With Breanne Deppisch
THE BIG IDEA: Ed Schultz vocalization during a Conservative Political Action Conference would have been improbable a year ago. But Donald Trump is trainer now, and his code of protectionism is carrying a moment.
On his MSNBC uncover in 2009, Schultz pronounced that “there are parallels” between “some of a things Hitler was observant and some of a things that were during a CPAC convention.” He added, “They are not Americans.” In 2011, per CNN, Schultz called Trump a nonconformist and pronounced “nobody” wanted him to spin president.
Schultz now hosts a nightly uncover on RT, that is a promotion arm of Russia and saved by a Kremlin. At what for decades has been a signature cattle call on a right, he praised Trump as someone who “is not bought and paid for by anyone.” Then he expounded on what he sees as a horrors of a Trans-Pacific Partnership and NAFTA.
Alluding to a comprehension community’s integrity that his congregation in Moscow interfered with a presidential choosing in an bid to boost Trump, Schultz pronounced during an afternoon panel: “Full disclosure: The Russians did not tell Hillary Clinton not to go to Wisconsin. They didn’t tell her not to go to Michigan either.”
No one booed. Instead, heads nodded. The times, they are a changin’.
The Trumpists are jubilant during a discussion where not prolonged ago they were noticed as total of a fringe. Stephen K. Bannon, as conduct of Breitbart News, hosted forums outward CPAC in 2013 and 2014 called “The Uninvited.” Intended as counter-programming, he brought in guest with unequivocally argumentative views about Islam and immigration that could never get vocalization slots during a categorical conference.
Now a White House arch strategist, and egghead force behind Trump’s agenda, Bannon got a stone star’s usurpation when he arrived yesterday. “I cruise one of a many pivotal moments in complicated American story was his evident withdrawal from TPP,” Bannon said, referring to a president. “It got us out of a trade understanding and let a supervision come behind to ourselves!”
Bannon threw around terms like “globalist” and “corporatist” as he touted Trump’s “economic jingoist agenda.” Rolling behind trade deals, he explained, is partial of a broader pull toward “the deconstruction of a executive state.”
Reince Priebus, who noticed Trump anxiously when he announced his candidacy dual years ago nonetheless is now White House arch of staff, told a throng that The Donald will be “one of a biggest presidents that ever served this country.” Channeling his boss, he pronounced a trainer has already “put in a best cupboard in a story of cabinets.” Then he led a throng in chants of “Trump, Trump, Trump.”
They are all Trumpists now…
— Forty years ago this month, vocalization during a same conference, Ronald Reagan charity a withering critique of Marxist-Leninism that could be review now as an censure of Trumpism. “All a contribution of a genuine universe have to be propitious to a Procrustean bed of Marx and Lenin,” he explained. “If a contribution don’t occur to fit a ideology, a contribution are chopped off and discarded. we cruise this to be a finish conflicting to scrupulous conservatism. When a regressive states that the giveaway marketplace is a best resource ever devised by a mind of man to accommodate element needs, he is merely observant what a clever conference of a genuine universe has told him is a truth. When a regressive says that total communism is an comprehensive rivalry of tellurian freedom, he is not theorizing. He is stating a nauseous existence prisoner so unforgettably in a papers of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.”
Reagan’s 1977 CPAC debate stays one of a many infamous domestic addresses he ever delivered. Fresh off his detriment to Gerald Ford in a Republican primaries, and Jimmy Carter’s feat in a general, a former California administrator went on to presciently outline a prophesy for “A New Republican Party” that would combine fiscal, amicable and inhabitant confidence conservatives in common cause. His clarion call helped win him his party’s assignment in 1980, ushered in a initial domestic realignment given Franklin Roosevelt and authorised a GOP to win 5 of a subsequent 7 presidential elections.
— Alas, a Reagan Era is over. And if we indispensable another information indicate that a Party of Reagan has been hijacked, this week’s “conservative” confab offers many. Needless to say, Trump will not quote Solzhenitsyn when he speaks here after this morning. Reagan embraced leisure in all of a forms – from a aspirations of Eastern Europeans looking to chuck off a limit of their Russian overlords to open markets and, to a obtuse degree, open borders.
It’s always diligent to assume on what a chronological figure, who died 13 years ago, would contend about stream events. But shaped on a decade of closely study a 40th president, including vast hours reviewing his archives, it seems stable to outline a following: Reagan would scowl on a dim mural that Trump paints of his resplendent city on a hill. He would be uneasy by his protectionist and isolationist rhetoric. And he would be horrified during a 45th trainer regularly sketch fake dignified equivalency between a United States and Russia.
Reagan would never have suggested that Vladimir Putin, a former KGB representative who presides over an peremptory regime, is a stronger celebrity than Barack Obama. Among a many disproportion Trump says that would never have come out of Reagan’s mouth: “There are a lot of killers. We’ve got a lot of killers. What, we cruise a nation is so innocent?”
But it’s many some-more than that: The Reagan Revolution was always some-more about ideas than a cult of celebrity built around a singular man.
— Kellyanne Conway, advisor to a president, pronounced during her coming during CPAC yesterday that by a time Trump addresses a group, a discussion will be famous as “TPAC.” As in a Trump Political Action Conference.
Conway’s line “spoke volumes about a proceed that a Republican Party has been altered by a arise of Trump, and it sparked alarm even among attendees during a conference,” Yahoo’s Jon Ward reports. Two quotes from his piece:
“I cruise that’s dangerous,” pronounced Sarah Markley, a tyro during Grove City College nearby Pittsburgh. “I cruise that we should initial hang to a beliefs and demeanour for somebody who embodies those.”
Conservative radio speak uncover horde Mark Levin also bristled: “It’s regressive domestic transformation conference. That’s what it is. It’ll be that 10 years from now. When we worked for Reagan, we didn’t call it RPAC. So we would remind them about that.”
Indeed, if any of a tip 3 aides who done adult Reagan’s Troika during his initial year in bureau had done a critique like that, a trainer substantially would have called them into a Oval and chastised them. But he never indispensable to. Because Jim Baker, Ed Meese and Mike Deaver any accepted that a regressive transformation was proceed bigger than Reagan.
— Mike Pence, during a cooking debate final night, emphasized his personal attribute with a president. “He’s famous for his charisma, and I’m, like, not,” a clamp trainer quipped, going on to rush about their “historic victory.”
He likened Trump to a modern-day Reagan. “The media, a elites, a insiders, everybody else who boost off preserving a station quo, they discharged our president,” pronounced Pence. “They’re still perplexing to boot all of us.”
FIVE MORE TAKEAWAYS FROM OUR TEAM COVERAGE:
— During their corner appearance, Bannon and Priebus attempted tough (maybe a tiny too hard) to plead a required knowledge that they’re rivals who lead competing appetite centers. Philip Rucker and Robert Costa news a 25-minute eventuality as “a friend slight that desirous flashbacks to Oscar and Felix in ‘The Odd Couple.’” “Reince has been invariable given a unequivocally initial impulse we met him,” Bannon said. “I delight his friendship,” Priebus responded. Reflecting how many times have changed: “Writers for Breitbart, a categorical unite of CPAC, were treated as if they were ESPN anchors during a vital sports event. Washington editor Matthew Boyle, who has scored several Trump interviews and depends Bannon as a mentor, was trailed by a photographer from a repository that is profiling him. … Bannon’s devoted core circle, including his open family adviser, Alexandra Preate, and GOP mega-donor Rebekah Mercer, were followed by an environment of aides and friends.”
— A daring Betsy DeVos betrothed to forge brazen with her designed renovate of a U.S. preparation system, criticizing Obama-era efforts, which she contended have unsuccessful “miserably.” She also took a appropriate during reporters and critics who have called her ill-prepared for a posting: “The media has had a fun with me, and that’s okay,” she said. “My pursuit isn’t to win a recognition contest.” (Emma Brown)
— Ted Cruz expected that there will be a second cavity on a Supreme Court this year. The Texas senator charity no reason nonetheless seemed to advise that one of a magnanimous justices will skip a probity during a finish of a term. (Sean Sulivan)
— Amid a sea of red “Make America Great Again” hats and a march of comparison administration officials, one pivotal organisation was in brief supply: Republican members of Congress. Sullivan reports: “Just one stream U.S. senator, [Cruz], spoke on Thursday during CPAC … with no others scheduled for a rest of a four-day gathering. Nine House members are on a register of speakers. [Paul Ryan], who took a theatre to AC/DC in 2016, is not here. Nor is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who famously presented a co-worker with a gun during CPAC in 2014. And Sens. Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, who once sought to build hum here for their budding presidential campaigns, are nowhere to be found.”
— Richard Spencer, a owners of a alt-right transformation that seeks a whites-only state and that strongly corroborated Trump for president, was diminished from a discussion after being criticized from a categorical theatre and afterwards giving interviews to a flourishing throng of reporters. “People wish to speak to me,” Spencer told NBC News outward a Gaylord National Harbor complex. “They don’t wish to speak to these tedious conservatives. They wish to learn about ideas whose time has come, not whose time has passed.” Spencer, who has frequently attended CPAC nonetheless incident, became a teenager media prodigy during and after a 2016 election. There was some irony that Spencer’s exclusion came on a same day that a discussion featured Bannon, who as CEO of Breitbart News pronounced final summer that his site is “the height for a alt-right.”
Dan Schneider, executive executive of a organisation that puts on a conference, pronounced members of a alt-right are “anti-Semites, they are racists, they are sexists.” “There is a sinister classification that is perplexing to worm a proceed into a ranks,” he said. “We contingency not be cheated by [a] hateful, severe nazi group.” David Weigel and John Wagner news that, “Inside a categorical ballroom of CPAC, a justification didn’t beget many applause. Some in a assembly cheered a libel of ‘left-wing fascism,’ while a few listeners walked out.”
— Happening this morning – “The 202 Live” with Scott Walker: Watch a livestream of my review with a Wisconsin administrator here during 9:45 a.m. ET. Tweet your questions regulating a #202Live hashtag.
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING:
— Malaysian troops contend that Kim Jong Un’s half-brother was killed by VX, one of a many poisonous and fastest-acting chemical crusade agents. It’s considered to be “much some-more toxic” than sarin and is believed to have once been used by Saddam Hussein in a Iran-Iraq war. The marker of a chemical representative adds to a growing pile of justification suggesting Pyongyang was obliged for a attack. (Anna Fifield)
— Did a White House vigour a FBI to dismiss media reports on Russia? CNN reports that the bureau rejected a new ask from a Trump organisation to hit down media reports about communications between a president’s associates and Russians “known to U.S. intelligence” during a campaign. “The proceed communications between a White House and a FBI were surprising since of decade-old restrictions on such contacts. Such a ask from a White House is a defilement of procedures that extent communications with a FBI on tentative investigations,” CNN notes.
The discussions reportedly began with FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Reince Priebus on a sidelines of a apart White House meeting a day after a stories were published.
The White House essentially doubtful that account, observant that McCabe called Priebus early that morning and pronounced “the New York Times story vastly overstates what a FBI knows about a contacts.”
But later, administration officials corrected their chronicle of events to validate what a law coercion central described. The same White House central pronounced that Priebus after reached out again to McCabe and to FBI Director James Comey seeking for a FBI to during slightest speak to reporters on credentials to brawl a stories. A law coercion central says McCabe didn’t plead aspects of a box nonetheless wouldn’t contend accurately what McCabe told Priebus.
Sean Spicer shielded Priebus’s preference to strech out to a FBI in a carefully-worded matter late final night: “We didn’t try to hit a story down. We asked them to tell a truth.”
— Trump pronounced that he wants to build adult a arch arsenal to safeguard it is during a “top of a pack,” observant in an speak with Steve Holland of Reuters that a United States has depressed behind in a atomic weapons capacity. “It would be wonderful, a dream would be that no nation would have nukes, nonetheless if countries are going to have nukes, we’re going to be during a tip of a pack,” a trainer said. Trump also pronounced China could solve a inhabitant confidence plea acted by North Korea “very simply if they wish to,” ratcheting adult vigour on Beijing to strive some-more change to rein in Pyongyang’s increasingly hostile actions.
GET SMART FAST:
A Kansas male is indicted of fatally sharpened an Indian immigrant/engineer he suspicion was Middle Eastern, and injuring another, after cheering “get out of my country” and opening glow during a inner restaurant. News of a incident has fast ricocheted opposite a creation and sent shockwaves via a Indian-American community. (New York Daily News)
A maestro who left a U.S. Army in 2013 has been arrested and charged with plotting to assistance ISIS in what he believed was a strike on a troops bottom or an conflict on civilians. The FBI says it is misleading how he became radicalized in such a brief duration of time. (Cleve R. Wootson Jr.)
European gratification programs have accidently handed out taxpayer-funded benefits—such as stagnation funds, incapacity pensions and housing allowances—to ISIS militants who have used a income to salary war. Authorities pronounced several plotters in a Brussels and Paris apprehension attacks perceived some appropriation from Belgium’s gratification complement while they designed their atrocities. Danish officials pronounced this week that 29 adults were given $100,000 in open advantages since they were deliberate “too ill or disabled” to work – afterwards fled to Syria to quarrel with a belligerent group. (USA Today)
Syrian rebels contend they are during risk of losing their biggest building to al-Qaeda-linked extremists, following a swell of infighting among their querulous insurgent group, that led to a solidify in reserve from a U.S. and other countries. U.S. officials pronounced a solidify does not vigilance a contest detonation of support for their cause, nonetheless that a Pentagon is perplexing to safeguard that reserve do not tumble into nonconformist hands. (Liz Sly and Zakaria Zakaria)
A automobile explosve in Syria killed as many as 60 and left dozens of others wounded. Local reports contend Islamic State militants are behind a attack. (CNN)
Google is suing Uber, accusing a former executive of hidden a trove of trade secrets associated to a self-driving automobile record and afterwards holding a information to his new employer. The lawsuit alleges that Uber benefited to a balance of $500 million or some-more as a outcome – allegations that a ride-hailing association pronounced it is holding “very seriously.” (Brian Fung)
A Philippine senator famous for her outspoken critique of President Duterte and his lethal anti-drug debate was arrested on charges of holding bribes from drug traffickers. Leila de Lima has fiercely denied a charges, characterizing them as domestic harm and vowing that “the law will come out during a right time.” Party officials contend they fear for her life. (New York Times)
The Israeli supervision refused to concede n U.S questioner from Human Rights Watch to enter a country, observant a organisation is “systematically anti-Israel.” (William Booth)
An American-made doll with curly blond hair, kicky Converse sneakers, and Siri-style functionality that allows it to answer questions from your toddler competence SEEM like a ideal benefaction – that is, until a splendid blue eyes start espionage on your family. According to German officials, “Cayla” is a primary aim for hackers, who can use a doll’s new record to view and collect private information. The hazard is frightful adequate that a nation has suggested relatives to “immediately” toss a doll and destroy a inner microphone. (Amanda Erickson)
Virtual-reality goggles are wreaking havoc. Early adopters of a record have raved about a new technology, regulating a immersive inclination to assistance shun nerve-inducing or tedious situations. But they are violation TVs, spilling coffee, and screaming, mid-flight, as they conflict a made-up world. (WSJ A-hed)
A distinguished gamer who was live-streaming his try during a 24-hour “marathon gaming session” to lift income for a Make-a-Wish substructure died usually dual hours before it was slated to end. His genocide has jarred a online encampment and lifted concerns about a health risks of playing video games. (Ben Guarino)
A priest who took his 11-year-old daughter to Trump’s campaign-style convene in Florida final weekend did not suffer a experience – during least, according to a Facebook post in that he claimed that “demonic activity was palpable” during a event. “I felt like people were here to ceremony an beliefs along with a male who was heading it,” he wrote, observant a knowledge sent “shivers down his spine.” (Lindsey Bever)
The owners of a Maryland tattoo parlor is covering adult nonconformist and gang-related tattoos for giveaway – charity a extensive and oftentimes costly procession during 0 cost and “with no questions asked.” “Sometimes people make bad choices, and infrequently people change,” a owners pronounced in a Facebook post. “We trust that there is adequate hatred in this universe and we wish to make a difference.” (Justin Wm. Moyer)
Bumblebees can learn how to pull a spin to a core of a height in sequence to collect a sweetened treat – a schooled function that is assisting scientists know a formidable workings of insect brains. (New York Times)
THE TRUMP TAKEOVER:
— Sean Spicer hinted that Trump’s DOJ will shortly impulse down on a use of recreational marijuana, revelation reporters that he expects states to be theme to “greater enforcement” of sovereign laws opposite pot use. From John Wagner and Matt Zapotosky: “Spicer … pronounced that President Trump sees ‘a vast difference’ between use of pot for medical functions and for recreational purposes. ‘The trainer understands a pain and pang that many people go by who are facing, generally depot diseases, and a comfort that some of these drugs, including medical marijuana, can pierce to them,’ he told reporters.”
— The Justice Department will also once again use private prisons, reversing an Obama-era gauge to shiver a comforts after they were deemed reduction stable and reduction effective than their government-run counterparts. (Matt Zapotosky)
— Attorneys for a transgender teen who sued his propagandize house for exclusive him from a boys’ lavatory pronounced they devise to continue to press his box before a Supreme Court, notwithstanding a Trump administration’s preference to repel sovereign discipline that had buoyed his lawsuit. From Sandhya Somashekhar and Robert Barnes: “The discipline had educated schools to let students use a restroom that matched their gender identity, regardless of their anatomy. Now that they have been rescinded, it is even some-more infamous that a high probity import in to discharge difficulty and safeguard that children are protected, lawyers for 17-year-old Gavin Grimm said. The Supreme Court late Thursday afternoon asked attorneys for both sides to contention letters by subsequent Wednesday addressing where a box should go from here. The preference of a U.S. Court of Appeals for a 4th Circuit that adored Grimm was shaped essentially on a Obama administration’s superintendence that was rescinded.”
— Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump pushed to mislay disproportion infamous of a tellurian meridian understanding from an executive sequence that Trump is formulation to pointer soon. The Wall Street Journal’s Amy Harder and Peter Nicholas report: “Mr. Trump is approaching to pointer within days during slightest dual executive orders that will start a routine of perplexing to idle former President Barack Obama’s meridian and environmental regulations. The executive order, that targets Mr. Obama’s extended meridian agenda, now includes no discuss of a meridian deal, that scarcely 200 nations struck in Paris in 2015, in vast partial due to a clever pull by a Mr. Obama’s administration. One White House central pronounced both Mr. Kushner and Ms. Trump have been deliberate a moderating change on a White House’s position on meridian change and environmental issues. The pierce is a latest pointer of change Mr. Trump’s daughter and Mr. Kushner have in a White House that has seen inner groups on a accumulation of issues, including unfamiliar policy.”
— Nepotism watch: Eric Trump’s brother-in-law Kyle Yunaska has landed a pursuit on a “beachhead” organisation of proxy domestic appointees during a Energy Department – tasked with assisting ready a Trump administration’s renovate of appetite policy, Axios reports. His work during a dialect involves a Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis.
— A organisation of tip law professors filed a maestro bungle censure opposite Kellyanne Conway, who was certified to a D.C. Bar in 1995, observant she should be authorised for violating supervision ethics manners and “conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deception or misrepresentation.” “We do not record this censure lightly,” a professors pronounced in their filing. “We trust that, during one time, Ms. Conway, accepted her reliable responsibilities as a counsel and abided by them. But she is now behaving in a proceed that brings contrition on a authorised profession.” Signatories embody professors during tip law schools around a country, including Georgetown University Law Center, Yale Law School, Fordham University and Duke University. (Sari Horwitz)
THE DNC CHOOSES A NEW CHAIR TOMORROW:
— Tom Perez got a vast mangle Thursday when third-place contender Jaime Harrison forsaken out and threw his weight behind a former Labor Secretary. “Harrison’s exit leaves a DNC margin nonetheless any stream or former state celebration chairs: New Hampshire celebration authority Ray Buckley quit a competition Saturday and permitted Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota,” Dave Weigel writes. “The campaigns of Ellison and Perez any explain to be tighten to victory; Perez’s debate believes that it competence be usually a few votes away. But Harrison’s disaster to strech liftoff demonstrated a disproportion between a competition as seen by DNC members and a competition as infrequently seen by outward activists.”
IMMIGRATION:
— In Canada, stories of migrants hauling children and suitcases opposite solidified fields and snow-covered ditches have spin title news – nonetheless regard is starting to grow over how many some-more migrants a nation can accommodate. Alan Freeman reports: “The haven seekers, who are journey [Trump’s] transport and interloper bans as good as stepped-up arrests of undocumented immigrants, have perceived comfortable welcomes. But antithesis politicians are criticizing a supervision of Justin Trudeau for being too oppressive or too messy in a approach. In a new consult from a [Vancouver-based] Angus Reid Institute … many Canadians were understanding of a government’s preference to contend a aim of usurpation 40,000 refugees in 2017. But 25 percent wanted to see Ottawa sequence a transport anathema identical to a Trump order. And with so many migrants peaceful to traipse by a ice and sleet to strech Canada, there are concerns that numbers could soar with a appearance of spring. Angus Reid CEO Shachi Kurl wondered, “Will we be confronting down a possess mini-Greece or mini-Italy moment? What are we going to see when a sleet melts?”
— Trump touted his immigration policies in a White House assembly with production CEOs on Thursday, celebrating what he billed as a “MILITARY OPERATION” to spin adult and expatriate undocumented immigrants who committed crimes or aroused acts. Philip Rucker reports: “Trump brought adult immigration coercion as he discussed a outing [Rex Tillerson and John Kelly] are holding to Mexico this week. Trump pronounced he told Tillerson, ‘That’s going to be a tough trip, since we have to be treated sincerely by Mexico.’ Trump afterwards praised Kelly for a work his dialect is doing to secure a limit with Mexico and expatriate bootleg immigrants. ‘It’s a troops operation,’ Trump said, attributing squad assault and bootleg drug trade to undocumented immigrants. Trump’s anxiety to a troops operation could lift eyebrows among newcomer rights advocates and even within a [DHS]. … Federal immigration routine is enforced by several groups inside DHS, including Customs and Border Protection and ICE, and a troops has no role.” Spicer after attempted to transport behind a president’s comment.
— Passengers deplaning a domestic moody during JFK airfield were greeted by U.S. law coercion officials, who requested to see newcomer marker as they searched for an undocumented newcomer with a deportation order. It is misleading either a hunt is associated to new White House efforts to ramp adult deportation efforts for undocumented immigrants. (Wesley Lowery)
— In Los Angeles, an subterraneous network is readying homes to censor undocumented immigrants from ICE officials. CNN reports: “A produce pounds divided in a vital room of a core category home. A sanding appurtenance smoothes a pellet of a timber building … But this home Pastor Ada Valiente is display off … is no typical home. The families staying here would be undocumented immigrants, fearing an ICE raid and probable deportation. The squeeze of this home is partial of a network shaped by Los Angeles eremite leaders opposite faiths in a arise of Donald Trump’s choosing … [with a idea of offering] another refuge over eremite buildings or schools, ones that need sovereign authorities to obtain warrants before entering a homes. [Rev. Zach] Hoover estimates a subterraneous network could censor 100 undocumented people today. Soon, he believes, they could censor thousands. The clever stream carrying a Rapid Response Team is a dissimilarity of sovereign laws and a dignified teachings of their religions.”
One Jewish male shows off a gangling bedroom he’s prepared, picturing a undocumented family he competence horde someday – as good as a U.S. authorities who could come knocking. “I unequivocally won’t let them in. That’s a authorised right,” he told CNN. “If they have a warrant, afterwards they can come in. I can suppose that could be scary, nonetheless we feel a consequences of being pacifist in this impulse is a tiny scary.”
GOP GOING WOBBLY ON OBAMACARE?
— Former House Speaker John Boehner pronounced Republicans will not be successful in their efforts to “repeal and replace” Obamacare, predicting during a Thursday discussion in Orlando that lawmakers will instead usually make some fixes to a law. “They’ll repair Obamacare, and we shouldn’t have called it dissolution and reinstate since that’s not what’s going to happen. They’re fundamentally going to repair a flaws and put a some-more regressive box around it,” Boehner said, observant that he “started laughing” when he listened of their lightning-fast skeleton to breeze an choice to a law. His straightforward comments come as Republicans onslaught to strech a accord on a law to reinstate Obama’s signature health caring act. (Politico)
— At swarming city halls opposite a nation this week, Republican lawmakers sought to stretch themselves from Trump’s agenda. David Weigel reports: “This week’s congressional city halls have regularly found Republicans hedging their support for a new president’s bulletin — and in many cases contradicting their past statements. Hostile questions put them on record criticizing some of a fights Trump has picked or pledging to strengthen policies such as a some-more renouned elements of Obamacare. And electorate got it all on tape, earnest to keep hounding their lawmakers if they falter. [Meanwhile], a array of Republicans have refused to reason city halls — and courted ridicule. In California, Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania, inner Indivisible groups reason ’empty-chair city halls’ where activists could accommodate — and note a deficiency of their legislators. In Pennsylvania, activists propped adult an dull fit to designate Sen. Patrick J. Toomey; in other states, following a guide, they posted manikin ‘Have You Seen Me?’ ads. In New York, they derided Rep. Elise Stefanik for canceling city halls usually a week after edition a news … propelling some-more members of Congress to reason them.”
— In his CPAC debate final night, Pence shielded a Trump administration’s skeleton to dissolution and reinstate a law, pursuit Obamacare a “nightmare” and earnest “an nurse transition” to a new health-care system. “America’s Obamacare calamity is about to end,” a V.P. said. “Despite a best efforts of magnanimous activists around a country, a American people know better. Obamacare has failed, and Obamacare contingency go.” Pence combined that he and President Trump are committed to giving each American “access to quality, affordable health insurance,” and wish to reinstate a stream complement with one that allows people to squeeze health coverage opposite state lines as they would word for their automobiles. (Philip Rucker)
— Support for a Affordable Care Act has peaked to a record high: A Pew Research Center survey finds that 54 percent of Americans now approve of Obamacare, while 43 disapprove. But even among those who debate of a law, some-more pronounced they would rather see it mutated than scrapped completely: Just 17 percent advocated for a full repeal, while one-in-four adults pronounced they’d cite certain aspects of a law to be changed.
— Bloomberg reports that GOP lawmakers design their Obamacare emissary devise to cover fewer Americans – that would expected boost blowback from a public.
— “Cancer patients, survivors fear GOP efforts to idle a Affordable Care Act,” by Laurie McGinley: “As a conflict over a law escalates, cancer patients and survivors are among a many outspoken of groups lifting alarms about a GOP’s dissolution effort. They are pursuit congressional offices and display adult during their representatives’ city gymnasium meetings with angst-filled stories about a pre-ACA universe in that they couldn’t get particular health skeleton since of their medical histories. Lawmakers seem to be conference a summary … and they are reiterating promises to strengthen people with health problems in any emissary legislation. So far, though, Republicans have nonetheless to brand a devise that would do that …The predestine of studious protections in a quarrel over a health-care law looms generally vast for a cancer encampment since of a disease’s superiority and a huge cost of treatment. ‘People are frightened out of their minds,’ pronounced 34-year-old [breast cancer survivor] Erin Price Schabert … Indeed, many people described a kind of existential dismay that matches their fear of cancer.”
THERE IS A BEAR IN THE WOODS:
— The cover story in subsequent week’s New Yorker is a contingency review — “Trump, Putin, and a new Cold War,” by Evan Osnos, David Remnick, and Joshua Yaffa: “Although a justification for Russia’s division appears convincing, it is too easy to concede such an criticism to spin a master account of Trump’s ascent—a proceed to explain a participation of a male who is so visitor and discomforting to so many of a race by digest him in some proceed foreign. In truth, he is a materialisation of America’s possess making. The operative speculation among comprehension officials concerned in a box is that a Russian approach—including hacking, propaganda, and contacts with Trump associates—was an invention rather than a long-standing plan. The central said, “After a election, there were a lot of Embassy communications”—to Moscow—‘saying, stunned, ‘What we do now?’’ ‘To me, a doubt competence finally come down to this,’ Celeste Wallander, President Obama’s comparison confidant on Russia, said. ‘Will Putin display a failings of American democracy or will he inadvertently display a strength of American democracy?’”
— “One of a many extraordinary allegations in a Jan news by U.S. comprehension agencies about Russian hacking was this sentence: ‘Russia has sought to change elections opposite Europe,’” adds Post columnist David Ignatius. “This warning of a debate distant broader than a United States got tiny courtesy in America. We competence be blank a timberland for a trees in a Russia story: The Kremlin’s try to happen in a 2016 U.S. presidential choosing is partial of a many bigger story of Russian growth transformation — in that Donald Trump’s debate was maybe a tool, witting or unwitting. This tip manipulation, if unchecked, could poise an ‘existential threat’ to Western democracy, argues Gérard Araud, France’s envoy to Washington. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pronounced final weekend in Munich that a universe is entering a ‘post-West’ era. Unless a United States stands solidly with a allies, Lavrov’s explain competence infer accurate. So compensate attention: The hacking emanate isn’t a ‘ruse,’ as Trump claimed final week. This is how a Russians try to mishandle politics — boldly, personally and mostly corruptly. They’re good during it. If a United States and a allies don’t resist, a post-West epoch competence indeed be next.”
THE RESISTANCE:
— “Russia is creation an early entrance on a 2018 debate route as a Democratic organisation targets dual Senate Republicans adult for reelection for their position on questioning [Trump’s] purported ties to a Kremlin,” Karoun Demirjian reports: “American Bridge — a super PAC compelling Democrats — this week will recover a array of advertisements targeting GOP Sens. Dean Heller of Nevada and Jeff Flake of Arizona. The ads blast a Republicans for unwell to validate calls for an eccentric elect to examine what comprehension officials contend are links between Russia and a Trump team. The ads credit Heller and Flake of ‘turning a blind eye’ to ‘how low [Trump’s] dangerous ties to Russia go,’ and inspire viewers to ‘tell him to put nation brazen of politics and direct an eccentric review …’ While it’s misleading how many income will be invested in a ads, they do preview an early line of conflict by Democrats opposite Republicans.
— New York Times columnist Charles Blow argues in a sardonic mainstay that Trump has killed merciful conservatism and waged a enlightenment quarrel “in that law is a weapon, goodness a dwindle and passion a fuel”: “Trump is rushing uncontrolled into Muslim bans and mass deportations, wall building and Obamacare dismantling. Indeed, it feels like a debate promises Trump is gripping have to do with cruelty and those he’s flip-flopping on have to do with character. This is because we have no calm for magnanimous speak of reaching out to Trump voters. There is no some-more a concede indicate with those who accept, foster and urge bigotry, misogyny and xenophobia than there is a nomination of ‘almost pregnant.’ Trump is a cancer on this nation and insurgency is a remedy. The Trump materialisation is abandoned of compassion, and we contingency be sealed to compromise. … Fight, fight, fight. And when we are finished, quarrel some more. Victory is a usually excusable outcome when freedom, equivalence and inclusion are during stake.”
SOCIAL MEDIA SPEED READ:
The news that a White House attempted to get a FBI to boot reports of Trump’s ties to Russia drew defamation from both sides of a aisle:
Nixon’s “smoking gun” was when WH told CIA emissary to surprise FBI to stay divided from maturation investigation
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) February 24, 2017
I…just…can’t. https://t.co/XFajDn2vJC
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) February 23, 2017
That’s a de facto acknowledgment of shame — and arguably an impeachable offense — right there, if Rs in Congress cared about sequence of law https://t.co/CNDmJLSQtV
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) February 24, 2017
You *really* don’t wish a WH COS pursuit a FBI executive to have ANY conversations about ANYTHING associated to ongoing investigations.
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) February 23, 2017
Thanks to @CNN, we have schooled now that Trump is perplexing to politicize DHS FBI. So distant professionals station firm. But for how long?
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) February 23, 2017
This is shocking. If in Obama WH, Reince would now B w Flynn on stagnation line. Such contacts forbidden. Where will transgressions end? https://t.co/RUxHTeh8XG
— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) February 24, 2017
If conflicts of seductiveness in a executive and Congress keep stopping correct review of Russiagate, we’ll need an eccentric inquiry. https://t.co/Hf5Voc6rUu
— Evan McMullin (@Evan_McMullin) February 24, 2017
Trump tweeted about a assault in Chicago:
Seven people shot and killed yesterday in Chicago. What is going on there – totally out of control. Chicago needs help!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2017
Ex-Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz) had this to contend about Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) refusing to a reason a city gymnasium for fear of violence:
GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) met with some opposite constituents:
Love assembly with immature Tennesseans and pity what it’s like to be in Congress. Brings behind memories from when my son was a scout. pic.twitter.com/ePeUb0IE2G
— Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) February 24, 2017
Tom Cotton praised inner officials for gripping sequence during his city gymnasium Wednesday night:
Thanks also to @SpringdalePD for providing top-notch confidence and ensuring Arkansans reserve during final night’s city gymnasium in Springdale.
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) February 24, 2017
A lot of people have been creation this regard about Pence:
Pence is fast morphing into George W. Bush before my eyes. The mannerisms are eerily similar.
— Jon Ward (@jonward11) February 24, 2017
The House GOP Conference Leader pronounced this about white nationalists in Spokane:
Racism has no place in a society. Period. https://t.co/PLyXa8ZWJF
— CathyMcMorrisRodgers (@cathymcmorris) February 23, 2017
One remarkable acknowledgement about a Trump preference to hurl behind protections for LGBT students during open schools:
Imagine being a whole celebration of grown adults that get this vehement about bullying some tiny kids about where they can pee during school. https://t.co/Hu2UMI4aYe
— Emmy Bengtson (@EmmyA2) February 23, 2017
Caitlin Jenner had a summary for Trump on a issue:
Well @realDonaldTrump, from one Republican to another, this is a disaster. You done a guarantee to strengthen a LGBTQ community. Call me. pic.twitter.com/XwYe0LNUOq
— Caitlyn Jenner (@Caitlyn_Jenner) February 24, 2017
More celeb reaction:
“I see you. we support you. #LGBTQ students, we are loved. https://t.co/321ILg8bC6” pic.twitter.com/nvspykNhDl
— kyra sedgwick (@kyrasedgwick) February 24, 2017
Some greeting to Trump’s comment that a new DHS immigration order is partial of a “military operation”:
The brushing of my teeth is a troops operation, and by that we usually meant we do it with a good grade of precision.
— Kate Brannen (@K8brannen) February 24, 2017
Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R) tweeted this picture:
Enjoyed assembly w/ Muslim-American encampment leaders from Portland, Lewiston, and Auburn this week in my Portland office. #mepolitics pic.twitter.com/ZAYOeStfgE
— Sen. Susan Collins (@SenatorCollins) February 23, 2017
Ann Coulter had this to contend about a “Dreamers”:
There is not one “dreamer” Americans will be contemptible to remove pic.twitter.com/IsvwEa0NtZ
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) February 23, 2017
One regressive response:
This is a disgraceful, bigoted, nonconformist and xenophobic comment. You are no regressive and we are no patriot. https://t.co/v7jeZnwxoN
— Matt Mackowiak (@MattMackowiak) February 24, 2017
Lawmakers shone a light on a “End it” movement’s quarrel opposite slavery:
“Scandal” distinguished a birthday:
Finally, a warning from a TSA:
GOOD READS FROM ELSEWHERE:
— The Atlantic, “The Bow-Tied Bard of Populism,” by McKay Coppins: “Tucker Carlson’s loyal talent is not for domestic philosophizing, it’s for televised narrow-minded combat. His go-to weapons—the smirky sarcasm, a spiny comebacks, a infamous politeness—seem singly designed to expostulate his ring partners nuts, frequently creation for superb television. Indeed, if wire news is eventually theater, Carlson’s nightly opening is during once provocative, maddening, cringe-inducing, and compulsively watchable. When Carlson initial assimilated primetime final year, he reserved his uncover a goal statement: ‘The sworn rivalry of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink.’ To his critics, a aphorism is crazy-making for a contemptuous pomposity they trust it displays. But a potential of a host’s opening is not secure in personal purity—it’s in his ability to constraint a view of a fast mutating regressive movement. And while he competence have spent his life happily vital among them, he’s clearly demonstrated he has no qualms about holding them on.”
— Trump’s Israel envoy hopeful David Friedman delivered a “lengthy” debate on a eve of a 2016 choosing in that he bragged of stealing two-state resolution from a GOP platform. From CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski: “In a debate delivered in his hometown of Woodmere, NY … Friedman boasted of stealing references of a two-state resolution and function of a West Bank from a Republican Party platform, called a Jewish organisation J-Street ‘a dangerous organization,’ and pronounced a Anti-Defamation League had ‘lost all credibility.’ He pronounced it would be ‘ludicrous’ to vigour Israel to make assent to emanate ‘another Arab dysfunctional state.’ Friedman also secretly asserted that Hillary Clinton assistance Huma Abedin has ties to a Muslim Brotherhood, a far-right swindling speculation that has been debunked by several fact-checking organizations.”
— Politico Magazine, “Rex Tillerson Is Already Underwater,” by Aaron David Miller and Richard Sokolsky: “[Rex Tillerson] is winging his proceed to Mexico now carrying a bucket of troubles in his bag: His trainer is in a prolonged controversial quarrel with a nearest neighbor; a subsequent vital trade understanding appears to have blown up; and, from Mexico’s perspective, America’s new immigration routine appears to be transfer migrants behind into Mexico nonetheless a consent. And maybe a biggest plea for a secretary of state: Nobody knows either he unequivocally speaks for his boss. At ExxonMobil, he presided over operations in many of a world’s countries—a association so vast it had, it was mostly noted, a possess unfamiliar policy. He charity a awaiting of a strong, useful counterweight to a trainer fresh in unfamiliar routine with a rarely politicized core of advisers. But that’s not how it has incited out so far. Trump’s handling style, that breaks tactful icons and required rules, would poise critical obstacles even for a seasoned diplomat. For a Washington neophyte, they’re branch out to be hobbling.”
— Politico, “Trump’s ‘big fat bubble’ difficulty in a batch market,” by Ben White and Mary Lee: “Seen from Wall Street, a Trump presidency is going perfectly. Travel anathema troubles? Whatever. Russian revelations? Meh. Staffing woes? Who cares. Stocks continue to shrug it all off and rocket to new highs on a guarantee of vast taxation cuts, infrastructure spending and mass deregulation. But analysts now counsel that Trumphoria in a batch marketplace could shortly pile-up into a oppressive Washington reality. Before even removing to taxation remodel – where there is tiny agreement on a proceed brazen – Republicans have to figure out how to dissolution and reinstate Obamacare, win acknowledgment for a Supreme Court probity and understanding with Democrats fervent to impact a brakes on anything and all President Donald Trump tries to do. The outcome could be that a frothy batch marketplace Trump derided as a ‘big fat bubble’ before a choosing – nonetheless now takes credit for – unexpected plummets behind to Earth.”
— Wall Street Journal, “‘You Have to Stop,’ Renaissance Executive Tells Boss About Trump Support,” by Gregory Zuckerman: “David Magerman says he was in his home bureau in suburban Philadelphia progressing this month when a phone rang. His boss, hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer, was on a line. ‘I hear you’re going around observant I’m a white supremacist,’ Mr. Mercer said. ‘That’s ridiculous.’ ‘Those weren