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Trump campaign reportedly vetting Chris Christie as running mate – live Trump campaign reportedly vetting Chris Christie as running mate – live
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Joe Biden: Bernie Sanders will endorse Hillary Clinton
Vice president Joe Biden has told NPR News that Vermont senator Bernie Sanders plans on endorsing Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid:
VP Biden in sit down interview with us just now: "I've talked to Bernie. Bernie is going to endorse her." @NPRWeekend
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Al Gore’s daughter was among 23 people arrested during a protest of a pipeline under construction. The arrests happened yesterday at the site of Spectra Energy’s West Roxbury Lateral pipeline in Boston.
Karenna Gore was among demonstrators who tried to block construction activity on the site by lying in a trench dug for the pipeline and refusing to move until firefighters removed them, said protest group Resist the Pipeline & Stop the West Roxbury Lateral.
The group opposes the pipeline because of safety and climate change concerns.
Related: Al Gore's daughter arrested at Boston pipeline protest
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Video: This afternoon, the US military ended its ban on openly transgender service members, in a speech given by US defense secretary Ash Carter.Video: This afternoon, the US military ended its ban on openly transgender service members, in a speech given by US defense secretary Ash Carter.
Carter said effective immediately, US service members would be able to serve openly and could not be discharged simply based on gender identity.Carter said effective immediately, US service members would be able to serve openly and could not be discharged simply based on gender identity.
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Here’s video of Donald Trump being questioned about Muslims working at airport security:Here’s video of Donald Trump being questioned about Muslims working at airport security:
Trump’s response: “We are looking at that. We’re looking at a lot of things.”Trump’s response: “We are looking at that. We’re looking at a lot of things.”
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Donald Trump, on a “Mexican plane” getting “ready to attack”:Donald Trump, on a “Mexican plane” getting “ready to attack”:
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A woman asks Donald Trump to get rid of Transportation Security Administration workers with “heeby jobbies” at US airports, an apparent reference to hijabs, veils that cover the hair and neck of observant Muslim women.A woman asks Donald Trump to get rid of Transportation Security Administration workers with “heeby jobbies” at US airports, an apparent reference to hijabs, veils that cover the hair and neck of observant Muslim women.
Trump dodges, moving to airport security overall, and the event is over.Trump dodges, moving to airport security overall, and the event is over.
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Questioner grills Donald Trump on defending 'Zionist Israel'Questioner grills Donald Trump on defending 'Zionist Israel'
The fourth question - well, technically the third question, since Trump never allowed the first person to ask a question - comes from a man who says “we have something in common: respect for human life.”The fourth question - well, technically the third question, since Trump never allowed the first person to ask a question - comes from a man who says “we have something in common: respect for human life.”
Trump nods reticently.Trump nods reticently.
“Number one: I’m opposed to the murder of unborn babies being legal,” the man says. “Number two: I’m opposed to our wasting our military in the Middle East on behalf of Zionist Israel.”“Number one: I’m opposed to the murder of unborn babies being legal,” the man says. “Number two: I’m opposed to our wasting our military in the Middle East on behalf of Zionist Israel.”
Trump, slightly flummoxed at the two issues being brought up at an address putatively about US trade policy, responds to the second comment.Trump, slightly flummoxed at the two issues being brought up at an address putatively about US trade policy, responds to the second comment.
“Lemme just tell you that Israel is a very, very important ally of the United States, and we are going to protect them 100%. One-hundred percent,” Trump says. “It’s our true friend over there, and we are going to protect Israel 100%.”“Lemme just tell you that Israel is a very, very important ally of the United States, and we are going to protect them 100%. One-hundred percent,” Trump says. “It’s our true friend over there, and we are going to protect Israel 100%.”
“As to number one, we are all with you,” Trump says succinctly.“As to number one, we are all with you,” Trump says succinctly.
“Wow, that was nasty! Are we all with Israel? Man!” Trump says, shaking his head, before taking another question.“Wow, that was nasty! Are we all with Israel? Man!” Trump says, shaking his head, before taking another question.
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A questioner asks Donald Trump about the likely “corporate backlash” of international companies who won’t be too keen on cutting into their profits by manufacturing and consuming within the United States.A questioner asks Donald Trump about the likely “corporate backlash” of international companies who won’t be too keen on cutting into their profits by manufacturing and consuming within the United States.
“You’re gonna have a backlash where maybe people are gonna move from New Hampshire, but they’re gonna move to another state. Plenty to choose from!” Trump says. “My tax plan is cutting business taxes way down, and cutting taxes for middle income and everybody way down.”“You’re gonna have a backlash where maybe people are gonna move from New Hampshire, but they’re gonna move to another state. Plenty to choose from!” Trump says. “My tax plan is cutting business taxes way down, and cutting taxes for middle income and everybody way down.”
“We’re gonna simplify our tax code, number one, and we’re gonna cut our taxes. We’re at the highest tax, we’re just about he highest taxes in the world,” Trump says, saying that “we’re gonna make corporations wanna come back.”“We’re gonna simplify our tax code, number one, and we’re gonna cut our taxes. We’re at the highest tax, we’re just about he highest taxes in the world,” Trump says, saying that “we’re gonna make corporations wanna come back.”
“Companies are actually leaving the United States and going to other countries to pick up their money cause they can’t get their money in. And that money could be used to rebuild the United States!” Trump says. “We’re gonna bring our money into the United States - trillions of dollars, we bring it into the United States!”“Companies are actually leaving the United States and going to other countries to pick up their money cause they can’t get their money in. And that money could be used to rebuild the United States!” Trump says. “We’re gonna bring our money into the United States - trillions of dollars, we bring it into the United States!”
“We will do things that are going to be so miraculous - and it’ll be fast! You know, it won’t take a long period of time.”“We will do things that are going to be so miraculous - and it’ll be fast! You know, it won’t take a long period of time.”
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Donald Trump’s first town hall event features him interrupting his first questioner, a self-described “manufacturing guy,” three times. Still no idea what his question was, although it seemed to be headed towards creating a culture of domestic consumption of goods.Donald Trump’s first town hall event features him interrupting his first questioner, a self-described “manufacturing guy,” three times. Still no idea what his question was, although it seemed to be headed towards creating a culture of domestic consumption of goods.
Another questioner, an impassioned man whose company manufactured police badges before he lost business to China, calls current trade issues “unfair.”Another questioner, an impassioned man whose company manufactured police badges before he lost business to China, calls current trade issues “unfair.”
“What are you gonna do for us?”“What are you gonna do for us?”
“We don’t play the game they play the game - they play the game to win, we play the game to survive,” Trump says of China. “We’re gonna start playing the game to win. So just hang in there - I know it’s not easy, but just hang in their, man.”“We don’t play the game they play the game - they play the game to win, we play the game to survive,” Trump says of China. “We’re gonna start playing the game to win. So just hang in there - I know it’s not easy, but just hang in their, man.”
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Donald Trump, speaking at a shuttered factory in Manchester, New Hampshire, emphasizes the importance of walking away from a deal as a negotiating tactic, citing the Iranian nuclear agreement as an example of a situation where his school of negotiation is superior to that of Secretary of State John Kerry.Donald Trump, speaking at a shuttered factory in Manchester, New Hampshire, emphasizes the importance of walking away from a deal as a negotiating tactic, citing the Iranian nuclear agreement as an example of a situation where his school of negotiation is superior to that of Secretary of State John Kerry.
“He never walked - he lost every single point,” Trump says. “We shoulda said no way, we shoulda left the room, we shoulda said we’re doubling your sanctions, and they would have been back on the television saying ‘please come back!’”“He never walked - he lost every single point,” Trump says. “We shoulda said no way, we shoulda left the room, we shoulda said we’re doubling your sanctions, and they would have been back on the television saying ‘please come back!’”
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Donald Trump proposes 35% tariff on foreign-produced goods
“I want great deals for this country,” Donald Trump says in Manchester, New Hampshire. “Here’s my stance on trading: I wanna make great deals for the United States. Call it fair trade, call it free trade, call it whatever you want.”
“If companies leave… there’s going to be consequences,” Trump continues. “They’re not gonna make their air conditioners in Mexico, send ’em into the United States… and there’s no consequence. Well, now there’s a consequence. The consequence is now they’re going to pay a 35% tax.”
“We’re either going to keep ’em here, or they’re going to lose a hell of a lot of money,” Trump continues. “It’s very simple. They wanna go to another country, they gotta pay a tax to get their stuff back to this county.”
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Donald Trump, speaking at a former Osram Sylvania manufacturing plant in Manchester New Hampshire, ties manufacturing woes to trade deals “pushed through” by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
“Hillary Clinton pushed through the trade deal with South Korea that killed another 100,000 jobs, and she pushed it through,” Trump says. “We protect them - we have 28,000 soldiers on the line between North and South. And what happens, what happens if there’s a war? We get involved.”
“They are an economic behemoth - and we protect them, and they don’t reimburse us for what it’s costing,” Trump says. (Military officials have protested the idea that returning soldiers to the US would be cheaper than keeping them abroad.)
“When you have large numbers of unemployed bc workers, incomes go down across the country - just across the entire country. It just affects so much and so many other people, so many other lives and so many other businesses,” Trump continues. “Our whole standard of living goes down - we have workers for 18 years, they haven’t received an increase.”
“It’s a much better system, the way it used to be,” Trump says, of domestic production of goods that cost the consumer more. “We’re better off if they’re not quite as cheap.”
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At the former Osram Sylvania plant in Manchester, New Hampshire, Donald Trump recalls other closed manufacturing operations in the region while reading statistics and names from a sheet of paper on his lecture.
“People from Mexico took their jobs,” Trump says, of a closed Ethan Allen manufacturing plant. “Regional job losses have been fantastically poor, fantastically bad and disgraceful.”
“It’s just, it’s not very hard to explain, it’s not very hard to understand. What is very difficult is to figure out why people did this. Why? ... We have a $500 billion trade deficit with China, a massive trade deficit with Japan,” Trump says. “They send us millions of cars, we send them beef. You oughta take a look at a chart sometime, take a look at the difference between what we send them and what they send us.”
“That could be a Mexican plane up there - they could be getting ready to attack,” Trump says, responding to an overhead plane.
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Donald Trump mentions the heroin crisis facing states like New Hampshire, shocked that hard drugs could be a problem in a state with beautiful natural features.
“You look at these beautiful trees and these beautiful streams and these beautiful lakes? This is not heroin country,” Trump says.
Trump also promises the group that he will “take a few questions,” making this, as far as we can recall, Trump’s first town hall-style meeting since he became the Republican party’s presumptive presidential nominee.
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Donald Trump holds event in Manchester, New Hampshire
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is holding an event - initially reported as an address on trade, but currently postulated as a “town hall”-style event - in Manchester, New Hampshire:
The event, which is not open to the public, is sparsely attended.
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Donald Trump is running late to his campaign event in New Hampshire today, possibly because he is tweeting responses to an NBC News story that questions whether his campaign has filed the required documents to forgive the $50 million in loans he has personally provided to his presidential campaign:
The very dishonest @NBCNews refuses to accept the fact that I have forgiven my $50 million loan to my campaign. Done deal!
I have self funded my winning primary campaign with an approx. $50 million loan. I have totally terminated the loan!
The reason I put up approximately $50 million for my successful primary campaign is very simple, I want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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Bernie Sanders gets additional extension for personal financial disclosure
Vermont senator and perpetual presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been granted his second 45-day extension to file personal financial disclosure reports, putting the latest deadline for Sanders to file the forms well after the conclusion of next month’s Democratic National Convention.
The request, filed with the Federal Election Commission today by the campaign’s legal counsel, cites Sanders’ “ current campaign schedule & officeholder duties” as the reason for the delay in filing the required report, which would provide limited detail of the senator’s assets and liabilities.
The new deadline for filing the disclosure reports is now in the middle of August.
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Fired campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, assigned to chair the New Hampshire delegation to the Republican convention, is at the Trump event in New Hampshire. Semper fidelis.
Corey Lewandowski is at Trump speech
Holding a boom box over his head https://t.co/OLStmD3A1i
Spotted at Trump's New Hampshire event. fired former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski 👀👀👀 --> pic.twitter.com/RRxq0qwMcf
How you can tell Corey Lewandowski is no longer working for Trump campaign: He shows up to speeches wearing shorts. https://t.co/iZyFXtIJ0M
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have a race.
If your only sources of information are the Drudge Report and Donald Trump’s Super Pac.
Trump super PAC fundraising off Drudge pic.twitter.com/XPVarDfhhh
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Biden to hit trail with Clinton
Following an appearance Tuesday by president Barack Obama with Hillary Clinton in North Carolina, vice president Joe Biden will join Clinton Friday in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
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