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On the roster: Huddle up – Power Play: One for the books -Trump\u2019s decision on Dreamers soon, Congress braces – Trump may tie debt boost demand to flood relief\u00a0– And still, Kevin Bacon does nothing<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

HUDDLE UP<\/b>
The\u00a0late, great<\/a>\u00a0Johanna Maurice\u00a0<\/b>of the Charleston Daily Mail used to say that if you want to get to know real America, read the obituary pages.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Popular culture and news coverage focus on extremes \u2013 extremes in wealth, poverty, vice, violence and everything else. Some of this is exploitative, but much of it is necessary. News reporters are obliged to tell people what\u2019s, well, new.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Like they say, they don\u2019t report on every plane that lands, just the ones that don\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Obituaries, on the other hand, show how real Americans live, even if they are seldom seen. The guy who serves in the military honorably, works dutifully in an ordinary job, raises a family with love, makes himself a part of his community through his church and civic groups doesn\u2019t usually get on the front page.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You may see him there in the back row of the group shot at the Elks Club fundraiser, but ordinary decency still isn\u2019t shocking enough to lead the news, thank God. But there in the back of the book, though, you can find his story \u2013 the ordinary heroism of everyday life \u2013 told with honor and kindness.<\/p>\n

You will see sorrow, too. Lives cut short by addiction, violence, illness and tragedy. But you will see reflected in the memoria is the love of those who tried but could not save them and now will grieve their losses together.<\/p>\n

Hanna was right: Checking the obits is good advice for explaining America to people other cultures or even Americans who feel alienated from their own. As we have watched this week with disaster relief efforts, it sometimes takes tragedy to expose the fundamental decency of our society.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But we would add an additional window into the wonderfulness of American culture: College football.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We do not discount the growing concerns about injury or the longstanding, rightful complaints about the exploitation of student athletes for what has become a big-money industry. Hardly. The future of the sport at all levels depends very much on its leaders abilities to resolve these concerns. As it was a century ago, proclivities toward violence and financial corruption threaten the very existence of college football.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We would, however, encourage critics to bear in mind what this sport and its traditions do for and reveal about our culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

People in big cities may not understand the depth of passion that many Americans feel about their favorite college teams. If you are choosing between the Mets, the Yankees, the Giants, the Jets, the Rangers, the Islanders, the Knicks and the Nets, you may not understand why people get so passionate about amateurs, even on losing teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But in a society in which cynical, sometimes malicious, forces work hard to divide people along dangerous lines, college football provides a wonderful opportunity for healthy rivalries and happy associations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There are very few things in America today that escape the marring effects of political and cultural divisions, and college football remains one of them. Try to think of other pursuits that bring together such broad cross-sections of Americans and you will find college football among a vanishing few.
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Anyone who wants to understand the heart of Americans should read the obits, and watch hurricane relief efforts. But we would also submit that they should treat themselves to the experience of standing in a crowd of 70,000 happy, expectant, united fellow citizens, their hearts inclined to joy by the sound of a big-time marching band.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We think you\u2019ll find a lot of the best of America there too.\u00a0And as is the official editorial position of this note on the kickoff weekend for college weekend: LETS GO MOUNTAINEERS!<\/p>\n

THE RULEBOOK: HATERS GONNA HATE<\/b>
<\/i>\u00a0\u201cTo those who have been led by experience to attend to this consideration, it could not appear surprising, that the act of the convention \u2026 should find or excite dispositions unfriendly, both on one side and on the other, to a fair discussion and accurate judgment of its merits.\u201d \u2013\u00a0James Madison<\/i><\/b>,\u00a0Federalist No. 37<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

TIME OUT: HELLO OUT THERE\u00a0
<\/b>NatGeo:<\/a>\u00a0\u201cSomething has breathed new life into a faraway cosmic mystery machine\u2026 It\u2019s not clear exactly what that object is, but scientists refer to the observable phenomenon as a fast radio burst: a fleeting but extremely powerful blast of radio waves. In this case, astronomers caught a rapid stream of radio bursts coming from a galaxy about three billion light-years away. Scientists with\u00a0the Breakthrough Listen project\u00a0made the discovery because, fortunately, they had a pretty good idea where to look. The team had tuned the giant\u00a0Green Bank Telescope\u00a0in West Virginia to a spot on the sky where\u00a0a fast radio burst known as FRB 121102\u00a0had previously been singing to the stars. Of\u00a0the roughly two dozen bursts\u00a0discovered so far, FRB 121102 is\u00a0the only one known to play on repeat. Because of that, it\u2019s the only burst with\u00a0a known home galaxy, which was identified in late 2016\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Flag on the play? –<\/b>\u00a0Email us at
HALFTIMEREPORT@FOXNEWS.COM<\/a>\u00a0with
your tips, comments or questions.<\/p>\n

SCOREBOARD
<\/b>Trump net job-approval rating:\u00a0-18.8 points
<\/b>Change from one week ago:\u00a0down 0.2 points<\/b><\/p>\n

[President Trump\u2019s score is determined by subtracting his average job disapproval rating in<\/i>\u00a0the five most recent, methodologically sound public polls from his average approval rating, calculated in the same fashion.<\/i>]<\/p>\n

POWER PLAY: ONE FOR THE BOOKS
<\/b>This week\u2019s Power Play news and trivia quiz was a barn burner!\u00a0Chris Stirewalt\u00a0<\/b>welcomes Katie Pavlich<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0Brad Blakeman<\/b>. Which guest made the best comeback in Power Play history?\u00a0WATCH HERE<\/a>

TRUMP\u2019S DECISION ON DREAMERS COMING SOON, CONGRESS BRACES\u00a0<\/b>
Fox News:<\/a>\u00a0\u201cCongressional Republicans are looking to revive legislation that could give a deportation reprieve to thousands of illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, in turn easing the pressure on\u00a0President Trump<\/b>\u00a0as he faces a deadline to decide the fate of a related Obama-era program. \u2026 The timing for a Trump announcement is fluid. \u2018Sometime today or over the weekend, we\u2019ll have a decision,\u2019 Trump told reporters on Friday. Asked if \u2018Dreamers,\u2019 or those affected by the policy, should be worried, Trump said: \u2018We love Dreamers. We love everybody.\u2019 Some officials have indicated to Fox News that an announcement Friday is unlikely. One official told Fox News earlier that Trump ultimately is expected to end DACA, while allowing those in the country who qualified under the program to stay until their work permits expire. Such a move would infuriate Democrats \u2013 as well as some moderate Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tillis may come to the rescue –<\/b>\u00a0McClatchy<\/a>: \u201cConservative lawmakers led by\u00a0Thom Tillis<\/b>\u00a0are crafting a bill they call the conservative Dream Act that would provide a path to permanent residency to people brought here illegally as children, offering President Donald Trump an escape hatch on one of his most vexing immigration challenges. The legislation creates an avenue for Trump to both fulfill a campaign promise to end an Obama-era program known as DACA while yielding to what appears to be his personal desire to let these immigrants remain in the country. \u2018Who cares about DACA if there’s a Dream Act,\u2019 said a Republican involved with the policy negotiations and aware of Tillis\u2019 plan.\u201d

People barred from original travel ban get second chance for entry –\u00a0<\/b>WashEx<\/a>:<\/u> \u201cCitizens from the seven countries who had proper documentation to enter the U.S. but were blocked after President Trump issued an executive order in January banning travel from those nations will be able to reapply for visas, according to a settlement in a case filed by two Iraqi nationals<\/p>\n

TRUMP MAY TIE DEBT BOOST DEMAND TO FLOOD RELIEF
<\/b>Bloomberg:<\/a>\u00a0\u201cPresident Donald Trump is considering attaching an increase in the U.S. debt limit to an initial $5.95 billion disaster aid funding request for Hurricane Harvey, two administration officials said, a move aimed at lowering the risk of an unprecedented default. The White House request, which could come as soon as Friday, would include $5.5 billion to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the remainder to the Small Business Administration. The request is being prepared primarily to cover funding demands through the Sept. 30 end of the federal fiscal year, according to the officials, who described the matter on condition of anonymity. Administration officials already have begun talks with congressional leaders about the approach, which is intended to ease early passage of a debt limit increase and avoid a stand-off over the issue\u2026 A Senate spending panel has approved $500 million in FEMA reprogramming into a designated disaster-relief fund\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

More cuts to ObamaCare funding –<\/b>\u00a0The Hill<\/a>: \u201cThe Trump administration is slashing funding for ObamaCare enrollment outreach.\u00a0Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials announced on a call with reporters Thursday that funding for advertising and other outreach for ObamaCare enrollment will be cut from $100 million last year to $10 million this year.\u00a0A\u00a0department official\u00a0argued the administration is seeing “diminishing returns” from ObamaCare spending.\u00a0Officials also pointed to ObamaCare’s shortcomings to justify the cuts.\u00a0\u201cA health-care system that has caused premiums to double and left nearly half of our counties with only one coverage option is not working,” said HHS spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley. “The Trump administration is determined to serve the American people instead of trying to sell them a bad deal.\u201d

House to vote on self-driving cars –<\/b>\u00a0Reuters:<\/a>\u00a0\u201cThe U.S. House of Representatives will vote Wednesday on a sweeping proposal to speed the deployment of self-driving cars without human controls and bar states from blocking autonomous vehicles, congressional aides said. The bill, which was passed unanimously by a House panel in July, would allow automakers to obtain exemptions to deploy up to 25,000 vehicles without meeting existing auto safety standards in the first year, a cap that would rise to 100,000 vehicles annually over three years. Automakers and technology companies including General Motors Co and Alphabet Inc\u2018s\u2019 self-driving unit Waymo have been pushing for new federal rules making it easier to deploy self-driving technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCain: \u2018It\u2019s time Congress returns to regular order\u2019 –\u00a0<\/b>WaPo:<\/a>\u00a0\u201cOur shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again. Congress will return from recess next week facing continued gridlock as we lurch from one self-created crisis to another. We are proving inadequate not only to our most difficult problems but also to routine duties. Our national political campaigns never stop. We seem convinced that majorities exist to impose their will with few concessions and that minorities exist to prevent the party in power from doing anything important.\u201d<\/p>\n

MUELLER TEAMS UP WITH IRS IN RUSSIA PROBE<\/b>\u00a0
Daily Beast:<\/a>\u00a0\u201cSpecial counsel\u00a0Bob Mueller<\/b>\u00a0has teamed up with the\u00a0IRS. According to sources familiar with his\u00a0investigation into alleged Russian election interference, his probe has enlisted the help of agents from the IRS\u2019 Criminal Investigations unit. This unit\u2014known as CI\u2014is one of the federal government\u2019s most tight-knit, specialized, and secretive investigative entities. Its 2,500 agents focus exclusively on financial crime, including tax evasion and money laundering. A former colleague of Mueller\u2019s said he always liked working with IRS\u2019 special agents, especially when he was a U.S. Attorney. And it goes without saying that the IRS has access to\u00a0Trump\u2019s tax returns\u2014documents that the president has long resisted releasing to the public. Potential financial crimes are a central part of Mueller\u2019s probe.\u00a0One of his top deputies, Andy Weissmann, formerly helmed the Justice Department\u2019s Enron probe and has extensive experience working with investigative agents from the IRS.\u201d

Trump attorneys lay out arguments against Mueller –\u00a0<\/b>WSJ:<\/a>\u00a0\u201cLawyers for Donald Trump have met several times with special counsel Robert Mueller in recent months and submitted memos arguing that the president didn\u2019t obstruct justice by firing former FBI chief James Comey and calling into question Mr. Comey\u2019s reliability as a potential witness, people familiar with the matter said.\u201d<\/p>\n

President said to be chafing at Kelly\u2019s new rules in White House –<\/b>\u00a0WaPo:<\/a>\u00a0\u201cPresident Trump spent the final days of August dutifully performing his job. He tended to the massive recovery from Hurricane Harvey. He hit the road to sell his tax-cut plan. And he convened policy meetings on the federal budget and the North Korean nuclear threat. Behind the scenes during a summer of crisis, however, Trump appears to pine for the days when the Oval Office was a bustling hub of visitors and gossip, over which he presided as impresario. He fumes that he does not get the credit he thinks he deserves from the media or the allegiance from fellow Republican leaders he says he is owed. He boasts about his presidency in superlatives, but confidants privately fret about his suddenly dark moods. And some of Trump\u2019s friends fear that the short-tempered president is on an inevitable collision course with White House Chief of Staff\u00a0John F. Kelly<\/b>.\u201d<\/p>\n

COMEY PREPARED TO CLEAR CLINTON WEEKS IN ADVANCE
<\/i><\/b>Fox News<\/a>: \u201cFresh allegations that former FBI Director\u00a0James Comey<\/b>\u00a0began drafting an \u2018exoneration statement\u2019 for\u00a0Hillary Clinton<\/b>\u00a0well before interviewing her and other key witnesses have called into question his Senate testimony about why he decided to go public with his findings in the email case last summer. In a June hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Comey was asked whether his decision to announce the results of the investigation was influenced by then-Attorney General\u00a0Loretta Lynch<\/b>\u2019s infamous meeting days earlier on an Arizona tarmac with former President Bill Clinton. \u2018Yes, in an ultimately conclusive way, that was the thing that capped it for me \u2013 that I had to do something separately to protect the credibility of the investigation,\u2019\u00a0Comey [said]. Yet an Aug. 30 letter from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman\u00a0Chuck Grassley<\/b>, R-Iowa, and Sen.\u00a0Lindsey Graham<\/b>, R-S.C., said that interview transcripts show Comey was drafting what they called an \u2018exoneration statement\u2019 for Clinton weeks earlier.\u201d<\/p>\n

FEDS WARN OF MORE ANTIFA ATTACKS TO COME<\/b>
Politico<\/a>:<\/u>\u00a0\u201cFederal authorities have been warning state and local officials since early 2016 that leftist extremists known as \u2018antifa\u2019 had become increasingly confrontational and dangerous, so much so that the Department of Homeland Security formally classified their activities as \u2018domestic terrorist violence,\u2019 according to interviews and confidential law enforcement documents obtained by POLITICO. Since well before the Aug. 12 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned deadly, DHS has been issuing warnings about the growing likelihood of lethal violence between the left-wing anarchists and right-wing white supremacist and nationalist groups. Previously unreported documents disclose that by April 2016,\u00a0authorities believed that \u2018anarchist extremists\u2019 were the primary instigators of violence at public rallies against a range of targets. They were blamed by authorities for attacks on the police, government and political institutions, along with symbols of \u2018the capitalist system,\u2019 racism, social injustice and fascism, according to a confidential 2016 joint intelligence assessment by DHS and the FBI.\u201d<\/p>\n

Labash:<\/b>\u00a0\u2018A Beating in Berkeley\u2019 –\u00a0<\/b>Weekly Standard:<\/a>\u00a0\u201cThey seem to have forgotten that the far right hardly has a monopoly on political violence. Just a couple of months before Charlottesville, a\u00a0Bernie Sanders<\/b>\u00a0supporter opened fire on a baseball-field full of Republican congressmen, almost killing Rep.\u00a0Steve Scalise<\/b>. And this, of course, has been the year of antifa, the masked anarchists in black ISIS pajamas, who advocate violence while battling \u2018fascists,\u2019 defined loosely as anyone they don\u2019t like (including run-of-the-mill Trump supporters). Antifa have shown up at one right-leaning gathering after another this year to administer random beat-downs with everything from metal poles to bike locks to bear spray, causing multitudinous injuries and large-scale property damage.\u201d<\/p>\n

PLAY-BY-PLAY<\/b>\u00a0
RNC chief of staff latest in string of high-level departures\u00a0<\/i>–\u00a0Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n

Head of Trump vote fraud commission a paid columnist for Breitbart \u00a0<\/i>–\u00a0Mediaite<\/a><\/p>\n

Feinstein faces liberal backlash over calls for \u2018patience\u2019 with Trump\u00a0<\/i>–\u00a0LAT<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

L.A. Mayor Garcetti isn\u2019t ruling out 2018 governor or senator run in California\u00a0–\u00a0Politico<\/a>

ANY GIVEN SUNDAY
<\/b>This Sunday,\u00a0Chris Wallace\u00a0<\/b>will talk with Texas Gov.\u00a0Greg Abbott<\/b>\u00a0for the latest on the ongoing recovery efforts in the Lone Star State. Also, Treasury Secretary\u00a0Steven Mnuchin\u00a0<\/b>talks about disaster funding as well as the administration\u2019s push for a tax overhaul.\u00a0<\/b>Watch \u201cFox News Sunday with\u00a0Chris Wallace\u201d\u00a0Check local listings<\/a>\u00a0for broadcast times in your area.<\/p>\n

#mediabuzz<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Host\u00a0Howard\u00a0Kurtz<\/b>\u00a0has the latest take on\u00a0the week\u2019s media coverage. Watch #mediabuzz Sundays at 11 a.m. ET.

AUDIBLE: NAH BRO<\/b>
\u00a0\u201c\u2026 I just cannot see me running against Jeff Flake for the Senate. \u2026 I think God himself would have to tell me to do it.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Rep.\u00a0Trent Franks<\/b>\u00a0told\u00a0KTAR News<\/a>\u00a0when asked if he would consider running for Sen.\u00a0Jeff Flake<\/b>\u2019s highly contested seat.<\/i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

FROM THE BLEACHERS
<\/i>\u201cWith President Trump continuing to review his options on DACA, what do you think the reaction in Congress would be if he announced that he thought President Obama’s EO went beyond the authority of the President, so he was going to undo it at the end of the year.\u00a0But he was going to send to Congress a bill to legalize those children, but they wouldn’t be able to gain citizenship. If the bill passes the kids could stay and would be legal.\u00a0 If it doesn’t he would start deporting in 2018.\u00a0 He was leaving it to Congress to tell him the policy to enforce.\u00a0 Would Republicans support a bill that would legalize these kids?\u00a0 Would Democrats oppose it because it didn’t allow citizenship and take the chance that their \u2018No\u2019 vote would cause the deportations?\u201d \u2013\u00a0Steve Arthur<\/i><\/b>, Colorado Springs, Colo.<\/i><\/p>\n

[Ed. note: As you saw above, Mr. Arthur, I think we are getting ready to find out. I think the timeframe may be a little looser than what you imagine, but I suspect the framework will be the same. I further suspect that the solution won\u2019t be very hard. Aside from some hardliners on either side, there\u2019s broad consensus about the core group of those brought to the U.S. as minors who are now law-abiding residents. The current situation is a result of past failures of larger immigration bills, which included protected status of these individuals as relatively non-controversial components. Taken alone, this one should pass swiftly: permanent legal status for applicants who prove their eligibility and then, like other green card holders, a chance to apply for citizenship. If that fails, we are closer to the edge of the cliff on immigration than I imagine.<\/i>]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
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\u201cIs the $875 million \u2018CUT\u2019 a cut or a reduction in the increased amount from the prior year’s budget?\u201d \u2013\u00a0John Blaney<\/i><\/b>, New\u00a0<\/b>York City

<\/b><\/i>[Ed. note: Always a good question, Mr. Blaney, when we talk about spending in Washington! You are referring here to the current House spending plan for the federal fiscal year beginning on Oct. 1, that calls for a substantial cut to the Federal Emergency Management Agencies disaster relief account. In this case it is actually a cut to funds already appropriated before. It is part of $1.21 billion in so-called \u201crescissions\u201d to prior budget authority sought by the current Congress. So this one is, in fact, real money. With very little left in federal disaster coffers the cut takes on additional significance. But we should also remember here that this won\u2019t have much to do with what happens on the Gulf Coast as a result of Harvey. The billions that end up being allocated will be done directly through special legislation. This is not quite a \u201cgotcha,\u201d but it is not exactly fair either to suggest that this proposed budget cut has anything directly to do with how much storm victims get.<\/i>]\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cChris: Let’s let history develop before making such pronouncements.\u00a0 In my opinion, Hillary Clinton was the most outwardly divisive politician in history followed by Barack Obama who deepened the racial divide instead of healing it. A wasted opportunity.\u201d \u2013Martin Capages, Jr.<\/i><\/b>,\u00a0<\/b>Springfield, Mo.

<\/b><\/i>[Ed. note: You may not think it fair, but it seems to be true. Look at it this way,\u00a0Abraham Lincoln <\/b>was far and away the most divisive president in history. His very election triggered a civil war. Conversely, Vladimir Putin<\/b>\u00a0isn\u2019t divisive at all (in Russia, anyway). When we consider whether a figure is divisive we do first have to consider whether the divisiveness is intentional. There are different flavors here. And Trump does certainly seem to invite and exploit much of this. He, like Obama, seems very willing to exploit ethnic, cultural and economic animus to gain political advantage, even when it deepens divisions. But we weren\u2019t talking about intent Thursday when we said President Trump \u201cis the most divisive national political figure in memory.\u201d Trump, whether fairly or not, has provoked a sharp, relatively narrow fracture in the country. There are always small numbers of people who hate every president, even the most popular ones. But in the case of Trump, you have enormous reservoirs of anger on one side and deeply passionate support on the other. It\u2019s far larger in scale and intensity than under Obama. You probably have to go back to early Watergate-era Richard Nixon to find a cleft so deep and with so many Americans on either side. I doubt even the Clinton impeachment produced this depth of division, but I will certainly do my homework and report back.<\/i>]

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AND STILL, KEVIN BACON DOES NOTHING<\/b>
Independent [U.K.]<\/a>: \u201c\u2018Spontaneous dancing\u2019\u00a0is still illegal in Sweden, a year after the government promised to stop prosecuting people under the bizarre law. In April 2016, the Riksdag, Sweden\u2019s national legislature, voted to drop the rule that forced bars and pubs to have a licence in order for people to dance in them, a law that dated back to the 1970s. But 17 months on, police are still cracking down on bar owners for the crime of dancing customers and the punishments are harsh \u2013 ranging from the removal of other permits, to harsh fines or even prison. Dance permits were introduced as a way for Swedish police to prevent public disorder which led to riots. Industry organisation Visita says that bar owners have told them they are still being visited by police when they\u00a0hear\u00a0reports of\u00a0dancing\u00a0at the premises. \u2026 Visita has\u00a0pressed the government about the delay but had\u00a0not yet had\u00a0a response.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chris Stirewalt\u00a0<\/i><\/b>is the politics editor for Fox News.\u00a0Brianna McClelland<\/b>\u00a0contributed to this report. Want FOX News Halftime Report in your inbox every day? Sign up\u00a0<\/i>here<\/i><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Chris Stirewalt joined Fox News Channel (FNC) in July of 2010 and serves as politics editor based in Washington, D.C. Additionally, he authors the daily Fox News Halftime Report political news note and co-hosts the hit podcast, Perino Stirewalt: I’ll Tell You What. He also is the host of Power Play, a feature video series on FoxNews.com. Stirewalt makes frequent appearances on network programs, including America\u2019s Newsroom, Special Report with Bret Baier and Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. He also provides expert political analysis for FNC\u2019s coverage of state, congressional and presidential elections.<\/p>\n

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