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BY BRETT SAMUELS - 11/30/17 09:27 AM EST
A protester interrupted a Roy Moore as the Alabama Senate candidate spoke at a church service Wednesday night, asking if all the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct are lying.
While discussing the allegations against him, Moore told the crowd that he believes he angered certain people while serving as district attorney several decades ago, which has created a conspiracy against him.
A protester interrupted Moore, asking, “The entire town? Are all the girls lying?” CNN reported.
“Someone needed to stand up for the girls,” the man told CNN as he was escorted out of the church.
The reverend presiding over the service reportedly called the protester a plant.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/362521-protester-who-interrupted-roy-moore-someone-needed-to-stand-up-for
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Roy Moore church event interrupted by protester
By Mayra Cuevas, CNN
Updated 10:22 PM ET, Wed November 29, 2017
(CNN)Embattled Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore was interrupted by protester Wednesday evening as he spoke during a church service in southern Alabama. Moore began his remarks by blaming liberals for the country's political woes.
"Who are they? The liberals. They don't want conservative values," Moore said from the pulpit of Magnolia Springs Baptist Church in Theodore. "They are the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender ... who want to change our culture. They are socialists who want to change our way of life. Putting man above God. And the government is our god. They are the Washington establishment. They want to keep everything the same so they don't lose their position, power and prestige."
Moore then referenced reports of sexual misconduct brought against him. He said his family felt terrible about the allegations. "It hurts them to think and see what I've been charged with," he said. Moore said he believes his prosecution of drug cases when he was a district attorney angered certain people, and that this is at "the heart of this conspiracy" against him.
A protester then interrupted Moore's remarks, yelling, "The entire town? Are all the girls lying?" CNN spoke to the protester as he was escorted out of the church. The man did not give his name but said he lived in Alabama and "someone needed to stand up for the girls."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/29/politics/roy-moore-protester/index.html?sr=fbCNNp113017roy-moore-protester0631AMVODtop&CNNPolitics=fb
British MP: 'Trump should be arrested for inciting racial hatred'
Source: The Hill
BY AVERY ANAPOL - 11/30/17 09:20 AM EST
British politicians are continuing to slam President Trump the day after he retweeted anti-Muslim videos from a British ultranationalist group.
One Labour MP tweeted that if Trump visits the U.K., he should be “arrest for inciting racial hatred.”
https://twitter.com/PaulFlynnMP/status/936124300121247744
The Times reported that several MPs publicly criticized Trump as “fascist,” “stupid” and guilty of “spreading evil.” Another said the president is “racist, incompetent, or unthinking, or all three.”
Peter Bone, a Conservative MP, called for Prime Minister Theresa May to advise Trump to delete his Twitter account, a statement that Home Secretary Amber Rudd said she agrees with, according to the Times.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/international/362520-british-mp-trump-should-be-arrested-for-inciting-racial-hatred
Brzezinski , Scarborough to Trump: We are not intimidated
BY JOE CONCHA - 11/30/17 08:52 AM EST
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski declared early Thursday that they "are not intimidated" by President Trump after he tweeted out a conspiracy theory around the death of a young female staffer in Scarborough's office while his was a Florida GOP congressman in 2001.
“I’ll speak for Joe and myself here because Joe has stated that responding to President Trump’s tweets are a waste of his time," said Brzezinski, who became engaged to Scarborough in May. "The president crossed another deeply disturbing line. With his attack on Joe, the chief law enforcement officer of the United States of America advanced a false conspiracy theory to intimidate the press and cause a chilling effect on the First Amendment."
"Joe and I are not intimidated and his bizarre behavior contravenes both the Constitution and basic moral judgment," she continued. "This is all we are going to be saying on the matter. We continue to focus on more pressing issues like the nuclear conflict with North Korea. And we hope the president will do the same.”
Scarborough on Wednesday labeled tweets from Trump, including one that appeared to be a call for an investigation into a dead staffer found in the former GOP congressman's office in 2001, as "bizarre."
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/362516-brezinski-scarborough-to-trump-we-are-not-intimidated
British PM on Trump retweets: We are not afraid to say when the US is wrong
Source: The Hill
BY JULIA MANCHESTER - 11/30/17 08:54 AM EST
British Prime Minister Theresa May defended the U.K.'s response to President Trump's retweeting of anti-Muslim videos posted by a leader of an ultranationalist British group, saying the country is not afraid to push back on the U.S.
"The fact that we work together does not mean that we're afraid to say when we think the United States has got it wrong, and to be very clear with them. And I'm very clear that retweeting from Britain First was the wrong thing to do," May said to applause in Amman, Jordan on Thursday.
May's comments come a day after Trump retweeted a series of videos from Jayda Fransen, who is the deputy leader of the far-right group Britain First. The videos claimed to show Muslims engaging in violent acts.
Trump's retweets sparked widespread outrage in the U.K.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/international/362517-uk-prime-minister-on-trump-retweets-we-are-not-afraid-to-say-when-the-us
Project Veritas founder vows more undercover operations: 'Being hated is a sign of respect'
James O’Keefe, head of Project Veritas, vows further undercover operations: ‘Being hated is a sign of respect’By Joel Achenbach November 30 at 12:41 AM
DALLAS — James O’Keefe, the self-described “guerrilla journalist” who runs Project Veritas, spoke to students at Southern Methodist University here on Wednesday night, highlighting his organization’s undercover efforts to expose what it says is liberal bias in the media and defending the deceptive tactics that are its trademark.
O’Keefe spoke just days after it was revealed that one of his organization’s undercover operatives was attempting to plant a fake story with The Washington Post, and he made mention of the sting operation just briefly, portraying himself as a David battling the Goliath of the mainstream media and vowing to push ahead with his efforts. In that case, a woman named Jaime Phillips claimed to have had a sexual relationship with U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore when she was a teenager and tried to lure reporters into covering the false story; The Post instead revealed the ploy.
“The Washington Post seems to want a Nobel Prize for vetting a source correctly,” he said.
O’Keefe was invited by a campus organization, SMU Young Americans For Freedom, and about 100 people attended the speech in a student center theater as video and TV cameras lined the rear of the hall. There were no protests or disruptions.
“It’s been quite a week and I have a lot to say. So this should be very fun,” O’Keefe said. “We live in unbelievable times and investigative reporting doesn’t really happen very often anymore. Yes, we use disguise, yes, we go undercover, but sometimes it’s the only way to ferret out what people really believe — when nobody’s looking.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/30/james-okeefe-head-of-project-veritas-vows-further-undercover-operations-being-hated-is-a-sign-of-respect
Geraldo Rivera Apologizes For Tweets on Matt Lauer: 'I Didn't Sufficiently Explain' Myself
by Joseph A. Wulfsohn | 10:40 pm, November 29th, 2017
Geraldo Rivera has now backed away from his tweets defending ex-Today Show anchor Matt Lauer. In a statement to Twitter, the Fox News personality offered this apology:
https://twitter.com/GeraldoRivera/status/936070175010574336
Earlier today, the Fox News personality took to Twitter to call Lauer a “great guy,” and seemed to undermine the allegations of sexual harassment that were made against the Today host by saying that the news industry is a “flirty business.”
https://www.mediaite.com/online/geraldo-rivera-apologizes-for-tweets-on-matt-lauer-i-didnt-sufficiently-explain-myself/
MRC's Brent Bozell: Bill O'Reilly Starting To Sound Like OJ Searching For Real Killers
by Larry O'Connor | 6:37 am, November 30th, 2017
Brent Bozell, President of conservative media watchdog Media Research Center, says Bill O’Reilly’s constant insistence of innocence in the wake of multiple harassment claims is starting to sound disingenuous, to say the least.
Joining me on my radio program on WMAL in Washington DC, Bozell discussed the ouster of NBC’s Matt Lauer and the irony of his merciless grilling of O’Reilly just two months ago. I reminded Bozell that the former Fox News host continued to deny the allegation that he was a serial harasser:
In fact, just last month O’Reilly filed a defamation lawsuit against a New Jersey politician who made harassment claims against him. This was the first allegation against O’Reilly while not employed by Fox News. The lack of defamation lawsuits against harassment accusers could be a symptom of the risk-averse culture at the cable news network while under the command of the late Roger Ailes.
https://www.mediaite.com/columnists/mrcs-brent-bozell-bill-oreilly-starting-to-sound-like-oj-searching-for-real-killers/
Blackwater Brass Rips 'Spineless, Worthless' Jeff Sessions
On the eve of Erik Prince’s testimony before the House’s Russia investigators, his former guns-for-hire are going after the attorney general—who’s caught in the Russia probe, too.
BETSY WOODRUFF
11.30.17 5:00 AM ET
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has a new group of critics: former officials at Blackwater, the military contracting firm that was sold and renamed after its connection to the killings of more than a dozen Iraqi civilians in 2007.
That’s because in the ten years since those deaths in Baghdad’s Nisour Square, the Justice Department has taken an aggressive and sometimes unorthodox approach to prosecuting four former Blackwater contractors for those killings. And that aggressive stance is continuing under Sessions.
The founder of Blackwater, Erik Prince, is set testify before the House intelligence committee on Nov. 30 as part of its Russia probe. And that gives the dispute an additional dimension. Two key players in the unfolding Trump-Russia drama are now at odds: Sessions, who keeps remembering more and more discussions about—and meetings with—Kremlin officials; and Prince, who reportedly had a secret meeting with a Putin crony earlier this year in an attempt to open a back channel between the Kremlin and the Trump White House.
Three Blackwater contractors were convicted in 2014 under a firearm statute that is generally used to go after violent criminals connected to drug trafficking. They were each sentenced to 30 years in prison under that charge. But in August—a few months after Sessions became attorney general—the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit found those lengthy sentences to be cruel and unusual punishment, noting that the Justice Department had never before used the law that way.
A fourth contractor, Nick Slatten, got a life sentence for murder. But, in a defeat for the Justice Department, that same D.C. circuit appellate panel vacated the conviction and tossed that sentence and ordered that Slatten be tried again. He is still incarcerated, and Sessions’ prosecutors at the Justice Department are getting ready to retry him.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/blackwater-brass-rips-spineless-worthless-jeff-sessions
Our political foundation is rotting away - By E.J. Dionne Jr.
Great nations and proud democracies fall when their systems become so corrupted that the decay is not even noticed — or the rot is written off as a normal part of politics.
President Trump has created exactly such a crisis. He has not done it alone. The corrosion of norms and values began long before he propelled the nation past the edge, and his own party is broadly complicit in enabling his attacks on truth, decency and democratic values.
In fact, Republicans are taking full advantage of the bedlam Trump leaves in his wake. They are using a twisted process to push through a profoundly flawed tax bill with scant scrutiny. The convoluted proposal is so generous to the wealthiest interests in the country and so damaging to significant parts of the middle class and the poor that GOP leaders know it would not survive extended debate.
They dare not take on Trump because doing so might derail the pursuit of what are now their party’s only driving purposes: court packing, the care and feeding of the privileged, and the gutting of federal social services and regulation. This, too, is a form of corruption, a refusal to face larger questions when partisan political victories are at hand.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-political-foundation-is-rotting-away/2017/11/29/173a497c-d54d-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html
Law enforcement leaders fight concealed-carry gun bill
Source: CNN
By David Shortell, CNN
Updated 7:24 PM ET, Wed November 29, 2017
(CNN)As lawmakers in the House advanced out of committee a bill Wednesday that would ease interstate travel for gun owners with permitted concealed weapons, a group of law enforcement leaders gathered with congressmen from both parties to slam the legislation as something that would "jeopardize public safety across America."
"Police officers think this is a terrible idea," said Manhattan's district attorney, Cy Vance. "Prosecutors think this is a terrible idea. You should listen to them."
The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, a measure with the strong backing of the National Rifle Association, would require each state to honor a concealed carry permit issued by another state regardless of local permitting restrictions. Republicans have plugged the bill for eliminating "the current maze of state and local concealed carry laws," and have cited "good guys with a gun" examples to promote the value of more legal gun possession. Lawmakers in the House Judiciary Committee advanced the bill after a markup Wednesday, as well as a separate measure that would update the federal background-check system.
Members from the law enforcement group, Prosecutors against Gun Violence, planned to hold meetings with lawmakers Wednesday to lobby against the concealed carry bill and to throw their weight behind a gun control bill introduced last month that would ban "bump fire stocks" or "bump stocks," the device that enabled a gunman in Las Vegas recently to fire a semiautomatic weapon similar to the rate of the automatic firearm, killing dozens of people.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/29/politics/gun-control-event/index.html
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