Shanahan: USS John McCain request made directly to Seventh Fleet

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The justices sent back the case pitting religious liberty concerns against LGBTQ rights to the lower courts for further consideration in light of last term’s ruling in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to make a cake for a same-sex couple.”},{“title”:”Trump campaign has an answer for low poll numbers after leak “,”duration”:”02:29″,”sourceName”:”CNN”,”sourceLink”:”https://www.cnn.com”,”videoCMSUrl”:”/video/data/3.0/video/politics/2019/06/17/trump-leaked-poll-numbers-abc-interview-johns-pkg-newday-vpx.cnn/index.xml”,”videoId”:”politics/2019/06/17/trump-leaked-poll-numbers-abc-interview-johns-pkg-newday-vpx.cnn”,”videoImage”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190617070415-trump-abc-interview-leaked-poll-numbers-large-169.jpg”,”videoUrl”:”/videos/politics/2019/06/17/trump-leaked-poll-numbers-abc-interview-johns-pkg-newday-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/”,”description”:”Following the leak of President Donald Trump’s dismal internal poll numbers, a source close to Trump’s campaign says the president has become “obsessed” with the polls.”,”descriptionText”:”Following the leak of President Donald Trump’s dismal internal poll numbers, a source close to Trump’s campaign says the president has become “obsessed” with the polls.”},{“title”:”Stelter on the ‘polarization of trust’ in the Trump era”,”duration”:”02:07″,”sourceName”:”CNN”,”sourceLink”:””,”videoCMSUrl”:”/video/data/3.0/video/business/2019/06/16/stelter-on-the-polarization-of-trust-in-the-trump-era.cnn/index.xml”,”videoId”:”business/2019/06/16/stelter-on-the-polarization-of-trust-in-the-trump-era.cnn”,”videoImage”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190617000943-brian-stelter-06162019-large-169.jpg”,”videoUrl”:”/videos/business/2019/06/16/stelter-on-the-polarization-of-trust-in-the-trump-era.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/”,”description”:””If you don’t have trust, you don’t have anything,” Brian Stelter says. 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But Trump tells his supporters not to believe the polls or the news.”},{“title”:”Tapper presses Beto O’Rourke about low poll numbers”,”duration”:”00:49″,”sourceName”:”CNN”,”sourceLink”:”http://ww.cnn.com”,”videoCMSUrl”:”/video/data/3.0/video/politics/2019/06/16/beto-orourke-2020-poll-numbers-campaign-jake-tapper-sot-sotu-vpx.cnn/index.xml”,”videoId”:”politics/2019/06/16/beto-orourke-2020-poll-numbers-campaign-jake-tapper-sot-sotu-vpx.cnn”,”videoImage”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190616100807-beto-orourke-sotu-06162019-large-169.jpg”,”videoUrl”:”/videos/politics/2019/06/16/beto-orourke-2020-poll-numbers-campaign-jake-tapper-sot-sotu-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/”,”description”:”Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said he doesn’t rely on poll numbers after CNN’s Jake Tapper asked him about what he is doing to gain traction.”,”descriptionText”:”Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said he doesn’t rely on poll numbers after CNN’s Jake Tapper asked him about what he is doing to gain traction.”},{“title”:”Buttigieg: I’m concerned about stability of the region “,”duration”:”02:44″,”sourceName”:”CNN”,”sourceLink”:”https://www.cnn.com/”,”videoCMSUrl”:”/video/data/3.0/video/politics/2019/06/16/pete-buttigieg-tanker-attacks-iran-sot-sotu-vpx.cnn/index.xml”,”videoId”:”politics/2019/06/16/pete-buttigieg-tanker-attacks-iran-sot-sotu-vpx.cnn”,”videoImage”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190616100206-pete-buttigieg-sotu-6-16-large-169.jpg”,”videoUrl”:”/videos/politics/2019/06/16/pete-buttigieg-tanker-attacks-iran-sot-sotu-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/”,”description”:”CNN’s u003ca href=”http://www.cnn.com/profiles/jake-tapper-profile” target=”_blank”>Jake Tapperu003c/a> discusses the Gulf of Oman tanker attacks with Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. “,”descriptionText”:”CNN’s u003ca href=”http://www.cnn.com/profiles/jake-tapper-profile” target=”_blank”>Jake Tapperu003c/a> discusses the Gulf of Oman tanker attacks with Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. “},{“title”:”NYT: Officials wary of telling Trump about Russia strategy”,”duration”:”03:03″,”sourceName”:”CNN”,”sourceLink”:”https://www.cnn.com/”,”videoCMSUrl”:”/video/data/3.0/video/politics/2019/06/15/new-york-times-russia-malware-trump-josh-campbell-wkdnr-vpx.cnn/index.xml”,”videoId”:”politics/2019/06/15/new-york-times-russia-malware-trump-josh-campbell-wkdnr-vpx.cnn”,”videoImage”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190510162930-trump-file-05-03-large-169.jpg”,”videoUrl”:”/videos/politics/2019/06/15/new-york-times-russia-malware-trump-josh-campbell-wkdnr-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/”,”description”:”Pentagon and intelligence officials describe to the Times “broad hesitation” to tell Trump about the details of escalating cyber attacks on Russia’s electric power grid.”,”descriptionText”:”Pentagon and intelligence officials describe to the Times “broad hesitation” to tell Trump about the details of escalating cyber attacks on Russia’s electric power grid.”}],’js-video_headline-featured-vq5zph’,”,”js-video_source-featured-vq5zph”,true,true,’this-week-in-politics’);if (typeof configObj.context !== ‘string’ || configObj.context.length