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Editors Note:  This blog will be published periodically over the next ten days as issues arise. We are heading south, (almost like storm chasers) to the Carolina beaches as Irma heads north to meet us.

The President Makes A Deal  — With Schumer and Pelosi

What you say? You read that right. He made a deal to get funding for a three month continuous resolution, Harvey funding and a debt ceiling raise. His leaders (Ryan and McConnell) wanted an 18 month timeframe. It was clear the President decided to side with the Democrats.
Let there be no doubt this was a shot at Ryan and McConnell. He was saying you can’t get anything done, I will make my own deals. From the outset the relationship between Trump and the Republican establishment has been non existent.
Remember this deal in December when it has to be done again. Let’s see where everyone falls then.

Then the President goes to North Dakota and ….
The President goes to talk taxes and who appears with him but a Democratic Senator up for reelection in a state the President won easily. (he got 63% of the vote). He even praises her.
Well isn’t that great for her (Sen. Heidi Heitkamp) and the Democrats. Where was she on the healthcare vote and cabinet members when it mattered? You think maybe supporting Republicans in states like this so you can win some votes might be a better idea?
And can you remind us what Republicans Obama took on stage with him?
Did you know this?

Did you know a Senator can stop a Federal Court appointment by not returning his “blue slip”? As President Trump attempts to appoint conservatives and move the courts to the right we have this story:

Sen. Al Franken said Tuesday that he will use an arcane Senate tradition to try to derail one of President Trump’s appeals court nominees, marking an escalation in what has become a fight over the shape of the federal judiciary.
Senator Franken said he won’t return his “blue slip” for Minnesota Supreme Court Justice David Stras, the President’s nominee for the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Under Senate tradition, the chamber won’t proceed on a judicial nominee unless both home-state senators return their blue slips, signifying acquiescence in the pick.
Senator Franken said he is objecting because Judge Stras looks to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and the late Justice Antonin Scalia as role models. And what did we vote?

Let’s see how the leaders of both parties react to this.

Trey Gowdy: FBI not cooperating on Trump dossier:

The Washington Examiner reports, that a key House committee investigating an opposition-research dossier containing salacious details on Donald Trump has reportedly subpoenaed personally the heads of both the FBI and the Justice Department over their agencies’ noncooperation with the panel’s previous efforts.
The panel wants to know what relationship the FBI and Justice had with Christopher Steele, the document’s compiler, and whether it was used to justify spying on Mr. Trump during the presidential campaign.
The House panel had subpoenaed the FBI and Justice both for documents related to those matters, to be provided by Sept. 1. “We got nothing,” Rep. Trey Gowdy, South Carolina Republican and an Intelligence panel member said. “The witnesses have not been produced and the documents have not been produced.”
Doesn’t it seem this failure to provide an adequate investigation into the Clinton’s and anything helpful to Trump can’t get off the ground?

A message to the Conn. Newspaper that had this headline:

“From one service member to another”
      Blumenthal visits WWII vet

With a picture of Senator Blumenthal (Ct) shaking hands with a decorated WWII Veteran.
Are you kidding us? How dare you insult this veteran and every veteran who served honorably with that headline. Equating a proven hero with a senator who lied over and over about serving in Vietnam when he never left the states is an absolute disgrace.
THE RATINGS
Here’s Friday to Monday numbers. Look at close Friday and Monday were between Fox and MSNBC. Below that are the weekly Morning and Evening news numbers. NBC upset ABC in the nightly news by 4,000. GMA won the morning again.

Total Viewers (Live +SD) FRIDAY. MSNBC WINS THE NIGHT BY 19,000.

  • Total day: FNC: 1.490 | CNN: 817 | MSNBC: 1.167 | HLN: 218
  • Primetime: FNC: 1.952 | CNN: 963 | MSNBC: 1.971 | HLN: 215
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC Cavuto:
1.383		 Specialists:
1.454		 Baier:
1.878		 MacCallum:
1.731		 Carlson:
2.039		 Five:
1.863		 Hannity:
1.954		 Carlson:
1.149
CNN Tapper:
944		 Blitzer:
1.075		 Blitzer:
1.014		 Burnett:
1.072		 Cooper:
1.174		 Cooper:
1.006		 Spcl.:
709		 Cont.:
—
MSNBC Wallace:
958		 MTPDaily:
1.114		 Melber:
1.280		 Matthews:
1.537		 Hayes:
1.708		 Maddow:
2.136		 O’Donnell:
2.060		 Williams:
1.591
HLN MichaeLA:
103		 Spcl:
127		 Cont.:
—		 Hunt:
153		 Hunt:
195		 Hunt:
222		 Files:
229		 Files:
222

Total Viewers (Live +SD) SATURDAY. FOX WINS THE NIGHT BIG.

  • Total day: FNC: 1.326 | CNN: 730 |  MSNBC: 538 | HLN: 462
  • Prime time: FNC: 1.475 | CNN: 626 | MSNBC: 538 | HLN: 462
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC NwsHQ:
1.214		 NewsHQ:
1.213		 NewsHQ:
1.349		 Report:
1.230		 Pirro:
1.463		 Pirro:
1.573		 Gutfeld:
1.390		 Pirro:
836
CNN Nwsrm:
767		 Nwsrm:
795		 Nwsrm:
694		 Nwsrm:
782		 Nwsrm:
753		 Declassified:
631		 80s:
495		 80s:
518
MSNBC News:
503		 News:
444		 News:
524		 News:
595		 News:
598		 Dateline:
696		 Lockup:
321		 Lockup:
331
HLN Files:
281		 Files:
286		 Files:
287		 Files:
307		 Files:
462		 Files:
478		 Files:
447		 Files:
418

Total Viewers (Live +SD) SUNDAY. FOX AGAIN BEATS MSNBC AND CNN COMBINED.

  • Total day: FNC: 1.186 | CNN: 685 |  MSNBC: 554 | HLN: 284
  • Prime time: FNC: 1.179 | CNN: 573 | MSNBC: 406 | HLN: 296
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC NwsHQ:
1.093		 MediaBuzz:
1.082		 NewsHQ:
1.154		 Report:
1.255		 Report:
1.324		 Hilton:
1.073		 FNSunday:
1.141		 NewsHQ:
942
CNN Nwsrm:
619		 Nwsrm:
742		 Nwsrm:
712		 Nwsrm:
764		 90s:
529		 90s:
613		 90s:
577		 90s:
518
MSNBC News:
637		 News:
686		 News:
660		 MTP:
599		 Joy:
546		 Dateline:
333		 Lockup:
338		 Lockup:
419
HLN Hunt:
315		 Hunt:
303		 Hunt:
271		 Hunt:
262		 Hunt:
257		 KillingMe:
287		 KillingMe:
345		 Hunt:
324

Total Viewers (Live +SD) MONDAY. FOX EDGES MSNBC BY 66,000.

  • Total day: FNC: 1.511 | CNN: 758 | MSNBC: 963 | HLN: 267
  • Primetime: FNC: 1.886 | CNN: 871 | MSNBC: 1.820 | HLN: 354
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC Cavuto:
1.216		 Specialists:
1.296		 Baier:
1.884		 MacCallum:
1.749		 Carlson:
2.008		 Five:
1.885		 Hannity:
1.764		 Carlson:
1.089
CNN Tapper:
785		 Blitzer:
708		 Blitzer:
717		 Burnett:
823		 Cooper:
971		 Films:
872		 Lemon:
660		 Lemon:
719
MSNBC Matthews:
831		 MTPDaily:
969		 Melber:
966		 Matthews:
1.167		 Hayes:
1.378		 Maddow:
2.289		 O’Donnell:
1.793		 Special:
846
HLN Files:
153		 Files:
173		 Files:
204		 Files:
260		 Files:
320		 Files:
349		 Files:
394		 Files:
432

EVENING NEWS Numbers for the week of August 28, 2017:  NBC EDGES ABC TO WIN THE WEEK.

NBC ABC CBS
• Total Viewers: 8,516,000 8,512,000 6,203,000

MORNING NEWS Numbers for the week of August 28, 2017: ABC WINS AGAIN.

  • Total Viewers: ABC:  4.319 M / NBC: 4.144 M / CBS:  3.520 M

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