"Frightened" Democrat lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday that would prevent the president from launching a nuclear first strike without a congressional declaration of war. The bill - proposed by Rep. Ted W. Lieu and Sen. Edward J. Markey - follows through on a policy that was long debated - but never seriously pursued - during the Obama administration.
China is wasting no time to project power in a world in which it believes Donald Trump's "America First" doctrine has created a "superpower vacuum."
One day after a senior Chinese diplomat said on Monday that Beijing is prepared to "assume a role of world leadership if others step back from that position" after U.S. President Donald Trump pledged in his first speech to put “America first”, Beijing has reportedly deployed an advanced Dongfeng-41 ICBM system in Heilongjiang Province, which borders with Russia.
The FBI is aware of comments made by CNN President Jeff Zucker who warned President Trump that unless he changes his “adversarial relationship” with CNN they could incite a conflict with the Middle East and China in order to spite him. A spokesman said the agency is investigating complaints raised by citizens that claim CNN President Zucker made “terror threats” and said the decision to prosecute will rest with the US Attorney’s office.
Just this morning a "progressive" watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York alleging that President Trump is violating the constitution by owning business interests around the globe that are receiving payments from foreign governments (we covered it here: "Ethics Group Will Sue Trump On Monday Over Foreign Government Payments").