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The List: 26 GOP Senators, 97 House Republicans Ask for More Foreign Workers to Fill U.S. Jobs

123 Republicans in the Senate and House are pleading with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf to bring more foreign workers to the United States to compete against working-class Americans for jobs.

In a letter to Wolf, 26 Republican Senators and 97 Republican House members joined 66 Senate and House Democrats in demanding DHS allow businesses to bring an additional roughly 30 foreign workers on the H-2B visa program to take nonagricultural blue-collar U.S. jobs.

Every year, U.S. companies are allowed to import 66,000 low-skilled H-2B foreign workers to take blue-collar, non-agricultural jobs. For some time, the H-2B visa program has been used by businesses to bring in cheaper, foreign workers and has contributed to blue-collar Americans having their wages undercut.

“We urge DHS to release the maximum number of additional visas without delay,” the Senators and House members wrote. “These vital American businesses depend on the expeditious release of a sufficient number of additional visas.”

The 26 GOP Senators who signed the letter include:

  • Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD)
  • Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
  • Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC)
  • Sen. James Risch (R-ID)
  • Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK)
  • Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
  • Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH)
  • Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO)
  • Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY)
  • Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO)
  • Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)
  • Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
  • Sen. Mike Crap (R-ID)
  • Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY)
  • Sen. John Thune (R-SD)
  • Sen. James Lankford (R-OK)
  • Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)
  • Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS)
  • Sen. Todd Young (R-IN)
  • Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS)
  • Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
  • Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
  • Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA)
  • Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)
  • Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
  • Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)

The 97 Republican House members who signed the letter include:

  • Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD)
  • Rep. Jack Bergman (R-MI)
  • Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH)
  • Rep. John Curtis (R-UT)
  • Rep. Pete Stauber (R-MN)
  • Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA)
  • Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC)
  • Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AZ)
  • Rep. Paul Mitchell (R-MI)
  • Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI)
  • Rep. Van Taylor (R-TX)
  • Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA)
  • Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI)
  • Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC)
  • Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL)
  • Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA)
  • Rep. Darren Soto (R-FL)
  • Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD)
  • Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO)
  • Rep. Michael Guest (R-MS)
  • Rep. Peter King (R-NY)
  • Rep. Roger Marshall (R-KS)
  • Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN)
  • Rep. Neal Dunn (R-FL)
  • Rep. Elise Stefancik (R-NY)
  • Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ)
  • Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA)
  • Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA)
  • Rep. Ralph Abraham (R-LA)
  • Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA)
  • Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA)
  • Rep. David Rouzer (R-NC)
  • Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA)
  • Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC)
  • Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL)
  • Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA)
  • Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI)
  • Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND)
  • Rep. Trent Kelly (R-MS)
  • Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH)
  • Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH)
  • Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX)
  • Rep. David Joyce (R-OH)
  • Rep. Troy Balderson (R-OH)
  • Rep. Ron Estes (R-KS)
  • Rep. French Hill (R-AR)
  • Rep. Carol Miller (R-WV)
  • Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH)
  • Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO)
  • Rep. Billy Long (R-MO)
  • Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-OH)
  • Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY)
  • Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY)
  • Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY)
  • Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY)
  • Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK)
  • Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH)
  • Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR)
  • Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY)
  • Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK)
  • Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA)
  • Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO)
  • Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA)
  • Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO)
  • Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-MS)
  • Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC)
  • Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH)
  • Rep. Don Young (R-AK)
  • Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-IN)
  • Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI)
  • Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC)
  • Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT)
  • Rep. David McKinley (R-WV)
  • Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO)
  • Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH)
  • Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI)
  • Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO)
  • Rep. Bill Flores (R-TX)
  • Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL)
  • Rep. Susan Brooks (R-IN)
  • Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK)
  • Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX)
  • Rep. John Rutherford (R-FL)
  • Rep. Fred Keller (R-PA)
  • Rep. Rob Woodall (R-GA)
  • Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL)
  • Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL)
  • Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX)
  • Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC)
  • Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA)
  • Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI)
  • Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL)
  • Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX)
  • Rep. John Carter (R-TX)
  • Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID)
  • Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH)
  • Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA)

The letter is in contrast to President Donald Trump’s tightening of the labor market, which has secured historic wage hikes for blue-collar and working-class Americans, as Breitbart News reported.

In November, the bottom 25 percent of wage earners saw their wages rise 4.5 percent compared to November 2018. These bottom-tier workers, those earning less than all other Americans, have secured a labor market that now resembles the labor market of top-tier workers — a result of less low-skilled foreign competition against Americans.

The long list of elected Republicans who are asking for more H-2B foreign workers comes as Republican and Democrat Senators Richard Blumenthal, Tom Cotton, Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Grassley, and Dick Durbin have asked DHS not to bring any more foreign workers to the U.S. through the low-skilled visa program.

In 2019, former DHS Secretaries Kirstjen Nielsen and Kevin McAleenan each approved 30,000 additional H-2B foreign visa workers for businesses to bring to the U.S. to take blue-collar jobs — all of which Americans can be recruited to take.

Today, federal employment data reveal that there is no labor shortage of working- and middle-class Americans who want a job. As of December 2019, there are more than 11 million Americans either unemployed, underemployed, or out of the workforce — all of whom want full-time employment.

The H-2B visa program has been widely used by businesses to drag down the wages of American workers in landscaping, conservation work, the meatpacking industry, the construction industry, and fishing jobs, a 2019 study from the Center for Immigration Studies finds.

When comparing the wages of H-2B foreign workers to the national wage average for each blue-collar industry, about 21 out of 25 of the industries offered lower wages to foreign workers than Americans.

In the construction industry, wage suppression is significant, with H-2B foreign workers being offered more than 20 percent less than their American counterparts. In the fishing industry, foreign workers were offered more than 30 percent less for their jobs than Americans in the field. In the meatpacking industry, foreign workers got 23 percent less pay than Americans.

Late last year, the Labor Department banned a South Dakota construction company from using the H-2B visa program after they discovered the employer was importing foreign workers in order to cut labor costs, then forcing those foreign workers to pay for their own housing, visa fees, and transportation costs — all of which are supposed to be covered by H-2B visa employers.

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Project Veritas—Bernie Sanders Staffer: ‘After We Abolish Landlords, We Don’t Have to Kill Them’

A Project Veritas video published Tuesday purportedly shows a Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) campaign staffer musing about a ban on private property ownership in the United States as an alternative to mass killings.

A man identified as Mason Baird, a Sanders field organizer in South Carolina, is seen telling a Project Veritas journalist that he believes a “militant labor movement,” working in tandem with a Sanders administration, should “strip power” away from capitalists.

“We would need a federal government and labor union movement that is working together to strip power away from capitalists and preferably directing violence toward property,” the man says. “At the end of the day, this kind of stuff will come out through practice, through the work and it’s hard for me to talk about it in the moment we live in, ’cause I think China today is not what Mao envisioned, right — it was through the practice of Chinese people doing the work to create the China today.

“So, it never – we’re never going – I think a lot of the stuff – a lot of these answers are going to come through practice – we’re going to try things – things aren’t going to work – we’re going to move on to the next thing,” he continues. “And we’re going to try to be as conscious and intentional about those things, but when you get into a certain level of detail, and depth, it’s like, that’s kind of my ‘cop-out’,  it comes through the work, you know. The answers come through the work.”

“It would, it’s gonna take, you know, it’s gonna take militancy, like a militant labor movement that’s willing to strike, and if necessary, you know, just destroy property and things like that,” he adds.

The man then turns his attention to landlords, arguing in favor of sparing their lives after they are eradicated from the system.

“After we abolish landlords, we don’t have to kill them, that’s my feeling. I think it’s damaging to the soul, but there were plenty of excesses in 1917 I would hope to avoid,” Baird says, referencing the Russian Revolution.

The Sanders staffer adds: “Labor, I think that’s a big source of power for us, and just try to gain as much leverage and power in the short time that we have. You know, Lenin didn’t have the Internet, they were a peasant society, and, I mean, it was like, so, you know, I would hope that, like, that we would – we’d have – we’d be doing a bunch of prep work before the capitalists got hip to what we were doing, I guess. I’m not excited about the prospect of armed struggle.”

In another part of the Project Veritas video, another purported Sanders staffer says he believes “plans for extreme action” must be made — even if his candidate becomes president.

“We have all this momentum, where do we go, regardless of the outcome, after it’s all over? Change won’t come easily, regardless. Even if Bernie is elected, change will not come swiftly or easily, so the connections we make now in the campaign with people, and volunteers, it’s important we retain that regardless of the outcome,” says a man identified by Project Veritas as Daniel Taylor, a Sanders field organizer in South Carolina. “It’s unfortunate that we have to make plans for extreme action, but like I said, they’re not going to give it to us even if Bernie is elected.”

Tuesday’s video release is part of an ongoing Project Veritas effort aimed at exposing radical staffers inside 2020 Democratic campaigns.

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Project Veritas: Bernie Sanders Staffer Talks ‘Plans for Extreme Action… Even if Bernie Is Elected’

A purported staffer for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) presidential campaign says “plans for extreme actions” must be made — even if the socialist senator wins the White House in 2020 — according to an undercover video released by Project Veritas on Tuesday.

The video segment begins with an individual identified as Daniel Taylor, a Sanders field organizer in South Carolina, telling a Project Veritas journalist that working on the campaign allows him to partake in “planting a seed,” saying socialism today is more accepted in the U.S. than in the previous election.

“For me personally, I have no problem going all in on the campaign stuff because you’re planting a seed… yeah, the whole socialist thing four years ago was a whole lot more toxic than it is today,” he says.

“We don’t want to scare people off, you first have to feel it out before you get into the crazy stuff…You know we were talking about more extreme organizations like Antifa, you were talking about, Yellow Vests, all that but we’re kinda keeping that on the back-burner for now,” the Sanders staffer continues.

The man then argues that “change won’t come easily” regardless if Sanders becomes president, and therefore, preparations for extreme actions must be made.

“We have all this momentum, where do we go, regardless of the outcome, after it’s all over? Change won’t come easily, regardless. Even if Bernie is elected, change will not come swiftly or easily, so the connections we make now in the campaign with people, and volunteers, it’s important we retain that regardless of the outcome,” he says. It’s unfortunate that we have to make plans for extreme action but like I said, they’re not going to give it to us even if Bernie is elected.”

Tuesday’s video release comes after Project Veritas published a pair of videos exposing purported Sanders organizers expressing violent views. In one recording, Iowa staffer Kyle Jurek warns that Milwaukee, host of this year’s Democratic National Convention, will “burn,” and police will be “beaten” if the Vermont senator loses the nomination. Another recording shows Martin Weissgerber, a field organizer in South Carolina, saying he’s ready for the U.S. to undergo a “revolution” and wants to see the rich guillotined.

To date, all these purported staffers appear to still work for the Sanders campaign, which has not addressed the Veritas investigations in any way.

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Trump: Time for Muslim World to Fix Mistake of 1948 By Recognizing Israel

The Muslim world must correct an historic error and finally recognize the Jewish state, President Donald Trump said Tuesday as he unveiled his long-anticipated “deal of the century” for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 

“It’s time for the Muslim world to fix the mistake of 1948 and recognize Israel,” Trump said.

Recognition was also one of the conditions for the Palestinians to finally receive their own state under the plan for what Trump called “a realistic two-state solution.”

Israel would have full control of Jerusalem and of settlements, he said, and “Jerusalem will remain Israel’s undivided capital.”

He later added, however, that “eastern Jerusalem” would be the capital of the Palestinian state. The Palestinians would get peripheral neighborhoods in Jerusalem that are already outside the Israeli security fence, namely Kfar Aqab, Abu Dis and some of Shuafat.

The U.S. would “work to create a territory for a contiguous Palestinian state in the future” that would “reject terrorism,” he said.

The flashpoint holy site of the Temple Mount would remain under the current status quo overseen by Jordan’s Islamic Waqf. Israel would continue working with the Jordanians to allow Muslim prayer at the Al Aqsa Mosque.

“This vision for peace is fundamentally different from past diplomacies,” Trump said. “Even the most well-intentioned plans were light on factual details and heavy on conceptual framework.”

He added that the 80-page long plan is “the most detailed proposal ever.”

It would “do a lot for the Palestinians or it just wouldn’t be fair,” he said.

The plan sees borders for a future Palestinian state that would see Israel making “territorial sacrifices for the sake of peace,” he said.

The proposal “more than doubles Palestinian territory,” he said.

“No Palestinians or Israelis will be uprooted from their homes,” he said.

He added that the contiguous Palestinian state would be established such that it “resolves the risk to Israel’s security” and the risk of terror attacks.

“We will never ask Israel to compromise its security,” he said.

Some $50 billion would be infused into the new Palestinian state, he said. His proposal would see an “end the cycle of Palestinian dependence on charity,” Trump said.

Trump said he was “saddened by the fate of the Palestinian people. They deserve a far better life — they deserve a chance to achieve their extraordinary potential.”

“We will be there every step of the way. It will work. If they do it, it’ll work,” he said.

 

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Trump Attorney Patrick Philbin Destroys Dems, Unelected Bureaucrats, ‘The Constitution Vests All Executive Power in a US President’ (VIDEO)

President Trump’s defense team wrapped up their opening arguments on Tuesday.

Trump’s deputy counsel Patrick Philbin blasted the unelected bureaucrats in the executive branch who believe their foreign policy disputes with President Trump is an impeachable offense.

Intel community underlings like Eric Ciaramella, Sean Misko, who went from NatSec to work for Schiff, and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman plotted to remove Trump from office because they disagreed with the President’s foreign policy related to Ukraine.

According to the Constitution, President Trump sets foreign policy, not unelected staffers who have no accountability to the American people.

“The President cannot defy agencies within the executive branch,” Philbin argued. “Article 2 section 1 of the Constitution vests all of the executive power in a president of the United States — he alone is an entire branch of government — he sets policy for the executive branch.”

Philbin explained that the president is given such vast power because he is elected and accountable to the American people.

The US has an election every four years to keep that power in check.

In contrast, the career bureaucrats are not elected and therefore have zero authority to set foreign policy.

“It inverts the Constitution,” Philbin said of giving unelected bureaucrats power over foreign policy. “The sole power is vested to the President of the United States.”

Case closed.

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Woke West Point Curriculum Denounces ‘Toxic Masculinity’

West Point cadets attended mandatory events — framed by the military academy as educational curriculum — on “inclusion,” “diversity,” and “gender norms,” Breitbart News has learned. The programming included discussion groups led by upper-class cadets, labeled “facilitators,” making references to “toxic masculinity,” leading one cadet to comment, “I’m being taught how not to be a man.”

This was the military academy’s third “Honorably Living Day” hosted by West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams,” reported the Military Times, describing West Post’s characterization of “honorable living” as including “diversity, inclusion and acceptance of people from differing backgrounds, races and genders.”

Williams described the event as relevant to the development of combat “readiness.”

Cadets were obligated to view Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In, two documentary films produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, first lady of California and wife of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA).  

Miss Representation features commentary from assorted left-wing and partisan Democrat figures, including Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), Katie Couric, Rosario Dawson, Jane Fonda, Rachel Maddow, Rosie O’Donnell, and Gloria Steinem. 

Debuted by the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), Miss Representation frames American society as broadly pathologized by anti-woman sexism.

“If people knew that Cuba, China, Iraq, and Afghanistan have more women in government than the United States of America, that would get some people upset,” said Newsom. He added, “One of the first things I did when I became mayor of San Francisco is that I appointed a female police chief, and then a female fire chief. … People thought I was trying to make some grand statement, when in fact I was actually just hiring the most qualified two candidates.”

“Without more women in politics, we just don’t really have democratic legitimacy,” alleged Jennifer Lawless, director of the Women & Politics Institute at American University. “Something looks fundamentally wrong with our political institutions.”

Barbara J. Berg, author of Sexism in America, claimed, “Patriarchy, really, is America’s default setting where men hold the positions of privilege and power, and where women, very often, are treated as second-class citizens.”

The Mask You Live In derides “hypermasculinity,” and masculinity more broadly, as stultifying boys’ and men’s emotional development. Its features commentary critiques what its speakers characterize as arbitrarily socialized “gender roles” associated with manhood.

“Be a man,’ that’s one of the most destructive phrases in this culture, I believe,” stated Joe Ehrmann, former NFL defensive lineman.

“We’ve constructed an idea of masculinity in the United States that doesn’t give young boys a way to feel secure in their masculinity, some make them go prove it all the time,” opined Michael Kimmel, a professor of sociology at Stony Brook University.

“Masculinity is not organic,” claimed Caroline Heldman, a professor of politics at Occidental University. “It’s reactive. It’s not something that just develops. It’s a rejection of everything that is feminine … through our popular culture, through our parenting styles, through our educational style, and through assumptions of natural manhood and maleness.”

“Throughout most of history, there’s been this belief that men and women are fundamentally different creatures, and it probably begins with the Bible,” said Lise Eliot, a professor of neuroscience at Rosalind Franklin University. “Sex is a biological term. It refers to which chromosomes you have. … gender is a social construct.”

After viewing the above-mentioned films, cadets attended workshops in which they were questioned about the films’ content.

In 2017, Jennifer Siebel Newsom derided Breitbart News as a “hate speech website,” calling on Amazon to withdraw its digital advertising from this news media outlet’s website. She disparaged Breitbart News as a publisher of “sexist, racist, xenophobic, and bigoted rhetoric.”

Bruce Stewart, a self-described “leading thought leader in the field of inclusive diversity”, was also hosted by West Point as a featured speaker. He lectures on “the New IQ,” which he claims is “a new way of thinking about and measuring inclusive diversity [and] a new kind of intelligence.”

Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams, superintendent of West Point, described the curriculum as conducive to improving combat readiness:

Below is the text of a schedule issued to cadets for Tuesday’s “stand down” of standard curriculum:

Session 1 (gender-based Discussion):

  • Cadets will bring a 3×5 card identifying 3 things that make them feel included/valued and 3 things that make feel excluded/no valued
  • Cadets will discuss their gender socialization and how that socialization affects behavior and relationships (facilitator questions provided)

Live Honorably Lunch:

  • Facilitators will invite cadets to share their thoughts from the morning discussion and examine how society/culture/West point, etc. shapes their gender norms and expectations

Session 2 (Role Play Scenario Development)

  • Cadets will select from 8 topics per company and create role play scenarios

  • Settings or topics for role play scenarios: Sexism, Racism, Cyber bullying, Alcohol, Mental Health, Sexual harassment or Sexual assault, Discrimination based no Sexual orientation, Cadet choice (other topic)

  • Theater Arts Guild Club will further refine one or two scenarios and will create a video example of a role play

  • Top 25 scenarios will be further refined for future Honorable Living Events or Exercises

Breitbart News received comments from several West Point cadets on condition of anonymity. Cadets are prohibited from speaking with the press without the school’s authorization under threat of disciplinary action.

“I’m being taught how not to be a man,” said one cadet.

“I’m going to quit West Point. It’s no longer teaching me to be a leader of men. It’s teaching me how to be a victim,” said another cadet.

“The real bias we need to talk about [is] why it’s scandalous to be conservative in a professional environment by ‘brave’ to follow the crowd and be liberal,” a third cadet wrote.

A fourth cadet said, “The guest speaker had us all make a black power sign a yell, ‘Fight the power!’”.

Breitbart News asked West Point for comment about its “stand down” departure standard curriculum. No immediate comment was provided by the time of this article’s publication. Asked about cadets being encouraged to render a “black power” salute, West Point said it was unaware of anyone being encouraged or asked to do so.

In 2017, Second Lieutenant Spencer Rapone was discharged from the U.S. Army following his display of the message “Communism Will Win” while wearing his West point uniform. He also expressed support for Colin Kaepernick’s political activities.

Rasheed Hosein, a professor of Middle East history, was placed on administrative leave by West Point following revelations of Rapone’s political behavior. He was in charge of Rapone’s development at the school.

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CDC Expands Coronavirus Screening for Travelers Entering US, Institutes ‘Quarantine Stations’ Around Country

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CDC Expands Coronavirus Screening for Travelers Entering US, Institutes ‘Quarantine Stations’ Around Country

Alex AzarPatrick Semansky / APHealth and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks at a news conference about the federal government’s response to a virus outbreak originating in China, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, in Washington. (Patrick Semansky / AP)

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Published January 28, 2020 at 10:35am

U.S. health officials are expanding their checks of international travelers for signs of a worrisome new virus from China.

So far, they say the risk to Americans is very low.

For “the individual American, this should not be an impact on their day-to-day life,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told reporters Tuesday.

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So far, there are five confirmed cases of this new virus in the U.S.

There is no sign that they have spread the respiratory illness to anyone around them.

Reports from China suggest that people there may have spread the illness before showing symptoms.

However, Dr. Robert Redfield stressed there is no evidence of that in the U.S.

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And while some other viruses are known to occasionally spread before symptoms are obvious — such as the flu — health officials say that’s far less of a concern than the obviously contagious patients.

The CDC already has been checking arrivals at five U.S. airports that once had direct flights from the hardest-hit section of China.

While China has instituted broad travel bans, people who had been in other parts of China still may be arriving via other countries.

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The CDC is now beefing up screening at 15 more “quarantine stations” around the country, airports and other places where health workers regularly check arriving travelers for signs of illness.

But travelers may not be sick right then, CDC’s Dr. Nancy Messonnier said.

The screenings also are an opportunity to educate travelers that if they develop symptoms — such as fever or a cough — after returning from the outbreak zone, they should contact their doctor, she said.

That’s exactly what the first two U.S. patients did.

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Chris Matthews Compares Republicans to North Korean Soldiers

While anchoring MSNBC’s pre-impeachment trial coverage on Monday, Chris Matthews continued his ignoble history with analogies as he resurrected his comparison of Republicans to North Korean soldiers. This time, it came in the aftermath of revelations about former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s memoir.

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Top Harvard Professor Arrested For Lying To Feds About Involvement In Chinese Spy Program, Prosecutors Say

Federal law enforcement officials arrested a top Harvard scientist on Tuesday for allegedly lying to the U.S. government about his involvement in a massive Chinese program that authorities say is responsible for stealing proprietary information from U.S. institutions.

Authorities arrested Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University, on charges of making a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement.

The New York Times reported that Lieber “was named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest faculty rank, one of only 26 professors to hold that status,” and that “he earned the National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award for inventing syringe-injectable mesh electronics that can integrate with the brain” in 2017.

“According to court documents, since 2008, Dr. Lieber who has served as the Principal Investigator of the Lieber Research Group at Harvard University, which specialized in the area of nanoscience, has received more than $15,000,000 in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of Defense (DOD),” The Department of Justice said in a statement. “These grants require the disclosure of significant foreign financial conflicts of interest, including financial support from foreign governments or foreign entities.”

“Unbeknownst to Harvard University beginning in 2011, Lieber became a ‘Strategic Scientist’ at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China and was a contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan from in or about 2012 to 2017,” the statement said. “China’s Thousand Talents Plan is one of the most prominent Chinese Talent recruit plans that are designed to attract, recruit, and cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China’s scientific development, economic prosperity and national security. These talent programs seek to lure Chinese overseas talent and foreign experts to bring their knowledge and experience to China and reward individuals for stealing proprietary information.”

Prosecutors say that Lieber was paid $50,000 per month and given $150,000 a year for living expenses by China’s communist government. He was also given $1.5 million to build a laboratory in Wuhan.

“The complaint alleges that in 2018 and 2019, Lieber lied about his involvement in the Thousand Talents Plan and affiliation with WUT,” the statement concluded. “On or about, April 24, 2018, during an interview with investigators, Lieber stated that he was never asked to participate in the Thousand Talents Program, but he ‘wasn’t sure’ how China categorized him.  In November 2018, NIH inquired of Harvard whether Lieber had failed to disclose his then-suspected relationship with WUT and China’s Thousand Talents Plan.  Lieber caused Harvard to falsely tell NIH that Lieber ‘had no formal association with WUT’ after 2012, that ‘WUT continued to falsely exaggerate’ his involvement with WUT in subsequent years, and that Lieber ‘is not and has never been a participant in’ China’s Thousand Talents Plan.”

Federal law enforcement officials have urged American institutions “to develop protocols for monitoring students and visiting scholars from Chinese state-affiliated research institutions, as U.S. suspicion toward China spreads to academia,” NPR reported last year. “Since last year, FBI officials have visited at least 10 members of the Association of American Universities, a group of 62 research universities, with an unclassified list of Chinese research institutions and companies.”

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Backer on Dems: Those Who Scream Loudest on Corruption Are Often the Most Corrupt

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Backer on Dems: Those Who Scream Loudest on Corruption Are Often the Most Corrupt

House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff of California walks to the Senate Chamber inside the U.S. Capitol for President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial on Jan. 28, 2020, in Washington, D.C.Mark Wilson / Getty ImagesHouse impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff of California walks to the Senate Chamber inside the U.S. Capitol for President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial on Jan. 28, 2020, in Washington, D.C. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)

By Dan Backer
Published January 28, 2020 at 1:27pm

Americans now recognize impeachment as a partisan sham, but Democratic elites simply refuse to let it go.

California Rep. Adam Schiff, for one, remains committed to the imaginary exposing of “the full extent of the president’s misconduct.”

The road to this unprecedented partisan impeachment sham is hardly straightforward. What impeachment lacks in actual crimes, misdemeanors or “Russian collusion” it makes up for with the Ukrainian strain of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Impeachment’s 2016 roots may be mired in corruption, but not on the part of President Trump.

Hillary Clinton, who routinely urges her fellow Democrats to “keep going” until President Trump is taken down, orchestrated an $84-million money-laundering scheme in 2016 — the largest campaign finance scandal in U.S. history. It was so brazen even Federal Election Commission lawyers called for action.

The Clinton machine raised excessive, six-figure contributions from Democratic mega-donors like fashion icon Calvin Klein and “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane, before laundering it through the Hillary Victory Fund to dozens of Democratic state parties acting as straw men, over to the Democratic National Committee and into the hands of Clinton’s campaign.

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The Clinton campaign then illegally paid millions of dollars to its law firm, Perkins Coie, which secretly funded the creation of the infamous “Steele Dossier.” Her campaign and the DNC effectively accepted something of value from a foreign national, Christopher Steele, in the form of anti-Trump opposition research (from Russian intelligence sources, no less).

The DNC itself tasked operative Alexandra Chalupa with “obtaining incriminating or derogatory information” about President Trump and his campaign staffers directly from Ukrainian government contacts.

Democrats violated the laws protecting our democracy again and again and again.

Meanwhile, there’s also the Democrats’ 2020 frontrunner, Joe Biden, whose daily diatribes are filled with anti-Trump smears. Good ol’ Joe admitted, on camera, to explicitly holding up aid to Ukraine to force the government to fire corruption investigator Victor Shokin — after Shokin looked into Biden’s son and his ties to a corrupt Ukrainian energy company.

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Hunter Biden, the son of a then-sitting vice president, was receiving $50,000 per month to sit on the board of a foreign company, for which he lacked any relevant qualifications or experience. Hunter Biden’s big-money payday was essentially an insurance policy against precisely the kind of corruption investigation Burisma was worried about — and it worked for the Bidens.

That sure sounds like corruption to me — exactly the kind of corruption by powerful politicos we ought to investigate.

Yet Democrats have made their key thrust on impeachment that President Trump, in a bid to fight such blatant corruption here and abroad, asked for cooperation from a country that relies on American aid.

Seriously? Good for President Trump, and shame on the Democrats for enriching themselves at the expense of American taxpayers and Ukrainian oil and gas tycoons — and for covering it up.

What a long, strange year 2019 was. Fortunately, the American people aren’t so easily misled. For months, public polling has revealed impeachment to be decidedly unpopular, especially in key battleground states. According to a recent Michigan poll, most voters still oppose impeachment, even after House Democrats spent weeks flooding the airwaves with pro-impeachment propaganda.

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Between President Trump’s strong stance against terrorism and an even stronger U.S. economy, the Democrats are no closer to bringing down the Trump presidency than they were on Inauguration Day. But perhaps President Trump’s greatest strength is the absolute moral bankruptcy of his Democratic opposition.

The same Democrats who complain about imaginary “abuses of power” have no problem abusing their own when it becomes politically expedient or profitable.

Remember: Those who scream the loudest about corruption are often the most corrupt. Rather than scrubbing the stain of corruption within their own party, Democrats are chasing after a sitting president for the “sin” of calling them out on it.

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