Subject: FW: Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing for Friday, September 7, 2018
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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:04:01 -0400

Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*To: Vice President Joe Biden*

*Friday, September 7, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Bidens Join Veterans Completing Walk Across US To Draw Attention To
Mental Health Fight. <#S1>

• Biden’s “Deplorables” Remark Viewed As Possible “Swipe” At Clinton. <#S2>

• Jashinsky: Nominating Biden Could Slow Democrats’ “Rapid Drift Leftward.”
<#S3>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Media Analyses: Op-Ed Vindicates Belief “Deep State” Working To Undermine
Trump. <#S4>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump Welcomes Kim Saying He Wants Denuclearization In Trump’s First Term.
<#S5>

• Trump Says UNWRA Cuts Are Bargaining Chip In Middle East Peace Talks.
<#S6>

• US, UK, France, Germany, Canada Unite In Response To Russian Nerve Agent
Attack. <#S7>

• US Official: Trump “Not In A Hurry” To Withdraw From Syria. <#S8>

• US, India Sign Military Agreement While Mattis, Pompeo In New Delhi. <#S9>

• Multiple Attacks Leave At Least 40 Dead In Afghanistan. <#S10>

• Democrats Warn They’ll Block Any NAFTA Deal That Doesn’t Include Canada.
<#S11>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Media Analyses: Kavanaugh “On Track” For Confirmation. <#S12>

• DHS Proposes Holding Families Seeking Asylum Until Requests Are Heard.
<#S13>

• Federal Prosecutors Using Grand Jury To Investigate McCabe. <#S14>

• Poll: Nike Favorability Falls After Kaepernick Ad. <#S15>

• Study: Attorneys Say They Face Racial, Gender Bias At Work. <#S16>

• DeVos Will Leave Use Of Federal Funds For School Gun Purchases Up To
States. <#S17>

• Senate Reaches Deal On Opioid Crisis Bill. <#S18>

• Carper Defeats Harris 65%-35% In Delaware Democratic Primary. <#S19>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• Single Drug May Be Able To Target All Tumors After Cancer Spreads. <#S20>

• CAR T-Cell Immunotherapy Advancing With New Studies, Approvals. <#S21>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S22>

• Washington Post. <#S23>
Biden in the News
Bidens Join Veterans Completing Walk Across US To Draw Attention To Mental
Health Fight.

The AP
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(9/6, Groves) reports, “Six American and British veterans who walked across
the US to raise awareness about mental health problems related to combat
service finished their trip Thursday in New York City, where they were met
by former Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill. The group visited
the national Sept. 11 memorial at the World Trade Center and then finished
their trip a few blocks away, at a garden that memorializes British victims
of the 2001 terror attacks.” Addressing “a small crowd,” Joe Biden said,
“They’re saving lives by this walk. Every city they went into, you can be
certain as they walked there’s a wounded warrior looking who is suffering
and thinking, ‘If they can do this and let the whole world see it, maybe I
should come forward and say I need help.’” The New York Daily News
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(9/6, McShane) reports that Biden emphasized “how much works still lies
ahead to help our veterans. ‘They need help,’ said the ex-veep. ‘It takes
courage to come out and say, ‘Look, I’m battling.’ Three-hundred-thousand
have come home struggling.’ Jill Biden recalled her son Beau returning from
his deployment to Iraq and talking about ‘the struggles in the men and
women he served beside. Our troops don’t just fight together, they recover
together, too.’”

        In an online article, WPIX-TV
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New York (9/6, Ford) reported that as he was completing the walk with the
veterans, Biden said, “We have a moral obligation to take care of all of
these people. What it reminds me of is the sacrifice that our son made, the
sacrifice that all these guys made, and these women made.” WPIX-TV added,
“The trek, called The Walk of America, was sponsored by the veterans’
organization Walking With the Wounded, a joint UK-US charity, whose main
patron is Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex.” In a broadcast, WNYW-TV[image:
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New York (9/6) reported that Jill Biden “is the US patron of the group made
up of Americans and Brits.”

        Prior to completing the walk, the veterans and Jill Biden appeared
on NBC’s TODAY
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(9/6), where they discussed the effort to raise awareness about mental
health issues suffered by military members. Asked, “What is this effort all
about?”, Biden was shown saying, “This effort is all about mental health.
These amazing wounded warriors walked across America to tell their stories,
to create awareness. One-in-five Americans deal with mental health. And so,
they’re bringing their stories to light to bring depression out of the
darkness into the light.” Also offering broadcasts about yesterday’s events
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New York (9/6), WABC-TV
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New York (9/6), WNBC-TV
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New York (9/7).
Biden’s “Deplorables” Remark Viewed As Possible “Swipe” At Clinton.

On Thursday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe
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(9/6) showed a clip of former Vice President Joe Biden saying of the
economy and the middle class, “A lot of people are scared. And they’re not
deplorables. They’re simple people – they’re people I grew up with. They’re
not stupid. They understand we’re in the midst of a fundamental industrial
change.” Host Mika Brzezinski described Biden’s remarks as a possible
“swipe at Hillary Clinton’s ‘basket of deplorables’ comment from the 2016
campaign.” Asked about the possibility, NBC News reporter Heidi Przybyla
said, “It’s possible. Joe Biden speaks his mind and that is something that
in the past was considered a negative, but in this environment, not so
much.” Brzezinski, Przybyla, Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle, and Willie
Geist went on to discuss Biden’s appeal versus that of Hillary Clinton’s in
the Rust Belt.
Jashinsky: Nominating Biden Could Slow Democrats’ “Rapid Drift Leftward.”

Writing for the Washington Examiner
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(9/6), Emily Jashinsky said, “With far-left candidates like Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez on the rise, some Democrats are probably hoping Joe Biden’s
brand of center-left populism will make a comeback. The best way to do that
is” selecting Biden as the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee. Jashinsky
discussed the Biden’s Wednesday speech in New Jersey in support of House
hopeful Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ), then added, “For Democrats, nominating Biden
could have the appeal of killing two birds with one stone – slowing the
party’s rapid drift leftward, and recapturing some appeal with the blue
collar voters Trump was able to sway. The question would be whether that
leftward drift has already swept away any chance for Biden to succeed in
the primaries.”
Leading the News
Media Analyses: Op-Ed Vindicates Belief “Deep State” Working To Undermine
Trump.

While the tone of the coverage in some of the media remains very negative
toward President Trump, reports and analyses – particularly but not
exclusively in conservative outlets – also point out that the anonymous New
York Times op-ed purportedly written by a disgruntled senior Administration
official in effect confirms conservative complaints about a group in the
government actively working to undermine Trump and block the implementation
of his agenda. That may be the case even though, as Abby Phillips reported
from the White House on CNN’s New Day
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(9/6), “it is very likely that the ‘deep state’ might include people that”
Trump “put into the jobs they currently hold.” A number of analysts also
contend the anonymous anti-Trump official actually undermined her or his
own stated objectives by publishing the op-ed.

        Politico
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(9/6, Everett, Johnson) reports “many Republicans on Capitol Hill and in
the White House privately agree with the” Times op-ed, but “they also say
the anonymous anti-Trump screed was a tremendous setback when it comes to
curbing the president’s worst impulses.” These unnamed “Republicans” said
yesterday “that the Times piece only amps up the president’s paranoia by
handing him proof that members of his own team are working against him,
according to interviews with more than a dozen Republicans, including nine
senators.” In a piece for The Atlantic
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(9/6), Trump critic David Frum says the author “is hoping to vindicate the
reputation of like-minded senior Trump staffers,” but has actually just
“throw[n] the government...into even more dangerous turmoil,” and
“empowered the president’s willfulness.” Frum adds that “the author of the
Times op-ed has explicitly told the president that those who offer such
advice do not have the president’s best interests at heart and are, in
fact, actively subverting his best interests as he understands them on
behalf of ideas of their own.”

        Fox News’ Fox & Friends
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(9/6) covered the effect of the op-ed by “the Trump traitor,” as Steve
Doocy branded the author, in its lead segment. The Washington Post’s Marc
Thiessen was shown saying that the “‘deep state’ just confessed” to
“undermining democracy.” Doocy added, “It goes to my earlier point about
the permanent government. We have been hearing about that and about the
deep state, and this guy...has confessed.” Thiessen writes in his Washington
Post
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(9/6) column this morning, “The ‘deep state’ exists after all.” Addressing
himself to the op-ed writer, Thiessen says “there is no constitutional
option of staying on the job and pretending to be a loyal adviser, while
secretly undermining the president by failing to carry out his decisions –
no matter how bad you think those decisions are.”

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(9/6), “Donald Trump has complained for months that the permanent class in
Washington is working in secret to undermine his presidency. Virtually
everyone in Washington thinks of that is hilarious. ... But suddenly they
are not saying that anymore. Why? Because yesterday afternoon the New York
Times ran anonymous op-ed that confirmed every single one of Trump’s
supposedly paranoid claims, and many more. It turns out that executive
branch employees are, in fact, working secretly to stop the President’s
agenda.” Former National Security Advisor to the President Michael Anton
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(9/6), “The narrative immediately shifted from ‘the President is crazy for
saying this and believing it’ to ‘well, the President has it coming, he
deserves the deep state undermining him.’”

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(9/6), “Is it possible it actually plays into the President’s hands and the
notion he’s surrounded by people who are trying to thwart his will, his
agenda?” journalist Carl Bernstein replied, “It does, or it can, because,
indeed, one of his themes and those of people around him, has been that
there is a deep state conspiracy against President Trump. And that theme is
being repeated because of this.” CNN political commentator Jason Miller
said on CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time
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(9/6), “This was effectively a soft coup, saying that there are a number of
people that are actively working against the President of the United States
and against what he’s trying to implement while supposedly working for
him.”

        Byron York of the Washington Examiner
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(9/6, York) agrees with others that the op-ed is effectively “a confession
that there is a deep state conspiracy to subvert” Trump, and Alex
Lockie of Business
Insider
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(9/6), in a column titled “New York Times Confirms ‘Deep State’ Boogeyman,
Boosts Conspiracies,” writes, “The idea that a shadowy cabal of unelected
bureaucrats secretly runs the US – against the demonstrated will of the
people and without their knowledge – has long been the stuff of conspiracy
theories,” but “the New York Times gave a gift to those who believe it.”

        The Washington Post
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(9/6, Jaffe) reports on “a vexing reality for Trump – that some in his
employ do treat him as an adolescent in need of chaperoning inside a White
House that” Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) “memorably once described as ‘adult day
care.’” Yet “the conspiratorial and at times paranoid Trump felt a slice of
vindication reading the Times column, seeing it as justifying his belief
that the ‘deep state’ and other enemies within are seeking to undercut him,
according to two former White House officials briefed on the president’s
private conversations.”

        On NBC’s Today
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(9/6), former CIA director John Brennan said, “What the author wrote is
wholly consistent with all the reports that we have seen over the last
year. ... It’s active insubordination. ... This is not sustainable, to have
an executive branch where individuals are not following the orders of the
chief executive.”

        The Washington Post
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(9/6, Telford) refers to the op-ed as “a metaphoric Molotov, a middle
finger, a knife in the back,” and the AP
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(9/6, Miller, Lucey) says that amid “a ‘House of Cards’-style plot twist in
an already over-the-top administration, Trump allies and political insiders
scrambled late Wednesday to unmask the writer.”

        To USA Today
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(9/6, Page), “a storm is gathering,” and “the consequences ahead – the
speed and direction of the storm – aren’t set, at least not yet. But the
stakes are already pretty clear, and they could include Trump’s
presidency.” USA Today adds, however, that “this uproar doesn’t necessarily
mean that congressional Republicans or others who have stayed in the
president’s corner are about to speak out against him, or more seriously to
consider articles of impeachment or the 25th Amendment, both ways to remove
a president from power.” Trump “retains the solid support among Republican
voters – 89 percent of them in last week’s USA Today/Suffolk University
Poll.”

        RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel writes in a USA Today
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(9/6) op-ed, “To the anonymous official who refuses to do your job: You are
no hero. You have spoken out against the taxpayers who pay your salary. ...
Your identity will come to light, and the American people will soon forget
your cowardly act. However, they will long remember the hard work of a
president who fights for us, not against us.” Ari Fleischer writes in a USA
Today
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(9/6) op-ed that “if staffers can no longer support the president, or as
the case with the anonymous author, they doubt the president’s ability to
do his job, they need to do the honorable thing and resign.”

        The AP
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(9/6, Miller, Lucey) reports that “showing her trademark ability to attract
attention, former administration official Omarosa Manigault Newman tweeted
that clues about the writer’s identity were in her recently released
tell-all book, offering a page number: 330.” She “writes on that page:
‘many in this silent army are in his party, his administration, and even in
his own family.’”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(9/6, lead story, 3:55, Karl) reported that, ultimately, “it may be a long
time before we find out who wrote this essay. Remember, when it comes to
Watergate, it was more than 30 years before we found out who Deep Throat
was.”

        *In Tweet Today, Trump Denounces Woodward Book As “A Scam.” *Trump
tweeted
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this morning, “The Woodward book is a scam. I don’t talk the way I am
quoted. If I did I would not have been elected President. These quotes were
made up. The author uses every trick in the book to demean and belittle. I
wish the people could see the real facts – and our country is doing GREAT!”

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(9/6, lead story, 3:55, Karl) reported that “as he left the White House” to
travel to Montana, “Trump didn’t say a single word about the enemy within,”
but he “has been seething.” NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by
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(9/6, story 3, 1:50, Jackson) similarly indicated that “with...Trump on the
hunt for his betrayer, multiple sources describe his mood as volcanic,
erupting not just over the op-ed but at the Times for publishing it at the
first place.”

        *First Lady Says “Cowardly” Op-Ed Writer “Sabotaging” Country, Not
Trump. *USA Today
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(9/6, Puente) reports, “First lady Melania Trump stepped into the White
House’s war on its anonymous critics, condemning the unnamed writer.” Mrs.
Trump wrote, “Unidentified sources have become the majority of the voices
people hear about in today’s news. ... People with no names are writing our
nation’s history.” The Daily Caller
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(9/6, Enjeti) notes Ms. Trump added, “To the writer of the op-ed – you are
not protecting this country; you are sabotaging it with your cowardly
actions.” The Washington Examiner
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(9/6, Yilek) calls it a “fiery statement” by Mrs. Trump, and Politico
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(9/6, Forgey), among other news outlets, also reports the story.

        *As Top Officials Deny Authoring Op-Ed, Statements Printed And
Brought To Trump. *As top Administration officials began issuing statements
denying that they authored the op-ed, The Hill
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(9/6, Samuels) reports, “the White House did not immediately respond to
questions about whether officials were encouraged to issue denials.”
However, CNN
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(9/6, Stracqualursi, Zeleny, Acosta) reports that “a top White House
official” told CNN that “Trump loves a strongly worded denial, and he is
closely watching the string of statements,” which “are being printed out
and delivered to the President as they come in.” Jeffrey Toobin said on CNN’s
The Lead
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(9/6) that Trump “has been reading the leadership guide written by Kim
Jong-un, where each person has to pledge their fealty to the dear leader.
This idea of each person coming forward bearing the piece of paper, as you
did, to say ‘look, look, sir, it wasn’t me.’”

        The Washington Examiner
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(9/6, Morrongiello) reports “one White House official described ‘mass
distraction’ inside,” as “staffers whispered back and forth about who the
‘traitor’ might be, weighing the cogency of each others’ arguments in
between emails and meetings.” The Examiner adds “a person close to the
White House suggested an alternative method for discerning if a member of
Trump’s Cabinet was guilty, ‘I would circulate one piece of paper to the
Cabinet and have everybody sign it, condemning the op-ed and saying they
weren’t the author,’” because “what’s happening now [multiple statements
from Cabinet officials] prolongs the news cycle.” Jim Acosta said on CNN’s
Anderson Cooper 360
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(9/6), “I can tell you from talking to one Administration official the
White House wanted a coordinated response to this earlier” yesterday, but
“as they were trying to plan some kind of response, there were all these
statements coming out of the woodwork of various cabinet officials and
people who work under those cabinet officials and it did take the White
House by surprise and they did not seem to be surefooted handling all of
this.”

        Reuters
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(9/6, Heavey, Brice) reports that “senior officials” have “disavowed the
piece, including Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
and Defense Secretary James Mattis, while hammering the author for writing
it and the Times for publishing it.” According to Reuters, DHS Secretary
Nielsen and DNI Coats “were among the favorites on Thursday among gamblers
trying their luck online at guessing the author.” However, Nielsen
spokesman Tyler Houlton said, “Secretary Nielsen is focused on leading the
men and women of DHS and protecting the homeland – not writing anonymous
and false opinion pieces for the New York Times.” In addition, UN
Ambassador Haley “told reporters she was not the author,” and Treasury
Secretary Mnuchin’s spokesman Tony Sayegh “said on Twitter it was
‘laughable to think this could come from the secretary.’”

        The AP
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(9/6, Miller, Lucey, Lemire) reports that “in a rare step,” Jarrod Agen,
Pence’s communications director, tweeted, “The Vice President puts his name
on his Op-Eds.” USA Today
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(9/6, Jackson) notes that he added, “The @nytimes should be ashamed and so
should the person who wrote the false, illogical, and gutless op-ed. Our
office is above such amateur acts.”

        Bloomberg News
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(9/6, News) notes “an unidentified Justice Department spokesman was quoted
by CNN
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(9/6, Stracqualursi, Zeleny, Acosta) saying Attorney General Jeff Sessions
denied authorship, though Sessions’s spokeswoman declined to comment when
contacted by Bloomberg.” The CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by
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(9/6, lead story, 2:30, Jiang) reported that “neither...Sessions, nor the
Department of Justice have issued an official statement to cross him off
the list of suspects, making him one of the only Cabinet members not to do
so amid an ongoing feud between Sessions and the President.” The DOJ
“referred us to Press Secretary Sarah Sanders’ news statement...calling the
writer ‘a gutless loser.’”

        The Hill
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(9/6, Samuels) reports that “Coats, who has publicly differed from Trump on
matters of foreign election interference, called speculation that he or his
deputy penned the op-ed ‘patently false.’” Also denying authorship are HUD
Secretary Carson, Interior’s Zinke, Labor’s Acosta, Energy’s Perry, EPA’s
Wheeler, Kellyanne Conway, Commerce’s Ross, CIA Director Haspel, VA chief
Wilkie, OMB head Mulvaney, US Amb. Jon Huntsman, USDA’s Perdue, ED’s DeVos
and HHS Secretary Azar. Politico
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(9/6, Oprysko) mentions, meanwhile, that FCC chairman Pai, FTC head Simons,
USTR Lighthizer and Transportation’s Chao also denied authorship of the
op-ed.

        The Los Angeles Times
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(9/6, Bierman) notes that traveling in India, Pompeo told reporters, “It’s
not mine. ... It is sad that you have someone who would make that choice.
... I come from a place where if you’re not in a position to execute the
commander’s intent, you have a singular option, that is to leave.” Pompeo
“blamed the publication of the op-ed on media that he said are trying to
undermine Trump, a phenomenon he called ‘incredibly disturbing.’” Reuters
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(9/6, Heavey, Brice) indicates Haley also “told reporters she was not the
author.” The Washington Post
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(9/6, Wagner) notes the “parade of denials...amid frenzied speculation” but
does not mention any additional officials, and neither do the New York Times
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(9/6, Sullivan), Wall Street Journal
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(9/6, A1, Bender), Daily Caller
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(9/6, Enjet) or Washington Times
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(9/6, Boyer, Muñoz), among other news outlets.

        Reuters
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(9/6, Cherelus) reports that according to Predictit.org
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“an online market for betting on political events,” Coats “was seen as
having an 18 percent chance of being the writer,” with Pence “listed in
second place with a 12 percent chance” and Nielsen “third with 10 percent.”

        The Washington Times
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(9/6, Boyer) reports, meanwhile, that “the conservative group Americans for
Limited Government called on the White House to administer lie-detector
tests to find the person.”

        *CBS: Speculation Focused On “Deeply Disgruntled” Member Of
“Diplomatic Or National Security Team.” *On CBS This Morning[image: Image
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(9/6), Major Garrett reported that speculation “has focused on a deeply
disgruntled member of the President’s diplomatic or national security
team.” Garrett went on to report that he is “very skeptical” of the
anonymous author’s claim that some in the Administration have discussed
“invoking the 25th Amendment and using that dimension of the Constitution
to deal with an impaired President incapable of doing his job.” Garrett
said, “I have never came across that in all of my reporting.” Jennifer
Rubin writes in the Washington Post
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(9/6), “I do not believe that the unnamed New York Times op-ed writer...is
Cabinet-rank.” It “makes more sense that the writer is a level or two down
the food chain from a Cabinet secretary. These are the sort of people who
may attend the deputies meetings of the National Security Council (e.g.,
deputy secretaries of treasury, defense, state). They aren’t household
names; they don’t generally get book deals or make the front page of papers
when they are fired or quit.”

        The New York Times
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(9/6, Flegenheimer) asks, “What is a senior administration official? Who
counts? Certainly cabinet secretaries would qualify, and top aides in the
White House, like the chief of staff.” However, “veterans of Washington
recognized that the list was potentially far broader, and murkier,” as
“generally, sourcing descriptions are a matter of negotiation between a
journalist and a source.” The Times adds that “at the very least, according
to the working definition used by many journalists and sources, the
universe of possible senior administration officials probably numbers in
the hundreds, at a minimum – deputies, under secretaries, special
assistants.”

        The Washington Times
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(9/6, Boyer) also indicates “the title of ‘senior’ administration official
could apply to hundreds of government personnel,” and USA Today
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(9/6, Snider) reports that Rem Rieder, “a former USA Today media columnist
who now teaches media ethics at Widener University” in Chester,
Pennsylvania, said “eventually the public will learn who the wrote the
op-ed,” and “the credibility of the paper will really be hurt if it turns
out it’s not really somebody at or close to the top.”

        *Sanders: Those Wanting To Know Identity Of “Anonymous Coward”
Should Call “Failing” NYTimes. *The Washington Examiner
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(9/6, Donachie) reports that Sanders “said Thursday that if people want to
know who wrote the anonymous New York Times op-ed, they should call the
paper’s opinion desk because they were ‘complicit in this deceitful act.’”
Said Sanders, “The media’s wild obsession with the identity of the
anonymous coward is recklessly tarnishing the reputation of thousands of
great Americans who proudly serve our country and work for President Trump.
Stop. ... If you want to know who this gutless loser is, call the opinion
desk of the failing NYT at 212-556-1234, and ask them. They are the only
ones complicit in this deceitful act. We stand united together and fully
support our President.”

        Townhall
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(9/6, Pavlich) notes Sanders also said, “President Trump has laid out a
bold and ambitious agenda. Every day since taking office, he has fulfilled
the promises he made. His accomplishments in less than two years have been
astounding. ... The individual behind this piece has chosen to deceive,
rather than support, the duly elected President of the United States. He is
not putting country first, but putting himself and his ego ahead of the
will of the American people. This coward should do the right thing and
resign.”

        *Another “Senior Official” Says “Dozens And Dozens” Within Working
To Thwart Trump. *Jonathan Swan and Mike Allen of Axios
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(9/6) say Trump “should be paranoid,” because “in the hours after the New
York Times published the anonymous” op-ed purportedly written by a senior
official in the Trump Administration, “two senior administration officials
reached out to Axios to say the author stole the words right out of their
mouths.” One “senior official” is quoted as saying. “I find the reaction to
the NYT op-ed fascinating – that people seem so shocked that there is a
resistance from the inside. A lot of us [were] wishing we’d been the
writer, I suspect. ... I hope he [Trump] knows – maybe he does? – that
there are dozens and dozens of us.” Swan and Allen add, “A good number of
current White House officials have privately admitted to us they consider
Trump unstable, and at times dangerously slow.”

        *Editor Of Book On Trump’s Mental Health Says White House Aides
Reached Out To Him. *The New York Daily News
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(9/6, Slattery) reports, “White House officials reached out to a noted Yale
University psychiatrist last fall out of concern over...Trump’s
increasingly erratic behavior.” Dr. Bandy Lee, “who edited the best-selling
book ‘The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental
Health Experts Assess a President,’ told the Daily News Thursday the
staffers contacted her because the President was ‘scaring’ them.” Said Lee,
“I had not mentioned this before because I did not want to confuse my role
as an educator to the public.” According to Lee, “around the same time, a
Trump family friend emailed her over concern for his mental health.”

        *Warren Urges Administration To Invoke 25th Amendment, Fundraises
On Her Call. *The Washington Times
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(9/6, Morton) reports that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) “called on White
House officials Thursday to remove...Trump from office as unfit to handle
the job.” Warren told CNN
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“If senior administration officials think the President of the United
States is not able to do his job, then they should invoke the 25th
Amendment.” The Times adds that “shortly after the CNN interview, Ms.
Warren sent out a fundraising letter, making the same case for removing Mr.
Trump.”

        The New York Times
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(9/6, Shear) reports on the history of the 25th Amendment and how it
operates. “The 25th Amendment to the Constitution is primarily designed to
clarify the presidential order of succession” and was proposed after John
F. Kennedy’s assassination. Of particular current interest is Section Four,
while “provides a multistep process for the vice president and a majority
of the officials who lead executive agencies – commonly thought of as the
cabinet – to declare that the president is ‘unable to discharge the powers
and duties of his office,’” which would lead to a vote in Congress and,
should two-thirds of members of both the House and the Senate must agree
the president is unable to continue performing his duties, the president is
stripped of his position.

        *Boot, Gerson, Ignatius, USA Today, Beschloss, Brownstein Among
Those Defending Rogue Aides. *Trump critic Max Boot writes in the Washington
Post
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(9/6) that both Trump’s supporters and critics “agreed...that the author,
who has been dubbed Deep State Throat, is a coward.” Boot adds, “The Times
op-ed writer apparently is trying to have it both ways by speaking out
publicly while still trying to stymie the president in private. Perhaps
that’s not a tenable approach, but I am willing to cut some slack to anyone
in a position of power who is working to save America from the most
reckless, corrupt and unqualified president in our history.”

        David Ignatius writes, also in the Washington Post
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(9/6), that “Trump called the leaker ‘gutless,’” but “the charge really
applies to members of Congress, administration officials and, yes, even
voters who see that something is disastrously wrong and do nothing to stop
it – protecting party or personal interests rather than the nation.”

        Under the headline “We Are A Superpower Run By A Simpleton,”
Michael Gerson writes in his Washington Post
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(9/6) column that “the manipulation of the president in a good cause
works,” and “those who engage in this task boldly and consistently are both
losing their reputation and serving their country.”

        USA Today
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(9/6) editorializes that “the mounting evidence, from people inside the
White House itself, that Captain Trump may be erratically steering the
nation toward an iceberg is both clarifying and somewhat terrifying. ...
How and when the Trump administration ends is unknowable at this point. But
its current course is looking increasingly unsustainable.”

        NBC Nightly News
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(9/6, story 3, 1:50, Jackson) showed presidential historian Michael
Beschloss saying, “If you’ve got a number of people at a high level all
agreeing that Donald Trump is not fit to be President and is in fact,
dangerous, that’s something we’ve never seen before.”

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(9/6), “In essence, what congressional Republicans have been saying for the
last 20 months and what now in the Woodward book and people in the
Administration are saying is ‘Yes, we agree, in private, that the President
by temperament, judgment, intellect is not fit for this job. But because he
is the key to the lock, he won the White House, he is the one who gives us
the power to achieve what we want on other fronts. ... If, in fact, all of
these Republicans believe that he is unfit, are they unwilling to do
anything about it because...he is the one who won and, because he won, they
are getting what they want.”

        *NYTimes Editorial: Trump’s Responses Confirm Allegations Of
Off-The-Rails Presidency. *A New York Times
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(9/6) editorial says “Trump has never handled criticism well, but this past
week has proved especially challenging.” First came “a scathing account” of
Trump in a new book by Bob Woodward, and a day later, an op-ed in this
newspaper, by an anonymous senior Administration official “recounted how
members of Mr. Trump’s team have worked to protect the nation from his
‘worst inclinations.’” Trump, the Times says, “quickly corroborated these
accounts by demonstrating precisely the sort of erratic, antidemocratic
behavior that is driving administration officials to come forward with
their concerns.”

        *Swalwell, Hirono Slam “Rogue” Aides As Well As Trump. *Rep. Eric
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(9/6), “The fact that these aides are going rogue, and I do not think they
are patriotic at all, I lay that blame squarely at the feet of Congress.
That is a Congress that has not checked the President, and we are in a
position where we have a new branch of government, these aides, who think
that they get to decide what is right or wrong and they prevent the
President from doing what he wants to do and that prevents democracy from
working in truly understanding what the intent and directions are on the
President.”

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(9/6), “The fact that there are a group of them trying to save this country
from the worst of the Trump impulses, it makes me wonder how bad could it
be. Because even overt things such as the 1.5 trillion tax breaks to the
richest people in our country, separating children from their parents at
the border, undoing environmental laws, those kinds of things are bad
enough. So I would want these people to come forward, because they are not
accountable to anybody. They’re not voted in. Why don’t they come forward
and tell us what’s going on in the White House? We do know it’s chaotic.”
He added, “They’re picking and choosing what things they want to protect us
from, the President’s worst instincts. I shudder to think what else could
be coming down the pike.”

        *USA Today: As Controversy Swirls, Americans “Start Off Every Day
In A Bad Mood.” *Under the headline “‘I Start Off Every Day In A Bad Mood’:
How Americans Grapple With Daily Drama Of Trump White House,” USA Today
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(9/6, Gomez, Collins) reports “the chaos and rancor depicted inside the
White House in the op-ed piece and a new book by veteran journalist Bob
Woodward is reverberating not only in Washington, but all across the
country – in places like Miami Beach; Denver; Freemont, Ohio and
Murfreesboro, Tenn.” USA Today goes on to interview voters who say “they
are finding it hard to escape the daily drama coming out of the White
House.” USA Today also reports that “though it’s too early to gauge the
toll from the latest stream of bad news, the stakes for Trump are huge,” as
“all of this comes at a time when Trump appears to be losing ground with
voters.” The voters interviewed for the story, at any rate, fall along
party lines.
Foreign Policy
Trump Welcomes Kim Saying He Wants Denuclearization In Trump’s First Term.

ABC World News Tonight
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(9/6, story 5, 1:10, Muir) reported, “Kim Jong-un, now saying he’s
committed to denuclearization by the end of the President’s first term.”
Kim met with South Korean officials in Pyongyang, “reportedly telling them
he has never made a negative comment about the President.” The South
Koreans “also say that Kim told them he wants to denuclearize before the
end of Trump’s first term. But David, the North Koreans and the US may have
very different definitions of what denuclearization actually means.” NBC
Nightly News
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(9/6, story 5, 1:40, Holt) reported that President Trump responded by
“praising Kim Jong-un’s diplomacy, tweeting, ‘Kim Jong Un of North Korea
proclaims unwavering faith in President Trump. Thank you Kim, we’ll get it
done together.’” However, “Despite the President declaring there is no
longer a nuclear threat from North Korea,” there is “no progress on US
nuclear demands, and now NBC News is reporting China is cheating on
sanctions, jump starting trade with North Korea.”

        The Washington Times
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(9/6, Muñoz) reports Trump “thanked North Korea on Thursday after a
timeline to complete denuclearization in just a few years was reportedly
set.” South Korean National Security Adviser Chung Eui-yong said Kim “has
‘unchanged’ faith in Mr. Trump,” and the North Koreans “want to
denuclearize by the end of Mr. Trump’s first term in January 2021.” Trump
“thanked the North Korean dictator on Twitter Thursday morning, writing,
‘We will get it done together!’” Reuters
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(9/6, Heavey) reports Trump “welcomed Kim Jong Un’s remarks saying his
faith in Trump was unchanged as the North Korean leader and that Pyongyang
aimed to achieve denuclearization within Trump’s first term in office.”
Trump tweeted
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“Kim Jong Un of North Korea proclaims ‘unwavering faith in President
Trump.’ Thank you to Chairman Kim. We will get it done together!”

        The Washington Post
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(9/6, Denyer) reports Kim “told a team of South Korean envoys that he
continues to trust President Trump and said he hoped to achieve the
denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula while Trump is in office, the
chief envoy said Thursday.” Trump “responded on Twitter by expressing his
appreciation,” but there was “also was a reminder of the current impasse in
negotiations.” North Korean media “repeated the country’s demand that the
United States make the next move by formally declaring an end to the Korean
War, which concluded in 1953 with an armistice but not a peace treaty.”

        The New York Times
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(9/6, Choe) reports Kim expressed “frustration over what he called
Washington’s failure to negotiate in good faith,” but he told Chung “that
he still had confidence in Mr. Trump. He said he had never spoken badly of
the American leader, even to his closest aides, since the two met in
Singapore on June 12, according to Mr. Chung.” Chung also said Kim “gave
him messages to relay to Washington, which officials said were being sent
to his American counterpart, John Bolton, Mr. Trump’s national security
adviser.” To the AP
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(9/6, Kim, Tong-Hyung, Klug), the “trove of comments from Kim...will be
parsed for clues about Kim’s mindset.”

        Politico
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(9/6, Oprysko) reports, “Kim’s praise for Trump was conveyed through a
South Korean delegation” and South Korean special envoy Chung Eun-yong said
that Kim said he is “willing to take more active measures toward
denuclearization if his advance steps could be met with matching measures.”
Reuters
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(9/6, Shin, Heavey) reports Chung said Kim and South Korean President Moon
Jae-in “will meet in Pyongyang on Sept. 18-20 for a third summit and
discuss ‘practical measures’ toward denuclearization.”

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(9/6) that Kim’s reported comments to the South Koreans “brought a glowing
response from Trump,” but “denuclearization talks may fall apart,” and
“many are concerned that Kim could be exploiting” Trump. Bret Baier
reported on Fox News’ Special Report
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(9/6) that while Kim informed the South of “his desire for a nuclear free
Korean peninsula,” North Korea’s state newspaper “says Washington must
discard its stubborn stance that the North must denuclearize before the US
agrees to a peace treaty.”

        The Washington Times
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(9/6, Taylor) reports that while critics say that “Trump’s ongoing nuclear
negotiations with North Korea...are going nowhere fast,” yet “some key
officials and analysts in South Korea and in Washington argue that they can
see major policy shifts,” and that “Kim’s desire to secure his own
legitimacy” is driving him towards “a totally uncharacteristic openness to
diplomacy with Washington and Seoul.”

        *New US Special Envoy To Visit Asia. *The AP
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(9/6, Lee) reports newly appointed US special envoy for North Korea Stephen
Biegun will “make his first diplomatic trip abroad next week in the Trump
administration’s latest effort to press for progress in uncertain
denuclearization talks.” The State Department announced Thursday that
Biegun will “visit South Korea, China and Japan between Sept. 10 and Sept.
15.” In a statement, the Department said Biegun “will meet with his
counterparts and continue diplomatic efforts to achieve the final, fully
verified denuclearization of North Korea as agreed to by Chairman Kim in
Singapore.” The Wall Street Journal
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(9/6, McBride) reports Biegun’s trip follows the cancellation of a planned
visit to North Korea by the envoy and Secretary of State Pompeo.

        *US Charges North Korean For Cyberattacks. *ABC World News
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(9/6, story 5, 1:10, Muir) briefly reported that the Justice Department is
“taking action against a North Korean figure backed by that government for
hacking.” NBC Nightly News
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(9/6, story 5, 1:40, Holt) reported, “Today, US authorities charging the
North Korean spy they say is responsible not only for hacking Sony pictures
in 2014, but for other attacks, costing hundreds of millions of dollars in
damage around the world.” One “worldwide attack” took down computers in 150
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(9/6) that officials on Thursday “said...there was no communication with
North Korea in advance” of the announced charges. Officials “add[ed] the
charges were not held to avoid disrupting the June nuclear talks in
Singapore” between Trump and Kim.

        The Washington Post
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(9/6, Nakashima, Morello, Barrett) reports the Justice Department announced
“computer hacking charges Thursday against an alleged spy for the North
Korean government in connection with the 2014 cyberattack on Sony Pictures
Entertainment, marking the first time the United States has brought such
charges against a Pyongyang operative.” US officials accused Park Jin Hyok
“of hacking on behalf of North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB),
the military intelligence agency that controls most of the country’s
cyber-capabilities.” The complaint “outlines a series of malicious
cyber-operations,” linking Park to “the Lazarus Group, which also has been
implicated in the audacious attempt to steal $1 billion from the Bangladesh
Bank in 2016, and to the WannaCry virus that affected more than 230,000
computers in 150 countries last year.”

        The New York Times
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(9/6, Sanger, Benner, Goldman) reports the Justice Department accused the
North of “orchestrating a broad conspiracy that caused hundreds of millions
of dollars’ worth of economic damage over the past five years in the United
States and around the world.” Park was “charged with computer fraud and
wire fraud. He was part of attacks on film companies and distributors,
including Sony Pictures, financial institutions and defense contractors,
law enforcement officials said.” Park was also accused of “being part of
the development of the WannaCry 2.0 ransomware attack that infected
hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide and crippled the British
health care system last year.”

        USA Today
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(9/6, Shesgreen) reports the Trump Administration “concluded last year that
North Korea was responsible, but then-Homeland Security Adviser Thomas
Bossert suggested the U.S. had little recourse in the case.” The AFP
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(9/6) reports the US “charged a North Korean programmer Thursday with some
of the most dramatic global hacking cases of recent years, alleging they
were carried out on behalf of the regime in Pyongyang.” The Treasury
Department “announced financial sanctions on Park and a
government-controlled company he worked for, Chosun Expo Joint Venture.”

        Reuters
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(9/6, Wroughton) reports the Treasury Department “accused Pak Jin Kyok and
the Chosun Expo Joint Venture company of involvement in malign cyber
activities and said they were linked to the North Korean government.” The
Department said they “engaged in significant activities undermining
cybersecurity through the use of computer networks or systems against
targets outside of North Korea on behalf of the Government of North Korea
or the Workers’ Party of Korea.”

        *Red Cross Says At Least 76 Dead In North Korea Flooding. *Reuters
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(9/6, Nebehay) reports the International Federation of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies said “severe flooding in North Korea has killed at least
76 people with nearly the same number missing and thousands left homeless
by the destruction.” Red Cross volunteers are “conducting search and rescue
operations in North and South Hwanghae provinces, where heavy rains began
on August 28, it said, adding that many children were among the 75
missing.”

        *North Korea To Hold “Mass Games” To Celebrate 70th Anniversary. *
Reuters
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(9/6, Smith) reports that for the “first time in five years, North Korea is
expected to put on a massive performance on Sunday known as the ‘Mass
Games.’” This year’s performances come as Kim “seeks to rebrand North Korea
as a responsible nuclear-armed state more focused on developing its economy
than rattling proverbial sabres.” The Mass Games will “be one of several
high profile events, including a military parade, to mark the 70th
anniversary of the founding of North Korea.”
Trump Says UNWRA Cuts Are Bargaining Chip In Middle East Peace Talks.

Bret Baier reported on Fox News’ Special Report[image: Image removed by
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(9/6) that the Israeli military says it has shut down the main personnel
crossing into Gaza “after hundreds of Palestinian rioters hurled rocks and
damaged the terminal.” The move comes as Palestinians “face the prospect of
much less US aid in the near future.” after the Trump Administration’s
decision last month to cut $300 million from the UN relief agency UNWRA.
Fox’s Trey Yingst said Palestinians Fox spoke to on Thursday “believe the
assistance of the Trump Administration to the United Nations is a right
given to them under international law” – something the Trump Administration
“disputes.” President Trump on Thursday “admitted” during a call with
American Jewish leaders “that he is using the cuts as a bargaining chip in
order to bring back the Palestinians to the American-led peace
negotiations.”

        Axios
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(9/6, Ravid) reports, “In a conference call with Jewish leaders Thursday,”
Trump said he had asked previous negotiators, “‘Did you ever do that
before? Did you ever use the money angle?’ They said, ‘No, sir. We thought
it would be disrespectful.’ I said, ‘I don’t think it’s disrespectful at
all. I think it’s disrespectful when people don’t come to the table.’”
US, UK, France, Germany, Canada Unite In Response To Russian Nerve Agent
Attack.

Reuters
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(9/6) reports that on Thursday, the governments of Britain, France,
Germany, Canada and the United States “pledged...to work to disrupt ‘the
hostile activities of foreign intelligence networks’ and called on Russia
to disclose its nerve agent program.” Reuters says that in a joint
statement, “the other four countries said they backed Britain’s assessment
that Russian officers were behind an attack in March on a former Russian
spy and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury using nerve agent
Novichok. Britain charged two Russians in absentia on Wednesday with
attempted murder.”

        The Washington Post
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(9/6, Adam) reports that the joint statement “was released shortly before
London’s and Moscow’s envoys to the United Nations squared off at the
Security Council in an emergency meeting called by Britain to brief
diplomats on the investigation.” The Post says British Ambassador Karen
Pierce “methodically outlined evidence that she said pointed to the
Kremlin’s complicity in the attack.” According to the Post, Russian
Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia “unleashed scorn as he denied any Russian
involvement in the case, which he ridiculed as ‘an unfounded and mendacious
cocktail of facts.’”

        The AP
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(9/6, Vasilyeva, Lawless) reports that the Kremlin also “rejected
accusations by British authorities that Russian President Vladimir Putin is
ultimately responsible for [the] poisoning...and said Russia is not going
to investigate the suspects.” Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said,
“Neither the Russian leadership nor its representatives have anything to do
with the events in Salisbury.”

        *US Planes Intercepted Russian Bombers Near Alaska Saturday.
*The Washington
Free Beacon
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(9/6, Gertz) reports according to the North American Aerospace Defense
Command, “two Russian nuclear-capable bombers were intercepted by American
F-22 jets near Alaska on Saturday.” Spokesman Michael Kucharek said, “Two
Alaskan-based NORAD F-22 fighters intercepted and visually identified two
Tu-95 ‘Bear’ long-range bomber aircraft flying in the Alaskan Air Defense
Identification Zone, south of the Aleutian Islands.” He added that the
“aircraft were intercepted and monitored by the F-22s until the bombers
left the ADIZ along the Aleutian Island chain heading west.” Kucharek
concluded, “At no time did the Russian bombers enter Canadian or United
States sovereign airspace.”

        *Resolution Would Ask Trump To Support Renaming NATO HQ For McCain.
*The Washington Post
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(9/6, Sonmez) reports a bipartisan group of Members of Congress have backed
legislation to ask “the President to support renaming NATO headquarters”
for the late Sen. John McCain. The Post says the proposal “is likely to
spark the ire of President Trump.” The measure was introduced by Sens. Ben
Cardin (D-DE) and Marco Rubio (R-FL), and by Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-WI)
and Jimmy Panetta (D-CA). They were backed by another “group of 20 other
lawmakers – nine Republicans and 11 Democrats – from both chambers.”
US Official: Trump “Not In A Hurry” To Withdraw From Syria.

The Washington Post
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(9/6, Deyoung) reports President Trump, “who just five months ago said he
wanted ‘to get out’ of Syria and bring US troops home soon, has agreed to a
new strategy that indefinitely extends the military effort there and
launches a major diplomatic push to achieve American objectives, according
to senior State Department officials.” With ISIS nearly defeated, the
Administration has “redefined its goals to include the exit of all Iranian
military and proxy forces from Syria, and establishment of a stable,
nonthreatening government acceptable to all Syrians and the international
community.” Officials said that “much of the motivation for the change,
officials said, stems from growing doubts about whether Russia...is able
and willing to help eject Iran.” Newly appointed special envoy James
Jeffrey said, “The new policy is we’re no longer pulling out by the end of
the year,” adding, “That means we are not in a hurry.” The AP
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(9/6, George) similarly reports the Administration “is playing down talk of
an imminent pullout of American forces from Syria,” pledging the “US will
remain in Syria” until the “enduring defeat” of ISIS

        *Larijani Hopeful For Agreement With Russia, Turkey On Idlib. *
Reuters
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(9/6, Kiselyova) reports Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said he
“hoped the presidents of Russia, Turkey and Iran would reach a final
agreement on Syria’s rebel-held enclave of Idlib at a summit in Tehran on
Friday, Russian news agencies reported.” Larijani said, “I really hope that
at the summit tomorrow in Tehran, in which (President Vladimir) Putin is
going to take part, he will be able to reach a certain final agreement with
his colleagues on the events happening in Idlib.”

        The AP
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(9/6, Karam) reports the leaders of the three nations are hoping to reach a
“last-minute deal to avert a bloodbath in Idlib, Syria’s crowded
northwestern province and last opposition stronghold.” The province and
“surrounding area is home to about 3 million people – nearly half of them
civilians displaced from other parts of Syria – but also an estimated
10,000 hard-core fighters, including al-Qaida-linked militants.” The AP
adds that the three leaders “have little common ground when it comes to
Syria.” The AP also reports that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
“stands to lose the most from an assault on Idlib,” as adds the AP, its
loss “would represent a humiliating failure that threatens to completely
defeat Ankara’s interests in Syria.”

        *Russia Apparently Unwilling To Agree To US Demands That Iran Exit
Syria. *Bloomberg News
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(9/6, Meyer, Arkhipov) reports Russian President Vladimir Putin is “done
making concessions to the U.S. over Iran’s presence in Syria.” After
pushing “Iranian-backed forces away from the frontier with the Israeli-held
Golan Heights in July,” Putin is “defying the Trump Administration’s demand
to expel Iran completely from Syria after the civil war there winds down.
With Washington’s credibility on the ropes both in Moscow and Tehran, and
the U.S. eager to end its involvement in Syria, the Russians and Iranians
may well prevail.” The issue of Iranian presence is “expected to be a
central one when the presidents of Russia, Iran and Turkey meet in Tehran
on Friday to cement roles in postwar Syria.”

        *Russia Warns It’s Prepared To Attack US-Protected “Buffer Zone” In
Syria. *Wolf Blitzer reported on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image removed
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(9/6) that military officials are “increasingly concerned that US troops
could be at risk in a potential Russian attack on militants in Syria.”
Barbara Starr added that Russia has “warned the US military twice in the
last week,” and “as recently as yesterday,” that Russian forces and Syrian
regime forces “are prepared to attack” in an area along the border “where
Iraq, Jordan, and Syria all come together at a place called At Tanf. There
is a buffer zone there that US forces help protect.” The Russians “say
there are militants inside...and they want to go inside...and get them
out.”

        *WPost: Assad And Russia Will Disregard Trump’s Tweets. *The Washington
Post
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(9/6) editorializes on President Trump’s tweet warning “Russia not to join
in a new offensive” on Idlib, and on Secretary of State Pompeo’s tweet that
“the world is watching” calling the US response “pathetically weak.” The
Post adds that allowing “the Assad-Russia-Iran alliance” to complete its
control of Syria “would be another damaging abdication of U.S. leadership.”
The Post concludes that Assad and Russia will “judge that tweets from the
president of the United States can be safely disregarded.”
US, India Sign Military Agreement While Mattis, Pompeo In New Delhi.

The Washington Post
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(9/6, Slater) reports that the US and Indian governments “signed a major
military communications agreement” on Thursday while Secretary of State
Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mattis were in New Delhi. The Post says the
deal “highlight[s] the growing partnership between the two nations as they
seek to manage a rising China,” and “will allow India to receive
military-grade communications equipment from the United States and permit
the exchange of real-time encrypted information on platforms used by the
Indian and U.S. armed forces.” The Post points out that “sales of U.S.
military equipment to India have increased considerably over the past
decade, and the United States is now India’s second-largest arms supplier.”

        The New York Times
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(9/6, Abi-Habib) reports the agreement will “pave the way for New Delhi to
buy advanced American weaponry and to share sensitive military technology,”
while “both powers warily eye the rise of China.” Mattis said, “We will
work together for a free and prosperous Indo-Pacific.” Yet, says the Times,
“the two counties remain deeply skeptical of each other.” But, also reports
the Times, “India is critical to the United States’ new ‘Indo-Pacific’
strategy.”
Multiple Attacks Leave At Least 40 Dead In Afghanistan.

The CBS Evening News
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(9/6, story 4, 2:25, Glor) reported, “An Afghan police officer shot and
killed eight colleagues today, the latest insider attack in Afghanistan.”
CBS’ Charlie D’Agata, reporting that “four attacks in 24 hours left at
least 40 dead,” said the “threats are everywhere. Insider attacks against
Afghan forces, insider attacks against US forces, and here in Kabul,
despite checkpoints...nobody seems capable of stopping Taliban or ISIS from
striking the capital.” D’Agata added, “Seventeen years and an estimated $1
trillion US tax dollars later, yet real security here still remains out of
reach.”

        The New York Times
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(9/6, Philipps, Gibbons-Neff) reports on the death of Command Sgt. Maj.
Timothy A. Bolyard at the hands of “two Afghan police officers” in what the
Times says is “a long string of what are called green-on-blue killings of
coalition soldiers by their Afghan allies.” Bolyard served for years in
Iraq and then in Afghanistan, and “earned six Bronze Stars.” He was “the
154th member of the American-led coalition to be killed by an insider
attack.”

        *Woodward Book: Comforting Grieving Military Families Took Toll On
Trump. *The New York Post
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(9/6, Hicks) reports “comforting the families of America’s fallen service
members took a toll on President Trump – especially when the survivors
included small children,” that according to Bob Woodward’s new book on the
Trump White House. In what the Post calls “the most striking of those
experiences,” Trump traveled to Dover Air Force Base to meet the family of
slain Navy SEAL Ryan Owens, who died in a special operations raid in Yemen.
Woodward quotes a “senior staffer” as saying of Trump, “He was clearly
rattled. He let it be known he would make no more trips to Dover.”
Democrats Warn They’ll Block Any NAFTA Deal That Doesn’t Include Canada.

Bloomberg News
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(9/6, Wasson, Donnan) reports that “key Democrats warned that if their
party wins a US House majority in November, they will strongly consider
rejecting a Trump administration rewrite of a North American trade deal
that doesn’t include Canada and raise wages for US workers.” According to
Bloomberg News, “Democrats said in interviews that a Mexico-only deal
wouldn’t be acceptable and that any renegotiation of Nafta needs to have
tangible benefits for workers.” Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA), the top Democrat
on the House Ways and Means Committee, is quoted as saying, “Canada should
be in the deal. This should be a trilateral, not a bilateral deal.”

        Reuters
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(9/6, Chance), meanwhile, reports that Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia
Freeland on Thursday “reiterated that talks to save” the trade pact had
been “positive and constructive.” Freeland told reporters as she headed in
for a second day of talks with USTR Lighthgizer “that officials from both
sides had worked on technical issues overnight,” but “did not elaborate.”
The Washington Times
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(9/6, Miller) reports that while USTR Lighthizer and Freeland are “the
chief dealmakers at the table,” but “on the sidelines, President Trump and
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have dug into seemingly irreconcilable
positions.”
Domestic Policy
Media Analyses: Kavanaugh “On Track” For Confirmation.

Coverage of the third day of the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court
Justice-designate Brett Kavanaugh focuses primarily on the disclosure of an
email
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in which he challenged the accuracy of deeming Roe v. Wade to be “settled
law of the land” and the release of confidential documents about
Kavanaugh’s views on race by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ). Media reports cast
yesterday’s hearing as particularly contentious. Despite the document
releases and dramatic hearings, multiple outlets say Kavanaugh appears to
be on track for confirmation.

        The AP
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(9/6, Mascaro, Sherman) says the “finger-pointing over the unusual vetting
process for Trump’s nominee made for a rough start for the final day of
questioning of Kavanaugh who has so far avoided major missteps that could
block his confirmation.” Still, the AP says “so far, Kavanaugh appears on
track toward confirmation.” On the CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by
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(9/6, story 2, 1:50, Glor), Jan Crawford likewise said “the main takeaway
is Judge Kavanaugh...is performing well. Democrats haven’t made any real
headway in tripping him up on any of the major issues.” Crawford later
added, “I think in their questions, senators from both sides, you could
really have this sense that they think that Judge Kavanaugh is going to get
voted out of this committee, and ultimately, he’s going to be confirmed by
the Senate.”

        Terry Moran said on ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by
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(9/6, story 4, 2:55, Muir), “Democrats need Republicans to block Kavanaugh,
but there’s no sign of that. And, in fact, they are on the verge of losing
moderate Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Heidi Heitkamp of North
Dakota. Both said they see nothing in these hearings that would disqualify
Kavanaugh.” To the Washington Times
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(9/6, Dinan, Sherfinski, Swoyer), this week’s hearing have “been the
craziest confirmation hearings in decades – yet they’ve done little to
change the trajectory of Judge Kavanaugh, who still appears headed for a
narrow confirmation to the Supreme Court.”

        The New York Times
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(9/6, Savage), meanwhile, reports that when he worked in the George W. Bush
White House, Kavanaugh “challenged the accuracy of deeming the Supreme
Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision to be ‘settled law of
the land.’” The Times cites “a secret email” it obtained that has been
“deemed ‘committee confidential,’ meaning it could not be made public or
discussed by Democrats in questioning him in hearings this week.” According
to the Times, “It was among several an unknown person provided to The New
York Times late Wednesday.” Kavanaugh wrote, “I am not sure that all legal
scholars refer to Roe as the settled law of the land at the Supreme Court
level since Court can always overrule its precedent, and three current
Justices on the Court would do so.” The Times acknowledges that Kavanaugh
“stops short of saying whether he personally believed that the abortion
rights precedent should be considered a settled legal issue.”

        Reuters
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(9/6, Hurley, Becker) reports that when “asked about that document,”
Kavanaugh “said he suggested the change because he thought the draft
language was overstating the thinking of legal scholars at the time.”
Kavanaugh “again declined to say whether...Roe v. Wade was correctly
decided, though he indicated – as he also had on Wednesday – that it is a
decision that merits respect as ‘an important precedent of the Supreme
Court’ that has been ‘reaffirmed many times.’”

        *Booker Release Of Kavanaugh Emails Broke Senate Rules. *The AP
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(9/6, Mascaro, Sherman) reports Thursday’s hearing “tumbled into highly
charged arguing...over whether key documents were being withheld,” and
Booker “risked Senate discipline by releasing confidential material” about
Kavanaugh’s legal views on race. Politico
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(9/6, Schor), in a report headlined “Partisan Brawl Erupts After Booker
Releases Kavanaugh Docs,” similarly says yesterday’s hearing “erupted in
bitter partisan combat.” Booker, the Daily Caller
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(9/6, Athey) reports, said, “I am ready to except with full responsibility
what I have done,” comparing himself to Spartacus. The Washington Times
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(9/6, Swoyer) reports Republicans, however, dismissed the move as
“presidential posturing” by Booker, “who is part of a crowd of Democrats
eyeing a White House bid, and looking to use the confirmation hearings to
try to stand out for liberal activists.”

        The Washington Post
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(9/6, Berman), meanwhile, says that the emails released Thursday “had, in
fact, already been cleared for public release, according to Democratic and
Republican aides on the Senate Judiciary Committee.” According to Axios
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(9/6, Axios), Booker’s team argues that “Senate Democrats were able to
shame the committee into agreeing to make last night’s documents publicly
available,” and that “other committee confidential documents” were also
released. Still, CQ Roll Call
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(9/6, Bennett) reports Booker and Senate Majority Whip Cornyn “jousted at
the Thursday session’s start” over the process by which records from
Kavanaugh’s time in the Bush Administration have been reviewed and cleared
or withheld. The Washington Examiner
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(9/6, Cohen) reports Cornyn “chastised” Booker for the release of the
document. “Running for president is no excuse for violating the rules of
the Senate,” he said.

        CQ Roll Call
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(9/6, Tully-Mcmanus), however, says it is “highly unlikely that...Booker –
or any other lawmaker – is actually going to be expelled from the Senate
for the unauthorized disclosure of documents about...Kavanaugh.” Booker
said on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360
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(9/6), “So according to Cornyn’s rules...I am breaking the rules. But I was
raised and taught that an unjust law, you almost have an obligation to
stand against it. So I am violating those laws. ... You see there’s no
consequence. They will not move to expel me from the Senate for violating
the committee confidential rules and I will continue to do so because I
believe the public has the right to know where he stands on these issues.”

        Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) – who also posted the documents on her
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(9/6) that they “were suppressed. ... I did not request that this document
be cleared. They’re trying to say they actually cleared it this morning. I
referred to the document last night. The fact of the matter is they don’t
want to be confronted with the idea of having to expel some of us because
they cannot justify why these documents should have been confidential in
the first place.”

        The New York Times
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(9/6, Stolberg), meanwhile, says that for Booker, Sen. Kamala Harris
(D-CA), “and to a lesser extent” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) – all of whom
are thought to have presidential aspirations – the Kavanaugh hearings “have
been something like a campaign audition,” and “a chance to demonstrate
fidelity to the left.” Along similar lines, the Washington Post
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(9/6, Sullivan) says “the 2020 presidential campaign came roaring
into...Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings this week,” with Booker and Harris
“going to extraordinary lengths to demonstrate their opposition to
President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.”

        *Leahy: “No Nominee In History Has Had So Much Kept Secret.” *Sen.
Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image removed by
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(9/6), “So much of Judge Kavanagh’s documents have been held back. No
nominee in history has had so much kept secret, all of it being done by an
operative at the White House who has represented everybody from Steve
Bannon and on. There is no credibility. I asked questions this morning on a
number of things involving the Republican who stole things from Democrats’
files. That had been kept confidential. We got it marked ‘unconfidential’
at three o’clock this morning, so I could ask questions a few hours
earlier. That is no way to do this. Everything we are seeing here, the tens
of thousands of files that are being kept hidden, this is an example of
trying to cover something up. If there is nothing there, why try to cover
it up?”

        *Trump Highlights Kavanaugh Nomination At Montana Rally For
Rosendale. *President Trump highlighted the confirmation process for
Kavanaugh at a Thursday rally in Billings, Montana as he campaigned against
the reelection of Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), who is being challenged this fall
by state Auditor Matt Rosendale (R-MT). The AP
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(9/6, Miller, Thomas) reports that Trump praised Kavanaugh’s “progress in
winning confirmation to the Supreme Court on Thursday, decrying the ‘anger
and the meanness on the other side – it’s sick.’” Trump “sought to elevate
Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a political litmus test for voters as he
embraced” Rosendale. Seeking to portray Tester “as a tool of liberal
Democrats, Trump said, ‘Jon Tester talks like he’s from Montana, but he
votes like he’s Nancy Pelosi.’” Trump “said many of the Senate Democrats
whom Tester had helped elect ‘are attacking Judge Kavanaugh and looking
like fools.’”

        The Billings (MT) Gazette
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(9/6, Michels) reports that Trump “tried to paint Tester as an
obstructionist,” and pointed out that Tester opposed the confirmation of
Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Trump also hit Tester, the ranking
Democrat on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, for his opposition to
Trump’s nomination of Ronny Jackson to serve as VA secretary. Trump said,
“Admiral Jackson, his reputation was attacked and all those horrible things
that were said about him, they turned out to be lies and they turned out to
be false.” The Great Falls (MT) Tribune
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(9/6, Drake) reports Trump “made fiery comments...in which he criticized”
Tester, “the media and the New York Times to a cheering crowd during a
rally in Billings.” The President “accused the New York Times of ‘treason’
for printing an anonymous column this week critical of him. He said Tester
would not deliver the votes that he needs to move forward and that the
media was not printing the good things he has accomplished.”

        KWYB-TV
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Butte, MT (9/7) reported that Trump spoke to “a packed house” and “spent a
lot of time talking about Tester, specifically the policies he disagrees
with.” KTVQ-TV
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Billings, MT (9/7) reported, “A huge crowd tonight welcomed” Trump “as he
talked gun rights, Social Security, and borders. The underlying theme:
elect Republicans to Congress.”

        The Hill
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(9/6, Axelrod) reported that Trump accused Tester “of embracing the ‘swamp’
in Washington, D.C.” Trump said, “Jon Tester will never drain the swamp
because he happens to live in the swamp and he loves the swamp.” Fox News
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(9/6, Zwirz) reported on its website that Trump “painted Democrats as weak
on immigration, emphasizing the need, he said, to vote for Rosendale over
Tester.” Trump said, “This election is a choice between Democrats who want
to abolish ICE and Republicans who want to abolish MS-13.” The Washington
Post
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(9/6, Dawsey, Nakamura) reports that Trump also “raised the prospects that
he could face impeachment if Republicans lose control of Congress.” He told
the crowd, “You aren’t voting for a candidate, you’re voting for which
party controls Congress. It’s a very important thing,” Trump said. “They
like to use the impeach word. ‘Impeach Trump!’ ... ‘But he hasn’t done
anything wrong.’ ‘Doesn’t matter, we will impeach him!’”

        The New York Times
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(9/6, Cochrane, Landler) reports that Trump sought “to tamp down
perceptions of an out-of-control White House, after a string of devastating
reports about his insurgent staff, warning supporters here that if they did
not turn out to vote in November, his political enemies would subject him
to impeachment. ‘If it happens, it’s your fault because you didn’t go out
to vote,’ Mr. Trump said. ... His impeachment at the hands of a Democratic
majority, he said, would turn the United States into ‘a third-world
country,’ where the opposition routinely impeaches the sitting leader.”
Trump also accused the press “of ignoring his successes and waging a
campaign to delegitimize him. ‘The truth is, with these people, you can’t
win.’; But he insisted, ‘I’m winning.’”

        The Washington Examiner
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(9/6, Giaritelli) reports that in addition to touting Rosendale, Trump
called Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-MT), “who assaulted a reporter during an
interview last year, a ‘fighter and a winner.’” Trump said, “Everybody has
to get out and vote for Greg and vote for people that are going to vote for
us because without that, you are going to lose a lot of the things that we
have won over the last two years.”

        CNN
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(9/6, Bradner) reported on its website that Montana “is one of five states
that Trump won by double digits in 2016 where a Democratic senator is up
for re-election this fall – which the White House and Republican
strategists hope will give the President outsized influence on their Senate
races.” Reuters
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(9/7, Holland) also reports on the rally.

        *RNC Releases New Ad Blasting Democrats, Kavanaugh Protesters. *USA
Today
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(9/6, Hayes) reports the Republican National Committee released a new ad
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“bashing Democratic lawmakers and protesters who attempted to disrupt”
Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings. The 42-second spot, dubbed “The Left is
Crazytown,” features “excerpts from public speeches given by Democratic
leaders,” including by House Minority Leader Pelosi and Rep. Maxine Waters
(D-CA), as well as images of protesters.

        *Judicial Crisis Network Launches Ads Backing Kavanaugh. *The
Washington
Examiner
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(9/6, Jashinsky) reports the Judicial Crisis Network “is putting $600,000
into a two-week ad buy starting Wednesday, launching a 30-second commercial
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nationwide touting Kavanaugh on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News.” The ad “consists
almost exclusively of soundbites from Kavanaugh’s opening statement on
Tuesday.”

        *Krugman: “Kavanaugh Will Kill The Constitution.” *Paul Krugman
writes in his New York Times
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(9/6) column titled “Kavanaugh Will Kill The Constitution” that “a
Kavanaugh confirmation will set us up for multiple constitutional crises.
After all, if Kavanaugh is confirmed, we will be trying to navigate a
turbulent era in American politics with a Supreme Court in which two seats
were effectively stolen. First Republicans refused even to give President
Barack Obama’s nominee so much as a hearing; then they will have filled two
positions with nominees chosen by a president who lost the popular vote and
eked out an Electoral College win only with aid from a hostile foreign
power.” Krugman concludes by making a “last-minute appeal to Republican
senators who care about America’s future, if there are any left: Don’t do
this. A vote for Kavanaugh will be a vote to destroy the legitimacy of one
of the last federal institutions standing.”

        *Senate Confirms Two Obama-Nominated Judges. *The Washington Times
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(9/6, Swoyer) reports that amid Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, the
Senate “found some striking unanimity, including approving two federal
district judges originally nominated by President Obama.” Butler County,
Pennsylvania, Judge Marilyn Jean Horan and US Magistrate Judge Susan
Paradise Baxter were both nominated as District Court judges in 2015, “but
never saw final action in the GOP-led Senate, and had their nominations
expire with the change of administrations.” President Trump, though,
renominated both in December and they were confirmed by voice.
DHS Proposes Holding Families Seeking Asylum Until Requests Are Heard.

The AP
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(9/6, Long, Taxin) reports that the Administration has “moved to abandon a
longstanding court settlement that limits how long immigrant children can
be kept locked up, proposing new regulations that would allow the
government to detain families until their immigration cases are decided.”
DHS officials “said that ending the so-called Flores agreement of 1997 will
speed up the handling of immigration cases while also deterring people from
illegally crossing the Mexican border.” The Flores agreement “requires the
government to...release [minors] generally after 20 days in detention,”
which has mean that “many parents and children caught trying to slip into
the country have been released into the US while their asylum requests wind
their way through the courts – a practice President Donald Trump has
decried as ‘catch-and-release.’”

        Reuters
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(9/6, Torbati) says the Flores agreement “places significant curbs on how
long and in what conditions the government can detain migrant children.”
According to Reuters, “The regulation released on Thursday, if it goes into
effect, would enshrine some of the protections while circumventing others,
by allowing the government to detain children in facilities not licensed by
state authorities to hold minors.” Reuters says Administration officials
“have repeatedly referred to the agreement’s standards as ‘loopholes’ that
attract migrants,” and DHS Secretary Nielsen “repeated that reasoning,
saying in a statement that ‘legal loopholes’ prevent the government from
detaining and deporting migrant families.” Said Nielsen, “This rule
addresses one of the primary pull factors for illegal immigration and
allows the federal government to enforce immigration laws as passed by
Congress.”

        To the Washington Times
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(9/6, Dinan), meanwhile, the Administration “moved to regain control of the
immigration detention system.” The Times adds that “once finalized, the
proposal would...end some of the intrusive court oversight of the treatment
of children, and return decision-making to the administration, which for
years has had its hands tied by judges’ orders.” The New York Times
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(9/6, Dickerson) reports, however, that “if it is successful in adopting
the proposed rule, the administration will be able to hold migrant families
indefinitely in facilities that have been specifically outfitted to house
children and adults together.” The Times says “such facilities are subject
to federal standards for family detention facilities, and are evaluated by
independent reviewers.”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(9/6, Grad) reports “the new effort is expected to spark another legal
battle between the administration and immigration advocates,” and the
Washington
Post
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(9/6, Mirofff, Sacchetti) that the Administration’s “maneuver” is “almost
certain to land the administration back in court, where U.S. District Court
Judge Dolly M. Gee, who oversees the agreement, has rejected attempts to
extend the amount of time migrant children can be held with their parents
beyond the limit of 20 days.” However, according to the Post, “DHS
officials say the change would not undermine the protections mandated by
the court agreement, but rather fully implement them as a set of formal
policies.” The Washington Free Beacon
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(9/6, Lehman), Politico
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(9/6, Hesson) and Wall Street Journal
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(9/6, Caldwell, Gurman), among other news outlets, also report the story
this morning.

        *House Democrats Ask Mattis To Reject Border Wall Funding For
Arizona Section. *The Washington Examiner
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(9/6, Tritten) reports “a group of House Democrats on Thursday urged
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to reject a request that he spend $450 million
to build a section of President Trump’s border wall along a military base
in Arizona.” The Examiner adds “the request from the Department of Homeland
Security would drain Pentagon funds needed to rebuild the military services
and fix aging military facilities, according to a letter to Mattis” from
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), the ranking member on the House Armed Services
Committee, “and fellow Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee.”

        *ICE Arrests, Removals Up In First Three Quarters Of 2018. *The Hill
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(9/6, Burke) reports “the number of arrests and removals by Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) increased in the first three quarters of fiscal
year 2018 compared with the same period the previous year, according to new
figures released Thursday.” The Hill adds “arrests of undocumented
immigrants rose by 17 percent and removals were up by about 9 percent
between October 2017 and June 2018.” ICE “arrested about 40,000 immigrants
who did not have prior criminal records, up from about 24,000 arrests in
the same fiscal 2017 period.” The Washington Times
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(9/6, Dinan) points out, meanwhile, that those numbers are “still far shy
of the levels during the peak years of President Obama,” when “Hispanic
leaders angrily dubbed him ‘deporter-in-chief.’” The Times adds that “in
2012, he had deported 310,000 people by this point – 40 percent more than
Mr. Trump.”

        *New York Mayor’s Office Will Not Back Anti-ICE City Legislation. *The
New York Post
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(9/6, Calder) reports that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Administration
“won’t be backing a City Council bill prohibiting the city from doing
business with agencies enforcing federal immigration laws because it could
leave New York vulnerable to terrorist attacks,” the head of the Mayor’s
Office of Immigrant Affairs said Thursday. While Bitta Mostofi said the
Administration “supports the ‘goal’ of the bill to distance the city” from
ICE, she said two city contracts with DHS “unrelated to immigration reform
would be voided under the proposed legislation.”
Federal Prosecutors Using Grand Jury To Investigate McCabe.

Citing two unnamed sources, the Washington Post
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(9/6, Zapotosky) reports that federal prosecutors “have for months been
using a grand jury to investigate former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe
– an indication the probe into whether he misled officials exploring his
role in a controversial media disclosure has intensified.” The grand jury
“has summoned more than one witness, the people said, and the case is
ongoing.” To the Post, the “presence of the grand jury shows prosecutors
are treating the matter seriously, locking in the accounts of witnesses who
might later have to testify at a trial.” However, it “remains unclear if
McCabe will ultimately be charged.”

        *FBI Document: Agents Lacked Confidence In Steele. *The Washington
Times
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(9/6, Scarborough) reports that the FBI “judged Christopher Steele’s
anti-Trump information as only ‘minimally corroborated,’ according to a
declassified document. Yet the bureau used his reports to obtain a
year-long wiretap” on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and “to frame its
Russia collusion investigation.” The FBI’s official “Human Source
Validation Report” on Steele, which was provided to the Times under the
Freedom of Information Act, said it had only “medium confidence” in his
work.

        *GOP Lawmakers Ask Trump To Declassify FBI Russia Probe Documents. *The
Washington Post
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(9/6, Demirjian) reports that a group of “conservative Republicans are
asking President Trump to declassify, within the next week, several key
documents from the FBI’s investigations into the president’s suspected
Russia ties.” The Post says such a move would “circumvent the federal law
enforcement agencies members have been clashing with for months to procure
the information.” Speaking to reporters, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said, “Mr.
President, we need your help,” vowing that the information would help
members expose “the rotten basis for the investigations that continue,
solely to delegitimize the duly elected president of the United States.”

        Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) – a member of the group calling on the
Trump to declassify more documents – said on Fox News’ Ingraham Angle[image:
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(9/6), “In a new batch of text messages, there was a coordinated effort by
those of the FBI, to actually leak to the media. We now have documents to
prove it, where they leaked to the media, then they used the same
information to verify the veracity of their claims, and actually use that
for a FISA warrant. You can’t do that. The FBI had a leak to the media and
it is troubling.”

        Sean Hannity said in his opening monologue on Fox News’ Hannity[image:
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(9/6), “Christopher Steele’s phony Russian dossier was the basis for the
ongoing witch hunt into Trump so-called Russia collusion after it was
pushed by several high ranking deep state officials who all share one thing
in common: a political hatred for Donald Trump.”

        *Law Professor: Mueller Probe May Soon Be Coming To End. *George
Washington University Law School Professor Randall D. Eliason writes
in the Washington
Post
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(9/6) that “for months, President Trump’s lawyers and special counsel
Robert S. Mueller III have danced around whether the president will agree
to be interviewed by prosecutors. It appears that dance may finally be
coming to an end” since Mueller “may agree to accept written answers from
the president on at least some topics.” Though written answers “are a very
poor substitute for a face-to-face interview,” Eliason says “it has been
clear for some time that Trump was unlikely to agree to a voluntary
interview.” He argues that “at this point, it’s better than nothing – and
if Mueller chooses to fight, in the end, nothing may be exactly what he
gets.”

        *Democrats Want DOJ To Probe Giuliani’s Work For Foreign Clients. *The
Washington Post
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(9/6, Sonmez) reports that seven Senate Democrats have asked the Department
of Justice to look into Rudy Giuliani’s “work for foreign clients...arguing
that recent reports on his activities ‘raise significant concerns’ about
whether he is improperly lobbying government officials as President Trump’s
personal attorney.” According to the Post, Giuliani “has continued to work
on behalf of foreign clients in Brazil, Colombia and other countries, in
addition to delivering paid speeches for an Iranian resistance group.”
Poll: Nike Favorability Falls After Kaepernick Ad.

Bre Payton writes in The Federalist
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(9/6), “Nike’s favorability rating has plummeted after the brand rolled out
an ad campaign featuring former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.” A Morning
Consult
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report found the company dropped from 69 percent net favorability to 35
percent net favorability. “Overall, Americans say they are 10 percent less
likely to purchase Nike products since the ad campaign featuring Kaepernick
was released.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(9/6, Correll) reports that Nike “garnered more than $43 million worth of
media exposure in less than 24 hours after unveiling the campaign,” and
Apex Marketing Group reports that exposure was primarily neutral or
positive.

        *In Tweet Today, Trump Says “What Was Nike Thinking?” *President
Trump tweeted
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this morning, “What was Nike thinking?”

        *National Black Police Association Defends Kaepernick. *The Washington
Post
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(9/6, Rosenberg) reports that while the National Fraternal Order of Police
and the National Association of Police Organizations criticized Nike’s
Kaepernick ads and Kaepernick, the National Black Police Association
offered “a stirring defense of Kaepernick and sharp rebuke to the harsh
words issued by the other police organizations.” NBPA National Chairperson
Sonia Y.W. Pruitt wrote, “NBPA believes that Mr. Kaepernick’s stance is in
direct alignment with what law enforcement stands for – the protection of a
people, their human rights, their dignity, their safety and their rights as
American citizens.” Her letter criticizes NAPO’s stance as “perpetuat[ing]
the narrative that police are racist, with no regard, acknowledgment,
respect, or understanding of the issues and concerns of the African
American community.” The NBPA statement “echoes” last year’s support of
Kaepernick by 80 current and retired former NYPD officers and “the remarks
of some veterans who have pushed back on the view that the NFL protests are
offensive to the military.”
Study: Attorneys Say They Face Racial, Gender Bias At Work.

The New York Times
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(9/6, Zraick) reports, “Women and people of color in the legal profession
continue to face barriers in hiring, promotions, assignments and
compensation, according to a new study released Thursday by the American
Bar Association.” The survey, “which proposes strategies for employers to
eliminate the barriers, was conducted by the Center for WorkLifeLaw at the
University of California, Hastings College of the Law,” and found “that
many women and people of color felt they were held to a higher standard
than white men,” and “that feeling was most prevalent among women of color,
who reported the highest levels of bias in almost every category.”
According to the Times, “About half of the women of color said they felt
they had equal access to the kind of ‘high-quality’ assignments that lead
to exposure and advancement in an organization,” while “among white men,
that number was 81 percent.”
DeVos Will Leave Use Of Federal Funds For School Gun Purchases Up To States.

The New York Times
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(9/6, Green) reports under the headline “DeVos Punts To Congress On
Federally Funded Guns For Schools” that Education Secretary DeVos “says she
will leave it to Congress to decide whether states can use federal funds to
purchase firearms for their schools.” While conservatives said her “stance
was consistent with her championing of local school control,” Democrats
called the decision “a tacit endorsement of federally funded firearms in
schools” and vowed “to push for language in an end-of-year spending bill
that would expressly prohibit the use of grant funds for guns.”

        *Education Department Works To Block Stricter State-Level Student
Loan Regulation. *The New York Times
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(9/6, Thrush) reports that after Education Secretary DeVos “started scaling
back consumer protections for student borrowers last year,” California,
Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania, and Washington “sped up their own efforts to crack down on
abusive lending practices by companies that administer federal loan
programs.” The federal Education Department is now “trying to stop them” by
filing a statement of interest “supporting a lawsuit from the Student Loan
Servicing Alliance, an industry trade group, against the District of
Columbia for creating a student loan ombudsman office.” A DeVos spokeswoman
said, “Federal loans are federal assets and therefore must be controlled
and regulated by the federal government.”
Senate Reaches Deal On Opioid Crisis Bill.

Politico
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(9/6, Ehley, Tahir) reports Senate Majority Leader McConnell announced a
deal on “a bipartisan package to address the opioid crisis, paving the way
for a vote next week.” Provisions to require Medicaid “cover treatment at
more inpatient facilities and loosening privacy restrictions for substance
abuse patients’ medical records” are not part of the deal, “but they are
part of an opioid response package passed by the House earlier this year.”
The deal “would authorize new funding for states to fight drug addiction,
expand access to medication-assisted treatment, grant the NIH more
authority to research and develop non-opioid pain therapies,” require a US
Postal Service crack down on fentanyl shipments, and reauthorize the Office
of National Drug Control Policy. The bill also has “surprisingly direct
language” requiring “HHS and DOJ to conduct a study on the effect that
federal and state opioid prescribing limits have had on patients – and
specifically whether such limits are associated with higher rates of
suicide.” The Washington Examiner
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(9/6, King) reports, “The Opioid Crisis Response Act is the Senate response
to a collection of more than 50 opioid-related bills that passed the House
in June.”
Carper Defeats Harris 65%-35% In Delaware Democratic Primary.

The Washington Post
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(9/6, Weigel) reports that Sen. Tom Carper (D) on Thursday “decisively
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defeated Air Force veteran Kerri Evelyn Harris (D) 65%-35% in Delaware’s
Democratic Senate primary, “one of the last intraparty brawls of the year.”
The Post says that “the June 26 primary victory of New York’s Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez was a booster shot for the left, and for insurgent groups
such as Justice Democrats and the Working Families Party. Both made their
first-ever interventions in Delaware politics, as Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign
sent staff to Delaware to build a voter-targeting campaign for Harris.” The New
York Times
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(9/6, Martin) reports that Carper’s primary win came “in the latest test of
strength between Democratic insurgents and the party establishment.” The
Times says that Harris had “sought to tap into the same anti-establishment
energy on the left that propelled successful congressional challengers”
like “Ocasio-Cortez in New York and Ayanna Pressley in Boston to victory
over incumbents.” Harris’ “loss illustrates the difficulty of scaling up
primary challenges in statewide races where there is not the sort of
readily available coalition – a mix of people of color and younger white
progressives – that has lifted other Democratic insurgents this year.”

        Politico
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(9/6, Shepard) reported that Harris ran “on a progressive platform that
contrasted with Carper’s moderate, pro-business record.” Politico called
Carper’s 30-point margin-of-victory “an unusually small one for a sitting
senator who has been a fixture of his state’s politics for longer than his
challenger has been alive.” The Washington Times
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(9/6, McLaughlin) reports that Carper “will be favored in November for a
fourth term, when he faces off against Robert Arlett, the Sussex County
councilman who won the GOP nomination Thursday.” CQ Roll Call (DC)
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(9/6, Pathé) reported, “Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales rates the
general election Solid Democratic.” The Wall Street Journal
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(9/6, Hook) also reports on the story.
Cancer Research
Single Drug May Be Able To Target All Tumors After Cancer Spreads.

STAT Plus
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(9/6, Begley) reports a study
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(9/7) published in Science indicates that in any one cancer patient,
“untreated metastases are driven by the same genetic mutations, whether
they’re in the lung or liver or anywhere else.” The research suggests that
“a single drug should work against all of a patient’s metastases – and it
is the metastases, not the primary tumor, that are responsible for 90
percent of cancer deaths.” Co-author Dr. Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue of
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, explained, “The implication is that
anything you find might be actionable and you should go for it.”
CAR T-Cell Immunotherapy Advancing With New Studies, Approvals.

Cancer Network
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(9/6, Schieszer) reports that “new investigations into T-cell signaling may
significantly advance the immunotherapy field by leading to the development
of more effective chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies for
patients.” The article cites “several recent clinical studies on CAR T-cell
immunotherapy” and adds that the US and EU both recently approved “a
promising new agent targeting T cells.”
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“There Oughta Be A Law...”* A New York Times
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(9/6) editorial says President Trump “has never handled criticism well, but
this past week has proved especially challenging.” First came “a scathing
account” of Trump in a new book by Bob Woodward, and a day later, an op-ed
in the Times by an anonymous senior Administration official “recounted how
members of Mr. Trump’s team have worked to protect the nation from his
‘worst inclinations.’” Trump, the Times says, “quickly corroborated these
accounts by demonstrating precisely the sort of erratic, antidemocratic
behavior that is driving administration officials to come forward with
their concerns.”

        *“Jumaane Williams Is Democrats’ Best Bet For Lieutenant Governor.”
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(9/6) endorses Jumaane Williams in the Democratic primary for New York
lieutenant governor. Williams “has shown that he can be a real leader and
is the right choice.” While the incumbent, Kathy Hochul, “is a dedicated
public servant,” she “has served as little more than an echo” for Gov.
Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), who the Times argues needs reformers to pressure him
for him “to act aggressively against systemic corruption in Albany.” The
Times concludes that Williams will be “a real reformer who would be a
potent voice for all New Yorkers.”

        *Law Professor: Trump Should Know Better Than To Denigrate Southern
Lawyers. *University of Alabama School of Law professor Ronald J.
Krotoszynski Jr., in an op-ed in the New York Times
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(9/6), writes, “Among the many revelations in Bob Woodward’s new book
‘Fear: Trump in the White House,’ it seems the president does not think
much of Southern lawyers (in general) or graduates of the University of
Alabama School of Law (in particular),” but “he is mistaken on both
counts.” Krotoszynski condemns Trump’s “myopic, credentialist view when it
comes to a person’s legal acumen.” He adds, “Trump’s sneering contempt for
Southern lawyers in particular” is a subset of the “general contempt for
the South as an intellectually backward region and for the stereotype of
the “country lawyer” as a backward, benighted legal mind” – a stereotype
that “is easily refuted.” Krotoszynski concludes, “Our president, who
claims to be a man of the people, should know better.”
Washington Post.

*“A Disgusting Partisan Spectacle.”* A Washington Post
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(9/6) editorial says this week’s confirmation hearings “were less a
showcase” for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, “who delivered a
steady, if evasive, performance, than a depressing display of the breakdown
of Senate norms.”

        *“Argentina’s Fresh Start Sours.” *The Washington Post
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(9/6) in an editorial says that the election of President Mauricio Macri in
Argentina, bringing in “a reformist, pro-democracy government...was one of
the most positive political developments” in Latin America. The Post says
that current economic developments including the drop in the Peso are due
to Macri’s having “yielded to his understandable desire to insulate the
public against painful but necessary austerity.” The Post praises the
Administration and the IMF for backing Macri, concluding, “As long as he is
willing to take political risks in this cause, his friends abroad must not
abandon him.”

        *“Last Chance In Syria.” *The Washington Post
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(9/6) editorializes on President Trump’s tweet warning “Russia not to join
in a new offensive” on Idlib, and on Secretary of State Pompeo’s tweet that
“the world is watching” calling the US response “pathetically weak.” The
Post adds that allowing “the Assad-Russia-Iran alliance” to complete its
control of Syria “would be another damaging abdication of U.S. leadership.”
The Post concludes that Assad and Russia will “judge that tweets from the
president of the United States can be safely disregarded.”

        *Former Judge: ACA Challenge Suit “Borderline Frivolous.” *Former
US Court of Appeals judge Michael W. McConnell, the Richard and Frances
Mallery professor of law and director of the Constitutional Law Center at
Stanford Law School, writes in an op-ed in the Washington Post
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(9/6) that a healthcare case in federal district court in Texas challenging
the constitutionality of the provision of the Affordable Care Act requiring
health insurance companies to cover people with preexisting conditions “is
borderline frivolous” and their “legal argument makes almost no sense.”
They argue that because the legal penalty for violating the insurance
purchase mandate has been set to zero, the severability principle requires
the preexisting-conditions rule be found unconstitutional. However, “there
is no severability principle for laws that have been repealed in part by
Congress,” and the preexisting-conditions rule “is within Congress’s power
under the commerce clause.” McConnell concludes that if Judge Kavanaugh
“voted to accept the Texas argument, I would be gobsmacked.”

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