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FAILING TO STAND WHEN THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IS PLAYED, OR BURNING THE FLAG, IMMERSING IT IN BODILY FLUIDS, OR SOME SUCH, ISN’T SPEECH. IF IT DOES PHYSICAL DAMAGE, IT IS VANDALISM, WHICH IS ILLEGAL, BUT NOT A HIGH CRIME. IF IT IS A DEMONSTRATION TO MAKE A POINT, THAT SHOULD BE ALLOWED, TOO. REFUSING TO STAND FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM DOES SHOW SOME ANGER AT THE GOVERNMENT, IN THIS CASE, BUT THAT ISN’T A CRIME EITHER, AND IN THE CASE OF MINORITY PEOPLE OF MOST TYPES, THEY HAVE BEEN TREATED DISRESPECTFULLY OR WORSE MOST OF THEIR LIVES. WE ARE NOT A GENTLE SOCIETY. SO, IF INSTEAD OF THROWING A BRICK THROUGH A POLICE CAR’S WINDSHIELD, THEY CHOSE TO KNEEL FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, THAT IS FINE WITH ME. IT MAKES A DIGNIFIED PRESENTATION, ALSO, AND ELOQUENT. THE STATEMENT BY THE SEATTLE SEAHAWKS IS ESPECIALLY MOVING.

AS FOR OUR RIGHT TO STAND IN OPPOSITION TO OUR GOVERNMENT IN SOME WAY, WE HAVE NO THOUGHT POLICE YET, AND IF IT DOESN’T BREAK A LAW, IT IS ACCEPTABLE TO ME. IF IT BREAKS A MINOR LAW LIKE JAYWALKING IN THE CASE OF THE BLM MARCHERS, THAT WILL MAKE THE POINT THAT POLICE BRUTALITY HAS NOT STOPPED YET, AND IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. TO ME, PENALIZING “DISRESPECT” FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IS A LOT LIKE DONALD TRUMP’S LOYALTY OATHS THAT HE HAS REQUIRED OF THOSE WHO DARE TO WORK WITH HIM. IT IS, TO USE A 1960S PHRASE, “MICKY MOUSE.” IT IS SMALL-MINDED, AND LEAKING ISN’T ILLEGAL EITHER. I PERSONALLY WOULDN’T EVER SIGN ONE, BECAUSE I RESERVE THE RIGHT TO DISAGREE. I DON'T WANT TO WORK IN A PLACE LIKE THAT. ON THOSE OATHS SEE DAILY KOS HERE.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nfl-players-protest-national-anthem-donald-trump-latest/
By JUSTIN CARISSIMO CBS NEWS September 24, 2017, 4:38 PM
NFL players kneel, raise fists, lock arms during national anthem

NFL players across the league protested during the national anthem Sunday in defiance of President Trump, who said that players who kneel during the "The Star-Spangled Banner" should be fired.

Many players sat, kneeled, raised fists or stayed inside locker rooms as the anthem was played before games, and as team owners encouraged players to express themselves. Others locked arms in a show of unity.

Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who remains unsigned, started the kneeling movement in 2016 to protest racial injustice in America. Activists and critics of the league believe Kaepernick has been blacklisted for his protests. On Sunday, players with the Miami Dolphins wore shirts that read "#ImWithKap" during pregame warm-ups.

The demonstrations began Sunday when the Baltimore Ravens faced off against the Jacksonville Jaguars in London. Nearly two dozen players, including Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs and Jaguars running back Leonard Fournette, took a knee. Other players on both teams who remained standing locked arms with Jaguars owner Shad Khan.

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Jacksonville Jaguars players kneel during the U.S. national anthem before the match, September 24, 2017. ACTION IMAGES VIA REUTERS

The Seattle Seahawks announced they would not participate in the anthem as a team. "We will not stand for the injustice that has plagued people of color in this country. Out of love for our country and in honor of the sacrifices made on our behalf, we unite to oppose those that would deny our most basic freedoms. We remain committed in continuing to work towards equality and justice for all," the team said in a statement.

Mike Tomlin, the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, announced they would remain in the locker room during the anthem. "We're not going to let divisive times or divisive individuals affect our agenda," Tomlin told CBS Sports.

Here is a look at the demonstrations that unfolded Sunday:

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Virgil Green of the Denver Broncos raises his fist during the American National Anthem before an NFL game against the Buffalo Bills on September 24, 2017 at New Era Field in Orchard Park, New York. BRETT CARLSEN/GETTY IMAGES

Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Chicago Bears
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The Chicago Bears lock arms for the national anthem prior to the game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Soldier Field on September 24, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. JONATHAN DANIEL/GETTY

Atlanta Falcons vs. Detroit Lions
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Members of the Detroit Lions take a knee during the playing of the national anthem prior to the start of the game against the Atlanta Falcons at Ford Field on September 24, 2017 in Detroit, Michigan. REY DEL RIO/GETTY

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Members of the Cleveland Browns take a knee during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts in Indianapolis, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017. MICHAEL CONROY/AP

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Members of the Indianapolis Colts take a knee during the nation anthem before an NFL football game against the Cleveland Browns in Indianapolis, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017. DARRON CUMMINGS/AP

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver DeSean Jackson, center, takes a knee during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the Minnesota Vikings, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017, in Minneapolis. JIM MONE/AP

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Members of the New England Patriots kneel on the sidelines as the National Anthem is played before a game against the Houston Texans at Gillette Stadium on September 24, 2017 in Foxboro, Massachusetts. BILLIE WEISS/GETTY

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Members of the Philadelphia Eagles link arms during the national anthem before the game against the New York Giants on September 24, 2017 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ELSA/GETTY

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steelers-alejandro-villanueva-nfl-national-anthem-protest-chicago-bears/
CBS NEWS September 25, 2017, 8:22 PM
Steelers' Alejandro Villanueva: "I threw my teammates under the bus unintentionally"

PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh Steelers lineman Alejandro Villanueva says the national anthem ordeal got out of control and he is taking the blame, CBS Pittsburgh reports.

"Unfortunately I threw my teammates under the bus, unintentionally," Villanueva said. "Every single time I see that picture of me standing by myself I feel embarrassed."

Villanueva was the only Steelers player standing outside the tunnel for the national anthem before their game Sunday against the Chicago Bears.

Chicago residents react to Trump's criticism of NFL, NBA players

Villanueva says he asked quarterback Ben Roethlisberger if he could be out in front with the captains during the national anthem and they agreed to it, but when he went to the front of the tunnel to see the flag, he went too far unintentionally.

"When we came out of the locker room into that tunnel, it was a very small area. There was a flag or something coming off the field so there were a bunch of Bears fans, coming off the field holding that going in front of us, so it kind of held us up," Villanueva said.

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The rest of the team remained in the tunnel. "I made my teammates look bad, and that is my fault, and my fault only," Villanueva said. "We as a team tried to figure it out, but obviously butchered it."

The former Army Ranger says he is absolutely okay if teammates kneel or sit during the national anthem.

"People that are taking a knee are not saying anything negative about the military, they're not saying anything negative about the flag, they're just trying to protest that there are some injustices in America," Villanueva said.

He says some players who have been kneeling during anthems have even approached him before or after games and thanked him for his service including other players in the NFC North.

Sales of Villanueva's jerseys have skyrocketed since video of him standing outside the tunnel during the national anthem.

"I unintentionally left my teammates behind. I wasn't planning to boycott the plan the Steelers came up with," Villanueva said.

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"For anybody who thinks Coach Tomlin is not as patriotic as you can get in America, or any one of my teammates, or the owner, I take offense to that," Villanueva said. "I made coach Tomlin look bad, and that is my fault and my fault only," he said.

When asked about if he thought President Trump should apologize for calling NFL players names or drawing the players into this he said.

"I don't have anything to say about the commander in chief and his decisions, I stick to football, I have nothing to comment about what the president says," Villanueva said.

"I will support all my teammates, and all my teammates and all of my coaches have always supported me," he said.

"Every single one of my teammates is extremely supportive and extremely patriotic. I can honestly say that," Villanueva said.

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Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle and former Army Ranger Alejandro Villanueva (78) stands outside the tunnel alone during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the Chicago Bears, Sun., Sept. 24, 2017, in Chicago. AP


NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY!!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-advisers-private-email-government-business-nyt-report/
By PETER MARTINEZ CBS NEWS September 25, 2017, 9:23 PM
At least 6 close Trump advisers used private email for government business, report says

Photograph -- A look at the White House on Mon., March 7, 2016.

There are at least six close advisers to President Trump who used private email addresses for government business, The New York Times reports Monday. Former chief of staff Reince Priebus and former chief strategist Steve Bannon were among those named by the report which cites current and former officials.

The New York Times also cites officials as saying other advisers, Gary D. Cohn and Stephen Miller, sent or received at least a few emails on personal accounts.

Late Monday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told CBS News what personnel are instructed to do with work-related communication.

"All White House personnel have been instructed to use official email to conduct all government related work," Sanders wrote. "They are further instructed that if they receive work-related communication on personal accounts, they should be forwarded to official email accounts."

Mr. Trump repeatedly attacked Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign about the email investigation surrounding the former secretary of state during President Obama's administration. Clinton used a private email server for official government business. The FBI investigated her use of the server and found that nothing was found to warrant criminal charges against her.

Monday's revelation comes on the heels of news that Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law of President Trump, used a private email to conduct White House business.

In a statement, Kushner's lawyer Abbe Lowell said that Kushner uses his White House email address, but used his personal account between January and August.

"Mr. Kushner uses his White House email address to conduct White House business. Fewer than a hundred emails from January through August were either sent to or returned by Mr. Kushner to colleagues in the White House from his personal email account," Lowell said.

"These usually forwarded news articles or political commentary and most often occurred when someone initiated the exchange by sending an email to his personal, rather than his White House, address," Lowell added. "All non-personal emails were forwarded to his official address and all have been preserved in any event."



TRUMP’S SURVEILLANCE STORY IS FALSE, BUT MANAFORT WAS TARGETED. THE INFORMATION GAINED SO FAR FROM THE WIRETAPS MAKES ITS’ USE NOT ONLY FAIR AND JUSTIFIED, BUT LEGAL I WOULD ASSUME. IF SOMETHING TO THE CONTRARY PROVING A CRIMINAL OR UNETHICAL ACT COMES OUT, THAT WILL BE REPORTED, I’M SURE. SO FAR, NO ONE EXCEPT TRUMP AND A COUPLE OF HIS FOLLOWERS HAVE MENTIONED THE MATTER.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rep-adam-schiff-says-theres-no-truth-to-claim-obama-wiretapped-trump/
By EMILY TILLETT CBS NEWS September 24, 2017, 2:00 PM
Rep. Adam Schiff says there's "no truth" to claim Obama wiretapped Trump

As lawmakers' investigations of Russian meddling in the 2016 election continue to press forward, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, says that there is "no truth" to the claim that President Obama had wiretapped then-candidate Donald Trump at Trump Tower during the campaign, in light of new reports that Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was wiretapped.

"Not only did Director Comey and Director Mike Rogers of the NSA say there was no truth to the president being wiretapped at Trump Tower, but the Department of Justice recently confirmed that was false as well," Schiff said on CBS News' "Face the Nation" Sunday.

"I can't comment on whether Mr. Manafort was ever the subject of surveillance of any kind," he added. "Even if he were, though, that doesn't justify or suggest that the president was wiretapped improperly by Barack Obama, so there's no truth to that."

Transcript: Rep. Adam Schiff on "Face the Nation"

Schiff's comments come after CBS News confirmed that Manafort was being monitored by the FBI at the time.

"The allegation that he [Manafort] was reaching out to Russian oligarchs close to Putin, and suggesting that he would offer them useful information to them while he was campaign manager, at the very same time the Russians are reaching out to him to offer information on Hillary Clinton," Schiff said. "That is of deep concern to us."

That surveillance dates back to before Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel to take over the investigation from the FBI.

According to CNN, which first reported the Manafort monitoring, the FBI began the surveillance in 2014, as a result of consulting work done by Washington firms for the pro-Russian party of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

The U.S. government listened in on Manafort's conversations during the presidential campaign and through the election -- though not constantly -- and its surveillance includes the period when Manafort was Mr. Trump's campaign chairman.

As the investigation moves forward, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee also called into question social media's role in the 2016 election, particularly as it relates to Russian influence in the election's results.

"There's a lot we don't know yet about it. I think we know only the minimum of the advertising. And, of course, advertising was only one method the Russians used on social media, and this was only one platform," said Schiff.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday the company is cooperating with Congress' probe by providing details into ads purchased by Russian entities over the course of the campaign.

Schiff added, "But there's also an issue about the use of Facebook's algorithms and the way it tends to potentially reinforce people's informational bias. And this is a problem that goes well beyond Russia."

He told CBS News that Russia used algorithms to "amplify misinformation or slated [sic: should be “slanted,” I’m sure] information" in an effort to bolster then-candidate Trump. He noted however, "it's far broader, and we have to ask, "Is this in our society's interest to create these informational silos?"



MCCONNELL V TRUMP – I DON’T LIKE MCCONNELL ENTIRELY BY ANY MEANS, BUT HE IS NO WEAKLING OR IDIOT, AND APPRECIATES THE FACT THAT THE SENATE HAS CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS OF OVERSIGHT AND A PRIMARY ROLE IN ENACTING LAWS. HE IS RIGHT THAT TRUMP SEEMS TO BE “ENTIRELY UNWILLING TO LEARN THE BASICS OF GOVERNING.” LET’S FACE IT. TRUMP WANTS TO BE EMPEROR. THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT A MONTH OLD, BUT HAS LOTS OF DETAILS THAT ARE INFORMATIVE.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08/donald-trump-mitch-mcconnell-relationship#intcid=dt-recirc-cral2_1
The Senate Rebellion
WHY TRUMP’S WAR ON MCCONNELL COULD IMPERIL HIS PRESIDENCY
The president is alienating the one Republican he needs to advance his agenda—and to save himself from impeachment.
BY TINA NGUYEN
AUGUST 23, 2017 11:20 AM

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The long-simmering tension between Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, which has occasionally boiled over, exploded into public view Tuesday night when The New York Times reported that the two men, who have been sniping at each other publicly in recent weeks, have stopped talking to each other entirely. Their last communication was a “profane” shouting match on August 9, during which Trump reportedly blamed McConnell for the Senate’s failure to repeal Obamacare and ranted about the congressional investigation into alleged collusion between his campaign and Russia. McConnell, for his part, has allegedly said worse when he’s out of earshot: SEE ARTICLE.

Mr. McConnell has fumed over Mr. Trump’s regular threats against fellow Republicans and criticism of Senate rules, and questioned Mr. Trump’s understanding of the presidency in a public speech. Mr. McConnell has made sharper comments in private, describing Mr. Trump as entirely unwilling to learn the basics of governing.

In offhand remarks, Mr. McConnell has expressed a sense of bewilderment about where Mr. Trump’s presidency may be headed, and has mused about whether Mr. Trump will be in a position to lead the Republican Party into next year’s elections and beyond, according to people who have spoken to him directly.

CNN, which confirmed the story with its own sources, suggested that the proximate cause for the falling-out was not Obamacare, but rather McConnell’s failure to protect him from the Russia probe. Whatever the reason, the animosity between the two is already having very real political consequences in Arizona, where Trump is threatening to run candidates against McConnell’s vocally anti-Trump colleague Jeff Flake, who is up for re-election in 2018. The proxy war escalated this week, when the McConnell-backed Senate Leadership Fund released an ad targeting primary challenger Kelli Ward, who recently received the highest honor from Trump: a positive tweet celebrating her candidacy while bashing “Flake Jeff Flake” for being “weak” and “toxic.” The assault continued during Trump’s rally Tuesday night in Phoenix, where Trump bashed both McConnell and Flake.

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The rally, which began just hours after the Times published its story highlighting the Trump-McConnell rift, served as something of a public therapy session for the president, who spent more than an hour ranting and raving at his critics. But Trump’s lack of discipline also comes at a cost. McConnell is considered the ultimate pragmatist, willing to set aside personal grievances to steadfastly advance Republican legislative priorities. That includes working with men like Trump, whom McConnell so clearly holds in contempt. But the Times story, which is clearly sourced primarily from people loyal to the Senate majority leader, suggests that the damage Trump is doing to the G.O.P. agenda has changed McConnell’s political calculus.

Perhaps the most critical detail in the Times report is the insinuation that Trump pressured McConnell to protect him from the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe—a claim that special counsel Robert Mueller will likely be forced to investigate, if he is not already. That could give the F.B.I. more evidence as Mueller’s grand jury moves toward possible indictments, including for obstruction of justice. More important, the entire debacle suggests that Trump has burned a pillar of the political firewall he will need if he is to avoid impeachment.

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NEO-NAZI LEADER MILO IANNOPOULOS HAS FUN WITH HIS FOLLOWERS FOR HALF AN HOUR BEFORE LEAVING CAMPUS. “HE BLEW KISSES, POSED FOR SELFIES AND LED A RENDITION OF "THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER" BEFORE LEAVING.” I HAVE TO ASK, WHAT SORT OF MAN “BLOWS KISSES?” HE HAS ALWAYS LOOKED EFFETE TO ME. IS HE REALLY GAY? YOU BETCHA! I DON’T CARE IF HE’S GAY, BUT ALL THOSE ALT-RIGHTERS TALK AGAINST THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY, AND YET SOME ARE MEMBERS. THE “CONSERVATIVE” COMMUNITY IS AGAINST BEING OPENLY GAY. I PERSONALLY WOULD RATHER HAVE THEM OUT IN THE OPEN RATHER THAN CONFUSING WOMEN BY MAINTAINING AN IMPOSSIBLE AND HOPELESS RELATIONSHIP WITH WOMEN WHO CARE ABOUT THEM. IT’S A TIME WASTER AND A HEART BREAKER.

SEE: HTTPS://WWW.VOX.COM/IDENTITIES/2017/2/20/14668372/MILO-YIANNOPOULOS-GAY-PEDOPHILIA-MYTH. THIS VOX ARTICLE SAYS THAT HE DEFENDS “13 YEAR OLD BOYS HAVING SEX WITH OLDER MEN.” I DO OBJECT TO THAT, AND I THINK IT SHOULD BE A CRIMINAL OFFENSE, AS IT IS.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/milo-yiannopoulos-holds-short-rally-uc-berkeley/
CBS/AP September 24, 2017, 5:16 PM
Milo Yiannopoulos holds short rally at UC Berkeley

Photograph -- Berkeley Police officers stand guard for planned speech by Milo Yiannopoulos in Berkeley, Calif., Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017. DAISY NGUYEN / AP

SAN FRANCISCO -- Milo Yiannopoulos was whisked away in a car after a brief appearance at the University of California, Berkeley, that drew a few dozen supporters and a slightly larger crowd protesting the right-wing provocateur.

Yiannopoulos made a few comments from the steps of Sproul Hall shortly after noon Sunday. He blew kisses, posed for selfies and led a rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" before leaving. The appearance lasted less than a half hour before the crowds dispersed.

Demonstrators protesting it were kept behind barricades by police on Sproul Plaza.

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Berkeley Police officers stand guard for planned speech by Milo Yiannopoulos in Berkeley, Calif., Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017. DAISY NGUYEN / AP

Yiannopoulos said Saturday that he would appear at an unsanctioned rally despite the cancellation of a planned four-day event dubbed Free Speech Week.

When Yiannopoulos last was scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley in February, protests caused more than $100,000 in damage to the campus, and more than a dozen businesses were vandalized in the city's downtown area, CBS San Francisco reports, citing university officials.



THE WHITE HOUSE HAS TRIED TO PRODUCE A LIST HERE THAT IS FAIRER AND MORE LEGALLY ACCEPTABLE. THE METHOD THE WHITE HOUSE FOLLOWED HERE CERTAINLY IS BETTER, BUT I WOULD HAVE PREFERRED A SPECIFIC LIST OF AGENCIES CONSULTED RATHER THAN JUST THE TERM, “VARIOUS.”
“... OFFICIALS SAID THEY WORKED FOR MONTHS ON THE NEW RULES, IN COLLABORATION WITH VARIOUS AGENCIES AND IN CONVERSATION WITH FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-new-travel-ban-enhanced-vetting/
CBS/AP September 24, 2017, 7:40 PM
Trump signs new travel ban with enhanced vetting

President Trump has signed a presidential proclamation with new restrictions on travel to the United States as his existing ban on visitors from six Muslim-majority countries was set to expire Sunday, 90 days after it went into effect, according to senior administration officials.

On a background call about the new restrictions, the officials said restrictions will apply to Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen, which have all been deemed to have "inadequate" identity-management protocols, information-sharing practices, and risk factors. The U.S. is implementing travel limitations and restrictions unique to the foreign nationals of each country.

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke also assessed that Iraq did not meet the baseline but concluded that entry restrictions and limitations under a the [sic] proclamation are not warranted. Duke, according to officials, recommended that nationals of Iraq who seek to enter the United States be subject to additional scrutiny to determine if they pose risks to the national security or public safety of the U.S.

According to officials, the U.S. is easing restrictions on Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Somalia and removed restrictions on Sudan altogether. And it added new restrictions or additional vetting of four new countries found not to be in compliant [sic] with U.S. vetting procedures -- Chad, Iraq, North Korea and Venezuela.

The restrictions on individuals and new countries covered by executive order will not be implemented immediately, They'll take effect October 18, in what senior administration officials called a "phased-in implementation period."

The new order is intended to enhance vetting capabilities and processes for detecting entry to the U.S. by terrorists, as well as other public safety threats.

Countries that were not already in compliant [sic] with the administration's protocols were given 50 days to make improvements.

The officials said that those individuals who are covered by the previous executive order that the president signed but do not benefit from court ordered exceptions will be covered from the time of signature of the proclamation Sunday. The restrictions were a result of a "worldwide review based on a new baseline for information sharing and for vetting procedures for those seeking entry into the U.S.

Senior administration officials say that the ban is currently "condition-based and not time-based," so countries may come off the restricted list at some point. Conversely, DHS may also recommend new countries to the list as they closely monitor necessary compliance. The citizens of countries that refuse to comply with DHS requirements can now face travel restrictions and more stringent screening measures that would last indefinitely, until their governments comply.

DHS had recommended more targeted restrictions on foreign nationals from countries it says have refused to share information with the U.S. or haven't taken necessary security precautions.

The expiring ban barred citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen who lack a "credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States" from entering the U.S.

Unlike Mr. Trump's first travel ban, which sparked chaos at airports across the country and a flurry of legal challenges, officials said they worked for months on the new rules, in collaboration with various agencies and in conversation with foreign governments.

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The recommendations were based on a new baseline developed by DHS that includes factors such as whether countries issue electronic passports with biometric information and share information about travelers' terror-related and criminal histories. The U.S. then shared those benchmarks with every country in the world and gave them 50 days to comply. Most nations met the vetting standards, but others failed to adequately comply. DHS sent its recommendations to the president with the list of noncompliant countries on Sept. 15.

There were roughly 15 countries that were flagged by DHS and alerted by State, CBS News' Margaret Brennan reported, and that number included the six already affected by the prior travel ban.

Mr. Trump last week called for a "tougher" travel ban after a bomb partially exploded on a London subway.

"The travel ban into the United States should be far larger, tougher and more specific-but stupidly, that would not be politically correct!" he tweeted.

Critics have accused the president of overstepping his authority and violating the U.S. Constitution's protections against religious bias. He had called for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" during his campaign.

The administration is still defending the prior ban from lawsuits. Next month, on Oct. 10, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of the revised travel ban. It is not clear what impact this will have on how the high court reviews the legality of the prior six-country ban.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

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SANDERS STATES THAT HIS COMMENTARY IS NOT "A DECLARATION OF WAR," BUT JUST HIS STYLE OF DIPLOMACY. IT IS USEFUL UP TO A CERTAIN POINT, BUT IS ALSO LIKELY TO INVOLVE US IN A REAL CONFLICT. I REALLY WISH HE HADN'T GONE AROUND MEETING OUR ALLIES AND OFFENDING SEVERAL OF THEM. HE SHOULD LET THE DIPLOMACY BE DONE BY DIPLOMATS. WE MAY NEED THEM VERY SOON. THAT'S MY OPINION.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-korea-trump-statement-declaration-of-war-live-updates/
CBS/AP September 25, 2017, 11:18 AM
North Korea calls Trump tweet "a declaration of war"

UNITED NATIONS -- North Korea's top diplomat said Monday that President Trump's tweet that leader Kim Jong Un "won't be around much longer" was "a declaration of war" against his country by the United States.

"This is clearly a declaration of war," Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told reporters through a translator in New York. "... The U.N. Charter stipulates individual member states' rights to self-defense. Since the United States declared war on our country, we will have every right to make countermeasures, including the right to shoot down the United States' strategic bombers even when they're not yet inside the airspace border of our country."

Later, at the White House, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that Mr. Trump's remarks should not be viewed as a declaration of war.

"We've not declared war on North Korea, and frankly the suggestion of that is absurd," Sanders said.

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Sanders also responded to Ri's threat to shoot down American bombers.

"It's never appropriate for a country to shoot down another country's aircraft when it's over international waters," Sanders said. "Our goal is still the same: We continue to seek the peaceful denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. That's our focus, doing that through both the most maximum economic and diplomatic pressures as possible at this point."

Mr. Trump didn't respond to questions from reporters about Ri's comments following an Oval Office ceremony where the president signed a presidential memorandum on funding for science, technology, engineering and math education.

CBS News foreign affairs analyst Pamela Falk reports the North Korean issue was the subject of several talks at the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York, which concluded Monday. Mr. Trump met with the president of South Korea and the prime minister of Japan about North Korea last week.

"The real question is Russia and China," Falk said on CBSN. "Their foreign ministers at this U.N. General Assembly made clear what they want is more diplomatic effort."

Monday was not the first time North Korea has spoken about a declaration of war between the two countries. In July 2016, Pyongyang said U.S. sanctions imposed on Kim were "a declaration of war."

Ri referred Monday to Mr. Trump's tweet Saturday that said: "Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won't be around much longer!"

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Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won't be around much longer!
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Mr. Trump also used the derisive "Rocket Man" reference to Kim in his speech at the U.N. on Sept. 19, but this time he added the word "little."

The foreign minister's brief statement to a throng of reporters outside his hotel before heading off in a motorcade, reportedly to return home, built on the escalating rhetoric between Kim and Mr. Trump.

"The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea," Mr. Trump had told world leaders. "Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime."

Kim responded with the first-ever direct statement from a North Korean leader against a U.S. president, lobbing a string of insults at Mr. Trump and calling him a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard," a word to describe an old person who is weak-minded.

Mr. Trump responded by tweeting that Kim is "obviously a madman who doesn't mind starving or killing his people."

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Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn't mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before!
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Kim retorted that Mr. Trump would "pay dearly" for his threat to destroy North Korea and said his country will consider the "highest level of hard-line countermeasures in history."

Asked about countermeasures, Ri then told reporters in New York that "I think it could be the most powerful detonation of an H-bomb in the Pacific."

In his speech Saturday to the General Assembly, Ri said Mr. Trump's "rocket man" insult makes "our rocket's visit to the entire U.S. mainland inevitable all the more."

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"None other than Trump himself is on a suicide mission," Ri had said. "In case innocent lives of the U.S. are lost because of this suicide attack, Trump will be held totally responsible."

On Monday, Ri escalated the threat.

He opened his remarks to reporters in Korean by saying that over the last few days, the U.N. and the international community clearly have wished "that the war of words between the DPRK and the United States will not turn into real action."

DPRK refers to the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

"However, that weekend, Trump claimed that our leadership wouldn't be around much longer, and ... he declared the war on our country," Ri said.

"Given the fact that this comes from someone who is currently holding the seat of (the) United States presidency, this is clearly a declaration of war," the foreign minister said.

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A man watches a television screen showing President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at the Seoul Train Station in Seoul, South Korea, on Thu., Aug. 10, 2017. AP

He said all U.N. members and the world "should clearly remember that it was the U.S. who first declared war on our country."

Ri then said North Korea now has the right to retaliate against U.S. bombers.

He ended his brief remarks by saying: "The question of who won't be around much longer will be answered then."

Mr. Trump's tweets have sparked or stoked several controversies during the first year of his presidency, including his recent criticism of NFL players who kneel during the national anthem as a form of protest.

Even some of the president's supporters aren't fans of how he uses Twitter, as one told "60 Minutes" special contributing correspondent Oprah Winfrey in a roundtable discussion broadcast Sunday night.

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"I still don't like his attacks, his Twitter attacks, if you will, on other politicians," a man named Tom said. "I don't think that's appropriate. But, at the same time, his actions speak louder than words. And I love what he's doing to this country. Love it."

Meanwhile, North Korea was trying to convince other governments to condemn Mr. Trump for his U.N. speech, CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy reports.

In a letter sent to foreign parliaments, North Korea called Mr. Trump's threat an "intolerable insult," North Korean state media reported, and Ri said Mr. Trump's words made North Korea's "rockets' visit to the U.S. mainland inevitable all the more."

It was not immediately clear which governments had been sent the letter, Tracy reports, but it was part of what appeared to be a new approach of trying to turn Mr. Trump's threats to destroy North Korea against him.

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Also making headlines Monday is North Korea's foreign minister saying that the derisive words Mr. Trump has been using against dictator Kim Jong Un amount to a declaration of war, and the North has the right to retaliate by shooting down U.S. bombers, even in international air space, CBS News' David Martin reports.

Over the weekend, U.S. military planes flew up the coast of North Korea in a show of force. The B-1 bombers and their F-15 fighter escorts flew at night, when any North Korean jet that attempted to intercept them would be at an extreme disadvantage.

And although they flew further north than American combat aircraft have gone in years, they stayed 200 miles off the coast -- out of effective range of North Korean anti-aircraft missiles. In other words, there was very little, if any, risk North Korea could actually shoot down an American bomber.


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CBS NEWS September 25, 2017, 6:23 PM
CBO score released for Graham-Cassidy health care bill

"Millions fewer" people would have comprehensive health insurance over the next decade under the Graham-Cassidy plan to repeal Obamacare, compared with the current baseline projections for every year over the next decade, according to a preliminary analysis released Monday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT).

There are three reasons the CBO cites for the reduction in covered Americans:

Enrollment in Medicaid would be "substantially lower" because of the "large reductions" in funding; Nongroup coverage enrollment woudl drop because of reductions in subsidies; and Enrollment across the board would be lower because of the repeal of the mandates and penalties for not having insurance.

CBO projects that "the decrease in the number of insured people would be particularly large starting in 2020." That's when Graham-Cassidy would make "major changes to funding for Medicaid and the nongroup market." CBO and JCT also expect problems in implementing the plan, as well as market disruptions, because of the short planning time given for planning between now and 2020.

The budget scorekeeper, along with the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, estimate that the legislation would reduce the on-budget deficit by at least $133 billion. An exact number of those without comprehensive health insurance is not yet known due to the last-minute nature of the CBO's score.

The reason for the budget savings is that the federal funding for the new block grants between 2020 and 2026 "would be smaller than the reduction in net federal subsidies for health insurance." Under Graham-Cassidy, funding would "shift away from states that expanded eligibility for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and toward states that did not."

A revised version of the bill, proposed by Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana and Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, was released Sunday night in an effort to win over the senators from Arizona, Alaska, and Maine. It has a new funding formula, CBS News' Nancy Cordes reports, and in this version, those three states will actually end up with more funding than under the previous version. The original version slashed funding for about 35 states.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, remains opposed to the new version, according to this spokesperson. It's unclear if the new version and CBO score will have an impact on the other two Senate Republicans who were opposed to the measure last week -- John McCain of Arizona and Ted Cruz of Texas.

Republicans can only afford two defections since all Democrats are expected to oppose the bill. Republicans need most of their 52-member conference -- at least 50 votes -- to pass the bill. Vice President Mike Pence can break a tie if necessary.

McCain announced in a statement Friday that he opposes the last-ditch effort because it wasn't done through regular order. He helped deliver the deciding blow to GOP leadership's last effort to repeal Obamacare at the end of July, shocking the political world with his thumb's down. McCain, who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer over the summer, delivered a dramatic floor speech the day he returned to the Senate in which he urged members of his own party to return to "regular order" and to seek bipartisan solutions.

Shortly after the release of the CBO's score, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine announced in a statement that she opposes both version of the bill, saying "The CBO's analysis on the earlier version of the bill, incomplete though it is due to time constraints, confirms that this bill will have a substantially negative impact on the number of people covered by insurance."

Collins had told CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday that she wanted to wait until the CBO released its scoring, but said it was hard envisioning getting to "yes" on Graham-Cassidy.

Here's what the CBO said about earlier versions of Obamacare repeals:

Version 2 of BCRA (CBO estimate: July 20): This estimate projected that 22 million more people would become uninsured over the next decade.

Repeal only (CBO estimate: July 19): That estimate projected that 32 million more people would become uninsured over the next decade. It also said that 17 million more people would become uninsured next year, compared to current law.

Version 1 of BCRA (CBO estimate, June 26): The original version of BCRA would have left 22 million more people uninsured over the next 10 years.

House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA) (CBO estimate: May 24): That projection from May, based on the House bill, projected that 23 million more people would be left uninsured over that same time period.


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Bob Dylan ( born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American poetic songwriter, singer, painter, writer, and Nobel prize laureate. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when his songs chronicled social unrest. Early songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war movement. Leaving behind his initial base in the American folk music revival, his six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone", recorded in 1965, enlarged the range of popular music.

Dylan's lyrics incorporate a wide range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed to the burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the performances of Little Richard and the songwriting of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Dylan has amplified and personalized musical genres. His recording career, spanning more than 50 years, has explored the traditions in American song—from folk, blues, and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and the Great American Songbook. Dylan performs with guitar, keyboards, and harmonica. Backed by a changing lineup of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed the Never Ending Tour. His accomplishments as a recording artist and performer have been central to his career, but his songwriting is considered his greatest contribution. Since 1994, Dylan has also published seven books of drawings and paintings, and his work has been exhibited in major art galleries
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