President Donald Trump waves as he steps off Air Force One after
arriving, Friday, June 7, 2019, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP
Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Trump thanks Mexico for its cooperation, in coming to an agreement on immigration.
On twitter Saturday, the president thanked the Mexican president, the
Mexican foreign minister, and all the country’s representatives for
working long and hard on the agreement.
I would like to thank the President of Mexico,
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and his foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard,
together with all of the many representatives of both the United States
and Mexico, for working so long and hard to get our agreement on
immigration completed!
The president’s remarks come after the two nations reached an
agreement to help reduce the surge of illegal immigration on Friday.
On Saturday, President Trump blasted the Left-wing media such as,
Comcast, NBC, CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post for
publishing false reports on his border immigration plan, saying
threatening to raise tariffs on Mexico has already yielded results.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders weighed in on the
successful agreement, saying President Trump’s work with Mexico is a win
for America. On Twitter, Sanders said despite no help from what she
calls the “do-nothing Democrats,” the president secured billions of
dollars of funding to build the wall.
Despite no help from the do-nothing Democrats in Congress, President @realDonaldTrump
secured billions in funding to build the wall and an unprecedented
commitment from Mexico to stem the tide of illegal immigration. That’s
leadership and another historic win for America.
She also said President Trump secured an unprecedented commitment
from Mexico to stem of the tide of illegal immigration, calling it an
example of leadership for the nation.
Pete Buttigieg (left) with husband Chasten. Next president and 1st lady? What the hell??
Pete Buttigieg slammed both President Trump and Joe Biden in one comment at a gay pride event in Iowa on Saturday.
“Don’t
listen to anybody in either party who says we can just go back to what
we were doing,” Buttigieg told the Des Moines crowd, according to the
Washington Examiner. “We in the LGBT community know that when we hear
phrases like ‘Make America Great Again,’ that that American past was
never quite as great as advertised.”
It’s a usual refrain for
Buttigieg to criticize Trump’s "Make America Great Again" slogan, but by
including “both parties” he seemed to reference Biden -- who is running
on his decades-long political career and on Democrats' nostalgia for
the Barack Obama presidency.
In fact, Biden posted a tweet Saturday, reminding his followers of his close association with his former boss.
But Biden has recently come under scrutiny over issues like his reversal on the Hyde Amendment on abortion funding and the 1994 crime bill, according to the Examiner.
The former
vice president has consistently led the pack of 2020 Democratic
contenders, and his rivals have struggled to tread the fine line between
standing out from Biden and avoiding alienating his supporters.
Despite
the dig, Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., balked at the idea
that he should see the other candidates as the enemy.
"I don't
even view us as having opponents so much as competitors. You would be
surprised how often we are in dialogue with each other,” he said. “We
might as well carpool,” he joked about the large number of candidates in
Iowa over the weekend.
A
new poll of likely Democratic caucus goers in Iowa that came out
Saturday shows Biden’s support in the first caucus state has gone down
by nearly a third since last fall and Buttigieg is now in a statistical
tie for second place with Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
A new poll out Saturday of likely Democratic caucus-goers in Iowa shows Joe Biden in the lead, but with softer support than last December, and a virtual tie for second place among Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
Biden
garnered 24 percent of those polled, Sanders got 16 percent, Warren
held 15 percent and Buttigieg received 14 percent. Kamala Harris trailed
with 7 percent, Beto O'Rourke and Amy Klobuchar got 2 percent each and
the other candidates barely registered.
“We’re
starting to see the people who are planning to caucus start to
solidify,” said J. Ann Selzer, president of the Des Moines company that
conducted the poll, according to the Des Moines Register. “There’s a lot
more commitment than we normally see this early. And some of these
candidates who’ve been under the radar start to surface and compete with
Joe Biden.”
“We’re starting to see the people who are
planning to caucus start to solidify. There’s a lot more commitment
than we normally see this early. And some of these candidates who’ve
been under the radar start to surface and compete with Joe Biden.” — J. Ann Selzer, pollster
Buttigieg
has surged in the state, the Register reported. In March, the first
time he appeared in an Iowa poll, he barely caused a blip among voters.
“It’s
like with the vitriol and the hatred and all the bad things people say —
he seems to be coming out fresh,” a Buttigieg backer in Cedar Rapids
told the Register.
Nineteen
candidates crisscrossed the state over the weekend in an effort to
garner support in the much-hyped first-caucus state. “There’s always
been a question mark as to how many can get any real traction,” Selzer
told the Register.
The Iowa caucuses are on Feb. 3, 2020.
The poll was conducted June 2-5 by the Des Moines Register, Mediacom and CNN.
FUKUOKA, Japan – President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping plan to meet at a Group of 20 summit late this month, the U.S. treasury secretary said, offering a prospective break in trade hostilities that are weighing on global growth.
Treasury
Secretary Steven Mnuchin, speaking to reporters Saturday, said that the
two presidents will meet while attending the June 28-29 summit of
leaders of major economies in Japan, though he declined to provide other
details.
China’s government didn’t respond to requests to confirm
plans for a Trump-Xi meeting. If it materializes, the face-to-face
meeting would offer a chance to put negotiations back on track after talks hit an impasse a
month ago and both sides have since then increased punitive tariffs and
taken other actions that raised tensions and complicate a resolution.
President Trump and China's President Xi Jinping, seen in an
undated photo, are scheduled to meet later this month in Japan.
Mr. Mnuchin’s remarks show how tentative any
rapprochement is. In Fukuoka, Japan, for a weekend gathering of G-20
finance ministers and central bankers, Mr. Mnuchin played down a
scheduled chat with People’s Bank of China Governor Yi Gang. It would be
the first high-level meeting since the negotiations stumbled.
Mr.
Mnuchin said of his talk with Mr. Yi: “This is not a negotiating
meeting.” He also said that, as of Saturday, there were no plans for
cabinet-level officials to travel to Beijing or Washington to prepare
for the two presidents’ summit. And he urged Beijing to return to the
terms under discussion a month ago or face further tariffs.
“If
China wants to come back to the table and negotiate on the basis that we
were negotiating, we can get a great historic deal,” he said. “If they
don’t, we’ll proceed with our tariffs.”
“If China
wants to come back to the table and negotiate on the basis that we were
negotiating, we can get a great historic deal. If they don’t, we’ll
proceed with our tariffs.” — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
Negotiations
fell apart last month amid U.S. accusations that China backtracked on
terms already agreed upon. China denies it did so. Since then, apart
from increasing punitive tariffs, the U.S. has restricted Chinese tech
giant Huawei Technologies Co.’s access to American technology on
national-security concerns, and President Trump has ordered plans be
drawn up to impose tariffs of up to 25% on the rest of the $300 billion
in imports of Chinese goods not yet hit with levies.
Joe Biden's reversal this week on the Hyde Amendment regarding abortion funding was a surrender to the “exceedingly radical” wing of the Democratic Party, American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp argued Friday on Fox News' "Hannity."
Biden
said Thursday he could “no longer support" the amendment, which he had
backed as recently as Wednesday, saying it makes a woman's right to an
abortion "dependent on someone's ZIP code.”
“The saddest thing of
all,” Schlapp told "Hannity" guest host Dan Bongino, "is to watch him
stumble through that statement. Clearly, he doesn’t know what to say or
what to do.”
Matt Schlapp, left, had some sharp words to say Friday regarding Joe Biden's reversal on the Hyde Amendment.
Schlapp added that abortion “is not health care” and
said the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized
abortion nationally, doesn’t mean taxpayers should have to pay for
abortion services.
Biden, a Roman Catholic, had long supported the
Hyde Amendment and has said he personally opposes abortion. So his
reversal this week smacked of political expediency, Schlapp argued.
“This
is an open-borders, Green New Deal, socialist Democratic Party that
believes in post-birth abortion, late-term abortion,” Schlapp said.
“They are exceedingly radical and Joe Biden is trying to go along to get
that brass ring.”
“This is an open-borders, Green New
Deal, socialist Democratic Party that believes in post-birth abortion,
late-term abortion. They are exceedingly radical and Joe Biden is trying
to go along to get that brass ring.” — Matt Schlapp, American Conservative Union
Another "Hannity" guest, Trump 2020 campaign national press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, agreed with Schlapp.
“Joe
Biden is Puppet Boy,” McEnany said. “There is someone pulling his
strings. It’s pathetic. He has no convictions, no principles, no
message.”
She said actress Alyssa Milano -- who tried to prevent
passage of Georgia's pro-life law -- and low-level Biden staffers
appeared to have steered the former vice president away from “whatever
principles he had left.”
“This is quite a modest thing to be for,”
Schlapp added. “They have become radicalized. This is not your
grandfather’s Democratic Party.”
Other 2020 Democrats, like Sens. Elizabeth Warren
and Kirsten Gillibrand, have said the Hyde Amendment disproportionately
affects poor women who can’t access abortion through government-funded
health care.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
was schooled by an FBI counterterrorism official earlier this week
after she incorrectly suggested Muslims get charged with terrorism
because they are treated as foreign, while white supremacists get “off
the hook.”
The New York Democrat used a hearing on Tuesday to
suggest that Muslims are being treated differently in the U.S.,
including getting charged with terrorism for criminal acts, while white
supremacist attackers avoid being charged with “domestic terrorism” for
similar crimes.
Michael
McGarrity, the assistant director of the Counterterrorism Division of
the FBI, fired back at the freshman Democrat, explaining that the
authorities can’t charge people with a “domestic terrorism” charge
simply because such a charge does not exist in U.S. laws.
“You're
using the word ‘charge,’ as I said before there's no domestic terrorism
charge like 18 USC § 2339 ABCD for a foreign terrorist organization,”
McGarrity explained. “What we do both on the international terrorism
side with the homegrown violent extremists and domestic terrorism, we'll
use any tool in the toolkit to arrest them,” McGarrity said.
“You're
not going to find an actual charge of domestic terrorism out there if
you look at Title 18--,” he added after repeated questioning by the
Democrat.
Ocasio-Cortez went on to point out to the San Bernardino
shooting or the Orlando pulse nightclub shooting as the cases where the
perpetrators were “charged as domestic terrorist incidents,” a claim
that is incorrect.
“So, because the perpetrator was Muslim they’re
— doesn’t it seem that because the perpetrator is Muslim that the
designation would say it’s a foreign organization?” Ocasio-Cortez asked
during the hearing.
According to ABC News,
which detailed how Ocasio-Cortez conflated two different terms, in
neither of the two cases people were charged as “domestic terrorists”
and were instead charged as “homegrown violent extremists,” a term given
to criminals in the U.S. who draw inspiration from “foreign terrorist
organizations” such as ISIS or Al-Qaeda.
White supremacist
attackers could be charged as “homegrown violent extremists” as long as
they are tied to a foreign terrorist organization as designated by the
U.S. government, though no such case has ever been found.
“No, that is not correct, that is not correct ... Some of the definitions I think we’re using, we’re talking past each other.” — Michael McGarrity
“No,
that is not correct, that is not correct,” McGarrity responded, adding
that the law doesn’t differentiate between religions while noting that
the FBI would normally classify those radicalized by the global Jihad as
foreign terrorists.
“Some of the definitions I think we’re using, we’re talking past each other,” McGarrity added.
Ocasio-Cortez
later took a victory lap on social media, saying “First the FBI witness
tried to say I was wrong. I tried to be generous + give benefit of
doubt, but then we checked. I wasn’t.”
“Violence by Muslims is
routinely treated as ‘terrorism,’ White Supremacist violence isn’t.
Neo-Nazis are getting off the hook,” she added.
She didn’t disclose the information she “checked” and how the FBI official was wrong during the hearing.
President Trump and China's President Xi Jinping, seen in an
undated photo, are scheduled to meet later this month in Japan.
