April 12, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where President Trump meets today with NATO's top official. Fred Lucas looks at terrorism and other priorities. Attorney General Jeff Sessions visits the Mexican border, and John Malcolm likes his message. It's not just the math that's wrong with New York's making state college tuition "free," Mary Clare Reim writes. Plus: Rachel del Guidice on the results of the first House race since Trump won the presidency, and Katrina Trinko on the bias explicit in the White House press corps' choice of "entertainment."
Starting this fall, a student from a family making less than $100,000 annually can qualify for free tuition.
Republican Ron Estes defeated Democrat James Thompson, winning 53.3 percent of the vote while Thompson came away with 45 percent of the vote with 99 percent of the precincts reporting.
Sessions referred to the southwest border as "ground zero" in the fight against "transnational gangs like MS-13 and international cartels [that] flood our country with drugs and leave death and violence in their wake."
Just before his inauguration, Trump reiterated his view about NATO member countries' not investing enough in their own defense.
The next time you hear a college president boasting about how diverse his college is, ask him how many Republican faculty members there are in his journalism, psychology, English, and sociology departments. In many cases, there is none, and in others, the ratio of Democrats to Republicans might be 20-to-1.
"Donald Trump is white ISIS," says the comedian tapped to headline political journalism's biggest annual event.
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