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White House
Russians Are Interfering With Elections 'As We Sit Here,' Mueller Says
Robert Mueller said the Russians expect to meddle in the 2020 election.
The remark came after Rep. Will Hurd asked Mueller if he thought the in- terference was a single attempt.
Hurd: Is this –– in your in-
vestigation, did you think that this was a single attempt by the Russians to get involved in our election? Or did you find evi- dence to suggest they'll try to do this again.
Mueller: It wasn't a single attempt. They're doing it as we
sit here. And they expect to do it during the next campaign.
The key question from this is: What are we going to do about it?
How Can We Save The 2020 Election From Being HACKED...
Report Doesn't Exonerate Trump, Mueller Testifies, And He Could Be Charged After Leaving Office
Former special counsel Robert Mueller answered questions for the first time for more than six hours on Wednesday during historic testimony on Capitol Hill in back-to-back House hearings into his probe into Russian interference in the 2016 pres- idential election and possible obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump.
Key moments included Mueller saying his report did not exonerate the presi- dent as Trump has claimed and contending he could be charged after leaving office.
But he also did not answer many questions, frustrating both Republicans, who tried to discredit his probe, and Democrats who pressed him on whether he had left it to Congress whether to pursue impeachment, believing that Justice Department policy prevented him from indicting a sitting president.
Democrats on the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees labored for
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months to bring the 74-year- old Mueller before Congress to answer lingering questions about his 22-month investi- gation.
Mueller was reluctant to appear before Congress, and only agreed to appear under subpoena from both panels. "The report is my testimony," he said in his only public statement on the report in May.
Gov. Ricardo Rosselló Of Puerto Rico, Under Fire For Weeks, Agrees To Step Down
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced late Wednesday evening that he is resigning from office effective Aug. 2, buckling to the unre- lenting pressure of a popular uprising of unprecedented scope that in less than two weeks has turned this long- suffering U. S. territory up- side down.
Rosselló was swept from office not three years into his term by 12 days of massive protests and political up- heaval triggered by a leaked, profanely insolent phone-app chat and the arrest of six cur- rent and former administra-
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tion officials on corruption charges. But the recent scan- dals were only the bitter cap-
per to years of mounting frustration on the part of Puerto Ricans, faced with widespread and incessant corruption, a lagging govern- ment response to a cata- clysmic hurricane, and a deep economic recession with no end in sight.
In the end, after days of strident insistence that he would serve out his term, Rosselló went quietly — an- nouncing his decision in a live stream on his adminis- tration’s Facebook page — at the end of a speech long on his government’s accom- plishments.
New Poll Puts Sanders, Warren, Harris In Lead Ahead Of Democratic Debates
On Monday, political ac- tion committee, Democracy for America, released the re- sults of their third Presiden- tial Pulse Poll heading into the 2020 elections. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth War- ren, and Kamala Harris pull ahead as the top three candidates voters would back in the upcoming primaries. All three candidates have double-digit support.
Democracy for America Chair Charles Chamber- lain weighed in on the re- sults, saying, “The last three months have transformed the 2020 Democratic race for President and these results make it clear that Democracy for America members’ sup- port is solidifying behind three candidates committed to bold, inclusive populism and structural reform.”
Since the organization’s April poll, both Warren and Harris have progressed to close in on Sanders’ lead that now stands at 32 per- cent. Warren comes in with 25.78 percent, and Harris
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rounds out the top three with nearly 12 percent. Joe Biden and Andrew Yang come in at fourth and fifth place, respectively.
As for the issues, DFA asked voters which ones were most important to them. A Green New Deal, Medicare for All, and the impeachment of Donald Trump ranked at the top of the priority list for poll participants. Of the issues listed, Warren comes in as a top-three choice for all 27 named.
Warren also took the top spot on issues that heavily af- fect the African-American community. They include voting rights, the end to gun violence, racial justice, crimi- nal justice reform, and repa-
rations. Harris placed high in those categories as well.
“Going into the second de- bate, there’s little doubt that Elizabeth Warren and Ka- mala Harris have momen- tum building behind them,” Chamberlain said in a statement. “As Bernie Sanders continues in his position as the progressive front runner, we’re very in- terested to see if he uses this debate and the all-important month of August to build up from his robust base of sup- port or cedes ground to the rising challenges of Sena- tors Warren and Har- ris.”
The DFA poll was con- ducted between June 27 and July 17 among its members.
Trump Administration
Proposal Could Kick 3 Million Off Food Stamps
The Trump administra- tion wants to tighten the rules governing who qualifies for food stamps, which could end up stripping more than 3 mil- lion people of their benefits.
The Agriculture Depart- ment issued a proposed rule Tuesday that curtails so- called broad-based categori- cal eligibility, which makes it easier for Americans with somewhat higher incomes and more savings to partici- pate in the Supplemental Nu- trition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the formal name for food stamps.
It is the administration's latest step to clamp down on the food stamps program, which covers 38 million Americans, and other public assistance services. It wants to require more poor people
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to work for SNAP benefits, and it is looking to change the way the poverty threshold is calculated, a move that could strip many low-income resi- dents of their federal benefits over time.
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