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Its not the time for Rep. Rashida Tlaib D Mich. , mere hours after being sworn in, to that were gonna impeach the mother .

Its not the time for Rep. Brad Sherman D Calif. , without waiting for the Mueller report, to announce plans toagainst Trump.

Progressives arent solely to blame. Even after a rebellion by moderates got Pelosi to accept leadership term limits, on the floor — including freshman Rep. Jeff Van Drew N.J. .

No, he called out when the clerk asked for whom he was voting.

Because No is not a person. Van Drews vote — dissent for the sake of dissent — was switched to present.

At the fulcrum between Democratic unity and division is Ocasio Cortez, a social media sensation who has endured hysterical attacks from the right most recently a leaked video of her .

A few hours after her vote for Pelosi, Ocasio Cortez swung the other way on the first substantive vote: She opposed a resolution setting out new House rules, painstakingly negotiated by the entire Democratic caucus.

Her objection: a bit of accounting arcana known as paygo. She accused her Democratic colleagues of a designed to hamstring progress on health care and other legislation. The passionate dissent was curious, given that the proposed rule is already current law, was a significant improvement over the Republican rule and, anyway, is routinely disregarded. Only two Democrats joined her

Ocasio Cortez has become known for such stands. She at Pelosis office demanding a select committee on climate change — though Pelosi had said that she favored such a committee.

Later, that Ocasio Cortez was seeking a 2020 primary challenger to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries D N.Y. , a popular African American progressive and House leader. She denied it.

She and other left wing newcomers can have a salutary effect. Their over lobbyists presence at an unofficial orientation at Harvard for new members led to a of the event. Their advocacy for Medicare for all health coverage has nudged Pelosi to .

But now comes decision time. Will Ocasio Cortez and fellow hard liners become the lefts version of the Freedom Caucus? Will they object to H.R. 1, the Democrats ethics and voting rights package, because it doesnt go far enough in banning corporate money? Will they withhold support for bills unless they can force votes on Medicare for all and abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement? Or will the firebrands build support for their causes without forcing vulnerable colleagues to cast suicidal votes on bills that wont become law?

Democratic unity is what gives them the upper hand in the shutdown battle, as some Republicans openly question Trumps strategy. Democratic unity also allows them to appeal to the large majority of Americans disgusted with Trump, as Pelosi did during her acceptance speech, uttering bipartisan seven times, praising George H.W. Bush and approvingly quoting Ronald Reagan on immigration.

There was silence on the Republican side, now a shrunken sea of old white men. You dont applaud for Ronald Reagan? .

A disastrous presidency has given progressives an extraordinary opportunity — if they dont blow it by fighting among themselves.

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Getting Ready for 2019 – Mitt Romney & Ben McAdams Go to Washington | The Hinckley Report - Duration: 26:47.

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possible in part by the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles

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Jason Perry: Good evening and welcome to the Hinckley Report.

I'm Jason Perry, director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics.

Covering the week we have Michelle Quist,

columnist with the Salt Lake Tribune.

Michael Mower, deputy chief of staff to Governor Gary Herbert,

and Benjamin Wood, political report

with the Salt Lake Tribune.

So, glad to have you all with us today.

Let's jump right in.

Michelle, we're going to start with you, okay?

Mitt Romney, two days before he is officially sworn in,

did something sort of unusual.

He wrote an op-ed to the Washington Post going straight

after President Trump on policy and on character.

Talk for a second about what he said in this op-ed piece.

Michelle Quist: Well, you know, it was actually exactly

what I think Utahans wanted to hear.

He talked about the fact that Trump, his moral code is

kind of off, and that he doesn't necessarily represent Utahans,

and he doesn't necessarily represent, you know,

the average general citizen.

It was bold, it was unique or surprising because it,

you know, came out two days before he was going to be sworn

in, in the national media piece, but I think

Utahans were thrilled to see it.

Jason: Mike, you've been a strategist

for so many candidates.

Explain your thoughts on the timing of this.

Michael Mower: You know, I'll have to leave that to Mitt.

I'll say I'm a big Mitt fan.

Was I surprised when it came out?

Yes, but, you know, as a strategist,

I'm going to have to say he has a good team around him.

I really like the team he's put together.

One of the things I'm most excited about for Utahans from

top to bottom, Adam Gardner for example,

his new state director, and Kelsey Birch back in D.C.

He's got a good Utah team.

Mitt was elected in a landslide.

He can kind of make his own decisions on these things.

Jason: Okay, so, Ben, I want to pull these two things

together because what Michelle said is interesting.

Are Utahans wanting this from him?

Now, this is pretty sharp,

right, he went after the president.

Is this where Utahans are primarily?

Do they feel good about it based on all of your conversations?

Benjamin: Yeah, we see reactions from outside Utah were

more mixed than they were in Utah.

Like Mike said, he won with a landslide vote, with more

share the vote than Donald Trump did in Utah in 2016.

Mitt Romney's a very popular guy.

He tends to do things that Utahans like to see him do.

I didn't see a lot of pushback locally to be honest.

Jason: But as a reporter, I'm now

seeing you covering Mitt Romney.

Also, this is the question I've noticed everyone gets.

It's a question I get when people are interviewing me about

Mitt Romney, is: is he going to be the one

that goes after Trump?

Do you feel like that's what he just set the stage for?

Benjamin: To a certain degree, I mean, he said he wanted

to clarify his position before he takes on this new job, and

there's always been this looming question of how much

and to what degree will he push back on the president?

He reminded the nation that he is willing to do this when he

feels the need and right before he got sworn in,

he made sure he put that shot across the bow.

Jason: So, the nation is interesting.

Michelle, can we talk about that because this was a national

publication he sent this to; what do you make of that?

Michelle: You know, the national,

you know, response was curious.

They weren't, like Ben said, they weren't as positive as,

you know, they were more questionable.

They were like, "Why is this coming out?

And you know, you kind of are going back and forth again,

Mitt, is this, you know, is this what you're doing?"

Jason: But even our own congressman Chaffetz,

former congressman Chaffetz went after Mitt on this one.

Michelle: Well, yes, Chaffetz is very conservative, and you

know, this didn't go along with the conservative script,

at least not the far right.

Jason: So, Ben, because I want to get Mike on some other

things on the Mitt Romney commentary about what he thinks

the country should be doing.

But when Mitt Romney is setting the stage,

is this him helping to position the Republican party?

Is he reclaiming that post, you think?

Because we had some high profile people leave as of late.

Is this him helping the party?

Ben: I would imagine he thinks he's helping the party.

I wouldn't━I don't think he would've done this

if he thinks it hurts the party.

And there's been a lot of speculation about what

this means for his future?

You know, he's been adamant that he does not want to run for

president again, but there's also this idea of what if

someone else runs against Donald Trump?

Will Mitt Romney back a primary challenge?

He is in saying on that point, but it's hard to not read into

this op-ed the potential for him to be offering

support for hypothetical challenger.

Michelle: You know, I thought it was interesting that just a

week before Senator Lee had come out saying,

"I support President Trump."

And so, to me part of, you know, Senator Romney's response here

maybe was differentiating himself,

you know, between the two senators.

I'm sure it's very uncomfortable for him to be the junior

senator, you know, under Mike, but he is,

and I think maybe he wanted to put himself out there and say,

"I'm not really that junior."

Michael: Our focus and concern coming from the

governor's office is getting beyond personalities,

getting beyond kind of the 2020 concerns on both the Democratic

and Republican side and solving the problems that

congress was created to solve.

We don't have a budget.

We have a government shutdown taking place.

That's where our focus is on.

What are we doing to make sure that people are getting━federal

workers are getting paid, that we're getting the

parks reopened, I mean, so it's, you know, it's certainly been

something that's been discussed, but our concern

as a state is, all right, let's get past

the in-fighting in Washington.

Let's do things in the Utah way, bring people together,

solve issues, and move forward for the good of the nation.

Jason: I want to get to the government shut down in just a

moment, but a couple of pieces I felt like we

should address in this op-ed.

One, I want to show you a graphic, and Mike,

maybe you talk about this for just a second.

Let me read it, this is part of the speech in

the op-ed from Senator Romney.

He says, "To a greet degree, a presidency shapes the

public character of the nation.

A president should unite us and inspire us

to follow our 'better angels'...

And it is in this province where the incumbent's

shortfall has been most glaring."

Interesting part going to the character.

What is the role of the president in your mind,

based on this, to shape the character of the nation?

Michael: Well, let me bring it down to the state level where

I'm most familiar, and that is by saying,

you know, Mitt's statement can speak to itself and he can tell

us all what it means, but at the Utah level,

I've been fortunate to work for two governors,

Governor John Huntsman and now Governor Gary Herbert,

both of whom took the mantle of leadership very seriously,

and the mantle of inclusiveness, and the mantle

of setting the tone for the state.

Again, I'm not pointing fingers in any direction outside of our

state; but within our state, we've been very fortunate to

have leaders who try to bring people together,

who try to unite people.

I think Governor Huntsman and Governor Herbert have both

worked very hard that way.

It's difficult to do, but at the Utah level it's working,

and again, we like to think of Utah as

kind of an example to the nation.

We balance our budget every year,

we're collegial to one another.

We try to be friends and try not to

demonize each other in politics.

I think that's an example that Washington cane take from Utah,

kind of the example that our leaders here in the state

have set for several years.

Michelle: Well, and the presidency is one person,

you know, it's a coequal branch of government but the other two

branches are made up of, you know,

made up of a group of people.

The presidency is our focus point.

You know, we've got Washington and Lincoln

and Kennedy and Reagan.

You know, these are people that, men, men,

I hope there's a woman soon, but you know,

these are men that have led with honor and respect,

and you know, something that we can point to

and look up to, and this is what America is,

and Trump has not been that man.

Jason: One of the other points, Ben,

in this op-ed was about American leadership.

He spent a lot of time on this where the administration needs

to provide the leadership in the world,

and the world is looking for that kind of leadership which he

thinks maybe we've lost some of that.

Tell us where Utahans are that you're interviewing

them on that key principle.

Benjamin: I think there's certainly some concern,

I mean, you see in Mitt Romney's op-ed that he's cited the

resignation of top administration officials,

the abrupt decision to withdraw from Syria.

You know, I think locally there are people who,

even despite supporting the president,

supporting the Republican party, are concerned about perhaps the

speed these decisions are made, the amount of

input going into these decisions.

So, I definitely don't think Mitt Romney is alone in

wondering how steady the hands are at the wheel?

Jason: Okay, so, why do we

keep you, Ben, for a second on this.

So, the Trump from━the response from Trump was pretty

quick, all right, what was it?

Benjamin: I mean, from my memory he questioned whether

Trump━Romney would be a new flake and wishes he would be

more of a team player, and then in private comments,

you know, he talked about he had endorsed Romney

and Romney had accepted his endorsement,

and what a shame he's not playing for the team.

Jason: Yeah, Michelle, what do you make of that flake comment?

'Cause that was the question, right?

Is he another flake, I hope not. That's what he said, right?

Michelle: Right, right, you know, he doesn't like people

who speak out against him or that are able to stand up

against him, and you know, I think he needed to put it

out there as kind of a warning, you know,

"Is this going to happen again?

'Cause if you're not going to play my game,

we're going to have some problems."

I think that's what his message is.

Jason: Uh-huh, so, the last part of his tweet called on Mitt

Romney to be a team player.

Is that what━what does that mean, you think?

Michelle: Well, I think to Romney it doesn't mean much,

you know, Romney does what he thinks is right.

He has the character, and the experience to do what's right,

whether it's you know, whether it's popular or not,

and I think that scares Trump.

Jason: Okay, so, let's get back to the point that you

brought up first, Mike, because this is all happening in the

middle of a government shutdown.

Fourteen days as the time of filming, which is,

you know, getting up there in terms of the longest

government shutdown we've had.

Michael: Well, I think it's really disappointing how that,

you know, we've seen it's kind of the politics of brinkmanship,

that time and again,

we're having another government shutdown.

It's interesting, the state got very prepared this year.

Kris Cox and her team, legislative leadership who

oversees finances, and said, "All right, if we have another

shutdown, what steps do we need

to be taking to prepare for it?"

And they took those steps, and for example,

this time we kept the parks open, but it's become kind of an

embarrassment, and we're a state looking at--look when our

legislature convenes, one of the first things they do is adopt a

base budget, so that if everything else falls apart at

the end of the year we have a budget that we're operating on,

and then throughout the session they add to that budget,

and then finally do a final budget.

Why can't congress do some of these things?

You know, why is everything so poisoned politically back there

that it's, you know, the entire operating funds of the nation

are coming down, you know, to one key point?

So, it's disappointing for us as a state because we're the ones

that often have to live with the consequences.

We're okay for the next few weeks here in Utah, but come the

end of the month, we're worried about women,

infant, and children who rely on some federal assistance.

We're worried about, you know, the national parks that we've

kept 'em going for a couple of weeks, but that

probably can't last indefinitely.

So, we have some concerns and we prepared for it.

We just plead with the folks in Washington,

get together and make it work.

Jason: Ben, how impacted are Utahans

feeling with this closure?

Do you Utahans seem to care very much that this has happened?

Benjamin: Well, government shutdown's interesting in that

they start small and then they get bigger as they go.

So, in the early stages, yeah, you have maybe some decreased

services at the parks, maybe the post office.

As time goes on, you get the school lunch program,

you get other, you know, medical services.

So, the longer this goes, Utahans will start to notice the

government shutdown and they'll start to feel it.

Jason: Uh-huh, Mike, let's come back to you for a second.

What did the state do to mitigate some

of the impacts of the parks?

Michael: Well, one of the big ones we had with parks was just

coming up with money to help keep the doors open,

and to help keep the gates.

We had a problem several years ago where we realized we've run

a big ad campaign worldwide to bring people to our parks,

and it's worked extremely well.

Well, there's nothing more disappointing if you're a couple

from China or a family from Belgium that have saved up your

money to visit rural Utah and the national parks,

and you get there and the gates are shut.

And we saw that last time, and so Governor Herbert and

Secretary Jewell came up with a compromise.

We're still waiting to get paid back by the feds for that money

But most importantly, we kept the local industries going.

We kept the tourism industry going, and we let

a lot of people into our parks who otherwise would

have been locked out of our parks.

And so, this year, realizing this might happen again,

we came up with the initial funding not,

you know, hoping that it would have been resolved by now.

But it's kind of a, you know, take it day by day,

park by park, on what we'll be able to do to mitigate the

effects, but Ben highlights it really well.

The bigger effects long-term will be the school lunch program

and other federal programs that Utahans rely on that often they

don't understand are being paid for by the feds.

Another thing is we're really concerned about federal workers

who aren't getting a paycheck.

There aren't a lot of Americans, there aren't a lot of us who

could have a paycheck delayed for two weeks or a month or a

month and a half, and not have it impact you

in a meaningful and negative way.

Michelle: Yeah, you know, a lot of Utahans think the federal

government is too big anyway.

So, a shutdown starts, and they don't feel as nervous about it.

They're like, "Oh, good, you know, our government is, you

know, too big, and if it needs to--if it's shut down now,

and we're not noticing, then maybe we don't need it at all."

You know, that's kind of the initial--and honestly,

this is shock and awe for Trump.

He loves this stuff; I mean, this is his bread and butter.

He'll put his foot down and stay there for, you

know, for months and months, which is nervous.

This isn't--this is a republican failure, you know, and the

people who, like Mike said, depend on federal monies

for paychecks, they budgeted for this, and they relied

on it, and it's not fair just because you think government

is too big to be okay with the fact that

they're not now getting paid.

Jason: How effective is it to you, sort of,

the government shutdown as the bargaining chip?

Michelle: It's not effective at all, I don't think, because

people, you know, again, once two or three weeks starts

to pass, they get uncomfortable with it because

it's affecting them personally.

And yes, they want the wall, and this was great for Trump

at the beginning, but wait.

Now, "I'm not getting paid and I have to go to the doctor," and,

you know, "What am I gonna do?"

Jason: Ben, let's talk about this wall, right?

So, this is where he put his foot down, right?

So, the president is saying he wants the wall.

And the House seems to be coming along with a bill,

but the Senate certainly is not at all, right?

Nancy Pelosi was talking about this this whole week,

"I'm not gonna give with the wall," right?

So where do you see this going based on all your sources

and interviews you're doing?

Benjamin: That's a hard question.

I mean, compounding this is that we just had a change of power in

the House, so what was true a week ago is no longer true.

I mean, it doesn't look like the Democrats in the House or the

Senate, for that matter, are looking to budge

on the wall any time soon.

You know, they now control a chamber of Congress.

They can filibuster a vote in the other chamber.

Their ability to press the president on this issue has

increased dramatically since yesterday.

Michelle: Well, and that's why it was a Republican failure

because when we--when Republicans controlled

government, they couldn't get it done.

And now, a week later, now Democrats control, you know,

one of the houses and, oh, they've already passed

a bill that fixes, you know, that passes a budget or,

you know, passes some of the spending bills.

You have two senators, at least, that are going to side with,

you know, getting over this shutdown because

they're in election years.

You know, two years, they're close enough, and if they fix it

now, which obviously we're going to, the storyline will

be because Democrats came in and saved it in a bipartisan

way, and we, Republicans, couldn't do that.

Jason: Interesting.

Michael: And I--but I think that's part of the challenge,

is it becomes winners and losers.

I mean, the Republicans have a legitimate

issue with border security.

It isn't just a wall, it's too many people who fly in

here and overstay their visas.

So, there's a very legitimate concern on border security;

that needs to be addressed.

But unfortunately, it becomes so toxic, it's, you know,

did this, you know, did Senator Romney win or did

President Trump win in this exchange?

Did the Democrats win? Did the Republicans win?

It becomes--again, it becomes about the horse race rather than

the results for the country.

Michelle: Which Trump loves.

Benjamin: And to Mike's point, I mean, border security is

not going to be solved in a short-term spending plan.

'Cause when they do re-open the government,

it won't be with a full budget.

We'd love to see that, but it's not gonna happen.

It'll be another month, maybe two months,

et cetera, and then we'll just be right back here.

And so, these issues that need to be solved,

if you're using the shutdown as a bargaining chip,

you're not actually getting to the meat of the problem.

Jason: Let's talk about these winners and losers for a second

'cause I had this very interesting graphic from Senator

Mike Lee when he was on national publications this week.

This is what he said about the Democrats and what

their causing to happen here.

He says, "Democrats are being categorically unreasonable.

We already have 650 miles of border fence.

Are they saying there is something inherently evil about

what would be the 651st mile?"

I mean, when you start seeing that, Ben, all right, so, I

mean, is this a position for winners or losers?

Or is this just sort of the Republican failure that Michelle

was kinda talkin' about?

Benjamin: This is politics; I mean, this is the purest

encapsulation politics we've seen in a long time.

I mean, the Senate passed a bill before the Christmas break that

would have re-opened the government, and that they

thought they had in the arrangement and the president

tore that arrangement to pieces, and here we are.

So, it's all politics.

I don't think you can pick any one as the

righteous party in this case.

Michelle: I mean, if you google "Mike Lee" and

"shutdown," you're gonna get articles from January 2018.

And then it's gonna be, "Oh, wait, no--

did they get the year wrong?"

No, they didn't; this was happening last January, 2018.

It's, you know, it's a--it's not a publicity stunt because it's

way more serious than that, but people end up using it as a

place to step up and it's not.

Jason: Okay, so let's take one of the threads

that you mentioned a moment ago.

We do have a brand new Congress.

We have lots of new members; over 100, right?

One-fifth, I think, are all brand new people,

and that's a new makeup.

You wrote--you did some--a great column on this.

Talk to us about the new makeup of our Congress and

talk about what's happened locally too.

Michelle: Yes, there are more women, ever.

It's a record-breaking, and there's more diversity ever.

You know, record-breaking in both areas.

And they're all on the Democratic side.

I mean, Republicans didn't, you know,

improve much in those areas.

But as a whole, Congress now is more diverse,

and it's more female, and I think the excitement across the

nation is, you know, what's gonna happen?

How is it gonna result in what kind of policy changes.

I think it'll be interesting. I'm excited to see it.

Jason: Mike, what do you think about the more--this

more diverse Congress.

Michael: You know, I think it'll be very interesting to see

it play out on the national level.

It's received a lot of attention.

What's interesting though is here in Utah,

we've had a 24% turnover in our legislature.

And we talk about it, one of the, you know, I'm doing

a lot of cheerleading for Utah here and

it's--we're Team Utah and it's wonderful to tout or successes.

We really do have a citizen legislature.

We have a natural turnover.

We don't have term limits, which I think is a good thing because

you need some institutional knowledge,

but we have 24% of our legislature turning over.

We're adding more women, and it's a good thing in Utah.

It's healthy.

Anytime you have a democratically elected body,

you like to have it represent the

demographic that it's leading.

Jason: That's for sure; Ben, 25 women now

in our state legislature: 19 to the House, 6 in the Senate.

As you're looking at legislation coming forward in this next

legislative session, are we seeing more participation

in all parts of the state because we're having

more, broader representation?

Benjamin: It certainly seems to be

kind of a chicken-and-egg scenario.

We had record voter turnout and that produced

a more diverse legislature.

You know, and it's interesting though, in both the Utah

legislature and the national legislature, a lot of these

gains in representation, more women, more people of color,

are largely on the Democratic side.

Here in Utah and nationally, the Republican Party

is still largely white men.

Jason: Okay, let's just spend one more moment

on some of our new members.

Mitt Romney, sworn in as senator.

Ben McAdams, now sworn in as the newest member

of Congress in the House.

Michelle, one of his first votes this week

was against the speaker.

Michelle: Right, he voted against Nancy

Pelosi as a speaker.

I think he kind of had to, you know?

His whole campaign, the campaign against him was

you know, Ben equals Pelosi.

And so, he kind of had to come out of the box

and say, "No, I'm not," you know?

And I don't know how long it'll last, but, you know, and he

knew it was a symbolic vote, and it was interesting to see.

Jason: You think there are any ramifications

for him going forward?

Michelle: No.

Jason: It was just one of those campaign things and

Nancy Pelosi will see it as that.

Michelle: Yeah, I mean, there were some, you know, upset among

the Utah Democrats, but memories are short.

Jason: Okay, that's good.

Mike, let's talk about a law that just went into

effect in the state of Utah.

We now have the strictest DUI law in the country.

Michael: We do, we're now .05.

There were several states last year that were considering it.

Representative Norm Thurston from Provo kinda led the charge

on it, and it came down to a matter of: do we want to be the

safest state in the country when it comes to DUIs?

Hawaii's looking at it. Washington's looking at it.

The interesting thing is this is what's already

done in Australia, in Europe.

And so, what we're telling people is,

"Don't drink and drive."

It's interesting when the debate was heating up,

the pro-.05 folks released a TV commercial that had been

produced by Anheuser-Busch.

What was Anheuser-Busch's message?

Don't drink and drive.

And so, that's kind of the message we're getting out.

We have seen in the state already,

drop in the number of DUI arrests.

And a lot of it came about because this law was

adopted a couple years ago.

People assumed it was kind of already there.

And so, what we found is a lot more people taking Uber,

a lot more people being responsible, we have very few

arrests at the .05 to .08 level, but if anything, we're trying

to show we wanna be safe and we want people who--tourists

here to be safe, our families here to be safe.

If you drink, drink responsibly.

And better yet, if you drink too much,

heaven forbid, don't drive.

Jason: Michelle, people in this state, particularly those

impacted by tourism, are worried that this is going

to have a negative impact on our economy in some way.

Michelle: And there have been a few, you know,

advertisements by national associations,

you know, saying, "Utah is an unfriendly place now," and there

was an article about the ski, you know,

people coming here to ski and, "Oh,

well, I'm not gonna come back."

I don't think that will pan out.

I think, you know, our snow is better than the .05 and worth

it, and I think they'll just come and they'll stay closer to

where they, you know, where they intend to drink,

and I think they'll take ride-sharing and, yeah.

Jason: Okay, Ben, what about the image issue?

Does this further, you know, make people concerned about

drinking laws and the state, or in the end is this kinda what

Michelle was talking about, this is overridden by other aspects?

Benjamin: Short term, I think it does probably play into this

image of Utah as, you know, prudish on alcohol laws.

Long term, we have no idea exactly what will come of this.

But yeah, I mean, we have a history in this state of making

it difficult for people to have a drink with their meal and this

probably does play into that image.

Jason: Okay, very good.

Before we go, let's talk about the speech that Ben McAdams gave

before he left, touting a few of his successes, 'cause I wanna

get into what's going to happen in Salt Lake County.

He talked in his resignation letter about the bond rating,

about his work on homelessness, criminal justice,

more greater local control for counties.

Ben, tell us what these candidates who are vying

for this particular position are saying right now.

How are these campaigns going?

"Campaigns" as such.

Benjamin: These campaigns are interesting because it's

not an open vote; I mean, it'll be the--the party will choose

the replacement for Mayor Ben McAdams.

So, they're angling to a particular base of voters.

They're angling to party people.

So, they are, you know, they're touting their record in some

cases, they're touting their fresh approach in other cases.

But this is really kind of a contained election to a very

particular group of people.

Michelle: I mean, if it were bigger, if it were to the

regular electorate, I mean, Jenny Wilson would be an

obvious, you know, the moderate Democrat who can,

you know, who has experience doing it.

But because it is to, you know, party insiders, I think Arlyn

Bradshaw has, you know, gotten a little momentum because,

you know, he's more liberal.

Jason: Well, Mike, so Jenny Wilson's

coming off a campaign, right?

So, tell us about her machine and how she's going forward on

this, and true, when she starts seeing people

like Arlyn Bradshaw start to--

Michael: Yeah, I really thought, again, this is speculation

'cause we--our office doesn't get too involved in it, but part

of it is I thought Jenny would build up a lot of good

will for taking on Mitt.

That was a tough task, and we'll just have to

see with the Democratic delegates.

Again, central committees are

hugely important parts of the party.

The Democrats have theirs; it skews left.

Ours tends to kind of skew a little right.

You're playing to a different audience.

You're playing to the party activists.

People who are Democrats for a reason.

Or in our case, Republicans for a reason.

And so, I think it does change the dynamic as Ben talked about,

and I, you know, I don't know of any

polling that's going on right now.

So, it'll be a really interesting race to watch to

kind of see how do Democrats want to position themselves with

their candidates moving forward in Utah?

Jason: Michelle, why has Shireen done so well?

Michelle: She did a great campaign against Chris Stewart.

I mean, she was out there knocking doors every single day.

Her--I mean, she had over--I don't know if it was in the high

70s, you know, in Salt Lake County.

She's shown that she's the real deal.

Jason: Okay, can't wait to watch this particular race.

Sorry, that's where we're gonna have to end it today.

Thank you for your comments and your insights.

Well, that's it for "The Hinckley Report."

For more on the issues of the week,

please visit us online at KUED.org/HinckleyReport.

Thank you and good night.

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Todays Germany is the best Germany the world has seen The Washington Post

In one of contemporary historys intriguing caroms, European politics just now is a story of how one decision by a has made life miserable for a vicars dutiful daughter. Two of the worlds most important conservative parties are involved in an unintended tutorial on a cardinal tenet of conservatism, the law of unintended consequences, which is that the unintended consequences of decisions in complex social situations are often larger than, and contrary to, those intended.

In 2015, Angela Merkel, the Federal Republic of Germanys first chancellor , chose to welcome into Germany — many of them Syrians — fleeing Middle Eastern carnage. As a percentage of Germanys population, this was equivalent to the United States receiving nearly 4 million. This influx stoked European anxieties about immigration threatening social cohesion, anxieties that contributed to the 52 percent to 48 percent directing the government to extricate the United Kingdom from the European Union. In 2019, Theresa May, who was not yet Britains prime minister when the referendum occurred, and who in the E.U., is leading, or trying to lead, a fractious party that cannot govern because there is no majority for any plan to effectuate what in 2016 was, but might not still be, the voters Brexit desire.

For many years, Merkel has been the closest approximation to an answer to the famous question : If I want to talk to Europe, whom do I call? She also has embodied Germanys primal desire for stability, a desire that is the great national constant since as West Germanys first chancellor from 1949 to 1963. In 2000, of Adenauers Christian Democratic Union CDU , which, until last month, had had only three leaders in 45 years. In 2005, she became chancellor, a position she will have held for — Franklin D. Roosevelt was president for — on Jan. 13. She is in her and .

Britain is perhaps, or sort of, exiting the E.U. Frances protesters recently commented on President Emmanuel Macrons policies with a Gallic vigor burning cars, smashing shop windows sufficient to change governance in the predictable direction taxes decreased, entitlements increased . So, stable Germany is even more important to Europe than it was Germany is too large for Europe and too small for the world.

The two greatest leaders of post 1945 Europe, and , opposed the aspiration of an ever deeper political unification of Europe. Germany precipitated the post 1945 recoil against nationalism, which has been interpreted to dictate the dilution of nationalities by submersion of them into a transnational broth. For most Germans, tiptoeing through modern memory, disputing this interpretation still seems transgressive.

No European nation was was by President Barack Obamas studied elegance, and none is more repelled by President Trumps visceral vulgarity. This especially matters at this moment when events are underscoring Germanys necessary dependence for security on the United States: Germany lives in the neighborhood with two nations, Poland and Hungary, that have illiberal populist regimes. And not far over the horizon, Russian President Vladimir Putin is destabilizing and dismembering Europes , Ukraine. Germanys dependence was inadvertently highlighted by Macrons delusional statement that there must be a to protect ourselves with respect to China, Russia and even the United States.

Germany has two of the worlds great parties, the CDU and the , which, during the 19th century, invented social democracy that helped to drain the revolutionary steam from the left. Both are in flux. The CDU is challenged from the right by Alternative for Germany the subject of a subsequent column and the SDP, which withered as the junior partner in Merkels coalition. The Social Democrats are by the Green Party, whose support rivals that of the CDU, and is the among German women. Extremism, however, is quarantined by the civic culture that so values stability that a poll in this decade showed that — the hyperinflation of 95 years ago was the ultimate destabilizer — than fear cancer or other serious illnesses.

will be the 30th anniversary of German reunification. This will be an occasion for the world to acknowledge that, as has been truly said, todays Germany is the best Germany the world has seen since in 1871.

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In this Dec. 11, 2018 file photo, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan

) speaks during the signing of an order withdrawing federal protections for countless waterways and wetlands, at EPA headquarters in Washington

(Cliff Owen/AP) Sen. Pat Roberts, the blunt-speaking Kansan who worked closely with Democrats on helping the nation's farmers and protecting food stamps for millions of low-income Americans, announced Friday that he would not seek reelection in 2020

"I am announcing I will serve the remainder of this term as your senator, fighting for Kansas in these troubled times

However, I will not be a candidate in 2020 for a fifth Senate term," said an emotional Roberts, his wife Frankie by his side

Roberts's plans to retire comes just a few weeks after Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, another longtime GOP senator known for bipartisanship, said he would not seek reelection

Roberts recently shepherded an $867 billion farm bill into law, with the measure securing the backing of all Senate Democrats, a remarkable feat in a fractious Congress

The legislation allocates billions of dollars in subsidies to American farmers, legalizes hemp, bolsters farmers markets and rejects stricter limits on food stamps pushed by House Republicans

Conservatives were unhappy with the bill's provisions on food stamps, and the Trump administration had signaled its intention to cut them without approval from Congress

Roberts alluded to his bipartisan work at a news conference in Manhattan, Kan., where he announced his decision

"I have a lot of trust and faith in Sen. (Debbie) Stabenow," Roberts said of the Agriculture Committee's ranking Democrat as he boasted about passing his eighth farm bill

He also called the panel "the least partisan committee in Washington." Roberts, 82, said he spoke to former senator Bob Dole prior to making his announcement, and the 95-year-old Dole joked about seeking the open Senate seat

Republicans will be favored to hold Roberts's Senate seat as Democrats haven't won a seat since 1932

Republicans close to Senate leaders expressed strong interest Friday in the prospect of trying to convince Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to run for the open seat

As a former congressman from Kansas and a staunch ally of President Trump, the Republicans reasoned, Pompeo would have the potential to clear the GOP field and spare the party a potentially messy primary fight

It was unclear, however, whether Pompeo would have any interest. He has shown no public signs of wanting to leave his current post

The Republicans who mentioned Pompeo spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly relay their perspective on the race

Other names that have surfaced as GOP possibilities include Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Trump ally who lost the race for governor last year; Rep

Roger Marshall; and Gov. Jeff Colyer, whom Kobach defeated in the gubernatorial primary

The state, however, has undergone a political change in recent months, electing Democrat Laura Kelly governor over Kobach

Since then, several female Republican state lawmakers have switched parties in frustration with Trump and the GOP

[In conservative Kansas, newly elected gay legislators try to make history] In 2014, Roberts faced his first serious electoral test since arriving in the Senate

Milton Wolf, a doctor and distant relative of Barack Obama who was active in the tea party movement, mounted a Republican primary challenge against Roberts

He criticized Roberts for voting to increase the debt limit while failing to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and for seeking a fourth term when he had pledged to serve just two

"Our party was supposed to stand up for limited government and lower taxes," Wolf said when announcing his long-shot campaign

"Our party failed." Roberts was slow to build his 2014 campaign, and only defeated Wolf by 7 percentage points – a smaller margin than polls or party strategists expected, after a campaign that revealed that the senator no longer owned a home in Kansas

That emboldened Democrats, whose own candidate for Senate quit the race and endorsed Greg Orman, a businessman running as an independent

National Republicans swooped in to help Roberts, pushing him to a 10-point victory — the smallest winning margin for any Kansas senator in 40 years, but enough to put him back in the Senate

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There has been much speculation about why Paul has been victimized by the Russian government. His history has been thoroughly and publicly scoured for clues — some of which came as news to his family. We were surprised to learn that he left the Marines with a bad conduct discharge. But we all have things in our lives that we may not share if they cast us in a bad light.

Other revelations reflected what we already knew: He is a confident, experienced traveler, fond of his Russian friends and the time he has spent in that country. His use of the Russian site VKontakte is no more unusual than Facebook is for Americans. As for his international connections, our family spans continents, and Pauls four passports reflect his birth Canada , parents Britain , grandparents Ireland and choice United States .

Furthermore, Paul has a risk aware professional background, spanning law enforcement, military service and corporate security — factors that should make him an unlikely target of the Russian government.

Now begins the work to bring Paul back to his family.

Our first step has been to help Paul meet his needs as a prisoner of the Russian government. Detainees must pay for toilet paper and basic necessities. Paul couldnt get his eyeglasses back because he didnt know the words in Russian. He now has access to a translator and has a local lawyer to defend against the Russian governments allegations.

But our family knows we need the president and Congress to be successful in freeing my brother.

We are contacting our representatives in Congress to urge them to use diplomacy, sanctions and other pressures to gain Pauls release — such as a joint resolution demanding his freedom. Congress took similar action in 1986 when the Soviet Union American journalist Nicholas Daniloff on false espionage charges. Upon his return, Daniloff that he hoped this outrageous incident would fade into history. Unfortunately, history is repeating itself.

We urge all concerned Americans to contact their senators and House representatives. Let them know that Pauls plight is one you do not want to see repeated for any American. Ask them to help Paul get back to his family.

We urge President Trump to intercede on Pauls behalf. U.S. government action will reinforce that Americans traveling abroad should not do so in fear, and ensure other American families are less likely to have their loved ones go missing. We are confident that if the president and Congress intervene decisively as President Ronald Reagan and the government did for Daniloff, it will lead to Pauls freedom.

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Russia grants Paul Whelan access to U.S. Embassy officials. The Washington Post

The U.S. ambassador to Russia was allowed to meet Wednesday with a Michigan man imprisoned in Moscow on suspicion of espionage, the first contact U.S. officials have had with him since he was arrested last week at a hotel.

Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor who is now ambassador in Moscow, spoke with Paul Whelan at Lefortovo Detention Facility, a notorious prison that has held many spies and political prisoners in spartan conditions. State Department officials said Huntsman offered Whelan the embassys support and spoke by phone with Whelans family afterward.

But many details of Whelans arrest and condition since then remain unknown. It is not even clear whether he has been formally charged with espionage. The State Department declined to say how long Huntsman spent with Whelan, whether their visit was in private or in the presence of prison authorities.

The visit came a few hours after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he expected officials from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to be given access to Whelan within hours. Pompeo said they need to learn more about why Whelan was detained last Friday.

Speaking to reporters in Brasilia, where he attended the , Pompeo also said the United States will demand Whelans release if it is determined that his arrest was unjust.

Weve made clear to the Russians our expectation that we will learn more about the charges, come to understand what it is hes been accused of and if the detention is not appropriate, we will demand his immediate return, he said.

U.S. officials are concerned about the delay between his arrest and the consular visit, believing it violates the time frame dictated by the Vienna Convention. Russian officials first announced his arrest on Monday, three days after he was picked up, and the ensuing news accounts were his familys first notice of what had happened to him.

Whelan, 48, a former Marine, was in Moscow last week for the wedding of a fellow Marine on Dec. 28, his family has said, the same day he was .

We are deeply concerned for his safety and well being, his family said in a statement. His innocence is undoubted and we trust that his rights will be respected.

Whelan is the corporate security director for BorgWarner, an automotive parts supplier based in Auburn Hills, Mich. He has visited Russia several times and is said to speak passable Russian.

Relations between the United States and Russia have deteriorated over a series of events, including its aggression toward Ukraine as well as Russian interference in elections in the United States and other democracies around the world.

The arrest of Maria Butina, who confessed to being a Russian agent, has raised suspicions that Whelans detention is payback or an attempt to arrange a prisoner swap. If convicted, Whelan could face up to 20 years in prison.

Ferris Rotman reported from Moscow.

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5 things to know for January 4 Washington, Thailand storm, Paul Whelan, El Chapo

Want to channel your inner Elsa? The worlds largest ice and snow festival opens tomorrow in China.áHeres what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. (You can also get "5 Things You Need to Know Today" delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.)

1. Washington

President Trump meets with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders this morning at the White House as they try to find a way to end the partial government shutdown, now almost two weeks old. No one expects much of a breakthrough, though. The President is still demanding $5 billion for a border wall; Pelosi and the Democrats say thats not going to happen. Last night, the House, now-led by Democrats, passed bills that could end the shutdown, but theyll go nowhere in the GOP-led Senate, and even if they did, President Trump would veto them. So, the stalemate continues.

Against the backdrop of this shutdown showdown, members of the 116th Congress were sworn in yesterday. Washington has never seen a Congress that looked like this: a record number of women (including more women with young children and in positions of leadership); the first Native American women, the first Muslim women, the youngest woman ever elected. Just how different is the group? This picture shows the holy books of various faiths that lawmakers used to be sworn in.

2. Thailand tropical storm

Thousands of people are stuck on islands in southern Thailand as Tropical Storm Pabuk hits. The storm struck another part of the country earlier today with winds of nearly 50 mph and heavy rain. Pabuk, the first storm to make landfall in Thailand in decades, is passing through some of the countrys most popular tourist destinations during its peak holiday season. Thousands of people living along coastal areas had already been evacuated. Pabuk is expected to make a second landfall over Thailand tomorrow.

3. Paul Whelan

As Russia charged American Paul Whelan with espionage, were hearing more about his arrest. Whelan, a corporate security director from Michigan, had classified information on a flash drive with him when he was arrested in his hotel room, a Russian news site reported. CNN hasnt independently verified that these are the official Russian allegations against him. Whelans lawyer is trying to get him released on bail because it could be half a year before his case goes to trial. Hes been visited in prison by US Ambassador Jon Huntsman. Whelans family says hes not a spy and was only in Moscow for a friends wedding.

4. El Chapo trial

How much does it cost for a drug cartel to bribe a whole nation of government officials? More than $1 million a month. Thats what the Sinaloa cartel spent on police and military officials in Mexico who helped the drug traffickers carry out their operations. This eye-popping fact about the cartels so-called "corruption budget" was revealed yesterday in testimony by a former Mexican drug trafficker during the trial of alleged kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Hes pleaded not guilty to charges of international drug trafficking and conspiracy to murder rivals in a trial thats dragged on for weeks.

5. Birth certificates

Birth certificates in New York City now have a gender-neutral option. A law that went into effect on New Years Day makes it easier for transgender and non-binary New Yorkers to match their birth certificate to their gender identity. An "X" label option on birth certificatesáis also available. New York City joins California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho in allowing a birth certificate change without the signature of a medical authority. New Jersey will allow that starting next month.

BREAKFAST BROWSE

Hitmaker in chief

Barack Obama has been a President and won a Nobel Peace Prize. Now, he can add R&B chart topper to his list of accomplishments, thanks to "Hamilton."

Theres an app for that?

Los Angeles now has an app thatll give residents a heads-up -- and possibly a few vital seconds to scramble to safety -- before a big earthquake hits.

Its superboy

Meet the 11-year-old boy who swam to the bottom of a pool and saved the life of a drowning man in Minnesota.

What goes down must come up

After a couple years of bad press and a verbal (and Twitter) pounding from President Trump, NFL ratings rebounded nicely this season.

TODAYS NUMBERS

Thats how much reports of rape were up in New York in 2018. Mayor Bill de Blasio said part of the increase can be attributed to #MeToo.

Thats how many points the Dow dropped yesterday as Wall Street absorbed news of Apples latest woes and a big decline in US factory activity.

TODAYS QUOTE

em"When I see Jazmine Barnes face, I see my own daughter."em

Houston Texans wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins, who pledged to give his game check from this weekends NFL playoff game to the family of 7-year-old Jazmine, who was killed in a drive-by shooting in Texas. Police released a composite sketch of a suspect.

TOTAL RECALL

Quiz time

NASAs New Horizons spacecraft took pictures of an object named Ultima Thule during a flyby on New Years Day. What does it look like?

A. Like a reindeer

B. Like a sleigh

C. Like Santa Claus

D. Like a snowman

Playá"Total Recall: TheáCNNánews quiz"áto see if youre right. And dont forget, you can also find a version of the quiz on your Amazon devices. Just say, "Alexa, askáCNNáfor a quiz."

AND FINALLY

Winter wonderland

Its just cute dogs chasing snowflakes because, really, what else do you want for the first weekend of 2019? (Click to view.)

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