Trump news on Youtube Jan 12 2019

Puerto Ricans still recovering from a devastating hurricane that killed thousands and displaced even more may see their state's disaster funds shifted to what President Donald Trump claims is an emergency at the U.S-Mexico border.

Trump is reportedly considering a plan to declare a national emergency and then siphon money from funds used for disaster relief in Puerto Rico, Texas, California, Florida and other states affected by natural disasters in order to pay for his border wall.

Puerto Rico is still suffering the aftermath of a hurricane last year, and officials there were dismayed by the reports.

"Taking $ from disaster areas to pay for a wall is the egotistical response of a man who gets his way or brings everyone down," Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz (D) of San Juan, Puerto Rico, tweeted Thursday.

Trump has asked Congress to approve $5 billion of taxpayer money for his wall, and partially shut down the government when he was denied the funding.

He's now considering alternate methods of payment. An official who spoke to CNN said the White House has asked the Pentagon to provide it with a list of funds that were meant to go to relief projects but have not yet been spent, which totals an estimated $13 billion.

The shutdown, which has entered its 21st day, has left an estimated 800,000 federal workers furloughed or working without pay. Trump said last week he can "relate" to the unpaid workers, but that "they'll make adjustments."

On Thursday, Trump said he had the "absolute right" to declare a national emergency to build his wall and said that Mexico will "indirectly" pay for it.

"I have the absolute right to declare a national emergency, the lawyers have so advised me," Trump said outside the White House. "I'm not prepared to do that yet, but if I have to, I will. I have no doubt about it. I will."

"But the easy route for me would be to call a national emergency and do it," he added.

Rep. Jennifer Gonzalez (D-Puerto Rico) said late Thursday that Trump is playing "political football."

"While the President has broad military authorities, as the Commander in Chief, when it comes to declaring a national emergency, I cannot and will not support reallocating funding we approved in a bipartisan effort in Congress for the recovery and reconstruction of Puerto Rico," Gonzalez said.

"We haven't received the funding after more than a year and using this as a political football is not what the American citizens in Puerto Rico deserve," she continued.

Trump has been criticized for his response to the disaster in Puerto Rico.

In November, he reportedly told Congressional leaders he didn't want any more money going to Puerto Rico for their disaster relief because, he believed without evidence, that the Puerto Rican government was mishandling the money and instead using it to pay off debt.

RELATED COVERAGE

Trump Actually Taking Steps To Secure Wall Funding Through A National Emergency Trump's 'National Emergency' Gambit May Be The Easiest End To The Shutdown Trump Threatens National Emergency If He Doesn't Get His Border Wall

For more infomation >> Puerto Rican Officials Livid At Reports Trump May Use Disaster Funds To Pay For Wall - News Today - Duration: 3:42.

-------------------------------------------

Democrats Crumbling Under Trump Assault - Pelosi, Schumer Allies Begin To Defect - Duration: 4:03.

For more infomation >> Democrats Crumbling Under Trump Assault - Pelosi, Schumer Allies Begin To Defect - Duration: 4:03.

-------------------------------------------

President Trump's Shutdown Continues | Federal Legislative Report | AFSCME Video - Duration: 0:52.

AFSCME joined hundreds of people who gathered in front of the White House today,

to urge an end to President Donald Trump's partial government shutdown.

Approximately 800,000 federal employees and contract workers who perform

important functions have been negatively impacted,

and will not be receiving a paycheck this upcoming week.

It's unclear how long Trump will continue this

harmful course of political posturing; what is clear is that this will be the

longest government shutdown in history, and it is having severe consequences on

working families, communities, and our economy.

For more infomation >> President Trump's Shutdown Continues | Federal Legislative Report | AFSCME Video - Duration: 0:52.

-------------------------------------------

Seattle Fox Affiliate Fires Editor After It Aired Doctored Trump Video - News Today - Duration: 2:03.

A Seattle TV station has fired a film editor after the station aired a clip of Donald Trump's speech on Tuesday that appeared to be doctored.

The video aired by Fox affiliate KCPQ seemed to make the president look even more orange than usual and looped a portion in which he can be seen sticking out his tongue between sentences, according to The Seattle Times.

The altered video came to light after a listener pointed it out to Todd Herman, who hosts a conservative talk radio show on KTTH.

"We performed a side-by-side comparison of the video from our listener, apparently taken by a smart phone recording of Q13, to the raw video of Trump's speech from CNN," Herman wrote on MyNorthwest.com.

The video comparison appears below:

Erica Hill, the station's news director, responded to the allegations of fakery on Thursday.

"This does not meet our editorial standards and we regret if it is seen as portraying the president in a negative light," she told The Seattle Times.

A few hours later, Hill released another statement:

It is unclear whether the now-canned employee doctored video or just allowed it to go on air, the Seattle Times reported.

But while Hill regrets the video, Lester Black, a columnist at The Stranger, a Seattle-based alt weekly, called it "a conceptual failure."

"If this editor really wanted to do something damaging to Trump they would doctor the video to show him helping a small brown kid do his homework or maybe show Trump wearing a pussy hat," Black said. "These are the core values that upset Trump voters and Fox viewers."

For more infomation >> Seattle Fox Affiliate Fires Editor After It Aired Doctored Trump Video - News Today - Duration: 2:03.

-------------------------------------------

Did You See Obama's Border Patrol Chief Back Up Trump & Savage Pelosi and Schumer? - Duration: 2:49.

For more infomation >> Did You See Obama's Border Patrol Chief Back Up Trump & Savage Pelosi and Schumer? - Duration: 2:49.

-------------------------------------------

CBS BUSTED Deleting a "Fact Check" Attempt That Proved Trump was RIGHT! - Duration: 1:28.

For more infomation >> CBS BUSTED Deleting a "Fact Check" Attempt That Proved Trump was RIGHT! - Duration: 1:28.

-------------------------------------------

MIGRANT CARAVAN LATEST NEWS TODAY , President Trump EXPLOSIVE Interview on border Wall security - Duration: 11:09.

For more infomation >> MIGRANT CARAVAN LATEST NEWS TODAY , President Trump EXPLOSIVE Interview on border Wall security - Duration: 11:09.

-------------------------------------------

Streisand Says Trump Wants Immoral Wall To Erase Obama's Legacy, Gets Destroyed - Duration: 5:58.

For more infomation >> Streisand Says Trump Wants Immoral Wall To Erase Obama's Legacy, Gets Destroyed - Duration: 5:58.

-------------------------------------------

After Democrats Refuse To Build Wall, Trump Gives Army Direct Order - Duration: 2:11.

For more infomation >> After Democrats Refuse To Build Wall, Trump Gives Army Direct Order - Duration: 2:11.

-------------------------------------------

Schumer Wanted Much More Than Trump's Requested Border Wall Amount Months Ago - Duration: 4:37.

For more infomation >> Schumer Wanted Much More Than Trump's Requested Border Wall Amount Months Ago - Duration: 4:37.

-------------------------------------------

President Trump ready to declare national emergency to build border wall if shutdown talks fail - Duration: 15:25.

For more infomation >> President Trump ready to declare national emergency to build border wall if shutdown talks fail - Duration: 15:25.

-------------------------------------------

Texas Rancher Thanks Trump For The Wall, Hands POTUS 'Special Gift' For Barron - Duration: 3:58.

For more infomation >> Texas Rancher Thanks Trump For The Wall, Hands POTUS 'Special Gift' For Barron - Duration: 3:58.

-------------------------------------------

Ivanka Trump Could Head World Bank And Dems Are Melting Down - Duration: 1:10.

For more infomation >> Ivanka Trump Could Head World Bank And Dems Are Melting Down - Duration: 1:10.

-------------------------------------------

Trump to Use Puerto Rico Money to Build Wall - Duration: 2:40.

For more infomation >> Trump to Use Puerto Rico Money to Build Wall - Duration: 2:40.

-------------------------------------------

VERIFY: Yes, Congress can end the government shutdown without President Trump - Duration: 1:30.

For more infomation >> VERIFY: Yes, Congress can end the government shutdown without President Trump - Duration: 1:30.

-------------------------------------------

Hot Mic Captured Trump's Incredible 7-Word Question to Fallen Cop's Brother - Duration: 2:48.

For more infomation >> Hot Mic Captured Trump's Incredible 7-Word Question to Fallen Cop's Brother - Duration: 2:48.

-------------------------------------------

Donald Trump Attack Black Panther - Can't Stop Laugh Episode 4 - Duration: 4:39.

Donald Trump Attack Black Panther - Can't Stop Laugh Episode 4

For more infomation >> Donald Trump Attack Black Panther - Can't Stop Laugh Episode 4 - Duration: 4:39.

-------------------------------------------

DEMOCRATAS CONDENAM A PARCERIA TRUMP-BOLSONARO - Duration: 2:55.

For more infomation >> DEMOCRATAS CONDENAM A PARCERIA TRUMP-BOLSONARO - Duration: 2:55.

-------------------------------------------

Jake Tapper Makes Trump's Point! Fact Checking Border Crossings CNN & FactCheck.org #factcheckfriday - Duration: 6:24.

when is a fact check not really a fact check hi thanks for watching it's Friday

today that means it's fact-check Friday and

today I want to talk about an idea in fact checking and that is that sometimes

a fact check really isn't a fact check at all now the example that I'm going to

give you today deals with Jake Tapper at CNN he works with factcheck.org and he

has a weekly series where he usually fact checks Trump and I'm gonna give you

an example today on how this fact check really isn't a fact check at all let's

take a look but this week I want to take a look at just one of those statistics

that we keep hearing about the number that we're looking at today is 17,000

specifically in a letter to Congress on January 4th President Trump said that

quote 17,000 adults at the border with existing criminal records were arrested

in the last fiscal year the president's acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said

something similar in an interview with me on Sunday take a listen

the DHS secretary Kirsten Nielsen tried to point out that we had arrested 17,000

criminals of the southern border so far actually just last year and Nancy Pelosi

Pelosi simply refused to accept that fact so let's be very clear about what

Mick Mulvaney saying there he's saying that 17,000 criminals were arrested at

the southern border 17,000 criminals arrested at the southern border

is that true no that is not true let's start with what is true according

to Customs and Border Protection roughly 17,000 individuals with criminal records

were arrested last year trying to enter the United States but that figure 17,000

is not just for individuals at the southern border 10,000 of the 17,000 in

fact were arrested trying to come into the United States

through legal ports of entry legal ones like an airport or a seaport places that

a border wall would have no impact on and of course the big question are these

legal ports of entry were 10,000 of the 17,000 were arrested trying to enter the

United States were they all at the southern border no the number includes

any of the 328 ports of entry into the United States on the southern border or

the northern border or airports it could be Buffalo it could be Miami it

could be Seattle just to name a few first the original memo that was sent

out from Trump did not specify what the border was and technically right a

border is any port of entry any airport that has an international arrival that's

part of the border the northern border it's all the border

technically the memo there was no issue with the memo Mulvaney in his interview

this past weekend mentioned it specifically with the southern border

and Jake Tapper fell for this hook line & sinker

you see that's one of the issues when you try to fact-check Donald Trump is

Donald Trump often doesn't care about specific numbers he cares more about

getting his message out or getting his point across and it really doesn't

matter if you were to convey to people hey there were several thousand or tens

of thousands of people crossing the border that were criminals it doesn't

mean much the number doesn't mean anything what's more important is that

you're getting across the point is that that thousands of criminals are crossing

the border okay and by Mulvaney making this error I suspect that it was

intentional and by saying yeah there were 17,000 at the southern border they

knew that there were gonna be articles Jake Tapper was gonna get on CNN and go

off about how it wasn't 17,000 it was actually more like 7,000 criminals

crossed at the southern border Trump doesn't care if you correct him from

17,000 to 7,000 that doesn't matter the point of the matter is that

tapper is telling his audience that thousands of criminals are crossing the

southern border Jake you got played see this is kind of like suppose you were a

kid you're I don't know a young teenager and your folks go away for the weekend

and when they come back your dad busts into your bedroom and says listen listen

son I know that you had your friends over and you drank my gin and my vodka I

know you were just admit it if you were to come back and say dad I want to

fact-check you we only drank your vodka we didn't touch your gin you're a sucker

you just gave away the point you know that's what happened in this case Jake

Tapper is now getting out Trump's message that there are thousands of

criminals that are caught at the southern border but if he had just said

7,000 Jake Tapper wouldn't have done a piece on it on CNN and on factcheck.org

but now Jake Tapper is spreading the message that Trump wants him to spread

because Jake Tapper is too arrogant and he thinks that he's so smart but he's

not he got played in this case a reminder to all you politicians out

there you're perfectly entitled to your own opinions not to your own facts but I

could be wrong I'm I'm wrong all the time have you seen the channel anyway

let me know your thoughts in the comments have a great weekend

please click the big red button to subscribe it really helps me when you do

that click the bell to allow notifications so you never miss a new

video

For more infomation >> Jake Tapper Makes Trump's Point! Fact Checking Border Crossings CNN & FactCheck.org #factcheckfriday - Duration: 6:24.

-------------------------------------------

How Organized Labor Could Shutdown Trump's Shutdown For Good (2019) - Duration: 4:49.

The Senate has just adjourned. The

Democrats were gonna try to keep it open

throughout the weekend so that they

could, I don't know either make a

statement or perhaps even try to bring

up the legislation that passed the House

which is the exact same identical bill

that passed the Senate in March are on

December 19th

that would have reopened the government

and given Donald Trump a trillion 1.21

know one point six trillion dollars for

his damn wall.

But it wasn't enough right and so Mitch

McConnell said no we're not gonna hold a

vote on that he's been saying it all

week we're not gonna hold a vote on that

because Donald Trump will veto it well

there are simple reality is if Donald

Trump vetoed it he there are more than

enough votes in the so this passed

unanimously on December 19 now even

assuming that you know a number of these

Republican senators are gonna say oh no

I'm gonna stand with Donald Trump now

you know times are different there's

still 66 votes in the Senate to override

a veto particularly when you consider 22

senators Republican senators looking at

re-election in a little over a year and

a half and so you got that and then in

the House of Representatives they just

passed a piece of legislation that says

that federal employees who you know got

screwed who didn't get their paychecks

are will will be made whole that's not

gonna help the contractors and it's not

gonna help people who now had their

entire budget has been all just blown up

because they've got you know fees and

penalties and all kind of they bounced

checks I mean whatever it may be you

know and suddenly they're they're behind

particularly people like the TSA workers

who are pretty much at the bottom of the

federal pay scale who who are you know

in many cases living hand-to-mouth

in fact Miami has just announced that

Miami Airport has just announced that

Saturday from noon Saturday until until

as I recall 6 a.m. Sunday morning and

then from noon or 1 p.m. Sunday until

the same time Monday morning they're

shutting down terminal G in the Miami

Airport that's the terminal that is used

mostly by United Airlines so it's

starting to bite and and and they're

doing this because the in Miami the TSA

workers are calling it almost twice the

national rate calling in sick I mean

when in fact

probably what they're doing is they're

taking part-time jobs or getting gigs as

uber drivers or tasks rabbits or

whatever it may be and you know finding

something in the newspaper some way to

get actual cash to make it through and I

you know in this program on Tuesday I

think it was I suggested that if there

were any TSA employees listening and I

know that the typically there are

because every time I go through an

airport not every time but probably

every other time I go through an airport

at least one TSA person recognizes me

typically after they see my name on

there you know on my ID so if you're

listening TSA folks and it's always nice

to say Heidi in line but if you're

listening the the leverage that you have

the leverage the TSA has that will drive

Trump and the Republicans nuts is the

pre line the pre-check line the

pre-check line you know many just

regular coach frequent fliers qualify in

fact probably the majority of people who

are pre are just very very frequent

fliers and pre is now selling this thing

at seventy five bucks for five years or

something like that to get pre check but

also if you get a first-class ticket on

any airline you are pretty much

automatically and in pre I mean the

airline's do that for you and so if you

shut down the pre check lines you're

gonna be hitting the members of Congress

going home which they're doing today

you're gonna be hitting the lobbyists

going home you're gonna be hitting the

big money people who are flying around

the ones who have enough money that but

it can't quite afford a private jet

you're not gonna get the CEOs but you're

gonna get everybody else and you're

gonna create some serious disruption but

a disruption is the wrong word I'm not

advocating disrupting our air traffic

control system but shall we say it would

draw some attention because I know a lot

of people who have pre yeah I'm one of

them don't show up at the airport two

hours in advance because they know that

it's going to take them ten minutes get

through the line so the you know they

show up thirty minutes in advance go

through the lines stop at the bathroom

and go right to the gate and get on the

plane I mean that's that's about it

right all of a sudden now they're thrown

in a line that's an hour

half-long things are gonna change, so

just an idea