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Donald Trump opened his remarks at a shale energy conference in Pittsburgh with remarks on theviolence this week in Charlotte, North Carolina.Many Americans are watching the unrest in Charlotte unfolding right before their eyes, Trump said. ...How can we lead when we canrsquo;t even control our own cities We honor and recognize the right of Americans to peacefully assemble, protest and demonstrate, but there is no right to engage in violent disruption or to threaten the public safety and peace of others. He called for the violence against our citizens and against law enforcement must be brought to a very stanley cupe rapid end.On Tuesday, a black man identified asKeith Lamont Scott was shot and killed b stanley quencher y a police officer. His family says he was unarmed, but police said he was carry stanley cup ing a gun. Crowds gathered to protest the shootingWednesdaynight, and during clashes with police, another man was shot and critically injured, though not by police, according to city officials. Trump went on to lament that those who suffer most from the Charlotte riots are law-abiding African-American residents who live in these communities where the crime is so rampant, ane he pointed out that their communities and economic conditions suffer. In an appeal to black voters, Trump said, Our job is not to make life more comfortable for the violent disrupter, but to make life more comfortable for the African-Ameri Gkht Clinton to Iran: Offer To Talk Has Limits
Rep. Henry Waxman D-Calif. announced Monday he will be holding a hearing on the health effects of performance enhancing drugs, just one day before a high profile hearing on steroid use in baseball featuring former New York Yankee pitcher Roger Clemens. Waxman, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, will hold a hearing entitled Myths and Facts about Human Growth Hormone, B 12, and Other Substances on Feb. 12, the day before Clemens, Andy Pettite and other current and former players are set to testify before the committee in a much-publicized hearing on steroid use in major league baseball.Clemens is set to arrive on Capi stanley cup tol Hill on Tuesday to give a transcribed interview to committee investigators about allegations he used steroids. Although Clem stanley us ensrsquo; name appeared in a report on steroid use in baseball prepared by former Sen. George Mitchell D-Maine , the former New York Yankee has denied ever using performance enhancing drugs and insists he will clear his name. However, his former personal trainer Brian M stanley fr cNamee has claimed he injected Clemens with performance enhancing substances. Clemens told 60 Minutes the injections were B-12 and lidocaine, an anesthetic.The stakes in the Feb. 13 are very high for Clemens, as lying to Congress is a federal offense, punishable by up to five years in prison. McNamee is scheduled to give his deposition to congressionalinvestigators on Thursd |
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