CNN host Don Lemon, far-left op-ed writer Wajahat Ali, and anti-Trump establishment Republican Rick Wilson mocked supporters of President Donald Trump over the weekend, portraying them as uneducated rednecks who could not even read.
The segment from late on Saturday night came in response to reports that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yelled at a left-wing NPR reporter who lied to him and broke an off the record agreement that they had and asked her to identify on a map Ukraine.
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The arrogance, the dismissiveness, the smug cackling, the accents.
If Donald Trump wins re-election this year, I’ll remember this brief CNN segment late one Saturday night in January as the perfect encapsulation for why it happened. <a href="https://t.co/8kQ6zN9AZV">pic.twitter.com/8kQ6zN9AZV</a>
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<blockquote>CNN&#8217;S DON LEMON: Oh as I said, NPR is standing by their reporter after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused her of lying. It is the latest in a growing list of incidents involving Pompeo and journalists.
Joining me now to discuss, CNN Contributor Wajahat Ali and Rick Wilson. Rick is the author of &#8220;Running Against the Devil.&#8221; Good evening, gents. Good to see both of you.
So, quite the story that we have here. Secretary of Pompeo is calling Kelly &#8212; calling her a liar but she says that she told them that she would &#8212; not only did she ask about Ukraine and she followed up in writing but she says that she never agreed for the exchange after the interview off the record.
So, Rick, who do you think is a liar here?
RICK WILSON, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Look, Mike Pompeo has become one of the high priests of Trumpism. In the core of Trumpism is a war on the media. And so I think Mike Pompeo is trying to cast himself as this hero and to please Donald Trump. This isn&#8217;t about whether or not she could correctly identify Ukraine on a map, this is part of their performative, you know, media hatred that they engaged on the daily.
LEMON: Wajahat, I want to bring you in. Mary Louise Kelly told NPR, an NPR co-host that before ending the interview, Pompeo, quote, leaned in and glared at her and then he tried to give her a pop quiz. I mean, what is with this intimidation mode?
WAJAHAT ALI, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Yes, this is the pathetic insecurity of the spineless amoebas of men such as Mike Pompeo and the other men in Trump&#8217;s administration, right?
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I mean, look, this is a recurring theme with Pompeo. He tried to intimidate a female reporter of the USA Today in May, he really doesn&#8217;t like it when female reporters in particular actually asking questions in our intelligence and do follow-ups. Our colleague in an affiliate in Nashville in August, same thing happened, and this time around he throws F bombs, he brings out a map. I mean, why does he have a map of without countries? That&#8217;s so strange. And then she points it out. And who should we believe? Mary Louise Kelly, a veteran journalist or Mike Pompeo who this month alone has lied to the American public about imminent threats, right? And this man from Harvard has redefined imminent in a way which is completely the opposite of imminent. And then it was imminent threat to not imminent then one embassy then four embassies. No casualties, 11 casualties, and now 34 casualties with soldiers suffering very traumatic brain injuries.
So, who are you going to believe o? Mike Pompeo or Mary Louise Kelly who has the tapes? I&#8217;m going with Mary Louise Kelly.
LEMON: OK. So let&#8217;s see. Let&#8217;s look at the &#8212; OK. In the statement, Rick, the last line Pompeo&#8217;s statement says, it is worth noting that Bangladesh is not Ukraine. First of all, Kelly has a master&#8217;s degree in European studies from Cambridge University.
WILSON: Right.
LEMON: Also, he doesn&#8217;t really say that she couldn&#8217;t identify Ukraine on a map. He insinuates &#8212; it&#8217;s just a petty attempt to put her down, right? Is that what this is?
WILSON: Of course. Of course. It&#8217;s &#8212; he&#8217;s just trying to demean her, and obviously it&#8217;s false. And look, he also knows deep in his heart that Donald Trump couldn&#8217;t find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter U and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it. He knows that this is, you know, an administration defined by ignorance of the world, and so that&#8217;s partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience, you know, credulous boomer rube demo that back Donald Trump, that wants to think that Donald Trump&#8217;s a smart one, and y&#8217;all &#8212; y&#8217;all elitists are dumb.
ALI: You elitists with your geography and your maps and your spelling even though &#8212;
WILSON: Your math, your reading.
ALI: Yes, your reading, you know. Your geography knowing other countries. Sipping your latte.
WILSON: All those lines on the map.
ALI: Only them elitists know where Ukraine is. Sorry. I apologize.
LEMON: Oh my god.
ALI: But you know what &#8212; it was Rick&#8217;s fault. I blame Rick.
LEMON: Oh my God.
ALI: But in all honesty &#8212;
WILSON: Blame Rick, why not.
ALI: &#8212; you know what NPR should do. LEMON: Sorry, hold on. Wait, wait. Give me a second. Hold on. Hold on. That was good. Sorry. Rick, that was a good one. I needed that.</blockquote>

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WATCH: CNN Mocks Trump Supporters As Stupid Rednecks Who Can’t Read, Spell

Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, a self-described liberal Democrat, told the U.S. Senate on Monday that even if the allegations in former national security adviser John Bolton&#8217;s book were true, it would not matter because his allegations do not constitute an impeachable offense.
&#8220;The claim that foreign policy decisions can be deemed abuses of power based on subjective opinions about mixed or sole motives, that the president was interested only in helping himself, demonstrate the dangers of employing the vague subjective and politically malleable phrase &#8216;abuse of power&#8217; as a constitutionally permissible criteria for the removal of a president,&#8221; Dershowitz explained. &#8220;Now it follows it follows from this that if a president — any president — were to have done what The Times reported about the content of the Bolton manuscript, that would not constitute an impeachable offense.&#8221;
&#8220;Let me repeat: nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense,&#8221; Dershowitz continued. &#8220;That is clear from the history, that is clear from the language of the Constitution, you cannot turn conduct that is not impeachable into impeachable conduct simply by using words like &#8216;quid pro quo&#8217; and &#8216;personal benefit.'&#8221;
&#8220;It is inconceivable that the framers would have intended so politically loaded and promiscuously deployed a term as &#8216;abuse of power&#8217; to be weaponized as a tool of impeachment it is precisely the kind of vague open-ended and subjective term that the framers feared and rejected,&#8221; Dershowitz added.
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WATCH: Harvard Law Professor Dismantles Democrats’ Hopes Of Using Bolton Book To Convict Trump

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed CNN analyst Brian Karem on Monday for suggesting that half of Cruz&#8217;s two small children should be in prison in response to Cruz highlighting the appearance of corruption in the case involving a corrupt Ukrainian gas company and Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
&#8220;Hunter Biden got a job,&#8221; Karem said. &#8220;His dad was Vice President. If that&#8217;s a crime, shouldn&#8217;t half of your children be in prison?&#8221;
&#8220;My children are 9 and 11, I&#8217;m sorry you want to throw a 9-year-old in prison, but at this point my third grader plays basketball and softball at her school so stop playing the nasty Washington game,&#8221; Cruz responded.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not a nasty Washington game,&#8221; Karem responded.
&#8220;Attacking a 9-year-old?&#8221; Cruz responded.
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Look at these journos!!! They want to lock up Ted Cruz&#39;s 9 year old child to protect Hunter Biden and Burisma Joe!!! <a href="https://t.co/7NTfKn1D76">pic.twitter.com/7NTfKn1D76</a>
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WATCH: CNN Analyst Suggests Ted Cruz’s Young Kids Should Be Thrown In Jail, Cruz Blasts Him

Speaking on Monday after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-pam-bondi-nukes-democrats-case-highlights-alleged-biden-ukraine-corruption">testimony was given</a> before the Senate by former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi about alleged corruption surrounding former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, regarding their work in Ukraine, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) fired off verbal missiles at the Bidens, the Democrats and the press for ignoring what he called the justified actions of President Trump in asking for an investigation.
In the course of Cruz answering reporters’ questions, one reporter stated, “None of the president’s attorneys mentioned one single possible crime that Hunter or joe Biden are accused of. Basically what they said was, ‘Hunter Biden got a job, his dad was vice-president.’ If that’s a crime, I mean, shouldn’t half of your children be in prison?”
Cruz fired back, drawing laughs from those around him, “My children are nine and eleven. I’m sorry you want to throw a nine-year-old in prison, but at this point, my third-grader plays basketball and softball at her school.”
Prior to that exchange, Cruz began with some fire of his own:
<blockquote>This is the first time in the entire proceeding we have heard, just at the beginning, of the serious evidence of corruption involving Burisma, the Ukrainian natural gas company that paid Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son, a million dollars a year, while Hunter (Joe) Biden threatened Ukraine to withhold a billion dollars in aid unless and until they fired the prosecutor investigating his son.
We just saw a video which I would encourage every news outlet here to actually show, the video of Joe Biden bragging about how he told the president of Ukraine he was gonna cut off a billion dollars; he was gonna block a billion dollars in foreign aid to Ukraine unless they fired the prosecutor, and in Joe Biden’s own words, “son-of-a-b****, they fired the guy!”</blockquote>
Cruz continued:
<blockquote>I get that the press loves to obsess over the latest “bombshell.” Listen, I don’t know what John Bolton’s book says or doesn’t say; I’ve seen The New York Times coverage, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t impact the legal issue before this Senate. The legal issue before this Senate is whether a president has the authority to investigate corruption.
So the House managers built their entire case on the proposition that investigating Burisma corruption, investigating the Bidens for corruption, was baseless and a sham. That proposition was absurd; we’ve just seen — they said there wasn’t a shred of evidence concerning corruption. We’ve just seen two hours of evidence, and at a minimum, it was not only reasonable and justified, but the president, I think, had an obligation to investigate corruption that potentially extended to the very highest levels of government.</blockquote>
Reporter: Senator, over the last two hours, none of the president’s attorneys mentioned one single possible crime that Hunter or Joe Biden are accused of. Basically what they said was, “Hunter Biden got a job, his dad was vice-president.” If that’s a crime, I mean, shouldn’t half of your children be in prison?”
Cruz: My children are nine and eleven. I’m sorry you want to throw a nine-year-old in prison, but at this point, my third-grader plays basketball and softball at her school. So stop playing the nasty Washington game —
Reporter: I’m sorry, that’s not a nasty Washington game —
Cruz: Attacking a nine-year-old?
Another reporter asked about the idea of the Democrats and Republicans calling extra witnesses in equal measure. Cruz answered:
<blockquote>Look, in my view, additional witnesses are not necessary. The House managers have presented their case. They haven’t come remotely close to meeting their burden of proof. Now, that being said, if the Senate, later this week, when we vote on witnesses, decides to go down the road to additional witnesses, I think at a minimum, the most important witness for the Senate to hear from is now Hunter Biden.</blockquote>
Asked why John Bolton should not testify, Cruz replied, “I don’t believe the testimony is necessary. The House managers have a burden of proof; a burden of proof to prove their case. They have fallen woefully short. The standard under the Constitution is high crimes and misdemeanors. They have not demonstrated any law was violated, and the president was entirely justified in asking for an investigation of corruption concerning Ukraine and potentially Hunter Biden and Joe Biden.”
Reporter: Is there a shadow over the president if you don’t have testimony in a trial?
Cruz: Look, the “shadow” over the presidency is the last several months of sham proceedings in the House where they only heard from prosecution witnesses and they ignored the very substantial evidence of corruption with the vice-president, going to the very top, potentially of the administration. And by the way, the Obama administration  pointed out the conflict of interest over and over and over again, and so did the press until the press decided to defed the Democrats’ partisan impeachment attacks.
He concluded, “This has been a sham from the beginning; presidents have the authority to investigate corruption.”
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Ted Cruz just went beastmode shredding Hunter Biden and Joe and the journos went bonkers!!! LMAOOOOO <a href="https://t.co/ySrSZ936iO">pic.twitter.com/ySrSZ936iO</a>
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Far-left conspiracy network MSNBC promoted a new conspiracy theory on Monday, tying President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to kill Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) commander Qassem Soleimani to testimony that Democrats want in Trump&#8217;s Senate impeachment trial.
Trump authorized a drone strike on Solemani, who was a terrorist responsible for murdering hundreds of American soldiers, as he was leaving Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020, in response to Soleimani&#8217;s involvement in an Iranian terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
Former national security adviser John Bolton responded at the time by writing, &#8220;Congratulations to all involved in eliminating Qassem Soleimani. Long in the making, this was a decisive blow against Iran&#8217;s malign Quds Force activities worldwide. Hope this is the first step to regime change in Tehran.&#8221;
On Monday, far-left MSNBC opinion host Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell suggested without evidence that Trump may have authorized Solemani&#8217;s killing in an effort to dissuade Bolton from testifying against him in the Senate.
O&#8217;Donnell suggested that the proof of his unfounded conspiracy theory was the timing of events, saying that the White House received a manuscript of Bolton&#8217;s book, which alleges that Trump withheld financial assistance from Ukraine until the country would announce an investigation into the Bidens, two days before the strike took out Soleimani.
&#8220;John Bolton is an extreme hawk on Iran,&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell wrote. &#8220;2 days after Bolton submitted his manuscript to the White House, Trump killed Iran&#8217;s General Qassem Soleimani. Coincidence? Or was Trump trying to influence Bolton not to testify to the Senate?&#8221;
O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s conspiracy theory is completely false as Trump authorized the military to be able to kill Soleimani <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-soleimani-strike-planned-months-ago-trump-waited-for-embassy-attack">seven months ago</a>, which not only predates Democrats&#8217; entire partisan impeachment, but also predates Trump&#8217;s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky which was the catalyst for Democrats&#8217; partisan impeachment.
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I guess one good thing about this impeachment hearing is that it will hopefully go late so I don&#39;t have to listen to conspiracy theories like this tonight. <a href="https://t.co/aoOZrDTau3">pic.twitter.com/aoOZrDTau3</a>
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MSNBC Promotes New Conspiracy Theory Tying Killing Soleimani To Senate Testimony

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On Saturday, anti-gun rights activist and Johns Hopkins Hospital surgeon Joseph Sakran posted two photos of an alleged &#8220;death threat&#8221; he said he found tucked under one of his windshield wipers. 
The alleged threat is a color-printed image of a hand holding a gun, with text at the bottom: &#8220;The End is Near &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8221;
Sakran, who was shot as a teen, posted two photos; one with the paper tucked under his wiper blade, and another photo seemingly of his hand holding the alleged threat inside his home.
&#8220;Debated whether to share this, &amp; after a lot of thought here it is,&#8221; Sakran captioned the photos. &#8220;Last week I&#8217;m leaving my home from work and I find this paper under my windshield.&#8221;
&#8220;One does not have to see the rest of the sentence that was covered to understand the intent of this message, a Death Threat,&#8221; he added.
Mr. Sakran has since deleted the post, but a screenshot of the tweet can be viewed below:
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Why was this post deleted, <a href="https://twitter.com/JosephSakran?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JosephSakran</a>? <a href="https://t.co/dJggHK7Pkg">pic.twitter.com/dJggHK7Pkg</a>
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On Monday, after receiving messages of support and sympathy over the post, most of which were retweeted by the surgeon, Sakran deleted the post.
The anti-gun rights activist told <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-cr-sakran-death-threat-20200126-xacxbm74xjc4hk7umb3ppgrlja-story.html">The Baltimore Sun</a> that he was advised by authorities to delete the post and to cease publicly talking about the alleged threat. The Baltimore Sun reported:
<blockquote>Sakran however deleted his thread of tweets about the alleged incident on Monday morning. He said he did so at the advice of law enforcement, who also advised him to stop discussing the matter publicly. He declined to comment further.</blockquote>
According to <a href="https://www.thepostmillennial.com/did-an-anti-gun-activist-stage-a-death-threat-for-twitter/">The Post Millennial</a>, Fairfax County Police claims they never offered Mr. Sakran such advice, nor has the surgeon filed a police report over the alleged threat.
&#8220;The Post Millennial reached out to Fairfax County Police, the local law enforcement jurisdiction surrounding Fairfax Station—where Sakran’s home is located—and media relations officer Lieutenant Webb was able to confirm that Sakran did not file a police report, nor did the Fairfax Police advise him to delete the viral tweet,&#8221; the outlet reported Monday.
“That’s just not something we do,” Mr. Webb told The Post Millennial.
The Baltimore Sun similarly reported, &#8220;Virginia Capitol Police tasked with staffing officers for the rally said they were not aware of any threats against gun control activists. Sakran declined to say what agency — if any — is investigating the incident.&#8221;
Before Sakran deleted the post, fellow anti-gun rights activist David Hogg posted messages of support.
&#8220;[Joseph Sakran] has fought for Peace since he was shot in the throat and nearly died when he was 17,&#8221; he wrote. We are fighting for an America where people can advocate for peace without violent intimidation. I don’t care if you agree with me or not, threatening to kill people is not ok.&#8221;
Sakran retweeted the post.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JosephSakran?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JosephSakran</a> has fought for Peace since he was shot in the throat and nearly died when he was 17.
We are fighting for an America where people can advocate for peace without violent intimidation. 
I don’t care if you agree with me or not, threatening to kill people is not ok. <a href="https://t.co/YaOWfFT5qd">https://t.co/YaOWfFT5qd</a>
&mdash; David Hogg (@davidhogg111) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1221257430882865156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In a follow-up tweet, Hogg posted: &#8220;Thank you [Joseph Sakran] for your courage to fight for peace.&#8221;
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Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/JosephSakran?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JosephSakran</a> for your courage to fight for peace.
&mdash; David Hogg (@davidhogg111) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1221257432464158721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Liberal activist Peter Daou&#8217;s words of support were also retweeted by Sakran.
&#8220;So sorry you&#8217;re dealing with this, my friend,&#8221; said Daou. &#8220;Strength to you and the family. You and I have seen violence up close and personal and I respect you so much for your dedication to reducing it.&#8221;
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So sorry you&#39;re dealing with this, my friend.
Strength to you and the family. 
You and I have seen violence up close and personal and I respect you so much for your dedication to reducing it. <a href="https://t.co/UCaXSLrpcg">https://t.co/UCaXSLrpcg</a>
&mdash; Peter Daou (@peterdaou) <a href="https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1221258692131282944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Famed Anti-Gun Rights Activist Deletes Photos Of Alleged ‘Death Threat’ After It Goes Viral. Police Offer Conflicting Information.

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On Friday, freshman Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who is very outspoken on the 21s century geopolitical threat <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/end-forever-wars-and-face-chinas-threat-11574634656">posed by China</a>, raised with leading Trump administration officials the possibility of restricting or temporarily outright cutting off travel with the country due to the coronavirus that recently emanated from there.
Hawley &#8220;sent a letter Friday to the heads of four government agencies to ask whether the Trump administration was considering any potential Chinese travel ban to prevent an American outbreak of the coronavirus,&#8221; National Review <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/coronavirus-outbreak-josh-hawley-asks-trump-administration-for-possible-china-travel-ban/">reported</a>.
Specifically, Hawley tweeted: &#8220;As deadly #coronavirus spreads, this morning I’ve written to the Secretary of State and others to ask whether temporary travel restrictions from affected areas in China may be necessary, and if they are, when American travelers will be notified. Public safety must be #1 priority.&#8221;
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As deadly <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coronavirus</a> spreads, this morning I’ve written to the Secretary of State and others to ask whether temporary travel restrictions from affected areas in China may be necessary, and if they are, when American travelers will be notified. Public safety must be #1 priority
&mdash; Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) <a href="https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1220726263956021248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The tweet accompanied a <a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2020-01/Hawley-Letter-Coronavirus-Departments-Health-Homeland-Security-State-Transportation-Travel.pdf">letter</a> that Hawley sent on Friday to four Cabinet secretaries or acting secretaries: Alex Azar of the Department of Health and Human Services, Chad Wolf of the Department of Homeland Security, Elaine Chao of the Department of Transportation, and Mike Pompeo of the State Department.
Hawley&#8217;s letter concludes by asking four questions of the Cabinet secretaries:
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<li>Does the federal government have in place procedures and evaluative criteria to guide decisions about restrictions on air travel in the event of disease outbreaks such as this one?</li>
<li>Given the rate at which public health officials are capable of gaining insight into the severity of such an outbreak, can you offer guidance as to when and how the federal government would decide to implement travel restrictions in the event that an outbreak like this one merited them?</li>
<li>Have you begun exploring the means by which the federal government might continue to assist China and the international community in containing this outbreak in the event of restrictions on commercial air travel? If not, why not?</li>
<li>In the event that federal officials make a preliminary determination to rule out restrictions on air travel, will you commit to inform the public that such a determination has been made in the interests of transparency and appropriate public scrutiny?</li>
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&#8220;The virus, which, causes pneumonia-like symptoms, is related to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, a virus that originated in China and killed hundreds of people in 2002 and 2003,&#8221; National Review also noted.
Since the virus&#8217;s breakout, China has quarantined the entire city of Wuhan in an attempt to staunch the virus&#8217;s pernicious spread.
Conservative commentator Daniel Horowitz, of Blaze Media, <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/will-trump-consider-suspending-travel-china-amid-coronavirus-outbreak/">wrote</a> today in support of a Chinese travel ban: &#8220;One would expect that the first course of action of the government would be to prevent Chinese from traveling here or Americans from traveling to China and returning, or at least to impose a travel ban on parts of China. That is the first step to ensuring that the disease doesn’t spread like wildfire in our country. Yet, as with epidemics of the past, there doesn’t seem to be any imminent warning of suspending travel.&#8221;
Taking a somewhat different approach, Daily Wire columnist Matt Walsh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-the-media-wants-you-to-panic-over-the-coronavirus-dont-fall-for-it-here-are-the-real-facts">chalked up</a> the coronavirus as much ado about nothing: &#8220;I don’t mean to spoil the twist ending, but here’s how to protect yourself from the coronavirus if you live in America: Do nothing special at all. Carry on with your life. Wash your hands. Avoid ingesting the bodily fluids of strangers, as much as possible. Do all of the normal things you would do to maintain a healthy life. Media reports indicate that face masks are an &#8216;<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-face-masks-not-entirely-effective-2020-1" data-reader-unique-id="14">ineffective&#8217;</a> way of preventing the spread of the virus. What the reports forget to mention is that it would be a sign of delusional paranoia if a person in the United States went around wearing a mask for fear of a disease that almost nobody in this hemisphere actually has.&#8221;

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Josh Hawley Proposes Possible China Travel Ban In Response To Coronavirus

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New reports from the Chinese government indicate that the number of people who have been infected by the coronavirus jumped from 2,700 yesterday to over 4,500 today as the number of people who have died from the outbreak is now well over 100.
&#8220;China on Tuesday reported 25 more deaths from a new viral disease, raising the total to at least 106, as the U.S. government prepared to fly Americans out of the city at the center of the outbreak,&#8221; The Associated Press reported. &#8220;There were 1,771 new cases confirmed on Monday, raising the national total to 4,515, according to the National Health Commission. It said 976 were in serious condition.&#8221;
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/coronavirus-china-latest-updates/2020/01/27/3634db9a-40a7-11ea-aa6a-083d01b3ed18_story.html">reported</a> that &#8220;a scientific assessment of the spread of the disease, assuming an optimistic 90 percent quarantine, still predicted more than 59,000 infections and 1,500 deaths — twice the toll of the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak.&#8221;
The New York Times reported yesterday that the rapid spread of the virus led China&#8217;s communist government to expanding its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-quarantines-56-million-cities-cancel-work-for-weeks-deaths-infections-skyrocket">quarantine</a> to an &#8221; unprecedented scope affecting 56 million people.&#8221;
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) raised its travel warning to China to its highest-level, strongly encouraging Americans to not travel to the communist nation.
&#8220;CDC recommends that travelers avoid all nonessential travel to China,&#8221; The CDC <a href="https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/warning/novel-coronavirus-china">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;In response to an outbreak of respiratory illness, Chinese officials have closed transport within and out of Wuhan and other cities in Hubei province, including buses, subways, trains, and the international airport. Additional restrictions and cancellations of events may occur. There is limited access to adequate medical care in affected areas.&#8221;
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CDC recommends travelers avoid all nonessential travel to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/China?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#China</a> due to the ongoing <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2019nCoV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2019nCoV</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coronavirus</a>) outbreak. The outbreak is growing and there is limited access to adequate medical care in affected areas. <a href="https://t.co/Km38IKxIAs">https://t.co/Km38IKxIAs</a> <a href="https://t.co/NHboTImlyr">pic.twitter.com/NHboTImlyr</a>
&mdash; CDC Travel Health (@CDCtravel) <a href="https://twitter.com/CDCtravel/status/1221904223333429250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-quarantines-56-million-cities-cancel-work-for-weeks-deaths-infections-skyrocket">reported</a> yesterday that Ma Xiaowei, director of China’s National Health Commission, indicated that those who are infected with the virus but who are not yet showing symptoms may still be able to infect other people, making containment significantly harder.
“The epidemic is now entering a more serious and complex period,” Ma said on Sunday. “It looks like it will continue for some time, and the number of cases may increase.”
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The Trump administration secured a crucial victory in the United States Supreme Court on Monday when the court ruled in favor of allowing the administration to proceed with denying green cards and citizenship to foreign nationals who receive welfare benefits from the American taxpayer.
The Daily Caller News Foundation <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/27/public-charge-rule-supreme-court/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) dictates that foreign nationals should not receive green cards if they are “likely at any time to become a public charge.” At issue in Monday’s case is the definition of “public charge.” In recent years, the term was defined as a person primarily dependent on a cash assistance program.
The Trump administration promulgated a new rule in August 2019 that expands the definition to include those likely to use non-cash benefit programs like Medicaid, food stamps, or housing benefits for a period of months. The rule does not apply to humanitarian migrants like refugees or asylum-seekers.</blockquote>
The ruling lifts a nationwide injunction placed on imposed by Democrat-appointed Manhattan-based U.S. District Judge George Daniels.
White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham responded to the win by saying, “Today’s stay from the Supreme Court is a massive win for American taxpayers, American workers, and the American Constitution. This decision allows the government to implement regulations effectuating longstanding federal law that newcomers to this country must be financially self-sufficient and not a ‘public charge’ on our country and its citizens.”
Immigration reporter Neil Munro <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/27/supreme-court-allows-rule-excluding-poor-old-migrants/">noted</a> that this was a win for &#8220;Americans employees, whose wages are being suppressed, and housing costs are rising amid the business-backed inflow of roughly 1 million immigrant workers, consumers, and renters each year.&#8221;
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) said in a statement:
<blockquote>“In a well-deserved blow to an activist judge in the Southern District of New York, today the Supreme Court lifted a nationwide injunction on President Trump’s common sense, long overdue &#8216;public charge&#8217; rule, allowing it to go in effect during the course of litigation. This is a massive victory for the Trump administration, the American people, and most importantly, preserves the public interest component of an immigration system constantly under attack by special interest judges. The rule will correct expensive and politically-driven loopholes, and uphold the clearly expressed intent of Congress that immigrants to the United States be self-reliant. That means putting back in place screening criteria that identifies and selects prospective immigrants who will be less likely to depend on government programs and become public charges. The interest of the American people is best served when immigrants selected for admission into the United States can demonstrate they are capable of providing for themselves and their dependents. While lower court litigation continues, the rule takes effect immediately. Given that the arguments against public charge are meritless, it is likely this rule change is permanent.”</blockquote>
Far-left Democrats reacted in anger over the ruling.
Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wrote on Twitter: &#8220;This is shameful. America shouldn’t have a wealth test for admission. It’s a place where millions of people are descendants of immigrants who came w nothing &amp; made a life. The American Dream isn’t a private club with a cover charge &#8211; it’s the possibility of remaking your future.&#8221;
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This is shameful. America shouldn’t have a wealth test for admission. It’s a place where millions of people are descendants of immigrants who came w nothing &amp; made a life.
The American Dream isn’t a private club with a cover charge &#8211; it’s the possibility of remaking your future. <a href="https://t.co/qKm7BuUhXI">https://t.co/qKm7BuUhXI</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1221883795672129540?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who is currently one the Democrat front-runners seeking the party&#8217;s nomination in the presidential race, responded: &#8220;My father came to America at 17 without a nickel, speaking no English. He grew up to be the proudest American you ever saw. Trump&#8217;s policy is disgraceful. It is not what America is about. We will defeat him and end his demonization of immigrants and the poor.&#8221;
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My father came to America at 17 without a nickel, speaking no English. He grew up to be the proudest American you ever saw. Trump&#39;s policy is disgraceful. It is not what America is about. We will defeat him and end his demonization of immigrants and the poor. <a href="https://t.co/MibtwOTzEL">https://t.co/MibtwOTzEL</a>
&mdash; Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1221872540177567744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Far-left transgender activist Charlotte Clymer wrote: &#8220;America has just erected a paywall. This is astoundingly cruel.&#8221;
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America has just erected a paywall. This is astoundingly cruel. <a href="https://t.co/PiN2FQKlL1">https://t.co/PiN2FQKlL1</a>
&mdash; Charlotte Clymer🏳️‍🌈 (@cmclymer) <a href="https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1221865680426934273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, a member of President Donald Trump&#8217;s legal defense team, tore into the Democrats&#8217; case for removing the president from office by highlighting the allegations of corruption that surround former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, regarding their work in Ukraine.
Joe Biden has claimed that no one has ever alleged any wrongdoing, while other Democrats have claimed that involving the Bidens in the impeachment trial is nothing more than a distraction.
Bondi pushed back on those claims by highlighting the allegations of corruption surrounding Hunter Biden&#8217;s work for Burisma, an allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas company, while his father was serving as vice president and was largely responsible for overseeing U.S. matters in Ukraine. Joe Biden previously bragged on camera that he got a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating corruption at Burisma fired by threatening to withhold $1 billion in aid from the country.
Former White House Special Assistant Steven Cheung highlighted Bondi’s most notable remarks on the matter in a series of tweets.
&#8220;In fact, every witness who was asked about Hunter Biden’s involvement with Burisma agreed there was a potential appearance of a conflict of interest,&#8221; Bondi said. &#8220;Multiple House Democrat witnesses, including those from the Department of State, the National Security Council, and other unanimously testified there was a potential appearance of a conflict of interest. These were their witnesses.&#8221;
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1/6<a href="https://twitter.com/PamBondi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PamBondi</a> with the masterclass in laying out the argument on Hunter Biden&#39;s corruption in Ukraine.
&quot;House managers didn&#39;t tell you that.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/3GyGJvg0EG">pic.twitter.com/3GyGJvg0EG</a>
&mdash; Steven Cheung (@CaliforniaPanda) <a href="https://twitter.com/CaliforniaPanda/status/1221939144269729793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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“In March 2014, the United Kingdom Serious Fraud Office opens a money laundering operation investigation into the oligarch Zlochevsky and his company Burisma,&#8221; Bondi continued. &#8220;The very next month, April 2014, according to a public report, Hunter Biden quietly joins the board of Burisma. Remember, early 2014 is when Vice President Biden began leading Ukraine policy.”
“Here’s how Hunter Biden came to join Burisma’s board in 2014: He was brought on the board by Devin Archer, his business partner. Devin Archer was college roommates with Chris Heinz, stepson of Secretary of State John Kerry,&#8221; Bondi continued. &#8220;All three men, Hunter Biden, Devin Archer, and Chris Heinz had all started an investment firm together. Public records show that April 16th, 2014, Devin Archer meets with Vice President Biden at the White House. Just two days later, on April 18th, 2014, is when Hunter Biden quietly joins Burisma, according to public reporting. Remember this is just one month after the United Kingdom Serious Fraud Office opened a money laundering case into Burisma, Hunter Biden joins the board.”
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After the UK fraud office opened a money laundering investigation against Burisma, Hunter Biden is hired a month later.
It&#8217;s also at this time that <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeBiden</a> as VP is in charge of Ukraine policy. <a href="https://t.co/TiwrTNiOVR">pic.twitter.com/TiwrTNiOVR</a>
— Steven Cheung (@CaliforniaPanda) <a href="https://twitter.com/CaliforniaPanda/status/1221939401544142849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
“And not only 10 days after Hunter Biden joins the board, British authorities seize $23 million in British bank accounts connected to the oligarch Zlochevsky, the owner of Burisma,” Bondi continued. “Did Hunter Biden leave the board then? No. The British authorities also announced that it had started a criminal investigation into potential money laundering. Did Hunter Biden leave the board? No.”
“What happened was then, only then, did the company choose to announce that Hunter Biden had joined the board, after the assets of Burisma and its oligarch owner Zlochevsky were frozen in and a criminal investigation had begun,” Bondi continued. “Hunter Biden’s decision to join Burisma raised flags almost immediately.”
“One article from May 2014, stated, ‘the appointment of Joe Biden’s son to the board Ukrainian gas firm Burisma has raised eyebrows the world over,’” Bondi added. “Even an outlet with bias for Democrats pointed Hunter Biden’s activities created a conflict of interest for Joe Biden.”
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After Burisma&#8217;s assests were frozen, they choose to announce Hunter joining the board, signaling influence over the Vice President&#8217;s son.
News outlets reported it &#8220;raised eyebrows the world over&#8221; and &#8220;raises questions about a potential conflict of interest for Joe Biden.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/c92q5mOIbo">pic.twitter.com/c92q5mOIbo</a>
— Steven Cheung (@CaliforniaPanda) <a href="https://twitter.com/CaliforniaPanda/status/1221939629269618690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
“Even Chris Heinz, Hunter Biden’s own business partner, had grave concerns,” Bondi pointed out. “He thought that working with Burisma was unacceptable, this is Chris Heinz. He was worried about the corruption, the geopolitical risk, and how bad it would look, so he wisely distances himself from Hunter Biden and Devin Archer’s appointments to Bursima.”
“He didn’t simply call his stepfather, secretary of state, and say, ‘I have a problem with this,’ he didn’t tell his friends, ‘hey guy, I’m not getting on the board, I want nothing to do with this,’ he went so far as to send an email to senior State Department officials about this issue, this is Chris Heinz,” Bondi continued. “He wrote, ‘apparently Devin and Hunter have joined the board of Burisma and a press release went out today. I can’t speak to why they decided to, but there is no investment by our firm in their company.’”
“What did Hunter Biden do? He stayed on the board,” Bondi continued. “What did Chris Heinz do? He subsequently stopped doing business with his college roommate Devin Archer and his friend Hunter Biden. Chris Heinz spokesperson said, ‘the lack of judgement in this matter was a major catalyst for Mr. Heinz ending his business relationship with Mr. Archer and Mr. Biden.’”
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Hunter Biden&#8217;s close friend and business partner Chris Heinz was so concerned that he ceased all business with Hunter.
Heinz&#8217; spokesperson reiterated that the &#8220;lack of judgement&#8221; ended their business relationship. <a href="https://t.co/QWx1aWUL1m">pic.twitter.com/QWx1aWUL1m</a>
— Steven Cheung (@CaliforniaPanda) <a href="https://twitter.com/CaliforniaPanda/status/1221939924204761096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
Bondi continued by noting that ABC News, The Washington Post, and Good Morning America, all raised serious concerns about Hunter Biden&#8217;s role on Burisma&#8217;s board and about his involvement in countries where his father was conducting business on behalf of the United States.
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News reports even covered the Biden/Burisma scandal closely.
Yet, House impeachment managers have conveniently left that out of their arguments. <a href="https://t.co/bahy6SgiIE">pic.twitter.com/bahy6SgiIE</a>
— Steven Cheung (@CaliforniaPanda) <a href="https://twitter.com/CaliforniaPanda/status/1221940305580187648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
This report has been updated to include additional information.

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In response to The New York Times reporting on the leaked manuscript from former National Security Advisor John Bolton&#8217;s upcoming book about his time working for President Trump, Bolton&#8217;s former chief of staff wrote a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/ambassador-bolton-withdraw-your-book-fred-fleitz">scathing op-ed for Fox News</a> that denounced the book for setting a &#8220;dangerous precedent&#8221; while demanding he withdraw it from publication until after the 2020 election.
&#8220;It was crushing to read weekend press reports that my friend and former boss John Bolton plans to publish a tell-all book on his time as President Trump’s National Security Advisor,&#8221; Fred Fleitz begins in the lengthy op-ed. &#8220;The book reportedly will be published in March 2020. Given the importance of protecting a president’s confidential discussions with his senior advisers, I strongly disagree with Bolton’s decision to release the book before the November presidential election and call on him to withdraw it from the publisher immediately.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/critics-hammer-bolton-after-book-pre-order-goes-live-following-leaked-manuscript-published-by-nyt">reported</a> by The Daily Wire&#8217;s Ryan Saavedra on Sunday, the Times wrote that Bolton alleges in his book that President Trump told him to freeze the $391 million in military aid to Ukraine until officials agreed to investigate Joe Biden&#8217;s corruption and 2016 election meddling.
Though Fleitz commends John Bolton for his service after knowing him for 30 years, praising his work in the State Department and in the Trump administration, he ultimately feels that Bolton&#8217;s book undermines executive privilege and will ultimately discourage future presidents from discussing important matters of foreign policy in confidence.
&#8220;Presidents must be able to candidly consult with their advisers without worrying they will leak these discussions to the press or obtain high-dollar book contracts to publish them,&#8221; Fleitz says in the op-ed. &#8220;A book by a former national security advisor ahead of a president’s reelection bid may set a dangerous precedent since it could discourage future presidents from seeking advice from expert advisers on sensitive national security matters.&#8221;
&#8220;This is why executive privilege exists: To allow the president and other senior officials to keep certain communications and internal deliberations private if disclosing them would disrupt the functions or decision-making processes of the executive branch,&#8221; he continues.
Not only does Fleitz slam Bolton for seeking to publish the book in the first place, he also takes issue with Bolton&#8217;s decision to submit it for review with the National Security Council (NSC) despite knowing how prone the agency is for leaks.
&#8220;It also is inexplicable how such a sensitive manuscript could be sent to the NSC in the middle of the impeachment process,&#8221; he argues. &#8220;Under such circumstances, a leak of the manuscript was all but certain. If a manuscript of this sensitivity was to be published at all, this should happen after the election, not in the spring of 2020,  I don’t understand the need for a former national security advisor to publish a tell-all book critical of a president he served, especially during a presidential reelection campaign that will determine the fate of the country.&#8221;
Fleitz concludes his op-ed by referencing former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who chose to publish his book “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War&#8221; that was critical of the Obama administration only after the 2012 election. In fact, Gates waited until January of 2014 to publish it.
&#8220;Gates established a principled precedent on how senior advisers to presidents should write about their experiences,&#8221; concludes Fleitz. &#8220;Given Ambassador Bolton’s long and distinguished record of government service, I believe it is vital that he follow this precedent.&#8221;

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Fox News anchor Bret Baier had to tell fellow anchor Chris Wallace on Monday to tone it down after Wallace got in a testy exchange with Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich over President Donald Trump&#8217;s Senate impeachment trial.
Wallace, who at least formally appears to have been a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001509.html?tid=lk_inline_manual_13">registered</a> Democrat, took issue with comments that Pavlich made in comparing the Clinton impeachment trial to Trump&#8217;s impeachment trial.
&#8220;Get your facts straight!&#8221; Wallace yelled.
&#8220;Okay, okay, let&#8217;s tone it down here,&#8221; Baier responded.
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Bret Baier had to intervene after Chris Wallace got testy with Katie Pavlich on FOX News this morning. It was an interesting conversation. Thoughts? <a href="https://t.co/ysU8Q2zQUQ">pic.twitter.com/ysU8Q2zQUQ</a>
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<blockquote>BRET BAIER: I mean, there&#8217;s a lot of questions, Katie Pavlich, about how this happens, when it happens, who knows about the manuscript and how it gets out there.
KATIE PAVLICH: Well, the manuscript isn&#8217;t just at the [National Security Council], all the intelligence agencies also have to review it, which can take a very long time, so there&#8217;s no telling how long that review process could take. But I want to go back to the senators here, that we&#8217;ve been talking about for days now — who the Democrat managers are trying to convince to vote for witnesses. Senators like Susan Collins, for example, are weighing two things: Bringing witnesses, more information that they don&#8217;t have given the new news, but also maintaining the dignity and integrity of the Senate and the roll of the Senate. The Senate is not the House, the House did not come with a complete case, at every impeachment beforehand, the witnesses that had been called in the House before being brought to the Senate. So, there are questions here about the process and —
CHRIS WALLACE: That&#8217;s not true! That&#8217;s not true! They hadn&#8217;t all been called in the House, in the Clinton impeachment, they had been called by the independent counsel, they had not been called by the House.
PAVLICH: After an extensive Justice Department investigation, Chris.
WALLACE: I understand, but they weren&#8217;t called in the House, that&#8217;s just wrong, Katie.
PAVLICH: That is very different than the witnesses who were called in the investigation, before the articles were sent to the House. The Justice Department investigation, the grand jury material in the Clinton impeachment was handed to the House as part of the articles and given to the Senate. They were not given after the House voted for those articles, that is the difference. And the process here does matter.
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WALLACE: I just want to pick up on this, because Katie, what you&#8217;re saying just isn&#8217;t true. The fact of the matter was the whistleblower information was given to the inspector general, who gave it to the Justice Department. The Justice Department decided not to investigate, and that is why it went to the House. So, to say that in the Clinton investigation that these people were interviewed by the House when they weren&#8217;t and to say &#8230;. it wasn&#8217;t done by the Justice Department because the Justice Department refused to carry out the investigation. Get your facts straight!
BAIER: Okay, okay, let&#8217;s tone it down here.
PAVLICH: The point is that all of the information that the grand jury in the Clinton investigation and all of the witnesses that the House wanted to call, that the Justice Department called in the Clinton case, were done before the articles were voted on and put over to the Senate. That is not what has happened here. The House voted on incomplete information and gave it to the Senate and now they are saying that the Senate should call additional witnesses who&#8217;ve not been called before and who were not part of the House evidence.</blockquote>

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A woman who is the head of a venerable institution for management in Great Britain has a new parameter she would like to see implemented in offices: reduce the time men talk about sports.
Ann Francke, the Chief Executive of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), which was created in 1947 as the British Institute of Management (BIM), then merged with the Institution of Industrial Managers (IIM) to form the Institute of Management (IM) in 1992 and obtained a Royal Charter to become the Chartered Management Institute in 2002, told the BBC&#8217;s “Today” program, “A lot of women, in particular, feel left out. They don&#8217;t follow those sports and they don&#8217;t like either being forced to talk about them or not being included. I have nothing against sports enthusiasts or cricket fans &#8211; that&#8217;s great. But the issue is many people aren&#8217;t cricket fans,” according to the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51261999">BBC</a>.
Francke opined that talking about sports was problematic because of where it led: &#8220;It&#8217;s a gateway to more laddish behaviour and — if it just goes unchecked — it&#8217;s a signal of a more laddish culture. It&#8217;s very easy for it to escalate from VAR talk and chat to slapping each other on the back and talking about their conquests at the weekend.”
CMI notes, “In 2019, Ann was awarded an OBE for services to workplace equality. Ann is an expert on gender balance in the workplace and speaks frequently in the media and conferences on this and other management topics. Her book on gender balance – Create a Gender-balanced Workplace, published in September 2019.”
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The Chartered Management Institute’s Ann Francke believes talking about football is a “gateway” to more laddish culture.<a href="https://t.co/ZK1Pyfle10">https://t.co/ZK1Pyfle10</a>
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Sports journalist Jacqui Oatley disagreed with Francke’s position, stating to “Today,” &#8220;If you ban football chat or banter of any description, then all you&#8217;re going to do is alienate the people who actually want to communicate with each other.” She added, “It would be so, so negative to tell people not to talk about sport because girls don&#8217;t like it or women don&#8217;t like it, that&#8217;s far more divisive.&#8221;
Francke <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/work/the-hillary-clinton-backlash-tells-us-everything-about-britains/">wrote in August 2016</a> during the presidential election that the reason Hillary Clinton wasn’t as popular as she should have been was that she had the temerity to ask for a promotion:
<blockquote> … male managers are 40 per cent more likely to get promoted than women. Too many women still don&#8217;t ask &#8211; something I&#8217;ll come back to. But perhaps the more interesting thing is what happens when women DO ask. They face the Hillary Backlash.
Let me start by saying that as a dual UK/US citizen Hillary Clinton gets my vote &#8211; by far the best and only competent choice for the White House. But the reason I mention her here, is that she suffers from exactly the same problem as many ordinary women in the workplace. She&#8217;s had the audacity to ask for a promotion …
Don&#8217;t demonize women who have the nerve to do what men do naturally &#8211; showcase their achievements and ask for promotion &#8211; as “aggressive.” “bossy” or “selfish.” Ask yourself: if this was a man how would I view it? Stop the Hillary Backlash. She may just be the best choice.</blockquote>

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Weeks after leftists subjected him to a public flogging for daring to say that &#8220;quality&#8221; should always trump diversity in art, author Stephen King is now pitching incense to the woke gods as a way to seemingly ingratiate himself to them.
In an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/stephen-king-oped-the-oscars-are-rigged-for-white-people/2020/01/27/ad29c4e8-407c-11ea-aa6a-083d01b3ed18_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">op-ed for The Washington Post</a> on Monday, the renowned author scolded the recent Academy Award nominations for their lack of racial and sexual diversity, arguing that the whole business is “rigged in favor of the white folks.”
Starting out, King addressed the controversy that landed him in hot water earlier this month, in which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stephen-king-says-art-should-be-judged-on-quality-not-diversity-gets-torched-by-leftists-online">he tweeted</a>, &#8220;I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.&#8221;
The hits at King were relentless, as accusations of &#8220;white privilege&#8221; and &#8220;white-washing&#8221; erupted across his Twitter page. In the op-ed, the &#8220;It&#8221; author clarified he never meant to say that people in charge of creative content live by the creed of quality over diversity, insisting that he believes they have rigged the game in the white man&#8217;s favor.
“I also said, in essence, that those judging creative excellence should be blind to questions of race, gender or sexual orientation. I did not say that was the case today, because nothing could be further from the truth,” King wrote on Monday, as reported by <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/480139-stephen-king-oscars-rigged-in-favor-of-the-white-folks">The Hill</a>.
“Has there been progress in the film community? Yes, some,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I’m old enough to remember when there were only a handful of African-American directors and about the only female director in Hollywood was Ida Lupino, who made hard-edged noir B-pictures in the 1950s and later worked in television. Her directing work was never nominated for an Oscar or an Emmy.&#8221;
King blames the lack of diversity among those nominated on the diversity of the Academy&#8217;s voting members, noting they are only 32% women and 16% minorities. “Not good enough. Not even within shouting distance of good enough,” King wrote.
But just last week, an anonymous Oscar voter told The Daily Beast that the diversity issues among those nominated were overblown, when considering the reforms that the Academy instituted following the so-called &#8220;#OscarsSoWhite&#8221; controversy of 2016.
“When the #OscarsSoWhite backlash happened, we were all thrown under the bus by our own Academy for seemingly being biased,” the voter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anonymous-oscar-voter-diversity-problems-overblown">told the outlet</a>. “So they added a lot more members, making sure it was diverse. But what also came out of that was an extra fringe benefit of youth. Suddenly an entire group of voters was plugged into social media in a way the older voters were not.”
“So now comes this year, where the grumblings are happening again, but this time it’s harder to throw the Academy members under the bus because we are more diverse now,” the voter continued. “I think it points to what the other issue was that got buried under the controversy, and that is the need to develop more projects that are richer in roles for actors of color and even stronger directing opportunities for women.”
King closed out his Post op-ed by reflecting upon how a perfect world would be completely color-blind, before lamenting on how that perfect world has been supplanted by a system &#8220;rigged in favor of the white folks.&#8221;
&#8220;My overall attitude that, as with justice, judgments of creative excellence should be blind,&#8221; King wrote. &#8220;But that would be the case in a perfect world, one where the game isn’t rigged in favor of the white folks. Creative excellence comes from every walk, color, creed, gender and sexual orientation, and it’s made richer and bolder and more exciting by diversity, but it’s defined by being excellent. Judging anyone’s work by any other standard is insulting and — worse — it undermines those hard-won moments when excellence from a diverse source is rewarded (against, it seems, all the odds) by leaving such recognition vulnerable to being dismissed as politically correct.&#8221;

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New details have emerged about the circumstances surrounding the tragic helicopter crash that took the lives of NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, and seven others, including that the pilot was given &#8220;clearance to fly in worse than normal weather conditions, without relying on instruments to guide him,&#8221; as reported by The Washington Post. The information came to light via recordings of the pilot&#8217;s communications with air traffic controllers shortly before the deadly crash Sunday morning.
After departing from Orange County&#8217;s John Wayne Airport at 9:06 a.m. PT, the helicopter carrying Bryant flew north to Los Angeles, then northwest from the city. It went down in Calabasas shortly after 9:40 a.m. The first 911 call reporting the crash was received at 9:47 a.m.
<a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28572984/helicopter-carrying-kobe-bryant-made-climbing-turn-rapid-dive">ESPN</a> reported Sunday on the exchange between the helicopter&#8217;s pilot, Ara Zobayan, and air traffic controllers in the Burbank tower, as revealed in a partial audio of the exchange posted by LiveATC.net. The recording indicates that &#8220;a few minutes before the crash, an air traffic controller told Zobayan that he was &#8216;still too low level for flight following,&#8217; meaning the aircraft was below the level at which it could be picked up by radar due to the area&#8217;s hilly terrain,&#8221; ESPN reported.
&#8220;Additional recordings between Zobayan and air traffic controllers posted on the site indicate that the pilot was getting guidance from controllers as he navigated what was reported to be dense morning fog,&#8221; ESPN reports. &#8220;Air traffic controllers noted poor visibility around Burbank, just to the north, and Van Nuys, to the northwest.&#8221;
Air traffic controllers initially held up the helicopter for other aircraft, then cleared the chopper &#8220;to proceed north along Interstate 5 through Burbank before turning west to follow U.S. Route 101, the Ventura Freeway,&#8221; the sports network notes.
In a report Monday, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/kobe-bryant-crash-pilot-received-clearance-to-fly-in-poor-weather-conditions/2020/01/27/59f8fb1c-4127-11ea-b503-2b077c436617_story.html">The Washington Post</a> provided additional details about what preceded the crash based on the pilot&#8217;s communications with air traffic control, including that the pilot &#8220;asked for and then was approved for what’s known as special visual flight rules,&#8221; allowing him to fly &#8220;under the special conditions.&#8221;
&#8220;The Burbank tower controller responds that it will be a few moments and asks the helicopter to hold,&#8221; the Post reports, citing the audio recordings. &#8220;Seconds later, the controller tells the pilot that he can plan to transition to the north side of the Van Nuys Airport. He tells the pilot, several departures are coming off a runway and to &#8216;expect to follow the I-5 north and cross that way.'&#8221;
The Post also notes that Zobayan, licensed to fly commercially since 2007, was &#8220;qualified to fly in bad weather conditions known as instrument flight rules, according to FAA records,&#8221; and was additionally &#8220;qualified to teach people to fly in those conditions, indicating that he had significant experience.&#8221;
A former Federal Aviation Administration crash investigator told the Post that the flight conditions apparently worsened as Zobayan attempted to follow special visual flight rules, which required him to fly lower for better visibility.
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In its report on the communications recordings, ESPN describes the final few second of the ultimately deadly flight: &#8220;Shortly after 9:40 a.m., the helicopter turned again, toward the southeast, and climbed to more than 2,000 feet above sea level. It then descended and crashed into a hillside at about 1,400 feet, according to data from Flightradar24. When it struck the ground, the helicopter was flying at about 160 knots (184 mph) and descending at a rate of more than 4,000 feet per minute (45 mph), the Flightradar24 data showed.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-past-interview-kobe-said-he-relied-on-helicopter-use-to-spend-more-time-with-his-children">In Past Interview, Kobe Said He Relied On Helicopter Use To Spend More Time With His Children</a>
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On Monday, President Donald Trump, who is hosting at the White House today both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his leading political foe at the moment, former Israel Defense Forces Chief of General Staff Benny Gantz, confirmed that he will unveil tomorrow his administration&#8217;s much-anticipated &#8220;Deal of the Century&#8221; peace plan proposal for Israel and the Palestinian-Arabs.
&#8220;It’s something they should want,&#8221; Trump said following a meeting with Netanyahu, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-touts-upcoming-mideast-peace-plan-following-meeting-with-netanyahu-despite-palestinian-objections">reports</a>, while adding that Trump confirmed he will announce the plan on Tuesday. “They probably won&#8217;t want it initially. I think in the end they will. I think in the end they&#8217;re going to want it. It&#8217;s very good for them,” Trump continued.
“We&#8217;ll see what happens,” Trump speculated. “Without them, we don&#8217;t do the deal. That&#8217;s OK. &#8230; We think that there is a very good chance that they&#8217;re going to want this.”
“This is an opportunity for peace,” Trump also said while standing alongside Netanyahu, as <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Trump-to-unveil-Israeli-borders-map-for-first-time-in-peace-plan-rollout-615541">noted</a> by The Jerusalem Post. “We’ll show a plan that has been worked on by everyone. We’ll see if it catches hold. If it does, that’d be great. If it doesn’t, it’s okay.”
Trump &#8220;said he invited Gantz to the White House so that the timing of the plan’s release wouldn’t be seen as political, in order to help Netanyahu win the upcoming election,&#8221; the Post reported. &#8220;He called Netanyahu and Gantz &#8216;two good competitions, fighting it out.'&#8221;
The Post, which is very well-sourced on this issue, also speculated on the contours of the soon-to-be-rolled-out plan: &#8220;The plan is expected to include the annexation of all Israeli settlements to Israel, along with most of the Jordan Valley, in a way that would allow for maximum territory with minimum non-Israel residents, such that the Palestinians would live in their own, demilitarized state.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/settlers-launching-deal-of-the-century-pushback/2020/01/26/">reported</a> by the Jewish Press over the weekend, some so-called &#8220;settlers&#8221; — otherwise known as Jews <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-the-trump-administration-is-absolutely-correct-to-call-israeli-settlements-legal">legally</a> living in the biblical Jewish heartland of Judea and Samaria — have already launched a preemptive pushback against the fact that the &#8220;Deal of the Century&#8221; is reputed to include an independent Palestinian-Arab state.
&#8220;Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan left for Washington, D.C. Saturday night to meet with members of Congress and GOP officials who are close to President Donald Trump, as well as with evangelical leaders he has befriended in recent years,&#8221; the Press wrote. &#8220;His goal is to present to these allies of the settlements enterprise the red lines of the Jewish settlements which must not be crossed in any future arrangement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.&#8221;
&#8220;[W]e should also pay attention to the asterisks and small print [in the plan],” Dagan said, as the Press noted. “We must be careful not to allow the words ‘applying sovereignty’ become a smokescreen that covers our eyes from seeing the true meaning of the Deal of the Century, according to the spirit of those parts of the plan which have already been published. The plan is also rife with danger.”
In a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-yes-palestinian-state-far-more-dangerous-josh-hammer">Daily Wire op-ed</a> last August, I wrote strongly against the creation of any new, independent Palestinian-Arab state:
<blockquote>The “two-state solution,” the misbegotten Oslo Accords-initiated process by which the liberal Jewish state of Israel is expected to carve an Iran/Muslim Brotherhood-funded stronghold out of its tiny New Jersey-sized nation-state, has always been nothing other than a left-wing Ivory Tower fairy tale. According to the (<a href="https://mosaicmagazine.com/response/israel-zionism/2019/07/the-many-incoherences-and-hypocrisies-of-international-law-on-jerusalem/">legally meaningless</a>, under settled international law) “1967 borders,” around which Oslo is effectively based, the Jewish state is to be nine miles wide at its narrowest point — a wildly indefensible result that has led many in Israel’s military and political establishment to deride it as “Auschwitz borders.” Moreover, Judea and Samaria — the biblical Jewish heartland which would be transferred to the terrorist PLO (and thereby made fully Judenrein), pursuant to Oslo — is geographically indispensable for the Jewish state’s security. The hilly terrain of Judea and Samaria provides a direct means to look down upon Jerusalem and Israel’s Tel Aviv-centric coastal plains alike.</blockquote>

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During a 2018 interview, late basketball legend Kobe Bryant explained that he frequently opted to take helicopter rides to and from basketball-related events to avoid notorious Los Angeles traffic, thus saving time so he could spend more moments with his children. For example, Bryant said he enjoyed taking his daughters to school, as well as picking them up.
Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others, including a teammate of Gianna’s and her parents, were tragically killed in a helicopter accident on Sunday in California.
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“Traffic started getting really, really bad and I was sitting in traffic and I wound up missing like a school play, because I was sitting in traffic,&#8221; the former Laker said during an episode of the Barstool Sports&#8217; &#8220;The Corp,&#8221; <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kobe-bryant-helicopters-los-angeles-basketball_n_5e2f0b0dc5b6779e9c382798">HuffPost</a> reported.
&#8220;I had to figure out a way where I could still train and focus on the craft but still not compromise family time,” he continued. “So that’s when I looked into helicopters, to be able to get down and back in 15 minutes and that’s when it started.&#8221;
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“You have like road trips and times where you don’t see your kids. So every chance I get to see them, to spend time with them — even if it’s 20 minutes in the car — I want that,” added Bryant.
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/sports/basketball/kobe-bryant-dead.html">The New York Times</a>, the helicopter was headed to the Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks, California, where Bryant coached daughter Gianna&#8217;s basketball team.
&#8220;The gym had handwritten signs on the door: Closed,&#8221; the Times reported, adding: &#8220;A few dozen people, adults of all ages, stood huddled in silence around the memorial of several jerseys, candles, dozens of bouquets, Sports Illustrated magazines with Bryant on the cover, and a Lakers flag. Written on one bouquet was &#8216;We love you Kobe and Gigi.&#8217; Another card, the shape of a Lakers basketball, read, &#8216;The day we lost a legend: 1-26-20 Thank you for being a role model for me and for others.'&#8221;
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kobe-a-devout-catholic-reportedly-attended-mass-morning-of-accident">The Daily Wire</a> on Monday, Bryant, a devout Catholic, reportedly attended mass the morning of the accident.
“A friend texted me today to tell me that a friend of her’s saw #KobeBryant at #Catholic Mass this morning,” Boston priest David Barnes said via Twitter on Sunday. “Mass is the worship of God. Heaven is the worship of God. Go to Mass here so that you can worship God forever in heaven.”
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In 2015, the basketball star credited his faith and the help of a Catholic priest for allowing him to overcome major personal stumbles, reported <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/the-catholic-faith-of-kobe-bryant-77371">Catholic News Agency</a>.
Bryant was accused of raping a 19-year-old woman in a Colorado hotel room in 2003. He admitted to cheating on his wife and engaging in the sexual encounter, but has always maintained that it was consensual.
“What I came to understand, coming out of Colorado, is that I had to be me, in the place where I was at that moment,” Bryant told GQ in 2015.
“The one thing that really helped me during that process — I’m Catholic, I grew up Catholic, my kids are Catholic — was talking to a priest,” he added.
“It was actually kind of funny: He looks at me and says, ’Did you do it?’ And I say, ’Of course not.’ Then he asks, ’Do you have a good lawyer?’ And I’m like, ’Uh, yeah, he’s phenomenal.’ So then he just said, ’Let it go. Move on. God’s not going to give you anything you can’t handle, and it’s in his hands now. This is something you can’t control. So let it go.’ And that was the turning point,” recalled Bryant.
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Mexico is taking its own illegal immigration problem &#8212; caravans of thousands of migrants from Guatemala, El Salvador, and elsewhere &#8212; seriously, cracking down on border-crossers at its own southern border, and now critics are convinced that President Donald Trump, unable to get a physical border wall built, has convinced Mexico&#8217;s president to be come his de facto &#8220;border wall.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/26/mexico-immigration-amlo-enforcement-trump">The Guardian reported Sunday</a> that &#8220;Mexico has become Trump&#8217;s wall,&#8221; faulting Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador for increasing hostility among Mexican law enforcement agents toward migrant caravans.
Although Mexico was, initially, allowing these thousand-plus person caravans to cross its southern border on the promise that they would head directly to the United States&#8217; southern border to seek amnesty, the Mexican government has since taken an active role in interdiction, blocking passage through Mexico&#8217;s southern border and even firing tear gas into unruly crowds of migrants trying to push through into Mexico.
&#8220;López Obrador’s government greeted migrants in a more hostile fashion,&#8221; <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-01-24/in-turning-back-caravans-mexico-becomes-trumps-wall">the LA Times reported about incidents</a> that occurred last week. &#8220;Mexican National Guard troops in full riot gear blocked their way and fired tear gas canisters to disperse those seeking to breach the nation’s border with Guatemala. Hundreds of people were put on planes and buses back to Honduras, where most of the migrants in the latest caravan began their journey.&#8221;
There were no major injuries, though there were around 800 arrests, according to reports. Before things got hostile, the Mexican government says they offered migrants work visas and the chance to remain in Mexico&#8217;s southern states, but the migrants refused.
&#8220;The president, generally referred to as Amlo, once railed against the abuse visited on migrants. In opposition, he pleaded for Mexico to provide safe passage to people heading for the US border,&#8221; the Guardian reported in horror. &#8220;But 13 months into his presidency – and under the looming threat of US tariffs – Amlo has assumed a new role: immigration enforcer.&#8221;
This is a stark difference from just one year ago, when Mexican authorities were, largely, turning a blind eye to so-called migrant caravans, offering them temporary visas to travel through Mexico on their way to seek amnesty in the United States. Occasionally, the government would attempt a &#8220;crackdown,&#8221; but only when Mexicans were overly burdened by the caravans, and even then, the Mexican government typically offered migrants temporary work visas or free rides back to Central America.
Now, things have changed both at the southern border and in the board room. The Trump administration&#8217;s &#8220;remain in Mexico&#8221; policy, which has those individuals seeking amnesty stay south of the border while their claims are processed rather than remain in the United States pending a hearing, has made life for Mexicans in border towns difficult (and it has cut down significantly on the number of migrants seeking amnesty). President Donald Trump also threatened Mexico, last year, with tariffs and a trade freeze if Mexico did not enforce its own immigration laws.
But it&#8217;s not all Trump&#8217;s fault, regardless of what the Guardian may believe. The LA Times notes that Obrador is copying Trump&#8217;s &#8220;America First&#8221; strategy with a &#8220;Mexico First&#8221; attitude, taking a particular interest in domestic policy and mostly ignoring Mexico&#8217;s foreign entanglements.
But the Trump administration is, at least, pleased with what&#8217;s happening.
“The efforts by the Mexican National Guard and other officials have thus far been effective at maintaining the integrity of their border, despite outbreaks of violence and lawlessness by people who are attempting to illegally enter Mexico on their way to the United States,&#8221; the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement this week.

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