator Donovan Ayres testified last month that more than 100 officers had been assigned to the Sacramento rally. “It was unfortunate the way that played out,” Ayres said. “We were unable to get in position.” https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/protesters-hate-california-police-collusion_us_5a7e3655e4b044b3821d6df3
Boris Johnson: Rohingya refugees need safe way back Myanmar must find a safe and dignified way for Rohingya Muslims to return, the UK foreign secretary has said, after meeting the government of Bangladesh. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43014858
Two Ohio Officers Killed Responding to 911 Hang-Up Call, Officials Say [...] With the deaths of the two Westerville police officers on Saturday, at least five police officers were shot and killed in the line of duty this week. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/us/westerville-ohio-officers-killed.html
Couple who sold everything to sail around the world lost it all when their boat sank after just two days at sea Tanner Broadwell, 26, and Nikki Walsh, 24, have just £60 left after their vessel they had used all their funds to buy capsized at sea off the coast of Florida https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/couple-who-sold-everything-sail-12002547
His 2020 Campaign Message: The Robots Are Coming Among the many, many Democrats who will seek the party’s presidential nomination in 2020, most probably agree on a handful of core issues: protecting DACA, rejoining the Paris climate agreement, unraveling President Trump’s tax breaks for the wealthy. Only one of them will be focused on the robot apocalypse. That candidate is Andrew Yang, a well-connected New York businessman who is mounting a longer-than-long-shot bid for the White House. Mr. Yang, a former tech executive who started the nonprofit organization Venture for America, believes that automation and advanced artificial intelligence will soon make millions of jobs obsolete — yours, mine, those of our accountants and radiologists and grocery store cashiers. He says America needs to take radical steps to prevent Great Depression-level unemployment and a total societal meltdown, including handing out trillions of dollars in cash. “All you need is self-driving cars to destabilize society,” Mr. Yang, 43, said over lunch at a Thai restaurant in Manhattan last month, in his first interview about his campaign. In just a few years, he said, “we’re going to have a million truck drivers out of work who are 94 percent male, with an average level of education of high school or one year of college.” “That one innovation,” he continued, “will be enough to create riots in the street. And we’re about to do the same thing to retail workers, call center workers, fast-food workers, insurance companies, accounting firms.” [...] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/technology/his-2020-campaign-message-the-robots-are-coming.html