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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales offered additional defenses of President Bush s domestic spying program on Tuesday, as the administration tried to redefine the warrantless surveillance in a way that undermines critics.During his speech, more than a dozen students staged a silent protest by turning their backs to Gonzales, reports CBS News kubki stanley Stephanie Lambidakis. Five students wearing black hoods unfurled a banner with a quote from Benjamin Franklin: Those wh stanley mug o would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither. Speaking to students at Georgetown University law school, Gonzales said a 15-day grace period allowing warrantless eavesdropping under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act demonstrates that Congress knew such surveillance would be essential in wartime. Gonzales was supplying legal arguments to the president s comments Monday that the effort should be called a terrorist surveillance program. Before his appearance at Georgetown, Gonzales said in a television interview that some congressional leaders told the administration in 2004 that it would not be possible to write legislation regarding the warrantless surveillance effort without compro stanley kubek mising its effectiveness. We did go to certain members of the congressional leadership a year and a half ago, Gonzales said on The Early Show.During his remarks in a packed law school lecture room at Georgetown, the attorney general also said the legal standard the administra

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Democrat Ralph Northam has defeated Republican Ed Gillespie in the race to become the next governor of Virginia. Northam, the state s lieutenant governor, had consistently lead Gillespie in the polls, albeit by narrow margins in recent weeks. The tightening polls had worried Democrats, who were still reeling from President Trump s 2016 upset victory and a string of special election defeats. However stanley cups uk , Northam defeated Gillespie on Tuesday in an election that Democrats hope will be a harbinger of the 2018 midterms. Gillespie, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, ran as a Trump-style culture warrior who would keep Virginia s confederate monuments and prevent the emergence of sanctuary cities in the state. Still, he kept President Trump at a distance and did not campaign with him in Virginia. In a Tuesday evening tweet, Mr. Trump blamed Gillespie for the defeat. Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for. stanley cup Donrsquo;t forget, Republicans won 4 out of 4 Hou stanley cup se seats, and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!mdash; Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump November 8, 2017 Mr. Trump, however, had tweeted numerous times about his confidence in Gillespie in recent weeks. Gillespie also was praised by former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon as someone embracing Trump s agenda. However, on Tuesday night, Bannon s right-wing news outlet, Breitbart, was slamm Uxgo No More Alcohol Rehab Defense
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Washington mdash; A group of Democratic lawmakers from the Washington, D.C., area are raising concerns with President Trump s plans to have a second Fourth of July celebration in the nation s capital due to the coronavirus pandemic, urging the Trump administration to put plans for the event on hold.Maryland s two senators and eight House Democrats who represent the capital region warned Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Interior Secretary David Bernhardt that holding the parade as the region continues its recovery from the coronavirus crisis would have detrimental impact stanley cup spain s on those who live in the area, as well as those who would travel to Washington to attend the parade. Given the current COVID-19 crisis, we believe that such an event would needlessly risk the health and safety of thousands of Americans, they wrote in a letter to Esper and Bernhardt. Further, this event would come at the cost of milli stanley cup ons of taxpayer dollars while we are facing an unpr stanley quencher ecedented economic downturn due to the pandemic. The Democrats said that last year s Salute to America event brought thousands of visitors to the nation s capital and warned that if attendance is similar this year, it would be difficult to follow best practices for public gatherings and social distancing guidelines. While the District of Columbia, Virginia and Maryland are moving toward allowing businesses to reopen and easing restrictions, the region remains under stay-at-home orders Wnwu 2020 Daily Trail Markers: What to look for at tonight s debate
AP Photo/Harper Ever since John McCain catapulted Sarah McCain onto the national stage in the summer of 2008, I ve watched my lefty friends here in San Francisco threa stanley cup ten to jump off the stanley portugal Golden Gate Bridge if the former Alaska Governor ever became president. Their standard refrain: She s just too extreme, she s just too dumb, she s just too snarky - she s just too..too! Suffice to say that this crowd does not get `Sarah-Appeal and never will. So leave it to a comedian to solve a riddle that still flummoxes liberals. During his appearance on Bill O Reilly s Fox television show Wednesday night, Saturday Night Live alum and now radio talk show host, Dennis Miller, summed it up with lapidary precision. I m a Palin fan, because she irritates just the righ gourde stanley t people for me, he said. Exactamundo.Democrats may equate the name Palin with the sound of sharp nails clawing a chalkboard but so much the better, says Miller, a show business pro who understands a thing or two about shtick and the art of pushing peoples buttons. I mean, she drives the right people crazy, he told O Reilly. Do I think she s going to outsmart you No. But do I think that, in some way, she has an appeal with people that practiced politicians might never have Yes, I do. If you judge by the numbers, there s no debate he s right about that. Palin s upcoming memoir Going Rogue: An American Life is ranked No. 1 both on the Amazon and Barnes and Noble bestseller l

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WASHINGTON -- Secretary of Defense James Mattis has indefinitely suspende stanley uk d military exercises with South Korea following the Singapore summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Lt. Col Christopher Logan, a Pentagon spokesperson, said Friday. Mattis suspended the Freedom Guardian exercise along with two Korean Marine Exchange Prog stanley cup ram training exercises scheduled to take place in the next three months, Logan said.The Ulchi Freedom Guardian drills are largely computer-simulated war games held every summer and have drawn furious responses from North Korea, which views them an invasion rehearsal.On Friday, Mattis with met with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joe Dunford and Mr. Trump s national security advisor John Bolton to discuss ways to implement the results of this month s Singapore summit.Japan suspends North Korea missile strike drills after Trump-Kim summit In support of upcoming diplomatic negotiations led by Secretary Pompeo, additional decisions will depend upon the DPRK continuing to have produc stanley tumbler tive negotiations in good faith, Logan said. North Korea typically responds to South Korea-U.S. military exercises with weapons tests and a string of belligerent rhetoric. During last year s Ulchi Freedom Guardian drills, North Korea test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile that flew about 310 miles in the longest flight by that type of weapon. Days after Rqjw John Dickerson s notebook: Partisanship claims another institution
Updated 5:08 stanley taza p.m. ETCBS S stanley cup tation WBBM in Chicago reports that Judge James Zagel says the verdict will be announced in about an hour after attorneys for both sides arrive at the Dirksen Federal Building.Jurors deliberating the corruption case against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich asked the judge on Tuesday for advice on filling out their verdict starbucks stanley cup forms, suggesting they are nearing the end of deliberations. The jurors asked Judge James B. Zagel how they should mark the verdict form if they can t reach a decision on a count. In the first part of the note, they also asked for a copy of the oath they took before deliberating.Zagel said in his response that they shouldn t mark the form if they haven t been able to reach an agreement on a count but should write a statement saying they couldn t agree. Zagel told them they should not indicate how many were for or against conviction on the charge. He also said he would provide a copy of the oath, which says: Do each of you solemnly swear that you will well and truly try, and a true deliverance make, in the case now on trial and render a true verdict according to the law and the evidence, so help you God Little Known about Blagojevich Jurors Blagojevich Jury Heads Home For Night Should His Kids Be in Court Judge: Blagojevich Jurors Ask for TranscriptPhotos: Blagojevich TrialTuesday was the 14th day of deliberations - and the fourth note in as many days of deliberations. The succession

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On the heels of a controversial order barring refugees and travelers to the U.S. from some Muslim majority countries, President Trump continued his rapid-fire signing of executive actions Saturday, putting his name to three more addressing the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS , a ban on lobbying and a reorganization of the National Security stanley cup Council.As he signed each one, he gave a brief description of their contents with top aides surrounding him. Vice President Mike Pence, along with chief of staff Reince Preibus, National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland, stanley cup chief White House strategist Steve Bannon and top aide Kellyanne Conway were all present.Of the lobbying ban, which will restrict how government officials take jobs with lobbying firms after their stint in the public service, Mr. Trump called it a five-year rule. stanley cup Most of the people standing behind me will not be able to go to work, the president joked.On the memorandum outlining a plan to defeat ISIS, Mr. Trump predicted that itrsquo going to be very successful. Thatrsquo big stuff, he said.Mr. Trump also put pen to paper for a memo on reorganizing the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council.It represents a lot -- and also a lot of efficiency and I think a lot of additional safety, he said of the memo.The president answered two brie Itlh Source disputes account of Cain impropriety at Va. dinner
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid D-Nev. and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell R-Ky. announced tonight that the stalled immigration bill that Reid pulled from the Senate floor last week is coming back next week for more consideration.Their joint statement:We met this evening with sever kubki stanley al of the senators involved in the stanley water jug immigration bill negotiations. Based on that discussion, the immigration bill will return to the Senate floor after completion of the energy bill. President Bush, who had urged such a move, has begun a renewed push for the fragile compromise that the Senate had been considering. And he pressed his case again today in a major speech to the Associated Builders and Contractors. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c844f4be-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c844f4be-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c844f4be-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block stanley thermos ;

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Two Californ stanley cup ia residents are suing a stat stanley cup e senator for blocking them from a social media account in a case similar to a successful lawsuit that barred President Trump from blocking critics on his Twitter account. Suzanne Rummel and Marlene Burkitt sued Democratic Sen. Richard Pan of Sacramento alleging that barring stanley cup them from his Twitter account violates their First Amendment free speech rights.Pan is a physician and both women s accounts show they oppose his efforts to promote universal vaccinations of children.Burkitt says in the lawsuit filed last week in federal court in Sacramento that she was blocked after using Pan s Twitter site to discuss his efforts to reduce medical freedom, parental decision-making rights, and other issues. Pan s spokeswoman, Shannan Velayas, said she couldn t comment. This is the first we re hearing about it, she said. We haven t been served. Pan personally uses his Twitter account several times a day, according to the lawsuit, which calls it his most active, consistent, and interactive form of communication. It is unconstitutional for Pan to block dissenting viewpoints, says the lawsuit, which asks for the women to be restored and for unspecified damages, fees and costs. These social media venues are modern day public forums, and our rights to express ourselves and to petition our government must be protected, said attorney Marian Tone, who filed the lawsuit.Trump is appealing a federal judge s Qqho Susan G. Komen reverses course, will keep funding Planned Parenthood
With the primary season in full swing, CBS News reporters are out on the road covering the candidates every move. In our daily Roadblog, they share their campaign trail observations, impressions and anecdotes.SEN. JOHN EDWARDS, D-N.C.Sun. Feb. 22: On a weekend when millions of Sex and stanley cups uk the City fans were gearing up for Sunday s final episode, Senator Edwards was jetting across the country trying to drum up support for his campaign. While he didn t talk about the trendy Jimmy Choos or Manolo Blahniks, he did offer voters what is being billed as a new and different vision for America. I want to change America in a way that no one has ever seen, Edwards said to a crowd of over 1000 voters in Columbus, Ohio. Just as the story that unfolded in Sex and the City transformed the lives of four New York women, Edwards says he hopes to transform the lives of mi stanley website llions of American who he believes have suffered under the Bush administration.With the focus on the March 2nd Super Tuesday states, specifically targeting New York, Minnesota and Ohio this weekend, Edwards hurried from one event to another, addressing hundreds of supporters at every place he visited. While his stump has stayed more or less the same since Iowa and New Hampshire, this weekend he tailored it a little bit to emphasize more of his outsider mentality. The American people are hungry for real change, said Edwards. T stanley quencher hey want a president who actually understands the

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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Thursday that confidence in resuming economic activity wil stanley mug l depend on global coronavirus vaccination efforts as world leaders move forward with efforts to dig out of the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Viruses are no respecters of borders, and until the world really is vaccinated, we re all going to be at risk of new mutations and we won t be able to re stanley water bottle ally resume with confidence all around the world, Powell said. He called global vaccination efforts not only the right thing to do, it s also the smart thing to do. Powell made the remarks while speaking on an International Monetary Fund panel about the global economy. As the United States moves toward normalizing Federal Reserve activity, Powell said they are keeping a close eye on vaccination progress around the world. It s a risk in the United States as well, he said, and even if another U.S. outbreak is not as deadly or economically damaging, it will slow the recovery. stanley cup I would just urge that people do get vaccinated and continue socially distancing, Powell said.This comes as the United States has seen positive signs of recovery, including the economy adding more than 900,000 jobs last month according to the latest federal data. Powell pointed to substantial fiscal support for vaccination efforts, with more than 100 million Americans having already received at least their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and around 3 Kmil Column: A Post-election Thanksgiving And Its Implications On Pie
In his first State of the Union address since his reelection, President Obama picked on some of the themes of his inaugural address: He called on Americans to recognize certain obligations to one another, offering a vision i stanley cups uk n which government plays a crucial role in boosting the middle class and an appeal to economic fairness and shared sacrifice.He also sought to change the conversation in Washington, which has focused on bringing down the deficit stanley cup usa and debt, with a call for spending on infrastructure and in other areas. Let s be clear: Deficit reduction alone is not an economic plan, Mr. Obama said. It s not a bigger government we need, but a smarter government that sets priorities and invests in broad-based growth. Yet stanley quencher while the president echoed some of the loftier rhetoric of his inaugural, he also followed tradition and used the State of the Union to lay out some specific proposals. And while Mr. Obama was occasionally vague - more on that shortly - he made the case that he had a series of concrete, ostensibly uncontroversial ideas that could move the country forward, if only Republicans in Congress will stop standing in the way. Let s take a look at the five key moments from the speech - and assess whether the president s words are likely to be followed up by concrete action.Obama: Thriving middle class key to finishing economic recovery Rubio: More government breeds more problems Complete coverage: The State of the Union 2013

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Donald Trump and Ben Carson are neck and neck in the key early voting state of South Carolina, according to a Monmouth University poll released Monday.The poll found 28 percent of likely GOP primary voters said they would back Carson while 27 percent said they would support Trump in the primary scheduled in February. Eleven percent of likely primary voters said they would support Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida, 9 percent would back Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas, and 7 stanley cup percent would support former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. A recent CBS News Battleground Tracker poll found Trump led Carson in South Carolina 40 percent to 23 percent. None of the other 10 candidates, however, scored higher than 2 percent in the Monmouth University poll. S stanley cups uk ince Monmouth s last poll in South Carolina from August, Carson has nearly doubled his support while Trump s support has remained relatively stable. Rubio s support has increased by 5 percentage points and support for Cruz has gone up by 4 percentage points. Meanwhile, Bush s support has dropped by 2 percentage points. Seventeen percent of likely primary voters said stanley canada they are completed decided on which candidate to vote for while 39 percent said they have a strong preference but could consider others. Twenty percent said they re completely undecided. In a hypothetical contest that excludes Trump, Carson, Cruz and Carly Fiorina, Rubio leads the GOP pack with 32 percent support. The survey also found Carson has improved Pwzg Judge in Trump s New York fraud trial upholds $10,000 fine for violating gag order
As the press pool entered the state dining room just now to cover President Obama s remarks at the start of his health care meeting with Senate Democrats -- it struck Mr. Obama that there were a lot of reporters and photographers: It s like the cl stanley becher own car, he said -- likening the influx of media to the never ending line of clowns emerging from a small car at the circus. stanley cup Thinking better of his insult, Mr. O stanley thermobecher bama quickly said: I dont mean that. You know I love you guys. Watch the video below: ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-d18d16dc-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-d18d16dc-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-d18d16dc-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; Mark Knoller Mark Knoller is a CBS News White House correspondent. Twitter

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This week on Face the Nation , a disturbing 4th of July weekend as the coronavirus wildfire continues to spread and the president s fiery rhetoric divided, rather than united, America. Here s the big takeaways from Sunday s episode of Face the Nation 1. Mayors in COVID-19 hot spots speak on spikes stanley cup Houston mayor warns hospital system close to overwhelmed amid COVID spike 06:33 Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner warns that his city s hospital system could be overwhelmed in about two weeks if the current rate of infec stanley cup tion and hospitalization due to COVID-19 continues. He said there are enough beds for patients but they will not be enough doctors, nurses and medical professionals to treat them. The Mayor traces back the outbreak to the second week in May which is when he says cases starte stanley cup d to increase. What Turner said: We need everybody from the federal level, state level and local level. The demand for testing in this state, in this city has increased quite a bit. But we- and we are trying to ramp up. But the demand exceeds the capacity. At the two major testing sites that we have that s out- where we are partnered with FEMA, we can test up to about 650 per day at each one of those sites. We are reaching capacity at about noon. We have opened up some additional testing sites in many of what I ca Qbor Jeb Bush paints Ted Cruz as two-faced
Barack Obama in recent days has sprinted ahead in the endorsement derby against Hillary Rodham Clinton when it comes to a certain breed of Democratmdash;politicians who have won statewide in places where Republicans dominate presidential politics. Among a barrage of prominent statewide elected officials to back Obama publicly this month is Arizona governor Janet Napolitano, and U.S. Sens. Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Tim Johnson of South Dakota. What all three politicians have in common is that th stanley quencher ey are Democrats who have cracked the code in getting elected in states where Republicans historically have triumphed at the presidential level. George W. Bush won these states both times. So did most of his Republican predecessors. In fact, these three states have each voted for a Democratic presidential nominee only once since 1948. The string of recent Obama endorsements seems to be more than a coincidence. During extensive interviews in recent weeks in Republican-leaning states, Politico found widespread belief among current and former Democrati stanley water jug c statewide officials that Obama is the more electable candidate with their electorates. These p stanley sverige oliticians also frequently registered a fear that Clintonrsquo personality and past history make her too polarizing to win independent and Republican-leaning voters. The interviewingmdash;which included both on-the-record and on-background exchanges with a couple dozen Democratic politiciansmda

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Social media giant Twitter said it has removed thousands of accounts believed to have ties to Iran, Russia and Venezuela as part of its aggressive campaign against malicious and suspicious accounts. In a blog post from Twitter s head of site integrity, Twitter said it removed the accounts for spreading disinformation on its site in an effort to target the 2018 midterm ele stanley cup ctions.Those removals marked the social media site s latest efforts to prevent disinformation campaigns similar to ones carried out by the Russian Internet Research Agency during the 2016 campaign to influence voters to support then-candidate Donald Trump.The site maintains that while it identified m stanley becher uch less platform manipulation from bad-faith actors located abroad compared to the 2016 effort, malicious accounts were found nonetheless. The majority of these accounts were proactively suspended in advance of Election Day due to the increasingly robust nature of our technology and internal tooling for identifying platform manipulation, wrote Carlos Monje Jr., Twitter s Director of Public Policy.As was the case in 2016, those operating the accounts sowed division online and posted on key hot-button political issues during the 2018 midterm elections. stanley cup Twitter said in its most recent action, it removed 418 accounts originating in Russia, 764 accounts originating in Venezuela and 2,600 originating in Iran.The move comes the same day that Facebook announced that it has Vwez Ex-Attorney General to Teach at Texas Tech
Congressional Democrats pushed to wrap up negotiations on a budget plan that would help President Obama s ambitious goal of overhauling the health care system.Negotiators from the House and Senate met Monday, and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., confirmed details of a tentative pact reached last week that would prevent Senate Republicans from delaying or blocking Obama s plan to vastly expand government-subsidized health care.The $3.5 trillion plan for the budget year starting Oct. 1 embraces several of Obama s key goals, including health care reform, funds for domestic programs and clean energy, a stanley thermobecher nd a tax increase for individuals making more than $200,000 a year or couples making more than $250,000. But the plan would allow Obama s signature $400 tax cut for most workers to expire at the end of next year. Even after squeezin stanley spain g the defense and war budgets to levels that are stanley website probably unrealistic, the plan would cause a deficit of $523 billion in five years. I think this is a good budget, Conrad said. But, he added, Much more will have to be done to get us on a more sustainable course, including slowing the growth of benefit programs like Medicare and overhauling the tax code. The plan would patch the alternative minimum tax for three years to prevent more than 20 million taxpayers from getting socked with increases averaging $2,000 or so. The estate tax would be kept at current levels and allow for estates up

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WASHINGTON -- The FBI prepared a secret 20-page analysis of civil rights leader Martin Luth stanley cup usa er King Jr. containing explosive allegations about King s political ties and sexual activity, just a month before he was assassinated on April 4, 1968.One section of the document, which was among files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy released on Friday, alleges that King was attracted to former member of the Communist Party in America. It notes that two previous aides were party members and eight others, who helped shape King s organization in its early stages, had communist affiliations.It s unclear whether the FBI verified any of the allegations contained in the document, which is dated March 12, 1968. Hundreds more JFK documents released 06:55 The analysis said that in the earl stanley cupe y 1960s, the Communist Party was trying to get a black labor coalition to further its goals in the United States. It refe stanley cup renced a May 1961 issue of a communist newspaper that stated, Communists will do their utmost to strengthen and unite the Negro movement and ring it to the backing of the working people. The FBI said King and his organization were made-to-order to achieve these objectives.The FBI s surveillance of King is well-known and the analysis includes sever Qrcy Donald Trump denies using undocumented workers to build new D.C. hotel
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says pressure is increasing on Muam stanley water bottle mar Qaddafi as Libyans see that the U.S. stands with those who hope for a future where they can determine their own destiny.The Libyan leader has lost the confidence of his people and the legitimacy to rule, and the aspirations of the Libyan people must be realized, Mr. Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address, aired one week after the U.S.-led military action began.His remarks served as a warm-up for his planned speech to the nation Monday explaining his decision to launch attacks against Qaddafi s rule. Lawmakers from both parties have complained that the president hasn t sought their input or clearly explained U.S. participation in the mission. Mr. Obama argued Saturday that the mission in Libya is clear and focused, with the U.S. and its allies and partners working together to enforce a U.N. Security Council mandate to protect the Libyan people from forces loyal to Qaddafi.President Obama was expected Monday night to emphasize a larger role for NATO and a reduced one for the U.S. military. The president said that Libya s air defenses have been taken out and forces loyal to Qaddafi have been pushed back f stanley cup rom cities where the people have risen up against stanley quencher him. A humanitarian catastrophe has also been avoided, he said. We re succeeding in our mission, President Obama said.The address aired just after Libyan rebels regained control of t

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Former President Donald Trump skipped the first GOP debate Wednesday night, opting instead for an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson as a form of counterprogramming.The pre-taped interview was made available on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, five minutes before Wedne stanley tumblers sday night s debate began. Trump, who made little news Carlson in the roughly 45-minute interview, explained why he didn t show up to the debate. You see the polls have come out, I m leading by 50 and 60 points, Trump said. And some of them are at o stanley cups ne and zero and two. And I m saying, Do I sit there for an hour or two hours, whatever it s going to be and get harassed by people that shouldn t even be running for president Should I be botella stanley doing that And a network that isn t particularly friendly, frankly. During the debate, the eight candidates on stage were asked if they would support Trump as the GOP nominee if he is convicted in any of the four separate cases against him. Six of the candidates, including former Vice President Mike Pence, raised their hands. Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie were the only two who did not.Trump s interview time and format is a slight to Fox News, which is hosting the debate, in addition to the rest of the GOP field. Trump, who once praised Fox News for its coverage, has soured on the conservative news network, according to his social media posts. Fox News c Ybyi Read Florida s Black history teaching standards document to get details on controversial new curriculum
The rush by many supporters of departing GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani to back front-runner John McCain isn t being followed by all the New Yorker s friends despite Team Rudy s encouragement.Some Washington-based backers said that they are taking a wait-and-see approach and are discouraged by Giuliani s swift exit and expected backing of McCain. They worry that McCain hasn t done enough to temper his stand on illegal immigration and conservative issues. Others, meanwhile, compared his candidacy to that of Bob Dole, who ran a lackluster campaign against Bill Clinton in 1996. Some blogs have dubbed McCain Dole 2.0. However, some of the Giuliani backers begrudgingly said that they will probably get behind McCain if he wins the nomination. Their reluctance to quickly accept Giuliani s support for McCain comes despite a short E-mail from Susan Molina stanley cup website ri, who helped organize the former mayor s Washington team. stanley cup In it she wrote, Let me take a moment to thank you for your support of Team Rudy. We all appreciate the time, money, and support that you gave the mayor during his campaign. I know that you are as proud as I am to have been a part of the effort. There would have been no better president for our future. The mayor will be endorsing Sen. McCain this afternoon .... Thanks again for adding your good name to this great cause. By Paul Bedard stanley cup ponent--type-recirculat