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To: longnshort who wrote (1073144)	6/13/2018 9:57:09 PM
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To: longnshort who wrote (1073144)	6/13/2018 9:59:12 PM
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To: longnshort who wrote (1073144)	6/14/2018 4:48:23 AM
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FOX NEWS: AP FACT CHECK: Trump falsely declares post-summit victory By MATTHEW PENNINGTON and CALVIN WOODWARD \| Associated Press foxnews.com WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump falsely declared victory after his meeting with North Korea's leader and twisted history in celebrating Tuesday's summit with Kim Jong Un. A look at some of Trump's statements and how they compare with the facts: TRUMP'S TWEETS: "Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea ... Before taking office people were assuming that we were going to War with North Korea. President (Barack) Obama said that North Korea was our biggest and most dangerous problem. No longer - sleep well tonight!" THE FACTS: Trump is wrong to suggest North Korea no longer poses a nuclear threat. The five-hour summit did give Trump and Kim a chance to express optimism and make of show of their new relationship. But the two countries didn't nail down how and when the North might denuclearize or shed light on the unspecified "protections" Trump pledged to Kim and his government. Those details could prove major sticking points in the future while North Korea is believed to maintain a nuclear arsenal capable of threatening the U.S mainland. Independent experts say the North could have enough fissile material for anywhere between about a dozen and 60 nuclear bombs, and last year it tested long-range missiles that could reach the U.S. Trump is also wrong to say there was an assumption before he took office that the United States would go to war. It wasn't until Trump's tenure that North Korea began testing an intercontinental ballistic missile and the bellicose rhetoric between the two leaders ramped up. Fears of conflict were particularly acute after Trump called Kim "Rocket Man" and Kim pledged to "tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire." ___ TRUMP: "Chairman Kim and I just signed a joint statement in which he reaffirms his unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. We also agreed to vigorous negotiations to implement the agreement as soon as possible, and he wants to do that. This isn't the past. This isn't another administration that never got it started and, therefore, never got it done." THE FACTS: He's wrong in suggesting his administration is the first to start on denuclearization with North Korea. The Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations both did so. Clinton reached an aid-for-disarmament deal in 1994 that halted North Korea's plutonium production for eight years, freezing what was then a very small atomic arsenal. Bush took a tougher stance toward North Korea, and the 1994 nuclear deal collapsed because of suspicions that the North was running a secret uranium program. But Bush, too, ultimately pursued negotiations. That led to a temporary disabling of some nuclear facilities, but talks fell apart because of differences over verification. ___ TRUMP: "He actually mentioned the fact that they proceeded down a path in the past and ultimately as you know nothing got done. In one case, they took billions of dollars during the Clinton regime. ... Took billions of dollars and nothing happened." He said of Clinton: "He spent $3 billion and got nothing." THE FACTS: His numbers are incorrect. The Clinton and Bush administrations combined to provide some $1.3 billion in assistance from 1995 to 2008, according to the Congressional Research Service, a nonpartisan arm of Congress. Slightly more than half was for food aid and 40 percent for energy assistance. Trump also is wrong in saying "nothing happened" in return. North Korea stopped producing plutonium for eight years under the 1994 agreement. Just how much was achieved, though, is in question, because of the suspicions that emerged later that North Korea had been secretly seeking to enrich uranium. ___ Associated Press Writer Anne Flaherty contributed to this report. ___ Foreign assistance to North Korea: tinyurl.com ___ Find AP Fact Checks at apne.ws Follow @APFactCheck on Twitter: twitter.com

To: longnshort who wrote (1073144)	6/14/2018 4:50:59 AM
From: sylvester80	1 Recommendation Recommended By Mongo2116 Respond to of 1575191

BOMBSHELL..Trump's weak North Korea summit may be the beginning of the end for the US as the world's leader Alex Lockie, Business Insider thisisinsider.com President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the US would suspend military exercises with South Korea during peace talks with North Korea. In doing so, he may have set the US up to lose its status as the world's dominant power. Without drills, the US forces in South Korea will wither, and if peace talks continue, the very rationale for them will erode as well. If the US pulls out of South Korea, as Trump wants to, it will accelerate China's dominance in Asia and likely around the world. Trump and Kim Jong Un wrote Tuesday of a new future for the world, but that new future may be one ruled from Beijing, not Washington. President Donald Trump's joint statement with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday provided few specifics and no binding commitments, but it most likely set in motion a series of events that could unseat the US as the dominant world power. Trump, going above and beyond the statement on paper, promised to halt joint military exercises with South Korea. For the US, its 30,000 or so troops in South Korea represent a foothold on the Asian mainland and a major check on China's growing global ambitions. South Korea and the US forces themselves were apparently shocked by the news, but both North Korea and China seized on this concession. Kim, according to North Korean media, said "to achieve peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula and realize its denuclearization," North Korea and the US "should commit themselves to refraining from antagonizing with each other." To China, the agreement sounded like one it had been pushing all along, a "suspension for suspension," in which the US stops military drills with South Korea in exchange for North Korea halting its missile and nuclear tests. The US had long resisted calls from North Korea and China for dual suspension, saying the bilateral, planned, and transparent military exercises were legal while North Korea's nuclear program was not. If North Korea's illegal nuclear program forced the US military to stop training with its ally, then it sends a powerful message to leaders everywhere: The US can be blackmailed with nukes. The US loose tooth in Asia US soldiers South Korea US troops at the Osan Air Base in 2016 in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Jeon Heon-Kyun-Pool/Getty Images Without military drills, the massive installation of troops will wither. Already, North Korea has criticized the US and South Korea's military exercises, saying they're not helpful for peace talks. Trump, seemingly unprompted, has long wanted to withdraw the US from South Korea, and now he may have found a reason. If the US and North Korea — or North Korea and South Korea — normalize relations, that undercuts the stated rationale for having US forces on the peninsula. Why should the US station 30,000 troops in Korea if Korea is at peace? One reason could be to rein in China. China is set to overtake the US as the world's dominant power within the coming decades. As China embraces some capitalism and uses strong-arm tactics to become a technological power while modernizing the world's biggest armed forces, it falls on the US to reassure its allies in Asia and around the world that international order will stand up to Chinese hegemony. The US military in Asia remains vital to that task. China's rise has been a long time coming. The US military, even with its massive forces in Japan and Korea, already strains to contain it. But losing the foothold in South Korea could be the straw that breaks the camel's back. "The US-DPRK summit — the first in history — was an epochal event of great significance in overcoming decades of tensions and hostilities between the two countries and for the opening up of a new future," Trump and Kim's joint statement said. But the new epoch envisioned here by Trump and Kim may be one in which the US loses its grip on Asia, and then the world, and the new future will most likely be ruled from Beijing, not Washington.

To: longnshort who wrote (1073144)	6/14/2018 5:03:36 AM
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BOMBSHELL..Beto O’Rourke visits immigrant detention center: 'I can only imagine the terror they felt' By Fernando Ramirez June 12, 2018 houstonchronicle.com Photo: Carolyn Kaster, STF / Associated Press IMAGE 1 OF 31 Congressman Beto O’Rourke recently visited McAllen, Texas to witness first hand the separations of families under Trump's new "zero-tolerance" policy. El Paso congressman and Senate hopeful Beto O'Rourke traveled to Texas' border on Tuesday to witness firsthand the separation of families under the Trump administration. In a video detailing his day in McAllen, O'Rourke said he met with a mother and her 7-year-old daughter in custody at one of the nation's busiest border patrol stations. "Within the next, perhaps, 24 hours they were going to be separated and I don't know that [the] mother and her child knew that at the time," O'Rourke said. According to O'Rourke, the duo traveled 2,000 miles from Honduras before turning themselves in to a border patrol agent. During their meeting, O'Rourke said the image that stuck in his mind the most was the young girl gripping her mother's hand as tightly as possible. An immigrant from Honduras took his own life while in custody after both his wife and child were separated from him on the U.S-Mexico border. For more on the story here is Zachary Devita. LATEST: Texas border agents tell migrant moms they'll bathe their kids. Instead, they separate them. "The mom was just desperate, she could not help but cry the entire time she was talking with us," he said. "She was anxious, she didn't know what was next, she had just survived this many weeks journey ..." Enough is enough. We are the wealthiest, most powerful nation. Now taking kids from their parents and turning our back to asylum seekers. This requires immediate action. I'm going to the border to get answers and confront this head on. I know that we are better than this. — Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) June 11, 2018O'Rourke also toured a migrant processing center where parents had already been separated from their children. "They were in essentially very large cages, pods, cyclone fences 10-feet high with netting on the top," he said. "Polished concrete floors, it's just a gigantic warehouse where hundreds of kids and adults are kept divided by age, families no longer together." Despite the conditions he saw, O'Rourke said border patrol agents were "doing their best" and noted that the facility was "spotless." He said detainees had access to television, meals and laundry services. Photo: John Moore/Getty Images A girl from Central America rests on thermal blankets at a detention facility run by the U.S. Border Patrol on September 8, 2014 in McAllen, Texas. Photo: John Moore/Getty Images A boy from Honduras watches a movie at a detention facility run by the U.S. Border Patrol on September 8, 2014 in McAllen, Texas. FOX INTERVIEW: Dan Patrick compares separating immigrant families to child protective services Lastly, O'Rourke visited an immigration detention center run by a private prison corporation. There, he met with a man who fled violence in Honduras with his 12-year-old daughter. "He was crying the entire time," O'Rourke said of their meeting. The Honduran man told O'Rourke that prior to his separation from his daughter he was given no explanation as to what was going to happen to her. "As the father of an 11-year-old and a 9-year-old and a 7-year-old," O'Rourke said, "I can only imagine the terror that they felt and the fear that they have — even right now — not knowing where the other is." The practice of separating migrant families began in April when Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new "zero-tolerance" policy prosecuting 100 percent of illegal border crossings. TRANSLATORTo read this article in one of Houston's most-spoken languages, click on the button below. ELECTION NEWS Ted Cruz weighing in on races in Arizona and Montana Texas officials go to Israel, with taxpayers footing security Texas expected to get more clout in future presidential contests Houston completes $1B bond sale, cementing pension reforms Look at who's running for governor Houston completes $1 billion pension bond sale, despite lawsuit SALARY REVEALED: What running detention centers for immigrant children pays "If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you and that child will be separated from you as required by law," Sessions said announcing the new policy. "If you don't like that, then don't smuggle children over our border." Roughly 10,000 migrant children are currently in custody, according to a headcount by the Department of Health and Human Services in May. Last week, the controversial policy caught the attention of the United Nations with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights calling theseparations an "arbitrary and unlawful interference in family life" and a practice that "runs counter to human rights standards and principles."