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https://politicalwire.com/2019/02/05/bonus-quote-of-the-day-1092/Bonus Quote of the Day
February 5, 2019 at 1:39 pm EST By Taegan Goddard
— David Duke, quoted by NBC News, seemingly endorsing Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) for president.
Trump Threatens to Build 'Human Wall'
https://politicalwire.com/2019/02/05/trump-threatens-to-build-human-wall/
Trump Threatens to Build ‘Human Wall’
February 5, 2019 at 10:54 am EST By Taegan Goddard
Said Trump: “Tremendous numbers of people are coming up through Mexico in the hopes of flooding our Southern Border. We have sent additional military. We will build a Human Wall if necessary.”
Trump, Kushner met with contractors to discuss building border wall (last week)
That's it! No wall for you!! 
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/politics/trump-contractors-border-wall-national-emergency/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_content=2019-02-05T19%3A03%3A15&utm_source=fbCNNp&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR0hQTOG1GYb_D8gXpT2mw8J2aiKNRZl_qNZ6rPdGZF2JQeIfbU243YPPdc
Trump, Kushner met with contractors to discuss building border wall
By Kaitlan Collins, CNN
Updated 12:34 PM ET, Tue February 5, 2019
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump and his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, met with contractors at the White House to discuss building the border wall late last week, two sources with knowledge of the meeting told CNN.
Despite CNN reporting that several senior Senate Republicans and members of GOP leadership have raised serious concerns about the possibility of Trump bypassing Congress and using an emergency declaration to build his wall, the President's meeting with contractors shows that he is seriously considering doing so.
The White House declined to comment on the meeting. White House counsel Pat Cipollone was also present.
Trump came close to declaring an emergency after competing proposals to end the government shutdown both failed in the Senate at the end of January. But aides convinced him that waiting three weeks while a special committee of senators and representatives attempted to hash out a deal was a better idea. Then, if those congressional negotiators couldn't come up with an agreement that funded the wall, he could declare a national emergency.
Trump has expressed doubt in recent days that the committee will find a solution he accepts.
"Listen closely to the State of the Union," he said Friday when asked if he was ready to announce a national emergency.
Saudi Arabia Gave U.S. Weapons to al Qaeda-Linked Fighters: CNN
https://www.thedailybeast.com/saudi-arabia-gave-us-weapons-to-al-qaeda-linked-fighters-cnn?ref=homeSaudi Arabia Gave U.S. Weapons to al Qaeda-Linked Fighters: CNN
Reuters / Andreas Martinez
Who is this?
I'm guessing Conway.
https://politicalwire.com/2019/02/05/quote-of-the-day-2167/
Quote of the Day
February 5, 2019 at 7:16 am EST By Taegan Goddard
— A former White House staffer, quoted by the Washington Post, on someone “making a conscious effort to subvert the president on a daily basis” by leaking President Trump’s private schedules.
Democrats seek to take on Trump at State of the Union
Democrats seek to take on Trump at State of the Union
By Cristina Marcos - 02/05/19 06:00 AM EST
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Viewers at home will primarily see Pelosi seated behind Trump for the first time, offering a partisan contrast next to Vice President Pence in how they respond to what the president says in his speech.
And when Trump looks at his audience, he’ll see a congressional body that includes record numbers of women and minorities.
Scores of Democrats are also bringing guests designed to send political messages.
They include immigrants who worked at Trump’s New Jersey golf club without documentation and people affected by the Trump administration’s family separations policy at the southern border.
Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), a senior Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) member who skipped last year’s address, will be in the chamber this year. He plans to join Democratic women in wearing white to show solidarity with suffragettes and acknowledge the record number of women serving in the House.
“Mr. Rush wants the President to look out and see the Democratic majority that will serve as a strong Constitutional check on his power,” said Ryan Johnson, the lawmaker’s communications director.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), who also skipped last year’s address, plans to attend with a federal worker from Chicago who was furloughed during the shutdown.
“She feels it’s important for President Trump to see the impact of the shutdown on hardworking Americans,” Schakowsky spokesman Guy King said.
Other Democrats who boycotted last year’s address confirmed on Monday that they be in attendance on Tuesday, including Reps. Albio Sires (N.J.), Gregory Meeks (N.Y.) and Danny K. Davis (Ill.).
more...
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/428450-democrats-seek-to-take-on-trump-at-state-of-the-union
Adam Schiff Blows Up Trump's Plan To Hide The Mueller Report
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/02/04/adam-schiff-mueller-report.htmlPosted on Mon, Feb 4th, 2019 by Jason Easley
Adam Schiff Blows Up Trump’s Plan To Hide The Mueller Report
Trump’s plan to hide the Mueller report was blown up by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) who is threatening to subpoena the special counsel report if Trump refuses to release it.
Schiff said, “This is too big to be buried. This is of too great a consequence to the country to be swept under the rug. And so we will use whatever compulsion we can and must to make sure that the public gets the full story. ”
https://twitter.com/politicususa/status/1092564471330062342
Adam Schiff isn’t going to let Trump hide the details of his potential crimes
It has become increasingly obvious through Trump’s public comments that he is intending on burying the Mueller report. Once Trump realized that he couldn’t fire Mueller without being impeached, his next move appears to be letting Mueller finish his report and then doing everything he can to stop the report from seeing the light of day.
Adam Schiff isn’t playing games with the president. If Trump tries to bury the report, Schiff will subpoena it, which he has full power to do as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Trump is playing games and hoping that he can prevent the public from ever seeing what Robert Mueller has found, but Democrats already have a strategy in place and are ten steps ahead of any move that the president could make to hide the Mueller report.
Democrats protest Trump's transgender troop ban by bringing trans people who served to SOTU
Democrats protest Trump’s transgender troop ban by bringing trans people who served to SOTU
Trump wants to ban transgender people from serving openly in the military. Democrats are protesting the policy.
By German Lopez@germanrlopezgerman.lopez@vox.com Feb 4, 2019, 12:40pm EST
Congressional Democrats are protesting President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender troops by inviting trans people with military experience to the State of the Union on Tuesday.
According to Washington Blade reporter Chris Johnson, at least four members of Congress are taking part in the quiet protests: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is inviting Navy Lieutenant Commander Blake Dremann, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) is inviting Air Force Staff Sergeant Logan Ireland, Rep. Donald McEachin (D-VA) is inviting Navy Petty Officer Second Class Megan Winters, and Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH) is inviting Navy veteran Tavion Dignard.
Gillibrand, who’s running for president, tied her invitation to new legislation she plans to introduce to protect trans troops.
The invitations and call to action come as Trump continues trying to ban transgender people from serving openly in the military. The ban recently won a major victory at the Supreme Court, which struck down some of the injunctions against the ban as legal challenges against the policy proceed in court. But the courts could still ultimately rule against the ban, which would lead to its demise.
more...
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/4/18210530/transgender-military-trump-state-of-the-union
Senate Democrats Try to Cut Off 'Emergency Funds' for Trump's Border Wall
Senate Democrats Try to Cut Off ‘Emergency Funds’ for Trump’s Border Wall
The RAIDER Act looks to preempt the president from going down the route he seems destined to take.
Sam Brodey
02.04.19 1:03 PM ET
A group of Senate Democrats are aiming to block President Donald Trump from building his proposed border wall by declaring a national emergency – an announcement the president could make as soon as Tuesday during his State of the Union address.
Roughly a dozen Democrats are getting behind a bill, being introduced Monday afternoon, that would prohibit Trump from building the wall using funds drawn from either the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers or the Department of Defense’s military construction accounts.
One of the bill’s sponsors, Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM), said that Congress must “assert its role as a co-equal branch of government” and block Trump from raiding these accounts—which could contain as much as $35 billion for emergency projects—for a “politically-motivated, unjustified national emergency declaration that isn’t based in reality.”
The bill, which is titled the Restrictions Against Illegitimate Declarations for Emergency Re-Appropriations, or RAIDER, Act, states that “no funds appropriated or otherwise made available prior to the date of the enactment of this Act may be used for the construction of barriers, land acquisition, or any other associated activities on the southern border without specific statutory authorization from Congress.”
more...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/senate-democrats-try-to-cut-off-emergency-funds-for-trumps-border-wall?ref=home
Big Majority Thinks It's Time for a New President
https://politicalwire.com/2019/02/04/big-majority-think-its-time-for-a-new-president/Big Majority Thinks It’s Time for a New President
February 4, 2019 at 12:24 pm EST By Taegan Goddard
The party breakdown: 79% of Republicans back a second term for the president while 94% of Democrats say it is time for someone new. Meanwhile, 55% of independent voters want a change while 39% support the incumbent.
Interestingly, 43% of Republican voters and independents who lean Republican would like to see Trump face a primary challenge.
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