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'Seen, Heard & Whispered': The conversations happening in Washington's power corridors

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Articles by Stephen Dinan

Nogales, Mexico is framed by slats in a border wall that separates it from Nogales, Ariz. Saturday, March 2, 2019. A Quinnipiac poll released March 6, 2019, finds the president has not increased support for a border wall, with a majority opposing the president on the issue and opposition among women voters particularly strong. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Trump fails to win support for wall: Poll

President Trump has failed to convince Americans of the need for his border wall emergency declaration, according to a new poll Wednesday that found they oppose his move by two-to-one.

March 6, 2019
The U.S.-Mexico border fence near Smuggler's Gulch west of the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego on April 27, 2006 (Associated Press) **FILE**

Smugglers to make $2.5 billion off migrants this year: DHS

As smuggling prices rise, the cartels that control the migrant traffic through Mexico stand to make as much as $2.5 billion this year, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan told Congress on Wednesday.

March 6, 2019
In this Feb. 5, 2019, file photo, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., listens to President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech, at the Capitol in Washington. In Omar's Minnesota district, both Jews and Muslims voiced concern about an inflammatory tweet on Israel that had the congresswoman apologizing within hours. While some Jews said she was being unfairly judged, others said they feared she was being slow to learn from previous criticism. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Ilhan Omar-inspired anti-Semitism resolution irks liberal activists

Her colleagues are rushing to condemn her on the House floor this week, but Rep. Ilhan Omar has her backers among powerful progressive activist groups who say they don't understand why Democratic leaders are going out of their way to cut down one of their own.

March 5, 2019
A Honduran migrant grabs his son as they climb the U.S. border fence before jumping into the U.S. to San Diego, Calif., from Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many Central American migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall and hand themselves in to border patrol agents. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

Illegal immigration at worst rate since 2007

The number of families snared trying to sneak into the U.S. soared by 50 percent in one month alone, setting an all-time record with more than 36,000 family members apprehended, Homeland Security officials announced Tuesday.

March 5, 2019
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, New York Democrat, signaled the pair's influence in his investigation by personally announcing their arrival to the committee as consultants. If there are to be impeachment charges, they would originate with his committee. (Associated Press)

Jerrold Nadler, Democrats bid to take down Donald Trump

Congressional Democrats demanded Monday that the president let them interview the translators who were there for his unorthodox meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as Democrats expanded their election-season attempt to paint Mr. Trump as a criminal.

March 4, 2019
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, looks over towards U.S. President Donald Trump, left, as Trump speaks during their joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, Monday, July 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

House Dems demand access to Trump’s translator from Putin talks

House Democrats sent a letter Monday demanding the White House turn over any documents that detail communications between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin -- and also demanded access to the U.S. president's translator for those talks.

March 4, 2019
President Donald Trump hugs the American flag as he arrives to speak at Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2019, in Oxon Hill, Md., Saturday, March 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Democrats pull trigger on document demands from Trump

House Democrats fired off 81 document requests to people in President Trump's orbit Monday, launching the beginnings of an effort they say is intended to spot crimes -- and could result in impeachment.

March 4, 2019
President Trump is the overwhelming choice for the 2020 Republican nomination, according to a Washington Times/CPAC straw poll, which found more than 80 percent support. Mitt Romney, the party's 2012 nominee, was far behind at 6 percent support. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump steers CPAC message in new direction

Two years into the Trump presidential experiment, there's no longer any doubt that the conservative movement has been redefined by President Trump, leaving him with a fiercely loyal base of support as he prepares for a 2020 re-election campaign in perhaps the most hostile environment in modern political history.

March 3, 2019
The official 2019 CPAC Straw Poll shows the vast majority of attendees at the conservative conference back the president's emergency declaration authorizing spending on the border wall. (American Conservative Union)

CPAC straw poll: Biden biggest threat to Trump

Conservatives view former Vice President Joseph R. Biden as the "biggest threat" to President Trump in the 2020 election, according to Saturday's Washington Times/CPAC straw poll. Sens. Bernard Sanders and Kamala Harris were a distant second and third.

March 2, 2019
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., tells reporters at her weekly news conference she's glad Trump didn't go along with North Korea's nuclear demands, but she feels Kim Jong-Un was the "big winner" on the world stage for having another summit with the U.S. president, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. Pelosi said (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Dems ponder rules change as party unity crumbles

Stung by ongoing defections on some key votes, House Democrats are pondering a quick rules change that would limit the GOP's chances to offer its own amendments to bills -- a move the top Republican said would amount to "a nuclear option."

February 28, 2019