Showing posts with label CHIEF OF STAFF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CHIEF OF STAFF. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Joe: Chaos For The Sake Of Chaos Does Not Work | Morning Joe | MSNBC
Ahead of the holidays, the president has a new acting chief of staff, gov't. could shut down, and Trump has called for SNL to be tested in courts. Also, the ACA is in jeopardy, Rudy Giuliani went on the Sunday shows and Trump's re-elect numbers sink.
Saturday, December 15, 2018
Mueller Should Try to Indict Trump. It Would Guarantee His Report Goes Public.
15 December 18
Mueller Should Try to Indict Trump. It Would Guarantee His Report Goes Public.
Asha Rangappa, The Washington Post
Rangappa writes: "Now that Michael Cohen has placed President Trump squarely in criminal crosshairs, a constitutional crisis appears to be looming: If there is evidence that Trump committed a crime, can he be indicted while in office?"
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Asha Rangappa, The Washington Post
Rangappa writes: "Now that Michael Cohen has placed President Trump squarely in criminal crosshairs, a constitutional crisis appears to be looming: If there is evidence that Trump committed a crime, can he be indicted while in office?"
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A patient looks over paperwork with a doctor. (photo: Craig F. Walker/Denver Post)
Maryland Sues to Save Obamacare as Texas Judge Weighs Killing It
Andrew M. Harris, Bloomberg
Harris writes: "Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh launched a counterattack Thursday to save Obamacare as a Texas federal judge contemplates killing it."
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Andrew M. Harris, Bloomberg
Harris writes: "Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh launched a counterattack Thursday to save Obamacare as a Texas federal judge contemplates killing it."
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Mick Mulvaney. (photo: NBC)
Trump Settles for Interim Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney After Being Turned Down by His Top Choices
Frank Dale, ThinkProgress
Dale writes: "After several of his top choices turned down the position, President Donald Trump has found a new White House chief of staff."
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Frank Dale, ThinkProgress
Dale writes: "After several of his top choices turned down the position, President Donald Trump has found a new White House chief of staff."
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Immigrant children in a detention center. (photo: Ross D. Franklin)
ALSO SEE: ICE Arrested 170 Immigrants Seeking to Sponsor Migrant Children
Almost 15,000 Migrant Children Now Held at Nearly Full Shelters
John Burnett, NPR
Burnett writes: "The number of immigrant children being held in government custody has reached almost 15,000, putting a network of federally contracted shelters across the country near capacity."
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John Burnett, NPR
Burnett writes: "The number of immigrant children being held in government custody has reached almost 15,000, putting a network of federally contracted shelters across the country near capacity."
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Dr. Brandon Crum reads the chest x-rays of a miner in his office outside Pikeville, Kentucky. (photo: Jeff Swensen/Guardian UK)
Black Lung Disease Is Still Killing Miners. The Coal Industry Doesn't Want to Hear It
Elyssa East, Guardian UK
East writes: "Dr James Brandon Crum was alarmed. For months, unemployed coalminers had been coming into his clinic in Coal Run Village, Kentucky, seeking chest radiographs."
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Elyssa East, Guardian UK
East writes: "Dr James Brandon Crum was alarmed. For months, unemployed coalminers had been coming into his clinic in Coal Run Village, Kentucky, seeking chest radiographs."
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A protester and riot police in Bogotá, Colombia. (photo: Guillermo Legaria/AFP)
Colombia's Anti-Riot Police Attack Nationwide Student Protest
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Colombian students demanding respect for public education and an end to murders of social leaders in the country, were violently repressed by the Anti-Riot Mobile Squad (Esmad) in Popayan - capital of the department of Cauca, on Thursday."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "Colombian students demanding respect for public education and an end to murders of social leaders in the country, were violently repressed by the Anti-Riot Mobile Squad (Esmad) in Popayan - capital of the department of Cauca, on Thursday."
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Climate change protesters demonstrate, prior to the United Nations climate change conference. (photo: Peter Nicholls/Reuters)
Hundreds of Activists Stage Sit-In Against Big Polluters on Final Day of COP24 UN Climate Talks
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at the U.N. climate summit in Katowice, Poland, on Friday, demanding bolder action from world leaders on climate change. The action was organized by the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice."
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Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at the U.N. climate summit in Katowice, Poland, on Friday, demanding bolder action from world leaders on climate change. The action was organized by the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice."
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Monday, December 10, 2018
Matt Taibbi | A Brief History of Everything That Happened Because of George H.W. Bush's Insecurity
10 December 18 AM
Matt Taibbi | A Brief History of Everything That Happened Because of George H.W. Bush's Insecurity
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "He was called a wimp. He overcompensated. People went to jail and died."
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Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "He was called a wimp. He overcompensated. People went to jail and died."
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Nick Ayers, left, has decided to return home to Georgia instead of replacing John F. Kelly, right, as President Trump's chief of staff. (photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Pence Aide Nick Ayers Turns Down Chief of Staff Role
Martin Pengelly, Guardian UK
Pengelly writes: "Donald Trump's first choice to replace John Kelly as White House chief of staff has said he will not take the role, creating fresh uncertainty in the top tier of the Trump administration."
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Martin Pengelly, Guardian UK
Pengelly writes: "Donald Trump's first choice to replace John Kelly as White House chief of staff has said he will not take the role, creating fresh uncertainty in the top tier of the Trump administration."
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Protestors carry a sign reading 'Justice for E.J.' during a protest at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Ala. A police shot and killed 21-year-old Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford, Jr. of Hueytown while responding to a shooting at the mall on Thanksgiving evening, 2018. (photo: Kim Chandler/AP/Shutterstock)
Jamil Smith | The 'Good Guy With the Gun' Is Never Black
Jamil Smith, Rolling Stone
Smith writes: "The deaths of Emantic Bradford and Jemel Roberson remind us who the Second Amendment protects."
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Jamil Smith, Rolling Stone
Smith writes: "The deaths of Emantic Bradford and Jemel Roberson remind us who the Second Amendment protects."
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Two women attend a vigil in Boca Raton, Florida, on 16 February for the 17 people killed at a school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
2018 Is Worst Year on Record for Gun Violence in Schools, Data Shows
Jamiles Lartey, Guardian UK
Lartey writes: "This year has been by far the worst on record for gun violence in schools, the advocacy group Sandy Hook Promise said, citing research by the US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)."
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Jamiles Lartey, Guardian UK
Lartey writes: "This year has been by far the worst on record for gun violence in schools, the advocacy group Sandy Hook Promise said, citing research by the US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)."
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School officials in Cranston, Rhode Island are getting aggressive in seeking payment from parents in arrears for their kids' meals. (photo: Getty Images)
Town Hires Debt Collector to Get Families to Pay for School Lunches
Sam Fulwood III, ThinkProgress
Fulwood writes: "School officials in Cranston, Rhode Island, are getting aggressive in seeking payment from parents in arrears for their kids' meals."
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Sam Fulwood III, ThinkProgress
Fulwood writes: "School officials in Cranston, Rhode Island, are getting aggressive in seeking payment from parents in arrears for their kids' meals."
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Eman Al Nafjan was arrested in May 2018 and accused of threatening Saudi Arabia's national security. (image: Jawahir Al-Naimi/Al Jazeera)
What It Means to Be a Women's Rights Activist in Saudi Arabia
Omaima Al Najjar, Al Jazeera
Al Najjar writes: "Activists like Eman Al Nafjan fought fearlessly for women's rights in Saudi Arabia, only to be brutally silenced."
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Omaima Al Najjar, Al Jazeera
Al Najjar writes: "Activists like Eman Al Nafjan fought fearlessly for women's rights in Saudi Arabia, only to be brutally silenced."
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The Sidney Coal Co.'s coal preparation plant in Sidney, Ky., in 2006. (photo: Brian Tietz/AP)
Trump's Pursuit of 'American Energy Dominance' Threatens the Entire Planet
Antonia Juhasz, The Los Angeles Times
Juhasz writes: "President Trump upended decades of U.S. policy that started with Richard Nixon when he declared that the goal of the United States was no longer 'energy independence' but rather 'American energy dominance.'"
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Antonia Juhasz, The Los Angeles Times
Juhasz writes: "President Trump upended decades of U.S. policy that started with Richard Nixon when he declared that the goal of the United States was no longer 'energy independence' but rather 'American energy dominance.'"
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FOCUS: Mehdi Hasan | John Kelly Was a Bully, Bigot, and Liar for Trump. Goodbye and Good Riddance.
09 December 18
FOCUS: Mehdi Hasan | John Kelly Was a Bully, Bigot, and Liar for Trump. Goodbye and Good Riddance.
Mehdi Hasan, The Intercept
Hasan writes: "Donald Trump confirmed to reporters on Saturday. 'I don't know if I can say "retiring," but he's a great guy.' This 'great guy' will leave behind an administration mired in scandal, chaos and corruption; a president perhaps even more reckless and lawless today than he was when Kelly arrived for work at the West Wing on the morning of July 31, 2017."
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Mehdi Hasan, The Intercept
Hasan writes: "Donald Trump confirmed to reporters on Saturday. 'I don't know if I can say "retiring," but he's a great guy.' This 'great guy' will leave behind an administration mired in scandal, chaos and corruption; a president perhaps even more reckless and lawless today than he was when Kelly arrived for work at the West Wing on the morning of July 31, 2017."
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Friday, December 7, 2018
Kelly expected to resign soon, no longer on speaking terms with Trump
John Kelly is expected to resign as White House chief of staff in the coming days, two sources familiar with the situation unfolding in the West Wing tell CNN.
Seventeen months in, Kelly and President Donald Trump have reached a stalemate in their relationship and it is no longer seen as tenable by either party. Though Trump asked Kelly over the summer to stay on as chief of staff for two more years, the two have stopped speaking in recent days.
Trump is actively discussing a replacement plan, though a person involved in the process said nothing is final right now and ultimately nothing is final until Trump announces it. Potential replacements include Nick Ayers, Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, who is still seen as a leading contender.
The expected departure would end a tumultuous tenure for Kelly, who was brought on to bring order to the White House but whose time as chief of staff has often been marked by the same infighting and controversy that has largely defined Trump's presidency from its beginning. Many of the storms in which Kelly became embroiled were by his own making.
CNN reported last month that Trump was considering potential replacements for several senior positions in his administration as part of a post-midterms staff shakeup.
News of Kelly's imminent departure was first reported by Axios.
Once seen as stabilizing force
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Trump is actively discussing a replacement plan, though a person involved in the process said nothing is final right now and ultimately nothing is final until Trump announces it. Potential replacements include Nick Ayers, Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, who is still seen as a leading contender.
The expected departure would end a tumultuous tenure for Kelly, who was brought on to bring order to the White House but whose time as chief of staff has often been marked by the same infighting and controversy that has largely defined Trump's presidency from its beginning. Many of the storms in which Kelly became embroiled were by his own making.
CNN reported last month that Trump was considering potential replacements for several senior positions in his administration as part of a post-midterms staff shakeup.
News of Kelly's imminent departure was first reported by Axios.
Once seen as stabilizing force
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When Kelly first replaced Reince Priebus as chief of staff last summer, he ruled with an iron fist. He curbed Oval Office access, blocked certain outsiders from being able to call the White House switchboard and had broad authority over staffing.
When Kelly first replaced Reince Priebus as chief of staff last summer, he ruled with an iron fist. He curbed Oval Office access, blocked certain outsiders from being able to call the White House switchboard and had broad authority over staffing.
But in the last months, Kelly has seen his status as chief of staff diminish. Trump began circumventing many of the policies and protocols he enacted, and he was on the verge of being fired or resigning numerous times.
Trump often vacillated between criticizing and praising Kelly, sometimes within minutes of each other. Kelly started holding increasingly fewer senior staff meetings -- once daily occurrences were whittled down to weekly gatherings -- and began to exert less control over who talks to the President.
White House officials believed Kelly was close to resigning after he got into a heated shouting match with national security adviser John Bolton in October. Bolton had criticized Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen during an Oval Office discussion about the border, and Kelly stormed out of the West Wing after their profanity-laced argument spilled over into the hallways.
Controversial tenure
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Kelly's tenure working for Trump was pocked with controversies, and officials were often amazed at how he managed to survive. Weeks after taking over for Priebus, his predecessor who was unceremoniously fired over Twitter while he sat on a rainy tarmac, Kelly was faced with Trump's controversial response to the racially charged protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was photographed looking grim-faced in the lobby of Trump Tower as the President declared there were "good people" on both sides of the racist violence.
Kelly's tenure working for Trump was pocked with controversies, and officials were often amazed at how he managed to survive. Weeks after taking over for Priebus, his predecessor who was unceremoniously fired over Twitter while he sat on a rainy tarmac, Kelly was faced with Trump's controversial response to the racially charged protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was photographed looking grim-faced in the lobby of Trump Tower as the President declared there were "good people" on both sides of the racist violence.
At times, Kelly was the source of his own downfall. He insulted Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Florida, using inaccurate information, later declaring he would "never" apologize. He said some of those eligible for protections under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals were "lazy."
But perhaps most damaging was his handling of the situation involving former staff secretary Rob Porter, who was accused by two of his ex-wives of abuse. Kelly's shifting accounts caused his credibility inside the West Wing to plummet, and it never truly recovered, according to officials. Kelly's highly criticized handling of the Porter controversy was an inflection point in his tenure, and some of his internal relationships became strained in the months that followed the former staff secretary's ouster.
This story is breaking and being updated.
CNN's Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny, Jeremy Diamond and Sarah Westwood contributed to this report.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/07/politics/john-kelly-chief-of-staff-donald-trump/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2DT4cTptf6K1STJUu_RlwDcXwYnXbpmaktMa70cis2__34RLHcmQ643UE
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