Trump praises Irma response

President Donald Trump doled out hoagies and handshakes in the sweltering Florida heat on Thursday as he took a firsthand tour of Irma's devastation and liberally dispensed congratulatory words about the federal and state recovery effort.

Trump, who was in and out of the state in less than three hours, got an aerial view of the water-deluged homes along Florida's southwestern coast from his helicopter, then drove in his motorcade along streets lined with felled trees, broken traffic lights and shuttered stores on his way to a mobile home community hit hard by the storm. 

Walking along a street in Naples Estates with his wife, Melania, the president encountered piles of broken siding and soggy furniture heaped on front porches, and residents who were happy to get a presidential visit.

"We are there for you 100 percent," Trump said before donning gloves and helping to hand out sandwiches to local residents from a lunch line under a canopy. "I'll be back here numerous times. This is a state that I know very well." 

The president couldn't resist injecting a political flavor into his visit, telling reporters in Fort Myers that he was hopeful that Republican Governor Rick Scott, a two-term Republican, would run for the Senate, where Democrat Bill Nelson is up for re-election next year. 

We believe the Federal and State governments have run pretty well throughout the duration of these hurricane Harvey and Irma. We feel very badly for the people who have been hurt and affected by the storms. I plan to go down to the Keys this winter sometime as a show of symbolism and unity.

Determining what to do about DACA

I was on Glenn Beck’s radio show this morning where we talked about the latest on DACA. President Trump threw a dinner with Sen. Schumer, Rep. Pelosi and about 5 or 6 other people. At the end of the dinner Pelosi and Schumer issued a statement that they’re of one mind with President Trump on how to solve the issue of 800,000 younger illegal aliens who were taken to the U.S. as children by their illegal alien parents. 

The parameters of any deal, including a potential pathway to citizenship for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) participants and funding for his marquee campaign promise of a wall along the US-Mexico border are up in the air as the White House and Congress grapple with the impact of a Wednesday dinner between Trump and Democratic leaders.

The bombshell developments, which were first announced by Democratic leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi and reiterated by Trump himself Thursday morning, were met with immediate outrage from conservatives and put pressure on the President's Republican allies in Congress.

A deal would be the second major Trump-Pelosi-Schumer pact this month, following the agreement on the debt ceiling and government spending. 

"What remains to be negotiated are the details of border security, with a mutual goal of finalizing all details as soon as possible," the statement said. "While both sides agreed that the wall would not be any part of this agreement, the President made clear he intends to pursue it at a later time, and we made clear we would continue to oppose it." 

Pelosi and Schumer said they have reached a tentative agreement and say that it doesn’t have anything to do with the border wall. Immediately, conservatives in America go wild. Now, what Pelosi and Schumer are trying to do is erode base support for Donald Trump and they know the fastest way to do that is to say ‘see, he’s not going to stick up for the wall,’ which was a major campaign promise. This was a design by Schumer and Pelosi to hurt Trump. 

This morning before dawn, Trump insisted that "no deal was made" on DACA, and Schumer and Pelosi later issued a statement clarifying that what was agreed upon was Trump supporting congressional actions to put DACA protections into law. 

Preparations beginning for border wall prototypes

The site on Otay Mesa where models of competing proposals to build President Donald Trump’s border wall are to be built is now nearly surrounded by a chain link fence, though there is still no official timeline for when companies that won a bidding contest will begin work.

Over the past week the fence, approximately eight feet high, has been constructed around the building site. The fence has a green screen on it, blocking views of the work on the prototype walls, and is plastered with signs from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) designating it a restricted area and warning off trespassers.

The fencing is the most visible sign of preparing the site where the wall work will be done — the first step in the Trump administration’s controversial quest to construct hundreds of miles of new wall along the southwest border. 

While there is no start date, CBP officials have met with the San Diego Sheriff’s Department to discuss the construction, which could draw protests from wall opponents. 

US will stop issuing visas to four countries that refuse to take back citizens America wants to deport

The US State Department will stop issuing certain kinds of visas to some citizens of Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone because the nations are not taking back their citizens the United States wants to deport. 

The new policies, laid out in State Department cables and described in a news briefing, are the latest example of US President Donald Trump's effort to crack down on immigrants who are in the United States illegally.

The cables, sent by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to consular officials around the world, said the four countries were 'denying or unreasonably delaying' the return of their citizens.  

He said that visa restrictions would be lifted in a country if it accepted its deportees. 

'The Secretary determines the categories of applicants subject to the visa restrictions, and the categories differ slightly country by country,' State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in the news briefing on Tuesday. 

Federal Government Gives Berkeley almost $100,000 to ‘Honor the Legacy’ of Black Panther Party

The National Park Service is spending roughly $100,000 for a research project seeking to "honor the legacy" of the Marxist revolutionary group the Black Panther Party. 

The University of California, Berkeley, which has recently been at the center of violent protests from far-left groups, is receiving funding for the project. 

The National Park Service announced it was awarding the university a $97,999.70 grant for the project, outside of the normal competitive bidding process. 

This is the kind of stuff that drives me crazy because that should never happen in a million years. It is not necessary. Even if you agree with the Black Panthers which very few Americans do, because it was a Marxist, violent organization, you don’t waste $100,000 of taxpayer’s money. If someone wants to do it privately that’s fine.

Where will the debt ceiling end?

The Debt Ceiling had been frozen at about $19.84 trillion since mid-March, and the Treasury Department was forced to use "extraordinary measures" to prevent borrowing from exceeding that level. 

As we heard last week, President Trump signed a bill that said we’re going to lift the debt ceiling until December. Right away, the debt in this country went to $20.66 trillion basically overnight. The first time in history. We will never be able to pay this amount of money back, but what we will have to pay is the interest on the money which will cause all of us pain coming up. 

Understanding the national debt with Brian Riedl

Brian Riedl is a Senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a member of MI’s Economics21, focusing on budget, tax, and economic policy. 

People are ignoring this story because they aren’t feeling the effects right now, they’re paying for it, but they don’t notice it. Right now, on average $2,000 a year of the average household taxes go to paying interest on the national debt. American’s should be upset because this number is going to increase, right now interest rates are low, but if interest rates normalize by the end of the decade it’s going to cost you about $5,000 in taxes and if interest rates increase more than that it could cost up to $8,000 in taxes. These low rates are going to end. You’re going to have higher debts and higher interest rates. 

Medicare is a lot bigger problem than social security, there are bigger deficits in that program and so taking it off the table to any degree just means we’re going to have to raise taxes more. 

American’s have allowed politicians to let us believe we can get government for free. For years we cut taxes, we increased spending and we just don’t pay for it or worry about it. And so, I think the politicians are being irresponsible to the next generation, but so are the voters because let’s face it, we want free things from the government and in a campaign, the politician who promises you free things will always defeat the politician who that we have to pay for it. 

ESPN’s Double Standard

ESPN went through another episode of political drama when “SportsCenter” host Jemele Hill tweeted a string of tweets bashing Donald Trump, calling him a “white supremacist.” Many have questioned why Hill has not been fired for her public comments. 

In response to ESPN taking no action, former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling issued a message to ESPN and its biased double standard set for its employees. 

Schilling was fired from ESPN back in 2016 after he shared a picture on Facebook to the disgust of many.

After ESPN took no serious action on Hill for her comments, Schilling did not hesitate to point out the network and its parent company, Disney, for their obvious liberal bias and double standard.

Schilling tweeted, “She didn't get fired 'cau[s]e [D]isney and ESPN are fine w/liberal racism vs conservative logic.” 

Hill has since apologized for her comments and has stated that they are not reflective of ESPN. However, neither were Schilling's comments, and he was fired. 

Perhaps maybe ESPN should stick to sports considering its numbers have been tanking recently as it has covered politics more and more. 

So, Ms. Hill and other people who think Donald Trump is a white supremacist are basing it on statement he made. Here’s one from June 2015, “When Mexico sends their people they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending us people that are going to be beneficial. They’re sending people that have problems. They’re bringing those problems to us. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists and I assume some are good people, but I speak to border guards and they tell us what we’re getting and it only makes common sense that they’re sending us not the right people.”

It’s OK to disagree with that. I didn’t like the statement, but it’s not ‘all Mexicans are rapists’ which is what the far left is portraying it as. So this is what Jemele reads and hears because this is the world she surrounds herself in. We don’t subscribe to Jemele Hill’s view of the world, she’s a black woman so I can’t possibly know where she’s coming from and I can’t possibly experience life the way she does. I would not fire her, I would suspend her because she made the company look bad. Her job is not to be a political commentator. 

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