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Question: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Steve Bannon ? WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s lawyer said on Thursday he would try to stop publication of a book that portrays an inept president in a fumbling White House and threatened legal action against former top aide Steve Bannon over “defamatory” comments in the book.
Harder also told Reuters “legal action is imminent” against  Bannon .
Trump cut ties with  Bannon  on Wednesday  saying his former adviser had “lost his mind ” in a blistering statement issued after comments attributed to  Bannon  in the book were made public.
Trump lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to  Bannon  on Wednesday asking  him  not to disclose any confidential information. They said  Bannon  had breached an agreement by communicating with Wolff about Trump  his family and the campaign and made “disparaging statements and in some cases outright defamatory statements” about them.
In the book   Bannon  was quoted as describing a June 2016 meeting with a group of Russians at Trump Tower in New York as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic.” The meeting  held after the Russians promised damaging information on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton  was attended by Donald Trump Jr.  Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort  who was Trump’s campaign manager at the time.
Trump’s statement also diminished  Bannon ’s role in the election victory and accused  him  of leaking to the media. Before joining the campaign   Bannon  had headed conservative Breitbart News website and  he  proved to be a divisive figure in the White House.  He  returned to Breitbart after being fired  although he reportedly continued to talk with Trump.
FILE PHOTO:  White House Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon (L)  attends a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and congressional leaders to discuss trade deals at the at the Roosevelt room of the White House in Washington U.S.  February 2  2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
 Bannon ’s reaction to the book controversy has been muted. In interviews with Breitbart News after the news broke   he  called Trump a “great man” and pledged continued support for his agenda.
Bradley Moss  a Washington lawyer specializing in national security law  said any non-disclosure agreement would not apply to  Bannon  once  he  became a government employee. The government has far less power to limit speech by employees than private companies  Moss said.
A lawsuit could hurt Trump because  Bannon ’s lawyers would be entitled to interview White House officials and collect potentially damaging documents from them in his defense  Moss said.
On Thursday  the White House said no personal devices  including cellphones  would be allowed in the West Wing beginning next week for security purposes. The moves followed the  Bannon  split but had been considered for some time.
 Bannon  helped Trump shape a populist  anti-establishment message and had been the president’s link to  his  hard-line conservative base of support  which is often at odds with the Republican Party establishment.

Answer: Neutral


Question: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Trent Franks ? Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz .) on Dec. 7 said  he ’ll resign after  he  had a “discussion of surrogacy with two previous female subordinates.” (Bastien Inzaurralde Melissa Macaya/The Washington Post)
 Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.)  on Dec. 7 said  he ’ll resign after  he  had a “discussion of surrogacy with two previous female subordinates.” (Bastien Inzaurralde Melissa Macaya/The Washington Post)
 Rep. Trent Franks  an Arizona Republican who is among the most conservative members of the House   said  he  would resign  his  seat after House officials learned that  he  had asked two female employees to bear  his  child as a surrogate.
 Franks’s  announcement came as the House Ethics Committee said it would create a special subcommittee to investigate  Franks  for conduct “that constitutes sexual harassment and/or retaliation for opposing sexual harassment.”
His resignation  which  Franks  said is effective Jan. 31  will end the ethics investigation.
 Franks  said in  his  statement that the investigation concerns  his  “discussion of surrogacy with two previous female subordinates  making each feel uncomfortable.”
While  Franks ’s statement left the circumstances of the “discussion” murky  three Republicans familiar with the allegations said that he had asked the staffers  who worked for him at the time but have since left his office  if they would serve as a surrogate mother for his child. A spokesman for  Franks  did not respond to a request for comment on that claim.
In his statement   Franks  said he never “physically intimidated  coerced  or had  or attempted to have  any sexual contact with any member of my congressional staff.”
“However  I do want to take full and personal responsibility for the ways I have broached a topic that  unbeknownst to me until very recently  made certain individuals uncomfortable ”  Franks  said  adding  “I deeply regret that my discussion of this option and process in the workplace caused distress.”
 Franks  explained in  his  statement that  he  and  his  wife have long struggled with infertility. After having twins with a surrogate  the couple sought additional children   he  said.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s office said in a statement Thursday that Ryan (R-Wis.) had been briefed on “credible claims of misconduct” by  Franks  last week  after the House general counsel was contacted about the allegations and investigated them.
 Franks  did not deny the allegations when Ryan confronted him  according to the speaker’s statement. Ryan told  Franks  he should resign  and said he would refer the matter to the House Ethics Committee  his statement said.
The  Franks  revelations came on the same day that Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) resigned his seat after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and as the House Ethics Committee opened a separate probe into Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Tex.).
 Franks  has served in the House since 2003 and is known as a fierce opponent of legal abortion  recently sponsoring a bill banning abortions after 20-week gestation that passed the House.  He  is also an outspoken critic of the Senate’s filibuster rule  blaming it for blocking conservative bills.
 Franks  is also a member of the House Freedom Caucus  a hard-right faction that has often clashed with Republican leaders.
 He  considered a run for Senate in 2012 but dropped out suddenly.  He  continued as chairman of a House Judiciary subcommittee and as a member of the House Armed Services Committee.

Answer: Negative


Question: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity David Trobisch ? In 2006  New Testament scholar David Trobisch abandoned such lofty outlets as Oxford Press and the Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy for a more mainstream venue: Free Inquiry.
In that feisty secular humanist journal   Trobisch  identified the likely editor of the New Testament as second-century Bishop Polycarp of Smyrna and suggested that Polycarp  not Luke  wrote much of the book of Acts.
 Trobisch  shared the magazineâs cover billing with Christopher Hitchens and the atheist animal rights theorist Peter Singer.
None of this would be unusual â serious New Testament scholars constantly probe its cloudy origins  wherever that leads â if  Trobisch  were not now prominently employed by one of the most famously conservative Christian families in America.
It will showcase biblical artifacts from the 40 000-piece Green collection  one of the largest in private hands. As director of the collection   Trobisch  does not run the museum ( its  director is Cary Summers)  but in addition to enlarging  curating and cataloging the trove  he participates in the crucial conversation about which items will go into the museum  and how.
A former Heidelberg University professor   Trobisch  also acts as roving ambassador to the worlds of high academia and top-rate museums. His presence poses a conundrum to the Greensâ many critics: As believers that the Bible is God-given and inerrant  could the family â and the museum that is their brainchild â be more open to dispassionate scholarship than previously assumed?
A tall  gently spoken 56-year-old whose russet hair is now mostly gray   Trobisch  splits  his  time between Germany  where  his  wife  son and two grandchildren live  and a home in Springfield  Mo. In the U.S. he considers himself part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America  a mainline denomination that allows gay clergy.
 Trobisch  eventually gravitated to New Testament criticism  the close study of ancient manuscripts for clues as to how the 27-book New Testament came together.
 He  met the Greens when  he  asked permission to look at their 850 ancient New Testament documents. Soon   he  was advising the family on acquisitions (âMy strategy was to buy fewer items but only the highest qualityâ). In February   he  was hired as director.
 Trobisch âs responsibilities extend beyond researching and caring for the collection.  He  recently revamped the content in the Greensâ 1 000- item Bible exhibition âPassages.â  He  also created one-off exhibits in places such as the Vatican  Jerusalem and (very quietly) Cuba. Next up? Philadelphia (in time for Pope Francisâ visit)  Berlin  Beijing and Moscow.
One day in early April   Trobisch  was alighting in New York after a three-week trip involving at least six countries on four continents  having discussed Green extension museums with professionals from Africa and Asia.  He  considered a Bible for sale in Istanbul  hired a curator in Germany and helped open the latest Passages in Santa Clarita  Calif.
The museumâs burgeoning relationship with blue-chip institutions is partly attributable to Trobischâs prestige and contact list. When Cambridge University Library wanted to auction some treasured goods  the Greens bought them â and left them with Cambridge. There was no quid quo pro  but Cambridge owns the Codex Bezae  which  Trobisch  calls âthe fourth most important manuscript of the New Testament.â The strengthened relationship increases the chances the Washington museum might someday show it.
 Trobisch  might have expected some philosophical friction with the Greens  who famously turn to the Bible for everything  including business decisions. But  he  says Hobby Lobby chain president Steve Green is open to new scholarship.
âWe agreed that if I say something about the Bible  he  disagrees with and I can show  him  the quote   he  will concede. If I cannot support it by a quote  I will concede.â
â He âs a Bible freak â  Trobisch  said. âLike me.â
 Trobisch  disagrees with some in âthe media and my scholarly peersâ that  his  employment by the museum represents a faceoff of âfundamentalism against sound scholarship.â Instead   he  said  it constitutes âtwo parties standing at opposite ends of the Christian spectrum talking to each other and working together. This almost never happens in the U.S.â

Answer:
Positive