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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*Friday, August 24, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden Backs Carper In Contested Senate Primary. <#S1>

• In Op-Ed, Biden Honors Boswell As “Beacon Of What Politics Should Be.”
<#S2>

• New Hampshire 2020 Poll: Sanders Leads Democrats With 30%; Biden Second
With 17%. <#S3>

• Media Outlets Highlight Report On Biden Lauding McRaven After Rebuke Of
Trump. <#S4>

• Ex-Obama National Security Officials Reject Allegations In Memo By Trump
Aides. <#S5>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Amid Trump-Sessions Spat, Graham, Grassley Leave Door Open To Appointment
Of New AG. <#S6>

• Trump Says His Impeachment Would Decimate Stock Market. <#S7>

• Trump: “Flippers” Make Up “Lies,” Practice “Almost Ought To Be Outlawed.”
<#S8>

• Trump Doesn’t Rule Out Manafort Pardon. <#S9>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump South Africa Tweet Cast As Inaccurate, Draws Country’s Ire. <#S10>

• Bolton Meets With Russian Counterpart. <#S11>

• Iranian People Feeling Effects Of Sanctions. <#S12>

• Pompeo To Return To North Korea, Names Biegun As Special Representative.
<#S13>

• WSJournal A1: Iraq Facing Challenges In Mending Social Fabric After IS.
<#S14>

• Silver Star Recommended For Green Beret Team Leader Criticized In Niger
Ambush. <#S15>

• As Tariffs Are Implemented, US-China Talks End With “No Sign Of Progress.”
<#S16>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• EPA Estimates Less Economic Damage From Carbon Emissions Than Obama.
<#S17>

• Fox News Poll: ACA More Popular Than GOP Tax Cuts. <#S18>

• WPost, NYTimes: GOP Highlighting Illegal Immigration Through Tibbetts
Murder. <#S19>

• Report On Leaks From Starr’s Office Does Not Mention Kavanaugh. <#S20>

• McConnell: Senate Will Stay In Session Until 12 Judicial Nominees Are
Confirmed. <#S21>

• Reality Winner Receives Longest-Ever Sentence For Leaking To Media. <#S22>

• DNC: Attempted Hack Was False Alarm. <#S23>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• CDC Finds HPV-Related Cancers, HPV Vaccinations Both Growing. <#S24>

• Rural Cancer Patients Disproportionately Lack Access To Quality Care.
<#S25>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S26>

• Washington Post. <#S27>
Biden in the News
Biden Backs Carper In Contested Senate Primary.

In an online article, NBC News
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(8/23, Memoli) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden “is endorsing”
Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) “as he faces his toughest primary battle in decades,
a rare move by the former vice president to take sides in a primary in his
home state. Biden has agreed to record a robocall on behalf of Carper,” who
said in a statement, “If there’s someone who knows me and knows Delaware,
it’s Joe. Together we’ve served the First State and fought to improve the
lives of countless Delawareans. I’m grateful for his friendship and his
encouragement to keep standing up to Donald Trump and fighting for
Delaware’s families.” The endorsement “pits Biden against the ascendant
progressive wing of the Democratic Party, in his own backyard.” Carper is
being challenged by Air Force veteran Kerri Harris (D), “who is seeking to
marshal the same forces” that aided Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) “in her
upset” primary defeat of Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY).
In Op-Ed, Biden Honors Boswell As “Beacon Of What Politics Should Be.”

In a Des Moines (IA) Register
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(8/23) op-ed, former Vice President Joe Biden fondly recalls ex-Rep.
Leonard Boswell (D-IA), who died last week, writing that the former
Congressman “drew strength from the soil and the soul of his state, and
those simple, American values he lived on his farm in Lamoni were reflected
in everything he did in Washington.” Biden writes that Boswell, “in his
dealings with colleagues of either party, was a beacon of what politics
should be – of what service to others can render and what we are capable of
achieving by working together. Leonard never sought to villainize those who
opposed him. We need that reminder today more than ever.”
New Hampshire 2020 Poll: Sanders Leads Democrats With 30%; Biden Second
With 17%.

In an online article, WMUR-TV
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Manchester, NH (8/23, DiStaso) reported that a University of New Hampshire
Survey Center poll of 198 New Hampshire likely 2020 Democratic presidential
primary voters, taken Aug. 2-19, shows Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) leading a
hypothetical field of Democratic White House hopefuls with 30%, followed by
former Vice President Joe Biden at 19%, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) at
17%, and a raft of other Democrats lagging further behind in the single
digits. WMUR-TV added, “Among likely Republican primary voters, 56 percent
chose Trump, while 20 percent said they planned to vote for another
candidate and 24 percent were unsure.”
Media Outlets Highlight Report On Biden Lauding McRaven After Rebuke Of
Trump.

Several media outlets highlighted a Thursday morning report
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from Axios’ Mike Allen – which was covered in yesterday’s briefing – who
said that former Vice President Joe Biden recently praised retired Adm.
William McRaven after he challenged President Trump to revoke his security
clearance. For example, citing Allen’s report, the Washington Examiner
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(8/23, Correll) said that Biden “lauded” McRaven “after he claimed it would
be an ‘honor’ for...Trump to revoke his security clearance as was done to
former CIA Director John Brennan last week.” Biden “called McRaven on
Sunday to say how ‘proud’ he was of him,” according to Allen’s report. The
Hill
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(8/23, Folley), drawing from Allen’s story, offered a similar report.
Ex-Obama National Security Officials Reject Allegations In Memo By Trump
Aides.

The New Yorker
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(8/23, Entous; Farrow) reported that in early 2017, some of President
Trump’s advisers circulated within the NSC and other parts of the White
House a memo alleging that the “communications infrastructure” the Obama
White House used to “sell Obamacare and the Iran Deal to the public” had
been moved to the private sector. “These are the Obama loyalists who are
probably among those coordinating the daily/weekly battle rhythm,” the memo
said, adding they likely operated a “virtual war room.” The operation, the
memo claimed, was to “to undermine President Trump’s foreign policy”
through organized attacks in the press against Trump and his advisers.
According to The New Yorker, “Some of the same conspiracy theories
expressed in the memo appear in internal documents from an Israeli
private-intelligence firm that mounted a covert effort to collect damaging
information about” Obama officials “who had advocated for the Iran deal.”

        Newsmax
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(8/23) reported that the memo claims former Deputy National Security
Adviser Ben Rhodes was “likely the brain behind this operation,” while
Colin Kahl, a former National Security Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden,
was its “likely ops chief.” Rhodes and Kahl “both said in interviews the
allegations are false and no such organization exists.” Ned Price, who had
been a spokesman for the NSC under Obama, tweeted that the memo “chilling”
because “it’s written as if it were a study of an overseas terrorist cell
targeted by the US govt.”

        The Hill
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(8/23, Bowden) reported, “Other former members of the Obama administration
who were named as possible members of the alleged group attacked the report
publicly on Twitter, describing it as a sinister and paranoid conspiracy
theory. ‘Wow @jonfavs @TVietor08 @danpfeiffer: who knew that building one
of the fastest growing media companies in America was just an elaborate
cover for a conspiracy to undermine Trump’s foreign policy?’ wrote Ronald
Klain, Biden’s former chief of staff who helmed the Obama administration’s
response to the Ebola crisis in 2014.”
Leading the News
Amid Trump-Sessions Spat, Graham, Grassley Leave Door Open To Appointment
Of New AG.

Media reports this morning highlight the prediction by Sen. Lindsey Graham
(R-SC) that President Trump will fire Attorney General Sessions after the
midterm elections. To a lesser degree, coverage also reports on Senate
Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley’s assurance that his committee would
make time for hearings for an eventual nominee. Reuters
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(8/23, Chiacu) describes Graham as both “close to Trump” and “a fierce
defender of...Sessions against criticism from the president,” while Townhall
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(8/23, Pavlich) notes he said “it’s only a matter of time before Sessions
loses his job” and the Daily Caller
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(8/23, Enjeti) that he “predicted that...Trump will fire” him. Politico
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(8/23, Morin) reports “the comments from Graham...amount to something of a
turf war in the Senate,” as “Grassley has the option of becoming Finance
Chairman after the election, which would put Graham in charge of Judiciary
– and any confirmation of Sessions’ replacement.”

        To Bloomberg News
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(8/23, Dennis), the two “key Republican senators signaled to...Trump that
he could replace...Sessions after the midterm elections in November, a move
that would open the way for firing Robert Mueller or constraining his probe
into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.” Said Bloomberg News, “The
president’s entitled to an attorney general he has faith in...and I think
there will come a time, sooner rather than later, where it will be time to
have a new face and a fresh voice at the Department of Justice.” Grassley,
meanwhile, “changed his position on Thursday, saying in an interview that
he’d be able to make time for hearings for a new attorney general after
saying in the past that the panel was too busy to tackle that explosive
possibility.”

        The CBS Evening News
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(8/23, story 3, 2:05, Jiang) reported “Trump often criticizes Sessions as
‘weak’ and ‘beleaguered’, but has stopped short of saying he plans to fire
Sessions.” NBC Nightly News
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(8/23, story 2, 2:20, Welker) indicated that “many Republicans on Capitol
Hill” are “warning the President.” Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) was shown saying,
“It would be a very, very, very bad idea to fire the Attorney General
because he’s not executing his job as a political hack.” NBC added that
“even so, some of the Senate’s leading Republicans who once stood firmly
behind Sessions are signaling a willingness to consider a successor, but
not until after the midterms.” Under the headline “Senate Wall Of Support
For Sessions Splinters,” Politico
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(8/23, Johnson, Everett) reports that Sen. John Thune (R-SD) said in an
interview, “Do we really want to go through that kind of confirmation
fight? Is there anybody we can confirm? Our conference supports Jeff.”
However, “by day’s end, some senators said the writing was on the wall.”

        The Washington Post
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(8/23, Kim) also points out that “other senior Republicans strongly
cautioned that Trump would have a hard time winning Senate confirmation for
another nominee.” The Washington Examiner
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(8/23, Ferrechio) quotes Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) as saying, “I don’t see
the President being able to get someone else confirmed as attorney general
were he to fire...Sessions.” Senate Majority Whip Cornyn, meanwhile, “said
outright that Trump should not oust Sessions.” Said Cornyn, “I think it
would be bad for the country, it would be bad for the President, it would
be bad for the Department of Justice.” The Washington Examiner
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(8/23, Cohen) reports Trump declined in his “Fox News interview to say if
he would fire Sessions or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who
oversees Mueller.” The Washington Times
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(8/23, Boyer, Mordock) notes that “asked if he might fire Mr. Sessions
after the mid-term elections,” Trump “didn’t answer directly,” saying[image:
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“There’s such corruption. ... It’s from before I got here. It’s the Obama
administration. They surveilled my campaign.”

        The reporting paints the picture of a frustrated Trump lashing out
at Sessions after finding himself under increasing legal pressure stemming
from Michael Cohen’s plea deal. USA Today
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(8/23, Johnson, Hayes) refers to “a blistering critique” and to
“threatening criticism” from Trump that follows “months of withering
attacks,” and the AP
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(8/23, Miller, Lucey, Lemire) refers to a “newly incensed” Trump, who is
quoted as telling Fox News’ Fox & Friends, “You know the only reason I gave
him the job? Because I felt loyalty, he was an original supporter.” The New
York Post
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(8/23, Moore) says Trump “continued to air his frustration with...Sessions”
and “reiterated that had he known” his AG “was going to recuse himself, he
wouldn’t have appointed him attorney general.” Said[image: Image removed by
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the President, “It’s a very, very sad day. Jeff Sessions recused himself,
which he shouldn’t have done or he should have told me.” In a separate
report, the New York Post
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(8/23, Moore) quotes Trump as saying, “He took my job, and then he said,
‘I’m going to recuse myself.’ I said, ‘What kind of man is this?’”

        The Washington Times
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(8/23, Boyer, Mordock) notes Trump accused Sessions of allowing DOJ “to
undermine his administration,” saying, “I put in an attorney general that
never took control of the Justice Department, Jeff Sessions. ... It’s sort
of an incredible thing.” The Times adds that Trump, among other things,
“pointed to the several examples of misapplied justice, including the case
of Imran Awan,” the former IT administrator for Rep. Debbie Wasserman
Schultz (D-FL), “who received no jail time from a judge this week for bank
fraud after federal prosecutors didn’t pursue more serious charges of
running a spy ring inside Congress and stealing congressional computer
equipment.” To Reuters
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(8/23, Chiacu), Trump “reprised a litany of complaints about the Justice
Department and the FBI, attacking both without providing evidence they had
treated him and his supporters unfairly.” Reuters says that “drew a sharp
rebuttal from” the Attorney General, and Politico
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(8/23, Morin) says that Sessions “took the unusual step of appearing to
publicly push back against...Trump.”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(8/23, story 2, 2:05, Moran) said “Trump finally went too far
for...Sessions,” the “long-suffering loyalist”; the Daily Caller
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(8/23, Enjeti) reports that Sessions issued his statement after “Trump
trashed him”; and the Washington Post
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(8/23, Kim) that he “pushed back forcefully” in an “extraordinary
statement.” The New York Times
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(8/23, Sullivan) quotes Sessions as saying, “While I am attorney general,
the actions of the Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced
by political considerations.” The Hill
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(8/23, Chalfant) terms Sessions’ words “one of his toughest statements
following criticism from...Trump,” and the Wall Street Journal
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(8/23, Nicholas, Gurman), among other news outlets, runs a similar analysis
this morning.

        Sean Hannity said on Fox News’ Hannity[image: Image removed by
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(8/23), “Less than one month after being sworn in,” Sessions “abandoned his
post, completely recused himself from all things Russia and Hillary. This
has been a tremendous disservice to the President and the country that he
serves. Knowing he would do this, he did have an obligation to tell the
President of the United States. Now here we are, a year and a half later.
Look at what the Russia investigation has become.”

        *In Tweets Today, Trump Mocks Sessions, Urges Him To Probe
“Corruption On The ‘Other Side’.” *Trump tweeted
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this morning, ““Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by
political considerations.” Jeff, this is GREAT, what everyone wants, so
look into all of the corruption on the ‘other side’ including deleted
Emails, Comey lies & leaks, Mueller conflicts, McCabe, Strzok, Page,
Ohr......[continuing tweet
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abuse, Christopher Steele & his phony and corrupt Dossier, the Clinton
Foundation, illegal surveillance of Trump Campaign, Russian collusion by
Dems – and so much more. Open up the papers & documents without redaction?
Come on Jeff, you can do it, the country is waiting!”
Trump Says His Impeachment Would Decimate Stock Market.

Some media analyses point to President Trump’s hypothetical comments about
impeachment in an interview with Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” as giving
credence to that possibility. CBS This Morning[image: Image removed by
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(8/23), for example, reported on Trump’s comments with a banner reading “IF
I EVER GOT IMPEACHED” running beneath Norah O’Donnell, and after a report
on Trump’s comments about Michael Cohen’s plea deal and its potential
effect, a smiling Bianna Golodryga said, “It is fascinating to hear the
President even talking about the possibility of impeachment. ... How far
we’ve come.” At the opening of ABC’s Good Morning America[image: Image
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(8/23), George Stephanopoulos said Trump’s comments in the Fox News
interview “are going to charge up this impeachment debate as we head into
the midterms.”

        Asked on MSNBC’s Morning Joe
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(8/23) whether he would advise Democratic candidates to discuss impeachment
on the campaign trail, Senate Minority Whip Durbin replied, “Absolutely
not. Absolutely not. Let me tell you, I don’t think we should not be
testing the waters one way or the other at this point. ... What both
parties can do to serve the cause of justice is to make sure that Bob
Mueller completes his investigation. If at the end of the investigation he
says there’s no culpability on the part of the President, so be it.
However, if he reaches an opposite conclusion, we have to take it to the
next step.”

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(8/23), the Washington Times’ Charles Hurt was asked by Brian Kilmeade
about the likelihood that Democrats will try to impeach Trump. Hurt said,
“I think they are very serious about it...and you have a lot of people in
the party who really do want to see this happen, but I think the truth of
the matter is it’s a good political tactic for them. It’s a good way to gin
up their base. A lot of people in their base get excited by this.” However,
Hurt added that the impeachment talk “turns independents off.”

        The Washington Times
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(8/23, McLaughlin) reports “liberal activists are increasingly agitating
for...Trump to be impeached after this week’s successful prosecutions of
his personal lawyer and former campaign chairman, putting Democratic
leaders in a tough spot.” The Times adds “Tom Steyer’s ‘Need to Impeach’
campaign announced a new round of ads, and Hollywood types took to Twitter
to wonder why the latest developments...aren’t enough evidence for leaders
to get on the impeachment train.” Another Washington Times
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(8/23, Muñoz) story reports that during his interview with Fox News’ Fox &
Friends
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(8/23, Singman), Trump said “that the economy would be worse off if he
wasn’t in office.” Said Trump, “If I ever got impeached, I think the market
would crash. ... I think everybody would be very poor.” At any rate, “Trump
brushed off concerns about impeachment proceedings,” saying, “I don’t know
how you can impeach somebody who’s done a great job.”

        Politico
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(8/23, Murray) says Trump “sat for the interview as impeachment talk
swirled around him in the wake of two nearly simultaneous legal punches:
former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s conviction on eight charges
brought by special counsel Robert Mueller and a guilty plea by former Trump
attorney Michael Cohen, who told a Manhattan federal court that he broke
campaign-finance laws ‘in coordination and at the direction of a candidate
for federal office.’”

        Several media analyses took issue with Trump’s prediction about the
markets. In a story titled “No, Impeachment Will Not Crash The Stock
Market,” for example, Politico
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(8/23, White) says “Wall Street pros often talk about a potential relief
rally if Trump departs the White House early.” USA Today
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(8/23, Shell) also reports “Wall Street begs to differ” with Trump’s
assessment, “arguing that the forces driving the nearly $30 trillion U.S.
stock market are far bigger and stronger than the influence of one person,
even one as powerful as the nation’s commander-in-chief.” Under the
headline “Trump’s Impeachment Will Cause A Market Crash? Don’t Bet On It,”
The Washington Examiner
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(8/23, Langford) reports that “it’s true that his forced exit would
probably cause short-term swings in both the broad S&P 500 and the
blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average, which have climbed 34 percent and
40 percent, respectively, since Trump’s November 2016 election,” but “those
would probably even out with Vice President Mike Pence in the Oval Office,”
particularly “if Republicans maintained control of Congress.” In fact,
“history shows Wall Street weathering impeachment proceedings against two
of Trump’s predecessors in the past 50 years, Richard Nixon and Bill
Clinton.”

        Bloomberg News
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(8/23, Wang, Ponczek) reports that one must “acknowledge that stocks have
enjoyed unusually strong gains since Election Day,” and that “changes in
earnings forecasts under Trump have been stark, compared with history.”
Kristina Hooper, chief global market strategist at Invesco Ltd., told
Bloomberg News, “First of all, it is very unlikely that...Trump would be
impeached. If an impeachment did happen, we’d experience volatility and
perhaps a significant sell-off, but I believe any such market moves would
be short-term in nature.” Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda Corp.
in London, said “The markets have largely rallied on tax reform and we’ve
seen that reflected in company earnings. But if there’s political
instability and the US economic growth slowed significantly, that would
have global implications.” Greg Valliere, chief global strategist at
Horizon Investments LLC, pointed out that “while the House might indict
Trump, Senate conviction still looks unlikely, unless there’s a major
change in the second point.”

        Bloomberg News
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(8/23, Dopp, Sink) also says “Trump’s remarks built on his history of
defying presidential traditions by commenting extensively on the stock
market.” Bloomberg adds “US equities are in the middle of the longest bull
market ever, buoyed in part by his tax cut but predating him by years and
undergirded by corporate earnings and low interest rates.”

        *In Tweet Today, Trump Says Economy “Setting Records On Virtually
Every Front.” *Trump tweeted
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this morning, “Our Economy is setting records on virtually every front –
Probably the best our country has ever done. Tremendous value created since
the Election. The World is respecting us again! Companies are moving back
to the U.S.A.”

        *Cavuto: “Tax Cuts And Soaring Markets” Do Not Justify Trump’s
Behavior. *The Week
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(8/24) reports, “Fox News host Neil Cavuto once again asked Trump on
Thursday evening to stop saying things that are patently untrue. He listed
about a dozen of them, then explained why the favorite White House
counterpoint is a flawed one.” He continued, “I like tax cuts and soaring
markets as much as anybody, but what good is it to fatten your wallet if
you’ve lost your soul? If you forget your friends and you embolden your
enemies? ... You are so darned focused on promoting a financial boom that
you’ve failed to see that you are the one creating this moral bust.”

        *Giuliani: Americans Would “Revolt” If Trump Were Impeached.
*The Washington
Examiner
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(8/23, Lim) reports, “Rudy Giuliani believes Americans would ‘revolt’
if...Trump were impeached.” Giuliani told Sky News, “I think impeachment
would be totally horrible. ... I mean, there’s no reason. He didn’t collude
with the Russians, he didn’t obstruct justice, everything Cohen says has
been disproved. You’d only impeach him for political reasons and the
American people would revolt against that.”

        *USA Today: Anxiety Among “Many” Trump “Aides And People Close To
The White House.” *USA Today
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(8/23, Jackson) reports that “in interviews with a half-dozen Trump aides
and people close to the White House, many described rising concerns about
federal inquiries underway.” USA Today adds that “one official” said, “I
think people are genuinely shaken. ... They’re still trying to digest it –
process it.” Meanwhile, “some aides predicted that Trump will be
increasingly aggressive as the investigations roll on into the fall, along
with high-stakes political campaigns for control of Congress.”

        *Conway: “Where Exactly Is This Fictitious Russian Collusion?” *In
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(8/23) – during which host Chris Cuomo and Kellyanne Conway talked over and
interrupted one another throughout – Conway said, “The President has said
that he has not lied and the President has said that no charges were filed
against him in either the Manafort or the Cohen matters, as you know. And
that’s important here. The other thing that’s really important to note,
especially for the CNN viewers, is that despite a year and a half of
searching high and low, where exactly is this fictitious Russian
collusion?”

        *Fox News Poll: Approval Of Mueller Probe At 59%. *The Washington
Times
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(8/23, Muñoz) reports “a majority of voters approve of Robert Mueller’s
probe into obstruction of justice and potential ties between Trump campaign
and Russian actors, according to a Fox News poll released Wednesday
evening.” The Times adds that “according to the new data, 59 percent of
registered voters approved of the special counsel’s investigation in
August. That number jumped up 11 points from the same poll in July.” There
was also “a slight increase in voters who said they believed the Russia
probe will find Mr. Trump guilty of impeachable crimes. In August a 40
percent plurality saw a guilty conclusion was either extremely or very
likely, while 36 percent gave the same answer a month prior.” At the
opening of MSNBC’s Morning Joe
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(8/23), Mika Brzezinski pointed to the new Fox News poll and said, “How
stupid are Republicans, at this point, to still stand by this President? To
stand by all of this and say nothing?”

        *GOP Urges “Most Imperiled Incumbents” To “Speak Out On Trump.” *Under
the headline “Republicans Urge Embattled Incumbents To Speak Out On Trump,”
the New York Times
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(8/23, Martin, Fandos) reports “senior Republican Party leaders began
urging their most imperiled incumbents on Wednesday to speak out about the
wrongdoing surrounding” Trump, with Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) “warning, ‘Where
there’s smoke, and there’s a lot of smoke, there may well be fire.’” The
Times adds that “by urging some candidates to speak out or at least stay
silent, Republican leaders...risked opening the first significant rift
between the Trump White House and the Republican-controlled Capitol.”

        David Ignatius writes in the Washington Post
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(8/23) that “many Americans will probably remember how they heard the news
Tuesday that 12 of our fellow citizens had voted to convict Trump’s former
campaign chairman...and that Trump’s former personal lawyer...had pleaded
guilty to eight counts of his own.” Now “it seems more likely that America
is heading toward a gradual recovery from the trauma of the Trump
presidency,” and “for Republicans, there is a last chance over these next
two months to finally show some guts and principle by separating themselves
from Trump.”

        *Trump Tower Meeting Translator Had Interpreted For Clinton, Kerry,
Obama. *Breitbart
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(8/23, Klein) reports “Anatoli Samochornov, a Russian translator who was
present at the infamous June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with campaign
officials, testified that he was previously an interpreter for Hillary
Clinton, John Kerry and Barack Obama.” Samochornov also “said that he held
a ‘public trust’ clearance from the US government,” which “provides a level
of screening for individuals who do government work described as sensitive,
but whose positions do not require a security clearance.” A Breitbart
report previously “noted” last year that “Samochornov’s LinkedIn profile
further describes his work on behalf of the State Department.”

        *Coulter: Russia Probe “Crackpot Idea” Came From Mind That Conjured
Up “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.” *In a column published by the Daily Caller
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(8/23) titled “The Pantsuit That Cried Wolf,” Ann Coulter writes, “If
you’ve ever wondered how Russia became America’s most fearsome enemy, long
after that country gave up communism, gulags, forced starvations and mass
murder (all of which liberals were cool with), the answer is: This crackpot
idea came from the same woman who blamed a ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’ for
Monica Lewinsky.” It is “classic Hillary,” and “the entire Russian
collusion gag was invented to assuage the potty pantsuit’s embarrassment at
having lost a second election that was fixed for her to win.”
Trump: “Flippers” Make Up “Lies,” Practice “Almost Ought To Be Outlawed.”

Politico
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(8/23, Murray) reports that in his interview which aired yesterday on Fox
News’ Fox & Friends
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(8/23), President Trump said that “cutting a deal with prosecutors by
offering information on a former boss or superior ‘almost ought to be
illegal.’” Said Trump, “This whole thing about flipping, they call it, I
know all about flipping. Thirty, 40 years, I have been watching flippers.
Everything is wonderful and then they get 10 years in jail and they flip on
whoever the next highest one is, or as high as you can go. It almost ought
to be outlawed. ... It’s not fair.” The Hill
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(8/23, Samuels) notes “Trump suggested that individuals who flip aren’t
being truthful,” saying that “they ‘make up stories’ and ‘just make up
lies.’” Added Trump, “They make up things and now they go from 10 years to
they’re a national hero.” Anderson Cooper said on CNN’s Anderson
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(8/23), “Somewhere former mob boss, John Gotti, rotting in his grave, must
be smiling because the President of the United States is now on record
attacking a former close associate for cooperating with law enforcement and
praising a convicted felon for staying silent, perhaps even thinking about
rewarding that silence him with a pardon.”

        Along similar lines, the New York Times
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(8/23, Landler) reports that “for much of the 1980s and 1990s, ‘the Dapper
Don’ and ‘the Donald’ vied for supremacy on the front pages of New York’s
tabloids,” but Gotti “died in a federal prison...while...Trump went on to
be president of the United States.” But Trump, who “faces his own
mushrooming legal troubles,” has taken” to using a vocabulary that sounds
uncannily like that of Mr. Gotti and his fellow mobsters in the waning days
of organized crime, when ambitious prosecutors like Rudolph W. Giuliani
tried to turn witnesses against their bosses to win racketeering
convictions.”

        *Vanity Fair: National Enquirer Publisher Given Immunity By
Prosecutors. *Writing in Vanity Fair
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(8/23), Gabriel Sherman reports, “Trump’s most powerful media ally next to
Fox News has broken with him.” Citing “two sources briefed on the Cohen
investigation,” prosecutors “granted immunity to David Pecker, chairman of
The National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc., and A.M.I.’s chief
content officer, Dylan Howard, so they would describe Trump’s involvement
in Cohen’s payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen
McDougal during the 2016 campaign.” Vanity Fair adds that “Pecker’s
apparent decision to corroborate Cohen’s account, and implicate Trump in a
federal crime, is another vivid example of how isolated Trump is becoming
as the walls close in and his former friends look for ways out.” A “Trump
friend” is quoted as saying, “Holy s[**]t, I thought Pecker would be the
last one to turn.” The AP
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(8/23) notes “court papers connected to...Cohen’s guilty plea Tuesday say
Pecker offered to help Trump squash negative stories during the 2016
campaign.”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(8/23, lead story, 3:35, Llamas) reported that “one of his closest
long-time friends” is “turning on the President,” and added that “a source
tell[s] ABC News he helped prosecutors investigating Cohen and hush money
payments for two women during the campaign.” Reporting on the Pecker story, NBC
Nightly News
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(8/23, lead story, 3:20, Jackson) noted that the AP
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(8/23, Horwitz), “citing people familiar with the arrangement, is reporting
on the existence of a safe that was used to keep documents related to hush
money payments and damaging stories it killed as part of the cozy
relationship with...Trump.” The CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by
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(8/23, story 4, 0:45, Glor) also noted the AP story. The story was first
broken Wednesday night by the Wall Street Journal
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(8/23, Hong, Alpert), and the New York Times
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(8/23, Rutenberg, Ruiz) reports “the agreement adds another unusual aspect
to a case never seen before in the annals of presidential campaign finance
history.” It “means that a company that operates as a news organization is
cooperating with federal authorities on an investigation that involves its
work with a campaign.” The Washington Times
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(8/23, Miller) and New York Post
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(8/23, Fredericks), among other news outlets, also report the story.

        *Media Analyses Weigh In On Trump Claim That Cohen Campaign
Violations Are Not Crimes. *In his interview on Fox News’ Fox & Friends
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(8/23, Singman), Trump was shown saying, “You can say something bad about
Donald Trump, and you’ll go down to two years or three years, which is the
deal [Cohen] made. In all fairness to him, most people are going to do that
and I’ve seen it many times. ... And, by the way, he pled to two counts
that aren’t a crime, which nobody understands. ... Those two counts aren’t
even a crime.” USA Today
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(8/23, Schouten) reports that both “on television and on Twitter,” Trump
argued that “the two campaign-finance crimes his former lawyer Michael
Cohen admitted to aren’t actually crimes,” though “campaign-finance experts
say his arguments don’t make much sense.” These “experts” say “Trump would
be better off arguing the payments were not related to the campaign at
all,” a “defense that worked for another politician, former Democratic
presidential contender John Edwards, who was put on trial for $1 million in
secret payments his campaign donors made to hide his pregnant mistress from
view ahead of the 2008 election.”

        Neal Katyal, an acting solicitor general in the Obama
Administration, writes in a New York Times
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(8/23) op-ed that “when two or more people join together to break the law,
as...Cohen says he and the president did, the penalties can be harsh.”
Trump “needs a new defense” after “claiming that what he did wasn’t a crime
and so it can’t be prosecuted. That argument has no basis, either, and is
inconsistent with centuries of Anglo-American law.” On the other hand, Dan
Backer, founding attorney of political.law, writes in a USA Today
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(8/23) op-ed that “at the very worst, even if re-characterized to be
campaign-related, the ‘violation’ amounts to underreporting relatively
insignificant contributions from a candidate to his own campaign.” Yet “the
liberal mob never misses an opportunity to undermine the Trump presidency,
lobbying for an endless investigation into President Trump. All this after
the Mueller investigation has already cost roughly $20 million – and no
Russian collusion found.”

        *Avenatti Says He’s Been Retained By Three Other Women Regarding
“Hush Payments.” *Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti said on CNN’s
Situation Room
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(8/23), “We have been retained and accepted the retention on behalf of
three other women relating to other hush payments. I made that known a
number of weeks ago. Unfortunately, I don’t have client approval yet to
come forward with details relating to their circumstances, their situation.
But, I know for a fact there are multiple women beyond Miss McDougal and my
client.”
Trump Doesn’t Rule Out Manafort Pardon.

Politico
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(8/23, Murray) reports President Trump “refused to rule out pardoning his
former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort.” During yesterday’s “Fox &
Friends” interview, Trump “praised Manafort for going through with a trial
rather than taking a plea deal that could potentially have involved him
turning against Trump.” Said
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Trump, “One of the reasons I respect Paul Manafort so much is he went
through that trial. You know, they make up stories. People make up
stories.” Politico adds that “asked directly whether he would grant a
pardon to his former campaign chairman, the president did not deny the
possibility,” but “said he has ‘great respect’ for the legal morass
Manafort has been through.” Added
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Trump, “I would say what he did, some of the charges they threw against
him, every consultant, every lobbyist in Washington probably does.”

        After playing a lengthy clip of her interview with Trump on Fox
News’ Fox & Friends
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(8/23), Ainsley Earhardt said Trump “never said he was going to pardon
Manafort, but it sounded like, to me, that he might be considering it. He
didn’t say ‘yes,’ but he didn’t say ‘no.’” Steve Doocy added, “He sounded
like he was sympathetic toward Paul Manafort.” Later[image: Image removed
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(8/23), Brian Kilmeade said, “The problem with Paul Manafort is those
charges are real and have nothing to do with Trump. He’d be pardoned for
something that...there is overwhelming evidence that he did, especially the
next trial coming up, so that’s pretty much the issue. ... That might be
where the rubber hits the road For Republicans. You don’t want to alienate
Republicans.” NBC Nightly News
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(8/23, lead story, 3:20, Jackson) reported that “given Manafort has another
trial next month, could the President’s refusal to rule out a pardon amount
to witness tampering?” NBC contributor Chuck Rosenberg was shown saying,
“That is at least evidence of witness tampering. It may not be the crime of
witness tampering. Buying a ski mask isn’t a crime, but if I use it in a
crime, it’s evidence of the crime.”

        The Washington Post
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(8/23, Dawsey) reports, meanwhile, that Rudy Giuliani said in an interview
that “Trump asked his lawyers several weeks ago for their advice on the
possibility of pardoning...Manafort and other aides accused of crimes.” His
lawyers “counseled the president against the idea of pardoning anyone
linked to the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016
election, according to Giuliani, saying Trump should at least wait until
special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has concluded his probe.” Giuliani
“said the president agreed and did not push the issue further.” Giuliani is
quoted as saying, “He said yes. ... He agreed with us.” Jim Acosta
said on CNN’s
Situation Room
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(8/23), “It seems the White House was caught in another false statement
after...[White House Press Secretary Sarah] Sanders told reporters there
hadn’t been any discussions pardoning...Manafort. Now the Washington Post
is reporting yes, the President did bring it up with his legal team.”
Politico
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(8/23, Cheney) similarly points out that “the acknowledgment that Trump
seriously explored such a move contradicts...Sanders’ assertion on
Wednesday that a pardon for Manafort was ‘not something that has been up
for discussion.’”

        *Lone Manafort Jury Holdout Is Trump Supporter. *Other news
stories, meanwhile, point out one Manafort juror was the lone holdout
against conviction on all counts. The Washington Post
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(8/23, Zapotosky) reports “all but one of the jurors wanted to
convict...Trump’s former campaign chairman on every charge he faced –
though she criticized special counsel prosecutors as seeming ‘bored’
throughout the trial and said she believed their true motive was to ‘get
the dirt on Trump.’” The New York Times
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(8/23, Haag, Lafraniere) notes that “that juror, Paula Duncan, who
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on Fox News that even though she believed the prosecutors had targeted Mr.
Manafort in hopes of gaining information against Mr. Trump, the evidence
against him ‘was overwhelming.’” Politico
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(8/23, Gerstein), the AP
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(8/23, Tucker, Day), Reuters
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(8/23, Layne), USA Today
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(8/23, Johnson, Heath) and Wall Street Journal
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(8/23, Viswanatha), among other news outlets, also report the story.
Foreign Policy
Trump South Africa Tweet Cast As Inaccurate, Draws Country’s Ire.

Under the headline “Trump Speaks Out About Africa Again, And Many Cringe,”
the AP
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(8/23, Anna) reports President Trump tweeted Wednesday night that he has
asked Secretary of State Pompeo “to ‘closely study’ alleged land seizures
from white farmers in South Africa.” In response, “many South Africans were
stunned.” According to the AP, “Trump rarely turns his attention to Africa
– the tweet was his first since he became president to mention the
continent by name – but when he does it often backfires.” Meanwhile, some
observers suggests “Trump is using his latest Africa comments to try to
deflect attention from his sprawling legal troubles at home.” The Los
Angeles Times
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(8/23, Pearce) reports Trump “embraced a longtime white-nationalist talking
point” and “drew applause from white nationalists in the U.S.” Meanwhile,
the Anti-Defamation League said in a statement on Twitter, “This is a white
supremacist talking point.” South Africa’s land distribution issue “has
been closely followed in the U.S. by white nationalists and far-right
figures, who have hyped stories of black-on-white violence in South Africa,
as they often do in the U.S., to help push their political messages about
the need for white power.”

        Under the headline “Trump Cites False Claims Of Widespread Attacks
On White Farmers In South Africa,” the New York Times
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(8/23, De Greef, Karasz) reports Trump’s tweet “gives prominence to a false
narrative pushed by some right-wing groups in South Africa that there have
been numerous seizures of white-owned land and widespread killings of white
farmers.” Such claims are “disputed by official figures and the country’s
biggest farmer’s group.” As South Africa continues to struggle “with the
effects of apartheid and widespread economic inequality...Mr. Trump’s tweet
was likely to inflame the divisive landownership debate.” South African
Minister of International Relations Lindiwe Sisulu “described the tweet as
‘regrettable’ and ‘based on false information.’” The country’s government
argues that “expropriating farms is necessary to deal with longstanding
inequities and that only unused land would be subject to seizure,
suggesting that land that is being actively farmed would be safe.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(8/23, Steinhauser) reports that South Africa’s government pushed back
against Trump’s tweet with its own, writing, “South Africa totally rejects
this narrow perception which only seeks to divide our nation and reminds us
of our colonial past.” Reuters
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=06a-181&t=c>
(8/23) reports South Africa’s presidency “summoned U.S. charge d’affaires
Jessye Lapenn to protest” Trump’s tweet. USA Today
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=06b-a02&t=c>
(8/23, Shesgreen) reports, “The South African government on Thursday
slammed President Donald Trump’s tweet.”

        In an analysis, the Washington Post
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(8/23, Nakamura, Hudson, Stanley-Becker) reports Trump’s tweet “prompted
fierce backlash” in South Africa “and fresh criticism in the United States
that he is compromising American foreign policy to stoke his far-right
political base.” Patrick Gaspard, who served as US ambassador to South
Africa under President Obama, said Trump “uses the occasion to lift a
white-supremacist meme from the darkest place he can find.” Sens.
Christopher Coons (D-DE) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said in a joint statement,
“President Trump’s unfortunate tweet in response to a Fox News broadcast
should not distract the United States from improving relations with South
Africa.” Meanwhile, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert “confirmed
that Trump and Pompeo discussed South Africa and added that Pompeo promised
the president he would review the matter of land being taken from white
farmers.”

        In a “Fact Check” analysis, the AP
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(8/23, Meldrum) reports that while in South Africa “the killings of farmers
have been taking place for more than 20 years and are widely seen as part
of South Africa’s high crime rate, experts say white farmers have not been
the target” and there are no “signs of widespread killings.” Additionally,
“no land seizures have taken place in South Africa,” but President Cyril
Ramaphosa and his party state they plan “to expropriate land without
compensation.” CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=06e-f96&t=c>
(8/23) reported that “there’s not large-scale killing of farmers. Research
from one of South Africa’s largest farmer organizations shows it’s reached
a 20-year low.” The South African government is “hitting back against the
President,” tweeting, “South Africa totally rejects this narrow perception
which only seeks to divide our nation and reminds us of our colonial past.”

        In an editorial, the New York Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=06f-a57&t=c>
(8/23) criticizes Trump for repeating “the false narratives of right-wing
white South African groups claiming widespread seizures of white-owned land
and a continuing ‘white genocide.’” While the Times questions the wisdom of
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s proposed method to address his
country’s gross inequality, it blasts Trump’s “clueless grasp at a racially
tinged political diversion” that was “bereft of any context, sympathy or
understanding.” The Times casts the move as part of a “familiar tactic of
deflecting attention from yet another scandal by issuing some outrageous
tweet, to come down hard on the wrong side of an issue he knows nothing
about, based on no more than a slanted Fox News program.”
Bolton Meets With Russian Counterpart.

The Washington Post
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(8/23, Deyoung) reports that following a meeting with his Russian
counterpart, National Security Adviser Bolton said that the Administration
is “very, very early in the process of considering” what it plans to do
about the New Start agreement, “the main existing arms control treaty
between the United States and Russia,” which expires in 2021. Bolton listed
possibilities including extending the agreement, renegotiating it, or
returning to 2002 Moscow Treaty which New Start replaced. Bolton said, “All
of these are things the United States is going to consider.” Bolton said he
and Putin adviser Nikolai Patrushev made “a lot of progress” in discussing
“how to restore in certain respects diplomatic and other exchanges and ways
in which we could cooperate and expand our common efforts” but did not
provide details.

        *Bolton Says He Warned Russian Counterpart Against Meddling In US
Elections. *Reuters
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=071-40c&t=c>
(8/23, Nebehay, Dehghanpisheh) reports from Geneva that Bolton said that he
“warned Moscow against meddling in the U.S. midterm elections in November
during talks with the head of Russia’s National Security Council.” Bolton
is quoted as saying, “I made it clear we wouldn’t tolerate [election]
meddling in 2018 and that we were prepared to take necessary steps to
prevent it from happening.” According to Reuters, Bolton also said he
“raised with Nikolai Patrushev the issue of tightening economic sanctions
against Iran and said they had discussed a phased withdrawal of Iran’s
presence in Syria, but gave no details.”

        *Bolton: Syria Was Main Topic In Trump-Putin Helsinki Meeting. *
Breitbart
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=072-518&t=c>
(8/23, Glick) reports Bolton said in an interview, “Syria was the main
topic of discussion during President Trump’s meeting with President Putin
in Helsinki.” He added that during the meeting between Putin and Trump and
with their advisers, Bolton raised the issue of Golan Heights with Putin
“and he basically said that he isn’t challenging the legitimacy of Israeli
control over the Golan Heights.” Bolton also said, “Hezbollah forces in
Syria have to go back to Lebanon,” adding, “They are functionally part of
the [Iranian Revolutionary Guards] Qods Force.”
Iranian People Feeling Effects Of Sanctions.

The Washington Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=073-6b2&t=c>
(8/23, Sabbagh) reports, “With the Trump administration reimposing
sanctions aimed at cutting off Iran economically from the world, it’s the
Iranian people who are feeling isolated. ... The currency is collapsing,
food prices have soared, some imported medicines are out of stock and even
newsprint has become so hard to come by that some newspapers are scaling
back or folding.” Airfares have risen to such an extent that many
middle-class Iranians are unable to travel, while “economic stagnation,
high inflation, and anger over government corruption have fueled low-level
but consistent protests in many of Iran’s working-class precincts.”

        *Google Removes YouTube Accounts Linked To Iranian State
Broadcaster. *USA Today
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=074-288&t=c>
(8/23, Guynn) reports, “Google has removed dozens of YouTube channels it
says are linked to an influence operation run by Iran’s state broadcaster.”
Google has shut down 39 accounts that “had ties to the Islamic Republic of
Iran Broadcasting, or IRIB.” The Wall Street Journal
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=075-b00&t=c>
(8/23, A1, Volz, McMillan) reports that Google also terminated six Blogger
accounts and 13 Google+ social network accounts. The New York Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=076-693&t=c>
(8/23, Wakabayashi) reports the accounts were terminated “for running an
influence campaign starting as early as January 2017 while disguising its
connection to Iran, said Kent Walker, Google’s senior vice president of
global affairs.”

        *GOP Senators Urge Treasury To Expel Iran From SWIFT Network. *The
AP
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=077-f24&t=c>
(8/23, Lee) reports Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is leading a group of 16 GOP
senators “calling for Iran to be expelled from the main financial system
that oversees international bank transfers.” In a letter, the GOP senators
urged Treasury Secretary Mnuchin “on Thursday to take ‘all necessary steps’
to disconnect Iran from the SWIFT network, which allows financial
institutions to send and receive information about banking transactions.”
The letter said, “Quick robust enforcement will be critical for the
administration’s maximum pressure strategy to succeed, both immediately to
drain the Iranian regime’s resources for malign behavior and as a signal of
America’s commitment to maintaining the integrity of our sanctions
architecture.”

        *EU Announces Financial Support Package For Iranian Economy. *The AP
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=078-0b4&t=c>
(8/23, Press) reports the European Union is “announcing its first financial
support package to help bolster Iran’s flagging economy, part of the bloc’s
commitment to keep the Iran nuclear deal alive.” The European Commission on
Thursday unveiled “a first tranche of 18 million euros ($21 million) – 8
million for the private sector, 8 million to cope with environmental
problems and 2 million for drug abuse.” The funds are part of a “wider
50-million-euro effort to help Iran cope with economic and social
challenges.”

        *Iran Temporarily Frees Imprisoned British-Iranian Woman. *The
Washington
Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=079-3fa&t=c>
(8/23, Adam) reports Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a “British-Iranian woman
who has been imprisoned by Iran for more than two years,” was “released
Thursday, but only for three days.” Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband, Richard
Ratcliffe, said she “was granted temporary leave from Evin Prison in Tehran
on Thursday morning.” Ratcliffe said their lawyer “was ‘hopeful’ the
three-day release could be extended. He said he spoke to his wife, who was
‘full of joy,’ via Skype, moments after she was released.”
Pompeo To Return To North Korea, Names Biegun As Special Representative.

USA Today
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=07a-d5d&t=c>
(8/23, Shesgreen) reports Secretary of State Pompeo said he would return to
North Korea “to pursue an agreement on denuclearization – his second visit
in two months to the rogue regime.” Pompeo also “announced the appointment
of a new special representative for North Korea: Stephen E. Biegun, who is
leaving a post at the Ford Motor Company where he served as vice president
of international governmental affairs.” The AP
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=07b-01b&t=c>
(8/23, Lee) reports Pompeo announced he had chosen Biegun to “handle
day-to-day negotiations with the North over dismantling its nuclear weapons
program.” Pompeo said he and Biegun “would be travelling [sic] to North
Korea ‘to make further diplomatic progress toward our objective’ of its
full, final and complete denuclearization. Pompeo offered no other details
about the trip.” The Wall Street Journal
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=07c-c5d&t=c>
(8/23, Donati) describes Biegun as a corporate executive who has broad
international experience.

        The Washington Post
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(8/23, Hudson) reports that in “choosing Biegun, Pompeo has continued a
pattern set by President Trump to award critical government jobs to people
with private-sector experience at premier American companies.” AFP
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=07e-122&t=c>
(8/23) reports Biegun, who is “retiring as Ford’s vice president for
international governmental affairs, had been considered for the post” of
national security advisor before it went to Bolton. Pompeo said, “Steve
will direct the US policy towards North Korea and lead our efforts to
achieve President Trump’s goal of the final, fully verified
denuclearization of North Korea, as agreed to by chairman Kim Jong Un.” The Los
Angeles Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=07f-608&t=c>
(8/23, Wilkinson) reports, “Two months after President Trump boasted that
North Korea is ‘no longer a nuclear threat,’ growing evidence suggests”
that Kim “has not shut down the country’s illicit production of bomb-making
material and other nuclear activities, raising concerns that the proposed
denuclearization deal has stalled at the starting gate.” Pompeo “made clear
he would step aside from the day-to-day effort,” which Biegun would direct.
“It wasn’t immediately clear if Pompeo had simply decided that the
negotiations were going nowhere and he needed to hand them off to focus on
other issues.”

        The New York Times
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(8/23, Harris) reports, “Frustrated with a nomination process that has been
slowed by White House missteps, a lengthy blacklist against onetime Trump
critics and increasing partisanship on Capitol Hill,” Pompeo “is moving to
bring in highly experienced diplomats to coordinate policy on the most
difficult issues he faces.” In the last few days he “introduced special
envoys for Iran and Syria, equally knotty problems. Another for Afghanistan
is said to be in the offing.” The Administration has seen its top diplomats
confirmed at the slowest rate in American history, but “there is a widely
held perception even among Republicans in Congress that the Trump
administration does little to vet its nominees, with Senate staff members
discovering controversies and lawsuits – often through simple Google
searches – never mentioned in paperwork that is supposed to be
all-encompassing.”

        Reuters
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(8/23, Wroughton, Brunnstrom) reports Biegun said “the issues are tough,
and will be tough to resolve” but added that Trump “had created an opening
and ‘it’s one that we must take by seizing every possible opportunity to
realize the vision for a peaceful future for the people of North Korea.’”
The Washington Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=082-3bb&t=c>
(8/23, Lee) reports Biegun’s appointment “is the latest in a series of
special envoy posts filled by Pompeo, who is seeking to tap veteran
diplomats and national security officials to run delicate negotiations.”

        *Rogin: Pompeo Needs Results. *Josh Rogin, in a column in the
Washington
Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=083-e61&t=c>
(8/23), writes that as “frustration mounts” in the Administration about the
flagging diplomatic process with North Korea, Pompeo is attempting a “bold
and risky push to reinvigorate” such efforts. Pompeo is “under severe
pressure to show tangible evidence that his diplomacy is producing real
results,” and, should his trip to North Korea prove a failure, skeptics
will push for tactics that “acknowledge the reality” that Kim “is not
living up to his promises.” Pompeo faces a “difficult task of reversing the
downward trend in the diplomacy without having anything new to offer” and
risking “blowing up the negotiations altogether” should he take a harder
line. Rogin casts “the fundamental problem with the Trump-Kim scheme” that
concessions play into Kim’s “strategy to stall for time.” Rogin concludes
that Pompeo said that the United States must test Kim’s sincerity, and
“time is almost up for North Korea to pass or fail that test.”
WSJournal A1: Iraq Facing Challenges In Mending Social Fabric After IS.

In a front-page article the Wall Street Journal
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=084-78a&t=c>
(8/23, Coles, Nabhan) reports on the social challenges in Iraq in the wake
of pushing back the Islamic State. Persecuted communities want to be away
from the Sunni Muslims whom the extremists claimed to represent. Sunnis are
divided between those who supported and those who resisted IS. The Journal
focuses on Yazidis communities and families, which will not accept back
Yazidi women freed after being forced to marry Islamic State militants
unless they abandon the children they bore.
Silver Star Recommended For Green Beret Team Leader Criticized In Niger
Ambush.

The New York Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=085-973&t=c>
(8/23, Gibbons-Neff, Cooper) reports Army commanders, in an internal
Special Operations Command report, recommended that Capt. Michael Perozeni,
“the Green Beret team leader who was singled out in a Pentagon
investigation for blame after a deadly ambush in Niger,” receive a Silver
Star, “a rare honor that recognizes singular acts of valor and heroism in
combat.” Four other soldiers from Operational Detachment-Alpha Team 3212
are being considered for a Silver Star and three others were recommended
for the Distinguished Service Cross. There are two narratives about the
ambush – “that Captain Perozeni filed a misleading mission plan before the
operation but then showed gallantry during the ambush” – and while military
officials have said that both are true, “Army leaders must now make a
difficult decision about which of those two story lines will prevail.”
As Tariffs Are Implemented, US-China Talks End With “No Sign Of Progress.”

The AP
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(8/23, McDonald) reports that the US and China “went ahead with tariff
hikes on billions of dollars of each other’s automobiles, factory machinery
and other goods” on Thursday “in an escalation of a battle over Beijing’s
technology policy that companies worry will chill global economic growth.”
The AP adds that the new tariffs were put into place “as envoys met in
Washington for their first high-level talks in two months,” but “gave no
sign of progress.” The New York Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=087-b46&t=c>
(8/23, Swanson, Rappeport) similarly says there was “little sign of
progress” as talks ended, and Reuters
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=088-289&t=c>
(8/23, Martina, Lawder) says the talks ended “with no major breakthrough as
their trade war escalated” with activation of the tariffs. Bloomberg News
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=089-689&t=c>
(8/23, Donnan, Sink, Niquette) says the two sides “met low expectations for
this week’s meetings and no further talks had been scheduled, a person
familiar with the discussions said.” The person “also said Chinese
officials had raised the possibility that no further negotiations could
happen until after November’s mid-term elections in the U.S.”

        *Chinese Officials Working To Prevent Currency Slide Or Stock
Market Collapse. *The New York Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=08a-60a&t=c>
(8/23, Bradsher) reports that “as China’s economy slows and the trade war
with the United States intensifies, Beijing’s economic bosses are swinging
into action.” According to the Times, “Chinese officials are pushing banks
to lend more and allowing indebted local governments to spend money on big
projects again. They have moved to shore up the value of the country’s
currency. They have also helped out the stock market, say financial
analysts, as the government works to avert a stock market collapse like the
one three years ago that shook the world.”

        *Officials Say Trade War Part Of China’s Bid To Replace US As
Leading Superpower. *The Washington Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=08b-fca&t=c>
(8/23, Boylan) reports that “U.S. intelligence agencies fear Beijing is
linking the trade issue to a larger challenge to American interests and
power, including the South China Sea, artificial intelligence and
cyberspace.” Michael Collins, deputy assistant director of the CIA’s East
Asia mission center, told the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado last month
that Chinese President Xi Jinping used all of his “avenues of power, licit
and illicit, public and private, economic, military,” with the goal of
replacing the US as the world’s leading superpower “without resorting to
conflict.” At the same forum, DNI Coats and FBI Director Wray “expressed
similar concerns.”

        *US Automakers Optimistic New NAFTA Rules Will Allow Them To Remain
Competitive. *Reuters
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=08c-902&t=c>
(8/23) reports that Matt Blunt, president of the American Automotive Policy
Council, said Thursday that he is “‘very encouraged’ by the direction of
U.S.-Mexico bilateral talks on North American Free Trade Agreement rules of
origin, and that the three domestic companies will be able to meet the new
rules over time.” Blunt said the “stronger automotive content rules that
are emerging from NAFTA negotiations are expected to keep North America
competitive as a production base and allow General Motors, Ford and Fiat
Chrysler to remain competitive globally,” according to Reuters. Reuters
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=08d-1e4&t=c>
(8/23, Aeppel, Angulo) reports Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo
said before meeting with US Trade Representative Lighthizer that he is
“pushing for a quick deal with U.S. officials in the renegotiation of the
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), with a breakthrough on new
rules for the auto industry still elusive.” Reuters notes that on
Wednesday, Guajardo “said the two sides might be able to reach agreement in
‘hours.’” However, “The tone has become more cautious since then,”
according to Reuters, which says one source of “friction” is the Trump
Administration demand “to be able to impose national security tariffs on
future Mexican production from new auto assembly and parts plants.”

        Nevertheless, Bloomberg News
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=08e-836&t=c>
(8/23) reports that Juan Pablo Castanon, president of the CCE group, which
Bloomberg says “comprises some of Mexico’s most influential industry
associations,” says he “expects key advances in Nafta talks with the U.S.
in the next few days,” and predicts that “progress by the two countries
should be enough to allow Canada to rejoin the talks soon.”

        *NBC/Marist Poll: 45% Of Pennsylvanians Believe Tariffs Will Hurt
US Economy. *NBC News
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=08f-b52&t=c>
(8/23) reports on its website that a new NBC News/Marist poll shows that a
“near majority” of Pennsylvanians “fears that the ongoing trade war will
ultimately damage the U.S. economy.” According to the poll, 45 percent of
Pennsylvania adults “believe that tariffs and other import barriers will
raise costs of consumer goods and hurt the country’s economy,” while 27
percent “believe they will protect American jobs and help the economy.” In
addition the poll found that “the administration’s trade policy is
unpopular across virtually all demographic groups.” The “only groups where
a majority supports the tariffs are self-identified Republicans and Trump
supporters.” NBC adds that the President’s “job approval rating among
adults in the state stands at 38 percent, with 52 percent disapproving of
his job performance. Among registered voters, 37 percent approve of Trump’s
job and 53 percent disapprove.”

        *Trump Celebrates Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act
At White House. *USA Today
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=090-f2a&t=c>
(8/23, Jackson) reports President Trump “gathered lawmakers at the White
House Thursday for something of a pep rally on a recently enacted law
designed to restrict foreign investment in the U.S.” Trump, who USA Today
says is “buffeted by legal problems,” praised the Foreign Investment Risk
Review Modernization Act of 2018, saying, “‘When we see something we don’t
like, some country is buying something we don’t want them to be buying, we
stop it. ... We now have the right to stop it.” In a tweet
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=091-935&t=c>
Thursday, Trump wrote, “It was my great honor to host the Foreign
Investment Risk Review Modernization Act Roundtable today at the
@WhiteHouse!” Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star tweeted
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=092-bc8&t=c>,
“At today’s meeting on the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization
Act, Trump twice interjected to note that countries other than Russia pose
big challenges to the United States.”
Domestic Policy
EPA Estimates Less Economic Damage From Carbon Emissions Than Obama.

The New York Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=093-f6d&t=c>
(8/23, Plumer) reports that the amount of “economic damage” that global
warming will cause is “one of the key questions embedded in the Trump
administration’s recent proposals to weaken Obama-era regulations on
greenhouse gas emissions from both vehicles and power plants.” The EPA
argued in its “rollback proposals” that “each ton of carbon dioxide emitted
by a car or a coal plant in 2020 would only cause around $1 to $7 in
economic damages,” which is “far lower than the Obama administration’s
central estimate” of “$50 in total damages.” The Times says the change
“will make a big difference for the cost-benefit analyses that agencies are
required to conduct for new rules. If the Trump administration can
successfully claim that carbon dioxide causes relatively little harm to the
economy, then it can more easily justify moves like replacing the Clean
Power Plan, an ambitious Obama-era program to cut pollution from coal
plants, with a less-stringent rule.”
Fox News Poll: ACA More Popular Than GOP Tax Cuts.

USA Today
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018082401biden&r=email-85f8&l=094-579&t=c>
(8/23, Kelly) reports, “Obamacare is more popular with American voters than
the Republican-enacted tax cuts, according to a new Fox News Poll.” While
51 percent of voters “had a favorable opinion of the 2010 Affordable Care
Act...only 40 percent of voters had a favorable view of the 2017 tax cuts
championed by congressional Republicans” and President Trump.

        *GAO: Trump Administration Needs To Do More To Boost ACA
Enrollment. *The AP
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(8/23, Alonso-Zaldivar) reports that the Government Accountability Office
said Thursday that the Trump Administration “needs to step up its
management of sign-up seasons” under the Affordable Care Act “after mixed
results last year in the throes of a failed GOP effort to repeal it.” The
AP says the GAO “found problems with consumer counseling and advertising
and recommended such basic fixes as setting enrollment targets,” but also
“credited administration actions that did help people enroll, such as a
more reliable HealthCare.gov website and reduced call center wait times.”

        *Administration Proposal Would Require Drugmakers To Disclose
Prices. *Axios
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(8/23, Baker, Owens) reports that the Trump Administration “is moving ahead
with a proposal that would require drug companies to include the sticker
prices of their products in direct-to-consumer advertising” as part of
President Trump’s “blueprint for lower drug prices.” But “as simple and
straightforward as price disclosures might sound, this information may not
end up being very useful. Few patients pay the sticker price for a drug,”
since insurance plans “negotiate discounts, and then often pay only a
fraction of that amount.”

        *Treasury Seeks To Prevent States From Getting Around SALT
Deduction Cap. *The Washington Post
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(8/23, Stein) reports, “The Treasury Department moved Thursday to prevent
states from allowing taxpayers to circumvent the GOP tax law’s new cap on
state and local tax deductions.” While several states have passed or are
considering legislation to let residents get around the $10,000 cap on such
deductions, the new rule proposed by Treasury Secretary Mnuchin would
prevent this. Mnuchin said in a statement, “Congress limited the deduction
for state and local taxes that predominantly benefited high-income earners
to help pay for major tax cuts for American families. The proposed rule
will uphold that limitation by preventing attempts to convert tax payments
into charitable contributions.”
WPost, NYTimes: GOP Highlighting Illegal Immigration Through Tibbetts
Murder.

The Washington Post
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(8/22, Sullivan) reports that President Trump and other top Republicans are
“eagerly embracing hard-line immigration policies as a centerpiece of their
strategy for the November midterms, believing the issue will bolster GOP
turnout and help detract from the worsening legal scandals enveloping
Trump.” According to the Post, Republican candidates are “joining the White
House’s campaign to offer public support for Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE), warn of the dangers of the Salvadoran MS-13 gang and
highlight sensational crimes involving undocumented immigrants.” The Post
highlights the Republican outrage after news broke earlier this week that
an illegal immigrant had been arrested for the murdered of 18-year-old Iowa
college student Mollie Tibbetts.

        The New York Times
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(8/23, Peters) says Trump and congressional Republicans, “eager to find an
issue that can help minimize the losses they expect in the midterm
elections, are leaning hard into crime, illegal immigration and public
safety to paint a bleak picture of how the country would become less safe
under a Democratic-controlled Congress.” This week, they “seized” on the
Tibbetts case. The Times adds, “Republicans say they believe they have an
advantage over Democrats on the issue of immigration when it is presented
as a matter of personal security.” In an another article, the Washington
Post
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(8/23, Berman) says the White House “quickly seized on the tragedy,” and
notes that President Trump “referenced the case in a rally Tuesday, and in
the video released Wednesday, he linked the tragedy to his desire for a
border wall and tougher immigration policies.”

        The CBS Evening News
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(8/23, story 5, 1:40, Glor) reported that new details about Tibbetts’
murder were released Thursday. CBS (Diaz) added that according to the
state’s medical examiner, Tibbetts “died from multiple sharp force
injuries.” Her death was ruled a homicide. Tibbetts’ accused killer,
Cristhian Bahena Rivera, “told investigators Tibbetts was bleeding from her
head before he left her body in a cornfield.” CBS added that according to
the owners of the dairy farm where he worked, Rivera “used false
identification to pass a background check.” ABC World News Tonight[image:
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(8/23, story 8, 0:20, Llamas) also reported briefly on Tibbetts’ murder.

        *Mother Whose Son Was Killed By Illegal Immigrant Says Enforce
Immigration Laws. *In an op-ed for USA Today
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(8/23), Agnes Gibboney, a legal immigrant “whose only son, Ronald da Silva,
was murdered by an illegal immigrant in 2002,” writes that “apologists for
illegal immigrants will no doubt tell us that the vast majority of illegal
immigrants are not violent criminals, and they are right. But that’s not
the point. They are all violating laws that exist to protect the best
interests of the American people, which is reason enough to enforce our
immigration laws.” Gibboney adds, “Protecting the interests and security of
the American people must be the first priority for federal, state, and
local officials, not a bargaining chip for amnesty for illegal immigrants.”

        *Facebook Mistakenly Removes Post On Illegal Immigration After
Tibbetts’ Death. *The Washington Times
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(8/23, Dinan) reports that Facebook said Thursday it “made a mistake in
removing a post by a conservative group that commented on illegal
immigration” after Tibbetts’ death. Facebook made the admission “after
William Gheen, head of Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action
Committee, said he’d had his post removed and been slapped with a 24-hour
ban for posting what Facebook said was ‘hate speech.’” Facebook said in a
statement, “We mistakenly removed a comment by William Gheen and restored
it as soon as we were able to investigate because it did not violate our
community standards. ... Our team processes millions of reports each week,
and sometimes we get things wrong. We are sorry this happened.”

        *CEOs Complain To Nielsen About Changes To H-1B System. *The New
York Times
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(8/23, Lohr) reports that “dozens of American business leaders are
challenging the Trump administration over changes to immigration policy
that they say threaten the livelihoods of thousands of their skilled
foreign workers, and the nation’s economic growth and competitiveness as
well.” The Times says the members of the Business Roundtable, “expressed
their ‘serious concern’ over the administration’s immigration moves in a
jointly signed letter” to DHS Secretary Nielsen, the “main focus” of which
was “the treatment of applications for, and renewals of, H-1B visas for
skilled foreign workers.” According to the Times, “Some of the most
prominent chief executives in the United States signed the letter,
including Timothy D. Cook of Apple, Ginni Rometty of IBM, Jamie Dimon of
JPMorgan Chase, Laurence Fink of BlackRock, Marc Benioff of Salesforce and
Indra Nooyi, the departing head of PepsiCo.”

        *Inter-Agency Emails Reveal Internal Administration Debate Over
Ending TPS. *The Washington Post
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(8/23, Miroff) reports that emails between the Defense Department, State
Department, and DHS reveal the internal Administration debates over
terminating Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from El Salvador,
Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan. The emails “show officials at DHS agencies
searched for ‘positive gems’ they could use to justify arguments that
conditions in disaster-afflicted or war-torn countries had improved and
that more than 300,000 TPS recipients living legally in the United States –
some for as long as two decades – no longer needed protection from
deportation.”

        *Congolese Man Caught In US By Facial Recognition Technology, Sent
To Brazil. *NBC Nightly News
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(8/23, story 6, 1:50, Holt) reported a 26-year-old man from Congo was
caught trying to enter the US from Brazil, becoming a the “first impostor
detected using facial recognition technology that’s now being rolled out
across the country.” The man arrived Thursday morning at Washington,
D.C.’s, Dulles Airport with a French passport, but new facial recognition
camera’s alerted officers that the man did not match his passport photo.
Daniel Mattina, US Customs And Border Protection: “He was trying to enter
illegally. We apprehended him and turned him back to Brazil.”

        *Fraudulent 1949 Visa Application Ultimately Led To Palij
Deportation. *The New York Times
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(8/23, Winston) looks at how 95-year-old former SS officer Jakiw Palij was
finally deported from the US. The Times reports that the Justice Department
filed denaturalization charges against him 16 years ago because his 1949 US
visa application was “full of lies.” He and several other ex-SS officers
who had fraudulently gained US visas remained in the US for years “because
no other nation was willing to take them.”

        *Refugee-Turned-Fashion Model Now UNICEF Ambassador. *NBC Nightly
News
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(8/23, story 9, 2:00, Holt) reported on 20-year-old Halima Aiden’s journey
from a Kenyan refugee camp to becoming a fashion model in New York City.
Aiden was born in the camp after her “mother forced to flee Somalia during
the civil war. Her family was granted refugee status in the US when she was
seven.” Now a US citizen, Aiden was recently named a UNICEF ambassador.
Aiden: “I always knew I needed to be part of the organization that did so
much for me as a little girl. It’s important. It’s important I’m doing
this.”

        *WPost Editorial Criticizes Treatment Of Green Card Holders
Applying For Citizenship. *A Washington Post
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(8/23) editorial criticizes USCIS’ treatment of green-card holders “when
they apply to become citizens.” The Post says that applications “drag on
for nearly two years in some places,” a “stupefying” wait, which makes “a
mockery of the agency’s mission statement” to adjudicate applications
“efficiently.” The Post is also critical of the fees applicants must pay
and what it describes as “an array of institutional, structural and
technological problems at the agency.” The Post adds that “the vast
majority of those applicants...will have become citizens in time to
participate in the 2020 elections,” which “a more rational administration”
might see as “an incentive to treat these future citizens with more of the
respect they deserve.”
Report On Leaks From Starr’s Office Does Not Mention Kavanaugh.

The Washington Post
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(8/23, Marimow) reports that an investigation into alleged press leaks from
independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr’s office in the 1990s “makes no
reference to any role played by his one-time associate, Supreme Court
nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh.” The 1999 report, which was made public
Thursday at the urging of Senate Democrats seeking to determine whether
Kavanaugh was involved in the leaks, “cleared Starr’s office of allegations
that it improperly leaked grand jury testimony.”

        *Murkowski Calls Meeting With Kavanaugh “An Important Step.”
*The Washington
Post
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(8/23, Pogrund) reports that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), “whose vote could
be decisive” in Kavanaugh’s confirmation said their meeting Thursday was
“an important step,” but “stopp[ed] short of an endorsement after an
hour-long discussion of abortion rights, health care and executive power.”
Murkowski, who has said Kavanaugh’s position on Roe v. Wage “would be vital
to her decision” said in a statement, “Today’s meeting represents an
important step in my vetting process. That process, however, has not
concluded.”
McConnell: Senate Will Stay In Session Until 12 Judicial Nominees Are
Confirmed.

The Washington Times
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(8/23, Dinan) reports Senate Majority Leader McConnell said Thursday that
the Senate will remain in Session until a dozen Trump judicial nominees and
four other executive branch nominees are confirmed. In “what appeared to be
a warning to senators who were hoping for another summer break,” McConnell
said, “No more obstruction, no more delays. It’s time to confirm them all.
... The Senate will continue to work right through August until every
single one of them is confirmed.”

        *McConnell Vows Whip Count On Prison Reform After Midterms. *Axios
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(8/23, Kight, Swan) reports that Senate Majority Leader McConnell said in a
meeting with Jared Kushner, Senate Majority Whip Cornyn, and Sens. Charles
Grassley (R-IA) and Mike Lee (R-UT) that he “has agreed to a whip vote for
the prison and sentencing reform bill after midterms, his spokesperson
confirmed to Axios.” A Lee spokesperson said McConnell “had committed to a
vote if the whip count reached more than 60.”

        *Trump Reportedly Refused Action Before Midterms. *Axios
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(8/23, Kight, Swan) reports in a second story that President Trump “has
stymied a plan to push prison and sentencing reform before the midterms,
according to an administration source.” The Washington Post
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(8/23, Kim), however, reports that Lee said after the meeting that Trump
“has endorsed the tenets of an emerging compromise.” Lee said of the
President, “My understanding is that what he said was, ‘Okay, let’s do
this, but maybe not until after the elections.’” Politico
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(8/23, Morin) reports that a Justice Department spokesperson said in a
statement, “We’re pleased the President agreed that we shouldn’t support
criminal justice reform that would reduce sentences, put drug traffickers
back on our streets, and undermine our law enforcement officers who are
working night and day to reduce violent crime and drug trafficking in the
middle of an opioid crisis.”
Reality Winner Receives Longest-Ever Sentence For Leaking To Media.

The AP
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(8/23, Kinnard) reports that Reality Winner, a “former government
contractor who pleaded guilty to mailing a classified U.S. report to a news
organization,” was sentenced Thursday to “more than five years in
prison...as part of a deal with prosecutors, who called it the longest
sentence ever imposed for a federal crime involving leaks to the media.”
Winner “pleaded guilty in June to a single count of transmitting national
security information,” according to the AP, which notes that Winner is a
“former Air Force translator [who] worked as a contractor at a National
Security Agency’s office in Augusta, Georgia, when she printed a classified
report and left the building with it tucked into her pantyhose.”

        Reuters
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(8/23, Cherelus) also reports that the “63-month sentence followed by three
years of supervised release” is “the longest sentence ever given to someone
for illegally disclosing government information.” US Attorney Bobby
Christine released a statement reading: “Make no mistake: THIS WAS NOT A
VICTIMLESS CRIME. Winner’s purposeful violation put our nation’s security
at risk... She was the quintessential example of an insider threat.” On the
other hand, Betsy Reed, editor in chief of The Intercept, the outlet that
received the classified information from Winner, said Winner “should be
honored, and that her sentencing and other prosecutions of whistleblowers
were attacks on freedom of speech and of the press.”

        The New York Times
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(8/23, Philipps) notes that the classified report that Winner leaked
“detailed hacking attacks by a Russian intelligence service against local
election officials and voter registration databases.” The CBS Evening
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(8/23, story 7, 0:10, Glor) also reported on Winner’s sentencing.

        *Trump Tweets Winner’s Actions “‘Small Potatoes’ Compared To What
Hillary Clinton Did.” *Trump tweeted
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this morning, “Ex-NSA contractor to spend 63 months in jail over
“classified” information. Gee, this is “small potatoes” compared to what
Hillary Clinton did! So unfair Jeff, Double Standard.”
DNC: Attempted Hack Was False Alarm.

The Washington Post
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(8/23, Nakashima) reports DNC Chief Security Officer Bob Lord on Wednesday
said that what the DNC thought had been an attempt to hack its voter file
was a security test organized by a state party. On Tuesday, the DNC
“alerted the FBI to a fake online portal it thought had been set up as an
elaborate attempt to trick DNC staff into giving up their log-in
credentials...as a way to gain access to the party’s VoteBuilder database.”
However, late Wednesday, Lord “reversed course,” saying in a statement,
“We, along with the partners who reported the [fake] site, now believe it
was built by a third party as part of a simulated phishing test on
VoteBuilder.” The New York Times
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(8/23, Sullivan, Weiland, Conger) says the Michigan Democratic Party “had
hired hackers to simulate an attack known as phishing, but did not inform
the national committee.” According to Lord, the test “had attributes
similar to an actual hacking.” The New York Post
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(8/23, Fredericks) quotes Lord’s statement as saying, “We are extremely
relieved that this wasn’t an attempted intrusion by a foreign adversary.”
The Post adds, “Red-faced DNC officials declined to elaborate.”

        Politico
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(8/23, Geller) reports that in the wake of the “embarrassing about-face,”
the DNC “is making some changes.” Lord told Politico that the committee “is
crafting rules for how state parties and other campaign organizations can
run cybersecurity exercises that affect the party’s technology
infrastructure.” Lord said, “If any entity that wants to do something more
advanced than hiring a phishing company to do training, they’re going to
have to notify us.” Reuters
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(8/23, Finkle) says the “false alarm came as political parties and U.S.
law-enforcement agencies are on high alert for signs of foreign hacking.
U.S. officials recently warned that Russia is looking to interfere in the
November mid-term elections.” NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by
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(8/23, story 7, 0:20, Holt) also reported on the “false alarm.”
Cancer Research
CDC Finds HPV-Related Cancers, HPV Vaccinations Both Growing.

The Washington Post
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(8/23, McGinley) says that on Thursday the US Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention reported
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that “cancers linked to the human papillomavirus have increased
significantly over the last 15 years in the United States, with throat
cancer now the most common HPV-related malignancy.” Overall, “more than
43,000 people developed an HPV-associated cancer in 2015,” up from “about
30,000 in 1999.” The CDC also reported that “HPV vaccination rates are
rising,” and that “nearly half” of US residents aged 13 to 17 “had received
all the recommended doses for HPV vaccination, while two thirds had
received the first dose.” CDC Director Robert Redfield said, “This vaccine
is the best way to protect our youth from developing cancers caused by
HPV.”

        Fortune
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(8/23, Shoot) reports the CDC found that the rate of “inoculations simply
isn’t keeping pace with HPV infection rates.” The Philadelphia Inquirer
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(8/23, McCullough) reports, “the vaccine with the potential to nearly wipe
out these malignancies in future generations remains underused.” TIME
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(8/23, Ducharme) reports, “More teenagers than ever before are getting
vaccinated” against HPV, though there is “a ways to go before it matches
vaccination rates for diseases including meningitis and tetanus.”
Rural Cancer Patients Disproportionately Lack Access To Quality Care.

HealthLeaders Media
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(8/23, Cheney) reports that according to new research
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in JAMA Open Network, rural and urban cancer patients enrolled in clinical
trials have similar outcomes, suggesting “lack of access to high-quality
care in rural areas is the reason” why rural cancer patients “generally
have worse outcomes than their urban counterparts.” Researchers recommended
that healthcare providers address disparities by improving access to health
insurance and expanding access to screening and prevention resources, among
other efforts. They also pointed to the National Cancer Institute’s
National Community Oncology Research Program as one of two network models
for oncology care to address the disparities.
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“Trump’s Vile Ploy On South Africa.”* In an editorial, the New York Times
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(8/23) criticizes President Trump for repeating “the false narratives of
right-wing white South African groups claiming widespread seizures of
white-owned land and a continuing ‘white genocide.’” While the Times
questions the wisdom of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s proposed
method to address his country’s gross inequality, it blasts Trump’s
“clueless grasp at a racially tinged political diversion” that was “bereft
of any context, sympathy or understanding.” The Times casts the move as
part of a “familiar tactic of deflecting attention from yet another scandal
by issuing some outrageous tweet, to come down hard on the wrong side of an
issue he knows nothing about, based on no more than a slanted Fox News
program.”

        *“New York’s Yeshiva Students Deserve Better.” *The New York Times
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(8/23) says in an editorial that since parents, teachers, and former
students filed a complaint with New York City’s Department of Education in
2015, “charging that 39 ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools in the city failed to
give children a basic education,” in violation of a state law that requires
instruction to be “substantially equivalent” to public schools, “virtually
nothing has been done to hold the schools to legal standards, as
politicians have ducked their responsibility rather than challenge leaders
of one of the city’s most powerful voting blocs.” The Times says
politicians’ failure “to challenge Orthodox leaders denies some of the most
vulnerable members of Orthodox communities government’s full protection.
Officials have an obligation to ensure that every child in New York
receives a sound education.”
Washington Post.

        *“Arming Teachers With Federal Education Money. Are They Even
Thinking?” *The Washington Post
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(8/23) editorializes, “Under the leadership – and we use that term
guardedly” – of Education Secretary DeVos, the Education Department “is
actually thinking – yes, we use that term guardedly as well – of letting
states use federal funds to buy guns for educators. ... The beneficiaries
would be the gun manufacturers and the gun lobby. We hope Ms. DeVos
recognizes whose interests she should be serving and quickly puts an end to
any consideration of letting federal education dollars be used to buy
guns.”

        *“A Professor Dared To Tell The Truth In China – And Was Fired.” *In
an editorial, the Washington Post
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(8/23) criticizes China for its persecution of professor Yang Shaozheng,
who “dared publish an article last year questioning the enormous weight of
the [Communist] party as an organization on China’s economy.” After raising
the “discomfiting question for a party that presents itself as integral to
China’s future: Why was no one talking about the economic burden of the
party?” he lost his job and had his blog and WeChat account closed. The
Post casts the move as “another sign of a campaign being undertaken across
academia in China to squelch freedom of expression and inquiry.”

        *Boot: Taliban “Winning, Not Losing.” *In his Washington Post
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(8/23) column, Max Boot writes that “every administration since Bill
Clinton’s has tried to negotiate with the Taliban,” and such talks have
always failed. The Trump Administration “has announced it is willing to
hold direct talks with the Taliban...but there is no reason to think these
outreach efforts will be any more successful than those in the past.” The
Taliban “are winning, not losing. ... We will have to keep 14,000 or so
troops [in Afghanistan] indefinitely...or we must be prepared for the
emergence of another Islamic State-like terror state.”

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