Daily Dispatch 1/30/19

Wed, 01/30/2019 - 12:29pm by jessica

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Daily Dispatch
January 30, 2019
Countdown to Shutdown v.2.0:

 

// Set the date we're counting down to
var countDownDate = new Date("Feb 15, 2019 0:00:01").getTime();

// Update the count down every 1 second
var x = setInterval(function() {

// Get todays date and time
var now = new Date().getTime();

// Find the distance between now and the count down date
var distance = countDownDate - now;

// Time calculations for days, hours, minutes and seconds
var days = Math.floor(distance / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
var hours = Math.floor((distance % (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24)) / (1000 * 60 * 60));
var minutes = Math.floor((distance % (1000 * 60 * 60)) / (1000 * 60));
var seconds = Math.floor((distance % (1000 * 60)) / 1000);

// Output the result in an element with id="demo"
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = days + "d " + hours + "h "
+ minutes + "m " + seconds + "s ";

// If the count down is over, write some text
if (distance < 0) {
clearInterval(x);
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = "EXPIRED";
}
}, 1000);

Top News:

The 17 members of the bipartisan dog-and-pony show meets for the first time this afternoon in room HC-5 in the Capitol basement to negotiate a deal on the border wall. No one is particularly optimistic that they can produce something that a mercurial president is guaranteed to like. Some members are trying to thrown in some nonsense about debt limits and spending restrictions, but most agree that this would just leave more room for disagreements and deal-breakers. Same goes for DACA protections and TPS. Outside this committee, lawmakers are pushing for a bill that would ban government shutdowns. This has some support from both sides, but there’s still no reason to think it will go anywhere.

You can read more about all of this in reporting from and .

But who cares about any of that when there is MUCH BIGGER NEWS!!?!

Much Bigger News:

As you know by now, many of Trump’s favorite border stories seem to be apocryphal: immigrants with “stronger, bigger, and faster vehicles” than CBP; prayer rugs being found in the southern desert; women and children duct-taped in vans. CBP can’t seem to back-up these claims, so where do they come from?

Well, the internet has finally figured it out.

Steel yourself…

Ready?  All of these stories come from the 2018 action movie . The president gets his “facts” about the “emergency” at the border from a movie with 61% on Metacritic (63% on Rotten Tomatoes). Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro are Trump’s top border security advisors. Here’s the proof:

“They have the best vehicles you can buy. They have stronger, bigger, and faster vehicles than our police have, than ICE has, than Border Patrol has.”

“We’ve found prayer rugs out here. It’s unreal.”

“Women are tied up. They are bound. Duct tape put around their faces and around their mouths. In many cases, they can’t even breathe and put in the back of cars, vans, or trucks.”

“If they come through the ports, people will see four women sitting in a van with tape around their face and around their mouths.”

Wow. Just... woooow.

Here’s MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow breaking it down:

And here’s The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert sending it up:

Other News:

From : “'Several thousand' more troops preparing to deploy to the border, Shanahan says”

From : “Undocumented former Trump workers ask Congress for protection”

From the : “Texas quietly informs counties that some of the 95,000 voters flagged for citizenship review don't belong on the list”

From : “Trump’s company plans to expand check of employees’ legal status following report that it hired undocumented workers for years”

From : “Inside Kushner’s immigration plans”

 

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