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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden: Trump “More Like George Wallace Than George Washington.” <#S1>

• Biden To Rally Support For Lamont, Other Connecticut Democrats On Friday.
<#S2>

• Trump Endorses Faso For Reelection; Biden To Stump For Delgado On Friday.
<#S3>

• Biden To Stump For Cordray In Youngstown On Monday. <#S4>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• DHS Says It “Can Confirm” Caravan Includes Gang Members, Mideast Citizens.
<#S5>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump: Khashoggi’s Murder One Of “Worst Cover-Ups In The History Of
Cover-Ups.” <#S6>

• Trump Suggests Possible November Meeting With Putin. <#S7>

• Treasury Dept. Announces Sanctions Against Taliban Actors, Iranian
Sponsors. <#S8>

• Appeals Court Upholds Life Sentence For Abu Hamza. <#S9>

• HRW Condemns Palestinian Authority, Hamas Detention, Torture Of
Journalists. <#S10>

• EU Rejects Italy’s Proposed 20119 Budget Over Deficit Concerns. <#S11>

• Trump “Billions” Coming Into US “Coffers” From Tariffs. <#S12>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Trump Says His Nationalism Not Linked To Race, Means He “Loves Our
Country.” <#S13>

• NYTimes, WPost: Transgender People, Families Feel Like Political “Pawns.”
<#S14>

• To Media Skepticism, Brady Confirms He’s Working With Trump On
Middle-Class Tax Cut. <#S15>

• Kudlow Rejects Obama’s Claim Of Credit For Economy’s Strength. <#S16>

• Azar: Overdose Deaths Have “Begun To Plateau.” <#S17>

• Pence Will Not Rule Out Deployment Of Nuclear Weapons In Space. <#S18>

• FBI Investigating Pipe Bomb Found At Soros’ Home In New York. <#S19>

• WPost Survey Of 69 House Battlegrounds Shows Narrow Democratic Lead.
<#S20>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• Researchers See Better Outcomes With RT For Black Patients With Prostate
Cancer. <#S21>

• Tall People At Greater Risk Of Cancer, Study Suggests. <#S22>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S23>

• Washington Post. <#S24>
Biden in the News
Biden: Trump “More Like George Wallace Than George Washington.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s second straight day of campaigning in
Florida for Democrats continued to draw significant media coverage,
particularly from Sunshine State outlets. In an online article, CNN
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(10/23, Saenz) reported that Biden, during a rally in Orlando, criticized
President Trump “for embracing a strategy of fear ahead of the midterm
elections and compared him to George Wallace, a former governor of Alabama
who supported segregation and was a vocal opponent of the Civil Rights
movement.” Referencing “a Washington Post article titled, ‘Trump and
Republicans settle on fear – and falsehoods – as a midterm strategy,’”
Biden said, “No president has ever led by fear. Not Lincoln. Not Roosevelt.
Not Kennedy. Not Reagan. This president is more like George Wallace than
George Washington!”

        Breitbart
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(10/23, Key) further quoted Biden as saying, “Democrats have to choose hope
over fear, unity over division. We have to choose our allies over our
enemies. We have to choose truth over lies. We have to choose a brighter
future for Americans over this desperate grip of the darkest elements of
our past in our society.” The Washington Examiner
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(10/23, Caralle) also reported on Biden’s remarks, drawing from the CNN
story.

        The Independent (UK)
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(10/24, Mindock) reports that Biden delivered “a fiery speech” in which he
offered “a scathing assessment of...Trump’s first two years in office and
said that there were no mysteries about the man who has been running the
country. ... ‘Folks, not a joke. Our children are listening, and silence is
complicity,’ Mr Biden said, referring to the events in Charlottesville and
the Trump administration’s immigration policies that have led to children
being separated from their parents at the US border.”

        The Orlando (FL) Sentinel
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(10/22, Lemongello) reports, “In what could be a preview of a presidential
campaign of his own,” Biden, rallying support for Sen. Bill Nelson (D),
blasted Trump and Gov. Rick Scott (R), who is challenging Nelson. Biden
“called Florida ‘the epicenter of the political universe’ going into the
Nov. 6 midterm election, which includes Nelson’s heated race with Scott,
whom Biden called ‘a handmaiden of the President of the United States.’”

        Florida Politics
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(10/23, Powers) reported that during his appearance in Orlando, Biden “laid
out his attacks in sometimes thundering oratory, while also reserving much
of his speech for soft and contemplative thoughts on the issues dividing
the parties: health care, climate change, the future of Social Security and
Medicare, foreign affairs alliances, and reactions to waves of alt-right
white nationalism. ‘I’m afraid that this is not your father’s Republican
Party,’ Biden said, adding that he had vowed to give Trump time, until the
Charlottesville demonstrations. ‘I couldn’t remain silent any more. I wrote
an article for Atlantic magazine saying, we’re in a battle for the soul of
America.’”

        In an online article, WKMG-TV
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Orlando, FL (10/23, Askin) reported that Biden “said it’s time for change
in Florida and...that the I-4 corridor plays a huge factor in deciding who
takes home the win in the state. ‘Our path to winning back the House runs
directly through – and the Senate – runs through Orlando,’ said Biden.” In
an online article, WMFE-FM
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Orlando, FL (10/23, Prieur) reported that Biden concluded the Orlando
“event with a story about his Pennsylvania grandparents. Whenever he left
their house his grandfather would yell: ‘Joey keep the faith. And my
grandmother would yell, No Joey spread it. That’s what we need to do. Go
out and spread it.’ Biden urged Democratic voters to turn out in November
to help flip Republican control of” Congress.

        The Tallahassee (FL) Democrat
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(10/23, Call) reports that Biden, joined on Tuesday in Tallahassee by
Nelson, “unexpectedly popped into a midtown coffee shop and while he held
forth on the current state of politics, he was encircled by a crowd of more
than 40, ranging in age from the mid-20s to the late 40s.” The Democrat
says Nelson “brought Biden to Tallahassee to get out the university vote.
‘If people age 18 -25 voted in the last election in the same percentage as
the rest of the population there would have been 5.7 million more votes
cast,’ Biden said to a midday crowd at the RedEye Coffee shop.” Biden
added, “You can own this election. Take it back.”

        The Florida State University View
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(10/23, Anderson, Wheeler) reports that Nelson’s “campaign originally
planned to stop at the Sweet Shop Cafe adjacent to Florida State
University’s campus, but an unexpected protest and growing crowds pushed
the campaign to change the location” to RedEye. The article says Biden
“believes that this election is much bigger than any single issue. ‘The
rest of the world is looking at us,’ Biden cautioned attendees.” Among the
local TV stations broadcasting reports this morning on Biden’s Tuesday
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Tallahassee (FL)'s ABC 27 News at Sunrise (10/24), WOGX-TV[image: Image
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Gainesville, FL (10/24), WKMG-TV
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Orlando, FL (10/24), and WCTV-TV
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Tallahassee (FL)'s Good Morning Show (10/24).

        *Fox News: Biden Appears At Public Events As Hillary Clinton
Maintains Low Profile. *On its website, Fox News
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(10/23, Keating) reported that Biden and Hillary Clinton “are back in the
Sunshine State, doing what they spent decades of public life doing:
campaigning and fundraising.” However, while Clinton is maintaining a
relatively low profile, Biden “is attending a public rallies all across the
state.” Clinton attended “a private luncheon on Tuesday in Palm Beach
County, raising money for Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum,” the Democratic
gubernatorial nominee. Today, Clinton “will be in Coral Gables for a public
fundraising” event benefiting ex-Clinton Administration official Donna
Shalala, a Democratic House hopeful. Biden, meanwhile, has been rallying
support for Gillum and Nelson at events across Florida.

        *Video Clip Shows Biden Discussing National Security Threat Posed
By Climate Change. *On its website, ABC News
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(10/23) posted a video of Biden speaking at a rally in Florida about the
national security threat posed by climate change.

        *Biden Endorses Fried’s Bid For Florida Ag Commissioner. *Florida
Politics
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(10/24) reported that Biden on Tuesday endorsed Nikki Fried’s (D) bid for
state Agriculture Commissioner. Biden “joins fellow possible 2020
presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts U.S. Senator, in
endorsing Fried.”
Biden To Rally Support For Lamont, Other Connecticut Democrats On Friday.

The AP
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(10/23) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday is slated to
visit Connecticut, where he’ll “headline a Democratic rally.” The “event is
planned for 3:30 p.m. at the Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy. Biden
will be joined by U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, 5th Congressional District
candidate Jahana Hayes, governor candidate Ned Lamont and likely other
Democrats appearing on the November ballot.”

        The Hartford (CT) Courant
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(10/23, Altimari) reports that Biden “has been traveling the country to
stump for Democratic candidates, including this week in Florida, where
there are close races for governor and US Senate. ‘Ned Lamont has dedicated
his life to making sure middle-class families have a fighting chance to get
ahead and stay ahead,’ Biden said earlier this month when he endorsed
Lamont. ‘He’s a person of character and integrity, who is in the public
arena to make a positive difference.’”

        The Stamford (CT) Advocate
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(10/23, Munson) reports, “The high-level Democrat’s visit signals how close
the gubernatorial race is just two weeks before election day. A new poll by
Sacred Heart University and Hearst Connecticut Media released Tuesday found
Lamont and Republican Bob Stefanowski are in a statistical dead heat.”
Trump Endorses Faso For Reelection; Biden To Stump For Delgado On Friday.

President Trump on Tuesday endorsed the reelection bid of NY19 Rep. John
Faso (R), saying in a tweet
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“Congressman John Faso of New York has worked hard and smart. Strong on
Crime, Borders and our 2nd Amendment, John is respected by all. Vote for
John. He has my complete and total Endorsement!” The Kingston (NY) Daily
Freeman
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(10/23, Zangla) reports that Faso is being challenged by attorney Antonio
Delgado (D), who “has received the endorsements of former President Barack
Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden.” In addition, “Biden is
scheduled to appear in Kingston on Friday to stump for Delgado.” The
Poughkeepsie
(NY) Journal
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(10/23, Schutzman) reports that the NY19 “has been deemed a ‘Republican
toss up’ district by the non-partisan Cook Political Report. ... In a Siena
College poll released Monday, Faso and Delgado were separated by a single
percentage point among likely voters.”
Biden To Stump For Cordray In Youngstown On Monday.

The AP
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(10/24) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday “will try to
rally Democratic support in a northeast Ohio area where Republican Donald
Trump drew cross-over voters.” The campaign of ex-federal consumer
protection chief Richard Cordray (D), who is bidding to succeed
term-limited Gov. John Kasich (R-OH), “said Tuesday that Biden will
headline an Oct. 29 rally at Youngstown State University.” The AP says that
Trump “did unusually well for a Republican presidential candidate in the
area in 2016, boosted by blue-collar voters who traditionally went
Democratic.”

        In a brief item, the Youngstown (OH) Vindicator
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(10/23) reports that the event “will be in the Chestnut Room at YSU’s
Kilcawley Center, and is open to the public. Doors will open at 3 p.m. and
the event is expected to start at 4 p.m.” Business Journal (OH)
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(10/23) reports that Biden “will discuss what is at stake for Ohio voters,
and Cordray and Sutton’s ‘focus on putting more money back in the pockets
of middle class families by lowering health care costs, expanding
vocational training, and spreading out economic opportunity around the
state,’” according to a release from the Cordray camp.
Leading the News
DHS Says It “Can Confirm” Caravan Includes Gang Members, Mideast Citizens.

DHS spokesman Tyler Q. Houlton tweeted
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yesterday afternoon, “@DHSgov can confirm that there are individuals within
the caravan who are gang members or have significant criminal histories. ...
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Citizens of countries outside Central America, including countries in the
Middle East, Africa, South Asia, and elsewhere are currently traveling
through Mexico toward the U.S. ...
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Stopping the caravan is not just about national security or preventing
crime, it is also about national sovereignty and the rule of law. Those who
seek to come to America must do so the right and legal way.” The tweets
received very limited media attention. For example, the caravan garnered a
combined six minutes and forty seconds of coverage on the major network
newscasts – but none of the reports mentioned the DHS statement supporting
President Trump’s assertions. The DHS statement came on the heels of
coverage that accused Trump of making his claims in a cynical attempt to
scare voters into supporting Republicans in the midterm elections.

        Axios
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(10/23, Kight), which noted Houlton’s statement, reported DHS had “not yet
responded” to its “request to confirm that those people from other
countries were traveling with the caravan. A department official said they
could not release the data behind their confirmations as it ‘is law
enforcement sensitive.’” Fox News
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(10/23, Dedaj) said, however, that “the statement by the DHS reinforced an
earlier tweet
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from...Trump, in which he maintained that the caravan included ‘criminals
and unknown Middle Easterners.’” The Washington Examiner
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(10/23, Giaritelli) also states DHS “defended claims by...Trump and Vice
President Mike Pence that violent criminals are a component of the Honduran
caravan making its way through Mexico toward the US, after reporters at the
White House questioned how they know that.”

        DHS’ statement was also picked up by a handful of local TV
newscasts across the country. WFAA-TV
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Dallas (10/23, 6:06 p.m. CDT) said, for example, that DHS “confirmed that
some individuals in the caravan are gang members or have significant
criminal histories,” and “that backs up a similar claim by...Trump.”
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Chicago (10/23, 9:16 p.m. CDT) reported, meanwhile, that the “spokesperson
for the Department of Homeland Security said preventing the caravan from
entering the US is about sovereignty and migrants should enter the country
the legal way.”

        To Politico
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(10/23, Schor), DHS “sought to reorient its condemnation of the migration
away from alleged terrorism and toward other alleged criminal activity,”
but “did not respond on the record to a request for data supporting that
claim.” In a story headline “‘In The Service Of Whim’: Officials Scramble
To Make Trump’s False Assertions Real,” meanwhile, the Washington Post
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(10/23, Parker) does not mention the DHS statement, and says that while
Trump’s “claim received extensive news coverage, but administration
agencies did not immediately provide information supporting it.”

        Reporting from Guatemala, however, Fox News contributor Sara Carter
said on Fox News’ Hannity
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(10/23), “We ran into people that were part of MS-13. It appears that there
were other people, as well, other gang members from various different
groups. And there was an enormous amount of men. ... I can tell you what I
saw were very few women and children, and an enormous amount of men. . ...
I saw over 1,000 men, many of them highly organized, wearing the same
backpacks. A few of them told me that it was an organized movement that
they have people contact them and their villages, that is why they were
part of this. ... This is very important for people to understand, this was
not a spontaneous movement. This was a very organized event.”

        NBC Nightly News
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(10/23, story 2, 1:10, Holt) reported, “Trump is stoking anxiety over
illegal immigration” but “we’re fact-checking his warnings.” NBC Nightly
News
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(10/23, story 3, 1:25, Welker) also said Trump “is using the caravan as a
critical midterm closing argument,” and is “undeterred by fact checkers who
questioned his claims – like saying criminals and unknown Middle Easterners
are mixed into the caravan.” Trump was shown saying, “Over the course of
the year, over the course of a number of years, they’ve intercepted many
people from the Middle East. They’ve intercepted ISIS.” NBC added that
yesterday there was “this stunning acknowledgment, when asked if he has any
proof.” Trump said, “There’s no proof of anything. There’s no proof of
anything, but they could very well be.” NBC also cited “a former senior
intelligence official briefed on the caravan” who says “there is no
evidence that any Middle Eastern terrorists are hiding in the caravan.” ABC
World News Tonight
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(10/23, story 4, 0:40, Muir) reported reporters insisted, “But you don’t
have any proof? The President said, again, another quote, there is no proof
of anything. There is no proof of anything, but it could very well be.”

        The CBS Evening News
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(10/23, story 4, 1:05, Jiang), meanwhile, shows Trump saying, “I have very
good information. I have very good information.” CBS added that yesterday
afternoon, “Trump insisted he has proof to back up the controversial claims
he has made about the caravan of migrants heading to the southern border.”
Trump said, “And in that caravan, you have some very bad people. We’re
going to mind MS-13. You’re going to find Middle Eastern, you’re going to
find everything.”

        On CNN’s Situation Room
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(10/23), Jim Acosta referred to Trump’s “racially loaded suggestion that
there are terrorists hiding in the middle” of the caravan, while CNN
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(10/23, Vazquez) reports Trump “defended his unsubstantiated assertion”
despite the fact that “there have been no reports, in the press or publicly
from intelligence agencies, to suggest there are ‘Middle Easterners’
embedded in the caravan.” Politico
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(10/23, Hesson) says Trump has “stirred up a political frenzy – in the
process distorting reality and ignoring basic facts,” and The Hill
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(10/23, Rodrigo) that he “did not shy away from his earlier declarations
about the caravan, saying he had frequently spoken with people who work for
the Border Patrol and that they had told him of intercepting Middle Eastern
people passing through the southern border.” Said Trump, “They have
intercepted many people from the Middle East. ... They’ve intercepted good
ones and bad ones. They have intercepted wonderful people for the Middle
East. And they have intercepted bad ones.” The AP
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(10/23, Long) reports, meanwhile, that “the caravan comes on the heels of a
surge in apprehensions of families at the border, rankling Trump.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/23, Wagner) reports Pence, meanwhile, “said Tuesday that it is
‘inconceivable’ that people of Middle Eastern descent have not joined” the
caravan. Pence stated that “it’s inconceivable that there are not people of
Middle Eastern descent in a crowd of more than 7,000 people advancing
toward our border,” asserting “there are statistics on this.” The Post adds
that “in a statement after his remarks, a Pence spokeswoman made no mention
of terrorists being stopped at the US-Mexico border,” but said, “In 2017
alone the US apprehended on average between 10 suspected terrorists a day
attempting to enter the country illegally. ... And those are just the ones
we catch. It’s inconceivable that this caravan – which is being broadcast
around the globe – hasn’t already been infiltrated with ties to extremism.”

        Breitbart
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(10/23, Caplan) and the Daily Caller
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(10/23, Enjeti) both report “Pence defended...Trump’s assertion,” and
Washington
Post
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(10/23, Blake) that he “vouched...for...Trump’s dubious, unfounded claim,”
but “to do so, he had to use a previously debunked statistic that directly
contradicts his own administration.” Pence said, “In the last fiscal year,
we apprehended more than 10 terrorists or suspected terrorists per day at
our Southern border from countries that are referred to in the lexicon as
‘other than Mexico’ – that means from the Middle East region.” The Post
adds that “unfortunately for Pence, the stat quickly falls apart upon
further inspection,” and Pence spokeswoman Alyssa Farah “tacitly
acknowledges that Pence misstated the stat, and that it’s actually for all
ports of entry.”

        The New York Post
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(10/23, Fredericks) notes that “in June, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
used a ‘10 per day’ number for terrorists and suspected terrorists trying
to enter the US,” but she “wasn’t talking solely about the southern border”
when she said, “In fact, on average, my department now blocks 10 known or
suspected terrorists a day from traveling to or attempting to enter the
United States.” Moreover, “in July 2017, the State Department issued a
report that said there was ‘no credible information that any member of a
terrorist group has traveled through Mexico to gain access to the United
States.’”

        The AP
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(10/23, Miller, Colvin) reports its journalists have been “traveling with
the caravan for more than a week” and have “spoken with Hondurans,
Guatemalans and Salvadorans, but have not met any of the ‘Middle
Easterners’ that Trump claimed had ‘mixed in’ with the Central American
migrants.” However, the AP adds that “it was clear, though, that more
migrants were continuing to join the caravan.”

        Sean Hannity said on Fox News’ Hannity[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(10/23), “One of the shadowy left-wing organizations now involved, their
name is Pueblos Sin Fronteras, explains that its dream is to quote, ‘turn
down border walls imposed by greed.’ Think about what that means. This
group is calling you, we, the American people, greedy for wanting a border
wall or believing in our constitutional republic, our sovereignty, the rule
of law in this country, for wanting to control immigration, for wanting to
know exactly who wants to come into our country, and what reason they want
to be here.”

        Jeff Zeleny said on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(10/23), “The President is clearly trying to have Republicans win the
midterm elections and he is trying to use a scare tactic or a fear
mongering tactic to awaken Republicans to an immigration crisis that
exists, but it certainly is not as urgent as he presents it.”

        Dana Milbank, in his Washington Post
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(10/23), mocked the notion that “a caravan of unarmed, destitute
people...snaking its way through Mexico toward the United States at the
breakneck pace of about three miles per hour” and “still 1,000 miles from
America” could be “a national emergy! So urgent Trump doesn’t have time to
add three letters to make it ‘emergency’! This is bad. Unpresidented, even.
Covfefe!” Adds Milbank, “The genius in Trump’s pre-election emergency: The
asylum seekers, if they reach the border at all, won’t arrive until after
the election. Therefore, he can frighten everybody about the menace they
pose, and voters will be none the wiser.”

        *Pence: Honduran President Told Him Caravan Organized By
Venezuela-Funded “Leftist Groups.” *The Washington Times
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(10/23, Dinan) reports Pence also said yesterday that “Venezuela is funding
the illegal immigrant caravan.” The Times adds that “standing with Mr.
Trump in the Oval Office,” Pence “reported he’d spoken earlier in the day
with the Honduran president, who’d told him the caravan was organized by
‘leftist groups’ and funded by Venezuela, a country deeply at odds with the
administration.”

        *Media Analyses: Trump Appears Focused On Peddling “Falsehoods”
With “Racially-Tinged Rhetoric.” *On NBC’s Today Show[image: Image removed
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(10/23), Peter Alexander reported from the White House that “what is
striking” about Trump’s rhetoric at his rallies is that although “the
economy is strong” and “unemployment is low...instead of talking about his
achievements,” Trump “really is leaning into this message of fear.”
According to Alexander, Trump’s “closing argument focuses on stoking these
fears of illegal immigration, MS-13, shadowy middle-eastern figures.”
Alexander added, “We’ve witnessed in recent days a pace of falsehoods
coming from the President.” At the opening of CNN’s New Day[image: Image
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(10/23), Alysin Camerota similarly asserted that Trump is “waging a
fact-free campaign of fear ahead of the midterm elections. ... There is
racially charged rhetoric and it seems tailor-made for his base.” John
Berman added, “There is no evidence for some of these claims, which might
be the very point. ... The fib is the feature, it’s not a bug. The
falsehood or, in some cases, the lie is meant to scare you. the idea is the
more it is repeated, the more it frightens. The very argument about the
details does some of the work for it.”

        Mika Brzezinski said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(10/23) that Trump’s midterm strategy has been described as “a bet on fear,
falsehoods, and lies.” Brzezinski maintained that Trump’s “claims about the
Honduran ‘caravan’ heading towards the US are steadily being debunked.” Fox
News’ Shepard Smith was then shown saying, “President Trump is calling the
caravan a national emergency and he’s claiming ‘criminals and unknown
middle easterners are mixed in with the crowd.’ An important note: Fox News
knows of no evidence to suggest the President is accurate on that matter
and the President has offered no evidence to support what he has said.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/23, Phillips) reports that ahead of the midterms, Trump is “falling
back into his trademark hard-line anti-immigrant rhetoric.” The Post adds
that “what Trump is saying in the past few weeks makes some of his 2016
rhetoric look fairly tame.” According to the Post, “Whereas Trump in 2016
allowed for some nuance that, say, ‘some’ immigrants in the country
illegally might be good people, in 2018, he routinely describes cities
‘overrun’ with violent, illegal immigrant gangs.”

        The New York Times
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(10/23, Davis) reports that when Trump “began tweeting warnings and threats
about a caravan of migrants headed for the border, his own government could
not explain what he meant.” According to the Times, “Like many of the
president’s tweetstorms, this one appears to have been inspired at least in
part by a report on Fox News – the morning show ‘Fox and Friends,’ a Trump
favorite, to be precise – and included attacks on Democrats, immigrants and
foreign countries.” Under the headline “Fox News And Trump Reboot A
Fearmongering TV Drama From 2014,” the New York Times
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(10/23, Poniewozik) reports, “This has been the year of the TV remake:
reboots of ‘Charmed’ and ‘Magnum P.I.,’ revivals of ‘Murphy Brown’ and
‘Roseanne.’ So maybe it should not be surprising to find Fox News remaking
a hit from 2014: “Terror at the Border,” with a significant role
for...Trump.” Adds the Times, “There’s a reason, after all, TV is full of
remakes. You rarely go broke falling back on a formula that’s worked
before.”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(10/23) reports, “This is Trump at his most Trumpy, two weeks before an
election. The salesman is out pitching promises, fear, riches – anything to
make the sale, never mind if it’s true, and to get Republicans out to
vote.” Trump “not only presents himself and his party as the safeguard
against the Democratic dystopia he conjures, he also promises to lower drug
prices, end opioid addiction and hand out additional tax cuts.”

        Frank Bruni writes in his New York Times
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(10/23) column, “If I listened only to...Trump and those Republican
candidates who follow his example, I would be petrified. I would be living
in a bunker. I would have cyanide capsules at hand.” Bruni adds that “to
prevent a blue wave...the president and his puppets are traveling
audaciously far from the truth and shockingly deep into the gutter. I’ve
seen bad before, but not this. The midterms aren’t just a referendum on
which direction the country will go. They’re also a test of where the
limits of decency and shamelessness are drawn.”

        *Scarborough Appears To Suggest Hitler’s Psychological Profile
Resembles Trump’s. *On MSNBC’s Morning Joe[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/23), after accusing Trump recently lying about the threat of illegal
immigration, among other topics, read from what he said was the United
States Office of Strategic Services’ description of Adolph Hitler’s
“psychological profile.” According to Scarborough, it reads: “His primary
rules were never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or
wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave
room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a
time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a
big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough,
people will sooner or later believe it.”

        *Castro: Caravan Shows Trump “Has Been A Total Failure.” *Former
HUD Secretary Julian Castro said on CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time[image: Image
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(10/23) that the caravan “shows that...Trump has been a total failure when
it comes to immigration. He told us, he told all of us, he and his Attorney
General, that if we would just abuse these families by taking away the
little children from their parents, that it would deter more families from
coming over. And look at how many folks are trying to come over. He was
completely wrong.” Castro added that Trump has been “the biggest failure as
a President on immigration that we can imagine. And so perhaps instead of
buying what he’s selling again, everybody should step back and realize that
he doesn’t have a plan.”

        *Caravan To Continue North Through Mexico As Second Caravan Forms
In El Salvador. *Coverage of the migrant caravan heading towards the US
border continues. The CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/23, story 7, 2:20, Glor) reported that the “mass exodus, organized by
activists in Honduras, is believed to be the largest migrant caravan on
record. An estimated 7,200 people, five times the size of the last one in
April. Most tell us they’re fleeing extreme poverty, but that’s not a
condition for asylum or refugee status in the US.” CBS mentioned that while
the US last year sent more than $308 million in foreign aid to Honduras,
Guatemala, and El Salvador, that aid was “slashed significantly” this year.
At any rate, the caravan stopped in Huixtla, Mexico for a day’s rest. It is
still “more than 900 miles and several weeks from the nearest US border
crossing.” NBC Nightly News
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(10/23, story 2, 1:10, Holt) reported, meanwhile, that some of the migrants
slept in tents, “but most of them out on the street. Aid organizations are
bringing food and water, but these are squalor conditions.”

        The New York Times
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(10/23, Semple, Correal, Averbuch) runs a similar report titled “Migrant
Caravan Driven By Hope But Uncertain Of Success,” in which it describes the
group, “some wearing whatever they had on when they decided to leave behind
Central America, many walking in flimsy shoes and flip-flops, are
determined to make it to the border of the United States.” Adds the Times,
“Traveling in such a large group, they say, is much safer than braving the
many dangers of the road alone.”

        Reuters
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(10/23, Schrank, Menchu) reports that “a group of more than a thousand
Central Americans in Guatemala headed toward the Mexican border on Tuesday
as the first caravan of migrants paused in southern Mexico on its planned
journey toward the US border.” The Wall Street Journal
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(10/23, Pérez, De Córdoba) also reports on the caravan’s progress.

        *1,700 From Caravan Have Reportedly Applied For Asylum In Mexico. *The
AP
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(10/23, Stevenson) reports that “nearly 1,700 from the current caravan have
already dropped out and applied for asylum in Mexico, according to Mexican
authorities, and another 500 have decided to voluntarily return home to
Honduras.” The AP adds that “the numbers could thin out far more as people
decide to take their chances in Mexico or strike out on their own.”

        *Trump Highlights Obama Comments Opposing Illegal Immigration. *The New
York Post
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(10/23, Lapin) reports Trump “used President Obama to make a point on the
immigration issue Tuesday, as he tweeted
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a video of the former president talking about stopping illegal
immigration.” Trump wrote, “I agree with President Obama 100%” above a clip
of then-Sen. Obama “giving a speech in 2005 that contained some
tough-sounding talk on immigration.” Obama said in the clip, “We are a
generous and welcoming people here in the US, but those who enter the
country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law
and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law. ... We
simply cannot allow people to pour into the US undetected, undocumented,
unchecked and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently,
diligently and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.”

        The Washington Times
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(10/23, Morton) says Obama is not “alone among recent Democratic presidents
in talking a tough game on immigration that would instantly earn a shunning
in today’s party. According to a video clip posted earlier this year on the
Republican National Committee website, President Bill Clinton denounced
illegal immigration in his 1995 State of the Union address, even using the
now-verboten term ‘illegal aliens.’”

        *More Than 500,000 Caught Entering US Illegally In Fiscal 2018. *The
Washington Examiner
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(10/23, Giaritelli) reports government data released Tuesday show Trump’s
“vow to secure the border is proving to be a problem.” According to US
Customs and Border Protection, “100,000 more people were caught by federal
law enforcement officers while attempting to illegally enter the United
States from Mexico in fiscal 2018 than the previous year.” From Oct. 1,
2017 through Sept. 30,2018, “a total of 521,090 people were apprehended
between ports of entry as well as denied entry at the ports along the
southwest border from Oct. 1, 2017,” the data show. In a phone briefing
with reporters Tuesday, The Examiner says, “an official” said, “We have a
border crisis that consists of individuals who are family units and
unaccompanied children.” The Washington Times
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(10/23, Dinan) says, “More than 107,000 illegal immigrant parents and
children traveling together were caught by the Border Patrol in fiscal year
2018, shattering the old record of about 78,000 set in 2016.”

        *Unaccompanied Migrant Children Overwhelming Texas Shelters. *
Breitbart
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(10/23, Price) reports that “the massive numbers of unaccompanied minors
who crossed the border from Mexico in recent months” are “overwhelm[ing]
Texas immigration shelters.” Brietbart adds that “immigration officials
placed 5,385 mostly Unaccompanied Alien Children into shelters in Texas,”
as of Oct. 18. That marks an increase “from 5,099 in the previous month.”
According to the Texas Tribune, shelter operators “are asking Texas HHS
officials to approve increases in the number of beds authorized for their
facilities.”

        *Accused Murderer Arrested Illegally Crossing Border With Minor
Son. *Breitbart
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(10/23, Price) reports a Salvadoran migrant who “illegally crossed the
border with his minor son and a large group of families” was arrested by
Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande Valley Sector. According to
Rio Grand Valley Border Patrol officials, agents located “court records
from the sheriff’s office in Richland County, South Carolina, indicating
the Salvadoran national is wanted for murder.”

        *Texas Secretary Of State Asks AG To Investigate Democrats Asking
Non-Citizens To Register To Vote. *The Washington Times
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(10/23, Dinan) reports that Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos has
confirmed that he has asked state Attorney General Ken Paxton to
investigate “the Democratic Party’s attempts to ask non-citizens to sign up
to vote.” The state Democratic Party sent out mail “urging people to sign
up to vote, and warning of deadlines if they didn’t act quickly.” The mail,
some of which went to non-citizens, who are ineligible, “included a voter
application that already had the boxes for age and citizenship status
pre-checked.”

        *San Francisco To Allow Non-Citizens To Vote In Local Election. *The
AP
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(10/23, Rodriguez) reports that next month, San Francisco will become the
largest US city, “and one of only a handful nationwide to allow
noncitizens, including people in the country illegally, to vote in a local
election.” The AP adds that noncitizens “are only allowed to vote in the
city school board race, and the fear that their information may reach US
officials appears to be stronger than the desire to have a say in their
children’s education” as “only 35 noncitizens have signed up to vote as of
Monday, the registration deadline in California.”

        *NH Judge Blocks Law Requiring New Voters To Provide Proof Of
Residency. *Reuters
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(10/22, Bernstein) reports a New Hampshire judge has “put on hold a law
requiring some voters to present proof of residency when they register,
saying it would lengthen lines at polling places and make it difficult for
students, disabled voters and others to cast ballots.” The law “required
those seeking to register within 30 days of an election to present
documents proving that they live in the area where they intend to vote.” If
such proof is not provided, “they must agree to either send it in within 10
days or the state will seek to verify their domicile.” Presiding Justice
Kenneth C. Brown wrote in his decision for the Hillsborough Superior Court
Northern District in Manchester, “Where the law threatens to disenfranchise
an individual’s right to vote, the only viable remedy is to enjoin its
enforcement.”
Foreign Policy
Trump: Khashoggi’s Murder One Of “Worst Cover-Ups In The History Of
Cover-Ups.”

The AP
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(10/23, Press) reports President Trump on Tuesday told reporters the Saudi
operation that killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi was one of the “worst
cover-ups in the history of cover-ups.” Trump told reporters in the Oval
Office, “They had a very bad original concept,” and it was “carried out
poorly.” He added that the events after Khashoggi’s death were “the worst
cover-up ever.” Reuters
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(10/23, Mason) reports Trump “told reporters he wanted to get all the facts
on Khashoggi’s death...before agreeing” with Turkish President Tayyip
Erdogan’s assessment of the Saudi government’s role in the killing. NBC
Nightly News
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(10/23, story 6, 1:40, Holt) said “Trump accused Saudi Arabia not of
murdering the journalist, they admitted that, but doing it badly.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(10/23, Journal) also briefly reports Trump’s comments, and the CBS Evening
News
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(10/23, story 3, 2:25, Glor) said he “weighed in” on Tuesday, “sharply
criticiz[ing] Saudi Arabia for its deception. ... But once again, he
stressed the importance of the US-Saudi relationship.” Jim Acosta said on CNN’s
Situation Room
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(10/23) that while Trump “went further than he has in days in laying out
his frustrations with Saudi Arabia,” the question remains as to “whether
the President will actually deliver any kind of trouble to the Saudi
kingdom.” The New York Times
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(10/23, Landler, Wong) says “the president still appeared to be playing for
time, complaining about how the Saudis botched the crime rather than about
who was behind it.”

        To USA Today
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(10/23, Shesgreen, Jackson), “Trump’s comments represented another reversal
from his initial statements that he found the Saudis explanation of
Khashoggi’s death to be credible,” while the Washington Post
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(10/23, Dawsey) says he “has come under bipartisan criticism for taking a
soft stance on the Saudis and as recently as last weekend called the
government’s story ‘credible.’”

        *Pence Says There Will Be US Response To Khashoggi’s Murder. *The AP
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(10/23, Riechmann) reports Vice President Pence said Tuesday that
Khashoggi’s murder “will not go without an American response,” but
“declined to discuss what punitive action the US might take in response.”
Pence said Trump “will make a decision that reflects the values and
national security interests of the nation and will also ‘make sure the
world knows the truth.’” Pence, “who spoke in Washington at an event hosted
by The Washington Post, said whatever US response the president decides to
make will keep in mind the importance of US relations with Saudi Arabia.”

        *Pompeo: US Revoking Visas Of Saudis Involved In Khashoggi’s Death.
*The CBS Evening News
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(10/23, story 3, 2:25, Glor) reported Secretary of State Pompeo said
Tuesday that the State Department is revoking the visas of “21 Saudi
officials who have now been implicated in the death of...Khashoggi.” Fox
News’ Special Report
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(10/23) reported Pompeo announced the US is “taking steps to revoke the
visas of all those accused in the killing,” along with “other measures in
conjunction with the Congress and US allies.” Fox showed Pompeo saying, “We
are making very clear that the United States does not tolerate this kind of
ruthless action to silence Mr. Khashoggi, a journalist, through violence.”
To the Washington Post
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(10/22, Fahim) the move “represent[s] the Trump administration’s first
concrete step to punish Saudi Arabia.” Pompeo, it notes, also said he is
“also working with the Treasury Department on whether to impose other
sanctions against those responsible for the journalist’s death.” Said
Pompeo, “These penalties will not be the last word on this matter from the
United States.”

        Politico
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(10/23, Sadiq, Toosi) calls it “the first significant step the US has taken
to punish Saudi Arabia over the Khashoggi case,” and on NBC Nightly News[image:
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(10/23, story 6, 1:40, Holt), Richard Engel said, “Without citing direct
evidence, US intelligence officials tell us it’s inconceivable Saudi
Arabia’s crown prince had no connection to the journalist’s murder.” ABC
World News Tonight
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(10/23, story 8, 1:40, Muir) reported that US “lawmakers from both sides of
the aisle claim the orders” to kill Khashoggi “must have come from the
top,” but “so far,” there’s “no indication that the US is holding the Saudi
crown prince responsible.”

        Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) said on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image
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(10/23), “I think we do need to reassess our relationship with Saudi
Arabia.” She said she agrees with Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), who “said we
should stop our refueling assistance to Saudi planes as they’re attacking
in Yemen. We should not...approve any more sales of offensive arms to Saudi
Arabia. And we should have an independent body investigating what happened
to Mr. Khashoggi.”

        *Erdogan Demands Saudi Arabia Turn Over Khashoggi’s Alleged
Murderers. *The AP
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(10/23, Torchia, Gambrell) reports Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
says Saudi Arabia “must identify those who ordered the murder of journalist
Jamal Khashoggi and turn over the suspects for trial.” According to the AP,
Erdogan “delivered a sharp rebuttal of Saudi Arabia’s widely criticized
account that the writer for The Washington Post died accidentally in a
brawl, saying Saudi officials had planned the killing for days.”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(10/23, Bulos) says that while Erdogan vowed Sunday that “the truth” would
be “revealed in full nakedness,” it “remained mostly clothed.” Speaking to
parliament, Erdogan declared that Khashoggi’s slaying had been a “planned
operation,” but “did little to resolve major questions surrounding
Khashoggi’s death” and “stopped short of implicating Crown Prince Mohammad
bin Salman.” The New York Times
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(10/23, Gall, Pérez-Peña) says that while Erdogan “offered some new details
and confirmed others, the speech mainly served to make clear that Mr.
Erdogan had no intention of dropping a case that has created an
international furor.”

        A Washington Post
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(10/23) editorial says that while Erdogan “promised he would deliver the
‘naked truth’...for the most part he failed to deliver, appearing less
interested in revealing what really happened to the Saudi journalist than
in leveraging the murder for political gain. That only sharpens the
argument for an impartial international investigation.” On its editorial
page, the New York Times
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(10/23) praises Turkey’s actions in the case, which it says “has furthered
the cause of justice by refusing to let Saudi Arabia evade responsibility”
for Khashoggi’s killing. The Times acknowledges that “perhaps Mr. Erdogan
sees an opportunity...to use the murder to extort money from the Saudis to
shore up Turkey’s failing economy in exchange for eventually helping to
shift the blame away from the Saudi regime,” but says he has also “created
an opening for improving relations with Mr. Trump and beginning to reverse
its economic decline.”

        *Crown Prince Opens Investment Conference After Meeting With
Khashoggi’s Son, Brother. *The AP
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(10/23, Batrawy) reports that Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative
opened Tuesday, “providing an early indication of Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman’s shifting fortunes” after Khashoggi’s killing. The AP notes that
“top Western executives and officials withdrew from the conference after
Saudi officials killed Khashoggi...in circumstances that are still
disputed. But Russian and Asian investors rushed in, pledging $50 billion
in new deals.” The Crown Prince appeared at the conference “shortly after
he and King Salman received Khashoggi’s son, Salah, and his brother,
Sahel,” and “expressed their condolences, according to the state-run Saudi
Press Agency.”

        Reuters
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(10/23, Torchia, Rashad) points out that “the event is being held at the
opulent Ritz-Carlton, where scores of princes, businessmen and officials
were detained in a crackdown on corruption soon after last year’s
conference ended, unnerving investors and raising concern about
transparency.” Reuters says “Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal,
who was among those detained, appeared at the forum beside MbS, who led the
anti-corruption drive.”

        According to the New York Times
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(10/23, Rappeport), “While the biggest American banks did not send their
top leaders, institutions such as Citigroup and Morgan Stanley sent
midlevel regional executives.” The Times says “many bankers kept their name
tags obscured behind their ties or decided that this was not the year to
speak to the news media.” The Washington Times
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(10/23, Sands) reports that Russia, however, is “not letting the
international furor over the fate of...Khashoggi disrupt its ties with the
oil-rich kingdom.” As US and European “officials and corporate titans were
canceling their travel plans, Russian officials were out in force on the
opening day” of the conference.

        *Arabs Fear Khashoggi Case Could Trigger Regional Instability.
*The Washington
Post
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(10/23, Deyoung, Mekhennet) reports that governments in the region fear
Khashoggi’s killing “may be the most serious threat to the kingdom’s power
and stability in a generation.” What worries the Arabs most, “regional
officials and experts say, is what they see as the danger to their own
stability and security should Saudi Arabia’s status — and its close ties
with the United States — be seriously undermined.” A “senior official from
a Persian Gulf country” told the Post that if the Administration “decides —
or is pressured by Congress and public opinion — to seriously step back
from its alliance with Riyadh, ‘our security is at risk. Iran might see
another opportunity to destabilize.’”

        *Politico Profiles “Unofficial Saudi Ambassador” In Washington. *
Politico
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(10/23, Toosi) reports that “even as evidence mounted last week that a
Saudi Arabian hit squad had murdered and dismembered his friend, Jamal
Khashoggi,” Ali Shihabi — who it calls “a kind of unofficial Saudi
ambassador to the US” — took to Twitter “to do what he does best: defend
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.” Shihabi tweeted, “Leaders and governments
make mistakes, sometimes horrible ones. … But one horrible murder cannot
and will not be allowed to put the country further at risk.” Shihabi, “who
may be the country’s most effective defender in the US capital,” has
“relationships with prominent journalists, Trump administration officials
and think tank experts throughout Washington. The Saudi ambassador left
Washington earlier this month and reportedly may not return, but it matters
less given that many already consider Shihabi, who is close to the Saudi
leadership, to be the kingdom’s unofficial envoy.”

        *Saudis: OPEC To Replace Any Shortages Due To Iran Sanctions.
*Bloomberg
News
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(10/23, Robinson, Summers) reports Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih
said Tuesday that OPEC members are in “produce as much as you can mode” to
meet demand and replace any looming shortages due to Iranian sanctions.

        *Researchers Link Cyberattack On Saudi Petrochemical Plant To
Russia. *The New York Times
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(10/23, Sanger) reports that a new study by the cybersecurity firm FireEye
of the “malicious computer code used in a botched attack on a Saudi
petrochemical plant concludes that much of the effort was coordinated from
inside a state-owned Russian scientific institute, one of the most direct
links between official Russian hackers and a hostile intrusion on a major
piece of infrastructure.” FireEye’s report identifies “the Central
Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics, a technical
research institute in Moscow with ties to Russian governments,” but “leaves
unanswered the question of why Moscow would target a Middle Eastern plant,
even given Russia’s rivalry with Saudi Arabia in the petroleum
marketplace.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(10/23, Volz) reports John Hultquist, director of intelligence at FireEye,
said, “What seems to be clear here is the Russian government has a strong
hand behind this and was heavily involved. It affirms the concern that the
Russians could get into the safety systems, which are sort of the last line
of defense for a lot of these facilities.” The Washington Post
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(10/23, Gregg) reports that “during the attack, the malware triggered a
safety system that shut down operations. Had that not happened, the
attackers could have set off a potentially deadly chain of events, FireEye
researchers said.”

        *Saudis To Give Pakistan Up To $6 Billion To Ease Debt Crisis. *
Reuters
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(10/23, Johnson, Shahzad) reports Saudi Arabia “has agreed to give Pakistan
$3 billion in foreign currency support for a year and a further loan worth
up to $3 billion in deferred payments for oil imports to help stave off a
current account crisis.” According to Reuters, “The $6 billion total
exceeds forecasts by analysts and will likely reduce the size of any
bailout Pakistan it receives from the International Monetary Fund (IMF),
with whom it is currently engaged in talks on a rescue package.” The Saudi
government made the announcement while new Pakistani Prime Minister Imran
Khan is in Saudi Arabia attending the investment conference “that has been
boycotted by several other leaders” in the wake of Jamal Khashoggi’s
murder.
Trump Suggests Possible November Meeting With Putin.

On CNN’s Situation Room
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(10/23), Jim Acosta reported President Trump on Tuesday told reporters that
he “may possibly meet with” Russian President Vladimir Putin “when he goes
to Paris, coming up after the midterm elections.” Reuters
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(10/23, Chiacu) reports that the two “leaders will be in Paris for the
centenary of the end of World War One.” In Moscow, Putin similarly told
National Security Advisor Bolton that he “would like to hold new talks
with” Trump on the sidelines of the commemoration event, “something Bolton
said he believed Trump would look forward to,” Reuters
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(10/23) reports separately.

        The Washington Post
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(10/23, Gearan) reports “both Trump and Putin also are expected to attend
the Group of 20 economic gathering later in November, in Argentina, and a
short meeting between the two had been contemplated there.” The Post notes
that Trump has “also has extended an invitation to Putin to visit
Washington, which administration officials said could yield a second full
summit next year.”

        CQ Roll Call
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(10/23, Bennett) says the “stakes for Trump will be high,” as his first
summit meeting with Putin, which took place “in Finland in July, did not go
so well.” The President “repeatedly demurred on whether Russia meddled in
the election while standing just a few feet from a smirking Russian
president, who awkwardly presented Trump with a World Cup soccer ball at
the conclusion of an equally awkward press conference.” Bloomberg News
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(10/23, Arkhipov, Wadhams) similarly says that the July summit “meeting was
marked by Trump’s apparent acceptance of Russian statements that Moscow
didn’t meddle in the 2016 election, a view quickly refuted by top US
intelligence officials and lawmakers from both parties.”

        In an analysis, the Washington Times
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(10/23, Miller) says Trump’s “often-criticized effort to forge better
relations with Russia has morphed into a confrontational stance that this
week scored economic and national security wins,” so “Putin might be
looking to reset the relationship.” The Times explains that “German
Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that her government is backing
construction of a shipping depot for importing liquefied natural gas from
the US, bowing to Mr. Trump’s demand that she loosen Russia’s grip on the
country’s energy supply.” Trump “then went directly after Moscow” and
announced that the US would withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear
Forces Treaty. He also “accused Russia of violating the missile system ban
for years and, to the Kremlin’s dismay, vowed to force an expensive new
arms race.” The actions have left Putin “riled.”

        *Bolton, Putin Discuss Possible US Withdrawal From INF. *Reuters
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(10/23, Osborn, Soldatkin) reports National Security Adviser Bolton on
Tuesday “had a 90-minute meeting in the Kremlin” with Putin. According to
Reuters, “the Moscow talks appeared to yield no breakthrough over Trump’s
stated desire for Washington to leave the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
(INF), a step Moscow has decried as dangerous and many European countries
have warned could reignite a Cold War-style arms race.” Bolton told
reporters, “There’s a new strategic reality out there.” Bolton added, “In
terms of filing the formal notice of withdrawal, that has not been filed
but it will be filed in due course.”

        CNN’s Situation Room
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(10/23) reported that the “Russians are still fuming” over Trump’s threat
to withdraw from the pact, and “tensions between the two countries [were]
on display between Putin” and Bolton. The Los Angeles Times
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(10/23, Troianovski) reports that while “Bolton gave no specific details on
the next possible U.S. steps to withdraw from the deal to limit
intermediate-range nuclear weapons,” he “echoed Trump’s assertions of
Russian violations of the pact.” Bolton told reporters, “The American
position is that Russia is in violation,” but “Russia’s position is that
they are not in violation. So one has to ask how to ask the Russians to
come back into compliance with something they don’t think they’re
violating.”

        USA Today
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(10/23, Shesgreen) reports that in an interview with Russia’s Kommersat
after the meeting, “Bolton was asked what Russia would have to do to get
the U.S. to reconsider.” In response, Bolton “said only if China and Russia
gave up all their intermediate-range missiles would President Donald Trump
think twice about his decision.” Bolton explained, “If Russia were to
dismantle all of its equipment in violation of the treaty and China did the
same, that that would be a different circumstance.” Yet, Bolton said, “I
think there’s zero chance of that happening.”

        The New York Times
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(10/23, Kramer) says “Bolton offered no details on possible next steps by
the United States to renounce the treaty,” so it “remained possible that
the administration’s decision was not final.” Nonetheless, the Washington
Post
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(10/23, Troianovski) says that “Bolton’s comments seemed sure to disappoint
Germany and other US allies in Europe that have urged Washington to work to
overcome disputes with Russia rather than walking away from the treaty
entirely.” The Post adds that “in a bit of dark humor that underscored the
moment, Putin referred to Washington’s announced withdrawal from the INF
and then quipped about the balance between peace and force represented by
the Great Seal of the United States.” Putin said, “As far as I can
remember, the US seal depicts an eagle on one side holding 13 arrows and on
the other side an olive branch with 13 olives. Here’s the question: Did
your eagle already eat all the olives and only the arrows are left?”

        *Bolton: Russia’s Election Meddling Backfired. *Reuters
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(10/23) reports that while in Moscow, Bolton also “said Russian meddling in
U..elections had backfired...providing a lesson to the Kremlin.” CNN’s
Situation Room
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(10/23) broadcast Bolton warning Russia, “Don’t mess with American
elections.” Rich Edson of Fox News’ Special Report[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(10/23) reported that Bolton “says the US is still evaluating whether to
add more sanctions next month” against Russia for its election
interference, as well as the poisoning of a former Russian spy in the UK.

        *US Cyber Command Targets Individual Russians In Effort To Secure
US Elections. *The New York Times
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(10/23, Barnes) reports that a new US Cyber Command campaign is “targeting
individual Russian operatives to try to deter them from spreading
disinformation to interfere in elections, telling them that American
operatives have identified them and are tracking their work.” According to
the Times, “The operations come as the Justice Department outlined on
Friday a campaign of ‘information warfare’ by Russians aimed at influencing
the midterm elections, highlighting the broad threat the American
government sees from Moscow’s influence campaign.” Defense officials
declined to disclose “how many individuals they were targeting, and they
would not describe the methods that Cyber Command has used to send the
direct messages to the operatives behind the influence campaigns.” To the
Times, however, the “operations appear relatively measured, especially in
comparison with the increasingly elaborate and sophisticated efforts by
Russia to use disinformation to sow dissent in the United States.”

        The CBS Evening News
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(10/23, story 9, 1:00, Glor) says the campaign is “the first known
offensive against Russian operatives suspected of spreading
disinformation.” The Washington Post
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(10/23, Nakashima) reports that the operation was launched in recent days
“under a new presidential order easing restrictions on offensive cyberspace
actions against foreign networks and represents Cyber Command’s initial
foray into safeguarding US elections, officials said.” Officials said the
implicit warnings are “meant to stay below the level of an armed attack, so
as not to provoke” Russian counterattacks. According to the Post, however,
“it is not clear how effective a deterrent such warnings will be against
Russian operatives such as those who brazenly assaulted US political
campaigns and ran disinformation operations to sow discord in the 2016
election season and sought to tip it in favor of Donald Trump.”

        *WSJournal Outlines How Banker Exposed Multibillion-Dollar Russian
Money-Laundering Scheme. *A Wall Street Journal
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018102401biden&r=email-c1e5&l=08a-99e&t=c>
(10/23, Hope, Hinshaw, Kowsmann) analysis details how Danske Bank’s Estonia
branch was used to launder more than $230 billion from Russia and former
Soviet states, as revealed by hundreds of internal documents and interviews
with dozens of Danske Bank officials and bankers. The suspicious
transactions were initially discovered by Howard Wilkinson, a former
British trader at the Danske bank in Estonia.
Treasury Dept. Announces Sanctions Against Taliban Actors, Iranian Sponsors.

The Washington Free Beacon
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(10/23, Damron) reports that the Treasury Department on Tuesday announced
sanctions against nine people “who were identified as Taliban actors by the
department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)” and the Terrorist
Financing Targeting Center (TFTC). The moves were part of a broader effort
by the Treasury Department and the TFTC to “expose and disrupt Taliban
actors and their Iranian sponsors that seek to undermine the security of
the Afghan Government.” Treasury Secretary Mnuchin said in a statement,
“Iran’s provision of military training, financing, and weapons to the
Taliban is yet another example of Tehran’s blatant regional meddling and
support for terrorism.” Mnuchin added, “The United States and our partners
will not tolerate the Iranian regime exploiting Afghanistan to further
their destabilizing behavior. Iran’s support to the Taliban stands in stark
violation of United Nations Security Council Resolutions and epitomizes the
regime’s utter disregard for fundamental international norms.”
Appeals Court Upholds Life Sentence For Abu Hamza.

The New York Post
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(10/23, Whitehouse) reports that a federal appeals court in Manhattan has
“largely upheld the guilty verdict and life prison sentence “of an English
cleric and convicted terrorist known as “Hook Hand.” A panel of three
federal appeals court judges said the life sentence of Mustafa Kamel
Mustafa, also known as Abu Hamza al-Masri, was perfectly reasonable “given
the severity of Mustafa’s criminal conduct.” The judges also “rejected
requests for Mustafa, who has no hands and one eye, serve his life sentence
in a medical facility — or at least not in the maximum-security prison in
Florence, Colorado where he has been placed.” The AP
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(10/23) notes that in 2014, Mustafa was convicted “of supporting terrorist
organizations by ensuring there were satellite communications for
kidnappers during a 1998 attack on tourists in Yemen, of supporting plans
to open an al-Qaida training camp in Bly, Oregon, and sending someone to an
Afghanistan training camp.”
HRW Condemns Palestinian Authority, Hamas Detention, Torture Of Journalists.

The Washington Post
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(10/23, Taha) reports that Human Rights Watch has “released a damning
report...about the Palestinian leadership’s persecution of journalists and
activists, shining a spotlight on the extreme lengths to which the
Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip go to
curb dissenting voices.” According to the Post, “The report documents more
than 80 cases of torture and arbitrary arrests, some for nothing more than
writing a critical article or Facebook post, others for belonging to the
wrong student group or political movement.” HRW’s Tom Porteous is quoted as
saying, “The attacks by both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas on
dissidents and demonstrators, reporters and bloggers are both systematic
and unpunished.”
EU Rejects Italy’s Proposed 20119 Budget Over Deficit Concerns.

The New York Times
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(10/23, Erlanger) reports that “in a stinging and rare rebuke to a core
member,” the European Commission has “sent Italy’s proposed budget back to
its populist government...saying that it posed unacceptable risks to Italy
and the eurozone.” The EC told the Italian government “that it would have
to rewrite its draft 2019 budget and reduce its deficits, or face heavy
fines early next year.” According to the Times, “It was the first time that
the European Union had rejected the proposed budget of a member nation that
uses the euro, setting up a confrontation between Brussels and the
euroskeptic government that took power in Rome this year.”
Trump “Billions” Coming Into US “Coffers” From Tariffs.

President Trump yesterday claimed that the country is benefiting greatly
from his trade policies, tweeting
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“Billions of dollars are, and will be, coming into United States coffers
because of Tariffs. Great also for negotiations – if a country won’t give
us a fair Trade Deal, we will institute Tariffs on them. Used or not, jobs
and businesses will be created. U.S. respected again!”

        *Reuters, WSJournal: US Corporate Earnings Slow Due To Tariffs. *
Reuters
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(10/23, Randall) reports the US corporate earnings growth “is slowing after
a bumper start to the year, and the reality of an escalating trade war
between two of the world’s largest economies is starting to weigh on
companies ranging from Caterpillar Inc. to Ford Motor Co.” While earnings
growth is “still high at 22 percent so far this quarter, the amount by
which S&P 500 index companies are beating analyst estimates is nearly half
of what it was during the first quarter, according to Refinitiv data.”

        In fact, a second Reuters
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(10/23, Singh) report says Caterpillar shares “are down about 25 percent
since late January amid deepening US-China trade tensions and soaring raw
material and freight costs for local manufacturers,” and the Wall Street
Journal
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(10/23, A1, Hufford) likewise reports on its front page that Caterpillar
shares fell 8.8% on Tuesday after the company said tariffs implemented by
the Administration earlier this year on foreign steel and aluminum made
parts for the machinery it manufactures in the US more expensive.

        *Harley-Davidson Posts Steep Sales Decline Following Feud With
Trump. *Breitbart
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(10/23, Binder) reports Harley-Davidson “has suffered a drop in sales
following the company’s recent feud with President Trump over keeping US
jobs in the country.” According to Breitbart, “Harley-Davidson experienced
a 13 percent decrease in sales, which is the company’s largest quarterly
drop in sales in more than eight years, after executives at Harley-Davidson
feuded with Trump over tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.” Breitbart
notes that Trump “hinted that American consumers should boycott
Harley-Davidson due to their moving some of its United States manufacturing
and production overseas.”

        *Kudlow Plays Down Expectations For Deal During Trump-Xi Meeting At
G20. *The Washington Times
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(10/23, Muñoz) reports Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet at
the G20 summit in November, NEC Director Larry Kudlow confirmed Tuesday.
Kudlow “did not reveal any details about the meeting, which many were
unsure would actually take place, but told reporters outside the White
House that both world leaders will meet in Argentina.”

        Appearing on Fox News’ Fox & Friends[image: Image removed by
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(10/23), Kudlow said of the meeting, “I don’t know what the agenda is going
to be. A lot of people are working behind the scenes here to try to figure
that out. It could be important or it may be not. It’s the first time they
have met in quite some time. ... It is not going to be detailed trade
discussion, and, of course, there are lots of other issues. ... It is early
to speculate on how that is going to go. My general view is: Better to talk
than not talk. But if it is not substantive and significant, I don’t know,
maybe not.” Bloomberg News
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(10/23, Donnan, Leonard, Martin, Sink) reports that expectations for the
meeting “are already being lowered with officials from both sides
increasingly pessimistic about prospects for a resolution to their
deepening trade war.” Kudlow said “the hope...was that ‘the two presidents
agree on some basic principles,’” although Kudlow “warned that he wouldn’t
predict that.”

        The AP
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(10/23, Bodeen) says the Administration’s “move to expand Washington’s
dispute with Beijing beyond trade and technology and into accusations of
political meddling has sunk relations between the world’s two largest
economies to the lowest level since the Cold War.” The state-controlled
China Daily recently described comments from Secretary of State Pompeo as
“both ignorant and malicious,” but adds that Vice President Pence’s recent
speech in which he “accused China of interfering in the midterm elections
to undermine” President Trump’s trade agenda was “the clearest,
highest-level sign that US strategy was turning from engagement to
confrontation.”

        Bloomberg News
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(10/23, News) reports that many US executives are telling analysts that
they are “ready to relocate supply chains if the cost of importing Chinese
goods becomes prohibitive.”

        *Report: California Has Lost More Than Half A Million Jobs To
China. *The Los Angeles Times
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(10/23, Roosevelt) reports California has “lost more jobs to China than any
other state since 2001, fueled by Silicon Valley outsourcing and the
continued shrinking of Southern California’s apparel industry,” according
to a report released Tuesday by the Economic Policy Institute. According to
the report, “some 562,500 jobs were displaced in the Golden State, the
equivalent of a 3.34% share of California’s total employment of 16.8
million jobs in 2017.” To the Times, “most striking was the huge
displacement in computer and electronic parts employment, according to the
report, which found a net of 1,209,900 US jobs eliminated, 36% of the total
losses in manufacturing.”

        *Ford Appoints New CEO In China, Creates New China Unit. *The Detroit
News
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(10/24, Thibodeau) reports Ford Motor Co. is “creating a new business unit
for its operations in China – and will appoint a Chinese national as the
president and CEO starting Nov. 1, the automaker announced Tuesday.” Anning
Chen will take the helm of Ford China after the company’s last CEO there,
Jason Luo, “resigned in January after only six months.” The News says
Chen’s hiring “comes as CEO Jim Hackett pushes his executive team to grow
Ford’s footprint in China, the company’s No. 2 market behind the United
States.”

        *WTO Members Work To Overhaul Trade Body Amid Trump Criticism.
*The Wall
Street Journal
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(10/23, Schlesinger, Vieira, Peker) reports that President Trump’s
complaints about the World Trade Organization have prompted US allies to
seek ways to overhaul the trade body before the Administration’s protests
reduce its effectiveness. Canada is hosting a summit opening Wednesday with
a dozen other nations to build support for changes addressing the
Administration’s criticisms, including concerns that the WTO doesn’t do
enough to address intellectual-property protections.
Domestic Policy
Trump Says His Nationalism Not Linked To Race, Means He “Loves Our Country.”

Jonathan Karl reported on ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by
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(10/23, story 2, 1:05, Muir) that President Trump has “got a new brand for
himself.” Trump was shown saying, “You know what I am, I’m a nationalist,
okay? I’m a nationalist.” Karl added, “‘Nationalism’ is a racially loaded
term. In the Oval Office today, he was asked if he’s trying to appeal to
white nationalists.” Trump said, “I have never even heard that. I cannot
imagine that. You mean – I’m a nationalist, no, I never heard that theory
about being a nationalist. I’ve heard them all. But I’m somebody that loves
our country.” On NBC Nightly News
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(10/23, story 4, 0:30, Holt), Kristen Welker reported that Trump said
“‘nationalism’ means putting America first when it comes to trade and
foreign policy. When asked if he’s trying to stoke fears on immigration,
President Trump saying no, he’s not a political person, and that’s why he
won.”

        Fox News’ Special Report
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(10/23) reported that while nationalism is “often associated with extreme
right-wing groups,” Trump “says he is merely putting the interests of the
United States and its citizens first, particularly on issues like trade.”
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(10/23) reported that Trump “denied there were any racial overtones” to the
use of the term nationalist, saying he meant it in “mostly economic terms –
trade protectionism and so on.” Politico
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(10/23, Choi) reports, “Trump’s critics had long used the term to disparage
the president as chauvinistic and parochial, but he’s taken ownership of
the word with pride.” The CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/23, story 6, 0:50, Glor) and The Hill
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(10/23, Samuels) both briefly covered Trump’s remarks and his assertion
that he has not heard of the link between nationalism and racism.

        Peter Baker of the New York Times
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(10/23) writes, “There is a reason other presidents generally do not use
that word about themselves. Typically, the term ‘nationalist’ is employed
by the United States government to describe political figures and forces in
other countries that sometimes represent a threat.” But Trump
“enthusiastically embraced words and ideas that his predecessors shied away
from. He adopted the slogan ‘America First’ to describe his foreign policy
despite its association with isolationists and Nazi sympathizers in the
years before World War II and calls some journalists the ‘enemy of the
people’ despite the association with Stalin’s mass murders.”

        Aaron Blake of the Washington Post
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(10/23) writes, “The Washington Post and the New York Times both wrote
Monday night about President Trump’s increasingly overt attempts to divide
the American electorate by stoking racial fears. That same night, Trump
used a very telling word that both confirms that narrative and threatens to
divide our country even more.”

        Kaitlan Collins said on CNN’s The Lead[image: Image removed by
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(10/23), “It is interesting in and of itself to see the President labeling
himself as a nationalist. ... There is a reason presidents typically do not
use that word because it has such a negative connotation of extremism.
That’s why people say they’re patriots because patriotism is loving your
country for what it does, nationalism is loving your country no matter what
it does.”

        *Hirono: “He Knows Very Well What He Is Talking About.” *Sen. Mazie
Hirono (D-HI) said on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/23), “We should stop giving him the benefit of the doubt that he
doesn’t understand what he means when he refers to nationalists or any of
these other terms. These are not just dog whistles, but it’s bullhorns.
It’s racism. It’s basically, for many people, anti-Semitic. It’s white
supremacy. He knows very well what he is talking about even if he professes
otherwise.”
NYTimes, WPost: Transgender People, Families Feel Like Political “Pawns.”

The New York Times
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(10/23, Stack) reports under the headline “Two Weeks Before Midterms,
Transgender People Feel Like ‘Pawns’” that “when the news broke on Sunday
morning, many transgender people, world-weary, saw it as grimly
predictable.” With the midterm elections nearing, the Trump Administration
“was considering a new move that would undermine federal civil rights
protections for the transgender community.” Michigan college professor
Gabrielle Bychowski said, “This is a very evidently political move done,
approaching the midterms, to garner favor with a portion of the American
public who would be encouraged and pleased by this news. It’s a reminder
that pain is a political tool. A certain portion of the American population
takes pleasure at the pain of others.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/23, Schmidt) reports that “parents of transgender children across the
country described feelings of numbness and dread following the news of the
proposed shift in policy.” While it is “unclear what the change would
entail, or whether such regulations would even be adopted, parents quickly
jumped to the defensive,” moving to “finalize name and gender changes on
their children’s birth certificates and passports, seeking every possible
safety net.” Additionally, the Washington Post
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(10/23) says in an editorial that the Administration “is trying to tell
people they are not who they know they are. It will not work – but in the
meantime the effort will hurt innocent people.” The policy shift would also
“represent one more broken promise from President Trump, who vowed in his
2016 campaign to be more enlightened on LGBTQ issues.”
To Media Skepticism, Brady Confirms He’s Working With Trump On Middle-Class
Tax Cut.

Reuters
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(10/23, Morgan) reports Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said
yesterday “he is working with the White House and Treasury to develop a new
10 percent tax middle-class tax cut plan that President Donald Trump began
touting last week.” Brady “said the measure would be crafted in ‘coming
weeks’ and would advance in Congress if Republicans retain control of the
House and Senate in midterm elections on Nov. 6.” CQ Roll Call
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(10/23, McPherson) says Trump’s announcement “seemed like a far fetched
idea until Brady put out” his statement, and adds that though it “played
into the president’s narrative...it seemed to slow down the timeframe to
allow the midterm elections to pass and Congress to come back into
session.”

        Nonetheless, ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/23, story 3, 1:30, Karl) reported that “as he makes the final
[campaign] push, the President is unleashing a torrent of exaggerations and
claims that just aren’t true. For example, on taxes.” Trump was shown
saying, “We’re going to be putting in a 10 percent tax cut for
middle-income families. It’s going to be put in next week, 10 percent tax
cut.” ABC added that “Republican leaders say they know of no such tax
plan.” Along similar lines, under the headline “Trump Is Not Going To Cut
Middle-Class Taxes This Year, Despite What He Says,” the New York Times
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(10/23, Tankersley) reports that Brady’s “office has provided no detail
about what Mr. Trump might be talking about.”

        Also despite Brady’s words, Politico
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(10/23, Faler) reports “Trump announced seemingly out of the blue over the
weekend...has left much of Washington’s tax world scratching their heads,”
and The Hill
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(10/23, Elis) that the President “caught Congress and the administration
off guard by promising a new round of tax cuts before the November midterm
elections.” The CBS Evening News
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(10/23, story 5, 0:35, Glor) reported Trump said last night, “We’ll do the
vote after the election,” and that “a few hours later, he moved up the
deadline.” Trump was shown saying, “It’s going to be put in next week.”
Yesterday, meanwhile, Trump stated, “We’re putting in a resolution probably
this week – I think you folks know about it.” CBS went on to report that
Brady “said in a statement they will work with the White House over the
coming weeks to develop an additional 10 percent tax cut. “

        Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Hassett said on MSNBC Live[image:
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(10/23), “The President has spoken about it on the stump and he’s very
serious about it. Already, people with an income of $75,000, say in a
family of four, say they have received a tax cut of $2,000. President Trump
said he’s not satisfied with that, that he wants he wants to have another
10 percent middle-class tax cut moving forward.”

        *Kudlow: Trump’s 10% Middle-Class Tax Cut Is In “Planning Stage.” *At
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(10/23), Steve Doocy said that at his rally in Houston last night, Trump
“unveiled...a 10% middle-class tax cut.” Doocy added that Trump “didn’t
have a lot of details,” and noted that, “of course, Congress is not in
session.” Appearing later on Fox News’ Fox & Friends[image: Image removed
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(10/23), NEC Director Larry Kudlow said the President’s proposed
middle-class tax cut is in “the planning stage.” Kudlow said that already,
“We’ve had tax cuts, very effective help for the middle class. Their tax
liability is down about $2,000 for a family of four.” But Kudlow said Trump
“would like to go for more.” Kudlow continued, “He is a tax cutter. That is
a big difference from his predecessor, who was a tax-hiker – and we’re
going to try to work out some of the details on his proposal for a 10
percent middle class tax cut.”

        *Trump Advisers Mull “Symbolic Vote” On Proposed Middle-Class Tax
Cut. *The Washington Post
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(10/23, Werner) reports that “behind...Trump’s talk of an imminent
middle-class tax cut, his advisers are holding discussions on a far more
modest proposal to ask Congress to eventually hold a symbolic vote
promising a tax cut in the future.” According to the Post, “Advisers have
discussed the idea of having Congress vote on a symbolic ‘resolution’ for a
future 10 percent tax cut for the middle class” as “part of their scramble
to meet Trump’s demand for rapid action to blunt Democrats’ economic
messaging ahead of the midterm elections.” The Post says the resolution,
while not binding, “would attempt to send a signal to the public that
Republicans are focused on helping middle-class families.”
Kudlow Rejects Obama’s Claim Of Credit For Economy’s Strength.

The Daily Caller
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(10/23, Enjeti) reports that in an appearance on Fox News’ Fox & Friends[image:
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National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow “fired back at former
President Barack Obama’s claim of credit for the robust state of the US
economy.” Kudlow said, “I don’t think he is right, with all respect to
former President Obama. ... Under his stewardship the so-called recovery
was, I don’t know, 2 percent average per year, which is really the worst
since the, I believe, since the depression. … Already, we have beaten our
critics, including Obama’s staff people.”

        *Trump: Powell “Almost Looks Like He’s Happy Raising Interest
Rates.” *The Wall Street Journal
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(10/23, Bender, Ballhaus, Nicholas, Leary) reports that in a Tuesday
interview, President Trump stepped up his criticism of Federal Reserve
Chairman Jerome Powell. Trump said, “Every time we do something great, he
raises the interest rates,” and Powell “almost looks like he’s happy
raising interest rates.” Trump also said it is “too early to say, but
maybe” he regrets nominating Powell. Felix Salmon of Axios tweeted
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018102401biden&r=email-c1e5&l=0b9-b63&t=c>,
“Now Powell *has to* keep on hiking, lest people believe the central bank
has lost its independence.”

        *GOP Senators Oppose Trump’s Nomination Of Liang To Fed. *The New
York Times
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(10/23, Appelbaum) reports that Trump’s nomination of Nellie Liang to the
Federal Reserve’s board of governors “is eliciting a rare show of public
opposition from some Senate Republicans, who want the Fed to loosen its
grip on large banks.” While the White House and Fed Chairman Powell have
sought to “make the case” for Liang, the Republicans, “including members of
the Senate Banking Committee, have continued to express concerns about Ms.
Liang’s record on financial regulation.” A spokesman for Senator Thom
Tillis (R-NC) said Tuesday that he has “serious concerns about Nellie Liang
due to several policy positions she laid out during her time” at the
Brookings Institution.

        *Volcker Says Reagan Ordered Him Not To Raise Rates Before ‘84
Election. *Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times
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(10/23) interviews former Fed Chair Paul Volcker, who tells him that in
1984, White House Chief of Staff James Baker said to Volcker, “The
president is ordering you not to raise interest rates before the election.”
Volcker says Reagan was in the room but “didn’t say a word.” The Times
notes that Trump has been criticized for second guessing the Fed’s interest
rate hikes, and says Volcker’s anecdote shows that Trump “isn’t the first
to try to influence the independent Federal Reserve.”
Azar: Overdose Deaths Have “Begun To Plateau.”

The AP
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(10/23, Alonso-Zaldivar, Johnson) reports that according to HHS Secretary
Azar, “the number of US drug overdose deaths has begun to level off after
years of relentless increases driven by the opioid epidemic.” In remarks at
a Milken Institute event, Azar said, “We are so far from the end of the
epidemic, but we are perhaps, at the end of the beginning.” Azar “said in
his speech that toward the end of last year and through the beginning of
this year, the number of deaths ‘has begun to plateau.’”

        The Washington Post
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(10/23, Bernstein) reports that Azar also said the Trump Administration is
increasing aid to mothers and infants affected by substance abuse. Azar
said HHS “would launch its first program ‘specifically devoted to helping
address the effects the opioid crisis is having on mothers and infants.’”
Azar tweeted
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018102401biden&r=email-c1e5&l=0be-ae7&t=c>,
“Mothers will receive prenatal care, treatment for their substance use
disorder, and referrals to community and support services. Following birth,
the mother and infant will continue to receive an integrated set of
services.”
Pence Will Not Rule Out Deployment Of Nuclear Weapons In Space.

The Washington Post
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(10/23, Costa) reports that in an interview, Vice President Pence “declined
to rule out the idea of deploying nuclear weapons in space, saying that the
current ban on their use is ‘in the interest of every nation’ but that the
issue should be decided on ‘the principle that peace comes through
strength.’” Pence said, “What we need to do is make sure that we provide
for the common defense of the people of the United States of America, and
that’s the President’s determination here.” The 1967 Outer Space Treaty
“outlawed weapons of mass destruction in space, including nuclear weapons.”
Pence said the Administration sees no immediate need to amend the treaty.

        The Washington Times
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(10/23, Muñoz) reports that Pence, speaking at the National Defense
University, “declared space is a ‘war fighting domain’ on Tuesday while
promoting new policy proposals for the Trump administration’s Space Force.”
Pence said, “Space is a war fighting domain just like the land, air, and
sea. And America will be as dominant there as we are here on Earth.”
FBI Investigating Pipe Bomb Found At Soros’ Home In New York.

The CBS Evening News
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018102401biden&r=email-c1e5&l=0c1-ce7&t=c>
(10/23, story 8, 0:25, Glor) reported the FBI is “searching for the person
who hand delivered a pipe bomb to the home of billionaire financier George
Soros” in New York. The bomb was placed in the home’s mailbox, and “was
loaded with explosive black powder. It was later detonated by authorities.” ABC
World News Tonight
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018102401biden&r=email-c1e5&l=0c2-960&t=c>
(10/23, story 5, 1:45, Muir) reported that a “senior law enforcement
official describing the device as no hoax, similar to a pipe bomb. ...
While authorities are still trying to pin down a motive, investigators say
that mailbox bomb is alarming, amid a backdrop of increasingly hostile
political rhetoric.” NBC Nightly News
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(10/23, story 5, 1:30, Holt) reported Soros is “blaming what he calls the
politics of hate for the bomb planted at his New York estate.” Soros, NBC
noted, has been “the target of a false conspiracy theory by a conservative
Florida Congressman, with this video, who is supposedly paying migrants to
join the caravan. In a statement, his foundation urging politicians ‘across
the political spectrum to tone down their rhetoric. Words have
consequences.’”
WPost Survey Of 69 House Battlegrounds Shows Narrow Democratic Lead.

The Washington Post
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(10/22, Clement) reports, “The contest for control of the House remains
close and hard fought, according to a new Washington Post-Schar School poll
of the most-contested districts in the country.” The survey of the 69
district shows Democratic candidates at 50% backing, with Republicans
backed by 47%. That is “only a marginal change in the race during October.”
All but six of the districts “are currently represented by a Republican in
the House. Collectively these battleground districts voted strongly for
Republicans in the 2016 election.” The Washington Examiner
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(10/23, Yilek) briefly covers the Post poll.

        Mo Elleithee of Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and
Public Service, said on Fox News’ Special Report[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(10/23), “Let’s make no mistake: Anyone on the Democratic side that thinks
there’s going to be a blue tsunami needs to check their expectations. I
think Democrats are still poised to take back the House, but by a narrow,
narrow majority. It is going to be more like a mini-wave.”

        *FiveThirtyEight: Democrats Have 85% Chance Of Taking House. *As of
midnight Oct. 24, political prognosticator Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight
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(10/24, Silver) website gave Democrats an 85.2% chance of retaking the
House majority in November’s election.

        *Cook Moves Eight Races Toward Democrats, Two Toward Republicans. *The
Hill
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(10/23, Brufke) reported that Cook Political Report on Tuesday “shifted
eight House races toward Democrats and two in favor of Republicans.” Of the
eight races shifted toward Democrats, only one moved from “lean Republican”
to “toss-up” and only one moved from “toss-up” to “lean Democrat.”

        *NYTimes: Booming Economy Buoying GOP Candidates In Key House
Districts. *Under the headline “What Could Hold Back A Democratic Wave?
Economy, Confidence, Independence,” the New York Times
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(10/23, Cohen, Ember) reports that President Trump and GOP leaders “are
increasingly bullish about Republican voters and moderate independents
rallying behind the party’s candidates rather than taking a chance on a
Democratic challenger or a Democratic-controlled House.” The Times says
“lost in all the talk about a Democratic blue wave is a set of sober
reality checks – from the quantifiable to the emotional – that may help
Republicans reduce their losses, and possibly even retain their 23-seat
majority.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(10/23, Weaver) reports that “many Republicans are now daring to hope that
they’ll either keep the House majority or lose it by the slimmest of
margins. According to an informal poll of ten GOP House members, aides, and
operatives two weeks before election day, neither party will have more than
a five-seat majority.”

        *White House Report Links Democrats To Socialism, Warns Of Economic
Peril. *In what Politico
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(10/23, Rodriguez) describes as the White House’s “latest broadside linking
Democrats to socialism,” the Council of Economic Advisers on Tuesday
“wield[ed] a normally apolitical sword: an economic report.” The Council
released “a 72-page report that used China, Cuba, the Soviet Union,
Venezuela and Nordic countries to illustrate the potential dangers of
socialism to the US economy.” The report
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says, “We estimate that if the United States were to adopt these policies,
its real [gross domestic product] would decline by at least 19 percent in
the long run, or about $11,000 per year for the average person.” Politico
says the “economic analysts behind the report also harped on President
Donald Trump’s favorite example of failed socialist economic policy:
Venezuela.”

        The Washington Free Beacon
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(10/23, Lehman) says the CEA argues that “socialist proposals like
Medicare-for-All...are less likely to succeed than their capitalist
counterparts for well-established reasons: central planning and government
bureaucracy are generally worse at the provision of services than the
private sector.” The New York Times
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(10/23, Appelbaum, Tankersley) says the report “seek[s] to link President
Trump’s political rivals with figures reviled by most Americans.” The Times
adds that in the report, which “seeks to tar Democrats by linking them with
the failed economic policies of communist governments in China, the Soviet
Union and other countries,” the word socialism “appears 144 times — on
average, twice a page.”

        Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Hassett said on Fox Business
Making Money
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(10/23) that “there a lot of people bandying about the world socialist that
maybe even don’t understand that word means. We haven’t put out a political
document, but rather an academic one that goes through the history of
socialism, and really how terrible it has been for the people who have
adopted it.”

        *Democrats Back “Medicare For All” In Half Of Contested House
Races. *USA Today
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(10/23, Gaudiano, Groppe) reports a new survey by National Nurses United,
“which supports a government-run, single-payer” healthcare system, shows
that in “just over half” the US House races in which there is a Democrat on
the ballot, Democratic candidates “are backing a Medicare for all approach
to the nation’s health care system.” USA Today says the number “shows how
the idea has risen in popularity even as Republicans attack the plan as
socialized medicine.” However, USA Today adds, “polls show the public is
still fuzzy on the details of ‘Medicare for all,’ and support drops when
they’re given more information.”

        *Political Scientist: Early Voting Indicates Turnout May Be Highest
In At Least A Half-Century. *The New York Times
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(10/23, Stack) reports, “Early voting for the midterm elections has begun
in states across the country, and enthusiasm – and voter turnout – both
appear to be high, with hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots arriving
in Florida and voters lining up around the block in Texas.” University of
Florida political scientist Michael McDonald says the data could indicate
the largest midterm turnout since at least 1966. Nationwide, more than
seven million people have already voted.

        *Egan: To Win Next Month, Democrats Should Focus On Policy. *Timothy
Egan writes in his New York Times
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(10/23) column that “the two biggest political thrusts of the Party of
Trump – a tax cut for the rich that opened a tsunami of debt, and trying to
take away health care from millions – are widely unpopular,” and if
Democrats focus on them, they will do well in November. While it is
“frustrating, during a week in which Trump has probably set a record for
most lies to come out of a White House in so short a time, to stay focused
on boring policy,” the President “is counting on people being stupid, and
easily distracted.”

        *Friedman: To Restore “Best Of American Values,” Vote For
Democrats. *In his New York Times
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(10/23) column, Thomas Friedman writes, “In the midterm elections, vote for
a Democrat. ... I don’t say that because I’m particularly liberal and want
to shift the whole country to the liberal agenda. I say that because I’m
particularly American and I want to put the best of American values back at
the center of our diplomacy and politics.” Friedman says President Trump
“has spent two years attacking our best values – truth and trust – and I
believe that Democrats getting a lever of power is necessary, but not
sufficient, to reverse that.”
Cancer Research
Researchers See Better Outcomes With RT For Black Patients With Prostate
Cancer.

Medscape
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(10/23, Nelson) reports that while “population-based studies have suggested
that, compared with white men, black men are at higher risk of dying from
prostate cancer,” an analysis indicates “that black men may achieve
comparatively higher cure rates when treated with radiation therapy.”
Medscape adds, “This is the first study demonstrating improved prostate
cancer outcomes for this population compared with whites.” The findings
were presented at the American Society for Radiation Oncology 2018.
Tall People At Greater Risk Of Cancer, Study Suggests.

The Guardian (UK)
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(10/24, Davis) reports a study
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published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B found that “taller
people have a greater risk of cancer because they are bigger and so have
more cells in their bodies in which dangerous mutations can occur.” Lead
author Leonard Nunney, professor of biology at the University of California
Riverside, and colleagues’ research concluded “tall people simply have more
cells for something to go wrong in.”
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“What Is Turkey’s Game?”* On its editorial page, the New York Times
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(10/23) praises Turkey’s actions in the Jamal Khashoggi case, which it says
“has furthered the cause of justice by refusing to let Saudi Arabia evade
responsibility” for Khashoggi’s killing. The Times acknowledges that
“perhaps [ Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan sees an opportunity...to
use the murder to extort money from the Saudis to shore up Turkey’s failing
economy in exchange for eventually helping to shift the blame away from the
Saudi regime,” but says he has also “created an opening for improving
relations with Mr. Trump and beginning to reverse its economic decline.”
Washington Post.

*“The Trump Administration Is Trying To Tell People They Aren’t Who They
Are.”* The Washington Post
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(10/23) says in an editorial that with HHS’ proposal to strictly define
gender under Title IX, the Administration “is trying to tell people they
are not who they know they are. It will not work – but in the meantime the
effort will hurt innocent people.” The policy shift would also “represent
one more broken promise from President Trump, who vowed in his 2016
campaign to be more enlightened on LGBTQ issues.”

        *“The DC Council Should Take Care As It Considers Legislation On
Legalized Sports Betting.” *In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(10/23) says the District of Columbia should act with caution as it
considers legalizing sports betting. While “getting in early is seen as an
advantage in capturing the local market and building brand affinity and
loyalty,” the Post says questions about consumer protections, safeguarding
children, and addressing gambling addiction are just some of those that
must be addressed.

        *“What Erdogan Didn’t Say About Jamal Khashoggi May Matter More
Than What He Said.” *A Washington Post
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(10/23) editorial says that while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
“promised he would deliver the ‘naked truth’ about Jamal Khashoggi...for
the most part he failed to deliver, appearing less interested in revealing
what really happened to the Saudi journalist than in leveraging the murder
for political gain. That only sharpens the argument for an impartial
international investigation.”

        *Sebelius: Administration Would Limit Poor Women’s Access To
Contraception. *In an op-ed for the Washington Post
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(10/23), former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius decries what she describes
as an “insidious effort from the administration that could undermine access
to health care, and Americans have no idea it is happening: a proposal to
drastically reduce information on and access to contraception.” Sebelius
writes that pending rules from HHS “would dramatically limit access to
contraception for low-income women, ‘gag’ health providers from discussing
or referring women to abortion services and divert taxpayer resources now
used to provide access to contraception to largely ineffective
abstinence-only programs.” She argues that “HHS must abandon this
ill-advised move or Congress needs to act to curtail this destructive new
proposal.”

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