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Christopher Salas

@ChristopherS_DC

Hearst White House correspondent. Native Florida man and Miami sports fan. Opinions are my own, but they should probably be yours too

Washington, DC Katılım Ekim 2014
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President Trump says Republicans should only vote for a DHS funding bill if it includes a voter ID requirement. "You can't have homeland security without voter ID or proof of citizenship. So we're tying them together."
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President Trump says he'll deploy the National Guard to airports if necessary. ICE agents are currently helping the Transportation Security Administration as a DHS shutdown has caused long lines at airports across the country.
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President Trump says he’ll have ICE work airport security if DHS funding is not approved “immediately.” He says those agents will be arresting people in the country illegally while traveling through TSA.
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President Trump jokes about Pearl Harbor when asked why the U.S. didn't share their Iran war plans with Japan, "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Ok, why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"
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President Trump says, "I'm not putting troops anywhere. If I was, I certainly wouldn't tell you."
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President Trump says "it's not bad" regarding the economic fallout from the Iran war and he thought it would be "much worse."
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Leading indicator of consumer inflation, Producer Price Index increased 0.7% ‌last month. This was much higher than what economists were predicting. Core PPI, which excludes food and energy prices, was up 0.5% in February after a 0.8% reading in January.
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White House gave us a letter sent to Sens. Susan Collins and Katie Britt outlining changes it says it is willing to codify for DHS immigration enforcement, including broader body-camera use, visible officer identification and limits on operations at certain sensitive locations.
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President Trump @POTUS says Iran war will be "a couple more weeks" longer.
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"I'm really not afraid of anything," @POTUS says when asked if Iran will turn into another Vietnam if he puts boots on the ground.
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White House Press Secretary responding to Joe Kent's resignation
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There are many false claims in this letter but let me address one specifically: that "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation."   This is the same false claim that Democrats and some in the liberal media have been repeating over and over.   As President Trump has clearly and explicitly stated, he had strong and compelling evidence that Iran was going to attack the United States first.   This evidence was compiled from many sources and factors. President Trump would never make the decision to deploy military assets against a foreign adversary in a vacuum.   Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. The Iranian regime is evil. It proudly killed Americans, waged war against our country, and openly threatened us all the way up to the launch of Operation Epic Fury.   Iran was aggressively expanding their short-range ballistic missiles to combine with their naval assets to give themselves immunity – meaning they would have a degree of a capabilities that would give them immunity to hold us and the rest of the world hostage.   The regime aimed to use those ballistic missiles as a shield to continue achieving their ultimate goal – nuclear weapons.   The President, through his top negotiators, gave the regime every single possible opportunity to abandon this unacceptable course by permanently giving up their nuclear ambitions in exchange for sanctions relief, free nuclear fuel, and potential economic partnerships with our country.   But they would not say yes to peace because obtaining nuclear weapons was their fundamental goal.   President Trump ultimately made the determination that a joint attack with Israel would greatly reduce the risk to American lives that would come from a first strike by the terrorist Iranian regime and address this imminent threat to America’s national security interests.   All of this led to President Trump arriving at the determination that this military operation was necessary for U.S. national security, which is why he launched the massively successful Operation Epic Fury. The Commander-in-Chief determines what does and does not constitute a threat, because he is the one constitutionally empowered to do so - and because the American people went to the ballot box and entrusted him and him alone to make such final judgments. And finally, the absurd allegation that President Trump made this decision based on the influence of others, even foreign countries, is both insulting and laughable. President Trump has been remarkably consistent and has said for DECADES that Iran can NEVER possess a nuclear weapon. As someone who actually witnesses President Trump’s decision-making process on a daily basis, I can attest to the fact that he is always looking to do what’s in the best interest of the United States of America — period. America First.

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Green fountain on the north lawn of the White House for St. Patrick’s Day
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President Trump @POTUS in the Oval Office just now: "I do believe I'll ... be having the honor of taking Cuba... I can do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth."
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On the Strait of Hormuz: @POTUS says "numerous" countries say they're going to help police the waterway, but he doesn't say who.
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