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Freedom Watch TV March 13, 2020
By Emily Cochrane, Jeanna Smialek and Jim Tankersley New York Times March 13, 2020 WASHINGTON — Financial markets plunged on Thursday in the biggest one-day drop since the Black Monday stock market crash of 1987, and Congress neared a deal with the White House on a sweeping economic rescue package to respond to the colossal effect of the coronavirus pandemic. After a day of intense negotiations between Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, Ms. Pelosi told reporters that “we’ve resolved most of our differences” and the House would vote on Friday on the measure…
NBC News March 12, 2020 Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday on “TODAY” that there has been “irresponsible rhetoric” from people who have downplayed the seriousness of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak. In an interview on the “TODAY” show, Savannah Guthrie asked what message Pence sends to people who aren’t afraid of the coronavirus and think it’s just politics and hype, quoting from President Donald Trump who said on Monday that the “fake news media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything to inflame the coronavirus situation.” “There’s been some irresponsible rhetoric, but the American people should know…
GOP chairman cancels Hunter Biden-related subpoena vote By Jordain Carney TheHill March 12, 2020 Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) canceled a vote scheduled for Wednesday afternoon on a subpoena stemming from his months-long probe into Hunter Biden and Burisma Holdings. “Out of an abundance of caution, and to allow time for you to receive additional briefings, I will postpone a vote to subpoena records and an appearance from former Blue Star Strategies consultant Andrii Telizhenko about his work for the lobbying firm,” Johnson said in a note to committee members, a copy…
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Sanders responds to Clinton criticism: ‘Unlike Secretary Clinton, I don’t want to relive 2016’ By Marty Johnson TheHill March 10, 2020 Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a 2020 White House hopeful, responded late Tuesday to criticism from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, saying he doesn’t want to relive 2016, unlike the former Democratic nominee. At a Fox News town hall, moderators Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum played a clip for Sanders from a new documentary about Clinton. “Bernie just drove me crazy,” Clinton said in the clip. “He was in Congress for years. Years. He had one senator…
Freedom Watch TV March 10, 2020
Trump and GOP mount coordinated campaign to paint Biden as senile By Alex Isenstadt POLITICO March 10, 2020 President Donald Trump stood before about 500 of the Republican Party’s biggest patrons at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Friday and raised a topic few in the audience expected: Joe Biden’s mental capacity. Trump walked the donors through a list of Biden’s recent verbal stumbles, such as his recent declaration that he was running for Senate and his assertion that 150 million Americans had been killed by gun violence since 2007. Trump questioned whether the former vice president had the mental…
Philadelphia Bar Association tells lawyers, judges to resist ICE arrests By Stephen Dinan The Washington Times March 9, 2020 The head of the Philadelphia Bar Association on Monday compared ICE to a “police state” and called on lawyers, judges and other courthouse personnel to resist the agency when its officers attempt to make arrests at city courthouses. Bar Chancellor A. Michael Snyder, a retired judge, asserted that the arrests violate illegal immigrants’ due process rights and go against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s own internal rules. He said they were “aided and abetted” by courthouse staff who stood…