National Emergency on Border Wall:
The house is set to vote on blocking President Trump’s national emergency on the border wall, which would throw things to the Senate. If all of the Democrat Senators vote to block it, they would need to flip 4 Republicans and it looks like Senator Tillis from North Carolina is the first one.
- GOP Sen. Tillis to vote for resolution blocking Trump’s emergency declaration. (The Hill)
- Trump on brink of defeat on border emergency. (Politico)
Russia Hearings:
There are 3 hearings set. Two of them will be behind closed doors and that’s where they will talk about the Trump/Russia investigation. The third one is the public one and you won’t hear much about Russia at all- just how horrible Trump is as a person.
- Byron York: Cohen hearings designed to keep public in dark about Russia. (Washington Examiner)
- Michael Cohen Is Said to Have Plans to Go Negative on Trump During Testimony. (New York Times)
Supreme Court:
Democrats Presidential nominees are floating the idea of adding additional Supreme Court justices.
Transgenders in Sports:
Tennis star Martina Navratilova’s conversation about transgenders competing in sports sparks interesting debate when you see stories like this…
- Transgender sprinters finish 1st, 2nd at Connecticut girls indoor track championships. (Washington Times)
- Biological male is top-ranked NCAA Women’s track star. (Daily Caller)
Donald Trump Jr. took to social media to lament for the high school girls who have trained so hard for scholarships and they are loosing to people who are physically different than them.
- Donald Trump Jr. claims female teen sprinters beaten by transgender athletes is “Grave Injustice” (Newsweek)
Socialism:
Missouri Senator Eric Burlison (R-20) has filed legislation to stop government from competing with private-sector business.
- Local governments worry Burlison’s ‘Stop Socialism Act’ could endanger services. (News-Leader)
- Do you support Sen. Eric Burlison’s Senate Bill 122 to prohibit public entities from directly competing with private business? (Springfield Business Journal)
- Senate Bill 122. (Missouri Senate)
- Senator Eric Burlison. (Facebook)
Carjackings:
Right now if someone steals your car in Missouri they are charged with robbery. Legislators are looking at creating harsher penalties that would now charge carjackers with motor vehicle hijacking.
New Green Deal:
The AOC plan could cost somewhere around of 93-trillion dollars.
Hillary Clinton/ Bernie Sanders fight:
Hillary Clinton is still bitter over how Bernie Sanders hurt her campaign in 2016 and she is probably grooming one of the 2020 candidates, so she is doing her best to hit back at Sanders. Sanders campaign is responding…
- Ex-Sanders spokesman calls Hillary Clinton team choice words in interview. (Fox News)
- Ex-Clinton staffers slam Sanders over private jet flights. (Politico)
2020:
Elizabeth Warren is promising to avoid tradition fundraisers with wealthy donors during the Democrat primary… but it’s game on if she wins the primary election.
There are a group of Republican who are still not on-board with President Trump and want to run a candidate against him in the primary race.
- Never Trumpers want a candidate, but Bill Weld is not the guy. (Washington Examiner)
Venezuela:
Jorge Ramos and a Univsion team are being deported from socialist Venezuela after they were detained for asking questions that President Nicolas Maduro didn’t like.
Abortions:
The born alive survivors petitioner act would require doctors to give the same amount of care to babies who are born after failed abortions. Democrats blocked the measure and all 2020 Democrat presidential nominees in the Senate voted against the measure.
