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To: longnshort who wrote (1075944)	6/30/2018 12:01:36 AM
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To: longnshort who wrote (1075944)	6/30/2018 12:56:36 AM
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BOMBSHELL..Schmidt: Trump's 'only affinity for reading anything were the Adolf Hitler speeches he kept on his nightstand' BY JOE CONCHA - 06/26/18 09:45 AM EDT 18,811 thehill.com GOP strategist Steve Schmidt said Tuesday that President Trump's "only affinity for reading anything were the Adolf Hitler speeches he kept on his nightstand" during an appearance on "Morning Joe." Schmidt, Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) presidential campaign manager in 2008, also said Trump's victory over Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was a fluke. "So in the 240th year of the independence of the United States, in three states by 78,000 votes, the American people by a fluke elected an imbecilic former reality TV show host and con man whose only affinity for reading anything were the Adolf Hitler speeches he kept on his night stand," Schmidt told co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.Schmidt, a regular on the show, has been prolific in making headlines with critical remarks about Trump. On Tuesday, he argued the country was in decline because of the president. "America’s decline is now beginning and we should make no mistake about this. The U.S.-led liberal global order is in peril. It’s in threat," he said. "Will he take us out of the World Trade Organization? Will he undermine the international system that Franklin Roosevelt conceived, that Harry Truman built, that was sustained through Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama? It’s anyone’s guess, but the idea that tomorrow will be OK because yesterday was or last year was is a naive view of the world." The commentary comes one week after the MSNBC political analyst announced he was leaving the Republican Party. Schmidt is the second member of the "Morning Joe" team to leave the GOP. In July 2017, Scarborough, a former Republican congressman, announced he was becoming an independent on Stephen Colbert's late-night show on CBS, citing Trump as the primary reason. Schmidt, one of the president's staunchest critics at MSNBC, also slammed Melania Trump on Monday, calling the first lady "a con artist" after she said “kindness, compassion and positivity are very important traits in life" during a speech at the Students Against Destructive Decisions' annual conference in Tyson's Corner, Va. Shhhhh. Don’t tell anyone . She’s a con artist also. All of them are. It goes with the last name. t.co — Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 25, 2018

To: longnshort who wrote (1075944)	6/30/2018 1:10:48 AM
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BOMBSHELL..Nazi POS trump never had specific plan to reunify families, court testimony shows By Tal Kopan, CNN Updated 0015 GMT (0815 HKT) June 30, 2018 edition.cnn.com Washington (CNN)In recent weeks, the government has stumbled trying to explain its plan for reunifying families in the wake of its much-criticized family separations policy at the border. But newly reviewed court filings show that the byzantine system that has resulted in thousands of children separated for weeks and months from parents elsewhere in government custody was not an accident. It was always the design. In fact, one of the women in an ongoing lawsuit over family separations was apparently one of the first separations that took place during a quiet pilot of the policy last year. The pilot program has been previously reported, but took on new attention on the heels of an NBC report about it Friday. A government attorney admitted in court just days before the border-wide initiative was unveiled in early May that there was never a plan for parents like her to be proactively reunited with their kids. And an analysis of the purported success of the pilot shows that the Department of Homeland Security's justification that the program worked as a deterrent was likely based on dubious data. 6 children in 6 days, thousands left: Inside the family reunifications A DHS official confirmed Friday that the agency first tested the policy of prosecuting parents caught illegally crossing the border in the El Paso sector in Texas from July to October of last year. The pilot had been previously reported, but was not widely known. NBC reported the effort anew Friday. Ms. C, as she is known in court filings, was apprehended crossing the border illegally in late August 2017 and prosecuted in El Paso, according to court documents. She asked for asylum and in the midst of the legal process, the government took her 14-year-old son from her, sending him to a Health and Human Services facility in Chicago. They were separated for months. Her story is central to a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging family separations -- filed before the zero tolerance pilot was publicly known. The judge in that case has now ordered the government to reunite families separated by prosecution within 30 days. The case was argued in court May 4 -- a few days before the border-wide zero tolerance policy became public. There was no mention during the hearing of her being prosecuted under zero tolerance. The government attorney did note that prosecution could be a reason that families were separated, and that would be valid under the law, but made no mention of a widespread policy to do so. But regarding Ms. C, the judge asked the government attorney whether any plan existed to help women like her -- separated from their children because of prosecution -- reunite with the children. The lawyer's response is a clear indication that the government did not develop any such effort. 'Just be a kid, OK?': Inside children's immigration hearings In fact, the government readily admitted that the plan all along was precisely what came to pass: parents scrambling while in government detention to track down their kids. "The way I understand the process -- that was my reference to the black hole -- is the person gets out of custody for the conviction they are serving, they then go into ICE detention to pursue immigration- and asylum-related matters, but their child is somewhere else. ... And there is no procedure or mechanism for that parent to reunite with their child, absent hiring lawyers or pursuing it on their own," Judge Dana Sabraw asked the attorney, according to the hearing transcript. "Is that correct?" "I think that is correct," Justice Department attorney Sarah Fabian replied. "At that point the separation has occurred because of the prosecution. And that person then, when released from criminal custody, is being taken into ICE custody. At that point, again, the separation has already occurred. The minor is in ORR custody. The only release from ORR (Office of Refugee Resettlement) custody is subject to the TVPRA (law), so subject to a finding of a suitable custodian. And until -- while that individual remains in custody they are not going to be a suitable custodian, nor is there the ability to detain them together because they are then in ICE custody." DHS announced it would implement the border-wide prosecution policy three days later. Dubious data The pilot program was touted by DHS in early May when the department provided background information to reporters on its zero tolerance plan. At the time, DHS said the number of illegal crossings "dropped by 64 percent" when the El Paso sector tried prosecuting all adults, including parents. "This decrease was attributed to the prosecution of adults amenable to prosecution for illegal entry while risking the lives of their children. Of note, the numbers began rising again after the initiative was paused," the background information stated. An analysis bar chart that was shared with CNN showed that the 64% was calculated by comparing apprehensions in October 2017 to those in October 2016. Exclusive: Trump admin thought family separations would deter immigrants. They haven't. But a fuller analysis of the data shows that one could just as easily conclude there was no effect from the initiative -- and if there was, it was not something that would necessarily translate if applied to the whole border. It is true that in the El Paso sector, illegal crossings were down about 63% in the month of October 2017 compared with October 2016, according to published Border Patrol data. The analysis DHS did covered only October 1-26 for each month, thus the slight discrepancy. But apprehensions in 2016 were unusually high -- the beginning of a wave of migration to the southwest border that preceded Trump's election and inauguration. Across the board, apprehensions at the southern border in October 2017 were about 45% lower than the year before. And in the El Paso sector, the crossings in October 2017 were very close to the numbers in the same month in 2015. How Trump's policies could worsen the migration issue he says he wants to solve While the drop was more pronounced in the El Paso sector then the whole border, the data shows that was likely because crossings merely shifted elsewhere. Neighboring sector Big Bend saw a 17% increase in apprehensions from the previous year, and neighboring sector Tucson had only a 35% decrease in apprehensions. A DHS official stood by the claim that the effort worked Friday "It is indisputable that when there are consequences for illegal actions, we see an effect on apprehensions at the border," the official said. There was a wide disparity in the change in numbers year over year across sectors -- an indication of the fact that migration along the border shifts and ebbs based on a number of factors. Those could include changes in smuggling routes, sector-by-sector crackdowns or even weather conditions. Experts have long said any policy designed to deter migrants from crossing into the US by changing US laws would have a temporary effect at best. Without addressing the conditions back home that push them north, experts say, the migration will continue. CNN previously reported that DHS predicted in internal documents that the deterrent effect would be seen at the border quickly when the plan went into effect border-wide -- but the opposite happened.

To: longnshort who wrote (1075944)	6/30/2018 1:32:35 AM
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BREAKING..MUELLER's NEW COURT FILING SHOWS THE DEPTH OF TRAITOR POS TRUMP'S TREASON... msnbc.com

To: longnshort who wrote (1075944)	6/30/2018 1:35:52 AM
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Senator Cory Booker makes the greatest case yet why under investigation POS trump's SCOTUS choice undermines that investigation of TRAITOR POS trump... msnbc.com

To: longnshort who wrote (1075944)	6/30/2018 2:07:11 AM
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BOMBSHELL..LIAR POS trump LIED; US intelligence believes North Korea is making more nuclear bomb fuel despite talks Telegraph Reporters 30 JUNE 2018 • 4:55AM telegraph.co.uk US intelligence agencies believe North Korea has increased production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites in recent months and may try to hide these while seeking concessions in nuclear talks with the United States, NBC news quoted US officials as saying. In a report on Friday, the network said what it described as the latest US intelligence assessment appeared to go counter to sentiments expressed by President Donald Trump, who tweeted after an unprecedented June 12 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that "there is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea." NBC quoted five unidentified US officials as saying that in recent months North Korea had stepped up production of enriched uranium for nuclear weapons, even as it engaged in diplomacy with the United States. The network cited US officials as saying that the intelligence assessment concludes that North Korea has more than one secret nuclear site in addition to its known nuclear fuel production facility at Yongbyon. "There is absolutely unequivocal evidence that they are trying to deceive the US," NBC quoted one official as saying. The area near the entrance to a tunnel at North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test facility, prior to its demolition. The CIA declined to comment on the NBC report. The State Department said it could not confirm it and did not comment on matters of intelligence. The White House did not respond to a request for comment. The NBC report raises further questions about North Korea's readiness to enter serious negotiations about giving up a weapons program that now threatens the United States, in spite of Trump's enthusiastic portrayal of the summit outcome. NBC quoted one senior U.S. intelligence official as saying that North Korea's decision ahead of the summit to suspend nuclear and missile tests was unexpected and the fact that the two sides were talking was a positive step. However, he added: "Work is ongoing to deceive us on the number of facilities, the number of weapons, the number of missiles ... We are watching closely." Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at California's Middlebury Institute of International Studies, said there were two "bombshells" in the NBC report. He said it had long been understood that North Korea had at least one undeclared facility to enrich nuclear fuel aside from Yongbyon. Satellite images released of North Korea's nuclear facilities prior to demolitions Satellite images released of North Korea's nuclear facilities prior to demolitions CREDIT: DIGITALGLOBE "This assessment says there is more than one secret site. That means there are at least three, if not more sites," he said. Lewis said the report also implied that US intelligence had reporting to suggest North Korea did not intend to disclose one or more of the enrichment sites. "Together, these two things would imply that North Korea intended to disclose some sites as part of the denuclearization process, while retaining others," he said. North Korea agreed at the summit to "work toward denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula," but the joint statement signed by Kim and Trump gave no details on how or when Pyongyang might surrender its nuclear weapons. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said last week he would likely go back to North Korea before long to try to flesh out commitments made at the Trump-Kim meeting. Ahead of the summit, North Korea rejected unilaterally abandoning an arsenal it has called an essential deterrent against US aggression. Trump said last week North Korea was blowing up four of its big test sites and that a process of "total denuclearisation ... has already started," but officials said there had been no such evidence since the summit. This week, Washington-based North Korean monitoring project 38 North said recent satellite imagery showed North Korea had made rapid improvements to facilities at Yongbyon since May 6, but it could not say if such work had continued after June 12.