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Sometimes within a matter of a couple of days. i saw last week when i reported at the daily beast.com president trump in early 2017 had a pretty tense meeting with veteran s groups advocates in the reese velt room. he got into an argument about agent orange and something on the cutting room was only ross sa was also in the room and the start of it, when the president started to get annoyed at the pace of the press, he said, omarosa, handle it like you handled it on the a(tapprentic good daniel baldwin. my sources in kentucky write started out as a reporter and still remain and have close tigris amy mcgrath the democrat in the blue grass is district. a marine fighter who flewine missions has a very good chance to take that seat. is that a red seat? that is a red seat held aandy ....
Donald trump jr. in the spotlight right now and not for a good reason. but he has been one of his father s biggest supporters. he s been an attack dog going after the media, blast opponents of president trump and also helping to run the family business. he is now shrouded in controversy. the new york times releases a story with details about what donald jr. might have known before meeting with an attorney last summer who said that they would have information about hillary clinton that would be hurtful. let s discuss who this young man is and what he means to the administration. we have reporter contributor for the daily beast.com, william cohen and caitlin huey-burns. both of you have covered the election, covered donald jr. in terms of what he has meant to the campaign and what he continues to mean now to the ....
Not a complete the conventional wisdom is certainly that mexican-based drug trafficking organizations dominate bringing drugs into the country. it is just they re getting them often into the hands of u.s. citizens who are bringing them deep near the country. which just reading your article on daily beast, it changes it is not necessarily the image one thinks of, one conjures up when they picture people getting busted along the mexican border. who is to blame of putting that image of the drug mules in our heads, do you think? you know, it is probably a variety of folks. what we specifically looked at or a variety of different reasons why, what we specifically looked at were press releases from customs and border protection and again specifically the border patrol. when we first started this project, we were just using press releases to try to get an understanding of who was bringing what into the country and who was getting caught. we quickly realized that that was just painting ....
Andrew becker, contributing editor at the daily beast.com. andrew, how did you get to this conclusion about the drug arrests at the border? well, at the center for investigative reporting where i work we had a team of journalists, another reporter researcher, data analyst, that combed through 80,000 rows of drug seizure data we had received from u.s. customs and border protection and specifically the border patrol. we had submitted a request to have a better understanding of who was actually bringing drugs into the country or who at least was getting caught with those drugs. and the data just really jumped out at us. we found that three out of four people that the border patrol bust with drugs are actually united states citizens. three out of four busted are americans. and so these americans who are caught at the border, are they smuggling drugs for personal ....
But president obama strongly defended his handling of the crisis in his address to congress. when someone like gadhafi threatens a bloodbath that can destabilize an entire region and when the international community is prepared to come together to save many thousands of lives, then it s in our national interests to act and it s our responsibility. this is one of those times. a cnn contributor and senior political columnist for the daily beast.com. good morning to you. good to see you here, buddy. t.j., good morning. the president speaking on monday. will some see this as better late than never or will some just see it as plain old late? well, it is better late than never. the president is going to make his case to the nation for why we ve been engaged in military action in libya for over a week now. secretary gates and secretary clinton will be hitting the talk circuit tomorrow to help make that case as well. but there s been criticism there s been a communication breakdown. ....