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"Jay Got A New Job" by The Jay & Farhad Show
A playlist of top moments from the Jay & Farhad Show at CES
Highlights from The Jay & Farhad Show’s “CES!” episode, which details some of the more offbeat aspects of the vast Consumer Electronics Show that wrapped up this weekend. I used Clammr, a terrific audio-excerpt tool (It’s a client of Fabric Media, which I do work with). There’s some fun stuff here, plucked from the 37-minute podcast. Let me know what you think of the tool and the conversation.
Good morning everyone! Happy Wednesday to you!
Joining today's show are Mike Barnicle, Bianna Golodryga, Michael Steele, Michael Schmidt, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, Howard Dean, Fmr. Amb. Robert Jordan, John Heilemann, Chuck Todd, Fmr. Gov. George Pataki, Secy. Tom Perez, Daniel Silva, Fmr. Sen. Gary Hart, Sara Eisen, Dale Earnhardt Jr and Steve Letarte.
Two disturbances tracking eastward from the Plains will bring bouts of showers and thunderstorms to the Ohio Valley, East and South through the rest of the week.
The first of the disturbances is expected to take a more northerly track early in the week, while the second swings father south late in the week, shifting the axis of the heaviest showers and storms.
Breaking: Storms Target Northeast Tuesday Evening
According to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski, through Wednesday, showers and thunderstorms will stretch from New England to the Deep South.
"Some of the storms will be locally severe with strong wind gusts, hail and flash flooding," Sosnowski said.
This includes parts of the Interstate 64, I-70, I-77, I-80, I-81, I-85 and I-95 corridors.
A brief tornado could also be spawned by a couple of the strongest and longest-lived thunderstorms.
"The metro areas of many major cities could be hit by a disruptive storm or something more severe," Sosnowski said. "This includes Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York City, Charlotte, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C."
By Thursday, the second disturbance will enter the picture, taking a more southerly path.
As a result, the main corridor of showers and storms will shift south, allowing some drying to expand from the Great Lakes region to New England.
This second disturbance is also likely to bring the heaviest rain of the week and the risk of flooding to the Tennessee Valley, the southern Appalachians and part of the southern Atlantic Seaboard.
Nashville and Knoxville, Tennessee, and Louisville, Lexington and Bowling Green, Kentucky, may end up receiving 1 to 2 inches of rain on Thursday alone.
"The ground in many places is saturated, so any rain is going to be considered excessive by a lot of folks, especially in light of one of the wettest Junes on record," said AccuWeather Meteorologist Joe Lundberg.
Rivers are likely to swell from the rapid rainfall rate, leading to flooding in unprotected low-lying areas located near the banks of rivers across the region.
Even through the rain is not expected to be as heavy heading into Friday, any additional rainfall from showers and thunderstorms could spark more flooding issues due to the heavily saturated ground.
Showers and thunderstorms will not end in the East with the conclusion of the week, carrying over into the holiday weekend.
The Fourth of July is not expected to be a complete washout anywhere in the East, but showers and thunderstorms can still lead to interruptions in parades, cookouts and firework displays across a large swath of the East.
Areas most likely to experience thunderstorms or drenching downpours will stretch from the southern part of the Ohio Valley and the Tennessee Valley to the central and southern Appalachians and the middle part of the Atlantic coast on Saturday evening. However, that zone could shift farther north or south, due to weak steering winds.
Blumenthal gave diplomatic advice to Hillary Clinton as early as 2009, emails show. Controversial aide Sidney Blumenthal was sending then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton advice on sensitive diplomatic matters much earlier than previously known, even as the White House was blocking him from becoming a part of her staff, according to emails released late Tuesday by the State Department.
The emails, which make up the first in a number of document dumps of Clinton’s private email server, from which she controversially conducted official State Department business, also show that Clinton paid special interest to the attempt to hire Blumenthal.
Blumenthal served as a senior adviser to former President Bill Clinton between 1997 and 2001, but was reportedly prohibited by the Obama administration from taking a job with Clinton's State Department team.
However, in an email dated November 5, 2009, Blumenthal sent Clinton an email titled “Agenda with Merkel,” Blumenthal encouraged Clinton to develop the Transatlantic Economic Council, which he said “now languishes.” Noting that it was German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s major initiative when Germany held the EU Presidency in 2007, Blumenthal advised that “raising Merkel’s project and reinvigorating it would undoubtedly be well received.”
Emails previously released by the State Department and the House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attack showed that Blumenthal forwarded intelligence information to then-Secretary Clinton about Libya around the time of the attack that killed four Americans. Clinton then asked that his insight be circulated amongst the staff.
The 2009 email shows that Clinton was receiving advice from the controversial confidant much earlier than had been previously believed.
Additionally, a conversation between Clinton and her Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills on June 22, 2009 shows Clinton’s interest in getting Blumenthal hired. In response to an unrelated matter, Clinton writes to Mills: “Good. What is latest re: Sid Blumenthal.”
In response Mills writes “Will see – he is doing the paperwork.”
The confidant’s role with Clinton became clearer in a June 2009 email. Blumenthal passed an email along to Clinton from then-UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and spoke of her helping him with “Adams” in a meeting with Martin McGuiness of Northern Island. Adams is apparently referring to Gerry Adams.
“Shaun briefed me that Gordon will be meeting with Martin McGuiness together on Wednesday and may want your help with Adams. I said that he and Gordon should let me know before Wednesday and may want your help with Adams. I said that he and Gordon should let me know before Wednesday whether your involvement is essential and what they request.”
Blumenthal gave more of his input before Clinton's 2009 speech to the Council of Foreign Relations in New York. Blumenthal told Clinton her speech must have "a distinctive and authoritative voice."
"The speech must be crafted with a sense of real time and cannot be delivered out of sync with it," he wrote. "Slogans can become shopworm, especially those that lack analytical, historical and descriptive power."
Blumenthal also gave tips for policy on Afghanistan.
“Hillary: FYI,” the message read. “I found this one of the most sensible and informed brief articles on Afghanistan.” Patrick Cockburn, of the London Independent, is one of the best informed on-the-ground journalists. He was almost always correct on Iraq.”
In a statement late Tuesday night, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus called the latest e-mail findings "troubling."
"Administration officials knew more than previously disclosed, Sidney Blumenthal was involved with more than just providing Libya off-the-books intelligence, and State Department officials were possibly fundraising on government accounts," the statement said. "These emails however are just the tip of the iceberg and we will never get full disclosure until Hillary Clinton releases her secret server for an independent investigation."
The revelations come at an awkward time for Clinton, now a presidential candidate, who had repeatedly sought to distance herself from Blumenthal, saying his advice on Libya and other issues was “unsolicited.”
The emails, covering March through December of that year, were posted online Tuesday evening, as part of a court mandate that the agency release batches of Clinton's private correspondence from her time as secretary of state every 30 days starting June 30.
Clinton's emails have become a major issue in her early presidential campaign, as Republicans accuse her of using a private account rather than the standard government address to avoid public scrutiny of her correspondence. As the controversy has continued, Clinton has seen ratings of her character and trustworthiness drop in polling.
The monthly releases all but guarantee a slow drip of revelations from the emails throughout Clinton's primary campaign, complicating her efforts to put the issue to rest. The goal is for the department to publicly unveil 55,000 pages of her emails by Jan. 29, 2016 -- just three days before Iowa caucus-goers will cast the first votes in the Democratic primary contest. Clinton has said she wants the department to release the emails as soon as possible.
"There's been nothing but nearly nonstop work on this" since the last group of emails was released, State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters Tuesday at briefing in which he acknowledged the inconvenient timing. "You have to understand the enormity of the task here. It is a lot of stuff to go through."
Clinton turned her emails over to the State Department last year, nearly two years after leaving the Obama administration. She has said she got rid of about 30,000 emails she deemed exclusively personal. Only she and perhaps a small circle of advisers know the content of the discarded communications.
Though Clinton has said her home system included "numerous safeguards," it's not clear if it used encryption software to communicate securely with government email services. That would have protected her communications from the prying eyes of foreign spies or hackers.
Separately, the State Department on Tuesday provided more than 3,600 pages of documents to the Republican-led House committee investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, including emails of Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at the time, and former Clinton aides Mills and Jake Sullivan.
In a letter to the committee, the department said "to the extent the materials produced relate to your inquiry, we do not believe they change the fundamental facts of the attacks on Benghazi."
Four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, were killed in the assaults on the diplomatic facility in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012. Several investigations have faulted security at the facility, but found that the CIA and military acted properly in responding. One Republican-led House probe asserted no wrongdoing by Obama administration officials in its report last year.
The House committee will hold a public business meeting next week to vote on whether to release the transcript of Blumenthal's deposition. Blumenthal testified behind closed doors for more than eight hours earlier this month, and Democrats have been pressing the panel to release the full transcript. Fox News' Ed Henry and Lucas Tomlinson, Kelly Chernenkoff and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Late Tuesday night, the State Department released a slew of new emails between Hillary Clinton, her staff, and other contacts.
The approximately 3,000 released pages contained somewhere around 30,000 emails.
While most have yet to go through the entire archive, as of right now, it appears that the majority of the e-mails range somewhere between dry and completely bone-dry.
Though nothing scandalous has been unearthed, there have been a few bright spots.
Like the time Clinton's staff tried to figure out who was "twittering."
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Or Clinton's fax machine fail.
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Clinton likes apples for 'personal use.'
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Would someone please get the Secretary some iced tea?The State Department
The White House stood Clinton up.The State Department
And didn't tell her about a cabinet meeting.The State Department
This email from US Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Maryland) is a gem.The State Department
Clinton wore a 77% favorable coat in Kabul.
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She works frequently with the media.
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She is not a fan of President Nixon.
De Blasio Slams Cuomo for 'Lack of Leadership'. In an exclusive interview with NY1 Political Anchor Errol Louis, Mayor Bill de Blasio delivered a withering critique of Governor Andrew Cuomo, saying that his "lack of leadership" got in the way of the city's business during this year's legislative session.
"What I found was, he engaged in his own sense of strategies, his own political machinations, and what we've often seen is, if someone disagrees with him openly, some kind of revenge or vendetta follows," de Blasio said of the governor.
"I don't believe the Assembly had a real working partner in the governor or the Senate in terms of getting things done for the people of this city and, in many cases, the people of this state."
"And I want to hasten to say there was some interesting back and forth last week, and some unnamed sources well-placed in the Cuomo administration had a few things to say. I'm here in front of you on record saying what I believe," de Blasio tells Louis.
"And what I believe here is the governor worked with the Senate in some cases to inhibit the work of the Assembly, to inhibit the agenda that New York City put forward."
De Blasio also said he was confounded by Cuomo's resistance to his proposed changes to the 421-a tax credit program for developers.
"I find that to be a lack of leadership because here was an opportunity actually to get something done for people," de Blasio said.
"In my many efforts to find some common ground, suspiciously, it seemed that every good idea got rejected or manipulated," the mayor said of his talks with the governor.
De Blasio also said that the governor is dominated by "transactional" politics.
"I think he believes deeply in the transactional model, and I think he needs to transcend that model if he wants to be a more effective leader," de Blasio said of the governor.
In response to the mayor's interview on Inside City Hall, the mayor's communications director, Melissa DeRosa, issued a statement that reads, "For those new to the process, it takes coalition building and compromise to get things done in government. We wish the Mayor well on his vacation."
Obama describes ‘Best Week Ever’. While he wouldn’t call the past seven days his best week ever, President Barack Obama took a moment this afternoon to reflect on what recent events have meant for his legacy.
Obama collected a series of political victories last week including a significant trade agreement and two Supreme Court rulings that backed key parts of his agenda on same-sex marriage and upheld his signature health care legislation.
Asked to comment on the accomplishments by CNN’s Jim Acosta, Obama was slow to label it his best “ever” — citing instead the weeks he married Michelle Obama, witnessed the births of his daughters and scored 27 points in basketball as all superior weeks.
But he did celebrate the impact of legalizing same-sex marriage and solidifying the Affordable Care Act for millions of Americans.
“In many ways last week was a culmination of a lot of work since I’ve been in office,” the President said.
Despite ongoing criticism, Obama said the value of providing health care to the masses speaks for itself.
“The results speak for themselves,” he said. “We have the lowest uninsured rate that we have we’ve had since we started keeping records,” he said.
Obama also addressed the feelings behind his eulogy he gave for slain Emanuel AME pastor Clementa Pinckney, marking a somber, heartfelt point at the end of a week. At the funeral, Obama led the audience in the hymn “Amazing Grace,” striking a different tone from the rest of week’s events.
“It wasn’t a celebration. It was a reflection of the consistent challenge of race in this country and how we can find a path, a better way,” he said.
Appearing to appreciate last week’s highs, but knowing that challenges remain, Obama said ultimately his focus was on helping the American public.
“One thing I’ve learned in this presidency is that there are going to be ups and there are going to be downs,” he said. “As long as my focus and my team’s focus is on what is going to make a difference in the lives of ordinary Americans like are we going to make this a more inclusive economy, a more inclusive society, a more fair and just society, we’re going to make progress.”
Markets rally on report Greece is ready to accept bailout terms. U.S. stock futures jumped Wednesday, following a report that Greece’s prime minister will now agree to bailout terms set by the debt-burdened country’s creditors.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average YMU5, +0.85% leapt 160 points, or 0.9%, to 17,679.00, and those for the S&P 500 ESU5, +0.82% rallied 19.60 points, or 1%, to 2,074.50. Nasdaq 100 futures NQU5, +0.91% picked up 46 points, or 1.1%, to 4,436.50.
Futures were propelled higher after the Financial Times reported Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is ready to accept nearly all of the conditions to a new bailout deal that its international lenders proposed over the weekend.
With that news, Wall Street will get trading in the second half of 2015 underway after a losing quarter for the S&P 500. Data on tap Wednesday include a report on private-sector hiring, which could give a clue to the closely watched U.S. jobs report on Thursday.
Stocks globally had been hit this week as Greece and its creditors failed to work out a deal allowing the country access to new bailout funds. The S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.27% has felt the weight of turmoil in Greece; it finished the second quarter lower by 0.2%, snapping a nine-quarter winning streak. In Tuesday's trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.13% and the Nasdaq Composite COMP, +0.57% ended slightly higher.
“With all the Greek furor, it’s hard to believe that a month has passed and nonfarm payrolls will be released tomorrow,” Brenda Kelly, head analyst at London Capital Group, wrote early Wednesday.
Before the U.S. jobs reports is released Thursday — a day earlier than usual because of the Independence Day holiday — data on private-sector hiring in June will arrive from ADP at 8:15 a.m. Eastern Time.
A reading of 218,000 jobs would be “marginally better” than May’s reading of 201,000, said Kelly. “Any better number here could ramp up the monetary tightening speculation,” she said.
At the half-year mark, the S&P is 0.2% higher, while the Dow is 1.1% lower. The Nasdaq is up 5.3% so far this year.
Data: After the ADP report, investors will get Markit’s reading of June manufacturing activity at 9:45 a.m. Eastern. Data on services activity for June will arrive from the Institute for Supply Management and construction-spending figures for May are both due at 10 a.m. Eastern. Figures on motor-vehicle sales for June should arrive throughout the day.
Earnings: Constellation Brands Inc. STZ, +0.36% is projected to report first-quarter earnings of $1.24 a share, according to a consensus survey by FactSet. The alcoholic-beverage company earned $1.07 a share a year earlier.
General Mills Inc. GIS, -0.61% is expected to report fiscal-fourth-quarter earnings of 71 cents a share, up from 67 cents a share a year ago.
Shares of Ford Motor Co. F, -0.07% and General Motors Co. GM, +0.30% will likely to move following the release of monthly car-sales data.
Nike Inc. NKE, +0.33% could see active trade after its co-founder Phil Knight created Swoosh LLC, a limited liability company, to hold his 128.5 million shares of Nike stock, equivalent to a 15% stake in the company.
Other markets: European stocks SXXP, +1.39% rallied on Wednesday’s developments out of Greece. Asian markets overnight finished mixed. Stocks in Shanghai SHCOMP, -5.23% sank 5.2%, but Japan’s Nikkei NIK, +0.46% picked up 0.5%. Oil futures CLQ5, -1.46% fell more than 1% while gold prices GCN5, +0.02% edged slightly higher. The dollar was up against most of its rivals on the ICE Dollar Index DXY, +0.33%.
New Jersey's biggest paper slams Christie: 'Don't believe a word the man says'. Chris Christie's local newspaper really doesn't like him.
The Star Ledger, the biggest paper in New Jersey, has been blasting the state's governor left and right.
A few weeks ago it warned the country Christie's blustering ways would lead to World War III if he were elected president. On Monday it blasted him for his "failure to lead" on public transit, which is important for New Jersey's economic health.
And now, Tom Moran, who covered Christie for 14 years, nukes him in a column. Moran says Christie is a liar:
Most Americans don't know Chris Christie like I do, so it's only natural to wonder what testimony I might offer after covering his every move for the last 14 years.
Is it his raw political talent? No, they can see that.
Is it his measurable failure to fix the economy, solve the budget crisis or even repair the crumbling bridges? No, his opponents will cover that if he ever gets traction.
My testimony amounts to a warning: Don't believe a word the man says.
Don't misunderstand me. They all lie, and I get that. But Christie does it with such audacity, and such frequency, that he stands out.
Moran goes on to detail a number of what he calls Christie's lies. Read his full column here.
Christie has a 30% approval rating as governor. Part of his appeal as a Republican candidate is that he won in New Jersey, a left-leaning state. But the state is not happy with him, and the reporters there have the knives out for him.
Maybe the national media and general populace won't care, but this isn't the best sign for his fledgling campaign to be the next leader of the US.
Ever since the United States and Saudi Arabia fell into something of an alliance in the late 1970s, the world's most unlikely partnership has had lots of down moments. Another big one came this weekend, when Saudi intelligence chief Bandar Bin Sultan al-Saud told European diplomats that his country would step back from cooperating with the United States on Syria, according to the Wall Street Journal and Reuters. Bandar said that his country's recent decision to refuse a seat at the U.N. Security Council was meant as a show of public protest against the U.S.
This very public Saudi jab at the U.S. is the latest in a series of increasingly frequent disputes between the longtime allies. They are probably not on the verge of breaking up, as observers have been predicting since 1990, when the kingdom was roiled by popular outrage against the alliance. But many of the mutual interests that have brought the two countries together seem to be falling apart.
Here's a partial list of those interests and how they're changing in ways that could turn the two countries against one another, very roughly ranked from the biggest disagreement to the smallest. The first six are bad news for the relationship, the last two are good news:
(1) Egypt: At odds. Saudi Arabia strongly opposed the Islamist government of Mohamed Morsi and supported the July military coup. The U.S. tepidly supported Morsi and opposed the coup. This August, Saudi Arabia announced that it would replace any foreign aid to Egypt that got cut – a not-so-subtle jab at the U.S., which did later cut military aid to Cairo. Saudi Arabia would seem to be actively undermining U.S. policy in Egypt.
(2) Iran: Could be at odds. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have opposed Tehran, working together to hem in their mutual enemy. It's been a linchpin in the relationship. But now the U.S. and Iran are talking about cutting a nuclear deal, possibly as part of a larger detente, which Saudi Arabia opposes. If the deal goes through, and there's a U.S.-Iran thaw, it would be a big blow to the U.S.-Saudi relationship.
(3) Iraq: No more reason to cooperate. Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a mutual enemy, and the reason that the U.S. stationed troops in Saudi Arabia in 1990, setting off a public backlash there against the American presence. Now Saddam is gone, replaced by a U.S.-backed Shiite government. Saudi Arabia is majority Sunni and has a poor relationship with Shiites.
(4) Syria: Declining cooperation. As this latest news shows, the Saudis have gotten past the point of frustration with U.S. policy toward Syria's civil war, which they see as disengaged and indecisive. Both countries still want the same outcome – to see the war end in a way that forces President Bashar al-Assad to exit but does not empower extremists – but have very different views about how to do it. Still, it's hard to see the two actively working at cross purposes, given that Riyadh's whole complaint is that the U.S. is disengaging from the issue.
(5) Afghanistan: Declining cooperation. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have worked together on Afghanistan since the 1979 Soviet invasion; they did so again after the Taliban's 2001 ouster and U.S.-led invasion. Once U.S. troops withdraw next year, they will have less reason to work together on Afghan issues. But they will still share an interest in curbing the Taliban and al-Qaeda there, so will likely continue sharing intelligence and counterterrorism work.
(6) Oil: Declining cooperation. As the U.S. starts to produce more of its own energy resources and import less from the Middle East, it has less interest in Saudi oil. And Saudi Arabia is selling more of its oil to China, which just became the world's largest net importer. Still, oil prices are set on a global market, so as a net importer, the U.S. would like to see Saudi oil continue to flow.
(7) Al-Qaeda: Status quo cooperation. The terrorist group has long targeted both Saudi Arabia and the United States as the "near enemy" and "far enemy," further driving the two together. While al-Qaeda's reach and power declined during much of the past decade, it has seen a resurgence in Syria, Mali and Libya. The U.S. has the firepower and Saudi Arabia has the intelligence, so they need one another. As long as there's instability-fueled extremism, there will be cooperation.
(8) Yemen: Status quo cooperation. Both countries are so concerned about extremism in Yemen that the U.S. built a secret drone base in Saudi Arabia in 2011, from which it's deployed missions to the country. There's also a Shiite insurgency in northern Yemen that Saudi Arabia is very worried about; the U.S. likewise would like to see the country become more stable.
So the future doesn't look terribly bright for the U.S.-Saudi relationship. Still, that doesn't mean they're about to break up. The impossible-seeming relationship has survived much more serious disputes; as long as there are oil and terrorism in the Middle East, the two countries will still need one another. But they may soon need one another much less than they used to.
Another black church on fire in South Carolina.
he Mt. Zion AME Church in Williamsburg County, South Carolina is on fire and the roof has collapsed, according to local reports. Emergency crews are at the scene fighting the blaze.
It’s currently unknown how the fire began, but local WCSC reported that officials received a call about it around 9 pm. The church is located on Mackey Road in Greeleyville.
The fire is under control, according to the Clarendon County Fire Department. However, the church itself was severely damaged.
"The building collapsed," Fire fighter Jason Hardy of Clarendon County told the Huffington Post. "Only the outer shell is left. Just brick standing."
This is the second time the church has caught fire. The last time was in 1995, when it was burned to the ground by former Ku Klux Klan members. In 1996, President Bill Clinton attended the dedication ceremony for the new church that was built in the aftermath.
"My prayer is that we're not having a repeat,"Rev. Nelson Rivers told ABC News 4. "But we're not going to take chances and we are plotting where the churches have burned so far, reaching out to the pastors and the congregations, and also talking to the authorities in those areas to see what they think."
Mark Keel of the State Law Enforcement Division told the Post and Courier that authorities have notified the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives about the situation.
He also said the fire could have been caused by lightning from a storm that had just passed through the county, but an investigation into the incident would not be able to commence until after the flames had been doused.
Asked about the possibility of it being related to other recent fires at black churches, he said, “Certainly, I think we all are concerned about those things.”
Mt. Zion AME is now the seventh church to catch fire since 21-year-old Dylann Roof shot and killed nine people in Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel AME Church. State and federal officials are looking into the blazes, some of which may be classified as hate crimes.
Two (2) new polls have come out about the Republican Primary. In an Iowa Quinnipiac Poll, Donald Trump does shoot up to second place (10%) behind Scot Walker (18%) and with Ben Carson at 10%, Ted Cruz at 9% along with Rand Paul. Jeb Bush is at 8% with Marco Rubio at 7%. In the latest CNN Poll, same goes here with Donald Trump shooting up to second place (12%) behind Jeb Bush (19%) and with Mike Huckabee at 8%, Ben Carson and Rand Paul are at 7% with Scott Walker and Marco Rubio at 6%. Please not that Governor Scott Walker has not even announced his candidacy yet.
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Good morning everyone! Happy Wednesday to you!
Joining today's show are Mike Barnicle, Bianna Golodryga, Michael Steele, Michael Schmidt, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, Howard Dean, Fmr. Amb. Robert Jordan, John Heilemann, Chuck Todd, Fmr. Gov. George Pataki, Secy. Tom Perez, Daniel Silva, Fmr. Sen. Gary Hart, Sara Eisen, Dale Earnhardt Jr and Steve Letarte.
Two disturbances tracking eastward from the Plains will bring bouts of showers and thunderstorms to the Ohio Valley, East and South through the rest of the week.
The first of the disturbances is expected to take a more northerly track early in the week, while the second swings father south late in the week, shifting the axis of the heaviest showers and storms.
Breaking: Storms Target Northeast Tuesday Evening
According to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski, through Wednesday, showers and thunderstorms will stretch from New England to the Deep South.
"Some of the storms will be locally severe with strong wind gusts, hail and flash flooding," Sosnowski said.
This includes parts of the Interstate 64, I-70, I-77, I-80, I-81, I-85 and I-95 corridors.
A brief tornado could also be spawned by a couple of the strongest and longest-lived thunderstorms.
"The metro areas of many major cities could be hit by a disruptive storm or something more severe," Sosnowski said. "This includes Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York City, Charlotte, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C."
By Thursday, the second disturbance will enter the picture, taking a more southerly path.
As a result, the main corridor of showers and storms will shift south, allowing some drying to expand from the Great Lakes region to New England.
This second disturbance is also likely to bring the heaviest rain of the week and the risk of flooding to the Tennessee Valley, the southern Appalachians and part of the southern Atlantic Seaboard.
Nashville and Knoxville, Tennessee, and Louisville, Lexington and Bowling Green, Kentucky, may end up receiving 1 to 2 inches of rain on Thursday alone.
"The ground in many places is saturated, so any rain is going to be considered excessive by a lot of folks, especially in light of one of the wettest Junes on record," said AccuWeather Meteorologist Joe Lundberg.
Rivers are likely to swell from the rapid rainfall rate, leading to flooding in unprotected low-lying areas located near the banks of rivers across the region.
Even through the rain is not expected to be as heavy heading into Friday, any additional rainfall from showers and thunderstorms could spark more flooding issues due to the heavily saturated ground.
Showers and thunderstorms will not end in the East with the conclusion of the week, carrying over into the holiday weekend.
The Fourth of July is not expected to be a complete washout anywhere in the East, but showers and thunderstorms can still lead to interruptions in parades, cookouts and firework displays across a large swath of the East.
Areas most likely to experience thunderstorms or drenching downpours will stretch from the southern part of the Ohio Valley and the Tennessee Valley to the central and southern Appalachians and the middle part of the Atlantic coast on Saturday evening. However, that zone could shift farther north or south, due to weak steering winds.
Blumenthal gave diplomatic advice to Hillary Clinton as early as 2009, emails show. Controversial aide Sidney Blumenthal was sending then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton advice on sensitive diplomatic matters much earlier than previously known, even as the White House was blocking him from becoming a part of her staff, according to emails released late Tuesday by the State Department.
The emails, which make up the first in a number of document dumps of Clinton’s private email server, from which she controversially conducted official State Department business, also show that Clinton paid special interest to the attempt to hire Blumenthal.
Blumenthal served as a senior adviser to former President Bill Clinton between 1997 and 2001, but was reportedly prohibited by the Obama administration from taking a job with Clinton's State Department team.
However, in an email dated November 5, 2009, Blumenthal sent Clinton an email titled “Agenda with Merkel,” Blumenthal encouraged Clinton to develop the Transatlantic Economic Council, which he said “now languishes.” Noting that it was German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s major initiative when Germany held the EU Presidency in 2007, Blumenthal advised that “raising Merkel’s project and reinvigorating it would undoubtedly be well received.”
Emails previously released by the State Department and the House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attack showed that Blumenthal forwarded intelligence information to then-Secretary Clinton about Libya around the time of the attack that killed four Americans. Clinton then asked that his insight be circulated amongst the staff.
The 2009 email shows that Clinton was receiving advice from the controversial confidant much earlier than had been previously believed.
Additionally, a conversation between Clinton and her Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills on June 22, 2009 shows Clinton’s interest in getting Blumenthal hired. In response to an unrelated matter, Clinton writes to Mills: “Good. What is latest re: Sid Blumenthal.”
In response Mills writes “Will see – he is doing the paperwork.”
The confidant’s role with Clinton became clearer in a June 2009 email. Blumenthal passed an email along to Clinton from then-UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and spoke of her helping him with “Adams” in a meeting with Martin McGuiness of Northern Island. Adams is apparently referring to Gerry Adams.
“Shaun briefed me that Gordon will be meeting with Martin McGuiness together on Wednesday and may want your help with Adams. I said that he and Gordon should let me know before Wednesday and may want your help with Adams. I said that he and Gordon should let me know before Wednesday whether your involvement is essential and what they request.”
Blumenthal gave more of his input before Clinton's 2009 speech to the Council of Foreign Relations in New York. Blumenthal told Clinton her speech must have "a distinctive and authoritative voice."
"The speech must be crafted with a sense of real time and cannot be delivered out of sync with it," he wrote. "Slogans can become shopworm, especially those that lack analytical, historical and descriptive power."
Blumenthal also gave tips for policy on Afghanistan.
“Hillary: FYI,” the message read. “I found this one of the most sensible and informed brief articles on Afghanistan.” Patrick Cockburn, of the London Independent, is one of the best informed on-the-ground journalists. He was almost always correct on Iraq.”
In a statement late Tuesday night, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus called the latest e-mail findings "troubling."
"Administration officials knew more than previously disclosed, Sidney Blumenthal was involved with more than just providing Libya off-the-books intelligence, and State Department officials were possibly fundraising on government accounts," the statement said. "These emails however are just the tip of the iceberg and we will never get full disclosure until Hillary Clinton releases her secret server for an independent investigation."
The revelations come at an awkward time for Clinton, now a presidential candidate, who had repeatedly sought to distance herself from Blumenthal, saying his advice on Libya and other issues was “unsolicited.”
The emails, covering March through December of that year, were posted online Tuesday evening, as part of a court mandate that the agency release batches of Clinton's private correspondence from her time as secretary of state every 30 days starting June 30.
Clinton's emails have become a major issue in her early presidential campaign, as Republicans accuse her of using a private account rather than the standard government address to avoid public scrutiny of her correspondence. As the controversy has continued, Clinton has seen ratings of her character and trustworthiness drop in polling.
The monthly releases all but guarantee a slow drip of revelations from the emails throughout Clinton's primary campaign, complicating her efforts to put the issue to rest. The goal is for the department to publicly unveil 55,000 pages of her emails by Jan. 29, 2016 -- just three days before Iowa caucus-goers will cast the first votes in the Democratic primary contest. Clinton has said she wants the department to release the emails as soon as possible.
"There's been nothing but nearly nonstop work on this" since the last group of emails was released, State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters Tuesday at briefing in which he acknowledged the inconvenient timing. "You have to understand the enormity of the task here. It is a lot of stuff to go through."
Clinton turned her emails over to the State Department last year, nearly two years after leaving the Obama administration. She has said she got rid of about 30,000 emails she deemed exclusively personal. Only she and perhaps a small circle of advisers know the content of the discarded communications.
Though Clinton has said her home system included "numerous safeguards," it's not clear if it used encryption software to communicate securely with government email services. That would have protected her communications from the prying eyes of foreign spies or hackers.
Separately, the State Department on Tuesday provided more than 3,600 pages of documents to the Republican-led House committee investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, including emails of Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at the time, and former Clinton aides Mills and Jake Sullivan.
In a letter to the committee, the department said "to the extent the materials produced relate to your inquiry, we do not believe they change the fundamental facts of the attacks on Benghazi."
Four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, were killed in the assaults on the diplomatic facility in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012. Several investigations have faulted security at the facility, but found that the CIA and military acted properly in responding. One Republican-led House probe asserted no wrongdoing by Obama administration officials in its report last year.
The House committee will hold a public business meeting next week to vote on whether to release the transcript of Blumenthal's deposition. Blumenthal testified behind closed doors for more than eight hours earlier this month, and Democrats have been pressing the panel to release the full transcript. Fox News' Ed Henry and Lucas Tomlinson, Kelly Chernenkoff and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Late Tuesday night, the State Department released a slew of new emails between Hillary Clinton, her staff, and other contacts.
The approximately 3,000 released pages contained somewhere around 30,000 emails.
While most have yet to go through the entire archive, as of right now, it appears that the majority of the e-mails range somewhere between dry and completely bone-dry.
Though nothing scandalous has been unearthed, there have been a few bright spots.
Like the time Clinton's staff tried to figure out who was "twittering."
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Or Clinton's fax machine fail.
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Clinton likes apples for 'personal use.'
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Would someone please get the Secretary some iced tea?The State Department
The White House stood Clinton up.The State Department
And didn't tell her about a cabinet meeting.The State Department
This email from US Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Maryland) is a gem.The State Department
Clinton wore a 77% favorable coat in Kabul.
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She works frequently with the media.
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She is not a fan of President Nixon.
De Blasio Slams Cuomo for 'Lack of Leadership'. In an exclusive interview with NY1 Political Anchor Errol Louis, Mayor Bill de Blasio delivered a withering critique of Governor Andrew Cuomo, saying that his "lack of leadership" got in the way of the city's business during this year's legislative session.
"What I found was, he engaged in his own sense of strategies, his own political machinations, and what we've often seen is, if someone disagrees with him openly, some kind of revenge or vendetta follows," de Blasio said of the governor.
"I don't believe the Assembly had a real working partner in the governor or the Senate in terms of getting things done for the people of this city and, in many cases, the people of this state."
"And I want to hasten to say there was some interesting back and forth last week, and some unnamed sources well-placed in the Cuomo administration had a few things to say. I'm here in front of you on record saying what I believe," de Blasio tells Louis.
"And what I believe here is the governor worked with the Senate in some cases to inhibit the work of the Assembly, to inhibit the agenda that New York City put forward."
De Blasio also said he was confounded by Cuomo's resistance to his proposed changes to the 421-a tax credit program for developers.
"I find that to be a lack of leadership because here was an opportunity actually to get something done for people," de Blasio said.
"In my many efforts to find some common ground, suspiciously, it seemed that every good idea got rejected or manipulated," the mayor said of his talks with the governor.
De Blasio also said that the governor is dominated by "transactional" politics.
"I think he believes deeply in the transactional model, and I think he needs to transcend that model if he wants to be a more effective leader," de Blasio said of the governor.
In response to the mayor's interview on Inside City Hall, the mayor's communications director, Melissa DeRosa, issued a statement that reads, "For those new to the process, it takes coalition building and compromise to get things done in government. We wish the Mayor well on his vacation."
Obama describes ‘Best Week Ever’. While he wouldn’t call the past seven days his best week ever, President Barack Obama took a moment this afternoon to reflect on what recent events have meant for his legacy.
Obama collected a series of political victories last week including a significant trade agreement and two Supreme Court rulings that backed key parts of his agenda on same-sex marriage and upheld his signature health care legislation.
Asked to comment on the accomplishments by CNN’s Jim Acosta, Obama was slow to label it his best “ever” — citing instead the weeks he married Michelle Obama, witnessed the births of his daughters and scored 27 points in basketball as all superior weeks.
But he did celebrate the impact of legalizing same-sex marriage and solidifying the Affordable Care Act for millions of Americans.
“In many ways last week was a culmination of a lot of work since I’ve been in office,” the President said.
Despite ongoing criticism, Obama said the value of providing health care to the masses speaks for itself.
“The results speak for themselves,” he said. “We have the lowest uninsured rate that we have we’ve had since we started keeping records,” he said.
Obama also addressed the feelings behind his eulogy he gave for slain Emanuel AME pastor Clementa Pinckney, marking a somber, heartfelt point at the end of a week. At the funeral, Obama led the audience in the hymn “Amazing Grace,” striking a different tone from the rest of week’s events.
“It wasn’t a celebration. It was a reflection of the consistent challenge of race in this country and how we can find a path, a better way,” he said.
Appearing to appreciate last week’s highs, but knowing that challenges remain, Obama said ultimately his focus was on helping the American public.
“One thing I’ve learned in this presidency is that there are going to be ups and there are going to be downs,” he said. “As long as my focus and my team’s focus is on what is going to make a difference in the lives of ordinary Americans like are we going to make this a more inclusive economy, a more inclusive society, a more fair and just society, we’re going to make progress.”
Markets rally on report Greece is ready to accept bailout terms. U.S. stock futures jumped Wednesday, following a report that Greece’s prime minister will now agree to bailout terms set by the debt-burdened country’s creditors.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average YMU5, +0.85% leapt 160 points, or 0.9%, to 17,679.00, and those for the S&P 500 ESU5, +0.82% rallied 19.60 points, or 1%, to 2,074.50. Nasdaq 100 futures NQU5, +0.91% picked up 46 points, or 1.1%, to 4,436.50.
Futures were propelled higher after the Financial Times reported Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is ready to accept nearly all of the conditions to a new bailout deal that its international lenders proposed over the weekend.
With that news, Wall Street will get trading in the second half of 2015 underway after a losing quarter for the S&P 500. Data on tap Wednesday include a report on private-sector hiring, which could give a clue to the closely watched U.S. jobs report on Thursday.
Stocks globally had been hit this week as Greece and its creditors failed to work out a deal allowing the country access to new bailout funds. The S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.27% has felt the weight of turmoil in Greece; it finished the second quarter lower by 0.2%, snapping a nine-quarter winning streak. In Tuesday's trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.13% and the Nasdaq Composite COMP, +0.57% ended slightly higher.
“With all the Greek furor, it’s hard to believe that a month has passed and nonfarm payrolls will be released tomorrow,” Brenda Kelly, head analyst at London Capital Group, wrote early Wednesday.
Before the U.S. jobs reports is released Thursday — a day earlier than usual because of the Independence Day holiday — data on private-sector hiring in June will arrive from ADP at 8:15 a.m. Eastern Time.
A reading of 218,000 jobs would be “marginally better” than May’s reading of 201,000, said Kelly. “Any better number here could ramp up the monetary tightening speculation,” she said.
At the half-year mark, the S&P is 0.2% higher, while the Dow is 1.1% lower. The Nasdaq is up 5.3% so far this year.
Data: After the ADP report, investors will get Markit’s reading of June manufacturing activity at 9:45 a.m. Eastern. Data on services activity for June will arrive from the Institute for Supply Management and construction-spending figures for May are both due at 10 a.m. Eastern. Figures on motor-vehicle sales for June should arrive throughout the day.
Earnings: Constellation Brands Inc. STZ, +0.36% is projected to report first-quarter earnings of $1.24 a share, according to a consensus survey by FactSet. The alcoholic-beverage company earned $1.07 a share a year earlier.
General Mills Inc. GIS, -0.61% is expected to report fiscal-fourth-quarter earnings of 71 cents a share, up from 67 cents a share a year ago.
Shares of Ford Motor Co. F, -0.07% and General Motors Co. GM, +0.30% will likely to move following the release of monthly car-sales data.
Nike Inc. NKE, +0.33% could see active trade after its co-founder Phil Knight created Swoosh LLC, a limited liability company, to hold his 128.5 million shares of Nike stock, equivalent to a 15% stake in the company.
Other markets: European stocks SXXP, +1.39% rallied on Wednesday’s developments out of Greece. Asian markets overnight finished mixed. Stocks in Shanghai SHCOMP, -5.23% sank 5.2%, but Japan’s Nikkei NIK, +0.46% picked up 0.5%. Oil futures CLQ5, -1.46% fell more than 1% while gold prices GCN5, +0.02% edged slightly higher. The dollar was up against most of its rivals on the ICE Dollar Index DXY, +0.33%.
New Jersey's biggest paper slams Christie: 'Don't believe a word the man says'. Chris Christie's local newspaper really doesn't like him.
The Star Ledger, the biggest paper in New Jersey, has been blasting the state's governor left and right.
A few weeks ago it warned the country Christie's blustering ways would lead to World War III if he were elected president. On Monday it blasted him for his "failure to lead" on public transit, which is important for New Jersey's economic health.
And now, Tom Moran, who covered Christie for 14 years, nukes him in a column. Moran says Christie is a liar:
Most Americans don't know Chris Christie like I do, so it's only natural to wonder what testimony I might offer after covering his every move for the last 14 years.
Is it his raw political talent? No, they can see that.
Is it his measurable failure to fix the economy, solve the budget crisis or even repair the crumbling bridges? No, his opponents will cover that if he ever gets traction.
My testimony amounts to a warning: Don't believe a word the man says.
Don't misunderstand me. They all lie, and I get that. But Christie does it with such audacity, and such frequency, that he stands out.
Moran goes on to detail a number of what he calls Christie's lies. Read his full column here.
Christie has a 30% approval rating as governor. Part of his appeal as a Republican candidate is that he won in New Jersey, a left-leaning state. But the state is not happy with him, and the reporters there have the knives out for him.
Maybe the national media and general populace won't care, but this isn't the best sign for his fledgling campaign to be the next leader of the US.
Ever since the United States and Saudi Arabia fell into something of an alliance in the late 1970s, the world's most unlikely partnership has had lots of down moments. Another big one came this weekend, when Saudi intelligence chief Bandar Bin Sultan al-Saud told European diplomats that his country would step back from cooperating with the United States on Syria, according to the Wall Street Journal and Reuters. Bandar said that his country's recent decision to refuse a seat at the U.N. Security Council was meant as a show of public protest against the U.S.
This very public Saudi jab at the U.S. is the latest in a series of increasingly frequent disputes between the longtime allies. They are probably not on the verge of breaking up, as observers have been predicting since 1990, when the kingdom was roiled by popular outrage against the alliance. But many of the mutual interests that have brought the two countries together seem to be falling apart.
Here's a partial list of those interests and how they're changing in ways that could turn the two countries against one another, very roughly ranked from the biggest disagreement to the smallest. The first six are bad news for the relationship, the last two are good news:
(1) Egypt: At odds. Saudi Arabia strongly opposed the Islamist government of Mohamed Morsi and supported the July military coup. The U.S. tepidly supported Morsi and opposed the coup. This August, Saudi Arabia announced that it would replace any foreign aid to Egypt that got cut – a not-so-subtle jab at the U.S., which did later cut military aid to Cairo. Saudi Arabia would seem to be actively undermining U.S. policy in Egypt.
(2) Iran: Could be at odds. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have opposed Tehran, working together to hem in their mutual enemy. It's been a linchpin in the relationship. But now the U.S. and Iran are talking about cutting a nuclear deal, possibly as part of a larger detente, which Saudi Arabia opposes. If the deal goes through, and there's a U.S.-Iran thaw, it would be a big blow to the U.S.-Saudi relationship.
(3) Iraq: No more reason to cooperate. Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a mutual enemy, and the reason that the U.S. stationed troops in Saudi Arabia in 1990, setting off a public backlash there against the American presence. Now Saddam is gone, replaced by a U.S.-backed Shiite government. Saudi Arabia is majority Sunni and has a poor relationship with Shiites.
(4) Syria: Declining cooperation. As this latest news shows, the Saudis have gotten past the point of frustration with U.S. policy toward Syria's civil war, which they see as disengaged and indecisive. Both countries still want the same outcome – to see the war end in a way that forces President Bashar al-Assad to exit but does not empower extremists – but have very different views about how to do it. Still, it's hard to see the two actively working at cross purposes, given that Riyadh's whole complaint is that the U.S. is disengaging from the issue.
(5) Afghanistan: Declining cooperation. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have worked together on Afghanistan since the 1979 Soviet invasion; they did so again after the Taliban's 2001 ouster and U.S.-led invasion. Once U.S. troops withdraw next year, they will have less reason to work together on Afghan issues. But they will still share an interest in curbing the Taliban and al-Qaeda there, so will likely continue sharing intelligence and counterterrorism work.
(6) Oil: Declining cooperation. As the U.S. starts to produce more of its own energy resources and import less from the Middle East, it has less interest in Saudi oil. And Saudi Arabia is selling more of its oil to China, which just became the world's largest net importer. Still, oil prices are set on a global market, so as a net importer, the U.S. would like to see Saudi oil continue to flow.
(7) Al-Qaeda: Status quo cooperation. The terrorist group has long targeted both Saudi Arabia and the United States as the "near enemy" and "far enemy," further driving the two together. While al-Qaeda's reach and power declined during much of the past decade, it has seen a resurgence in Syria, Mali and Libya. The U.S. has the firepower and Saudi Arabia has the intelligence, so they need one another. As long as there's instability-fueled extremism, there will be cooperation.
(8) Yemen: Status quo cooperation. Both countries are so concerned about extremism in Yemen that the U.S. built a secret drone base in Saudi Arabia in 2011, from which it's deployed missions to the country. There's also a Shiite insurgency in northern Yemen that Saudi Arabia is very worried about; the U.S. likewise would like to see the country become more stable.
So the future doesn't look terribly bright for the U.S.-Saudi relationship. Still, that doesn't mean they're about to break up. The impossible-seeming relationship has survived much more serious disputes; as long as there are oil and terrorism in the Middle East, the two countries will still need one another. But they may soon need one another much less than they used to.
Another black church on fire in South Carolina.
he Mt. Zion AME Church in Williamsburg County, South Carolina is on fire and the roof has collapsed, according to local reports. Emergency crews are at the scene fighting the blaze.
It’s currently unknown how the fire began, but local WCSC reported that officials received a call about it around 9 pm. The church is located on Mackey Road in Greeleyville.
The fire is under control, according to the Clarendon County Fire Department. However, the church itself was severely damaged.
"The building collapsed," Fire fighter Jason Hardy of Clarendon County told the Huffington Post. "Only the outer shell is left. Just brick standing."
This is the second time the church has caught fire. The last time was in 1995, when it was burned to the ground by former Ku Klux Klan members. In 1996, President Bill Clinton attended the dedication ceremony for the new church that was built in the aftermath.
"My prayer is that we're not having a repeat,"Rev. Nelson Rivers told ABC News 4. "But we're not going to take chances and we are plotting where the churches have burned so far, reaching out to the pastors and the congregations, and also talking to the authorities in those areas to see what they think."
Mark Keel of the State Law Enforcement Division told the Post and Courier that authorities have notified the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives about the situation.
He also said the fire could have been caused by lightning from a storm that had just passed through the county, but an investigation into the incident would not be able to commence until after the flames had been doused.
Asked about the possibility of it being related to other recent fires at black churches, he said, “Certainly, I think we all are concerned about those things.”
Mt. Zion AME is now the seventh church to catch fire since 21-year-old Dylann Roof shot and killed nine people in Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel AME Church. State and federal officials are looking into the blazes, some of which may be classified as hate crimes.
Two (2) new polls have come out about the Republican Primary. In an Iowa Quinnipiac Poll, Donald Trump does shoot up to second place (10%) behind Scot Walker (18%) and with Ben Carson at 10%, Ted Cruz at 9% along with Rand Paul. Jeb Bush is at 8% with Marco Rubio at 7%. In the latest CNN Poll, same goes here with Donald Trump shooting up to second place (12%) behind Jeb Bush (19%) and with Mike Huckabee at 8%, Ben Carson and Rand Paul are at 7% with Scott Walker and Marco Rubio at 6%. Please not that Governor Scott Walker has not even announced his candidacy yet.
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