The Larry O’Connor Show 05.08.18

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Trump vows to withdraw from Iran nuclear agreement, calls pact ‘defective at its core’ (Fox News)

President Trump on Tuesday announced plans to leave the Iran nuclear deal, declaring the pact has failed to halt the country’s nuclear ambitions in perhaps the biggest foreign policy decision of his administration.

Speaking at the White House, Trump said: “I am announcing today the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.”

Trump for months had left open whether he would move to scrap the pact, and his apparent decision to re-impose sanctions has rattled European rattles and leaves unclear how Tehran will respond. [Read More]

At local stop, Jackson says race being used to tear country apart (DailyProgress)

U.S. Senate candidate E.W. Jackson, a Republican minister from Chesapeake, has fiery words for anyone who thinks America has a race problem.

At a campaign stop in Albemarle County on Sunday, more than 50 people came to the DoubleTree Hotel to hear Jackson speak about racial and social justice issues that he said are being used to tear apart the country. Fifty years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and Jackson said the civil rights icon would be appalled to see the level of division and hatred seen today. [Read More]

Farrow: Schneiderman accusers bullied into silence ‘for good of Democratic Party,’ fear of wiretaps (Washington Times)

New Yorker journalist Ronana Farrow said some of the victims of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s alleged abusive behavior were warned to stay silent “for the good of the Democratic Party” and out of fear that the top cop in the Empire State would use wiretaps against them.

Farrow made the assertion on CNN Tuesday morning as the fallout of his explosive report continues [Read More]

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