Subject: FW: Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing for Wednesday, October 10, 2018
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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*To: Vice President Joe Biden*

*Wednesday, October 10, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden Delivers Inaugural Lecture At Imperial Cancer Research UK Centre.
<#S1>

• Local TV Station Highlights Biden’s Coming Appearance In Kentucky. <#S2>

• NYTimes Notes “Conversations With Joe” Audio Book Out This Week. <#S3>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Haley Announces Resignation, Says She Intends To Campaign For Trump In
2020. <#S4>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump Touts Progress In North Korea Denuclearization Talks. <#S5>

• NYTimes: Iran Becoming Most Divisive Issue Between US, EU. <#S6>

• Russia Offering To Help Syria Rebuild Its Energy Infrastructure. <#S7>

• Trump To Raise Journalist’s Disappearance With Saudi Officials. <#S8>

• NYTimes: US Thwarts Russia’s Campaign To Undermine Macedonian Referendum.
<#S9>

• Trump Greets UN Climate Report With Suspicion. <#S10>

• Trump Says He Is Prepared To Impose Additional Tariffs On Chinese Goods.
<#S11>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Trump Touts Year-Round E15 Ethanol To Receptive Crowd In Iowa. <#S12>

• Kavanaugh Takes Seat On Court, Engages In Questioning In First Oral
Arguments. <#S13>

• Court Rejects Administration Appeal In Lawsuit Over Census Citizenship
Question. <#S14>

• Trump Urges Florida Residents To Heed Warnings As Hurricane Michael
Approaches. <#S15>

• Kanye West To Have Lunch With Trump Tomorrow At White House. <#S16>

• Poll: 55% Say Trump Just “Expressing Frustration” With Attacks On Media.
<#S17>

• Sanders Plans Nine-Day Campaign Swing For Democratic Candidates. <#S18>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• Air Pollution Linked To Higher Risk Of Mouth Cancer. <#S19>

• Cancer Scientist: Firing Was “Retaliation” For Questioning Study
Authorship. <#S20>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S21>

• Washington Post. <#S22>
Biden in the News
Biden Delivers Inaugural Lecture At Imperial Cancer Research UK Centre.

Imperial College London (UK)
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(10/10, Johns, Scheuber) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden on
Wednesday “delivered the inaugural lecture of the Imperial Cancer Research
UK (CRUK) Centre,” which “is a research collaboration that brings together
scientists, clinicians, engineers and physicists in the fight against
cancer.” Biden spoke “of the ‘urgency of now’ as cancer research realises a
radical, highly collaborative and progressive step-change, surpassing that
of the Nixon-era ‘war on cancer.’” Biden, “who described Imperial’s cancer
work as ‘impressive’, said: ‘I’ve never seen folks as bright and who work
as hard as all of you. You are the most talented community in the world –
please break down the silos, continue to collaborate in ways that haven’t
existed before. Your work is important.’”
Local TV Station Highlights Biden’s Coming Appearance In Kentucky.

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Lexington, KY (10/9, Rand) reported, “Bath County is gearing up to welcome
former Vice President Joe Biden, who will be in Owingsville Friday in
support of Ret. Lt. Col. Amy McGrath, the Democratic nominee” challenging
KY6 Rep. Andy Barr (R). WKYT-TV added, “Biden and McGrath are hosting a
fish fry Friday, October 12 at Bath County High School.” Bath County
Judge-Executive Bobby Rogers (D) “said Biden’s personality could help
McGrath’s campaign. ‘I think Joe Biden can relate to a lot of people here,
just the way he carries on, you know, and I think he’s pretty well liked
here in the area,’ Rogers said.”
NYTimes Notes “Conversations With Joe” Audio Book Out This Week.

The New York Times
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(10/9) reports in “New & Noteworthy” that among the audio books out this
week is “CONVERSATIONS WITH JOE Conversations between Joe Biden and various
interviewers. (Audible.) Sit back and listen to the former vice president.
These are edited highlights from Biden’s tour of American cities this past
year, in which he spoke with a range of luminaries, from Melinda Gates to
Stephen Colbert, about his triumphs and heartbreaks.”
Leading the News
Haley Announces Resignation, Says She Intends To Campaign For Trump In 2020.

Media coverage of Ambassador Haley’s resignation strongly highlights the
surprising nature of the news and the mutual praise she and President Trump
heaped on one another yesterday. Reports also indicate that Haley indicated
that she will not run for office in 2020 and that she plans to campaign for
Trump’s reelection. The New York Times
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(10/9, Haberman) says Haley “has long been seen as a potential presidential
candidate,” but said yesterday “she had no intention of running for the
presidency in 2020, as has been speculated. Instead, she said, she plans to
campaign for Mr. Trump.” ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by
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(10/9, story 4, 2:45, Vega) showed Haley saying, “For all of you that are
going to ask about 2020, no, I’m not running for 2020. I can promise you
what I’ll be doing is campaigning for this one.”

        Along similar lines, the Washington Post
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(10/9, Gearan) reports that “some of Trump’s political advisers have viewed
her warily as a potential threat in 2020 and a skeptic of the Trump agenda,
spurring her to say in her resignation announcement that she would not be
running for office.” On Fox News
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(10/9), meanwhile, there was “speculation” that if Sen. Lindsey Graham were
to take a position in the Trump Administration, Haley may be interested in
filling his seat. The Washington Post
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(10/9, Rucker) says, however, that the “idea [was] quickly dismissed by
Haley confidants, Trump and Graham himself.”

        USA Today
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(10/9, Jackson, Fritze, Shesgreen) quotes Trump as saying of Haley, “She’s
done a fantastic job and we’ve done a fantastic job together.” The Washington
Times
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(10/9, Boyer, Taylor) reports Trump also said “she is ‘very special to me,’
and that together they have ‘solved a lot of problems.’” Politico
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(10/9, Toosi, Johnson, Morin) adds that Trump also told Haley, “We’re all
happy for you in one way, but we hate to lose you. ... Hopefully you’ll be
coming back at some point, but maybe in a different capacity. You can have
your pick.” The New York Post
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(10/9, Fredericks) says that remark “caused her to break into good-natured
laughter.” The Federalist
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(10/9, Payton) also quotes from Trump’s remarks: “So Nikki, I just wanted
to tell you we’ll miss you. ... We’ll be speaking all the time, but we’ll
miss you nevertheless and you have done a fantastic job and I want to thank
you very much.”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(10/9, Bierman) says “Haley’s departure marked one of the rare examples of
a senior Trump administration official making a graceful exit.” Trump
“heaped praise on her, saying she brought glamour and importance to the
position,” and “allowed her to address reporters from the Oval Office, a
departure from the abrupt tweets Trump often uses to announce high-level
staff changes.” The Times adds that “Haley, in turn, thanked Trump and
praised members of his family before mentioning her own family,” and “moved
quickly to squelch speculation about her political ambitions.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(10/9, Lim) reports “Trump said in televised remarks that...he wanted an
on-air goodbye to dispel speculation about an adversarial ouster.” Said
Trump, “When you write it out on a piece of paper that, you know,
‘Ambassador Haley will be leaving’ and you say nice things, people say,
‘What’s going on?’ ... When you really think somebody’s done a terrific
job, I felt this was an appropriate way of doing it.” The Examiner adds
that “other top Trump administration officials have been fired without
ceremony before being shamed in the media.”

        The AP
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(10/9, Miller, Riechmann, Lemire) says “the news blindsided many
congressional Republicans involved in foreign policy matters and some key
US allies.” In her resignation letter
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Haley, “who is not personally wealthy, hinted...that she is headed to the
private sector.” She “has two children to put through college and the
potential to make much more money in the business world.” The New York Times
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(10/9, Haberman) notes, moreover, that Trump said Haley “had informed him
six months ago that she wanted to take a break after finishing two years
with the administration.” However, the CBS Evening News[image: Image
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(10/9, story 4, 2:30, Glor) reported, “White House officials tell CBS News
it was a closely guarded secret.” NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by
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(10/9, story 4, 2:10, Holt) also reported Haley’s resignation “caught even
some of...Trump’s top aides off guard.”

        McClatchy
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(10/9, Dumain, Kumar) reports that according to her letter, “Haley shared
her intentions with Trump last week” and “attributed her resignation to
being ‘a strong supporter of term limits’ who has ‘long believed that
rotation in office benefits the public.’” Haley also wrote, “As a
businessman, I expect you will appreciate my sense that returning from
government to the private sector is not a step down, but a step up.” The Los
Angeles Times
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(10/9, Bierman) points out that both Trump and Haley said “the resignation
will take effect at the end of the year,” and the Wall Street Journal
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(10/9, Ballhaus, Fassihi, Bender) runs a similar report this morning.

        Some analyses, meanwhile, mused about alternative explanations for
Haley’s departure. The Washington Post
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(10/9, Gearan) reports that Haley was “frustrated to be left out of some
key debates earlier this year, administration officials said, and was not
seen as part of Trump’s inner circle.” Bloomberg News
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(10/9, Jacobs, Sink, Pettypiece) says, meanwhile, that “tensions bubbled up
between Haley and Trump in April when...Pence hired” Jon Lerner, “a
long-time Haley aide and Republican pollster as his national security
adviser, prompting speculation that Haley and Pence were forging a
political alliance.”

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(10/9), “I think she felt she was losing a bit of clout as UN Ambassador.
When [Rex] Tillerson had been Secretary of State, the President depended on
her an awful lot. When Tillerson left and Pompeo came in, the President is
very close to Pompeo. I think she felt her clout kind of decreasing. She
felt this was a good time, and maybe she wanted to get out in front of all
the people who are going to leave or get fired after the midterm elections,
and sort of separate herself that way. So that explains the timing to me a
little bit.”

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(10/9), “What doesn’t make sense about [Haley’s resignation] is why not
wait until after the election? That’s the only thing. And she said it’s not
for personal reasons. It doesn’t seem there is anything urgent she has to
be stepping down for. It would be like if one of you just went to Jeff
Zucker and said, ‘I think now would be a good time to leave.’ And he would
be like, ‘How about you wait until after the election that’s coming up
we’re all covering?’ That’s kind of something you would do. So, for her to
do this right before the election seems very strange to me.”

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(10/9), “The deeper question is why the President hired Nikki Haley in the
first place. Very public, popular among a lot of Republican voters. She’s
impressively unintimidated, hyper-articulate, great on television, but she
has articulated a foreign policy that is directly at odds that the one that
the President ran on.”

        Jonathan Swan of Axios
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(10/9, Swan) was first with the story yesterday morning, reporting that the
news “shocked a number of senior foreign policy officials in the Trump
administration.” Swan later told Fox News’ Special Report[image: Image
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(10/9), “I have been told numerous accounts of what happened and why,
including it was long planned and everything is great and there is a
beautiful ribbon around it and maybe that’s the case. I haven’t reported
anything because I don’t have a high enough degree of confidence to
anything that I’ve been told so far as actual truth.”

        Bloomberg News
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(10/9, Jacobs, Sink, Pettypiece) also reports that Haley’s decision
“startled many White House officials, including Chief of Staff John Kelly
and Vice President Mike Pence.” On Fox News’ America’s Newsroom[image:
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(10/9), Rich Edson said Haley only “actually informed her staff...she was
leaving” yesterday morning.

        USA Today
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(10/9, Jackson, Fritze, Shesgreen) reports that while “initially a critic
of Trump,” Haley “helped shepherd in the administration’s tougher stance at
the United Nations, including Trump’s decision to leave the UN Human Rights
Council earlier this year.” Haley said yesterday, “The US is strong again.
... Countries may not like what we do, but they respect what we do.” The New
York Post
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(10/9, Fredericks) quotes Haley as adding, “They know that if we say we’re
going to do something, we follow it through. And the president proved that.
Whether it was with the chemical weapons in Syria, whether it’s with NATO,
saying that other countries have to pay their share, and whether it’s the
trade deals, which have been amazing. They get that the president means
business, and they follow through with that.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/9, Rucker) says that at the UN, Haley “spoke often of the need for
reform within the UN and its peacekeeping forces, and frequently chastised
UN agencies for taking anti-Israel stances.” In addition, Haley “pushed for
Security Council resolutions imposing greater sanctions on North Korea, and
chastised members who the administration suspected had been cheating,”
according to the Post. The Post also notes that a Quinnipiac poll from
earlier this year “found that Haley had the highest approval ratings of
five Trump Cabinet members tested and was the only Cabinet member to hold
majority approval among Democrats, Republicans and independents. Overall,
63 percent approved and 17 percent disapproved of her performance.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(10/9, McIntyre) reports Defense Secretary Mattis praised Haley Tuesday “as
a valued partner who has ‘done yeoman’s work’ in New York for the United
States.” Said Mattis, “She has been just a tremendous asset to those of us
here in the Department of Defense.” Mattis “would not disclose whether he
knew Haley was stepping down after two years on the job,” saying, “I don’t
get into private discussions.”

        CQ Roll Call
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(10/9, Bennett) reports Haley “has been viewed as a steadying presence
within the turbulent administration, one of several establishment
Republican appointments that helped deliver Trump’s message around the
globe.” Roll Call adds that “lawmakers’ reaction, not surprisingly, have
broken along party lines.” Sen. Lindsay Graham, for example, tweeted
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yesterday, “Ambassador @NikkiHaley has done an outstanding job as United
States Ambassador to the United Nations and showed a level of effectiveness
rarely seen by someone in this position.” Senate Foreign Relations ranking
member Robert Menendez, however, tweeted
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that Haley’s departure is “yet another sign of the Trump Administration’s
chaotic foreign policy and setback from promoting American values and
priorities.”

        In a statement, Townhall
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(10/9, Pavlich) reports, Senate Majority Leader McConnell said, “Her tenure
will be remembered for her proud reassertion of American moral leadership
and her fearless willingness to turn a bright spotlight on critical
challenges, from Israel’s sovereignty to Iran’s sponsorship of regional
violence.”

        The AP
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(10/9, Press) reports, meanwhile, that UN Secretary-General Antonio
Guterres is expressing “deep appreciation for the excellent cooperation and
support” from Haley, “despite major policy differences on issues including
climate change and Palestinian refugees.”

        *Haley: Kushner A “Hidden Genius.” *Reuters
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(10/9, Rampton, Holland) reports that in the Oval Office yesterday, Haley
described White House Counselor Jared Kushner as “such a hidden genius that
no one understands.” The Hill
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(10/9, Birnbaum) notes that Haley also said, “I can’t say enough good
things about Jared and Ivanka.”

        *Powell, Grennell Among Those Mentioned As Potential Haley
Replacements. *The Los Angeles Times
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(10/9, Bierman) notes that “Trump said he would name a successor within the
next two or three weeks.” Reuters
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(10/9, Rampton, Holland) notes that Trump “told reporters he would consider
selecting former Goldman Sachs executive and White House adviser Dina
Powell to replace Haley, and shot down speculation he would put his
daughter Ivanka in the role.” Politico
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(10/9, White) calls Powell “the top candidate,” and adds he “is said to be
strongly considering the job but also weighing family concerns.” Politico
also reports that “born in Egypt and raised in the United States, Powell is
well liked by Trump as well as the president’s daughter Ivanka and
son-in-law.” However, “she is already coming under criticism from some
conservatives on social media who maintain that Powell is a ‘globalist.’”

        The Daily Caller
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(10/9, Fordham) reports that among those seen as Haley’s potential
successor, US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell is “getting a large
share of the attention.” The Daily Caller says Grenell is “on good terms
with national security adviser John Bolton,” and “was on Donald Trump’s
short list for UN ambassador during the 2016 presidential election.” The
Daily Caller also says that Grenell would be “the first openly gay US
ambassador to the UN.” The Washington Examiner
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(10/9, Donachie) reports Trump “was livid with Senate Democrats for what he
felt was slow-walking Grenell’s confirmation earlier this year.” The
Examiner adds that “another factor that could put Grenell’s name toward the
top of the Haley replacement list is the fact that he has a close
relationship with national security adviser John Bolton.” Grenell “served
with Bolton...in former President George W. Bush’s administration.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(10/9, Donachie) also lists Jon Huntsman, Sens. Lindsay Graham, Bob Corker
and Joe Manchin, Kushner, David Petraeus, former Sen. Kelly Ayotte and Rep.
Peter King as possible candidates.

        *Trump Says “Ivanka Would Be Dynamite,” Jokes That “CNN Would
Support Her.” *The AP
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(10/9, Press) reports “Trump told reporters Tuesday that he has heard his
daughter Ivanka Trump’s name discussed for the post.” Trump said “she’d be
‘incredible’ in the role, but he knows if he selected her he’d be accused
of nepotism.” The New York Post
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(10/9, Fredericks) quotes Trump as saying, “I’ve heard Ivanka. The people
that know, it’s nothing to do with nepotism. But I want to tell you, the
people that know, know that Ivanka would be dynamite. ... But, you know, I
would then be accused of nepotism, if you can believe it, right? I think
Ivanka would be incredible. It doesn’t mean I would pick her because you
would be accused of nepotism, even though I’m not sure there is anybody
more competent in the world. But that’s OK. But we are looking at numerous
people.” The Washington Examiner
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(10/9, Nelson) says Trump “downplayed the possibility of picking his
daughter,” but “he also joked, ‘I think CNN would support her.’”

        The Washington Times
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(10/9, Morton) reports, “Ivanka Trump put a damper Tuesday evening on a day
of speculation that she might replace...Haley.” Ms. Trump tweeted
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“It is an honor to serve in the White House alongside so many great
colleagues and I know that the President will nominate a formidable
replacement for Ambassador Haley. That replacement will not be me.”

        *WTimes: Trump May Be Preparing To Step Up “America First” Agenda. *The
Washington Times
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(10/9, Taylor) says the development is “triggering speculation that...Trump
is gearing up for a new hard-line shift on international affairs as he
heads toward his third year in office.” The Times adds “foreign diplomats
are already speculating that the president is bent on naming someone who’ll
take his ‘America First’ agenda toward the United Nations to heights even
Ms. Haley may have balked at during her run as ambassador over the past 20
months.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/9, Jaffe, Hudson, Ryan) reports, meanwhile, that Haley’s departure
“deprives...Trump’s ‘America First’ philosophy of its most enthusiastic and
articulate advocate,” though it’s “less clear is whether” it “marks any
change in Trump’s increasingly combative and unilateralist foreign policy.”
The Post adds that “there were moments when Haley, who often represented an
alternative power center in the administration, seemed out of step with the
White House and more in line with the sort of traditional Republican
foreign policy that Trump spurned. ... The differences were most notable in
her advocacy on behalf of human rights and in Russia policy, areas where
Haley touted a hard line that conflicted with the White House’s nebulous
and contradictory policy.”

        *WPost: Haley’s Departure Leaves Just Four Minorities In Cabinet. *The
Washington Post
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(10/9, Nakamura) reports “Haley’s departure leaves just four racial or
ethnic minorities among the 23 Cabinet-level jobs. One, Transportation
Secretary Elaine Chao, is among the five women left in those positions.”
The Post adds “the situation drew fresh criticism from another high-ranking
minority woman who left the White House staff – Omarosa Manigault Newman,
an African American who resigned her post as a senior adviser to Trump
under pressure in December. In a tweet, she called Haley ‘strong smart and
authentic!’”

        *Watchdog Questions Haley’s Use Of Private Planes Owned By South
Carolina Businessmen. *Earlier yesterday morning, McClatchy
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(10/9, Marchant) reported that Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in
Washington is seeking a federal investigation of Haley’s “use of private
planes owned by S.C. businessmen,” including Jimmy Gibbs, president and
chief executive of Gibbs International, Smyth McKissick, the head of Alice
Manufacturing Co., and “longtime Haley friend” Mikee Johnson. According to
McClatchy, CREW “says Haley undervalued the flights by tens of thousands of
dollars on her annual financial disclosure form required of federal
officials.” McClatchy goes on to report that while CREW “says the flights
create the impression of impermissible gifts to a public official,” Haley
“said on her disclosure the men are all personal friends and, thus, exempt
from federal rules about accepting flights on private planes.”

        *Haley’s Office Says Her Personal Debt Not Reason She’s Resigning. *The
Charleston (SC) Post and Courier
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(10/9, Brown) reports “Haley’s political capital and foreign policy
credentials skyrocketed during her time as US ambassador to the United
Nations, but one aspect of the former South Carolina governor’s life didn’t
get the same boost: her personal finances.” According to “federal ethics
reports,” she “had debt from $525,000 to about $1.1 million in 2017, the
latest year available.” The Post and Courier adds, however, that “Haley’s
office” said “her debts were not why she announced Tuesday that she will
resign at the end of the year.”

        *On Twitter, Some Journalists Speculate Haley Leaving Because Of
Kavanaugh. *Writing for Breitbart
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(10/9, Nolte), John Nolte says that “without any evidence, members of the
establishment media are spreading the conspiracy theory that...Haley had
resigned over Brett Kavanaugh.” Nolte notes that Jacqueline Alemany “from
the far-left Washington Post” wrote on Twitter
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“Sources close to the WH echo this sentiment – that the timing doesn’t make
sense. A source adds that it allows people to say Kavanaugh might have
played a role.” Brian J. Karem from “Playboy/Far-left CNN” tweeted
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018101001biden&r=email-9f08&l=03f-6c4&t=c>,
“What are the optics, or are there any to consider in Nikki Haley resigning
a day after the Kavanaugh confirmation party at the WH?” Patricia Zengerle
of Reuters likewise mused
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“The timing of The resignation if Haley, considered the most respected
woman in Trump’s administration, just after Kavanaugh. Notable.” Nolte
concludes, “I am certain ‘sources close to the White House’ tell these
so-called journalists all kinds of things. It is what they choose to
publicly pass along (with zero confirmation) that exposes their malicious
agenda.”

        Rachel Maddow said on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show[image: Image
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(10/9), “I am sure it did not escape you that she has just surprise
announced her resignation right after...Kavanaugh was sworn in as the new
Supreme Court justice and all the controversy surrounding his nomination.
In normal times, that close sequencing of events might signal that that was
the reason...Haley was leaving the Administration. Maybe these things are
connected. In normal times, that’s what you’d think. These are not normal
times, however. And honestly, no one seems to have any idea why Nikki Haley
is leaving and leaving right now. ... That said, this White House does leak
like a rusty sieve straining acid. So I can promise you that this mystery
will not be mysterious for too long. Eventually we will find out what
happened with this...Haley surprise resignation today.”

        *Sanford: “Something Doesn’t Smell Right.” *Rep. Mark Sanford
(R-SC) said on MSNBC Live
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(10/9), “Something doesn’t smell right. Something’s weird. I can’t put my
finger on it. You know, her head political guy, a guy by the name of John
Lerner, used to be my lead guy, and that guy keeps his nose to the
political winds. He has an acute sense of what’s going on, and so either
there’s another shoe to drop from a Trump standpoint, something that we
don’t know and that she wants to get out of the way of, or, alternatively,
there was this, you know, inquiry I guess put in yesterday on private
planes, and given what she saw happen to Price and what she saw happen to
Pruitt, maybe she just doesn’t want to...risk the possibility of blemish or
the possibility of being pushed out as both of them were given the private
plane question. So something doesn’t quite fit.”

        Sanford also mentioned the private plane inquiry on CNN’s The
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(10/9), saying, “Is there something there that she just wants to exit so
she doesn’t have to deal with that as a public figure? Other people saying
money. Other people saying, no...Lindsey Graham is going to be appointed
Attorney General, and this is setting up so the governor can make the
appointment with her to the US Senate. There are all kinds of rumors going
on out there. All I know is that something is going on, probably more than
meets the eye, given the timing of this particular announcement.”

        *NYTimes Praises Haley. *The New York Times
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(10/9) editorializes that Haley “could talk as bluntly as the president
himself about the failings of the United Nations system, and yet, more
quietly, she proved a practitioner of multilateral diplomacy.” Moreover,
“in an administration that prizes lock-step loyalty, Ms. Haley managed to
hold to at least some of her own priorities, and as a result she appears to
be that rarest of Trump appointees: one who can exit the administration
with her dignity largely intact.”
Foreign Policy
Trump Touts Progress In North Korea Denuclearization Talks.

The Washington Post
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(10/9) reports that at a news conference with outgoing UN Ambassador Nikki
Haley on Tuesday, President Trump “called the progress with North Korea
‘incredible,’” and “said meetings with Kim Jong Un will eventually take
place in both countries.” The story includes embedded video of the press
conference. Reuters
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(10/9, Rampton) reports Trump said Secretary of State Pompeo “had very good
talks with Kim over the weekend,” and “he thinks ‘incredible’ progress has
been made in US talks with the long-isolated country.” Trump said plans
were also underway for his second summit meeting with North Korean leader
Kim Jong Un. Trump told reporters, “Well it is happening and we’re setting
that up right now.”

        USA Today
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(10/9, Jackson) reports Trump said his second meeting with Kim is “coming
soon, but this time it likely won’t be in Singapore.” Trump said,
“Singapore was fantastic, but we’ll probably do a different location” and
are considering “about three or four different locations.” Politico
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(10/9, Choi) reports Trump said “that both he and Kim would enjoy having
one on his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida, where he has previously hosted
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping.”
The Washington
Post
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(10/9, Sonmez) reports Trump later clarified to reporters that such a
summit would not take place until after midterm elections next month,
“saying his hectic campaign-trail schedule has left him too busy to arrange
a meeting.”

        CNN
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(10/9, Vazquez) reports on its website that Trump touted the progress of
the talks, telling reporters: “‘As I’ve said about a thousand times, you’ve
got no rockets flying, you’ve got no missiles flying, you have no nuclear
testing, you have nuclear closings, closing up different areas of North
Korea. We’re getting the remains back ... we got our hostages back, and I
didn’t pay $1.8 billion, like the previous administration. I paid
nothing.’”

        *Pompeo Says “Real Progress” Made. *Reuters
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(10/9, Lambert) briefly reports Pompeo “said on Tuesday he had made ‘real
progress’ on his recent trip to North Korea.” Fox News’ Special Report[image:
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(10/9) broadcast Pompeo saying, “While there’s still a long way to go and
much work to do, we can now see a path to where we’ll achieve the ultimate
goal, which is the full and final verified denuclearization of North
Korea.” The Washington Times
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(10/9, Boyer) reports Pompeo, in remarks to reporters “at the White House
after a lunch with President Trump,” added that “he would announce ‘in
short order’ a second summit between Mr. Trump and North Korean leader Kim
Jong-un, following up on their breakthrough spring meeting in Singapore.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(10/9, Gehrke) reports Pompeo told reporters, “I want to thank Chairman Kim
for the time that I got to spend with him where we got to talk about all
the range of issues that are in front of our two countries that will let us
get there, and he appreciated the president having sent me.” According to
the Examiner, Pompeo’s visit to Pyongyang did not “produce a high-profile
breakthrough,” but he “maintained that he was pleased nonetheless.”

        *Defectors Urge Trump To Prioritize Human Rights In North Korea
Talks. *The Washington Times
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(10/9, Boylan) reports that as Trump “said he was close to agreeing to a
second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, a group of North Korean
defectors said Pyongyang should be forced to address its abysmal human
rights record before any more US concessions are granted.” At a press
briefing Tuesday, the defectors urged the Administration “to reject all
offers by North Korea to sign a former peace treaty as part of the talks
until the North addresses the human rights issue is addressed.” North
Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s “regime has pushed for a peace deal before it
takes final steps to end its nuclear programs,” but “defectors said they
feared Pyongyang’s human rights record could get lost in the rush to cut a
deal.”

        *Kim Wants Visit From Pope Francis. *The AP
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(10/9, Tong-Hyung) reports South Korea said today that Kim “wants Pope
Francis to visit the officially atheist country.” Fox News’ Special
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(10/9) reported that the South Korean Presidential Office said Kim told
President Moon Jae-In at their summit last month “that the pope would be
enthusiastically welcomed in North Korea.” Reuters
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(10/9, Reuters) reports Kim’s invitation to Pope Francis is “a gesture
designed to highlight peace efforts, South Korea’s presidential office said
on Tuesday.” Spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom said Moon “will deliver Kim’s
invitation when he meets Francis next week during a trip to Europe.”

        *UN: North Korean Food Supply Remains “Precarious.” *Reuters
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(10/9, Nebehay) reports the World Food Programme said North Korea’s food
supply “remains precarious,” and “one in five children is stunted by
malnutrition.” The WFP said “more than 10 million North Koreans, nearly 40
percent of the population, are undernourished and need humanitarian aid.”
WFP spokesman Herve Verhoosel said the UN agency, “which provides fortified
cereals and enriched biscuits to 650,000 women and children each month, may
have to cut its nutrition and health programs again because it lacks
funding.”

        *Yao Ming Feted In Pyongyang. *The AP
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(10/9) reports former “NBA star-turned pal of North Korean leader Kim Jong
Un” may have been “benched for Chinese hoop legend Yao Ming.” The “former
Houston Rockets center and eight-time NBA all-star took center court in
Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital, on Tuesday as Chinese and North Korean
basketball players held a friendly match, part of a high-profile sports
exchange between the two countries intended to help thaw ties that had been
growing chilly over the past year.”
NYTimes: Iran Becoming Most Divisive Issue Between US, EU.

The New York Times
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(10/9, Erlanger) says in an analysis that of “all the issues dividing
Europe and the Trump administration, Iran has become the sharpest, with the
Europeans actively working against United States policy, placing them in
league with Russia, China and Iran.” In a bid to preserve the JCPOA, the
Europeans intend to set up an “an alternative payment mechanism” to
continue trade with Iran despite US sanctions, and are “pressing Iran to
adhere strictly to the terms of the nuclear agreement, to avoid giving the
United States and Israel a pretext for starting a war — an increasing
concern.” The Times says “senior European diplomats” say the European
countries are “counseling Tehran to keep calm and wait out President
Trump’s term, in the hope that he will not be re-elected.” The Financial
Times
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(10/9, Manson) reports European finance ministers will try to persuade the
Administration not to cut off Iran’s access to SWIFT in meetings with
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin at the IMF gathering in Bali.

        *Oil Prices Up As Iran’s Production Falls. *The Wall Street Journal
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(10/9, Salvaterra) reports crude oil prices were up on fears of falling
Iranian output and that Hurricane Michael could disrupt US production in
the Gulf of Mexico. The NYMEX price quote was up 0.3 percent to $74.50 per
barrel and the benchmark Brent prices rose 0.7 percent to $84.48 per
barrel.

        *UN: Iran Transit Point For Smuggled Somali Charcoal That Funds Al
Shabaab. *Reuters
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(10/9, Nichols) reports UN sanctions monitors say “criminal networks are
using Iran as a transit point for illicit Somali charcoal exports that earn
Islamist militants al Shabaab millions of dollars annually in tax.” In the
“unpublished annual report to the U.N. Security Council, the monitors add
that domestic revenue generation by al Qaeda-affiliated al Shabaab ‘is more
geographically diversified and systematic’ than that of Somalia’s federal
government.”

        *CEO Says Standard Chartered Working With Authorities To Resolve
Iran Sanctions Violations. *Reuters
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(10/9, White) reports Standard Chartered Chief Executive Bill Winters “hit
back at critical media coverage of the bank’s attempts to improve its
financial crime controls, in a memo sent to hundreds of senior managers at
the bank on Tuesday.” Winters sought to “reassure staff about StanChart’s
recent financial performance and progress mending flaws in regulatory
compliance, after media reported last week that the lender faced a possible
$1.5 billion fine for past Iran-related sanctions violations.” The Wall
Street Journal
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(10/9, Patrick, Viswanatha) reports Winters told Standard Chartered staff
that the financial institution is working with US authorities to reach an
acceptable resolution of the Iran sanctions violations.

        Reuters
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(10/9, White) reports the US investigation is seeking to determine whether
Standard Chartered “breached Iran-related compliance rules as recently as
2013, a year after it settled with them over earlier allegations of
breaches and pledged to improve internal controls.” Winters said in his
memo that the “‘the vast majority of the payments under investigation
pre-date 2012, and none occurred after 2014,’ in the first public
acknowledgment by the bank of the later timeframe.” Reuters adds the
investigation “now underway focuses on breaches after 2007, with special
emphasis on whether the US authorities were fully informed about the bank’s
dealings with Iranian clients at the time of the 2012 settlement.”

        *Treasury Dept. Extends License For US Firms To Operate
Iranian-Owned North Sea Gas Field. *Reuters
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(10/9, Bousso) reports BP and Serica Energy “received a conditional license
from U.S. authorities to continue operating a North Sea gas field partly
owned by Iran’s national oil company, Serica said in a statement.” The US
Office of Foreign Assets Control “extended a license for US and US-owned or
controlled entities to provide goods, services and support the Rhum field,
which supplies around 5 percent of Britain’s gas demand.”

        *US Officials: Administration May Waive Iran Oil Sanctions For Some
Countries. *The Administration “is open to allowing some countries to
continue importing Iranian oil, despite promises to tighten the screws on
Tehran and any country that continues doing business with the Islamic
Republic, according to US officials” who spoke with the Washington Free
Beacon
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(10/9, Kredo). One US official confirmed “late Monday the administration is
engaged in a process to selectively grant waivers to certain countries
still importing Iranian oil.” The Free Beacon says the Administration’s
“current stance differs drastically from the administration’s position just
four months ago, when Trump was pressuring his administration to fully
enforce US sanctions on Iran.” The “latest concessions” also “come amid a
widening battle in the Trump administration over the severity of new
sanctions set to be imposed on Iran early next month.”
Russia Offering To Help Syria Rebuild Its Energy Infrastructure.

Reuters
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(10/9, Devitt) reports that the Russian and Syrian governments have
“discussed the possible reconstruction of gas transportation
infrastructure, underground gas storage facilities, oil and gas production
and oil refineries in Syria.” According to Reuters, Russian Energy Minister
Alexander Novak said the two countries also “agreed to speed up
reconstruction of thermal power stations in Syria, but Damascus is first
expected to find financing for these projects.”

        *Assad Offers Amnesty To Deserters, But Not To Those Fighting With
Rebels. *The AP
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(10/9, Mroue) reports that Syrian President Bashar Assad has “granted
general amnesty...to army deserters both within Syria and outside the
country, a move that could boost the return of refugees who fled violence
in their war-torn country.” Deserters still in Syria “have four months to”
turn themselves in, while “those abroad have six months.” According to the
AP, “Since Syria’s conflict began in March 2011, tens of thousands of
soldiers have either deserted their posts or defected and joined rebels
trying to remove Assad from power.” The AP notes that Assad’s amnesty offer
“does not include army defectors, some of whom are still fighting against
the government, mostly in the northwestern province of Idlib, the last
major rebel stronghold in the country.”

        Many Syrian exiles “eyed the decree with mistrust, and
international monitors urged caution,” so it is “unclear how much the
announcement would boost the government’s case for returns,” according to
the Washington Post
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(10/9, Loveluck). “International organizations and researchers monitoring
the conditions for return” are cautioning that while the decree has “the
potential to encourage safe returns,” it remains “difficult to assess.” The
Post adds that reports from Syrian areas that were “recently retaken by
pro-government forces indicate that draft dodgers are still being targeted
for arrest,” and similar decrees in previous years “have failed to prevent
such arrests.”
Trump To Raise Journalist’s Disappearance With Saudi Officials.

Reuters
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(10/9, Rampton) reports that in the Oval Office on Tuesday, President Trump
said he “plans to speak with Saudi Arabian officials about the
disappearance of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who went
missing a week ago.” When “asked if he had spoken to officials in Saudi
Arabia about Khashoggi,” Trump responded: “I have not. But I will be at
some point. ... I know nothing right now. I know what everybody else knows
– nothing.” Reuters says that the “situation could undermine US ties with
its key Gulf ally amid ongoing tension in the region.”

        NBC Nightly News
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(10/9, story 7, 1:30, Holt) reported that Secretary of State Pompeo is
“calling on Saudi Arabia to support a thorough investigation.” According to Fox
News’ Special Report
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018101001biden&r=email-9f08&l=063-422&t=c>’s
(10/9) Rich Edson, the State Department “says senior US officials have
spoken with Saudi counterparts” about Khashoggi. Reuters
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(10/9, Wroughton) briefly reports State Department spokeswoman Heather
Nauert said Tuesday that the State Department does not “have any
information” about the fate of Khashoggi.

        Reuters
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(10/9, Toksabay, Butler) reports that the European Union’s High
Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini,
said that the bloc fully supports Pompeo’s demand that Riyadh investigate
Khashoggi’s disappearance, underscoring how the incident has “sparked
global concern.” Britain also “urged the Saudi government to explain what
happened,” and the United Nations Human Rights Office called on “both
Turkey and Saudi Arabia to investigate what it called the ‘apparent
enforced disappearance’ and possible murder of Khashoggi.”

        Meanwhile, the New York Times
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(10/9, Gall) reports, Turkish investigators are “examining the movements of
Saudi officials who flew to Istanbul and went to the Saudi Consulate there
on the same day that” Khashoggi “disappeared after going to the building.”
According to the Times, “Turkish officials have said that investigators
believe...Khashoggi was killed and dismembered at the consulate after going
there Oct. 2 to pick up a document.” However, the Times adds that a
newspaper that is “close to” the Erdogan government has reported that
“Turkish authorities were also looking into the possibility that Mr.
Khashoggi had been abducted with the help of another country’s intelligence
officers and that he could still be alive.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/9, Cunningham) reports that, according to an account in the pro-Erdogan
newspaper Sabah, “two and a half hours after Khashoggi entered the
consulate, six vehicles left the site” carrying “15 Saudi officials and
intelligence workers.” Two of the vehicles “went to Consul-General’s
Mohammad al-Otaibi’s residence 200 meters away.” Subsequently, “Turkish
employees at Otaibi’s residence were ‘hastily’ told to leave that day.” ABC
World News Tonight
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(10/9, story 7, 1:25, Muir) reported that “the Saudis [are] calling the
claims they killed the journalist outrageous and absolutely false. But
serious questions remain.” The Saudi Embassy in Istanbul “opened its doors
to try to prove Khashoggi isn’t there, but [it’s] also saying some cameras
at the back weren’t working.”

        The AP
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(10/9, Wieting, Fraser, Gambrell) reports that Turkish officials announced
Tuesday that they will “search the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul,” which the
AP refers to as “an extraordinary probe of a diplomatic post amid Turkish
officials’ fears the writer had been killed inside the building.” The AP
adds, “That Saudi Arabia would allow foreigners to enter a consulate and
search it shows the growing international pressure the kingdom faces over
the disappearance of Khashoggi, a contributor to the Washington Post.”

        In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(10/9) accuses Trump of encouraging Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
“to believe – wrongly, we trust – that even his most lawless ventures will
have the support of the United States.” Unlike previous presidents, the
Post says, Trump has not “raise[d] human rights issues with Saudi leaders,
though the crown prince has imprisoned hundreds of liberal activists,
including women who advocated the right to drive.” His Administration also
“continues to support Saudi bombing in Yemen” despite the high number of
civilian casualties. The Post questions whether these actions may “have
encouraged the crown prince to believe that he could take drastic action to
silence one of his most prominent critics without damaging his relations
with Washington.” If so, the Post adds, “the administration’s response thus
far would not have altered his conclusion.”

        *Paul Vows To Block US Arms Sales To Saudi Arabia In Wake Of
Journalist’s Disappearance. *Bloomberg News
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(10/9, Wasso) reports that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) “increased US
congressional pressure on Saudi Arabia by saying he’d seek to block future
arms sales to the country after reports that a journalist was murdered
inside the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul for criticizing the royal
family.” Said Paul, “Believe you me, I will be forcing votes on them. ...
It is a point of difference with the president, but who knows, the
president may come around on this if there is any evidence they killed this
journalist.” Bloomberg says that in June, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), the
top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, “notified the Trump
administration he would use an informal procedure to block sales to Saudi
Arabia because of his concern about the Saudi-led coalition fighting in
Yemen.”
NYTimes: US Thwarts Russia’s Campaign To Undermine Macedonian Referendum.

A New York Times
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(10/9, Cooper, Schmitt) analysis says “the State and Defense Departments,
working closely with the intelligence agencies, formed what is now called
the Russia Influence Group to try to counter” Russia’s disinformation
campaigns, “principally in Europe.” They saw Macedonia as a possible target
when it agreed to change its name in exchange for Greece’s vow to lift a
ban on the country joining NATO. Moscow, “which sees the expanding alliance
as a major threat on its border, was determined to defeat a referendum on
the deal.” In what the Times calls “an unusually aggressive move,” the US
officials turned over intercepted cables detailing Russia’s efforts to the
Greek government, which “responded by making a rare break with Moscow,
expelling two Russian diplomats from Athens and barring the entry of two
more.” Macedonia’s referendum was inconclusive, but US officials saw it “as
a rare victory in a catch-up effort against Russian disinformation
campaigns in Europe and the United States.”

        *Reuters: GRU Gaining Influence Over Foreign Policy. *Reuters
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(10/9, Osborn) reports that Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency’s
“influence over Kremlin foreign policy is growing and there is little
likelihood it will halt its ‘black operations.’” According to Reuters, the
GRU is “blamed by the West for several botched attacks this year, including
attempting to kill former spy Sergei Skripal with a nerve agent in the
English city of Salisbury and trying to hack the global chemical weapons
watchdog in the Netherlands.” Reuters adds, “Intelligence experts say the
GRU has stepped up its activities including black operations – covert
missions that are not attributable to the organization carrying it out – as
tensions mount between Russia and the West, which has imposed sanctions on
Moscow over the annexation of Crimea.”
Trump Greets UN Climate Report With Suspicion.

Axios
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(10/9, Sykes, Freedman) reports President Trump “expressed suspicion”
Tuesday about a “landmark” UN climate change report, “saying that he’ll
look at the report but he also wants to look at ‘which group drew it.’”
Axios notes that the comments marked Trump’s “first acknowledgment of the
report, since the White House did not put out a statement when it was
released.”

        *NYTimes Editorial: Support Candidates “Who Take This Threat
Seriously.” *The New York Times
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(10/9) editorializes that the UN report’s “bottom line” is that “we have to
take a firm grip on the emissions curve and wrench it downward.” The Times
argues that “perhaps the most important thing the public can do right now
is seek out and support candidates who take this threat seriously.”
Trump Says He Is Prepared To Impose Additional Tariffs On Chinese Goods.

Reuters
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(10/9, Rampton, Lambert) reports President Trump, speaking to reporters in
the Oval Office on Tuesday, “repeated his threat to impose tariffs on $267
billion worth of additional Chinese imports if China retaliates for the
recent levies and other measures the United States has taken in the
countries’ escalating trade war,” and “also said China is not ready to
reach a deal on trade.”

        *NYTimes’ Sorkin Warns Of Possible Fallout Of China’s “Nuclear
Option” In Trade War. *Andrew Ross Sorkin writes in the New York Times
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(10/9, Sorkin) DealBook blog that China “holds more than a trillion dollars
in United States debt, and an escalating trade war could tempt it to wield
that debt in a way that has long been unthinkable.” Sorkin says that “even
in the gloomiest of doomsday scenarios, there is one weapon that has long
been considered unthinkable: the Chinese, the biggest holder of United
States foreign debt with more than $1 trillion, publicly taking a step back
from buying United States Treasuries – or worse, dumping what they own in
the open market.” Analysts, however, say such a move is unlikely because
“China’s own economy is too fragile to risk doing anything that would cause
instability.”

        *NYTimes: Trump’s Trade Wins Offset By Continued Unease Over Metal
Tariffs. *The New York Times
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(10/9, Rappeport) reports Trump will be in Iowa on Tuesday “praising his
new trade agreement with Canada and Mexico as a win for farmers, saying the
pact will send cash pouring into the United States and enrich America’s
agriculture and industrial workers.” However, according to the Times, “many
are not ready to cheer,” and “the biggest concern” is that “lingering
tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum that do not appear to be ending
anytime soon.” The Times says “the metal tariffs, combined with retaliatory
taxes that foreign governments have placed on American products, are
undercutting the concessions that Mr. Trump won in the deal.” The Times
adds, “Among the sectors hardest hit by Mr. Trump’s approach are the
beverage and auto industries, which rely heavily on foreign aluminum and
steel to make cans and cars.”

        *US Threatening To Block UK Access To Foreign Procurement Market
After Brexit. *Bloomberg News
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(10/9, Baschuk) reports the Administration is “threatening to block the UK
from a 46-nation public procurement agreement, a move that would deny
British companies from accessing a near $2 trillion-dollar marketplace
after leaving the European Union.” According to Bloomberg, “The UK will
apply to rejoin the Government Procurement Agreement, a $1.7 trillion trade
accord that governs global appropriation rules, since it will lose its
membership after Brexit in March,” but “US negotiators have told their
British counterparts that their application is outdated and needs to be
revised.” Bloomberg says British officials counter that the UK is “a
special case and should receive expedited approval because it’s already a
GPA member and can simply replicate its current commitments.”
Domestic Policy
Trump Touts Year-Round E15 Ethanol To Receptive Crowd In Iowa.

President Trump addressed a crowd of about 9,000 in Council Bluffs, Iowa on
Tuesday evening. While national outlets focused on his sharp words about
Democrats, local media gave generally positive coverage to his announcement
that he has directed the EPA to make E15 ethanol-blended gasoline available
year-round – though some reports said that Trump asserted without evidence
that Democrats opposed the move. As he has done following other recent
rallies, Trump tweeted
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a short video clip, then tweeted
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the full video of the event, and finally tweeted
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after the event, “THANK YOU IOWA & NEBRASKA! VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!”

        The Des Moines (IA) Register
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(10/9, Kremer) reports Trump announced that he “had directed his
administration to begin rule-making that allows for the year-round use of
gasoline blended with 15 percent ethanol or E15.” Trump said, “I made that
promise to you during the campaign. I made that promise to you during the
primary. Promises made, promises kept.” Trump “said to the crowd of both
Iowans and Nebraskans in Council Bluffs’ Mid-America Center – ‘All I know
is you got a lot of farmers in both, right?’ Trump said – that year-round
ethanol would help farmers and that Democrats would ‘end ethanol.’” The
Register said Democrats “have given no indication they would ‘end ethanol.’
Indeed, the year-round ethanol announcement won bipartisan praise in Iowa.”

        The Cedar Rapids (IA) Gazette
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(10/9, Murphy) similarly reports that Trump “warn[ed] without evidence
weeks before the midterm elections that Democrats would ‘take away your
ethanol,’” making “an unsubstantiated claim that Democrats...do not support
ethanol programs.” Iowa Democratic gubernatorial nominee Fred Hubbell
tweeted
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that he has supported “the year-round sale of E15...for years.” KTIV-TV[image:
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Sioux City, IA (10/9, 10:02 p.m. CDT) reported that the year-round sale of
E-15 “could drive demand for corn, and be a boon to farmers.” Trump: “We’re
going with E-15 year-round. I made that promise to you during the
campaign.” KCCI-TV
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Des Moines, IA (10/9, 10:07 p.m. CDT) called it “a major announcement that
will make Iowa farmers very happy.”

        KFXA-TV
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Cedar Rapids, IA (10/9, 9:28 p.m. CDT) reported that Trump “touched on
familiar campaign topics like building the wall, federal tax cuts, and
criticizing Democrats in Congress. But speaking to a crowd from deep ag
states Iowa and Nebraska, he highlighted his Administration’s record for
farmers” including “the recent E-15 deal.” Trump: “My administration is
protecting ethanol. That’s what you want to hear. Today, we are unleashing
the power of E-15 to fuel our country all year long.”

        The Daily Nonpareil (IA)
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(10/9, Brownlee) reports, “Trump played the hits for the large, boisterous
crowd, which stood throughout his more than 60 minutes at the podium.”
The Omaha
(NE) World-Herald
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(10/9, Sanderford) reports Trump “struck a confrontational tone” and
“offered the same defiant speech that he has in several other political
rallies in the lead-up” to the midterm elections. KLJB-TV[image: Image
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Davenport, IA (10/9, 9:32 p.m. CDT) reported that Trump was “in the
Heartland to help campaign for GOP candidates Rep. David Young and Gov. Kim
Reynolds.” Trump “addressed how the nation’s new trade deal will impact
farmers.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/9, Rucker, Sonmez) says Trump’s “76-minute stemwinder before a roaring
crowd of Iowans and Nebraskans in this border town along the Missouri River
was a preview not only of his campaign blitz over the next 28 days, but
also of his own reelection push that will begin in earnest soon after the
midterms.” The New York Times
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(10/9, Baker) reports Trump “stepped up his attacks on Democrats on Tuesday
night as he sought to paint them as the party of ‘unhinged’ and ‘wacko’
radicals who should not be trusted with control of Congress.” The Times
says Trump’s “evolving campaign stump speech is part of a concerted
Republican effort in recent days to recast the protests” over the
nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court “as the actions of an
‘angry left-wing mob.’”

        Eli Stokols of the Los Angeles Times
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(10/9) reports that Trump “variously described Democrats as ‘outrageous,’
‘wacko’ and ‘unhinged.’” Stokols tweeted
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“Fear and loathing in Iowa.”

        *Area GOP Senators Praise E15 Move; Refinery Group Threatens
Litigation. *The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead (ND)
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(10/9) reports that Sens. Mike Rounds (R-SD) and John Thune (R-SD) “each
said that the change would benefit South Dakota farmers and consumers,”
while Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) “said farmers will have an increased market
for their products and consumers will have more options at the pump.”
KWWL-TV
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Cedar Rapids, IA (10/9, Turpin) reports on its website that Sen. Charles
Grassley (R-IA) said in a statement, “Opening the door for year-round sales
of higher blends of ethanol is a victory for farmers, Rural America and the
nation as a whole.” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) tweeted
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“Granting the sale of #E15 year-round will mean that Iowans will see an
increase in farm income, increased ethanol production and consumption and a
boost in our economy.”

        However, the Washington Examiner
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(10/9, Siciliano) reports that Trump “will likely find himself in court”
over decision. American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers President/CEO
Chet Thompson said in a statement, “The President’s proposal to waive the
rules for E15 is unlawful and could actually make the problems of the
Renewable Fuel Standard worse.” A spokeswoman for the refinery group said
litigation is likely. Wall Street Journal
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(10/9) contributor Spencer Jakab describes the ripple effects through the
economy caused by increased ethanol sales, including the displacement of
food crops in favor of corn for fuel.
Kavanaugh Takes Seat On Court, Engages In Questioning In First Oral
Arguments.

The CBS Evening News
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(10/9, story 7, 0:10, Glor) briefly reported that the Supreme Court “is
back at full strength. Justice Brett Kavanaugh took his seat today,
alongside Elena Kagan, and his wife and daughters watched.” ABC World News
Tonight
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(10/9, story 5, 0:20, Muir) said Kavanaugh heard “oral arguments in two
cases, and he engaged quickly, asking more than a half dozen questions.” NBC
Nightly News
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(10/9, story 5, 0:20, Holt) likewise says Kavanaugh “wasted no time, diving
in with questions during the first cases.”

        The AP
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(10/9, Gresko, Sherman) reports Kavanaugh “took the bench with his new
Supreme Court colleagues for the first time Tuesday in a jovial atmosphere
that was strikingly at odds with the tension and rancor surrounding his
high-court confirmation.” Kavanaugh “asked questions of both sides in
arguments over increased prison sentences for repeat offenders,” and he
“jumped in with his first question after most of the other justices had
spoken.” According to the AP, “Questions from Kavanaugh and Justice Neil
Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s two high-court picks, suggested they
could vote against the Trump administration and side with a criminal
defendant from Florida who is fighting an increase in his sentence from
just over six years to possibly more than 15 years.”

        The New York Times
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(10/9, Liptak, Weiland) reports the court “heard two hours of arguments in
three cases, all concerning a complicated and ambiguous federal law that
has long vexed the justices,” and the arguments “had a notably light tone.”

        *Court Rejects Appeal Of Kavanaugh Environmental Ruling. *The AP
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(10/9, Press) reports the Supreme Court “is declining to review an
environmental ruling written by Brett Kavanaugh in his former role as an
appeals court judge.” The justices on Tuesday “left in place an August 2017
ruling the new Supreme Court justice wrote that struck down an Obama-era
Environmental Protection Agency rule,” which was “intended to limit the
release of a class of chemicals that contribute to global warming.” Reuters
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(10/9, Hurley) notes the Administration “had urged the high court not to
take the case because the EPA currently is reconsidering the regulation and
agrees with Kavanaugh’s interpretation of the law.”

        *Media Analyses: GOP Seeks To Maintain Hearings Momentum Through
Midterms. *A New York Times
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(10/9, Peters) analysis says, “If many Republicans weren’t sure, initially,
how to handle the accusations against Justice Kavanaugh, some are now
determined to harness outrage among their core voters and make him an issue
in races up and down the ballot to counter the energy on the left.” The
Times adds, “In several of the country’s tightest and most closely watched
midterm contests, the critical goal now is to find the right words and
messages to ensure that anger over Justice Kavanaugh remains a potent
motivating factor from now until Election Day.” Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH),
the head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, “boasted on
Monday in an interview with Fox News that the confirmation battle had led
to a large uptick in fund-raising.”

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(10/9), “I think the Democrats are maxed out on motivation. Remember, this
is a Democratic voter’s first crack at the ballot box since Donald Trump’s
election, which so offended them and left them almost speechless with rage.
They have been raging for two years. They are eager to vote. Any additional
motivation they get out of the Kavanaugh affair is likely to be only a
modest increase of where the needle already was. Republicans, on the other
hand, were looking sleepy and uninterested. A lot of them don’t like Trump.
He’s got a divided party and so on. The Kavanaugh case clearly has changed
the equation there. All of the polling evidence we see shows the motivation
among Republicans is up. As far as Kavanaugh is concerned, Republicans got
more out of it, but they had a bigger gap to close.”

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(10/9), “The Republican Party has struggled when it comes to women voters
in now multiple election cycles. So while the majority of Republican women
continue to back this President, fewer women are identifying as
Republicans. So there are much longer-reaching consequences for the
Republican Party when it comes to women. I think this particular election
cycle will be a key test for that.” Jeffrey Toobin said on CNN’s Situation
Room
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(10/9), “There has been a gender gap with women more favorably disposed
towards Democrats since the Reagan years, but it has never been this big.
This is really enormous.”

        *Rothenberg Doesn’t Expect Kavanaugh Fight To Affect Trajectory Of
Midterms. *In his CQ Roll Call (DC)
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(10/9), column, Stuart Rothenberg expresses skepticism of reports
suggesting the GOP is experiencing an electoral bounce over the battle over
Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, saying that “polls taken during the
Kavanaugh fight probably don’t reflect what the political situation will be
like in November. Veteran pollsters always warn that surveys are mere
snapshots of public opinion, and dramatic events often produce misleading
poll data. ... Right now, the House still looks poised to flip party
control, while the Senate does not. That’s the way things have looked for
months.”

        *McConnell Warns Democrats Will Seek To Impeach Kavanaugh.
*The Washington
Examiner
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(10/9, Ferrechio) reports Senate Majority Leader McConnell warned Tuesday
that House Democrats “will be pushed by their liberal base to try to
impeach” Kavanaugh. He also condemned the “unhinged tactics” endorsed by
Hillary Clinton, “who on CNN Tuesday argued against civility in the face of
political opposition.” Said McConnell on the Senate floor, “The mob would
like to make itself perfectly clear: If Democrats retake Congress,
progressives expect them to use their full power to get Kavanaugh off the
bench.” The Hill
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(10/9, Carney) reports McConnell “knocked” what he called the “far-left
mob” for still trying to target the Justice. Said the Majority Leader, “The
madness hasn’t stopped. They are already signaling that even more drastic
steps may be necessary now that Justice Kavanaugh is on the court.”

        *Trump Thanks “Very Tough Cookie” Grassley At Iowa Rally. *The Des
Moines (IA) Register
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(10/9, Opsahl) reports that at his rally in Council Bluffs, Iowa on
Tuesday, President Trump thanked Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley
“for his role in getting Justice Brett Kavanaugh onto the Supreme Court.
Trump said he had to ‘thank an Iowa legend,’ Grassley, for standing up to
Democrats, calling him a ‘very tough cookie.’”

        *Rally Crowd Chants “Lock Her Up” About Feinstein. *The Daily Caller
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(10/9, Smith) reports that when Trump discussed Senate Judiciary Committee
ranking member Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) at the rally, “the crowd
erupted in laughter before beginning to chant ‘lock her up.’” The New York
Post
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(10/9, Schwab) reports that Trump had said, “How about Sen. Feinstein?
That’s another beauty. That’s a beauty.” The President “then did an
impression of her denying that she leaked the warning to reporters. ‘Did
you leak the documents? Did we leak? Did we leak? Noooo.’” The Washington
Times
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(10/9, Boyer) also briefly reports on the chant.

        *Grassley Says He Would Not Consider 2020 High Court Nomination. *The
Washington Post
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(10/9, Sonmez) reports that Grassley said in an interview with Fox News
“that he would not allow a Supreme Court vacancy to be filled in 2020, a
position that puts him at odds” with Senate Majority Leader McConnell.
Asked about a hypothetical 2020 nomination, Grassley said, “If I’m
chairman, they won’t take it up. No, because I pledged that in 2016, that
if the ball’s the same as it is. ... That’s a decision I made a long time
ago.” Though McConnell “blocked the consideration” of nominee Merrick
Garland in 2016, on Monday he said that standard only would apply when the
Senate is controlled by the party that does not hold the presidency.

        *Grassley Says Judiciary Committee Should Have More Female Members.
*The Des Moines (IA) Register
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(10/9, Leys) reports that in an interview with the newspaper, Grassley said
that he would like to see more female senators on his committee. He said,
“It’d be very important. I would welcome more women – because women as a
whole are smarter than most male senators. And they work real hard, too.”
Grassley “made waves last week when he speculated no Republican women serve
on the panel because ‘it’s a lot of work.’”

        *Protests Continue On Kavanaugh’s First Day On Supreme Court. *USA
Today
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(10/9, Simon, Hofacker) reports that as Kavanaugh “prepared to make his
debut Tuesday, protesters, supporters and the curious gathered outside the
high court. Protesters began arriving at 7 a.m., including 40 female
protesters of all ages who greeted Kavanaugh when he arrived at the back
entrance.”

        *Soros-Funded Groups Deny Paying Professional Protesters. *The
Washington
Times
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(10/8, Richardson) reports that “George Soros may not be passing out
twenties to activists on the street, but that doesn’t mean President Trump
was wrong when he accused the Democratic megadonor of having a hand in the
anti-Kavanaugh protests.” Soros, it notes, has been “a key funder through
his Open Society Foundations of a left-wing network of protest groups,
including the Center for Popular Democracy, which has received millions of
dollars from the Soros philanthropy and helped spearhead demonstrations”
against Kavanaugh. Open Society was “outraged” when Trump described the
protesters last week as “paid professionals” with “professionally made
identical signs,” which he said were “paid for by Soros and others.”

        *Scarborough, WPost Accuse Trump, Kavanaugh Of Partisanship In
Swearing-In Ceremony. *Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe[image: Image
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(10/9), Joe Scarborough said President Trump’s remarks at the White House
ceremony for Justice Brett Kavanaugh Monday night were “graceless.”
Scarborough continued, “It was a President who once again had an
opportunity, not to be the great uniter...but to do a small thing or two,
send an olive branch. But he had all the members of the Supreme Court
there, including the liberal members of the Supreme Court, and, instead, it
ended up being a political pep rally that would be unbecoming in any
circumstance.” Scarborough also criticized Kavanaugh for “calling out the
Republicans who voted for him and ignoring everybody else.” Scarborough
asserted that Kavanaugh was “making it clear that his political allegiance
were on one side of the aisle.” Breitbart
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(10/9, Baker) reports Scarborough also “challenged media to investigate how
the Democrats handled Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations” against
Kavanaugh. He also argued Ford’s “unsubstantiated allegations” that leaked
would “most likely not have made print” five or 10 years ago.

        The Washington Post
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(10/9) editorializes that “Kavanaugh just finished with a tense, divisive
confirmation process in which he stoked concerns that he is an instinctual
partisan Republican. One would think the last thing he and his fellow
members of the court would do at such a moment is serve as set pieces in
President Trump’s midterm campaign. Yet that is what they did on Monday,
participating in an unnecessary White House ceremony celebrating Mr.
Kavanaugh’s elevation to the high court.” For his part, the Post says
Kavanaugh “surely knew before Monday that he had become a Republican
midterm campaign icon,” and “should have taken every step to separate
himself from Mr. Trump.”

        *Waters Blasts GOP Description Of Anti-Kavanaugh Protesters As A
“Mob.” *Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was asked on MSNBC’s All In[image: Image
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(10/9) about Republicans who have described protesters as a “mob.” Waters
said, “I think it’s absolutely ridiculous. It’s not believable. As a matter
of fact, this country was built on peaceful protest, and those of us who
were part of the civil rights movement, who understood the power of protest
taught by Dr. Martin Luther King and others know that we cannot allow
Donald Trump and anybody else to take protests away from us and to deem it
to be violent and to try and make us look like a mob.” Waters added, “This
President is the poster boy for what a mob protester looks like.” The Daily
Caller
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(10/9, Harbaugh) reports Waters’ comments.

        *Democratic Aide Accused Of “Doxxing” GOP Senators Ordered Held
Without Bond. *The Washington Times
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(10/9, Dinan) reports that Jackson Cosko, a former aide to Rep. Sheila
Jackson Lee (D-TX), who is “accused of ‘doxxing’ Republican senators by
leaking their personal information was ordered held without bond Tuesday,
with the judge saying he posed a risk to the community.” According to
prosecutors, “investigators found cocaine and methamphetamine during a
search of his things, and speculated he may have been under the influence
when, according to police, he used his government credentials to post
personal information of some lawmakers, and broke into a senator’s office
while threatening to release other information.”

        *Donnelly Showcasing Support Trump In Wake Of Vote Against
Kavanaugh. *Reuters
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(10/9, Oliphant) reports that during a debate Monday night between Sen. Joe
Donnelly and his Republican opponent, Mike Braun, “it was difficult at
times to tell which candidate was the Democrat and which the Republican, as
both routinely cited their support of President Donald Trump’s agenda.”
Donnelly “will need the president’s supporters to win reelection in a state
that overwhelmingly supported Trump two years ago.” Donnelly claimed he
voted against Kavanaugh due to “concerns about his impartiality and
concerns about his judicial temperament,” and then “played up his support
last year of Trump’s first Supreme Court pick, Neil Gorsuch, and noted that
he had voted in favor of Trump’s agenda more than 60 percent of the time.”

        *Cotton Says He Believes Schumer Was Behind Leak Of Ford Letter. *The
Daily Caller
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(10/9) reports that Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has accused Senate Minority
Leader Schumer “of being involved in the operation to leak Christine Blasey
Ford’s letter to the public.” Cotton told radio host Hugh Hewitt, “I
believe the Schumer political operation was behind this from the very
beginning.” The Hill
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(10/9, Bolton) also reports Cotton’s remarks.

        *Graham Criticizes “Hirono Standard” Of “Guilty Until Proven
Innocent.” *Townhall
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(10/9, Brown) reports Sen. Lindsey Graham “told Sean Hannity Monday evening
that America had a ‘decision’ in the upcoming midterm elections between a
world where men are innocent until proven guilty or are ‘guilty until
proven innocent because you are a Republican.’” Graham “specifically cited”
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), “replying to her comments that men needed to sit
down and shut up during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s evaluation of
sexual assault allegations” against Kavanaugh. Said Graham, “If we
legitimize this process, the rule of law gave away to the mob rule. The
‘Hirono standard’ is horrific.”

        *All Of Kavanaugh’s Clerks Are Women. *The New York Times
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(10/9, Baumgaertner) reports that Justice Kavanaugh “arrived Tuesday for
his first day on the bench with an unprecedented all-female class of law
clerks.” The Times adds, “Former colleagues of Justice Kavanaugh have
described a longstanding reputation of promoting women in law. During his
12 years at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit, the majority of Justice Kavanaugh’s law clerks were women – 25 of
48 – and during his confirmation hearings he testified that he graduated
more of them to clerkships at the Supreme Court than any other federal
judge.”

        *WPost Analysis: Congress Has Not Delivered On Pledge To Change
Harassment Rules. *The Washington Post
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(10/8, Pogrund) reports that while lawmakers “promised to make the process
fairer for those who accuse lawmakers or staffers of sexual misconduct,”
nearly “a year after the #MeToo era began,” the “have failed to deliver on
that pledge — and it is not clear when they will.” Lawmakers “could not
agree on a package of changes” and “punted the issue until after the
midterm elections – which are now shaping up as a battle between the #MeToo
movement and Republicans who say many accusations have gone too far.” The
Post adds that “some victim advocates and lawmakers who support changes
view the delay as a sign that Congress has lost its urgency toward
improving itself as a workplace and addressing one of the central concerns
of #MeToo activists — holding powerful men accountable for sexual assault
and harassment.”
Court Rejects Administration Appeal In Lawsuit Over Census Citizenship
Question.

The Washington Post
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(10/9, Bahrampour) reports that the Administration’s “efforts to block the
deposition of Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross in a lawsuit challenging
the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census” has been denied
by an appeals court. The decision “gives both sides 48 hours for appeals to
the Supreme Court.” Last week, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg denied the
Administration’s request to block the deposition.

        *McCarthy To Propose Bill Fully Funding Border Wall. *Breitbart
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(10/9, Boyle) reports House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy “will introduce
a bill this week that will fully fund President Donald Trump’s planned wall
along the US border with Mexico, thereby setting the midterm elections up
as a referendum on immigration policy.” According to Breitbart, McCarthy
“will introduce a bill this week that includes the full funding for the
border wall – about $23.4 billion more than what has already gone to the
wall effort – as well as several other enforcement measures that have
already passed the House of Representatives.” Breitbart said that on
Monday, Speaker Ryan “hinted at a post-election border wall funding fight”
when he said, “We intend on having a full-fledged discussion on how to
complete our mission to secure the border, and yes, we will have a fight
about this.” CQ Roll Call
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(10/9, McPherson) calls the measure “red meat designed to fire up the
Republican base ahead of the midterms, as well as signal to GOP lawmakers
in Congress that McCarthy supports conservatives’ policy priorities.”

        *AP: Children Of Deported Undocumented Immigrants Could Be Adopted
By US Families. *The AP
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(10/9, Burke, Mendoza) reports the Administration’s “zero-tolerance”
enforcement of US immigration laws “ended in June, but hundreds of children
remain in detention, shelters or foster care and US officials say more than
200 are not eligible for reunification or release.” The AP adds, “Federal
officials insist they are reuniting families and will continue to do so.
But an Associated Press investigation drawing on hundreds of court
documents, immigration records and interviews in the US and Central America
identified holes in the system that allow state court judges to grant
custody of migrant children to American families – without notifying their
parents.”

        *Arizona Migrant Detention Facilities Overwhelmed, Forcing Mass
Releases. *The Washington Post
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(10/9, Miroff) report ICE said Tuesday detention facilities have been
“overwhelmed” by “a sudden influx of Guatemalan families into Arizona,”
forcing the government “to release hundreds of parents and children over
the past several days.” ICE spokeswoman Yasmeen Pitts O’Keefe “said the
agency can no longer conduct basic reviews of migrants’ case files and
travel plans without running the risk of exceeding court-imposed limits on
how long children can be held in immigration jails.” As a result, the
agency “has been dropping off busloads of families at church shelters and
charities, some with ankle monitoring bracelets, others with little more
than notices to appear in court.”
Trump Urges Florida Residents To Heed Warnings As Hurricane Michael
Approaches.

In a series of tweets Tuesday, President Trump urged Florida residents to
be prepared as Hurricane Michael approaches the coast line. In one tweet
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Trump wrote, “FLORIDA – It is imperative that you heed the directions of
your State and Local Officials. Please be prepared, be careful and be SAFE!
#Hurricane Michael ready.gov
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A second tweet
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stated, “Hurricane on its way to the Florida Pan Handle with major elements
arriving tomorrow. Could also hit, in later stage, parts of Georgia, and
unfortunately North Carolina, and South Carolina, again...” In a another
tweet
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Trump continued, “...Looks to be a Cat. 3 which is even more intense than
Florence. Good news is, the folks in the Pan Handle can take care of
anything. @FEMA and First Responders are ready – be prepared!
#HurricaneMichael” USA Today
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(10/9, Bacon) says President Trump approved an emergency declaration for
Florida yesterday afternoon, while FEMA Administrator Long “said FEMA was
prepared for the storm in all the states likely to feel Michael’s impact.”

        CNN
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(10/10, Cullinane, Karimi) reports on its website that the hurricane
“strengthened into a Category 4 storm as it sped toward the Florida
Panhandle, where it could blow ashore as the strongest storm to hit the
United States this year. ... If it makes landfall as a Category 4, it’ll be
the strongest hurricane to hit the Florida Panhandle in recorded history.”

        Once again last night, all three networks led with the storm,
dedicating nearly 15 minutes of airtime. ABC World News Tonight[image:
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(10/9, lead story, 3:20, Muir) reported that Florida residents are
“preparing for a powerful and deadly hurricane.” Michael was upgraded to a
Category 3 on Tuesday, and is expected to make landfall on Wednesday.
Mandatory evacuations are “under way,” and Florida, Alabama and Georgia all
have states of emergency in effect. The CBS Evening News[image: Image
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(10/9, lead story, 2:15, Glor) said the storm is “expected to make landfall
between 2:00PM and 4:00PM tomorrow afternoon” as “a strong Cat 3 with
125-mile-per-hour winds.” NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/9, lead story, 1:35, Holt) showed Florida Gov. Rick Scott warning
residents: “Hurricane Michael is a monstrous storm, and the forecast keeps
getting more dangerous. If you don’t follow warnings from officials, this
storm could kill you.” The Miami Herald
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(10/9, Staletovich) reports that “in repeated briefings through the
day...Scott continued to urge residents in the storm’s path to heed
warnings about the looming surge,” and Reuters
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(10/9, Kumar) reports the Governor has declared a state of emergency “in 35
counties in Florida’s Panhandle and Big Bend regions,” while FEMA said it
has “numerous teams deployed and ready to respond.”

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(10/9, story 2, 1:15, Muir) that “this part of Florida has only seen a
125-mile-per-hour landfall twice in recorded history. This would make the
third.” To the Washington Post
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(10/9, Samenow, McNoldy), Florida’s northern Gulf Coast is facing “its most
serious hurricane threat in more than a decade as Michael edges ever
closer,” and ABC World News Tonight
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(10/9, story 3, 1:35, Muir) warned that “the environment around the storm
is indeed becoming more conducive for intensification” before it makes
landfall.

        Al Roker said on NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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(10/9, story 3, 0:45, Holt) that the storm is “a fast mover. It will make
landfall tomorrow afternoon...and continue into the southeast.” The Wall
Street Journal
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(10/9, Kamp) says the fast-moving storm has given residents little time to
prepare, and the AP
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(10/9, Farrington, Lush) notes while “Florence took five days between the
time it turned into a hurricane and the moment it rolled into the
Carolinas, Michael gave Florida what amounted to two days’ notice. It
developed into a hurricane on Monday, and by Tuesday, more than 140,000
people were under mandatory evacuation orders.”

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(10/9, story 2, 1:40, Holt) about the potentially devastating impact from
the storm surge. Likewise, Omar Villafranca said on the CBS Evening News[image:
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(10/9, story 2, 2:10, Glor) that “one of the big concerns is how these
beaches will handle that storm surge. There are some very short beaches
here. And you can see...these homes are built on the shoreline. This is a
very short buffer area, the last line of defense. And if there is going to
be a 12-foot storm surge, people are worried their first floor will be
swallowed up by the storms.”

        *NYTimes: Storm Tests Scott Ahead Of Election. *The New York Times
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(10/9, Mazzei, Blinder) reports Florida Gov. Rick Scott “is perhaps the
most predictable part of perilous weather in this state,” but “as the
famously scripted governor campaigns for a seat in the United States
Senate, Hurricane Michael is delivering a high-stakes meteorological
surprise that is testing his government’s mettle and allowing him to
dominate the airwaves more than just about anyone who is not a weather
forecaster.” The storm, “less than four weeks before statewide elections,
presents opportunities and hazards for Mr. Scott and a host of other
candidates eager to display competence and gravitas as voters make up their
minds and begin casting their ballots. How they tackle the preparations and
response to the storm could cement their standing as front-runners — or
upend months of painstaking campaign work, rendered useless by the
late-arriving taint of a botched disaster.”

        *Florida Democrats Seek Voter Registration Delay. *Reuters
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(10/9, Ax, Goldberg) reports Florida’s Democratic Party filed a lawsuit
Tuesday asking election officials “to extend by a week the state’s voter
registration deadline, as tens of thousands of people were ordered to flee
approaching Hurricane Michael.” Democrats “dismissed the state’s move late
on Monday to extend the deadline in some spots until Wednesday as
inadequate in the face of the looming storm.”

        *Many Florida Nursing Homes Still Lack Backup Generators. *The CBS
Evening News
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(10/9, story 3, 1:55, Glor) reported that “after a deadly disaster during
Hurricane Irma last year, the state did order Florida nursing homes to have
backup generators, but we discovered many still do not.” CBS (Bojorquez)
added that “in counties threatened by Michael, more than half of 412
facilities did not meet the deadline to install or set up new generators.
Most have been granted extensions.”
Kanye West To Have Lunch With Trump Tomorrow At White House.

Politico
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(10/9, Rodriguez) reports White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders
confirmed on Tuesday that Kanye West will have lunch with President Trump
and meet with Trump adviser Jared Kushner this week. Sanders said in a
statement, “Kanye West is coming to the White House to have lunch with
President Trump and he will also meet with Jared Kushner. ... Topics of
discussions will include manufacturing resurgence in America, prison
reform, how to prevent gang violence, and what can be done to reduce
violence in Chicago.” The meeting is scheduled for Thursday. The Washington
Post
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(10/9, Rucker) says the President told reporters Tuesday that West would
“would also be bringing Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown to the White
House on Thursday.”
Poll: 55% Say Trump Just “Expressing Frustration” With Attacks On Media.

The Los Angeles Times
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(10/9, Lauter) reports a recent USC-Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll found
that “a slight majority” of Americans think President Trump “is basically
just blowing off steam” when he calls the news media “enemies of the
people.” Asked if Trump was “expressing frustration” or “issuing a serious
warning” with the comments, “45% said they believed he was serious compared
to 55% who said he was expressing frustration.” Meanwhile, “a 56% majority
called Trump’s language ‘dangerous,’ while 44% called it ‘harmless.’”

        *USA Today: Trump Criticism Had “Weak” Effect On NFL Ratings. *A USA
Today
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(10/9, Today) analysis examines the NFL’s television ratings since player
protests during the national anthem “became a political rallying point for
President Trump in 2017.” USA Today says that while there was “some
evidence of a Trump effect.” it was, “at best, weak.” According to USA
Today, “people stuck with football if there was a ‘football reason’ to
watch. The data show that quality football and home team loyalty drove the
TV audience far more than political tribalism.”
Sanders Plans Nine-Day Campaign Swing For Democratic Candidates.

The Washington Post
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(10/8, Wagner) reports that Sen. Bernie Sanders will embark on a nine-day
campaign trip next week “for Democrats on the ballot in November, including
stops in several states that would be crucial to a 2020 bid for the party’s
presidential nomination.” The trip “will include appearances on behalf of
candidates for the House and Senate, as well as governor in some states.”
Sanders will make stops in Iowa, South Carolina, Nevada, Indiana, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Arizona, Colorado and California.
Cancer Research
Air Pollution Linked To Higher Risk Of Mouth Cancer.

The Guardian (UK)
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(10/9, Davis) reports a study
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published in the Journal of Investigative Medicine found that very “high
levels of air pollution are linked to an increased risk of mouth cancer.”
Researchers in Taiwan studied the link “by looking at air pollution data
from 66 air quality monitoring stations around the country collected in
2009, and combing this with data from the health records of more than
480,000 men aged 40 and over from 2012/13.” They found that “men exposed to
the highest levels of PM2.5s had an increased risk of mouth cancer.”
Cancer Scientist: Firing Was “Retaliation” For Questioning Study Authorship.

Science Magazine
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(10/9, Wadman) reports that last month, Rutgers University fired Xiaoqi
Xie, a veteran cancer scientist, “in retaliation,” she argues, “for
challenging a powerful principal investigator on the authorship of a paper
apparently accepted for publication in Nature.” Xie, who is “deciding
whether to appeal her dismissal in arbitration through her union or to sue
Rutgers,” was fired “from a research job in the lab of Eileen White, deputy
director and chief scientific officer at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of
New Jersey.” Her dismissal “comes 6 months after Xie first challenged
White’s decision to give another lab scientist sole first authorship on a
paper” which “reveals a novel mechanism by which tumor growth is stunted
when host animals are incapable of autophagy.”
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“China’s Media Crackdown Spreads To Hong Kong.”* A New York Times
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(10/9) editorial criticizes Hong Kong’s expulsion of a Financial Times
journalist “after he led a foreign correspondents’ meeting with a
pro-independence activist.” The Times says the move “is, first and
foremost, an attempt by Beijing to tamp down any dissent in the former
British colony.”

        *“Nikki Haley Will Be Missed.” *The New York Times
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(10/9) editorializes that UN Ambassador Haley “could talk as bluntly as the
president himself about the failings of the United Nations system, and yet,
more quietly, she proved a practitioner of multilateral diplomacy.”
Moreover, “in an administration that prizes lock-step loyalty, Ms. Haley
managed to hold to at least some of her own priorities, and as a result she
appears to be that rarest of Trump appointees: one who can exit the
administration with her dignity largely intact.”

        *“‘A Deafening Piercing Smoke Alarm.’” *The New York Times
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(10/9) editorializes that the UN climate change report’s “bottom line” is
that “we have to take a firm grip on the emissions curve and wrench it
downward.” The Times argues that “perhaps the most important thing the
public can do right now is seek out and support candidates who take this
threat seriously.”

        *Bharara, Jackson: US Insider Trading Laws Outdated. *Former US
Attorney Preet Bharara and SEC commissioner Robert J. Jackson Jr. write in
the New York Times
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(10/9, Bharara, Jackson) that “America’s insider trading laws are
hopelessly out of date. As a result, fraudsters have evaded law enforcement
scrutiny, and honest market participants are sometimes confused about the
rules of the road.” Congress should ideally lead in updating the relevant
law, “but bipartisan proposals to update the law have languished for years.
The S.E.C., however, does have the authority to clarify insider trading
law. The commission should use that authority before the next wave of
corporate abuses.” Bharara and Jackson announce a task force to “propose
new insider trading reforms to protect American investors,” to be led by
Bharara.
Washington Post.

*“How Trump Enabled The Abuses Of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince.”* In an
editorial, the Washington Post
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(10/9) accuses President Trump of encouraging Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed
bin Salman “to believe – wrongly, we trust – that even his most lawless
ventures will have the support of the United States.” Unlike previous
presidents, the Post says, Trump has not “raise[d] human rights issues with
Saudi leaders, though the crown prince has imprisoned hundreds of liberal
activists, including women who advocated the right to drive.” His
Administration also “continues to support Saudi bombing in Yemen” despite
the high number of civilian casualties. The Post questions whether these
actions may “have encouraged the crown prince to believe that he could take
drastic action to silence one of his most prominent critics without
damaging his relations with Washington.” If so, the Post adds, “the
administration’s response thus far would not have altered his conclusion.”

        *“Kavanaugh Should Have Separated Himself From Trump. His
Swearing-In Shows He Didn’t.” *The Washington Post
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(10/9) editorializes that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh “just
finished with a tense, divisive confirmation process in which he stoked
concerns that he is an instinctual partisan Republican. One would think the
last thing he and his fellow members of the court would do at such a moment
is serve as set pieces in President Trump’s midterm campaign. Yet that is
what they did on Monday, participating in an unnecessary White House
ceremony celebrating Mr. Kavanaugh’s elevation to the high court.” For his
part, the Post says Kavanaugh “surely knew before Monday that he had become
a Republican midterm campaign icon,” and “should have taken every step to
separate himself from Mr. Trump.”

        *“The President Of Interpol Disappeared. Now China Has Burst Its
Own Bubble.” *In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(10/9) says Interpol “accepted the loss of [Interpol President Meng
Hongwei] with nary a protest, simply asking China for ‘clarification,’ an
embarrassing response from an organization dedicated to the rule of law.
And China has badly tarnished its own ambitions at global leadership.”

        *Rubio, Smith: China Growing More Repressive. *Sen. Marco Rubio and
Rep. Chris Smith, who lead the Congressional-Executive Commission on China,
write in the Wall Street Journal
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(10/9) that US policy toward China for decades has been based on the
assumption trade, investment and other engagement would eventually persuade
Beijing to accept and embrace the international order. They argue, however,
that has not come to fruition and Beijing has, in fact, become more
repressive.

        *HRW Official: World Can’t Ignore Detention Of Interpol
President. *Sophie
Richardson, the China director at Human Rights Watch, argues in the Washington
Post
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(10/9)that “Chinese authorities’ latest audacious move — forcibly detaining
Meng Hongwei, then the president of the international police organization
Interpol — has made clear Chinese President Xi Jinping’s deep disdain for
the rule of law. But some of Xi’s aspirations could be thwarted if global
organizations responded with more-robust opposition to his abuses of
power.” Richardson says international organizations “simply should not
pretend, as Interpol seems to be doing, that it is business as usual. ...
Absent robust pushback, global institutions may soon offer no more
protections from Chinese government abuses than in China itself.”

        In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(10/9) says Interpol “accepted the loss of Mr. Meng with nary a protest,
simply asking China for ‘clarification,’ an embarrassing response from an
organization dedicated to the rule of law. And China has badly tarnished
its own ambitions at global leadership.”

        *NYTimes Criticizes Hong Kong’s Expulsion Of Financial Times
Reporter. *A New York Times
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(10/9) criticizes Hong Kong’s expulsion of a Financial Times journalist
“after he led a foreign correspondents’ meeting with a pro-independence
activist.” The Times says the move “is, first and foremost, an attempt by
Beijing to tamp down any dissent in the former British colony.”

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