Moving towards electric cars? I agree.I'll say that the plans for GM make complete sense and most should have been done years ago.
Beautiful clean coal.Moving towards electric cars? I agree.
Too bad the current American administration cut the tax credits for buying electric cars.
Crystal clear water.Beautiful clean coal.
A reporter earned praise Monday after she called out President Donald Trump, over one of his more questionable claims, right to his face.
CBS’ Paula Reid challenged Trump over his discredited assertion that his administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border was the same as that conducted by former President Barack Obama.
“Obama had a separation policy. We all had the same policy,” Trump said. “You did not have it, sir. No, you didn’t,” Reid fired back.
Trump said he “tried to do it differently” and claimed “Obama had a separation policy” but “people don’t like to talk about it.” As Trump walked away, Reid said: “Sir, it was different. You decided to prosecute everyone at the border.”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) said that “it’s awfully tough” for government officials like Ivanka Trump to comply with government communication standards when sending emails.
“When things like this come up, it’s important people understand, they need to make sure they’re doing what they can,” Goodlatte told CNN's Erin Burnett on "OutFront" late Monday.
“And it’s awfully tough, as everyone knows, when you’re sending emails about a lot of different things to make sure that you’re doing it according to the rules in the White House or wherever you’re doing it,” the Virginia Republican added.
Goodlatte also said that Trump’s reported use of a personal email account while in the White House is “very different” from Hillary Clinton's use of a private server while serving as secretary of State.
“I do think, of course, it’s very different to send private emails about matters that are not classified information,” Goodlatte said. “There’s a criminal penalty imposed for doing that — when you have classified information that is transmitted improperly, as was the allegation, and I think the facts now support, with regard to Hillary Clinton.”
The Washington Post reported earlier this month that Trump, the president's daughter and a White House adviser, used her personal account in 2017 to correspond with administration staffers, her assistants and Cabinet officials.
A spokesperson for Trump's lawyer told the Post that she "sometimes used her personal account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family” while she was transitioning into a government position.
He also said her emails have since been forwarded to her official government account to comply with the federal records law.
President Trump immediately drew criticism over the report, given his and other Republicans' repeated attacks in the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election against Clinton for her use of a private email server to conduct government business.
President Trump, however, has since dismissed as reports that his eldest daughter may have violated federal law by using a personal email account to conduct government business as "fake news" and rejected parallels to Clinton's private email setup.
"She wasn’t doing anything to hide her emails," Trump said of his daughter earlier this month.
"There was no deleting like Hillary Clinton did," the president continued. "There was no server in the basement like Hillary Clinton had. You were talking about a whole different, you're talking about fake news."
- President Donald Trump fumes against special counsel Robert Mueller in a tweet storm, claiming his probe of Russian interference is "ruining lives."
- Trump's attack echoes the salvos against the investigation recently launched by right-wing conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi, who claimed a day earlier that he has rejected a plea deal offered by Mueller.
- The attacks also highlight lingering questions about the possibility of Trump granting pardons to some of the special counsel's targets – a notion the president's own lawyer appeared to entertain Tuesday.
Hours after former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was accused of lying to federal investigators in violation of his plea deal, President Donald Trump fumed against special counsel Robert Mueller, claiming his probe is "ruining lives" and suggesting that he had inside information about the investigation.
As he pilloried the special counsel, Trump echoed the salvos against the investigation recently launched by right-wing conspiracy monger Jerome Corsi, who claimed Monday that he rejected a plea deal offered by Mueller. Corsi had said that he would "rather sit in prison and rot" than say he lied to Mueller.
"Wait until it comes out how horribly & viciously they are treating people, ruining lives for them refusing to lie," Trump tweeted Tuesday. "The Fake News Media builds Bob Mueller up as a Saint, when in actuality he is the exact opposite. He is doing TREMENDOUS damage to our Criminal Justice System, where he is only looking at one side and not the other."
The president's attacks also highlight lingering questions about the possibility of Trump granting presidential pardons to some of the people targeted by the special counsel – a notion that Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani appeared to entertain Tuesday. The former New York City mayor suggested that Mueller's probe may be going too far when NBC News asked him whether the president plans to offer Manafort a pardon.
"Is it conceivable that [Manafort] and Jerome Corsi, who is saying Mueller's people are pressuring him to lie, are telling the truth and the special counsel in their zeal to get the president may be going too far?" Giuliani told NBC.
Trump began his trio of tweets Tuesday morning by again labeling the probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election a "Phony Witch Hunt." The president complained that Mueller's team was "only looking at one side, not the other," appearing to refer to his former political opponent Hillary Clinton, who he has long claimed broke the law through her use of a private email server.
The White House did not immediately respond to CNBC's inquiries about Trump's tweets. The special counsel declined to comment.
On Monday night, Mueller accused Manafort of breaching the terms of his plea agreement by lying "on a variety of subject matters" to investigators.
The allegation, revealed in a filing in Washington, D.C., federal court, did not say what Manafort is specifically accused of lying about, but said that the government would "file a detailed sentencing submission to the Probation Department and the Court in advance of sentencing that sets forth the nature of the defendant's crimes and lies, including those after signing the plea agreement herein."
The filing also said the alleged breach relieves the special counsel of its own obligations under the plea agreement, which was reached on the eve of Manafort's second trial. Those obligations included agreeing to reduce Manafort's prison sentence "for acceptance of responsibility."
The charges lodged against Manafort related mostly to work he performed years before joining the Trump campaign, when he was working for a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine.
Trump has shown sympathy for targets in the Russia probe before. After Manafort was found guilty on eight criminal counts in a trial in Virginia brought on charges lodged by Mueller, Trump tweeted that he feels "very badly" for Manafort and his family.
Trump has also avoided a straight yes-or-no answer on the possibility of a pardon for Manafort in the past.
Trump's suggestion that Mueller is "ruining lives" of people for "refusing to lie" has been floated by other individuals targeted by the special counsel.
Corsi, one of the leading proponents of the false "birther" conspiracy theory which alleged that former President Barack Obama was not born in the U.S., said Monday that he was offered a plea deal on one count of perjury. But the former Infowars bureau chief, who also proliferated the much-criticized "Swift Boat" campaign against 2004 Democratic presidential frontrunner John Kerry, said he would "rather sit in prison and rot" than say he lied.
Corsi did not immediately respond to CNBC's questions about Trump's tweets.
Trump latched on to the birther conspiracy theory in 2011 and quickly became among the loudest public crusaders for the narrative, which has been widely condemned as racist. Trump finally acknowledged that Obama was born in the U.S. in September 2016, just before the 2016 election.
Meanwhile, former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, the first person to be charged in Mueller's probe, was incarcerated in Wisconsin federal prison Monday. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators in October 2017.
Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and visited around the time he joined Trump’s campaign, the Guardian has been told.
Sources have said Manafort went to see Assange in 2013, 2015 and in spring 2016 – during the period when he was made a key figure in Trump’s push for the White House.
It is unclear why Manafort wanted to see Assange and what was discussed. But the last meeting is likely to come under scrutiny and could interest Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor who is investigating alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
A well-placed source has told the Guardian that Manafort went to see Assange around March 2016. Months later WikiLeaks released a stash of Democratic emails stolen by Russian intelligence officers.
Manafort, 69, denies involvement in the hack and says the claim is “100% false”. His lawyers declined to answer the Guardian’s questions about the visits.
Manafort was jailed this year and was thought to have become a star cooperator in the Mueller inquiry. But on Monday Mueller said Manafort had repeatedly lied to the FBI, despite agreeing to cooperate two months ago in a plea deal. According to a court document, Manafort had committed “crimes and lies” on a “variety of subject matters”.
His defence team says he believes what he has told Mueller to be truthful and has not violated his deal.
#TRIGGERED!!!Trump suggests he has inside information on the Russia probe, hours after Mueller said former campaign chief Manafort violated plea deal
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Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy
U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was "very disappointed" that General Motors was closing plants in the United States and warned that the White House was "now looking at cutting all GM subsidies," including for its electric cars program.
Trump unleashed on Twitter a day after GM announced it would shutter five plants and slash 14,000 jobs in North America, with many of the job cuts coming from the U.S.Midwest, where the president has promised a manufacturing rebirth.
Trump's incendiary tweet came a short time after National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow said the White House's reaction was "a tremendous amount of disappointment maybe even spilling over into anger." Kudlow, who met with GM CEO Mary Barra on Monday, said that Trump felt betrayed by GM, which the government had been trying to help.
"Look, we made this deal, we've worked with you along the way, we've done other things with mileage standards, for example, and other related regulations," Kudlow said. "We've done this to help you and I think his disappointment is, it seems like that they kind of turned his back on him."
Rebates of up to $7,500 per electric car
A White House rebuke to GM would fly in the face of what some describe as long-held Republican opposition to picking winners in the marketplace. It's not clear precisely what, or when, action may be taken. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that she did not have any additional information on the president's threat.
Buyers of electric vehicles made by GM and other automakers get U.S. federal tax credits of up to $7,500, helping to reduce the price as an incentive to get more of the zero-emissions vehicles on the road.
Dwayne Killingbeck bolts parts to a Camaro on the assembly line at the GM plant in Oshawa, Ont. The facility is one of six the automaker says it plans to soon mothball. ( Norm Betts/Bloomberg News )
Among the vehicles GM offers is the battery-powered Chevrolet Bolt, which can go almost 400 kilometres on a single charge. The company has pinned much of its future business plan on consumers switching to battery-powered vehicles, promising to roll out 20 new ones globally by 2023.
GM on Monday announced it would cut six gas-powered car models as part of a plan to close factories and cut costs so it can spend more on electric and autonomous vehicle development.
The reductions could amount to as much as 8 per cent of GM's global workforce of 180,000 employees.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke to Trump on Tuesday and both men expressed their disappointment about plans by General Motors to shut down auto plants, a senior Canadian official told reporters.
"They underscored their concerns for the workers, for the communities and for the families that are affected by this decision," the official told reporters.
The restructuring reflects changing North American auto markets as manufacturers continue to shift away from cars toward SUVs and trucks. In October, almost 65 per cent of new vehicles sold in the U.S. were trucks or SUVs. That figure was about 50 per cent cars just five years ago.
Trump has long promised to return manufacturing jobs to the United States and particularly the Midwest. At a rally near GM's Lordstown, Ohio, plant last summer, Trump told people not to sell their homes because the jobs are "all coming back."
Trump tweets he's looking at cutting all GM subsidies 5 Hours Ago | 01:58
President Donald Trump will consider cutting all subsidies to General Motors after the company announced plans to slash production at several American plants, he said Tuesday.
"We are now looking at cutting all @GM subsidies, including ... for electric cars," the president wrote in a pair of tweets.
The automaker's shares fell following the tweets and were down more than 3 percent on Tuesday afternoon, on track for their worst day in a month. In a statement Tuesday, GM said it is "committed to maintaining a strong manufacturing presence in the U.S." and noted that "many of the U.S. workers impacted by [plant closures] will have the opportunity to shift to other GM plants."
"We appreciate the actions this administration has taken on behalf of industry to improve the overall competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing," the company said, without directly addressing Trump's threat to revoke subsidies.
President Trump placed responsibility for recent stock market declines and this week’s General Motors plant closures and layoffs on the Federal Reserve during an interview Tuesday, shirking any personal blame for cracks in the economy and declaring that he is “not even a little bit happy” with his hand-selected central bank chairman.
In a wide-ranging and sometimes discordant 20-minute interview with The Washington Post, Trump complained at length about Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H. “Jay” Powell, whom he nominated earlier this year. When asked about declines on Wall Street and GM’s announcement that it was laying off 15 percent of its workforce, Trump responded by criticizing higher interest rates and other Fed policies, though he insisted that he is not worried about a recession.
“I’m doing deals, and I’m not being accommodated by the Fed,” Trump said. “They’re making a mistake because I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me.”
He added: “So far, I’m not even a little bit happy with my selection of Jay. Not even a little bit. And I’m not blaming anybody, but I’m just telling you I think that the Fed is way off-base with what they’re doing.”
Trump also dismissed the federal government’s landmark report released last week finding that damages from global warming are intensifying around the country. The president said that “I don’t see” climate change as man-made and that he does not believe the scientific consensus.
“One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but we’re not necessarily such believers,” Trump said. “You look at our air and our water, and it’s right now at a record clean.”
The president added of climate change, “As to whether or not it’s man-made and whether or not the effects that you’re talking about are there, I don’t see it.”
[Major Trump administration climate report says damage is ‘intensifying’]
The comments were Trump’s most extensive yet on why he disagrees with the dire National Climate Assessment released by his own administration Friday, which found that climate change poses a severe threat to the health and financial security of Americans, as well as to the country’s infrastructure and natural resources.
President Trump on Tuesday again questioned the CIA’s conclusion that the Saudi crown prince ordered the killing of a dissident journalist. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Sitting behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, Trump also threatened to cancel his scheduled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a global summit this week because of Russia’s maritime clash with Ukraine. He said he was awaiting a “full report” from his national security team Tuesday evening about Russia’s capture of three Ukrainian naval ships and their crews in the Black Sea on Sunday.
“That will be very determinative,” Trump said. “Maybe I won’t have the meeting. Maybe I won’t even have the meeting. . . . I don’t like that aggression. I don’t want that aggression at all.”
Trump again questioned the CIA’s assessment that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a contributor to The Post, and said he has considered Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s repeated denials in his decision to maintain a close alliance with the oil-rich desert kingdom.
“Maybe he did and maybe he didn’t,” Trump said. “But he denies it. And people around him deny it. And the CIA did not say affirmatively he did it, either, by the way. I’m not saying that they’re saying he didn’t do it, but they didn’t say it affirmatively.”
The CIA has assessed that Mohammed ordered Khashoggi’s killing and has shared its findings with lawmakers and the White House, according to people familiar with the matter. Intelligence assessments are rarely, if ever, ironclad, and Trump has repeatedly stressed that there is no evidence that would irrefutably lay the blame at Mohammed’s feet.
But the CIA based its overall assessment of Mohammed’s role on a number of pieces of compelling evidence, including intercepted communications; surveillance from inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, where Khashoggi was killed in October; and the agency’s analysis of Mohammed’s total control of the Saudi government.
Meanwhile, Trump said he had “no intention” of taking action to stop special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“The Mueller investigation is what it is. It just goes on and on and on,” Trump said. When pressed on whether he would commit to letting the probe continue until its conclusion, he stopped short of making an explicit pledge.
“This question has been asked about me now for almost two years,” the president said, at which point counselor Kellyanne Conway chimed in, “A thousand times.”
Trump continued: “And, in the meantime, he’s still there. He wouldn’t have to be, but he’s still there, so I have no intention of doing anything.”
The president declined to discuss on the record the Mueller team’s accusation Monday that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort had breached his plea agreement by lying repeatedly to investigators.
Trump also floated the idea of removing U.S. troops from the Middle East, citing the lower price of oil as a reason to withdraw.
“Now, are we going to stay in that part of the world? One reason to is Israel,” Trump said. “Oil is becoming less and less of a reason because we’re producing more oil now than we’ve ever produced. So, you know, all of a sudden it gets to a point where you don’t have to stay there.”
Trump also called the killing of three U.S. troops in a roadside explosion in Afghanistan this week “very sad.” He said he was continuing the military presence in Afghanistan only because “experts” told him the United States needed to keep fighting there.
The president said he was considering visiting troops in the region soon, perhaps before Christmas.
“At the right time I will,” Trump said of a war-zone visit, which would be his first as president.
He is surreal.“At a record clean”
This fucking moron is the president of the United States of America. 29% of the country is happy about it.
Shouldn't the rich pay more tax than the poor?Too bad the current American administration cut the tax credits for buying electric cars.
I paid .96 cents a liter here there other day. MOGA!!!$1.35 per litre for the cheap stuff here on the Canadian west coast.
Y'all still got us beat.
Shit, that's over $5 per gallon.
You mean all of those ballers cruising around in their fancy Leafs and Priuses?Shouldn't the rich pay more tax than the poor?
You aware those cars aren't what most would consider "cheap" yes?You mean all of those ballers cruising around in their fancy Leafs and Priuses?
Are you aware that you're cheering on people losing their jobs?So much winning!
You're aware that those cars aren't what most would consider "expensive", yes?You aware those cars aren't what most would consider "cheap" yes?
A Toyota Corolla starts at $18K, a Nissan Leaf starts at $29k. Prius starts north of $30 if memory serves.You're aware that those cars aren't what most would consider "expensive", yes?
You can find new ones on lots starting in the low 20s. That's pretty damned average anymore and the tax credit made them fall in line with similar gas models.
Tax brackets should be based off income levels, yes.Shouldn't the rich pay more tax than the poor?
Mutherfucker.I paid .96 cents a liter here there other day. MOGA!!!