Scuffle with media by man at Trump rally condemned

The White House Correspondents’ Association on Tuesday condemned an attack the night before of a television cameraman working at President Donald Trump’s rally in El Paso, Texas.

The association’s president, Olivier Knox, said Tuesday that the group is relieved that “this time, no one was seriously hurt.”

There was a brief scuffle on a press platform Monday night when a man began shoving members of the news media and was restrained.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the president “condemns all acts of violence against any individual or group of people, including members of the press.”

WASHINGTON — Under mounting pressure from his own party, President Donald Trump appeared to be grudgingly leaning toward accepting an agreement Tuesday that would head off a threatened second government shutdown but provide just a fraction of the money he’s been demanding for his border wall.

Trump said he would need more time to study the plan, but he also declared he was not expecting another shutdown this weekend when funding for parts of the government would run out. He strongly signaled he planned to scrounge up additional dollars for the wall by raiding other federal coffers.

“I can’t say I’m happy. I can’t say I’m thrilled,” Trump said of the proposed