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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump expected to propose DACA-TPS immigration compromise — President Trump plans to use remarks from the Diplomatic Reception Room on Saturday afternoon to propose a notable immigration compromise, according to sources familiar with the speech.
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Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Pelosi: Trump proposals to reopen government a ‘non-starter’ — Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Saturday called reports of a deal to be proposed by President Trump to end a record-long partial government shutdown a “non-starter.” — “Democrats were hopeful that the President …
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Pelosi / Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Statement on Trump Speech — San Francisco — Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement in advance of the President's address: — “Democrats were hopeful that the President was finally willing to re-open government and proceed with a much-needed discussion to protect the border.
Axios:
Democrats dismiss Trump shutdown offer — Even before President Trump's shutdown remarks on Saturday, Democratic aides on the Hill were dismissing his planned shutdown compromise offer as inadequate. — As first reported by Axios, Trump was expected to make two offers to Democrats in exchange …
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Grace Segers / CBS News:
Trump proposes deal on immigration, Pelosi calls shutdown offer a “non-starter” — President Trump gave what he called a “major announcement” about the southern border and the partial government shutdown on Saturday. In his speech, Mr. Trump cited the “humanitarian crisis” at the border …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump's bid to negotiate on wall met by Democratic rejection — President Donald Trump on Saturday proposed an immigration deal to end the government shutdown, though Democratic leaders quickly declared his overture dead on arrival. — In an address from the White House …
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Axios, Raw Story, Common Dreams, Outside the Beltway and Mediaite
Vox:
Here's Trump's latest offer to end the shutdown — and why Democrats aren't interested — The “deal” Trump is offering on immigration and DACA, explained. — President Donald Trump just blinked on the government shutdown. But his standoff with congressional Democrats doesn't appear to be headed to a resolution anytime soon.
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Washington Post:
Trump offers 3-year extension of protection for ‘dreamers’ in exchange for $5.7 billion for wall; Democrats call it a ‘non-starter’ — President Trump made a new offer Saturday to Democrats aimed at ending the 29-day partial government shutdown that would extend deportation protections …
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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Support DACA Protections for More Wall Funding
Trump to Support DACA Protections for More Wall Funding
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Washington Post:
‘It was getting ugly’: Native American drummer speaks on the MAGA-hat wearing teens who surrounded him — The images in a series of videos that went viral on social media Saturday showed a tense scene near the Lincoln Memorial. — In them, a Native American man steadily beats his drum …
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Vincent Schilling / Indian Country Today:
Outrage as non-Native youth wearing #MAGA hats taunt and disrespect Native elder — Native Twitter has gone ablaze as a Native American elder singing the AIM Song in Washington DC during the Indigenous Peoples March was ridiculed, taunted and mocked by a group of non-Native youth.
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Max Londberg / Cincinnati.com:
CovCath faces backlash after video of incident at Indigenous Peoples March surfaces — Covington Catholic High School faced backlash on social media Saturday morning after video was posted and widely shared showing a tense incident involving indigenous marchers and a group of young men in Washington, D.C.
Lisa Ryan / The Cut:
Mob of MAGA Hat-Wearing Teen Boys Caught on Video Harassing Native Elder — Native American activists and allies gathered in Washington on Friday for the Indigenous Peoples March - just days after President Donald joked on Twitter about a Native American massacre.
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emptywheel:
Peter Carr Speaks — Yesterday, Mueller's spox Peter Carr issued a statement vaguely denying Thursday's Buzzfeed story claiming that Trump ordered Michael Cohen to lie. … Clearly, there are parts of the story that are correct, in that they provide specific details that match the vague ones Mueller himself has released.
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Axios:
Mueller's BuzzFeed statement is a reckoning for journalism in the age of Trump
Mueller's BuzzFeed statement is a reckoning for journalism in the age of Trump
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Alan Dershowitz / Fox News:
BuzzFeed report (and Mueller rebuke) a vivid example of “Get Trump” media mindset
BuzzFeed report (and Mueller rebuke) a vivid example of “Get Trump” media mindset
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IJR, New York Daily News, The New Neo and illegal immigration …
New York Times:
As Beto O'Rourke Weighs 2020 Run, Democrats Chafe at His Go-It-Alone Style — For a moment in August, an event hall in Texas teemed with hope, taquitos and unity. — It was a border-town stop for Beto O'Rourke's Senate campaign, but another Democratic politician commanded particular attention …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
“Would you like to speak to the president?” — PARIS — “Would you like to speak to the president?” — That was about the last question I expected from a stranger on a Friday night in Paris. — I was at a brasserie in the Latin Quarter, enjoying dinner with James McAuley, the Post's Paris correspondent.
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Raw Story
Ashe Schow / Daily Wire:
FAIL: Only 10,000 Are Expected At This Year's Women's March Following Anti-Semitism Scandal — This year's Women's March has taken a significant hit after reports in 2018 that the founders of the organization were openly anti-Semitic. Many of the founders are supporters …
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Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
A black R&B artist hoped singing for Trump would build ‘a bridge.’ It derailed her career instead. — Chrisette Michele is singing to nearly empty concert halls. She says she's finding a new path to happiness. — GLENSIDE, Pa. — Chrisette Michele held hands with her band members during a final prayer …
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Raw Story
theepochtimes.com:
Trump Continues to Prepare the Battlefield — A lot has happened since my last column. We've had transcripts from the Congressional testimony of three key SpyGate participants made public, two of which broke right here in the pages of The Epoch Times. These included testimonies of Bruce Ohr …
Harrison Smith / Washington Post:
Tony Mendez, ‘Argo’ spy who smuggled U.S. hostages out of Iran during crisis, dies at 78 — A forgery artist and master of disguise for the CIA, Tony Mendez once transformed a black agent and an Asian diplomat into a pair of white business executives, using masks that gave them an uncanny resemblance …
Associated Press:
Arizona: Four women convicted after leaving food and water in desert for migrants — Federal judge finds activists guilty of entering a national wildlife refuge without a permit to give aid to migrants — A federal judge has found four women guilty of entering a national wildlife refuge without …
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Michelle Alexander / New York Times:
Time to Break the Silence on Palestine — Martin Luther King Jr. courageously spoke out about the Vietnam War. We must do the same when it comes to this grave injustice of our time. — On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stepped …
CNN:
An expensive lesson in hubris for the United States — Zakaria: Syria decision feels like Bush moment — Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America, a professor of practice at Arizona State University and the author of “Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad.”
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Useful idiots, Kristof edition — Lo these many years since the Russian Revolution and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the New York Times is still doing public relations for Communism. The most recent example — I find it almost unbelievable — is Nicholas Kristof's January 18 Times column …
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