Posted on 01/01/2019 8:18:23 AM PST by DollyCali
@LisaMei62 32m32 minutes ago
The time for President @realDonaldTrump's remarks on the Humanitarian Crisis at the Southern border & Shutdown has been moved to 1600 (4pm EST) per @TeamCavuto.
Subject: In-town pool report #1 - potus talks on way to M1, no major news
POTUS spoke to pool for 8 minutes- on Syria, isis, Pelosi, wall, caravan. No clues on what he will say at 3 pm today. Watch tv for quotes. Quotes from me TK if my recorder was good
POTUS exited WH thru south portico at 9:41. Marine one lifted off at 9:53 am
Good morning from White House, day 29 of Shutdown.
Subject: Out of town pool report 1
POTUS arrived on Marine One at JBA at 1002 for a trip to Dover AFB in Delaware.
Wearing a long dark overcoat and a striped red tie, He boarded the small AF1, jogging up some of the steps, without pausing to talk to reporters.
The trip was announced OTR last night but the president himself tweeted this morning that he will meet with relatives of the four Americans killed by a bomb, claimed by ISIS, in Syria on Wednesday.
Joining Trump on AF1 are Sec State Mike Pompeo and acting Def Secretary Patrick Shanahan, per WH press office.
AF1 wheels up shortly after 1009 for a flight of approximately half an hour.
More to come...
Subject: Out of town pool report 2
Wheels down at Dover AFB 1036 on a grey, cold morning.
POTUS was greeted by military staff but did not speak to reporters before entering his motorcade. Pool will be on hold while POTUS meets with families prior to the reception of the caskets, per WH press office.
More to come...
Subject: Out of town pool report 2A
Passing on names of people meeting POTUS on arrival at Dover (per WH press office)
POTUS met at Dover AFB by:
Colonel Dawn C. Lancaster
Commander, Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations, Dover Air Force Base (DOV)
Chief Master Sergeant Danielle M. Hirvela
Chief Enlisted Manager, Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations, Dover Air Force Base (DOV)
Chief Master Sergeant Anthony W. Green
Command Chief Master Sergeant, 436th Airlift Wing, Dover Air Force Base (DOV)
Subject: In-town pool report #2: POTUS gaggle transcript, Part One
POTUS REMARKS TO POOL, 1/19/19
POTUS made opening remarks, before taking questions:
We are going to Dover Air Force Base.... we have a very busy day planned.
ON NORTH KOREA:
We had a very good meeting yesterday with North Korea. That was an incredible meeting. It lasted almost 2 hours. And we agreed to meet sometime the end of February. We’ve picked the country, but we’ll be announcing it in the future. Kim Jong Un is looking very forward to it and so am I. We’ve made a lot of progress that has not been reported by the media, but we have made a lot of progress as far as denuclearization’s concerned, and we’re talking about a lot of different things. But WE’ve a lot of tremendous progress that has not been reported, unfortunately, but it will be. Things are going very well with North Korea.
ON CHINA TRADE:
Things are going very well with China and with trade. There were some false reports about sanctions being removed, we have taken in tremendous amounts of money into the United States because of the sanctions and we’ll see how it goes. And If we make a deal, certainly we wouldn’t have sanctions. And if we don’t make a deal - we will, but I think China’s been - we’ve really had a very extraordinary number of meetings, and a deal could very well happen with China.
It’s going very well, I’d say about as well as it could possibly go. And without a question.
Q: [inaudible] about visiting with relatives of Americans killed in Syria.
I think it’s the toughest thing I have to do. When I’m going to meet relatives of some of our great great heroes that have fallen, I think it might be the toughest thing I have to do as president.
Q. [inaudible] on Syria
Well what we’ve done is — we’ve, when I took over, Syria was loaded with ISIS. And again When we said, who are we killing ISIS for, you know, the worst enemy of Russia, Iran, syria, you look at it, there’s ISIS. …. For people that are not necessarily always in agreement with us, let’s put it that way. We’ve gone into syria, and in two years, i guess we’ve i guess reduced it to about 99 percent of the territorial caliphate. Now that doesn’t mean you’re not going have somebody around and who knows what happened and who it was. There’s nobody sure. But i will say this, we’ve taken it - Syria was a mess. We’ve done Assad a very big favor.
We’ve also done our country a favor. But we’ve brought it down to less than 1 percent. As you know, we didn’t stop. .. We’ve been hitting ISIS very hard over the last three weeks, in particular over the last 3 weeks, and it’s moving along very well. But when I took over it was a total mess.
Subject: In-town pool report #3: POTUS gaggle transcript, Part 2 (Pelosi is “being controlled by the radical left”)
Picking up with rest of answer on Syria:
But you do have to ask yourself. We’re killing ISIS for Russia, for Iran, for Syria, for Iraq, for a lot of other places. At some point, you want to bring our people back home. I’ve been talking about this since the campaign. But we’ve done a very - we’re down to 99 percent, we have control of 99 percent, and we’re hitting the rest of it very very powerfully over the last three weeks.
Q. Will you announce a national emergency today?
We’ll I’m going to be making a statement at 3 o’clock, Steve. I hope you’ll be there. But i thikn it will be an important statement, having to do with - as you know, caravans are coming up, they have a big one coming up now. I’m disappointed that Mexico is not stopping them. I mean, mexico seems unfortunately powerless to stop them. Many got thru, they broke thru the Mexican area, where in theory they were guarded and they weren’t so well guarded.
So you have a lot of caravans coming up. If we had a wall, we wouldn’t have a problem. But now we have too many open areas. The walls that we’ve picked, the walls that we’ve built hold beautifully. But We have a lot of open areas, and that’s too bad. Now the previous caravans we’ve stopped. They’re right now in Tijuana. I don’t know what they’re doing in Tijuana, but they’re not in our country. That i can tell you.
Q. [inaudible]
You’ll see at 3 o’clock.
Q. [inaudible] about whether the shutdown has become too personal, Trump vs. Pelosi
Well i hope that speaker pelosi can come along and realize what everybody knows, that no matter who it is, they know that walls work. And we need walls. And whether it’s personal or not, it’s not personal for me. She’s being controlled by the radical left, which is a problem. And you know, she’s under total control of the radical left. I think that’s a very bad thing for her. I think it’s a very bad thing for the Democrats.
Everybody knows that walls work. You look at different places, they put up a wall, no problems. You look at San Antonio, you look at so many different places. They go from one of the most unsafe cities in the country to one of the safest cities immediately, immediately. It works, we have to put them up, and we will put them up.
Subject: In-town pool report #4: Rest of POTUS gaggle transcript (”I appreciate the special counsel coming out with a statement last night.”)
First, note updated guidance: POTUS remarks on border and shutdown now at 4:00 pm.
Rest of gaggle transcript:
Q. [inaudible]
I think we’re making a lot of progress. You know, we’re building wall as we speak. Nobody covers that. And I understand that. But we’re building wall as we speak, we’re going to continue. This country cannot be secure. You have human traffickers, you have criminals of all kinds, you have drug pushers and drug dealers, like at a level that people haven’t seen … Over the last 5 or 6 years, it’s gotten to a point, nobody’s seen anything like it. The border patrol has done an incredible job. But we need the help and the backup on a wall. OK.
Q. [inaudible]
Yes, I thought that the Buzzfeed piece and maybe equally as bad, the coverage of the Buzzfeed phony story. It was a total phony story, and I appreciate the special counsel coming out with a statement last night. I think it was very appropriate that they did so, I very much appreciate that. I think that the Buzzfeed piece was a disgrace to our country. It was a disgrace to journalism, and I think also that the coverage by the mainstream media was disgraceful, and i think it’s going to take a long time for the mainstream media to recover its credibility. It’s lost tremendous credibility. And believe me, that hurts me when i see that. I’m the president of this country, media could pull this country together.
It hurts me to say it. But mainstream media has truly lost its credibility, and i can say, as far as I’m concerned, from before the election, during the campaign i said wow, this is really crooked stuff, this is really dishonest reporting. When the New York Times apologized after the election for their bad coverage and their faulty coverage, and then they were wonderful for two weeks, and then they went back to being worse than ever before. And so many others. I’m not just blaming the Times. But the mainstream media has lost its credibility, and that’s a very bad thing for our country. Thank you very much.
Wow, NIKK, good thing I had some coffee before I read that post, so much to think about.
I wondered about why Nancy was leaving the country without knowing if Trump would give the SOTU.
When I saw the remark about Brazille ans Seth Rich it reminded me of this:
Limbaugh: Donna Brazile Feared For Her Life After Seth Rich Because “She Knows These People”
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Limbaugh: Donna Brazile Feared For Her Life After Seth Rich Because “She Knows These People”
Posted By Ian Schwartz
On Date November 6, 2017
On the Monday edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh remarks on Donna Brazile’s new book and hre fear following the murder of DNC data analyst Seth Rich. Brazile dedicated part of her upcoming book to Seth Rich.
Brazile, in her upcoming book, writes that the murder of Rich made her install surveillance cameras at her home and keep her office blinds closed
“They don’t know what it was like to be over the DNC during this hacking. They don’t know what it’s like to bury a child. I did: Seth Rich,” Brazile said about her critics to George Stephanopoulos on Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s This Week.
Limbaugh also noted that the murder of Rich was labeled a “typical right-wing conspiracy theory” while Brazile, a powerful Democrat, openly talks about it.
“So this is coming like a bolt out of the blue, and it’s just gonna reignite this,” Limbaugh predicated.
He said Brazile feared for her life because she “knows these people.”
“So she’s coming out now and she says the Seth Rich murder haunted her to the point that she felt the need to close her shades, that she feared for her own life. Now, if there’s anybody — here’s the critical thinking part. This is the part that’s supposed to dazzle you. If there’s anybody that knows these people, it is Donna Brazile. There’s no two ways of looking at this,” he said.
Hmmm never heard that before, but I surly do not know everything , lots of things some think racist i guess .
Sounds nice and homey. Food sounds good!
You never know if you don't ask...https://t.co/RibW4JGI5V— Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 (@steffanwatkins) January 19, 2019
..which just makes it worse; now we see the right callsign :)https://t.co/HceINwfCpu— Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 (@steffanwatkins) January 19, 2019
Thanks, Feeling much better. Cough is still irritating but no fever for last 2.5 days.
That was very interesting.
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