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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*Friday, August 10, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Boston Globe Column: Biden May Be Who Democrats Need To Defeat Trump.
<#S1>

• Oddsmaker Pegs Harris, Sanders As 2020 Democratic Frontrunners, Biden
Third. <#S2>

• AP Photo Series Celebrates Biden-Obama “Bromance.” <#S3>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Media Analyses: DOD Officials, Military Experts Skeptical About “Space
Force.” <#S4>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• North Korea Accuses US Of Disregarding Its Goodwill Efforts. <#S5>

• New Sanctions Hit Iran As Rouhani Faces Pressure To Quell Domestic
Discontent. <#S6>

• CRS Reports: Iran, North Korea Growing Ballistic Missile Stockpiles. <#S7>

• Saudi Strike On School Bus Kills 29 Children In Yemen. <#S8>

• Brooklyn Mosque Criticizes “False Narratives” About New Mexico Compound.
<#S9>

• US Officials Worked To Protect NATO Deal From Trump. <#S10>

• Mexico Working With US On NAFTA Auto Rules Before Canada Rejoins Talks.
<#S11>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Trump Slams “Illegally Brought Rigged Witch Hunt,” Tells Followers To
“Stay Tuned.” <#S12>

• Media Sees Double Standard As First Lady’s Parents Become US Citizens.
<#S13>

• Democrats Not Satisfied With Documents Related To Kavanaugh’s White House
Work. <#S14>

• Azar Urges States Not To Oppose “Short Term” Health Plans. <#S15>

• EPA Sides With Michigan Over Order For Flint To Fix Water System. <#S16>

• Trump Hosts Governors, AGs, Cabinet Officials For Roundtable On Prison
Reform. <#S17>

• Puerto Rico Says More Than 1,400 Died In Hurricane Maria. <#S18>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• NHLBI Grants $4.7M To Cleveland Clinic For Cancer-Related Thrombosis
Research. <#S19>

• FDA Approves First Drug Under Competitive Generic Therapy Pathway. <#S20>

• Cancer Groups Critical Of Step Therapy For Medicare Part B Drugs. <#S21>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S22>

• Washington Post. <#S23>
Biden in the News
Boston Globe Column: Biden May Be Who Democrats Need To Defeat Trump.

In her Boston Globe
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(8/9) column, Diane Hessan, who “has been in conversation with 500 voters
across the political spectrum weekly since December 2016,” says that in
terms of potential 2020 Democratic presidential contenders, “the favorite”
of the voters with whom she has spoken, “far ahead of the rest, and
palatable even to many Republicans: Joe Biden.” Hessan says, “Over 40 of my
voters described [Biden] using the word ‘love.’ Voters talked about his
‘class,’ ‘dignity,’ ‘inner strength,’ ‘patriotism,’ ‘authenticity,’
‘compassion,’ and his ability to ‘stop the boat from rocking violently and
to lead us back to some sense of normalcy and decency.’” Hessan adds that
“a Democrat who can actually win in 2020 will have to unite the party with
liberal bona fides, appeal to” Republicans, and vow “to normalize a
government reeling from Trumpian chaos. That sounds a lot like Joe Biden.”
Oddsmaker Pegs Harris, Sanders As 2020 Democratic Frontrunners, Biden Third.

The Hill
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(8/9, Samuels) reported that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) “has surged into a
tie with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) as the betting favorite among
potential Democratic candidates to win the 2020 presidential election.
Betting site Oddshark lists President Trump as the runaway favorite to win
in 2020, with betting odds of +140. However, Harris and Sanders each hold
the second-best odds at +1,200, as of Aug. 7. Sanders was previously the
lone front-runner, and Harris had been tied with former Vice President Joe
Biden for second-best odds. Vice President Pence and Biden are now listed
with third-best odds, at +1,400, followed by” Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and
Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) “at +2,000 each.”
AP Photo Series Celebrates Biden-Obama “Bromance.”

Under the headline “8 Years Of An Obama-Biden ‘Bromance,’ In Photos,” the AP
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(8/9) reports, “When then President Barack Obama bestowed the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on Joe Biden in January 2017, he referred to him as ‘the
finest vice president we have ever seen,’” and “mentioned that the occasion
gave ‘the internet one last chance to talk about our bromance,’ referring
to the memes based on photos of him and Biden buddying it up. In
celebration of National Veep Day on Aug. 9,” the AP offered “a look back at
that ‘bromance’ in photos.” A series of photos of Biden and Obama can be
viewed by clicking on the AP hyperlink.
Leading the News
Media Analyses: DOD Officials, Military Experts Skeptical About “Space
Force.”

Skeptical coverage of Vice President Pence’s speech
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at the Pentagon outlining President Trump’s vision for a new “Space Force”
highlights resistance to the plans from DOD officials and criticism from
military analysts. The AP
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(8/9, Baldor) says, for example, that Trump’s plan “faces daunting
hurdles,” including that it “requires congressional approval and has been
met with skepticism from military leaders and experts who question the
wisdom of launching an expensive, bureaucratic new service branch.” Axios
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(8/9, Meier) noted that “quickly after Pence’s announcement concluded, the
president expressed his support for the development in a tweet.” Wrote
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Trump, “Space Force all the way!”

        To the New York Times
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(8/9, Cooper), “that may be a tall order,” because the Administration
“cannot just create a Space Force on its own; it has to go through
Congress, where critics abound.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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(8/9, Dupree) points out, “Congress has yet to approve the creation of such
a plan, shrugging off repeated calls by...Trump for a new part of the armed
forces.” On Monday, “when...Trump signs a major defense policy bill into
law, during a trip to Fort Drum in New York, that piece of legislation will
not contain any language to create a space force, as lawmakers remain cool
to the idea.”

        CNN
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(8/9, Browne) reports, meanwhile, that Pence yesterday “noted that
Congressional action would be required to establish a new military branch,
but said the Trump administration would work with Congress to establish the
force and would seek funding for it in its next defense budget
request.” Defense
News
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(8/9, Insinna, Copp) notes that Pence said, “‘Our administration is already
working with leaders in Congress to do just that. We’re building bipartisan
support for our plan, working closely with committee counterparts’ such as
House Armed Services Committee head Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, his
Democratic counterpart Rep. Adam Smith of Washington, and the two leaders
of the HASC Strategic Forces Subcommittee, Reps. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., and
Jim Cooper, D-Tenn.”

        At any rate, Breitbart
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(8/9, Wong) notes, “the proposal has backing from Reps. Mike Rogers (R-AL)
and Jim Cooper (D-TN), the leaders of the House Armed Services Strategic
Forces Subcommittee.” The two said in a statement yesterday, “We
particularly appreciate Deputy Secretary Shanahan’s leadership on these
issues and look forward to the establishment of a much-needed independent
Space Force, as called for by President Trump.”

        Nonetheless, CQ Roll Call (DC)
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(8/9, Bennett) says that “to get congressional approval for a sixth armed
service, Trump would also need Democratic votes in the Senate,” and “that
gives Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, the top Democrat on the Armed Services
Cybersecurity subcommittee, some sway.” Nelson, “a former astronaut, said
in June that the ‘generals tell me they don’t want’ a ‘Space Force,’ adding
‘now is not the time to rip the Air Force apart.’” Pence “chose to ignore
the white elephant in the ‘Space Force’ debate during his Pentagon remarks”
and “opted against mentioning Congress,” but “administration officials will
not be able to simply ignore lawmakers’ constitutional authorities for
long.”

        NBC Nightly News
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(8/9, story 6, 1:45, Jackson) reported, “It may be the final frontier on
‘Star Trek’, but in real life, it’s the next frontier for the military with
plans now unveiled for the sixth branch of service. And the first since the
creation of the Air Force in 1947.” Trump was shown saying, “Space Force.
Space Force. Space Force. People love it.” However, added, NBC, “retired
astronaut Mark Kelly does not love it.” Said Kelly, “It’s unnecessary
bureaucracy and unnecessary costs because currently, the Air Force, the US
Air Force is dealing with the threat adequately.” NBC went on to report
that “the Space Force Needs approval by Congress, and only then can the
President complete the mission to boldly go where the military hasn’t had a
branch before.” The CBS Evening News
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(8/9, story 3, 1:50, Martin) indicated, meanwhile, that the plan released
Thursday “stopped short of what...Trump wants, which is an entirely new
military service devoted to space,” though “a plan to do that will be
submitted to Congress next year.”

        The Huntsville (AL) Times
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(8/9, Roop) reports “Pence’s talk was seen putting new momentum and force
behind” the idea, though “some in Washington believe the Air Force and
other Army and DOD agencies have the job under control.” The Washington Post
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(8/9, Davenport, Lamothe) says “the creation of a new branch of the
military...could require a significant reorganization of the Pentagon,” and
“some officials within the military and national security communities
fiercely oppose the idea.” The Post says Paul Scharre of the Center for a
New American Security “called a Space Force ‘a dumb idea,’ in an op-ed
on Defense
One
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and argued that “creating a new bureaucracy with a single focus would
handicap the military.”

        Politico
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(8/9, Klimas) also reports “the proposal to create a separate entity for
space within the military is likely to draw some criticism, as previous
efforts have met a lot of backlash for needlessly creating extra
bureaucracy.” Taxpayers for Common Sense, “a nonpartisan watchdog group,
slammed the idea as creating waste and duplication in human resources and
administrative functions.” The Washington Times
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(8/9, Wolfgang) similarly indicates “the announcement comes as many retired
military officials and some in the Defense Department privately express
reservations about the Space Force as a wholly separate branch of the
military,” and The Hill
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(8/9, Mitchell) that “Air Force leaders...last year warned that it would be
premature and create burdensome bureaucracy to separate a space component
from the rest of the service.” The Wall Street Journal
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(8/9, Youssef) runs a similar report.

        Susan Page of USA Today said on Fox News’ Special Report[image:
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(8/9), “There is, I think, a broad concern about what’s happening in space
and the efforts by Russia and China to militarize space, I don’t think
that’s really in dispute and the United States has been slow to respond. I
guess the question is, is the right way to respond to creating another
bureaucracy. ... There is a question about whether this just creates more
bureaucracy, sucks up more money in a way that could be more usefully
deployed by shifting the focus of the Air Force to have more attention to
space.”

        *Mattis Says He Is “In Complete Alignment” With Trump. *Reports
also indicate Defense Secretary Mattis has been critical of similar
proposals in the past – though in fact, as TIME
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(8/9, Simon) reports, he “appeared alongside Pence at his speech.” USA Today
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(8/9, Brook) also points out that “Mattis signaled this week that his
thoughts had changed,” saying, “We need to address space as a developing
war-fighting domain, and a combatant command is certainly one thing that we
can establish. ... We are in complete alignment with the president’s
concern about protecting our assets in space that contribute to our
security, to our economy. And we’re going to have to address it as other
countries show a capability to attack those assets.” The Washington Examiner
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(8/9, McIntyre) also reports Mattis “warmly welcomed Pence and heartily
endorsed the White House initiative,” saying, “Space is one of our vital
national interests in the sense of our use of space, our operations in
space, and it is becoming a contested, war fighting domain and we have got
to adapt to that reality. ... It’s on par with the air, land, sea, and
cyber space domains in terms of it being contested.”

        Bloomberg News
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(8/9, Sebenius, Capaccio) reports, however, that Mattis “disapproved of the
idea in the past, saying last year he opposed creating additional
bureaucracy at the Pentagon.” Reuters
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(8/9, Stewart, Heavey) notes Mattis “once voiced opposition to creating a
new branch of the US military to focus on space-based military assets,
saying in a 2017 letter to a lawmaker that would likely ‘present a narrower
and even parochial approach to space operations.’” CNN Pentagon
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(8/9) that while Mattis “was initially unenthusiastic about adding more
bureaucracy to the Pentagon,” he “now says he is on board with the plan.”
Starr added that “there are questions if more military offices are the
right solution for a 21st century threat.” However, one analyst said an
attack against a US satellite “could push American life back into the 1940s
and ‘50s. No Internet, no weather forecasting, no online activity.”

        *Trump Campaign Asks Supporters To Vote On Logo For “Space Force”
Merchandise. *ABC World News Tonight
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(8/9, story 3, 1:35, Raddatz) reported that “some believe a new Space Force
would just add a layer of bureaucracy that is not needed,” but “the Trump
team is already turning this into a political cause,” asking supporters “to
vote for their favorite Space Force logo, intending to sell a line of
merchandise to support the Trump campaign.” The Hill
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(8/9, Samuels) notes an email from the Trump campaign “asks supporters to
vote on one of six logos that will be emblazoned on future Trump campaign
items. ... Each of the six proposed logos includes the phrase ‘Space
Force,’ except for one that states ‘Mars Awaits’ even though the
administration’s proposal focuses on defense and not space exploration.”
Foreign Policy
North Korea Accuses US Of Disregarding Its Goodwill Efforts.

Reuters
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(8/9) reports on Thursday, a spokesman for the North Korean foreign
ministry, speaking on state-run KSNA, charged the US with ‘pushing for
international sanctions despite goodwill moves” by North Korea including
having “stopped testing missiles, conducted nuclear tests and dismantled
‘the nuclear test ground.’” The statement “accused unidentified high-level
U.S. officials of ‘going against the intention of President Trump’ by
‘making baseless allegations against us and making desperate attempts at
intensifying the international sanctions and pressure.’” The spokesman
added that progress “could not be expected if Washington continues to
follow an ‘outdated acting script.’” The spokesman also said that “North
Korea was still willing to implement a broad agreement made at the landmark
June 12 summit.

        The Washington Times
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(8/9, Foarde) reports North Korea “is expressing fresh frustration with the
U.S.” in issuing a statement charging the US with “attempting to invent a
pretext for increased sanctions against” North Korea. The statement also
accused the US of “hindering international organizations’ cooperation with
our country in the field of sports.” North Korea further accused some “high
level officials” of “going against the intention of President Trump.” It
urged the US to “even at this belated time, respond to our sincere efforts
in a corresponding manner.”

        *Administration Officials Split On How To Handle North Korea.
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Times
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(8/9, Taylor) reports that with no “serious” denuclearization moves by
North Korea in the two months after the Singapore summit, the Trump
Administration is “offering mixed messages on how it plans to proceed in
negotiations” with North Korea “amid growing concern that Washington is
being played by Pyongyang.” While “hard-liners” such as Ambassador to the
United Nations Nikki Haley and National Security Adviser Bolton “say the
North Koreans need to start showing results,” Trump and Secretary of State
Pompeo “have sounded a much more hopeful tone at times,” with Pompeo
calling for patience and stressing his belief in Pyongyang’s “commitment to
denuclearize.”

        *Koreas Planning For Another Moon-Kim Summit. *The New York Times
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(8/9, Choe) reports that the South Korean government announced that “senior
officials from North and South Korea will meet next week to discuss the
possibility of a third summit meeting between their countries’ leaders,”
Kim Jong Un and President Moon Jae-in, who “have already met twice this
year, in April and in May.” According to the Times, “South Korean officials
have recently expressed interest in holding a third meeting soon, in hopes
of breaking an impasse between North Korea and the United States over the
dismantling of the North’s nuclear arms program,” and “the South’s
Unification Ministry said on Thursday that North Korea had proposed holding
ministerial-level talks at Panmunjom on Monday to discuss preparations for
another summit meeting, and that South Korea had quickly accepted the
offer.”

        The AP
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(8/9, Lee) reports a South Korean official at the Unification Ministry
“said the two Koreas will also discuss ways to push through
tension-reducing agreements made during an earlier summit between Kim and
South Korean President Moon.” The upcoming meeting will be at Tongilgak, a
North Korean-controlled building in the border village of Panmunjom.

        *NYTimes Magazine Examines US Military Presence’s Relationship With
South Koreans. *E. Tammy Kim, in a feature for the New York Times Magazine
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(8/9, Kim), writes about the US military presence in South Korea as
relations with North Korea warm. Kim details the history of the US presence
and the current process of consolidating military installations. Much of
South Korea’s “wartime generation still feels indebted to the Americans,”
and, while “protests against the United States military presence tend to be
spurred by high-profile incidents or major construction projects,” there is
“a sliver of the population” with “a steadfast resistance.” However, “a
pro-U.S. security consensus is fairly well embedded in domestic
institutions and ideology,” according to Andrew Yeo, a professor at
Catholic University, and “fear of a rising China is similarly bipartisan.”
New Sanctions Hit Iran As Rouhani Faces Pressure To Quell Domestic
Discontent.

Bloomberg News
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(8/9, Nasseri, Motevalli, Shahla) reports that “in the runup to the Aug. 7
resumption of U.S. sanctions against Iran, the country’s beleaguered
president, Hassan Rouhani, got stern directives from a few corners of the
Islamic Republic.” According to Bloomberg, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei,
“urged him to deal with corruption,” while “the powerful Revolutionary
Guards commander told him to focus on Iran’s slumping currency,” and “a
sizable chunk of Parliament summoned Rouhani to harangue him about the
sinking economy.” Bloomberg adds, “None of them, however, had any advice on
how to ease the growing sense of despair and outrage in the streets.”
Bloomberg reports that “over the past few weeks, record temperatures, power
outages, and water shortages, along with a 50 percent rise in the price of
some food items, have triggered scattered protests.”
CRS Reports: Iran, North Korea Growing Ballistic Missile Stockpiles.

The Washington Free Beacon
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(8/9, Kredo) reports that Congressional Research Service reports say that
“Iran and North Korea are growing their stockpile of ballistic missiles,
including long-range missiles capable of striking U.S. assets, American
allies, and even the continental United States,” and the two countries
“continue to exchange technology on both the missile and nuclear front.” US
officials “told the Washington Free Beacon that much of the recent
technological progress by these rogue nations is the result of the Obama
administration’s efforts to relax international regulations on such
activity as part of the landmark nuclear agreement.”
Saudi Strike On School Bus Kills 29 Children In Yemen.

Citing the Yemeni Ministry of Health, the AP
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(8/9, Al-Haj) reports that “an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition
fighting Shiite rebels hit a bus driving in a busy market in northern Yemen
on Thursday, killing least 50 people including children and wounding 77.”
The International Committee of the Red Cross “said on Twitter that its team
at an ICRC supported hospital in Saada received the bodies of 29 children,
all under 15 years old,” as well as “48 wounded people, including 30
children,” according to the AP, which says Yemen’s Al Masirah TV “aired
dramatic images of wounded children, their clothes and schoolbags covered
with blood as they lay on hospital stretchers.”

        The strike generated coverage on all three major network newscasts. NBC
Nightly News
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(8/9, story 2, 1:30, Bradley) reported that “Saudi Arabia said this attack
was justified, the US said it had nothing to do with it, but as the war
goes on, the consequences have been devastating,” and ABC World News
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(8/9, story 4, 1:25, Pannell) that the Pentagon said last night “the US
military was not directly involved in those air strikes,” but “it won’t say
if American bombs, intelligence and fuel it gives to Saudi were used. This
latest attack on civilians including so many children killed will raise
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(8/9, story 4, 1:50, Williams) indicated, meanwhile, that “a State
Department spokeswoman...expressed concern over the air strike and called
on the Saudi-led coalition to investigate.”

        Reuters
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(8/9, Staff) notes “the Western-backed alliance fighting the
Iranian-aligned Houthi group in Yemen said in a statement that the air
strikes targeted missile launchers used to attack the southern Saudi city
of Jizan on Wednesday, killing a Yemeni civilian there.” The coalition also
“accused the Houthis of using children as human shields and said the
strikes were carried out in accordance with international humanitarian
law.” The Washington Post
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(8/9, Mujahed, Raghavan) reports that “the assault was the latest airstrike
against civilians carried out by an American-backed regional coalition led
by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.” A director of the Red
Crescent tells the Post, “I am really shocked because there is no military
base or troops in that area.” According to the Post, the Saudis’
“coalition” utilizes “U.S.- and British-made fighter jets,” and is “the
only party in the conflict to use warplanes.” The Post says the US military
provides them with “refueling, intelligence and billions in weapons sales.”
The Post goes on to report that “the U.S. assistance has come under sharp
criticism from some members of Congress and the international community as
civilian deaths have continued to multiply.”

        The New York Times
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(8/9, Almosawa, Hubbard) reports that “in a statement released by the Saudi
state news agency, the coalition said it had launched airstrikes on missile
launchers that had been used to attack the city of Jizan in southern Saudi
Arabia, recently killing a Yemeni civilian there.” Col. Turki al-Malki,
identified as a “spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition,” tells CNN
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(8/9, Almasmari, El Sirgany, Qiblawi) that “the missile strike was aimed at
a ‘legitimate target.’” CNN says the US military “largely supports the
coalition’s campaign,” and did not condemn the strike on the school bus.
According to ABC News
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(8/9, Masri), the Saudi-led coalition armed and aided by the US military
“has been blamed by the United Nations for most of the civilian deaths in
Yemen.”

        *Murphy Slams US Involvement In Yemen. *Business Insider
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(8/9, Haltiwanger) reports that Sen. Chris Murphy “slammed the US for its
involvement in the bloody Yemen conflict” in the wake of the Saudi strike,
tweeting
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“US bombs. US targeting. US mid air support. And we just bombed a SCHOOL
BUS. The Saudi/UAE/US bombing campaign is getting more reckless, killing
more civilians, and strengthening terrorists inside Yemen. We need to end
this — NOW.” According to BI, “The Pentagon has also been accused of
misleading the extent of the US military’s involvement in Yemen.” Murphy
later went back to Twitter
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to write, “Trump Administration says we need to be in Saudi bombing
coalition to limit Yemeni civilian casualties. But THE EXACT OPPOSITE IS
HAPPENING. UN says 1/3 of all strikes are hitting civilians. ONE THIRD. You
don’t do that by accident.”
Brooklyn Mosque Criticizes “False Narratives” About New Mexico Compound.

The New York Times
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(8/9, Feuer, Kovaleski) reports that as investigators in New Mexico
continued to look into whether five adults “had been mistreating a group of
children living with them in a rural compound in the desert north of Taos,
possibly training them to carry out school shootings,” Siraj Wahhaj, the
imam at a Brooklyn mosque, whose son is one of the adults “said Thursday
that the decomposing body of a child found at the compound had been
identified as his grandson.” In a video posted on Facebook, a spokesman for
the mosque said “that the news media and the authorities were engaging in
‘propaganda’ by wrongfully injecting mentions of international terrorism
and school violence into what amounted to ‘a domestic situation’ in New
Mexico. ... They’re not bringing up accurate events — they’re bringing up
false narratives.”

        The CBS Evening News
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(8/9, story 5, 2:05, Duncan) reported that the imam “said he did not know
his son...was living in squalor in this compound in northern New Mexico
with his nine children. He only found out after one of the women living
there sent out a text.” Wahhaj: “Four days ago I got a call from Abdul
Rashid in Atlanta, Georgia. He said Supana reached out to him and said, ‘We
need some food. We’re starving.’”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(8/9, story 2, 1:50, Sandell) reported, “The local sheriff and FBI began
surveillance here in May, looking for Wahhaj and his 3-year-old son Abdul,
who was reported missing last December. But the sheriff says there wasn’t
enough evidence for a search until last week.” In its lead story, NBC
Nightly News
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(8/9, lead story, 2:35, Schwartz) reported that the owner of the property
“says for months he begged local investigators to do something about the
family squatting on his land.” NBC added that the property owner “says he
was particularly concerned because after investigators left after the said
they seized everything they needed, he came over to the truck and opened
the back and saw a tactical shotgun in plain sight and a Glock. He also
found a passport from one of the suspects with a visa from Saudi Arabia.”
US Officials Worked To Protect NATO Deal From Trump.

The New York Times
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(8/9, Cooper, Barnes) reports that, in an effort “to prevent President
Trump from upending a formal policy agreement at last month’s NATO
meeting,” National Security Adviser Bolton “demanded” that it be completed
prior to the forum, and, “fearful of a repeat of the G-7 disaster – in
which Mr. Trump refused to sign off on the joint communiqué, escalated a
trade war and publicly derided Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada –
the emissaries from the NATO countries all agreed.” The communiqué,
rebranded as a declaration, “ensured that, despite Mr. Trump’s rhetorical
fireworks, NATO diplomats could push through initiatives, including
critical Pentagon priorities to improve allied defenses against Russia.”
Two senior European officials said Secretary of State Pompeo and Defense
Secretary Mattis also sought to avoid a situation similar to the G-7. The
effort illustrates “the lengths to which the president’s top advisers will
go to protect a key and longstanding international alliance from Mr.
Trump’s unpredictable antipathy.”
Mexico Working With US On NAFTA Auto Rules Before Canada Rejoins Talks.

Reuters
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(8/9, Lawder) reports that Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said
Thursday that his negotiators are working to reach a deal with the US “on
new rules for the auto industry, which could pave the way for Canada to
rejoin talks to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement.”

        *Mexican Car Manufacturing Cities Thrive As NAFTA Talks Continue. *The
Washington Post
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(8/9, Sieff) reports that the Mexican city of San Luis Potosi is “booming
thanks to auto companies lured by the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA),” and despite concerns that it “could be undone by the Trump
administration’s efforts to gut one of the world’s most profitable
free-trade zones,” after “more than a year of strained NAFTA negotiations,
the unemployment rate here is approaching zero.” The Post says “Mexican
cities like San Luis Potosi continue to thrive, a sign of how deeply
entrenched the U.S. automotive industry – driven primarily by low labor
costs – is in Mexico.”

        *NYTimes: Tariffs On Canadian Newsprint Speeding Death Of Local
Papers. *The New York Times
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(8/9, Edmondson, Peiser) reports that Administration tariffs on Canadian
newsprint are “hastening the demise of local newspapers across the
country,” as “already-struggling publications” are being forced to “cut
staff, reduce the number of days they print and, in at least one case,
shutter entirely.”

        *Bloomberg News: Mnuchin In Fight Over Trade With Administration’s
“Reactionary Forces.” *In a profile of Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, Bloomberg
Businessweek
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(8/9, Leonard, Mohsin) reports that Mnuchin has “managed so far to stay in
the good graces of a president who values loyalty above all,” in part, by
“keeping any hint of disagreement with Trump out of the press,” even as
Mnuchin’s “economic agenda...sometimes put him at odds with others in the
White House.” According to Bloomberg, “One of only a few moderates left in
the White House, Mnuchin has acted, not always successfully, as a bulwark
against some of the administration’s more reactionary forces, trying to
dissuade Trump from launching a full-blown trade war with China and other
allies.” Bloomberg says an anonymous “current White House official”
describes Mnuchin as a “Wall Street Democrat.” Bloomberg goes on to report
that “an ongoing battle in the White House over trade policy had pitted
economic moderates such as Mnuchin...against pro-tariff nationalists like”
USTR Lighthizer and “Trump’s special trade adviser Peter Navarro.”

        *Failure To Prevent Trade War With US Sparks Rare Criticism Of Xi
Within China. *Citing “four sources close to the government,” Reuters
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(8/9, Cnbc) reports that China’s “growing trade war” with the US is
“causing rifts within China’s Communist Party, with some critics saying
that an overly nationalistic Chinese stance may have hardened the U.S.
position.” While President Xi Jinping “still has a firm grip on power...an
unusual surge of criticism about economic policy and how the government has
handled the trade war has revealed rare cracks in the ruling Communist
Party,” with “a backlash is being felt at the highest levels of the
government, possibly hitting a close aide to Xi, his ideology chief and
strategist Wang Huning.”

        Drawing attention to Reuters’ reporting, John Carney of Breitbart
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(8/9, Carney) writes, “This is a huge shift in sentiment among the Chinese
elite. Through last year and at the start of this year, many of China’s top
thinkers were convinced that China could prevail in a trade fight with the
U.S.” According to Carney, “The earlier Chinese view is still shared by
many in the U.S. who take the extraordinary position that market economies
and democratic governments are weaker than command economies led by
authoritarian governments.”

        *Trade War Raising Costs For Seattle Sports Venue. *Bloomberg News
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(8/9, Buhayar, Soshnick) reports that Tim Leiweke, chief executive officer
of Oak View Group, which is undertaking an effort “to gut and rebuild
Seattle’s KeyArena said tariffs on construction materials such as steel,
aluminum and rebar are ratcheting up the tab for the soon-to-be-overhauled
venue, which will host an expansion team for the National Hockey League.”
Leiweke told the Bloomberg Business of Sports podcast, “We have seen a
rapid inflation on those costs. ... Even when you have manufacturers and
suppliers that are within the United States, they know they can charge more
now because of the tariffs.”
Domestic Policy
Trump Slams “Illegally Brought Rigged Witch Hunt,” Tells Followers To “Stay
Tuned.”

President Trump tweeted
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yesterday, “This is an illegally brought Rigged Witch Hunt run by people
who are totally corrupt and/or conflicted. It was started and paid for by
Crooked Hillary and the Democrats. Phony Dossier, FISA disgrace and so many
lying and dishonest people already fired. 17 Angry Dems? Stay tuned!” Trump
took to Twitter
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again later yesterday to post a comments from Washington Examiner
contributor Jenna Ellis, who said, “FBI thought they wouldn’t get caught
because they thought that Hillary was going to win. There is overt bias and
that depends on whether you are Democrat or Republican – a double standard
that needs to stop.” The Washington Times
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(8/9, Boyer) says “Trump blasted the probe again as an illegal partisan
scam,” and the New York Post
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(8/9, Fredericks) that he “appeared to threaten to fire special counsel
Robert Mueller’s team of investigators – or perhaps Mueller himself.”

        Sean Hannity said on Fox News’ Hannity[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(8/9), “Without a doubt, this witch hunt is the pinnacle of a two-tiered
system of justice alive and well in this country, the United States of
America. Hillary Clinton commits multiple, obvious, serious felonies,” and
she “got a get out of jail free card from her friends who wrote an
exoneration before investigation, Comey, Strzok, and others. Then you have
shifty Adam Schiff. ... He colluded on tape, conspired on tape with a
Russian to get dirt on Donald Trump. Robert Mueller, where are you?
Meanwhile, President Trump, all of his allies, they are slammed with the
full force weight of FBI and the DOJ based on what is Clinton bought and
paid for Russian lies put together by a spy who is friends with a Russian
oligarch and working on his behalf to get him into the country after he’s
been kicked out.”

        Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said on Fox News’ Hannity[image:
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(8/9), “Historic, rampant corruption by the FBI and Department of Justice.
Robert Mueller should do the right thing, end his investigation, and make
an announcement that the accusations of Trump-Russia collusion were nothing
more than a hoax.” Former US Attorney Joe DiGenova said on Fox News’
Hannity[image:
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(8/9), “From the beginning of this entire episode, it has been very clear
that there was a brazen plot to exonerate Hillary Clinton, illegally, and
if she lost the election, to frame Donald Trump with false crimes. Why did
that happen? It happened because the FBI and the DOJ during the Obama
Administration were pro-Democrat and anti-Republican. I repeat: This was a
partisan decision.”

        *Giuliani Optimistic That Trump Will Sit For Mueller Interview
“Sooner Rather Than Later.” *Major Garrett, on CBS This Morning[image:
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(8/9), said, “I just spoke to Rudy Giuliani...and he now describes himself
as ‘more optimistic than he has been in weeks’” that Mueller will accept
the Trump team’s parameters for an interview because “the two sides have
narrowed their differences over what can and can’t be asked.” According to
Garrett, Giuliani now says “there’s at least a 50-50 chance the interview
could happen sooner rather than later.” Last night, the CBS Evening News[image:
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(8/9, story 6, 0:10, Glor) briefly mentioned that Giuliani said “he is more
optimistic that...Trump will be interviewed by...Mueller,” and that “he
expects a counter-proposal by Monday.”

        CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta said on CNN’s
Situation Room
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(8/9), “It seems the President and his legal team are trying to have it
both ways, both complaining that the investigation is taking too long while
at the same time withholding from...Mueller the one thing he needs to
really wrap up this investigation, and that is an interview with the
President.”

        Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) said on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image
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(8/9), “I think...Giuliani is doing what he thinks is best for the Presient
to move forward. This investigation really needs to go away. It was set up
on Russian collusion and Russian meddling in our election. We know they
meddled. There is no evidence of collusion. The FISA warrants were issued
on those pretenses.” Yoho added, “The President hasn’t been charged with
anything and he hasn’t shown any wrongdoing. So I don’t know if I would sit
down with Robert Mueller if it was me. I don’t believe I would.”

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(8/9) if the President’s legal team is negotiating in good or bad faith.
Garamendi said, “Bad faith. Rudy Giuliani throughout this entire process
that he has come back as the personal attorney for the President has been
dissimulating, changing his story every other day and putting up false
flags for one thing or another. Frankly, I don’t believe for a moment that
he is telling the truth about anything that he says. He is about as
disreputable as the President when it comes to truth telling.”

        Harry Litman, who teaches constitutional law at the University of
California at San Diego and was US attorney for the Western District of
Pennsylvania from 1998 to 2001, writes in a Washington Post
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(8/9) op-ed, “Enough is enough. It’s time to subpoena the president.”
Mueller “has been extraordinarily deferential and patient while Trump and
his representatives engaged in their scarcely credible gamesmanship” and
are “playing Mueller, and in the process, playing the country.”

        *Manafort Trial Focus Returns To More Mundane Matters Following
Gates’ Testimony. *The AP
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(8/9, Tucker, Braun, Day) reports that “after three days of dramatic and
even salacious testimony in the trial of Paul Manafort, prosecutors on
Thursday returned to the nuts and bolts of their case against the former
Trump campaign chairman as they sought to show he obtained millions of
dollars in bank loans under false pretenses.” The AP adds that prosecutors
“also got a rare – and narrow – acknowledgment from U.S. District Judge
T.S. Ellis III that he likely erred when he angrily confronted them a day
earlier over whether he had allowed a witness to watch the trial.”

        The Washington Times
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(8/9, Mordock) quotes Ellis as saying, “I was critical of counsel …for
allowing an expert to remain in the courtroom. ... I may have well been
wrong.” The New York Times
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(8/9, Cochrane, Lafraniere) says that Ellis “is the formidable ringmaster
of the greatest show in the United States District Court in Alexandria,
Va., demanding both precise questioning and a breakneck pace in the trial
of Mr. Manafort.” He “has routinely broken in on questioning, limited
admission of evidence and exhorted lawyers to ‘expedite’ – all the while
entertaining spectators with humorous asides about his age, his wife, his
Navy past, his lack of an email address, the jury’s lunch menu, split
infinitives and the noise produced by a machine intended to keep bench
conferences from being overheard (like ‘the sound of waves crashing’).”

        Bloomberg News
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(8/9, Voreacos, Harris, Flatley, Maki) reports that “the question of
whether Manafort’s Soho condominium was a second residence or a means to
make money was at the heart of testimony Thursday afternoon as prosecutors
tried to prove that Manafort engaged in bank fraud.” According to
Bloomberg, Manafort “tried to borrow $3.4 million against the condo while
telling Citizens Bank that it was a second residence. But jurors heard
evidence that Manafort’s family offered the unit to renters through Airbnb,
which would make it an investment property.” The Washington Post
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(8/9, Weiner, Zapotosky, Bui, Barrett), Reuters
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(8/9, Freifeld, Lynch) and Politico
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(8/9, Gerstein, Samuelsohn), among other news outlets, run similar stories
this morning.

        *Nunes Tells Donors House Majority Needed To Protect Trump. *
Politico
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(8/9, Murray) reports, “Republicans’ bulwark around President Donald Trump
could be imperiled this fall if Democrats are able to seize control of the
House of Representatives in the midterms, Rep. Devin Nunes appeared to warn
in a secretly recorded audio tape.” Nunes is heard saying on the tape,
“It’s like your classic catch-22 situation. ... This puts us in such a
tough spot. If Sessions won’t unrecuse and Mueller won’t clear the
president, we’re the only ones, which is really the danger. ... I mean, we
have to keep all these seats. We have to keep the majority. If we do not
keep the majority, all of this goes away.” To the Washington Post
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(8/9, Stanley-Becker), Nunes “appears to have moved from criticizing the
investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election to
strategizing about how to blunt its impact should it imperil...Trump.”The
Hill
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(8/8, Thomsen) notes “the audio was recorded by a member of the progressive
group Fuse Washington, which paid to attend the event and provided the
audio to MSNBC’s ‘The Rachel Maddow Show,’” which aided it Wednesday night.

        Yoho said on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image removed by sender.
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(8/9), “I listened to that recording seven times and I never heard the word
protect. What I heard Devin Nunes say at the end of that is if we don’t
keep the majority, all this goes away. You know, the tax cuts go away, the
reforms we made with regulations, they go away. ... I agree with Devin
Nunes. If we lose that majority, all those gains go away and you’ll have
Nancy Pelosi on the House floor rallying for eight hours to protect the
people here illegally and they’ll have open borders and get rid of the tax
cuts and God knows what else. I stand with Devin Nunes on that comment.”

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(8/9), “When we swore our oath it was not to protect the President. It was
rather to protect America, the constitution from all enemies foreign and
domestic. Nowhere did it say protect the President.” Asked if Nunes should
be removed as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Garamendi said,
“Absolutely. He should have been removed a year ago when it was clear he
was not working in the interest of Congress and not working in the interest
of trying to find out what had actually happened with Russia’s involvement
in the election.”

        *Steele Was Working On Dossier While He Lobbied DOJ On Behalf Of
Russian Oligarch. *The Daily Caller
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(8/9, Ross) reports that “Christopher Steele was working on the Trump
dossier at the same time he was lobbying DOJ official Bruce Ohr on behalf
of a Russian oligarch linked to Putin.” The DC adds “newly revealed emails
show Steele thought the US government should grant visas to Deripaska, who
had been barred from traveling to the US.” Steele’s “support for Deripaska
would seem to undercut one of Trump critics’ theories about possible
collusion: that Deripaska conspired with Paul Manafort.” Deripaska’s
“business ties to the longtime Republican political operative have come
under intense scrutiny from Democrats and the media, leading to some
speculation that Manafort and Deripaska may have colluded during the 2016
presidential campaign.”

        *Goodlatte Plans Subpoenas In Dossier Case. *The Washington Examiner
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(8/9, Giaritelli) reports in a brief item that House Judiciary Chairman
Robert Goodlatte “is expected to subpoena Justice Department and FBI
officials, as well as” Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, “in the coming
week for at least one upcoming hearing on British spy Christopher Steele’s
dossier about President Trump.”

        *Judicial Watch Sues DOJ Over Dossier Materials. *The Washington
Examiner
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(8/9, Correll) reports that Judicial Watch has filed suit against the DOJ
“seeking records of communications from various offices within the agency
related to former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, his wife
Nellie Ohr,” Fusion GPS, and Steele. The group “said it sued because the
Justice Department failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act
request filed in May.”

        *WSJournal: Prosecutors Investigating Trump Donor’s Business
Dealings With Cohen. *Citing unnamed sources, the Wall Street Journal
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(8/9, Ballhaus, Rothfeld, Palazzolo) reports federal prosecutors in New
York are looking into the business dealings Franklin L. Haney, a big-money
donor to Trump, has had with Michael Cohen. In April, Haney hired Cohen,
who was Trump’s attorney at the time, to help with obtaining funds for a
nuclear-power project, including securing a loan of $5 billion from the
Department of Energy, according to the Journal. Investigators are trying to
determine whether Cohen was doing lobbying work despite not having
registered as a federal lobbyist, the Journal adds.
Media Sees Double Standard As First Lady’s Parents Become US Citizens.

The AP
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(8/9) reports that Viktor and Amalija Knavs, First Lady Melania Trump’s
parents, were sworn in as US citizens Thursday “at a special, private
ceremony in New York City.” Politico
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(8/9, Hesson) says “the Knavs’ immigration status has drawn scrutiny amid
President Donald Trump’s sustained attack on legal and illegal
immigration,” as “the president in particular has vented about the
family-based immigration system, which the administration dubs ‘chain
migration.’” All three network newscasts noted the story last night. ABC
World News Tonight
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(8/9, story 6, 0:20, Muir) reported that the “family sponsorship program”
used by Mrs. Trump’s parents “is the very pathway long opposed by their
son-in-law, the President, who calls it chain migration,” and NBC Nightly
News
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(8/9, story 4, 1:55, Holt) referred to “questions about a possible double
standard when it comes to the First Family.” In its brief report,
meanwhile, the CBS Evening News
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(8/9, story 7, 0:10, Glor) noted “Viktor and Amalija Knavs, natives of
Slovenia,” had been “living in the US as permanent residents.”

        CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta said on CNN’s
Situation Room
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(8/9) that Mrs. Trump “served, from what we understand, as a sponsor of her
parents in their application process to become United States citizens.
People have referred to that and the President has referred to that as
chain migration” and he “has bashed the practice” and in his State of the
Union address, “laid out a proposal to reform the immigration system in
this country where you would no longer have chain migration.” Acosta added,
“It once again shows that is the President and his team and First Lady, I
suppose, are willing to bring in relatives into this country in a way that
they’re essentially saying to the rest of the immigrants coming into this
country that they can’t have it that way.” The New York Times
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(8/9, Correal, Cochrane) headlines its story “Melania Trump’s Parents
Become US Citizens, Using ‘Chain Migration’ Trump Hates,” and the Washington
Post
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(8/9, Nakamura) says they completed “a years-long immigration process even
as...Trump has called for new laws to bar Americans from sponsoring parents
and other relatives.”

        The New York Post
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(8/9, Fredericks) reports “Viktor, 74, is two years older than President
Trump, an immigration hardliner whose ‘zero tolerance’ policy on illegal
border crossings resulted in the separation of more than 2,500 migrant
children from their parents. Amalija is 73.”

        *New Border Patrol Chief Defends Enforcement Of Border Laws, Calls
For Wall. *The AP
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(8/9, Press) reports that the US Border Patrol “has its first female chief
in its 94-year history.” Carla Provost, who “had been acting chief since
April 2017, so her appointment Thursday by Customs and Border Protection
Commissioner Kevin McAleenan was no surprise,” according to the AP. The New
York Times
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(8/9, Nixon) says the Border Patrol “has frequently come under fire for its
immigration checkpoints up to 100 miles away from the border and for its
role in the Trump administration’s so-called zero-tolerance policy, which
resulted in the separation of thousands of families at the southwest
border.” According to the Times, Provost “defends the actions of the Border
Patrol.” Provost is quoted as saying, “It has been my experience that if
there are no consequences for violating the law, then people will continue
to do it.” The Washington Post
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(8/9, Miroff) notes that Provost “echoed calls by Homeland Security
Secretary Kirsjten Nielsen to ‘close some of these loopholes that are
drawing people to bring their families and to bring children across a very
treacherous trip to this country.’”

        In an interview with the Los Angeles Times
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(8/9, Hennessy-Fiske), Provost also said, “I want to be clear that at no
time was the policy of the Border Patrol or [the Department of Homeland
Security] to separate families. The separation of families occurred only as
a result of prosecution of a parent for illegally crossing the border. In
my experience, I know that when there is a consequence for a crime
committed, that the frequency of the crime decreases. Without consequences
for breaking the law, people will just continue to break the law. ... We
are a law enforcement agency, we enforce the law and when we are able to do
that, we see decreases in those violating that law.” Provost also told the
Times, “We do need a wall. Through my experiences, we know walls work.”

        *Trump Praises Lawsuit To Repeal DACA. *Politico
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(8/9, Morin) reports that President Trump on Thursday praised a Texas-led
lawsuit to repeal DACA, “saying he hopes the legal action is ‘successful.’”
During a roundtable discussion on prison reform, Trump said, “[Texas
Attorney General] Ken [Paxton] just filed a very interesting lawsuit which
I think is going to be very successful. ... I hope it’s going to be
successful.”

        *Nielsen Blasts Philadelphia Over Undocumented Immigrant Child
Abuser. *Fox News’ Fox & Friends
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(8/9) highlighted the case of a previously deported illegal immigrant from
Honduras, who, after the city of Philadelphia, as part of its “sanctuary
city” policy, refused to hand him over to ICE, went on to sexually assault
a child. DHS Secretary Nielsen was shown saying, “It could have been
prevented and it should have been prevented. We owe the American people
better. This is a perfect example of when jurisdictions decide not to
cooperate with federal law enforcement, we put our communities at risk.”

        *Judge Threatens To Hold Sessions In Contempt Over Woman’s
Deportation. *The Washington Times
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(8/9, Dinan) reports a federal judge has threatened to hold Attorney
General Sessions “in contempt of court in a touchy case over asylum
seekers’ rights after learning that some plaintiffs might have been
deported in defiance of his wishes.” According to a “furious” Judge Emmet
G. Sullivan. The government seems to have “spirited away” a woman and her
child were seeking asylum in the US after fleeing a violent husband. The
woman “was taken from her detention facility and likely put on a plane
Thursday morning, the American Civil Liberties Union said – even though the
Justice Department had promised the court none of the plaintiffs would be
deported before the judge could rule.” Sullivan ordered the government,
“Turn that plane around,” and “threatened to start issuing show-cause
orders and then hold people in contempt of court if the situation wasn’t
immediately remedied.” Sullivan said, “I’m gonna start with the attorney
general.”

        The Hill
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(8/9, Wheeler, Wise) says the woman “is a plaintiff in the ACLU’s lawsuit
filed this week against Sessions” over “his recent decision to stop
granting asylum for people who have faced domestic and gang violence.” In
its lead story, the CBS Evening News
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(8/9, lead story, 2:15, Pegues) CBS cited “sources” who said that “the
government complied with the judge’s orders,” and the woman and her
daughter “never got off the plane in El Salvador. Instead, they were flown
back to Houston.”

        *Massachusetts Man Offered $500 To Anyone Who Kills An ICE Agent. *The
Washington Times
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(8/9, Dinan) reports that Brandon J. Ziobrowski of Massachusetts “was
arrested Thursday on charges of offering a $500 bounty on Twitter to anyone
who killed an ICE agent.” In that the Times says is “the latest in a series
of horrific threats aimed at the immigration law enforcement amid the
ongoing deportation debate,” Ziobrowski “invited people to message him with
plans.” In one such message, he wrote, “I am broke but I will scrounge and
literally give $500 to anyone who kills an ICE agent.”

        *Minnesota Community Reacts To ICE Arrests. *The Minneapolis Star
Tribune
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(8/9, Smith, Montemayor) reports on the aftermath of an ICE raid on
Christensen Farm, a hog plant in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. The Wednesday
arrests “of more than 130 illegal workers across three states...But by
Thursday morning, this southwestern Minnesota town of 3,500 residents was
buzzing about the dozen workers arrested” there. Christensen Farm’s CEO
“blamed the hiring of the undocumented workers on a third party vendor.”

        *Consulting Firm Continues Work With China After Dropping ICE
Contracts. *The Washington Free Beacon
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(8/9, Shepherd) reports that the US consulting company McKinsey, which
“walked away from doing business with Immigration Customs and Enforcement
citing ethical concerns continues to carry out contracts with governments
and government-owned businesses in China, according to one of the company’s
websites.” The “About Us” page “on a China-specific website indicates that
30 percent of its business in the country is with state-owned enterprises
and another 10 percent is with ‘government and non-profits,’” and says that
McKinsey is an “advisor to some of the region’s major businesses,
governments, and institutions.” This, despite a New York Times article
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“that quoted managing partner Kevin Sneader making a blanket guarantee in
an employee memo” that McKinsey “will not, under any circumstances, engage
in any work, anywhere in the world, that advances or assists policies that
are at odds with our values.” The memo also “indicated McKinsey would end
its relationship with ICE.”

        *Ingraham Facing Calls For Boycott After Immigration Comments.
*The Washington
Times
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(8/9, Chasmar) reports that Fox News host Laura Ingraham is facing more
calls for a boycott after a monologue in which she complained about the
country’s “massive demographic changes” as a result of immigration.
Ingraham said, “In some parts of the country, it does seem like the America
that we know and love doesn’t exist anymore.” Ingraham “called on President
Trump to enforce existing immigration laws, strengthen border security and
build the wall,” saying, “This is a national emergency and he must demand
that Congress act now. There is something slipping away in this country and
it’s not about race or ethnicity. It’s what was once a common understanding
by both parties that American citizenship is a privilege, and one that at a
minimum requires respect for the rule of law and loyalty to our
Constitution.” The comments “sparked a firestorm on Twitter, with many
users calling on Fox News advertisers to pull out of her show.”

        *Daughter Of Immigrant Who Has Claimed Sanctuary In Church Defends
Him. *New Haven, Connecticut high school student Kelly Pinos writes in the New
York Times
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(8/9, Pinos) that though her father, an undocumented immigrant from Ecuador
who has been in the US for two decades, regularly checked in with
immigration officials for years, he now faces deportation. He has been
living in a church since last November, claiming sanctuary. Pinos writes
that ICE “knows exactly where he is. But so long as he does not step
outside, he is safe.” She writes, “The people who support the deportation
of undocumented immigrant parents with no criminal records still think we
are all rapists or gang members. They don’t see the good. ... [My father]
is just trying to raise three good children.”
Democrats Not Satisfied With Documents Related To Kavanaugh’s White House
Work.

The AP
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(8/9, Mascaro) reports that “the first documents from Supreme Court nominee
Brett Kavanaugh’s time in George W. Bush’s White House were released”
yesterday “as the Senate begins to review the judge’s unusually lengthy
public record for confirmation hearings this fall.” According to the AP,
“The 5,700 pages from Kavanaugh’s time in the White House counsel’s office,
a slim fraction of those available, were posted on the Senate Judiciary
Committee’s website after being compiled by a lawyer representing the
former president as part of the GOP’s expedited review process.” Democrats,
however, “quickly cried foul, saying Republicans are ‘cherry-picking’ from
the initial cache of 125,000 Bush documents and skirting traditional
procedures.” The Washington Times
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(8/9, Mascaro) notes Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer “said the GOP’s
unusual process of tapping Bush’s lawyer, Bill Burck, to conduct an initial
review and release of the documents is a conflict.” Said Schumer, “We are
seeing layer after layer of unprecedented secrecy in what is quickly
becoming the least transparent nominations process in history.”

        The Washington Post
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(8/9, Barnes) also reports “Democrats said the Republican-led committee is
using an unprecedented process.” Sen. Richard J. Durbin wrote on Twitter,
“Take note: Unless it was produced by the National Archives, every document
you see from Judge Kavanaugh’s White House tenure was selectively chosen
for release by his former deputy, Bill Burck. This is not an objective
process.” The Washington Examiner
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(8/9, Morrongiello) indicates that “normally, records from Kavanaugh’s time
in the White House would be protected by the Presidential Records Act,
which allows former presidents to keep their White House files secret for
up to 12 years after leaving office.” However, “Democrats have repeatedly
argued that files from Kavanaugh’s stint as associate White House counsel
from 2001 to 2003, and as staff secretary from 2003 to 2006, are relevant
to his confirmation process and could provide further insight into his
positions on certain issues as well as his broader judicial philosophy.”

        The New York Times
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(8/9, Savage, Shear) says one of the “newly disclosed White House email
shows” that Kavanaugh “volunteered to prepare a senior Bush administration
official to testify about the government’s monitoring of conversations
between certain terrorism suspects and their lawyers after the Sept. 11
attacks.” According to the Times, “The email appeared likely to become a
focus” during Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings since Democrats have
already “raised questions about whether he misled the Senate at his 2006
appeals court confirmation hearing, when he flatly denied any involvement
in ‘questions about the rules governing detention of combatants.’” Politico
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(8/9, Johnson) notes “the White House, however, argues that the email – in
which Kavanaugh delegates to a colleague briefing of the attorney general
on the use of military tribunals – strengthens the judge’s case.” The White
House “says the email demonstrates that a limited number of White House
aides, siloed from their colleagues, helped navigate uncharted legal
territory on the interrogation of terrorist suspects and that Kavanaugh was
not among them.”

        *WPost: Kavanaugh Has Lived “On The Outer Edge Of His Means.”
*The Washington
Post
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(8/9, Brittain) reports that Kavanaugh “left a private firm to join the
White House, a move that slashed his salary by more than half but set him
on a path toward the judiciary branch — and now, to the peak of his
profession as a nominee for the Supreme Court.” However, “the path has left
him living a lifestyle on the outer edge of his means, mingling with the 1
percent social circles in a Chevy Chase neighborhood that has among the
highest median incomes in the country.” The Post says Kavanaugh’s financial
statements “offer a glimpse into personal finances that have appeared shaky
at times, including a recent year when Kavanaugh’s reported debt ranges
could have exceeded what he had available in high-liquidity assets such as
money-market or cash accounts.”
Azar Urges States Not To Oppose “Short Term” Health Plans.

The Washington Times
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(8/9, Howell) reports that in remarks to the American Legislative Exchange
Council in New Orleans Thursday, HHS Secretary Azar “urged defiant states
to stop thwarting President Trump’s push to offer cheaper, ‘short-term’
plans to residents who’ve been priced out of Obamacare.” Azar “said the
bare-bones plans aren’t the right option for everyone, though might be a
good choice for people who are in between health plans or work for
themselves in today’s ‘gig economy.’” Azar said, “This affordable option
will only be as available as state legislators and insurance commissioners
allow it to be. ... We believe sensible state regulation of these plans is
important. ... But millions of Americans are in need of affordable
insurance options, and states can help build this market outside of
Obamacare’s broken regulations.”

        *Administration Closes Medicaid Drug Rebate Loophole. *The Washington
Examiner
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(8/9, Leonard) reports that the Administration on Thursday implemented a
law that will make drug companies “unable to game a requirement to give
states large prescription rebates through Medicaid.” The move “closes a
loophole that drug companies exploited by making superficial changes to
existing drugs to inflate their costs and thus pay states less than they
owed.” HHS Secretary Azar announced the change at the American Legislative
Exchange Council in New Orleans, saying, “This is the kind of abusive
behavior from drug companies that this administration will not tolerate.”
EPA Sides With Michigan Over Order For Flint To Fix Water System.

The Detroit News
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(8/9, LeBlanc) reports that the EPA has sided with the state of Michigan
“over whether the city of Flint should be forced to sign a consent order
requiring fixes to the city’s water system.” Flint Mayor Karen Weaver
argued in June that “the state could not force her to sign the order
outlining a corrective plan for problems identified in an August 2017
sanitary survey.” In a letter Wednesday, the EPA disagreed, saying the
state has “primacy agency authority” to issue a consent order and that
Flint missed the deadline to avoid the order by addressing its
infrastructure problems.

        *Court Rules EPA Violated Law By Keeping Pesticide On The Market. *The
AP
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(8/9, Biesecker) reports that the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled
Thursday that the Administration “endangered public health” by keeping the
widely-used pesticide chlorpyrifos on the market “despite extensive
scientific evidence that even tiny levels of exposure can harm babies’
brains.” The court ordered the EPA to remove the pesticide from sale in the
US within 60 days. In a split-decision, the court found that former EPA
Administrator Pruitt “violated federal law by ignoring the conclusions of
agency scientists that chlorpyrifos is harmful.”
Trump Hosts Governors, AGs, Cabinet Officials For Roundtable On Prison
Reform.

The Washington Post
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(8/9, Kim) reports that President Trump is “publicly pressing for prison
reform while his administration privately works on an agreement with
Congress that would overhaul a bigger swath of the criminal justice system
but may rile tough-on-crime conservatives.” The Administration and
congressional officials “are crafting an agreement that would add
significant changes in the nation’s mandatory sentencing laws to a widely
popular prison reform bill that passed the House earlier this year,
according to two officials familiar with the discussions.” During a
roundtable on prison reform Thursday with governors, state attorneys
general and Cabinet officials his golf club in Bedminster, NJ, Trump “said
the administration was working to ‘refine’ the House-backed measure in the
Senate.” The Post says the pending deal “would add four provisions
overhauling the sentencing system...to the House bill, which does not touch
sentencing laws but focuses on reducing recidivism among prisoners,”
according to “two officials familiar with the discussions.”

        The AP
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(8/9) reports that according to the White House, the officials who attended
Thursday’s meeting “represent states that have implemented changes similar
to those backed by Trump.” The AP adds, “The mostly Republican group
includes Govs. Matt Bevin of Kentucky, Nathan Deal of Georgia, Phil Bryant
of Mississippi, Doug Burgum of North Dakota and John Bel Edwards, a
Louisiana Democrat,” as well as “Republican attorneys general Pam Bondi of
Florida and Ken Paxton of Texas.”

        *Trump Blames Epidemic Of Violence In Chicago On City’s “Bad
Leadership.” *The Chicago Sun-Times
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(8/9, Sweet) reports that “after a weekend of violence in Chicago,
President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed the city’s ‘bad leadership,’
taking indirect aim at Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who he did not mention by name.”
Trump “spoke during a meeting on prison reform at his Bedminster, New
Jersey, resort.” The Sun-Times adds that “throughout his presidency and
2016 campaign, Trump has slammed Chicago over its ongoing struggle with
violence, jabbing Emanuel, who was former President Barack Obama’s first
chief of staff.” Said Trump, “We must strengthen community bonds with law
enforcement, including cities like Chicago that have been an absolute and
total disaster. ... That’s bad stuff happening, and probably, I guess, you
have to take from the leadership. That’s called bad leadership. There’s no
reason, in a million years, that something like that should be happening in
Chicago.” Fox News
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(8/9, Richardson) notes Trump also said, “We’ll be talking about Chicago
today because that is something that – in terms of our nation – nobody
would believe it could be happening.”

        The Washington Times
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(8/9, Boyer) points out that “last weekend, about 70 people were hurt and
11 were killed in Chicago by gun violence. The victims ranged in age from
11 to 63; one teenager was shot while riding a bike.” The Times adds
“critics are accusing...Emanuel, who’s running for re-election, for
understaffing the police force and ignoring low-income neighborhoods.”
Puerto Rico Says More Than 1,400 Died In Hurricane Maria.

NBC Nightly News
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(8/9, story 3, 1:50, Holt) reported that while the official death toll from
Hurricane Maria is 64, the Puerto Rican government on Thursday “gave an
unofficial estimate, showing those dead in the months after Maria is more
than 20 times higher.” NBC (Gutierrez) added that Puerto Rico’s government
“acknowledg[ed] more than 1,400 people died, dramatically higher than” the
official count. The CBS Evening News
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(8/9, story 2, 2:30, Glor) reported the death toll announced by Puerto
Rican officials would make Maria “the deadliest hurricane in the US since
Katrina killed more than 1,800 in 2005.” ABC World News Tonight[image:
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(8/9, story 5, 0:20, Muir) also reported on Puerto Rico’s estimated death
toll.
Cancer Research
NHLBI Grants $4.7M To Cleveland Clinic For Cancer-Related Thrombosis
Research.

Crain’s Cleveland Business
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(8/8, Coutré) reports Cleveland Clinic researchers have received a
five-year, $4.7 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute to study “strategies to prevent cancer-associated thrombosis.”
The funding will support “the creation of a new risk assessment tool to
predict which patients will develop blood clots during cancer treatment.”
FDA Approves First Drug Under Competitive Generic Therapy Pathway.

Fierce Pharma
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(8/9, Sagonowsky) reports that the FDA has approved the first generic drug
under its “new pathway created to streamline approval for generics in drug
classes with little or no competition.” The FDA approved as a Competitive
Generic Therapy Apotex’s potassium chloride oral solution to treat to treat
hypokalemia. FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb said that “the Apotex approval
demonstrates that the FDA’s new regulatory pathway is ‘efficient and open
for business.’”
Cancer Groups Critical Of Step Therapy For Medicare Part B Drugs.

Medscape
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(8/9, Nelson) reports that “cancer groups have reacted negatively to an
announcement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) about
allowing Medicare Advantage plans to use a ‘step therapy’ approach to Part
B drugs.” This “policy is part of an effort to rein in prescription drug
costs.” Medscape adds, “The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
also said it ‘strongly objects’ to the plan, which it believes will delay
access to appropriate treatments.” In a statement, ASCO President Monica M.
Bertagnolli, MD, said, “The optimal care requires patient access to the
most medically appropriate drug at the most opportune time, based on the
highest quality evidence.” She added, “Step therapy requires patients to
try and fail to have a desired clinical outcome on a lower-cost medication
before they can access the medication prescribed by their healthcare
provider.”
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“Where There’s Fire, Trump Blows Smoke.”* The New York Times
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(8/8) says in an editorial that what is “alarming” about President Trump’s
“preposterous tweets about the California wildfires” is “what they say
about his stubborn refusal to grasp the basics of climate change and,
perhaps worse, his and his administration’s contempt for the science that
is drawing an ever-tighter link between a warming globe and extreme weather
events around the world.” the Times says Trump is in “full denial mode” and
“the very words “climate change” remain verboten throughout most of the
administration, having been replaced on agency websites by vaguer words
like ‘sustainability.’”
Washington Post.

*“Chris Collins Shouldn’t Have Ever Been In This Position.”* The Washington
Post
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(8/9) editorializes that “the House should forbid all of its members from
sitting on the boards of for-profit companies, and the Senate should
consider whether its own rules, which permit service on nonprofit boards,
need tightening.” The Post adds “the temptation for lawmakers to use
Congress’s sprawling oversight and legislative powers to advance private
interests is too great, and the appearance of impropriety practically
unavoidable.”

        *“Shoot-First-Think-Later Laws Aren’t Ever Good. Rethink ‘Stand
Your Ground.” *A Washington Post
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(8/9, Board) editorial criticizes “stand your ground” laws, “which are on
the books in 25 states,” Arguing that by “creating a more lax standard for
the use of lethal force, the laws excuse and perhaps incentivize reckless
violence.” The Post argues that while supporters say the laws make
communities safer, “mounting evidence suggests just the opposite.” The Post
calls on state legislatures to “reinstate the duty to retreat before more
people are endangered by laws that tell people to shoot first and think
later.”

        *“D.C. Is Beating HIV/AIDS. There’s No Excuse To Drop The Ball
Now.” *In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(8/9, Board) praises Washington D.C.’s success at lowering its HIV rate
after health officials “deployed a multipronged strategy against the
virus,” but adds that the Annual Epidemiology & Surveillance Report “from
the D.C. Department of Health raises concerns that these efforts may be
stalling.” The report “report identified several areas for improvement,”
which “are critical if the District is to have any hope of meeting its goal
to end the HIV epidemic by 2020.”

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