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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*To: Vice President Joe Biden*

*Wednesday, October 31, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Stumping For Democrats, Biden Says He’s “Sick And Tired” Of Trump
Administration. <#S1>

• Biden To Rally Support For Illinois Democrats, McCaskill In St. Louis
Today. <#S2>

• Biden Endorses Maine Democratic Gubernatorial Nominee Mills. <#S3>

• Biden Backs MN8 Democratic Hopeful Radinovich. <#S4>

• Jill Biden Memoir To Be Published In May. <#S5>

• Beau Biden Foundation Revamps Website, Adds Online Store. <#S6>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Protesters Turn Out As Trump Visits Pittsburgh To Honor Shooting Victims.
<#S7>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Taliban Members Freed In Bergdahl Swap To Negotiate Afghan Peace Talks.
<#S8>

• Pompeo, Mattis Call For End To War In Yemen. <#S9>

• Denmark Accuses Iran Of Attempting To Assassinate Dissident On Its Soil.
<#S10>

• Turkish Planes Hit Kurds In Iraq With Airstrikes, Killing Seven. <#S11>

• Treasury Official: Venezuela A Threat To Regional Stability. <#S12>

• US Charges Chinese Spies, Hackers In Conspiracy To Steal Trade Secrets.
<#S13>

• Trump Says He Expects “Great Deal” With China. <#S14>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Trump Says He Will End Birthright Citizenship With Executive Order. <#S15>

• Fox & Friends Hosts Criticize Trump’s “Enemy Of The People” Comments.
<#S16>

• Mueller Asks FBI To Probe If Women Were Offered Money To Make False
Claims About Him. <#S17>

• Study: 62% Of Jobs Don’t Support Middle-Class Lifestyle. <#S18>

• NRCC Denounces King, “Will Not Play” In Tight IA4 Race. <#S19>

• Healthcare Edges Out Economy As Main Issue On Florida Voters’ Minds.
<#S20>

• WPost: Republicans Have Made Kavanaugh Election Year Rallying Cry. <#S21>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• NCI, NHGRI Award $20M To Duke For Breast Cancer, Genomic Research. <#S22>

• Researcher: New Treatment “Completely Eliminated Tumors In Pre-Human
Studies.” <#S23>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S24>

• Washington Post. <#S25>
Biden in the News
Stumping For Democrats, Biden Says He’s “Sick And Tired” Of Trump
Administration.

Media coverage of former Vice President Joe Biden’s Tuesday campaign
appearances in Iowa and Wisconsin, where he stumped for Democratic
candidates, in large part focuses on his criticism of President Trump.
The Washington
Post
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(10/30, Sonmez) reports that Biden “issued a sharp rebuke of...Trump’s
rhetoric, telling a crowd in Wisconsin days after Saturday’s mass shooting
at a Pittsburgh synagogue that ‘words matter.’ ‘I am sick and tired of this
administration. I’m sick and tired of what’s going on. I’m sick and tired
of being sick and tired, and I hope you are, too,’ Biden said.” In the lead
sentence of its report, the Washington Times
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(10/30, Boyer) highlights Biden’s “sick and tired” remark, further quoting
the him as saying in Wisconsin, “Three times this past week, the forces of
hate have terrorized our fellow Americans for their political beliefs, the
color of their skin, or their religion. Folks, this is not who we are. We
need to recognize that words matter. Words matter.”

        In a broadcast, WMTV-TV
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Madison, WI (10/30) showed a clip of Biden making his “sick and tired”
remark at the Madison rally. Under the headline “Joe Biden Says He’s ‘Sick
And Tired’ Of The Trump Administration,” the Huffington Post
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(10/30, O'Connor) reported that Biden, speaking in Madison, “took the
offensive against...Trump,” urging “the crowd to look beyond party and save
‘America’s soul.’” In an online article headlined “Biden, Stumping For
Dems, Says He’s ‘Sick And Tired’ Of Trump White House,” Fox News
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(10/30, Dedaj) offered a similar report. The Hill
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(10/30, Samuels) said that Biden, “a potential Democratic presidential
candidate for 2020, has been a vehement critic of the Trump administration,
particularly as he has made the rounds on the campaign trail for Democratic
candidates in recent weeks.”

        The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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(10/30, Beck, Glauber) reports that Biden “urged students in Madison and
workers in Milwaukee Tuesday to vote for candidates of character in what he
called a ‘battle for America’s soul.’” The Wisconsin State Journal
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(10/30, Sommerhauser) reports, “Invoking Saturday’s deadly shooting at a
Pittsburgh synagogue, Biden warned that political extremism is on the rise
in the US,” warning “that the international reputation of the US has
plummeted under the leadership of a GOP he said is ‘not your father’s
Republican Party.’” In an online article, Wisconsin Public Radio
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(10/30, White) reports that during the Madison rally, Biden “urged students
to vote. ‘Folks, this election is different than any election. This is
bigger than politics, this election. It really is bigger than politics. I
think we’re in a battle for America’s soul,’ he said. ‘Take back this
incredible country.’”

        On its website, WLUK-TV
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Green Bay, WI (10/30) reported that Biden “said outcome of this election
will not only affect the policies put in place by lawmakers, but says a lot
about character of our Country. ‘You know we stand for giving Americans a
fighting change but to do it we have to re-set the moral compass here,’
said Biden.” The AP
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(10/29, Bauer) reports that in Biden “called for more civility and dignity
in politics during a rally with Wisconsin Democrats on Tuesday, offering a
sharp rebuke of...Trump while telling college students on the University of
Wisconsin-Madison campus they can ‘own’ next week’s election if they vote.”
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Wisconsin gubernatorial hopeful Tony Evers
(D) “joined with Biden at the event that organizers said attracted about
1,000 people, many of them college students.”

        The Madison (WI) Capital Times
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(10/30, Opoien) reports that Biden “briefly brought Evers’ wife, Kathy, to
the stage as he acknowledged that ‘running for governor is a team sport.’
Biden joked that Evers ‘owes a lot to Wisconsin’s public schools’ since he
met his wife in kindergarten. ‘She was too young to resist,’ Biden then
quipped.” In an online article, WMSN-TV
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Madison, WI (10/30) reported that Evers “is challenging Gov. Scott Walker,
who weighed in on Twitter ahead of Biden’s speech. Walker tweeted, ‘Not
sure I’d believe much coming from Tony Evers today – he brought serial
plagiarist Joe Biden into Wisconsin, so between the two of them who knows
where they’re getting their facts?’” Walker was “referencing claims he made
that Evers plagiarized part of his state budget request at the Department
of Public Instruction, the organization he heads.”

        Meanwhile, the AP
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(10/30, Beaumont) reports that Biden, speaking later Tuesday in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, “bemoaned the tone of Trump-era politics,” offering a preview
during “his first trip to the leadoff caucus state how he might take on the
Republican president should he seek the 2020 Democratic presidential
nomination. ‘It’s our leaders who need to set the tone and dial down the
temperature and restore some dignity to our national dialogue,’ Biden
said.” The Des Moines (IA) Register
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(10/30, Pfannenstiel) reports that Biden “urged a return to decency and
moral leadership as he campaigned before a crowd of more than 1,000 people
in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.” The former Vice President “said political leaders
and ordinary citizens have a duty to speak out, particularly when ‘the
forces of hate and terror have descended on the American political scene.’
‘America is so much better than this,’ he told those in attendance.” Biden
was stumping in support of IA1 Democratic hopeful Abby Finkenauer (D) and
Iowa gubernatorial candidate Fred Hubbell (D).

        The Quad-City (IA) Times
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(10/30, Lynch) reports, “Many of the 1,000-plus enthusiasts stood in the
showers Tuesday evening to get inside Veterans Memorial Building” in Cedar
Rapids, where Biden said that “voters are looking for ‘people with
character...with authenticity...people who treat everyone, like my dad did,
with dignity and respect...and tell the truth.’ ‘And we have three of them
here,’ Biden said about Hubbell, his running mate, state Sen. Rita Hart,
and Finkenauer, who he described as ‘smart as hell.’” On its website, Radio
Iowa
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(10/30, Henderson) reported that Biden beseeched the crowd “to help reset
the country’s ‘moral compass’ and choose candidates this November who will
‘dial down the temperature’ in politics.”

        In a piece for The Atlantic
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(10/31), Edward-Isaac Dovere says that Biden’s “plan was to avoid Iowa
during his nationwide midterm campaigning – he didn’t want to feed the 2020
talk that he and his aides knew it would spark, and wasn’t sure what kind
of crowd it would bring.” When he arrived Tuesday, it had “been three and a
half years since he was in Iowa last, when he came on an official trip as
vice president that was all about keeping the flirtation with a 2016
campaign going.” And though Biden is mulling a 2020 run, he “did not stay
long. This isn’t a full campaign swing, the way the people who may soon be
his opponents have done. He didn’t even stay the night.” Dovere also tweeted
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that Biden said Tuesday in Iowa, “We have to make it clear as Democrats we
choose hope over fear. We choose unity over division. We choose allies over
enemies. This is America. Nothing’s beyond our grasp.”

        A number of local TV stations in Iowa and Wisconsin broadcast
reports on Biden’s Tuesday visits, including KWWL-TV[image: Image removed
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Cedar Rapids (IA)'s News at 10 (10/30), WOI-TV[image: Image removed by
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Des Moines (IA)'s Ten at Ten on ABC5 (10/30), KGAN-TV[image: Image removed
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Cedar Rapids (IA)'s News at 10 (10/30), KCAU-TV[image: Image removed by
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Sioux City (IA)'s ABC News at 10PM (10/30), WHO-TV[image: Image removed by
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Des Moines, IA (10/30), WISN-TV
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Milwaukee's News at 10PM (10/30), WJFW-TV[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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Wausau, WI (10/30), WKOW-TV
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Madison, WI (10/30), and WBAY-TV
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Green Bay, WI (10/30).

        *Politico: Biden Has Solidified Role As Democrats’ “Ambassador To
The Working Class.” *Politico
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(10/30, Korecki) reported, “Two days into a big Midwestern push this week
that will take him to at least six states – five of which” were won by
Trump – Biden “was in familiar form” during his visit to Wisconsin,
“reminding Democrats of the lane he’ll occupy if he decides to run for
president in 2020: the party’s ambassador to the working class. With a
Youngstown, Ohio, visit Monday and two Wisconsin rallies Tuesday, Biden has
traveled to 22 states to campaign for 60 candidates,” highlighting “his
versatility as a surrogate.” Politico added, “The breadth of” Biden’s
“travel schedule is a testament to the broad-based appeal he’d bring to the
2020 race, as comfortable landing in Trump country as in a liberal college
town like Madison.”
Biden To Rally Support For Illinois Democrats, McCaskill In St. Louis Today.

In an online report, KSDK-TV
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St. Louis (10/30, Cole) said that former Vice President Joe Biden “will be
in St. Louis for two separate ‘Get Out the Vote’ rally events on Wednesday.
Biden will join Brendan Kelly, candidate for Congress in Illinois’ 12th
Congressional District, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (IL-17); J.B. Pritzker,
candidate for Illinois Governor; Juliana Stratton, candidate for Lieutenant
Governor; Kwame Raoul, candidate for Illinois Attorney General; Illinois
Treasurer Mike Frerichs; and others...at the Iron Workers Local 392 located
at 2985 Kingshighway in East St. Louis. Later that same day, Biden will
join Sen. Claire McCaskill for another vote rally at the Machinists’
District 9 at 12365 St. Charles Rock Road.”
Biden Endorses Maine Democratic Gubernatorial Nominee Mills.

The County (ME)
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(10/30) posted a release from Maine Attorney General Janet Mills’ (D)
gubernatorial campaign announcing that she has been endorsed by former Vice
President Joe Biden. Mills is bidding to succeed term-limited Gov. Paul
LePage (R).
Biden Backs MN8 Democratic Hopeful Radinovich.

On its website, KBJR-TV
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Duluth, MN (10/30, Moffett) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden
“released a video Tuesday encouraging people to” support ex-state Rep. Joe
Radinovich (DFL) in his bid to succeed retiring MN8 Rep. Rick Nolan (D).
Jill Biden Memoir To Be Published In May.

In an online article, People
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(10/30, Gillette) reported that Dr. Jill Biden “has announced a new memoir
that will delve into her personal journey and how she and her husband,
former vice president Joe Biden, ‘rebuilt’ their family. ‘I am thrilled to
tell a story that is such an enormous part of my heart – the story of how
we built and rebuilt our family,’ said Biden, 67, in an exclusive statement
to PEOPLE. Her book, Where the Light Enters, will be published by Flatiron
Books on May 7, 2019.” Biden further said in her statement, “This is also
the story of my personal journey, as a mother and wife, to support my
family while pursuing my career as a teacher. Life has held many surprises,
and I hope what I’ve learned along the way will resonate with readers.”

        Drawing from the People article, The Hill
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(10/30, Kurtz) reported that the book “will also detail how she and Joe
Biden coped with the loss of the former vice president’s 46-year-old son,
Beau, who died in 2015 of brain cancer. Flatiron Books, the book’s
publisher, said in a statement that Biden’s ‘perseverance in the face of
tragedy, humility while living in the public eye, and unwavering love for
her family above all else comes together beautifully’ in her memoir.”
Beau Biden Foundation Revamps Website, Adds Online Store.

Technical.ly Delaware
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(10/30, Quinn) reports that the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of
Children “has a new online look, and new ways to support the nonprofit’s
work. ... To help reach a bigger audience, the organization just revamped
its online presence and added an ecommerce shop.” Beau Biden Foundation COO
Joshua Alcorn “said the nonprofit’s recently revamped website looks to
create a more user-friendly experience and a renewed energy around its
work. ‘We’re always happy to see someone wearing a hat with our logo,’
Alcorn said. ‘With the online store, folks can show their support and,
hopefully, spread the word about the work we do protecting the most
vulnerable among us – children who suffer from abuse or neglect.’”
Leading the News
Protesters Turn Out As Trump Visits Pittsburgh To Honor Shooting Victims.

All three broadcast networks opened their Tuesday evening newscasts with
coverage of President Trump’s visit to Pittsburgh to pay his respects to
the victims of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue and to meet
with survivors at a local hospital. Much of the coverage focuses on the
protests against Trump’s visit, unusual during such a presidential trip,
with demonstrators linking the Trump’s rhetoric to the violence. Analyses
also cast Trump as uncomfortable with the role of “consoler-in-chief.”

        On ABC World News Tonight
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(10/30, lead story, 3:10), David Muir reported, “Late today, the President
arrived, and he was greeted by protesters. ... The President and First Lady
arriv[ed] at the synagogue against the wishes of some community leaders who
said it was too soon. And there were protesters as far as you could see.”
ABC’s Cecilia Vega: “President Trump and the First Lady, his Jewish
son-in-law Jared Kushner, and daughter Ivanka traveled to the synagogue.
Rabbi Jeffrey Myers there to greet them. ... But it is a much different
trip than the White House had planned. Just a half block away, this scene:
Neighbors shouting down the President. ... Nearby, more than a thousand
protesters carrying signs, saying ‘Words Matter,’ ‘Stop Encouraging Hate,’
and ‘You Are Not Welcome In Pittsburgh Until You Fully Denounce White
Nationalism.’”

        On the CBS Evening News
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(10/30, lead story, 2:45, Glor), David Begnaud reported, “President Trump
and the First Lady paid their respects today to the victims of Saturday’s
massacre as a grief-stricken community began to bury the dead. ... Less
than 50 yards away from the President, about 1,000 protesters were
chanting, many of them condemning him for divisive rhetoric. ...
Politicians, including the local mayor and the governor of Pennsylvania,
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(10/30, lead story, 2:30), Lester Holt called it “a journey shrouded in
sadness and controversy for President Trump. ... Along with First Lady
Melania Trump, the President [was] warmly received at the Tree of Life
synagogue, while demonstrators proclaimed he was not welcome in their
city.”

        The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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(10/30, Davidson, Lindstrom) reports Trump “visited Pittsburgh on Tuesday
to solemnly pay his respects to a city rocked by this weekend’s Tree of
Life synagogue massacre and meet with several people who survived it.”
Trump “was greeted by demonstrations in the city’s Squirrel Hill
neighborhood that drew more than 1,000 people and opposition from some
local officials who thought the president should have waited until after
funerals are held for all of the 11 people killed at Tree of Life. ... At a
couple of locations, people gave the president a thumbs-down or flashed
obscene gestures. One man holding a baby could be heard shouting, ‘We
didn’t invite you here.’”

        The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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(10/30, Routh, Smeltz, Mauriello) reports Trump and his family “made their
way down a line of 11 wooden Stars of David outside the Tree of Life
synagogue on Tuesday. On each, the President placed a stone, and the First
Lady a white rose.” They spent 18 minutes inside the synagogue amid
“protests and pushback from local officials who expressed discontent with
his appearance and chose not to attend.” Most of Trump’s time was spent
visiting the hospital where the injured are being treated. WPGH-TV[image:
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Pittsburgh (10/30, 10:01 p.m. EDT) reported that the Trump “spent about 30
minutes in the synagogue” and then “met with victims, first responders,
doctors, and staff members” at the hospital. WWCP-TV[image: Image removed
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Johnstown, PA (10/30, 10:07 p.m. EDT) reported, “Several local lawmakers,
including the governor and Pittsburgh’s mayor,” declined to meet with
Trump, though “others say he is welcome.” Rabbi Myers told WWCP, “The
President of the United States is always welcome. I am a citizen. He is my
President. He is certainly welcome.”

        The AP
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(10/30, Miller, Breed) writes that Trump “stepped into the role of national
consoler, a title he wears uncomfortably, with his visit to the Squirrel
Hill neighborhood. More at home waging partisan warfare than assuaging
America’s grief, Trump has shied away from public displays of unity in the
wake of other tragedies. ... Questions have long swirled about the
president’s credibility as a unifier.” The AP writes that since his 2016
campaign, “Trump has at times been slow to denounce white nationalists,
neo-Nazis and other hate-filled individuals and groups that found common
cause with his nationalistic political rhetoric.” USA Today
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(10/30, Fritze, Jackson) similarly writes under the headline “Anger,
Controversy Follow Trump On Visit To Grieving Pittsburgh” that “the job of
uniting a grieving nation has proven especially daunting at times for
Trump, a combative former businessman who relishes sharp-elbowed rhetoric
often aimed at defining his opponents as ‘evil.’ ... Critics pointed to his
comments following last year’s deadly racial violence in Charlottesville,
Virginia, where he laid blame on ‘both sides.’”

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(10/30), “The President says his visit is to pay his respects to a
grief-stricken city and community. But the trip has become controversial,
because of the timing and frankly, because of the President’s incendiary
rhetoric.” WPMT-TV
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Harrisburg, PA (10/30, 10:01 p.m. EDT) reported that Tuesday’s protesters
“say the commander-in-chief bears some of the blame for Saturday’s
shooting. Specifically, his recent declaration of being a ‘proud
nationalist’ and repeated attacks on marginalized groups, like immigrants.”

        Kellyanne Conway, asked on Fox News’ Special Report[image: Image
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(10/30) why Trump wanted to go to Pittsburgh, said, “The President never
hesitated. He wanted to be there with the Tree of Life community to express
his condolences along with the First Lady, his daughter and son-in-law. ...
I think it’s unfortunate people were out there politically protesting with
different messages today. That is their First Amendment right, but this
President was not about politics. He was about the mourning in Pittsburgh.”

        The New York Times
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(10/30, Robertson, Davis, Gabriel) writes that if Trump’s visit “was
intended to bring healing, it instead laid bare the nation’s deep
divisions. Many protesters in Pittsburgh had no doubt of what one called
‘the dotted line’ between presidential rhetoric and violence. ... As the
president moved around Pittsburgh, a largely Democratic city, the signs of
discord were apparent.” Mayor Bill Peduto “neither met with Mr. Trump nor
joined the protests. The top four Republican and Democratic congressional
leaders who were invited to join him all declined.” The Washington Post
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(10/30, Dawsey) reports that Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA), who represents the
district, said, “The sense in the community is that they didn’t think this
was a time for a political photo shoot. There are strong feelings in the
community about him and the divisive nature of his rhetoric.”

        The Washington Times
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(10/30, Boyer) headlines its report “Liberal Groups Play Politics As Trump
Pays Respects To Synagogue Shooting Victims” and writes, “President Trump
paid his respects Tuesday to the victims of a mass shooting at a synagogue
in Pittsburgh, while a coalition of liberal groups sought to gain partisan
advantage by blaming the president for the tragedy and urging the public to
‘vote against anti-Semitism’ on Election Day.”

        Politico
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(10/30, Rodriguez, Restuccia) reports, “Though a swarm of journalists
tracked the president’s every move, he did not speak to them nor did he
make any public remarks – a rare moment of restraint for a president who
has a reputation for stepping on his own message.” White House Press
Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters, “He wanted today to be about
showing respect for the families and the friends of the victims as well as
for Jewish Americans.”

        Greg Jaffe of the Washington Post
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(10/30) writes that “Pittsburgh and its surrounding suburbs are a
reflection” of a country “so divided that many here are asking whether the
president, his raucous ‘build the wall’ rallies and his most ardent and
angry supporters bear some culpability for one of the worst tragedies in
the city’s history. Others bristle with anger at the suggestion. That
dispute played out most publicly in the disagreement over whether Trump
should come to the city and play the traditional consoling role expected of
presidents in moments of tragedy.”

        Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said on CNN’s Situation
Room
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(10/30), “We will see what comes after this visit, whether he offers words
of healing, words of unity, or whether he continues to divide us with his
speech and with his tweets. I think the ball is really in the President’s
court. ... Words matter, and the President so far has failed to find the
words to bring the American people together.”

        Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image
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(10/30), “We need a consoler-in-chief right now. And I think back to the
different presidents in my lifetime. Whether it was Reagan after Beirut,
President Clinton after Oklahoma City, George Bush on September 11, or
Barack Obama throughout all the mass shootings he dealt with, they brought
the country together. And to see so many people protesting at a tragedy is
heartbreaking, because the office of consoler-in-chief is vacant right now
in America.”

        Republican strategist Ana Navarro said on CNN’s The Lead[image:
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(10/30), “I think we all expect the President of the United States to play
the role of consoler-in-chief when acts call for it. The reason he’s being
faulted is because everything he has said beforehand, and everything he has
said since, makes this act seem like he’s checking off a box and just rings
hollow.”

        In a brief, straightforward account, Breitbart
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(10/30, Spiering) reports the Trumps “visited the site of a horrific
synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh on Tuesday afternoon, just days after
eleven people were shot and killed during a service on Saturday.” Reuters
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(10/30, Resnick-Ault, Holland) also reports.

        *Victim’s Family Declines To Meet With Trump. *Under the headline
“Shooting Victim’s Family Shuns President Trump In Pittsburgh As Top
Officials Decline To Join Him,” the Washington Post
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(10/30, Berman) reports that while Trump offered to visit with the family
of victim Daniel Stein, the family “declined in part because of the
comments Trump made in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, when he
suggested the synagogue should have had an armed guard.” One relative said,
“Everybody feels that they were inappropriate. He was blaming the
community.” On NBC Nightly News
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(10/30, lead story, 2:30), Stein’s nephew, Stephen Halle, was shown saying,
“Donald Trump should have just said, you know, ‘our hearts and prayers go
out to the people of Pittsburgh and everybody involved,’ and kept his mouth
shut.” NBC’s Peter Alexander: “You felt like he was blaming this
community.” Halle: “That’s exactly what it felt like. A stab in the back.”

        *NYTimes: Ivanka, Kushner Played Key Role In Shaping Trump’s
Response. *The New York Times
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(10/30, Rogers, Haberman) looks at the role that Jared Kushner and Ivanka
Trump, “who converted to Judaism to marry Mr. Kushner, have quietly and
persistently” played in shaping Trump’s response. Following the Saturday
shooting, “their conversation with the president led to a marked change in
his language. Within hours, his remarks went from a vague statement – ‘if
they had an armed guard inside, they might have been able to stop him
immediately,’ he said – to a plea to a rally crowd in Illinois to combat
‘the scourge of anti-Semitism.’” They also advised Trump to visit
Pittsburgh this week “despite the opposition of city officials and many
members of the Jewish community.”

        *Pence Again Rejects Link Between Trump Rhetoric, Violence. *
Politico
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(10/30, Okun) reports that at a Politico event in Washington on Tuesday,
Vice President Pence again “rejected any link between [Trump’s] rhetoric
and recent hate crimes and political violence, saying ‘it’s important that
we don’t connect those acts to the public debate.’” Pence “said this
weekend’s Pittsburgh synagogue massacre and a spate of bombs sent to
prominent Democrats and CNN were ‘evil,’ but that the country needs to hold
the perpetrators accountable without choking off free speech.” Pence added,
“We will not let violence or anti-Semitism take hold in the United States
of America. We will condemn it wherever it rears its ugly head, and the
President and I have done that forcefully.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/30, Stanley-Becker) reports that Pence is facing criticism for
appearing Monday at Michigan rally with “a religious leader who casts
himself as a ‘rabbi.’” Loren Jacobs “preaches Messianic Judaism, a
tradition central to Jews for Jesus, a group condemned by Jewish leaders as
faux Judaism that seeks to promote Christian evangelism.” The Post says
“the major Jewish denominations join the state of Israel in viewing
followers of Messianic Judaism as Christian, not Jewish,” and Jacobs’
appearance “drew outrage on social media.”

        *First Funerals For Victims Held. *NBC Nightly News[image: Image
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(10/30, story 3, 1:30, Holt) reported on the first funerals for the
victims. The Wall Street Journal
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(10/30, Leary, Maher) reports that several of the protesters said Trump’s
visit took attention away from the victims during the mourning. The Jerusalem
Post
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(10/30, Wilner) reports that the funeral of brothers Cecil and David
Rosenthal was attended by “Jews of all denominations and non-Jews of all
stripes. ... Funerals were also held for Jerry Rabinowitz, 66, and Daniel
Stein, 71.”

        *Netanyahu Rebuts Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Over Affiliation Of Tree Of
Life. *The AP
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(10/30) reports, “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday
that the 11 Jewish victims of the Pittsburgh shooting attack were killed in
a ‘synagogue,’ taking a veiled swipe at the country’s ultra-Orthodox chief
rabbi, who had refused to designate the Conservative Jewish congregation as
such.” The exchange “exposed some of the recent strains between Israel and
the more liberal Jewish Diaspora.” After Chief Rabbi David Lau “referred to
the Conservative synagogue merely as ‘a place with a profound Jewish
flavor’” in an interview with an Israeli newspaper, Netanyahu “seemed to
rebuff him,” saying, “Jews were killed in a synagogue. They were killed
because they are Jews. The location was chosen because it is a synagogue.
We must never forget that. We are one.”

        *Steve Schmidt: Limbaugh, Levin Have “Blood On Their Hands” After
Synagogue Shooting. *The Hill
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(10/30, Keller) reports former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt
said on MSNBC’s
All In
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Monday that conservatives like Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin have “blood on
their hands” in the wake of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. Schmidt
said, “The propaganda industry that [Kellyanne Conway] commands, with the
vile president that she serves, abetted by Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh and
Breitbart and NewsBusters and Judicial Watch and all the rest of them have
blood on their hands for the incitements that they have made that have
triggered and radicalized these crazy people.” Trump, Schmidt added,
“scapegoats minority populations. ... He alleges conspiracies. He creates a
sense of shared and virtuous victimhood, positions himself as the righteous
avenger.”

        *Short Accuses CNN Of Ignoring Democratic Candidate’s Anti-Semitic
Campaign. *The Washington Examiner
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(10/30, Scarry) reports former White House Director of Legislative Affairs
Marc Short on Tuesday “accused CNN of ignoring comments by Minnesota
Democrat Ilhan Omar, who is running for Congress, which critics have called
anti-Semitic.” On CNN’s New Day
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Short said, “In Minnesota’s fifth district, there’s a congressional
Democrat who’s running an anti-Semitic campaign. She has all sorts of
anti-Semitic language in her past and she’s going to be the nominee [sic].
How much has CNN covered that? Do you even know her name? Do you even know
who she is?” CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota “defended her network’s coverage”
of the race, saying, “We’ve reported on it,” and then “redirect[ed] Short
back to” Trump’s rhetoric, which “she said has inspired acts of violence.”
Camerota said, “But the point is that it trickles down from the top, or
does it not?”

        *ATF: Bowers Purchased Guns Used In Attack Legally. *The New York
Times
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(10/30, Oppel) reports, “The accused synagogue gunman, Robert Bowers,
legally purchased the guns he used” in the Saturday attack in Pittsburgh.
Officials say Bowers used an AR-15 assault rifle and three Glock .357
handguns in the attack. An investigation “has concluded that the guns were
‘acquired and possessed legally by Bowers,’” the Philadelphia office of the
ATF said on Tuesday.
Foreign Policy
Taliban Members Freed In Bergdahl Swap To Negotiate Afghan Peace Talks.

Fox News’ Special Report
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(10/30) reported that five members of the Afghan Taliban who were freed
from Guantanamo Bay military prison in exchange for captured US soldier
Bowe Bergdahl “have joined the insurgent group’s political office in
Qatar,” according to a Taliban spokesman. The five “will be among Taliban
representatives negotiating for peace, they say, in Afghanistan.” Fox’s
Bret Baier said some negotiators think this “indicates the Taliban’s desire
for a peace pact. Others fear the five will bring hard-line views that will
make peace more difficult.”

        *Carlson: Best US Can Hope For Is “Stalemate” Where Taliban Remains
“Partly In Power.” *On Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight[image: Image
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(10/30), Tucker Carlson said, “It’s been 17 years since we first sent
troops” to Afghanistan “to topple the Taliban government. We still have
thousands of Americans in the country. So far this year, eight of them have
been killed. ... We as a country have almost nothing to show for what we
spent there, the lives and the money.” He added that the US is “no longer
even aiming at any kind of military victory. The best we can hope for is a
sort of stalemate that keeps the Taliban partly in power.”
Pompeo, Mattis Call For End To War In Yemen.

Reuters
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(10/31) reports Secretary of State Pompeo “on Tuesday called for a
cessation of hostilities in Yemen and said UN-led negotiations to end the
civil war should begin next month.” Pompeo said in a statement, “The time
is now for the cessation of hostilities, including missile and UAV strikes
from Houthi-controlled areas into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the
United Arab Emirates.” He added, “Subsequently, Coalition air strikes must
cease in all populated areas in Yemen.”

        USA Today
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(10/30, Shesgreen) says while Pompeo “ratcheted up his push for an end to
the deadly war in Yemen,” his statement was “carefully worded.” Pompeo
“called on the Houthi rebels to stop their attacks on Saudi Arabia first –
and then on the Saudi-led coalition to stop bombing population centers in
Yemen.” He “also urged the warring parties to support a United Nations-led
effort to broker a political resolution to the war – an effort that has
proved unsuccessful over three years of bloody conflict.” USA Today adds
that Pompeo’s comments “echoed a similar statement from Defense Secretary
Jim Mattis on Tuesday.”

        The Washington Times
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(10/30, Muñoz) reports that in an address to the US Institute for Peace,
Mattis “made a forceful call for all parties involved in the brutal war in
Yemen to come to the negotiation table within the next month, to bring to
an end to a conflict pushed by a Saudi Arabian-led coalition that has
devolved into a military stalemate that has produced one of the world’s
worst humanitarian crises.” Mattis stressed, “This has got to end. We have
to replace combat with compromise” in Yemen. The Times says the Pentagon
chief’s comments “represented a notable increase in Washington’s
unhappiness with the course of the war.” Despite “open speculation that
blowback from the apparent government-ordered killing of dissident Saudi
journalist Jamal Khashoggi” could “lead US officials to take a harder line
on the expensive and destructive war in Yemen,” Mattis “said the Khashoggi
affair was not the impetus behind his comments, calling them two separate
issues.”

        Meanwhile, USA Today
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(10/30, Shesgreen) says Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) “has emerged as the Trump
administration’s biggest irritant when it comes to its Yemen policy.” Aside
from the civilian death toll, it was Yemen’s “famine that truly alarmed
him.” He told USA Today, “It offends my sensibilities – and I know it
offends the sensibilities of all Americans – that there are countries in
this day and age that are using food as a weapon of war.” He continued,
“And it further offends my sensibilities…that the United States has
partnered with these countries.” Young also warned that “starving people –
denying them basic humanitarian assistance – leads to radicalization. We
don’t want to create more terrorists.” According to USA Today, Todd
“blocked the confirmation of a key State Department nominee until he got
answers from the administration about the Saudis’ compliance with
international law.” He also “hand-delivered a missive to Trump’s first
secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, demanding a ‘comprehensive diplomatic
effort’ to address the humanitarian crisis.”

        *Reuters: Contractor Forecasts Don’t Support Trump Claims About
Saudi Arms Deal. *Reuters
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(10/30, Stone) reports that when President Trump “mentions the $110 billion
arms deal he negotiated with Saudi Arabia last year, he quickly follows up,
saying ‘It’s 500,000 jobs.’” However, according to Reuters, “an internal
document...from Lockheed Martin forecasts fewer than 1,000 positions would
be created by the defense contractor, which could potentially deliver
around $28 billion of goods in the deal.” Reuters adds, “Lockheed instead
predicts the deal could create nearly 10,000 new jobs in Saudi Arabia,
while keeping up to 18,000 existing US workers busy if the whole package
comes together – an outcome experts say is unlikely.” Reuters goes on to
report that “a person familiar with US defense company Raytheon Co’s
planning said if the Saudi order were executed it could help to sustain
about 10,000 US jobs, but the number of new jobs created would be a small
percentage of that figure.”

        According to the Washington Post
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(10/30, Fahim), the Trump Administration, “which depends on Saudi Arabia to
keep spending billions on US military equipment and to stabilize world
energy markets, has carefully cultivated” Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman
and his father, King Salman, “assigning them the leading regional role in
bringing Iran to heel and in forging an Arab-blessed Israeli-Palestinian
peace agreement.” The Post adds, “For now, as it combs through pending
defense purchases, the White House is scrambling to determine what level of
sanction it might mete out to appear suitably repulsed by” the murder of
Jamal Khashoggi, “while guarding those objectives.”

        *Erdogan: Khashoggi Murder Trial Must Be Held In Turkey. *Reuters
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(10/30, Solaker) reports that President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said a
Turkish official investigating the murder of Jamal Khashoggi has asked
Saudi prosecutor Saud Al Mojeb “to disclose who sent the team involved in
the journalist’s killing.” Reuters says Mojeb “held talks with Istanbul’s
prosecutor on Monday and Tuesday about Khashoggi’s death in the Saudi
consulate in Istanbul.” According to Reuters, the Saudi government “says
that 18 suspects in the case will face justice in the kingdom, despite
repeated calls from Ankara for them to be extradited for trial in Turkey.
‘Yesterday, our prosecutor told the Saudi prosecutor that the prosecution
could be carried out in Turkey since the location of the crime is
Istanbul,’ Erdogan told reporters at Turkey’s parliament.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/30, Loveluck) says that in his Tuesday remarks, “Erdogan appeared more
muted in his criticism of Saudi Arabia than in previous weeks.” Still,
Khashoggi’s case is “straining Ankara’s already fraught relationship with
Riyadh and pressing the Trump administration to defend its most prized
Middle Eastern ally.”

        *Khashoggi’s Fiancee Wants Answers, Calls On World Leaders To
Ensure No Cover Up. *ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/30, story 7, 1:35, Muir) reported that in her first interview with
American television, the fiancee of murdered Washington Post writer Jamal
Khashoggi told ABC’s Ian Pannell that Khashoggi had actually visited the
Saudi Consulate in Istanbul just four days before he was killed there.
Pannell: “So, he didn’t want to go into the Saudi Consulate that day?
‘Yes,’ she says, ‘He was worried he could be captured and sent back to
Saudi Arabia.’ But instead, he was greeted warmly that day. So, when he
went back four days later, his guard was lowered.” Hatice Cengiz said she
didn’t know for sure that Khashoggi had been killed “until the Saudis
confessed they killed him.” She’s now “demanding to know where the body is
so she can bury her fiance. And also wanting to know who ordered the
killing.” Fox News’ Special Report
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(10/30) reported that Cengiz is “calling on President Trump and other world
leaders to ensure his death...is not covered up.”

        *Senior Saudi Prince Critical Of MBS Returns To Riyadh. *The New
York Times
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(10/30, Kirkpatrick, Hubbard) reports Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, a “senior
member of the Saudi royal family,” returned “to Riyadh from London on
Tuesday in the most significant move in the royal family since the killing
of the dissident Jamal Khashoggi.” Prince Ahmed “had been afraid to return,
associates of his family said, since he had made public comments last month
that appeared to criticize Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 33, the king’s
favorite son and the de facto ruler of the kingdom.” According to the
Times, “It was unclear whether he now felt safe to return only because he
was needed to help bolster the crown prince against his Western critics.”
Prince Ahmed’s return, “which was confirmed by three Saudis close to him,
comes amid an international backlash against the kingdom after the brutal
death of Mr. Khashoggi.”

        *WPost Editorial: Congress Must Demand Answers Over Khashoggi’s
Murder. *In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(10/30) says even though four weeks have passed since Khashoggi
disappeared, much about the case “remains undisclosed.” Instead of
answering these questions, the Post says, “the Saudi government – and its
de facto accomplices in the Trump administration – have gone silent,
evidently hoping that demands for accountability will fade away now that
the story has been pushed from the front pages. That should not be allowed
to happen.” The Post urges Congress to summon “senior US officials and
determine what they know about the killing.” The Post also calls on
Congress to “take decisive action to impose sanctions on those responsible
– including, if the available evidence points to him, Mohammed bin Salman –
and reshape US relations with Saudi Arabia.”

        *AP: Saudis Have Given $354 Million To US Universities Since 2011. *The
AP
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(10/30, Binkley, Day) reports that “at least $354 million from the Saudi
government or institutions it controls has flowed to 37 American schools
since 2011.” The AP adds, “Much of the money was provided through a
scholarship program that covers tuition for Saudis studying in the US, but
at least $62 million came through contracts or gifts from the kingdom’s
nationally owned companies and research institutes.”
Denmark Accuses Iran Of Attempting To Assassinate Dissident On Its Soil.

Reuters
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(10/30, Nielson, Gronholt-Pedersen) reports that the government of Denmark
said Tuesday that it “suspected an Iranian government intelligence service
had tried to carry out a plot to assassinate an Iranian Arab opposition
figure on its soil.” Reuters adds, “The alleged plot, which Denmark’s
foreign minister said he believed the Iranian government was behind,
prompted the Nordic country to call for fresh European Union-wide sanctions
against the Islamic Republic.” According to Reuters, “A Norwegian citizen
of Iranian background was arrested in Sweden on Oct. 21 in connection with
the plot and extradited to neighboring Denmark.” Secretary of State Pompeo
tweeted
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“We congratulate the government of Denmark on its arrest of an Iranian
regime assassin,” and “call on our allies and partners to confront the full
range of Iran’s threats to peace and security.”

        *Iranian Foreign Minister: Trump Has Failed To Win Support For
Reimposition Of Sanctions. *Reuters
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(10/30) reports that after a meeting Tuesday with his counterparts from
Turkey and Azerbaijan, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned
that US sanctions on Iran “will have ‘severe consequences’ for the world
order...days before new sanctions on Tehran’s oil exports take effect.”
Zarif is quoted as saying, “Americans have not achieved their goals by
imposing illegal sanctions against Iran. ... The world community has stood
up to the US sanctions.”

        *Iranians Preparing For New Round Of US Sanctions. *The CBS Evening
News
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(10/30, story 5, 1:40, Glor) reported, “Iranians are bracing for a new
round of US sanctions that President Trump plans to impose as early as next
week.” CBS (Palmer) added that Iran’s currency has already “plunged 70
percent against the US dollar,” meaning “everything is more expensive.” The
White House – which says one of the main goals of the sanctions is to
“pressure the Iranian government into negotiating a new and improved
nuclear deal” – is getting “a lot of the blame” from Iran’s citizens.
However, “demonstrations across the country” indicate there is also “public
fury with Iran’s own inefficient, corrupt government.”
Turkish Planes Hit Kurds In Iraq With Airstrikes, Killing Seven.

Reuters
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(10/30) reports that the Turkish military “killed seven Kurdish militants
in air strikes in neighboring northern Iraq on Tuesday.” According to
Reuters, “Turkey has in recent months carried out strikes on bases of the
outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, especially its
stronghold in the Qandil mountains, where Ankara has also threatened to
carry out a ground offensive.”

        *ISIS Claims Responsibility For Attack On Shi’ite Muslim Pilgrims
In Iraq. *Reuters
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(10/30, Hadi) reports ISIS claimed responsibility for a roadside bomb that
killed three Shi’ite Muslim pilgrims “as they walked to a holy site near
the northeastern Iraqi city of Khanaqin on Tuesday.” The claim of
responsibility “could not immediately be verified,” but Reuters says that
the “Sunni Muslim militants are active in the area and have targeted
Shi’ite pilgrims in the past.”
Treasury Official: Venezuela A Threat To Regional Stability.

“Venezuela poses a clear threat to regional stability and could drag down
key U.S. allies like Brazil, Argentina and Colombia, a senior Treasury
Department official” for terrorist financing, Marshal Billingslea, “said on
Wednesday,” Reuters
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(10/30, Wroughton) reports. Billingslea stressed, “This is a hemispheric
issue and the implosion of the regime there is a direct challenge for us.”
US Charges Chinese Spies, Hackers In Conspiracy To Steal Trade Secrets.

The Washington Post
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(10/30, Nakashima) reports the Justice Department on Tuesday “unsealed
charges against 10 Chinese spies, hackers and others accused of conspiring
to steal sensitive commercial airline and other secrets from US and
European companies.” According to the Post, the indictment “marks the third
time since September that the United States has brought charges against
Chinese intelligence officers and their recruits for stealing American
intellectual property.” Assistant Attorney General John Demers said, “This
is just the beginning. Together with our federal partners, we will redouble
our efforts to safeguard America’s ingenuity and investment.” The New York
Times
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(10/30, Benner) reports that “two Chinese intelligence officers and five
hackers repeatedly broke into corporate computer systems to steal
intellectual property and other information about the aerospace industry,
according to the indictment, which had been under seal since June.” From
January 2010 to May 2015, they “stole turbofan engine plans and other
confidential business information from 13 companies, according to court
documents.”

        *Australian Report Details Chinese Military’s Access To US
Strategic Military Research. *The New York Times
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(10/30, Tarabay) reports that over the last decade, China’s People’s
Liberation Army “has sent 2,500 military scientists, researchers and
engineers abroad, according to the report from the Australian Strategic
Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research institution.” The Times adds,
“While they work with academics and scientists at institutions around the
world, they are especially concentrated in the United States, Britain,
Australia, New Zealand and Canada, the so-called Five Eyes nations that
broadly share intelligence.” The ASPI report says “the number of
peer-reviewed papers jointly published by Chinese scientists and their
Western counterparts has increased more than sevenfold...to 734 last year
from 95 in 2007.” According to the Times, “The research they conduct is
sometimes in areas with strategic military applications like navigation
technology, quantum physics and cryptography.”

        “While tension has risen between the US and China in recent years,”
the Washington Times
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(10/30, Taylor) says, “analysts note geopolitical friction between
Australia and China may be notably hotter than that currently occurring
between Washington and Beijing.” The ASPI report’s claims “appear to
reflect Australia’s heightened concern over China’s increasing activities
around the world.”
Trump Says He Expects “Great Deal” With China.

Reuters
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(10/30, Ruwitch) reports President Trump said Monday night “he thinks there
will be ‘a great deal’ with China on trade, but warned that he has billions
of dollars worth of new tariffs ready to go if a deal isn’t possible.” In
an interview with Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle,” Trump said, “I think that
we will make a great deal with China and it has to be great, because
they’ve drained our country.” Trump also “said in the interview he would
like to make a deal now, but that China was not ready. He did not
elaborate.”

        *Chinese Factory Growth Weakest In Two Years. *Reuters
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(10/31, Zhang, Qiu, Woo) reports China’s manufacturing sector “barely
expanded in October and missed expectations, as both domestic and external
demand ebbed, in a sign of deepening cracks in the economy from an
intensifying trade war” with the US. The official Purchasing Managers’
Index (PMI), released on Wednesday, “fell to 50.2 in October, the lowest
since July 2016 and down from 50.8 in September.” Reuters notes that it was
“a touch above the 50-point mark that separates growth from contraction for
a 27th straight month,” and “suggests a further slowing” in the nation’s
economy.

        *NYTimes DealBook: Chinese Auto Tax Cut Wouldn’t Solve Car
Industry’s Problems. *Columnist Liam Proud and Pete Sweeney, Asia economics
editor at Reuters, write in the New York Times
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(10/30, Proud, Sweeney) “DealBook” blog that China “may try to dress the
wounds of global carmakers, but it will be able to provide little more than
a Band-Aid.” China’s “top economic-planning body is considering whether to
cut in half the 10 percent tax that customers pay on new cars there,
Bloomberg
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(10/29, Tian, Xie, Sachgau) reported on Monday, citing unidentified
sources.” Proud and Sweeney write, “That might help prop up falling demand,
but the industry has bigger problems,” including “sputtering sales,” which
the tax cut would only “offer a temporary fix.”

        *China Attempting To Boost Renminbi As It Hits Weakest Point In
Decade. *The New York Times
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(10/30, Bradsher) reports the Chinese currency, the renminbi, “has been
gradually losing value since mid-April, and on Tuesday it was at its
weakest point in a decade.” If the currency weakens any further, “it could
fall below the psychologically important level of 7 renminbi to the dollar.
The last time it took more than 7 renminbi to buy a dollar was in May 2008,
as the world was slipping into a financial crisis.” According to the Times,
the Chinese government “has good reason to keep its currency from
weakening, and it appears to have acted in recent weeks to prop it up.”

        *Report: US Steel Prices Increase By Double-Digit Percentages.
*The Minneapolis
Star Tribune
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(10/29, DePass) reports that “spurred by new trade tariffs, US steel prices
have increased by double-digit percentages this year while foreign steel
prices dropped, a trade research firm has found.” A new American Steel
Index report by Business Forward Inc. “said tariffs increased the prices on
American-made, hot and cold-rolled steel 11 percent since February. In
contrast, prices on foreign steel fell 4.8 percent on average.”
Domestic Policy
Trump Says He Will End Birthright Citizenship With Executive Order.

In an interview scheduled to air Sunday, President Trump told “Axios on
HBO” that he is planning executive action to end “birthright citizenship.”
Axios
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(10/30, Swan, Kight) reports Trump said 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.” Said
Trump, “It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional
amendment. Guess what? You don’t. ... You can definitely do it with an Act
of Congress. But now they’re saying I can do it just with an executive
order.” NBC Nightly News
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(10/30, lead story, 2:30) showed Trump saying, “We’re the only country in
the world where a person comes in, has a baby and the baby is a citizen of
the United States for 85 years with all of those benefits. It’s ridiculous
and has to end.” The Los Angeles Times
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(10/30, Bierman) reports that according to “two people close to the
administration who spoke anonymously...the policy had been in discussion
for weeks, before the Pittsburgh synagogue shootings.” The Times adds “the
idea is being driven by Stephen Miller, Trump’s most hard-line
anti-immigration advisor, both people said.”

        Media reports continued to cast Trump’s immigration pronouncements
– including this one – not as serious policy proposals, but rather as
rhetorical attempts to boost the GOP in the midterm elections. Chuck Todd
told NBC Nightly News
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(10/30, story 2, 0:50, Holt), for example, “The timing of the election
feels like that’s the motivation here, because the first time I interviewed
him as a presidential candidate, he had only been a candidate for two
months, he brought up, got to end this, got to end birthright citizenship.
He’s been President for two years. Not once have we seen a proposal, not
once have we talked about this. ... He wants immigration to be the closing
message for his base of supporters, and what better way than to throw this
debate bomb, if you will, into the conversation.”

        Pamela Brown said on CNN’s The Lead[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/30), “Constitutional reality aside, the political bottom line is Trump
is appealing to his base by changing the topic to one of his signature
issues: immigration.” CNN contributor Bianna Golodryga said on CNN’s
Situation Room
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(10/30), “What is interesting about it is it does come across as sort of an
act of desperation when this is a President who wasn’t shy about touting
the economy for two years now, and there’s good reason to. ... Instead of
focusing on the economy, there does seem to be this desperation at a time
when the nation’s not in a at least financial crisis.”

        To the New York Times
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(10/30, Baker), meanwhile, “Trump seems to be throwing almost anything he
can think of against the wall to see what might stick, no matter how
untethered from political or legal reality,” and “ad hoc though they may
be,” his “red-meat ideas have come to shape the conversation and, he hopes,
may galvanize otherwise complacent conservatives.”

        John McCormack of the Weekly Standard said on Fox News’ Special
Report
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(10/30), “The reaction you saw from a lot of Senate candidates...was
silence. You did not see a lot of them wanting to talk about this because
this is a controversial policy,” and “people [are] not sure how this plays
out.” Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report said on Fox News’ Special
Report
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(10/30), “The kinds of places where Republicans are either comfortable or
would like to see the President come and do a rally or talk about
immigration are in the kinds of states where Republicans are already doing
pretty well. Those are typically in those Senate races, those very deep red
Senate races. But in the House, where the battlegrounds are in the suburban
swing districts, where the swing voters are independent women, I do not
think this is an issue that is going to get a whole lot of traction or
going to be that helpful for Republicans.”

        Aaron Blake, meanwhile, wrote in the Washington Post
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(10/30) that “there is quite frankly very little reason to believe this is
a serious proposal...and it should be viewed and covered accordingly,”
because “there is abundant reason to believe this is primarily a ploy to
fire up his base on the eve of an election.” The AP
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(10/30, Kellman, Lucey) reports Trump is “rushing out hardline immigration
declarations, promises and actions” ahead of the election, Reuters
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(10/30, Hurley, Heavey) that his “previous calls to end” automatic US
citizenship for the children of those in the US illegally “resonated with
his political base,” and the New York Times
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(10/30, Davis) that it is “unknown how serious Mr. Trump is about taking
the action,” as “in recent days, with the approach of the midterm balloting
in which Republican control of Congress is at risk, he has sought to appeal
to voters by making other dramatic claims that appear to have no chance of
materializing.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/30, Wagner) reports that “whether the contemplated move is legal, Trump
seemed to welcome the controversy his comments ignited,” and that the White
House “has been intent on stoking a debate over immigration as a way to
motivate Trump’s base.” The Hill
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(10/30, Fabian) also says “progressives and immigrant-rights groups have
decried Trump’s immigration rhetoric as a naked ploy to scapegoat
immigrants in order to whip up his base to save Republican majorities in
Congress.” The Hill also reports “Democratic lawmakers have largely refused
to engage with Trump on immigration, preferring instead to focus on health
care, an issue they believe will resonate more with voters.”

        Media analyses also describe Trump’s plan as extremely unlikely to
pass constitutional muster. The AP
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(10/30, Sherman, Woodward) reports, for example, that Trump “astonished
legal scholars with his claim that he can end birthright citizenship with a
swipe of his pen. No, they say, he can’t.” Politico
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018103101biden&r=email-8c2c&l=079-da6&t=c>
(10/30, Hesson) says Trump “has virtually no support from legal experts
across the political spectrum” outside of “a small contingent of legal
scholars” who also “dismiss the idea that birthright citizenship can be
eliminated by presidential fiat.”

        USA Today
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(10/30, Cummings, Jackson) reports that “such an executive order would
likely face legal challenges immediately,” and that “many legal analysts
doubt the president’s theoretical executive order would fly with the
Supreme Court.” Adam Liptak, in a “News Analysis” piece for the New York
Times
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(10/30) titled, “Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Proposal Is At Odds With
Legal Consensus,” writes, “The words of the 14th Amendment are plain, and
the scholarly and judicial consensus about what they mean is nearly
uniform: Children born in the United States automatically become citizens
of the United States.” Liptak adds, “There may be good policy arguments for
doing away with birthright citizenship, but most legal scholars say it
would take a constitutional amendment to do so.”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(10/30, Savage) reports “legal scholars were quick to dismiss...Trump’s
plan,” and the Washington Post
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(10/30, Paul) that even “Judge James C. Ho, a recent Trump appointee, may
stand in his way.” Ho wrote recently, “Birthright citizenship is guaranteed
by the Fourteenth Amendment. That birthright is protected no less for
children of undocumented persons than for descendants of Mayflower
passengers.”

        The Washington Times
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(10/30, Miller, Muñoz), meanwhile, refers to “a decades-old debate over
whether the Constitution guarantees most persons born on US soil American
citizenship, even if they sneaked into the country.” The Washington Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018103101biden&r=email-8c2c&l=07f-592&t=c>
(10/30, Barnes) says Trump addressed “a much-debated but rarely tested
legal question.” While “legal experts have debated for years how to
interpret the citizenship clause of the Constitution’s 14th
Amendment...most agree with the long-held practice of granting citizenship
to those born on US soil.” The Amendment says, “All persons born or
naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
The Post adds “some legal scholars argue that the phrase, ‘and subject to
the jurisdiction thereof,’ seems to give the government leeway to restrict
the right, just as other Constitutional amendments can be limited.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(10/30, Leary) runs a similar analysis, while Politico
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(10/30, Oprysko, Hesson) reports “some immigration hardliners have argued
that the 14th Amendment is not applicable to those not in the US legally or
here only on a temporary visa,” and Ben Domenech, writing for the Federalist
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(10/30), says “this question is in dispute thanks to a handful of legal
scholars on the right who disagree with the overwhelming majority of legal
scholars, politicians, and, most importantly of all, the president’s own
judicial appointees on this question.” The CBS Evening News[image: Image
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(10/30, story 2, 2:30, Garrett) reported “federal courts have generally
ruled the 14th Amendment applies to children born in the US to undocumented
parents,” and ABC World News Tonight
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(10/30, story 5, 2:40, Karl) that “back in 1995, the Justice Department
said very forcefully in an opinion that is still...operative today that the
only way to change birthright citizenship is, quote, by amending the
Constitution.”

        Politico
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(10/30, Karni, Johnson) says “vocal proponents of ending birthright
citizenship acknowledge that view has long been dismissed as a far-right
fantasy,” but “Trump has never been cowed by elite opinion, and on Tuesday,
less than a week before the midterm elections, he made it a major political
flashpoint.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/30, Viser) reports Trump, “a self-styled ‘nationalist’ who has warned
of an ‘invasion’ of refugees from Central America, is making the
fundamental question of American identity the centerpiece of his closing
argument in the midterm elections.” While such rhetoric “has been a
hallmark of his political brand for years,” yesterday, “with emotions still
raw over the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre and a string of mail bombs sent
to Trump critics, the president took his efforts to a new level” by “vowing
to issue an executive order to curtail birthright citizenship.” The Post
adds “Trump’s sharpened tone creates potential complications for some
Republican candidates, particularly those in centrist suburban House
districts where many GOP voters have grown uneasy about the president.”

        Tucker Carlson said on Fox News Tucker Carlson Tonight[image: Image
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(10/30), “As a legal matter, it is an open question. The Supreme Court has
never ruled on it, but there is ample reason to believe the law does not
apply to illegal immigrants or birth tourists. Birthright citizenship
arises from the 14th Amendment that was passed just three years after the
Civil War and it was passed to guarantee citizenship to freed slaves.”

        George T. Conway III, counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz,
and Neal Katyal, a partner at Hogan Lovells and former acting US solicitor
general in the Obama Administration, write in a Washington Post
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(10/30) op-ed, “The fact that the two of us, one a conservative and the
other a liberal, agree on this much despite our sharp policy differences
underscores something it is critically important to remember during a time
marked by so much rancor and uncivil discourse: Our Constitution is a
bipartisan document, designed to endure for ages. Its words have meaning
that cannot be wished away.”

        *Canada, US Only “Advanced” Nations To Grant Birthright
Citizenship. *Bloomberg News
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(10/30, Hunter, Dopp) reports that “Trump’s claim that the US is the only
country that extends birthright citizenship is false,” but he “is correct
that European countries all require a period of residency before bestowing
citizenship on those born to foreign parents,” but “many countries in the
Americas such as Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina have US-style
birthright citizenship.” The Washington Free Beacon
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018103101biden&r=email-8c2c&l=08a-b4c&t=c>
(10/30, Lehman) says the US “is one of about 30 countries that adheres to
the practice,” though “Canada and the United States are the only two
‘advanced’ countries to offer unrestricted birthright citizenship, while
the other countries are mostly those in South and Central America.” The Los
Angeles Times
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(10/30, Kaleem) notes that “unlike the US or European nations that tend to
allow a mix of citizenship by birth and by blood, Japan’s strict rules give
children citizenship only if born to a Japanese national.”

        Presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway said on Fox News’ Special
Report
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(10/30), “On the matter of birthright citizenship, 30 countries do have it,
but only two in the ‘developed world’ as the IMF defines that: Canada and
the US. Europe doesn’t have it. France ended theirs in 1993. Many parts of
Asia don’t have it. Many other constitutional scholars have said that the
14th Amendment has been misinterpreted and misused in this way. There is no
question there have been use reports about...birth tourism, where women pay
a lot of money, maybe money they really don’t have, to make sure they’re
children are born here. The idea that this isn’t happening, the idea that
it isn’t going on in the thousands, the idea that it’s not unique to the US
and to Canada and the developed world is just false.”

        *Pence: Courts Haven’t Ruled On Whether 14th Amendment Applies To
Undocumented Immigrants. *USA Today
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(10/30, Groppe) reports Vice President Pence “backed Tuesday the intent of
his boss to test whether the president can unilaterally stop the United
States from granting citizenship to anybody born on US soil,” saying “it’s
not clear whether the constitutional amendment that created ‘birthright
citizenship’ applies to people who are in the country illegally.” Said
Pence, “We all know what the 14th Amendment says. We all cherish the
language of the 14th Amendment. ... But the Supreme Court of the United
States has never ruled on whether or not the language of the 14th
Amendment, subject to the jurisdiction thereof, applies specifically to
people who are in the country illegally.”

        Axios
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(10/30, Britzky) reports “Pence is correct that the Supreme Court hasn’t
ruled on a Citizenship Clause case specifically involving unauthorized
immigrants,” but “the landmark 1898 case United States v. Wong Kim Ark
affirmed that people born in the United States are considered American
citizens regardless of their parents’ immigration status, per the ACLU.”

        *Graham Praises Trump Initiative, Says He Will Introduce
Legislation Along Same Lines. *The Washington Examiner
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(10/30, Correll) reports Sen. Lindsey Graham “plans to unveil legislation
that would eliminate birthright citizenship, adding cover to...Trump, who
faces backlash for saying he is planning to sign an executive order that
would do the same.” In a tweet
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“Graham praised the essence of Trump’s idea, saying ‘finally’ a president
was willing to address ‘this absurd policy.’” Wrote Graham, “I’ve always
supported comprehensive immigration reform – and at the same time – the
elimination of birthright citizenship.” The Examiner adds that “echoing
concerns raised by Trump, Graham argued that birthright citizenship is a
‘magnet for illegal immigration’ and must stop, adding that he plans to
‘introduce legislation along the same lines as the proposed executive
order.’”

        The Hill
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(10/30, Carney) reports Graham “added that he plans ‘to introduce
legislation along the same lines as the proposed executive order’ from
Trump.” CQ Roll Call
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(10/30, Lesniewski) calls Graham “a previous advocate of bipartisan
immigration overhaul and who could be the chairman of the Judiciary
Committee in the next Congress.”

        *Ryan: Birthright Citizenship Can’t Be Eliminated By Executive
Order. *The Washington Post
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(10/30, Wagner) reports House Speaker Ryan yesterday dismissed Trump’s
“idea during a radio interview, saying it is not consistent with the 14th
Amendment of the Constitution.” Ryan told WVLK in Kentucky, “Well you
obviously cannot do that. ... You cannot end birthright citizenship with an
executive order.” Ryan also “said that Republicans did not like it when
President Barack Obama changed immigration policy by executive action and
that altering the Constitution would be a lengthy process.” Along those
lines, the Washington Times
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(10/30, Dinan) casts Trump as “turning to the same ‘unconstitutional’
method for which he repeatedly criticized...Obama during the 2016
presidential campaign.”

        The Washington Times
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(10/30, Dinan) says Ryan “poured cold water...on...Trump’s plan,” CQ Roll
Call
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(10/30, McPherson) that he “dismissed” it, Politico
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(10/30, Everett, Oprysko) that he “broke with...Trump” on the issue, and
the New York Post
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(10/30, Fredericks) that he “threw cold water” on it.

        *Flake: Trump “Can’t” And “Shouldn’t Do This.” *The Hill
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(10/30, Carney) reports “Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) warned...Trump against
nixing birthright citizenship, hours after the president floated that he
could do so through an executive order.” Flake tweeted
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“He can’t do this, and he shouldn’t do this.”

        *In Riot Gear, CPB Prepares For Caravan’s Arrival. *The El Paso
(TX) Times
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(10/30, Borunda) reports “US Customs and Border Protection officers in riot
gear this week blocked the Paso Del Norte international bridge in downtown
El Paso in training for the possible arrival of the Central American
migrant caravan.” CPB spokesman Roger Maier said “the show of force was
part of ‘operational readiness for the potential impact of the caravan.’”

        *US General: Number Of US Troops At Border To Rise. *Reuters
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(10/30, Stewart) reports “the top US general overseeing a deployment of
more than 5,200 troops to the border with Mexico said on Tuesday that troop
levels would rise further, but declined to say how high or estimate what
the operation will cost.” Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy, the head of US
Northern Command, “defended the operation at a briefing on Tuesday,” and
“echoed Trump administration concerns about the caravan and compared the
border support mission to other domestic military missions, like hurricane
relief.” The general “said the troops now slated to go to Texas, Arizona
and California were only the start of a larger deployment and that
eventually troops would go to New Mexico as well.” Said O’Shaughnessy,
“What I can confirm is there will be additional force over and above the
5,239. The magnitude of that difference, I don’t have the answer for now.”

        The New York Times
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(10/30, Cooper, Gibbons-Neff) reports “using the world’s most powerful
military to stop some 3,000 unarmed migrants who may or may not make it to
the United States border might not be the best use of taxpayer dollars at
the Defense Department,” and the Washington Post
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(10/30, Ryan) that “the mission could jeopardize [Defense Secretary]
Mattis’s effort to shield the military from the political divisions
gripping the country as questions persist about the size and timing of the
deployment and the use of active-duty troops instead of the National
Guard.”

        *AP: Border Troops Limited By Federal Law, Will Not Be Able To
Detain Migrants. *The AP
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(10/30, Burns, Long, Colvin) reports that the troops being deployed to deal
with the border crisis “will be limited in what they can do under a federal
law that restricts the military from engaging in law enforcement on
American soil.” According to the AP, “That means the troops will not be
allowed to detain immigrants, seize drugs from smugglers or have any direct
involvement in stopping a migrant caravan that is still about 1,000 miles
from the nearest border crossing.” The AP adds that “the extraordinary
military operation comes a week before the Nov. 6 midterm elections as
Trump has sought to transform fears about the caravan and immigration into
electoral gains.”

        *Mexican Ambassador To US: Some In Caravan “Very Violent.” *
Breitbart
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(10/30, Starr) reports, “The leftist media are pushing the narrative that
the thousands of migrants from Central America and elsewhere are just
people fleeing violence in their homeland, but during an interview with
National Public Radio on Monday, Geronimo Gutierrez, the Mexican ambassador
to the US, described some of them as ‘very violent.’” Gutierrrez told
NPR[image:
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“We have been trying to avoid, at all costs, violence in the border. ...
Unfortunately, some of the people in the caravan have been very violent
against authority, even though that they have offered the possibility of
entering in compliance with immigration law and refugee status.”

        *Graham To Mexican Ambassador: “It’s Important To Keep This Caravan
Away” From US. *In an appearance on Fox News’ Hannity[image: Image removed
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(10/30), Sen. Lindsey Graham thanked Mexico’s ambassador for calling him,
and said, “I like what you said to me. It’s important to keep this caravan
away from the United States border. We can work on fixing the triangle
countries, make their lives better, and we can work together to secure both
sides of the border, but you need to stop this caravan. I appreciate what
you said to me, and keep working with Trump. I think he will be a good
ally.”

        *Northern Command Chief: “We’ve Seen Violence Coming Out Of”
Migrant Caravan. *John Roberts reported on Fox News’ Special Report[image:
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(10/30) reported that the migrant caravan “is actually getting smaller
according to people traveling alongside, but” President Trump is “still
ordering the Pentagon to deploy 5,000 additional military personnel to the
southern border.” John Roberts said the “urgency to stop” the caravan
“seems to be increasing.” He noted that in an “impromptu” press conference
Tuesday, Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy, the head of US Northern Command,
“said, quote, ‘This caravan is different than what we’ve seen in the past.
What we have seen is clearly an organization at a higher level than we have
seen before. We’ve seen violence coming out of the caravan and...as they
pass other international borders we’ve seen them behave in a nature that we
have not seen in the past.”

        *Caravan Member Tells Fox He Committed Attempted Murder In
Honduras. *The Daily Caller
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(10/30, Athey) reports, “A member of the migrant caravan marching toward
the US southern border revealed to Fox News that he was fleeing Honduras
after committing attempted murder.” In an interview that “aired Sunday, Fox
News’ Griff Jenkins talked to a man named Jose with the help of a
translator.” Jose said
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“In my country, Honduras, I got in trouble.” Asked “specifically what crime
he committed,” Jose replied, “Attempted murder.”

        *Second Caravan Moving Through Southern Mexico Criticizes First
Caravan As “Too Passive.” *The AP
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(10/30, Sherman, Billy) reports that “more than 1,000 migrants in a second
caravan that forged its way across the river from Guatemala began walking
through southern Mexico on Tuesday and reached the city of Tapachula – some
250 miles behind a larger group and more than 1,000 miles from the closest
US border.” The AP adds, “Members of the latest caravan say they aren’t
trying to catch up with the first because they believe it has been too
passive and they don’t want to be controlled.” According to the AP, “The
first, larger caravan of about 4,000 mainly Honduran migrants passed
through Tapachula about 10 days ago and was setting up camp in the Oaxaca
state city of Juchitan.”
Fox & Friends Hosts Criticize Trump’s “Enemy Of The People” Comments.

The Washington Post
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(10/30, Horton) reports that while “the supportive ‘Fox & Friends’
triumvirate” is likely not among the media figures President Trump sees as
the “enemy of the people,” there are “a few cracks...forming on the Fox
trio’s set over Trump’s escalating crusade against the media.” After Trump
on Monday called the media “the true enemy of the people” after “a fervent
supporter of his allegedly mailed two potential explosive devices to CNN,”
an “exasperated” Brian Kilmeade said on Fox News’ Fox & Friends[image:
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yesterday, “I really wish he would lose that term. It doesn’t help anybody.
It doesn’t push back on the media that he wants to push back on.” Kilmeade
added, “The press isn’t the enemy of the people.” Co-host Steve Doocy said,
“I think he probably feels like they are not doing him any favors, and so
he doesn’t like them, ultimately. Are they the enemy of the people? I don’t
think so, either.”

        *Scalise Questions Lemon’s Denial Of Left-Wing Political Violence. *
Breitbart
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(10/30, Caruso) reports that Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) “called out CNN’s
Don Lemon” after he “downplayed left-wing political violence.” Scalise, who
was “a victim of a shooting last year by a left-wing Bernie Sanders
supporter,” posted
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“the ‘eyes’ emoji and linked to a story from National Review about Don
Lemon saying he doesn’t ‘see Democrats’ killing people over politics.” On CNN’s
Tonight
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Monday, Lemon said, “The right-wing group killed the woman in
Charlottesville. This guy is a right-winger who killed the people in the
synagogue. The right-winger sent bombs to CNN and to Democrats. I don’t see
Democrats killing people because of political — yeah, there may be
democratic operatives who are out there.” Lemon added that “for the most
part” political violence is committed by “extreme right-wingers.”

        *Axelrod Says Democrats Are Falling For Trump’s Trap. *Politico
Magazine
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(10/30, Alberta) reports that former Obama chief strategist David Axelrod
“worries that President Donald Trump has laid a trap – and that his party
is walking right into it.” Axelrod told Politico’s Off Message podcast,
“Escalation breeds escalation. ... And within the Democratic Party, I think
there is a big debate about how to deal with Trump because he has no
boundaries. He’s willing to do anything and say anything to promote his
interests. It’s a values-free politics; it’s an amoral politics. And so,
there is this body of thought that you have to fight fire with fire and so
on. But I worry that we’ll all be consumed in the conflagration.”
Mueller Asks FBI To Probe If Women Were Offered Money To Make False Claims
About Him.

NBC Nightly News
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(10/30, story 6, 1:15, Holt) reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller
“is asking the FBI to look into something brand new: allegations being made
about him, part of an apparent effort to smear him.” NBC (Williams) added
that Mueller’s spokesman says Mueller “is asking the FBI to investigate an
apparent effort to spread claims that he sexually harassed women more than
four decades ago.” In a “rare public statement,” the spokesman said, “When
we learned last week that women were offered money to make false claims
about the Special Counsel, we referred this matter to the FBI for
investigation.” According to NBC, “several news organizations say they’ve
been contacted by a woman who said she was offered tens of thousands of
dollars if she would accuse Mueller of sexual harassment in 1974. The woman
said she refused.” ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/30, story 4, 1:20, Muir) too said that amid “an alleged plot to level
accusations of sexual misconduct against him,” Mueller’s spokesman issued
“a rare statement.”

        The AP
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(10/31) reports Mueller spokesman Peter Carr’s statement “didn’t specify
what the claims were, but the referral to the FBI – and a rare public
statement about it from the special counsel’s office — suggests that
Mueller’s office believed there was a potential crime for federal law
enforcement to investigate.” Bloomberg News
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(10/30, Strohm and Dennis) reports that it was sent a “series of
emails...this month” that “included allegations that a woman was approached
and offered money to falsely accuse Mueller of sexual misconduct. The
sender’s identity couldn’t be verified, and the person didn’t respond to
requests for a telephone interview.” According USA Today
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(10/30, Johnson), the “hoax surfaced more than a week ago when a number of
journalists were contacted via email by a person who reported receiving a
telephone call from an individual making the offer.”

        The Washington Times
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(10/30, Mordock) reports Carr’s statement came as “Jack Burkman, a
conservative commentator, said in a tweet
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Tuesday that ‘we will reveal the first of special counsel Robert Mueller’s
sex assault victims’ on Nov. 1.” Burkman, the Times notes, “has been a
frequent critic of the Mueller probe.” The Hill
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(10/30, Birnbaum) also reports on Burkman’s tweet.

        The person, who identified herself to Politico
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(10/30, Samuelsohn) and “other news organizations as Lorraine D. Parsons of
Fort Myers, Fla., said she worked with Mueller in 1974 when she was a
paralegal at the law firm Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro.” In her email,
Parsons “said a man named Bill Christensen contacted her by phone to
inquire about Mueller.” Parsons said Christensen “mentioned that he might
be able to help me pay off some debt. He knew exactly how much credit card
debt I had, right down to the dollar, which sort of freaked me out.”
The Washington
Examiner
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(10/30, Cohen) reports the said the man, “acting as an intermediary for
Burkman,” had “offered to pay off all of my credit card debt, plus bring me
a check for $20,000 if I would do one thing.” The New York Post
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(10/30, Moore) and Daily Caller
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(10/30, Ross), among other outlets, similarly report on the email, while
the Washington Post
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(10/30, Barrett) says the FBI “declined to comment.”

        *Stone Strengthens Legal Team As Mueller’s Scrutiny Increases. *ABC
News
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(10/30, Dukakis) reports on its website, “Longtime Republican political
operative Roger Stone is gearing up for battle with...Mueller after a
parade of witnesses has appeared before a grand jury to be grilled about
their relationship with Stone” during Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential
campaign. Sources tell ABC that Stone “quietly expanded his legal team in
recent months.” He has hired Florida attorney Bruce Rogow, who has
represented “Trump’s golf club interests in a handful of civil matters out
of Florida over the past 20 years,” to be his lead attorney on all matters
relating to the Mueller probe. The Washington Post
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(10/30, Roig-Franzia) reports that Mueller “is pressing witnesses about
Stone’s private interactions with senior campaign officials and whether he
had knowledge of politically explosive Democratic emails that were released
in October 2016,” according to multiple sources. The Post says Mueller
“appears to be intently focused on the question of whether WikiLeaks
coordinated its activities with Stone and the campaign, including the
group’s timing,” the sources said.

        *Mueller’s Team Reportedly Interviewed Bannon About Stone. *The Daily
Caller
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(10/30, Ross) reports that Mueller’s team “reportedly interviewed former
White House strategist Steve Bannon on Friday.” According to the Washington
Post, the session dealt with “any contacts between Roger Stone and the
Trump campaign.”
Study: 62% Of Jobs Don’t Support Middle-Class Lifestyle.

USA Today
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(10/30, Davidson) reports that “despite an unemployment rate that has
reached a 50-year low of 3.7 percent, most jobs across the US don’t support
a middle-class or better lifestyle, leaving many Americans struggling,
according to a new study.” Sixty-two percent of jobs “fall short of that
middle-class standard when factoring in both wages and the cost of living
in the metro area where the job is located, according to the study” by the
think tank Third Way. The Third Way study, USA Today says, “starkly
assesses the jobs in each metro area and the opportunities they’re
providing to live a good life.”

        *Trump Touts 18-Year High In Consumer Confidence. *President Trump
tweeted
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yesterday, “Just out: Consumer Confidence hits highest level since 2000.”
Reuters
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(10/30, Mutikani) reports “US consumer confidence rose to an 18-year high
in October, driven largely by a robust labor market, bolstering
expectations that strong economic growth would continue through early
2019.” The Conference Board “said its consumer confidence index reading
rose to 137.9 this month, the highest since September 2000, from a
downwardly revised 135.3 in September.” Economists polled by Reuters “had
forecast the consumer index slipping to 136.0 from the previously reported
138.4 in September.”

        *Trump: Stocks “Taking A Little Pause” Because Of Anxiety About
Midterms. *Trump also tweeted
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yesterday, “The Stock Market is up massively since the Election, but is now
taking a little pause – people want to see what happens with the Midterms.
If you want your Stocks to go down, I strongly suggest voting Democrat.
They like the Venezuela financial model, High Taxes & Open Borders!”
Politico
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(10/30, Rodriguez) reports Trump’s tweet, but says “the economy is not the
dominant talking point in the final stretch of midterm campaign season,” as
the President “has been ramping up talk of immigration to whip up support
from his base while dealing with fallout from a violent week that included
a mass shooting targeting a synagogue and bombing attempts aimed at
prominent Democrats and CNN.”

        Dana Milbank writes in the Washington Post
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(10/30), “Tuesday morning brought a textbook illustration of Trumponomics.”
The President “has been claiming sole responsibility for a bull market that
began nearly eight years before his presidency,” but “this month, wild
swings in the market threaten to erase the year’s gains, and on Tuesday,
Trump offered an explanation: The Democrats did it!”

        *US Stocks Rebound, With Dow Up 432 Points. *Reuters
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(10/30, Krauskopf) reports “major US stock indexes jumped more than 1
percent on Tuesday, helped by strong gains for chip and transport stocks as
investors took advantage of cheaper prices following a steep recent
pullback for equities.” The Dow “rose 431.72 points, or 1.77 percent, to
24,874.64, the S&P 500 gained 41.38 points, or 1.57 percent, to 2,682.63
and the Nasdaq Composite added 111.36 points, or 1.58 percent, to
7,161.65.” CNBC
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(10/30, Franck) says “the rebound on Tuesday followed a shaky start to the
week in the prior session that saw stocks giving up sharp gains.”
NRCC Denounces King, “Will Not Play” In Tight IA4 Race.

NBC Nightly News
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(10/30, story 7, 1:30, Holt) reported that IA4 Rep. Steve King (R)
“received a stunning rebuke [on Tuesday] from within his own party. The
head of the National Republican Congressional Committee condemn[ed King]
for comments about race and associations with white nationalism.” NBC’s
Kasie Hunt added that the NRCC condemned “one of their own, speaking out”
on King, who reportedly told the Washington Post that “members of an
Austrian group with historical ties to Nazis ‘would be Republicans if they
lived in the US.’” NRCC Chairman Rep. Steve Stivers (OH) called the
comments “‘completely inappropriate,’ tweeting
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‘We must stand up against white supremacy and hate in all forms.’”

        The AP
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(10/29, Mascaro) reports that King “is coming under fire ahead of the
midterm election as top Republican officials and campaign donors balk at
standing with a Republican congressman who regularly espouses extreme views
on race and immigration.” The New York Times
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(10/30, Edmondson) describes Stivers’ comments on King as a “highly unusual
rebuke.” Politico
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(10/30, Bade, Bresnahan) reported that even though King is in a very tight
race against former professional baseball player J.D. Scholten (D), the
NRCC will not support him. NRCC Communications Director Matt Gorman told
Fox News, “We believe Congressman King’s words and actions are completely
inappropriate and we strongly condemn them. We will not play in his race.” CQ
Roll Call
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(10/30, Bowman) reported that a new poll in the race shows Scholten ahead
by one point.

        Bloomberg News
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(10/30) reports that in addition to Stivers’ “extraordinary disavowal,”
both Land O’Lakes and Purina announced that they will no longer contribute
to King. Reuters
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(10/30, Bernstein) reports that King had received $2,500 from the Land
O’Lakes Political Action Committee. As of mid-October, King had raised just
$740,000, less than half of the $1.7 million brought in by Scholten.

        The Washington Post
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(10/30, Sonmez) reports that King, who “has a long history of incendiary
remarks on race and immigration” throughout his eight terms in Congress,
“issued a statement
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on Twitter late Tuesday afternoon in which he denounced ‘Establishment
Never Trumpers’ and attacks that he said were ‘orchestrated by nasty,
desperate, and dishonest fake news’ and aimed to ‘flip the House and
impeach Donald Trump.’”

        Scholten tweeted
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“Last week I issued a challenge for at least one Republican elected
official to condemn @SteveKingIA’s recent behavior. I applaud
@RepSteveStivers, Chair of the NRCC. Respect. #CountryOverParty”.

        NBC’s Benjy Sarlin tweeted
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“Stivers – the chair of the NRCC – is doing this as King faces at least a
plausible challenge in his district. It’s his job to elect Republicans.”
Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report tweeted
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“King is virtually broke (had $176k on hand in mid-Oct. and badly outraised
by Scholten) & with a week left, it’s unclear who’s going to bail him out.
The only thing he’s got going for him now is #IA04’s 27% Trump margin &
R+11 PVI.”

        Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post tweeted
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“Stivers rebukes Steve King for white supremacist remarks. But top 3 House
GOP leaders – Speaker Paul Ryan, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and
Majority Whip Steve Scalise – have still declined to do so.”

        *Campaigns Release Dueling Internal Polls. *The Sioux City (IA)
Journal
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(10/30, Dreeszen) reports, “The rebuke came as dueling polls painted a
different story of how close the Iowa 4th race stands heading into the
final week of the campaign. Scholten’s campaign touted an online poll
posted Monday night that showed the Democratic challenger” trailing King
45%-44%. In response, King on Tuesday “countered with his own internal
poll, which showed him” leading Scholten 52%-34%. King’s “poll was
conducted by WPA Intelligence, which surveyed 401 likely votes through live
phone calls from Oct. 22-24.” The Hill
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(10/30, Folley) reported that Scholten’s poll was “conducted by
left-leaning polling firm Change Research from Oct. 27-29.”
Healthcare Edges Out Economy As Main Issue On Florida Voters’ Minds.

The CBS Evening News
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(10/30, story 4, 2:45, Glor) reported that Democrats have made healthcare
“the major issue” in Florida. CBS (Cordes) added, “Healthcare has actually
edged out the economy as the top issue in Florida this year. Three out of
four Floridians tell us it is very important to their vote. Our
battleground tracker found that they think Democrats are more likely than
Republicans to protect people with pre-existing conditions.”

        *Politico: Red-State Governor Races Could Expand Medicaid To
Millions. *Politico
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(10/30, Ollstein) reports that Georgia’s “neck-and-neck governor’s race is
one of at least half a dozen where a Democrat supporting Medicaid expansion
has a fighting chance to replace a Republican who opposes it. “Competitive
races in Florida, Wisconsin, Kansas, Oklahoma and South Dakota “could also
flip the status of holdout states that have so far refused Obamacare’s
Medicaid expansion — though Republican legislatures are not likely to make
it easy.” In addition, Maine voters who “overwhelmingly backed expansion in
2017 will choose between a Republican who vows to continue departing Gov.
Paul LePage’s crusade to block Medicaid’s implementation and a Democrat who
says she will immediately enact it.” Four more red states — Idaho, Utah,
Nebraska and Montana — have Medicaid expansion questions on their ballots.
Politico says the “blue wave many experts predict could drive the biggest
enrollment spike in the program since the early years of Obamacare’s
implementation,” expanding eligibility to “nearly 3 million people.”

        *WPost Editorial: Administration Trying To Undermine ACA
Preexisting Conditions Coverage. *In an editorial headlined “The Trump
Administration Again Tries To Sabotage The Obamacare Model,” the Washington
Post
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(10/30) writes that while the Administration’s plan to “give states far
more flexibility in regulating health-insurance markets within their
borders” may sound “like a good thing,” it would undermine the mechanisms
within the Affordable Care Act “to get people with preexisting conditions
onto the comprehensive plans they need.” The ACA “provides a path for
nearly everyone to have comprehensive coverage, which should be a minimal
standard. ... Republicans should stop trying to push in the opposite
direction.”
WPost: Republicans Have Made Kavanaugh Election Year Rallying Cry.

The Washington Post
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(10/30, Barnes) reports Republicans have turned Supreme Court Justice Brett
Kavanaugh “into an election-year rallying cry.” In the run up to the
midterms, Republicans have “used Kavanaugh and his fight for Senate
confirmation amid allegations of sexual assault to energize Republican
voters in districts and states won by President Trump in 2016.” They have
portrayed Kavanaugh “as a wrongly accused family man the victim of an
overzealous #MeToo movement and Democrats seeking retribution for Hillary
Clinton’s loss” in the hope that “voters will turn out to defend what they
believe the conservative justice represents — traditional values under
threat and the dangers of what some have called the liberal ‘mob.’”

        *CNN Analysts Bemoan Graham’s Seeming Shift To Trump Defender. *In
the wake of Sen. Lindsey Graham’s defense of the President on the issues
such as the Kavanaugh nomination and “birthright citizenship,” among
others, CNN senior congressional correspondent Manu Raju reported on CNN’s
The Lead
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(10/30), “Something unusual is happening in the Republican Party. Lindsey
Graham, once reviled by the conservative base, now welcomed like a hero.
... Graham’s march from Trump detractor to Donald Trump defender has been
months in the making, earning the President’s trust as a close confidante
and golf buddy.” Raju added, “Graham’s shift...reflects the makeover of the
Republican Party in the age of Trump. Nearly nine of 10 GOP voters support
the President, a clear sign why Republicans running in swing states are
attaching themselves closely to Trump.”

        Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard said on CNN’s The Lead[image:
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(10/30), “I think [late Sen. John McCain] would be very depressed to see
Lindsey Graham going down this path.”

        Democratic strategist Paul Begala said on CNN’s The Lead[image:
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(10/30), “I want to posit that Lindsey Graham doesn’t have a spine. I want
him to produce an MRI of his back. I think you could go at that thing with
an electron microscope and wouldn’t find solid material.”
Cancer Research
NCI, NHGRI Award $20M To Duke For Breast Cancer, Genomic Research.

The Triangle (NC) Business Journal
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(10/29, Gulledge) reported the National Cancer Institute and the National
Human Genome Research Institute awarded three grants totaling nearly $20
million to Duke University’s School of Medicine “to benefit its breast
cancer and genomic research.” The first two, from the NHGRI, benefit the
university’s Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine, which “was
established as the coordinating center for a national initiative to expand
genomic medicine’s role in clinical practice.” The third grant, $10.8
million from the NCI, “was awarded to Duke’s Cancer Institute.”
Researcher: New Treatment “Completely Eliminated Tumors In Pre-Human
Studies.”

Forbes
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(10/30) publishes a Quora piece by Hadiyah-Nicole Green, PhD, Founder, Ora
Lee Smith Cancer Research Foundation, which says “there are still nearly 9
million people dying every year worldwide, according to the American Cancer
Society,” yet the cure remains “elusive.” Green says she has witnessed both
modern medicine and alternative medicine helping to “cure” cancer in
patients. She explains that “alternative medicine, like special diets,
vitamins, herbs, and acupuncture, is everything that is not a ‘standard
treatment’ according to the National Cancer Institute.” Green adds that she
has developed a novel approach to treat cancer, called Laser-Activated
Nano-Therapy (LANT), which “has completely eliminated tumors in pre-human
studies and is ready to move expeditiously beyond the laboratory and into
human trials” with help from “navigators of the FDA regulatory process.”
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“Brazil Lurches To The Right.”* The New York Times
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(10/30, Board) editorializes that Brazilian President-elect Jair
Bolsonaro’s “campaign platform, such as it was, was mostly about going
backward,” but “his angry rants caught the mood of a Brazilian electorate
sick of an endless corruption scandal that has reached to the far corners
of the establishment, rampant street violence and economic dislocation, all
of it indiscriminately and often unfairly blamed by many Brazilians on the
left-wing Workers’ Party, known as PT.” Bolsonaro has “pledged to respect
democratic rules,” at least for now, but the Times stresses that he “poses
a danger to Brazil’s democracy.” The Times urges Brazil’s opposition “to
recognize the election of Mr. Bolsonaro as a cry of desperation rather than
a declaration of war, and to support those actions that address the wrongs
while blocking those that endanger democracy.”
Washington Post.

*“Jamal Khashoggi Was Brutally Murdered Four Weeks Ago. We’re Still Waiting
For Answers.”* The Washington Post
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(10/30) says even though four weeks have passed since journalist Jamal
Khashoggi disappeared, much about the case “remains undisclosed.” Instead
of answering these questions, the Post says, “the Saudi government – and
its de facto accomplices in the Trump administration – have gone silent,
evidently hoping that demands for accountability will fade away now that
the story has been pushed from the front pages. That should not be allowed
to happen.” The Post urges Congress to summon “senior U.S. officials and
determine what they know about the killing.” The Post also calls on
Congress to “take decisive action to impose sanctions on those responsible
– including, if the available evidence points to him, Mohammed bin Salman –
and reshape U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia.”

        *“The Trump Administration Again Tries To Sabotage The Obamacare
Model.” *In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(10/30) writes that while the Administration’s plan to “give states far
more flexibility in regulating health-insurance markets within their
borders” may sound “like a good thing,” it would undermine the mechanisms
within the Affordable Care Act “to get people with preexisting conditions
onto the comprehensive plans they need.” The ACA “provides a path for
nearly everyone to have comprehensive coverage, which should be a minimal
standard. ... Republicans should stop trying to push in the opposite
direction.”

        *“Vote ‘No’ On Maryland’s Question 1.” *The Washington Post
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(10/30) editorializes that the “most basic job of state elected officials
is to set priorities, including budgetary ones. Yet Maryland’s state
lawmakers, plus Gov. Larry Hogan, are supporting a constitutional amendment
— which voters will accept or reject at the polls by Tuesday — that would
strip them of that responsibility.” Question 1, the Post argues, “supplants
common sense with sloganeering and would allow funding for public schools
to trump any competing priority, including health care, public safety and
transportation, all areas where state dollars are critical. That’s a bad
idea; Marylanders should vote ‘no’ on Question 1.”

        *Tumulty: Current Gubernatorial Races Could Have Longest-Lasting
Consequences. *Karen Tumulty writes in the Washington Post
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(10/30) that despite the attention being paid to the battle for control of
Congress, “the fights that may have longer-lasting implications for the
balance of power in this country are the ones being waged in the 36 states
where gubernatorial contests are topping the ballot.” According to the Cook
Political Report a dozen of the races are toss-ups. Of those, 10 “are in
states where the governorship is held by Republicans, and eight of those
are in states Trump won in 2016.” Democrats “expect to make net gains next
Tuesday” in part because Republicans “hold 33 governorships and are
defending a record 26 of them.” Democrats are trying to “rebuild their
party nationally, this year’s gubernatorial contests are likely to produce
some of the key players who will help them do that.”

        *McKibben: Big Oil Spending On Ballot Measures Belies Climate
Pledges. *Bill McKibben, founder of the group 350.org, writes in the Washington
Post
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(10/30) that “in the wake of the devastating new climate report — and of
devastating hurricanes, droughts and floods — the oil industry has been
making a few small noises about how it might want to change its course.”
McKibben says the “apparent concessions turn out to be green wash and hooey
— all the proof you need can be found in the spending reports on some of
the most important ballot measures around the country.” In Washington
state, for example, he says Measure 1631 “offers one of the first serious
plans for a price on carbon,” but “BP alone has spent close to $13 million
to beat the measure; the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers
association, of which Exxon is a member, is kicking in $1 million.”

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