Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), said President Donald Trump’s proposed wall between the U.S.-Mexico border was “a sign of weakness.” Pelosi said, “What is wrong with that scenario is the wall. He talks about how tall it is, who will pay for it, and all of the rest of that. You have to understand this part of the country there is a community with a border going through it. The president, I think, talking about this wall, is expressing a sign of weakness. He is saying I can’t control our borders, I have to build a wall. We would certainly like to — we have a responsibility to control our borders but building a wall is not an answer. Not here or anyplace.” Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
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Sessions on DREAMers: ‘Everyone that Enters the Country Unlawfully Is Subject to Being Deported’
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” when asked if people who were brought to the United States illegally as children dubbed DREAMers could “rest easy,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said “everyone that enters the country unlawfully is subject to being deported.” Partial transcript as follows: STEPHANOPOULOS: The president said to the Associated Press that the dreamers should rest easy. He’s not going after the dreamers. That’s his policy. Is it the policy of the Justice Department? SESSIONS: Homeland Security has primary jurisdiction there. Their first and strongest priority, no doubt about it, is the criminal element that we have in our country that have come here illegally. They’re focusing primarily on that. There is no doubt The president has sympathy for young people brought here at early ages. STEPHANOPOULOS: So they can rest easy? SESSIONS: Well we’ll see. I believe that everyone that enters the country unlawfully is subject to being deported. However, we’ve got — we don’t have the ability to round up everybody and there is no plans to do that. But we’re going to focus first as the president has directed us, on the criminal element and we have got to get that under control. Follow Pam Key
California AG Becerra: Trump’s Border Wall Is ‘Medieval’
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said President Donald Trump’s proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico Border was “medieval.” Becerra said, “I’m still trying to figure out who believes a medieval situation to fix the immigrant situation is what we need. One, Donald Trump is reneging on his promise to have someone else pay. I think American taxpayers are very much aligned with Mexico. None of them, not the taxpayers or Mexico wants to pay for a medieval wall. Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
DHS Chief Kelly: Trump Will Be ‘Insistent’ on Funding for Border Wall
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said President Donald Trump “will be insistent” on including funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall in the spending bill that would keep the government from shutting down. Partial transcript as follows: BASH: Will the President go to the mat and insist on funding his border wall as part of the stopgap government funding measure? KELLY: I think it goes without saying that the President has been pretty straightforward about his desire and the need for a border wall. So I would suspect he’ll do the right thing for sure, but I would suspect he will be insistent on the funding. Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
Donald Trump Personally Awards Purple Heart to Wounded Soldier at Walter Reed Hospital
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump traveled to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to personally visit a Sergeant First Class Alvaro Barrientos, a soldier wounded in Afghanistan.
Thousands Brave L.A. Heat Wave to ‘March for Science’
It was 85 degrees in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, but thousands skipped a trip to the beach or the mountains and instead dragged themselves along a mile-long route to listen to a few celebrity pseudo-scientists and activists to drone on about cli…
Pinkerton: Before Trump Nation, There Was Fox Nation: Fox News After Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly
An era has come to an end at Fox News. The departure, last year, of Roger Ailes, its founder and CEO for two decades, and the departure, this year, of Bill O’Reilly, its biggest star for two decades, means that Fox will be changing. What’s said of politics is also true of TV: Personnel is policy. Tell me the names of those who are making the decisions about programming, and the names of those who are actually doing the shows, and I’ll tell you, in turn, about the network. But first, let’s take a closer look at the country—at least its presidential voting patterns—pre-Fox and post-Fox.
Report: Iran Violating Nuclear Deal with Secret Development Near ‘Off-Limits’ Parchin Site
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Friday, members of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) presented satellite imagery and intelligence, said to be provided by informants working covertly inside the Iranian military, that indicates the Iranian regime is far from complying with the terms of the nuclear deal.
CLAIM: Trump Plans to Resurrect TTIP, Put EU Before Britain in Trade Deal
U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing Britain behind the European Union in the queue to strike new trade deal, unnamed sources have told The Times.
Trump: Workers’ ‘Interests Were Pushed Aside for Global Projects,’ ‘My Administration Has Offered a New Vision’
During Friday’s Weekly Address, President Trump said, “American workers were forgotten by their government – and I mean totally forgotten. Their interests were pushed aside for global projects, and their wealth was taken from their communities and shipped across the world, all across the seas. My Administration has offered a new vision.” Transcript as Follows: “My Fellow Americans, A new optimism is sweeping our country as we return power from Washington and give it back to the American People, where it belongs. For too long, American workers were forgotten by their government – and I mean totally forgotten. Their interests were pushed aside for global projects, and their wealth was taken from their communities and shipped across the world, all across the seas. My Administration has offered a new vision. The well-being of the American citizen and worker will be placed second to none – and boy do I mean second to none. Since Day One I have been fighting for the hardworking people of this country – and this week we took historic action to continue delivering on that promise. We did so in one of the many proud industrial towns of our nation – Kenosha, Wisconsin – with