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Next on Meet the Press, as President Obama vacations on Martha's Vineyard, the dog days of summer have turned into a new phase of America's war in Iraq. U.S. air strikes now targeting ISIS militants. How does the U.S. avoid mission creep in a country that President Obama said was stable and self reliant when U.S. troops left? We'll speak with influential voices from Congress this morning.
Plus, Hillary Clinton weighs in. We'll have exclusive new details on how she's distancing herself from President Obama's foreign policy. And impeachment talk is here in DC once again. Two key players in the fight over the impeachment of President Clinton: Newt Gingrich and former Clinton lawyer Greg Craig will discuss whether the legal maneuvering against President Obama will work or whether it's all politics.
From NBC News in Washington, this is Meet the Press with David Gregory
And good Sunday morning. With President Obama warning against a quick fix, limited U.S. air strikes have yet to solve the critical situation in northern Iraq where thousands of Yazidi Christians who remain surrounded and in fear of their lives. This morning, the Iraqi government clams at least Yazidi have been killed by the Islamic state of Iraq and Syria known as ISIS. The ISIS fight is including many women and children who were buried alive.
The U.S. is also determined to stop the militants from capturing the strategically important city of Erbil in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq, home to a U.S. consulate and hundreds of American personnel. Fighters for the Islamic state are already in control of several key cities in both Iraq and Syria.
I'm joined now by our chief Pentagon correspondent, Jim Miklaszewski, who has an in-depth look at why the president started air strikes now and whether they'll be successful. Mik, good morning.
Good morning, David. At this very moment last week, nobody at the White House or the Pentagon, for that matter, expected American war planes to be launching air strikes in Iraq within the next few days. But according to U.S. military officials, that rapid and alarming advance by those Islamic rebels, the U.S. could no longer ignore it, sending the generals back to the war room, and U.S. war fighters back to Iraq.
ISIS has easily stormed through Iraq for the past eight months, terrorizing their enemies, forcing religious conversions, and slaughtering those who resist their rule and religion. But President Obama waited to intervene militarily until this week, when the extremist group threatened to topple the Kurdish capital, Erbil. But why now? When ISIS took Mosul in June, the president sent 300 American troops to support and advise the Iraqi military, but not to fight.
I think we always have to guard against mission creep. American combat troops are not going to be fighting in Iraq again.
But since then, the militants have gone on a rampage, taking Iraq's largest Christian town earlier this month, seizing the Mosul dam, key to Iraq's infrastructure, and routing the Kurdish Peshmerga forces last week. But when thousands of Yazidi worshipers were forced to flee for their lives to the mountains with no food or water to escape the brutality, it forced the President's hand and gave him the opening he needed. Now any U.S. military intervention would be framed, in part, as a humanitarian operation.
And I believe the United States of America cannot turn a blind eye.
But saving Erbil, the Kurdish region, and the Peshmerga, the most capable military force in Iraq, was the most immediate objective.
The Iraqi security forces have, up till now, not proven themselves to be effective, despite a lot of American training, which leaves us with the Kurds.
And the Kurds have proven to be a loyal ally to the United States. Too much was at stake to let the region fall without a fight. But with no inclusive Iraqi government in place, and little support from N.A.T.O. allies for military action, the U.S. is going it alone in an open-ended operation.
This is going to be a long-term project.
But critics say the current U.S. strategy is all wrong.
We need to arm the Kurds and let them protect themselves, and stop trying to hold together an Iraq that is already disintegrated.
And the president acknowledged Saturday that any substantial progress against ISIS may hinge on bringing them down, not just in Iraq, but in Syria, as well. And while American air strikes may keep Erbil safer, they will not stop ISIS. And even with U.S. support, the outlook may be grim for a long time to come.
President Obama has vowed he would not send U.S. ground troops back to an Iraq, but acknowledged only yesterday that the U.S. military will be engaged in that war for some time to come. And as we heard him just a moment ago, for what he calls that "long-term project," David.
Jim Miklaszewski, thanks so much this morning. I'm joined now by Democratic Senator, Assistant Majority Leader, Dick Durbin of Illinois, a member of the foreign relations committee. Senator, welcome.
Thanks, David.
You have heard Jim's reporting. Just the goals here, preventing genocide, stopping ISIS, protecting the Kurdish territory, protecting, really, the integrity of Iraq and American personnel on the ground. All of those goals so important. Why are you already talking about limits to this operation?
Because only Iraq can save Iraq. The president has stepped in because it has threatened genocide. I support that. Bringing food and water to these people who are dying on that mountaintop, of course the United States should do that.
And when it comes to the Kurds, yes, they have been the adults in this neighborhood, the grownups. And I think that we ought to help them preserve their capital against this ISIS invasion. And we also want to make certain that the Americans that are on the ground are protected. The bottom line is this: there is so much that we can do to help the Iraqis help themselves. But ultimately, they have to save their own country.
But talk about ISIS itself. This is a terror state trying to construct a caliphate, cast off by al-Qaeda because this group is considered too extreme. Is the problem that the Obama administration, wanting to be something other than President Bush, got out of the business of confronting terrorism on a big, global scale and just dealt with it in a more limited way? Is it an under-reaction to the terrorist threat?
Don't forget, they invited us to leave in Iraq. The president was negotiating after President George Bush had this timetable for withdrawal. President Obama was trying to negotiate the final days of withdrawal.
I'm talking about the terrorist threat. I'm talking about fighting terrorism. The Obama team said, "We are not in the business of a global fight against terror. We're fighting al-Qaeda in limited forms." This is a big, expansive terrorist threat that has amassed on his watch.
Well, there's no question that this ISIS threat in Syria and in Iraq is growing and troublesome. The big question is what can the United States do to stop it? If the Iraqis come together, oust Maliki, put in someone in power who wants to bring in Sunnis and Shias to govern with the Kurds, then perhaps they can do it themselves. But we cannot send the troops, we must not sent the troops.
But isn't it galling for you--
--but isn't it galling to you, as a United States Senator, that we, the American military, are targeting assets that ISIS has in its control, where there are American assets, American military hardware, that they stole, left behind, because we got out of Iraq?
How many times has this happened in history? When the United States, with the best military in the world, goes in and fights a war, leaves behind equipment and ordnance and then finds it being used, perhaps even against it, in the next conflict? This is not new. It reflects the reality of war today. And it reflects the limitations when it comes to our fight against terrorism.
We need to make certain, not that, as many argue, that we should be in every theater in every war, that is not the United States' role. We need to be certain that what we do has surgical precision to it and a clear goal of success.
If this doesn't work, the goals that have been spelled out, which is preventing genocide, stopping ISIS, protecting the Kurds and American personnel, if an air campaign of some duration does not work, what do you believe, Senator Durbin, is America's responsibility to counter these threats?
First, to protect the Americans on the ground, number one. To protect American interests in the region. And that means, of course, our friends who are nearby neighbors of this disintegrating, chaotic situation.
Right, but--
--what do you do if it doesn't work with a limited air campaign?
Well, I can tell you this. Escalating it is not in the cards. Neither the American people nor Congress are in the business of wanting to escalate this conflict beyond where it is today. I think the President's made it clear this is a limited strike. He has, I believe, most Congressional support for that at this moment. To go beyond is really going to be a challenge.
All right, I'm going to leave it there. Senator Durbin, thank you, as always, for your views, for joining me this morning.
Thank you.
Joined now by Republican Congressman Peter King of New York, member of the House Homeland Security Committee. And Congressman, welcome. Let me challenge you in a different way.
Which is, those who would argue, conservatives, Republicans, others, that the president has underestimated this, that we're only using limited action to fight this threat, what more can be done, as the president said, than just keep a lid on this problem and all of these threats by the United States?
Well first of all, David, this is not just Iraq. ISIS is a direct threat to the United States of America. What Dick Durbin just said and what President Obama has said, is really a shameful abdication of American leadership. This isn't Iraq we're talking about. And we can't wait until Maliki and the Iraqi parliament to fight ISIS.
Every day that goes by, ISIS builds up this caliphate, and it becomes a direct threat to the United States. They are more powerful now than al-Qaeda was on 9-11. So Dick Durbin says we're not going to do this, we're not going to do that. I want to hear what he says when they attack us in the United States.
I lost senators and constituents on 9-11. I didn't want to do that again. We've seen this coming. And so for the president to say, "We're doing air strikes, we're not doing anything else, we're not going to use American combat troops, we're not going to do this, we're not going to do that," what kind of leadership is that?
We have to let the enemy know what you're going to do.
Well, let's ask you about the leadership you would provide. So if these goals are not achieved through an air strike campaign of some duration, what would you call for America to do?
Well first of all, we should take nothing off the table. We start off with massive air attacks. I think doing it from aircraft carriers is limiting them. We should use bases in the area so we could have much more sustained air attacks.
We should be aggressively arming the Kurds. The president says that once there's a unity government in Iraq we will then fight alongside and work with the Iraqi Army. Start doing that now. Why wait? Why wait months and months before the Iraqi government is back in place? Every day that goes by, ISIS builds up in strength. Well, whatever you do as Commander-in-Chief, you never, ever tell the enemy what you're not going to do. You shouldn't even tell what you are going to do.
But a lot of people--
Congressman, hear you and they say, "Wait a minute. We invaded this country. We took over the country. We occupied the country. We had massive troop levels there, armaments. Military hardware that's being used by ISIS now. This is Iraq's responsibility. Why can't or why won't Iraq deal with this threat that is a grave threat to its future?"
First of all, let's put this in perspective. What we've done in Iraq, as President Obama and Vice President Biden said, turned out to be a significant achievement, a great achievement. Iraq was stable. Iraq was a unified government. It was when President Obama withdrew all the American troops, when our troops that were imbedded with the Iraqi troops were taken away.
That's when the Iraqi Army started to disintegrate, when we lost control over Maliki because we withdrew. That's what started. There's no reason why Iraq would not have worked. The president, he started this. He started this downfall in 2011 with the direct withdrawal of American troops.
So as far as the weapons being turned over, that's terrible story by Maliki. But the fact is, we can't say because we're mad at Maliki, and Maliki can do his job, that we're going to sit back and let ISIS attack the United States. David, they have ten times, 20 times more money than al-Qaeda ever had. They have much more weapons than al-Qaeda ever had.
And ISIS has hundreds of foreign fighters with them, available to come to the United States to attack us. That's the reality. And when the president says and he tries to blame this on the intelligence community that they didn't tell him, General Flynn was saying months ago that ISIS was going to move to Iraq. Fallujah fell months ago. This president did nothing.
All we talked about is ending the war in Iraq. All we ended was American influence in Iraq. And that's a failure and its on his hands. And for him to-- what a weak leader. "We're going to attack this, but we're not going to do that. We're going to do this, we're not going to do that." Can you imagine Winston Churchill or Franklin Roosevelt--
So you're saying--
--or Harry Truman--
--U.S. troops on the ground to defeat ISIS because that is the ultimate goal.
I am saying we should do whatever we have to do. If people say American want troops on the ground. My constituents don't want to see another couple hundred people killed by an attack from ISIS. But let's not set up the false argument that it has to be troops on the ground.
We have the entire weight of the American military we can work with the Kurds. Plus we can provide weaponry to the Kurds who have been good fighters. No one's been more loyal to us than the Kurds. And why wait for the Iraqi government to come into play? If the president says that--
--military action when they're the government, why wait for that? Let's start now.
All right, Congressman Peter King, thank you, as well, for your views this morning. I appreciate it.
David, thank you.
I want to get a little bit more in depth on the situation in Iraq. I'm joined now by Michael Leiter, NBC national security analyst, former director of The National Counter-Terrorism Center, Robin Wright, a fellow at The Wilson Center and author of Rock the Casbah, Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World, and Jeffrey Goldberg, national correspondent for The Atlantic magazine, who-- an exclusive interview with Hillary Clinton on the subject of Syria and terrorism and leadership in the world, which will get to in just a minute.
But I'm just trying to really make sense of all of this. And there's layers to it. Michael, I really want people to understand what we're up against with ISIS.
This is not just a normal terrorist group. This is a terrorist army that now controls land. And I think this would be clear if they'd kept their old name. This is al-Qaeda in Iraq, which has become the Islamic state in Iraq and Syria. This is now the biggest terrorist organization we've ever seen with the most control, with the most money, getting more and more recruits.
They're obviously threatening Iraq. But they're also serious threats to the stability of our neighbors in Jordan. And the intelligence community believes that both ISIS in Iraq and Syria and other elements of the opposition in Syria are absolutely looking to attack the West. Western operatives in Iraq, Western operatives in Syria who can travel easily back to Europe and back to the U.S. homeland. That's the homeland terrorist threat that people are most concerned about.
Jeffrey, what are we fighting for now I Iraq?
What are we fighting for in Iraq?
We're fighting, I think mainly, to keep ISIS from spreading. I have to agree with that. Well, that's the problem with that. And as Hillary Clinton says, these threats never stay where they are. These groups are expansive in nature. They want to go further than they are.
So A), we're fighting, if we are indeed fighting, we're fighting to prevent them from spilling over their borders. We're also fighting, I think, for the Kurds. The president is hesitant to say that, but the Kurds are our key ally in that part of the world. And they are in trouble. If they fall, they would have even more trouble, because ISIS expands into their space. So we're doing a couple of things. And then, of course, there's the humanitarian picture. Which, of course, is we have a selective outrage but humanitarian problems in the Middle East.
You know.
And how about the president, back in 2007, said, "Well, it's not as if based on the humanitarian reasons we're going to send troops into the Congo." And now, you know--
I mean look, this is a problem all presidents face.
It's like how do you pick the people to save? In this case, you can make a good argument that we've stayed on the sidelines in Syria for years while 170,000 people have been killed. We're saving these people in Iraq. It's a devilish problem, I'll admit that.
Robin, I don't know that everybody understands when we talk about a Sunni-Shia split, that is at large what's happening here. It's what has given space for an ISIS to grow, like fuel to a forest fire. You know, that it keeps attracting more fighters and more energy because these are disaffected Sunnis, from Syria to Iraq.
Absolutely. The sectarian problem is one we've seen now across the Middle East. And it's beginning to redefine the borders that have shaped that region now for a century. And I think this is not the only place we're likely to see this. But it plays out, remember, in 2006, when the U.S. was debating sending in the surge, one of the questions was can you achieve a military goal, but the separate, political goal, at the same time?
And the joint chiefs of staff said, "We can push back what was then al-Qaeda." The question was can you solve the diplomatic problem? Can you get the Shia dominated government to embrace the Sunnis in a way that they will feel contained? And sure enough, we sent in 30,000 additional troops. We achieved the military objective, but we never solved those political objectives. And the problem is that the core of this problem is not the Yazidi genocidal problem, it is the issue of can Shiites and Sunnis, within a modern state, come to terms with each other in a way that is inclusive and just?
--And form a kind of unity government. Isn't the problem here, Jeff, that the president is playing catch-up? I mean this is a president who is determined to leave Iraq. He's right, there's a status of forces agreement that got U.S. troops out. But there was no-- I mean you went from President Bush dealing with Maliki in Iraq directly, and then the new president comes in, back of the hand to Iraq. Did we waste the influence that we could have had on this government to try to prevent the creation of this vacuum that ISIS is now filling?
Look, I mean he's right to argue that, ultimately, the solution is an Iraqi solution. If Iraqis can't pull it together--
--as Robin is suggesting, then there's really not much that the U.S. can do. On the other hand, yes, there are ways to intervene early in this process that probably would have helped the Iraqis not only fight ISIS but try to pull together some kind of political coalition that works.
Your thoughts on this?
Well, I think, first of all, this is not an Iraq problem, it is not a Syria problem, it is both. There is no border anymore.
And now it becomes a terrorism problem.
Absolutely. It is a terrorism problem. It is a regional problem. We can stop-- militarily, there's no doubt we can stop them from taking over Erbil.
But that's just putting--
But that is minor.
And you're still going to have an ISIS controlled caliphate across this region. We're going to have to address this in much larger ways. As Jeffrey said, the Iraqis are obviously key to the solution. We can't solve it without them. They can't solve it without us, either.
It's interesting. So there's obviously a political dimension to this, as there always is. Not just for now, but in the 2016 context. So you interviewed Hillary Clinton. You talked about all of these issues, including Syria. Now we know that she disagreed with the administration. She wanted to support--
--Syrian rebels. Here's what she told you, in part, in this interview that's in The Atlantic this morning. This is Secretary Clinton, former Secretary Clinton speaking to you: "I know that the failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protest against Assay, there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle, the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadis have now filled." That's the most criticism--
--we've ever heard.
That's pretty blunt. I think this week she feels, and people around her, supporters of Hillary and supporters of intervention, feel like she's been vindicated by events. It's impossible to know. Of course it's impossible to know whether U.S. intervention in Syria three years ago would have helped.
I mean the president says that's a fantasy to believe that--
The president says it's a fantasy. Hillary Clinton obviously says it's not a fantasy. We'll never know. Those are counterfactuals you can break your head over. On the other hand, it's pretty obvious that, by staying on the sidelines, not only the U.S. but the entire West, allowed what became ISIS to fill a vacuum. I think what she's saying there is reasonable analysis.
And, you know, and obviously, these are questions going forward that she's obviously beginning a process of maybe distancing herself from some of the policies she disagreed with. And in this interview with me, I think she went a little bit further than she usually has in distancing.
That's interesting. I mean it is interesting now because we're looking at a 2016 race where Republicans say, "You see? We've lost American leadership in the world." Which is what President Obama campaigned on, as well. And we always react to the last person in power. And if the line against Obama will be under-reaction to these threats.
Yes. And the interesting thing is he's the fourth president to be involved in Iraq. And when you look back at the record of what it took to, when we engaged last time, the first Bush administration dropped 265,000 bombs on Iraq. President Clinton, in a four-day period, dropped 600 bombs, 400 missiles. And Second President Bush used 30,000 bombs.
The idea that a few 500-pounds bombs are going to make a difference, I think we have now crossed a threshold when it comes to our involvement. This is not something that's going to last a few weeks, even a few months.
This, I think, we're back in. And I think also we've crossed a threshold when it comes to what the Islamic state sees as our role in the region. And the great danger if this becomes a mobilizing rallying cry to draw thousands of other not only Arabs and Muslims to the cause, but Westerners as well--
That's not to say that they wouldn't be up for this, had the United States not had a presence in the region. It's not as if these are good boys and girls who are on the sidelines, and then America came and decided to become bad people.
But remember that there was no al-Qaeda in Iraq before the U.S. intervention. There was no Hezbollah in Lebanon before the Israeli invasion. That sometimes there are unintended consequences of invading somebody else's territory--
Just please remember that the 9-11 attacks were not caused by the 2003 invasion of Iraq. I mean that happened well in advance--
--but let's get the sequencing.
Final point, Michael, the ultimate threat from ISIS as you look at as a counter-terrorism specialist now that plays out over the short term and longer term.
The ultimate threat is-
--an American who goes to either Syria and Iraq, trains, gets experiences on weapons, comes back to the United States, we didn't know they were there, and they set off improvised explosive devices in New York, Washington, or somewhere else. That is a real and concrete threat.
And that's what the administration has to be so worried about. Thank you all very much for your perspective this morning. Coming up here, the U.S. so divided politically, we will take you to one major city where even crossing the street can take you from Republican to Democratic territory.
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Our political roundtable up next: Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, Rich Lowry, and Congresswoman Donna Edwards all weighing in. Plus, are Republicans about to do what they did to Bill Clinton and try to impeach President Obama? Key figures from that fight 15 years ago: Newt Gingrich and former Clinton lawyer Greg Craig are here to discuss the prospect of success in the legal battles against President Obama.
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We are back. It is August. That means there's plenty of news to discuss, because anybody who covers news knows that August is the most busy time of the year. Our roundtable's here to discuss a lot going on. Our political director, Chuck Todd, Donna Edwards, Democratic Congresswoman from Maryland, Rich Lowry, editor of The National Review, and our chief foreign affairs correspondent, Andrea Mitchell.
My question for the table is are we closer to the events this week in Iraq of identifying what is the true Obama doctrine? He told Tom Friedman of The New York Times the following. I'll put it on the screen. "Obama made clear," Friedman writes, that he is only going to involve America more deeply in places like the Middle East to the extent that the different communities there agree to an inclusive politics of no victor, no vanquished." Did we learn something here?
I think we learned a lot. And what we learned is this contrast between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton when Hillary interviewed with Jeff Goldberg.
How do we say that we have a humanitarian mission here in Iraq with the Yazidis and not the Syrians, who are 170,000 people there? That's what Hillary Clinton would say to Jeff Goldberg. How do you say that Syrian arming the opposition was fantasy, Barack Obama, when Hillary Clinton lays out a completely different and, I think, going to be an escalating, differentiation--
--between her and Barack Obama?
Here's the big criticism, Rich Lowry. And I expect you would agree with this criticism, that this was a reaction to President Bush when President Obama said, "We are not going to be in war against terrorism where a war gives something very specific." Now he faces something quite vast.
Yeah, this was the amazing thing. Obviously, he wouldn't be president of the United States if it weren't for his opposition to the Iraq war. But here it is, Iraq, where his view of how the world should work is being discredited by the day. He thought Iraq wasn't important. He thought we should have left influence and involvement in the Middle East generally. He thought there were all these ready alternatives to military forces. All of that was exaggerated or, frankly, wrong. And that's why you have ISIS on the market.
And you have a politically vulnerable president on vacation today in Martha's Vineyard with a lot of people saying, as they did to President Bush when he went away for vacation during Iraq, "Hey, you're checked out here while the world is going up in flames." Look at our poll, Chuck Todd, that you detailed this week, not just the President's approval rating at 40% now, 54% disapproval, but you go inside the numbers a little bit: overall approval 40%, handling the economy only 42% approval, handling the foreign policy, 36% approval.
You know, the first half of his presidency, that was always his strength. Handling the foreign policy, he always did better than his overall job approval. Now it's worse. And he really is in an odd political box here, because he is giving the country the foreign policy it wants. Okay? The country wants less intervention.
The country wants less of these wars. The country wants to retreat. There is this isolationist streak in the country, less intervention, all of those things.
He's giving them that foreign policy. It's a very, in some ways, poll perfect foreign policy that the President's doing. And it's seen as less popular. It's seen as less stable. Because it looks as if he's not leading. Events are leading him. And I think that that's what the country was reaction personally to him, that this is like, "Where's the leadership. What's going on here? You don't seem to have your arms around this."
Congresswoman, the flip side of that is this is pragmatism. This may be a recognition of what limits the United States has, rather than rushing to do something that may be counterproductive.
I think that's somewhat true. And I think the president, in his statements with Tom Friedman, probably indicated his reticence because there is not-- he recognizes there's no political solution in Iraq. And he also knows that, in order to defeat ISIS, or to put a stamp on them, he has to consolidate that political power on the ground. And if the recognition that if the Kurds, Sunnis and Shia are all on the same page politically, then they stand a better chance of--
--American power-- but in using American power--
--to do that. Well look, we have the selection of a prime minister, the selection of our president. We're working-- I mean I think that we're closing to having a political solution where Maliki is not in charge of--
--involved in this political influence game. He shied away from--
Exactly. This is the shame of the situation. Obama never ended the war in Iraq, as he said. He abandoned the war in Iraq right at a time when we'd achieved a fragile stability that we might have been able to maintain.
The Iraqi government did not want the president-- the United States to stay in Iraq. Let's be really clear about that. We have to come at the invitation--
--even now we're at the invitation.
Right, but this president ideologically did not want--
They were not. This was not an administration that was eager to Maliki, "You don't want a strategic forces agreement?" You know. Your original question is what did we learn about the doctrine. And I think that I've been trying to figure out this man's doctrine now for six years. He doesn't have one.
He ran basically with a wink and a nod that this was going to be a George H.W. Bush type of foreign policy, stability and diplomacy first, okay? And yet, he has been pulled in different directions. His instinct actually is very George W. Bush-like, which is democracy, freedom. You know, he doesn't want winners and losers.
So look at the way he had intervened early in the Arab Spring. And then we realized that that was a mistake. So then-- I mean it's almost like he's pushes and pulls between the idea of democracy first versus stability first. And he goes back and forth, and he's messed around with democracy first in Egypt. Didn't work. In Libya, didn't work. He admits is now. And now he's trying for stability first. And I think, you know, in this case, he's struggling--
--tactically he's being held hostage to end these negotiations to get Maliki out. And to decide that you're not going to do anything until you have a government is to wait forever. And is to permit ISIS to do what its done--
And arguably-- and to say there's not hard intelligence. This is not a hard target. This is Erbil. We have people there. The fact is there was intelligence. And to say that they were shocked by the Peshmerga on Saturday night being routed is a farce. The White House wasn't listening.
But even if everyone with the best intentions prevails in Baghdad, they're going to still need massive help from the United States. And the fact that you read the best reporting about what happened when we're in negotiating with the Iraqis, whether we had the residual force, there was zero interest, really, in the administration and cutting that. I mean he bragged about how he ended the war because we completely eliminated our involvement in Iraq. And that's turned out to be--
I want to campaign then for reelection. That was the number one highlight.
Let's turn back to domestic politics, Iraq's politics are tough, ours are just as tough in many ways. On the issue of immigration, on the issue of executive power, here was a moment this week that involved Senator Rand Paul in Iowa, who was confronted during lunch by a described dreamer, somebody who was able to come in while the parents-- a child of illegal immigrants-- who appears part of the Dream Act, or the executive order, rather. This is that confrontation.
I am actually a DREAMer myself and I'm originally from Mexico, but I've been raised here. I graduated from Arizona State University actually--and--Arizona State University. And I know you wanted to get rid of DACA so I wanted to give you this opportunity. if you really want to get rid of it, just rip mine.
I mean that is a striking political moment. I mean, really, this is a serious issue. This is, you know, political theater, which has a good place in police officer. But here was Rand Paul saying, "not a conversation I want to be a part of."
And failing political instinct. This is why that guy's a serious political contender. Look, his people say he had another interview.
But look, these dreamers, so-called dreamers, are the single most sympatric subset within the illegal population. They're the first people I would amnesty by law, if we had a workable system of enforcement in force. But that's not an excuse for doing it lawlessly, the way the president did.
And what he did is part of what has become the magnet for this border crisis. It was a signal sent south of the border, "You're young, you get here illegally, you're going to stay."
But let me-- you wrote this, this week, and I want to get the others to talk about it, because it gets to kind of the bigger issue we always talk about impeachment of President Obama. You wrote this: "The signs are that President Obama's going to proceed with a massive unilateral amnesty that will affect one of his most important legislative goals without the legislature, as a brazen distortion of our constitutional system, this move will provoke a major reaction and, at the very least, lead to more calls for his impeachment. But for the cynics of the White House, this appears to be not a bet but a future."
Well, you know, first of all, I think to Rand Paul, what that little clip demonstrated is the fact that you can't run on wanting to be an inclusive Republican Party and run away from immigration. And he did exactly that.
Let me talk more generally about the divide in this country. You go around the country, people talk about it, because it's unhappiness with our government, it's reflected in a number of things we've been talking about. Our NBC News Wall Street Journal poll found 79% of voters are dissatisfied with the political system. One big example of this political divide is in the Milwaukee area, as our Kevin Tibbles found in this week's Meeting America.
On a gorgeous summer evening in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, the local high schoolers may be dancing in the streets. But the politics here are anything but a walk in the park.
When Charles Franklin conducted a poll for the Marquette University Law School, he found a state so politically entrenched, Democrats and Republicans don't even live in the same neighborhoods anymore.
It changes dramatically from deep blue to deep red right at the county lines. And it just leaps out at you.
Here in Milwaukee, there's a dividing line. One side of the street Republican, the other, Democrat. Within the city, 63% give President Obama the thumbs up. In the suburbs, it's 64% thumbs down. And the Republican Governor, Scott Walker, enjoys 63% approval in the suburbs and 61% disapproval in the city. Neighbors, worlds apart. In the city, at Glorious Malone's, the specialty meats company started by her mother in their kitchen.
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Daphne Malone Jones watched a business grow by word of mouth.
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And when partisan divisions within the beltway spread, she says it's bad for the business of nation building.
How do we come together from both sides so we meet in the middle and accomplish the task?
Back in suburban Menomonee Falls, AJ O'Brady's owner, Bruce Russell, has a rule behind the bar.
Don't talk about religion, don't talk about politics.
Patrons, on the other hand, will discuss the political deep freeze.
It seems to me that years ago you can have a conversation about politics with somebody that was different than you. Today you can't. Everybody is so hard core in what they believe, they're so set in their ways. And I'm that way, also. I've had to put up with Obama for two terms now. I'm not a fan of the Health Care Act.
While some in the suburbs support suing the president over his handling of the Affordable Care Act, city minister Clarence Montgomery calls it an unhealthy distraction.
Good governance and what they're doing as far as this lawsuit is concerned is an oxymoron. It's easier to say no than to sit down and say, "How can we find a yes?"
What would it take for a thaw?
This won't change until it becomes electorally destructive to one party or perhaps both.
Until then, the political peaks and valleys will likely keep the two neighbors apart. For Meet the Press, Kevin Tibbles.
At least they're still dancing in Milwaukee. Chuck, I thought that was really, you know, until it becomes electorally destructive to one or both parties, this won't change. Until voters change the incentives for both sides--
It's going to change.
--until you reward.
And that's -- what's happened here is we don't have an electoral system where swing voters matter.
Right? They don't matter. We know what the middle wants. Until you have candidates that feel as if they can move away from the base in a general election more often, or that they will lose. And if that's gone, and that incentive's not there, then you're going to get this.
I thought it was interesting in the Friedman interview, we all talk about that foreign policy, the president saying, in our system of government, in some ways right now, it's worse than some of the stuff he's seeing in the Middle East."
That is quite the shot at his political opposition.
If there is a turnout, I think there could actually be a revulsion, a reaction against the "Do-Nothing" Congress with old apologies. (LAUGHTER)
But the "Do-Nothing" in Congress, the ineffective White House leadership, you know, to sort of Washington--
--at large--
--and I think that there are going to be people staying home in masses, which is really upsetting to anybody who cares about democracy. Or perhaps an outpouring of "throw the bums out." And that's--
And the idea that we face these challenges, and that our system, our entire system of government, is not up to the challenges that we face, that's what's daunting, frustrating, and beyond. I mean demoralizing.
Well, I have a slightly different take on it. Because our system of government is meant, it's designed, to make it hard to do big things. And you really do big things only if there's a national consensus or if one party controls both the legislative and the executive. And that's relatively rare.
But if you think things are poisonous and divided now, just wait until President Obama does this big unilateral amnesty he's talking about. It's going to be much, much worse after that. Because it would be a stark hijacking of the legislative function with malice of forethought. And there's going to be a huge reaction to it.
Well, that's a big exaggeration. Look, I think that people out there sort of vote for countries who are centric, who speak to their needs, who speak to what it needs that will make a difference in their lives. And I think that any candidate who's running for office now, who is authentic, who says, "I'm on your side, and this is what I want to do to help you out," are the candidates who are going to win. And those are the people who then begin to reflect the broader--
I'm going to leave it there. And the prediction and this question of what comes next is actually where we're going to go next in the program when we come back. So thank you all very much. So how the political system has so unraveled that the politics of impeachment is being played on both sides. Two key players are going to join me in just a minute, involved in the impeachment of Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich and Greg Craig will be joining me up next on Meet the Press.
Saturday was the 40th anniversary of the resignation of President Richard Nixon. We've compiled a list of his most memorable moments here on Meet the Press, including a conversation during which he reveals what he thought was his biggest mistake as president. And it was not Watergate. See that and more at any time at MeetThePressNBC.com. And we'll discuss the motives behind the current talk of impeachment of President Obama by both Republicans and Democrats, coming up next.
We are back. Congress might be out for the summer, but the battle lines have been drawn between House Republicans and President Obama. They've filed suit against the president. There's also been talk of impeachment of the president on both sides, by the way. In a moment, I'll be joined by Greg Craig, who served as President Obama's first White House counsel, who was also a key member of President Clinton's impeachment defense team, and Newt Gingrich, who was, of course, Republican Speaker of the House just before President Clinton was impeached in 1998. But first, our justice correspondent, Pete Williams, has an analysis of whether the lawsuit against the president, or the possibility of impeachment, have any legal merit.
40 years ago, Richard Nixon became the first U.S. president to resign after a House committee voted to impeach him. Now there's talk of it again, this time, against President Obama.
What he's engaged in are impeachable offenses. They incurred fraud on the American people.
But does any of it amount to high crimes and misdemeanors, the constitution's grounds for impeachment?
This president has about as much chance of being impeached as being elected the next pontiff. Right now, he has not committed any impeachable offense that I can see.
Republican leaders insist they have no interest in impeachment. But in a legal long shot, the House has voted to sue the president over his order delaying for a year the requirement that businesses provide employee health insurance.
The suit will come to the federal court at the foot of Capitol Hill. The judges are reluctant to referee fights between Congress and the White House. So the suit will have to overcome a legal obstacle that could stop it at the courthouse door.
The Supreme Court has talked out lawsuits against presidents brought by members of Congress in the past, ruling that those who sue must have a personal stake in the outcome, a claim they're harmed in a way no one else is. Another problem, there's a new House every two years. And it's the previous one that passed Obamacare.
If Nancy Pelosi wants to sue on behalf of that House, that might be a different question. I think it'd still be tough. But at least that's more plausible.
But some say the courts should step in to clarify the boundary lines.
When the courts remove themselves from these fights, they leave the parties with nothing but muscle politics, the type of dysfunctional and negative acts that we see all the time.
If the lawsuit is heard, it might not be over until after President Obama leaves office. For Meet the Press, Pete Williams, NBC News Washington.
Greg Craig and Newt Gingrich are here. Welcome both. I want to talk about the politics of this, the policy of it. Greg, let me start with you on just the law. You heard Rich Lowry say in our roundtable that, if the president takes action unilaterally with executive power on an attempt to deal with illegal immigration, providing a path to citizenship for a large group of people, that the response will be furious. Is that a legal response or is that just a political response?
I think that's a political adjustment rather than a legal observation. I do think that the question of impeachment boils down to whether the politics will change dramatically over next three or four months. One of the things that might change the politics is precisely what Rich identified. If the president takes action on immigration that the majority of the American people disagree with, then you might have a change in the chemistry of impeachment to process. Another thing that might happen would be if the Senate gets captured by the Republican Party in November, that might change the chemistry and the politics of impeachment for the coming----
But is there an evolution, Newt Gingrich, of what we think of as the utility, the role of impeachment, as we think about President Nixon to Clinton--
--talk about it with Bush and Obama, as well.
Well, we've often had one or two or three members of a party say, "Well, why don't we impeach the president of the other party?" That's nothing new if you Google impeachment suggestions, there are lots of them. (LAUGHTER)
The challenge here is very different. The president, and you ran into this yourself on the advice on Guantanamo. I mean the president would liked to have closed Guantanamo. It was one of his highest priorities. He still hasn't closed Guantanamo, because there are, in our system, there are larger realities that shape these things.
This President's worst issue is immigration. He had 68% disapproval. If he comes in around Labor Day with some grand scheme by executive order, then I think the Republicans are going to pass a bill saying it's wrong in the House, taunt the Senate Democrats who are up for reelection to get the bill to the Senate, and say to the American people, "You want to stick with the Venezuelan style anything-I-want-is-legal presidency, or you want to go back to the constitution? These are your two parties in the government."
And then, in January, the Republican Senate and the Republican House just cuts off the money. You don't have to impeach a president to control him. You can just cut off the money.
But let me stay on this. Aren't we at a point in our politics, and the argument will go both ways, who's contributed more, Republicans or Democrats, efforts to de-legitimize presidents and go back, just even in our recent times, certainly happened to Bush, happened to Clinton, has happened to President Obama, that impeachment is discussed more as a means of recall than it is as the legal action that it was originally intended to be.
Well, I might disagree with you. I think that the impeachment provisions in the constitution were politically intended. They were intended to remove a president who was abusing the powers of the presidency. And the legal process by which it is done is quasi-legal. It's primarily and fundamentally a political process.
And that's why I don't think you're going to be able to organize a serious impeachment effort over the objections of the American people. That's what they tried to do in 1998. And the American people punished the Republican Party in the midterm elections in November 1998.
Unless you want to pull some Republicans aside and say, "Please tell me you're not talking about--
Every Republican I talk to, with a handful of a couple of fringe figures, every Republican I talk to knows it would be a dumb idea. And those are actually the people who most want an impeachment site are the president and his team.
They raise money off the word "impeachment." They mobilize their base off the word "impeachment." This is why, when you see on the football, okay, the president would love for us to be that dumb. My prediction is Republicans are going to, in fact, pa-- if he does do something around Labor Day, they will pass a bill repudiating it in the House almost overnight--
Do you agree that this been overly cynical by this White House, how they view the impeachment talk politically? (LAUGHTER)
You can't ask their attorney that. (LAUGHTER)
In a moment of candor, he buckles.
Hillary's radical candor. Give us that.
You'll not be surprised to learn that Democrats would be deeply suspicious of a Republican-controlled House and a Republican-controlled Senate in the last term of a second-term president. And it's been done once before. It can be done again. And so I don't think it's entirely cynical, although I've got to say, my e-mails are filled up with money (LAUGHTER) to fight off impeachment. It's really-- true.
The bottom line, though, as any legal action goes nowhere.
--impeachment and some of the other things, the lawsuit.
This is a crowd management, crowd control provisions that the House--
The right fight will come in January if Republicans get the Senate. And right fights over cutting off money. It's a totally legitimate thing for the Congress to say to the president, "You won't be able to enforce this. No money will be allocated for it." And that is at the core of the American constitutional system.
Just quickly before we go, you were on the defense team for John Hinckley Jr. This is coming up again. Jim Brady has passed. It's been ruled a homicide. What was your reaction to that, and where does that go?
Well, I'm not surprised. First of all, we mourn the death of Jim Brady. He was an extraordinary man and a great American leader who contributed a lot to our public life. And we're sad he's gone. And probably there is much to be said that the contributing factors to his death was the head wound that he suffered.
So I can't say that there's anything unrelated to that. I can't change the notion that it's a homicide. But the idea of retrying John Hinckley after a three and a half week trial where he was found not guilty by reason of insanity, on the question of the assault of Brady, it's not going to happen.
All right.
It shouldn't happen.
We're going to leave it there. Speaker Gingrich, Greg Craig, thank you both very much.
Thank you, David.
Appreciate it. I want to return before we go to where we started. The big question for the week that we'll be talking about as the week wears on, the ISIS threat in Iraq. Is President Obama doing enough? You can find our big question and weigh in on the debate on our Facebook page. That is all for today. We'll be back next week. If it's Sunday, it's Meet the Press.


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When it comes to getting in gear for the Formula 1 Grand Prix it pays go glam, and flying high doesn't get any higher than at the newly opened Ku D Ta atop the Marina Bay Sands SkyPark. The sister bar to its hugely successful Bali counterpart, Ku D Ta is the home away from home for Singapore's swanky society. Rolling seven venues into one, and coming complete with its own infinity pool, this is an ultra-slick monument to grown-up fun.
On a rooftop across town, perched above The Fullerton Bay Hotel, sits the Lantern Bar. Previously a historic landing point for Singapore immigrants, Lantern now spends its nights competing with Ku D Ta for the title of "Singapore's Most Beautiful View".
The city is hardly struggling when it comes to hotel options, but those hunting for a mix of Singapore's old-world charm with new-world amenities should indulge in the lavish colonial stateliness of Hotel Fort Canning. This grand former base for the British Far East Command has been given a 21st-century makeover complete with a cutting-edge, in-room entertainment system and THANN Sanctuary natural therapy spa.
Also inspired by Singapore's multicultural roots is The Saff Hotel. Opened late last year, The Saff's theatrical architecture is right at home in the middle of a former red light district turned hip hangout, Keong Saik Road, and maintains the nostalgia of the city's yesteryear with each room featuring elements from the world's ancient spice routes of Spain, Persia, Morocco, India and Thailand.
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text: At one time young people played baseball, ran and played, while enjoying a snack from the concession stand. Now Rose Street Park in Sciotoville is overrun. The building is completely destroyed inside, and nearly completely destroyed outside.Now Portsmouth Mayor Jane Murray wants to come up with $30,000 to restore the facility to its former glory and to allow children to start playing ball there soon again. For the last three years I have been going to city council and I have been going to the previous mayor and the previous service department and director; asking them about cleaning this up for our kids, community member Jeff Dempsey said. Not only to play baseball, but it is just a hazard. Every time, I was stonewalled or I was told some kind of explanation. At one time there were about 10 to 15 dumpsters down here, and some of them had casters on them. And I noticed the main garage door here had been caved in one time. They took a dumpster and actually rolled it down and used it as a battering ram to gain access to the property.The entire garage door was gone, large holes were visible in the metal roof, graffiti was spray painted over nearly every inch of the building, burned debris was piled inside and out, and all of the stainless steel fixtures and copper wiring had been stripped from the inside. Since Mayor Murray has been in office, I have spoke with her several times on it, and Councilman Noel, and today is the first real effort by the city of Portsmouth to come and look at our problem, Dempsey said. Dempsey said it is imperative to repair and renovate the park for the children in the community. That was the same goal of Sixth Ward City Councilman Rich Noel.This was my first endeavor, Noel said. It was to try to get this fixed up and to try to get that light on down at Walnut Street. The prior administration set out to buck me on everything I tried to do. And they did a pretty good job of it. And thats the reason Im still hanging in there trying to get this done. And believe me it wasnt torn up quite this bad when I started, but they allowed the vandals to come in. We got the gate put back up. And then they tore it down. The citizens waited to hear from Murray as to her plans for the facility. These are the kinds of projects the city should be doing, looking at the basic services of a city. That includes our parks and our neighborhoods, and this one has been neglected, Murray told the Portsmouth Daily Times in front of the ruins that was once a solid building. It is really a shame. A lot of the infrastructure that has been put in here with the buildings and the ballparks themselves were tremendous resources. And now they have been destroyed. So, as I have said, were going to redevelop our neighborhoods, and that includes our neighborhood parks and facilities.Sciotoville Community School Board President Bill Shope talked about the disparity between things in the city of Portsmouth and the Sciotoville community.Far too long there has been more taken out of our community than whats been put back into our community, Shope said. And were hoping today that it kind of reverses that trend and we get the same opportunities as everybody else within the city limits.Shope talked about plans for a youth baseball program the community hopes to get started this year, eventually returning to Little League status in the near future.Im hoping we can get a lot of people to help, Shope said. Were hoping to get started in the next couple of days. We have been doing some things. And finally, with the approval of our high school governing board I need to get their approval first but we do have monies available from a program that we participated in that couldnt be used for general fund or compensation issues. It could only be used for community improvement. And as a good start to the city and as an act of good faith, wed like to put in anywhere from $2,500 to $3,000 of the money we earned to get this project jump-started.Murray looked at the big picture involved in the project for the future.What I have discussed with the neighborhood is that we would go forward with a plan to get the ballfields operational this summer and try to start working on the buildings. Then we will put together a plan over the summer and into the fall with the whole community about the parks and leisure time opportunities in the area, Murray said. Looking at things such as walking trails we know that health and fitness is an important issue in this country. And so if we can be doing that ourselves, and teaching our children as part of it. This kind of activity is important to children as they grow up.


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I went ahead and moved the photo. The GPS had not been applied since I had reused the same photo, so that did not turn out to be an issue. I haven't been to the cemetery in Woonsocket, but I've driven by it. It's fairly large, would want plot info and directions.
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Alpha may well be buried in Woonsocket, but the picture I uploaded for her this morning was in Swan Point -- note there are no dates for her on this stone. I can erase the photo and request that the GPS be removed.
There is also another memorial 128811391 that says she was removed to Woonsocket RI on May 27 1887. This one would be a Cenotaph, and they should to be reported to email@example.com to have the two linked to each other (not merged as duplicates, but indicate they are two markers for the same person).
I'm sorry I didn't notice that Alpha's memorial wasn't in Swan Point when I took the photo, just followed the spouse link and uploaded the photo.
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Are you the Bob that is doing the research on the Labree family? If so, I would be glad to transfer the Richard Labree memorial to you, I am not related.
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Thank you for information. Please check memorial to see if I was able to clear things up.
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RE: Joshua Ditson
FYI, the plot was purchased in 1960 by an Eleanor Donovan from Hampden, CT.
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Emma Moulton
Hi Bob, I am sorry, but I prefer to keep Emma (Thompson) Moulton as she is my direct ancestor, my great-great-grandmother. I can attach her to the memorial you have set up for her parents, in hopes someday we find where Rufus and Temperance are really buried. Some of our family gravestones are not correct as far as dates. Emma's birth is recorded in Corinna, Maine Vital records where her parents were married and living in 1850 and the date is 11 Jan 1838. Her husband Orrin's death is incorrect as his death certificate shows he died in 1899, verified by death notices. The Thompsons and Labrees have been a tough family to trace. My family records from my grandmother have Rufus as the son of James and Mary Thompson, and James is buried in Corinna. Temperance is assumed to be the daughter of Richard and his first wife, Elizabeth, to date no one has been able to really prove it. Let me know if I can help you more. Peter
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The subject memorial has been revised as requested. If the BVale is short for what I think it is, we may be neighbors.
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Menahem ben Saruq (also known as Menahem ben Jacob ibn Saruq, Hebrew : ) was a Spanish - Jewish philologist of the tenth century CE. He was a skilled poet and polyglot. He was born in Tortosa around 920 and died around 970. Menahem produced an early dictionary of the Hebrew language. For a time he was the assistant of the great Jewish statesman Hasdai ibn Shaprut, and was involved in both literary and diplomatic matters; his dispute with Dunash ben Labrat, however, led to his downfall.
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John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield
by Henry Edridge
pencil and wash, 1798
10 3/4 in. x 7 1/4 in. (273 mm x 184 mm)
Purchased, 1928
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There are some instances when you may not be required to file a federal income tax return. But keep this in mind — more than 70 percent of those who file are due a refund, so it may be to your advantage to file even if you are not required to.The law does require you to file a tax return if your income is above a certain level. Check the instructions for Form 1040, 1040A or 1040EZ (under "filing requirements") for specific details that may affect your need to file a tax return with IRS this year.Here are some general guidelines for anyone under age 65.
Jan 9 2003
Taxpayer Advocate Group Lists Top Complaints About The IRS
The National Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) has filed its annual report with Congress setting out the most serious problems encountered by taxpayers in dealing with the Internal Revenue Service, the most litigated tax issues, and the TAS's recommendations for legislation.According to the report, the function of the TAS is to provide taxpayers with timely service, correct responses, and efficient advocacy.
Jan 8 2003
2003 Filing Season Begins With New IRS Resources
The IRS wants to make sure that you have all the information you need to file your taxes, so they have added a few resources to assist the process.New IRS ResourcesCheck the status of your refund.
Jan 6 2003
H&R Block Employee Accused of Identity Theft
A former H&R Block office manager and three accomplices have been charged with mail fraud and other crimes in a case of identity theft involving 27 tax preparation customers at H&R Block in White Plains, New York.The Block employee, Ivy Johnson, has been accused of taking customer names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth. Ms.
Jan 3 2003
IRS Won't Let Taxpayers Hide Behind Preparers' Coattails
The U.S. Treasury Department has released proposed rules that limit the likelihood of a "My Accountant Told Me I Could Do This" defense for tax return deductions.
Jan 2 2003
IRS Issues Regulations Regarding Education Credits
The Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations regarding the use of the Hope Scholarship Credit and the Lifetime Learning Credit. The regulations clarify some areas of discrepancy surrounding the two credits.The Hope Scholarship Credit applies to higher education costs of students in their first two years of college and has an annual limitation of 100% of the first $1,000 paid for such expenses and 50% of the second $1,000 paid, or $1,500.
Dec 30 2002
Deloitte Ranked World's Leading Tax Adviser
Deloitte's tax practice was ranked No. 1 in Euromoney's 2002 World's Leading Tax Adviser Survey. The firm took top honors in both the worldwide and U.S. national standings as determined from responses to 5,000 questionnaires sent to in-house tax experts and chief financial officers.Commenting on the U.S.
Dec 29 2002
IRS Issues Home Sale Exclusion Rules
The Internal Revenue Service has issued guidance in the form of both final and temporary regulations related to excluding gain on the sale of a principal residence. A 1997 law substituted an exclusion of up to $250,000 ($500,000 for a married couple filing jointly) for the old "replacement residence" rules.
Dec 27 2002
E&Y Slapped With $1 Billion Lawsuit
While the rest of the world hurried to prepare for the Christmas holidays, lawyers and public relations specialists at Big Four firm Ernst & Young kicked into overtime to respond to the filing of a $1 billion lawsuit filed against the firm late last week. Four Indiana residents who, along with 45 other clients, allege that the firm induced them to enter into illegal tax shelters in 1999 filed the suit. The shelter in question utilized currency option trades to create paper losses that offset real capital gains on which the clients would have had to pay taxes.
Dec 23 2002
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'Tis The Season For Charitable Donations – Web Site Resources
Here are some helpful resources on the Web to assist you and your staff in finding the right charity to support. JustGive is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to connect people with the charities and causes they care about and to increase overall giving. As the central gateway to giving, JustGive provides people with the resources, services, and tools they need to give -- whether it's their money, their time, or their goods.
Dec 19 2002
New Changes to IRS Form W-7
Resident and non-resident aliens applying for an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number must soon use a newly revised Form W-7.The new application forms will request additional information. The applications are now available in both English and Spanish on www.irs.gov. The English language version, Form W-7 and the Spanish language version, Form W-7 (SP) is also available at IRS offices.Along with their application, applicants must also submit documents proving their alien status and their identity.
Dec 18 2002
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Grant Thornton, currently the nation's fifth largest accounting firm, has responded to the Internal Revenue Service's request for comments on proposed tax shelter regulations and has raised issues that may be of concern to middle-market companies.The regulations, which are set to be come effective January 1, 2003, include two provisions that have sparked concern with the accountants at Grant Thornton. First, the revised regulations include a provision for contractual protection against the risk that tax benefits from tax shelters will be denied.
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Effective January 1, 2003, the Internal Revenue Service will drop interest rates by one percentage point. The following new rates will apply:5% interest on tax overpayments5% interest on tax underpayments7% interest on tax underpayments by large corporations2 1/2% interest on the portion of a corporate overpayment exceeding $10,000These rates will apply for the first quarter of 2003. These are the lowest rates since 1975.The interest rates are computed from the federal short-term rate based on daily compounding determined during October 2002.
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By Robert G. Epstein, President and CEO of CareerBank.com The holiday season brings job opportunities as companies prepare for Tax Season. As winter begins, thoughts of holidays and shopping replace job hunting in the minds of most job seekers. This can be a mistake.The interval between Thanksgiving and Christmas is when many retailers earn most of their annual revenue. What many people don't realize is that, just like the retail industry, public accounting has a seasonal nature.
Dec 11 2002
IRS Reminds Taxpayers to Make Donations
The Internal Revenue Service issued a news release this week geared toward reminding taxpayers that, as the tax year comes to a close, donations to public charities can still be made as late as December 31, and such donations will reduce 2002 taxes for taxpayers who itemize their deductions on Schedule A of their federal tax return.Taxpayers are reminded that individual gifts of $250 or more must be documented with a written acknowledgement from the charitable organization.
Dec 11 2002
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Skyline coach looks to make basketball more competitive
June 17, 2014
The Skyline High School boys basketball program has reached the state tournament twice in its 17 seasons of existence, something Bill McIntyre will be looking to change as he takes over as head coach for the 2014-15 season.
McIntyre was hired this spring after former coach Maui Borden's contract wasn't renewed. Borden had a 13-24 overall record in two seasons, including 8-22 in conference games.
McIntyre has strong ties to the Skyline community, having coached at the youth level for the Skyline Select program from 1998-2011. For the past two seasons, he served as an assistant under head coach Omar Parker at Liberty High School.
Issaquah educators receive grants
May 13, 2014
The East-King School Retirees' Association recently presented grants to a pair of Issaquah School District teachers.
Jane Brammer, a kindergarten teacher at Issaquah Valley Elementary School, will receive money to purchase "Reading Like a Writer" mentor texts for her classroom.
Teen Talk: How has substance abuse affected your school or community?
April 22, 2014
Liberty High School
Alina Nguyen, senior
"It has caused many people I know in my community to grow distant from relationships and hide from their responsibilities or problems."
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Let's Talk About It: Healthy Youth Survey shows increase in substance abuse
April 22, 2014
The prevalence of substance abuse among teenagers is skyrocketing, as more youths are being challenged by emotional, mental and social difficulties.
In October 2012, the Issaquah School District conducted its fifth biennial Healthy Youth Survey among Issaquah sixth-, eighth-, 10th-, and 12th-graders. The anonymous survey asked about students' physical activity and nutrition, drug abuse, emotional health and other "risky behaviors." Questions regarding substance abuse made up more than half of the survey.
Today's high school students experience laborious amounts of homework, time-consuming extracurricular activities and elevated parental expectations. As teenagers begin entering high school, some resort to substance abuse to cope with the additional stress and responsibility they didn't face in middle school.
Schools honor top volunteers
April 8, 2014
Issaquah School District Golden Acorn and Outstanding Advocate Awards were recognized at a reception at Swedish/Issaquah on March 25.
Golden Acorns are presented, by a local PTA unit or council, to volunteers in recognition of their dedication and service to children and youths.
Since the beginning of the program, more than 44,000 Golden Acorns have been presented to volunteers throughout Washington state. A contribution in the name of the recipient(s) is made by the honoring PTA to the Washington State PTA Scholarship Program. From these contributions, WSPTA is able to provide grants to freshman students entering post-secondary education.
Students honored at piano competition
April 1, 2014
Several students from Issaquah and Sammamish were awarded prizes at the 17th annual Helen Crowe Snelling Memorial Awards Piano Competition on March 9.
Division one winners from grades six through nine include second-place winner Athena Dai, of Pine Lake Middle School, and third-place winner Lisa Zhou, of Beaver Lake Middle School.
Division two winners for grades nine through 12 include first-place winner Lisa Tang, of Skyline High School, second-place winner Lisa Zhou, of Issaquah High School, third-place winner Kristin Yose, of Skyline, and honorable mention Austin Chang, of Skyline.
Young musicians take their talents to big stage
March 4, 2014
Heliqiong Sun began playing the piano when she was 4. Ten years later, it's the instrument she's most proficient with.
But Sun, an eighth-grader at Beaver Lake Middle School, has some versatility. She picked up the violin three years ago, and has mastered it enough that she can be considered among the best violinists in the state for her age group.
She was among 58 middle-school students from the Issaquah School District selected for the Washington Music Educators Association's Junior All-State groups. Students from across the state converged Feb. 15 in Yakima, and they spent several hours rehearsing before the three choirs, two bands and one orchestra took the stage that evening for their performances.
King County conservation program honors four Issaquah schools
February 24, 2014
NEW — 6 a.m. Feb. 24, 2014
Seven King County schools, including four from the Issaquah School District, were recognized this month by the county's Green Schools Program for having successful conservation practices.
Students and staff at the seven schools embraced waste reduction, recycling and other conservation actions, program manager Dale Alekel said in a news release.
Three Issaquah elementary schools — Cascade Ridge, Challenger and Endeavour — were given Level 2 recognition for energy conservation, waste reduction and recycling practices.
Walking in her footsteps
February 11, 2014
Family travels to Tanzania in honor of late daughter
Kristy LeMond was an Issaquah girl.
She grew up in this community she called home, attending Sunset Elementary School, Pine Lake Middle School and Issaquah High School, where she starred on the Eagles volleyball team before graduating in 2007 and enrolling at the University of Washington.
She had a second home, though, and it was more than 9,000 miles away in a Tanzania community she grew to love deeply after a 2011 post-graduation volunteer trip.
Special-education programs draw from district M&O levy dollars
January 14, 2014
Like her fellow administrators around the Issaquah School District, Michelle Caponigro is concerned about providing resources for her special-education students.
For Caponigro, the principal at Pine Lake Middle School, that means having teachers in two learning resource centers — an LRC I class for students with specific learning disabilities who spend much of their day in a general classroom setting and an LRC II class for students with "significant challenges" who are more difficult to manage.


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