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White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah is holding a briefing Thursday with reporters. The event is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. (ET). Watch live video below:
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WATCH: Joe Biden suggests Trump's being blackmailed by Putin
Former Vice President Joe Biden suggested President Donald Trump may be compromised by Russia and its president.
Biden sat down Thursday for an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, who asked the former vice president why Trump was "so reluctant to take on Vladimir Putin."
"Look, you know, I want to give every American, including the president, the benefit of the doubt, but I can't fathom any reason other than he is concerned of what Putin might say or do, or what information he may or may not have," Biden said.
He then warned the Trump administration was not doing enough to stop the Russian from interfering with the next election.
"But look, unrelated to the whole issue of whether or not there's collusion, separate and apart from all that, it's necessary for us to stem this problem," he said. "It's necessary for us to corral the Russians."
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Omarosa breaks down in tears describing Trump's White House: 'It is not going to be OK'
Former senior White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman thinks Americans should be worried about President Donald Trump.
Manigault Newman made her debut on the reality TV show "Big Brother: Celebrity Edition" Wednesday night.
"I was haunted by tweets every single day. Like, what is he going to tweet next?" she said, in a clip uploaded to YouTube on Thursday.
Manigault Newman said she tried to confront Trump about his behavior, but was attacked by other White House staff.
She said Americans should be worried.
"It's going to not be ok. It's not," she said.
Manigault Newman served as director of communications for the White House’s Office of Public Liaison prior to her resignation in December 2017.
She had reportedly grown "fed up" with the way Trump handled racially charged issues, such as the violent neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville.
Officials said she resigned, but sources claimed she had to be "dragged kicking and screaming from the White House."
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WATCH: Senators gasp in horror at evangelical leader when he asks if they 'wish they had been aborted'
Chuck Hurley, vice president and chief council of the evangelical group The Family Leader, on Thursday stunned lawmakers in Iowa when he asked them if they wish they had been aborted.
At a state Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Thursday, lawmakers discussed Senate Study Bill 3143, which would ban most abortions by making it a felony for doctors to terminate pregnancies if a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
The committee heard testimony from people who both oppose and support the bill. But Hurley was the only guest who drew audible gasps from the committee.
"We are commanded to love our neighbors as ourself," Hurley explained. "That includes... every woman who has had difficult decisions to make."
"There's one truth that we can't argue away: that baby is a baby," he continued. "I just want to ask, not a rhetorical question, an actual question. Is there anybody in this room -- let me preface it by saying you're rule makers, the Golden Rule is to treat others the way you want to be treated."
"Is there anybody in this room who honest to God wishes that they had been aborted?" Hurley asked.
With that, the room erupted into groans and verbal objections.
"That's what we're talking about," Hurley stated. "Because we know that's a baby in the womb, you are advancing legislation to protect those babies. Because none of us held up our hands. It's true. That's the greatest rule of all."
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WATCH: Putin opposition leader says he can show Paul Manafort’s links to the Kremlin
Alexei Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian president Vladimir Putin, posted a video on Thursday claiming to prove ties between onetime Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and the Kremlin, the Moscow Times reports.
In the video, Navalny traces Manafort’s link to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, whom the opposition leader alleged acted as an intermediary between the former Trump associate and associates of Putin.
Deripaska is the Russian metal tycoon who was offered “private briefings” by Manafort two weeks before then-candidate Trump secured the Republican nomination. Manafort had a $10 million annual contract with Deripaska before he was indicted on charges of money laundering and conspiracy as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
According to Navalny, there's a trail — through a "self-described 'sex huntress'" — that places Deripaska and Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko together in August 2016, a month after Manafort offered the Russian oligarch briefings on the campaign.
"[It’s] because these briefings were actually for Putin, the Kremlin, the Federal Security Service," Navalny charges in the video.
Watch Navalny's video below (with English subtitles).
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WATCH: North Carolina cop grabs high school student and blasts pepper spray in his face
A sheriff's deputy in Cumberland County, North Carolina was caught on camera this week blasting pepper spray in a high school student's face.
Local news station WRAL reports that the officer was at the high school to break up a physical fight that was occurring between two female students. At some point, says school officials, a 16-year-old male student tried to "inject himself into the situation."
This led to a verbal confrontation with the deputy, who at one point grabbed the student by his shirt and repeatedly hit him in the face with pepper spray.
The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office tells WRAL that it is reviewing the incident to determine whether the officer's use of pepper spray in that situation was justified.
In the wake of the incident, the 16-year-old student was charged with resisting an officer and with possession of marijuana.
A video of the pepper spraying caught the attention of WRAL after it was posted on Instagram -- watch it below.
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GOP senator reams John Kelly for defending alleged wife beater: 'You can't beat the hell out of your spouse'
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) on Thursday slammed White House Chief of Staff John Kelly for making a "bad decision" when he defended a staffer who is accused of beating multiple wives.
During an interview on CNN, host John Berman asked Kennedy if he is troubled by reports that Kelly knew that one of his aides, staff secretary Rob Porter, had been accused of domestic abuse but did not fire him. Porter later submitted his resignation after the charges became public.
Kennedy agreed that the allegations "appear to be the truth."
"If you want to serve the public, particularly as a member of the president's staff, I don't care who you are," the Louisiana Republican continued. "Even if you are a Rhodes Scholar, you can't beat the hell out of your spouse. It's wrong."
Berman pointed out that Kelly had initially defended Porter, calling him a "man of honor and integrity." But in a subsequent statement, the chief of staff insisted that he had been "shocked" by the allegations of domestic abuse.
Kennedy praised the job Kelly has done as chief of staff but concluded that defending Porter was a "bad decision." The senator stopped short of calling on Kelly to step down.
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Rob Reiner drops hammer on Trump: 'He'd rather have a military parade than defend' democracy from Russia
Film director Rob Reiner is trying to sound the alarm about Russia's interference in American democracy -- and he's enlisted the help of two veterans of national security.
Reiner appeared Thursday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," where he shared excerpts of a lengthy interview he conducted with former director of national intelligence James Clapper and former CIA director John Brennan.
"The Russians did invade our country, they did try to disrupt our democracy and right now we're not doing anything," said Reiner, who has formed the Committee to Investigate Russia with former Bush speechwriter David Frum.
"The president of the United States has ignored it," Reiner added, "and he'd rather have a military parade than actually defend us and protect us and make us more secure. So it is very scary, and when you have guys like this speaking out, it is time to sit up and take notice."
Reiner said Clapper and Brennan had a combined 90 years of experience in national security, and he said Americans should pay attention to their warnings.
"I don't recall anything that gave me viscerally in the pit of my stomach a more uncomfortable, uneasy feeling than when I realized what the Russians were doing," Clapper says in the video.
The two former officials said those efforts were far more aggressive than previous efforts to influence elections in other countries -- and they warned that President Donald Trump left the U.S. vulnerable to inevitable future attempts.
"As long as the occupant of the Oval Office continues to refute the unanimous assessment of CIA,FBI and NSA about what they did, it undercuts any effort to deal with it strategically and thoughtfully," Brennan said.
Co-host Mika Brzezinski said her late father, who served as national security adviser in the Carter administration, shared the same reaction to Russian meddling as Clapper did in the interview.
"These are people who are deeply immersed in confidential conversations pertaining to global stability, and they have a feeling of unease," she said. "It sends a shiver down my spine."
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‘Tough it out’: Watch Jeff Sessions recommend aspirin instead of opioids for chronic pain patients
Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week said that the solution for many people who suffer from chronic pain should be to "take aspirin and tough it out."
The Tampa Bay Times reports Sessions, who has staunchly opposed legalizing medicinal marijuana to help people suffering from chronic pain, gave an address at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Tampa this week where he bashed doctors for giving their patients too many addictive painkillers.
"This company prescribes too many opioids," Sessions said. "People need to take some aspirin sometimes and tough it out... you can get through these things."
Bob Twillman, the executive director of the Academy of Integrative Pain Management, told the Tampa Bay Times that Sessions' aspirin recommendation showed that the Trump administration is woefully ignorant about what it's like to deal with chronic pain.
"That remark reflects a failure to recognize the severity of pain of some patients," he said. "It's an unconscionable remark. It further illustrates how out of touch parts of the administration are with opioids and pain management."
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'You're a Nazi': CNN's Alisyn Camerota destroys Republican candidate after he calls Holocaust a 'scam'
CNN's Alisyn Camerota on Thursday told a Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in Illinois that she hoped he would lose after he denied the Holocaust and became visibly angry at her.
In an interview on CNN's New Day, Camerota noted that Arthur Jones was poised to take the Republican nomination for 3rd Congressional District because he is running unopposed.
"It is shocking to hear how vocally unapologetic you are about your racism," Camerota told Jones. "Are you a Nazi?"
"I don't call myself a Nazi, I call myself an American patriot and statesmen," Jones insisted.
The CNN host noted that Jones had been part of anti-Semitic groups for over 40 years, that he attends Nazi rallies and was part of the White People's Party.
"You dress in Nazi garb and you celebrate Hitler's birth day," Camerota explained. "You're a Nazi."
For his part, Jones insisted that he no longer a member of Nazi organizations.
"I haven't belonged to one since about 1990," he said.
As the interview continued, Jones became combative, refusing to let Camerota finish questions. At one point, he referred to the Holocaust as an "extortion racket" and a "scam."
"Here's the good news," Camerota remarked. "You have a long track record of losing. You lose virtually everything that you run for. You've run for Congress and you've lost, for mayor, for alderman. And we're not in the business of predicting of predicting the news but I can say that you will lose this race."
"Chances are, you'll go down in flames," she concluded.
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WATCH: Morning Joe breaks down how Republicans are gaming Facebook to help Trump — and Russia
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough accused President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans of manipulating social media to undermine law enforcement.
The "Morning Joe" host said GOP lawmakers were promoting easily debunked conspiracy theories, but he said the president's apologists were banking on the fact that most Americans were unable or unwilling to untangle fact from fiction.
"It's one conspiracy theory after another after another, churned up by the White House, senators and conservative media people," Scarborough said. "Do Americans even keep up with this? All the lies that they're spewing out are easily proven."
Scarborough said the president seemingly interrupted his daily intelligence briefing to hype the latest FBI conspiracy theory reported by Fox News, and MSNBC's Mike Barnicle said Trump was manipulating the news cycle to undermine American institutions.
"Every morning we run the chyron at the bottom of the screen -- 'President Trump calls FBI texts bombshells,'" Barnicle said. "What we could be running every single day as a result of what (Sen.) Ron Johnson does, what's coming out of the White House, what's coming out of Fox News, what we could run as a chyron at the bottom of the screen is -- 'Russia is winning.' That's what's happening."
He took aim at Facebook, which he said had not taken enough steps to help social media users sort legitimate information from disinformation -- such as the House Intelligence Committee chairman's claims that a surveillance warrant was improperly granted against Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
"You get Fox News or the White House or Devin Nunes or Paul Ryan to start a lie, and the president churns it is up, people will do a Facebook posting," Scarborough said. "It will get millions and millions of shares, and then guess what -- when it ends up being a lie, Facebook doesn't send a message around saying -- you know what? you've been lied to again. This is 42nd consecutive day you've been lied to, and you've been told half-truths."
More than half of Americans get their news from Facebook, and Scarborough said the social media company doesn't take its role seriously enough as a media provider.
"There should be a threshold, where they have to send out a blast to every Facebook subscriber that got these false stories, that this story they got was a lie," he said. "Until they do that, they are being irresponsible, and they are actually being the megaphone for all the lies and conspiracy theories that are hurting democracy today by Republicans, and one day it may be democrats doing it. This is a bipartisan issue."
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Colbert and John Oliver are rooting for a Trump-Mueller meeting: 'He'll perjure himself before he finishes his name'
President Donald Trump may indeed be eager to be interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller as he's suggested, but as Last Week Tonight host John Oliver told The Late Show's Stephen Colbert, he'll have to get through his lawyers first.
On January 24, Trump told reporters that he was "looking forward" to meeting with Mueller, and was even willing to testify under oath. Later that day, however, one of Trump's White House lawyers walked back the president's pledge. In the subsequent weeks, news broke that the president's lawyers are attempting to bar him from speaking with the special counsel for fear he'll perjure himself.
"I don't doubt that he wants to talk," Oliver said, "but he's going to have to physically get through his lawyers. He's going to have to eat his way through their hands over his mouth, because they will tackle him to the floor before he opens his mouth."
"He would perjure himself before he'd finished his name," the former Daily Show correspondent quipped.
"I think he should do it," Colbert responded, looking dead into the camera.
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TONIGHT: #LastWeekTonight’s @iamjohnoliver encourages Trump to speak with Robert Mueller. Tune in for the whole interview tonight! #JohnOliver#LSSCpic.twitter.com/dtpgpgasGb
— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) February 8, 2018
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WATCH: MSNBC’s Ali Velshi rolls hilarious supercut of Trump demanding people clap for him
MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi, guest hosting "All In with Chris Hayes" on Wednesday, hilariously mocked President Donald Trump's longing for public praise.
"President Trump wants to see a military parade, today Defense Secretary James Mattis confirmed the Pentagon is now drawing up options for him," Velshi noted. "But not everyone thinks a parade of tanks and gun trucks is such a great idea."
"You don't need a big parade to prove your strength, or as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once said, 'being powerful is like being a lady, if you have to tell people you are, you aren't,'" Velshi recounted.
"Well, President Trump is no lady," Velshi concluded.
The second half of the show's Thing 1 Thing Two segment featured more questions about Trump's apparent need for accolades from Americans.
"President Trump's demand for a military parade has some, including members of his own party, saying it's more of a sign of insecurity than strength. Perhaps it was as a sense of insecurity that led the president to complain that Democrats didn't sufficiently clap for him during the State of the Union," Velshi suggested.
"Now, the White House says Trump was joking about the whole treason thing, but there's no doubt if you watched the State of the Union closely, the president cared very much about the clapping," Velshi observed, before playing a highlight reel illustrating his point.
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