Latino Voters 2020 - Google Search - 7:30 AM 10/18/2019
- Get link
- Other Apps
» Saved Stories - None: Turkish ambassador to U.S. disputes that Erdogan agreed to a 'cease-fire'
18/10/19 06:20 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
From: PBSNewsHour Duration: 12:50 Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Thursday about Turkey’s military offensive in northern Syria. They agreed to a fi...
18/10/19 06:20 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
From: PBSNewsHour Duration: 12:50 Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Thursday about Turkey’s military offensive in northern Syria. They agreed to a fi...
» Saved Stories - None: Trump Gave 'Present' To Putin In Syria Says Ex-Russian Foreign Minister: 'It plays right into his hands' - Newsweek
18/10/19 05:12 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Trump Gave 'Present' To Putin In Syria Says Ex-Russian Foreign Minister: 'It plays right into his hands' Newsweek Saved Stories - None
18/10/19 05:12 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Trump Gave 'Present' To Putin In Syria Says Ex-Russian Foreign Minister: 'It plays right into his hands' Newsweek Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: The gravitational pull of Donald Trump’s downward spiral - The Boston Globe
18/10/19 05:11 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
The gravitational pull of Donald Trump’s downward spiral The Boston Globe Saved Stories - None
18/10/19 05:11 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
The gravitational pull of Donald Trump’s downward spiral The Boston Globe Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Mulvaney Denies Admitting Ukraine Quid Pro Quo
18/10/19 05:11 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Jennifer A. Dlouhy , Ben Brody , B'berg Saved Stories - None
18/10/19 05:11 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Jennifer A. Dlouhy , Ben Brody , B'berg Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Tulsa rally against Trump impeachment escalates to physical confrontations with Antifa counterprotesters | Government & Politics
18/10/19 05:09 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Michael_Novakhov shared this story from www.tulsaworld.com - RSS Results in news/local/government-and-politics of type article. A rally attended by about five or six dozen people in support of President Donald Trump and in protest of the...
18/10/19 05:09 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Michael_Novakhov shared this story from www.tulsaworld.com - RSS Results in news/local/government-and-politics of type article. A rally attended by about five or six dozen people in support of President Donald Trump and in protest of the...
» Saved Stories - None: "Trump anxiety" - Google News: Trump's Response to the Crisis in Northern Syria: A Case of Principled Realism in Action? - The National Interest Online
17/10/19 18:05 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Trump's Response to the Crisis in Northern Syria: A Case of Principled Realism in Action? The National Interest Online "Trump anxiety" - Google News Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 18:05 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Trump's Response to the Crisis in Northern Syria: A Case of Principled Realism in Action? The National Interest Online "Trump anxiety" - Google News Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Italian Intelligence Says There's No Deep State Plot
17/10/19 18:00 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Matthew Cole , Intercept Italian spies have told their government that they didn't have a relationship with Joseph Mifsud, a mysterious professor at the heart of the Mueller probe. Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 18:00 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Matthew Cole , Intercept Italian spies have told their government that they didn't have a relationship with Joseph Mifsud, a mysterious professor at the heart of the Mueller probe. Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Turkish invasion of Syria sparks NATO crisis, but eviction from alliance is unlikely
17/10/19 17:58 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Michael_Novakhov shared this story . BRUSSELS — Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria — along with the criticism and threats of sanctions brandished by fellow NATO members at Ankara over the offensive — is close to ...
17/10/19 17:58 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Michael_Novakhov shared this story . BRUSSELS — Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria — along with the criticism and threats of sanctions brandished by fellow NATO members at Ankara over the offensive — is close to ...
» Saved Stories - None: After Taking Presidential Corruption To New Heights, Trump Calls Everyone Else Corrupt
17/10/19 17:58 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Trump has called Democratic leaders, the news media, former President Barack Obama and the entire 2016 election "corrupt." Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 17:58 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Trump has called Democratic leaders, the news media, former President Barack Obama and the entire 2016 election "corrupt." Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: GOP Senator Breaks With White House Over Ukraine Quid Pro Quo
17/10/19 17:54 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
"You don’t hold up foreign aid that we had previously appropriated for a political initiative,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said. Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 17:54 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
"You don’t hold up foreign aid that we had previously appropriated for a political initiative,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said. Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: CBSNewsOnline's YouTube Videos: Vice President Pence brokers ceasfire with Turkish President Erdogan on Syria
17/10/19 17:51 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
From: CBSNewsOnline Duration: 05:51 The U.S. has brokered a ceasefire with Turkey to stop attacks on Kurdish forces in Syria. Associated Press White House reporter Jill Colvin is traveling with President Trump in Texas and joins CBSN to ...
17/10/19 17:51 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
From: CBSNewsOnline Duration: 05:51 The U.S. has brokered a ceasefire with Turkey to stop attacks on Kurdish forces in Syria. Associated Press White House reporter Jill Colvin is traveling with President Trump in Texas and joins CBSN to ...
» Saved Stories - None: Analysis Netanyahu Is Stuck in Limbo, but There's a Way Out
17/10/19 17:51 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
It's been more than a month since the election , and 23 days have passed .... This week's meeting between Gantz and Israel Defense Forces Chief of ... Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 17:51 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
It's been more than a month since the election , and 23 days have passed .... This week's meeting between Gantz and Israel Defense Forces Chief of ... Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Rick Perry to step down from Trump administration - LEX18 Lexington KY News
17/10/19 17:50 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Rick Perry to step down from Trump administration LEX18 Lexington KY News Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 17:50 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Rick Perry to step down from Trump administration LEX18 Lexington KY News Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: "Elections 2016 Investigation" - Google News: Mulvaney brashly admits quid pro quo over Ukraine aid as key details emerge - CNN
17/10/19 17:35 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Mulvaney brashly admits quid pro quo over Ukraine aid as key details emerge CNN "Elections 2016 Investigation" - Google News Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 17:35 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Mulvaney brashly admits quid pro quo over Ukraine aid as key details emerge CNN "Elections 2016 Investigation" - Google News Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: "trump authoritarianism" - Google News: Azerbaijan: Reform Behind a Static Façade - The American Interest
17/10/19 17:33 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Azerbaijan: Reform Behind a Static Façade The American Interest "trump authoritarianism" - Google News Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 17:33 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Azerbaijan: Reform Behind a Static Façade The American Interest "trump authoritarianism" - Google News Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Donald Trump's tricky Syria 'gift' to Vladimir Putin
17/10/19 17:31 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Russian troops in Syria moved into a base at Manbij on Tuesday, a day after US forces abandoned it on the orders of their President Donald Trump . Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 17:31 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Russian troops in Syria moved into a base at Manbij on Tuesday, a day after US forces abandoned it on the orders of their President Donald Trump . Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Syria-Turkey crisis and Nato - Google Search
17/10/19 17:26 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Michael_Novakhov shared this story . 1200 × 862 a day ago Collections Get help Send feedback Military Times [PDF] Turkish invasion of Syria sparks NATO crisis, but eviction . Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 17:26 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Michael_Novakhov shared this story . 1200 × 862 a day ago Collections Get help Send feedback Military Times [PDF] Turkish invasion of Syria sparks NATO crisis, but eviction . Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: "israel and germany" - Google News: Sheryl Sandberg pledges $2.5 million to Anti-Defamation League - The Times of Israel
17/10/19 17:25 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Sheryl Sandberg pledges $2.5 million to Anti-Defamation League The Times of Israel "israel and germany" - Google News Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 17:25 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Sheryl Sandberg pledges $2.5 million to Anti-Defamation League The Times of Israel "israel and germany" - Google News Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Inside Olympic Destroyer, the Most Deceptive Hack in History
17/10/19 17:25 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Andy Greenberg , Wired The untold story of how digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyerand why the next big cyberattack will be even harder to crack. Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 17:25 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Andy Greenberg , Wired The untold story of how digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyerand why the next big cyberattack will be even harder to crack. Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: "Putin Trump" - Google News: Chaos spreads from Trump's Syria move - News from southeastern Connecticut - theday.com
17/10/19 17:24 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Chaos spreads from Trump's Syria move - News from southeastern Connecticut theday.com "Putin Trump" - Google News Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 17:24 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Chaos spreads from Trump's Syria move - News from southeastern Connecticut theday.com "Putin Trump" - Google News Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: "trump russian money" - Google News: Mulvaney’s rationalization for the Ukraine aid quid pro quo makes no sense - The Washington Post
17/10/19 17:24 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Mulvaney’s rationalization for the Ukraine aid quid pro quo makes no sense The Washington Post "trump russian money" - Google News Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 17:24 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Mulvaney’s rationalization for the Ukraine aid quid pro quo makes no sense The Washington Post "trump russian money" - Google News Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: "trump russian money" - Google News: Live updates: Trump advisers and DOJ enraged by Mulvaney remarks; Pelosi puts no timetable on impeach inquiry - The Washington Post
17/10/19 17:22 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Live updates: Trump advisers and DOJ enraged by Mulvaney remarks; Pelosi puts no timetable on impeach inquiry The Washington Post "trump russian money" - Google News Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 17:22 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Live updates: Trump advisers and DOJ enraged by Mulvaney remarks; Pelosi puts no timetable on impeach inquiry The Washington Post "trump russian money" - Google News Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Mulvaney links Ukraine money delay to DOJ investigation today in latest Trump impeachment inquiry news — live updates - CBS News
17/10/19 17:19 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Mulvaney links Ukraine money delay to DOJ investigation today in latest Trump impeachment inquiry news — live updates CBS News Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 17:19 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Mulvaney links Ukraine money delay to DOJ investigation today in latest Trump impeachment inquiry news — live updates CBS News Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Ex-CIA agent: Whistleblower's complaint 'should be considered on its merits'
17/10/19 17:16 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Ex-CIA agent: Whistleblower's complaint 'should be considered on its ... A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent said she was “heartened” by ... call in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to ope...
17/10/19 17:16 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Ex-CIA agent: Whistleblower's complaint 'should be considered on its ... A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent said she was “heartened” by ... call in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to ope...
» Saved Stories - None: Is a Ukrainian Oligarch Helping Trump Smear Biden to Evade U.S. Corruption Charges? - The Intercept
17/10/19 17:15 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Is a Ukrainian Oligarch Helping Trump Smear Biden to Evade U.S. Corruption Charges? The Intercept Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 17:15 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Is a Ukrainian Oligarch Helping Trump Smear Biden to Evade U.S. Corruption Charges? The Intercept Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: NPR News: 10-17-2019 4PM ET
17/10/19 16:52 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
NPR News: 10-17-2019 4PM ET Download audio: https://play.podtrac.com/npr-500005/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/newscasts/2019/10/17/newscast160803.mp3?awCollectionId=500005&awEpisodeId=771094874&orgId=1&d=300&p=500005...
17/10/19 16:52 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
NPR News: 10-17-2019 4PM ET Download audio: https://play.podtrac.com/npr-500005/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/newscasts/2019/10/17/newscast160803.mp3?awCollectionId=500005&awEpisodeId=771094874&orgId=1&d=300&p=500005...
» Saved Stories - None: Mick Mulvaney Just Gave Away the Game on Ukraine - Esquire.com
17/10/19 16:27 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Mick Mulvaney Just Gave Away the Game on Ukraine Esquire.com Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 16:27 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Mick Mulvaney Just Gave Away the Game on Ukraine Esquire.com Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Pence Says Turkey Will Pause Military Operations in Syria to Allow Kurds to Withdraw - The Wall Street Journal
17/10/19 16:26 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Pence Says Turkey Will Pause Military Operations in Syria to Allow Kurds to Withdraw The Wall Street Journal Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 16:26 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Pence Says Turkey Will Pause Military Operations in Syria to Allow Kurds to Withdraw The Wall Street Journal Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: U.S. Ambassador Criticizes Trump's Decision To Involve Giuliani In Ukraine Policy
17/10/19 16:25 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
An American diplomat at the center of a House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart has criticized the U.S. leader for involving his personal lawyer in foreign policymaking. Saved Sto...
17/10/19 16:25 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
An American diplomat at the center of a House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart has criticized the U.S. leader for involving his personal lawyer in foreign policymaking. Saved Sto...
» Saved Stories - None: What it means for US bases in Syria to be occupied by Syrian and Russian forces - Military Times
17/10/19 16:24 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
What it means for US bases in Syria to be occupied by Syrian and Russian forces Military Times Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 16:24 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
What it means for US bases in Syria to be occupied by Syrian and Russian forces Military Times Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: NPR News: 10-17-2019 2PM ET
17/10/19 15:01 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
NPR News: 10-17-2019 2PM ET Download audio: https://play.podtrac.com/npr-500005/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/newscasts/2019/10/17/newscast140812.mp3?awCollectionId=500005&awEpisodeId=771040376&orgId=1&d=300&p=500005...
17/10/19 15:01 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
NPR News: 10-17-2019 2PM ET Download audio: https://play.podtrac.com/npr-500005/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/newscasts/2019/10/17/newscast140812.mp3?awCollectionId=500005&awEpisodeId=771040376&orgId=1&d=300&p=500005...
» Saved Stories - None: Kurdish commander: Trump approved deal with Russia, Damascus - The Associated Press | 'All roads with you lead to Putin': Trump and Pelosi have it out over Syria - Haaretz 17/10/19 07:38
17/10/19 15:00 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Michael_Novakhov shared this story from The Trump Investigations - Review Of News And Opinions - Blog by Michael Novakhov. 1. Trump from Michael_Novakhov (197 sites): Politics: Who was in the White House photo of the ‘meltdown̵...
17/10/19 15:00 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Michael_Novakhov shared this story from The Trump Investigations - Review Of News And Opinions - Blog by Michael Novakhov. 1. Trump from Michael_Novakhov (197 sites): Politics: Who was in the White House photo of the ‘meltdown̵...
» Saved Stories - None: FB Co-Founder Hughes Forms $10M Fund To Fight Monopolies
17/10/19 14:56 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, who wrote an op-ed in the New York Times ... Censorship concerns caused Netflix and India's Hotstar to sign a ... Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 14:56 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, who wrote an op-ed in the New York Times ... Censorship concerns caused Netflix and India's Hotstar to sign a ... Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Kushner to visit Israel to meet with potential new government leaders
17/10/19 14:55 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, will meet with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as Benny Gantz, ... Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 14:55 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, will meet with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as Benny Gantz, ... Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: "Elections 2016 Investigation" - Google News: Trump impeachment inquiry: EU envoy to break from president over Ukraine scandal – live - The Guardian
17/10/19 14:40 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Trump impeachment inquiry: EU envoy to break from president over Ukraine scandal – live The Guardian "Elections 2016 Investigation" - Google News Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 14:40 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Trump impeachment inquiry: EU envoy to break from president over Ukraine scandal – live The Guardian "Elections 2016 Investigation" - Google News Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: "trump russian money" - Google News: Trump to host G7 at his own Florida resort property - CNN
17/10/19 14:40 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Trump to host G7 at his own Florida resort property CNN "trump russian money" - Google News Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 14:40 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Trump to host G7 at his own Florida resort property CNN "trump russian money" - Google News Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Kushner to visit Israel to meet with potential new government leaders - McClatchy Washington Bureau
17/10/19 14:39 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Kushner to visit Israel to meet with potential new government leaders McClatchy Washington Bureau Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 14:39 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Kushner to visit Israel to meet with potential new government leaders McClatchy Washington Bureau Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Trump’s struggling golf resort in Florida to host G7 summit despite conflict of interest fears - The Independent
17/10/19 14:39 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Trump’s struggling golf resort in Florida to host G7 summit despite conflict of interest fears The Independent Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 14:39 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Trump’s struggling golf resort in Florida to host G7 summit despite conflict of interest fears The Independent Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: In unprecedented move, Trump awards next G-7 summit to his own Miami-area resort
17/10/19 14:38 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has awarded the 2020 G-7 ... in 2012, taking out $125 million in loans from Deutsche Bank to finance the ... Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 14:38 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has awarded the 2020 G-7 ... in 2012, taking out $125 million in loans from Deutsche Bank to finance the ... Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: "Russian Intelligence services and organized crime" - Google News: WSJ Columnist: This Is When The Deep State Felt They Got The Green Light To Defy Trump - Townhall
17/10/19 14:38 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
WSJ Columnist: This Is When The Deep State Felt They Got The Green Light To Defy Trump Townhall "Russian Intelligence services and organized crime" - Google News Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 14:38 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
WSJ Columnist: This Is When The Deep State Felt They Got The Green Light To Defy Trump Townhall "Russian Intelligence services and organized crime" - Google News Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: "Putin Trump" - Google News: Trump Is Holding the G7 at His Own Golf Resort and Wants Putin to Come - VICE
17/10/19 14:37 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Trump Is Holding the G7 at His Own Golf Resort and Wants Putin to Come VICE "Putin Trump" - Google News Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 14:37 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Trump Is Holding the G7 at His Own Golf Resort and Wants Putin to Come VICE "Putin Trump" - Google News Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Politics: Who was in the White House photo of the ‘meltdown’ meeting, annotated
17/10/19 14:37 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
The Fix analyzes the reactions of everyone in the photo President Trump tweeted out of the White House "meltdown" meeting. Politics Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 14:37 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
The Fix analyzes the reactions of everyone in the photo President Trump tweeted out of the White House "meltdown" meeting. Politics Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Mulvaney says there was a quid pro quo in Trump holding back military aid to Ukraine — but it did not relate to Biden probe - CNBC
17/10/19 14:36 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Mulvaney says there was a quid pro quo in Trump holding back military aid to Ukraine — but it did not relate to Biden probe CNBC Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 14:36 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Mulvaney says there was a quid pro quo in Trump holding back military aid to Ukraine — but it did not relate to Biden probe CNBC Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Mick Mulvaney Acknowledges Quid Pro Quo In Trump Ukraine Call
17/10/19 14:35 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
The acting White House chief of staff told reporters "get over it" when asked about seeking foreign assistance in U.S. elections. Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 14:35 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
The acting White House chief of staff told reporters "get over it" when asked about seeking foreign assistance in U.S. elections. Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Mulvaney Acknowledges Quid Pro Quo In Trump Ukraine Call, Says 'Get Over It'
17/10/19 14:35 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
... on Thursday that President Donald Trump withheld foreign aid in order to get Ukraine's help in the U.S. election . ... Elections have consequences.”. Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 14:35 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
... on Thursday that President Donald Trump withheld foreign aid in order to get Ukraine's help in the U.S. election . ... Elections have consequences.”. Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Trump awards next G-7 summit to his own Miami-area resort - The Age
17/10/19 14:35 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Trump awards next G-7 summit to his own Miami-area resort The Age Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 14:35 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Trump awards next G-7 summit to his own Miami-area resort The Age Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney admits it: There was a Ukraine quid pro quo - The Washington Post
17/10/19 14:34 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney admits it: There was a Ukraine quid pro quo The Washington Post Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 14:34 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney admits it: There was a Ukraine quid pro quo The Washington Post Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: The Trump Impeachment Inquiry: Latest News - The New York Times
17/10/19 14:33 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
The Trump Impeachment Inquiry: Latest News The New York Times Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 14:33 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
The Trump Impeachment Inquiry: Latest News The New York Times Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: Professor in Mueller Probe Has No Ties to Italian Intelligence - The Intercept
17/10/19 14:33 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Professor in Mueller Probe Has No Ties to Italian Intelligence The Intercept Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 14:33 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
Professor in Mueller Probe Has No Ties to Italian Intelligence The Intercept Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: White House admits Trump withheld aid to Ukraine in exchange for investigation
17/10/19 14:28 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
"So the demand for the investigation into the Democrats was part of the ... Robert Mueller's final report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. Saved Stories - None
17/10/19 14:28 from Saved Stories from Michael_Novakhov (1 sites)
"So the demand for the investigation into the Democrats was part of the ... Robert Mueller's final report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. Saved Stories - None
Michael Novakhov - SharedNewsLinks℠ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| latino voters 2020 - Google Search | ||||
Images may be subject to copyright. Find out more
Related images
| ||||
| latino voters 2020 - Google Search | ||||
Democrats Seek to Build on 2018 Gains With Latino Voters
Wall Street Journal-20 minutes ago
Democrats Seek to Build on 2018 Gains With Latino Voters ... group in the electorate in 2020, would give them a big ballot-box advantage.
Record 32 million Hispanics ready to vote, the largest minority ...
Washington Examiner-Oct 15, 2019
In an analysis of the federal data, the Pew Research Center said that there are a “record” 32 million Latinos eligible to vote in 2020. That is an ...
Latinx Voters In Texas Set To Play Key Role In 2020 Election
WBUR-Oct 14, 2019
“You've got a double the number of Latino electorate in from 2014 to 2018 at almost 2 million voters,” he says, “so this is a rapidly expanding ...
Joe Biden is counting on Hispanic voters. Can they count on ...
NBC News-Oct 12, 2019
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden has long counted on his vast popularity among African American voters as crucial to his 2020 presidential ...
| ||||
| latino voters 2020 - Google Search | ||||
Web results
Aug 28, 2019 - A new poll of 8100 Latinos commissioned by a new progressive group, Equis Labs, shows Hispanics as the "X factor" in 2020, with age and ...
The Latino vote in the United States is often regarded as a 'sleeping giant.' But new ... a population trend that could see their vote become a major factor in 2020.
The U.S. Hispanic population reached 59.9 million in 2018, up from 47.8 in 2008. A record 32 million Latinos are projected to be eligible to vote in 2020.
PEOPLE ALSO SEARCH FOR
The Pew Research Center has found that in the U.S. there are 27.3 million eligible Latino voters, and while historically speaking most have not voted, there was ...
Sep 23, 2019 - The Latino electorate is younger, more numerous, and more diverse than ... He will become a U.S. citizen next year, in time to vote in the 2020 ...
Latino turnout will be a 'marker for 2020,' says Dem strategist ... Latino voters are expected to play a bigger role in the midterm contests, with issues such as ...
Sep 17, 2019 - Trump campaign aims to use immigration, trade to win Hispanic vote in 2020 ... In an interview with Fox News, Trump 2020 campaign manager ...
Sep 22, 2019 - What we observed in 2018 was a clear reaction from Latinos who turned out to vote at a record high rate in the midterm elections. The Latino ...
Sep 15, 2019 - “Texas is going to be hotly contested in 2020,” Cruz said at a Christian ... He said there are millions of Latinos eligible to vote in Texas but who ...
| ||||
| Democrats Seek to Build on 2018 Gains With Latino Voters | ||||
Cookie Notice
We use cookies for analytics, advertising and to improve our site. You agree to our use of cookies by closing this message box or continuing to use our site. To find out more, including how to change your settings, see our
Cookie Notice
We use cookies for analytics, advertising and to improve our site. You agree to our use of cookies by closing this message box or continuing to use our site. To find out more, including how to change your settings, see our
| ||||
| impeachment - Google Search | ||||
3 days ago
Images may be subject to copyright. Find out more
Related images
| ||||
| impeachment - Google Search | ||||
a day ago
The backstory of Ukraine's role in impeachment inquiry
Oct 16, 2019
CNN's John Avlon discusses the history behind Ukraine's involvement in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
Images may be subject to copyright. Find out more
Related images
| ||||
| impeachment - Google Search | ||||
Get Caught Up: 4 Big Questions About The Trump-Ukraine Affair
NPR-2 hours ago
Impeachment in the House is an indictment that would spur a trial for ... Trump and his Republican supporters argue that impeachment isn't real ...
Democrats' hope for a quick impeachment is looking a bit ...
International-Los Angeles Times-15 hours ago Trump's Impeachment Blockade Crumbles as Witnesses ...
The New York Times (blog)-Oct 17, 2019
WASHINGTON — The White House's trenchant declaration to House impeachment investigators last week was unequivocal: No more ...
Modest Changes in Views of Impeachment Proceedings Since ...
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press-16 hours ago
But about one-in-ten adults (9%) who had opposed the House opening impeachment proceedings last month now approve of the decision to ...
The Trump Impeachment Inquiry: What Happened Today
The New York Times-11 hours ago
In testimony before impeachment investigators, President Trump's ambassador to the E.U., Gordon Sondland, said the president had ...
Impeachment Could Trap Top Presidential Candidates In ...
BuzzFeed News-11 hours ago
WASHINGTON — An impeachment trial in the Senate would be a massive threat to President Trump, but it could also cripple — or boost — the ...
Trump is giving Republicans a utilitarian argument for ...
Washington Examiner-9 hours ago
The question of what high crimes and misdemeanors rise to the level of impeachable offenses is unclear by design. Impeachment is an ...
| ||||
| impeachment - Google Search | ||||
Impeachment is the process by which a legislative body levels charges against a government official. Impeachment does not in itself remove the official definitively from office; it is similar to an indictment in criminal law, and thus it is essentially the statement of charges against the official.
People also askWeb results
Impeachment is the process by which a legislative body levels charges against a government official. Impeachment does not in itself remove the official definitively from office; it is similar to an indictment in criminal law, and thus it is essentially the statement of charges against the official.
PEOPLE ALSO SEARCH FOR
View the latest news and analysis around the attempt to impeach President Donald Trump.
9 hours ago - Key testimony: Gordon Sondland, the US Ambassador to the European Union, testified for 10 hours before Congress.
“The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, ...
PEOPLE ALSO SEARCH FOR
Sep 24, 2019 - How does it work? Which presidents have been impeached? A guide to the US impeachment process.
1 hour ago - From quid-pro-quo to arrests, we catch you up on the latest developments.
54 mins ago - He was a key figure in the impeachment inquiry. On a July call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Mr.
2 hours ago - Impeachment in the House is an indictment that would spur a trial for ... impeachment inquiry into President Trump on Capitol Hill Tuesday.
1 hour ago - Energy Secretary Rick Perry faces a subpoena deadline Friday to turn over documents relating to the impeachment inquiry of President Donald ...
Watch A Bunch Of Scientists Freak Out Over A 'Whale Fall' On The Bottom Of The Ocean · Media · Anthony Scaramucci Predicts 20+ Senate Republicans Are ...
PEOPLE ALSO SEARCH FOR
Find the latest updates, breaking news stories and videos about the efforts to impeach President Donald Trump.
14 hours ago - NBC News' live blog with the latest coverage of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump led by House Democrats.
Sep 25, 2019 - The speculation over Democrats calling for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump has been swirling with varying levels of ...
A formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump is expected to be announced by Democrats.
5 days ago - Live EU envoy Sondland to break from Trump in impeachment testimony – ... Trump impeachment inquiry gathers pace as more officials testify.
Oct 9, 2019 - For the fourth time ever in American history, the House of Representatives has launched an impeachment inquiry into a sitting president.
Sep 24, 2019 - WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Tuesday that the House would initiate a formal impeachment inquiry against President ...
On today's show, Brian spoke with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, and a member of the Judiciary Committee, which will play ...
Page navigation | ||||
| Turkish ambassador to U.S. disputes that Erdogan agreed to a 'cease-fire' | ||||
Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Thursday about Turkey’s military offensive in northern Syria. They agreed to a five-day pause in the operation, but disagreed about whether or not it constitutes a "cease-fire." Judy Woodruff reports and sits down with Serdar Kilic, Turkish ambassador to the U.S., to discuss.
Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG
Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
Follow us:
Facebook: http://www.pbs.org/newshour Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/newshour Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/newshour Snapchat: @pbsnews
Subscribe:
PBS NewsHour podcasts: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/podcasts Newsletters: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/subscribe  | ||||
| 'It plays right into his hands' | ||||
A former Russian foreign minister has called the move by President Donald Trump to withdraw troops from northern Syria a "present" to Vladimir Putin, as Russian influence had previously been waning in the region.
Andrei Kozyrev served as foreign minister under post-Soviet Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin, between 1991 and 1996. He recently published a book, Firebird, that outlines the democratic development of his country following the breakup of the Soviet Union.
In an interview with MSNBC, he said Trump's latest actions showed there was no doubt the Kremlin was right to celebrate his election in 2016.
Of the Syria withdrawal, he told host Andrea Mitchell: "It plays right into his hands and I think now he understands why his cohorts were celebrating when Trump was elected."
Upon Trump's election, he said "they had champagne in the Duma [Russian parliament] openly and said, 'our guy is in the White House', that was the champagne toast. Putin was not there himself but now he appreciates it very well.
"Maybe they will [now] have champagne every day," he continued. He added Russia had been in a "desperate position, the Russian economy is in stagnation and it is involved in the support of [Bashar al-] Assad who is losing and is isolated and there is no end.
"There is a dead-end war they are waging and, all of a sudden, this kind of present is coming his way from the American side," he added.
He described how there had been a seismic shift in the expectations that Russia had towards the U.S. as a global power broker, and that in his time as foreign minister, like the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, he had to ask the U.S. for help to "consolidate democracy."
"At that time, it was inconceivable that either the American president or any of his representatives would blackmail us with aid they were giving. That aid was not quid pro quo, it was to help to build democracy.
"That's what Zelenskiy and the Ukrainians need now. That was always the role of America and it was not [about] commercial bargaining," he added.
This week, Russian newspapers sympathetic to the Kremlin described how Putin was the main winner from Trump's Syria move.
The tabloid Moskovskij Komsomolets described Trump's move as "reckless," in a piece headlined "Putin has won the lottery, the unexpected triumph of Russia in the Middle East," which went on to state "those who are certain that Trump is of no use to Russia, should think again."
Meanwhile the Kremlin was left surprised by letter sent by Trump on October 9 to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in which he threatened to punish the Turkish economy and not to "be a tough guy" over bombardments of northern Syria.
| ||||
| antifa flag - Google Search | ||||
Images may be subject to copyright. Find out more
Related images
| ||||
| Tulsa rally against Trump impeachment escalates to physical confrontations with Antifa counterprotesters | Government & Politics | ||||
A rally attended by about five or six dozen people in support of President Donald Trump and in protest of the impeachment inquiry against him quickly escalated to physical confrontations and violence when counterprotesters unfurled anti-fascist flags.
There were fewer than a dozen counterprotesters flying green “Antifa International” flags. The physical violence amounted to pushing, grabbing, body blocking and, at one point, a tug-of-war over a flag.
Blame for the escalation to physical violence was mutual. Tulsa police arrived twice to separate the protesters and counterprotesters.
“I think that a lot of people hate America and hate freedom, which is why they protest President Trump,” said Jarrin Jackson, a former 2nd Congressional District Republican candidate who emceed the rally. “It’s sad that they don’t know better. They don’t like freedom, and so the enemies of freedom will try to use violence to silence people that love it.”
Tulsa 9.12 Project and Women for America First organized the pro-Trump rally at Veterans Park, 1875 S. Boulder Ave.
Frank Grove, one of the counterprotesters, said the escalation was “pretty standard” for supporters of Trump.
“Trump supporters in general have a poor understanding of the law,” Grove said. “They think that just because they’re in a public park and have a permit that they have a right to remove protesters from the area, which is not the case.”
Grove said he came to the rally to voice opposition to the American pullout of military forces in Syria.
“There’s no way that withdrawing from Syria was the right idea. It’s just a terrible idea,” Grove said. “(Turkish Prime Minister Recep) Erdogan is engaged in ethnic cleansing right now in northern Syria, and we effectively green-lit that operation.”
The Kurds, an ethnic group native to Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria, have a long history of U.S. support. A Turkish assault on the Kurds in northern Syria was launched three days after Trump pulled American troops from their positions near the border alongside their Kurdish allies.
Counterprotesters flew their Antifa flags in close proximity to the rally, walking behind the rally stage and, at times, toward the front.
Many of the rally attendees elected to ignore counterprotesters, several of whom were attempting to yell over the sound-amplified rally.
Trump supporters attended to protest the impeachment proceedings and to support Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign. Jackson told rally attendees that they “are not alone” in their support, referencing similar rallies held the same day across the United States.
“There is half of this country that no longer believes or loves this country, Jackson said, referring to those who don’t support Trump. “They hate our values to such an extent that they are trying to impeach a president using deceit and lies and illegal tactics.”
In a news release announcing the rally, rally organizers described the impeachment proceedings as “unfounded and divisive.” They said the impeachment proceedings are “an attack” on Trump and “millions of people who voted” for him. The rally demanded an end to the impeachment proceedings, arguing that they are damaging to the nation.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and most of the House leadership resisted calls for impeachment until revelations that Trump had talked with the president of Ukraine about digging for evidence of wrongdoing by former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, who had done business in the eastern European country while his father was vice president.
Trump is on record encouraging both Ukraine and China to investigate a political rival, as the former vice president is a leading Democratic presidential candidate for 2020. Hunter Biden has also had business dealings in China.
A memo detailing Trump’s call with the Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and a whistleblower complaint the call prompted suggest but do not categorically show that Trump tried to use military aid as leverage to get Zelenskiy to act on behalf of Trump’s reelection.
Trump also asked Zelenskiy to look for a computer server linked to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whom Trump defeated in 2016.
Angela Strohm, a rally speaker and chaplain with the Tulsa Women’s Republican Club, made a biblical call for anger, referencing Ephesians 4:26. She said former President Barack Obama’s reelection woke a “sleeping giant” and that “righteous anger” elected Trump.
“When Obama got elected a second term, I was not only angry at another four years of his hypocrisy and degradation of our nation, but I was also angry with the millions of people that did not utilize their God-given, constitutional right to vote or they chose to vote contrary to the biblical worldview.”
Local Democrats issued a statement late Thursday evening in response to the rally against impeachment. Tulsa County Democratic Party Chair Amanda Swope wrote in the statement that the allegations against Trump “deserve a full and complete investigation by Congress.”
“This rally is an attempt by the President’s most zealous defenders to distract the public from the serious allegations made against him,” Swope wrote. “If true, the President’s conduct is a clear threat to national security, American democracy, and global stability.”
| ||||
| Energy Secretary Rick Perry, 1 of the '3 amigos' on Ukraine, to resign | ||||
 US Department of Energy(WASHINGTON) — Energy Secretary Rick Perry, described by colleagues as one of the “three amigos” on U.S. policy on Ukraine, informed President Donald Trump on Thursday that he plans to resign, according to two senior administration officials with direct knowledge of the matter.
A day of departure has not been determined. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not provide an immediate explanation on why he was leaving.
Perry, who was Texas’ longest serving governor and ran against Trump for president in 2016 before joining his administration, has not been accused of any wrongdoing. He also has insisted that actions he took regarding Ukraine were intended to advance U.S. interests in the region – namely addressing government corruption and encouraging American companies to do business there.
In recent weeks, Perry has repeatedly knocked down suggestions that he planned to resign, including telling the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Wednesday that he planned to still be in the job on Thanksgiving.
“They have been writing a story that I was leaving the Department of Energy for at least nine months now,” he told reporters at an Oct. 4 press conference in Lithuania. “One of these days they will probably get it right, but it’s not today, not tomorrow, not next month.”
In his Journal interview, Perry also seemed to point the finger at Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, for trying to press the newly installed Ukrainian government to conduct an investigation.
According to Perry, he wanted Trump to call Ukraine’s new president to forge a positive new relationship between the two countries. But Trump referred him to his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who told Perry that Ukraine manufactured evidence used to launch the U.S. special investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Giuliani said Ukraine had Democrat Hillary Clinton’s email server and fabricated evidence that implicated former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
U.S. intelligence agencies have long said Russia, not Ukraine, tried to interfere in the 2016 election on behalf of Trump, not Clinton.
Manafort was sent to jail for tax and bank fraud on charges unrelated to the Trump campaign and tied to his political consulting work in Ukraine.
“I don’t know whether that was crap or what,” Perry told the Journal of Giuliani’s call. “But I’m just saying there were three things that he said. That’s the reason the president doesn’t trust these guys.”
Perry said in the interview that Vice President Joe Biden never came up in his discussions with Trump, Giuliani or others. But in a July 25 phone call to Ukraine’s president, Trump urges Ukrainian president to launch an investigation into the 2016 election and the role Biden’s son played serving on a board of a Ukraine gas company.
Biden and his son, Hunter, have both said they did nothing wrong. In an interview with ABC News, Hunter acknowledged it was “poor judgement” to serve on an overseas board while his father as working as vice president but that there was no wrongdoing.
Perry’s influential role in the region has led him to be described by U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland and others as one of the “three amigos” tasked with overseeing the U.S.-Ukraine relationship.
That role in Ukraine also has made him a key person of interest for lawmakers seeking first-hand knowledge of events. He received a subpoena on Oct. 10; while some federal officials have testified under subpoena, other entities – the Defense Department, Office of Management and Budget, as well as Giuliani — have declined to comply.
Perry is the second Cabinet member to step down in a week. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan resigned on Oct. 11 for reasons unrelated to the impeachment inquiry.
In his 2016 bid for the presidency, Perry said the Energy Department should be eliminated. After being named to head the post, he has used his role as secretary to expand the influence of American energy abroad, particularly in natural gas and nuclear technology. He has frequently said that being Energy secretary is the “coolest job in the world,” while being governor of Texas was the best job.
Copyright © 2019, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.
| ||||
| After Taking Presidential Corruption To New Heights, Trump Calls Everyone Else Corrupt | ||||
Trump has called Democratic leaders, the news media, former President Barack Obama and the entire 2016 election "corrupt."  | ||||
| How America’s Orthodox Jews became Trump supporters - U.S. News - Haaretz.com | ||||
Home | ||||
| Orthodox Judaism and Trump - Google Search | ||||
Images may be subject to copyright. Learn More
| ||||
| How Elijah Cummings' death could affect Trump probe | ||||
CLOSE
Democratic and Republican leaders in Washington expressed their condolences following the death of Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland. He died early Thursday at age 68. (Oct. 17) AP, AP
WASHINGTON – The unexpected death Thursday of Rep. Elijah Cummings has meant the loss of a key Democratic leader, an eloquent voice for and confidante of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who played a central figure in the House's ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
Cummings, who served as chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Reform Committee, will be succeeded by New York Democrat Carolyn Maloney on an acting basis. And there's no indication that the inquiry, now in its fourth week, is slowing down amid the tragedy.
Pelosi said the House is continuing to gather evidence and talk to witnesses as it investigates efforts by Trump to pressure the Ukrainian government to provide potentially damaging information on 2020 political rival Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
Trump's acting chief of staff acknowledged Thursday that financial aid to Ukraine at the center of a House impeachment inquiry was withheld because of the president's desire for the country to engage in U.S. politics.
Mick Mulvaney's assertion was the first time a White House official has conceded Trump set up a quid quo pro scenario in which money approved by Congress for Ukraine was used as leverage, though he defended the arrangement as standard practice.
The son of sharecroppers, Cummings was one the earliest and most aggressive committee chairmen investigating Trump, sending requests for information while in the minority during the first two years of the president's term and then calling hearings and demanding documents after Democrats regained control of the House in January.
He accused the administration of stonewalling his requests for documents on a variety of subjects including whether Trump was profiting unconstitutionally from his namesake business while president and why a citizenship question was proposed for the U.S. Census in 2020.
Here are some key questions about Cummings, Maloney and where the impeachment process goes from here:
Q: What was Cummings' role in helping lead impeachment efforts?
A: As chair of a committee responsible for unearthing evidence of potential corruption, the Maryland Democrat has been at the center of the impeachment effort by leading a panel that demanded key documents and records.
In recent weeks, Cummings' panel has issued several subpoenas to key witnesses in the investigation: Energy Secretary Rick Perry about his contacts with the Ukrainian government; to the lawyer for two Ukrainian-born business partners who helped Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, in trying to find dirt on the Bidens; and the White House itself for pertinent documents.
Latest witness: Impeachment inquiry: Trump ambassador 'disappointed' with Rudy Giuliani's influence in Ukraine policy
Even before the formal impeachment inquiry, Cummings was responsible for convening the committee hearing in February when Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen, testified that the president encouraged him to lie to Congress and the public for Trump's protection.
Q: How will the loss of Cummings affect impeachment?
A: The West Baltimore native (who got into a very public spat about his hometown with the president earlier this summer) has been a forceful voice against the Trump administration on a number of issues including the cost of prescription drugs and civil rights.
Leading the Oversight and Reform Committee, Cummings was one of the three chairmen heading the impeachment (along with Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Foreign Affairs Eliot Engel). Cummings' death.
But Pelosi made clear that the inquiry was still on track despite a tragedy that silenced one of Congress' most powerful voices.
"The timeline (on impeachment) will depend on the truth line," Pelosi told reporters Thursday morning.
Q: Who is Carolyn Maloney, the congresswoman who will take over the House and Oversight Committee on an acting basis?
A: The former New York City teacher with a first-degree black belt in Taekwondo, Maloney has a reputation as a tenacious champion for women's rights and consumer protections over her nearly 14 terms in Congress.
Not necessary: Nancy Pelosi: No need for House to hold formal vote on impeachment inquiry already under way
She's also been a leader on issues tied to the Sept. 11 attacks, including the creation of the commission examining the terrorist attacks and efforts to compensate first responders who developed health problems following the disaster.
Maloney, 73, has also been a vocal supporter of Trump's impeachment, saying in September during a rally on Capitol Hill that Trump has committed "treason" by pressuring Ukraine to dig up dirt on political rival Joe Biden.
"We will get to the bottom of this," she said at the rally. "We will not let the president get away with breaking the law."
Q: What's next for the impeachment process?
A: Witnesses continue to be called in front of the committee.
Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, was the latest witness, telling the House impeachment panel Thursday that he was disappointed that he had to consult with Giuliani on Ukraine policy and that withholding military aid for a political investigation would be "wrong."
Republicans had hoped to slow, or kill, the inquiry by forcing the House to hold a formal vote on whether to authorize the inquiry that Pelosi launched last month.
But the Speaker rejected such calls Tuesday, saying it was not necessary to take the additional step on a probe that is already well underway.
"There's no requirement that we have a vote," Pelosi said. "We're not here to call bluffs. We're here to find the truth to uphold the Constitution of the United States. This is not a game for us. This is deadly serious."
Trump has vowed not to cooperate with the inquiry unless the House holds a vote to officially launch it. Democrats, in turn, had considered holding such a vote, potentially in case the courts said such a move was necessary to compel administration officials and other potential witnesses in the investigation to provide documents and appear for testimony.
Elijah Cummings, a Democratic Maryland congressman, has died at age 68. Cummings had served as a representative of Maryland's 7th congressional district since 1996. See the lawmaker's life and career in pictures. Win McNamee, Getty Images
24 Photos
Maryland congressman Elijah Cummings dies at 68
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., talks to NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J., and Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., as they watch a hearing on allegations of CIA involvement in drug trafficking before the Senate Intelligence Committee Nov. 26, 1996, on Capitol Hill. J. Scott Applewhite, Associated Press
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-MD, is flanked by his predecessor Kweisi Mfume, right, and former Maryland Congressman Parren Mitchell on Capitol Hill Thursday April 25, 1996 after officially being sworn in. Cummings replaced Mfume. Denis Paquin, AP
Elijah Cummings stands to the right of Rep. Albert Wynn, D-Md., as he addresses a Capitol Hill news conference on discrimination in the federal workforce on July 7, 1997. Joe Marquette, AP
Former President Bill Clinton, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md. and Former Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening participate in church services at New Psalmist Baptist Church in Baltimore on Nov. 1, 1998. Greg Gibson, AP
Elijah Cummings and other congress members surround President Clinton after he signed the Long-term Care Security Act on Sept. 19, 2000, in Washington. Ron Edmonds, AP
Elijah Cummings visits the Maryland Public Television studio on Oct. 23, 2000, in Owings Mills, Md., prior to a debate against Republican challenger Kenneth Kondner. Roberto Borea, AP
Congressman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., speaks to supporters at a victory party on Nov. 7, 2000, in Baltimore. ] Gail Burton, AP
Elijah Cummings speaks with Senator Joseph Biden after a news conference on aid to Africa January 16, 2003 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong, Getty Images
Nancy Pelosi, accompanied by Elijah Cummings and other fellow House members, meet reporters on Capitol Hill Feb. 13,2003 to announce that they filed a brief with the Supreme Court in support of the University of Michigan's affirmative action admissions policy. Evan Vucci, AP
Elijah Cummings, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, smiles on , April 17, 2003, in Baltimore after recording the democratic response to President George W. Bush's weekly radio address airing nationally on Saturday. Gail Burton, AP
Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md, left, accepts the Elmer P. Martin Public Service Award from Dr. Joanne M. Martin, co-founder of the Great Blacks and Wax Museum on Nov. 18, 2003, in Washington. Cummings was honored for outstanding contributions to society. Adele Starr, AP
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., stands with U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, left, and Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Executive Director Wade Henderson, right, at a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, ending racial segregation in schools on May 17, 2004, in Topeka, Kan. Charlie Neibergall, AP
Elijah Cummings and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus of the 109th Congress are sworn in at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. on January 4, 2005. Alex Wong, Getty Images
National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern speaks with Rep. Elijah Cummings after testifying about steroid use in professional sports before the House Committee on Government Reform on Capitol Hill May 19, 2005 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Elijah Cummings questions former New York Yankees baseball pitcher Roger Clemens during the House Oversight and Government Reform committee hearing on drug use in baseball on Feburary 13, 2008 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Tim Sloan, AFP/Getty Images
Elijah Cummings speaks during the testimony of Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen June 23, 2014 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee, Getty Images
Elijah Cummings and congressional staff members gather at the Capitol to raise awareness of the recent killings of black men by police officers, both of which did not result in grand jury indictments, in Washington on Dec. 11, 2014. J. Scott Applewhite, AP
Congressman Elijah Cummings speaks to the media the morning after citywide riots following the funeral of Freddie Gray, on April 28, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. Gray, 25, was arrested for possessing a switch blade knife April 12 outside the Gilmor Houses housing project on Baltimore's west side. Mark Makela, Getty Images
Elijah Cummings delivers remarks to members of the news media after attending a closed meeting of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on October 6, 2015. Michael Reynolds, EPA
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves after receiving the endorsement of Congressman Elijah Cummings during a grassroots event in Baltimore, Maryland on April 10, 2016. Yuri Gripas, AFP/Getty Images
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-MD, speaks during the 2016 Democratic National Convention at Wells Fargo Arena on July 25, 2016. Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY
Elijah Cummings speaks to members of the press during a Democratic Caucus meeting to elect new leadership on Capitol Hill on November 28, 2018 in Washington, DC. Zach Gibson, Getty Images
Elijah Cummings, Chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, gestures as he delivers a press conference following the former Special Counsel's testimony before the House Select Committee on Intelligence in Washington, DC, on July 24, 2019. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds, AFP/Getty Images
1 of 24
Autoplay
Show Thumbnails
Show Captions
Read or Share this story: <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/17/impeachment-how-elijah-cummings-death-could-affect-trump-probe/4008644002/" rel="nofollow">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/17/impeachment-how-elijah-cummings-death-could-affect-trump-probe/4008644002/</a>
| ||||
| Syria-Turkey crisis and Nato - Google Search | ||||
| ||||
| Turkish invasion of Syria sparks NATO crisis, but eviction from alliance is unlikely | ||||
BRUSSELS — Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria — along with the criticism and threats of sanctions brandished by fellow NATO members at Ankara over the offensive — is close to sparking a crisis at the world’s biggest military alliance.
But despite the high political-military tensions, Turkey is very unlikely to be ejected from the 29-member alliance, for NATO has seen tense times and survived them before.
From the Suez Canal crisis in 1956 to France leaving its military command structure in 1967 — which forced the alliance to move its headquarters to Brussels in Belgium — to the deep split among allies over the Iraq war in 2003, NATO bonds have been tested. But no country has left the alliance or been forced out.
Beyond that, Turkey is of great strategic importance to NATO. The large, mainly Muslim country straddles the Bosporus Strait, making it vital bridge between Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. It’s also the only waterway in and out of the Black Sea, where Russia’s naval fleet is based.
Turkey has NATO’s second biggest army, after the United States, and keeping the country inside NATO helps keep a lid on Turkey’s historic tensions with its neighbor Greece.
“I think it’s better to have Turkey inside NATO than outside NATO, to be honest. I think it’s important to have them in our family and discussion. I think it’s easier to work with them that way, but we cannot behave as if this had not happened,” Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said Tuesday.
Sign up for the Early Bird Brief
Get the military's most comprehensive news and information every morning
Thanks for signing up!
Turkey has been testing fellow NATO members’ patience for a while.
Its military offensive in Syria comes on top of tensions over Turkey’s purchase of Russian-made S400 missiles, which threaten NATO security and the F-35 stealth jet. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also purged thousands of military officers following the failed coup in Turkey in 2016 and some have sought, and been granted, asylum in NATO countries.
“At the moment, this is the greatest political-military challenge the alliance faces,” Ian O. Lesser, vice president at the German Marshall Fund think-tank, said Wednesday. “Obviously as an existential matter, it’s not on a par with deterring Russia in places like the Baltics or around the Black Sea. But in terms of a political crisis within the alliance, and potentially a security crisis, it’s very, very high on the agenda.”
So far, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has urged Turkey to show restraint and to be wary of provoking yet another humanitarian disaster, particularly as well over a million Syrians have already fled to Europe in recent years.
Stoltenberg has exhorted Ankara to focus on NATO’s common enemy; the Islamic State group, some of whose fighters are reported to have escaped jail during the Turkish offensive. But he has not, at least not in public, called for a ceasefire.
Indeed, Stoltenberg has shied away from any public criticism of Turkey — or of any other NATO member — and recalled that the alliance plays no role in Syria, beyond helping with the surveillance of air traffic over the country from abroad.
NATO ambassadors debated the Turkish invasion again Wednesday, NATO headquarters said without elaborating.
One option open to Turkey’s partners is to request consultations through Article 4 of NATO’s founding treaty, which is possible when “in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the Parties is threatened.”
Turkey has done this in the past, in 2015 after a series of extremist attacks on its territory and in 2012 when a fighter jet was shot down over Syria. Poland did so in 2014, when tensions in Ukraine were at their height.
So far, no country has officially requested such consultations, but some European allies have called for a ministerial-level meeting of the international coalition fighting IS. NATO defense ministers meet in Brussels next week and are certain to discuss the Turkish invasion.
Some countries will also seek clarification at that Oct.24-25 meeting from the United States about what exactly its plans are in Syria, after Turkey took the departure of U.S. troops from there as a green-light to launch its offensive.
But whatever happens, the chances of Turkey being evicted from NATO are slim. Lesser said, as far as he understands, “there is no mechanism to remove a member.”
That doesn’t mean relations can’t break down.
“There are ways in which a membership can become dysfunctional, either because there’s no political consensus around the member’s concerns,” he said, or if Turkey’s frustration grew to a point where it would “consider options like withdrawing from the military command structure.”
AP Writer Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.
| ||||
| Syria-Turkey crisis and Nato - Google Search | ||||
People also ask | ||||
| Trump impeachment: Rudy Giuliani's business dealings sit at the center of the deepening Trump-Ukraine scandal. Here's the latest. | ||||
The counterintelligence part of the investigation indicates that FBI and criminal prosecutors in Manhattan are looking at a broader set of issues related to Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, than has been previously reported.
The counterintelligence probe hinges in part on whether a foreign influence operation was trying to take advantage of
Giuliani's business ties in Ukraine
and with wealthy foreigners to make inroads with the White House, according to one person briefed on the matter.
The Latest
New details on Pompeo's role
Former State Department senior adviser Michael McKinley testified Wednesday that he had repeatedly asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for a show of support for
the ousted US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch
— but was greeted with silence, according to two sources with knowledge of his testimony.
Much of McKinley's testimony before the three committees leading the impeachment investigation focused on internal dynamics at the State Department, which previous witnesses have told lawmakers were upended by Rudy Giuliani's efforts to go around normal channels in Ukraine to target Yovanovitch and push for Ukraine to open an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
LINK
Yovanovitch
defied the White House last week in testifying before Congress, where she told lawmakers that Trump wanted her removed from her post based on "unfounded and false claims."
In a blistering statement to the committee, Yovanovitch said she had been dismissed last spring because of pressure from Trump and "a concerted campaign against me."
Sondland set to testify
Lawmakers have been eager to press Sondland about text messages he exchanged related to Trump's July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the freezing of foreign aid to Ukraine.
The Washington Post
reported
Saturday that Sondland is expected to tell Congress that Trump relayed to him directly in a phone call the content of a text message that Sondland sent denying quid pro quo.
New polling on impeachment
A majority of US adults support the impeachment and removal of President Donald Trump from office, a
Gallup poll released Wednesday
found, continuing a trend of recent surveys that have found increased support for the Democratic-led effort.
Fifty-two percent of Americans support impeaching and removing Trump from office, while 46% disagree. That's a 7-point increase from when Gallup asked in June about impeachment and removal after
former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation
into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The level of support for Trump's impeachment is much higher than it ever was for former President Bill Clinton and above that for former President Richard Nixon in all but a final poll taken before the 37th president's resignation, according to the Gallup survey.
Wednesday's poll follows
four others
in recent weeks that found public opinion is shifting on the impeachment inquiry.
Looking ahead
Friday
Tuesday
Key documents
Need a refresher on what happened when? Check out the key documents CNN has annotated below:
What are we doing here?
The President has invited foreign powers to interfere in the US presidential election.
Democrats want to impeach him for it.
It is a crossroads for the American system of government as the President tries to change what's acceptable for US politicians. This newsletter will focus on this consequential moment in US history.
| ||||
| Pete Buttigieg Talks Impeachment, Health Care, and the Political Spectrum | ||||
At the latest Presidential-primary debate, on Tuesday, Pete Buttigieg, the young mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was notably pugnacious. Challenging Elizabeth Warren on health care, he said, “Your signature, Senator, is to have a plan for everything. Except this.” He had a contentious exchange with Tulsi Gabbard about Syria, and, in a back-and-forth with Beto O’Rourke about gun control, he told the former congressman from Texas, “I don’t need lessons from you on courage, political or personal.” The Washington Post described Buttigieg’s performance as “uncharacteristically fiery.”
A few days before the debate, Buttigieg, a polyglot Navy vet who is also, at age thirty-seven, a millennial, talked with David Remnick as part of the twentieth New Yorker Festival. They discussed impeachment, Medicare for All, Buttigieg’s experience coming out as gay, and what it might take for the mayor to surpass Joe Biden, Warren, and Bernie Sanders at the top of the polls.
This conversation has been edited and condensed.
Is Donald Trump’s political goose cooked?
That depends on the conscience of the Senate Republicans. And what that actually means is it depends on whether there is enough of a threat to the power of the Senate Republicans that they would be reunited with their conscience, which, obviously, they’ve taken a holiday from. Which is really important because, in a moral sense and in a constitutional sense, this is about accountability when the President has admitted to an abuse of power.
There’s going to be an investigation. There’s going to be testimony. There’s going to be records. But, for all the things that might emerge then, he confessed on television to the abuse of power. So there’s this central fact that Congress has to weigh in on: whether this is or is not a high crime. For all of that, we also know that this is a political process. And I think what’s going on in the minds of a lot of Senate Republicans is this question of whether they will ever find some way to say what they know deep down, which is that this President is a disaster not only for the country but for their own party. Or whether staying in power requires them to continue riding this tiger until he finally devours them. And so, in a very sad and very real sense, that’s what’s going to play out.
Of course, as a Presidential candidate, you have no real part in that. And so my perspective is to focus on the day after Trump is President. I want to ask you to really picture what it’s going to be like that first day when the sun comes up. I mean, at first, it’s a happy thought, for sure, but then you really think about it. Like, what’s it going to be like? The rubble of our norms and institutions? And our population, our families, maybe, our communities, even more torn apart by politics than we are now, if you think about everything we’ve been through and everything we’re about to go through? And the real question is: Who among the candidates for President can lead us in a world where we’re going to have to solve these big policy problems that didn’t take a break during impeachment, and somehow unify the American people? And, of course, I’m running to be that President, because we need somebody capable of turning the page as well as winning the fight.
But, before the sun goes up, we have to acknowledge some realities. The Senate Republicans are where they are because we live in a very different environment—a different media environment, and social-media environment—than we were living in in 1974, during the Watergate crisis. You have a base that President Trump has not lost. You know it well—you’re from the state of Indiana.
Fox News is one element here. What is it going to take, do you think, to change the equation that President Trump set out when he was a candidate and said, “I could go down Fifth Avenue and shoot anybody I want,” or whatever the quote was, “and nobody would care”?
Well, the day that Nixon resigned, I’m told, he had about twenty-five per cent of the country with him. So I think we can assume that there’s at least twenty-five per cent that you’re just not going to reach. That still leaves an awful lot of people. And we’re talking about my neighbors. I’m from the industrial Midwest. There are a lot of people where I live; they don’t think he’s a good guy—they’re not stupid. But they voted, effectively, to burn the house down.
See, the great irony of this moment is that we are where we are because of the collapse of the Republican agenda’s ability to deliver any results for people. And it’s not just Republican inaction; this is a problem of the era that we’ve lived in. I was born in 1982. That means that I’ve spent . . . I hear that murmur.
I bought these shoes in 1982. I just want you to know it.
But, for me and anybody younger than me, we’ve lived our entire lives in the Reagan era. And I would argue that that era—you could call it the neoliberal era—continues almost to this day, and now it’s collapsing, because none of the prescriptions that were offered in this so-called consensus around how to create growth—none of them worked. They worked to create growth in terms of numbers on a page, but they didn’t work in terms of delivering the kind of security and prosperity to American families in a place like the industrial city where I live.
The term “neoliberal” is very often used by people on the left. Your image is of somebody who’s closer to what is called the neoliberal consensus than Sanders or Warren, say. Do you reject that characterization?
Yes. I think those characterizations are only useful for people who try to align all of us on some left-right spectrum.
Why shouldn’t they?
Because it’s outlived its usefulness. Look, I led the field in proposing Democratic reforms that, to this day, some candidates supposedly on my left haven’t embraced. I also am a candidate who believes that Medicare for All is not as attractive as Medicare for All Who Want It, which gives people the choice. So one of those, you might say, puts me on the center. Another one puts me further out. There’s a position on criminal-justice reform that not only I and fellow-Democrats hold but some conservatives and libertarians are starting to embrace. And so we’re living through a real scrambling of some of these ideological labels. And I think that’s a healthy thing.
Can I jump in on Medicare for All versus Medicare for All Who Want It? It seems axiomatic that, if you go with Medicare for All Who Want It, you cannot have Medicare for All, that the math will not work out. And I totally understand the point that you have—what is it, a hundred and fifty million people that are on private insurance now? And, likely, certainly in the beginning, they’re not going to want to leap out of it into the unknown. That’s the dilemma, certainly, that Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders faces in the argument. The dilemma that you face, it seems to me, is that Medicare for All Who Want It can come off to some audiences as a fancy way of having your cake and eating it, too—when you can’t.
Why not?
Because if enough people don’t want to be involved in Medicare for All, will the funding be there—will it be adequate to have Medicare for those who want it?
Yes. I mean, this is how public alternatives work—they create a public alternative that the private sector is then forced to compete with. We talk about this like health care is the only place we’ve ever contemplated a public alternative, but, actually, things like Internet-service providers—my fellow-mayors had been doing it. And it’s remarkable what happens in the private sector when you have a public challenge.
The way I come at it, I guess, is just rooted in a certain humility about what’s going to happen. Because one of two things will happen. Either there really is no private option that’s as good as the public one we’re going to create—which means everybody migrates to it, and pretty soon it’s Medicare for All—or some private plans are still better, in which case we’re going to be really glad we didn’t command the American people to abandon them, whether they wanted to or not. And I’m neutral on which one of those outcomes happens. The core principle for me is not whether or not the government is your health-insurance provider. The core principle for me is that you get covered one way or the other. That’s what Medicare for All Who Want It entails.
Are you not among those who look north to Canada or east to the obvious European countries and says, “I wish we had that instead of this?”
Well, I certainly wish we had the improved economic efficiency of pretty much every other developed country, which spends less of its health-care dollar on administration relative to health care—actual patient care, compared to us—and has better health outcomes, as a rule, to show for it. But, the thing is, that’s not quite what we’re talking about—even the candidates to my left, when they talk about just obliterating the existence of a private sector in health care.
Look, I lived in the U.K. for two years, as a student. Not only is the government in charge of health insurance—it’s in charge of health care. If you’re a doctor, you work for the government. And, even there, there is a system of private insurance and private care. So we’re not really emulating a European system if we’re saying that we’re just going to order the private sector out of existence in health care. What we’re doing is something different, and I don’t think it’s a very attractive vision.
Do you think the rhetoric of Medicare for All, when you hear Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren talk about it, is pandering in some way?
It’s not for me to say what motivates them.
Sure it is. You’re running against them.
I’ll say this: what sounds good on a debate stage isn’t always the right answer. And we’re obviously in the phase now where we’re on debate stages a lot. But my mentality, as a mayor, is that you should only make promises that you’re prepared to keep, and you’re actually going to be in charge of doing the thing you said you were going to do. When you’re a mayor, there’s no waving away. If there is a hole in the road, and you didn’t fill it in, and somebody calls you out on it, you don’t get to say, “That’s fake news. It’s a great road. There’s no hole in it.” Because they’ll look at the hole and they’ll know.
So, on the one hand, I am a big believer in bold solutions, whether it’s on Democratic reform or even on health care—where what I’m proposing, just to be really clear, is the biggest, boldest transformation of American health care in more than fifty years. But I also think it calls for a certain level of humility about how to get it done, instead of the arrogance of saying, “I’ve figured it out. I know exactly how many years it will take to deliver. I’m going to put your health care at risk that I was right, and it’s my way or the highway. Here we go.” I just come at it from a different perspective.
Bernie Sanders has had a long career. He’s in his late seventies. He’s done a hell of a lot. He also just had a heart attack, and running for President, much less being President, is—even for bad Presidents—an exerting occupation, possibly more than a magazine editor, even. What do you expect will happen there, and what should happen there? I know you’re going to say, to some extent, “It’s not for me to say,” but, again, it is. It’s for all of us to think about. It’s a reality.
Look, in terms of the rigors of the Presidency, I think that a pretty good way to gauge whether somebody’s up to it is watching how they handle the rigors of a Presidential campaign. If somebody’s not up to it, that would be a self-correcting problem, right? I mean, as the youngest guy in the field, I’m seeing how gruelling the campaign process is, and, if somebody can hack it all the way through to Election Day and win, at any age, then I think they’ve demonstrated a lot by way of having what it takes to be President.
Now, what I will say about age and the Presidency is that there’s been an idea that age equals wisdom. And, certainly, wisdom comes with age. But, you know, the current President is the oldest we’ve ever had. . . .
You can stop there. Speaking of which, earlier this week, President Trump announced, in the middle of the night, that he was withdrawing American forces from the Turkish border with Syria, and they’re leaving our Kurdish allies unprotected. And Turkey is obviously in the midst of an offensive. As a candidate, as a veteran, what do you think of this piece of strategy, if that’s what it is?
I don’t think it’s a strategy.
What’s it born of?
What I know is that it’s a betrayal. And it would be one thing if the President were forced to make an impossible moral choice between one compelling set of interests and the other, and there was no way to honor one without dishonoring the other. Those are the kinds of situations where Presidents earn their paychecks. But this wasn’t that. We were actually holding the line. And the thing that’s so upsetting to think about is that people put their lives on the line in order to help us fight ISIS, and we’re literally leaving them to their deaths.
I think about when I was in Afghanistan. One of the Afghans I got to know best—his job was to clean this building that I worked in some of the time. And I was attempting to learn the language of Dari. He would teach me these Afghan sayings—there’s an amazing, rich tradition of proverbs in Afghanistan. One of them that I always think of is “Everyone’s homeland is Kashmir for him.” And another one that this guy helped me learn was—I guess it’s “Bread, onions, open forehead.” But what it translates to is “If all you’ve got is bread and onions, still have a happy face.” In other words, take what you got and make the best of it. It rhymes in Dari.
I trust you.
And we would talk about what we had in common, which at first I thought was pretty much nothing. And it turned out he was from a part of Parwan Province where they grow a lot of corn. I’m from a part of Indiana where we grow a lot of corn. We talked about corn, right? You get to know people. But, also, he talked about the kidnap threats that his family faced as a consequence of the fact that he came in to do this fairly menial job.
And I just picture myself back there. If I were there on a day like this, I would have such a hard time looking him in the eye. And so many American soldiers are talking about the sense that they feel their honor has been compromised. Some of them have reported feeling shame. For American Special Operations Forces soldiers to feel shame because of a decision made by the American President for no good reason—that is making America less safe. That is making America dramatically less safe, because part of how we succeed—especially in the complicated, messy, asymmetric conflicts that are going to dominate the twenty-first century—is our ability to get people to trust us. And, when we lose that, we’ve got very little left.
You went to Afghanistan and served in the armed forces. Did your sense of why we were there, whether we should have been there and for how long, change as a result of your experience? Did you leave Afghanistan, in a sense, as an antiwar vet, or not?
Well, I arrived knowing we were there because we’d been attacked. It was very different from the Iraq conflict in that sense. But, also, while I was there, it was increasingly difficult to understand what our goal was. And the thing that has made me feel a greater and greater sense of urgency about moving on is the fact that I thought I was one of the last troops leaving. Like, turning out the lights and wrapping things up. Years ago, when I left. And we’re still there.
Now, the irony is the waiting it out involves having a minimal but effective Special Operations and intelligence presence on the ground, to make sure the American interests are secure, not an endless commitment of ground troops. And that’s exactly what we had in Syria and is now being yanked away. Which I think actually adds to the likelihood of getting sucked into conflicts in the future.
Let’s return to your sunny-day scenario. If and when Donald Trump were to resign or be convicted in the Senate, or some dramatic act like that, on that sunny morning, there will be a President of the United States. His name will be Pence. And there’ll still be a Democratic race for the nomination, or a nominee. How will it change the dynamic? And what would a President Pence be like?
It’s very hard to say. I can tell you exactly what Governor Pence was like, because I dealt with him a lot. And what you had was somebody who I disagreed with ferociously on many things, although we also found ways to work on economic development in other areas. But my sense was, even though he believes things that are completely fanatical, he really believes them. Now, it’s very hard to understand what he believes, because the President that he has supported to be the political and moral leader of this nation is somebody who offends not just my values but his own. And it raises the question of what is left in there.
Ethically, morally?
Yes.
You’ve known him for quite a while. Did you think to yourself that this is somebody capable of, for want of a better phrase, selling his soul to the devil in order to be Vice-President, and to be this supportive this long?
I was surprised, but, I guess, at the end of the day, it was his ticket to relevancy. And they needed each other. Mike Pence had lost the respect even of the business conservatives in Indiana, over his anti-L.G.B.T. agenda. And the one way that Donald Trump would have lost is if he had been unable to unite the Republican Party. So he needed that legitimacy from the religious right. So the—from a cynical political perspective, it’s actually a brilliant pairing. But it shows that the now V.P. didn’t believe in things as strongly as I thought. So what does that mean for his Presidency? Nothing good.
What would he do that Donald Trump has not done? Because he is, to my mind, much more ideological on a certain number of issues that are pretty obvious.
That’s true. And I think, ultimately, it would mean an even quicker failure. This is a strange thing to say for somebody who doesn’t have some of the glaring flaws that President Trump has, but the President’s flaws help distract from the fundamental flaws of the far-right agenda that more conventional Republicans have been implementing for a long time. The idea that tax cuts for the wealthy pay for themselves turns out not to be true. The idea that, if we deregulate banks and so forth, nothing bad will happen. The idea that climate change isn’t real, or, now that we know it’s real, that it’s happening on its own, so we can’t really do anything about it. The idea that society’s integrity depends on making sure people like me can’t get married. The idea at one point that, for some reason, we had to invade Iraq. I mean, all of the core tenets of conventional Republican politics have really collapsed in terms of their ability to serve the American people. And so, if you have only that and none of the dazzle of the chaos of this Presidency, then I think it actually accelerates the process by which the Republican Party as we currently know it is dying.
And the sooner that process runs its course the better. And I don’t just say that as a Democrat. I say that as somebody who believes that we actually need a robust Republican Party. I would much rather be debating whether the progressive approach to a carbon-neutral economy was better than the conservative approach to a carbon-neutral economy, instead of debating—if you can even call it debating—whether this fundamental reality is in fact a reality. We need conservatives to come to their senses.
In 2006 or 2007, a young guy named Barack Obama went on television. He was talking about the decision people make to run for President. He said you have to acknowledge that the idea of running for President is, at some level, an act of madness. And, obviously, he was saying that with some humor, but with some sense of reality, as well. What process brought you to make the leap of imagination: “I’m the guy. I’m in my mid-thirties, and I’ve been running a city that’s of pretty modest size. I’m the person who is uniquely qualified.”
You say that like it was not an obvious thought process.
Well, first of all, I think any time you run for office you should ask two sets of questions. One: What does the office need? What does the next occupant of that office have to do? And then you ask the question: Who am I, and what do I bring to the table that’s different from the others? And then you look for a match. And that’s a process that has led me to run for office before. You have to believe there’s a real unique fit. And a lot of that depends on the moment you’re in.
It’s not lost on me that at no other time in the history of the Republic would somebody like me doing something like this have ever gotten this far. I believe that validates the idea that this is a moment that calls for somebody like me. Why? Because we have to do two things at once. We have to advance policies that are bold enough to get the job done, which is why we can’t go with too safe of a choice. We can’t pretend that the Trump Presidency is this weird anomaly that we can just kind of recover from by returning to the old normal. We are where we are because normal didn’t work.
The other problem is the idea that we’re just going to find all the good people and hope that it adds up to fifty-one per cent and just obliterate the bad people and crush them and win, and that’s going to be a way forward for the country. And, at a time when the country is horrifyingly polarized, and, frankly, when we got to admit that the country is not divided into good people and bad people but, rather, human beings—fallen human beings who are capable of very good and very bad things, who currently have leadership calling out what is worst in us—well, yes, we’ve got to fight for the bold stuff, but that can’t be enough. And the fighting can’t become its own purpose. It’s going to take something different.
And one advantage for a President who’s trying to figure out how to do both of those things is the fact of not having been mired in the politics of the past. I believe in experience. I believe my experience governing and serving in the military is relevant. But, also, the fact of being new is useful here. Not just in terms of winning but in terms of governing.
And then you look at the field. And, while there are many people that I admire in this most diverse and perhaps qualified field ever put forward, there’s nobody proposing to do what I am.
What is your distinctiveness? In other words, what is it that you’re willing to do that the others aren’t?
I think my understanding of why politics matters is different. It’s more rooted in everyday life. Part of that’s a mayor’s orientation. Part of it’s my Midwestern orientation. Part of it’s my personal story as somebody who saw, for example, the Afghanistan War, not just in terms of the theoretical debates going on about U.S. foreign policy but the simple fact that it changed the course of my life. As somebody whose marriage exists by a one-vote margin on the United States Supreme Court, I think about politics not in terms of its own internal dynamics and the excitement of the game and the show but in a very grounded way.
Another way to think of it is this: Americans usually want something along the lines of the opposite of whatever we’ve just had in the Presidency. And I might be the one person who can say that, whether it’s President Trump or President Pence, I represent the opposite of what we have just had.
We’re sitting here on Sixty-third and Central Park West, at the New Yorker Festival, for God’s sake—the red-hot epicenter of somebody’s nightmare somewhere. What accounts for this horrendous polarization, in which Sixty-third and Central Park West can barely understand rural Indiana, say, or any other—a lot of other places that one could name? Because it is markedly deeper than it was in 1968. It’s markedly deeper than everything we know about, even some of the worst flash points in American history, certainly in the beginning of the twentieth century.
Right now, there are a lot of lines being drawn about who gets to be American. And it speaks to a bigger crisis of belonging in this country. My candidacy, in many ways, is a response to that crisis of belonging. Now, a lot of it is what’s been perpetrated by right-wing politics and certainly by the current President, right—so, clearly telling people they don’t belong, based on gender identity, or sexual orientation, or religion, or country of origin, or race, gender, you name it. But there are other dimensions of the search for belonging that I think are really causing a level of pain that deserves to be acknowledged—in rural America, in places like the industrial Midwest. And that yearning for belonging can either be the thing that divides us—because we find belonging in whatever tribe we align with and then just get belonging out of fighting others, which is how a lot of fighting works in the world—or we tap into something deeper, which is the fact that it’s not that different, that the anxiety of a sheet-metal worker in St. Joseph County, Indiana, who used to rely on a certain role in the economy—
But, if deindustrialization, for one thing, is a brutal reality, what do you say to that person? What do you say to those towns that have been hollowed out, and cities, as well?
Well, here’s what we’re doing in South Bend. I’m not sure if folks know this—the per-capita income in our city just went above twenty thousand dollars for the first time in a long time.
Twenty thousand dollars is per-capita income in South Bend?
That’s right, yeah. So we’ve been living this ever since the factories closed in the sixties. And what’s working for us—obviously, I could talk through the part about how we’re creating new jobs in different industries, but equally important is that we have worked to build a sense of identity around being part of South Bend. Stuff I used to hate as a mayor, because I only cared about policy stuff. I never would’ve thought that one of the things I’d spend a lot of time on was creating a new city flag, for example. That was exactly the kind of symbolic stuff I didn’t care about. But we have created a sense of what it means to be in our community. And the reason that’s so important is that your job is not just a source of income; it is a source of community, a source of identity, and a source of purpose.
Now, if you don’t have some source of those things, something ugly will fill the void. Something ugly like substance use, or something ugly like white nationalism. But there are other ways to build up that sense of belonging. And some of them might sound conservative, because they might have to do with community, or faith, but I think they are very healthy. And some of them can also be national—it’s why I think national service, for example, needs to be high on the agenda, and why I’m making it a big part of my campaign. Anything that gives us a sense of having something in common.
It’s why my climate plan—of course, I think that the technical dimensions of my climate plan are the best, but all of them are very good technically. The really important thing about my climate plan is that it recruits folks like farmers to be part of the solution. Because, if we’re all part of this national project, and we stand up taller, and we have this kind of glue that brings us together, and a different kind of propulsion—we need that. We really need that right now. And the beauty of the Presidency is it can furnish that sense of purpose and identity for people who may have nothing in common with each other besides the mere fact of belonging to the United States of America on paper.
It is rough, though, for a voter to know the granular detail of every politician’s record, whether as a mayor, as a senator, congressman, governor. You got derailed because you had a controversy in South Bend where you had a white police sergeant shoot a fifty-four-year-old black resident. You left the campaign trail to deal with that. People saw some tough footage of you being confronted, and an impression deepened about you and race. The polls suggest that you have very, very little black support. Do you think you’ve been wrongly branded in some way, and what can you do about it?
Yes. I think that people who actually come to South Bend will see how we are wrestling with tough problems.
But they won’t. Voters are where they are.
Well, part of my job, though, is to bring people to South Bend, even if you can’t literally come. I can give you a sense of what it is like to sit down with activists, with community members, with pastors, and work through how we hold our community together. And I would not have seen my support in the black community grow over the years in our city if I hadn’t found a way to include people even without pretending that we were going to fix it overnight.
And it’s the same with what I’m proposing for the country, with an antiracist policy agenda that is more, I would argue, systematic and comprehensive than any of my competitors’. The Douglass Plan is designed to be as ambitious as the Marshall Plan, but right here in the United States, for dealing with systemic racism.
You should probably explain what the Douglass Plan is.
Well, the idea is we’ve learned the hard way as a country that just replacing a racist policy with a neutral one is not enough to deliver equality. And, if we want to deal with inequity in this country, we have to invest, and we have to recognize it’s systemic. So, for example, in South Bend, when we’re at the table working through an issue around racial justice in policing, by the end of that hour, we’re not only talking about race and policing; we’re talking about economic empowerment.
It’s why I’m proposing we triple the number of black entrepreneurs in the country and set a twenty-five-per-cent goal for the federal government to do business with businesses owned by people who’ve been historically disadvantaged. But it’s not just entrepreneurship, either—it’s health, it’s homeownership, it’s access to voting, education. All of these things are connected. And so the Douglass Plan is intended to be a systematic, intentional, and well-funded response to the problem of systemic racism in this country. Of all the things we’ve been up against as a country, only one of them actually came convincingly close to permanently ending the American project, and that was white supremacy during the course of the Civil War. And I am now convinced that, if we don’t tackle that in my lifetime, it could wreck the American project in my lifetime.
Are you prepared to make reparations part of the process of tackling that?
Yes. So I support H.R. 40, which is the bill to create the reparations commission. But I don’t think we have to wait for that process to begin undertaking all of the steps I’ve laid out in the Douglass Plan, many of which I would describe as reparative.
But H.R. 40 is an exploratory committee, as far as I understand it. And I think, for a lot of people, that seems not enough.
Well, that’s what the Douglass Plan is about. Don’t wait for that to start taking steps that are reparative. And the thing you got to remember here is that this is not just about going back and trying to change something in a distant history. This is about how history has followed us.
I take your answer as entirely serious and sincere. The numbers are tough for you, though. You’re getting zero per cent in South Carolina at the moment, and a narrative, rightly or wrongly—and I want you to answer—has taken hold, certainly among your opponents or people who are skeptical of your candidacy, that you are very popular, but particularly among well-educated whites and, by extension, what’s known as the donor class in American politics. Why are they wrong?
Well, there is only one candidate who has a commanding lead among black voters. Now, one of two things is true. Either that candidate has such a masterful command of the issue of race in America that black voters will stay loyal to him no matter what—
You’re talking about Joe Biden here.
Yes. Yes. Or things are likely to change as voters continue to sort through their options and see what we have to offer. And I’m betting on the latter.
I thought you did extremely well at that CNN forum. It was kind of a remarkable thing to watch, maybe even an unimaginable event X years ago. You have a debate coming up—you’re in the midst of what I’ve always thought is a pretty cockeyed process. The way we get a Democratic nominee through the route of Iowa, New Hampshire, and all these steps and steak fries and all the rest—some of it’s beautiful. Some of it’s inspiring.
The streak fry really is a beautiful thing.
Yes. The deep-fried doughnut is excellent, too. But how do you break through? Because your polling is where it is. It’s a crowded field. Some of it’s dynamic, some of it’s not. How do you break through? What’s the scenario?
Well, there’s kind of two phases to this. The first phase brings us to where we are now. So, in terms of breaking through, I’ve advanced past roughly twenty of my competitors, which is not bad for somebody nobody had heard of in January. There are admittedly a few more big hills to climb. Although I would also add that where I am right now in the mix is roughly where the eventual nominee almost always has been in the year before the vote, if history is any guide. And I think where this is going to shake out is, if you really do want the candidate with the most years of Washington experience, the most familiar face possible, then you’ve got your choice. And, if you want the most ideologically conventionally left candidate you can get, then you’ve got your choice. Most Democrats I talk to are looking for something else, and that’s where I come in.
The first time I ever heard your name—you’ll forgive me—was on a pretty dour day at the White House. I went to interview Barack Obama the day after he had seen Trump for the first and only time. And we had a long interview about the election and how he felt about it or how he would describe it, in his own, very guarded way. And then, finally, I said to him—and I think we’ve talked about this before—“So who do you have on the bench?”
Ms. Kamala Harris, he knew that name—talked about her for a few seconds. And then he said, “And there’s that guy, he’s the mayor of South Bend, Indiana.” So you were on his radar. Now that his Presidency has become a subject of debate, what do you see as the downsides of his legacy?
I think President Obama was the last Democrat governing in the Reagan era, and it created a lot of constraints. Remember, he only had a working majority in the Senate for a matter of months, and we can find fault on any number of things where we wish more had been done. But I would say rescuing the American auto industry, reversing the onset of a great depression, ending the war in Iraq, bringing justice to Osama bin Laden, and delivering health care for millions of Americans is not bad for eight years’ work.
He’s held himself quite aloof from this race, and a lot of people have been banging on his door to be more active, more vocal, put a finger on the scale a little bit more.
I think there’s just too many of us. And, yes, it’s not for me to say what a former President should do when it comes to choosing the next President. Of course, I’m trying to get endorsements right and left, although most of them are from people in early states like Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada. But it’s up to us, and we can’t look backward. I really am convinced this will be one of those epochal moments where one chapter in American history ends and another one begins. And we don’t know—as a matter of fact, it’s up to us to decide—whether it will be the dawn of an enlightened era, where we tackle things that have just been talked about for decades, or whether it’s an era that matches or even exceeds the ugliness of the moment we’re living in right now.
One of the things you did in your remarkable career is you worked for McKinsey. And McKinsey has gotten a lot of, lot of criticism in the last few years. And I know you thought the work that you did was fine, the specific work that you did. How do you feel about McKinsey in general, and do you have second thoughts about having worked for them?
I’m glad I did the work that I did. I learned a lot there, and I did good work, but it’s infuriating to see the choices that they have made, especially in years since I left the firm. Some of the advice that they gave, some of the people they were doing business with.
Talking about Purdue Pharma, things like that.
People I know have lost their lives in the opioid crisis. And I think it speaks to this bigger problem of the moment, when amorality in business turns into immorality in business. I also think it’s wrong to suppose that business, left to its own devices, will police itself to find that line. Policy is supposed to create those guardrails. And the fact that we’ve had more and more relaxed policy with regard to business is part of how we got here. And so, for all of the upsetting and unethical and wrong behavior that has happened in the business community, I think that we must acknowledge that a lot of this is the consequence of decisions made in Washington that have failed to constrain business when it does the wrong thing.
Would you break up Big Tech? Amazon, for instance—does it distort the economy rather than being a positive force?
I don’t think that we should declare as candidates, “By fiat, I will break this company,” because I think there’s due process involved, but it’s very clear that you have companies that are exploiting their scale in order to crush competition. And, in the case of Amazon, my other objection is, how is it that Amazon paid less in federal income taxes than I did last year? Like, zero.
But I think we’ve also got to recognize there’s more to dealing with tech than just the monopoly issue. We don’t have a national data-privacy law, and this is going to be a problem for tech companies of any size. Anybody who gets our data, whether they’re a giant or a small firm, can abuse it. The closest thing we have to an I.D. number is Social Security. Think about the problems this presents, in that your password and your user I.D. are the same thing fundamentally, when you’re trying to open a bank account or something like that. There’s a whole bunch of work that we’ve got to do just around our relationship to technology, as well as to technology companies when it comes to their size and when it comes to the way they handle our data.
The other night, on CNN, you spoke incredibly movingly about the experience of coming out. And I wonder what the experience of running for President as a gay man has been. What have been the experiences, positive and negative?
Well, the most positive experience is when you learn that you’ve had an impact on somebody. Look, I came out with the most selfish agenda, which is I just wanted to start dating, and I couldn’t figure out a way to do that if I didn’t come out, so I came out.
And how old were you?
I was thirty-three.
It must have been very difficult.
Yes. I mean, part of what motivated me to do it was the awareness that, at that age, having been deployed into a conflict, which is one of the experiences that put me over the edge toward needing to come out, I could be at that age and fairly accomplished in life. I’m a grown-ass man. I own a house. I’m the mayor of a city. I’m a war veteran. I’ve got no idea what it’s like to be in love. Like, when a love song comes on the radio and I’m trying to relate to it, I’m just extrapolating.
And I just realized that was no way to keep going. So I knew that there would be public implications, good ones and bad ones. And I didn’t know if the good ones, which had to do with other people seeing that example, would outweigh the bad ones, which was that it could end my public life. I just did it and then let the chips fall as they did. So, now that I’m running for President, it’s amazing to meet people who talk about what it would’ve been like if a teen-age version of themselves had been able to see an out candidate for President. It’s not unusual for somebody to come up to me in an airport or on the street and begin to cry and not get a word out. We have a whole conversation just with eye contact. It’s a really beautiful thing. So there’s that. And, to me, that outweighs all the bullshit that you have to deal with.
Tell me, what is the bullshit?
Well, there’s some mail that I could do without. There were the protests. I mean, it’s one thing to be protested because people disagree with a choice you’ve made or a position you hold. I think that’s fair game. But when somebody protests you just for existing, it’s just, like, come on, man. Like, you’re protesting the wrong thing.
We got married in a church, which was very important to me, in South Bend. And a guy started showing up just with this sign, “Gay marriage is a sin,” or something like that. He just kind of patrols the block as we’re going into services, kind of coming and going. I mean, he doesn’t hurt anybody, but it’s irritating. And I remember, at one point, talking to the pastor’s wife, who observed, like, “If we’re here on religious grounds, shouldn’t he be here to hear the scripture and come pray with us? We’re nice. We’ll have coffee after.”
Is the good or the bad geographically specific? The receptivity, the acceptance, the decency—in any way geographically located?
Probably the opposite of the way you might think. I think that, in more conservative areas, it probably has special meaning to people. When we’re in . . . I love going to rural and conservative areas, partly because I think there’s a lot more of a conversation to be had than you would think with typically conservative voters about why they should vote for me, just in general. But also, when you see this phenomenon of people who—it’s just hard to come out. Look, I was aware, even when I was in the process myself of coming out, that if I were a mayor in some U.S. states I wouldn’t even have to bother to come out. You know, I’d just—there’d be some rubber-chicken dinner like you go to every other day when you’re a mayor, and I’d bring my date, and it would be a dude, and everybody would notice, and that would be that, right? But not in Indiana. Like, I had to figure out a whole process. And so, in that sense, it is very different.
Obama thought that on balance. He said, “Of course, there were loads of people who are racist. There are loads of people who are—they don’t quite know it, but they’re going to vote against me for racial reasons.” But, on balance, it was a positive for him. That’s him talking, not me. What about being gay, as a purely raw electoral thing—do you think it could be a positive, or is it on balance a negative? I hate to put it that way, but you’re in the midst of a Presidential race.
Well, there’s only one way to find out for sure. But I will say I assumed that it would take a big bite out of my support in South Bend, but the next election, the reëlection, I actually got my highest vote ever. I got eighty per cent of the vote—after coming out. There was such a long part of my life where I assumed that this one thing could multiply everything else by zero, in terms of my chance to have an impact—at least an impact through public life—and learned to accept that and accept that that might happen.
And so talk about God having a sense of humor. Having spent all this time afraid that that would mean I don’t get to have impact, here I am reminded daily by people I meet on the trail that this thing turns out to be one of the main ways that I do get to have impact. And that, I think, is also one of the reasons why, when you’re tying yourself up in knots about who to try to be when you’re on the public stage, the best thing you can do, the best thing you can offer, is just to be yourself.
It wasn’t, say, ten years ago, where, for most Americans, the idea of gay marriage going through the Supreme Court, however narrow the margin, might have been unimaginable. Here we are. In terms of policy for L.G.B.T.Q. rights, what’s ahead of us? What’s left to do?
Oh, I mean, well, one of the risks is that, because we had this amazing advancement with marriage equality, people might think that the struggle is mostly over, and it’s just not. We need a federal equality act to make sure that workplace housing and other discrimination for sexual orientation and gender identity cannot be allowed in this country. And we need it right away.
I mean, there’s an outright war on transgender Americans going on right now, and it has to end. Not just a trans military ban but access to health care, what’s going on in the criminal-justice system. So many ways that we need to support trans Americans. There’s a lot of work to be done around youth homelessness, around H.I.V. We are nowhere near finished, but I think we also have a moment to make alliances that would not have been thought possible just a few years ago.
How do you mean?
Well, for one thing, watching what’s happening among people of faith who have been taught, sometimes, two sets of things. And one of them has to do with certain conventions around sexual orientation and around family and around sex. And the other, which has a lot more going for it in scripture, is a set of things about compassion and love and care and support for the marginalized and the outcasts, wherever you find them. And watching the process of this winning out over that, even if it’s a halting and uneven and messy process, is a really beautiful thing, because it is—to borrow a very religious word—I think, in some ways, conversion. And that’s one example of how this has been able to really change a lot of people.
The other thing that strikes me is that we’re in a moment when different patterns of exclusion are overlapping right now. Because, just about any way you could possibly be excluded, whether it’s over disability or over gender identity, it’s being made worse under this President. And I don’t mean to draw equivalencies. There are so many differences about every different reason people have been singled out or discriminated against. But I will say that there’s also this chance for solidarity that I’m seeing, that my own personal piece of this story, as part of the L.G.B.T.Q. community, has opened my eyes to.
One of the best moments on this whole campaign was a teen-ager—I think she was maybe sixteen—came up to me and let me know that that my candidacy—this was in Iowa, in a back yard—she said my campaign let her go to school and be who she was and stand up for herself and not be ashamed of having autism. And I thought, Wow, we’re really getting somewhere now. Because what that meant is this campaign spoke to her in a way that I’d never guessed or would have known and lets her know it’s O.K. for her to be herself. And if everybody who has been on any side of a fence of exclusion—which, look, in some way, shape, or form, is all of us—can tap into that as a reason to support others not quite like us, that could bring about an incredibly needed conversion for our country, and could help us get to that era that we are hoping to open up right now.
I earlier referred to the fact that you’re in the neighborhood of the People’s Republic of the Upper West Side. I think a lot of people who are infuriated by the Trump era are particularly vexed over the idea that evangelical Christians, to whom morality, honesty, faith, and higher values are so important, are sticking with Trump in such high numbers. You come from a part of the country and from a background that probably understands this a lot better than I do. Help me understand it.
Well, part of it is over the politics around abortion. There’s no question of that. Although you’d be surprised how many people who are opposed to abortion are still on board with Roe v. Wade as the best way we can manage this, as a country. And that’s the dialogue I have with people I don’t agree with—just saying, “Look, you and I may never agree on where to draw the line. On some level, that might be a philosophical, unknowable question. So let’s agree on who gets to draw the line. And that ought to be not the government but the woman concerned.”
Now, the other part of the gulf, and the one that I don’t think we talk about enough, among even evangelical voters, is what do they think we think of them? See, politics, fundamentally, in my view—it’s not always about what people think. It’s about what people feel. And it’s not just how people feel about you. In fact, a greater part of it is how you make people feel about themselves. If folks in more conservative areas think that what we Democrats think of them is that they are complicit in a crime, deplorable, foolishly voting against their self-interests, they’re not going to come over to our side or embrace what we have to say. Even if we think what we have to say is more aligned with their values.
So a lot of this is about the encounter; it’s about the approach; it’s about the tone. And now, because this President is such a walking contradiction of the right-wing coalition, there is a better moment than ever for a kind of reconciliation that does not involve watering down our values or pretending to be anything that we’re not.
| ||||
| Impeachment Inquiry: Mulvaney Undercuts Trump’s Denials of Quid Pro Quo | ||||
Mulvaney said U.S. military aid for Ukraine was held up pending Ukraine’s investigation of Democrats.
Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, told reporters that the release of military aid to Ukraine this summer was linked in part to White House demands that Ukraine’s government investigate what he called corruption by Democrats in the 2016 American presidential campaign.
It was the first time a White House official has publicly acknowledged what a parade of current and former administration officials have told impeachment investigators on Capitol Hill.
“The look-back to what happened in 2016 certainly was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation,” Mr. Mulvaney told reporters, referring to Mr. Trump. “And that is absolutely appropriate.”
He said that the aid was initially withheld because, “Everybody knows this is a corrupt place,” and the president was demanding Ukraine clean up its own government. But Mr. Trump also told Mr. Mulvaney that he was concerned about what he thought was Ukraine’s role in the 2016 campaign.
“Did he also mention to me in passing the corruption related to the D.N.C. server? Absolutely. No question about that,” he said. “But that’s it, and that’s why we held up the money.”
Mr. Mulvaney was referring to Mr. Trump’s discredited idea that a server with Hillary Clinton’s missing emails was being held by a company based in Ukraine.
Mr. Mulvaney’s comments undercut the president’s repeated denials that there was a quid pro quo linking his demand for an investigation that could politically benefit him to the release of $391 million in military aid to Ukraine, which is battling Russian-backed separatists on its eastern border.
The death of an impeachment leader raises questions going forward.
The passing of Representative Elijah E. Cummings, chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, cast a pall over the impeachment inquiry. Mr. Cummings’ signature was one of three on the letters seeking witnesses and information, along with the names of Adam B. Schiff, the Intelligence Committee chairman, and Eliot L. Engel, the Foreign Affairs Committee chairman.
Moreover, his commanding voice and moral authority gave the effort a clarity it might not otherwise have achieved.
His death left practical questions for House Democratic leaders that will have to be answered almost immediately. Will proceedings take a break for mourning? Who will take the gavel at the Oversight Committee? Representative Carolyn Maloney of New York is next in seniority, and has been named the acting chairwoman. But she has not played a large public role in the oversight of the Trump White House. After her is Eleanor Holmes Norton, the nonvoting delegate of the District of Columbia.
Not until No. 6 does a prominent public figure in the impeachment inquiry emerge, Representative Gerald E. Connolly of Virginia, chairman of the subcommittee on government operations. Ultimately, it will likely be Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s call.
Moreover, Ms. Pelosi still must decide what will happen to the Oversight Committee’s main threads of investigation, including the push for financial records of President Trump and the Trump Organization. Will such efforts become a facet of impeachment, or will she focus on Mr. Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate a political rival, more the purview of the Foreign Affairs and Intelligence panels?
For Thursday, mourning was the order of the day. Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the Republican leader, wrote, “As a member of the House of Representatives, Elijah was a leader for both parties to emulate, and someone to share a laugh with even amongst the most contentious times. His presence will be deeply missed.”
Republicans called off a vote to censure one of Mr. Cummings’ allies, Mr. Schiff. It would have failed.
In a news conference later in the morning, Ms. Pelosi said of Mr. Cummings, “He lived the American dream and he wanted it for everyone else. He spoke with unsurpassed clarity and moral integrity when he spoke on the floor.”
Trump ally Sondland will say Giuliani’s goal was to involve Ukraine in the Trump re-election bid.
Gordon D. Sondland, the United States ambassador to the European Union, will tell House impeachment investigators on Thursday that President Trump essentially delegated American foreign policy on Ukraine to his personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani.
Mr. Sondland, a Trump campaign donor who has emerged as a central figure in the Ukraine scandal, will testify that he did not understand until later that Mr. Giuliani’s goal may have been an effort “to involve Ukrainians, directly or indirectly, in the president’s 2020 re-election campaign.”
According to a copy of his opening statement reviewed by The New York Times, Mr. Sondland will say that Mr. Trump refused to take the counsel of his top diplomats, who recommended to him that he meet with the new Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, without any preconditions. The president said that the diplomats needed to satisfy concerns both he and Mr. Giuliani had related to corruption in Ukraine, Mr. Sondland will say.
“We were also disappointed by the president’s direction that we involve Mr. Giuliani,” Mr. Sondland will say in an 18-page prepared statement. “Our view was that the men and women of the State Department, not the president’s personal lawyer, should take responsibility for all aspects of U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine.
President Trump still has friends on Capitol Hill.
At noon on Thursday, supporters of Mr. Trump gathered outside the Capitol to rally against Mr. Trump’s impeachment.
Some of headliners were to be expected: Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No. 2 Republican in the House, Representative John Rutherford, Republican of Florida, and Matt Schlapp, head of the American Conservative Union and one of the president’s most dogged defenders,
Others? Well, they certainly have been in Mr. Trump’s orbit. Highlighted for the rally was Jack Posobiec, one of the most prominent promulgators of “Pizzagate,” which held that Hillary Clinton ran a child trafficking operation out of the back of a Washington pizzeria. He also promoted the conspiracy that a young aide at the Democratic National Committee, was murdered for leaking Mrs. Clinton’s emails. In 2017, he disrupted a production of “Julius Caesar” in Central Park, insisting it was promoting Mr. Trump’s assassination.
Catch up on impeachment: What you need to know about the inquiry.
| ||||
| Kurdish commander: Trump approved deal with Russia, Damascus - The Associated Press | 'All roads with you lead to Putin': Trump and Pelosi have it out over Syria - Haaretz 17/10/19 07:38 | ||||
| ||||
| Economists predict Trump will win easily in 2020 - Google Search | ||||
Web results
3 hours ago - The Finance 202: Economists project Trump will win easily in 2020 ... of the economy's strength to predict which major party's candidate will win ...
2 days ago - President Donald Trump looks likely to cruise to reelection next year under three different economic models Moody's Analytics employed to ...
1 day ago - This Often-Accurate Election Model Predicts Trump Will Win Re-election in a Landslide ... Donald Trump is on his way to an easy re-election, according to a ... economic models, forecasts that Trump's margin of victory in 2020 ...
2 days ago - Historically accurate model predicts "Trump in a landslide" for 2020 election. ... Forecaster Predicts Trump Will Win by Even Greater Margin in 2020 ... The "
2 days ago - A strong U.S. economy could help President Donald Trump win ... surge in voter turnout, economic research firm Moody's Analytics said on Tuesday. ... models designed to predict the winner in the November 2020 election in ...
Mar 21, 2019 - Economic models point to a Trump blowout in 2020. ... a research firm whose model correctly predicted Trump's 2016 win when most opinion ...
2 days ago - Moody's Analytics uses three different economic models to predict the ... Trump On Way To Easy Win In 2020, According To Historically ...
1 day ago - President Trump appears likely to win reelection next year according to three different economic models Moody's Analytics uses to measure presidential. ... in the electoral college in 2016, could easily surpass those results in 2020. ... except for 2016 when it predicted a narrow victory for Hillary Clinton ...
2 days ago - “Under the current Moody's Analytics baseline economic outlook, which does not forecast any recession, the 2020 election looks like Trump's to ...
May 27, 2019 - 3 forecast modelers predict Trump will win in 2020 ... product and inflation have been the two most important economic predictors — but he also ...
|
"latino voters 2020" - Google News.
"impeachment" - Google News.
PBSNewsHour's YouTube Videos.
www.tulsaworld.com - RSS Results in news/local/government-and-politics of type article.
Donald Trump.
/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-mco.s3.amazonaws.com/public/37FTRMNCV5BVBGYBKYPSXK2PKY.jpg)
The Trump Investigations - Review Of News And Opinions - Blog by Michael Novakhov.
_________________________________________
- Get link
- Other Apps
Surprising information
ReplyDeletelinux training in pune
aws training in pune
networking training in pune