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Thursday, January 28, 2016
Debate feud injects fresh chaos into GOP
Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — An explo-
sive feud between Donald Trump and
Fox News Channel is overshadowing
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caucuses, injecting a new sense of chaos
into the 2016 Republican contest.
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Iowa voters weigh in, Trump refused to
back off his decision to boycott Thurs-
day’s prime-time faceoff. His campaign
insisted that debate host Fox News
crossed a line with a sarcastic statement
mocking him and continued to criticize
moderator Megyn Kelly. In turn, Fox
accused Trump’s camp of trying to
terrorize its employees.
“They think they can toy with Mr.
Trump,” campaign manager Corey
Lewandowski said Wednesday on
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” ‘’Mr. Trump
doesn’t play games.”
Trump reiterated his plans to skip
the debate in an interview Wednesday
on Fox News, saying, “I just don’t like
being used.”
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tainty. Skeptical that he would follow
through on his boycott, the other
campaigns held practice sessions with
and without someone playing Trump.
Some thought the absence of Trump
could make another leading Iowa
contender, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a prime
target for campaigns eager to spark a
last-minute shakeup. Cruz challenged
Trump to a separate one-on-one debate,
a proposal that was dismissed by his
opponent.
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six debates, especially the last one, Ted
Cruz wants to debate me again. Can
we do it in Canada?” Trump tweeted,
referencing Cruz’s birthplace.
Cruz renewed the invitation to
debate, saying they could meet Saturday
in Sioux City, Iowa.
“It’s not really that Donald is afraid
of me,” Cruz said at a rally Wednesday
night outside of Des Moines. “He’s
afraid of you. He doesn’t want to answer
questions from the men and women
of Iowa about how his record doesn’t
match what he’s selling.”
Some foes saw the shakeup as an
opening to rise above the ruckus.
“These kinds of theatrics by Ted Cruz
and Donald Trump are an entertaining
sideshow, but they have nothing to do
with defeating Hillary Clinton,” Florida
Sen. Marco Rubio said. “We don’t have
time for these kinds of distractions.”
Despite the attention, there was
little sense that Trump’s move would
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Republican contest in Iowa. While the
former reality television star holds a big
lead in most national polls, he and Cruz
are locked in a tight race here.
“My sense is those Iowa Republicans
who weren’t fans of Donald Trump
before yesterday, this has only validated
their opinion of him, and those Iowans
who have been drawn to his passionate
attack on the media and political elites in
our country are even more emboldened
AP Photo/John Minchillo, File
This ile photo combination made from Aug. 6 photos shows Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, and Fox News Channel host and
moderator Megyn Kelly during the irst Republican presidential debate at
the Quicken Loans Arena, in Cleveland.
Super PACs offer $1.5M for Cruz-Trump debate
Two super PACs supporting Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign are
offering to donate $1.5 million to charities that help veterans if Donald Trump
will debate Cruz head-to-head before the Iowa caucuses.
The political action committees, Keep the Promise I and II, are proposing
a one-hour debate to be held in Iowa on or before Jan. 31, the day before the
caucuses, with a moderator chosen by the candidates.
Cruz himself sent a letter to Trump Wednesday inviting him to debate
in Sioux City, Iowa, on Saturday night. The Cruz campaign suggested
conservative radio hosts Mark Levin, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh as
possible moderators.
Trump dismissed Cruz’s proposal earlier Wednesday.
by their guy today,” said former Iowa
GOP chairman Matt Strawn.
Trump has substituted mass rallies
for normal meet-and-greet events, made
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have sunk other candidates, and spent
much of his time giving his views on
television news shows and Twitter.
Instead of debating Thursday night,
Trump will host what his campaign
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veterans’ organizations.”
The campaign on Wednesday
evening formally announced details for
the event, scheduled to begin at the same
time as the debate — and just two miles
away.
Campaigning Wednesday evening
in South Carolina, Trump drew cheers
when he noted his plans to return to Iowa
for the fundraiser. But he made no direct
reference to the debate, off-handedly
saying, “I’ve not been treated fairly.”
In Iowa, Plymouth County GOP
Chairman Don Kass called it “typical
Trump” and said the candidate could
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with his own event.
“Frankly, you know, in the past,
anytime somebody thought he did
something that cost him, it didn’t cost
him,” Kass said.
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skip a pre-caucus debate.
Front-runner Ronald Reagan skipped
a debate held ahead of the 1980 Iowa
caucuses and wound up losing the state
to George H.W. Bush. But Reagan went
on to win the nomination.
In December, Trump threatened to
skip a CNN debate unless the network
paid him $5 million, which he said he’d
donate to charity. The network did not
pay up, and he showed up nonetheless.
And in October, he and rival Ben
Carson’s campaign threatened not to
show unless their demands for a shorter
run time and other conditions were met.
The network adjusted and they appeared.
Trump’s Fox feud dates back to the
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him to task over derogatory statements
he’d made about women.
The mocking Fox statement on
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It said the leaders of Iran and Russia
“both intend to treat Donald Trump
unfairly when they meet with him if he
becomes president” and said “Trump
has his own secret plan to replace the
Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see
if he should even go to those meetings.”
Taunting and juvenile, Trump and his
campaign manager said.
But some conservative leaders
suggested Trump was taking a risk.
The debate is “going to be the Donald
Trump hatefest,” said Mark Meckler,
one of the tea party movement’s original
leaders.
Republican operative Ryan Williams
offered some perspective on the wild
campaign season.
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said, “to a caucus process that has been
nothing short of a complete circus.”
East Oregonian
Ferguson, U.S.
reach tentative
deal on police
overhaul
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ST. LOUIS (AP) —
The Ferguson Police
Department has agreed
to overhaul its policies,
training and practices
as part of a sweeping
deal with the Justice
Department following
the 2014 fatal police
shooting of 18-year-old
Michael Brown, city and
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Wednesday.
The recommendations,
detailed in a 131-page
proposed consent decree,
are meant to correct
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in a scathing Justice
Department report last
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unconstitutional and
discriminatory practices
across the city police
force and municipal court
system.
The city had been under
federal scrutiny since the
August 2014 shooting of
Brown, who was black and
unarmed, by white police
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The killing led to protests
and promoted a wave of
national scrutiny about
police use of force and law
enforcement’s interactions
with minorities.
Wilson was cleared
in the shooting, but a
federal investigation into
the Ferguson police force
found sweeping patterns
of racial bias throughout
the city’s criminal
justice system. A Justice
Department report in
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routinely used excessive
force, issued petty citations
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stops in the city of about
21,000 residents, about
two-thirds of whom are
black. It also criticized the
police force, which was
nearly all white, and the
court system for leaning
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municipal violations as a
source of revenue for the
city government.
The recommended
overhaul follows seven
months of negotiations
and likely averts a civil
rights lawsuit that federal
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departments that resist
changing their policing
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posted the tentative deal on
its website and scheduled
three public sessions for
input from residents.
The agreement
envisions a top-to-bottom
reshaping of basic policing
practices as the Justice
Department calls for
fundamental changes
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stops, searches and arrests,
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respond to demonstrations.
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agreed to rewrite their
municipal code to restrict
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time for petty violations.
Snyder pledges
help to Flint
amid mistrust of
government
FLINT, Mich. (AP)
— Flint residents coping
with lead contamination
will be cleared to drink
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only when outside
experts determine it is
safe, Michigan Gov. Rick
Snyder said Wednesday,
acknowledging their
mistrust of government
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replacement of the city’s
pipes is not imminent.
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earlier in the day by
environmental and civil
rights groups asked a
federal judge to order the
prompt replacement of
all lead pipes in Flint’s
water system at no cost
to customers. Snyder did
not rule out the eventual
replacement of the lead
service lines leading from
water mains, but said it is a
longer-term consideration.
In the meantime, Flint
hired a Virginia Tech
professor who helped
expose the lead problem
despite initial skepticism
from state regulators to
now oversee water testing.
Professor Marc Edwards
also was appointed by
Snyder to a committee that
will set in place long-term
solutions.
Mayor Karen Weaver
said residents should not
have to pay for the water
“they did not and are not
using.” Emergency budget
legislation approved
Wednesday by a Senate
committee includes $3
million to help Flint with
unpaid water bills.
“I was glad that the
governor said these are
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asking for a staircase,” she
said.
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Five arrests in search for escaped inmates
LOS ANGELES (AP) —
The investigation of a daring
California jail break has led
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with more expected soon,
but the three inmates who
escaped remain at large, the
Orange County sheriff said
Wednesday.
Sheriff Sandra Hutchens
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the inmates had assistance
from the outside, and that the
investigation is focusing on a
local Vietnamese gang.
“They had to have had
help,” Hutchens said.
Those in custody — none
of whom are jail employees or
insiders — may not all have
had direct ties to the escape,
but the investigation of the
breakout led to their arrest,
sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Jeff
Hallock said.
Hutchens would only say
they had “some connection”
to the inmates, adding that
providing more information
might tip off the inmates to
details of the search.
The department is still
investigating whether the men
had help on the inside, she
said.
The men would have
needed powerful cutting tools
that would not have been
available to them inside to
get through thick metal, and
investigators are looking into
how they could have obtained
them, Hutchens said.
“We don’t know what they
are, but we know that they
made a clean cut,” Hutchens
said of the tools the men used.
“It’s nothing we think could
have occurred with a jail-
made shank.”
The jail has revised its
headcount procedures because
it took so long to discover
the men were missing. The
changes include requiring
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Jeff Gritchen/The Orange County Register via AP
Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens speaks Wednesday about three inmates
who escaped the Central Men’s Jail during a press conference in Santa Ana, Calif.
Hutchens said several arrests have been made in the investigation of the escape,
but the inmates themselves have not been captured.
Orange County Sheriff’s Office via AP
This Jan. 23 photo provided by the Orange County
Sheriff’s Ofice shows the exterior of Central Men’s Jail
in Santa Ana, Calif., showing where razor wire was re-
moved from a parapet, center rear, and a rope-like line,
which authorities believe three inmates used to repel
to the ground during their escape sometime Jan. 22.
that inmates who are in court,
getting medical help or other-
wise out of the jail are actually
where they are supposed to be.
The men escaped Friday
from the jail after cutting a
hole in a metal grate then
crawling through plumbing
tunnels and onto the roof. They
pushed aside barbed wire and
rappelled down using a rope
made of bed sheets.
“It’s every sheriff’s
nightmare,” Hutchens said.
“You never want to have an
escape from any jail. They do
happen. And you certainly
don’t
want
maximum
security prisoners who are
a danger to the public to get
out of your jail. So it’s not a
good day.”
Jonathan
Tieu,
Bac
Duong and Hossein Nayeri
had all been awaiting trial for
unrelated violent crimes.
Nayeri was probably the
mastermind of the escape,
Hutchens said, saying his
sophistication, his military
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from law enforcement have
investigators focusing on his
role.
The sheriff appeared on
television and radio shows
in Orange County’s Little
Saigon early in the day to ask
for help from the community.
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