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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Poll: Biden, Sanders Have Highest Favorable Ratings Among Potential 2020
Democrats. <#S1>

• Potential 2020 Democrats Already Jockeying For Campaign Cash. <#S2>

• Bidens Discuss Their Commitment To Aiding Veterans. <#S3>

• Jill Biden To Be Inducted Into Delaware Women’s Hall Of Fame. <#S4>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump Threatens To Shut Down Government Over Border Wall Funding. <#S5>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Kudlow Defends Tariffs On China, Insists US Wants To Avoid EU Duties.
<#S6>

• Pence Lauds Return Of North Korean War Soldier Remains. <#S7>

• Prospect Of Second Trump-Putin Summit Sparks Criticism. <#S8>

• Erdoğan: Turkey Will Stand Up To US Sanctions Threat. <#S9>

• WPost: Iran Recruits Thousands Of Young Afghans To Fight In Syria. <#S10>

• Khan’s Reform Pledges Elicit Hope, Skepticism In Pakistan. <#S11>

• Palestinian Teen Who Slapped Israeli Soldiers Returns Home To “Hero’s
Welcome.” <#S12>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Trump Accuses “Very Unpatriotic” Journalists Of Putting “Lives Of Many”
In Peril. <#S13>

• Trump Lashes Out At Mueller’s “Rigged Witch Hunt.” <#S14>

• Trump, Officials Tout Strong GDP Report. <#S15>

• Administration Approves Wisconsin Plan To Bolster Its ACA Market. <#S16>

• Democrats Push To See Kavanagh’s White House Staff Secretary Files. <#S17>

• Wilkie Plans To Reassign Political Appointees At Top Of VA. <#S18>

• NYTimes: House Democratic Leadership Battle Highlights Party’s Divides.
<#S19>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• IBM’s Watson Has Given Unsafe, Incorrect Cancer Treatment Recommendations.
<#S20>

• NCI Advisory Board Chair Makes Chronotherapy A Treatment Priority. <#S21>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S22>

• Washington Post. <#S23>
Biden in the News
Poll: Biden, Sanders Have Highest Favorable Ratings Among Potential 2020
Democrats.

The Hill
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(7/27, Manchester) reported that a Hill. TV/HarrisX nationwide poll of
1,001 voters, taken July 21-22, shows former Vice President Joe Biden and
Sen. Bernie Sanders “are the most popular potential 2020 Democratic
presidential candidates.” The poll “showed Biden with a 50 percent
favorable rating, while Sanders trailed with a 48 percent favorable
rating.” The poll also found Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) “held the highest
favorable rating among Democratic senators listed in the survey, with 33
percent of those polled saying they held a favorable view of the senator.”
In another article, The Hill
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(7/27, Manchester) reported that the poll showed Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) had
“the lowest favorability rating among potential Democratic presidential
hopefuls.”

        On its website, Newsweek
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(7/27, Goodkind) reported that Margie Omero, “a Democratic pollster and
partner at GBA Strategies, told The Hill that the field could change
dramatically by 2020. ‘I remember lots of green room snickering over Bernie
Sanders in September before the primary,’ she said. ‘A lot can change. That
doesn’t mean that Joe Biden doesn’t have an advantage.’ Biden will turn 78
in November of 2020, and Sanders will be 79 years old.”
Potential 2020 Democrats Already Jockeying For Campaign Cash.

The Washington Post
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(7/29, Scherer) reports that Democrats readying for potential 2020 White
House bids “are waging aggressive fundraising campaigns this year, meeting
with wealthy donors over private meals and spending millions of dollars to
build up their online donor networks. The early jockeying reflects concern
that the sheer number of interested candidates will create a fundraising
bottleneck in early 2019, possibly narrowing the field before the first
debate.” The Post says that the need to post strong, early cash numbers
“presents an acute threat for candidates who have not established national
fundraising operations, an advantage that would be held by two potential
candidates, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former vice president Joe
Biden, both veterans of previous presidential campaigns.”
Bidens Discuss Their Commitment To Aiding Veterans.

NowThis
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(7/27) provided video of an interview Versha Sharma recently conducted with
former Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden, in which the pair
discussed their commitment to supporting military veterans. The interview
was conducted while the Bidens were in St. Louis last week to walk with
wounded American and British veterans, who are seeking to raise awareness
and money for struggling veterans.
Jill Biden To Be Inducted Into Delaware Women’s Hall Of Fame.

Delaware Government News
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(7/27) reported Gov. John Carney (D) on Friday “announced the Office of
Women’s Advancement & Advocacy and the Delaware Women’s Hall of Fame
Committee have selected four remarkable women to be inducted into the Hall
of Fame of Delaware Women in September. The inductees include former Second
Lady and higher education access advocate, Dr. Jill Biden; the first woman
and person of color from Delaware to serve in Congress, Congresswoman Lisa
Blunt Rochester; retired educator, historian, and civic leader Dr. Reba
Ross Hollingsworth; and former superintendent of the Smyrna School
District, Deborah Wicks. ... Inductees will be recognized at the 37th
Annual Hall of Fame of Delaware Women awards reception on Thursday,
September 27, at Dover Downs. “
Leading the News
Trump Threatens To Shut Down Government Over Border Wall Funding.

President Trump on Sunday threatened to shutdown the federal government
unless Congress agrees to fund his immigration initiatives, most notably
his border wall. Trump tweeted
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“I would be willing to ‘shut down’ government if the Democrats do not give
us the votes for Border Security, which includes the Wall! Must get rid of
Lottery, Catch & Release etc. and finally go to system of Immigration based
on MERIT! We need great people coming into our Country!”

        Media reports cast Trump as at odds with congressional Republicans,
who are seeking to avoid another shutdown ahead of November’s midterm
elections. The AP
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(7/29, Superville) reports that “Republicans, trying to protect their
majority in Congress, are playing down the chance of a shutdown as the
November election nears. Trump, however, isn’t backing away from the idea.” ABC
World News Tonight
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(7/29, story 3, 1:10, Llamas) said Trump is “coming out swinging” and
“taking aim at Democrats on Twitter, threatening to shut down the
government if they won’t fund his border wall...sharpening the political
lines with 100 days until the midterms.” ABC’s Tara Palmeri said, “Members
of the President’s own party speaking out against the shutdown threat.”
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(7/29, Brennan), “I certainly don’t like playing shutdown politics. I don’t
think it will be helpful, so let’s try and avoid it.”

        To NBC Nightly News
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(7/29, story 2, 2:15, Snow), Trump lit “a political firestorm” with “a
provocative threat” to shut down the government. Trump “sees immigration as
a way to hammer Democrats this fall. ... Lawmakers in both parties are
already approving big sections of the new budget to keep departments open,
but GOP leaders gave the President bad news Wednesday: the vote to fund his
border wall would come later this year, not in the heat of midterm races.”
NBC said “neither party wants a government shutdown and the political blame
that comes with it.” USA Today
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(7/29, Brook) reports that Trump’s tweets come after a White House meeting
last week where Senate Majority Leader McConnell and House Speaker Ryan
“presented Trump with a plan that would fund the government and delay the
debate over immigration until after the midterm elections in November.”
Breitbart
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(7/29, Binder) likewise says that that “despite immigration being the
number one issue for GOP voters in the midterm elections, Senate and House
Republicans are already touting a plan to not fund the border wall before
the midterms.”

        The Daily Caller
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(7/29, Enjeti) reports that Trump’s tweet “is likely to spark a high stakes
showdown with Democratic lawmakers who have pledged not to give in to his
demands.” That fight “could lead right into the November midterm elections
and put immigration as a centerpiece issue in the last stages of the
campaign season.”

        To the New York Post
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(7/29, Moore), “Trump spent much of the weekend at his golf resort in New
Jersey railing about Democrats not supporting his immigration policies,”
saying all they do is “Resist” and “Obstruct,” while claiming they want
“Open Borders.” The Washington Free Beacon
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(7/29, Kugle) too says that “before the president tweeted his threat about
shutting down the government, he also tweeted about immigration and how
Congress needs to fix the ‘dumbest and worst’ immigration laws in the
world.”

        Townhall
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(7/29, Meads) notes that Trump “has made similar remarks in the past,” but
the Washington Post
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(7/29, Rucker, Costa, Paletta) reports Sunday’s tweet “surprised some
lawmakers who have been eager to avoid a bruising funding fight and
highlighted his intense desire to make progress on signature agenda items
that have stalled.” According to the Post, it is “unclear, though, whether
simply threatening to shut down the government could push Democrats to
agree to fund construction of the wall, particularly because Trump has
backed down at the last minute repeatedly before.” Along similar lines,
Reuters
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(7/29, Chiacu) says Trump is “betting that maintaining a hard line will
work in Republicans’ favor in November congressional elections,” but
cautions that a shutdown “could backfire on Trump if voters blame
Republicans.”

        According to Politico
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(7/29, Griffiths), “In private conversations with friends and advisers,
Trump has sometimes mused that a government shutdown might be politically
beneficial for him, arguing it could rally his base. But Republican
congressional leaders strongly disagree with that theory, and they’ve
repeatedly warned Trump about the potential negative political consequences
of shuttering the government shortly before the midterms.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(7/29, Hughes, Nicholas) reports Andy Surabian, a Republican strategist and
former White House official, said in an interview Sunday that Trump’s tweet
will strike a chord with the die-hard Republicans. Said Surabian, “The
midterms are going to come down to turnout. It’s going to be which base is
more energized to turn out and vote. And there’s not an issue that touches
the President’s base more strongly than immigration. Talking about
immigration will help motivate Republicans to turn out in November.”

        A New York Times
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(7/29, Stolberg) analysis says “congressional Republicans, already facing a
difficult election landscape, confronted a prospect on Sunday they had
worked feverishly to avoid: a threat by President Trump to shut down the
government over funding for a border wall.” Last week, Republican leaders
“thought they had reached a deal with Mr. Trump to delay a confrontation on
funding for the wall until after the November midterm elections,” but
Sunday’s tweet “has opened the door to a politically bruising spending
fight as the fiscal year ends in September.”

        *Fox’s Hegseth Urged Trump To Threaten Shutdown Over Border Wall
Funding. *The Washington Examiner
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(7/29, Lim) reports Fox News’ Pete Hegseth on Sunday “recommended that
President Trump renew threats of a shutdown if Congress does not fund his
proposed southern border wall.” The comment “came shortly before Trump
tweeted about being willing to ‘shut down’ to government if his demands
regarding border security aren’t met.” Said Hegseth on Fox News’ Fox &
Friends Sunday, “I think the President would be wise to reiterate that he
would shut it down if they won’t give a border wall.”

        *Waters: Trump “Bluffing And Bullying” On Shutdown. *Breitbart
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(7/29, Key) reports that in appearance Sunday on MSNBC, Rep. Maxine Waters
(D) said Trump was “bluffing and bullying” with his tweet Sunday
threatening a government shutdown. Said Waters, “You know, this President
is a bully and he will try to intimidate all of us. He is not going to shut
down anything. As a matter of fact, people will remember that he said he
was going to build this wall and he was going to make Mexico pay for the
wall. They said they weren’t going to pay for anything. Now he wants the
American citizens to pay for this wall. American citizens are not going to
pay for this wall, he is not going to shut down the government and we are
not going to be intimidated by his bluffing and bullying.”

        *Trump: Immigrants Crossing Border Use Children For “Sinister
Purposes.” *The Washington Times
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(7/29, Swoyer) reports that in another tweet on Sunday, Trump said “that
many immigrants crossing the border are using children for ‘their own
sinister purposes,’” and called on lawmakers to fix immigration laws. Trump
wrote
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“Please understand, there are consequences when people cross our Border
illegally, whether they have children or not – and many are just using
children for their own sinister purposes. Congress must act on fixing the
DUMBEST & WORST immigration laws anywhere in the world! Vote ‘R.’”

        *AP: Central Americans Face Obstacles To Legal Immigration. *The AP
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(7/29, Taxin) reports, “At a time when President Donald Trump and other
conservatives are repeatedly calling on people to come here legally, most
immigrants have few options to do so under the country’s complex
immigration system.” Trump “has again endorsed the legal immigration route
in recent weeks amid the furor over his administration’s policy of
separating children from parents at the border, saying the immigrants
should be sent home and they can try to come back with legal papers in
hand,” but “the realities of legal immigration in the US aren’t quite that
simple.” According to the AP, “Getting a visitor’s visa – known as a B-2
visa – requires proving a certain amount of wealth that most in developing
countries like El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras don’t have,” and “other
visas require specialized skills, a corporate sponsor or an American
relative who will sponsor them in a process that can take years due to a
complex quota system.”

        *“Operation Double Trouble” Nets Arrests Of 22 Undocumented
Immigrants. *Townhall
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(7/29, Meads) reports that the Justice Department “announced charges
against 25 individuals on Friday who committed fraud using Puerto Rican
identities in an effort to gain government benefits and in some cases even
vote.” According to Townhall, “22 of the 25 charged were illegal aliens,
many with records of drug dealing, violent crimes, and some previously
deported.” Townhall adds, “Impostors regularly use birth certificates and
social security cards stolen or copied from Puerto Ricans to pose as
American citizens in order to receive Medicare, evade arrest, and take
advantage of welfare benefits such as EBT cards and food stamps.” The
Justice Department said that in a sting operation known as “Operation
Double Trouble,” federal authorities were “able to nab 25 individuals who
took advantage of poor oversight at Massachusetts’ Registry of Motor
Vehicles and steal people’s identities.”

        *Court Filing Claims Immigrant Families Suffered In US Detention. *The
Washington Times
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(7/29, Dinan) reports, “Illegal immigrant families are furious at the
treatment they received after being detained at the border, complaining of
bad burritos, cold soups, being forced to drink water out of toilets and
contagious disease outbreaks that have swept through the facilities.”
According to the Times, “The complaints are detailed in a massive court
filing on behalf of illegal immigrant children that claims the government
is breaking its promise to provide quality care for juveniles who end up in
the custody of the Homeland Security Department.” The Times adds, “Several
parents said their children contracted chickenpox from others in detention,
the chill of the facilities was a universal complaint, and a number of
families objected to the food situation.” The reports “stem from the first
stage of immigration detention, when migrants are nabbed immediately after
crossing into the US.”

        *In Op-Ed, Cruz, Grassley, Tillis Say Congress Should Negate Flores
Agreement. *In an op-ed for USA Today
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(7/29), Sens. Ted Cruz (R), Charles Grassley (R), and Thom Tillis (R) write
that for years, Congress “has failed to take one simple step which could
have prevented the family separations we now decry: repealing the Flores v.
Reno consent decree as it relates to families.” According to the lawmakers,
the decree “required immigration authorities to release children from
custody within 20 days in favor of finding foster families or other
placements,” but in 2015, “a single court in California expanded Flores to
children with their families, an expansion with dramatic consequences.”
Congress “needs to make clear that the Flores consent decree does not apply
to family units,” and that “federal authorities would have the ability to
keep families together pending the outcome of their immigration case.”

        *WPost Editorial: Citizenship Question Should Be Stricken From 2020
Census. *The Washington Post
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(7/29) editorializes that a new question on the 2020 Census form asking
respondents about citizenship status looked, from the beginning, “like a
ruse to punish blue states.” Because “the count determines where federal
money goes and how many congressional seats and presidential electors each
state gets,” and the question is likely to discourage immigrants from
taking part in the survey, “large cities with high immigrant populations –
which tend to be in blue states – would lose out.” The Post says Commerce
Secretary Ross should strike the question from the 2020 Census or “Congress
should do it for him.”
Foreign Policy
Kudlow Defends Tariffs On China, Insists US Wants To Avoid EU Duties.

Politico
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(7/29, Beavers) reports National Economic Council Director Kudlow on Sunday
“staunchly defended” President Trump’s use of tariffs against China, while
insisting Trump ultimately “wants to have no tariffs” on the EU. Kudlow
told CNN’s State Of The Union
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(7/29, Tapper), “You know, if they’re targeted for good purpose, as per
China, I think the answer is absolutely yes. That’s always been my view.
Most free traders agree. China has not played by the rules. And the trading
system is broken, largely because of them.” He added, “Now, I hope we get
to our EU trade deal. The President has adopted a view with which I
completely agree. He’s a free trader. And he wants to have no tariffs.”
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(7/29, Hayashi), Kudlow also said Sunday that the US will “immediately”
start negotiating with the EU on trade deals for farm and energy products,
promising “an actual transaction” to sell more soybeans, beef and liquefied
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(7/29, Brennan), “We will be starting immediately. We’ll be setting up a
layered process to examine all the different areas.”

        *US Soda, Motorcycle Prices Rise As Tariffs Lead To Rising
Production Costs. *The Wall Street Journal
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(7/29, McGroarty, Tita) reports US consumers are paying more for products
like soda and motorcycles as tariffs on metals and other parts increase
manufacturing costs. US steel and aluminum prices are up 33 percent and 11
percent respectively since the start of the year, as the Administration’s
tariffs went into effect in March.

        *BMW To Raise Price Of US-Made SUVs Sold In China. *Reuters
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(7/29, Shirouzu) reports BMW said it will raise the prices of two US-made
SUVs in China “to cope with the additional cost of tariffs on US car
imports into the world’s biggest auto market.” In a move due to take effect
on Monday, BMW “said in a statement to Reuters over the weekend that it
will increase maker-suggested retail prices” of the X5 and X6 SUV models
“by 4 percent to 7 percent.”

        *AP: US Companies Seeking Steel Tariff Waivers Face Backlash. *The
AP
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(7/29, Lardner) reports that US companies seeking to be exempted from the
Administration’s tariff on imported steel “are accusing American steel
manufacturers of spreading inaccurate and misleading information, and they
fear it may torpedo their requests.” Robert Miller, president and CEO of
NLMK USA, “said objections raised by US Steel and Nucor to his bid for a
waiver are ‘literal untruths,’” and argues that his company “will be forced
out of business if it isn’t excused from the 25 percent tariff.” The AP
says Miller’s “resentment, echoed by several other executives, is evidence
of the backlash over how the Commerce Department is evaluating their
requests to avoid the duty on steel imports.”

        *Reuters: Amid Trade Woes, Iowa Farmers Still Support Trump. *
Reuters
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(7/29, Polansek) reports Iowa farmers have criticized Trump’s $12 billion
farm aid package and “worried about trade wars impacting their business,
but many still turned out to support him on Thursday during a visit to the
top corn-producing state.” Reuters notes that “rural and agricultural
states supported Trump by wide margins in the 2016 election,” and 11 people
“interviewed by Reuters who earn incomes from farming around Dubuque said
they voted for Trump and continue to back him.”

        *Koch Warns Tariffs Could Trigger US Recession. *The Washington
Times
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(7/29, Peoples) reports Charles Koch “is warning that Trump administration
trade policies could trigger a recession.” Koch told reporters during “a
rare question-and-answer session” that “protectionism at any level” is
“detrimental.” He warned that Trump’s approach, “if it’s severe enough,”
could lead to a recession. Bloomberg News
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(7/29, McCormick) reports that “while saying it’s impossible to know for
sure because the president’s trade policy remains fluid, Koch said the
greater the level of trade restrictions, the greater the risk of severe
economic fallout.” Said Koch, “It depends on the degree. If it’s severe
enough, it could.” The Washington Post
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(7/29, Lee) reports Koch “called out the White House and Trump-allied GOP
lawmakers, particularly over trade policy and increased federal spending,”
and added that “the divisiveness of this White House is causing long-term
damage.”

        *Bannon To Kochs: “Shut Up And Get With The Program” Of Supporting
Trump. *Politico
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(7/29, Isenstadt) reports Steve Bannon “tore into the powerful Koch
political network Sunday, accusing it of undermining...Trump ahead of a
midterm election that threatens to derail his presidency.” Bannon said in
an interview, “What they have to do is shut up and get with the program,
OK? And here’s the program: Ground game to support Trump’s presidency and
program, [and] victory on Nov. 6.”

        *Sen. Alexander Calls For End To Steel, Aluminum Tariffs. *Sen.
Lamar Alexander (R) said on Fox News’ Journal Editorial Report[image: Image
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(7/29), “Zero tariffs is exactly the right policy. That’s what we did with
the north American free trade agreement. We implemented nearly zero tariffs
over 15 years. Now that we’ve got a policy of where were going, zero
tariffs, it is time to get rid of the steel and aluminum tariffs which are
driving the cost of cars and hurting the 136,000 Tennesseans who work in
the automotive industry.”
Pence Lauds Return Of North Korean War Soldier Remains.

In an exclusive interview with Fox
News’ Sunday Morning Futures
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(7/29, Bartiromo), Vice President Pence discussed North Korea’s return of
US service members’ remains, and his meeting with the families of the
deceased. Pence stated, “President Trump asked me to do many things” on his
behalf, but “I’ve never been more humbled to be asked to represent him as
the remains of the American heroes of the Korean War to ride back on
American soil.” Pence added, “The fact that this President” had “our fallen
heroes in his heart” during the summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim
Jong-un “should tell you everything you need to know about President
Trump.”

        *Graham: Trump Needs To Keep Pressure On North Korea. *In an
appearance on Fox News’ Sunday
Morning Futures
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(7/29, Bartiromo), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said “the only reason we are
moving forward” in talks with Pyongyang is because “President Trump
convinced China and North Korea we are serious about them giving up their
nuclear program.” He continued, “Having the remains returned to the United
States is much appreciated by the families in the country as a whole,” but
the US remains focused on the “complete, irreversible, verifiable
denuclearization” of North Korea. Meanwhile, Graham said, “China is trying
to run the clock out” and “undercutting President Trump when it comes to
North Korea.” Graham also cautioned, “Iran is watching, Russia is
watching.”
Prospect Of Second Trump-Putin Summit Sparks Criticism.

On CNN’s Inside Politics
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(7/29), White House correspondent Abby Phillip said the White House played
“a little bit of a game” when it extended an invitation to Russian
President Vladimir Putin for a second meeting with President Trump, and
then “ended up pulling that invitation back.” According to Phillip, “the
White House felt like the Russians after the Helsinki meeting were running
the show” and “didn’t want it to seem as if they were being dictated by the
Kremlin.” The White House also feared that the invitation for a second
meeting “wasn’t likely to actually be accepted.” Now, Phillip said, “it
seems clear” that Putin is “brushing the White House back” by suggesting a
meeting on the sidelines of the Group of 20 meeting.

        As for the Helsinki summit, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) joined [image:
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(7/29, Brennan) and spoke about her exchanges with Secretary of State
Pompeo regarding the meeting. Shaheen said she “was disappointed that he
refused to address directly any of the specific questions about what
happened in Helsinki,” but instead “continuously referred to policy being
the same.” Shaheen said while it is “important for us to continue those
policies,” what remains unclear is “what might have been agreed to by the
President” in Helsinki. She lamented that “all we’ve gotten in direct
information about what happened has come from the Russian authorities.”

        Likewise, Sen. Ben Cardin (D) said on [image: Image removed by
sender. Video]MSNBC’s Politics Nation
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(7/29), “We do not have a readout for what happened in the room” in
Helsinki, and “Pompeo would hide behind the fact that he said that no
policies have been changed. But he didn’t exactly tell us what was
discussed or even what subjects were discussed in the one-on-one meeting.
He did go over some general areas that were talked about, but he did not
give us a real readout on the so-called agreements that were reached,” or
explain the “need for a follow-up meeting as early as this fall. He did not
really give us much comfort in that regard.”

        *Johnson Calls To Re-Evaluate Sanctions Against Russia. *Sen. Ron
Johnson (R) joined CBS’ Face The
Nation
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(7/29, Brennan) and was asked briefly about Russian interference and
softening of sanctions. Johnson said he “called to re-evaluate which
sanctions actually work,” and suggested using sanctions that “actually
achieve the purpose, which is change their behavior, get them to pull out
of Eastern Ukraine. Right now that’s not happening.” Johnson added, “I
would much rather through passive engagement, trying to get them to change
behavior, have them start moving toward no worse than a friendly rival and
have them slip into the category of enemy.”

        *Dionne: “Nothing Illogical” About Putin’s Ties To US Far
Right. *Washington
Post
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(7/29) columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. says the connections “among Vladimir
Putin, President Trump, and segments of both the Republican Party and the
American conservative movement seem bizarre,” but “there is nothing
illogical about the ideological collusion that is shaking our political
system.” He explains that despite “the Russian president’s KGB pedigree,”
the “dominant thrust of Putinism is toward the far right, because a
nationalism rooted in Russian traditionalism cements his hold on power.”
Dionne warns, “The deepening ties between the Russian government and
elements of the right should give pause to all conservatives whose first
commitment is to democratic life,” because the “willingness of
traditionalists and gun fanatics to cultivate ties with a Russian dictator
speaks of a profound alienation among many on the right from core Western
values – the very values that most conservatives extol.”
Erdoğan: Turkey Will Stand Up To US Sanctions Threat.

Reuters
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(7/28, Erkoyun) reports Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warned
Sunday that Ankara “will not step back when faced with sanctions,” and that
the US “should not forget that they will lose a sincere partner.” President
Trump on Thursday “threatened to impose ‘large sanctions’ on Turkey unless
it freed” American pastor Andrew Brunson. Secretary of State Pompeo and
other diplomats “have been working to settle the tense dispute” over
Brunson’s detention, which “has deepened a rift” stemming from the Syrian
conflict and “Turkey’s plan to buy missile defenses from Russia.” According
to Reuters, “It was not clear what would be the nature of sanctions
threatened by Trump but Washington was already working on bills related to
Turkey due to other issues of concern,” including the Russian defense
equipment sale. Erdoğan warned that if the US passes legislation blocking
the sale of F-35 fighter jets, then Ankara “would go to international
arbitration.”

        The Washington Post
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(7/29, Fahim) says Erdoğan’s remarks Sunday constituted his “first public
response to an angry message Trump posted on Twitter on Thursday.”
Meanwhile, Vice President Pence, who “made a similar warning on Thursday,”
repeated his “admonition” in a Sunday tweet warning that the US “is
prepared to bring sanctions against Turkey until Pastor Andrew Brunson is
free.”

        In a Washington Post
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(7/29) op-ed, Lehigh University international relations professor and
Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Henri J. Barkey and former US
Ambassador to Turkey Eric Edelman argue that Trump “is right” to pressure
Turkey over Brunson’s detention, but “he and his administration also have a
moral obligation to come to the aid of three State Department workers
facing a similar plight” but have been “largely ignored by the Trump
administration and the press.” The authors warn that the Administration’s
“unwillingness” to “apply public pressure on Turkey to release” the three
State Department workers “sends alarming message to other locally employed
staff in Turkey: They are all subject to intimidation and pressure from
Turkish authorities, and their employer doesn’t have their back.”
WPost: Iran Recruits Thousands Of Young Afghans To Fight In Syria.

A Washington Post
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(7/29, Constable) analysis examines Iran’s “well-financed system of
recruitment, training and incentives that funnels Afghan recruits to fight”
in Syria on its behalf. “Between 5,000 and 12,000 Afghans have participated
in such units since they were established,” according to human rights
groups and researchers, and up to 840 of them “have been killed.” The Post
says rare “interviews with returned fighters and their families in Herat
have shed new light on the desperation that drives” the recruits. Aside
“from expressing horror and antagonism toward the Islamic State, the
fighters interviewed in Herat did not express especially strong religious
convictions or appear driven to keep fighting as an act of faith.” Instead,
“Afghan recruits seem mainly driven by necessity, reenlisting again and
again to take home another few hundred dollars in military pay – even as
they risk injury or death in front-line battles where few Iranian troops
are sent.”

        *Graham Pleased With US Efforts To Isolate Iran. *Sen. Lindsey
Graham (R) appeared on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures[image: Image
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(7/29, Bartiromo) and was asked about a new security and political alliance
in the Middle East against Iran. He said, “I’ve never been more pleased
with President Trump than I am right now regarding Iran. He’s working with
the Arabs and Israel to isolate Iran.” Yet, Graham said, “The European
Union needs to help us.” He stressed, “Instead of doing business with the
Ayatollah, who is a religious Nazi...our European friends should join with
the United States break the back of this regime.”
Khan’s Reform Pledges Elicit Hope, Skepticism In Pakistan.

The Washington Post
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(7/29, Constable) reports that in the four days since Imran Khan, “a former
cricket star turned anti-corruption crusader, trounced the long-ruling
Pakistan Muslim League and every other party in the polls, a nationwide
burst of euphoria has remained at fever pitch.” That “moment of triumph”
is, however, “being tempered by somber reflection on the scope of the
challenges Khan faces as he attempts to transform a vast, poor country
beset by a range of entrenched ills.” In “several dozen interviews since
the election, supporters of Khan and his Pakistan Justice Movement
expressed” a “mixture of desperate hope and creeping skepticism that Khan –
or anyone – could somehow purge Pakistan of the corruption that pervades
every arena of public life, where small bribes speed applications for
drivers’ license, big ones allow murder suspects to walk out of jail, and
political influence and favors count far more than the law.”

        Meanwhile, Reuters
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(7/29, Bukhari) reports, the opposition PML-N “party of jailed former prime
minister Nawaz Sharif” on Sunday called “for a judicial investigation into
what it said was rigging at an election this week that it lost.” European
Union observers were also “critical of the political climate in the run-up
to the vote, saying that some parties had been disadvantaged,” and the US
has “voiced similar concerns.”
Palestinian Teen Who Slapped Israeli Soldiers Returns Home To “Hero’s
Welcome.”

The CBS Evening News
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(7/29, story 7, 1:30, Quijano) reported Ahed Tamimi, a 17-year-old
Palestinian who “spent several months in an Israeli detention center after
slapping two soldiers,” was given a “hero’s welcome” when she returned
home. Video of the slapping incident helped Tamimi “become the new face of
the Palestinian resistance in the conflict with Israel.” Tamimi “says she
struck the soldiers out of frustration after troops seriously injured her
15-year-old cousin by shooting him in the head with a rubber bullet.” Her
prison sentence drew “heavy criticism” from groups like Amnesty
International, “who argued minors shouldn’t be imprisoned for such cases,”
but Israeli officials have “said the sentence, reached through a plea deal,
was lenient, considering the crime.” It’s “unclear” if Tamimi will
participate in future protests.
Domestic Policy
Trump Accuses “Very Unpatriotic” Journalists Of Putting “Lives Of Many” In
Peril.

Reports cast a series of tweets on Sunday by President Trump as escalating
his feud with the mainstream media. In what outlets cast as a dispute with
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger, Trump wrote
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“When the media – driven insane by their Trump Derangement Syndrome –
reveals internal deliberations of our government, it truly puts the lives
of many, not just journalists, at risk! Very unpatriotic! Freedom of the
press also comes with a responsibility to report the news...[continuing
tweet
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018073001biden&r=email-07e2&l=03e-bd8&t=c>]...accurately.
90% of media coverage of my Administration is negative, despite the
tremendously positive results we are achieving, it’s no surprise that
confidence in the media is at an all time low! I will not allow our great
country to be sold out by anti-Trump haters in the...[continuing tweet
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018073001biden&r=email-07e2&l=03f-930&t=c>]...dying
newspaper industry. No matter how much they try to distract and cover it
up, our country is making great progress under my leadership and I will
never stop fighting for the American people! As an example, the failing New
York Times...[continuing tweet
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and the Amazon Washington Post do nothing but write bad stories even on
very positive achievements – and they will never change!”

        The Washington Times
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(7/29, Boyer) says Trump “was responding to...Sulzberger...who said he
recently urged the president in a private meeting to stop calling the press
‘the enemy of the people.’” Trump then “fired back on Twitter Sunday
afternoon,” saying “the press is trying to distract and cover up his
administration’s achievements.” The New York Post
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(7/29, Schwab) reports that just “hours after [Sulzberger] said he warned
President Trump that his attacks on news outlets could ‘lead to violence,’
the chief executive went on an anti-media tear,” and “decided to pick a
fight with two specific publications” – “the failing New York Times and the
Amazon Washington Post.” To the Washington Post
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(7/29, Rucker), Trump “escalated his feud with the news media...accusing
journalists of being unpatriotic and endangering lives after the publisher
of the New York Times disclosed that he had warned Trump recently that his
inflammatory rhetoric about the media could lead to violence.” Trump, who
the Post says “has made ‘fake news’ a rallying cry...fired off a Twitter
tirade...blasting the media.”

        The Hill
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(7/29, Samuels) says Trump “unleashed a tirade against the media,” and to
the New York Times
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(7/29, Landler), Trump and Sulzberger “engaged in a fierce public clash on
Sunday over Mr. Trump’s threats against journalism, after Mr. Sulzberger
said the president misrepresented a private meeting and Mr. Trump accused
The Times and other papers of putting lives at risk with irresponsible
reporting.” Trump tweeted
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that he and Sulzberger had discussed “the vast amounts of Fake News being
put out by the media & how that Fake News has morphed into phrase, ‘Enemy
of the People.’ Sad!” In” a five-paragraph statement issued two hours after
the tweet,” Sulzberger said he had accepted Trump’s invitation for the July
20 meeting to raise his concerns about the President’s “deeply troubling
anti-press rhetoric.”

        USA Today
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(7/29, Brook) likewise reports Sulzberger “disputed...Trump’s account of a
private meeting.” In response to Trump’s tweets, Sulzberger issued “a
five-paragraph statement,” saying, “I told him that although the phrase
‘fake news’ is untrue and harmful, I am far more concerned about his
labeling journalists ‘the enemy of the people.’” Sulzberger, the AP
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(7/29, Superville) reports, “said he decided to comment publicly after
Trump revealed their off-the-record meeting to his more than 53 million
Twitter followers on Sunday,” and Politico
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(7/29, Restuccia, Griffiths) says that while “it was supposed to be an
off-the-record meeting...Trump decided to make the once-private meeting
public.” Trump’s tweet” forced the Times to explain in detail what happened
at the meeting, arguing that Trump’s decision to discuss the meeting
publicly nullified their off-the-record agreement.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(7/29, Chaitin) says the meeting took place “nearly a month after a shooter
killed five journalists from the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md.”

        Former Clinton campaign director of strategic communications
Adreinne Elrod said on Fox News’ MediaBuzz[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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(7/29), “Donald Trump believes if any media coverage of him is negative,
it’s fake news. That’s how he frames it. That’s what he tells his
supporters.”

        *Pence Defends White House Decision To Ban CNN Reporter. *The
Washington
Examiner
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(7/29, Cohen) reports Vice President Pence on Sunday “defended the White
House’s decision to ban CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins from an event last
week.” Pence told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, “This Administration believes
in the freedom of the press, and President Trump and I and our entire
administration have provided extraordinary access to the media. The
President answers to many questions in so many different settings, and I
can assure you that we’ll continue to do that.” However, he argued that
that “maintaining the decorum that is due at the White House I think is an
issue that we’ll continue to work forward.” The Washington Times
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(7/29, Swoyer) reports that Collins’ removal “came after she shouted
questions at the president,” which the White House called “inappropriate.”

        *WTimes: Trump More Accessible To Press Than Predecessors. *A
Washington
Times
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(7/29, Boyer) analysis says that “although his relationship with the media
has hit a low point, it’s undeniable that Mr. Trump has made himself
available to journalists more often than his predecessors during his first
18 months in office.” The Times says Trump “has taken questions frequently
before departing the White House on Marine One, held forth with reporters
for long periods in Cabinet meetings and bantered with journalists on Air
Force One to an extent not seen in decades, if ever.”
Trump Lashes Out At Mueller’s “Rigged Witch Hunt.”

In a series of tweets on Sunday, President Trump lashed out at Special
Counsel Robert Mueller, describing his investigation as a “rigged with
hunt,” accusing Mueller of “conflicts of interest,” and questioning why the
special counsel is not looking into “the criminal activity & real Russian
Collusion on the Democrats side.” Trump wrote
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“There is No Collusion! The Robert Mueller Rigged Witch Hunt, headed now by
17 (increased from 13, including an Obama White House lawyer) Angry
Democrats, was started by a fraudulent Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary
and the DNC. Therefore, the Witch Hunt is an illegal Scam!” Trump then
tweeted
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“Is Robert Mueller ever going to release his conflicts of interest with
respect to President Trump, including the fact that we had a very nasty &
contentious business relationship, I turned him down to head the FBI (one
day before appointment as S.C.) & Comey is his close friend.” Trump said in
a third tweet
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“Also, why is Mueller only appointing Angry Dems, some of whom have worked
for Crooked Hillary, others, including himself, have worked for
Obama....And why isn’t Mueller looking at all of the criminal activity &
real Russian Collusion on the Democrats side-Podesta, Dossier?”

        The Washington Times
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(7/29, Swoyer) reports briefly on Trump’s tweet accusing Mueller of a
conflict of interest, while The Hill
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(7/29, Samuels) says Trump “has attacked Mueller’s investigation with
increasing regularity in recent months, frequently decrying it as a ‘witch
hunt’ and a ‘hoax’ in an attempt to discredit Mueller and his probe.”

        Trump’s tweets came on the same day Rudy Giuliani, “said the
president may reach an agreement regarding a meeting with...Mueller this
week or next week,” the Washington Examiner
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(7/29, Cohen) reports. Giuliani told CBS’ Face The Nation[image: Image
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(7/29, Brennan), “We have negotiations going on with them, we have an
outstanding offer to them.” Giuliani declined “to describe what that offer
entails,” but said there “is an area of questioning and a group of
restrictions on it that we could live with,” which relates “basically to
the Russia collusion thing, which we think there’s no evidence, and the
President didn’t do anything wrong.” Asked when an interview would be set,
Giuliani said, “Maybe this week, maybe next week.” The AP
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018073001biden&r=email-07e2&l=056-cf7&t=c>
(7/29, Yen) says Giuliani “said Sunday the president may be open to an
interview with” Mueller “even if it involves some questions about alleged
obstruction of justice in the federal investigation into Russia
interference in the 2016 election.”

        *Giuliani: Trump Mentioned In About 12 Cohen Recordings. *Errol
Barnett said on the CBS Weekend News
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(7/29, story 3, 2:15, Quijano) that Rudy Giuliani “is waging a war of words
with Cohen over his recordings of a conversation with Trump”; The Hill
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018073001biden&r=email-07e2&l=058-a08&t=c>
(7/29, Samuels) that Giuliani “hit the Sunday morning show circuit to go on
the offensive in the wake of escalating speculation that Trump’s former
longtime attorney and personal fixer, Michael Cohen, may turn on the
president”; and Politico
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018073001biden&r=email-07e2&l=059-bad&t=c>
(7/29, Beavers) that he “stepped up his attacks” on Cohen.

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(7/29) that Trump is mentioned in around a dozen of the 183 recordings
seized by federal prosecutors Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen,
the Washington
Post
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(7/29, Costa) reports, but he “offered few details on the nature of the
exchanges or the participants in the recordings that have not been made
public.” In addition to the tape released by Cohen’s legal team on which
Trump and Cohen appear to be discussing “a deal model Karen McDougal made
to sell the rights to her story of an alleged affair with him,” Giuliani
said there are “12 others, maybe 11 or 12 others out of the 183, in which
the President is discussed at any length by Cohen, mostly with reporters.”
Giuliani briefly described the conversations, arguing that Cohen’s
statements on them “take it right out of the campaign contribution
arsenal.” Giuliani added, “These are tapes I want you to read, I want you
to hear them. I didn’t think I’d be able to get them out publicly. ... I
can’t do it. I mean, I’m not allowed to do it. We’ve not leaked a single
tape.” Breitbart
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(7/29, Key) also reports on Giuliani’s comments to CBS.

        The New York Post
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(7/29, Schwab) says Giuliani “tried to make the case” that the Cohen
recordings “will eventually benefit the president.” Giuliani told Fox News
Sunday
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(7/29, Wallace), “We’ve assured him in a very strange way that this is a
good development for us because we do have all these tapes and these tapes
completely demonstrate the President did nothing wrong.” Giuliani also said
Trump is “disappointed” in Cohen, but added that his “anger is over.” USA
Today
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(7/29, Jackson, Brook) reports that Giuliani told Fox that Cohen is a
“pathological manipulator, liar.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(7/29, Chaitin) reports that Giuliani told Fox News[image: Image removed by
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(7/28) on Saturday that “somebody played with” the Trump-Cohen recording.
Giuliani said, “He abruptly ended that recording as soon as the President
said the word ‘check.’” Giuliani said, “What we are investigating is, how
did that happen? What actually did happen? What was eliminated? And then
you have to raise these questions with every one of these tapes. How many
of them did he play around with?”

        Guy Benson of Townhall.com said on Fox News’ MediaBuzz[image: Image
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(7/29), “I’m open to more evidence and we should follow the evidence in
this case. But there has been whiplash within the media on the credibility
of Michael Cohen where he was dismissed forever as, ‘This is just a Trump a
lackey who is loyal to Donald Trump.’ And now that he is not loyal to
Donald Trump, ‘Well let’s listen to this guy.’” However, CNN White House
correspondent Abby Phillip said on CNN’s Inside Politics[image: Image
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(7/29), “I think Rudy Giuliani, his dramatic take on this whole situation
kind of tells you everything you need to know about how dire it is for the
President. But it really does make you wonder, if Michael Cohen was such a
scoundrel and such a liar, why did the President employ him for so many
years?”

        *Trump Highlights Cohen’s Praise For Trump Jr.’s Honesty About
Trump Tower Meeting. *The Daily Caller
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(7/29, Ross) reports that Trump on Sunday called attention to a July 2017
tweet by Cohen “to cast doubt on his former attorney’s allegations about
the now-infamous June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr.
and a group of Russians who promised dirt on former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton.” Trump tweeted
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“Do you think the Fake News Media will ever report on this tweet from
Michael?” and linked
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to the Cohen tweet in which he “praised Trump Jr. ‘for being open, honest
and transparent to the American people’ about the Trump Tower meeting.” ABC
World News Tonight
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(7/29, story 4, 0:55, Llamas) reported that Trump is “waging an
increasingly public battle” with Cohen.

        *Manafort Trial To Begin This Week. *The Wall Street Journal
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(7/29, Viswanatha) reports that former Trump campaign chairman Paul
Manafort’s trial will begin in Alexandria, Virginia on Tuesday. The Journal
says a conviction would give special counsel Robert Mueller momentum as his
larger investigation advances, while an acquittal would buoy critics’ call
for a quick end to the probe. Meanwhile, for Trump, the Journal says a
successful prosecution of Manafort would undercut his oft-repeated
characterization of the Mueller investigation as a witch hunt.

        *Investigations Pull Trump CFO Into Spotlight. *The Wall Street
Journal
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(7/28, O&#39;Brien, Berzon) reports that Trump Organization CFO Allen
Weisselberg, who for years has operated outside of public view, has been
drawn into the spotlight by the legal matters surrounding Trump.
Weisselberg has been subpoenaed to testify in front of a grand just in the
investigation Cohen’s activities, and he has been linked to hush money
payments to two women who allegedly had affairs with Trump. The Journal
cites people who say Weisselberg could be a key resource in the
investigations given his knowledge of Trump’s personal finances and
business dealings.

        *Nunes: Americans Will Be “Shocked” By Redactions In Page FISA
Warrant Application. *The Daily Caller
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(7/29, Ross) reports that House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes said
Sunday that Americans will be “shocked” by the material in the redacted
portions of the FBI’s applications for a FISA warrant against Carter Page.
Nunes told Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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(7/29, Bartiromo), “We are quite confident that once the American people
see these 20 pages, at least for those that will get real reporting on this
issue, they will be shocked by what’s in that FISA application.” Breitbart
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(7/29, Key) reports that Nunes said DOJ is delaying turning over documents
in the hope that Democrats will win the House majority and end the
investigations. Nunes said, “I’ve seen this game played many times before.
There is a stall game going on at DOJ and FBI. They are trying to stall as
much as they can, hoping and betting that Republicans would lose the House
in the fall.”

        *Jordan Stands By Effort To Impeach Rosenstein. *The Washington
Examiner
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(7/29, Lim) reports that in a ratio interview Sunday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R)
“stood by his efforts to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein,
despite criticism from top lawmakers” including House Speaker Ryan “and
commentators like famed legal professor Alan Dershowitz.” During an
interview with John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable,” Jordan said, “If
they don’t give us the documents, if they don’t give us information that we
as a separate and equal branch of government are entitled to have in order
to get answers for the American people, then we will actually call the vote
for the impeachment of Rod Rosenstein.”

        *WPost’s Sullivan: Bernstein Is Reporting On Mueller Probe “Utterly
Weird – And Utterly Perfect.” *Margaret Sullivan writes in her Washington
Post
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(7/29) column that reporter Carl Bernstein, who broke the Watergate
scandal, “tripled-bylined” a CNN story last week “that President Trump,
according to his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, knew about the infamous July
2016 meeting in Trump Tower between Russian representatives and Trump’s
associates, including his son, Donald Trump Jr.” Sullivan writes, “That
Carl Bernstein, at 74, would once again be right in the middle of the high
drama is utterly weird – and utterly perfect.”
Trump, Officials Tout Strong GDP Report.

In a tweet
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early yesterday, President Trump touted last week’s GDP report, writing,
“The biggest and best results coming out of the good GDP report was that
the quarterly Trade Deficit has been reduced by $52 Billion and, of course,
the historically low unemployment numbers, especially for African
Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Women.” Trump’s top economic policymakers
echoed those positive sentiments in appearances on the Sunday talk shows.
The AP
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(7/29, Gordon) reports that Treasury Secretary Mnuchin “insisted...that the
robust growth marked in the April-June quarter will maintain its pace and
that he respects the Federal Reserve’s independence despite his
condemnation of the central bank for raising interest rates.” Mnuchin told Fox
News Sunday
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(7/29, Wallace), “We as an Administration absolutely support the
independence of the Fed, and the President has made it clear that this is
the Fed’s decision.” Politico
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(7/29, Beavers) quotes Mnuchin as saying, “We think the Fed will be very
careful in managing the economy.” Bloomberg News
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(7/29, McLaughlin, Miller) says Mnuchin told Fox News Sunday[image: Image
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(7/29, Wallace), “We can only project a couple years in the future, but I
think we’re well on this path for several years.”

        National Economic Council Director Kudlow told CBS’ Face The
Nation[image:
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(7/29), “The basics of this [second-quarter] number were consumer spending
and business investment. ... Consumer spending, business investment are on
a tear.” On CNN’s State Of The Union
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(7/29), Kudlow said, “I think the President deserves a victory lap – low
tax rates, rolling back regulations, opening up energy, for example. ...
The fundamentals of the economy look really good.”

        Vice President Pence told Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures[image:
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(7/29, Bartiromo), “This 4.1 percent quarter in a year that is on track for
more then 3 percent growth, is a testament to the President’s leadership
and his vision for this economy.”

        Michael Shear of the New York Times said on CNN’s Inside
Politics[image:
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(7/29), “There is a playbook for taking an amazingly good economy and
turning that into an electoral success with an election just in a few
months. The question is, will [Trump] follow it? The message discipline
that he and the Republican party have to have to counter and blunt the
Democratic wave that could be coming, you need to stay focused on that
topic. And the trade war is one of those things that could challenge that
discipline, but there are a million other things as we’ve seen that this
President could end up diverting himself and the Republican Party from that
disciplined message. That won’t help them at the ballot box.”

        *Kudlow: Administration Will Get “Tougher And Tougher” On Spending.
*The Washington Times
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(7/29, Swoyer) reports that Kudlow also “said Sunday the administration
will be tougher on spending as the budget deficit is projected to hit $1
trillion.” Kudlow told CNN’s State Of The Union[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(7/29) “that the lower taxes following the GOP tax cuts will yield lower
revenue at first, but he believes the corporate tax cut will be paid for by
2020.” Said Kudlow, “I reckon it will take us a year, maybe 18 months to
turn that around. ... We are going to be tougher and tougher on spending.”
Kudlow also “said faster economic growth and getting strict on spending
will eventually decrease the deficit.”

        *Waters: Democrats Will Reverse Trump’s “Tax Scam.” *The Daily
Caller
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(7/29, Morefield) reports that Rep. Maxine Waters (D) vowed Sunday to
reverse the Republican tax cuts, which she referred to as a “tax scam,” if
Democrats take control of Congress. Waters told MSNBC[image: Image removed
by sender. Video]
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(7/29), “Of course, the economy has improved, and of course he would like
to take credit for all of that. ... But in the final analysis, when this
country understands and feels what has been done with the tax scam and what
that’s going to do for our deficit in this country, it’s going to be
reversed. A combination of the tax scam and the tariffs will undermine all
that has been done in the economy that was started by Obama.”

        *WSJournal A1: Tight Labor Market Leads Firms To Drop Work-History,
Degree Requirements. *The Wall Street Journal
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(7/29, A1, Gee) reports on its front page that amid strong competition for
workers, employers are abandoning preferences for college degrees and
specific skill sets to speed up hiring. The impact, says the Journal, is
improving hiring prospects for workers that are less qualified.

        *Despite Tech Losses, Overall Stock Market Remains Strong. *The Wall
Street Journal
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(7/29, Otani) reports that while some tech giants have posted drops
recently, the broader US stock market is nearing a new high, giving
investors confidence that the nine-year rally is in a strong position to
continue.

        *Fed Policymakers Expected To Leave Rates Unchanged This Week.
*The Wall
Street Journal
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(7/29, Timiraos) reports that while most Fed officials are in agreement
that there should be gradual rate increases over the next year until
borrowing costs find the spot that does not slow or incite growth, the
question is how to proceed when that neutral spot is reached. The Journal
says the answer will depend on what inflation does as unemployment
declines. The Journal says the policymakers are expected to leave rates
unchanged this week and wait until September for another increase.
Administration Approves Wisconsin Plan To Bolster Its ACA Market.

The Washington Examiner
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(7/29, Leonard) reports that the Administration has approved Wisconsin’s
plan to shore up its Obamacare market. The waiver “will set up a
reinsurance fund that keeps premiums at bay by funneling government money
toward the most costly medical claims.” It is “expected to lower premiums
in 2019 by an average of 3.5 percent.”

        *WPost Editorial Opposes Repeal Of Medical Device Tax. *A Washington
Post
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(7/29) editorial criticizes the House’s vote to eliminate “the 2.3 percent
excise tax on the medical device industry’s revenues.” The Post says the
tax, which was enacted as part of Obamacare “was one of the ways that
landmark law paid for expanding health-care coverage to millions of
previously uninsured people.” According to the Post, the House vote’s
impact is “mainly symbolic” because the Senate “probably cannot act on the
measure soon.” However, when the Senate takes it up, “passage is not
unlikely, given the significant Democratic support for repeal. Medical
device tax repeal is a bad idea, but with the opportunistic support of both
parties, it may be a bad idea whose time has come.”
Democrats Push To See Kavanagh’s White House Staff Secretary Files.

The New York Times
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(7/29, Savage) reports that during his 2006 confirmation hearing to become
an appeals court judge, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was “pressed”
on “his role in President George W. Bush’s use of signing statements to
claim the power to bypass new laws – like a much-disputed assertion the
previous December that he could override a ban on torture.” Kavanaugh, who
served as White House staff secretary, “acknowledged handling draft signing
statements to ensure that ‘relevant members of the administration have
provided input’ before presenting them to Mr. Bush,” but he “sidestepped
questions about any advice or views he had about them.” Now, “the opacity
of his testimony about Mr. Bush’s signing statements, including about the
torture ban, is becoming a case study for Democrats’ vehement arguments
that the Senate must see his staff secretary files before any confirmation
hearing.” Meanwhile, Republicans “are pushing to move forward on the
nomination without asking the National Archives to provide those
documents.”

        Sen. Ben Cardin (D) said on MSNBC’s Politics Nation[image: Image
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(7/29) that “when we look at [Kavanaugh’s] background, our objective here
is that before voting on this nominee, we want to know whether he will be
an independent voice on the Supreme Court to protect your rights against
the powerful, whether that person is President of the United States,
Congressmen, or the corporate America. And Judge Kavanaugh’s background
gives us real concern about that, in regards to health care and regards to
consumer rights and in regards to interfering with the Mueller
investigation by the President. So that information is critically important
for us to be able to make that case to the American people.”

        The Washington Post
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(7/29) argues in an editorial that Kavanaugh has said his work as staff
secretary “prepared him for judging.” In addition, “he may have
participated in weighing some extremely hot-button issues the Bush White
House considered,” so the Senate “should consider any substantive
contributions he made on these and other issues, both to gauge his
temperament and to determine whether he would have to recuse himself in big
cases.” While Democrats “argue that the whole universe of papers from the
judge’s past...should be fair game,” and Republicans “insist that vast
swaths of that record would be totally irrelevant to his judicial
qualifications,” the Post calls for a “compromise between a massive
document dump and no disclosure at all,” such as “a targeted dump – perhaps
overseen by archivists at the George W. Bush presidential library, a
nonpartisan review committee or another credible body with the ability to
conduct electronic keyword searches.”
Wilkie Plans To Reassign Political Appointees At Top Of VA.

The Washington Post
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(7/29, Rein) reports that incoming VA Secretary Wilkie, who will be sworn
in today, “intends to reassign several high-ranking political appointees at
the center of the agency’s ongoing morale crisis and staffing exodus,
according to three people familiar with his plans.” These people say Wilkie
“wants to form his own leadership team,” and “to ease lawmakers’ continued
concern that VA, historically a nonpartisan corner of the government, has
become highly politicized.” The Post adds that Wilkie discussed his plans
“with Trump in recent days aboard Air Force One, while en route to a
veterans convention in Kansas City.”
NYTimes: House Democratic Leadership Battle Highlights Party’s Divides.

The New York Times
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(7/29, Stolberg) reports on battle for the chairmanship of the House
Democratic caucus – “the No. 4 spot in the House Democratic leadership” –
in which Reps. Barbara Lee (D) and Linda Sanchez (D) are currently dueling.
The Times says that rather than “entering the election season united behind
a leadership slate and a shared vision,” Democrats are “divided by the
demands of competing generations, identities, ideologies and power bases.
The Congressional Black Caucus,” of which Lee is a member, “wants a prime
seat at the table,” as “does the Congressional Hispanic Caucus,” of which
Sanchez is a member. Meanwhile, “young Democrats” are “demanding a say, but
the older leadership refuses to step aside. ... The result is a kind of
free-for-all, as Democrats wage behind-the-scenes vote-getting operations
while jockeying for position.”

        *Jordan Discusses His Bid For Speaker. *In an exclusive, the Daily
Caller
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(7/29, Donachie) reported that Rep. Jim Jordan (R), co-founder of the House
Freedom Caucus, “says he is running for speaker of the House to fix
mismanagement and dysfunction in Congress and deliver on the promises
Republicans made to voters in the 2016 election cycle.” Jordan said, “The
focus is the House has to do a better job of what we told the American
people we would do and accomplish those policies. ... That we build the
border security wall and reform our immigration policies in the right way
consistent with the 2016 election. That we control spending. That we
defunded Planned Parenthood. There are so many things that we told the
American people we would do that we haven’t done.”
Cancer Research
IBM’s Watson Has Given Unsafe, Incorrect Cancer Treatment Recommendations.

Fortune
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(7/27, Morris) reports that “documents reviewed by Stat, a medical news
site, show” that IBM’s Watson “has shown ‘multiple examples of unsafe and
incorrect treatment recommendations’ for cancer patients.” IBM took issue
with the claim, saying “it’s not an accurate or timely representation.” IBM
said, “Our oncology and genomics offerings are used by 230 hospitals around
the world and have supported care for more than 84,000 patients, which is
almost double the number of patients as of the end of 2017. … We have
learned and improved Watson Health based on continuous feedback from
clients, new scientific evidence and new cancers and treatment
alternatives.” The report “comes a little over a year after the American
Society of Clinical Oncology gave Watson high marks for its cancer
treatment plan suggestions.”
NCI Advisory Board Chair Makes Chronotherapy A Treatment Priority.

The Washington Post
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(7/27, Dolgin) reported on research by Chi Van Dang, chair of the board of
scientific advisers at the National Cancer Institute and a known “leading
authority on cancer metabolism” who advocates for increased use of
chronotherapy, which “involves timing delivery of drugs to minimize side
effects while maximizing effectiveness” in hopes of “synchroniz[ing]
therapy with the body’s natural 24-hour rhythms...and striking when cancer
cells are most vulnerable or when healthy cells are least sensitive to
toxicity (or, ideally, both).” The Post said Dang is “in a powerful
position to reshape the research agenda – and he believes chronotherapy’s
time has come,” quoting him as saying “it’s just always been on the fringe.
... It’s capturing people’s interest.” The Post added that last year, the
“NCI – the largest funder of cancer research in the world – put out a call
for grant applications from scientists seeking to understand how circadian
processes affect tumor development and the responses of patients to
therapy.”
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

The New York Times did not publish any editorials in its print or online
editions on Monday.
Washington Post.

*“Review Kavanaugh’s Documents As Needed. Then Proceed.”* The Washington
Post
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(7/29) argues in an editorial that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh
has said his work as staff secretary “prepared him for judging.” In
addition, “he may have participated in weighing some extremely hot-button
issues the Bush White House considered,” so the Senate “should consider any
substantive contributions he made on these and other issues, both to gauge
his temperament and to determine whether he would have to recuse himself in
big cases.” While Democrats “argue that the whole universe of papers from
the judge’s past...should be fair game,” and Republicans “insist that vast
swaths of that record would be totally irrelevant to his judicial
qualifications,” the Post calls for a “compromise between a massive
document dump and no disclosure at all,” such as “a targeted dump — perhaps
overseen by archivists at the George W. Bush presidential library, a
nonpartisan review committee or another credible body with the ability to
conduct electronic keyword searches.”

        *“Votes Against Medical Device Taxes Show Irresponsibility Has A
Broad Constituency.” *A Washington Post
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(7/29) editorial criticizes the House’s vote to eliminate “the 2.3 percent
excise tax on the medical device industry’s revenues.” The Post says the
tax, which was enacted as part of Obamacare “was one of the ways that
landmark law paid for expanding health-care coverage to millions of
previously uninsured people.” According to the Post, the House vote’s
impact is “mainly symbolic” because the Senate “probably cannot act on the
measure soon.” However, when the Senate takes it up, “passage is not
unlikely, given the significant Democratic support for repeal. Medical
device tax repeal is a bad idea, but with the opportunistic support of both
parties, it may be a bad idea whose time has come.”

        *“If Trump’s So Worried About Rigged Elections, No One Show Him His
Census.” *The Washington Post
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(7/29) that a new question on the 2020 Census form asking respondents about
citizenship status looked, from the beginning “like a ruse to punish blue
states.” Because “the count determines where federal money goes and how
many congressional seats and presidential electors each state gets,” and
the question is likely to discourage immigrants from taking part in the
survey, “large cities with high immigrant populations — which tend to be in
blue states — would lose out.” The Post says Commerce Secretary Ross should
strike the question from the 2020 Census or “Congress should do it for
him.”

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