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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*Tuesday, October 30, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Rallying Support For Cordray In Ohio, Biden Blasts Trump Over Rhetoric.
<#S1>

• Biden To Campaign For Democrats In Wisconsin Today. <#S2>

• Biden To Stump For Pair Of Illinois Democratic Hopefuls On Wednesday.
<#S3>

• Biden To Appear With McCaskill In Missouri Tomorrow. <#S4>

• Biden To Headline GOTV Rally For Michigan Democrats In Lansing On
Thursday. <#S5>

• Biden, Obama Working To Help Democrats Win Back Swing Voters Who Backed
Trump. <#S6>

• Axelrod: Biden “Sure Seems To Be Headed” Toward 2020 Bid. <#S7>

• Politico: Sanders Leads Potential 2020 Democrats “In The Media Primary.”
<#S8>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump To Visit Pittsburgh As White House, Allies Denounce Accusation He’s
Anti-Semitic. <#S9>

• Rosenstein: DOJ To Review Hate Crimes Nationwide. <#S10>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump: “Fake News Media” Is “The True Enemy Of The People.” <#S11>

• Trump Says Sayoc Was “Insane For A Long Time,” Scalise Shooter Was
Sanders “Fan.” <#S12>

• Trump To Caravan: “This Is An Invasion,” US “Military Is Waiting For You.”
<#S13>

• Poll: Majority Blame Obama, Not Trump, For State Of Healthcare. <#S14>

• Lieu: Democratic House Majority Would Aggressively Exercise Oversight.
<#S15>

• Trump Says He’ll Probably Respond To Some Of Mueller’s Questions. <#S16>

• Trump Plans Blitz Of Rallies, $6 Million Ad Buy Ahead Of Midterms. <#S17>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• China Loosens Trade Ties With Iran Ahead Of New US Sanctions. <#S18>

• Bloomberg News: US Planning More China Tariffs If Trump-Xi Meeting Fails.
<#S19>

• Trump Pledges Continued US-Brazil Cooperation Following Bolsonaro’s
Victory. <#S20>

• US Releases American Who Fought For ISIS In Syria. <#S21>

• Nine Wounded In Tunisian Suicide Bombing. <#S22>

• Russia Grants Cuba $50M Military Equipment Loan. <#S23>

• Merkel Announces She Won’t Seek Reelection In 2021, Stepping Down As CDU
Head. <#S24>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• NCI Grant Founds Cancer Health Disparities Research Partnership. <#S25>

• Good Samaritan Hospital In West Islip To Open Cancer Center Next Year.
<#S26>

• Scottish Biotech Company Developing Product That May Be Safer Than
Chemotherapy. <#S27>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S28>

• Washington Post. <#S29>
Biden in the News
Rallying Support For Cordray In Ohio, Biden Blasts Trump Over Rhetoric.

The Youngstown (OH) Vindicator
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(10/29, Skolnick, Grzelewski) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden,
campaigning for Ohio gubernatorial candidate Richard Cordray (D) in
Youngstown on Monday, “sharply criticized” President Trump “for his
rhetoric he says is adversely impacting the nation.” During a rally at
Youngstown State University, Biden talked about “the recent violence that
has struck the nation. This it the time for American leaders of all
political stripes, all of them, to think about consoling the victims and
uniting this country,’ Biden said. He added: ‘You get it. Words matter, and
words from our leaders matter.’” The Toledo (OH) Blade
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(10/29, Skalka) reports that Biden “condemned the attack at a Pittsburgh
synagogue that killed 11 people over the weekend and urged Americans of all
political stripes to unite, saying it’s up to leaders to ‘dial down the
tone and to restore some dignity to the national dialogue.’”

        The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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(10/29, Richardson) reports, “Less than one week after being targeted by a
mail bomber who appeared to have focused on” Trump’s “political opponents,”
Biden “decried what he described as the erosion of American ideals at the
hands of Trump and his divisive political style. Racism, jingoism and
anti-Semitism have been allowed to spread, Biden said, pointing to the
Charlottesville riots, the separation of children from their families at
the US-Mexico border and the recent shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue.”
Said Biden, “Folks, this is a distorted world view. When that hatred is
given space to fester, it encourages the seedier side of society to come
out from the rocks. It legitimates them.”

        The Warren (OH) Tribune Chronicle
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(10/30, Fox) reports, “In the wake of the shooting at a synagogue in
Pittsburgh and the mailing of pipe bombs to numerous leading Democrats,
including himself,” Biden talked “about the need for leaders who recognize
that ‘words matter.’” Said Biden, “Our political opponents are not our
enemies, and the press is not the enemy of the people.” The former Vice
President “encouraged the crowd of hundreds to vote for leaders who display
‘decency’ and respect for people, whom they are hoping to serve.”

        In an online article, WKSU-FM
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Kent, OH (10/29, Richmond) quoted Biden as saying, “I wrote a year ago,
after the horrific events in Charlottesville, and I believe it just as
strongly as I did then, that we’re in a battle for the soul of America.” On
its website, ABC News
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(10/29, Siegel) reported that Biden “said the country feels ‘precariously
close’ to the scene described by the Irish poet W.B. Yeats in ‘The Second
Coming,’ quoting the warning that the ‘centre cannot hold.’ ‘It’s on our
leaders to set the tone, to dial down the temperature,’ to add ‘dignity to
our national dialogue,’ he said.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(10/29, Chaitin) reported Biden “warned that the world may soon be without
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,” asserting that “the alliance,
which Trump has criticized, could be gone in five years. ‘They’re not
laughing,’ Biden said about the global community. ‘They’re scared to death.
They’re crying. ... Because they know without a strong United States,
they’re all in trouble. Not a joke. Mark my words, if we don’t turn things
around, there will be no NATO in five years.’”

        On its website, WBNS-TV
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Columbus, OH (10/29, Landers) reported, “At times Biden sounded like he was
running for office himself, as he railed against the” GOP “and what he
called attacks on American values. ‘But these values are being shredded
putting their self-interests before the ideas and ideals that we stand for
amassing power and abusing power,’ he said.” On its website, WFMJ-TV
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Youngstown, OH (10/23, Nicks) reported that Biden, “having been to the
Mahoning Valley many times,” spoke “about the strength he sees in the
people here.” Said Biden, “Labor helped build the whole middle class in my
Valley and here in this Valley. You’re made up of the same folks man.
You’re made up of the same grit and toughness of that where I come from.”

        The Columbus (OH) Dispatch
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(10/29, Ludlow) reports that Biden touted Cordray’s candidacy during a
discussion “with Ohio State University students in a surprise retail
politics stop at Sloopy’s Diner in the Ohio Union” in Columbus, where the
former Vice President “was greeted by many of the Ohio State students as if
he were a rock star. Biden dropped by the Union prior to a Columbus
fund-raiser for Cordray’s campaign and a late-afternoon rally in Youngstown
on Monday. ‘You gotta vote,’ Biden kept telling his audience with the
election but eight days away.”

        Ohio State University – The Lantern
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(10/29, Sutelan) reports that Biden “talked to everyone in the diner:
students grabbing lunch, cooks, dishwashers, managers, cashiers.” Biden and
Cordray “fielded questions from the half-circle of students, encouraging
people to vote for the Democratic candidate for governor, though not
directly addressing Cordray’s Republican opponent, Ohio Attorney General
Mike DeWine.” In an online article, WKSU-FM
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Kent, OH (10/29, Pfleger) reported that Biden “even called one student’s
grandma to tell her to vote for Cordray.”

        On its website, WKEF-TV
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Dayton, OH (10/29) reported that Ohio State University political scientist
Dr. Paul Beck “said Biden can help Cordray with Democrats and independents
who may have switched their vote in 2016 for President Donald Trump. ‘He is
somebody I think who is looked upon as just a common guy,’ Beck said.
‘Biden helps and helps in the very groups Cordray needs to draw well in to
be able to win the election. It’s a very close race. Whoever wins the
governorship will be an important person in the 2020 election and so it’s
very important for both Democrats and Republicans to get their person in.’”
Among the local TV stations offering broadcasts on Biden’s visit are
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Youngstown, OH (10/30), WLWT-TV
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Cincinnati (10/30), WOWK-TV
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Charleston, WV (10/30), WKBN-TV
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Youngstown, OH (10/30), WBNS-TV
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Columbus, OH (10/30), and WTOL-TV
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Toledo, OH (10/30).

        *WCPO-TV: Biden’s “Rape Everything” Remark On GOP “Raised Some
Eyebrows.” *In a broadcast, WCPO-TV
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Cincinnati's Good Morning Tri-State 5AM (10/30) reports that Biden “is
taking some heat this morning for a controversial comment aimed at the”
GOP. During Monday’s rally in Youngstown, Biden’s remark on “the GOP and
healthcare raised some eyebrows.” Biden was shown saying, “They want to go
after the things they’ve never ever liked, cost a lot of money and doesn’t
allow them to rape everything. And that’s Medicare, Medicaid, and Social
Security.”
Biden To Campaign For Democrats In Wisconsin Today.

The AP
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(10/29) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden “is coming to
Wisconsin a week before the election to get out the vote in Madison and
Milwaukee.” Biden plans “to hold an early voting rally Tuesday morning on
the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison,” where, he’ll be joined
by Sen. Tammy Baldwin, (D), Democratic gubernatorial Tony Evers (D), and
other Democrats. In thee afternoon, Biden is slated to visit “Milwaukee for
a similar event at a union labor hall where he [is] to be joined by Evers
and his running mate Mandela Barnes.”

        The Wisconsin State Journal
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(10/30, Sommerhauser) reports that Biden “is touring the Midwest this week
– he visited Ohio State University Monday and will go to St. Louis
Wednesday – urging support for Democratic candidates. Biden is widely
viewed as a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in
2020 but has not yet said if he will seek it.”
Biden To Stump For Pair Of Illinois Democratic Hopefuls On Wednesday.

In an online article, WNIJ-FM
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DeKalb, IL (10/29, Stephens) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden
will visit “Illinois this week to drum up support for several Democratic
congressional candidates. Biden will host a rally Wednesday morning at the
Kane County Fairgrounds to urge people to” support nurse Lauren Underwood’s
(D) bid to unseat IL14 Rep. Randy Hultgren (R). WNIJ added, “Later in the
day, Biden will travel to East St. Louis,” where he’ll seek to boost
Brendan Kelly (D), who is challenging IL12 Rep. Mike Bost (R). The St.
Charles (IL) Patch
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(10/29, Farver) similarly reports on Biden’s scheduled appearance in St.
Charles in support of Underwood.
Biden To Appear With McCaskill In Missouri Tomorrow.

In an online article, KPLR-TV
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St. Louis (10/29, Hessel) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden has
“announced that he will be attending the ‘Get Out and Vote’ rally with”
Sen. Claire McCaskill on “Wednesday, October 31. The event will take place
at the Machinists District 9 office located at 12365 St. Charles Rock Road
in Bridgeton. ... McCaskill is in a tight re-election race with Republican
Attorney General Josh Hawley.”
Biden To Headline GOTV Rally For Michigan Democrats In Lansing On Thursday.

The Detroit News
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(10/29, Burke) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden is slated to
visit “Michigan on Thursday for a political rally in Lansing to galvanize
Democrats ahead of next week’s midterm elections. Biden was just in
Michigan last month to campaign with” gubernatorial hopeful Gretchen
Whitmer (D). The News adds, “Thursday’s get-out-the-vote rally at Lansing
Community College is being hosted by the campaign of” ex-Obama
Administration official Elissa Slotkin (D), who is bidding to unseat MI8
Rep. Mike Bishop (R). The former Vice President “previously endorsed
Slotkin, who often advised Biden on national security matters when she
served in the White House and later as a top defense official at the
Pentagon.” MLive (MI)
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(10/29, Gibbons) reports Whitmer, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D), and lieutenant
governor candidate Garlin Gilchrist (D) are also “expected to attend”
Thursday’s event. In online articles, WDIV-TV
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Detroit (10/29, Dado) reports, and WWMT-TV
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Grand Rapids, MI (10/29, Minegar) briefly reported on the coming rally in
Lansing.
Biden, Obama Working To Help Democrats Win Back Swing Voters Who Backed
Trump.

In an online article, NBC News
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(10/30, Memoli) reports, “On the eve of an election most in his party felt
was all but won, Joe Biden couldn’t shake the nagging feeling that
something was wrong. And a crowd in the mood to celebrate instead got
something of a premonition from” Biden, who said while stumping alongside
then-Democratic nominee for Vice President, Sen. Tim Kaine, “There’s a lot
of people who are going to vote for Donald Trump. We’ve got to figure out
why. What is eating at them?” Today, Biden “seems to be on a mission to
again help his party answer that question head-on. And to do so, both he
and former President Obama have been targeting those very voters who helped
put them in the White House for eight years, then voted to elect President
Trump.”
Axelrod: Biden “Sure Seems To Be Headed” Toward 2020 Bid.

Politico Magazine
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(10/30) provides a transcript of an interview Tim Alberta conducted with
former Obama chief strategist David Axelrod. Asked about a potential 2020
White House bid by former Vice President Joe Biden, Axelrod replied, “He
sure seems to be headed in that direction. You know, I think two things.
One is I think he’s genuinely offended by the way Trump is governing and
not governing, the way he is dividing the country. ... It’s also true that
this is a guy who has been talked about as a presidential nominee since the
time he arrived in the Senate in 1973. He has run twice before. He knows
the job as well as anybody. He really was an important counselor to
President Obama.” Axelrod added, “And so it’s hard to say, ‘No, I don’t
think so. I’m going to pass on this one.’ I think he feels he would have
won last time if he had been the nominee.”
Politico: Sanders Leads Potential 2020 Democrats “In The Media Primary.”

Politico
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(10/30, Siders) reports, “Never mind the chatter about 20 or 25 Democrats
running for the presidential nomination in 2020. In the media primary – the
scramble for newspaper headlines, TV hits and social media mentions – there
are only six or seven contenders. Next year, when candidates will likely
need to meet a polling threshold to claim a place in the critical early
debates, that ability to generate media attention will be more important
than ever.” So far, “the candidates creating the bulk of it” are “Sen.
Bernie Sanders, former Vice President Joe Biden, lawyer Michael Avenatti
and Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker.” Sanders “leads
the field of potential 2020 candidates in mentions on traditional news
sites, appearing in nearly 114,000 articles over the past three months,
according to a Meltwater analysis. ... Biden, Avenatti and Warren were all
mentioned in at least 70,000 articles, while Harris and Booker came up at
least 50,000 times.”
Leading the News
Trump To Visit Pittsburgh As White House, Allies Denounce Accusation He’s
Anti-Semitic.

President Trump and the First Lady will visit Pittsburgh today, as media
reports highlight the debate over Trump’s rhetoric and sound a decidedly
unfavorable note on his performance since Saturday’s tragedy. The CBS
Evening News
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(10/29, story 4, 1:50, Garrett) reported, for example, “The role of
consoler-in-chief is not one then-candidate Trump auditioned for in 2016
and very little about his presidency suggests he considers living up to its
contemporary norms, a particular presidential obligation.” Jim Acosta said
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(10/29), meanwhile, “With his own incendiary rhetoric under a microscope,”
Trump “will visit Pittsburgh...and come face-to-face with a community that
is divided over his mere presence after the mass shooting at the Tree of
Life Synagogue.”

        The New York Times
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(10/29, Gabriel) reports that “still reeling from the horror and grief
after Saturday’s massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue, Pittsburgh is now
dealing with something else: the barbed politics of the 2018 midterms and
widespread opposition to...Trump’s plan to visit here Tuesday.” The Times
adds that “one week before Americans head to the polls, criticisms that the
president is sowing hurtful divisions in society have become an electoral
issue, a turn of events that the White House and Republicans are vehemently
pushing back on.” The Times adds that “chants of ‘Vote! Vote! Vote!’ broke
out during vigils for victims of the synagogue shootings.” The Washington
Post
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(10/29, Wang) similarly reports “critics of Trump have said that his
incendiary rhetoric has contributed to a rise in extremism and could be
perceived by radicals as a green light for violence.” In a separate story,
the Washington Post
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(10/29, Dawsey) says that “ahead of his Tuesday visit to Pittsburgh,” Trump
“and his top aides have struggled to balance their scorched-earth campaign
strategy with calls for national unity following last weekend’s slaughter
of 11 Jewish worshipers in a synagogue there.”

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(10/29, Bauder) reports, “The White House said...Trump will travel to
Pittsburgh...to offer his support in the wake of the Tree of Life
Congregation massacre despite concerns from local officials about the
timing of the visit.” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders “said
during a news conference Monday that Trump and first lady Melania Trump are
coming ‘to express the support of the American people and grieve with the
Pittsburgh community.’”

        Bloomberg News
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(10/29, Jacobs) reports that Sanders also said yesterday, “Anti-Semitism is
a plague to humanity,” and CQ Roll Call
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(10/29, Bennett) that “during a rare press briefing,” she “called for all
Americans to rally around the country’s Jewish community.” USA Today
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(10/29, Jackson, Fritze, Cummings) notes that “fighting back tears, Sanders
noted that Trump ‘is the grandfather of several Jewish grandchildren.’” The
Hill
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(10/29, Fabian) quotes her as saying, “The president cherishes the American
Jewish community for everything it stands for and contributes to our
country.” The New York Times
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(10/29, Davis) similarly reports Sanders “began...with an emotional
condemnation of the killings and of anti-Semitism,” but “also lashed out at
the news media, arguing that news organizations were falsely blaming Mr.
Trump for the violence.”

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(10/29) about his plan to visit Pittsburgh on Tuesday, said, “I’m just
going to pay my respects. I’m also going to the hospital to see the
officers and some of the people that were so badly hurt. And I really look
forward to going. I would have done it even sooner, but I didn’t want to
disrupt any more than they already have disruption but I look forward to
going to Pittsburgh tomorrow.”

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(10/29) what the term “nationalist” means to him. Trump said, “To me I
don’t have to clarify. It means all of the country, and fighting for the
country. I look at two things: globalists and nationalists. I’m somebody
that wants to take care of our country because for many, many years...our
leaders have been more worried about the world than they have about the
United States and then leave us in the mess.” Trump added, “I’m proud of
this country and I call that nationalism. I call it being a nationalist and
I don’t see any other connotation than that.”

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(10/29) about accusations that he is anti-Semitic, Trump said, “I just
received an award from the state of Israel...thanking me because I moved to
the, as you know, the embassy to Jerusalem, making Jerusalem the capital of
Israel and I just did that. How many presidents said they were going to do
it and they never did it? Many, many presidents.” Trump added, “This
horrible human being, this terrible person who did the shooting was not a
Donald Trump fan because he said I was too close to Israel.”

        Appearing on Fox News’ Fox & Friends[image: Image removed by
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(10/29), White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Trump “has denounced
antisemitism in all forms. He said we must rise above this evil. He has
called for the death penalty for this murderer in Pittsburgh who gunned
down 11 innocent people because of their faith. And he said the word
antisemitism, antisemite any number of times. That’s really the lesson from
Pittsburgh, everyone. I can’t believe on these shows yesterday and over of
the weekend people are pointing the finger, media making it about
themselves. Cut it out. And recognize that this man went in there to,
quote, ‘kill Jews.’ ... People gunned down because of their Jewish faith.
... This President is asking us to rise above it and come together and
unify as a nation. And anybody who is saying he isn’t, isn’t listening.”

        Appearing on CNN’s New Day
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(10/29) (10/29), Conway said, “We have not heard the last from the
President on this matter. ... He condemned in no uncertain terms the
antisemitism. And that’s the lesson for me this weekend. I don’t like
people pointing fingers for a very simple reason: We are disrespecting the
victims and the opportunity to instruct everybody as to why this happened.
They were murdered...because they were Jewish.” Conway went on to say, “We
just need people to understand in 2018 in this country, as in many places
and spaces around this world for centuries, Jewish people are being
murdered because of their faith.”

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(10/29), “Of course, the mainstream media, Democratic Party, they are now
speaking with one voice, literally condemning...Trump for this weekend’s
horrific attack. ... This is beyond despicable, beyond low, beyond
disgusting obviously in the lead up to an election. Not only is President
Trump historically supportive of the Jewish community and Israel but the
monster recently for Saturday’s act of terror, hated Donald Trump. Why? In
large part, for being so lows to out closest friends and allies in Israel.”

        On Fox News’ Fox & Friends
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(10/29), in response to a montage of media figures and Democrats blaming
Trump for the synagogue massacre, Brian Kilmeade said, “To think that the
President could somehow be linked to this, you have to suspend disbelief,
especially when he has great links to the Jewish community, both at home or
abroad. He has a daughter who converted, a son-in-law who is playing a key
role in his Administration, means so much to him, at his right hand.”
Kilmeade added that the terrorist responsible for the attack in Pittsburgh
“happened to hate Donald Trump.” Steve Doocy added, “This shooter
hated...Trump, thought he was a ‘globalist,’ didn’t vote for him.”

        *Pittsburgh Mayor Won’t Attend Events With Trump. *The Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette
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(10/29, Routh) reports that “shortly before the announcement of the visit,
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette he wants the
White House to consult with families of those killed in the shooting before
announcing a visit – and asked that it not happen ‘while we are burying the
dead.’” Later Monday, “Peduto spokesman Timothy McNulty said the mayor
would not attend any events with the president.”

        *Rabbi Of Synagogue Attacked By Shooter Welcomes Trump Visit. *Jeff
Zeleny said on CNN’s The Lead
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(10/29), “The President is facing a mixed reaction as he and the First Lady
plan to visit Pittsburgh on Tuesday. Jeffrey Myers, the rabbi at the Tree
of Life Synagogue, said he welcomed the President.” Myers was shown saying,
“The President of the United States is always welcome. I’m a citizen, he’s
my President. He’s certainly welcome.” Zeleny added, however, that Myers’
“view is hardly universal.” Breitbart
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(10/29, Baker) reports that CNN also asked Myers “if he blamed anyone
‘beyond the gunman’ for the attack.” Breitbart says Myers declined to do
so. The Daily Caller
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(10/29, Athey) notes Myers said, “I don’t really foist blame upon any
person. ... Hate does not know religion, race, creed, political party. It’s
not a political issue in any way, shape, or form. Hate does not know any of
those things.”

        *Israeli Education Minister Praises Trump. *Israeli Education
Minister Naftali Bennett said on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle[image: Image
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(10/29), “I spent a couple of days in Squirrel Hill in Pittsburgh with the
Jewish community and all I received was warmth, desire for unity. I think
the President is absolutely right as the leader of the United States to go
there and visit. I’m sure he would have been criticized had he not decided
to go. And I think it’s time for unity and for all of us to stand together.
That’s what we’re doing.” Later
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in the interview, Bennett said, “I think President Trump has been extremely
supportive of the state of Israel. Moved the embassy to Jerusalem, has
recognized Jerusalem as our capital. Has been a big friend of the Jewish
people. This is not a partisan issue. It’s got to be bipartisan. The
President and on the other side of the aisle, everyone has to step up,
speak up against anti-Semitism and that’s exactly what’s going on here.”

        *Jewish Group Led By Soros’ Son Asks Trump To Stay Away From
Pittsburgh. *The New York Times
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(10/29, Robertson, Tavernise, Haag) reports that “the Pittsburgh chapter of
the progressive Jewish group, Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, which is focused
on social justice in the United States, said in an open letter to Mr. Trump
that he was ‘not welcome in Pittsburgh until you fully denounce white
nationalism.’” The Times notes that “the chairman of the board of Bend the
Arc: Jewish Action is Alexander Soros,” the son of George Soros, “the
billionaire philanthropist and major donor to Democratic candidates.”
Several paragraphs later, the Times reports that “other people in
Pittsburgh’s Jewish community said they would be glad for a visit from Mr.
Trump, including Rabbi Jeffrey Myers of the Tree of Life synagogue.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/29, Wang) reports that in 2015, Bend the Arc, “with the help of
Alexander Soros...launched the first Jewish political action committee
focused on dealing solely with domestic issues.” The Post adds, “According
to its website, the group supports ‘everyone threatened by the Trump
agenda.’” The Post notes that Robert Bowers “espoused anti-Semitic views,”
but does not mention that he was also critical of Trump.

        Unlike the New York Times and the Washington Post, meanwhile,
Reuters
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(10/29, Resnick-Ault) does not note the role played by Soros’s Bend the Arc
in organizing the anti-Trump message. Likewise, ABC World News Tonight[image:
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(10/29, story 3, 2:30, Karl) didn’t note Soros’ links to “one progressive
Jewish group in Pittsburgh saying the President is not welcome until he
fully denounces white supremacy.” ABC added that “in response to that, the
White House said the President has repeatedly denounced bigotry and racism
in all forms.”

        The New York Times
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(10/29, Halbfinger) reports from Israel, where “the decades-old animosity
between left and right has reached new levels of enmity in recent years,”
and “with the Israeli government, like many across Europe, also taking a
decidedly nationalistic turn, the election of...Trump has only compounded
that strife, widening the rift between Israeli and American Jews.” The
Times adds “politically liberal American Jews have been repelled by Mr.
Trump’s solid support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and by Mr.
Netanyahu’s effusive embrace of Mr. Trump and his granting of a wish-list’s
worth of political gifts.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/29, Lee) reports the shooting “deepened sharply divided views in the
American Jewish community about...Trump, inflaming a debate about whether
he has fostered an atmosphere that allows hate and anti-Semitism to
flourish.” The Post adds “some view Saturday’s shooting...as an opportunity
for Trump to reverse the damage done by his Charlottesville comments.”

        *Scarborough: Trump Deserves Blame For Synagogue Massacre. *MSNBC’s
Morning Joe
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(10/29) opened with clips of past presidents responding to national
tragedies and then one of Trump this weekend talking about his hair. Mika
Brzezinski said, “11 people were murdered on Saturday and hours later the
commander in chief was cracking jokes about his hair.” Joe Scarborough
added, “You have had a president and a candidate running for president who
after Charlottesville preached moral relativism and equated neo-Nazis with
those that were protesting against neo-Nazis. You have had somebody who has
been calling Hispanics ‘breeders,’ somebody who has been calling himself a
‘nationalist,’ and neo-Nazis have come out praising him for that. ... He
has refused steadfastly to attack white nationalists. He has refused to
call back his attacks against all the people who...had bombs sent to” them
last week. According to Scarborough, “This is a national reckoning. ... In
a week, people get to make a decision. Is this the America they want to
live in?”

        *NBC News: Trump “Blamed The Synagogue For Not Having An Armed
Guard.” *NBC Nightly News
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(10/29, story 4, 2:05, Holt) reported, “When the President visits
Pittsburgh tomorrow, he’ll once again find himself being viewed through the
lens of controller in chief, a role critics say he’s struggled to fill in
the wake of national tragedies.” NBC (Mitchell) added, “At times of
national tragedy, Americans look to their leaders for comfort,” yet Trump
“blamed the synagogue for not having an armed guard.” Trump was shown
saying, “If they had protection inside, the results would be better.” NBC
also described Trump as “joking he should have canceled appearances, not
because the nation was in mourning, but because of his hair.” Trump said,
“I said maybe I should cancel this arrangement because I have a bad hair
day.”

        *WPost’s Cohen Discusses “Trump’s Anti-Semitism,” Says He Has
“Mind-Set Of An Anti-Semite.” *Richard Cohen writes in his Washington Post
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(10/29) column that Republicans “do not appreciate that, in both style and
rhetoric, Trump’s anti-Semitism, like that of Eastern Europe’s, is ‘without
Jews.’” While Trump “himself lacks the prejudice,” he “has adopted or
embraced the mind-set of an anti-Semite.” For example, he “does not rebut
the stereotype of the villainous rich Jew, that latter-day Rothschild,
George Soros, who is seen as the deus ex machina funding the caravan of the
desperate wending its way north from Honduras.”

        *Politico: Politics Of Terrorism Turn Against Trump. *Politico
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(10/29, Restuccia) reports, meanwhile, that Trump’s “attempt to revive
fears about Islamic terrorism, one quickly turned upside-down by two major
domestic attacks with no apparent links beyond America’s borders, and which
Trump has struggled to address politically.” Politico adds that “in
political terms, Trump has been a victim of his own success: The
multinational military campaign launched against ISIS in 2014 has succeeded
in devastating the radical terrorist group’s infrastructure and has
recaptured nearly all the territory ISIS once controlled in Syria and
Iraq.” However, “that has also deprived Trump of a political theme that he
used to powerful effect in 2015 and 2016.”

        *Rep. Doyle Criticizes Trump Ahead Of Pittsburgh Visit. *Rep. Mike
Doyle (D-PA), whose district includes the area of Pittsburgh where the
synagogue is located, was asked on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image
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(10/29) if he wants to Trump to visit and speak in his district. Doyle
said, “I think the focus should be on the families. Tomorrow, nine families
are going to bury 11 people. And I know where my focus is tomorrow. ... I
want whatever the families want. Whatever the congregation wants. This is
about them. It’s not about the President or anybody else. It’s about those
families who have lost loved ones and are mourning. And if they want the
President there, then that’s fine with me.” Asked what he would like to
hear from Trump, Doyle said, “The President has the largest megaphone in
the country. And he should use it to help unite the country. And
unfortunately, that’s not what he does.”

        *Despite Charges Of Anti-Semitism, Republicans Continue Attacks On
Soros. *The Washington Post
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(10/29, Debonis) reports that “Republicans pressed ahead in casting
financier George Soros as a threat, shrugging off criticism that the
attacks are anti-Semitic, days after a fervent supporter of President Trump
was charged with sending a mail bomb to Soros’s home and a gunman opened
fire at a Pittsburgh synagogue.” The National Republican Congressional
Committee continued airing an ad Monday “criticizing a Minnesota Democratic
candidate and Iraq War veteran over his job at a foundation funded in part
by Soros,” while the Michigan Republican Party promoted an ad depicting
Soros among forces “looking to rig Michigan’s elections.”

        A second Washington Post
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(10/29, Sonmez) story says a “US government agency has launched an internal
investigation after airing a Spanish-language program earlier this year
describing George Soros as a ‘multimillionaire Jew’ and espousing
conspiracy theories about the billionaire philanthropist.” The 15-minute
segment was aired in May by Radio and Television Martí in Cuba. John F.
Lansing, CEO and director of the US Agency for Global Media, which oversees
Radio and Television Martí’s parent office, said in a statement Monday that
a probe is underway and described the video segment as “inconsistent with
our professional standards and ethics.”

        *Campbell Soup Speeds Retirement Of Executive Who Said Soros Behind
Migrant Caravan. *The New York Times
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(10/29, Tsang) reports that “a Campbell Soup Company executive who had
planned to retire next month left last week instead after sharing a
conspiracy theory on Twitter about a migrant caravan in Mexico,” Campbell
announced Monday. Kelly Johnston, who has served as the company’s vice
president of government affairs, “agreed to ‘accelerate’ his retirement
after he said on Twitter last week that a foundation led by George
Soros...was the driving force behind a caravan of thousands of migrants
headed toward Mexico’s border with the United States.”

        *Drudge Criticizes Fox Host Who “Laughed And Joked” After
Pittsburgh Shooting. *The Washington Examiner
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(10/29, Scarry) reports Matt Drudge, founder and editor of the Drudge
Report, “targeted Fox News on Monday for what he said was an insensitive TV
segment in light of the mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue.” On Twitter
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Drudge wrote, “A segment on Fox News this morning where hosts laughed and
joked their way through a discussion on political impact of terror was
bizarre. Not even 48 hours since blood flowed at synagogue? Check your soul
in the makeup chair!” The Examiner notes that Drudge “did not specify what
hosts or show he was describing, but a tweet sent minutes earlier” said,
“Is it really funny?” and featured a photo of Fox News host Lisa “Kennedy”
Montgomery smiling on air.

        *Fox Executive Condemns Remarks By Guest On Lou Dobbs’ Show. *The New
York Times
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(10/28, Schwartz) reports that a Fox Business Network executive on Sunday
“condemned the appearance of a guest” on “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” after the
guest’s remarks “were linked to anti-Semitism.” The guest, Chris Farrell of
the conservative Washington group Judicial Watch, “claimed the caravan of
refugees now traveling in southern Mexico was funded by George Soros,” who
is Jewish. The Times notes that the episode was originally broadcast on
Thursday but was shown again on Saturday night, after the shooting in
Pittsburgh. In a statement, Gary Schreier, senior vice president for
programming at Fox Business, said, “We condemn the rhetoric by the guest on
‘Lou Dobbs Tonight.’” He also said Farrell will no longer be booked on
either Fox Business Network or Fox News Channel.

        *Accused Pittsburgh Shooter Appears In Court. *The AP
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(10/29, Dale, Lauer, Breed) reports that Robert Gregory Bowers, “the man
accused in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, appeared briefly in federal
court in a wheelchair and handcuffs Monday to face charges he killed 11
people in what is believed to be the deadliest attack on Jews in US
history.” The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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(10/29, Guza) says Bowers “requested a public defender and spoke few words
Monday” as “marshals unrestrained his hands only briefly to sign
paperwork.” The New York Times
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(10/29, Robertson, Tavernise, Haag) notes the charges against him “included
obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs – a hate crime, which
can carry the death penalty, a sentence that federal authorities said
Sunday they intended to pursue. He also faces state charges.”

        The CBS Evening News
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(10/29, lead story, 3:50, Begnaud) reported Bowers “was just out of the
hospital. He looked alert and curious. He kind of scanned the courtroom to
see who was there. It was interesting, because he waived his right to have
the judge tell him what the penalty could be if he gets convicted, life in
prison or execution.” ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by
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(10/29, lead story, 4:30, Gutman) said that “what is perhaps most chilling
about the man suspected of killing the atrocity in that synagogue behind me
is that he seemed to normal in court, chatting with his attorneys,
compliant with the bailiffs and undisturbed with the 11 murder charges he
faces.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(10/29, Maher, Ailworth), among other news outlets, runs a similar report
on Bowers’ court appearance. A “law enforcement source told” the Washington
Post
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(10/29, Wang), meanwhile, that “investigators recovered three handguns, two
rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition after executing a search
warrant at the residence. That’s in addition to at least four weapons
recovered at the synagogue.”

        NBC Nightly News
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(10/29, lead story, 2:15, Williams) reported, “According to investigators,
while Bowers was firing inside the Tree of Life synagogue and again after
he was arrested, he said he wanted to kill Jews.” The FBI “said he was
armed with an AR-15 and three handguns like these and used them all during
the rampage. His social media posts seethed with antis-Semitic hatred,
including for HIAS, a Jewish organization that helps refugees, people
Bowers called hostile invaders.”

        *In Wake Of Shooting, WPost Editorial Calls On Voters To Elect
Pro-Gun Control Congress. *The Washington Post
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(10/29) editorializes, “Once again, the question must be asked of what it
will take – how many more mass shootings, lost lives and devastated
communities – before Congress enacts sensible gun control that includes
banning weapons designed for war.” The Post goes on to write that “voters
next week...should elect a Congress that will protect them by enacting
long-overdue gun reform that includes getting weapons of war off America’s
streets and out of its schools, theaters, churches and synagogues.”

        *Kristof Calls For “Defanging The NRA.” *Nicholas Kristof writes in
his New York Times
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(10/29) column that “saving lives is not just about universal background
checks and red flag laws, but also about defanging the N.R.A,” which “has
been hijacked by extremist leaders committed not to their members’ (much
more reasonable) views, but to hard-line resistance of safety regulations.”
Rosenstein: DOJ To Review Hate Crimes Nationwide.

USA Today
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(10/29, Johnson) reports Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein on Monday “pledged
renewed commitment to hate crime enforcement across the country” as federal
prosecutors moved forward with charges against the alleged gunman in an
attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue. Rosenstein told a gathering of law
enforcement officials, “The tragic attack at the Pittsburgh Tree of Life
synagogue two days ago serves as a stark reminder of the need to protect
all Americans against hate crimes. In mourning the victims today, we also
commit ourselves to preventing future attacks.” Citing “rampant
underreporting of crimes of hate, Rosenstein announced the Justice
Department would fund a nationwide review of such incidents.”

        *NYTimes: Growing Anti-Semitism Shocks American Jews. *The New York
Times
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(10/29, Goodstein) reports that “until recent years, many Jews in America
believed that the worst of anti-Semitism was over there, in Europe, a
vestige of the old country.” This weekend’s attack at a Pittsburgh
synagogue “was for many a shocking wake-up call,” but “it did not come out
of nowhere, said experts in anti-Semitism.” The Anti-Defamation League
logged “a 57 percent rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the United States in
2017, compared to the previous year.”

        *Media Analyses: Social Media Platforms Used To Disseminate Hate
Speech. *The CBS Evening News
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(10/29, story 3, 2:00, Glor) reported, “Synagogue shooting suspect Robert
Bowers’ online posts and reposts were filled with hate, referring to Jews
as the children of Satan and both Jews and Muslims as filthy and evil. His
posts were on Gab.com, which bills itself as a haven for free speech but
critics say it is a gearing place for white nationalists and neo-Nazis.”
The Anti-Defamation League monitors “dozens of social media platforms and
hundreds of sites.” ADL Senior VP George Selim: “Various online platforms
have become the mechanism of choice for individuals to share and
disseminate vitriolic, anti-Semitic propaganda.” CBS (Pegues): “We checked
and found that last year, there were more than 16 million tweets involving
hate speech. That far outnumbered tweets mentioning the Super Bowl and the
television show ‘The Game Of Thrones.’”

        The New York Times
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(10/29, Frenkel, Isaac, Conger) similarly reports that over the last 10
years, “it has become glaringly apparent that [social media] companies
never quite understood the negative consequences of that influence nor what
to do about it – and that they cannot put the genie back in the bottle.”
The Times says the “repercussions of the social media companies’ inability
to handle disinformation and hate speech have manifested themselves
abundantly in recent days” amid a series of bombs sent to prominent
Democrats and Saturday’s deadly shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue. The Wall
Street Journal
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(10/29, A1, Wells) has a similar story on its front page under the headline
“Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Puts Spotlight On Fringe Platforms And Their
Partners.”
Domestic Policy
Trump: “Fake News Media” Is “The True Enemy Of The People.”

President Trump tweeted
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on Monday 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...[continuing tweet
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Anger and Outrage and we will then be able to bring all sides together in
Peace and Harmony. Fake News Must End!” Trump went back to Twitter
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in the evening to add, “CNN and others in the Fake News Business keep
purposely and inaccurately reporting that I said the ‘Media is the Enemy of
the People.’ Wrong! I said that the ‘Fake News (Media) is the Enemy of the
People,’ a very big difference. When you give out false information – not
good!” Trump added
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“Check out tweets from last two days. I refer to Fake News Media when
mentioning Enemy of the People – but dishonest reporters use only the word
‘Media.’ The people of our Great Country are angry and disillusioned at
receiving so much Fake News. They get it, and fully understand!”

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(10/29) last night, “When I say the enemy of the people, I am talking about
the fake news. ... You have news out there that’s so fake and I can do the
greatest thing ever.” Trump added, “Here’s the problem, we have a lot of
supporters. You know that better than anybody. All you have to do is look
at your ratings. Those supporters know that they’re lying. I watched ‘Meet
the Press’ this weekend. Everything was so falsely put, putting words in
people’s mouths.”

        Media reports cast Trump as ignoring calls for tone down his
rhetoric in the wake of recent acts of violence. The Washington Post
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(10/29, Wagner) reports that Trump’s “latest invective on Twitter comes as
he faces calls to tone down his public statements amid criticism that his
attacks on political rivals and the media bear some culpability for the
current climate.” The AP
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(10/29, Lucey) says, meanwhile, that “grappling with a wave of
election-season violence...Trump escalated his rhetoric against the news
media,” and the Los Angeles Times
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(10/29, Stokols) that “rather than taking on the traditional task of
unifying the nation after a deadly shooting rampage,” Trump “reverted to
his usual rhetoric.” The Times adds, “His message: Blame the media, not
what observers see as his own divisive comments and tweets, for the
country’s highly partisan and increasingly dangerous political climate.” The
Hill
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(10/29, Samuels) reports Trump did “not have a crowded public schedule on
Monday, which often leads to him tweeting throughout the day against his
favorite targets.” The Hill also casts Trump as “undercutting his own calls
for unity.”

        Politico
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(10/29, Oprysko) reports, meanwhile, that “the White House spent Monday
forcefully defending...Trump’s rhetoric about his critics and political
rivals, while also trying to turn blame for a series of potentially
politically motivated crimes back onto the media.” The Daily Caller
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(10/29, Brest) quotes Press Secretary Sarah Sanders as also saying, “The
very first thing that the president did was condemn the attacks both in
Pittsburgh and in the pipe bombs. ... The very first thing the media did
was blame the president and make him responsible for these ridiculous acts.
That is outrageous that that would be the very first reaction of so many
people across this country.” On the CBS Evening News[image: Image removed
by sender. Video]
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(10/29, story 4, 1:50, Garrett), Sanders was shown saying, “No, the
President is not placing blame. The President is not responsible for these
acts. The major news networks’ first public statement was to blame the
President and myself included.” CBS interjected, “That is not true.”

        Along those lines, The Hill
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(10/29, Samuels) recounts that Sanders “declined to name which news outlets
or journalists...Trump believes are the ‘enemy of the people,’ downplaying
the role his rhetoric may have played in the political violence of the last
week.” Said
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Sanders, “The president is not referencing all media, he’s talking about
the growing amount of fake news in the country, and he’s calling that out.”
She “declined to call out specific reporters or media organizations, saying
‘those individuals probably know who they are.’” CNN’s Jim Acosta
“called[image:
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on Sanders to ‘have the guts’ to say which outlets are enemies of the
American people,” to which Sanders replied, “I think it’s irresponsible of
a news organization like yours to blame responsibility of a pipe bomb that
was not sent by the president, not just blame the president but blame
members of his administration for those heinous acts.” The Hill adds
“Sanders appeared to be referring to a statement from CNN President Jeff
Zucker condemning her and Trump’s attacks on the press after the network
received an explosive device in the mail last week.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(10/29, Scarry) notes “CNN’s publicity department posted the exchange on
Twitter,” and later tweeted
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018103001biden&r=email-5b70&l=06a-61b&t=c>,
“No [Sanders], CNN did not say @realDonaldTrump was directly responsible
for the bomb sent to our office by his ardent and emboldened supporter. We
did say that he, and you, should understand your words matter. Every single
one of them. But so far, you don’t seem to get that.” Jeff Zeleny said on CNN’s
The Lead
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(10/29) that Sanders said Trump “has not blamed anyone. But we have seen
him placing blame all over. One thing he hasn’t done, accept any of the
blame for leading to this climate of deadly political heat.” Wolf Blitzer
said on CNN’s Situation Room
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(10/29), “With the nation rocked to its core by Saturday’s massacre of
Jewish worshipers in Pittsburgh and the mailing of more than a dozen pipe
bombs to top Democrats and critics of...Trump, two suspects made initial
court appearances...even as the White House ignores the President’s latest
inflammatory rhetoric and denies he’s in any way stirring up hatred and
violence.”

        Jim Acosta said on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360[image: Image removed
by sender. Video]
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(10/29), “This President is never going to admit that he shouldn’t say that
the press is the enemy of the people because it goes against what is really
a political strategy for him and that is to demonize his opponents to point
of submission. We’re just simply not going to do that. I talked to a top
Republican aide up on Capitol Hill who said most of the folks up there are
just resigned to the fact that the President is going to keep on doing
this.”

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(10/29), “I think he could elevate the tone of our discourse more than he
has and so on, but the idea that he is somehow responsible for creating a
kind of atmosphere in which this sort of behavior is encouraged I think is
nonsense and I think it is basically unfair to him.” Former White House
press secretary Sean Spicer said on Fox News’ Hannity[image: Image removed
by sender. Video]
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(10/29), “This should be a time of concern. Instead, we see this finger
pointing, mostly in the direction of...Trump, trying to figure out how much
blame we can assign to him.”

        *CQ’s Ioffe: Trump “Has Radicalized So Many More People Than ISIS.”
*Julia Ioffe of GQ Magazine said on CNN’s The Lead[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(10/29), “This President, one of the things that he really launched his
presidential run on is talking about Islamic radicalization. And this
President has radicalized so many more people than ISIS ever did.” Trump
was asked about Ioffe’s comment on Fox News The Ingraham Angle[image: Image
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(10/29), and he said, “That must be some kind of a sick woman.”

        *WPost’s Rubin Calls For Boycott Of Fox News. *Jennifer Rubin of
the Washington Post
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(10/29) writes, “Rupert Murdoch, the executives, on-air talent and
shareholders of Fox need to self-reflect. Fox is home to anti-immigrant
cranks such as Lou Dobbs and Laura Ingraham. It’s where the caravan is
attributed to Jewish billionaire George Soros, where Sean Hannity leads his
audience to believe immigrants are especially prone to commit crimes and
where Tucker Carlson has adopted the language of white nationalism,
decrying diversity in America. Unless and until Fox cleans up its act —
drop conspiracies made up out of whole cloth, end demonization and hysteria
about immigrants, and stop invoking Soros to explain every political threat
(real or imagined) — people of good will should not appear on Fox News,
advertise on it or watch it.”

        *Poll: CNN Viewers More Likely To Vote Democratic Than MSNBC’s. *The
Daily Caller
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(10/29, Wulfsohn) reports “a new poll
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from Suffolk University had some surprising results about how viewers of
MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News feel heading into the 2018 midterms.” The DC adds
“the vast majority of registered voters who most trust CNN or MSNBC said
they would likely vote Democratic, 87 percent and 84 percent,
respectively.” Meanwhile, “ten percent of MSNBC viewers said they would
likely support the Republican in their congressional district, while only 3
percent of CNN viewers would say the same.” 95 percent of Fox News viewers
“say they would support Republicans while only 4 percent say they’ll vote
Democratic.” The DC also reports, “This may raise some eyebrows since MSNBC
is perceived to be more of liberal news outlet than CNN.”

        *Poll: 39% Say Trump Responsible For Heated Rhetoric, 28% Say
Media, 24% Say Trump’s Critics. *The Hill
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(10/29, Manchester) reports that according to an American Barometer survey
“conducted by Hill. TV and the HarrisX polling company,” 39% say “Trump is
the most responsible for toning down the heated partisan rhetoric in the
US,” while 28% “say it’s the media that is most responsible” and 24% “said
Trump’s critics are most responsible.”

        *Journalist Groups Compiling Anti-Press Incidents, Sending Safety
Tips To Reporters. *The AP
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(10/29, Bauder) reports “the Radio Television Digital News Association is
spreading safety and self-defense tips to journalists, most notably
advising limits on the use of one-person news crews.” The RTDNA “has begun
compiling anti-press incidents, like last week when an intruder was shot
after kicking down glass doors at Fox’s local station in Washington.”
Meanwhile, “the National Press Photographers Association is developing
workshops to spread safety advice to its members.”

        *CNBC’s Harwood: Claims Both Parties To Blame For Political
Violence “100% Bulls[**]t.” *Responding to comments by Hugh Hewitt, who
spoke of “an equivalent” to far-right political violence in “the man
screaming at Mitch McConnell in a restaurant,” CNBC’s John Harwood said on
Twitter
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018103001biden&r=email-5b70&l=077-671&t=c>,
“Hugh that’s 100% bulls[**]t. the two parties are not the same. their
behavior and values are not the same. their respect for facts and reason
and honesty is not the same. compare Barack Obama and Donald Trump. it’s
plain as day a million ‘both sides do it’ claims can’t make them the same
because they’re not.”

        *Robinson: “Only The Right Is To Blame” For Political Violence. *Eugene
Robinson writes in the Washington Post
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(10/29), “‘Both sides’ are not responsible for the horrific political
terrorism we have seen this past week. Only the right is to blame –
starting with President Trump and his complicit enablers in the Republican
Party.”

        *Steyer Says Trump’s Tweet About Him Shows He’s “Not Doing His Job
As President.” *Tom Steyer was asked on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360[image:
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(10/29) about the Trump’s tweet
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saying he came off as a lunatic. Steyer said, “My opinion about that tweet
really had nothing to do with me. It was really a revelation, I thought, of
the President not doing his duty as President. That, in fact, he was trying
to make a political statement in response to my criticism of him that
morning on CNN. And his response was political. Whereas, in fact, what I
believe he should have been doing, what he should have been concentrating
on, what his job is, is to protect the American people and explain the
American people why we’re in this crisis and how we’re going to get out of
it. He didn’t pay any attention to his real job. He was too involved with
himself and too involved with his political machinations to do the right
thing.”

        *Shots Fired Into GOP Headquarters In Florida. *WKMG-TV[image:
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Orlando, FL (10/29, 5:00 p.m. EDT) reported, “Police are investigating
after at least four shots were fired at the Volusia Republican
headquarters, shattering a window. ... Investigators say no one was injured
but things could have ended much differently.” WKMG added, “Tony Ledbetter,
chairman of the Volusia County Republican Party says the vandalism goes
beyond Republicans and Democrats fighting about election day.” Ledbetter
was shown saying, “Some people are more angry than others, but this is not
going to do anything for the Republicans but make them that much more
energized and mad to show up.” WKMG added, “Police say no far no tips or
leads as of right now.” Similar reports aired on WFLA-TV[image: Image
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Tampa, FL (10/29, 4:36 p.m. EDT), WFTV-TV[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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Orlando, FL (10/29, 12:07 p.m. EDT), and WESH-TV[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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Orlando, FL (10/29, 5:00 p.m. EDT), among others. The Daytona Beach (FL)
News-Journal
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(10/29, Balona) quotes Ledbetter as saying, “I’m looking at the busted
window that some nice Democrat did. ... Republicans don’t have any beef
about what we are doing, it’s the Democrats.”

        The Orlando (FL) Sentinel
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(10/29, Ocasio) reports “the League of Women Voters of Florida and the
Florida Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence called the incident ‘domestic
terrorism’ that comes on the heels of a mass shooting that claimed 11 lives
at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday.” Gov. Rick Scott
also “condemned the shooting and thanked the officers who responded.”
The Washington
Post
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(10/29, Rosenberg) also says “the shooting follows high-profile events of
politically motivated violence that have raised concerns about whether the
country’s bitter divide has turned into something even more malignant,” and
the Daily Caller
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018103001biden&r=email-5b70&l=082-6bb&t=c>
(10/29, Ross) that “the shooting follows a series of politically-motivated
attacks in recent weeks.”

        The Hill
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(10/29, Keller), New York Post
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(10/29, Feuerherd), Fox News
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(10/29, Darrah), Washington Free Beacon
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(10/29, Damron), National Review
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(10/29, Crowe) and Townhall
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(10/29, Vespa), among other news outlets, also report the story. The AP
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(10/29, Press) notes Republican Party of Florida Chairman Blaise Ingoglia
said in a statement, “We stand against any type of violence against any
volunteer, Republican or Democrat. People should have the right to exercise
their right of free speech without fear of retaliation. The RPOF is
thankful no one was harmed in this shooting, but we must make one thing
clear – violence is NEVER the answer, under any circumstance. Thank you to
Volusia County’s law enforcement for their quick response to keep
Floridians safe. We will continue our efforts to ensure staff and
volunteers feel secure in our offices, despite these concerning events.”

        *Blackburn Slams “Liberal Angry Mob” At Tennessee Rally.
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Memphis, TN (10/29, 11:08 a.m. CDT) reported, “Six protesters were forcibly
removed from a campaign rally for US Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn.
Last night’s event, held in Nashville to get support for Blackburn’s run.
The disturbances began before Blackburn even took the stage. One heckler
disrupted a moment of silence that was held to remember the victims of the
synagogue shooting rampage in Pittsburgh.” WATE-TV[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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Knoxville, TN (10/29, 6:02 a.m. EDT) reported that Blackburn “released a
statement saying quote, ‘The protesters resisted law enforcement, and they
interrupted a moment of silence for the victims in Pittsburgh.’ She
continued, ‘Never in my life have I heard of people interrupting a moment
of silence.” Local television stations across the state covered the
protests. Some typical examples aired on: WATN-TV[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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Memphis, TN (10/29, 11:06 a.m. CDT), WTVC-TV[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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Chattanooga, TN (10/29, 8:38 a.m. EDT), and WKRN-TV[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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Nashville, TN (10/29, 6:07 a.m. CDT).

        Townhall
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(10/29, O'Brien) recounted that “as Blackburn began the moment of silence,
one Blackburn critic screamed, ‘Marsha Blackburn is a white supremacist!’”
Blackburn “described the protesters’ behavior as ‘despicable’ and accused
them of being part of ‘the liberal angry mob.’” Sen. Lindsey Graham, “who
was also a speaker at this weekend’s rally, also used the word ‘mob’ to
describe the chaos.” The Tennessean
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(10/29, Allison) reports that the protesters, however, “claim they were
asked to leave the venue prior to causing any disturbance.”
Trump Says Sayoc Was “Insane For A Long Time,” Scalise Shooter Was Sanders
“Fan.”

President Trump said on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle[image: Image removed
by sender. Video]
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(10/29) last night that the man accused of sending bombs to Democrats and
CNN “was insane a long time before – you look at his medical records, he
was insane for a long time. Bernie Sanders had a fan who shot a very good
friend of ours, Steve Scalise and other people. He was a total maniac.
Nobody puts his name in the headline, Bernie Sanders, in the headline.”

        *As Sayoc Appears In Court, Suspicious Package Addressed To CNN
Intercepted. *The AP
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(10/29, Anderson) reports that “bomb squads were called to a post office in
Atlanta about a suspicious mailing to CNN similar to the pipe bomb packages
recovered in the case last week.” The AP adds that the FBI said that the
“recovered package in Atlanta was ‘similar in appearance’ to the
bubble-wrapped manila envelopes authorities say were sent...to intended
targets” last week. NBC Nightly News
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(10/29, story 9, 1:05, Sanders) said “package bomb number 15 discovered
today in an Atlanta post office.” Cesar Sayoc, meanwhile, appeared in court
in Miami. NBC added “federal law enforcement says they uncovered a list of
more than 100 people researched by Sayoc. Each person on the list now being
contacted by the FBI.”

        The CBS Evening News
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(10/29, story 5, 1:45, Bojorquez) said Sayoc “was soft spoken and even
appeared to become emotional at times, a stark contrast to the man accused
of a campaign of fear that continued even” yesterday. ABC World News
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(10/29, story 8, 1:50, Oquendo) reported “his next appearance is set for
Friday morning, where they will likely decide when he’ll be transferred to
New York.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/29, Barrett) also recounts Sayoc’s appearance, Reuters
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(10/29, Fagenson) reports Sayoc “was ordered held without bail on Monday,”
and USA Today
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(10/29, Marino) that he “faces five federal charges, including interstate
transportation of an explosive, illegal mailing of an explosive and threats
against former presidents. If convicted, he could be sentenced to a maximum
of 48 years in prison.”

        *Footage Shows Sayoc At Trump Rally. *The Washington Post
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(10/29, Horton) reports that “previously unreleased video captured by the
crew of filmmaker Michael Moore” shows Sayoc at a Trump rally as he “stood
in the throng of shouting, teeth-gnashing Trump supporters and joined a
chant directed at news cameras.” The crowd shouted, “CNN sucks! CNN sucks!
... Tell the truth! Tell the truth!”
Trump To Caravan: “This Is An Invasion,” US “Military Is Waiting For You.”

President Trump tweeted
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yesterday, “Many Gang Members and some very bad people are mixed into the
Caravan heading to our Southern Border. Please go back, you will not be
admitted into the United States unless you go through the legal process.
This is an invasion of our Country and our Military is waiting for you!”
Trump was asked on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(10/29) about criticism of his plan to use the military along the US
border. Trump said, “When you look at that, thousands of people. ... I’m
pretty good at figuring out how many people. Thousands and thousands of
people on the bridge when you look at that bridge loaded up with people,
that’s called an invasion of our country.”

        Media reports continue to cast Trump as seeking to gain a political
advantage for Republicans in the upcoming midterm contests. The AP
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(10/29, Burns, Long, Colvin), for example, says Trump “eager to focus
voters on immigration in the lead-up to the midterm elections,” and has
“escalated his threats against” the migrant caravan. NBC Nightly News[image:
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(10/29, story 6, 0:40, Jackson) said, meanwhile, that “Trump’s focus on”
the caravan “has been blasted by critics, saying it’s an alarmist tactic to
provoke fear and mobilize his base ahead of election day.” The Hill
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(10/29, Fabian) similarly reports “Trump has sought to capitalize on the
latest caravan in an attempt to fire up his conservative supporters ahead
of the midterm elections,” CQ Roll Call
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(10/29, Bennett) that he was “echoing right-wing media and commentators,”
and Politico
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(10/29, Choi) that the caravan “has been the source of apparent anxiety for
the president, who has continuously used the migrants as a rallying cry for
increased border protection even as national attention last week focused on
pipe bombs sent to high-profile Democrats and a deadly shooting at a
Pittsburgh synagogue.”

        Politico
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(10/29, Hesson, Morgan) also reports “Trump’s heightened rhetoric on the
caravan migrants...comes as Republicans scramble to rally their base before
next week’s election.” Democrats “remain the heavy favorite to win the
House, but polls show immigration is the top issue for Republican voters.”

        The CBS Evening News
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(10/29, story 7, 0:15, Glor) briefly reported that “Trump has called the
caravan an invasion and vows to stop it,” but “the largest group is now
about 900 miles from the border.”

        *Axios: Trump Says He’ll Issue Executive Order Ending Birthright
Citizenship. *Axios
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(10/30, Swan, Kight) reports Trump “plans to sign an executive order that
would remove the right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and
unauthorized immigrants born on U.S. soil, he said yesterday in an
exclusive interview for ‘Axios on HBO’ a new four-part documentary news
series debuting on HBO this Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ET/PT.” Axios adds that
Trump said during the interview “that he has run the idea of ending
birthright citizenship by his counsel and plans to proceed with the highly
controversial move, which certainly will face legal challenges. ‘It was
always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what?
You don’t,’ Trump said, declaring he can do it by executive order.”
However, “few immigration and constitutional scholars believe it is within
the president’s power to change birthright citizenship, former U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services chief counsel Lynden Melmed tells
Axios.”

        *Trump Says Asylum Seekers Will Be Placed In “Tent Cities.” *Trump
said on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle
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(10/29) last night, “When you look at that caravan and largely, very big
percentage of men, young, strong. A lot of bad people, a lot of bad people
in there. People that are in gangs. We don’t want them in this country. If
they want to come into the country you have to apply like other people. We
have millions of people coming in that are applying. They are coming in
legally. We have a very strong border. I called up the military. This
caravan, they are wasting their time.” Trump said if they apply for asylum,
“we hold them. We are going to put tent cities. We are going to put tents
up all over the place. ... We are going to have tents. They are going to be
very nice and they are going to wait, and if they don’t get asylum, they
get out.”

        *Pentagon Deploying 5,000 Soldiers To Border. *The AP
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(10/29, Burns, Long, Colvin) reports, meanwhile, that the Pentagon has
begun “executing a support mission dubbed Operation Faithful Patriot to
provide military assistance requested by the Customs and Border Patrol.”
According to the AP, “Two US officials said the troop total was likely to
be slightly above 5,000.” The Washington Post
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(10/29, Miroff) says “it was not immediately clear why the scale of the
mobilization increased fivefold from the 800 to 1,000 troops that defense
officials were discussing last week,” and Reuters
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(10/29, Stewart) that “US officials have stressed that the troops would not
police the border and instead carry out support roles like building tents
and barricades.” Reuters adds that US officials says they will “begin
deploying as soon as Tuesday and their mission was authorized through
mid-December.”

        USA Today
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(10/29, Gomez, Jansen) quotes Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy, commander of US
Northern Command, as saying, “That is just the start of this operation. ...
Border security is national security.” The Los Angeles Times
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(10/29, Cloud) cites “officials” who say “around 1,500 of the troops are
headed for California and will begin arriving in the next two days, with
the rest slated to go to Arizona and Texas.” The Times points out that “the
higher deployment – up from the original estimate of 800 – exceeds the
number of US troops currently in Syria, approximately 2,500.”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(10/29, story 6, 0:20, Muir) also reported the US troops “will back up the
border patrol, but not engage with migrant.” Axios
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(10/29, Basu), the New York Times
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(10/29, Davis), Washington Examiner
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(10/29, Giaritelli) and Wall Street Journal
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(10/29, Youssef, Caldwell), among other news outlets, also report on the
deployment. The Journal cites a DOD spokesman who warned the figures
mentioned in media reports could be premature.

        *DHS Official: Trump To Deliver Speech This Week Outlining Further
Actions. *USA Today
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(10/29, Gomez, Jansen) reports an anonymous “Homeland Security
official...said the president is expected to deliver a speech this week to
outline further actions to halt the migrant caravan, which could include
limiting, or halting, the ability of migrants to request asylum.” White
House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders “declined to detail other aspects of
the new border security plan, and would not confirm whether Trump will
deliver a speech on the topic this week.” Said Sanders, “There are a lot of
options that are being discussed right now.”

        *Mexican Police Block Second Caravan At Border; “Violent
Confrontation” Leaves One Dead. *The AP
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(10/29, Sherman) reports that “several hundred migrants tried to cross the
Suchiate River from Guatemala to Mexico en masse on Monday, but were met by
ranks of Mexican federal police who blocked them from entering.” The AP
adds that “the standoff on the riverbank follow a more violent
confrontation that occurred on the nearby bridge over the river the night
before, when migrants tossed rocks and used sticks against Mexico police.”

        *USA Today: “Hyperfocus” On Immigration Issue Dominating House
Races. *USA Today
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(10/29, Gomez) reports that “in a recent congressional debate in Idaho, the
first 11 questions for a pair of congressional candidates were about
immigration,” while “at another in Arkansas, the fate of undocumented
immigrant kids dominated the discussion even though few of them reside in
the state. And in Minnesota, a Democrat challenging an incumbent GOP House
lawmaker went back and forth on the merits of building a wall.” USA Today
adds that “with the midterm elections next, the topic of immigration is
churning in House congressional races in places where the unemployment rate
is low, the economy is robust and undocumented immigrants are few.” The
President “has been the driving force behind that hyperfocus on
immigration, with his tweets and comments about the migrant caravan.”

        *NYTimes: “Clear Overlap” Between Trump-Induced Fear Of Caravan,
Recent Violence. *Under the headline “How Trump-Fed Conspiracies About
Migrant Caravan Intersect With Deadly Hatred,” the New York Times
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(10/29, Peters) reports that “Trump and his conservative allies have
operated largely in tandem on social media and elsewhere to push alarmist,
conspiratorial warnings about the migrant caravan,” and “they have largely
succeeded in animating Republican voters...around the idea of these foreign
nationals posing a dire threat to the country’s security, stability and
identity.” However, “as the country processes the cumulative trauma of two
actual crises that occurred inside its borders...there is clear overlap
between the hatred and delusion that drove this lethal behavior and the
paranoia and misinformation surrounding the caravan.” The Times adds “the
baseless claims that George Soros is financing the migrants as they trek
north, which carry a strong whiff of anti-Semitism, have been one of the
most consistent themes of commentary on the caravan from the right.”

        *Trump: Obama Separated Migrant Children From Their Parents. *Trump
said on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle
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(10/29), “President Obama separated children from parents. Nobody talks
about this. ... President Obama separated. Just so we all understand.”

        *McSally: Democrats Will Never Close Loopholes Responsible For
Border Crisis. *Appearing on Fox News’ Fox & Friends[image: Image removed
by sender. Video]
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(10/29), Rep. Martha McSally (R-AZ), who is running to represent Arizona in
the Senate, said that as a result of the media coverage of the “caravan” of
Central American migrants moving through Mexico towards the US, “the whole
country seeing the crisis happening at our border every single day and it
just highlights the insanity of the laws that we have where the loopholes
need to be closed.” McSally added, “The reality is that there are little
mini caravans coming across the border...every day” due to
“catch-and-release,” and “only Congress can fix it. My bill...would close
the loopholes and secure our borders. This is a crisis. ... President Trump
was elected in large part about border security and these issues. And the
Democrats...are obstructing the American people’s will.”

        *FNC’s Kilmeade: 20% Of Illegal Immigrants Have Criminal Records. *Fox
News’ Fox & Friends
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(10/29) covered the preparations underway by the Border Patrol and the
National Guard along the US-Mexico border to prevent entry to the thousands
of Central American migrants currently traveling in a “caravan” through
Mexico. Brian Kilmeade said, “I watched President Obama over the weekend
disingenuously say, ‘Why are we afraid of people coming from the south?’
... No one is afraid of anybody. It’s a matter of securing our border and
finding out who is coming in. ... Twenty percent of people that cross our
border illegally have criminal records. That’s a fact.”

        *Texas Principal Disciplined For Saying Illegal Immigrants Will
Turn US Into “Dirty Country.” *The New York Post
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(10/29, Miller) reports that a Texas middle school principal was placed on
administrative leave “after saying he’s worried that illegal immigration
will turn the United States into a ‘dirty country.’” William Dugat,
principal at Lufkin Middle School, “made the remark in response to a
Facebook photo of a woman standing alongside Democratic US Senate candidate
Beto O’Rourke, who made a campaign stop in Lufkin last week in his bid to
unseat Sen. Ted Cruz.”

        *WPost A1: Asylum Seekers’ Quickest Path Into US Is Through
Immigration Bureaucracy. *The Washington Post
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(10/24, Van Houten) reports in a front-page story that the “era of mass
migration by Mexican laborers streaming into California and the deserts of
Arizona is over” as “billions spent on fencing, sensors, agents and drones
have hardened the border and made it tougher than ever to sneak into the
United States.” Migrants seeking to enter the today “are increasingly
Central Americans seeking asylum or some form of humanitarian protection,”
and they “know the quickest path to a better life in the United States is
now an administrative one – not through mountains or canyons but through
the front gates of the country’s immigration bureaucracy.” US immigration
courts last year “received nearly 120,000 asylum claims from migrants
facing deportation, a fourfold increase from 2014.” The surge has presented
the President “with one of the most vexing policy challenges of his
presidency, and virtually every measure taken so far has made the problem
worse.”

        *US Citizen Detained By ICE Awarded $55,000 Settlement. *The New
York Times
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(10/29, Hauser) reports Guadalupe R. Plascencia has been a naturalized
American “for more than three decades,” but last year, “according to court
documents, Ms. Plascencia was handcuffed, briefly detained by Immigration
and Customs Enforcement officers in San Bernardino County and threatened
with deportation.” In December 2017, Plascencia sued the US government and
the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department “for false arrest and
imprisonment, and in September she was awarded $55,000 in a settlement,
according to court documents filed in United States District Court in San
Bernardino County last week.”
Poll: Majority Blame Obama, Not Trump, For State Of Healthcare.

Breitbart
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(10/29, Moran) reports that in a Morning Consult/Politico poll
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conducted Oct. 11-15, a “majority of Americans blame” former President
Obama, not President Trump, “for the current state of health care and
Obamacare in the final weeks of the 2018 midterms.” In the survey, 53
percent of Democratic respondents said that Obama “was primarily
responsible for the state of health care, compared to 53 percent of
Independents, and 59 percent of Republicans who also primarily blamed Obama
for the current state of health care. In contrast, 29 percent of Democrats
blamed Trump, 24 percent of Independents blamed Trump, while only 21
percent of Republicans said Trump has the primary blame for America’s
health care system.”

        *Former GOP Congressman: Trump’s Drug Prices Plan Akin To
Socialism. *Former Rep. Jim Greenwood (R-PA), who currently serves as CEO
of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, writes in the Wall Street
Journal
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(10/29) that the plan embraced by President Trump last week to reduce drug
prices would stifle innovation and hurt patients and jobs. Greenwood argues
that the US’ market-driven system has allowed American companies to develop
more medicines than the rest of the world combined. He argues that if the
US adopts socialist price controls backed by Trump, it will also have to
accept the lower levels of innovation found abroad.
Lieu: Democratic House Majority Would Aggressively Exercise Oversight.

The Hill
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(10/29, Manchester) reports Rep. Ted Lieu (R-CA) said in an interview with
Hill. TV’s “Rise” that if they retake the House majority, Democrats will
aggressively use their oversight powers to investigate the Trump
Administration. Lieu said, “When the Framers designed the Constitution,
they wanted checks and balances, and if Democrats took back the House, we
would be able to exercise oversight over the executive branch the way the
Framers intended. ... We would be able to get Donald Trump’s tax returns to
see if he’s being influenced by foreign entities.... We can call in the
secretary of Homeland Security [to] ask her why she still has hundreds of
children she has not reunited that she ripped away from parents at the
border. There are a lot of things that we can do with our oversight
responsibility.”

        Under the headline, “Meet The Would-Be House Committee Leaders Who
Could Torment Trump,” the New York Times
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(10/29, Fandos, Stolberg, Edmondson) Democratic committee chairmen and
chairwomen in waiting who would have “the power to compel the Trump
administration to produce evidence, to call witnesses to the stand and to
show voters — ahead of 2020 — how Democrats would run the government if
given the chance.”
Trump Says He’ll Probably Respond To Some Of Mueller’s Questions.

Breitbart
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(10/29, Hanchett) reports that President Trump said in an interview on Fox
News The Ingraham Angle
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“that he will probably respond to some of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s
questions.” Asked about the possibility of “providing written answers to
the special counsel’s questions,” Trump said, “I mean, it’s ridiculous that
I have to do anything. Because we didn’t do anything. But we will probably
do something, yes, where we respond to some questions.”

        Bloomberg News
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(10/29) reports that Trump’s legal team “has prepared written responses to
several dozen questions from Mueller but say they won’t submit them until
after next week’s elections and only if they reach a broader agreement with
Mueller on terms for the questioning.” Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal
attorney, “said in an interview Monday that the answers relate only to
whether Trump colluded with Russia during his presidential campaign,” and
reiterated that Trump’s attorneys are “still unwilling to answer any
questions concerning obstruction of justice by the president.” Bloomberg
News adds, “Giuliani also said that a face-to-face interview with Mueller
is ‘off the table’ for now but isn’t being ruled out completely.”

        Fox News
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(10/26, Singman) says “reports suggest that federal investigators are
finalizing their conclusions on the collusion issue and whether the
president took any actions that could be considered obstruction of
justice.” Former US Attorney Joseph diGenova, “who has advised the
president throughout the investigation, voiced confidence in the outcome.
‘It’s over,’ he declared while downplaying the prospect of any interview
between Mueller and the president.”
Trump Plans Blitz Of Rallies, $6 Million Ad Buy Ahead Of Midterms.

The Washington Times
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(10/29, Boyer) says President Trump “is laying his Republican Party
leadership on the line in the midterm elections, scheduling a blitz of
rallies in the final week of the campaign and launching a $6 million TV ad
buy for GOP candidates nationwide.” Trump “will hold 11 more fundraisers
and rallies through Nov. 6, working to make the closing argument for
Republicans in Florida, Missouri, Indiana, West Virginia, Ohio, Montana,
Tennessee and Georgia.” The total for Trump’s “sprint to Election Day adds
up to 53 rallies in 23 states for Republicans in this two-year election
cycle — 30 of them after Labor Day.”

        *Reuters: House GOP Sees Chance For Firewall Against “Blue Wave” In
Trump-Won Districts. *A Reuters
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(10/29, Gibson, Ax, Pierog) analysis reports there are “about half a dozen
races in conservative-leaning districts where improving Republican odds are
stoking speculation of a tightening battle for control of the U.S. House of
Representatives that could limit a Democratic ‘blue wave.’” Most
independent analysts still foresee Democrats gaining “the 23 seats they
need to gain control of the House,” but “in Ohio and other districts where
Republicans like [GOP Rep. Steve] Chabot have risen in recent opinion polls
and in the rankings of political handicappers, their resurgence reflects
Trump’s success in charging up his base,” Reuters adds that “the data
suggests there is a clear opportunity for a Republican firewall in the
fight to control the House: Trump Country.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/29, Weigel) says Republicans “are scrambling to save suddenly
vulnerable candidates in congressional districts that President Trump won
in 2016, as Democrats have charged deeper into conservative strongholds in
their bid to win the House.” The NRCC on Tuesday “plans to launch an ad
campaign in a South Carolina district that Trump carried by 13 percentage
points, while House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) intends to campaign for a
Kentucky incumbent in a district that went to Trump by 15 points.” The
moves “follow decisions by Republican groups to toss political lifelines to
House candidates in Georgia, Florida, Virginia and Washington state, all in
districts where Trump was victorious.”

        *Democrats Worry Party Lacks Message To Prevail In Midterms. *The
Hill
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(10/29, Lillis, Parnes) reports on “growing alarms” among Democrats in the
run-up to the midterms that “the party lacks the message it needs to combat
President Trump and win back Democratic majorities in Congress.” Some of
the “positively biting” comments “illustrate that nerves are on edge less
than two weeks before Election Day,” and “hint at the fights that will take
place if Democrats underperform and fail to at least win back the House
majority, which would count as a significant disappointment at this stage.”
Despite the problems, Democrats “think they have a good chance of retaking
the House majority...given the fact that their voting base is fired up to
send a message to Trump.” But, polls “have tightened” and “there is a
recognition that Trump has started to fire up his own base.”

        *Obama, Trump To Stump In Florida This Week. *Politico
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(10/29, Caputo) reported that former President Obama “plans to rally for”
gubernatorial candidate Tallahassee Mayor Gillum (D) and Sen. Bill Nelson
(D) “on Friday in Florida, an appearance that will be bookended by”
President Trump “rallying for” Gillum’s opponent Rep. Ron DeSantis (R) and
Gov. Rick Scott (R), who is challenging Nelson, “in the Sunshine State on
Wednesday and Saturday. The get-out-the-vote rallies from the two most
popular figures in their respective parties underscore the national
importance of the two top-of-the-ticket races in the country’s biggest
swing state. And they show just how much Democrats and Republicans want to
turn out their bases in the two tight races.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/29, Viser) reports, “Between Trump’s visits – first on Wednesday for a
rally in Fort Myers, and then on Saturday in Pensacola...Obama will stump
in Miami on Friday, trying to pull out the young and minority voters
Democratic candidates need. In what amounts to a test run for the 2020
campaign, both parties are pouring money into the state and testing the
strength of Trump’s standing in a place that he won in 2016 by just 1.2
percentage points. But with the president saddled with a low approval
rating – a Gallup survey on Monday saw a net rating decrease of eight
points over the past week – Trump’s last-minute push in Florida could prove
to be a gamble.” The Hill
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(10/29, Anapol) also reported on the coming Trump and Obama appearances in
Florida.

        *Two Polls Show Gillum With Slim Lead, One Has DeSantis Up By Three
Points. *The Tampa Bay (FL) Times
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(10/29, Smith) reported that a New York Times Upshot/Siena College poll
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of 737 Florida likely voters, taken Oct. 23-27, shows Gillum leading
DeSantis 48%-43% in the race to succeed Scott. The Times said that a CBS
News/YouGov poll
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of 991 Florida likely voters, taken Oct. 23-26, shows Gillum leading
DeSantis 47%-46%. Meanwhile, a Gray Television/Strategic Research
Associates poll of 800 Florida likely voters, taken Oct. 16-23, shows
DeSantis leading Gillum 48%-45%.

        *Trump Calls Gillum A “Stone Cold Thief.” *The Hill
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(10/29, Samuels) reported Trump on Monday called Gillum a “thief,” and
voiced his support for DeSantis. Trump tweeted
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“In Florida there is a choice between a Harvard/Yale educated man named
@RonDeSantisFL who has been a great Congressman and will be a great
Governor – and a Dem who is a thief and who is Mayor of poorly run
Tallahassee, said to be one of the most corrupt cities in the
Country!” The Washington
Post
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(10/29, Wagner) says Trump made the accusation against Gillum “without
citing any evidence.” Gillum, meanwhile, responded with a tweet
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of his own, writing, “On Twitter there is a choice between having the
courage to @ the person you are trash talking, or not. @realDonaldTrump is
howling because he’s weak. Florida, go vote today.” Politico
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(10/29, Choi) highlighted Gillum’s response.

        Trump was asked about his tweet calling Gillum a thief on Fox News
The Ingraham Angle
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(10/29) Monday night. Trump said, “The FBI offered him tickets at $1,800
apiece and he took them. He took a trip with the same FBI agent. I guess he
was posing as a developer or something. The man stone cold took the stuff.
I don’t even think he should be allowed to continue on with the race.”
Trump added, “Here’s a guy that in my opinion is a stone cold thief and his
city, Tallahassee, is known as the most corrupt in Florida and one of the
most corrupt in the nation. He’s a disaster and how he’s even close to
being tied is hard to believe. If Florida has a governor like that, and I
know Florida better than I know practically anywhere, Florida will become
Venezuela. It will be a disaster.”

        Regarding Trump’s Fox interview, Gillum tweeted
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“I heard @realDonaldTrump ran home to @FoxNews to lie about me. But as my
grandmother told me — never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, but the
pig likes it. So ignore him and vote, Florida!”
Foreign Policy
China Loosens Trade Ties With Iran Ahead Of New US Sanctions.

Axios
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(10/29, Blanc) reports that China appears to be loosening its trade ties
with Iran ahead of new US sanctions slated to go into effect on Nov. 4. The
“Bank of Kunlun, which handles China’s financial transactions with Iran,
informed customers that on Nov. 1 it will stop processing them,” and
“China’s largest oil refiners, Sinopec and China National Petroleum
Corporation (CNPC), may also stop importing Iranian oil in November.” Axios
says the moves are significant because China is “Iran’s largest oil
importer and most important trading partner.” Chinese officials “have been
deeply critical of President Trump’s nuclear deal withdrawal,” however, so
Beijing’s latest moves could be part of a “bargaining strategy,” an attempt
to restructure its trade ties with Iran, or a “diplomatic concession” ahead
of Trump’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping next month. “In any
case,” Axios says, the Administration “has succeeded in creating the
impression that China bowed to US pressure.”

        *South Korean FM Asks Pompeo For “Maximum Flexibility” On Iran
Sanctions Waiver Request. *Reuters
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(10/30, Chung) reports that in a late Monday telephone call with Secretary
of State Pompeo, South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha asked for
“‘maximum flexibility’ on its request for a waiver to prevent South Korean
companies from being affected by renewed US sanctions against Iran,”
according to the South Korean Foreign Ministry. Pompeo “said he noted
Seoul’s position and would continue discussions on the matter, the ministry
said.” According to Reuters, “The exemption issue is the latest sign of
strain between Seoul and Washington over a range of issues, especially the
enforcement of sanctions aimed at limiting North Korea’s nuclear and
missile program.”
Bloomberg News: US Planning More China Tariffs If Trump-Xi Meeting Fails.

Bloomberg News
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(10/29, Leonard, Jacobs) reports sources says the Administration is
“preparing to announce by early December tariffs on all remaining Chinese
imports if talks next month” between Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping fail
to ease the trade war. Bloomberg notes that “an early-December announcement
of a new product list would mean the effective date – after a 60-day public
comment period – may coincide with China’s Lunar New Year holiday in early
February.” The new list would apply to the imports that aren’t already
covered by previous rounds of tariffs – “which may be $257 billion using
last year’s import figures,” according to two sources.

        *US To Restrict Chinese Chip Maker From Doing Business With US
Companies. *The Wall Street Journal
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(10/29, O'Keeffe) reports the Commerce Department announced Monday that it
will begin restricting American companies from selling goods to Fujian
Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co., a Chinese state-owned chip maker, on
national security grounds. In a statement, the Department said, “Jinhua
poses a significant risk of becoming involved in activities that are
contrary to the national security interests of the United States.” The New
York Times
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(10/29, Rappeport) says the move “could cripple Jinhua, which relies on
American components for its semiconductors, and followed similar action
taken by the Commerce Department this year to block sales of components to
ZTE, a Chinese telecom company.”

        *WPost A1: Chinese Tourists Could Be Potent Weapon On Trade War
With US. *A front-page analysis in the Washington Post
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(10/29, A1, Lynch) says the decline in Chinese business executives,
tourists and students visiting the US is “a sign that the trade war between
Washington and Beijing might spread in unpredictable and costly ways.”
While the decrease, which is “visible in visa approvals and airline
bookings,” is not “the result of official action by Beijing,” it
“highlights a potent weapon that China could use if the trade war persists:
slashing the $60 billion that Chinese consumers spend each year on American
services such as travel and tourism.” The Post says “a consumer embargo
could deprive the US travel industry of its most lucrative customers –
Chinese tourists spend an average of $6,900 on each trip – and hurt
American universities that have enjoyed a surge in enrollment by Chinese
students.”

        *Small Pennsylvania Manufacturer Cutting Back As US Tariffs Raise
Costs. *The AP
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(10/29, Rugaber) reports that Howard McCray, a small Philadelphia factory
that employs about 85 workers, has faced increased costs for parts like
shelving brackets, electrical switches, and wheeled castors that is needs
to produce refrigerated display for convenience stores and restaurants.
Since Trump “imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum and on Chinese
products,” the company, “like many other American manufacturers, has had to
rapidly switch gears.” This year, McCray has “slashed in half its spending
on large equipment,” and is “leaving four jobs unfilled and instead adding
more overtime” to its current staff.

        *Survey: 70% Of US Companies In South China Considering Relocation,
But Not To US. *Reuters
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(10/29, Wong) reports that according to a poll from the American Chamber of
Commerce in South China, “more than 70 percent of US firms operating in
southern China are considering delaying further investment there and moving
some or all of their manufacturing to other countries as the trade war
bites into profits.” Reuters says “US companies operating in China believe
they are suffering more from the trade dispute than firms from other
countries,” and “64 percent of the companies said they were considering
relocating production lines to outside of China,” although “only 1 percent
said they had any plans to establish manufacturing bases in North America.”
Trump Pledges Continued US-Brazil Cooperation Following Bolsonaro’s Victory.

President Trump on Monday tweeted
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“Had a very good conversation with the newly elected President of Brazil,
Jair Bolsonaro, who won his race by a substantial margin. We agreed that
Brazil and the United States will work closely together on Trade, Military
and everything else! Excellent call, wished him congrats!”

        The New York Times
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(10/29, Londoño, Andreoni) reports that Trump also called Bolsonaro on
Sunday “to congratulate him on his victory.” After surviving a knife
attack, the victory of Bolsonaro, who “had already begun to look like an
indomitable phenomenon in Brazilian politics, campaigning in angry
outbursts against corruption and violence that largely matched the national
mood,” was nearly a forgone conclusion. According to the Times, “A knack
for turning setbacks into opportunity has been a constant for” Bolsonaro,
and “many see in him the kind of disruptive, status quo-breaking potential
that propelled President Trump’s victory in 2016.”

        The AP
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(10/29, Dilorenzo, Prengaman, Savarese) reports that following Bolsonaro’s
victory, “his left-leaning rival immediately vowed to mount a vigorous
opposition, while rights groups warned against a rollback of civil
liberties.” Bolsonaro “appeared to try to allay those concerns Sunday
night, saying he would ‘pacify’ Brazil following a race that revealed deep
divisions and was repeatedly marred by violence.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/29) editorializes that Bolsonaro’s victory has ended “any remaining
doubts that the rise of right-wing nationalism is a global phenomenon.” The
Post says Bolsonaro has “heaped praised on President Trump and adapted some
of his tactics and rhetoric.” Unfortunately, the Post writes, “Brazil’s
incoming leader looks more extreme than Mr. Trump and most of the other
populists who have risen to power in Europe and Asia – and he poses a
larger menace to democracy.” The Post says because of Trump’s “apparently
warm relations” with Bolsonaro, the President “would be well positioned to
steer Mr. Bolsonaro away from abuses of democratic norms or human rights.”
US Releases American Who Fought For ISIS In Syria.

The New York Times
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(10/29, Savage, Callimachi, Schmitt) reports that the Administration “has
freed an American citizen whom the military imprisoned without trial for
more than 13 months as a suspected Islamic State member.” The Times says
the release of the unnamed terror suspect “brings a close to a legal saga
that raised novel issues about the scope of the government’s national
security powers and individual rights.” According to the Times, “The man, a
dual American and Saudi citizen, was captured in September 2017 by a
Kurdish militia in Syria,” who “turned him over to the American military,
which held him as a wartime detainee at a base in Iraq while a court battle
over his fate played out.” The Times says the man “was released in
Bahrain.”

        The AP
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(10/29, Riechmann) reports the man’s release “followed months of legal
wrangling between government lawyers and the ACLU.” To the AP, it has been
“a test case for how the government should treat US citizens picked up on
the battlefield and accused of fighting” with ISIS. The Washington Post
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(10/29, Hsu) says case “set off a year-long legal battle over whether US
citizens captured on a battlefield...have the right to challenge their
detentions,” and his release “means the government will avoid a court
ruling on that issue, and specifically over whether the wartime authority
granted by Congress after the 2001 terrorist attacks...targeting al-Qaeda
and the Taliban extends to” ISIS.
Nine Wounded In Tunisian Suicide Bombing.

The AP
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(10/29, Bouazza, Adamson) reports a 30-year-old “female suicide bomber
wounded nine people, mostly police officers, on a busy avenue in Tunisia’s
capital,” Tunis, “on Monday afternoon, authorities said.” The assailant
“wasn’t previously known to authorities,” and no group claimed
responsibility for the bombing, which Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi
described as a terrorist attack. According to the AP, “Tunisian authorities
have been on high alert in recent years following a spate of attacks.”
Russia Grants Cuba $50M Military Equipment Loan.

The Miami Herald
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(10/29, Torres) reports Russia “granted Cuba a $50 million loan to buy
Russian military equipment, just days before Cuban President Miguel
Díaz-Canel is slated to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in
Moscow” and visit “other allies, including China, Vietnam, Laos and North
Korea.” The arms deal is expected “to be signed during a series of meetings
of the Cuba-Russia Intergovernmental Commission that started Monday,
according to the Russian newspaper Kommersant,” which “quoted sources as
saying that the talks would focus on the sale of armored vehicles,
helicopters and small arms as well as replacement parts for battle tanks.”
The Herald says amid “cooling relations with the United States and
deteriorating conditions in Venezuela, a key ally, the Cuban government has
been strengthening its relations with Russia, signing several agreements in
areas such as energy and transport.”
Merkel Announces She Won’t Seek Reelection In 2021, Stepping Down As CDU
Head.

The AP
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(10/29, Moulson) reports that German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced
Monday that she will “give up the leadership of her conservative Christian
Democratic Union in December and won’t stand for a fifth term as
chancellor” in 2021. Her announcement comes in the wake of Sunday elections
in Hesse, where “voters punished both her CDU and the Social Democrats”
just “two weeks after a similar debacle for the CSU and Social Democrats in
neighboring Bavaria.” Merkel “indicated she has no intention of shirking
from the ‘major foreign policy challenges’ ahead, suggesting by taking the
question of her future out of the picture her often rancorous coalition
might govern better.” The New York Times
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(10/29, Bennhold, Eddy) says Merkel’s “fractious coalition government,
which took six months to cobble together and nearly collapsed twice since
then, has long lost its majority in opinion polls.”

        Reuters
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(10/29, Rinke, Carrel) reports that Merkel’s announcement “sets in motion
the process for the CDU to settle on and groom Merkel’s successor.”
According to Reuters, “Stepping down as CDU chairwoman further undermines
Merkel’s authority, as she had previously said the party chair and
chancellery should be held by the same person.” CDU party Secretary General
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Health Minister Jens Spahn, “a leading
critic of the chancellor...had announced they would seek the party chair.
Party sources said Friedrich Merz, a former parliamentary leader of
Merkel’s conservative alliance, would also run.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/29, Noack) says Kramp-Karrenbauer is Merkel’s “preferred heir” and
“wants to continue in her tradition of moderation and big-tent centrism.”
Spahn, on the other hand, “has been an outspoken critic of Merkel’s and has
advocated that the party move further right on immigration to win back
supporters who defected to the far-right Alternative for Germany.”

        Bloomberg News
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(10/29, Delfs, Donahue) says if Merkel can successfully install her ally
“Kramp-Karrenbauer, that may buy her enough time to leave on her own
terms,” but if “it’s an enemy like Friedrich Merz – pushed aside during the
chancellor’s rise to power – then she may be in trouble.” To Bloomberg
News, Merkel’s “shock decision signals the beginning of the end for a
chancellor who put her stamp on Europe and beyond defending moderation and
liberal values that have increasingly come under attack.” On its front
page, the Wall Street Journal
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(10/29, A1, Pancevski) similarly says that Merkel’s diminished political
clout reflects the broader fragmentation of German and European politics at
a time when once-fringe parties are surging. Stepping down as the CDU’s
leader could also increase pressure on Merkel to resign.

        In an editorial, the New York Times
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(10/29) calls Merkel “one of the most remarkable Western leaders of our
time.” The Times writes, “It is not charisma, daring or eloquence that have
made her remarkable,” but her “calm, consistency and decency, at a time
when populists were rising in many corners of Europe, when Vladimir Putin
was reviving a hostile Russia, President Trump was ceding America’s
leadership role and Britain was trying to quit the European Union, that Ms.
Merkel made her mark and assumed a role as the de facto ‘leader of the free
world.’” The Times adds, “That’s a tough act for Ms. Merkel’s successor to
follow, and major challenges lie ahead,” but “the best leaders are those
who know when it’s time to exit.”
Cancer Research
NCI Grant Founds Cancer Health Disparities Research Partnership.

The Philadelphia Inquirer
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(10/30, Giordano) reports Temple University’s Katz School of Medicine and
New York City’s Hunter College have received $13.5 million from the
National Cancer Institute to establish “the Temple University Fox Chase
Cancer Center and the Hunter College Regional Comprehensive Cancer Health
Disparities Partnership,” which will allow the institutions to “jointly
explore ways to reduce cancer health disparities that affect African
Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian-Pacific Americans.” The
collaboration will focus on three primary areas: cancer research, how to
“diversify research and medical professionals,” and methods “of improving
community outreach.”
Good Samaritan Hospital In West Islip To Open Cancer Center Next Year.

Newsday (NY)
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(10/29, Reich-Hale) reports, “Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in
West Islip...plans to open a cancer center.” by the middle of next year.
The cancer center is projected to cost around $18 million and “will be
adjacent to the north side of Good Samaritan’s Our Lady of Consolation
Nursing Home, which is located behind the hospital on Montauk Highway.”
Scottish Biotech Company Developing Product That May Be Safer Than
Chemotherapy.

Forbes
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(10/29) contributor Simon Constable writes that NuCana, a small Scottish
biotech company, “is developing therapies that could radically change
cancer treatment.” The article explains that the company’s “lead product is
better at fighting the disease and safer than traditional chemotherapy.”
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“In Merkel, Europe Loses A Leader.”* In an editorial, the New York Times
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(10/29) calls German Chancellor Angela Merkel “one of the most remarkable
Western leaders of our time.” The Times writes, “It is not charisma, daring
or eloquence that have made her remarkable,” but her “calm, consistency and
decency, at a time when populists were rising in many corners of Europe,
when Vladimir Putin was reviving a hostile Russia, President Trump was
ceding America’s leadership role and Britain was trying to quit the
European Union, that Ms. Merkel made her mark and assumed a role as the de
facto ‘leader of the free world.’” The Times adds, “That’s a tough act for
Ms. Merkel’s successor to follow, and major challenges lie ahead,” but “the
best leaders are those who know when it’s time to exit.”

        *“Best Way To Fight Climate Change? Put An Honest Price On Carbon.”
*The New York Times
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(10/29) editorializes that “climate scientists and economists have long
argued that the single best way to slow global warming is to put a price on
greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and raise that price over time,
thus creating a sensible market incentive to reduce emissions and invest in
cleaner energy sources.” The Times says it is “thus encouraging that in
this time of torpor and climate denial at the highest levels of the federal
government, voters in the state of Washington will soon be given the chance
to adopt, by initiative, a carbon pricing plan that would charge polluters
like refineries a fee for emitting greenhouse gases.” The Times argues that
“a yes vote in Washington State would add further momentum — and possibly
focus a few minds in the other Washington.”

        *Former Israeli Ambassador: Israel Must Recognize America’s
Conservative Jewish Movement. *Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to
the US and current member of the Knesset and Deputy Minister in the Office
of the Prime Minister, says in a New York Times
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(10/29) op-ed that the Pittsburgh synagogue “massacre” has “profoundly
shocked Israelis,” but despite the “expressions of sympathy” from Israel’s
leadership, the government “still refuses to recognize the Conservative
movement to which all 11 victims belonged.” Oren outlines the “Orthodox
opposition to the liberal American Jewish streams,” and cautions that these
“schisms and more have eroded the willingness of many Israeli legislators
to please American Jews at the price of political instability.” Oren argues
that the Israeli government’s recognition of “Conservative and Reform
Jewry” would “not only defy the anti-Semites but also, more important,
reaffirm itself” in “the aftermath of this horrific massacre.”
Washington Post.

*“We Can Stop This American Carnage.”* The Washington Post
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(10/29) editorializes, “Once again, the question must be asked of what it
will take – how many more mass shootings, lost lives and devastated
communities – before Congress enacts sensible gun control that includes
banning weapons designed for war.” The Post goes on to write that “voters
next week...should elect a Congress that will protect them by enacting
long-overdue gun reform that includes getting weapons of war off America’s
streets and out of its schools, theaters, churches and synagogues.”

        *“What Brazil’s Right Turn Means For Trump.” *The Washington Post
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(10/29) editorializes that Jair Bolsonaro’s victory in Brazil’s
presidential election has ended “any remaining doubts that the rise of
right-wing nationalism is a global phenomenon.” The Post says Bolsonaro has
“heaped praised on President Trump and adapted some of his tactics and
rhetoric.” Unfortunately, the Post writes, “Brazil’s incoming leader looks
more extreme than Mr. Trump and most of the other populists who have risen
to power in Europe and Asia – and he poses a larger menace to democracy.”
The Post says because of Trump’s “apparently warm relations” with
Bolsonaro, the President “would be well positioned to steer Mr. Bolsonaro
away from abuses of democratic norms or human rights.”

        *“Add Ryan Zinke To The List Of Trump Administration Officials Who
Flout The Rules.” *The Washington Post
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(10/29) editorializes that Interior Secretary Zinke should be added to “the
list of Trump administration officials who seem to believe that the rules
need not apply to them.” The Post cites a report of the Interior Department
inspector general, which found that Zinke’s wife, Lolita Zinke, “traveled
with him on official trips in government vehicles, though doing so violated
department policy.” It adds that “more disturbingly, the inspector general
found that the government spent more than $25,000 to send an unarmed
security detail on Mr. Zinke’s vacation to Greece and Turkey last summer,
an outrageous expense that should have raised red flags in the secretary’s
mind.” These, the Post says, are “only a few of the ethics questions
swirling around” Zinke, and asks, “Is this what President Trump meant when
he said he would drain the swamp and hire only the best people?”

        *“Sully” Urges Voters To Support Leaders Who Will “Unite And
Protect Us.” *Former pilot Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, writes in
the Washington
Post
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(10/29, Chesley B. "Sully", Sullenberger), “Nearly 10 years ago, I led 154
people to safety as the captain of US Airways Flight 1549” after it “was
forced to make an emergency landing on the Hudson River. Some called it
‘the Miracle on the Hudson.’ But it was not a miracle. It was, in
microcosm, an example of what is needed in emergencies — including the
current national crisis — and what is possible when we serve a cause
greater than ourselves.” Sullenberger says he now feels he has “another
mission, as a defender of our democracy.” This Election Day, he argues, “is
a crucial opportunity to again demonstrate the best in each of us by doing
our duty and voting for leaders who are committed to the values that will
unite and protect us.”

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