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- Rep. Trey Gowdy: He might take Hillary Clintons word on disputed e-mails [Susan Page, USA Today, April 30, 2015]
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[May 1, 2015] Summary of Today’s news The Department of Justice plans to launch a pilot program aimed at expanding the use of body cameras worn by police officers across the country. Chicago will be home to Barack Obama’s presidential library and museum. Hillary Clinton’s campaign. accused congressional Republicans of planning to “overrule the Democratic process” in Washington with a Thursday night vote to block a D.C. law banning discrimination by employers against employees who have had abortions. Trey Gowdy says he might be willing to accept assurances under oath from Hillary Clinton that she has provided all her relevant emails to the panel — dropping requests for an independent examination of her computer server. Clinton welcomed Bernie Sanders to the Democratic primary with a tweet. 2 of the 3 nightly news broadcasts included short segments on Sanders entry. Today’s Key Stories 1 Justice Department to help police agencies across the country get body cameras [Mark Berman, WaPo, May 1, 2015] 1 Chicago Said to Be Choice Over New York as Obama Library Site [Julie Bosman and Jonathan Martin, NYT, April 30, 2015] 3 Hillary Clinton campaign blasts GOP abortion bill [Alexandra Jaffe, CNN, April 30, 2015] 4 Rep. Trey Gowdy: He might take Hillary Clinton's word on disputed e-mails [Susan Page, USA Today, April 30, 2015] 5 Hillary Clinton welcomes Sanders into the race [Alexander Jaffee, CNN, April 30, 2015] 7 National Coverage – HRC AND DEMS 8 National Stories 8 Crime, Clinton and a New Era [Amy Chozick, NYT, April 30, 2015] 8 Al Sharpton's Silence [Annie Karni, April 30, 2015] 10 Clinton charity never provided foreign donor data [Anne Linskey, Boston Globe, April 30, 2015] 11 Hillary Clinton: Congenital Rule-Breaker. [Ron Fournier, National Journal, April 30, 2015] 15 Why Hillary Clinton Lacks Credibility On Criminal Justice Reform [Jacob Sullum, Forbes, April 30, 2015] 17 Why Hillary’s embracing Bernie [Bill Scher, POLITICO Magazine, April 30, 2015] 20 The Problem for Bernie Sanders: The Narrow Lane to Hillary Clinton’s Left [Nate Cohn, NYT The Upshot, April 30, 2015] 23 Hillary Clinton a free trader, or not, depending on the moment [Mike Dorning, Bloomberg Politics, May 1, 2015] 24 SNL’s Kate McKinnon on playing Hillary Clinton: ‘I love her so much’ [Kendall Breitman, POLITICO, April 30, 2015] 27 Hillary Clinton Agrees With Elizabeth Warren On Trade Dispute With Obama [Zach Carter, Amanda Terkel and Ryan Grim, Huffington Post, April 30, 2015] 27 Tea Party Senator Welcomes Hillary Clinton To Cause Of Criminal Justice Reform [McKay Coppins, BuzzFeed, April 30, 2015] 30 Martin O'Malley: 'We're all responsible' for Gray's death [Alexandra Jaffe, CNN, April 30, 2015] 32 Baltimore riots hurt O'Malley's already slim chances [James Hohmann, POLITICO, May 1, 2015] 33 Jim Webb Commemorates the Vietnam War, Subtly Jabs at Hillary Clinton [Emma Roller, National Journal, April 30, 2015] 39 Left-of-Hillary hopeful rips her on foreign policy [Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, April 30, 2015] 41 An unlikely contender, Sanders takes on ‘billionaire class’ in 2016 bid [Paul Kane and Philip Rucker, WaPo, April 30, 2015] 41 Can Sanders fill the Warren void? [Dan Merica, CNN, May 1, 2015] 44 Bernie Sanders's ideas are so popular that Hillary Clinton is running on them [Jonathan Allen, Vox, April 30, 2015] 47 Times Reporters Analyze Bernie Sanders’s Presidential Campaign Remarks [Amy Chozick, NYT, April 30, 2015] 50 Bernie Sanders Faces a Challenge with Iowa Independents, Clinton Campaign Says [Melinda Henneberger, Bloomberg, April 30, 3015] 54 The entourages of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, compared [Hunter Schwarz, WaPo, April 30, 2015] 56 Dems to Bernie: Fat chance [Jonathan Topaz and Ben Schreckinger, POLITICO, April 30, 2015] 56 Bernie Sanders brings liberal zeal in challenge to Hillary Clinton [Jonathan Topaz, POLITICO, April 30, 2015] 56 Burlington mayor not backing Bernie Sanders [Annie Linskey, Boston Globe, April 30, 3015] 60
A New Leader of Clinton’s ‘Rapid Response’ Team [Jonathan Martin, NYT First Draft, May 1, 2015] 60 On Baltimore, Hillary Clinton Is Half Right [Lawrence Downes, NYT Taking Note, April 30, 2015] 61 Hillary Clinton Vows to Address Problems She & Her Husband Helped Cause [Erin Gloria Ryan, Jezebel, April 30, 2015] 62 Hillary Clinton isn’t stuck with Bill’s policies [Jennifer Rubin, WaPo Right Turn, April 30, 2015] 64 Will Hillary Clinton's Mass Incarceration Speech Solve Some of Her Campaign's Problems? [Benjamin Wallace-Wells, NY Magazine Daily Intelligencer, April 30, 2015] 65 We Are Capable of More [Gov. Martin O'Malley, Huffington Post, April 30, 2015] 67 Sanders Will Keep Independent Status in Democratic Primary [Alan Rappeport, NYT First Draft, May 1, 2015] 69 Not Weakened With Bernie [John Dickerson, Slate, April 30, 2015] 70 Why Bernie Sanders matters, even if he can’t win [Alex Seitz-Wald, MSNBC, April 30, 2015] 72 Hillary Clinton Expected to Treat Bernie Sanders Gingerly [Maggie Haberman, NYT First Draft, April 30, 3015] 74 Bernie Sanders and Calvin Coolidge: A Vermont Tie But Not Much Else [Gerry Mullany, NYT First Draft, April 30, 2015] 76 National Coverage - GOP 77 National Stories 77 Jeb Bush would like to bring Pitbull to a baseball game, maybe [Nick Gass, POLITICO, April 30, 2015] 77 Jeb Bush PAC to hire longtime Marco Rubio friend and aide for Hispanic outreach [Marc Caputo, POLITICO, May 1, 2015] 78 Jeb Bush to National Review: 'I Love You,' But 'You’re Wrong on Immigration.' [Emma Roller, National Journal, April 30, 2015] 80 What Brought Carly Fiorina Down at HP Is Her Greatest 2016 Asset [Melinda Henneberger, Bloomberg, April 30, 2015] 81 The Unpleasant Charisma of John Kasich [Molly Ball, The Atlantic, April 30, 2015] 88 How Rand Paul blew it on Baltimore [Eli Stokes, POLITICO, April 30, 2015] 93 Ted Cruz Explains Why he Missed Final Vote on Loretta Lynch [Frank Thorp, NBC News, April 30, 2015] 95 Ted Cruz on Baltimore riots: 'President Obama has turned us against each other' [Elizabeth Llorente, Fox News Latino, April 30, 2015] 96 In early horse race, Marco Rubio threatens Scott Walker [James Hohmann, POLITICO, May 1, 2015] 98 Iran bill a mess after Cotton, Rubio try to force votes [Burgess Everett, POLITICO, April 30, 2015] 101 Marco Rubio and Grover Norquist once differed on taxes [Alex Leary, Tampa Bay Times, April 30, 2015] 104 First Read: Why the Primary Calendar Could be King in the 2016 GOP Race [NBC, April 30, 3015] 105 Chris Christie Bridgegate Probe: Questions Raised About Prosecutor's Independence From New Jersey Governor [David Sirota & Andrew Perez, International Business Times, April 30, 2015] 106 Chris Christie headed back to Iowa in June [David Sherfinski, Washington Times, April 30, 2015] 110
Ted Cruz Addresses Hispanic Group With Rare ‘We’ [Nick Corasaniti, NYT First Draft, April 30, 2015] 110 Jeb Bush Sticks to Guns on Immigration, Common Core [Beth Reinhard, WSJ Washington Wire, April 30, 2015] 111 Scott Walker Plugs 'Jesus Calling' Devotional Book, Sales Promptly Skyrocket [Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service, April 30, 2015] 113 Top Jewish Donor for Rand Paul Switches to Scott Walker [Melissa Clyne, Newsmax, April 30, 2015] 114 Carly Fiorina Super PAC’s Name Suits Its Mission [Reid Epstein, WSJ Washington Wire, April 30, 2015] 116 Big National News 117 National Stories 117 Findings indicate Gray got head injuries in van [Lynh Bui, Arelis Hernandez, & Matt Zapotosky, WaPo, May 1, 2015] 117 Mitch McConnell unplugged [POLITICO, Manu Raju, May 1, 2015] 120 Capitol Police Left Guns in Bathrooms [Hannah Hess, Roll Call, May 1, 2015] 123 Patriot Act Faces Revisions Backed by Both Parties [Jonathan Weisman & Jennifer Steinhauer, NYT, April 30, 2015] 125 The Other Man In The Van With Freddie Gray Breaks His Silence [Donta Allen, WJZ CBS, April 30, 2015] 128 Obama to Unveil Non-Profit in New York to Aid Minority Youth [Justin Sink, Bloomberg, April 30, 2015] 129 Millennials don’t trust anyone. That’s a big deal. [Chris Cillizza, WaPo, April 30, 2015] 129 Other DEM Campaign News Error: Reference source not found Today’s Key Stories Justice Department to help police agencies across the country get body cameras [Mark Berman, WaPo, May 1, 2015] The Department of Justice plans to launch a pilot program aimed at expanding the use of body cameras worn by police officers across the country. The Department of Justice plans to launch a pilot program aimed at expanding the use of body cameras worn by police officers across the country. These cameras are meant to help local and tribal law enforcement agencies improve relationships with the public, a goal that follows a year of protests across the country aimed at the way police officers use lethal force, particularly toward black men and boys. “This body-worn camera pilot program is a vital part of the Justice Department’s comprehensive efforts to equip law enforcement agencies throughout the country with the tools, support, and training they need to tackle the 21st century challenges we face,” Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement. Lynch said body cameras were a way to benefit the public as well as police officers. “Body-worn cameras hold tremendous promise for enhancing transparency, promoting accountability, and advancing public safety for law enforcement officers and the communities they serve,” Lynch said. Federal officials plan to award nearly $20 million in funding to dozens of departments, about a third of them small law enforcement agencies. In addition, another $1 million will be set aside so that the Bureau of Justice Statistics can figure out how to study the actual impact of these cameras. A White House task force on policing, created in the wake of the unrest last year in Ferguson, Mo., New York and other cities, issued a report in March that did not recommend that officers have to wear body cameras. But it said that these cameras have been shown to reduce use of force by police and complaints against officers. “Now that agencies operate in a world in which anyone with a cell phone camera can record video footage of a police encounter, [body cameras] help police departments ensure that events are also captured from an officer’s perspective,” the report stated. Video footage has played a key role in several episodes that have dominated headlines. A civilian recording recently showed Freddie Gray being dragged toward a Baltimore police van a week before he died of a severe spinal injury, setting off days of protests. And a bystander’s video showed a South Carolina officer firing multiple shots into the back of a fleeing driver last month; the officer was charged with murder after the video was released. In the wake of the demonstrations in Ferguson and elsewhere, activists have pushed for wider adoption of body cameras, though experts caution that they raise issues involving privacy, when the officers can use them and who gets to see the footage. There are also costs involved with outfitting officers with body cameras and storing all the data these devices will produce. Police in Phoenix said earlier this year that it would cost more than $3.5 million to outfit officers there with body cameras and store the footage. The new pilot program will not provide federal funding for data storage, but it will help with training and technical assistance for agencies that will use the cameras and have to access the footage. Agencies are required to have their policies in place before they can buy cameras, according to federal authorities, but this new program will help them set up policies governing how the cameras can be used. The Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) studied body cameras and determined that officers wearing them should have to activate the devices during any interactions with people and calls for service. Police departments using these cameras say their presence “often improves the performance of officers as well as the conduct of the community members who are recorded,” according to a publication PERF released last year with the Justice Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing. But the cameras also evoke privacy concerns, it said, something that could crop up when officers are interviewing victims of rape or abuse. Authorities in more than a dozen states have discussed limiting public access to the footage recorded by these cameras, while other places have decided to release the recordings in limited ways. In Seattle, where a dozen officers began testing these cameras in December, footage is posted to YouTube and blurred to protect identities. Clearer footage can be sought through a public-records request. Sari Horwitz contributed to this report. Chicago Said to Be Choice Over New York as Obama Library Site [Julie Bosman and Jonathan Martin, NYT, April 30, 2015] Chicago will be home to the Barack Obama Presidential Library and Museum. CHICAGO — Chicago can breathe a sigh of relief: New York City will not be home to the Barack Obama Presidential Library and Museum. Mr. Obama’s library will be in his adopted home, Chicago’s South Side, according to two people who were briefed about the decision. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak before the official announcement. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was Mr. Obama’s chief of staff and led the lobbying effort to bring the library to the city where Mr. Obama first won elected office, is expected to make the announcement public within the next two weeks. The president’s foundation considered awarding the library to Columbia University, where Mr. Obama earned his undergraduate degree, but, after some local zoning issues were cleared, it became all but certain that Chicago would be the choice. Hawaii, where Mr. Obama spent his boyhood, also bid on the library. From the earliest planning stages for President Obama’s library, Chicago appeared to be the natural front-runner. The Obamas’ have personal ties to the city: Michelle Obama was born and raised on the South Side and often speaks of her devotion to her hometown. Mr. Obama, who has roots in Hawaii and Indonesia, came to Chicago after college and got his start here as a community organizer and an elected official. This year, however, Chicago’s bid appeared to be in danger. Two colleges in the city, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago, were competing against each other, a battle that some worried would weaken the city’s overall prospects to land the library. They were competing against Columbia and the University of Hawaii. The University of Chicago had proposed two sites near its campus on the South Side. One is in Washington Park, a 380-acre expanse designed by the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. The other, Jackson Park, is on the South Side lakefront. It remained uncertain which of the two South Side sites would ultimately be chosen. Officials from the University of Chicago had no comment on Thursday evening. Martin Nesbitt, an executive in Chicago who is one of Mr. Obama’s best friends, is the chairman of the Barack Obama Foundation, which is overseeing the creation of the library. Susan Sher, who is leading the University of Chicago’s bid, is a close friend and former chief of staff for Mrs. Obama. Opposition, though, has come from preservationist groups that have argued that parkland should not be used for a museum. Last week, Illinois state lawmakers aimed to assure that a library could survive legal challenges over the parkland question, swiftly passing legislation that explicitly authorized such construction in the city. Mr. Emanuel publicly vowed to make Chicago’s bid competitive with New York’s, so that Mr. Obama could choose “his hometown for where his presidential library, in my view, belongs.” When Mr. Emanuel was forced into a mayoral runoff last month, library officials said they would wait until after the election before they made a decision. Mr. Emanuel won the runoff on April 7. Hillary Clinton campaign blasts GOP abortion bill [Alexandra Jaffe, CNN, April 30, 2015] Hillary Clinton is accusing congressional Republicans of planning to "overrule the Democratic process" in Washington with a Thursday night vote to block a D.C. law banning discrimination by employers against employees who have had abortions. Washington (CNN) Hillary Clinton is accusing congressional Republicans of planning to "overrule the Democratic process" in Washington with a Thursday night vote to block a D.C. law banning discrimination by employers against employees who have had abortions. In a statement provided exclusively to CNN, Clinton campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri lauded Clinton's record on women's issues, and promised that the former secretary of state would "fight to make it easier ... for women and families to get ahead." "Hillary Clinton has fought for women and families and their right to access the full range of reproductive health care without interference from politicians or employers," Palmieri said. "Hillary will fight to make it easier, not more difficult, for women and families to get ahead and ensure that women are not discriminated against for personal medical decisions." The bill in question would roll back a D.C. law approved in December that bars city employers from taking punitive action against employees for using abortion services or birth control. Under the Constitution, Congress can nullify laws passed by the Washington city council, but it's required to weigh in within 30 days after the measure has been sent to Capitol Hill. That deadline comes Friday, and both the House and the Senate must pass a resolution of disapproval to prevent the law from going into effect this weekend. The effort was launched by one of Clinton's potential GOP presidential opponents, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, weeks ago, but prior to this week its future was uncertain as House leadership had been reluctant to line up a full vote. Under pressure from members in the conservative Republican Study Committee, however, House leadership scheduled a Thursday night vote on the law. Rep. Bill Flores of Texas, chairman of the RSC, praised the move and described the bill as a religious freedom issue in a statement. "We first flagged this issue when the D.C. Council passed the law and have been resolute in our belief that Congress has the right and the responsibility to act in defense of our constitutional freedom of belief," he said. "This is not about one city, but rather about preserving the First Amendment right to religious liberty for all Americans." While it's expected to easily pass in the House during a late Thursday-night vote, there's no indication the Senate will take it up, and the White House issued a veto threat against the GOP measure on Thursday. But Team Clinton's move to weigh in on the measure is a clear signal that the former secretary of state won't shy away from the perennial controversy surrounding abortion rights as she makes her second presidential bid. While Republicans continue to push restrictions on abortion rights, Democrats see the issue as a political winner as they believe it appeals to a key portion of their base -- single female voters. And this time around, Clinton has embraced her gender, focusing heavily on women's rights and the prospect of becoming the nation's first female president. Rep. Trey Gowdy: He might take Hillary Clinton's word on disputed e-mails [Susan Page, USA Today, April 30, 2015] Trey Gowdy says he might be willing to accept assurances under oath from Hillary Clinton that she has provided all her relevant emails to the panel — dropping requests for an independent examination of her computer server. WASHINGTON — South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, who heads the House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks that left four Americans dead, says he might be willing to accept assurances under oath from Hillary Clinton that she has provided all her relevant emails to the panel — dropping requests for an independent examination of her computer server. "If she were, under some theory, able to say, 'yes, I can promise you under penalty of perjury you have every single document you're entitled to,' that would probably shut off that line of inquiry," he told Capital Download. "If she can, then it will be a short conversation." Congressional Democrats accuse the special committee of being little more than a GOP fishing expedition aimed at damaging the former secretary of State — and possible future Democratic presidential nominee — even though a half-dozen previous congressional inquiries already have examined the attacks that killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. But on USA TODAY's weekly video newsmaker series, Gowdy, 50, insisted he was approaching the inquiry not as a partisan but as the federal prosecutor he once was, arguing it already has broken new ground. The three-term Republican congressman said the panel recently completed interviews with the five State Department officials who were on the ground in Benghazi — only one previously had been interviewed in a congressional inquiry — and is "wrapping up" interviews with CIA employees who were on the scene. None of them previously have been questioned by Congress. "That is incredibly newsworthy," he says, calling it a rebuff to the panel's critics. "The narrative, at least for those who opposed the creation of our committee, was 'every other committee has looked at everything; there's nothing new under the sun; this is purely politics,' " he said. "How could you possibly have a thorough investigation into Benghazi if you did not even bother to interview the eyewitnesses who were on the ground the night the attacks happened?" His committee's investigation helped reveal that Clinton had relied exclusively on a private email system and server when she led the State Department, a practice at odds with Obama administration guidelines. Gowdy hopes to question her about the emails at a hearing the week of May 18. House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., left, confers with ranking member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., at the start of the panel's Jan. 27, 2015, public hearing. (Photo: J. Scott Applewhite, AP) Clinton sent the committee 300 emails and provided 55,000 pages of printed-out emails to the State Department, then had all the emails on her server deleted. Gowdy had asked that an independent third party examine the server, though he signaled in the interview he might be willing to simply accept her assurances that all relevant emails had been provided. That said, he raised some doubts about whether Clinton would be in a position to offer those assurances. "I think my first question would be, 'Madame Secretary, with all due respect, how do you know that, because you're not the one who went through the emails; your lawyer did,' " he says."So your lawyer has a duty to you. Who with a duty to the public has been through your emails?" He said the committee this summer also would interview White House national security adviser Susan Rice, who as U.N. ambassador provided some of the first public explanations of the Benghazi attacks. On Thursday, Gowdy announced that the committee had received more than 4,000 pages of documents and notes from the State Department's Benghazi Accountability Review Board. In the interview, he called the documents "hugely important" but complained about the time it took to obtain them: "I just think two years was too long to have to wait." He called it a tactic by the administration designed to open the committee to criticism that it was trying to push the inquiry into 2016, when the presidential election will be underway. Citing "the cynicism of a former prosecutor," he said, "I believe that when you drag things out that it also makes it easier to complain that this is taking too long, and you just hope that maybe the jury will think, a pox on both of your houses." In his "perfect world," he says the committee would finish by New Year's Day 2016. That depends in part on whether or when he gets documents now requested or subpoenaed from the White House, State Department, Justice Department and Defense Department. 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