Month: August 2019

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Big Yawn.
Democrats lost 43% of their audience last night compared to their first debate.

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The news network’s coverage of the 10 candidates slides by more than 40 percent over the first debate of the primary cycle in late June.
The second Democratic presidential primary debate didn’t draw nearly as big an audience as the first.

CNN’s coverage of Tuesday’s debate — the first of two, featuring 10 candidates each night — drew 8.69 million viewers (including CNN en Español). That’s down a sizable 43 percent from the opening debate on June 26, though it’s not an entirely apples-to-apples comparison, since the latter aired across three networks: NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo. CNN’s audience Tuesday is a tick higher than NBC’s share (8.68 million) of the June 26 total.

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As reported earlier by Cristina Laila…

DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz is preparing a very damning report on James Comey’s conduct in the days leading up to his firing that will likely conclude he leaked classified information (memos) and lacked candor (lied).

According to a report out by award-winning investigative journalist John Solomon, Horowitz’s team referred James Comey for possible prosecution for leaking contents of his classified memos, but DOJ prosecutors under Bill Barr have decided to decline prosecution.

John Solomon does say however that Comey still isn’t out of the weeds yet and faces legal jeopardy in the ongoing investigation into FISA abuse and the origins of Spygate by US Attorney John Durham.

Comey’s ‘Trump memos’ were supposedly classified after he gave them to his friend to leak to the New York Times — this technical violation is what the DOJ used as an excuse not to prosecute Comey.

How convenient. The FBI changed the classification on Comey’s memos after they were leaked…coincidence? We think not.

On Wednesday night John Solomon went on with Sean Hannity to discuss the criminal charges against fired FBI Chief James Comey.

John Solomon told Hannity: There is going to be a very damning report that is going to shame James Comey. This report will not show James Comey as a rule follower. He will be a rule breaker for the second time in a year. But the more important thing to watch Sean is the ongoing investigation by Bill Barr and what we know about the FISA. There’s a quote in my story that says they are discovering some very troubling information about the FISA process and EVERYONE INVOLVED including James Comey remains under significant scrutiny. But stay tuned to what we see this fall… He (James Comey) signed the first FISA. Listen, that’s is going to turn out to be a fraudulent or misleading FISA. So there’s a lot more to come.

Giggity.
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Democratic candidates for the 2020 nomination have promised more than $210 trillion in new spending across the field, analysis by the Washington Free Beacon shows.

Of the 26 declared candidates—including Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.) who dropped out earlier this month—most have put enormous new government programs front and center in their campaigns. Totaling up these proposals gives taxpaying voters a sense of the budget priorities of the average Democratic candidate.

That overall figure is an undercount, as it is based only on proposals for which the Free Beacon could identify actual spending estimates. The true figure is much larger. For example, Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I., Vt.) Medicare for All proposal is included, while Sen. Kamala Harris’s (D., Calif.) is not, because no cost assessment for the latter could be identified.

Candidates will continue to roll out proposals in the months ahead, although the field is likely to winnow in that time as well.

Of the $210 trillion, the plurality—$94 trillion—is the estimated cost of a Green New Deal, which a number of candidates have backed in some form or another. The remaining $116 trillion—roughly six times the United States’s annual Gross Domestic Product—is spread across a variety of policy proposals, from Andrew Yang’s Universal Basic Income to Marianne Williamson’s call for $200 to $500 billion in reparations for slavery.

The Free Beacon largely employed the candidates’ own cost estimates for their proposals. However, the analysis also cited a nonpartisan study showing Yang’s proposed $12,000 income for all Americans would cost at least $30 trillion over the next decade; Yang claims it would cost $1.8 trillion a year.

Many of the proposals are spread out over 10 years, such as Joe Biden’s $750 billion public option health care plan, Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D., Mass.) $2 trillion investment in green research and manufacturing, and former HUD Secretary Julian Castro’s $970 billion plan for affordable housing.

Although Yang’s proposal is one of the larger ones offered, Sanders is the top prospective spender. His Medicare for All plan is expected to run around $32 trillion over the next 10 years—estimates vary—but on top of that, a Sanders administration would add trillions more in infrastructure spending, universal free college, and an ill-defined job guarantee.

More mainstream Democrats like Biden, former representative John Delaney (D., Md.), and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) are big spenders as well. All three make it to the top five because of their promises to spend enormous sums of money combatting climate change: $4 trillion, $5 trillion, and $10 trillion, respectively.

Billionaire Tom Steyer ($2.25 trillion) and Washington governor Jay Inslee ($9 trillion, $3 trillion in public spending) have also proposed 13-figure climate change proposals.

Overhauling education is another popular policy proposal, with candidates like Castro seeking to spend trillions of dollars on it. For some, like Warren and Miramar, Fla., mayor Wayne Messam, that includes voiding all student debt, even though some plans to do so would disproportionately benefit the well-off.

Click here for a link to the spreadsheet of the spending proposals.

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Pro-life leaders pounced after Planned Parenthood’s acting president said the organization is not “political by nature” in her first interview since taking over the position.

“We are primarily a health care provider,” Alexis McGill Johnson said in the interview with CBS News reporter Kate Smith. “And the idea that we can provide that access depends on our ability to keep our health centers open.”

Johnson replaced Leana Wen, who was fired July 16 as president of the organization.

“We’re not political by nature, but we’ve been politicized,” Johnson said. “And that fight has actually been our focus to ensure that our health centers stay open.”

Planned Parenthood isn’t political. It’s been politicized. – The Washington Post https://t.co/1qLMbJf898

— Alexis McGill Johnson (@alexismcgill) July 25, 2019

But pro-life leaders said Planned Parenthood is entirely political by nature.

Live Action founder Lila Rose told The Daily Caller News Foundation that it is “laughable” to hear Johnson say the nation’s largest abortion provider is not political, “when Planned Parenthood fired its last CEO for not being political enough.”

“It is clear that Planned Parenthood will continue its deadly abortion business and its ruthless, pro-abortion political advocacy,” Rose said.

Rose added that Planned Parenthood “is present to lobby against every single abortion regulation and restriction, demanding that sex-selection abortion remain legal, that babies who survive abortion attempts not be provided legal protections, and that abortion on full-term infants is [to] be permitted for any reason.”

Tom McClusky, president of March for Life Action, drew attention to the millions of tax dollars he said Planned Parenthood receives from politicians elected by its “affiliated multimillion-dollar PAC.”

“This is active participation in politics, and to claim otherwise is entirely misleading,” McClusky, also vice president of government affairs for March for Life, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Mallory Quigley, Susan B. Anthony List’s vice president of communications, called Planned Parenthood a “profit-driven, abortion-centered business with a distinct focus on politics,” pointing to the organization’s annual reports.

“As America’s largest abortion chain, they stand the most to lose when Americans, acting through their elected legislators, pass laws to limit abortion and protect life,” Quigley said.

Former abortion clinic director and now pro-life activist Abby Johnson, subject of the movie “Unplanned,” said Planned Parenthood’s annual reports illustrate their “extensive political involvement.”

“They are more a political entity than health care provider,” Johnson told The Daily Caller News Foundation, adding that the organization relies on “an extensive network of politicians, wealthy donors, and community organizers to ensure they are able to keep abortion in the political conscious.”

Johnson, Planned Parenthood’s acting director, also emphasized in the interview that it must stand up against new abortion restrictions for women who need health care access—a sensitive point for an organization that reportedly fired Wen due to her focus on health care over politics.

Planned Parenthood did not respond to requests for comment from The Daily Caller News Foundation.

The National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Emily’s List also did not respond to requests for comment on Johnson’s remarks.

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Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, hit hard against those who are “demonizing” Border Patrol agents and directly called out members of Congress.

“The men and women of CBP are not running concentration camps, making those in our custody drink from toilets, nor denying them access to toothbrushes. That is simply not true,” Morgan said Tuesday during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing. “This is the kind of irresponsible rhetoric that they have to endure from both the media and even some of our own congressional leaders.”

The committee’s hearing–titled “Unprecedented Migration at the U.S. Southern Border: What Is Required to Improve Conditions?”–examined the crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border and the living conditions in the detention centers that are housing thousands of migrants.

During his opening statements, Morgan spoke about an incident in May when Border Patrol agents observed a group of migrant smugglers deliberately throw a paraplegic man into the Rio Grande River. 

Agents with the Border Patrol Sector Search, Trauma, and Rescue were able to act swiftly, fighting against the river’s strong currents, and rescue the handicapped man before he drowned, Morgan said.

Had it not been for the quick actions of the Border Patrol, he said, the man would have been one of the 172 deaths discovered along the southwest border in recent time. The man’s rescue was one of more than 4,000 rescues made by Customs and Border Protection this year. Stories like this, he said, mostly go unreported by the media.

“This is who the men and women of the United States Customs and Border Protection are. They risk their lives every single day to help and protect whomever is in distress,” Morgan said.

Morgan continued to hammer those who he claimed are vilifying the agency:

It’s unjust and does nothing to bring us closer to resolving one of the most divisive issues that we face in our country. The demonizing of law enforcement professionals must stop. These false, misinformed, and overheated attacks are demoralizing, and serves to further deteriorate the public’s understand and perception of what the true issues are and what needs to be done to end this crisis.

Mentions of toilet water and concentration camps were clear references to attacks made by Democratic lawmakers and popularized by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y..

The freshman Democrat in June accused the Trump administration of running “concentration camps” along the U.S. southern border, generating intense backlash from law enforcement and Jewish communities.

Earlier in July, Morgan blamed the concentration camp comparisons for an attempted terrorist attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. The perpetrator, a left-wing Antifa member, referred to immigration detention centers as “concentration camps” in his manifesto.

After touring a CBP facility with other Democratic House members on July 1, Ocasio-Cortez claimed migrants were told to drink water out of toilet bowls.

“These women were being told by CBP officers to drink out of the toilet. They were drinking water out of the toilet, and that was them knowing a congressional visit was coming. This is CBP on their best behavior,” she said at the time.

However, immigration officials have since come forward to say the accusation is untrue.

“I can tell you with the utmost confidence that the migrants—anyone and everyone in our custody at all of our facilities—have ready access to fresh water,” CBP Deputy Commissioner Robert Perez said earlier in July. “I’ve never heard, in 26 years of being in this business, ever heard of that type of allegation being made.”

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A gun shop in a small North Carolina town is taking some heat from the left after putting up a particularly funny billboard. The sign features the four progressive freshman lawmakers known as “the Squad“: Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts. Cherokee…

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) is accusing multiple senior Trump administration officials in both the Treasury and State Departments of actively working behind President Donald Trump’s back to save the Iran nuclear deal and continue providing Tehran with waivers permitting the regime to conduct sensitive nuclear work at a military site that houses Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

In reaction to reports that the State Department will renew a series of controversial sanctions waivers that have permitted Iran to continue conducting nuclear work, including at a military bunker dug into the side of mountain, Cruz accused "deep state" officials operating at the State and Treasury Departments of actively working to undermine the administration’s so-called "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran.

"If these reports are indeed accurate, then it is a temporary victory for the deep state staffers at Treasury and State who continue working tirelessly to preserve the Obama Iran deal rather than implementing the president’s directive," Cruz said. "I will continue to work towards permanently ending the nuclear deal, including by exercising Congress’s important oversight responsibility to ensure the implementation of United States policy."

The issue of these civil nuclear waivers has emerged as a flashpoint in the debate over Iran and the future of the nuclear deal. For months, Cruz and other Iran critics in Congress have pressured the State Department to end these waivers, which they say have allowed Iran to continue its march towards a functional nuclear weapon.

While top officials in the White House had anticipated that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would end these waivers in the coming weeks, new reports indicate that the State Department will again renew the sanctions waivers, roiling opponents of the nuclear deal.

The waivers have been linked to the preservation of the deal itself. European countries still party to the nuclear deal have been working with Iran for months on plans to skirt the toughest of new U.S. sanctions issued by the Trump administration.

Multiple U.S. officials who have spoken to the Washington Free Beacon in recent months have supported Cruz’s claims about a so-called deep state operation to save the nuclear deal. These sources allege that a cadre of former Obama administration officials still in the State and Treasury Departments have teamed up to undermine Trump’s hardline policy on Iran.

Cruz is the first senior lawmaker to publicly accuse these officials of engaging in a plot to save the Iran nuclear deal behind the president’s back, though others have made similar claims privately over the past months.

Ultimately, Pompeo will make the final decision on the waivers.

The Washington Post‘s Josh Rogin first reported on Tuesday about an Oval Office meeting in which Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin pressured Trump to sign off on continuing the nuclear waivers.

"In an Oval Office meeting last week, Trump sided with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who argued that the administration should again renew sanctions waivers related to five separate parts of Iran’s nuclear program," Rogin reported. "Mnuchin prevailed over the objections of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton, according to six administration officials."

"I hope these reports turn out to be wrong," Cruz said. "The president has correctly ordered his administration to halt implementation of the catastrophic Obama-Iran nuclear deal. These waivers are part of the deal, and allow the Ayatollahs to build up their nuclear program, including at Fordow, a bunker they dug into the side of a mountain so they could build nuclear weapons."

The State Department would not comment on Wednesday about the veracity of the reports when contacted by the Free Beacon.

One U.S. official, speaking only on background to the Free Beacon, said the reports have only emboldened Iran, which has viewed the news as a win.

"You can tell that this decision is indefensible because no one wants to own it," said the official, who works on the Iran portfolio. "It’s the classic D.C. game where everyone is blaming everyone else to reporters, because no one wants to get blamed for making the president look like a clown. In the meantime, Zarif gets more time to send snarky tweets about Pompeo and Bolton. Good day for everyone except America."

Meanwhile, Iranian officials announced on Wednesday that they will continue to breach key portions of the deal banning the enrichment of uranium until the U.S. and its partners agree to roll back sanctions.

"I think it will be the last opportunity for the nuclear deal parties," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Moussavi was quoted as saying in the country’s state-controlled press. "We will put into effect the next step if Iran’s interests are not met and if they do not do anything special, the Islamic Republic of Iran will not extend the steps anymore."

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