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Judge Jeanine: Mueller’s investigation was created to protect Comey and Hillary
Michael Vadon / CCL; usembassytallinn / CCLFox News host Jeanine Pirro said over the weekend that while special counsel Robert Mueller is ostensibly investigating claims of collusion between the Kremlin and the Donald Trump presidential campaign, his investigation has another, darker purpose.
During her opening statement on Fox News Channel’s Justice With Judge Jeanine, the former Westchester County, New York judge and prosecutor opined that the Mueller team’s underlying purpose is to protect Hillary Clinton and former FBI Director James Comey. She commented that the investigation is “as dirty as it gets.”
Clinton crime family
Although Pirro referred to Clinton’s scandals as “the gift that keeps on giving,” she also said it was a subject that “really gets my goat.” In this case “the gift” was the reopened investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
She referred to the foundation as “the organized criminal enterprise parading as a 501(c)(3) charity … that is now officially under federal criminal investigation.” The claim is that it received the benefits of a pay-for-play scheme while Clinton served as secretary of state.
Pirro said that as a result, Clinton “is about to face a real investigation, [and] not a ‘matter’ like [former Attorney General] Loretta Lynch and Jim Comey liked to call the work of the hard-working men and women of the FBI.”
Clinton a first
The Fox News host said that Clinton was the first major political candidate in American history to have “skirted the law, pushed the legal envelope or been under criminal investigation” to the extent that she was throughout her campaign.
“Nor has anyone lied, contradicted herself or run as a less honest and trustworthy candidate in American history,” Pirro added.
Not politics
Clinton supporters say that going after Clinton and the foundation is all politics. Not so, according to Pirro.
She observed that the Clintons went from “dead broke” when they left the White House on January 20, 2001, to amassing a fortune in the hundreds of millions of dollars. At the heart of that fortune is the Clinton Foundation.
She added:
And for all those naysayers who say this is nothing more than a deflection from the Mueller investigation, I got a tip for you, keep your mouths shut. This is as dirty as it gets.
The endgame: CYA
Pirro raked Comey over the coals for rigging the results of the Clinton email investigation and then appointing Mueller as special counsel to “cover their own butts.”
She said:
[I]f we’ve learned anything in the last six months Jim Comey rigged the investigation for his friend Hillary and made sure Bob Mueller was appointed so they could cover their own butts while trying to point the finger at the president who has done nothing but improve our economy, our safety, our security and our independence.
If Comey and Mueller indeed struck the sort of corrupt bargain Pirro refers to here, it’s a stunning indictment of the FBI’s culture and integrity.
Trump, lawmakers agree to parameters of potential immigration deal
BY ALEXANDER BOLTON AND JORDAIN CARNEY
BY ALEXANDER BOLTON AND JORDAIN CARNEY
Congressional negotiators say they have the parameters of an immigration deal following a lengthy bipartisan meeting with President Trump at the White House Tuesday.
The emerging scope of the deal would protect an estimated 700,000 to 800,000 immigrants known as “Dreamers” from deportation, secure the southern border, reform family-based migration and change the nation’s diversity visa lottery program.
The emerging scope of the deal would protect an estimated 700,000 to 800,000 immigrants known as “Dreamers” from deportation, secure the southern border, reform family-based migration and change the nation’s diversity visa lottery program.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed the parameters of the deal in an official statement ahead of a press briefing Tuesday afternoon.
"President Donald J. Trump just concluded a successful bipartisan and bicameral meeting on immigration reform. During the closed-door portion of the meeting, they reached an agreement to negotiate legislation that accomplishes critically needed reforms in four high-priority areas: border security, chain migration, the visa lottery, and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals [DACA] policy," Sanders's statement read.
But many key details still need to be worked out, such as how to weigh family relationships in granting legal status, how to allocate visas available through the lottery program and how much to spend on border security.
“Kevin McCarthy was the one who said, ‘Alright, it’s down to four things, right? DACA and the other three things,'” said Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.), who attended the meeting and made reference to fellow participant House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
"We were able to focus on next steps and things that more or less set the boundaries of our negotiations," said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), another member of the Senate negotiating group who attended the White House meeting.
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn(R-Texas), who confirmed the parameters of the bill, said he, Kevin McCarthy, Durbin and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) have been tasked with coming up with a timeline for turning the framework into a bill ahead of the March 5 deadline.
"We all understand that getting a little bit of focus and narrowing the issues is important. We started that today," Cornyn said.
Trump tasked Congress in September with putting together an immigration package after he rescinded the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protected illegal immigrants who came to the country at a young age from deportation.
Durbin said the main achievement of the meeting was to set parameters for the talks over the next 10 days before government funding expires.
Democrats want the government-funding package to include provision protecting Dreamers from deportation, but Republicans will not agree unless it also strengthens border security and makes other reforms.
Trump and the lawmakers leading the immigration talks in Congress agreed Tuesday to first move a package that addresses Dreamers, border security, family-based migration, the diversity visa lottery and possibly the Temporary Protected Status program for people from countries ravaged by war or natural disaster.
Other issues, such as how to crack down on immigrants who overstay their visas or to require employers to check the legal status of workers will be held over for a later round of immigration talks unconnected to Dreamers.
“There were a few encouraging things,” said Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), one of the Senate negotiators who attended the meeting.
“The president exhibited, I thought, quite a bit of flexibility when the cameras weren't there in terms of what we do in this phase and the next phase," he told reporters.
"President Donald J. Trump just concluded a successful bipartisan and bicameral meeting on immigration reform. During the closed-door portion of the meeting, they reached an agreement to negotiate legislation that accomplishes critically needed reforms in four high-priority areas: border security, chain migration, the visa lottery, and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals [DACA] policy," Sanders's statement read.
But many key details still need to be worked out, such as how to weigh family relationships in granting legal status, how to allocate visas available through the lottery program and how much to spend on border security.
“Kevin McCarthy was the one who said, ‘Alright, it’s down to four things, right? DACA and the other three things,'” said Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.), who attended the meeting and made reference to fellow participant House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
"We were able to focus on next steps and things that more or less set the boundaries of our negotiations," said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), another member of the Senate negotiating group who attended the White House meeting.
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn(R-Texas), who confirmed the parameters of the bill, said he, Kevin McCarthy, Durbin and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) have been tasked with coming up with a timeline for turning the framework into a bill ahead of the March 5 deadline.
"We all understand that getting a little bit of focus and narrowing the issues is important. We started that today," Cornyn said.
Trump tasked Congress in September with putting together an immigration package after he rescinded the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protected illegal immigrants who came to the country at a young age from deportation.
Durbin said the main achievement of the meeting was to set parameters for the talks over the next 10 days before government funding expires.
Democrats want the government-funding package to include provision protecting Dreamers from deportation, but Republicans will not agree unless it also strengthens border security and makes other reforms.
Trump and the lawmakers leading the immigration talks in Congress agreed Tuesday to first move a package that addresses Dreamers, border security, family-based migration, the diversity visa lottery and possibly the Temporary Protected Status program for people from countries ravaged by war or natural disaster.
Other issues, such as how to crack down on immigrants who overstay their visas or to require employers to check the legal status of workers will be held over for a later round of immigration talks unconnected to Dreamers.
“There were a few encouraging things,” said Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), one of the Senate negotiators who attended the meeting.
“The president exhibited, I thought, quite a bit of flexibility when the cameras weren't there in terms of what we do in this phase and the next phase," he told reporters.
Donald Trump: ‘We Don’t Need a 2,000-Mile Wall’ on the Entire Southern Border
by CHARLIE SPIERING
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
President Donald Trump admitted that he did not need a wall on the entire 2,000 miles of the southern border, citing “violent rivers,” “nature,” and “mountains,” that already secure it.
The president said that he met with ICE agents and border enforcement agents who told him that they “desperately needed” his proposed wall.
“Nobody knows it better than them,” he said.
“We don’t need a 2,000-mile wall … where you have rivers and mountains, and everything else protecting, but we need a wall for a fairly good portion,” he said.
Trump noted that in 2006, Congress passed a bill for a border fence, although he said it was never completed.
When reporters asked Trump if he would commit to passing DACA amnesty without wall funding, he said that the wall was needed.
“You need the wall. It’s wonderful, I would love not to build the wall, but we need the wall,” Trump said.
He again cited border patrol agents who told him that they needed the wall on the border.
“If you don’t have the wall, you cannot have security, just can’t have it, it just doesn’t work,” Trump said.
He concluded by saying that he could build the wall for less, “under budget and ahead of schedule” in just one year.
“There’s no reason for seven years … please don’t do that to me,” Trump said, in response to a DHS request for border wall funding.
11 dead, 29+ arrested in massive Mexican gun battle
Prath / Shutterstock.comA terrifying gun battle in a Mexican city left 11 people dead and 29 arrested on Sunday.
And it occurred right next to the beach resort city of Acapulco.
The battle took place between a group of citizens in the farming town of La Concepcion, which is south of Acapulco, a self-appointed police force and actual state police.
The night before that shootout there was another in the same state of Guerrero that left seven dead.
Violent clashes involving gunmen, a community police force and state police killed 11 people in the troubled southern state of Guerrero on Sunday, while a separate series of shootouts the previous night left seven dead in the northern Mexico beach resort of San Jose del Cabo.
Guerrero state security spokesman Roberto Alvarez said eight people were initially killed when gunmen ambushed community police before dawn in the town of La Concepcion, near the resort city of Acapulco. Two of the dead were from the community force.
Later in the morning, state police arrived to disarm the local agents, and another shootout erupted in which three people were killed. Alvarez said he did not know how they died, but local media said they were community police.
Later in the morning, state police arrived to disarm the local agents, and another shootout erupted in which three people were killed. Alvarez said he did not know how they died, but local media said they were community police.
Community Police Arrested For Criminal Activity
The self-appointed community police need to be policed if the charges against many of them are true.
CBS reported that 30 members of the local force were detained by state police on suspicion of drug possession, weapons, and murder, according to State Attorney General Xavier Olea Pelaez:
Among those arrested was Marco Antonio Suastegui, the founder of the community force and the leader of a social movement that for over a decade has fought against a hydroelectric project in the region.
A History Of Violence
The beach resort town of Acapulco, the largest city in the state of Guerrero, was once a glamorous destination for Hollywood stars, but it’s now known as the “murder capital” of Mexico, after experiencing half a decade of unchecked violence.
Guerrero as a state has a long history of criminal activity, but the violence is escalating.
Republicans will keep control of Congress this year -- Here's why
By Guy Short| Fox News
President Trump met with Republican congressional leaders over the weekend to strategize for the midterm elections in November and the president said he would not campaign for challengers to GOP incumbents in primaries. That’s bad news for Democrats, who had hoped a divided Republican Party would enable them to win majority control in the House and Senate.
I believe, to paraphrase Mark Twain, that reports of the death of the GOP majorities in Congress are greatly exaggerated. Come 2019, I expect Republicans to remain in control of both the House and Senate. Read on and I’ll explain why.
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The left-leaning mainstream media – emboldened by the “Never Trumpers” – have been eagerly awaiting a Republican collapse.
For example, Politico has warned President Trump of a “2018 bloodbath,” suggesting the midterms could be “the worst” in history for Republicans. The Hill has predicted that the November midterms are the Democrats’ “best chance in years to win back (the) House.” Washington Post reporters gleefully anticipate a “politically difficult 2018” for the White House.
The left-wing Salon not only proclaimed Democrat Doug Jones’ recent election to the Senate from Alabama was “a very bad sign for the GOP” but also said it was the first indication of a “blue wave” of Democratic victories ready to turn Republicans into the minority party in Congress.
The anti-Trump “resistance” in the media points to President Trump’s approval rating – which is noticeably on the rise – and the incumbent party’s historical struggles after winning a presidential election.
But the Washington establishment class and so-called political “experts” dismiss President Trump at their own peril. I won’t make that mistake again. The president and his party sit on many structural advantages that the liberal media conveniently ignore.
The first and perhaps most important advantage is fundraising. The Republican National Committee (RNC) raised a reported $130 million in 2017 – more than twice the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) haul. Much of it came from digital fundraising, as the RNC added more than 1 million email addresses in the last quarter of 2017 alone.
The RNC is expected to double the small-dollar donation database that raised over $250 million for President Trump in 2016. Two victorious Republican special election candidates elected last year – Reps. Karen Handel of Georgia and Greg Gianforte of Montana – experienced similar fundraising windfalls.
Even if the Democrats begin catching up, the Trump machine will turn on the low-dollar digital spigot and turn the GOP fundraising advantage into election victories.
But catching up is the least of Democrats’ concerns. The DNC currently is buried under millions of dollars of debt after years of financial mismanagement under former Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Hillary Clinton. While the RNC breaks records and invests in the 2018 campaign, the DNC is scrambling to pay off its debt.
Second, the Republican fundraising edge suggests a reinvigorated political base, which has historically turned out in droves for midterm elections when Democrats have stayed home. According to a recent Pew poll, more than three-quarters of Republicans approve of President Trump, including an overwhelming majority of evangelical voters.
Recent polling does not even account for the expected bump from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which has already spurred Boeing, Comcast and other U.S. companies to set aside billions of dollars in private investment. As hiring increases and paychecks swell, Republicans will certainly reap electoral benefits after passing tax cuts without Democratic support.
In this year’s midterm elections, the key for President Trump and the Republican Party is to leverage the bully pulpit and control the messaging, reminding voters that the president’s pro-growth agenda delivers real-world benefits.
If President Trump provides his backing early to the right candidates and unifies the Republican Party with a winning message of more jobs, stronger borders and an “America First” foreign policy, the November election results will shock the “experts” – just like in 2016. From the increasingly popular tax bill and a roaring stock market to ISIS' decline, pro-Trump Republicans have plenty to run and win on this year.
While the talking heads will invoke historical precedents for a Republican wipeout, even The New York Times acknowledges Democratic voters have middling interest in midterm elections. According to an Upshot analysis, Republicans were 20 percent likelier to vote than Democrats in 2010 and 2014.
Finally, the 2018 electoral map charts very unfriendly territory for Democratic incumbents who must compete in districts and states carried by President Trump. This year’s map has a number of realistic targets for Republican challengers.
For all these reasons, I believe Republicans will keep control of Congress this year. And they will prove the anti-Trump media and political establishment wrong once again.
Catherine Deneuve, Others Defend Men's 'right' to Seduce
PARIS (AP) — French movie star Catherine Deneuve and other prominent French women say men are being unfairly targeted by sexual misconduct allegations and should be free to hit on women.
Deneuve was among about 100 performers, scholars and others who signed an open letter published Tuesday by the newspaper Le Monde saying the "legitimate protest against sexual violence" stemming from the Harvey Weinstein scandal has gone too far and threatens hard-won sexual freedoms.
The letter reflects France's mixed feelings about widespread accusations of systematic sexual misconduct by powerful men in multiple countries in recent months.
France is home to famed feminists and its own "me too" movement, and the Deneuve-signed letter drew much criticism. However many people echo Deneuve's concerns of a new "puritanism" that goes against French traditions of seduction.
Drilling won't be allowed off Florida coast, Ryan Zinke says after meeting with Gov. Rick Scott
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said after meeting with Florida Gov. Rick Scott: "I support the governor's position that Florida is unique, and its coasts are heavily reliant on tourism as an economic driver. As a result of a discussion with Gov. Scott and his leadership, I am removing Florida from consideration for any new oil and gas platforms." (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said he won't allow oil and gas drilling off the Florida coast, after meeting with Florida Gov. Rick Scott Tuesday night.
"President Trump has directed me to rebuild our offshore oil and gas program in a manner that supports our national energy policy and also takes into consideration the local and state voice," Zinke said after meeting with Scott, a Republican. "I support the governor's position that Florida is unique, and its coasts are heavily reliant on tourism as an economic driver. As a result of a discussion with Gov. Scott and his leadership, I am removing Florida from consideration for any new oil and gas platforms."
Scott and Florida lawmakers, both Republicans and Democrats, had pressed the Trump administration to not allow drilling off Florida's Gulf coast.
President George W. Bush signed into law the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 that bans oil and gas leasing within 125 miles of the Florida coast and other areas of the eastern Gulf until 2022. The government imposed the ban partly because the Pentagon worried oil development would interfere with military testing and training in the area.
But the Trump administration announced last week it plans to open almost all federal waters to oil and gas drilling, including in the eastern Gulf.
Oil and gas production in the Gulf, which accounts for almost all current U.S. offshore production, is expected to hit a record high in 2018, after suffering three years of losses. Opening areas closer to the coast of Florida would have offered companies strong prospects for oil and gas and easy connections to existing infrastructure.
At least one prominent Democrat is not ready to celebrate Zinke's about-face.
Scott is widely expected to challenge incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., later this year.
Nelson on Tuesday night suggested the Zinke and Scott agreement was a political stunt.
"I have spent my entire life fighting to keep oil rigs away from our coasts," Nelson said. "But now, suddenly, Secretary Zinke announces plans to drill off Florida's coast and four days later agrees to 'take Florida off the table'? I don’t believe it. This is a political stunt orchestrated by the Trump administration to help Rick Scott, who has wanted to drill off Florida's coast his entire career. We shouldn’t be playing politics with the future of Florida."
Rubio Tells Dems They ‘Can’t Shut Down the Government Over DACA’
Florida Republican accused liberal Senate colleagues of 'political posturing,' of shirking 'obligation to keep country safe'
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told congressional Democrats Tuesday on “Fox & Friends” that they “can’t shut down the government of the United States” over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) issue.
Rubio spoke on Fox News ahead of the bipartisan congressional meeting with President Donald Trump to discuss how to avert a government shutdown by the January 19 deadline for approving a new spending bill.
Democratic leaders insisted they won’t support any deal that includes border wall funding but omits a fix for DACA, the Obama-era program that protected illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation. Rubio blasted the Democrats, saying that shutting down the federal government over protecting illegal immigrants is unacceptable.
"Here's the bottom line, though: You can't shut down the American government. You can't shut down the government of the United States over DACA," Rubio said. "And you can't be against anything because of the building of a wall."
Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, reminded his Democratic Senate colleagues they "have a fundamental obligation" to protect the American citizens who voted them into office to prioritize their concerns above all others.
"Even if there was no DACA, even if there were no illegal immigrants in the United States — we still have a fundamental obligation to keep our country safe," Rubio said. "And a physical barrier on significant portions of the southern border are a key part of that."
The senator from Florida also ripped Democrats for rejecting border wall funding now when many of them supported similar border enforcement measures in the past, such as the Secure Fence Act of 2006 and the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013. Rubio accused his Democratic colleagues of performing "political posturing" in a marked about-face.
"A lot of the things that they're now against are things they voted for, including building a wall, bigger enforcement, moving to a merit-based system where we're allowing people into the country based on what skills they have to contribute in the new economy, not just based on how many family members you have living here," Rubio said. "These are all components of and ideas from a bill they voted for in 2013."
The Florida Republican added that "but now for symbolic and political reasons, they're against it. So the Democrats are the ones threatening to shut down the government because of the need to build a wall, and that's absurd."
PoliZette writer Kathryn Blackhurst can be reached at kathryn.blackhurst@lifezette.com. Follow her on Twitter.
PoliZette writer Kathryn Blackhurst can be reached at kathryn.blackhurst@lifezette.com. Follow her on Twitter.
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