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Let's start with Sunday night, because, how could we not? You already know about the Moonlight cock-up , but did you know this: although Moonlight 's Mahershala Ali was described as the first Muslim to win an Academy Award, Pakistan isn't having it. Apparently, the sect to which Ali belongs is outlawed in Pakistan.
President Donald Trump will give his first address to a joint session of Congress and will do the same thing as President Barack Obama did on February 24, 2009 after he was elected as president for the first time. It's a fact that newly elected presidents often deliver this type of speech instead of a formal State of the Union address, as it gives them a full year instead of a few weeks to fully assess the state of the economy.
Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer predicted that President Trump will not be specific about a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act when he speaks to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday evening. Speaking to Bret Baier on "Special Report," Krauthammer said, "I guarantee you he will not be specific at all."
Lawmakers return to Congress this week for the president's State of the Union address and a House vote on the NAFCU-backed "SCRUB Act," both set for tomorrow. The "Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome Act" was reintroduced by Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., this year after he first introduced it during the last Congress.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says Democrats are overreaching in asking for a special investigation into reported contacts between President Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russians known to US intelligence. In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" Sunday, Christie was critical of a meeting first reported by CNN between White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
Republicans leery of angry voters at town hall meetings should remember "you asked for the job" and allow constituents and even "professional protesters" to "yell themselves out," Gov. Chris Christie said Sunday. In an interview on CNN's "State of the Union," the New Jersey Republican said lawmakers have to take responsibility for listening to their constituents.
In an interview on CNN's " State of the Union ", the Ohio Republican, attending a worldwide security conference in Munich, Germany, said leaders from other countries are getting mixed messages from the president and members of his administration. Speaking from the 53rd Munich Security Conference, Kasich said leaders are saying, "We're just not sure" about America's alliances.
From an international security conference in Munich , Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Sunday that world leaders remain uncertain about President Trump 's commitment to Europe and NATO . "There is a question that in a time of crisis, where will America be," Mr. Kasich said on CNN's "State of the Union."
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie criticized President Donald Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn Sunday, saying he needs to clear up questions about whether he discussed sanctions in his pre-inauguration conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States. "I don't think that you can have any more than one president at a time," Christie told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."
A Democratic senator claims that "a few" of his Republican colleagues have expressed concern to him about President Donald Trump 's mental health - and that stems from questions about Trump's truthfulness. Minnesota's Al Franken tells CNN's "State of the Union" that the concern arises "in the way that we all have this suspicion" that "he lies a lot.
JUNE 9: Sen. Al Franken speaks to reporters at a news conference dubbed #WeThePeople outside the Capitol on June 9, 2016 in Washington, D.C. Senate Democrats unveiled a new legislative proposal that will reform campaign finances and ensure fairer elections. WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 9: Sen. Al Franken speaks to reporters at a news conference dubbed #WeThePeople outside the Capitol on June 9, 2016 in Washington, D.C. Senate Democrats unveiled a new legislative proposal that will reform campaign finances and ensure fairer elections.
But his election does nothing to change the Article I Constitutional Authority of the Congress, nor does it change the responsibility of Republican Members of Congress to honor the promises made to their constituents. Remember those promises? End executive overreach.
Just in case folks don't know, three Democrats also followed President Donald Trump's lead in restricting entry for foreigners to the United States. President Barack Obama kept Iraqis from entering the U.S. for six months in 2014; President Bill Clinton in his 1995 State of the Union speech called for a halt to immigration period; and Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York -- the "sobster" -- in 2014 called for border closings and strong vetting, but not now.
I have been wondering when there was going to be a good, strenuous airing of grievances between Trump's camp and CNN. Other than Breitbart, Drudge, Fox News, and the National Enquirer, Trump doesn't have a lot good to say about the media.
President Donald Trump regularly poses for publicity shots of him signing executive orders with members of his team in tableau behind him. He's promoting a kind of Oval Office reality show for which he's assembled a cast of colorful misfits.
Bernie Sanders grudgingly praised President Trump as a telegenic "showman" on Sunday - but slammed him as a con artist who is selling out working class voters who helped him win election. "I don't mean to be disrespectful this guy is a fraud," Sanders told host Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union."
Trump's address will not be a State of the Union. It is traditional, however, for incoming presidents to address Congress in their first months in office.
On Jan. 23, 1933, the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the so-called "Lame Duck Amendment," was ratified as Missouri approved it. In 1516, King Ferdinand II of Aragon, who with his late queen consort, Isabella of Castile, sponsored the first voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492, died in Madrigalejo, Spain.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday he opposes eight or nine of President Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees -- and could also attempt to block his eventual Supreme Court nominee. "If the nominee is out of the mainstream, we will do our best to keep the seat open," Schumer, D-New York, told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" of the Supreme Court vacancy that Trump will get a shot at filling after majority Republicans blocked former President Barack Obama's nominee for a year.