CNN's GUT CHECK | for June 19, 2013 | 5 p.m.
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IMMIGRATION WATCH: Senate debate on a massive immigration reform bill moved slowly Wednesday as the floor sat lifeless in a quorum call for much of the day. However, behind the scenes, the bipartisan “gang of eight” senators continued its push to find compromises on key outstanding issues in hopes of building broad support for the contentious legislation. – Ted Barrett
MAKE IT THREE: THIRD GOP SENATOR BACKS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE… Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska announced her support Wednesday for same-sex marriage, becoming the third sitting GOP senator to back the right for gay and lesbian couples to marry.
CNN's GUT CHECK | for June 18, 2013| 5 p.m.
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TERROR PLOTS THWARTED: FEDS SAY SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMS HELPED STOP 50+ ATTACKS INCLUDING PLOTS AGAINST NYSE, NYC SUBWAY… Officials said the controversial surveillance aimed at communications overseas helped to disrupt more than 50 plots globally that were in various stages of planning … and told Congress they were working on declassifying more information and could deliver a report to the legislative branch as early as this week. – Dana Bash and Tom Cohen
IMMIGRATION REFORM ON LIFE SUPPORT? Under pressure from House conservatives opposed to comprehensive immigration reform, Speaker John Boehner said today, “I don't see any way of bringing an immigration bill to the floor that doesn't have majority support of Republicans.” – Deidre Walsh LINK
CNN’s POLITICAL GUT CHECK | for June 17, 2013 | 5 p.m.
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SNOWDEN VS. OBAMA: A series of blog posts on Monday purportedly by Edward Snowden said he leaked classified details about U.S. surveillance programs because President Barack Obama worsened "abusive" practices instead of curtailing them as he promised as a candidate. LINK
ARIZONA VOTER LAW STRUCK DOWN: The Supreme Court on Monday tossed out an Arizona provision in its voter registration law that required proof of citizenship. LINK
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CNN's GUT CHECK | for June 14, 2013 | 5 p.m.
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HOW TO SILENCE an audience of conservatives part 1: Jeb Bush, arguing for immigration reform, says immigrants 'are more fertile'… "Immigrants create far more businesses than native-born Americans over the last 20 years. mmigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity," Bush said at the annual Faith and Freedom conference in the nation's capital.
HOW TO SILENCE Establishment Republicans, part 2: Michele Bachmann announces (sort of) … "I just recently announced that I wouldn't be seeking a fifth term in the United States House of Representatives, but I do have a very important announcement that I would like to make to each one of you today," Bachmann began. "It is this: I do intend to run for president," she said, pausing for loud cheers from the crowd. But she had an addendum: "…of the Tim Tebow fan club."
GAME ON: Despite smug dismissals of early campaign coverage ...the '16 race for president is starting to take shape. – Mark Preston
CNN's GUT CHECK | for June 13, 2013 | 5 p.m.
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BREAKING… RED LINE IN SYRIA: CNN’s Barbara Starr reports that Congress has been notified that the U.S. will acknowledge Syria has used chemical weapons, multiple times, on a small scale and a red line has been crossed, according to congressional sources. Turn to CNN on air for the latest.
GUT CHECK FLASH BACK: President Obama, August 20, 2012, in the White House briefing room… “I have, at this point, not ordered military engagement in the situation. But the point that you made about chemical and biological weapons is critical. That’s an issue that doesn’t just concern Syria; it concerns our close allies in the region, including Israel. It concerns us. We cannot have a situation where chemical or biological weapons are falling into the hands of the wrong people. We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. That would change my equation.”
CNN's GUT CHECK | for June 12, 2013 | 5 p.m.
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MORE TO COME: 'I AM HERE TO REVEAL CRIMINALITY,' NSA LEAKER TELLS HONG KONG NEWSPAPER… The former NSA contractor who disappeared after he acknowledged leaking details about secret American surveillance programs will fight any effort to bring him back to the United States for prosecution, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Wednesday. – Jethro Mullen and Michael Pearson
THE DEFENSE: NSA SAYS DATA MINING HELPED THWART TERROR… Phone records obtained by the government through a secret surveillance program disclosed last week helped prevent "dozens" of terrorist events, the director of the National Security Agency told a Senate hearing Wednesday. – Tom Cohen
THE BUZZ: BUSH 41 TURNS 89. What brought Mitt Romney, Nancy Pelosi and the Republican National Committee together? Honoring George H.W. Bush’s birthday by donning colorful socks. The former president even sported some Superman socks in honor of his birthday.
CNN's GUT CHECK | for June 11, 2013 | 5 p.m.
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DEBATE IS ON: A major hurdle in the clash over how to reform the nation’s immigration laws was cleared Tuesday when the Senate voted 82-15 to allow debate to begin in the chamber. Now, the hard work begins as opponents and supporters seek to find middle ground on this complicated and complex issue. – Ted Barrett and Tom Cohen
CONSTITUTIONAL? The ACLU has filed “a constitutional challenge to a surveillance program under which the National Security Agency vacuums up information about every phone call placed within, from, or to the United States,” according to a release from the group.
CNN's GUT CHECK | for June 10, 2013 | 5 p.m.
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DEVELOPING: WHITE HOUSE DEFENDS SURVEILLANCE… A day after former intelligence worker Edward Snowden outed himself as the man responsible for leaking details of U.S. surveillance programs, White House spokesman Jay Carney defended the administration's stance on the initiatives, calling them a necessary middle way between total privacy and unacceptable threat.
SHUNNING THE SPOTLIGHT? Although Snowden told the Guardian he didn’t “want public attention because I don't want the story to be about me,” his coming forward headlined The New York Times (LINK), The Washington Post (LINK), The Wall Street Journal (LINK) and USA Today (LINK).
CNN's GUT CHECK | for June 7, 2013 | 5 p.m.
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DOMESTIC MONITORING: OBAMA: NO ONE LISTENING TO YOUR CALLS… “Nobody is listening to your telephone calls,” President Barack Obama said Friday as he tried to reassure Americans who have had to digest a dizzying array of revelations in the past few days. All the revelations about U.S. surveillance programs in recent days have put the government on the defensive, set privacy advocates howling for reform, and left millions of Americans somewhere in the middle, wondering what the news means to them and what, if anything, they should do about it. – Michael Pearson
EVERY MEMBER OF CONGRESS: “The programs that have been discussed over the past couple of days in the press, are secret in the sense that they are classified but they're not secret in the sense that when it comes to telephone calls, every member of congress has been briefed on this program,” Obama said on Friday.
CNN's GUT CHECK | for June 6, 2013 | 5 p.m.
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SHORT TERMER: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie appointed his state's attorney general to temporarily fill the U.S Senate seat left vacant by the death of Frank Lautenberg. Christie introduced Jeffrey Chiesa on Thursday, saying his fellow Republican was the best person for the job. He also said Chiesa would not run in the special election for Lautenberg’s seat in October. – Paul Steinhauser
WHO IS HE? By tapping Chiesa to temporarily serve in the Senate, Christie elevated a longtime friend and confidant. – Dan Merica
NECESSARY OR WRONG? Collection of phone logs for potentially millions of Americans by the U.S. government, as revealed in an explosive published report, is nothing new, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday. “As far as I know, this is the exact three-month renewal of what has been the case for the past seven years,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, said. She said the practice is lawful and members of Congress know about it. – Josh Levs
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