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Art of the deal? White House walks back Trump's gun control comments after meeting with NRA

Denis Slattery
NY Daily News
Fri, 02 Mar 2018 14:07 UTC
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump is "interested in in improving" background checks on Friday.
The White House walked back several of President Trump's comments on gun control Friday - hours after the commander-in-chief met with officials from the National Rifle Association.

Trump made no promises to NRA leaders during a Thursday night Oval Office meeting, but vowed to "continue to support the Second Amendment," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.

Sanders sought to tame expectations after Trump's wide array of promises and proposals, made in the wake of the country's latest school shooting, on gun-related legislation.
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Putin honors Russian Olympic medalists, as IOC lifts doping ban post games

Patrick Reevell
ABC News
Wed, 28 Feb 2018 18:15 UTC
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Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Russian ice hockey player and gold medalist of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games Ivan Telegin during an award ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, Feb. 28, 2018.
Russia's president Vladimir Putin held a triumphant homecoming party in the Kremlin for Russian Winter Olympics medal-winners today, as the doping ban on the country competing in the Olympics was lifted.

An International Olympic Committee statement said the body was lifting the suspension of Russia's national Olympic committee with immediate effect, after the final anti-doping samples from Russian athletes at Pyeongchang Olympics came back negative.

News of the decision to reinstate Russia came just as athletes were gathering for the award ceremony at the Kremlin, where it was met with evident satisfaction. Putin feted the athletes, toasting champagne with them after pinning Russian state honors on the medal-winners.
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Schumer slammed by colleagues for citing skin color in vote against white judicial nominee

Nicole Darrah
Fox News
Fri, 02 Mar 2018 18:03 UTC
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Sen. Chuck Schumer (L) Marvin Quattlebaum (R)
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer faced a stern rebuke from congressional colleagues for citing skin color in voting against a white federal judge nominee earlier this week.

Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the Senate floor Wednesday that the nomination of Marvin Quattlebaum, a white lawyer who is a partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough in Greenville, S.C., "speaks to the overall lack of diversity in President Trump's selections for the federal judiciary."

Sen. Chuck Schumer on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration's nomination of Marvin Quattlebaum because he's white. Schumer argued the nomination "speaks to the overall lack of diversity in President Trump's selections for the federal judiciary."

He complained that many of Trump's nominees have been white males. He also complained that Republicans previously held up two black judges nominated under the Obama administration for the position -- which The Post and Courier notes has long been vacant.
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Putin: We need facts, not 'yelling and hollering' in response to 'meddling' indictment against 13 Russians


RT
Sun, 04 Mar 2018 17:45 UTC
Vladimir Putin interview
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The US should give Russia evidence about the alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election and the 13 Russians indicted for it, President Putin said. Without evidence, the accusations are nothing but "yelling and hollering."

"We cannot respond to that if they do not violate Russian laws," the Russian leader told NBC's Megyn Kelly in an interview broadcast on Friday. In mid-February, the US Justice Department indicted 13 Russian individuals and three firms over suspected interference in the US election process. They were accused of "supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump...and disparaging Hillary Clinton."

"I have to see first what they've done. Give us materials, give us information," Putin said.
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Trump praises Chinese efforts to extend term limits for Xi Jinping, says US might want to adopt multi-term presidencies


RT
Sun, 04 Mar 2018 17:22 UTC
Donald Trump and China's President Xi
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US President Donald Trump has again invoked wrath online after reports that he praised the Chinese ruling party's move to repeal presidential term limits. Trump supposedly believes this makes Xi Jinping "president for life."

The US leader reportedly let the remark slip during a fundraiser he was hosting at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Saturday. The story was reported by CNN, which claims to have obtained a recording.

"He's now president for life. President for life. And he's great," Trump reportedly said of Xi, referring to the reports that China's Communist Party proposal to repeal term limits can end up in a lifelong presidency for the Chinese leader. "And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll give that a shot some day," he added, according to CNN, which reported Trump was in high spirits as he made the triggering remark.


Comment: The libtards are of course freaking out at Trump's comments, but if they stopped to think for a minute, they'd come to see that the West desperately needs to get out of its 'liberal democracy' model, which is clearly ossified, decrepit, and at least partly why it's failing. Western democracy after Western democracy is producing election results that have hung parliaments, impossible coalitions, then more expensive elections.

If one good man is all that is available, and all that is needed, then why chuck away a perfectly good (or just reasonably good) leader after just 8 or 10 years?

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War of words over trade escalates: Trump threatens EU with car tariffs


RT
Sun, 04 Mar 2018 17:07 UTC
Donald Trump
© Jim Bourg / Reuters
US President Donald Trump says he will impose a tax on European car imports if the EU raises tariffs on incoming American goods, accusing his predecessors of leaving the US hostage to "very stupid" trade deals.

"If the E.U. wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers on U.S. companies doing business there, we will simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the U.S. They make it impossible for our cars (and more) to sell there. Big trade imbalance!" Trump tweeted on Saturday. The tweet came after news media reported that Brussels was considering putting a 25 percent tariff on US imports, and European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker said they would target "Harley-Davidson, bourbon and blue jeans."
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Behind the Headlines: Putin The World To Rights: Russia's New Nuclear Weapons And The End of 'Unipolarity'


Sott.net
Sun, 04 Mar 2018 17:00 UTC
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"I warned you this would happen."
President Putin's 'state of the union' address to Russian legislators this week included an unusually blunt message to the self-styled 'masters of the universe' in Washington, DC: "You never listen to us. Now, you listen!"

Taking the opportunity to announce the completion of an overhaul of Russia's strategic nuclear arsenal, including some new hi-tech weaponry that he claims is unstoppable by any other military systems, Putin put the smack down on American pretensions to single-handedly ruling the world.

This week on Behind the Headlines, we'll discuss the significance of this development for world affairs, along with our regular round-up of recent events on the Big Blue Marble.

We're live from 12 noon - 1:30pm US Eastern, 5pm - 6:30pm UTC, 6 - 7:30pm Central European, this Sunday March 4th, 2018. If you can't tune in then, download the show from the Sott Radio Network archive!

Running Time: 01:44:27

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China warns will 'take necessary measures' if US starts trade war


RT
Sun, 04 Mar 2018 16:50 UTC
Chinese steel mill
© Jianan Yu / Reuters
Beijing is not going to "sit idly" if Washington's actions damage Chinese interests, and will take "necessary measures," the spokesman for the National People's Congress has warned.

China shrugged off a trade war with the US, but is prepared to retaliate if necessary, a former Chinese ambassador to the US and the spokesman for the country's parliament, Zhang Yesui, told reporters on Sunday.

"China doesn't want a trade war with the United States," Zhang said. "But if the US takes actions that hurt Chinese interests, China will not sit idly by and will take necessary measures."

The statement comes as US President Donald Trump announced plans to impose an import tax of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum earlier this week.
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A 4th term: Social Democrat members approve 'grand coalition' with Merkel


RT
Sun, 04 Mar 2018 16:44 UTC
Angela Merkel
© Axel Schmidt / Reuters
German's center-left Social Democrats (SPD) have agreed to form a grand coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's party, the CDU, after months of political uncertainty. The deal was reached despite divisions within the SPD.

Some 66 percent of the SPD members approved entering a coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party Christian Social Union (CSU), the social democrats' official confirmed on Sunday after a postal ballot.

Almost 464,000 members were eligible for voting, with a total of 378,437 having cast their ballot, NTV reports.

"We now have clarity," SPD chief Olaf Schols announced in the party's HQ in Berlin. He added that he'll work on putting a cabinet together this week. Scholz has already informed Merkel on his party fellows' decision. The acting Chancellor congratulated the SPD on the "clear result,"saying she is looking forward to continuing work with the Social Democrats. If the Social Democrat members voted against the talks, it would almost certainly trigger fresh elections that could end Merkel's 12-year leadership of the country.
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Homeland Security Committee Chairman wants to know why FBI waited weeks to act on Weiner laptop in Clinton case

Brooke Singman
Fox News
Sun, 04 Mar 2018 14:16 UTC
Ron Johnson, R-Wis Weiner huma abedin
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Ron Johnson, R-Wis (L) Anthony Weiner (R)
Huma Abedin could be in potential legal trouble as watchdog reveals at least 18 classified emails in the 798 documents recently produced by the State Department in Clinton email probe were found on estranged husband Anthony Weiner's laptop.

A Republican senator is pressing for answers on why the FBI waited weeks to act after the 2016 discovery of thousands of emails on ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner's laptop that potentially were relevant to the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., fired off a letter Thursday to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein asking about the timeline, citing texts between two key FBI investigators.
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