COLUMBIA, S.C. — Democrat Kamala Harris represents California in the Senate, but her inaugural campaign swing through South Carolina over the weekend sent a clear signal that she sees the Palmetto State as the gateway to winning her party's nomination for president.

With its prime spot in the 2020 calendar and its high concentration of African American voters, the South Carolina primary could provide a launching pad for Democratic presidential hopefuls. And Harris' "truth and justice" campaign pitch seemed tailormade for competing in the state, which is scheduled to hold its primary on Feb. 29, 2020.


Over the course of two town halls in North Charleston and Columbia — which book-ended stops through small businesses owned by black women, lunch at Rodney Scott's BBQ and a visit to Emanuel AME, the historically black church where nine worshipers were gunned down in 2015 — Harris advocated for changes to the criminal justice and education systems and the nation's gun laws, while touting bail reform legislation and an anti-lynching bill she co-authored in the Senate. She recounted how her immigrant parents — her father from Jamaica and her mother from India — had met while both were activists during the civil rights movement.

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Image means a lot and your protest has transformed how the NFL is promoting it's image today. The lead up to this game would have looked much different had it not been for the courage of Kaepernick. Those watching know what I'm saying. I have seen a number of things that are great to see. Segments of MLK speeches, a piece on segregation, Cummings and King at the coin toss, etc.

I know he impacted other areas as well but image is huge. Education is huge. Historical context is huge.

Thank you Colin Kaepernick.

I know I would never allow it if I was representing him. If Trumps ego got in the way I would have to either quit or handcuff him to his desk.

Trump's legal team rebuffed request for Mueller interview in recent weeks

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I believe this position will hold even under threat of a subpoena.

Mueller is far along in his investigation. Just look at the oligarchs and corporations he has indicted. I don’t think he has to wait for anything on that front as most of it has nothing to do with direct campaign coordination. They were stones he was turning over along the way. Some pretty legally complex stones.

I think he has everything he can get on Stone and has simply been monitoring him. Stone is worthless in the flipping department. Stone completely lacks credibility and will spoil everything he touches. I think Mueller has all he needs from him. Stone is going to find himself yearning for Mueller before the trial but Mueller will offer him nothing. Poor Stone.

Stone was directly coordinating. I don’t think there is much further to go. It’s the cornerstone of the investigation. Mueller already had a lot of Stones communication. Mueller has what he needs here with respect to what happened. It’s just about scaring the shit out of some people in case there is more he hasn’t found or because they will be more legitimate witnesses than Stone.

We are at the meat and potato’s. I believe Trump is already nailed as Cohen rolled on him. Remember that one of the charges Cohen plead guilty to was getting excessive campaign contributions at the behest of the campaign or individual within the campaign. The Stormy fiasco was clearly an illegal in kind campaign contribution that wasn’t registered as such and I’m confident Trump was directly involved. Trump is already toast, IMO. Mueller has him.

We are going to see a handful of more indictments that flow directly from Stone. I think that will almost be the end before the report. Almost? I think Trump will be indicted soon after the next round of indictments and before the report is handed over. He will be indicted but no move for arrest will be made. The WH will immediately go to court and settle the big question. Can an indictment against a President stand.

Trump will be impeached and convicted. The conviction will come even with a Republican Senate because Mueller will have him indicted. That will be the nail in the coffin.

Trump will be indicted. We already know enough that a GJ would hand one down.

Those are my thought. My opinion. Lots more against Trump I’m just hitting on some of the bigger picture.

Never has he been more hands on in a negotiation. He didn’t have his high powered negotiators there to do the work for him. With the house being in Democrat’s hands he only had Mitch, who appearantley didn’t like Trumps strategy and became Missing Mitch.

Trump played every card he had to get his wall wrapped up in the funding bill except one thing; paying off legislators. He doesn’t have the power to do that like he does in the private sector. It’s something he should have tried when Republicans held both chambers of Congress. I feel the wall would have passed in the last budget had Republican leadership only loaded up some goodies for legislators. It’s what would have happened had Mitch and the rest of the leadership really wanted the wall. They saw the writing on the wall and knew their numbers were going down.

Instead, Trump gave it all he had and proved to the country that he is a weak and pathetic negotiator. His position held firm on the wall but everything else changed by the hour. What the wall would look like, reasons we need the wall, what the money would go to, grand lies about its effectiveness... his message was all over the place. Then there was his brilliant move to call Pelosi and Schumer to the WH. Trump, you aren’t a negotiation leader. You aren’t qualified to pull such a stunt. But he convinced himself he was a negotiator. It turned into another failed tactic. He caused pain among millions and thought that was going to be his Trump card. What an idiot.

What does it look like when Trump heads up his own negotiation? Not only does he not get a single thing he wants, he paid a price. Public opinion went against him, he burned through political clout, and in the end he let the country know that none of it was worth it. He threatens that the government might shut down again in three weeks but he ended this negotiation by telling the country that the shutdown wasn’t worth it. What an idiot.

I see no other way than for him to call a national emergency. It’s going to be interesting to watch. It’s going to come at a time when Trump just starts getting pounded by our house committees. These committees are going to start releasing dirt quicker than people think. It’s also going to be a situation most Republicans will be completely against. Will they act like they oppose it? I don’t know. They appear to be spineless in the face of Trump. It would set a precedent that could pave a path for a number of things we want. I see cracks in the Republican foundation. This could do even more harm.

Trump is temporarily negotiating the Republican Party out of existence. He is not a negotiator and has never had to be one. His claim to fame is a massive joke that was just put on full display. We just watched his personal best effort.

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NORWALK, Calif. (KABC) -- A mother in Norwalk was hospitalized after her child accidentally shot her while he was in the backseat of their car Wednesday.

Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies and crime scene tape surrounded Ramona Preschool in the afternoon hours following the shooting in the parking lot.

"We received a call of an assault with a deadly weapon gunshot victim. When deputies got there, they found an adult female Hispanic with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to her upper torso," Deputy Marvin Crowder said.

The woman was shot while sitting in the driver's seat of a black Honda outside the school. Her children were in the backseat when her son, who is under the age of 5, somehow got hold of a shotgun.

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KOBANE, Syria — American military leaders are "constantly apologizing" for President Donald Trump's Syria withdrawal plan, according to the commander who oversees a force of 65,000 U.S.-backed fighters that's battling the Islamic State.

“It was a joint war, but they left us in the middle of the road,” said Gen. Mazlum Kobane, who is in charge of the coalition of militias known as the Syrian Democratic Forces.

U.S. troops and Kurdish-led fighters were "brothers in arms" as partners on the ground in the war against ISIS in Syria, he added.

But Trump’s announcement that he was withdrawing all U.S. troops from the country immediately has left the Kurds feeling abandoned. The president tweeted on Dec. 19 that the U.S. had “defeated ISIS in Syria,” adding that was the “only reason” to have troops on the ground there.

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Michael Cohen is a sexy pit bull terrier with a fantastic smile, according to a Twitter account that it turns out was started at the instruction of one Michael Cohen.

Cohen – Donald Trump’s former friend, attorney and fixer, now flipper – hired an IT firm called RedFinch Solutions to manipulate an online CNBC poll about the country’s top 100 leaders, and later to run a sock-puppet Twitter account, @womenforcohen, to promote his sexual desirability, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Cohen began his working relationship with RedFinch in 2012, when the company’s owner, John Gauger, helped Cohen set up his Instagram account.

In 2014, Cohen reportedly asked Gauger to manipulate a CNBC poll asking people to identify the country’s top 100 business leaders. Cohen asked Gauger to write a script to repeatedly vote for Trump, according to the WSJ. His efforts were unsuccessful, as Trump did not finish even within the top 100, but it began a relationship in which Cohen would pay Gauger to engage in acts of online deception on behalf of himself and Trump.

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And to their credit Cohen is both. Yet there are two things they don't seem to get. 1) It's why Cohen was Trumps personal lawyer and VP of the Trump Organization for over a decade. Being the VP of the Trump Organization and Trumps personal lawyer is not a job an honest and ethical person can hold. 2) I don't see anyone simply taking the word of Cohen. That isn't happening because he is a know fraud and liar. He is also a great point of first source information. Trump seems to have had damn near absolute trust in the guy. All of that information must be verified. As a trusted insider verification will often need to go no further than Cohen himself. Email, texts, phone records, contracts, etc. Some with have to be verified through third party sources.

Of course Cohen is a liar and a fraud. He was Trumps right hand man.

In May of 2018 Giuliani called Cohen an "honest, honorable, lawyer." Giuliani also said “I have no concern that Michael Cohen is going to do anything but tell the truth.”

At one point, when the WH was asked if Trump would sit for a deposition if a subpoena was issued, they referred reporters to ask Cohen.

Q If subpoenaed, would the President sit for a deposition?

MS. SANDERS: Again, I’m not going to get into a hypothetical question, and I would refer you to Michael Cohen on that matter.

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And don't forget that they made Cohen Deputy Director at the RNC. Another job that requires one to be a liar and fraud.

Ronna McDaniel, the RNC Chair, said this about Cohen after she was asked if he was still working there. “Michael Cohen has not been charged with anything, he’s under investigation. I believe in due process, I’m sure you do too, so we’ll see what happens.”

Why were they willing to go so far for Cohen? They knew then that he was a liar and a fraud. They also knew he had first hand knowledge as to where the bodies are buried.

Yes. Cohen is a liar and a fraud. They knew it then and they know it now. Cohen is not to be trusted by anyone. I think the only person blindsided is the person Cohen is going to play a pivotal role in bringing down. Don the Con.