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PRESIDENT TRUMP is on his way back to Washington after 12 days in Asia. He'll stop in Hawaii. On Thursday, he comes to the Hill to speak to the House Republican Conference, timed to their vote for tax reform. The press charter is scheduled to land at Andrews 5:40 a.m. Wednesday. 

-- TRUMP, speaking on Air Force One, addressed the three UCLA basketball players arrested for theft in China: "The basketball players, by the way -- I know a lot of people are asking -- I will tell you, when I heard about it two days ago, I had a great conversation with President Xi. What they did was unfortunate. You know, you're talking about very long prison sentences. They do not play games. He was terrific, and they're working on it right now. And hopefully everything is going to work out. And I know they're very grateful because they were told exactly what happened."

Good Tuesday morning. THE SENATE ON ROY MOORE... -- "Moore expulsion idea splits Senate Republicans," by Seung Min Kim and John Bresnahan: "Senate Republicans are escalating their demands for embattled Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore to leave the race, including a growing faction calling for him to be expelled if he wins next month. But some senior Republicans are wary that the chorus of anti-Moore sentiment from Washington will only embolden Moore and his supporters. ... Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, chairman of the [NRCC], raised the specter of expulsion in a Monday statement. Later, retiring Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona told reporters he would support Democrat Doug Jones over Moore and
 that expelling Moore should remain on the table.

"But other top party leaders weren't as quick to embrace the idea of expelling Moore from the chamber, which has been attempted but not completed in well more than a century and could raise serious questions about the Senate defying the will of voters. Other Republicans fear the precedent of booting a senator who hasn't violated any Senate rules or is not facing criminal charges." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae997ba43d5518328d0f70db1a922fcd62e580684202fb89ef61582b346227aca243263ce8a70150ade9e

-- THE WHITE HOUSE ... NYT's Jonathan Martin and Sheryl Gay Stolberg: "Publicly, Mr. McConnell, appearing at a news conference in Louisville, said he was 'looking at' drafting a write-in candidate for the Dec. 12 special election. Privately, Mr. McConnell was doing more than merely looking. One idea being discussed, first brought up by two different White House officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity, would be for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to run as either a write-in candidate or to be appointed to what was his seat should Mr. Moore win and be immediately removed from office.

"Mr. McConnell is supportive of the idea and discussed it on Monday in a telephone call with Vice President Mike Pence that was chiefly about the Republican tax overhaul proposal, according to party officials briefed on the call. Mr. Sessions remains popular among Alabama Republicans, but his relationship with Mr. Trump has frayed since he recused himself from the investigation of the role that Russia played in last year's presidential campaign." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae9979eb48d0648672c96a253bd65495af8fbd8bff1d692fba1ae7b5514014852cefec3860c78713d4cb8

-- THE PARTY COMMITTEE ... "The Republican National Committee Hasn't Yet Dumped Roy Moore," by BuzzFeed's Henry J. Gomez: "About a dozen national party staffers are on the ground in Alabama, handling field organizing duties for next month's special election between Moore and Democratic nominee Doug Jones, an RNC official told BuzzFeed News. A spokesperson declined to comment when asked if the RNC's investment was being reevaluated in light of another woman coming forward to accuse Moore of sexually assaulting her in 1977, when she was 16." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae997e2090cfc69444f7bf8c63b0babc9a8a0d4379f100fc791e9561a796ace38a2274fb3faa286c50312

-- THE MOST RECENT ALLEGATIONS, from Gabe Debenedetti in New York. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae997299c702404206d463db069fdbd029470e6ca9d9dede440e4b6f3467d77e8cd26e5c701c8901137f6 

NOTES ON MOORE ... 

-- SOME COMPLICATING FACTORS WITH PUSHING MOORE OUT: Early votes and absentee ballots that have already been counted are irreversible. So if you've voted for Roy Moore, you can't change your vote.

-- HOW MUCH WOULD A WRITE-IN CAMPAIGN COST REPUBLICANS? A write-in campaign is tricky. The GOP will have to run some ads or spread the message somehow that voters should write in someone -- perhaps Jeff Sessions -- instead of voting for Moore. But it runs the risk of splitting the Republican vote, and handing the election to Doug Jones, the Democrat. 

-- WHY JEFF SESSIONS MAKES SENSE. Air time is cheap in Alabama, and Sessions has high name ID. If Trump gets behind him, that could make a big difference.

-- IF SESSIONS TAKES THE LEAP, WHO DOES TRUMP CHOOSE AS ATTORNEY GENERAL? Trump has a very aggressive legislative agenda, and if he needs to choose a new attorney general, that will take time and political capital. To get a new attorney general confirmed with minimal pain, Trump would have to listen to McConnell's suggestions about who can get through the chamber easily. 

-- EXPULSION IS HARD -- BUT CAN IT BE WORTH IT POLITICALLY? Expulsion takes a while. It's tricky. The Senate hasn't expelled a member in more than a century. But is there an argument to be made that Republicans would be better off electing Moore, expelling him and getting Alabama's Republican governor to appoint another GOP senator? That way two Republicans don't split the vote. And Republicans get to actually take action to expel someone whose behavior they say they find abhorrent. 

-- ... BUT, BUT, BUT: If the Senate has to expel Moore, it could tear the party apart even further and embolden Steve Bannon in his war against incumbents. And it could look like the Senate is subverting the will of the voters.

BY THE WAY ... REMEMBER -- NOVEMBER was supposed to be all about tax reform. Republicans don't want to be talking about whether their Senate candidate in Alabama had an unusual interest in high school girls.

CARL HULSE'S "ON WASHINGTON" -- "Past Sex Scandals Show McConnell Is Willing to Take a Tough Line": "Senator Mitch McConnell has a well-documented history of showing little tolerance for sex scandals that he fears could tarnish the image of the Senate and his party. He was a major force behind the effort to push out Larry E. Craig, the Idaho Republican arrested at the Minneapolis airport in 2007 in an undercover sex sting. And he was the chairman of the ethics committee when Senator Bob Packwood, the powerful Oregon Republican, resigned in 1995 under threat of expulsion after he was accused of sexual harassment." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae99727eb58f212edd4a84d8996f2ab2a94a14a4addf3fbc88bc899dd6c604f7e8022123169853029e1be 

EDITORIAL ON AL.COM -- WEBSITE FOR THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS, PRESS-REGISTER (MOBILE) and THE HUNTSVILLE TIMES -- "Our view: Roy Moore grossly unfit for office": "Roy Moore simply cannot be a U.S. Senator. Even if his party and many of its adherents still think it possible, it is unthinkable -- for his state, and his country." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae9979ae5b367750a93accda841a7b7a78890b7d977bd145fac53de05541f44a97cba61b1ba3f76cbffc2 

NEW POLITICO/MORNING CONSULT POLL -- "Poll: Moore should quit Alabama Senate race," by Steven Shepard: "A new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows voters nationally find the allegations against Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore credible - and a majority thinks Moore should drop out of the race. The poll - which was conducted prior to the most recent allegations against Moore leveled by Beverly Young Nelson, who said Monday that Moore sexually assaulted her when she was 16 years old - found 59 percent of voters say they considered the original allegations against Moore outlined in a Washington Post article last week very or somewhat credible. Just 17 percent say the allegations are
 not too credible or not credible at all. The remaining 23 percent don't know or have no opinion.

"There are partisan differences in national views of the Moore allegations, but even among Republican voters, more find the allegations credible than not. Nearly half of GOP voters, 49 percent, say the accusations against Moore are at least somewhat credible; just three-in-10 say they are not too credible or not credible at all." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae9976aaf504e94d65ad9f35b7f62acc0899c5dd2fdf377e5858976b285da3cdcdc8ecab69619e1280b45

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A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME -- @gdebenedetti: "Moore is already a 2018 issue >> - O'Rourke -- Cruz challenger in TX -- has sent nonstop $ emails about him (just now: 'We deserve better than a Senator who will stand by an accused child predator') - Kaine also hitting opponent over support ('Sexual abuse is not a partisan issue')".

-- @jaketapper: "How many high school yearbooks have you signed since you graduated high school?"

DRIP, DRIP, DRIP -- "Gadsden locals say Moore's predatory behavior at mall, restaurants not a secret," by Anna Claire Vollers in AL.com: "Roy Moore's penchant for flirting with teen girls was 'common knowledge' and 'not a big secret' around Gadsden, according to some area residents. ... [Blake] Usry, who was a teenager at the time, remembers seeing Moore at the mall often. 'He would go and flirt with all the young girls,' he said. 'It'd seem like every Friday or Saturday night (you'd see him) walking around the mall, like the kids did.'

"Jason Nelms, who now lives in Tennessee but grew up in nearby Southside, was a regular at the mall when he was a teenager. He recalled being told by a mall employee that they kept watch for an older guy who was known to pick up younger girls. ... [Greg] Legat, now 59, said an off-duty Gadsden police officer named J.D. Thomas told him about various people he should look out for when he was working. This was around 1981, and Thomas worked security at the mall. One of the people was a pickpocket, he said, while another was someone prone to pick fights. One was Roy Moore. 'I asked him, "What did he do?"' Legat recalled. 'He said, "If you see him, let me know. I'll take care of it."' 
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae997e96735fffa67ea3c93bbff098e08dd239c9509c20746340a658e33503b5c42ce822211027af769c8

-- "Locals Were Troubled by Roy Moore's Interactions with Teen Girls at the Gadsden Mall," by Charles Bethea on NewYorker.com: "This past weekend, I spoke or messaged with more than a dozen people -- including a major political figure in the state -- who told me that they had heard, over the years, that Moore had been banned from the mall because he repeatedly badgered teen-age girls. Some say that they heard this at the time, others in the years since. These people include five members of the local legal community, two cops who worked in the town, several people who hung out at the mall in the early eighties, and a number of former mall employees. (A request for comment from the Moore
 campaign was not answered.)" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae9973564b90023b4855c528a9b1ca28ae51435984d0cc7a9c9c3f12bb917e02c0d9179d5d461c3c53a0b

HOW BREITBART IS FRAMING THE MOORE RACE -- "Breitbart editor: Moore scandal 'represents so much beyond one race'," by Jason Schwartz: "The editor of Breitbart News says the Alabama Senate contest 'represents so much beyond one race,' and that his reporters will continue to investigate the claims made by the women who have alleged that Republican nominee Roy Moore assaulted or pursued relationships with them as teenagers.

"'We admit our biases,' Breitbart Editor in Chief Alex Marlow said. 'I'll tell you that we would like to see a populist, nationalist, America first conservative get elected.' 'There are so many people who want Judge Moore to not become the senator from Alabama, and it's not just Democrats, it's the Republican establishment, it's the media establishment,' he said. 'And what happens in Alabama, either side is going to use it to claim momentum heading into 2018. It's a hugely significant race.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae9977a7de620c4c6d8435d99d6b8d202eb472aab895dae2aa68c583fd7b67e89cda8e5339533068c2d8a

CONGRESS POLICING THEMSELVES -- "Congress yet to act on flawed anti-harassment system," by Elana Schor: "Senators in both parties are touting their move last week to require sexual harassment training for all members and aides. What they don't mention is that many Senate offices already required training or were moving toward it - and that their vote did nothing to reform a system for handling complaints that critics say deters victims from coming forward. Now, some lawmakers are fighting to ensure that the Senate's unanimous approval of mandatory training doesn't make further reforms harder by offering political cover to members who would prefer to move on. Bipartisan talks on an overhaul
 of the Capitol's harassment policy, which critics in and out of Congress say is stacked against victims, remain in their early stages." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae9975a6a8405231aee06ff6fa8d393f8274df95f8cbc7b1efbadda5eec4144297bd9c909ac8d5c677b8e

ANOTHER SPECIAL COUNSEL? -- "Sessions raises specter of special counsel on Clinton and uranium," by Josh Gerstein: "Attorney General Jeff Sessions is raising the possibility of naming a new special counsel to investigate potential wrongdoing by the Clinton Foundation, according to a letter the Justice Department sent Monday to House Republicans. ... 'The Attorney General has directed senior federal prosecutors to evaluate certain issues raised in your letters,' Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd said in the letter obtained by POLITICO and sent to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), among others. 

"'These senior prosecutors will report directly to the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General, as appropriate, and will make recommendations as to whether any matters not currently under investigation should be opened, whether any matters currently under investigation, require further resources, or whether any matters merit the appointment of a Special Counsel,' Boyd added." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae9970af594ddbd3d61aaec28ca25a6f1f7669c5e58338efe5598a43596a0927eab7fe5c515e5856510f1 ... The letter http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae99769635c97219c74fb401e79e9d25081fbe90b3fe1ac3069caae154592835c055bdb276ff43ca11ddd

PENCE WATCH -- "Pence's health care power play: The vice president is driving a White House agenda dominated by the conservative, anti-regulatory policies he embraced as Indiana governor," by Adam Cancryn: "Vice President Mike Pence is exerting growing influence over the American health care system, overseeing the appointments of more than a half-dozen allies and former aides to positions driving the White House's health agenda. On Monday President Donald Trump nominated Alex Azar, a former Indianapolis-based drug executive and longtime Pence supporter as HHS secretary. If confirmed, Azar would join an Indiana brain trust that already includes CMS Administrator Seema Verma and Surgeon
 General Jerome Adams.
 
 "Two of Verma's top deputies -- Medicaid director Brian Neale and deputy chief of staff Brady Brookes -- are former Pence hands as well, as is HHS' top spokesman, Matt Lloyd. Yet another Pence ally -- Indiana state Sen. Jim Merritt -- is in the running to be White House drug czar." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae997b17e3ea94f6fed6fb5a251170356819cc10579c05acf1c45c3714759e046986f1b0d992814a93ee8 

TROUBLE IN PARADISE -- "GOP megadonor Adelson publicly breaks with Bannon," by Alex Isenstadt and Josh Dawsey: "Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, the GOP's most prominent megadonor, is publicly breaking with former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon over his efforts to oust Republican incumbents in 2018. 'The Adelsons will not be supporting Steve Bannon's efforts,' said Andy Abboud, an Adelson spokesman. 'They are supporting Mitch McConnell 100 percent. For anyone to infer anything otherwise is wrong.' The public pronouncement comes about a month after Adelson met with Bannon in Washington. ...

"The former White House chief strategist appeared before the Zionist Organization of America's annual dinner on Sunday night. ZOA is heavily funded by Adelson. ... Bannon had been slated to introduce Adelson and his spouse, Miriam, at the event, according to a copy of the program. The Adelsons, however, did not make it to the event, one person close to the couple said - in part because Adelson was concerned that appearing publicly with Bannon would be seen as a tacit endorsement of his efforts." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae9979e25eb77c5fdc31edfe9610afb312a6f4faaa3d7b96aec11d5d879bad66115f579656286bf914c39

WHAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT -- JULIA IOFFE in The Atlantic, "The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks": "Just before the stroke of midnight on September 20, 2016, at the height of last year's presidential election, the WikiLeaks Twitter account sent a private direct message to Donald Trump Jr., the Republican nominee's oldest son and campaign surrogate. 'A PAC run anti-Trump site putintrump.org is about to launch," WikiLeaks wrote. 'The PAC is a recycled pro-Iraq war PAC. We have guessed the password. It is 'putintrump.' See 'About' for who is behind it. Any comments?' (The site, which has since become a joint project with Mother Jones, was founded by Rob Glaser,
 a tech entrepreneur, and was funded by Progress for USA Political Action Committee.)

"The next morning, about 12 hours later, Trump Jr. responded to WikiLeaks. 'Off the record I don't know who that is, but I'll ask around,' he wrote on September 21, 2016. 'Thanks.' The messages, obtained by The Atlantic, were also turned over by Trump Jr.'s lawyers to congressional investigators. They are part of a long-and largely one-sided-correspondence between WikiLeaks and the president's son that continued until at least July 2017. ... 'Strongly suggest your dad tweets this link if he mentions us,' WikiLeaks [messaged Don Jr. on Oct. 12, 2016], pointing Trump Jr. to the link wlsearch.tk, which it said would help Trump's followers dig through the trove of stolen documents and find
 stories. 

"'There's many great stories the press are missing and we're sure some of your follows [sic] will find it,' WikiLeaks went on. 'Btw we just released Podesta Emails Part 4.' Trump Jr. did not respond to this message. But just 15 minutes after it was sent, as The Wall Street Journal's Byron Tau pointed out, Donald Trump himself tweeted, 'Very little pick-up by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by WikiLeaks. So dishonest! Rigged system!' Two days later, on October 14, 2016, Trump Jr. tweeted out the link WikiLeaks had provided him. 'For those who have the time to read about all the corruption and hypocrisy all the @wikileaks emails are right here: 
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=f7037f1700f886be0757f65c9944b2d82d52ffb7ab1474fad47cdfb620095131538488c9e9a85b1900cab96a3dfd4278 he wrote."  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae99785855208ba0d935d06de7ccce4e98267ababe3e477adb259bf9f42781a799ad579a2c47dfb45713e

 -- @DonaldJTrumpJr: "Here is the entire chain of messages with @wikileaks (with my whopping 3 responses) which one of the congressional committees has chosen to selectively leak. How ironic! 1/3" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae9976b95a00128299665a2cf07f363dac5dc7d6c126104bcce15beb5bf0e03e59c5bfa605d3ed9eff9b2 ... http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae997d21ff6232acaaa7834f54d63eb0976a26a3ce579dd12e6b3f744439a8d5902a4cc258863ca906f95 ... http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae99706dcb4c13ae82f8a98b5718e1d56c80fbb88f1221dee3724efffe9d89b7ee87334b298b9182b83a2 

-- "Pence denies knowing about Trump Jr. WikiLeaks contacts," by Matt Nussbaum: "'The Vice President was never aware of anyone associated with the campaign being in contact with Wikileaks,' said Pence's press secretary, Alyssa Farah, in a statement. 'He first learned of this news from a published report earlier tonight.' Pence was asked in October 2016 if the Trump campaign was 'in cahoots' with WikiLeaks as it released droves of damaging information about Hillary Clinton. 'Nothing could be further from the truth,' Pence responded at the time." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae9971aeb5df3dbba6acc7d3f8e2824990f676a080247f4f870b319ff75b88acbd0c7e6c039b215f62042

THE JUICE ... 

-- JAMES COMEY has signed with the Washington Speakers Bureau. From the release announcing his signing: "With candor and humility, Comey addresses the critical issues on everyone's minds and explains why, in spite of everything he's seen and experienced, he remains optimistic about the future of our country."

-- REBECCA BERG is now a CNN political reporter. Video of Wolf breaking the news on the "Situation Room"  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae997655d6139e5756e9d882a895b8546cc22a86752e60b9cc57f74a1c4954bc886e6941f961cfde39676 

-- JOE BIDEN on Colbert last night - clips http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae99798727dd3361b7b070367ccd34f9e81f40eb8d680708c7988c7a37d2ca3c891440cbc85a6f68aae01 ... http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae9977add61a7d23ecac731e8b617c09b91a2cf9827e69da5e0b5f9ae7f6fc9d5172124dfff9662b2133b ... The full interview  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae997a1f934421cb947f42bbde94fcb9d431f760941e92c3975bbb9d533214cdbb82cbb03195ca9f66e46

--FIRST IN PLAYBOOK -- The "Not One Penny" coalition is launching a national ad buy against the tax reform bill. The ad is airing on English and Spanish-language stations starting Tuesday and running through Nov. 21. The ad http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae99748c11be6828c23da123995ee32894877ceb80d1201d26d424dc7d4e76c3604c098414f75380af598 

--FOR THE RECORD BOOKS -- "President Trump has made 1,628 false or misleading claims over 298 days," by WaPo's Glenn Kessler, Meg Kelly and Nicole Lewis: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae997e3c8f703dcb4e186cb257c46f9d0e6f9cec185e34fd8352b76d2b103b353f31e796842f248a689ac

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PHOTO DU JOUR: Beverly Young Nelson, the latest accuser of Alabama Senate Republican nominee Roy Moore, shows her high school yearbook allegedly signed by Moore, at a news conference, in New York on Nov. 13. Nelson says Moore sexually assaulted her when she was 16. Moore denies the allegations. | Richard Drew/AP Photo

ISAAC DOVERE talks with FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY BILL PERRY for the latest "Off Message" Podcast: "Stop counting on Mattis and Tillerson to stop nuclear war, former Defense Secretary Bill Perry tells Isaac, as Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) on Tuesday holds a hearing on Trump's first strike authority. Mattis and Tillerson are a 'stabilizing influence,' Perry said, but with this president, 'I'm not really comfortable with anybody.' 'In a five or six or seven-minute kind of decision, the secretary of defense probably never hears about it until it's too late. If there is time, and if he does consult the secretary, it's advisory, just that,' Perry explained. 'Whether [the president] goes with it or
 doesn't go with it-[the secretary] doesn't have the authority to stop it.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae9973675e35cc97ef3730077d35a99208be7d81479e50cd6717bf470300fed3feedd86e9af6a9dfe9b22 

ON THE WORLD STAGE -- "Protesters Jeer as Trump Team Promotes Coal at U.N. Climate Talks," by NYT's Lisa Friedman and Brad Plumer in Bonn: "The Trump administration made its debut at a United Nations conference on climate change on Monday by giving a full-throated defense of fossil fuels and nuclear energy as answers to driving down global greenhouse gas emissions. ... [E]ven before the Trump team could make its case, the panel was disrupted for more than 10 minutes by scores of chanting and singing demonstrators. The protesters then walked out, leaving the room half empty. Throughout the remainder of the presentation, audience members shouted down and mocked White House officials who
 attempted to explain away President Trump's stated view that global warming is a hoax." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae997eba640ad03e03316e4114b7333f30cd3ae7def9469ec214f33483c93412c7864c41c583aa82bb372

FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT'S "WOMAN" PROBLEM - POLITICO's new "Women Rule" investigation package dives deep into the world of federal law enforcement, which has an enormous gender gap. The Border Patrol has the fewest women represented in its workforce, totaling just 5% of its agents -- a lower percentage of women than the United States Marines (8%) and all active-duty military branches overall (16%). Though the Border Patrol has tried to recruit and retain women, such efforts have largely failed. Find out why in the latest investigative package. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae9972d013f5642b9110967cb8a649e0d4ad14eb8fefbe74284cdec20a51dce6b3367e68834ad0c2dadaf 

FOR YOUR RADAR -- "House declares U.S. military role in Yemen's civil war unauthorized," by Gregory Hellman: "In a rare exercise of its war-making role, the House of Representatives on Monday overwhelmingly passed a resolution explicitly stating that U.S. military assistance to Saudi Arabia in its war in Yemen is not authorized under legislation passed by Congress to fight terrorism or invade Iraq. 

"The non-binding resolution adopted 366-30, does not call for a halt to the American support but publicly acknowledges the Pentagon has been sharing targeting information and refueling warplanes that Saudi Arabia and other allies are using to attack Houthi rebels in a conflict that is widely considered a proxy war with Iran - and a humanitarian disaster. It states, in part, that U.S. military operations are only authorized to fight Al Qaeda and other allied terrorist groups in Yemen, not Shiite Muslim rebels." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae997f6f18ae2d2eb5b984de4161c1a54a45a017cf89e22ade5b36f34b0bbc15929ad75948253eed95654

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OOPS -- "Trump Judicial Pick Did Not Disclose He Is Married to a White House Lawyer," by NYT's Matt Apuzzo and Mike Schmidt: "One of President Trump's most controversial judicial nominees did not disclose on publicly available congressional documents that he is married to a senior lawyer in the White House Counsel's Office. The nominee, Brett J. Talley, is awaiting a Senate confirmation vote ... to become a federal district judge in Alabama. He is married to Ann Donaldson, the chief of staff to the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II. Mr. Talley was asked on his publicly released Senate questionnaire to identify family members and others who are 'likely to present potential conflicts
 of interest.' He did not mention his wife." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae997e5e13443249c1280b55cb31d528c33ca03b2c277080d26faf541fa2a4af4858394fe20f27e22e7ab

 -- "A Trump Judicial Nominee Appears To Have Written About Politics On A Sports Website And Didn't Disclose It," by BuzzFeed's Zoe Tillman: "One of President Donald Trump's federal court nominees appears to have written posts for years on a University of Alabama sports fan website - including posts about gun control and immigration - and didn't disclose the writings on his Senate questionnaire. ... Many of BamainBoston's posts are about sports. But some address politics and other nonsports subjects. On Dec. 17, 2012, a few days after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, BamainBoston posted, 'My solution would be to stop being a society of pansies and man up.' ... According to
 TideFans.com, user BamainBoston joined the site in March 2005, and has published 16,381 posts." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae9972533f498f72df3fa147b2f120ad96d09c9176168d99c5fcf84a69f36c540c8e551e99b2b1ac07298

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ANDREA NEWMAN'S RETIREMENT PARTY -- Pool report: "Over two dozen Members of Congress joined Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, OMB Director Mick Mulvaney, Delta Airlines CEO Ed Bastian and many others last night at a reception in honor of Andrea Newman, who retired this summer as Delta's Senior Vice President of Government Affairs after a 22-year career in the airline industry."

SPOTTED at "Meet the Press"' inaugural film festival last night (which featured 16 short political docs) at the Landmark Atlantic Plumbing Cinema: Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, Joy Reid, Pete Williams, Kristen Welker, Katy Tur, Kasie Hunt, Steve Kornacki -- pic of Chuck and Andrea http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae997e54959f7c1576a70dda9a149d15b53237335a03e24dd1d0e540a13a95a29ada781f393f89679091b ... Ben Rhodes, Jen Palmieri and Reggie Love at Pete Souza's talk and book signing for "Obama: An Intimate Portrait" last night at 6th and I.

ENGAGED - ELI STOKOLS, WSJ White House reporter and an MSNBC contributor, proposed to ELENA SCHNEIDER, campaign reporter for Politico. The couple met at Politico, where Eli previously worked. Eli emails us: "On Elena's birthday, which was last Tuesday, I asked her to pack a weekend bag. Days later, on a 109-year-old boat, floating down a canal in Amsterdam, I fumbled around in my pocket and got down on one knee. When we got our bearings again, we verified: she'd said yes. A rainbow slid down out of the clouds behind some old, crooked Dutch houses. It was magic." Instapics http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae997c9aaf80f7bc532a3b997387a5b4042bb43b37511c14875be78dec905d2f18ff2275780a0c337f813 ... http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae9975d7c996acce635001afbb88c84b1df03cf691269e6a59ab13f505b19d08ce09c096582115da517fa 

WEEKEND CIVIL CEREMONY -- Patrick Wilson, former Pence legislative director and Cummins lobbyist, to Jason Geske, a professional staff member on the House Homeland Security Committee who previously worked for former Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and the NSA, on Veterans Day at the Hay-Adams. "The couple met in the travel section of KramerBooks and Afterwords in Dupont Circle." Pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae997647c94079a5b2349f4283d0195cb202d44cfa216bd952380f0c169530c7ddc7916e0ac3c6a702bcc 

SPOTTED: former Sen. Mark Kirk, Mike Platt and his wife Jennifer, Ian Steff, Paul Mandelson, John Avlon and Margaret Hoover, Toby Harnden, Jeni Healy, Matthew Bravo and wife Summer, Jeff Farrah, Brett Quick, Will and Noelle Hubbard, Jason Gorey and Lauren Ehrsam, Jonathan Murphy and his wife Emily, Timothy R. Obitts and his wife Krista, and Alexandra Wich.

BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): Bradd Jaffy of NBC News (hat tip: Erika Masonhall)

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Liz Jarvis-Shean, head of global public affairs at Airbnb, former director of global communications at Tesla and research director in the Obama White House and for Pres. Obama's 2012 reelection campaign. How she's celebrating: "My boyfriend and I celebrated over the weekend, having a lazy morning, then going for a hike in our favorite open space preserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains that earned us burgers and beers at the Alpine Inn in Portola Valley. As for tonight, we're using my birthday as an excuse to try a new restaurant and continue our pursuit of the best soup dumplings in Bay Area." Read her Playbook Plus Q&A: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c0d0298bb48ae9972d10e7a8b9ef7a1611504997c454b0dd0e533ba1e1d0479af0dbcc224cd8e1e22edfa082619b085e 

BIRTHDAYS: Condoleezza Rice is 63 ... Valerie Jarrett ... Prince Charles is 69 ... P.J. O'Rourke is 7-0 ... Peter Lattman ... Jonathan Landman ... Ben Rhodes ... Francis J. Kelly, managing director and global coordinator of public affairs at Deutsche Bank ... William Black ... WaPo's Paige Winfield Cunningham ... John Lockett ... GWU political scientist Sarah Binder ... John Jameson ... Sally Sterling of Spencer Stuart's education, nonprofit and government practice (h/t Jon Haber) ... Politico's Lauren Lanza and John Lockett ... former Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Tex.) is 61 ... Joshua Friedlander of the Brunswick Group ... Sarah Holbrooke ... Bill Larson ... Vanessa VandeHey, "a diehard Packers
 fan who keeps the Speaker's Office running day in and day out" (h/ts Jordan Dunn and Jessica Cameron) ... Kate Coyne McCoy ... Ed Reno ... Ashley Yehl ...

... Rachel Noerdlinger, managing director at Mercury ... D.C. native Tony Powell, "Washington photographer of the stars" (h/t Ben Chang) ... Lana (Volftsun) Fern, founder of White Light Strategies ... Madeleine Weast, press secretary for Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) (h/ts Melissa Brown and Sophie White) ... Tommy Schultz, national comms director for the American Federation for Children and a Romney alum ... Julia Ren&eacute;e Nonis ... Jacob Freedman, senior director at Albright Stonebridge ... Rob Gulans ... Tricia Miller Klapheke ... Airbnb's Josh Meltzer ... Michael Collier ... Mark Gyorfy ... Taylor Griffin, press secretary for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi ... Daniel Alders

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