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Denton Record-Chronicle
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Trump: ‘Very angry’ if health care bill flops
work’s The 700 Club, Trump
said it was time for action by
congressional Republicans
who cast scores of votes “that
didn’t mean anything” to re-
peal the 2010 law while Obama
was still president.
“Well, I don’t even want to
talk about it because I think it
would be very bad,” he said
when network founder Pat
Robertson asked what would
happen if the effort fails. “I will
be very angry about it and a lot
of people will be very upset,”
Trump said.
Asked if McConnell would
succeed, Trump said, “Mitch
has to pull it off.”
Besides Paul and Collins, at
least two other Republican
senators publicly said they
hadn’t decided whether to back
er sell low-premium, bare-
bones policies as long as the
company also sold a plan cov-
ering all the services.
That includes a substance
abuse treatment — required by
Obama’s law.
Party leaders have still not
determined if Cruz’s plan will
be in their measure.
“It depends what’s in the
bill,” Cruz said when asked if he
would back the leaders’ legisla-
tion.
By Alan Fram
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Presi-
dent Donald Trump said
Wednesday he will be “very an-
gry” if the Senate fails to pass a
revamped Republican health
care bill and said Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell must
“pull it off,” intensifying pres-
sure on party leaders laboring
to preserve the teetering mea-
sure.
over insurance coverage re-
quirements and other issues
still linger.
With all Democrats set to
vote no, McConnell was aiming
at an initial roll call next week
on beginning debate, a motion
that will require backing from
50 of the 52 GOP senators.
Conservative Sen. Rand
Paul, R-Ky., said Wednesday he
would oppose the motion and
moderate Republican Susan
Collins of Maine was widely ex-
pected to do the same — leav-
ing McConnell with zero mar-
gin for error to sustain his par-
ty’s goal of toppling President
Barack Obama’s health care
law.
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Trump’s remarks came a
day before McConnell, R-Ky.,
planned to release his revised
legislation to a closed-door
meeting of GOP senators.
The new legislation eases
some of the initial Medicaid
cuts and makes other changes
aimed at nailing down support.
But internal GOP disputes
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Scott said he was still trying
to determine if the legislation
would help families and con-
sumers with pre-existing med-
ical problems.
McConnell withdrew an
initial package in the face of
Republican discord that would
have spelled certain defeat.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows, R-
N.C., second from left, participates in a Wednesday news con-
ference with other caucus members in Washington.
In a White House interview
conducted Wednesday for the
Christian Broadcasting Net-
McConnell on the initial vote.
Cruz is chief author of a pro-
posal backed by other conser-
vatives that would let an insur-
Lawmakers aim to question
former campaign chairman
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By Chad Day
and Eric Tucker
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
scope of congressional investiga-
tions into Russian meddling in
the 2016 presidential contest
came into sharper focus on
Wednesday as lawmakers said
they intended to question the
former chairman of the Trump
campaign and to determine
whether Russian social media
“trolls” were connected to
Trump’s election efforts.
The Senate Judiciary Com-
mittee plans to question former
campaign chairman Paul Mana-
fort and will subpoena him if
necessary, according to the pan-
el’s Republican chairman, Sen.
Chuck Grassley of Iowa.
He said he and the commit-
tee’s top Democrat, Dianne
Feinstein of California, have
agreed to try to bring Manafort
before the panel for questioning
about the government’s enforce-
ment of a law requiring registra-
tion of foreign lobbyists. Fein-
stein’s office confirmed that they
plan to question him.
Manafort certainly also
would be asked about his par-
ticipation in a Trump Tower
meeting last summer with
President Donald Trump’s el-
dest son and son-in-law, where
the purpose was to hear poten-
tially damaging information
about Hillary Clinton from a
Russian lawyer.
Manafort disclosed the
meeting in a package of infor-
mation he provided to the Sen-
ate and House intelligence
committees, who have been in-
vestigating potential coordina-
tion between Russia and the
Trump campaign, as is Robert
Mueller, the former FBI direc-
tor appointed by the Justice
Department as the special
counsel.
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Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
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FBI Director nominee Christopher Wray testifies Wednesday on Capitol Hill in Washington at
his confirmation hearing.
propriate for anybody to get into
anything that went on at that
meeting, and he was at that
meeting,” Grassley told Iowa re-
porters.
A person close to Manafort
said that he hasn’t yet received a
letter from the Senate Judiciary
Committee about a possible in-
terview.
The person spoke on condi-
tion of anonymity to discuss Ma-
nafort’s private interactions with
the committee.
Separately, Rep. Adam
Schiff, the top Democrat on the
House intelligence committee,
said his panel wants to look at
the use of Russian social media
“trolls” and whether they were
connected to the Trump election
campaign.
That concern is “certainly
something we want to explore,”
along with the Trump cam-
paign’s data analytics, as part of
a broader committee investiga-
tion into Russian meddling,
Schiff said.
Trump’s son-in-law, Jared
Kushner, oversaw digital strate-
gy for the campaign.
The lawmakers spoke one
day after Donald Trump Jr. dis-
closed on Twitter a series of
emails that revealed his eager-
ness to hear negative material
on Clinton from a Russian law-
Russia probe endorsed
by Trump’s FBI nominee
yer.
The exchange showed
Trump Jr. conversing with a mu-
sic publicist who wanted him to
meet with a “Russian govern-
ment attorney” who supposedly
had dirt on Clinton as “part of
Russia and its government’s
support for Mr. Trump.” He was
told the Russian government
had information that could “in-
criminate” Clinton and her deal-
ings with Russia.
“I love it,” Trump Jr. said in
one email response.
On Wednesday, the presi-
dent declared in a tweet that his
son was “open, transparent and
innocent.” Defending his son’s
conduct, Trump again dismiss-
ed the ongoing Russia probe.
The president’s attorney, Jay
Sekulow, said in an interview
with NBC’s Today that Trump
Jr. did not violate any laws by ac-
cepting the meeting. He said the
president had not been aware of
the meeting and didn’t find out
about his son’s email exchange
until “very recently.”
the hearing, the first public win-
dow into Wray’s views since his
selection, was largely devoid of
fireworks in keeping with what
friends and supporters have de-
scribed as the nominee’s low-
key, disciplined style.
His reserved approach could
bode well for the agency at a
time when its work has been
thrust into the center of a politi-
cal maelstrom.
But Wray said, “Anybody
who thinks that I would be pull-
ing punches as FBI director sure
doesn’t know me very well.”
After Trump dismissed Co-
mey on May 9, the ex-FBI direc-
tor said the president had asked
him to pledge his loyalty during
a dinner at the White House
months earlier.
He also said Trump encour-
aged him to end an investigation
into the former national security
adviser, Michael Flynn.
Wray said he got no demand
for personal loyalty, nor would
he pledge it.
The back-and-forth with
lawmakers focused extensively
on the Russia investigation, with
Wray repeatedly voicing his re-
spect for Robert Mueller, the
former FBI director selected in
May as the special counsel to
oversee the probe.
Trump repeatedly has derid-
ed that investigation and other
probes, using such words as
“hoax” and “witch hunt.”
But Wray said he would re-
ject any efforts to interfere with
Mueller’s work.
“I do not consider Director
Mueller to be on a witch hunt,”
he said under questioning from
Republican Sen. Lindsey Gra-
ham of South Carolina.
He also said he had no reason
to doubt the assessment of intel-
ligence agencies that Russia in-
terfered in the U.S. election
through hacking, a conclusion of
which Trump has been dismis-
sive.
By Sadie Gurman
and Eric Tucker
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Donald
Trump’s pick to lead the FBI
broke with the president in key
areas Wednesday, rejecting the
idea that an investigation into
possible coordination between
Russia and the Trump election
campaign is a “witch hunt” and
promising not to cave to any
pressure from a White House
that has challenged boundaries
with the nation’s top law en-
forcement agency.
Christopher Wray, the former
high-ranking Justice Department
official whom Trump nominated
last month, told senators at his
confirmation hearing he would
never let politics get in the way of
the bureau’s mission.
And he said he “sure as heck”
would not offer a pledge of loy-
alty to the president.
Asserting his independence,
he said, “My loyalty is to the Con-
stitution and the rule of law.
Those have been my guideposts
throughout my career, and I will
continue to adhere to them no
matter the test.”
Wray’s responses seemed to
satisfy both Democrats and Re-
publicans on the Senate Judicia-
ry Committee, many of whom
signaled their support for him.
Wray, 50, would inherit the
FBI at a particularly challenging
time given Trump’s abrupt dis-
missal of James Comey, who was
admired within the bureau. Yet
And when asked about
emails released a day earlier
showing that Donald Trump Jr.
was willing to take help from
Russia during the campaign, he
said any foreign efforts to med-
dle in an election should be re-
ported to the FBI rather than ac-
cepted.
Wray, who most recently has
enjoyed a lucrative legal career
at an international law firm, also
faced questions about his work
as a Justice Department official
in the Bush administration.
He served the government at
a time when harsh interrogation
techniques were approved with-
in the department for terror sus-
pects captured overseas, though
Wray said he was never involved
in signing off on those methods.
Although Trump as a candi-
date professed support for wa-
terboarding, Wray said he con-
sidered torture to be wrong and
ineffective.
“The FBI is going to play no
part in the use of any techniques
of that sort,” he said.
BRIEFLY
ACROSS THE NATION
murder and sentenced to life in
prison in Bella’s killing.
As part of her plea agree-
ment, Bond testified against
McCarthy at his trial, telling ju-
rors she walked into a bedroom
and saw McCarthy punching
her daughter hard in the abdo-
men. She said she did not report
her daughter’s death to police
because McCarthy threatened to
kill her.
Wednesday, Rachelle Bond is
expected to be released from jail
Friday and go directly to a resi-
dential substance abuse treat-
ment facility.
Bond, 41, pleaded guilty in a
deal with prosecutors to a
charge of being an accessory af-
ter the fact in the 2015 killing of
her daughter, Bella.
Last month, Bond’s ex-boy-
friend, Michael McCarthy, was
convicted of second-degree
Boston
Mother of missing girl
to be released from jail
The mother of a 2-year-old
girl who became known as Ba-
by Doe after her remains
washed ashore in a trash bag
will be released from jail after
serving less than two years for
her role in disposing of her
daughter’s body.
Under the sentence imposed
— The Associated Press
PETA goes bananas over monkey selfie rights
monkey do?” she said after the
hearing.
PETA’s general counsel Jeff
Kerr said after the hearing that
the group plans to use money
from the photos to protect
monkey habitats and help peo-
ple study the monkeys.
“PETA is clearly re-
presenting Naruto’s best inter-
ests,” he said.
Dhuey said the legal antics
were more of a publicity stunt
by PETA than a lawsuit.
He quipped after the hear-
ing that Naruto made a tactical
mistake by not appearing in
court.
monkey in another country
that is unaware of the fuss.
Andrew Dhuey, attorney for
British nature photographer
David Slater, said “monkey see,
monkey sue” is not good law
under any federal act.
Naruto is a free-living crest-
ed macaque who snapped per-
fectly framed selfies in 2011
that would make even the Kar-
dashians proud.
People for the Ethical Treat-
ment of Animals sued Slater
and the San Francisco-based
self-publishing
Blurb, which published a book
called Wildlife Personalities
that includes the monkey sel-
fies, for copyright infringe-
ment. It sought a court order in
is the author.
“We have to look at the word
‘authorship’ in the broadest
sense,” he said.
The judges grilled him on
why PETA has status to re-
present Naruto and said that
“having genuine care for the
animal” isn’t enough to estab-
lish “next friend” relationship,
which is required to represent
the monkey in court.
The judges did not issue a
ruling Wednesday.
Angela Dunning, an attor-
ney for Blurb, wondered at the
possibilities if they do not pre-
vail.
By Linda Wang
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO - A cu-
rious monkey with a toothy
grin and a knack for pressing a
camera button was back in the
spotlight Wednesday as a fed-
eral appeals court heard argu-
ments on whether an animal
can hold a copyright to selfie
photos.
A 45-minute hearing before
a three-judge panel of the 9th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
San Francisco attracted crowds
of law students and curious cit-
izens who often burst into
laughter.
The federal judges also
chuckled at times at the novelty
of the case, which involves a
“Where does it end? If a monkey can
sue for copyright infringement, what
else can a monkey do?"
— Angela Dunning, attorney for Blurb
himself in the reflection of the
lens.
2015 allowing it to administer
all proceeds from the photos
taken in a wildlife reserve in
Sulawesi, Indonesia to benefit
the monkey.
Slater says the British copy-
right for the photos obtained
by his company, Wildlife Per-
sonalities Ltd., should be hon-
ored.
A federal judge ruled
against PETA and the monkey
last year, saying he lacked the
right to sue because there was
no indication Congress intend-
ed to extend copyright protec-
tion to animals.
Throughout Wednesday’s
hearing, Schwarz pushed back,
arguing the case came down to
one simple fact: photographs
can be copyrighted and Naruto
company
David
PETA
attorney
Schwarz argued Naruto was
accustomed to cameras and
“Where does it end? If a
monkey can sue for copyright
infringement, what else can a
“It’s like he doesn’t even
care,” he said before walking
away from cameras.
took the selfies when he saw
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