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Now, it is the new year, but diplomacy continues between the United States and North Korea.

U.S. special representative Stephen Biegun has been meeting with officials here in South

Korea since he arrived on Sunday.

And now we know that he'll be going to the North tomorrow... to meet with his counterparts

there.

Our Lee Ji-won tells us more.

The U.S. State Department released a media note on Monday, saying that its special representative

for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, will travel to Pyeongyang on February 6th to meet with

his North Korean counterpart Kim Hyok-chol.

It said the meeting is to prepare for the upcoming second summit between North Korean

leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump, and also to try and make more progress

on the commitments the two leaders made at their Singapore summit...

namely: complete denuclearization, transforming North Korea-U.S. relations, and building a

lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula.

Biegun's travel route has not yet been announced.

By car,... it would take around 4 hours, so there's a possibility that Biegun will fly.

And, according to a South Korean official, there's a high chance that Biegun will be

spending the night in the North.

Their denuclearization talks will likely focus on North Korea's dismantlement of its plutonium

and uranium enrichment facilities "beyond" Yeongbyeon nuclear center, and Washington's

corresponding measures to that.

Speaking at Stanford University last week, Biegun said Kim Jong-un committed to the destruction

of these complex of sites "and more," in addition to international experts' verification of

the complete dismantlement of the missle test site at Dongchang-ri and the nuclear test

site at Punggye-ri.

Biegun also mentioned a need for a complete understanding of the full extent of North

Korea's weapons of mass destruction missile programs, reaching an agreement on expert

access and monitoring mechanisms to international standards and ultimately, ensuring the removal

and destruction of fissile material, weapons, missiles and launchers.

On the other hand, it's said that some of the measures being considered by the U.S....

are establishing a joint liaison office, declaring an end to the Korean War,... and providing

humanitarian aid.

And there's also a hint of the North's much coveted economic benefits,... as Biegun said,

regarding sanctions relief, that (quote) "we didn't say we won't do anything until you

do everything."

Lee Ji-won, Arirang News.

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Trump Wants US Troops In Iraq To "Spy" On Iran - Duration: 3:25.

As is customary on Sunday before the superbowl, Donald Trump gave an interview to CBS news

that was actually recorded last Friday.

During this interview, Donald Trump made it clear that he has no idea how the intelligence

community works.

He has no idea how the military works, and more importantly, he has no idea how foreign

policy works.

During that interview with CBS, Donald Trump said that he wants to leave our troops in

Iraq, which has actually become a big issue for the United States because Iraq is ready

for us to get the hell out of there, but Donald Trump says he's going to leave them there

first and foremost, because we just built an amazing military base there and he wants

it to be used, but more importantly because he wants our military to be able to keep a

close eye on Iran, you know, basically spy on them, make sure they're not getting into

any trouble over there, and if they do, our troops right there at that beautiful new military

base are ready to go at a moment's notice to start yet a nother unwinnable war for the

United States.

Here's the thing, during the campaign, Donald Trump told us that sending US military into

Iraq was a horrid idea and he was correct about that.

That is something that he was actually right about.

He also said we weren't going to stay there though, and yet here we are two years into

his presidency and he says, no, I want to keep them there.

So not only are we just going to leave our troops there when they could be coming home,

uh, but I'm also going to basically keep them on notice to be watching Iran out their windows

and if they see something, say something so we can go shoot something that's essentially

donald Trump's foreign policy right now.

Uh, another important point to make here is the fact that if you actually want them to

spy on, on another country, shouldn't you not say that in the media?

I mean, really, how dumb can you get if the real reason was for them to sit there and

spy and you just announced it to millions upon millions of people, don't you think Iran

now knows what you're up to?

Is it that really, really bad strategy?

Another important point to make is the fact that you didn't need to have troops in Iraq

to make sure that we knew what was happening with Iran.

We actually kind of had a framework.

We had a deal.

We had an agreement, worked out with them that would have allowed us to keep a closer

eye on them and make sure they're not developing nuclear weapons.

But you know what happened?

You pulled us out of that.

You took the United States out.

We had the opportunity to do what you want it to do, which is prevent a nuclear Iran

and keep a closer watch on them, and yet you are the human being who said, nope, I don't

like it because Obama did it, and now you're scared.

Now you're confused, and now you're showing the entire planet what an entirely incompetent

and downright stupid human being.

You truly are.

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Is to strike a deal on border security the president Trump will sign before there's another government shutdown

Joining me now two members of that committee from Texas Democratic congressman Henry Cuellar whose districts

It's right on the border with Mexico

And he says he opposes any money for a new barrier and here in Washington Republican Senator John Hoeven

He says there has to be money for a wall and gentlemen, welcome to both of you to Fox News Sunday. Thanks, Chris

President Ron. Thank you

So much has been very pessimistic about the prospects that your committee is going to be able to come up with a compromising

Compromise including funding for the wall and the here he is on Thursday. I

Don't expect much coming out of the committee because I keep hearing the words that will give you what you want

But we're not going to give you all and the problem is if they don't give us a woman doesn't work without a wall

It's just a word

Senator Hoeven is this as the president has been saying this week a waste of time?

What do you think of the are the prospects the chances that you can come up with a deal?

You only got 12 days left less than two weeks to give the president something he can sign

I think the president's trying to push the process along and you know, you need to I mean, we only have until February 15

I think we can get to a solution, but it does need to include

Barrier funding it needs to include personnel technology and funding for a border barrier

Congressman Cuellar here is Speaker Pelosi this week

There's not going to be any war money in the legislation

Congressman is this a semantic game that you're not going to support a wall? But you would

support a

barrier

Where are you on that or is it the no physical barrier at all?

Well, you know certainly I want to make sure we emphasize the

Deficiencies that we might eat down there are more personnel more technology

Well, we first of all we're not gonna have a wall now. Can we look at some sort of enhance barrier?

That's something we can certainly look at, but I have to say living on the border

You have to let the local Border Patrol chief have to say so and let the local communities be involved

So they can come up with maybe maybe some sort of enhance barrier

But again Washington cannot dictate what sort of barrier and where to put it at well

Let me just make sure I understand though because a lot of the Border Patrol

People have been saying they want to see at least in some areas enhanced a barrier

So are you saying that you and the other Democrats on this conference committee could support the kind of?

Fencing we just put up some pictures of it the you know, very tall 30-foot tall fencing that the president has been talking about

No, no, no notice what I said is that

The local moral Patrol chief should make that local

Assessment of the threat and then you let the local communities have a say sure but Washington is not going to say

Is going to say what sort of barrier they're gonna have

Again, I don't believe in the wall

I think the wall of support team century solution the way the president is saying the president is

Looking at a false premise. He thinks that the only way you secure the border is by a hedge

It's an invasion like you've never seen before

You talk about heroin

90% of the heroin coming into our country. I having a wall that is a false premise

There's other ways of securing the border. Well senator Hoeven you hear you're on the same panel

Is that congressman Cuellar? Do you hear the basis for a possible deal there or not?

That's why I proposed at our meeting this week that we bring in the Border Patrol

Professionals and we're going to do that next week chairman Shelby's agreed on the Senate side

We're working to get chairman LOI to agree as well. And then we want the

including the sector Chiefs to come in and say why they need border barrier as well as

Personnel and technology and take some of the politics out of the equation

Let me continue with you senator Hoeven because president Trump suggested this week that he may just give up on

the work of your committee and declare

national emergency either

During or just after his State of the Union speech. Here he is

We will be looking at a national emergency because I don't think anything's gonna happen

I think the Democrats don't want mortar security. Listen closely to the State of the Union. I think you'll find it very exciting

senator Hoeven

Would that be a mistake for the president?

To preempt and not give you until February 15th to work out a deal and how do you feel about the whole idea of?

declaring a national emergency in the first place

One of your Republican colleagues senator Rubio says you set that precedent. You're gonna get a Democratic president someday. This is well

We need a national emergency to redirect funds on climate change

Well, the best solution is getting to one where Congress puts together a funding package for border security including all three components as I've laid

Out that is acceptable to the House the Senate and to the president. That's the best solution

There have been something like 58

Emergencies declared under the national emergency act going all the way back to 1979 and President Carter

I think 31 of those are still enforced

So I think what the president is saying is if we don't compromise and he's put compromise on the table real compromise things that Democrats

Want but if we can't get compromise on a speaker posting get to a good solution

Then he would be forced to go the national emergency route

Congressman Cuellar, we have the State of the Union speech on Tuesday

What will be the response from House Democrats in the House chamber on Tuesday if the president stands?

There with Nancy Pelosi right over his shoulder and declares a national emergency

Look what he says there's an emergency. Let me give this analogy

If you have a fire, you're gonna send the fire department right there

You're not gonna say, you know, if I don't get this I will send the fire department if yet if you don't do this

I threaten you with it with this emergency

That's not an emergency by nature the way he's been laying. This any reasonable judge is going to say this

It's not an emergency. And if you look at the emergency what he talks about, you know our border area

I live in the border. It's safer than most areas that I've used numbers before FBI stats will show that the

National murder rate is 5.3 murders per 100,000

The border cities are lower than that. In fact, Washington DC is about 3 or 4 times more dangerous

Than no rate of my hometown. So again, he knows it's not emergency. He's using the threat as

Leverage to get a wall. He's not gonna get that fourteenth-century

Solution called the wall. It's a fault a fault

Ok

Let's get off the politics both of you and let's talk about the the merits of the issue and I've got some statistics here

first of all

Let's talk about the effectiveness of physical barriers when they were put up in the Yuma Arizona sector

arrest for illegal crossings fell 94 percent in three years

From a hundred thirty eight thousand to eight thousand when barriers went up in San Diego arrests fell eighty percent in seven years

from over half a million to a hundred thousand

congressman Cuellar

you voted for

fencing in an

Appropriations bill last year, 1.3 billion dollars for fencing so why all this resistance to physical barriers now?

Well, let's look at the effectiveness and the cost-effectiveness of a wall if you put

Barriers rather than a wall, okay

Okay, let's call a barrier. But let's call it a fence. Let's go in the middle offense

Okay

If you look at the cost of let's look at the cost of one mile of technology it will cause one

to two million dollars per mile one mile of fencing

is going to cost twenty five to twenty six million dollars if you look at every border patrol chief since

Bush Obama and Trump when I've asked them this question of appropriation how much time does a fence by you?

That means how that slowed them down

They all have said quote a few minutes or a few seconds

If you look at Border Patrol in the Union the Border Patrol

Before 2012 said that a wall was useless because they can go ahead go under go

Around and rise a waste of taxpayers dollars

Let me let me bring in senator Hoeven

because the president keeps calling this a crisis and I want to look at some statistics on that and this brings up some

measures that

That congressman Cuellar talked about in 2000 the Border Patrol stopped

1.6 million people 19 years ago last year. They arrested just a quarter as many less than

400,000 and

2/3 of the new people here illegally each year or visa overstays not people who cross the border illegally

So I guess two questions

One, is there a crisis on the southern border and two whatever you want to call it? What a wall stop it

Anyway, well it is a crisis and the numbers are going back up

If you look we're now going back up to 50 or 60 thousand people coming every month

200,000 over the last four months so you can see that this number is going back up and it's not just people coming here illegally

Look at the drug flow. Look at the human trafficking gangs ms-13

this is something we've got to get a handle on and that's why you need all three components border barrier as well as

technology and personnel

it's like a three-legged stool and the Border Patrol will tell you that which is why go back to what I'm

Trying to get done and you're gonna see it happen this week Chris bring the Border Patrol

Professionals in let's hear from them what they need why they need well, okay

I'm gonna try and step back for a man with only got about two minutes left, but senator Hoeven

congressman Cuellar

Talk to each other. I mean, what's the basis for a deal? Sure. I have been to Laredo with congressman Cuellar

He is a good man, and I think we can get to a solution here

But we are going to have to have all three in a way that we can agree on

I'm certainly willing to fund personnel and technology. We've got to have some money for barrier as well

Are you willing to do all of those things congressman?

Well, I'm certainly want to sit down with with the senator John and other members because I feel that if we don't get outside pressure

The committee can sit down and work this out

appropriators or you know as you know in, Washington

There's Republicans Democrats and there's appropriators both in the house and the Senate we can we can work out a deal

I know we can sit down and work it if we just don't get in the outside pressure

do what we need to do and I feel that the the process as

appropriators houses Senate Democrats Republicans now and having these phenomenal

304,000 jobs at it and

We had so many great bumps and you know, it's been a little bit tricky because I'm in the middle

you

You

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Trumps State of the Union address promises epic political drama Politics

The theater that unfolds in the House chamber on Tuesday will encapsulate a turbulent moment in Americas story, resonate with clashing political egos and paint a picture of stark national divides and accelerating demographic change.

Dominating the spotlight, where he loves to be, will be a who believes hes unfairly treated but whose grasps for personal glory often alienate all but his most loyal followers and make the recognition he craves ever more elusive.

Looking over Trumps shoulder, literally and metaphorically, will be new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is using her Democratic majoritys investigative muscle to complicate the Presidents political life and peg back his power.

That hostile Democratic caucus will be staring right back at Trump as he gives his speech, depriving him of the adoration he gets from restorative crowds of Make America Great Again fans at campaign rallies.

The transformative power of the midterm elections will be written on the faces of the most diverse House majority in history in terms of race and gender, while the Republican half of the chamber will look mostly white, male and middle aged.

Democrats will stress the comparison by enlisting , who narrowly failed to be elected as the first black woman governor of any state, to deliver their State of the Union response.

And watching Trump from the House will be 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, including Sens. Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand, no doubt dreaming of soon taking his spot on the podium.

White House: Listen to the message, not the man

Aides say Trump will, unusually, respect tradition in his speech and call for unity as predecessors have done in the century since the custom of in person State of the Union addresses was revived by President Woodrow Wilson.

He will call for "an end to the politics of resistance and retribution," his counselor Kellyanne Conway told reporters on Monday. She said people should "should listen to the message, not always just look at the messenger."

Therein lies Trumps constant battle. He more than anyone is the master of the politics of retribution and his attempts to shoulder the burden of national leadership have often been undermined by his explosive character and rhetoric.

Trumps evocation of a common American mission could be easily forgotten if he slips into his scorching rhetoric on immigration.

However sincere he is on working with Democrats to cut the cost of prescription drugs or to repair infrastructure, a few searing lines on the border wall may be all that most people remember.

"Sometimes he is his own worst enemy, " said Aaron Kall, director of debate at the University of Michigan, who edited the book "The State of the Union Is .... "

"We saw it with the inaugural address, the line American carnage after that , it was known as the American carnage speech and was all the focus on how dark and somber the tone was," Kall said.

Still, Trumps appearance is a golden opportunity to spend an unfiltered hour with the American people at a time when his presidency itself is under threat from the Russia probe and when a majority of voters oppose him.

The President is adamant that he has a great story to tell. He said in an interview with CBS News that hes doing "the best job of any president, in the history of our country, for the first two years."

And no one, not even boom time Presidents such as Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan to tout in a State of the Union address to match Trumps even if critics chafe at rising inequality.

Theres a good case to be made that Trump should talk about nothing else than an economy that pumped out an last week.

But on other issues, wins seen by Trump and his supporters as his top achievements alienate other voters. Thats especially true of the border wall that has almost mystical significance in Trump country and is seen as an immoral affront to US values by opponents.

Trumps tax plan is the great legislative success of his presidency but for Democrats its a massive give away for the rich. The turmoil in Washington delights Trump fans but its just chaos for everyone else. And by highlighting his biggest win last year the seating of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh Trump will reopen toxic divides.

The polarization that will limit the power of Trumps calls for unity was visible in the

Trump goes into the State of the Union address in his third year with the lowest approval rating of any President of the last 60 years apart from Reagan, though the Gipper did win a landslide the following year.

The big question a constant one in his presidency is whether Trump will seek to speak to the skeptics or prioritize the 40 percent of devoted supporters in the CNN poll who embrace his anti elite crusade.

Shutdown angst lingers

Trump will arrive on Capitol Hill at a raw moment. Just over a week ago his capitulation ended a government shutdown that he triggered to get funding for his wall. Unless Democrats agree to fold, a new shutdown could begin in 10 days or Trump could ignite the most serious constitutional conflagration of his presidency by declaring a national emergency to build the wall.

Encapsulating Trumps self made box on immigration, a staggering 78 percent of conservative Republicans think Trump should shutter the government again to get wall funding even though the shutdown was a political disaster for him.

Given that she infuriated Trump by postponing the State of the Union during the shutdown, the body language and the maneuvering between Trump and Pelosi will be fascinating.

Perhaps the President, in unifier mode, will offer the speaker an olive branch despite calling her "very bad for our country" in a Super Bowl interview.

Or will he try to crank up political pressure on her by offering a concession? He could, perhaps offer a path to citizenship for DACA recipients that Democrats really want, which could spur calls for wall funding in return. But whatever Trump says will impact congressional negotiations on immigration meant to head off another shutdown.

"If he wants to emphasize bipartisanship and look ahead to the coming year, he could talk about broader issues of immigration reform," said Theresa Cardinal Brown of the Bipartisan Policy Center.

"The issue with immigration has been that he proposes some ideas that could possibly have bipartisan support then puts some things on the table that are just not going to be workable across the aisle," she said.

Possible poison pills include Trumps proposed changes to family based and diversity visas and changes to asylum law.

A White House official said aides hoped the President could use the address to present himself to Americans as the "adult at the table" after the shutdown imbroglio, so he will not be heavily partisan.

The special counsel who must not be named

Trump faces a delicate assignment in dealing with the cloud hovering over his appearance in the shape of that some Democrats believe could lead to impeachment.

He would be advised to replicate President Bill Clintons attitude after his impeachment and before his Senate trial when he didnt mention the elephant in the room during his 1999 State of the Union address.

Trump is unlikely to adopt the approach of President Richard Nixon in 1974 when he called for investigations against him to end, with the ultimately futile statement: "One year of Watergate is enough."

State of the Union addresses are typically long lists of proposals for government action and statements of foreign policy goals meant to be heard by Americas foes and friends around the world.

Any White House agenda would likely be dead on arrival in Pelosis House.

But Trump is expected to lay out potential compromises on issues like prescription drugs prices and the classic program that everyone favors but never gets done infrastructure repair.

The Presidents aggressive foreign policy moves regarding Venezuela and Iran will likely headline the foreign policy portion of the speech. There may also be hints of progress in talks to defuse a trade war with China. Trump may also confirm Vietnam as host of his second summit with North Koreas Kim Jong Un.

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US| Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes first public appearance since cancer surgery The Washington Post - Duration: 4:45.

US| Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes first public appearance since cancer surgery The Washington Post

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Monday night made her first public appearance since undergoing cancer surgery in December, attending a celebration of her life presented in song.

The 85 year old justice attended a production of Notorious RBG in Song at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington. The program about Ginsburgs life in the law was created and performed by Ginsburgs daughter in law, the soprano Patrice Michaels, and presented for high school students by the National Constitution Center.

Ginsburg did not speak, and many in the crowd did not know she was there. She sat in the back, and most saw her only as they left the performance. Michaels did not announce her presence.

Ginsburg had not made public appearances since undergoing a pulmonary lobectomy Dec. 21 after doctors discovered cancerous nodules in her left lung. Recovery from such surgery , according to medical specialists, and Ginsburg, for the first time since joining the court in 1993, missed a round of oral arguments in ­January.

Some on the extreme political right had insisted that the justices ailments were graver than the Supreme Court has acknowledged, suggesting it would be an ominous sign if she skipped President Trumps State of the Union address Tuesday night.

Actually, it would be more like par for the course. Ginsburg did not attend either of Trumps previous speeches to Congress.

The court has said that although Ginsburg missed oral arguments last month, she will vote in the cases based on briefs and transcripts and that she has participated from home in deciding which cases the court has accepted for its docket and rejected, and in some emergency decisions.

The courts last statement on her health, released Jan. 11, said: Her recovery from surgery is on track. Post surgery evaluation indicates no evidence of remaining disease, and no further treatment is required.

Ginsburg has spoken with the filmmakers who on Jan. 22 were nominated for an Academy Award for their documentary RBG. Her son James, who was at Monday nights performance, said Ginsburg walks a mile a day and is working with her trainer again.

The court meet next in public session on Feb. 19.

Despite her appearance Monday night, it is unlikely that Ginsburg will go to the Capitol on Tuesday. Few things are mandatory for a Supreme Court justice, and attending the State of the Union address is not one of them.

Justice Clarence Thomas has not been since 2009. Justice Antonin Scalia was in the midst of a two decade hiatus when he died in 2016. Justice Stephen G. Breyer has an almost perfect attendance record, but when he contracted the flu, it meant that not a single member of the court showed for President Bill Clintons January 2000 address.

Ginsburg has attended past State of the Union addresses — television cameras have caught her napping at several.

But Ginsburg, who created controversy when Trump was a candidate by calling him a faker and expressing distress about the possibility of his election, has not attended Trumps events. She skipped his first speech to Congress in January 2017 and was out of town at a speaking appearance last year, something she accepted before the date was announced.

She has attended White House events for her two newest colleagues nominated by Trump — Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh — and the president tweeted his well wishes after her surgery.

Ginsburg, who was chosen for the court by Clinton, appears to have a more partisan attendance record than most justices.

She did not show for any State of the Union address given by President George W. Bush, whose election was secured by the courts decision in Bush v. Gore. The Bush years in general were the low point for Supreme Court attendance; sometimes, Breyer was the lone attendee.

On the other hand, Ginsburg made all of President Barack Obamas speeches. She attended only some of those by Clinton.

In 2009, Ginsburg said she had attended that years presidential address for a specific reason. She had just undergone surgery for early stage pancreatic cancer, and Sen. Jim Bunning R Ky. had told an audience that Ginsburg might not be around much longer.

First, I wanted people to see that the Supreme Court isnt all male, Ginsburg, then the only female justice, told USA Today. I also wanted them to see I was alive and well, contrary to that senator who said Id be dead within nine months.

Bunning, who apologized for his remarks, died in 2017.

Ginsburgs absence from the public spotlight has been noticeable, in part because she is among the courts most visible members. The Supreme Court is on its regularly scheduled winter break, and Ginsburg has canceled scheduled speaking events.

Theres a Twitter hashtag — WheresRuth — and some on the right have demanded that she present herself.

Still no sign, former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka wrote on Twitter last week. 6 days left until Ruth Bader Ginsberg has to make her official appearance at @realDonaldTrumps State of the Union. Gorka .

Even those justices who regularly attend the speeches — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Elena Kagan have perfect records — acknowledge the awkwardness of the event, where they are supposed to remain stoic while all around them members of Congress cheer and jeer.

To the extent the State of the Union has degenerated into a political pep rally, Im not sure why we are there, Roberts once said.

Thomas . Its very uncomfortable for a judge to sit there, he said during a question and answer session at Stetson University College of Law:

Theres a lot that you dont hear on TV — the catcalls, the whooping and hollering and under the breath comments. One of the consequences is now the court becomes part of the conversation, if you want to call it that, in the speeches. Its just an example of why I dont go.

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US| Trumps personal secretary blasts leak of the presidents private schedule as breach of trust Da

Trumps personal secretary has blasted the person who leaked the presidents private schedule, calling the move a disgraceful breach of trust. 

Madeleine Westerhout, 28, is also the Director of Oval Office Operations and took to Twitter Sunday night to defend the president against a report that revealed Trump spent 60 per cent of the last three months in executive time. 

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders explained that Trumps executive or unstructured time, was spent in scheduled meetings, events, and calls, adding that there is time to allow for a more creative environment that has helped make him the most productive President in modern history. 

What a disgraceful breach of trust to leak schedules, the 28 year old tweeted. What these dont show are the hundreds of calls and meetings @realDonaldTrump takes everyday. This POTUS is working harder for the American people than anyone in recent history.

Madeleine Westerhout, Trumps personal secretary, tweeted in defense of the president Sunday saying hes working harder for the American people than anyone in recent history

Westerhout called the leak a disgraceful breach of trust Sunday afternoon

Schedules leaked to show the president spent around 60 percent of his scheduled time over the past three months in executive time.

Hes always calling people, talking to people, a senior White House official told the news website. Hes always up to something; its just not what you would consider typical structure.  

Trump is an early riser and usually spends the first five hours of the day in executive time. 

Sanders also hit out at critics, saying that Trump had a different leadership style and needed to create a creative environment.

President Trump has a different leadership style than his predecessors and the results speak for themselves. 

Madeleine Westerhout, 28, is also the Director of Oval Office Operations pictured with press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders

 President Trump has ignited a booming economy with lower taxes and higher wages, established the USA as the 1 producer of oil and gas in the world, remade our judiciary, rebuilt our military, and renegotiated better trade deals. Its indisputable that our country has never been stronger than it is today under the leadership of President Trump.

While the leaked schedules shows Trump in the Oval Office from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m, the president is never in the Oval Office during those hours, six sources told .

Instead, he in the residence, watching TV, reading the newspapers, tweeting, and phoning aides, members of Congress, friends, administration officials and informal advisers, the news website reported.

The presidents first meeting of the day is usually around 11 or 11:30 a.m., according to the leaked schedules, and is often an intelligence briefing or 30 minutes with his chief of staff.

Since Nov. 7, which is the day after the 2018 midterm election, the president has spent around 297 hours in Executive Time, to Axios count of  51 private schedules.

He also had 77 hours scheduled for meetings.  

President Donald Trump spent 60 percent of the last three months in executive time, leaked schedules revealed

But cautioned, not all the presidents meetings are reflected on his schedule because many of his them are spur of the moment, according to senior White House officials. 

President Trump has a different leadership style than his predecessors and the results speak for themselves, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told the news website in a statement.

While he spends much of his average day in scheduled meetings, events, and calls, there is time to allow for a more creative environment that has helped make him the most productive President in modern history.

Former chief of staff John Kelly invented Executive Time because the president hated being locked into a regular schedule and wanted more flexibility.

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US NEWS | Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax denies assault allegation as Ralph Northam mulls quitting - Duration: 2:56.

US NEWS | Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax denies assault allegation as Ralph Northam mulls quitting

Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax — who would become governor if embattled Gov. Ralph Northam resigns due to controversy over a racist yearbook photo — on Monday denied an assault allegation that had been investigated by The Washington Post previously.

Fairfaxs denial, which was posted on Twitter at around 3 a.m. ET Monday, came soon after conservative site Big League Politics published a story about a possible sexual assault allegation against Fairfax by a woman.

Big League Politics is page, sparking widespread and bipartisan calls for the governors resignation.

Fairfax, who, like Northam, is a Democrat, was not named by the woman in a Facebook post that she purportedly made. But the description of her alleged assailants current employment status matches Fairfaxs.

In his statement, Fairfax, 39, denied he had ever "assaulted anyone" and referred to the allegation as a "false claim." He also said that The Washington Post had investigated the allegation for several months more than a year ago, but declined to publish a story after being presented facts consistent with Fairfaxs denial.

In a news conference later Monday, he repeated those adamant denials, while calling the claim against him a "smear" that had been resurfaced to damage his chance of being elevated to governor.

"Does anybody believes this is coincidence? I dont believe anybody believes thats a coincidence," Fairfax said. "Its uncorroborated because its not true ... it goes away for a year and it crops back up at this moment."

Fairfax, during his news conference, said, "I have lived my entire life in a way that Im proud of."

"It didnt happen," he said of the womans allegation.

The woman mentioned in Big League Politics story about Fairfax did not respond to requests for comment by CNBC. The woman is not being named by CNBC.

A request for comment from Fairfax was not immediately answered.

A spokesman for The Washington Post did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Post reported, "The woman approached The Post after Fairfax won election in November 2017 and before he was inaugurated in January 2018, saying she felt like she had an obligation to speak out."

"The woman and Fairfax first met in Boston at the 2004 Democratic national convention," the newspaper reported. "During a conversation, the two realized they had a mutual friend. It was that commonality, she recalled, that put her at ease enough that on the afternoon Fairfax asked her to walk with him to his hotel room to pick up some papers, she thought nothing of joining him."

The Post also said that "Fairfax and the woman told different versions of what happened in the hotel room with no one else present."

"The Washington Post could not find anyone who could corroborate either version. The Post did not find significant red flags and inconsistencies within the allegations, as the Fairfax statement incorrectly said."

The newspaper detailed the womans claims of a sexual encounter with Fairfax "that left her crying and shaken."

Fairfax told the newspaper the encounter was consensual, according to The Post.

Big League Politics on Friday published a story revealing that Northams yearbook page in 1984 at Eastern Virginia Medical School included a photo of two men — one in blackface, and another garbed in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood.

That story set off widespread calls from leading Democrats, including Virginias two U.S. senators, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, for Northam to resign. That would make make Fairfax, who is black, governor.

Northam has so far refused to resign. The governor told members of his staff Monday morning that he needs more time to deliberate about his next steps, according to NBC News, which cited a source familiar with the matter.

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US| After subpoena threat, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to appear before House panel - Duration: 2:06.

US| After subpoena threat, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to appear before House panel

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has agreed to testify next month about border security issues following a threatened subpoena, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson D Miss. announced Monday.

The announcement comes as Democrats, now in control of the House, step up congressional oversight of the Trump administration, and border security remains one of the bitterest policy fights between Democrats and the Republican administration.

We are giving the Secretary ample time to prepare for this appearance, Thompson said in a statement. She should be ready to defend the Administrations border security actions and its plans to improve its border security agenda going forward. As Chairman of the Committee, I remain committed to the charge that securing the country should be based on intelligence and facts, and not pursuant to a campaign agenda.

The latter was a reference to President Trumps demand for dollar 5.7 billion in funding for his long promised U.S. Mexico border wall, which led to a 35 day partial government shutdown as congressional Democrats resisted.

In a blistering letter to Nielsen last week, Thompson said it was outrageous that she was pointing to the shutdown as an excuse not to voluntarily appear before the committee.

If she says shes not coming, well subpoena her to the committee, Thompson said in an interview with The Washington Post at the time. We need to hear from her. If border security is important, we need to hear her vision.

In a statement Monday, Rep. Mike D. Rogers Ala. , the top Republican on the committee, praised Thompson for deciding to work with Nielsen to arrange voluntary testimony for March 6.

Chairman Thompsons decision to cooperate with Secretary Nielsen to find a time to testify was the right one and is consistent with the committees constitutional mandate to conduct oversight over DHS, Rogers said.

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US| Kristoff St. John, a Fixture of Daytime TV, Is D3ad at 52 The New York Times - Duration: 1:07.

US| Kristoff St. John, a Fixture of Daytime TV, Is D3ad at 52 The New York Times

, who won two Daytime Emmy Awards during his long tenure on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, was found dead early Sunday morning at his home in Los Angeles. He was 52.

Sarah Ardalani, a public information officer at the Los Angeles County medical examiners office, confirmed the death. She said that an autopsy had been conducted but that the cause of death had not been determined.

Mr. St. John spoke openly about his depression after his 24 year old son, Julian, committed suicide in 2014. Mark Geragos, Mr. St. Johns lawyer and friend, said in a telephone interview on Monday that Mr. St. John had told him recently that his grief and depression had worsened.

Mr. St. John began playing Neil Winters, a cosmetics executive who struggled with infidelity, alcoholism and many other plot twists, on The Young and the Restless in 1991. He most recently appeared as the character in January, completing nearly 1,700 episodes of the show.

He told The Toronto Star in 1994 that he saw Winters as energetic and striving for the top spot, someone who doesnt really see himself as a ladies man but rather quite sensual and very secure.

Mr. St. John won 10 N.A.A.C.P. Image Awards for playing Winters, one of the longest running African American characters on a soap opera.

Kristoff St. John was born on July 15, 1966, in New York City and grew up in Bridgeport, Conn., and Los Angeles. His father, Christopher, was a producer, director and actor; his mother, Maria, was an entertainer. Both of them inspired him to enter show business.

My dad is a producer director, Mr. St. John told the Canadian newspaper The Edmonton Journal in 2000. Had he been a fireman, Id probably be putting out fires.

Mr. St. John began acting as a child. His television career started with an appearance on the sitcom Thats My Mama in 1975. He played a young Alex Haley in Roots: The Next Generations 1979 and had a recurring part on the television version of The Bad News Bears, on which his father also appeared. He was also seen on Family Matters, Martin, A Different World, Diagnosis Murder and other shows.

Mr. St. Johns two marriages, to the boxer Mia St. John and Allana Nadal, ended in divorce. Last year he became engaged to , a Russian model.

Mr. St. John had two daughters, Paris, from his first marriage, and Lola, from his second. Complete information on survivors was not immediately available.

His son, Julian, an artist who suffered from schizophrenia, depression and drug addiction, committed suicide by asphyxiating himself with a plastic bag at a mental health care facility in Long Beach, Calif., in 2014. Mr. St. John and his first wife, Mia, accused the staff of negligence, filing a lawsuit against the facility and airing their grievances in an interview on Entertainment Tonight.

My son died because there are millions of people suffering from the mental disabilities of schizophrenia, bipolar and being depressed, Mr. St. John said. And so at the end of the day his life will not be in vain. His life will be vindicated, and I will campaign until the day that I die to bring justice to my son.

The lawsuit was settled in 2017.

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So we're launching at the World Economic Forum the latest research we've done on

financial wellness and we've looked at data across 10,000 employees

in the United States and in the UK.

So some of the statistics are quite shocking.

We see collectively that right now probably around 48% of employees in the US have money

worries of some sort, about 40% in the UK there's an equivalent, but they are likely

to have more sleepless nights.

Actually 8.1 times more likely to have sleepless nights in the US relative to the UK, which

is about 8.8 times, but they're more likely also to not finish the daily tasks that they're

doing, 5.8 times more in the US than compared to about 7.6 times in the UK.

So more likely to have troubled relationships as a result of that with their coworkers,

about four times more, and then as a definition of that twice as likely to then start looking

for alternative jobs.

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The U.S. military believes ISIS could re-emerge in Syria within six to 12 months without any pressure to counter them, according to a new Department of Defense Inspector General report released Monday

'Absent sustained [counterterrorism] pressure, ISIS could likely resurge in Syria within six to twelve months,' read the IG report on Operation Inherent Resolve, which is the name for U

S. operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.The report does not name President Donald Trump directly but does - on multiple occasions - refer to the plan to withdraw America's 2,000 boots on the ground from region

  That is the president's plan, as he announced in December the complete withdrawal of U

S. forces from Syria - a controversial move among his Pentagon chiefs and members of his own party

'I don't like endless wars. This war. What we're doing is got to stop at some point,' Trump told CBS' 'Face the Nation' on Sunday

And, he said if al Qaeda and other terrorist groups grew in strength, U.S. forces would return to the region

'We'll come back if we have to,' he said. 'We have very fast airplanes, we have very good cargo planes

We can come back very quickly.'Trump has continually argued the war on ISIS is over

 He declared last month: 'We have won against ISIS; we've beaten them, and we've beaten them badly

' Share this article Share But the IG report out of the Pentagon warns ISIS 'remains a potent force of battle-hardened and well-disciplined fighters that 'could likely resurge in Syria' absent continued counterterrorism pressure

' And the report found ISIS leadership retains 'excellent command and control capability' in Syria

 The report is the first of its kind since the president announced his plan to withdraw U

S. troops. Trump's move raised concerns among defense hawks that ISIS would take advantage of the absence of U

S. troops to strengthen its hand in the region.Then-Defense Secretary James Mattis offered his resignation after the president made his decision and, last month, a vast majority of Senate Republicans rebuked Trump's rationale for withdrawing U

S. troops when, in a vote, they backed a resolution that declared ISIS' presence and activity in both countries continue to pose a serious threat to the United States

 The report was also notable for what questions it could not answer.The IG's office noted it asked about the ability to defeat ISIS in Syria given the plan to withdrawal the nearly 2,000 American forces and reported the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs was 'not yet prepared to provide an answer to the question

' However, U.S. CENTCOM did provide the following answer about the  immediate impact a U

S. troop departure will have on the resurgence of ISIS in Syria: 'ISIS may conduct opportunistic attacks on U

S. personnel as they withdraw but will leverage the event as a 'victory' in its media

' The IG report is not the only government assessment to raise concerns about the state of ISIS

 In the annual 'Worldwide Threat Assessment' released last week stated ISIS 'remains a terrorist and insurgent threat' inside Iraq, where the government faces 'an increasingly disenchanted public

 CIA director Gina Haspel told the Senate Intelligence Committee last week of ISIS: 'They're still dangerous,' adding that they still command 'thousands of fighters in Iraq and Syria

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US| Opinion The Empty Quarters of U.S. Politics The New York Times - Duration: 3:29.

US| Opinion The Empty Quarters of U.S. Politics The New York Times

Two missing species: libertarian voters and populist racist politicians.

Opinion Columnist

Howard Schultz, the coffee billionaire, who imagined that he could attract broad support as a centrist, turns out to have an of 4 percent, versus 40 percent disapproval.

Ralph Northam, a Democrat who won the governorship of Virginia in a landslide, is facing a firestorm of denunciation from his own party over racist images on his medical school yearbook page.

Donald Trump, who ran on promises to expand health care and , began betraying his working class supporters the moment he took office, pushing through big tax cuts for the rich while trying to take health coverage away from millions.

These are, it turns out, related stories, all of them tied to the two great absences in American political life.

One is the absence of socially liberal, economically conservative voters. These were the people Schultz thought he could appeal to; but basically they dont exist, accounting for only around, yes, of the electorate.

The other is the absence of economically liberal, socially conservative politicians — lets be blunt and just say racist populists. There are plenty of voters who would like that mix, and Trump pretended to be their man; but he wasnt, and neither is anyone else.

Understanding these empty quarters is, Id argue, the key to understanding U.S. politics.

Once upon a time there were racist populists in Congress: The New Deal coalition relied on a large contingent of segregationist Dixiecrats. But this was always unstable. In practice, advocating economic inclusion seems to spill over into advocacy of racial and social inclusion, too. By the 1940s, Northern Democrats were already than Northern Republicans, and as the Northam affair shows, the party now has very little tolerance for even the appearance of racism.

Meanwhile, the modern Republican Party is all about cutting taxes on the rich and benefits for the poor and the middle class. And Trump, despite his campaign posturing, has turned out to be no different.

Hence the failure of our political system to serve socially conservative/racist voters who also want to tax the rich and preserve Social Security. Democrats wont ratify their racism; Republicans, who have no such compunctions, will — remember, the party establishment solidly backed Roy Moores Senate bid — but wont protect the programs they depend on.

But why are there so few voters holding the reverse position, combining social/racial liberalism and economic conservatism? The answer, Id argue, lies in just how far to the right the G.O.P. has gone.

Polling is unambiguous here. If you define the center as a position somewhere between those of the two parties, when it comes to economic issues the public is overwhelmingly left of center; if anything, its to the left of the Democrats. Tax cuts for the rich are the G.O.P.s defining policy, but two thirds of voters believe that taxes on the rich are actually , while only 7 percent believe that theyre too high. Voters support Elizabeth Warrens proposed by a three to one majority. Only a small minority want to see , even though such cuts have been central to every G.O.P. health care proposal in recent years.

Why did Republicans stake out a position so far from voters preferences? Because they could. As Democrats became the party of civil rights, the G.O.P. could attract working class whites by catering to their social and racial illiberalism, even while pursuing policies that hurt ordinary workers.

The result is that to be an economic conservative in America means advocating policies that, on their merits, only appeal to a small elite. Basically nobody wants these policies on their own; they only sell if theyre packaged with racial hostility.

So what do the empty quarters of U.S. politics mean for the future? First, of course, that Schultz is a fool — and so are those who dream of a reformed G.O.P. that remains conservative but drops its association with racists. Theres hardly anyone who wants that mix of positions.

Second, fears that Democrats are putting their electoral prospects in danger by moving too far left, for example by proposing higher taxes on the rich and Medicare expansion, are grossly exaggerated. Voters want an economic move to the left — its just that some of them dislike Democratic support for civil rights, which the party cant drop without losing its soul.

Whats less clear is whether theres room for politicians willing to be true racist populists, unlike Trump, who was faking the second part. Theres a substantial bloc of racist populist voters, and you might think that someone would try to serve them. But maybe the gravitational attraction of big money — which has completely captured the G.O.P., and has arguably kept Democrats from moving as far left as the electorate really wants — is too great.

In any case, if theres a real opening for an independent, that candidate will look more like George Wallace than like Howard Schultz. Billionaires who despise the conventional parties should beware of what they wish for.

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US| Lindsey Graham predicts Trump will probably declare emergency and build his wall without Congres - Duration: 5:48.

US| Lindsey Graham predicts Trump will probably declare emergency and build his wall without Congres

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday that unless Democrats in Congress agree to trade dollar 5.7 billion in border wall money for extensions of two programs, President will delare a national emergency and repurpose Defense Department money to build the barrier on his own.

Graham, a former military lawyer and an ally of Donald Trump, said the president has the legal authority to send soldiers to the U.S. border and order them to build barriers to protect themselves.

Whats the difference between barbed ware and a sleet slat? he asked. 

Democrats in Congress, Graham said, have treated Trump differently from his two immediate predecessors for personal reasons. 

In 2007, he said, 634 miles of fencing was authorized by Congress in a bipartisan fashion. February of last year, 46 Democrats voted for dollar 25 billion for a border wall.

But with Democrats in charge of the House of Representatives, he complained, theyre trying to deny this president the ability to secure the border like Obama and Bush. Why? Because they hate him. We cant let them get away with it. 

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a reliable ally of President Donald Trump, said Monday in a Greenville, South Carolina speech that the White House will go it alone and build Trumps border wall without Congress if Democrats dont cut a deal with him

President Trump, pictured Sunday with first lady Melania Trump at his golf course in West Palm beach, Florida, has hinted that he will delcare a national emergency and use existing Pentagon money to build his wall if Democrats dont give him dollar 5.7 billion in new funding for the project

U.S. military servicemen are shown installing razor wire at the U.S. Mexico border on Sunday. Trump is sending 3.750 more troops to install 150 miles of the stuff, and Graham says they could just as easily be building a wall

The current Washington stalemate over a February 15 deadline to fund the government probably ends with the president having to go it alone, Graham told the Republican leaning First Monday club the city of Greenville. 

The White House has discussed a trade: money to build Trumps long promised border wall in exchange for legal status for 700,000 Dreamers enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and another 400,000 in the country under Temporary Protected Status.

DACA recipients are illegal immigrants who were brought into the U.S. as children. People with TPS protection are in the U.S. because of natural disasters or wars in their home countries. Most of them are from Central American nations. 

Graham said he would blame Democratic lawmakers if a deal doesnt materialize, the Pentagon builds Trumps wall with repurposed money, and the DACA and TPS programs are left to wither on the vine.

If these TPS people lose their legal status, look in the mirror because you caused it, he said, directing his comments to Democrats. If the DACA recipients, they cant get work permits, its because you hated Trump more than you liked them.

Trump can rely on a 43 year old law to suspend some limitations on his power to spend money if he declares a national emergency exists. Any federal lawmaker can demand a vote to overturn that decision. But unless two thirds of each house of Congress sides against Trump, he can veto the result. 

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has pledged not to give Trump any taxpayer money for building the wall, his signature campagin promise; Graham says she has voted to fund similar projects in the past

U.S. Army soldiers are on the border already, enhancing security on the U.S. Mexico frontier and assisting ICE border agents

If the president decides to disconnect Congress from construction of his border wall, he will sign a funding measure that reopens the government without the dollar 5.7 billion he hsa asked for. 

He could also choose to let government funding lapse instead, shutting down a quarter of the government for the second time in two months and sending Congress back to the drawing board.  

Weve got until February 15 to figure this out. Im begging Democrats, be fair to the president and he will be fair to you, regarding the temporary displacement program, TPS, and DACA, Graham said Monday. 

The colorful senator framed the border wall debate over and over as a study in hypocrisy.

Every Democrat whos saying "Not a dollar for the wall" voted for billions of dollars for a wall on their watch, he said, recalling proposals shepherded by the bipartisan Gang of Eight in 2013. 

Forty six billion dollars for border security! We did everything but put alligators on the border. Eight billion for a barrier! They were bragging about how tough they were.

A border patrol agent every 1,000 feet! Now they want to abolish ICE. 

Not one Democrat complained when President Barack obama deployed military servicemen and women to the southern border, Graham said.  

And with 3,750 new troops headed south because of Trumps orders, he claimed, setting up barriers is a matter of protecting themselves as much sa protecting the United States. 

The current deployment is set to install 150 miles of razor wire. 

Were not doing anything exotic here. If a president can send a soldier to the border, not to enforce border law but to provide security, why cant that soldier put up a barrier while theyre there? he asked.

The last three presidents have sent troops to the border. They dont go for free. We pay them to go there. We pay for them while they stay. And theyre putting up barbed wire, Graham added. 

Whats the difference between barbed ware and a sleet slat? Im confident the president has the legal ability to do this. Im hoping he does not have to go down this road.

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