Scaramucci: “I’m committed to taking the comms shop down to Sarah and me, if I can’t get the leaks to stop”

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President Donald Trump’s newly appointed communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, said Tuesday that he is prepared to “fire everybody” in the White House communications shop in order to put an end to embarrassing internal leaks.

The financier and longtime Trump surrogate is eager to shake up the communications shop, which has been dominated by former Republican National Committee staffers loyal to White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, a former RNC chairman.

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BART officials withholding crime surveillance tapes for 'fear of racial stereotyping'

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The transit system that serves San Francisco is under fire for refusing to release video from surveillance cameras that captured several recent train attacks by gangs of young black riders.

Assault, robbery and rape are up 41 percent over last year on the vast train system known as BART, or Bay Area Rapid Transit. But several recent attacks by gangs of young men has the agency under public scrutiny. One victim is suing to warn riders of the risk they face when riding BART.

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Former Wasserman-Schultz IT Staffer Imran Awan Arrested at Airport While Trying to Flee U.S.

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Chad Pergram‏Verified account @ChadPergram

Feds/USCP bust Hse IT staffer Imran Awan & charge him with multiple counts of bank fraud as part of Hse IT procurement scandal

Chad Pergram of Fox News tweeted a breaking report on Dem Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Pakistani IT staffer Imran Awan was arrested at Dulles airport while trying to flee the United States.

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Interview: III% Militia Group Guards Gettysburg Memorial

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Outdoor Apparel Company Patagonia Calls Trump’s Voters “Rednecks.”

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I take it as a compliment though it certainly wasn't intended that way. :)

The founder of Patagonia, the outdoor apparel company that has pledged to lead the resistance against President Donald Trump, called Trump’s voters “rednecks.”

“Why should we kowtow to these redneck voters and Republican politicians?” said Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia’s eccentric founder and billionaire environmentalist, according to consultant Steve Everly. “The most you can achieve is a compromise, and that never solves a problem.”

More @ The Daily Caller

Senate votes to move forward on Obamacare repeal

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Republican senators voted Tuesday to more forward on their seven-year pledge to repeal portions of Obamacare, with Vice President Mike Pence issuing the tie-breaking vote to unlock hours of debate to assemble details of a final healthcare bill.

The procedural motion was advanced along party lines by a 50-50 vote, with Pence breaking the tie. All 48 Democrats and two Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, voted no.

The vote was held open while senators waited for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who was recently diagnosed with brain cancer, to arrive on the Senate floor.

The vote begins as much as 20 hours of debate on the House-passed healthcare bill, the American Health Care Act, and a new bill will be swapped in its place.

More @ Washington Examiner

257.7 MPH (1,360 BHP) Ford GT Standing Mile World Record - 2012 Texas Mile

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DC Appeals Court rules people may carry guns in public in the city

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Washington, D.C., residents can carry guns in public, District of Columbia Appeals Court ruled Tuesday.

"Common-law rights developed over time, and American commentaries spell out what early cases imply: the mature right captured by the [Second] Amendment was not hemmed in by longstanding bans on carrying in densely populated areas," the federal appeals court said in its decision. "Its protections today don't give out inside the Beltway."

Gun owners may carry their guns in public even without a "good reason," which is defined by the court as a "special need for self-protection distinguishable from the general community as supported by evidence of specific threats or previous attacks that demonstrate a special danger to the applicant's life."

The appeals court decided that the "good-reason" law "impinges on core Second Amendment conduct."

More @ Washington Examiner

Trump v Sessions X4

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He shouldn't do this, but I understand that Sessions didn't tell Trump in advance that he was going to recluse himself which seems very odd to me.

Trump messes with Sessions, and Senate Republicans are not pleased

Republicans defend Jeff Sessions after Trump criticisms

Scaramucci ‘YOU’RE PROBABLY RIGHT’ – The President Wants Sessions Gone

White House Says Decision ‘Soon’ On Fate of AG Sessions

Rand Paul a yes on key healthcare hurdle

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that he will vote in favor of a key healthcare vote expected later in the day.

Paul tweeted that he will vote in favor of a motion to proceed to a debate on healthcare because Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told him the chamber would take up the 2015 ObamaCare repeal bill previously passed by Congress.

“If this is indeed the plan, I will vote to proceed and I will vote for any all measures that are clean repeal.”

More @ The Hill