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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*Monday, October 29, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden On Pittsburgh Shooting: US “Core Values...At Risk.” <#S1>

• At Connecticut Rally, Biden Decries Fear, Hatred. <#S2>

• Biden Stumps For Delgado. <#S3>

• Biden To Campaign With Cordray In Ohio Today. <#S4>

• Biden To Campaign For Blum, Hubbell In Iowa Tomorrow. <#S5>

• Biden To Help Heitkamp Kick Off Statewide Tour On Thursday. <#S6>

• Biden To Attend Get Out The Vote Rally With McCaskill On Wednesday. <#S7>

• Biden To Stump For Underwood, Kelly In Illinois On Thursday. <#S8>

• Biden Endorses Shalala. <#S9>

• WPost’s Rubin: Biden Setting Tone 2020 Democratic Candidates Should Take.
<#S10>

• Al Hunt: Biden Decision On Bid “Will Frame The 2020 Contest.” <#S11>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Media Commentators: Trump Rhetoric Contributed To Pittsburgh Shooting.
<#S12>

• Trump Slams “Wacky Tom Steyer” For Accusing Him Of Sparking “Political
Violence.” <#S13>

• Trump: “Fake & Dishonest Reporting” To Blame For Atmosphere Of Division.
<#S14>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Mattis Presses Saudi FM For Probe Into Khashoggi’s Death. <#S15>

• Mattis: Talks With Europeans On INF Withdrawal Yielded No Alternatives.
<#S16>

• Zarif Says US Has Made Wrong Choices In Middle East. <#S17>

• “60 Minutes”: US Battle Against ISIS In Syria Entering Final Phase. <#S18>

• WPost A1: Russian Disinformation On Facebook Targeted Ukraine Before US.
<#S19>

• Bolsonaro Elected President Of Brazil. <#S20>

• Sen. Johnson Says China Stealing Industrial, Military Secrets. <#S21>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Nielsen: Migrant Caravan Will Be Denied US Entry. <#S22>

• Trump Interviews Indian-American Woman For Kavanaugh’s Spot On DC Circuit
Court. <#S23>

• Ratcliffe Says Papadopoulos Has No Russian Contacts. <#S24>

• Brady: Trump Tax Cut Plan Unlikely To See Action Before Next Year. <#S25>

• Amid “Overdose Epidemic,” Some ERs Now Offer Addiction Treatment. <#S26>

• Democrats Focus On Healthcare In Midterms’ Closing Argument. <#S27>

• Analysts: Democrats Likely To Retake House <#S28>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• NPR Highlights Work Of Children’s Cancer Therapy Development Institute.
<#S29>

• FDA Grants Priority Review For Metastatic Gastric Adenocarcinoma Drug.
<#S30>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S31>

• Washington Post. <#S32>
Biden in the News
Biden On Pittsburgh Shooting: US “Core Values...At Risk.”

CNN Newsroom
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(10/28) reported, “Following the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, former Vice
President Joe Biden released this statement: ‘We will either stand against
this hate now and wipe it out or we will rue the day we allowed it to grow
and fester. Our values, our core beliefs, all that have made this nation a
beacon to the world is at risk. Words matter and silence is complicit.’”

        In talking about Biden’s tweet in reaction to the synagogue
shooting, on Fox News’ Fox and Friends Sunday[image: Image removed by
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(10/28) host Ed Henry said, “Clearly at the end there a reference to
Charlottesville where he said that good people could be found among this
hate. He’s clearly going after President Trump within hours of the murder
of these 11 people.” Host Rachel Campos-Duffy said, “Former Vice President
Biden absolutely knows he’s at the top of those polls and I think that’s
probably what’s fueling that tweet.” Host Pete Hegseth said, “Howard Dean
he said before the shooting, but still he said Donald Trump is evil and now
Joe Biden moments after the shooting says this is hate. Those words justify
the dehumanization of another and the dehumanization of the people that
support them.”

        *NYTimes Notes Biden Saturday Comments Among Reactions To Recent
Violence. *The New York Times
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(10/28, Dias) reports that the last days before the midterm elections are
“unfolding amid a cascade of horrors and rounds of finger-pointing that
reflect the deep fault lines in dozens of competitive House races and a
handful of Senate races nationwide.” Many voters “have been divided over
national identity and who gets to define values in America,” and “the
climate has intensified” even as “escalating violence and fear are
exacerbating divergent viewpoints among voters.” The Times cites reactions
by voters and political figures to the recent violence, including comments
by former Vice President Joe Biden. “‘Pipe bombs against public officials,
African-Americans killed in Kentucky, continued physical threats against
the press, an all-out campaign of fear directed at immigrants signal that
hate is on the march in America,” Biden “said on Saturday. ‘We’re facing a
battle for the soul of this nation,’ added Mr. Biden, who is considering a
run for president in 2020. ‘Words matter. And silence is complicity.’”
At Connecticut Rally, Biden Decries Fear, Hatred.

The AP
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(10/26, Haigh) reported former Vice President Joe Biden “was the main
attraction at a rally Friday in Hartford,” Connecticut, at which he
expressed concerns “about the sense of hate and terror he sees gripping the
country, urging the Democratic party faithful in Connecticut to elect
leaders who will help ‘reset the moral compass of this nation.’” He also
“urged the packed magnet school gymnasium to support the full Democratic
slate of candidates in Connecticut, especially gubernatorial candidate Ned
Lamont.” The rally also allowed “Democrats to build support for U.S. Sen.
Chris Murphy and 5th Congressional District candidate Jahana Hayes.”
The Hartford
(CT) Courant
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(10/26, McWilliams) reported Biden said, “This hatred, this ugliness has to
come to an end...I really want to make this crystal clear, we are better
than this.” He added, “This is not America. This is not who were are.”

        In contrast, the Connecticut Mirror
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(10/26, Pazniokas) reports, “Conciliation was a fleeting message at an
event built around anger directed at President Trump and Republicans in
Washington,” with “Biden and the Democratic ticket repeatedly return[ing]
to a need to resist the GOP.” Among the local TV segments reporting on
Biden’s visit were WCTX-TV
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New Haven, CT (10/26, 11:05 p.m. EDT) and 12-TV[image: Image removed by
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New Haven, CT (10/28, 9:05 a.m. EDT). The New York Times
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(10/29, Foderaro), Manchester (CT) Journal Inquirer
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(10/27, Brindley), and Yale University (CT) Daily News
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(10/29) also report on Biden’s appearance.
Biden Stumps For Delgado.

The Mid-Hudson (NY) News
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(10/27) reported former Vice President Joe Biden appeared at a rally in
Kingston, New York, for Antonio Delgado (D), who is challenging Rep. John
Faso (R). Biden told the crowd of over 1,000, “We are in a battle for the
soul of America.” He added, “It’s time to stand up dammit; there is nothing
we are not capable, but we have to come together.” Spectrum News Hudson
Valley (NY)
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(10/26, Landers) reports that with a Spectrum News-Siena College poll
showing Faso leading Delgado by one percentage point, the “razor thin
margin” drew Biden to stump for Delegado. Faso said in a statement, “It is
not a surprise that a prominent Democrat is endorsing my opponent. However,
most people in our district don’t support higher taxes and the government
run healthcare scheme promoted by my opponent.”

        Hudson Valley 360 (NY)
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(10/26, Moody) reports, “Biden took the opportunity to comment on the
unfolding events that started early this week when 13 suspicious packages,
now known to have contained potential explosive devices, were delivered to
Biden” and others. He said, “The country has to come together. This
division, this hatred, this ugliness, it really has to end. And words
matter.” Spectrum News
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(10/27, 2:15 p.m. EDT) also reported on Biden’s visit in several similar
segments.
Biden To Campaign With Cordray In Ohio Today.

The Youngstown (OH) Vindicator
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(10/29) reports former Vice President Joe Biden “is taking a starring role
in the Democratic Party’s quest to elect a wave of Democrats in next week’s
congressional and state elections nationwide. He’s in the midst of a
juggernaut aimed at giving Democrats control of Congress and statehouses
this week, with a stop today in Youngstown at a 4 p.m. rally with” former
CFPB chief Richard Cordray (D). In a statement tweeted on Sunday, Biden
said, “Ohio needs a champion – a Governor with a back bone – and that’s
Rich Cordray. He’s ready to fight for working families, and I’m ready to
help get him elected.” Also covering Biden’s visit are WTVG-TV[image: Image
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Toledo, OH (10/28, 9:06 a.m. EDT), WKBN-TV
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Youngstown, OH (10/29), WFMJ-TV
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Youngstown, OH (10/23), and a brief in the New York Times
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(10/29, Martin, Flegenheimer)
Biden To Campaign For Blum, Hubbell In Iowa Tomorrow.

The Hill
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(10/25, Axelrod) reports former Vice President Joe Biden will campaign
Tuesday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to support Abby Finkenauer (D) who is
challenging Rep. Rep. Rod Blum (R), and Fred Hubbell (D), who is
challenging Gov. Kim Reynolds (R). “Iowa’s First District is one of the
Democrats’ most watched possible pick up opportunities in the House,” and
the race is in the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Red to
Blue program. The Sioux City (IA) Journal
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(10/28, Lynch) reports, “Republicans suggest Biden’s visit signals
Democratic nervousness about candidates who once looked like they had
comfortable leads.” However, both Hubbell and Finkenauer “are downplaying
suggestions they need help from former Vice President Joe Biden to get
their campaigns cross the Election Day finish line.” WHO-TV
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Des Moines, IA (10/26) also reports on Biden’s scheduled visit to Iowa.
Biden To Help Heitkamp Kick Off Statewide Tour On Thursday.

The AP
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(10/26) reported that on Thursday former Vice President Joe Biden will help
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D) launch a five-day statewide tour that “will hit
more than 20 communities and cover more than 2,000 miles.” The Hill
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(10/26, Hagen) reports, “Biden will kick off the ‘Bring it Home, Heidi!’
five-day statewide tour in Fargo.” Meanwhile, “the race has been trending
more toward Republicans,” and “recent public polls show Heitkamp trailing”
Rep. Kevin Cramer (R) “by double-digit margins.” In a statement, Biden
said, “Heidi is the real deal – she stands up to both parties to do what’s
right by the people she serves, and I hope you’ll help get out the vote and
send her back to be North Dakota’s independent voice in the U.S. Senate.”
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Fargo, ND (10/27, 8:07 a.m. CDT) and a brief in the New York Times
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(10/29, Martin, Flegenheimer).
Biden To Attend Get Out The Vote Rally With McCaskill On Wednesday.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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(10/28, Raasch) reports that on Wednesday former Vice President Joe Biden
will attend a get-out-the-vote rally with Sen. Claire McCaskill (D). Among
local TV mentions of Biden’s visit are KSHB-TV[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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Kansas City, MO (10/28, 6:39 a.m. CDT), KRCG-TV
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Jefferson City, MO (10/28), and KMOV-TV[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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St. Louis (10/28, 6:34 a.m. CDT), as well as the website of KTVI-TV
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St. Louis (10/29).
Biden To Stump For Underwood, Kelly In Illinois On Thursday.

The AP
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(10/27) reported that on Thursday, former Vice President Joe Biden will
host a rally for Lauren Underwood (D), who is challenging Rep. Randy
Hultgren (R). In a release Biden said that as a nurse Underwood has
“devoted her life to serving others.” Later in the day, Biden also will
appear with Brendan Kelly (D), who is challenging Rep. Mike Bost (R). The Kane
County (IL) Chronicle
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(10/28) reported that in a release, Biden said, “We need more people like
[Underwood] in Washington.” The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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(10/26, Schlinkmann) reports that Biden’s rally with Kelly, along with
Bost’s recent event with President Trump, “underscore the importance that
both parties have placed on the Kelly-Bost race in the national battle for
control of Congress in the Nov. 6 election.” The Chicago Tribune
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(10/28, Riopell) also reports on Biden’s upcoming events, and among the
local television segments reporting on Biden’s appearance are WFLD-TV[image:
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Chicago (10/28, 8:08 a.m. CDT), WBBM-TV[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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Chicago (10/28, 7:06 a.m. CDT), WLS-TV
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Chicago (10/28), and WREX-TV
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Rockford, IL (10/27, 10:04 p.m. CDT).
Biden Endorses Shalala.

Florida Politics
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(10/27, Nicol) reported former Vice President Joe Biden endorsed Donna
Shalala (D) in the race to replace retiring Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R).
Biden said, “Few candidates running for Congress have as much experience as
Donna Shalala.” He added, “Donna’s a fearless progressive leader who has
served our country and the South Florida community with integrity, vigor
and passion,” and she is “uniquely qualified to take on the biggest issues
facing our communities like health care, gun control and climate change.”
WPost’s Rubin: Biden Setting Tone 2020 Democratic Candidates Should Take.

Jennifer Rubin, in a column in the Washington Post
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(10/26, Rubin), wrote that most Democrats considering a 2020 presidential
run “seem to lack weightiness” and “would be wise to get away from the
laundry lists and the Trump attacks, no matter how satisfying and deserved
the latter are.” Meanwhile, former Vice President Joe Biden, is calling on
Republicans “to defend their own principles and live up to their oaths.”
Rubin added, that as we “fight for our democracy and our decency...defend
objective reality and the norms and institutions that we foolishly took for
granted,” potential 2020 candidates should follow Biden’s “lead in
appealing to the better angels of our nature.” Rubin said that she isn’t
looking for specifics on how to address issues like climate change or
government debt, but instead she wants “to hear candidates defend our
democratic values.” Rubin concludes, that the way to beat President Trump
is “to remind Americans of those causes and ideals that are greater than
party.”
Al Hunt: Biden Decision On Bid “Will Frame The 2020 Contest.”

Albert R. Hunt, in a column on Bloomberg View
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(10/28), writes that former Vice President Joe Biden’s decision on whether
to run for president “will frame the 2020 contest.” There is a “compelling
case for” Biden to run, as by being “knowledgeable, honest and decent” he
is “an antidote to Donald Trump.” However, he also “would be the oldest
major-party nominee in U.S. history,” and “the age issue won’t go away.”
Additionally, “a number of the candidates he’s stumping for are calling for
a new generation of leaders and new ideas.” Hunt concludes, Biden is “not
there yet. And three months is a short time to get there.”
Leading the News
Media Commentators: Trump Rhetoric Contributed To Pittsburgh Shooting.

Some media analysts and opinion writers are accusing President Trump of
having used his rhetoric to make tragedies such as the one in Pittsburgh
more likely in today’s America. Under the headline “Trump’s America Is Not
A Safe Place For Jews,” for example, Dana Milbank writes in the Washington
Post
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(10/28) that “George Washington, in his 1790 letter to the Touro Synagogue
in Newport, R.I., told Jews they would be safe in the new nation,” but
“now...Trump has violated Washington’s compact” by giving “sanction to
bigotry and assistance to persecution. ... I had been dreading and
expecting this day, and more like it, for two years. This was more than
predictable; it was predicted.” ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed
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(10/28, story 3, 1:40, Thomas) reported that shooter Robert Bowers was no
fan of Trump, of whom he wrote that he “is a globalist, not nationalist,”
and the CBS Weekend News
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(10/28, story 3, 2:15, Pegues) that “using derogatory language, he
said...Trump was surrounded by Jewish people.” Julia Ioffe writes in
the Washington
Post
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(10/28), however, that though “Trump’s allies were at pains to point out
that...the alleged shooter, was in fact anti-Trump,” Trump “has had enough
to say about the Jews that his supporters may easily make certain
pernicious inferences.”

        As Charles M. Blow puts it in the New York Times
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(10/28), “even Trump appears to have been too mild a racist and
‘nationalist’ for the synagogue shooter,” but “white nationalists,
neo-Nazis and alt-right are energized by Trump’s election.” The New York
Times
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(10/28) similarly writes in an editorial that Trump “has failed to
consistently, unequivocally reject bigotry, and he has even encouraged
violence at some of his rallies” and is “setting a low, coarsening standard
for how Americans should speak to and about one another.”

        The major network newscasts devoted a combined 43 minutes to the
Pittsburgh attack, which included five minutes and 40 seconds of combined
airtime on the potential role played by Trump’s rhetoric in bringing about
the tragedy. The CBS Weekend News
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(10/28, story 5, 1:45, Glor) said, for example, that “Trump did not waiver
in his condemnation of the synagogue attack,” but “then he kept talking.”
CBS (Reid) showed Trump saying in Indiana, “Maybe I should cancel this
arrangement because I have a bad hair day.” CBS added that “critics argue
the President has consistently failed to show moral leadership in the wake
of hate-filled incidents, such as the August 2017 white supremacist rally
in Charlottesville.”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(10/28, story 4, 1:45, Karl) reported, meanwhile, that “Trump condemned
what he called ‘an act of hate,’ but he did not mention the victims.” In
Illinois Saturday, he “veered between tightly scripted, sober-minded words
about the massacre and classic Trumpism.” Trump was shown saying, “If you
don’t mind, I’m going to tone it down just a little bit. Is that okay?” NBC
Nightly News
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(10/28, story 5, 2:10, Holt) reported Trump called “for civility” Saturday
night, “just nine days before the midterm elections.” Trump was shown
saying, “And it doesn’t mean that we can’t fight hard and be strong and say
what’s on our mind, but we have to always remember those elements. We have
to remember the elements of love and dignity and respect.” NBC added
“public officials are divided over how much a toxic campaign climate could
embolden the dangerous.”

        Meanwhile, the New York Times
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(10/28, Baker, Haberman) indicates that “for months, Republican officials
have complained privately that...Trump lacks the ability to confront
moments of crisis with moral clarity, choosing to inflame the divisions
that have torn the country apart rather than try to bring it together.” To
the Times, “it took the importuning of his Jewish daughter and son-in-law
to craft a powerful statement of outrage at anti-Semitism,” but “then Mr.
Trump went back into partisan mode, assailing his enemies.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/28, Costa, Sonmez) reports “Trump and his Republican allies remained
defiant Sunday amid allegations from critics that Trump’s incendiary
attacks on political rivals and racially charged rhetoric on the campaign
trail bear some culpability for the climate surrounding a spate of violence
in the United States.” The Post adds that “the GOP’s defensive posture,
following Saturday’s deadliest attack on Jews in US history, came as some
Trump allies sought to shift blame to others, including media figures and
Democratic leaders, arguing that recent attempts by liberal protesters to
challenge GOP officials in public were perhaps more responsible for the
national unrest than the president’s combative politics or the rise of
conspiracy theories on the right.” However, “those theories appear to have
driven the suspects behind the bombs sent to Democratic officials and the
mass shooting Saturday at a Pittsburgh synagogue.”

        To the New York Times
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(10/28, Dias), “the campaign’s finale is unfolding amid a cascade of
horrors and rounds of finger-pointing that reflect the deep fault lines in
dozens of competitive House races and a handful of Senate races
nationwide.” The Times adds that “if many voters appear set to back
politicians from their own parties, according to interviews and polling,
they also often defended or blamed politicians – particularly...Trump –
based on the same partisan lines.” The Wall Street Journal
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(10/28, Jamerson) runs a similar analysis under the headline “Pittsburgh
Shooting, Pipe-Bomb Arrest Colors Campaigning For Midterm Election.”

        USA Today
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(10/28, Cummings) reports, meanwhile, that Vice President Pence “denied
that...Trump’s habit of attacking his opponents contributed to the shooting
that left 11 people dead at a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday or the bombs
that were mailed to a number of political figures last week.” Pence told
NBC Saturday, “Look, everyone has their own style. And frankly, people on
both side of the aisle use strong language about our political differences.
... But I just don’t think you can connect it to threats or acts of
violence, Vaughn. And I don’t think the American people connect it.”
The Washington
Post
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(10/28, Kane) said “several other Trump administration officials, lawmakers
and others weighed in on the shooting in appearances on the Sunday morning
news shows.” On Fox News Sunday
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(10/28), DHS Secretary Nielsen “called the shooting ‘a pure act of evil,’”
adding, “You’ve heard that from the President and Vice President yesterday;
that’s what it is. ... We all condemn this in the strongest terms
possible.”

        The Military Times
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(10/28, Copp) reports Defense Secretary Mattis also weighed in, telling
reporters “the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter...is ‘the poorest excuse for a
man you could ever come up with.’” Added Mattis, “This is a coward. He is
not a man by any definition that we use in the Department of Defense.”

        Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), on CBS’ Face the Nation[image: Image
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(10/28), resisted the suggestion that Trump’s rhetoric influenced the
shooter. Lankford said, “I don’t, because this particular shooter also
condemned President Trump saying he was a globalist that he was allowing
some of this to happen. I don’t see any connection where you would connect
the President to this particular shooting, just like I wouldn’t see
connecting Democrats to a person who walked up to baseball game last year
and said, ‘is this where the Republicans are practicing?’ then opened fired
on them simply because they were Republicans.”

        On CBS’ Face the Nation
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(10/28), Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) said, “I think those of us in national
office, our President, those who hoped to be President, those of us in
Congress, who have louder microphones who are heard from and seen more
regularly, need to take responsibility for ways in which we lower the
temperature.” Coons added “our President and a number of other national
political leaders of both parties have used their megaphones in order to
inspire and instill and energize folks based on division rather than based
on unity.”

        Former Clinton campaign director of strategic communications
Adrienne Elrod said on Fox News MediaBuzz[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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(10/28), “The media coverage, the media blaming is not unfair.” Trump’s
“divisive and hateful rhetoric” is “a big problem here.” Elrod added that
there is “a divisiveness in this country that the President of the United
States has created. ... He is not doing anything to try to being this
country together.”

        John King said on CNN’s Inside Politics[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(10/28), “The problem is the President’s unscripted thoughts and tweets
undermine the calming words his aides feed into his teleprompter. Not long
before he read that unity script on Friday, a tweet with bombs in
quotations channeling right wing conspiracy chatter about a liberal hoax.
In that same tweet, other unscripted remarks, complaints that late campaign
attention is being diverted from the migrant caravan. The facts are obvious
here, but the real plot in the President’s thinking is somehow against
him.”

        Correspondent Manu Raju said on CNN’s Inside Politics[image: Image
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(10/28), “The Trump brand of politics is to stoke a division and anger.
That’s what drives his base. That’s what he believes essentially helped him
win the presidency. ... When he says to unify, we need to unify, it rings
hollow, because afterwards he’s stoking division and anger at these
rallies. One way to do that is to direct the anger towards what his
supporters believe is a common enemy, the media and he uses the anger
against the media. When the President says he wants unity, really what he
is saying is he wants nobody to criticize him.”

        Jenna Johnson of the Washington Post said on CNN’s Inside
Politics[image:
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(10/28), “I think that quite often even when the President says the right
thing, when he reads the words on his teleprompter, when issues the
statements, when sends the tweets that have he right things in them, the
things people expect to hear from a President during a moment of crisis or
during a moment of fear, so often they get quickly forgotten because he’ll
say what he really means. ... We’ve come to learn that this is not a
comforter in chief. This is not uniter in chief. Donald Trump never stops
campaigning. He’s always looking for what the news of the day can do for
him, what it can do for the midterms.” He’s always kind of looking ahead
and viewing things very politically. Not through the view of what does this
mean for all of us as Americans.

        Meanwhile, the AP
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(10/28, Scolforo, Lauer, Breed) reports, “tributes rolled in Sunday to the
victims,” and “officials released the names of all 11 of the dead, all of
them middle-aged or elderly. The victims included intellectually disabled
brothers and a husband and wife. The youngest was 54 and the oldest was
97.” NBC Nightly News
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(10/28, lead story, 2:40, Almaguer) reported, “Investigators say it could
take up to a week to process this crime scene behind us. They call it
complex and also horrific.” NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(10/28, story 2, 1:40, Mott) showed Scott Brady, US Attorney for the
Western District Of Pennsylvania, saying, “There’s no indication that he is
working with anyone else, and so we have charged it and are treating it as
a hate crime, but continue to investigate.”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(10/28, lead story, 4:30, Gutman) reported that Bowers was heard “hurling
words of hate against Jews even as he murdered them,” and the CBS Weekend
News
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(10/28, lead story, 3:45, Begnaud) that “even in custody police say” he
“continued to spew his hateful rhetoric.” The CBS Weekend News[image: Image
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(10/28, story 3, 2:15, Pegues) also said “Bowers’ social media footprint
shows he was stirring with hate. He had an account on Gab.com, a website
popular among the alt-right and white nationalists,” and “about a month
ago, he posted a picture of three glock handguns calling them ‘my glock
family’. In his bio he wrote ‘Jews are the children of Satan.’”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(10/28, story 6, 0:40, Muir) went on to report on the “first responders”
who “were on the scene within minutes of the first chilling calls, rushing
inside to engage the gunman.” ABC noted “four of them wounded during the
attack,” and “three of them are still in the hospital. One of them, a SWAT
team member who is in critical condition.” The CBS Weekend News[image:
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(10/28, story 2, 2:05, Glor) and NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(10/28, story 3, 2:00, Holt) also ran a story on the victims as well as another
one
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on the first responders.

        *Sarah Sanders Accuses WPost Of Exploiting Tragedy To Attack Trump.
*The Daily Caller
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(10/28, Kruta) reports White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders “lashed
out at The Washington Post Sunday, criticizing the outlet for editorially
tying...Trump to the events of the past week.” Tweeted
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Sanders, “Is there any tragedy the Washington Post won’t exploit to attack
President @realDonaldTrump? The evil act of anti-Semitism in Pittsburgh was
committed by a coward who hated President Trump because @POTUS is such an
unapologetic defender of the Jewish community and state of Israel.”

        *Schiff: Trump “Often” Sets National “Tone” Of “Hatred.” *The
Washington
Times
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(10/28, Howell) reports “Rep. Adam Schiff of California on Sunday
said...Trump preaches unity in the wake of the tragedy but flirts with
danger every morning by stoking divisions on Twitter and mocking George
Soros, a prominent Jewish donor for Democrats and target of political
attacks from the GOP.” Said Schiff, “Honestly, I think this president’s
whole modus operandi is to divide us.” Schiff also told CNN’s State of the
Union
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(10/28), “The problem is not how he’s [the president] handling the
aftermath, Although I don’t agree that this could have been avoided or
mitigated if someone was armed in the synagogue. That’s not the answer. ...
I think the President has a pivotal role there. No one sets the tone more
than the President of the United States. And the tone that he sets is one
of division. Often one of hatred.”

        *Nielsen: DHS Advised Pittsburgh Synagogue On Security “As Recently
As March.” *Politico
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(10/28, Mueller) reports Nielsen said yesterday that “a Department of
Homeland Security adviser visited the Pittsburgh synagogue that was the
site of a mass shooting Saturday ‘as recently as March.’” Added Nielsen,
“We actually conducted a site visit there with our protective security
adviser in the area. ... This is something we often do. ... We feel that
the best way to help communities support their efforts in terms of
protection is to be there, to be there on the ground, to listen to them, to
understand their needs.”

        *Pittsburgh Mayor: Armed Guards Not The Answer To Synagogue
Shooting. *The Washington Post
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(10/28, Sonmez) reports “Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said Sunday that
armed guards in places of worship are not the solution, one day after 11
people were killed and six wounded by a gunman at the Tree of Life
synagogue in the city.” Peduto told NBC’s Meet the Press, “I don’t think
that the answer to this problem is solved by having our synagogues, mosques
and churches filled with armed guards or our schools filled with armed
guards.” The New York Times
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(10/28, Robertson, Tavernise, Zaveri) notes Peduto also “called the attack
the ‘darkest day of Pittsburgh’s history’ but vowed that the city would
move forward.” Peduto, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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(10/28, Bradbury, Murray) reports, also “said the city will need to ‘work
together,’” as “he and other city officials praised the region’s response
to Saturday’s massacre, saying Pittsburgh police officers saved lives by
stopping the suspected shooter.”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(10/28, story 5, 2:30, Raddatz) showed Peduto saying, “We will not try to
figure out ways in order to lessen the degree of crimes such as this. We
will work to eradicate it. Hatred will not have a place, anywhere.” ABC
World News Tonight
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(10/28, story 2, 4:30, Muir) also reported that “the people of Pittsburgh
were walking up to us this afternoon at the memorial, a beautiful building
across town, because they wanted to speak out and tell us that this city is
far stronger than that horror, and there’s no question about that tonight.”

        *Brooklyn Borough President Urges Off-Duty Cops To Bring Weapons To
Services. *The New York Times
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(10/28, Schweber, Newman) reports that “as the nation reeled from
Saturday’s synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh, the borough president of
Brooklyn – home to more Jews than any county in the country – said on
Sunday that off-duty police officers should bring their weapons into
religious services.” Eric L. Adams, a “retired New York police captain,”
said, “From now on...I will bring my handgun every time I enter a church or
synagogue.” Adams, “a Democrat and 22-year veteran of the Police
Department, made his remarks at a news conference outside a Jewish family
services center in the Midwood neighborhood, home to one of New York City’s
highest concentrations of Orthodox Jews.”

        *Prosecutors To Seek Death Penalty. *The Washington Examiner
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(10/28, Chaitin) reports US Attorney Scott Brady said federal prosecutors
are seeing Attorney General Sessions’ approval “to pursue the death penalty
for...Bowers.” Sessions “opened the door to the death penalty Saturday when
he said the DOJ was filing federal hate crime charges against Bowers.”

        *Increasing Number Of Hate Crime Incidents. *The Washington Post
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(10/28, Sellers) says the Pittsburgh shooting “has renewed calls for the
federal government to update its laws to put the kind of violence targeting
minorities, religious groups and the public in the same category as
terrorists inspired by overseas groups.” In 2016, “hate crimes reached
their highest mark since 2012 – with the FBI recording 6,121 criminal
incidents motivated by bias against race, religion, sexual orientation,
disability or gender.” Crimes “against both Jews and Muslims increased”
over the previous year, “as did the number of crimes targeting lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender people.” Meg Oliver reported on the CBS
Weekend News
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(10/28, story 6, 2:00, Glor) that “in 2016, more than one in five hate
crimes were prompted by religious bias. Out of those 1,538 offenses, more
than half were anti-Jewish. That’s far more than hate crimes targeting
Muslims, Catholics or any other religious group.”

        *Muslim Community-Organized Crowdfunding Campaign Raises $77,000
For Shooting Victims. *The Washington Post
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(10/28, Klein) reports that the Muslim American community has organized a
crowdfunding campaign that has raised more than $77,000 for victims of the
Pittsburgh shooting. In its first six hours, the effort “called Muslims
Unite for Pittsburgh Synagogue, reached its initial goal of $25,000.” At
some points on Sunday, it was “taking in about $2,000 per hour.”

        *Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Right “Must Accept A Changing World,”
Left “Must Accept The Results” Of 2016 Election. *In an editorial, the
Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette
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(10/28) writes, “If we demand respect for each other’s viewpoints and that
we not call each other names, be the name ‘racist’ or ‘snowflake,’ a
measure of humility will come, and maybe a modicum of understanding and
empathy.” Accordingly, “the right must accept a changing world,” and “the
left must accept the results of the last presidential election. ... No it
is not too soon to talk about reasonable gun control measures.”
Trump Slams “Wacky Tom Steyer” For Accusing Him Of Sparking “Political
Violence.”

President Trump tweeted
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yesterday, “Just watched Wacky Tom Steyer, who I have not seen in action
before, be interviewed by @jaketapper. He comes off as a crazed & stumbling
lunatic who should be running out of money pretty soon. As bad as their
field is, if he is running for President, the Dems will eat him alive!”
Trump’s tweet followed comments by Steyer on CNN’s State of the Union[image:
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(10/28) on whether he blames Trump for the bomb that was sent to him.
Steyer said, “There’s obviously no direct link,” but “I am absolutely
associating and blaming him for creating the atmosphere that exists. The
reason I started and have been running an impeachment petition drive is
because, in my opinion, he is corrupt and lawless and dangerous.” Steyer
called the President’s “response to the tragedy” in Pittsburgh
“appropriate,” but went on to criticize “the atmosphere that he’s created
and that the Republican Party has created in terms of political violence.”

        As examples of that, The Hill
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(10/28, Keller) reports, Steyer cited “‘voter suppression,’ political
gerrymandering and ‘violent rhetoric.’” Axios
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(10/28, Atkinson) notes that on Friday, moreover, “Steyer called for the
president’s impeachment citing ‘a systematic attack on our democracy that
extends much further than just one isolated terrorist in Florida.’”
The Washington
Examiner
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(10/28, Lim) calls Steyer “a Trump critic and potential 2020 Democratic
candidate,” and the New York Post
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(10/28, Schwab) that he replied to Trump on Twitter
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018102901biden&r=email-1bc3&l=064-e40&t=c>,
writing, “It is unthinkable that in the midst of the horrible political
violence our president would resort to name-calling instead of repairing
the damage to the fabric of our country.”

        Media analyses cast Trump’s broadside against Steyer as a sign that
he has no intention of easing on his denunciations of his opponents.
To the Washington
Times
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(10/28, Howell), for the example, the President “showed no signs of pulling
back on his strident political attacks.” Bloomberg News
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(10/28, Niquette) reports that “Trump, who held a relatively restrained
campaign rally in Illinois on Saturday night, was back to mocking political
opponents on Twitter Sunday,” and Politico
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(10/28, Forgey) that Trump’s comments came “hours after calling for a more
civil national discourse in the wake of a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh
synagogue.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/28, Kane) says “Steyer, a philanthropist and former hedge fund manager,
is best known for his ‘Need to Impeach’ campaign, calling for Trump’s
removal from office.” The Post adds “Trump’s attack on Steyer came in the
midst of a broader debate over the role of political rhetoric following the
mail bombs, as well as Saturday’s deadly shooting at a synagogue in
Pittsburgh.” Breitbart
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(10/28, Pollak) reports Steyer “was the Democrats’ single largest donor in
the 2014 midterm elections, and has spent tens of millions of dollars
pushing for the impeachment of...Trump.”

        *Steyer: McCarthy Tweet “A Straught-Up Anti-Semitic Move.” *Tom
Steyer was asked on CNN’s State of the Union[image: Image removed by
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(10/28) about a now-deleted tweet from House Majority Leader McCarthy
accusing him, George Soros, and Michael Bloomberg of trying to buy the
election. Steyer said, “I have no idea what Congressman McCarthy, was in
his mind. ... In terms of interpreting what he said, that seems to me like
a straight-up anti-Semitic move. I think that is a classic attempt to
separate Americans. I think that absolutely falls into the category of what
I’m describing as political violence. And I believe that what we are
looking for in America is something completely different from that.” Reuters
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(10/28) notes McCarthy had written, “We cannot allow Soros, Steyer, and
Bloomberg to BUY this election! Get out and vote Republican November 6th.
#MAGA.”

        Breitbart
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(10/28, Pollak) reports Steyer is in fact not Jewish, and instead is a
member of the Episcopalian church. Breitbart also reports “the charge that
billionaires are trying to ‘buy our democracy’ is routine in American
politics. For years, Democratic Party leaders like then-Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) accused the Koch brothers of trying to ‘buy our
elections,’” and “just this year, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who is
Jewish, accused billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who is also Jewish, of the
same.”
Trump: “Fake & Dishonest Reporting” To Blame For Atmosphere Of Division.

President Trump also tweeted
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last night, “The Fake News is doing everything in their power to blame
Republicans, Conservatives and me for the division and hatred that has been
going on for so long in our Country. Actually, it is their Fake & Dishonest
reporting which is causing problems far greater than they understand!”

        *In Tweet Today, Trump Continues To Rail Against Media As “True
Enemy Of The People.” *Trump tweeted
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this morning, “There is great anger in our Country caused in part by
inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News
Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility
& report the news accurately & fairly. That will do much to put out the
flame...”

        *NYTimes’ Rutenberg: Trump Attacks On Media Working. *Jim Rutenberg
writes in the New York Times
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(10/28) that in the aftermath of last week’s pipe bombs, Trump made “the
not-so-veiled suggestion that the news media was exaggerating the story
because of some political motivation. Even in a national crisis, he was
sticking with his anti-media strategy.” But “the question is, Is it
working? The short answer is yes. Increasingly, the president’s almost
daily attacks seem to be delivering the desired effect, despite the many
examples of powerful reporting on his presidency.” Trump “has succeeded in
casting journalists as the prime foils on his never-ending reality show,
much to the delight of those who cheer him on at rallies.”

        *Scaramucci Urges Trump To “Deescalate A Little Bit,” Improve
Relationship With Media. *Former White House Communications Director
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(10/28), “I think there’s problems on both sides. But I’ve also been very
clear on this. I’ve said it to the President and members his staff and I’ll
continue to say it. There’s no need to have a war with the media. You know,
as far as I’m concerned, you can have an adversarial relation but we should
de-escalate it.” Scaramucci said on Fox News MediaBuzz[image: Image removed
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(10/28), “You can’t link madmen or people that have mental illness and say
it’s because of the President. ... But if you are asking me could the
President deescalate a little bit and have his approval ratings go up and
been seen a little bit differently, I absolutely believe that.”

        Emily Jashinsky of The Federalist said, also on Fox News
MediaBuzz[image:
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(10/28), that the media blaming the President for the pipe bombs sent to
his critics is “unfortunate and it takes responsibility away from where it
belongs, with the sick and twisted individuals who are committing these
heinous crimes. ... It was tough to watch some of the media coverage this
week.”

        *Nielsen: “We Will Not Allow Political Violence To Take Root” In
US. *Asked about the arrest Friday of Cesar Altieri Sayoc in connection
with a series of pipe bombs sent to prominent Democrats, DHS Secretary
Nielsen said on Fox News Sunday
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(10/28) said, “The investigation is still underway but I can assure you
that if there are additional perpetrators, they will also be brought to
justice. The President has directed all federal resources to be on top of
this.” Nielsen went on to say, “I think the President has made it
extraordinarily clear that we will never allow political violence to take
root in this country. I firmly believe in the first amendment but anybody
who uses the first amendment as a cover to threaten or commit an act of
violence will not be tolerated. There’s no place for hate in this country.
Hate is hate, violence is violence. We will do all we can at the Department
of Homeland Security that such attacks are not perpetrated.”

        *Moore Releases Footage He Claims Shows Bomb Suspect At Trump
Rally. *Beth Baumann writes on Townhall
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(10/28, Baumann) that filmmaker Michael Moore has “released raw, unedited
footage he captured for his latest film, ‘Fahrenheit 11/9.’” Moore claims
he has footage of Cesar Sayoc, who is suspected of sending bombs to several
Democrats and CNN. In a blog post
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Moore “detailed how he acquired the footage in a blog post on his website”
and “place[d] blame on Trump for Sayoc’s actions.”

        *Angry Protesters Forcibly Removed From Blackburn Rally. *The
Tennessean
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(10/28, Ebert) reports “seven protesters were forcibly removed Sunday from
a campaign event” hosted by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R), who is running to
replace retiring Sen. Bob Corker (R). Tennessee Republican Party press
secretary Gillum Ferguson “said some of the protesters were quietly asked
to leave the event but declined.” Said Ferguson, “They said you’re going to
have to call the cops and we called the cops.” Breitbart
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(10/28, Leahy) says the “angry liberal protesters attempted to disrupt” the
rally “where Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was the featured speaker.”
Blackburn “spoke for about ten minutes to the enthusiastic crowd of 500
that had been infiltrated by a small left-wing group.” When she “called for
a moment of silence to remember those killed at an attack on a synagogue in
Pittsburgh, the crowd’s silent respect was interrupted by one of the
protesters who shouted at Blackburn.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(10/28, Lim) reports Blackburn issued a statement, saying, “This Sunday
afternoon, the liberal angry mob made it clear they are active in Tennessee
and will stop at nothing to disrupt civil political discourse. ... They
resisted law enforcement, and they interrupted a moment of silence.
[Democratic Senate candidate] Phil Bredesen is their leader, and their
behavior is despicable.”

        *WPost: Supporters Of “Openly” White Nationalist King’ Unconcerned
About His Positions. *The Washington Post
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(10/28, Zauzmer) reports that while Rep. Steve King (R-IA), “the US
congressman most openly affiliated with white nationalism,” has “become
better known for making incendiary remarks about immigration and race than
for passing a bill,” at the annual Oktoberfest in Remsen, Iowa, “no one
questioned whether” he “might be contributing to anti-Semitism or racism
through his unapologetic embrace of white nationalist rhetoric and his
praise of far-right politicians and groups in other nations.” In an
interview Saturday, King “said he was not anti-Semitic” and “said the
groups he’s associated with that are criticized as having neo-Nazi views
were more accurately ‘far right’ groups.” The Post adds that King “remains
popular; many voters do not consider his positions disqualifying,” and he
“has widespread support” across his district.
Foreign Policy
Mattis Presses Saudi FM For Probe Into Khashoggi’s Death.

During his visit to Prague for talks with Czech Prime Minister Andrej
Babis, Defense Secretary Mattis told reporters that he spoke with Saudi
Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir at a private dinner during the Manama
Dialogue security conference in Bahrain “and urged a full and complete
investigation into the killing of writer Jamal Khashoggi,” the AP
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(10/28, Baldor) reports. Mattis said Jubeir “‘had no reservations at all’
about the need for the kingdom to be transparent about the death of the
Washington Post columnist at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/28, Sonne) reports Mattis “said he received assurances from Saudi
Arabia’s top diplomat that the kingdom would conduct a full and complete
investigation into the slaying” of Khashoggi. According to the Post,
Mattis’ “lunchtime discussion came after Jubeir called the global reaction
to Khashoggi’s killing ‘fairly hysterical’ in response to questions about
the murder at the security conference.” Asked whether the kingdom could
successfully determine whether Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, “a
target of Khashoggi’s criticism,” knew in advance about the plot, “Mattis
emphasized that evidence Turkish authorities have gathered would also be
taken into account.” The Turkish probe, Mattis said, “will ensure that
there is more than one review of what is going on here.”

        Fox News correspondent Gillian Turner said on Fox News MediaBuzz[image:
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(10/28), “I think what the media was reacting to was the fact that the
President did not come straight out and blame, condemn the Saudis and the
royal family. The media is very prickly about this. ... When they feel he
is hedging and he is not forceful enough in condemning America’s enemies,
they get mad. You saw that with Kim Jong-un, with Vladimir Putin, now with
the Crown Prince.”

        *WTimes: Khashoggi Killing Undermines US Support For Saudi War In
Yemen. *The Washington Times
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(10/28, Muñoz) says in an analysis that the “furor” over the alleged Saudi
plot to kill Khashoggi “could have some serious blowback for one of Saudi
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s signature foreign policy initiatives:
the increasingly troubling war in neighboring Yemen.” With Riyadh “reeling”
over the allegations, “Washington has leverage to increase international
pressure for Saudi concessions to end the Yemen war, analysts say.”
Lawmakers critical of the Saudi-led “war in Yemen are wasting no time
increasing pressure on the kingdom,” but the Administration “has made the
oil-rich kingdom a centerpiece of its economic, diplomatic and military
strategy for the region.” As such, there is little that the “lawmakers can
realistically do to force the administration’s hand on Yemen, a US
government official told The Washington Times.”
Mattis: Talks With Europeans On INF Withdrawal Yielded No Alternatives.

The Washington Post
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(10/28, Sonne) report Defense Secretary Mattis on Sunday “said his talks
with European allies so far have not resulted in any suggestions for
addressing Russia’s violation” of the Cold War-era Intermediate-Range
Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, “other than for the United States to
withdraw.” Mattis consulted with European allies “for ideas at a North
Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting in Belgium earlier this month, about
two weeks before President Trump announced that the United States planned
to pull out” of the pact. During those consultations, “Mattis said, he
reiterated his position that the status quo – with Russia violating the
treaty and the United States abiding by it – was unsustainable and wouldn’t
last.” The Post says despite Mattis’s consultations, “it’s unclear how many
of them were aware in advance that Trump was going to announce a decision
by the United States to withdraw from the pact.”

        Reuters
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(10/28, Ali) reports that while in Prague, “Mattis met Czech officials and
Prime Minister Andrej Babis, who warned a cancellation of the treaty could
mean a return to ‘cold war times.’” At a joint news conference, Babis
called the planned US withdrawal “bad news, we regret that.” He added that
US-Russia “relations are not ideal,” but the US and its allies “have to
communicate with Russia.” Also on Sunday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov said “that Moscow has started preparing answers to the questions
related to the arms control pact delivered by US officials, RIA news agency
quoted him as saying.” Lavrov added that “the fact that the notice given
was short ‘does not contribute to the sustainable dialogue and
predictability (in the US behavior).’”
Zarif Says US Has Made Wrong Choices In Middle East.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif discussed US-Saudi ties on CBS’
Face the Nation
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(10/28). Zarif said, “The United States’ choices in the Middle East are
wrong. And these wrong choices lead to the disaster in our region. Renewed
at the invasion of Iraq and Saddam Hussein was an enemy, we knew that the
attack against Afghanistan was the wrong choice, Taliban is our enemy. We
know that the invasion and attack of Yemen are wrong choices, but the
United States is continuously and persistently on the wrong side, be it in
Yemen, be it imprisoning a prime minister of another country. I think
blanket support that the US provides to Saudi Arabia and to Israel has
enabled them to carry out atrocities that would not have happened had there
not existed this blanket supported.”
“60 Minutes”: US Battle Against ISIS In Syria Entering Final Phase.

CBS’ 60 Minutes
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(10/28) reported that four years after the US launched a bombing campaign
against ISIS in Syria, “tens of thousands of the extremists are dead,
captured, in hiding or on the run, and the battle is entering its final
phase. Americans know about the barbarity of ISIS, but what’s less
understood is how the US went about destroying ISIS as a military force,
who has been fighting alongside American troops, and what remains to be
done.” As part of the story, 60 Minutes spoke to Sens. Jeanne Shaheen
(D-NH) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who recently visited Syria. Shaheen: “The
strategy has been, let’s defeat ISIS. And we’re well on our way there. And
this really has happened against very long odds, with very few Americans,
with very little money” Graham: “The Kurds have come forward when nobody
else would, to help us destroy ISIS, which is a threat to you, me, her, and
everybody else.” Asked what he would tell Americans about the US’ partners
in Syria, Graham said, “They’re worth investing in. They’ve done most of
the fighting. They’ve done most of the dying. If they take over, they will
work with us. This is a damn good deal. Take it.” The rest of the 60
Minutes story can be seen here
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018102901biden&r=email-1bc3&l=082-931&t=c>.

WPost A1: Russian Disinformation On Facebook Targeted Ukraine Before US.

The Washington Post
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(10/28, A1, Priest, Jacoby, Bourg) reports on its front page that in the
spring of 2015, “Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was desperate for
Mark Zuckerberg’s help. His government had been urging Facebook to stop the
Kremlin’s spreading of misinformation on the social network to foment
distrust in his new administration and to promote support of Russia’s
invasion and occupation of parts of Ukraine. To get Zuckerberg’s attention,
the president posted a question for a town hall meeting at Facebook’s
Silicon Valley headquarters.” The Post says that while Facebook “has
launched major reforms to its platform and processes since the 2016 US
presidential election...Ukraine’s warnings two years earlier show how the
social media giant has been blind to the misuse.”
Bolsonaro Elected President Of Brazil.

The New York Times
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(10/28, Londoño, Darlington) reports Brazil on Sunday “became the latest
country to drift toward the far right, electing a strident populist as
president in the nation’s most radical political change since democracy was
restored more than 30 years ago.” Jair Bolsonaro has “exalted the country’s
military dictatorship, advocated torture and threatened to destroy, jail or
drive into exile his political opponents.” With 98 percent of votes
counted, Bolsonaro “was ahead with 55 percent, guaranteeing him a win over
Fernando Haddad of the leftist Workers’ Party, who had 45 percent.” To
the Washington
Post
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(10/28, Faiola, Lopes), Bolsonaro’s victory marks Brazil’s “most dramatic
shift to the right since the end of the Cold War-era military
dictatorships.” In a Facebook Live address “immediately after his victory,
Bolsonaro took aim at his political opponents, including members of the
left-wing Workers’ Party, whom he has threatened to jail.”

        The Washington Times
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(10/28, Puglie) reports that later “appearing outside his residence and
reading from a lengthy prepared statement,” Bolsonaro said he would “break
paradigms” and make his country’s foreign policy “non-ideological.” In an
evening news conference, a “defiant” Haddad acknowledged his defeat “but
failed to congratulate his opponent or even mention him by name.”
Sen. Johnson Says China Stealing Industrial, Military Secrets.

Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) appeared on Fox News
Sunday Morning Futures
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(10/28) to discuss cyber defense and China. Johnson said, “Again, the
awareness at least makes companies do their own certification process and
better testing to make sure they’re not vulnerable but we need better
supply chain management, better public awareness, I think, is probably the
most important thing, and there was a report about the PLA, they have their
own cyber group out of China there in 2014 and that led to at least I think
a lessening of China’s bad acting but let’s face it, China has been
stealing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of our industrial secrets as
well as our military secrets and that is really I think the biggest threat
that we face in terms of our relationship with China.”
Domestic Policy
Nielsen: Migrant Caravan Will Be Denied US Entry.

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(10/28), “I think what the President has been saying and will continue to
say...is this caravan is not getting in. There is a legal way to enter this
country. Those who choose to enter illegally will be stopped. We are
working with our partners in Mexico. They have taken unprecedented efforts
within their territory to ensure an orderly flow and that those who have no
legal right to be there are removed. We intend to do the same, but my
general message to this caravan is: do not come. You will not be allowed
in. There is a right way to immigrate to the United States and this is not
it.” She added, “The President is making clear...every possible action...is
on the table to consider and to ensure that it is clear that there is a
right and legal way to come to this country and no other ways will be
tolerated.”

        The Washington Times
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(10/28, Howell) reports Nielsen “refused to signal whether the president
plans to close off the border to people seeking asylum, perhaps involving
powers similar to his ‘travel ban’ on select, predominantly Muslim
countries.” The Washington Examiner
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(10/28, Williams) says the President “is reportedly planning to use
executive action to bar migrants, including those who choose to legally
seek asylum in the US, from crossing the southern border,” but Nielsen
“declined to comment on those specific plans.”

        *Mattis: Military Moving Equipment To Border Ahead Of Caravan’s
Arrival. *The Washington Times
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(10/28, Baldor) reports Defense Secretary Mattis said Sunday that the US
military has “already begun delivering jersey barriers to the southern
border in conjunction with plans to deploy active duty troops there.”
Mattis told reporters traveling with him in Europe that details of the
deployment are still being worked out “but he should have them Sunday
night. They will include exactly how many forces are needed.”

        *Caravan Halts After Report Of Abducted Child. *The Washington Times
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(10/28, Sherman) reports that “coordinators of a caravan of several
thousand Central American migrants moving through southern Mexico urged its
members to rest Sunday. At first the migrants vowed to press on anyway but
later changed their minds amid reports that a child had been abducted.” The
AP
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(10/28, Washington (DC), Times), meanwhile, reports that during the
caravan’s stop in the town of Tapanatepe, a local official “says a
disturbance broke out at the encampment.”

        *New US-Bound Caravan Leaves San Salvador. *Reuters
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(10/28, Renteria) reports that a “new group of migrants gathered and left
from the capital of El Salvador on Sunday, headed for the United States.”
The group of “more than 300 Salvadorans” organized “using social networks
like Facebook and WhatsApp over the last couple of weeks.” The Washington
Post
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(10/28, Brigida) reports the caravan consists of “an estimated 200
migrants,” who “say they are fleeing violence, corruption and unemployment.
Many see the caravan as their best chance of migrating safely to the United
States given the dangers of crossing Mexico.”

        *Ratcliffe, Johnson Praise Trump’s Handling Of Border Security. *On Fox
News Sunday Morning Futures
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(10/28), Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) said, “We let one million immigrants
into this country legally every year. That’s more than any other country in
the world, but to ignore a horde of folks from unknown origins with unknown
intentions other than to come into this country illegally is just plain
reckless. ... I think President Trump deserves credit for demonstrating
that he really intends to enforce our borders and to enforce the rule of
law, so I commend him for that and I support him.”

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(10/28), Senate Homeland Security Chair Ron Johnson (R-WI) said, “I
completely agree with the President. We need to change the laws and close
these loopholes. We need better barriers, no doubt about it, but the fact
of the matter is we reward people for coming to this country illegally
because if they get in here they’re able to stay and...on an average day
last year, 400 individuals came to this country illegally between the
borders, another 500 presented themselves to the points of entries and the
broken legal immigration system we have right now is prompting this.”

        *Citizenship Backlog Has Grown Under Trump. *The AP
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(10/28, Taxin) reports that “more than 700,000 immigrants are waiting on
applications to become US citizens, a process that once took about six
months but has stretched to more than two years in some places under the
Trump administration.” The number of immigrants seeking to become US
citizens “surged during 2016, increasing 27 percent from a year earlier as
Trump made cracking down on immigration a central theme of his campaign. At
first, the government kept up with the applications, but then the wait
grew.” US Citizenship and Immigration Services said the longer waits “are
because of the surge in applications, not slower processing.”

        *Activists Seek To Stop Deportation Of Michigan Man To Lebanon. *The
Detroit News
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(10/28, Hicks) reports Ibrahim Souedan of Dearborn, Michigan faces
deportation to Lebanon, “but activists and attorneys are working to stop
the move,” arguing that he “helped convict an accused associate of the
Hezbollah terrorist group, and he faces torture or death if returned.” The
News says that “after years of legal wrangling related to overstaying a
visa, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials had recently
ordered” Souedan to be deported. ICE spokesman Khaalid Walls described
Souedan as an “unlawfully present citizen of Lebanon (who) overstayed his
lawful admission by nearly two decades. He was ordered to depart in 2005
and multiple subsequent appeals upheld that decision. In an exercise of
discretion, ICE has allowed him to remain free from custody pending his
departure from the US.”
Trump Interviews Indian-American Woman For Kavanaugh’s Spot On DC Circuit
Court.

The Washington Examiner
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(10/28, Lim) reports President Trump has interviewed Neomi Rao, “a woman of
color to replace Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on the federal
appeals court in Washington, D.C., according to a report.” Rao, “who is an
administrator of one of the Office of Management and Budget’s sub-agencies,
was recommended for the judgeship on the D.C. Circuit by former White House
counsel Don McGahn, Axios
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reported Sunday.” Sources told Axios that “Trump was interested in Rao so
he could appoint a minority woman to Kavanaugh’s old job. Rao is of Indian
descent.”

        *Kavanaugh Receives Hero’s Welcome At Georgetown Prep Homecoming. *The
New York Times
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(10/28, Kelly) reports Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh returned to
Georgetown Prep last weekend for the school’s annual homecoming reunion
weekend and he “was hailed as a conquering hero.” At Friday night attended
“stag night,” the “first event of the reunion weekend,” where he “mingled
with fellow alumni, asking about their family members, chatting about his
new job and at one point posing for pictures with the school’s kitchen
staff.” On Saturday he attended the homecoming football game. During the
game, Kavanaugh “prepared to pose for a picture with former classmates.”
But first, “he instructed everyone to put down their beers, according to a
person who witnessed the exchange. (Justice Kavanaugh didn’t appear to be
drinking.)”

        *NBC’s Snow Defends Reporting On Woman Who Discredited Kavanaugh
Accuser. *The Daily Caller
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(10/28, Ross) reports NBC reporter Kate Snow, who is “accused of
withholding a story that undercut allegations that Justice Brett Kavanaugh
drugged girls at parties in high school is defending her reporting, though
questions remain about why the network sat on the story for more than three
weeks.” For a story in Swetnick, her attorney, Michael Avenatti, put Snow
in contact with a woman on Sept. 30 who he “claimed would back Swetnick’s
story that Kavanaugh mistreated girls in high school.” However, the woman
“said she never saw Kavanaugh misbehave or drug girls’ drinks.” Snow
withheld the details until Thursday of last week.
Ratcliffe Says Papadopoulos Has No Russian Contacts.

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(10/28), “The Obama FBI and the Justice Department opened up this
investigation into whether the Russian government was colluding with the
Trump campaign centering around George Papadopoulos, a 28 year old policy
adviser who to this day has never been to Russia and to this day, has never
knowingly had a conversation with anyone in the Russian government.”
Ratcliffe added, “It’s really the same old story. There’s no collusion,
there never was collusion and so that’s why we need to talk to folks like
Rod Rosenstein to get better answers to what he knows about what the FBI
and the Department of Justice were doing back then.”

        *Mueller Has “Heavy Burden” To Prove Case Against Russian Firm. *The
Washington Times
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(10/28, Scarborough) reports Special counsel Robert Mueller is “in
uncharted legal waters as he tries to nail” the Russian firm Concord
Management and Consulting LLC “for bankrolling Moscow’s deceptive social
media invasion into the 2016 election.” Defense attorney Eric Dubelier has
said in court that Mueller created a “make-believe crime” and that the
“real Justice Department” would never have brought such an indictment.
Likewise, US District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich “is expressing doubts about
Mr. Mueller’s unique prosecutorial adventure, though she is not saying she
will dismiss the charges, as Mr. Dubelier has requested.” In an Oct. 15
hearing, Friedrich said Mueller’s team has “a heavy burden at trial to
prove that” Concord knowingly defrauded the Federal Election Commission,
the Justice Department and the State Department.

        *Democrat Majority Could Create Tensions With Mueller. *Politico
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(10/28, Samuelsohn) reports that while Democrats “have religiously deferred
to special counsel Robert Mueller over the last 17 months,” that could
change after the November elections. If Democrats win the House majority,
“they’re prepared to use their newfound subpoena power to aggressively open
probes into President Donald Trump’s finances and connections to Russia.”
But launching the probes “would create tensions between the special counsel
and a newly crowned majority party replenished by scores of freshman
lawmakers who rode into Capitol Hill on an anti-Trump wave.”
Brady: Trump Tax Cut Plan Unlikely To See Action Before Next Year.

Reuters
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(10/28, Cornwell) reports House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin
Brady “suggested” Sunday that Congress is unlikely to take action on the
President’s new tax cut plan before next year, and then only if Republicans
still hold the majority. Brady told Fox News Sunday Morning Futures[image:
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“Really common sense tells you that this (Trump’s new tax cut plan) is
something, that as the Republicans retain the House and the Senate, that
will advance in the new Congress.” While he “did not completely rule out
that such a measure could be brought to a vote before year’s end,” Brady
said the post-election session is “so unpredictable.”
Amid “Overdose Epidemic,” Some ERs Now Offer Addiction Treatment.

The Washington Post
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(10/28) reports that “despite a drug overdose epidemic that is killing
nearly 200 Americans every day and sending thousands more to ERs, the vast
majority of the nation’s more than 5,500 hospitals have so far avoided
offering any form of addiction medicine to emergency patients. That’s
starting to change.” The Post notes that nearly a dozen Maryland hospitals,
“addiction services, including starting patients on the highly effective
anti-addiction medication buprenorphine, is a new and growing emergency
service.” Approved by the FDA in 2002 for the treatment of opioid
addiction, “buprenorphine has been shown to be more than twice as effective
as non-medication therapies at helping opioid users quit.”
Democrats Focus On Healthcare In Midterms’ Closing Argument.

The New York Times
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(10/28, Gabriel) reports that after “years of running as far as they could”
from President Obama’s healthcare law, “vulnerable Senate Democrats in
Florida, West Virginia and other political battlegrounds have increasingly
focused their closing argument” in this year’s midterm elections “on a
single issue: saving the Affordable Care Act. Now, with Republicans
desperate to reposition themselves and come up with their own health care
pitch, and with the elections roiled by gale-force winds on immigration and
Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, the question is whether
health care will be enough.”

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(10/28). Said Salvanto, “The Democrats want this to be about healthcare,
because people do see them as being better off at handling Medicare and
also they don’t necessarily buy the idea that Republicans that they will
protect preexisting conditions. In particular, Republicans aren’t polling
well on doing that. Something that people want. Democrats are running on
that.”

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(10/28). Lujan said, “The Democrats have been clear if we’re fortunate to
win back the House that we will work immediately on lowering prescription
drug prices for the American people.” Stivers said, “I agree with Ben that
infrastructure is something we all need and need to come together on.
Lowering prescription drug costs is another. I’m not sure why he didn’t
talk about lowering healthcare costs. We need to come together on lowering
healthcare costs.”
Analysts: Democrats Likely To Retake House

The Daily Caller
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(10/28, Givas) reports GOP strategist Karl Rove told Fox News’ Fox and
Friends Sunday
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(10/28) that Republicans face an “uphill fight” to keep their House
majority. Rove said, “Let’s remember that it is rare that the party in
power gains seats in the House – since the Civil War is happening 1934,
1998 and 2002. So in all likelihood Republicans lose seats. ... The
question is how many.” Rove continued, “Charlie Cook says today, that there
are 208 seats that are lean, likely or solid Democrat – 196 Republican
seats in the same category and the control is going to be decided by 31
seats that are toss-ups. ... They could [win] but the odds are against
them. Let’s be clear. ... It’s an uphill fight. It could happen but it’s
easier if you’re at 208 to get to 218 than if you’re at 199 or 196 to get
to 218. So right now the challenge is for the Republicans to hold on to
these seats that are toss-ups.”

        The New York Times
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(10/27, Martin, Burns) reported that as the midterm election campaign
“enters its final full week, House Republicans are rushing to fortify their
defenses in conservative-leaning districts they thought were secure,
pouring millions of dollars into a last-minute bid to build a new firewall
against Democrats.” While strategists from both parties agree that
Republicans “are likely to lose a handful of open or Democratic-tilting
seats as well as another dozen suburban districts that Hillary Clinton
carried in 2016,”

        Dan Balz of the Washington Post
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(10/27) wrote, “On all the principal battlefields at play in the 2018
midterms – House, Senate and governors – the landscape is populated with
races considered too close to call. ... There are plenty of funds available
this year, particularly among Democratic challengers in House races. It is
one of the factors that gives Democrats optimism that they can capture the
House – that along with the number of Republican retirees and the quality
of first-time candidates.”

        Politico
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(10/27, Isenstadt) reported that White House “is lowering expectations”
that Republicans will maintain House control. In a memo last week, White
House political director Bill Stepien wrote, “House Republicans’ goal this
year is to minimize their losses.” In the memo, “Stepien attempted to
divert blame from Trump toward several other factors which he said made a
‘traditionally challenging year even more difficult.’” On its website, CNN
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(10/27, Burlij) updated its race ratings, writing that “among the 30 races
CNN now rates as Toss-Ups, only one is currently held by Democrats –
Minnesota’s 1st District.”

        *AP: Gerrymandered Districts Could Stop “Blue Wave” *The AP
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(10/28, Lieb) reports in an analysis that “numerous congressional
Republicans are hoping to survive forecasts of a Democratic wave due partly
to a political seawall erected by Republicans who controlled the
redistricting process in more states than Democrats after the 2010 census.
The big question is whether enough of that seawall will hold to thwart
Democrats’ attempt to retake the U.S. House.” While “Democratic gains seem
all but assured in some states,” the Brennan Center for Justice said in a
report earlier this year that a blue wave could “crash against a wall of
gerrymandered maps.” The Brennan Center has projected that to flip the
House, “Democrats would need to win the national popular vote for
congressional districts by a nearly 11 percentage point margin – which
would be their largest midterm victory size since 1974.”

        *Democrats Working To Boost Youth Turnout. *The Washington Post
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(10/28, Gardner) reports that there are signs across the country that young
Americans “are taking an unusual level of interest in this year’s midterms,
prodded by Democratic groups and nonprofit organizations that have spent
millions urging them to see state and congressional elections as outlets to
express their views.” A new poll from the Institute of Politics at
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government shows that “the share of 18- to
29-year-old voters who say they will definitely vote has jumped from 26
percent in the run-up to the last midterm election in 2014 to 40 percent
this fall.” However it is uncertain “whether that will translate into a
substantial youth turnout this year.” The Post says it “will serve as a
test of this cycle’s costly efforts to channel expressions of dissent into
action — and could determine whether Democrats succeed this fall.” While
Republicans “acknowledge that the partisan split among youth does not favor
the GOP...they have not relinquished the demographic.”

        *Trump To Visit Eight States In Week Leading To Election Day *
Reuters
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(10/26, Holland) reported that White House officials on Friday announced
President Trump “will make campaign stops in Florida, Missouri, West
Virginia, Indiana, Montana, Ohio, Georgia and Tennessee” from Wednesday
until Election Day. Reuters said Trump “is scrambling to head off a
Democratic push to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives and
possibly the Senate.” White House political director Bill Stepien told
Reuters, “No one Republican, no surrogate, no person can better move the
political needle than President Trump.”

        *AP: Early Returns Suggest Enthusiasm For Both Parties, Hint At
High Turnout *“Returns, a combination of mail and in-person voting,
compiled by” the AP
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(10/26, Barrow) “forecast a midterm election turnout not seen in decades,
with Republicans and Democrats demonstrating engaged bases on each end of
the political spectrum.” According to the AP, the returns “show more than
15 million votes cast in 38 states by the end of Friday,” which compares to
“28 million early ballots cast four years ago out of a total 83 million.”
The AP added that “many states have more than doubled what turnout was at
this point in 2014, and a handful already have surpassed their overall
early turnout for that election.”

        *Cook Political Report Shifts Menendez’s Reelection Race To “Toss
Up.” *The Hill
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(10/26, Hagen) reported that in “a depressing development for Democrats,”
the Cook Political Report has shifted incumbent Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D)
reelection race to “Toss Up.” Cook analyst Jennifer Duffy “wrote on Friday
that the race has become solely about Menendez’s ethics problems and
voters’ lack of enthusiasm.” In the “closer-than-expected race” Democrats
hare “having to protect a seat in a deep-blue state.” Meanwhile, challenger
Bob Hugin (R) “has been willing to massively spend out-of-pocket, loaning
his campaign a total of $27.5 million.”

        *Polls: Democrats Leading In Michigan, New Mexico To Flip
Governorships. *The Detroit Free Press
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(10/25) reported that a new EPIC-MRA of Lansing poll of 600 Michigan likely
voters – commissioned by the Free Press and its media partners and
conducted Oct. 18-23 – shows that in the race to succeed term-limited Gov.
Rick Snyder (R), Gretchen Whitmer (D) “would get 46 percent of the vote if
the election were held today,” while Bill Schuette (R) would get 41
percent, while five percent would vote for someone else and seven percent
were undecided or refused to say. In a September poll by the same company
Whitmer led Schuette 45%-37%. “A significant factor in the tightening race
over the past month is an uptick in the approval rating of Republican
President Donald Trump and a narrowing of the voter enthusiasm gap between
Republicans and Democrats, the poll suggests.”

        Meanwhile, KRQE-TV
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Albuquerque, NM (10/26) reported that in the race to succeed Gov. Susana
Martinez (R), a new KRQE News 13 poll of 400 New Mexico likely voters,
conducted October 17-25, shows Rep. Lujan Grisham (D) leading Rep. Steve
Pearce (R) 48 percent to 39 percent, with 13 percent undecided. KRQE News
13 Political Analyst Gabe Sanchez said Pearce is “running out of time to
make up ground like that.”

        *Obama Campaigns In Wisconsin. *Politico
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(10/26, Korecki) reported that with Wisconsin featuring “a tight contest
for Speaker Paul Ryan’s open congressional seat, a competitive Senate race
and a battle for governor that is about as close as it can get, the state
that slipped through Democrats’ hands in the 2016 presidential election is
getting obsessive attention from both parties in the run-up to Election
Day.” According to Politico, “The marquee race features Scott Walker,
beloved by Republicans nationally, who is attempting to win his third term
as governor amid signs that the independents who made all the difference to
his victories in the past are now moving away from him.” Politico added
that Wisconsin has hosted Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Sen. Bernie Sanders,
(I-VT), and President Trump “over the past six days,” while “the biggest
prize of all for Democrats,” former President Barack Obama visited
Milwaukee on Friday. Politico said Democrats hope Obama “can do what
Hillary Clinton was unable to do in 2016: drive the party’s base to the
polls.” The New York Times
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(10/26, Herndon) reported that “Obama criticized what he called Republican
hypocrisy on Friday during a rally with Democrats in Wisconsin, claiming
that conservatives have shown themselves not to be trusted on issues
ranging from health care to national security and the deficit.”

        *Clinton Says She’d “Like To Be President,” But Not Thinking About
It Until After Midterms. *Breitbart
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(10/28, Morris) reports Hillary Clinton said during a live taping of Recode
Decode in New York City Friday that she would “like to be president.”
Clinton said, “I’d like to be president. ... I think, hopefully, when we
have a Democrat in the oval office in January 2021, there’s gonna be so
much work to be done.” Breitbart adds that when Clinton was “questioned on
whether she would be a part of the heavy lifting,” she said, “I have no
idea, Kara. I’m going to, you know, I’m not even gonna think about it till
we get through this November 6th election.”
Cancer Research
NPR Highlights Work Of Children’s Cancer Therapy Development Institute.

The NPR
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(10/26, Landhuis) “Shots” blog reported on “the Children’s Cancer Therapy
Development Institute, or cc-TDI, a nonprofit biotech lab that brings
families and researchers together to push the field forward.” The article
explained the difficulties surrounding research on rare cancers, especially
those in children, and what cc-TDI is doing to try to address those
barriers.
FDA Grants Priority Review For Metastatic Gastric Adenocarcinoma Drug.

Cancer Letter
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(10/26) reported the FDA has accepted and granted priority review for its
supplemental New Drug Application for “Lonsurf (trifluridine/tipiracil,
TAS-102) for previously treated, advanced or metastatic gastric
adenocarcinoma, including cancer of the gastroesophageal junction.”
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“The Hate Poisoning America.”* The New York Times
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(10/28) writes in an editorial that the President “has failed to
consistently, unequivocally reject bigotry, and he has even encouraged
violence at some of his rallies” and is “setting a low, coarsening standard
for how Americans should speak to and about one another.”
Washington Post.

*“Trump Made The Right Call To Withdraw From The Universal Postal Union.”*
A Washington Post
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(10/28) editorial says, “There’s not much to recommend President Trump’s
approach to trade and globalization,” but “there are exceptions, however.
One is the president’s recent decision to withdraw the United States from
the Universal Postal Union.” The Post says the organization has “evolved
from a mechanism to promote global communication into a small but
meaningful source of unfair economic advantage for China.” The UPU “has
said it will try to fast-track a review of the pact,” which the Post calls
“a gesture of good faith the Trump administration would be wise to
reciprocate.”

        *“Facebook Must Do More To Prevent 21st-Century Genocide.”
*The Washington
Post
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(10/28) editorializes that in Burma, “Facebook is more than a website. For
many residents, it is the entire Internet. So when the nation’s military
used the site as a conduit for a campaign against Muslims, there were no
guardrails to stop the hatred from spreading — except the company itself.
The grim reality on the ground” in Burma “shows Facebook failed.” The Post
argues that Facebook “must proactively monitor its impact in the countries
where it is most powerful,” and “focus on bad actors as much as bad
content.”

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