Civil Rights and Social Justice
Rep. Ted Lieu has low expectations for President Donald Trump's speech to Congress on Tuesday night.
"I just want the president to stop lying and making stuff up," the California Democrat said in an interview with "Power Lunch" ahead of the speech.
He called the more than 100 documented "false and misleading statements" pointed out recently by The Washington Post "not acceptable."
However, Rep. Jim Renacci, R-Ohio, points out that Trump is not an orator, but a businessman.
Poisonous political divisions have spawned an encryption arms race across the Trump administration, as both the president's advisers and career civil servants scramble to cover their digital tracks in a capital nervous about leaks.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) on Sunday blasted President Trump for his Twitter attacks of news outlets, saying if the president spent more time focused on his intelligence briefings, Navy SEAL William "Ryan" Owens might still be alive.
Owens was killed last month during a raid on al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). U.S. Central Command said it killed 14 AQAP operatives, but reports following the raid also said up to 30 civilians may have been killed as a result of the mission.
Warned of a possible federal crackdown on marijuana, California elected officials and cannabis industry leaders said Friday they were preparing for a potential showdown in the courts and Congress to protect the legalization measure approved by state voters in November.
On January 30, 23-year-old Torrance resident Ruhi Khan drove her brother to Los Angeles International Airport for his routine departure to American University of Antigua, a medical school in the Caribbean. She did not intend to join the thousands of protesters assembled at Tom Bradley International Terminal demonstrating against President Donald Trump's travel ban.
Her brother's unexpected encounter with airport security quickly changed her evening plans.
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Los Angeles – Congressman Ted W. Lieu issued the following statement regarding the recent bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers and the increase in anti-Semitic acts across the nation:
They call it the ‘I' word.
Just a month into Donald Trump's presidency, Democratic Party leaders are trying to rein in the talk of impeachment that's animating the grassroots, the product of a restive base demanding deeper and more aggressive investigations into Trump's ties to Russia.
In the aftermath of America's Most Baffling Press Conference, let's cut to the chase: People are calling out Trump and his administration in meaningful, productive ways all across the land. Here's what went down:
"Since the election, I've watched Donald Trump go from a candidate that made extreme statements to now a president that's making extreme statements and taking extreme actions," Lieu says. "And I concluded that he is a danger to our republic. Once I concluded that, I decided the most patriotic thing I could do is resist Donald Trump. And that's what I'm doing every day."
On the day that President Donald Trump railed against insider leaks in a spontaneous and free-wheeling press conference, two Democratic congressmen published a guide to help federal whistleblowers get information from within the administration to the public.