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White Nationalist Richard Spencer Kicked Out Of Cpac

... to do with conservatism or what we do here," said CPAC spokesman Ian Walters. Spencer purchased a general admission pass Thursday morning, Walters said. "He's anti-free markets, anti-Constitution, anti-pluralism," Walters added. "This was one bad egg who bought a ticket.". He described the alt-right and Spencer's views as "vile," "venomous," "horrible" and "repulsive.". CPAC is trying to send a message that it wants nothing to do with the so-called alt-right, a white nationalist movement that latched on to Donald Trump's rise. The president's chief strategist in the White House, Steve Bannon, ran Breitbart, which he called a "platform for the alt-right." Bannon and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus are speaking at CPAC Thursday afternoon. Article continues after sponsorship. After Comments On Pedophilia, Breitbart Editor Milo Yiannopoulos Resigns. CPAC also ...

President Trump To Speak At Cpac Gathering Near Washington

... true outsider who’s coming to shake up the system,” Conway said. The controversial chief strategist to the president, Steve Bannon, spoke at the event Thursday afternoon. “If you think they’re going to give you your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken,” he said. “Every day, every day it is going to be a fight.”. Bannon appeared with White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, which was seen as an effort to squash rumors of tension between the men, CBS 2’s Tony Aiello reported. They said Trump has made his plans clear and will carry them all out. “All he’s doing right now is he’s laid out an agenda with those speeches, with the promises he made, and our job every day is just to execute on that,” Bannon said. “It was Donald Trump that was able to bring this party and this movement together,” Priebus added. Vice President Mike Pence, a longtime conservative favorite, speaks Thursday night. Trump is scheduled to speak at 10:30 a.m. Friday. When Trump cancelled last year, CPAC tweeted “his choice sends a clear message to conservatives.”. But now he is ready to take a victory lap, and the CPAC chair says Trump has ...

A Look Inside Cpac's Swag Room

... room. Across the end, towards the back, is parked a Mercedes sprinter, which the pro-life group Save the Storks uses to give pregnant women free ultrasounds and lectures against abortion. There’s also lot of stickers—the NRA, the Tea Party, even Ken Bone, who did a “Bone Zone” photo opportunity with the group Victory Holdings, had bumper stickers and pins. Need a chapstick? Pick a group—Liberty University, Sheriff David Clarke, Regent University and the Tea Party all have sticks. Photo by Gabrielle Bluestone. There are pocket constitutions, nail files, sodas marked with “poison” labels, buttons that say “Project Veritas Is Watching,” a guide to the “50 Wacky Ways the Government Spends Your Money,” Citadel beer coozies, and enough fratty plastic sunglasses to outfit every single resident of Murray Hill. Someone handed me a t-shirt with an image of Justice Scalia hanging out with Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch; it’s my size and I’m not trading. There are trucker hats, and ...

Cpac Attendees Weigh In On Trump's Lifting Of Transgender Bathroom Rule

... There's always going to be a fight on the playground. That's how we grow up, and that's how we learn things. There's a big difference between those kinds of things and bullying. And I think there's been such strong campaigns against bullying, which I agree with, that - I think it's apples and oranges. MIKE BARTELS: I mean, we should recognize that discrimination is a thing. I think that's something that a lot of people have difficulty realizing. But at the same time, the fact that this amount of power is being kind of given in the hands of the president - it's kind of stretching the executive power to a degree. CORNISH: That's Mike Bartels, a student at Providence College in Rhode Island. He was attending today's Conservative Political Action Conference, just outside of Washington, D. C. Copyright © 2017 NPR. All rights reserved. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at __link__ for further information. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb 8 tm, Inc. , an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. This ...

Cpac, Transgender Students And Nasa's Exoplanet Discovery

... 2017 4:18 PM UTC. Good morning. These are today’s top stories. Conservative Political Action Conference begins. This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference kicks off today in Maryland. The event, which ends Saturday, will feature remarks from leaders of the conservative movement and the Trump administration, including Vice President Mike Pence, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and Senior Counselor Steve Bannon. President Trump rescinds bathroom rules for transgender students. President Donald Trump’s Administration has retracted guidelines created under President Barack Obama that said schools across the country had to allow transgender students to use public bathrooms that aligned with their identified gender. The Obama directive “did not contain sufficient legal analysis,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement as one of the reasons for the change. North ...

A Top Conservative Said The Alt-right Are Actually 'left-wing Fascists

... Conservative Union Executive Director Dan Schneider sought to cast the loosely organized movement with ties to white nationalists that played a role in last year's elections out of the conservative coalition. "There is a sinister organization that is trying to worm its way into our ranks and we must not be duped," he told thousands of grassroots conservatives. "Just a few years ago, this hate-filled left-wing fascist group hijacked the very term 'alt-right.' That term has been used for a long time in a very good and normal way.". Read More: How Donald Trump Is Bringing the Alt-Right to the White House. The speech was the latest salvo in an ongoing war among conservatives about what to do about the alt-right, which was galvanized by President Trump's populist campaign for the White House. Some members of the American Conservative Union's board, including President Matt Schlapp, rallied around Trump despite concerns about his breaks from conservative ideology. CPAC also controversially invited—and then disinvited— right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos to give a speech at the annual event. Citing a ...

Devos, Defiant At Cpac, Walks A Fine Line On Transgender Rights

... there's no such thing as a free lunch.". The ACU via You Tube. That was meant to draw laughs from the conservative activists, but low-income schools, known as Title I schools, provide free and reduced lunches and breakfasts to low socioeconomic students. As of 2012, 31 million children benefited from the National School Lunch program. The National School Lunch Act was signed by President Truman in 1946. "The media has had its fun with me," De Vos said, noting, however, "my job isn't to win popularity contests" with the media or the "Washington education establishment.". Trump's Plan To Hire 15,000 Border Patrol And ICE Agents Won't Be Easy. She criticized $7 billion in school grants given out by the Obama Education Department. She said that administration thought "money alone would solve the problem. They tested their model and failed miserably.". She also spoke out against university administrators and professors "telling you what to think." She said the "real threat is silencing people with whom you disagree.". The University of California, Berkeley drew Trump's tweeting ire after protesters blocked Milo Yiannopoulos, the controversial former Breitbart ...

At Cpac, Ted Cruz Says The Democratic Base Is 'bat-crap Crazy

... February 23, 2017. Ted Cruz used some colorful — or rather, vespertilionine — language to describe the Democratic base during an interview at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday. "From the left, their base … There's a technical term for their base, " Cruz began. "Moscow," his interviewer answered. Cruz nodded, but added: "I was going a different direction, which was 'bat-crap crazy.'" Watch the exchange below. Jeva Lange. . @tedcruz : "Right now Democratic senators are more scared of their base than they are of the voters." #CPAC 2017 __link__/xi 1 Iyr Fj Cn. — This Week (@This Week ABC) February 23, 2017. __link__/Representative Matt Gaetz. Rep. Matt Gaetz, a conservative Republican from Florida, surprised a constituent on Thursday when he agreed that President Trump should release his tax returns. During a ...

Read The Transcript Of Kellyanne Conway's Remarks At Cpac

... busy for each other because that is something also today that I - I find to be incredibly unfortunate. SCHLAPP: Wise words from the counselor to the president. Kellyanne Conway, we are so honored that she is with us again at CPAC, a regular visitor here. CONWAY: One last piece of advice. SCHLAPP: Absolutely. CONWAY: I have one last piece of advice for women just because I - I want to tell a story that everybody always begs me to tell, I've been telling it for a long time, some of you may have heard it before. I often, in my career, literally didn't know how to express my value and ask for what I thought I deserved and I had earned. And so, this is a long time ago story that still is enduring to this moment. I remind myself of it almost every day. I was young in my career, my company was a year old. I was a CNN paid political analyst at the time. And somebody called from a speaking ...

Cpac In The Trump Era

... who are trying to upset the order of things and change the group of people who will be able to decide how we run our party and how we run our movement. And, you know, D. C. is a little bit under attack from the rest of the country. And that's playing itself out into politics. So I will agree with you there's conflict in those areas. MARTIN: So speaking of conflict, I do want to ask you about Milo Yiannopoulos, the former Breitbart editor. You canceled his appearance over these comments he made about pedophilia. This is someone who would have been considered on the radical fringe of the conservative movement before, outside the moral center of mainstream conservatism. Why was he invited in the first place. SCHLAPP: Well, I listen - you know, I get up every morning and listen to your radio show. And you guys always have interesting and provocative guests. We're actually OK with conflict at CPAC. Unlike what the reputation might be for conservatives, we take what people watch on television, hear on the radio, read in ...

Cpac's Odd Tango With Milo Yiannopoulos

... protect ourselves from our enemies. Today, the right sees the left as enemies — and, I should say, vice versa. Yiannopoulos is a hero for many because he fights political correctness and is transgressive. A flamboyant provocateur who wears his homosexuality on his sleeve and acts very much like a left-wing performance artist, Yiannopoulos gives the right an edgy cultural avatar to pit against the left. At a time when entertainment and celebrity matter more than facts and arguments, he is an entertaining celebrity. Milo Yiannopoulos. Milo Yiannopoulos speaks during a news conference in New York on Feb. 21, 2017. (Mary Altaffer / AP). Until recently, Yiannopoulos was also a self-described “fellow traveler” of the avowedly racist and anti-Semitic “alt-right.” He advanced that worldview primarily from his perch as a senior editor of Breitbart News, the website formerly run by Stephen Bannon, now a ...