Subject: FW: Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing for Wednesday, October 17, 2018
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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*Wednesday, October 17, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden: “Age Is A Totally Legitimate Thing To Raise” About A Presidential
Candidate. <#S1>

• Trump Dings “One Percent Joe” Biden In Interview With AP. <#S2>

• USA Today Highlights CNN Poll Showing Biden Leading Possible 2020
Democrats. <#S3>

• Steve McMahon: Advisers Telling Clinton She Can Win 2020 Nod If Biden
Doesn’t Run. <#S4>

• Biden Backs Bryce’s Bid To Succeed Ryan In WI1. <#S5>

• Biden Endorses Shaw In Race To Succeed Florida Attorney General Bondi.
<#S6>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump Says Now He Can Go After “Horseface” Daniels “And Her 3rd Rate
Lawyer.” <#S7>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump Compares “Rush To Judgment” In Khashoggi Case To Kavanaugh
Accusations. <#S8>

• US Announces Additional Iran Sanctions. <#S9>

• Dunford Warns Of Complacency In Fight Against Al Qaeda, ISIS. <#S10>

• Head Of Iraq’s Chaldean Church Says Promised US Aid Hasn’t Come. <#S11>

• US Airstrike In Somalia Kills Dozens Of Al-Shabab Militants. <#S12>

• Trump: No US President Has Been Tougher On Russia. <#S13>

• Google CEO Acknowledges Building Search Engine To Appease Chinese Censors.
<#S14>

• McConnell: Senate Won’t Vote On USMCA This Year. <#S15>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Trump Calls Warren “Total Fraud”; Democrats, Cherokee Nation Also
Criticize Her. <#S16>

• Trump: Central American Nations To Lose All US Aid If They Don’t Stop
Migrant Caravan. <#S17>

• Trump Calls Russia Investigation A “Con Job.” <#S18>

• Trump Touts Strong Economy, Says US “Number One In The World, By Far.”
<#S19>

• McConnell: Spending, Not Tax Cuts, To Blame For “Very Disturbing” Deficit
Spike. <#S20>

• GOP Ads Include Pledges To Back ACA Preexisting Condition Protections.
<#S21>

• Hurricane Michael Death Toll Now As High As 30. <#S22>

• Heitkamp Apologizes For Naming Sexual Assault Victims Without Consent.
<#S23>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• FDA Approves Talazoparib For An Advanced Form Of Breast Cancer. <#S24>

• FDA Mandates Pediatric Trials For 200 Cancer Targets. <#S25>

• NIEHS Funding SUNY Polytechnic Study Of Genetics, Colon Cancer. <#S26>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S27>

• Washington Post. <#S28>

• Wall Street Journal. <#S29>
Biden in the News
Biden: “Age Is A Totally Legitimate Thing To Raise” About A Presidential
Candidate.

In an online article, CNN
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(10/16, Saenz) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden, speaking on
Tuesday at the Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan, “said a candidate’s
age is a ‘legitimate’ issue in elections – including if he were to run for
president in 2020.” Biden is quoted as saying, “I think age is a totally
legitimate thing to raise. I think it’s totally appropriate for people to
look at me and say if I were to run for office again, ‘Well God darn you’re
old.’ Well chronologically I am old.” Biden added, “Every voter is entitled
to know exactly what kind of shape you’re in. You owe it to them. It’s a
legitimate question and so I think age is relevant.” CNN said that Biden
“is currently 75 years old, and if he runs for president in 2020, he would
be 77 when the caucus and primary contests get underway.”

        *Biden Emphasizes Importance Of “Shared American Values.” *On its
website, WSJM-AM
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Saint Joseph, MI (10/16) reported that during his appearance at the
Economic Club, Biden “issued an appeal for a commitment to shared American
values,” saying that “over the past ten years, Americans have seen a
gradual breakdown of their system, and in the past ten months, a politics
not seen since the Civil War. He decried phony populism and ‘half-baked
nationalism,’ but said it can be fixed,” telling the audience, “We gotta
start talking to one another again.” Biden also “said both parties
desperately need men and women of character who can recognize common values
even in disagreement. He pointed out the late Senator John McCain as
someone who understood those ideas, and closer to home, Biden called
[Michigan] Congressman Fred Upton ‘one of the finest guys I’ve ever worked
with.’”

        The St. Joseph (MI) Herald Palladium
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(10/17, Matuszak) reports, “An already great America can be even greater if
we work together and stand up for our ideals...Biden told the Economic Club
of Southwestern Michigan on Tuesday. ‘America owns the finish line.
Remember who we are!’ a forceful Biden” said. Biden also told the audience,
“The only way the system works is consensus.” Over the past decade, Biden
said, “he has seen a gradual breakdown in that system. He blamed unlimited
campaign spending and the lack of transparency with donations, along with
gerrymandering, for creating political extremes.” In a broadcast this
morning, WNDU-TV
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South Bend (IN)'s Morning News (10/17) reports that Biden spoke “about the
political abuse of power that’s being seen today. He discussed political
transparency and his relationship with John McCain.”
Trump Dings “One Percent Joe” Biden In Interview With AP.

The AP
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(10/17) runs a piece highlighting various statements President Trump made
in a Tuesday interview with the wire service. The AP says, “On whom he
might face in 2020: ‘Well, (Joe) Biden ran twice and actually a lot of
people think he really ran a third time, but he was so low in the polls
that he never registered. But he ran twice. And I call him One Percent Joe
because you know he did very poorly and then (Barack) Obama took him off
the trash heap and made him vice president. And in a sense he did a good
job as vice president, in my opinion, because Obama liked him, and if
President Obama didn’t like him, you would have been hearing about it.”
USA Today Highlights CNN Poll Showing Biden Leading Possible 2020 Democrats.

USA Today
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(10/16, Cummings) highlighted the recent CNN poll
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showing former Vice President Joe Biden with “a wide lead over the other
potential candidates to challenge President Donald Trump in 2020.” The
poll, covered in a previous edition of this briefing, showed Biden at 33%,
with his closest potential rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I), at 13%.
Steve McMahon: Advisers Telling Clinton She Can Win 2020 Nod If Biden
Doesn’t Run.

Breitbart
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(10/16, Lee) reported, “Top Democrats close to Hillary Clinton are
reportedly telling her to keep her 2020 options open in case former Vice
President Joe Biden passes on” mounting a White House run. During a Monday
appearance on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Democratic strategist Steve McMahon “said
that ‘some people close to the Clintons and close to Hillary Clinton who
look at the field and think if Joe Biden doesn’t run, it’s an awfully weak
field and someone like Hillary Clinton could get back in.’ He added that
some of these confidants are ‘whispering in her ear’ that she might be able
to win the nomination if Biden decides not to run.”
Biden Backs Bryce’s Bid To Succeed Ryan In WI1.

The AP
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(10/16) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday endorsed
ironworker Randy Bryce’s (D) bid to succeed retiring House Speaker Paul
Ryan (R) in the WI1. In a statement, Biden said that “Bryce ‘knows what it
means to fight for working people.’” Bryce is battling ex-Ryan aide Bryan
Steil (R) in the general election. In a brief report, the Janesville (WI)
Gazette
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(10/16) quoted Biden as saying in a statement, “Randy Bryce will bring a
working-class message to Washington, DC, that will cut through the partisan
gridlock and help get our country back on track.”
Biden Endorses Shaw In Race To Succeed Florida Attorney General Bondi.

The Tampa Bay (FL) Times
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(10/16, March) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday
endorsed state Rep. Sean Shaw’s (D) bis to succeed term-limited Florida
Attorney General Pam Bondi (R). The Times adds, “In a news release, Biden
called Shaw ‘a fighter, with a proven track record of standing up for the
little guy.’ ... The news release from the Shaw campaign calls Biden, who’s
considered a potential 2020 presidential candidate, ‘an icon in the
Democratic Party.’” Orlando (FL) Weekly
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(10/16, Peters) also reported on Biden’s endorsement, and added that Shaw
faces Hillsborough Circuit Court Judge Ashley Moody (R) in the general
election.
Leading the News
Trump Says Now He Can Go After “Horseface” Daniels “And Her 3rd Rate
Lawyer.”

President Trump tweeted
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yesterday, “‘Federal Judge throws out Stormy Danials lawsuit versus Trump.
Trump is entitled to full legal fees.’ @FoxNews Great, now I can go after
Horseface and her 3rd rate lawyer in the Great State of Texas. She will
confirm the letter she signed! She knows nothing about me, a total con!”
The Washington Post
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(10/16, Viebeck) reports, “It was not immediately clear what Trump meant
when he vowed to ‘go after’ Daniels and [Michael] Avenatti in Texas,” but
Politico
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(10/16, Morin) says “Daniels lives in Texas and the judge applied Texas law
in dismissing” her libel suit. The AP
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(10/17, Lucey, Lemire, Miller) reports that later yesterday, Trump “did not
back down from derisively nicknaming” Daniels “Horseface” in a tweet. Asked
“if it was appropriate to insult a woman’s appearance,” Trump said, “You
can take it any way you want.”

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(10/16) about Avenatti running for president, Trump said, “I don’t think
he’s a serious person. ... I just beat him in a big case. He has to pay me
legal fees. I don’t think he has any money, but he and she have to pay me a
lot of legal fees. Based on Texas law – I love Texas – based on Texas laws
where the legal fees are plentiful.” Asked if he will hold them to the
judgment, Trump said, “Are you serious? Of course. ... They’ll pay a lot.”

        Trump’s use of the epithet “horseface” generated unfavorable media
coverage, which cast it as part of a pattern of presidential insults
against women. Media analyses also saw the incident potentially hurting GOP
candidates with female voters in the upcoming election. Along those lines,
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(10/16) about his poll numbers among women. Trump said, “I had worse poll
numbers when I went into the last election and you saw how well I did with
women. If you looked at my poll numbers going into 2016, you would have
said there is not a woman in the country who is going to vote for me. I did
phenomenal with women. That’s...probably the reason I won, in a true
sense.”

        NBC Nightly News
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(10/16, story 3, 2:15, Holt) – the only major network newscast to note the
story – referred to Trump’s “latest jab at a woman’s appearance as
Republicans face a major gender gap just three weeks until the midterm
elections.” NBC (Jackson) added that “‘horseface’ is just the latest insult
aimed at the looks of women he doesn’t like.” After running footage of
Trump comments about Carly Fiorina, Alicia Machado, Jessica Leads, “who
accused him of sexual assault,” and Megyn Kelly, NBC showed Elise Jordan,
an “NBC News Political Analyst,” saying, “Women who previously voted
Republican just aren’t going to do it this midterm cycle and they might not
ever do it again in their lifetime.”

        Along similar lines, the New York Times
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(10/16, Sullivan, Haberman) reports Trump’s “use of the term
‘horseface’...could...prove problematic for Republicans facing female
opponents in the upcoming midterm elections, now just weeks away.” The Hill
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(10/16, Fabian) also reports Trump’s “latest insult comes just weeks before
the November midterm elections, when Republican strategists fear the party
could lose control of the House, in part, because of its poor marks among
women.” The Hill adds that “those concerns were also heightened during the
battle over Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation in the
Senate, during which Trump mocked a woman who came forward to accuse the
then-nominee of sexually assaulting her.”

        Politico
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(10/16, Morin) reports, “The timing of Trump’s attack confused some of his
GOP allies,” with “one former White House official, who said ‘plenty of
descriptive terms’ were used to describe Daniels inside the West Wing,”
finding Trump’s “tweet troublesome with the midterm elections are three
weeks away.” Said the “former White House official,” “It’s not going to
impact his base – stuff like this never does – but it makes it tougher for
Republican candidates to attract suburban women and it makes it tougher for
women to believe their president respects them.”

        The AP
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(10/16) also says that “Trump has a history of derogatory comments about
women’s appearances,” the Los Angeles Times
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(10/16, Finnegan) reports that the tweet was “an extraordinary provocation
even for a man whose habit of denigrating the appearance of women draws
frequent accusations of misogyny,” and the New York Times
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(10/16, Sullivan, Haberman) says Trump’s insult “was jarring, even though
he has previously used similar disparaging language to describe women who
challenge him.” Politico
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(10/16, Choi) reports, meanwhile, “Trump on Tuesday took a step back from
his hectic public schedule in the run-up to the midterms, but filled his
free time with a flurry of eyebrow-raising activity on Twitter.”

        The New York Times
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(10/16, Shear, Sullivan) also casts Trump as adding Daniels “to a long list
of women he has attacked by demeaning their looks, mocking their bodily
functions or comparing them to animals,” and describes his “horseface”
insult as “verbal assault.” The Washington Post
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(10/16, Viebeck) similarly refers to “the latest example in his
long-standing pattern of attempting to undercut female adversaries with
jabs at their physical appearance.” The New York Post
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(10/16, Moore) and Bloomberg News
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(10/16, Dorning), among other news outlets, run similar reports this
morning. CNN national security and legal analyst Susan Hennessey said on CNN’s
Situation Room
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(10/16), “This isn’t only something that Trump does whenever he’s being
insulting. He reduces women to their looks, even whenever he’s praising
people. Whenever UN Ambassador Nikki Haley announced her departure last
week, he said that she brought an element of glamour to the role. It’s more
than just him hitting back. It actually does say something about the way he
views women, even women who have obtained high-ranking office in this
country.”

        At any rate, USA Today
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(10/16, Jackson, Fritze) reports, “both Daniels and Avenatti hit back” at
Trump – also on Twitter. Wrote
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Daniels, “Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present your president. In addition
to his...umm...shortcomings, he has demonstrated his incompetence, hatred
of women and lack of self control on Twitter AGAIN! ... And perhaps a
penchant for bestiality. Game on, Tiny.” Avenatti, meanwhile, “called
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Trump ‘a disgusting misogynist and an embarrassment’ to the country.” The
Hill
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(10/16, Samuels) notes that “Avenatti, who has expressed aspirations to run
for president in 2020, has pledged to appeal the judge’s ruling on the
defamation suit.”

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(10/16), “This is a disgrace. ... Never in my lifetime did I think that I
would witness behavior like this from the President of the United States.
I’m a father to two daughters, and I know many of your viewers are also
fathers and mothers. How do you tell your kids to look up to the President
of the United States when he behaves in this manner? It’s an absolute joke,
and it’s a disgrace. And it’s about time that we stop shaking our head and
we...start punching back. I mean, this guy can no longer be permitted to
get away with this. ... It’s a complete disrespect to the office of the
presidency.” Earlier Tuesday, Avenatti said on MSNBC Live[image: Image
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(10/16), “This idea that this is a total victory for...Trump and a total
defeat for my client is a bunch of nonsense.”

        *Trump: Cohen Lied Under Oath About Alleged Scheme To Silence
Daniels. *The AP
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(10/17, Lucey, Lemire, Miller) reports that in an interview, Trump accused
his former lawyer Michael Cohen “of lying when testifying under oath that
the president coordinated on a hush-money scheme to buy Daniels’ silence.”
Trump “declared the allegation ‘totally false.’” The Washington Examiner
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(10/16, Correll) notes that last night, “Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis
defended his client against Trump’s criticisms, and said Trump’s comments
should be taken as a ‘compliment.’” Tweeted
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Davis, “Under oath @MichaelCohen212 acknowledged and took responsibility
for @realDonaldTrump @POTUS bad behavior. Trump calling anyone a #liar is a
compliment! ...
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@MichaelCohen212 who testified under oath doesn’t fear the #truth.
@realdonaldtrump @potus will NEVER testify under oath because he can not
afford to tell the #truth. #TeamMichael.”

        The New York Post
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(10/16, Lapin) reports that “in August, Cohen copped to two campaign
finance violations, saying he and Trump paid two women – believed to be
porn star...Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal – ‘for the purpose of
influencing the election.’”
Foreign Policy
Trump Compares “Rush To Judgment” In Khashoggi Case To Kavanaugh
Accusations.

President Trump tweeted
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yesterday afternoon, “Just spoke with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia who
totally denied any knowledge of what took place in their Turkish Consulate.
He was with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo...
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during the call, and told me that he has already started, and will rapidly
expand, a full and complete investigation into this matter. Answers will be
forthcoming shortly.” In an interview with the AP
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(10/16, Lemire, Lucey, Miller), meanwhile, Trump “criticized rapidly
mounting global condemnation of Saudi Arabia” over Khashoggi’s
disappearance, “warning of a rush to judgment.” Said Trump, “I think we
have to find out what happened first. Here we go again with, you know,
you’re guilty until proven innocent. I don’t like that. We just went
through that with Justice Kavanaugh and he was innocent all the way as far
as I’m concerned.”

        On the CBS Evening News
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(10/16, lead story, 3:10, Glor), Major Garrett said, “Despite the mounting
evidence, the President said he is not yet ready to blame the Saudi royal
family for Khashoggi’s disappearance,” and to the Washington Post
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(10/16, Cunningham), the remarks put Trump “widely out of step with many
world leaders amid Turkish assertions that Khashoggi was killed by a Saudi
hit team.” They could also “complicate talks” Wednesday between Pompeo and
Turkish officials on the Khashoggi case. And the Washington Times
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(10/16, Taylor) says “it was not immediately clear what the president meant
by ‘forthcoming shortly’ — a comment that came amid reports Tuesday that
the Saudi government may soon claim Mr. Khashoggi was killed at the
consulate in an interrogation gone wrong.”

        Bloomberg News
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(10/16, Gallu, Nereim, Abu-Nasr), meanwhile, reports that in an interview
with Fox Business on Wednesday night, Trump said it “would be bad” if Saudi
Arabia’s crown prince and king knew about what happened to Khashoggi. Trump
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(10/16), “It depends whether or not the King or the Crown Prince knew about
it. Number one, what happened, but whether they knew about it. If they knew
about it, that would be bad. If they didn’t know about it, bad things can
happen.” The Washington Examiner
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(10/16, Donachie), among other outlets, also report Trump’s comments to
Fox.

        On ABC World News Tonight
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(10/16, story 2, 2:40, Muir), Jonathan Karl said, “In the days since
Khashoggi’s disappearance, the President has tried to walk a fine line
between vowing punishment and preserving the US-Saudi relationship, a
relationship he has worked hard to cultivate.” Andrea Mitchell said on NBC
Nightly News
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(10/16, story 2, 1:25, Holt), “On the line: the President’s big bet that
the Saudis could deliver billions in arms deals, dominate Iran, and help
him achieve Middle East peace. Now colliding with the alleged murderer of a
US-based journalist in their custody.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/16, Morello) says Pompeo “came to Saudi Arabia to highlight US concern
over the fate of...Khashoggi...whose name Pompeo has not yet uttered in
public since arriving in the kingdom.” While spokeswoman Heather Nauert
described the talks as “direct and frank,” the Post says “cameras that
recorded the officials’ small talk ahead of the private meetings captured
smiles and pleasantries, giving no hint that relations between the two
countries are in crisis over Khashoggi’s disappearance.” In fact, the Crown
Prince told reporters, “We are strong and old allies. We face our
challenges together — the past, the day of, tomorrow.” Pompeo replied,
“Absolutely.”

        On the CBS Evening News
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(10/16, lead story, 3:10, Glor), Major Garrett said, “The pleasantries with
the Crown Prince made it appear the Trump Administration’s strong backing
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(10/16, lead story, 3:10, Muir) reported, “It looked like sweetness and
smiles today as America’s top diplomat made small talk with the Crown
Prince. ... But the Saudis have been accused of murdering” Khashoggi,
“something the royal family repeatedly denies.” Pompeo “thanking the Saudis
for, quote, ‘a thorough, transparent and timely investigation.’ Many
critics think it’s been anything but that.”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(10/16, Wilkinson) says Pompeo” did not report any progress following a day
of meetings in Riyadh,” and the Washington Times
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(10/16, Boyer)reports Pompeo “thanked the king for his commitment to
supporting a thorough, transparent, and timely investigation,” Nauert said.
The Wall Street Journal
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(10/16, Donati, Stancati) likewise reports on Nauert’s statement about
Tuesday’s meetings, while USA Today
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(10/16, Shesgreen, Hjelmgaard) reports Pompeo characterized the meetings as
“direct and candid conversations.” He added, “During each of today’s
meetings, the Saudi leadership strongly denied any knowledge of what took
place in their consulate in Istanbul. My assessment from these meetings is
that there is serious commitment to determine all the facts and ensure
accountability, including accountability for Saudi Arabia’s senior leaders
or senior officials.” However, Pompeo did not address media reports that
the Saudi government “would soon release a report that Khashoggi was
accidentally killed as a result of a planned rendition.”

        Politico
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(10/16, Toosi, Morin) has similar report headlined “Pompeo Stays Cordial
With Saudis As Much Of Washington Recoils,” while a Washington Post
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(10/16, Gearan) analysis says the Crown Prince “did most of the talking,”
but “neither the prince nor Pompeo said anything about the grave purpose of
the hasty trip to Riyadh as the two shook hands, posed for photos and made
small talk about jet lag during a relaxed and friendly sit-down before news
cameras.”

        In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(10/16) says the “best metaphor for Mr. Pompeo’s diplomacy seemed to be
what reporters witnessed outside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, where Mr.
Khashoggi was last seen Oct. 2: the arrival of a cleaning crew with
buckets, mops and fluids.” Pompeo, it says, “appeared less intent on
determining the truth than in helping the de facto Saudi ruler escape from
the crisis he triggered.”

        On its editorial page, the New York Times
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(10/16) says if Pompeo “flew to Riyadh to read the Riot Act to Saudi rulers
over the apparent murder of Jamal Khashoggi, he hid it well behind cheery
smiles and professions of amity. But then outrage has been conspicuously
absent from the Trump administration in the two weeks” since Khashoggi went
missing. The Times warns that “if Saudi Arabia is allowed to get away with
some lame story about the apparent murder of Mr. Khashoggi, the world’s
growing gang of autocrats will feel even less constraint.”

        Reuters
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(10/16, Wroughton, Ellsworth), meanwhile, reports the Administration “is
completely unified in calling for an investigation into the disappearance”
of Khashoggi, “but it also has a significant relationship with Riyadh, a
senior administration official said on Tuesday.” Said the Administration
official, “We are, I think, completely unified in this administration about
calling for an investigation into this. We need to get the facts of what
happened. Of course...we have a longstanding relationship that is very
significant to us, but that doesn’t mean we’re in any way ignoring or
downplaying this episode. We continue to believe those who are responsible
for it have to be held accountable.”

        *Trump Denies Having Financial Interests In Saudi Arabia. *ABC
World News Tonight
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(10/16, story 2, 2:40, Muir) said Khashoggi’s disappearance “isn’t just a
diplomatic crisis for the US, it puts President Trump in a delicate
position. Today, the President denied having any financial interests in
Saudi Arabia.” On Tuesday morning, Trump tweeted
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“For the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia (or Russia,
for that matter). Any suggestion that I have is just more FAKE NEWS (of
which there is plenty)!”

        *NYTimes: Khashoggi Disappearance May Disrupt Iran Sanctions. *The New
York Times
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(10/16, Sanger) reports White House officials “are worried that the
apparent killing of...Khashoggi, and Saudi Arabia’s changing account of his
fate, could derail a major showdown with Iran and jeopardize plans to
enlist Saudi help to avoid disrupting the oil market.” According to the
Times, Trump Administration officials, as ell as “outside experts whom they
are consulting,” say the “possible repercussions on an elaborate plan to
squeeze the Iranians have dominated internal discussions about the fallout
over what happened to Mr. Khashoggi.”

        *Turkish Investigators Expand Search To Include Saudi Consul’s
Residence. *The New York Times
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(10/16, Hubbard, Victor) reports President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told
reporters Tuesday that Turkish investigators who searched the Saudi
Consulate on Monday and Tuesday were looking into “toxic materials, and
those materials being removed by painting them over.” Later in the day,
Saudi Consul Mohammed al-Otaibi “left the country, the Turkish Foreign
Ministry said.” Reuters
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(10/16, Lambert, Millis) reports that Turkish investigators are “expanding
their search to include the Saudi consul’s residence in Istanbul and
consulate vehicles, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday.” But ABC
World News Tonight
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(10/16, lead story, 3:10, Muir) reported that Turkish investigators “were
not allowed into the [consul’s] residence, blocked by the Saudis,” and NBC
Nightly News
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(10/16, lead story, 1:40, Holt) said “the Saudis aren’t allowing the
Turkish police to interview any of their officials.”

        According to the AP
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(10/16, Abuelgasim, Fraser, Gambrell), Turkish police searching the Saudi
Consulate “found evidence that...Khashoggi was killed there, a high-level
Turkish official said Tuesday, and authorities appeared ready to also
search the nearby residence of the consul general after the diplomat left
the country.” The Turkish official’s comments “intensified pressure on
Saudi Arabia to explain what happened to Khashoggi.”

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(10/16, Fahim) “with scans of passports that they say were carried by seven
men who were part of a Saudi team involved in” Khashoggi’s killing inside
the Saudi Consulate. The Post says the passport scans “add to the
information made public by Turkey as it seeks to fill out the narrative of
what happened to Khashoggi.” The officials say the seven men were part of
“a 15-member team dispatched from Saudi Arabia.”

        According to the New York Times
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(10/16, Kirkpatrick, Browne, Hubbard, Botti), one the 15 men “was a
frequent companion of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — seen disembarking
from airplanes with him in Paris and Madrid and photographed standing guard
during his visits this year to Houston, Boston and the United Nations.”
Three others, meanwhile, “are linked by witnesses and other records to the
Saudi crown prince’s security detail,” and a fifth is “a forensic doctor
who holds senior positions in the Saudi Interior Ministry.” The Times says
if these men were present at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul during
Khashoggi’s suspected killed, “they might provide a direct link between
what happened” and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

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(10/16) that “the man who reportedly organized this botched operation...is
known to be close to Mohamad bin Salman’s inner circle: a former military
officer now working in general intelligence.” Ward continued: “We are
hearing he was operating outside the usual chain of command and that he
attempted to orchestrate some kind of coverup afterwards to prevent people
back in Saudi Arabia...from finding out about this.”

        *Graham: Saudi Crown Prince “Toxic,” “Has Got To Go.” *Bloomberg
News
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(10/16, Abu-Nasr) reports Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) “slammed” Saudi Crown
Prince Mohammed bin Salman as a “wrecking ball” and “toxic” figure who he
said was directly responsible for the disappearance and possible killing of
journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. Appearing on Fox
News’ Fox & Friends
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Graham said, “I’ve been their biggest defender on the floor of the United
States Senate,” but “this guy is a wrecking ball. Nothing happens in Saudi
Arabia without MBS knowing it.” Bloomberg says Graham’s comments “were some
of the harshest words yet made in public from a senior Republican” and
“reflect rising concern in Washington that the crisis could seriously
damage US-Saudi ties.”

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(10/16) what Trump should do in response to Khashoggi’s apparent
assassination, Graham said, “It’s up to the President, but I know what I’m
going to do: I am going to sanction the hell out of Saudi Arabia. ... This
guy has got to go.” Asked on MSNBC’s Morning Joe[image: Image removed by
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(10/16) what he thinks Congress is willing to do in response, Sen. Ben
Sasse (R-NE) said, “I think the Saudis have a real problem. ... Everything
has to be on the table, including the arms sales.”

        Appearing on CNN’s New Day
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(10/16), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said the apparent assassination of
Khashoggi is “a catastrophe” for the Saudis. Rubio added, “A fear we’ve had
for a long time is that the Crown Prince is a young and aggressive guy that
would overestimate how much room he had to do things...and cause a problem
such as this. ... But now this would really blow apart our Middle Eastern
strategy – and it’s something we have to address from a human rights
standpoint. Just because the country we’re working with did it doesn’t mean
the US can just shrug its shoulders.”

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(10/16), “The best you can say about the Saudis is they’re amoral. Back on
9/11, they were immoral. In recent years, they’ve come more to our side”
because “they realized it was in their best interest to do it. But, on a
moment’s notice they can turn away from us. Right now, Saudi is an
important ally, but we cannot allow this to happen. You cannot allow in
today’s day and age to have a journalist, a resident of the US, a citizen
of the Saudis, killed and murdered, apparently decomposed and torn apart in
the Saudi Consulate. It violates all standards of human behavior.”

        Several Democrats also blamed Saudi Arabia for Khashoggi’s
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(10/16) that he “certainly” doesn’t believe Khashoggi’s death was an
accident, adding that “it’s almost inconceivable” that his murder came
without approval from the Crown Prince. He continued: “What is happening
now...is that the Saudi regime is trying to figure out how to make this as
least catastrophic as it can be, and quite frankly, it worries me with the
President trading rumors and maybe repeating the trial balloons that the
Saudis are running.”

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(10/16) that Saudi Arabia “is responsible” for the “horrendous” and
“gruesome” murder. When asked why Trump “has been so quick to repeat
the...Saudi cover story,” Garamendi said, “He’s protecting his backside.
... He has a long-time relationship with Saudi Arabia.” Garamendi said
Trump is sending a “horrible signal,” because “instead of standing strongly
in support of a journalist that was murdered by a foreign country, he
is...going the opposite direction.”

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(10/16) if he is confident that Pompeo “delivered a tough message on behalf
of President Trump,” said, “I’m not going to criticize Secretary Pompeo
from the public footage. I do wonder what appears to have been only with
the King, at least, a 10 or 15-minute meeting, whether he fully represented
the extent – maybe the President doesn’t feel, but I can assure you that
broadly-based bipartisan feeling here in the Senate is if this journalist,
who had been living in Virginia, in my state, was murdered in this heinous
way inside the Saudi Consulate, there needs to be consequences.”

        Columnist David Ignatius writes in the Washington Post
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(10/16) that Khashoggi’s disappearance “has now put MBS’s own future in
question. Putting a lid on a murder investigation won’t be easy, even for
the brashly confident crown prince.” David B. Ottaway, a Middle East fellow
at the Wilson Center, similarly writes in the Washington Post
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(10/16) that “whatever happens next, it is already clear that Saudi
Arabia’s crown prince and de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman, has gone a
ghastly step too far in his ruthless pursuit of absolute power.” Ottaway
adds, “I have been racking my mind as to why Mohammed might have become so
desperate as to silence Khashoggi,” and suggests that it may have been
because Khashoggi “was launching a project to establish a foundation
dedicated to promoting democracy in the Arab world, particularly in Saudi
Arabia.”

        Thomas L. Friedman writes in his New York Times
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(10/16) column that “the promise of M.B.S., however much you did or did not
think he could bring social, economic and religious reform, is finished.
He’s made himself radioactive — absent a credible, independent exoneration
for Jamal’s disappearance and apparent murder. M.B.S. may be able to hold
onto power in Saudi Arabia, but his whole reform program required direct
foreign investment — and money has been flowing out of Saudi Arabia for
months, not in. Now it will get worse.”

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(10/16), “It is true that you need facts before you decide on what your
course of action should be, and we do not have good, reliable information.
We know this man is missing, we don’t know much else. It’s very important
for people to get the facts.”

        *NYTimes: Saudis Lack Leverage To Drive Up Oil Prices. *The New
York Times
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(10/16, Krauss, Gladstone) reports that in response to threatened sanctions
and cancellations of arms deals, the Saudis “have warned that they could
push oil prices to $100 or $200 a barrel, an act that would probably plunge
the American and global economies into recession.” However, according to
the Times, “petroleum and defense experts have largely discounted such
possibilities.” The Times says Saudi Arabia “is no longer the energy
superpower that American motorists feared during the Arab oil embargo era
of the 1970s. And as longstanding clients of the American arms industry,
the Saudis cannot easily switch to other providers.” The Wall Street Journal
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(10/16, Brown, Bensinger), however, says that Saudi Arabia is the largest
single funding source for US startups, so any US move to sanction it would
hit Silicon Valley hard.

        *Despite Departures, Saudis Still Have $6 Million Lobbying
Campaign. *The AP
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(10/16, Lardner) reports that despite several Washington firms cutting ties
with Kingdom following Khashoggi’s disappearance, Saudi Arabia is still
paying “lobbyists, lawyers and public relations experts nearly $6 million a
year to engage US officials and promote the Middle East nation.” The AP
says that while “more defections are possible as pressure mounts on Saudi
Arabia to explain what happened to Khashoggi...at least one US lobbyist
said that keeping a commitment to a client is especially important during
difficult times.” The firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck “has no plans to
alter its $125,000-a-month contract to represent the Saudi Embassy,
according to a person familiar with the arrangement.”

        *Saudi Arabia Delivers $100M Pledged To US For Syria
Reconstruction. *“This summer, Saudi Arabia promised the Trump
administration $100 million for American efforts to stabilize areas in
Syria liberated from the Islamic State” – and those funds “landed in
American accounts on Tuesday, the same day that Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo landed in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, for discussions with the
kingdom’s leaders about the fate of a missing Saudi dissident,” the New
York Times
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(10/16, Hubbard) reports. While securing the funds constituted “a win for
President Trump, who has complained about how much the United States spends
abroad and has tried to get allies to foot more of the bill,” the Times
says that “the timing of the money’s arrival raised eyebrows even among
some of the bureaucrats whose programs will benefit from the influx of
cash.” Yet, “Brett McGurk, the United States envoy to the coalition
fighting the Islamic State, dismissed the idea that Mr. Pompeo’s visit and
the disbursement of funds were connected.”
US Announces Additional Iran Sanctions.

Reuters
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(10/16, Lambert) reports the Treasury Department on Tuesday announced fresh
sanctions on Iran, “targeting Bank Mellat and Mehr Eqtesad Bank.” The US is
also imposing sanctions on Iran Tractor Manufacturing Company, Esfehan’s
Mobarakeh Steel Company, and “other companies linked to investment,
commodities and engineering.” According to Bloomberg News
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(10/16, Wadhams), they represent “the Middle East’s largest steel producer
and largest tractor manufacturer,” alleging they provide financial support
to an Iranian paramilitary group known as the Basij Resistance Force and
“are complicit in the recruitment of children as soldiers.”

        The Washington Times
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(10/16, Boyer) reports Treasury Secretary Mnuchin said the businesses
support Basij’s “efforts to recruit, train, and indoctrinate child soldiers
who are coerced into combat.” The Wall Street Journal
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(10/16, Talley) says that by targeting the Basij’s financing network and
citing the group’s alleged use of child soldiers, the US hopes to not only
cut off its funding, but also scare off any business dealings with the
country. The New York Post
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(10/16, Moore) and Washington Free Beacon
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(10/16, Kredo), among other sources, have similar reports on the new
sanctions.

        *Guilfoyle: Trump’s Support Blocks Iran From Wiping Israel “Off The
Map.” *The Washington Examiner
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(10/16, Bedard) reports President Trump’s “move quickly after taking office
to rebuild strong support for Israel has helped block threats from Iran,
Hamas, and Hezbollah to eliminate the tiny nation,” Kimberly Guilfoyle,
vice chair of the “Trump-aligned super PAC” America First Action, told the
Republican Jewish Coalition in Los Angeles Monday night. Said Guilfoyle,
“Make no mistake, this president doesn’t gamble with Israel’s security the
way the last president did. This president has a great relationship with
Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, unlike the last occupant of the White
House.” She added, “Never forget Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and many other bad
actors in the region would wipe Israel off the map tomorrow if they could,
but with a strong partnership between Bibi and Trump that will not happen.”

        *Iran Says It Has Killed Mastermind Of Deadly Attack On Parade. *
Reuters
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(10/16) reports Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Tuesday “they had killed
the ‘mastermind’ behind an attack on a military parade” last month which
left 25 people dead. The Guards said in a statement published on state
media their forces had killed “a man named Abu Zaha and four other
militants in Diyala province in Iraq.”
Dunford Warns Of Complacency In Fight Against Al Qaeda, ISIS.

The AP
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(10/16, Baldor) reports that as the US and “other countries shift their
focus to growing security threats from China, Russia, North Korea and Iran,
the world must not become complacent in the fight against violent extremist
groups,” the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff warned Tuesday. Gen.
Joseph Dunford “told a conference of more than 80 international defense
chiefs that easing pressure on al-Qaida and the Islamic State group will
give them time to reconstitute.” He also “issued a call for nations to find
a way to deal with the growing number of detained insurgents being held by
US allied Syrian rebels.” The Washington Times
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(10/16, Wolfgang) quotes Dunford as saying, “I think we’re all realists in
this room, and despite recent successes against ISIS and positive trends,
we know there’s actually much work to be done. ISIS is far from defeated
and has a presence in countries from West Africa to Southeast Asia. Its
ideology continues to inspire homegrown violent extremists in many of our
countries.”
Head Of Iraq’s Chaldean Church Says Promised US Aid Hasn’t Come.

The AP
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(10/16, Winfield, George) reports that the head of Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic
Church “complained on Tuesday that promised US aid for religious minorities
in Iraq hasn’t materialized, issuing an unusual public rebuke of the United
States on the same day Washington announced a new infusion of assistance.”
Cardinal Louis Raphael I Sako spoke at a Vatican briefing as USAID
Administrator Mark Green “was at the Vatican for talks and announced a near
doubling of funding – to about $300 million since last year – and
on-the-ground results.” Asked about US aid, Sako said, “There are promises,
but the reality is that there’s been nothing up to now. Today, we need to
help and encourage Christians to remain in place, help them to find work,
repair their homes, give them a hope. Emptying these places is a mortal
sin, truly.”

        *Anti-ISIS Coalition Forces Arrest Ten Terror Financiers In Iraq. *Fox
News’ Special Report
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(10/16) reported the Combined Joint Task Force says forces from the
coalition fighting ISIS have arrested ten members of “a group that finances
terror operations in Iraq.” The arrests come after coalition troops in
Syria “recently captured 28 suspected ISIS fighters and discovered more
than 1,000 improvised explosive devices.”
US Airstrike In Somalia Kills Dozens Of Al-Shabab Militants.

The AP
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(10/16, Guled, Anna) reports the US military Tuesday announced “its
deadliest airstrike against the al-Shabab extremist group in Somalia in
nearly a year, killing about 60 fighters.” AFRICOM said Friday’s airstrike
in the central part of the country “was the largest US airstrike since one
on Nov. 21, 2017, killed about 100 al-Shabab fighters.” The New York Times
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(10/16, Schmitt) reports AFRICOM officials “offered no other details except
to say it did not kill or injure any civilians, suggesting the militants
were in a camp or massing for an attack.”
Trump: No US President Has Been Tougher On Russia.

President Trump said during his interview with Fox Business’ Trish Regan
Primetime
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(10/16), “Nobody has been tougher on Russia. No president, at least
certainly in the semi-modern era, has been tougher than I am.” Asked about
criticism that he should have been tougher on Russian President Vladimir
Putin in the Helsinki meeting, Trump said, “With Putin they want me to go
up and have a boxing match with him on stage?” Trump said that in his
meeting with Putin, “I said no more meddling if you did meddle. He said I
didn’t meddle. I said no more meddling.”

        *Trump, Putin To Both Attend Paris Ceremony Next Month, Do Not Plan
To Meet. *USA Today
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(10/16, Jackson) reports Trump and Putin “both plan to be in Paris for a
World War I commemoration next month, but officials said there is no formal
meeting scheduled.” While “no formal bilateral meeting is planned between
Trump and Putin, neither side has ruled out a more informal meeting on the
sidelines of the Paris gathering.” USA Today adds that the two leaders held
“an impromptu meeting last November on the sidelines of an Asian economic
summit in Vietnam.”

        *Kremlin: Putin Seeking To Host Summit With Kim This Year. *The AP
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(10/16) reports the Kremlin said Tuesday that it is discussing a possible
visit by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this year. President Vladimir
Putin’s foreign affairs adviser, Yuri Ushakov, said Moscow and Pyongyang
are “discussing the timing and venue for the visit, and no agreement has
been reached yet.”

        *Korean Officials Discuss Removing Weapons From DMZ Village. *The New
York Times
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(10/16, Choe) reports South and North Korean officials, as well as
representatives from the UN, on Tuesday “began talks...to turn a border
village into an unarmed neutral enclave where military guards and tourists
from both sides would move freely across the demarcation line.” The village
of Panmunjom, “also known as the Joint Security Area, lies inside the
Demilitarized Zone,” and “when President Moon Jae-in of South Korea and
North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, met last month in Pyongyang...both sides
agreed to disarm Panmunjom to turn it into what South Korea hopes will
become a ‘symbol of peace’ on the divided peninsula.”
Google CEO Acknowledges Building Search Engine To Appease Chinese Censors.

The Washington Post
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(10/16, Fung) reports that Google has “finally confirmed a secretive
project that’s been fueling an employee-led backlash for weeks at the
company: an effort to build a version of its search engine that complies
with China’s online censorship regime.” According to the Post, “The
project, code-named Dragonfly, is not only real but is already performing
to the satisfaction of top Google executives.” At a Wired event on Monday
night, Google CEO Sundar Piuchai said, “If Google were to operate in China,
what would it look like? What queries will we be able to serve? It turns
out we’ll be able to serve well over 99 percent of the queries.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/16) editorializes that Google announced that “it would not compete for
a $10 billion cloud-computing contract with the Pentagon” on grounds that
“the work would conflict with its corporate values,” but with Project
Dragonfly, it appears that this “ethical high-mindedness” did not “come
into play.” The Post urges “people in the United States, from employees to
members of Congress to everyday citizens, to speak up for what they
believe,” because “Google’s potential customers in China do not enjoy that
opportunity.”

        *China Defends Muslim Detention Camps As Job-Training Program. *Under
what the New York Times
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(10/16, Buckley)calls “mounting international criticism, China has given
its most extensive defense yet of its sweeping campaign to detain and
indoctrinate Muslims, with a senior official on Tuesday describing its
network of camps in the far west as humane job-training centers.” Chairman
of Xinjiang’s government and a Uighur himself, Shohrat Zakir, “called the
camps a ‘humane’ and lawful shield against terrorism in an interview
published by China’s official Xinhua news agency.” In what the Washington
Post
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(10/16, Shih) calls a “lengthy state media article aimed at rebutting a
mounting chorus of international criticism,” Zakir “characterized the
detention program as an effort to provide legal education and job training
in humane, ‘people-oriented’ facilities.”
McConnell: Senate Won’t Vote On USMCA This Year.

Reuters
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(10/16, Shepardson) reports Senate Majority Leader McConnell said Tuesday
that the Senate will not vote on the new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
trade deal this year. Said McConnell, “That will be a next-year issue
because the process we have to go through doesn’t allow that to come up
before the end of this year.” The new trade deal is set to be signed on
Nov. 30, “but to comply with fast-track US trade rules, Congress must get a
report from the US International Trade Commission (ITC) on the economic
impacts of the trade deal.” Bloomberg News
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(10/16, Leonard) also notes McConnell’s comments about the timing of a
Senate vote on the deal.

        *Administration Moves To Begin Trade Talks With UK, EU, Japan.
*The Washington
Examiner
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(10/16, Higgins) reports the Administration announced Tuesday that it would
seek separate trade agreement talks with the UK, EU and Japan. The Examiner
notes that “no specifics on the talks were announced, which are only at the
preliminary stages and would not be able to officially start until next
year.” USTR Lighthizer said, “Today’s announcement is an important
milestone in that process. We are committed to concluding these
negotiations with timely and substantive results for American workers,
farmers, ranchers, and businesses.” The Hill
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(10/16, Elis) reports the Administration made the announcement in three
letters to Congress, which allow “talks to formally open after a 90-day
period.” Lighthizer, however, “said the UK negotiations would only begin
after Britain finalizes its extrication from the EU.”
Domestic Policy
Trump Calls Warren “Total Fraud”; Democrats, Cherokee Nation Also Criticize
Her.

President Trump tweeted
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yesterday, “Pocahontas (the bad version), sometimes referred to as
Elizabeth Warren, is getting slammed. She took a bogus DNA test and it
showed that she may be 1/1024, far less than the average American. Now
Cherokee Nation denies her, ‘DNA test is useless.’ Even they don’t want
her. Phony! ...
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Now that her claims of being of Indian heritage have turned out to be a
scam and a lie, Elizabeth Warren should apologize for perpetrating this
fraud against the American Public. Harvard called her ‘a person of color’
(amazing con), and would not have taken her otherwise! ...
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Thank you to the Cherokee Nation for revealing that Elizabeth Warren,
sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, is a complete and total Fraud!” Trump
also tweeted
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last night, “Elizabeth Warren is being hammered, even by the Left. Her
false claim of Indian heritage is only selling to VERY LOW I.Q.
individuals!”

        Trump’s taunts on Twitter came as criticism of Warren continues
from across the political spectrum. Noting a common theme in the coverage,
the AP
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(10/16, Superville) reports that some Democrats “questioned Warren’s
decision to raise the issue so close to an election in which her party is
focused on regaining control of the US House.” Politico
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(10/16, Thompson, Korecki, Cadelago) says “Warren’s effort to defuse
the...Trump-fueled controversy over her past claims of Native American
ancestry seems to have done just the opposite,” as “outrage on the left and
right was still running strong” amid “questions...about the likely 2020
candidate’s timing and political judgment. ... Some Democrats privately
compared the situation to Hillary Clinton’s never-ending email debacle.”

        Out of the three major network evening newscasts, only the CBS
Evening News
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(10/16, story 3, 2:00, O'Keefe) reported the story, indicating that “some
in her own party have questioned the timing of” Warren’s “DNA announcement.
Former Obama campaign manager Jim Messina tweeted
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‘Why 22 days before a crucial election? Why can’t Dems ever stay focused?’”

        Under the headline, “Elizabeth Warren Angers Prominent Native
Americans With Politically Fraught DNA Test,” the Washington Post
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(10/16, Horton) reports that the “release of a DNA test that suggested a
lineage to a distant Native American ancestor” by Warren “has roiled the
Cherokee Nation and others in indigenous communities frustrated about the
seizure of cultural and social ties for political maneuvering.” The Post
adds, “the public rollout, accompanied by a campaign-like video, has
provoked strong rebukes from tribal leaders and activists.” According to
the Post, the Cherokee Nation’s “rebuke marks a dramatic shift in its
response to Warren.” Politico
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(10/16, Rodriguez) reports Warren as “has spoken about her links to the
indigenous tribe throughout her career,” and remarks on “the backlash the
senator received from some Native Americans” over the last two days. The AP
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(10/16, Murphy) also reports Warren’s move “angered some Native Americans,
who complained that the genetic analysis cheapens the identities of tribal
members with deeper ties to the Indian past.”

        The Washington Times
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(10/16, Muñoz) reports Trump “thanked the Cherokee Nation for
exposing...Warren,” and USA Today
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(10/16, Jackson) that “Warren lashed back” at Trump later yesterday,
“calling the [Pocahontas] nickname ‘recycled racist name-calling,’” while
the Washington Post
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(10/16, Wagner) takes issue wit Trump’s claim that “Warren would not have
been hired as a Harvard law professor if not for claiming to be a ‘person
of color.’” That, adds the Post, “is at odds with a Boston Globe
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report last month that found Warren’s claim to Native American ethnicity
was never considered by the Harvard Law faculty.” The AP
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(10/16, Superville) reports “Charles Fried, the Harvard law professor who
recruited Warren, has said any suggestion that she got her job in part
because of a claim of minority status is ‘totally stupid, ignorant,
uninformed and simply wrong.’”

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(10/16), Mary Bruce reported that while Warren is “clearly eager to put
this issue behind her as she toys with a run for the White House...she is
getting fresh criticism from...Trump and even pushback from the Cherokee
Nation,” which says Warren is “undermining tribal interests with her
continued claims of tribal heritage.” Bruce added, “Democrats we’ve talked
with say they wish she could have waited at least a couple of weeks until
after the midterms to make such a public push.” Ed O’Keefe, on ABC’s Good
Morning America
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(10/16), also said the Cherokee Nation “criticized Warren’s announcement,
saying her use of a DNA test is ‘inappropriate,’ and is ‘undermining tribal
interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage.’”

        The Daily Caller
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(10/16, Athey) reports that on NBC’s Today Show[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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Megyn Kelly said, “We ripped on a woman not long ago, a young high school
girl wearing a prom dress that was kimono style, saying she was guilty of
cultural appropriation. ... Elizabeth Warren is out there representing that
she’s got a heritage that at best is probably similar to most Americans in
this country, none of whom check the box.” Added Kelly, “She scored on
herself. She scored a goal against herself.” Townhall
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(10/16, O'Brien) notes Kelly also said, “The best case scenario for her is
she is a great, great, great, great grandparent who is Native American,”
and that ancestor “could predate the formation of the country.”

        On MSNBC’s Morning Joe
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(10/16), Mika Brzezinski said Democrats “just spent the last few days
talking about Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Elizabeth Warren’s plans for
2020.” Brzezinski asked, “Are they missing the message just days ahead of
critical midterms?” Joe Scarborough interjected, “Yes, yes they are.”
Brzezinski continued, “Note to self: we don’t need Hillary right now
talking about Monica Lewinsky being an adult at the age of 22 when she was
taken advantage of. Bad move.”

        Dana Milbank writes in the Washington Post
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(10/16), “Poor...Warren. She took...Trump’s bait” and “now...is not only
enduring Trump’s ‘Pocahontas’ insults (at least when he’s not calling
another woman ‘Horseface’) but also being disparaged by Indian tribes.”
Milbank adds “Warren is unfit to lead,” but “it is difficult not to feel
sorry for” for her. Warren “took Trump’s DNA-test dare and let him divide
us – again – by race and ethnicity, just as he did when he goaded President
Barack Obama to prove his legitimacy by producing his birth certificate.”
It is also “sad that the Cherokees responded by noisily rejecting Warren,
but that’s their right.”

        On the other hand, Sean Hannity said on Fox News’ Hannity[image:
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(10/16) that Warren “claimed to be a Native American in her professional
career and her political career all for personal gain. Then, laughably
tried to prove her detractors wrong by releasing a DNA test showing less
than 0.1 percent Native American heritage. What kind of fantasy world is
she living in? Is this really the best the Democrats have to offer? Now
even the mainstream media, while initially supporting her, they are now
mocking Elizabeth Warren’s DNA debacle.” Hannity added that Warren “is
turning into a national embarrassment along with that party and this comes
at the absolute worst time for Democrats, with just three weeks to go until
the midterm elections.”

        *Graham Says He’s Taking DNA Test To Show He’s More Native American
Than Warren. *The Daily Caller
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(10/16, Athey) reports Sen. Lindsey Graham “said on Tuesday that he is
taking a DNA test to prove that he is more Native American than...Warren.”
Graham told Fox News’ Fox & Friends
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“I’m taking it and the results are gonna be revealed here. ... This is my
Trump moment, this is reality TV.” The Washington Post
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(10/16, Sonmez) quotes Graham as also saying, “I’ve been told that my
grandmother was part Cherokee Indian. It may all be just talk. But you’re
going to find out in a couple of weeks, because I’m going to take this
test. I’m taking it, and the result’s going to be revealed here.” Breitbart
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(10/16, Huston) notes Graham further stated, “She’s less than one-tenth of
one percent, I think I can beat her.”

        USA Today
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(10/16, Cummings) notes “host Steve Doocy suggested Graham come back to the
show with the results of his own genetic analysis,” with Brian Kilmeade
telling the senator, “We’ll find out who you really are.” Graham, “a fierce
critic” of the Iranian regime, “quipped,” “I’ll probably be Iranian. That’d
be, like, terrible.” After Kilmeade retorted, “They have great people, just
bad leaders,” Graham responded, “Yeah, bad leaders. ... I’m not in the
Ayatollah branch.” The Washington Post
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(10/16, Sonmez) headlines its story on Graham’s interview “Lindsey Graham
Says It Would Be, ‘Like, Terrible’ If A DNA Test Found That He Had Iranian
Heritage.”

        *Warren Contributed To Cookbook Titled “Pow Wow Chow Cookbook.” *
Townhall
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(10/16, O'Brien) reports that on NBC’s Today Show[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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Megyn Kelly “chuckled while reading how Warren once contributed to the ‘Pow
Wow Chow Cookbook.’” Kelly laughed after Matt Iseman, co-host of American
Ninja Warrior said, “I thought the most offensive thing was she called it
‘Pow Wow Chow.’ It was terrible. That was awful. That was offensive about
it. That’s where she should be penalized.”

        Dana Milbank notes in the Washington Post
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(10/16) that the book, “under ‘Elizabeth Warren, Cherokee’...lists five
recipes, three of which were apparently cribbed from the New York Times and
Better Homes and Gardens.” Adds Milbank, “Worse, one of the recipes she
submitted: ‘Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing.’ A traditional Cherokee
dish with mayonnaise, a 19th-century condiment imported by settlers? A crab
dish from landlocked Oklahoma? This can mean only one thing: canned crab.”
Trump: Central American Nations To Lose All US Aid If They Don’t Stop
Migrant Caravan.

President Trump tweeted
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yesterday, “The United States has strongly informed the President of
Honduras that if the large Caravan of people heading to the US is not
stopped and brought back to Honduras, no more money or aid will be given to
Honduras, effective immediately!” Trump later tweeted
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“We have today informed the countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El
Salvador that if they allow their citizens, or others, to journey through
their borders and up to the United States, with the intention of entering
our country illegally, all payments made to them will STOP (END)!” Trump
added
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“Anybody entering the United States illegally will be arrested and
detained, prior to being sent back to their country!”

        Reuters
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(10/16, Chiacu) reports Trump’s warning was “driven home by” Vice President
Pence, “who said he spoke to Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez,”
and Politico
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(10/16, Choi) that Trump’s tweets came “a day after...Pence met with the
leaders of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras urging them to keep their
citizens from coming to the United States.” Said Pence, “Tell your people:
Don’t put your families at risk by taking the dangerous journey north to
attempt to enter the United States illegally.” USA Today
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(10/16, Cummings) describes Trump as “angry,” and adds that “it is not
entirely clear what Honduran President...Hernández can do to turn the
migrants back now that they are on Guatemalan soil.”

        The Hill
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(10/16, Fabian) reports, “The US gave $175 million in aid to Honduras in
fiscal 2017, according to” USAID. Trump “has long sought to crack down on
illegal immigration, arguing that migrants bring crime and drugs into the
country,” and “has highlighted the issue in the run-up to the November
midterm elections in an effort to fire up his conservative base.” Politico
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(10/16, Choi) similarly reports that “Trump’s threat reflects his America
First campaign rhetoric, which spurned foreign entanglements.” Trump “has
advocated rolling back foreign aid, which represents less than 1 percent of
federal spending, and his administration attempted to kill $3 billion in
foreign aid over the summer.”

        According to the Washington Post
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(10/16, Partlow), Trump “has made such migrant caravans a symbol of all
that is wrong with US immigration policies.” The Post reports that “earlier
this year, Trump’s criticism turned a previous migrant caravan into a
spectacle, with day-by-day media coverage of the journey,” which the Post
says “caused a spat between the United States and Mexico and was used to
justify a deployment of National Guard troops to the border.”

        The New York Times
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(10/16, Semple) reports DHS spokeswoman Katie Waldman “said in a statement
on Monday that the current caravan was ‘a result of well-advertised and
well-known catch-and-release loopholes,’ referring to undocumented
immigrants apprehended at the border who are released to await the
processing of their cases.” Waldman is quoted as saying, “Until Congress
acts, we will continue to have de facto open borders that guarantees future
‘caravans’ and record numbers of family units entering the country
illegally.”

        The AP
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(10/16, Perez) reports, “The group estimated at 1,600 to 2,000 people
fleeing poverty and violence in Honduras marched into Guatemala in
sweltering heat Monday, twice pushing past outnumbered police sent to stop
them – first at the border and then at a roadblock just outside
Esquipulas.” The New York Post
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(10/16, Moore) also reports that “the migrants said they were fleeing
violence and poverty in Honduras.” Axios
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(10/16, Rodriguez) reports that “the NGO that organized the migrant march,”
Pueblo Sin Fronteras, “responded with a statement demanding the US ‘respect
the international right to migrate and to seek asylum and refuge.’”

        *Mexico Reinforces Border, Warns Caravan That Those Without Visas
Will Be Turned Back. *The AP
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(10/16, Perez) report “Mexico’s immigration authority sent out a fresh
warning late Monday that the migrants would have to satisfy Mexican
officials individually and that only those meeting requirements would be
allowed to enter.” Breitbart
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(10/16, Ortiz, Darby) similarly reports that “in a prepared statement, the
National Immigration Institute (INM) claimed that members of the migrant
caravan wanting to enter Mexico would have to request a visa through their
consulate and follow immigration law. Those who refuse would be turned
back.” The Washington Examiner
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(10/16, Giaritelli) reports, “Hundreds of Mexican Federal Police, including
General Commissioner Manelich Castilla, and officers from the National
Institute of Migration, the country’s immigration agency, arrived in
Tapachula, Chiapas, on Tuesday.”

        *Former ICE Director Homan Warns “Caravans” Will Grow If Democrats
Take House. *On Fox News’ Fox & Friends[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/16), Ainsley Earhardt said Democrats have been “telling other Democrats
that are running, ‘don’t focus on open borders because that’s not trending
well with our base.’ ... Well, that leads us to this next story: 3,000
migrants have traveled from Honduras into Guatemala.” Former ICE director
Tom Homan was shown saying, “This should be the biggest issue we are
talking about. I hope the voters are paying attention to what’s happening,
because if the Dems take control of the House, this caravan issue is going
to happen every week, they are going to keep coming. If there is no
consequence or deterrence to illegal activity, why would it stop? President
Trump has the right ideas. We needed Republicans in Congress to back them
up.”

        *Democratic Pollster: Immigration Has Been “Weaponized
Politically.” *The Hill
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(10/16, Manchester) reports that Democratic pollster Anna Greenberg said in
a Tuesday interview “that immigration has been politically weaponized in
the US ahead of November’s midterm elections.” Greenberg said, “I don’t
think we’re having a policy debate in this election. I think we’re having a
cultural debate. ... The problem is [that immigration is] weaponized
politically, and so that makes it much harder to have an actual rational
debate about it.”
Trump Calls Russia Investigation A “Con Job.”

President Trump was asked in an interview with Fox Business’ Trish Regan
Primetime
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(10/16) about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Trump said,
“First of all, there was no collusion. Do you think I would call Russia? ‘I
need help in Idaho. I need help in Iowa. Oh, let’s call Russia.’ It’s a con
job. ... This was the Democrats losing the Electoral College, which they
should have won easily. ... They lost and they come up with this excuse,
‘We lost because of, let’s see, Russia. Yeah, Russia.’ I didn’t make one
call. The whole thing is so disgraceful. So it continues. It’s a witch
hunt. It’s nothing for more than a witch hunt. Most of people get it,
including Democrats. ... They look at me, they wink at me. The Democrats
get it, too. But we will see what happens. It just continues onward.”

        *Trump Defends Don Jr. Over Trump Tower Meeting. *The AP
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(10/17, Lucey, Lemire, Miller) reports that during the interview, Trump
“defended his son Donald Trump Jr. for a Trump Tower meeting with a
Kremlin-connected lawyer offering damaging information about Democrat
Hillary Clinton.” Trump said his son is “good young guy” who did what any
political aide would have done.

        *Trump Says Obama Did Nothing About Russia’s Election Meddling. *The
Washington Examiner
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(10/16, Gualtieri) reports that during his Fox Business’ Trish Regan
Primetime
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interview, Trump also “lashed out at former President Barack Obama’s
actions ahead of the 2016 election, saying he’s done more to protect the
2018 elections than Obama did in 2016.” Trump said, “In terms of meddling,
Obama was told in September, just ahead of the election, that Russia was
trying to meddle in the election. He didn’t say anything about it or do
anything about it. He only brings it up after the election.” Trump added,
“You know what he did? Nothing. You know why? He thought Hillary Clinton
was going to win and he didn’t want to do anything to upset that.”

        *Trump Says He Can Fire Sessions Whenever He Wants. *The AP
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(10/17, Lucey, Lemire, Miller) reports that iduring his Fox interview,
Trump “again repeated his frustration with Attorney General Jeff Sessions
over the special counsel investigation.” Trump said, “I can fire him
whenever I want to fire him.” Asked in an interview with Fox Business’
Trish Regan Primetime
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(10/16) if Sessions will keep his job, Trump said, “I’m not going to tell
you that. We’ll see what happens.”

        *Sessions: Trump “Frustrated About My Recusal And Other Matters.” *
Politico
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(10/16, Gerstein) reports Sessions “acknowledged Tuesday what every reader
of President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed already knows: Trump’s not happy
with his top lawman.” Sessions told reporters, “The president speaks his
mind. He says what’s on his mind at the time. ... He’s been frustrated
about my recusal and other matters, but we have been so pleased and honored
to be given the responsibility to execute his agenda at the Department of
Justice.” Politico adds that “pressed on Tuesday about whether the
president ever pressured him to resign, Sessions never answered directly.
‘Uh, I think…,’” Sessions “said awkwardly, before looking to another
journalist for a question.”

        *As GPS Founder Takes The Fifth, Trump Wonders Why Ohr Still Works
At DOJ. *Trump tweeted
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yesterday, “‘Conflict between Glen Simpson’s testimony to another House
Panel about his contact with Justice Department official Bruce Ohr. Ohr was
used by Simpson and Steele as a Back Channel to get (FAKE) Dossier to FBI.
Simpson pleading Fifth.’ Catherine Herridge. Where is Jeff Sessions? ...
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Is it really possible that Bruce Ohr, whose wife Nellie was paid by Simpson
and GPS Fusion for work done on the Fake Dossier, and who was used as a
Pawn in this whole SCAM (WITCH HUNT), is still working for the Department
of Justice????? Can this really be so?????”

        The Washington Times
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(10/16, Mordock) reports that “Simpson, co-founder of the opposition
research firm that compiled a salacious anti-Trump dossier, on Tuesday
invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to testify before a House committee
investigating the Justice Department’s actions during the 2016 presidential
election.” The Washington Examiner
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(10/16, Cohen) says Simpson “had an usually close relationship with Ohr,
who brought some of the dossier information to the Justice Department and
FBI.” Moreover “Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, was contracted by Fusion GPS.”

        The AP
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(10/16, Jalonick) notes House Judiciary Chairman Robert Goodlatte “said in
a statement...that it was disappointing that Simpson wouldn’t talk to the
committee,” as he “was ‘uniquely qualified’ to answer questions about the
dossier.”

        *Sasse: Mueller Probe Should Focus On Russia’s Election Meddling
“Playbook.” *Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) said on Fox News Outnumbered[image:
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(10/16), “What Putin actually wants is American on American discord to go
forward forever more. What I want to know, what the Mueller investigation
should be about that the national media has mislabeled by calling it the
Trump-Russia investigation so constantly...is what did Russia attempt to
do? If it involves the Trump Campaign and the Trump Organization, it needs
to lead there to those things. But the main thing that matters is what was
Russia trying to do as the playbook that they are going to again doing in
2018 and 2020.”
Trump Touts Strong Economy, Says US “Number One In The World, By Far.”

President Trump tweeted
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yesterday, “Incredible number just out, 7,036,000 job openings. Astonishing
– it’s all working! Stock Market up big on tremendous potential of USA.
Also, Strong Profits. We are Number One in World, by far!” Trump said in an
interview with Fox Business’ Trish Regan Primetime[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018101701biden&r=email-215e&l=0ba-84a&t=c>
(10/16), “We have the greatest economy that we’ve ever had. Numbers came
out today about job openings. ... It’s incredible. Record numbers.” Asked
about claims that this is a result of Obama’s policies taking effect, Trump
said, “If the opposition got into office instead of me, they were going to
put more rules and regulations in, they were going to do things with taxes
that would have been a disaster. Raise taxes. We had 4.2 last quarter. ...
Had the opposition gotten in, you would be at minus 4.2. You would be so
low you would have job numbers that would be so bad. You would have
companies flowing out of the country. Now they are flowing back into the
country. They want to be back in the United States of America.”

        *Trump: “8X More New Manufacturing Jobs Now Than With Obama.” *Trump
also tweeted
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yesterday, “‘8X more new manufacturing jobs now than with Obama.’ @FoxNews
@cvpayne.”

        *Job Openings Rise To Record High. *Reuters
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(10/16, Mutikani) reports “US job openings jumped to a record high in
August, far outpacing a rise in hiring, suggesting that companies could be
increasingly having difficulties finding qualified workers.” The Labor
Department “said in its monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or
JOLTS, report on Tuesday that there were 7.14 million unfilled positions in
the economy in August,” which is “the highest level since the series
started in 2000 and compared to 7.08 million vacancies in July.”

        The Hill
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(10/16, Keller) reports “the open jobs outnumbered unemployed Americans
actively searching for work by 902,000 in August, which is the largest
difference recorded,” and the Washington Post
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(10/16, Long) that “the nation now has more than one job opening for every
unemployed person, a dramatic turnaround from the Great Recession, when
there were more than six unemployed people for every job on offer.” Mary
Daly, President of the San Francisco Federal Reserve, said in a speech
yesterday, “The labor market is booming. It’s beyond almost anyone’s
measure of full employment.” CNBC
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(10/16, Cox) and the Wall Street Journal
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(10/16, Morath), among other news outlets, also report the story.

        *US Tops “Global Competitiveness” Ranking For First Time In A
Decade. *The AP
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(10/16, Keaten) reports “organizers of the annual Davos conference ranked
the United States first in their ranking of the world’s most competitive
economies for the first time in a decade Wednesday, saying the No. 1 spot
reflects a new methodology and long-term factors more than recent policies
of the Trump administration.” The AP adds that “the World Economic Forum
said its ‘Global Competitiveness Report’ is based on nearly 100 separate
factors in a dozen categories that have been reworked slightly to better
reflect today’s rapidly changing, increasingly digitized world economy.”
The US “is followed by Singapore, Germany, Switzerland and Japan in the top
five spots among the 140 economies considered.” Breitbart
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(10/16, Carney) notes “the US has not held the number one spot since 2008,
when the aftermath of the financial crisis and bungled recovery efforts
left the US economy limping.”

        *Stocks Have Strongest Day In Six Months Amid Upbeat Earnings,
Economic Data. *The AP
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(10/16, Jay) reports “US stocks rocketed to their biggest gain in six
months Tuesday following strong earnings from major financial and health
care companies as well as encouraging reports on the economy.” The S&P
“jumped 59.13 points, or 2.1 percent, its largest gain since March 26, and
finished at 2,809.92.” The Dow “gained 547.87 points, or 2.2 percent, to
25,798.42,” and the Nasdaq “climbed 214.75 points, or 2.9 percent, to
7,645.49.” President Trump tweeted
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last night, “Stock Market up 548 points today. Also, GREAT jobs numbers!”
Reuters
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(10/16, Krauskopf) says “investors are expecting another strong quarter of
corporate profits, hoping the reports can calm nerves following concerns
over global trade tensions and rising bond yields.” Reuters adds
“third-quarter earnings for S&P 500 companies are expected to have climbed
21.8 percent, according to I/B/E/S data from Refinitiv.”

        *Trump: “Fed Is Raising Rates Too Fast.” *The AP
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(10/16) reports that during his interview with Fox Business’ Trish Regan
Primetime
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Trump criticized the Federal Reserve “for raising interest rates too
quickly.” Said Trump, “My biggest threat is the Fed.” Bloomberg News
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(10/16, Condon) notes Trump also said, “The Fed is raising rates too fast.”
The Wall Street Journal
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(10/16, Davidson) also reports on Trump’s comments about Fed Chairman
Jerome Powell, “It’s independent so I don’t speak to him, but I’m not happy
with what he’s doing, because it’s going too fast. ... You looked at the
last inflation numbers, they’re very low.” Trump also told Fox Business’
Trish Regan Primetime
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(10/16), “I’m not blaming anybody. I put them there. Maybe it’s right and
maybe it’s wrong.”
McConnell: Spending, Not Tax Cuts, To Blame For “Very Disturbing” Deficit
Spike.

The Washington Post
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(10/16, Paletta) reports that Senate Majority Leader McConnell yesterday
“called the ballooning budget deficit ‘very disturbing’ but said large
federal spending programs were to blame, dismissing criticism that last
year’s GOP tax cuts are saddling the country with more debt.” McConnell
“also said there was little chance Republicans would be able to cut
government spending next year if they retained control of Congress because
any changes would need leadership from Democrats.” Bloomberg News
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(10/16, Dennis) says that in an interview, McConnell stated that the
deficit is “a bipartisan problem: unwillingness to address the real drivers
of the debt by doing anything to adjust” entitlement “programs to the
demographics of America in the future.” McConnell “said it would be ‘very
difficult to do entitlement reform, and we’re talking about Medicare,
Social Security and Medicaid,’ with one party in charge of Congress and the
White House.”

        Jennifer Steinhauer of the New York Times
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(10/16) says congressional Republicans are “insisting that the $1.5
trillion tax cut will ultimately pay for itself.” According to Steinhauer,
“The deficit – which the Treasury Department said on Monday had swelled to
$779 billion in the 2018 fiscal year, up from $666 billion the previous
year – has been reduced to a thing to be ignored.”
GOP Ads Include Pledges To Back ACA Preexisting Condition Protections.

The New York Times
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(10/16, Sanger-Katz) reports that “for months, Democratic candidates have
been running hard on health care, while Republicans have said little about
it,” but now Republicans are “playing defense, releasing a wave of ads
promising they will preserve protections for Americans with pre-existing
health conditions.” The Times says the GOP ads “omit the fact that the
protections were a central feature of the Affordable Care Act and that the
Republican Party has worked unceasingly to repeal the law, through
legislation and lawsuits.” The Times says “many” GOP ads “cite votes for
Republican bills that would have overhauled large portions of Obamacare
last year – the very same votes that Democrats have been using as evidence
that Republicans want to limit health coverage.”

        *Pelosi Says Democratic House Could Find Some “Common Ground” With
Trump. *The Washington Post
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(10/16, Debonis) reports House Minority Leader Pelosi said Tuesday that
Democrats could “find common ground” with President Trump if they wing the
House majority in November. In remarks to Harvard University’s Institute of
Politics, Pelosi said Democrats would “have to always try” to find
opportunities to govern with Trump. Pelosi said, “It’s an interesting
dynamic when you have the gavel. ... It just makes all the difference in
the world in the leverage you have in your conversations. And so I think
that the fact that we would have the majority would make the difference in
whether we can depend on what he has to say.” Pelosi added that
opportunities to work with Trump would be limited. She suggested a national
infrastructure plan might be one such area. In other areas, like Trump’s
border wall, Pelosi said there could be no compromise.

        *Democratic Candidates’ Ads Voice Opposition To Pelosi. *Bloomberg
News
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(10/16, Giroux, Sullivan) reports that while Republicans have long used
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as “campaign commercial fodder,” this
year, some Democrats are also making their opposition to her “explicit in
30-second ads airing less than a month before the Nov. 6 election.” This,
as Democrats’ hopes of winning a House majority hinge “in no small part on
them winning Republican-friendly districts where Pelosi isn’t popular.”

        *Democratic Leaders Divided Over Using Committee Power To Get Trump
Tax Returns. *The New York Times
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(10/16, Fandos) looks at whether the House Ways and Means Committee, if
under Democratic control next year, would actually be able to use “a
century-old provision in the federal tax code that could give them access
to President Trump’s long-sought tax returns and eventually the ability to
make them public.” The provision allows the committee “to request from the
Treasury Department tax returns or related information on any tax filer,”
but Democrats “expect that Mr. Trump and his appointees within the Treasury
would outright refuse to comply, tempting a lawsuit by the House and all
but ensuring a long court fight.” Democratic leaders “are divided on how
quickly and aggressively to act,” fearing that action without an “adequate
public rationale” would work in the President’s favor politically.
Hurricane Michael Death Toll Now As High As 30.

Reports on the rising death toll from Hurricane Michael put the current
total anywhere from 26 to 30. USA Today
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018101701biden&r=email-215e&l=0d2-b3a&t=c>
(10/16, Rice) reports that almost a week after the storm “smashed into the
Florida Panhandle with winds of 155 mph, authorities Tuesday reported that
12 people have been found dead in Bay County,” which “will potentially
increase the storm’s national death total to 26 people.” The AP
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018101701biden&r=email-215e&l=0d3-373&t=c>
(10/16, Reeves) reports that the storm killed at least 16 people in Florida
alone.

        All three broadcast networks reported the figure in coverage of the
aftermath of the storm. David Muir said on ABC World News Tonight[image:
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<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018101701biden&r=email-215e&l=0d4-785&t=c>
(10/16, story 4, 1:35) that “the death toll...[is] rising sharply.” On NBC
Nightly News
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(10/16, story 5, 1:15), Lester Holt said the death toll “has soared
dramatically to 29 six days after Hurricane Michael devastated the Florida
Panhandle,” while on the CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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(10/16, story 2, 0:20), David Glor put the number at 30.

        *FCC’s Pai Vows Investigation Of Slow Restoration Of Cellphone
Service. *The Washington Post
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(10/16, Fung) reports, “The Federal Communications Commission slammed the
nation’s wireless carriers Tuesday for failing to quickly restore service
to Hurricane Michael victims – and demanded that the companies compensate
Florida residents with a month of free cellular service.” In a statement,
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai “called the carriers’ lack of progress ‘completely
unacceptable’ and said he intends to launch an investigation.” Pai also
“urged the companies to ‘waive the bills of Floridians in these affected
areas for the month of October.’”

        *Anheuser-Busch Distributing Canned Water In Hurricane-Hit Areas. *ABC
World News Tonight
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(10/16, story 9, 1:25) aired a feature on Anheuser-Busch’s distribution of
canned water in the areas affected by Hurricane Michael. David Muir said
the brewery has sent “300,000 cans to Florida and Georgia for Hurricane
Michael relief. They were there after Hurricane Florence, too.”

        *WSJournal: Obama Defense Cuts Left F-22s Vulnerable To Hurricane
Michael. *A Wall Street Journal
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(10/16) says an unspecified number of Air Force F-22 jet fighters were
damaged in Hurricane Michael because they did not have the parts to be
operational and had to remain in hangars during the storm. The Journal
casts blame on former President Obama and Defense Secretary Gates, who
convinced Congress in 2009 to stop production of the fighters. The Journal
adds that while Republicans and the President were able to pass an increase
in defense spending, Democrats will cut it again if they win the House
majority in November.
Heitkamp Apologizes For Naming Sexual Assault Victims Without Consent.

The CBS Evening News
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(10/16, story 4, 0:40, O'Keefe) reported that Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D) “is
apologizing for an ad that ran in North Dakota newspapers over the
weekend.” The ad, which was “designed to criticize her” challenger, Rep.
Kevin Cramer (R), “for his support of Supreme Court Justice Brett
Kavanaugh,” lists “victims of domestic violence, sexual abuse, and rape,”
but “some of those listed didn’t give their consent.” The AP
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(10/16, MacPherson) reports that Heitkamp “said in a statement that she had
recently learned that several of the women named in the ad either hadn’t
authorized it or are not survivors of abuse. ‘This was incompetent. It was
wrong. It should have never happened,’ Heitkamp told Rob Port, a
conservative blogger and frequent Heitkamp critic on his radio talk show
Tuesday. ‘It was a very flagrant error of the campaign and I own it.’”

        The Washington Post
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(10/16, Wagner) reports that Heitkamp said in a statement that her campaign
“recently discovered that several of the women’s names who were provided to
us did not authorize their names to be shared or were not survivors of
abuse. ... I deeply regret this mistake and we are in the process of
issuing a retraction, personally apologizing to each of the people impacted
by this and taking the necessary steps to ensure this never happens again.”
Cramer said the mistakes are “a revictimization of victims. ... This is
what happens when desperate people do things for their own personal
political gain. ... She proved a point that her personal politics matter
more than someone’s personal pain.”

        The Hill
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(10/16, Keller) reported that the state GOP “slammed Heitkamp for the
mistake. ‘This is another example of Heidi Heitkamp exploiting whoever she
can for political gain,’ the party’s Communications Director Jake Wilkins
told The Hill Tuesday.” The Hill added, “Heitkamp is considered to be among
the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents in the Senate, with Cramer
leading in the polls by an average of 8.7 points, according to
RealClearPolitics.”

        Politico
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(10/16, Arkin) reported, “The error comes just as Heitkamp kicked off a
three-week drive to erase her polling deficit in heavily Republican-leaning
North Dakota. Heitkamp is the most vulnerable Democratic senator facing
reelection this year, and she is planning to barnstorm her state before
Election Day to make a face-to-face case to voters. But Tuesday’s major
misstep has once again thrown Heitkamp’s campaign off track, just as
Democrats said her campaign was recovering from backlash against her vote
not to confirm...Kavanaugh – and after Democrats had spent weeks hammering
Cramer for insensitivity toward victims of sexual assault.”

        *NYTimes: Domestic Violence Awareness Has Not Caught Up With
#MeToo. *The New York Times
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(10/16, Mervosh) reports, “Over the past year, the #MeToo movement has
transformed culture, in many ways expanding beyond sexual assault and
harassment to become a transcendent force for empowering women,” but “how
does domestic violence, one of the most common ways women suffer at the
hands of men, fit into that conversation?” The Times “talked to experts and
survivors about why the conversation around domestic violence differs from
sexual assault and what would need to change for domestic violence to have
its own cultural reckoning.” In 2018, the National Domestic Violence
Hotline and its youth outreach effort, loveisrespect, “have experienced a
30 percent increase in calls, texts and chats compared with the same period
last year,” and Katie Ray-Jones, “the chief executive of the National
Domestic Violence Hotline...believes that domestic violence victims
identify with the national conversation, but that they feel safer speaking
confidentially as opposed to sharing publicly on Facebook or Twitter.”

        *Ellisons’ Divorce Records Expected To Be Unsealed Today. *The
Minneapolis
Star Tribune
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(10/16, Van Berkel, Covington) reports that Kim Ellison, the former wife of
Rep. Keith Ellison (D), “said Tuesday that she has been the one pushing to
keep records of her divorce with” the Congressman “private, while the
Minnesota Court of Appeals denied the Ellisons’ last-minute attempt to
block the release of some information in the file. Their divorce file is
expected to be unsealed Wednesday, following a District Court order issued
last week.” The article adds, “The Star Tribune and Alpha News, a
right-leaning news website, pushed to unseal the divorce file following a
domestic abuse allegation from Ellison’s ex-girlfriend, Karen Monahan.”
Ellison is running for state attorney general.
Cancer Research
FDA Approves Talazoparib For An Advanced Form Of Breast Cancer.

Reuters
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(10/16) reports that the FDA has approved talazoparib “for an advanced form
of breast cancer tied to an inherited gene mutation.” The medication “is
indicated for breast cancer triggered by mutation of BRCA genes.” The
agency also approved a “diagnostic test to identify breast cancer patients
who are eligible for” the medication.
FDA Mandates Pediatric Trials For 200 Cancer Targets.

BioCentury
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(10/16, Romeo) reports on Tuesday, the FDA published a “list of 200
molecular targets for which companies developing directed compounds must
conduct pediatric clinical studies.” The FDA explained that the 200 targets
are deemed “substantially relevant to the growth and progression of
pediatric cancer.” The requirement will apply “even if the compound has an
Orphan Drug designation for the pediatric population, or if the adult
indication does not occur in children.”
NIEHS Funding SUNY Polytechnic Study Of Genetics, Colon Cancer.

The Albany (NY) Times Union
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(10/16, Rulison) reports SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany professor
Michael Fasullo received a $446,000 grant from the National Institutes of
Health’s “National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to study how
genetics influences diet-associated colon cancer.” The piece adds that his
colleague, Janet Paluh, received a grant from the “New York State
Department of Health’s Spinal Cord Injury Research Board to study neural
cell therapies.”
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“The Saudi Cover-Up Crumbles.”* On its editorial page, the New York Times
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(10/16) says if Secretary of State Pompeo “flew to Riyadh to read the Riot
Act to Saudi rulers over the apparent murder of Jamal Khashoggi, he hid it
well behind cheery smiles and professions of amity. But then outrage has
been conspicuously absent from the Trump administration in the two weeks”
since Khashoggi went missing. The Times warns that “if Saudi Arabia is
allowed to get away with some lame story about the apparent murder of Mr.
Khashoggi, the world’s growing gang of autocrats will feel even less
constraint.”

        *Bruni Blasts Kushner’s “Arrogance,” Lack Of “Expertise.” *Frank
Bruni writes in the New York Times
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(10/16, Bruni) that Jared Kushner is “the embodiment of the Trump
administration’s ethos that you’re entitled to take a whack at something by
dint of affluence and arrogance, not because of any manifest expertise.”

        *Author Recounts Quest For Trump’s Family Roots. *Nina Burleigh
writes in the New York Times
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(10/16) about her exploration of President Trump’s family roots when she
was “researching a book on the women of the Trump clan” last year. The
President “is a second generation German-Scot – two nationalities that
happen to be the first and tenth most common in the United States. ... Two
of his three wives are relatively recent arrivals from Eastern Europe and
four of his children are half Slavic.” Burleigh recounts her spots in
Scotland, Germany, Slovenia, and elsewhere in Europe.
Washington Post.

“Why Is The Trump Administration Cleaning Up Saudi Arabia’s Mess?”In an
editorial, the Washington Post
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(10/16) says the “best metaphor for [Secretary of State] Pompeo’s diplomacy
seemed to be what reporters witnessed outside the Saudi Consulate in
Istanbul, where [journalist Jamal] Khashoggi was last seen Oct. 2: the
arrival of a cleaning crew with buckets, mops and fluids.” Pompeo, it says,
“appeared less intent on determining the truth than in helping the de facto
Saudi ruler escape from the crisis he triggered.”

        *“Google Is Treading A Dangerous Path In China.” *The Washington
Post
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(10/16) editorializes that Google announced that “it would not compete for
a $10 billion cloud-computing contract with the Pentagon” on grounds that
“the work would conflict with its corporate values,” but with Project
Dragonfly, it appears that this “ethical high-mindedness” did not “come
into play.” The Post urges “people in the United States, from employees to
members of Congress to everyday citizens, to speak up for what they
believe,” because “Google’s potential customers in China do not enjoy that
opportunity.”

        *“Jennifer Wexton For Congress.” *In an editorial, the Washington
Post
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(10/16) endorses Virginia state Sen. Jennifer Wexton (D) in her race
against Rep. Barbara Comstock (R). The Post says that “on critical issues,”
Comstock “has been a reliable, often unquestioning foot soldier in the
president’s ranks of Republican loyalists.”

        *Las Vegas Massacre Said To Put Terrorism Law To Legal Test. *In an
op-ed for the Washington Post
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(10/16), Penrose C. Albright, president and chief executive officer of HRL
Laboratories, writes that the “post-9/11 law known as the Support
Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act , or Safety Act,”
was “intended to ensure that companies would not let the considerable
liability risks associated with a potential terrorist attack deter them
from creating or using technologies that could help protect the public,”
and now “the law is being cited for the first time in a legal proceeding”
over the October 2017 Las Vegas shootings that killed 58. According to
Albright, the concert’s security provider “had years earlier received from
the Department of Homeland Security protection from unbounded claims
resulting from an act of terrorism.” The Las Vegas attack “is the law’s
first test,” Albright argues, adding, “how the case is decided will
establish precedents and judicial doctrine affecting the law’s continuing
usefulness,” and “that should be done with great care.”
Wall Street Journal.

*“Fighters Downed By Hurricane.”* A Wall Street Journal
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(10/16) says an unspecified number of Air Force F-22 jet fighters were
damaged in Hurricane Michael because they did not have the parts to be
operational and had to remain in hangars during the storm. The Journal
casts blame on former President Obama and Defense Secretary Gates, who
convinced Congress in 2009 to stop production of the fighters. The Journal
adds that while Republicans and the President were able to pass an increase
in defense spending, Democrats will cit it again if they win the House
majority in November.

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