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Trump's family and vice president relied on him to deny the song "send it back"

It was not fair Ivanka. In addition to the daughter and the senior advisor to the President, the Vice-President Mike Pence and the first lady Melania Trump both urged Trump to disavow the singing of "send back" about Representative Ilhan Omar, according to CBS News.

Pence also heard about Congress republicans who asked him to convey their concerns about singing to the president. The first lady, who immigrated to the United States from Slovenia in 1996 for her modeling career, remains so far publicly silent about her husband's racist remarks – a decision that has not escaped the attention of political commentators.

It will be Harris against Biden and Warren against Sanders for the second debates

CNN announced its roster last night for the second round of democratic debates, while Maanvi Singh was the subject of an article on yesterday's live blog. Twenty candidates will participate in Detroit's July 30th and 31st debates, but most will be focused on the four candidates with the most votes.

Former Vice President Joe Biden and senator from California Kamala Harris On July 31, Harris has seen a surge in polls since she fought against Biden's earlier opposition to the federal government's banned bus to racially integrate schools in last month's debates. . But 2020 Democrats have largely unified this week to condemn Trump's racist remarks about four minority women in Congress, not knowing whether Harris will pick up this line of criticism against Biden.

Detroit debates will also provide the first live preview of the battle between the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders and Senator from Mbadachusetts Elizabeth Warren. The pair overlap on many issues and seem to appeal to many of the same voters, which may explain why Warren has recently risen in polls while Sanders was in free fall.

The debate may offer Sanders an opportunity to regain some of this lost ground, even at the risk of alienating a close colleague.

Some Trump administration officials, allied with the White House senior advisor Stephen Miller, push to reduce the number of US refugee admissions to almost zero.

A US Citizenship and Immigration Services A representative launched the idea at a meeting last week, reports Politico. But the proposal alarmed Pentagon officials, who fear that this could jeopardize relations with Iraqis who risked their lives by helping American forces in the country.

The officials at the Department of Homeland security responded to the proposal of zero admission by suggesting limiting admissions between 3,000 and 10,000. The Trump administration has already cut refugee admissions by one-third this year, bringing them back to 30,000.

But a virtual shutdown of the refugee program could give Trump a strong argument in an election he has sought to focus on. immigration – first by proposing build a wall on the US-Mexican border and more recently pushing to add a citizenship question at the 2020 horizon census. The report on the refugee program also comes as Trump continues his attacks on Representative Ilhan Omar, a US-Somali congressman who first arrived in the United States after fleeing her war-torn country and staying in a refugee camp.

Two Democrats from 2020 are pushed to leave the race

Two lower presidential candidates Democratic presidential – the former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper and former member of Congress John Delaney – are invited to leave the race.

Some of Delaney's senior advisers sat him last week to encourage him to drop out of primary school in mid-August, according to Axios. Although he was the first eminent democrat to have announced his candidacy as early as July 2017, the former Maryland congressman failed to catch on fire despite lending his campaign more than $ 11 million. His badistants feel that he has no chance of participating in the fall debates and that he would position himself better for a cabinet post or a candidacy for the post of governor. was retiring before September.

Meanwhile, Hickenlooper I can not avoid the same snarling advice from strategists and former voters: you should have run for the Senate. Republican Senator from Colorado, Cory Gardner, must be re-elected next year, and many Democrats in the state believe that Hickenlooper would have the best chance to beat him. The former popular governor dismissed this idea, but Democratic strategists remind him that he still has time to change his mind as his presidential campaign fights.

House Democrats hope that the special advocate Robert MuellerThe appearance next Wednesday at Capitol Hill will allow them to argue that Donald Trump clearly obstructed justice. Democrats Members of the Judiciary Committee of the House intend to focus on five episodes taken from the Mueller case. report, including Trump's efforts to Fire the special advocate and his attempts to falsify witnesses, which, in their view, could have constituted punishable offenses.

Meanwhile, the house intelligence committee will focus on the report of the contact report with the Russians and Wikileaks, including Trump's advanced knowledge of WikiLeaks for harmful emails Hillary ClintonPresidential campaign. But both Democrats and republicans in the House are preparing intensely for Mueller's appearance, even simulacrum of hearings with senior badistants replacing the former special council.

Their efforts to sharpen their questions before consecutive hearings underscore the drama surrounding Mueller's testimony, which Democrats hope will change the public opinion on whether Trump hindering justice and should be removed. The vast majority of Americans have not read Mueller's full report, a group of well-known legislators.

Democratic legislators believe that Mueller's appearance on Capitol Hill – and by extension on television – could force Americans to look more closely at the events described in the report. As one Judiciary Committee official said: "Not everyone reads the book, but people will watch the movie."

Another foreign leader acknowledged Trump's racist remarks aboutl & # 39; squad. "German Chancellor Angela Merkel The president's words go against "the strength of America".

Our correspondent Kate Connolly reported from Berlin:

"The German Chancellor expressed her solidarity with the Democratic politicians to whom Trump said this week:" Go back … to the places they came from, "saying:

"I stand out strongly (from attacks) and I feel solidarity with the attacked women." She added, "The strength of America lies in the idea that people of different backgrounds contribute to what makes the country great."

Connolly also noted that journalists present at Merkel's annual press conference at her annual press conference were surprised by the chancellor's direct tone, marking the impressive end of her 90-minute run. These remarks make her the last foreign leader – besides outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – to condemn Trump's remarks.

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Donald Trump began the morning accusing the media of stirring up controversy over racist song "sending her away" at her rally in North Carolina, while a number of Republicans publicly criticized the news. ;attack Representative Ilhan Omar. The eldest daughter of president and chief counselor Ivanka Trump has even encouraged her father to repudiate racist singing, according to the New York Times.

"It is amazing to see how Fake News Media has become" crazy "after the song" fired "by a crowd invaded by an arena (record) in the Grand State of North Carolina, but is totally calm and accepts the vilest and most disgusting statements made by the three Congress women of the radical left ", Trump wrote This morning, on Twitter, we will slap "Omar to the dirty mouth". It is unclear to what three congress women he is referring, given that "the brigade" is generally identified as four minority women legislators – Omar of Minnesota, representative of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York, Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Representative Ayanna Pressley of Mbadachusetts.

But it is clear that the singing touched an agreement with many people on both sides of the aisle. Rabbi Avi Olitzky, a religious leader in Omar's native district, even compared the rhetoric with that of Hitler's rise. "It's a very strange wave of similar situations in history, be it Nazi Germany or anything else," the rabbi told ABC News.