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-The Fyre Festival. -(laughter)

It's the greatest music concert that never happened.

You've probably watched the documentaries

on Hulu or Netflix that show

how this whole thing was the biggest scam

from start to finish,

and if you haven't watched them, please go and watch them.

Like, I'm begging you. You have to watch these.

I'll... Like, I'll do anything to get...

I'll suck your (bleep).

(laughter)

Go and watch them.

Anyway, because many...

because many supermodels convinced people

to pay for the festival by saying they would be there,

many are now asking

if those models should also be held legally responsible.

WOMAN: CBS News.com reports Kendall Jenner

and other top models can be subpoenaed

after the fiasco over the Fyre Festival.

Several celebrities, including Hailey Bieber

and Bella Hadid were paid

to appear in the promotional video for the 2017

music festivities in the Bahamas,

but the event was cancelled at the last moment,

stranding hundreds of people.

Well, this week, a judge signed off on subpoenas submitted

by the trustee overseeing the festival's bankruptcy.

The models could be forced to turn over the money they made.

Okay, now, look, I get why people are pissed,

but I don't know if you can go after the models

because some con artists hired them to make an ad

for a festival that didn't happen, right?

The only thing the models might be guilty of is being super hot,

all right, and even then, I don't know.

Like, I'm gonna need to see a lot more evidence.

I don't know. I'm... I'm an impartial guy.

That's all I'm saying.

The truth... the truth is, making something look better

in an ad than it is in real life is-is just advertising.

It's, like, ads for Spirit Airlines show planes

not falling apart in the sky, but no one sues them.

Spirit airlines-- we're the Fyre Festival of the sky.

(laughter)

Speaking of viral scams-- the anti-vaccine movement.

Over the past 20 years, there's been a growing number of people

who believe that kids shouldn't get vaccinated,

because the vaccines are more dangerous

than the diseases that they prevent.

And clearly, the diseases heard that,

and they were like, "Oh, it's on."

Now the new fears about the growing measles outbreak.

A state of emergency has been declared in Washington state

as the number of confirmed cases climbs to 35.

MAN: The measles is spectacularly contagious.

One thing that's important,

if you do think you have the measles,

do not go to the emergency room.

You could infect others.

Just call your doctor first.

And when you call your doctor, your doctor's gonna be like,

"Oh, now you want my advice?

"Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha. No, no, I'm joking.

Take two "D"s and call me in the morning."

"'D's?" "Yeah, Deez Nuts.

Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha!"

(laughter)

Guys, I'm sorry. No one should be dying

from a disease that was cured 60 years ago.

It's 2019, and people are dying from measles?

As a society, there are things

we shouldn't die from anymore, okay?

Measles is such a throwback disease.

It's like being hit by a cannonball,

or getting run over by a chariot.

That doesn't happen anymore

if you don't live in Brooklyn, okay?

(laughter)

For more infomation >> Fyre Festival's Model Subpoenas & Washington's Measles Outbreak | The Daily Show - Duration: 3:10.

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'We have an illegal president': Protesters rally against Venezuela's Maduro - Duration: 2:07.

For more infomation >> 'We have an illegal president': Protesters rally against Venezuela's Maduro - Duration: 2:07.

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4 Washington Co. Churches Closing Their Doors In March - Duration: 0:39.

For more infomation >> 4 Washington Co. Churches Closing Their Doors In March - Duration: 0:39.

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Washington Post to air Super Bowl ad showcasing reporters plight Freedom of the press News Al Ja - Duration: 2:26.

Washington Post to air Super Bowl ad showcasing reporters plight Freedom of the press News Al Ja

The 60 second commercial, narrated by Tom Hanks, will highlight dangers journalists face in the field.

The Washington Post will air a commercial during the Super Bowl on Sunday evening, highlighting the role of journalists and the dangers they can face.

The 60 second commercial, to be narrated by Hollywood actor Tom Hanks, will briefly show several slain or missing journalists affiliated with the Washington Post and other publications, including who was murdered inside the Saudi embassy in Istanbul last year.

Khashoggi a Saudi writer, resident and Washington Post columnist entered the building on October 2 to obtain documentation certifying he had divorced his former wife so he could remarry.

After weeks of repeated denial that it had anything to do with his disappearance, eventually acknowledged that its officials were behind the gruesome murder. Saudi Arabia has yet to disclose the whereabouts of his body. 

Other journalists in the commercial include freelance reporter Austin Tice, who has been missing in Syria for more than six years, and Marie Colvin, a US correspondent for the Sunday Times in London who was killed in 2012 by Syrian forces while reporting in Homs.

, the commercial shows scenes from major news events from World War II through the present day, ending with the publications logo and its slogan, "Democracy Dies in Darkness".

"The Super Bowl is a remarkable moment to recognise the courage and commitment of journalists around the world that is so essential to our democracy," said Fred Ryan, publisher and CEO of The Washington Post.

"We decided to seize the opportunity to make this a milestone moment in our ongoing campaign."

While the publication declined to reveal how much it is paying for the 60 second slot, a CNBC report said CBS is charging a record dollar 5.25m for a 30 second slot.

More than died in targeted killings, bomb attacks and crossfire incidents last year, according to The International Federation of Journalists IFJ .

The figure was up from 82 deaths recorded in 2017.

For more infomation >> Washington Post to air Super Bowl ad showcasing reporters plight Freedom of the press News Al Ja - Duration: 2:26.

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HOT | Group defends article on Henry Fords anti Semitic views The Washington Post - Duration: 2:30.

HOT | Group defends article on Henry Fords anti Semitic views The Washington Post

DETROIT — A Detroit area historical group is protesting a mayors decision to stop it from sending out the latest issue of its publication, which delves into Ford Motor Co. founder Henry Fords anti Semitism.

Officials with the Dearborn Historical Commission say the latest edition of The Dearborn Historian, a city financed quarterly journal, should be sent to its roughly 200 subscribers and that Mayor Jack OReilly should reverse his decision to cut ties with longtime Detroit journalist Bill McGraw, who wrote the Ford piece.

The story, which can be read online, highlights Fords writings and views on Jews and explores how they still influence modern neo Nazi groups. The cover of the halted edition noted that Ford bought a publication called the Dearborn Independent 100 years ago and used it to attack Jews. It added, the hate he unleashed flourishes in the Internet age.

The Dearborn based automaker disavowed its founders views before he died in 1947 and sought to make amends with Jews and Israel.

Andrew Kercher, assistant chief curator of the citys history museum, told The Detroit News that Ford is obviously Dearborns favorite son.

This wasnt just to sling mud or done irresponsibly, he said. This is basically a form of censorship and crazy to fire the editor and withhold the information from the public.

McGraw, a Dearborn resident and former Detroit Free Press reporter, praised the community and OReillys overall work as mayor.

Im proud of Dearborn and had this just been published, it would have been a positive thing for the city, he told The News.

OReilly said in a statement that he thought the publication and dredging up hateful messages from a century ago could become a distraction from our continuing messages of inclusion and respect. The mayor added he didnt fire McGraw, who wasnt an employee of the city or the museum.

For years, Dearborn has supported and participated with interfaith organizations and in regional roundtables with diverse communities, and actively promotes initiatives dedicated to increasing unity and understanding, OReillys said.

Dearborn now has one of largest communities of Arabs outside of the Middle East.

Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

For more infomation >> HOT | Group defends article on Henry Fords anti Semitic views The Washington Post - Duration: 2:30.

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Trade Talks With China Open in Washington, as Obstacles Abound The New York Times - Duration: 1:00.

Trade Talks With China Open in Washington, as Obstacles Abound The New York Times

The window for negotiations ahead of a March 2 deadline is narrowing.

Top officials from the United States and China will sit down in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Wednesday for two days of face to face trade talks that could prove critical to the trajectory of the world economy.

Negotiations to end a monthslong trade war between the worlds two largest economies will be led by Robert Lighthizer, the United States trade representative, and Liu He, Chinas vice premier. President Trump plans to meet with Mr. Liu at the conclusion of the talks on Thursday.

The countries are facing a March 2 deadline to reach a trade agreement — or the United States will raise tariffs on dollar 200 billion of Chinese imports. But there is little chance that every issue will be resolved by that date, and Trump administration officials describe the negotiations as exponentially more complicated than anything the White House has tackled to date.

Heres what to watch during this critical round of negotiations.

The Huawei Cloud

The talks come just two days after the Justice Department unveiled sweeping charges against Huawei, the Chinese telecom giant, and its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou. Huawei and Ms. Meng of stealing trade secrets, obstructing a criminal investigation and evading American sanctions on Iran.

The timing could hardly come at a more awkward moment and it has raised questions about whether the Trump administration unveiled the charges to ratchet up pressure on China ahead of the talks. Ms. Meng was arrested in Canada last month, on the same night that President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China dined together at the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires where they agreed to a trade truce.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who will meet with Mr. Liu on Wednesday, said on Tuesday that the Huawei case was being handled on a separate track from the trade talks. But given to the arrest and indictment, it is hard to imagine that Chinese officials will not raise the issue.

I think its very difficult to keep them separate, said Weijian Shan, a Hong Kong based private equity investor and author of Out of the Gobi, a memoir that depicts Chinas modern history. To the extent that China feels that this is a major issue with America, they will bring it up.

Revamping Chinas Economic Practices

China has demonstrated a willingness to address Mr. Trumps concerns about Americas bilateral trade deficit with big purchases of goods and services, like chicken, soybeans and tractors. This is the easy part. More difficult is persuading China to overhaul its economic policies.

The Trump administration has been pushing China to scale back subsidies of state owned enterprises, sharply open its markets to foreign investment and end its longstanding practice of forcing American companies to hand over trade secrets as a condition of doing business there. China has made a series of moves in the last month that suggest it is willing to accept some of these changes, but there is division within the Trump administration over whether these are merely symbolic — and empty — gestures.

None of Chinas domestic reforms since December have really addressed the structural issues in the relationship, said Nick Marro, Asia and China analyst at The Economist Intelligence Unit. Progress on increasing U.S. imports or tackling questions over Chinas currency dont really address what the U.S.T.R is really looking at, which are fundamental market access issues facing U.S. companies.

The Art of the Contract

One of the biggest questions hanging over the trade talks is whether the United States can truly enforce any deal agreed to by Beijing.

Mr. Trump has wielded tariffs on dollar 250 billion of Chinese goods as a stick to get Beijing to the bargaining table. But if the tariffs are lifted as part of a trade deal, there is no guarantee that China will live up to any commitments. American officials, who say China has broken promises in the past, have discussed mechanisms such as snap back tariffs that would be reimposed if China does not follow through. Another option is carousel tariffs that would hit different swaths of Chinese products to prevent its economy from becoming immune to the pain of the duties.

China skeptics within the Trump administration fear that the Chinese will say anything to delay the increased tariff rates on March 2 and to get Mr. Trump to roll back the tariffs that are already in place. At that point they expect China to wait out the rest of his term and hope for a more dovish successor.

The Endgame

Trade deals tend to go down to the wire, so expectations are slim that the United States and China will reach a deal this week. More likely is that each country will release statements announcing progress and plans to continue talking.

Mr. Trump could see Mr. Xi in February if he travels to Asia for his next summit meeting with Kim Jong un of North Korea. That would give them the opportunity to complete an agreement if the talks are on track.

Many observers expect that the two sides will make progress on a preliminary deal, most likely based on Chinas making big purchases of American goods, and end up extending the March deadline to deal with the thornier issues.

The planned meeting between Mr. Trump and Mr. Liu will also offer an indication on the status of the negotiations, and analysts will be studying the presidents body language if the encounter takes place. And, of course, all eyes will be on Mr. Trumps Twitter feed for progress reports.

For more infomation >> Trade Talks With China Open in Washington, as Obstacles Abound The New York Times - Duration: 1:00.

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HOT | Homeland Security IG questions ICEs oversight of detention facilities The Washington Post - Duration: 4:24.

HOT | Homeland Security IG questions ICEs oversight of detention facilities The Washington Post

Public and private contractors running immigration jails violated federal detention standards thousands of times in recent years — including failing to report allegations of sexual assaults and staff misconduct to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — but were fined only twice, issued Friday.

The Department of Homeland Securitys inspector general called on ICE to improve oversight of facilities that detain roughly half the 45,000 immigrant detainees held every day across the United States, and to do a better job holding federal contractors accountable for their health and safety.

ICE defended its oversight in a letter to the Inspector General that was included in the report, and said generally it can terminate contracts or relocate immigrants if it believes facilities are unsafe.

ICE documented 14,003 violations from Oct. 1, 2015 through June 30 at 106 facilities nationwide, the report said. The fines assessed by the agency amounted to dollar 3.9 million, or 0.13 percent of the more than dollar 3 billion ICE paid to the contractors during that period.

One facility was fined after a pattern of repeat deficiencies over a 3 year period, primarily related to health care and mental health standards, the report said. Another fine followed a Labor Department order against the facility for failing to pay proper wages.

In other cases, the inspector general found, immigration officials granted waivers allowing some contractors to bypass detention standards or avoid punishment for violations. From September 2016 through July, 65 waivers were approved — most for indefinite time periods.

One waiver authorized a facility to use CS gas, or tear gas, even though it is 10 times as toxic as pepper spray.

Another allowed a facility to house detainees who had serious criminal records along with others who had minor records or only immigration violations, a practice that is normally prohibited to protect detainees who may be at risk of victimization or assault.

The inspector general said immigration officials lacked formal policies to oversee waivers and that some officials without clear authority were granting them.

Key officials admitted there are no policies, procedures, guidance documents, or instructions to explain how to review waiver requests, the report said.

The inspector general issued a series of recommendations urging ICE to shore up its oversight of detention facilities and ensure paperwork is included in contracts that will make clear when the agency should impose penalties on contractors that fail to follow federal rules.

In a letter to the inspector general that was included in the report, ICE agreed to make improvements but countered that it has taken strong steps in the past to safeguard immigrant health and safety, even shutting down some facilities because of violations.

ICE has a strong record of holding detention facilities accountable when deficiencies are identified, spokesman Matthew Bourke said in a statement.

He said the waiver process in the inspector generals report is a rarely used mechanism.

The report comes as the White House and Congress are preparing for a heated battle over detention funding, building a wall on the southern border and other aspects of President Trumps immigration crackdown. This week, Democratic lawmakers unveiled a proposal to significantly reduce ICE detention beds, require more detention facility inspections, and limit ICEs leeway to detain more immigrants than Congress allows.

As of Jan. 26, the agency was detaining an average of 45,670 immigrants a day this fiscal year, which is about 5,000 more than Congress has authorized in the budget.

The 106 facilities in the report housed an average of 25,000 immigrants a day as of fiscal year 2017. They are under ICEs direct oversight. About 100 other facilities are run by the U.S. Marshals Service and are not included in the report.

ICE contractors are required to comply with detention standards that outline their responsibilities, the services they must provide to immigrants and what each facility must do to provide a safe and secure detention environment for staff and detainees, the report said.

For more infomation >> HOT | Homeland Security IG questions ICEs oversight of detention facilities The Washington Post - Duration: 4:24.

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HOT | Homeland Security IG questions ICEs oversight of detention facilities The Washington Post - Duration: 4:24.

HOT | Homeland Security IG questions ICEs oversight of detention facilities The Washington Post

Public and private contractors running immigration jails violated federal detention standards thousands of times in recent years — including failing to report allegations of sexual assaults and staff misconduct to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — but were fined only twice, issued Friday.

The Department of Homeland Securitys inspector general called on ICE to improve oversight of facilities that detain roughly half the 45,000 immigrant detainees held every day across the United States, and to do a better job holding federal contractors accountable for their health and safety.

ICE defended its oversight in a letter to the Inspector General that was included in the report, and said generally it can terminate contracts or relocate immigrants if it believes facilities are unsafe.

ICE documented 14,003 violations from Oct. 1, 2015 through June 30 at 106 facilities nationwide, the report said. The fines assessed by the agency amounted to dollar 3.9 million, or 0.13 percent of the more than dollar 3 billion ICE paid to the contractors during that period.

One facility was fined after a pattern of repeat deficiencies over a 3 year period, primarily related to health care and mental health standards, the report said. Another fine followed a Labor Department order against the facility for failing to pay proper wages.

In other cases, the inspector general found, immigration officials granted waivers allowing some contractors to bypass detention standards or avoid punishment for violations. From September 2016 through July, 65 waivers were approved — most for indefinite time periods.

One waiver authorized a facility to use CS gas, or tear gas, even though it is 10 times as toxic as pepper spray.

Another allowed a facility to house detainees who had serious criminal records along with others who had minor records or only immigration violations, a practice that is normally prohibited to protect detainees who may be at risk of victimization or assault.

The inspector general said immigration officials lacked formal policies to oversee waivers and that some officials without clear authority were granting them.

Key officials admitted there are no policies, procedures, guidance documents, or instructions to explain how to review waiver requests, the report said.

The inspector general issued a series of recommendations urging ICE to shore up its oversight of detention facilities and ensure paperwork is included in contracts that will make clear when the agency should impose penalties on contractors that fail to follow federal rules.

In a letter to the inspector general that was included in the report, ICE agreed to make improvements but countered that it has taken strong steps in the past to safeguard immigrant health and safety, even shutting down some facilities because of violations.

ICE has a strong record of holding detention facilities accountable when deficiencies are identified, spokesman Matthew Bourke said in a statement.

He said the waiver process in the inspector generals report is a rarely used mechanism.

The report comes as the White House and Congress are preparing for a heated battle over detention funding, building a wall on the southern border and other aspects of President Trumps immigration crackdown. This week, Democratic lawmakers unveiled a proposal to significantly reduce ICE detention beds, require more detention facility inspections, and limit ICEs leeway to detain more immigrants than Congress allows.

As of Jan. 26, the agency was detaining an average of 45,670 immigrants a day this fiscal year, which is about 5,000 more than Congress has authorized in the budget.

The 106 facilities in the report housed an average of 25,000 immigrants a day as of fiscal year 2017. They are under ICEs direct oversight. About 100 other facilities are run by the U.S. Marshals Service and are not included in the report.

ICE contractors are required to comply with detention standards that outline their responsibilities, the services they must provide to immigrants and what each facility must do to provide a safe and secure detention environment for staff and detainees, the report said.

For more infomation >> HOT | Homeland Security IG questions ICEs oversight of detention facilities The Washington Post - Duration: 4:24.

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McConnell privately cautions Trump about emergency declaration on border wall The Washington Post - Duration: 5:41.

McConnell privately cautions Trump about emergency declaration on border wall The Washington Post

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell cautioned President Trump privately this week about the consequences of declaring a national emergency to build his border wall, telling him the move could trigger political blowback and divide the GOP, according to two Republicans with knowledge of the exchange.

McConnell R Ky. told Trump that Congress might end up passing a resolution disapproving the emergency declaration, the people said — which would force the president to contemplate issuing his first veto ever, in the face of opposition from his own party.

McConnell delivered the message during a face to face meeting with the president Tuesday at the White House, according to the Republicans, who requested anonymity to describe the encounter. The two men met alone and conversed with no aides present. Their meeting was not publicly announced.

The majority leaders comments to the president came amid rising GOP concerns over the fallout if Trump were to declare a national emergency that would allow him to circumvent Congress and use the military to build new stretches of wall along the U.S. Mexico border. Trump increasingly appears prepared to take that route, saying Friday that I think theres a good chance well have to do that.

Trump teased the possibility of making a definitive statement on the topic during his State of the Union address, telling reporters to watch the Tuesday speech closely. I think youll find it very exciting, the president said.

And Trump again dismissed chances that hell get the dollar 5.7 billion in wall funding he wants from a bipartisan congressional committee charged with producing a border security solution that could forestall another government shutdown. The committee is working to come up with a deal that could pass before Feb. 15, when a stopgap spending bill will expire if there is no action by Congress and Trump.

If the measure expires with no agreement, large portions of the federal government that reopened Jan. 25 after a record long funding lapse would shut down again.

We will be looking at a national emergency because I dont think anythings going to happen, Trump told reporters at the White House. I dont think Democrats want border security.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump and McConnells meeting. A McConnell spokesman declined to discuss the senators private conversations.

On the same day he met with the president, McConnell publicly voiced his opposition to a national emergency declaration as he encouraged the 17 member congressional committee to find another way out of the impasse. Im for whatever works, which means avoiding a shutdown and avoiding the president feeling he should declare a national emergency, McConnell said during his weekly news conference in the Capitol.

McConnells top deputy, Sen. John Thune R S.D. , told GOP senators at a private lunch that same day that if they had issues with the presidents declaring a national emergency, they should raise them with the White House, according to one of the Republicans and another person with knowledge of Thunes comments, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe them.

The prospect of Trumps using a national emergency declaration to build his wall has divided Republicans, with a number of them expressing concerns about the precedent that such a move would set.

Sen. John Cornyn R Tex. , a top McConnell confidant, said this week that he opposes an emergency declaration, in part because of what it might embolden a future Democratic president to do.

Weve certainly tried to communicate that to him, said Cornyn, referring to Trump. And so, he understands our concerns as weve expressed them. But I dont know if he shares those same concerns.

Other Republican senators took a different view. President Trump proposed logical solutions, said Sen. Rick Scott R Fla. . If the Democrats wont negotiate with him because their judgment is clouded by their pure hatred of him, then the president needs to move forward.

Lawmakers of both parties expect that a national emergency declaration would be immediately challenged in court and would end up languishing in legal proceedings without producing quick action on the border wall that Trump long vowed Mexico would fund.

And a growing concern for Republicans — which McConnell voiced to Trump at the White House — is that they would be forced to vote on a disapproval resolution aimed at overturning the declaration, and that the resolution would pass.

That would take place under provisions of the National Emergencies Act, which provides that a presidential declaration can be terminated if lawmakers pass a joint resolution to do so. House Democrats would be likely to move swiftly to approve such a resolution, and the law provides that it would come to the Senate floor, where it would require only a majority vote to pass.

At least a half dozen Republican senators are fiercely opposed to the idea of an emergency declaration, generating enough opposition that a disapproval resolution could pass the Senate with the support of the 47 Democrats and a handful of GOP senators — the scenario about which McConnell warned Trump. Republicans expect that Trump would veto the resolution, and that the House and Senate would not be likely to muster the supermajority vote needed to override his veto.

A disapproval resolution on a presidential emergency declaration is rare, so exactly how the process would play out is uncertain. But it could expose new rifts within the GOP on Trumps signature issue of a border wall, creating a portrait of disunity that most Republicans would like to avoid.

An emergency declaration would also risk further political damage to Trump, whose disapproval rating rose significantly over the 35 day partial government shutdown as more Americans faulted the president than Democrats for the standoff.

While Trump stood on weak political ground demanding a wall that most Americans continue to oppose, an even larger majority opposes Trumps declaring a national emergency to build it.

A Washington Post ABC News poll during the shutdown found that 66 percent of Americans opposed Trumps using emergency powers to build the wall without Congresss approval, 12 percentage points higher than opposition to the wall in general. Seven in 10 independents and about 9 in 10 Democrats opposed an emergency declaration to build a wall.

Trump is lodged between the political middle and his own base, which has embraced his demand for a border wall. While Republican support for using emergency powers to build a wall was 20 points lower than for the wall overall, 67 percent of Republicans favored Trumps taking emergency action, including a majority who supported this strongly.

Facing a deadline for a compromise, House Republicans on the conference committee plan to visit the border Sunday and Monday.

The White House discussion over a national emergency declaration illustrated the dynamic that has developed between Trump and McConnell. The two speak frequently, people familiar with their conversations said, with McConnell often providing Trump with blunt details about what a certain decision or course of action could mean on Capitol Hill.

But even as they have kept in touch privately, in public their strategies have diverged. Although McConnell has warned about the perils of another shutdown or a declaration of a national emergency, Trump has dangled both as possibilities.

I think some of their goals are aligned, but the methods to get there might be different, said Sen. Richard C. Shelby R Ala. . Asked how they differ, Shelby replied, You have to ask them, but I think its pretty obvious.

Josh Dawsey, Damian Paletta, Scott Clement and John Wagner contributed to this report.

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