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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | it feels like a million years ago today, but democrats swept to electoral victory in 2006 and 2008 largely as part of a backlash to the miserable foreign policy failures stemming from the 2003 invasion of iraq. and relative to that context, president obama's record in office has been good and avails itself of an obvious defense <u+2014> yes, the middle east is still a messed-up place, but american soldiers are no longer dying there by the dozen. meanwhile, america's relationship with the rest of the world is vastly improved, global cooperation on climate and nuclear proliferation is delivering tangible results, and <u+2014> oh yeah <u+2014> osama bin laden is dead and america has been safe from terrorist attacks.
against a republican field that seems stuck in the rumsfeld era, it should be a winning argument, but judging by<u+00a0>saturday night's debate democrats seem ready to blow it. rather than sell the full range of obama-era achievements, bernie sanders, martin o'malley, and, most importantly, hillary clinton got bogged down parrying with the (excellent) moderators over the toughest elements of obama's record in office rather than turning to the good stuff.
but there's more to the world than isis and the arab spring, and a great deal of the point of obama's foreign policy has been to prevent chaos in the middle east from soaking up all the bandwidth of american foreign policy. to win, democrats need to learn to contextualize problems and talk about successes.
consider, for example, the crowd-pleasing high points of obama on national security. unlike george w. bush he really has "kept us safe" and avoided any terrorist attacks on the us homeland. and while bush let bin laden get away in afghanistan in order to free up resources to launch a pointless and unsuccessful invasion of iraq, obama found bin laden and had special forces kill him. you'd think this would be something democrats would want to mention as frequently and as quickly as possible in a discussion of counterterrorism.
but on saturday, democrats went through extended discussions of isis, "radical islam," and everything under the sun without mentioning it. osama finally came up once, briefly, near the end in the context of a personal question addressed to clinton:
john dickerson: begin the final segment of this debate with something none of you saw coming. something quite unexpected. soon after your inauguration, you will face a crisis. all presidents do. what crisis have you experienced in your life that suggests you've been tested and can face that inevitable challenge? secretary clinton, you first. hillary clinton: well, there are so many. i don't know where to start. (laughter) i guess the one i would pick is the fact that i was part of a very small group that had to advice the president about whether or not to go after bin laden. i spent a lot of time in the situation room <u+2014> as secretary of state and there were many very difficult <u+2014> choices presented to us. but probably that was the most challenging. because there was no certainty attached to it. the intelligence was by no means absolute. we had all kinds of questions that we discussed. and, you know, at the end i recommended to the president that we take the chance to do what we could to find out whether that was bin laden and to finally bring him to justice.
this is not much of a brag. but at least it got a token mention.
here are some other things that nobody brought up:
this good stuff does not, of course, undo the problems in the middle east. but then again, the middle east was a violent and chaotic place when ronald reagan and george w. bush were in office. obama has not managed to solve the problems of the region, but he has defended america's core interests <u+2014> including, crucially, the absence of terrorist attacks at home <u+2014> without incurring the thousands of american military casualties than we saw under his predecessor.
it is, all things considered, a pretty good record.
but it's bound to look terrible if <u+2014> as happened saturday night <u+2014> democrats are reluctant to talk about it except under duress. journalists (and republicans) like to pick at the scabs and weak spots of a politician's record. competent politicians learn to talk about successes and broader context. the obama economic record isn't perfect, either, but democrats are more than happy to defend it as broadly successful and superior to the alternatives. the lesson we learned saturday is that the party, including the woman who served as secretary of state for half his administration, isn't yet ready to do that on national security. | democrats need to learn to defend obama's record on foreign policy | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 66.0 | 8.0 | 4585.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 296.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 73.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 25.0 | 12.0 | 20.0 | 9.0 | 18.0 | 19.0 | 11.0 | 11.0 | 30.0 | 27.0 | 46.0 | 298.0 | 73.0 | 25.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | sen. ted cruz argued saturday that democrats have become so extreme and "intolerant" of religious views that "there is no room for christians in today's democratic party."
"there is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage," the texas republican said in his speech before a christian conservative audience in waukee, iowa.
cruz joined eight other presidential candidates and potential contenders on stage at the iowa faith and freedom summit, where speakers railed against what they see as threats to religious liberty. for his part, cruz alluded to business that faced pushback for declining to cater to same-sex weddings.
many of the speakers also pointed to the recent debate over an indiana religious liberty law that was designed to protect those who objected to participating in same-sex marriage ceremonies. but the law came under fire from critics who said it was discriminatory against same-sex couples, and its language was subsequently tweaked.
as the supreme court gets ready to hear oral arguments on whether to overturn same-sex marriage bans in states, cruz introduced legislation last week that would protect bans in place.
cruz urged the audience to "fall on our knees and pray" ahead of the supreme court's final ruling on the issue, which is expected this summer. "we need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage," he said. | ted cruz: democratic party home to 'liberal fascism' against christians | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 71.0 | 8.0 | 1446.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.0 | 0.0 | 112.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 23.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 4.0 | 10.0 | 1.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 8.0 | 5.0 | 17.0 | 119.0 | 23.0 | 6.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | as anyone who watches reality television knows, the genre might<u+00a0>be entertaining, but its correlation to actual reality is tenuous.
which is a good place to start with the <u+00a0>much-awaited foreign policy<u+00a0>speech delivered wednesday in washington by presidential candidate donald trump.
as with the apprentice, the show that helped him become a household name, the republican front-runner<u+00a0>sought<u+00a0>to provide appealing fare for a certain class of people. in this case, the primary<u+00a0>audience was voters opposed to trade, resentful of immigrants, distrustful of foreign governments, and wistful for a time when america wielded more power in a simpler world.
in reaching out to this group, trump vividly portrayed a world that does not exist:<u+00a0>america<u+2019>s allies would be more respectful after being lectured to, while its enemies would be dealt with by<u+00a0>bluster. china would fall into line after enduring unspecified economic pressure. and troubled regions of the world would be stabilized through u.s. disengagement.
inexplicably, trump<u+00a0>declared that <u+201c>america first<u+201d> would be<u+00a0>the overarching theme of his<u+00a0>administration.<u+00a0>a non-interventionist approach might have its merits in certain situations.<u+00a0>but the america first movement got its name espousing an isolationist<u+00a0>approach at exactly the wrong moment, urging the united states to stay out of world war ii as adolf<u+00a0>hitler was rampaging through europe.
trump's secondary<u+00a0>audience was the washington establishment, the equivalent of tv critics. and the early reviews were harsh.<u+00a0>on cnn, foreign policy experts fareed zakaria and david rothkopf<u+00a0>used the same word: incoherent.<u+00a0>fellow republican lindsey graham tweeted,<u+00a0><u+201c>not sure who is advising trump on foreign policy, but i can understand why he<u+2019>s not revealing their names.<u+201d>
in trump<u+2019>s worldview, things happen because he says they will. he made a number of proclamations to this effect. his unspecified plan to defeat the islamic state terrorist group echoed richard<u+00a0>nixon's secret plan in 1968 to win the vietnam war. isil <u+201c>will be gone if i<u+2019>m elected president," trump vowed, "<u+00a0>and they'll<u+00a0>be gone quickly. they will be gone very, very quickly.<u+201d>
things might<u+00a0>happen that way on tv. but not in reality. or<u+00a0>perhaps we should say real reality.
usa today's editorial opinions are decided by its<u+00a0>editorial board, separate from the news staff. most editorials are coupled with an opposing view <u+2014> a unique usa today feature.
to read more editorials, go to the<u+00a0>opinion front page<u+00a0>or sign up for the<u+00a0>daily opinion e-mail newsletter. | trump's unreal foreign policy: our view | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 39.0 | 8.0 | 2523.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 201.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 38.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 28.0 | 3.0 | 10.0 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 14.0 | 13.0 | 16.0 | 205.0 | 38.0 | 28.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | cynthia leifer is an associate professor of immunology at cornell university and a 2015 public voices fellow at the op-ed project. the opinions expressed in this commentary are hers.
(cnn) more than 100 people in 14 states were reported to have measles last month, with most cases linked to exposure to the disease at disneyland from december 15 to december 20. president obama urged parents to make sure their children are vaccinated. and yet three potential republican candidates for the 2016 presidential election have suggested in recent days that parents should have a choice in whether children should be vaccinated.
when we are not exposed to the suffering that childhood infectious diseases can cause or didn't experience them ourselves, we as a society tend to forget just how dangerous they can be.
in 1938, president franklin roosevelt founded the national foundation for infantile paralysis, now known as the march of dimes foundation. children and adults everywhere collected dimes to raise money for the development of a polio vaccine. there was such fear about the disease that children were kept from going to community swimming pools and parks. their way of life was changed by the disease.
today, in contrast, we don't seem to be alarmed at all. federal research funds , the major source of funding to support research by immunologists, virologists, and other scientists who create the vaccines that protect us, were 22% less in 2014 than they were in 2003 when adjusted for inflation. why was everyone so gung-ho to raise money for research then but not now? because we forgot.
we forgot that the "black death" plague of the 14th century wiped out 60% of europeans. we forgot that smallpox killed 30% of people who got sick before a vaccine was available.
we also forgot that the smallpox vaccination campaign was so successful that the last case of smallpox in the united states was in 1949, and, with the exception of two vials in storage, it was eliminated from the planet in 1977. by forgetting the sheer horror these diseases inflicted on humanity and the decisive way in which vaccines eliminated them, it's easy to forget how fragile we are.
those parents saw children crippled by the polio virus; they saw images of iron lungs that breathed for a child because the child's own lungs were effectively paralyzed. those parents willingly enrolled their children in the trial despite not knowing if their child would be in the group that received the vaccine or the control group that did not. they were terrified enough that the benefit outweighed the risk.
more recently however, for some parents, the risk has outweighed the benefit. they have become complacent. maybe they bought into disproven science about a link between autism and vaccines. maybe they think because they have not seen anyone with polio, that their child is safe. our collective historical amnesia has led to increased numbers of unvaccinated children, and we are all worse off for it.
the recent outbreak at disneyland will hopefully boost our collective memory as to how contagious a virus can be. the 102 cases reported in january is a staggering number when we consider that for the past decade, the average total number of cases in a year was under 150.
many, but not all, of these cases were in individuals who did not receive the full course of childhood vaccinations, making us realize that any one of us could be at risk. given that there are only a limited number of doctors still around that have ever seen a patient with measles, or remember diagnosing a case of measles decades ago, only compounds the problem and aids the spread of disease.
the unfortunate reality is that it may take the occasional serious outbreak to provide that reminder to all of us how quickly we can be overcome by something as tiny as a virus. today's tourist destinations are just like the pools and parks when polio was rampant, places for the virus to find new victims.
viruses don't care about borders and easily hitch rides around the world in a matter of hours. we can't protect against every infectious disease, but why should we risk getting sick from diseases, especially measles, for which we have safe and effective vaccines?
we can all hope that parents will see this as a wake-up call and vaccinate their children, and that all of us will make sure we are up to date on our boosters. hopefully, the memory of these events will not fade so we won't need a reminder like the measles outbreak of 2015 again any time soon. | what we've forgotten about childhood disease risks | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 50.0 | 8.0 | 4530.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 292.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 83.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 34.0 | 10.0 | 11.0 | 11.0 | 21.0 | 9.0 | 21.0 | 6.0 | 13.0 | 33.0 | 33.0 | 295.0 | 83.0 | 34.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | the libertarian party ticket, facing what polls show are two of the most unpopular presidential candidates in modern american history, is seeing a bump in support as the general election race moves into full swing <u+2013> and a surge in interest that could carry nominee gary johnson onto the prized debate stage this fall.
despite donald trump and hillary clinton<u+2019>s popularity issues and trust gap with voters, few expect the libertarian ticket to pose a ross perot-style threat this year.
but the party is far more than a political curiosity in 2016. rumors are swirling in the wake of the major-party conventions that high-profile republicans are now considering backing the ticket; a recent video from johnson and running mate william weld generated considerable buzz; and the polls show johnson getting close to 15 percent <u+2013> the threshold he needs to reach to land him on the debate stage with trump and clinton this fall.
the realclearpolitics average has johnson at 8.4 percent in a four-way race with trump, clinton and green party candidate jill stein, up from 4.5 percent in june. the latest fox news poll released wednesday, after the conventions, put johnson at 12 percent.
an nbc poll taken toward the end of the democratic convention put johnson at 9 percent, roughly where he was in prior polling.
party officials said the unpopularity of the republican and democratic candidates gives the party an <u+201c>unprecedented opportunity.<u+201d>
<u+201c>it goes from week to week and day to day watching for what new thing [clinton and trump are] going to do to become more unpopular with the american people, and frighten people,<u+201d> nicholas sarwark, chairman of the libertarian national committee, told foxnews.com. <u+201c>those candidates are the gift that keeps on giving. we<u+2019>re running as the qualified adult in the room.<u+201d>
sarwark pointed to johnson<u+2019>s record as a two-term new mexico governor, <u+201c>re-elected as a republican in a democratic state,<u+201d> in touting his credentials and appeal.
unclear is whether the support in the polls will translate into support at the ballot box. in 2012, johnson won just 0.99 percent of all votes cast -- making him the most successful white house candidate in libertarian history, but not making much of a dent in the race as a whole.
but this year, there are plenty of signs more voters are seeking an alternative candidate. at the democratic convention last week, many bernie sanders supporters were getting on board with the green party<u+2019>s stein. but so far, johnson is polling the best among third-party candidates.
he and his running mate, former massachusetts gov. weld, generated some buzz before the conventions with a slick video ad listing their accomplishments.
<u+201c>we<u+2019>ve been there ... and done that!<u+201d> the candidates say.
johnson said in an interview monday with the los angeles times that he believes in addition to appealing to disenfranchised republicans on issues like free trade, low taxes and smaller government, the libertarian stance on social issues and foreign policy could bring sanders voters on board.
sarwark said the party is banking that while trump and clinton are about as well-known as they are going to be, johnson still can introduce himself to voters not familiar with his story <u+2013> especially if he is able to get on the debate stage.
this is far from a foregone conclusion.
so far, while johnson<u+2019>s support is higher than in past years, an 8.4 percent average is still a distance from the 15 percent he<u+2019>d need to make the debates.
he has until the middle of september to hit 15 percent in not just one poll but an average of five recent polls chosen by the commission on presidential debates.
<u+201c>politically, where we stand, is we have to get into those presidential debates to really stand a chance,<u+201d> weld told the wall street journal last week. <u+201c>if we catch a break or two, we may get there.<u+201d>
even then, the record for third-party or independent candidates is not strong.
in recent political history, the one who came closest to the presidency was businessman perot in 1992 <u+2013> who was an independent, not technically a third-party candidate. at one point, perot was leading in some polls against then-president george h. w. bush and democratic challenger bill clinton. however, after dropping out of the race before re-entering, he lost support. he eventually garnered 19 percent of the vote, with some republicans arguing he split the gop vote and handed the election to clinton.
republicans, meanwhile, were arguably given a boost by green party candidate ralph nader in 2000, when nader picked up 2.7 percent of the vote against democrat al gore and republican george w. bush.
johnson<u+2019>s potential impact is hard to gauge. the latest fox news poll found johnson siphoning support about equally from the democratic and gop candidates.
but he could get a boost in the coming weeks as some republicans reportedly consider backing him.
most notably, 2012 republican nominee mitt romney and former florida gov. jeb bush reportedly are mulling endorsements for johnson. marvin bush, youngest brother of jeb and george w., also endorsed johnson last week.
<u+201c>from what i<u+2019>ve heard from the bush and romney camps, they<u+2019>re still considering it,<u+201d> sarwark claimed.
asked if the party is looking just to make a strong showing, or go all the way, sarward was bullish: <u+201c>there<u+2019>s a path to the presidency. the ground is there.<u+201d>
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | charleston, s.c. -- andre mcpherson has been coming to the emanuel ame church here off and on since 2003. his visit on thursday night was his first in a couple of years, he said with a hint of guilt, but he felt he owed it to the church leaders and congregation to stop by.
in his more trying days when he was homeless, mcpherson said, he often found himself at the doorstep of what's known as "mother emanuel." the charleston resident credits the historic african-american church with helping him get off of drugs.
"this church helped me get me life together," mcpherson, 44, said through tears. "it helped me go back to my kids. it helped me get away from a certain street mentality. it helped me have pride."
mcpherson was one of hundreds from charleston and nearby towns who filed by the church doors on thursday, paying respects to the nine who died after being shot inside the previous night. the suspected gunman, 21-year-old dylann roof, had apparently been welcomed as a stranger to the church's regular wednesday evening bible study session, spending an hour with the group before opening fire. one woman reportedly said he told her he was letting her go so she could tell the story of what happened.
members of the church stood out on calhoun street in downtown charleston on thursday, gazing up at its facade, bewildered by the massacre. emanuel ame is close-knit, and members of the church who were interviewed said they knew all nine of the victims personally.
moutrie said it wasn't unusual for a new face to pop into a service or bible study session and be accepted without questions. she said it was typical for strangers to be encouraged to hang around afterward to meet the pastor, the rev. clementa pinckney, a state senator, who was among those killed in the attack.
"this church particularly is one that never closes its doors to strangers. everyone is welcome to come in fellowship," said deborah capraro, 58, of north charleston. "i can't wrap my brain around it. ... i cannot believe this 21-year-old man decided to walk into a church and kill black people. how do you wrap your brain around it?"
"i don't know what makes a person do this," said graham, whose niece apparently went to school with the alleged shooter. "to go into god's space and do this, i don't know. you can't explain it. ... i go to the middle east a lot. i've seen hate up close. i've seen communities where everybody has been killed because they're a different religion, and you think that's just over there. sometimes it's not just over there."
the shooting drew a scrum of television and print reporters to emanuel ame, marking the second time in a matter of months that the charleston community has hosted the national media over a story about race. in april, walter scott, an african-american man, was shot in the back repeatedly by a white police officer, michael slager, in north charleston. a bystander's video of the killing revealed that scott was unarmed and fleeing when slager fired. slager has been charged with murder.
<u+201c>this city is getting shown for what it really is: a racist-ass city and state,<u+201d> said an african-american man who asked be identified only as "twenty three." he has lived in charleston his whole life, and said he often encounters racism.
"everyone would love to believe this is a wonderful little tourist town where everyone gets along, but if they dig down deep into the issues, some people are not getting along well at all," said capraro. "the fact that this happened is shocking to me. but [the gunman] harboring those kinds of feelings, that's not shocking."
the community "is not really even dealing with emotions right now,<u+201d> grant said. <u+201c>we<u+2019>re just trying to think about how we can destroy racism. it<u+2019>s the problem no one wants to deal with. racism is not justifiable, and it<u+2019>s not something you<u+2019>re born with -- it<u+2019>s a behavior.<u+201d>
<u+201c>racism isn<u+2019>t going to stop,<u+201d> satterfield, 25, said. <u+201c>i hate to say it this way, but it was a matter of time before evil stomped on us. the feeling in this town: i don<u+2019>t know the words to put it in.<u+201d> | charleston mourns the dead at emanuel ame: 'i knew every single one of them' | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 1.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 76.0 | 8.0 | 4078.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 272.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 85.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 42.0 | 11.0 | 9.0 | 7.0 | 17.0 | 12.0 | 13.0 | 7.0 | 19.0 | 20.0 | 24.0 | 276.0 | 87.0 | 43.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | let<u+2019>s get a few things straight about the delay in confirming loretta lynch as attorney general. it<u+2019>s outrageous. it also has nothing to do with her race or gender.
contriving prejudice where none exists demeans the importance of fighting discrimination. and it demeans those who drop such ugly hints.
to wit, sen.<u+00a0>dick durbin (d-ill.), who complained that <u+201c>the first african american woman nominated to be attorney general is asked to sit in the back of the bus when it comes to the senate calendar<u+201d> <u+2014> this after majority leader mitch mcconnell (r-ky.) held her nomination hostage to action on a stalled human trafficking bill.
oh, please. i<u+2019>m not in the habit of agreeing with rich lowry of national review, but opposing lynch is no more race-based than durbin<u+2019>s own opposition to the nomination of condoleezza rice as secretary of state.
that<u+2019>s not to say that lawmakers are bias-free. this is impossible to prove, but to watch attorney general eric holder testify before congress makes me think that, at times, he is treated with less respect than if he were white.
but relations between holder and congressional republicans are badly frayed; it is in those fraught moments of tension that prejudices, perhaps subconscious, emerge. there was no such atmosphere during the lynch hearings.
same with gender. hillary clinton raised the subject last week, tweeting, <u+201c>congressional trifecta against women today: .<u+2009>.<u+2009>. blocking great nominee, 1st african american woman ag, for longer than any ag in 30 years .<u+2009>.<u+2009>. <u+201d>
please, again. i<u+2019>d like to see one smidgen of evidence that lynch<u+2019>s gender is working against her.
so the lynch delay is about ideology. but not her ideology <u+2014> president obama<u+2019>s. and the justice department<u+2019>s. the case against lynch is the case against the president<u+2019>s executive action on immigration and the fact that lynch said she agreed with the justice department<u+2019>s analysis of their legality.
which raises the question: how could republican senators reasonably expect lynch to take a different view? how could they expect obama to name any nominee who differed? if they can<u+2019>t, what is the point <u+2014> other than as a vehicle for expressing pique <u+2014> of opposing lynch?
there<u+2019>s a legitimate argument about whether the president<u+2019>s actions went too far. i don<u+2019>t blame republicans for chafing at them or for being frustrated at their inability to do much in response.
holding up spending bills in a fit of temper over obama<u+2019>s immigration moves is bad for the country and self-destructive. the courts represent an unlikely avenue of relief. so the lynch nomination offers one tempting way for republicans to vent frustration with what they view as executive overreach.
<u+201c>the senate shouldn<u+2019>t confirm any attorney general nominee, from whatever party, of whatever race, ethnicity or gender identification, who believes the president can rewrite the nation<u+2019>s laws at will,<u+201d> lowry wrote in a column for politico , blithely overstating lynch<u+2019>s (and obama<u+2019>s) position.
lowry acknowledged that the ironic result of his approach would be to leave the much-reviled holder in place. <u+201c>but there<u+2019>s no helping that,<u+201d> he added. <u+201c>the principle that would be upheld is the senate not giving its imprimatur to an attorney general who thinks its lawmaking role is optional.<u+201d>
what about the principle of the senate deciding that its confirming role is optional? if senators have a serious problem with the president<u+2019>s selection for a particular job <u+2014> if they believe the nominee lacks experience, is temperamentally unsuited or is ideologically too far outside the mainstream <u+2014> they have the constitutional right to reject the choice.
but that<u+2019>s not republicans<u+2019> beef with lynch. their beef with lynch is that she is obama<u+2019>s nominee and shares his views.
in the end, whenever that finally comes, lynch appears to have enough republican support to squeeze through <u+2014> perhaps with vice president biden casting the deciding vote. this lets republicans have their tantrum without being responsible for the logical consequences of their position.
last week, mcconnell refused to bring up lynch<u+2019>s nomination while the senate was stalemated over a human trafficking bill and abortion politics. this week the senate is busying itself debating a budget that will never be put in place. then it takes two weeks off.
by which point lynch<u+2019>s nomination will have languished for more than five months. enough. it<u+2019>s long past time for the senate to do its job, however grudgingly.
read more from ruth marcus<u+2019>s archive, follow her on twitter or subscribe to her updates on facebook. | the delay over loretta lynch<u+2019>s confirmation isn<u+2019>t about bias | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 60.0 | 8.0 | 4574.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 334.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 88.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 55.0 | 25.0 | 11.0 | 13.0 | 16.0 | 5.0 | 19.0 | 5.0 | 22.0 | 36.0 | 30.0 | 338.0 | 89.0 | 55.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | president obama is once again poised to go it alone on labor policy, this time on overtime. the labor department is expected in the coming weeks to release a rule making millions more americans eligible for overtime work <u+2014> currently, all workers earning below $455 a week, or $23,660 a year, are guaranteed time-and-a-half pay for working more than 40 hours a week. the law may raise that as high as $52,000, politico reports.
the rule would also change the regulations outlining which employees earning above that threshold are eligible <u+2014> currently, employers can exempt some employees above that threshold if those workers could be considered "white collar."
this would add to a series of workplace policies that, failing congressional approval, the president has expanded in limited form through executive order <u+2014> upping the minimum wage among federal contractors and attempting to shrink the gender wage gap among federal contractors. he also mandated paid leave for federal workers.
this particular rule change would be a long time in coming <u+2014> obama had in march 2014 directed the labor department to overhaul the overtime regulations.
the overtime threshold has only been changed once since 1975. at that time, it was set at $250 per week. then in 2004, president george w. bush updated it to $455. and that means inflation has slowly diminished the share of americans who are guaranteed eligibility.
when you adjust for inflation, you can see how much the threshold has fallen <u+2014> data from the st. louis federal reserve (going back to 1979) show that, as of the late 1970s, the threshold was right at or slightly above the median worker's pay level. today, it's at around half.
the income line in the chart <u+2014> that top one <u+2014> represents the exact middle wage, with half the full-time working population above and below it at any given time. so while the threshold fell away from the median pay level, so did the number of workers legally guaranteed overtime pay.
indeed, according to the left-leaning economic policy institute, as of 2013, only 11 percent of full-time workers were guaranteed overtime. bumping the threshold up to around $50,000, for example <u+2014> roughly where it was in 1975, adjusted for inflation <u+2014> would bring 47 percent of workers under the threshold, making around 6 million more workers eligible, by one estimate.
the debate over the overtime threshold sounds remarkably similar to the minimum-wage debate <u+2014> in that debate, opponents in the business community say a higher wage would cost jobs. in the debate over overtime, the fear is that it could cost workers hours as employers decide they don't want to shell out time-and-a-half pay.
and as in the minimum-wage debate, advocates of higher overtime thresholds say lawmakers should simply index the level to inflation <u+2014> not only would it save lawmakers from periodic fights over how much to change the law, but it would also help lower-paid hourly workers by making sure they're all paid fairly by keeping wage policies consistent with where prices go.
"the original notion was that the people who don't control their own hours, who need the protection of the law, get paid overtime," says ross eisenbrey, vice president at epi. "where the law set the threshold in 1975, that's really supposed to demarcate the people about whom there's no question <u+2014> they are not the most powerful people."
tying the level to inflation, he says, would ensure that the workers who need the overtime are consistently eligible for it.
the threshold has never been tied to inflation, and advocates like eisenbrey and the liberal center for american progress have long pushed for such a change.
but opponents see reason to keep the level static. one reason, says one economist, is that an indexed overtime level doesn't give businesses enough leeway to deal with high inflation.
"i think it's a bad idea [to index the overtime threshold to inflation] because you want to preserve some flexibility," says michael strain, a resident scholar at the right-leaning american enterprise institute. "we have been in a low-inflation environment for some time, and we're kind of used to that in how we look at things. but it's entirely conceivable that 10 years from now, we may be in a different environment."
and without that flexibility, employers might further restrict hours, or they might pressure employees to get even more work done in their 40 hours.
another argument is that inflation isn't uniform everywhere. the u.s. chamber of commerce argued in a february letter to secretary of labor tom perez that the price index used to adjust wages is based on prices in urban areas <u+2014> it could distort labor markets in rural areas.
but then, inflation will still happen, and the threshold would still periodically have to rise. so how do you ensure that congress does it? strain says one solution could be including a provision in the overtime law that forces congress to revisit the policy every few years. that way, the policy isn't on "autopilot," he says, but it still changes regularly.
even then, however, there's no guarantee congress would actually regularly change the law. after all, it has an annual deadline to pass a budget. it hasn't passed all its spending bills on time in almost 20 years. | here's how inflation has eroded american workers' overtime eligibility | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 70.0 | 8.0 | 5273.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10.0 | 0.0 | 350.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 89.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 38.0 | 7.0 | 16.0 | 3.0 | 10.0 | 11.0 | 11.0 | 4.0 | 26.0 | 21.0 | 38.0 | 360.0 | 90.0 | 39.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | it<u+2019>s called project x, according to the clapperboard seen briefly deep into the footage: roughly 15 hours of raw, unedited video meant for use in making ads for ted cruz<u+2019>s presidential campaign. vast swaths are just cruz and his wife and their two young daughters<u+2014>matching dresses a must<u+2014>walking, talking, smiling, laughing, fishing, eating, holding hands, riding horses, doing puzzles, reading stories, saying grace. cruz spends some time toting a shotgun around a field and firing it at unseen targets in the sky.
filmed the last week of last year<u+2014>some three months before cruz made his candidacy official with a speech at liberty university<u+2014>it was discovered this past summer on youtube, labeled online simply as cruz tx footage 01 to 16.
clips have been surfacing on tv and the internet, showing odd glimpses of the life of a highly scripted candidate. some of the things in the clips we already know: cruz and his father, for instance, are gifted talkers. what they say on camera is rehearsed and familiar, as in nearly verbatim, to anybody who has seen their stump speeches.
but watch all of it, and you learn some things about ted cruz that are hard to imagine ever showing up in a campaign ad. despite the stagecraft, you encounter a family that<u+2019>s messier than the one you<u+2019>ll almost certainly see portrayed as the cruz campaign enters the thick of the primaries. the footage offers an intriguing familial mishmash of single mothers, half-siblings and stepparents, bearing burdens of modern america<u+2014>depression, drinking, drugs.
cruz<u+2019>s wife, an executive for goldman sachs currently on a leave of absence because of the campaign, describes herself as <u+201c>a traditional mom,<u+201d> albeit one who cops to not cooking, and likens her handling of multimillion-dollar investment portfolios to her family<u+2019>s missionary work in africa.
cruz<u+2019>s daughters adore him, you<u+2019>re told, and yet you learn that they sometimes consider him <u+201c>a guest<u+201d> in their houston home.
it also becomes clear that the death of cruz<u+2019>s half sister<u+2014>and what he then did for her son<u+2014>is a story he thinks reflects well enough on him that he wants to tell it in all its wince-inducing detail.
cruz<u+2019>s mother is the least willing participant here<u+2014>the most interesting, too, in part because she is at times so obviously reluctant to play along.
why is this available, all of it, to anyone? evidently, shooting video like this and posting it in a public space lets campaigns and their supportive pacs share the content without technically communicating, which would be against the rules.
what<u+2019>s great about this footage is the camera keeps rolling, people keep talking, and cruz keeps rubbing, and rubbing, and rubbing, his family members<u+2019> shoulders and backs. the staged hugs, the awkward outtakes, the never-to-be-prime-time scenes, the unrehearsed, off-script interactions<u+2014>these are the moments that feel the most revealing, the most captivating, the most authentic. it<u+2019>s an unexpected window into the orbit of a candidate who is otherwise disciplined and relentlessly on-message.
here, seated on an overstuffed chair, is a person you<u+2019>re not expecting: a heavyset, blue-eyed young man wearing a buzz cut, a red and white shirt with horizontal stripes and a smattering of tattoos on his arms. does one of them say menace? on a matching chair to his left: the princeton-educated, harvard-educated former supreme court clerk and current u.s. senator and presidential candidate to whom he<u+2019>s related.
<u+201c>my name is joe maykopet,<u+201d> he says, to the camera and everybody else, <u+201c>i<u+2019>m 29 years old, from philadelphia, pennsylvania, and this is my uncle, ted cruz.<u+201d>
it<u+2019>s unclear what purpose he<u+2019>s supposed to serve in this context.
<u+201c>you know, my nephew joey,<u+201d> cruz says, reaching over and placing his hand on maykopet<u+2019>s back, <u+201c>is someone who i<u+2019>ve known his entire life. i remember holding joey when he was a newborn baby<u+2014>i was 15 when he was born. his mom is my oldest sister, miriam. miriam is nine years older than i am. i have two older sisters, miriam and roxana, who are a year apart in age. and they<u+2019>re half sisters. they<u+2019>re sisters from my father<u+2019>s first marriage.
<u+201c>and when both of them were little girls, our father and their mom divorced,<u+201d> cruz continues. <u+201c>and, you know, kids react differently to divorce. they react differently to their parents splitting apart. it was very hard on my sister miriam. it was very hard on her. she, like a lot of kids unfortunately do, think she blamed herself as a little girl for her parents not staying together.
cruz doesn<u+2019>t say how<u+2014>but she died, in 2011, in pennsylvania, of an accidental drug overdose. it remains unclear at this point in the footage how this information might find its way into a political ad.
<u+201c>um, when miriam got older, um, she struggled,<u+201d> he says. <u+201c>she had a difficult life. miriam had a lot of problems with alcohol abuse and substance abuse pretty much her entire adult life. um, she took a lot of pain meds, she took a lot of<u+2014>she made a lot of bad choices.<u+201d>
he keeps talking<u+2014>about how she <u+201c>raised joey as a single mom,<u+201d> how she <u+201c>had problems with the law,<u+201d> how she <u+201c>fell in with some pretty unsavory characters,<u+201d> how he and his father once went to philadelphia, where she was living, <u+201c>in what was basically a crack house,<u+201d> leaving behind their <u+201c>rings and watches and wallets,<u+201d> to try to <u+201c>help her get back on her feet.<u+201d>
all of this unspools, uncomfortably, as maykopet sits listening to cruz<u+2019>s version of his sad, challenging upbringing with his late mother, at the end of which, finally, cruz gets to what appears to be the takeaway.
the loan he took out on his credit card to pay for maykopet to go to boarding school.
<u+201c>all told,<u+201d> cruz says, <u+201c>it was about $20,000.<u+201d>
maykopet then talks for a while about his life ever since<u+2014>he works in a chocolate factory<u+2014>before a man behind the camera cuts to the crux.
<u+201c>let<u+2019>s wrap it up,<u+201d> comes the voice from behind the camera, <u+201c>and say, <u+2018>i look back and really appreciate the sacrifice my uncle ted made when i was younger. it really helped me get some discipline, and it turned my life around. i really appreciate it.<u+2019><u+201d>
<u+201c>ok, can you say that again?<u+201d> maykopet says, working to remember what they<u+2019>re wanting him to say.
<u+201c>one more hug, and we<u+2019>re out of here,<u+201d> says the cameraman.
what is daddy doing? why is daddy in d.c.?
<u+201c>ok, i<u+2019>m going to say what i really think. you guys can decide if you want to use this,<u+201d> heidi cruz says into the camera with a laugh.
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | it was once a sleepy capitol hill backwater with a reputation for bipartisanship, where freshman lawmakers would learn the ropes of lawmaking and budgets.
now the recent blow-up over climate research on the house science committee is the latest firefight on a panel that<u+2019>s more partisan and backbiting than ever, members and former staff say.
as chairman lamar smith (r-tex.) has molded the committee with a more aggressive role in oversight than anyone can remember, he and his democratic counterpart are feuding openly over what the<u+00a0>committee on science, space, and technology should really be doing: supporting science or debunking it.
the sniping<u+00a0>between the lawmakers and their staffs is ratcheting up with smith<u+2019>s highest-profile campaign yet, to discredit scientists at the national oceanic and atmospheric administration who published a pivotal study that refuted the idea that global warming had <u+201c>paused<u+201d><u+00a0>over the past decade.
in recent weeks, ranking member<u+00a0>rep. eddie bernice johnson (d) a soft-spoken texan in her 22nd year<u+00a0>on the committee, has sent smith<u+00a0>a series of blistering letters denouncing his subpoena of the scientists and other noaa staff<u+00a0>as, alternately, a <u+201c>fishing expedition,<u+201d> a <u+201c>witch hunt<u+201d> and an <u+201c>ideological crusade.<u+201d>
[noaa chief tells lawmaker: i will not allow anyone to <u+2018>coerce the scientists who work for me<u+2019>]
she<u+00a0>has branded her colleague<u+2019>s claims that noaa altered historical climate data <u+201c>the most outrageous statements ever made by a chair of the committee on science.<u+201d>
and smith,<u+00a0>a fellow texan who<u+00a0>rejects the scientific consensus that man-made pollution is behind<u+00a0>global warming, has charged back in his own letter campaign, accusing<u+00a0>johnson of a <u+201c>lack of interest<u+201d> in oversight of government waste and wrongdoing and a <u+201c>partisan political allegiance to the obama administration.<u+201d>
even in an era of extreme partisanship on capitol hill, the name-calling stands out. the committee that<u+00a0>oversees nasa, the national science foundation, noaa and non-defense research and development in<u+00a0>much of the rest of the government<u+00a0>is more polarized<u+00a0>than ever, current and former staff and members say, with the climate talks in paris only ratcheting up tensions.
democrats accuse smith,<u+00a0>now in his third year as chairman, of a contempt for the scientific<u+00a0>methods and an almost exclusive focus on discrediting<u+00a0>the work and gutting the budgets of federal researchers.<u+00a0>they say he has sidelined them by using the gop<u+2019>s new, unilateral power in this congress to depose and subpoena federal officials without a vote.
they<u+00a0>claim they find out about bills the majority is introducing at the last minute <u+2014> and are notified of witnesses he has invited to testify at hearings with only a one- or two-day notice, making it hard for them to come up with their own witnesses in time.
<u+201c>this committee was always considered nonpartisan, looking at the nation<u+2019>s future,<u+201d> johnson said in an interview. <u+201c>i<u+2019>ve had people tell me it<u+2019>s worse now than the benghazi committee [investigating the deaths of four americans in benghazi, libya]. it<u+2019>s just as contentious.<u+201d>
while she said she and smith have never been personal friends, johnson described the chairman as <u+201c>respectful and friendly<u+201d> toward her during committee hearings.
<u+201c>then i get these letters saying i<u+2019>m just a pawn of the [obama] administration,<u+201d> she said.<u+00a0><u+201c>i don<u+2019>t even think of the administration. it<u+2019>s just common sense that would lead you to research what he<u+2019>s saying versus what the reality is and try to make a comparison.<u+201d>
smith, a former chairman of the high-profile house judiciary committee, said in a response to e-mailed questions that he has a <u+201c>long record<u+201d> of bipartisanship in congress.
johnson <u+201c>consistently argues that the committee should seek fewer documents and ask fewer questions,<u+201d> smith wrote. <u+201c>even in the face of possible or admitted wrongdoing, she places political allegiance to the obama administration before the committee<u+2019>s obligation to hardworking taxpayers. this does damage to congress as an institution and to the trust people have in our federal agencies.<u+201d>
smith said it<u+2019>s johnson who has failed in her duty to join him in key investigations: of<u+00a0>a 3-million-gallon toxic waste spill in colorado<u+00a0>caused in part by an environmental protection agency<u+00a0>contractor,<u+00a0>an illegal meth lab<u+00a0>at<u+00a0>the national institute of standards and technology, a national weather service executive who wrote his own lucrative post-retirement consulting contract.
both parties point to limited bipartisan victories, including a law strengthening science, technology, engineering and math (stem) education and adding computer science to those efforts and a commercial space bill extending some regulations and providing limited property rights for resources extracted from asteroids.
but it<u+2019>s the basics of scientific inquiry that have upset<u+00a0>the relationship between democrats and republicans,<u+00a0>from smith<u+2019>s early effort to put tight reins on the grant-making national science foundation by scrutinizing projects it funds to his challenge to coal regulations, which have attempted to discredit studies on the health effects of carbon emissions.
<u+201c>this was not a deeply polarized committee before,<u+201d> said david goldston, who served as chief of staff <u+00a0>to former rep. sherwood <u+201c>sherry<u+201d> boehlert, a moderate republican who was science committee chairman from 2001 to 2006.
<u+201c>relations were extremely cordial,<u+201d> said goldston, who is now director of government affairs at the natural resources defense council. there were some differences on spending levels, agency missions and the direction of research, he said.
but he described the<u+00a0>panel<u+2019>s current republican majority this way: <u+201c>i don<u+2019>t think they think of themselves as anti-science, but as preventing a perversion of science by left-wing ideology.<u+201d>
and one of the most ideological battles in science now is climate change, the subject of routine hearings on the committee.
on tuesday, as the climate<u+00a0>change summit got underway in paris, the committee held a hearing titled, <u+201c>pitfalls of unilateral negotiations at the paris climate change conference.<u+201d>
the parties<u+00a0>proceeded in parallel universes, with democrats lobbing questions to their sole (friendly) witness on the economic and environmental benefits of reducing greenhouse gas<u+00a0>emissions and republicans lobbing questions to their three (friendly) witnesses on why obama<u+2019>s<u+00a0>clean power plan would<u+00a0>cost billions of dollars and cause financial hardship for american families, along with no significant benefit to climate change.
rep. donna edwards (d-md.), who is on the panel, said in an interview that<u+00a0>the committee is struggling with the <u+201d>fundamental question of whether we are going to trust the science that comes from scientists who are really disengaged from politics.<u+201d>
<u+201c>because of the tenor that the chairman has taken, he<u+2019>s challenged this idea that we<u+2019>re going to depoliticize science,<u+201d> she said.
the committee started in<u+00a0>1958 as the space committee to oversee nasa, and gradually its science portfolio grew. today the democratic and republican staffs have little contact,<u+00a0>current and former staffers said.
<u+201c>on oversight, there<u+2019>s not a lot of cooperation for major investigations,<u+201d> said one democratic staffer who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of what he described as strains between the staffs.
<u+201c>that tradition goes back a long time. now it<u+2019>s not unusual for us to find something out through a press release,<u+201d> the staffer said.
smith said in an email that the republicans <u+201c>always provide the minority with the required notice of committee proceedings in accordance with the rules of the house. usually, we provide more notice than required.<u+201d>
even as congress investigates the global warming <u+2018>pause,<u+2019> actual temperatures are surging
top weather service official creates consulting job <u+2014> then takes it himself with $43,200 raise
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | the words, when they came, had lost no power over a week of build-up, or almost a decade of rehearsal. <u+201c>so it is with humility, determination and boundless confidence in america<u+2019>s promise that i accept your nomination for president of the united states,<u+201d> said hillary clinton <u+2013> the first american to stand on the brink of being called madame president.
there were no gimmicks. no more videos of breaking glass. just a familiar face in a trademark white suit, standing in a very unfamiliar spot.
<u+201c>when there are no ceilings, the sky<u+2019>s the limit,<u+201d> she acknowledged briefly, before, eventually, the ceiling seemed to fall in, covering the floor of philadelphia<u+2019>s wells fargo arena in a carpet of red, white and blue balloons so thick, the candidate almost disappeared from view.
by the end of an hour-long acceptance speech, there were children on stage; some of them, daughters smuggled in by fathers to witness an undoubted leap forward along the long road to equality in america.
clinton herself dwelled little on the symbolism of her acceptance speech <u+2013> save for a cry of <u+201c>deal me in!<u+201d> which was taken up lustily by the crowd. instead, she went straight to her first big exposition of what she would do if she actually wins in november, including a jobs program and investment in infrastructure.
<u+201c>to drive real progress, you have to change both hearts and laws,<u+201d> she said, in clear contrast to the idealistic promises of her primary opponent bernie sanders and the big-talking republican enemy donald trump.
the us, clinton said, was <u+201c>at a moment of reckoning<u+201d> as she called on voters to reject trump<u+2019>s divisive rhetoric and policies. <u+201c>powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart, bonds of trust and respect are fraying,<u+201d> she said.
but it was also a moment to turn slowly away from barack obama, a man who only a day before had helped the campaign reclaim the mantle of patriotism from trump. now it was time for clinton to do the same with the economy.
<u+201c>democrats, we are the party of working people but we haven<u+2019>t done a good enough job showing that we get what you<u+2019>re going through, and that we<u+2019>re going to do something about it,<u+201d> she said.
<u+201c>there<u+2019>s a lot to do,<u+201d> acknowledged clinton, a departure from the campaign<u+2019>s recent insistence that trump was exaggerating the pain felt by working families. <u+201c>too many people haven<u+2019>t had a pay raise since the crash.<u+201d>
she added: <u+201c>some of you are frustrated <u+2013> even furious. and you know what? you<u+2019>re right.<u+201d>
to the confusion of a diehard band of bernie sanders supporters in luminous t-shirts, who sought to disrupt the speech, they were forced instead to pause and, even once or twice, applaud when clinton presented an unashamedly liberal and populist vision of america.
<u+201c>if you believe that we should say <u+2018>no<u+2019> to unfair trade deals, that we should stand up to china, that we should support our steelworkers and autoworkers and homegrown manufacturers <u+2013> join us,<u+201d> said clinton, in clear appeal to both right and left incarnations of the pitchfork outbreak sweeping the country in this election cycle.
<u+201c>whatever party you belong to, or if you belong to no party at all, if you share these beliefs, this is your campaign,<u+201d> she added, promising she would be a president for all americans, whether they voted for her or not.
but taking trump<u+2019>s appeal seriously was not the same as taking trump seriously.
an increasingly confident clinton was merciless in skewering the celebrity billionaire as a <u+201c>little man<u+201d>.
<u+201c>really? <u+2018>i alone can fix it?<u+2019><u+201d> she asked at one point, letting the questions hang there as a description of everything that is absurd about this close-fought election race.
<u+201c>he spoke for 70-odd minutes <u+2013> and i do mean odd,<u+201d> she continued, eliciting the kind of laughter that was bound to produce a reaction from the man himself, and did.
<u+201c>imagine him, if you dare, imagine him in the oval office facing a real crisis. a man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons,<u+201d> anticipated clinton.
he might be a joke, she said, but his appeal was not. <u+201c>for the past year, many people made the mistake of laughing off donald trump<u+2019>s comments <u+2013> excusing him as an entertainer just putting on a show,<u+201d> warned the former secretary of state. <u+201c>here<u+2019>s the sad truth: there is no other donald trump. this is it.<u+201d>
the laughs came naturally for a crowd that warmed to a rare display of comic timing from clinton: <u+201c>donald trump says he wants to make america great again <u+2013> well, he could start by actually making things in america again.<u+201d>
there was a little shake of the head as if to say <u+201c>duh<u+201d> when she said: <u+201c>i believe in science,<u+201d> and rejected the denial of climate change in another year of temperature records smashed.
she turned to another first lady, jackie kennedy, for the insult that may yet stick. <u+201c>she said that what worried president kennedy during that very dangerous time was that a war might be started <u+2013> not by big men with self-control and restraint, but by little men, the ones moved by fear and pride.<u+201d>
over the course of the evening, trump was called many names. <u+201c>a political pyromaniac<u+201d>, said los angeles mayor eric garcetti, who suggested trump should build his wall around the whole city.
<u+201c>hillary clinton knows how to fight back against dangerous, loudmouth bullies ... she doesn<u+2019>t run to twitter to give people badmouth nicknames,<u+201d> said elizabeth warren, who had been on the receiving end.
some of clinton<u+2019>s own putdowns would end another campaign overnight. but this is a teflon don, seemingly able to say anything without consequence, so clinton refused the temptation to indulge in excessive trump-bashing, preferring to paint her own vision.
there was plenty of policy: a bold promise to introduce the biggest jobs program since the second world war in her first 100 days as president, and invest money in infrastructure projects and political capital in gun control.
rejecting the dangerously persistent notion that she simply wanted to be president because it was her turn, clinton also used much of the packed speech to describe her real motivation.
introduced by her daughter, chelsea, she continued the week<u+2019>s highly personal theme, by pinning this political philosophy on her own mother, dorothy.
<u+201c>she made sure i learned the words of our methodist faith,<u+201d> said the nominee. <u+201c>do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as ever you can.<u+201d>
the moral vision continued to help defuse the still simmering revolt on the left, where a rump of sanders supporters were largely drowned out in their attempt to disrupt the night.
<u+201c>i want to thank bernie sanders,<u+201d> said clinton. <u+201c>bernie, your campaign inspired millions of americans, particularly the young people who threw their hearts and souls into our primary.<u+201d>
mostly she ignored disruptions that were more noticeable in the hall than on television.
by the end, the chants were no longer papering over the cracks in the party, but rolling expressions of real enthusiasm waving up and down the stadium.
the crowd had been fired up earlier in the evening by another speech that could easily have been at home in a sanders rally. <u+201c>we are being called upon by our foremothers and fathers to be the moral defibrillator,<u+201d> said rev william barber. <u+201c>we cannot give up on the heart of democracy, not now, not ever <u+2026> we need to fight for the heart of this nation.<u+201d>
but it was the calm nobility of khizr khan, whose son died serving the us military in iraq, who summed up why clinton was really running <u+2013> accusing trump of <u+201c>smearing the character<u+201d> of patriotic american muslims.
<u+201c>donald trump, let me ask you: have you even read the us constitution? i will gladly lend you my copy. look for the words <u+2018>liberty<u+2019> and <u+2018>equal protection under the law<u+2019>,<u+201d> said khan.
instead, clinton made clear she would be a <u+201c>president for democrats, republicans, and independents<u+201d>.
<u+201c>for the struggling, the striving, the successful. for those who vote for me and those who don<u+2019>t. whatever party you belong to, or if you belong to no party at all, if you share these beliefs, this is your campaign. for all americans,<u+201d> she said.
appealing to those reagan democrats of a different age, clinton said of trump: <u+201c>he<u+2019>s taken the republican party a long way <u+2013> from <u+2018>morning in america<u+2019> to <u+2018>midnight in america<u+2019>.
<u+201c>he wants us to fear the future and fear each other. well, a great democratic president, franklin delano roosevelt, came up with the perfect rebuke to trump more than 80 years ago, during a much more perilous time: <u+2018>the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.<u+2019><u+201d> | hillary clinton accepts nomination with 'boundless confidence in america's promise' | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 83.0 | 8.0 | 8571.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 10.0 | 0.0 | 572.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 188.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 20.0 | 33.0 | 9.0 | 24.0 | 31.0 | 16.0 | 16.0 | 46.0 | 46.0 | 67.0 | 582.0 | 188.0 | 51.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | it's not just about the 'american dream'
the conventional wisdom says that most latin american migrants who come to the united states are looking for a better life, inspired by the "american dream." and it's hard to deny that there's a lot of truth in that.
but there's another side to the story -- people leave latin america because life there can be very hard. poverty, political instability and recurring financial crises often conspire to make latin american life more challenging than in the u.s., a wealthy country with lots of job opportunities.
living on the northern side of the u.s.-mexico border, it's easy to view latin america as another world, isolated from the united states. but the truth is that the u.s. government has historically made life in latin america harder by overthrowing democratically elected governments, financing atrocities and pushing trade policies that undermine latin american industries, dealing blows to local economies. perhaps instead of building walls, the united states should focus on being a better neighbor.
here are 19 ways the u.s. government has helped spur immigration by making life harder in latin america. | homeland security chief says 30,000 will be furloughed if department shuts down | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 79.0 | 8.0 | 1177.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 103.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 22.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 11.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 6.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 109.0 | 23.0 | 12.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | washington -- the audience should have belonged to sen. rand paul. after all, the thousand or so clean-cut millennials in the d.c.-area ballroom were members of young americans for liberty, a student group founded by paul<u+2019>s father, former rep. ron paul.
the kids chuckled appreciatively as rand unspooled his tart, college-dorm-room disdain for government. but he didn<u+2019>t fire them up. neither did utah sen. mike lee, the thoughtful-sounding son of a reagan-era u.s. solicitor general.
the man who got them cheering, who got them going, who got them roaring with derisive laughter and bubbling with anger at the depredations of liberals was: sen. ted cruz.
striding the stage like elvis (if elvis had been a college debater at princeton and a brilliant student at harvard law), cruz was the firebrand whom the conserva-geeks wanted to either meet or become.
that was more than a year ago, when the first-term senator from texas was still in the hard-right afterglow of his bid to shut down the government in a vain (in both senses) attempt to stop obamacare.
but the young americans for liberty loved his loathing of the party elders, and his determination to shove a stick between the spokes of the system.
and it is that emotion -- across-the-board opposition to every <u+201c>liberal<u+201d> idea that exists, and disgust with the system in all of its manifestations -- that cruz hopes to tap for the energy he thinks can somehow lift him to the presidency.
uncorked anger doesn<u+2019>t usually win presidential nominations, let alone presidencies. people want hope and uplift in the white house and not just expressions of outrage. the president is the person who is supposed to make things work.
to some, the 44-year-old cruz gives off a vaguely scary aura of cheerful menace. for now, as cruz officially announces his 2016 bid, he is nearly an asterisk in the early gop polls, well behind somewhat less apocalyptic personalities, such as wisconsin gov. scott walker and former florida gov. jeb bush.
the first is that his angry approach may fit the times. even as the voters depend more and more on government and politics -- perhaps for that very reason -- their regard for the machinery of both continues to plummet to new lows.
cruz beat the establishment in texas like a drum. they hate him for it, but he is also going to raise a lot of cash in, yes, texas.
he is as pure an across-the-board conservative as it is possible to find in what has to be regarded as the big leagues of politics: culturally, fiscally, in monetary policy, in foreign policy.
cruz is triple 7s on the slot machine of issues: anti-abortion, a global-warming mega-skeptic, to the right of likud on israel, anti-immigration to the max, big on defense spending, etc.
he is a libertarian, traditional conservative, war hawk and evangelical baptist son of a preacher who fled fidel castro<u+2019>s cuba. there are plenty of philosophical and tactical contradictions in cruz<u+2019>s construct, but he ignores them all. | the presidential bid of ted cruz, the reddest meat of the right | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 63.0 | 8.0 | 2976.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 199.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 66.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 24.0 | 12.0 | 14.0 | 7.0 | 12.0 | 11.0 | 3.0 | 5.0 | 18.0 | 16.0 | 23.0 | 204.0 | 69.0 | 24.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | cuba has completed the release of 53 political prisoners that was part of last month's historic deal between the united states and cuba, the u.s. said monday
the prisoners had been on a list of opposition figures whose release was sought as part of the u.s. agreement last month with the cuban government. they had been cited by various human rights organizations as being imprisoned by the cuban government for exercising internationally protected freedoms or for their promotion of political and social reforms in cuba.
the u.s. has verified the release, according to an official traveling with u.s. secretary of state john kerry in islamabad. the official spoke to the associated press on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the issue on the record.
among those released were haydee gallardo s., a lady in white, and her husband angel figueredo c. who were both arrested in may 2014 on charges of "public disorder."
the independent rap artist <u+00c1>ngel yunier rem<u+00f3>n arzuaga, known as "el cr<u+00ed>tico," was also released. 'el critico" was sentenced to eight years in prison without a trial in march 2013 for "resistance" against the communist regime.
last month, cuba and the u.s. agreed to work to restore normal diplomatic relations as part of a deal in which cuba freed an imprisoned u.s. aid worker, alan gross, along with an imprisoned spy working for the u.s. and the imprisoned dissidents. the u.s. released several cuba intelligence agents. the deal came after 50 years of hostility between the two countries.
there had been much concern in the cuban-american immigrant community and among aid workers, as well as from top u.s. conservatives like sen. marco rubio, r-fla, who is also a cuban-american, about the lack of transparency and the secrecy surrounding the identities of the political prisoners.
the leader of the miami-based the foundation for human rights in cuba (fhrc), francisco hernandez, was highly vocal about the issue.
"we would like to know the names, because obviously these people are going to need help when they are released, and we want to make sure that they are released," hernandez told fox news latino.
based on reporting by the associated press.
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | washington (cnn) compromises on some of the crucial issues that have long divided the west and iran over the latter's nuclear program -- including the number of centrifuges tehran can keep in any deal -- are being reached in ongoing talks, according to western officials.
two western diplomats told cnn thursday that the parties are narrowing in on 6,000 centrifuges, down from the 6,500 that had been under discussion.
but both american and iranian officials strongly denied that there was a draft agreement under review, as the associated press reported earlier in the day.
"there's no draft document being circulated," state department spokeswoman jen psaki said thursday, as negotiations ahead of a march 31 deadline for a framework deal continue in lausanne, switzerland. "the fundamental framework issues are still under comprehensive discussion."
testifying at a congressional hearing thursday morning, deputy secretary of state tony blinken also denied the report.
"my understanding is that there is no draft," blinken said.
a senior iranian negotiator similarly stated that "we haven't started drafting yet" and that no specific details on issues such as the number of centrifuges have been agreed to.
"the numbers and figures mentioned here and there are just imaginations," iran's deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs abbas araqchi told iran's state-run press tv.
"if [iranian leaders] cannot agree to a reasonable deal, they will keep iran on the path it's on today," he said, according to prepared remarks, "a path that has isolated iran, and the iranian people, from so much of the world, caused so much hardship for iranian families, and deprived so many young iranians of the jobs and opportunities they deserve."
he went on to frame the current opportunity to secure a deal as fleeting and historic, one, he said, "we should not miss."
the president also said in his nowruz message that "the days and weeks ahead will be critical" for negotiations, and acknowledged that while "negotiations have made progress...gaps remain."
one of those gaps in the negotiations concerns the number of centrifuges iran can use to enrich uranium.
while iran claims its nuclear program is peaceful in nature, the u.s. is determined to restrict the amount of time in which iran would be able to produce the fissile material for one nuclear weapon -- referred to as "breakout time" -- to more than a year. limiting the number of centrifuges would be key to such a goal.
the delegations, which also include the u.k., france, germany, russia and china, are also seeking to bridge disagreements over how long restrictions would remain on iran's nuclear program before they are phased out.
the u.s. is seeking to keep the bulk of restrictions in place for 10 years, according to the ap report. but blinken told the house foreign affairs committee that the timeframe of the agreement is still being discussed by negotiators.
he also pushed back on the idea that all of the checks on iran would automatically expire at the end of this period.
"what we are proposing and what we are seeking to achieve is a series of constraints and obligations," he explained. "some will end after a long period of time, others will continue longer than that, and still others will be indefinite, in perpetuity."
previously, u.s. officials have said the u.s. is working towards a "double-digit" time frame.
in a briefing in lausanne thursday on how and when sanctions against iran would be phased out, u.s. officials said they didn't expect that iran would accept a 15-year deal.
but they added that a considerable amount of time, in which iran would have established a long history of compliance, would have elapsed before the full termination of sanctions would be warranted.
sanctions have become a key part of the debate in washington over the obama administration's negotiations with iran, as republican and some democratic members of congress have objected to the deal and shown little inclination to lift sanctions legislators have imposed -- a key form of leverage on iran.
u.s. officials on thursday sought to allay some of the concerns.
the officials said that sanctions relief would be phrased -- suspended first and repealed later -- in case iran violates its commitments, and be dependent on benchmarks such as verification by the u.n. nuclear agency.
however, the officials said the u.s. would be prepared to move quickly with relief if iran moved quickly with compliance, and that they wanted to makes sure there was significant relief without too much delay because if only a little were given done up front, iran might feel there is no political benefit in a deal.
the officials also described a snap-back mechanism that the u.s. wants to accompany the suspension or termination of u.n. sanctions, which are in addition to those congress has mandated. one kind of snap-back sanctions would require a u.n. security council vote, but officials suggested it might be possible to put a trigger in place, in which a full vote wouldn't be necessary.
the u.s. and its five partners, known collectively as the p5+1, are also emphasizing the need for nuclear inspectors to be given full access to iranian facilities so they can ensure iran remains in compliance with the terms of the deal.
"we are pushing tough issues," kerry told a group of reporters thursday, but "we are making progress."
kerry has met with iranian foreign minister mohammad javad zarif repeatedly over the past couple weeks in an effort to resolve these obstacles, and other points of contention that stand between them and a deal. | compromises being reached in iran talks | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 39.0 | 8.0 | 5636.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 408.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 92.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36.0 | 3.0 | 16.0 | 3.0 | 6.0 | 8.0 | 10.0 | 5.0 | 29.0 | 15.0 | 48.0 | 412.0 | 93.0 | 36.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | the house voted 239-186 today to repeal the affordable care act, the latest effort by the republican-controlled chamber to scrap the law.
the measure also would direct panels to come up with a replacement for the healthcare law <u+2014> though it doesn't provide a timeline on any new legislation or what provisions it may contain.
the house-approved measure likely will be defeated in the senate, where the gop has a smaller majority. president obama has threatened to veto any legislation that rips up his signature achievement.
the associated press notes the house has voted more than 50 times in the past two years to repeal the law. what was different about today's vote? npr's s.v. date writes in our it's all politics blog: "what makes today a milestone is that, for the first time, house republicans plan to vote on whether to actually take health coverage away from millions of americans who now have it."
today's vote came after obama met with 10 americans that the white house said wrote the president letters about how they benefited from the law.
"it was maybe plausible to be opposed to the affordable care act before it was implemented, but now it is being implemented and it is working," obama said at the meeting.
but as npr's ron elving notes, though no one expects today's vote to kill the law, "these issues are important to many who voted for republican candidates in the 2014 election and expect campaign promises to be honored." | house votes to repeal affordable care act | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 41.0 | 8.0 | 1450.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 93.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 30.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 16.0 | 4.0 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 12.0 | 5.0 | 10.0 | 94.0 | 30.0 | 16.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | the west and russia are closer than ever to agreeing to implementing a peaceful end to syria's civil war. but key differences remain, including over the future of bashar al-assad.
a hand-written message is seen on flowers placed near the french embassy to commemorate victims of attacks in paris, in moscow on sunday. the words on the poster reads: 'it is our common grief. france! russia is with you!'
after multiple major attacks in less than two weeks <u+2013> including the alleged bombing of a russian jetliner over egypt, a double-suicide bombing in lebanon, and friday's deadly attacks in paris <u+2013> a resolution to the syrian conflict and the threat of the islamic state has become top priority for europe's major powers.
perhaps most crucially, the west and russia have moved closer than at any time in the past four years toward a political solution in syria, which many believe is central to fighting is-inspired terrorism.
<u+201c>there is a new pragmatism emerging in europe to work with russia and iran, and other european partners, and to try and work towards a political solution,<u+201d> says eugene rogan,<u+00a0>director of the middle east centre at the university of oxford.
but the obstacles to a syrian solution remain high, amid western reticence about further military involvement there and unresolved differences between the kremlin and the west over the future of president bashar al-assad.
<u+201c>this is a very critical junction for where we go from here,<u+201d> says sajjan<u+00a0>gohel, a london-based international security director for the asia-pacific foundation. he says the declaration of <u+201c>war<u+201d> by french president fran<u+00e7>ois hollande, and the support by president obama and british prime minister david cameron, amid other heady talk, must be followed by action. <u+201c>otherwise [is] are going to believe they can get away with it again.... this can only be a game-changer if the west does something meaningful.<u+201d>
speaking on the sidelines of the group of 20 summit in turkey, mr. obama joined with president hollande in calling the paris attack a pivotal moment. <u+201c>we will redouble our efforts, working with other members of the coalition, to bring about a peaceful transition in syria and to eliminate [is] as a force that can create so much pain and suffering for people in paris, in ankara, and in other parts of the globe," he said.
us-led efforts to eradicate is were complicated after russia intervened six weeks ago, with an expeditionary force of about 50 attack aircraft and supporting troops. but there is a growing consensus, given the reach and sophistication of is terror, that russia has helped change the diplomatic conversation, especially the idea that overthrowing assad is an impossible immediate goal.
<u+201c>it is dawning on everyone that the only way out of this is a political solution that takes into account the assad government and the large numbers of people it represents. it hasn't survived for four years, with all the forces arrayed against it, without strong social roots," says sergei karaganov, a senior russian foreign policy expert. "it's also clear that russia will have to be a part of that solution. the old us approach of just getting together a bunch of like-minded 'friends of syria' to decide things is finished.<u+201d>
the terror attacks in paris will add to the sense of urgency, at least for europeans, who have already felt increasing pressures from the growing refugee crisis to move on a negotiated solution for syria, experts say.
talks in vienna on syria have already made more progress in the past 10 days than in the previous four years, says andrei klimov, deputy chair of the international affairs committee of the federation council, russia's senate. a rough draft of a transitional program lays out a path to a ceasefire, a new syrian constitution, and fresh elections within 18 months. crucially, this was jointly announced by russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and us secretary of state john kerry in vienna<u+00a0>on saturday.
<u+201c>a lot has happened rather quickly in the wake of russia's intervention, and it's pleasant to note that our initiatives are finally getting some traction," says mr. klimov. "but peoples' minds are also being focused by the victories the russian-backed syrian forces are gaining in the field, and by the terrible tragedies from recent terrorist strikes in turkey, lebanon, and now paris. we do see movement, and we are hopeful."
one agreement made at the vienna talks that the russians say is key is the general consensus that any government that succeeds the assad regime must be "secular." that will exclude most of the syrian rebels opposed to assad, if implemented, they say.
at the same time, the us and europe are weighing what the next steps are in their own military involvement. france ordered its fighter jets to carry out a massive bombardment sunday night on raqqa, the syrian city that is claims is its caliphate, as part of a growing global momentum to stop the spread of terrorism.
the us has said it plans to step up its efforts but that it won<u+2019>t put boots on the ground for now. <u+201c>the further introduction of us troops to fully re-engage in ground combat in the middle east is not the way to deal with this challenge,<u+201d> said benjamin j. rhodes, the president<u+2019>s deputy national security adviser, said sunday.
unlike france and the us, britain has not conducted airstrikes against syria, amid a public wearied by british involvement in the iraq war of 2003, politicians skeptical of the efficacy of bombing there, and a nation generally looking inward.
but mr. cameron has stirred the debate, warning the population that the new degree of planning and coordination <u+2013> as well as ambition for mass causalities <u+2013> seen by is in paris makes the uk more vulnerable.
british foreign secretary philip hammond said monday, according to local media reports, that his government will try to win anew parliamentary support for airstrikes in syria. but mr. rogan in oxford says it will be an uphill battle to convince politicians that joining a bombing campaign will not squander their diplomatic potential, which many see as the more important role for britain in syria.
some have even called for nato<u+2019>s article 5 to be invoked, which declares that all members join forces if one nato member is attacked. but sven biscop, the director of the europe in the world<u+00a0>program at the egmont <u+2013> royal institute for international relations in brussels, a think tank associated with belgian foreign affairs ministry, says there is no need to put a <u+201c>nato flag in the middle east," he says. "it will<u+00a0>contribute to image of this being a crusade.<u+201d>
instead he says that long-term plans from vienna and private talks between the west and russia and allies is where the solutions will be found. this will help bolster support for more troops from countries in the surrounding region as well as help garner pressure on issues like saudi arabia financing. <u+201c>this is where we need the acceleration,<u+201d> he says.
there are still concerns that the us-russia rivalry in syria could scuttle diplomacy and turn syria into a cold war-style proxy war.
the issue of assad, and whether he might be allowed to run in new elections, remains the key obstacle. the us and all its allies insist that while assad may be allowed to play some sort of transitional role, he must leave soon. the russians say they are not wedded to assad, but remain vague on when and how he might relinquish power.
that might stymie forward movement in the peace process, since most syrian rebels have insisted they will never deal with assad. <u+201c>one of the problems at vienna is that we still don't have any definition of 'moderate' rebels. everyone will agree that is and al qaeda must be excluded. but there are many rebels who took up arms to depose assad, that is why they are in the field,<u+201d> says sergei strokan, international affairs columnist with the moscow daily kommersant.
"it is urgently necessary to drop all the polemics, and identify those forces who might be ready to stop shooting, sit down at the negotiating table, and then participate in a provisional government. this sort of thing has happened in many places, at many times, and it's perfectly possible for syria. but none of these groups is going to engage with russia and come into the process until there is clarity about assad. it's time for the russian government to seriously address this issue," mr. strokan says. | will islamic state attacks bolster prospects for political solution in syria? (+video) | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 21.0 | 86.0 | 8.0 | 8404.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 656.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 151.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 74.0 | 22.0 | 27.0 | 9.0 | 27.0 | 13.0 | 16.0 | 9.0 | 36.0 | 43.0 | 61.0 | 665.0 | 151.0 | 75.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
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timothy stanley: u.s. politics changing before our eyes
but the big shock is john kasich in second place. first, jeb bush led the moderate pack, then marco rubio . now we have a third contender -- a man who ran on experience, compassionate conservatism and a refusal to sink to the lows set by trump.
the family i watched saturday night's debate with all said the same thing: "i could vote for that guy." the question is, does he have the structure and money to last longer?
what's striking from the exit polls is how even more ideological both parties are than they used to be -- representing a polarized electorate. this makes it harder for any eventual nominee to reach out to the center ground. iowa and new hampshire have done long-term damage.
moderates in both parties can look forward hopefully to south carolina -- a state that tends to prefer establishment candidates and, on the democrat side, has a large african-american population leaning towards hillary clinton. nevertheless, the strength of populist feeling is palpable.
perhaps people are looking for generational change and substantive differences between parties. a trump vs. sanders race would give them both. it would also probably give them michael bloomberg running as an independent and one of our most divided and definitive elections since 1992.
timothy stanley, a conservative, is a historian and columnist for britain's daily telegraph. he is the author of "citizen hollywood: how the collaboration between l.a. and d.c. revolutionized american politics."
sally kohn: real test is in states that actually look like america
as a progressive commentator who leans toward bernie sanders, it's tempting to make even more out of his strong showing in new hampshire than hillary clinton's supporters made out of her narrow win in iowa. but the fact is that neither state is terribly reflective of the majority of our nation's voters.
new hampshire and iowa are whiter than the rest of the country, which calls into question their disproportionate influence in being the first to weigh in on presidential primaries. indeed, since its founding, the united states has always given this disproportionate electoral power and political influence to white voters. even still, in 2016.
the simple fact is that the next states to vote, south carolina and nevada, offer a far more accurate picture of america's demographics -- and a more realistic test for all of the candidates, especially on the democratic side. bernie may be giving hillary a run for her money, especially with young white women, but can he cut into her currently commanding lead with communities of color?
and how will a voting base that reflects the pluralism of america respond to the intensely anti-pluralistic demagoguery of donald trump and ted cruz? the next votes are the real test.
well, that was quick. as early as 8 p.m., news outlets were calling the new hampshire primary for republican donald trump and democrat bernie sanders. while these outcomes were expected, these candidates will face very different trajectories ahead.
by contrast, on the democratic side, sanders will face a tougher road in south carolina and nevada. these states have significant african-american and latino voters, respectively, two groups that have been part of hillary clinton's base of support. however, as the night goes on, if sanders can increase his margin of victory in new hampshire, he may benefit from a new round of donations -- and the growing sense that he should be taken seriously as a national challenger to clinton.
together, the wins by trump and sanders reveal that in new hampshire at least voters are ready to upend the status quo.
on the gop side, john kasich has managed to pull into second place. this is a testament to his optimistic campaigning and his emphasis on old-fashioned retail politics -- perhaps showing that the barrage of attack ads that have blanketed the granite state were not as effective as the 100+ town hall meetings that kasich attended.
the loser seems to be marco rubio. he has dropped back in the pack after crumpling under chris christie's criticism at saturday's debate. a sad showing for him, and a reminder that debate performances do indeed matter; cnn polling showed that 46% of republican primary voters made up their minds in the last three days. time for "robot rubio" to do a reset.
even though they have been leading by wide margins in the polls, it is still hard to believe that bernie sanders and donald trump each crushed their opponents by double digits on tuesday. new hampshire is supposed to pick presidents, not renegade populists. it is hard to remember a key primary that has so thoroughly trashed america's political elites.
no one can be certain where the campaigns go from here. hillary clinton is still favored to win the democratic nomination -- and quite possibly the general election -- but she leaves the first two contests wounded and vulnerable. her speech last night suggested she will scramble even further left. that may help secure the nomination but risks losing support in the general election.
after his stumble in iowa, trump is once again the man to beat on the republican side. but who is capable of that? ted cruz probably has the best chance now but enmity toward him is high in the party. john kasich earned a chance to take on trump but to win, he must first prove he has the chops to raise money and succeed in less-friendly territory. jeb bush can slog on to south carolina but must pull off an upset there. and marco rubio -- well, that train seems stuck at the station.
the truth is that we just don't know where this is going, but we do know that american politics won't be the same for a long while. until elites pay more attention to the needs of working people and our economy booms again, our politics will be volatile. that may be healthy.
the old political adage, that a week is an eternity in politics, has struck again. one week ago, marco rubio was on fire, riding high with his strong third-place finish in iowa, almost overtaking donald trump. john kasich came in eight with an abysmal 1.9%, and jeb bush didn't do much better with 2.8%. what a difference a week makes. especially one that includes a debate.
with rubio stumbling badly in that face off, the door was opened for the cluster of establishment candidates in the middle of the pack to take advantage. late deciders leaning rubio broke for kasich, giving his campaign a much-needed shot of adrenalin. how long that lasts remains to be seen, given kasich's lack of organization moving forward. even jeb bush emerged from the doldrums with a face-saving finish in new hampshire. maybe jeb should bring his mom out on the trail more often.
as for ted cruz, he beat expectations in a state where he wasn't supposed to do well, which bodes well for him heading into friendlier political territory in the south.
to think donald trump would ever win any state -- well, this is a remarkable political moment. but there's still a long way to go. not, however, for chris christie. his kamikaze attack against rubio in the last debate may have hurt the senator, but he survived -- and christie won't. he's finished.
donna brazile: what clinton must do now
sen. bernie sanders was expected to win big, which meant that he had to win very big in order to truly claim victory, and he did just that. with his resounding victory in new hampshire, sanders will have the resources and the momentum to take this race further than anyone imagined a few months ago. whether he can take it all the way is an open question. we will learn in the weeks and months ahead as the race now moves on to more diverse states across america.
for hillary clinton, who lost not only manchester, but concord and keene -- cities that enabled her to defeat barack obama in 2008, it's time for her campaign to take stock and reset its operational structure (which includes ground game, but also its conversation with voters.) if her campaign can refocus on its strengths, it is capable of a comeback.
bernie sanders' victory in new hampshire will challenge hillary clinton to recalibrate her message to focus on the dreams and aspirations of the left, but it must also push her to become a better campaigner.
for now, sanders will have much higher expectations in the upcoming south carolina, nevada, and super tuesday contests. his challenge will be to show that he can outperform expectations in reaching out to a more diverse democratic electorate.
clinton's biggest challenge going forward will be less to defeat bernie sanders than it will be to inspire and motivate americans -- especially young voters, independents and new voters -- to take a different look at her candidacy.
donna brazile, a cnn contributor and a democratic strategist, is vice chairwoman for civic engagement and voter participation at the democratic national committee. a nationally syndicated columnist, she is an adjunct professor at georgetown university and author of "cooking with grease: stirring the pots in america."
he's likely capturing some of the non-interventionist, libertarian-leaning college-aged people who last time around would have supported ron paul -- another septuagenarian white man with a radical streak and surprising youth cred.
now that there isn't anyone named paul in the race (rip: rand, who failed to inspire as much devotion as his father), there's no obvious inheritor of the libertarian vote, which is split among several imperfect candidates -- including avowed socialist sanders. ted cruz is clearly angling for libertarian support, but his less-than-fantastic finish in the gop contest tuesday night suggests he couldn't convince independent-minded new hampshire voters to overlook his dogmatic social conservativism.
tonight's results served more as a counterpoint to iowa's caucus results than a referendum on the actual state of the race.
in iowa, ted cruz snuck out in front of the donald by a few percentage points; trump responded with a resounding victory in new hampshire, beating cruz by a far bigger margin than he'd lost the hawkeye state. similarly, clinton eked out a win in iowa over a surging sanders, but sanders returned serve with a much more solid victory.
and yet, because the conventions don't count victories by state, but by delegates won, these early wins (or losses) serve up more narrative sizzle than electoral steak. after all, iowa and new hampshire combined make up less than 4% of the total needed to win for republicans and less than 1% for democratic candidates.
there's plenty of race still ahead, and distracting headlines aside, it's really anybody's game on both sides of the aisle. and that doesn't even figure in the threat of michael bloomberg marching right down the middle of it.
jeff yang is a columnist for the wall street journal and a frequent contributor to radio shows including public radio international's "the takeaway" and wnyc's "the brian lehrer show." he is the co-author of "i am jackie chan: my life in action" and editor of the graphic novel anthologies "secret identities" and "shattered."
dasha burns: what new hampshire tells us
on the surface, it seems like we're in a country already ripping at the seams. the two parties have grown increasingly polarized, and now surprisingly powerful forces at the far edges are tearing us further. bernie sanders is engaging a new demographic of voters in millennials, and re-engaging disillusioned voters with his no bullsh** frankness. and donald trump is capitalizing on america's darkest anxieties in a deeply fearful and angry segment of the electorate.
the results of the new hampshire primary paint a bleak picture of modern american sentiment toward the status quo. people aren't happy and they're making themselves heard through other voices -- the young are using grandpa and the fearful are using a demagogue. but enrapturing as this picture may be, it might not be an accurate one.
like watching a bad reality show, we can all admit it's been a guilty pleasure to indulge in all the drama of this election so far. but if we turn off the tv for a second, actual reality looks a lot less sensational. neither of these wins were a real surprise. and while the results may influence candidates' strategies, new hampshire does little to predict the final election outcome. new hampshire is not representative of what will happen in nevada or south carolina -- which have seen almost no polling -- or any of the march 1 primaries.
if tonight tells us anything, it's that we have a long way to go till november.
dasha burns is a writer and works as a strategist and creative content producer at oliver global, a consulting agency where she focuses on leveraging media and digital technology for global development.
when it was announced tuesday night that the two candidates whose rhetoric has put them at either end of the political spectrum won the new hampshire primaries, it confirmed one thing: we are living in a highly polarized political climate.
on the one hand, bernie sanders' victory signals that liberal voters want the progressive president that barack obama promised, but failed, to be. on the other hand, donald trump's victory shows that establishment republicans failed to quash the insurgent tea party movement.
should these far right and far left candidates in fact become the republican and democratic presidential candidates, independent swing voters may well just decide to stay home next november. and that will make this already surprising presidential election all the more unpredictable. | new hampshire primary results: sanders, trump stun u.s. | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 55.0 | 8.0 | 13796.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 943.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 245.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 27.0 | 34.0 | 9.0 | 22.0 | 21.0 | 25.0 | 19.0 | 57.0 | 49.0 | 99.0 | 945.0 | 245.0 | 100.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | (cnn) the democratic primary race heads west this weekend -- way, way out west.
democrats will hold presidential contests in hawaii, alaska and washington state on saturday, three states expected to be friendlier to vermont sen. bernie sanders than former secretary of state hillary clinton
but with clinton leading sanders by about 300 pledged delegates, and because none of the contests are winner-take-all, sanders needs stunning wins in each state to give the clinton campaign any real anxiety about the outcome of the race.
in the run-up to the votes, sanders has left nothing to chance. his campaign has spent millions on ads in washington, alaska and hawaii, including a powerful television spot featuring hawaii rep. tulsi gabbard , who resigned her position with the democratic national committee earlier this year to endorse sanders.
going into saturday's contests, sanders needs to net an estimated 75% of the remaining pledged delegates, while clinton only needs 35%.
don't be surprised if sanders sweeps on saturday. his campaign has received endorsements from influential players and his campaign has invested in a strong air and ground game in each state.
there are 142 total delegates at stake saturday, 16 in alaska, 24 in hawaii and 101 in washington.
all three will hold caucuses to choose delegates -- a method that has favored sanders in the past -- instead of primaries. alaska and washington are also largely white and rural, demographics that typically have given sanders a boost.
if sanders does as expected, the headlines declaring him a winner thrice over will surely provide a gust of wind for sanders' campaign for fundraising purposes, even if it doesn't change the calculus of the race.
delegate math is still on clinton's side
clinton heads into the weekend with 1,229 pledged delegates to sanders' 925, not counting the superdelegates. (the "magic number" needed to clinch the nomination is 2,383.)
so even if sanders posts strong numbers saturday, he still faces an uphill battle to overcome clinton's lead. all three states dole out delegates proportionately or by county, so even if sanders wins a majority in each, clinton will still nab pledged delegates along the way. and because of the relatively low populations in these states, there simply aren't enough delegates on the table this weekend to make a significant dent.
looking at the line-up ahead, this could be sanders' final big night. the next states on the calendar, particularly new york, pennsylvania and maryland, where a combined 531 delegates will be up for grabs, look good for clinton.
nowhere on saturday are expectations higher for sanders than in washington state.
sanders has visited the state multiple times throughout his campaign, and the state's liberal urban centers have been especially welcoming of his message of ideological purity over clinton's pragmatism.
in seattle, which last year approved a measure to raise the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour over time, support for sanders is especially strong. the city's largest newspaper, the seattle times, endorsed sanders . he spent the week before the election touring the state, holding six rallies, including a major event at seattle's safeco field the night before the caucuses. his campaign has invested $2.4 million in radio and television advertising in the state, according to sanders campaign manager jeff weaver.
sanders is expected to win, but with more than 100 delegates at stake, it will be imperative for him to make that win count by scooping up as many delegates as possible. his results in washington will help set the tone for the upcoming electoral bouts.
turnout is anticipated to be high, another factor that aids sanders. some 35,000 people have already voted in washington state using absentee ballots and about 200,000 are likely to participate.
campaigns on the ground even if candidates aren't
it's not easy to pop in and out of states like hawaii and alaska, and with the small number of delegates on the table, the campaigns have largely determined their time is better spent elsewhere. but that doesn't mean they aren't making plays in each using surrogates, ad buys and family visits.
in alaska, sanders' wife, jane, visited anchorage on thursday and will remain through saturday. sanders' campaign has dropped at least $56,877 on radio and television spots in the state.
clinton's campaign, meanwhile, has invested in a phone-banking effort in rural parts of alaska, emphasizing climate change and veteran issues and expressing her opposition to a controversial alaska mine project, according to the anchorage daily news. clinton called into alaska radio last tuesday morning and talked about working briefly in a salmon cannery in alaska in 1969.
both campaigns are spending money on ads in hawaii, although sanders is outspending clinton $192,680 to $54,300. sanders this week touted his endorsement from gabbard, a popular hawaii democratic lawmaker.
how states will dole out delegates
alaska (16): delegates will be rewarded by state house districts and determined by a caucus system. candidates must receive at least 15% of votes in a district to be granted any delegates. the caucuses begin at 10 a.m. local time.
washington (101): washington uses a mixed system to appoint delegates from the caucus results by congressional district. registered voters who attend must publicly attest to being democrats if they want to participate in the caucuses, which begin at 10 a.m. local time.
hawaii (25): hawaii democrats also hold caucuses, but unlike alaska and washington, it is considered a presidential preference poll and conducted by secret ballot. delegates are doled out proportionately. voting begins at 1 p.m. local time. | what to watch in saturday's democratic contests | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 47.0 | 8.0 | 5756.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 380.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 80.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 23.0 | 6.0 | 12.0 | 1.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 5.0 | 8.0 | 21.0 | 14.0 | 32.0 | 382.0 | 80.0 | 23.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | nairobi, kenya <u+2014><u+00a0>president obama<u+00a0>spoke out sunday<u+00a0>about<u+00a0>corruption, ethnic divisions, terrorism and human rights in a rousing televised speech on his<u+00a0>last day in kenya, his father's homeland.
speaking to thousands at the<u+00a0>kasarani national stadium, obama encouraged kenyans to <u+201c>choose the path to progress<u+201d> by fighting<u+00a0>corruption<u+00a0>and<u+00a0>terrorism and by treating women and girls as equal citizens.
"kenya has come so far in just my lifetime," said obama, the first sitting u.s. president to visit the african nation. "kenya is at a crossroads, a moment filled with peril but enormous promise. because of kenya's progress, because of your potential, you can build your future right here, right now."
he called for<u+00a0>an end to ethnic divisions and described corruption in the country<u+00a0>as a <u+201c>cancer.<u+201d>
"treating women and girls<u+00a0>as second-class citizens is a bad tradition. it's holding you back," he added.
some kenyans<u+00a0>said they were pleased that obama<u+00a0>addressed human rights, ethnic divisions and equality. but for many, just seeing obama <u+2014> who was born in hawaii but his father was from kenya<u+00a0><u+2014><u+00a0>was the main goal.
<u+201c>i should be seeing president obama live today,<u+201d> said collins njehia, 28, a nairobi resident camping outside the stadium before the speech.<u+00a0><u+201c>we<u+2019>ve been denied access by security officers, but i need to see him, even if it means climbing a tree.<u+201d>
<u+201c>obama is our son, and we love him dearly," said peninah mwangi, a vegetable vendor in nairobi. "i want to make sure i see him today before he leaves."
many nairobi residents tried to get to the stadium to watch the event live after officials mounted a huge screen there for those who couldn't get inside. but security measures that all but locked down the capital's streets thwarted those efforts. some instead headed to bars and hotels to watch the speech.
agreeing with obama, erick nyariyo, a nairobi resident, said,<u+00a0><u+201c>this government will soon become a dictator if some issues are not dealt with,<u+201d> nyariyo said. <u+201c>the government needs to control every institution in the country, including ... the electoral body so that they can rig elections."
the kenyan government has consistently denied allegations of election fraud.
in his address, obama warned that<u+00a0>ethnic and tribal divisions would lead to further cracks in the country's unity.
"politics that's based on only tribe and ethnicity is doomed to tear a country apart," he said. "it is a failure <u+2014><u+00a0>a failure of imagination."
<u+201c>i was surprised that obama knows everything about our country,<u+201d> said martin kiprotich, a local leader from western kenya, who traveled here to attend the speech in the stadium. <u+201c>i<u+2019>m happy because he talked about tribalism. our nation is divided along tribal line(s), and as leaders we need to address it.<u+201d>
during his three-day visit, obama<u+00a0>spoke<u+00a0>to kenyan leaders about security and terrorism before departing sunday for ethiopia.<u+00a0>
kenya has witnessed a rise in high-profile terror attacks over the past two years, including a 2013 assault at the westgate mall in nairobi that resulted in almost 70 deaths. al-shabab, a somali-based group linked to al-qaeda, claimed responsibility for the mall attack and another attack this year at a university in garissa in eastern kenya that killed almost 150 people, mostly students. the extremist group said<u+00a0>the attacks were<u+00a0>in retaliation for kenya military action against them in somalia.
obama told kenyans that while security measures must be strengthened, the war on terror must be approached while respecting the rule of law and human rights. some muslims cheered at his message, saying that they are always targeted after every terror attack in kenya.
nazlin umar fazaldin rajput, head of the national muslim council of kenya, said:<u+00a0>"the oppression muslims face<u+00a0>in kenya are (outrageous). people are persecuted, unlawfully detained for prolonged periods, maliciously arrested (and)<u+00a0>prosecuted with trumped-up charges."
david juma, 29, a businessman who owns a dairy farm, said, <u+201c>i am inspired by obama<u+2019>s story. it does not matter where you were born. anyone can move from scratch to becoming a great leader like him. his speech has changed my life forever.<u+201d> | obama addresses human rights, ethnic divisions on final day of kenya visit | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 74.0 | 8.0 | 4161.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8.0 | 0.0 | 318.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 63.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 33.0 | 11.0 | 10.0 | 7.0 | 18.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 5.0 | 15.0 | 19.0 | 25.0 | 326.0 | 63.0 | 34.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | washington (cnn) if you're running for president, get used to becoming hung up over iraq.
because barring a miracle, whoever wins the white house will become the fifth consecutive american president ensnared by a nation that has consumed trillions of u.s. dollars and thousands of american lives. it has also blighted a string of high-flying political careers.
if the last week on the 2016 campaign trail has proved anything, it's that american politics is still nowhere near purged of the bitter political divides of a war undertaken 12 turbulent years ago, somewhat like the vietnam war that reverberated through successive presidencies.
leading republican candidates have suddenly been tripped up by the most basic question -- was president george w. bush right to invade iraq way back in 2003? and no doubt democratic frontrunner hillary clinton will yet again have to answer for the vote she cast in favor of the war while in the senate.
the american entanglement with iraq started under president george h.w. bush when iraqi leader saddam hussein marched into kuwait in 1989, evolved into a standoff and occasional air strikes under president bill clinton and erupted into a full-scale invasion under george w. bush.
and now under president barack obama a quarter of a century later, america's misadventure in the fractured middle eastern nation has transformed into a slog against the bloodthirsty sunni radicals of isis.
with no end in sight.
senior administration officials have already admitted that the fight against isis will go beyond the current presidency -- in the process hinting at one of the great disappointments of the obama era.
in 20 months, the president who was elected perhaps more than anything else to end the iraq war, will bequeath to his successor a new phase of that same intractable conflict.
despite declaring the war over -- and bringing home the last u.s. soldier in december 2011 -- obama has been sucked back in. just this weekend, an isis surge into the key iraqi city of ramadi and a u.s. special operations raid into syria to kill one of the group's top leaders have shown that american involvement has not ended, and that the engagement is proceeding without any clear sign of victory.
iraq's enduring power to confound american presidents -- and to reverberate in successive presidential campaigns -- is a reminder that when america goes to war abroad, anything but a swift, clear-cut victory unleashes an unpredictable cascade of political consequences at home.
"failed wars always hurt the president fighting them, but also continue to impact the party of the presidency for decades after they are gone," said julian zelizer, a professor of history at princeton university.
iraq has become a political issue akin to vietnam, as politicians seize on the aftermath of an inconclusive war to eviscerate their rivals' handling of foreign policy.
democrats make a case that the 2003 invasion invalidated an entire school of republican political thought -- neoconservatism -- and say the war proves the gop cannot be trusted with u.s. national security.
republicans meanwhile insist the war was all but won in 2009 by bush's belated troop surge and blame obama for being more concerned with honoring a political promise to end the war than the reality of the deeply unstable nation he left behind.
still, mark atwood lawrence, professor of history at the university of texas at austin, argues that political fallout from the iraq war could prove to be less radioactive than that of vietnam, which took decades to play itself out.
one reason for that is the bipartisan consensus now forming that the war was a mistake given that hussein's weapons of mass destruction -- used as a justification for war -- did not exist.
it's perhaps a surprise that politicians took so long to catch up to this predominant view given that citizens made up their minds long ago.
in a new york times/cbs news poll last year, 75% of those asked said the iraq war was not worth the loss of american lives. the findings are consistent with other opinion surveys.
the gop reluctance to criticize the decision to go to war stems in part from the candidates' desire not to alienate conservative primary voters thirsting for tough-talking foreign policy. and calling the war a mistake raises the treacherous question of whether the deaths of more than 4,000 u.s. troops were a waste.
but it still perplexed many political insiders that it took former florida gov. jeb bush a week of painfully groping for answers to come up with a satisfactory, and some believed obvious, response: that had he known then that u.s. intelligence on iraq's weapons of mass destruction was flawed, he would not have gone to war in 2003.
jeb bush was at least trapped between his own political fortunes and loyalty to his brother. but republican candidate marco rubio, a florida senator, had no such family ties to blame for his trouble putting to rest questions about his views on the topic. rubio got into a heated dispute on fox news sunday after denying that he had flip-flopped by now concluding that the iraq war was a mistake.
their apparent confusion has provided an opening for fellow republican rand paul, a kentucky senator and presidential candidate, to renew his argument for a foreign policy derided by critics as isolationist but in tune with the majority of voters who now view the iraq war as a mistake.
paul said at a gop dinner in iowa this past weekend that the notion that the iraq war should never have been fought is "a valid question, not just because we're talking about history, but we are talking about the middle east, where history repeats itself."
it isn't only republicans who are vulnerable on the issue. hillary clinton needs no reminder of the capacity of iraq to crush political dreams, after her 2002 senate vote to authorize the iraq war cost her primary support and paved obama's way to the presidency.
clinton, conscious of the consequences of admitting her judgment on national security was flawed, never said during her 2008 white house bid that her senate vote on iraq was a mistake.
but in last year's book "hard choices," in which she provided a blueprint for how supporters could defend her record, she was much more clear.
"i got it wrong. plain and simple," she wrote.
some u.s. foreign policy veterans are warning that the political debate in washington is hampering hopes of meeting the challenge to u.s. security posed by isis and finally closing america's book on iraq. where once it was politically difficult to oppose the use of force in iraq, now that position has become toxic.
"now iraq poses a threat -- it didn't 10 years ago," said james rubin, an assistant secretary of state under clinton, referring to isis and its efforts to export its ideology and terror tactics to the west.
"it's a shame that the politics, the pendulum of our political system, has swung so far to the other direction that our president and others are not prepared to take some modest steps to defeat a genuine threat, not the fake threat that was exaggerated 10 years ago," rubin told cnn. | candidates struggle with iraq political quagmire | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 11.0 | 48.0 | 8.0 | 7144.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 540.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 117.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 64.0 | 28.0 | 14.0 | 12.0 | 34.0 | 10.0 | 18.0 | 13.0 | 33.0 | 54.0 | 42.0 | 546.0 | 117.0 | 66.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | those who came to justice ruth bader ginsburg<u+2019>s appearance at the american constitution society<u+2019>s convention saturday night looking for clues about how the court would decide its important remaining cases didn<u+2019>t find much more than this:
she certainly seemed in a good mood.
the supreme court in the next two weeks will announce whether the affordable care act survives a challenge to the subsidies that millions of people use to purchase health insurance, and whether gay couples have a legal right to marry nationwide.
in a gentle interview with her former law clerk and now california supreme court justice goodwin liu, there was no discussion of obamacare.
asked about the public<u+2019>s rapid acceptance of gay rights, she repeated her view that it was a natural response to gay americans being more open about their sexuality.
<u+201c>gay people stood up and said, <u+2018>this is who i am,<u+2019><u+201d> ginsburg said, and americans saw that the person was a neighbor, a child<u+2019>s best friend or maybe even their own children. they were <u+201c>people we know and love and respect.<u+201d>
as she was speaking, the gay pride parade was rolling through downtown just a few blocks away, and the capital hilton, where the acs was meeting, was flying a rainbow flag just below old glory.
<u+201c>the court is not a popularity contest, and it should never be influenced by today<u+2019>s headlines,<u+201d> ginsburg said. but she added that it <u+201c>inevitably it will be affected by the climate of the era.
<u+201c>i think that<u+2019>s part of the explanation of why the gay rights movement has advanced to where it is today <u+2014> the climate of the era.<u+201d>
conservatives have criticized ginsburg for such comments while the court is considering whether the constitution forbids states from limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples. ginsburg has officiated at several same-sex marriages in places where the unions are legal, leading some to call for her recusal from the case.
there was no criticism from a ballroom packed with the liberal legal establishment and adoring law students who liu noted regard the leader of the court<u+2019>s left wing as an icon.
liu showed slides of t-shirts celebrating the notorious rbg, as the popular tumblr account has dubbed her. another says <u+201c>you can<u+2019>t spell truth without ruth.<u+201d>
<u+201c>it<u+2019>s amazing,<u+201d> agreed ginsburg, who was 60 when she joined the court. <u+201c>an icon at 82.<u+201d>
ginsburg said law clerks had to explain that her new nickname was based on the late rapper the notorious b.i.g., but she noted that they were both <u+201c>born and bred in brooklyn.<u+201d>
next month the opera <u+201c>scalia/ginsburg,<u+201d> based on her relationship with her friend and antagonist justice antonin scalia, will get its premiere. and she talked about an upcoming movie that will star natalie portman and focus on ginsburg<u+2019>s work as a crusading feminist lawyer. at its center will be a gender discrimination case she took on with her late husband, martin ginsburg.
portman told the justice that the project was briefly delayed, ginsburg said, because the actress had insisted that the director be a woman. | looking for clues to supreme court<u+2019>s final rulings in ginsburg<u+2019>s good mood | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 74.0 | 8.0 | 3020.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.0 | 0.0 | 216.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 72.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 28.0 | 8.0 | 16.0 | 2.0 | 10.0 | 15.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 23.0 | 10.0 | 39.0 | 223.0 | 72.0 | 28.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | the news media has preempted tuesday's democratic presidential primaries, declaring hillary clinton the winner.
according to the associated press, the former secretary of state has the 2,383 delegates needed to clinch her party's nomination, with superdelegates putting her over the top before today's primaries even begin.
"we have a really important election now," clinton said.
still, she urged voters to head to the polls in the six states set to vote tuesday, including the biggest, california.
"we're going to come out of the primary even stronger to take on donald trump," she told supporters.
meanwhile, bernie sanders' campaign is accusing the media of rushing to judgment.
"it is wrong to count the votes of superdelegates before they actually vote at the convention this summer. secretary clinton does not have and will not have the requisite number of pledged delegates to secure the nomination," sanders' spokesperson michael briggs said in a statement.
the superdelegates will not actually vote until july 25, and sanders promises to spend the time until then convincing them that he is the stronger candidate.
although the vermont senator may be on his way out whether he's ready to admit it or not, he's leaving a lasting impact, pushing the democratic party left on economic issues and trying to change the party's platform on israel.
sanders would like the platform to include explicit references to the alleged israeli occupation of palestinian lands, recognizing a palestinian state.
he's already named some pro-palestinian representatives to the platform committee, including those who support the boycott, divestment and sanctions (bds) movement.
the movement aims to delegitimize the jewish state. pro-israel democrats say those changes in the party's platform would be dead on arrival.
but there are some indications the party's grassroots activists are already moving toward the palestinian side and away from israel.
a recent pew research center analysis shows that for the first time in a decade the percentage of liberal democrats sympathizing with palestinians is greater than those aligning with israel.
that division could ultimately lead to a fight at the democratic national convention to determine where the party's support lies.
but even if that doesn't happen, the split could be an indication that the democrats may be moving toward more support for palestinians and possibly less for israel in the future. | too soon? media declares clinton the presumptive nominee | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 56.0 | 8.0 | 2458.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 170.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 55.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 13.0 | 3.0 | 8.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 18.0 | 175.0 | 56.0 | 13.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | the iowa caucuses are seven weeks away. donald trump is still the republican front-runner. sen. marco rubio is, for now, the establishment<u+2019>s best (only?) hope. and sen. ted cruz is the guy who looks best positioned to win.
yes, you heard that right.
cruz (r-tex.), as of today, has the most direct route to the republican presidential nomination <u+2014> assuming that the past history of gop nomination fights works as a broad predictor of where the 2016 race is headed.
1. cruz is positioned as the most conservative candidate in the race. although trump gets all the attention for his over-the-top statements, cruz has staked out a position on the far right on virtually every major hot-button issue, including immigration, obamacare, national security and the fight against the islamic state militant group. and, tonally, cruz comes across as aggressively and unapologetically conservative <u+2014> a less controversial and more electable version of real estate magnate trump.
a washington post-abc news november poll showed that cruz<u+2019>s numbers are in the stratosphere among voters who identify themselves as <u+201c>very<u+201d> conservative; 69<u+00a0>percent had a favorable opinion of him while just 21<u+00a0>percent regarded him in an unfavorable light.
in a republican primary <u+2014> particularly one in which the gop electorate is mad at everyone (including those in their own party) for an alleged lack of commitment to conservative principles <u+2014> being the guy all the way on the ideological right is a very, very good thing.
2. cruz has raised the second-most money in the republican race. bet you didn<u+2019>t know that! yes, former florida governor jeb bush is by far and away the fundraising leader in the race. not only did we know that would be the case, but we also now know that it has done him, roughly, zero good. cruz<u+2019>s money, on the other hand, is <u+2014> or at least was <u+2014> unexpected.
cruz<u+2019>s $65<u+00a0>million raised is all the more impressive because, unlike bush, who raised the vast majority of his money with the support of his right to rise super pac, cruz has a relatively even balance between the funds raised for his campaign committee ($26.5<u+00a0>million) and those collected by a universe of supportive super pacs ($38<u+00a0>million). having so much money in his campaign account means that cruz will get more bang for his buck, because candidates get the lowest unit rate on tv ad buying while super pacs have to pay full freight for their airtime.
cruz<u+2019>s money is also what separates him from other candidates who secured the mantle of <u+201c>most conservative candidate in the primary.<u+201d> former arkansas governor mike huckabee and former senator from pennsylvania rick santorum won the iowa caucuses during past campaigns <u+2014> more on cruz and iowa below <u+2014> but they were unable to capitalize on that win or sustain their support because they had so little money.
cruz is the best-case scenario for those who want to see a movement conservative nominated: he<u+2019>s of the conservative movement but has the fundraising ability of an establishment republican.
3. cruz is the iowa front-runner. recent history makes clear that you need to win one of the first three states <u+2014> iowa, new hampshire or south carolina <u+2014> to have a realistic chance of being the party<u+2019>s nominee. (remember how well former new york city mayor rudy giuliani<u+2019>s <u+201c>wait until florida<u+201d> strategy worked in 2008? thought so.)
cruz is emerging rapidly as the favorite in iowa<u+2019>s caucuses. three polls released in the past five days put cruz at the front of the pack in iowa <u+2014> including the influential (and almost always right) des moines register survey, which had the senator from texas 10<u+00a0>points clear of trump.
winning iowa would give cruz momentum going into new hampshire <u+2014> where he currently sits at third <u+2014> and into south carolina, a state, like iowa, whose republican primary electorate is quite socially conservative.
4. the calendar beyond the big 3 favors cruz. winning one of the first three states is almost certainly the way a candidate makes it to march. but assuming cruz can win iowa (at least), the calendar starts to look very favorable to him beyond february. on march 1, what<u+2019>s being referred to as the <u+201c>sec primary<u+201d> takes place; alabama, arkansas, georgia, tennessee and texas will vote on that first tuesday in march.
it<u+2019>s difficult to handicap how those states might play out because of how much the first three states in the past have influenced who stays in the race and what their poll numbers look like. still, cruz<u+2019>s profile as the one true constitutional conservative in the race, coupled with his southern roots and his fundraising, should make for an attractive package for voters going to the polls that day.
the next big primary day is two weeks later, on march 15, when florida, illinois, missouri, north carolina and ohio vote. there are less obvious wins in those states for cruz, but he would almost certainly run well in north carolina and missouri under any circumstance and might do well in the other three states depending on who else was left in the contest.
yes, cruz has weaknesses <u+2014> most notably that he has shown little ability to appeal beyond his conservative base and that he is far less likable than, say, rubio, if it comes down to a one-on-one fight between the two. rubio of florida is also trying to make an issue of cruz<u+2019>s immigration stance <u+2014> insisting that cruz has less of a hard line on the issue than he lets on.
but trump (being trump) and rubio (what early state does he win?) also have problems. and cruz<u+2019>s strengths are considerable, particularly when you consider how these races typically play out.
cruz has begun his ascent up the early state and national polls at just about the right time. (the race will go into deep freeze from around next week through the beginning of 2016.) his campaign is perfectly positioned to make him the last man standing. believe it. | it<u+2019>s cruz, not trump, who looks more like favorite to win gop nomination | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 1.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 72.0 | 8.0 | 5860.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 377.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 114.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 35.0 | 7.0 | 15.0 | 4.0 | 7.0 | 12.0 | 9.0 | 12.0 | 23.0 | 14.0 | 36.0 | 383.0 | 114.0 | 37.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | hillary clinton<u+2019>s running mate, tim kaine, defended her from accusations of dishonesty on sunday, after her inconsistent answers about emails, her rival donald trump and new polls raised the question of trustworthiness in the minds of voters.
clinton<u+2019>s use of a private email server while secretary of state has continued to haunt her, even after an fbi investigation cleared her of criminal wrongdoing. in an interview recorded on friday, her vice-presidential pick was asked to account for the false or inconsistent statements she has made on the subject over the last year.
kaine did not directly address clinton<u+2019>s struggle to restore trust with voters, arguing instead on nbc<u+2019>s meet the press that she <u+201c>did a great job telling her story<u+201d> in a speech at the democratic national convention last week, which meant <u+201c>folks are getting reintroduced to that story in a positive way<u+201d>.
clinton has, however, also stumbled in the wake of the convention. last week, she told the fox news host chris wallace that the fbi director, james comey, <u+201c>said my answers [about email practices] were truthful, and what i<u+2019>ve said is consistent with what i have told the american people<u+201d>.
comey said there was no evidence clinton lied to the fbi and declined to judge her various remarks to the public. last month he excoriated her for her <u+201c>extremely careless<u+201d> email practices and highlighted facts that contradicted her claims, though he found no evidence of intentional or criminal wrongdoing.
on friday, clinton said she <u+201c>may have short-circuited<u+201d> in her statements about comey and the emails. on nbc, kaine defended her, saying her answer may have emerged from a misunderstanding.
<u+201c>i thought her answers in that setting were truthful,<u+201d> kaine said, adding that wallace <u+201c>might have been asking her a different question<u+201d>.
<u+201c>the bottom line is this,<u+201d> kaine continued. <u+201c>she made a mistake and she said over and over again, <u+2018>i made a mistake, and i<u+2019>ve learned from it, and i<u+2019>m going to fix it, and i apologize for it.<u+2019><u+201d>
kaine also promised greater access to clinton, who had gone more than 240 days without a press conference before an event on friday at which she took a handful of questions from pre-selected journalists. <u+201c>i know that this is something that she<u+2019>s learned from, and we<u+2019>re going to be real transparent, absolutely,<u+201d> kaine said.
at a saturday night rally in new hampshire, trump gleefully seized on clinton<u+2019>s <u+201c>short-circuited<u+201d> remark. <u+201c>i think the people of this country don<u+2019>t want somebody that<u+2019>s going to short-circuit up here,<u+201d> trump said, pointing to his head. <u+201c>not as your president, not as your president.<u+201d>
he added: <u+201c>she<u+2019>s a totally unhinged person. she<u+2019>s unbalanced. all you have to do is watch her, see her, read about her.<u+201d>
clinton<u+2019>s campaign has made trump<u+2019>s temperament a central issue, highlighting erratic actions including a sudden trip to promote a golf course in scotland during the uk<u+2019>s brexit referendum and angry outbursts toward women, minorities and, most recently, the family of a muslim american army captain killed in iraq. this week, barack obama, who has endorsed clinton, called trump <u+201c>unfit<u+201d> and <u+201c>woefully unprepared<u+201d> to be president.
trump tried to flip the argument on to clinton on saturday, labelling her a <u+201c>dangerous liar<u+201d>, <u+201c>the queen of corruption<u+201d> and <u+201c>hillary rotten clinton<u+201d>, a pun on her maiden name, rodham. <u+201c>my whole life has been about winning. i win,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>she can<u+2019>t win. she<u+2019>s not a winner. she can<u+2019>t win.<u+201d>
the perception of untrustworthiness has shadowed clinton through three decades on the national stage: even in 1996, while she was first lady, the new yorker explored the question of why she inspired vitriol and distrust. on sunday, a new abc/washington post poll found that nearly two in three voters believe clinton is <u+201c>too willing to bend the rules<u+201d>. six in 10 believe she is not honest.
but clinton has managed to sway some americans, at least relative to trump. both candidates are historically disliked, and a majority still have an unfavorable opinion of clinton. but the proportion has shrunk to 52% in the latest poll, with a move to 46% favorable, a major gain since the democratic convention.
in contrast, 61% of people polled had an unfavorable opinion of trump, versus 36% who liked him. about 60% of respondents said clinton had the qualifications and temperament to be president, while almost 66% said trump lacked the temperament or a good understanding of international affairs. the new poll also saw 49% of respondents find clinton <u+201c>more honest and trustworthy<u+201d> than trump, compared to 40% who felt the opposite.
in two swing states, virginia and nevada, trump<u+2019>s polling numbers have fallen: he faces a stark 12-point deficit in the former and a two-point gap in the latter, according to a new yougov poll. in arizona, a state that has voted democratic once in nearly 70 years but has a growing hispanic population, his lead has slipped to 44% to 42%.
trump<u+2019>s broader polling numbers have plummeted in a period during which, among other controversies, he again refused to release his taxes, insulted the family of a war hero, claimed that russia had not invaded ukraine <u+2013> two years after it had, said his daughter should <u+201c>find another company<u+201d> if sexually harassed and briefly claimed to have seen a nonexistent video of cash shipments to iran.
republicans have tried to tie clinton<u+2019>s foreign policy to that money, $400m owed to pre-revolutionary iran for a failed arms deal in the 1970s, describing it as <u+201c>ransom<u+201d> for hostages who were freed in january, around the time of delivery and sanctions relief for a nuclear arms deal. clinton began tentative nuclear talks with iran but the money dispute predated her and was concluded by her successor as secretary of state, john kerry, who also oversaw the hostage release.
on sunday, trump surrogates pursued the party line. kaine, a member of the senate foreign relations committee, deflected such criticism, saying: <u+201c>we don<u+2019>t negotiate for hostages.<u+201d>
he added: <u+201c>the settlement of a claim with iran, the payment of a portion of that settlement, hostages coming home, thank god, this was briefed to congress and the american public months ago.<u+201d> | tim kaine defends clinton and says she's learned from email 'mistake' | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.0 | 69.0 | 8.0 | 6179.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 424.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 109.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 24.0 | 16.0 | 17.0 | 13.0 | 12.0 | 15.0 | 13.0 | 12.0 | 32.0 | 35.0 | 42.0 | 429.0 | 110.0 | 24.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | arizona will become the first state in the nation to require doctors to tell patients that abortions may be reversible, under a controversial bill that deals with an equally controversial method.
the highly debated abortion-reversal procedure<u+00a0>is done to try and reverse the effects of the so-called abortion pill. it involves a woman being injected with progesterone to counteract the effects of mifepristone <u+2013> a.k.a., the abortion pill.
doctors say a<u+00a0>patient<u+00a0>must undergo the<u+00a0>hormone treatment<u+00a0>within 72 hours of taking the pill if she decides to keep her<u+00a0>baby.
<u+201c>women who have initiated a medical abortion process and who change their minds for whatever reason should not have their babies stolen from them because planned parenthood or any abortionist withheld life-saving facts or withheld information,<u+201d> anti-abortion advocate dr. allan sawyer said in testimony before the legislature.
the relatively new procedure was pioneered by dr. george delgado, the<u+00a0>medical director of california-based<u+00a0>non-profit culture of life family services. he co-authored the first-ever medical literature detailing how progesterone could reverse an abortion in 2007.
that same year, his organization completed its<u+00a0>first successful reversal.
<u+201c>i received a call about a woman who had taken mifepristone, ruu 486, and changed her mind. she wanted help and i offered it,<u+201d> he told fox news. <u+201c>then i received calls from across the country of doctors and others seeking advice. in 2012, we established abortion pill reversal and its attendant website and hotline.<u+201d>
news eventually spread to arizona republican state sen. nancy barto, who included the provision about disclosing information on abortion reversals as part of broader insurance legislation to prevent women who receive federal subsidies under affordable care act exchanges from being able to buy optional abortion coverage with their plans.
ducey signed the legislation monday evening, but stayed mum on the abortion reversal provision, which would require doctors to inform patients about the option when they seek access to the abortion pill.
"the american people overwhelmingly oppose taxpayer funding of abortions, and it's no different in arizona, where we have long-standing policy against subsidizing them with public dollars," ducey said in a statement.<u+00a0>"this legislation provides clarity to state law."
critics of the bill have been vocal in their disappointment.
"instead of delivering on his campaign promises to reduce the negative stigma our state has taken on because of extreme and out-of-touch politics, gov. ducey has put arizona once again in the national spotlight for interfering in the medical decisions of women," planned parenthood of arizona president bryan howard said in a statement.
opponents also say there isn<u+2019>t enough documented evidence on abortion reversals.
<u+201c>we like to practice medicine that is evidenced based, and unfortunately the protocol that has been suggested for reversing a medication abortion has no evidence to support it,<u+201d> dr. ilana addis said in testimony against the bill.
but delgado says his organization has a success rate of 60 percent, with 87 births since 2007 and 75 women currently still pregnant after successful reversals.
<u+201c>there have been negative reactions from those who seem to have an agenda and can<u+2019>t seem to imagine that a woman might change her mind after taking mifepristone <u+2026> [but] many are relieved to know they have a second chance,<u+201d> delgado said.
the associated press contributed to this report.
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | hillary clinton clinched the democratic presidential nomination tuesday night, becoming the first woman in american history to top the ticket of a major political party and putting immediate pressure on primary rival bernie sanders to step aside <u+2013> though the vermont senator vowed to keep fighting for <u+201c>every delegate.<u+201d>
fox news projected tuesday that clinton will win an outright majority of pledged delegates, while reaching the 2,383 necessary to clinch the nomination with help from free-agent <u+201c>superdelegates.<u+201d>
as clinton now launches a general election battle against presumptive rival donald trump, sanders remained defiant at an early wednesday morning rally in los angeles, where he awaited results of the california primary, which fox news has yet to call. the results of the california vote could weigh heavily on sanders' decision whether to go forward.
meanwhile, fox news confirmed early wednesday that sanders was planning to lay off more than half his campaign staff.
far from bowing out, however, he vowed to campaign through the final primary next tuesday in washington, d.c., and then <u+201c>take our fight for social, economic, racial and environmental justice to philadelphia, pennsylvania,<u+201d> the site of the convention.
the crowd erupted in cheers as sanders announced he<u+2019>d keep going, a decision he kept close to the vest right up until his remarks.
sanders closed by declaring: <u+201c>thank you all, the struggle continues.<u+201d>
in a potential move toward reconciliation, however, the white house revealed that president obama called both clinton and sanders tuesday night <u+2013> and plans to meet with sanders at the white house on thursday, to discuss "how to build on the extraordinary work he has done to engage millions of democratic voters."
clinton earlier claimed victory over sanders <u+2013> after attaining the delegates needed to claim the nomination outright with a new jersey primary win <u+2013> during a lofty speech to supporters in brooklyn.
marking the historic moment, clinton said: <u+201c>this campaign is about making sure there are no ceilings, no limits on any of us.<u+201d>
she also congratulated sanders, calling his campaign and the debate he brought about income inequality good for the party <u+2013> while also saying this is a moment to <u+201c>come together.<u+201d>
eight years to the day after she conceded to rival barack obama in the 2008 democratic primary, the former first lady and secretary of state became the presumptive 2016 nominee with the help of delegates in new jersey. she won the state's primary, and with it enough delegates to easily surpass the 2,383 needed to clinch the nomination. she also is projected to win new mexico and south dakota.
sanders' vow to stay in the race was based on his belief that his campaign could sway enough of clinton's superdelegates to force a contested convention. superdelegates are free to support any candidate and do not technically vote for a nominee until the democratic national convention next month. pledged delegates, however, are bound to support the candidate who won the primary or caucus.
fox news projects that with the delegates clinton is winning in california, she will have won a majority of all pledged delegates at the democratic convention -- making it more difficult for sanders to argue she<u+2019>s winning only because of support from superdelegates.
sanders did notch projected wins tuesday in north dakota<u+2019>s democratic caucuses and the montana primary. a total of six states were voting tuesday.
on the gop side, donald trump -- the only major republican left in the race <u+2013> was projected to win the primaries in california, montana, new jersey, south dakota and new mexico. trump also surpassed a new milestone in the primary contest tuesday night, winning enough bound delegates alone to clinch the gop nomination.
marking his victories during remarks at trump national golf club in briarcliff manor, n.y., trump said: <u+201c>tonight, we close one chapter in history and we begin another.<u+201d>
previewing the general election battle, he slammed the clintons, alleging they <u+201c>turned the politics of personal enrichment into an art form for themselves.<u+201d> he also appealed to sanders supporters, saying, <u+201c>we welcome you with open arms.<u+201d>
clinton, in her victory speech, also took shots at trump, claiming he would <u+201c>take america backwards.<u+201d>
<u+201c>the stakes in this election are high, and the choice is clear. donald trump is temperamentally unfit to be president,<u+201d> she said.
the contests tuesday largely conclude one of the most unpredictable and rowdy primary seasons in modern history <u+2013> one that saw a brash billionaire clear through a formidable field of 16 rivals to defy the pundits and claim the gop nomination, and the front-runner on the democratic side locked in a fight to the end against a socialist-leaning senator from vermont.
primary season formally ends next week when the district of columbia holds its democratic contest.
even before tuesday<u+2019>s races, both parties effectively had their presumptive nominees. trump clinched the nomination last month as late support from unbound delegates put him over the top, and his remaining rivals suspended their campaigns. the associated press declared monday night that clinton had hit the 2,383-delegate mark, thanks to a burst of support from free-agent superdelegates.
but unlike trump, clinton<u+2019>s last remaining rival has not exited the race.
<u+201c>there is nothing to concede,<u+201d> sanders said in a tv interview monday night.
sanders also had said he<u+2019>d <u+201c>assess<u+201d> his plans after tuesday<u+2019>s elections, as he heads home to burlington, but gave no indications of having second thoughts during his los angeles rally.
the democratic party pressure on him, however, is sure to mount in a matter of days, if not hours. obama reportedly is planning to get behind clinton and start campaigning for her, and senior democrats have been voicing mounting frustration with sanders<u+2019> campaign.
at the same time, the senator has touted general election polls suggesting he may be better positioned to go up against trump in the fall. over the course of the campaign, he mounted an unexpectedly strong challenge to clinton, buoyed by the support of young and energetic voters whose enthusiasm at times echoed the spirit behind barack obama<u+2019>s bid in 2008. clinton was dogged all along by questions about her private email use while secretary of state <u+2013> and a still-ongoing fbi investigation <u+2013> though sanders largely steered clear of the issue in his campaign.
trump, by contrast, will have no compunction about hammering clinton for what he describes as <u+201c>criminal<u+201d> activity with her email use, as well as controversies surrounding her work as secretary of state -- in particular her role in the benghazi terrorist attack that took the life of four americans, including ambassador chris stevens. trump gave a preview of his attack strategy tuesday night, ripping clinton's use of a "totally illegal private server."
yet even as trump has seen all 16 of his rivals fade away, he<u+2019>s still struggling in a historic way to unite the gop behind him. the tensions flared again this week as leading republicans condemned his comments that a federal judge of mexican heritage had a conflict of interest in a trump university case. on tuesday, house speaker paul ryan called it the <u+201c>textbook definition of a racist comment,<u+201d> while other republican lawmakers condemned his comments. | clinton clinches democratic nomination <u+2013> sanders vows to fight on | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 65.0 | 8.0 | 7375.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 495.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 153.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 38.0 | 22.0 | 19.0 | 6.0 | 17.0 | 12.0 | 14.0 | 11.0 | 22.0 | 33.0 | 38.0 | 501.0 | 154.0 | 38.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | another gop<u+00a0>debate, another steaming pile of half-truths, lies and pseudo-facts. the republican party seems to be almost entirely post-truth at this point, and if you call them out, you<u+2019>re the liberal media! it<u+2019>s a brilliant racket and one that led us to the current state of affairs where facts aren<u+2019>t just dispensable, but a political liability. without further ado, here are the top lies and distortions from tonight<u+2019>s debate.
a popular refrain in the wake of the paris and san bernadino attacks is that the u.s. government (or more specifically president obama) cannot properly vet syrian refugees. this has been repeatedly debunked as hysterical posturing, yet remains a popular trope among the far right. in addition to a rather<u+00a0>thorough takedown<u+00a0>by john oliver two weeks ago, politicofact rated this claim, <u+201c>mostly false<u+201d> in its<u+00a0>detailed analysis<u+00a0>this evening.
this is an old canard, and one that even nominally lefty outlets like vox like to push, but it has little to do with reality. in an effort to shore up his neocon credentials, rubio has doubled down on regime change in syria while other gop candidates like paul and cruz <u+2013> as well as bernie sanders <u+2013> have run away from this position. to do this rubio has pushed the conspiracy theory that the reason isis grew in syria is because the u.s. didn<u+2019>t back the rebels opposed to assad when in fact the cia, according to documents revealed by edward snowden, spent<u+00a0>$1 billion a year<u+00a0>arming, funding and assisting the opposition.
a popular trope among the nativist wing of the republican party (aka the republican party), the bogus stat that 25% of muslins support violence is thrown around quite often. but it originates from noted islamophobic<u+00a0><u+201c>think tank<u+201d> center for security policy. as the<u+00a0>new york times<u+00a0>notes:
mr. trump vouched for the group at a rally on monday night. but the poll <u+2014> conducted by the<u+00a0>polling company, a republican firm <u+2014> is in no way truly representative of all muslim americans because of its methodology. the poll was not based on a random sample, but included only people who chose to participate, and therefore is not representative of the population being studied. in addition, some of the questions were leading and biased.
4. chris christie insists he was appointed u.s. attorney on sept<u+00a0>10,<u+00a0>2001.
why does christie keep repeating this lie? it<u+2019>s been debunked several times and it<u+2019>s a matter of public record. it<u+2019>s a great soundbite to be sure, and if true, would put christie in the heart of the most significant foreign policy crisis of the past 20 years. but the reality is that george w. bush nominated christie on dec. 7, 2001, as one can clearly see from a white house<u+00a0>press release.
geroge w. bush<u+00a0>deported 1.8 million people. obama deported 2 million. it<u+2019>s unclear where cruz is getting this number from. 6. donald trump keeps saying he self-funds, but we know that<u+2019>s demonstrably false. this is another assertion that<u+2019>s completely disproven and easily searchable online (which raises the question of why cnn hasn<u+2019>t bothered doing this). trump has received, according to the last available fec filings,<u+00a0>upward of $3.9 million<u+00a0>from individual donors compared to using only $101,000 of his own money. how does this fit with his <u+201c>self-funded<u+201d> narrative? it<u+2019>s unclear, but perhaps a more urgent question is why would any sane person<u+00a0>donate<u+00a0>money to someone who claims to have over $10 billion? 7. moderator lie: cnn<u+2019>s wolf blitzer claimed terrorism fears are higher than they<u+2019>ve been since 9/11. that<u+2019>s not true. a recent gallup poll shows terrorism fears have spiked recently, but are<u+00a0>the same<u+00a0>as in 2005 and nowhere near as high as after 9/11. 8. lie by omission: why was the attack on planned parenthood not mentioned in a debate about terrorism? as sean mcelwee of demos<u+00a0>noted, in a debate that was nominally about <u+201c>terrorism,<u+201d> non-muslim terrorism was completely absent. the recent planned parenthood terrorist attack carried out by a man who<u+00a0>claims<u+00a0>to be a <u+201c>warrior for babies<u+201d> wasn<u+2019>t discussed in the broader context of terrorism. why this is so remains unclear. 9. lie by cliche: what the hell is fiorina talking about? fiorina keeps referencing<u+00a0><u+201c>building up the sixth fleet<u+201d> because presumably it sounds like some important walk-and-talk dialogue in the west wing, but it<u+00a0>actually makes no sense.<u+00a0>several experts<u+00a0>have chimed in on this strange refrain and pointed out that it<u+2019>s basically nonsense. as military magazine<u+00a0>stars and stripes<u+00a0>noted: her meaning wasn<u+2019>t immediately clear <u+2014> the u.s. 6th fleet is less a collection of ships than a command structure for operating american warships in the atlantic and mediterranean. moreover, the fleet is one of the few growing military commands in europe. it is building land-based missile interceptor sites in romania and poland, and in the coming days it will welcome the last of four guided-missile destroyers to arrive for permanent stationing in rota, spain. as the<u+00a0>la times notes, it<u+2019>s not <u+201c>giving<u+201d> $150 billion to iran, it<u+2019>s relieving sanctions that will ultimately unfreeze more than $150 billion in assets to iran, but the funds were already iran<u+2019>s to begin with. no one is <u+201c>giving<u+201d> iran anything. | the 10 most bald-faced lies from the final republican debate of 2015 | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8.0 | 68.0 | 8.0 | 5160.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 379.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 89.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 43.0 | 13.0 | 11.0 | 7.0 | 16.0 | 4.0 | 6.0 | 4.0 | 20.0 | 23.0 | 39.0 | 382.0 | 91.0 | 43.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | politics is not only about competing views on issues. it is also, and often most importantly, about which problems come to the forefront in the public conversation and in the minds of citizens and voters.
the battle over what matters most could determine the outcome of the 2016 election. one set of concerns, related to race, immigration and attitudes toward islam, divides the country deeply. another group of issues, involving economic inequities and the difficulties many americans are having getting ahead, has broad reach across party lines.
republicans want the first agenda to be paramount. this reflects both the attitudes of their supporters and a rational (if debatable) assessment of how they might win. it also explains the eagerness of republican politicians to make blocking syrian refugees from our shores the centerpiece of their initial response to the terrorist attacks in paris. casting democrats as insufficiently mindful of the nation<u+2019>s security <u+2014> and charging them with being too responsive to the rights of religious and racial minorities <u+2014> are among the oldest calls in the gop political playbook.
democrats, by contrast, have every interest in an election organized around core economic concerns. economic growth has not been fairly shared and middle-class and less-affluent families alike need relief on matters ranging from wages to college access to work-family balance. it is no accident that hillary clinton and bernie sanders have largely structured their campaigns around these themes.
the importance of who gets to set the agenda was brought home by a poll released tuesday by the public religion research institute (prri). the survey, for which i played an advisory role, was conducted in cooperation with the brookings institution, before the attacks in paris.
on the one hand, certain issues divided the country starkly across party lines. by a 66<u+00a0>percent to 26 percent margin, republicans said that immigrants burdened the country more than they strengthened it. (among supporters of donald trump, 80<u+00a0>percent said they were a burden.) democrats, on the other hand, said immigrants strengthened the country by a nearly opposite margin, 63<u+00a0>percent to 32<u+00a0>percent.
among republicans, 76<u+00a0>percent said the values of islam were at odds with <u+201c>american values and way of life<u+201d>; 43<u+00a0>percent of democrats said this.
especially sharp divisions emerged on controversies involving race and police practices: 64<u+00a0>percent of republicans but only 28<u+00a0>percent of democrats agreed with the statement that <u+201c>discrimination against whites has become as big a problem as discrimination against blacks and other minorities.<u+201d> among republicans, 82<u+00a0>percent said the recent killings of african americans by police were <u+201c>isolated incidents<u+201d> rather than <u+201c>part of a broader pattern.<u+201d> only 32<u+00a0>percent of democrats said they were isolated incidents.
these figures underscore two facts: republicans are largely united in their views on these questions; and they are potentially disruptive subjects that could give the gop a chance to pull a minority of democrats away from their usual party loyalties <u+2014> the classic definition of <u+201c>wedge issues.<u+201d>
on economic questions, by contrast, rank-and-file republicans take many positions that are usually associated with democrats. these are the <u+201c>bridge issues.<u+201d> requiring companies to provide sick leave to their employees draws support from 96<u+00a0>percent of democrats <u+2014> and 69<u+00a0>percent of republicans. requiring leave time for new parents is even more unifying: 89<u+00a0>percent of democrats endorse it, as do 75<u+00a0>percent of republicans.
and on a series of questions, many republicans identified with criticisms of the economic system that have been a hallmark of sanders<u+2019>s campaign. offered the statement <u+201c>business corporations do not share enough of their success with their employees,<u+201d> 92<u+00a0>percent of democrats agreed or mostly agreed, and so did 76<u+00a0>percent of republicans.
democrats agreed more strongly, but the fact that so many republicans could identify with this view <u+2014> and with similar criticisms of the exporting of good jobs, the power of big money in elections and the advantages enjoyed by the wealthy <u+2014> speaks to the potential political power of calls for greater economic justice.
perhaps it goes too far to say that there is a social democratic america waiting to be born. still, democratic politicians have every interest in making a desire for a more equitable economy the driving force in the election.
there are equally good reasons for republican politicians to encourage voters to think about their fears of terrorism, their worries about immigrants and their feelings toward islam. for the moment, dreadful and genuinely frightening news is making the gop<u+2019>s job easier.
read more from e.j. dionne<u+2019>s archive, follow him on twitter or subscribe to his updates on facebook. | fear is making the gop<u+2019>s job easier | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 1.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 35.0 | 8.0 | 4839.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 347.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 82.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 60.0 | 9.0 | 12.0 | 5.0 | 11.0 | 7.0 | 11.0 | 8.0 | 28.0 | 17.0 | 39.0 | 350.0 | 83.0 | 60.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | benjamin netanyahu on thursday seemed to dial back his pre-election remarks opposing the creation of a palestinian state -- but that did little to ease the emerging standoff between his government and the obama administration, which reportedly is considering going to the u.n. to pressure israel on the matter.
the israeli prime minister, shortly before tuesday's election, had said he would not allow a palestinian state on his watch.
but on thursday, netanyahu claimed he hadn't actually changed his position.
"i didn't retract any of the things i said in my speech six years ago, calling for a solution in which a demilitarized palestinian state recognizes a jewish state," netanyahu told fox news' megyn kelly.
he clarified that he thinks the conditions for a two-state solution, "today, are not achievable" -- since he said palestinian leaders do not accept israel as a jewish state and terrorists could occupy any territory israel withdraws from.
but he also told msnbc he ultimately wants "a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution" if circumstances change.
the latest comments, however, were greeted with skepticism by obama administration officials.
he made clear the administration is focusing on what netanyahu said before the election, and not on what he's saying now. earnest accused netanyahu of "backing away" from the commitment to a two-state solution with those earlier comments.
"it does raise questions about his commitment to that solution," earnest said.
in a stark warning, earnest said the position the u.s. historically has taken before the united nations -- protecting israel from intervention -- was based on the idea of a two-state outcome. he said that foundation has now been "eroded" and the u.s. is reevaluating its position.
the white house said late thursday that obama had called netanyahu to congratulate him on his win<u+00a0>and reiterated the u.s. commitment to a two-state solution "that results in a secure israel alongside a sovereign and viable palestine."
earnest's comments came amid reports that the obama administration is indeed considering looking to the u.n. to pressure israel into a peace deal with the palestinians, despite historically blocking such action at the world body.
foreign policy reported thursday that the u.s. is looking at supporting a u.n. security council resolution calling for peace talks and a comprehensive settlement.
"the more the new [israeli] government veers to the right the more likely you will see something [at the united nations] in new york," a western diplomat told foreign policy.
netanyahu told fox news he hopes the obama administration is not seriously considering this.
"i hope that's not true, and i think that president obama has said time and time again, as i've said, that the only path to a peace agreement is an agreement, a negotiated agreement. <u+00a0>you can't impose it," he told fox news. "you can't force the people of israel, who've just elected me by a wide margin, to bring them peace and security, to secure the state of israel, to accept terms that would endanger the very survival of the state of israel. i don't think that's the direction of american policy. i hope it's not."
but obama administration officials are leaving the door open.
after the election, the obama administration made clear it still supports a two-state solution and would work to achieve it -- somehow. officials would not say whether that means going through the united nations. but they didn't rule it out, either.
"we haven't made a decision," state department spokeswoman jen psaki said thursday. "it's just natural that we would be looking at the different options."
"based on pm netanyahu's comments we will need to reevaluate our position and the way forward. we're not going to get ahead of any decisions about what the united states would do with regard to potential action at the u.n. security council," a senior administration official also told fox news on thursday.
the potential shift comes after netanyahu's likud party won big in tuesday's election -- positioning him for a third consecutive term as prime minister.
the consideration of going to the u.n. underscores the growing rift between the obama and netanyahu administrations. the two already at odds over a pending iran nuclear deal, netanyahu staked out a new area of disagreement with his palestinian state comments.
the prospect of u.n. interference already is raising the hackles of the israelis.
after a u.n. spokesman on wednesday said it is "incumbent" on the israelis to pursue a peace deal and support the creation of a palestinian state, among other conditions, israel's ambassador to the u.n. ron prosor fired back.
"the united nations may disagree with the policies of the israeli government, but there is one fact that can't be disputed -- that israel is the only democracy in the middle east," he said. "if the u.n. is so concerned about the future of the palestinian people, it should be asking why president abbas is in the tenth year of a five-year presidential term or why hamas uses the palestinian people as human shields."
the palestinians had urged the u.n. security council to accept a resolution demanding that the israelis leave palestinian territories. the u.s. opposed it.
foreign policy reported, however, that france is now pressing the u.s. to take another look at a separate resolution, which they offered, calling for resumed peace talks toward a final deal.
diplomats told foreign policy there are still significant differences between the u.s. and french approaches, but suggested they could be resolved. foreign policy reports that the u.s. delegation also could simply abstain on a u.n. resolution vote.
the dynamic on the council also has changed in recent months.
when the security council last voted on the arab nation-backed measure to set a deadline for peace talks and israel's withdrawal from the territories, supporters could not secure the nine votes needed for adoption from the 15-member council -- meaning the u.s., which opposed it, did not have to exercise a veto to block it. however, with venezuela now on the council, supporters could have the needed nine votes today -- forcing the u.s. to make a decision on whether to veto.
fox news' jonathan wachtel and kimberly schwandt contributed to this report. | standoff between obama, netanyahu deepens despite palestinian state clarification | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 81.0 | 8.0 | 6329.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 456.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 127.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 55.0 | 10.0 | 12.0 | 0.0 | 12.0 | 8.0 | 7.0 | 6.0 | 24.0 | 22.0 | 31.0 | 462.0 | 127.0 | 56.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | washington (cnn) lindsey graham is running for president because, he says, "the world is falling apart."
and if americans are looking for a commander-in-chief, the south carolina senator believes he's it.
graham, who told cnn last month he's been "more right than wrong on foreign policy," announced his presidential bid in his hometown of central, south carolina, on monday. he hopes that his track record on foreign affairs will give him the advantage in a wide-open primary fight.
"i want to be president to defeat the enemies trying to kill us, not just penalize them or criticize them or contain them, but defeat them," he said at his kickoff event.
the timing could not be better for graham, a national security hawk announcing his candidacy on the day a key provision of the patriot act expired in large part because of sen. rand paul, another republican running for president. he becomes the 9th republican to enter the field.
paul and graham are foils in their party and represent an internal struggle for the soul of the gop.
he's banking his long-shot bid on his deep well of experience and long history of speaking out on global threats, experience that he believes is both unmatched and invaluable in a race where foreign policy is certain to take center stage. of all the nearly two dozen republicans running or contemplating a run, most are governors with relatively little experience in foreign affairs or young senators with a much shorter track record.
and graham's hoping that expertise, peppered with jokes delivered in an easy southern drawl, will be enough to help him overcome conservative skeptics wary of his willingness to work with democrats and his moderate position on immigration reform.
but for all of mccain's chatter, graham has yet to break out in the pack.
his advisers acknowledge their first and most urgent task is to introduce the candidate to voters.
where graham needs no catching up on is foreign policy, which he and advisers are banking on as the top issue in the race.
"there is no one in this race who was the length of experience and the record working on these issues, who has been a more stalwart advocate for a strong national defense, than lindsey graham," said jon seaton, who's slated to be graham's national political adviser, told cnn.
graham emerged as one of the senate's leading foreign policy hawks and has the resume to back it up. he spent more than six years as an active-duty air force lawyer and will retire next month from the air force reserve after more than 30 years of service.
he currently chairs three military, foreign policy and terrorism-related senate subcommittees, has served on three others in the past, and has sponsored dozens of bills on foreign policy. graham has also, by his own count, traveled to two dozen countries on official business and met with the leaders of many of them.
graham was one of the first senators to call for boots on the ground to fight isis and is an outspoken defender of government surveillance programs currently under scrutiny.
he's a loud and persistent critic of what he sees as the obama administration's weakness globally, which he charges has invited foreign threats, like russia and isis, to take advantage.
he supported the troop surge in iraq, has called for sending military aide to help ukraine stave off the russian annexation of crimea and has been sharply critical of the iran nuclear deal, though he's worked to pass a bipartisan bill requiring congressional approval for a final deal.
but he's already got competition in the foreign policy space.
graham's advisers nearly universally (and without prompting) mention sen. marco rubio in discussions of their candidate's foreign policy chops. it's an unspoken acknowledgment that in the absence of a stronger alternative, the florida republican, a member of the senate foreign relations committee, has made strides establishing himself as the most credible republican candidate on foreign policy.
but they expect that to change once graham jumps in.
"he's a good guy, but after doing immigration with him -- we don't need another young guy not quite ready," graham said. "he's no obama by any means, but he's so afraid of the right, and i've let that go."
graham's foreign policy experience may stand on its own. but his moderate positions on climate change and immigration reform will need some explaining in a gop primary fight.
as a member of the so-called "gang of 8" that pushed an ultimately unsuccessful immigration reform bill through the senate in 2013, graham will have to answer for his support for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. unlike rubio, who's shifted on the issue, graham never backed down from the bill, and in fact, he's gone further, supporting access to social security benefits for undocumented immigrants in the past.
he's also spoken out on climate change, calling for "soul-searching" within the gop on the issue.
"can you say that climate change is a scientifically sound phenomenon, but can you reject the idea you have to destroy the economy to solve the problem is sort of where i'll be taking this debate," graham promised during a speech this past march.
his advisers acknowledge he'll need to finish in the top three or four in iowa and new hampshire to have a rationale for staying in the race when his hometown face-off comes around.
but they point to his improbable 2014 re-election win, where he easily defeated six conservative primary challengers, as evidence his campaigning abilities will help him bring skeptical conservatives around.
"for me to go to the next level, i've got to even go further out of my comfort zone. i'm going to be in a widely attended primary process if i run, and in many ways i'll be the odd guy out on certain issues," graham said.
"i just gotta stand my ground and take what comes my way," he said. | lindsey graham presidential bid bets on foreign policy | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8.0 | 54.0 | 8.0 | 5891.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 409.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 129.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 41.0 | 11.0 | 13.0 | 3.0 | 22.0 | 4.0 | 11.0 | 8.0 | 25.0 | 31.0 | 34.0 | 415.0 | 129.0 | 41.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | donald trump<u+2019>s flailing campaign has prompted democrats to launch a new, broad effort to offer hillary clinton as a safe harbor for republicans who find they can no longer stomach the gop presidential nominee.
clinton<u+2019>s campaign is quietly broadening its outreach to potential republican converts, including donors, elected officials, and business and foreign policy leaders. the message is simple: even if you have never before considered voting for a democrat, and even if you don<u+2019>t like clinton, choosing her this year is a moral and patriotic imperative.
<u+201c>duty, honor, country,<u+201d> is how one person familiar with recent campaign outreach put it.
the recruitment is a continuation of the campaign<u+2019>s efforts to sway influential republicans and independents, which began in earnest as trump appeared likely to secure the gop nomination during the spring.
it escalated during and after the republican convention, which drew fewer senior elected republicans than usual and included scenes of discord. trump himself helped the clinton cause most with remarks on the economy and foreign policy during and after the democratic convention, clinton aides said. chief among those was a public feud with the family of a muslim soldier, humayun khan, who died in battle in iraq.
this week, his refusal to endorse house speaker paul d. ryan of wisconsin or sen. john mccain of arizona during their primaries this month has further alienated mainstream conservatives and republican establishment figures.
the clinton campaign would not discuss the recruitment effort in detail, including specific additional targets among republican elected officials or other leaders. but according to several democrats with knowledge of the effort, it includes personal appeals to target luminaries by senior democrats including john podesta, clinton<u+2019>s campaign chairman. the campaign is also tracking republicans who have spoken out against trump in public even if they have stopped short of endorsing clinton.
the idea is to make republican voters more comfortable supporting clinton by showing them examples of leaders in many realms who have chosen to disavow trump as a matter of principle. the effort combines clinton campaign staff and resources with outside go-betweens, clinton officials said.
<u+201c>when you look at what went on at the republican convention, and then in contrast the democratic convention, for a lot of republicans this was their moment to take that close look at the two candidates,<u+201d> clinton chief strategist and pollster joel benenson said.
<u+201c>a lot of people are waking up and saying: <u+2018>what am i doing here? let<u+2019>s see what i hear on the other side.<u+2019> they have to look for a place to land that<u+2019>s in the best interest of the country.<u+201d>
benenson noted that republicans themselves have begun an <u+201c>organic<u+201d> effort to encourage one another to reject trump.
several republicans were among a group of former cabinet officers, senior officials and career military officers who denounced trump on thursday, calling his recent remarks on the north atlantic treaty organization and russia <u+201c>disgraceful.<u+201d>
the open letter takes issue with trump statements that appear to question the alliance, encourage russia to hack and release clinton<u+2019>s deleted state department emails, and seem to recognize russia<u+2019>s annexation of crimea, which the united states considers illegitimate. the letter does not endorse clinton, although several of the individual signers have done so separately.
<u+201c>there are people, republicans, saying it<u+2019>s time to put country before party. that<u+2019>s not a thing any democrat can say to a republican. that<u+2019>s something only a republican can say to a republican,<u+201d> benenson said in an interview.
the clinton campaign invited several republicans to make that argument at the democratic convention last week, including douglas g. elmets, a white house spokesman under former president ronald reagan.
<u+201c>trump appeals to our basest instincts, our worst selves,<u+201d> said elmets, who has taken it upon himself to write op-eds, appear on television and speak out in other ways to encourage other republicans to support clinton.
elmets said he was asked to speak at the convention by a friend active in democratic politics in california who acted as a go-between with convention organizers.
<u+201c>at the end of the day, i can see the fish rotting at the head,<u+201d> said elmets, referring to trump<u+2019>s effect on the republican party.
since the close of the convention, clinton secured the public endorsement of entrepreneur, sports team owner and reality tv personality mark cuban, who had earlier indicated that he might vote for trump. she was also endorsed by hewlett-packard executive and republican fundraiser meg whitman. more are in the works, including republicans who have held senior foreign policy roles in the executive branch and congress, democrats familiar with the effort said.
in addition, retiring rep. richard hanna of new york became the first sitting republican member of congress to endorse clinton this week. senior campaign aides to former florida governor jeb bush and new jersey gov. chris christie, two former gop candidates, also said they are backing clinton.
it remains unclear whether trotting out republican endorsers will translate to significantly more republican support at the polls.
in the battleground state of north carolina, clinton is likely to have a tough time courting republicans, but <u+201c>it<u+2019>s probably worth the effort,<u+201d> said carter wrenn, a longtime gop strategist. wrenn estimated about 20 percent of republicans there <u+201c>don<u+2019>t like hillary at all, but they don<u+2019>t care for trump either.<u+201d>
<u+201c>the question is whether they pass on the presidential race entirely,<u+201d> wrenn said. <u+201c>i don<u+2019>t think hillary is going to get many republican votes, and i think she knows that.<u+201d> but just neutralizing those voters, he said, could be helpful in a race that is most likely to be decided by which candidate can better mobilize independents.
campaign officials and close clinton allies cautioned that the republican outreach is not a foundation for her election strategy, which focuses chiefly on women, hispanics and younger voters, and holding onto the battleground states president obama won in 2012.
<u+201c>we<u+2019>re not going to forget where we came from, but we know there is a window to reach beyond our traditional supporters, and we<u+2019>re going to try very hard to reach these folks,<u+201d> a clinton aide said.
it is also worth noting that even as democrats court republicans, the candidate is pressing ahead on the campaign trail with a jobs-and-economy message that keeps her out of the way of the damaging news coverage trump has brought upon himself.
and they say they are not taking victory for granted even as they seize on this new opportunity. clinton strategists do not expect that the double-digit lead she has opened in some battleground state polls this week will last.
bill and hillary clinton were described as <u+201c>circumspect<u+201d> and <u+201c>not giddy<u+201d> by a person who spoke to them recently.
<u+201c>everyone just assumes this is a slog,<u+201d> that person said.
but the campaign and its outside allies are feeling more confident with roughly three months to go before the election.
the pro-clinton super pac priorities usa did not renew its ads in colorado and virginia. spokesman justin barasky said the pac plans to return to the airwaves in both battleground states at the end of the month, but the lapse is a sign that both the campaign and pac view the two states as safer than before.
on thursday, clinton visited an energy company founded by a prominent local republican in nevada. clinton used the stop at mojave electric to highlight a piece of her jobs plan that would reward businesses such as owner dennis nelson<u+2019>s with a $1,500 tax credit for each apprentice they hire.
earlier this week, she toured a small necktie manufacturer in colorado to tout american manufacturing and zing trump for making his trump-branded ties overseas.
but trump<u+2019>s tough week has been met by relative silence on the clinton trail. the principle is to let trump dominate the news cycle, while clinton garners local headlines on her jobs plan.
after the denver stop on wednesday, for example, the denver post<u+2019>s three-column, front-page headline read, <u+201c>clinton pledges millions of jobs.<u+201d>
<u+201c>whenever any political candidate is doing damage to themselves every day, the wisest course of action is <u+2014> within reasonable limits <u+2014> to stay out of the news and allow the other candidate to continue to do damage,<u+201d> said jerry crawford, a longtime clinton ally.
after appearing with clinton at a rally in las vegas, sen. harry m. reid (d-nev.) warned democrats not to be overconfident. but, citing recent polling, he said clinton<u+2019>s electoral map has the potential to extend to deeply red states.
reid said georgia, arizona and utah are three states where clinton could potentially do well in the race against trump.
<u+201c>i hope the map is expanded,<u+201d> reid told reporters. <u+201c>it would be good for the country.<u+201d>
according to a person close to a pro-clinton super pac, the outlook for the fall has not changed significantly since the conventions, and they expect clinton<u+2019>s bump in the polls and trump<u+2019>s rough patch to both level off.
her allies view the task of electing a democrat to three consecutive presidential terms as monumental, making a landslide election rare in recent history and unlikely for clinton <u+2014> even against trump. it is particularly difficult, they say, given that more than half of americans have said in recent polling that the country is on the wrong track.
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | tunisia suffered its worst terrorist attack in recent memory friday as a gunman fatally shot 39 people at a beach resort, an assault that rattled the fragile democracy and threatened to devastate its critical tourist industry.
the attack in the tunisian resort city of sousse, about 90 miles south of the capital, tunis, has raised fears that tunisia has become a primary target for islamist extremists seeking to destabilize the region.
the islamic state asserted responsibility for the attack. in a statement circulated by islamic state supporters online, the group said the attack had been carried out by a man named abu yahya al-qayrawani. tunisian officials earlier friday said the gunman, who was shot and killed by police, was from the tunisian city of kairouan, in a province known as a stronghold of ultraconservative islamists.
the attacker opened fire as tourists lounged in the sun, according to witnesses. the gunfire sent beachgoers into a panic, witnesses said. the gunman killed 39 people and wounded at least 35. the victims hailed from at least six countries, according to authorities.
friday<u+2019>s carnage was one of a spate of terrorist attacks in separate countries friday and comes just three months after a pair of young tunisian gunmen with apparent links to the islamic state killed 22 people at the prominent bardo museum in tunis. most of those victims were also foreigners.
the attacks in sousse and tunis both appeared to be aimed at crippling tunisia<u+2019>s tourism industry, which accounts for about 15<u+00a0>percent of the country<u+2019>s gross domestic product.
tunisia has grappled with the rise of islamist extremism in the wake of the arab spring, which ousted the country<u+2019>s autocratic but secular president in 2011. westerners have long flocked to tunisia<u+2019>s sunny mediterranean beaches, and the tiny north african nation has been lauded as the sole success story of the arab revolts. but tunisia has also contributed thousands of foreign fighters to islamic state ranks in syria and iraq, analysts say.
[tunisia rampage raises new fears about reach of islamic state groups]
many tunisians are also thought to have joined extremists in neighboring libya, where the collapse of the state has given rise to an array of armed groups. the perpetrators of the attack on the bardo museum in march were two tunisian youths who were apparently radicalized and later trained by islamist extremists in libya. tunisian lawmakers have not yet passed a draft terrorism law that the government says will enable security forces to pursue militants more easily.
tunisians, germans and belgians, and at least one irish citizen, were among the dead in friday<u+2019>s attack, the bbc reported. british foreign secretary philip hammond said that at least five britons were also among those killed and that that number is expected to rise.
a tourist from dublin, elizabeth o<u+2019>brien, told ireland<u+2019>s rte radio that it was about noon friday when she heard gunshots, which she initially mistook for fireworks. then, when she realized something was wrong, she raced to the shore to grab her two sons.
<u+201c>i just ran to the sea to my children and grabbed our things, and as i was running towards the hotel, the waiters and security on the beach started saying, <u+2018>run, run, run!<u+2019><u+00a0><u+201d>
glenn leathley, a briton whose daughter olivia was in sousse, told the bbc that his daughter called him, crying and in a panic, telling him that there was gunfire on the beach but that she was with her boyfriend in their room at the riu imperial marhaba hotel.
<u+201c>about five minutes later, she rang me again in a panic and said, <u+2018>they<u+2019>ve come into the lobby,<u+2019><u+00a0><u+201d> he said, adding that <u+201c>she seemed to know that they were there and at that point she started running.<u+201d> he told the bbc that his daughter had since made contact to tell him she was safe.
sarah wilson and her fiance, matthew james, from pontypridd, wales, were lounging on sun beds when the gunman opened fire, wilson told britain<u+2019>s mirror newspaper. james threw himself in front of the gunman and was shot in the shoulder, chest and hip.
<u+201c>he was covered in blood from the shots, but he just told me to run away. he told me: <u+2018>i love you, babe. but just go <u+2014> tell our children that their daddy loves them,<u+2019><u+00a0><u+201d> wilson said. she told the paper that her partner had survived.
the ennahda party, part of tunisia<u+2019>s ruling coalition government, released a statement condemning the attacks.
<u+201c>we offer our prayers to the victims and their families, and call upon authorities to swiftly find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.
<u+201c>tunisia has undergone a remarkable democratic transition and is the success story of the arab spring,<u+201d> the statement continued. <u+201c>but our country is still fragile. there is a tiny but poisonous fringe of society across our region which has wrongly interpreted the islamic faith and wishes to destroy tunisia<u+2019>s progress at any cost.<u+201d>
cunningham reported from baghdad. karla adam in london, brian murphy in washington, hugh naylor in beirut and mustafa salim in baghdad contributed to this report.
ramadan had brought fears of new islamic state attacks
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | less than three months before the kickoff iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among republican elites about the dominance and durability of donald trump and ben carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them.
party leaders and donors fear that nominating either man would have negative ramifications for the gop ticket up and down the ballot, virtually ensuring a hillary rodham clinton presidency and increasing the odds that the senate falls into democratic hands.
the party establishment is paralyzed. big money is still on the sidelines. no consensus alternative to the outsiders has emerged from the pack of governors and senators running, and there is disagreement about how to prosecute the case against them. recent focus groups of trump supporters in iowa and new hampshire commissioned by rival campaigns revealed no silver bullet.
[trump<u+2019>s wild 95-minute rant: <u+2018>how stupid are the people of iowa?<u+2019>]
in normal times, the way forward would be obvious. the wannabes would launch concerted campaigns, including television attack ads, against the <u+00ad>front-runners. but even if the other candidates had a sense of what might work this year, it is unclear whether it would ultimately accrue to their benefit. trump<u+2019>s counterpunches have been withering, while carson<u+2019>s appeal to the base is spiritual, not merely political. if someone was able to do significant damage to them, there<u+2019>s no telling to whom their supporters would turn, if anyone.
<u+201c>the rest of the field is still wishing upon a star that trump and carson are going to <u+00ad>self-destruct,<u+201d> said eric fehrnstrom, a former adviser to 2012 nominee mitt romney. but, he said, <u+201c>they have to be made to self-destruct. .<u+2009>.<u+2009>. nothing has happened at this point to dislodge trump or carson.<u+201d>
fehrnstrom pointed out that the fourth debate passed this week without any candidate landing a blow against trump or carson. <u+201c>we<u+2019>re about to step into the holiday time accelerator,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>you have thanksgiving, christmas, new year<u+2019>s, then iowa and a week later, new hampshire, and it<u+2019>s going to be over in the blink of an eye.<u+201d>
[the take: why no one is dropping out of the gop presidential race]
according to other republicans, some in the party establishment are so desperate to change the dynamic that they are talking anew about drafting romney <u+2014> despite his insistence that he will not run again. friends have mapped out a strategy for a late entry to pick up delegates and vie for the nomination in a convention fight, according to the republicans who were briefed on the talks, though romney has shown no indication of reviving his interest.
for months, the gop professional class assumed trump and carson would fizzle with time. voters would get serious, the thinking went, after seeing the outsiders share a stage with more experienced politicians at the first debate. or when summer turned to fall, kids went back to school and parents had time to assess the candidates. or after the second, third or fourth debates, certainly.
none of that happened, of course, leaving establishment figures disoriented. consider thomas h. kean sr., a former new jersey governor who for most of his 80<u+00a0>years has been a pillar of his party. his phone is ringing daily, bringing a stream of exasperation and confusion from fellow gop power brokers.
<u+201c>people usually start off in the same way: pollyanna-ish,<u+201d> kean said. <u+201c>they assure me that trump and carson will eventually fade. then we<u+2019>ll talk some more, and i give them a reality check. i<u+2019>ll say, <u+2018>the guy in the grocery store likes trump. so does the guy who cuts my hair. they<u+2019>re probably going to stick with him. who knows if this ends?<u+2019><u+2009><u+201d>
south carolina gov. nikki haley, herself an outsider who rode the tea party wave into office five years ago, explained the phenomenon.
<u+201c>you have a lot of people who were told that if we got a majority in the house and a majority in the senate, then life was gonna be great,<u+201d> she said in an interview thursday. <u+201c>what you<u+2019>re seeing is that people are angry. where<u+2019>s the change? why aren<u+2019>t there bills on the president<u+2019>s desk every day for him to veto? they<u+2019>re saying, <u+2018>look, what you said would happen didn<u+2019>t happen, so we<u+2019>re going to go with anyone who hasn<u+2019>t been elected.<u+2019><u+2009><u+201d>
before tuesday<u+2019>s debate in milwaukee, republican national committee chairman reince priebus and wisconsin gov. scott walker had a reception at the pfister hotel with party leaders, donors and operatives. there was little appetite for putting a political knife in the back of either trump or carson, according to one person there. rather, attendees simply hoped both outsiders would go away.
there are similar concerns about sen. ted cruz of texas, who is gaining steam and is loathed by party elites, but they are more muted, at least for now.
charlie black, who has advised presidential campaigns since the 1970s, said he believes the 2016 contest <u+201c>will eventually fall into the normal pattern of one outsider and one insider, and historically the insider always wins.<u+201d>
black said he was briefed on the findings of two recent private focus groups of trump supporters in iowa and new hampshire that showed these voters knew little about his policy views beyond immigration. <u+201c>things like universal health care and other more liberal positions he<u+2019>s taken in the past will all get out before people vote in new hampshire,<u+201d> he said. black said the focus groups were commissioned by two rival campaigns, but he was not authorized to identify them.
one well-funded outside group, the club for growth, has aired ads attacking trump in iowa and more recently came out against carson as well. <u+201c>donald trump and doctor ben carson are in over their heads,<u+201d> said club for growth president david mcintosh, labeling both candidates as <u+201c>pretenders.<u+201d>
still, the party establishment<u+2019>s greatest weapon <u+2014> big money <u+2014> is partly on the shelf. kenneth g. langone, a founder of home depot and a billionaire supporter of new jersey gov. chris christie, said he is troubled that many associates in the new york financial community have so far refused to invest in a campaign due to the race<u+2019>s volatility.
<u+201c>some of them are in, but too many are still saying, <u+2018>i<u+2019>ll wait to see how this all breaks,<u+2019><u+2009><u+201d> langone said. <u+201c>people don<u+2019>t want to write checks unless they think the candidate has a chance of winning.<u+201d> he said that his job as a <u+00ad>mega-donor <u+201c>is to figure out how we get people on the edge of their chairs so they start to give money.<u+201d>
many of romney<u+2019>s 2012 national finance committee members have sat out the race so far, including peter a. wish, a florida doctor whom several 2016 candidates have courted.
<u+201c>i<u+2019>m not a happy camper,<u+201d> wish said. <u+201c>hopefully, somebody will emerge who will be able to do the job,<u+201d> but, he added, <u+201c>i<u+2019>m very worried that the republican-base voter is more motivated by anger, distrust of d.c. and politicians and will throw away the opportunity to nominate a candidate with proven experience that can win.<u+201d>
the apprehension among some party elites goes beyond electability, according to one republican strategist who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly about the worries.
<u+201c>we<u+2019>re potentially careening down this road of nominating somebody who frankly isn<u+2019>t fit to be president in terms of the basic ability and temperament to do the job,<u+201d> this strategist said. <u+201c>it<u+2019>s not just that it could be somebody hillary could destroy electorally, but what if hillary hits a banana peel and this person becomes president?<u+201d>
angst about trump intensified this week after he made two comments that could prove damaging in a general election. first, he explained his opposition to raising the minimum wage by saying <u+201c>wages are too high.<u+201d> second, he said he would create a federal <u+201c>deportation force<u+201d> to remove the more than 11<u+00a0>million immigrants living in the united states illegally.
<u+201c>to have a leading candidate propose a new federal police force that is going to flush out illegal immigrants across the nation? that<u+2019>s very disturbing and concerning to me about where that leads republicans,<u+201d> said dick wadhams, a former gop chairman in colorado, a swing state where republicans are trying to pick up a senate seat next year.
said austin barbour, a veteran operative and fundraiser now advising former florida governor jeb bush: <u+201c>if we don<u+2019>t have the right [nominee], we could lose the senate, and we could face losses in the house. those are very, very real concerns. if we<u+2019>re not careful and we nominate trump, we<u+2019>re looking at a race like barry goldwater in 1964 or george mcgovern in 1972, getting beat up across the board because of our nominee.<u+201d>
george voinovich, a retired career politician who rose from county auditor to mayor of cleveland to governor of ohio to u.s. senator, said this cycle has been vexing.
<u+201c>this business has turned into show business,<u+201d> said voinovich, who is backing ohio gov. john kasich. <u+201c>we can<u+2019>t afford to have somebody sitting in the white house who doesn<u+2019>t have governing experience and the gravitas to move this country ahead.<u+201d>
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | wisconsin gov. scott walker said tuesday that he was "very interested" in a possible run for president on 2016, hours after he announced the launch of a new political committee.
in an interview with fox news' sean hannity, walker said he was considering a run for the same reason he initially ran for governor of wisconsin in 2010.
"[my wife and i] were afraid that our sons were growing up in a state that wasn't as great as the one we grew up in," walker, 47, said." i have the same worries about this country for my sons today that i had for my state many years ago."
walker, who gave a well-received speech to a forum of conservative voters in des moines, iowa, on saturday, set up the committee <u+201c>our american revival<u+201d> on jan. 16. a new website for the so-called 527 organization, which will help him get his message out as he works toward building his political clout, went live tuesday morning.
"our american revival encompasses the shared values that make our country great," walker said in a written statement. he called for "limiting the powers of the federal government to those defined in the constitution while creating a leaner, more efficient, more effective and more accountable government to the american people."
walker echoed that refrain on "hannity" and played up his status as a washington outsider.
"i think we need new bold leadership from outside of washington that's proven to take on the challenges that we face in this country right now," walker said. "the ideas that are going to transform america aren't coming from people in washington. they're coming from our state leaders ... i think there's a sense out there, which i heard on saturday, that people don't just want dynamic speakers. they want people who've got a proven record, who've actually done something, not just talked about it."
"if we're going to take [former secretary of state and presumptive democratic nominee] hillary clinton on," walker added," we've got to have a name from the future, not one from the past, in an apparent shot at 2012 gop nominee mitt romney and former florida gov. jeb bush.
walker<u+2019>s steps are in stride with other prospective candidates, like new jersey gov. chris christie, who earlier this week launched a political action committee.
during his speech saturday in iowa, home of the first-in-the-country caucus, walker drew on his highly publicized battle with unions in his home state and told an emotional story of how he and his family received death threats for speaking out against the groups.
<u+201c>if you are not afraid to go big and bold, you can actually get results,<u+201d> he told the crowd.
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | monica camacho-perez came to the united states from mexico as a child, crossing into arizona with her mother in the same spot where her father made the trip before them. <u+201c>nobody stopped us,<u+2019><u+2019> camacho-perez, now 20, said of her 2002 journey.
three years ago, her uncle tried to cross the border and join the family in baltimore, where they remain illegal immigrants. he was stopped three times by the u.s. border patrol and jailed for 50<u+00a0>days.
<u+201c>he doesn<u+2019>t want to try anymore,<u+201d> said camacho-perez. <u+201c>now, it<u+2019>s really hard.<u+201d>
as the department of homeland security continues to pour money into border security, evidence is emerging that illegal immigration flows have fallen to their lowest level in at least two decades. the nation<u+2019>s population of illegal immigrants, which more than tripled, to 12.2<u+00a0>million, between 1990 and 2007, has dropped by about 1<u+00a0>million, according to demographers at the pew research center.
a key <u+2014> but largely overlooked <u+2014> sign of these ebbing flows is the changing makeup of the undocumented population. until recent years, illegal immigrants tended to be young men streaming across the southern border in pursuit of work. but demographic data show that the typical illegal immigrant now is much more likely someone who is 35 or older and has lived in the united states for a decade or more.
homeland security officials in the obama and george w. bush administrations <u+2014> who have more than doubled the border patrol<u+2019>s size and spent billions on drones, sensors and other technology at the border <u+2014> say enhanced security is driving the new trends.
<u+201c>we have seen tremendous progress,<u+201d> said r. gil kerlikowske, commissioner of u.s. customs and border protection, which is part of the department of homeland security. <u+201c>the border is much more secure than in times past.<u+201d>
the issue of border security is central to the broader debate over immigration reform that has roiled washington in recent years and is emerging as a flash point in the 2016 presidential campaign. congressional republicans have insisted on greater border security before they consider legalizing any immigrants who came to this country without proper documents.
president obama says the border has never been more secure and is urging a series of legislative steps to legalize millions of undocumented immigrants, streamline the visa system and further fortify the border. he has already moved to protect certain undocumented immigrants from deportation through executive actions. but these actions have faced resistance in the courts, including the decision tuesday by a federal appeals court to keep one of the president<u+2019>s signature immigration efforts from moving ahead.
what<u+2019>s increasingly clear is that the shifting fortunes of the u.s. economy account for less of the ebb and flow of illegal immigration. even as the economy bounces back from recession, illegal immigration flows, especially from mexico, have kept declining, <u+00ad>according to researchers and government data. since the 1990s, the opposite was true: the better the economy, the more people tried to come.
<u+201c>every month or quarter that the economy continues to improve and unauthorized immigration doesn<u+2019>t pick up supports the theory that border security is a bigger factor, and it<u+2019>s less about the economy and we have moved into a new era,<u+2019><u+2019> said marc rosenblum, deputy director of the u.s. immigration program at the migration policy institute.
some researchers say factors other than security are playing a role and might even account for much of the reduced flow of illegal immigrants. these researchers point, for instance, to changes in latin america that could be pushing fewer people to seek a better life in the united states.
at odds with the government<u+2019>s claims of success, a series of academic studies in recent years have found little linkage between border security and illegal migration.
douglas s. massey, a princeton university sociologist, said the falling numbers of immigrants have <u+201c>nothing to do with border enforcement.<u+201d> massey, who helps run a project that has interviewed thousands of illegal mexican migrants over the past three decades, attributed the trend to demographic changes in mexico, such as women having fewer children.
but even some researchers who are skeptical about the overall effectiveness of enhanced border security acknowledge indirect effects of these measures. for potential migrants who are calculating the pros and cons of trying to cross the border, stiffer u.s. security measures are making the trip much more expensive, in particular the exploding cost of hiring a guide. the journey has also become more arduous and dangerous, in part because the dhs has plugged traditional crossing points and driven migrants deeper into the desert.
since the bush administration, the dhs has dramatically increased its efforts to lock down the southwest border. the budget for customs and border protection has grown to $10.7<u+00a0>billion in the past decade, a 75<u+00a0>percent increase. the number of border patrol agents at the border has nearly doubled over the past decade, to more than 18,000 today.
much of the ramp-up occurred during the bush administration, but the obama administration has marshaled more forces as well. homeland security secretary jeh johnson has recently set up three task forces to increase coordination within the dhs.
current and former dhs officials acknowledge that a confluence of factors explains the decline in illegal migration, including demographic changes in mexico, improvements in its economy and mexico<u+2019>s crackdown on central american migrants headed to the united states. but these officials insist that the massive investment to secure the border has been the key factor.
<u+201c>it used to be that you could literally sit at a bar in tijuana, mexico, look across the border into san diego, wait for the border patrol to drive in the other direction and make a run for it,<u+2019><u+2019> said steve atkiss, a former cbp chief of staff and now a partner at command consulting group. <u+201c>it<u+2019>s much more difficult and expensive now.<u+201d>
madai ledezma crossed the mexican border into texas a decade ago at age 23 and remains in the united states as an illegal immigrant. she said her uncle and brother had recently wanted to join her. but, she said, they<u+2019>re staying put after her uncle was caught by the border patrol a year ago and locked up for a month before being sent back to mexico.
<u+201c>the risk of crossing again is that he will be locked up again,<u+2019><u+2019> ledezma said. she added, <u+201c>i just heard recently that the border patrol now has the ability to fire their weapons.<u+201d>
ledezma<u+2019>s uncle was one of a shrinking number of undocumented immigrants stopped by the border patrol. government officials widely cite that trend as evidence that the overall flow is also down.
in 2000, considered the peak of the flood of illegal mexican migration, more than 1.6<u+00a0>million people were apprehended, according to dhs data. those numbers have plunged to around 400,000 per year since 2012 and are down 28<u+00a0>percent in the first part of fiscal 2015 compared with last year. even last year<u+2019>s widely publicized spike in unaccompanied minors crossing the border from el salvador, guatemala and honduras has receded dramatically, the data show.
while the declining number of apprehensions is not conclusive proof that illegal immigration is down, other less publicized research strongly suggests this is the case.
wayne cornelius, director of the mexican migration field research program at the university of california at san diego, interviews hundreds of people each year in the mexican state of yuca<u+00ad>tan and asks them whether they are planning to come to the united states in the next 12<u+00a0>months.
in 2006, 24<u+00a0>percent said yes. by 2009, as the u.s. economy was cratering, 8<u+00a0>percent said yes. this year, 2.5<u+00a0>percent answered in the affirmative.
a recent study by the pew research center, meanwhile, found that the median length of stay for illegal immigrants in the united states jumped from less than eight years in 2003 to nearly 13 years by 2013. their median age has increased from 28 during the 1990s to nearly 36 today.
those figures wouldn<u+2019>t be possible if young men were still coming across the border in huge numbers, and it was those young men who accounted for most of the illegal traffic.
but massey, the princeton researcher, highlighted an unintended consequence of the security crackdown on the border. he said immigrants who are already in the united states are afraid to go back and forth to mexico as they traditionally did, and are <u+201c>aging in place<u+201d> in the united states.
ledezma<u+2019>s tale is a common one. over the past decade, she and her husband, jose pina, a landscaper, have become involved in their community in new carrollton. their daughter, heather, 6, is a u.s. citizen. ledezma volunteers at heather<u+2019>s school, reads with her at the public library and attends a local church.
<u+201c>after so many years of living here, i of course consider this my home,<u+201d> she said.
according to estimates by the migration policy institute, about a third of illegal immigrants own a home and have children who are u.s. citizens.
<u+201c>we have this population here and they haven<u+2019>t left and they don<u+2019>t appear to be going back and forth to mexico anymore,<u+2019><u+2019> said george escobar, senior director of human services for casa, a <u+00ad>maryland-based immigrant advocacy group. <u+201c>these trends have reshaped the immigration debate right before our eyes.<u+201d> | fewer immigrants are entering the u.s. illegally, and that<u+2019>s changed the border security debate | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.0 | 95.0 | 8.0 | 9445.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 636.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 190.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 69.0 | 9.0 | 19.0 | 4.0 | 18.0 | 13.0 | 10.0 | 4.0 | 36.0 | 24.0 | 55.0 | 641.0 | 192.0 | 70.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | watch: on the missouri campus, a clash of 2 first amendment protections
when two rights that this country holds as fundamental come into conflict, it makes for complex drama.
that's what happened yesterday on the campus of the university of missouri in columbia: student activists, who had just succeeded in their quest to oust the system president, tried to stop tim tai, 20, a student photographer, from documenting what was going on for espn. it was a clash between the right to assembly, to be left alone and the right of the press to operate in a public space.
the woman seen at the end of the video who appears to grab a reporter's camera has been identified by the new york times as melissa click, an assistant professor of mass media at the university of missouri. we've reached out to her for comment, and we'll update if she gets back to us.
the los angeles times reports that the actions in the video were criticized by the columbia missourian, a university newspaper with professional editors and staffed by students from the school's journalism program:
" 'i'm pretty incensed about it,' executive editor tom warhover told the times. 'i find it ironic that particularly faculty members would resort to those kinds of things for no good reason. i understand students who are protesting and want privacy. but they are not allowed to push and assault our photographers <u+2014> our student photographers.' ... "tai acknowledged that the demonstrators had a point, since he does recognize there are situations that are sensitive to photograph, but he said that he tries to figure out 'how to cautiously or delicately approach these stories without overwhelming people. " 'i don't think everyone there is super anti-media, but i think there's misunderstanding about what we do,' tai said."
update at 11:35 a.m. et. a reporter's reflection:
a reporter for npr member station kbia was in middle of what happened yesterday. bram sable-smith put together a very personal reflection about the situation that is worth listening to.
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | president obama hit the road wednesday to promote a grab bag of new government programs, tax credits and worker protections -- paid for with higher taxes on top earners -- while holding the threat of vetoes over the heads of the new republican leadership in congress.
after delivering a defiant state of the union address that set a combative tone for his final two years in office, the president traveled to idaho to reinforce his plan and tout the country<u+2019>s recent economic successes.
<u+201c>the ruling on the field stands, middle-class opportunities work. expanding opportunity works,<u+201d> the president said at a rally at boise state university, citing the recent surges in job growth, domestic energy production and student achievement.
however, in a speech that borrowed significantly from his address tuesday, obama also struck a more conciliatory tone, acknowledging he got <u+201c>whooped<u+201d> in iowa during the 2008 and 2012 general elections.
<u+201c>as i<u+2019>ve travelled the country, i have seen the desire among the american people to make progress together,<u+201d> he said as he restated his plan to end tax cuts for the <u+201c>super rich<u+201d> and close corporate-tax <u+201c>loopholes<u+201d> to <u+201c>lower the cost of community college to zero.<u+201d>
still, he challenged critics of his <u+201c>middle class economics<u+201d> plan to present better solutions.
obama was to speak later wednesday at an event in topeka, kansas.
the most controversial plank in obama<u+2019>s overall plan, unveiled over the weekend, is to impose more than $300 billion in tax hikes over 10 years. they hikes include those on investment and inheritance taxes for top-earners to fund tax credit expansions for the middle class -- including tripling the maximum child tax credit to up to $3,000 per child. the funding also would pay for an initiative providing free community college for two years for students who keep up their grades (though the white house calls for rolling back a separate college savings tax break).
while laying out his ambitious agenda, the president has also vowed to fight gop bills that would chip away at obamacare, financial regulations and his recent immigration actions.
"if a bill comes to my desk that tries to do any of these things, i will veto it," obama said tuesday. he issued similar threats with regard to legislation teeing up new iran sanctions and efforts to roll back environmental regulations.
in an off-script moment, the president even reminded republicans of his electoral successes. after declaring he had no more campaigns to run, he quipped, "i know because i won both of them."
gop leaders bristled at the president's remarks. on wednesday, house speaker john boehner said he offered "more taxes, more government, more of the same approach that has failed the middle class for decades."
as for the president's warnings to the new congress, boehner said, "veto threats and fantasy land proposals will not distract the people's house from the people's priorities."
the address reflected a president disinclined to cede ground in the wake of his party's midterm losses.
obama is also calling anew for congress to raise the minimum wage and for new measures to guarantee paid sick leave for american workers.
on his college plan, the president says he wants to make two years of community college "as free and universal in america as high school is today."
while republicans have questioned the mechanics of the college plan, they have declared his tax proposal a "non-starter" in the new gop-led congress.
sen. orrin hatch, r-utah, said in a statement that the address showed obama slipping back into his role as "campaigner-in-chief," pushing higher taxes and more regulations, while issuing "premature veto threats."
in a pointed swipe sure to anger republicans, obama in his address downplayed the jobs impact of the proposed canada-to-texas keystone xl pipeline, without mentioning it by name. calling for more infrastructure spending, he said: "let's set our sights higher than a single oil pipeline. let's pass a bipartisan infrastructure plan that could create more than thirty times as many jobs per year."
defending his tax plan, obama said lobbyists have "rigged" the system with loopholes and giveaways "that the superrich don't need, while denying a break to middle-class families who do."
he called for closing them "to help more families pay for child care and send their kids to college."
yet the president, as part of his tax plan, is calling for ending a tax break for college savings plans known as 529 plans. under the change, earnings on contributions could not be withdrawn tax-free, as they can be now.
the speech was dominated by economic and domestic issues, though the president did devote several minutes to addressing foreign policy and terrorism and specifically the threat posed by the islamic state.
"we will continue to hunt down terrorists and dismantle their networks, and we reserve the right to act unilaterally, as we have done relentlessly since i took office to take out terrorists who pose a direct threat to us and our allies," he vowed.
he also defended his recent decision to push for normalizing relations with cuba. despite concerns among some lawmakers in congress that the castro regime may exploit the opening to its advantage, obama urged congress to "begin the work of ending the embargo."
the speech was obama's first state of the union before a congress controlled by republicans. the party won control of the senate and built a historic majority in the house in november.
sen. joni ernst, r-iowa, elected in november, delivered the official republican response to obama on tuesday night.
she called for simplifying america's "outdated and loophole-ridden tax code" -- not to finance more spending, but improve the economy.
"so let's iron out loopholes to lower rates -- and create jobs, not pay for more government spending," she said. "the president has already expressed some support for these kinds of ideas. we're calling on him now to cooperate to pass them." | obama hits the road to push new programs, win support for his tax plan | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 70.0 | 8.0 | 5997.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 384.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 114.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 38.0 | 10.0 | 18.0 | 4.0 | 6.0 | 11.0 | 6.0 | 5.0 | 26.0 | 25.0 | 38.0 | 388.0 | 116.0 | 39.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | john white may be the silver-tongued boy wonder of the school reform movement, lauded for his political acumen and often mentioned as a future u.s. secretary of education. but last fall, louisiana<u+2019>s whip-smart and occasionally cantankerous education superintendent found himself on a lonely mission: driving his state-issued prius along the bayou state<u+2019>s two-lane highways, stopping at churches, schools and chamber of commerce meeting halls, promoting the embattled common core learning standards to a state whose governor no longer wants them.
as rain pounded down outside scott middle school in lafayette, white, in khakis and a navy blazer<u+2014>a uniform reminiscent of his prep school days<u+2014>looked like he was gaining ground. buoyant and self-assured, he told a gaggle of local reporters that the standards were going forward just fine and praised a math lesson he had just witnessed inside.
<u+201c>i<u+2019>m going to tell everyone i meet with that i just saw 25 sixth-graders knock it out of the park on the common core standards,<u+201d> he boomed.
meanwhile, back in baton rouge, louisiana gov. bobby jindal, who once praised the standards as a way to <u+201c>raise expectations for every child,<u+201d> was denouncing them and taking potshots at white. that<u+2019>s the same white who was appointed by the state board of education in 2012<u+2014>after much jindal lobbying<u+2014>to roll out a roster of education initiatives, among them, yes, the common core.
today, white, once called <u+201c>jindal<u+2019>s boy<u+201d> by political insiders, is the governor<u+2019>s most celebrated public enemy, and a statewide education reform initiative years in the making may end up falling by the wayside, adding chaos and confusion to louisiana<u+2019>s already beleaguered school system.
all this could easily be chalked up as an only-in-louisiana tussle to be expected in a state whose education system is near rock bottom and whose political brawls have a tradition of being both colorful and callous. but this battle is bigger than louisiana. across the country, the common core standards, a set of rigorous k-12 english and math benchmarks designed to improve the state of the nation<u+2019>s schools, have become increasingly divisive. sponsored by the national governors association and state education chiefs, they were voluntarily adopted by 45 states and the district of columbia starting in 2010. but the standards have since become red meat for everyone from tea party activists, who cry government overreach, to lefty soccer moms, who rail against their <u+201c>corporate<u+201d> approach. the pushback is pitting political allies who came together years ago to support the standards against each other. and it is seriously undermining the power and persuasion of the nation<u+2019>s education reformers, who have long seen the standards as the crown jewel of their national efforts to improve american public schools.
whether the 39-year-old white can squash the rebellion in his own state is no small matter. it may well indicate whether other progressive reformers<u+2014>less politically skilled than he<u+2014>have any shot at salvaging the standards in their own states, and whether louisiana and other low-performing states really have the stomach for widespread school reform after all.
the ailing state of louisiana<u+2019>s public school system was once an unfortunate but accepted reality. parents who could afford to send their kids to private and parochial schools did. those who could not suffered through the spotty and unreliable public system, often holding their noses.
that all changed in the 1980s, when the state got badly burned by the now infamous oil bust. oil and gas revenues counted for as much as 41 percent of the state<u+2019>s budget in 1981, and when the industry faltered the state nearly went bankrupt. to reignite the economy, government heavies knew they needed to diversify. but they soon discovered that the state<u+2019>s bottom-of-the barrel education ranking was a billboard sign telling corporate america that louisiana had a dearth of qualified workers. <u+201c>fixing the schools<u+201d><u+2014>and fast<u+2014>became everybody<u+2019>s goal.
in fits and starts, and with some backward movement, louisiana began overhauling its community college system, increased teacher pay, rolled out new k-12 testing regimes and eventually took over failing schools, closing some and turning others into charters.
the blow from katrina in 2005 reinforced the improve-schools urgency as dozens of flailing schools in new orleans were shuttered by the storm and media outlets flocked to the city, shining a discomfiting light on their subpar quality. that helped drive even more legislative support for charter school expansion and a more defined teacher evaluation system, which jindal helped push through in 2010.
a lot of these measures were spurred on by george w. bush<u+2019>s 2002 no child left behind act, which strong-armed states into passing reform bills. but they were also the result of careful bond building between democratic and republican lawmakers as well as disparate lobbying groups<u+2014>from big business to civil rights activists. traditionally on opposite sides of the aisle and sometimes openly hostile toward each other, they were now in alliance, long-time foes suddenly together in their efforts to better educate louisiana<u+2019>s neediest students, many of them african-americans.
lane grigsby, a republican and the founder of a well-known construction firm here, says he stood behind these measures because <u+201c>you<u+2019>ve gotta have educated kids for the workforce.<u+201d> standing with him were social justice leaders like kenneth l. campbell, president of the black alliance for educational options, who calls education reform an <u+201c>equity<u+201d> issue.
but despite the across-the-aisle hand-holding and the sheer boldness of many of these measures, they fell short on many counts. from 1990 to 2010, the state<u+2019>s education ranking didn<u+2019>t budge much. and in 2010, the state<u+2019>s college readiness score was still trailing behind the national average.
the grand hope for the common core, adopted by the state board of education in 2010 and first introduced to schools in 2011, was that it wasn<u+2019>t punitive or piecemeal, like many of the state<u+2019>s earlier efforts. instead, it was an ambitious and unambiguous road map outlining the skills and knowledge every student ought to have at the end of each year. and because it asked every teacher in the state to present material that was more rigorous than what had been taught before, many thought it might have the curative effect these other measures had not.
but it was also just one part<u+2014>albeit a large one<u+2014>of the state<u+2019>s education reform agenda. and in the beginning, it was shrouded in limited controversy, seen as the best way to finally boost louisiana<u+2019>s sour education reputation.
john white arrived on the scene in the spring of 2011 just as the standards were first appearing in schools. recruited from new york to run louisiana<u+2019>s recovery school district, a reform-backed post-katrina effort, white was widely perceived as a shining star of the progressive reform movement, one of many young, ambitious intellectuals who had been dispatched to outposts around the country to battle what they saw as the movement<u+2019>s most pernicious enemy: <u+201c>low expectations.<u+201d>
but from the onset, white, who has degrees from the university of virginia and d.c.<u+2019>s tony prep school st. albans, seemed more politically astute than many of his allies. there was the brash michelle rhee, who had gotten famously booed out of washington; the beleaguered newark superintendent cami anderson, who by the summer of 2011 was struggling mightily to contain critics of her charter school expansion plans; and los angeles<u+2019> john deasy, who was ousted last fall.
yes, white<u+2019>s r<u+00e9>sum<u+00e9> read like a near carbon copy of these like-minded reformers, with stints in teach for america, eli broad<u+2019>s education leadership academy and joel klein<u+2019>s new york city department of education. but white had a roster of other line items to recommend him. while in new york, he had risen fast, helping to roll out some of the district<u+2019>s most innovative tech initiatives. he was often dispatched to the upper east side to appease parents enraged by overcrowding and the south bronx to sooth those distraught over the shuttering of their children<u+2019>s failing schools. he was quick-witted, good-looking, and, when he wanted to be, charming. further, the word on the street was klein, one of the movement<u+2019>s gurus, loved him.
this is not to say that white did not have his critics. in 2011, during his time in new orleans running the state<u+2019>s recovery school district, he was sued by three fired principals. at the same time, the state was involved in a protracted lawsuit in what eventually became a class-action lawsuit with 7,500 school employees laid-off after katrina. and he was frequently attacked by parents and educators who said he bulldozed through his education agenda items without consulting the people most impacted by them. it is a claim he fiercely denies.
but even then his enemies recognized his political might. the head of the state teachers union told me last fall that white excelled at <u+201c>behind-the-curtains work<u+201d> to the point of being <u+201c>autocratic,<u+201d> suggesting white<u+2019>s enemies hated him for the same reason his allies liked him so much: he was dogged about getting what he wanted. | louisiana<u+2019>s common core debacle | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 31.0 | 8.0 | 9260.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 613.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 195.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 90.0 | 21.0 | 28.0 | 12.0 | 18.0 | 17.0 | 20.0 | 11.0 | 33.0 | 43.0 | 60.0 | 615.0 | 195.0 | 90.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | the nation<u+2019>s hiring boom continued its momentum in march, with government data released friday morning showing the economy added 215,000<u+00a0>jobs last month.
employers have been bringing on workers at a rapid clip for the past two years, and the strengthening job market is encouraging many people who had been on the sidelines to start looking for work. that pushed the unemployment rate up slightly to 5 percent in march, according to the data from<u+00a0>the labor department.
healthy job growth also has helped reassure policymakers in washington and investors on wall street that the u.s. economy has withstood the turmoil from overseas <u+2014><u+00a0>at least so far. a slowdown in china is weakening global growth, particularly in developing countries that fed its formerly voracious appetite for natural resources.<u+00a0>in addition, a worldwide glut of oil has pummeled the once high-flying energy industry in america.
<u+201c>this is confirmation that the u.s. economy is basically the one economy in the globe that can go it alone," said tara sinclair, chief economist at jobs site indeed and economics professor at george washington university. "it can potentially be a positive contributor to global growth at a time when everyone else is slowing.<u+201d>
[how the u.s. job market is doing this month -- in charts!]
that was evident friday morning following<u+00a0>a plunge in overseas markets. japan's<u+00a0>nikkei index dropped<u+00a0>3.6 percent amid weak economic data as the country struggles<u+00a0>to combat deflation. the gloomy sentiment then spread to europe, where london's ftse was<u+00a0>down 1.35 percent.<u+00a0>adding to the<u+00a0>unease was the sharp decline in<u+00a0>u.s. crude oil futures to about $37.
on wall street, the blue-chip dow jones industrial average fell<u+00a0>more than 100 points in the first few minutes of trading on friday. but the three major indexes began reversing course by mid-morning and held onto those gains for the rest of the session, fueled by the solid jobs report and an unexpectedly strong data from the manufacturing sector.<u+00a0>the dow and the broader standard & poor's 500-stock index both closed up 0.6 percent, while the tech-heavy nasdaq rose 0.9 percent to finish at 4,915.
"the march [jobs] report is another rebuke to the wall street pessimism about an imminent downturn," said douglas holtz-eakin, a former top economic adviser to president george w. bush and head of the policy think-tank american action forum.
the government data released friday shows the retail sector added the most jobs in march, bringing on 47,000 workers. hiring was also robust in construction and health care, which each accounted for 37,000 jobs. the report also showed an encouraging pickup in wage growth. average hourly earnings rose 7 cents to $25.43 and are up 2.3 percent over the past year.
however, the mining<u+00a0>and manufacturing industries, which are most vulnerable to low oil prices and a stronger dollar, are still suffering.<u+00a0>the mining sector shed 12,000 jobs last month, while manufacturing contracted by 29,000.
in a speech in new york earlier this week, fed chair janet yellen also noted that many workers who would like full-time jobs are stuck in part-time positions. in addition, the growth in the nation's labor force in recent months suggests that many workers are still finding their way back to the job market following the worst recession in generations.
the share of workers in the labor force fell to a nearly 40-year low of 62.4 percent in september. since then, it has rebounded to 63 percent, the fastest pace of growth in more than two decades.
<u+201c>i still continue to personally believe there<u+2019>s a little more slack in the labor market than one would surmise by looking at the unemployment rate alone,<u+201d> yellen said.
the u.s. economy is not out of the woods, however. another bout of financial volatility could still threaten the progress of the recovery, and central bank officials have limited scope to combat a domestic slowdown because interest rates are already so low and its balance sheet so large. the fed cuts its benchmark interest rate to help stimulate the economy and raises it when the economy is overheating.
in her speech, yellen highlighted the need to be cautious before hiking rates again. her comments fueled a stock market rally earlier this week and helped bring down the dollar, two factors that should boost u.s. growth and provide continued momentum for the job market.
<u+201c>as long as the job market continues to expand, you can argue that the economy will be just fine,<u+201d> said<u+00a0>brad mcmillan, chief investment officer for commonwealth financial network. <u+201c>if employers are confident enough to hire, and workers have jobs and money to spend, we simply can<u+2019>t get into all that much trouble.<u+201d>
the recovery is generating more high-wage jobs -- but does that matter?
financial turmoil half a world away is melting minnesota's iron range
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | john mccain is done with trump. countless republicans have tried to distance themselves from donald trump in the 24 hours since the washington post released an audio recording wherein the republican standard-bearer made a series of lewd comments about women and describes an attempt to seduce a married woman, but the party has stopped short of withdrawing its support of the presidential candidate. the arizona senator, however, just joined the ranks of those to take their condemnations one step further. in a statement released on saturday, mccain officially rescinded his endorsement of the bombastic new york billionaire for president<u+2014>the most high-profile member of the g.o.p. to do so. he said that it is now <u+201c>impossible<u+201d> for him to continue to support trump<u+2019>s candidacy
<u+201c>i have wanted to support the candidate our party nominated. he was not my choice, but as a past nominee, i thought it important i respect the fact that donald trump won a majority of the delegates by the rules our party set,<u+201d> mccain, the 2008 republican nominee, wrote. <u+201c>but donald trump<u+2019>s behavior this week concluding with the disclosure of his demeaning comments about women and his boasts about sexual assaults, make it impossible to continue to offer even conditional support for his candidacy.<u+201d>
mccain added that he and his wife cindy will not vote for trump in november, but stressed that hillary clinton shouldn<u+2019>t count on the couple<u+2019>s vote either. <u+201c>i have never voted for a democratic presidential candidate and we will not vote for hillary clinton. but we will write in the name of some good conservative republican who is qualified to be president,<u+201d> the statement reads.
mccain previously condemned trump<u+2019>s behavior on friday<u+2014>saying that the g.o.p. nominee <u+201c>alone bears the burden of his conduct and alone should suffer the the consequences,<u+201d><u+2014>but has only now denounced his candidacy. this is by no means the first time mccain, who only begrudgingly endorsed trump, has spoken out against the former reality tv star. on several other occasions, mccain has criticized trump for offensive remarks he has made, notably his insults of the khan family and his personal attack on the senator, who he said was <u+201c>not a war hero.<u+201d>
other notable republicans, including speaker of the house paul ryan and senate majority leader__mitch mcconnell__, have criticized trump<u+2019>s statements, but have yet to pull their support for the real-estate mogul. earlier today, mike pence issued a more firmly worded rebuke of what trump said in the recording, asserting that he could neither <u+201c>condone<u+201d> nor <u+201c>defend<u+201d> it. a number of republicans, including conservative radio host hugh hewitt, have called on trump to drop out of the race and let pence lead the ticket, but on saturday during an interview with the post, trump vowed that he <u+201c>would never withdraw.<u+201d> | john mccain withdraws support of donald trump | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 45.0 | 8.0 | 2827.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 183.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 63.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 24.0 | 3.0 | 9.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 7.0 | 3.0 | 5.0 | 21.0 | 13.0 | 27.0 | 185.0 | 63.0 | 25.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | bush also said he has little confidence in trump's ability to appropriately handle america's nuclear weapons.
"i have grave doubts, to be honest with you," bush told cnn's jake tapper in an interview airing sunday on "state of the union."
"he's not taking the responsibility, the possibility of being president of the united states really seriously. for him, it looks as though he's an actor playing a role of the candidate for president. not boning up on the issues, not having a broad sense of the responsibilities of what it is to be a president," bush said. "across the spectrum of foreign policy, mr. trump talks about things as though he's still on 'the apprentice.'"
bush said trump's proposed plan of hoping isis removes syrian president bashar assad from power and then russia taking on isis is like "some kind of board game and not a serious approach."
"this is just another example of the lack of seriousness. and this is a serious time. we're under grave threats again, and i think we need a president with a steady hand," bush said. bush again dismissed trump's suggestion that george w. bush was responsible for 9/11 because it occurred during his presidency. "my brother responded to a crisis, and he did it as you would hope a president would do. he united the country, he organized our country and he kept us safe. and there's no denying that. the great majority of americans believe that," he said. "and i don't know why he keeps bringing this up. it doesn't show that he's a serious person as it relates to being commander in chief and being the architect of a foreign policy," bush added. bush said his defense of the 43rd president's response to the attacks isn't just because he's his brother. "i mean, so next week, mr. trump is probably going to say that fdr was around when japan attacked pearl harbor. it's what you do after that matters. and that's the sign of leadership," he said. "you don't have to have your last name named bush to be able to understand that." despite trump leading the polls, bush predicted that support for him will eventually fade. "i don't think trump is going to win the nomination. i think we're going to have a nominee that will unite the party," bush said. he also offered praise for democratic front-runner hillary clinton's debate performance, though he argued the policies she supports are bad for the country. "she did a good job in the debate, for sure," he said. "she's a smart person, no doubt about that. but every chance she had to lay out a different approach than the one we're on now, she actually doubled or tripled down on it: more taxes, more regulation, more creating barriers on people's ability to rise up." | jeb bush has 'grave doubts' about donald trump in wh | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 1.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 52.0 | 8.0 | 2685.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 193.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 58.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 22.0 | 3.0 | 8.0 | 2.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 19.0 | 8.0 | 20.0 | 195.0 | 58.0 | 22.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia on friday, according to a statement issued late sunday afternoon by her physician, lisa r. bardack.
the clinton campaign provided the statement after clinton was examined at her home in chappaqua, n.y. on sunday morning, clinton abruptly left a sept. 11 commemoration ceremony in new york city. her campaign later said she had "felt overheated."
npr political editor domenico montanaro reports that clinton was scheduled to travel to california on monday for two days, but late sunday night her campaign called off the events. domenico adds:
the ceremony at the national september 11 memorial and museum at the world trade center site marked the 15th anniversary of the attacks. campaign spokesman nick merrill said that clinton attended "to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen."
clinton departed without warning, as npr's tamara keith tells our newscast unit. "her traveling press corps was not taken with her and didn't know her whereabouts for quite some time," she says.
video published on twitter shows clinton being assisted into a van. she appears to be unsteady on her feet and wobbles on her way into the vehicle.
about 90 minutes after arriving at her daughter's apartment, clinton emerged, walking without assistance, waving to the crowd.
"i'm feeling great," she said. "it's a beautiful day in new york."
according to the national weather service, the temperature was 79 degrees with 54 percent humidity at 9:51 a.m. in manhattan.
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | as part of an<u+00a0>editorial calling for republicans to stop donald trump from becoming their presidential nominee, the boston globe on sunday imagined what covering a president trump would be like on its front page.
the globe took some editorial liberties with how trump's plans would impact the us, including the potential for riots, markets crashing, and the military refusing to obey trump's orders.
it is an exercise in taking a man at his word. and his vision of america promises to be as appalling in real life as it is in black and white on the page. it is a vision that demands an active and engaged opposition. it requires an opposition as focused on denying trump the white house as the candidate is flippant and reckless about securing it.
the globe's predicted results to trump's policies don't seem too far off from reality: deporting 11 million unauthorized immigrants would likely cause a lot of social unrest in the us, and trump has explicitly called for violence at his rallies. imposing taxes on foreign goods if trump can't get the trade deals he wants would very likely hurt the economy. and former cia director michael hayden warned that the military really would ignore trump's orders to go directly after the relatives of isis members and other terrorists.
the globe looks at all of these possibilities with horror <u+2014> enough to publish a satirical front page and call for republicans to stop trump at a brokered convention, regardless of the risks to the party. | the boston globe imagined how it would cover a president donald trump. it's horrifying. | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 87.0 | 8.0 | 1484.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.0 | 0.0 | 121.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 24.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 20.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 3.0 | 10.0 | 2.0 | 6.0 | 4.0 | 11.0 | 12.0 | 12.0 | 128.0 | 25.0 | 22.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | like the titanic<u+2019>s architects realizing their fatal design flaw right around the first strains of <u+201c>nearer my god to thee,<u+201d> republicans are waking up to the realization that their presidential primary scheme is more frankenstein than frank gehry.
to protect an establishment frontrunner against an insurgent, the party frontloaded this year<u+2019>s primaries and caucuses. going into march, only 133 delegates had been allocated. super tuesday added another 595 delegates. by month<u+2019>s end, 1,537 of 2,472 delegates will be gone.
the problem: no one figured that, for the first time in modern gop history, the insurgent would wind up as the frontrunner.
which leads to the second problem: republicans looking to stop donald trump are running out of opportunities to derail him.
so far, 15 states have allocated delegates. by march 22, another 15 will have gone to the polls, leaving but 20 states between then and the first tuesday in june (just 11 weeks) to change the gop narrative.
returning to the titanic, let<u+2019>s presume the republican ship hasn<u+2019>t taken on too much water and it<u+2019>s still a viable contest.
how then to stop trump?
1. keep the field populated. to the proposition that the only way to beat trump is via a head-to-head contest: don<u+2019>t buy the spin.
the latest nbc news/surveymonkey weekly election poll played out such scenarios involving trump versus texas sen. ted cruz and florida sen. marco rubio. the results? rubio lost by six points; cruz, by 13.
assuming rubio soldiers on past the march 15 vote in florida, he and cruz need to strike an accord: they don<u+2019>t attack each other; their super pacs stick it to trump. and they draw straws to decide who has to call jeb bush to ask for his super pac join in the trump-bashing.
syndicated columnist and fox news contributor jonah goldberg takes this unholy alliance a step further, suggesting a rubio-cruz ticket ala reagan-bush in 1980. i<u+2019>m not sure it<u+2019>s in cruz<u+2019>s dna to be so magnanimous, since he leads rubio in states won and delegates earned.
trump may keep winning states moving forward, but from here on it<u+2019>s a quantity-not-quality argument, with the goal being . . .
2. keep trump under 50 percent. the number that matters most? it<u+2019>s not states won, but the 1,237 delegates needed to win the gop nomination.
of the 1,744 republican delegates left on the board after super tuesday, 391 are in winner-take-all states. the two most important: florida and ohio, on march 15. trump has to be stopped in one, if not both, to slow down the express (at present, he leads in both).
that leaves 1,353 delegates to be allocated either proportionally or by some hybrid scheme. most crucial of all: states where a 50% majority winner earns all the delegates (texas has such a system).
before super tuesday, not counting south carolina where trump won all 50 delegates, he and cruz-rubio split almost equally divided 65 delegates (31 for trump, 32 for the senators). if something similar occurs in the remaining proportional states, with trump staying near his mid-30<u+2019>s ceiling, there<u+2019>s still a shot at wheeling and dealing in cleveland.
but before we get there, we<u+2019>ll have a few<u+2026>
3. showdown states. i mentioned ohio and florida as must-have<u+2019>s for the anti-trump forces. here are three others to add to the list.
first up: wisconsin<u+2019>s april 5 primary, which comes after a two-week break in the action and where last week<u+2019>s marquette law poll has trump up by 10.
as the state with the nation<u+2019>s tenth largest catholic population, it may be an opportune moment to revisit trump<u+2019>s rope-a-pope. and don<u+2019>t forget: wisconsin gov. scott walker had some unkind words about the donald as he ended his presidential bid.
after that: indiana<u+2019>s may 3 primary. the hoosier state is home to america<u+2019>s most prophetic county seat. by the first tuesday in may, it<u+2019>s an indication of which way the political class leans: indiana sen. dan coats is no fan; gov. mike pence, who<u+2019>s up for reelection this fall, hasn<u+2019>t endorsed.
finally: if there<u+2019>s still a race, california and new jersey on june 7 <u+2013> again, after a two-week intermission. establishment republicans would love nothing more than embarrassing new jersey gov. christie on his home turf. but it<u+2019>s a winner-take-all state in trump<u+2019>s backyard (51 delegates). a more pragmatic strategy would be to go to california and take advantage of a system that awards delegates three apiece for each of the state<u+2019>s 53 congressional districts.
and from there . . .
4. outmaneuver trump now, outwit him later in cleveland. let<u+2019>s suppose trump goes to cleveland close to but shy of a guaranteed first-ballot victory (the gop<u+2019>s last multi-ballot convention: 1948).
if no one is elected on the first ballot, all 2,472 delegates can vote for whomever<u+2019>s name had been placed in nomination. which means: to outwit trump in cleveland, stack the deck with delegates willing to bail on trump once their commitment is over.
the gop<u+2019>s 437 <u+201c>pledged<u+201d> delegates (269 republican officeholders past and present, plus 168 members of the republican national committee) would be lowest hanging of anti-trump fruit. from there, cruz and rubio delegates will have to unite.
if the gop is serious about stopping the insurrection, it intervenes at the grassroots level and shops for voters not only willing to become delegates, but open to the idea of switching candidates at the convention, the political equivalent of changing horses midstream.
can trump still be stopped? yes. but it requires a lot of odd-shaped pieces to fall in place.
now, if you<u+2019>ll excuse me, i<u+2019>m off to sink into a leather chair and enjoy a cigar and brandy <u+2013> while the violins play and the lifeboats are lowered.
just in case the unsinkable doesn<u+2019>t happen.
bill whalen is a research fellow at stanford university's hoover institution, where he analyzes california and national politics. he also blogs daily on the 2016 election at www.adayattheracesblog.com. follow him on twitter @hooverwhalen. | super tuesday's over. can trump still be stopped? yes. here's how | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 65.0 | 8.0 | 5952.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 352.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 110.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 44.0 | 12.0 | 16.0 | 4.0 | 10.0 | 11.0 | 12.0 | 9.0 | 24.0 | 25.0 | 33.0 | 353.0 | 111.0 | 44.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
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this post was updated oct. 1 at 10:19 a.m.
last monday, the first presidential debate was the most-watched debate ever. a little more than a week later, the hillary clinton's and donald trump's vice presidential picks will take the stage.
trump running mate mike pence will debate clinton running mate tim kaine tuesday night at longwood university in farmville, va. unlike the people at the top of the tickets, pence and kaine are relatively unknown to voters.
on the republican side, pence has been governor of indiana since 2013. before that, he served six terms in the u.s. house of representatives.
house speaker paul ryan has called pence a "good movement conservative" and considers him a good friend. "i've very high regard for him," ryan said when pence was chosen as trump's running mate, an indicator that putting pence on the ticket might have been an olive branch from the trump campaign to more traditional conservatives.
here are five other things to know about gov. pence ahead of tuesday's debate:
pence is a born-again christian <u+2014> he became one in college <u+2014> and has put his religion in the foreground of his political persona.
"for me it all begins with faith. it begins with what matters most, and i try and put what i believe to be moral truth first. my philosophy of government second. and my politics third," pence said in a 2010 appearance on the christian broadcasting network.
and religion has indeed played a large part in his policy decisions.
one notable example is his strong opposition to abortion. while serving in the house in 2011, he introduced an amendment to defund planned parenthood because the women's health organization provides abortion services.
this march, as governor of indiana, pence signed one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. the law bans abortions due to fetal abnormalities and also requires aborted fetuses <u+2014> and those from miscarriage <u+2014> to be buried or cremated.
women in indiana protested the law by calling or tweeting at the governor's office to tell him about their periods, in an effort dubbed "periods for pence."
trump and pence, while different in temperament, have something in common: both men have hosted tv shows.
in the 1990s, pence hosted a sunday tv show in indianapolis and also had a radio talk show called the mike pence show. he described himself as "rush limbaugh on decaf," meaning while a conservative, he was not as bombastic as the popular limbaugh, who hosts his own talk show.
on his show, pence discussed the week's news and also his conservative values. in a video from 1997 published this year by politico, pence discussed kelly flinn, who was the country's first female b-52 pilot. she had just been discharged from the air force for disobeying an order to end an affair and for lying under oath about doing so.
on the show, pence discussed the "normalization of adultery" and "whether or not it was time to rethink this whole business of women in the military."
after losing early campaigns for congress, pence wrote an essay apologizing for running negative ads against an opponent, rep. phillip sharp. the indianapolis star has reported pence "swore off harsh political tactics." in the essay, pence called for "basic human decency."
in july, pence and trump sat down for a joint interview on cbs' 60 minutes. interviewer lesley stahl asked pence how he felt about some of trump's attacks on his opponents, specifically referencing "lyin' ted," trump's nickname for his last-standing primary opponent, texas sen. ted cruz. pence replied:
trump added that the two men are different people and he doesn't ask pence to be negative.
"it's probably obvious to people that our styles are different. but i promise you, our vision is exactly the same," pence added.
in 2015, he signed into law a controversial "religious freedom" bill, which spurred wide backlash. critics said the bill could allow business owners to ban lgbt customers based on a claim of religious freedom.
after "business, civic and sports leaders ... strongly called for a fix to the legislation," usa today noted, pence later signed a revised version of the law.
but pence appeared to back the bill in an interview on fox in march 2015.
"well let me say first and foremost, i stand by this law," he said. "but i understand that the way that some on the left, and frankly some in the national media, have mischaracterized this law over the last week might make it necessary for us to clarify the law through legislation. and we were working through the day and into the night last night with legislative leaders to consider ways to do that."
although his running mate has denied his own early support of the iraq war, pence was in congress at the time and voted in favor of authorizing the use of force in iraq.
in a 2002 interview with cnn leading up to the vote, pence emphasized that there was "overwhelming evidence... to suggest a connection between iraq and al qaeda," which ended up not being the case.
when trump was asked for his opinion on pence's 2002 vote on 60 minutes, he answered, "he's entitled to make a mistake every once in awhile."
when pence was asked on fox news this year about the vote, he said, "i think that's for historians to debate. i supported president bush's decision to go into iraq, as well as to go into afghanistan. i traveled downrange for 10 years in a row to visit our soldiers in operation enduring freedom and operation iraqi freedom. i stood strongly through both of them." | 5 things to know about mike pence before tuesday's debate | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 57.0 | 8.0 | 5571.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 400.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 102.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 25.0 | 10.0 | 12.0 | 5.0 | 13.0 | 9.0 | 10.0 | 4.0 | 27.0 | 22.0 | 39.0 | 402.0 | 102.0 | 25.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | part of the fun in watching two politicians debate is seeing their foreheads sweat, their spit fly, and their fists pound the podium. emotion is a hallmark of politics; at a certain point, logic and reason are tossed out the window and passion takes over, whether the setting is a televised debate or a dinnertime<u+00a0>argument.
a new study published in the journal plos one lends some support to the idea that the more emotional people get when politics comes up, the less likely they are to think things through clearly. a team led by michael bang petersen, a professor of political science at aarhus university in denmark, asked<u+00a0>58 subjects ages 19 to 32 to report their political ties. then, the researchers attached electrodes to the index and middle fingers of the participants<u+2019> nondominant hands; these measured their physiological responses by recording small amounts of sweat present on the<u+00a0>fingertips.
the subjects were then shown 16 policy proposals, each with the logo from one of two rival danish political parties affixed to it <u+2014> <u+201c>we should lower the tax on income,<u+201d> for example, or <u+201c>the police should be far more visible.<u+201d> subjects were asked to what extent they agreed or disagreed with the proposal. the catch was that the party names were assigned randomly to the proposals <u+2014> sometimes a proposal was paired with a party that didn<u+2019>t actually support it. in other words, this was a test for knee-jerk support for anything with a given party<u+2019>s brand affixed to<u+00a0>it.
perhaps unsurprisingly, it was the emotionally engaged participants who were the most knee-jerk. all things being equal, those participants who experienced a strong physiological response when their party<u+2019>s logo appeared tended to report that they agreed with that party<u+2019>s proposals, no matter their content <u+2014> that is, they blindly nodded along, at least in this experiment, to anything <u+201c>proposed,<u+201d> even fictitiously, by their<u+00a0>party.
<u+201c>we build up emotional attachments to objects if we experience them in emotional, activating contexts,<u+201d> explained petersen, and this can apply as much to politics as to any other area. <u+201c>so if positive feelings are elicited when i watch barack obama, when i go to a democratic convention, and when i<u+2019>m around other democrats, then my emotional systems will automatically begin to associate things that are linked to the democratic party with positive<u+00a0>affect.<u+201d>
once those emotional ties are in place, they<u+2019>re almost impossible to change. you can try to put yourself in a situation where your opinions are tested, said petersen, which is a good way to increase the cognitive effort involved in decision-making: if you have to justify your choice, you usually rely on reason over emotion to make it. but that can easily backfire. <u+201c>you might simply put more effort into justifying the already-held opinion rather than changing the underlying one,<u+201d> peterson<u+00a0>said.
in short, once you<u+2019>re a biased partisan, it<u+2019>s difficult to see the other side. as petersen puts it, <u+201c>it<u+2019>s like choosing football teams. you don<u+2019>t make a rational assessment about which team is better or which team deserves to win. you support your team no matter<u+00a0>what.<u+201d> | emotional attachment to political parties seems to make people more knee-jerk in their beliefs | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 94.0 | 8.0 | 3143.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8.0 | 0.0 | 224.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 66.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 43.0 | 7.0 | 10.0 | 2.0 | 6.0 | 8.0 | 6.0 | 9.0 | 17.0 | 12.0 | 27.0 | 232.0 | 67.0 | 45.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | he had also<u+00a0>vividly shown his colors<u+00a0>at that point with his daily evocation on the stump of bowe bergdahl, whom he called a <u+201c>dirty, rotten, traitor<u+201d> who would have been summarily executed back in the day <u+201c>when we were strong.<u+201d> he promised to make our military so strong our heads would spin and he declared himself a big second amendment person. he promised to <u+201c>renegotiate deals<u+201d> with every country in the world to get a better result for america although he was vague about exactly what that meant beyond complaining about all the foreign cars he allegedly sees coming off of ships in american ports.
from the beginning trump has said that we <u+201c>don<u+2019>t have time<u+201d> to be politically correct anymore, that our problems are so severe that we have to do <u+201c>whatever is necessary<u+201d> to make america great again. he has not hidden his intentions. but now that he has been a national frontrunner for more than six months, perhaps it<u+2019>s time to revisit this subject and look at his agenda as he<u+2019>s unveiled it since last summer.
first, on the deportation issue: when asked how he would go about it, he has said that he would have<u+00a0>a <u+201c>deportation force<u+201d><u+00a0>to find, detain and repatriate suspected undocumented immigrants and their children, some of whom are americans (but he<u+2019>d fix that too.) when quizzed in the debates<u+00a0>he had this to say<u+00a0>to john kasich<u+2019>s assertion that deporting all these millions of people is not a serious proposal:
all i can say is, you<u+2019>re lucky in ohio that you struck oil. that<u+2019>s for one thing. let me just tell you that dwight eisenhower, good president, great president. people liked him. i like ike, right, the expression, <u+201c>i like ike.<u+201d> moved 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country. moved them just beyond the border. they came back. moved them again beyond the border. they came back. didn<u+2019>t like it. moved them way south. they never came back. let me just tell you that dwight eisenhower, good president, great president. people liked him. i like ike, right, the expression, <u+201c>i like ike.<u+201d> moved 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country. moved them just beyond the border. they came back. moved them again beyond the border. they came back. didn<u+2019>t like it. moved them way south. they never came back.
he, of course, plans to eventually build a wall so high that nobody can climb over it, apparently enlisting jack and his magic beanstalk for engineering advice. but that comment was no joke. he<u+2019>s talking about the infamous operation wetback. and people never came back because they<u+2019>d been left in the middle of the desert without water and died.
after paris and san bernardino his authoritarianism took another dark turn.<u+00a0>his famous statement<u+00a0>that the u.s. should ban all muslims from entering the country <u+201c>until we find out what the hell is going on<u+201d> was actually the culmination of a number of comments indicating that there could be<u+00a0>a registry of muslims<u+00a0>and<u+00a0>surveillance of mosques<u+00a0>and other places where one might find american muslims. (in other words, everywhere.) he reiterated the<u+00a0>standard fatuous right wing bromide<u+00a0>about arming everyone so that they could shoot down terrorists before they have a chance to explode their suicide vests. and<u+00a0>he enthusiastically endorsed torture. and not just for interrogation purposes but as a punitive measure:
<u+201c>would i approve waterboarding? you bet your ass i would <u+2014> in a heartbeat,<u+201d> trump said to loud cheers during a rally at a convention center here monday night that attracted thousands. <u+201c>and i would approve more than that. don<u+2019>t kid yourself, folks. it works, okay? it works. only a stupid person would say it doesn<u+2019>t work.<u+201d> trump said such techniques are needed to confront terrorists who <u+201c>chop off our young people<u+2019>s heads<u+201d> and <u+201c>build these iron cages, and they<u+2019>ll put 20 people in them and they drop them in the ocean for 15 minutes and pull them up 15 minutes later.<u+201d> <u+201c>it works,<u+201d> trump said over and over again. <u+201c>believe me, it works. and you know what? if it doesn<u+2019>t work, they deserve it anyway, for what they<u+2019>re doing. it works.<u+201d>
when discussing what he would do with<u+00a0>the families<u+00a0>of suspected terrorists he was a bit more vague, but when you consider his other commentary the implication is clear:
he has a fantasy<u+00a0>about the wives of the 9/11 hijackers having foreknowledge of the attacks and tuning in on<u+00a0>tv with their children to watch daddy fly into the world trade center. except for the fact that the hijackers weren<u+2019>t married and had no kids, it would be an interesting tale.
he has also blamed san bernardino terrorist sayed farook<u+2019>s mother and sister,<u+00a0>suggesting<u+00a0>the government need to <u+201c>get tough<u+201d> to deal with them:
we better get a little tough, and a little smart, or we<u+2019>re in trouble.<u+201d> and he<u+2019>s<u+00a0>openly said he would commit war crimes<u+00a0>and explicitly target the families of suspected isis terrorists: <u+201c>we<u+2019>re fighting a very politically correct war. and the other thing with the terrorists <u+2014> you have to take out their families. when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families! they care about their lives, don<u+2019>t kid yourselves. they say they don<u+2019>t care about their lives. but you have to take out their families.<u+201d> on the domestic front, trump has made it very, very clear that in addition to his <u+201c>deportation force,<u+201d> he believes the country needs to allow the police agencies<u+00a0>much more latitude: <u+201c>we<u+2019>re going to get, you know, the gang members in baltimore and in chicago and these are some tough dudes. they<u+2019>re going to be out so fast. one of the first thing i<u+2019>m going to do is get rid of those gang members. we<u+2019>re going to be <u+2013> you know, you look at what<u+2019>s going on with baltimore, you look at what<u+2019>s going on in chicago and ferguson and st. louis the other night. we are going to get rid of those gang members so fast your head will spin. you know, we can be very tough. i just met your cops outside. those police are tough cookies. those guys <u+2013> we need law and order. we need law and order. i mean, they allowed <u+2013> in one night, that first night in baltimore <u+2013> they allowed that city to be destroyed. and they set it back 35 years. one night. because the police were not allowed to protect people. they weren<u+2019>t allowed to protect people. we have incredible law enforcement in this country and we have to be <u+2013> the head of the police in chicago is a person i know. originally from new york. he<u+2019>s a phenomenal guy. he can stop things if they<u+2019>re allowed to stop them. he can stop it. believe me. he has never explained exactly what he means when he says he plans to <u+201c>get rid of those gang members so fast your head will spin,<u+201d> but evoking his relationship close to chicago<u+2019>s police chief might be a clue. he exhorts citizens<u+00a0>to spy on each other and report activities to the authorities. and<u+00a0>he made a solemn pledge to police everywhere: <u+201c>one of the first things i<u+2019>d do in terms of executive order, if i win, will be to sign a strong, strong statement that would go out to the country, out to the world, anybody killing a police man, a police woman, a police officer, anybody killing a police officer, the death penalty is going to happen.<u+201d> considering the summary execution pantomime he does on the trail every day when he talks about bowe bergdahl it<u+2019>s fair to assume he has some ideas about how that might be handled. finally,<u+00a0>trump has welcomed the approbation of vladimir putin, russia<u+2019>s authoritarian-strongman leader, even going so far as to defend him against charges that he has killed journalists who challenged him. he has joked that he wouldn<u+2019>t kill any journalists himself <u+2014><u+00a0>well, probably: i hate some of these people, i hate <u+2019>em,<u+201d> trump told the crowd. <u+201c>i would never kill them. i would never do that.<u+201d> then he decided to reconsider. <u+201c>uh, let<u+2019>s see, uh?<u+201d> he said aloud, his voice rising. <u+201c>no, i would never do that.<u+201d> trump<u+2019>s comments on journalists came after he spoke about russian president vladimir putin, who lavished trump with praise last week. claims that putin ordered the killings of russian journalists are well-documented, but trump has argued that those deaths are disputed and without evidence. trump did charge once again that some of the reporters in the back of the room are <u+201c>such lying disgusting people,<u+201d> but as the crowd turned to angrily face those reporters, trump pulled them back. this past week<u+00a0>trump spoke admiringly of another despot<u+00a0><u+2014> north korea<u+2019>s kim jong un: <u+201c>you<u+2019>ve got to give him credit: how many young guys <u+2014> he was like 26 or 25 when his father died <u+2014> take over these tough generals and all of a sudden, you know, it<u+2019>s pretty amazing when you think of it. how does he do that?<u+201d> <u+201c>even though it is a culture, and it<u+2019>s a culture thing, he goes in, he takes over, he<u+2019>s the boss. it<u+2019>s incredible.<u+201d> <u+201c>i mean, it<u+2019>s amazing that a young guy would go over and take over. you know, you would have thought that these tough generals would have said no way this is gonna happen when the father died. <u+201c>so he<u+2019>s gotta have something going for him, because he kept control, which is amazing for a young person to do.<u+201d> he did say kim was a <u+201c>total nut job<u+201d> but it<u+2019>s fairly obvious trump doesn<u+2019>t see that as much of a problem. <u+201c>he<u+2019>s the boss<u+201d> and <u+201c>he kept control<u+201d> and that is what trump sees as true leadership. he figures that just as he would get along well with putin, he and kim jong un could forge and understanding.<u+00a0> they all have a lot in common. and millions of freedom loving republicans think that<u+2019>s just terrific. his poll numbers have never gone down since he threw his hat in the ring last june. they aren<u+2019>t backing him because he<u+2019>s promising to shrink the government or lower taxes or create jobs. he very rarely even brings such issues up. what he talks about on the stump is how popular he is, how much money he has, and how hard he will bring the hammer down on all the <u+201c>bad people<u+201d> who are making america not so great. and he will have so many victories they<u+2019>ll be coming out of your ears. he will do all this because all it takes is <u+201c>being tough and smart<u+201d> and 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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | felony crime declined nationwide in 2015, continuing a historic drop. but mass shootings in san bernardino, calif., and charleston, s.c. <u+2013> as well as a slight uptick in the number of murders <u+2013> have contributed to the feeling of unease.
latonya jones holds a photo of her mother, bettie jones, during a vigil on sunday, in chicago. jones, an antiviolence activist and mother of five, was accidentally killed early saturday by officers responding to a domestic disturbance on the city<u+2019>s west side, police said.
earlier this month, when new york police commissioner bill bratton told fellow officers that 2015 will end up being the safest year ever in new york city history, he paused to note that it was also <u+201c>a year of great contradictions.<u+201d>
despite the fact that the nation<u+2019>s largest city is still experiencing historic drops in crime, commissioner bratton<u+2019>s tone was somber: four police officers had died in the line of duty since this time last year, making the latest crime statistics ring somewhat hollow in a <u+201c>terrible<u+201d> year for the nypd.
and such is the mood across the nation, in many ways. a study at the brennan center for justice at new york university found that overall crime was still declining throughout the united states a bit in 2015. felony crime declined 1.5 percent nationwide, and dropped by roughly 2 percent in new york. but the highly visible violence of the past year <u+2013> such as mass shootings in san bernardino, calif.; roseburg, ore; and charleston, s.c. <u+2013> as well as a slight uptick in the number of murders, has contributed to the feeling of great contradictions when it comes to crime.
indeed, 7 in 10 americans said they believed there was more crime in the us this year than last, according to a gallup poll in october, up from 2014. that<u+2019>s despite the fact that the nation<u+2019>s crime rates have plummeted over the past two decades. but as the polling center noted about its annual survey, <u+201c>americans' perceptions of crime <u+2026> are not always on par with reality.<u+201d>
<u+201c>the public's perception of media coverage certainly gives a skewed image of what's going on with crime,<u+201d> said matthew freidman, an economist with the brennan center in new york and coauthor of the study, to npr last week. <u+201c>what we find is that though we've seen a nearly three-decades-long decline in crime rates, public perception does not match that.<u+201d>
the rise of social media and the 24-hour digital news cycle, as well as the high-profile nature of some of the deaths, may play into that.
for example, last december, two nypd officers were gunned down in their patrol cars <u+2013> randomly targeted by a man who said he wanted revenge for the shootings of black men. a sheriff<u+2019>s deputy in texas was shot at a gas station in august, and many police officers say they have felt under siege over the past year. however, there were 39 officers shot and killed so far in 2015 <u+2013> a drop from 2014, when 47 were shot and killed, according to the officer down memorial page.
at the same, concerns about the number of people shot by police or who died in custody continues to create a climate of tension throughout the country. from the death of freddie gray in baltimore to the shooting of a black teen and the accidental killing of a black mother and activist in chicago over the weekend, it has been a year in which violence has drawn much of the nation<u+2019>s attention.
it is true that many cities saw a rise in the number of murders this year. in new york, there were 339 as of christmas day <u+2013> slightly more than last year<u+2019>s all-time low of 333, but still well below the 536 murders recorded in 2010.
however, los angeles, chicago, and houston are each projected to see double-digit increases in their murder rates this year. in baltimore, milwaukee, and st. louis, rates have reached levels not seen since the 1990s, studies have found.
but scholars point out that despite such spikes this year, such statistics do not yet indicate a reversal in the dramatic drop in violence in the us over the past few decades, and can be attributed to normal variations in annual numbers. the overall crime rate is still half what it was in 1990, and nearly a quarter of what it was in 2000.
<u+201c>the increase in the murder rate is insufficient to drive up the crime rate, and using murder as a proxy for crime overall is mistaken,<u+201d> the brennan study notes. <u+201c>it is important to remember just how much crime has fallen in the last 25 years.<u+201d>
but tensions remain high, fueled in part by the terror attacks in san bernardino and paris. some 40 percent of americans say that they believe the terrorists are winning <u+2013> more than at any time after 9/11 <u+2013> according to a cnn/orc poll released monday.
with the rise of the black lives matter protest movement calling for an end to policing policies that activists say unfairly target minorities, many continue to perceive a <u+201c>year of great contradictions.<u+201d> since last year, some high-profile deaths of black men and some women at police hands have prompted continued clashes and a feeling of unease within the nation<u+2019>s law enforcement systems and the communities they serve.
in chicago, police shot and killed two black people over the holiday weekend, including a 55-year-old mother of five and antiviolence activist who was accidentally killed after officers responded to a domestic disturbance by an emotionally disturbed college student.
the shootings come just a month after the justice department began an investigation of the chicago police department after the release of a video showing the shooting death of a black teen last year. the video led to murder charges for the white police officer who shot the teen and the resignation of the city<u+2019>s police commissioner.
by contrast, on monday, a grand jury in cleveland declined to bring charges against either of the two officers involved in the shooting of 12-year-old tamir rice, who was playing with an airsoft gun in a park at the time he was shot.
in new york, like the rest of the country, many report a growing sense of anxiety about crime and policing. but in the past five years, crime continued to fall, even as police have made dramatically fewer arrests.
new york city police arrested about 333,000 people through dec. 20, the new york times reported, down 13 percent from the 385,000 arrested last year. and these numbers are way down from the 423,000 arrests made in 2010.
so despite the fact that 2015 has been in many ways a rough and contradictory year, police officials are optimistic as both overall crime and the number of arrests continue to fall.
<u+201c>this is going to be, potentially, a very significant year in terms of the history of index crime in new york city,<u+201d> dermot shea, deputy commissioner of operations for the nypd, told the times. | in the united states, anxiety is up, but crime is down | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8.0 | 54.0 | 8.0 | 6744.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.0 | 0.0 | 481.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 121.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 41.0 | 20.0 | 17.0 | 8.0 | 18.0 | 8.0 | 19.0 | 12.0 | 29.0 | 35.0 | 29.0 | 488.0 | 122.0 | 42.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | for centuries, societies have erected walls and fences to separate themselves from their neighbors, from the great wall of china through the berlin wall right up to the barrier that today divides israel from the palestinians on the west bank.
the united states has debated putting up security barriers of its own along the southwest border and has spent billions of dollars in recent years fencing one-third of it.
now, donald trump is proposing to go even further, vowing to build a massive, impenetrable wall along the u.s.-mexico frontier to keep out illegal mexican migrants.
<u+201c>building a wall is easy, and it can be done inexpensively,<u+201d> the republican presidential candidate said in an interview. <u+201c>it<u+2019>s not even a difficult project if you know what you<u+2019>re doing.<u+2019><u+2019>
the wall has become the signature proposal of trump<u+2019>s campaign, which has stirred widespread controversy over its focus on illegal immigration and his comments about immigrants.
any wall-building effort would cost billions of dollars and encounter a variety of obstacles, according to experts, documents and federal officials, including some of the same difficulties that bedeviled the federal government as it spent more than $7 billion on border fencing. the hurdles include environmental and engineering problems; fights with ranchers and others who don<u+2019>t want to give up their land; and the huge topographical challenges of the border, which runs through remote desert in arizona to rugged mountains in new mexico and, for two-thirds of its length, along rivers.
<u+201c>it<u+2019>s extremely challenging to put a brick-and-mortar wall along the southwest border for any number of reasons,<u+201d> said richard stana, who wrote multiple reports on border security for the nonpartisan government accountability office before retiring in 2011. <u+201c>it seems very simplistic.<u+201d>
if such a barrier could be erected, experts and government officials agreed that making it impenetrable would be virtually impossible, as is completely securing the entire 1,954-mile border. the department of homeland security is already spending millions of dollars a year to maintain existing fences and to repair breaches, according to government reports and officials, while drug traffickers and smugglers are increasingly using tunnels to pass underneath.
while a wall along much of the border might theoretically be possible, said thad bingel, a former senior u.s. customs and border protection official, <u+201c>is it desirable? at what cost, and what do you give up to pay for that?<u+2019><u+2019>
bingel <u+2014> who was involved in border fence-building during the george w. bush administration and is now a partner at command consulting group in washington <u+2014> added: <u+201c>every wall can be circumvented. people can go under it, they can go over it. .<u+2009>.<u+2009>. no one should go into this with the idea that if you just build the right kind of wall, no one will get through.<u+2019><u+2019>
trump disputed that, saying that a wall <u+201c>would be very effective<u+201d> in deterring illegal migrants and that seismic and other equipment could detect and stop any underground tunnels. <u+201c>a wall is better than fencing, and it<u+2019>s much more powerful,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>it<u+2019>s more secure. it<u+2019>s taller.<u+201d>
the veteran builder acknowledged that environmental impact studies would be difficult but said he is the one person who can rise to the challenge. <u+201c>i<u+2019>m considered a great builder, by everybody,<u+201d> he said, adding that cost is irrelevant because he would force mexico to pay for the structure. asked whether that was realistic, trump said: <u+201c>it<u+2019>s realistic if you know something about the art of negotiating. if you have a bunch of clowns negotiating, it<u+2019>s not realistic.<u+201d>
trump has emerged as a leading gop candidate partly because of his strong statements about immigration, which have included describing mexicans entering the country illegally as <u+201c>rapists<u+201d> and <u+201c>murderers.<u+201d> he has suggested at times that his proposed wall would be extensive and would cover nearly the entire border, but said in the interview: <u+201c>you don<u+2019>t have to build it in every location. there would be some locations where you would have guards, where you don<u+2019>t need it because the topography acts as its own wall, whether that<u+2019>s water or very rough terrain.<u+201d>
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the concept of a wall or fence along virtually the entire border has bubbled up occasionally in the nation<u+2019>s immigration debate, with some republicans supporting the idea. today, there are more than 45 such walls and border fences worldwide, perhaps most prominently israel<u+2019>s west bank barrier.
while israeli officials say it has reduced attacks, security specialists say that barrier, slated to be more than 400 miles long when finished, is not comparable to what would be required along the far more extensive u.s. southwest border. the israelis, they add, supplement the physical concrete barrier with a mix of border police and technology, much as the department of homeland security does in the united states.
the u.s. government began building border fencing near san diego in 1990. as dhs cracked down on illegal immigration after the sept. 11, 2001, attacks, president george w. bush dramatically expanded the effort. spending on border fencing and related infrastructure such as lighting shot up from $298 million in 2006 to $1.5 billion the following year, according to the nonpartisan congressional research service.
overall, more than $7 billion has been spent to build what is now almost 653 miles of southwest border fencing <u+2014> costing nearly $5 million per mile in some spots <u+2014> nearly half in arizona.
the costs could rise substantially if extensive new fencing was built, since it would be in increasingly remote regions without roads and in mountainous terrain, said marc rosenblum, deputy director of the u.s. immigration policy program at the migration policy institute. adding even more to the expense, he said, would be acquiring private land near the border and maintaining existing fencing.
trump<u+2019>s wall would probably cost far more than fencing, stana said, given the greater needs for construction materials and labor.
while current and former dhs officials say the fencing has been effective in deterring illegal immigration, they say it is only one part of a broader border strategy that includes expanded sensors, drones and other technology, along with growing numbers of border patrol officers.
<u+201c>our southern border is a mixture of winding river, desert and mountains. simply building more fences is not the answer,<u+201d> dhs secretary jeh johnson said in an october speech.
the government<u+2019>s difficulties in erecting fences highlight the challenges of building a wall, experts said. the fencing mandated by congress in 2006 was beset by delays, surging construction costs and disputes with private property owners, mostly in texas, dhs officials have said. the biggest failure was the virtual fence, a bush administration effort to cover the border with a high-tech surveillance system.
<u+201c>it<u+2019>s a huge effort to construct anything at the border,<u+201d> said one dhs official, who has worked in republican and democratic administrations and spoke on the condition of anonymity because trump<u+2019>s plan is part of a political campaign. <u+201c>you have lots of requirements to do construction: the environmental piece, engineering assessments. and a private landowner might not want fencing.<u+201d>
wayne cornelius, director of the mexican migration field research program at the university of california at san diego, called trump<u+2019>s proposal <u+201c>ludicrous. .<u+2009>.<u+2009>. any physical barrier can be tunneled under or climbed over or gotten around. there will always be gaps, and smugglers and migrants will seek out those gaps and go through.<u+201d>
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | (cnn) investigators are looking at surveillance video from a gas station about a mile from the new york prison where two inmates escaped over the weekend, clinton county district attorney andrew wylie told cnn on thursday night.
tracking dogs picked up the scent of prisoners richard matt and david sweat at the station and followed it east toward the town of cadyville, wylie said.
there is also a subway sandwich shop at the gas station and wylie said the prisoners might have been looking for food in the trash bin.
the store opens at 4 a.m. so it would have been staffed about the time officials believe the convicted killers broke out. there is limited security video from the store and authorities were reviewing it.
wylie said the dogs were still on the scent thursday evening and they were working their way in from the perimeter.
"if this is an actual true lead that the dogs are following on, we hope to be successful in the next 24 hours," he said.
earlier thursday, law enforcement search crews converged on a site east of the gas station in upstate new york.
a large-perimeter search area has been set up around the site, about 3 miles from the clinton correctional facility in dannemora, according to a state official and another source briefed on the investigation. guards found out about the killers' escape from the maximum-security prison during a bed check early saturday.
a resident in the area said she's confined to her house.
"i haven't left home in two days, i had to call in to work today because you wouldn't be able to return back home," brooke lepage said. "there were constant helicopters. last night they had floodlights. there was a recorded (telephone) message telling us to stay in the house and make sure outside lights were on."
in addition to the scent, investigators found an imprint either from a shoe or boot as well as food wrappers in the area, one of the two sources said. wylie said that possible bedding -- an indent in the grass or leaves -- has also been discovered.
as the manhunt intensified, new details emerged about a prison employee who officials said may have assisted the inmates in their brazen escape.
state department of corrections officials had previously received a complaint about the relationship between prison seamstress joyce mitchell and one of the two escaped inmates, according to a state official briefed on the internal investigation.
wylie confirmed the inquiry to cnn's "anderson cooper 360<u+02da>" but said the allegation was unfounded.
"there wasn't enough evidence to support a finding inside the department (of corrections)," wylie said.
but, he added: "i don't believe that the information was that there was absolutely no relationship."
wylie said sweat was removed temporarily from the prison tailor shop, where he and mitchell worked.
investigators zeroed in on mitchell -- whose relatives have denied her involvement in the breakout -- because of the earlier complaint, the source said.
state corrections officials declined to comment because of the ongoing investigation.
new york state police superintendent joseph d'amico has said mitchell, an industrial training supervisor at the prison, had befriended the men and "may have had some sort of role in assisting them."
the state police superintendent did not elaborate. but according to a source close to the investigation, authorities believe mitchell planned to pick up the inmates after their escape but changed her mind at the last minute. her cell phone was used to call people connected to matt, according to another source. it's unclear who made the calls, when they were made or whether mitchell knew about them.
mitchell told investigators that matt made her feel "special," though she didn't mention being in love with him, a source familiar with the investigation said.
while she didn't warn authorities about the escape, she has answered all their questions each time they've gone back to her, a new york state official said.
authorities are holding off on charging her with being an accomplice, hoping instead to have her continued cooperation, a new york state official told cnn.
wylie, the clinton county district attorney, said his office is considering possibly charging her with felonies. one would accuse her of being an accessory to the escape and the other would be for "promoting prison contraband."
mitchell's family is standing behind her, with her daughter-in-law telling cnn that "95% of what is being said" is not true.
paige mitchell denied that her mother-in-law was to be the getaway driver and that she helped provide the power tools used in the escape. she added that matt may have persuaded her mother-in-law to contact people for him who knew about art, saying, "her heart was in the right place."
"they don't have the facts to prove this," she said. "this is just slander and rumor."
wylie said mitchell is fully cooperating and has come to meet with investigators almost every day since sunday.
"she voluntarily seeks us out, comes in, and each day has been providing more additional information that's assisted the investigators," he told cooper.
vermont governor: the escapees are dangerous and desperate
the jailbreak has transformed the rural, idyllic swath of northeast new york from a place where people go to get away from the crowds and crime of urban life into something closer to a "military state," as one resident described it.
authorities closed parts of state route 374 on thursday "until further notice" because of a lead from the previous night, new york state police spokesman william duffy said. checkpoints were set up along a stretch from dannemora east to west plattsburgh, while authorities looked for clues.
searches were underway in hundreds of seasonal homes in a 5-square-mile area in and around west plattsburgh, with helicopters equipped with thermal cameras providing support, officials said.
the area isn't the only place law enforcement is looking.
vermont state police vessels and troopers have searched on lake champlain, which straddles the two states, as well as in nearby campsites.
but vermont gov. peter shumlin acknowledges that "we really have no idea where they are."
"this is a governor's nightmare," he added. "we're trying to protect the public safety and take care of our folks (because) these guys are dangerous, they are desperate, and they would do anything to continue their freedom."
authorities have been looking for matt and sweat since saturday morning.
the two used power tools to get out of their cells and cut into a steam pipe, navigating a tunnel of pipes and finally surfacing out a manhole.
sweat was serving a life sentence without parole for fatally shooting and then running over broome county sheriff's deputy kevin tarsia.
matt held a businessman hostage for 27 hours, and then tortured and killed him after he wouldn't give him more money.
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | hillary clinton is getting hammered for saying on <u+201c>fox news sunday<u+201d> that fbi director james comey confirmed her statements on her email scandal were <u+201c>truthful<u+201d> <u+2013> with one prominent fact-checker giving the claim four <u+201c>pinocchios.<u+201d>
the former secretary of state cited comey when asked to account for her repeated claims that she never sent or received material marked classified on her personal email account. when host chris wallace noted that comey said those things were not true, clinton disagreed.
<u+201c>that's not what i heard director comey say <u+2026> director comey said that my answers were truthful and what i've said is consistent with what i have told the american people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the emails,<u+201d> she said.
the washington post fact checker picked apart that statement, ultimately giving it four <u+201c>pinocchios,<u+201d> its worst rating for truthfulness.
<u+201c>clinton is cherry-picking statements by comey to preserve her narrative about the unusual setup of a private email server. this allows her to skate past the more disturbing findings of the fbi investigation,<u+201d> the post wrote, noting that she was relying on comey<u+2019>s statement to congress: <u+201c>we have no basis to conclude she lied to the fbi.<u+201d>
however, the fbi director did not say the same about her statements to the american public. and during testimony before a house committee, comey said it was <u+201c>not true<u+201d> that nothing clinton sent or received was marked classified. to the contrary, he said, <u+201c>there was classified material emailed.<u+201d>
the post concluded: <u+201c>while comey did say there was no evidence she lied to the fbi, that is not the same as saying she told the truth to the american public <u+2014> which was the point of wallace<u+2019>s question. comey has repeatedly not taken a stand on her public statements.
<u+201c>and although comey did say many emails were retroactively classified, he also said that there were some emails that were already classified that should not have been sent on an unclassified, private server. that<u+2019>s the uncomfortable truth that clinton has trouble admitting.<u+201d>
sen. ben sasse, r-neb., also called out clinton on twitter for the claims.
the campaign has stressed, with regard to the emails apparently marked classified, that comey acknowledged during the hearing in question the markings themselves were not properly marked. the state department also has suggested those markings shouldn<u+2019>t have been there.
comey, though, also challenged other statements by clinton during his testimony. on her claim that she used one device, comey said, <u+201c>she used multiple devices.<u+201d> and on her claim that she turned over all work-related emails, he said, <u+201c>no, we found work-related emails, thousands that were not returned."
clinton, meanwhile, acknowledged again on <u+201c>fox news sunday<u+201d> that she made a <u+201c>mistake,<u+201d> while appearing to spread the blame around.
<u+201c>i take classification seriously. i relied on and had every reason to rely on the judgments of the professionals with whom i worked. and so, in retrospect, maybe some people are saying, <u+2018>well, <u+2026> among those 300 people, they made the wrong call,<u+2019><u+201d> clinton said. <u+201c>at the time, there was no reason, in my view, to doubt the professionalism and the determination by the people who work every single day on behalf of our country.<u+201d> | clinton fact-checked on 'truthful' claim in email scandal | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 57.0 | 8.0 | 3310.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 230.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 76.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 13.0 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 18.0 | 10.0 | 19.0 | 234.0 | 77.0 | 13.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | a bipartisan bill aimed at combating human sex trafficking has hit a major snag after senate democrats -- who unanimously voted to move the bill out of committee -- hit the brakes upon discovering a republican-backed abortion provision.
though the relatively modest 68-page bill has been available for nearly two months, it wasn't until this week that senate democrats said they noticed the language, and subsequently threatened to block the bill.
as drafted, the legislation would crack down on what lawmakers in both parties agree is a seamy underworld of drugs and human sex trafficking akin to modern-day slavery. fines paid by those convicted of the sex-trafficking crimes would go into a fund to help victims.
but democrats now are balking because the legislation also contains a republican-inserted provision that bars the use of fines to pay for abortions, except in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the pregnant woman is in jeopardy.
"democrats believe that divisive issues like this should be kept off what is otherwise a broadly bipartisan bill," a spokesman for senate democratic leader harry reid said, adding that they're trying to find a "path forward."
republicans cast this as a routine extension of the so-called hyde amendment, which bans the use of federal funds for abortions except in limited circumstances. but democrats said the legislation would mark a significant expansion since it applies to personal funds paid in fines. they also noted the restriction against the use of fine money would be permanent, while the one that applies to federal funds would lapse unless renewed on a year-by-year basis.
reid said in remarks on the senate floor that "a number of people feel that it was by sleight-of-hand" that the provision was included in the measure, while "others say staff should have seen it was in the bill." a day earlier, others in his party had said flatly that no one on their side of the aisle had been informed.
but sen. john cornyn, r-texas, said democrats had, in fact, known of the abortion-related provision that republicans backed, citing discussion among aides of both parties.
republicans ripped democrats for stalling over this issue.
"this is really not an honorable time or a laudable time in the history of the united states senate," said sen. john mccain, r-ariz.
the events presented a difficult challenge for democrats, forcing them to decide if their support for abortion rights justified blocking passage of a sex trafficking measure designed to help children and women. they privately conceded they lacked the votes to strip out the abortion portion of the bill they oppose, although they expressed confidence they had enough support to prevent passage of the entire measure.
at the same time, they were forced to consider whether their aides had failed to read the bill closely enough to discover the provision when the bill was made public in january, or when it was approved unanimously in the senate judiciary committee late last month.
a statement released by a spokeswoman for the democrats on the panel said sen. patrick leahy, the party's senior committee member, did not know in advance that the abortion-related provision had been included, nor did his aides.
a spokesman for sen. amy klobuchar of minnesota, the bill's leading democratic supporter, said the lawmaker first learned of it monday.
democrats also circulated an email written by a republican aide summarizing a list of changes that had been made in the legislation from an earlier version written last year. it contained no mention of abortion.
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | the final vote in the state house was a lopsided 94-20, but flag apologists didn<u+2019>t go quietly. debate lasted 13 hours before exhausting itself around 1 a.m. thursday. the leader of the dead-enders was republican state rep. michael pitts, a 60-year-old white male, baptist, retired cop and nra devotee heretofore best known for backing south carolina<u+2019>s <u+201c>second amendment weekend<u+201d> (in which the state waives sales taxes on rifles and handguns) and a loopy plan to replace u.s. paper currency with silver and gold coins minted by the state.
pitt insists confederate soldiers only knew <u+201c>what they heard in the general store, that northern states were attacking southern states.<u+201d> he said he learned as a child to call the civil war the <u+201c>war of northern aggression.<u+201d> he didn<u+2019>t say if he calls it something else now, but he did accuse foes of <u+201c>scrubbing history.<u+201d> it was a favorite theme of flag defenders. rep. eric bedingfield said he<u+2019>d <u+201c>bathed this thing in prayer<u+201d> and <u+201c>called my pastor to pray for me,<u+201d> from which he learned <u+201c>you can<u+2019>t erase history.<u+201d> rep. j. gary simrill accused the removers of <u+201c>almost a cultural genocide.<u+201d> for sheer oddball color, no one beat senate majority leader harvey peeler, who summed things up in these lovely words: <u+201c>to remove the flag<u+2026> and thinking it would change history would be like removing a tattoo from the corpse of a loved one and thinking it would change a loved one<u+2019>s obituary.<u+201d>
for 150 years, folks like pitts, bedingfield, simrill and peeler rewrote the history of the south. when south carolina declared war on the union, 57 percent of its citizens were african-american slaves; all scrubbed from every tale of <u+201c>southern heritage.<u+201d> even the most pious ancestor worshipper knows the confederate flag is the flag of racism, slavery and sedition. it took years of arduous scrubbing and lies of satanic ingenuity to get anyone to think otherwise. the truth won<u+2019>t be restored overnight.
in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the emanuel ame church there are efforts across the south to remove confederate monuments. new orleans mayor mitch landrieu wants to take down four. three honor confederate president jefferson davis and confederate generals robert e. lee and p.g. t. beauregard. the fourth honors a post-civil war revolt against louisiana<u+2019>s reconstruction government by a band of ex-soldiers called the white league. my money is on landrieu, but the mere fact that such a monument still stands suggests how hard it<u+2019>ll be getting the south to face up to its past. it won<u+2019>t be easy anywhere.
on the day south carolina voted to lower the flag, the even loonier republicans in the u.s. house pushed to display it on confederate memorial day <u+2014> a holiday in nine states <u+2014> and sell it in souvenir shops on federal lands. a fearful john boehner shut them down, but in the months and years ahead, as the memory of charleston fades and fewer mayors, governors and house speakers see a need to spend political capital, the fight may get harder. and this is just the fight to keep the state from spreading lies. the harder fight will be to get not just the south but the whole country to commit to telling the truth, and not just about the civil war.
for years, the right has waged a war on history every bit as relentless as and even more effective than its war on science.<u+00a0> george orwell famously observed that <u+201c>who controls the past controls the future.<u+201d> in america few outside the political right took his point. it has carried the fight to colleges, media, government and especially public schools. an ineluctable lesson of charleston is that the left must finally fight back.
as far back as the early`80s the religious right sought to elect its people to school boards, often instructing them to conceal their views until after they were elected. sex education was their top priority, but they also dove into history and other social studies. in her book <u+201c>as texas goes: how the lone star state hijacked the american agenda,<u+201d><u+00a0>new york times columnist gail collins tells the story of the texas school board. only she could make this chilling tale amusing. texas is america<u+2019>s second biggest purchaser of textbooks and the state controls the purchasing so publishers have long bowed to its dictates on content.
the board was always conservative but when real fanatics took it over they began furiously rewriting curricula, substituting ideological cant for scholarship wherever possible. 2010 was a banner year for them. they bumped thomas jefferson from a list of <u+201c>influential thinkers<u+201d><u+2014>they felt him misguided in the mater of the separation of church and state<u+2014>but promoted phyllis schlafly to take his place. they also encouraged study of george wallace, the nra, the moral majority, jefferson davis<u+2019> inaugural address and the heritage foundation and told schools to tell kids joe mccarthy was right about communists infiltrating government.
the right does its most insidious work in classrooms but it wages war on history almost everywhere. you may recall that in the mid-<u+2019>90s the smithsonian planned an exhibit on the enola gay, the b29 aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on hiroshima. the american legion was instantly up in arms and the rest of the right soon followed. perhaps they feared word of the bombing would get out or that trotskyites at the air and space museum would use the incident for propaganda purposes. the exhibit was killed. after 89 brave members of congress called for his head, the museum<u+2019>s director was forced to resign.
as evidenced by dylann roof and millions who share his views if not his soul sickness, the right has been most effective and destructive in reweaving the history of the confederacy. in a piece in the washington post this week, james loewen describes the decades<u+2019> long work of southern <u+201c>historians<u+2019><u+201d> to turn the civil war from an insurrection mounted to defend human slavery into a <u+2018>war between the states<u+2019> sparked in large part by an imperious federal government bent on robbing the south of<u+00a0>its<u+00a0>liberty. loewen reminds us of how hard civil war apologists work to shape our collective memory.<u+00a0> kentucky is a border state that never joined the confederacy; 90,000 kentuckians volunteered for the union army, nearly triple the number that fought for the rebellion. today kentucky has 2 union monuments and 72 confederate monuments. it may be that conservatives care more about the past or are more susceptible to nostalgia. but erecting all those monuments took effort.<u+00a0> the right is willing to make it because, like orwell, it sees the point of controlling the past. republicans are even fonder of twisting the story of america<u+2019>s birth. in 1984 ronald reagan added the word <u+2018>shining<u+2019> to the phrase <u+201c>city on a hill<u+201d> from john winthrop<u+2019>s famed sermon to puritans bound for massachusetts. winthrop<u+2019>s message to his flock was to behave, because the whole world was watching:<u+00a0><u+201c>we shall be as a city upon a hill; the eyes of all people are upon us.<u+201d><u+00a0> reagan<u+2019>s message was almost the exact opposite; that whatever america did must be good because god chose<u+00a0>it to be the envy of all nations, a notion winthrop would have heard as sinful pride and that helped inspire the reckless self-reverential folderol known as <u+201c>american exceptionalism.<u+201d> (john kennedy was the first modern president to invoke the sermon. in a lustrous speech in boston days before his inaugural he perfectly echoed winthrop<u+2019>s call to rise to the challenge of the hour.) our founding has so much to teach us but so much of what is taught now is false. since reagan<u+2019>s death the ronald reagan legacy project, brainchild of noted social-contract shredder grover norquist, has labored to name something after reagan in every county in america. i<u+2019>d say they<u+2019>re halfway there. they also want his name on currency, and a federal holiday in his honor. norquist thinks the more stuff he names after reagan the more taxes he can cut. i think he<u+2019>s right. such is the power of propaganda. of course, the price of propaganda is ignorance. the more we fete reagan, the harder it is to tell people what a train wreck his fiscal policies were; harder still to make them believe he ever apologized to gorbachev for calling russia an evil empire<u+2014>he did<u+2013> or went to reykjavik boldly hoping to dismantle both the u.s. and soviet nuclear arsenals. he did that, too; we just don<u+2019>t know it. you<u+2019>d think a left rife with college professors and other readers of books could fight this battle at least to a draw, but outside academia it barely put up a fight. a few lonely voices<u+2014>lewis lapham and stacy schiff spring to mind<u+2013>urged all who are in any sense progressive-minded to fight those who propagandize history. but up to now it was a tough sell. among the many horrid lessons of charleston is a new awareness of the price we pay for our neglect. we know now if we didn<u+2019>t before just how many stand at the ready to pour hate into the vacuum of ignorance. the myth of the confederacy may be the worst lie we tell, but countless others need correcting. there are lots of ways to do it, all with practical impact. if you fear the erosion of the right to privacy or the rule of law, you might think it time to remove j. edgar hoover<u+2019>s name from the fbi headquarters in washington. (feel free to consider this essay a kickstarter for that project.) we are right to celebrate the heritage of millions of italian americans who came to our shores. but what of the millions of americans who got here 10,000 years before them?<u+00a0> might not columbus share his weekend with those whom we systematically exterminated? and speaking of heritage, the deal to lower the flag at south carolina<u+2019>s capitol included a promise to spend millions on a shrine to it somewhere off premises. shouldn<u+2019>t such a shrine await construction of a bigger one to the millions of proud south carolinians who spent the civil war years in bondage? the right says the left wants only to disparage america. if nothing else, the last few weeks should teach us to question the depth of the right<u+2019>s oft-proclaimed love of country, just as we<u+2019>d question the spirituality of the publicly pious. it seems when the right isn<u+2019>t busy kicking other people out of america, it<u+2019>s busy threatening to leave. (see the borderline secessionist and outright nullification sentiments voices by so many republican presidential candidates.) the funny thing is there is so much about this wonderful, diverse nation that, given the chance, liberals could teach conservatives to love. you can<u+2019>t really love what you don<u+2019>t really know. the poet william blake had a theory that we all move from innocence, a joyous state in which all chimney sweeps seem happy and well, to experience, a sadder one in which we perceive their ill health and general misery. but blake said there<u+2019>s a third state we can attain in which we see suffering but still rejoice in life. he called this state, for some reason, organized innocence. we need a patriotism that is the moral equivalent of blake<u+2019>s organized innocence, an informed patriotism that lets us see all that we are, the bad and the good; a mature love of country that begins as it should in our love for one another and in our devotion to truth. it is to such patriotism that a true knowledge of history invites us. | let<u+2019>s make the south stop lying: the right<u+2019>s war on our history <u+2014> and truth <u+2014> must be defeated now | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 98.0 | 8.0 | 11233.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 714.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 254.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 97.0 | 42.0 | 41.0 | 30.0 | 44.0 | 39.0 | 36.0 | 21.0 | 63.0 | 68.0 | 93.0 | 719.0 | 257.0 | 97.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
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(cnn) without remotely the same level of name recognition, campaign infrastructure or media spotlight, sen. bernie sanders has already posed a significant challenge to hillary clinton's campaign for the democratic presidential nomination. just imagine what tuesday's nationally televised debate, hosted by cnn, could do.
the underdog sanders leads clinton in the early primary state of new hampshire and is within striking distance in iowa, although he continues to trail the former secretary of state by double digits among democrats nationally.
arguably, sanders' popularity among democratic voters is fueled as much by who sanders isn't as who he is: his populist positions and regular-guy disposition stand out in contrast with the chronically calculating and centrist clinton.
and this debate is his to lose: just by showing up on the same stage as the presumptive front-runner and showing a wider audience that he can substantively and stylistically challenge clinton, sanders gains.
but what about clinton? she wants to avoid a protracted fight for the democratic nomination, not to mention the sort of upset she suffered at the hands of barack obama in 2008. so it's in her best interest to brush aside sanders as soon as possible. the first democratic primary debate is her earliest and best opportunity to do so. how?
look for clinton to employ three strategies.
first, she'll likely try to lump her positions in with those of sanders (and the other democratic contenders) and say that all of the democratic candidates mainly share the same vision and the party's best interest is served by picking the one with the best shot at being elected.
electability is clinton's strongest argument, especially as more and more democrats become legitimately freaked out by the cast of characters vying for the republican nomination. it's in clinton's interest to de-emphasize the ideological differences on the democratic side and imply more agreement than not -- which is, for the most part, true.
sanders will try to poke holes in that script, especially with respect to clinton's economic agenda, which has been rhetorically populist but conventionally centrist in policy terms.
sanders and many populist democrats have opposed the agreement as a giveaway to big business that will hurt american workers. while clinton tacitly backed the deal while secretary of state, she's now free to express her own opinion separate from the stance of the obama administration.
will she ally herself with populist opposition to the trade deal? and even if she does, will people believe her stance is anything more than crass opportunism to win voters fleeing her for sanders?
clinton's second strategy will likely be try to highlight ways in which she is more progressive than her democratic opponents, especially sanders. the recent mass shooting in oregon, just days before the debate, yet again brings to the surface the concerns of democratic voters -- and voters in general -- who are fed up with congress' failure to pass common-sense gun laws despite overwhelming need and widespread public support.
here, clinton can draw a clear contrast with sanders, who has opposed some gun control measures and is out of step with the majority of democratic primary voters on this issue. while she may have difficulty demonstrating her sincerity on economic populism, here the contrast with the senator from vermont is strong -- his weak record on guns is a hard position to defend, especially now.
similarly, clinton can try to distinguish herself as more progressive in addressing racial bias and structural racism. despite sanders' self-professed position as the most progressive candidate, in speaking about racial justice, police violence and the black lives matter movement, he has been woefully inadequate at best.
clinton hasn't been much better, with her discussions on race often tainted by an unsettling defensiveness. but she's still clearly more comfortable talking about race than sanders and has given more thought to how racial injustice poisons america's institutions and culture. talking about this more in the debate will be good for america -- and good for her candidacy.
third, look for clinton to try to connect authentically with viewers at home and show her human side. many voters may get lost in the substantive back and forth over what clinton supports versus what sanders supports and their various policy-based accusations against each other. but elections are also about gut instincts over which candidate shares your values and vision. and those gut instincts are especially triggered when voters see the candidates side by side.
for her part, clinton can say all the right things, but if she spouts populist rhetoric while sounding like an out-of-touch patrician, it won't work. that's not to say clinton should emphasize showing more of her heart and humor, as campaign aides have promised in a retooling. rather she should just be her damn self and show that to the voters. we don't want a particular personality so much as we want a real person. hopefully, if nothing else, trump has taught candidates that.
the first democratic debate will be pivotal since voters will form first, and perhaps lasting, impressions of how the candidates match up. it is sanders' debate to lose. but, if she plays it right, it could also be clinton's debate to win. | bernie vs. hillary: who connects better with voters? | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 52.0 | 8.0 | 5539.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 388.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 98.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 40.0 | 17.0 | 10.0 | 5.0 | 14.0 | 6.0 | 11.0 | 6.0 | 20.0 | 26.0 | 33.0 | 391.0 | 98.0 | 41.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | (cnn) saturday was a big day for bernie sanders' quest for the democratic presidential nomination as he swept to resounding victories in the caucus states of hawaii, washington and alaska. but the delegate math is still in hillary clinton's favor.
"we knew things were going to improve as we headed west," sanders said at a jubilant rally before 8,000 people in madison, wisconsin -- a state that will hold the next major contest in 10 days. "we have a path toward victory."
clinton built up her delegate lead on the back of a strong run in the south, and sanders argued saturday his campaign always knew those states would be tough. in madison, he said the map now offers more opportunities for his campaign as the contest progressed, largely because his wins are being powered by huge turnout among younger voters.
"with your help we're going to win right here in wisconsin," he said. "so don't let anyone tell you we can't win the nomination, or win the general election. we're going to do both of those things."
but even with his big victories on saturday, sanders faces steep hurdles in catching clinton in the delegate count. while washington had 101 delegates up for grabs, and both candidates spent a significant amount of time there, hawaii and alaska were relatively small prizes -- with just 25 and 16 delegates at stake respectively.
clinton's campaign privately acknowledged that saturday would be a good one for sanders, and her efforts in washington were aimed mostly at trying to keep the race relatively close, as delegates are distributed proportionally. but with over 90% delegates accounted for, sanders held a wide lead over clinton in washington, 72% to 28%. alaska was more lopsided: sanders won 80% to 20%.
even though wisconsin could be fertile territory for sanders on april 5, clinton is poised to do well in her home state of new york on april 19 with its 247 pledged delegates. she also faces favorable territory in the upcoming super tuesday contest on april 26 when pennsylvania, connecticut, delaware, rhode island and maryland voters head to the polls and nearly 400 pledged delegates are at stake.
while sanders shaved clinton's lead in the delegate count, the former secretary of state had amassed 1,711 of the 2,383 delegates she would need to clinch the nomination before saturday's contests, according to cnn estimates. before the voting saturday, sanders had notched 952 delegates to date. that means he would need to win 75% of the remaining pledged delegates to defeat her.
clinton did not address the results publicly on saturday, but her campaign sought to raise money off her losses in saturday's contests, portraying them as a warning to donors. a short time after cnn projected alaska as a win for sanders, clinton campaign manager robby mook circulated an email to her supporters billed as a "quick update on bernie sanders."
"we haven't caught up in online fundraising, and our opponent could do very well in today's caucuses in washington, alaska, and hawaii," mook said in the email before the washington and hawaii results had been called. "now, i don't want to paint too gloomy a picture -- you've been amazing. thanks to you, we still have a commanding delegate lead, and we can secure this nomination for hillary with your help," he said, asking them to "chip in."
sanders's strategists have argued that their unique fundraising capabilities could help them pull off an upset -- arguing that the process for clinton was "frontloaded" and that they have grassroots fundraising resources that past campaigns have lacked.
washington and alaska had always looked to be favorable territory for sanders, because they are predominantly white and rural -- states with the kind of demographic makeup that has favored sanders.
"he's obviously doing well in these western caucus states, because you get a very committed base of younger voters who are willing to show up and stand in line in states like idaho and utah for hours," said veteran democratic strategist bill carrick, who is unaligned in the presidential race this cycle. "the message that sanders has is a classic western populist message: wall street is sticking it to us, these big money interests are sticking it to us, and we're out here scrambling, paying pretty heavy negative dividends for their behavior."
but clinton had campaigned in washington after losing to barack obama by about a 2-1 margin in 2008. her campaign made a major push to get voters to return washington's version of absentee ballots -- known as "surrogate affidavits" --- mailing them directly to voters with postage-paid return envelopes.
given those efforts, the size of sanders's margins on saturday served as a warning shot to clinton, allowing him to make the argument at his rally in madison that he was "making significant inroads" into clinton's delegate lead.
that is key to the sanders strategy going forward, particularly when it comes to swaying superdelegates, who could be key at the democratic convention in july. currently clinton has the edge with some 482 superdelegates pledging to support her, according to cnn estimates. but sanders allies point out those people can always change their minds.
"there are hundreds of other superdelegates, by the way, who are uncommitted," sanders campaign manager jeff weaver told cnn's suzanne malveaux in an interview saturday. "for them, it would be very easy for them to be with the secretary, but they're not which tells you something about where they probably are."
"superdelegates want to win in november," weaver continued, "and as we demonstrate in the second half of this primary season that we have the momentum, that we can carry with large margins these states, and with the public polls which have shown consistently that bernie sanders does better against every single possible republican than does hillary clinton -- i think superdelegates are going to begin to take another look."
the excitement for sanders, marked by a large rally at seattle's safeco field friday evening, is something sanders is counting on as he heads in to the delegate-rich contests that favor clinton on the east coast.
dan schnur, director of the jesse m. unruh institute of politics at the university of southern california, said sanders wins in small and medium-sized states "almost certainly will not be enough to derail clinton from the nomination," but adds there's more to it for the vermont senator.
"for all practical purposes, winning states like these are talking points for sanders," schnur said. "but for what he's after at this point, talking points might be good enough. in other words, winning alaska and hawaii isn't going to keep clinton from getting the nomination, but it keeps his supporters enthused; it keeps the money coming in; and allows him to continue having a platform."
polling had been scarce in hawaii and alaska, making it difficult to predict the outcome of those contests heading in to saturday, but sanders outspent clinton on the airwaves.
sanders's wife jane campaigned in hawaii last sunday and monday with popular rep. tulsi gabbard, who broke with democratic party leadership to show her support for sanders.
this week sanders released an emotional ad featuring gabbard, who served a 12-month tour in iraq, talking about the importance of sanders' vote against the iraq war and his pledge to "take the trillions of dollars that are sent on these interventionist, regime change, unnecessary wars, and invest it here at home."
"the american people are not looking to settle for inches," gabbard says in the ad. "they're looking for real change."
as in other states, turnout was high in hawaii on saturday. there were long lines outside manoa elementary in honolulu as voting got started at 1 p.m. local time saturday.
officials were expecting at least 15% more democratic voters than eight years ago when 37,583 democrats voted. this year, the party protectively printed 100,000 ballots, hawaii democratic spokesperson ethan oki said. | bernie sanders' big day | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 23.0 | 8.0 | 8028.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 495.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 136.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 51.0 | 9.0 | 23.0 | 2.0 | 9.0 | 14.0 | 12.0 | 9.0 | 27.0 | 19.0 | 43.0 | 497.0 | 136.0 | 51.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | after super tuesday and thursday<u+2019>s candidate brawl at the 11th gop presidential debate, let<u+2019>s call this latest experiment in democracy <u+201c>stop-by saturday<u+201d> <u+2013> four states in the northeast, southeast and midwest holding gop primaries and caucuses.
a very big vote awaits the four remaining republican candidates tuesday in michigan, followed a week later by winner-take-all primaries in florida and ohio. the field may be down to just two candidates after that.
still, what transpired saturday in kansas, kentucky, louisiana and maine mattered for these four reasons:
1. trump<u+2019>s fertile(?) ground. one thing we<u+2019>ve learned about donald trump and his flying circus: there are plenty of states amenable to his message of economic frustration and rage against the political machine.
that includes maine, which caucused on saturday <u+2013> and, going into saturday, was presumably trump territory.
after years of economic decline in the form of a shrinking manufacturing base, down easterners now face the question of whether to encourage immigration to meet growing employment demands.
twice in the last six years, the state<u+2019>s chosen the bombastic paul lepage as its governor. he has a chris christie-like style of bully politics and a trump-like way with political incorrectness (for example, earlier this year blaming maine<u+2019>s heroin epidemic on <u+201c>guys by the name d-money, smoothie, shifty<u+201d>).
the point: the seeds for trump<u+2019>s success may have sown well before he plowed the 2016 field.
however, in maine, trump came a cropper (though he did claim kentucky and louisiana, for a split decision on the night). credit texas sen. ted cruz with out-organizing trump in yet another small, rural-tinged caucus.
but with primaries now taking over from caucuses, are these latest returns a sign of coming attractions or just a bad stretch of road for the trump express?
2. trump<u+2019>s a frontrunner, but not a conservative favorite. all four states on saturday had closed primaries or caucuses, which meant that only republicans were eligible to vote (in maine, independents could do same-day gop registration; otherwise, voters had to come over to the republican side weeks before the polls opened).
before saturday, trump had dominated in a february and super tuesday heavy with states employing <u+201c>open<u+201d> voting rules. iowa, nevada, alaska and oklahoma were the only closed affairs <u+2013> trump<u+2019>s batted one-for-four (you can expect talk about frontloading more closed primaries and minimizing if not eliminating open primaries when the gop turns to 2020 planning).
this made kansas, in particular, worth watching as both trump and cruz worked the state hard immediately after super tuesday.
going into the jayhawk caucuses, this trafalgar group poll had trump up by 6 points over texas sen. ted cruz (35.2percent-29.3 percent), with florida sen. marco rubio a distant third (16.6 percent).
granted, stop-by-saturday polling was scarce, but this time the swollen turnout (in kansas it was up by 50 percent over 2012), absent democratic and independent crossovers, didn<u+2019>t break trump<u+2019>s way.
between trump<u+2019>s setbacks in kansas and maine and cruz<u+2019>s victory in the cpac straw poll, we seem to have a paradox: the republican frontrunner is not a conservative favorite.
3. the delegate math. the four states offered a combined 155 delegates <u+2013> that<u+2019>s the same exact number as texas, 10 fewer than florida/ohio and 17 fewer than california. moving forward, fewer than 1,600 of the gop<u+2019>s 2,474 delegates are still up for grabs.
saturday<u+2019>s results aren<u+2019>t a game-changer, but they do factor into a trump march to the nomination that<u+2019>s long or short depending on the candidate<u+2019>s ability to gobble up winner-take-all states and increase his delegate share in proportional outcomes (that may increase if it<u+2019>s just trump and cruz going at it).
and there<u+2019>s one other gop convention equation. which would be . . .
4. adding up to eight. the other reason why kansas and maine mattered for cruz: the gop rule that only candidates with a majority of delegates in a minimum of eight states can qualify for the convention<u+2019>s nominating ballot (the party can always change this before the nominating begins, but to do so would be contentious <u+2013> if not downright ugly).
cruz now has six such states. the better question, how the math adds up for rubio and ohio gov. john kasich.
if rubio wins florida, that brings his total to two states (he won minnesota on super tuesday). if kasich carries his home state, that brings his total to<u+2026>one.
how does either candidate get to eight, given that only 19 states remain after march 15?
that<u+2019>s not the only question after saturday<u+2019>s vote. here are four more:
- will this soon be a two-man race between trump and cruz?
- does that improve or harm trump<u+2019>s chance of a first-ballot win in cleveland?
- do rubio and/or kasich find redemption on their home turf?
- the more republicans flail about, is hillary clinton suddenly living a charmed political existence?
on a saturday night like march 5, when the race takes yet another odd twist, those answers still seem far away.
bill whalen is a research fellow at stanford university's hoover institution, where he analyzes california and national politics. he also blogs daily on the 2016 election at www.adayattheracesblog.com. follow him on twitter @hooverwhalen. | trump, cruz keep on winning. four reasons why 'super saturday' matters | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8.0 | 70.0 | 8.0 | 5322.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 332.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 85.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 29.0 | 10.0 | 18.0 | 7.0 | 10.0 | 12.0 | 6.0 | 12.0 | 22.0 | 21.0 | 40.0 | 335.0 | 85.0 | 29.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | gary johnson's presidential campaign of actually going places, standing in front of big crowds, and talking continues, moving from miami on wednesday to las vegas yesterday.
from the las vegas review-journal's account of his appearance before a "high energy" crowd with his usual framing of wanting to keep government out of the bedroom and the pocketbook:
johnson told attendants that libertarianism is about choice, noting he's pro-gay marriage and believes abortions should be the decision of the affected women. he called the death penalty "flawed public policy" and favors legalizing marijuana. in nevada, "you have the chance to do it and you're going to do it," johnson said of the november referendum that could legalize recreational marijuana for users over the age of 21.
they remain hopeful about reaching the commission on presidential debates 15 percent in five polls threshold, even if perhaps not by the first one:
weld raised the possibility that even if they can't reach the polling benchmark by the first debate, slated for sept. 26, that if polling continues they could reach eligibility for a later debate. the last presidential debate is slated for oct. 19 at unlv. coalition to regulate marijuana like alcohol spokesman joe brezny, who ran the nevada campaign for mitt romney's presidential bid four years ago, said thursday that he's supporting johnson and weld and noted of republicans that he "watched some good people nominate the least electable person in mankind."....
weld contended to cheers that the fiscal conservatism he and johnson demonstrated in their gubernatorial tenures is just what's needed in washington d.c. johnson, meanwhile, pledged that if elected, he would present congress with a balanced budget within the first 100 days of taking the white house.
<u+2022> montanan political analysts and watchers think johnson could easily double his 3 percent from 2012:
montana voters have shown in past elections that they will support candidates who do not represent the two major political parties. just four years ago, libertarian candidate dan cox received 6.5 percent of the vote in montana's senate race. some political analysts speculated his strong showing prevented republican denny rehberg from beating incumbent sen. jon tester, a democrat
<u+2022> if he reaches $10 million in direct campaign donations, he runs the risk of being offered secret service protection. a campaign email today says that in just this month so far they've pulled $3 million from 92,000 distinct donors.
<u+2022> reporting from the sun journal in maine on the nature of johnson's appeal and the libertarian party's situation in the state. johnson will be appearing in maine on august 26:
"it was like he was saying everything in my brain," [heidi] sawyer said. "for me, johnson represents fiscal conservatism, small government, not wasteful spending, a government where more money would go to classrooms and where they'd make sense." sawyer, the creator of the popular lewiston rocks facebook page, was intrigued. "things like that perked my interest," she said. sawyer said she's fiscally conservative but socially liberal. she's not opposed to gay marriage. "i don't care about what people do in their bedrooms," she said. the libertarian party isn't about foreign involvement, "fighting wars creating more conflict. i want to make sure we're not putting our nose where it shouldn't be." so, sawyer became a maine state volunteer coordinator for the libertarian party...
the maine l.p. needs to have "10,000 registered voters who are enrolled in the party cast ballots in the general election, among other provisions in maine law," to maintain ballot status as an official party, according to the state government.
i reported earlier on maine's difficult but ultimately successful fight to get on the ballot this year. | libertarian gary johnson tries his luck in las vegas | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 52.0 | 8.0 | 3836.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 249.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 72.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 24.0 | 11.0 | 19.0 | 4.0 | 10.0 | 12.0 | 7.0 | 9.0 | 25.0 | 15.0 | 34.0 | 254.0 | 73.0 | 24.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | 6 major supreme court cases that would have been different without scalia
in terms of the ideological balance of the supreme court, the death of justice antonin scalia is monumental. with scalia, the court had four reliable conservative votes and, in justice kennedy, the court had a conservative swing vote.
that led to many decisions that were decided by a razor thin 5-to-4 margin. to gauge scalia's importance, we dug through the supreme court database and found that during obama's presidency, 53 cases have been decided by a 5-4 majority that included scalia.
here are six cases that could have turned out vastly different without scalia: | 6 major supreme court cases that would have been different without scalia | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 73.0 | 8.0 | 647.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 47.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 3.0 | 12.0 | 52.0 | 7.0 | 5.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | this past weekend, the donald finally pushed a button that was too much for jeb to bear: he made the factual observation that jeb<u+2019>s brother had been president on 9/11. well, all hell broke loose, as<u+00a0>every gop establishment figure rose<u+00a0>up in untamed fury that trump<u+00a0>would be rude enough to bring such a thing up. why, that<u+2019>s<u+00a0>sacrilege.
bush followed up with a bizarre tweet which encapsulates the central vulnerability of his campaign and calls into question his entire rationale for running.
this<u+00a0>is a strange<u+00a0>argument, if only because<u+00a0>trump is<u+00a0>obviously<u+00a0>correct:<u+00a0>the attack happened on george w. bush<u+2019>s watch. thus, it<u+2019>s undeniable that he did not keep us safe. but up until now, it<u+00a0>has<u+00a0>been considered something of a faux pas<u+00a0>to even say as<u+00a0>much.
sure, there were some malcontents on the left who tepidly pointed out the<u+00a0>obvious truth <u+2014> that if al gore had been president at the time, the republicans would have impeached him (if not tried and hanged him for treason) <u+2014> had<u+00a0>the shoe been<u+00a0>on the other foot. that<u+2019>s fairly obvious. but people mostly decided to eschew the blame game after 9/11.
gore, for his part,<u+00a0>came forward to declare<u+00a0>that<u+00a0><u+201c>george w. bush is my commander in chief<u+201d> and exhort his fellow democrats to <u+201c>unite behind our president <u+2026> behind the effort to seek justice, not revenge, to make sure this will never, ever happen again.<u+201d> soon after, the entire congress, except for rep. barbara lee, backed the president<u+2019>s decision to invade afghanistan. there was very little political dissension. indeed, the only serious partisan sniping came from people on the right like andrew sullivan,<u+00a0>claiming without evidence that <u+201c>the left<u+201d> was in league with the terrorists. but for the most part, any<u+00a0>blame<u+00a0>for the attacks was<u+00a0>muted and relegated to the extremes.
the government investigated, of course, and quite thoroughly. it created a blue ribbon, bipartisan commission which interviewed everyone involved, held public hearings and<u+00a0>published a report in book form for the entire country to see. the hearings were particularly riveting as the nation got to hear from various insiders about what had been going on before, during and after the attacks. most memorable was<u+00a0>former terrorism czar richard clarke,<u+00a0>who testified<u+00a0>that he and others had been running around with their <u+201c>hair on fire<u+201d> trying to get the administration to focus on the high probability of an imminent terrorist attack on u.s. soil.
and everyone remembers national security advisor condoleeza rice, under questioning by the commission,<u+00a0>admitting<u+00a0>that the president had been given a very specific memo warning of the attacks on august 6th, 2001, almost a month before the attacks. when asked what the title of the memo was, rice replied, to gasps from the audience there and undoubtedly in every living room in america, <u+201c>i believe it said <u+2018>bin laden determined to strike inside the united states.'<u+201d>
it was a while before america got to see that memo, but when we did, we saw that they explicitly warned that they would <u+201c>follow the example of world trade center bomber.<u+201d><u+00a0>it said that in the first paragraph.
there was also a lot of information about the president<u+2019>s response to the attacks, including the rather bizarre fact that vice president dick cheney seemed to have<u+00a0>taken over control<u+00a0>in the early going and that the commission was<u+00a0>not allowed to interview the president outside the vp<u+2019>s presence.<u+00a0>but with all that, there was no select committee on 9/11 formed after the democrats took over the congress in 2006 to go over the same ground. they did not belabor the issue by calling more witnesses and subpoenaing more documents and keeping the issue alive as a scab that would never heal on the backs of the families who lost loved ones on that awful day. they did not, in other words, turn 9/11 into a partisan witch hunt.
donald trump, of course, doesn<u+2019>t care about any of that. he<u+2019>s just a street fighter who says whatever comes into his head. and he<u+2019>s perfectly happy to yank jeb bush<u+2019>s chain and force<u+00a0>him to answer for the fact that his brother was treated far better than he and his brother and all the rest of them would have treated any democrat<u+00a0>in that situation. he<u+2019>s willing to go where no one else was: he<u+2019>s blaming bush for 9/11.
jeb, for his part, appeared on cnn<u+2019>s state of the union<u+00a0>on sunday<u+00a0>to respond to trump<u+2019>s needling, and clumsily said that <u+201c>it<u+2019>s what you do<u+00a0>after [the attack]<u+00a0>that matters<u+201d>. unfortunately, this not only stipulates that his brother did fail to keep us safe, but then invites the public to look at what he did after, which is not a record on which anyone should want to run. (the obvious question: was attacking a country that didn<u+2019>t attack us, leading to thousands more lives lost, evidence of his <u+201c>keeping us safe<u+201d>?)
no, jeb bush would be wise to simply roll his eyes at donald trump and let him rant on without responding, because whenever he opens his mouth, he creates a whole new set of questions. this point was driven<u+00a0>home when jake tapper brought up benghazi in this context: tapper: obviously al qaeda was responsible for the terrorist attack of 9/11, but how do you respond to critics who ask, if your brother and his administration bear no responsibility at all, how do you then make the jump that president obama and secretary clinton are responsible for what happened at benghazi? jeb bush: well i <u+2014> the question on benghazi which, is hopefully we<u+2019>ll now finally get the truth to, is was the place secure? they had a responsibility, the department of state, to have proper security. there were calls for security, it looks like they didn<u+2019>t get it. and how was the response in the aftermath of the attack, was there a chance that these four american lives could have been saved? that<u+2019>s what the investigation is about, it<u+2019>s not a political issue. it<u+2019>s not about the broad policy issue, is were we doing the job of protecting our embassies and our consulates and during the period, those hours after the attack started, could they have been saved? tapper: well that<u+2019>s, that<u+2019>s kind of proving the point of the critics i was just asking about, because you don<u+2019>t want to have your brother bear responsibility for 9/11 and i understand that argument and al qaeda<u+2019>s responsible, but why are the terrorists not the ones who are responsible for these attacks in libya? bush: they are, of course they are but <u+2014> of course they are, but if the ambassador was asking for additional security and didn<u+2019>t get it, that<u+2019>s a rproper point and if it<u+2019>s proven that the security was adequate compared to other embassies, fine, we<u+2019>ll move on. jeb doesn<u+2019>t seem to realize that every time a republican bellows <u+201c>four americans died on clinton<u+2019>s watch!<u+201d> and in the next breath insist, <u+201c>how dare you say george bush didn<u+2019>t keep us safe on his watch,<u+201d> something doesn<u+2019>t quite track. even americans who are otherwise too busy to pay attention to the granular details can tell that this is a very strange construction. if you watch the video, jeb himself misses more than a couple of beats when tapper brings it up <u+2014> he obviously felt the dissonance. all congressional majorities play politics and there is always a political element to any investigation by one party into the presidency of the other party. but the republicans have turned this into a blood sport in ways that are unconscionable. it<u+2019>s one thing to hold hearings about hillary clinton<u+2019>s<u+00a0>cattle futures trades back in the <u+2019>70s<u+00a0>or the<u+00a0>white house christmas card list. these are stupid wastes of time and money but they are not about life and death issues for which the republicans should have a little bit more respect. after 9/11, it would have been very easy for the democratic congress to turn what the bush administration did into a three ring circus of recriminations and insinuations for political gain. (there were plenty of people who thought president bush could have been impeached for what jeb insists was his brother<u+2019>s finest hour <u+2014> his actions after 9/11, and the iraq invasion in particular.) unlike these relentless benghazi inspector javerts, for better or worse, the democrats thought it would be more legitimate to win the presidency and the congress through the electoral process in which the epic failure of the iraq invasion was the focus rather than trying to blame george w. bush for failing to keep the country safe on 9/11. and that was noble of them. donald trump is not noble. jeb bush is going to be questioned on this and he<u+2019>s going to need a better answer than saying his brother kept the country safe. he didn<u+2019>t. and he didn<u+2019>t do any better in the aftermath. he made some good speeches and, to his credit, he cautioned americans not to blame muslims in general for the attacks (which may be the best thing he did). other than that, it<u+2019>s not a good record, no matter how you look at it. in fact, it<u+2019>s astonishing that jeb ever thought he could run without having to answer for it. trump is going to make sure he does. meanwhile, the upside to this little squabble is we<u+2019>ve finally been able to put the partisan responses to 9/11 and benghazi up for comparison. lets just say it doesn<u+2019>t look all that good for team red. jeb and the donald<u+2019>s spat is only going to make that clearer as time goes on. | donald trump is destroying jeb bush: why his 9/11 gambit could be the last straw | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8.0 | 80.0 | 8.0 | 9210.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 607.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 226.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 81.0 | 31.0 | 27.0 | 16.0 | 29.0 | 15.0 | 20.0 | 16.0 | 42.0 | 42.0 | 52.0 | 612.0 | 228.0 | 82.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | senate majority leader mitch mcconnell thought he could use sunday's patriot act deadline to get senators in line. it didn't work, thanks in large part to<u+00a0> sen. rand paul.
mysterious gap in the four-legged fossil record might not be a gap at all
senate majority leader sen. mitch mcconnell of ky. walks to his office on capitol hill in washington, may 5, 2015. key patriot act anti-terror provisions, including bulk collection of americans<u+2019> phone records, were set to expire at midnight sunday.
as promised by sen. rand paul, the federal government<u+2019>s massive gathering of americans<u+2019> phone records <u+201c>went dark<u+201d> at<u+00a0>midnight<u+00a0>sunday, dealing a blow to the program<u+2019>s advocates <u+2013> including senator paul<u+2019>s fellow republican from kentucky, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell.
the expiration of the program and other anti-terrorism surveillance provisions under the patriot act, although expected to be only temporary, is sen. mcconnell<u+2019>s first serious defeat as majority leader. it shows just how difficult it can be to keep his own members in line <u+2013> particularly when they are running for president, as is paul.
and it shows that sometimes, the longtime strategy of using deadlines to force consensus in congress just doesn<u+2019>t work. <u+201c>sometimes they work, sometimes they don<u+2019>t,<u+201d> said sen. orrin hatch (r) of utah. <u+201c>it<u+2019>s tough to lead this bunch,<u+201d> he added.
especially paul. the libertarian has made ending the data gathering program his signature issue, and has featured his spirited senate fight in campaign ads and fundraising appeals.
in the wee hours of may 24 and again in an unusual senate session<u+00a0>on sunday, paul used parliamentary rules to disrupt floor action on the issue. a vote on a house compromise known as the usa freedom act is not expected until later this week.
this is exactly what mcconnell was trying to avoid.
the house bill passed overwhelmingly and has president obama<u+2019>s support. it leaves the job of data gathering to phone companies, rather than the government, and requires the government to get a search warrant to access it.
mcconnell worked hard to build opposition to the house bill, which he has criticized as a hurdle to intelligence gathering. but he lost supporters as senators coalesced around the house bill, 77 to 17, in a procedural vote<u+00a0>to advance the bill on<u+00a0>sunday. the leader had wanted to simply extend the provisions of the patriot act, but paul <u+2013> eight days ago and<u+00a0>on sunday<u+00a0><u+2013> blocked even short-term extensions.
<u+201c>i<u+2019>m sure we<u+2019>re not going to let the whole program lapse, but because senator paul is taking advantage of the rules of the senate, [we] will delay and there will be an interim period where the nation is less secure,<u+201d> sen. john mccain (r) of arizona, said<u+00a0>on sunday.
democrats see things differently. minority leader harry reid of nevada faulted mcconnell, blaming him for a <u+201c>manufactured crisis<u+201d> by waiting to bring up the patriot act provisions until just before the senate<u+2019>s memorial day recess <u+2013> a week before their expiration.
when he was majority leader, reid also used deadlines to forge consensus. it's a common floor management technique. but reid "would never have stacked this many bills together against a deadline without a clear path forward,<u+201d> his spokesman, adam jentleson, said<u+00a0>in an email. mr. jentleson was referring to trade and highway bills that also were voted on shortly before the senate broke for recess just over a week ago.
could this have been avoided?
<u+201c>it<u+2019>s difficult to know,<u+201d> said sen. susan collins (r) of maine. <u+201c>perhaps we should have stayed in last week, rather than going on recess until the issue was resolved.<u+201d>
on the other hand, she said, when mcconnell offered short-term extensions to work out compromise legislation just before the recess, <u+201c>i don<u+2019>t think it was anticipated<u+201d> that paul and some democratic allies would object.
now, she said, <u+201c>all of us are extremely concerned about the program going dark at a time when the terrorist threat is very high and coming at us from so many different directions.<u+201d> | why mitch mcconnell bid to extend patriot act failed | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 52.0 | 8.0 | 4018.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 270.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 72.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 29.0 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 5.0 | 16.0 | 5.0 | 11.0 | 5.0 | 15.0 | 22.0 | 20.0 | 274.0 | 72.0 | 30.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | washington<u+2014>top administration officials forcefully defended the iran nuclear deal thursday before the senate foreign relations committee in the face of unified gop opposition and some democratic skepticism about the deal<u+2019>s capability to deter a nuclear iran.
if congress scuttles the deal "we will have squandered the best chance we have to solve this problem through peaceful means," said secretary of state john kerry, who appeared alongside energy secretary ernest moniz and treasury secretary jack lew.
thursday<u+2019>s hearing is the first public congressional forum to review terms of an agreement struck by the u.s., iran and five other nations and unanimously supported by the<u+00a0>united nations security council.
lawmakers are expected to vote on the deal this fall<u+00a0>in what will be one of the<u+00a0>most significant foreign policy votes to occur during the obama presidency.
republicans in particular levied harsh critiques of the agreement to limit iran's nuclear ambitions in exchange for easing sanctions. <u+201c>with all due respect, you guys have been bamboozled, and the american people are going to pay for that," said sen. james risch, r-idaho.
sen. marco rubio, r-fla., a 2016 presidential candidate who has carved out a role as a foreign policy hawk, had a testy exchange with kerry.
"i listened to a long list of your objections here about it, but there is no alternative that you or anybody else has proposed"<u+00a0>to stop a nuclear iran,<u+00a0>kerry said.<u+00a0><u+201c>i sure have, secretary kerry,<u+201d> rubio responded.
"i am confident that the next president of the united states will have enough common sense that if this is being applied properly, if it is being implemented fully, they<u+2019>re not going to arbitrarily end it," kerry replied.
kerry said any congressional effort to undermine the deal would send a message that america can<u+2019>t be trusted in international negotiations after leading world powers all signed off on the deal. the message would be: <u+201c>we<u+2019>ve got 535 secretaries of state and you can<u+2019>t deal with anybody, and that's going to undo a whole bunch of efforts and a whole bunch of things that matter in the world<u+201d> kerry said.
rubio also chastised the administration for not doing more to secure the release of american hostages, including washington post reporter jason rezaian, who has been imprisoned for a year. rezaian<u+2019>s brother attended thursday<u+2019>s hearing.
the panel<u+2019>s chairman, sen. bob corker, r-tenn., blasted "hyperbole" from the administration that "it's either this deal or war" and listed a number of weaknesses he sees in the agreement regarding the caliber of the inspections, the timeline to ease sanctions, and iran's ability to continue a nuclear program.
"i'd have to say that, based on my reading -- and i believe that you have crossed a new threshold in u.s. foreign policy -- where now it is a policy of the united states to enable a state sponsor of terror to obtain sophisticated, industrial nuclear development program that has, as we know, only one real practical need," corker said.
even the panel's top democrats, sen. ben cardin, d-md., and bob menendez, d-n.j., appeared skeptical about the deal, and neither has indicated they can support it yet.
congress has until sept. 17 to vote to approve, disapprove or take no action at all. obama has said he would veto any bill to block it.
with republicans in control of congress and party leaders working to kill the deal, the administration's strategy appears to be to shore up enough democratic support to block a veto override, which would require the support of at least 34 senators or 146 house members.
to that end, the trio of administration officials met privately thursday afternoon<u+00a0>with house democrats. minority leader nancy pelosi, d-calif., is helping the administration shore up the support president obama needs.
"i feel very confident we're going to have enough votes" to block a veto override, said rep. jan schakowsky, d-ill., who supports the agreement,<u+00a0>following the meeting. | administration officials defend iran nuclear deal | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 49.0 | 8.0 | 3976.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 255.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 58.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 29.0 | 6.0 | 12.0 | 5.0 | 10.0 | 8.0 | 7.0 | 5.0 | 29.0 | 18.0 | 36.0 | 261.0 | 58.0 | 29.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | with france still reeling from the horrific terrorist shooting on paris satirical newspaper charlie hebdo on wednesday that left 12 people dead, neighboring spain is on high alert for a similar type of attack on the iberian peninsula.
hours after the shooting at charlie hebdo, spain<u+2019>s interior minister jorge fern<u+00e1>ndez d<u+00ed>az said that spain's anti-terrorist security level was upgraded a notch and that the country was sharing information with france in relation to the attacks. spain has ramped up security around public infrastructure spots like train stations and increased the police presence on streets throughout the country<u+2019>s cities.
"i firmly condemn the terrorist attack in paris, and my condolences and solidarity to the french people for the victims," spanish prime minister mariano rajoy tweeted yesterday, adding. "spain with france."
d<u+00ed>az, however, tried to downplay spain<u+2019>s response to the paris attack, saying that the country had no evidence to suggest "an additional threat of an attack in spain as a consequence of what happened" in france. the interior minister did add that the growing rivalry between al-qaida and the islamic state could lead to more attacks like that around the world.
"the dangers posed by spanish jihadis returning home armed with combat experience twinned with ideological motivation are very real," rafael anibal, the madrid-based communications director for the non-profit group fuente latina told fox news latino. "there is great concern about the threats these battle-hardened fighters pose the general public in spain."
so far, no terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the attack, and the one suspect, mourad hamyd, who surrendered at a police station after hearing his name linked to the attack<u+00a0>isn't known to be linked to any organization.<u+00a0>however, a witness to the shooting claims to have heard one of the gunmen yell that they were acting on behalf of al-qaida in yemen, suggesting an affiliation with the violent al-qaida in the arabian peninsula (aqap) group.
aqap recently named charlie hebdo<u+2019>s editor, st<u+00e9>phane charbonnier, to its hit list of westerners who have insulted the muslim faith.
spain is no stranger to terrorist attacks, and its use as a conduit for european terrorists traveling to the middle east is well-documented.
in 2004, spain was rocked by a number of attacks on madrid train stations that left 191 people dead and injured more than 2,000 that were carried out by an al-qaida-inspired terrorist cell. in the last year, spanish authorities have arrested at least 50 people with ties to islamic extremist groups <u+2013> some in the north african enclaves of melilla and ceuta and some on the iberian peninsula itself.
"memories of islamic terrorism on spanish soil are still fresh in our collective memory <u+2013> about 191 people were killed in madrid last decade," anibal said. "spain has a very complicated geostrategic position in part due to its proximity to north africa."
security experts say that spain<u+2019>s big worry about these groups is whether the extremist groups will conduct attacks on the iberian peninsula or are just passing through the country en route to targets in other parts of western europe or in the u.s.
"spain should be asking [itself] who is the target," matthew dunn, a former operative for the british secret service, mi6, told fnl last year. "will it be there or will spain only be a transit point to other countries like france or great britain?"
both rajoy and leaders of spain<u+2019>s mainstream islamic community have condemned the attacks and tried to downplay anti-muslim sentiment that might arise throughout europe in the wake of the paris shooting. there are about 1.2 million muslims living in spain <u+2013> about 2.5 percent of the population.
"this multiple murder goes totally against islam. neither cartoon strips, nor religion, nor anything at all can justify murder. murder is against the law and against all logic and reason," muhammed escudero uribe, deputy chairman of the spanish islamic board told spanish media. "islam is a religion which promotes peace, integration and living in harmony."
even so, in spain and across europe, leaders have had to deal with the threat of radicalized muslims while also worrying about the rise of xenophobic groups who themselves threaten violence against their countries' islamic minority.
"spain is a country that guarantees religious freedom, but spain will never give terrorism a free pass. the enemy is terrorism, from that premise one can defend any position <u+2013> as long as others [rights] are respected." rajoy said, according to el pa<u+00ed>s."i am calm. i think the most important is that we continue the battle against terrorism."
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<u+2022> carly<u+2019>s momentum keeps growing
<u+2022> southern man: trump heads to mobile for mega rally
<u+2022> new doubts about hillary email claims
<u+2022> iran deal doubts grow
<u+2022> be the bear
carly<u+2019>s momentum keeps growing
no candidate in the republican field has had a better two weeks than carly fiorina. gallup polling out today compares views of the republican contenders before and after the aug. 6 fox news debate in cleveland. favorable views of fiorina are up an eye-popping 15 points, 3 points more than the two other debate winners, ben carson and john kasich.
<u+201c>i went into the debate thinking this was an opportunity. an opportunity to introduce myself to republican people,<u+201d> fiorina said in an interview on <u+201c>power play with chris stirewalt.<u+201d> <u+201c>it was an opportunity i was going to take full advantage of.<u+201d>
but there were others who hoped for (and needed) standout showings. they saw sentiment collapse. gallup shows rand paul, rick perry, rick santorum and lindsey graham took double-digit nosedives. other, mostly better-known candidates saw little change. donald trump (17 percent net favorability) and jeb bush (27 percent net favorability) were essentially unchanged.
fiorina shot past trump and bush to a net score of 37 percent, but along the way earned the enmity of trump, whom she whacked for his post-debate comments. trump has made attacking fiorina a standard part of his speeches and interviews since then, often complaining about the sound of her voice.
<u+201c>we<u+2019>re not actually solving problems when we just hurl insults each other<u+2019>s way,<u+201d> fiorina said in the interview. <u+201c>i think we need a leader who will actually honor citizens by reengaging them in the political process and in their government<u+2026><u+201d>
the poll shows fiorina still has room to grow.
after the debate, an all-time high of 51 percent of republicans expressed familiarity with her name. that brings her near top-tier contender scott walker, who is still a relative unknown to 40 percent of his party. but she is still less known by 20 points than ted cruz and marco rubio, 30 points less than bush and 40 points less than trump.
<u+2018>it was my personal relationship with jesus christ that saved me<u+2019> - in her interview, fiorina also responded to those who have questioned her faith and resolve to fight islamist militants because she once spoke in praise of the enlightenment of the medieval ottoman empire: <u+201c>no one needs to question or tell me about my faith. i<u+2019>ve been through some hard times in my life. i<u+2019>ve battled cancer. we<u+2019>ve lost a child to the demons of addiction. so i understand in deeply personal terms, that it was my personal relationship with jesus christ that saved me, that saved my family. so it<u+2019>s unfortunate when people throw stones at anyone, but politics has sort of become that, hasn<u+2019>t it? and we have candidates who encourage it.<u+201d>
southern man: trump heads to mobile for mega rally
in what is set to be a scorcher down south today, donald trump plans have his biggest rally yet. after moving venues to the university of south alabama<u+2019>s 40,000-seat stadium, trump is looking to solidify summer support into something that will last through the winter.
the kingfish or the king? - al.com: <u+201c><u+2018>i had an older woman call me the other day asking how i can get tickets ... she didn<u+2019>t have internet and she couldn<u+2019>t get tickets,<u+2019> [jonathan gray of strategy research] said. <u+2018>i asked her, <u+2018>why do you want to go?<u+2019> i asked her, <u+2018>are you backing donald trump?<u+2019> she said, <u+2018>i don<u+2019>t know think so.<u+2019> she said that she regretted <u+2018>all my life that she didn<u+2019>t see elvis<u+2019> and didn<u+2019>t want to regret the opportunity to see donald trump.<u+2019><u+201d>
trumped in their home states, except walker, kasich - a slew of recent polls in the home states of many 2016ers show they are losing ground to donald trump. in florida, jeb bush and marco rubio split potential voters to trail trump by 4 points and 10 points, respectively. more significantly, trump also maintains a major lead in texas over home state guys sen. ted cruz and former gov. rick perry. trump bests cruz by 8 points and perry by a dozen points, with 24 percent support - up from 2 percent two months ago.<u+00a0> but holding their ground are scott walker, who maintains a 25 percent to 9 percent advantage over trump, and gov. john kasich, who tops a poll in his state, beating trump by 6 points.
cruz shifting to meet trump? - wash ex<u+2019>s david drucker takes a look at the differing immigration policies between donald trump and ted cruz. is cruz shifting his position to meet trump<u+2019>s hard line? drucker writes, <u+201c><u+2018>it shouldn<u+2019>t be surprising that there<u+2019>s some commonality between trump<u+2019>s plan and sen. cruz<u+2019>s previously expressed positions,<u+2019> cruz campaign senior spokesman rick tyler told the<u+00a0>washington examiner in a telephone interview.<u+201d>
jeb cites rubio, cruz in birthright citizenship - national review: <u+201c>bush reminded voters that some popular republicans have benefited from birthright citizenship. <u+2018>if people are here legally,<u+00a0>they have a visa and they have a<u+00a0>child who<u+2019>s born here, i think<u+00a0>that they ought to be american<u+00a0>citizens,<u+2019> he said<u+00a0>today<u+00a0>in new hampshire.<u+00a0><u+2018>people like marco rubio, by the way, that<u+2019>s<u+00a0>how he came. so<u+00a0>to suggest that we make it impossible<u+00a0>for a talented person like that<u+00a0>not to be a candidate for<u+00a0>president, or ted cruz?<u+00a0>i think we<u+2019>re getting a little<u+00a0>overboard here.<u+2019><u+201d>
[back off, eh - cruz<u+2019>s campaign was quick to point out that the candidate<u+2019>s automatic american citizenship at birth in canada derived from his mother<u+2019>s status as a natural-born citizen, not the provisions of the 14th amendment.]
eurozone? - federalist ben domenech asks whether trump<u+2019>s popularity reflects a turn toward european-style politics in america.
power play: caddyshack campaign
jeb bush engaged in a political donnybrook with rival donald trump this week. is this smart strategy or a potential minefield for bush? republican ford o<u+2019>connell and democrat brad woodhouse join chris stirewalt to hash out the pros and cons. watch here.
#mediabuzz - are media watchdogs taking donald trump more seriously? is hillary clinton<u+2019>s testy relationship with the press adding to her woes? host howard kurtz and guests dive in. watch <u+201c>#mediabuzz<u+201d> sunday at 11 a.m. et, with a second airing at 5 p.m.
dubya raises cash for little bro - usa today: <u+201c>former president george w. bush jumped into the 2016 presidential race thursday with a fundraising letter on behalf of brother jeb. <u+2018>this is a consequential time in our nation<u+2019>s history, and we need a strong leader,<u+2019> the 43rd president said in the missive. <u+2018>jeb took on tough challenges as florida<u+2019>s governor and delivered results. i know he will do the same as president.<u+2019><u+201d>
[bush is in columbus, ohio today for an americans for prosperity summit. other speakers for the weekend event include rubio and cruz.]
how walker would run - scott walker<u+2019>s campaign previewed the kind of obamacare attack ad he would run against hillary clinton as the republican nominee. it<u+2019>s rough stuff.
[walker announced today the backing of alabama senate majority leader greg reed as his state chairman ahead of walker<u+2019>s weekend visit to the yellowhammer state.]
rubio says black lives matter movement cannot be ignored - reuters: <u+201c>republican senator and presidential candidate marco rubio said on thursday the issue cannot be ignored. <u+2018>it<u+2019>s a reality that in many communities in this country the relationship between minority communities and the police and law enforcement agencies is terrible,<u+2019> rubio told the detroit economic club.<u+201d>
[rubio holds a town hall meeting in valley view, ohio.]
with your second cup of coffee<u+2026>
patsy cline<u+2019>s iconic recording of the song <u+201c>crazy<u+201d> was made in nashville on this day in 1961. the song was written and first recorded by a 28-year-old willie nelson but came to national attention when rising star cline did her rendition later that year. cline did not like the original demo version and told her husband charlie dick, who brought home the recording for her, that she wasn<u+2019>t impressed. cline decided to do the song, but due to a car crash months prior, could not record the song as nelson intended. her ribs had been damaged in the crash and she could not reach the high notes. after a multi-hour recording session, the country-pop tune was one of the biggest hits of the year. the album produced another enormous hit for cline: <u+201c>i fall to pieces.<u+201d>
got a<u+00a0>tip<u+00a0>from the<u+00a0>right<u+00a0>or the<u+00a0>left? email<u+00a0>[email protected]
poll check
real clear politics averages
obama job approval: approve <u+2013> 44.0 percent//disapprove <u+2013> 50.3 percent
directions of country: right direction <u+2013> 28.4 percent//wrong track <u+2013> 62.6 percent
new doubts about hillary email claims
reuters: <u+201c>while the [state department] is now stamping a few dozen of the publicly released emails as <u+2018>classified,<u+2019> it stresses this is not evidence of rule-breaking. those stamps are new, it says, and do not mean the information was classified when clinton, the democratic frontrunner in the 2016 presidential election, first sent or received it. but the details included in those <u+2018>classified<u+2019> stamps <u+2014> which include a string of dates, letters and numbers describing the nature of the classification <u+2014> appear to undermine this account, a reuters examination of the emails and the relevant regulations has found. the new stamps indicate that some of clinton's emails from her time as the nation<u+2019>s most senior diplomat are filled with a type of information the u.s. government and the department<u+2019>s own regulations automatically deems classified from the get-go <u+2014> regardless of whether it is already marked that way or not.<u+201d>
trust issues - how bad is it? chris cillizza put it well <u+201c>only one in three voters in the three largest swing states in the country think that the overwhelming favorite for the democratic nomination is honest and trustworthy.<u+201d>
joe gets cash jolt - ny post: <u+201c>the draft biden organization had raised just under $79,000 through june 30, but now momentum for biden has been so <u+2018>tremendous<u+2019> that the super pac is well on its way to raise $2.5 million to<u+00a0>$3 million by the end of september, a senior adviser for the pac told the post. the email list has also grown from a few thousand to more than 200,000 in recent weeks. <u+2018>we<u+2019>ve seen a tremendous boost,<u+2019> said adviser josh alcorn, a former biden presidential campaign staffer who was a close friend of biden<u+2019>s late son beau.<u+201d>
fox news sunday: biden time? - shannon bream heads the show this sunday with a focus on the democrats. draft biden movement advisor josh alcorn talks biden run, and why he thinks the vice president has a shot. former attorney general michael mukasey breaks down the legal fallout of hillary clinton<u+2019>s continued email server problems. watch <u+201c>fox news sunday with<u+00a0>chris wallace<u+201d> airs at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. et on fox news.<u+00a0>check local listings<u+00a0>for air times in your area.
power play: a go for joe?
a recent boost in the polls adds to the drumbeat as joe biden mulls over a run for the white house. republican ford o<u+2019>connell and democrat brad woodhouse join chris stirewalt to discuss the implications of a biden bid. watch here.
o<u+2019>malley squeezes hillary on social security - former gov. martin o<u+2019>malley, d-md., is trying to put the heat on hillary clinton to back big expansions of social security benefits. politico got the deets from the campaign.
iran deal doubts grow
following u.n. agency and obama administration pushback of an initial report by the ap<u+2026><u+201c>a draft document exclusively obtained by fox news supports reports that iran would play a major role in inspections at its controversial parchin nuclear site, by providing u.n. inspectors with crucial materials.<u+00a0>the so-called side deal, labeled <u+2018>separate arrangement ii,<u+2019> says iran will <u+2018>provide to the [international atomic energy agency]<u+2019> photos and videos of locations and environmental samples, <u+2018>taking into account military concerns.<u+2019><u+2026>the agreement also provides that the agency would ensure the <u+2018>technical authenticity<u+2019> of activities -- in other words, ensuring nuclear work was not meant for weapons development -- but the iaea would use iran's <u+2018>authenticated equipment.<u+2019><u+00a0> this would be followed by a visit from the iaea director general.<u+201d>
[no sale - a cnn/orc poll released thursday shows 56 percent of americans now say they think congress should reject the deal with iran -- up from 52 percent less than a month ago. in a recent fox news poll respondents said they would reject the deal 58 percent to 31 percent if given the chance to vote on it.]
webb steps up opposition - free beacon: <u+201c>democratic presidential candidate and former sen. jim webb (d., va.) said friday that he opposed the iran nuclear deal for, among other reasons, giving the rogue regime a greater balance of power in a fragile region. <u+201c>the danger in the iran agreement is in what it does not address, other than nuclear issues, that allows iran to continue to gain a greater balance of the power in a very fragile region,<u+201d> webb said on msnbc<u+2019>s morning joe. <u+201c>it affects israel. it affects the sunni countries.<u+201d>
<u+201c>anybody who trusts the iranians really needs some time on the couch with someone to give them serious, serious therapy. putting the iranians in a position to self-inspect<u+2026>this is like putting a mass murderer in charge of a gun store.<u+201d> <u+2013> former gov. mike huckabee, r-ark., from <u+201c>fox and friends<u+201d>
be the bear
did you know that there are only two more fridays left in the summer of 2015? that<u+2019>s a lot of pressure. you were supposed to do so many things this summer <u+2013> topiary gardens or extreme mountain biking or alpaca encounters or preserving your own organic gooseberries or whatever form of ambitious torture you devised for yourself three months ago. but you know who doesn<u+2019>t read stupid <u+201c>summer bucket list<u+201d> articles or worry about people silently judging them on social media? bears. bears don<u+2019>t care what you think about their summer plans. bears don<u+2019>t check pinterest. bears are not worried about their fantasy football draft. bears do not know what fomo is. so please watch these five bear cubs and their mom have the best time ever in a new jersey family<u+2019>s above-ground swimming pool and just chillax.
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chris stirewalt joined fox news channel (fnc) in july of 2010 and serves as digital politics editor based in washington, d.c. <u+00a0>additionally, he authors the daily "fox news first" political news note and hosts "power play," a feature video series, on foxnews.com. stirewalt makes frequent appearances on the network, including "the kelly file," "special report with bret baier," and "fox news sunday with chris wallace." <u+00a0>he also provides expert political analysis for fox news coverage of state, congressional and presidential elections. | carly<u+2019>s momentum keeps growing | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 70.0 | 30.0 | 8.0 | 15002.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 1022.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 237.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 128.0 | 29.0 | 41.0 | 15.0 | 37.0 | 30.0 | 35.0 | 14.0 | 63.0 | 57.0 | 93.0 | 1024.0 | 237.0 | 128.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | one thing i often hear in the wake of these<u+00a0>endless mass shootings is, "surely this will convince those gun people. surely the carnage and suffering are bad enough now that they'll feel compelled to support some gun control."
this betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the cognitive and emotional dynamics at work. it presumes that mass shootings constitute an argument against guns, to be weighed against arguments in their favor. but to gun enthusiasts, mass shootings are not arguments against guns but for them. the rise in mass shootings is only convincing both sides that they're right, causing them to dig in further.
it's not even clear that opinions on guns and gun violence remain amenable to argument. over the past few decades, gun ownership in the us has evolved from a practical issue for rural homeowners and hunters to a kind of gesture of tribal solidarity, an act of defiance toward obama, the left, and all the changes they represent. the gun lobby has become more hardened and uncompromising, pushing guns into<u+00a0>schools,<u+00a0>churches, and<u+00a0>universities.
this has taken place in the context of a<u+00a0>broader and deeper polarization of the country, as red america and blue america have become more ideologically homogeneous and distant from one another. the two sides are now composed of people who quite literally think and feel differently <u+2014> and are less and less able to communicate. the gun issue is a salient example, but far from the only one.
this suggests that if the status quo on guns in the us is to change, it will be through overwhelming political force, not through evidence and argument. guns have now ascended to the level of worldview and identity, areas largely beyond the reach of persuasion.
for years, an accumulating body of psychological and social scientific research has shown that, as chris mooney summarized in an article last year, "liberals and conservatives disagree about politics in part because they are different people at the level of personality, psychology, and even traits like physiology and genetics." (mooney later gathered that research in his somewhat unfortunately titled book the republican brain.)
mooney quotes psychologist<u+00a0>john jost and colleagues, writing in behavioral and brain sciences:
so, different how?
jost and colleagues were responding positively to this paper by the university of nebraska's john hibbing, which argues, based on a series of experiments, that conservatives display a strong "negativity bias":
other research has traced this effect in part to the physiological level, finding that conservatives have larger right amygdalae. (the amygdala is a cluster of neurons in the brain's medial temporal lobe thought to regulate basic pleasure and fear responses; many psychological conditions, including anxiety and ptsd, have been traced to abnormal functioning of the amygdala.)
heightened sensitivity to negative stimuli can mean a propensity for anxiety, fear, and occasionally alarm. if fear threatens loss of control, many traits common to conservatives can be seen as efforts to reassert control. as jost and colleagues summarize: "research consistently finds that conservatism is positively associated with heightened epistemic concerns for order, structure, closure, certainty, consistency, simplicity, and familiarity, as well as existential concerns such as perceptions of danger, sensitivity to threat, and death anxiety."
another way of framing the differences is in terms of the five-factor model, a set of five core personality traits many psychologists use for assessment: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
as mark mellman wrote earlier this week, liberals and conservatives consistently differ on a few of these traits. liberals are more open to new experiences, novelty and disruption; conservatives prefer stability and the status quo. liberals are more tolerant of mess, ambiguity, and uncertainty; conservatives prefer tidiness, clarity, and certainty.
yet another way to frame the difference: yale psychologist dan kahan, whose<u+00a0>cultural cognition work ezra has<u+00a0>written about before, divides worldviews along two dimensions, hierarchical vs. egalitarian and individualist vs. communitarian. this creates a four-quadrant space; conservatives are hierarchical-individualists.
these differences can help inform our understanding of current us politics, but first we should head off a few misunderstandings.
talking about deep personality differences is a sensitive business and inevitably draws some anger. so it's worth clarifying a few things.
all these conservative tendencies put together and pushed to the extreme amount to authoritarianism. the liberal inverse amounts to a kind of drifting libertinism. in practice, very few people lie at the far ends of the bell-curve distribution. most people are somewhere closer to the middle, an idiosyncratic mix.
what's more, different aspects of personality can be elicited by different circumstances, at different times, around different people. in times of peace and growth, there's a drift toward liberalism. fear and crisis tend to push everyone the other direction, to shrink boundaries of concern and heighten in-group/out-group sensitivity. so liberal and conservative traits are not static, at the group level or within an individual.
everyone is unique. no individual is predicted or explained by this research. these are general tendencies, heuristics, fluid and context-sensitive.
whichever of these personality traits, or clusters of traits, you might prefer, the research itself does not characterize any as better or worse. it's easy to imagine circumstances in which sensitivity to threat and commitment to stability are valuable and others in which risk-taking and innovation are valuable. and it's likely valuable to have a mix, a balance, no matter the circumstances.
as mooney is at pains to emphasize in his book, personality does not dictate ideology. there's no law of nature that conservatives are confined to the political right. the 20th century offers no shortage of authoritarian leftists. when the political left dominates the political order, those prone to defending the status quo will tend to be leftists.
there was a period in the mid-20th century us when liberals and conservatives were somewhat more evenly distributed across the parties <u+2014> there were conservative democrats and liberal republicans. but the past four or five decades have seen a slow (lately accelerating) process of polarization. americans have sorted themselves: almost all liberals are now democrats; almost all conservatives are now republicans. in congress, the leftmost republican is to the right of the rightmost democrat.
let us imagine, then, a conservative gun owner <u+2014> an older white gentleman, let's say, in his 50s, living in the rust belt somewhere. when he was growing up, there was living memory of a familiar order: men working in honorable trade or manufacturing jobs, women tending home and children, sundays at church, hard work yielding a steady rise up the ladder to a well-earned house, yard, and car.
that order was crumbling just as our gun owner inherited it. the honorable jobs are gone, or going. it's hell to find work, benefits are for shit, and there isn't much put aside for retirement. the kids are struggling with debt and low-paying jobs. they know, and our gun owner knows, that they probably aren't going to have a better life than he did <u+2014> that the very core of the american promise has proven false for them, for the first time in generations.
it's a bitter, helpless feeling. and for someone naturally attuned to "order, structure, closure, certainty, consistency, simplicity, and familiarity," it's scary. the role he thought he was meant to play in the world, the privileges and respect that came along with it, have been thrown into doubt. everything is shifting under his feet.
over the last few years, our gun owner has found a whole network of tv channels, radio shows, books, blogs, and facebook groups that speak directly to his unease. they understand the world he heard about from his father and grandfather, the world that's being lost; they understand the urgency of saving what's left of it.
most of all, with his already heightened sensitivity to threat further aggravated by economic uncertainty, they finally help him see who's to blame. they show him the immigrants crowding in, using up jobs and benefits that were promised to american workers. they show him minorities demanding handouts that are paid for with his taxes, even as they riot, even as they kill each other and the police. the show him terrorists making a mockery of weak american leadership. they show him elitist liberals, professors and entertainers, disdaining his values and mocking his religion.
and it is such a relief, to finally put a face to all the ambient dread, to have some clarity again, to know who the good guys and bad guys are. our gun owner is a good guy, thankfully, from the kind of self-reliant stock that settled this country.
it seems like america's decline is a done deal, that the tide of liberal rot is unstoppable. but the one place he knows he can draw the line is at his door, on his private property, because he has a gun. he can defend his own. if the minorities riot again, or immigrant criminals move in nearby, or terrorists attack, or some wackjob goes on a shooting spree, or obama comes for his guns ... well, that's what the guns are for. he's given up a lot, but he won't give up his autonomy or the safety of his family. he'll defend that to the end.
to our gun owner, another mass shooting is not an argument for getting rid of guns. it's a confirmation of his every instinct, another sign of moral and societal decay, another reason to arm himself and defend what he's got left.
you can tell him about canada and australia until you're blue in the face <u+2014> the lower rate of gun deaths, the hunting exemptions, the seemingly intact freedoms. you can cite high popular support for restrictions on gun and ammunition sales. you can tell him that not every incremental tightening of standards is a slippery slope, that no one wants to confiscate his guns.
but you're just another self-righteous liberal on another self-righteous crusade, too blind or stupid to see how governments always use people like you to disarm their citizenry. you've taken enough <u+2014> of his taxes, his freedoms, his culture. he won't give you any more.
a cherished myth of american politics (indeed, of democracy generally) is that it's fundamentally about persuasion, the contest of ideas. but in a political system already biased against action, in which members of both parties are becoming more ideologically and even psychologically distant, persuasion on issues that activate tribal identities is all but impossible. our gun owner is not going to change his mind; everything gun control proponents consider evidence for their side, he considers evidence for his. the differences run deeper than evidence.
if there are ever to be gun laws passed in the us, any kind of policy response to the rising tide of mass shootings, it will be because the people who want it amass the political power to overwhelm the power of the gun lobby. it will be because they organize and deploy more intensity, money, and votes than their opponents. more mass shootings are not going to do the job for them. | why mass shootings don't convince gun owners to support gun control | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.0 | 67.0 | 8.0 | 11458.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 829.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 227.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 131.0 | 40.0 | 25.0 | 21.0 | 44.0 | 17.0 | 34.0 | 15.0 | 53.0 | 71.0 | 70.0 | 831.0 | 227.0 | 131.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | they<u+2019>ve discovered, belatedly, that income inequality is a problem, and they<u+2019>re no longer proposing to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of americans. now they are proposing to give tax breaks to the wealthiest two-tenths of 1 percent of americans.
on tuesday afternoon, the house rules committee took up h.r. 1105, the <u+201c>death tax repeal act of 2015,<u+201d> with plans to bring it to a vote on the chamber floor wednesday <u+2014> tax day. it is an extraordinarily candid expression of the majority<u+2019>s priorities: a tax cut costing the treasury $269 billion over a decade that would exclusively benefit individuals with wealth of more than $5.4 million and couples with wealth of more than $10.9<u+2009>million.
that<u+2019>s a tax break for only the 5,500 wealthiest households in the country each year, according to the joint committee on taxation. of those, the 318 wealthiest estates each year <u+2014> those worth $50 million or more <u+2014> would see an average windfall of $20<u+2009>million each, according to the center on budget and policy priorities.
and this at a time when the gap between rich and poor is already worse than it has been since the great depression? never in the history of plutocracy has so much been given away to so few who need it so little.
this is the ultimate perversion of the tea party movement, which began as a populist revolt in 2009 but has since been hijacked by wealthy and corporate interests. the estate tax has been part of american law in some form since 1797, according to the advocacy group americans for tax fairness, a shield against the sort of permanent aristocracy our founders fought to rid themselves of.
it had long been a conservative ideal, and the essence of the american dream, to believe that everybody should have an equal shot at success. but in their current bid to end the estate tax, republicans could create a permanent elite of trust-fund babies.
the estate tax was a meaningful check on a permanent aristocracy as recently as 2001, when there were taxes on the portion of estates above $675,000; even then there were plenty of ways for the rich to shelter money for their heirs. as the son of a schoolteacher and a cabinetmaker, i<u+2019>d like to see the estate tax exemptions lowered <u+2014> so that taxes encourage enterprise and entre<u+00ad>pre<u+00ad>neur<u+00ad>ship while keeping to a minimum the number of americans born who will never have to work a day in their lives. the current exemption of $5.4 million (the current estate tax has an effective rate averaging under 17 percent, according to the urban-brookings tax policy center) does little to prevent a permanent aristocracy from growing <u+2014> and abolishing it entirely turns democracy into kleptocracy.
the kleptocrats offer all sorts of bogus justifications for giving away $269 billion to a few thousand of the wealthiest americans.
house ways and means committee chairman paul ryan (r-wis.), appearing late tuesday before the rules committee, claimed that the estate tax is <u+201c>absolutely devastating<u+201d> to family farms, and he claimed the repeal would remove <u+201c>an additional layer of taxation<u+201d> from assets that had already been taxed.
double taxation? americans for tax fairness, citing federal reserve data, notes that 55<u+00a0>percent of the value of estates worth more than $100 million comprises unrealized capital gains that have never been taxed.
hurting family farmers and small businesses? in the entire country, only 120 small businesses and farms (100 of them large farms) were hit by the estate tax in 2013. and for that tiny number affected, there are all sorts of provisions already in place to soften the blow: low valuation rules, delayed tax payments and other breaks and discounts.
gop leaders such as senate majority leader mitch mcconnell (ky.) and house speaker john boehner (ohio) have begun to recognize that the vast gap between rich and poor is detrimental <u+2014> and to blame the problem on president obama. their solution, so far, has been to propose cuts of hundreds of billions of dollars from food stamps, pell grants, medicaid and other programs for those without means <u+2014> and, on tax day, to give $269<u+00a0>billion to the few who already have the most.
<u+201c>it sounds to me like there<u+2019>s a lot of wealth envy in this country,<u+201d> rep. virginia foxx (r-n.c.) complained while serving as chairwoman of the rules committee debate tuesday. the bill abolishing the estate tax, she said, <u+201c>will draw a line in the sand.<u+201d>
yes, it will: between the wealthiest two-tenths of 1 percent <u+2014> and everybody else.
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | republican presidential candidate ted cruz is close to ensuring that donald trump cannot win the gop nomination on a second ballot at the party<u+2019>s july convention in cleveland, scooping up scores of delegates who have pledged to vote for him instead of the front-runner if given the chance.
the push by cruz means that it is more essential than ever for trump to clinch the nomination by winning a majority of delegates to avoid a contested and drawn-out convention fight, which trump seems almost certain to lose.
the gop race now rests on two cliffhangers: can trump lock up the nomination before cleveland? if not, can cruz cobble together enough delegates to win a second convention vote if trump fails in the first?
trump<u+2019>s path to amassing the 1,237 delegates he needs to win outright has only gotten narrower after losing to cruz in wisconsin and other recent contests, and it would require him to perform better in the remaining states than he has to this point.
in addition, based on the delegate selections made by states and territories, cruz is poised to pick up at least 130 more votes on a second ballot, according to a washington post analysis. that tally surpasses 170 delegates under less conservative assumptions <u+2014> a number that could make it impossible for trump to emerge victorious.
that is why the race centers on the fevered hunt for delegates across the country. the intensity of the fight has sparked another round of caustic rhetoric <u+2014> including allegations from party leaders that trump supporters are making death threats.
<u+201c>it<u+2019>s unfortunate politics has reached a new low. these type of threats have no place in politics,<u+201d> said kyle babcock, a republican delegate from indiana<u+2019>s 3rd congressional district. he received an email from a trump supporter who warned, <u+201c>think before you take a step down the wrong path.<u+201d>
[the art of the steal: dealmaker trump struggles with the gop delegate race]
cruz<u+2019>s chances rest on exploiting a wrinkle in the gop rule book: that delegates assigned to vote for trump at the convention do not actually have to be trump supporters. cruz is particularly focused on getting loyalists elected to delegate positions even in states that the senator from texas lost.
on wednesday in indiana, for example, republican leaders were finalizing a delegate slate that will include party activists unlikely to vote for trump in the state<u+2019>s primary next month. cruz also is poised to sweep wyoming<u+2019>s 26 delegates this weekend in a state where trump<u+2019>s campaign did not seriously compete. in arkansas, cruz supporters are exploring ways to topple trump when delegates are chosen next month. and sen. marco rubio (r-fla.) has refused to release 171 delegates he won when he was in the race, signaling that he may contribute to the anti-trump push in cleveland.
cruz said this week that he thinks the odds of a contested convention are <u+201c>very high.<u+201d>
<u+201c>in cleveland, i believe we will have an enormous advantage,<u+201d> he told radio talk-show host glenn beck.
trump has a commanding lead in total delegates and the overall vote total, but he has complained that republican leaders are conspiring against him in a bid to silence his supporters.
<u+201c>the rnc should be ashamed of itself for allowing this to happen,<u+201d> trump said tuesday night while campaigning in rome, n.y.
paul manafort, a senior adviser to trump, said in an interview that he is confident cruz will never have a chance to convert trump delegates.
<u+201c>just because [cruz] has won some delegates in a state where we have the delegates voting for us is not relevant until and unless there<u+2019>s a second ballot,<u+201d> manafort said. <u+201c>there<u+2019>s not going to be a second ballot.<u+201d>
[trump team vows to win delegate majority as rivals prepare for open convention]
as the battle for delegates has intensified, so too have emotions. craig dunn, who was elected saturday as a republican delegate from indiana<u+2019>s 4th congressional district, said he has received several threatening phone calls and emails after criticizing trump in recent news reports.
<u+201c>when they reference burials and your family in the same email, and telling you that you<u+2019>re being watched, that<u+2019>s concerning,<u+201d> he said.
in colorado, republicans are planning a rally friday to call attention to threats made against gop chairman steve house. he said his office received 3,000 phone calls <u+201c>with many being the trashiest you can imagine<u+201d> after a state party convention last weekend awarded all 34 delegates to cruz.
<u+201c>shame on the people who think somehow that it is right to threaten me and my family over not liking the outcome of an election,<u+201d> he wrote on facebook.
cruz told beck on tuesday that threats made by trump supporters, including those made by the businessman<u+2019>s longtime confidant roger stone, are <u+201c>the tactic of union thugs. that is violence. it is oppressive.<u+201d>
stone recently told an interviewer that trump supporters would track down delegates at their hotel rooms in cleveland if they break away from trump.
manafort said that <u+201c>it<u+2019>s certainly not part of our policy<u+201d> to threaten violence but accused <u+201c>abusive<u+201d> cruz supporters of confronting trump<u+2019>s backers at party meetings nationwide.
when the presidential nomination vote is held at the convention, 95<u+00a0>percent of the delegates will be bound to the results in their states for the first vote, giving trump his best shot at securing a majority.
but if trump falls short, the convention will cast a second ballot in which more than 1,800 delegates from 31 states <u+2014> nearly 60<u+00a0>percent of the total <u+2014> will be unbound and allowed to vote however they want. by the third round, 80<u+00a0>percent of the delegates would be free, sparking a potential free-for-all that could continue for several more rounds.
that is the crux of the state-by-state battle that is playing out over the next two months as republicans gather at the precinct, county, congressional district and statewide levels to choose convention delegates.
<u+201c>if we go into a contested convention, we<u+2019>re going to have a ton of delegates, donald is going to have a ton of delegates, and it<u+2019>s going to be a battle in cleveland to see who can earn a majority of the delegates that were elected by the people,<u+201d> cruz told a meeting of the republican jewish coalition in las vegas on saturday.
he predicted that the first ballot <u+201c>will be the highest vote total donald trump receives. and on a subsequent ballot, we<u+2019>re going to win the nomination.<u+201d>
[with an orthodox focus, ted cruz reaches out to jewish donors and voters]
if cruz prevails, it will be because of what supporters are doing for him nationwide with what they say is little direct input from his campaign headquarters.
in arkansas, republicans will not meet until next month to finalize their delegate slate, but state lawmakers who probably will win a position are talking about voting for cruz on the second ballot.
<u+201c>for the vast majority of cruz voters, rubio was their second choice, and for the vast majority of rubio supporters, cruz was their second choice. so when you<u+2019>re going to pick delegates, it just makes sense that we would work together,<u+201d> said state sen. bart hester, who backed rubio.
in iowa, cruz won 11 of the 12 delegates assigned last weekend <u+2014> meaning that he probably will have their support in later rounds of balloting. that same day in south carolina, cruz secured three of the six delegate slots assigned by two congressional districts that trump had easily won.
<u+201c>there<u+2019>s nothing underhanded going on,<u+201d> said elliott kelley, one of the cruz supporters who won in south carolina<u+2019>s 3rd congressional district. <u+201c>delegates are being appointed from the local level. the trump team just doesn<u+2019>t have people involved at the local level and they<u+2019>re not getting delegates.<u+201d>
cruz supporters also won two of the three delegate slots from virginia<u+2019>s southernmost congressional district even though trump won there handily. one of those cruz supporters is kyle kilgore, 22, who said he would vote for trump on the first ballot as required.
<u+201c>i would have a hard time voting for trump on the second ballot,<u+201d> he said.
in indiana, dunn will be required to initially vote for whoever wins his congressional district in may. if trump fails in the first round, dunn said he probably will vote for ohio gov. john kasich on a second ballot.
<u+201c>i<u+2019>ll be looking for the candidate who i think has the best chance of beating hillary clinton in november,<u+201d> dunn said. <u+201c>and if the person i want doesn<u+2019>t get it, i won<u+2019>t take my marbles and go home; i will support the nominee of the republican party.<u+201d>
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | the first and only vice-presidential debate of 2016 was less a game-changer than a channel-changer, a snippy and probably inconsequential 90 minutes marginally won by mike pence <u+2013> a confident, slightly smarmy debater very much in the mold of those calculating washington, d.c., politicians who are destroying america.
tim kaine, hillary clinton<u+2019>s more voluble running mate, didn<u+2019>t flop but he was visibly less comfortable than the square-jawed pence, frequently interrupting the indiana governor, jamming his pre-programmed attacks on donald trump into every answer with admirable, tedious efficiency.
their performances almost perfectly reflected the priorities of each candidate: kaine was a hyper-briefed trump-thumping machine, barking the gop nominee<u+2019>s name, as if it were a slur, some 160 times <u+2013> more than twice the number of times pence mentioned clinton<u+2019>s, according a politico tally.
pence, on the other hand, seemed less concerned with out-and-out defending his running mate than rope-a-doping away from uncomfortable questions: his standard response was to pucker his face and mock kaine as <u+201c>ridiculous<u+201d> for pelting him with facts, statistics and actual trump quotes.
and if kaine (who doesn<u+2019>t have an especially close personal relationship with clinton) warmly referred to <u+201c>hillary<u+201d> as if the two were the best of friends, pence maintained a wary rhetorical distance from trump. he behaved less like an affectionate pal than a guy getting paid to do a job, a pet employee reassuring disgruntled co-workers that their unpopular boss was actually a great guy, really, if only you guys got to know him.
in the end you got the sense that pence did as much (maybe more) to burnish his own brand than trump<u+2019>s <u+2013> and even if he<u+2019>s widely deemed the winner, what lasting good will it do for his undisciplined, self-defeating nominee? here are five takeaways.
1. hillary clinton is lucky she<u+2019>s facing trump instead of pence. even after having his leonine head handed to him at the first presidential debate last week, there<u+2019>s no decisive evidence that trump is taking prep for sunday<u+2019>s second round in st. louis any more seriously than he took prep for the first. the same cannot be said for pence, a true professional, who huddled with wisconsin gov. scott walker for a week, and produced a focused performance, parrying every attack with a sharp assault on the unholy trinity of clinton sins: emails, the foundation and her foreign policy failings as secretary of state.
pence was as un-goad-able as trump was easily gulled. when an aggressive kaine demanded he defend his running mate<u+2019>s comments on everything from declaring mexican immigrants <u+201c>rapists<u+201d> to trump<u+2019>s suggestion that the u.s. encourage other countries to develop nukes, pence mocked him. <u+201c>did you work on that one a long time? because that had a lot of creative lines in it.<u+201d>
in the real world outside the farmville, va. debate hall, pence has contradicted or contrasted himself from trump on any number of issues <u+2013> most notably his flat refusal to entertain the false assertion that president obama isn<u+2019>t a native-born citizen. but inside he did a far better job of making trump<u+2019>s case than the candidate has made on his own behalf.
during his hofstra meltdown trump was so occupied defending himself against the self-assured clinton he forgot his most effective attacks, including a much-anticipated hit on the fundraising practices of the clinton foundation. pence was a cooler customer who calmly went through his head-hunting to-do list.
<u+201c>while she was secretary of state, the clinton foundation accepted tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments, and foreign donors," he said <u+2013> precisely the kind of targeted attack trump needs to make in order to recover from his disastrous first debate.
alec baldwin studied trump for weeks to pull off his uncanny impersonation on last week<u+2019>s saturday night live. trump would be well served to study the youtube of pence<u+2019>s performance for pointers.
2. tim kaine wasn<u+2019>t trying to win the debate <u+2013> he was trying to bash trump. the virginia senator has a reputation for being a nice guy, but he was given a hit man<u+2019>s job on tuesday. and the target was trump, not pence, whom the clinton campaign regards as a political bit player who will vanish into obscurity after the election.
hence, kaine<u+2019>s task was a slightly awkward one: to aim over pence and hit trump. it didn<u+2019>t really work, and not for lack of trying.
his best moment, arguably, came when he produced a laundry list of awful things trump has said about women, mexicans and a disabled reporter; pence juked and refused to answer <u+2013> which allowed kaine to declare: <u+201c>he's refused to defend his running mate. . .and yet, he's asking everybody to vote for somebody that he cannot defend," he said in one of the debate<u+2019>s few memorable exchanges.
but he came off as a bit nervous, like a frustrated school kid trying to disgorge a memorized speech if only his rowdy classmates would allow him to deliver it. at times, he seemed peevish. pence actually interrupted kaine a lot, but his interjections were punchy (often an aspirated <u+201c>no!<u+201d> intended to deprive the former virginia governor a clean sound bite) while kaine<u+2019>s frequent attempts to be heard were of the whiny it<u+2019>s-my-turn-to-talk variety which had many viewers (and a focus group convened by gop pollster frank luntz) judging kaine to be rude.
3. snatching discord from the jaws of victory? clinton and her brain trust, according to several democrats i spoke to, were satisfied (if not elated) by kaine<u+2019>s performance. whether trump appreciated pence<u+2019>s defenses, well that<u+2019>s less clear. moments after the candidates left the stage, john harwood of cnbc and the new york times quoted a trump adviser saying that the gop nominee, who was watching the debate from a hotel in vegas, was less than satisfied with his running mate.
<u+201c>pence won overall, but he didn<u+2019>t win with trump,<u+201d> the adviser told harwood.
4. pence dodged almost every tough question. how do you defend a running mate much of america deems as indefensible? you don<u+2019>t!
trump<u+2019>s chorus of validators fanned out this week to declare him a <u+201c>genius<u+201d> for <u+201c>using<u+201d> the tax code to avoid paying taxes <u+2013> but the real genius may have been pence who figured out the best way to answer the thorniest questions about trump was to respond with an attack on kaine, or the moderator elaine quijano. sure, he answered a handful, but a tiptoe through the transcript reveals what amounts to a master class in rhetorical deflection.
when it came to the new york times story on trump<u+2019>s 1995 new york state tax return <u+2013> which showed the estate and casino magnate claiming a nearly $1 billion loss, pence shrugged his shoulders and repeated the campaign<u+2019>s talking-point with televangelistical conviction. <u+201c>donald trump is a businessman -- he actually built a business,<u+201d> pence intoned. <u+201c>like everybody, he faced some pretty tough times 20 years ago.<u+201d>
pence slipped the hook during the most consequential exchange of the night <u+2013> a tag team onslaught by kaine and quijano pressing for pence to call for trump to release his tax returns.
quijano, to her credit, repeatedly asked pence why it was okay for trump to withhold his filings when the indiana governor had dutifully released the 10 most recent years of his income statements; pence was fumbling for an answer when kaine, who seemed more focused on venting outrage than pinning his quarry, interrupted her to make a forgettable point.
5. quijano was a weak moderator. tuesday marked the first time a digital division reporter moderated a major debate, and quijano <u+2013> a well-regarded former cnn anchor who now works for cbsn <u+2013> showed her inexperience. she allowed both candidates to repeatedly interrupt each other, at times seeming to whisper her questions and demands for decorum.
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | a couple of days before hillary clinton won the south carolina primary by nearly 50 points, david plouffe eased back in his chair at an anonymous capitol hill hotel and declared that the woman he helped defeat in 2008 had, oh, a 98 percent chance of beating bernie sanders.
he felt pretty, pretty confident about her odds against donald trump, too (predicting she could win by <u+201c>an unheard of margin, nationally, of 6 to 10 points<u+201d>). but barack obama<u+2019>s puckish, intensely competitive former campaign manager, arguably the most successful democratic strategist of his generation, offered a who-the-hell-really-knows shrug when asked to offer a similarly precise estimate of clinton<u+2019>s odds of beating trump.
<u+201c>i don<u+2019>t think we know yet, and i think all of us should have learned by now not to get out over ourselves with trump,<u+201d> plouffe told me during an episode of politico<u+2019>s <u+201c>off message<u+201d> podcast, in which he offered far-ranging opinions on clinton<u+2019>s self-defeating tendency to doubt her own staff, trump<u+2019>s role as an uber-like disrupter and bill clinton<u+2019>s not-quite-obama-level status in the presidential pantheon.
<u+201c>my sense, though is this: that he could completely implode,<u+201d> plouffe said of his favorite topic <u+2014> trump <u+2014> tacking on a massive caveat: <u+201c>so you say, well, how could someone, you know, really ferociously and viciously attack the last former republican president and get into a worldwide verbal tango with the pope and come out ok? well, he did. <u+2026> the trump thing is a living, breathing, growing organism. there are no rules for how you deal with it.<u+201d>
plouffe, the archetypal no-drama obama adviser credited with implementing obama<u+2019>s delegate-hoarding strategy eight years ago, has been informally advising clinton and her staff as needed. last year, politico reported that he had quietly met with the soon-to-be-candidate at her washington mansion, tracing her steps, state-by-state, and offering counsel on how to avoid the rending internal dissension that helped scuttle her race against obama.
plouffe, several people in clinton<u+2019>s brooklyn headquarters told me, speaks regularly with campaign manager robby mook, despite a demanding executive post at uber that demands he travel almost constantly. mook was checking in with plouffe daily <u+2014> sometimes multiple times a day <u+2014> during clinton<u+2019>s narrow and bitterly won victory in the iowa caucuses, they told me. part of the problem he has identified is the sheer number of people the clintons talk to on any given day, and the unerring certainty that each had in the quality of their own advice compared with what mook and his team offered.
and here is where the 48-year-old delaware political marketing whiz <u+2014> who was trying to be as tactful as possible in his public dispensing of criticism <u+2014> described what he believes to be the biggest danger to clinton as she grinds through the primary headlong into a bellowing, full-steam trump.
<u+201c>i think you build your team, and you stick by your team, and you run,<u+201d> said plouffe. <u+201c>it's got to be very hard for the clintons. they<u+2019>ve been on the scene for decades. so any time things go wrong, they have dozens of people, you know, in their email box, and probably calling, saying, <u+2018>told you so. you<u+2019>ve got to do this. you<u+2019>ve got to do this.<u+2019> ... you<u+2019>re going to have your valleys, and that<u+2019>s always a test. and if the thing you do is sow internal tension and allow voices from the outside to really, i think, affect the campaign in a negative way, you may not win.<u+201d>
early on, it seemed as though the clintons were headed to the same dark place they inhabited for much of 2008. both were in a sour, question-everything mood in the days after her microscopic victory in iowa, when it was clear sanders was about to deliver a humbling and decisive win in new hampshire. there was talk of accelerating a re-evaluation of staff that had been expected after super tuesday, or after she secured the nomination. (some in clinton<u+2019>s orbit even floated the nonstarter idea that plouffe abandon his lucrative uber gig and jump aboard the campaign.)
despite the finger-pointing, clinton decided to stay the course and was rewarded with game-changing victories in nevada and south carolina <u+2014> and plouffe hopes she doesn<u+2019>t get itchy-scratchy when things go south, as they inevitably will, in a general election fight. <u+201c>i think what you do need to figure out whether it<u+2019>s one voice,<u+201d> plouffe said of the campaign<u+2019>s overall strategy <u+2014> and please do away with clinton<u+2019>s propensity to summon the clans for 10-to-20-person conference calls anytime things go wrong, he urged.
<u+201c>there has to be <u+2014> you know, there<u+2019>s the big call, and the big meeting, and then there<u+2019>s the real meeting and the real call,<u+201d> he added. <u+201c>you can<u+2019>t make decisions with 10 people. it<u+2019>s impossible. so you<u+2019>ve got to figure out, and, you know, the question is, who is she talking to? and listen, they<u+2019>ve got enormous [talent]: joel benenson [pollster and strategist], mandy [grunwald, clinton ad-maker and all-around adviser], [adman] jim margolis, jen palmieri [communications director]. ... these are super-smart people. so i don<u+2019>t think it<u+2019>s necessarily, you know, is there a missing person from the outside <u+2026> you<u+2019>ve got to commit to something.<u+201d>
the test, he says, will come during the general election, when some old clinton hand panics and demands that either hillary or bill scuttle mook<u+2019>s strategy to address some crisis, real or imagined. <u+201c>there will be moments when there<u+2019>s some bad, bull---- public poll that comes out that shows them tied in pennsylvania, and, with all due respect, ed rendell will call, and say, <u+2018>you've got to [abandon] virginia and come here for three days.<u+2019><u+201d>
at this point, plouffe is almost certain trump will be clinton<u+2019>s opponent: he says it<u+2019>s already <u+201c>too late<u+201d> for republicans to consolidate behind marco rubio or ted cruz, even assuming one or the other would drop out in a fit of suicidal altruism. from here on out, trump basically needs to not implode. <u+201c>remarkably, this is completely in his control. if he can land the plane, he wins,<u+201d> plouffe says.
while he professes to be alarmed by the developer-turned-reality-star in his capacity as an <u+201c>american citizen,<u+201d> he gets a little giddy (not a natural plouffian state of being) at the process of reverse-engineering the donald<u+2019>s teflon candidacy. <u+201c>if you end up with a trump-clinton matchup, that will be one for the ages<u+201d> <u+2014> and one he<u+2019>s pretty sure, though not entirely convinced, she<u+2019>d win in a walk.
<u+201c>i think that<u+2019>s a likely possibility: that hillary clinton could beat donald trump by an unheard of margin, nationally, of 6 to 10 points,<u+201d> he says. <u+201c>but if that<u+2019>s not the case and he<u+2019>s competitive, where he<u+2019>ll be competitive is in the upper midwest, in the ohios, the wisconsins, maybe pennsylvanias of the world <u+2014> maybe iowa and minnesota even, potentially.<u+201d>
plouffe is quick to say, <u+201c>from an electoral college standpoint, i don<u+2019>t see a trump path,<u+201d> but he<u+2019>s equally quick to say the greatest threat posed by trump is his unpredictability. plouffe is a guy who likes to make a plan and stick with it, and trump makes that a near impossibility. <u+201c>trump is a wild card, and you just don<u+2019>t know,<u+201d> he adds.
the greatest danger is that the public continues to give trump license to change his positions any time he likes, with minimal recrimination, and that will allow him to take popular stances outside the narrow confines of gop orthodoxy. plouffe thinks he<u+2019>ll show openness to taxing the rich, nod toward the reality of climate change, even recognize some federal government role in providing health care to the poor.
the idea of deconstructing trump appeals to plouffe, but the aspect of his old job he misses most is playing around with the numbers. he thinks clinton<u+2019>s greatest advantage is a sophisticated data-gathering operation capable of targeting voters, one by one, in swing states, undermining trump<u+2019>s scattershot populist messaging.
plouffe comes by his numeracy naturally. his father, a massachusetts native, was a physics major who joined the army and rose to the rank of captain, where he worked in intelligence, and plouffe earnestly says that he can<u+2019>t talk about what his dad did before retiring and taking a job with dupont.
the son inherited the father<u+2019>s love for math <u+2014> he fondly recalls solving calculus <u+201c>puzzles<u+201d> as a kid <u+2014> and like many political pros he grew up a baseball box-score fanatic and, later, a devotee of sabermetrics. but he was also a passionate fan and, like many kids in delaware, followed the phillies as a young boy and idolized their hall of fame third-baseman, mike schmidt. as any one who has ever worked with (or against) him knows, plouffe is also very, very competitive. as a pre-teen, he merged all of his passions into an obsession with a 1970s-era board game, <u+201c>all-star baseball,<u+201d> that combined probability, cards with the names of his favorite players and the thrill of pure chance <u+2014> in short, all the elements of modern politics.
yet for plouffe, politics is ultimately about loyalty, in his case an abiding loyalty to obama that<u+2019>s apparent even as he dives enthusiastically into a role as public clinton booster and private unpaid adviser.
his old competitive instincts toward clinton have been mostly, but not entirely suppressed. he speaks glowingly of her toughness and smarts. but when i ask plouffe if he regrets playing hardball with bill and hillary clinton in south carolina, he grins. <u+201c>not one bit,<u+201d> he says. <u+201c>not one bit.<u+201d>
when plouffe compiles his list of <u+201c>consequential presidents<u+201d> over the past century (the purpose is to place obama near the top) he ticks them off, one by one. <u+201c>well, clearly franklin roosevelt. ... maybe you throw in the combined kennedy-johnson years <u+2026> and then barack obama, i think, on that level <u+2014> and reagan, of course.<u+201d>
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | the summer of trump officially closes with its silliest episode yet: the spectacle of trump truthers, an assortment of trump-friendly media figures who insist that the man who said president obama is a muslim and <u+201c>not an american,<u+201d> and that muslims must be gotten <u+201c>rid of,<u+201d> at a new hampshire rally, was some kind of opposition plant, not an actual trump supporter.
first out the gate was ann coulter early friday morning. <u+201c>i say he<u+2019>s a liberal plant,<u+201d> she tweeted. brian kilmeade of <u+201c>fox & friends<u+201d> echoed coulter, insisting the anti-muslim questioner <u+201c>sounds like a plant, to be honest.<u+201d> fox<u+2019>s kimberly guilfoyle and eric bolling continued peddling that theory all day. laura ingraham agreed, tweeting that the man <u+201c>sure sounded like a put-up<u+2013>cartoon presentation, bad acting.<u+201d>
media matters ran down the list of right-wingers trying to bail out trump, who was uncharacteristically media-shy after the controversy erupted, even canceling a scheduled public appearance on friday (allegedly to close a business deal.)
but it wasn<u+2019>t just official right-wingers: bloomberg<u+2019>s mark halperin peddled the notion on saturday:
he doubled down on his questions <u+2013> it<u+2019>s only ok to use the<u+00a0>clich<u+00e9> <u+201c>doubling down<u+201d> when talking about halperin <u+2013> in a long twitter debate with journalists who challenged him, insisting the guy <u+201c>sounded like the travolta mumble in the dance scene in <u+2018>pulp fiction.<u+2019><u+201d>
it<u+2019>s one thing for paid right-wing propagandists to suggest trump<u+2019>s questioner wasn<u+2019>t an actual supporter. it<u+2019>s another for an allegedly serious journalist to push the claim, with zero proof. (to be fair, my friend chris hayes raised the question on his show thursday night, immediately after the trump rally, but it was more in the vein of telling viewers the <u+201c>theatrical<u+201d> questioner hadn<u+2019>t been found, so no one could decisively say whether he was an actual trump supporter.)
but it shouldn<u+2019>t be hard to believe a trump supporter holds those views. trump personally took the birther nonsense from the fringe of politics to center stage in 2011, and he revived the claim in 2012 even as he was endorsing mitt romney. trump has also suggested obama was muslim, telling fox<u+2019>s bill o<u+2019>reilly in 2011 that it<u+2019>s possible obama <u+201c>doesn<u+2019>t have a birth certificate. he may have one, but there<u+2019>s something on that, maybe religion, maybe it says he is a muslim.<u+201d> besides: the man<u+2019>s claim that obama is a muslim, and also <u+201c>not american,<u+201d> puts him squarely in the mainstream of the republican party. a recent public policy polling survey found that only 29 percent of republicans believe obama was born here, and more than half say he<u+2019>s muslim. those numbers climb among trump supporters: two thirds say he<u+2019>s a muslim, and 6 in 10 believe he wasn<u+2019>t born in the u.s. i don<u+2019>t know why is so hard for anyone to believe that a man at a trump rally would ask that kind of question. to his credit, trump is denying claims that the questioner was a plant. <u+201c>i don<u+2019>t think he was a plant,<u+201d> he said monday. <u+201c>i knew that question was going to be a controversial one. i have no obligation, moral or otherwise, to defend the president.<u+201d> then he brazenly blamed the entire birther issue on hillary clinton<u+2019>s<u+00a0>2008 campaign. <u+201c>what i<u+2019>ve said is nothing compared to hillary,<u+201d> claimed the man who so dogged the president with birther bs he released his long-form birth certificate at a public event. let me concede: it<u+2019>s possible the man at the trump rally was a plant. so far, nobody has found him to interview him, at least not yet. but i don<u+2019>t know who<u+2019>d bother to plant him. what would they have to gain? the kind of people who<u+2019>d be upset that trump failed to rebuke the anti-muslim birther aren<u+2019>t likely to support trump in the first place; most actual trump supporters agreed with the guy<u+2019>s premise. | meet the trump truthers: media figures insist bigoted trump questioner was just a liberal plant | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 95.0 | 8.0 | 3763.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10.0 | 0.0 | 263.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 78.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 21.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 3.0 | 5.0 | 10.0 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 23.0 | 15.0 | 30.0 | 273.0 | 80.0 | 21.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | donald trump clinched the republican nomination thursday when a ragtag group of unbound delegates announced they were going to support him. all the networks ran with breaking news and trained their cameras on an empty podium for hours waiting for trump to appear before the press and bak in his glory. it was a magical moment. true, everyone had known for weeks now that trump was going to be the nominee<u+00a0>since all of his rivals have dropped out of the race<u+00a0>but why let that stand in the way of an opportunity to obsess over his every incoherent insult and rant? as they waited, the big topic of conversation among the tv chatterers was<u+00a0>an interview by howard fineman with trump<u+2019>s campaign chairman and chief strategist paul manafort. and it was admittedly a doozy.
when i wrote about manafort earlier<u+00a0>i concentrated on his long history of working with slash and burn political consultants and foreign tyrants. he is uniquely qualified to head up trump<u+2019>s operation. but it<u+2019>s been a while since he<u+2019>s been involved in american politics and it was unclear if he had lost his touch.<u+00a0> the interview with fineman raises more questions about that than it answers.
fineman quotes manafort saying that he thinks this election will be a cakewalk:
that<u+2019>s the kind of confidence one would expect of a trump adviser.<u+00a0> but it<u+2019>s a little bit weird considering he also says <u+201c>you don<u+2019>t change donald trump. you don<u+2019>t <u+2018>manage<u+2019> him.<u+201d> that sounds like a contradiction in terms <u+2014> if they can<u+2019>t <u+201c>manage<u+201d> trump then it<u+2019>s hard to see how this race isn<u+2019>t going to be a challenge since the man is a walking time bomb.
manafort made some policy news by saying that trump was likely going to <u+201c>soften<u+201d> his policy on banning muslims explaining that this was just a negotiating stance.<u+00a0> the truth is that<u+00a0>trump himself has said that before.<u+00a0> but at this point, he has been on so many sides of every issue nobody can keep track so it means something when his chief strategist validates one of them.
it<u+2019>s also the case that if there<u+2019>s one issue which the gop establishment particularly wants trump to back away from it<u+2019>s the muslim ban.<u+00a0> there are good reasons for this, of course. it<u+2019>s unamerican for one thing although that would not normally bother republican officials. more likely it<u+2019>s that they actually recognize that trump<u+2019>s idiotic, unworkable proposal is so inflammatory that it<u+2019>s going to get people killed.<u+00a0> unfortunately, once they are back home campaigning they<u+2019>re going to hear from their trump-loving constituents that<u+00a0>this is one of their favorite policies.<u+00a0>if these officials have any integrity, which is unlikely, they will try to educate their voters about how dangerous it is but i wouldn<u+2019>t hold my breath.
according to manafort, trump<u+2019>s other big crowd pleaser, <u+201c>the wall<u+201d>, will be built come what may and he will not <u+201c>soften<u+201d> his stance on immigration.<u+00a0> he was spinning like a top <u+2014> or he really is out of touch <u+2014> <u+00a0>because he told fineman that it<u+2019>s only in places like new york and california where the american latinos are all radicals who care about such things. in ohio and florida they<u+2019>ll be happy to vote for trump.
that is delusional. according to<u+00a0>recent national polling by latino decisions, he has an 87% unfavorable rating. <u+00a0>in florida,<u+00a0>he does better than he does nationally. only 84% of latinos view him unfavorably.<u+00a0>in nevada, a state which he dishonestly claims voted for him in huge numbers in the primary and uses a proof of his tremendous appeal among latinos, he also has an 87% unfavorable rating. manafort thinks they will be able to turn that round by talking to them about jobs, national security, terrorism and education because their concerns are the same as white families. of course white families aren<u+2019>t concerned about having their friends and relatives rounded up and dumped in the sonoran desert<u+00a0>which trump has indicated he thinks is a terrific idea.<u+00a0>latinos are certainly concerned about terrorism. but they may define it just a little bit differently than trump does.
manafort said that trump was unlikely to choose a woman or a racial or ethnic minority for vp because that would be <u+201c>pandering.<u+201d> that would be very wrong, needless to say. unlike trump tweeting out a picture of himself eating a <u+201c>taco bowl<u+201d> from the trump tower grill on cinco de mayo saying he <u+201c>loves hispanics<u+201d>. but then the job of vice president is going to be very, very important in a trump administration according to manafort, so they aren<u+2019>t going to take any chances: he needs an experienced person to do the part of the job he doesn<u+2019>t want to do. he seems himself more as the chairman of the board, than even the ceo, let alone the coo.<u+201d> i guess nobody<u+2019>s told trump that you don<u+2019>t get to write the job description yourself. i<u+2019>m pretty sure the job of president is to be the one who makes all the big decisions. it<u+2019>s not the person who just calls fox and friends, negotiates the trade deals and bombs the shit out of isis. you don<u+2019>t get to pick what presidential duties you <u+201c>want to do<u+201d> and delegate the rest to your peons. sure, some presidents like reagan and george w. bush were less hands-on than others but they didn<u+2019>t redefine the presidency as a chairman of the board who picks and chooses the duties he spends his time on. in the end, it probably doesn<u+2019>t matter what manafort says anyway. the campaign is all over the place, with infighting and jockeying for position among the various players. this week rick wiley, the highly experienced political operative manafort brought on board just six weeks ago was let go in a power struggle with a florida campaign staffer, and friend of manafort rival campaign manager corey lewandowski.<u+00a0>according to politico: for weeks, wiley made appointments and had discussions with florida republicans and appeared to be building a new campaign from scratch, sources say. they say he refused, at times, to return giorno<u+2019>s calls or take them. giorno then began calling other trump campaign officials to ask them whether wiley had it out for her or for everyone. on thursday, word leaked back to trump. he phoned giorno, concerned, sources said. <u+201c>tell me what<u+2019>s wrong?<u+201d> trump asked her, according to one person familiar with the call. <u+201c>karen unloaded on wiley,<u+201d> the source said. <u+201c>mr. trump is loyal. he believed her. <u+2026> rick picked a fight with the wrong person.<u+201d> at that point, trump ordered wiley to stay away from giorno and to neither call nor email her. <u+201c>donald is loyal. and she<u+2019>s loyal,<u+201d> a source said. donald trump is running his presidential campaign like a junior high school cheerleading squad. and this is the man who claims his business savvy is what qualifies him for the presidency. paul manafort assured fineman, however, that we could all rest easy about trump being ready for the big job: <u+201c>does he know enough? yes, because he knows he has more to learn. and he is constantly doing that.<u+201d> trump doesn<u+2019>t read briefing papers, but he is a magnet for information, manafort said. <u+201c>he reads the newspapers, and he talks on the phone and to office visitors in a never-ending stream. you<u+2019>re sitting there in his office and you realize that he is constantly picking up stuff as he goes.<u+201d> <u+201c>we have all this survey research, but he does his own soundings all the time, all day every day. and he<u+2019>s more accurate,<u+201d> manafort said. he watches all the shows and obsessively reads his twitter feed too. it should be obvious by this time that trump has absolutely no idea what he<u+2019>s doing and is making it up as he goes along. paul manafort is experienced at dealing with this sort of character, and seems quite comfortable doing it. but the campaign is a mess and that<u+2019>s because the candidate is a vainglorious buffoon who has no clue what he<u+2019>s doing and thinks he<u+2019>s a genius. i wouldn<u+2019>t bet on manafort lasting through the duration. | trump<u+2019>s a walking time bomb: don<u+2019>t be fooled by his <u+201c>victory,<u+201d> he can implode his own campaign at any moment | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 108.0 | 8.0 | 7779.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 537.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 185.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 82.0 | 16.0 | 21.0 | 8.0 | 17.0 | 15.0 | 14.0 | 12.0 | 43.0 | 30.0 | 52.0 | 546.0 | 188.0 | 82.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | the ohio republican will travel to israel this week, while congress is on recess. he said his plans were made before the rift between netanyahu and president barack obama over how to deal with iran and palestine burst into the open.
"there are serious issues and activities going on in the middle east and i think it's critically important for members of congress to hear from foreign leaders, other governments, other parts of their government, to get a real handle on the challenges that we face there," boehner told cnn's dana bash on "state of the union" sunday.
republicans are using the congressional recess to visit israel. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, r-kentucky, was there sunday, and met with netanyahu.
boehner said netanyahu -- who's been lambasted by obama for his comments in the lead-up to israel's election that a two-state solution to israel and palestine's divide is impossible -- didn't cross any lines. "well, he doesn't have a partner," boehner said. "how do you have a two-state solution when you don't have a partner in that solution, when you don't have a partner for peace, when you've got a -- when the other state is vowing to wipe you off the face of the earth?" and he promised to move "very" quickly toward imposing steep new sanctions on iran if obama doesn't strike a deal with the country to avert its nuclear ambitions -- a deal that netanyahu opposed during a high-profile speech to congress during an early-march trip to washington. boehner also defended netanyahu from criticism from obama and the white house that has mounted over the last month. "i think the animosity exhibited by our administration toward the prime minister of israel is reprehensible," boehner said. "and i think that the pressure that they've put on him over the last four or five years have frankly pushed him to the point where he had to speak up." "i don't blame him at all for speaking up," he said. | boehner: israel trip planned before netanyahu-obama rift | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 56.0 | 8.0 | 1927.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 124.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 46.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 17.0 | 6.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 11.0 | 12.0 | 16.0 | 127.0 | 46.0 | 17.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | washington -- anyone who wants to understand the current state of the democratic party should pay close attention to what happened this week in the house of representatives, where democrats cut down a gop-backed wall street deregulation bill. in response, the bill's supporters avoided talking about who the legislation would have helped (hint: two big banks), focusing instead on calling its victorious opponents a bunch of flip-floppers.
"the atmosphere is a little bit different," himes said. "i think there were 35 democrats who voted yes. on similar legislation in the last congress, that number was more like 75 or so. so yes, there were some folks who looked at the same thing this congress and thought that they felt differently about it."
actually, 95 democrats supported a very similar bill as recently as september. both bills were 11-point packages chipping away at the 2010 dodd-frank financial reform law. the most serious attack of the bunch came in the form of a partial two-year delay of the volcker rule, which would ban banks from speculating in securities markets with taxpayer money. the bill would have allowed citigroup and jpmorgan chase to hold onto almost $50 billion in risky corporate debt packages known as collateralized loan obligations through 2019. since that perk wasn't included in the september version of the bill, the alleged flip-floppers can make a case that this time around, things just went too far.
but that doesn't seem to be what's really going on among today's democrats. for one thing, democrats approved a previous two-year delay of the same volcker rule provision last spring, pushing it to 2017, and dozens of house democrats spent much of 2013 and 2014 lining up to support bill after bill that dealt blows to the party's second-biggest policy achievement of the obama era.
this infuriated financial reform advocates. in isolation, many of these bills would have meant only minor trouble for dodd-frank. others, however, were quite serious, and collectively, they functioned as a repeal strategy that may ultimately prove more effective than the gop's straightforward assault on obamacare. they never became law because then-senate majority leader harry reid (d-nev.) didn't bring them up in the senate, but with republicans now in control of the senate, that firewall is gone.
the democratic domestic policy agenda is remarkably uniform across the caucus, with one major exception. nearly every house democrat supports same-sex marriage, stronger environmental protections and increasing the minimum wage. but on bank reform, the party remains divided. things have been shifting lately, however, and the 44 democrats who switched their votes between september and january show which way the wind is blowing. they're listed at the bottom of this article. as for the other supporters of the september bill, 12 aren't in congress anymore -- a politically significant point in its own right -- and four didn't vote.
there's nothing inherently terrible about flip-flopping. historically, it's a pretty important part of the legislative process, on everything from the democratic party's embrace of the civil rights movement in the 1960s to the passage of the wall street bailout in 2008. even himes, mourning his defeat on c-span, noted that a lot of people who thought unfettered finance was a good idea in the late 1990s recanted after the banking crash.
elections, in particular, have a way of changing politicians' opinions, and november was horrible for democrats in almost every possible way. economic policy factors stuck with a lot of liberals. ballot initiatives to increase the minimum wage passed all over the country in districts blue and red, even as democrats took a beating everywhere. exit poll data showed that the economy remained the most important issue to voters (as it has in every election since 2008), and shepherded in republicans, even though a robust majority didn't think the gop had a plan to make things better.
the public is still angry about the bank bailouts. and even with the economy showing signs of improvement, voting for more wall street financial aid is an easy way to convince many constituents that you aren't playing for their team.
all of that came to a head in the december vote on a major government funding bill. when top negotiators from both parties included a provision subsidizing risky derivatives trading in the package, many democrats who had been quietly going along with the piecemeal dismantling of dodd-frank began trying to take down the spending bill over the bank perk. they came pretty close, and the final events of the vote -- president barack obama and jpmorgan chase ceo jamie dimon personally lobbying lawmakers for support -- only added fuel to the bank reformers' fire.
they appear to be picking up converts, as demonstrated by the 44 democrats who came out against the volcker rule delay wednesday. several of those 44 were frequent wall street supporters in the last congress -- house minority whip steny hoyer (d-md.) and reps. joe crowley (d-n.y.). greg meeks (d-n.y.) and carolyn maloney (d-n.y.) stand out as interesting changes.
of course, house minority leader nancy pelosi (d-calif.) whipped democrats hard on wednesday to oppose the volcker rule delay, and issued a statement after the vote blasting the bill as a gop rip-off of the american people. pelosi is obviously a powerful person in the caucus, and when republicans bring the same volcker rule bill up again next week under rules that will guarantee its passage, she'll have less leverage, and some of the financial reform converts may revert to backing big banks. | why these democrats flipped to defeat wall street deregulation | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.0 | 62.0 | 8.0 | 5660.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 357.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 103.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 37.0 | 12.0 | 19.0 | 7.0 | 14.0 | 13.0 | 13.0 | 6.0 | 36.0 | 28.0 | 43.0 | 359.0 | 104.0 | 37.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | cnn said the investigation started after intercepted communication and other intelligence information that led officials to believe that a plot could be under way.
the network quoted an official as saying the plot focused on parts of california and that officials there had stepped up security.
the transportation security administration had also alerted local law enforcement agencies responsible for security around airports in the state although the possible threat was not necessarily related to aviation, cnn said.
it added that some u.s. cities had increased their security, but gave no further details.
no one at the fbi was immediately available to comment. homeland security secretary jeh johnson also declined to comment on the reported threat to los angeles airport.
los angeles was already using two-man police patrols, but the continued isis call for sympathizers to attack western interests means upgraded measures at los angeles international airport.
and while investigators say there is no specific plot to mention, intelligence from overseas and monitoring of suspected militants in the united states point to an increased threat. fbi director jim comey has said in recent weeks that there are investigations going on in all 50 states into alleged isis sympathizers.
sources, speaking on a condition of anonymity to nbc, said fears revolve around uniformed personnel, such as police officers, or locations where "lone wolf" terrorists could target.
"over the last few months, we have made a number of security adjustments, including enhanced screening at select overseas airports and increasing random searches of passengers and carry-on luggage on flights inbound to the u.s., reflecting an evolving threat picture," a department of homeland security spokesman said.
he would not comment on the specific intelligence that increased concerns on the west coast, but officials there have boosted security in recent months.
more airport police have been placed on duty at los angeles international airport, reports the orange county register, in response to the threats.
"there are no specific threats to lax," insisted los angeles world airports, the airport oversight and operations department for the city of los angeles, in a press release. "we are constantly adjusting our deployment strategies, and as a precaution, have increased the visibility of airport police."
the increased security also comes as counterterrorism experts worry that isis is growing in popularity in locations far away from syria and iraq, reports nbc. moreover,<u+00a0> violence continues to spread.
in march, isis laid claim to an attack to the bardo museum in tunisia, with the violence escalating elsewhere since then.
saudi arabia claimed isis was planning car bombings in riyadh after evidence was found on the cellphone of a man suspected of killing two police officers at a checkpoint.
on monday, isis released a video showing the executions of ethiopian christians in two separate places in libya. isis also claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in afghanistan that killed 34 people and wounded more than 100.
in the united states, officials have been arresting people who want to travel to the isis caliphate in syria and iraq. in the past year alone, 39 u.s. citizens have been arrested for charges of offering to help isis, with eight americans arrested just in the last week.
fordham center director karen greenberg said the appeal behind joining forces is the same for all potential isis recruits.
"it's religion, but it's broader than just the religion itself. it's wanting to share in a culture in which that religion is central," greenberg said. "that is a place for them to go that will provide a religious homeland for them, and that they will be able to serve it in a number of capacities."
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | right to rise usa, the pro-jeb bush super pac will be airing a new tv ad in early voting states and the battleground state of ohio that uses images from the paris & san bernardino attacks to depict president obama as a weak president on terrorism and the former two-term florida governor as a <u+201c>tested and proven leader who won<u+2019>t try to contain isis.<u+201d>
it is the first campaign ad to utilize the images of both paris and san bernardino.
<u+201c>a horrific terror attack in paris then a brutal act of terror here at home.<u+201d> the 30 second ad starts off as it flashes images from both locations.
<u+201c>it is time for tested and proven leader who won<u+2019>t try to contain isis,<u+201d> the announcer continues as obama flashes on the screen.
bush has been increasing his focus on national security and anti-terrorism positions and has been severely critical of the president<u+2019>s position on threats from isis and other terrorist organizations.
"the threat of global terrorism is the threat for our country. and every day that the caliphate exists is another day that they win and they can recruit terrorists, <u+201c> bush said to special report anchor bret baier on thursday night.
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | the election in 232 photos, 43 numbers and 131 quotes, from the two candidates at the center of it all. | can hillary flip the script in oregon and kentucky? | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 51.0 | 8.0 | 103.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 8.0 | 4.0 | 1.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | it<u+2019>s one thing for campaign strategists to dream up a divide-states-and-conquer plan on a conference call. it<u+2019>s quite another for actual voters to agree.
how snl's 'the bubble' sketch about polarization is all too true
republican presidential hopeful sen. ted cruz gets ice cream with his daughters caroline, right, and catherine during a campaign stop at zaharakos ice cream parlor in columbus, ind., monday. in an effort to deny donald trump the nomination, ohio gov. john kasich promised not to campaign in indiana, in exchange for senator cruz ceding new mexico and oregon.
ted cruz and john kasich have struck a non-aggression pact in an attempt to block donald trump from winning the gop presidential nomination. is that a fair way to play politics?
the answer to that question depends heavily on what one thinks about the role parties and their organizations should play in today<u+2019>s american democracy.
first, the details: on sunday night the cruz/kasich alliance announced a trade of spheres of influence. ohio governor kasich won<u+2019>t campaign in indiana, leaving the hoosier state to cruz forces. in return, texas senator cruz will pull out of new mexico and oregon, giving kasich a clear path in those states.
the point of this is to try and force mr. trump into artificial one-on-one contests in important places. polls predict the donald would do worse under such circumstances, since cruz and kasich are splitting the anti-trump vote. in indiana, for instance, trump has a lead of about six percentage points over cruz, 39 to 33. kasich is third at 19 percent.
reallocate the kasich votes, and you<u+2019>ve got a new ballgame. and indiana is key <u+2013> it<u+2019>s a modified winner-take-all state and it<u+2019>s got 57 delegates. deny trump that prize, and his pathway to a majority of 1,237 delegates gets much narrower.
<u+201c>a cruz victory in indiana would be enough to make mr. trump an underdog in the fight for 1,237,<u+201d> writes poll guru nate cohn of the upshot at the new york times.
whether the plan would actually work remains an issue. it<u+2019>s one thing for strategists to dream this up on a conference call. it<u+2019>s quite another for actual voters to agree and change their behavior as a result. kasich and cruz are pretty different candidates. the former is the let<u+2019>s-all-hug guy who<u+2019>s emphasizing his insider credentials. the latter is a combative conservative who<u+2019>s said insiders are destroying the gop. are the backers of one going to switch to the other in the name of stopping a third guy? that<u+2019>s debatable. they might just stay home.
then there<u+2019>s the issue of fairness. the pact<u+2019>s target, for one, insists it<u+2019>s a ruse. he denounced it with his typical restraint.
kidding! trump hit it so hard he brought back nicknames.
<u+201c>lyin<u+2019> ted cruz and 1 for 38 kasich are unable to beat me on their own so they have to team up (collusion) in a two on one. shows weakness!<u+201d> trump tweeted on monday.
but you don<u+2019>t have to be trump to see the cruz/kasich pact as a bit unseemly. it<u+2019>s a case of the second and third place competitors conspiring to use the rules to try and pull down the person in front.
that leader is in front by a pretty fair margin, by the way <u+2013> and it is republican primary voters who put him there. if you see the nomination process as something that the voters should directly control, you might judge this wrong, or misdirected at the least.
but here<u+2019>s the thing: the nomination process is not the same as the general election. the organizations that set the process up <u+2013> the two big parties that govern america <u+2013> have a vested interest in selecting nominees they think best for the party as a whole. they<u+2019>re private clubs, and they get to fiddle with the rules, move the goalposts, and otherwise mix all the metaphors they want. that<u+2019>s why many primaries are closed to all but party members <u+2013> independents and opposing party adherents need not apply.
<u+201c>of course, candidates whom the party likes have advantages in winning party nominations. it isn<u+2019>t unfair to trump that the other candidates are trying to do the best they can under the well-established rules,<u+201d> writes political scientist jonathan bernstein today in his bloomberg view column. | cruz and kasich form an alliance: is that fair? (+video) | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 56.0 | 8.0 | 4160.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 272.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 85.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 37.0 | 11.0 | 12.0 | 5.0 | 10.0 | 11.0 | 10.0 | 6.0 | 24.0 | 22.0 | 35.0 | 277.0 | 85.0 | 37.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | from the ussr to venezuela, experience reveals sanders' policies wouldn't enrich anyone but a ruling elite.
it is a common misconception that socialism is about helping poor people.<u+00a0>actually, what socialism does is create poor people, and keep them poor. and that<u+2019>s not by accident.
under capitalism, rich people become powerful.<u+00a0>but under socialism, powerful people become rich. when you look at a socialist country like venezuela, you find that the rulers are fabulously wealthy even as the ordinary citizenry deals with empty supermarket shelves and electricity rationing.
the daughter of venezuela<u+2019>s socialist ruler, hugo chavez, is the<u+00a0>richest individual in venezuela,<u+00a0>worth billions of dollars, according to the miami-based diario las am<u+00e9>rica.<u+00a0>in cuba, fidel castro reportedly has lived <u+2014> pretty much literally <u+2014> like a king, even as his subjects dwelt in poverty.<u+00a0>in the old union of soviet socialist republics, as hedrick smith reported in his<u+00a0>the russians,<u+00a0>the communist party big shots had lavish country houses and apartments in town stocked with hand-polished fresh fruit, even as the common people stood in line for hours at state-run stores in the hopes of getting staples.
there<u+2019>s always a lot of talk about free health care, but it<u+2019>s generally substandard for the masses and fancy for the elite. (the average cuban<u+00a0>or venezuelan peasant<u+00a0><u+2014> or soviet-era russian<u+00a0><u+2014> doesn<u+2019>t get the kind of health care that people at the top get.)
in the old soviet union, the new communist nobility, whose positions and influence seemed to run in families somehow, were called the<u+00a0>nomenklatura<u+00a0>(from the latin word for a list of names).<u+00a0>despite all the talk about equality, etc., they generally did a lot better than people who didn<u+2019>t have the right connections. dissident milovan djilas referred to these managers and<u+00a0>apparatchiks<u+00a0>(another soviet-era word) as the <u+201c>new class.<u+201d> where socialist equality was supposed to eliminate the distinction between exploited workers and peasants and their capitalist exploiters, it instead produced a new distinction, between exploited workers and peasants and their <u+201c>new class<u+201d> socialist oppressors.
well, this is old news: george orwell explained the phenomenon in his<u+00a0>animal farm<u+00a0>many decades ago. but people keep falling for it: like ponzi schemes, socialism is an<u+00a0>evergreen form of fraud,<u+00a0>egged on by suckers eager to believe the lies hucksters tell them.
which brings me to bernie sanders. the washington post recently ran a piece originally entitled "bernie sanders<u+2019><u+00a0>plans<u+00a0>have surprisingly small benefits for america<u+2019>s poorest people." among other things, it noted that <u+201c>in general, though, sanders<u+2019><u+00a0>health<u+00a0>care plan would benefit affluent households more than it would poorer ones.<u+201d>
likewise, a paper from the left-leaning brookings institution notes that the biggest beneficiaries of bernie<u+2019>s free-college proposal would be<u+00a0>rich kids:<u+00a0>"families from the top half of the income distribution would receive 24% more in dollar value from eliminating tuition than students from the lower half of the income distribution.<u+201d>
well, america isn<u+2019>t socialist <u+2014> though, these days, we<u+2019>re not really capitalist, either,<u+00a0>if by capitalist you mean a free-market economy without much government direction <u+2014> but we do have our own new class.<u+00a0>and those people tend to be bernie supporters.
america<u+2019>s new class isn<u+2019>t the super<u+00a0>rich<u+00a0>(they tend to donate to hillary clinton);<u+00a0>it's<u+00a0>the upper-middle-class employees of non-profits, universities<u+00a0>and government agencies. they benefit twice from the kinds of programs that bernie supports: often, they<u+2019>re employed to administer them, or receive funds for providing services (think college administrators who, unsurprisingly, heavily support bernie and hillary), and then they also receive the benefits because<u+00a0>their kids are more likely to go to college than, say, a kroger cashier<u+2019>s.<u+00a0>(and if we ever wind up with government-run health care, ask yourself who<u+2019>ll get the hip replacement first <u+2014> a woman who works as a cashier at kroger<u+00a0>or a senior bureaucrat in the department of health and human services.)
higher up the political scale, of course, the powerful really do become rich: bill and hillary clinton are likely worth about<u+00a0>$45<u+00a0>million, paid a lot for boring speeches given to people who are really just<u+00a0>buying influence.<u+00a0>but at least in america, becoming powerful isn<u+2019>t the only way to become rich. under socialism, you<u+2019>re either powerful, or you<u+2019>re poor.
but poverty isn<u+2019>t a byproduct of socialism:<u+00a0>it<u+2019>s a requirement, as illustrated by cato institute analyst<u+00a0>juan carlos hidalgo's report<u+00a0>concerning<u+00a0>venezuela:
as the rainmakers sang, back in the 1980s, <u+201c>they<u+2019>ll turn us all into beggars 'cause they<u+2019>re<u+00a0>easier to please.<u+201d><u+00a0>that<u+2019>s socialism in a nutshell.<u+00a0>the <u+201c>equality<u+201d> talk?<u+00a0>that<u+2019>s just for the suckers. don<u+2019>t be a sucker.
glenn harlan reynolds, a<u+00a0>university of tennessee<u+00a0>law professor and<u+00a0>the author of<u+00a0>the new school:<u+00a0>how the information age will save american education from itself, is<u+00a0>a member of usa today's<u+00a0>board of contributors.
in addition to its own editorials, usa today publishes diverse opinions from outside writers, including our<u+00a0>board of contributors. to read more columns, go to the<u+00a0>opinion front page<u+00a0>and follow us on twitter<u+00a0>@usatopinion. | glenn reynolds: don't be a sucker for socialism | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 47.0 | 8.0 | 5251.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 378.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 94.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 65.0 | 8.0 | 15.0 | 7.0 | 9.0 | 13.0 | 6.0 | 3.0 | 25.0 | 19.0 | 38.0 | 380.0 | 94.0 | 65.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | donald trump, ted cruz, and john kasich have all backed away from a pledge to support the republican presidential nominee. the reasons go deeper than mere personal pique, to the soul of the party.
how snl's 'the bubble' sketch about polarization is all too true
republican presidential candidate donald trump waves as he walks onstage before speaking at a campaign event at st. norbert college in de pere, wis., on wednesday, march 30.
when donald trump signed a <u+201c>loyalty pledge<u+201d> with great fanfare last september promising to support the eventual republican presidential nominee, few took him seriously.
because no one tells mr. trump what to do. he even said so at the time.
now trump has formally rescinded his pledge, and the remaining gop competitors <u+2013><u+00a0>texas sen. ted cruz and ohio gov. john kasich <u+2013><u+00a0>have come close, refusing to say whether they would honor their own loyalty pledges at a cnn town hall tuesday night.
in a way, the death of the pledge is merely symbolic. it<u+2019>s already been clear for some time that the grand old party is coming apart at the seams, with a presidential front-runner who barely adheres to republican philosophy and yet commands a big, loyal following.
but that symbolism is important. after all, what is the point of having a political party, if its members don<u+2019>t intend to support one another?
the unraveling of the pledge is <u+201c>clarifying,<u+201d> says republican strategist ford o<u+2019>connell. <u+201c>it tells us how much these men can<u+2019>t stand each other.<u+201d>
the reasons go deeper than mere personal pique. the end of the pledge speaks to the hollowness in the very soul of the republican party. a sizable slice of gop voters are so fed up with business as usual they<u+2019>re willing to take a chance on a political novice with some unorthodox views (for a republican) and whom many women and minorities find offensive.
the pledge<u+2019>s demise is premised on the possibility of a trump nomination. when asked about the pledge in the cnn town hall, cruz said he was <u+201c>not in the habit of supporting someone who attacks my wife and attacks my family.<u+201d> kasich also hedged: "if the nominee is somebody that i think is really hurting the country, and dividing the country, i can't stand behind them, but we have a ways to go."
a logical answer might be for cruz and kasich to form a strategic alliance, in an effort to knock out trump. but that<u+2019>s not in the works. each believes he should be the nominee, coming out of a contested convention. and they<u+2019>re not a good fit stylistically or ideologically: cruz is a hard-line conservative who does not brook compromise, while kasich is more mainstream, with a history of working across the aisle.
taken as a group, the three remaining gop candidates represent a microcosm of today<u+2019>s fractious republican party <u+2013><u+00a0>and given the underlying animosity, there<u+2019>s little hope for comity.
<u+201c>this is a party that looks like it<u+2019>s headed for a crackup,<u+201d> says larry sabato, director of the university of virginia center for politics. <u+201c>they<u+2019>re not going to support one another, and if they issued a new pledge it wouldn<u+2019>t mean anything.<u+201d>
<u+201c>if trump gets the nomination, millions of mainstream republicans will not vote for him,<u+201d> professor sabato adds. <u+201c>if cruz gets it, millions of trump supporters will not vote for him.<u+201d>
normally, loyalty pledges don<u+2019>t even come up during presidential primaries. loyalty is assumed, and a given. but this cycle isn<u+2019>t normal. trump<u+2019>s incursion into the race brought the issue to the fore, amid speculation that he would run as an independent if he didn<u+2019>t get the nomination - and didn<u+2019>t feel the republican national committee was treating him <u+201c>fairly.<u+201d>
trump<u+2019>s definition of <u+201c>unfair<u+201d> implies a scenario in which he goes into the convention with the most delegates (but not a majority) and does not win the nomination. that could happen. but whether trump is willing to spend the money and mount the organization necessary to pull off a credible independent bid is an open question.
so for now, it would appear, <u+201c>loyalty<u+201d> has given way to <u+201c>every man for himself.<u+201d> and it's the republican party that loses. | why the death of gop 'loyalty pledge' matters | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 1.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 45.0 | 8.0 | 4090.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 274.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 84.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36.0 | 10.0 | 15.0 | 6.0 | 8.0 | 10.0 | 8.0 | 11.0 | 25.0 | 12.0 | 37.0 | 274.0 | 85.0 | 36.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | killing obama administration rules, dismantling obamacare and pushing through tax reform are on the early to-do list. | how cruz rescued carson | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 23.0 | 8.0 | 117.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 10.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | paris, jan 16 (reuters) - police arrested a dozen people suspected of helping the islamist militant gunmen in last week's paris killings, the city prosecutor's office said on friday as u.s. secretary of state john kerry arrived for talks.
the arrests came after belgian police killed two men who fired on them during one of about a dozen raids on thursday against an islamist group and german police said they had arrested two people following a raid on 11 properties linked to radical salafists.
centered on southern paris suburbs including the montrouge area where a young policewoman was killed in the attacks, the arrests were for suspected "logistical support" for the shootings, an official said.
seventeen victims and the three attackers died in three days of violence in paris last week that began with an assault on the offices of satirical weekly charlie hebdo.
paris's gare de l'est train station was evacuated at 8:00 a.m. local time (0700 gmt) after an alert but reopened about an hour later, the sncf state railway said, without giving further details.
kerry had said on thursday that his visit to france was to give a "big hug" to paris. senior u.s. officials were absent from a commemoration march held in paris on sunday attended by dozens of world leaders. president barack obama's administration conceded that was an omission.
"i think you know that you have the full and heartfelt condolences of the american people and i know you know that we share the pain and the horror of everything that you went through," kerry told hollande on friday.
"together we need to find the right responses and this is the purpose of our meeting here today, beyond the friendship," he said.
investigators are still poring over the complex chain of events that led to three french nationals - two brothers with algerian roots and a third of african extraction - perpetrating the worst attacks on french soil for decades.
belgian investigators said they are trying to establish if a man detained in the city of charleroi on suspicion of arms trafficking had any links with amedy coulibaly, the gunman who killed four jews at a kosher supermarket in paris last week.
his lawyer michel bouchat told french media the man was not an associate of coulibaly and had merely sold him a car. the man in question already contacted police on tuesday to say he had had contacts with hayat boumedienne, the partner of coulibaly now believed to be in syria. (reporting by arshad mohammed, nicolas bertin and chine labbe; writing by andrew callus; editing by james regan and tom heneghan) | police arrest 12 suspected of helping paris gunmen | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 50.0 | 8.0 | 2583.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 178.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 46.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 14.0 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 9.0 | 6.0 | 5.0 | 3.0 | 11.0 | 11.0 | 17.0 | 183.0 | 47.0 | 14.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | while investigators try to piece together what led the orlando gunman to carry out an unspeakable act of terror, the attack is upending the 2016 campaign debate as the two presumptive rivals go toe-to-toe on terror with two very different messages.
in back-to-back speeches monday, donald trump doubled down on his call for a muslim immigration ban while decrying what he described as a "deadly ignorance" that is hurting the country -- and hillary clinton renewed her call for an assault-weapons ban while vowing to stop "lone wolf" terrorists.
trump, speaking in new hampshire, focused largely on his plans for an immigration crackdown. trump said he wants to "suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism" against the u.s. or its allies.
<u+201c>we have no choice,<u+201d> trump said of the proposed ban.<u+00a0>it wasn't immediately clear whether trump was revising his long-standing proposal to temporarily bar foreign muslims entering the u.s., which he also defended, or referring to the same plan.
the new york businessman also called the orlando shooting <u+201c>an assault on the ability of free people to live their lives, love who they want and express their identity.<u+201d>
<u+201c>it we don<u+2019>t get tough, and we don<u+2019>t get smart <u+2013> and fast <u+2013> we<u+2019>re not going to have a country anymore <u+2013> there will be nothing left,<u+201d> trump said.
trump, speaking at st. anselm college, was quick to slam his democratic rival, claiming she <u+201c>is in total denial<u+201d> and that her ultimate plan is to <u+201c>disarm law-abiding americans<u+201d> while admitting immigrants who could pose a threat.
a few hours earlier at her speech in ohio, clinton called for an "intelligence surge" and a ban on assault weapons as part of a multi-pronged strategy to confront homegrown terrorism.
the presumptive democratic presidential nominee, following the orlando terror attack, called on americans to fight terrorism at home with <u+201c>clear eyes<u+201d> and <u+201c>steady hands.<u+201d> she delivered a carefully calibrated message, calling for america to get tougher on terrorists while also renewing gun control proposals that have failed to gain steam in congress.
at the cleveland campaign event, she drew cheers from the crowd after calling for a ban on assault weapons.
<u+201c>weapons of war have no place on our streets,<u+201d> clinton said.
clinton also said if she were in the white house, a top priority would be <u+201c>identifying and stopping lone wolves,<u+201d> like the orlando shooter.
she also called for increased efforts to remove islamic state messages from the internet and said <u+201c>peace-loving muslims are in the best position to help fight radicalization.<u+201d>
trump<u+2019>s speech was originally supposed to focus on his case against the clintons <u+2013> but trump changed his focus following the attack in orlando that left 49 people dead and dozens injured. the gunman died in a shootout with police.
on monday, president obama said investigators believe the gunman was not directed by external extremist groups, instead saying the shooter <u+201c>was inspired by various extremist information that was disseminated over the internet.<u+201d>
he added that there is <u+201c>no direct evidence<u+201d> the shooter <u+201c>was part of a larger plot.<u+201d>
clinton warned earlier monday against demonizing an entire religion, saying doing so would play into the hands of the islamic state group.
"we can call it radical jihadism, we can call it radical islamism," clinton said on cnn's "new day." "but we also want to reach out to the vast majority of american-muslims and muslims around this country, this world, to help us defeat this threat, which is so evil and has got to be denounced by everyone, regardless of religion."
the horrific shooting consumed the white house race just as trump and clinton were fully plunging into the general election. it served as a reminder to the candidates and voters alike that the next president will lead a nation facing unresolved questions about how to handle threats that can feel both foreign and all too familiar.
trump said monday he was revoking the press credentials of the washington post after the newspaper published an article with a headline "donald trump suggests president obama was involved with orlando shooting."
"based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony and dishonest washington post," trump posted on his facebook page.
authorities identified the killer in orlando as omar mateen, a 29-year-old american-born muslim. fbi officials said they had investigated him in 2013 and 2014 on suspicion of terrorist sympathies but could not make a case against him.
mateen opened fire at the pulse orlando club with an ar-15 semi-automatic rifle. he called 911 during the attack to profess his allegiance to the islamic state terrorist organization though it was unclear whether he had any direct contact with isis or was just inspired by them.
the associated press contributed to this report. | trump, clinton trade blows on terror and guns in wake of orlando attack | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 71.0 | 8.0 | 4959.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 345.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 28.0 | 19.0 | 11.0 | 9.0 | 28.0 | 9.0 | 13.0 | 10.0 | 25.0 | 34.0 | 29.0 | 347.0 | 100.0 | 28.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | hillary clinton defended herself thursday against accusations she was out of touch as the situation in benghazi spiraled out of control before the 2012 terror attack, at a long-awaited congressional hearing where republicans grilled the former secretary of state for 11 hours over her role.
while the day-long hearing spanned everything from the initial decision to intervene in libya to clinton's public explanation of the benghazi attack, a central gop allegation was that clinton paid more attention to emails from friend sidney blumenthal than pleas from murdered diplomat chris stevens to increase security in the face of growing threats. but, even as clinton said she "took responsibility," she accepted little blame for the denial of security requests before the attack, or for the faulty narrative about an anti-islam video that formed after.
clinton testified to the benghazi committee that the security requests were handled by security professionals in the department and not her.
"i did not see them. i did not approve them. i did not deny them," she said, while saying she was aware of the risks on the ground.
clinton insisted blumenthal, whose frequent messages to her turned up in recently released emails, was not a primary source of information or even technically "advising" her.
but when she questioned what the emails have to do with the tragedy, committee chairman trey gowdy, r-s.c., contrasted the frequent and direct communication with blumenthal against stevens' struggle to get help.
"i think it is eminently fair to ask why sidney blumethal had unfettered access to you, madam secretary ... and there's not a single solitary email to or from you, to or from ambassador stevens," he said.
clinton earlier admitted that stevens did not even have her personal email, while also claiming she didn't have a computer in her office.
"i do not believe that he had my personal email," clinton said, before adding that stevens had a "direct line" to others.
clinton acknowledged some of his requests were approved, and others were not. but she said stevens emailed regularly with her close aides and "did not raise security with the members of my staff."
the exhaustive hearing, which featured not only tough questioning of clinton but frequent infighting between republican and democratic committee members, came as the former state department leader tries to reclaim momentum in the democratic presidential race. on capitol hill, she tried to settle lingering questions on her role surrounding the 2012 attacks.
republicans suggested the investigation, though, is far from over.
in a tense exchange, rep. jim jordan, r-ohio, grilled clinton on why the administration initially seemed to blame protests over an anti-islam film.
"where'd the false narrative start? it started with you, madam secretary," he charged, pointing to a state department statement that night saying some were using the video to justify violence. jordan said she later told the egyptian prime minister they knew the attack was "planned" and had "nothing to do with the film." he alleged she didn't tell the american people the "truth."
but clinton responded, "there is no doubt in my mind that we did the best we could with the information we had at the time."
she said they were dealing with "fluid" and "fast-moving" and "conflicting" information, and stressed that the night of the attack, she only said some "sought to justify" the attack with the video. she said there were probably many motivations. and while former top intelligence officials have indicated they knew the attack was terrorism from the start, clinton seemed to suggest it was the intelligence community guiding the public narrative.
"the intelligence community did the best job they could," she testified.
at other times in the hearing, clinton said stevens had volunteered for the mission itself and said that while the risk in the region was known, "there was no credible actionable threat known by our intelligence community against our compound." clinton at times also tried to rebuff tough questioning by suggesting american agents should not be disparaged, though lawmakers did not appear to imply this.
in another tense exchange later in the evening, rep. susan brooks, r-ind., questioned if clinton had a personal conversation with stevens after he was sworn in that may.
when clinton initially responded "i believe i did," brooks pressed her further, saying there were no call logs or record she spoke with stevens directly. clinton responded again she believed she did have a conversation with stevens before his was killed.
generally, clinton and democrats on the committee argued that the attack has already been thoroughly investigated, by the accountability review board and other congressional panels. democrats accused republicans of leading a partisan hunt against clinton to damage her presidential candidacy.
indeed, the hearing comes at a critical time for clinton. following a strong debate performance last week, clinton on wednesday also saw the man who may have represented the biggest primary threat to her candidacy, vice president biden, opt out of running.
yet questions about her personal email use and her actions relating to the benghazi attack loom over her run.
rep. elijah cummings, d-md., the committee's top democrat, said the panel was only formed because republicans "did not like the answers" from prior investigations. so, he said, they established the committee and "set them loose, madam secretary, because you're running for president." cummings called it an "abusive effort to derail" her campaign.
but gowdy denied this. of allegations that the investigation is all about clinton, gowdy said thursday, "let me assure you it is not."
the former state department leader meanwhile tried to downplay questions about what her emails did and did not show by claiming much of her work was done over phone, in person and other ways.
she said she mostly did not work over email, and said she did not have a computer in her office while secretary of state.
"i didn't conduct the business that i did primarily on email," she said, adding that she generally did not email during the day.
despite these claims, investigators are looking into a number of work-related emails clinton sent at the department and whether they contained classified material. the emails came up under questioning from brooks, r-ind., who asked why so few of her emails addressed libya in the lead-up to the attack.
at the hearing, clinton also was challenged over her advocacy for military intervention in libya, with a gop member describing her as the "architect" of a policy that has led to "disaster."
clinton defended her role, saying she pushed for intervention to prevent "mass massacres," but stressing that president obama made the final call to use u.s. military force.
she also told the committee the night of the benghazi attack, she only had one call with president obama. there were no meetings or calls with then-cia director leon panetta or gen. martin dempsey, according to clinton, even though she said they were "the decision makers" who could have sent in u.s. military forces.
clinton added that she did not talk to the survivors of the attack until they had been debriefed, and after they arrived back in u.s.
"our libya policy couldn't have happened without you, because you were its chief architect," rep. peter roskam, r-ill., told her, adding: "things in libya today are a disaster."
clinton said she does not "subscribe" to that view.
gowdy, in explaining the purpose of the hearing, said they owe the "truth" about what happened to the victims of the 2012 terror attack.
"they were more than four images on a television screen.... they were americans who believed in service and sacrifice," gowdy, r-s.c., said.
for that sacrifice, gowdy said, "we owe them and each other the truth." he said he wants a "final definitive accounting" of what happened.
gowdy said that includes answers over what the u.s. was doing in libya, what happened to requests for additional security and what the government told the public after the attacks.
in her opening statement, clinton said she was there to "honor the service" of the four men who died. she argued that america "must lead in a dangerous world" and said it would "compound the tragedy" for america to "retreat from the world." | clinton defends role over benghazi in heated hill hearing | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 57.0 | 8.0 | 8413.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 608.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 210.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 77.0 | 15.0 | 13.0 | 6.0 | 21.0 | 5.0 | 11.0 | 1.0 | 32.0 | 34.0 | 36.0 | 613.0 | 212.0 | 77.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | twenty-two of the 37 corporations nominated for a prestigious state department award <u+2014> and six of the eight ultimate winners <u+2014> while hillary clinton was secretary of state were also donors to the clinton family foundation.
the published donor records of the bill, hillary and chelsea clinton foundation don't give exact dates or amounts of its contributors, but it is possible to create a general timeline for when many of the corporations donated and when they were either nominated or selected for the award.
silicon valley giant cisco was the biggest foundation contributor nominated in 2009, giving the clinton charity between $1 million and $5 million. the company then won the award in 2010 when eight of the 12 finalists and two of the three winners had donated to the foundation.
the other clinton contributor to win that year, candy-maker mars, inc., had given between $25,000 and $50,000. coca-cola was the most generous foundation donor to be honored as a finalist in 2010, giving a $5-10 million donation. | many clinton charity donors also got state department awards under hillary | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 74.0 | 8.0 | 1020.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 71.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 25.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 5.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 10.0 | 75.0 | 25.0 | 6.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | that's one way to quickly characterize the difference between a campaign stop for hillary clinton and bernie sanders.
when democrats visit political events for these two presidential candidates, it's a markedly different experience.
for months, crowds have been a central part of the sanders strategy, a critical ingredient in how he has overtaken clinton in early new hampshire polls, come within striking distance in iowa, and has raised nearly as much money. the idea behind the big rallies -- in college towns and elsewhere across the country -- was hatched by his small team of advisers to elevate sanders, surrounding him with tens of thousands of people.
for clinton, the calculation has been different. democrats have already seen her on the big stage, so the decision was made to intentionally make her events small, so she could build a more direction connection with voters.
she holds far more holds far more question-and-answer sessions with voters than big speeches, allowing her to demonstrate her wide-ranging knowledge and readiness to be president. but lost along the way has been some of the outward enthusiasm for her candidacy. crowds can be like campaign yard signs: reading too much into the size is fraught with peril. the only number that counts, of course, is on election day. but until then, sanders is filling the stadiums. | hillary clinton and bernie sanders = lecture vs. rock concert | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 61.0 | 8.0 | 1354.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 88.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 29.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 1.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 12.0 | 91.0 | 29.0 | 9.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | this week we learned that billionaire peter thiel, who made his fortune as a co-founder of paypal and an early investor in facebook, has been bankrolling a lawsuit that could drive gawker media out of business. the story was first reported by forbes and confirmed by thiel himself in a wednesday interview with the new york times.
"it<u+2019>s not like it is some sort of speaking truth to power or something going on here," thiel argued. "the way i<u+2019>ve thought about this is that gawker has been a singularly terrible bully. i refuse to believe that journalism means massive privacy violations."
thiel, in other words, sees his lawsuit as a public-spirited attempt to enforce norms of decency and respect for personal privacy.
but whatever you think of the merits of the particular lawsuit against gawker, critics warn that this kind of arrangement <u+2014> where a wealthy person funds third-party lawsuits against a common foe <u+2014> is ripe for abuse.
"the law used to disapprove of this kind of arrangement," says walter olson, a legal expert at the cato institute. for centuries, he argues, courts in the united kingdom, united states, and elsewhere recognized that wealthy people could use third-party lawsuits as a weapon against those they disliked <u+2014> and had rules in place to prevent this power from being abused.
but laws limiting this kind of third-party involvement have fallen out of favor in recent decades, opening the door for billionaires like thiel to use their vast resources to wage war on people they don't like.
in 2012, gawker published a video of former professional wrestler terry "hulk hogan" bollea having sex. hogan said the video was taken without his knowledge or consent, and he sued gawker for invasion of privacy.
in march 2016, a jury awarded hogan $140 million in damages. the ruling is still being appealed, but if it's upheld it could put gawker media <u+2014> which publishes sites like jezebel and gizmodo in addition to gawker itself <u+2014> out of business.
the first amendment gives american media organizations greater latitude than they enjoy in most other developed countries. but us media organizations don't have unlimited freedom. one of the key constraints is personal privacy. revealing certain kinds of information <u+2014> especially about people who are not public figures <u+2014> can get a media organization trouble.
and gawker exercises this freedom more aggressively than most other media organizations. in one of its most infamous stories, gawker reported on a new york media executive soliciting the services of a male escort. the piece was later removed after founder nick denton decided that the story had gone over the ethical line.
outing gay people is something of a specialty for the digital gossip rag. gawker was one of the first to report that cnn anchor anderson cooper was gay in 2009. in 2013, gawker reported that fox news anchor shepard smith was romantically involved with a male staffer.
and one of the early targets of gawker's outing campaign was peter thiel. a 2007 post called "peter thiel is totally gay, people" apparently marked the start of thiel's vendetta against the site. "it<u+2019>s less about revenge and more about specific deterrence," thiel told the times on wednesday, indicating he viewed his funding of lawsuits as bigger than just its previous posts about him.
still, the hogan video represented a new low for gawker. the video of hogan having consensual sex with the wife of a radio shock jock (who arranged the encounter and made the videotape) had no obvious news value, but gawker decided to publish it anyway.
in court, hulk hogan's lawyers sought to portray gawker as an organization without a moral compass. it wasn't a hard argument to make. at one point, one of hogan's lawyers asked a former gawker editor if there were any situation in which a celebrity sex tape would not be newsworthy.
"if they were a child," replied the editor, albert daulerio. "under what age?" the lawyer asked.
as a result, arguments about media freedom fell on deaf ears in the jury box. jurors didn't buy arguments that the first amendment protected gawker's right to humiliate random celebrities by publishing video of their most intimate moments.
even if you think gawker stepped over the line in publishing the hogan sex tape <u+2014> and personally i do <u+2014> there's still a lot of reason to worry about the prospect of wealthy people using lawsuits as a weapon against people they don't like.
gawker isn't the only publication to be targeted by a disgruntled billionaire. last year, the liberal magazine mother jones defeated a defamation lawsuit filed by republican donor frank vandersloot. winning the lawsuit cost mother jones, a relatively small nonprofit organization, and its insurance company $2.5 million in legal fees.
if vandersloot's goal was to punish mother jones for writing an accurate but unflattering story about him, a loss was almost as good as a victory. his lawsuit sought $74,999 (staying just under the $75,000 threshold that would have allowed mother jones to move the case to federal court and away from an idaho jury that might have favored the hometown plaintiff). so "winning" the lawsuit cost mother jones 30 times as much as the amount it would have had to pay if it had lost.
what was really ominous was what happened after vandersloot's loss. he "announced that he was setting up a $1 million fund to pay the legal expenses of people wanting to sue mother jones or other members of the 'liberal press.'"
as far as i know, no one has taken him up on the offer. but the threat to freedom of the press is obvious. any news organization doing its job is going to make some enemies. if a wealthy third party is willing to bankroll lawsuits by anyone with a grudge, and defending each case costs millions of dollars, the organization could get driven out of business even if it wins every single lawsuit.
that appears to be the situation gawker is in. the hogan lawsuit is not the only lawsuit gawker is facing. hogan's attorney, charles harder, is also leading two other lawsuits against gawker. we don't know for sure which lawsuits thiel is funding, but ultimately it may not matter. if thiel keeps paying for people to sue gawker, sooner or later the legal costs will drive gawker out of business.
"some people following the thiel story appear to be surprised that these weapons can be used by rich and powerful people in order to get their way," olson tells me. but he argues that they shouldn't be.
olson argues that if you went back a century or two and talked to british or american legal scholars, "they'd say of course these things would be used by the rich and powerful if you allowed them." under doctrines called champerty and maintenance, the law used to bar unrelated third parties from paying someone else to engage in litigation and financing a lawsuit in exchange for a share of the damages.
but states have loosened these laws over the past 50 years, in part because lawyers began to see easy access to the courts as being in the public interest. this was driven in part by the rise of public interest litigation <u+2014> think, for example, of an environmental group finding a third-party plaintiff to sue a company to stop an environmentally sensitive development project.
"awards are constantly being given to projects in which some wealthy person decides that someone needs to be sued, finds someone who has standing as a plaintiff, and generously funds their litigation," olson says.
but whether you view this kind of litigation as public-spirited or vexatious will often depend on your politics. after all, thiel portrays his campaign against gawker as a kind of public interest litigation.
"i can defend myself," thiel told the times on wednesday. "most of the people they attack are not people in my category. they usually attack less prominent, far less wealthy people that simply can<u+2019>t defend themselves." thiel added that "even someone like terry bollea who is a millionaire and famous and a successful person didn<u+2019>t quite have the resources to do this alone."
"i don<u+2019>t expect to make any money from this," thiel added. "this is not a business venture."
whether or not you find thiel's specific complaints about gawker persuasive, the larger problem is that this kind of tactic systematically shifts power from the media to wealthy people. wealthy people can use this kind of third-party lawsuit to inflict harm on publications that anger them whether or not their lawsuits ultimate prove meritorious. and that, in turn, will put pressure on publications to tread lightly when reporting on wealthy people.
update: i changed the section on mother jones to make clear that the $2.5 million cost of the lawsuit was born by mother jones's insurance company as well as mother jones itself. | even gawker haters should fear the strategy peter thiel is using to destroy gawker | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 82.0 | 8.0 | 8790.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 620.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 149.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 95.0 | 35.0 | 31.0 | 13.0 | 31.0 | 21.0 | 22.0 | 14.0 | 49.0 | 51.0 | 61.0 | 624.0 | 150.0 | 95.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | the move would make it easier for the trump administration to demolish the exchanges. | gun control becomes a litmus test in democratic primaries | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 57.0 | 8.0 | 85.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 13.0 | 3.0 | 2.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | the nation<u+2019>s largest veterans group hit back at president obama on thursday and urged him not to <u+201c>denigrate<u+201d> their intelligence after the president suggested their members were easily swayed by cable news and <u+201c>right-wing radio.<u+201d>
the veterans of foreign wars called out the president after obama referenced the political opinions at <u+201c>vfw halls<u+201d> in an indiana speech wednesday that toggled between campaign politics and the economy.
<u+201c>i don<u+2019>t know how many vfw posts the president has ever visited, but our near 1.7 million members are a direct reflection of america,<u+201d> vfw national commander john a. biedrzycki jr. said in a statement. <u+201c>we don<u+2019>t have confused politics, we don<u+2019>t need left or rightwing media filters telling us how to think or vote, and we don<u+2019>t need any president of the united states lecturing us about how we are individually [affected] by the economy.<u+201d>
obama, speaking in elkhart, ind., had lamented the <u+201c>primary story<u+201d> he claimed republicans are telling about the economy <u+2013> one that focuses on how <u+201c>moochers at the bottom of the income ladder<u+201d> are squeezing middle-class families.
<u+201c>we have been hearing this story for decades,<u+201d> obama said. <u+201c>tales about welfare queens, talking about takers, talking about the <u+2018>47percent.<u+2019> it's the story that is broadcast every day on some cable news stations, on right-wing radio, it's pumped into cars, and bars, and vfw halls all across america, and right here in elkhart.<u+201d>
obama continued: <u+201c>and if you're hearing that story all the time, you start believing it. it's no wonder people think big government is the problem.<u+201d>
biedrzycki suggested veterans are not so easily swayed.
<u+201c>our nation was created and continues to exist solely because of the men and women who wear the uniform,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>let<u+2019>s not denigrate their service, their sacrifice or their intelligence.<u+201d>
obama is no stranger to the vfw, having addressed the group<u+2019>s national convention several times dating back to his first presidential campaign.
he last spoke to the vfw convention last july in pittsburgh, calling the occasion a <u+201c>great honor.<u+201d> he used the speech to address ongoing efforts to help america<u+2019>s veterans, especially in the area of health care, in the wake of the veterans affairs wait-times scandal.
<u+201c>as president, i consider it my obligation to help make sure that, even though less than 1 percent of americans wear the uniform, that 100 percent of americans honor your sacrifices and your service,<u+201d> he said. | vfw fires back at obama: politics not 'confused' | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 1.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 48.0 | 8.0 | 2455.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 180.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 48.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 18.0 | 4.0 | 6.0 | 2.0 | 7.0 | 3.0 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 12.0 | 15.0 | 13.0 | 184.0 | 48.0 | 19.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | columbia, s.c. <u+2014> black voters are the linchpin of hillary clinton's strategy for winning the south carolina democratic presidential primary, and as a result, her campaign has put racial justice issues at the forefront of her agenda. but at an event on wednesday night, clinton was vocally confronted by an activist questioning her past support for policies that had a disproportionately negative effect on african americans.
ashley williams, a 23-year-old activist from charlotte, interrupted clinton during a private fundraiser in charleston on wednesday night. williams stood and demanded an apology from clinton for the high incarceration rate for black americans, and confronted her with the words of a speech clinton delivered 20 years ago voicing support for the now-debunked theory of "super-predators."
"they are often the kinds of kids that are called 'super-predators,' " clinton said in 1996, at the height of anxiety during her husband's administration about high rates of crime and violence. "no conscience, no empathy, we can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel."
the last part of the quote was written on a large, hand-lettered sign that williams held up as clinton spoke to her donors and supporters.
clinton took note of the sign and read it aloud, squinting to read it and apparently unaware that it was her own quote.
williams addressed clinton, asking whether clinton would "apologize to black people for mass incarceration."
clinton first told williams, "we'll talk about it," but grew irritated as williams continued to speak.
<u+201c>do you want to hear the facts, or do you just want to talk?<u+201d> clinton asked sharply.
off camera, guests at the fundraiser, apparently held in a private home, can be heard saying "shhhhh," which then turns to such comments as "this is inappropriate," and "you're being rude."
williams asked again about clinton's words from 1996, as a man approached williams to escort her out.
"you know what? nobody<u+2019>s ever asked me before. you<u+2019>re the first person to do that, and i<u+2019>m happy to address it," clinton said, but did not elaborate.
in a written response to the washington post's on the issue thursday, clinton said: <u+201c>looking back, i shouldn<u+2019>t have used those words, and i wouldn<u+2019>t use them today."
"my life<u+2019>s work has been about lifting up children and young people who<u+2019>ve been let down by the system or by society, kids who never got the chance they deserved," clinton continued in the statement. "and unfortunately today, there are way too many of those kids, especially in african-american communities. <u+00a0>we haven<u+2019>t done right by them. <u+00a0>we need to. <u+00a0>we need to end the school to prison pipeline and replace it with a cradle-to-college pipeline."
[hillary clinton responds to activist who demanded apology for <u+2018>superpredator<u+2019> remarks]
in an interview<u+00a0> thursday, williams said that she wanted clinton to address her past role in supporting the country's current system of mass incarceration. williams also said she sought an apology from clinton for the "damage that she<u+2019>s done to black communities."
"i thought that quote was important not only because it was her own words, but because that was her pathologizing black youth as these criminal, animal people," williams told the washington post. "and we know that<u+2019>s not right and we know that<u+2019>s really racist."
"i wanted her to be confronted with that very racist thing she said," williams said.
[a crime bill from 1994 haunts clinton and sanders as criminal justice reform rises to top in democratic contest]
"as a black queer person, i understand how i don<u+2019>t always get to be in control of how i<u+2019>m perceived in spaces," williams said. "i<u+2019>m especially not always in control of the way i'm perceived when i'm raising my voice to speak out against injustices. so i<u+2019>m not surprised that i was told that i was being rude."
in recent weeks, clinton's 1996 comments have re-emerged as a problem, just as she has sought to push a new agenda focused on unwinding 90s-era policies that are now viewed as having had a disproportionately negative effect on african-americans.
in a recent essay, author and law professor michelle alexander<u+00a0>described clinton's endorsement of the "super-predator" concept as "racially coded rhetoric" that was used to "cast black children as animals."
yet, the idea wasn't clinton's, but rather it had been invented by researchers studying crime in the 1990s. and it was used to explain the rise in violence perpetrated by youths -- particularly in predominantly minority inner cities. the concept has since been largely<u+00a0>abandoned and decried for its racial undertones.
twenty years later at the charleston event, clinton said that it was the first time that she had been asked about the comments. but williams said she expected more.
"she<u+2019>s had 20 years to respond to my question," williams said. "and so her inability to do it last night to me is just kind of representative of how she has been absent in terms of racial justice in a meaningful way, in a material way."
the evening fundraising event was not disclosed by the clinton campaign, although the campaign has voluntarily released information about other fundraisers in the past. the event also was not advertised to news outlets covering clinton as she campaigns ahead of the primary vote saturday.
williams said she is an "independent organizer for the movement for black lives" and not part of black lives matter organizations. williams added that someone paid $500 to allow the activists to gain access to the fundraising event. williams would not specify who contributed the money to the protest action.
clinton has called for an end to "the era of mass incarceration" and disavowed much of the 1994 crime law signed by her husband, former president bill clinton. it was the disproportionate effect of that law on black people that was the protesters' main complaint.
the clinton campaign has also pointed to her presidential primary opponent bernie sanders's vote in favor of that law.
williams, who is working on a master's degree at the university of north carolina at charlotte, wants all candidates -- including bernie sanders -- to be held accountable for their past actions and statements about racial justice.
"all the candidates who are running for president need to be held to the same kind of scrutiny in terms of the way that they have been complicit in mass incarceration and damaging communities of color across the united states," williams said. "bernie can get it, too. they can all get it."
in a statement, sanders's campaign manager jeff weaver said that sanders voted for the 1994 crime bill to protect provisions embedded in it that preserved the assault weapons ban and included domestic violence protections for women.
weaver noted that sanders criticized mass incarceration at the time that the bill was being considered.
<u+201c>when this so-called crime bill was being considered, bernie sanders criticized its harsh incarceration and death penalty provisions," weaver said. "hillary clinton, on the other hand, resorted to dog whistle politics and dehumanizing language."
"bernie sanders has always known jails and incarceration are not the answer," weaver added. "nor is heated<u+00a0>rhetoric<u+00a0>against young people of any race. you can<u+2019>t throw vulnerable people under the bus just because it<u+2019>s politically expedient.<u+201d>
correction: an earlier version of this post said hillary clinton told activist ashley williams "you're being rude." it was a guest at the fundraiser who made the comment. | clinton regrets 1996 remark on <u+2018>super-predators<u+2019> after encounter with activist | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 78.0 | 8.0 | 7560.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 527.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 127.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 47.0 | 19.0 | 20.0 | 7.0 | 12.0 | 10.0 | 18.0 | 9.0 | 30.0 | 30.0 | 47.0 | 531.0 | 127.0 | 48.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | the horrific attack in orlando, florida, showed once again that isis is here in america. judging by president barack obama's response on sunday, the message may not have reached the oval office.
"this is an open investigation. we've reached no definitive judgment on the precise motivations of the killer," the president said. "the fbi is appropriately investigating this as an act of terrorism."
but what kind of terrorism? president obama did not use the words "muslim" or "islamic terrorism," even though the killer shouted, "allahu akbar!" and called 911 to say he was from isis. islamic state radio calls orlando mass shooter omar mateen "one of the soldiers of the caliphate in america."
sen. jeff sessions, r-ala., warns there will be more attacks in part because of the president's reluctance to call the orlando tragedy what it is.
"and it's not stopping," sessions told fox news sunday. "we see apparently today more of these attacks, and it's a real part of the threat that we face and if we can't address it openly and directly and say there is an extremist element within islam that is dangerous to the world and has to be confronted, we need to slow down and be careful about those we admit into the country."
fbi director james comey says isis has created a "terrorist diaspora" that flows out of syria and iraq to the west, bringing "hardened fighters, looking to kill people."
a wall street journal editorial pleaded, "can we finally drop the illusion that the jihadist fires that burn in the middle east don't pose an urgent and deadly threat to the american homeland?"
and national review warned, "the...islamic terrorists' war on us has returned to american shores, and it will continue here as long as we refuse to exercise the tactics necessary to stamp it out."
former u.s. ambassador to the united nations john bolton told fox news "the fact is that this is war and not law enforcement."
"the problem is barack obama and his administration for its entire length in office have not been at war with islam. they have tried to treat this solely as a law enforcement matter, not as a struggle with an ideology that despises our entire way of life," bolton said.
"this attack is not the equivalent of a junked-up attack on the corner grocery store. this is an act of war against the united states," he said. | critics to the white house: call orlando what it is | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 51.0 | 8.0 | 2336.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 164.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 46.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 16.0 | 10.0 | 10.0 | 8.0 | 18.0 | 4.0 | 9.0 | 7.0 | 15.0 | 22.0 | 15.0 | 170.0 | 47.0 | 19.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | ousted egyptian president mohammed morsi, along with more than 100 other defendants, was sentenced to death by an egyptian court saturday for his role in a mass prison break in 2011.
morsi, egypt's first freely elected president, is already serving a 20-year jail sentence in jail for ordering the arrest and torture of protesters while president.
the then-leader of the muslim brotherhood movement was elected president in 2012 after the resignation of president hosni mubarak.
the egyptian military deposed morsi in 2013 following a series of street protests against his rule. in may 2014, morsi's successor, former military chief abdul fattah al-sisi, who led the coup, won a landslide victory in presidential elections.
the muslim brotherhood was banned and its supporters rounded up by the thousands.
as with all capital punishment cases, the sentence will be sent to the grand mufti, egypt's highest authority, for his opinion. convictions can still be appealed, even if the grand mufti approves the sentencing. a decision is expected on june 2. | former egyptian president morsi sentenced to death | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 8.0 | 1056.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 79.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 5.0 | 12.0 | 3.0 | 8.0 | 6.0 | 9.0 | 11.0 | 8.0 | 83.0 | 20.0 | 7.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | danish authorities mounted a nationwide manhunt saturday for a gunman who opened fire on a free speech seminar at a copenhagen cafe in an apparent attempt to kill a swedish artist who had published cartoons of the prophet mohammed eight years ago.
hours later, the associated press reported that three people, including two police officers, were shot in a second incident in the danish city, although it is unclear if it is connected to the first attack.
one person is dead and two were injured in the later attack, which occurred near a synagogue in downtown copenhagen. the shooter fled on foot, police told the ap.
police in denmark shot and killed a man they had under surveillance in connection with saturday's shootings.
police will hold a press briefing at 10 am local time.
police said the gunman in the first attack, who fled in a stolen car, killed one person and injured three police officers in the attack at the krudttoenden cafe, which was hosting an "art, blasphemy and the freedom of expression" event.
police released a grainy photo of a man in a dark ski jacket and cap who may be linked to the attack. it was taken by a surveillance camera near the site where the gunman abandoned the dark-colored volkswagen polo that he had carjacked.
danish prime minister helle thorning-schmidt called the shooting "a cynical act of violence" and an "act of terrorism."
the united states condemned the "deplorable shooting" and offered condolences to the loved ones of the deceased victim, according to a statement from national security council spokeswoman bernadette meehan. u.s. officials have been in touch with danish authorities and are ready to help with the investigation.
danish authorities called on germany and sweden to be on the lookout for the suspect at their borders with denmark. authorities initially thought two people were involved in the shooting.
police said the apparent target of the shooting was lars vilks, 68, who has endured several attempted attacks and death threats since he depicted the founder of islam as a dog in 2007.
vilks escaped unharmed after a bodyguard shoved him into the cafe kitchen when the gunfire erupted around 4 p.m.
"what other motive could there be? it's possible it was inspired by charlie hebdo," he said, referring to the jan. 7 attack by islamic extremists on the french newspaper.
"at first there was panic. people crawled down under tables," vilks said. "my bodyguards quickly pulled me away."
"i heard someone firing with an automatic weapon and someone shouting. police returned the fire and i hid behind the bar. i felt surreal, like in a movie," niels ivar larsen, one of the speakers at the event, told the tv2 channel.
the dead victim was identified by police only as a 40-year-old civilian.
francois zimeray, the french ambassador to denmark, was in the cafe at the time but was not hurt. "bullets went through the doors and everyone threw themselves to the floor," he told the afp news agency.
the danish security and intelligence service described the gunman, who was carrying a black machine gun, as tall, with an athletic build. it said he had an "arabic appearance, but with lighter skin than normal and black straight hair."
he wore a black or dark blue ski jacket and matching pants, possibly with gloves, the security service said.
the gunman did not get into the main room where the event was being held, but fired into it, according to several media accounts.
police later found the getaway car abandoned near a metro station and promptly shut down the transit line between two stations to search for the suspect.
danish tv2 reported that about 30 bullet holes hit the window of the cafe and that at least two people were taken away on stretchers, including a uniformed police officer.
helle merete brix, one of the organizers of the event, told tv2 that vilks ran to the nearby kitchen when the shots rang out.
"he was very cool," she said. "we stood and told each other bad jokes. his bodyguards did a tremendous job."
she told the tv station the attack was a "clear assassination attempt" of vilks, who receives police protection when he is in denmark.
frank jensen, lord mayor of copenhagen, said he was "deeply horrified" by the shootings which appeared to be a "violent crackdown on freedom of expression."
"unfortunately, there are people who react with violence when their entrenched mindset meets with the free debate and freedom of speech," jensen wrote on his facebook page. "we must stand firm on the values our society is built on, and never give in to fear."
last year, a pennsylvania woman received a 10-year prison term for a plot to kill vilks. in 2010, two brothers tried to burn down his house in southern sweden and were imprisoned for attempted arson.
after islamist militants attacked the charlie hebdo satirical magazine in paris last month, killing 12 people, vilks told the ap that even fewer organizations were inviting him to give lectures over increased security concerns.
vilks said he thought sweden's sapo security service, which deploys bodyguards to protect him, would step up the security around him.
"this will create fear among people on a whole different level than we're used to," he said. "charlie hebdo was a small oasis. not many dared do what they did." | copenhagen police shoot, kill man near train station | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 52.0 | 8.0 | 5306.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 331.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 121.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 42.0 | 24.0 | 12.0 | 7.0 | 35.0 | 8.0 | 21.0 | 7.0 | 22.0 | 33.0 | 34.0 | 335.0 | 121.0 | 42.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | donald trump is an unusual candidate who does a lot of unusual things. for example, after flubbing a debate performance in which he appeared volatile, irritable, and uninformed about key issues, he did not attempt to refocus his campaign on proven message points or topics where he has a firm grasp of talking points. instead, he<u+2019>s been lashing out at alicia machado while using apophasis to bring up bill clinton<u+2019>s marital infidelity by saying he<u+2019>s not talking about bill clinton<u+2019>s marital infidelity.
it seems like a bad strategy because it almost certainly is in fact a bad strategy.
but not everyone sees it that way. in certain quarters, there<u+2019>s a tendency to assume that trump is crazy like a fox.
jon favreau, barack obama<u+2019>s chief speechwriter for much of his career in national politics, sees the post-debate binge in that light.
ken baer, a veteran democratic party operative, even believes that trump<u+2019>s feud with the khan family was a successful effort to distract attention from a bread-and-butter economic critique of trump.
this view gives trump far too much credit. all available evidence suggests that trump is a poor candidate waging a poor campaign and blowing a very winnable race against a democratic party nominee who is herself relatively weak.
the presumption that trump is performing well is based on a misreading of the underlying fundamentals of the election, and in its own terms arguably does a little bit to boost his electoral fortunes by cloaking his campaign in an undeserved shroud of competence.
the overwhelmingly probable conclusion is that trump does things that don<u+2019>t seem to make sense because he is a political neophyte who doesn<u+2019>t know what he is doing.
the core fact about donald trump<u+2019>s general election campaign is that it<u+2019>s been singularly ineffective. not only is he down in the polls right now, but he<u+2019>s been consistently down in the polls for virtually the entire breadth of the campaign.
that doesn<u+2019>t mean trump <u+201c>can<u+2019>t win<u+201d> or that clinton has nothing to worry about. but it does mean that, as best we can tell, trump started behind and has never really found a way to get ahead. and he<u+2019>s been losing even though clinton has been viewed more unfavorably than favorably since april, a bad dynamic that set in for her before the democratic primary wrapped up.
people tend to discount the <u+201c>trump is losing<u+201d> factor on the grounds that he <u+201c>should<u+201d> be doing worse. but this becomes circular <u+2014> trump<u+2019>s weakness as a candidate is the only reason to expect him to lose. he is, in fact, losing because he is, in fact, running a bad campaign.
the reality is that the underlying fundamentals of the race <u+2014> a two-term president leaving office amidst paltry economic growth <u+2014> favor a republican victory. that<u+2019>s what vox<u+2019>s <u+201c>trump tax<u+201d> model says, but don<u+2019>t take our word for it. harry enten at fivethirtyeight thinks the same thing, as does lynn vavreck at the upshot, and john sides at the monkey cage.
yet despite favorable fundamentals, trump has been consistently behind in the polls <u+2014> leading in broad averages only for a couple of days between the two parties<u+2019> conventions.
not only has trump been consistently losing despite favorable fundamentals, but he<u+2019>s been consistently losing despite the luxury of running against an opponent with an underwater favorability rating.
conversely, the fundamentals in the 2012 election favored obama. mitt romney did slightly better than might be expected given the fundamentals, and ran ahead of the gop senate nominee in basically every state. that<u+2019>s about what you would expect if you think of romney as a handsome, telegenic, successful businessperson who governed as a moderate in a blue state before remaking himself as a conventional republican. obama<u+2019>s attacks on romney seem to have had replacement-level effectiveness at best, and still left romney better regarded than a typical conservative republican.
one source of confusion is that overall economic conditions are clearly better today than they were four years ago. history teaches us that what matters politically is short-term rates of change, not levels of prosperity.
economic conditions are better in 2016 than they were in 2012. but growth was faster four years ago than it is today, when things seem to have leveled off after a nice 2015.
to make a long story short, donald trump is the gop nominee in a year when a generic republican would be favored to beat a generic democrat. rather than running against a generic democrat, he is running against an unusually unpopular democrat. and he is losing.
of course, the mere fact that trump<u+2019>s overall campaign is ineffective doesn<u+2019>t mean that every particular choice he makes is bad. but it does mean that there<u+2019>s no particular reason to give him the benefit of the doubt. the big lesson of the 2016 campaign is that the fundamentals matter a lot. the electorate is polarized, and so even a really bad candidate has a high floor.
clinton has major weaknesses in terms of weak economic growth and voter fatigue with democratic party leadership (manifesting in 2016 largely in millennial disaffection with clinton, even as young voters eschew trump). these factors keep trump perennially within striking distance; it<u+2019>s a very winnable election for him. but instead of winning, he is losing. and he has been consistently losing, because he doesn<u+2019>t know what he<u+2019>s doing. | let<u+2019>s dispel with this notion that donald trump knows what he<u+2019>s doing | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 69.0 | 8.0 | 5380.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 345.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 84.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 40.0 | 13.0 | 13.0 | 7.0 | 12.0 | 7.0 | 18.0 | 9.0 | 23.0 | 25.0 | 38.0 | 350.0 | 86.0 | 41.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | donald trump<u+2019>s convention will feature an eclectic mix of cultural figures, including the first woman to command a space shuttle mission, survivors of the attacks in benghazi, libya, in 2012 and an underwear model.
but while several republican party establishment figures will take the stage next week in cleveland, the national convention to officially make trump the party<u+2019>s presidential nominee will be devoid of some of the gop<u+2019>s most seasoned leaders and brightest new stars.
republican officials on thursday released a long-awaited list of convention personalities billed as <u+201c>non-conventional speakers<u+201d> who emphasize <u+201c>real world experience.<u+201d>
the convention<u+2019>s theme will be trump<u+2019>s campaign slogan, <u+201c>make america great again,<u+201d> with a core focus on national security, immigration, trade and jobs.
the program includes more than a dozen current and former elected officials, including the leaders of the party<u+2019>s congressional wing, house speaker paul d. ryan (wis.) and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell (ky.).
[analysis: the stumbling blocks for an anti-trump mutiny]
a handful of governors and other lawmakers are scheduled to give addresses, including former primary opponents sen. ted cruz (tex.), wisconsin gov. scott walker, new jersey gov. chris christie, former arkansas governor mike huckabee and retired neurosurgeon ben carson.
<u+201c>there<u+2019>s going to be a unified convention,<u+201d> trump spokesman jason miller told reporters thursday, adding that the announced agenda was only a partial list of speakers. <u+201c>people are going to be united behind mr. trump.<u+201d>
the unusual collection of nonpolitical speakers seems designed to broaden trump<u+2019>s appeal. roster names include retired astronaut eileen collins, the first female space-shuttle pilot and mission commander; mark geist and john tiegen, two survivors of the 2012 attacks on a u.s. diplomatic outpost in benghazi; and antonio sabato jr., a former calvin klein underwear model, soap-opera actor and reality-television star.
some sports figures will take the stage here, including pro golfer natalie gulbis and ultimate fighting championship president dana white.
tim tebow, a 28-year-old former national football league quarterback and heisman trophy winner, was expected to speak at the gathering, according to gop officials. tebow is admired by many conservatives because of his outspoken evangelical christian beliefs.
but tebow said thursday night in a facebook video that he would not be speaking: <u+201c>it<u+2019>s amazing how fast rumors fly. and that<u+2019>s exactly what it is, a rumor.<u+201d>
but some sports heroes of decades past whom trump has said he would like to see at the convention <u+2014> such as former indiana university basketball coach bobby knight and boxing promoter don king <u+2014> are not listed as speakers.
also notably absent from the list of speakers was indiana gov. mike pence, who was identified by trump allies thursday as the candidate<u+2019>s likely vice presidential pick. if chosen, pence would deliver an acceptance speech after being formally nominated for vice president.
two other vice-presidential finalists, christie and former house speaker newt gingrich (ga.), are listed on the program, as is sen. jeff sessions (ala.), who also was vetted as a vice-presidential prospect.
not speaking in cleveland are the gop<u+2019>s past two presidential nominees, former massachusetts governor mitt romney and sen. john mccain (ariz.), as well as its only two living former presidents, george w. bush and george h.w. bush. none will be in cleveland for the week-long festivities.
also excluded from the speakers list are many of the party<u+2019>s more diverse rising stars, including south carolina gov. nikki haley, new mexico gov. susana martinez, sens. marco rubio (fla.) and tim scott (s.c.), and rep. mia love (utah).
by contrast, the democratic national convention the following week in philadelphia is expected to feature a full assortment of party stars <u+2014> past, present and future <u+2014> including president obama, first lady michelle obama, vice president biden, former president bill clinton, and sens. elizabeth warren (mass.) and bernie sanders (vt.).
the disparity in political star power between the conventions speaks volumes about the state of the two parties, with republicans divided over their controversial new standard-bearer.
[cleveland braces for spillover on the streets]
looking ahead to philadelphia, republican strategist rick wilson said of the democrats, <u+201c>bill clinton, hillary clinton, barack obama, michelle obama, elizabeth warren <u+2014> they<u+2019>re all going to be out there swinging for the fences. but the republicans, it<u+2019>ll be like a hostage video of people forced on stage.<u+201d>
the cleveland convention will be orchestrated to help expand trump<u+2019>s appeal to the general electorate. to that end, several members of his family are expected to give speeches, including his wife, melania, and his four oldest children: donald jr., ivanka, eric and tiffany.
in addition, other speakers who have known trump and his family through the years plan to take the stage. they include haskel lookstein, a rabbi in new york who converted ivanka trump to judaism; tom barrack, a wealthy california-based investor who has worked with donald trump on real-estate deals; and kerry woolard, the general manager of trump winery in virginia.
with the public on edge following a spate of shootings by police and last week<u+2019>s killing of five officers in dallas, trump has sought to brand himself as the law-and-order candidate. some speakers at the cleveland convention could help him make that case, including milwaukee county sheriff david clarke, a democrat who is an outspoken critic of the black lives matter movement and is a frequent fox news channel guest; former new york mayor rudolph w. giuliani; and two female attorneys general, pam bondi of florida and leslie rutledge of arkansas.
several early trump backers are being rewarded with convention speaking slots, among them jerry falwell jr., the president of liberty university, a college founded by his late televangelist father. falwell campaigned frequently at trump<u+2019>s side leading up to the iowa caucuses.
but one especially prominent trump surrogate is not listed as a speaker: sarah palin, a former alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential nominee, who has garnered mixed reviews for her campaign-trail appearances supporting trump.
here in cleveland, the republican national convention<u+2019>s rules committee convened early thursday and met late into the night to review the 42 rules governing the party structure and the selection of a presidential candidate. the big undecided issue remains whether or not to continue binding convention delegates to the results of caucuses and primaries or to unbind delegates and allow them to vote however they want.
another subject of talks, which eventually collapsed with no resolution, centered on whether to return the party to closed contests <u+2014> meaning that only republicans could vote in presidential caucuses and primaries. a group led by ken cuccinnelli, the former virginia attorney general, also wanted to make other changes to party operations.
republican national committee chairman reince priebus and several members of the party<u+2019>s leadership generally support the idea of reverting back to closed contests by awarding more convention delegates to states that hold closed contests.
cuccinnelli said he proposed giving 20 percent more delegates to states that opted to hold a closed contest. priebus and his team considered the offer, cut ultimately declined, according to people familiar with the talks.
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | baltimore -- a citywide curfew took effect tuesday night in tense, riot-torn baltimore as a heavy presence of police and national guard troops sought to disperse protesters.
dozens of people remained in the streets after the 10 p.m. curfew. officers with bullhorns and self-appointed citizen peacekeepers urged them to go home, and when some failed to disperse, police fired pepper pellets and smoke canisters.
some protesters hurled objects at police, who held shields and formed a line across an intersection and slowly advanced toward protesters.
baltimore police said on twitter: "officers are now advancing on the group. they remain aggressive and disorderly."
"we've got a long night ahead of us,'' maryland gov. larry hogan said earlier. security forces "will not tolerate violence or looting,'' he vowed.
hogan said a massive display of security was deployed in the city: 2,000 national guard troops and 1,000 law enforcement officers.
police commissioner anthony batts said in a news conference late tuesday night that 10 people had been arrested, seven of them for violations of a 10 p.m. curfew.
the baltimore orioles canceled tuesday's scheduled home game and in an unusual move said wednesday's game will be played in an empty camden yards stadium, without spectators.
baltimore's school system announced it would reopen for classes wednesday.
batts defended his agency's slow response to violence that tore through the city a day earlier, leaving cars and buildings gutted by fire and stores looted. batts said the young age of those who took to the streets with rocks and bricks -- high school students, many of them -- caused officers to take a measured initial response to monday's violence.
"why didn't you move faster? because they're 14, 15 and 16 year old kids out there,'' batts said at an afternoon news conference, posing to himself a frequently asked question.
"they're old enough to know better <u+2026>.old enough to be accountable. but they're still kids, unfortunately, and we have to take that into account when we're out there.''
the violence erupted on the day of the funeral for freddie gray, 25, who died after suffering a mortal spinal injury while in police custody.
appearing with mayor stephanie rawlings-blake, batts defended her against critics for an initially low-profile response, calling her "courageous.'' he acknowledged that baltimore's police culture must change: "we have more to do, but we can't do it by destroying this beautiful city."
"overall today has been a very good day,'' batts said. "we're going to be out in strong numbers making sure we have no issues in our city.''
there were some tense protests and a massive cleanup underway. the city was going on a week-long nightly curfew beginning at 10 p.m.
hogan said 250 people were arrested in monday's violence. police said more than 20 police were injured, and batts said one of them remained hospitalized tuesday. about 20 businesses and more than 140 cars burned as the mayhem spilled into tuesday's early hours. from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m., the city's office of emergency management reported 10 major blazes.
"acts of violence and destruction of property cannot and will not be tolerated,'' hogan said. "this is far from over.''
president obama promised a thorough investigation into the death of gray.
u.s. justice department officials met with members of gray's family late tuesday, in addition to relatives of police officers who were most seriously injured in monday's unrest, a justice official said. vanita gupta, chief of the department's civil rights division, and ronald davis, director of the community oriented policing services office, were dispatched to baltimore to represent the department.
attorney general loretta lynch spoke with hogan and members of the maryland congressional delegation to discuss the developments in baltimore and to offer assistance.
across the city, schools were closed, the national guard was on the streets and wreckage was everywhere. across the street from a burned and looted cvs store, several people threw water bottles at officers who stood in riot gear. at times protesters argued among themselves, some pleading for a peaceful event and others arguing that the police officers needed to feel the pain they have inflicted on the community.
still, batts said only two arrests were made by late afternoon. "for the most part, the city has been calm today,'' batts said.
james brown, 27, an event planner, said he believes the situation will worsen. "this is not going to end," he said. "black men feel like we don't have rights. we are not being heard."
"we will not let these deplorable and cowardly acts of violence ruin our city," she tweeted. "i sincerely want to thank all those out there cleaning up streets and sharing their love for #ourcity. thank you, baltimore!"
rawlings-blake walked back comments she made about "thugs" trying to tear down the city.
"i wanted to say something that was on my heart <u+2026> we don't have thugs in baltimore. sometimes my little anger interpreter gets the best of me," she said, pointing to her head. "we have a lot of kids that are acting out, a lot of people in our community that are acting out."
she dismissed claims that she waited too long to send in a heavy police and national guard presence. she cited a "delicate balancing act" between managing the problem and making it worse.
"it is very important that we respond to the situation as it is on the ground," she said. "there are always going to be armchair quarterbacks who have never sat in my seat."
police capt. john kowalczyk said the relatively light initial police presence was because authorities were preparing for a protest of high schoolers. a heavy police presence and automatic weapons would not have been appropriate, he said. kowalczyk said police made more than 200 arrests, 34 of them juveniles.
during the mayhem, social media was alive with "#purge," an apparent allusion to the film the purge, which featured a 12-hour period in which all crime is legal.
gray, 25, died april 19, one week after being arrested and suffering a severe spinal injury. after gray's funeral monday, protests ostensibly against police violence quickly deteriorated into devastating riots. bands of looters, some armed with crowbars, roamed the city, hurling rocks at police, destroying patrol cars, smashing store windows and torching buildings.
residents swept glass and debris from battered sidewalks and streets while national guard members stood sentry during daylight hours tuesday.
tanisha owens, 30, an elementary school teacher living in baltimore, said she hopes young people will get a chance to come to peaceful protests in the city and learn how to voice their concerns.
"my students see this destruction happen to their communities and they need to also see the good side of it," owens said. "i want them to understand that not everyone is bad. there's also good in their city."
owens added that she was impressed at how quickly people cleaned up stores affected by looting. she and several co-workers came to the city with brooms and gloves but found that all the places they wanted to volunteer were already cleared of debris.
but many said they remain frustrated by what they believe is unfair treatment of blacks by police.
"we have too much violence against all the little brown children," mitchum alexander, 46, of baltimore, said. "we need to put a stop to this and educate law enforcement and people in society so incidents like this don't occur."
martin o'malley, former governor of maryland and former mayor of baltimore, stopped by west baltimore where hundreds of demonstrators gathered all day.
"there's a lot of pain in our city right now, a lot of people feeling very sad," o'malley said. "we have got to come through this together. we are a people who have seen worst days and we will come through this."
yet as o'malley walked through crowds of protesters some heckled him and told him to leave.
wayne gray, 47, has lived in baltimore his entire life and said o'malley had a chance to help the city and didn't. instead, gray said o'malley didn't help improve the lives of poor people and started the culture and policies that led to over arresting black men.
"he had a chance to fix this," gray said of o'malley. "he's part of the frustration that built up in these black men."
hogan also toured parts of the city. "what happened last night is not going to happen tonight," he said.l
many businesses, wary of a resurgence of violence that had overwhelmed police and fire fighters, closed on tuesday.
the list included security square mall with more than 100 stores in western baltimore. many downtown businesses were closed, and mutual fund houses t. rowe price and legg mason announced that most employees were working from home.
jamal bryant, a local activist and pastor of empowerment temple ame church, opened his church to teens with no place to go due to the school closures. he promised to conduct training on how to protest without destroying the city.
bryant tweeted: "we're also gonna take hs students to go clean up our neighborhoods. we must rise from the ashes. meet at @empowermenttem2 at 10"
obama also said economic and cultural problems must be addressed to fully solve the problem of violence on streets here and across the nation. still, he stressed, that's no excuse for the violence.
"when individuals get crowbars and start opening doors to loot, they're not protesting," obama said in response to a query at a white house news conference. "they're not making a statement. they are stealing. when they burn down a building they are committing arson. and they are destroying and undermining businesses and opportunities in their own communities." | curfew begins in riot-torn baltimore | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 36.0 | 8.0 | 9786.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 595.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 159.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 93.0 | 22.0 | 15.0 | 13.0 | 34.0 | 14.0 | 28.0 | 8.0 | 40.0 | 50.0 | 56.0 | 599.0 | 159.0 | 93.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | but he rejects the idea that clinton's campaign -- which many believe has been on a hot streak lately following an appearance on "saturday night live," a well-received debate performance and vice president joe biden's decision to not seek the white house -- ended the week on a high note following her lengthy testimony before the house select committee on benghazi.
"people may think she had a good week," rubio told cnn's jamie gangel in an interview that aired sunday on "state of the union." "i think this is the week it was proven that she lied about benghazi."
the florida senator said he believes clinton will be the democratic nominee, thanks in part to her belonging to a "political dynasty" that will help her fundraising.
as for donald trump, the party's current front-runner, rubio charged the developer's immigration proposals "border on the absurd."
"his rhetoric is a little louder but, if you think about where he was six months ago, his position on immigration six months ago was nothing like what he's saying now. and even what he's saying now borders on the absurd," he said. "he's going to deport all these people and then he's going to allow back in the ones that are good. his plan makes no sense." overall, trump has failed to communicate a clear, deep understanding of america's most pressing issues, rubio said. "i would say that ultimately the next president of the united states, on their first day in office, must understand the threats that face this country and must have shown good judgment about what to do about those issues," he said. and despite trump's current success, rubio is confident that the former reality television star's popularity will wane. "i'm going to support the republican nominee, and i'm comfortable that it's not going to be donald trump, and i'm increasingly confident that it's going to be me," he said. confidence and optimism aside, rubio isn't blind to his low presidential poll numbers -- even in his home state -- and blames them on "a very unusual year." "if you start paying attention to these polls in october, i mean, you'll go crazy. i've been up, i've been down," he said. "it's a very unusual year, and i think part of it is that people are really angry about the direction of our country." | marco rubio: donald trump's plan 'borders on the absurd' | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 56.0 | 8.0 | 2264.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 159.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 16.0 | 4.0 | 9.0 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 6.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 13.0 | 8.0 | 17.0 | 160.0 | 51.0 | 16.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | president obama is appearing on fox<u+2019>s sunday politics show to push republicans to support merrick garland<u+2014>but he will make bigger news talking about hillary<u+2019>s email scandal.
<u+201c>i think where he makes the most news is about hillary clinton,<u+201d> wallace said<u+2014>an assessment that is likely to be greeted with apprehension at clinton campaign headquarters in brooklyn. <u+201c>he hasn<u+2019>t been asked about it in awhile. back in october, on 60 minutes, he said she had not jeopardized national security with her private email server. since then, we<u+2019>ve found out that 2,000 of her emails were classified and 22 were top secret. so could he say flatly that she didn<u+2019>t give away america<u+2019>s secrets?<u+201d>
<u+201c>i think fox news is more critical of this president than most other news organizations,<u+201d> wallace answered in an email to the daily beast.<u+00a0><u+201c>the white house sometimes doesn<u+2019>t like that. but i think we are doing our job<u+2014>telling all sides of the story. i also think the white house doesn<u+2019>t distinguish between our hard news operation and the opinion shows.<u+201d>
<u+201c>he has nominated merrick garland to the supreme court, and they<u+2019>re very frustrated with the fact that the republican senate refuses to even hold confirmation hearings, let alone to give him an up or down vote,<u+201d> wallace said in a phone interview, adding that he <u+201c>pushed particularly hard<u+201d> in his pitch to the white house that his program was well-positioned to serve their interests. <u+201c>they saw fox news sunday as an opportunity to reach out to republicans or independents or conservative democrats to try to put pressure on republican senators to give a full vetting, a normal vetting, to judge garland.<u+201d>
obama told wallace that even if clinton is elected in seven months, and the senate goes into a lame-duck session, he plans to stick by garland as his preferred nominee instead of pulling the nomination to let clinton fill the seat vacated by the death last month of associate justice antonin scalia.
wallace, meanwhile, declined to wade into the intrigue surrounding fox news star and frequent donald trump target megyn kelly, who has been critical of her colleague bill o<u+2019>reilly for not defending her more robustly, and recently confided to variety that while she<u+2019>s grateful for fox news chairman roger ailes<u+2019>s staunch support, she must <u+201c>keep [her] options open<u+201d> on whether to re-up with fox when her next contract talks come up after the november election.
<u+201c>i think any time that the president is doing an interview with a television program that he hasn<u+2019>t done an interview with for a while<u+201d><u+2014>in this case, not since obama<u+2019>s sole fox news sunday appearance in 2008, when he was a mere candidate for president<u+2014><u+201c>it<u+2019>s an opportunity to reach a new audience, or at least an audience that may not have heard from the president directly in a while.<u+201d>
certainly, while they personally exempt wallace, a registered democrat, obama and his aides haven<u+2019>t been shy about expressing their disdain for the top-rated cable channel founded by former republican strategist ailes at the behest of media mogul rupert murdoch in 1996, around the same time that obama was launching his political career back in chicago.
obama has frequently made fox news the butt of his comedy routine at the white house correspondents association dinner, and in april 2011, at the height of trump<u+2019>s birther antics, showed the audience what he termed <u+201c>my official birth video,<u+201d> which turned out to be the nativity scene from the disney animation the lion king.
<u+201c>i asked him about all the anger among americans, both democrats and republicans, whether it<u+2019>s bernie sanders supporters or donald trump<u+2019>s supporters<u+2014>people who feel dealt out of the game in washington and on wall street<u+2014>and does he take any responsibility for the fact that after eight years, people still feel the game is rigged.<u+201d>
wallace said he also asked the president why he appeared to be so disengaged and emotionally contained when reacting to acts of terrorism that made many americans angry<u+2014>cheerfully golfing in martha vineyard after commenting on the beheading by isis of journalist james foley, and enjoying a baseball game in cuba after the horrific attacks in brussels.
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | washington (cnn) the future of health care in america is on the table -- and in serious jeopardy -- wednesday morning in the supreme court.
after more than an hour of arguments, the supreme court seemed divided in a case concerning what congress meant in one very specific four-word clause of the affordable care act with respect to who is eligible for subsidies provided by the federal government to help people buy health insurance.
if the court ultimately rules against the obama administration, more than 5 million individuals will no longer be eligible for the subsidies, shaking up the insurance market and potentially dealing the law a fatal blow. a decision likely will not be announced by the supreme court until may or june.
all eyes were on chief justice john roberts -- who surprised many in 2012 when he voted to uphold the law -- he said next to nothing, in a clear strategy not to tip his hand either way.
"roberts, who's usually a very active participant in oral arguments, said almost nothing for an hour and a half," said cnn's supreme court analyst jeffrey toobin, who attended the arguments. "(roberts) was so much a focus of attention because of his vote in the first obamacare case in 2012 that he somehow didn't want to give people a preview of how he was thinking in this case. ... he said barely a word."
the liberal justices came out of the gate with tough questions for michael carvin, the lawyer challenging the obama administration's interpretation of the law, which is that in states that choose not to set up their own insurance exchanges, the federal government can step in, run the exchanges and distribute subsidies.
carvin argued it was clear from the text of the law that congress authorized subsidies for middle and low income individuals living only in exchanges "established by the states." just 16 states have established their own exchanges, but millions of americans living in the 34 states are receiving subsidies through federally facilitated exchanges.
but justice elena kagan, suggested the law should be interpreted in its "whole context" and not in the one snippet of the law that is the focus of the challengers.
"we look at the whole text. we don't look at four words," she said. kagan also referred to the legal challenges to the law as the "never-ending saga."
justice sonia sotomayor was concerned that in the states where the individuals may not be able to receive subsidies, "we're going to have the death spiral that this system was created to avoid."
and sotomayor wondered why the four words that so bother the challengers did not appear more prominently in the law. she said it was like hiding "a huge thing in a mousetrap."
"do you really believe that states fully understood?" she asked, carvin, that those with federally run exchanges "were not going to get subsidies?"
justice ruth bader ginsburg suggested the four words at issue were buried and "not in the body of the legislation where you would expect to find" them.
justice anthony kennedy asked questions that could be interpreted for both sides, but he was clearly concerned with the federalism aspects of the case.
"let me say that from the standpoint of the dynamics of federalism," he said to carvin. "it does seem to me that there is something very powerful to the point that if your argument is accepted, the states are being told either create your own exchange, or we'll send your insurance market into a death spiral."
he grilled carvin on the "serious" consequences for those states that had set up federally-facilitated exchanges.
"it seems to me that under your argument, perhaps you will prevail in the plain words of the statute, there's a serious constitutional problem if we adopt your argument," kennedy said.
the irs -- which is charged with implementing the law -- interprets the subsidies as being available for all eligible individuals in the health exchanges nationwide, in both exchanges set up by the states and the federal government. in court , solicitor general donald b. verrilli, jr. defended that position. he ridiculed the challengers argument saying it "revokes the promise of affordable care for millions of americans -- that cannot be the statute that congress intended."
but he was immediately challenged by justice antonin scalia.
"it may not mean the statute they intended, the question is whether it's the statute they wrote," he said.
although as usual, justice clarence thomas said nothing, justice samuel alito was also critical of verrilli's argument. he said if it were true that some of the states were caught off guard that the subsidies were only available to those in state run exchanges, why didn't more of them sign amicus briefs. and he refuted the notion that the sky might fall if the challengers were to prevail by saying the court could stay any decision until the end of the tax season.
on that point scalia suggested congress could act.
"you really think congress is just going to sit there while all of these disastrous consequences ensue?" he asked.
verrilli paused and to laughter said, "well, this congress? "
kennedy did ask verrilli a question that could go to the heart of the case wondering if it was reasonable that the irs would have been charged with interpreting a part of the law concerning "billions of dollars" in subsidies.
only ginsburg brought up the issue of standing -- whether those bringing the lawsuit have the legal right to be in court which suggested that the court will almost certainly reach the mandates of the case.
president barack obama has expressed confidence in the legal underpinning of the law in recent days.
"there is, in our view, not a plausible legal basis for striking it down," he told reuters this week.
wednesday's hearing marks the third time that parts of the health care law have been challenged at the supreme court.
in this case -- king v. burwell -- the challengers say that congress always meant to limit the subsidies to encourage states to set up their own exchanges. but when only 16 states acted, they argue the irs tried to move in and interpret the law differently.
republican critics of the law, such as texas sen. ted cruz, filed briefs warning that the executive was encroaching on congress' "law-making function" and that the irs interpretation "opens the door to hundreds of billions of dollars of additional government spending."
hatch said republicans would work with the states and give them the "freedom and flexibility to create better, more competitive health insurance markets offering more options and different choices."
in court, verrilli stressed that four words -- "established by the state" -- found in one section of the law were a term of art meant to include both state run and federally facilitated exchanges.
he argued the justices need only read the entire statute to understand congress meant to issue subsidies to all eligible individuals enrolled in all of the exchanges.
democratic congressmen involved in the crafting of the legislation filed briefs on behalf of the government arguing that congress' intent was to provide insurance to as many people as possible and that the challengers' position is not consistent with the text and history of the statute.
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na | true | ti_cnn | real | na | na | na | na | na | na | train | na | na | washington (cnn) vermont sen. bernie sanders on saturday said he supports democratic national committee chairwoman debbie wasserman schultz's democratic opponent in her august 30 primary, adding that if he is elected president, he would effectively terminate her chairmanship of the dnc.
sanders, whose campaign has engaged in an increasingly bitter feud with the dnc chairwoman during his presidential bid, said in an interview set to air on cnn's "state of the union" that he favors tim canova in florida's 23rd congressional district. canova is supporting sanders.
"well, clearly, i favor her opponent," sanders told tapper. "his views are much closer to mine than as to wasserman schultz's."
on sunday afternoon, canova accused wasserman schultz of ignoring her home district's economic issues.
"in her own votes in the house of representatives, i think she's making the problems worse," canova told cnn's fredricka whitfield.
he also expressed doubt that his political rival could heal intra-party rifts created during the primary.
"if the democrats come out of their convention united, it might not be because of debbie wasserman schultz, but in spite of her efforts," he said.
sanders sent out a fundraising email on behalf of canova on earlier in the day.
"the political revolution is not just about electing a president, sisters and brothers. we need a congress with members who believe, like bernie, that we cannot change a corrupt system by taking its money," the email said.
sanders also told tapper that if he's elected president, he wouldn't reappoint wasserman schultz to head the dnc.
in a response to sanders on saturday afternoon, wasserman schultz insisted she would remain neutral in the democratic presidential race despite the vermont senator's endorsement of her primary opponent.
"i am so proud to serve the people of florida's 23rd district and i am confident that they know that i am an effective fighter and advocate on their behalf in congress," wasserman schultz said. "even though senator sanders has endorsed my opponent, i remain, as i have been from the beginning, neutral in the presidential democratic primary. i look forward to working together with him for democratic victories in the fall."
sanders' campaign has long been critical of wasserman shultz's performance as head of the committee, claiming that the dnc has favored his presidential primary challenger, hillary clinton. sanders and his supporters have complained about the nomination process and ways they believe it has helped clinton, including debates held on saturday nights, closed primaries in major states such as new york, and the use of superdelegates -- essentially free-agent party and union stalwarts who are overwhelmingly backing clinton.
canova, who teaches at nova southeastern university shepard broad college of law in fort lauderdale, was asked in 2011 to serve on sanders' wall street reform advisory panel.
"i'm so proud to know that bernie sanders favors our campaign for progress for all. like sen. sanders, i'm running a campaign that's truly backed by the people, not big corporations -- one that stands up to wall street interests instead of cozying up to them," canova told cnn in a statement saturday. "together, i feel confident that our campaign of nurses, teachers, students, seniors and working-class floridians can work together to demand accountability from our leaders, and offer a more positive path forward to the people of florida's 23rd district."
while sanders has a strong ability to raise money and thus could impact the race, he did not fare well in wasserman schultz's congressional district during the march florida presidential primary, scoring 30.1% of the vote compared with clinton's 68%.
"we can have a long conversation about debbie wasserman schultz just about how she's been throwing shade on the sanders campaign from the very beginning," weaver told cnn's chris cuomo on "new day."
"it's not the dnc," weaver added. "by and large, people in the dnc have been good to us. debbie wasserman schultz really is the exception."
wasserman schultz has pushed back against sanders' accusation that the party had rigged the system against him.
"we've had the same rules in place that elected barack obama. these rules were adopted for state parties all across the country in 2014," she said earlier this week.
asked about the "throwing shade" line on wednesday, wasserman schultz told cnn's wolf blitzer, "my response to that is hashtag smh (shake my head)."
sanders also said it is "absurd" that superdelegates began supporting clinton even before she had a competitor.
"there's something absurd that i get 46% of the delegates that come from real contests, real elections, and 7% of the superdelegates," he told tapper. "some 400 of hillary clinton's superdelegates came on board her campaign before anybody else announced. it was anointment. and that is bad for the process."
sanders, who has frequently cited polls saying he does better than clinton in a matchup against trump, also said there's "a good chance" the former secretary of state can beat the presumptive republican nominee.
"i'm not saying she cannot beat donald trump. i think she can. i think there's a good chance she can," the vermont senator said. "(but) i am the stronger candidate because we appeal to independents -- people who are not in love with either the democratic or the republican party, often for very good reasons." | sanders says he's backing dnc chair's primary opponent | noauthor | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | https://t4.rbxcdn.com/c5695e5f087535e2066dc473e03b1819 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | nocountry | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | null | null | null | na | na | na | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ti_cnn_train.parquet | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | 0.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | nothread | na | 1.0 | 0.0 | 13.0 | 54.0 | 8.0 | 5467.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 321.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 106.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 34.0 | 11.0 | 14.0 | 5.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 7.0 | 6.0 | 24.0 | 16.0 | 33.0 | 324.0 | 107.0 | 34.0 | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
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