Is Hillary’s former Vice Presidential pick calling for anarchy and riots? That’s what people are saying after Tim Kaine after he called for people to “fight” Donald Trump wherever they
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Gov. Chris Christie criticized President Donald Trump’s order banning travel from seven majority-Muslim countries on Tuesday, saying the president’s goals were laudable but his plan is too broad and its implementation was “terrible.” The Republican governor, who was among Trump’s most-prominent backers during the campaign but was fired as his transition chief, said the president’s aides had failed him in the way they launched the plan, leading to the widespread confusion and mass protests at airports across the nation. “The roll-out of this executive order was terrible,” Christie said at an unrelated event, answering questions from the press in New Jersey for the first time in 147 days. “The right people were not involved or consulted. There was confusion in the enforcement that went on here.” Christie notably said he considered the process to obtain a green card, which allows a foreign citizen to take up residency in the United States, to constitute the sort of “extreme vetting” that Trump is seeking. Some holders of green cards were detained for hours as they tried to re-enter the country over the weekend. Beyond how the order was implemented, Christie also suggested that Trump would be better off focusing on intelligence about specific groups rather than pursuing a blanket ban on entire nations. “I think the president’s intention here is right,” Christie, a former U.S. attorney in New Jersey, said. “His intention is to try to protect our country from terrorist attacks from people who mean to do us harm. However, I think you need to make those decisions based upon intelligence and not generalizations.” Christie joins several prominent Republicans and countless Democrats who have been critical of Trump’s plan, but he stopped far short of saying he would take any action as a result. On Sunday, attorneys general from 15 states and the District of Columbia called Trump’s executive action “unconstitutional, un-American and unlawful,” and they vowed to act quickly to help empower the court orders issued Saturday night which put a partial stay on the executive order. Christie, who jointly controls the Port Authority, which runs the region's three major airports, said he didn’t think that kind of action was warranted. But he wouldn’t entirely rule it out for New Jersey, saying he had plans to speak to his attorney general Tuesday afternoon and that the subject would likely be discussed. Still, he said Democrats were making this about politics rather than policy, saying many had “knee-jerk reactions." “Yeah, mistakes were made and people need to stand up who made those mistakes of implementation,” he said. “But, also, let’s not be trying to take advantage of the situation for political gain as well. I think that just makes the situation worse and doesn’t make our country safer.” During his short presidential campaign last year, Christie aggressively assailed Trump’s initial call for a ban on all Muslims from entering the United States, saying at one point that it was a “ridiculous.” But the two-term governor said he considers the order issued on Friday a scaled-back version of what Trump described during the campaign — that is, a ban on all Muslims from entering the country. Christie said he and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani had worked to persuade Trump that his original proposal was not the right way to go. “This is narrower than that,” he said. Christie also said Trump “deserved much better than the roll-out he got” and that “unacceptable” mistakes were made — a clear attack on some White House aides. POLITICO reported this month that the governor, who was passed over for a high-profile job in Washington, has been playing a longer game, believing some of Trump’s top aides and cabinet members may face major challenges in the early months of the administration and that the president may call on him to shore up things. Christie said he spoke to Trump half a dozen times between Christmas and the inauguration, and spoke to him again last week. He said their relationship remains strong. “How much better do you want me to be? We aren’t going to marry anytime soon — he’s already taken, and so am I,” Christie said. “The president and I have a great relationship. We’ve known each other and have been friends for 15 years.” -- Additional reporting by Katherine Landergan from http://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2017/01/christie-trumps-travel-ban-too-broad-implementation-was-terrible-109234 Iraqi translators and interpreters who've worked with U.S. armed forces will be considered for waivers to bypass President Donald Trump’s travel ban, a top official from the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday. Speaking at a press conference, Kevin McAleenan, acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, clarified the current policy on translators and interpreters who receive what’s known as a special immigrant visa. “Lawful permanent residents and special immigrant visa holders are allowed to board their flights ... and will be processed for a waiver upon arrival,” he said. The announcement was the latest step in the chaotic rollout of Trump’s immigration policy. On Friday, the president signed an executive order that would freeze the U.S. refugee program for four months and ban for three months visitors from seven majority-Muslim nations. The vague language of the order and its hasty implementation created considerable distress and confusion at U.S. and international airports. Lawful permanent residents and other valid visa holders were detained by customs agents, and lawyers said they were denied access to the detainees. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly issued a clarification to the new policy Sunday, stating that lawful permanent residents (also known as green card holders) from the seven banned nations could request a waiver to enter the U.S. The fate of Iraqi translators and interpreters with special immigrant visas was uncertain. The detention of two Iraqis detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City led a federal judge to block deportations of valid visa holders, even if they came from the banned countries. On Monday, federal authorities at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport reportedly detained a wheelchair-bound special immigrant visa holder for 15 hours, according to a legal aid group. An FAQ posted Tuesday on the U.S. Customs and Border Protection website said no special immigrant visa holders had since Friday been denied entry to the U.S. McAleenan said customs and border officials at airports have granted waivers to 1,060 lawful permanent residents and 75 individuals holding immigrant and non-immigrant visas. from http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-immigration-iraqi-translators-234451 In the first 11 days of Donald Trump’s presidency, U.S. diplomats have been forced to respond to crisis after crisis triggered by the White House — all without a secretary of state to guide them. Now that Rex Tillerson is on the verge of being confirmed, State Department employees hope he can bring some order to the chaos. So far, career diplomats have been impressed by the former ExxonMobil chief’s willingness to hear them out: “It’s all been very positive. He’s been asking a lot of questions,” one State Department source said. But in the wake of Trump’s firing Monday night of acting Attorney General Sally Yates, appointed by President Barack Obama, many of those same diplomats are wondering whether Tillerson will have the authority to guide American foreign policy — and the willingness to stand up to Trump if necessary. “Being secretary of state is all about relationships, maintaining them, improving them and forging new ones,” said another State official, a veteran of the department. “What he faces is unprecedented — trying to maintain or improve relationships that are being undercut by the White House.” During briefings at State, Tillerson has indicated that he wants to include subject-matter experts in briefings, as opposed to relying on more senior officials, a move that would boost morale among the rank and file, multiple people inside the department said. Usually, those experts share their opinions and analysis with those higher up, who then pass assessments to the secretary. Along the way, some of the nuance can get lost, frustrating lower-level employees. Tillerson’s approach has been noticeably different from that of his prospective boss. Trump’s first full week included a Twitter fight with the Mexican president and an executive order on immigration and refugees that stranded travelers and outraged much of the world. The events left State Department officials using curse words when describing the scene at Foggy Bottom. Since winning the election in November, Trump has largely ignored the expertise of the foreign service — rejecting their offers of briefings before his calls with international leaders; making moves and statements that have gone against decades of U.S. foreign policy; and insisting that career State Department officials who have served presidents of both parties quit politically appointed posts. On Monday, as word spread that some U.S. diplomats were circulating a secret internal memo stating their opposition to Trump’s executive order suspending the admission of refugees and barring entry for noncitizens from seven Muslim-majority nations, the White House lashed out at State in ways that raised fears of reprisals. “These career bureaucrats have a problem with it?” White House spokesman Sean Spicer asked. “I think they should either get with the program or they can go.” The memo was formally submitted to State Department leaders Tuesday through what’s known as the Dissent Channel, which was set up in the Vietnam era to give diplomats a means of voicing concerns about the direction of U.S. policy. State Department regulations expressly forbid retaliation against people who sign the memos, and the department typically gets four or five such missives a year. Several hundred diplomats have so far signed on to the one opposing Trump’s executive order. Numerous divisions at State are currently being run by interim leaders because the Trump team has yet to name officials to critical posts, including undersecretaries and assistant secretaries. One key slot that remains unfilled is that of the deputy secretary of state. Several names have been floated for the post, including Elliott Abrams and Paula Dobriansky, both of whom worked for President George W. Bush. One person who’s been prominent during Tillerson's interactions with the State Department is Margaret Peterlin, a former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office official with extensive government and private-sector experience. State Department officials believe Peterlin could wind up serving as Tillerson's chief of staff. The State Department press office has yet to hold a traditional daily briefing since Trump took office. When Bush and Obama were sworn in, the department held a press briefing within three days. Like much of the rest of the government, the press office appeared blindsided by Trump’s executive order and struggled to answer basic questions about how it would affect its consular section. Career diplomats say there was little real outreach or discussion about their priorities and ideas by members of Trump’s transition team, which urged the president to turn the department’s focus more toward counterterrorism and away from issues such as climate change or democracy promotion. Tillerson indicated in his confirmation hearing that he’d largely defer to Trump on policy. He also took a softer line on Russia than many lawmakers of both parties, or members of the Foreign Service, were comfortable with. When senators pressed Tillerson on what he would do if Trump created an international firestorm via Twitter while he is trying to pursue delicate negotiations, he replied: “I have his cellphone number. And he’s promised me he’ll answer.” Tillerson could not be reached for comment, and his aides either declined to speak or did not respond to requests for an interview. Former department officials said Tillerson, who’s spent his career at Exxon, may be surprised by what he finds at Foggy Bottom. “Exxon is a rule-based culture, it’s an accountability culture, it’s an engineering culture — it’s very linear. It’s not a culture for freethinkers and dissent,” said Derek Chollet, a former Obama administration official. “And that’s not the State Department. The State Department, they’re freethinkers. There’s a premium on being creative and speaking up.” If Tillerson does want to make significant changes to the way the 75,000-employee department operates, he’ll have to win the goodwill of his staff. “The State Department is like an iceberg. The view from the outside is deceiving,” said David Wade, who served as a chief of staff for former Secretary of State John Kerry. “It’s a huge managerial and organizational challenge different from any other.” Wade said morale is a hugely important issue and that the first few weeks will be critical. “The building will size him up to learn whether he is in the loop, out of the loop, or able to move the White House on areas he cares about and which matter to the department,” he said. from http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/can-rex-tillerson-bring-order-to-state-department-234448 President Donald Trump took a moment at his meeting with cybersecurity experts on Tuesday to brag about winning the November election. Trump got on the subject of the election during the meeting in the White House when he noted that his administration should support private organizations as they seek to defend against cyberattacks, and then cited the Democratic National Committee as an example. Hackers who intelligence officials say were Russians trying to help elect Trump infiltrated the DNC’s email system last summer. Thousands of private emails were eventually published on the website WikiLeaks. Trump made a point to say that the Republican National Committee, however, was not successfully infiltrated, despite initially being targeted. “Despite having spent hundreds and hundreds more millions of dollars more money than we did, the Democratic National Committee was hacked successfully, very successfully, and terribly, frankly, and the Republican National Committee was not hacked, meaning it was hacked but they failed,” Trump said. “It was reported, I believe by Reince and other people, that it was hacked, but we had a very strong defense system against hacking,” Trump continued, before addressing the experts and going on an election-related tangent. “So despite spending a lot less money than the Democrats — and in all fairness winning, people don't say that, we spent a lot less money, admiral, and we won. That's good, right? Isn’t that a good thing, when you can spend less and win?” “But we were also very successful in our defense against hacking,” he concluded, returning to the subject of cybersecurity. White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, the former RNC chairman, has denied reports that the RNC was hacked during the election. FBI Director Jim Comey said earlier this month, though, that intelligence officials have found evidence that the alleged Russian hackers did penetrate old RNC email domains and state-level Republican organizations. from http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-cyber-experts-dnc-hack-234446
The Patriots owner, Bob Kraft, has been a big advocate of Donald Trump’s. In fact he recently took the time to explain why it is that he is so close
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