President Trump’s alleged deal with Democrats over immigration continued to reverberate through the weekend, even as some debate remained as to whether there is a deal.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took a victory lap over the agreement, saying negotiating with Trump was a case of “nothing ventured, nothing gained.”
However, other Democrats — such as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — warned him and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi against believing there’s a deal and trusting Trump fully.
At the same time, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., contended the president told him in a call this week that there is no deal on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals as the Democrats said following the meeting on Wednesday.
A voice from the past, former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, urged Congress to come up with a deal for the Dreamers — the people who benefited from the DACA program — because it’s the right thing to do.
Immigration hardliner Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said he wouldn’t break with Trump over the reported deal because there’s so much else that he can accomplish by sticking with the president.
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Confusion also reigned after a Wall Street Journal report quoted a European Union official saying President Trump would not pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement.
National security adviser H.R. McMaster said the report was false — echoing the White House line — and that Trump wouldn’t back downo n his promise to pull out of the deal.
However, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson left the door open by saying if the right conditions were met, Trump would stay in the deal.
In Alabama, Rep. Mo Brooks endorsed Roy Moore in his race against Sen. Luther Strange in the campaign to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the Senate for the rest of his term.
Trump also announced in a tweet he would campaign with Strange in Huntsville, Ala., next week.
And in 2018 news, ex-New York congressman Michael Grimm — who once told a reporter he was going to toss him off a Capitol balcony — announced he would be running for re-election. He resigned from Congress after being sentenced to prison in 2015.
In the Great Lakes State, Trump threw his support behind Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette in the state’s gubernatorial race.
The prognosis for Hurricane Maria grew worse Sunday, as it escalated into a Category 1 storm and traveled toward Caribbean islands recently hit by Irma.
However, Hurricane Harvey victims received a big donation from no less than Trump himself, who came through on his pledge to donate $1 million to Harvey victims.
In St. Louis, violence that escalated following the acquittal of a white police officer who shot a black man caused both U2 and Ed Sheeran to cancel concerts this weekend after police said they wouldn’t be able to fully protect the arenas in which they were set to play.
An elderly woman who was knocked over by police during the St. Louis protests was subsequently arrested and charged with interfering with police
British police arrested one man in connection with a bombing on the London Underground Friday that injured dozens. The level of security in the country remained high throughout the weekend.
In the wake of that attack, McMaster said Trump is looking at issuing a stricter travel ban to vet people coming into the United States.
McMaster also managed to dodge a question about whether the Trump administration is better off without White House chief strategist Steve Bannon around after he resigned last month.
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein had a busy day on the Sunday shows. She responded to charges she made an anti-Catholic remark in a Senate hearing, expressed hope that Democrats made “a start” in negotiating with Trump, and said the Senate Judiciary Committee would likely subpoena Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Another California lawmaker, Rep. Adam Schiff, called on social media and search engine websites to testify in front of Congress about Russian groups buying ads on their websites to try and influence the 2016 election.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., hit back at criticism from Hillary Clinton for saying he didn’t do enough to encourage his supporters to vote for her in the presidential election, instead saying he campaigned for her as hard as he could.
CNN’s Brooke Baldwin said Fox Sports commentator Clay Travis would no longer be allowed on her show after he said he only believes in the First Amendment and “boobs.”
Staying on CNN, host Michael Smerconish called former Major League Baseball pitcher Curt Schilling “pompous” during a heated exchange on the network.
Chelsea Manning reacted to the Harvard Institute of Politics pulling her fellowship by wearing it as a badge of honor.
In White House intrigue, a New York Times reporter overhearing a lawyer for Trump slamming the White House counsel caused even more drama in the Russia investigation.
Going abroad, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is reportedly hellbent on completing his country’s nuclear weapons program in order to put a nuclear weapon on a ballistic missile.
American Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley sought to reassure Americans Trump wasn’t issuing an empty threat when he said North Korea would be met with “fire and fury” if they continued to do provocative tests. Since that comment, multiple missile tests and at least one nuclear test have taken place in North Korea.
McMaster also said on the Sunday shows that the U.S. has to move with a great sense of urgency to denuclearize North Korea and Kim should give up his nuclear weapons because President trump will not stand for him keeping them.
Trump seemed to dismiss Kim in a tweet Sunday morning, calling him “Rocket Man” in another one of his Twitter nicknames. Trump later retweeted a GIF made by a fan of himself hitting a golf ball that hit Hillary Clinton in the back, for which Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell called him an ass.
Trump was also the subject of an interview for British Prime Minister Theresa May, who said that he’s done some good things for Europe, such as backing NATO. However, he also presents a challenge as his waffling over the Paris Agreement shows.
In Syria, Russian forces struck a group of Syrian forces who are American allies with an airstrike.
In France, four American women from Boston College were attacked by a woman who threw acid in their faces. The women were hospitalized but were not seriously injured and are no longer in the hospital, according to the school. The incident is not being investigated as terrorism, French police said.
And, in Cuba, Tillerson said the U.S. is reviewing whether to pull diplomats from Cuba after American representatives there have come down with mysterious illnesses that some have speculated come from sonic attacks.
In less serious foreign news, a Croatian school is using Melania Trump to advertise what learning English might be able to do for young people.
