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Catching up on some stories:

Sanctuary Cities and States:
We have often wondered here why sanctuary cities/states can choose what laws they  choose to follow. Well, finally  “Attorney General Jeff Sessions opened a new front in the legal war over California’s sanctuary city policies asking a federal court to halt three state laws that prohibit police and businesses from cooperating with federal agents.
The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Sacramento, says those laws not only trample on the federal government’s powers to set national immigration policy, but endanger communities by freeing criminals back onto the streets”.
Let’s watch this case to see if federal law is upheld.

The Hatch Act and Kellyanne Conway

Did you see that the office of special counsel called for President Trump to take disciplinary action against Kellyanne Conway for political activity while in her White House role?
The federal watchdog said Mrs. Conway violated a ban on federal employees campaigning, when during television interviews she promoted Republican candidate Roy Moore and discouraged voters from supporting Democratic candidate Doug Jones in last year’s Alabama race for U.S. Senate.
This is a first for us and once again illustrates how some want to attack the White House and staff.
It is unclear what disciplinary action she (a counselor to the president), could face, but the law allows for her removal or deductions to pay.
Our bet is the President does nothing.

What Sweden?

Remember the President said “look at what is happening in Sweden” and the MSM blasted him for days? Well this week the Swedish Prime Minister was in Washington and here’s some coverage of his remarks you likely did not see on that same MSM.
“At a White House news conference with Mr. Trump at his side, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven spoke of his own Trump-like agenda of implementing tougher laws on immigration and crime, and of spending more money on law enforcement.
“We have our share of domestic challenges, no doubt about that,” Mr. Lofven said. “We are dealing with it every day, allocating more resources to the police, more resources to the security police, tougher laws on crime, tougher laws on terrorism.”
Not only that, he said Sweden’s crackdown on immigration and gangs is working. “We inherited a legislation that was not sustainable, legislation on migration,” Mr. Lofven said. “We changed the legislation, so now we have decreased the number of refugees, and we’re also putting pressure on the other European Union countries to take their share of the responsibility.”

Did you see any coverage of this? I bet you saw the President’s remarks covered a year ago.

North Korea

You saw the coverage of North Korea willing to discuss giving up its nuclear weapons, right? Two things to remember here:
In the past when they have gotten pressure from our Presidents, they have taken softer stands and entered into negotiations. Think Clinton, Bush and Obama thinking they solved the problem. The issue was North Korea then simply went on its way to building weapons.
So don’t get too excited and don’t expect Trump to fall into that trap. This time its real, and if we did, they would begin building and stock piling the missiles and bombs. I don’t think Mathis will let this happen.

Second, North Korea says it wants assurances they will be left alone if they stop building them. You see they don’t believe we will do that. Kim Jong un looks at Libya and Qaddafi and says he got rid of his weapons and you took him out. He says look at Saddam, he did the same and you hung him.

Trust is a real issue here on both sides. A lot to overcome and even more at stake, so keep close watch.

Gary Cohn resigns:

We’ve come to expect turnover and turmoil in the administration, and we expect more departures to come. In fact we expect them throughout the term.
Working for this President is a challenge and it’s all about him. It just makes things hard. Look at yesterday when asked about North Korea and why they appear to be willing to negotiate, his answer was quick and certain — “ME” he said. Not my team, not my people, not our administration. It was “me”.

And Now Comes Word:

The NYT is reporting today that President Trump “engaged in conversations with witnesses in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia election probe, despite admonitions from his lawyers not to behave in ways that might look like witness-tampering”.

Now the questions they say he asked seem innocent (“how the interview had gone with the special counsel’s investigators and whether they had been ‘nice’”), but you never know with Trump. He has his own rules.

Parkland Coverage and the MSM:

Guns, guns and guns is what the MSM covers. Do you ever wonder how Cruz got one? Here’s a story you didn’t hear from them:

“Confessed shooter Nikolas Cruz was a disciplinary nightmare for schools before he opened fire in Parkland, Florida — yet there was nothing on his record to stop him from buying a firearm or alarm the FBI after the agency received a tip.

Why not?

The demand for an answer to that question has focused attention on Broward County Public Schools policies embraced by the Obama administration that were designed to help rule-breaking students avoid permanent blots on their records by reducing referrals to law enforcement.

Under Superintendent Robert W. Runcie, who worked for Obama Education Secretary Arne Duncan in the Chicago Public Schools, school-based arrests dropped by 63 percent from 2012 to 2016 after he implemented policies designed to derail the “schoolhouse-to-jailhouse pipeline.”

But the approach also helped keep Cruz off the law-enforcement radar, despite school-based offenses that reportedly included assault, threats and bringing bullets to school in his backpack.

“Mr. Cruz is a perfect example of someone just falling through the cracks that we create through bad policy,” Jeff Bell, a deputy sheriff and president of the Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputy Association, told The Washington Times”.

The Ratings

Total Viewers SATURDAY. Fox weekend dominance continues.

  • Total day: FNC: 1.170 | CNN: 720 |  MSNBC: 755 | HLN: 325
  • Prime time: FNC: 1.741 | CNN: 694 | MSNBC: 837 | HLN: 450
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC NwsHQ:
731		 NwsHQ:
824		 NwsHQ:
957		 Report:
1.161		 Watters:
1.801		 Pirro:
1.856		 Gutfeld:
1.565		 Watters:
1.034
CNN Nwsrm:
775		 Nwsrm:
848		 Smerc:
754		 AxeFiles:
748		 Nwsrm:
847		 Comedy:
567		 Comedy:
669		 Comedy:
428
MSNBC News:
724		 News:
794		 Hayes:
719		 Matthews:
818		 O’Donnell:
739		 11thHour:
881		 Wallace:
892		 Matthews:
692
HLN Files:
298		 Files:
335		 Files:
327		 Files:
301		 Files:
436		 Files:
448		 Files:
466		 Files:
459

Total Viewers SUNDAY. A big night for Fox. 

  • Total day: FNC: 1.063 | CNN: 615 | MSNBC: 581 | HLN: 268
  • Prime time: FNC: 1.371 | CNN: 324 | MSNBC: 428 | HLN: 241
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC NewsHQ:
634		 FNSunday:
726		 Report:
900		 Scndlous:
952		 Scndlous:
1.587		 Hilton:
1.166		 Levin:
1.361		 Scndlous:
720
CNN Nwsrm:
594		 Nwsrm:
610		 Nwsrm:
631		 Nwsrm:
535		 Newsrm:
395		 Bourdain:
283		 Bourdain:
292		 Bourdain:
292
MSNBC News:
642		 News:
687		 MTP:
783		 KasieDC:
750		 KasieDC:
530		 Engel:
378		 MTP:
376		 Lockup:
270
HLN Files:
297		 PttyHrst:
229		 PttyHrst:
248		 PttyHrst:
228		 PttyHrst:
231		 PttyHrst:
230		 PttyHrst:
253		 Files:
343

Total Viewers MONDAY. MSNBC wins the by 100,000 over Fox.

  • Total day: FNC: 1.640 | CNN: 824 | MSNBC: 1.449 | HLN: 191
  • Primetime: FNC: 2.602 | CNN: 1.180 | MSNBC: 2.703  | HLN: 235
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC Cavuto:
1.180		 Five:
2.143		 Baier:
2.156		 MacCallum:
2.028		 Carlson:
2.579		 Hannity:
2.852		 Ingraham:
2.371		 Bream:
1.368
CNN Tapper:
1.012		 Blitzer:
957		 Blitzer:
882		 Burnett:
1.236		 Cooper:
1.275		 Cooper:
1.134		 Tonight:
1.129		 Tonight:
724
MSNBC Wallace:
1.436		 MTPDaily:
1.566		 Melber:
1.974		 Matthews:
2.159		 Hayes:
2.234		 Maddow:
3.380		 O’Donnell:
2.495		 Wlms:
1.766
HLN Michaela:
50		 Cupp:
60		 Banfield:
99		 Banfield:
130		 Files:
184		 Files:
213		 Files:
310		 Files:
343

Total Viewers TUESDAY. A second consecutive win by MSNBC.  This time by 29,000. 

  • Total day: FNC: 1.597 | CNN: 777 | MSNBC: 1.382 | HLN: 210
  • Primetime: FNC: 2.519 | CNN: 1.045 | MSNBC: 2.548 | HLN: 253
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC Cavuto:
1.233		 Five:
1.921		 Baier:
2.025		 MacCallum:
1.858		 Carlson:
2.499		 Hannity:
2.639		 Ingraham:
2.419		 Bream:
1.581
CNN Tapper:
864		 Blitzer:
848		 Blitzer:
853		 Burnett:
1.087		 Cooper:
1.025		 Cooper:
990		 Tonight:
1.106		 Tonight:
801
MSNBC Wallace:
1.238		 MTPDaily:
1.474		 Melber:
1.564		 Matthews:
1.844		 Hayes:
2.078		 Maddow:
3.126		 O’Donnell:
2.440		 Wlms:
1.703
HLN Michaela:
103		 Cupp:
73		 Banfield:
91		 Banfield:
148		 Files:
181		 Files:
229		 Files:
348		 Files:
406

 Cable’s top 5 for the week of Feb. 26, 2018:

PRIME TIME

  1. Fox News (2,304,000)
  2. MSNBC (1,869,000)
  3. ESPN (1,420,000)
  4. HGTV (1,399,000)
  5. USA (1,290,000)

TOTAL DAY

  1. Fox News (1,365,000)
  2. MSNBC (1,034,000)
  3. Nickelodeon (948,000)
  4. HGTV (811,000)
  5. Investigation Discovery (727,000)

CNN dropped to No. 19 in prime time viewers, and No. 14 in total day viewers this past week.

Fox Business won the business day and market hours.
Lou Dobbs Tonight was the most-watched business program for the week.
Stuart Varney’s three-hour market-open program (Varney & Co.) defeated its CNBC competitor in total viewers for the 41st consecutive week.
CNBC did announce changes this week in its anchors and air times.

Sunday News Show Ratings for March 4:

Network Program Total Viewers A25-54
NBC Meet the Press 3.410M 956,000
CBS Face the Nation (1/2 hr) 3.298M 713,000
ABC This Week 2.896M 823,000
FOX Fox News Sunday 1.442M 417,000

 

 

 

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