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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Michael Flynn ? At some point before President Trumpâs inauguration  disgraced national security adviser Michael Flynn assured an ex-business partner that economic sanctions on Russia would be âripped upâ as soon as the new administration entered the White House  according to documents made public Wednesday.
 Flynn  made the promise to Alex Copson  a managing partner of a Russia-connected energy company  a whistleblower told Rep. Elijah Cummings this summer.
Trump calls  Flynn  guilty plea âa shame â blames FBI  Hillary
The unnamed whistleblowerâs claims pose the strongest evidence yet that the nascent Trump White House was looking to rescind sanctions against Russia and also suggests that  Flynn  could have had a personal financial stake in the matter.
 Flynn   who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI last week  worked together with Copsonâs company  ACU Strategic Partners  until June 2016. Their work together involved a deal with the Russian government to build nuclear power plants in the Middle East.
Copson apparently told the whistleblower during an Inauguration Day event in Washington  D.C. that  Flynn  had just texted him that the power plant venture was âgood to go.â
Rep. Elijah Cummings called on the House Oversight Committee to issue subpoenas for White House records pertaining to  Flynn 's contacts with Copson. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
 Flynn âs lawyer did not immediately return a request for comment from the Daily News.
 Flynn  was fired less than a month into  his  tenure as national security adviser after it became clear that  he  had lied to Vice President Mike Pence about  his  contacts with a Russian diplomat. On Friday   Flynn  became the first current or former Trump administration official to agree to cooperate with special prosecutor Robert Muellerâs investigators.
âThese grave allegations compel a full  credible and bipartisan congressional investigation â Cummings wrote  adding that  Flynn  appears to have "sought to manipulate the course of international nuclear policy for the financial gain of  his  former business partners."
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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Rapp ? In an interview with BuzzFeed News Sunday  Star Trek: Discovery and Broadway star  Rapp â  now 46 â claimed that Spacey made an unwanted sexual advance advance on  him  in 1986  when both actors were performing on different Broadway shows.
 Rapp  alleged that Spacey  then 26  invited  him  to  his  apartment for a party. When the party had concluded and the other guests had left   Rapp  claimed Spacey carried  him  on to  his  bed and climbed on top of  him .
â He  picked me up like a groom picks up the bride over the threshold. But I donât  like  squirm away initially  because Iâm like  âWhatâs going on?â And then  he  lays down on top of me.â
â He  was trying to seduce me â  Rapp  continued. âI donât know if I would have used that language. But I was aware that  he  was trying to get with me sexually.â
 Rapp  also said that  he  has never told anyone about the experience  but has grown increasingly resentful of Spaceyâs success.
âMy stomach churns â  Rapp  said. âI still to this day canât wrap my head around so many aspects of it. Itâs just deeply confusing to me.â
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Neutral


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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Xi Jinping ? NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to Elizabeth Economy  Director of Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations  about  the decision of China's Communist Party to abolish term limits for presidents  which would allow President Xi Jinping to stay in power indefinitely .
The Communist Party in China announced this weekend it intends to abolish presidential term limits  which means Xi Jingping  the country's president  could remain in power indefinitely. The move represents a dramatic departure from rules that have been in place for decades. And it nudges the country towards the kind of centralization of power that has not been seen since the days of Mao Zedong. With us to talk about the implications of  this decision  is Elizabeth Economy  the director of Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Thanks for joining us.
ECONOMY: There really hasn't been an articulated reason. I think it is a natural progression from what we've seen emanating from  Xi Jinping  over the past five years - having  his  thought enshrined in the Constitution in a way that was only done by Mao Zedong previously   his  failure to identify a successor at the 19th party congress in October. So I think this is all part and parcel of  his  own consolidation of power. But I also think that it helps  him  because  he  wants to be able to realize  his  vision for the country both on the domestic front  in terms of addressing the anti-corruption campaign  rectifying poverty  cleaning up the environment  but also in  his  grander vision  reclaiming China's greatness on the international stage. And I don't think that  Xi Jinping  believes there's any other leader who is capable of pushing forward and achieving  his  own vision.
CHANG: Is a part of this also driven by  Xi Jinping 's desire to cultivate a cult of personality that's very similar to the cult of personality that surrounded Mao Zedong?
ECONOMY: I don't think that  Xi Jinping  would ever want  it  to be said that  he  had a cult of personality. But I do think that in effect that is what is happening. There was a very significant effort made by the propaganda apparatus to portray  Xi Jinping  as a man of the people  someone who could go and stand in line in front of a dumpling shop. There were songs written about  Xi Jinping . So there really was an effort to humanize  Xi Jinping  in a way that was not the case with Mao Zedong.
Over time however  we've seen some of those same trappings of cult of personality that were present during the Mao period also emerge during Xi period - so Xi's demands that the party and the military and the media declare their personal loyalty to him - that was unheard of  you know  in the previous 30 years - pictures of  Xi Jinping  everywhere  that sort of ever-present  Xi Jinping . I think that too is something that comes out of the Maoist period - and just frankly  this sense of fear that whatever  Xi Jinping  says goes. And if you don't agree with  Xi Jinping   you know  you shouldn't voice your opinion because you will end up in trouble - that there will be serious repercussions.
ECONOMY: Well  I think it sends an important signal that we need to take  Xi Jinping 's longer term objectives very seriously. So when  Xi Jinping   for example  discusses the importance of China reunifying with Taiwan sooner rather than later  when we look at what's going on in terms of the erosion of sovereignty in Hong Kong  I think those are the kinds of issues that we should now understand they don't have to be resolved in the next five years.
ECONOMY: These are the kinds of priorities that  Xi Jinping  has established. And  he 's now basically said - or the system has basically said that  he  has as long as it's going to take to try to achieve them.
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Positive