DAILY BELLWETHER 01/26/2018 PRESIDENT TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION (DACA) PLAN IS EXTREMELY WELL THOUGHT OUT

Trump: 'America First Does Not Mean America Alone' Declaring that America is open for business under his leadership, President Donald Trump told a wary gathering of political and business elites on Friday that the economic growth taking place in the U.S. due to his "America first" agenda also benefits the rest of the world. Trump told the World Economic Forum in Davos, an incongruous location for a nationalist president, that American prosperity has created countless jobs around the world, but stressed that his priority would always remain on protecting the interests of within his nation's own borders. "As president of the United States, I will always put American first just as ... Read More

Battle Over FISA Abuse Memo Heats Up The Justice Department is making a last-ditch effort to prevent the release of a controversial memo alleging surveillance abuse involving the infamous Steele dossier. In a letter sent Wednesday to California Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), Justice Department official Stephen Boyd argued that it would be “extraordinarily reckless” for the committee to release the memo without first consulting the Justice Department and FBI. Boyd asserted that the “unprecedented” move could create national security risks and damage future investigations. Nunes and South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, another Republican on the committee, put together the four-page classified ... Read More

Texts Show FBI Was ‘Pulling Punches’ In Clinton Probe A text message exchange between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page is evidence that the FBI was “pulling punches” in its investigation into Hillary Clinton, a top Republican senator is alleging. In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, drew attention to a Feb. 25, 2016 text message exchanged between Strzok and Page. The message was included in seven pages of messages that Grassley released on Thursday. The Justice Department recently provided six congressional committees with 384 pages of text messages between the pair. As deputy chief of the FBI’s counterintelligence division, Strzok helped lead the Clinton email ... Read More

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Trump Offers to Triple Obama's Amnesty Number for Tougher Security Laws President Trump will propose a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million illegal immigrant Dreamers, nearly tripling the Obama-era DACA program, the White House said Thursday. Mr. Trump’s vision, which he will submit to Congress next week, would grant legal status to fewer than the 3 million people under the plan Senate Democrats have backed. But the number of people is far higher than the 690,000 in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. White House officials said they felt they had to go that far in order to demand major changes on the security side, including an end to ... Read More

Senate to Vote on Bill that Would Ban Abortion after 20 Weeks The Senate will take an initial vote Monday on legislation that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, the point at which pro-life activists say the unborn can feel pain and increasingly survive outside of the womb. Sen. Lindsey Graham, lead sponsor of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, said the United States should be ashamed to be one of only seven nations, along with China and North Korea, to allow elective abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. “In 2018, do we still want to be one of seven nations that allow abortion on demand at 20 weeks?” Mr. Graham, ... Read More