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Now or never on ObamaCare repeal? Despite pressure, GOP divided on bill

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Congressional Republicans may find inspiration from the King of Rock and Roll when comes to passing their replacement bill for ObamaCare.

Imagine Elvis Presley crooning his 1960 number one single, “It’s Now or Never.”

“We have a choice,” proffered House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, one of the authors of the health care blueprint. “We can act now or we can keep fiddling around and squander this opportunity to repeal ObamaCare.”

In 2009 and 2010, Republicans railed against Democrats as they relied almost exclusively on their own members to approve ObamaCare. Now Republicans are going it alone to repeal ObamaCare and adopt their own health care package. But some conservative lawmakers and interest groups alike are upbraiding the GOP legislation. It only takes a few renegades in both the House and Senate to incinerate the plan.

“It’s ObamaCare-lite,” argued Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. “We have to admit we are divided on replacement.”

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North Korea warns of ‘actual war’, says it would pursue nuclear deterrent

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STEPHANIE NEBEHAY
GENEVA — Reuters

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North Korea said on Tuesday it would pursue its nuclear deterrent and weapons programme as huge U.S.-South Korean joint military exercises it says model a “pre-emptive nuclear attack” against Pyongyang continued.

South Korea and the United States, which led condemnation of North Korea’s latest missile tests at the Conference on Disarmament, said their military drills were to test defensive readiness against possible aggression from the North.

North Korean diplomat Ju Yong Choi told the United Nations-backed forum that the allies’ annual exercises were “a major cause of escalation of tension that might turn into actual war”.

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White House corrects Trump’s erroneous Gitmo tweet

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White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday acknowledged that President Trumperroneously blamed the Obama administration for releasing 122 “vicious” prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

Early Tuesday, Trump accused former President Barack Obama of releasing 122 captured terrorists back onto the battlefield.

122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible decision!

However, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence says that 113 of the 122 former detainees who have taken up arms again were released before Obama took office.

“Obviously the president meant in totality, the number that had been released on the battlefield – that have been released from Gitmo since individuals have been released,” Spicer told reporters on Tuesday. “That is correct.”

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‘Zero political agenda’: Trump’s pick to lead Russia probe comes Obama-approved

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Rod Rosenstein, facing Senate hearing Tuesday for role of deputy attorney general, has ‘rock-solid ethics’

By Matt Kwong, CBC News Posted: Mar 07, 2017 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: Mar 07, 2017 2:35 PM ET

Rod Rosenstein, right, U.S. President Donald Trump's appointee to become the next deputy attorney general, faces a Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday. Rosenstein, described as a fiercely independent prosecutor, has won approval across partisan lines.

Rod Rosenstein, right, U.S. President Donald Trump’s appointee to become the next deputy attorney general, faces a Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday. Rosenstein, described as a fiercely independent prosecutor, has won approval across partisan lines. (Reuters, Associated Press)

Rod Rosenstein, the next-in-line litigator to oversee investigations into Donald Trump’s campaign ties with Russian officials, has already achieved a rare trifecta: unanimous approval from the three most recent presidents.

That bipartisan confidence may convince a Senate panel on Tuesday to advance his confirmation as the next deputy attorney general, particularly amid trepidation over the White House’s relationship with the Russians.

George W. Bush tapped Rosenstein as the U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland in 2005. Barack Obama’s administration trusted him enough to keep him on as the top federal prosecutor there for another eight years.

“He’s a straight shooter when it comes to the discretionary aspects of his job,” says Baltimore criminal lawyer Steve Silverman, who has known Rosenstein for at least a decade.

To those with misgivings about how a Trump appointee might cave to political pressures, Silverman has reassuring words about the Harvard Law grad’s reputation.

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‘Last Night in Sweden’? Trump’s Remark Baffles a Nation

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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 00:41
‘Last Night in Sweden’


Video At a campaign-style rally in Florida on Saturday, President Trump issued a sharp critique of Europe’s refugee policies, ticking off a list of places that have been struck by terrorists. But he also mentioned Sweden, which has not been target of recent terrorist attacks.

 SEWELL CHAN
FEBRUARY 19, 2017

LONDON — Swedes reacted with confusion, anger and ridicule on Sunday to a vague remark by President Trump that suggested that something terrible had occurred in their country.

During a campaign-style rally on Saturday in Florida, Mr. Trump issued a sharp if discursive attack on refugee policies in Europe, ticking off a list of places that have been hit by terrorists.

“You look at what’s happening,” he told his supporters. “We’ve got to keep our country safe. You look at what’s happening in Germany, you look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this?”

Not the Swedes.

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Kellyanne Conway Just Humiliated Herself And The Trump Team Live On The Today Show

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BY BRETT BOSE
PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY 14, 2017


President Donald Trump’s freakish mouthpiece, Kellyanne Conway, is known as a master of political spin. You can’t trust a word that comes out of her mouth, and she constantly changes the direction interviews are going while avoiding the tough questions with fanciful rhetoric. But it also cannot be denied that she is good at her job…

That is, until today.

In the wake of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s resignation yesterday, Conway was busy trying to defuse the situation via her preferred medium of television interviews. However, even Trump’s favorite deceptive spinster couldn’t argue her way out of the hole that Flynn has dug for himself and Trump administration.

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Canadian companies now eyeing Canada-EU trade outcome

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ANDY BLATCHFORD
OTTAWA — The Canadian Press
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Feeling a sense of relief following Donald Trump’s remarks on the future of U.S. trade with Canada, business leaders are now hoping for a second wave of positive news out of Europe.

Corporate Canada is shifting its focus to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s trip across the Atlantic later this week.

Mr. Trudeau’s visit is expected to coincide with the European Union’s ratification vote on its free-trade deal with Canada, an agreement nearly scuttled last fall due to opposition from a small region in Belgium.

“The Prime Minister is now off to hopefully put [the Canada-EU free-trade deal] in his pocket and bring it home from Europe, which would also be good news,” John Manley, the president of the Business Council of Canada, said in an interview.

Canada is expected to ratify the deal after the European Parliament gives its okay.

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Trump knew of Flynn Russia phone call issues ‘weeks ago’

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24 Hours – was Flynn’s tenure a record?

President Donald Trump knew weeks ago there were problems with Michael Flynn’s Russia phone calls, a White House spokesman has said.

The president had been “reviewing and evaluating this issue on a daily basis”, Press Secretary Sean Spicer said at a news conference.

Mr Trump had previously said he was unaware of the reports about Mr Flynn.

But he ultimately asked for Mr Flynn’s resignation based on a “trust issue” and not a legal one, Mr Spicer added.

Republicans have joined congressional calls for an investigation into Mr Flynn’s contacts with Russia.

“The evolving and eroding level of trust as a result of this situation and a series of other questionable incidents is what led the president to ask General Flynn for his resignation,” Mr Spicer said.

Mr Flynn resigned over allegations he discussed US sanctions with a Russian envoy before Donald Trump took office.
The retired army lieutenant-general initially denied having discussed sanctions with Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, and Vice-President Mike Pence publicly denied the allegations on his behalf.
Mr Flynn later said he could not recall whether he discussed the sanctions.
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A Democratic Lawmaker Just Filed A Bill Requiring A Psychiatrist For Trump’s Mental Health

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Representative Ted Lieu (D-California) has decided that Trump’s dangerous rhetoric and erratic behavior, including some very questionable phone calls with foreign leaders and weird press conferences, is reason enough to have a psychiatrist on stand-by.

Lieu said that he and fellow lawmakers are concerned for the mental well-being of the president and that he deserves to have a specialist available at all times. Since 1928 the White House is required to have a physician present, but not a psychiatrist because of the stigma surrounding mental illness.

Lieu believes that Trump’s mental health is especially troubling because he has an obvious “disconnection from the truth.” This is particularly dangerous if that individual just so happens to be the leader of the free world.

It is not normal for the president of the United States, within 24 hours, to write about death and destruction and fake news and evil. The most troubling aspect of this is it is very clear he has a disconnection from the truth…the very first press conference he had in this administration, they could have talked about jobs or health care. They talked about crowd size. And then lied about it. It’s one of the most bizzare events i’ve witnessed in politics.

Trump’s mental state has been increasingly called into question due to his obvious lies and late-night Twitter rants. The man is completely detached from reality, seemingly because he can’t take any criticism or negativity at all. It’s unbelievable that a man who rejects facts in favor of his own idealized fiction and fantasies is supposedly qualified to be president. Not only that, but someone who is mentally ill now has the world’s greatest military at his fingertips. We live in dark and dangerous times.

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Drain the Swamp — Kellyanne Conway Just Broke a Federal Ethics Law on National TV

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In the middle of an interview, Kellyanne Conway did a spontaneous PR spot for Ivanka Trump to hawk her merchandise on live TV — a violation of federal law.

Trump’s top adviser was answering a question about the president when she deviated from the topic and started talking about Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka, and her experience of helping to run the Trump Organization while also developing a clothing and accessories line bearing her name. Then, after a minute-long buildup, and while Fox & Friends Host Steve Doocy was trying to interject to ask another question, Conway told viewers to “Go buy Ivanka’s stuff.”

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Conway appears to have violated a longtime ethics law in which federal employees are barred from using their office to endorse products. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) Director Walter Shaub posted a reminder of the rule to the OGE’s website shortly after Donald Trump tweeted his support for LL Bean as President-elect, encouraging his followers to buy their products. One of the planks of the rule is that executive branch employees are barred from “endorsing any product, service, or company.”

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