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President Donald Trump stands with Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, left, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, center, after arriving at the Ronald R Wright National Air Guard Base in Salt Lake City on Monday, Dec. 4, 2017. Protesters gather before a visit by President Donald Trump to announce that he is scaling back two sprawling national monuments, Monday Dec. 4, 2017, in Salt Lake City.
Donald Trump traveled to Utah to officially announce his plans to slash the size of national parks by more than 1,000,000 acres. The president said he was scaling back Barack Obama 's monument policy to hand the power back to the people.
President Donald Trump arrived in Utah on Monday to announce that he is scaling back two sprawling national monuments, a move that is welcomed by the state's top Republican officials but opposed by tribes and environmental groups. Trump traveled west to announce his intention to shrink the Bears Ears and the Grand-Staircase Escalante national monuments.
The House Intelligence Committee has long suspected journalists may have been paid by Fusion GPS to report on alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. In early November, Rep. Devin Nunes reached a breaking point and began demanding that the shady research firm behind the infamous 'Trump dossier,' submit its banking records to Congressional investigators to see if payments had been made to reporters.
Democrat Doug Jones shrugged off the news that President Trump officially endorsed his rival Republican Roy Moore in the special U.S. Senate race here in Alabama, saying his focus is on being an independent voice for the people of his home state. Mr. Trump 's endorsement is likely to boost Mr. Moore , who is trying to overcome allegations of sexual misconduct that sent other GOP leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, running for cover.
President Trump 's trip to Utah Monday highlighted the emerging battle in the Republican Party for control of the Senate seat now held by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch , who's expected by many in the GOP to retire next year. Former Massachusetts governor and 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney wants to run for the seat, but the president and former adviser Stephen Bannon are encouraging the 83-year-old Mr. Hatch to seek another term, viewing Mr. Romney as an elitist who's been less than supportive of Mr. Trump .
Saying it was his duty to "reverse federal overreach" by both the Obama and Clinton administrations, President Trump on Monday signed two proclamations to pare down and carve up both the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah. At a speech in Salt Lake City, Mr. Trump said previous presidents have greatly abused their power under the century-old Antiquities Act, and stretched the law past its limits in cordoning off millions of acres of land and placing them under government control.
BuzzFeed's AM to DM , which airs live Monday - Friday on BuzzFeed News via Twitter and on BuzzFeed.Twitter.com from 10-11am ET, will host the following guest line-up for the week of December 4: Airing live every day on BuzzFeed News via Twitter and on BuzzFeed.Twitter.com from 10-11am ET, AM to DM reimagines the traditional morning show format for the way young people consume news today. Hosted by Saeed Jones and Isaac Fitzgerald , AM to DM takes news and flips it on its head.
After watching Al Gore's new documentary feature, " An Inconvenient Sequel ", there were two main thoughts going through my head: We have a lot of work to do to reverse the damage we've caused to our climate , and If Al Gore had been President instead of George W. Bush, this problem would not be nearly as big as it is right now. But, if we go too deep down the rabbit hole in response to item two, we'll never get out of it and I, for one, will just be immobilized by a mix of rage and despair.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters Monday as he departs for travel to Utah from the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump said on Monday his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was being treated unfairly, implicitly criticizing the U.S. special counsel's charges against him even though Flynn pleaded guilty.
A bipartisan bill aimed at protecting reporters from revealing confidential sources has its roots in a similar bill co-sponsored by then Congressman Mike Pence 10 years ago, the Washington Examiner reports. Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, former head of the Freedom Caucus, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, introduced a similar bill and hope that Pence's influence will stem any urge that President Donald Trump's administration might have to prosecute reporters.
Americans want to know when former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton will be held accountable for the statements she made to the FBI about her email server, especially after the guilty plea entered by former national security adviser Michael Flynn last week and revelations concerning FBI agents, President Donald Trump's counselor, Kellyanne Conway, said Monday. "We know that she lied a lot of times," Conway told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" program.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, praised the Republican plan to cut back or remove the estate tax, saying it would lead to wiser investment. "I think not having the estate tax recognizes that people are investing as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it's on booze or women or movies," Grassley told the Des Moines Register.
A U.S. Air Force U-2s spy plane prepared to land at the Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, Monday. Hundreds of aircraft including two dozen stealth jets began training Monday as the United States and South Korea launched their combined air force exercise.
Lobbing new criticism at the special counsel's Russia investigation, President Donald Trump said Monday he feels "very badly" for former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who last week pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about reaching out to the Russians on the president's behalf. "I think it's a shame," Trump said of Flynn's situation, adding that it's "very unfair" and that Flynn had "led a very strong life."
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Two women have chained themselves to the doors of a downtown Pittsburgh building that houses U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey's office to protest the Senate's tax bill. They tell the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette they have a host of objections to the Senate Republicans' passing of their $1.5 trillion tax bill early Saturday.
The Senate passed a major "tax reform bill" on Saturday morning, the likes of which haven't been seen since the Reagan era. This tax bill barely made it through.
Former Alabama chief justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks at a campaign rally, Nov. 30, 2017 in Dora, Alabama. President Donald Trump endorsed Republican Roy Moore on Monday in next week's U.S. Senate election in Alabama, rebuffing calls by other prominent Republicans that Moore drop out of the race because of accusations that he sexually abused teenage girls four decades ago when he was in his 30s.