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How Trump is trying to use political violence as a pretext for one-party rule

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Retired DC Metropolitan police officer Michael Fanone was attacked by rioters on January 6th, a violent day that President Trump does not connect to DC’s alleged crime problem. Fanone joins Ali Velshi to react to the disproportionate response from the White House on what they deem a “dire public safety crisis” that requires a federal police force, warning “ICE is Donald Trump’s police department.”

Humanitarian office says 37 children have died from acute malnutrition since July, as overall toll nears 100

After a weak jobs report on Friday, Trump responded by firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But as Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz tells Ali Velshi, ignoring bad numbers doesn’t make the problem go away. Instead, it’s more “like driving a car with no odometer,” Stiglitz says. He shares an anecdote from his time on the Council of Economic Advisers, advising President Bill Clinton. Stiglitz explains that Clinton once attempted to influence his analysis, to which Stiglitz says he replied “the preservation of the independence of the statistical agencies is of first order importance, and you, Mr. President, cannot change this.” Clinton accepted this, but Trump, Stiglitz says, does not. Because of Trump’s political pressure on independent economic agencies like the BLS and the Federal Reserve, Stiglitz warns, “confidence in the US dollar and confidence in the US economy will erode.”

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The revelation contradicts the Trump administration’s long-standing claims that no classified information was shared by the defense secretary’s account during the “Signalgate” scandal.

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