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As Congress awaits the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report, Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio, a Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee, said it “gives us confidence back in our democracy.” Turner made the comment on “America’s Newsroom” Monday, saying confidence returned because "it says that there was no collusion and we know certainly that we did not have the aspect of the Trump campaign doing that.” He added, “I do think there should be a concern, though, in knowing what has happened with respect to the Hillary Clinton and Democratic National Committee-funded dossier, where they actually hired a retired former intelligence officer that was British for the purposes of talking to Russians and then use that information in a way where the government used it to undertake surveillance on the other campaign. I think that's absolutely wrong and I think that's a threat.” Mueller's much-anticipated report is set to be released to the public and Congress with redactions on Thursday morning, the Justice Department announced Monday. The news comes despite mounting calls from Democrats to first release the report to Congress without redactions. “We gave Mueller the assignment of to come to a conclusion and that’s certainly what he’s done, is finding no collusion,” Turner said in response to Democrats' demands to first release the report to Congress. “One thing is going to be important, though, is that I think it would be absolutely wrong for portions of the report to be released to Congress and not released to the public because already we have people like Adam Schiff and his minions standing up and saying that the Barr statement says that there was no criminal collusion found. Well actually, the quote directly from the report says that they were unable to establish a collusion at all. So if they are going to twist words that we all can read, we certainly don't want to give select access and then let others tell us what it says.” Last month, Mueller submitted his almost 400-page report to the Justice Department for review by the attorney general and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. In a letter to Congress, Attorney General Bill Barr relayed some of the primary findings of the report, stating the special counsel found no evidence of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians during the 2016 presidential election. Barr said he identified four areas of the report that he believed should be redacted including grand jury material and information the intelligence community believes would reveal intelligence sources and methods.

The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has demanded that the prime minister give MPs the opportunity to vote on whether or not they have confidence in her after she delayed the showdown on her Brexit deal to January. Corbyn tabled a motion of no confidence in Theresa May on Monday evening. While the government is not obliged to schedule a confidence vote before Christmas, the Labour leader said a refusal to do so would demonstrate that she was unable to command the confidence of the House of Commons. Announcing his intention, Corbyn told the Commons it was “very clear that it’s bad, unacceptable, that we should be waiting almost a month before we have a meaningful vote” on May’s Brexit deal. Instead, May has said the Brexit vote will be held in the week commencing 14 January. He added that the motion he intended to table, aimed specifically at the prime minister and not at the government as a whole, was “the only way I can think of of ensuring a vote takes place this week”. As Corbyn went to sit down after finishing his remarks, May stood up and walked out of the chamber, nodding to the chair as she left. We will vote against Labour in any confidence motion.” The Democratic Unionist Party also said it would back the prime minister, with its Westminster leader, Nigel Dodds, saying his MPs would not support “the antics of the Labour party”. Haddon said a motion of no confidence in the government under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act would force May’s hand. But Corbyn announced his intention to table the motion as the debate closed.

The 2011 act says that a no-confidence motion must use the following text to be binding: “This house has no confidence in Her Majesty’s government.” If submitted by the leader of the opposition, such a motion has to be debated the next day and, if the government were defeated, May would almost certainly have to resign. A new government would have to be formed in 14 days or else an election would take place. A spokesman said the party would judge “day by day” when it was best to act. The SNP and Liberal Democrats had indicated they would support Corbyn’s motion, but in the run-up to the close of business, it became clear that the DUP and Tory rebels were very unlikely to support any version of Labour’s motion, meaning it faced defeat. Nigel Dodds, the leader of the DUP at Westminster, said its party would back May’s government for now while it tried to secure changes to her Brexit deal. We will vote against Labour in any confidence motion.” At one point in the evening, it appeared that Downing Street would allow a debate on Corbyn’s motion to take place on Tuesday because it was confident of victory. Corbyn’s move came after an acrimonious debate on May’s stalled Brexit negotiations, in which the Labour leader had initially threatened to hold a confidence vote if she failed to name a date for the final vote after she pulled it last week. Briefings about Corbyn’s plans had taken place shortly before 3pm. It marks the first steps in an attempt by May to persuade rebellious Tory MPs that the alternatives to her Brexit deal are worse before the meaningful vote in the week of 14 January. However, European commission officials in Brussels said that no further meetings between the EU and UK were taking place.

Frank Field has criticised local Labour party members after he became the latest party MP to lose a confidence vote for siding with the government in key Brexit votes. The veteran Eurosceptic’s constituency passed a vote of no confidence against him on Friday, after a similar motion against fellow Brexiter Kate Hoey in her Vauxhall seat in London. Field has hit back, accusing local members of trying to misrepresent his votes in support of the government’s Brexit policies to try to get rid of him. Momentum leader calls for deselection of MPs who voted with Tories Read more The no-confidence vote does not carry any official force, but constituency party members could seek a trigger ballot that would have the potential to deselect Field. Field said his decision to support Theresa May’s plans in defeating an amendment calling for a post-Brexit customs union had been on behalf of “millions of Labour voters, mainly in parts of the country that have long been neglected by the elites, who gave politicians a clear instruction to take the country out of the EU”. He said that during his 39 years as an MP he had “always voted to free our country from the tightening stranglehold of the EU” on behalf of working-class Labour voters and that it was important to do so now. “For most, if not all, of those votes I did so alongside Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell,” he said “It would have been a betrayal of the principles I have held for my entire political life, had I voted against the legislation two weeks ago.” Both Labour and the Tories committed themselves to honouring the leave vote during the 2017 election, he said, meaning “such legislation would have been introduced by whichever party was in power”. The vote against him was sparked by a letter from the Bidston and St James branch secretary, Brian Parsons. “For whatever reason, Mr Field is refusing to assist his parliamentary colleagues in removing one of the cruellest and most savage Tory administrations this country has produced, including the Thatcher government,” he said. “This is an absurd suggestion that is being used as an excuse by certain people in the Birkenhead constituency Labour party who are fixated on the idea of trying to get rid of me.

Donald Trump on Thursday put an end to his family separation policy, but attorneys are concerned the practice will continue, as they struggle to reunite parents and children without any mechanism in place to do so. These types of allegations could be used to break up families.” Separately, he was concerned that the executive order did not include a plan to reunite families. McKinney said detention facilities have different rules about phone access. Child separations: what does Trump's order actually mean? Mass family separations first began in April, when the administration announced a “zero tolerance” policy that saw parents placed in adult detention facilities and children labeled “unaccompanied alien minors” and placed in health department-operated shelters. By separating migrant children from their parents, the government created an influx of unaccompanied children who could shift the balance of these shelters and impact the agency’s ability to reunite children with their parents, because their parent is in detention or has been deported. Lee Gelernt, the attorney on that case, said the circumstances that led to the separation of the child and mother, known as Ms L in court documents, could happen again. Migrant children can be separated from their parents if authorities prove they are unfit to parent the child, are abusive or neglectful, but Gelernt said: “What we’ve seen is the government decide it is in the best interest to take the child away in other situations.” Ms L and her daughter were reunited shortly after the ACLU expanded her case into a class-action lawsuit seeking an end to family separation. He said the ACLU also plans to ask the judge to demand the government quickly reunite the children who have already been separated. “When the government wants to arrest people they get the resources together,” Gelernt said.

The new study found that this effect was exacerbated when partisan identities were activated. The latter theory constitutes a central topic in my earlier research, and I was especially interested in whether the partisan mind is susceptible to overconfident self-appraisals of political knowledge.” For his study, Anson examined 2,606 American adults using two online surveys. “Many Americans appear to be extremely overconfident in their political knowledgeability, because they have no way of knowing how little they actually know about the world of politics (this is the so-called ‘double bind of incompetence’). In fact, when I asked partisans to ‘grade’ political knowledge quizzes filled out by fictional members of the other party, low-skilled respondents gave out scores that reflected party biases much more than actual knowledge.” “The results seem to indicate the existence of a widespread failure of political discourse in the United States: when a partisan talks to someone of the out-party, they are pretty likely to misjudge the political knowledgeability of themselves and their conversation partner. More often than not, this means that partisans will think of themselves as far more politically knowledgeable than an out-partisan, even when that person is extremely politically knowledgeable,” Anson told PsyPost. “This study was conducted in an online survey setting, meaning that I was unable to actually assess what happens when partisans converse with one another. To support the conclusions I drew in the study, I gave respondents a simple political knowledge quiz, and then asked them to tell me how well they thought they did,” Anson said. In the future, I think that we could learn many interesting things about political discourse and ‘political overconfidence’ by getting people into a laboratory setting.” Anson realized that he too was subject to the effect while conducting the study. Re-reading the literature on the subject made me acutely aware of my own (lack of) knowledge of the subject, such that I started to seriously second-guess my confidence! It was interesting to read in one of the seminal Dunning-Kruger studies that the authors included a footnote corroborating basically the same experience,” he explained.

Heritage House Publishing, 352 pages In this age of short attention spans, it is easy to forget what a momentous day it was that unfolded on June 29, 2017 to give British Columbia its first NDP premier in 16 years. It was drama of the highest order. Yet it might soon have faded from memory had it not been for two legislative reporters with a ringside seat for every twist and turn. Rob Shaw of the Vancouver Sun and Richard Zussman, then of CBC, felt these historic happenings deserved a closer look. (Mr. Zussman is now with Global News, after being fired by the CBC for allegedly breaching its guidelines with his work on this book.) The result, produced in an astonishingly short time, is their book, A Matter of Confidence, and it’s a winner – a well-written, compelling and fast-paced narrative that does ample justice to the unprecedented circumstances that yielded such a seismic shift in B.C.’s political landscape. Thanks to a wealth of interviews with key participants, whose memories, and scars, were still fresh, the authors puncture the secrecy of the backrooms, allowing us to listen in on closed-door discussions by players from all three parties that went on before, during and after an election campaign, which ended with the upstart Greens holding the balance of power. I enjoyed discovering, too, that then-Liberal health minister Terry Lake lobbied heavily for a payroll tax to help cover his government’s promised elimination of health-care premiums. His view was nixed by Clark. premier.)

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