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durham, new hampshire (cnn) no more fake niceties. no more patience. no more martin o'malley to get in the way. hillary clinton re-launched her campaign thursday night, going directly after bernie sanders regarding his attacks on her record, stressing her foreign policy experience, and making the case to democrats that it's time to stop dreaming and get real. sanders didn't hold back either, continuing to rail against the political establishment and campaign finance system. and he hit clinton again on her wall street connections and vote for the war in iraq. here are the takeaways from the intense msnbc democratic debate: clinton goes after sanders for his 'artful smear' campaign in her second presidential campaign, clinton clearly doesn't want to win through a war of attrition. she's sick of sanders casting himself as the protector of the progressive realm against the corrupting influence of the clintons, and she is ready to extinguish the bern now. after yet another sanders swipe at clinton as part of a political establishment bankrolled by wall street and drug companies, she unloaded. "time and time again, by innuendo, by insinuation, there is this attack that he is putting forth which really comes down to, you know, anybody who ever took donations or speaking fees from any interest group has to be bought. and i just absolutely reject that, senator, and i really don't think these kinds of attacks by insinuation are worthy of you. and enough is enough," clinton said. then she challenged him: "if you've got something to say, say it directly, but you will not find that i ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation i ever received." and finally, clinton made it just a little bit more personal, saying: "i think it's time to end the very artful smear that you and your campaign have been carrying out in recent weeks." and she follows with the definition of 'progressive' it's been a struggle for months for clinton to find a way to tell sanders' supporters that she's on the same page with them policy-wise -- it's just that their big ideas could never, ever make it through congress. she tried a new way of explaining their differences on thursday night, and it was her best yet. "a progressive is someone who makes progress," clinton said. it was easy to see clinton's exasperation with sanders. the pattern repeated itself: he'd propose a liberal policy and be cheered. she'd say she agrees, and then add that she has a specific plan to make it happen. "i'm fighting for people that cannot make those changes and i'm not making promises that i cannot keep," clinton said. but sanders' response is potent, too in going right at sanders, clinton took a big risk. she is hoping to pick up a few points in new hampshire, and slow sanders' momentum nationally. but in doing so, she could infuriate the young voters who sanders has drawn into the political process. at first those young voters were fine with clinton -- liked her, even. they just saw sanders as more genuine. now, the tone at sanders' rallies makes clear, she will have significant work to do to win them over should she win the nomination. sanders didn't hit clinton directly when he responded, but he didn't shrink, either. he lambasted 1990s-era wall street deregulation (under bill clinton, of course), the koch brothers and exxonmobil. "that is what goes on in america," sanders said. "there is a reason, you know, there is a reason why these people are putting huge amounts of money into our political system," he said, "and in my view it is undermining american democracy and it is allowing congress to represent wealthy campaign contributors and not the working families." wall street continues to be full of potholes for the former secretary of state. her pragmatism and her accusations of an "artful smear" on sanders' part don't erase the political problem caused by her paid speeches at goldman sachs -- which she had joked about in a cnn town hall the night before, saying with a laugh that the $675,000 in speaking fees she received was what they'd offered. "i may not have done the job i should in explaining my record," she said, arguing that she was tough on bankers behind closed doors and has been in the 2016 campaign, as well. thirteen years and two presidential campaigns later, clinton's vote to go to war in iraq still haunts her. her experience on foreign policy -- as sanders himself admits -- is much deeper. but just like then-illinois sen. barack obama in 2008, sanders keeps using that iraq vote as kryptonite on the subject. she finally found an answer to sanders' criticism: "a vote in 2002 is not a plan to defeat isis." it allowed clinton to finally capitalize on a significant weakness of sanders. there's a reason clinton's campaign decided to embrace four more democratic debates: she's a bare-knuckle brawler, and she's not going to lose the nomination because she wasn't willing to hit sanders hard enough. sanders, meanwhile, will pull his punches -- especially on subjects where he's tepid. the big one is foreign policy. it never comes up at his town hall meetings, and it's not at the top of his supporters' priorities. on the debate stage, it shows. the email issue continues to hang over the clinton campaign -- and the question of whether there's some ticking timebomb there that could decimate her campaign in a general election after she wins the nomination. asked directly whether she could "reassure" democrats on this, clinton said: "absolutely i can." msnbc's chuck todd pressed further regarding an fbi investigation into the matter. "i am 100 percent confident. this is a security review that was requested. it is being carried out. it will be resolved." sanders -- as he has before -- declined the opportunity to take a direct shot at clinton on the emails. but he did remind viewers that he could attack her if he wanted to. "the secretary probably doesn't know that there's not a day that goes by when i am not asked to attack her on that issue," he said, "and i have refrained from doing that and i will continue to refrain from doing that."

democratic debate: 6 takeaways

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imagine what would happen if a retail store or company like best buy or home depot announced it has plans to slash customer service, that it will make people stand in lines for at least a half hour, and that any customer due a refund will have to wait several weeks. oh, and it may not be able to prevent identity theft. that company would probably soon find itself in chapter 11 bankruptcy as shoppers fled to other banks or stores or restaurants where they can get first class service. <u+00a0>that's what america is about and every businessman and woman knows the customer always comes first. but the internal revenue service now says that taxpayers had better get used to shabby service from the tax collection agency. and the irs is hardly an agency known for warm and friendly service to begin with. complaining about belt tightening budget cuts, this week irs commissioner john koskinen lectured: "people who file paper tax returns could wait an extra week<u+2014>or possibly longer<u+2014>to see their refund. <u+00a0>taxpayers with errors or questions on their returns that require additional manual review will also face delays.<u+201d> it says it will cut enforcement efforts to root out identity theft. another irs official went even further, suggesting wait times of at least half an hour to get through on the 1-800 help line. she warned that people who call in might want to bring some knitting, and that by the time you get through to a live human being, "you might be able to knit a sock." and they call this a "help" line! there's not much taxpayers can do about this because after all, the irs is a government monopoly. you can't file your tax return or have it processed by anyone else. <u+00a0>though it is interesting that the president of h&r block, one of the nation's largest tax preparation firms, said on fox news on wednesday that "this is a story that will obviously help our business." congress needs to hold the irs accountable and demand the firing of mr. kostiken because he has he admitted openly he can't do his job. the irs is nearly an $11 billion a year agency with some 100,000 employees. <u+00a0>congress wants to cut its budget by less than 4 percent and the agency says it can't function. during the recession many businesses took cuts of 30 and 40 percent and they did it by becoming more efficient and cutting waste. meanwhile the irs has spent millions of dollars on conferences at exotic resorts for its employees with some suites costing $3,000 a night. and mr. koskinen says he can't find places to cut. the irs has been rocked by scandals of targeting, abusing and financially harming individuals and conservative groups it doesn't agree with. <u+00a0>maybe it could shut down that division and use those resources to help taxpayers. <u+00a0>instead of showing signs of remorse the agency brass is petulant. <u+00a0>the attempt to extort more tax dollars out of taxpayers is the so-called washington monument ploy and congress should demand an immediate private audit of the agency's spending habits. what is amazing is that washington demands full accountability and accuracy from tax filers, but the tax collection department is the least accountable agency of government. if the irs can't administer the tax code with 100,000 employees - it sounds like we need a new irs and a new tax system. stephen moore is a fox news contributor. moore is the distinguished visiting fellow, project for economic growth, at the heritage foundation. he is also an economic consultant with freedom works. prior to joining heritage he wrote on the economy and public policy for the wall street journal.

2015: it's time to fire the irs

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sparks fly between clinton and sanders at flint debate in their seventh debate, this time in flint, mich., hillary clinton and bernie sanders agreed on the root causes of that city's drinking water crisis. they both called for a massive federal intervention and investigation of the lead poisoning there and urged that the state's republican governor, rick snyder, either resign or be recalled. but the two democratic candidates also clashed over the role of trade deals in the deterioration of michigan's economy, the usefulness of the export-import bank and the state of manufacturing in america generally. they also disagreed about gun control and the best way to expand health care coverage to the maximum of americans. they had predictably different views of whether president bill clinton helped or hurt african-americans during his eight years in office. sometimes, the contrast between their positions, aims and personalities created visible tension. when clinton talked about cracking down on u.s. companies that move jobs overseas or move their corporate headquarters to duck u.s. taxes, sanders was contemptuous. "i am very glad," sanders said, "that secretary clinton discovered religion on this issue. but it's a little bit too late." at another juncture, clinton noted sanders' vote against the 2009 bailout for the auto industry as a contrast between them. "if you are talking about the wall street bailout where some of your friends destroyed this economy," sanders began. clinton began to interrupt, then sanders said: "excuse me, i'm talking." "if you're going to talk, tell the whole story," said clinton. "let me tell my story, you tell yours," he responded. there were also hostile exchanges on the issue clinton's team regards as sanders' greatest vulnerability in the primaries. clinton noted that sanders voted against a bill making gun manufacturers liable for crimes committed with their products, calling it a blanket immunity enjoyed by no other industry. sanders said clinton was talking about a position whereby no guns could be manufactured in the u.s. at all, adding that he disagreed with that. both candidates admitted they did not and could not really know how it felt to be a person of color in the u.s. each related experiences in their youth that brought them into confrontation with the racial schism of their time. clinton spoke of exchanges between her suburban church and the youth of inner-city churches in chicago. sanders related his own arrest for protesting discrimination in housing in the same city, when he was a student at the university of chicago. but despite the frequent disagreements and reliance on sarcasm, the debate between these two candidates was a broadly collegial affair when compared with the two most recent republican debates. "i just want to make one point," said clinton near the end of the evening. "we have our differences and we get into vigorous debate about issues. but compare the substance of this debate with what you saw on the republican stage last week." sanders agreed, saying either he or clinton would invest "a lot of money into mental health, and when you watch these republican debates you know why we need to invest." if you have watched all six of the previous debates among the democratic candidates, you know well the arc of the contest thus far. initially, the democratic national committee wanted only four debates and scheduled this small number in time slots all but guaranteed to minimize the audience watching in real time. pressure to expose the candidates and create more competition between them led to additional debates. the stage at first included not only hillary clinton and bernie sanders but three other contestants as well: former sen. jim webb of virginia, former gov. martin o'malley of maryland and former gov. lincoln chafee of rhode island. webb dropped out on oct. 20, complaining about his scant speaking time. chafee also suspended his campaign three days later. o'malley lasted until the iowa caucuses, where his minor fraction of the vote indicated he was not connecting with voters. since then, sanders and clinton have met several times, and their encounters have been progressively less cordial. sanders had been generous toward the former secretary of state in the first debates, even helping her deflect criticism for keeping official business on her private server while in office. but as the sanders campaign matured into a major competitor for clinton, sanders became more challenging, even hostile. in february in milwaukee, he interjected a quick jab: "you're not the president yet." the flint debate featured several similar moments when, without becoming overtly nasty, sanders managed to assert his presence and challenge the air of dominance clinton has sought to project. on this occasion, sanders could also note, as he did, that he had won three of the four states where voting took place over the weekend: kansas, nebraska and maine. big margins in these states had given him a slight edge over clinton in the delegate allocations for the weekend, despite her overwhelming win in louisiana, a primary state where far more votes were cast than in the three caucus states combined. clinton could say she won more votes over the weekend than any of her rivals in either party, and she could say she'd won a million more votes than donald trump thus far in all the primaries and caucuses around the country. clinton's margin among "pledged delegates," whose vote is allocated according to primaries or caucuses, is still near 200. when so-called superdelegates (elected officials and party leaders) are included, her advantage swells to more than 600.

sparks fly between clinton and sanders at flint debate

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what sort of man is lurking deep inside donald trump<u+2019>s innards? we were led to believe that mr. trump was one of us -- a conservative of the gun-toting,<u+00a0>bible-clinging variety. but friends, mr. trump is no conservative. his talk is far different from his walk. click here to join todd<u+2019>s american dispatch: a must-read for conservatives! fox news confirms that senior campaign aides assured republicans in private that the trump we<u+2019>ve seen on the campaign trail is not going to be the same trump we get in the white house. <u+201c>when he<u+2019>s out on that stage, when he<u+2019>s talking about the kinds of things he<u+2019>s talking about on the stump, he<u+2019>s projecting an image that<u+2019>s for that purpose,<u+201d> trump strategist paul manafort said behind closed doors. <u+201c>you<u+2019>ll start to see more depth of the person, the real person,<u+201d> he added. <u+201c>you<u+2019>ll see a real different guy.<u+201d> the associated press reported that trump<u+2019>s aides mentioned the need to <u+201c>moderate his brash personality.<u+201d> <u+201c>the part that he<u+2019>s been playing is evolving into the part that now you<u+2019>ve been expected, but he wasn<u+2019>t ready for, because he had first to complete the first phase,<u+201d> manifold said. <u+201c>the image is going to change.<u+201d> back in the south those are code words for snookered, two-faced and phony-as-a-two-dollar-bill. oh, donald. what have you done? say it isn<u+2019>t so. <u+201c>donald trump is telling the american people that he<u+2019>s lying to us,<u+201d> sen. ted cruz said on the campaign trail friday. <u+201c>his campaign is now run by washington lobbyists.<u+201d> if true, mr. trump is no different than the establishment republicans who so effortlessly betrayed and abandoned the base of the party. the man is campaigning as a conservative <u+2014> but i<u+2019>d be willing to bet a pair of corinthians that he<u+2019>s secretly plotting to govern as a liberal. so the question must be asked. when will we see the <u+201c>real<u+201d> donald trump? will he still send the illegals back from whence they came? will he still make mexico pay for the wall? will he really bring jobs back to the united states? will he defend the american working man? and what does it mean when his campaign says he will <u+201c>moderate<u+201d> his message? mr. trump promised to <u+201c>make america great again.<u+201d> does he really mean that <u+2014> or does he just want to <u+201c>make america average<u+201d>? in just the past few days we<u+2019>ve seen him begin to waffle on issues like abortion and religious liberty. pro-life groups are extremely concerned by comments he made about rewriting the party<u+2019>s pro-life platform. he also spoke out against north carolina<u+2019>s decision to strike down charlotte<u+2019>s so-called bathroom bill. <u+201c>the problem with what happened in north carolina is the strife and the economic punishment that they<u+2019>re taking,<u+201d> he said on the "today show." with all due respect, the problem in north carolina was big business trying to bully and intimidate moms and dads who want to protect their daughters. <u+201c>in the last 48 hours, donald trump has come out for grown men going into the bathrooms with little girls,<u+201d> cruz said. <u+201c>that is politically correctness on steroids.<u+201d> in the broadway musical, <u+201c>the music man<u+201d> the good-hearted people of river city got snookered by a fast-talking swindler named harold hill. hill enthralled the town folk with tales of depravity <u+2013> of a culture gone astray. there<u+2019>s trouble in river city, he famously proclaimed. trouble with a capital <u+201c>t<u+201d>. he promised that he had the cure for what ailed their town <u+2014> and they bought what he was selling hook, line and sinker. and i<u+2019>m afraid conservatives have suffered the same fate as the good people of river city. todd starnes is host of fox news & commentary, heard on hundreds of radio stations. his latest book is "god less america: real stories from the front lines of the attack on traditional values." follow todd on twitter<u+00a0>@toddstarnes and find him on facebook.

starnes: donald trump is not a conservative

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the democratic frontrunner won decisively to take a stranglehold on the race despite all of sanders<u+2019>s rallies and celebrity endorsements. sanders spent the week sowing the seeds of doubt within clinton<u+2019>s coalition<u+2014>blistering her for her association with wall street, holding a series of mega-rallies, collecting a host of celebrity endorsements, and out-spending her by 2-1 on tv ads. he needed a win, or a very close finish, to maintain the momentum in his unlikely bid to upset clinton, but the brooklyn native was defeated by more than 15 points. <u+201c>victory is in sight!<u+201d> declared clinton at a new york rally. staffers near the back of the room hugged each other<u+2014>visibly relieved that this particularly ugly part of the primary campaign had concluded. the democratic race had taken a turn for the combative in new york<u+2014>a family feud that played out in prime time last week during the debate in brooklyn. at about a quarter to 10, <u+201c>another one bites the dust<u+201d> blasted through the sheraton ballroom<u+2014>at the same moment clinton tweeted her thanks to new york for electing her statewide yet again. with 98 percent of the precincts declared, she was leading 57.9 percent to 42.1 percent. clinton even tried to knock the assumption that the sanders campaign had a monopoly on excitement. <u+201c>tonight i want to say to all of my supporters and all of the voters: you have carried us every step of the way with passion and conviction that some critics have tried to dismiss,<u+201d> she said, a campaign version of a <u+201c>we<u+2019>ve got spirit<u+201d> taunt. after days of massive, confidence-boosting rallies, most sanders supporters were were likely in no mood to listen, but clinton also tried to reach out. <u+201c>i believe there is much more that unites us than divides us,<u+201d> she said. judging by sanders<u+2019>s fundraising email blast as the results came in, the vermont senator is not about to give up and unite behind the frontrunner. <u+201c>sisters and brothers,<u+201d> it began. <u+201c>we didn<u+2019>t get the victory we had hoped for this evening, but what<u+2019>s important is that it looks like we<u+2019>re going to win a lot more delegates in new york than any state that voted or caucused before tonight.<u+201d> he entered to frank sinatra<u+2019>s <u+201c>new york, new york,<u+201d> bathed in the red and blue lights that have decorated each of his victory speeches to date. he shook hands and hugged bystanders before taking to the lectern, surrounded by his family and friends like carl paladino, the failed gubernatorial candidate. ten months ago, on june 16, trump was in this very room. in what he now believes to be an iconic scene, he came down the escalator with his wife, melania, and into a sea of reporters and paid extras pretending to be fervent fans. back then he seemed like a sideshow, and beltway analysts and pundits predicted he would fizzle out quickly. this time the escalator was frozen. his fans stood on it and peered down at him as he spoke. he had just won his 20th contest<u+2014>with more than 60 percent of the vote<u+2014>and added to his substantial delegate lead, on his way to the 1,237 needed to secure the republican nomination. the event was billed as a <u+201c>press conference<u+201d> by trump<u+2019>s campaign, but he didn<u+2019>t take any questions, instead giving a condensed version of his stump speech that focused primarily on jobs. he promised not just to make america great again, but to make it <u+201c>really, legitimately, so great.<u+201d> <u+201c>we<u+2019>re going to go into the convention, i think, as a winner<u+2014>and nobody can take an election away the way they<u+2019>re doing it in the republican party,<u+201d> he said.

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leading republicans say the party of abraham lincoln is facing disruption because in the past few decades it has lost its commitment to 'unifying ideals,' such as freedom and human dignity. republican presidential nominee donald trump holds a purple heart given to him by a veteran during a campaign event at briar woods high school in ashburn, va., on aug. 2, 2016. mr. trump's denigration of a muslim immigrant couple's loss of their son, humayun khan <u+2013> who died fighting for the american military in iraq <u+2013> has triggered a backlash from some prominent republicans. a report that the republican national committee is preparing for the possibility that donald trump might drop out of the presidential race has set the political world alight. there<u+2019>s no evidence that mr. trump, in fact, is on the verge of dropping out. but there are reports of deep discord within his campaign, and signs of an unraveling of the party<u+2019>s fragile unity that had lasted through the gop convention in cleveland until now. the moment is so fraught with discord that major republicans increasingly are giving up on the party altogether. trump's most controversial move was his repeated denigration of khizr and ghazala khan, the immigrant parents of a fallen muslim-american soldier, after mr. khan spoke out against trump at the democratic national convention last week. but it's also an accumulation of brash moves <u+2013> a daily unwillingness both to show the kind of restraint expected of a presidential candidate and to behave as a loyal republican. how has the grand old party, founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists, come to this point? it may not be all trump's fault, though he personifies the problem. leading republicans say the party of abraham lincoln is facing disruption because in the past few decades it has lost its commitment to "unifying ideals," such as freedom and human dignity. in recent days, a republican member of congress, richard hanna of new york, and a well-known business executive and republican fundraiser, meg whitman, announced their support for democratic nominee hillary clinton. congressman hanna is the first sitting member to endorse mrs. clinton. other stalwarts of the republican establishment are beginning to write off their beloved party. <u+201c>i don<u+2019>t think the republican party and the conservative movement are capable of reforming themselves in an incremental and gradual way,<u+201d> republican intellectual avik roy told vox last week. <u+201c>there<u+2019>s going to be a disruption.<u+201d> mr. roy, a health-care expert and past presidential campaign adviser, said he believed the gop had lost its moral authority to govern, because it was no longer committed to equality for all americans. and that was before trump<u+2019>s latest uproar. trump<u+2019>s decision to spend days verbally attacking the khans may wind up being the biggest blow of all to his tenuous relationship with the gop. trump exacerbated his schism with the party tuesday when he refused to endorse ryan and another senior republican running for reelection, sen. john mccain of arizona. in another unusual move, trump<u+2019>s running mate, indiana gov. mike pence, announced wednesday that he is endorsing speaker ryan. "i strongly support paul ryan, strongly endorse his reelection," governor pence said emphatically wednesday on fox news. both ryan and mccain had endorsed trump, despite their clear discomfort with his candidacy over both his bombastic style and positions that don<u+2019>t square with party orthodoxy. but the republican party is a club, and the rules are the rules, unwritten though they are. when the party appears headed toward selecting a nominee, the party closes ranks around that person, for better or worse. with trump, there<u+2019>s been a whole lot more <u+201c>worse<u+201d> than <u+201c>better<u+201d> lately. it has reached the point where allies of trump <u+2013> rnc chairman reince priebus, former house speaker newt gingrich, and former new york mayor rudy giuliani <u+2013> are reportedly plotting an intervention with the candidate to get him to <u+201c>reset<u+201d> his campaign. but few have serious hope that trump is really willing to change his ways. trump has said that he knows how to be <u+201c>presidential<u+201d> <u+2013> but chooses not to. his current shtick has taken him far, he says, so why change? he<u+2019>ll be presidential after he defeats clinton, he adds. in other words, this trump <u+2013> the unpredictable, populist, mesmerizing, profane trump <u+2013> is the nominee, and the one the party will ride all the way to november. or maybe not. word on wednesday morning that rnc officials were contemplating the possibility that trump might quit <u+2013> leaving it up to the 168-member rnc to find a replacement <u+2013> seemed to send public discourse into the realm of political science fiction. but really, the idea that trump may not last three more months as the gop nominee seemed to reflect more the confusion and frustration of party leaders over trump<u+2019>s behavior than any real prospect that the hyper-competitive trump might actually drop out. the gop arrived at this point, in part, by<u+00a0>happenstance. when 17 candidates ran for the republican nomination, there was nothing the party leadership could do to winnow the field, and anoint an <u+201c>establishment<u+201d> favorite who could take on the outsiders <u+2013> not only trump but also texas sen. ted cruz. the <u+201c>invisible primary<u+201d> <u+2013> in which fundraising, debates, endorsements, and poll numbers present an early picture of candidate strength <u+2013> left the field large right up until the first caucus. trump<u+2019>s distinct style and populist message broke through the clutter of the large field, and sent him to the top of the heap. but a large field in and of itself wouldn<u+2019>t necessarily lead to the potential demise of the republican party. it is trump himself who is taking the gop to the point of no return, some say. in the view of avik roy, it is the party<u+2019>s dark racial past that has been its own undoing <u+2013> a past that trump has played to in courting white working-class voters. roy traces the problem back to 1964, when the party nominated barry goldwater for president <u+2013> the original <u+201c>movement<u+201d> conservative. he calls senator goldwater<u+2019>s nomination a <u+201c>historical disaster,<u+201d> because <u+201c>for the ensuing decades, it identified democrats as the party of civil rights and republicans as the party opposed to civil rights.<u+201d> michael gerson, former speechwriter for president george w. bush, tells the same story in a different way. he writes of visiting the national civil rights museum in memphis on the same day that trump was attacking the khans. mr. gerson sees in that attack a repudiation of what abraham lincoln, the first republican president, and the rev. martin luther king stood for. <u+201c>those who support trump are setting the republican party at odds with the american story told by lincoln and king: a nationalism defined by striving toward unifying ideals of freedom and human dignity,<u+201d> mr. gerson writes. at this point, that<u+2019>s unlikely to happen. most republicans say they<u+2019>d rather stick with the nominee they have, no matter how flawed, than blow up the party before election day by abandoning him. but if trump loses, a period of time in the wilderness may be beneficial to the party, they add.

trump<u+2019>s unraveling republican party: how we reached this point

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san bernardino, calif. <u+2014><u+00a0>authorities were still trying thursday to establish a motive for the deadliest u.s. mass shooting in nearly three years, even as they revealed that the two attackers had amassed a large stockpile of explosives and ammunition. the rampage killed 14 people, wounded 21 and locked down a swath of southern california for much of the day wednesday as investigators scrambled to determine whether they were looking at a terrorist attack or an extremely unusual and lethal case of workplace violence. the killers were a young husband and wife who welcomed the birth of a daughter just six months ago and showed no outward sign of islamist radicalization, psychological distress or a desire for mayhem. the couple were slain in a wild police shootout on a residential street four hours after the massacre. the fbi, which has authority to investigate potential terrorism, announced thursday that it had taken over the investigation. authorities were carefully picking through three crime scenes: the inland regional center, where the mass shooting occurred; the san bernardino street where the couple died in the gun battle with police; and the couple<u+2019>s rented home in redlands, calif., where robots helped investigators root out an arsenal of pipe bombs and thousands of bullets. police identified the shooters as syed rizwan farook, 28, a county health worker born in chicago, and tashfeen malik, 27, his pakistani wife, who was in the united states on a visa. [<u+2018>i<u+2019>ll take a bullet before you do': scenes from the san bernardino shooting] farook, who had a college degree in environmental health and a steady job as a health inspector, traveled to saudi arabia and pakistan last year and returned with malik, whom he had met online. they were married in the united states, police said. authorities have said the two were not on any watch lists. a senior u.s. law enforcement official said that farook was in contact with persons of interest with possible ties to terrorism but that these were not <u+201c>substantial<u+201d> contacts. farook<u+2019>s supervisor, amanda adair, who also went to college with him at california state university at san bernardino, said he <u+201c>got along with everybody, but he kept his distance.<u+201d> she said that she <u+201c>can<u+2019>t imagine [the shooting] was about work<u+201d> and that she had no inkling that farook had the capacity for such violence. without a firmly established motive, authorities said thursday that they could not determine whether they were dealing with terrorists, a disgruntled worker who had enlisted his wife in his cause, or some kind of hybrid of those two scenarios. <u+201c>we do not yet know the motive,<u+201d> david bow<u+00ad>dich, assistant director in charge of the fbi<u+2019>s los angeles office, said at a news conference. <u+201c>it would be irresponsible and premature for me to call this terrorism.<u+201d> the case doesn<u+2019>t fit any familiar template. if it was terrorism, why would the shooters target co-workers in a small city that many americans couldn<u+2019>t find on a map, rather than some more spectacular target? if it was workplace violence, why build up an arsenal of bullets and pipe bombs? [<u+201c>i<u+2019>ve never witnessed something so sad in my life': stories of the san bernardino victims] <u+201c>it is possible this was terrorist-related, but we don<u+2019>t know,<u+201d> president obama said thursday in somber remarks in the oval office. <u+201c>it is also possible this was workplace-related.<u+201d> mark pitcavage, director of the center on extremism for the anti-defamation league, said that <u+201c>based on what is known now about the case, it certainly is unusual and does not fit neatly into any of the traditional models of violence that we<u+2019>re familiar with.<u+201d> police said farook and malik were dressed in tactical gear and armed with rifles, handguns and multiple ammunition magazines when, at about 11 a.m., they strode into a conference room where about 80 people were gathered for a staff training session that was transitioning into a holiday party. they opened fire, spraying 65 to 75 rounds and hitting more than a third of the people. a bullet struck a sprinkler head, and the sprinklers began soaking the room as the fire alarms went off. the shooters fled in a rented black ford expedition, leaving behind a bag with three pipe bombs designed to be triggered with a remote-control device from the suv. the device malfunctioned. san bernardino police lt. mike madden, the first law enforcement officer to arrive at the center, described the fresh scent of gunpowder and a horrifying scene for which years of training had not fully prepared him. <u+201c>the situation was surreal,<u+201d> madden said thursday. <u+201c>it was unspeakable, the carnage we were seeing.<u+201d> farook had been with his colleagues at the party earlier in the morning, police said. authorities could not say conclusively whether there had been a dispute that led farook to leave the party. but police said a survivor of the shooting told them that farook slipped away before the massacre. that tip led police to check farook<u+2019>s name, which led to the discovery that he had rented an suv that matched the description of the getaway car. soon, authorities were staking out the couple<u+2019>s home in redlands, a suburb 15 minutes to the east. several hours after the shooting, the suv rolled by and then sped away, and police gave chase. the suv stopped on san bernardino avenue, a few miles from the massacre. cellphone videos captured the furious gun battle that followed. police said the couple fired 76 rifle rounds; police fired 380. farook and malik died at the scene. two officers were injured, but the wounds were not life-threatening. the suv, so riddled with bullets that it looked as if it had been hit with a bomb, was due back at the rental agency that day, police said. police found more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition on or near the couple, suggesting that they were prepared for a long siege. police recovered two assault rifles and two 9mm pistols, all legally purchased, according to the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives. two of the weapons were traced to one of the assailants, said dannette seward, an atf spokeswoman, while the other two were traced to another person who has not been publicly identified. [the striking difference between the san bernardino suspects and other mass shooters] <u+201c>the fbi is chasing down any contacts these two may have had and whether those contacts are indicative of radicalization or external plotting or are purely incidental,<u+201d> said rep. adam b. schiff (calif.), the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee. schiff, who was briefed thursday on the attack, said that <u+201c>on the basis of what i heard and where the [fbi] was, i wouldn<u+2019>t conclude that there was radicalization here.<u+201d> the congressman said the shooting also did not appear to be <u+201c>an act of spontaneous workplace violence.<u+201d> but, he said, it could have been the culmination of a longer-term grievance. <u+201c>there appears to be a degree of planning that went into this,<u+201d> san bernardino police chief jarrod burguan said. <u+201c>nobody just gets upset at a party, goes home and puts together that kind of elaborate scheme or plan.<u+201d> [hours before san bernardino shooting, doctors urged congress to lift funding ban on gun violence research] at a morning news conference, authorities said they had gathered a number of items that were being analyzed to investigate the couple<u+2019>s digital trail, including thumb drives, computers and cellphones. but the two had left behind remarkably little in the way of a digital record <u+2014> no apparent criminal record, no facebook page, no twitter account. speaking to the los angeles times, co-workers who knew farook described him as a quiet, polite man who held no obvious grudges<u+00ad> against people in the office. the office had recently held a shower for the couple<u+2019>s baby, and the two seemed to be <u+201c>living the american dream,<u+201d> patrick baccari, a fellow inspector who shared a cubicle with farook, told the times. [it is incredibly rare for there to be multiple mass shooters <u+2014> or for them to be women] a number of families in this city were shattered by wednesday<u+2019>s violence. on thursday, officials released the names of the 14 people slain at the holiday party. the eight men and six women ranged in age from 26 to 60. one ran the coffee shop in the building. twelve of the 14 were county employees. shaken, too, were muslims in southern california. at the islamic society of corona-norco, ray abboud said muslims were horrified by the shooting. he said he fears people will paint muslims with one brush. <u+201c>it breaks our hearts to see 14 people die,<u+201d> abboud said. <u+201c>we feel sorry for everything that happened, but we can<u+2019>t blame ourselves for being muslim.<u+201d> he said people in the community were keeping a close watch on their children <u+201c>to make sure they don<u+2019>t fall into any crazy stuff.<u+201d> before the attack, farook and malik dropped off their 6-month-old daughter with farook<u+2019>s mother, saying they had a doctor<u+2019>s appointment, according to hussam ayloush, executive director of the council on american-islamic relations in los angeles. the council organized a news conference late wednesday featuring farhan khan, who is married to farook<u+2019>s sister. <u+201c>i have no idea why he would do something like this,<u+201d> khan said of his brother-in-law. <u+201c>i cannot express how sad i am today.<u+201d> [the inspiring work done at the disability center] berman and achenbach reported from washington. freelance writers martha groves and william dauber<u+00a0>in san bernardino and staff writers greg miller, brian murphy,<u+00a0>adam goldman, lindsey bever, niraj chokshi, ann gerhart, sari horwitz, elahe izadi, wesley lowery, eli saslow, kevin sullivan, julie tate, justin wm. moyer, yanan wang, sarah kaplan and alice crites in washington contributed to this report. [this story has been updated. first published: 11:30 a.m.]

motive elusive in deadly san bernardino rampage as fbi takes over probe

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muhammad ali was beloved around the world, but perhaps one of his unlikeliest friends was sen. orrin hatch, who remembered the three-time heavyweight champion at his funeral on friday. the utah republican said ali's commitment to finding common ground with people different from himself was one of his greatest gifts. speaking at ali's funeral in louisville, kentucky, hatch said the two met 28 years ago when an assistant told him he had a visitor in his senate office. the two bonded over their love of boxing, as hatch was once an amateur boxer. "i was very surprised that it was none other than the champion," hatch said. "the friendship we developed, i think it was puzzling to many people -- especially those who saw only our differences." "but where others saw difference, ali and i saw kinship," he added. the two men shared humble childhoods in working-class cities, a high value of family and deep devotions to their faiths. hatch said these things were the foundation of "a rich and meaningful relationship." "true, we were different in some ways, but our differences fortified our friendships, they did not define it," hatch said. "i saw greatness in ali's ability to look beyond the horizon and our differences to find common ground."

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for months, hillary rodham clinton<u+2019>s presidential campaign labored listlessly under a cloud of doubt after revelations that she had a private e-mail server during her time as secretary of state. then, republicans, as they so often do, overreached on their clinton attacks and handed the democratic front-runner a message and momentum that she had struggled mightily to build on her own. first, rep. kevin mccarthy (r-calif.) went on fox news and, floundering to prove his conservative bona fides to be speaker of the house, said this to fox news host sean hannity: <u+201c>everybody thought that hillary clinton was unbeatable, right? but we put together a benghazi special committee, a select committee. what are her numbers today? her numbers are dropping.<u+201d> then there was the hearing last week <u+2014> more than two years in the making (clinton last testified before congress on benghazi in january 2013) <u+2014> that flopped mightily for republicans. eleven hours worth of questions left the gop looking small and clinton looking calm, cool and collected. even rep. trey gowdy (r-s.c.), chairman of the house select committee on benghazi, admitted in the hearing<u+2019>s wake, <u+201c>i don<u+2019>t know that [clinton] testified that much differently today than she has the previous time she testified.<u+201d> for longtime clinton watchers <u+2014> and i count myself in that category <u+2014> the pattern was remarkably familiar. republicans, handed a potent issue (and the controversy over clinton<u+2019>s private e-mail server is one), try to knock the clintons out and instead swing, miss and fall on their collective face. think back to the late 1990s, when, after admitting to an extramarital affair with a white house intern, bill clinton found himself more popular than ever <u+2014> particularly among democrats <u+2014> after congressional republicans tried to impeach him despite the public<u+2019>s skepticism about whether such a punishment was warranted. eerie similarities echo between that moment and this one for republicans in congress. unquestionably, the revelation that clinton exclusively used a private e-mail address and server while she was the nation<u+2019>s top diplomat had damaged her front-running campaign for the democratic nomination. her lead over sen. bernie sanders (i-vt.) had shrunk, and large majorities of the public said she was neither honest nor trustworthy. most important for clinton was that establishment democrats began to openly fret that perhaps she simply wasn<u+2019>t up to the race and that someone else <u+2014> such as vice president biden <u+2014> needed to step into the breach. mccarthy<u+2019>s comments provided clinton with overwhelming proof (at least to democrats) that the benghazi committee was effectively political theater designed to damage her chances of winning in 2016. the hearing itself allowed clinton a platform that was perfectly suited to her strengths <u+2014> preparation and a remarkable tirelessness <u+2014> and on which she, unsurprisingly, shined. clinton looked in control, poised and smart. the majority of her republican interrogators looked outmatched. democrats noticed. the hour after the end of the committee hearing <u+2014> 9<u+00a0>p.m. to 10<u+00a0>p.m. eastern time thursday <u+2014> was the most lucrative 60 minutes of fundraising in clinton<u+2019>s campaign. and suddenly clinton wasn<u+2019>t the boring candidate of the status quo anymore. she was the target of <u+2014> wait for it <u+2014> a vast right-wing conspiracy aimed at, yet again, playing politics in hopes of hurting her chances of being elected to office. the campaign is <u+2014> and this is so obvious that it is probably not worth saying <u+2014> far from over. the iowa caucuses aren<u+2019>t for about 100 more days, and the general election is a year away. lots can, and will, change. it is also obvious that the past two weeks have been the best two weeks of clinton<u+2019>s campaign. she has gone from flagging front-runner to rejuvenated fighter <u+2014> a much better look if you want to, you know, win. not all of the clinton renaissance can be credited to or blamed on republicans. her strong performance in the first democratic presidential debate was all her doing, and biden<u+2019>s decision not to run seems only tangentially tied to her strengthening of late. but the clintons have always been at their best when under fire from the other side; hillary clinton, in particular, is a better counter-puncher than a first-strike player. for some reason, republicans have never learned that lesson. over the past month, they have pulled off a trick that clinton never could seem to do herself: they have turned her into a sympathetic and more appealing figure for democrats and lots of independents <u+2014> whom she will need in a general election. if she wins the white house in november 2016, clinton should send thank-you notes to mccarthy, gowdy and the rest of the house republicans. they may have saved her candidacy.

how republicans saved hillary clinton. again.

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are republicans going to use their control of congress to pass immigration reform in 2015? the short answer is no. here's the best reason to think that they won't: if republicans were serious about passing immigration reform next year, you'd at least see republican officials and pundits saying so on spanish-language media, to reach out to latino voters. but they're not. on the election night edition of univision's nightly news broadcast (which only lasted an hour, from 11:30pm to 12:30am eastern, rather than the all-night orgy of english language news networks), immigration was the first issue that came up in any segment. and while everyone on the broadcast agreed that immigration reform needed to happen, no one was willing to say that the republican congress would take it on. when univision interviewed an actual republican member of congress <u+2014> newly elected florida congressman carlos curbelo (who beat one-term democrat joe garcia, a big supporter of immigration reform) <u+2014> he was openly supportive of immigration reform, saying (in spanish) "i'm ready to go to washington to work with republicans and democrats to achieve it." but he didn't make any promises that republicans are about to take up the issue. in fact, curbelo wasn't terribly eager to defend his colleagues-to-be: "we have to be honest. yes, there are republicans in the house who've blocked immigration reform. i've criticized them <u+2014> just like i've criticized the president for using the issue for politics, and failing to keep his promises." during an analysis segment (also in spanish), host jorge ramos pressed republican analyst mercedes schlapp on whether republicans would really do immigration reform. her response began with<u+00a0>"bueno, yo espero que hagan algo" <u+2014> "well, i hope they do something." instead of making any predictions about whether the republican congress would, she made a point that univision viewers are very familiar with: that republicans<u+00a0>"tienen que, en alguna manera, buscar soluci<u+00f3>n" <u+2014> "they have to find some sort of solution" <u+2014> if they want to compete for the latino vote in the 2016 presidential election. schlapp did say that the republican leaders of both chambers of congress <u+2014> incoming senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, and speaker of the house john boehner <u+2014> understood the need for republicans to take up immigration. but republican leaders in congress, themselves, haven't been so clear.<u+00a0>house majority leader kevin mccarthy, who's laid out the most detailed agenda so far for a republican congress in 2015 and 2016, didn't do anything more than "(leave) open the possibility" of some unspecified immigration bill. what republicans on congress appear to agree on, however, is that any executive action by obama on the issue of immigration is going to "poison the well" (in speaker boehner's words) for congress to do anything about it. on wednesday, incoming majority leader mcconnell compared executive action on immigration to "waving a red flag in front of a bull." if congressional republicans plan to make an exception to their recalcitrance so that they can get a border-security bill passed, they're certainly not mentioning it. (bulls aren't known for only busting through particular aisles of china shops.) schlapp mentioned executive action on immigration as a possible obstacle to a republican immigration bill. curbelo didn't. but neither of them left spanish speakers on tuesday night with any impression that the incoming republican congress is committed to immigration reform.

the best evidence yet that republicans won't do anything on immigration in 2015

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david axelrod is cnn's senior political commentator and host of the podcast " the axe files. " he was senior adviser to president barack obama and chief strategist for the 2008 and 2012 obama campaigns. the opinions expressed in this commentary are his. (cnn) about a half century ago, a journeyman ballplayer named rocky bridges made his debut as the manager of the san jose bees, a desultory california league team. the day was marred, however, when the hapless bees missed signs, dropped balls and were generally routed. "i managed good," a frustrated bridges recalled in a sports illustrated profile, "but boy did they play bad." all of this is to say: good luck to donald trump's new managers. trapped in what appears to be a political death spiral, the bilious billionaire has once again shuffled his leadership team. paul manafort, a veteran political operative who took over in the spring from the loyal but volatile corey lewandowski, apparently has been shoved aside for a new ruling junta. we're told that manafort will also be part of the junta. but having been an adviser to deposed ukrainian president viktor yanukovych and philippines strongman ferdinand marcos, manafort surely recognizes a coup when he sees one. but in fairness, trump's precipitous slide in the polls since the conventions in july could hardly be blamed on the manager. hours after the gavel fell at the democratic convention, trump kicked off a dizzying 10-day spasm of off-the-wall comments and tweets that seemed to confirm the thesis advanced by the democrats in philly: he's not ready for the nuclear codes. i am certain that none of this came at the suggestion of paul manafort, though manafort gamely defended his man in the ensuing uproar. but there really was no adequate defense. attempts by the campaign to tether trump to a teleprompter and script provided only intermittent relief. arming him with charts to discipline his presentations also failed. trump's appalling distemper following a well-executed democratic convention transformed what had been, at least in polling, a relatively close race. now he has brought in a new management team, led by stephen bannon , a former goldman sachs banker and chairman of breitbart news. bannon has never run a campaign at any level, much less one for president, which is a highly complex and specialized challenge. his new governing partner, kellyanne conway, has extensive campaign experience -- but as a pollster, not a manager. trump also reportedly is consulting roger ailes, the former ceo of fox news who was recently forced out amid sexual harassment charges, to help coach him for the impending presidential debates. ailes is what the other new additions are not. the brutal, negative ad campaign ailes ran against democratic nominee michael dukakis remains a classic of political advertising. ailes knows campaigns, television and presidential debates, which could be an asset to trump. stellar debate performances may now be his only chance. but that would presume the candidate's ability to listen, work, study, internalize and execute, a capacity we have not seen in this campaign. the presence of ailes, whose edgy television channel became a rallying point for conservatives, and bannon, whose right-wing news website is also notoriously pugilistic, portends a bloody fall campaign. and in the ever-combative trump, they will find a willing deliverer of missiles. the question with trump is always, where will they land? even if trump were adding the greatest political team in history, which he is not, the problem is not the campaign. the problem is the candidate, whose allergy to substance and impulse to react angrily -- and often tastelessly -- to any provocation has unnerved voters. in the primaries, his "shoot first, ask questions later" style was enough to ignite his base, but that very quality has become a liability now that he has to expand beyond it. maybe "trump team three" has the magic elixir. more likely, however, they will be left shaking their heads like old rocky bridges as they watch their candidate play.

axelrod: can ailes tame trump?

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this story has been updated. hillary rodham clinton will formally enter the presidential race with an announcement on sunday followed by appearances on the campaign trail next week, three people familiar with her plans<u+00a0>said on<u+00a0>friday, ending months of anticipation surrounding<u+00a0>the overwhelming favorite for the democratic nomination. clinton plans to launch her campaign via<u+00a0>social media and with a video on sunday articulating her rationale for seeking the white house. she'll then<u+00a0>travel to the first-in-the-nation caucus state of iowa early next week for campaign events, these people said. she<u+00a0>is expected<u+00a0>to hold mostly small discussion events with voters designed to help the former secretary of state<u+00a0>connect<u+00a0>with ordinary<u+00a0>americans and listen to<u+00a0>their concerns, forgoing the large rallies and traditional<u+00a0>announcement speeches of some of her republican rivals. behind the scenes, meanwhile, clinton's fundraising machine<u+00a0>is revving up. her top bundlers are plotting<u+00a0>aggressive outreach to thousands of democratic donors over the weekend and into next week urging them<u+00a0>to immediately send checks and make donations<u+00a0>online as soon as the clinton campaign's web site goes live. democratic strategists, advisers and fundraisers described clinton's plans only<u+00a0>on the condition of anonymity because she and her team have<u+00a0>not yet finalized all aspects of her campaign rollout. her official spokespeople<u+00a0>declined to comment. clinton's<u+00a0>sunday announcement would come one day before the expected campaign launch of<u+00a0>sen. marco rubio (r-fla.), who is planning a major speech to supporters<u+00a0>on monday<u+00a0>afternoon at miami's iconic freedom tower. sens. ted cruz (tex.) and rand paul (ky.) are<u+00a0>the only two major republican candidates who already have<u+00a0>officially entered<u+00a0>the race. for months, clinton, like many republican contenders, has been assembling<u+00a0>a campaign-in-waiting. widely considered<u+00a0>by democrats<u+00a0>to be the<u+00a0>heir apparent to president<u+00a0>obama, clinton has hired several of obama's top campaign strategists to work on her 2016 bid and dozens of staffers, including in the early caucus and primary states of iowa, new hampshire, nevada and south carolina. last week, the clinton team signed a lease on office space<u+00a0>in brooklyn, n.y., as her national campaign headquarters. ahead<u+00a0>of the campaign launch, clinton released a new epilogue<u+00a0>on<u+00a0>friday for "hard choices," her state department memoir<u+00a0>that is coming out this month in paperback. the chapter touches<u+00a0>on<u+00a0>an array of issues, from her relationship with obama to economic mobility to childhood education. she writes about her desire for every american in the 21st century to have an equal and fair shot at economic success, a theme she has highlighted in her public speeches over the past year. clinton ends the epilogue by<u+00a0>ruminating about a "memory quilt" she received as a gift after her granddaughter's birth: "i wondered for a moment what a quilt of my own life would look like. . . .<u+00a0>there was so much more to do. so many more panels waiting to be filled in. i folded up the quilt and got back to work.<u+201d> [a new campaign slogan for hillary rodham clinton: think small] using a social media launch for her campaign, rather than a boisterous and celebratory rally, is a deliberate attempt by clinton and her advisers to avoid the pitfalls that tripped her up in her 2008 presidential campaign, when she was heavily favored at the outset but ultimately defeated by obama. clinton suffered from criticism then that she appeared as if she felt entitled to the nomination and often came off as flat and uninspired on the stump in front of large crowds. the go-slow, go-small strategy, democratic advisers say, plays to her strengths, allowing her to meet voters in intimate settings where her humor, humility and policy expertise can show through. that approach is modeled on the listening tour she conducted across new york state at the start of her successful 2000 senate race. longtime advisers and allies said clinton wants to reestablish the connection with voters and regular people she had in that campaign, when she traveled into diners and people<u+2019>s living rooms and kitchens to listen to their concerns. jay jacobs, a former new york democratic party chairman and longtime clinton friend and supporter, said the 2000 listening tour became <u+201c>a two-way conversation that impressed voters not by just what she said, but by how intently she listened. i think that<u+2019>s hillary. that<u+2019>s something that has worked before, and it<u+2019>ll work again.<u+201d> jacobs, who recently met privately<u+00a0>with clinton when she addressed his group of the american camp association in atlantic city, n.j., said clinton<u+2019>s 2016 presidential campaign will not be <u+201c>reactive.<u+201d> <u+201c>it will be one that really presents hillary clinton to the voters as she is known by people who are close to her: as a very warm, genuine, thoughtful, certainly intelligent, regular person,<u+201d> jacobs said. <u+201c>there<u+2019>s been so much that we<u+2019>ve seen that seems to create an image, by the press and by others, those who are looking to derail her, but now the voters are going to hear from hillary and they<u+2019>re going to see hillary.<u+201d> within hours of news reports friday morning that clinton would launch her campaign this weekend, the republican national committee announced an<u+00a0>online ad as part of its "#stophillary" campaign to highlight<u+00a0>scandals over her use of private e-mail at the state department and foreign donations to her family's charitable foundation. <u+201c>from the east wing to the state department, hillary clinton has left a trail of secrecy, scandal and failed liberal policies that no image consultant can erase,<u+201d> rnc chairman reince priebus said in a statement. <u+201c>voters want to elect someone they can trust and hillary's record proves that she cannot be trusted. we must 'stop hillary.'<u+201d> clinton's fundraising team is standing by for the launch of her web site, when the campaign can begin accepting donations online. one priority is creating a robust small-donor network similar to the obama campaign's vaunted list from his 2008 and 2012 campaigns, and clinton advisers see her announcement period as a ripe opportunity. <u+201c>we<u+2019>re going to have to raise as much money as possible,<u+201d> said one<u+00a0>clinton fundraiser who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the campaign<u+2019>s internal plans. <u+201c>we<u+2019>re not going to take it slow. the announcement is a good time to raise money, and we<u+2019>ll have everyone out there asking people to support her candidacy.<u+201d> several clinton fundraisers described a rush of major donors wanting to<u+00a0>get checks in the door on day one of the campaign. <u+201c>all the horses are in the gate just waiting for those gates to open,<u+201d> said john morgan, a prominent florida donor and clinton fundraiser. <u+201c>that<u+2019>s how i describe the fundraising efforts. there<u+2019>s really nothing to do until the gate opens. but the gate could open sunday, and it could be the flood gate. the only issue they<u+2019>ll have is how fast can they raise the money, because the money is pent up. and if they start holding events, the line will be around the block to host an event.<u+201d> clinton's fundraising efforts are being directed<u+00a0>by dennis cheng, who had been finance director at the bill, hillary and chelsea clinton foundation. but the campaign is not expected to give titles to top bundlers or announce a list of finance committee chairs or members, according to democrats with knowledge of the clinton strategy. clinton<u+2019>s focus for now will be on raising money just for the primary <u+2013> with a cap of $2,700 a donor <u+2013> through internet appeals. that will free her up to spend time on the trail, talking to voters, rather than wooing wealthy donors at high-priced fundraisers. <u+201c>i don<u+2019>t think the first thing out of the gate she should be doing is a bunch of big fundraising events,<u+201d> said one senior party strategist. this is a<u+00a0>notable contrast to former florida governor jeb bush, who has spent the better part of four months crisscrossing the country holding closed-door finance events for his right to rise political action committee and super pac with tickets costing as much as $100,000 each. <u+201c>i think she<u+2019>ll be in iowa eating corn on the cob instead of clinking champagne flutes with donors,<u+201d> morgan said. <u+201c>she can do this much quicker, much more efficiently because she<u+2019>s not fighting for donors. rubio, bush, that whole crowd is in mortal combat for dollars. she<u+2019>s not. that<u+2019>s her advantage.<u+201d> without a strong democratic challenger on the horizon, clinton does not feel the pressure to match the kind of <u+201c>shock and awe<u+201d> fundraising effort that bush has been undertaking to scare off other republican hopefuls. <u+201c>they have the luxury of doing this the right way, and not trying to just see how much money they can hoover up,<u+201d> the senior party<u+00a0>strategist said. in fact, clinton<u+2019>s team is wary of raising too much money too quickly -- creating a bulging war chest that could play to the inevitability theme she wants to avoid this time around. clinton will not be able to seed her new campaign with a major cash infusion as she did at the start of her 2008 campaign, when she transferred $10<u+00a0>million from her senate reelection committee. that helped<u+00a0>her post a record $36<u+00a0>million haul for her first fundraising quarter. her 2008 presidential committee is shut down, and her senate committee has just $158,000 left in reserves. but her campaign this time will be able to build on the efforts of ready for hillary, an outside group started in 2013 to lay the groundwork for clinton's campaign, which has held more than 1,000 grass-roots events across all 50 states in the past two years. in the process, the group amassed a donor pool of more than 135,000 people, the vast majority of whom gave contributions of $100 or less, according to super-pac officials. ready for hillary also has cultivated a network of local organizers who could sign on for similar roles with the official campaign. that could give clinton a sizable head start over some of her republican rivals in building a small-donor operation. ready for hillary will not be able to coordinate with clinton once she announces, but it could share its list of supporters with her campaign through a list swap, campaign finance lawyers said. but the group may not even have to take that step. once clinton declares her candidacy, the super pac can simply direct its supporters to her web site, allowing her campaign to quickly build a small-donor list. and once she<u+2019>s officially in, ready for hillary plans to post online the names of hundreds of donors who have given or raised more than $5,000, according to a person familiar with the plans. that list <u+2014> which includes<u+00a0>at least 222 donors who gave $25,000<u+00a0><u+2014> would be valuable not just for clinton<u+2019>s campaign but for priorities usa, the high-dollar super pac planning to finance a pro-clinton television advertising campaign and now faces<u+00a0>pressure to kick-start its fundraising. dan balz and matea gold<u+00a0>contributed to this report.

how hillary clinton<u+2019>s presidential campaign machine will kick into gear

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more iranian troops have arrived in syria for an upcoming ground operation to accompany russian airstrikes, defense officials confirm to fox news. <u+201c>it has always been understood in this building that the russians would provide the air force, and the iranians would provide the ground force in syria,<u+201d> one official said. army col. steve warren told reporters, <u+201c>we know the iranians are a part of this.<u+00a0>we've known that since day one.<u+201d> the officials speaking to fox news could not disclose the size of this new iranian force due to the sensitivity of the information. these<u+00a0>iranian forces are under the command of maj. gen. qasem soleimani, the quds force commander in charge of the iranian revolutionary guard<u+2019>s international operations, which runs a network of proxy forces throughout the middle east, including syria, iraq, yemen, and lebanon. fox news first reported a secret meeting between soleimani and russian president vladimir putin, which took place in late july.<u+00a0> part of the discussions between soleimani and putin was the future russian build up in syria, coordinated closely with iran. in addition, sources tell reuters that lebanese hezbollah forces will soon arrive to aid in the ground operation. hezbollah, a russian and iranian ally, has fought alongside president bashar al-assad's forces since early in the syrian civil war. the goal of the operation would be to recapture territory the syrian government lost to rebels, not specifically to target isis, those sources tell reuters. meantime, russia<u+2019>s foreign minister maintains moscow and the us coalition <u+201c>see eye-to-eye<u+201d> on the targets in syria. <u+201c>we have the same approach,<u+201d> sergey lavrov said thursday. <u+201c>we fight terrorists.<u+00a0>the [us-led coalition] announced isis as the enemy, and the coalition does the same as russia.<u+201d> but col. warren<u+00a0>added, <u+201c>we don't believe" that [russia] hit isis targets. human rights groups say russian airstrikes in syria targeted us-backed rebels on thursday. the britain-based syrian observatory for human rights claims the targets of russian airstrikes included us-backed group tajamu alezzah. there have also been reports russian airstrikes killed civilians, but president vladimir putin has denied the accusations, calling them "information attacks." russian defense ministry igor konashenkov acknowledged in televised comments that unidentified groups were being targeted in addition to isis, but said thursday<u+2019>s airstrikes damaged or destroyed 12 isis targets, including a command center. the head of the syrian national council, an anti-assad group, said at the united nations that at least 36 people had been killed by airstrikes in the western city of homs, including five children, since wednesday. khaled khoja, the snc's leader, said none of the four areas targeted by russian planes wednesday contained isis fighters. putin also said he expects assad to talk with the syrian opposition about a political settlement, but added he was referring to what he described as a "healthy" opposition group. putin and other officials have said russia was providing weapons and training to assad's army to help it combat isis. russian navy transport vessels have been shuttling back and forth for weeks to ferry troops, weapons and supplies to an air base near the coastal city of latakia. ihs jane's, a leading defense research group, said last week that satellite images of the base showed 28 jets, including su-30 multirole fighters, su-25 ground attack jets, su-24 bombers and possibly ka-52 helicopter gunships. fox news' jennifer griffin, lucas tomlinson and the associated press contributed to this report.

iranian troops prepare to aid russia with syrian ground assault, officials say

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on sunday during an appearance on "face the nation" on cbs, speaker john boehner (r-ohio) tried to downplay the differences between the gop leadership and the conservative rank and file in the house. "we do have some members who disagree, from time to time, over the tactics that we decide to employ," boehner said at one point. "we get in an argument over tactics from time to time," <u+00a0>he said at another. "the goals are all the same."<u+00a0>that line was echoed by house majority whip kevin mccarthy (r-calif.) during an interview with chuck todd on nbc's "meet the press."<u+00a0>"we have a difference of opinion in strategy and tactics, but in principle we are united," mccarthy said. those statements are only half true. the true part is that boehner, mccarthy and the rest of the house gop leadership team do have a broad strategy and a series of tactics they try to employ to both accomplish their legislative goals and pressure president obama. whether that's "plan b," boehner's attempt to avert the fiscal cliff while simultaneously forcing obama's hand, or the latest attempt to extend funding for the department of homeland security for three weeks, boehner, mccarthy and the rest have a strategy behind most of these big legislative fights. (the lack of a back-up plan, on the other hand, is a little odd.) the untrue part is that the rump republican resistance <u+2014><u+00a0>led by a handful of tea party-aligned conservatives <u+2014><u+00a0>has its own alternative strategy or even tactics. think back to the vote for speaker earlier in this congress. <u+00a0>the establishment had a plan to get boehner reelected to the house's top job. the resistance? not so much. they nominated three alternatives to boehner <u+2014><u+00a0>dan webster of florida, ted yoho of florida and louie gohmert of texas <u+2014><u+00a0>ensuring that the anti-boehner vote was splintered. what did that reveal? that even in making a purely protest vote, there wasn't a whole heck of a lot strategy going on in the not-boehner crowd. fast forward to friday's vote on the three-week extension backed by boehner. yes, the conservative coalition in the house was absolutely the key to killing that measure. but to what end? what is the broader strategy of voting that extension down? the answer that group will give you is to tie the repeal of obama's immigration executive orders to funding dhs. but that is never going to happen. even if senate democrats allowed a vote on such a joined package and it passed, which wouldn't happen, obama would veto it without a second thought. and we would be right back where we started. this is a classic letting-the-perfect-get-in-the-way-of-the-good approach. it is neither a strategy nor a tactic to say "we will get everything we want or there will be no deal." saying "no" isn't a strategy. jeb bush addressed that reality during his question-and-answer session at cpac last week. "it's good to oppose bad things," bush said. "we need to start being for things." that's what boehner <u+2014><u+00a0>and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell (r-ky.) <u+2014><u+00a0>have been saying for quite some time. the problem for boehner and, to a lesser extent, mcconnell, is that they are not dealing with a group of members who see the world as they do. while boehner et al are trying to draw up a broad strategy of how to approach the final two years of obama's presidency, the resisters in the house are taking it issue by issue <u+2014><u+00a0>and always standing on ideological ground to oppose obama. opposition without a plan of what to do next is neither a tactic nor a strategy. that's why john boehner may have the most difficult job of any speaker in modern history.

john boehner says house republicans have a difference in <u+2018>tactics.<u+2019> that<u+2019>s not entirely true.

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washington (cnn) buying votes is illegal. but, it turns out, buying delegates might not be. this summer's republican national convention is shaping up to be an all-out brawl for every delegate's vote -- and legally, that could mean plying some of them with gifts, experts say. there are federal and state laws prohibiting bribery of elected officials -- and restrictions on campaigns themselves -- but there isn't much on the books governing what private citizens serving as delegates at their parties' conventions can take in exchange for their votes on a nominating ballot. and in a fight between donald trump, ted cruz, john kasich and perhaps an alternative not currently in the race, every delegate vote will matter. "i think the legal term is s*** show," said ken gross, an election law specialist at skadden and former associate general counsel of the federal election commission. "i think it's going to be a circus, to say the least." the gop candidates are battling to win the 1,237 delegates needed to win the party's nomination and avert a floor fight in july at the convention in cleveland. trump holds a lead of 739 delegates to 466 for cruz and 145 for kasich, according to a cnn estimate. opponents of trump are especially worried about the potential resources of the billionaire businessman. trump's senior adviser, barry bennett, has indicated the campaign is exploring how to bring delegates to its side but made clear there is a limit. "there's obviously a big line -- we're not going to do anything immoral, illegal or unethical," bennett told cnn. "most of the time all they want is some access to the candidate or a visit to their state. it's just a prioritization on your schedule, nothing more heavy than that." "we're not offering seats on the trump airplane or anything like that," he offered, saying that the type of person who would seek such a deal wouldn't be a delegate the campaign would want. he also doubted other campaigns would engage in such tactics. of course, campaigns and candidates are not the only entities that have funds they are looking to spend on a political process <u+2014> and the rules and scrutiny on those outside groups and individuals are much murkier. there are a variety of laws and regulations that could come into play for delegates going to this year's convention. elected officials are bound by so-called honest services statutes, and party officials also are restricted by their role. but many of the thousands of individuals who will be trekking to cleveland as one of the 2472 delegates with a vote on nominee will be private citizens, eager to engage in what is shaping up to be a historic contest. aside from the limits of who can give, the fec is mostly silent on what delegates may or may not accept. and it doesn't speak to any sort of negotiation for positions in an administration or, say, the promise of reciprocal campaign support. the republican national committee rules are also quiet on what can be done to curry favor with delegates, but the party pointed to the need to comply with fec rules. "the rnc rules do not specifically address this, however there are fec implications once you start expending money related to attempts to influence a federal election," rnc spokeswoman lindsay walters said. "it is up to the individual delegates and campaigns to ensure that they are in compliance with any applicable federal regulations." part of the murkiness is simply the novelty of the race. there hasn't been a contested convention in decades, since ronald reagan challenged the incumbent president gerald ford in 1976, and most people involved in the process haven't witnessed one in their professional lives. though trump is far ahead in the delegate count, there is serious doubt he will be able to reach the majority mark needed to clinch the nomination outright. and that could mean that after two ballots at the convention, as many as 8 in 10 delegates could become unbound from their state votes -- freeing them to vote for whomever they wish. the catch, legal experts say, is that a ballot at a party convention is not the same thing as a vote in a local or federal election. and horse-trading is de rigueur in politics. "if you're going to hand somebody a grease-stained sandwich bag filled with cash under a table, you better hope nobody's got a cell phone nearby who's videotaping it," said richard e. berg-andersson, a researcher and historian for the green papers blog, which covers the nominating process in depth. "as for positions, that's historical. there were always delegates who wanted better support if they were running for a congressional seat, especially if they were already party operatives or politicians. that's actually part of the political process. in fact, i don't even really think it's unethical." "this is kind of uncharted, but i think a lot of the discussions and deals that are cut are more political in nature rather than monetary," said michael toner, a partner at wiley rein and former fec chairman. any candidate, individual or super pac looking to curry favor with delegates would have to pay attention to all 50 states' laws and every state party's rules. but several state party chairmen interviewed by cnn were not aware of any explicit prohibitions on accepting gifts or travel help. "there aren't many rules or laws on this issue," acknowledged south carolina gop chairman matt moore. "i have said the process should be above board and honest and transparent. i highly discourage our delegates to take anything in exchange for their votes -- it's a slippery moral and legal slope." but he's limited to those powers of verbal persuasion, he said. "that's all you can do, beyond electing an honest and fair set of delegates," he said. the question, then, will come down to those 2,472 men and women, a few of whom when contacted by cnn immediately ruled out accepting any material support. tom lundstrum, a former arkansas state gop rules chairman who served on the 2012 rnc rules committee, is running to be one of cruz's delegates. he said he hoped campaigns and independent entities couldn't do much to influence delegates. "i would hope that there's very little they can do," he said. "they couldn't do anything for me. i have heard that it is ok for campaigns to pay the travel expenses of their delegates to the convention. but beyond that, i don't know."

could rnc delegates be bought? legally, maybe

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top dems want white house to call off part b demo <u+2014> the next cancer drug shortage

house gop obsessed with boehner's future

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if they<u+2019>d known the 2016 republican contest would end up this way <u+2013> a monument to one billionaire<u+2019>s ego <u+2013> cnn and its gop partners could have switched wednesday<u+2019>s presidential debate from the reagan library to a more appropriate venue: hearst castle, just up the california coast. after all, william randolph hearst and donald trump have this much in common. each ran for president (hearst, as a democrat, in 1904). neither was a fan of those who<u+00a0>habla espa<u+00f1>ol<u+00a0>(hearst cheerleading for the spanish-american war). both plutocrats would have you believe they cared about ordinary folks (hearst<u+2019>s slogan: <u+201c>the people who work for a living<u+201d>). hearst turned out to be a political flop. and trump? it<u+2019>ll take a few more gop debates to see what fate has in store for the man who builds not castles but towers and resorts bearing his name. there were three threshold questions going into wednesday night<u+2019>s festivities: 1. could the gop<u+2019>s troika of non-politicians <u+2013> trump, dr. ben carson and business executive carly fiorina <u+2013> show they<u+2019>re more than a protest vote? 2. could former florida gov. jeb bush put forward a passion and wit that his friends insist he possesses, but he seems loath to display? 3. could wisconsin gov. scott walker, a hot commodity earlier this summer, breath new life into a campaign that<u+2019>s stalled in the early-primary states? the answers to those questions: 1.<u+00a0> trump showed no growth <u+2013> same old donald; same vagaries about domestic and foreign policy. carson spoke only when spoken to, a startling low-key alternative to other attention-starved debaters (maybe it<u+2019>s part of carson<u+2019>s strategy that social media trumps television). we<u+2019>ll get to fiorina in a moment. 2.<u+00a0> bush showed improvement over his performance in the cleveland fox news debate (granted, a low bar to clear). two moments to remember: when he stood up to trump and stood up for his brother (<u+201c>he kept us safe<u+201d>); at the end of the debate, when he chose <u+201c>eveready<u+201d> as his secret service name (<u+201c>it<u+2019>s very high energy, donald<u+201d>). that should quell his nervous financial base <u+2013> for now. 3.<u+00a0> another rough night for walker, already not popular in california gop circles for bailing on the state party<u+2019>s convention. back to wisconsin for the governor and figuring what to do in iowa. if we can call two occurrences a trend, then here<u+2019>s a big problem with the gop debates thus far. instead of a level playing field for the candidates, imagine a radial spoke with trump at the center of the scheme. for the non-donalds, the close-up moments tend to be trump-related <u+2013> and in a bad way (bush, for example, asked to respond to trump<u+2019>s comments about his wife<u+2019>s mexican heritage). is this because what trump has to say is all that compelling, or are the moderators trying to keep the big audiences from clicking their remotes? and that leads us to carly fiorina, the star of the reagan library debate. five weeks ago, i wrote<u+00a0>this column<u+00a0>about the former hewlett-packard executive after her bravura performance at the first of the two debates in cleveland. her performance that night jump-started her campaign, bumped her poll numbers and (with the candidate<u+2019>s persistent shaming of cnn) landed her a spot in prime time. on wednesday in simi valley, as in cleveland, she aced it. no other gop hopeful could match fiorina<u+2019>s depth and clear conciseness on defense strategy (missile defense, strengthen the 6th<u+00a0>fleet). no one was tougher on hillary clinton (who else could get away with repeatedly calling her a liar?). fiorina had the good sense to handle the trump face-slap with dignity <u+2013> saying, in effect, that voters are smart enough to know what the man intended (trump<u+2019>s feeble attempt to close out that segment by saying he thought she was attractive? maybe his flattest moment of the night). bonus points for fiorina: she was the only one of the bunch who didn<u+2019>t pander to the question about a new face on the $10 bill, spinning it into a call for women to be recognized as equals, not an interest group. trump, in fact, had several flat moments <u+2013> taking a swipe at rand paul<u+2019>s hair; saying he didn<u+2019>t mean to slur columba bush, then refusing to apologize to her in person. most disturbing of all: the ideas cupboard is still lightly stocked. does this mean we<u+2019>ve reached the end of trump fever? one doubts it. the gop is headed for an uncomfortable stretch during which the party will be at odds with itself over government shutdowns, planned parenthood funding and fallout from the iran deal. that<u+2019>s fuel for the fire for an anti-politician like trump (it might also give texas sen. ted cruz a needed boost). besides, trump is good for ratings, which might be why cnn began the debate with an uncomfortable donald-related question (as did fox news in its debate). but cnn took matters a step further: clumping the candidates close together; keeping them on the stage for long stretches between bathroom breaks, preventing candidates from speaking for long stretches <u+2013> all ways to elevate tension. maybe trump isn<u+2019>t going away anytime soon. but on wednesday night, there were signs that the act<u+2019>s beginning to wear thin. and carly fiorina? on the debate stage, she wears it well. bill whalen is a research fellow at stanford university's hoover institution, where he analyzes california and national politics. he also blogs daily on the 2016 election at www.adayattheracesblog.com. follow him on twitter @hooverwhalen.

trump, bush, fiorina: three questions, three answers at second gop debate

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the senate on tuesday voted to block the controversial legislation cracking down on the so-called "sanctuary cities" that shield residents from federal immigration authorities. following an impassioned speeches by texas' republican sen. ted cruz and new jersey's democratic sen. bob menendez arguing, respectively, for and against the sanctuary cities bill, the senate voted 54-46 against the legislation. the bill has divided congress along partisan lines and gained national attention in the wake of gop presidential candidate donald trump's harsh words on immigration and the shooting death of a california woman over the summer by an undocumented immigrant. "we are witnessing the most overtly nativist and xenophobic campaign in modern u.s. history," menendez said on tuesday. "we've hit a new low with the extraordinarily hateful rhetoric that diminishes immigrants' contributions to american history <u+2014> and particularly demonizes the latino community by labeling mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals." the bill, which went up for procedural vote on tuesday, was authored by louisiana sen. david vitter. it would have punished jurisdictions that prohibit the collection of immigration information or don't cooperate with federal requests, blocking them from receiving certain grants and funds. republicans have pushed the bill since the july 1 shooting of kathryn steinle in san francisco. the man charged in the killing was in the country illegally despite a long criminal record and multiple prior deportations. the man, juan francisco lopez sanchez, had been released by san francisco authorities despite a request from federal immigration authorities to keep him detained. "today, the senate had an opportunity to send the message that defiance of our laws will no longer be tolerated," cruz said in a press release after the vote. "while senate democrats chose partisan loyalty over protecting the lives of americans, i will continue fighting to stop illegal immigration." he added: "defiance of our immigration laws is inexcusable. sanctuary cities and the illegal reentry offenders that they harbor are a threat to the safety of the american people. and they must end now." senate democratic leader harry reid said before the vote that the bill would threaten cities' ability to police and compared it to republican presidential candidate trump's comments earlier this year that some immigrants in the country illegally are "criminals" and "rapists." "this vile legislation might as well be called 'the donald trump act,'" reid said. san francisco and hundreds of other jurisdictions nationally have adopted policies of disregarding federal immigration requests, or "detainers," which advocates say can unfairly target innocent immigrants and hurt relations between immigrant communities and law enforcement authorities. the house passed legislation similar to vitter's bill this summer, which the white house also threatened to veto. in its veto threat of the senate legislation, the white house said the bill could lead to mistrust between the federal government and local governments. the obama administration has said that the best way to get at the problem is comprehensive immigration overhaul, something house republicans have blocked for years. the associated press contributed to this report. like us on facebook follow us on twitter & instagram

senate votes to block 'sanctuary cities' bill after tense debate on floor

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julian zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at princeton university and a new america fellow. he is the author of " jimmy carter " and " the fierce urgency of now: lyndon johnson, congress, and the battle for the great society ." the opinions expressed in this commentary are his. (cnn) donald trump is trying to orchestrate a pivot in his troubled campaign. he began by shaking up his campaign staff by bringing in stephen bannon, an executive from breitbart news, to take on the top post, effectively demoting paul manafort, who then chose to resign. in one of the more shocking moments of his campaign, trump admitted to saying the "wrong thing" at some points in his presidential quest and said he regretted doing so. there is good reason for him to attempt to change the dynamics of this campaign. right now, everything seems to be coming apart. trump is doing horribly in the polls -- in swing states, in red states and in blue states. each remark manages to alienate more voters and stirs greater doubts about his capacity to be president. the new york times reported that he is now even struggling with his core of supporters, white men. at this point, democrats might be heading toward a landslide victory, capturing the white house by large margins, securing control of the senate for the first time since 2010 and possibly, just possibly, taking over a majority of the house of representatives (though the odds of that remain low). republicans are running scared and there is ample reason for them to feel this way. pivoting to a "new trump," as some are calling it, won't be easy. it isn't easy for any candidate at this point in the campaign and it certainly won't be easy for donald trump. making a statement and shaking up his campaign team, which he has done before, won't be enough to do the trick. there is a reason that social scientists have pushed back against "game change" accounts of presidential campaigns. the most difficult challenge that trump currently faces is the overwhelming evidence from aggregate poll numbers which point to big problems for the republican ticket. while there are always a few polls that emerge to suggest the race might be tightening, a broader look at the data suggests that trump is consistently struggling in almost every part of the country, including in very red states like utah. my colleague at princeton, sam wang, has shown how when you put all the polls together, trump doesn't really stand much of a chance of winning. right now, clinton is running 5.8 percentage points above president obama's standing versus 2012 gop candidate mitt romney at the same point in the campaign four years ago. although pundits love to remind audiences of famous polling errors such as "dewey beats truman" in 1948, wang reminds us that those moments are quite exceptional. nervous republicans must also face the fact that trump is the person who he is. although people have speculated for months that trump would pivot to a mode more appealing to the wider audience of general election voters, as opposed to the conservative base of the gop, he has continually failed to stay that course. occasionally he gives carefully calibrated speeches using a teleprompter, but then immediately reverts to his more extreme messages. trump has shown no interest in backing away from the kind of provocative style that brought him to the dance. his advisers have not been able to push him in a different direction and as he slips in the polls, his instincts seem to be to double down on this kind of behavior. always the showman, trump has little personal incentive to back away from what has now become his brand of speaking. and an adviser such as bannon is likely to favor the "let trump be trump" approach, rather than try to craft a new candidate at this late stage. in fact, he might push him even further in his provocation, given what breitbart.com has specialized in. african-americans won't start turning to trump after the kinds of statements he has made over the course of his campaign, including his slow response to calls to dissociate himself from white supremacist supporters. nor will the gop as a whole easily reverse its disadvantage with african-american voters unless it works to reverse the damage that has been caused by the party's positions on key issues like voting rights, economic inequality and police violence. the fact that trump hired an executive from the polemical breitbart news is not evidence he moving toward a different mentality. as the summer comes to a close, we are pretty late into the election game. there are some moments in us history, such as hubert humphrey's surge in the fall of 1968, when candidates have been able to rapidly gain ground on their opponents (of course humphrey still lost the election). but by and large those comebacks don't happen too often. given the chaotic and underdeveloped state of trump's campaign field operation in the swing states, it will be extremely difficult for him to achieve anything of this sort. of course politics can take surprising and unexpected turns, as trump's nomination proves. the three presidential debates, which begin in late september, offer an opportunity to change the direction of the race. and the possibility of some kind of crisis or data dump creates room for campaigns to shift course. most often, however, there is no october surprise. fundamentally changing the direction of the campaign is going to be extremely hard for the gop. the recent comments and new campaign staff won't be enough. republicans might conclude that they will be better off focusing on the senate and house races than placing too much hope in the idea that the man at the top of the ticket has a big trick up his sleeve.

for trump, turning this around won't be easy

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the senate worked late into the night friday and early saturday, but still failed to agree on extending government surveillance programs under the usa patriot act before the memorial day holiday. lawmakers blocked votes on both a house-passed bill and a short-term extension of the patriot act provisions that allow government surveillance programs. majority leader mitch mcconnell says lawmakers will try again on may 31, the day before the provisions expire. the senate first took up the house bill, which would end the national security agency's bulk collection of domestic phone records. that bill, passed overwhelmingly by the house and supported by the obama administration, required a 60-vote majority to proceed. it fell three votes short. the senate then failed to advance a two-month extension of the expiring patriot act provision that would extend the nsa phone records program. that vote was seven short of the required 69 votes, reports npr washington desk senior editor shirley henry. sen. majority leader mcconnell tried to secure unanimous consent agreements on a number of measures aimed at preventing the program from lapsing on june 1, when the patriot act provision expires, henry reports. mcconnell first proposed a measure to extend the act to june 8. but kentucky sen. rand paul, a republican presidential contender, objected, saying he wants two amendments debated and voted on. "our forefathers would be aghast," paul said. henry reports that mcconnell then tried for an extension to june 5, but there was an objection. his proposal for june 3 met another objection; then paul objected to a june 2 extension, henry says. unable to get agreement on any extension, mcconnell said the senate will come back at 4 p.m. on may 31 to try again, beginning with a vote on the house bill. that gives lawmakers only a few hours to prevent the patriot act provisions from expiring. the majority leader stressed that it's a dangerous time to allow the law to expire, given the threats overseas and attempted attacks here, and urged the senate to act "responsibly" to protect the country, henry reports. the justice department has said the nsa would begin winding down collection of domestic phone records this week if the senate failed to act, according to the associated press.

senate blocks bill to end government collection of phone records

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tensions between the white house and benjamin netanyahu escalated wednesday as top administration officials condemned the israeli prime minister<u+2019>s plan to address congress next week and netanyahu accused six world powers, including the united states, of <u+201c>giving up on their commitment<u+201d> to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. the unusually public spat marked one of the lowest points in a relationship that has long bonded the two countries. although the new round of recriminations reflected the frosty personal relations between president obama and netanyahu, it came at a critical juncture in multilateral talks designed to prevent iran from using a civilian program to develop a nuclear weapon. the prime minister has said the unfolding deal <u+2014> to which iran has not yet agreed <u+2014> could pose an existential threat to the jewish state. obama, however, considers a deal a potential legacy that could ease nuclear tensions, lift trade restrictions on iran and alter the region<u+2019>s strategic calculus. congressional democrats have been caught in the middle of the dispute. on wednesday, sen. timothy m. kaine (d-va.) became the fourth senator to say he would skip netanyahu<u+2019>s speech, calling its timing <u+201c>highly inappropriate.<u+201d> several members of the house also have said they will boycott the speech. the latest volley of high-level criticism began when national security adviser susan e. rice, appearing tuesday night on <u+201c>charlie rose,<u+201d> condemned netanyahu<u+2019>s decision to accept the invitation of house speaker john a. boehner (r-ohio) to appear at a joint meeting of congress shortly before israel<u+2019>s elections. by bypassing the white house, dealing only with gop leaders and scheduling the speech just before israelis vote, netanyahu had <u+201c>injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate,<u+201d> rice said, <u+201c>i think it<u+2019>s destructive of the fabric of the relationship.<u+201d> at a likud political convention in the maale adumim settlement just east of jerusalem, netanyahu fired back. <u+201c>i respect the white house and the president of the united states, but on such a critical topic that could determine whether we exist or not, it is my duty to do everything to prevent this great danger to the state of israel,<u+201d> he said. congress could play a critical role in the iran talks. it is weighing whether to add new sanctions to the current ones. the existing sanctions, and those adopted by the european union, are widely viewed as having helped push iran to the bargaining table. but obama has vowed to veto any new sanctions and has urged congress to wait at least a month for the outcome of the negotiations. obama has said that if the talks fail, he will move to tighten economic restrictions. secretary of state john f. kerry defended the administration<u+2019>s negotiations in testimony before the house foreign affairs committee <u+2014> and took a swipe at netanyahu. <u+201c>i<u+2019>ll tell you, israel is safer today with the added time we have given and the stoppage of the advances of the iranian nuclear program than before,<u+201d> kerry said. referring to the accord that eased sanctions slightly while negotiations took place, he said: <u+201c>we got that agreement <u+2014> which, by the way, the prime minister opposed. he was wrong. and today he<u+2019>s saying we should be extending that interim agreement.<u+201d> no love has been lost between obama and netanyahu. <u+201c>this is clearly the most dysfunctional relationship between an american and israeli leader,<u+201d> said aaron david miller, a vice president at the wilson center and a former u.s. negotiator and adviser in republican and democratic administrations. moreover, he said, <u+201c>the durability is troubling.<u+201d> he said that earlier tensions preceded incremental peace accords but that obama and netanyahu remain far apart on basic issues and that kerry<u+2019>s efforts to bring israel and palestinians together failed. now their personal tensions have put democratic lawmakers in awkward positions that threaten bipartisanship when it comes to israel. democrats have been wrestling over whether to boycott the speech, as senior obama administration officials plan to do. this will be the third time netanyahu has addressed the full congress, tying winston churchill<u+2019>s record. because netanyahu did not arrange his visit through the white house, obama has said that he will not meet with him, and vice president biden has made plans to travel abroad. <u+201c>this puts democrats in a position where they have to choose between their support for israel and their democratic president <u+2014> and do it in a very visible way,<u+201d> said martin indyk, a vice president at the brookings institution and a former u.s. ambassador to israel. <u+201c>there is no reason to schedule this speech before israeli voters go to the polls on march 17 and choose their own leadership,<u+201d> kaine said in a statement wednesday. <u+201c>i am disappointed that, as of now, the speech has not been postponed. for this reason, i will not attend the speech.<u+201d> kaine will join senate colleagues patrick j. leahy (d-vt.), bernard sanders (i-vt.) and brian schatz (d-hawaii) in skipping the address. according to an unofficial estimate by one senate democrat, about 30 members of that caucus are expected to attend the speech and nearly 15 others are still deciding whether to boycott. one such democrat is sen. chris murphy (d-conn.), a freshman who serves on the foreign relations committee. <u+201c>it<u+2019>s really offensive, but i think it<u+2019>s a protocol breach, not a policy break,<u+201d> he said. generally an ally of israel, murphy said his biggest concern was the spectacle occurring so close to the israeli elections. <u+201c>i don<u+2019>t want to be part of a campaign speech,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>it makes the whole thing look more politics-based.<u+201d> the american israel public affairs committee (aipac), which said it didn<u+2019>t know about netanyahu<u+2019>s plans ahead of time, said lawmakers should put aside the protocol issues and listen to the prime minister<u+2019>s message on the iran talks. netanyahu was invited by sens. dianne feinstein (d-calif.) and richard j. durbin (d-ill.) to attend a separate event with democratic lawmakers, but he declined. in a letter, he said that it <u+201c>could compound the misperception of partisanship regarding my upcoming visit.<u+201d> sen. orrin g. hatch (r-utah) said: <u+201c>it<u+2019>s unseemly what the democrats have done to try and make this a political issue. i think the president has acted like an oaf, an oaf. o-a-f. .<u+2009>.<u+2009>. i don<u+2019>t even want to get into it. i<u+2019>m just mad.<u+201d> meanwhile, leaked details about iran nuclear negotiations have made many lawmakers more interested in what netanyahu has to say. <u+201c>i think his voice will resonate more credibly if that<u+2019>s the deal that<u+2019>s in the making,<u+201d> said abraham foxman, national director of the anti-defamation league. <u+201c>both the president and prime minister share the goal of preventing iran from going nuclear. how to get there is what separates them.<u+201d> foxman initially called netanyahu<u+2019>s speech <u+201c>ill-advised<u+201d> but now says he will attend. sen. jack reed (d-r.i.), one of obama<u+2019>s strongest allies on the hill, plans to attend netanyahu<u+2019>s speech. <u+201c>i<u+2019>m interested in what the prime minister is going to say,<u+201d> reed said. <u+201c>i think it<u+2019>s already been made an unnecessarily complicated political issue, but there is still this need to learn as much as we can about the situation.<u+201d> many will hear netanyahu on monday, when he addresses the annual aipac convention. aipac expects 16,000 people to attend, including about 50 lawmakers. katie zezima and mike debonis in washington and william booth in israel contributed to this report.

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washington (cnn) the supreme court appeared closely divided along ideological lines during oral arguments monday in a case that could determine president barack obama's legacy on immigration. conservative justices questioned obama's authority to use executive actions to shield some 4 million undocumented immigrants from deportation. chief justice john roberts and justice samuel alito seemed particularly concerned with language in the administration's guidance that said the program's recipients would be "lawfully present," which they suggested would contradict immigration law. "how is it possible to lawfully work in the united states without lawfully being in the united states?" alito asked. roberts added: "i mean, they're lawfully present, and yet, they're present in violation of the law?" liberals on the bench seemed sympathetic to the administration's arguments. justice ruth bader ginsburg noted at one point that there are 11.3 million undocumented aliens in the country and congress has provided funds for removing about 4 million. "so inevitably, priorities have to be set," she said. justice sonia sotomayor said there are not enough resources to deport everyone. "they are here whether we want them or not," she said. obama announced the moves to great fanfare in late 2014, as a response to congressional inaction on immigration reform. but a federal court blocked them after texas and 25 other states sued. busloads of immigrants' rights activists -- some of them undocumented -- appeared on the court's plaza to support the policies. the moves are meant to shield them from deportation and allow them work permits. nancy garcia, a u.s. citizen from milwaukee, who was protesting with the wisconsin group voces de la frontera (voices from the border), said she became active on the issue after wisconsin lawmakers tried to crack down on undocumented immigrants. "we're not drug lords. we're not rapists. we're good people," garcia said. tea party patriots member gregg cummings said he arrived at 6 a.m. to find a spot in front of the court to protest the executive actions. cummings, from lamoni, iowa, said he is concerned about the prospect of obama's supreme court nominee, judge merrick garland, changing the ideological balance of the court. "our number one purpose of being here is supporting the senators better standing strong on no votes on the new supreme court justice," he said. critics of obama's moves say they are part of a pattern of the white house looking to go around the republican congress. "basically the president has stepped in and taken over what normally would be associated with congress," texas attorney general ken paxton said in an interview. "congress makes the laws." roberts also seemed concerned with the scope of the government's argument defending obama's moves. "under your argument, could the president grant deferred removal to every unlawful -- unlawfully present alien in the united states right now?" he asked solicitor general donald verrilli. at one point, justice anthony kennedy suggested that the president might have strayed into congress' territory. "it's as if -- that the president is setting the policy and congress is executing it," he said. "that's just upside down." the gop congress was involved at oral arguments as well. the house of representatives, in an unusual move, intervened in the case against the administration, and had 15 minutes before the eight justices. that only eight justices are hearing the case -- due to the death in february of justice antonin scalia -- could impact the final result. a split court between the four democratic-appointed justices and four gop-appointed justices would mean the programs remain blocked and the case is sent back to the district court in texas that blocked them in the first place. for the administration, a key argument before the court is to say that the states do not have the legal right to bring the case in the first place. if it can convince a majority of justices on that issue, the court may not even get to the merits of the immigration debate. all eyes were on roberts, who has in past cases sometimes limited who can bring challenges to court. on monday, he asked some critical questions of the government's position, but it was unclear how interested he might be in dismissing the case on standing. "the question is: does texas have the right to bring this case?" said cnn senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. "texas says if you give legal status to these people, then we'll have to give them drivers licenses. the federal government says there's nothing in this law about drivers licenses. this law is directed entirely at the immigrants themselves, it does not impose any obligations on the states. so the states should not have the right to challenge it. that's the standing argument. i think the obama administration thinks they have a better chance at winning over one of the conservatives on standing than they do on the merits of the case." elizabeth wydra, president of the constitutional accountability center, who filed a brief in support of the government says she wouldn't write off the chief justice on the merits of the case or on the issue of standing. "on the merits, chief justice roberts' concerns seemed to be alleviated when the solicitor general clarified that undocumented immigrants<u+2014>given relief under the programs -- are simply afforded deferred action but none the less are subject to removal proceedings at any time the executive changes its enforcement priorities," she said. should it win on that count, the injunction would be lifted, and the programs would be able to go into effect during the final months of the obama presidency. however, because the actions can be changed or reversed by the next president, immigrants would have to decide whether to come forward for the remaining months of the obama administration or risk doing so with the possibility of donald trump or ted cruz in the white house. "there's no question that the ultimate fate of the deferred action policy hangs in the balance of the upcoming election," said stephen i. vladeck, a professor of law at american university and cnn legal analyst. "like any other executive order, it can be modified, rescinded, or expanded by the next president, and codified or overruled by the next congress," vladeck added. "but the fact that the supreme court expedited its consideration of the obama administration's appeal so that it could resolve the dispute by june suggests that, even short-handed, the justices want to have their own say first." the white house announced the programs in november 2014, issuing a five-page guidance memo enabling qualifying undocumented workers to receive temporary relief from the threat of deportation and to apply for programs that could qualify them for work authorization and associated benefits. the deferred action for parents of americans and lawful permanent residents (dapa) targets the nearly 4.3 million undocumented parents of citizens and lawful residents, and the second rule expands deferred action for childhood arrivals (daca), initiative aimed at non citizens who came to the country as children. "we'll bring more undocumented immigrants out of the shadows so they can play by the rules, pay their full share of taxes, pass a criminal background check and get right with the law," obama told an audience in nevada after the programs were announced. the programs remain frozen nationwide. they were first blocked by a federal judge in texas and a divided federal appeals court later upheld the preliminary injunction. obama's lawyers argue in court papers that the lower court rulings threatened great harm, "not only to the proper role of federal courts and to federal immigration law, but also to millions of parents of u.s. citizens and permanent residents, aliens who are the lowest priorities for removal yet now work off the books to support their families." as a threshold issue, verrilli says that the states don't have the legal right to be in court, because the constitution "assigns the formation of immigration policy exclusively to the national government precisely because immigration is an inherently national matter." he stressed that the guidance from the government does not provide any kind of lawful status under immigration law as the aliens remain removable at any time. "immigrant communities fought for these programs," said marielena hincapi<u+00e9>, the executive director of the national immigration law center. she says that her groups have been informing people about the risks of the rules being changed by the next president and she believes many will come forward should the obama administration win. texas solicitor general scott keller argues that the states have standing to bring the challenge in part because dapa would create a new class of recipients for state subsidized driver's licenses in texas. he says that texas would stand to lose millions of dollars if even a small fraction of dapa eligible aliens applied. "dapa is an extraordinary assertion of executive power," keller wrote in court papers. "the executive has unilaterally crafted an enormous program -- one of the largest changes ever to our nation's approach to immigration," he said. "in doing so, the executive dispensed with immigration statutes by declaring unlawful conduct to be lawful." he points to the guidance and says that the eligible undocumented immigrations would be permitted to be "lawfully present in the united states," which would make them eligible for work authorization and some types of social security and medicare benefits. texas is supported by the gop-led house of representatives, who say that the programs went forward after the president failed in his attempts to persuade congress to revise immigration laws. erin e. murphy, a lawyer for the house, called the administration's position, "the most aggressive of executive power claims." andrew pincus, a lawyer who supports the administration's position, says that allowing texas to bring the case would have broad implications. "if a state can sue every time the federal government does something to increase the state's costs, states could sue to challenge almost anything the federal government does," he said. pincus points out that texas is not objecting to the administration's use of prosecutorial discretion, it just doesn't want the undocumented workers to be able to work legally. "you are saying to these people, you can stay here, but we are keeping you in a bubble," he said.

supreme court divided on obama's immigration actions

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washington -- experts have a pretty good sense of what will happen if the supreme court rules in favor of the plaintiffs in king v. burwell, cutting off obamacare<u+2019>s tax credits in roughly two-thirds of the states. without that financial assistance, most of the people now buying insurance through healthcare.gov, the online marketplace run by the federal government, wouldn<u+2019>t be able to pay for their coverage anymore. a ruling wouldn<u+2019>t affect people living in states like california and kentucky, which operate their own insurance marketplaces. but the results in the rest of the country would be dramatic and visible. more than 8 million people would end up uninsured, according to estimates by the non-partisan urban institute. economic disarray would follow, as panicked insurance companies hiked premiums and pulled out of markets suddenly bereft of customers. what the experts can<u+2019>t say is how people would feel about such a shock, because it<u+2019>s hard to think of a time when government took away benefits from so many people, across such a large swath of the country, within such a short time. there just isn<u+2019>t a great historical analogue for predicting how people would react -- or, for that matter, how that reaction would affect politics. even veteran strategists seem stumped. but one recent episode may offer some clues. it comes, ironically enough, from obamacare<u+2019>s own history. in the fall of 2013, insurance companies canceled coverage for millions of americans, either because the old policies weren<u+2019>t up to obamacare<u+2019>s standards or because the insurers decided the old policies were no longer profitable to sell. the cancellations surprised most americans, not least because president barack obama had famously promised that people who liked their old insurance plans could keep them. you couldn<u+2019>t turn on the television without hearing from somebody dismayed, angry, or scared about what was happening. looking back at 2013, it<u+2019>s hard to remember a time when, for better or worse, a change in domestic policy created so much turmoil. the differences between 2013 and a potential supreme court decision are large enough to make direct comparisons impossible. that<u+2019>s particularly true when it comes to figuring out who an angry public would hold responsible this time around. the court<u+2019>s conservative majority, for issuing such a decision? republicans, for backing this case and trying to take away people<u+2019>s insurance? obama and the democrats, for creating the law in the first place? but if the 2013 controversy doesn<u+2019>t indicate much about the shape of a reaction to a supreme court reaction, it may say something about the scale -- and why the intensity of reaction this time, whatever its direction, is likely to be even larger than it was last time. one reason for this is the raw numbers involved. nobody knows exactly how many policies insurance companies actually canceled in the fall of 2013. at one point, the associated press compiled an estimate, based on reports from state insurance officials, suggesting that the number was close to 5 million. but subsequent estimates suggested that number was far too high. one of the most thorough examinations available came from lisa clemans-cope and nathaniel anderson at the urban institute. they concluded that cancellations probably numbered around 2.6 million. jon gabel, from the university of chicago, came up with an even smaller number: 1.9 million. you shouldn't take either figure as gospel. in both cases, the scholars in effect juxtaposed survey data with estimates of the number of people with <u+201c>non-group<u+201d> insurance, which itself has been difficult for experts to measure. but even if the urban institute and gabel estimates are low by a million or two -- which would be a huge error -- it<u+2019>d still be far less than the 7.7 million who would instantly lose insurance from an adverse ruling in king v. burwell -- to say nothing of the millions more who would have to pay higher premiums in the future because state insurance markets would be in such trouble. and the people who got cancellation notices last time didn<u+2019>t necessarily end up in worse shape. on the contrary, a large percentage of the people with canceled policies became eligible either for medicaid, which is basically free, or subsidized insurance, which cost much less than the old, unsubsidized policies. exactly how many has been difficult to pin down, because the data on what people were paying before the change -- and what they were getting for that money -- is so spotty. but some of the best information available comes from the kaiser family foundation, which surveyed people buying coverage in the new markets. forty-six percent of respondents who<u+2019>d lost non-compliant plans said they had found new policies that cost less, while another 15 percent said they found new policies that cost roughly the same. just 39 percent -- a significant fraction, but still a minority -- ended up paying more. by contrast, if the supreme court yanks tax credits in the states using healthcare.gov, then 100 percent of the people who were receiving that assistance will see their premiums go up. the increases will not be small. calculations from the kaiser foundation suggest that, for people who now rely on tax credits, premiums would rise on average by $268 each month -- enough, again, to make the cost of maintaining coverage prohibitive. and that, ultimately, is the biggest difference between the 2013 cancellations and what would happen, this summer, if the court strikes down subsidies in the healthcare.gov states. two years ago, if you were one of those people who lost your coverage, you were still able to find an alternative. and thanks to the law<u+2019>s regulations -- yes, the same ones that sometimes made coverage more expensive -- you at least knew that your new policy was comprehensive. it had to include all essential benefits, including mental health and prescription coverage. and it had to limit your out-of-pocket expenses. this summer, if the supreme court takes away your coverage, you'll end up with ... nothing. just like that, you<u+2019>ll go from the ranks of the safely insured to the ranks of the uninsured -- a far more drastic, and hazardous, transition than people experienced because of plan cancellations in 2013. to be clear, forcing millions of people to change insurance policies back then was plenty disruptive, far more so than the law<u+2019>s advocates realized it would be. but that disruption was part of a transition to a new environment for health insurance -- one in which more people had coverage and those with coverage were more secure. by contrast, the (considerably) greater disruptions from a supreme court decision eliminating tax credits would signal a return to the pre-obamacare status quo -- an environment in which many fewer people had insurance and those with coverage couldn<u+2019>t be as confident it would pay for their needs. such a transformation could be a nightmare for whichever politicians the public holds responsible -- to say nothing of the people who suddenly find themselves with no way to pay their medical bills.

the freakout from an obamacare ruling could be unlike anything we've seen

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cathy cuthbertson once worked at what might be thought of as a command post of political correctness <u+2014> the campus of a prestigious liberal arts college in ohio. <u+201c>you know, i couldn<u+2019>t say <u+2018>merry christmas.<u+2019> and when we wrote things, we couldn<u+2019>t even say <u+2018>he<u+2019> or <u+2018>she,<u+2019> because we had transgender. people of color. i mean, we had to watch every word that came out of our mouth, because we were afraid of offending someone, but nobody<u+2019>s afraid of offending me,<u+201d> the former administrator said. all of which helps explain why the 63-year-old grandmother showed up at a recent donald trump rally in hilton head island, s.c., where she moved when she retired a year ago. the republican front-runner is <u+201c>saying what a lot of americans are thinking but are afraid to say because they don<u+2019>t think that it<u+2019>s politically correct,<u+201d> she said. <u+201c>but we<u+2019>re tired of just standing back and letting everyone else dictate what we<u+2019>re supposed to think and do.<u+201d> in the 2016 republican presidential primary season, <u+201c>political correctness<u+201d> has become the all-purpose enemy. the candidates have suggested that it is the explanation for seemingly every threat that confronts the country: terrorism, illegal immigration, an economic recovery that is leaving many behind, to name just a few. others argue that growing antipathy to the notion of political correctness has become an all-purpose excuse for the inexcusable. they say it has emboldened too many to express racism, sexism and intolerance, which endure even as the country grows more diverse. <u+201c>driving powerful sentiments underground is not the same as expunging them,<u+201d> said william a. galston, a brookings institution scholar who advised president bill clinton. <u+201c>what we<u+2019>re learning from trump is that a lot of people have been biting their lips, but not changing their minds.<u+201d> [donald trump<u+2019>s provocative first tv ad raises the temperature of gop race] one thing is clear: trump is channeling a very mainstream frustration. in an october poll by fairleigh dickinson university, 68 percent agreed with the proposition that <u+201c>a big problem this country has is being politically correct.<u+201d> it was a sentiment felt strongly across the political spectrum, by 62 percent of democrats, 68 percent of independents and 81 percent of republicans. among whites, 72 percent said they felt that way, but so did 61 percent of nonwhites. <u+201c>people feel tremendous cultural condescension directed at them,<u+201d> and that their values are being <u+201c>smirked at, laughed at<u+201d> by the political and media elite, said gop strategist steve schmidt. <u+201c><u+200a><u+2018>political correctness<u+2019> are the two words that best respond to everything that a conservative feels put upon,<u+201d> added pollster frank luntz, who has advised republicans. the label is, he said, a validation that what many on the right see as legitimate policy and cultural differences are not the same as racism, sexism or heartlessness. <u+201c>allegations of racism and sexism have turned into powerful silencing devices,<u+201d> galston agreed. <u+201c>you can be opposed to affirmative action without being a racist.<u+201d> the pc backlash does not necessarily mean that people support the kinds of things that trump is saying, or the way he says them. when the fairleigh dickinson pollsters added his name to the same question <u+2014> prefacing it with <u+201c>donald trump said recently .<u+2009>.<u+2009>. <u+201d> <u+2014> the numbers dropped sharply. only 53 percent said they agree that political correctness is a major problem. this is not a new debate. it has raged since at least the early 1990s, when college campuses began adopting speech codes. some went well beyond obvious slurs <u+2014> with animal rights activists contending, for instance, that the word <u+201c>pet<u+201d>was disrespectful and should be changed to <u+201c>companion animal.<u+201d> more recently, the pc wars have flared again in academia, where there is an ongoing argument over whether campuses should be a <u+201c>safe space<u+201d> where students are protected from upsetting ideas, and receive <u+201c>trigger warnings<u+201d> when course material contains distressing information. few would argue that it is wrong to confront and eliminate prejudice. but even some liberals have called political correctness a form of mccarthyism aimed at stifling free expression. trump has brought the question from the university quad to the political arena in a way that no leading candidate has in the past. for many, <u+201c>it<u+2019>s satisfying to have a loud tribune like trump,<u+201d> said david axelrod, who was president obama<u+2019>s top campaign adviser. <u+201c>but i don<u+2019>t think the hunger for authentic plain speech is trump-specific. one of the appeals of [democratic presidential candidate] bernie sanders is that people think he says exactly what he thinks and is not passing it through a filter. there is a fundamental yearning for authenticity that is probably felt more broadly.<u+201d> the edgy liberal comedian bill maher, who for nearly a decade hosted a talk show called <u+201c>politically incorrect,<u+201d> has said that trump<u+2019>s ideas sound <u+201c>a little <u+00ad>hitler-adjacent.<u+201d> but he has also noted a yearning for <u+201c>somebody to say, <u+2018>you know what, i just don<u+2019>t bend to your bull----.<u+2019> and donald trump, i<u+2019>ve got to say, i don<u+2019>t agree with him on a lot, but i kind of get him. we<u+2019>ve been doing the same thing.<u+201d> trump sounded the anti-pc clarion call at the first republican debate in august, when moderator <u+00ad>megyn kelly of fox news challenged him on comments that he had made disparaging women. <u+201c>i think the big problem this country has is being politically correct,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>i<u+2019>ve been challenged by so many people, and i don<u+2019>t frankly have time for total political correctness. and to be honest with you, this country doesn<u+2019>t have time either. this country is in big trouble. we don<u+2019>t win anymore. we lose to china. we lose to mexico both in trade and at the border. we lose to everybody.<u+201d> [donald trump says we<u+2019>re all too politically correct. but is that also a way to limit speech?] it is hard to follow the logic of an argument that insulting women could somehow make the country stronger overseas. but the sentiment behind it came through clearly. and it has been picked up by other gop contenders. <u+201c>political correctness is killing people,<u+201d> said sen. ted cruz (r-tex.), because it prevents the obama administration from focusing on the communications and activities of potential terrorists who are muslims. <u+201c>political correctness is ruining our country,<u+201d> said former neurosurgeon ben carson, after he was criticized for saying a muslim should not be president. it is corrosive, carson said in an interview, because <u+201c>many people will not say what they believe because someone will look askance at them, call them a name. somebody will mess with their job, their family. this was not supposed to be the way it was in america.<u+201d> last month<u+2019>s terrorist attack in san bernardino, calif., carried out by a muslim couple who appear to have been inspired by the islamic state, also known as isis, has become a case in point for many conservatives. they say political correctness has made the obama administration too timid in calling it what it is <u+2014> which is why cruz and other republicans taunt the president for not uttering the phrase <u+201c>radical islamic terrorism.<u+201d> <u+201c>what animates isis is an <u+00ad>apocalyptic religious philosophy. people look at that and don<u+2019>t understand the unwillingness to say red is red and blue is blue,<u+201d> schmidt said. <u+201c>we live in a post-fact america, where the facts are subordinate to the advancement of an ideology.<u+201d> political strategists and others say a number of other forces are behind the backlash. it has both a cultural and an economic component, and it also reflects the continuing polarization that has grown deeper during obama<u+2019>s presidency. <u+201c>for many of these people, they played the game by the rules, and essentially, they got shafted,<u+201d> democratic pollster peter hart said. trump is <u+201c>the voice of an aggrieved cohort in our society <u+2014> lower-middle-income working whites who have taken the hit from the big changes in the economy, and are angry about it,<u+201d> axelrod said. <u+201c>he creates a permission structure for others.<u+201d> cuthbertson, for instance, made a connection between her frustrations over political correctness and the other things she sees going on around her. <u+201c>i look at what i get every month <u+2014> and thank god, i was financially savvy and saved. i can<u+2019>t live off social security. and you look at these people who have never worked and they<u+2019>re having babies and they<u+2019>re getting free rent and free food stamps and free medical care,<u+201d> she said. <u+201c>i couldn<u+2019>t afford what they have on my social security, and i worked 50 years.<u+201d> <u+201c>something has to be done because we<u+2019>re shrinking, we<u+2019>re being taken over by people that want to change what america is,<u+201d> she added. <u+201c>you can<u+2019>t say it nicely.<u+201d>

why trump may be winning the war on <u+2018>political correctness<u+2019>

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it was a tough tax season for the internal revenue service, but gop lawmakers in congress says the agency only has itself to blame. last month, irs commissioner john koskinen said that years of budget cuts and staffing losses had led to <u+201c>abysmal<u+201d> customer service from his agency. but republicans on the house ways and means committee say<u+00a0>the agency<u+2019>s financial problems stem from<u+00a0>bad budgeting decisions, employee bonuses, and overspending on administrative costs. <u+201c>the irs<u+2019>s spending decisions have real consequences for taxpayers,<u+201d> the gop representatives said in a report on wednesday. <u+201c>wasteful spending and failure to prioritize taxpayer assistance led to millions of calls going unanswered for filing season 2015.<u+201d> [in the irs help line, dejection is standard] committee republicans found that the irs spent $60 million on employee bonuses in 2014, an amount they said could have been used to field over 7 million customer calls. the report also points to a $134 million cut in user fees allocated to customer support as another area where the irs could have better utilized its already tight budget. there is no denying that the agency budget has shrunk<u+00a0>lately, with congress cutting the irs budget by more than $1 billion over the past five years. but the report found that the agency has<u+00a0>reduced<u+00a0>spending on<u+00a0>customer service. the irs has the authority to decide how it spends some revenue from user fees that the agency collects. the amount of discretionary funds available to the irs increased from $310 million in 2010 to $481 million in fiscal year 2015, but total funding for taxpayer assistance fell by 6 percent, according to the report. in 2011, the agency spent $129 million on taxpayer services and $79 million on operations support. in 2015, taxpayer services funding was scheduled to drop to $49 million while support funds were set for $411 million. committee republicans argued that that shift in priorities could have been avoided. koskinen predicted the tax year would be difficult for taxpayers and irs employees alike as early as january, when he wrote a bleak warning letter<u+00a0>to agency employees. <u+201c>this year we are looking at a situation where realistically we have no choice but to do less with less,<u+201d> he wrote. the result was a tax season riddled with confusion and long lines like those revealed in a<u+00a0>washington post article this month. koskinen is scheduled to testify before the ways and means committee on wednesday about<u+00a0>the 2015 tax filing season and irs operations.

house republicans say irs should blame itself for rough tax season

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it<u+2019>s extremely lonely being sarah palin, lonely at the outer lunatic fringe of the right-wing universe. there are the voices stringing together those non sequiturs in her head, of course, but where are her fox news friends? they<u+2019>re faux friends, that<u+2019>s what they are. after the universally ridiculed stream of nonsense that issued from sarah palin at last weekend<u+2019>s conservative confab in iowa, she came out swinging during an appearance on <u+201c>hannity.<u+201d> sean hannity, it should be noted, is apparently conservative enough for palin. that<u+2019>s a relief. but o<u+2019>reilly, who dared question her<u+00a0>seriousness<u+00a0>about a possible run for president in 2016?<u+00a0>he<u+2019>s trouble. <u+201c>there needs to be unity, understanding,<u+201d> palin told hannity. <u+201c>conservatives have that strike against us right off the bat, that being the media. even there on fox, you know, kind of a quasi- or assumed conservative outlet ... and soon we have all day listening to the tease of bill o<u+2019>reilly<u+2019>s." hmmm, did roger ailes get the memo about the "quasi-conservative" operation he's running? someone should really tell him. palin then spewed some more sentence fragments that made sense to her: hope away, sarah. they all see you as a joke. all of them. every last one of them. donald trump? did someone say donald trump? nothing gets trump's attention like his own name. when he heard that bill o'reilly had questioned his seriousness as a presidential contender, the trumpster took to twitter, accusing o'reilly<u+00a0>of "bad and very deceptive journalism."<u+00a0>this came as a complete shock to o'reilly, who had no idea anyone considered what he does journalism. he thinks he is just bestowing wisdom on an adoring public. the two raging egomaniacs chitty chatted by phone thursday during o'reilly's show, and it was amicable enough up to a point. "i don't think you're going to run for president," o'reilly told trump. "but if you decide to run, you've got to know that building the organization that you'd have to build is very difficult for someone who's never done it before." no one tells trump he doesn't know how to build things. "but how do you know i'm not building it now, bill?" trump said. "because you're playing golf in miami, donald," o'reilly said. isn't that what presidents do? trump refused to "take back" the tweet, and o'reilly advised him, "don't be a pinhead. don't tweet." this war within the conservoverse is very, very worrisome. this highly combustible combination of blow-hardism and hot air might just explode. then conservative brain matter will litter the land like confetti, and hopefully be scooped up by scientists who will study the nature of this soon-to-be-extinct species. aw shucks, and gosh golly. mike huckabee sure is shocked at how these city slickers act. the author of<u+00a0>god, guns, grits, and gravy,<u+00a0>and presumed presidential contender, is all about wholesome activities like traveling to the local gun range and not listening to the "mental poison" that is<u+00a0>beyonc<u+00e9>, but he is shocked by the mouths on these big-city women. the cursing! the dropping of the f-bomb! like it's normal and everything. someone has to teach these ladies a lesson. "in new york, not only do the men do it, but the women do it," huckabee said in<u+00a0>an interview<u+00a0>with iowa radio host jan mickelson.<u+00a0>"you just are looking around saying, 'my gosh, this is worse than locker room talk.' this would be considered totally inappropriate to say these things in front of a woman. and for a woman to say them in a professional setting, we would only assume that this is a very, as we would say in the south, 'that's just trashy!'" fellow fox newsian, megyn kelly does not truck with "trashy." she invited her former colleage on her show this week to give him a quick update on ... women, women who work, life, and reality. <u+201c>well, i do have some news for you," kelly said at the end of their little chat. "we're not only swearing. we<u+2019>re drinking, we<u+2019>re smoking, we<u+2019>re having premarital sex with birth control before we go to work, and sometimes boss around a bunch of men.<u+201d> huckabee kept that silly grin on his face, but when he realized with horror what she was saying (sex with birth control, egads!) he begged her to stop, said he hated to hear that, and presumably ran screaming into the new york night. 4. fox news has very nuanced discussion of sexual assault on campuses. oh, hahahhahaha. just kidding. they totally didn't. several female fox newsians did sit around on their half-circle couches and discussed the fact that the university of virginia has suggested sorority women stay home this weekend since fraternities will be partying hard during something greek-lifers call "bid week." they discussed and deplored it, and naturally pointed out again that sexual assault, when it does happen on campuses (although it basically does not happen on campuses because women always lie about these things), is women's fault. in a piece of sterling analysis, stacy dash pointed out, "the good girls stay home."<u+00a0>"women," her co-hosts interjected.<u+00a0>"the bad girls<u+2014>bad women," dash snickered, "the ones who like to play, go out and play and sometimes get hurt."<u+00a0>but that is okay, because, they are, you know, bad.<u+00a0><u+00a0>"alcohol is not to blame. it's the same thing with guns," dash said, finally getting to her metaphor. "guns don't kill people. people do."<u+00a0>also, could we just add, people who play with guns, people who have guns, people who have kids and guns, kids who have parents who have guns, etc....it's never the guns.<u+00a0><u+00a0>"alcohol doesn't get you drunk," she added. "you get yourself drunk."<u+00a0>and to bring it all back home, then you get yourself raped. because rapists don't rape people, people get themselves raped.<u+00a0>clear? there are definite perks to being a governor. one is that you can officially declare holidays whenever the hell you want. <u+00a0>republican texas governor greg abbott enjoyed this little perk this week when he officially declared february 2 "chris kyle day" in honor of the real-life american sniper who killed many iraqis, bragged about it, called all muslims savages, and got a movie made out of his exploits starring bradley cooper. chris kyle is gov. abbott's kind of guy.<u+00a0><u+201c>in honor of a texas son, a navy seal and an american hero, a man who defended his brothers and sisters in arms on and off the battlefield," abbott said during a speech<u+00a0>at the texans veterans of foreign affairs mid-winter convention in austin. "i am declaring february 2nd chris kyle day in texas.<u+201d> he left out the part where kyle was killed by a disgruntled u.s. veteran on a texas gun range in 2013.<u+00a0>nor did he say anything about the uptick in violence and violent rhetoric against muslims who happen to make their home in texas (and elsewhere) since the film's release. he had zero to say about the republican lawmaker who proposed that muslims in texas take an oath of loyalty to the united states while sporting an israeli flag on her desk. so, how exactly should people go about celebrating chris kyle day? perhaps by going to their local gun range.

5 worst right-wing moments of the week <u+2014> palin & trump declare war on bill o<u+2019>reilly

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to share the high costs of covering the presidential campaign of hillary clinton, more than a dozen news organizations banded together to form a press pool <u+2014> essentially a collaborative in which reporters from contributing organizations take turns shadowing the democratic front-runner and sending back e-mailed reports of her every move. the whole idea rests upon the expectation that the clinton campaign will provide access to the pool reporter. david martosko, u.s. political editor for the daily mail, sent an e-mail to his fellow pool participants early today alerting them to trouble on the trail: <u+201c>hillary pool report #1 <u+2014> might be final for today,<u+201d> noted martosko in his first message. the pooler had shown up at 7:45 a.m. at the puritan backroom in manchester ready for action. a press staffer with the new hampshire democratic party told martosko that he <u+201c>wasn<u+2019>t the approved print pool reporter for today<u+2019>s pooled events.<u+201d> a subsequent pool report from martosko summarized a conversation that he<u+2019>d had with clinton campaign spokesman nick merrill. martosko writes of merrill: he offered varied and contradictory reasons for this decision. first he confirmed that the concern had to do with the daily mail<u+2019>s status as foreign press: <u+201c>we<u+2019>ve been getting a lot of blowback from foreign outlets that want to be part of the pool and we need to rethink it all, maybe for a day, and just cool things off until we can have a discussion.<u+201d> your pool informed him that the guardian is part of the pool, and that the pool doesn<u+2019>t discriminate on the basis of media ownership. he then said that the campaign<u+2019>s position is that the daily mail doesn<u+2019>t qualify because it hasn<u+2019>t yet been added to the white house<u+2019>s regular print pool <u+2013> something the pool informed him was a timing issue, not a white house choice, since francesca chambers, our white house correspondent, has been vetted and has a hard pass. <u+201c>we<u+2019>re just trying to follow the same process and system the white house has,<u+201d> he said. merrill then insisted that the decision had <u+201c>nothing to do<u+201d> with the campaign considering the daily mail foreign press. <u+201c>we don<u+2019>t consider you foreign press,<u+201d> he said. it<u+2019>s your pooler<u+2019>s understanding that this was the only reason given last night when nick sprung this on ruby cramer of buzzfeed, who coordinates the pool. pool pointed out to merrill that if the campaign is denying pool access to foreign press, but won<u+2019>t take the position that the daily mail is foreign press, the position is untenable. then he said: <u+201c>this isn<u+2019>t about you. it<u+2019>s about a larger <u+2013><u+201d> and didn<u+2019>t continue his sentence. merrill later insisted that his reasons were not based on the foreign-press question, but that the campaign simply wanted a day to <u+201c>have a conversation<u+201d> about how to proceed. <u+201c>we<u+2019>re going to make the decision,<u+201d> he said, referring to choosing whether to give access to the designated print pooler. your pooler told merrill that he seemed to be contradicting himself, and pointed out the murky situation of foreign ownership interests in several outlets in the pool. he reiterated that the campaign could choose to decline pool coverage, and claimed that <u+201c>it<u+2019>s my understanding that the pool wasn<u+2019>t sending a reporter today.<u+201d> your pooler informed him that <u+201c>the pool sent me and i<u+2019>m here,<u+201d> and that the pool would show up at all the events today whether or not the campaign chose to grant access, and would request access each time. he offered that this afternoon<u+2019>s launch party, one of three calendared events for the day, <u+201c>is open press, so there<u+2019>s no issue with that one.<u+201d> the pool lodged one further objection and reminded him that the call was on the record since he<u+2019>s a campaign spokesperson and there was no discussion about the on-off-background status of the call at any time. as the morning progressed, martosko chauffered himself around to the campaign<u+2019>s stops. at 11:00 a.m, he issued <u+201c>pool report #5 <u+2014> denied entry at the rochester, nh event.<u+201d> in this dispatch, martosko describes how he was carefully denied access to an early childhood education event at the ymca of strafford county: the erik wemple blog placed the matter before merrill in an e-mail, and the spokesman quickly replied: <u+201c>we want a happy press corps as much as the press corps does. and we work very hard to achieve that in tandem with them. it<u+2019>s a long campaign, and we are going to do our best to find equilibrium and best accommodate interest from as many news outlets as possible, given the space limitations of our events.<u+201d> everyone in the campaign world understands space limitations <u+2014> and those space limitations are precisely one of the reasons that the pool exists in the first place. why not have one reporter chronicling the quotidian travels of a top candidate instead of 12 or 15 reporters doing the same? in any case, martosko is part of a pool that includes outlets such as the washington post, the new york times, buzzfeed and others. martosko himself isn<u+2019>t above adding a bit of media commentary to his work on the trail, as in this tweet from saturday, following clinton<u+2019>s big speech: in landing at the daily mail, martosko followed a colorful path. he formerly served as executive editor of the daily caller, a position in which he directed the outlet<u+2019>s much-discredited reporting that sen. robert menendez had romped with prostitutes on a trip to the dominican republic. and before that, he worked at the center for consumer freedom, a nonprofit run by pr ace richard berman. in that position, martosko used a phony facebook account to gather dirt on animal-rights activists. the daily mail has issued this statement on the matter: <u+201c>we can confirm that david martosko, u.s. political editor, dailymail.com was today denied access to hillary clinton<u+2019>s campaign event and was prohibited from boarding a van that the clinton campaign is using to transport pool reporters around new hampshire. we are seeking an explanation from the clinton campaign as to why this occurred as mr. martosko was scheduled to be the designated print pool reporter in new hampshire this morning.<u+201d> scott wilson, deputy national editor of the washington post, expressed concern with the sequence of events. <u+201c>who participates in the pool should be decided by the news organizations, not the campaign, and there can be no selective exclusions based on outlet or individual once the pool is set,<u+201d> notes wilson in an e-mail. <u+201c>the campaign<u+2019>s rules should be clarified as soon as possible and shared with 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washington (cnn) it's still undecided whether donald trump will continue to support forced deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants living in the us, his campaign manager said sunday. but trump himself insisted monday, "i'm not flip-flopping." "i'm not flip flopping," the republican presidential nominee told fox news on the issue monday. "we want to come up with a fair but firm process. fair but firm." he did not, however, provide any specifics or elaborate on his position further. when asked by repeated questioning by cnn's dana bash on "state of the union" on sunday whether trump stood behind the idea of a deportation task force, kellyanne conway, trump's new campaign manager, responded, "to be determined." conway was responding to reports about what was said in a meeting trump held on saturday with a hispanic advisory council. sources in the room told buzzfeed that trump spoke about a "humane and efficient" way to work with undocumented immigrants in the country currently, which was characterized by buzzfeed as a way to legalize some and let them stay. that would stand in sharp contrast with a central theme of the trump campaign since the beginning, a hardline position on immigration focused on removing people in the country illegally. conway disputed that trump presented a reversal of his position in the meeting. "so what donald trump said yesterday in that meeting ... varied little from what he has said publicly," conway said. "what he supports is to make sure we enforce the law, that we are respectful of those americans who are looking for jobs, and that we are fair and humane to those who live among us." bash played a clip of trump speaking about a deportation force last fall, saying it would be done "humanely," repeatedly asking if that was still the position of the campaign or whether trump was backing off. that was when conway responded: "to be determined." early sunday evening the campaign of democratic nominee hillary clinton released a statement scoffing and trump's potential change of heart on deportation. "donald trump's immigration plan remains the same as it's always been: tear apart families and deport 16 million people from the united states," said campaign chair john podesta. jose fuentes, a trump supporter and the former attorney general of puerto rico, was at the roundtable with trump on saturday, and said he did not walk away with the interpretation that trump was open to legalization for some undocumented immigrants. he said it was trump who brought up the issue of those who are in the us illegally and asked the group to share their ideas on how to deal with them. fuentes said that trump used the language of wanting to handle the issue in a "fair," "humane," and "legal" way, but fuentes said he didn't automatically take that to mean that trump was going allow some to stay or have legal status. "he wanted to hear our ideas on how to deal with it. he requested that we put it in writing," fuentes told cnn. "but that doesn't mean he's going to take them or that he's changed his mind." fuentes, who said he was sitting right across the table from trump, described the republican nominee's interest in hispanic issues as "sincere" and said he was "impressed" by trump's understanding of the different issues important to hispanic voters of various backgrounds. fuentes said he didn't know why some walked away with the idea that trump would change his position on deportations. he wondered whether it was because trump seemed to place more emphasis on dealing with the issue than he has before -- that he was willing to hear different ideas and consider them. "that was very revealing," he said. "that may have caused the wrong impression." beyond immigration, conway on sunday also reiterated the long-standing trump campaign position that the candidate won't release his tax returns, saying they are under audit. she said the campaign would not release his 2008 returns that have already exited an audit, either, repeating the message of trump's former campaign chairman, paul manafort. conway also was asked about a 2005 comment she made about clinton, and whether she was disparaging spouses who reconcile after cheating. but conway said sunday she wasn't making a statement about clinton's marriage. "we don't need to conflate the two," conway said, saying the question is about clinton's leadership and her ability to stand up to enemies in the world. "leaders show up where people in need are, and they hear them, and they help them, and you saw that on full display on friday," conway said referring to trump's visit to louisiana to tour flood damage in baton rouge. she also said former fox news chief roger ailes does not have a "formal or informal" advisory role with the campaign, but said ailes and trump speak and are "old friends." conway, on "this week," also answered questions about the campaign's organization. particularly ongoing criticism about the campaign's structure and seeming lack of infrastructure in swing states. as trump's new campaign manager, conway said she would assess the situation, adding the republican national committee would be continuing to help. "we're working closely with the rnc, whether it's political, data, fundraising," conway said. "we've got a great relationship with chairman (reince) priebus. talk to him daily now. and we at the campaign are going to expect sean spicer, the director of communications and the chief strategist at the rnc to spend more time with us." conway did not say spicer was formally joining the campaign. she also addressed trump's statement last week -- for the first time -- that he has has "regrets" over certain, but unspecified, statements throughout his campaign. conway was pressed on whether trump was specifically apologizing for high-profile controversial statements, including disparaging arizona sen. john mccain's military record and comments he made about a gold star family that spoke at the democratic convention. conway demurred on who specifically trump was expressing regret to, and said he hasn't made apology calls to individuals. "he's expressed his regret publicly and said, 'if i have caused you personal pain -- that can include me, that can include you' -- that he regrets that," conway said.

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des moines, iowa (cnn) no one ever really doubted that donald trump could pull off a major counter-programing feat -- even when competing with a gop debate that was expected to draw millions of viewers. he did it thursday night, dazzling a crowd of hundreds of enthusiastic supporters by announcing that he had raised more than $6 million for veterans in one day -- $1 million of it from his own checkbook. "we love our vets," he said. "you know, my whole theme is make america great again and that's what we're going to do --- and we wouldn't have even been here if it weren't for our vets," trump said. even trump seemed a bit surprised that he had pulled off his stunt: "look at all the cameras. this is like the academy awards," the real estate magnate said as he took the stage in an auditorium at drake university about 20 minutes after the debate began a few miles away. "we're actually told that we have more cameras than they do by quite a bit, and you know what that's really in honor of our vets." the rally was a restrained performance by trump standards. he dispensed with his usual riff about his poll numbers and mostly avoided jabs at his fellow candidates (with the exception of a "low-energy" shot at jeb bush). instead he delivered a speech mostly focused on the problems veterans have faced when returning from iraq and afghanistan -- inadequate healthcare and housing, drug abuse, mental health issues and homelessness. "our vets are being mistreated. illegal immigrants are treated better in many cases than our vets and it's not going to happen any more. it's not going to happen any more." clearly enjoying his evening away from the debate, trump also told the audience what could be another media sensation for his campaign: the fact that his daughter ivanka is pregnant. "ivanka, i said, it would be so great if you had your baby in iowa. it would be so great -- i'd definitely win!" in a somewhat extraordinary move for someone who has reveled in taunting his rivals, he invited mike huckabee and rick santorum -- two candidates who had been relegated to an earlier undercard debate -- to join him on stage to speak about veterans issues. while appearing generous, it was also politically savvy maneuver given that the two men were the respective winners of the past two iowa caucuses, but stuck in the bottom-tier this time around. huckabee and santorum are still well-liked and admired by core republican voters here in iowa, even if their campaigns have failed to ignite this time. and their presence on stage with trump could go a long way toward negating the criticisms from trump's rivals like ted cruz, whose allies have claimed that trump will be punished by iowans on monday for skipping the debate stage. santorum, who narrowly defeated mitt romney here in 2012, tried to stand to the side of trump's podium, noting to laughter that he didn't want to be photographed in front of a trump sign. "i'm supporting another candidate, but that doesn't mean we can't work together" to honor america's veterans, santorum said. trump has regaled in the media spectacle that he created over the past few days after withdrawing from the fox news debate with complaints that he'd been mistreated by the network. he told the crowd that he wished that he'd been able to participate, but once he had withdrawn -- no amount of cajoling, even by the likes of fox news host bill o'reilly --- could bring him back. "when you're treated badly, you have to stick up for your rights," he said to cheers. "and that's what our country has to do.... we have to stick up for our country when we're being mistreated." "once this started and it was for our vets there was nothing i could do," he added, reflecting on whether the pundits were right that his maneuver might damage his campaign. "i don't know. is it for me personally a good thing, a bad thing? will i get more votes? will i get less votes? nobody knows. who the hell knows." he predicted that the amount of money that he had raised through a website and through personal calls to wealthy friends who contributed to the cause would impress iowans. "i think this money is going to continue to pour in." the organizations run the gamut from groups focused on helping veterans with disabilities and mental health problems to those aimed at helping veterans reintegrate into civilian society. trump supporters who waited hours in the cold to see him roundly disputed the notion that he would see any attrition in his support in iowa, where he has led in recent polls. in interviews, many voters here said the controversy was yet another example of trump bucking the establishment -- a trait that has endeared him to them from the beginning -- and that they were proud of him standing up to fox news. ernie ratcliffe, an army veteran who served two tours in vietnam, drove in from kansas city for the rally, scoffed when asked for his thoughts on texas sen. ted cruz's contention that trump skipped the debate because he was afraid of taunts or difficult questions from the fox moderators or rival candidates. "donald trump isn't scared of anything. he's not scared of absolutely anything," said ratcliffe, who has signed up with his wife to call new hampshire voters on trump's behalf next week. "donald j. trump said he was going to do this and he's done it. he's a man of his word." ratcliffe said he was convinced that trump was the only candidate who could clean up the department of veterans affairs and that it would be "one of the first things he does when he gets into office." "he's going to get it squared away," he said. "it's not going to take him very long to do it. he's going to put the right people in. he knows how to manage things. he's a very successful businessman. he's going to get it done very quickly and very, very well." randal thom, a former marine who was among the first admitted to trump's event, said he loved it that trump refused to back down. "when it came out yesterday that he was actually doing this (rally) in less than 24 hours, it was amazing," thom said. "it just shows he has the ability to rally and get things done." thom, who raises alaskan malamute and pomalute puppies in minnesota, and plans to spend monday in iowa volunteering for trump, dismissed cruz as "a canadian-born citizen" and described the texas senator, as well as the other gop contenders as "weak." "trump is a 100% strongman. he's bullet proof," thom said. "people say, 'oh look at his background. look at the number of wives he's had.' you know what? i don't care about that. what i care about is his future."

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(cnn) donald trump and hillary clinton came home to new york and both won big. trump used his dominating victory as an opportunity to make his case that the only way he'll be denied the republican nomination is if the game is rigged. hillary clinton launched her presidential bid on april 12 through a video message on social media. the former first lady, senator and secretary of state is considered the front-runner among possible democratic candidates."everyday americans need a champion, and i want to be that champion -- so you can do more than just get by -- you can get ahead. and stay ahead," she said in her announcement video. "because when families are strong, america is strong. so i'm hitting the road to earn your vote, because it's your time. and i hope you'll join me on this journey." ohio gov. john kasich joined the republican field july 21 as he formally announced his white house bid. "i am here to ask you for your prayers, for your support ... because i have decided to run for president of the united states," kasich told his kickoff rally at the ohio state university. ohio gov. john kasich joined the republican field july 21 as he formally announced his white house bid. "i am here to ask you for your prayers, for your support ... because i have decided to run for president of the united states," kasich told his kickoff rally at the ohio state university. sen. ted cruz of texas has made a name for himself in the senate, solidifying his brand as a conservative firebrand willing to take on the gop's establishment. he announced he was seeking the republican presidential nomination in a speech on march 23."these are all of our stories," cruz told the audience at liberty university in virginia. "these are who we are as americans. and yet for so many americans, the promise of america seems more and more distant." businessman donald trump announced june 16 at his trump tower in new york city that he is seeking the republican presidential nomination. this ends more than two decades of flirting with the idea of running for the white house."so, ladies and gentlemen, i am officially running for president of the united states, and we are going to make our country great again," trump told the crowd at his announcement. clinton reveled in her win, which broke bernie sanders' string of successes in the west and midwest. the victories pushed both candidates much closer to their parties' nominations, leaving their opponents no room for error if either is to be stopped. here are five takeaways from new york's primary: new york truly is trump territory. on stage at trump tower, the republican front-runner surrounded himself with some of his high-profile business friends to cap what he called "an amazing week." and he set up the republican contest as one that would have to be taken from him -- unfairly. "we don't have much of a race anymore, based on what i'm seeing on television," trump said. "senator cruz is just about mathematically eliminated." the good news for trump shouldn't stop. april 26 -- the next super tuesday <u+2014> features maryland, pennsylvania and other northeastern states that should also be friendly to the front-runner. clinton gets the resounding win she wanted it's a sure sign that clinton is expecting to celebrate when her campaign announces she'll deliver a speech on the night of a big election. "this one," clinton told supporters," is personal." her commanding victory helped clinton build on her pledged delegate lead, and it denied sanders a win that could have changed the dynamics of the democratic race. those advantages have been enough for clinton so far -- and they don't bode well for sanders in states like new jersey and california, where he'd need to crush clinton to have any chance of catching her in pledged delegates. sanders hoped he'd win new york. in fact, as a pro-clinton group gleefully pointed out tuesday, he'd said at least 27 times that he expected to win. for two weeks he'd practically moved back to his hometown of brooklyn. the closed primary, sanders said tuesday evening in pennsylvania as the crowd booed new york's laws, is "wrong." "that has got to change in future elections," he said. sanders, though, will face the same problem next tuesday, when pennsylvania, maryland, connecticut, delaware and rhode island vote. of those five states, only rhode island allows independents to vote in the democratic primary. if sanders couldn't improve his performance with african-americans in new york, it's not clear that he ever will. in philadelphia on tuesday night, cruz spoke before new york's polls closed <u+2014> sparing him, for the moment, the awkwardness of addressing his third-place finish and his zero delegate haul. he didn't say anything about the contest at all, aside from noting that it's not surprising for a candidate (in this case, trump) to win his home state. he'd already campaigned in maryland on monday, and is fighting for conservatives in a district-by-district bid to deny trump delegates. everything cruz did on tuesday night -- from the location of his event to the 8:30 p.m. et timing -- reinforced that he wasn't holding his breath for a good night in new york. aides said if he could hold trump under 90 of the state's 95 delegates, even that would count as an acceptable result. "we're going to be deadlocked" going into the republican national convention, kasich said tuesday night in maryland. "then what delegates are going to do is do something crazy -- consider who can win in the fall." the democratic contest has become increasingly heated and personal in recent days -- but even as sanders amps up the attacks and clinton's campaign frets over the potential impact, the party's primary voters don't seem worried. sixty-seven percent of democratic voters surveyed in early exit polls said the campaign between sanders and clinton has energized the party, while just 29% said it has divided the party. in the short term, the extended primary is frustrating clinton's camp. clinton communications director jennifer palmieri called sanders' campaign "destructive" to the point that sanders' continuation in the race is "not productive to democrats" and "not productive for the country." but in the long run, democratic voters' engagement and interest in the contest could help clinton, who will need to consolidate sanders' supporters if she clinches the nomination -- and could find it easier to do that if they're not turned off by an extended intra-party battle. among new york republicans, it's a different story. sixty percent say the gop campaign has divided the party, compared to 36% who say it has energized it. that could have something to do with the state's leading candidate, trump, consistently declaring the nominating process "rigged" against him. the numbers show that republicans could have the tougher challenge in bringing the party together behind its eventual nominee. trump's tuesday rout punctuated that reality. his victory made clear that no other republican stands a chance of catching him at the polls -- even as party members fight to deny him delegates.

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the announcement of debbie wasserman schultz's planned resignation as chairwoman of the democratic national committee was sudden, shaking up an otherwise sleepy sunday afternoon in which most of the political world was focused on making its way to philadelphia for the party's quadrennial convention. but, if her departure was abrupt <u+2014> wasserman schultz will resign her post when the democratic national convention ends on thursday night <u+2014> the fall that led to the end was anything but. wasserman schultz's tenure at the head of the dnc has been rocky almost since the moment she took over the job in 2011. interviews with a variety of pro- and anti-wasserman schultz democrats <u+2014> and there are plenty of both <u+2014> suggest that the florida house member's problems were both personal and structural, and that she retains a relatively bright future even if this chapter of her political life left much to be desired. [here are the latest, most damaging things in the dnc<u+2019>s leaked emails] where to start when it comes to the "why" behind wasserman schultz's struggles depends on who you believe is to blame for them. several people i talked to put the blame <u+2014> or at least a large portion of it <u+2014> on president obama and his inner circle of political advisers who never cared about the dnc in any meaningful way and, as a result, left wasserman schultz to wither on the vine as they worked around her time and again. "obama and team never accepted the dnc or cared very much about it, and it showed," said one senior democratic strategist granted anonymity to speak candidly. "obama was not into party building, or party anything. he never integrated his political operation into the dnc so she was in a very tough position always." from the start, obama was never a big "party" guy. he explicitly ran against the party infrastructure and elites in 2008 <u+2014> hillary clinton was their candidate <u+2014> and once he got into office was openly disdainful of many of the traditional apparatus of the party. obama installed his loyal ally tim kaine <u+2014> name ring a bell? <u+2014> as the dnc chair. but, once kaine decided to run for an open virginia senate seat in 2011, it was clear to anyone paying attention that the next dnc chair wouldn't be a member of the obama inner circle as he began positioning himself for his reelection bid. enter wasserman schultz, a jewish woman from florida who had a reputation as a dogged fundraiser and willing attack dog on tv. for what obama imagined that job to be, she was a natural fit. "she wasn't anyone's first choice for chair," a veteran democratic operative said. "but i think most people thought she'd be fine." [schedule: who will speak in philadelphia during the 2016 democratic national convention] the counter to that story line is that wasserman schultz, from the jump, seemed dead set on using the perch to promote her own political interests rather than put what was best for obama first. even some of wasserman schultz's harshest critics acknowledge that part of that problem was structural: she was in elected office while also serving as the party chair. she was looking to move up the ladder in house leadership and saw the dnc job as a way to do that. period. she was far from the only elected official who has struggled to balance the demands of the party chair job with more provincial interests. "it wasn't great with [then connecticut sen. chris dodd] or [then philadelphia mayor ed] rendell, and it wasn't great with her," said one leading democratic consultant. "there are always concerns about whose agenda gets put first, tensions between official duties (particularly votes) and political party duties." but, wasserman schultz's emphasis on her own political future <u+2014> and the need to make sure she was front and center when it came to media attention and interviews <u+2014> rubbed lots and lots of people the wrong way. "she ignored infrastructure, instead focusing on why she wasn't getting more media hits," noted a longtime democratic strategist familiar with the inner workings of the party committee. " "fundraising was anemic." what everyone agrees on is that wasserman schultz suffered a series of self-inflicted wounds as chair. there was the time she broke with the white house about deporting children detained at the border. the time she said wisconsin gov. scott walker had given women "the back of his hand." story after story about how she was feathering her own political nest first and then worrying about obama and the broader party second <u+2014> or not at all. how she found herself on the wrong side of bernie sanders and the party's liberal base. on and on it went. for much of the past two years, rumors of wasserman schultz's demise came across the transom with remarkable regularity. and yet, she persevered <u+2014> occasionally via means that left made her detractors even more convinced that she needed to go. what her increasingly large enemies list could never find was a spark that could set all of the tinder they had gathered aflame. that long-awaited moment came late last week when a hacker group released more than 20,000 hacked dnc emails. the emails cast wasserman schultz and her senior staff in not only an unflattering light but also as abettors of clinton's march to the democratic presidential nomination <u+2014> in effect confirming the suspicions of sanders and his supporters. within days, years of bad blood with wasserman schultz had been unleashed and she had been pushed out. what does the future hold for the florida democrat? she faces a primary from a sanders-backed candidate but most political observers say she will win it. beyond that, few people i talked to had any real sense for where she might go next although dave beattie, a florida pollster and wasserman schultz ally, was optimistic. 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**want fox news first in your inbox every day? sign up here.** buzz cut: <u+2022> hillary<u+2019>s leftward sprint cheers dems <u+2022> billionaire steyer gets hillary house call <u+2022> rubio jumps in iowa q poll <u+2022> high expectations this time for huckabee in iowa <u+2022> good dog, indeed hillary<u+2019>s leftward sprint cheers dems why do politicians pander? because it works. presumptive democratic nominee hillary clinton has been continually buffeted by scandal since march 2 and faces concerns among primary voters about her coming coronation. the response to the allegations against the candidate and her organization <u+2013> payola for official favors as secretary of state and destruction of tens of thousands of emails from her time in office <u+2013> has been a botch. clinton<u+2019>s husband and daughter are trying to defend the family<u+2019>s buckracking, but they<u+2019>re trying to do it whilst on a luxury african tour that highlights the family<u+2019>s unsavory connections. so what<u+2019>s the candidate <u+2013> especially one who was upended as a frontrunner eight years ago <u+2013> to do? go left. and she is sprinting that way. [<u+2018>shred<u+2019> may not have been the word you were looking for - bill clinton in an interview with cnn reportedly said <u+201c>suggestions of improper funding to the clinton foundation <u+2018>won<u+2019>t fly... not a shred of evidence.<u+2019><u+201d>] the latest and most aggressive flip is clinton<u+2019>s move on illegal immigration in which she vowed to go beyond the temporary executive amnesty from president obama that<u+2019>s currently being blocked by the courts. that<u+2019>s a big veer. but she<u+2019>s benefitting from such tactics. a new poll from nyt/cbs news found that while 81 percent of democrats found clinton honest and trustworthy, just 40 percent of independents did. this is the first time that the poll has asked the question, but it suggests that in addition to the <u+201c>faberge egg<u+201d> phenomenon, clinton may be helped by primary voters feeling better since she started running as an obama democrat. [de blasio warming up for hillary endorsement - appearing on msnbc, new york mayor bill de blasio praised clinton<u+2019>s increasingly liberal stances on issues like immigration and criminal justice.] perhaps this is clinton revealing her true feelings. but if it is candor and not pander, though, there is still the character question of why clinton previously misled voters. and there is the larger issue: the clinton brand is based on pragmatic centrism, not ideology. as mitt romney found out, candidates who start with a trust deficit do not, in fact, get to shake their etch a sketches. even a candidate who gets away with ducking the press for months at a time will eventually have to answer reporters<u+2019> questions about the scandals and her congressional testimony about the emails is coming up later this month. as the scandal stuff bumps and bruises its way forward, it seems unlikely that general election voters will be of a mind to take her word on questions of pinwheeling policy stances. the 1 percent likes one of their own - a cnbc survey found 53 percent of millionaires would vote for hillary clinton while 47 percent would vote for the gop hopeful. o<u+2019>malley scoffs - <u+201c>governor o<u+2019>malley stood up when it mattered. when most leaders in the democratic and republican parties were saying that we should close<u+00a0>our border to<u+00a0>children fleeing violence in central america, he defied them and<u+00a0>said that<u+00a0>we could not send children<u+00a0><u+2018>back to certain death.<u+2019><u+00a0>he was criticized for that position, but leadership<u+00a0>is about forging public opinion, not following it.<u+2019> <u+2013> lis smith, spokeswoman for former maryland gov. martin o<u+2019>malley. poll: n.h. lead gets a trim - support for democratic frontrunner hillary clinton has dropped and her lead over potential democratic rivals has slipped according to a new wmur poll of likely new hampshire primary voters. clinton is the favorite of 51 percent to sen. elizabeth warren<u+2019>s 20 percent and sen. bernie sanders at 13 percent. in wmur<u+2019>s february poll, 58 percent backed clinton to warren<u+2019>s 14 percent and sanders<u+2019> 6 percent. <u+201c><u+2018>hillary clinton is still the frontrunner,<u+2019> survey center director andrew smith [told wmur]. <u+2018>she is the frontrunner largely because democrats think she is the most electable in november 2016. but there is evidence that a significant bloc of progressive democratic primary voters are not happy with the clinton candidacy.<u+2019><u+201d> power play: dem debates will draw out challengers - the democratic party is sanctioning six presidential debates. that<u+2019>s sounds like quite a few for a field currently consisting of presumptive nominee hillary clinton and a self-described socialist senator from vermont who isn<u+2019>t even a registered democrat. but the debate announcement will change the shape of the field. chris stirewalt gives you the lowdown, in 60 seconds. watch here. billionaire donor steyer gets hillary housecall billionaire tom steyer and his wife kat taylor host hillary clinton at their home in upscale pacific heights-san francisco today. the <u+201c>conversation with hillary,<u+201d> in which the presumptive democratic nominee will likely be pressed for her position on the keystone xl pipeline, kicks off a three-day california fundraising swing. steyer is a green-energy mogul whose business depends on government subsidies and government regulation of his fossil-fuel competitors. though clinton has been officially non-committal on keystone, don<u+2019>t be surprised if her leftward shift continues as she plays up to west coast donors. [down the tube? - an environmental group calling on clinton to outline her plan for addressing climate change, including opposition to keystone xl, is staging a rally outside the steyer fundraiser today.] the host with the most - steyer has been touted as <u+201c>the most influential environmentalist in american politics.<u+201d> he pumped more than $73 million into pacs pushing climate change in the midterms <u+2013> and has been cast as a liberal counterforce to the koch brothers. steyer<u+2019>s prolific fundraising for president obama and subsequent visits to the white house on environmental issues have gone hand-in hand with benefits to his <u+2018>clean energy<u+201d> interests. the scope of steyer<u+2019>s kingmaker status has driven democrats to stage events like their one-party climate change talkathon in congress last year and sen. harry reid<u+2019>s annual clean energy summit. keynoting last year<u+2019>s las vegas gathering of industry leaders <u+2013> you guessed it: hillary clinton. with your second cup of coffee<u+2026> cnet: <u+201c>in tom clancy's sensationalist novel <u+2018>debt of honor,<u+2019> a disgruntled pilot decides to avenge his lost honor by crashing a fuel-laden 747 directly into the u.s. capitol, causing the giant building to explode and collapse. the scope of that fictional disaster was hard to fathom prior to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001. but even before 9/11, anyone who had been in lakehurst, n.j., on may 6, 1937, would have had a pretty good sense of just how big an explosion clancy had in mind. because that day, the hindenburg, a german zeppelin that was famous the world over for ferrying the rich and powerful across the atlantic, blew up as it attempted to land, a catastrophe that rocked the globe, kickstarted the news industry, and closed the book for good on a form of travel that, while far beyond the means of most people, unquestionably appealed to the romantic notions of the masses.<u+201d> got a tip from the right or left? email [email protected] poll check real clear politics averages obama job approval: approve <u+2013><u+00a0>46.0 percent//disapprove <u+2013> 49.9 percent direction of country: right direction <u+2013> 29.8 percent//wrong track <u+2013> 61.2 percent rubio jumps in iowa q poll marco rubio<u+2019>s post-announcement surge is paying off in iowa where the latest quinnipiac university poll shows him vaulting into the top tier for the state<u+2019>s republican caucuses. the poll, out today, shows the florida senator gaining 9 points since february to finish in a second-place tie with sen. rand paul, r-ky., who remained at 13 percent. sen. ted cruz, r-texas, also made big gains since his announcement, jumping 7 points to 12 percent. but the man to beat is still wisconsin gov. scott walker, who again finished first. but walker saw his lead shrink from 12 points in february to 8 points this month. the poll, taken before his tuesday announcement showed no improvement for former gov. mike huckabee, r-ark., who remained at 11 percent.<u+00a0>another newly declared candidate, retired neurosurgeon ben carson, saw his support slip from 11 percent to 7 percent. [watch fox: ben carson will join megyn kelly tonight for his first television interview since declaring his 2016 candidacy. <u+201c>the kelly file<u+201d> airs at 9 p.m. et.] hawkeye voters shuck jeb - the big loser in the new q poll is jeb bush. the former florida governor saw his support drop by half, falling to 5 percent. bush did take the lead in another poll question, but not a good one: which candidate would voters definitely not support? bush came in first at 25 percent followed by gov. chris christie, r-n.j., at 20 percent. others joining bush and christie in 5-percent-or-less club: former texas gov. rick perry, former pennsylvania sen. rick santorum, ohio gov. john kasich, and former tech ceo carly fiorina. [a washington post write up of the recent nyt/cbs news and wsj/nbc news polls shows that even though bush is not the resounding favorite he is gaining ground with primary voters.] sixteeners split on gop budget vote - the three declared republican presidential candidates in the senate were divided in casting their ballots on the gop budget plan tuesday. sen. ted cruz, r-texas, and sen. rand paul, r-ky., voted against the measure, while sen. marco rubio, r-fla., voted yea. <u+00a0>the 10-year non-binding blueprint passed 51-48 and will serve as a starting point for spending bills later this year. perry flips on ex-im bank - former texas gov. rick perry details in this wsj op-ed how he came to change his mind on ex-import bank, and why he thinks there are other ways to create jobs. he writes, <u+201c>next month, the bank comes up for reauthorization again<u+2014>but this time i can<u+2019>t get on board. i have been deeply disturbed by recent revelations of corruption and bribery at the institution.<u+201d> [starting may 16 perry heads to iowa for a series of nine events over the course of four days.] heading home - ben carson attends a private event today in baltimore, says his campaign press secretary. download that, dude - facing ridicule for leaving the <u+201c>.org<u+201d> version of her open to a cyber-squatter, former tech ceo carly fiorina turned the tables on <u+201c>late night<u+201d> host seth myers when she announced she had bought sethmyers.org. it cost the her a whopping $16. watch their exchange here. snyder says he sees an opening - wsj: <u+201c>michigan gov.<u+00a0>rick snyder<u+00a0>said tuesday that he sees an opening for a presidential candidate with his track record, though it likely will be weeks until he announces whether he<u+2019>ll join the race for the gop nomination. in an interview on the sidelines of a job conference here, mr. snyder said while he is focused on <u+2018>telling the michigan story,<u+2019> he is <u+2018>watching who is in the candidate race, because we need a problem-solver in washington<u+2019><u+2026>he said he was <u+201c>watching the process, and i think you<u+2019>ll find most of the candidates coming out by the june-july time-frame.<u+2019><u+201d> high expectations this time for huckabee in iowa des moines register: <u+201c>if he wants to win iowa again, however, gop activists said huckabee will have to adapt to higher expectations than he faced as a relative unknown ahead of his 2008 iowa caucuses victory. he will also have to outlast a crowded field of candidates looking for a chunk of the conservative bloc that carried him to victory in 2008...a former iowa legislator, recalls struggling to get a dozen people to show up to see huckabee at a diner in 2007. this year, a pre-campaign stop by huckabee at a sioux city restaurant in march drew nearly 70.<u+201d> chuck norris fact: he still supports huckabee - roundhouse kick enthusiast<u+00a0> chuck norris, told nyt tuesday that he believes huckabee is, <u+2018>the most qualified,<u+2019> candidate. norris avidly supported huckabee in the 2008 cycle. [on his <u+201c>factories, farms & freedom<u+201d> swing through iowa huckabee visits with employees of clow valve, and hosts a rally in urbandale, ia.] <u+201c><u+2026>bill clinton was governor for 12 years<u+2026>when i came into office, first as lieutenant governor, then as governor, every agency was populated with the people he had hired and appointed<u+2026>my door was nailed shut as lieutenant governor<u+2026>it was literally nailed shut. i couldn't get in for 59 days.<u+201d> <u+2013> former gov. mike huckabee, r-ark., on <u+201c>the kelly file<u+201d> gop keeps staten island seat house after grimm disgrace the hill: <u+201c>staten island district attorney daniel donovan (r) easily defeated democratic city councilman vincent gentile in the special election to replace disgraced former rep. michael grimm (r-n.y.) on tuesday night.<u+201d> bibi in a jam after ally defects to opposition ap: <u+201c>with the clock ticking, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu raced to put together a governing coalition tuesday or face the prospect of being forced out of office by a former ally. netanyahu<u+2019>s likud party won march 17 elections, emerging as the largest single party in parliament. but he has had a tough time striking deals with other parties to secure a 61-seat majority in the 120-seat parliament. if he fails by the end of the day wednesday, president reuven rivlin must give someone else the job.<u+201d> down to the wire in u.k. - sky news: <u+201c>overnight polls into the final day of campaigning suggest neither of the two main parties have managed to break the deadlock, with the race remaining neck and neck. one poll suggests the tories have sneaked a 3% lead over labour - with ukip enjoying its highest vote share since january.<u+201d> good dog, indeed there have already been 41 american police officers killed in the line of duty this year, but lt. eric eslary<u+2019>s story may bring that statistic into more tangible terms for you. r.i.p., lieutenant. ap: <u+201c>a western pennsylvania police officer and father of six was killed in a head-on crash with a work van that was traveling the wrong way, police said. lt. eric eslary's patrol suv collided with the van about 2 a.m. on u.s. route 30 in ligonier, about 50 miles east of pittsburgh. eslary was a 17-year veteran of the ligonier township police department and often worked the overnight shift with his k-9 partner blek, a german shepherd. blek was also injured in the crash and had to be coaxed away from his partner<u+2019>s body by eslary<u+2019>s wife, who came to the scene. the dog had refused to leave eslary<u+2019>s side, township police chief michael matrunics said.<u+201d> and now a word from charles<u+2026> <u+201c>the other thing that strikes me is, where is [hillary clinton]? first they put out their stooges to go out and defend them. then their daughter, then the husband and she<u+2019>s sort of hiding in the bunker<u+2026>the numbers in the wall street journal poll are very telling. democrats are hanging on to hillary...they are all in either because they believe in her or they know that they've got no choice.<u+201d><u+00a0><u+2013> charles krauthammer<u+00a0>on <u+201c>special report with bret baier.<u+201d> watch here. chris stirewalt<u+00a0>is digital politics editor for fox news.<u+00a0> want fox news first in your inbox every day? sign up here chris stirewalt joined fox news channel (fnc) in july of 2010 and serves as digital politics editor based in washington, d.c. <u+00a0>additionally, he authors the daily "fox news first" political news note and hosts "power play," a feature video series, on foxnews.com. stirewalt makes frequent appearances on the network, including "the kelly file," "special report with bret baier," and "fox news sunday with chris wallace." <u+00a0>he also provides expert political analysis for fox news coverage of state, congressional and presidential elections.

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a russian aircraft carrying 217 passengers and seven crew members has crashed in egypt's sinai peninsula, according to egyptian authorities. the airbus a321 lost contact with both egyptian and russian officials after it took off from sharm el-sheikh, egypt, on a flight to st. petersburg, russia. the russian aviation agency says the airliner was a charter flight carrying tourists back from a popular russian vacation spot, npr's corey flintoff tells our newscast unit. the plane was operated by metrojet, a small airline formerly called kolavia. there were no survivors, both egyptian and russian officials say. investigators are working to determine what caused the crash. the ap reports that during the brief flight, the airliner's pilot reported technical difficulties and said he wanted to make an emergency landing. we'll update this post as new information becomes available. update at 2:25 p.m. et: russia denies group's claim for credit russian transport minister maksim sokolov, who is now on a flight to egypt along with several other high-ranking officials, says that reports that the russian airliner "was hit by terrorists in egypt cannot be considered reliable," russia's interfax news agency reports. that statement came after the isis affiliate in the sinai put out a statement claiming responsibility for the crash. experts on the group have told npr's alice fordham that they're skeptical of such claims, adding that the group provided neither proof nor details about how they might have downed the aircraft. with the cause of the crash under investigation, both air france and lufthansa say their planes will avoid flying over the sinai peninsula, as a precaution, the ap reports. interfax also reports that the loved ones of those on board the metrojet flight will receive financial compensation, citing the ingosstrakh insurance company's pledge of a benefit worth at least 2 million rubles (around $31,226) for each passenger. in addition, the labor ministry says the families of those on board will each receive 1 million rubles (around 15,613). russian investigators searched the airline's offices, to confiscate any documents related to the plane that crashed, interfax says. update at 8:18 a.m. et: black box found; many bodies recovered at least 100 bodies have been recovered from the scene of the crash, according to russia's tass agency, which adds that at least one black box flight recorder has also been found. the state news outlet adds that the passengers included 138 women, 17 children, and 63 men. "i now see a tragic scene," an egyptian security officer tells reuters in a phone call. "a lot of dead on the ground and many who died whilst strapped to their seats. "the plane split into two, a small part on the tail end that burned and a larger part that crashed into a rock. we have extracted at least 100 bodies and the rest are still inside." the officer adds, "we are hearing a lot of telephones ringing, most likely belonging to the victims, and security forces are collecting them and putting them into a bag." a look at the plane's flight data on the flight radar site shows that after taking off from the red sea resort, it quickly gained speed and altitude after takeoff. but moments after it topped 400 knots and 33,000 feet, the airliner's speed abruptly fell to just 93 knots, with an altitude of 28,375 feet, according to the flight radar data. the flight tracker data shows the airliner's flight lasted only about 20 minutes, halting when the plane was northeast of the town of nekhel, in the central sinai region. corey also notes that as the story developed early saturday, conflicting reports emerged about the plane's crash site. some russian media outlets, he said, initially reported that the authorities lost contact with the aircraft over cyprus. russia's president vladimir putin has declared a national day of mourning for nov. 1, ordering flags to fly at half-mast. earlier, putin sent his condolences to the families of those aboard the plane, directed russia's emergency agencies to assist at the crash site, and formed a commission to investigate the crash. egypt's president abdel fattah el sisi issued a statement offering "sincere condolences to the leadership, government and people of russia as well as the families of the victims of the russian plane crash that took place near al-hasana city in sinai."

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in the time since justice antonin scalia<u+2019>s passing on saturday, the hard-working folks at the monkey cage have already done some yeoman work, offering up five separate posts about the politics of it. the volokh conspiracy, not to be outdone, has 10<u+00a0>posts up on the topic. with apologies to all of them, their takeaway<u+00a0>message is: i don<u+2019>t disagree with a single thing that mike bailey wrote at the monkey cage or that scotusblog<u+2019>s tom goldstein wrote about how to game out the strategies of both obama and republican<u+00a0>senators. it all makes sense. it<u+2019>s all very savvy and very political. [supreme court nomination process sure to be an epic debate] reading through them, however, there was just one small, teeny, tiny detail that kept nagging at me: no matter how this plays out, the supreme court loses. the hard-working staff here at spoiler alerts has been banging on periodically about the erosion of trust in american political institutions. the supreme court has not been immune to that trend. here<u+2019>s the general social survey data: to be fair, the supreme court is still more widely respected than either congress or president obama. but if you think about it, that<u+2019>s a really low bar. the sources of this decline are likely myriad, but a big part of it is that the court is increasingly viewed through a partisan lens, and no partisan has liked the roberts court in recent years. indeed, the combination of divided government and political polarization forced the supreme court into a more overtly political role, thereby guaranteeing it would serve as a wedge issue going forward. democrats<u+00a0>didn<u+2019>t love this court because republicans appointed a majority of the justices, leading to rulings like citizens united and heller. republicans didn<u+2019>t love this court because its rulings on gay marriage and obamacare shifting the political status quo to the left. we<u+2019>re at the point in this country where partisanship is now the last socially approved form of discrimination. as paul waldman noted over at the plum line, the trend on senate confirmation votes of supreme court justices sustains this point: [clarence thomas excepted], through the clinton administration, justices got near-unanimous votes. then things changed starting with the george w. bush administration. while democrats did their best to find some dirt on john roberts and samuel alito and republicans did the same to sonia sotomayor and elena kagan, none of it amounted to much of anything. yet in all those cases, most of the opposition party voted against the nominee. and it<u+2019>s likely to get even worse. the gop senate caucus<u+2019>s<u+00a0>immediate reaction to scalia<u+2019>s passing is simply the latest iteration of this dynamic. whether due merely to partisan sorting or true ideological polarization, the erosion of trust in the supreme court<u+00a0>reflects decades-long trends, so the flapdoodles and argle-bargle of the past few days were probably inevitable. but as dara lind noted over at vox, it<u+2019>s a shame that political leaders haven<u+2019>t focused a wee bit more on one of scalia<u+2019>s more gracious attributes. scalia was clearly able to separate the political from the personal. his close friendship with ruth bader ginsburg, the ralph to his sam, attests to that. as lind concludes: i get why this seat is such a high-stakes political battle for everyone involved. politics ain<u+2019>t beanbag. but the battle that is about to ensue over scalia<u+2019>s seat is going to be nasty. it<u+2019>s part of a secular trend that will only further<u+00a0>the erosion of public trust in the supreme court. and that<u+2019>s the bigger problem with how this will play out.

regardless of who wins the confirmation battle, the big loser is the supreme court

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austin, texas, may 15 (reuters) - republican-backed legislation to put new blockades on same-sex marriage in texas died in the statehouse on friday after failing to win approval by a midnight deadline amid stalling tactics by the democratic minority. the bill, called the "preservation of sovereignty and marriage act," would block clerk's offices in the state's 254 counties from using tax money to issue licenses for same-sex weddings. socially conservative backers have said the measure allows the state to exert its rights regarding marriage. the bill's demise comes as the u.s. supreme court is expected to decide next month whether same-sex marriage will be legal nationwide. about a decade ago, voters in the largely conservative state overwhelmingly approved a texas constitutional amendment that only allows marriage between a man and a woman. state republican leaders have said they will fight to enforce the ban on same-sex marriage. the bi-annual texas legislative session ends in about two weeks. all bills, except the budget, that did not pass in the texas house of representatives before friday are not allowed to proceed. before gay marriage became legal in the liberal northeastern state of massachusetts in 2004, it was not permitted in any state. now it is legal in 37 states and washington. (reporting by jon herskovitz; editing by susan heavey)

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authorities said in court papers friday that the brutal killings of the savopoulos family in northwest washington probably involved a conspiracy of more than one person taking the victims captive and waiting more than 19 hours for a $40,000 ransom before killing them and setting fire to their multimillion-dollar home. savvas savopoulos, 46, his wife, amy, 47, and their housekeeper, veralicia figueroa, 57, were beaten and stabbed, according to the court papers <u+2014> the arrest warrant affidavit written by police. the couple<u+2019>s 10-year-old son, philip, was found dead on a charred queen-size mattress in his bedroom. he had been beaten, stabbed and burned, police said in the document, and his room and others in the house were doused with gasoline. the new details came as the first suspect identified in the slayings made his initial appearance in d.c. superior court. daron dylon wint, 34, was arrested thursday night after a two-day manhunt and charged with first-degree murder while armed. police said in the affidavit that the elaborate crime probably <u+201c>required the presence and assistance of more than one person.<u+201d> the document also says that police think <u+201c>all four decedents were held captive by mr. wint and others.<u+201d> police did not elaborate, but they have said other suspects have not been ruled out. wint was captured in northeast washington after a task force of federal marshals and police tracked him to new york and back to the district over two days. wint so far is charged only in the death of the family patriarch, a wealthy socialite and business executive who ran american iron works, a large supplier of iron and steel to construction projects. officials said additional charges are likely in the deaths of the wife, son and housekeeper. wint appeared in court with his wrists and ankles shackled, escorted by three marshals. he said only his name at the hearing. at times, he shook his shoulder-length dreads out of his eyes. his attorney, natalie lawson of the public defender service, said in court that the case was <u+201c>based on speculation and guesswork.<u+201d> she added: <u+201c>he is innocent. there is no link to the killings or the death of the decedent. there is nothing linking him to these deaths.<u+201d> magistrate judge errol r. arthur ordered wint held until his next court appearance june<u+00a0>23, saying there was <u+201c>a lot of circumstantial evidence here, but it all points to the defendant.<u+201d> the savopoulos family on friday thanked law enforcement for the arrest. <u+201c>while it does not abate our pain, we hope that it begins to restore a sense of calm and security to our neighborhood and to our city,<u+201d> they said in a statement issued by a family spokeswoman. the police affidavit filed in court friday offers new details about how the family and figueroa were held and killed in the three-story home on woodland drive nw, near the vice president<u+2019>s mansion. police have said that wint once worked for savopoulos<u+2019>s american iron works firm in hyattsville, md., but have not offered a motive. d.c. police chief cathy l. lanier has assured residents that the family was targeted and the crime was not random. assistant u.s. attorney emily miller said wint<u+2019>s dna was found on discarded pizza left in the room where the three adults were found dead. she said police found a fingerprint on a water bottle at the house, and that prosecutors were seeking to compare it with wint<u+2019>s fingerprints. police also have been examining confusing and mysterious text messages sent among the savopouloses and another housekeeper, whom they repeatedly told to stay away from the home. they also investigated the actions of savopoulos<u+2019>s assistant, who delivered the $40,000 to the house may<u+00a0>14 in the moments before the killings. [the housekeeper who died, veralicia figueroa, wanted to return to el salvador. ] in the affidavit, police said the assistant told detectives that savopoulos called him on the morning of may 14 and told him to go to the iron company, pick up a package and deliver it to the d.c. house. the assistant told police two versions of how he obtained the package <u+2014> a red bag filled with $40,000 that had been withdrawn by other iron works employees from one of the company<u+2019>s accounts at bank of america. the assistant said savopoulos instructed him to take the money from the red bag and put it in a manila envelope, then place it inside a red car parked in the garage at the family home. the assistant then texted another person a photo of a red bag with what appeared to be two bundles of money wrapped in white bands. authorities declined to comment on the assistant<u+2019>s text or say who received it. the arrest affidavit says matter-of-factly that <u+201c>after the money was delivered, the four decedents were killed.<u+201d> police said wint took the family<u+2019>s blue porsche, which was found later that day burned in a church parking lot in prince george<u+2019>s county, two miles from wint<u+2019>s parents<u+2019> home. wint<u+2019>s capture was precipitated by the pizza the family ordered during the ordeal. the affidavit says amy savopoulos ordered two pizzas from a tenleytown domino<u+2019>s at 9:14<u+00a0>p.m. may<u+00a0>13 and instructed the driver to leave the boxes on the front porch, ring the bell and leave, saying she was nursing a sick child. the delivery person reported seeing the house completely dark, except for the porch light. police said they found two domino<u+2019>s boxes in the bedroom where the three adults were found. a cheese pizza had not been eaten, but a pepperoni pie had been partially consumed. police used a federal lab to expedite a dna test and said a match came back for wint, who has an arrest and conviction record in maryland. [wint<u+2019>s criminal history includes charges of assault in maryland and new york] u.s. marshals cmdr. robert fernandez, who runs the capital area regional fugitive task force, said his agents were summoned tuesday after d.c. police learned wint<u+2019>s name for the first time. by wednesday, they believed he had fled to brooklyn, where he has family and friends. but a raid on an apartment there later that night turned up empty. <u+201c>he had just left,<u+201d> fernandez said. <u+201c>we barely missed him.<u+201d> fernandez said his team <u+201c>worked through the night,<u+201d> and thursday they learned wint might be back in the washington area, at a howard johnson hotel in college park, md. by that time, d.c. police had released his name and announced a $25,000 reward. but as agents were trying to learn what room he was in, fernandez said a surveillance team noticed wint leaving in one of two vehicles that pulled out of the parking lot shortly before 11<u+00a0>p.m. police followed a box truck and a white chevrolet cruze sedan heading toward the district. <u+201c>it was obvious they were traveling together,<u+201d> he said. about 25 unmarked police cars and a helicopter from prince george<u+2019>s county <u+2014> tracking the vehicles with a thermal-imaging camera <u+2014> followed them into the district. near rhode island avenue and 10th street ne, fernandez said an unmarked police car got between the truck and the sedan, and other cars pinned them. officers, some armed with semiautomatic weapons, detained five people from both vehicles. fernandez said wint was in the back seat of the sedan, which had a female driver and passenger. he said two men were in the truck. they were seated on a curb and handcuffed. <u+201c>they had no idea they were being followed,<u+201d> he said. authorities said they found $10,000 in the truck; fernandez said he saw money stuffed into the side door. court documents say authorities found money orders exceeding $10,000 and a large stack of $100 bills, the same denomination delivered to savopoulos in the $40,000 delivery. d.c. police said only that wint was arrested. a spokesman said none of the others were charged with crimes, but offered no explanation. wint said everyone in the vehicles surrendered without incident. <u+201c>they were in the face of overwhelming odds and force,<u+201d> he said. lynh bui and clarence williams contributed to this report

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the federal reserve lowered its economic outlook wednesday after a harsh winter chilled the u.s economy's growth, reducing the odds for an initial interest rate hike as soon as the fed's june meeting. in a statement after a two-day meeting the fed gave no clear signal of when it plans to raise its benchmark interest rate for the first time since 2006 but policymakers have indicated they expect to act this year. the fed statement was released at 2 p.m. et. as of 2:55 p.m. et, the dow jones industrial average was down about 55 points, or 0.3%, to 18,056 and the standard & poor's 500 index dropped 5 points, or 0.3%, to 2110. the nasdaq composite was down 17 points, or 0.3%, to 5038. yields on 10-year government bonds sprang above 2%. the fed said economic growth "slowed during the winter months, in part reflecting transitory factors." unusually cold weather, for example, hindered economic activity. the fed said it expects the economy to rebound and grow at a moderate pace in coming months. with that optimistic view, the fed didn't rule out a june rate increase, as it virtually foreclosed the chances of an april hike in its statement last month. still, its assertion that temporary factors were only part of the reason for last quarter's slowdown suggests the central bank may want to hold off a few months before hoisting the target range for its federal funds rate, which has been near zero since the 2008 financial crisis. while a june rate increase "does not look very likely," it "remains an option if the data suddenly turn much stronger than expected," jim o'sullivan, chief u.s. economist of high frequency economics, wrote in a note to clients. paul ashworth of capital economics said "it would take something quite spectacular to convince fed officials to raise rates in june." the fed's statement noted that job growth "moderated" and household spending declined in recent weeks, though inflation-adjusted incomes "rose strongly, partly reflecting earlier declines in energy prices." business investment, however, "softened" and exports declined, the statement said. the fed added that inflation continued to run below the fed's target, "partly reflecting earlier declines in energy prices and decreasing prices of non-energy imports." fed policymakers said they expect inflation "to rise gradually toward 2% over the medium-term as the labor market improves further and the transitory effects" of low energy and import prices dissipate. a strong dollar has hurt manufacturers' exports and the plunge in oil prices has led energy companies to slash investment. the government said wednesday morning that the economy grew just 0.2% at an annual rate in the first quarter, down from 2.2% in the october-december period and below the modest 1% pace expected by economists. meanwhile, inflation remains well below the fed's annual 2% target, with the government reporting that the fed's preferred measure, which excludes food and energy costs, rose 0.9% last quarter. that's the smallest increase since 2010. and employers added just 126,000 jobs in march, compared to average monthly gains of 269,000 the prior 12 months. the fed reiterated wednesday that it will bump up its federal funds rate "when it has seen further improvement in the labor market and is reasonably confident that inflation will move back" to the fed's 2% target "over the medium-term." the central bank has kept its benchmark interest rate near zero since the 2008 financial crisis, but with the economic recovery now almost six years old, the central bank has been preparing financial markets and consumers for a return to normal interest rate policy. last month, the fed dropped a pledge to be patient as it considers boosting the rate, signaling that it could make the move as early as june. many economists say the fed is unlikely to act until september at the earliest so it can assess whether the economy is regaining the momentum it had built last year. that timetable is consistent with fed policymakers' median forecast in march as well as with recent speeches by fed policymakers, including fed chair janet yellen.

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seattle <u+2014> police say black-clad may day marchers hurled wrenches and rocks at officers and hit police with sticks as a friday night march through a seattle neighborhood turned violent and injured three officers. "this is no longer demonstration management, this has turned into a riot," seattle police captain chris fowler tweeted. police responded with pepper spray and pepper balls, eventually arresting 15 people. protesters damaged several dozen vehicles, officers said. "it became violent and destructive and we had to make a move," seattle police chief kathleen o'toole said during a joint press conference with mayor ed murray. "i think (officers) were very professional about how they handled the situation." the march was just one of several may day demonstrations done to support workers rights and other causes in seattle on friday. others were peaceful, including a black lives matter march and an immigrant and workers' rights event, organized by the group el comite. she said the department will do a comprehensive review to make sure the use of force was appropriate. she wouldn't go into details about the officers' injuries, but said one had a burn injury and another had an orthopedic injury. they are all "conscious and in good spirits," she said. bicycle officers shadowed the marchers <u+2014> who changed directions often through capitol hill <u+2014> keeping them off interstate 5 and away from downtown. police in riot gear eventually hemmed them in at the plaza at seattle central college. "we're all here for one reason and that's to unify the people," said jessica ramirez, who was one of thousands who marched through downtown seattle. for university of washington student diana betancourt, the day takes on a deep meaning. "at the age of five, my mom, two sisters and i came here, we crossed through the arizona desert with no money, no food, in search of a better life, a better future," she said. "now i am here, a second year (student) at the university of washington, my whole tuition paid up, making my dream come true." she said she can't vote and is technically a "legal alien." "it was a shameful thing that you have to grow up with, not being able to tell other people this identity of you, you have to keep it inside," betancourt said. "we're forced to keep it a secret. you don't know who to trust. you don't know who's going to help you and who's going to report you." once the crowds made it to the federal courthouse in downtown, people came to the stage to discuss workers' and immigrant rights. some speakers focused on how deportation breaks up families. "seattle, everybody <u+2014> i am so proud to see you all here, but we've got to keep the fight," said jorge baron of the northwest immigrant rights project. "we've got to keep the fight. we've got to win. we're on the right side of justice. we are going to win." other discussions turned to baltimore, where state's attorney marilyn mosby filed charges earlier in the morning in the freddie gray case. "an indictment of those six cops is not justice for freddie gray nor is it equity for any of us oppressed people," nikita oliver told the crowd of demonstrators. "i'm humbled by the youth and those in the streets of baltimore. i'm humbled by the people across the nation who have taken to the streets for equity for black folks."

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a state department spokeswoman said friday that the department did not start automatically archiving emails from senior officials until february of this year -- raising questions about hillary clinton's claim that her emails were "immediately" saved whenever she corresponded with colleagues. the former secretary of state made that assertion during her press conference earlier this week -- and in a lengthy statement put out by her office -- as she defended her exclusive use of personal email. clinton downplayed concerns that official emails could have been lost by suggesting anytime she emailed anyone with a ".gov" address, that email would be stored for posterity. "the vast majority of my work emails went to government employees at their government addresses, which meant they were captured and preserved immediately on the system at the state department," she said tuesday. but department spokeswoman jen psaki made clear on friday that this was not the way the system worked. she said the department only started automatically archiving emails for other senior officials in february. "they have long been planning to do this. it's just something that it took some time to put in place," psaki said, adding that they'll "continue to ... take steps forward." before february, these senior officials would have been responsible for flagging their own official records for preservation. and as an inspector general report released earlier this week made clear, that often was not happening. the report said that in 2011, employees created just "61,156 record emails out of more than a billion emails sent." they created even fewer in 2013. the report said some employees aren't preserving emails "because they do not want to make the email available in searches or fear that this availability would inhibit debate about pending decisions." a central part of clinton's argument in downplaying the impact of her personal email use has been that she sent most emails to government colleagues on their ".gov." accounts. the written statement put out by her office said "her work emails were immediately captured and preserved" this way. further, clinton stressed that she cooperated with the department last year in handing over about 55,000 pages of "work-related" email documents from her time as secretary -- her office claimed 90 percent of them already were in the system since they had been sent to ".gov" accounts. but psaki's latest comments would appear to undermine those claims. nate jones, director of the foia project at the washington-based national security archive, told fox news he had doubts about clinton's assertion from the start. "the most important claim she made on tuesday was that emails were captured and preserved in real time. knowing how far government email systems lag behind those everyone else uses, it was extremely doubtful this was actually the case," he said. "the inspector general's report confirmed that just .00006 percent of state department emails were saved, so it's very unlikely the people secretary clinton relied upon to save her records did. "today's disclosure by spokesperson psaki confirms that the vast majority of her emails were not saved at all." clinton also revealed earlier this week that while more than 30,000 emails were provided to the department, nearly 32,000 were deemed by her as "private, personal" records that she did not keep. she also said her personal server would remain private.

state department challenges clinton claim that emails to officials <u+2018>immediately<u+2019> saved

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developing: isis has claimed credit for tuesday morning<u+2019>s rush-hour attacks in brussels, which left at least 31 dead and more than 180 injured. as many as 31 people were killed and more than 180 injured as coordinated terrorist bombings rocked the brussels airport and subway system during rush hour tuesday morning in the belgian capital. two bombings at zaventem airport, where 11 people were reportedly killed, and another at the metro station in the maelbeek section near the european union headquarters, where the mayor's office said 20 were killed, were almost immediately confirmed as terrorism. the attack at the airport was reportedly accompanied by shouts in arabic and gunfire, and an unexploded suicide belt was reportedly found in the aftermath. "what we feared has happened, we were hit by blind attacks," said belgian prime minister charles michel. "we are at war,<u+201d> french prime minister manuel valls said tuesday. <u+201c>we have been subjected for the last few months in europe to acts of war." the attacks, which belgian authorities said were suicide bombings, came four days after the main suspect in the november paris attacks was arrested in brussels, and even as brussels was braced for new attacks. a source told fox news that a credible isis social media account posted the message, <u+201c>mosul revenge for the kuffar capital brussels,<u+201d> but it was not definitive that the terror group was behind the attacks. the first two explosions rocked the departure hall at the brussels airport shortly after 8 a.m. local time. early reports placed the number of dead at 13, with as many as 81 wounded, although the death toll was later revised downward to 11. witnesses told the associated press that one occurred at an american airlines counter and the other near a starbucks cafe. american airlines said in a statement that none of its employees were among the dead or injured and later tweeted from its verified account that the blast did not occur at its check-in row. <u+201c>there were two explosions in the departure area, one probably caused by a suicide bomber," said belgian federal prosecutor frederic van leeuw of the attack on the airport. one of the airport bombs may have been in a suitcase, a u.s. official told the associated press, and local tv reported that it may have been loaded with nails. <u+201c>first there was one explosion. everyone started to run and panic broke out. then a second explosion was heard,<u+201d> one witness told the brussels times about the airport explosion. zach mouzoun, who arrived on a flight from geneva about 10 minutes before the first blast, told bfm television that the second, louder explosion brought down ceilings and ruptured pipes, mixing water with blood from victims. "it was atrocious. the ceilings collapsed," he said. "there was blood everywhere, injured people, bags everywhere." "we were walking in the debris. it was a war scene," he said. marie-odile lognard, a traveler who was lining up in the departures hall for a flight to abu dhabi, told bfm television that people panicked after the first explosion about 65 feet from her and that a second explosion about 15 seconds later caused parts of the ceiling to collapse. "i knew it was an explosion because i've been around explosions before," said denise brandt, an american woman interviewed by sky television. "i felt the explosion, the way it feels through your body. and we just looked at each other and i said 'let's go this way.' it was over there. there was just this instinct to get away from it. then we saw people running, crying, toward us. so i knew we were going in the right direction and away from it. " amateur video shown on france's i-tele television showed passengers -- including a child -- running with a backpack dashing out of the terminal in different directions as they tugged luggage. belgian news channel rtbf reports a kalashnikov rifle was found in the departure hall at the airport. marc noel, 63, was about to board a delta flight to atlanta, to return to his home in raleigh, n.c. a belgium native, noel says he was in an airport shop buying automobile magazines when the first explosion occurred about 50 yards away. "people were crying, shouting, children. it was a horrible experience," he told ap. he said his decision to buy the magazines might have saved his life. "i don't want to think about it, but i would probably have been in that place when the bomb went off." three mormon missionaires, identified by the church as richard norby, 66; joseph empey, 20, and mason wells, 19, all of utah, were the only americans known to have been injured in the airport attack. moments later at the metro station, another explosion was reported on a train that was stopped at the maelbeek subway station, not far from the headquarters of the european union. ian mccafferty told the irish times he was just getting off the metro at the stop before maelbeek around 8:20 a.m. when he heard a <u+201c>loud muffled thud<u+201d> but, because of construction at the metro, he <u+201c>didn<u+2019>t really think much of it. <u+201c>there was a large military presence and mass confusion,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>people started to run. some people were crying. the two stations are only a stone<u+2019>s throw apart. we were the last train through the station before the blast.<u+201d> rescue workers set up a makeshift treatment center in a local pub near the train station. dazed and shocked morning travelers streamed from the metro entrances as police tried to set up a security cordon. brussels mayor yvan majeur put the number of dead at the train station at 20, with more than 100 more injured. alexandre brans, 32, who was wiping blood from his face, said: "the metro was leaving maelbeek station when there was a really loud explosion. it was panic everywhere. there were a lot of people in the metro." first responders ran through the street outside with two people on stretchers, their clothes badly torn. the bombings in the european union capital are certain to add new fire to the raging debate over refugees from muslim nations where terrorist groups are active. europe has taken in more than a million refugees, and terror groups including isis have said they are infiltrating the wave of migrants. after his arrest on friday, salah abdeslam, who is suspected of taking part in the nov. 13 paris attack that killed 130 people, told authorities he had created a new network and was planning new attacks. after abdeslam's arrest and before tuesday's attacks, authorities were frantically hunting a suspect identified as 24-year-old najim laachraoui, who allegedly traveled to hungary with abdeslam before the paris attack on nov. 13. it was unclear whether<u+00a0>laachraoui played any role in tuesday's bombings, but prosecutors say<u+00a0>laachraoui played a key role in recruiting attackers for isis. u.s. authorities were monitoring the situation, poised to assist in the investigation. a u.s. counter-terrorism source told fox news the priority for investigators is identifying the suicide bomber or bombers through dna because they cannot operate in isolation, and identifying them can lead to the broader network. speaking havana, president obama mentioned the attacks before giving prepared comments on the thawing relationship between the u.s. and cuba. obama called the attacks <u+201c>outrageous,<u+201d> and pledged that the thoughts and prayers of americans are with the belgian people. <u+201c>this is yet another reminder that the world must unite, we must be together, regardless of nationality or race or faith, in fighting the scourge of terrorism,<u+201d> said obama, who had also spoken to michel by phone. belgium's interior minister announced that the terror threat was being raised to its maximum level. all flights were canceled and arriving planes and trains were diverted. authorities told people in brussels to stay where they were, bringing the city to a standstill. airport security was also tightened in paris, london and other european cities. flights due to land at zaventem, which handles 21 million passengers a year, were sent to antwerp, liege, and brussels charleroi airports. french president francois hollande said "terrorists struck brussels but it was europe that was targeted -- and all the world that is concerned," adding that "this war will be long." paris announced it would light the eiffel tower in the colors of the belgian flag, and security around france's nuclear plants was reportedly increased, though no specific threat was cited. fox news' catherine herridge and matthew dean contributed to this report.

isis claims credit for terror attacks at brussels airport, metro station

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president barack obama on sunday encouraged parents to vaccinate their children and said the u.s. is doing everything in its power to rescue a 26-year-old woman held by the islamic state, speaking in a wide-ranging interview also covering football and politics. obama's comments to nbc came as the u.s. grapples with a measles outbreak traced back to california's disneyland theme park and a day after the release of video that purportedly showed the beheading of a japanese journalist held by the militants. obama says he has watched videos of hostages being beheaded. "i think it would affect anybody who has an ounce of humanity. and it's part of the reason why i think we've been so successful in organizing such a broad-based coalition" to go after the islamic state, obama said. three americans <u+2014> aid worker peter kassig and journalists james foley and steven sotloff <u+2014> were beheaded last year by the islamic state. a fourth american being held is a woman captured last year in syria while working for aid groups. u.s. officials have asked that she not be identified out of fears for her safety. "obviously this is something that is heart-breaking for the family and we want to make sure we do anything we can to make sure that any american citizen is rescued from this situation," obama said. on the measles outbreak that has spread to more than 100 people, obama said children who are not vaccinated are putting infants and other people who can't get vaccinations at risk. "you should get your kids vaccinated," obama said directly. some parents continue to believe debunked research linking vaccines to autism and refuse to vaccinate their children. "i understand that there are families that, in some cases, are concerned about the effect of vaccinations," obama said. "the science is, you know, pretty indisputable." obama spoke to nbc's savannah guthrie before hosting a super bowl party at the white house for his friends. his comments on terrorism and vaccinations were taped to air on the today show monday, but nbc released excerpts in advance. lighter topics were covered in a short segment that aired live in the pregame show. as guthrie and obama sampled white house-brewed beer from the executive mansion's kitchen, they mixed a discussion of the game's high-profile controversy <u+2014> deflated footballs <u+2014> with a brief discussion of politics. but the president ducked picking between possible 2016 democratic presidential contenders joe biden and hillary rodham clinton. "love 'em both," obama said with a smile. he also wouldn't pick a favorite in the new england patriots super bowl match-up against the seattle seahawks. "i think it's always wise for me not to choose a team because then i just alienate one big city," obama said. as the nfl investigates how the patriots used the deflated balls in their 45-7 afc championship victory, obama said the team would have defeated the indianapolis colts "regardless of what the footballs looked like." "the one thing i did not realize <u+2014> and i'll bet most fans didn't <u+2014> was that each team prepares its own footballs and brings them to the game," obama said. "i don't think there's any other sport like that so i'm assuming one of the things the nfl is going to be doing just to avoid any of these controversies is figuring out how the officials are in charge of the footballs from start to finish." pressed on whether the patriots were cheating, obama said: "i think that if you break the rules then you break the rules." the president rejected the idea he was doing his own end zone dance with a defiant state of the union address after democrats lost seats in the midterm election. "my job is not to trim my sails," obama said, confidently arguing for his ability to win over even some of his political rivals. he spoke on the eve of his presentation of a budget to congress, where his proposals are certain to get a rough reception from the republican majority. "one thing i've learned over the last six years is that when i tell the american people very clearly what direction i think the country should go in, sometimes people change their minds," obama said. "and even republicans occasionally start agreeing with me, although sometimes a little bit later than i would like."

obama addresses vaccinations, other issues in nbc interview

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washington <u+2013>- hillary clinton<u+2019>s presidential campaign on wednesday announced a massive fundraising haul in the quarter that ended on june 30, further cementing her status as the clear front-runner in the 2016 race. all told, the democratic candidate and former secretary of state raised more than $45 million in primary campaign contributions between her campaign announcement in april and the end of june. that figure, according to a clinton aide, is the most that any candidate has ever raised in their opening quarter, topping president barack obama's roughly $42 million in the first quarter of 2011. clinton's haul would also shatter the previous record for an opening fundraising total by a non-incumbent presidential candidate, which she herself set in the first quarter of 2007. to set that record, she raised $26 million in the first three months of her first presidential campaign while transferring an additional $10 million from her senate campaign account. at the time, obama trailed closely behind with $25 million. the clinton campaign will also report that 91 percent of the donations it received were $100 or less in value. however, the clinton aide did not have a total for how many individual donors gave to the campaign.

hillary clinton raised $45 million in latest quarter

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what the west really needs to take on the islamic state is ... a jobs program. that's what a top state department spokeswoman suggested when asked in a tv interview monday night about what the u.s.-led coalition is doing to stop the slaughter of civilians by islamic state militants across the region. "we're killing a lot of them, and we're going to keep killing more of them. ... but we cannot win this war by killing them," department spokeswoman marie harf said on msnbc's "hardball." "we need ... to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it's lack of opportunity for jobs, whether --" at that point, harf was interrupted by host chris matthews, who pointed out, "there's always going to be poor people. there's always going to be poor muslims." harf continued to argue that the u.s. should work with other countries to "help improve their governance" and "help them build their economies so they can have job opportunities for these people." she acknowledged there's "no easy solution" and said the u.s. would still take out isis leaders. but harf said: "if we can help countries work at the root causes of this -- what makes these 17-year-old kids pick up an ak-47 instead of trying to start a business?" asked about harf's remarks on tuesday, state department spokeswoman jen psaki said harf was only making the point that fighting isis entails more than just a military solution. the comments come as the obama administration takes heat from lawmakers for its approach to the islamic state, whose self-proclaimed fighters in libya recently executed 21 coptic christians from egypt. the white house on tuesday kicked off a three-day summit on "countering violent extremism." it began with vice president biden moderating a discussion on countering extremism with representatives from cities. this, though, follows a pattern of conferences and summits called by the administration to address urgent challenges. the administration is facing criticism for this approach -- and for describing the summit in general terms -- at a time when islamic state militants are spreading, recruiting and executing prisoners from multiple countries in increasingly brutal ways. "the white house had to seem like it was doing something," said jonah goldberg, a national review editor and conservative columnist, while claiming the summit won't achieve much. senior administration officials, though, defended the conference, and their description of it, on a call with reporters. asked whether islamic extremists are in fact the focus of the summit, one official said extremism has spanned "many decades" and taken on "many forms," but they recognize that those launching recent attacks "are calling themselves muslims." "you can call them what you want. we're calling them terrorists," the official said. the new york times reported tuesday that as airstrikes continue in iraq and syria, the administration is boosting efforts to counter isis on social media. the plan centers around a small state department agency that pushes against isis and other groups' online propaganda. "we're getting beaten on volume, so the only way to compete is by aggregating, curating and amplifying existing content," richard stengel, under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, told the times. officials reportedly plan to describe some of their social media strategy at the three-day counter-extremism summit.

state department spokeswoman floats jobs as answer to isis

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(cnn) republicans dreaming of shooing away donald trump may want to think twice. by publicly rebuking the billionaire businessman for his inflammatory comments, the party may convince trump to launch a third-party candidacy. that's a potential nightmare scenario for the gop establishment: a populist outsider with unlimited resources attacking their nominee from the right in the general election, raising hell -- and attracting votes -- with his rhetoric on issues like illegal immigration. ralph nader, who has run for president multiple times as a third-party candidate and may have cost democrat al gore the 2000 election by running to his left, said republicans mishandle trump at their own peril. "the republican party establishment is playing with nitroglycerine when it goes after donald trump and tries to minimize him and exclude him," nader said in an interview thursday. "because a jilted donald trump as a third-party candidate can blow the presidential race wide open and turn it into a three way race." launching a third-party candidacy is no small feat. it is a time-consuming and expensive process riddled with logistical hurdles, including massive signature-gathering requirements to gain ballot access in each of the 50 states. but if it's tedious, it's hardly impossible <u+2014> particularly for a candidate with money to throw around. republicans remember all too well businessman ross perot's independent candidacy for president in 1992. the texan made an appeal to voters looking for an alternative to establishment candidates, and his campaign is widely considered to have complicated george h.w. bush's effort to win reelection against bill clinton. clay mulford, perot's son-in-law and political adviser, said a third-party run from trump has the potential to energize a part of the electorate that's itching for a fresh face. "there is just a sense of ineffectiveness of the two-party system. so i think he would do better than expected if he were in the debates and if he were considered viable," mulford said. "and having money helps." indeed, poll numbers suggest that a third-party candidacy from trump would damage florida gov. jeb bush, a top-tier candidate in the current republican field. democratic frontrunner hillary clinton leads bush, 50% to 44%, in a head-to-head match-up, according to an abc news/washington post poll out this week. but throw an independent trump into that race, and clinton's lead grows significantly to 46%, leaving bush at 30%. "he'd be the one person that would probably fit the bill. he's not really a republican, he's not a democrat," said former u.s. sen. dean barkley of minnesota, who was appointed and served briefly as an independent by gov. jesse ventura. independents "decide the election every four years and if all of them or most of them go to trump, that leaves the republicans too small of a base to have any chance of winning." at a campaign stop in new hampshire thursday, bush made sure to emphasize that he isn't dismissive of trump's candidacy. "i think he's a serious candidate and he's going to have a lot of money. he's tapping into people's angst that are legitimate," bush said. meanwhile, during a visit to the u.s.-mexico border in laredo, texas, thursday, trump said his preference is to run as a republican and he was confident that he could win the party's nomination. but in many ways, a third-party run makes a lot of sense for trump. the former host of the reality tv show "the apprentice" was once a registered a democrat, donated money to members of both parties, and considered running for president in 2000 as an independent. at the very core of his campaign is the idea that he is the anti-politician. trump has never held public office and he loves to point out that thanks to his massive wealth <u+2014> which he claims amounts to more than $10 billion <u+2014> he is not beholden to anyone, including party leadership. this last point has already created massive headaches for the gop. trump sparked furious backlash by referring to some mexican immigrants that enter the united states as "criminals" and "rapists." republicans criticized trump's choice of words as being hurtful and insensitive to the immigrant community, but many chose their words carefully <u+2014> a sign of how delicate of an issue illegal immigration is. for many republicans, trump seemed to cross the line last weekend with his critique of mccain. "i like people that weren't captured, ok?" trump said of the arizona republican senator, who spent more than five years in as a prisoner of war during the vietnam war. the rnc, which remains neutral in the gop nominating process, took the unusual move of speaking out. "there is no place in our party or our country for comments that disparage those who have served honorably," said rnc spokesman sean spicer. the rnc declined to comment for this story. bill hillsman, a political consultant who has worked for a number of independent candidates including in gubernatorial races in massachusetts and texas, said the party's condemnation of trump is likely to have helped fuel trump's unorthodox campaign. "i think the damage is already done to a large extent," hillsman said. "all the people who said well, his campaign is over now and blasted him for some of his previous comments, many of which he's walked back, they already have just pretty much dismissed this guy and the polls are saying otherwise."

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texas sen. ted cruz has made no secret of the fact that he spanks his daughter when she misbehaves. he has also suggested the american people should deliver a <u+201c>spanking<u+201d> to hillary clinton. now, he is prescribing the same discipline for a protester who interrupted him during a rally in indiana on sunday. <u+201c>apparently there<u+2019>s a young man who<u+2019>s having some problems,<u+201d> cruz said as the man yelled: <u+201c>you suck!<u+201d> <u+201c>thank you, son,<u+201d> cruz replied, before adding that he believes <u+201c>children should actually speak with respect.<u+201d> <u+201c>imagine what a different world it would be if someone had told donald trump that years ago,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>you know, in my household, when a child behaves that way, they get a spanking.<u+201d> the exchange comes as cruz and trump are stumping for every last vote heading into to the republican primary in indiana on tuesday. trump leads cruz by roughly 9 percentage points, 42%-32.7%, in the realclearpolitics average of recent hoosier polls. a win there could help solidify trump<u+2019>s claim to the nomination, while dealing cruz a formidable blow.

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it's hard to argue that the existing<u+00a0>deferred action for childhood arrivals program, which has granted protection from deportation to about 600,000 unauthorized immigrants, is an acceptable use of presidential authority, but the new deferred-action program wouldn't be. after all, they both follow the same model: unauthorized immigrants who meet certain requirements will be able to apply for temporary protection, and have to renew that protection every few years. any of the legal criticisms that apply to the new program apply to the existing one as well. but the daca program<u+00a0>wasn't controversial when it was first announced <u+2014> it's only become politically controversial in retrospect, as obama started contemplating (and eventually took) executive action to give relief to a broader set of unauthorized immigrants. so the gop didn't sue obama in 2012, or even in 2014, over the existing program. suing him now over both programs would raise the question of why congress is only now taking legal action over something that's been going on for years, if it really thinks it's such a dire threat to the constitution. that's relevant to the gop's legal case, and it's relevant to the politics of the issue as well <u+2014> since the daca program was pretty broadly popular when it was rolled out. (polls are mixed on the new executive action.<u+00a0>depending on how the question is asked, americans either favor letting obama's actions stand <u+2014> by amargin of 15 percentage points <u+2014> or want it to be blocked, also by a margin of 15 percentage points.)

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on <u+00a0>tuesday, a federal judge ruled that several top aides to hillary clinton during her time at the state department were required to testify under oath about whether exclusively using a private email server while serving as secretary of state amounted to a deliberate attempt to shield information from the public. this is the latest in a series of developments regarding clinton<u+2019>s email server <u+2014> and her decision to exclusively use it during her time as the nation<u+2019>s top diplomat. (clinton is the first and only secretary of state to only use a private server for her correspondence.) almost weekly now, there is some news in one of the three ongoing investigations <u+2014> two at state, one by the fbi <u+2014> into clinton. and the drip, drip, drip effect of these now-regular revelations continues to have a major impact on how clinton is viewed by the voting public. gallup released a fascinating bit of data tuesday that speaks to clinton<u+2019>s trust problem. they asked people to offer up the first word or phrase that came to mind when the name <u+201c>hillary clinton<u+201d> was mentioned. here<u+2019>s what the results of that open-ended question looked like: one in five people <u+2014> unprompted by the poll taker <u+2014> offered up some version of clinton as <u+201c>dishonest<u+201d> or a <u+201c>liar.<u+201d> that's somewhat remarkable given that these open-ended questions typically produce a gigantic muddle of something like 25 words or phrases <u+2014> all of which garner somewhere between 5 and 8 percent support. that 21 percent of people unaided said something about the <u+201c>trust thing<u+201d> in regards to clinton tells you how deeply the impression that she is not fundamentally honest has sunk into the electorate. now, some of this can be directly attributed to the fact that republicans do not like and do not trust the clintons. never have, never will. <u+201c>overall, 77 percent of republicans<u+2019> top-of-mind impressions of clinton are negative, with their most frequent responses focusing on views of her as dishonest and crooked,<u+201d> write gallup<u+2019>s frank newport and lydia saad. but, that<u+2019>s not it. <u+00a0>sure, republicans view clinton negatively. but, as i<u+2019>ve noted time and again, clinton<u+2019>s seeming belief that this whole trust issue surrounding her is simply the result of a right-wing smear job is inaccurate. again, the gallup data: a bare majority <u+2014> 52 percent <u+2014> of democrats have some sort of positive first impression of clinton; one in four (27 percent) have a negative one. the gallup duo are right that impressions about clinton are deeply held <u+2014> particularly among partisans. but that doesn<u+2019>t make the email story immaterial. rather it reminds many people <u+2014> republicans, yes, but also independents and some democrats <u+2014> of what they don<u+2019>t like or trust about the clintons. the longer the email story stays in the news, the more chances to affirm peoples<u+2019><u+00a0>fundamentally negative perception of clinton that she is just not great at telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth. for clinton to escape that negative spiral, she needs some form of complete exoneration in the matter. (worth noting: clinton herself has not been named as a target in any of the trio of investigations.) short of that <u+2014> and if this pattern of drips and drabs of the story coming out continues <u+2014> the trust problem is going to continue to dog clinton all the way through the november general election.

1 in 5 americans say hillary clinton is <u+201c>dishonest<u+201d> or a <u+201c>liar.<u+201d> here<u+2019>s why that<u+2019>s a big problem.

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jindal said monday that common core should "absolutely" be a starting point for a larger debate over the role of the federal government, a move that sets him up to go head-to-head with presumed republican frontrunner former gov. jeb bush, should both decide to run for the gop's presidential nomination. bush supports the increasingly controversial educational standards while jindal, who once supported the program, is now one of the anti-common core movement's most prominent and vocal activists. while he rolled out more specific education reform proposals monday, jindal framed the debate over common core in broader terms in a conversation with reporters monday hosted by the christian science monitor. "i think we'll have a bigger conversation first within the republican party, then with the american people about what's the proper role of the federal government," jindal said, pivoting off of common core. "i do hope that common core will be one more, one more reason for us to have this bigger debate, this bigger conversation about the proper role of the federal government in local education." it's not just common core that would help jindal get toe-to-toe with bush, whose governorship was marked by a strong emphasis on education. bush has also been a strong proponent of his brother's no child left behind act, which jindal is at odds with. jindal's visit monday was his second trip to washington in the last week, both times railing against common core and raising the profile of the issue as the presidential field takes shape and prospective candidates look to identify the top conservative issues. the common core issue already has its roots in the conservative movement and jindal's juxtaposition of the issue with the role of the federal government could boost his appeal with the party base -- one that is skeptical about bush's conservative credentials. "when it comes to moving power away federal government, that's obviously the debate today about common core," jindal said. "i think this is a good debate and a good discussion within the republican primary and the general election -- what is the proper role of the federal government." but jindal insisted that neither common core nor any other issue should be a disqualifier for a republican politician considering entering the fray, insisting the process must play out and voters should get a chance to hear out both sides of the debate. he also wouldn't paint the issue as a litmus test for conservative credentials, sticking to calling it "an important issue" and calling it "an example" of where candidates stand "not only on common core, but the role of the federal government in education." jindal published a series of education reform proposals monday through his non-profit policy group america next, outlining alternatives to common core which focus on school choice and local control over curricula. the louisiana governor is also setting himself up for support from a core constituency: moms. in remarks monday and last week at an american principles project event, jindal honed in on the need for moms to have control over their children's education, a constituency that has been at the heart of the grassroots effort to repeal common core. "i wouldn't bet against a mom when it comes to this common core debate," jindal said.

in common core, a larger battle over the size of government

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democratic front-runner hillary clinton and her allies have begun preparing a playbook to defeat donald trump in a general-election matchup that will attempt to do what his republican opponents couldn<u+2019>t: show that his business dealings and impolitic statements make him unfit to be commander in chief. both the clinton campaign and outside supporters are confident that she and trump will almost certainly face each other in the general election and that the focus is shifting past her hard-fought primary campaign against sen. bernie sanders of vermont. they are now focused intently on researching the billionaire real estate mogul<u+2019>s business record, dissecting his economic policies and compiling a long history of controversial pronouncements that have captivated and repelled the nation in this tumultuous election season. neither the clinton campaign nor several independent super pacs working on her behalf plan to respond with the same brass-knuckles style that trump has taken with his republican opponents, aides and outside supporters said. but in their view, trump isn<u+2019>t teflon: republicans waited too long to go after him, and they went about it the wrong way. <u+201c>what the republicans did was too little, too late,<u+201d> said david brock, who runs two pro-clinton super pacs now engaged in researching and responding to trump. <u+201c>it was petty insults. it was not strategic.<u+201d> justin barasky, spokesman for the large pro-clinton super pac priorities usa, said republican candidates committed <u+201c>malpractice<u+201d> by failing to raise liabilities from trump<u+2019>s past or aggressively challenge him on offensive or incorrect statements. implicit in the effort is real worry about trump<u+2019>s outsider appeal in a year dominated by <u+00ad>working-class anger and economic anxiety. the prospect that trump could compete for some of the blue-collar voters who have flocked to sanders, for instance <u+2014> or to reorder the map of competitive states to include trade-affected michigan or pennsylvania <u+2014> has prompted clinton<u+2019>s allies to leave nothing to chance. [how trump vs. clinton could reshape the electoral map] yet, they also believe that, although trump has motivated a loyal plurality of supporters in primary contests, he has limited ability to expand that support once the republican field clears. because of the litany of controversial pronouncements he has made, they expect a trump nomination to make it easier to rally women, latino and african american voters to turn out for clinton. in fact, her aides are planning for a historic gender gap between clinton and trump. given trump<u+2019>s willingness to attack his opponents <u+2014> and his pivot to going after clinton in recent days <u+2014> one clear presumption has emerged about the fall contest: it will be ugly. that<u+2019>s one reason the former secretary of state plans to counter trump with high-road substance, policy and issues, according to one senior campaign aide. the idea is to showcase what clinton<u+2019>s backers see as her readiness for the job without lowering her to what they describe as trump<u+2019>s gutter. the aide said the campaign<u+2019>s day-to-day decision-making remains focused on sanders. but clinton swept all five states that voted tuesday, and trump did well, meaning both are far closer than any competitor to securing their respective party<u+2019>s nomination. clinton is also far ahead in polling in arizona, a large contest this week, while sanders is expected to pick up victories in other western states that the clinton campaign maintains will have little effect on her lead. a central lesson of trump<u+2019>s primary battle, the campaign aide said, is that he cannot be ignored <u+2014> but also that he cannot be beaten at his own game. the key will be to maintain stature by focusing on her message of political unity and economic growth and by showing knowledge and strength on foreign issues. the aide spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly about internal strategy. [trump praises campaign manager after incident with protester] <u+201c>it<u+2019>s kind of mutually assured destruction: both sides line up their nukes. it<u+2019>s going to be just ugly and nasty and icky,<u+201d> said another democrat with longtime ties to the clinton family. <u+201c>the winner will not be the least bad of the two. the winner will be the one in the contest of that mutually assured destruction who also has a vision and a message about the future that is both inspiring and credible for the rest of the country.<u+201d> at the same time, her infrastructure of outside supporters will be poised to respond to what they expect will be trump<u+2019>s all-out war against clinton on everything, both personal and political. clinton<u+2019>s backers acknowledged that she is also a divisive figure and that controversies such as her use of a private email server while secretary of state will not evaporate during the general election. <u+201c>we will not make the same mistake the republicans made<u+201d> by letting attacks go unchallenged, brock said. trump has repeatedly brushed off polling indicating that he would lose in a head-to-head contest with clinton. but after his victories in florida and elsewhere last week, he sounded like a <u+00ad>general-election candidate who recognizes the challenge ahead. <u+201c>we have to bring our party together,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>we have something that actually makes the republican party probably the biggest political story in the world.<u+201d> trump has benefited in the primary season from the failure of republicans to unite behind a single foil to his candidacy <u+2014> and from his own strategy of picking off successive targets whom he viewed as weak. former florida governor jeb bush and retired neurosurgeon ben carson both made the mistake, clinton supporters said, of trying to ignore trump<u+2019>s insults or wait out a trump decline that never came. sen. marco rubio (r-fla.) made the other mistake of trying to use trump<u+2019>s own tactics. <u+201c>you can<u+2019>t beat him by being him,<u+201d> barasky said. in a one-on-one race against clinton, trump would have less room to parry or pivot the same way, the senior clinton campaign aide said, because trump would have one target and one target only. barasky and others also predicted that trump will emerge more damaged by his primary fight than clinton, because of the deep divisions he has caused and exploited. sanders supporters may not like clinton, but their distaste for her doesn<u+2019>t approach the antipathy or angst that many republican voters harbor about trump, they said. trump satisfied his loyal supporters by playing a character <u+2014> the bully, the iconoclast <u+2014> but he turned off many in his own party in the process, said several clinton supporters who are studying the republican race. in fact, they believe trump<u+2019>s own words will make one of their central objectives easy: tearing him down in the eyes of women, notably republicans and independents. several outside groups <u+2014> including emily<u+2019>s list, which supports democratic women who favor abortion rights <u+2014> are compiling dossiers of statements denigrating women that were taken from the candidate<u+2019>s own mouth, not just in this campaign but far into his past. <u+201c>you<u+2019>re a mom and you<u+2019>ve got your kids sitting on the couch and you watch the nightly news and you<u+2019>ve got this guy saying things as a presidential candidate that you tell your kids not to say,<u+201d> said stephanie schriock, president of emily<u+2019>s list. <u+201c>you don<u+2019>t call women bimbos; you don<u+2019>t say that they<u+2019>re fat.<u+201d> women, including independents who sometimes vote republican, are going to be repulsed, schriock said. trump will also be a rallying point for clinton<u+2019>s message to black voters, particularly older ones, who view trump<u+2019>s rhetoric and his raucous rallies as reminiscent of the worst of america<u+2019>s past. at an msnbc forum monday, clinton said that trump<u+2019>s rallies and his exhortations to violence resemble the <u+201c>lynch mobs<u+201d> of the south during the jim crow era. the remark came after videos from a trump rally in fayetteville, n.c., were widely disseminated and showed a white trump supporter punching a black protester in the face. <u+201c>the secretary has hit on a really important chord that is running through the african american community: this community is 50 years or less from the civil rights images of dogs and hoses and frightening images,<u+201d> said rep. sheila jackson lee (d-tex.), who has endorsed clinton. <u+201c>that visual of the sucker punch is going to be ingrained in us forever. you can<u+2019>t take it back.<u+201d> several pro-clinton super pacs are compiling research on trump from his long career in business and much shorter career in politics. the strategy is still a work in progress, and ongoing research through polling, focus groups and forensic accounting, among other tools, will continue through the spring. much of the work is to search for vulnerabilities that in other years, with other candidates, would have already been exploited by other republican candidates during the primary. plans are well underway to present trump<u+2019>s bankruptcies and management history to voters <u+2014> particularly to women and the working class. in addition, trump opposes an increase in the minimum wage and has proposed tax breaks for the wealthy, positions that his republican opponents could not go after but which clinton supporters believe will play poorly in the general election. people who suffered from trump<u+2019>s business decisions will be featured in testimonial advertisements and media campaigns, brock said. the media strategy is not unlike several successful efforts in 2012 to tie republican mitt romney to the layoffs and business closures that his company, bain capital, was responsible for. <u+201c>you<u+2019>re definitely going to hear from a number of people who are former customers, clients, employees, who got the short end of the stick in various ways dealing with trump,<u+201d> brock said. <u+201c>that<u+2019>s fertile ground.<u+201d> schriock also noted: <u+201c>it<u+2019>s about character. it all ties to what kind of character does this man have.<u+201d> and it is about money. as the general election approaches, clinton<u+2019>s allies are preparing to draw from the discontent in republican ranks to fill her campaign coffers. <u+201c>i<u+2019>ve gotten phone calls and emails from a few major republican donors who have said, in effect, <u+2018>i will let you know when i<u+2019>m ready to have you make an introduction for me,<u+2019><u+2009><u+201d> said andy spahn, president of a los angeles consulting firm and a longtime clinton adviser and top democratic fundraiser. <u+201c>there is certainly an element of the republican party, be it voters or high-net-worth donors, who are uncomfortable with what is happening.<u+201d> other democrats also assessed that, in addition to gop donors, republican congressional candidates will run away from trump in the general election, underscoring what they see as his thin qualifications <u+2014> and the danger he poses to their own political fortunes.

here comes the opposition book: clinton and her allies prepare for trump

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residents of three small new hampshire towns cast their ballots in the granite state's first-in-the-nation presidential primary just after midnight tuesday, kicking off<u+00a0>a contest<u+200e> where several candidates are eyeing a comeback. on the democratic side, sen. bernie sanders of next-door vermont is looking to rebound from his narrow iowa loss with a big victory over hillary clinton. and on the republican side, nearly a half-dozen candidates are battling for position behind donald trump, with the race's governors <u+2013> chris christie, jeb bush and john kasich -- looking for redemption after missing the leaderboard entirely last week. with votes in from residents of dixville notch, millsfield and hart's landing, trump, ohio gov. kasich and texas sen. ted cruz shared the republican lead with nine votes each. new jersey gov. christie followed with three votes, while florida sen. marco rubio and former florida governor bush each had two. retired neurosurgeon dr. ben carson and former hp ceo carly fiorina each garnered one vote. on the democratic side, sanders led clinton by 17 votes to 9. in a statistical oddity, the candidate who receives a plurality of the republican vote in dixville notch (population: 12) has been the gop nominee in every election cycle since 1968. this year, kasich won the town's vote, 3-2, over trump. with trump leading the republican race by double digits in most polls, the big question entering tuesday's primary was whether the relentless attacks against<u+00a0>rubio during and after saturday night<u+2019>s republican debate would be enough to bring the surging freshman florida senator back to the pack in the race for second place. in the two-person democratic race, sanders has held an advantage over clinton in new hampshire for weeks. the state is friendly territory for the vermont senator and a must-win if he's to have a chance of staying competitive with clinton as the race moves to more diverse states that are seen as more hospitable to the former secretary of state. christie has been unrelenting in questioning rubio<u+2019>s readiness and authenticity. at saturday<u+2019>s debate, he slammed the senator for repeatedly reciting anti-obama <u+201c>talking points.<u+201d> he repeated the criticism monday night in an appearance on fox news' "the kelly file." "you can't repeat the same thing over and over again," christie said. "[is rubio] going to do that sitting across from [russian president] vladimir putin? there's no substance there." "he's a nice guy, he has talent," christie continued," [but] he's too young,<u+00a0>too inexperienced and he has served not one day in a position of management in his entire life." rubio, though, has dug in and continued to repeat his criticism of president obama that drew christie<u+2019>s scorn. "people said, 'oh, you said the same thing three or four times.' i'm going to say it again," rubio said monday in londonderry. <u+201c>as far as that message, i hope they keep running it. and i'm going to keep saying it because it's true," rubio said sunday on abc<u+2019>s <u+201c>this week.<u+201d> "barack obama <u+2026> said he wanted to change the country. he's doing it in a way that is robbing us of everything that is special.<u+201d> speaking on fox news, bush said he<u+2019>s also going to continue taking on front-runner trump, as he did during saturday<u+2019>s debate. <u+201c>he<u+2019>s not a conservative; he doesn<u+2019>t have the temperament to be president and whenever i have the chance to describe what i think about him, i<u+2019>m gonna do it,<u+201d> bush said monday. bush hammered trump on saturday for his broad support of eminent domain <u+2013> and trump's past attempt to use it to take a woman<u+2019>s property for a project in atlantic city. during that dispute, trump tried to <u+201c>shush<u+201d> bush, but was booed by the audience. bush pointed to that exchange in questioning how trump would do in a general election race. <u+201c>you think he<u+2019>s gonna shush hillary clinton?<u+201d> bush said. <u+201c>he would lose.<u+201d> trump saved his harshest attacks monday for bush as well as cruz, who bested him in iowa.<u+00a0>when an audience member at a rally in manchester shouted out an insult directed at cruz <u+2014> a vulgar term for "coward" <u+2014> trump repeated the term and jokingly reprimanded the woman. cruz spokesman rick tyler responded to the associated press via email, saying, "let's not forget who whipped who in iowa." "jeb is having some kind of a breakdown, i think," trump told cnn monday, calling bush, the son and brother of presidents, a spoiled child and an embarrassment to his family. "i think it's a very sad situation that's taking place." kasich, meanwhile, has taken a less confrontational approach in the race, casting himself as a uniting force and touting his economic record as governor. the ohio governor has seemingly pinned his hopes on new hampshire and said sunday he<u+2019>s going in strong <u+2013> while stressing he also has substantial resources on the ground in states like south carolina and nevada. kasich also criticized bush over an online video that hit kasich for expanding medicaid and what the bush campaign called his "liberal record" in ohio compared to bush's two terms as florida governor. "i'm really disappointed in jeb," kasich told "the kelly file." "look, i mean, he's taken the very low road to the highest office in the land, and he's been negative all along, but that's okay." carson and fiorina also are looking to do better than they did in iowa, but have struggled to even break into the middle tier in granite state polling. the associated press contributed to this report.

sanders, republican governors eye comeback in new hampshire primary

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the supreme court said tuesday that it will consider next term whether public employees can be compelled to pay fees to unions they do not want to join, a provision that union leaders say is vital to their continued success. the justices will consider a case from a group of california teachers who say paying fees violates their free speech rights when they disagree with the positions the unions take. the supreme court nearly 40 years ago said states may allow unions to collect fees from non-members to pay for collective-bargaining costs, but not for the unions<u+2019> political spending. about half the states authorize unions to collect the fees, but federal workers are not affected. some conservatives on the court have sharply criticized the 1977 ruling in abood v. detroit board of education, but last year they came up a vote short of overturning it. instead, the court decided a case from illinois on narrower grounds. [supreme court says home health-care workers can<u+2019>t be required to pay union fees] <u+201c>this case is about the right of individuals to decide for themselves whether to join and pay dues to an organization that purports to speak on their behalf,<u+201d> said terry pell, president of the center for individual rights, which is representing rebecca friedrichs and other teachers. <u+201c>we are seeking the end of compulsory union dues across the nation on the basis of the free-speech rights guaranteed by the first amendment,<u+201d> he said. the teachers say that even if the fees are not used for political activities, they should not be compelled to fund even collective-bargaining techniques and positions with which they disagree. union officials say that would not be fair. because they are obligated to represent all employees in collective bargaining, the law should not allow <u+201c>free riders<u+201d> who benefit from union representation but do not pay for it. <u+201c>the supreme court is revisiting decisions that have made it possible for people to stick together for a voice at work and in their communities <u+2014> decisions that have stood for more than 35 years,<u+201d> said a joint statement from the national education association, the american federation of teachers, the california teachers association, the american federation of state, county and municipal employees, and the service employees international union. the issue was debated at the court in 2014, and justices ruled 5<u+00a0>to 4 that illinois health-care workers could not be forced to pay the fees, because of the unique circumstances of their hiring. but justice samuel a. alito jr. made clear that the court would look for a case offering a broader opportunity. he wrote at the time that the fees could be considered <u+201c>an unprecedented violation of the bedrock principle that, except perhaps in the rarest of circumstances, no person in this country may be compelled to subsidize speech by a third party that he or she does not wish to support.<u+201d> justice elena kagan replied that the practice of allowing states to require the fees is <u+201c>deeply entrenched<u+201d> and is <u+201c>the foundation for not tens or hundreds, but thousands of contracts between unions and governments across the nation.<u+201d> kagan wrote that <u+201c>the majority could not restrain itself from saying (and saying and saying)<u+201d> that it dislikes abood. still <u+201c>the majority could not, even after receiving full-dress briefing and argument, come up with reasons anywhere near sufficient to reverse the decision.<u+201d> the court also will return to the issue of reapportionment in arizona, just a day after validating an independent commission to which the state<u+2019>s voters delegated redistricting powers. the case says that board, the arizona independent redistricting commission, did not properly reapportion the state legislative districts after the last census. on monday, the supreme court upheld the decision of arizona voters to create the commission to draw election districts in an attempt to reduce partisan gerrymandering. the court ruled 5 to 4 that cutting the legislature out of the redistricting process did not violate the constitution<u+2019>s election clause, which says that the times, places and manner of holding elections <u+201c>shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof.<u+201d> on tuesday, the court accepted a challenge brought by a group of republican voters who said the commission<u+2019>s 2012 state legislative maps violated the <u+201c>one person, one vote<u+201d> requirement of population equality among districts because gop voters were shifted to increase minority voters in others. the use of race and partisanship were attempts to persuade the justice department to approve the plans under the voting rights act. but since then, the supreme court has done away with the pre-clearance requirement. chief justice john g. roberts jr. wrote extensively about the new case in his dissent to the court<u+2019>s ruling monday. a district court panel ruled that partisanship played some role in the development of the legislative district plan but did not rise to the level of a constitutional violation. <u+201c>a finding that the partisanship in the redistricting plan did not violate the constitution hardly proves that the commission is operating free of partisan influence <u+2014> and certainly not that it complies with the elections clause,<u+201d> roberts wrote.

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republican presidential hopeful donald trump criticized u.s. immigration and trade policies on saturday in speeches that veered from accusing mexico of deliberately sending criminals across the border to professing respect for the mexican government and love for its people. speaking to a gathering of libertarians in las vegas before headlining an event in phoenix, trump repeated his charge that mexico was sending violent offenders to the u.s. to harm americans and that u.s. officials were being "dumb" in dealing with immigrants in the country illegally. "these people wreak havoc on our population," he told a few thousand people attending the libertarian gathering freedomfest inside a planet hollywood ballroom on the las vegas strip. saturday's two appearances seemed to leave many of his republican rivals and critics scattered in disarray. on sunday's morning talk shows, the reaction ranged from criticism to applause. "at the end of the day, for us to win a national election, we have to do better with hispanics," presidential candidate and south carolina senator lindsey graham told cnn's "state of the union" program. "and for us to have the moral authority as a party to govern a great nation, we have to reject this demagoguery. if we don't, we will lose, and we will deserve to lose." with the hispanic population rising, hispanic voters are becoming increasingly important in u.s. politics. their support helped democratic president barack obama win re-election in 2012. most illegal immigrants in the united states are hispanic. graham said trump had "hijacked the debate" over immigration policy, adding: "i think he's a wrecking ball for the future of the republican party with the hispanic community." graham has long advocated a comprehensive change in u.s. immigration laws, including providing a pathway to citizenship for some of the more than 11 million illegal immigrants. south carolina governor nikki haley, a daughter of two immigrants and considered a potential 2016 republican vice presidential candidate, said on nbc's "meet the press" she understands trump's frustration on immigration but called for communicating with "respect and dignity." "we want someone that brings people together," haley added. "we want someone that understands that what unites us is a lot more than what divides us." house of representatives speaker john boehner said on cbs's "face the nation," other republican presidential candidates "have much more responsible positions" than trump's. "most of the candidates have disagreed with his assertions with regard to our border. and, certainly, i disagree," he said. former hewlett-packard ceo and presidential candidate carly fiorina seemed to embrace trump's views. "donald trump taps into an anger that i hear every day," she told abc's "this week", adding that wanting to secure the nation's borders was "not extreme, it's commonsense".<u+00a0> that anger was apparent on saturday. appearing in the 4,200-capacity phoenix convention center packed with flag-waving supporters, trump varied from hard-hitting attacks on mexico to praise for the country's seemingly clever tactics. "i love the mexican people. i love 'em. many, many people from mexico are legal. they came in the old-fashioned way. legally." an estimated 15,000 people tried to get into the event, according to a trump spokesman. he quickly returned to the sharp tone that has brought him scorn as well as praise. "i respect mexico greatly as a country. but the problem we have is their leaders are much sharper than ours, and they're killing us at the border and they're killing us on trade." his speeches in both venues were long on insults aimed at critics and short on solutions to the problems he cited. when he called for a wall along the u.s.-mexico border, the audience in las vegas groaned. in a break from the immigration rhetoric that has garnered him condemnation and praise, trump asserted that he would have more positive results in dealing with china and russia if he were president and said he could be pals with russian president vladimir putin. asked by an audience member in las vegas about u.s.-russia relations, trump said the problem is that putin doesn't respect obama. "i think we would get along very, very well," he said. trump has turned to victims of crime to bolster his argument that immigrants in the u.s. illegally have killed and raped. in las vegas and phoenix, he brought on stage jamiel shaw sr., a southern california man whose 17-year-old son was shot and killed in 2008 by a man in the country illegally. shaw vividly described how his son was shot <u+2014> in the head, stomach and hands while trying to block his face <u+2014> and how he heard the gunshots as he talked to his son on the phone. shaw said he trusted trump, and encouraged the crowds in both cities to do the same. trump's speeches were filled with tangents and insults leveled at business partners such as univision and nbc that have dropped him in the wake of his comments that mexican immigrants bring drugs and crime to the u.s. and are rapists. he also directed familiar barbs at other presidential contenders, including democrat hillary rodham clinton ("the worst secretary of state in the history of the country"), news media figures ("lyin' brian williams") and president barack obama ("such a divisive person"). he called journalists "terrible people." as trump lambasted univision for cancelling its broadcast of the miss usa pageant, one of his many business enterprises, a group of young latinos unfurled a banner pointed toward the stage and began chanting insults. they were quickly drowned out by the crowd, and nearby trump supporters began to grab at them, tearing at the banner and pulling and pushing at the protesters. security staff managed to get to the group and escorted them out as trump resumed speaking. "i wonder if the mexican government sent them over here," he said. "i think so." arizona's tough-on-immigration sheriff joe arpaio introduced trump in phoenix after outlining the things he and the candidate have in common, including skepticism that obama was born in the united states. he went on to criticize the federal government for what he called a revolving door for immigrants, saying many of them end up in his jails. "he's been getting a lot of heat, but you know, there's a silent majority out here," arpaio said, borrowing from a phrase richard nixon popularized during his presidency in a speech about the vietnam war. a single protester standing outside the room where trump spoke in las vegas was more concerned about the businessman being tied to the libertarian party. "i've been a libertarian for 43 years and trump ain't no libertarian," said linda rawles, who asserted that including trump in freedomfest set back the party's movement. trump picked up on arpaio's "silent majority" line. <u+201c>the silent majority is back, and we<u+2019>re going to take the majority back, and we are going to make america great again.<u+201d> a reuters-ipsos poll released on saturday showed trump neck-and-neck with former florida governor jeb bush atop the large field of contenders for the republican nomination. "how could i be tied with this guy? he's terrible!" trump said in his speech. "if you people go with bush, you're going to lose," he said. ahead of the rally, senator john mccain of arizona, the republican presidential candidate in 2008, said trump was creating a "circus" that risked damaging the party. outside the rally, democrats from tucson shared water bottles with about 100 protesters, who chanted "no more hate! no more hate!" to the beat of a drum. "the only thing i can tell you is that it is awakening the hispanic community," said eduardo sainz, 22. "we're keeping a tally of who is on our side and who isn't. the hispanic community won't forget in 2016." protesters briefly raised a banner inside the speech reading "stop the hate" but it was quickly pulled down amid pushing and shoving, and they were escorted out. "i wonder if the mexican government sent them over here. i think so," trump said. after the speech, scottsdale, arizona republican joan ewart, 81, said she liked how trump is not financially beholden to anyone. "that's the beauty of donald trump. he can say anything," she said.

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behind the shortage of special ed teachers: long hours, crushing paperwork there is a letter that school districts really don't like sending home to parents of special education students. each state has a different version, but they all begin with something like this: "dear parent, as of the date of this letter your child's teacher is not considered 'highly qualified.' " and then: "this doesn't mean your child's teacher is not capable or effective. it means they haven't met the state standards for teaching in their subject." in any other subject, that's an annoying problem that suggests students may not be well-served. in special education, it means the school district is breaking the law. the federal individuals with disabilities education act, or idea, requires that every student have what's known as an iep <u+2014> individualized education program. and almost always, those ieps spell out that students <u+2014> either some of the time or all of the time <u+2014> must be taught by a teacher fully certified in special education. yet around the country, that's exactly the category of teacher that's most in demand, as many states and districts are reporting severe shortages. "this crisis has been coming for a long time," says david pennington, superintendent of ponca city public schools in oklahoma. many teachers there are nearing retirement and he's not sure he can replace them. "forget about replacing them with someone of the same quality," he says. "i'm just worried about replacing them. period." pennington's rural district of 5,300 students northwest of tulsa has been hit hard by the shortage. he says it's extremely difficult to persuade newer special education teachers to stay beyond two or three years. "the job is not what they thought it was going to be," pennington explains. "they feel like they're under a microscope all the time." on top of the normal demands of teaching, special education teachers face additional pressures: feelings of isolation, fear of lawsuits, and students who demand extra attention. many are the only special-needs teacher in their grade or their school, or sometimes in the entire district. and then, there's the seemingly endless paperwork. "it is not uncommon," pennington says, "for a special ed teacher to tell me, 'i did not get a degree in special ed to do paperwork. i got a degree to help kids.' " the idea and the iep require hours and hours of filling out forms and writing reports documenting each student's progress. "and when do teachers do that paperwork? sometime during the hours of 3 p.m. to 10 p.m.," says deborah ziegler of the council for exceptional children, a special education research and advocacy group. "it's like having two full-time jobs." so what's the answer? aggressive recruitment, says trevor greene. he's the human resources director of highline public schools, a 19,000-student district south of seattle. "right now it's a buyers' market," he says. "districts can't afford to wait around for the right candidate." and he's speaking from experience. when greene started as hr director last july, he had 30 vacancies in special education to fill before school began in september. "it was pretty ominous at the beginning," he recalls. greene reached out on every teacher-recruitment platform he could find. he even tracked applicants down on linkedin. greene was even able to find certified special education teachers for all of the positions, which has become a rare occurrence. many districts are able to fill vacancies only by hiring teachers trained in general education who are willing to make the switch to a special education setting. betty olson, the special education administrator for the boise public schools in idaho, says she was forced to hire a few general education teachers this year. as the school year approached she was prepared to send some of her district specialists, former teachers who now train new teachers, back into the classroom to fill vacancies. it didn't come to that. but she now has the challenge of helping a slew of new teachers adjust to the world of special education. olson is getting some help from boise state university, which has created a new program designed to prepare teachers with little or no experience in special education. candidates are put on a fast track to complete a master's degree, and they receive one-on-one support as they begin their new career. similar programs have popped up around the country. "i'm hopeful things will get better," olson says. other administrators, like pennington from oklahoma, are less optimistic. he believes we're in for a rude awakening. he expects more and more teachers to look at all that responsibility, all that pressure, and conclude that it's not worth it. and so, he wonders, "what happens when it gets so bad that you literally cannot find anyone to be in charge of a classroom?"

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s.e. cupp is the author of "losing our religion: the liberal media's attack on christianity," co-author of "why you're wrong about the right" and a columnist at the new york daily news. the opinions expressed in this commentary are hers. (cnn) this week i went to a meeting at facebook's headquarters in menlo park, california. and then i became a bimbo, a cancer, and a scumbag. behold twitter: @animal1984farm: @secupp @cnn @facebook #nevertrump cucks are a cancer. some people love to be used and abused! @i_the_prattler: @secupp <she is the epitome of everything that's wrong with the corrupt @gop edifice these #scumbags help to keep in power the corrupt! @cnn to be clear, i am a conservative, and these tweets are from other self-described conservatives (or, at the very least, donald trump supporters). as has become boringly predictable these days, conservatives are mad at other conservatives for being fake conservatives. in case you have a life, and haven't cared to invest in the soap-operatic, teenage dramas between certain factions of the conservative movement (in which case, i'm envious), let me give you the basic synopsis: trump is the only true conservative, and everyone who opposes him is the "establishment." questioning the trump orthodoxy (which, incidentally, is rarely intelligible if ever at all conservative) is the thing that now makes a conservative a "cuckservative," a pejorative term to describe a weak, emasculated "sell out" to the establishment wing of the party. this now includes conservatives like me, with previously pristine records of right-wing fanaticism, at least as classified by the mainstream press, and ranging from glenn beck to the national review, ted cruz to paul ryan. what's this got to do with facebook? a lot, it would seem. in this kind of climate, where a lifelong democrat and former hillary clinton donor is now the standard-bearer of authentic conservatism and everyone else a loser and a traitor, creating tribal lines of division is nothing short of a fetish, and one that has spilled over into the facebook debate. after allegations surfaced that former facebook contractors suppressed conservative trending topics, the company launched an investigation, promised transparency, and then reached out to several conservative thought leaders and personalities, including myself, to sit down and address these and other concerns with founder mark zuckerberg and top members of his executive team. presumably, there would be two kinds of responses to this invitation: "i accept. this is a disturbing issue and i want to be part of solving the problem." or, "i regretfully decline. that's the day of my grandmother's funeral." i'll get back to the importance of attending this meeting in a minute. but first... i was surprised to learn there is apparently another option, which was to refuse to go, complain that no trump representatives were invited (they were, one attended), slam facebook's overture as a "pat conservatives on the head" session, blast the people who do attend as "cucks" and sit in the corner and sulk. which is what a number of invitees decided, disappointingly. breitbart, long in the tank for trump, said it had no interest in participating in a "facebook photo op." one headline blared: "cucked by zuck: establishment conservatives rock up for pointless meeting with facebook," already deciding the outcome. the american conservative union, which oversees the popular cpac convention every year, issued a statement saying it would not attend, and then listed all of its grievances with facebook's alleged anti-conservative bias, which included rejecting "acu's overtures for facebook to play a meaningful role at cpac." other outlets jumped on the people who did decide to attend, calling them "conservatives" in quotes. is the important story that facebook is meeting with conservatives? or that it's meeting with "conservatives"? this is not to suggest all of this is just about trump. the distrust of facebook and silicon valley among conservatives is real and hardly new. most of the faces of the tech companies are outspoken liberals. facebook has in the past had to defend against allegations that conservatives and conservative stories don't get as much reach as liberal stories, or as they do on other social platforms. i understand skepticism. skepticism is my job. i'm also not naive. of course this was part of a pr strategy for facebook. you don't publicly invite a group of aggrieved people with large platforms to come to your fabled, sprawling campus and meet with the head honcho if you don't hope they will then go back to their large platforms and spread the good word. but isn't the fact that facebook considers this a pr problem (as well as an actual problem, i believe) proof that it does not want to be perceived as a liberal organization? if it really didn't care about attracting and retaining conservative users, why would it need damage control? and if you have genuine concerns about bias and bad actors, don't you take an opportunity to help correct a problem? the bottom line is, staying home solves zero problems. and in fact, it creates one. my reason for attending the meeting was two-fold. one, i am deeply concerned about the effect of bias -- whether intentional or subconscious -- in alienating any group of people based on their beliefs, in this case mine. zuckerberg and his team assured us they were investigating that issue, take it very seriously, and do not have any evidence it is systemic. the mission of facebook is to provide as big a platform to as many people as possible. subverting voices is anathema to that mission (as well as its business model, more to the point). this is a problem. i hope it is addressed. but i am frankly more concerned about conservatives' long-term relationship with silicon valley. the perception that silicon valley is liberal exists for a reason. it largely is, but only to the extent that anyone in tech ever gives politics a thought. the tech world's most vocal political voices lean left on social issues, but your average programmer and developer are probably more libertarian than liberal. and when pressed, even your average executive would align more closely with the right on issues that are crucial to their own industry. on issues like security, privacy, regulation and free markets, silicon valley has allies in conservative policies, not liberal ones. when i mentioned this in our meeting, there was broad agreement from the facebook side that liberals have at times been more than just a pain on these issues, they've been a threat to their best interests. silicon valley, and in particular the share economy leaders, need conservatives on the hill, on k street, and in the media to keep their markets free and their products innovative. tech leaders ignored this simple fact for years, but are finally realizing chuck schumer and hillary clinton may share their attitudes on gay marriage, but not regulation. which matters more to their bottom line? but the questions the facebook-objectors seem to be asking is, does conservatism need facebook and silicon valley? well, only if wants to survive. forgetting the fact that facebook has 1.7 billion users and no one reads books or newspapers on paper anymore, conservatives have been combating the image that they are stuck in the past for, well, as long as there's been a past to be stuck in. conservatives should be leading the way on innovation, instead of constantly ceding that ground to the "hipster progressives with their gadgets and watch-phones." why we need facebook instead of insisting conservatism and silicon valley are east and west berlin, ideologically exclusive and wholly uninterested in one another, both need to acknowledge each other's necessity. i went to this meeting because i want lifelong partnerships in silicon valley to connect conservative values and policies with as many people as possible, to make the world work more efficiently, to innovate around government bureaucracy and to empower the private sector. and i was pleasantly surprised to hear that facebook wants partnerships with conservatives as well. for that, they will need our trust. and to earn our trust, we will need their respect. this is all a work in progress, and it will take time, open lines of communication and transparency. but progress is impossible when parties decide to stay home. i was glad facebook reached out to us, and would have been just as happy had i not been included. this meeting was a necessary step in the right direction -- toward an alliance between two communities whose shared obsession with free markets could do a lot of good for a lot of people.

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president obama called on people of faith to reject those who use religion to justify evil <u+2013> and in doing so <u+2013> reminded people about the terrible things done in the name of jesus christ. obama told a gathering thursday at the national prayer breakfast that we have seen <u+201c>professions of faith used both as an instrument of great good but twisted in the name of evil.<u+201d> <u+201c>from a school in pakistan to the streets of paris we have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith <u+2013> their faith <u+2013> profess to stand up for islam but in fact are betraying it,<u+201d> he said. he did not mention radical islam or jihadists or islamic extremists. he did, however, call isis a <u+201c>brutal, vicious death cult that in the name of religion carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism.<u+201d> the president also issued a word of warning to christians. <u+201c>and lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place <u+2013> remember that during the crusades and the inquisition committed terrible deeds in the name of christ,<u+201d> the president said. click here to follow todd on facebook for conservative conversation! he also chided the united states, <u+201c>our home country.<u+201d> <u+201c>slavery and jim crow all too often was justified in the name of christ,<u+201d> he added. robert jeffress, the pastor of first baptist church of dallas and the author of the upcoming book, <u+201c>countdown to the apocalypse: why isis and ebola are only the beginning,<u+201d> said there are two problems with obama<u+2019>s comparison. <u+201c>when christians act violently they are acting in opposition to the teachings of their founder, jesus christ,<u+201d> jeffress told me. <u+201c>they cannot cite a single verse in the new testament that calls for violence against unbelievers. on the other hand, radical islamists can point to a number of verses in the koran calling for muslims to <u+2018>crucify the infidels.<u+2019><u+201d> on wednesday a united nations watchdog group reported that islamic militants were crucifying iraqi children and burying them alive. others had been sold as sex slaves and boys as young as 18 had been used as suicide bombers, reuters reported. <u+201c>they are following the example of their founder muhammad who slaughtered and beheaded those who opposed him,<u+201d> jeffress said. while the crusades were terrible, jeffress pointed out they were a response to hundreds of years of muslim aggression <u+2013> an issue he writes about in his book. as you might imagine <u+2013> the president<u+2019>s remarks did not go over well among conservatives. my friend michelle malkin put it nicely: "isis chops off heads, incinerates hostages, kills gays, enslaves girls. obama: blame the crusades," she tweeted. i was puzzled by something else president obama said:<u+00a0>"we are summoned to push back against those who would distort our religion for their nihilistic ends." what did he mean by <u+201c>our religion<u+201d>? whose religion? and why did he compare the crusades to isis? the crusades ended some 700 years ago. perhaps the president should be a bit more concerned with the islamic jihad being waged in this century. todd starnes is host of fox news & commentary, heard on hundreds of radio stations. his latest book is "god less america: real stories from the front lines of the attack on traditional values." follow todd on twitter<u+00a0>@toddstarnes and find him on facebook.

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donald trump, trailing narrowly in presidential polls, has issued a warning to worried republican voters: the election will be <u+201c>rigged<u+201d> against him <u+2014> and he could lose as a result. trump pointed to several court cases nationwide in which restrictive laws requiring voters to show identification have been thrown out. he said those decisions open the door to fraud in november. <u+201c>if the election is rigged, i would not be surprised,<u+201d> he told the washington post in an interview tuesday afternoon. <u+201c>the voter id situation has turned out to be a very unfair development. we may have people vote 10 times.<u+201d> those comments followed a claim trump made monday, to an audience in ohio, that <u+201c>the election is going to be rigged.<u+201d> that same day, in an interview with fox news channel<u+2019>s sean hannity, he beseeched republicans to start <u+201c>watching closely<u+201d> or the election will be <u+201c>taken away from us<u+201d> through fraud. like much of what trump says, the <u+201c>rigged<u+201d> riff defies the recent norms of politics. and it taps into fears that long predate his campaign. one is a growing and unsubstantiated worry that elections are being stolen. the other is a broader unease that regular americans are being cheated by wall street, by washington and by a duplicitous media. those worries have found voice in both parties this year, with trump and sen. bernie sanders (vt.) both rallying their supporters during the republican and democratic primaries with the assessment that the system is rigged. now, trump is reviving the theme to highlight the possibility of voter fraud in november. since the 2000 election, which ended in a legal battle that stopped recounts of ballots in florida, paranoia about the nation<u+2019>s election system has mushroomed. according to a pew research center survey, just 48<u+00a0>percent of americans were confident that <u+201c>the votes across the country were accurately counted<u+201d> in the 2004 election. after 2012, an election with a wider popular vote margin, that percentage fell to 31<u+00a0>percent. among republicans, it was 21<u+00a0>percent. <u+201c>the idea that the person who won the presidency did so illegitimately is not new,<u+201d> said jesse walker, the author of <u+201c>the united states of paranoia,<u+201d> a history of conspiracy theories. <u+201c>what<u+2019>s new is the possibility of a possible loser in the presidential contest making an issue out of it. i can<u+2019>t think of another example in the last century.<u+201d> jokes about democrats counting votes from dead people or bused-in fraudsters are part of the republican lingua franca. during his unsuccessful presidential bid, sen. ted cruz (tex.) often encouraged his audiences to bring friends and family to the polls with a joke about democratic election theft. <u+201c>i want you to vote 10 times,<u+201d> he would say. <u+201c>don<u+2019>t worry <u+2014> we<u+2019>re not democrats.<u+201d> in his interview with the post, trump offered that his chief concern about fraud was that states without strict identification requirements would see rampant repeat voters. <u+201c>if you don<u+2019>t have voter id, you can just keep voting and voting and voting,<u+201d> he said. on fox news, trump<u+2019>s only evidence for fraud consisted of <u+201c>precincts where there were practically nobody voting for the republican<u+201d> in the 2012 election. in reality, voter fraud is rare. a 2014 study by justin levitt, a professor at loyola law school, found just 31 possible instances of fraud over 14 years of elections with a total of 1<u+00a0>billion votes cast. the low republican vote in some urban centers squares with the low support black voters gave gop nominee mitt romney<u+2019>s campaign in 2012. still, the battle against <u+201c>voter fraud<u+201d> has made gains with republican lawmakers and conservative journalists. since the 2013 decision in shelby county v. holder undid some requirements of the voting rights act, restrictive new voter id and registration laws have passed through republican-run states. [obama: trump is <u+2018>unfit to serve as president<u+2019>] those laws have been challenged successfully in court, with north carolina, north dakota and wisconsin losing cases in the days before trump made his <u+201c>rigged<u+201d> comments. north carolina gov. pat mccrory accused judges of <u+201c>undermining the integrity of our elections.<u+201d> in an interview tuesday with cbs12 in florida, trump seemed to condemn the rulings against the states. <u+201c>some bad court cases have come down,<u+201d> he said. some of his more freewheeling supporters went even further, with the radio host alex jones warning listeners that the obama administration might cancel the election, and off-again, on-again adviser roger stone telling breitbart news that trump needed to be ready for a violent post-election contest. <u+201c>i think he<u+2019>s gotta put them on notice that their inauguration will be rhetorical,<u+201d> stone said. <u+201c>i mean civil disobedience, not violence, but it will be a bloodbath. the government will be shut down if they attempt to steal this and swear hillary in.<u+201d> to ari berman, a reporter for the nation and the author of the voting rights history <u+201c>give us the ballot,<u+201d> trump<u+2019>s worry about <u+201c>rigging<u+201d> sounded like an adaptation of something already mainstream among republicans. <u+201c>there<u+2019>s been a two-decade campaign on the right to drum up fears of <u+2018>voter fraud<u+2019> stealing elections,<u+201d> berman said. <u+201c>they<u+2019>re trying to say that these voting rights victories will lead to more fraud. they want to spin these court victories not as something that<u+2019>s good for democracy, but something that will hurt democracy. that<u+2019>s what trump is buying into.<u+201d> at the same time, many supporters of sanders<u+2019>s presidential run have argued that the democratic nomination was effectively stolen from him <u+2014> another sentiment trump has tried to exploit. long before the democratic national convention in philadelphia, sanders supporters asked whether a purge of new york voters, california<u+2019>s slow ballot count or the closure of polling places in arizona<u+2019>s largest county had suppressed their votes. <u+201c>the bernie sanders folks don<u+2019>t believe all the ballots were counted,<u+201d> chuck pennachio, an academic and a sanders delegate from pennsylvania, said at a news conference last week. <u+201c>they don<u+2019>t believe that the process was clean. if you look at the exit polls, they don<u+2019>t match up with the results in 11 of the 12 closest states.<u+201d> every theory about how the primaries were stolen has been debunked. the famous new york purge, for example, disproportionately affected nonwhite voters, who had been breaking for clinton. the same was true of the long lines in arizona<u+2019>s maricopa county, which resulted from a decision by the county<u+2019>s republican-run elections team. but in trying to explain how some early exit poll results diverged from vote totals, debunkers found themselves struggling to convince their listeners. joe lenski, the lead pollster for exit poll provider edison research, explained to the skeptical left-wing site counterpunch that sanders voters and young voters had been more likely to fill out the surveys. that did not stop the spread of theories that millions of sanders votes might have been switched or suppressed. last week, when more than 200 sanders supporters invaded a media tent at the dnc, some left behind charts attempting to prove that vote-counters skewed the election. clinton<u+2019>s 2.9<u+00a0>million-vote margin in the primaries may have set the upper bounds for speculation that an american election had been stolen. sanders supporters also latched onto internal emails between staff members at the democratic national committee, in which they speculated about a clinton nomination even before the primaries were over. trump, who previously accused republicans of rigging primaries through the delegate selection process, found solace in the email scandal. like sanders, whose voters he wants to convert, he had found the idea of a rigged process syncing perfectly with his outsider brand. on fox news, trump tried to tell sanders<u+2019>s supporters that they already had seen an election wrested away by the political elite. <u+201c>it was rigged a little bit [against] me, and we won,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>it was rigged a little bit against bernie sanders.<u+201d> <u+201c>we know it was rigged,<u+201d> hannity said. <u+201c>we<u+2019>ve seen the emails.<u+201d>

for trump, a new <u+2018>rigged<u+2019> system: the election itself

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washington (cnn) russia launched a naval bombardment wednesday of isis targets in syria, a senior russian official said, ramping up a newly muscular presence in the middle east. shoigu said the strikes were launched from the caspian sea using precise long-range missiles that flew 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) to their targets. russia says it launched missiles at syrian targets from the caspian sea. wednesday also appeared to mark new and closer military cooperation between russia and the embattled syrian regime of president bashar al-assad russia and syria launched coordinated attacks wednesday on islamist factions in towns in hama and idlib provinces in western syria , with the syrian shelling apparently conducted in concert with russian airstrikes, according to an opposition group. if the report is correct, it could offer fresh evidence that russia's primary goal is propping up al-assad rather than fighting terrorism. even as its ships and warplanes conducted fresh strikes, russia said it was willing to cooperate with the united states in carrying out attacks in syria. however, speaking to reporters in rome, u.s. defense secretary ashton carter called the russian campaign of airstrikes in syria a "fundamental mistake." he said the united states was not ready to cooperate with russia on operations in syria. a ministry spokesman, quoted by russia's tass news agency, said the ministry responded to a pentagon request. it then "swiftly considered" the u.s. proposals to coordinate. "we just need to specify some technical details that will be discussed today by representatives of the russian defense ministry and the pentagon at the expert level," defense ministry spokesman maj. gen. igor konashenkov told tass. the u.s. military recently had to divert one aircraft over syria to ensure it could maintain a safe flying distance from a russian fighter, a pentagon representative said. until the two countries agree on mutual flight safety rules in syrian airspace, u.s. pilots are under orders to change their flight path if a russian plane is within 20 nautical miles, a senior defense official told cnn. russian warplanes conducted heavy airstrikes wednesday on islamist factions, accompanied by shelling from government forces, according to the uk-based, anti-assad syrian observatory for human rights. the head of the observatory said there were no isis positions in the areas targeted and that fierce clashes were taking place on the ground between regime forces and their allies and armed islamist rebel factions, including the ahrar al-sham and al qaeda-affiliated al-nusra front. wednesday's clashes are the fiercest in the last month, the observatory said. "according to our data, about 40 percent (was destroyed). in addition, a lot of terrorists have been killed. now, they are retreating toward the turkish border," sputnik quoted haddad as saying. but turkey, syria's neighbor to the north, cast fresh doubt wednesday on whether russia's goal was to go after sis. a fraction -- 3.5% -- of russia's airstrikes in syria so far have targeted the terror group, turkish prime minister ahmet davutoglu said. "these air raids are not against isis. there were 57 air raids by russian air forces. fifty-five of them were against moderate opposition and only two were against daesh, according to military information we received," turkey's anadolu news agency quoted davutoglu as saying, reflecting government thinking. daesh is another name for isis. the u.s. embassy in syria also questioned russia's targets. "russia can play a constructive role in this effort but that doesn't mean hitting moderate syrian forces that are in opposition to assad who has carried out a brutal, brutal crackdown on his own people." "so we have seen a substantial military buildup by russia in syria, both in the air with the combat planes and air defense systems, but also an increasing number of ground troops," secretary general jens stoltenberg said. "in addition to that, they have deployed naval assets, a large number of naval assets close to the syrian shores. and they continue to do so." russian planes have also incurred into turkish airspace twice, he said. "it's unacceptable, it's dangerous, and it's reckless behavior and it adds to the tensions," stoltenberg told cnn. stoltenberg said he doubted that russia was interested primarily in fighting isis. "i'm also concerned that russia is not targeting isil but instead attacking the syrian opposition and civilians," he said. the pentagon shares the same worries. the latest u.s. assessment indicates that russia has moved ground combat weapons and troops to areas of western syria where anti-regime forces are, according to two american defense officials. the united states sees the move as russia "stepping up its ground activity" in syria to attack those forces, rather than isis elements, according to one of the officials. but russian officials deny ramping up military activity. officials quoted by state media said there would be no ground operation in syria and -- in contrast to what officials had said earlier -- russia would try to prevent any "volunteers" from going to syria.

russia launches naval bombardment of targets in syria

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if you needed proof that hillary clinton will continue to run a cautious, stage-managed campaign, look no further than her vp pick. hillary clinton announced today that will be her presidential running-mate, pushing the mild-mannered virginian into a glaring national spotlight. "i'm thrilled to tell you this first: i've chosen sen. tim kaine as my running mate. welcome him to our team," the former secretary of state said in a text to her supporters. kaine, a former governor and current senator, was the <u+2014>but that doesn't mean he won't have an impact. ; the senator<u+2019>s favorite conversation topic is his conviction that congress needs to pass an authorization for the use of military force giving obama the authority to go to war with isis. it<u+2019>s certainly a topic of massive constitutional importance. but still ... not the sexiest issue. <u+201c>tim kaine would be a perfect addition to the ticket, in that he would add no progressive backbone that might inconvenience team hillary when it's time to govern,<u+201d> people for bernie co-founder charles lenchner . and pro-choice groups about him, as his view on abortion rights is more moderate than clinton<u+2019>s. kaine himself assured meet the press that he is <u+201c>boring.<u+201d> he<u+2019>s also a devout catholic who was a missionary in honduras for 9 months and speaks fluent spanish. that said, the senator brings an unusual<u+2014>and heart-wrenching<u+2014>resume to the ticket. he<u+2019>s one of a small (though growing) number of national politicians to handle a mass shooting. he was governor of virginia , and drew bipartisan praise for the role he played helping the community recover and heal. <u+201c>by any standard, tim kaine provided the exact kind of leadership that va needed during a tremendous crisis and tragedy,<u+201d> said tucker martin, who was press secretary at the time for virginia<u+2019>s republican attorney general, bob mcdonnell. <u+201c>i think you<u+2019>d be hard-pressed to find anyone who would say he didn<u+2019>t rise to the moment.<u+201d> <u+201c>you can go beyond grief to isolation and feeling despair,<u+201d> he said at the time, addressing victims<u+2019> families. <u+201c>those haunting words that were uttered on a hill on calvary: <u+2018>my god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me?<u+2019> despair is a natural emotion at a time like this. they<u+2019>re all natural, they<u+2019>re all appropriate. but let me ask one thing of you, this community, as you wrestle with your sadness, as you wrestle with your own feelings of anger, of confusion, as you wrestle with the despair<u+2014>even you family members who have lost people close: you do not let hold of that spirit of community that makes virginia tech such a special place.<u+201d> all told, the senator is an extremely low-risk pick for clinton. so while her politics may not be conservative, her politicking certainly is.

hillary clinton keeps it safe with tim kaine as vp pick

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political polarization has been a frequent topic of conversation among political observers over the past decade as democratic and republican legislators and voters appear to have moved further apart ideologically. the same pattern is visible in the electorates voting tuesday. voters in democratic primaries are considerably more liberal than they were eight years ago, and republican voters are more conservative than in 2008. according to the nbc news exit polls in the five democratic contests tuesday, there has been a 15-point increase since 2008 in the percentage of voters who describe their political ideology as "liberal." on tuesday, about one-third of democrats described themselves as moderate<u+2014>an 9-point drop since 2008<u+2014>and now fewer than one in 10 characterize their political thinking as conservative. among republicans in four of the five states tuesday (north carolina was excluded because it did not have the comparable trend data) there has been growth since 2008 in the percentage describing their political ideology as "conservative." in 2008, 63 percent of republicans across the four states self-identified as conservatives. on tuesday, 73 percent did so, an overall increase of 10 points. slightly fewer now consider themselves moderates<u+2014>down 4 points to 24 percent. and eight years ago, 9 percent of republican primary voters in these states said they were liberal, a figure that has dwindled to 3 percent today.

march 15 exit poll results: the polarization of primary electorates

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bill clinton simply is not wielding that kind of influence - good or bad - over voters so far this year, according to a reuters/ipsos poll. a majority of americans, including 73 percent of democrats and 52 percent of republicans, said bill clinton does not factor into their opinion of hillary for president. the poll, conducted jan. 7 to 13, found that 12 percent of americans are more likely to vote for hillary, the former secretary of state, because of her marriage to bill. among democrats, fewer than half said bill clinton should be more prominent in his wife's campaign, and less than half felt that his presence in the race would boost her chances of winning. bill clinton, who was widely credited for helping barack obama win a second term in 2012, has become much more active on the campaign trail this month, especially in new hampshire, where hillary clinton trails bernie sanders in several recent statewide polls. hillary called bill her "not-so-secret weapon" when announcing the move, though his increased involvement created an opening for republicans, especially trump, to bring up allegations of sexual misconduct that dogged the clintons in the 1990s. despite two terms of strong economic growth and a trade surplus, bill clinton's legacy as president has been marked by several high-profile missteps. several women came forward during his tenure in the white house with allegations of consensual sexual encounters. he also spent much of his tenure fighting accusations of unwanted advances toward women, including paula jones, an arkansas state employee, who later filed a lawsuit. in 1998, he was impeached by the house of representatives after attempting to cover-up an affair with another woman, monica lewinsky. after hillary said that trump, the republican front-runner, had shown a "penchant for sexism," the real estate mogul took to twitter to warn the democratic front-runner against using her husband as a surrogate on the campaign trail. "if hillary thinks she can unleash her husband, with his terrible record of women abuse, while playing the women's card on me, she's wrong!" trump wrote in late december. voters, however, do not seem to care. a majority of americans in the reuters/ipsos poll, including 68 percent of democrats and 50 percent of republicans, said that bill's past sexual misconduct "made no difference" in the current presidential race. among women, 56 percent said it did not matter, while another 21 percent said it would hurt hillary clinton's chances of winning the election. a tiny proportion of women - 4 percent - said they thought the experience would actually help her chances of winning. democrats who turned out to listen to the former president this week in new hampshire dismissed the allegations of sexual misconduct as no longer relevant. "i just think it's none of our business," said randall ferrara, a retired pastor who came to listen to bill stump in keene, new hampshire. "it's old news and a weapon they use when they don't have anything else." ferrara said he is still deciding between clinton and her chief rival, u.s. senator bernie sanders of nearby vermont. shirley ferrara, his wife, said that she would be supporting hillary. she agreed with the roughly half of democrats that told reuters/ipsos that the former president "should take a prominent role" campaigning for his wife and that it would help her. "i think he would be an asset to her," ferrara said. rachel reekie, a sanders supporter and keen state university student who was in elementary school during clinton's presidency, said she was "fully aware" of the allegations. "it's not a big deal; it's over," reekie said. "i don't think his presence will have an effect." the online panel of 1,947 adults has a credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of about 4 percentage points.

reuters poll: most voters don't think bill clinton big factor in election

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the democratic and republican presidential candidates are charging into super tuesday in a coast-to-coast battle for delegates across a dozen states -- but while they're looking for as many wins as possible, a few select states stand out as the crown jewels. at the top of that list, in both primary contests, is texas. the lone star state has the biggest cache -- 222 democratic delegates and 155 for republicans. and perhaps no candidate is fighting harder for that prize than texas republican sen. ted cruz. the senator went all out on monday, holding rallies in voter-rich dallas, houston and san antonio in hopes of at least defeating national front-runner donald trump in cruz's home state. <u+201c>we are going to have a very good super tuesday,<u+201d> cruz assured the dallas crowd. cruz has maintained a polling lead in the state, but knows a surprise loss there could doom his campaign. for republicans, the second-biggest prize is georgia, with 76 delegates at stake. both trump and florida sen. marco rubio put in face time with voters monday in the final hours before polls open, while cruz stayed rooted in texas. on the democratic side, too, hillary clinton and bernie sanders have focused their efforts. while clinton declared saturday night after her decisive win in the south carolina primary that the campaign was going <u+201c>national,<u+201d> the former secretary of state was concentrating monday on two delegate-heavy states -- the democratic-stronghold of massachusetts (91 delegates) and virginia (95 delegates). solid wins there and beyond on super tuesday could give her a nearly insurmountable delegate count toward the nomination. clinton to date leads sanders in the delegate count 543-to-85, including so-called superdelegates. they will compete for 865 delegates on tuesday and a total of roughly 1,800 delegates over the next two weeks, with 2,382 needed to win the nomination. the delegates on the line in 11 states tuesday represent a third of those needed to clinch the party nod. and on the gop side, 595 delegates are on the line tuesday across 11 states -- nearly half the number needed to secure the nomination. sanders is focusing on minnesota and colorado, progressive states where he hopes his message of social and economic equality will translate into votes. <u+201c>americans don<u+2019>t need crumbs, they need the whole loaf,<u+201d> sanders said at a rally in minneapolis. he is expected on tuesday to win his home state of vermont, which has 16 democratic delegates. minnesota is worth far more, with 77 delegates. still, many of these contests divide delegates proportionally, and so sanders is poised to walk away with some, even where he loses. his strategy appears to be to at least survive tuesday, with hopes of a resurgence later this month in maine and rust belt states like michigan and ohio. on the republican side, trump has won three straight -- the new hampshire and south carolina primaries, and the nevada republican caucus -- garnering 82 delegates. cruz kicked off the 2016 balloting by winning the iowa republican caucus. he has 17 delegates, ahead of florida gop sen. marco rubio with 16. though trailing in texas, trump holds big leads in other delegate-rich super tuesday states. the billionaire businessman leads by double-digits in alabama, georgia, massachusetts, oklahoma, tennessee and virginia, according to realclearpolitics poll averages. roughly 53 percent of the gop<u+2019>s 595 delegates on tuesday are in those states. those polls were released before trump over the weekend initially declined to disavow the backing of former kkk leader david duke, which rubio says makes him <u+201c>unelectable.<u+201d> trump has since disavowed the support and blamed his original handling of the question on a faulty earpiece. the tough race is taking a toll on the candidates. rubio, barnstorming the south to take hold of the gop establishment mantle, temporarily lost his voice at a rally outside of atlanta and needed south carolina gov. nikki haley, who has endorsed him, to take the microphone. the two other gop candidates, ohio gov. john kasich and retired neurosurgeon ben carson, have six and four delegates, respectively.

super tuesday prizes: candidates in fierce fight for texas, other delegate goldmines

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president obama<u+2019>s appearance at a town hall meeting thursday night on <u+201c>guns in america<u+201d> was an orchestrated performance by invitation only. but event, hosted by cnn at george mason university, saw anchor anderson cooper continually surprise the president. cooper demonstrated a deft command of the facts related to the gun issue and that came through with his guests and in his questions<u+2014>though, as the evening unfolded, he continually let the president get away with untruths about his past positions. surprisingly, both sides of the issue were present in the small room<u+2014>though, judging by audience applause, most were anti-gun-freedom. some of the moments were unintentionally revealing. cooper began by asking president obama if he<u+2019>d ever owned a gun. mr. obama sat up in surprise and said <u+201c>no.<u+201d> but, after a search for words, the president said he shoots skeet sometimes at camp david before adding that he<u+2019>s not much <u+201c>of a marksman.<u+201d> when he said that anyone who enjoys the shotgun sports knew he must not have shot skeet much, as <u+201c>marksmanship<u+201d> is a term used for target shooting, not by those who shoot skeet, trap or sporting clays. when cooper shifted the discussion to why the president chose to use executive actions on the gun issue, instead of working with congress, cooper asked the president if he would meet with the nra. the president said, <u+201c>i<u+2019>m happy to meet with the nra,<u+201d> but as he said it he had this snarky smile on his face that would have been more fitting on one of his late show appearances. now, cnn says they invited president obama to this live <u+201c>town hall<u+201d> on guns at george mason university and that they later invited the nra. the nra, however, said they<u+2019>d rather not play along with a <u+201c>public relations spectacle orchestrated by the white house.<u+201d> the national shooting sports foundation (nssf), the trade association for firearms manufacturers, also declined an invitation. larry keane, senior vice president and general counsel to the nssf, told me, <u+201c>we declined the invitation because it is a white house-orchestrated made-for-tv event and not an opportunity for a genuine dialogue or an effort to find common ground. we remain disappointed that the president has chosen to demagogue the issue for political purposes instead of providing real leadership like working to advance rep. tim murphy<u+2019>s bipartisan legislation to address the issue of mental health, which is the common denominator in mass shootings.<u+201d> given obama<u+2019>s<u+2014>and cnn<u+2019>s<u+2014>attacks on the nra and gun manufacturers in general, it is hard to blame them for passing on the invitation, but in retrospect cooper might have made them wish they were there to help keep president obama squirming. as squirm he did<u+2014>with the facts and in his seat. taya kyle, the wife of the late <u+201c>american sniper<u+201d> chris kyle, was the first person cooper called on. kyle recently won a gun competition using the latest in sniper technology. she is a confident straight shooter. she pointed out that while the murder rate is at an all-time low, gun ownership is at an all time high. and then she asked, <u+201c>why not celebrate who we are?<u+201d> president obama began shifting on his stool and searching for words to lawyer his way out of these basic facts. he finally pointed out that national trends don<u+2019>t necessarily hold true in all locales, but he never had to answer why the areas with the strictest gun controls tend to have the highest murder rates. there was also a rape survivor, kimberly corban, who, when called on said, <u+201c>i have been unspeakably vandalized once already<u+201d> before asking why she shouldn<u+2019>t be able to carry a gun to protect herself. president obama was really uncomfortable then. he began back peddling and said his current executive actions won<u+2019>t interfere with her right to carry a gun. but he never had to explain that he has supported bans on concealed-carry permits. president obama also repeatedly said that people can <u+201c>just go on the internet and buy whatever weapon they want.<u+201d> but he was never forced to explain that any gun bought from a dealer over the internet has to be sent to a local dealer that by law has to perform a background check before they can transfer the gun. later, cooper actually did challenge president obama by breaking in and asking <u+201c>is it fair to call it a conspiracy<u+201d> that people think he wants to take their guns away. <u+201c>yes, it is fair to call it a conspiracy,<u+201d> said president obama, who then claimed that he isn<u+2019>t plotting take peoples<u+2019> guns away. but cooper didn<u+2019>t force the president to address his advocacy for a renewed <u+201c>assault weapons<u+201d> ban, or for his administration<u+2019>s public desire to use black lists, such as the no-fly list, to take away citizens<u+2019> second amendment rights without giving them even the basics of due process. there were other questions that took president obama aback, such as when sheriff paul babue pushed obama on how his proposals wouldn<u+2019>t solve recent mass shootings. cooper even broke in to say that <u+201c>none of the guns used in recent mass shootings, i should point out, were purchased from legal dealers.<u+201d> president obama didn<u+2019>t have a clear answer to say why he isn<u+2019>t swayed by these facts. he meandered before saying, <u+201c>the young man who killed those children in newtown didn<u+2019>t have a criminal record but he had access to an arsenal.<u+201d> he referred to an attack in china where a person attacked people with a knife and said <u+201c>the vast majority survived because he wasn<u+2019>t wielding a semiautomatic.<u+201d> again, cooper allowed president obama to escape an obvious allusion to the fact that he would like to ban semiautomatic firearms. the president was also allowed to get away with a big lie on <u+201c>smart-guns.<u+201d> president obama said, <u+201c>[smart gun technology] has not been developed primarily because it has been blocked by the nra<u+201d> and firearms manufacturers. cooper didn<u+2019>t challenge this point and instead called on a person in the audience, which changed the topic. nevertheless, this is a clear and provable fabrication by president obama. as i detail, with interviews with many gun makers, law makers and gun experts in my book <u+201c>the future of the gun,<u+201d> the nra and the nssf, to name two pro-second amendment groups, have statements on their websites saying they are not opposed to <u+201c>smart-gun<u+201d> technology. all the manufacturers, the nra leadership and more, point to laws that seek to mandate smart-gun technology<u+2014>regulations previously backed by the obama administration<u+2014>that are what is impeding smart-gun development. even 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the washington post reported on wednesday night that a prisoner who was in the van with gray allegedly told investigators he could hear gray "banging against the walls" of the police vehicle, and said he believed gray was "intentionally trying to injure himself," according to a document written by a baltimore police investigator. <u+201c>we have reported for some time that<u+00a0>by the time that prisoner is<u+00a0>loaded into that van, freddie<u+00a0>gray<u+00a0>was unresponsive.<u+00a0>secondly we have no medical<u+00a0>evidence that freddie gray<u+00a0>suffered any injury that would indicate that he had injured himself,<u+201d> miller told msnbc's chris hayes on wednesday night. gray was only in the van with the second prisoner for the final five minutes of the ride, miller told lawrence o<u+2019>donnell on wednesday evening. there is <u+201c>no evidence [gray was] banging [his] head against van,<u+201d> miller tweeted. jane cook, an attorney for the gray family, called the report <u+201c>speculation<u+201d> as she had seen no evidence supporting it. "we disagree with any implication that freddie gray severed his own spinal cord," downs said. "we question the accuracy of the police reports we<u+2019>ve seen thus far, including the police report that says mr. gray was arrested without force or incident." while the timeline of gray<u+2019>s arrest remains incomplete, baltimore police commissioner anthony batts said that before the second prisoner was loaded into the van, an officer had to <u+201c>pick [gray] up off the floor and place him on the seat.<u+201d> police said he asked for medical attention at this point. he had earlier been placed in leg irons after an officer felt he was becoming "irate," police said. another issue that arose from the post<u+2019>s report was the fact that the second prisoner was unable to see gray, as he would have been separated by a metal partition in the van. the prisoner who allegedly gave the account is in jail, and the post has not been able to reach him for comment. the affidavit obtained by the post was in an application for a search warrant seeking the seizure of the uniform worn by one of the officers involved in the episode with gray. the document is part of the investigation into gray<u+2019>s death, and the police investigator who wrote it is unnamed. as the post notes, there is no other evidence supporting the purported claims of the second prisoner. there is no video of his time in the van either. as msnbc<u+2019>s rachel maddow said on wednesday night, the leak to the washington post is the first information we have seen of the investigation into gray<u+2019>s death. <u+201c>leaks like this always serve somebody<u+2019>s purpose,<u+201d> maddow said, <u+201c>we have no idea who gave this to the post.<u+201d> police have maintained that they do not know how gray suffered the fatal injury, and have been joined in their investigation by the justice department. police commissioner batts has admitted to mistakes in how gray<u+2019>s arrest was handled, saying he should have received medical attention and that he should have been secured while in the back of the police van. baltimore residents have been joined by others nationwide in their demands for answers of how what happened to gray during and after his arrest on april 12 for a weapons charge. gray was pinned down by the officers making the arrest, and then loaded into the police vehicle for transport while conscious. when he arrived at the station, a medic was called and gray was taken to the hospital. he died a week later. gray <u+201c>gave up without the use of force, <u+201c> baltimore deputy police commissioner jerry rodriguez said. none of the six officers involved in the arrest described using force with gray. a cell phone video showed officers dragging gray while handcuffed towards the police van. video showed gray on the ground conscious and talking, and police said he requested medical attention.

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state department officials under secretary of state hillary rodham clinton moved quickly when aides to bill clinton asked them in march 2010 to approve plans for the former president to address clients of a multinational british bank, barclays. within four days, the department's ethics office signed off on the request -- as it did for hundreds of others from the former president during his wife's four-year tenure leading the agency. its standard response, fired off in a short memo: "we have no objection." that decision remained unchanged even after the justice department announced just months later, in august 2010, that barclays bank agreed to pay nearly $300 million in penalties for violating financial sanctions against iran, cuba, sudan, libya and burma. the long-running case had hardly been a secret: barclays had openly acknowledged in its annual reports -- as recently as the same month as clinton's 2010 request -- that it was under investigation by the justice department and others for sanctions violations, and it cautioned that the impact on its profits "could be substantial." in november, the former president mingled with top barclays executives and clients at a bank-sponsored question session in singapore. a little more than two months later, he again joined barclays officers and clients at an exclusive dinner in davos, switzerland. the two appearances for barclays netted bill clinton $650,000. during hillary clinton's tenure as the top u.s. diplomat, lawyers and other ethics officials in the state department's office of the legal adviser gave near-blanket approval to at least 330 requests for bill clinton's appearance at speeches, dinners and events both in the u.s. and around the globe. more than 220 paid events earned the family nearly $50 million, according to a review of state department documents and hillary clinton's financial disclosure forms by the associated press. now, as hillary clinton moves forward with her presidential campaign, the ease with which her husband was repeatedly cleared to address companies and governments around the world highlights potential ethical complications that are likely to intensify if she becomes the country's next president. "it's politically going to be very treacherous," said jan baran, head of the government ethics group at washington law firm wiley rein llp, who served as general counsel to the republican national committee. "it just becomes controversy all the time." the potential "first dude" has said he intends to continue accepting speaking fees during the presidential campaign. "i got to pay our bills," he said in an interview with nbc's "today show" last week. taken together, the state department and financial disclosure documents show the agency sped through bill clinton's steady stream of requests for events while rarely raising concerns about potential conflicts. at the same time, the agency's ethics office, which had primary responsibility for the decisions, was hobbled by "strained program operations," according to a 2012 report by the u.s. office of government ethics, the government's top ethics agency. state department ethics officials gave quick approval, for example, for the two barclays appearances and events paid by other international banks under legal scrutiny. bill clinton's $200,000 appearance in florida for british-based hsbc in 2011 was cleared despite an ongoing federal money-laundering investigation that led to a 2012 settlement with prosecutors. five u.s. events in 2011 and 2012 earned the former president $840,000 from the wealth management unit of ubs bank less than two years after the swiss bank had acknowledged a massive tax evasion scheme aiding american clients and paid $780 million in penalties. the banks declined to comment about their dealings with the former president. the state department also green-lighted requests by foreign governments to hire the former president for events, despite potential complications for his wife's diplomacy at the time and for a future hillary clinton presidency. similar concerns about foreign influence have been raised about the millions of dollars donated by foreign governments over the past decade to the clinton foundation, the clinton family's global charity. the former president was paid $600,000 to appear at a government-sponsored event in the united arab emirates in december 2011. the state department also approved a 2010 clinton event in bangkok co-sponsored by a thai government energy ministry and state gas firm, but despite news coverage of the speech there is no record of payment in his wife's financial disclosure. <u+00a0>an aide to bill clinton said the thai speech fee was donated to the clinton foundation. not all appearances were approved: a request for clinton to speak in shanghai in 2009 was rejected because of state department hesitation that a prospective host might be an agent of the chinese government. the former president's team withdrew the request. the clinton campaign declined to comment, referring questions to the state department and bill clinton's private office. state department spokesman jeff rathke said last week the agency was not "aware of any actions taken by secretary clinton that were influenced by donations to the clinton foundation or its offshoots or by speech honoraria and consultancies of former president clinton." another spokesman, alec gerlach, declined to address specific cases such as the barclays events. the state department's scrutiny, which went beyond the standard ethics requirements for all federal officials, was the result of a voluntary process agreed to by both clintons to avoid "even the appearance of a conflict of interest," according to a january 2009 memo sent by david kendall, bill clinton's personal lawyer, to jim thessin, who oversaw the vetting in the state department. clinton's office agreed to provide the names of organizations hosting the former president at least 14 days before the event, according to the memo. lawyers at the agency would then aim to complete their review within five days. while most internal emails between state department ethics officials about bill clinton's proposed appearances were redacted to protect internal legal considerations, snippets that survived the censoring depict a vetting process that appeared both strained by the workload and rushed by the former president's deadlines. "this is overdue and our host needs a signed contract today," wrote terry krinvic, clinton's director of scheduling, in a march 2, 2011, email to state department officials. <u+00a0>a state department official working on a speech request described herself in a february 2011 email as "totally stressed out, but will do it this afternoon." in another memo from june 2010, an agency official dashed off a memo warning: "urgent re: clinton foundation issue." the official told a state lawyer: "i'd very much appreciate a turnaround this afternoon as former president clinton is scheduled to arrive in tanzania tomorrow and (diplomatic) post needs to run out these details." the issue, not identified in the redaction, was left unresolved overnight. "former potus clinton is on the ground in tanzania," the agency lawyer wrote the next morning. "we need guidance fairly urgently to still be relevant." the censored emails do not indicate whether the state officials resolved the issue in time. potus means "president of the united states." as state department officials processed clinton's event requests in september 2012, the office of government ethics warned that the state department's office "has extremely limited capacity to respond to the increased demands on its program." it said it was "concerned about the lack of compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements in the areas of financial disclosure, annual training and ethics agreements." gerlach, the state department spokesman, said the department's review of former president clinton's speeches and consultancies was not within the scope of the review by the government-wide ethics agency. a former senior state department official familiar with the vetting process in the early months of hillary clinton's tenure as secretary of state described the department as often shut out from both relevant internal department information and ongoing investigations at other federal agencies that might have aided their reviews. the former official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the department's ethics work. on all sides, the process involved lawyers with long ties to the clinton family -- and each other. cheryl mills was hillary clinton's chief of staff at the state department and was frequently included on the other end of emails during the state department review of the requests. mills was a former white house deputy counsel who collaborated with kendall on bill clinton's impeachment legal defense before working for hillary clinton at the state department. less than a month after hillary clinton was confirmed, a request to approve some of bill clinton's proposed private consulting work was sent by his long-time personal aide doug band, prompting mills to prod the agency's deputy legal adviser to review the arrangement. approval for the former president to enter into a consultancy arrangement with band's corporate advisory firm, teneo, came in 2011, allowing clinton to offer "services regarding geopolitical, economic and social trends" for three years. only a handful of proposed arrangements appear to have been rejected. a consulting contract with saban capital group inc., a firm headed by major clinton donor haim saban, was rejected because of what the state department deemed saban's active involvement in foreign affairs, particularly the middle east. two other consulting contracts -- one with longtime friend steve bing's shangri-la industries and another with wasserman investments gp -- raised no such concerns. a corporate entity for wasserman investments gp could not be found, but california's wasserman media group is run by entertainment and sports executive and democratic donor casey wasserman. on thursday, saban hosted a fundraiser for hillary clinton's campaign at his beverly hills home, raising at least $1.2 million from 450 attendees. occasionally, the agency offered guidance to avoid a clear conflict. in the case of white & case, an international law firm based in new york, a department lawyer signed off on the speech but noted for "situational awareness" that the firm was representing the 1979 u.s. hostages seeking damages from iran -- a case the state department was trying to have dismissed. "we think it would be best to avoid being drawn into any discussion of the litigation," the lawyer wrote. bill clinton's november 2010 appearance for barclays in singapore was one example of the potential for conflict posed by the frenetic stream of requests. in march 2010, krinvic forwarded a clinton proposal to appear at two bank events, a barclays asia forum in singapore in november and barclays dinner in davos in january 2011. in singapore, the plans called for clinton to speak during a moderated question-and-answer session before 650 asian investors and pose for photos. in davos, clinton would attend a similar session before 20 barclays senior executives and 140 clients and their spouses. thessin replied on march 23, telling krinvic that "we have no objection." it was widely known by then that barclays was under investigation by federal prosecutors for repeated illegal transactions with banks in iran, libya, cuba, sudan and burma and for violating u.s. financial sanctions against those governments. barclays had voluntarily disclosed four illegal banking transactions to federal and new york financial authorities in 2006. that led to an internal inquiry by the bank and investigations by federal and new york state prosecutors. the scrutiny resulted in barclays' acknowledgement in federal court in august 2010 that it had violated u.s. sanctions. the bank also agreed to cooperate with the government under a deal that deferred prosecution for two years under supervision of a federal judge. barclays agreed to pay $298 million in fines. the same week in november 2010 that barclays' lawyers submitted a status report to the trial judge overseeing their case, bill clinton appeared at the barclays forum in singapore and mingled with clients who also attended a golf tournament sponsored by the bank. there is no documentation in state department files whether officials had reconsidered their approval after barclays acknowledged violating u.s. laws. barclays declined to comment about clinton's appearances or the investigation. "people admire the way he can take complex issues and break them down for a global audience," barclays plc ceo robert diamond said in an interview with bloomberg news two days after clinton addressed bank clients in davos. while the treasury department administers oversees the administration of u.s. financial sanctions, the state department has its own office of economic sanctions policy, which is responsible for developing foreign policy-related sanctions to counter threats to national security. the criminal case against barclays also noted that the presidential orders for sanctions against iran were authorized by the treasury secretary in consultation with the secretary of state. while the state department's lawyers concluded that most of clinton's speeches did not violate foreign policy interests, some of his appearances could pose political risk for his wife's presidential bid by giving republican opponents an opening to depict the couple as beholden to powerful interests. over a three-day period in november 2011, the swedish telecom company ericsson paid $750,000 for clinton to address industry leaders in hong kong; chinese executives paid $550,000 for a speech in shanghai; and he made $260,000 addressing the annual meeting of hcl, an indian outsourcing giant, at disney world in orlando, florida. his total haul: $1.56 million. while the former president traveled the world, efforts to assure the ethics of his itineraries bounced around the state department. a request to speak at a climate change summit organized by an abu dhabi government environmental group prompted an email to the uae desk officer asking whether "potential affiliation with it by high-level officials" would pose "any harm to foreign policy." the response: "no concerns here." bill clinton was paid $600,000 by the group, the abu dhabi global initiative. when clinton was invited to participate in the china philanthropy forum in november 2012, an event aimed at promoting chinese charitable giving, the state department raised concerns that the event's sponsor was an association made up of former and current senior chinese government officials. "we will need to further consider this one," it said. clinton eventually spoke at the forum's annual conference -- nine months after his wife left office.

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argentine president mauricio macri's office rebutting a report from an argentinian journalist that set off waves in the american media.

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there<u+2019>s a conceit that says everything at facebook is run by data, not people. and we prefer it that way. for the site<u+2019>s billion users, believing there<u+2019>s no human puppet master behind the scenes makes its growing control over life more palatable. it<u+2019>s just a clever machine, reflecting our desires better and better with every interaction, right? for news producers, we have to believe that the platform treats everyone equally: that it<u+2019>s a publisher not an editor. in retrospect, this was always naive. a conservative whistleblower at facebook yesterday claimed in a report that the influential <u+201c>trending news<u+201d> tab was deliberately biased toward liberal news <u+2013> something the social network denies. <u+201c>i<u+2019>d come on shift and i<u+2019>d discover that cpac [conservative political action conference] or mitt romney or glenn beck or popular conservative topics wouldn<u+2019>t be trending because either the curator didn<u+2019>t recognize the news topic or it was like they had a bias against ted cruz,<u+201d> the former news curator told the tech blog gizmodo. silicon valley loves using the word algorithm to cover the word judgment, but any platform built by humans is always political. the engineers building the products want to skew them toward <u+201c>quality<u+201d> content, but it<u+2019>s hard to determine what quality is, exactly, without making a choice influenced by values. when i read suggestions that facebook might be skewing its trending bar, my first reaction, as a san francisco liberal, was to be slightly pleased (any help we can get against trump, right?). but what if the tables were turned? <u+201c>i wonder what the psychological effects of it are,<u+201d> said vince coglianese, editor of the conservative news site the daily caller. <u+201c>millions of facebook users now have no idea that the things they<u+2019>re concerned about are the concerns of a lot of people. it<u+2019>s scary to think facebook<u+2019>s intentionally isolating vast swaths of the country.<u+201d> facebook<u+2019>s in a tricky spot because curation is necessary. truly viral news content tends to be terrible. the front page of reddit<u+2019>s <u+2018><u+201d>hot<u+201d> section, an imperfect but useful barometer for the viral stories of the day, currently has headlines like: <u+201c>chameleon unsure bug is food or not<u+201d> and <u+201c>these condoms are around 60 years old. (found in my basement)<u+201d>. meanwhile my facebook trending bar has: <u+201c>federal trade commission: judge rules against agency<u+2019>s bid to block health care systems merger<u+201d>. it<u+2019>s probably fair to assume that the ftc news was not going as viral as that old condom, but a facebook employee decided it was more important. facebook is the dominant player in the media today. as news websites lose relevance to readers who find content socially, and as stories are published directly onto facebook as instant articles, the company<u+2019>s power will only grow. to turn facebook<u+2019>s trending bar into a reddit page is not the answer. but facebook has to be more honest about how it operates as an editor. <u+201c>just be transparent about how the words on the screen are getting there,<u+201d> coglianese said. if there<u+2019>s one thing silicon valley loves more than the conceit of an amoral algorithm, it is secrecy. and as a social network with a newsfeed of vacation pictures, facebook could get away with being secretive about their curation. as the most powerful publisher and now editor in the world today, facebook owes it to its billion users to be clear about how the site plans on distributing news.

think facebook isn't political? think again | nellie bowles

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washington <u+2014> republican national committee chairman reince priebus is urging his colleagues not to recommend any changes to convention rules, leaving it to the convention delegates to address controversies swirling around the party's nominating process. as drafted for the 2012 republican convention, the rnc rules would limit the number of candidates who can be considered for the nomination at the convention. only donald trump and ted cruz would qualify under the existing rules, but there have been a variety of suggestions for changing the rules to allow other candidates to be considered at the july republican convention. ohio gov. john kasich would need a rules change to win the nomination. the rnc rules committee will meet this week in florida, but priebus said on cnn's state of the union that he is urging rules committee members not to tinker with the convention rules. "i<u+00a0>don't<u+00a0>think that it's a good idea for us next week - before the convention - to make serious rules changes or recommendations of<u+00a0>changes right now," priebus said. "i think we are in a politically charges<u+00a0>environment, i think its too complicated, i think that the rnc rules committee going forward with making rules amendment suggestions <u+2014><u+00a0>it is not a good idea." priebus emphasized that the convention will have its own rules committee that will propose rules for the convention and the full convention must vote to adopt the rules. the rnc "can't actually<u+00a0>change anything.<u+00a0>its up to the delegates at the convention. so the recommendations i think just confuse people, i think its a bad idea and the environment, i think,<u+00a0>is not conducive to it."

rnc chair urges against changing convention rules before cleveland

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donald trump<u+2019>s campaign manager, paul manafort, is linked to an undisclosed $12.7 million in campaign contributions from his previous work as political consultant. republican presidential nominee donald trump gives a thumbs up as his campaign manager paul manafort (c.) and daughter ivanka (r.) look on during mr. trump's walk through at the republican national convention in cleveland, july 21, 2016. following the recent alleged infiltration of the democratic national committee servers by russian hackers, as well as the then ensuing though now-redacted statement by donald trump that russian hackers should help find hillary clinton<u+2019>s missing emails, has raised questions about the republican presidential nominee and his relationship with russia. those questions are now further complicated by the revelation of a secret ledger that allegedly connects mr. trump's campaign chairman and $12.7 million in undisclosed payments from his previous employer, the deposed former president of ukraine, viktor yanukovych, who is currently exiled in russia. paul manafort, trump's campaign chief spent the years from 2007 to 2012 working as a political consultant for the former ruling party of regions in ukraine, where the party leader and the former president yanukovych allegedly relied heavily on advice from mr. manafort until the president was forced into exile in russia. he left after a<u+00a0>popular uprising in 2014 <u+2013> an uprising largely assumed to be conducted in opposition to mr. yanukovych and his government's close ties to russia. according to the ukrainian national anti-corruption bureau, which has obtained the ledgers, the records involve nearly 400 pages of handwritten figures, including some $12.7 million in undisclosed contributions designated for manafort specifically, paid by the party of regions. the bureau stated that manafort<u+2019>s name appeared 22 times over the span of five years, though the nature of the payments were not made clear. "paul manafort is among those names on the list of so-called 'black accounts of the party of regions,' which the detectives of the national anti-corruption bureau of ukraine are investigating," the anti-corruption bureau said in a public statement<u+00a0>quoted in the new york times. "we emphasize that the presence of p. manafort<u+2019>s name in the list does not mean that he actually got the money, because the signatures that appear in the column of recipients could belong to other people." manafort<u+2019>s lawyer has stated specifically that he did not receive any cash payments. but the clinton campaign is raising questions about the nature of the payments as well as the consistently complicated and opaque relationship between manafort<u+2019>s current employer, donald trump, and vanukovych<u+2019>s close ally, russia president vladimir putin. yanukovych, who initially disappeared following the 2014 uprising, had previously been accused of corruption and cronyism and even served a short stint on an interpol wanted list for alleged embezzlement and financial wrongdoing. his palatial estate outside of kiev made international news when, after his flight, protestors discovered the opulence he had been living in while the country was wracked with political turmoil. while employed by yanukovych, manafort never registered as a foreign agent with the united states justice department, something that would be required for anyone looking to influence american policy on behalf of a foreign client, something for which one of manafort<u+2019>s subcontractors did register. though it is unclear whether manafort's actions in ukraine would have required such registration, doing so would have required he disclose how much he was being paid and by whom during his period abroad <u+2013> information that may now be available because of the discovery of secret ledgers once held in an office at the former party of regions headquarters in kiev. on monday, trump is expected to<u+00a0>declare an end to nation building if he's elected president. in a speech in ohio, his aides say trump will outline his approach of "foreign policy realism" <u+2013> a focus on destroying the islamic state group and other terrorist organizations. trump is expected to argue the country needs to work with anyone that shares that mission, regardless of other disagreements.

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back in june, i first saw mr. trump announcing his candidacy for president. what he said about unauthorized<u+00a0>immigrants seemed ridiculous so i laughed. i showed the video to friends, and i laughed again. his words were poorly chosen. but something worse happened. people interpreted trump<u+2019>s words in the most awful and offensive ways. in one of my courses, at the university of texas at austin, i asked my students: <u+201c>what has donald trump said that you found most offensive?<u+201d> one student raised her hand high: <u+201c>he said that all mexicans are rapists.<u+201d> i asked a coworker the same question. he replied: <u+201c>he said that all mexican immigrants are rapists.<u+201d> i explained that trump said no such thing. this is what trump said: you might well dislike trump<u+2019>s words. i did. but let<u+2019>s not make it worse. he did not say that all mexicans are rapists. yet that<u+2019>s what many commentators did. for example,<u+00a0>politico<u+00a0>misquoted trump by omitting his phrase about <u+201c>good people.<u+201d> they said he was <u+201c>demonizing mexicans as rapists.<u+201d> they argued that mexicans do not really commit more rapes in the u.s. than whites. but that<u+2019>s not what trump claimed. similarly, other news sources misrepresented his words in offensive ways: compare such words with trump<u+2019>s words. which is worse? writers excerpted the phrase: <u+201c>they<u+2019>re rapists,<u+201d> as if it were about all mexican unauthorized immigrants, or worse, about all mexican immigrants, or even worst, about all mexicans. but that<u+2019>s not what he said. that<u+2019>s not what he meant. it was just a remark about some of the criminals crossing the border. the trick for misrepresenting trump<u+2019>s words can be used against anyone. for example, on october 7, at a democratic debate, hillary clinton answered the question: <u+201c>which enemy are you most proud of?<u+201d> she replied: <u+201c>in addition to the nra, um, the health insurance companies, the drug companies, um, the iranians.<u+201d> if you do to her what the media did to trump, then you should believe that hillary clinton is proud to be the enemy of 77 million citizens of iran, plus millions more living outside iran, including mothers, children, and disabled people. but that<u+2019>s not what she meant. on november 6, at the msnbc democratic candidates forum, bernie sanders said: <u+201c>we have to pass a constitutional amendment that everyone in america who is 18 years old or older is registered to vote.<u+201d> he said<u+00a0>everyone. someone might then write: <u+201c>he proposed that everyone who is in the u.s. should vote, everyone who is 18, even illegal immigrants, tourists, and terrorists.<u+201d> but that<u+2019>s not what he meant. it is no wonder that many people think the media is grossly dishonest. no wonder mr. trump<u+2019>s critiques of the media make his followers cheer. trump was discussing crimes committed by unauthorized immigrants. is it true that some people who illegally cross the border from mexico are good? yes. is it true that some others commit crimes? yes. is that a problem? people disagree. some conjecture that unauthorized immigrants don<u+2019>t commit more crimes than u.s. citizens. but crimes by unauthorized immigrants, even murders, would not have happened if those individuals had not entered the u.s. time for a disclosure. i was born and raised in puerto rico. spanish is my first language. i voted for obama. i live in liberal austin, texas, where i work as a tenured professor of history. i<u+2019>ve never voted for a republican. my preferred candidate for u.s. president would be elizabeth warren. since she is not running, my preferred candidate is bernie sanders. anyhow, discussions about illegal immigration are ruined by lack of data. i asked my friends, university faculty: <u+201c>how many people do you think are deported per year in the u.s.?<u+201d> there are two kinds of deportations: some are caught near the border and <u+201c>returned,<u+201d> others are <u+201c>removed<u+201d> by a court order. consider the border patrol agents, personnel, the bureaucracy, the lawyers, the resources needed to find people and deport them. how many were deported in 2014? one of my friends guessed 3,000. another guessed 10,000. another guessed 50,000<u+2014>which would really be a lot of people, imagine. actually, in fiscal year 2014, the u.s. deported a total of 893,238 foreigners! that<u+2019>s a huge number. it includes 577,295 deported by the department of homeland security, plus 315,943 deported by immigration and customs enforcement. among the latter, 2,802 were classified as suspected or confirmed gang members. since 1990, the average is 1.2 million deportations per year. the highest in u.s. history was 1.86 million foreigners deported in the year 2000. that<u+2019>s astonishing. how many were criminals? we don<u+2019>t know because most criminals are not caught. plus, many who are accused are not convicted because of a lack of evidence. still, in 2014, the u.s. deported 177,960 convicted criminals. surprisingly, 91,037 were already convicted criminals<u+00a0>before<u+00a0>they even entered the<u+00a0>u.s. at the university of texas at austin, the football stadium can seat 100,119 people. i have seen it full. i<u+2019>ve see more than 100,000 people at once<u+2014>it<u+2019>s an incredible sight. it<u+2019>s a staggering swarm of people. i have seen them yelling all at once. it is utterly astonishing to me that this stadium would fail to seat all the convicted criminals deported in a single year. back to mr. trump. did he unfairly single out mexicans when complaining about crimes by unauthorized immigrants? by far, most mexicans are good people. however, since mexico shares a large frontier with the u.s., and many mexicans face economic hardships, most of the reported illegal immigration into the u.s. is from mexico. accordingly, in recent years roughly 76% of criminal unauthorized immigrants are from mexico. what kinds of crime? it is strangely difficult to find national statistics on homicides, sexual assaults, and thefts, by unauthorized immigrants. but there is relevant data for some states. the texas department of public safety identified 207,076 foreign aliens who were booked into texas county jails from october 2008 through august 1, 2014. their term <u+201c>foreign aliens<u+201d> includes both foreigners who are in texas legally and foreigners who entered illegally. they were accused of 357,884 crimes in those 70 months, including these charges: 4,413 terroristic threats, 60,973 robberies and larcenies, 6,636 vehicle thefts, 78,682 assaults, 12,869 sexual assaults and offenses, 1,113 kidnapping, and 3,089 homicides. that includes, an average of 1,383 charges of sexual assaults per year, in texas alone. the real number of rapes and sexual assaults is larger since many victims do not report these crimes. according to the national crime and victimization survey, 2008-2012, approximately 68% of sexual assault crimes are not reported. so i estimate that foreigners commit roughly 4,000 sexual assaults in texas each year. in texas, roughly 529 foreigners per year were accused of committing murder. plus, the fbi reports that 36% of homicides nationwide remain unsolved. these crime rates are staggering and offensive. none of the women and men who were killed in by unauthorized immigrants in texas would have died if the murderers had not entered the u.s. illegally. these are not just words. pause for a moment to think about a texas woman whose husband was murdered one night. think about parents who never saw their son again because he was murdered. think of the thousands of families standing at the cemeteries. i<u+2019>ve only summarized murders and sexual assaults. consider drugs and drug violence. according to the drug enforcement administration, most illegal drugs come from mexico, including most cocaine and heroine. most methamphetamines also are smuggled from mexico. the 2015 national drug threat survey finds that methamphetamines are the drugs that most contribute to property crimes and violent crimes. you get the point. there are tremendous problems of drugs, murders, and rapes caused at the porous border. without knowing the data, it was easy to be offended by mr. trump<u+2019>s crude words when he announced his candidacy. however, seeing the data above, i understand his concerns. here<u+2019>s what trump said right after his words quoted above: <u+201c>and it only makes common sense, it only makes common sense: they<u+2019>re sending us not the right people, and it<u+2019>s coming from more than mexico, it<u+2019>s coming from all over south and latin america, and it<u+2019>s coming probably, probably from the middle east. but we don<u+2019>t know because we have no protection, and we have no competence. we don<u+2019>t know what<u+2019>s happening. and it<u+2019>s gotta stop. and it<u+2019>s gotta stop fast.<u+201d> we can disagree about some points. is the mexican government really sending criminals to the u.s.? on july 5, trump said: <u+201c>the mexican government is forcing their most unwanted people into the united states. they are, in many cases, criminals, drug dealers, rapists, etc.<u+201d> this claim might be false if mexico does not intentionally send criminals to the us. at its best, this statement seems plausible if trump meant that conditions generated in mexico by its government lead some criminals to the u.s. in any case, trump proposes to secure the southern border by implementing various security measures. his most recurring proposal is to build a wall, along areas of the border lacking natural barriers. his proposal has been widely criticized. some people construed it as a sign of racism, xenophobia, etc. however, i can understand why many of trump<u+2019>s followers actually cheer: <u+201c>build the wall! build the wall!<u+201d> first, there are the worries about murders, drugs, crimes, and terrorism. presently, countless many unauthorized immigrants walk into the country, unchecked. in fiscal year 2014, the border patrol made 468,407 apprehensions along the southwest border. by comparison, the border patrol only made 18,244 apprehensions in all other regions. but one point sticks in my mind. namely this: there already exist a long series of fences and walls between mexico and the u.s. these fences and walls span parts of california, arizona, new mexico, and texas. as of early 2012, the department of homeland security had completed 652 miles of fences and walls. trump did not build all that. it was mandated by congress. walls are common along<u+00a0>many countries<u+2019> borders, such as spain, china, france, greece, pakistan,<u+00a0>israel, etc. the border between the u.s. and mexico spans roughly 1,950 miles. trump wants a wall that will be 1,000 miles long, including areas already covered. i<u+2019>m not trying to convince you about a wall. my point is just that it<u+2019>s neither impossible nor ridiculous. a main reason why many border areas have fences instead of walls is just that walls are more expensive. trump says that everyone who didn<u+2019>t enter the u.s. legally should return to their countries. <u+201c>they have to go.<u+201d> we might well disagree. but his view is closer to immigration law. if you prefer amnesty then lawmakers have to create a law to that effect. trump insists: <u+201c>i want people to come in, but they have to come in legally.<u+201d> regardless, countless many people think that trump is racist against mexicans. i suggest that anyone who thinks that should count how many times trump has praised mexicans. most unauthorized immigrants are good people. but still, the media wrongly blamed mr. trump for their own misrepresentations.

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do democrats want what bernie wants, or just what bernie has? for some weeks now, as bernie sanders has extended his remarkable and improbable run as a presidential candidate, people have been asking: "what does bernie want?" that question is a distant echo of "what does jesse want?" a relic of the 1988 runner-up candidacy of jesse jackson, another "outsider" challenger with a dedicated hardcore following. but more about jackson in a moment. this week, the question took a different form. after a rowdy convention in nevada prompted death threats against that state party chair, the question suddenly became: "are the democrats coming apart?" uniting for the fall has always been an issue for both parties. but this year, it was supposed to be the republicans, with their 17 candidates and their frustrated #nevertrump rearguard action, who broke up over their differences. now, it's working out quite differently. so we hear again that old nostrum: "democrats want to fall in love, republicans want to fall in line." a remarkable number of republicans have accepted, if not embraced, donald trump as their nominee. but a large contingent of democrats continue to feel the bern, or at least remain very much out of love with hillary clinton. which brings us to this past weekend, which proved that sometimes what happens in vegas does not stay in vegas. the "nevada fracas" has created a media meme and a conversational focus for the conflict roiling the democratic party. that is because it encapsulates the grievances felt on both sides. sanders supporters see that some of their number were not seated in las vegas and see evidence that the system is rigged against them. clinton supporters hear the epithets hurled at women on that stage, including the state party chair and sen. barbara boxer, and perceive evidence of something else. others will adjudicate what happened in las vegas, where both candidates' camps seem to think they were entitled to a majority of delegates. (although clinton won the initial round of caucuses back in february, sanders had the upper hand in an intermediate round at the county level on april 2.) one camp wanted an open process; the other wanted respect for the rules. a voice vote was gaveled to a conclusion despite an uncertain outcome, which is bound to cause trouble. but in the end, the party chair herself has come to seem the principal victim <u+2014> "more sinned against than sinning" <u+2014> because of extreme phone and online harassment. nevada's convention seems to have been an egregious case, an outlier. in other states where actual delegates are chosen in several phases, regular order has been followed without a similar outburst. but exceptions to the rule often make news. and in this case, cable tv and social media have endlessly repeated the raucous video shot at the convention and the toxic harassment that followed. as nevada became a national story, sanders was pressured to respond. the candidate has condemned violence generically, but has not apologized for his backers. instead, sanders and his retinue have denied responsibility for what happened and doubled down on their long-simmering resentments against democratic party officials. they say the entire process has been rigged against them, even parts that have been in place for decades. and the implicit message has been: treat us fairly or expect there to be consequences. when this message is combined with sanders' vow this week to "carry our fight to the convention," it darkens the portents for the national convention in philadelphia. so what does bernie want? let's start with the obvious: he wants to be nominated and elected. that's understood. every candidate has a perfect right to continue fighting until the last ballot is cast, as sanders vows to do. but even if he wins california, and several other states on june 7, sanders would need vertiginous victory margins to win enough delegates to close the pledged delegate gap with clinton. (the democrats divide delegates proportionally according to the popular vote, which is just about as democratic a method as you can imagine.) so sanders' one path is to persuade superdelegates to prefer him over clinton, even though they currently prefer clinton by more than 10-1. (the only superdelegate to flip so far deserted sanders for the front-runner.) sanders and his spokespersons say superdelegates should now ignore the overall vote and the pledged delegate totals and look at how much better sanders does against trump in hypothetical november matchups. the only problem is that hypothetical tests six months before the election are notoriously unreliable. just ask president perot. moreover, many of the poll respondents who create this november differential right now are sanders supporters who say they will shift to trump in november. the likelihood of their actually doing so is problematic, given past experience with disgruntled backers of other candidates who fell short. (the most recent example would be the clinton backers in 2008 who swore they would not vote for the man who beat her, barack obama, but wound up doing so in the fall.) so the "path to the nomination" for sanders is not just uphill, it is essentially vertical. so what else might sanders want? no one seems to think sanders wants to be vice president or have any other role in a clinton administration. he would return to the senate, where he would be in a wholly new weight class of political influence. but he clearly wants to make a difference, to alter how the democrats go forward in the fall campaign and beyond. and that is what the clinton camp must manage. it is entirely possible that the democratic convention in philadelphia this july will vote to change party rules, shrinking the number of superdelegates or requiring them to follow the voting results in their states. it is also possible, if less likely, that the party would agree to allow more independents a role in its nominating process (although this would still depend on the will of the various states). sanders supporters will also strive to make the party platform more progressive, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and expanding medicare to cover people of all ages and perhaps calling for free tuition at public colleges. (the platform already calls for much of sanders' program regarding the campaign finance system and other issues.) this might fall far short of the "political revolution" sanders says his campaign is about. but it could still matter. and it could still point the party toward a far more progressive future. that is one way in which the 1988 precedent is relevant. jesse jackson arrived in atlanta with about 30 percent of the delegates (not nearly as many as sanders will have this summer). at the time, it was easily the best showing for an african-american presidential candidate. and although jackson was not going to be nominated (massachusetts gov. michael dukakis had a first-ballot majority), his message of racial and economic inclusion was popular and powerful within the party's base. the dukakis forces recognized this and turned the proceedings over to jackson on the second night of the convention. thousands of jackson supporters jammed the arena while delegates, alternates and journalists waited outside <u+2014> unable to enter. jackson gave an hourlong oration on the theme of common ground, a siege gun speaking for unity. jackson did his part in the fall, helping dukakis carry nearly 90 percent of the black vote and 70 percent of the then-minuscule hispanic vote. unfortunately for dukakis, minority voters cast only about one ballot in seven in 1988. but by 2012, the share of the vote cast by people of color had nearly doubled. that stunning growth has turned a dozen states that were red in 1988 to blue in 2012 (california, illinois, pennsylvania, michigan, new jersey, virginia, maryland, new mexico, connecticut, new hampshire, delaware and vermont). the same demographic trends have made florida, ohio and colorado toss-ups in presidential elections. all had been solidly republican in 1988. sanders' hard base is not among minorities, of course, but among younger voters. his success has been built on winning three-fourths or even more of the voters under age 30. that is a group clinton will need in the fall just as much as dukakis needed jackson's base in 1988. sanders may not want a jackson-style prime-time convention session all his own. he might be willing to settle for platform and rules revisions that would validate his campaign. but if he wants a bernie night in philadelphia when he can bring his political revolution to life <u+2014> even for a few hours <u+2014> it might be a small price to pay for peace.

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when hillary clinton announces her candidacy on sunday, the republicans will no doubt redouble their efforts to make the case that a vote for hillary is a vote for barack obama<u+2019>s third term<u+2014>and the gop believes no one wants that, for pete<u+2019>s sake. clinton<u+2019>s campaign, by contrast, will almost certainly make a very different case: if they vote for her, americans will be getting something far closer to bill clinton<u+2019>s third term. tying her husband<u+2019>s administration to her candidacy, hillary clinton has started to focus her language and her speeches on the continued struggles of the vast american middle class to adjust to a changed and still-changing economic landscape. that has ranged from addressing inequality of opportunity to less mobility to what she has called the <u+201c>outrage that so many women are still paid less than men for the same work.<u+201d> in comments she has made over the past year or so, she has portrayed the 1990s as a template for sound economic policies<u+2014>even when compared with the record of the republican party<u+2019>s modern-day hero, ronald reagan. <u+201c>if you want a better future that is going to be reliant on making smart economic policies, compare my husband<u+2019>s eight years with ronald reagan<u+2019>s eight years<u+2014>23 million new jobs, more than seven million people lifted out of poverty,<u+201d> clinton told pbs last june. at another point last year she declared in a speech:<u+00a0> <u+201c>the 1990s taught us that even in the face of difficult long-term economic trends, it<u+2019>s possible through smart policies and sound investments to enjoy broad-based growth and shared prosperity.<u+201d> the eight years that followed her husband<u+2019>s presidency, she said, showed how bad policy could turn budget surpluses into deficits and "what happens when your only policy prescription is to cut taxes for the wealthy." given how widespread today<u+2019>s economic concerns are, a new iteration of <u+201c>it<u+2019>s still the economy, stupid<u+201d> could be a sound foundation for a successful campaign<u+2014>one that creates just enough distance on the economy between obama and clinton (who, after all, spent her entire tenure in the obama administration working on foreign policy). even so, clinton faces multiple challenges separate from those of her own making: the implied comparison between the economy of the 1990s and the utterly fuzzy nature of our economic world today defies easy characterization. how she threads those issues will likely determine her the outcome of her second quest for the white house. twenty-four years ago, bill clinton campaigned to fix an ailing economy that had seen massive layoffs in manufacturing in the recession of 1991. he assailed then president george h.w. bush for ignoring the suffering of the middle class. his campaign moniker, <u+201c>it<u+2019>s the economy, stupid,<u+201d> helped propel him to victory over a sitting president. the situation today is arguably better than it was in 1991-1992, with the unemployment rate averaging 6.8 percent in 1991 and 7.5 percent in 1992 versus 5.5 percent over the past months. the end of the cold war, the disintegration of the soviet union and the resounding american sense of triumph in those years, as well as victory in the war to evict iraq from kuwait, also placed the united states in a far stronger position internationally, though that is more clear in retrospect than it was just then, when uncertainty about international chaos lent an air of unease. but even though today looks statistically better than the early 1990s, the national mood is arguably worse, though mood gauges are the softest of soft statistics. jobs numbers as well don<u+2019>t adequately account for the much lower participation rate of american workers, with a smaller percentage of americans working (nearly 67 percent then versus about 62 percent now). more important, and hence the reason for hillary<u+2019>s focus on the middle class, wages have barely budged since the early 1990s for the vast majority of workers. in contrast to the early republican message that government has impeded the progress of the average american, the clinton campaign looks to stress how government in conjunction with individual initiatives and businesses can help boost opportunities. the subliminal (or maybe not so) implication is that is just what happened throughout the eight years the other clinton was president. it is undeniably true that between 1993 and 2000, the united states experienced a boom in both employment and economic growth. sentiment as measured by gallup polls about satisfaction with the economy also improved greatly, with just 24 percent expressing satisfaction in 1992 compared with 69 percent in 2000. the prevailing buzz was that of an economy firing on all proverbial cylinders, boosted by information technologies that were enhancing worker productivity and by a wall street and equity boom that saw tens of millions of americans trading hot-dot stocks that promised not just wealth but connectivity, peace and happiness.

is hillary running for bill<u+2019>s third term?

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canada's liberal party won a decisive majority of parliamentary seats monday, ending nearly a decade of conservative party rule. voters gave liberals nearly 40 percent of the overall vote compared to the conservatives' 32 percent. the left-leaning new democrats had just over 19 percent of the vote. justin trudeau, a 43-year-old former high school teacher and son of the late prime minister pierre trudeau, assumes the office his father held from 1968 through 1984 with a short interruption. the youthful trudeau ran an election that was optimistic in tone, which he said led to his victory. "we beat fear with hope," he said. "we beat cynicism with hard work. we beat negative divisive politics with a positive vision that brings canadians together. most of all we defeated the idea that canadians should be satisfied with less." the associated press notes the election results could strengthen ties between canada and the u.s., at least for the remainder of the obama administration: conservative stephen harper was one of the longest-serving western leaders. reporter dan karpenchuk in toronto reports on his loss: trudeau's election gives canada an approximation of a political dynasty. his father, also a liberal, often drew comparisons with president john f. kennedy. justin trudeau was born while his father was serving in office <u+2014> in fact more than 40 years ago, then-president richard nixon predicted the 4-month-old trudeau's future: "tonight we'll dispense with the formalities," he said at a state dinner in ottawa. "i'd like to toast the future prime minister of canada: to justin pierre trudeau."

trudeau elected canada's prime minister as liberals assume power

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typically, 'american exceptionalism' has been a republican talking point. but this election, it's hillary clinton, not donald trump who's touting the idea <u+2013> even as young americans increasingly question it. democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton speaks at the american legion's 98th annual convention at the duke energy convention center in cincinnati wednesday. when hillary clinton spoke in front of a group of veterans on wednesday, she invoked a concept that has long shaped how many conservative americans have understood their country and its place within the world. <u+201c>if there is one core belief that has guided and inspired me every step of the way, it is this: the united states is an exceptional nation,<u+201d> mrs. clinton told those gathered at the american legion<u+2019>s national convention in cincinnati. <u+201c>i believe we are still lincoln<u+2019>s <u+2018>last best hope of earth,<u+2019> still reagan<u+2019>s <u+2018>shining city on a hill,<u+2019> still robert kennedy<u+2019>s <u+2018>great, unselfish, compassionate country.<u+2019> <u+201d> such lofty talk of <u+201c>american exceptionalism<u+201d> has been woven into the nation<u+2019>s dna since the time of the puritans, many scholars say. the united states, many believe, is a unique nation with a special, perhaps god-ordained role to play upon the global stage. but within the crosscurrents of this topsy-turvy election cycle, the roles of the presidential candidates have flipped. on wednesday, clinton spoke of the value of the american military, both to secure american interests abroad and to act as <u+201c>the global force for freedom, justice, and human dignity.<u+201d> meanwhile, donald trump has said the assumptions behind american exceptionalism are <u+201c>insulting<u+201d> to the rest of the world. <u+201c>i don't like the term,<u+201d> he said last year. the reversal comes amid a deeper shift within the country itself. the rising generation of millennials more often sees american exceptionalism as connected to ideals than to the exertion of its power, polls find. <u+201c>a new patriotism in american may be rising,<u+201d> wrote lynn vavreck in the new york times. in the context of this election, however, clinton<u+2019>s more traditional speech <u+201c>makes perfect sense,<u+201d> says mark naison, professor of african american studies and history at fordham university in new york. she has just spent a month courting republicans potentially alienated by trump, after all. in general, underlined her long-held hawkish positions on the use of the american military. the united states is not only an exceptional nation, she said, it is also indispensable nation as a force for good. this is not a typical democratic talking point. <u+201c>on the left and in most precincts of the democratic party, the word is used sneeringly, while republicans embrace it enthusiastically,<u+201d> says jerald podair, professor of history and american studies at lawrence university in appleton, wis. indeed, republicans explicitly trumpet american exceptionalism in their party platform. the republican nominee, however, has expressed the view of many liberals over the years. in 2013, after russian president vladimir putin criticized president obama<u+2019>s use of the phrase <u+201c>american exceptionalism,<u+201d> mr. trump agreed, calling it <u+201c>insulting<u+201d> to the rest of the world. then in april last year, a month before he announced his candidacy, trump repeated the critique, telling the texas patriots political action committee, a tea party group: <u+201c>i don't want to say, <u+2018>we're exceptional. we're more exceptional.<u+2019> because essentially we're saying, <u+2018>we're more outstanding than you<u+2026><u+2019> i don't like the term. i never liked it. when i see these politicians get up [and say], <u+2018>the american exceptionalism<u+2019> ... i think, <u+2018>you<u+2019>re insulting the world.<u+2019> <u+201d> trump<u+2019>s position has hints of the growing generational shift, but millennial ideals appear to go deeper. on the surface, millennials report having fewer traditional notions of patriotism. only 15 percent of 18 to 29 year olds describe the us as the greatest country in the world, while half of 30 to 64 year olds still make that claim. yet as the monitor reported this week on san francisco 49ers quarterback colin kaepernick<u+2019>s decision not to stand for the national anthem, many millennials see the country<u+2019>s <u+201c>exceptionalism<u+201d> in acts of questioning, and through a desire to fix its flaws. this includes a vigorous critique of the idea of america as a special nation and a force for good in the world <u+2013> especially by minority thinkers. <u+201c>american exceptionalism has its roots in the ideologies and genocidal practices of land conquest, from manifest destiny to the occupations of iraq and afghanistan,<u+201d> says dylan rodriguez, a professor of ethnic studies at the university of california, riverside, in an email. <u+201c>inseparable from the history of us white supremacist thought <u+2013> which includes eugenics and the legal edifices of jim crow apartheid <u+2013> this is an exceptionalism that nurtures a dynamically racist commitment to social darwinism.<u+201d> early in his tenure, obama drew the ire of conservatives after he casually dismissed a question about american exceptionalism. <u+201c>i believe in american exceptionalism, just as i suspect that the brits believe in british exceptionalism and the greeks believe in greek exceptionalism,<u+201d> he said in 2009. but obama now says he believes <u+201c>in american exceptionalism with every fiber of my being<u+201d> <u+2013> though on new terms that echo millennials<u+2019>. america<u+2019>s exceptionalism is rooted in the history of american protests and battles for freedom, he says. in his speech for the 50th anniversary of the selma to montgomery marches last year, obama gave a whitmanesque litany, from <u+201c>the hopeful strivers who cross the rio grande because we want our kids to know a better life,<u+201d> to <u+201c>the slaves who built the white house and the economy of the south,<u+201d> and to <u+201c>the countless laborers who laid rail, and raised skyscrapers, and organized for workers<u+2019> rights,<u+201d> among others. <u+201c>that<u+2019>s what it means to love america,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>that<u+2019>s what it means to believe in america. that<u+2019>s what it means when we say america is exceptional.<u+201d> clinton<u+2019>s speech on wednesday offered hints of that vision, though specifically as a means of contrasting herself with trump. <u+201c>my opponent misses something important,<u+201d> she told the veterans. <u+201c>when we say america is exceptional, it doesn't mean that people from other places don't feel deep national pride, just like we do. it means that we recognize america's unique and unparalleled ability to be a force for peace and progress, a champion for freedom and opportunity.<u+201d> in that way, the idea of what makes america great could be a central campaign theme this november, says professor naison. <u+201c>this vision of the us, not only as a beacon of freedom for nations, but as a place where oppressed people might want to move to, is precisely the vision she wants to juxtapose to donald trump's vision of the us as a walled society cutting back on its global obligations.<u+201d>

what makes america 'exceptional'? clinton and trump trade places (+video)

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u.s. stocks rallied for a second day on thursday, boosted by expectations the u.s. economy will continue to improve and by hopes for more aggressive action from the european central bank. the s&p 500 added 3 percent over the last two sessions, retracing most of its 4.2 percent loss in the previous five trading days, leaving the index in positive territory for 2015. the dow and nasdaq also turned up for the year so far. the advance was broad, with the s&p materials, energy and technology sectors each rising more than 2 percent, leading the day's gains. though slightly above expectations, initial claims for state unemployment benefits slipped from the prior week, pointing to a firming labor market ahead of friday's key monthly payrolls report. "we're at the point where the jobs reports have been coming in consistently in the 200,000 or 200,000-plus range. i think that just keeps the fed on track for everything we're expecting," said michael o'rourke, chief market strategist at jonestrading in greenwich, connecticut. also boosting sentiment, continued weak euro zone data has been lifting optimism that the european central bank will take more aggressive action. u.s. crude oil, whose free-fall was among the catalysts for the recent selloff in stocks, gained for a second day, settling at $48.79 per barrel. the s&p energy index rose 2.2 percent. signs that oil prices may be stabilizing have boosted investor sentiment, although market analysts were still not ready to say prices had found a floor. the dow jones industrial average rose 323.35 points, or 1.84 percent, to 17,907.87, the s&p 500 gained 36.24 points, or 1.79 percent, to 2,062.14 and the nasdaq composite added 85.72 points, or 1.84 percent, to 4,736.19. the s&p 500's two-day gains were its biggest since the dec. 17-18 federal reserve-fueled rally of 4.5 percent. minutes from that december fed meeting released wednesday reassured investors the central bank was in no hurry to start raising interest rates. the s&p also snapped back above its 50-day average, a technical support level it fell below on monday. "weak hands are being forced to chase. there's a fear of missing out on the rally," o'rourke said. about 7.1 billion shares changed hands on u.s. exchanges, above the 6.7 billion average for the last five sessions, according to bats global markets. biotechs were among the most active shares. bind therapeutics shares surged 37.1 percent to $7.06, a day after the company said it enrolled its first patient in a mid-stage trial for its lung cancer drug. advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the nyse by 2,396 to 718, for a 3.34-to-1 ratio; on the nasdaq, 2,048 issues rose and 702 fell, for a 2.92-to-1 ratio. the s&p 500 posted 60 new 52-week highs and 8 new lows; the nasdaq composite recorded 88 new highs and 32 new lows.

wall street flies higher for second day of gains

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killing obama administration rules, dismantling obamacare and pushing through tax reform are on the early to-do list.

alaska scrambles to prevent obamacare collapse

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in the first and only vp debate tuesday night, tim kaine and mike pence made up for lost opportunities in the first presidential debate. democratic vice presidential nominee senator tim kaine (l.) and republican vice presidential nominee governor mike pence discuss an issue during their vice presidential debate at longwood university in farmville, va., on oct. 4, 2016. no vice presidential debate has ever swung a presidential race. and in 2016, with two larger-than-life characters at the top of the republican and democratic tickets, that truism will surely hold. but on the biggest night of their political lives, gov. mike pence (r) of indiana and sen. tim kaine (d) of virginia still performed a valuable service for republican donald trump and his democratic rival, hillary clinton. they advanced the story, lobbing fresh attacks on each other<u+2019>s bosses and delving into policy differences. for governor pence, the debate was a welcome opportunity to move beyond the worst week of the trump campaign. mr. trump was widely seen as having lost to mrs. clinton last week in their first debate, and made matters worse by continuing for days to go after a former miss universe whom he had once mocked. then the new york times got hold of bits of an old trump tax return. pence faced a barrage of incoming from senator kaine, and in many cases, declined to defend trump. that, in fact, may have been the smart strategy. otherwise, pence might have spent the entire debate playing defense, responding to accusations about trump<u+2019>s taxes, admiration for russian president vladimir putin, demeaning comments about women, and birtherism. instead, pence deflected and ignored much of kaine<u+2019>s assault. when kaine asked pence why he wasn<u+2019>t defending trump, pence replied, <u+201c>i<u+2019>m happy to defend him<u+201d> <u+2013> and then continued to not defend him on many of the points. when kaine accused trump of running an <u+201c>insult-driven<u+201d> campaign, pence ignored the vast catalog of evidence and turned the slam back on his opponent. <u+201c>ours is an insult-driven campaign?<u+201d> pence interjected, with mock incredulity. then he ran for daylight: what about clinton calling half of trump supporters a <u+201c>basket of deplorables<u+201d>? pence countered. it was a comeback that trump had failed to make in his debate against clinton <u+2013> one of many missed opportunities that night. but one by one, pence checked off those boxes, also raising the controversies around clinton<u+2019>s private email server and the family<u+2019>s charitable foundation. in a way, for pence, it was a do-over debate <u+2013> a way to score some points against clinton that trump failed to do last week, and show him how to keep his cool during a debate. (clinton and trump face off again on oct. 9.) and if pence has his eye on 2020, as many observers suspect, he may well have helped himself. at the very least, pence is now positioned to play a major role in helping the republican party pick up the pieces if trump loses. for kaine, the debate was a chance to unload a torrent of sound bites against a trump candidacy loaded with vulnerabilities. but he came in so aggressive, and interrupted so much, especially at first, that pence was widely seen as winning on temperament <u+2013> an important measure of whether a candidate is <u+201c>presidential.<u+201d> kaine got off some obviously rehearsed one-liners that may turn up in future clinton campaign ads. more than once, he referred to trump as the <u+201c>you<u+2019>re fired<u+201d> candidate and clinton, the <u+201c>you<u+2019>re hired<u+201d> candidate. and he accused trump of having a <u+201c>personal mount rushmore<u+201d> <u+2013> president putin, kim jong-un, muammar qaddafi, saddam hussein. the tenor of the debate shifted markedly when the subject of faith came up. both men are deeply religious <u+2013> kaine is roman catholic, pence is a born-again evangelical <u+2013> and they spoke from the heart. moderator elaine quijano of cbs news asked each to discuss a time when faith conflicted with governing. kaine spoke of his struggle, as governor of virginia, with the death penalty, which he opposes. <u+201c>it was very, very difficult to allow executions to go forward, but in circumstances where i didn't feel like there was a case for clemency, i told virginia voters i would uphold the law, and i did,<u+201d> kaine said. pence didn<u+2019>t offer a similar example, and instead used the opportunity to speak on <u+201c>the sanctity of life.<u+201d> he also offered warm words for kaine. <u+201c>i have a great deal of respect for senator kaine's sincere faith. i truly do,<u+201d> he said. pence then turned to the clinton-kaine ticket<u+2019>s support for abortion rights, including so-called <u+201c>partial-birth abortion<u+201d> (which kaine had, in fact, once opposed). but it was a respectful critique. and in a campaign nearly devoid of discussion on issues that matter to religious conservatives, a crucial element of the republican base, pence surely in that moment did his ticket some good.

'understudies' kaine and pence add value in vp debate (+video)

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joe biden doesn't sound like a man who's preparing for a grueling presidential campaign. the vice president's latest remarks on a potential 2016 bid came thursday night, questioning whether he has the "emotional energy" to run so soon after his eldest son, beau, died from brain cancer in may. for all the chatter and predictions of the past month that biden was eagerly readying a run, the vice president has put forth a different face when he has spoken about a campaign. and it's one of a grieving father, a not-yet-healed family and someone who certainly doesn't sound mentally prepared for the emotional rigors of the campaign trail. "i will be straightforward with you. the most relevant factor in my decision is whether my family and i have the emotional energy to run," biden said in atlanta, where he was speaking on the iran nuclear deal. he was asked after his remarks about his intentions for a possible campaign. "some might think that is not appropriate. but unless i can go to my party and the american people and say that i am able to devote my whole heart and my whole soul to this endeavor, it would not be appropriate." biden, 72, said there were other concerns, too <u+2014> whether he can ramp up a competitive organization with such a late start, wooing donors and staff and building infrastructure in early states. but those weren't driving his decision. "that's not the factor," a visibly drained biden told the crowd in a georgia synagogue. "the factor is: can i do it? can my family undertake what is an arduous commitment that we'd be proud to undertake in ordinary circumstances? the honest-to-god answer is i just don't know." biden is no stranger to tragedy, and he has soldiered on in the face of it before. shortly after his election to the senate in 1972, his wife and daughter were killed in a car accident and his two sons <u+2014> beau and hunter <u+2014> were badly injured. he had to be convinced to even take the oath of office, and he did, in the hospital beside his children. the vice president referenced that first deep loss on thursday night, but said he had learned "there's no way to put a timetable on" recovery from the scars. "if i can reach that conclusion that we can do it in a fashion that would still make it viable, i would not hesitate to do it," biden continued. "but i have to be honest with you, and everyone who's come to me, i can't look you straight in the eye and say, 'now i know i can do that.' that's as honest as i can be." this was an even more honest and raw assessment than democratic insiders heard last week from biden. on a closed conference call with the democratic national committee to sell the iran deal, biden again opened up about his presidential decision-making <u+2014> and didn't sound any closer to pulling the trigger. "if i were to announce to run," biden said, "i have to be able to commit to all of you that i would be able to give it my whole heart and my whole soul, and right now, both are pretty well banged up. ... i've given this a lot of thought and dealing internally with the family on how we do this." multiple reports have said that beau encouraged him to run before he died, and while the idea of a presidential campaign at that point may have seemed feasible, it's clear the elder biden is still not ready <u+2014> and there's no sign when he will be. unfortunately for the vice president, the clock is ticking. he initially said he would make an announcement by the end of the summer. the unofficial end is this monday on labor day, but technically by that deadline he has until sept. 22. but it's actual deadlines that are important instead of symbolic ones. the first democratic debate on oct. 13 is on the horizon, and filing deadlines are approaching. it may be true that hillary clinton has stumbled, but it's insurgent vermont sen. bernie sanders, not biden, who's been the beneficiary of those foibles. only someone with the name identification and built-in political advantages like biden's could even make such a late play, and if he did pull the trigger, he would be a formidable candidate. he's the last wild card on either side before the 2016 field is crystallized. and a superpac backing him, draft biden, has staffed up in recent weeks with notable hires and close biden allies. biden may give a more direct answer next week, when he will appear on one of stephen colbert's first late show episodes on cbs. the more relaxed, comedy setting may be one where biden feels more comfortable and more free to be frank. but biden has already been pretty transparent already <u+2014> and all signs so far point to him not getting in.

biden's latest signal he won't run for president

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while others try to brag their way to the oval office, one republican has quietly, thoughtfully, paying attention to what matters. beaufort, s.c.<u+00a0> <u+2014><u+00a0> on boundary street leading into the city, sgt. white<u+2019>s diner is just past the lights at the intersection of ribault road across from municipal court and alongside a vacant bail bonds office. hours before the polls opened and people voted in the republican primary here there was a steady stream of customers for the pit cooked barbecue chicken and barbecued ribs and, it seemed, more interest in what might happen over the long haul leading to november than who would win saturday. the woman behind the counter put ms. jenkins<u+2019>s order in a bag and ella mae walked to her car parked in a lot alongside a piggly wiggly market that<u+2019>s been out of business for some time. she spoke briefly about her husband<u+2019>s disability due to being badly wounded nearly 50 years ago at a place called quang tri city in a country then called south vietnam. she said she had little interest in politics and paid hardly any attention to what the candidates were saying and that she would be happy when the campaign went to another state: <u+201c>then i can watch my shows without seein<u+2019> all these fools on my tv.<u+201d> in the sky above, two f-18 hornets cut through a low ribbon of haze heading to marine corps air station beaufort just up the road from sgt white<u+2019>s diner. the noise and power of their engines filled the air but ms. jenkins never looked up because their appearance is part of daily life here, where the reality of america<u+2019>s military, its cost and duties as well as its existence are the framework for so many proud families who are charged with paying the price for loose political rhetoric. a few miles east, past the causeway above the harbor river and down malecon drive, is the main gate at marine corps recruit depot east at parris island. here the pine trees line much of the approach, some stretching 50 feet and higher and, then,<u+00a0> on the island there are fewer of them and the wind, warm now in mid-february, meets no obstacles as it whips through the day fluttering flags on the buildings that house the young who someday will be asked to fight for the dreams of the old who send them to war. here, in south carolina, memory is part of the cement of a culture rooted in service to the country. and here on parris island with roads named for bloodshed and lives lost in places like chosin, guadalcanal, bataan and quang tri, the cheap chatter of candidates talking tough is merely muffled noise when measured against the drills and preparation of those who could be sent to places where polls and political ambition are meaningless. here, the dreams and desires of those on the ballot live in a universe totally estranged from the future of the men and women who might one day face a bullet. listening to some of the republican candidates for president is like eavesdropping on men trying to earn their letter sweater with worthless phrases: carpet bombing, crushing isis, as if words alone will accomplish the mission and the lives of those sent into the fight are merely an anonymous squadron of props used to advance a political agenda. the world is on fire, a dangerous place, and too many seeking to lead appear to be clueless or ignorant of what is required to keep the country secure. in the harbor, fort sumter is a constant reminder of the first shots fired in the civil war. and the distant echoes and impact of that war can sometimes still be felt in the air all these years later. the uss yorktown is also here at patriots point naval museum here. it was commissioned in 1943, named after the yorktown sunk by japanese at the battle of midway in june 1942. today it is a museum and friday night, hours before south carolina voted, john kasich, the governor of ohio, came to talk to about 300 people who had gathered below deck. kasich is an interesting candidate. he knew his chances in a state dominated by evangelicals and anger were not great but he arrived with a smile on his face and a sound of contentment in his voice because it was not in him to feed the beast of those filled with rage and despairing of the future. he stood on a stage with a huge american flag hanging behind him. he told the people he<u+2019>d been at a town hall rally earlier in the day and could sense the worry that many have about the direction of the country and the frustration and failure of politics in washington. <u+201c>i looked out in the crowd, looked at the faces in that room and i saw my family. right there in the third row. saw my family sitting there listening to me. oh, they weren<u+2019>t my family but i knew them. i know what worries them and i know what worries you but we live in the greatest country god ever created and we<u+2019>re going to be even greater if we stop listening to all this doom and gloom we<u+2019>re getting. 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the man who will not bow to fearmongering

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donald trump is running riot in the gop china shop and gleefully tearing the place up. consider the strength of trump<u+2019>s position: if he wins south carolina by a big margin, he goes into nevada with momentum, and the latest poll there has him leading by 26 points and pushing 50 percent. if he enters super tuesday a week later having won three out of the past three states <u+2014> and with cruz diminished by a south carolina loss and rubio having won nowhere <u+2014> he could easily win, say, 10 contests that day. it might still be possible to beat trump at that point if the field is narrowed (states don<u+2019>t become winner-take-all until march 15), but doing so would involve wrestling to the ground a candidate who will have cut a formidable swath through the first month of the nomination battle. even now, it's hard to imagine a happy outcome for the party from the three likeliest scenarios: <u+2014> if trump wins the nomination outright, many republican voters may stay home, and senators and members of the house up for reelection will probably scurry their own way, seeking cover from the loose cannon of a nominee. it is certainly possible that trump will prove a better general election candidate than expected, just as he has proved a much more potent candidate in the primary than nearly anyone thought (and he will presumably be facing a very weak hillary clinton). but it is also likely that the general public will be less enamored or forgiving of those qualities in trump that have charmed or at least not bothered a plurality of the republican electorate <u+2014> the lack of political experience, the foul mouth, the constant psychodrama, the spotty business record. surely, the first democratic ads against him will portray him as a <u+201c>vulture capitalist<u+201d> like mitt romney, except without the manners. <u+2014> if trump is dragged to an open convention and leads in delegates, but falls short of a majority, and is denied the nomination, there will be a bloodbath. trump will make andrew jackson<u+2019>s angry cry of a <u+201c>corrupt bargain<u+201d> after old hickory lost the presidency in the house of representatives in 1824 <u+2014> despite leading in popular and electoral votes <u+2014> look like a measured, cool-headed response. trump will stomp off, and no doubt take a lot of his supporters with him. <u+2014> if trump is beaten prior to a convention, it will presumably require an all-out war against the mogul. well-heeled republican donors will have to pour money into an thermonuclear advertising campaign to destroy his image. the party will have to rally around a trump alternative, doing everything in its power to bolster him and tear down trump. such an effort will no doubt strike trump as <u+201c>unfair,<u+201d> and he will do all he can to delegitimize it and find targets to sue over it. needless to say, none of this would be conducive to keeping trump voters inside the republican tent. has any political party ever had a candidate who is such a wrecking ball, and who isn<u+2019>t a fringe candidate, but a dominant one? the republican front-runner is threatening to sue one of his challengers, ted cruz (who is now daring trump to file suit and saying he would relish the prospect of himself questioning trump under oath <u+2014> this is really happening). the republican front-runner thinks the last republican president was guilty of impeachable offenses and lied the country into war. the republican front-runner routinely attacks his own party for its perfidy <u+2014> he claims the iowa caucuses were stolen from him and the debate audiences are stacked against him <u+2014> and insults his competitors in the harshest, most personal terms. we<u+2019>ve grown used to how trump has treated jeb bush in the debates, but that doesn<u+2019>t make it any less appalling a breach of political norms or basic decency. the faces he makes while bush talks, the constant interrupting, the petty put-downs <u+2014> all of this would have been thought unworthy of the lowest political guttersnipe but have become an accepted part of the landscape thanks to donald j. trump. and no one has figured out a way to handle trump<u+2019>s bullying. bush has gotten stronger on stage but has never put trump in his place. even ted cruz has shrunk before trump at key moments <u+2014> for instance, painfully in the new hampshire debate, when he refused to repeat a critique of trump<u+2019>s temperament, prompting the mogul to comment, <u+201c>people back down with trump.<u+201d> the donald has a way of making needling, <u+201c>when did you stop beating your wife?<u+201d> attacks that are inherently difficult to counter. when he stands next to ted cruz and says no one likes him, how is the senator supposed to respond? <u+201c>no, donald, let me assure you, i really do have friends<u+201d>? the key to trump<u+2019>s strength, which buttresses all his outrageousness, is that his supporters want someone to blow up the system. so there's almost nothing he can say or do that will discredit him in their eyes, and the least destructive scenario for his defeat <u+2014> trump blows himself up <u+2014> will take some doing on his part. it<u+2019>s all very entertaining <u+2014> but so are demolition derbies.

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hard-line conservatives cleared a path wednesday for rep. paul ryan to become house speaker when some of his most disgruntled fellow republicans signaled that they would support his bid for the top job. the decision to back ryan by the house freedom caucus, a group of nearly 40 lawmakers that has risen in power and stature since its founding this year, came after the ways and means committee chairman spent much of his day courting its support. the group stopped short of an official endorsement, which would have required 80 percent support, but members said a <u+201c>supermajority<u+201d> of the caucus would back a ryan bid for speaker. ryan set out a series of conditions tuesday under which he would consider seeking the speakership; the most challenging of those was unity among all of the house republican conference<u+2019>s warring factions. the support of the freedom caucus was regarded as one of the huge obstacles to meeting that condition. in a statement, ryan said he did not view the lack of a formal endorsement as a rejection: <u+201c>i believe this is a positive step toward a unified republican team.<u+201d> rep. ra<u+00fa>l r. labrador (r-idaho), a co-founder of the freedom caucus, emerged from a lengthy evening meeting wednesday and said there was <u+201c>consensus that we need to move forward because it<u+2019>s time for the conference to unite.<u+201d> <u+201c>it<u+2019>s time for everybody to work together and make the republican party stronger,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>that<u+2019>s what we<u+2019>re trying to do even with the reservations that some people have about paul ryan being speaker.<u+201d> [paul ryan tells house republicans he<u+2019>s willing to run, if conditions are met] ryan could still decide not to serve as speaker, and some conservative activists have engaged in a vigorous campaign to cast doubt on his record, which might give some members cold feet before votes are cast next week. but the level of freedom caucus support represents the first thaw in the increasingly frosty relationship between tea party conservatives and establishment republicans. it also paves the way for fresh gop leadership heading into imminent clashes with president obama over the national debt and federal spending. the freedom caucus met with ryan for an hour in the capitol earlier in the day. many of its members had balked at the conditions ryan attached to his decision to serve as speaker, and the meeting represented their first chance to question him directly about his plans. the meeting broke up without resolution, setting up a high-stakes decision for a group that played a key role in easing the current speaker, john a. boehner, into retirement and blocking majority leader kevin mccarthy<u+2019>s bid to succeed him. the group reconvened in the evening to debate whether to abandon their previous endorsement of rep. daniel webster (r-fla.) in favor of ryan, who signaled tuesday that a freedom caucus endorsement would be a prerequisite to him agreeing to serve as speaker. ryan<u+2019>s declaration that he would serve as house speaker if and only if he receives formal backing from major house gop factions <u+2014> including the freedom caucus <u+2014> effectively gave the group veto power over his ascent. it also exposed fissures in the typically close-knit caucus. some, citing ryan<u+2019>s demand to jettison the house rule allowing a simple majority to oust a speaker at virtually any time, said it would be nearly impossible for him to earn their support. others argued that ryan could be the type of transformative leader that house republicans need. the freedom caucus was also facing the prospect of further alienating the rest of the house gop, and a potentially crippling loss of credibility, if it were to reject ryan. many mainstream conservatives saw ryan as the best chance, maybe the only chance, to unite their fractious party. <u+201c>it would be an embarrassment to them<u+201d> if the freedom caucus dismissed ryan, said rep. john kline (r-minn.), chairman of the education and workforce committee. <u+201c>what he<u+2019>s doing is selfless.<u+201d> ryan appeared to calm some nerves in the afternoon meeting, making clear that he did not want to end the ability of the house membership to remove the speaker <u+2014> only change the procedures for doing so. he also gave reassurances that he would respect the <u+201c>hastert rule<u+201d> <u+2014> the informal practice of former speaker j. dennis hastert that required the majority support of the republican conference before moving legislation to the house floor. rep. mo brooks (r-ala.) said ryan agreed that legislation should be moved only with the support of the majority of the majority. in particular, he said, that calmed immigration hawks wary of ryan<u+2019>s past support for measures that would offer illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. but ryan faced a big challenge in getting the group<u+2019>s endorsement, brooks said: <u+201c>paul ryan probably made some progress .<u+2009>.<u+2009>. but to get 80 percent of freedom caucus to switch from daniel webster?<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>it<u+2019>s going to be difficult for paul ryan to shift that in two, three days.<u+201d> ryan said little upon departing the afternoon meeting, calling the gathering an <u+201c>exchange of ideas on how to make congress work better.<u+201d> earlier in the day, boehner announced that republicans will vote internally to nominate a speaker next wednesday, with a floor vote to follow thursday. the announcement was made after ryan said tuesday night that he would run for speaker only if his terms were met. <u+201c>this is not a job i<u+2019>ve ever wanted, i<u+2019>ve ever sought,<u+201d> ryan said. <u+201c>i came to the conclusion that this is a very dire moment, not just for congress, not just for the republican party, but for our country.<u+201d> those demands include not only the endorsements and the rule changes, but also giving ryan time with his young family. by the time the meeting wrapped up wednesday night, only a <u+201c>small handful<u+201d> of members had reservations, said rep. mick mulvaney (r-s.c.), signaling that ryan had secured the 218 house votes necessary to prevail in the floor vote. <u+201c>i think he satisfied many of us that he was going to change business as usual in washington, d.c.,<u+201d> mulvaney said. another sticking point for freedom caucus members was their endorsement of webster, which was made earlier this month and played a role in ending mccarthy<u+2019>s bid for the speakership. [a little-known florida man may keep paul ryan from meeting his conditions to be speaker] webster<u+2019>s focus on procedural reforms, honed during his years as speaker of the florida house of representatives, has won him an avid following among hard-liners who feel marginalized by the gop<u+2019>s establishment. <u+201c>you<u+2019>ve got a bunch of alpha people in here,<u+201d> said rep. paul a. gosar (r-ariz.), a webster supporter. <u+201c>you don<u+2019>t need another alpha leader.<u+201d> webster made clear wednesday that he would not stand aside for ryan: <u+201c>people are responding to what i<u+2019>m saying. they<u+2019>re sick of how this place is run, of the dog-and-pony shows on committees. they want a return to bills from members being considered, rather than approving the leadership<u+2019>s bills.<u+201d> but ryan<u+2019>s near-bulletproof reputation among conservatives as a visionary and policy expert allowed hard-liners to look past his 16-year congressional tenure and trust him in a way that they never trusted boehner or mccarthy. <u+201c>we<u+2019>ve got a little way to go,<u+201d> rep. marlin a. stutzman (r-ind.) said during the freedom caucus deliberations. <u+201c>but i<u+2019>m willing to start those conversations because i trust paul. he<u+2019>s earned my trust. i<u+2019>m willing to keep talking.<u+201d> two other major gop caucuses have yet to weigh in, but neither is seen as an obstacle to ryan. ryan met wednesday with the republican study committee, a more mainstream conservative group that counts more than two-thirds of the republican conference as members. its members were surveyed by secret ballot wednesday, and its steering committee is expected to decide thursday whether to grant an endorsement. also thursday, ryan is set to meet with the centrist tuesday group, which is expected to embrace his speaker bid. karoun demirjian, kelsey snell and david weigel contributed to this report.

<u+2018>supermajority<u+2019> of house freedom caucus to back paul ryan<u+2019>s speaker bid

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during the campaign, trump had threatened to impose a large tariff to keep the jobs in the united states.

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president obama uttered more than 3,600 words on the stage of washington<u+2019>s marriott wardman park ballroom on tuesday, but his message could be summed up in three: you wouldn<u+2019>t dare. he was speaking not to the hundreds of hospital administrators assembled for the catholic health association<u+2019>s conference but to five men not in the room: the conservative justices of the supreme court, who in the next 21 days will declare whether they are invalidating the most far-reaching legislation in at least a generation because of one vague clause tucked in its 2,000 pages. obama<u+2019>s appeal to the justices, devotees of judicial modesty all: do they really wish to cause the massive societal upheaval that would come from killing a law that is now a routine part of american life? <u+201c>five years in, what we are talking about is no longer just a law. it<u+2019>s no longer just a theory. it isn<u+2019>t even just about the affordable care act or obamacare,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>this is now part of the fabric of how we care for one another. this is health care in america.<u+201d> without mentioning the looming decision, obama warned of its devastating potential. <u+201c>once you see millions of people having health care, once you see that all the bad things that were predicted didn<u+2019>t happen, you<u+2019>d think that it<u+2019>d be time to move on,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>it seems so cynical to want to take coverage away from millions of people, to take care away from the people who need it the most, to punish millions with higher costs of care and unravel what<u+2019>s now been woven into the fabric of america.<u+201d> the appearance had been scheduled long ago, but white house officials elevated the importance of the speech to keep pressure on the supreme court, which obama said at a news conference in germany on monday shouldn<u+2019>t have even taken up the case. obama said trashing the federal health-care exchanges, as a hostile supreme court ruling would do, is <u+201c>not something that should be done based on a twisted interpretation of four words.<u+201d> the conservative justices, like conservative critics of the law generally, are unlikely to be persuaded by obama<u+2019>s recitation of the merits of the law, which he repeated at length tuesday. but they may well be reluctant to upend a law that now has broad acceptance in american society. the kaiser family foundation, which tracks public opinion on the matter, found in april that more americans had a favorable view of the law than an unfavorable view (43<u+00a0>percent to 42 percent) for the first time since 2012. that difference is not statistically significant, but the favorable view is up 10 points since the botched healthcare.gov rollout in 2013 and the unfavorable view is down seven points. forty-six percent favor keeping the law as is or expanding it, compared with 41<u+00a0>percent who favor scaling it back or repealing it. more evidence of the acceptance of obamacare: health care is fading as an issue. gallup found last month that only 5<u+00a0>percent called it the country<u+2019>s most important problem. that compares with 26<u+00a0>percent in september 2009. certainly, those numbers could change if premiums jump as expected. but the recent improvement in the law<u+2019>s standing comes even though most americans aren<u+2019>t aware that the law has cost the government less than forecast. with such broad acceptance of (if not fondness for) the new health-care status quo, it<u+2019>s difficult to imagine the supreme court justices taking away health coverage for 6<u+00a0>million or 7<u+00a0>million americans, causing costs to skyrocket for millions of others, and likely plunging the entire american health-care system into chaos. that<u+2019>s not just judicial activism <u+2014> it would be a judicially induced cataclysm. such a cataclysm has no place in the catechism of sister carol keehan, head of the catholic health association and a key early supporter of obamacare who broke with the catholic bishops to support the law. <u+201c>it would be unspeakably cruel,<u+201d> she said when i asked her after the conference tuesday what an adverse supreme court ruling would produce. millions of people <u+2014> pregnant women, cancer victims, heart patients <u+2014> would lose coverage, she said. <u+201c>the panic is going to spread, the confusion. it<u+2019>s going to be incredibly chaotic.<u+201d> and, with congress unable to agree even on little things, the chaos would persist. <u+201c>it makes me crazy just to think of it,<u+201d> keehan said, urging me to <u+201c>light a candle<u+201d> as the justices prepare their opinion. i<u+2019>ll leave the votive offering to sister carol. i have faith that the conservative justices, even if they detest obamacare, have no wish to throw the country into chaos. read more from dana milbank<u+2019>s archive, follow him on twitter or subscribe to his updates on facebook.

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donald trump needs to stop the bleeding. since the two parties' conventions, he has plummeted in the polls <u+2014> both nationally and in the states. his campaign knows this. his new campaign manager, kellyanne conway, is a veteran republican pollster well aware of trump's deficiencies with certain voting groups. that's why there's been a concerted effort in the trump campaign to reach out to black and hispanic voters, even if it's been poorly received by many nonwhites. but the outreach might not be entirely to gain the support of minority voters, who are deeply skeptical of trump and indicate they are supporting hillary clinton overwhelmingly. it might be aimed, in large measure, at white people, in particular suburban whites with college degrees. you know, people who traditionally vote republican. they might be persuadable, given their past voting history, but they don't want to vote for someone who is viewed as a racist or a bigot. so his campaign is trying to change that. trump has been speaking specifically about black voters at multiple events over the last week or so (though in front of predominantly white crowds) in wisconsin, ohio, texas and florida. he held an event wednesday night in jackson, miss., where 4 in 5 residents are black. that outreach continues thursday at an event at trump tower, where black and latino leaders are supposed to join trump. and there will perhaps even be a tour of detroit led by ben carson, who grew up there, in early september. but how can it be, that trump has a white people problem? isn't he supposed to be the candidate who appeals squarely to whites? let's take a look at the polling. what it shows is that trump is underperforming with whites compared with mitt romney's performance in 2012: white women: romney won white women by 14 points <u+2014> 56-42 percent, according to national exit polls. trump, in the latest nbc/wall street journal poll released this month, is down a point with the group, 43-42 percent. that's a 15-point shift. no republican can afford that. trump is supposed to drive up the score with white men. but, according to nbc/wsj, he's only up 13 points (49-36 percent), far less than romney. and, let's remember, romney lost in an electoral landslide to president obama. a big problem for trump is when education is factored in. he is struggling to win the margins he needs with whites with college degrees. just look at this chart of trump's massive deficit with white women with college degrees: what's stunning about this is that democrats have never won a majority of white voters with college degrees since exit polling began in 1976. and when it comes to white voters without a college degree, even here trump is only doing about as well as romney did. romney won 61 percent of whites without a college degree. trump, in the latest, cnn/orc poll, gets the support of 59 percent. yes, romney lost by big margins with nonwhite groups, too, but white voters made up 72 percent of the electorate in 2012 (likely to be slightly less this year.) trump's campaign has to think there's nowhere to go but up with minority voters <u+2014> except, right now, trump is doing worse (or almost similarly bad) with both african-americans and latinos also. maybe trump's outreach to minorities can change his standing somewhat with those groups. but an important group he needs to reach are those white voters, who should be traditionally open to voting republican but are not behind him right now. that's a point republican pollster whit ayres made as well this week to the washington post. "after 15 months of denigrating every nonwhite minority in sight, it's hard to believe that he can actually do significantly better among nonwhites," said ayres, who wrote the book 2016 and beyond: how republicans can elect a president in the new america. he joined marco rubio's campaign as his pollster. "but he may be able to soften his image a bit with some republican and maybe a few independent whites who have been put off by his harshness thus far." but this is a big hole to climb out of in less than 11 weeks.

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while the nuclear arms accord with iran is being hailed as a historic agreement, it should be regarded as only one piece of an increasingly complex patchwork of foreign policy challenges presented by iran and its network of allies. as a result of this deal, iran stands to reap a potential windfall of<u+00a0>billions of dollars<u+00a0>that has been held up by international sanctions designed to cripple the iranian economy and bring tehran to the negotiating table. even if most of this money is channeled to iran<u+2019>s domestic economy, the bounty will nevertheless help resuscitate the iran threat network<u+2014>a nefarious web of insurgent, criminal and terrorist allies<u+2014>and revitalize iranian meddling worldwide. iranian sponsorship of terrorist organizations cannot be divorced from the negotiations because the sanctions that will be lifted provide new sources of funding to reinforce the iran threat network. the fact that the nuclear agreement does not address the threat network means that iran remains a serious threat to stability in the middle east. formed in the 1980s, the<u+00a0>iran threat network<u+00a0>has expanded from a ragtag militia to an enterprise with global reach<u+2014>and operatives who are active in dozens of countries. over the last three decades, iranian largesse has provided the shiite group hezbollah with hundreds of millions of dollars, training, weapons and modern equipment. the network now includes proxies<u+00a0>in yemen<u+00a0>and<u+00a0>iraq, where the iranian revolutionary guards corps and its elite quds force are training sectarian militias. also of concern are iranian accomplices including hamas in gaza and hezbollah in lebanon (and<u+00a0>more recently, syria). hamas has increasingly relied on financial support from iran since the syrian civil war began in 2011. in addition to iran<u+2019>s growing battle with saudi arabia for regional hegemony, the mullahs that comprise the core leadership of iran<u+2014>and are considered the vanguard of the islamic revolution<u+2014>have also pushed to develop a<u+00a0>fairly sophisticated cyberwar capability. the saudi-iranian rivalry is playing out through the sponsorship of proxies in yemen and syria. over the past several years, iran has devoted more resources to cyber warfare, perhaps in response to a destructive software attack<u+2014>reportedly initiated by the united states and israel<u+2014>that effectively targeted iranian nuclear-enrichment equipment. the iranians have already penetrated american and saudi networks and successfully seized and destroyed sensitive data. going forward, u.s. policy toward iran must reflect the<u+00a0>nuanced nature of the relationship. while the nuclear agreement is a positive step toward resolving the most serious potential threat posed by the islamic republic, the iranian regime is still a<u+00a0>major sponsor of terrorist groups<u+00a0>opposed to the united states and its key allies throughout the middle east, north africa and the persian gulf region. designing and implementing a global strategy to address the iran threat network is essential to stability in the gulf and will require the exercise of american power to deter iran while reassuring allies in the region and wider world. even though the united states welcomes iran<u+2019>s help combating isis, washington must keep pressuring tehran to cease its support for terrorist and insurgent groups in gaza, lebanon and yemen. the united states and its allies must continue to combat the financing of terrorism by working through the treasury department and collaborating with private-sector entities to identify and then take action against iranian funding of terrorist groups. the united states also should keep trying to build partner capacity in at-risk nations like lebanon and yemen<u+2014>thus depriving iran of the political legitimacy afforded external state sponsors of terrorism<u+2014>while working to build a force in the region capable of providing at least a modicum of stability. finally, the united states must continue to closely monitor iranian behavior to ensure that relief from sanctions does not allow iran the flexibility to exacerbate conflicts in already fragile nations throughout the middle east. after pausing to celebrate the iran nuclear deal as a <u+201c>move in a new direction,<u+201d> the obama administration should capitalize on it to gain the momentum needed to contain the regional and global ambitions of the iran threat network. colin p. clarke is an associate political scientist at the nonprofit, nonpartisan rand corporation and the author of <u+201c>terrorism, inc.: the financing of terrorism, insurgency and irregular warfare<u+201d> (2015).

how global terror network will get a boost from iran nuclear deal

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brussels, belgium (cnn) police detained six people in raids thursday night as investigators raced to uncover the network behind this week's terror attacks in the belgian capital . the belgian federal prosecutor's office didn't provide details about who had been detained in the brussels raids, why they had been apprehended or whether they will face charges. "it will be decided tomorrow if these people will remain in custody," the office said in a statement released late thursday. two people were taken into custody in brussels' jette neighborhood, one person was detained in a different part of the capital, and three people were in a vehicle in front of the federal prosecutor's office when authorities apprehended them, public broadcaster rtbf reported. so far, authorities have said they believe five men played a part in tuesday's bombings in belgium that killed 31 people and injured 330. three of the attackers are dead. two of them could still be on the loose. investigators are combing over evidence from surveillance footage and the explosives stash they seized from an apparent hideaway in a suburb. sweeps where investigators detain people first and ask questions later are likely to become an increasingly common tactic, cnn national security analyst juliette kayyem said. "there will be lots more of them," she said. "they are going to be what's called overbroad. they are going to just try to find people or evidence that may stop the next terrorism attack, and they will figure out who they have under custody." khalid el bakraoui, one of the terrorists who bombed a train near the maelbeek metro station, is dead. authorities believe a second unidentified person was also involved in that attack, a senior belgian security source told cnn. but investigators don't know where that suspect is -- or whether he's dead or alive. surveillance footage shows the man holding a large bag at the station, according to belgian public broadcaster rtbf. it's not clear if he was among the at least 20 killed in that blast, rtbf said. authorities have released a grainy image of another suspect who they believe is on the run. that man, they say, shown in photographs wearing a black hat, was one of three attackers at brussels airport. authorities say he planted a bomb at the airport and left. the other two men in the photographs are believed to be the suicide bombers. fair to ask whether 'we missed the chance' did belgian authorities miss a chance to stop at least one of the suspects involved in the attacks? bakraoui had been sentenced to nine years in prison in belgium back in 2010 for opening fire on police officers with a kalashnikov during a robbery, according to broadcaster rtbf and cnn affiliate rtl. needless to say, he didn't serve all that time. "given the facts, it is justified that ... people ask how it is possible that someone was released early and we missed the chance when he was in turkey to detain him," said jambon, whose offer to resign was rebuffed by prime minister charles michel. investigators suspect abdeslam planned to be part of an attack by the same isis cell that lashed out tuesday, a senior belgian counterterrorism official told cnn's paul cruickshank. authorities looked wednesday at the brussels homes of the bakraoui brothers. those two searches "were not conclusive," the federal prosecutor's office said. homes were searched thursday in several areas in and around the city, officials said. one operation in the neighborhood of schaerbeek stretched for hours into friday morning. investigators sealed off streets for several blocks. it was not immediately clear why such a large area had been cordoned. masked teams in hazmat gear could be seen exiting a building and heading toward a police van. as investigations continue, a larger question looms: what could happen next? not long ago, western authorities believed isis was focused on taking territory in syria and iraq, not lashing out elsewhere. but u.s. officials now think the extremist group has been sending trained militants to europe for some time. these men don't necessarily follow orders directly from isis headquarters. but they build on what they've learned, as well as a shared philosophy and approach, to develop their own terror cells and hatch their own plots. how many more isis militants are in europe, poised to attack? that's not clear. for now, though, the top priority is tracking down the two men linked directly to tuesday's terror.

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the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee urged former secretary of state hillary clinton to give a full explanation of why she used a private e-mail account for all her official correspondence during her four years as america's top diplomat. sen. dianne feinstein, d-calif., told nbc's "meet the press" sunday that clinton "needs to step up and come out and state exactly what the situation is," adding that from "this point on, the silence is going to hurt her." feinstein is the first major democrat to urge clinton to share details of the account's contents, some of which have been subpoenaed by a special house committee investigating the 2012 attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. clinton, thought to be the near-unanimous frontrunner for the 2016 democratic presidential nomination, has kept mostly silent on the private e-mail story, which was first reported by the new york times last monday. her use of the account may violate federal rules requiring officials to keep all their communications for record-keeping purposes.<u+00a0>the controversy grew later in the week when the associated press reported that the account's server had been traced to an internet service registered to her chappaqua, n.y. home. this past week, clinton said in a twitter message that she had asked the state department to make public all emails she had previously turned over to them, a total of approximately 55,000 pages. however, the times reported that those messages previously had been selected by members of her staff and were not a complete record of her four years at foggy bottom. she did not address the issue in her most recent public appearance saturday night during an event in coral gables, florida, for the clinton global initiative university. rep. trey gowdy, r-s.c., the chairman of the benghazi committee, told cbs' "face the nation" "there are gaps of months and months and months" in the emails the committee had previously received. "it's not up to secretary clinton to decide what's a public record and what's not," gowdy said. "we're not entitled to everything," gowdy continued. "i don't want everything. i just want everything related to libya and benghazi." for his part, president obama said sunday that he first learned of clinton's private account through news reports. he went on to praise clinton for requesting the release of the 55,000 pages of e-mail by the state department, called her "an outstanding public servant" and defended his administration's record on transparency. the associated press contributed to this report.

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president obama on wednesday opened the door to "limited" ground combat operations against the islamic state, as he asked congress to formally authorize military force against the terrorist network. the president, in a proposed resolution and a letter to congress, underscored the "grave threat" posed by isis. "if left unchecked, isil will pose a threat beyond the middle east, including to the united states homeland," obama said. speaking later at the white house, obama vowed to defeat the terror group. "this is a difficult mission, and it will remain difficult for some time," obama said. "but our coalition is on the offensive. isil is on the defensive, and isil is going to lose." his proposal includes limitations that would bar "enduring offensive ground combat operations" and let the authorization lapse after three years. the letter from obama says the authorization would not allow "long-term, large-scale ground combat operations like those" conducted in iraq and afghanistan. but the request includes no restrictions on where u.s. forces could pursue the threat. and while the current military campaign centers on coalition airstrikes in iraq and syria, the proposal clearly allows u.s. ground troops to engage in limited circumstances. "the authorization i propose would provide the flexibility to conduct ground combat operations in other, more limited circumstances, such as rescue operations involving u.s. or coalition personnel or the use of special operations forces to take military action against isil leadership," obama wrote in his letter to congress. "it would also authorize the use of u.s. forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended, such as intelligence collection and sharing, missions to enable kinetic strikes, or the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice and assistance to partner forces." at the white house, obama made clear that he would be willing to order special forces to act against isis leaders if necessary. "it is not the authorization of another ground war," obama said, adding: "we need flexibility, but we also have to be careful and deliberate." the request kicks off what is likely to be a drawn-out debate in congress, with hawkish lawmakers sure to push for a broader authorization and anti-interventionist voices seeking more limits. already, sen. tim kaine, d-va., said he is "concerned about the breadth and vagueness of the u.s. ground troop language and will seek to clarify it." on the other side, house speaker john boehner said he was "not sure that the strategy that's been outlined will accomplish the mission." tennessee sen. bob corker, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, said he appreciated the president seeking the authorization and would quickly begin holding "rigorous hearings" on the white house request. "voting to authorize the use of military force is one of the most important actions congress can take, and while there will be differences, it is my hope that we will fulfill our constitutional responsibility, and in a bipartisan way, pass an authorization that allows us to confront this serious threat," corker said. the white house insists it already has the authority to launch airstrikes against isis militants in iraq and syria, as the u.s. has been doing for months, but wants congress to sign off in order to demonstrate american unity. in a letter to lawmakers accompanying the request, obama urged them to "show the world we are united in our resolve to counter the threat." the proposed resolution listed isis atrocities in the region, including executions of american hostages and the "abduction, enslavement, torture, rape and forced marriage" of women and girls in the region. "it threatens american personnel and facilities located in the region and is responsible for the deaths of u.s. citizens james foley, steven sotloff, abdul-rahman peter kassig, and kayla mueller," obama said in his letter, listing the american hostages who died in isis custody. obama's proposal launches an ideological debate over what authorities and limitations the commander in chief should have in pursuit of the extremists, with the shadow of lost american lives hanging over its fate. confirmation of the death of 26-year-old humanitarian worker mueller on the eve of obama's proposal added new urgency, while the costly long-running wars in iraq and afghanistan were a caution to some lawmakers against yet another protracted military campaign. obama is offering to limit authorization to three years, extending to the next president the powers and the debate over renewal for what he envisions as a long-range battle. he is proposing no geographic limitations where u.s. forces could pursue the elusive militants. the authorization covers the islamic state and "associated persons or forces," defined as those fighting on behalf of or alongside is "or any closely-related successor entity in hostilities against the united states or its coalition partners." the proposal bars "enduring offensive ground combat operations," an ambiguous term intended as compromise between lawmakers who want authority for ground troops and those who don't. obama's resolution would repeal a 2002 authorization for force in iraq, but maintain a 2001 authorization against al qaeda in afghanistan, although obama said in his letter to lawmakers his goal is to refine and ultimately repeal that authorization as well. obama argues the congressional authorizations president george w. bush used to justify military action after 9/11 are sufficient for him to deploy more than 2,700 u.s. troops to train and assist iraqi security forces and conduct ongoing airstrikes against targets in iraq and syria. critics have said obama is overstepping outdated authorities to target the new threat from militants imposing a violent form of shariah law in pursuit of the establishment of an islamic state. the associated press contributed to this report.

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donald trump is practically a mirror image of the fox news psyche. most of his speeches consist of repackaged stupidities plucked right out of the conservative mediascape. it<u+2019>s kind of brilliant, really. trump knows his audience, and he beams back at them every idiotic thing they want to hear. which, of course, is exactly what fox news does. the wonderful irony of all this is that the conservative media have ruined conservative politics, far more than liberals ever did. and the results speak for themselves. it<u+2019>s true that fox news<u+00a0>has promoted the conservative brand and very likely energized grass-roots conservatism in some sense, but at what cost? the gop, increasingly, is no longer a national party <u+2013> it<u+2019>s confined more and more to the south and to pockets of rural america. the republicans have had their share of electoral successes in recent years, and fox news surely aided in that, but if you look closely you<u+2019>ll see that the political success of conservatives have not led to policy successes. on the contrary, liberalism is winning. obama, for instance, has been one of the most consequential presidents in modern american history. both politically and culturally, the country is more liberal today than it was a decade ago. and this has happened in spite of the triumph of fox news and conservative media. conservatism, as a practical political philosophy, is dead in this country. sure, there are intelligent conservative voices in the whirlwind, but they<u+2019>ve been overwhelmed by the xenophobic hysteria peddled by the likes of sean hannity and rush limbaugh. these are the people who define conservatism today. these are the people who<u+2019>ve<u+00a0>poisoned the conservative brand, made it synonymous with backwardness and cultural isolation. and fox news has been their most significant stage, the ultimate echo chamber. as a consequence, conservatives (on the whole) are now dumber, angrier and more divorced from the facts. to the extent that fox news has nurtured the idiocy trump represents, they<u+2019>re responsible for his political life <u+2013> they made it possible.<u+00a0>the bile spewed by trump might as well be fox news talking points; it<u+2019>s the kind of garbage you hear every day on their programs. and because so many conservatives get their news from fox, republican policymakers are forced to parrot those arguments to voters. this plays well with the base, but it alienates most of the country <u+2013> as it should. it will be fascinating to watch how fox news handles trump, particularly as we move along in the process. it will be a delicate balancing act. the longer trump hangs around, the more ridiculous the republicans look. at the same time, trump is a boon for ratings; the delightful dolts on fox and friends can<u+2019>t get enough of him. which makes perfect sense. the right-wing media machine <u+2013> led by fox news <u+2013> has created a demand for his insane ramblings. as the chief supplier, fox news has an interest in covering trump, in extending his ruse for as long as possible. promoting trump is a disaster for the gop, though. his bombast, left unchecked, will undermine the republican primaries and jeopardize their shot at the white house. how fox news manages trump<u+2019>s ascendance will therefore tell you all you need to know (if you didn<u+2019>t already) about where their loyalties lie. i suspect we<u+2019>ll discover what most observers have long known: fox news cares about conservatism about as much as it cares about the news.

fox news built a f**ked-up frankenstein, dumb, angry and divorced from facts. now donald trump will devour them

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the kentucky county clerk at the center of a national firestorm over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses vowed monday -- just days after her release from jail -- that she would not prevent her office from issuing such licenses but would not personally authorize them either. kim davis, the clerk for rowan county, detailed what she described as a "remedy" during a brief press conference as she returned to work for the first time since her jailing. whether that "remedy" satisfies the courts -- or undermines the legal validity of the licenses -- remains to be seen.<u+00a0>asked if the licenses issued by davis' office without her name would still be valid, a spokeswoman in kentucky attorney general jack conway's office told foxnews.com that both conway and the county attorney have "said publicly that they believe the licenses are legal." the spokeswoman added, "we have not provided an official opinion on this issue." under davis' new plan, her deputy clerks will be allowed to issue gay marriage licenses if they choose. she said she would not take action against them. but the licenses "will not be issued or authorized by me," davis said. "any license will not have my name, my title or my authority on it ... instead, it will say it's issued pursuant to a federal court order." davis added that she has "great doubts whether a license issued under these conditions is valid." last tuesday, u.s. district judge david bunning, ordered davis released from jail after finding the court was "satisfied" that her office's deputy clerks were issuing marriage licenses "to all legally eligible couples." at the same time, bunning directed davis not to "interfere in any way" with the marriage licenses being issued by her office. should she interfere, the judge said, "that will be considered a violation of this order and appropriate sanctions will be considered." davis on monday appealed to the legislature to provide for an accommodation in situations like this. "my simple request for an accommodation has gone unheard," she said. choking up, she said she's faced with a "seemingly impossible choice" of "my conscience or my freedom." "i do not want to have this conflict. i don't want to be in the spotlight," she said. afterward, one reporter tweeted a picture showing davis' office, with its blinds closed and a sheriff's deputy standing outside. on friday, davis' attorneys filed an appeal asking for another delay in issuing the licenses. they argued in their motion to the sixth circuit u.s. court of appeals that all the same-sex couples who sued davis for a license received one from her deputies while she was in jail. therefore, they said, her office should not be required to issue them to any more couples once she returns to work. the american civil liberties union initially filed a suit against davis on behalf of four couples, two straight and two gay, who were denied licenses after the supreme court in june effectively legalized gay marriage nationwide. when davis refused bunning's order to issue licenses, the judge declared the clerk in contempt of court and jailed her for five days. in her absence, her deputy clerks issued licenses and both same-sex couples who sued her received one. but bunning clarified his order to include all eligible couples who request a marriage license. in the appeal filed friday, davis' lawyers, with the christian law firm liberty counsel, argued that bunning issued the clarification improperly and once again asked the appeals court to delay the mandate that she issue licenses. the appeals court has already dismissed davis' primary argument that her religious faith should exempt her from licensing a gay marriage. "it cannot be defensibly argued that the holder of the rowan county clerk's office, apart from who personally occupies that office, may decline to act in conformity with the united states constitution as interpreted by a dispositive holding of the united states supreme court," a panel wrote two weeks ago when it rejected her last appeal. since bunning first ordered davis to issue the marriage licenses, the clerk and her attorneys have made several attempts to legally get around it. one of their strategies was to ask bunning to stop democratic gov. steve beshear and library and archives commissioner wayne onkst from directing davis to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. bunning denied that request on friday. the associated press contributed to this report.

ky. clerk says won<u+2019>t personally authorize gay marriage licenses -- or interfere

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<u+201c>you can<u+2019>t be in a rush to do the wrong thing, either,<u+201d> she said. <u+201c>this is serious stuff.<u+201d>

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according to the wall street journal, the last serious attempt to count the number of federal criminal laws appears to have been made in 1982 by a retired justice department official named ronald gainer. he failed, but the estimate then was <u+201c><u+2026>50 titles and 23,000 pages of federal law.<u+201d> many more laws have been added since then. one thing is certain: if you violate federal law you are likely to be punished with a fine, imprisonment or both. these laws are supposed to apply to everyone, unless, it seems, you are an illegal alien living in san francisco, or any of the other sanctuary cities around the country. by now, anyone not preoccupied with stories about shark attacks, the confederate flag or singer ariana grande <u+201c>maliciously licking<u+201d> donuts she did not buy, has heard about 32-year-old kathryn steinle gunned down by an illegal alien while walking on a san francisco pier with her father. her accused killer is juan francisco lopez-sanchez, a felon from mexico, who had been deported five times but always managed to sneak back in, choosing san francisco, he reportedly said, because he knew it was a <u+201c>sanctuary city<u+201d> that would not deport him. the concept of a sanctuary city comes from the old testament. <u+201c><u+2026>if someone deliberately kills another person, then the slayer must be dragged even from my altar and be put to death. (exodus 21:14). but if it was simply an accident permitted by god, i will appoint a place of refuge where the slayer can run for safety. (exodus 21:13). these cities will be places of protection from a dead person<u+2019>s relatives who want to avenge the death. the slayer must not be put to death before being tried by the community. (numbers 35:19) <u+201c>then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the blood avenger. ... the congregation shall deliver the manslayer from the hand of the blood avenger, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he fled; and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil<u+2026><u+201d> (numbers 35:24-28). this ancient concept for a sanctuary city was not to shield a suspect from justice, but to guarantee justice was done. the suspected murderer would be given safe haven only until a trial was held. if he was found guilty, he was executed. if he was acquitted he was set free. but if he left the sanctuary city before the trial, <u+201c>the avenger of blood<u+201d> could kill him. officials in <u+201c>sanctuary cities<u+201d> pervert the concept of sanctuary by helping suspects evade the law. congress should deny federal funds to these cities as long as they continue to ignore the law. president obama is unlikely to speak, much less lead on this issue, because the democratic party thinks it can win the hispanic vote in 2016. republicans and the chamber of commerce want cheap immigrant labor, so they will huff and puff but do nothing, hoping the controversy goes away. the public must not let this happen. according to the washington post, there are an estimated 60 sanctuary cities around the country, including major cities like new york, los angeles and houston, and these cities are unlikely to change their sanctuary policies anytime soon. in fact, writes international business times, <u+201c><u+2026>a number of local leaders in u.s. cities have renewed their efforts to foster welcoming and inclusive communities for illegal aliens. so-called <u+2018>sanctuary policies<u+2019> <u+2026> are intended to signal to the undocumented community that it<u+2019>s safe to come out of the shadows without the fear of being reported to federal authorities.<u+201d> if laws are not enforced, what is the point of having them? if politicians are so afraid of losing the hispanic vote that they do nothing in response to the murder of kathryn steinle, they should be removed from office. the notion that hispanics won<u+2019>t vote for a party that stands for justice is racist. cal thomas is america's most widely syndicated op-ed columnist. he joined fox news channel in 1997 as a political contributor.<u+00a0>his latest book is "what works: common sense solutions for a stronger america" is available in bookstores now. readers may email cal thomas at [email protected].

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the chairwoman of the supposedly nonpartisan federal election commission is under fire for planning a forum next month on women in politics "stacked" with democrat-leaning speakers and apparent hillary clinton supporters. one conservative lawyer already is calling for an inspector general investigation; another group is urging chairwoman ann ravel to call off the event. to ravel's detractors, the forum is yet another example of the allegedly partisan turn being taken by the fec under her leadership. "there are so many things wrong with this," cleta mitchell, a prominent conservative lawyer in washington, d.c., told foxnews.com. the fec is supposed to act as an independent regulatory arm to enforce campaign finance law. so it raised eyebrows when ravel put out a notice on the may 12 forum at fec headquarters in washington, d.c. the event is described as an "open discussion" with scholars and others on why women are "significantly under-represented in politics." mitchell said this alone goes beyond what the fec should be doing. she questioned how it would reflect on the agency's impartiality going forward -- in, for instance, a case involving a male and female candidate. but the roster of invited participants raised more questions. ravel's office defended the planned forum in an email to foxnews.com. "we selected participants for the fec's women in politics forum because of their expertise and experience in this field with no regard to political affiliation, if any," her office said. ravel pointed out that "two distinguished republican women, christine matthews and rep. mimi walters, have agreed to be panelists at the event, as have international experts on women in politics." indeed, walters is a republican california congresswoman. and matthews is a republican campaign consultant. but they appear to be outnumbered. the daily caller reported on the affiliations of other invited participants, including marni allen, once part of a group that backed former clinton labor secretary robert reich for massachusetts governor. mitchell said she thinks the forum is an effort to boost clinton's presidential candidacy. she told foxnews.com she wants to see an inspector general investigation, and is considering filing a formal complaint. "it is a misuse of taxpayer money," she said. independent women's voice, a nonprofit tied to the conservative independent women's forum, put out a statement saying the fec event is "stacked" mostly with "women with one ideological view." the group said the forum "seems outside the scope of the fec's mandate" to begin with, and should either be overhauled or called off.

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analysts across the political spectrum may be at odds over who won the third republican presidential debate, but they seem to agree on one thing: the cnbc moderators had a very bad night. the negative reaction to the debate questions and other factors has become a story unto itself, almost overshadowing the actual policy debates that broke out in between the candidate-moderator rancor wednesday night. the republican candidates and observers complained the questions were demeaning, silly, and designed to provoke confrontation rather than genuine policy discussion. others took aim at the debate format, and wondered about <u+00a0>the moderators<u+2019> professionalism. on several sites aggregating twitter reaction, the moderators were declared the losers, <u+201c>hands down.<u+201d> the washington post declared it <u+201c>cnbc<u+2019>s really bad debate night.<u+201d> <u+201c>the moderators had a worse night than the new york mets <u+2026> this was a trainwreck,<u+201d> fox news' howard kurtz charged thursday, referring to game 2 of the world series, and calling the debate questions <u+201c>condescending, snide, hostile and borderline insulting.<u+201d> while it might not have hurt cnbc during the broadcast -- the network touted 14 million viewers the following day, a network record -- it got a drubbing from candidates and party leaders during and after the prime-time event. "while i was proud of our candidates and the way they handled tonight<u+2019>s debate, the performance by the cnbc moderators was extremely disappointing and did a disservice to their network, our candidates, and voters,<u+201d> rnc chairman reince priebus said in a statement, calling the questioning <u+201c>deeply unfortunate.<u+201d> cnbc<u+2019>s john harwood was blasted for asking donald trump whether he was running a "comic book" campaign, and asking mike huckabee if he thought trump had <u+201c>the moral authority<u+201d> to be president -- a question trump called "nasty." moderator carl quintanilla later called marco rubio a <u+201c>young man in a hurry<u+201d> in reference to his age and his experience in the senate. huckabee, the former arkansas governor, told fox news thursday morning that <u+201c>it was very frustrating to be on stage.<u+201d> he faulted the moderators for not sticking to the issues and promises to divvy time equally. <u+201c>they lost control of the debate,<u+201d> he said. at varying times, the audience booed the moderators, giving the candidates space to draw together for the attack against what they said was their common enemy: the liberal media. the criticism took off after texas sen. ted cruz was asked whether his opposition to raising the debt ceiling indicates he may not be the <u+201c>the kind of problem-solver american voters want.<u+201d> cruz unloaded on the moderators, blasting them for asking questions like, <u+201c>donald trump, are you a comic-book villain? ben carson, can you do math? john kasich, will you insult two people over here? marco rubio, why don<u+2019>t you resign? jeb bush, why have your numbers fallen?<u+201d> after the cheers for cruz died down he suggested the moderators were democrats. <u+201c>nobody watching at home believes that any of the moderators has any intention of voting in a republican primary,<u+201d> he charged. cruz used the debate to send out a fundraising letter to supporters afterward, <u+201c>declaring war on the liberal media,<u+201d> and went on to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars overnight. as for the focus groups following the debate, the candidates who took on the media and the moderators directly -- namely cruz, florida sen. marco rubio and new jersey gov. chris christie -- seemed to benefit the most. <u+201c>it was brutal takedown, and cnbc<u+2019>s smarmy moderators had it coming. cruz is far from the first conservative to rail against liberal media bias, but he did it about as effectively as it can be done in 30 seconds,<u+201d> said the boston globe<u+2019>s jeff jacoby. <u+201c>the clip of that moment will go viral.<u+201d> even some in the entertainment world, like comedian patton oswalt, began agreeing with cruz and others on stage by the end, in spite of their fundamental dislike for the gop candidates. not everyone thought the moderators went too far. some analysts argued the questions were par for the course for the debates. and ohio gov. john kasich said he <u+201c>thought they did a good job,<u+201d> saying he was <u+201c>very appreciative of how they did their job.<u+201d> he felt he had time to speak and that it <u+201c>wasn't a circus." when asked over twitter by the blaze about the widespread criticism, harwood said simply,<u+00a0>"it comes with the job."

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julian assange canceled a dramatic london balcony address on tuesday in favor of a video presentation in berlin after wikileaks developed "specific information" regarding assange's safety, the leaked emails clearinghouse tweeted on monday afternoon. some believe the video announcement by the wikileaks founder could be an "october surprise" geared towards the u.s. presidential election.<u+00a0>supporters of gop presidential candidate donald trump have said they believe the announcement will be damaging to the candidacy of democratic rival hillary clinton. assange, 45, who has lived in the ecuadorean embassy in london for five years as officials in sweden have sought him on criminal charges, is set to address supporters in berlin via a video link at 3 a.m. et. <u+201c>i don<u+2019>t want to give it away,<u+201d> assange told fox news channel<u+2019>s megyn kelly in august, when he indicated he had a major scoop that could influence the race. <u+201c>but it<u+2019>s a variety of documents, from different types of institutions that are associated with the election campaign, some quite unexpected angles, some quite interesting, some even entertaining.<u+201d> in a subsequent interview with fox news channel<u+2019>s sean hannity last month, assange said his next round of revelations was coming <u+201c>reasonably soon.<u+201d> <u+201c>the first batch is reasonably soon,<u+201d> he told hannity. <u+201c>we are quite confident about it now.<u+201d> assange has already played a key role in the presidential race, with the release of 20,000 internal emails that indicated the democratic national committee appeared to conspire to prevent bernie sanders from winning the nomination. those revelations surfaced in august, just before the party<u+2019>s convention, proving embarrassing to clinton<u+2019>s campaign. they also led to the resignation of dnc chairwoman debbie wasserman schultz. though no recent public revelations directly tie to assange's security fears, various u.s. officials and pundits have made threatening statements directed at him in the past. wikileaks on monday tweeted an alleged quote from a 2010 state department meeting at which then-secretary of state hillary clinton asked if assange could be killed in a drone strike. that same year, former democrat strategist bob beckel said on fox news channel that "a dead man can't leak stuff." assange also has hinted that deceased dnc staffer seth rich may have been a source for wikileaks. rich, 27, was found with multiple gunshot wounds to the back at a washington, d.c., intersection in july. he died soon thereafter. authorities believe rich was the target of a botched robbery, but his death has inspired conspiracy theories. wikileaks has published more than 10 million leaked emails, including sensitive information about prisoners at guantanamo bay, u.s. military operations in iraq and afghanistan and a cache of diplomatic cables from u.s. embassies around the world.

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some people who know republican presumptive presidential nominee say he has two aspects: a thoughtful, charming private demeanor and an impulsive, inflammatory public persona. but now, two public images of mr. trump appear to be emerging: the scripted candidate who affirms conservative ideals and attacks presumptive democratic nominee , and the free-wheeling headliner at rallies [<u+2026>]

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he's combative. he rejects compromise as "the mushy middle." he's not inclined to wait his turn. and he doesn't seem to mind annoying his republican elders with tactics that critics see as destructive and short-sighted. so perhaps it's no surprise that little more than two years after he was sworn in to the senate, the 44-year-old texan on monday became the first contender to officially announce his campaign for the republican presidential nomination in 2016. he skipped the one-step-at-a-time tradition of announcing an "exploratory" committee to declare flatly that he was in the race. "it's going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make america great again," cruz said in a 30-second video he posted on twitter early monday morning, followed by a speech at liberty university, "and i'm ready to stand with you to lead the fight." he won't be lonely for long. kentucky sen. rand paul is slated to announce his candidacy in two weeks, likely followed in short order by yet another republican senator, marco rubio of florida. that's not to mention the governors (wisconsin's scott walker, new jersey's chris christie, louisiana's bobby jindal), the former governors (florida's jeb bush, texas' rick perry, arkansas' mike huckabee), the former senators (pennsylvania's rick santorum) and the others who already are visiting iowa and new hampshire and hiring staffers for nascent campaigns. at his speech, a handful of students in a prominent front row sported red "stand with rand" sweatshirts. cruz has been overshadowed in recent months by bush, walker and other contenders who have more muscular fundraising networks and stronger institutional support. in the senate, he has been more of an agitator than a legislator. arizona sen. john mccain, the gop's 2008 nominee, once called him a "wacko bird." that said, cruz is worth watching. for one thing, the skills he honed as a college debater at princeton <u+2014> he was named u.s. national speaker of the year in 1992 <u+2014> should serve him well in the series of crowded primary debates. for another, while his tea party credentials might be a mixed blessing in a general election, in the primaries they align him with the most energized forces in the republican grass roots today. that helped him upset the establishment's favorite, lieutenant governor david dewhurst, for the republican senate nomination in 2012. what's more, the locale cruz chose to make monday's announcement reflects his efforts to broaden his electoral base by wooing christian conservatives, another key group in the gop coalition. he spoke at the lynchburg, va., school founded by evangelical leader jerry falwell that describes itself on its website as the largest christian university in the world. his speech had the ring of the religious testimony of an evangelical church. he declared his opposition to abortion and his support of traditional marriage. he emotionally described how his father's embrace of jesus saved his parents' marriage. his father, rafael, a pastor at a suburban dallas church, fled castro's cuba in 1957. cruz's cuban-american heritage would be a selling point for the republican party as it tries to reach out to hispanic voters, although his hardline stance on immigration could be a complication with those voters. and speaking of biography, he has an education that might surprise those inclined to dismiss him: he was graduated from princeton and then from harvard law school, magna cum laude, before clerking at the supreme court for chief justice william rehnquist. at one point, he urged his audience to "take out your cellphones" and text the word "constitution" or "liberty" <u+2014> "we're flexible," he said <u+2014> to a number linked to his campaign.

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washington -- in their ongoing efforts to roll back or hamstring obamacare, republicans probably weren't hoping that the first senate hearing on the matter this year would feature a self-described "democratic socialist" getting gop witnesses to back a key argument for universal health care. thursday's hearing of the committee on health, education, labor and pensions was devoted to the question of moving the full-time work standard under the affordable care act from 30 hours a week to 40 hours, and whether more workers would be hurt by the higher or lower limit. but to sen. bernie sanders (i-vt.), who has long supported the creation of a universal health care system, battling over that particular point began to seem absurd, and he opened his remarks by noting that in every other developed country, such a debate would make no sense at all. "the argument of whether you provide health insurance to people who work 30 hours a week or whether they work 40 hours a week -- whoa," sanders said. "in every major country on earth, health care is a right of all people." with that as his premise, he then asked three of the hearing's witnesses -- two business owners and a school superintendent -- whether their lives and daily endeavors would be improved if government lifted from them the burden of providing health care to their workers. and despite all the gop's cries and criticisms of "socialized medicine" when the affordable care act was making its way through congress years ago, the two republican panelists agreed nearly as readily. "a question like that -- sure," said betsy webb, who runs the bangor school department in maine. "but what is the reality?" "the reality is that maybe it should not have to be the responsibility of the bangor school district to provide health care, that maybe it should be a right of all of our people, whether they work at mcdonald's in bangor, whether they work for the school district, to have health care," said sanders, before taking up the question with the next witness, andrew puzder, the ceo of cke restaurants, which runs the carl's jr. and hardee's chains. "if what you're saying, senator, is that if we had a bill that was debated, that was vetted through congressional committees, and we looked at the health care system and really tried to come up with a more rational solution, i would say you're absolutely right," puzder said. he allowed that he and sanders "might not agree on the ultimate solution," but when sanders pressed puzder on whether he would rather not have to worry about providing health care and instead focus on his products, the ceo was emphatic.

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lyon county gave the former pennsylvania senator his biggest margin of victory in the 2012 iowa caucuses, winning by 62%. the county, santorum said, "stood with us from the very beginning ... i'm just coming back to say thank you, lyon county, for the wonderful support." a visit to all 99 counties, dubbed "the full grassley" after iowa sen. chuck grassley, who visits every county every year, is an important organizing tactic to candidates looking to get to know voters in the first-in-the-nation caucus state. santorum is the first 2016 presidential candidate to complete the challenge, his second time personally completing the feat republican party of iowa co-chairman dr. cody hoefert told cnn a visit to all 99 counties is "critically important" for candidates. "it quite often turns out that the candidate that spends the most time, effort, and energy in iowa tends to get rewarded on caucus night," hoefert said. if that's true, his efforts have yet to show in the polls. in a recent cnn/orc poll of likely caucus-goers, santorum had just 1% of support. in that same poll, 66% of respondents said they were still trying to decide who to support. this cycle, santorum faces competition from other social conservatives in the race, including neurosurgeon ben carson, texas sen. ted cruz, louisiana gov. bobby jindal, and former arkansas gov. mike huckabee, who won the caucuses in 2008. the former senator defended his standing in the polls to reporters, noting that his 99-county tour has been focused on building out the campaign's organization at the grassroots level. "it's a long, arduous process... people say, 'oh, you're just trying to check a box.' no, no, no. this is how you win caucuses," santorum said. "you meet people and you connect with folks like we have here in lyon county, and then you recruit other folks to be your caucus chairs, to recruit other folks to speak for you in the caucuses. all of those things are sort of the nuts and bolts go unseen in a race like this that don't pay off five months before the election, they pay off five days before the election and on caucus night." in his pitch to the 200 or so iowans assembled, santorum focused on his record and work in elected office, particularly on social issues. "let me assure you if you look at my track record, for 15 or 20 years, i have been standing up and taking the slings and arrows, not just for the right to life, not just on partial birth or things like the born alive protection act. but for marriage," said santorum, who served in the house and senate from 1995 until 2007. asked about the support for outsider candidates during what's been called the "summer of discontent," he said, "people are ticked off." "they're understandably saying we just want someone new, somebody that can shake things up and then you'll hear candidates who for one reason or another are folks that they trust will actually do something different."

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the political comedian, who is promoting the upcoming season of <u+201c>real time with bill maher,<u+201d> was responding to<u+00a0>the attack on charlie hebdo, which left 12 people dead, 11 wounded and is viewed as a direct attack on freedom of speech. <u+201c>this has to stop, and unfortunately, a lot of the liberals, who are my tribe <u+2014> i am a proud liberal<u+2013><u+201d> maher began. <u+201c>he<u+2019>s about to turn on you,<u+201d> kimmel joked. <u+201c>no, i<u+2019>m not turning on them,<u+201d> maher continued. <u+201c>i<u+2019>m asking them to turn toward the truth, as i have been for quite a while. i<u+2019>m the liberal in this debate. i<u+2019>m for free speech. to be a liberal, you have to stand up for liberal principles. it<u+2019>s not my fault that the part of the world that is most against liberal principles is the muslim part of the world.<u+201d> maher contended that most muslims would not carry out such an attack, but claimed that <u+201c>hundreds of millions of them<u+201d> support attacks of this manner. maher called for a complete condemnation of the attack, and broadened his view to the dangers of all religion. <u+201c>we have to stop saying when something like this that happened in paris today, we have to stop saying, well, we should not insult a great religion,<u+201d> maher said. <u+201c>first of all, there are no great religions; they<u+2019>re all stupid and dangerous. and we should insult them, and we should be able to insult whatever we want. that is what free speech is like.<u+201d>

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a federal judge in california has ruled that hundreds of illegal immigrant women and children in u.s. holding facilities should be released, another apparent setback for president obama<u+2019>s immigration policy, according to the los angeles times. u.s. district judge dolly gee said friday that the conditions in which the detainees are being held are <u+201c>deplorable<u+201d> and violate parts of an 18-year-old court settlement that put restrictions on the detention of migrant children. the ruling also raises questions about what the administration will do with the estimated 1,700 parents and children at three detention facilities, two in texas and one in pennsylvania. last year, tens of thousands of women and unaccompanied minors from central america arrived at the southwest border, with many believing a rumor that unaccompanied children and single parents with at least one child would be allowed to stay. more than 68,000 of them were apprehended and detained while officials decided whether they had a right to stay. many were being released and told to appear at immigration offices until the administration eventually opened new detention centers. gee said in her ruling that children in the two texas facilities had been held in substandard conditions and gave the administration until aug. 3 to respond. <u+201c>we are disappointed with the court's decision and are reviewing it in consultation with the department of justice,<u+201d> marsha catron, press secretary for the u.s. department of homeland security, said in a prepared statement given to the times. many of the central americans who crossed the southwest border illegally last summer said they were fleeing poverty and escalating gang violence. the texas facilities are run by private companies, while the one in pennsylvania is run by a county government. in february, a federal judge blocked obama's 2012 executive action to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from being deported. and a federal appeals court in new orleans refused three months later to allow the program to go forward, denying an administration request to lift the lower court decision. gee<u+2019>s decision is also seen as a victory for the immigrant rights lawyers who brought the case. the ruling upholds a tentative decision gee made in april and comes a week after the two sides told her that they failed to reach a new settlement agreement as she had requested. the 1997 settlement bars immigrant children from being held in unlicensed, secure facilities. gee found that settlement covered all children in the custody of federal immigration officials, even those being held with a parent. the justice department had argued it was necessary to modify the settlement and use detention to try to deter more immigrants from coming to the border after last year's surge. the department also said it was an important way to keep families together while their immigration cases were being reviewed, but the judge rejected that argument in her decision. the associated press contributed to this report.

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