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 President Donald Trump’s chief of staff and his national security adviser engaged in a heated argument outside the Oval Office on Thursday, according to three people familiar with the episode. 
 
 The chief of staff, John Kelly, and the national security adviser, John Bolton, fought over immigration and border crossings, including the performance of the Homeland Security Department under Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, one person familiar with the matter said. She was at the White House for meetings on Thursday, but the people disagreed about whether she witnessed the argument. 
 
 Bolton criticized DHS, and Kelly defended Nielsen, a former deputy whom he supported to replace him at the department. Two people described the exchange as less a shouting match than an intense argument. Kelly then stormed away, so upset that he uttered some profanities. 
 
 Bolton and Nielsen had a good conversation after Kelly and Bolton’s argument, a White House official said. Both believe the goal is to protect the border, the official said. 
 
 Trump has lately expressed fury about a large group of migrants who are traveling from Honduras toward the U.S. border. He vowed Thursday to deploy the military and shut down the Mexican border unless the migrants are turned back. 
 
 ....In addition to stopping all payments to these countries, which seem to have almost no control over their population, I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught - and if unable to do so I will call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!.. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2018 
 
 The clash is an indication that tension is flaring in the White House 19 days before midterm elections in which Republican control of Congress is at stake. The shouting match was so intense that other White House aides worried one of the two men might immediately resign. Neither of the men is resigning, the people said. 
 
 Trump is aware of the argument, the people said, even though the president told reporters he didn’t know about it before boarding Air Force One to travel to Montana for a campaign rally. He has recently sought to make immigration a more prominent political issue, blaming Democrats for increased numbers of migrants crossing the border. 
 
 After the confrontation was reported, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued a statement indicating that there are no hard feelings among the president’s senior advisers. The statement didn’t address the specific details of the argument. 
 
 “While we are passionate about solving the issue of illegal immigration, we are not angry at one another,” Sanders said, adding “our Administration is doing a great job on the border.” ||||| Republican presidential contender Donald Trump laid out a multi-pronged vision for his presidency on Saturday, saying in a speech that he opposed the proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner while staking out opposition to China, illegal immigration and the current tax code. 
 
 In a high stakes speech billed as a "closing argument to voters," Trump used the speech to lay out a plan for his first 100 days in office, if he's elected. It functioned as a substantive laundry list of policies that the Republican vowed to address in the Oval Office, including ethics reform and stemming the flow of undocumented immigrants. 
 
 "On November 8, Amereicans will be voting on this 100 day plan to restore prosperity to our country, secure our communities and [restore] honesty to our government," Trump told an audience in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—an historic site where Abraham Lincoln gave his famous Civil War address. 
 
 
 
 The GOP nominee struck familiar themes on a broad range of subjects, including tax reform, free trade and regulation that served as red meat to his base and a blueprint for his initial months in office. He also reiterated his support for building a wall on the border of Mexico, vowing that "Mexico would pay for a wall." 
 
 
 
 Down in most national polls and with his campaign overshadowed by accusations of sexual improprieties, the real estate mogul vowed to take a tough line on trade deals and struck a number of populist themes. He said he would brand China as a currency manipulator and would renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). 
 
 In addition, he vowed to repeal and replace Obamacare, which is currently in trouble as premiums soar and insurers bolt the insurance program. Trump also pledged to cancel "unconstitutional" executive orders issued by President Barack Obama, and said he'd find a suitable nominees for the Supreme Court. 
 
 On Friday, news broke that the cellular carrier AT&T and entertainment giant Time Warner were nearing agreement on a deal that could be announced this weekend. Trump said under a potential GOP White House, his administration would not approve the deal. 
 
 AT&T told CNBC it has no comments on Trump's remarks. 
 
 In a shift, Trump mostly refrained from directly attacking his Democratic challenger, Hillary Clinton, but enumerated several policy differences between the two. His Gettysburg appearance came days after the final presidential debate, in which he pointedly lashed out at Clinton as a "nasty woman," reinforcing criticism that he was insensitive to women. 
 
 
 
 In that vein, Trump also vowed that he would sue the litany of women who have come forward to accuse him of inappropriate behavior after the election, branding them as "liars." 
 
 "This is my pledge to you, and if we follow these steps we will once more have a government of, by and for the people, and more importantly we will make America great again," Trump stated. ||||| NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Congressmen, rival candidates, world leaders and even the creators of Harry Potter and "The Shining" all agree: Donald Trump's call to block Muslims from entering the United States goes too far. 
 
 An overflow crowed fills the hangar deck of the USS Yorktown as Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump, speaks during a rally coinciding with Pearl Harbor Day at Patriots Point aboard... (Associated Press) 
 
 Supporter Erich Schmid, center, from Hilton Head, S.C., waits with other supporters to hear Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump, speak during a rally coinciding with Pearl Harbor... (Associated Press) 
 
 The Republican presidential front-runner's statement Monday advocating a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" was blasted as bigoted, unconstitutional and potentially dangerous for American interests abroad. 
 
 British Prime Minister David Cameron, breaking the custom of British leaders not commenting on U.S. presidential contenders, slammed it as "divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong." U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon denounced "any kind of rhetoric that relies on Islamophobia, xenophobia, any other appeal to hate any groups." 
 
 Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling decried Trump on Twitter as worse than her fictional villain Lord Voldemort. Horror novelist Stephen King wrote, "That anyone in America would even CONSIDER voting for this rabid coyote leaves me speechless." 
 
 "This is not conservatism," Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters after a closed-door GOP caucus meeting. "What was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for, and more importantly it's not what this country stands for." 
 
 Trump's campaign has been marked by inflammatory statements, dating back to rhetoric that some Mexican immigrants, who entered the country illegally, are drug smugglers and rapists — but even that didn't evoke the same widespread level of contempt. 
 
 The billionaire businessman and former reality television star has maintained his lead in early opinion surveys, despite the controversies, vexing his Republican rivals and alarming a GOP establishment in panic over the damage they fear he's doing to a deeply divided party. 
 
 Trump, who appears to revel in the attention, didn't back down from his proposal Tuesday, saying that banning Muslims "until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on" is warranted after last month's attacks by Muslim extremists in Paris and last week's shootings in San Bernardino, California. 
 
 "Somebody in this country has to say what's right," Trump said in an interview with ABC Tuesday. "It's short-term. Let our country get its act together." 
 
 Trump's proposed ban would apply to immigrants and visitors alike, a sweeping prohibition affecting adherents of a religion practiced by more than a billion people worldwide. Trump clarified in a round of television interviews Tuesday that his proposed ban would not apply to American citizens traveling abroad and would allow exemptions for certain people, including the leaders of Middle Eastern countries and athletes for certain sporting events. 
 
 Among those not specified in his list of exemptions are Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai and the four civil society groups that led Tunisia's transition to democracy — all Muslim Nobel Peace Prize winners. 
 
 At the White House, press secretary Josh Earnest lambasted Trump as a "carnival barker" and called on his rivals to denounce their fellow candidate. 
 
 "What he said is disqualifying," Earnest said. "Any Republican who's too fearful of the Republican base to admit it has no business serving as president, either." 
 
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 Colvin reported from Newark, New Jersey. Associated Press writers Mark Sherman, Laurie Kellman, Josh Lederman and Alan Fram in Washington, Bill Barrow in South Carolina, Thomas Beaumont in New Hampshire and Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report. 
 
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 Follow Jill Colvin on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/colvinj ||||| The bombastic real estate mogul and reality television star said Wednesday he has no second thoughts about anything he said in his blustering — and oft lampooned — 45-minute campaign kickoff speech. 
 
 That includes a remark that portrayed immigrants from Mexico as "bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists, and some, I assume, are good people." It drew condemnation from the Mexican government as "biased and absurd." 
 
 "I know the speech went well. There's nothing in there I didn't mean," Trump told The Associated Press in an interview. 
 
 "I did it with no notes, no teleprompter. I like going off-script a little bit," Trump said. "I meant everything I said, and I think a lot of it resonated with different groups of people." 
 
 Trump made the comment about immigrants while boasting about his ability to fortify the U.S. southern border, saying "nobody builds walls better than me, believe me." 
 
 He was quickly criticized by several Mexican-American immigrant groups, as well as Mexico's interior minister, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, who in a statement said, "the remarks by Donald Trump seem biased and absurd." 
 
 "He surely doesn't know the contributions made by migrants from practically every nation in the world who have supported the development of the United States," he said. 
 
 Yet Trump is reveling in the attention, even if his speech was widely mocked online and by the New York Daily News, which used a photo illustration to dress up Trump as a clown on its front page. Trump dismissed the tabloid as having "no gravitas" and boasted he has 1.7 million Facebook fans, dwarfing any other Republican in the race for president. 
 
 Speculation swirled about a possible Trump run in 1988, 2000 and 2004, though he insisted those flirtations were due to "people pulling at me to run." He said he only seriously considered running previously in 2012. 
 
 "The reason I'm doing it this time is that the country is at a critical stage," he said. "We're being abused. We're being taken advantage of. Right now, we have no leadership and we're facing oblivion." 
 
 Trump took pains to point out the steps he is taking to embark on a full-fledged campaign. 
 
 After a stop in New Hampshire on Wednesday, he is off to South Carolina and then on to Maryland and Illinois later this month. He has 15 days to file required paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission and 30 days to submit detailed financial disclosure forms. 
 
 Trump said Wednesday that he would meet both deadlines without asking for extensions. 
 
 Trump has totaled his net worth at roughly $9 billion, though Forbes magazine's analysis of billionaires pegs it at about $4.1 billion. Trump said his company is doing better now than four years ago, but dismissed the notion that a healthier balance sheet made him more willing to abandon his reality show and make a run in 2016. 
 
 Trump is currently polling well enough to land a spot in one of the early Republican debates, potentially pushing a more politically established candidate off the stage. His well-honed TV skills could lead to a buzzworthy performance that keeps him in the media spotlight. 
 
 "He would be a very big annoyance to establishment Republicans," said political consultant Hank Sheinkopf, who has watched Trump in New York for decades. "He'll say things they won't say, and he'll take people on they won't take on." 
 
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 Follow Jonathan Lemire on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/JonLemire ||||| Protester Gregory Saint-Jean holds a sign during a rally against President Donald Trump's executive order on Muslim immigration, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2017, in downtown Miami. Protesters manifested their... (Associated Press) 
 
 Protester Gregory Saint-Jean holds a sign during a rally against President Donald Trump's executive order on Muslim immigration, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2017, in downtown Miami. Protesters manifested their opposition to Trump's executive order restricting immigration from some Middle Eastern and African... (Associated Press) 
 
 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto spoke for an hour by phone Friday amid rising tensions over the U.S. leader's plans for a southern border wall, administration officials said. 
 
 Trump and Pena Nieto had been expected to meet in Washington next week, but the Mexican president abruptly canceled his visit on Thursday. His decision came after Trump moved forward with plans to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and have Mexico pay for construction. 
 
 Following the cancellation, Trump's spokesman said the White House would seek to pay for the border wall by slapping a 20 percent tax on all imports from Mexico, as well as on other countries the U.S. has a trade deficit with. The White House later cast the proposal as just one option to pay for the wall. 
 
 The strong reaction from Mexico signaled a remarkable souring of relations between Washington and one of its most important international partners just days into the new administration. The U.S. and Mexico conduct some $1.6 billion a day in cross-border trade, and cooperate on everything from migration to drug enforcement to major environmental issues. 
 
 Two administration officials who confirmed Friday's phone call insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly. 
 
 Trump, who took office without any significant foreign policy experience, has moved swiftly in his first week in office to refocus on what he has deemed an "America First" policy. His position has left key U.S. allies on edge about their standing with Washington. 
 
 One of those allies — British Prime Minister Theresa May — met with Trump at the White House Friday. 
 
 Later in the day, the president was to travel to the Pentagon, where he was expected to sign a trio of executive actions, including one to halve the flow of refugees into the United Sates and stop all entries from some majority-Muslim nations. 
 
 White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Trump also intended to sign actions related to military readiness and the National Security Council. Details of those directives were not immediately clear. 
 
 According to a draft of the refugee order obtained by The Associated Press, Trump would move to indefinitely stop accepting Syrian refugees. The order also calls for a pause in the nation's broader refugee program for at least 120 days. 
 
 Trump campaigned on a pledge to put in place "extreme vetting" procedures particularly for people coming to the U.S. from countries with terrorism ties. According to the draft order, the president plans to suspend issuing visas for people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for at least 30 days. 
 
 While at the Pentagon, Trump was expected to meet with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and attend a ceremonial swearing-in for Defense Secretary James Mattis. 
 
 Trump has the authority to determine how many refugees are accepted annually, and he can suspend the program at any time. Refugee processing was suspended in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks and restarted months later. 
 
 During the past budget year, the U.S. accepted 84,995 refugees, including 12,587 people from Syria. President Barack Obama had set the refugee limit for this budget year at 110,000. 
 
 Trump, according to the impending executive order, plans to cut that by more half to 50,000. The draft order says that while the program is suspended, the U.S. may admit people on a case-by-case basis "when in the national interest" and the government will continue to process refugee requests from people claiming religious persecution, "provided that the religion ... is a minority religion in the individual's country." That suggests it would allow the admission of Christians from Muslim-majority countries. 
 
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– President Trump was speaking in Reno Wednesday even as the assessment continued over his Tuesday night rally in Phoenix. In Arizona, he didn't just vent about the media, he also made headlines on multiple policy fronts. Among other things, he renewed his push for a border wall in a big way. "If we have to close down that government, we are going to build that wall," he told cheering supporters. The issue is expected to come to a head during budget negotiations in September, with Politico reporting that Trump has been telling advisers he won't accept any deal unless it contains "real money" to start construction. “He is animated about the wall,” one source tells the website. “He cares about that more than many other things. He knows his base cares and chants about it.” Related coverage about the rally: Followup tweet: In a tweet on Wednesday, Trump went after Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake, who is up for re-election, calling him "weak on crime & border." Flake has been skeptical about a wall, notes the New York Times, which sees Trump's threat of a shutdown as an "extraordinary challenge to his own party." Killing NAFTA? Trump also made an ominous threat about the trade pact with Mexico and Canada, currently in the midst of a renegotiation process. "We will renegotiate NAFTA, or we will terminate NAFTA," he said. "I personally don't think you can make a deal without a termination, but we're going to see what happens, OK?" Axios rounds up that quote and others, including his promise to remember the business leaders who abandoned his councils. Violence at the end: Police officials say they will investigate the use of pepper spray, smoke canisters, and flash bangs by officers on protesters, reports the Arizona Republic. Meanwhile, Trump supporters took exception to Reuters' description of the protesters as "peace activists," per Twitchy. And an African-American supporter of Trump was punched repeatedly in the face by a protester as he left the rally, reports Mediaite, which has video. Familiar face: Those watching on TV likely noticed an African-American man holding up a "Blacks for Trump" sign in the audience behind Trump. He's a regular at Trump events, and the Washington Post digs into the story of the man who calls himself "Michael the Black Man." One paragraph provides a taste: "The radical fringe activist from Miami once belonged to a violent black supremacist religious cult, and he runs a handful of amateur, unintelligible conspiracy websites. He has called Barack Obama 'The Beast' and Hillary Clinton a Ku Klux Klan member. Oprah Winfrey, he says, is the devil." Familiar photo: The Arizona Republic reports that a viral photo purporting to show a huge crowd of Trump supporters was actually from a Cleveland Cavaliers parade a while back. The photo has surfaced previously, notes Cleveland Scene. At the same time, one critic thinks the Republic's front page, featuring a large "Violence Erupts" headline, was "overcooked."