Subject: FW: Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing for Tuesday, September 11, 2018
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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*Tuesday, September 11, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden Hosting ATTN: IGTV Series. <#S1>

• Biden Taking Part In “Building A High Wage America” Summit On Sept. 13.
<#S2>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump Calls Woodward Book “A Joke.” <#S3>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Former Army Ranger Said He Wanted To Choke Obama Over Benghazi Comments.
<#S4>

• US Orders Closure Of PLO Offices In Washington. <#S5>

• Bolton Threatens ICC, Cooperating Partners Over Probe Of US Troops In
Afghanistan. <#S6>

• Bolton Warns Of Tougher Response To Syria Using Chemical Weapons Again.
<#S7>

• Wray: Country Safer Now Than On 9/11. <#S8>

• NYTimes: US Considering Sanctions Over China’s Treatment Of Minority
Muslims. <#S9>

• China Vows Retaliation If US Imposes More Tariffs. <#S10>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• More Than 1.5 Million Ordered To Evacuate As Florence Strengthens. <#S11>

• Trump Mocks Obama For 2016 “Magic Wand” Comment About Economy. <#S12>

• EPA Proposals Would Roll Back Obama-Era Restrictions On Methane Release.
<#S13>

• Defense Attorney Defends Sessions’ Account Of Trump Campaign Meeting.
<#S14>

• Senate Panel May Vote On Kavanaugh Nomination Next Week. <#S15>

• Education Department: New Rules Would Decrease Sexual Misconduct
Inquiries. <#S16>

• Appeals Court Rules Missouri Can Enforce Abortion Law. <#S17>

• Dallas Police Officer Charged With Manslaughter In Shooting Of Neighbor.
<#S18>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• Arizona Research Institute To Open New Brain Tumor Center. <#S19>

• Federal Circuit Court Upholds Broad Institute’s CRISPR Patents. <#S20>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S21>

• Washington Post. <#S22>
Biden in the News
Biden Hosting ATTN: IGTV Series.

Variety
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(9/10, Spangler) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden “is looking
to spur young Americans to vote in the 2018 US midterm elections with an
issues-oriented series produced by digital-media startup ATTN: Biden is
hosting the 10-episode short-form series ‘Here’s the Deal,’ which will
present his take on a range of issues including health care, jobs,
education, and gun violence. ATTN: and Biden will launch the first episode
this Wednesday (Sept. 12) on Instagram’s IGTV, with subsequent installments
to be released weekly. After an exclusive 24-hour window on IGTV, episodes
will be distributed on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube across ATTN: and
Biden’s accounts.”

        Deadline Hollywood
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(9/10, Chmielewski) quoted Biden as saying in a trailer previewing the
series, “These days there’s a lot of fluff and misinformation to distract
us from the real issues. That’s why I am partnering with ATTN: on IGTV to
break down the issues we all should be voting on this fall. Not complicated
policy wonk language or confusing acronyms, just facts.” AdWeek
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(9/10, Jerde) quoted ATTN: co-founder Matthew Segal as saying, “The vice
president is, no matter how you spin it, one of the foremost political
leaders in America. He has a big platform and a big voice. We work with
elected officials on all sides that help illuminate important issues.”

        Axios
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(9/10, Fischer) described ATTN: as a “progressive social media-based news
outlet aimed at millennials” and added, “Former elected officials and
journalists are becoming more involved in efforts to target millennials to
bolster turnout ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.” Segal is quoted as
saying, “As we approach another critical midterm election, there’s a real
need for quality information that cuts to the chase and speaks to the
topics that affect people’s lives.” TechCrunch
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(9/10, Clark) reported that Biden “had just come off of an Instagram hiatus
when digital media startup ATTN: announced the news.”
Biden Taking Part In “Building A High Wage America” Summit On Sept. 13.

In a brief item, Politico Morning Shift
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(9/10, Rainey) reported, “The Economic Policy Institute and the Century
Foundation will host a ‘Building a High Wage America’ summit on Thursday,
Sept. 13 at 9:30 a.m. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), former Vice
President Joe Biden and Randi Weingarten, president of the American
Federation of Teachers, will participate in the event.”
Leading the News
Trump Calls Woodward Book “A Joke.”

In an early-morning tweet
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on Monday, President Trump criticized Bob Woodward’s book “Fear” – which is
officially being released today – as “a joke” and “just another assault
against me, in a barrage of assaults, using now disproven unnamed and
anonymous sources.” He then tweeted
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a quote from Katelyn Caralle of the Washington Examiner saying that she is
“taking this book with a grain of salt & everyone should do the same,” and
tweeted
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during an NBC interview with Woodward, “‘It is mostly anonymous sources in
here, why should anyone trust you? General Mattis, General Kelly said it’s
not true.’ @SavannahGuthrie @TODAYshow Bob Woodward is a liar who is like a
Dem operative prior to the Midterms. He was caught cold, even by NBC.” NBC
Nightly News
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(9/10, story 5, 1:36, Holt) aired a clip from Savannah Guthrie’s interview
with Woodward on NBC’s Today that Trump highlighted in his tweet. Guthrie:
“It is mostly anonymous sources in here. Why should people trust you?”
Woodward: “But the incidents are not anonymous. It gives a date. It gives a
time, who participates.”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(9/10, story 5, 2:52, Muir) showed a clip of Trump from September 7 saying,
“This idiot Woodward who wrote this book, which is all fiction.” ABC’s
Jonathan Karl: “Woodward writes that Chief of Staff John Kelly called the
President an ‘idiot,’ and described the White House as ‘Crazytown,’ while
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the President had the understanding of a
fifth or sixth grader – aims denied by both men.” White House Press
Secretary Sarah Sanders: “Chief of Staff John Kelly aggressively pushed
back. Gen. Mattis aggressively pushing back.” Karl: “Woodward today stood
by his reporting.” Woodward: “They are not telling the truth. These people,
these are political statements to protect their jobs.” On the CBS Evening
News
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(9/10, story 4, 2:11, Glor), Weijia Jiang reported that Sanders “spent much
of” her Monday briefing “slamming Bob Woodward’s new book depicting a
dysfunctional Administration. Earlier on Twitter President Trump called
Woodward ‘a liar who is like a Dem operative prior to the Midterms.’”

        The AP
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(9/10, Lucey, Lemire) reports that Trump “vented over White House leaks” on
Twitter, and the Washington Post
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(9/10, Wagner) highlights Trump’s promise to “write a ‘real book’ about his
time in the White House, as he continued to seek to discredit other efforts
to chronicle his chaotic tenure.” Politico
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(9/10, Karni) writes that though Trump has called the Woodward book “a work
of ‘fiction’ and a ‘scam,’” Trump is also reportedly “livid at his former
economic adviser, Gary Cohn, and his former staff secretary, Rob Porter,
for ‘leaking’ to Woodward. It’s difficult to rationally argue that the book
could be both: fiction dreamed up by Woodward, and a betrayal by former top
stewards of the administration, who shared with the famed journalist
alarming details about how the White House functions.”

        The Daily Caller
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(9/10, Johnson) reports that during her briefing, a reporter said to
Sanders that he “assumed Sanders read the book and then asked if the
administration could give the press a ‘list of all the things in the book
that are wrong.’ Sanders bluntly said, ‘I think that would be a complete
and utter waste of our time,’ in response to the question.” The Hill
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(9/10, Samuels) reports that Sanders “didn’t rule out a lawsuit against
Woodward.”

        The AP
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(9/10) reports on Woodward’s assertion that Kelly and Mattis are “not
telling the truth” about their comments in his book, though the Daily Caller
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(9/10, Hasson) alleges in a 2,000-word piece that Woodward “has a muddy
history with a trail of allegations that he embellished the truth or
otherwise misled his readers,” which it then details.

        Eugene Robinson writes in his Washington Post
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(9/10) column, “President Trump’s antics in his ‘Crazytown’ White House
inevitably dominate the headlines. Meanwhile, however, his wrongheaded
policies are damaging far more than the nation’s dignity and honor.” His
Administration “is pursuing a radically un-American agenda that should
alarm progressives and conservatives alike. Trump’s warped worldview is
guiding federal government policy, with awful – and worsening –
consequences for the nation and the world.”

        *Sanders: DOJ Should Look Into Op-Ed Writer; No Lie Detector Tests
Planned. *Though Trump did not specifically tweet about last week’s op-ed
in the New York Times that was purportedly written by a top-level
Administration official, coverage of the White House response continued. On ABC
World News Tonight
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(9/10, story 5, 2:52, Muir), Karl said, “The President sees the op-ed as a
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(9/10, story 4, 2:11, Glor), Jiang reported that Sanders “doubled down on
the President’s suggestion that the Justice Department should look into the
identity of the writer...[but] she could not specify what federal crime the
person may have broken.” NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by sender.
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(9/10, story 5, 1:36, Holt) covered the possibility that officials would be
asked to take a lie detector test to show they had not written the piece,
showing Sanders saying, “No lie detectors are being used or talked about or
looked at as a possibility.” Earlier Monday, Kellyanne Conway said on Fox
News’ Fox & Friends
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(9/10) that she has “no idea” who wrote the op-ed.

        Bloomberg News
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(9/10) reports, “The White House has asked the Justice Department to
consider identifying and prosecuting the author” of the op-ed, according to
Sanders, who “declined to say whether the White House believes the author
of the op-ed...committed a crime.” CQ Roll Call
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(9/10, Bennett) says the White House “doubled down” on the President’s
request for Attorney General Sessions “to start a federal manhunt” for the
author. Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) was asked on CNN’s Situation Room[image:
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(9/10) if the White House’s call for the DOJ to investigate the op-ed
represents an abuse of the Department. Quigley said, “Just another one,
unfortunately. The President needs to appreciate the fact that Justice
Department is not his own private law firm.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(9/10, Lim) reports, “A majority of voters believe senior administration
aides prevent President Trump from taking executive actions they consider
to be detrimental to the nation,” according to a Quinnipiac University poll
taken after the op-ed was published. But “while 55 percent of voters found
the mystery author’s claims to be credible, a majority disagreed with how
the allegations were shared with a news outlet for anonymous
dissemination.” The Washington Times
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(9/10, Dinan) reports that the poll also found that 55 percent of
respondents say Trump is “‘not fit’ to serve as president. But the good
news for him is a plurality – 48 percent say he’s mentally stable, compared
to 42 percent who say he’s not.”

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(9/10) that according to new CNN polling, “58 percent say the author should
publicly identify themselves, and 55 percent think it is...inappropriate
for an Administration official to work against the agenda of the
President.”

        *Omarosa Says Newest Tape Shows Trump To Be Mentally Unstable. *USA
Today
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(9/10, Jensen, Deerwester) reports that Omarosa Manigault Newman, “almost a
month into her book tour,” played previously unreleased recordings of Trump
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The Hill
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(9/10, Birnbaum) reports that the recording of Trump discussing “Hillary
Clinton’s ties to Russia” came from October 2017. Manigault Newman told
ABC, “This is in October of last year, so this is…12 months after the
election, and he’s still talking about Hillary Clinton.” She also said that
“the tape backs up her claims that Trump is mentally unstable.”

        *Trump Retweets Post Stating “THANK GOD FOR TRUMP.” *The Washington
Post
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(9/10, Wagner) reports, “Those who think Americans should thank God for
President Trump apparently include President Trump. On Monday morning, the
president retweeted
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an image of his head, draped with an American flag, with the words, ‘THANK
GOD FOR TRUMP.’” The original September 9 tweet “came from the handle
@trueamerica1st, a pro-Trump account with fewer than 3,000 followers at the
time.” The Post says there were “a flurry” of retweets from Trump on
Monday, including one tweet
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depicting “a doctored Peanuts cartoon, which shows Charlie Brown sitting on
a bench, thinking, ‘Obama says Trump is doing a terrible job, then he takes
the credit for how well the country is doing under Trump.’” In all, Trump
tweeted or retweeted 22 times on Monday.
Foreign Policy
Former Army Ranger Said He Wanted To Choke Obama Over Benghazi Comments.

The Washington Post
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(9/10, Horton) reports that former Army Ranger Kris “Tonto” Paronto was in
Benghazi six years ago when “Islamic militants laid siege to the U.S.
mission” there. Paronto “repelled attacks on a nearby CIA annex and helped
rescue more than 20 people, according to his biography page, during an
attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher
Stevens.” The attack “became a topic of conservation during a speech Friday
by former president Barack Obama, who said Republicans have seized on a
number of ‘wild conspiracy theories like those surrounding Benghazi.’” On Fox
News’ Fox and Friends Sunday
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Paronto “discuss[ed] Obama’s comments, making statements that have drawn
the attention of the Secret Service.” Paranto said, “It just raises the
bile inside of me . . . and when that came across, I just wanted to reach
through the screen and just grab him — grab him and choke him. ... I wish I
had that man sitting in front of me right now without his Secret Service.”

        *Several Killed As Gunmen Storm National Oil Company In Libya. *The New
York Times
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(9/10, Kirkpatrick, Zway) reports that several people were killed or
wounded Monday when “gunmen stormed the headquarters of Libya’s national
oil company in Tripoli...setting off explosions, taking hostages and
spraying gunfire,” before “forces aligned with the government took control
of the building. The identity and motives of the assailants were not
clear.” The attack comes after “a month of escalating violence among rival
militias competing for control of Tripoli, the capital, where a United
Nations-backed government has its headquarters but remains largely
powerless. Last week, clashes killed more than 60 people.”
US Orders Closure Of PLO Offices In Washington.

The AP
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(9/10, Thomas, George) reports on Monday, the Administration “ordered the
closure of the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington” giving as a
reason “the refusal of Palestinian leaders to enter into peace talks with
Israel.” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said, “PLO leadership
has condemned a US peace plan they have not yet seen and refused to engage
with the US government with respect to peace efforts and otherwise.” Nauert
added, “As such, and reflecting congressional concerns, the administration
has decided that the PLO office in Washington will close at this point.”
The Administration had warned the PLO last November that this could happen
“unless they agreed to sit to down with the Israelis.” Palestinian official
Saeb Erekat responded by saying the action is “yet another affirmation of
the Trump administration’s policy to collectively punish the Palestinian
people, including by cutting financial support for humanitarian services
including health and education.” The Washington Post
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(9/9, Gearan) reports, “Palestinian officials vowed to fight what they
called bullying tactics and ‘collective punishment’ of the Palestinian
people.”

        In a front-page article, the Wall Street Journal
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(9/10, A1, Gordon, Schwartz) reports the Administration’s move is the
latest in the Administration’s moves away from the 1993-95 Oslo accords,
the framework agreement that the US has used to guide its Mideast policy
for a quarter-century. The Administration has not offered a vision as to
what will come next. Meanwhile, Palestinian officials say the US isn’t
interested in a genuine give and take and seeks to impose its own Middle
East settlement. The New York Times
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(9/10, Landler) says the announcement “reinforces how far the White House
has moved from the role of a broker in the region.”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(9/10, Wilkinson) calls it the Administration’s “latest effort to pressure
the Palestinians into long-stalled peace talks” and adds that it “comes
days after the administration said it would cut off more than $300 million
in funding” for the UNRWA. The Times also reports that the State Department
“blamed Palestinian leaders and their diplomats” for the situation in which
the US has “nothing to show for months of diplomacy with Israel and the
Gulf Arab states.” Politico
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(9/10, Forgey, Toosi) says it is “part of a pressure campaign to bring the
Palestinians to the negotiating table,” and the Daily Caller
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(9/10, Racke) calls it is “a bid to increase pressure on Palestinian
leadership.” The Hill
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(9/10, Birnbaum) and Washington Examiner
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(9/10, Lim) have similar reports, while CQ Roll Call
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(9/10, Bennett) uniquely reported that the move indicates that the “Jared
Kushner-led Middle East peace pact has stalled,” and is “a blow to Trump’s
son-in-law.” USA Today
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(9/10, Shesgreen) also reports on the closure order.

        *UNRWA To Seek Funds From Europe And Gulf Arab States. *Reuters
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(9/10, Lewis) reports the UNRWA is seeking to make up for cuts in funding
from the US by seeking additional funds from Europe and Gulf states. UNRWA
Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl said, “We have decided that it is
essential for us to close the historic shortfall that we faced of $446
million, by reaching out to many other countries and among them member
states of the League of Arab States.”
Bolton Threatens ICC, Cooperating Partners Over Probe Of US Troops In
Afghanistan.

The New York Times
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(9/10, Landler) reports the Administration “threatened the International
Criminal Court with sanctions if it pursued an investigation of American
troops in Afghanistan.” National Security Adviser Bolton said Monday in a
speech, “The United States will use any means necessary to protect our
citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this
illegitimate court.” Bolton added, “We will ban its judges and prosecutors
from entering the United States.” Bolton continued, “We will sanction their
funds in the US financial system, and, we will prosecute them in the US
criminal system. We will do the same for any company or state that assists
in an I.C.C. investigation of Americans.” The Washington Post
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(9/9, Gearan) reports Bolton called the court “fundamentally illegitimate”
and “an assault on the constitutional rights of the American people and the
sovereignty of the United States.”

        USA Today
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(9/10, Shesgreen) reports, “Bolton unleashed a scathing attack Monday on
the International Criminal Court.” Said Bolton, “the court has been
ineffective, unaccountable, and indeed, outright dangerous.” He said the
announcement came now due to concerns that the ICC would probe alleged US
war crimes in Afghanistan, but also cited a possible investigation, at the
request of Palestinians, of Israel for human rights abuses. The AP
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(9/10, Lee) describes the US relationship with the ICC has having come “to
a crashing halt.”

        The Hill
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(9/10, Fabian) reports the Administration “threatened to impose sanctions”
on the ICC and its personnel, “if it continues with an investigation into
alleged US war crimes in Afghanistan.” Bolton was speaking to the
Federalist Society. The Washington Times
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(9/10, Boylan) reports Bolton said, “We will provide no assistance to the
ICC. We will not join the ICC. We will let the ICC die on its own. After
all, for all intents and purposes, the ICC is already dead to us.” The
Washington
Free Beacon
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(9/10, Johnson) reports the speech was “his first public address since”
being named NSA. Bolton said the ICC “has been ineffective, unaccountable,
and indeed, outright dangerous.”

        *Taliban Attacks Kill At Least 57 Afghan Police Officers And
Soldiers. *The New York Times
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(9/10, Rahim, Abed) reports that in “the latest in a series of setbacks for
Afghan government forces,” four separate attacks by Taliban insurgents in
northern Afghanistan on Monday resulted in at least 57 Afghan police
officers and soldiers dead. The attacks come “a day after more than 60
people were killed in a separate barrage, Afghan officials said.”
Insurgents assaulted “six outposts in the strategic Dasht-e-Archi district
of Kunduz Province,” police officers and militiamen were killed in Samangan
Province and Sar-i-Pul Province, and insurgents captured the government
center of Khamab District.
Bolton Warns Of Tougher Response To Syria Using Chemical Weapons Again.

Reuters
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(9/10) reports that, answering questions after a policy speech, National
Security Adviser John Bolton said, “We’ve tried to convey the message in
recent days that if there’s a third use of chemical weapons [by the Syrian
government], the response will be much stronger.” He added that the British
and the French “also agree that another use of chemical weapons will result
in a much stronger response.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(9/10, Nissenbaum), meanwhile, reports the US and its allies are trying to
prevent an offensive in Syria’s northwest as Syria, backed by Russia and
Iran, plans to take control of Idlib province. The US plans to chair a UN
Security Council meeting on Idlib Tuesday morning. The UN, US, and
humanitarian groups warn that an offensive could created a major
humanitarian crisis.

        *UN Warns Idlib Assault Could Prompt Worst Humanitarian Catastrophe
Of The Century. *The CBS Evening News
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(9/10, story 6, 1:45, Glor) reported “Russian airstrikes and Syrian barrel
bombs have pummeled Idlib” for four straight days, prompting the UN “to
warn that this could become the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the 21st
century. ... In Geneva, the UN and Russia are discussing a new Syrian
constitution. Far removed from Idlib, where constitutional rights are
powerless to stop a bloodbath.” Nearly three million civilians are in Idlib
province, “including a million children, and after more than seven years of
civil war, they face a familiar choice: get away as fast as you can or stay
put and dance with death.” While “thousands of victims are expected to
flee,” Turkey “has already closed its borders, saying it cannot cope with a
new influx of refugees. It already has 3.5 million living here.” Fox News’
Special Report
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(9/10) reported the UN’s warning that an attack on rebel-held parts of
Idlib “could lead to the century’s worse loss of life” comes after “Iran
and Russia backed a military campaign” there “despite Turkey’s pleas for a
ceasefire.”

        *Erdoğan Calls On World To Stop Assad From Attacking Idlib. *Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal
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(9/10) calls for the international community to step up and prevent Syrian
leader Bashar Assad’s planned assault on Idlib province. While the Assad
regime argues that it will be an counterterrorism operation, Erdoğan warns
that Assad’s real goal is to use indiscriminate attacks to wipe out its
opposition. He adds that innocents must not be sacrificed in the fight
against terrorism and the international community needs to prevent such
violence if it seeks to keep terrorism from taking root. Erdoğan calls for
the US, Europe, Russia, Iran, and the rest of the international community
to stop Assad from creating a humanitarian disaster and joining Turkey in
pushing a political solution. Erdoğan warns that not acting now will cost
not only innocent Syrians but the entire world.

        *Turkey Preparing For Syrian Offensive Against Idlib Province.
*Bloomberg
News
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(9/10, Hacaoglu) reports that with Russia refusing to call off a planned
offensive against Syrian rebels in Idlib province, “Turkey massed tanks and
commandos at its frontier and accelerated work to cope with a possible
surge of refugees.” Bloomberg News adds, “the routing of moderate rebels
triggers the collapse of international peace efforts supposed to guarantee
Ankara-backed forces a say in postwar Syria.” Meanwhile, “analysts advising
Turkey’s government say Ankara is attempting to convince militants to
leave, but isn’t getting assistance from other parties.”
Wray: Country Safer Now Than On 9/11.

The Washington Examiner
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(9/10, Correll) report that FBI Director Wray said in the first of a
multi-part interview with CBS’s Norah O’Donnell that the country is safer
now that in was when the 9/11 attacks occurred, “noting that the US is
better equipped to manage terror threats now.” Wray said, “People think of
the 9/11 threat, they think New York, they think D.C. Today’s terrorist
threat is everywhere, coast to coast, north, south east, west. ... It’s a
different kind of threat.” Wray “said the FBI stopped multiple potential
terrorist attacks in the last year, including one ahead of a Fourth of July
celebration in Cleveland and another where a college student in Minnesota”
was “recruiting classmates to join al Qaeda and al-Shabaab.”

        *Trump Retweets Scavino Tweet About “Patriot Day 2018” Executive
Order. *In a tweet
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this morning, Trump retweeted Dan Scavino’s tweet
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of a photo of Trump signing the “Patriot Day 2018” executive order and the
text of the order.

        *LATimes: Seventeen Years After 9/11, Al Qaeda Stronger Than Ever. *The
Los Angeles Times
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(9/10) reports that 17 years after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the US, al
Qaeda “may be stronger than ever,” despite then-President George W. Bush’s
vow to “starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive
them from place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest.” According
to critics, “US policies in the Mideast appear to have encouraged its
spread.” Rita Katz, director of the SITE Intelligence Group, said in an
interview that more than a group of individuals, al Qaeda is “an idea, and
an idea cannot be destroyed using sophisticated weapons and killing leaders
and bombing training camps.” According to the Times. The group “boasts
affiliates across North Africa, the Levant and parts of Asia, and it
remains strong around the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.”

        *Scarborough: Trump Has Done More Damage To American Dream Than Any
Foreign Foe. *Joe Scarborough writes in his column for the Washington Post
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(9/10) that on the eve of the 9/11 attacks, the US GDP “was nearly 10 times
China’s and 40 times Russia’s. The U.S. military machine was unparalleled,
with the Pentagon spending more on national defense than the next 15
countries combined. And despite those staggering outlays, Washington was
running a $125 billion surplus.” Seventeen years later, “President Trump’s
Republican Party will create more debt in one year than was generated in
the first 200 years of America’s existence.” Scarborough concludes, “The
question for voters this fall is whether their country will move beyond
this troubled chapter in history or whether they will continue supporting a
politician who has done more damage to the dream of America than any
foreign adversary ever could.”

        *Lane: War On Terror Failed To Unite Us. *Charles Lane writes in
his Washington Post
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(9/10) column that the 9/11 attacks “caused Americans to rally together as
they had not done since Pearl Harbor” and there was “a plausible hope:
Throughout our history, external threats have forced the American people to
put aside their differences for the sake of the common defense.” Lane
argues that among the things that “went wrong” were “he current president’s
weaponization of political, cultural and racial differences. In truth,
though, all of those differences pre-dated Donald Trump’s rise. His
election was a symptom of decaying national consensus, not an independent
cause of it.”
NYTimes: US Considering Sanctions Over China’s Treatment Of Minority
Muslims.

The New York Times
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(9/10, Wong) reports current and former American officials say that “to
punish Beijing’s detention of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Uighurs and
other minority Muslims in large internment camps,” the Administration is
considering sanctioning Chinese senior officials and companies in what
“would be one of the first times the Trump administration has taken action
against China because of human rights violations.” The Times predicts the
sanctions “would fuel an already bitter standoff with Beijing over trade
and pressure on North Korea’s nuclear program.” White House and Treasury
officials have been discussing such measures for months, “but they gained
urgency two weeks ago, after members of Congress asked Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to impose sanctions on
seven Chinese officials.”

        *WSJournal A1: Philippines Deal Will Give China Big Victory In
South China Sea Dispute. *In a front-page article, the Wall Street Journal
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(9/10, A1, Mandhana) reports that, in what would be a big victory for
China, the Philippines is negotiating an agreement to share oil and
natural-gas resources in the disputed waters of the South China Sea. Such a
deal would invite China to seek similar agreements with the other Southeast
Asian nations disputing its expansive claims and possibly block Western oil
companies from tapping the region’s rich resources. Duterte’s opponents and
legal experts say a deal would legitimize Chinese claims of historic rights
to almost the entire South China Sea and undermined the 2016 international
tribunal ruling invalidating those claims. However, typical of the
challenges facing smaller countries in the region, Philippine officials say
that with US polices falling short they have no choice but to work with
China in the face of its military, diplomatic, and economic power.

        *Morell Op-Ed: Bipartisanship Needed To Address Chinese Threat. *Former
Deputy CIA Director Michael Morell, in an op-ed in the Washington Post
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(9/10, Morell), warns that the US’ “rising political polarization” is
“dangerous” due to the “staggering global security challenges” the nation
faces – particularly China. China’s “economic success is allowing its
authoritarian political system and mixed economic system to become a model
for other countries,” and its military is moving to become the strongest
advesary the US has faced since the USSR. Morell argues that “collaborating
across political divides is essential to developing and implementing a
long-term plan sophisticated enough to address the challenge posed by
China,” warning, “the 9/11 attacks showed us the cost of being unprepared.”
China Vows Retaliation If US Imposes More Tariffs.

The AP
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(9/10, McDonald) reports China on Monday “promised retaliation” if
President Trump imposes additional tariffs, “raising the risk Beijing might
target operations of American companies as it runs out of imports for
penalties.” The threat from Beijing “came after Trump said Friday he was
considering extending penalties to an additional $267 billion of Chinese
products in their battle over Beijing’s technology policy.” Chinese Foreign
Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said, “If the United States insists on
imposing another round of tariffs on Chinese products, China will
definitely take countermeasures to safeguard its legitimate rights and
interests.” He did not elaborate.

        *US, EU Trade Negotiators End Talks Without Breakthrough. *The Wall
Street Journal
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(9/10, Peker) reports that trade officials from the US and EU on Monday
reached no breakthrough during talks in Brussels. USTR Lighthizer and EU
Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said they had a “constructive” and
“forward-looking” encounter, but provided no details. The two did, however,
say they would meet again at the end of September.

        *US, Canada To Resume Trade Talks In Washington Today. *Reuters
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(9/10) reports Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland will meet with
USTR Lighthizer in Washington on Tuesday “to discuss talks to renew the
NAFTA trade pact,” a Canadian government official said Monday. Freeland
spokesman Adam Austen “did not give details.” The Washington Examiner
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(9/10, Higgins) reports the USTR’s office also said Monday that the two
sides would resume talks in Washington on Tuesday.
Domestic Policy
More Than 1.5 Million Ordered To Evacuate As Florence Strengthens.

The Washington Post
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(9/10, Hauslohner) reports that by Monday evening, “state and local
officials in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia have ordered about
1.5 million people to evacuate a lengthy stretch of coastline ahead of
Hurricane Florence’s potentially catastrophic landfall, which is expected
Thursday.” Florence has been “rapidly intensifying” as it approaches the
East Coast, becoming a Category 4 hurricane and “doubling the size of its
hurricane-force wind zone Monday.” Forecasters say the storm could reach
Category 5 status before it makes landfall. Meteorologist Al Roker, for
example, said on NBC Nightly News
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(9/10, story 2, 1:09, Holt) that Florence “could come on shore as a
Category 5 storm. That’s not out of realm of possibility as it makes its
way towards us.”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(9/10, story 2, 2:23, Muir) reported that “millions [are] trying to get out
of the path” of the storm with “mandatory evacuations set to kick in,” and
the CBS Evening News
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(9/10, story 2, 2:22, Glor) said that “starting at 12 noon [on Tuesday],
more than a million people living along the coastline of South Carolina
will have to get out by order of the governor.” Gov. Henry McMaster (R-SC):
“It’s going to be inconvenient, but we do not want to risk one South
Carolina life in this hurricane.” CBS (Begnaud) added that “in North
Carolina, there are evacuations in parts of the Outer Banks, but as of
right now, not the entire coastline.” NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed
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(9/10, lead story, 3:34, Holt) showed Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC) saying, “The
forecast places North Carolina in the bull’s eye of Hurricane Florence, and
the storm is rapidly getting stronger.” The governor of Virginia is also
“ordering mandatory evacuations in his state. Those evacuations [are] in
low lying coastal areas set to begin tomorrow morning at 8:00am.”

        The Charleston (SC) Post and Courier
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(9/10, Adcox) reports McMaster ordered evacuations “along South Carolina’s
entire 187-mile coastline starting at noon Tuesday,” and said the eastbound
lanes of Interstate 26 and US Highway 501 “will be reversed when the order
takes effect, opening all lanes to evacuees.” According to the Columbia
(SC) State
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(9/10, Marchant, Barton), the evacuation order covers “eight counties along
the coast.” Schools will also close “in 26 counties in the lower part of
the state on Tuesday.”

        In Virginia, the Washington Post
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(9/10, Ruane) reports, Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) on Monday ordered the
evacuation “of about 245,000 residents in flood-prone areas” in Hampton
Roads – including “portions of Virginia Beach, Hampton and Norfolk – as
well as part of the Eastern Shore.” The Hampton Roads (VA) Virginian-Pilot
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(9/10) reports schools in the area also announced closings, and Reuters
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(9/10, Driver) reports the US Navy said it was sending nearly 30 ships from
Norfolk “out to sea to avoid damage.”

        The New York Times
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(9/10, Fausset) reports Hurricane Florence “swiftly strengthened into a
major storm on Monday as it churned across the Atlantic Ocean toward the
coast of the Carolinas,” and “forecasting models show the hurricane headed
for a landfall somewhere near the border of North Carolina and South
Carolina.” ABC World News Tonight
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(9/10, lead story, 2:21, Muir) said “four states declaring a state of
emergency as the hurricane bears down on the East Coast” with “winds
reaching up to 140 miles per hour already.”

        The AP
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(9/10, Drew) reports that “for many people” ordered to evacuate, “the
challenge could be finding a safe refuge: If Florence slows to a crawl just
off the coast, it could bring torrential rains to the Appalachian mountains
and as far away as West Virginia, causing flash floods, mudslides and other
dangerous conditions.”

        Meteorologist Meg Glaros said on the CBS Evening News[image: Image
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(9/10, lead story, 2:29, Glor) that “what happens is once it makes landfall
wind is of secondary concern, because, yes, we’re worried about the winds.
Yes, we’re worried of course about the intensity of the storm surge, but
look how it slows down once it makes landfall. ... The problem with that is
then we talk about the intensity of rain coming into play. So this is going
to be a big rain maker.” USA Today
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(9/10, Bacon, Rice) reports AccuWeather meteorologist Brett Rossi “said the
ground in North and South Carolina and Virginia is already saturated from
recent rains,” exacerbating the flooding danger.

        *Trump Urges Residents To Be Prepared For Hurricane Florence,
Cancels Rally. *USA Today
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(9/10, Fritze) reports President Trump “took to Twitter repeatedly Monday
to warn of the dangers posed by Hurricane Florence as his administration
prepares” for the storm. In a series of tweets “throughout the day, Trump
warned those in the storm’s path to ‘prepare themselves.’” One of the
tweets “included a satellite image of the storm’s swirling eye,” while
“another included images of the president, Vice President Mike Pence and
chief of staff John Kelly in the Oval Office receiving a briefing on
preparations.”

        In the first of the series of tweets
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Monday afternoon, Trump wrote, “The Storms in the Atlantic are very
dangerous. We encourage anyone in the path of these storms to prepare
themselves and to heed the warnings of State and Local officials. The
Federal Government is closely monitoring and ready to assist. We are with
you!” In a second tweet
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he added, “To the incredible citizens of North Carolina, South Carolina and
the entire East Coast – the storm looks very bad! Please take all necessary
precautions. We have already began mobilizing our assets to respond
accordingly, and we are here for you!” In a third tweet
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Trump wrote, “Was just briefed via phone by @DHSgov @SecNielsen and @FEMA
@FEMA_Brock, along with @VP Mike Pence and Chief of Staff, John Kelly on
incoming storm which is very dangerous. Heed the directions of your State
and Local Officials – and know that WE are here for you. Be SAFE!”

        The Charlotte (NC) Observer
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(9/10) reports Trump wrote the tweets after he “received a 3 p.m. briefing
at the White House from the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).”

        Trump took to Twitter
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again Monday evening, writing, “My people just informed me that this is one
of the worst storms to hit the East Coast in many years. Also, looking like
a direct hit on North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Please be
prepared, be careful and be SAFE!” In a second tweet
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018091101biden&r=email-76f3&l=065-d92&t=c>,
he said, “Just had calls with South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, North
Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, and Virginia Governor Ralph Northam regarding
the incoming storm. Federal Government stands by, ready to assist 24/7.”

        The Hill
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(9/10, Samuels) reports Trump also declared a state of emergency in North
Carolina and South Carolina on Monday evening, but “had not yet declared a
state of emergency in Virginia, which is also expected to receive damaging
rains and winds after the storm makes landfall.” Virginia’s congressional
delegation “called on Trump earlier in the day to issue such a declaration
to assist with the state’s emergency response.”

        USA Today
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(9/10, King), meanwhile, reports that FEMA is “ramping up preparations for
Hurricane Florence as the powerful Category 4 storm rumbles towards the
Carolinas.” As of Monday evening, the agency “had positioned more than
80,000 liters of water, 402,000 meals, 1,200 cots and 34 generators at Fort
Bragg near Fayetteville, N.C.” In addition, both Fort Bragg and North Field
Air Base near Columbia, S.C., are serving as “incident support bases” to
distribute more supplies as needed. FEMA teams have been sent to both
states where they will serve as “rapidly deployable assets, with expertise
in operations, logistics, planning, and recovery.”

        Also on Monday, Reuters
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(9/10) reports, Trump’s campaign announced that he has canceled a Jackson,
Mississippi rally scheduled for Friday due to the storm. Bloomberg News
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(9/10, Jacobs) reports the rally was planned to aid Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith
(R-MS), who running in a special election to complete the term of Thad
Cochran, who resigned earlier this year. The Hill
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(9/10, Keller) reports Michael Glassner, COO of Donald J. Trump for
President, Inc., said, “With Hurricane Florence on its way, we determined
that this is the safest decision.” The AP
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(9/10), Politico
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(9/10, Ferguson) and the Daily Caller
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(9/10), among other outlets, similarly report the announcement.
Trump Mocks Obama For 2016 “Magic Wand” Comment About Economy.

The Washington Times
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(9/10, Miller) reports President Trump on Monday “mocked former President
Obama for betting against the economic boom under Mr. Trump, taunting him
with the recent 4.2 percent GDP growth.” Trump tweeted
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“‘President Trump would need a magic wand to get to 4% GDP,’ stated
President Obama. I guess I have a magic wand, 4.2%, and we will do MUCH
better than this! We have just begun.” The Times says Trump “took aim at
Mr. Obama after he took the unusual step last week of hitting the campaign
trail to criticize his successor.” Trump also retweeted
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a cartoon posted by @trueamerica1st in which Charlie Brown muses: “Obama
says Trump is doing a terrible job, then he takes the credit for how well
the country is doing under Trump.” In a third tweet
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Trump said, “The Economy is soooo good, perhaps the best in our country’s
history (remember, it’s the economy stupid!), that the Democrats are
flailing & lying like CRAZY! Phony books, articles and T.V. ‘hits’ like no
other pol has had to endure-and they are losing big. Very dishonest
people!”

        The Hill
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(9/10, Lane), however, says “Trump misquoted Obama’s June 2016 criticism of
his economic agenda” at a PBS Newshour town hall event in 2016. Trump,
meanwhile, tweeted
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a video of the event on Monday evening. Breitbart
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(9/10, Spiering) also says Trump “mocked an old quote from” Obama.

        Axios
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(9/10, Atkinson), meanwhile, reports White House chief economic adviser
Kevin Hassett also “pushed back Monday on comments made by former President
Obama last week,” saying its “factually incorrect” to assert that current
economic gains are a continuation of trends from the previous
Administration.

        The Washington Examiner
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(9/10, Kasperowicz) reports Hassett “said that, while it’s not fair to
blame Obama for the Great Recession, several of Obama’s policies stunted
growth.” Said Hassett, “I think the Affordable Care Act...lifted marginal
tax rates on individual workers, so much so that the CBO even said that it
would have a negative effect on growth.”

        The Daily Caller
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(9/10, Enjeti) reports Kellyanne Conway, appearing on Fox News’ Fox &
Friends
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(9/10), “took a dig at” Obama, saying, “We finally found a Democrat who
thinks the economy is doing well under President Trump: President Obama.”

        *Trump Misstates GDP Growth In Tweet. *As reported in yesterday’s
briefing, Trump tweeted
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on Monday morning, “The GDP Rate (4.2%) is higher than the Unemployment
Rate (3.9%) for the first time in over 100 years!” In a second tweet
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he added, “If the Democrats had won the Election in 2016, GDP, which was
about 1% and going down, would have been minus 4% instead of up 4.2%. I
opened up our beautiful economic engine with Regulation and Tax Cuts. Our
system was choking and would have been made worse. Still plenty to do!”

        CNBC
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(9/10) reported, “Trump’s latest tweet about the economy has a grain of
truth to it. But it’s a really tiny grain. What’s true is that, as of the
latest quarter, the growth rate of the US economy was greater than the
unemployment rate. ... But it wasn’t the first time this happened in 100
years, as Trump boldly claimed Monday without evidence.” An AP
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(9/10, Rugaber) “Fact-Check” piece says “Trump pitched a wildly off-base
claim about economic growth Monday as the White House used selective
statistics to build a case that the economy is doing much better than when
Barack Obama was in office.”

        A New York Times
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(9/10, Qiu) “Fact Check” says Trump “is wrong that G.D.P. growth has not
been higher than the unemployment rate in the past century. In fact, it has
happened in 185 months since 1948, according to data from the Federal
Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Most recently, in the first quarter of 2006, the
gross domestic product grew at a rate of 5.4 percent.” Kevin Hassett, the
chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, “acknowledged at a news
conference Monday that Mr. Trump’s tweet was not accurate,” saying, “What
is true is that it’s the highest in 10 years. At some point, somebody
probably conveyed it to him, adding a zero to that, and they shouldn’t have
done that.” The Wall Street Journal
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(9/10, Torry, Ballhaus) reports Hassett also quipped that he wasn’t “the
chairman of the council of Twitter advisers.”

        The Washington Post
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(9/10, Paletta, Stein) reports Hassett “said he did not know how Trump
obtained the false information,” telling reporters, “The history of thought
about how errors happen is not something I can engage in because from the
initial fact to what the President said, I don’t know the whole chain of
command.” The Post says that “it also isn’t clear why Trump focused on this
statistic – economists do not usually compare the GDP rate...with the
unemployment rate in this way.” Bloomberg News
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(9/10, Dopp, Olorunnipa, Kearns) reports that while “Trump regularly
deletes and re-posts tweets to correct misspellings or to rephrase his
points,” the “false tweet about GDP and unemployment remained online on
Monday night, hours after Hassett conceded the error.”

        The Washington Post
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(9/10, Blake) reports “the White House held its first news briefing in
nearly three weeks Monday – apparently for the purpose of arguing that
former president Barack Obama shouldn’t get credit for the current economy,
and President Trump should. But even as...Hassett...was pitching that
fact-based case, Trump had already undermined it with falsehoods.”

        *Small Business Hiring Not Keeping Pace With Larger Firms. *The AP
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(9/10, Rosenberg) reports that while the Labor Department says “employers
of all sizes added a strong 201,000 jobs in August...a separate report from
payroll provider ADP said hiring at its small business customers fell by
more than half last month.” The AP says “ADP counted 21,000 new jobs at its
small-business customers, a steep drop from 59,000 in July.” Economist Mark
Zandi of Moody’s Analytics “attributes the slower small-business hiring to
owners’ struggles to find qualified workers for their open positions.” The
AP also says “many companies are not looking to hire.” A survey by Wells
Fargo and Gallup found that just “35 percent of the 604 owners questioned
said they plan to hire in the next 12 months.”

        *House Republicans Propose Tax Cuts As Midterms Near. *Reuters
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(9/10, Morgan) reports that House Republicans “on Monday proposed more
deficit-expanding tax cuts, an effort seen by some tax experts as unlikely
to become law and geared chiefly toward winning votes.” Reuters explains
that the initiative “could put Democrats in the position of opposing the
new tax-cut plan...which Republicans could seek to use to their advantage
in the” midterm elections. Reuters says the measure would make “federal
individual income tax cuts approved on a temporary basis by the
Republican-controlled Congress and President Donald Trump in
December...permanent” and would “eliminate the maximum age for some
retirement account contributions and let new businesses write off more
start-up costs.”

        The AP
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(9/10, Gordon) reports that “the solid Republican majority in the House
nearly ensures passage before the November elections.” However, the AP
says, “prospects for the legislation in the Senate are weak, given the slim
Republican majority and concern over the potential for further blowing up
the deficit with a new tax cut.” Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) said, “This
legislation is our commitment to the American worker to ensure our tax code
remains the most competitive in the world.” Meanwhile, House Minority
Leader Pelosi said, “After handing massive unpaid-for tax breaks to Big
Pharma, Wall Street and the wealthiest 1 percent with the first GOP tax
scam for the rich, House Republicans are here with more of the same.”

        The Washington Times
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(9/10, Dinan, Miller) reports that “tax reform is the biggest legislative
accomplishment of a Congress that has been controlled by Republicans since
Mr. Trump took office” and “Republicans are counting on the tax cuts to
persuade voters to keep them in charge.” The Times also says that a
“Quinnipiac University poll released Monday found that 70 percent of
respondents said the US economy is ‘excellent’ or ‘good,’ matching the
poll’s record high.” But, President Trump “isn’t enjoying the fruit of
those numbers” with his approval rating standing “at just 38 percent in the
Quinnipiac poll, dragged down by what voters saw as personal failings of
lack of honesty and leadership.”

        Breitbart
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(9/10, Binder) reports that “among 53 percent of GOP voters in the latest
Harvard/Harris Poll, immigration should be the biggest priority for the
Trump administration and the Republican-controlled Congress.” Meanwhile,
“tax reform...among one of the least important issues to Republican voters,
with only 11 percent saying it is the most pressing issue in the country.”
Breitbart says that “rather than focusing on securing the $25 billion it is
expected to cost to build the border wall, Republican lawmakers will begin
touting their ‘tax reform 2.0’ plan.” Breitbart explains that “the plan is
likely to be embraced by Trump foes and the big business lobby – some of
the primary donors to the GOP – such as the Chamber of Commerce, the
billionaire Koch brothers, and the Business Roundtable.”

        *Congress Unveils “Minibus” Spending Package. *The Wall Street
Journal
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(9/10, Peterson) reports that House and Senate negotiators announced Monday
that they reached an agreement on three spending bills totaling nearly $147
billion that include funding for the Energy Department, Veterans Affairs
and the legislative branch. Congressional leaders are hoping to pass the
“minibus,” this week, well before the government’s current funding expires
on October 1. Meanwhile, the Journal says GOP leaders say they have
persuaded President Trump to delay a debate over border-wall funding until
after the midterm elections.

        *Romney: Republicans “Silent” On Deficit Reduction. *The Washington
Post
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(9/10, Sonmez) reports that Mitt Romney “called out members of his party
for putting their long-espoused goal of deficit reduction on the back
burner once President Trump won the White House.” On his Senate campaign
website, Romney said Republicans “have been shouting about this as long as
I can remember. ... But now that Republicans are in charge in Washington,
we appear to have become silent about deficits and debt.” He continued,
“I’m not saying we should immediately cut one trillion dollars from
government spending. But I am saying, with a booming economy, full
employment, a soaring stock market, and record asset values, we should be
shrinking the deficit, not growing it.”
EPA Proposals Would Roll Back Obama-Era Restrictions On Methane Release.

The New York Times
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(9/10, Davenport) reports that the Administration “is preparing to make it
significantly easier for energy companies to release methane into the
atmosphere.” According to documents reviewed by the Times, the EPA,
“perhaps as soon as this week, plans to make public a proposal to weaken an
Obama-era requirement that companies monitor and repair methane leaks.”
Meanwhile, the Interior Department is “expected in coming days to release
its final version of a draft rule, proposed in February, that essentially
repeals a restriction on the intentional venting and ‘flaring,’ or burning,
of methane from drilling operations.” The Times says “the new rules follow
two regulatory rollbacks this year that, taken together, represent the
foundation of the United States’ effort to rein in global warming.”
Meanwhile, “industry groups praised the expected changes.”

        *Brown Signs Bill Committing California To 100% Clean Energy By
2045. *ABC World News Tonight
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(9/10, story 8, 0:10, Muir) reported briefly that California Gov. Jerry
Brown (D) has signed “a bill committing the state to using 100% clean
energy by 2045” with the goal of generating “electricity with zero carbon
emissions.” The Los Angeles Times
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(9/10, Dillon) reports that “the bill’s signing comes just days before
Brown is set to host a global conference on climate change in San
Francisco, a final effort to showcase California’s actions on the
environment before he ends his fourth and final term as governor in
January.” Brown said, “California is committed to doing whatever is
necessary to meet the existential threat of climate change. ... And yes, it
is an existential threat. No matter what the naysayers may say, it is a
real, present danger to California and to the people of the world.” The
Times said Brown also announced “that he was signing a new executive order
directing California to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045, saying that the
state will remove as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as it emits by
that date.”

        *Tribes Sue Administration Over Approval Of Keystone XL Pipeline. *The
AP
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(9/10, Brown) reports that Native American tribes in Montana and South
Dakota have sued the Trump Administration, asking “US District Judge Brian
Morris in Great Falls, Montana, to rescind the permit for the Keystone XL
pipeline, issued last year by the US State Department.” The AP says the
tribes argue President Trump “brushed aside their rights and put their
members at risk when he reversed President Barack Obama’s rejection of the
$8 billion TransCanada Corp. project.” Natalie Landreth, an attorney with
the Native American Rights Fund, said: “The tribes are talking about
cultural sites, archaeological sites, burial grounds, graveyards – none of
that has been surveyed and it’s in the way of the pipeline.”

        *Interior Official Defends Planned Revisions To Endangered Species
Act Enforcement. *The AP
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(9/10, Daly) reports that Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt
“defended a plan to revamp the Endangered Species Act, saying the proposed
changes would result in more effective, quicker decisions on species
protection.” While speaking at the Heritage Foundation, Bernhardt said
“that the Obama administration too often ‘strayed’ from the law to focus
solely on species protection without regard for costs to nearby land owners
or businesses.” The Administration has proposed an “end automatic
protections for threatened animals and plants and limit habitat safeguards
meant to shield recovering species from harm.” Meanwhile, “Democrats and
some wildlife advocates said the moves would speed extinctions in the name
of furthering the administration’s anti-environment agenda.”
Defense Attorney Defends Sessions’ Account Of Trump Campaign Meeting.

The New York Times
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(9/10, Benner) reports that Chuck Cooper, an attorney for Attorney General
Sessions, on Monday defended “his client’s congressional testimony about a
Trump campaign meeting in March 2016 where an adviser proposed that the
candidate meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.” In an interview
and recent court filings, the adviser, George Papadopoulos, “said...that
Mr. Sessions, an early and influential adviser to Mr. Trump’s campaign,
welcomed the idea. His description of the meeting contradicted accounts by
Mr. Sessions and another foreign policy adviser in the room, J. D. Gordon.”
Cooper “said in a statement on Monday that” Sessions “has publicly
testified under oath about his recollection of this meeting, and he stands
by his testimony.” A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment.

        *Strzok, Page Discussed “Media Leak Strategy” During Trump Probe. *The
Daily Caller
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(9/10, Ross) reports that in messages that Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) says
raise “grave concerns” about an “apparent systemic culture of leaking” at
the FBI and DOJ, Peter Strzok sent Lisa Page a text message about s “media
leak strategy” during a key point in the Trump-Russia probe. The newly
released messages show Strzok asked to speak to lawyer Lisa Page about a
“media leak strategy” during a crucial period of the 2017 investigation.
Meadows wrote to Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein, “Our review of these
new documents raises grave concerns regarding an apparent systemic culture
of media leaking by high-ranking officials at the FBI and DOJ related to
ongoing investigations.” Meadows cited, “text messages Strzok sent to Page
on April 10, 2017, and April 12, 2017” in which he expressed a desire to
“talk to you about media leak strategy with DOJ before you go.”

        The Washington Times
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(9/10, Scarborough) says Meadows “told Mr. Rosenstein that the new
discoveries should prompt the Justice Department to turn over messages from
three other FBI and Justice officials who may have communicated with Mr.
Strzok, Ms. Page and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who was also
fired. Ms. Page resigned.” In addition, Meadows wants “communications with
Andrew Weissmann, a top deputy to Russia probe special counsel Robert
Mueller.” The Washington Examiner
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(9/10, Lim) also reports on Meadows call for a review of the
communications.

        Meanwhile, Trump tweeted
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this morning, “New Strzok-Page texts reveal ‘Media Leak Strategy.’ @FoxNews
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So terrible, and NOTHING is being done at DOJ or FBI – but the world is
watching, and they get it completely.” Trump also tweeted
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this morning, “‘We have found nothing to show collusion between President
Trump & Russia, absolutely zero, but every day we get more documentation
showing collusion between the FBI & DOJ, the Hillary campaign, foreign
spies & Russians, incredible.’ @SaraCarterDC
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@LouDobbs
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        *Warner: Intel Committee Will Not Report On Russian Interference
Before Midterms. *CQ Roll Call
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(9/10, Connolly) reports Senate Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner said
Monday that the committee “is unlikely to release its final report on
Russian interference in the 2016 US election until after the midterms this
November.”

        *Judge Orders Butina To Remain In Jail, Imposes Gag Order.
*The Washington
Post
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(9/10, Hsu) reports that a federal judge on Monday “blasted US prosecutors
and defense attorneys during a hearing in which the defense sought to have
a Russian woman set free on bail pending trial on charges she was a foreign
agent attempting to infiltrate the National Rifle Association and other
American conservative groups.” In ordering continued detention for Maria
Butina, US District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan “said Butina remained a serious
flight risk.” Chutkan also imposed a gag order “after slamming prosecutors
for their mistaken claim in court filings that Butina traded sex for
access, and her defense for repeated public statements that the judge said
could bias potential jurors.”

        The AP
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(9/10, Khalil) reports Chutkan said she was “dismayed” by the mistake and
by the “rather salacious allegations” made by prosecutors. She said that
the joking nature of the text message exchange was immediately “apparent on
their face” when she read them.

        *Avenatti Seeks To Keep Daniels’ Lawsuit Alive. *The Washington Post
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(9/10, Viebeck) reports that Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti
argued Monday that Daniels’ lawsuit over “a 2016 nondisclosure agreement
must be allowed to proceed in federal court because neither” President
Trump nor his former attorney, Michael Cohen, has faced “any true
consequences or a meaningful inquiry into the truth” in the case. Avenatti
argued in a court filing “that recent attempts by Trump and his former
lawyer, Michael Cohen, to invalidate the lawsuit from Daniels are designed
to protect the defendants from having to testify under oath about
hush-money payments to women in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential
election.” Avenatti “called on Judge S. James Otero of the U.S. District
Court for the Central District of California to dismiss arguments to lift a
stay in the case and allow the evidence-gathering phase to begin.”

        Asked on CNN’s Situation Room
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(9/10) why he is pushing to continue Daniels’ lawsuit after the President
and Michael Cohen have said they will not contest her effort to get out of
the nondisclsoure agreement, Avenatti said, “It’s not that simple. They
have been lying to the American people and lying to the federal judge and
the court for six months. And now they realize that they’re in a world of
hurt, because what’s happening here is that Michael Cohen and Donald Trump
do not want me deposing either one of them.” Asked about criticism that he
is continuing the case in order to keep himself in the spotlight while he
mulls a presidential bid, Avenatti said, “That’s just blatantly false. I
don’t need this case to stay in the spotlight, frankly. At this point I’ve
received a lot of publicity and notoriety, as my client has. I don’t think
that’s going to change one bit if the case goes away.” Bloomberg News
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(9/10) reports that Avenatti “said he’d meet with lawyers for Trump and
Cohen to discuss the future of the case. A hearing is scheduled for Sept.
24.”
Senate Panel May Vote On Kavanaugh Nomination Next Week.

USA Today
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(9/10, Kelly) reports that the Senate Judiciary Committee could vote as
early as next week on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett
Kavanaugh. Judiciary Committee Chairman Grassley “released an agenda Monday
with Kavanaugh’s name at the top of a list of judicial nominees that the
committee will consider Thursday.” But, “Democrats are expected to use a
committee rule to delay the vote until Sept. 20 or 27.”

        *Key Senators Remain Mum On Kavanaugh Vote. *The Washington Examiner
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(9/10, Ferrechio) reports that days after Supreme Court nominee Brett
Kavanaugh’s “raucous confirmation hearing concluded last week,” key members
of both parties “have yet to indicate whether they will vote to confirm”
him. GOP Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) “said they
remain undecided as Kavanaugh this week works to answer follow-up questions
from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.” Meanwhile, a “group of
moderate Democrats up for re-election,” including Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV),
have “said nothing, despite growing pressure from outside groups both for
and against the nominee.”

        Meanwhile, The Hill
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(9/10, Carney) reports that several Democrats have come “off the fence to
announce they will oppose” Kavanaugh. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Maggie
Hassan (NH) and Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) “became the latest Democrats to say
they will vote against Kavanaugh.” In addition, Sens. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and
Ben Cardin (D-MD), “said on Friday that they would oppose Kavanaugh.” The
Hill adds that Collins and Murkowski are “Democrats’ best shot at picking
up the two GOP votes they need to sink Kavanaugh’s nomination.”

        *Coons Says Kavanaugh’s Testimony Was “Deeply Troubling.” *MSNBC’s
Morning Joe
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(9/10) featured Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) speaking about the testimony of
Judge Kavanaugh before the Senate Judiciary Committee, calling it “deeply
troubling.” Coons focused on questions about presidential power, and
Kavanaugh’s suggestion that he would like to see Morris v. Olson overturned
rather than some others. He added, “I thought Senator Harris did a great
job of getting him right in her sights on the Chinese exclusion cases.”
Education Department: New Rules Would Decrease Sexual Misconduct Inquiries.

The New York Times
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(9/10, Green) reports that according to an analysis by the Education
Department, “its proposed new rules for handling allegations of sexual
misconduct on campus would substantially decrease the number of
investigations by colleges and school districts into complaints of sexual
harassment, assault and rape, and save educational institutions millions of
dollars over the next decade.” The analysis, which “was conducted to study
the effect of proposals drawn up by Betsy DeVos, the education secretary,
to overhaul regulations governing Title IX,” uses “limited data available
to the department to estimate the nationwide impact of the proposed
changes.” According to the Department’s projections, “colleges and
universities currently conduct an average of 1.18 sexual harassment
investigations each per year, and that under the new rule, the figure would
fall to 0.72 investigations per year, a decline of 39 percent.”
Appeals Court Rules Missouri Can Enforce Abortion Law.

Reuters
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(9/10, Raymond) reports that the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals has
“cleared the way for Missouri to enforce state laws requiring doctors who
perform abortions to be affiliated with hospitals and abortion clinics to
be licensed as ambulatory surgical centers.” Reuters says the court
“overturned a 2017 ruling that blocked enforcement of those laws and opened
the door for more abortion providers to operate in [Missouri], which at the
time had only one.” The court found it didn’t “have enough information to
determine how easily abortion clinics could obtain waivers from the
licensing rules and whether those requirements posed an undue burden on
clinics.”
Dallas Police Officer Charged With Manslaughter In Shooting Of Neighbor.

ABC World News Tonight
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(9/10, story 3, 1:52, Muir) reported that Dallas police officer Amber
Guyger has been charged with manslaughter after fatally shooting her
neighbor Botham Jean. ABC said Guyger shot Jean after mistakenly entering
his apartment, thinking it was hers. According to a statement made to
police by Guyger, after entering the home she “saw Jean’s silhouette and
thought her home was being burglarized.” ABC reported that “she claims she
pulled out a gun, gave verbal commands, which were allegedly ignored, and
shot twice, hitting Jean in the abdomen.” Meanwhile, Dallas County District
Attorney Faith Johnson “says more serious charges are not out the
question.” Allison Jean, the victim’s mother, disputes the officer’s
account. ABC reports that the “arrest warrant says Guyger lives in the
apartment below. And the lawyer for the family says they have witness
accounts that dispute how the officer got into Jean’s apartment.”

        The CBS Evening News
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(9/10, story 3, 1:54, Glor) reported that there is video that shows “Guyger
talking on the phone moments after police say she shot and killed...Jean.”
CBS explained that Guyger’s “case now heads to a grand jury where they can
decide her charges and possibly bump them up to murder.” NBC Nightly
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(9/10, story 3, 1:53, Holt) reported that Jean’s family is “questioning
whether race may have played a role.” NBC reported that Jean was a native
of St. Lucia.

        The New York Times
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(9/10, Haag) reports that Johnson “hinted at a split over the handling of
the case between her office and the Texas Rangers, the state’s top law
enforcement agency.” She “said the Texas Rangers coordinated the booking of
Officer Guyger and recommended the charge of manslaughter” and that “she
had a ‘spirited debate’ with Texas Rangers investigators on Sunday before
they sought an arrest warrant.”
Cancer Research
Arizona Research Institute To Open New Brain Tumor Center.

The Arizona Republic
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(9/10, Innes) reports the Phoenix, Arizona-based Barrow Neurological
Institute “announced Monday that it is opening a center to focus on
improving brain-cancer outcomes through experimental clinical trials” with
the assistance of a $50 million grant from the Scottsdale-based Ben and
Catherine Ivy Foundation. The Ivy Brain Tumor Center will focus in
particular on glioblastoma, and every patient at the center “will have an
individualized option for an experimental therapy.” In the next 10 years,
“officials hope to complete 30 to 35 clinical trials with up to 750
patients at the Ivy Brain Tumor Center.”
Federal Circuit Court Upholds Broad Institute’s CRISPR Patents.

STAT
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(9/10, Begley) reports the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
ruled unanimously that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board previously ruled
correctly when it “concluded that the” the Broad Institute’s CRISPR
“patents did not ‘interfere’ with those that” the University of California
“had applied for.” The decision is “another blow against the University of
California’s hopes of invalidating key CRISPR patents held by the Broad
Institute.”

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(9/10, Begley) reports on the concern that CRISPR genome editing may be
“more likely to succeed in cells that have lost their cancer kill switch,”
raising “fears that edited cells used to treat patients might initiate
tumors.” Research led by scientists at the National Cancer Institute
“reaches the opposite conclusion; it finds that CRISPR-Cas9 is more likely
to succeed in cells that have lost the anti-cancer gene p53, supporting the
earlier studies,” and, “going beyond that, the NCI-led team shows that
those cells are also likely to carry mutations in two other anti–cancer
genes.” Dr. Eytan Ruppin, a computational biologist at NCI, led the new
research. Instead of running experiments with cells, researchers “combed a
genetic database that shows how cancer cells react to the presence and
absence of various genes.”
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“He Pleaded Against Gun Violence. Bullets Silenced Him.”* In an editorial,
the New York Times
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(9/10) says that 19-year-old Delmonte Johnson was shot and killed Wednesday
near his home in Chicago. The Times says Johnson had helped form “GoodKids
MadCity, a group dedicated to ending violence in urban communities.” The
Times opines that it was “the sort of death that’s become far too common in
America, and in particular in Mr. Johnson’s hometown, where more than 2,000
people have been shot so far this year, nearly 400 of them fatally.” The
Times concludes that Americans can honor his legacy by continuing his
“advocacy and pushing for an end to gun violence in all corners of the
country.”
Washington Post.

*“The GOP Finds Another Way To Suppress The Vote.”* A Washington Post
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(9/10) editorial blasts a demand that North Carolina’s state board of
elections and 44 county election boards demand for “practically every
voting document imaginable, going back years.” calling it “one more in a
long line of GOP efforts to suppress the vote.” The Post adds, “The real
agenda is to discredit American democracy and to scare away
Democratic-leaning voters. It represents an abominable misuse of law
enforcement powers.”

        *“Sweden Has Staved Off The Far Right, But For How Long?” *In an
editorial, the Washington Post
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(9/10) writes that while Sweden’s recent elections only saw modest gains
for the far-right Sweden Democrats instead of the surge many feared, the
results “left Stockholm in a political mess,” with “the centrist
establishment badly weakened” and the “non-extremist vote...badly
fragmented.” The Post warns that extremists “are positioned to grow
stronger if traditional parties continue to falter” and calls for the next
Swedish government to “join its liberal counterparts in attempting to find
new ways to defuse the far-right forces, rather than conceding to them.”
The Post concedes this “will likely be a long and difficult struggle,
particularly while the populists can find support from a U.S. president who
spews hateful rhetoric against nonwhite and non-Christian immigrants.”

        *“Leslie Moonves’s Departure Is Only The Beginning. CBS News A Full
Airing.” *In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(9/10) says CBS Chairman and CEO Les Moonves’ ouster “is a heartening sign
of progress in confronting sexual misconduct in the workplace” but “that it
took so long for CBS to acknowledge the problem, and that Mr. Moonves may
be able to walk away with millions of dollars in severance, shows how far
the country remains from workplace equality.” The Post says the questions
linger over who at CBS was aware of the allegations and “what effect did
executive-suite behavior and attitudes” may have had on news coverage or
programming decisions. The Post says that there is “no doubt CBS just wants
to get this matter behind it” but that “these issues...must not be swept
under the carpet” and that “a full airing is essential.”

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