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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*Friday, October 5, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*

*Holiday Message*

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Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden Campaigns For Democratic House Candidates In California. <#S1>

• Biden To Hold Indiana Rally With Donnelly Next Week. <#S2>

• Biden Traveling To London For Series Of Events, Including Foreign Policy
Speech. <#S3>

• Vanity Fair: Left’s “Fury Over Kavanaugh” Could Undermine Biden 2020 Bid.
<#S4>

• Themal: Biden Most Qualified Potential 2020 Candidate Among Senior
Generation. <#S5>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Media Analyses: Kavanaugh Appears Headed For Weekend Confirmation. <#S6>

• Media Analyses: “Overreach,” Perceived Media Bias Cutting Democrats’
Midterm Edge. <#S7>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Pence Accuses China Of “Malign” Efforts To Undermine Trump. <#S8>

• New US Counterterrorism Strategy Puts Focus On Iran, Its Proxies. <#S9>

• Votel: Russia’s Deployment Of Missile System To Syria Is Needless
Escalation. <#S10>

• US Service Members Killed In Afghanistan. <#S11>

• White House Briefs Senators On Middle East Peace Plan. <#S12>

• Treasury Department: Turkish Company Violated North Korea Sanctions.
<#S13>

• US, UK, Others Accuse Russian Intelligence Officers Of Hacking Campaign.
<#S14>

• Wartime Sexual Violence Activists Win Nobel Peace Prize. <#S15>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• At Minnesota Rally, Trump Slams Democrats, Says Franken Folded “Like A
Wet Rag.” <#S16>

• After Court Reprieve, TPS Holders Hope Congress Will Grant Them Permanent
Legal Status. <#S17>

• CMS To Increase Oversight Of Hospital Accrediting Organizations. <#S18>

• White House Report: Eroding Defense Industrial Bases Endangers National
Security. <#S19>

• Critics Warn DOD-Funded Food Security Project Could Spark “Biological
Arms Race.” <#S20>

• New York City Officials Join Probe Of Trump Family Finances. <#S21>

• Pence’s Daughter Writes She Was Struck By Trump’s Kindness. <#S22>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_5>*

• Washington Post. <#S23>

• New York Times. <#S24>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_6>*

• Studies Link Aspirin Use To Lower Risk Of Ovarian Cancer, Liver Cancer.
<#S25>
Biden in the News
Biden Campaigns For Democratic House Candidates In California.

Politico
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(10/4, Marinucci) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden visited
California Thursday and campaigned in “the heart of Reagan Country...riding
a wave of Democratic grassroots anger over the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation
to boost the party’s House candidates.” Speaking at California State
University Fullerton, Biden said, “Our core values, the American story is
being assailed. ... The fabric that has always held us together, in good
times and hard times, is being shredded before our eyes.” Biden added,
“This President has put his own interests before the nation,” and while the
Republican Congress, “to my overwhelming disappointment,” has not acted,
“our kids are listening, our kids are watching. Our children are hearing
all this. And our silence is complicit. ... Folks, America knows who Donald
Trump is – the question for all of us is: Who are we? How do we reassert
what we stand for?”

        The Pasadena (CA) Star-News
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(10/4) quotes Biden as saying, “This is the most important election you’ve
ever voted in. Our core values, the America story, is being assailed.”
Biden said, “Here’s the good news: The folks with me here today and a
Democrat-controlled Congress are going to take this President on.” The Los
Angeles Times
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(10/4, Finnegan) reports Biden’s afternoon rally at Cal State Fullerton
“follows a similar event last month in Anaheim, where former President
Obama campaigned for six California Democrats in fiercely contested House
races.”

        The AP
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(10/4, Blood) reports Biden “urged support Thursday for Democratic
candidates in a string of California districts to regain control of the
House and help ‘take this president on.’” With a “densely packed crowd
chanting ‘Take it back,’ a reference to the GOP-held House, Biden spent
about 50 minutes denouncing Trump administration policies and calling for a
return of civility and mutual respect in Washington.”

        *Biden Raised $100,000 At Fundraiser For American Possibilities
PAC. *Meanwhile, Variety
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(10/4) reports Joe Biden “raised about $100,000 for his political action
committee American Possibilities at what was described as an intimate
gathering of Hollywood executives and creatives, including Jeffrey
Katzenberg, Paramount’s Jim Gianopulos, and Sony’s Tom Rothman.” Citing The
Hollywood Reporter, Breitbart
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(10/4, Caruso) reports that “approximately 25 people attended the
$5,000-per-plate fundraiser, which raised a little more than $100,000,
funds that will be funneled toward Biden’s PAC American Possibilities,
which supports Democratic candidates and causes.” Notable names in
attendance “were Paramount’s Jim Gianopulos, Sony Pictures’ Tom Rothman,
producer Byron Allen, ICM Partners’ Chris Silbermann, Gonring Spahn’s Andy
Spahn, Katzenberg, venture capitalist Chris Sacca, entrepreneur Jon Vein
and Meg Whitman.”
Biden To Hold Indiana Rally With Donnelly Next Week.

WTTV-TV
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Indianapolis (10/4) reports former Vice President Joe Biden “is coming to
the Hoosier State to campaign for Senator Joe Donnelly.” Biden and Donnelly
“will hold an ‘early vote rally’ in Hammond, Indiana next Friday, Oct. 12”
in northwest Indiana. Officials “say the rally will encourage supporters to
vote early and recruit new volunteers for the Indiana Democratic
Coordinated Campaign.” The Hill
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(10/4, Axelrod) reports, “It is widely speculated that Biden has
presidential aspirations of his own. He is frequently mentioned as a
prospective 2020 candidate and has campaigned with various other Democratic
candidates in their midterm campaigns.” Neighbor Newspapers Atlanta
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(10/4) also reports on the upcoming event.
Biden Traveling To London For Series Of Events, Including Foreign Policy
Speech.

CNN
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(10/4, Saenz) reports former Vice President Joe Biden “will travel to
London next week for a series of events, including a foreign policy speech
that will offer up a contrast to President Donald Trump on the world
stage.” The trip “comes as Biden himself weighs a presidential run against
Trump in 2020, a decision he says will come after the midterm elections.”
An unnamed source close to Biden “told CNN the former vice president will
arrive in London Monday ahead of a private fundraiser for the McCain
Institute Tuesday.”
Vanity Fair: Left’s “Fury Over Kavanaugh” Could Undermine Biden 2020 Bid.

Vanity Fair
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(10/4) reports that, following the “left’s fury over Kavanaugh,” the “fate
of the old-guard liberal once in good standing” is uncertain. This figure
“still holds the reins of power throughout the Democratic Party, but the
ride is getting rougher. And few are likely to feel this as keenly in 2020
as beloved old-guard liberal Joe Biden.” A spate of recent articles “on
Biden’s alleged transgressions may be a preview of what awaits him.”

        The Economist
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(10/4) reports that Biden “has a lot of the qualities Democrats should be
looking for in their presidential candidate for 2020,” but highlights his
time as Senate Judiciary Chairman in 1991 “when it probed Anita Hill’s
allegation of sexual harassment by her former colleague, Clarence Thomas,
then a nominee for the Supreme Court.” Unfortunately for Biden, “the
offhand way that committee treated Ms Hill has been picked over since
Christine Blasey Ford testified to it last week about her alleged long-ago
assault by Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court
nominee.”

        Vanity Fair
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(10/4) adds, “If all of this turns out to be enough to cause Biden to pull
back from a run in 2020, it would probably spare him other worries. He has
some fairly serious vulnerabilities as it is: a record of pandering to
predatory credit-card issuers; a very weird episode of plagiarism; a
tendency toward babbling and muddled thinking; and, above all, old age.”
Themal: Biden Most Qualified Potential 2020 Candidate Among Senior
Generation.

Discussing which potential 2020 presidential candidates Democrats would
vote for, columnist Harry Themal writes for the Wilmington (DE) News Journal
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(10/4) that “after eight years as Barack Obama’s very active vice president
and 36 years as the Delaware’s senator, Biden’s experience makes him the
most qualified of the senior generation candidates.”
Leading the News
Media Analyses: Kavanaugh Appears Headed For Weekend Confirmation.

In the aftermath of the new FBI background check into Supreme Court
Justice-designate Brett Kavanaugh, media analyses cast the Senate as
increasingly likely to vote narrowly to confirm him. TIME
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(10/4, Abramson, Abrams), for example, reports “Kavanaugh’s confirmation to
the Supreme Court looked increasingly likely on Thursday,” a position
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(10/4) yesterday, “I think the ballgame’s over here.” Along similar lines,
the Washington Examiner
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(10/4, Ferrechio) says “Kavanaugh is on course for the Supreme Court,” The
Hill
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(10/4, Bolton, Carney) that his “path to confirmation appeared to
solidify,” and the CBS Evening News
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(10/4, story 2, 0:30, Cordes) that “if all goes well for Republicans, they
will hold a final vote to confirm Kavanaugh on Saturday so he can be seated
on the Supreme Court next week.”

        The AP
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(10/4, Fram, Mascaro) reports that “Republican leaders seemed to show
increasing confidence” and Reuters
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(10/4, Morgan, Becker) that they “gained confidence” following the release
of the FBI report, and that White House Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah
said the Administration is “fully confident” Kavanaugh will be confirmed.
The Washington Times
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(10/4, Boyer) reports White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders “expressed
confidence Thursday that the Senate will confirm...Kavanaugh in the wake of
an FBI report with no new findings about a decades-old sexual assault
complaint.” Sanders told Fox News
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(10/4), “We allowed the FBI to do exactly what they do best. ... We haven’t
micromanaged this process. We accommodated all of the Senate’s requests.
The President was very clear about that and allowed the FBI to make those
decisions.” NBC Nightly News
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(10/4, lead story, 3:10, Holt) showed Sanders saying, “Anybody that pushes
back on the fact that Dr. Ford wasn’t given ample opportunity to state her
case has been living in a cave.”

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(10/4) that “White House officials told Fox News today that they were
confident that Judge Kavanaugh would ultimately be confirmed to the Supreme
Court although they do acknowledge they think the vote will be a squeaker.”
The Wall Street Journal
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(10/4, A1, Peterson, Andrews) runs a similar front-page analysis under the
headline “Confidence In Kavanaugh Confirmation Grows,” and Politico
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(10/4, Everett, Schor) reports that asked in an interview “whether he has
the votes,” Senate Majority Whip Cornyn said, “I’m optimistic. I’m going to
let senators make their own announcements, but I’m optimistic we’ll get
there.”

        Congressional correspondent Phil Mattingly, however, said on CNN’s
Situation Room
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(10/4), “There is no question there is optimism from Republican leaders,
but here is an important caveat: a senior Republican aide just short while
ago texted me, ‘It’s not locked in yet.’ They know for a fact that at this
moment, they don’t have the 51 votes they need to confirm...Kavanaugh.”

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(10/4), “We are feeling very confident that everything the Democrats and
even Dr. Ford have asked to be done in terms of major accommodations over
the last two and half weeks have been done. The FBI supplemental is
completed. This is the seventh...FBI vetting that is being completed on
Brett Kavanaugh, including two justice calendar years. So, now it’s time to
vote. We feel pretty confident.”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(10/4, Megerian) indicates “two swing Republicans said they believed the
FBI investigation was thorough, raising hopes at the White House that they
were falling into line and would back Kavanaugh.” Their votes “could be
enough to end what has become a bitter partisan and legal battle in the
#MeToo era.” USA Today
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(10/4, Kelly, Collins, Gaudiano) reports Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) “told
reporters that the report showed ‘no additional corroborating information’
to suggest Kavanaugh had committed sexual assault,” and Sen. Susan Collins
(R-ME) “indicated that she did not share Democrats’ concerns that the FBI
report was incomplete and inconclusive,” remarking, “It appears to be a
very thorough investigation.”

        The New York Post
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(10/4, Schwab, Schultz, Fredericks) sees the comments by Collins and Flake
as “an apparent signal of support of his confirmation,” and Reuters
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(10/4, Chiacu) notes the Arizona senator “triggered the supplemental
background check last Friday when he said he would not vote to confirm
Kavanaugh unless one was done.” The Hill
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(10/4, Bolton) reports Flake said, “I think Susan Collins was quoted saying
it was very thorough but no new corroborative information came out of it.
That’s accurate. ... I wanted this pause; we’ve had this pause. ... Thus
far we’ve seen no new credible corroboration, no new corroboration at all.”
The Washington Post
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(10/4, Kim) reports, meanwhile, that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) “told
reporters that she did not yet know whether the FBI had been thorough
enough in its investigation or spoken to enough witnesses.”

        Bloomberg News
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(10/4, Litvan, Wasson, Dennis) reports Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles
Grassley also said the FBI probe found “no corroboration of allegations,”
and added that “Kavanaugh should be confirmed on Saturday.” The Washington
Times
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(10/4, Dinan, Swoye) quotes Grassley as saying, “These uncorroborated
accusations have been unequivocally and repeatedly rejected by Judge
Kavanaugh, and neither the Judiciary Committee nor the FBI could locate any
third parties who can attest to any of the allegations.”

        The Hill
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(10/4, Carney) reports, meanwhile, that Senate Majority Leader McConnell
“lashed out at Democrats in a furious floor speech on Thursday
about...Kavanaugh’s confirmation, arguing the allegations against him are
‘uncorroborated mud.’” Added McConnell, “None of these allegations have
been corroborated by the seventh FBI investigation.”

        The New York Times
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(10/4, Fandos, Stolberg) says “by day’s end, two competing narratives had
emerged about the 46 pages of interview documents. ... While Republicans
pressed on the idea that there was no corroborating evidence in the
interviews, Democrats challenged the legitimacy of the investigation and
the veracity of some of the witnesses.” The Times adds that Democrats
argued that the FBI, “at the White House’s direction, had left key
witnesses off the interview list and left leads unexplored.” Sen. Dianne
Feinstein (D-CA) is quoted as saying, “What I can say is the most notable
part of this report is what’s not in it.” The Daily Caller
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(10/4, Daley) quotes Feinstein as saying, “The most notable part of this
report is what’s not in it. ... It looks to be a product of an incomplete
investigation that was limited, perhaps by the White House.” Senate
Minority Leader Schumer also “disputed” the “earlier statement
from...Grassley, who said the report contained no new information.” Said
Schumer, “I disagree with Sen. Grassley’s statement that there was no hint
of misconduct.”

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(10/4, lead story, 4:00, Cordes) showed Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) saying, “In
plain English, what I just read, there are hints of misconduct.” The Washington
Post
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(10/4, Kim) reports, meanwhile, that Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) “seemed to
acknowledge that there was no corroboration for Ford’s charges in the FBI
report, but blamed the scope of the investigation.”

        Politico
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(10/4, Schor, Everett, Bresnahan) reports that after Sen. Heidi Heitkamp
(D-ND) announced she would oppose the nomination, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV)
is the only Democrat left still “on the fence.”

        *Trump: 100 More FBI Probes “Would Still Not Be Good Enough” For
Democrats *. President Trump weighed in on the matter on Twitter
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writing, “This is now the 7th. time the FBI has investigated Judge
Kavanaugh. If we made it 100, it would still not be good enough for the
Obstructionist Democrats.” Trump also tweeted
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“This is a very important time in our country. Due Process, Fairness and
Common Sense are now on trial!”

        *Shah: White House “Deferred To The Senate” In Limiting FBI Probe’s
Scope. *Appearing on CNN’s New Day
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(10/4), Shah said, “Just to be clear – this is something that has been lost
in the process – a background investigation is not a criminal probe, for
example. It doesn’t seek to find a specific outcome. It seeks to find
information for decision makers. The Senate has set a scope on what they
are interested in. They have already investigated this matter through their
own Senate process. They wanted interviews of additional individuals. Any
background investigation has to have some form of limiting scope,
and...it’s always, in these matters, set by the White House, but we
deferred to the Senate’s requests.”

        *Ford’s Lawyers Slam FBI Probe, See “Stain” On Kavanaugh
Confirmation. *The Washington Times
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(10/4, Dinan) reports “lawyers for...Ford...said Thursday that the FBI’s
updated background investigation was a ‘stain’ on the confirmation process
and the FBI because it wasn’t thorough enough.” In a letter to FBI Director
Wray, the lawyers “listed eight witnesses the said should have been
contacted but weren’t, including longtime friends of Ms. Blasey Ford, her
husband, and the ex-FBI agent who conducted a polygraph exam in August.”
The Times adds that “the FBI interviewed 10 witnesses, including the people
Ms. Blasey Ford has publicly identified as being at the 1982 high school
party,” but “none of those people has corroborated her account.”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(10/4, story 2, 1:30, Karl) reported, “The FBI never spoke with Ford. In
fact, they only interviewed a total of nine people.” Ford’s lawyers “say
they suggested eight other possible witnesses, but they were never
contacted.” Moreover, “there is Deborah Ramirez, who accused Kavanaugh of
exposing himself to her in college when both were drunk.” Ramirez “did
speak to the FBI, and said she submitted the names of more than 20
potential witnesses, none of whom, she claimed, were investigated.”

        *WPost, NYTimes Editorials Urge Senate To Reject Kavanaugh.
*The Washington
Post
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(10/4) editorializes that “unfortunately – and unnecessarily; it didn’t
have to be this way – too many questions remain about his history for
senators to responsibly vote ‘yes,’” and “at the same time, enough has been
learned about his partisan instincts that we believe senators must vote
‘no.’” The New York Times
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(10/4) also editorializes that “only by voting no, by asking Mr. Trump to
send someone else for it to consider, can the Senate pass its test of
institutional character and meet its obligation to safeguard the
credibility of the Supreme Court.”

        *Daines Still Plans To Attend Daughter’s Wedding Saturday. *The AP
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(10/4) reports that Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) “says he’s going to attend his
daughter’s wedding back home in Montana on Saturday regardless of a
possible weekend Senate vote on...Kavanaugh.” Daines told the AP “in a
statement that two things are going to happen this weekend: There’s going
to be a new Supreme Court justice and Daines is going to walk his daughter
down the aisle.” The Washington Examiner
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(10/4, Lim) says “Daines has supported Kavanaugh throughout his
confirmation process, but his absence from Washington could pose a
mathematical problem for GOP senators hoping to push through the judge’s
nomination,” as the GOP “holds a razor-thin majority in the upper chamber,
51 to 49.” Politico
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(10/4, Everett, Schor) says that if Republicans end up needing Daines, “the
vote could...drag into Sunday.”

        *Kavanaugh Expresses Regret For His Tone At Senate Hearing. *In an
op-ed for the Wall Street Journal
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(10/4), Kavanaugh writes that while he may have been too emotional at times
during last week’s hearing, if he is confirmed, he can be counted upon to
be the open-minded, independent jurist he has been throughout his career. USA
Today
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(10/4, Hayes) reports that Kavanaugh wrote that “he regretted his tone at
times,” and promised “that his tone was not an indication that his
open-mindedness would change if the Senate confirms him to the nation’s
highest court.” The Washington Times
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(10/4, Swoyer) also reports on Kavanaugh’s op-ed, saying “the judge
attempted to explain the level of frustration he’s felt since being accused
of sexual assault.”

        Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360[image:
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(10/4), “That op-ed piece is a pretty obvious effort to clean up the
debacle of his testimony to the Judiciary Committee a week ago. And that
testimony was really profoundly revealing. Almost like taking the mask off
the judge and showing the real person. And what he did this that testimony
was show someone who was angry, vengeful, self-pitying, and threatening.”
Blumenthal added that “this op-ed in no way removes the issue of
temperament and it is the reason that former Justice John Paul Stevens
today said that performance last week was disqualifying, and why thousands
of lawyers and former judges around the country are writing to us, asking
us to disapprove this nomination.”

        *WPost: Kavanaugh’s Upbringing Has Protected Him From His Missteps.
*A nearly 3,500-word Washington Post
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(10/4, Kranish) story describes “Kavanaugh’s rise – and how his upbringing
amid Washington’s political and social elite has helped protect him from
his missteps.” The report “is based on dozens of interviews with friends,
classmates, co-workers and mentors, including some who think he has been
grievously wronged in the confirmation process and others who think he is
unfit to serve.” The Post says that through the years, Kavanaugh “has been
rich in friends, loyal and true.” But “as bright and kind and wise as
friends say Kavanaugh is, he has also left behind a trail of people who say
that his reckless behavior raises serious questions about his judgment and
veracity.”

        *Yale Classmates Say Kavanaugh Should Not Be On High Court. *In an
op-ed for the Washington Post
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(10/4), Charles Ludington, Lynne Brookes, and Elizabeth Swisher, who
attended Yale University from 1983 to 1987 with Kavanaugh, describe
themselves as Kavanaugh’s “drinking buddies.” They write that Kavanaugh
“lied to the Senate by stating, under oath, that he never drank to the
point of forgetting what he was doing. We said, unequivocally, that each of
us, on numerous occasions, had seen Brett stumbling drunk to the point that
it would be impossible for him to state with any degree of certainty that
he remembered everything that he did when drunk.” Noting that Kavanaugh
“belonged to a Yale senior secret society called Truth and Courage,” they
add, “We believe that Brett neither tells the former nor embodies the
latter. For this reason, we believe that Brett Kavanaugh should not sit on
the nation’s highest court.”

        *Former Colleague Praises Kavanaugh As “Good And Decent Man.”
*In a Washington
Post
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(10/4) op-ed, Mark A. Perry, a partner in the law firm Gibson, Dunn &
Crutcher, writes that he has known Kavanaugh since they both clerked for
Supreme Court justices in 1991 and he has “never known Kavanaugh to act
disrespectfully to any woman (or man, for that matter), or to engage in any
kind of impropriety, ever. I’ve seen him drink beer in social settings on
occasion, but I have never seen him even come close to losing control.”
Perry describes Kavanaugh as a “good and decent man, a principled and
disciplined jurist, and a rigorous and careful thinker. .... And I hope
that the next time I stand at the lectern of the Supreme Court, I have the
honor to address my old friend as ‘Justice Kavanaugh.’”

        *Angry Anti-Kavanaugh Capitol Hill Protests Continue, Lead To
Hundreds Of Arrests. *NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/4, lead story, 3:10, Holt) led its broadcast reporting that “protesters
crowded the halls confronting senators who in a secure room got their first
look at what the FBI learned in its five-day background investigation of
[Supreme Court nominee Brett] Kavanaugh,” and went on (Alexander) to remark
on the “tensions on Capitol Hill...where they’re blasting the FBI
background investigation.” NBC showed “women confronting Orrin Hatch.” An
unnamed protested was shown saying, “Don’t you wave your hand at me. I
waved my hand at you.” Hatch replied, “When you grow up --” The protester
retorted, “When I grow up!”

        The New York Times
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(10/4, Williamson) says “Hatch retreated to the back of the elevator car,
then, grinning from behind his aides, waved off the women a final time.”
The group of protesters “rushed the door,” while “again and again” they
repeated, “How dare you?” The Washington Post
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(10/4, Rosenberg) reports that Hatch’s “grow up” sparked “the ire of
protesters” as “video of the incident ricocheted around social media on
Thursday night, the latest in a string of incidents reflecting the heated
emotions coursing through the Capitol.” The Post adds “Kathy Beynette, the
protester whose voice is the one predominantly heard in the video, said in
an interview that she was deeply offended by Hatch’s remarks.” Said
Beynette, “I was like, How dare you talk to a woman like this? ... When I
grow up? No woman deserves to be talked to like that.”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(10/4, lead story, 5:10, Muir) referred to “protesters marching in
Washington” amid “hundreds of arrests,” and the CBS Evening News[image:
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(10/4, lead story, 4:00, Cordes) also reported “demonstrators filled every
floor of a Senate office building and marched to the Supreme Court.” CBS
(Cordes) added “comedian Amy Schumer was among the hundreds detained by
Capitol Police...after protesters unfurled giant banners in support of”
Christine Blasey Ford. USA Today
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(10/4, Henderson) recounts that “in a video posted to twitter by
@bennyjohnson, a Capitol police officer asks Schumer and other
demonstrators if they want to be arrested, including the camera man.”
Schumer “confidently answered, ‘Yes.’”

        The Daily Caller
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(10/4, Rodgers) reports “protesters have continued to confront Republican
members of Congress at restaurants, airports, and their offices,” and
“several members of Congress have also had their private contact
information and home addresses leaked to the public.” Yesterday, “a small
group of protesters” against Kavanaugh “confronted a crowd supporting the
judge in front of the US Capitol.”

        USA Today
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(10/4, Simon, Bacon) reports “20 women from Maine who traveled to the
nation’s capital to join hundreds of other protesters for a rally that
could be a last gasp push against Kavanaugh’s proposed ascension to the
nation’s highest court.” The group “repeatedly chanted: ‘Susan Collins, we
are your voters, Susan Collins, we are your voters!’”

        *Graham To Protester: Let’s “Dunk” Kavanaugh “In The Water And See
If He Floats.” *The Daily Caller
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(10/4, Johnson) reports Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) was confronted by
protesters yesterday, and “did not take kindly” one of them, who “continued
to yell...Kavanaugh while he was doing an interview at the Capitol.” After
the protester “began yelling that Kavanaugh should take a polygraph,”
Graham retorted, “Why don’t we dunk him in the water and see if he floats?”

        *Protester Recounts “Fury” After Flake “Would Not” Look At Her When
Confronted In Elevator. *Maria Gallagher, “a recent college graduate” and
anti-Kavanaugh protester, recounts in the New York Times
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(10/4) her encounter with Sen. Jeff Flake, “When I ran from...Flake’s
office door to the elevator last Friday and put my arm in to stop it from
closing, I wasn’t thinking about what would come next. I had no idea what I
was about to say. But when he would not look at me, or the woman standing
next to me baring her soul, I felt only fury.” Gallagher adds that “if Mr.
Flake had been confident in his decision to vote yes on...Kavanaugh’s
nomination, he would have looked me in the face.” But when he didn’t, “it
was clear that he wished he could have stayed in his office and not faced
those whose lives would be affected by his actions.”

        *“Lifelong Republican” Former Justice Stevens Comes Out Against
Kavanaugh. *ABC World News Tonight
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(10/4, story 3, 1:50, Karl) reported that former Justice John Paul Stevens,
now 98 years old and “a lifelong Republican nominated to the court by
Gerald Ford,” had “praised” Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh “in the
past,” but on Thursday he said the nominee “disqualified himself with the
confrontational and partisan tone of his confirmation hearing.” Politico
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(10/4, Morin) also calls Stevens “a lifelong Republican,” and the New York
Times
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(10/4, Liptak) refers to “an unusual rebuke from a former member of the
Supreme Court.”

        The Palm Beach (FL) Post
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(10/4, Ramadan) recounts that “speaking to a crowd of retirees in Boca
Raton,” Stevens “said Kavanaugh’s performance during a recent Senate
confirmation hearing suggested that he lacks the temperament for the job.”
The Post also calls Stevens “a lifelong Republican who is known for falling
on the liberal side of several judicial rulings.” The Post notes that
“since his retirement, Stevens has penned a handful of opinion pieces for
the New York Times calling for dramatic liberal reform.” For example,
“following the Parkland high school shooting, Stevens...called for the
repeal of the Second Amendment.”

        *WPost: McGahn In “Bunker Mode” Working To Protect Nomination.
*The Washington
Post
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(10/4, Costa) reports that outgoing White House counsel Donald McGahn’s
“final bit of business before departing was to get...Kavanaugh seated on
the Supreme Court. It was a prize – moving the court further to the right,
potentially for decades – that made his final months in the White House
worth their trouble.” Now, with the nomination “marred over sexual assault
allegations,” McGahn “is desperately working to save it from collapse as
the Senate prepares for a vote this weekend.” He “has been in bunker mode,
working nearly nonstop to protect the nomination by serving as both lawyer
and crisis communications adviser to Trump and Kavanaugh, often being the
rare person who will speak bluntly to both men.”

        *Sullivan Accuses Administration Of “Lies And Obfuscation.” *Margaret
Sullivan argues in her Washington Post
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(10/4) column that we are “in a whole new phase of the Orwellian nightmare
in which black is called white.” As evidence she writes that White House
Press Secretary Sarah Sanders on Wednesday “blatantly lied in describing
her boss’s ridicule, at a rally the night before, of Christine Blasey
Ford.” Sullivan adds that the “extremely restricted FBI investigation...did
not include the testimony of knowledgeable people who wanted to cast light
on the allegations against Kavanaugh.” Sullivan calls this “classic
gaslighting,” which “extended, too, to Trump’s reaction to a meticulously
reported and far-reaching New York Times investigation of Trump’s crooked
family finances.” Sullivan concludes that it is “hard to maintain a sense
of outrage, or certainty, when the lies and obfuscation just keep coming.”

        *Ford Friend “Blindsided” After Being Named As Witness. *The Daily
Mail (UK)
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(10/4, Collins) reports that a family member close to Ford’s high school
friend Leland Keyer was “completely blindsided” and left “reeling” when
Ford named her as a corroborating witness. The family member, who asked not
to be named, told DailyMailTV, “Christine didn’t give her so much as a
heads up – as far as I know they haven’t really spoken for several years
and they’re certainly not close anymore. Leland was completely blindsided
by her name being thrown into it all. The first thing she knew about it was
when she woke up on Thursday morning and her name was just everywhere. It
was crazy. ... It really felt a lot like Christine was the one called to
the principal’s office to give an account of something and just threw her
under the bus. You know, just reached for a name.”

        *Liz Cheney: Democrats’ Treatment Of Kavanaugh Has Been “Evil” And
“Abhorrent.” *Appearing on Fox News’ Fox & Friends[image: Image removed by
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(10/4), Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said the Democrats’ treatment of Supreme
Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been “evil,” “disgraceful” and
“cold-hearted.” Cheney added, “What they have done is clearly try to
unleash a whole bunch of false charges to destroy Judge Kavanaugh. ... It
is an absolutely abhorrent. They have tried to weaponize false charges of
sexual assault. And I think they all ought to be ashamed of themselves.”

        *Megyn Kelly: Accusers Entitled To “Fair Hearing,” Not Presumption
Allegations Are True. *The Hill
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(10/4, Keller) reports “NBC host Megyn Kelly said Thursday that women need
to be careful of how American society and institutions deal with men
accused of sexual misconduct, or run the risk that allegations against men
will lose their weight.” Kelly told NBC’s Today[image: Image removed by
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(10/4), “‘Believe women’ may sound like a nice slogan, but it is utterly
inconsistent with the principles of our justice system. ... Women are
entitled to an open mind and a fair hearing, not to a presumption that
their accusations are true.” Kelly also asked, “As Julie Swetnick’s claims
have collapsed against Brett Kavanaugh, where’s the media talking about
that, about the litany of problems this woman has had when it comes to
truthfulness and so on? ... We’ve been covering it here. What do people
say? You’re victim shaming. Come on! We are allowed to look at the
credibility of an accuser.”

        *Kelly Defends Interviewing Lauer Accuser. *Us Weekly
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(10/4, Braun) reports, “Nothing will stop her. Megyn Kelly has devoted many
hours in her first year of hosting Megyn Kelly Today to telling the stories
of abuse survivors and showcasing the #MeToo movement.” US Weekly adds that
“shortly after NBC fired 60-year-old Lauer in November for sexual
misconduct, the former Fox News host brought one-time Today production
assistant Addie Zinone on her show to discuss a sexual relationship Zinone
had with Lauer when she was 24.” Asked whether “she received any negative
feedback for featuring Zinone on her hour of the Today lineup,” Kelly
replied, “All I’m going to say is that I feel very strongly about the
#MeToo coverage, the importance of doing it without fear or favor. ... I
didn’t let anyone stop me at Fox, and I’m not going to let anyone stop me
at NBC.” USA Today
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(10/4, Jensen) notes that “when asked by the entertainment outlet if she
thought the disgraced journalist could make a comeback, Kelly declined to
comment, but said: ‘I know too much that others don’t know.’”

        *National Council Of Churches Speaks Out Against Kavanaugh.
*The Washington
Post
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(10/4, Zauzmer) reports that the National Council of Churches, which
“usually steers clear of Supreme Court nominations,” on Wednesday “broke
its silence” on Kavanaugh. The group said in a statement, “We believe he
has disqualified himself from this lifetime appointment and must step aside
immediately. ... During his appearance before the Senate Judiciary
Committee, Judge Kavanaugh exhibited extreme partisan bias and disrespect
toward certain members of the committee and thereby demonstrated that he
possesses neither the temperament nor the character essential for a member
of the highest court in our nation. We are deeply disturbed by the multiple
allegations of sexual assault and call for a full and unhindered
investigation of these accusations. In addition, his testimony before the
Judiciary Committee included several misstatements and some outright
falsehoods.”

        *Former ACLU Leaders Criticize Anti-Kavanaugh Ad Campaign.
*The Washington
Examiner
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(10/4, Nelson) reports that former ACLU leaders are criticizing the group’s
decision to oppose Kavanaugh “with a $1 million ad buy focused on sexual
misconduct allegations.” Former ACLU vice president Michael Meyers “said
the TV ad campaign, which compares Kavanaugh to famous sex abusers,
violates the civil libertarian principle of presumption of innocence and
shows the ACLU is increasingly guided by partisanship over principle.”
Similarly, Wendy Kaminer, an ACLU national board member, “said the ad
campaign strays from the ACLU’s core civil liberties mission and could
undermine the organization’s work.”

        *Facebook Executive Sparks Controversy With Appearance At Kavanaugh
Hearing. *The New York Times
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(10/4, Isaac) reports that Facebook Vice President for Global Public Policy
Joel Kaplan apologized to staff in a memo last Friday after sitting “behind
his friend” Kavanaugh “when the judge testified in Congress about
allegations he had sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford in high
school.” Kaplan’s appearance “prompted anger and shock among many Facebook
employees, some of whom said they took his action as a tacit show of
support for Judge Kavanaugh – as if it were an endorsement from Facebook
itself.” It “quickly spilled over onto Facebook’s internal message boards,
where hundreds of workers have since posted about their concerns, according
to current and former employees.” The Daily Caller
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(10/4, Hasson) reports that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg “sparked a further
backlash by informing employees that Kaplan hadn’t broken any rules by
supporting Kavanaugh in his personal time.” Facebook “is reportedly
addressing the Kaplan controversy in a town hall on Friday.”

        *Professor Facing Criticism For Blog Post Defending Kavanaugh.
*The Washington
Times
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(10/4, Chasmar) reports that Mitchell Langbert, an associate professor of
business at Brooklyn College “is facing calls to resign after he issued a
‘satirical’ essay in defending Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett M.
Kavanaugh that argued ‘sexual assault’ is a rite of passage for young
males.” In a Sept. 27 blog post, Langbert called Democrats the “party of
tutu-wearing pansies, totalitarian sissies” who use have used “anonymity
and defamation” in trying to bring down Kavanaugh. Langbert wrote, “If
someone did not commit sexual assault in high school, then he is not a
member of the male sex.” The post “has outraged students. ... Corrinne
Greene said her campus group, Young Progressives of America, wants the
professor fired.”

        *Zakaria: Supreme Court Has Fallen Victim To Washington
Dysfunction. *Fareed Zakaria writes in the Washington Post
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(10/4) that the Supreme Court “was one of the last bastions in Washington
that towered above the political fray. It is now part of the dysfunction
that has overwhelmed almost the entire American system.”

        *Trump Critic Stephens Now Praises President For Standing Up For
Kavanaugh. *In a column headlined “For Once, I’m Grateful For Trump,” Bret
Stephens of the New York Times
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(10/4), who has been a persistent critic of Trump, writes, “For the first
time since Donald Trump entered the political fray, I find myself grateful
that he’s in it...because” he “has not backed down in the face of the
slipperiness, hypocrisy and dangerous standard-setting deployed by
opponents of...Kavanaugh’s nomination. ... I’m grateful because ferocious
and even crass obstinacy has its uses in life, and never more so than in
the face of sly moral bullying.” Stephens concludes by saying, “at least
one big bully was willing to stand up to others.”

        *CNN’s Sciutto Appears To Dismiss Gang Rape Allegations Against
Kavanaugh As “Politics.” *Breitbart
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(10/4, Baker) reports that on CNN’s Newsroom[image: Image removed by
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(10/4) yesterday, anchor Jim Sciutto “brushed off accusations of sexual
misconduct against...Kavanaugh as simply ‘politics’ as network commentator
Scott Jennings defended the judge’s temperament at last week’s hearing.”
Said Jennings, “To be honest with you, I think Judge Kavanaugh reacted
exactly the way most Americans would react to being smeared. ... If
somebody said the things about me that they said about him, I think I would
have asked somebody to step outside.” Sciutto interjected, “I gotta
challenge that, Scott. Let me challenge that because it’s become a talking
point. Here’s the difference, Scott. ... The fact is, this is Washington.
This is politics. Political candidates have been accused of horrible things
for years, and it becomes – how do you respond to that?” Jennings retorted,
“Gang rape?”

        The Daily Caller
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(10/4, Athey) notes that “Julie Swetnick, who is represented by celebrity
lawyer Michael Avenatti, claims that she attended multiple parties in the
1980s where she witnessed Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge waiting in
line for gang rapes.”

        *TIME Cover: Ford “Historic Figure” That Shows “Drunken Violence”
Can Shadow Powerful “All Their Lives.” *In a cover story titled “How
Christine Blasey Ford’s Testimony Changed America,” TIME
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(10/4, Edwards) reports that while “Ford’s testimony may not prevent
Kavanaugh’s confirmation...it was a powerful warning that wealth, status
and a record of professional accomplishments were no longer enough to
override credible allegations of sexual assault.” It was also a message to
“young men...that drunken violence could shadow them all their lives. And
to victims, Ford’s testimony was an invitation to speak up, no matter how
powerful the accused, no matter how long ago the attack. People will
listen, the country seemed to reassure them. We will believe you.” Time
also reports that “even if Kavanaugh joins the bench, Ford has cemented
herself as a historic figure,” and that “in her courage, many Americans saw
the opposite of everything they think is wrong with Washington. Politicians
spin, fudge the truth, grasp at power.”

        *Robinson To Democrats: “Get Even.” *Eugene Robinson writes in
the Washington
Post
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(10/4), “Pay attention, Democrats. Watch what Republicans are doing. You’ll
see what raw power looks like – and understand why winning in November is
so vital for the nation’s future. ... Get mad about Kavanaugh, and then get
even. What ‘comes around’ must be a Democratic wave.”

        *Shapiro: Democrats “Tried” To Destroy Kavanaugh And His Family. *Fox
News’ Fox & Friends
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(10/4) showed Ben Shapiro saying of the confirmation battle over Supreme
Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, “This is not merely a job interview right
now. This is a man who has been accused of attempted rape when he was 17
years old. If this goes the wrong way, it’s not just that he doesn’t end up
on the Supreme Court. He probably loses his seat on the D.C. Circuit of
Appeals. He probably never works again and his family is destroyed.
Democrats tried to play it this way.”
Media Analyses: “Overreach,” Perceived Media Bias Cutting Democrats’
Midterm Edge.

Some media analysts are pointing to signs that the heated battle over
Supreme Court Justice-designate Brett Kavanaugh could be hurting Democrats
as the fight for control of Congress enters its crucial final stretch.
McClatchy
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(10/4, Glueck, Wollner) reports, for example, that “suddenly, five weeks
from Election Day, Republicans are seeing tangible evidence of a spike in
GOP enthusiasm that has eluded them all cycle,” as “GOP operatives
nationwide” believe “the Democrats’ efforts to block President Donald
Trump’s Supreme Court nominee are backfiring with Republicans who were
previously apathetic about the midterms but are now angry – and engaged.”
McClatchy refers to “conversations with pollsters, strategists and party
officials” that “reveal that Republican voters are circling the wagons
around...Kavanaugh.”

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(10/4), Mika Brzezinski said, “We are already seeing the impacts of this
Supreme Court fight with Republican voters appearing increasingly fired
up.” Brzezinski said there appears to be “a backlash on the Democrats
pertaining to these Kavanaugh hearings.” Joe Scarborough added, “A lot of
people seeing them as overreaching,” as well as “media bias. ... People in
the media actually deciding that it was their job, that it was their war.”
Scarborough said new polls “suggest that a lot of Americans believe there’s
been an overreach by a lot of us in the media and also by a lot of
Democrats the on the Judiciary Committee.” Scarborough continued, “We’re
talking about this for a reason: What has happened over the past couple of
weeks has energized a depressed Republican base...and actually put
Democratic seats in danger.”

        On Fox News’ Fox & Friends
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(10/4), Steve Doocy noted that President Trump tweeted
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Wednesday night: “Wow, such enthusiasm and energy for Brett Kavanaugh. Look
at the energy. Look at the polls. Something very big is happening. ... The
country is with him all the way.” Ainsley Earhardt then highlighted new Fox
News polling showing a spike in interest in the midterms among Republicans
in Senate battleground states.

        The Washington Post
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(10/4, Kim) recounts that “during a Wednesday morning meeting of Senate
Democrats, multiple senators expressed frustration over how Republicans
have successfully energized their base in the Kavanaugh battle, according
to an official in the room who spoke on the condition of anonymity to
describe the discussion.” The Post adds that “wavering by Democrats
highlight the immediate political challenges the Kavanaugh standoff has
posed to the party, which needs to win races in Trump-friendly states to
have any hope of seizing the Senate in November.”

        To Reuters
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(10/4, Whitesides), meanwhile, “the ugly partisan brawl over...Kavanaugh’s
confirmation remains undecided,” but Trump “appears likely to come out on
top regardless of the outcome.” Reuters adds that “if Kavanaugh is
confirmed...Trump will have succeeded in placing his second justice on the
top US court and fulfilled his pledge to solidify its conservative
majority.” However, if Kavanaugh “is rejected, the battle to save his
nomination in the face of sexual misconduct allegations has jolted a
slumbering Republican base to life just ahead of the Nov. 6 elections,
political strategists and new polls suggest.” Robert Cahaly, “a pollster
and senior strategist at The Trafalgar Group, a Republican-leaning
consulting and polling firm,” tells Reuters, “This has done more to wake up
complacent Republican voters than anything I have seen.”

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(10/4), “There is no shortage of media malpractice in the age of Trump.
This is a perfect example. The mainstream media became witting, willing
accessories to character assassination. They demonized Kavanaugh,
corroborating evidence be damned.”

        The New York Times
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(10/4, Peters, Haberman) says “Trump and his conservative allies now see
their effort to confirm...Kavanaugh as central to salvaging the Republican
Party’s fortunes in the midterm elections, and hope to use the fervent
liberal opposition to his nomination to the Supreme Court as a graphic
example of the threat posed by a Democratic return to power in Congress.”

        The Washington Times
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(10/4, Boyer, Miller) reports “the backlash against the politicization of
the #MeToo movement” has taken “an unexpected turn.” The Times adds
“despite liberals’ predictions that unproven sexual misconduct allegations
against Judge Kavanaugh would galvanize women against Republicans, female
Republican Senate candidates in several battleground states are campaigning
on the pledge that they would vote to confirm the nominee.” Lee Miringoff,
director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, said, “The result of
hearings, at least in the short run, is the Republican base was awakened.”
Democratic strategist Brad Bannon “said he still gives Democrats a good
chance to win the House, but with a smaller majority than some have
projected.”

        In its cover story this week, however, TIME
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(10/4, Edwards) takes issue with “Republican analysts see the confirmation
battle as a winning issue.” While the NRCC “saw its donations spike by
175%, compared with a week earlier,” Meghan Milloy, co-founder of
Republican Women for Progress, “says the GOP isn’t paying enough attention
to the reaction among women.” For example, “among white women with college
degrees...61% believed Ford was telling the truth, according to Quinnipiac.
Overall, the survey indicated women oppose Kavanaugh’s confirmation 55% to
37%, while men support it 49% to 40%.”

        Senior political analyst Ron Brownstein was asked on CNN’s
Situation Room
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(10/4) about the political fallout if Kavanaugh is confirmed. Brownstein
said, “On the one hand in the Senate where Republicans are mostly on the
offense against Democrats in states Trump won that are older, whiter, more
Christian, more rural, this is going to be something that is going to
galvanize their base and I think there is evidence of that already in the
polling. On the other hand, the House is going to be decided largely in
these metropolitan suburban districts and if you look at the biggest threat
to Republicans already is the sharp movement away from Trump among college
educated white women. This will just further turbocharge that.”

        *Media Say Heitkamp Opposition To Kavanaugh Further Complicates
Reelection Bid. *The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead (ND)
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(10/4, Wallevand) reports that in an “exclusive interview” with WDAY
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Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (R-ND) announced that she will oppose Brett Kavanaugh’s
Supreme Court confirmation. Said Heitkamp, “The process has been bad, but
at the end of the day, you have to make a decision, and I have made that
decision. ... I will be voting no on Judge Kavanaugh.” The Bismarck (ND)
Tribune
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(10/4, Dura) notes that in a “press conference call,” Heitkamp also “said
her decision came with the furnishing of an FBI report following an
investigation into sexual assault allegations...as well as the ‘totality of
the evidence and totality of the record.’” Said the senator, “In addition
to concerns about past conduct which have been the subject of a lot of
discussion, I think last Thursday’s hearing called into question his
temperament, his honesty and his impartiality, and I think these are
absolutely critical traits for any nominee on the highest court in our
country.”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(10/4, lead story, 5:10, Muir) showed Heitkamp saying, “If this were a
political decision for me, I certainly would be deciding this the other
way. But you know, there’s an old saying, ‘history will judge you but most
importantly, you’ll judge yourself.’ and that’s really what I’m saying. I
can’t get up in the morning and look at the life experience that I’ve had
and say yes to Judge Kavanaugh.” The AP
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(10/4) and Reuters
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(10/4, Chiacu, Lambert), among other news outlets, also note Heitkamp’s
comments.

        The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead (ND)
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(10/4, Wallevand) says Heitkamp’s “no vote obviously gives the
conservatives in the state campaign ammo,” while CQ Roll Call
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(10/4, Lesniewski) points out she leads its “list of most vulnerable
senators on the ballot this fall” and Politico
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(10/4, Schor) that she is “one of her party’s most politically vulnerable
incumbents,” and that North Dakota Republicans “criticized” her decision
yesterday. Said the state GOP in a statement, “Heidi Heitkamp just failed
North Dakota, and voters know it. This race is now between a candidate who
will be a voice for North Dakota and another candidate who politicizes
every issue and staunchly opposes President Trump at every turn.”

        Axios
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(10/4, Britzky) reports “red-state Democrats like Heitkamp have been facing
GOP wrath over Kavanaugh’s confirmation,” and “Heitkamp in particular has
felt that as she’s fallen further behind her Republican challenger.” The Daily
Caller
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(10/4, Enjeti) points out “North Dakota voted by significant margins
for...Trump and recent polling shows a precarious race for her
re-election.”

        The Hill
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(10/4, Carney) similarly reports Heitkamp’s “decision comes as two recent
polls have shown Heitkamp trailing in her reelection bid against Rep. Kevin
Cramer (R-ND). A Fox News poll showed that 53 percent of likely voters in
North Dakota back Cramer, while 41 percent support Heitkamp, who is
considered among the most vulnerable Democrats up for reelection.”

        The Washington Times
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(10/4, Dinan) reports the senator’s “decision is likely to prove unpopular
with [state] voters,” and to the Washington Examiner
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(10/4, Wegmann), “Cramer is looking better and better to become North
Dakota’s junior US senator,” and “for that, he has the current senator to
thank.” In an analysis piece, the AP
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(10/4, Burnett) similarly indicates Heitkamp’s “decision...will embolden
Cramer and his supporters to try to paint Heitkamp as out of step with
North Dakota.”
Foreign Policy
Pence Accuses China Of “Malign” Efforts To Undermine Trump.

Reuters
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(10/4, Brunnstrom, Spetalnick) reports Vice President Pence “escalated
Washington’s pressure campaign against Beijing” on Thursday by accusing
China of “malign” efforts to undermine President Trump ahead of next
month’s midterm elections. In “what was billed as a major policy address”
to the Hudson Institute, Pence “sought to build on Trump’s speech at the
United Nations last week in which he alleged that China was trying to
interfere in the pivotal Nov. 6 midterm elections.” Reuters says that
“neither Trump nor Pence provided hard evidence of Chinese meddling.”
Pence, Breitbart
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(10/4, Moons) reports, presented China’s actions as evidence that
“President Trump’s leadership is working; and China wants a different
American President.”

        In what USA Today
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(10/4, Shesgreen) calls “a highly anticipated speech,” Pence said, “China
has initiated an unprecedented effort to influence American public opinion,
the 2018 elections, and the environment leading into the 2020 presidential
elections.” Specifically, Pence said, “Beijing has mobilized covert actors,
front groups, and propaganda outlets to shift Americans’ perception of
Chinese policies.” He added that “a senior American intelligence official”
told him “what the Russians are doing pales in comparison to what…China is
doing across this country.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/4, Gearan) characterizes Pence’s speech as “sharply critical” and says
it “marked another escalation in rising tensions between Washington and
Beijing.” Pence cast Beijing’s efforts “as a highly coordinated,
‘whole-of-government approach’ to promote its interests around the world,
including in the United States.” In charging that “China is also growing
more aggressive on the military front,” the Washington Times
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(10/4, Muñoz) reports Pence “pointed to the near crash in the South China
Sea this week when a Chinese naval ship came dramatically close to the USS
Decatur, as an example.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(10/4, Bender) reports Pence also called on Google to halt development of a
project it said would accelerate censorship efforts in China. Said Pence,
“Google should immediately end development of the Dragonfly app that will
strengthen Communist Party censorship and compromise the privacy of Chinese
customers.” A spokeswoman for Google declined to comment. Axios
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(10/4, McCabe) also briefly reports his comments about Google.

        McClatchy
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(10/4, Ordoñez) reports Pence “used Latin America as a pointed example of
Beijing’s aggressive moves.” He “pointed directly at the economic and
humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, where he said Beijing has given a
‘lifeline’ to the leaders there through $5 billion in questionable loans.”

        Josh Rogin writes in his Washington Post
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(10/4) column that Pence’s “landmark speech on US-China relations on
Thursday was notable for two reasons. First, it called out the Chinese
government for perpetrating a multi-faceted, well-resourced and shady
campaign of foreign influence operations on US soil. Second, it placed that
campaign in the context of a global competition between the United States
and China that is being waged on every continent and in every realm.” Rogin
argues that “this course correction in the US-China relationship is
absolutely necessary to protect American interests and values and must be
carefully managed to avoid unintended consequences.”

        *Navarro: China Deliberately Trying To Put “Rest Of The World Out
Of Business.” *National Trade Council Director Navarro said on Fox News’
Special Report
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(10/4) that “as a matter of economic strategy...China likes to put the rest
of the world out of business. ... From the military point of view, the
report doesn’t speculate on that. But we do no there’s critical
vulnerabilities, not just with China, but for a whole range of countries
where we are relying on them.”

        *Perdue: US Food Producers Should Not Have Become So Dependent On
China. *Reuters
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(10/4) reports Agriculture Secretary Perdue said Thursday that the US
“‘probably made a mistake’ becoming too trade dependent on China, and that
the administration was pursuing new trade deals elsewhere.” Speaking to the
North American Meat Institute, Perdue said, “We probably made a mistake in
becoming too dependent on the China market.”

        *Bannon: Trump “Won’t Back Down” In Trade War With China. *The
Washington
Times
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(10/4, Boylan) reports that in an interview published in Thursday’s edition
of Hong Kong’s South China Morning, Steve Bannon said Trump plans to make
the trade war with China “unprecedentedly large” and “unbearably painful”
for Beijing. Bannon explained the sanctions Trump has levied on China “were
not just to force Beijing to abandon its ‘unfair trade practices’ – but
ultimately to ‘re-industrialize America.’” Bannon also insisted that Trump
“will not back down.”

        *Ambassador: US, EU Should Reach Trade Deal In Order To Unite
Against China. *The Washington Post
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(10/4, Taylor) reports Gordon Sandlan, US Ambassador to the EU, “is
offering a message to a continent that is frequently at odds with his boss:
Let’s get over our problems so that we can take on China together.”
According to the Post, Sandlan “told a group of reporters in Brussels that
once the United States had an appropriate trade deal with Europe, they
could form a unified front to take on China.” Said Sandlan, “The jackpot is
having what is about $40 trillion combined GDP working as a bloc in terms
of dealing with Chinese growth, Chinese theft of intellectual property,
Chinese malign activity, Chinese militarization in South China Sea and all
the other things we’ve been calling out to China to stop doing. ... The
sooner we conclude our business, the sooner we can both turn to the real
opportunity, which is to deal with China.”

        *Tariff Supporter Graham Has Advocated For South Carolina Companies
Hurt By China Tariffs. *The New York Times
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(10/4, Tankersley) reports that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) “has been one of
the biggest proponents of President Trump’s crackdown on China, welcoming
tariffs on Chinese imports.” According to the Times, at the same time,
Graham “has been working to help chemical and textile companies in his home
state avoid the pain of Mr. Trump’s trade war” by “writing letters urging
the Trump administration to remove materials they rely on from a list of
goods subject to Mr. Trump’s tariffs.” The Times says Graham “has written
seven letters to the United States trade representative on behalf of
companies seeking tariff relief – more than any other member of Congress
has penned” – and “four of those seven received at least some of the relief
they were seeking.”

        *Apple, Amazon Challenge Report Their Servers Harbored Chinese
Surveillance Chips. *The Washington Post
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(10/4, Shaban) says that yesterday Bloomberg BusinessWeek
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reported China “secretly inserted surveillance microchips into servers used
by major technology companies, including Apple and Amazon.com, in an
audacious military operation likely to further inflame trade tensions
between the United States and its leading source of electronics components
and products.” According to Bloomberg, “one affected company had its
servers used by US government clients, including Department of Defense data
centers, Navy warships and the CIA in its drone operations.” However,
throughout the day Thursday, “the Chinese government, Apple, Amazon and
other involved companies disputed the report,” while “several US
officials...said they were uncertain about” Bloomberg’s “accuracy.”

        Reuters
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(10/4) reports that Apple “said it had refuted ‘virtually every aspect’ of
the story in on-record responses to Bloomberg.” Apple said it “has never
found malicious chips, ‘hardware manipulations’ or vulnerabilities
purposely planted in any server.” Likewise, Amazon Web Services “said it
found no issues.”

        *US Rejects WTO Reforms Proposed By EU. *Reuters
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(10/4, Miles) reports that in a speech Thursday, Dennis Shea, the US
Ambassador to the World Trade Organization, “gave the first hint” of the
Trump Administration’s “view of attempts to reform” the WTO, “rejecting
some proposals put forward by the European Union to resolve a crisis at the
home of world trade in Geneva.” Shea said the US “could not accept EU ideas
for reforming the WTO’s Appellate Body, effectively the supreme court of
world trade, by giving the judges longer, single terms and giving the
secretariat more funding.” Said Shea, “Our view is that that means less
accountability for the Appellate Body. We cannot support something that
makes the Appellate Body less accountable.”

        *Trump Aims To Model Future Trade Deals On USMCA. *The Wall Street
Journal
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(10/4, A1, Schlesinger, Zumbrun) reports that the Administration is seeking
to use its new pact with Canada and Mexico as a model for future trade
deals. USTR Lighthizer called the new North American trade deal a
“paradigm-shifting model” that sends a message to the rest of the world.
However, the Journal says that whether the Administration can replicate the
new pact’s terms elsewhere is unclear.

        *Food Banks Warn They May Not Be Prepared To Meet Farm Bailout
Demand. *The Washington Post
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(10/4, Stein) reports that “food banks around the country said they may not
be prepared to execute the Trump administration’s plan to get additional
billions in food to hungry Americans, raising questions about the new
federal program’s effectiveness.” Last month, the Administration launched
“a $1.2 billion program to send food to the nation’s food banks as part of
its wider effort to bail out farmers hurt by the president’s trade war.”
Local food bank officials, however, are worried “they will not be able to
process all of the newly available agricultural products that could double
or triple the amount of food they typically handle.”
New US Counterterrorism Strategy Puts Focus On Iran, Its Proxies.

Reuters
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(10/4, Rampton, Landay) reports the Administration is “giving greater
priority to Iran and radical groups it backs in a new US counterterrorism
strategy document released on Thursday that further increases the pressure
from Washington on Tehran.” The strategy, unveiled by National Security
Adviser Bolton, is “the first issued since 2011 when the Obama
Administration’s view of counterterrorism was focused almost exclusively on
the threat posed by al Qaeda.” To Reuters, the priority given to Iran
reflects President Trump’s “drive to contain Iran’s influence in the Middle
East, curtail its ballistic missile program and backing of extremist
groups.”

        The New York Times
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(10/4, Landler, Schmitt) reports Administration officials “promoted the
strategy...as a new approach to fighting terrorism in a ‘landscape more
fluid and complex than ever.’ It embraced, however, many of the principles
adopted and refined by both the Bush and Obama administrations.” The Washington
Times
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(10/4, Boylan), however, says Bolton “outlined a dramatic break with the
Obama administration of how America should confront the threat, explicitly
framing terrorism as an ideological war within Islam.”

        CQ Roll Call
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(10/4, Bennett) notes the Administration’s new strategy “drops the Obama
administration’s treatment of climate change as a driver of violent Islamic
extremist groups.” Bolton said the strategy is also different from the
Obama Administration’s “in another way: It clearly declares the United
States is fighting a radical extremist ideology.”

        Politico
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(10/4, Morin) casts the strategy as “just the latest in a string of
strident statements the Trump administration has made about Iran since
pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal.”

        *Bolton: Iran’s Economy To Get Worse Under “Devastating” US
Sanctions. *Reuters
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(10/4, Holland, Mason, Landay) profiles National Security Adviser Bolton,
whose “proudest achievement” is “a framed copy of President Donald Trump’s
order to pull the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal.” Bolton said
he “reassured Trump that his instincts were right and that he could ignore
the pleas and warnings of moderates and European allies to stay in the
deal.” Bolton said he “believes the reimposition of sanctions is already
heaping pressure on Iran’s leaders,” adding, “I think the return of the
sanctions has had a devastating effect on their economy and I think it’s
going to get worse.”

        David Ignatius writes in his Washington Post
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(10/4) column that “President Trump seems convinced that he has found the
formula for success in foreign policy: Bully your adversaries, sanction
them, squeeze them – and then flatter them and make a deal.” He “followed
this approach with North Korea, and he got a showy summit in Singapore in
June with Kim Jong Un and a pledge (encouraging but so far undelivered) for
denuclearization.” China “is now in the wrestling ring with Trump,” and the
“next adversary is Iran, and this could be the most interesting bout yet.”
Ignatius concedes that “America’s squeeze play will probably devastate the
Iranian economy,” but argues that “the question is whether this upheaval
will produce compromise and a breakthrough deal, or another failed state in
the Middle East. Hope for the former, but prepare for the latter.”

        *Khamenei: Iran Faces “Sensitive Time” Due To US Sanctions,
Economic Weakness. *Reuters
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(10/4, Dehghanpisheh) reports that in a speech broadcast on state
television, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the Iranian people
“face a sensitive time because of pressure from America and economic
problems.” Khamenei was “speaking to tens of thousands of members of the
Basij militia and top Revolutionary Guards leaders gathered in a stadium in
Tehran.” Khamenei said, “The situation of the nation, region and world is
sensitive, especially for us the people of Iran. Sensitive in this respect
that on one hand we have the shouting of the arrogant powers and
politicians of imperialist America...on another hand the economic problems
of the nation and the tightness of the livelihood of a large portion of the
weak people in the country.”

        Fox News’ Special Report
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(10/4) reported Khamenei “dismissed comments that he said President Trump
made to European leaders” that his country “would collapse in the coming
months” from those sanctions. The AP
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(10/4) reports Khamenei said Iran “will ‘slap’ the United States by
defeating new American sanctions targeting the nation.” Khamenei added that
he “heard President Donald Trump tell European leaders that the Islamic
Republic would collapse in the coming months over American sanctions,
something he dismissed.”

        *Votel: US Not Seeking War With Iran. *AFP
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(10/4) reports CENTCOM Commander Army Gen. Joseph Votel said the US “is not
seeking conflict with Iran,” even as “some Trump administration officials
have stepped up rhetoric against Tehran.” Said Votel said, “I don’t think
we’re seeking to go to war with Iran, and I don’t think that’s what we’re
focused on.”

        *US Prosecutors Allege Chinese Oil Company Sought To Evade Iran
Sanctions. *The New York Times
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(10/4, Stevenson, Goldstein) reports US authorities last year arrested a
top executive of the “mysterious Chinese oil company known as CEFC China,”
accusing him “of bribery in an effort to secure oil rights in Chad and
Uganda. Now, they say, he also explored businesses beyond oil: brokering
arms deals in other countries and looking for ways to dodge American
sanctions on Iran.” Federal prosecutors allege in a court filing that the
executive, “a former Hong Kong city official and an ophthalmologist named
Patrick Ho, discussed using the company’s connections to help sell weapons
to Chad, Qatar and Libya.” Prosecutors also accused Ho “of exploring
whether CEFC could serve as a middleman for an Iranian company to gain
access to funds from a Chinese bank under international sanctions.”
Votel: Russia’s Deployment Of Missile System To Syria Is Needless
Escalation.

Reuters
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(10/4, Stewart) reports CENTCOM Commander Army Gen. Joseph Votel on
Thursday “sharply criticized Russia’s deployment of the S-300
surface-to-air missile system in Syria, saying it was a needless escalation
and a knee-jerk response to last month’s downing of a Russian military
aircraft there.” Votel also said the transfer of the missiles “appeared to
be an effort by Moscow to help shield ‘nefarious activities’ by Iranian and
Syrian forces in the country.”

        *Erdoğan: Turkish Forces Will Remain In Syria Until Assad Allows
Elections. *Reuters
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(10/4, Erkoyun) reports Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said Thursday that
Turkish forces will remain in Syria until “whenever the Syrian people hold
an election.” Erdoğan “also said on Thursday that Turkey is not
experiencing difficulty in conducting talks with radical groups in Idlib,
the last major rebel-controlled enclave outside Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad’s control.”
US Service Members Killed In Afghanistan.

The Washington Post
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(10/4, Lamothe) reports that a US service member was killed in Afghanistan
on Friday, “becoming the seventh member of the American military to die in
combat there this year, US officials said.” CENTCOM Commander Army Gen.
Joseph L. Votel “told reporters in a remote briefing that the death appears
to have occurred during a combat operation, but few details were
available.” The US-led mission in Afghanistan said in a statement that the
incident “is under investigation, but did not say when or where it
occurred.” According to the CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by
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(10/4, story 4, 0:15, Glor), an American service member was also killed
Thursday in Afghanistan. The “circumstances have not been announced yet,
but it is the eighth US fatality in Afghanistan this year.”

        *Votel: Casualties Among Afghan Forces Are Increasing. *The AP
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(10/4, Burns) reports CENTCOM Commander Army Gen. Joseph Votel said
Thursday that Afghan military and police forces “had higher numbers of
battlefield casualties in a ‘difficult and bloody summer’ of fighting the
Taliban insurgency.” Votel said “the Afghan losses are ‘an area of
important focus’ for the newly installed US commander in Kabul, Army Gen.
Scott Miller.” However, Votel “did not say how many Afghan troops have been
killed this year,” only saying, “It’s my understanding that it is
increasing.”

        *Erik Prince Pushes Plan To Privatize War In Afghanistan. *The New
York Times
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(10/4, Mashal) reports that “more than a year after first laying out his
plan to President Trump to privatize the American war in Afghanistan with a
cadre of contractors – and a private air force – [Erik] Prince, the founder
of the Blackwater security firm that became infamous for killing civilians
in Iraq,” has “made his sales pitch directly to a host of influential
Afghans.” Interviews with “a half-dozen political figures who have met Mr.
Prince in recent months – as well as an interview with Mr. Prince by The
New York Times during his trip to Kabul in September – reveal an executive
determined to sell a vision of how his contractors could offer an official
military withdrawal from Afghanistan to a war-weary American public and
president.” According to the officials, Prince has “increasingly found a
receptive audience among Afghanistan’s power brokers,” but in an interview,
Prince “denied he was trying to influence the Afghan political process.”

        “What has given new life to [Prince’s] plan,” according to the
Washington
Post
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(10/4, DeYoung, Harris, Lamothe), “is a widespread belief in Kabul and
Washington that Prince has a willing audience in President Trump.” That
belief is “buttressed by the White House’s refusal to reject the idea out
of hand.” In August, when asked about Prince’s proposal, National Security
Adviser Bolton told ABC News, “I’m always open to new ideas.” An NSC
spokesman similarly said Thursday: “We are constantly assessing our
strategies, and are open to new approaches that would help us achieve our
strategic objectives.” However, at the Pentagon, CETCOM Commander Army Gen.
Joseph Votel “told reporters that ‘I absolutely do not agree’ with Prince’s
contention that he could win the war more quickly and for less money with a
few thousand hired guns.”
White House Briefs Senators On Middle East Peace Plan.

Axios
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(10/4, Ravid) reports Jared Kushner and special envoy Jason Greenblatt –
President Trump’s “peace team” – went to Capitol Hill on Thursday and
“briefed a bipartisan group of senators on the administration’s Middle East
peace efforts.” According to Axios, it was the “first such briefing to
senators,” but it “didn’t include details...only an overview on where
things stand,” according to a source.

        *Hamas Chief Calls For Gaza Cease-Fire. *The New York Times
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(10/4, Kershner) reports that in a “rare interview with an Israeli
newspaper, the leader of Hamas in Gaza called for a cease-fire with
Israel,” calling it a “historic opportunity for change.” In what the Times
says “appeared to be an effort to speak directly to the Israeli people,”
Hamas official Yehya Sinwar “said he did not want war with Israel.” Sinwar
told Yediot Ahronot, “A new war is in no one’s interest, certainly not our
interest. Who really wants to confront a nuclear superpower with four
slingshots? War doesn’t achieve anything.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/4, Balousha) says the “rare interview...looks like a bold attempt by
Gaza’s militant Islamist rulers to reach out for peace, or at least to calm
ongoing tensions with Israel.” But “within hours of the excerpt appearing
online, Sinwar’s office released a statement saying the journalist,
Francesca Borri, had interviewed him under false pretenses,” and “insisted
the Hamas leader would never knowingly agree to be interviewed by an
Israeli media outlet.”
Treasury Department: Turkish Company Violated North Korea Sanctions.

The Washington Post
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(10/4, Pennington) reports the US “blacklisted a Turkish company and two
executives for allegedly attempting to circumvent sanctions prohibiting
sales of weapons and luxury goods to North Korea.” In a statement, Treasury
Secretary Mnuchin said “that SIA Falcon International Group and the
individuals acting on its behalf ‘are blatantly attempting to flout
longstanding UN sanctions’ against the North.” The executives “named in
Thursday’s action are SIA Falcon CEO Huseyin Sahin and its general manager
Erhan Culha. They and their company are now barred from doing business with
Americans and holding property or having interests in property in the US.”

        Reuters
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(10/4) reports Treasury said “in a statement that SIA Falcon International
Group, which also has a branch in Latvia, would be blacklisted for
exporting weapons into or from North Korea.” Treasury also “imposed
sanctions on Ri Song Un, the economic and commercial counselor at North
Korea’s embassy in Mongolia,” saying SIA Falcon officials “hosted Ri
earlier this year in Turkey to negotiate weapons deals with him.”

        To the New York Times
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(10/4, Harris), Thursday’s sanctions “were intended to send two messages:
that the Trump administration will continue to ratchet up economic pressure
on Pyongyang until North Korea ends its nuclear and ballistic missile
weapons programs, and that the relationship between the United States and
Turkey continues to be troubled.”

        *South Korea To Seek Sanctions Exemptions On North Korea
Projects. *Bloomberg
News
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(10/4, Lee) reports South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said “her
government would seek exemptions from international sanctions against North
Korea to pursue ‘various’ projects with Pyongyang.” Speaking to reporters
in Seoul, Kang said Secretary of State Pompeo “would discuss an end-of-war
declaration and other offers the US could make North Korea” when he visits
this weekend.

        In an interview with the Washington Post
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(10/4, Hudson), Kang said, “What North Korea has indicated is that they
will permanently dismantle their nuclear facilities in Yongbyon, which is a
very big part of their nuclear program. If they do that, in return for
America’s corresponding measures, such as the end-of-war declaration, I
think that’s a huge step forward for denuclearization.”

        *South Korean Delegation Visits North For Summit Anniversary
Celebration. *The Washington Times
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(10/4, Tong-Hyung) reports a South Korean government delegation “arrived in
North Korea on Thursday for a joint celebration of the anniversary of a
2007 summit and to possibly hold further peace talks.” South Korean
Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon said “the visit is an opportunity to
strengthen ‘reconciliation, cooperation and peace’ between the rivals.” The
South Koreans were “greeted at Pyongyang’s airport by Ri Son Gwon, chairman
of the North Korean agency that handles inter-Korean affairs, who said the
agreements produced by the series of inter-Korean summits – two during the
2000s and three in 2018 – have set the ‘standard for reunification.’”
US, UK, Others Accuse Russian Intelligence Officers Of Hacking Campaign.

In what the AP
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(10/4, Katz, Satter, Cook) calls “one of the most high-tension days in
East-West relations in years,” the US, UK, the Netherlands and Australia
“unleashed an onslaught of new evidence and indictments Thursday accusing
Russian military spies of hacking so widespread that it seemed to target
anyone, anywhere who investigates Moscow’s involvement in an array of
criminal activities – including doping, poisoning and the downing of a
plane.” GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency, is “increasingly the
embodiment of Russian meddling abroad.” In the last 24 hours: “US
authorities charged seven officers from the GRU with hacking international
agencies; British and Australian authorities accused the GRU of a
devastating 2017 cyberattack on Ukraine, the email leaks that rocked the US
2016 election and other damaging hacks; And Dutch officials alleged that
GRU agents tried and failed to hack into the world’s chemical weapons
watchdog, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.”

        The New York Times
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(10/4, A1, Sullivan, Savage, Kirkpatrick) reports that the Organization for
the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was “investigating the poisoning in
Britain in March of a former Russian intelligence officer, Sergei V.
Skripal, and his daughter.” In addition, British officials “also revealed
an attempted hack on the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office by Russian
military intelligence officers in the aftermath of the attempted
assassination of Mr. Skripal.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(10/4, Viswanatha, Colchester, Volz) reports the nations took coordinated
action against Moscow for what they described as a campaign by the Kremlin
to hack into agencies that exposed its alleged misdeeds, and the Washington
Post
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(10/4, Booth) says the new allegations expose “Moscow’s ongoing, widespread
campaign to discredit Western democracy and international institutions
through disinformation and other measures.” Defense Secretary Mattis “told
reporters in Brussels that Washington stood ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’ with
NATO allies who said they had been subject to Russian cyber attacks and
pledged US cyber offense capabilities to other allies if called upon.”
However, the Post adds that Mattis said NATO “would not necessarily respond
in kind.”

        NBC Nightly News
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(10/4, story 3, 1:50, Holt) reported that on Thursday, the US charged seven
“top Russian spies with hacking into anti-doping agencies and stealing the
medical records of US athletes...to falsely accuse them of cheating,”
apparently in “revenge” for Russia being banned from the 2016 Olympics for
“giving athletes performance enhancing drugs.” Three GRU officers were
previously charged by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in his Russia
investigation into meddling in the 2016 presidential election, while “four
others were accused of hacking into this chemical weapons agency in the
Netherlands.” Their “alleged mission,” ABC World News Tonight[image: Image
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(10/4, story 5, 2:00, Muir) reported, was “to hack the Dutch lab testing
for the nerve agent used to target a former Russian spy and his daughter in
Britain a month earlier, an attack blamed on Russia. Investigators stopping
the men outside that lab before they could destroy their equipment. The
suspects, who had diplomatic passports, were then expelled.” Mattis: “The
Russians got caught with their equipment, with the people who were doing
it, and they have got to pay the piper.”

        Reuters
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(10/4, Lynch, Lambert, Bing) reports the US “charged seven Russian
intelligence officers with conspiring to hack computers and steal data from
the nuclear energy company Westinghouse Electric Co as well as anti-doping
watchdogs, sporting federations and an international agency probing the use
of chemical weapons.”

        *Mattis: Russia Violation Of Missile Treaty “Untenable.” *The AP
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(10/4, Baldor) reports Defense Secretary Mattis said Thursday that Russia’s
deployment of “nuclear-capable missiles in violation of an arms treaty is
‘untenable’ and unless Moscow changes, the US will have to match that
military capability.” Speaking to reporters after a meeting of NATO defense
ministers, Mattis “said the US is reviewing its diplomatic and military
options because of Russia’s continued violation of the 1987
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty.” Said Mattis, “Make no mistake:
The current situation, with Russia in blatant violation of this treaty, is
untenable.” Reuters
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(10/4, Ali, Emmott) says Mattis “declined to give details on the possible
US response,” and the Washington Times
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(10/4, Muñoz) reports NATO officials “say the nuclear-powered cruise
missile under development would allow Moscow to launch a ballistic weapon
on targets inside Western Europe at a moment’s notice.”
Wartime Sexual Violence Activists Win Nobel Peace Prize.

The Daily Beast
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(10/5) reports, “Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad have been named winners of
the Nobel Peace Prize for their work on ending sexual violence being used
as a weapon of war.” The Norwegian Nobel Institute “said they’d chosen the
winners for their efforts to ‘end the use of sexual violence’ as a weapon.”
Mukwege “has dedicated his life helping the victims of sexual violence in
the Democratic Republic of Congo, treating thousands of patients who have
been victims of assault. Murad is one of an estimated 3,000 Yazidi girls
and women who were victims of rape and other abuses by Islamic State. The
committee said she’d ‘shown uncommon courage in recounting her own
sufferings and speaking up on behalf of other victims.’”
Domestic Policy
At Minnesota Rally, Trump Slams Democrats, Says Franken Folded “Like A Wet
Rag.”

President Trump addressed a crowd of about 10,000 in Rochester, Minnesota
on Thursday evening on behalf of Republican candidates. Local coverage
focuses mainly on Trump’s criticism of Democrats and defense of Supreme
Court Justice-designate Brett Kavanaugh, while national coverage highlights
Trump’s comments about Democratic Sen. Al Franken’s quick resignation after
he faced allegations of inappropriate conduct last year. Dan Eggen of the
Washington Post tweeted
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“Trump appeared somewhat less animated than usual and spoke for about 70
minutes, and some in the crowd appeared to leave early and lose focus at
times.” Trump tweeted
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video of the event, and later tweeted
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“Beautiful evening in Rochester, Minnesota. VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!”

        The Rochester (MN) Post-Bulletin
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(10/4) reports, “The election may be 30-plus days away, but Thursday’s Make
America Great Again Rally at the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester was all
about Jan. 3,” with Trump “imploring supporters to vote for Republicans and
keep Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi from regaining leadership in
Congress.” The Minneapolis Star Tribune
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(10/4, Keen) reports that Trump “predicted a ‘very big surprise’ in
Minnesota.” He said, “This is supposed to be a Democrat state. ... I don’t
think so. ... I need your support to stop radical Democrats and to elect
proud Minnesota Republicans.” Trump “drew a capacity crowd of 10,000, with
1,000 to 2,000 more watching on giant screens outside.”

        KMSP-TV
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St. Paul (MN)'s News at 10PM (10/4, 10:47 p.m. CDT) reported that Trump
“came out swinging” and “the crowd loved every word.” Trump “didn’t waste
any time laying right into Democrats, saying their policies embrace
socialism, open borders, and lawlessness.” WCCO-TV[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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Minneapolis (10/4, 10:01 p.m. CDT) similarly reported that Trump delivered
a “‘Greatest Hits’ speech tonight, and he crowd just loved it. He also
delivered a long list of grievances against the Democrats and the media.”
The Winona (MN) Daily News
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(10/4, Casper) reports that Trump “came to Rochester, a friendly area in a
liberal state, with the hope of whipping into a frenzy the voters that came
out for him in 2016 to do the same for candidates on the ballot this fall.
Minnesota hasn’t gone red in a presidential election since 1972, but Trump
came within two points of Hillary Clinton two years ago.”

        WDIO-TV
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Duluth, MN (10/4, 10:03 p.m. CDT) reported, “One topic he received cheers
for was on getting a vote for Brett Kavanaugh.” Trump: “Democrats have been
trying to destroy Judge Brett Kavanaugh since the very first second he was
announced, and it was announced for one simple reason: He is an incredible
intellect, an incredible person, an incredible talent.” The AP
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(10/5) reports Trump “praised [Kavanaugh], whose nomination has faltered
amid accusations of sexual misconduct. Of Democrats, he said, ‘Their
rage-fueled resistance is starting to backfire at a level nobody has ever
seen before.’” USA Today
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(10/4, Jackson) reports Trump “did not criticize Kavanaugh’s accuser,
Christine Blasey Ford, as he did during a similar rally Tuesday night in
Mississippi.”

        The St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press
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(10/5, Faircloth) reports Trump backed several GOP candidates, including
Senate nominee Karin Housley. He “slammed her opponent, incumbent US Sen.
Tina Smith, as a ‘far-left Democrat.’” Trump said, “Tina Smith, that nobody
ever heard of, needs to be voted out of office. She got appointed, I
guess.” The AP
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(10/5) reports that “as Kavanaugh aggressively pushes back against
allegations of misconduct, Trump mocked former Sen. Al Franken...for
quickly resigning over allegations of improper behavior.” The New York Times
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(10/4, Haberman, Cochrane) reports that Trump said of Smith, “Nobody knows
who the hell she is. She took a wacky guy’s place. ... Boy, did he fold up
like a wet rag, huh? Man. Man. He was gone so fast, okay? Oh, he did
something. ‘Oh, oh, oh, I resign, I quit.’ I don’t want to mention Al
Franken’s name, so I won’t mention.”

        Several national news outlets highlight Trump’s comments about
Franken. The Washington Post
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(10/4, Dawsey, Sonmez) reports Trump “mocked” Franken for resigning “so
quickly after he was accused of sexual harassment and groping women,
marking the president’s most recent contentious comments about the #MeToo
movement. ... Trump seemed to criticize Franken for not fighting back
against the charges – as Trump has done when facing charges of sexual
harassment or groping from women.” The New York Times
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(10/4, Haberman, Cochrane) says “the remark was in keeping with Mr. Trump’s
long-stated personal mantra of never giving in to any accusation, and
considering those who do to be weak.” The Washington Examiner
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(10/4, Giaritelli) reports Trump “made fun of” Franken, and Breitbart
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(10/4, Spiering) headlines its report “Donald Trump In Minnesota: Sen. Al
Franken Folded ‘Like A Wet Rag.’” CNN’s Dan Merica tweeted
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“Donald Trump slammed Keith Ellison on Thursday in Rochester, but notably
not for the abuse allegations against him. Instead he hit the MN AG
candidate for his liberal views on health care and immigration and avoided
the allegations made by his former girlfriend, Karen Monahan.”

        The Mankato (MN) Free Press
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(10/4, Mewes) reports, “With a little more than five weeks before the Nov.
6 election, Trump’s visit to Minnesota highlights how important the state
could be in deciding the House majority. Pundits on both sides see the
First and Eighth Congressional District races, in southern and northeast
Minnesota, as important toss-up races.” Trump tweeted
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“Just made my second stop in Minnesota for a MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
rally. We need to elect @KarinHousley to the U.S. Senate, and we need the
strong leadership of @TomEmmer, @Jason2CD, @JimHagedornMN and @PeteStauber
in the U.S. House!” Minnesota Public Radio[image: Image removed by sender.
Podcast Audio]
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(10/4) aired a feature on the MN1 race a few hours before the rally.
Housley tweeted
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in response, “Ahem, today’s souvenir was a tweet from the President. NBD.
The momentum keeps building for #TeamHousley!”

        Fox News
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(10/4, Chamberlain) reports on its website that Trump “largely stuck to
economic and social policy issues” at the rally. The Washington Times
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(10/4, Boyer) has a brief report; CNN
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(10/4, Rocha, Wagner) ran live blog coverage of the event.

        *Morning Joe Panel: Trump’s “Constant Assault” On Media Having An
Effect. *The Daily Caller
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(10/4, Givas) reports that members of the panel on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on
Thursday said that Trump’s “constant assault” on the media is having an
impact. Mike Barnicle said
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“The one thing we can document and you can document it any number of ways
is the President’s constant assault on the media, fake news, has really,
really worked. It has sunk in all across the country. ... There’s been a
series of stories about the Supreme Court appointment that have appeared on
television and in newspapers that have caused, I think, a lot of Americans
in this polarized political atmosphere of ours to stop, pause and say,
‘Hey, this is just a bit too much.’” Co-host Mika Brzezinski “accused her
media colleagues of being too emotional and said they’re letting their
opinions override the truth.”

        Brzezinski said
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“It’s not supposed to be how reporters feel and how media analysts feel at
this point in a case like this. ... And it’s not even a case yet, although
the FBI is looking into it. It’s a hearing. It’s a job interview. And what
we saw and what I think is playing into this blowback you’re talking about
is a lot of members of the media reacting emotionally. Like, for example,
did Brett Kavanaugh feel like maybe he was lying? Did it feel like maybe he
was lying about drinking? Did it seem like maybe he was lying about
blacking out? Did he seem like he was kind of a jerk? Did it seem like he
was overly aggressive? Yes, sure, but that does not mean he did it.”

        *Kalb: Trump’s Attacks On Media Link Him 20th Century’s Worst
Dictators. *In an op-ed for the Washington Post
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(10/4), Marvin Kalb, senior adviser to the Pulitzer Center, writes that the
President “has found a winner – especially among Republicans – in his
relentless, ugly, mischievous attacks against the media.” Trump’s media
strategy, “successful to this point, has been to criticize and, when
possible, humiliate the media,” but Kalb says he is “playing with fire. By
using the derogatory phrase, ‘enemy of the people,’ he is unwittingly
associating himself with the most vicious dictators of the 20th century.”
After Court Reprieve, TPS Holders Hope Congress Will Grant Them Permanent
Legal Status.

The New York Times
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(10/4, Medina) reports that a federal judge ruled Wednesday that the
Administration could not immediately end special protections for immigrants
from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan, “which have been ravaged by
wars and natural disasters.” While the immigrants’ “ultimate status in the
United States remains in limbo...the ruling means that they can continue to
live and work legally in the country, as many of them have done for
decades.” The Times “spoke to immigrants around the country with temporary
protected status, commonly referred to as T.P.S. While they all celebrated
the judge’s ruling, they each said it was far from the ultimate goal:
gaining permanent legal status through Congress.”
CMS To Increase Oversight Of Hospital Accrediting Organizations.

The Wall Street Journal
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(10/4, Armour) reports that on Thursday, the Trump Administration announced
it is increasing oversight of groups which accredit and inspect US
hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which confers
accrediting authority, said it will alter how it evaluates the performance
of accrediting groups as part of a demonstration project. CMS Administrator
Seema Verma said, “We’re trying to bolster our efforts to have oversight
and to also have our reviews of [accreditors] transparent.”
White House Report: Eroding Defense Industrial Bases Endangers National
Security.

The Washington Post
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(10/5, Davenport) reports that a White House report released Thursday
concludes that “uncertain budgets, a broken procurement system and an
unfair trade environment have eroded the United States’ defense industrial
base to levels at which national security could be at risk.” The report,
which brings “new urgency to problems that have worried acquisition experts
for years,” says that “all facets of the manufacturing and defense
industrial base are currently under threat” and that because there are
entire “industries near domestic extinction,” the Pentagon is forced to
look overseas for help. The President “is expected to unveil a public
version of the report Friday afternoon and sign an executive order meant to
address the problems it raises.”
Critics Warn DOD-Funded Food Security Project Could Spark “Biological Arms
Race.”

The New York Times
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(10/4, Baumgaertner) reports that “critics warn that a Defense
Department-funded food security project that is still in the lab could set
off a ‘biological arms race.’” In a warning published Thursday in the
journal Science, “a group of independent scientists and lawyers objected to
the research,” arguing “that the endeavor is not so different from
designing biological weapons – banned under international law since 1975 –
that could swarm and destroy acres of crops.” The Times calls the dispute
the” latest episode in an ongoing international debate over the pursuit of
what is called dual-use research: technological discoveries that can be
beneficial or pose threats to human welfare.”
New York City Officials Join Probe Of Trump Family Finances.

The New York Times
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(10/4, Buettner, Craig, Barstow) reports that in the wake of its
investigation which “showed how Trump had participated in dubious tax
schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that
greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents,” New York City
officials said Thursday they are joining state regulators in investigating
whether Trump and his family “underpaid taxes on his father’s real estate
empire over several decades.” Dean Fuleihan, the city’s first deputy mayor,
“said city and state agencies are cooperating on the effort.” Meanwhile, “a
growing number of Democrats in Congress...cited the article in renewing
their longstanding demands for Mr. Trump to release his income tax
returns,” and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), ranking member on the Senate Finance
Committee, “asked the I.R.S. on Wednesday to open an investigation into The
Times’s findings.”

        *New York AG Wants Trump Banned From Nonprofits For 10 Years After
Presidency. *The Washington Examiner
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(10/4, Giaritelli) reports that New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood
on Thursday asked New York Supreme Court Justice Saliann Scarpulla “to ban
President Trump from being involved in a nonprofit organization for 10
years following his time in office.” In a memo to Scarpulla, Underwood
wrote that Trump had shown “a pattern of persistent illegal conduct” in
managing the Trump Foundation charity because he used funds “for his own
personal benefit.”

        *Revenues At Trump’s Big City Hotels Declined As His Political
Career Took Off. *The Washington Post
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(10/4, Krakow) reports that it obtained “details from two of President
Trump’s landmark properties – his luxury hotels in Chicago and Manhattan –
from small-time investors...who get details that the public does not.” The
investors, and the documents they provided, “showed that revenue at both
properties dropped noticeably as Trump’s political career took off. The
decreases have stirred tensions in the buildings and left many investors
worried that the Trump brand may be curdling in the liberal cities where
Trump built much of his empire.”

        *Trump’s Turnberry Golf Club Lost $4.5M Last Year. *The Washington
Post
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(10/4, Fahrenthold) reports that documents filed by The Trump Organization
with the British government show that President Trump’s Turnberry golf
course in Scotland “$4.5 million in 2017, its fourth consecutive year in
the red.” According to the documents, “in the three years after Trump
bought the iconic Scottish golf club, Turnberry was a sinkhole for cash. In
all, Trump has spent at least $212 million on the property – $67 million to
buy it and an additional $144 million to renovate it and sustain its
ongoing losses.” The Post cites the figures from Turnberry as “another sign
that Trump’s businesses have suffered during his presidency – as his rise
as a polarizing political figure has alienated the rich, urban customers
whom his hotels and golf courses seek to attract.”

        *Attorney: At His Core, Trump Is An “Unscrupulous Attorney.” *In an
op-ed for the New York Times
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(10/4), John Whitlow, a tenant attorney and a law professor, cites the
recent Times story
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“about the Trump family’s real estate empire,” and calls Trump “a homegrown
creature, a species well known and justifiably loathed by most New Yorkers
– the unscrupulous landlord.” Trump “is at his core a landlord, turning a
handsome profit while the rest of us live in increasingly precarious
conditions.” Whitlow concludes, “As we confront America’s landlord, the
lesson we can draw from this history is that we must organize creatively
and fight to save the place we call home.”
Pence’s Daughter Writes She Was Struck By Trump’s Kindness.

The Indianapolis Star
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(10/4, Groppe) reported that Vice President Pence’s daughter, Charlotte’s
new book, “Where You Go: Life Lessons from My Father,” will be released
Oct. 16. The Star lists several “takeaways” from the book. Among them: that
Pence made the decision to run for Congress in 2000 after his wife, Karen,
“saw two hawks gliding on the wind’s current and took it as a sign.” Ms.
Pence writes that when her father asked to spend time with the Trump’s
before joining the ticket, she “went along to represent the children.” She
wrote, “What struck me most was his kindness. ... I could tell he had a
genuine heart and a desire to help people in the country.” In a separate
story, the Indianapolis Star
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(10/4, Groppe) profiled Charlotte Pence, saying she wrote the book because
she “wants to tell other people who her dad is – ‘as a father, a leader,
and a person.’”
Editorials/Op-Eds
Washington Post.

*“Vote ‘No’ On Kavanaugh.”* The Washington Post
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(10/4) editorializes that “unfortunately – and unnecessarily; it didn’t
have to be this way – too many questions remain about [Supreme Court
nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s] history for senators to responsibly vote ‘yes,’”
and “at the same time, enough has been learned about his partisan instincts
that we believe senators must vote ‘no.’”

        *“Where Is Jama Khashoggi?” *In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(10/4) says journalist Jamal Khashoggi, “a contributor to The Post’s Global
Opinions section, appears to have disappeared, and we are worried. Mr.
Khashoggi is not just any commentator. Over a long career, he has had close
contact with Saudi royalty and knows more than most about how they think
and function. His criticism, voiced over the past year, most surely rankles
Mohammed bin Salman,” Saudi Arabia’s crown prince. The Post argues that if
the crown prince “is truly committed to this, he will welcome constructive
criticism from patriots such as Mr. Khashoggi. And he will do everything in
his power to ensure that Mr. Khashoggi is free and able to continue his
work.”
New York Times.

*“How Brett Kavanaugh Failed.”* The New York Times
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(10/4) editorializes that “only by voting no” on Supreme Court nominee
Brett Kavanaugh, “by asking Mr. Trump to send someone else for it to
consider, can the Senate pass its test of institutional character and meet
its obligation to safeguard the credibility of the Supreme Court.”

        *“Russian Spies, Foiled Again.” *On its editorial page, the New
York Times
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(10/4) says the nations “produced a stunning array of accusations against
officers of the GRU,” but the Kremlin “has responded with its usual
ridicule of Western charges, calling them ‘a diabolical blend of perfume’
in a rather sick reference to the perfume bottle used to poison Mr. Skripal
and his daughter with a nerve agent.” Putin, it argues, “seems not to have
fathomed that few in the West are fooled by his propaganda antics or
impressed by his power plays, and that his irresponsible cyberattacks serve
only to further diminish his country’s already dismal standing in the
world.”

        *Swisher: Internet Bill Of Rights Could Get Pushback From Tech
Firms. *In the New York Times
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(10/4), Kara Swisher, editor at large for the technology news website
Recode, writes that the Internet Bill of Rights being developed by Rep. Ro
Khanna (D-CA) seeks “to provide Americans with basic protections online,”
but “if Democrats try to turn these principles into law, it will be like
pushing back the ocean, especially since the business models of many of
these companies are predicated on sucking up as much data as they can and
exploiting it for gain. The consumer is the product.” However, Swisher adds
that it is “well past time to see something from the politicians whose job
it is to protect the rest of us. ... As our lives and the US economy are
more tied to the internet, it is essential to provide Americans with basic
protections online.”
Cancer Research
Studies Link Aspirin Use To Lower Risk Of Ovarian Cancer, Liver Cancer.

The New York Times
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(10/4, Bakalar) reports in “Well” that research suggests a daily low-dose
aspirin may reduce the risk of ovarian cancer. The findings
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were published in JAMA Oncology. CNN
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(10/4, Scutti) reports, “The study highlights two important caveats. Daily
use of standard-dose aspirin (325 milligrams) does not reduce the risk of
ovarian cancer, and heavy use of nonaspirin nonsteroidal
anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen and naproxen, may increase
the risk.” The Boston Globe
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(10/4, Finucane) reports that a separate study
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also published in JAMA Oncology “found that regular aspirin use – taking
two or more 325 milligram tablets a week for five years or more – led to a
significantly reduced risk of developing liver cancer.”

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