Donald Trump Jr sparks protests, fan support during stop at UCLA

Donald Trump Jr., who is on a nationwide book tour that included a tense stop at “The View,” was in Southern California on Sunday where he was greeted by protesters and some supporters at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Trump Jr.'s appearance, once inside, was marked by an argument between him and the audience over why he would not take questions, the Guardian newspaper reported. Trump was initially being greeted with shouts of shouts of "USA! USA!" when he first appeared on the stage of a lecture hall, members of the audience eventually turned to louder, openly hostile chants of "Q and A! Q and A!" after they were told he would not take questions, the newspaper reported.
The Guardian said that Trump Jr. told the audience that taking questions from the floor risked creating soundbites that leftwing social media posters would abuse and distort.
Kimberly Guilfoyle, his girlfriend, told audience members that they were being rude, according to the Guardian.
After the stop at the university, Trump Jr. posted on Twitter that he appeared at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley where he said he stayed for over four hours and had about 1,400 in attendance. He said the audience had high energy.

Nikki Haley: Former cabinet members told me to resist President Trump

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is claiming two former cabinet members tried to recruit her to help undermine the president. In a recent interview, Haley said former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly confronted her in a closed-door meeting to enlist her in opposing President Trump.
Haley will detail the alleged meeting in her soon to be released memoir, “With All Due Respect.” She said Kelly and Tillerson “confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren’t being insubordinate — they were trying to save the country.”

Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson leaves a courthouse in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

According to the memoir, Tillerson told Haley lives were at stake if the president were to go unchecked. The former South Carolina governor said she declined their offers, calling them offensive.
“Go tell the president what your differences are and quit if you don’t like what he’s doing,” said Haley. “To undermine a president is really a very dangerous thing — it goes against the Constitution and what the American people want.”
Although Haley has not always seen eye to eye with the president, she said she will stand by him as he continues to seek another term in office in 2020.
“What I’ll be doing is campaigning for this one,” she said. “I look forward to supporting the president in the next election.”

FILE – In this Nov. 16, 2018, file photo, now former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly watches as President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

The former UN ambassador has also spoken out against House Democrats’ efforts to impeach President Trump. She said his alleged attempts to seek assistance from foreign nations for political investigations is not impeachable.
“The Ukrainians never did the investigation and the president released the funds,” stated Haley. “There’s just nothing impeachable there.”
Haley stepped down from her position in the UN back in 2018 and received a warm sendoff from President Trump. “With All Due Respect” will showcase Haley’s perspectives on major national and international matters, along with other insights into her time in the Trump administration.
The book is set to be released on Tuesday.

South Korea says U.S. working ‘very actively’ to restart talks with North Korea

South Korean officials are saying the U.S. is working ‘very actively’ in an effort to restart denuclearization talks with the Korean peninsula.
South Korea’s National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong said Sunday that North Korea is reportedly taking the one-year negotiating deadline with the Trump administration very seriously.
The adviser went on to say that a third summit will only be possible if substantial progress is made during talks with high-ranking officials.
“Only if talks between high-rank officials happen and lead to substantial progress, will the third North Korea-United States summit be possible,” stated Chung Eui-yong. “As you know, the North side has shown the year-end deadline — considering that position of the North Korean side, we are closely coordinating with the U.S. side.”
This comes after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un imposed a year-end deadline back in April for the U.S. to demonstrate flexibility on negotiations. North Korean officials said the deadline would be a mistake to ignore.

President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island, Tuesday, June 12, 2018, in Singapore. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Just last week, North Korea fired two projectiles into its eastern sea. This was their 13th weapons test this year and the first since the Trump administration’s latest attempts to restart negotiations stalled.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has downplayed the launches, saying they were consistent with Pyongyang’s previous moves. He said progress has been “far too slow” and added he hopes to reach a good outcome in the months ahead.
“It has, for an awfully long time, told its people that those nuclear weapons were the thing that kept them secure,” stated Pompeo. “They now need to shift to the narrative, which is: those are the things that put them at risk.”
President Trump has met three times with Kim Jong Un in hopes of sealing a potentially historic denuclearization deal. He continues to express optimism about brokering an agreement.
“Kim Jong Un has been pretty straight with me, I think,” stated the president. “He likes testing missiles, but we never restricted short range missiles.”

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AP sources: Former Trump adviser John Bolton has a book deal

Go figure :-)

NEW YORK (AP) — Former national security adviser John Bolton has a book deal, The Associated Press has learned.

The hawkish Bolton departed in September because of numerous foreign policy disagreements with President Donald Trump. He reached a deal over the past few weeks with Simon & Schuster, according to three publishing officials with knowledge of negotiations. The officials were not authorized to discuss the deal publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Two of the officials said the deal was worth about $2 million. Bolton was represented by the Javelin literary agency, whose clients include former FBI Director James Comey and the anonymous Trump administration official whose book, “A Warning,” comes out Nov. 19.

The publishing officials did not know the title or release date. Simon & Schuster declined comment Saturday and Javelin did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Bolton’s 2007 book, “Surrender is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad,” was published by the conservative Simon & Schuster imprint Threshold Editions.

Bolton’s name has come up often recently during the House impeachment inquiry , which has focused on Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to investigate potential 2020 election rival Joe Biden, the former vice president.

In a transcript of a closed-door interview released Friday, a former national security official described how Bolton had “immediately stiffened” as Ambassador Gordon Sondland “blurted out” that he had worked out a trade — Ukrainians’ probe for an Oval Office welcome for Ukraine’s new president — with Trump’s acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney.

Fiona Hill said Bolton later told her that “I am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up” and asked her to relay that message to a White House lawyer.

Meanwhile, a letter from Bolton’s attorney to the top lawyer for the House alleges that Bolton was “part of many relevant meetings and conversations” pertaining to the House impeachment inquiry of Trump that are not yet public.

The attorney, Charles Cooper, suggests Bolton will appear before Congress only if a judge orders him to do so.

Appointed in April 2018, Bolton was Trump’s third national security adviser and is known for advocating military action abroad, a viewpoint Trump has resisted. In a speech in late September to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, given after he left the administration, Bolton offered a far more aggressive approach to North Korea’s nuclear program than the one advocated by Trump, who has spoken warmly about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

“Every day that goes by makes North Korea a more dangerous country,” Bolton said. “You don’t like their behavior today, what do you think it will be when they have nuclear weapons that can be delivered to American cities?”

Far left party offers helping hand to ruling Socialists

To an American this should be scary as hell!

MADRID (AP) — As Spain voted Sunday in the country’s fourth election in as many years, a leading leftist party pledged to help the incumbent Socialist party in the hope of staving off a possible right-wing coalition government that could include a far-right party.

Spain’s United We Can party leader Pablo Iglesias said he will offer a helping hand to the ruling Socialist party to form a stable leftist government.

Failure to reach agreement between the Socialists and United We Can, Spain’s fourth largest party in parliament, following the last election in April was one of the main reasons for the calling of Sunday’s vote, the fourth in as many years.

“We are going to offer a helping hand to the Socialist party. We think that combining the courage of United We Can and the experience of the Socialist party we can convert our country into a reference point for social policies,” Iglesias said Sunday.

“We are going to leave behind the reproaches,” he added.

Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who won the most votes in the last ballot in April but failed to whip up enough parliamentary support to form a government, voted in the morning.

Sánchez is tipped to win again but Spain may face another stalemate situation and months more without a stable government.

“I think it’s very important that we strengthen the democracy with our vote, encourage all citizens to vote and as of tomorrow we may have the stability to form a government and get Spain moving,” Sánchez said after casting his ballot. His party won 123 seats in the 350-seat lower house last time.

The four main parties contending centered their campaigns chiefly on ways to deal with Catalonia’s independence push and the feared surge of the far-right party Vox (Voice).

Julia Giobelina, 34-year-old web designer from Madrid, was angry at having to vote for the second time in less than seven months, but said she cast her vote at the Palacio de Valdés public school in central Madrid in the hope of stopping the rise of Vox.

“They are the new fascism,” Giobelina said. “We citizens need to stand against privatization of health care and other public services. Also, because I don’t know if my daughter will be transsexual or lesbian and because of our friends the immigrants, we need to vote against the far-right for them.”

Abstentions loom, with polls suggesting up to 35 percent of the electorate could stay away from the polling booths, up from 28 percent in April.

Voting stations opened at 9 a.m. (0800 GMT) and are set to close at 8 p.m. (1900 GMT), with results expected within hours.

Spain, a country which returned to democracy after a near four-decade right wing dictatorship under late Gen. Francisco Franco, used to take pride in claiming no far-right group had seats in the national parliament, unlike the rest of Europe.

But that changed in the last election when Vox erupted onto the political scene by winning 24 seats on promises of taking a hard line on Catalonia and immigration.

The Socialists’ April victory was nonetheless seen by many as something of a respite for Europe where right-wing parties had gained much ground in countries such as France, Hungary, Italy and Poland.

But many polls predict Vox, headed by Santiago Abascal, may do even better this time and capitalize on the pro-Spain nationalist sentiment stirred by the Catalan conflict and in response to the caretaker Socialist government’s exhumation of Franco’s remains last month from his gargantuan mausoleum so that he could no longer be exalted by supporters in a public place.

Vox has already joined forces with the other two right-of-center parties to take over many city and regional governments and no one doubts the three would readily band together to oust Sánchez.

Giuliani: Biden-Ukraine ties should have been investigated a year ago

FILE – In this Aug. 1, 2018 file photo, Rudy Giuliani, attorney for President Donald Trump, addresses a gathering during a campaign event in Portsmouth, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File )

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Rudy Giuliani is saying there’s much to uncover in the business dealings between the Biden family and Ukraine.
During a Friday interview, Giuliani claimed Hunter and Joe Biden’s ties with Ukraine should have been investigated at least a year ago. He claimed the corruption had been present for some time, but was not brought to light by federal agencies like the FBI because the bureau was also involved in the corruption.
The president’s attorney went on to say as part of the president’s legal team, they found that three members of the Obama National Security Council had asked Ukrainian prosecutors to get dirt on the Trump campaign.

“What you’re going to find out is that there was a lot dirty information — some nasty and some of it just plain false — that the Ukrainians were getting at the bidding of the Obama administration,” stated Giuliani.
The attorney has previously claimed the Democrat impeachment inquiry was made to keep this alleged “pay for play” under wraps.

Dems panicking that Bidens have been caught in four decade pay for play. If pursued it will extend high and wide. That’s why they are doing phony impeachment and trying to have me investigated and disbarred. I’ve got the evidence. Who has the guts to pursue big Dem crooks.

— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) October 31, 2019

This comes after two Republican senators asked the Secretary of State to release all documents related to Hunter Biden’s work for Ukrainian energy company Burisma. They sought to determine if it may have influenced the Obama administration to end a corruption investigation.

Republicans call Hunter Biden, whistleblower and others to publicly testify

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House Republicans are calling Hunter Biden to testify in the upcoming public impeachment hearings.
According to a witness list released on Saturday, Biden and his former Burisma business partner Devon Archer are among those the GOP wants to appear for open testimonies. Republicans also want the whistleblower to appear and reveal their identity in the public forum.
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes released a letter with the list. It stated that he expects each of the witnesses to be called to “ensure Democrats treat the president with fairness, as promised by Speaker Pelosi.”

Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, speaks to reporters after witnesses failed to appear under subpoena before House impeachment investigators following President Donald Trump’s orders not to cooperate with the probe, in Washington, Monday, Nov. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff is refusing the GOP’s request to call on Hunter Biden. On Saturday, the chairman said the impeachment inquiry will not be used to undertake investigations into the Bidens or the 2016 election.
He also said the committee is evaluating the GOP’s requests and will give consideration to witnesses within the scope of the impeachment inquiry, as voted on by the House. The other witnesses the GOP has requested to publicly testify include former special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker and former Fusion GPS contractor Nellie Ohr.
Later the same day, President Trump said some of his suggestions for the Republicans’ list of potential witnesses did not make the cut. He took to Twitter Saturday to share his recommendations.

I recommend that Nervous Nancy Pelosi (who backed up Schiff’s lie), Shifty Adam Schiff, Sleepy Joe Biden, the Whistleblower (who miraculously disappeared after I released the transcript of the call), the 2nd Whistleblower (who also disappeared), & the I.G., be part of the list!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2019

He also mentioned both whistleblowers as possible witnesses he wanted on the list.

….Whatever happened to the so-called “informer” to Whistleblower #1? Seems to have disappeared after I released the Transcript of the call. Shouldn’t he be on the list to testify? Witch Hunt!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2019