Subject: FW: Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing for Thursday, October 11, 2018
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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*Thursday, October 11, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden Says He Is Not A 2020 Candidate “At This Point,” But Doesn’t Rule
Out Run. <#S1>

• Biden Endorses Sisolak’s Bid For Nevada Governor. <#S2>

• Biden To Stump For KY6 Hopeful McGrath. <#S3>

• Biden To Present Bushes With National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal.
<#S4>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump Monitors Response As Hurricane Michael Makes Landfall In Florida
Panhandle. <#S5>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump Says Powell Among “Many People” Under Consideration To Replace
Haley. <#S6>

• Report: Trump May Meet With Putin Next Spring. <#S7>

• Trump “Demanding” Saudis Account For Dissident Journalist’s Disappearance.
<#S8>

• Trump: South Korea Won’t Lift Sanctions On North Without US Approval.
<#S9>

• Axios: US, India Headed Toward Clash Over Iran Sanctions. <#S10>

• Wray, Nielsen: China Trying To Influence US Midterm Elections. <#S11>

• Rebels Withdraw Heavy Weapons From Idlib. <#S12>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• At Pennsylvania Rally, Trump Lambastes “Radical Democrat Mob.” <#S13>

• WPost A1: Democrats Focus On ACA, GOP On Cultural Divide In Battle For
Senate. <#S14>

• Trump Says Fed “Has Gone Crazy,” Blames It For Tandem Stock, Bond Selloff.
<#S15>

• SCOTUS Hears Case On Undocumented Immigrants Detained For Deportation.
<#S16>

• Rosenstein Will Not Appear Before House Panels To Discuss NYTimes Report.
<#S17>

• Congress Approves $6 Billion Water-Projects Bill. <#S18>

• Man Arrested For Planning Election Day Bombing In DC. <#S19>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• FDA Panel Backs Biosimilar For Blockbuster Blood Cancer Drug. <#S20>

• Highest Rates Of US Cancer Death In Counties With Lowest Income. <#S21>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S22>

• Washington Post. <#S23>
Biden in the News
Biden Says He Is Not A 2020 Candidate “At This Point,” But Doesn’t Rule Out
Run.

USA Today
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(10/10, Hjelmgaard) reports former Vice President Joe Biden, following a
speech at London-based global affairs think tank Chatham House, insisted
that he was “not a candidate at this point” to challenge Donald Trump for
the presidency in 2020. While Biden said he was not planning to run against
Trump, he did not rule it out, saying he “had not made any decisions at
this point.” He said he would decide by January whether to run or not.
Additionally, Biden said in a Q&A after his address, “I predict to you that
the Democrats will win 40 seats in the House. I also think there is a
better than even chance we win the Senate.”
Biden Endorses Sisolak’s Bid For Nevada Governor.

The AP
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(10/10) reports former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday endorsed
businessman Steve Sisolak (D) for Nevada governor. In a statement released
by Sisolak’s campaign, Biden called him “my kind of candidate.” Biden says
Sisolak, the chairman of the Clark County Commission, came from a
blue-collar background and understands the challenges of raising a family
as a single father.
Biden To Stump For KY6 Hopeful McGrath.

WBKO-TV
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Bowling Green, KY (10/10) reports on its website that former Vice President
Joe Biden will be in Owingsville tomorrow to support former US Marines
fighter pilot Amy Mcgrath (D) in her challenge to KY6 Rep. Andy Barr (R).
Biden and McGrath will host a fish fry on Oct. 12 at Bath County High
School.
Biden To Present Bushes With National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal.

The Hill
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(10/10, Axelrod) reports the National Constitution Center announced
Wednesday former Vice President Joe Biden will award former President
George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush the center’s Liberty Medal
for their “commitment to veterans.” Biden, the chair of the National
Constitution Center’s board of trustees will present the award at a Nov. 11
ceremony at the center’s headquarters in Philadelphia.
Leading the News
Trump Monitors Response As Hurricane Michael Makes Landfall In Florida
Panhandle.

While the networks dedicated a combined 41 minutes of airtime to the
landfall of Hurricane Michael, there was very little reporting on the White
House reaction, and those reports noted President Trump traveled to Erie,
Pennsylvania for rally while the storm was raging. ABC World News
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(10/10, story 6, 0:35, Muir) reported Trump “was monitoring the status of
Hurricane Michael from the White House,” where he was briefed by Long and
Nielsen, “saying the federal government is ready.” Trump: “Everybody that’s
going to be hit, we have covered. And I just say God bless everyone,
because it’s going to be a rough one. It’s going to be a very dangerous
one.” ABC (Muir) said he “appeared to struggle with a decision today
whether to go to a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, tonight, tweeting
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that he decided to go to not disappoint the thousands of people that plan
to be there.” NBC Nightly News
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(10/10, story 6, 0:40, Holt) reported, “Trump says the White House is in
constant contact with state and local officials saying plans are in place
to send resources, food and water, but tonight, rather than monitor the
disaster response from here, the President is in Erie, Pennsylvania. Asked
if appropriate to campaign, he said he didn’t want to disappoint supporters
who had been waiting in line. He said he will visit the region, the
hurricane zone early next week.”

        Trump had tweeted throughout the day about the approaching storm.
In his first tweet
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Trump wrote, “We are with you Florida!” Later in the afternoon, he retweeted
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a White House photo of his meeting with DHS Secretary Nielsen and FEMA
Administrator Long in the Oval Office, adding, “Earlier today: President
@realDonaldTrump, joined by Homeland Security @SecNielsen, listens as
@FEMA_Brock briefs reporters on the expected impact of Hurricane Michael on
Florida and the Southeastern United States. Follow @fema for hurricane
updates.” Wednesday evening, Trump took to Twitter
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again, writing, “Thank you to @FEMA and all First Responders!
#HurricaneMichael” In another tweet
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late Wednesday evening, Trump wrote, “Florida Highway Patrol Troopers are
all en route to the Panhandle, from all across the state of Florida – to
help those affected by #HurricaneMichael. If you see them, be sure to shake
their hands and say THANK YOU! #LESM”

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(10/10), “It was a tough windstorm. The wind was probably more dangerous
than anything else. ... To a certain extent, we don’t know, because it’s so
dark and all the electric is out, but we hear there’s a lot of damage. It
is tremendous wind damage, tremendous. A lot of things blown over.
Hopefully not houses with people in them.”

        The CBS Evening News
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(10/10, story 5, 1:55, Glor) reported Trump “says he’s going to be
visiting” Florida “on either Sunday or Monday.” CBS (Pegues) reported from
FEMA headquarters, where “a few hundred people are already coordinating the
response to this devastating hurricane.” Administrator Long told CBS he is
most concerned about “storm surges,” and warned that “power will be out for
weeks and infrastructure will be heavily damaged. It takes a long time to
put this back together.” CBS said “FEMA has about 3,000 employees in the
field, plus aircraft and search-and-rescue teams ready to move in to both
Florida and Georgia.” Jim Acosta said on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image
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(10/10), “The President did tell reporters and the White House is also
telling reporters...that they believe that FEMA is on top of this, that all
of the assets of the Trump Administration have been put in place and that
essentially at this point, the President can’t really do much more than
that, but that he plans to go down to the Florida Gulf Coast on Monday or
Tuesday of next week.”

        FEMA Deputy Administrator for Resilience Daniel Kaniewski said on CNN’s
Situation Room
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(10/10), “Our focus is on life safety. It’s making sure that all of those
who sheltered in place are appropriately taken care of, to make sure we
have search and rescue teams that can get there just as soon as possible.”
Kaniewski added, “We pre-positioned a lot of assets, including commodities,
personnel. and equipment, to just outside the area. So when this area
becomes accessible, we’ll be pushing those assets in to assist those in
need.”

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(10/10), “I talked to the President earlier today, and I’m confident that
FEMA is positioned to provide the assistance the state needs, but this is
going to take a while. We’ve got to wait and see what the damage is, and
we’re just getting images. But when we’re finally on the ground and get to
see it and the assessors get in there and start looking at it, we’ll know
more about what we’re dealing with here. Obviously, there will be some
people whose lives have been turned upside down after this, but we’ll make
sure the federal government is there to help.”

        BAY9 News-TV
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Tampa, FL (10/10, 11:34 a.m. EDT) reported that FEMA officials “say that
they are prepared for this storm,” and Trump “approved Florida’s emergency
declaration yesterday,” which allows “the Department of Homeland Security,
which FEMA is under, to coordinate this emergency response and do anything
that it needs to do in the wake of this emergency.” FEMA Associate
Administrator Jeffrey Byard: “We are healthy in the disaster relief fund.
We have no limiting factors when it comes to recovery piece of this.” Bay9
News added that officials say “there is enough money...in the disaster
relief fund, especially after Congress passed some supplemental aid in the
wake of Hurricane Florence.” FEMA Administrator Long “also says that hey
are prepared. They have enough resources and they always say they are
preparing for a category above what is expected in case something were to
happen.”

        WFTV-TV
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Orlando, FL (10/10, 12:27 p.m. EDT) reported, “There are now 3,000 FEMA
workers in Florida ready to respond to Hurricane Michael.” WSVN-TV[image:
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Miami-Dade, FL (10/10, 12:54 p.m. EDT) reported that in a meeting with
Trump, FEMA officials said that “teams are ready to go, to move in and
attack. They talked about the different utilities from 14 states ready to
help to restore power which, of course, is one of the big issues right
after the storm.” WBBH-TV
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Fort Myers, FL (10/10, 12:49 p.m. EDT) reported Trump “did speak with Gov.
Rick Scott, and the government is coordinating with all states that will be
affected by this hurricane.”

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(10/10, Brook) reports that “the Army Corps of Engineers is preparing to
cover tens of thousands of rooftops damaged by Hurricane Michael, according
to a senior officer. Computer models of damage wrought by the Category 4
storm indicate widespread roof damage and destruction across several
states, Army Maj. Gen. Scott Spellmon, the Corps’ deputy commanding general
for Civil and Emergency Operations, told USA TODAY late Wednesday.”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(10/10, lead story, 5:10, Muir) reported that “Michael is the strongest
hurricane to hit the US since 1969, slamming ashore” with “winds of 155
mph...just shy of a Category 5 hurricane.” The CBS Evening News[image:
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(10/10, lead story, 3:40, Glor) said the storm was “one of the worst
hurricanes in American history. The worst hurricane to ever hit the Florida
panhandle, [and] the worst hurricane to ever hit the United States in the
month of October on record.” Kerry Sanders reported on NBC Nightly News[image:
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(10/10, story 2, 1:35, Holt) that “the storm surge threat is not over. In
some places, it may exceed 20 feet.” NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed
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(10/10, lead story, 3:00, Holt), meanwhile, reported that “Hurricane
Michael is on the move after slamming into the Florida panhandle,” and
Alabama and Georgia remain “under states of emergency.”

        USA Today
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(10/10, Miller) reports the storm “was likely to remain intense for some
time, forecasters said, even as it moved into Alabama and Georgia.”
National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham said, “It’s going to stay a
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(10/10, story 3, 2:15, Muir), Rob Marciano said the storm is “still a
Category 3 and now in Georgia – that hasn’t happened since 1898. ... Three
reported tornadoes so far and we got a tornado warning out right now just
south of the Atlanta area.” Meteorologist Al Roker similarly said on NBC
Nightly News
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(10/10, story 7, 1:00, Holt) that the storm is in “Georgia right now,”
where tornado watches have been issued “from northern Georgia all the way
down to Gainesville.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/10, Lazo) reports that while the storm has been downgraded to a
Category 3, “the risk of damage from high winds and heavy rains remained
across wide swaths of the Southeast.” ABC World News Tonight[image: Image
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(10/10, story 5, 1:40, Muir) showed Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal saying: “We’re
not accustomed to the magnitude of a hurricane such as this hitting in the
direction that it is traveling and with the intensity which it will hit our
state.” The CBS Evening News
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(10/10, story 3, 2:30, Glor) reported that as the storm moves to the
northeast, “portions of the Carolinas could be seeing a six-inch rainfall.
... Even New York City could be seeing a 1-3 inches tomorrow, maybe four.”

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(10/10, Sullivan), the storm “is expected to cause as much as $16 billion
in damage.” ABC World News Tonight
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(10/10, story 4, 0:50, Muir) reported that “hundreds of thousands of
people” in Florida are “without power tonight,” and “it’s not expected to
be back on for days, in some cases, authorities say, it could be weeks.”
According to the CBS Evening News
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(10/10, story 10, 0:40, Glor), “It’s estimated about 300,000 homes and
businesses lost electricity.”

        The AP
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(10/10) reports that “more than 375,000 people up and down the Gulf Coast
were urged to evacuate as Michael closed in. But the fast-moving storm
didn’t give people much time to prepare, and emergency authorities lamented
that many ignored the warnings and seemed to think they could ride it out.”
The Wall Street Journal
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(10/10, Campo-Flores, Kamp) reports 22 counties in Florida issued orders
urging residents to evacuate ahead of the storm, and the CBS Evening
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(10/10, story 4, 1:10, Glor) reported many residents that did evacuate are
now in shelters where they are awaiting word on when they can return to
their homes.

        ABC World News Tonight
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(10/10, story 2, 3:50, Muir) reported the storm “made landfall not far from
Panama City,” where “there’s damage as far as our eye can see,” and
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(10/10, story 4, 1:30, Holt) from Port St. Joe, which she said “looks like
a massive tornado hit.” Omar Villafranca reported on the CBS Evening
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(10/10, story 2, 3:45, Glor) also from Port St. Joe, “where rescues have
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(10/10, story 10, 0:45), David Muir described the scene earlier Wednesday
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(10/10, story 3, 1:55), Lester Hold similarly described the scene from the
hotel where he and his crew rode out the storm.

        NBC Nightly News
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(10/10, story 5, 0:50, Holt) reported from Tallahassee, where “the real
problem...is the trees,” which are “going down all over the place...causing
extensive damage and turning lights out throughout the city.” The New York
Times
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(10/10, Fausset, Blinder, Mazzei) reports that “a man died in Greensboro,
Fla., northwest of Tallahassee, after a tree crashed down on his home late
Wednesday afternoon, local law enforcement officials confirmed. But the
full extent of the damage and other casualties was uncertain.”

        *Ahead Of Storm, Trump Criticized Tallahassee Mayor. *USA Today
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(10/10, Call) reports Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum (D) “suspended his
campaign for governor Sunday to return to the city as it prepared for a
battering by Hurricane Michael”. In Orlando on Monday night, Trump “threw a
couple jabs at the mayor while trying to give his endorsed candidate, Ron
DeSantis, a boost.” In the interview
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with WFTV-TV in Orlando, Trump “placed the blame on Gillum’s shoulders for
a city that he said is plagued with a lot of problems” — “tremendous
corruption” and “tremendous crime.” Said the President, “(DeSantis)
opponent runs an area and a city that’s got among the worst statistics in
the country and certainly in the state. If his opponent gets elected,
you’ll have Venezuela. Florida will become another Venezuela and that’s not
good.” In response, Gillum tweeted
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“Hey @realDonaldTrump — don’t come to my state and talk trash about my city
while we are preparing for a Category 3 hurricane. We need a partner right
now, not a partisan.”

        *USA Today Editorial: Climate Change Contributed To Storm’s Rapid
Intensification. *USA Today
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(10/10) editorializes, “Just two days after a United Nations report
demanded urgency in the fight against climate change, a powerful Category 4
hurricane slammed into the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday. Did global
warming ‘cause’ Hurricane Michael? No. Is the storm’s rapid intensification
over unusually warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico entirely consistent with
predictions of stronger, soggier storms? Absolutely.” USA Today says that
while this week’s UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “warned that
a window of opportunity to sharply reduce the harshest consequences of
global warming...is closing fast,” there are things individuals can do to
battle climate change.

        In an opposing USA Today
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(10/10) op-ed, Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center,
writes, “The new United Nations report is being talked about as though it
portends the end of the world: To avoid catastrophe, we must instantly
transform the entire economy no matter the costs.” He argues that “this is
unjustified,” and “what’s needed is a vast increase in spending on green
energy research and development.”

        *Long Complains About FEMA Vacancies During Hurricane Season.
*Bloomberg
News
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(10/10, Christopher Flavelle ‎) reports that “as Hurricane Michael barrels
toward Florida, the agency charged with protecting Americans from the storm
has large numbers of senior positions vacant or without permanent staff.”
According to Bloomberg, “At least 22 senior leadership roles at the Federal
Emergency Management Agency are vacant or occupied by staff temporarily
filling those positions. Jobs listed on the agency’s website as open
include the assistant administrator for risk management and the director of
resource management.” FEMA Administrator Long “complained about one of the
openings during a press briefing on Hurricane Michael.” Said Long, “One
thing that would help is getting my deputy confirmed. ... It would be nice
to go through a hurricane season with a deputy director inside FEMA.”
Foreign Policy
Trump Says Powell Among “Many People” Under Consideration To Replace Haley.

Reuters
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(10/10, Holland) reports President Trump “said on Wednesday his
administration was talking to his former adviser and Goldman Sachs
executive Dina Powell about possibly succeeding Nikki Haley as the US
ambassador to the United Nations, but that Powell was just one of many
people under consideration.” Reuters adds that “asked whether Powell was
the front-runner, Trump told reporters at the White House: No, but she’s
somebody we’re talking to. ... We’re looking at many people. ... There are
some tremendous, talented people.”

        Politico
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(10/10, Karni) says “Powell has emerged as the lead contender to replace
Haley, according to three current and former White House officials familiar
with the process,” and the Washington Post
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(10/10, Parker) that “a senior official said Powell is currently one of two
top candidates to replace Haley, but declined to name the other.” Trump
“did not make a formal offer to Powell during the call Wednesday morning,
the official said.” The Post cautions, moreover, that Powell “is disliked
by White House chief of staff John F. Kelly, who privately criticized her
performance in the administration and deemed her a sharp-elbowed operator
who did not follow his protocols, according to three West Wing officials.”
Powell also “has differed with national security adviser John Bolton on
some policy issues and has a less hawkish worldview.”

        *Fox’s Carlson: Powell At Odds With Trump’s Ideas. *Tucker Carlson
reported on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight[image: Image removed by
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(10/10) that following Ambassador Haley’s resignation Tuesday, one of the
names “we heard most” as her possible replacement is Powell, who “seems
like a nice person” but has “worked on behalf of virtually every idea
that...Trump ran against in his 2016 campaign.”

        *Conway Praises Haley, Predicts She Will “Do Very Well” In Private
Sector. *In an appearance on Fox News’ Fox & Friends[image: Image removed
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(10/10), White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said it is her
understanding that Haley is leaving her post for the reasons she stated on
Tuesday. Conway added, “You have to understand the shear volume and
velocity with the way this President and his senior advisers work means you
can accomplish a great amount in a very limited time.” She “will go out to
the private sector, I believe, and do very well. And I think we can expect
to see her on the campaign trail. I sort of thought maybe she would say she
was leaving to join the President and the Vice President on the campaign
trail these last 30 days because she would have a positive impact out
there.”

        *NBC’s Welker Says Haley’s Departure May Be Related To Kavanaugh
Controversy. *On NBC’s Today Show
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(10/10), Kristen Welker reported that at the White House, Haley’s
announcement “stunn[ed] many in the West Wing, with some disappointed she
didn’t wait until after the midterms.” Welker suggested that Haley’s
resignation had something to do with the “the Kavanaugh controversy.”
Welker said Haley had “argu[ed] that accusers should be heard.” Haley was
shown saying, “It’s not something that we want to do to blame the accuser
or try to second guess the accuser.”

        *Washington Examiner: “Cloud Of Suspicion” That Haley Could Be
“Anonymous.” *Under the headline “Cloud Of Suspicion Over Haley Resignation
As Identity Of ‘Anonymous’ Mystery Intensifies,” Steven Nelson writes in
the Washington Examiner
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(10/10), “Is there more to...Haley’s resignation than first meets the eye?
Putting together her past opposition to Trump, her thinly-disguised
ambition to run for the White House one day and the suddenness of the
departure announcement, some Republicans think so.” Haley “declared herself
‘not a fan’ of President Trump two weeks before the 2016 election. Author
Michael Wolff branded her ‘as ambitious as Lucifer,’” and “a key Trump
ally,” the ACU’s Matt Schlaap, “said Tuesday that the timing of her
resignation ‘raised eyebrows’ and ‘seemed odd.’” Sebastian Gorka, however,
told the Examiner, “Anyone who ever [posited] Nikki being the author of the
New York Times piece was smoking something that’s not tobacco.”

        *Schlaap Draws Attention To “Unusual Timing” Of Haley’s
Resignation. *Appearing on Fox News’ Fox & Friends[image: Image removed by
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(10/10), Schlaap, president of the American Conservative Union and husband
of White House Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlaap, said
he was “shocked” by the news that Haley was resigning. Schlaap added, “It’s
a little bit of unusual timing right before...the elections.” Brian
Kilmeade noted that Axios’ Jonathan Swan, who broke the Haley resignation
story on Tuesday, said on Tuesday evening that he has no idea she Haley is
leaving.

        On MSNBC’s Morning Joe
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(10/10), Joe Scarborough said, “There doesn’t seem to be much of a reason
for Nikki Haley to resign at this point.” Scarborough said Haley had
“remained independent and has stuck pretty steadfast to a traditional US
foreign policy position.” The Washington Post’s David Ignatius said Haley
is “the rare person in the Trump team who has managed to really keep her
reputation, her dignity, her sense of independence entirely intact.”

        *Bannon Criticizes Timing Of Haley’s Exit, Calls Her “As Ambitious
As Lucifer.” *Bloomberg News
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(10/10) reports that earlier today at an event in London, Steve Bannon
“slammed...Haley’s decision to announce her resignation as US ambassador to
the UN on Tuesday as ‘suspect’ and ‘horrific,’ saying it overshadowed
positive news the president needs to help rally support ahead of next
month’s midterm elections.” Bannon is quoted as saying, “The timing was
exquisite from a bad point of view. ... Everything she said yesterday and
everything she said about stepping down could have been done on the evening
of November 6. The timing could not have been worse.” Bannon also said
Haley is “as ambitious as Lucifer.”

        *Paul: Next UN Ambassador Should Share Trump’s Anti-Interventionist
Views. *Asked, on Fox News’ Fox & Friends[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/10), about potential successors to Haley at the UN, Sen. Rand Paul
(R-KY) said, “I think the President should pick with somebody who agrees
with the President’s vision: That Iraq war was a mistake...that there is no
military solution in Afghanistan. I really want somebody to come forward
that the President will pick that agrees with the President’s vision for
foreign policy. ... I think that many of the people surrounding him give
him the advice we must stay forever in Afghanistan. They’re now saying we
must stay forever in Syria.”

        *Haley Draws Praise From Netanyahu, Other Israeli Officials.
*The Washington
Post
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(10/10, Eglash) reports that in Israel, Haley’s announcement, “which was
aired live...immediately drew an outpouring of appreciation for the former
South Carolina governor, who has long been viewed here as a savior of sorts
at an institution accused of harboring a long-term bias against the Jewish
state.” Prime Minister Netanyahu hailed her work at the UN and Israeli
President Reuven Rivlin called Haley “a true ambassador” for Israel.
The Washington
Post
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(10/10, Eglash) runs a similar report.

        *Graham Dismisses Speculation About Him Becoming AG, Haley Running
For His Seat. *Sen. Lindsey Graham was asked on Fox News’ The Story[image:
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(10/10) about speculation that Haley resigned because he is going to become
Attorney General and she could be appointed to his Senate seat. Graham
said, “It’s crazy. She did a great job. She wants to spend time with her
family. She has got a kid going to Clemson and another one going to college
pretty soon. She served her country very well. Here’s the deal. I’ll bet
you $20 and I will give you 10-1 odds. If I’m Attorney General, I will give
you $200 and if I’m not, you give me $20. I will take all those bets all
day long.”

        *Poll By Anti-Trump Conservative Group: Haley Could Be A Strong
Primary Challenger. *Politico
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(10/10, Johnson) reports “a conservative anti-Trump organization has good
news for...Haley’s 2020 presidential aspirations – even if she professes
not to have them.” She “is the strongest potential primary challenger to
President Donald Trump, according to a poll funded by the group Defend
Democracy Together.” The survey “polled likely Republican caucus-goers in
Iowa as well as Republican primary voters in New Hampshire, found that
nearly half – 47 percent – would consider another option to Trump in 2020.
Of those polled, Haley topped the list among the probable early state
voters, with 52 percent saying they would consider her as an alternative to
Trump.”
Report: Trump May Meet With Putin Next Spring.

Reuters
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(10/10, Rosendahl) reports that, citing unnamed sources, the daily
newspaper Helsingin Sanomat said online that officials are looking at
possible dates for President Trump to meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin in
Helsinki next spring. Finnish President Sauli Niinisto “said US interest
for [the meeting] had grown.”

        *WSJournal A1: Putin Enemies In UK End Up Dead. *The Wall Street
Journal
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(10/10, A1, Cullison) reports on its front page on the death of Nikolai
Glushkov, a Russian émigré in the UK and former finance director of
Aeroflot Russian Airlines, who sought to expose the company as a front for
Russian security service. Glushkov was on trial for allegedly taking $120
million from the company with his partners Boris Berezovsky and former
Russian security officer Alexander Litvinenko. Glushkov said the case was a
pretext for Russian harassment. Before he was killed, he planned to defend
himself by reopening Russian history sensitive for Russian President
Vladimir Putin and Russia’s security services. The three became wealthy
during Russian privatizations and helped Putin’s rise, only to fall out of
favor and flee to England. All three have suffered untimely deaths.
Trump “Demanding” Saudis Account For Dissident Journalist’s Disappearance.

Coverage on the disappearance of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi
continues. The CBS Evening News
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(10/10, story 9, 0:30, Glor) reported that President Trump on Wednesday
“said...the US is demanding answers” over the disappearance of the
Washington Post contributor, who “was last seen entering the Saudi
consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, last week. Turkish officials claim the
Saudis executed Khashoggi, and a TV station broadcast images of what it
called an assassination team, flown to Istanbul to carry it out, today.”

        Trump was asked on Fox News @ Night[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/10) what it would do to US-Saudi relations if it is determined that the
Saudis are responsible for Khashoggi’s death or disappearance. Trump said,
“Well, it’s a terrible thing, and it certainly would not be a positive. I
would not be happy at all.” Asked if he would support the calls from
senators to block arms sales to the Saudis, Trump said, “I think that would
be hurting us. We have jobs. We have a lot of things happening in this
country. We have a country that’s doing probably better economically than
it’s ever done before. Part of that is what we are doing with our defense
systems and everybody is wanting them and frankly I think that would be a
very, very tough pill to swallow for our country.”

        Reuters
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(10/10) reports that Trump said the US is “working closely with Turkey to
find out exactly what had happened and was seeking information from Saudi
Arabia.” Trump is quoted as saying, “We’re demanding everything. We want to
see what’s going on. It’s a very serious situation for us and for this
White House. ... I want to see what happens and we’re working very closely
with Turkey and I think we’ll get to the bottom of it.”

        The AP
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(10/10, Pennington) reports, “Members of Congress have grown increasingly
insistent that the administration find out what happened to Khashoggi.”
Meanwhile, President Trump said that he will invite Khashoggi’s fiancee to
the White House. Politico
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(10/10, Choi) reports Khashoggi’s fiancee Hatice Cengiz, “called on
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump to help locate her
husband-to-be.”

        Reuters
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(10/10, Holland, Butler) also reports that “in another sign the White House
was stepping up pressure, White House national security adviser John Bolton
and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, spoke to
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday.” Reuters adds that the
White House “also said US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo followed up with
his own call to the Crown Prince, who had forged close ties to the
administration, especially Kushner.” Similarly, saying that Khashoggi is “a
leading critic” of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is “closely
allied with” Trump and Kushner, NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by
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(10/10, story 11, 1:30, Holt) reported that Kushner, Secretary of State
Pompeo, and National Security Adviser Bolton “have talked to the crown
prince about Khashoggi as pressure builds for answers.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/10, Deyoung) reports State Department deputy spokesman Robert Palladino
called Pompeo’s call with MBS “private diplomatic conversations.” He said,
“I would say that the United States government wants to understand what is
going on,” adding, “and to express the importance of receiving a full
accounting. And understanding in a very transparent and conclusive way what
has transpired. We’d like to get to the bottom of this.” While “US
intelligence officials have long regarded MBS with skepticism and
trepidation,” he “has been the go-to Saudi since the administration took
office.” Khashoggi’s disappearance “has thrown a wrench in” Trump’s plans
to work with MBS “to bring Iran to heel, achieve an Israeli-friendly peace
settlement with the Palestinians and sell billions worth of US weapons
along the way.”

        Similarly, in an analysis, the New York Times
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(10/10, Landler, Wong, Schmitt) reports Trump “made Saudi Arabia the
fulcrum of his Middle East policy,” making Khashoggi’s possible murder “a
looming diplomatic crisis.” It is also “a personal reckoning” for Trump’s
son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who championed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
and elevated him “into a key ally in the Arab world and the White House’s
primary interlocutor to the kingdom.” Should it become clear that Mohammed
was connected to Khashoggi’s death, “it will provoke an outcry on Capitol
Hill; embarrass American executives, dozens of whom are flocking to Riyadh
for a conference next week where the crown prince is scheduled to speak;
and put Mr. Kushner, who was once himself a newspaper publisher, in an
extremely awkward position.”

        Former George W. Bush Administration Deputy Assistant to the
President and Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams, in an op-ed
in the Washington Post
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(10/10), writes that unless the Saudi government “quickly and honestly”
acts to address Khashoggi’s disappearance, its “reputation will incur
irreparable damage.” If it had Khashoggi killed, that “suggests either a
regime without internal procedures and controls, or one in which an
impulsive decision to kill a critic living in Washington cannot be
contradicted or even questioned.” The result will be all Saudi
decision-making coming “into question, and the government’s reliability as
a partner will be rendered uncertain.” Abrams concludes that Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman needs to realize “that his entire modernization
program, indeed every defense of his own personal power, is undermined by
what all the evidence suggests was a carefully planned murder.”

        In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(10/10) reports that the publicly available evidence “clearly shows that
Saudi officials, including the ambassador in Washington, were not telling
the truth when they denied the existence of the” Saudi operatives. The
country’s “cynical stance” that Khashoggi left the consulate and it is
concerned about his welfare “has been shredded.” The Post adds, “In the
absence of an adequate response, the regime must be held responsible.” The
Post criticizes President Trump’s “tepid reaction” to the incident and
calls on him and Congress to sanction Saudi Arabia unless it “immediately
explain[s] what happened to Mr. Khashoggi, and punish[es] those
responsible.”

        *Pence: Free World Deserves Answers About Khashoggi. *The Washington
Times
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(10/10, Muñoz) reports Vice President Pence, in an interview with Hugh
Hewit, said “the free world deserves answers” about Khashoggi’s
disappearance. He added, “It’s a great concern for the United States of
America,”

        *Legislators Warn Saudia Arabia Over Disappearance. *Fox News’
Special Report
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(10/10) reported that US lawmakers “are warning Saudi Arabia that relations
with the US may suffer significantly if Saudi Arabia was responsible” for
Khashoggi’s disappearance and possible death. Fox showed Senate Minority
Leader Schumer saying, “It’s despicable and the whole world is watching.
The crown prince is portraying himself as a reformer. ... Reformers don’t
kill their political opponents.” Fox also showed Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
saying, “If they’re this brazen, it shows contempt – contempt for
everything we stand for” and “contempt for the relationship. ... If it did
happen, there would be hell to pay.”

        *Videos, Names Of Saudis Suspected In Disappearance Leaked.
*The Washington
Post
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(10/10, Harris) reports that Turkish officials “accused Saudi Arabia of not
cooperating with Turkey’s investigation...as video footage and the names of
a 15-member Saudi team suspected of ties to the case emerged.” The Post
adds, “Turkey has put in a request to enter the consulate, where Khashoggi
was last seen Oct. 2 as he stepped through the compound’s front gate to
obtain papers for his wedding. However, despite Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman’s offer...for the Turkish government to search the premises, Saudi
Arabia is delaying and does not want an investigative team to enter, one
senior Turkish official said.” The Wall Street Journal
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(10/10, Stancati, Gauthier-Villars) reports the planes Turkey says carried
the Saudi operatives are owned by a company controlled by Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman.

        The New York Times
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(10/10, Kirkpatrick, Browne) reports that among the 15 Saudis alleged to
have taken part in Khashoggi’s disappearance are “the chief of forensic
evidence at Saudi Arabia’s internal security agency,” an “officer in the
Saudi special forces,” and two “members of the Saudi royal guard, pictured
in a Saudi newspaper photograph next to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.”
The disclosure of the names of the Saudi operatives “appears to be part of
a steady stream of leaks from the Turkish government intended to put
pressure on the Saudis to admit that Mr. Khashoggi had been killed, and to
spur wider international outrage.” Such leaks may “make it harder for both
sides to save face” in resolving the issue.

        *US Intelligence Intercepts Show Previous Saudi Plan To Lure Back,
Detain Khashoggi. *The Washington Post
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(10/10, Harris) reports US intelligence intercepted Saudi officials
discussing a plan ordered by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “to
lure...Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia from his home in Virginia and then
detain him,” according to US officials familiar with the intelligence. The
Post calls this “another piece of evidence implicating the Saudi regime in
Khashoggi’s disappearance,” and adds that it raises “questions about
whether the Trump administration should have warned the journalist that he
might be in danger.” Deputy State Department spokesman Robert Palladino,
when asked about a duty to warn Khashoggi, declined to answer what he
called a “hypothetical question.” He did say, “Though I cannot comment on
intelligence matters, I can say definitively the United States had no
advance knowledge of [Khashoggi’s] disappearance.” The Washington Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018101101biden&r=email-79f7&l=056-5f5&t=c>
(10/10, Taylor) reports on the Post coverage.

        *WPost: Trump Hands Off On Some Autocrats’ Abuses. *In an analysis,
the Washington Post
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(10/10, Gearan) reports that President Trump’s response to other countries’
“brazen operations in recent months illustrate the hands-off posture taken
by President Trump toward many authoritarian leaders – particularly those
he views as allies or potential allies who have treated him kindly.” While
Administration his issued “harsh condemnations and vows of retaliation,”
the President has been “hesitant – and at times even reluctant – to
forcefully challenge the leaders of such countries accused of abuses.
“Human rights advocates and others said that “Trump’s apparent willingness
to look the other way at recent Saudi overreach in its war in Yemen” and
siding with the Saudis in its dispute with Qatar “may have emboldened the
kingdom to think that Trump would ignore a move against Khashoggi.”
Trump: South Korea Won’t Lift Sanctions On North Without US Approval.

After South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha suggested that Seoul may
lift unilateral sanctions against North Korea – a largely symbolic move
because they are superseded by UN sanctions – President Trump said the
South would not proceed without US approval. Bloomberg News
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(10/10, Olorunnipa, Lee) reports Trump said South Korea “won’t lift any of
its sanctions on North Korea without his approval after officials in Seoul
said they were reviewing the possibility of easing some of their own
penalties against Pyongyang.” At an Oval Office briefing, Trump said,
“Well, they won’t do it without our approval. They do nothing without our
approval.” Bloomberg News adds South Korea’s foreign ministry later “issued
a statement saying Kang’s comments did not mean there were ‘full-scale’
reviews taking place. Rather, Kang was referring to having the
‘flexibility’ to review the issue in context of the recent inter-Korean
talks and in ways that would ‘not compromise’ UN sanctions, the ministry
said in a statement.”

        The AP
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(10/10, Tong-Hyung) reports Minister Kang said Seoul is “considering
lifting some of its unilateral sanctions against North Korea to create more
momentum for diplomacy aimed at improving relations and defusing the
nuclear crisis.” During a “parliamentary audit of her ministry,” Minister
Kang “said the government is reviewing whether to lift sanctions South
Korea imposed on the North in 2010 following a deadly attack on a warship
that killed 45 South Korean sailors.” While the lifting of unilateral
sanctions “would have little immediate effect since US-led international
sanctions remain in place,” it is “clear the South’s liberal government is
preparing to restart joint economic projects if the larger nuclear
negotiations between the United States and North Korea begin yielding
results.”

        The New York Times
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(10/10, Sang-Hun) reports South Korea said “it was considering lifting a
sweeping embargo on bilateral trade and exchanges with North Korea, despite
Washington’s efforts to keep the economic noose on the North until it
denuclearizes.” Minister Kang “suggested that South Korea was becoming
increasingly willing to ease its own sanctions against the North in order
to encourage its denuclearization.” The Times adds that officials said the
South Korean move would be mostly symbolic because of UN sanctions.
However, “any premature easing of penalties is bound to face a backlash
from conservative South Koreans, who fear it could undermine their
country’s alliance with the United States.”

        *Kang: Pompeo Was Discontented With Intra-Korea Nuclear Deal. *
Reuters
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(10/10, Shin) reports South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said
Secretary of State Pompeo “has expressed ‘discontent’ with an inter-Korean
military pact reached during last month’s summit,” a “rare disclosure of
signs of disagreement with its US ally.” Under the deal, the “two Koreas
agreed to halt military drills, set up a no-fly zone near the border and
gradually remove landmines and guard posts within the Demilitarised Zone,
among other steps.” Asked by an opposition lawmaker if Pompeo complained
about the agreement, Minister Kang said, “Yes, that’s correct. I wouldn’t
say he made strong expressions. (It was) discontent, about how he was not
briefed sufficiently, and he had a lot of questions within my knowledge.”

        *China, Russia, North Korea Call For Adjusting UN Sanctions. *
Reuters
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(10/10, Martina) reports after tripartite talks in Moscow, China’s foreign
ministry said China, Russia and North Korea “believe it is necessary to
consider adjusting UN sanctions against North Korea at an appropriate
time.”

        Meanwhile, Reuters
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(10/10, Ostroukh, Osborn) reports the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
said “Russia, China and North Korea had agreed on the need for five-way
talks including the United States and South Korea to end tensions on the
Korean peninsula.”

        *Australia, Japan Renew Commitment To Enforcing Nuclear Sanctions
On North Korea. *The AP
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(10/10) reports Australia and Japan “reaffirmed their commitment to
pressuring North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program and enforcing
sanctions on Pyongyang.” At a ministerial meeting, Australian Foreign
Minister Marise Payne said the two countries are “committed to working
closely with allies and partners to ensure North Korea is pressured to end
its nuclear and missile programs.”
Axios: US, India Headed Toward Clash Over Iran Sanctions.

Axios
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(10/10, Taleblu) reports that the US and India are “headed toward clash
over Iranian oil sanctions.” Two Indian firms are “reportedly seeking to
purchase Iranian oil in the month of November,” despite new US sanctions
set to take effect on Nov. 4. Axios says that “should the imports go
through, they would contravene the stated US aim” of bringing Iran’s
petroleum exports “as close to zero as possible.”

        *Saudis To Supply India With Extra Oil Shipments To Offset Loss Of
Iranian Oil. *Reuters
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(10/10, Jaganathan, Verma) reports sources said Saudi Arabia “will supply
Indian buyers with an additional 4 million barrels of crude oil in
November.” The extra cargoes “indicate a willingness by Saudi Arabia to
increase crude supply to make up the shortfall once sanctions by the United
States on oil exports from Iran.”

        *Oil Traders Have Wide Range Of Price Forecasts As Sanctions Crimp
Iranian Exports. *Reuters
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(10/10, Payne, Zhdannikov) reports the world’s “biggest trading houses said
on Wednesday they saw oil prices not falling below $65 per barrel and
possibly breaking above $100 next year as US sanctions on Iran reduce crude
exports from the Islamic republic.” The diversity of views “illustrates
deep uncertainty among top industry players over the outlook, given the
reimposition of sanctions on Iran and forecasts of slowing economies and
energy demand in 2019, potentially leading to choppy trading.”

        However, Bloomberg News
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(10/10, Blas, Smith, Horden) had a less sanguine view, reporting executives
“from the world’s largest energy traders” said sanctions “on Iranian oil
exports are hitting much harder than most people predicted as the
administration of US President Donald Trump takes a tough line on
enforcement.” Jeremy Weir, chief executive officer of Trafigura Group Pte,
said “perhaps 2 million barrels a day of Iranian crude could eventually be
lost to the global market.” While other traders “including Vitol Group of
Cos. and Gunvor Group saw the impact closer to 1 million, that’s still
twice as much as most people initially predicted.”

        *Iran Summons German Ambassador After Extradition Of Iranian
Diplomat. *The AP
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(10/10, Press) reports Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency “is reporting that
the country’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the German ambassador over a
German court decision to hand over an Iranian diplomat wanted in Belgium.”
A German court “on Oct. 1 approved the extradition of Vienna-based
Assadollah Assadi, who is wanted in Belgium on suspicion he was part of a
failed plot to bomb an Iranian opposition rally near Paris on June 30.”

        Reuters
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(10/10, Guarascio) reports Belgian prosecutors said they have “charged an
Iranian diplomat and three other individuals with planning to bomb a
meeting of an exiled Iranian opposition group in France in June.” The
diplomat, “identified only by his given name as Assadollah A., worked at
the Iranian embassy in Vienna.”
Wray, Nielsen: China Trying To Influence US Midterm Elections.

Reuters
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(10/10, Chiacu) reports DHS Secretary Nielsen and FBI Director Wray warned
lawmakers Wednesday that China “is waging an unprecedented campaign to
influence American public opinion as November congressional elections
approach and presents the greatest long-term counterintelligence threat to
the United States.” Asked by members of the Senate Homeland Security
Committee about President Trump’s assertion that China is interfering in US
elections, Nielsen said, “China absolutely is on an unprecedented – or
exerting unprecedented effort to influence American opinion. We have not
seen to date any Chinese attempts to compromise election infrastructure.”
Wray, Reuters says, “went farther,” saying, “China in many ways represents
the broadest, most complicated, most long-term counterintelligence threat
we face.” Russia, he added, “is in many ways fighting to stay relevant
after the fall of the Soviet Union. They’re fighting today’s fight. China’s
is fighting tomorrow’s fight.”

        *Mnuchin Signals Crackdown On Chinese Investment In Sensitive US
Industries. *The New York Times
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(10/10, Rappeport) reports Treasury Secretary Mnuchin said Wednesday that
the Administration “will begin cracking down on foreign investment in
sensitive American industries like technology and telecommunications,” and
“will start using new powers that give the United States greater authority
to review and block Chinese and other international transactions that pose
a threat to national security.” According to the Times, “The expanded
review system, which Congress passed into law this summer, will apply to a
wide array of foreign transactions but is aimed primarily at China.” Said
Mnuchin, “These temporary regulations address specific risks to US critical
technology while informing the development of final regulations that will
fully implement Firrma [the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization
Act].”

        *DOJ Charges Chinese Spy With Attempting To Steal Trade Secrets
From US Firms. *The Washington Times
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(10/10, Mordock) reports the Justice Department announced charges Wednesday
against “a Chinese government operative who authorities say tried to steal
tried secrets from US aviation and aerospace companies, including GE
Aviation.” Yanjun Xu, a “senior officer with the Ministry of State
Security,” is accused of “luring US executives to China with the attempt of
stealing their company’s technology, officials said.”

        The AP
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(10/10) reports that from 2013 until he was arrested in April, Xu “would
recruit employees from major aerospace companies, including GE Aviation,
and convince them to travel to China under the guise that they would give a
presentation at a university, prosecutors said.” Xu was arrested in
Belgium, and extradited to the US on Tuesday. In what the Washington Post
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(10/10, Nakashima) calls “a first, federal agents lured a Chinese
government spy to Belgium, where authorities transferred him this week to
the United States for prosecution on economic espionage charges.” Current
and former officials “said Xu’s extradition is apparently the first time a
Chinese government spy has been brought to the United States to face
charges.”

        The New York Times
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(10/10, Benner) reports in a statement, FBI Assistant Director for
Intelligence, William Priestap, said, “This unprecedented extradition of a
Chinese intelligence officer exposes the Chinese government’s direct
oversight of economic espionage against the United States.” John C. Demers,
head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, said the
Department “is pursuing other thefts of trade secrets for prosecution. ...
Together, he said, they show that China has a policy of developing its
economy ‘at America’s expense.’” The Wall Street Journal
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(10/10, Viswanatha) reports the Chinese Embassy didn’t immediately respond
to a request for comment.

        *Wray, Nielsen Pressed About Report On Malicious Chinese Server
Chips. *Bloomberg News
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(10/10, Strohm) reports that in testimony before the Senate Homeland
Security Committee Wednesday, Wray “deflected questions from a Republican
senator about a Bloomberg Businessweek report
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that China’s intelligence services used subcontractors to plant malicious
chips in servers bound for major US companies, including Apple Inc. and
Amazon.com Inc.” Sen. Ron Johnson, the panel’s chairman, asked Wray, “How
come I’m finding out from Bloomberg and not in terms of contact from the
federal government? ... If this is not accurate, I would like to have the
FBI or somebody come out and say it’s not.” At the same hearing, Nielsen
“repeated her agency’s previous position on the report,” saying, “We at DHS
do not have any evidence that supports the article.”

        *Apple’s Cook Visits China. *The Washington Post
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(10/10, Fifield) reports that Apple CEO Tim Cook was in China today in what
are “trying times to be an American company operating in China, let alone
an American tech giant that counts on China for contract manufacturing and
sales.” The Post adds, “Although Apple largely dodged the tariffs President
Trump imposed on Chinese imports last month, it is still caught in the
middle of the increasingly acrimonious trade war.” According to the Post,
“The Chinese government has repeatedly, and not very subtly, suggested that
American corporate leaders such as Cook should help broker a solution to
the trade war by talking sense to Washington.”

        *Axios: US Garlic Growers “Thrilled” With US-China Trade War. *Axios
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(10/10, Brown) reports, “American farmers are livid with President Trump’s
tariffs. But not garlic growers. Reeling after a quarter-century-long war
with Chinese garlic farmers, they are thrilled with a trade war that they
say could finally give them the advantage on US turf.” Ken Christopher, who
runs the largest US garlic producer, “says that even though the tariff will
not equal out the prices, the penalty will make it less profitable for
Chinese growers.”

        *Lawmakers Urge FBI To Probe Claims Of Chinese Intimidation Against
Immigrants. *The Washington Post
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(10/10, Shih) reports US lawmakers on Wednesday “called for a stronger
response to the Chinese government’s repression of Muslims in China’s far
west and asked the FBI to investigate claims of intimidation against some
immigrant communities in the United States.” To the Post, the remarks,
“coinciding with annual rights report by the Congressional-Executive
Commission on China, were the latest signal of more assertive US statements
on Chinese rights issues” as the Administration also “presses its trade
battles with Beijing.” The congressional commission, it says, “used this
year’s report to highlight the persecution of Chinese Uighurs.”

        *NYTimes Editorial Calls On China To Detail Charges Against
Interpol Chief. *In an editorial, the New York Times
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(10/10) says China “has yet to give any details of the corruption charges
against Meng Hongwei, the president of Interpol, who disappeared on a visit
home and was later said to have been arrested.” The Times argues that
“whatever the charges are, they are almost certainly not the real reason
for his fate.” The editorial says that what is “deeply troubling” is “how
brazenly China is prepared to wage its internal power struggles without any
regard for procedures, appearances or international norms.”
Rebels Withdraw Heavy Weapons From Idlib.

According to the New York Times
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(10/10, Gall), “Syrian rebel fighters have pulled the last of their heavy
weapons from front-line positions in Idlib Province, meeting the deadline
for a truce negotiated by Russia and Turkey – and possibly sparing the
civilian population from a bloody government offensive.” The Times says it
was “a rare act of unity for the ordinarily fractious rebel forces.” The
Times adds that “under the agreement brokered personally last month by”
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Erdogan, “the
rebels are unilaterally withdrawing heavy weaponry to create a
demilitarized zone 15 kilometers, or nine miles, wide.”

        *Marine Commandant: F-35 “Exceeding Expectations” In First Combat
Deployment. *The Washington Times
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(10/10, Muñoz) reports the Pentagon’s “most advanced jet fighter, and also
the most expensive military weapons program in the department’s history, is
exceeding expectations during its first major combat deployment in the
Middle East.” According to Marine Commandant Gen. Robert Neller, aviators
and maintenance crews “have worked overtime in getting the service’s
version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter ready to deal with the harsh
operational environments in the Middle East and North Africa.” Said Neller,
“The readiness has been really good. Surprisingly good.” He declined,
however, “to comment on the specific operational, maintenance and logistics
details.”
Domestic Policy
At Pennsylvania Rally, Trump Lambastes “Radical Democrat Mob.”

President Trump traveled to Erie, Pennsylvania on Wednesday evening to
campaign for Senate candidate Rep. Lou Barletta (R), GOP gubernatorial
nominee Scott Wagner, and other Republicans. Reports highlight Trump’s
critical remarks about Democrats, and many also focus on Trump’s decision
to proceed with a political appearance as Hurricane Michael is hitting
Florida. After the event, Trump tweeted
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a full video clip, writing, “Thank you Erie, Pennsylvania! Remember to get
out and VOTE! #MAGA”.

        The Erie (PA) Times-News
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(10/10, Flowers) reports, “Minutes after taking the Erie Insurance Arena
stage, in front of a raucous pro-Republican crowd that would cheer him
wildly for the next 65 minutes,” Trump “made the night’s message clear.
America is winning – and we need you to keep it that way.” Trump “urged the
crowd to support GOP candidates...and bashed the Democratic Party, the
media and Hillary Clinton, among others.” He said, “I need your help this
Election Day, November 6, to stop the radical Democrat mob. I need you to
show up at the polls, to continue this incredible movement like the country
has never seen before.”

        The Harrisburg (PA) Patriot-News
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(10/10, Micek) reports, “With his second US Supreme Court confirmation in
the bag,” Trump “took a victory lap around this city by the lake on
Wednesday night, skewering ‘radical’ Capitol Hill Democrats and the
‘dishonest’ media, even as he exhorted supporters to vote in next month’s
midterm election.” In his speech, “Trump hit on familiar themes. He touted
tax cuts passed last December; bragged about the resurgence of ‘beautiful,
clean Pennsylvania coal;’ his renegotiation of the North American Free
Trade Agreement and other international pacts, and his efforts to contain
illegal immigration.”

        The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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(10/10, Routh) reports under the headline “Trump Trashes Pa. Democrats
Ahead Of Mid-terms At Rally In Erie” that “on a day that saw a hurricane
slam into the Florida Panhandle and the Dow drop by more than 800 points,”
Trump “focused his messaging on what he called the successes of his
administration” at the rally. The President “did start the jam-packed rally
at Erie Insurance Arena with a solemn message for those in the path of
Hurricane Michael – that America will ‘spare no effort’ and no expense to
help them – but used the rest of his hour-long speech to slam Democrats.”

        WOLF-TV
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Wilkes-Barre, PA (10/9, 10:35 p.m. EDT) reported that Trump “opened his
rally by sending thoughts and prayers of the entire nation to those
impacted by Hurricane Michael. The President defended his decision to hold
a campaign rally...as that storm pummels Florida.” WPCW-TV[image: Image
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Pittsburgh (10/9, 10:12 p.m. EDT) reported that Trump “said he considered
postponing his trip due to Hurricane Michael, but told reporters he did not
want to disappoint all the people excited about his visit and said he would
be going to Florida very shortly.”

        The AP
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(10/10, Lucey) reports that as Hurricane Michael “pounded Florida,” Trump
“took shelter at a campaign event in Pennsylvania. ... That Trump kept his
appointment in Erie underscored the importance of this effort to
Republicans. Earlier in the day, Trump received a hurricane briefing at the
White House on the Category 4 storm. He told reporters he faced a
‘quagmire’ about whether to attend the Pennsylvania rally because
‘thousands of people’ were already lined up for the event.” Breitbart
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(10/10, Spiering) reports that Trump “explained that he would travel to his
previously scheduled rally despite the hurricane.” He told reporters, “I
don’t want to disappoint people. We’ll probably go because what are you
going to do? Tell thousands of people that have been waiting all night that
we’re not coming? That’s not fair.” Trump similarly tweeted
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“Couldn’t let these great people down. They have been lined up since last
night – see you soon Pennsylvania!”

        USA Today
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(10/10, Jackson) reports that Trump, “who once criticized” President Obama
“for campaigning eight days after a hurricane,” visited Pennsylvania “as
Hurricane Michael battered the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday night.” CNN’s
Manu Raju tweeted
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“Trump says he ‘cannot disappoint’ thousands of people in Pennsylvania
rally tonight even as a monster hurricane ravages Florida’s coast. But, as
@jeffzeleny points out, he’s still attending a high-dollar fundraiser for
GOP Senate candidate Lou Barletta and other Rs before event”.

        USA Today
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(10/10, Jackson) went on to report that Trump “took credit for the economy,
a crackdown at the border, new trade policies and the recent confirmation
of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh; he claimed that Democrats want to
‘impose socialism’ and called them ‘the party of crime.’” He also “made an
obscure joke about the Me Too movement that is devoted to fighting sexual
assault. Noting that he was the first Republican since 1988 to carry the
state of Pennsylvania, Trump said: ‘They didn’t quite get it but I got it
... There’s an expression, but under the rules of #MeToo, I’m not allowed
to use that expression anymore; can’t do it. It’s the person that got
away.’” Politico
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(10/10, Griffiths) briefly covers the remark under the headline “Trump
Mocks ‘Rules’ Of #MeToo During Rally.” The Hill
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(10/10, Birnbaum) also has a brief item on the remark.

        ABC News
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(10/10, McGraw) reports on its website that “just days after swearing in
Kavanaugh, Trump slammed Democrats for their treatment of him and his
family, calling it a ‘disgrace.’” Trump said, “You look at Cory Booker and
the way he talked, you look at Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the disgraceful
behavior, the disgraceful leaking of documents, you look at the false
charges, the false accusations, it was a disgrace.” Fox News
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(10/10, Re) reports on its website that Trump “said he ‘never even thought’
about abandoning Kavanaugh,” and “also took a shot at the so-called #MeToo
movement that opposed Kavanaugh, implying that its proponents are so
politically correct that they would insist on the gender-neutral phrase
‘the person that got away.’”

        The Washington Post
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(10/10, Costa, Sonmez) reports Trump “rallied his supporters...by proudly
ticking through a checklist of how he sees his record, despite Hurricane
Michael barreling toward several states.” His “decision to appear in this
industrial area of a state he won in the 2016 election underscored his
desire – and the GOP’s growing need – to energize the party’s voters in key
battleground states just weeks ahead of the midterm elections.” Philip
Rucker of the Washington Post
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(10/10, Rucker) writes that at his rallies this week, “Trump’s ebullient
mood is coming through in ways large and small. ... Time-tested gripes
about the ‘rigged witch hunt’ and the ‘biased’ Justice Department have been
on the back burner. Instead, Trump has been crowing about all his winning.”

        WHTM-TV
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Harrisburg, PA (10/10, 11:05 p.m. EDT) reported that Trump “talked about
how he’s helped change our coal and steel industry.” Trump: “Remember they
said, ‘You need a magic wand.’ Well, I guess we have a magic wand. And
those are great jobs. And we are unleashing the power of Pennsylvania’s
shale and clean beautiful Pennsylvania coal – beautiful, beautiful clean
coal.”

        WFXP-TV
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Erie, PA (10/10, Braddock) reports on its website that “a large crowd of
President Trump’s supporters were gathered outside the Erie Insurance Arena
waiting for him to speak. Some of them say they had tickets, but they
weren’t allowed to go in due to overcrowding.” The Daily Caller
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(10/10, Johnson) reports that Trump “used a photo that CNN’s Jim Acosta
tweeted to promote his own rally Wednesday. ... ‘Big crowd lining up
outside for Trump rally tonight in Erie, PA,’ Acosta tweeted with a photo
of a people lining up hours before the event.” Trump “tweeted the exact
same photo
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shortly thereafter. An Erie fire department official estimated the size of
the crowd inside the arena at about 9,000, with about 3,000 more gathered
outside. Trump tweeted
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a video clip of what he called the “massive overflow crowd.”

        *Trump: Jobs Create Unity. *WFXP-TV[image: Image removed by sender.
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Erie, PA (10/9, 10:01 p.m. EDT) interviewed Trump during the visit, asking
him how to “unite a clearly divided country, and what role the President
should play. ... The President told us the best start is jobs.” Trump:
“Unity is so important, and I think it’s going to happen. One of the things
that you see happening right here as an example in Pennsylvania is jobs. We
are bringing back the steel industry. People that weren’t working are
starting to work again.”

        *NYTimes: Trump Accuses Democrats Of Anger Similar To That He Has
Stoked. *Peter Baker writes in the New York Times
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(10/10) that when Trump “mocked” Feinstein at an “election rally the other
night, the crowd responded with one of his supporters’ favorite chants from
his own campaign two years ago. ‘Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!’”
Trump “smiled and soaked it in. Then he assailed the Democrats for becoming
‘an angry left-wing mob.’ ... A master of divide-and-conquer campaigning
who gives critics belittling nicknames, calls his foes ‘evil people’ and
has encouraged supporters to ‘knock the crap’ out of protesters, Mr. Trump
hopes to convince the public that his opponents are the ones who are
‘totally unhinged.’”

        *AP: New Map Gives Democrats Shot At Gains In Pennsylvania House
Races. *The AP
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(10/10, Levy) reports that new congressional districts in Pennsylvania have
given Democrats opportunities. A January decision by the state Supreme
Court “threw out 6-year-old district maps drawn and approved by
Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Legislature and Republican governor,
saying they were unconstitutionally gerrymandered.” Republicans had “won 13
of 18 congressional seats on that map in three straight elections in a
state where Democrats hold a registration advantage and won 18 of 24
statewide elections during that period.” If Democrats “win every seat on
their battlefield map, they’ll capture 12 total seats” in the state.

        Kyle Kondik of Sabato’s Crystal Ball tweeted
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“Pennsylvania going swimmingly for Democrats under new map – they won just
5/18 seats there in 2016 but seem in great shape to get to at least 9
(PA-5, 6, 7, & 17) and possibly more”. The New York Times
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(10/10, Astor) profiles the tight PA1 race, where Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick
(R-PA), a moderate, faces Democrat Scott Wallace.
WPost A1: Democrats Focus On ACA, GOP On Cultural Divide In Battle For
Senate.

On its front page, the Washington Post
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(10/10, A1, Wagner) looks at the “closing arguments” that the two major
parties are delivering to voters with the midterm elections less than four
weeks away. Democrats, “reeling from their failure” to block Brett
Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation, are seeking “to regain their
balance in the battle for the Senate on Wednesday by emphatically
presenting themselves as guardians of the Affordable Care Act and its
protection for Americans with preexisting medical conditions while casting
Republicans as threats to that basic principle.” Republicans, meanwhile,
are banking on “divisive cultural and political fights” to help them “in
the 10 states Democrats are defending where Trump won. ... So they have
stoked battles over immigration, the courts and now, the angry Democratic
reception to Kavanaugh, using words and imagery meant to evoke horror.”

        *Trump Hits “Medicare For All,” Says Democrats Want Socialism Like
Venezuela. *Politico
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(10/10, Choi) reports President Trump declared in an op-ed
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for USA Today on Wednesday that “the centrist Democratic Party is dead,”
and “that the party seeking to overtake Republicans and claim majorities in
both houses of Congress will use its Medicare for all push to begin
instituting a broader socialist agenda.” Trump wrote, “The truth is that
the centrist Democratic Party is dead. The new Democrats are radical
socialists who want to model America’s economy after Venezuela. ... If
Democrats win control of Congress this November, we will come dangerously
closer to socialism in America. Government-run health care is just the
beginning. Democrats are also pushing massive government control of
education, private-sector businesses and other major sectors of the US
economy.” Politico adds that while most of the op-ed “was directed
specifically at attacking ‘Medicare for all,’” Trump “tied the health care
proposal to another favorite subject of his, immigration, suggesting
Democrats would seek to lure undocumented immigrants into the US with the
promise of free healthcare.”

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(10/10) about Sen. Bernie Sanders’ claim that he lied about his “Medicare
for All” proposal in his USA Today op-ed. Trump said, “If you do what he
says, you’re not going to have a country and you are going to have
Venezuela and you’re going to have to lift up your taxes by three times.”
Trump added that “the country is not rich enough to even think about doing
what they want to do and number two, if you did what they wanted to do, it
would be lousy healthcare, really lousy healthcare.”

        *USA Today Defends Running Trump Op-Ed. *The Hill
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(10/10, Samuels) reports that USA Today’s editorial page editor Bill
Sternberg “pushed back on criticism that the newspaper ran an op-ed from
President Trump riddled with misleading and inaccurate information.”
Sternberg said in a statement, “USA TODAY Opinion provides a forum for a
diversity of views on issues of national relevance. ... We see ourselves as
America’s conversation center, presenting our readers with voices from the
right, left and middle.” Sternberg added that like other op-ed submissions,
“we check factual assertions while allowing authors wide leeway to express
their opinions.”

        *Trump Signs Legislation Barring “Gag Clauses” On Pharmacists. *The
AP
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(10/10) reports legislation signed by Trump on Wednesday will bar insurers
from “telling consumers when paying cash would be cheaper than using
insurance for their prescriptions.” The bills “bar health plans or
middlemen that manage pharmacy benefits from getting in between pharmacists
and their customers. No longer can pharmacists be contractually prohibited
from telling consumers when they would actually save money by not using
their insurance plans.” The New York Times
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(10/10, Pear) says the legislation on “gag clauses” has drawn praise from
“lawmakers in both parties.” The Times adds, however, that “the signing was
nearly eclipsed” by an op-ed by the President in USA Today in which he
claimed “that Democrats supporting ‘Medicare for All’ would wreck the
program for older Americans, infuriating Democrats who said he was lying to
millions of Americans.”

        *GOP Linking Swing District Democrats To “Medicare For All.” *
Politico
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(10/10, Cancryn) reports that while Republicans are “hammering Democratic
challengers in swing districts” over the “Medicare for All” plan, there is
“just one problem: Few of the targeted Democrats actually support such a
plan.” Politico says that in battleground districts across the country,
“Democrats have gone out of their way to distance themselves from Sen.
Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) $32 trillion single-payer proposal, only to be
attacked for endorsing the plan anyway in Republican ads that range from
misleading to outright false.” The attempt to link Democrats in swing
districts to the plan “illustrates the GOP’s major disadvantage on health
care after failing last year to pass unpopular Obamacare repeal bills.”

        *Senate Democrats Hope Lost Vote On Short-Term Health Plans Will
Help Them In November. *The AP
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(10/10) reports that in a “near party-line vote,” the Senate on Wednesday
rejected “a Democratic attempt to scuttle President Donald Trump’s push for
short-term health insurance plans, which are less expensive but provide
skimpier coverage.” While they list the vote, Democrats believe it “will
help them in November because health care remains a top concern for
voters.”

        *DOJ Approves CVS-Aetna Merger. *The Wall Street Journal
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(10/10, Mathews, Maidenberg) reports that on Wednesday, the Department of
Justice gave its approval to CVS’ Health Corp.’s acquisition of Aetna Inc. USA
Today
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(10/10, Snider) reports that DOJ said CVS “must divest Aetna’s Medicare
Part D prescription drug plan business for individuals as part of the
process.” CVS’ “proposal to divest that business to WellCare Health Plans
would satisfy the DOJ’s competition concerns, the agency said.”
Trump Says Fed “Has Gone Crazy,” Blames It For Tandem Stock, Bond Selloff.

CNN
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(10/10, Liptak) reports that in Pennsylvania yesterday afternoon, President
Trump “blamed the Federal Reserve for Wednesday’s 832-point stock dive.”
Trump is quoted as saying, “I think the Fed is making a mistake. They’re so
tight. I think the Fed has gone crazy.” Trump added, “It’s a correction
that we’ve been waiting for for a long time. ... I really disagree with
what the Fed is doing.” CNN notes Trump “said this week he prefers lower
interest rates but added he would not speak directly to his Fed chairman
appointee Jerome Powell, preferring instead to remain hands-off.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/10, Telford) reports “the Dow dropped more than 800 points in one of
the worst sell-offs since February as investors worried that sharply rising
rates would constrain the nation’s historic economic expansion,” and Reuters
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(10/10, Lash) that “shares tumbled on fears of slowing demand, while rising
US bond yields provided competition for high-riding stocks.” Reuters adds
that “major equity indexes in Europe fell more than 1 percent, also pulled
down by technology shares, and gold prices inched up as some investors
sought refuge in the metal.” The AP
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(10/10) says “the losses were widespread, and stocks that have been the
biggest winners on the market suffered steep declines.”

        All three major network newscasts ran brief reports on the
sell-off. NBC Nightly News
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(10/10, story 9, 0:15, Holt) said it “was the worst day on Wall Street
since February, the Dow plunging more than 800 points and the S&P
plummeting over three percent as tech stocks dropped amid growing trade
tensions with China.” The CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/10, story 8, 0:15, Glor) similarly said investors “are worried about
the economic fallout from rising interest rates and trade tension with
China.” ABC World News Tonight
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(10/10, story 9, 0:20, Muir) reported, meanwhile, “Your 401(k)s taking a
hit today. The news from Wall Street tonight, the Dow Jones plunging 831
points today, closing at 25,598. The stock market suffering its worst loss
in eight months. Tech stocks among the hardest hit. Analysts saying
investors are also worried about rising interest rates.” Bloomberg News
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(10/9, Herron, Ponczek), USA Today
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(10/10, Shell), New York Times
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(10/10, Phillips) and Wall Street Journal
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(10/10, Driebusch), among other news outlets, also report the stock
declines.

        *Trump: Stock Drop Not Related To China Tariffs. *Trump was asked
on Fox News @ Night
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(10/10) about critics who say the drop in the Dow is due to the trade war
with China. Trump said, “I don’t think that’s it at all, the trade war with
China. We are taking in billions of dollars in tariffs from Chinese goods,
and it hasn’t hurt us at all. We are taking in billions and billions of
dollars. We are going to make products here that we are now buying in
China. That wasn’t it. The problem I have is with the Fed. The Fed is going
wild. I mean, I don’t know what their problem is that they are raising
interest rates and it’s ridiculous.”

        *Chicago Fed President Sees Rate Hike “Pause” At Around 3%. *Reuters
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(10/10, Saphir) reports that Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles
Evans suggested Wednesday that the Fed “can likely stop raising US interest
rates once they reach about 3 percent, as long as inflation remains around
2 percent and the economy is doing well.” He told reporters in Flint,
Michigan, “We could move to a slightly restrictive policy stance and
probably pause at that point and see how things are going.”

        *Sears “On The Brink” Of Bankruptcy. *NBC Nightly News[image: Image
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(10/10, story 13, 0:10, Holt) reported very briefly that “iconic American
retailer Sears is on the brink of filing for bankruptcy. ... Sales have
tanked nearly 60 percent over the last seven years amid fierce competition
from online giants.”

        *Scholars’ Study: Trump’s Support Among “Economically Distressed”
Weaker Than Thought. *In a New York Times
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(10/10) op-ed, policy researcher Robert Griffin and political scientist
John Sides, who “just completed a study of economic distress levels and
voting patterns,” writes that despite the conventional post-2016 election
narrative, Trump voters “were never extraordinarily economically
distressed. And now the economically distressed are actually less likely to
approve of Mr. Trump’s performance as president.” They write that while the
economy as a whole is strong, “economic distress is now a drag on Mr.
Trump’s support. Republicans who reported high levels of distress were 10
percentage points less likely to approve of Mr. Trump, compared with those
with low levels of distress,” and that number is higher among independents.

        *Gallup Poll: 46% Disapprove Of Trump Tax Cuts, 39% Approve. *Axios
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(10/10, Fernandez) reports that a new Gallup poll
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found that “more Americans continue to disapprove (46%) than approve (39%)
of last year’s sweeping tax overhaul bill signed into law by President
Trump.” According to the poll, “64% say they have not seen an increase in
their take-home pay.” In addition, “51% say cuts haven’t helped
financially; 38% say they have.”
SCOTUS Hears Case On Undocumented Immigrants Detained For Deportation.

Reuters
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(10/10, Hurley) reports the Supreme Court yesterday heard the
Administration “argue for sweeping government authority to detain
immigrants awaiting deportation after they complete sentences for criminal
convictions, even years after leaving prison.” The Administration “has
appealed a lower court ruling in favor of immigrants that the government
has said undermines its ability to deport immigrants who have committed
crimes.” Reuters notes that in April, Justice Neil Gorsuch “joined with the
court’s four liberal justices in a 5-4 ruling in another immigration case
that could hinder the administration’s ability to step up the removal of
immigrants with criminal records.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh, “like some of
the other five conservatives on the court...asked questions of lawyers in
the case that seemed more sympathetic to the administration’s stance.”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(10/10, Savage) reports “Kavanaugh spoke up Wednesday in defense of the
Trump administration’s view that legal immigrants with criminal records can
be arrested and held for deportation,” and the New York Times
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(10/10, Liptak) that the case “seemed to expose a divide between” him and
Gorsuch, who “suggested that mandatory detentions of immigrants long after
they completed their sentences could be problematic. ‘Is there any limit on
the government’s power?’ he asked.” The Washington Post
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(10/10, Barnes) runs a similar analysis under the headline “Trump’s Supreme
Court Nominees Appear To Differ On Immigration Case.”

        The AP
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(10/10, Gresko) reports, meanwhile, that “Justice Samuel Alito seemed
perhaps the most willing to rule for the government.” Alito “underscored
how difficult it is for the government to quickly pick up everyone covered
by the law and told an attorney arguing for the immigrants that ‘Congress,
wisely or not, thought that this class of aliens was dangerous and they
should not be trusted.’” To USA Today
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(10/10, Wolf), the court was “divided down the middle...along ideological
lines.”

        *McConnell Says He’s “Committed” To Funding Border Wall During
Lame-Duck Session. *The Washington Examiner
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(10/10, Ferrechio) reports Senate Majority Leader McConnell said yesterday
that “Republicans are going to fight for President Trump’s Mexican border
wall after the election.” At an event sponsored by the AP, McConnell said,
“We are committed to helping the president get wall funding. ... I think it
will be a relatively lively lame duck.” The Examiner adds “the lame-duck
session could be the final opportunity to pass significant funding for the
wall.”

        *Administration Waives Environmental Laws In Construction Of
40-Mile Stretch Of Border Wall. *The Los Angeles Times
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(10/10, Hennessy-Fiske) reports, “With construction of what President Trump
calls the first 40 miles of new border wall already underway across the
nation’s southern boundary, federal officials have announced this week
they’re waiving nearly 30 environmental laws in Texas to expedite
additional building in the interest of homeland security.” The Times adds
“opponents called the waivers ‘catastrophic,’” and quotes Scott Nicol,
co-chairman of the Sierra Club’s Borderlands Team, as saying, “Waiving laws
meant to protect border residents and ecosystems shows the Trump
administration’s contempt for the rule of law.” The Times also reports that
“environmental groups anticipated the waivers, and are expected to sue to
block them in federal court as they have before – so far, unsuccessfully.”

        *NYTimes Details Democrats’ Divisions Over Immigration Enforcement *A
New York Times
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(10/10, Draper) analysis says Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) “represents a new
breed of liberal politician who is...more wedded to social-justice
movements than to the slow grind of governance.” This summer, Jayapal
co-sponsored a bill with Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) that would “form a new
agency to replace ICE within a year.” However, according to Draper, “the
party’s most prominent immigration policymakers in the House — Luis V.
Gutiérrez of Illinois and Zoe Lofgren of California — were not at all happy
with the Abolish ICE bill.” Draper writes that Gutiérrez, “a note of
bewilderment in his voice, said: ‘I mean, you want to change the
conversation from the inhumanity of caging children to abolishing ICE? They
must have been jumping for joy at the White House.’” Draper said the bill’s
supporters “seemed oblivious to how it would play in districts less liberal
than, say, Seattle.”

        *Doctor: Proposal Would Force Immigrants To Choose Between Health,
Green Card. *Dr. Douglas Jacobs, an internal medicine resident at the
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, writes in a New York Times
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(10/10) op-ed that the Administration’s proposal “to deny green card status
to people who use services like food assistance and Medicaid threaten
several of my patients with a harrowing choice: their health, or their
immigration status.” Historically, the government has designated “as public
charges only those immigrants who receive cash assistance,” but the new
rule proposed by DHS “significantly broadens that set of programs” to
include those on “Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
(once known as food stamps), housing assistance and Medicare Part D (the
prescription drug benefit).” Dr. Jacobs argues that “immigrants should not
have to give up food, shelter and health care to pursue the American
dream.”
Rosenstein Will Not Appear Before House Panels To Discuss NYTimes Report.

The Washington Post
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(10/10, Barrett) reports Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s scheduled
appearance before a joint House panel “will not take place this week as
expected.” According to the Post, the House Judiciary and Oversight and
Government Reform committees “were expected to speak with Rosenstein behind
closed doors Thursday as part of their probe into federal law enforcement’s
conduct during the investigations of Trump’s campaign and former secretary
of state Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.” However, “a
dispute over the interview’s terms prevented the committees and the Justice
Department from reaching a deal to hold the meeting.” The Post says
Rosenstein “may not appear on Capitol Hill for an interview until after
next month’s election, potentially exposing him to a subpoena.”

        The Daily Caller
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(10/10, Ross) says Rosenstein was supposed to “answer questions about
claims he discussed wearing a wire during his interactions with Trump.”
Members of the House Freedom Caucus “had called on Rosenstein to testify
about his remarks, which were first reported by The New York Times on Sept.
21.” The Daily Caller adds that “conservative lawmakers, including North
Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows and Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, have been staunch
critics of Rosenstein because of his failure to respond to requests for
documents related to the FBI’s handling of the Trump-Russia probe.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(10/10, Lim) reports that House intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes
told Fox News’ Hannity
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Wednesday that Rosenstein should testify to Congress under oath. Nunes
said, “He owes us answers. He’s not coming tomorrow, which I think should
be very telling. The story is that he might possibly have wanted to come
and have a cup of coffee with Chairman Goodlatte. Well, that’s not
acceptable. He needs to testify under oath.” CQ Roll Call
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(10/10, McPherson) reports that Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Matt Gaetz
(R-FL) “are now calling on the Judiciary Committee to subpoena Rosenstein
to compel his testimony.”

        *Former FBI Lawyer Says Rosenstein Was Serious About Taping Trump. *The
New York Times
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(10/10, Fandos, Goldman) reports that former FBI General Counsel James A.
Baker told congressional investigators last week “that he had taken
seriously a suggestion by the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein,
to secretly tape conversations with President Trump but viewed it as too
risky and unlikely to deliver meaningful information.” Baker’s account
“contradicts Mr. Rosenstein’s denial of a New York Times article last month
that said he suggested recording the president and discussed recruiting
cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Mr. Trump from
office. It also undermines an assertion provided by the Justice Department
from a law enforcement official present on one of the occasions when Mr.
Rosenstein broached the idea of taping Mr. Trump and said he was being
sarcastic.”

        *WPost: Rosenstein, McCabe Had “Tense Standoff” In Front Of
Mueller. *Citing “people familiar with the matter,” the Washington Post
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(10/10, Barrett) reports that shortly after he was appointed as special
counsel, Robert Mueller “was drawn into a tense standoff in
which...Rosenstein and then-acting FBI director Andrew McCabe each urged
the other to step aside from the case.” The confrontation, which took place
in mid-May 2017, “underscores the deep suspicion between senior law
enforcement officials who were about to embark on a historic, criminal
investigation of the president. That mistrust has continued to this day,
with defenders of each offering conflicting accounts of exactly what was
said and meant in the days surrounding Mueller’s appointment.”

        *Trump Talked To Sessions’ Chief Of Staff About Replacing Him. *Citing
“people briefed on the conversation,” the Washington Post
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(10/10, Dawsey) reports that President Trump recently spoke with Attorney
General Sessions’ chief of staff, Matthew G. Whitaker, “about replacing
Sessions...signaling that the president remains keenly interested in
ousting his top law enforcement official.”
Congress Approves $6 Billion Water-Projects Bill.

The AP
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(10/10) reports Congress on Wednesday approved “a sprawling bill to improve
the nation’s ports, dams and harbors, protect against floods, restore
shorelines and support other water-related projects.” If signed by
President Trump, America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 would authorize
“more than $6 billion in spending over 10 years for projects nationwide,”
and “extend a federal program to improve drinking water quality in Flint,
Michigan and other cities.” The Senate approved the bill in a 99-1 vote,
with Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) cast the lone dissenting vote.
Man Arrested For Planning Election Day Bombing In DC.

The CBS Evening News
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(10/10, story 6, 1:50, Glor) reported that a New York man has been charged
“with making a huge bomb as part of a plot to blow himself up in
Washington, DC on Election Day.” CBS (Reid) added that according to
prosecutors, Paul Rosenfeld “wanted to kill himself and draw attention to
his political beliefs. Over the past two months, according to court papers,
Rosenfeld allegedly sent letters and text messages to a Pennsylvania
resident detailing his plan to detonate the bomb on the National Mall to
draw attention to the sortition political theory that advocates the random
selection of government officials.” ABC World News Tonight[image: Image
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(10/10, story 8, 0:20, Muir) reported, “Authorities say they found what
appears to be a functional 200-pound explosive device in the basement of
his home.” NBC Nightly News
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(10/10, story 12, 0:20, Holt) reported that officials believe Rosenfeld
“was acting alone with no link to have terror groups.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(10/10, Gualtieri) says Rosenfeld “reportedly told agents he ordered large
quantities of black powder over the Internet, and used approximately 8
pounds to make a large bomb in the basement of his home, per LoHud. He
reportedly told agents he had previously built smaller bombs and had
conducted test detonations.”

        *Wray: US Probing 5,000 Terrorism Cases At Home And “Around The
World.” *Catherine Herridge reported on Fox News’ Special Report[image:
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(10/10) that “top security officials” gave a “sobering” cyber threat
assessment before lawmakers Wednesday. FBI Director Wray “testified [that]
radicalization continues to grow online at a dangerous rate.” Fox then
showed Wray saying, “We are currently investigating about 5,000 terrorism
cases across America and around the world.”

        *Wray: Threats From Drones To US “Steadily Escalating.” *Reuters
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(10/10, Shepardson) reports Wray also told a Senate panel on Wednesday that
the threat from drones “is steadily escalating.” Wray told the Senate
Homeland Security Committee that the FBI assesses that “given their retail
availability, lack of verified identification requirement to procure,
general ease of use, and prior use overseas, (drones) will be used to
facilitate an attack in the United States against a vulnerable target, such
as a mass gathering.” Reuters adds that Wray’s comments come days after
President Trump signed into law legislation that gives DHS and the FBI “new
powers to disable or destroy drones that pose a threat to government
facilities.”
Cancer Research
FDA Panel Backs Biosimilar For Blockbuster Blood Cancer Drug.

Reuters
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(10/10, Banerjee) reports an advisory panel to the FDA unanimously
recommended approval of Celltrion Pharm Inc’s biosimilar of the
“blockbuster cancer drug” Rituxan (rituximab) made by Roche Holding AG. The
FDA typically – but not always – follows the recommendations of its
advisory panels. Fierce Pharma
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(10/10, Sagonowsky) reports, “The 16-0 panel vote came after FDA advisers
published a document early this week saying they found no ‘clinically
meaningful differences … in terms of safety, purity and potency’ between
the biosim and Roche drug.”

        MedPage Today
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(10/10, Bankhead) reports the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee agreed
that CT-P10 “met or exceeded standards for demonstrating similarity” to
rituximab. Jerry M. Collins, PhD, of the National Cancer Institute Division
of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis pointed out that the sponsor provided
data demonstrating noninferiority and equivalence, which Collins said
“really sealed the deal and will give higher confidence in this product.”
Celltrion and Teva “requested FDA approval of the drug for three
indications in non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma – two in follicular lymphoma and one
in non-progressing B-cell lymphoma.”
Highest Rates Of US Cancer Death In Counties With Lowest Income.

MedPage Today
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(10/10, Jenkins) reports that research indicates “the highest rates of
cancer death in the U.S. can be found in counties with the lowest income,
where ‘socioeconomic cancer disparities’ are fueled by smoking and obesity,
low-quality clinical care, and food insecurity.” The “results from a
cross-sectional study of 3,135 U.S. counties showed that low-income
counties had a mean cancer death rate per 100,000 person-years of 229.7
compared with 204.9 (difference 24.8) in medium-income counties and 185.9
(difference 43.8) in high-income counties.” The findings
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were published in JAMA Network Open.
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“China And The Case Of The Interpol Chief.”* In an editorial, the New York
Times
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(10/10) says China “has yet to give any details of the corruption charges
against Meng Hongwei, the president of Interpol, who disappeared on a visit
home and was later said to have been arrested.” The Times argues that
“whatever the charges are, they are almost certainly not the real reason
for his fate.” It says that it is “deeply troubling...how brazenly China is
prepared to wage its internal power struggles without any regard for
procedures, appearances or international norms.”

        *Professor: Successful Affirmative Action Suit Would Harm Students.
*Rutgers Law School Professor Elise C. Boddie writes in the New York Times
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(10/10), “Imagine this scenario: An admissions officer sits down to read a
stack of applications, but they’re heavily redacted because the college
must censor all references to an applicant’s race.” Boddie continues, “That
could become the reality for every college if a group of Asian-American
students denied admission to Harvard wins a lawsuit.” He argues that the
case “could have a devastating effect” on the admissions process.
Washington Post.

*“It’s Time For The Saudi King To Tell The Truth On Jamal Khashoggi.”* In
an editorial, the Washington Post
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(10/10) writes that the publicly available evidence “clearly shows that
Saudi officials, including the ambassador in Washington, were not telling
the truth when they denied the existence of” Saudi operatives in Istanbul.
The country’s “cynical stance” that journalist Jamal Khashoggi left the
consulate and it is concerned about his welfare “has been shredded.” The
Post adds, “In the absence of an adequate response, the regime must be held
responsible.” The Post criticizes President Trump’s “tepid reaction” to the
incident and calls on him and Congress to sanction Saudi Arabia unless it
“immediately explain[s] what happened to Mr. Khashoggi, and punish[es]
those responsible.”

        *“Larry Hogan For Maryland Governor.” *In an editorial, the Washington
Post
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(10/10) endorses Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) for reelection, saying that what
he “lacked, and continues to lack, in terms of a vision for Maryland’s
future, he has made up for by brokering non-doctrinaire solutions, at odds
in some cases with the narrow interests of his base of rural and exurban
GOP voters.” The Post adds that “few doubt his political acumen in keeping
President Trump at arm’s length while holding the state’s Republicans
close. In an era of boorishness, divisiveness and ad hominem attacks, his
comportment in office has been civil and businesslike.”

        *Dionne: In Ohio, Brown, Cordray Trying To Win Over Trump Voters. *In
his Washington Post
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(10/10) column, E.J. Dionne that Ohio, where Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) is
seeking reelection, “is ground zero this year in testing the durability of
Trump’s coalition.” Brown, whose “appeal to workers is working,” has
“enjoyed leads from 13 to 18 points over Republican Rep. James B. Renacci
in three polls over the past month.” Even if he is reelected “at half that”
margin, it “would underscore the fragility of Trump’s hold on his own
electorate.” Dionne also highlights the state’s gubernatorial race in which
“Democratic gubernatorial candidate Richard Cordray faces Republican
Attorney General Mike DeWine.” Cordray “is making a major issue of DeWine’s
participation in a 2011 lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act.” Dionne
adds that “if both Brown and Cordray prevail, it will be in significant
part because their pro-worker evangelism resonated with many who supported
Trump and still haven’t found the prosperity and security he promised
them.”

        *Stanford Professors Call For Election Day Holiday. *Adam Bonica
and Michael McFaul, political science professors at Stanford University,
write in the Washington Post
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(10/10) that “voter turnout in the United States is among the lowest in the
world.” They say that while “there are many reasons so few Americans vote,
but among them is that the United States is one of the few countries that
hold elections on a workday,” which “is a fundamentally unfair way to
conduct elections.” Bonica and McFaul call for Election Day to be made a
national holiday.

        *Will: Trump Presidency “One Giant Act Of Trolling.” *Washington
Post
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(10/10) columnist George F. Will writes in a column titled “Trump’s
Presidency Is One Giant Act Of Trolling,” that the Brookings Institution’s
Jonathan Rauch wrote in a recent essay that “Trump’s presidential lying,
which began concerning the size of his inauguration crowd, reflects ‘a
strategy, not merely a character flaw or pathology.’” Rauch also argues
that “the way to combat Trump’s ‘epistemic attack’ on Americans’
‘collective ability to distinguish truth from falsehood’ is by attending to
the various social mechanisms that, taken together, are ‘the method of
validating propositions.’”

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