Jan. 4, 2018
Good morning from Washington, where Republican lawmakers are celebrating higher pay and new investments announced by American businesses following passage of tax reform. Rachel del Guidice has examples. So just what did the nation's top immigration enforcement official say about going after sanctuary cities and states? We've got the transcript. Right to work meets union resistance in Delaware. Kevin Mooney reports. Plus: Paul Larkin on losing a Senate mainstay, Jim Carafano on chilling about Trump's "button" standoff with North Korea's dictator, and Jarrett Stepman on the media's lousy job of covering the Iran protests.
The New York Times' Tehran bureau chief reported New Year's Day that the protests were ongoing as the Iranian people "ignored calls for calm," as if the movement were simply driven by a few rowdy troublemakers instead of having larger political implications for a tyrannical government.
Question No. 6: "Why and how often did Justice Department lawyer Bruce [Ohr] meet with dossier author Christopher Steele during the 2016 campaign?"
CVS announced it would hire 3,000 new workers and FedEx said it would increase hiring.
A total of 28 states and the territory of Guam now have right-to-work laws, with Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and West Virginia making the move since 2012.
Critics fret that the taunting rhetoric could lead to miscalculation and war. Their evidence for that is less than zero.
In the Senate during Reagan's presidency, Hatch was able to play the lead role in shepherding through the advice-and-consent process and onto the bench judges—like Bork and Scalia—who made landmark changes to the proper methodology of constitutional analysis.
"The Department of Justice needs to do a couple things. No. 1, they need to file charges against the sanctuary cities. No. 2, they need to hold back their funding," says Thomas Homan.
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