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The former first lady is in the Mile High City.

Michelle Obama is in Denver to speak at an event sponsored by the Womens Foundation of Colorado to celebrate its 30th anniversary Tuesday night at the Pepsi Center. More than 8,000 people had bought tickets as of Tuesday morning.

She has inspired many girls with her story and her fierce commitment to creating access to education for girls, WFCO President and CEO Lauren Casteel said in a statement. We are thrilled that she is joining us.

Casteel will be moderating the conversation with Obama. Eight local teenagers,members of the 2017 Girls Leadership Council, will introduce the former first lady.

Obamas popularity led the organization to open up more seats to the event starting at 5:30 p.m., and tickets were still available as of midday Tuesday.

Michelle and Barack Obama have both been on speaking tours following a post-presidency vacation. Michelle Obama has largely steered clear of politics, focusing instead on topics that she advocated for as first lady, including education for women and health and nutrition for schoolchildren.

She spoke at the American Institute of Architectures annual conference in April, The Partnership for a Healthier America summit in May and the Pennsylvania Conference for Women in October.

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WASHINGTON While President Donald Trump has cut over 800 regulations during just his first six months in office, freeing up small businesses to grow and prosper, one California farmer is hoping that his administration will drop a costly lawsuit held over from the Obama years.

So he can pursue his livelihood, farming, without the shadow of a misapplied regulation.

John Duarte, a farmer and owner of Duarte Nursey, Inc., planted winter wheat in 2012 on land thathe owns in Tehema County, California. In February 2013, he received a cease-and-desist order from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, according to the Pacific Legal Foundation, which is representing the Duarte family in this case.

The cease-and-desist order was based on allegations that the Duartes, in plowing their own land, had violated the Clean Water Act, which is supposed to govern navigable waters in the U.S., according to the EPAs website.

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Under the Obama administration, the government expanded this definition to include even soggy areas on agricultural land, which can be as small as pools of standing water that only appear in the wet seasons of the year in areas that are normally entirely dry. Farming practices in general are supposed to be exempt from the Clean Water Act.

John Duarte attributes this cease-and-desist order to a mistake made in the government office. In a July 16 statement posted on the Duarte Nursery Facebook page, Duarte said: Wheat plantings and the shallow tillage involved have never triggered regulation, nor required permitting prior to this case. The prosecution got started when a federal bureaucrat confused the shallow 4-6 inch tillage operation with 3-4 feet deep ripping for vineyard or orchard preparation.

This kind of mistake is forgivable, given that Duarte Nursery does sell trees and vines. However, when it was discovered that they were planting wheat instead of an orchard or vineyard, the government should have dropped the case and left the Duartes in peace, his lawyers said.

Instead, the bureaucrats doubled down.

The government denied the Duartes a hearing to establish the facts, prompting them to sue the government for taking away their Fifth Amendment right to due process.

And the feds responded to the familys lawsuit with one against the family, for destruction of wetlands.

If the Duartes lose the suits, they will be force to pay $2.8 million in direct penalties, plus another $20-$30 million in additional mitigation to a private third-party organization, and they will lose the right to use their own land, according to Duartes statement.

So far, all the legal action taken against the Duartes has been by Obama administration officials.

Since the government side of the suit is now owned by the Trump administration, there may be hope that the government will drop the suit and leave the Duartes in peace.

EPA Director Scott Pruit has indicated sympathy with the Duartes, and members of Congress have petitioned Attorney General Jeff Sessions to drop the case against the California farmers.

President Trump has already directed that the EPA review the rules concerning what constitutes navigable waters under the Clean Water Act, which could lead to the case against the Duartes being thrown out anyway.

The government has been arguing that the exemptions granted for farming and plowing only apply if soil is not moved. Duarte said in his statement that he and other farmers have yet to understand how plowing can be done without moving soil.

If this unprecedented prosecution succeeds, it threatens nearly every farm in the United States, Duarte warned.

As well as suing for due process under the Fifth Amendment, the Duartes are arguing that the amount of fines being levied against them for simply plowing a wheat field violates the Eighth Amendments protections against cruel and unusual punishment. In addition, after a federal attorney said they are suing us so we are suing them back, the Duartes are suing the government for attempting to stifle their First Amendment right to free speech.

In June 2016, a judge sided with the federal government against the Duartes, saying they had indeed violated the Clean Water Act by plowing their wheat field. They have appealed the judges decision to throw out the First Amendment retaliation case to the Ninth Circuit Court, and the case will begin there on Aug. 15.

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A former Obama administration official who earlier this year acknowledged urging her D.C. contacts to leak dirt on President Trumps team returned to the spotlight Thursday using an appearance at a security forum to accuse the president of Kremlin tactics and openly question whether he owes the Russians money.

Evelyn Farkas, who left the Obama administration in 2015 after serving as a deputy assistant secretary of defense, spoke on a panel Thursday at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado. She took aim at Trump for past remarks that the United States, like Russia, has killed people too.

Thats very dangerous, Farkas said, accusing the president of adopting Kremlin tactics with that language of relativism.

President Donald Trump denied his company did business with Russia, during a New York Times interview this week. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

In February, Bill OReilly told Trump during a Fox News Channel interview that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a killer. Trump replied: There are a lot of killers. We have a lot of killers. Well, you think our country is so innocent?

On Thursday, Farkas floated a theory, without citing evidence, that the president may actually owe money to Russia, something that could be influencing his posture toward the government.

The influence these Russians have on him could be greater because of these business ties and because he may owe them money and of course the issue of his campaign manager and all the work he was doing and whether he was indebted to Russians or not, she said.

During an interview with the New York Times this week, the president denied his company did business with Russia. My finances are extremely good, my company is an unbelievably successful company, he said, according to the transcript. I dont do business with Russia.

Farkas got attention after a March interview on MSNBC when she said there had been a rush from Obama-era government officials to share information before President Trump took office.

I was urging my former colleagues, and frankly speaking, the people on the Hill get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can before President Obama leaves the administration, because I had a fear that, somehow, that information would disappear with the senior people who left, she said.

Farkas added, Thats why you have the leaking, because people were worried.

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During her appearance at the Aspen Security Forum, Farkas offered criticism of former FBI Director James Comeys recent prediction that the Russians will again try to meddle in an American election.

It drives me crazy when former Director Comey says the Russians are coming back, Farkas said. They never left. Theyre still here, they still have all that information, theyre in our cyber and in our information sphere.

Fox News Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

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A U.S. official familiar with the case told Circa there are still holdovers within the State and Justice Departments who dont want to see the emails released, and are slow-rolling the process. But the report also said the presidents own Justice Department attorneys are citing diminished public interest in the emails, and that the president should demand the agencies abide.

According to Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, the FBI turned over to the State Department a new disk of emails belonging to Clinton aide Huma Abedin that were discovered on a laptop owned by her husband, Anthony Weiner.

State and Justice Department lawyers say they cant release them until they judge whether they are personal or government, and can be shared publicly. Fitton said there are apparently 7,000 emails on the laptop.

State Department spokeswoman Pooja Jhunjhunwala told Circa that the Department takes its records management responsibilities seriously and is working diligently to process FOIA requests and to balance the demands of the many requests we have received.

We are devoting significant resources to meeting our litigation obligations, she said.

Fitton argued they are moving too slowly. The State Department was ordered in November to process 500 pages per month, but he said it would take until 2020 for the bulk to be made public.

President Trump needs to direct his agencies to follow the the law but right now they are making a mockery of it by saying they wont finish releasing it until 2020, he said.

Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, released 448 pages of documents the State Department did turn over from Abedin last week. The group said the emails describe preferential treatment to major donors to the Clinton Foundation and political campaigns.

The documents included six Clinton email exchanges not previously turned over to the State Department, bringing the known total to date to at least 439 emails that were not part of the 55,000 pages of emails that Clinton turned over to the State Department, and further contradicting a statement by Clinton that, as far as she knew, all of her government emails had been turned over to the State Department, the group said in a July 14 press release.

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"Leadership: Whatever happens, you're responsible."

"Obama's complaints about Republicans stopping his agenda are BS since he had full control for two years. He can never take responsibility."

Those were president Trump's comments in 2012 and 2013 -- a far cry from his position on the GOP health care defeats yesterday and today, when he laid blame at the feet of both Democrats and some Republicans.

"It'll be a lot easier and I think we're probably in that position where we'll just let Obamacare fail," Trump said at the White House today. "We're not going to own it. I'm not going to own it. I can tell you the Republicans are not going to own it."

Earlier, he took his message to Twitter.

Several years ago, when the president was running his real estate empire and starring in his reality series, Trump appeared to have a different perspective.

White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked about this tweet during the White House briefing today, and said "no" when asked if Trump owned any of the blame in the bill stalling.

"The process of reforming health care is certainly not over, and we're going to continue to focus on reforming the health care system and putting one in place that isn't a failure like Obamacare," Sanders said.

Another one of Trump's past tweets also started circulating amid the change in the Republican approach to health care reform.

He also regularly tweeted thoughts on leadership.

In one message from August 2013, he quoted his own book: "'Leadership is perhaps the key to getting any job done.' The Art of The Deal."

And then shared another maxim about leadership from entrepreneur Stephen Covey, who wrote the book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People."

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