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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*Wednesday, November 7, 2018 8:00 AM EST*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Reuters/Ipsos Poll: Biden Leads Field Of Potential 2020 Democratic
Hopefuls. <#S1>

• Biden: “I Guarantee” Trump Will Challenge Election’s Legitimacy If GOP
Has Bad Day. <#S2>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump Touts “Tremendous Success” As Democrats Win House, GOP Strong In
Senate. <#S3>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Kremlin: Putin And Trump To Meet Briefly In Paris. <#S4>

• Erdogan Says Turkey Will Ignore US Sanctions On Iran. <#S5>

• Turkey Says It Has More Evidence To Release In Khashoggi Case. <#S6>

• Pompeo’s Meeting With North Korean Counterpart Delayed. <#S7>

• China Defends Mandatory Camps For Ethnic Muslims. <#S8>

• Body Of Utah Mayor Killed In Afghanistan Returned To US. <#S9>

• Taliban Overruns Afghan Security Bases, Killing “Dozens” Of Soldiers And
Police Officers. <#S10>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Too Close To Call: Senate Races In AZ, FL, MT; Gubernatorial Races In CT,
GA. <#S11>

• Trump Expected To Shift Political Focus To Reelection Campaign. <#S12>

• Fox News Says Hannity And Pirro Should Not Have Appeared Onstage With
Trump. <#S13>

• US Troops Laying Razor Wire At Border Crossings. <#S14>

• Kavanaugh Could Hold Key Vote In Death Penalty Case. <#S15>

• Stone Attorney Testified Before Mueller Grand Jury. <#S16>

• Farrakhan Leads “Death To America,” “Death To Israel” Chants In Iran.
<#S17>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• Women Who Wake Up Early May Have Lower Likelihood Of Developing Breast
Cancer, Research Indicates. <#S18>

• Brain Cancer Risk Tied To Brain Size, Study Indicates. <#S19>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S20>

• Washington Post. <#S21>
Biden in the News
Reuters/Ipsos Poll: Biden Leads Field Of Potential 2020 Democratic Hopefuls.

Reuters
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(11/7, Gibson, Chiacu) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden leads a
field of potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, according to “a
Reuters/Ipsos Election Day opinion poll.” The survey, which “was conducted
online on Tuesday and based on responses from 38,196 people who voted in 37
states,” shows Biden leading with 29%, followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders
(I-VT) at 22%. Reuters says, “The rest of the poll was tied between” Sens.
Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kamala Harris (D-CA), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). In
addition, the poll found Biden “scored best in a hypothetical matchup”
against President Trump, leading the Republican 51%-39%.

        Under the headline “Next Up? Starting Gun Sounds On 2020 White
House Race,” Reuters
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(11/7, Whitesides) reports that “Biden and a gaggle of senators, governors,
mayors and” other Democrats “have been jockeying for months to line up
donors and evaluate their shot at the party’s nomination.” The report
mentions that Biden “was the early leader for the Democrats in [the]
Reuters/Ipsos Election Day opinion poll at 29 percent.”

        *Biden Says He’s Yet To Decide Whether He’ll Seek To Take On Trump.
*In an online article, CNN
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(11/6, Saenz) reported that Biden, speaking on Tuesday with reporters after
casting his vote in Delaware, said that “he still doesn’t know if he’ll run
for president in 2020, but that he’ll be making a decision early next year.
Biden said he would make a decision with his family after the first of the
year, but he won’t necessarily make a formal announcement by then.” Said
Biden, “I wouldn’t announce even if I were going to run that early. It
would be too early to get started.”

        The Hill
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(11/6, Daugherty) reported that Biden said “he hasn’t yet decided about
challenging President Trump in 2020. ‘I don’t know. I don’t know and I
still don’t know,’” Biden told reporters. Politico
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(11/6, Choi) reported that Biden “said he would make the decision after
Jan. 1 with his family. He wouldn’t announce publicly until later, though
he wouldn’t say when exactly that would be. ‘Oh, I don’t know. It would
depend on the circumstances,’ Biden said when asked when he would make the
announcement. ‘And a whole lot of things.’”

        *Politico Highlights Large Field Of Potential 2020 Democrats. *
Politico
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(11/7, Griffiths) reports that it has “categorized the possible Democratic
presidential candidates into six groups: The Senators list carries Kamala
Harris and Bernie Sanders. The House Members include Tulsi Gabbard, Joe
Kennedy and Beto O’Rourke. The Governors list is anchored by Andrew Cuomo,
Deval Patrick. The Obama Alums include Joe Biden, Eric Holder and others as
potential 2020 presidential candidates. Finally, The Outsiders like Michael
Avenatti and Oprah could reshape the road to 2020.” Politico, which
provides brief assessments of the various candidates, says of Biden, “2020
status: He visited every early state, amid a bevy of midterm stumping.
While the Kavanaugh confirmation has faded from view, Biden may still face
questions over his handling of Justice Clarence Thomas’ confirmation
hearings and his treatment of Anita Hill.”
Biden: “I Guarantee” Trump Will Challenge Election’s Legitimacy If GOP Has
Bad Day.

The Hill
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(11/6, Samuels) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday
“expressed certainty that President Trump would question the legitimacy of
the results if Republicans falter in Tuesday’s midterm elections. ‘I
guarantee he’ll challenge the legitimacy of the vote,’ Biden said with a
laugh when asked about the possibility after casting his ballot in
Delaware.” Biden added, “You know, he’s still looking for that million
crowd that was there for his inauguration, for God’s sake. He’s an
interesting guy.”

        On its website, Newsweek
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(11/6, Price) further quoted Biden as saying, “You know, look, this is all
about choosing hope over fear. This is about choosing our friends over our
enemies overseas. This is about choosing truth over falsehood. It really
is. This is pretty basic stuff.” The Washington Post
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(11/6, Wagner) quotes Biden as saying, “This is the single most important
off-year election in my lifetime. It’s about the character of the country.”
In an online article, NBC News
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(11/6, Welker, Memoli) quoted Biden as saying, “I’ll be dumbfounded if we
lose the House, dumbfounded. I think we’ll pick up to six governor seats in
critical states in the upper Midwest and out west.” Biden added, “I still
think there’s a shot of us winning the Senate.” Breitbart
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(11/6, Caplan) provided a “partial transcript” of Biden’s remarks to
reporters.

        *Photo Of Biden Emerging From Voting Booth Inspires Memes. *On its
website, TIME
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(11/6, Hoffman) reported, “A photo of Joe Biden emerging from a voting
booth in the 2018 midterm elections has become a flash point for online
fun.” He was photographed on Tuesday “coming out of a booth at a polling
place near his home in Wilmington, Del.” Shortly afterward, “Reddit got its
hands on the photo, and the site’s collective imagination ran wild. ...
Soon enough, [Biden] was flying around in a Batman costume, roaring onstage
for a one-man-show and coming out of his enchanted tree in a magical
forest.”
Leading the News
Trump Touts “Tremendous Success” As Democrats Win House, GOP Strong In
Senate.

Immediate analyses of Tuesday’s elections portrayed the split result
between the House and Senate that had been expected, but with greater
intensity in both chambers than many had predicted. Democrats won House
control with an expected gain of about 35 seats, and Republicans winning at
least 51 Senate seats with contests in Arizona, Florida, and Montana too
close to call and the Mississippi special election going to a runoff.
Analyses also look at what Democratic control of powerful House committees
will mean in terms of investigations of the President and his
Administration.

        The AP
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(11/7) reports that according to a spokesman for House Minority Leader
Pelosi, who is expected to return to the speaker’s chair, President Trump
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(11/7) that the White House has not “talked too much about content. We do
know from Nancy Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff that the President
congratulated her on the win and appreciated her tone of bipartisanship.”
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said that the President also
called Senate Majority Leader McConnell.

        The President tweeted final endorsements of several GOP candidates
on Tuesday, but did not tweet about the results until 11:14 p.m., when he
wrote
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“Tremendous success tonight. Thank you to all!” At 1:27 a.m. Wednesday, he
tweeted
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a comment from conservative commentator Ben Stein: “There’s only been 5
times in the last 105 years that an incumbent President has won seats in
the Senate in the off year election. Mr. Trump has magic about him. This
guy has magic coming out of his ears. He is an astonishing vote getter &
campaigner.” The President then tweeted
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this from Fox Business’ David Asman: “How do the Democrats respond to this?
Think of how his position with Republicans improves – all the candidates
who won tonight. They realize how important he is because of what he did in
campaigning for them. They owe him their political career.” Trump added,
“Thanks, I agree!”

        Jill Lawrence and David Mastio of USA Today
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(11/7) write that the election brought “bragging rights for everybody and
nobody,” while Aaron Blake of the Washington Post
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(11/7) says both Pelosi and McConnell were “winners.” Matt Yglesias of Vox
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(11/6) adds Trump to that list, writing that “Trump’s personal focus during
the closing months of the campaign was on defeating incumbent Democratic
senators, and he pulled it off in an unprecedented way.” However, Politico
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(11/7, Morin) reports that the President’s endorsements brought a “mixed
bag of results. ... All told, his record of endorsements on Tuesday was
48-30, with a handful of elections still too close to call.”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(11/6, Barabak) reports, “Riding a wave of discontent that drew hordes of
first-time voters, Democrats picked up House seats in blue states, red and
purple ones. ... The Senate presented a contrasting picture, reflecting the
different political battlefields – mostly rural versus mostly urban – of
Tuesday’s congressional contests.” USA Today
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(11/6, Groppe) reports, “It was the first time since the nation started
directly electing senators in 1914 that a party has won control of the
House without gaining seats in the Senate.” The Washington Post
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(11/6, Viebeck) reports, “In victory, Democrats regained some of the
confidence – although less of the power – they lost in 2016. ... They were
helped by an inadvertent spokesman: Trump himself. The first two chaotic
years of his administration – marked by staff turnover, a torrent of
falsehoods, and insults toward immigrants, U.S. allies and the news media –
unified a Democratic Party that had fractured between center and left. The
result was a huge increase in turnout, in part from voters who had never
voted before.”

        Bloomberg News
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(11/6, McCormick, Niquette) reports that Democrats, “riding a wave of voter
anger and discontent” with the President, took the House in a win that
could “dramatically alter his next two years in office and make a deeply
divided nation even more difficult to govern.” Republicans “retained
control of the Senate,” and the Washington Examiner
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(11/6, Drucker) reports that Democratic “dreams” of taking the upper
chamber “died when North Dakota and Texas were called for the GOP.” White
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(11/6), “The President spent the last week campaigning heavily for Senate
candidates and we are seeing that pay off, certainly in places like
Indiana, Tennessee, Texas, all places that the President came in, helped
closest the deal.” The Washington Times
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(11/6, Dinan, McLaughlin) reports that Democrats also “netted major
governorships in Illinois, Michigan and Kansas.”

        The New York Times
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(11/6, Martin, Burns) reports, “Rural voters were breaking sharply with
their counterparts in the suburban districts and metropolitan areas, as
turnout soared in a midterm election that came to serve as a national
referendum on the president.” While Trump “came away with several marquee
victories for Senate and governor...in parts of the country with many
college-educated white voters, some of whom supported Mr. Trump in 2016,
his style of leadership and his singular focus on immigration in the last
weeks of the campaign contributed to Republican House losses.”

        Dan Balz writes in a front-page Washington Post
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(11/6) analysis, “The deep divisions that have defined American politics in
the era of President Trump played out across the country in Tuesday’s
midterm elections.” The Democratic victory in the House represents “a
pulling back from the president by key parts of the electorate, and it
could have a significant effect on the second half of Trump’s first term,
particularly in Washington. But the overall voting patterns in both House
and Senate contests...signaled that the differences and divisions that have
defined the country during Trump’s presidency remain and seemingly are
growing stronger.”

        NBC’s Jonathan Allen tweeted
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“The governors of the key states in Trump’s electoral coalition –
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan – will all be Democrats in 2020.
That’s not entirely or necessarily a reaction to Trump. Lots of factors.
But it should concern his political team.” Cameron Joseph of Talking Points
Memo similarly tweeted
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“You can’t directly extrapolate from midterm to prez. But Dems’ silver
lining this evening in statewides came in the three states that handed
Trump the White House: MI, WI & PA.”

        NBC’s Benjy Sarlin tweeted
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“Yes, Florida. But Scott Walker and Kris Kobach occupy unique spots in
political mythology. You can argue Walker did more to grease the runway for
Trump than anyone not named Mitch McConnell. Those are gigantic losses for
R’s if numbers hold.” FiveThirtyEight’s Nathaniel Rakich tweeted
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about the unexpected Democratic win in SC1, about which NPR’s Jessica
Taylor tweeted
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“Huge. Democrats appear to have flipped Sanford’s seat after he lost his
primary because of being anti-Trump.” The Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey
tweeted
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“Was it really a ‘tremendous success’ for Trump? He did well in
conservative bastions & kept Senate. But he hardly expanded coalition.”

        Some analyses also examined what the Democratic House win means for
the President, particularly in term of House investigations. Reuters
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(11/6, Whitesides) reports, “With a House majority, Democrats will have the
power to investigate Trump’s tax returns and possible conflicts of
interest, and challenge his overtures to Saudi Arabia, Russia and North
Korea.” The Washington Times
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(11/7, Dinan) reports that Democrats are also likely to use oversight
authority to probe the deployment of troops to the US-Mexico border,
Trump’s decision to keep the FBI headquarters near Trump International
Hotel, Administration policy on the Affordable Care Act, and more. The
Washington
Post
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(11/6, Sullivan) reports that with their Senate wins, Republicans
“positioned themselves for a more conservative majority,” which “held
implications for coming battles over the federal judiciary, trade, health
care, government spending and immigration,” and “also held significance for
Trump himself. His administration could face an onslaught of investigations
beginning next year.”

        Jake Tapper said on CNN
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(11/6) that Trump “will now have a body of government that the opposes him,
that has subpoena power, that has oversight responsibilities, that is going
to conduct investigations of his Administration, of him that’s potentially
going to try to get his tax returns. The House of Representatives is going
to be a major thorn in President Trump’s side going forward.” Nicolle
Wallace said on MSNBC
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(11/6), “We will now have the ability for at least one chamber of Congress
to get the answer to questions that the Trump White House has been
unwilling to answer, that every other White House has had to answer for.”
Jim Acosta said on CNN
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(11/7) that when he pressed Kellyanne Conway on what the President will do
if Democratic House committee chairs seek his tax returns, she said, “I
guess they could try.” Acosta added, “They’re going do more than just try.
They’re going to push this White House, and it could cause a very big clash
between two big branches of government.”

        Mary Bruce said on ABC
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(11/6) that House Democrats “are going to investigate everything,
essentially. They are not afraid to go and check this Administration.”
Rebecca Ballhaus of the Wall Street Journal tweeted
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“The Democratic takeover of the House will usher in a new era of
investigations into the Trump administration. Party leaders haven’t ruled
out impeachment and have said they will seek his tax returns and business
records.”

        The Week
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(11/7) reports that in her comments Tuesday night, Pelosi “stressed ‘we
have all had enough of division,’ and vowed to seek ‘unity’ and “bipartisan
conversations” in the chamber. She notably did not mention impeachment,
although it has been on the minds of some members of her party.” Politico
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(11/7, Boudreau) reports that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who is poised to
become chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said the committee
will resume its “duty to conduct oversight of the Trump administration – a
job he said the GOP ‘completely abdicated.’ ... Schiff has been one of the
most prominent critics of GOP-led probes into Russian meddling in the 2016
election and allegations of Trump campaign collusion with the Kremlin.” USA
Today
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(11/7, Jackson, Fritze) reports, “During the campaign, Democratic leaders
signaled they would investigate Trump’s relationship with Russia during the
2016 election, subpoena the tax returns he has refused to disclose and
probe any number of administration actions.” Preet Bharara tweeted
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018110701biden&r=email-4382&l=031-f43&t=c>,
“Welcome Chairman @RepAdamSchiff”.

        The Wall Street Journal
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(11/6, Hook) headlines its front-page report “Midterm Results Point To A
Split Congress,” and says that views of the President were a significant
factor. Politico
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(11/6, Siders) reports, “Though the president’s party has historically
suffered midterm election losses – as Obama-era Democrats did in 2010 – the
results on Tuesday are likely to reshape the political landscape for
years.” However, the Daily Caller
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(11/6, Athey) reports that early in the evening, both CNN’s Jake Tapper and
MSNBC commentator James Carville said that while the Democrats’ House win
was significant, it did not constitute a wave election.

        Before the polls closed, the three broadcast networks devoted
significant time on their evening newscasts to coverage of turnout and the
results of exit polls. David Muir reported on ABC World News Tonight[image:
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(11/6, lead story, 5:40) that there was “massive turnout coast to coast.
... The first exit polls just in, and these are preliminary results
tonight. Voters were asked, do you approve of the job President Trump is
doing? Forty-four percent said they approve, 55 percent said they
disapprove. Did they vote today to send the President a message? Here’s
what they said: 26 percent said they voted to show their support, 38
percent said they voted to show their opposition to the President. And 33
percent said the President did not figure into their vote.” Anthony Mason
reported on the CBS Evening News
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(11/6, lead story, 1:55), “The top issue among voters across the country is
healthcare. It’s the issue Democrats campaigned on, and 41 percent of
voters in our exit poll ranked it first. Immigration, which the President
campaigned on, a distant second. And the economy – surprising, perhaps – a
distant third.”

        On ABC World News Tonight
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(11/6, story 2, 1:40, Muir), Jonathan Karl reported that the President
“campaigned hard, and...is back at the White House, waiting for returns. He
has said he has no idea how it’s all going to turn out.” NBC Nightly
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(11/6, story 6, 0:55, Holt) reported, “Trump has been crisscrossing the
country in the closing days of this election, in effect trying to put
himself on the ballot, telling voters in fact that casting a ballot for his
preferred candidate is like casting a ballot for him.” The CBS Evening
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(11/6, story 3, 1:05, Glor) reported, “President Trump is not on the ballot
this year, but nearly two out of three voters told us he was a factor,
positive or negative, in their choice of a House candidate today.”

        *NYTimes Analysis: GOP Now Fully “The Party Of Trump.” *In a New
York Times
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(11/6) analysis headlined “Two Years And Hundreds Of Inflammatory Ads
Later, The G.O.P. Is The Party Of Trump,” Sheryl Gay Stolberg writes that
the “playbook” that the GOP adopted after the 2012 election, to appeal to
non-white and gay voters as well as the party’s base, “is gone, burned and
buried, and it is not going to be easy to retrieve it from the dump. ...
The dark politics of anger, division and fear were on display in campaigns
across the country this year, as Republican candidates for Congress and
governor – and fringe groups who support them – embraced the racially
inflammatory brand of politics that Mr. Trump unleashed in 2016.” Princeton
historian Julian Zelizer said, “He’s tapped into something really powerful
and really ugly in the American electorate, and it’s going to be hard to
put that back into the bottle.”

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(11/6), “Not only will President Trump have an increased majority in the
Senate, but the Republicans in that increase majority are going to be much
more on his team. ... It will be a much Trumpier Senate.” Steve Schmidt
said on MSNBC
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(11/6), “The Republican Party won’t be chastened, it will be emboldened.
The Republicans that have lost, the lesson that will be taken from this
election is they were lost because they didn’t embrace Trumpism fully.”
Gerald Seib writes in the Wall Street Journal
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(11/6, Seib) that Trump managed to avoid disaster and though his party lost
the House, he gained allies in the Senate and also will be able to blame
the Democratic House for future failures.

        *WPost Analysis: Conservatives Concerned Trump May “Cut Deals” With
Democrats. *Robert Costa of the Washington Post
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(11/6) writes that “conservatives who have learned to love [Trump] could
emerge from Tuesday’s election anxious that he might now leave them in the
cold to cut deals with newly empowered congressional Democrats.” With “an
array of hot-button issues that are top priorities for conservatives” on
the agenda, including immigration and healthcare reform, raising the debt
ceiling, and negotiating the next federal budget, movement leaders fear
“the potential for a conservative reckoning.” Conservative activist Ed
Rollins, who leads the Great America super PAC, said, “He has carried the
ball as effectively as anybody for the right, but the reality is, there is
not a deep philosophical bent there. He’s always been about getting what
you can get.”

        *WPost Hails Democrats’ House Victory. *A Washington Post
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(11/7) editorial calls the Democrats “return to control over the House of
Representatives...a sign of health for American democracy.” The Post says
Republican majorities in the House and Senate have “failed to exercise
reasonable oversight,” and “now the constitutional system has a fresh
chance to work as intended.” The Post adds that the Democrats’ win is “a
sign of political health, to the extent it is a form of pushback against
the excesses, rhetorical and in terms of policy, committed by the Trump
administration and propounded by President Trump during this fall’s
campaign.”

        *WSJournal: Court-Ordered Pennsylvania Redistricting Boosted
Democrats. *The Wall Street Journal
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(11/6) says in an editorial that Democrats are indebted to the
Pennsylvania’s liberal Supreme Court for redrawing the state’s House
districts in defiance of the US Constitution’s granting that authority to
the GOP state legislature.
Foreign Policy
Kremlin: Putin And Trump To Meet Briefly In Paris.

Reuters
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(11/6) reports Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday that Russian
President Vladimir Putin and President Trump will meet briefly next week in
Paris, a day after “Trump said...he was not sure he would meet with Putin”
in the French capital. In Washington on Tuesday, US officials also “said
Trump was likely to have a brief meeting with Putin, but that a proper
bilateral meeting would be held at the summit of the Group of 20 nations in
Argentina at the end of the month.”

        The Hill
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(11/6, Bowden) reports that prior to Trump’s comments on Monday, the
President had been expected to meet with Putin in Paris. National Security
Adviser Bolton “last month raised the prospect of a November meeting
between the two leaders after speaking with Putin.” Breitbart
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(11/6, Hayward) reports that “Bolton said Putin suggested meeting with
Trump in Paris for the first time since their Helsinki summit in July.
Bolton replied that President Trump would ‘look forward’ to such a
meeting.”

        *US To Impose Additional Sanctions Against Russia Over Chemical
Weapons Use. *Reuters
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(11/6, Zengerle, Wroughton) reports the State Department “said on Tuesday
it would impose additional sanctions on Russia after Moscow failed to give
reasonable assurances” that it was in compliance with the 1991 Chemical and
Biological Weapons and Warfare Elimination Act. Under the law, “Russia had
to end the use of the nerve agent Novichok, which was used in the poisoning
of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March, commit to not using
chemical weapons against its own people, and allow on-site inspections by
agencies like the United Nations.” In August, the State Department “had
threatened Russia with added sanctions after 90 days unless it complied.”
In a statement Tuesday, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert
confirmed that “the department informed Congress we could not certify that
the Russian Federation met” those conditions.

        *Belarusian President Warns Against US Base In Poland. *The AP
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(11/6) reports Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday “warned
his nation would have to beef up its weapons arsenals if the United States
sets up a military base in Poland.” Lukashenko said Poland’s proposal to
host a US military base would compel Belarus to commission new missiles,
although “he also reaffirmed that Belarus doesn’t need a Russian military
base.” According to the AP, Lukashenko “has maintained close political,
economic and military ties with Moscow,” and his country “relies on cheap
Russian oil and billions of dollars in loans to keep its Soviet-style
economy afloat.”
Erdogan Says Turkey Will Ignore US Sanctions On Iran.

Reuters
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(11/6, Solaker) reports Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said
Turkey “would not abide by the renewed U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil and
shipping industries as they were aimed at ‘unbalancing the world.’” Said
Erdogan, “We don’t want to live in an imperialist world. ... We will
absolutely not abide by such sanctions. We buy 10 billion cubic meters of
natural gas. We cannot freeze our people in the cold.” According to
Reuters, “NATO member Turkey depends heavily on imports to meet its energy
needs and neighboring Iran has been one of its main suppliers of oil
because of its proximity, the quality of its crude and favorable price
differentials.” The Wall Street Journal
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(11/6, Gauthier-Villars) says Erdogan’s defiant tone could complicate
Turkey’s recent attempts to defuse tension with the US. Despite Erdogan’s
call to disregard the US sanctions, Turkish business leaders are divided on
whether to heed the US warning or pursue lucrative deals with Tehran.

        *Oil Prices Fall After US Grants Iranian Oil-Import Waivers To
Eight Countries. *Reuters
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(11/6, Kelly) reports that “oil prices fell on Tuesday, with U.S. crude
futures sliding to an eight-month low, a day after Washington granted
sanction waivers to top buyers of Iranian oil and as Iran said it had so
far been able to sell as much oil as it needs to sell.” Treasury Secretary
Mnuchin said the Administration “aimed to bring Iranian oil exports to
zero, but 180-day exemptions were granted to eight importers: China, India,
South Korea, Japan, Italy, Greece, Taiwan and Turkey.” According to
Reuters, “This group takes as much as three-quarters of Iran’s seaborne oil
exports, trade data shows, meaning the Islamic Republic will still be
allowed to export some oil for now.”

        The AP
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(11/6, Kim) reports that “Japan, South Korea and other major oil importers
welcomed Tuesday the decision by the Trump administration to let them
continue to import Iranian crude oil and other petroleum products despite
the re-imposition of sanctions on Tehran.” The AP says China, “which said
it regretted the U.S. rejection of the deal with Iran, is the
single-largest importer of crude oil, at about 9 million barrels a day, and
also of Iranian oil, so cutting off all shipments could have jolted global
markets.”

        Reuters
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(11/6, Gloystein, Lawler) reports that in Iran, meanwhile, “crude exports
have fallen significantly from at least 2.5 million bpd in April, before
Trump in May withdrew the United States from a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran
and reimposed sanctions.” According to Reuters, “Iran’s oil exports in
November may not exceed 1 million to 1.5 million bpd, according to industry
estimates.” Reuters
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(11/6, Rasheed, Davison) notes that Iraq, “OPEC’s second-largest producer,
is targeting production capacity of 5 million barrels per day (bpd) in
2019, with average exports expected to reach around 3.8 million bpd.”

        *Tehran Defiant As Russia Decries Reimposed Sanctions On Iran. *
Reuters
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(11/6, Dehghanpisheh, Sharafedin, Devitt) reports Iranian Vice President
Eshaq Jahangiri “said on Tuesday it had so far been able to sell as much
oil as it needs despite U.S. pressure,” but he “urged European countries
opposed to U.S. sanctions to do more to shield Iran.” Tasnim news agency
quoted Jahangiri as saying, “The Americans constantly said they would
reduce the sale of Iran’s oil to zero but I have to say that, so far, we
have been able to sell our required amounts of oil.” He added, “The
Americans, with the help of propaganda, don’t see the realities.”

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(11/6, Karimi, Gambrell) reports Iranian “Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad
Zarif took to Twitter to mock some of the targets of the sanctions,
describing it as a ‘desperate’ psychological ploy.” He wrote, “The U.S.
designated a bank that was closed 6 years ago, and a ship that sank . in a
widely televised saga.” Later Tuesday, Zarif “issued an online video
criticizing America’s ‘indiscriminate assault’ on his country” and urging
the US “to re-examine its ‘catastrophes’ in the Mideast, including its
support for Saudi Arabia and Israel.” In “Russia’s first reaction to
Washington’s new list of sanctions against Iran,” Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday “said the U.S. decision to re-impose sanctions on
Iran was ‘not legitimate’ and that the rest of the parties to the 2015
nuclear deal abandoned by Washington are working to make economic
cooperation with Tehran possible.”

        *Pompeo Grants Sanctions Waiver For Iranian Port Development
Intended To Boost Afghan Economy. *Reuters
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(11/6, Landay) reports Secretary of State Pompeo “has granted an exception
to certain U.S. sanctions that will allow the India-led development of a
port in Iran as part of a new transportation corridor designed to boost
Afghanistan’s economy, a State Department spokesman said on Tuesday.” The
exception “also will permit the construction of a railway line from
Chabahar port to Afghanistan,” a project that “aims to further U.S. ties
with Afghanistan and India ‘as we execute a policy of maximum pressure to
change the Iranian regime’s destabilizing policies in the region and
beyond,’ the State Department spokesman said.” Under the exemption,
Afghanistan will “be allowed to continue importing Iranian petroleum
products,” and “shipments to the war-torn country of non-sanctionable
goods, like food and medicines,” will be permitted as well.

        *Saudi Arabia Begins Reactor Construction, Raising Fears Of Nuclear
Race With Iran. *The Washington Times
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(11/6, Taylor) reports Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “partook in a
ceremony Monday to mark the opening of construction in Riyadh” for the
nation’s first nuclear research reactor, “a facility that could be used
education and medical purposes – or for atomic weapons research.” The move
has “prompt[ed] fresh concern Riyadh will soon seek to develop nuclear
weapons if Iran restarts its own weapons program amid Washington’s
reimposition of sanctions and withdrawal from the 2015 Iranian nuclear
deal.” The Times explains that “the ceremony’s timing, on the same day the
Trump administration reimposed sweeping sanctions on Iran, suggests Riyadh
sought to send a message that it is prepared for a potential nuclear arms
race.”
Turkey Says It Has More Evidence To Release In Khashoggi Case.

The Washington Post
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(11/6, Morris) reports that Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on
Tuesday said Ankara “has ‘certain evidence’ in relation to the killing
of...Khashoggi that it has not released to the public, and it will do so
once its investigation concludes.” Some of that “evidence has been shared
with Saudi authorities and other countries that wanted to examine it, the
foreign minister said during a trip to Japan, according to the state-run
Anadolu news agency.” While “Cavusoglu reiterated that Turkey has not
concluded that King Salman of Saudi Arabia ordered the killing,” he “said
it is the responsibility of Saudi authorities to find out what has happened
to Khashoggi’s body, as the 15-member hit team that Turkey says was sent to
Istanbul to kill him is back in Saudi Arabia.”

        A New York Times
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(11/6, Gall) analysis says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “has kept
the case of Jamal Khashoggi alive through a steady drip of leaks, forcing
the Saudis to admit that the columnist and dissident was killed more than a
month ago in their consulate in Istanbul.” To the Times, “Erdogan’s use of
the case in the name of justice has left many deeply conflicted in Turkey,
a country where tens of thousands of citizens have been caught up in a
government crackdown since a coup attempt in 2016.” According to the Times,
“The tactics Mr. Erdogan has used against the Saudis are much the same ones
he has perfected against political enemies at home – leaks planted by
government sources and reported by friendly news outlets, which he then
cites to destroy his opponents.”
Pompeo’s Meeting With North Korean Counterpart Delayed.

The AP
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(11/7) reports Secretary Pompeo’s planned meeting in New York on Thursday
with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Yong Chol, “has been delayed,
throwing already deadlocked diplomacy over the North’s nuclear weapons into
further uncertainty.” In a brief statement Wednesday, the State Department
said “the officials would meet later ‘when our respective schedules
permit.’” The State Department “offered no reason, and the North’s
propaganda services has not mentioned the meeting.” The South Korean
presidential office “said the government will later announce its stance
over the postponed meeting.”

        Bloomberg News
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(11/7, Lee) calls the postponement “a new sign of tension as the regime
seeks sanctions relief before taking key disarmament steps.” The meeting
“was expected to be the first between Trump’s special North Korean envoy,
Stephen Biegun, and his counterpart, Choe Son Hui,” who “hasn’t
participated in working level talks, despite being appointed more than two
months ago.” Meanwhile, the website 38 North published a satellite imagery
analysis suggesting “that North Korea was continuing uranium mining and
milling operations at one of the country’s largest declared uranium ore
concentrate facilities.” The analysis comes after North Korean leader Kim
Jong Un “offered an unusually direct criticism of sanctions last week,
saying the ‘vicious’ measures stood in the way of the country’s development
and that he wouldn’t be forced into ‘change and submission.’”

        A Wall Street Journal
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(11/6, Jeong) analysis says with both the US and North Korea hardening
their positions ahead of Pompeo’s now-delayed meeting, security analysts
and US officials are growing more skeptical about the prospect of a
compromise and whether North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is sincere in his
pledge to denuclearize. Still, both sides appear eager for a second summit
between President Trump and Kim, signaling to the Journal that the overall
dialogue will continue, even if Pompeo’s talks this week make little
headway.
China Defends Mandatory Camps For Ethnic Muslims.

The AP
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(11/6, Keaten, Wang) reports that the Chinese government has “once again
rejected criticism of its treatment of ethnic Muslims, telling the United
Nations that accusations of rights abuses from some countries were
‘politically driven.’” According to the AP, “At a U.N. review of the
country’s human rights record, China characterized the far west region of
Xinjiang as a former hotbed of extremism that has been stabilized through
‘training centers’ which help people gain employable skills.” The AP says
former detainees, “on the other hand, have described the facilities as
political indoctrination camps where ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs and other
Muslim minorities are forced to renounce their faith and swear loyalty to
the ruling Communist Party.”
Body Of Utah Mayor Killed In Afghanistan Returned To US.

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(11/6, story 11, 0:25, Glor) reported, “The body of Army National Guard
member Major Brent Taylor returned to US soil overnight.” Taylor, the mayor
of North Ogden, Utah and the father of seven, was killed in Afghanistan “by
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(11/6, story 6, 1:55, Muir) similarly mentioned that Taylor was “killed in
an insider attack.” He is “one of nearly 2,300 Americans killed in
Afghanistan.”
Taliban Overruns Afghan Security Bases, Killing “Dozens” Of Soldiers And
Police Officers.

The New York Times
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(11/6, Abed, Nordland) reports that “dozens of soldiers and police officers
were killed or captured in nine Taliban attacks that overran security bases
and outposts in different parts of Afghanistan during a 24-hour period that
ended on Tuesday.” The Times says that “in perhaps the most severe blow,
insurgents captured battalion headquarters of the Afghan Border Force in
Farah Province, in western Afghanistan, killing or taking prisoner nearly
the entire contingent of officers, with as many as 20 dead. In Kandahar
Province, in the south, three separate attacks killed a total of 17 police
officers. And in Ghazni, a central province, a joint military and police
outpost fell only two days after it had been set up, with all 16 security
officials there killed or wounded.”
Domestic Policy
Too Close To Call: Senate Races In AZ, FL, MT; Gubernatorial Races In CT,
GA.

Several competitive races remain too close to call this morning.
Republicans will have at least 51 Senate seats, while Democrats will have
at least 45. Democratic Senate incumbents in Florida
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and Montana
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are in races that are too close to call, and the GOP-held open seat race in
Arizona
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also remains too close to call. As of 5:00 a.m. Wednesday, Republicans had
narrow leads in all three races. The Arizona Republic
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(11/7, Sanchez) reports that the result there “may not be known for days –
and maybe longer, if the final tally were to trigger a recount or legal
challenge.” The Orlando Sentinel
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(11/7, Lemongello) reports that Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) conceded to his
rival, Gov. Rick Scott, “even though his campaign raised issues with ballot
counting in several South Florida counties.” The AP
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(11/7) has not called the race and reported that it “might be headed to a
mandatory recount.” The Billings (MT) Gazette
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(11/7) reports that Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) “traded off leads with his
challenger, Republican state Auditor Matt Rosendale, early into Wednesday
morning.”

        The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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(11/7) reports that Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams
refused to concede her race, saying that she expects Republican Brian Kemp
– who had 50.5% of the vote
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as of this morning – to fall below a majority, mandating a runoff. The
Connecticut gubernatorial race is also too close to call. The Hartford (CT)
Courant
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(11/7) reports that Democrat Ned Lamont has a narrow lead
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after trailing throughout the evening.
Trump Expected To Shift Political Focus To Reelection Campaign.

The Washington Post
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(11/6, Dawsey) reports, “President Trump plans to quickly focus on his
reelection campaign following Tuesday’s midterm elections, believing his
brand of divisive and confrontational politics will mobilize his supporters
and carry him to a second term.” Following his “11-rally, six-day campaign
swing through key conservative states, Trump has begun talking about
holding Make America Great Again rallies early next year,” according to two
advisers. However, the Post writes, “It’s an open question whether Trump
can re-create the coalition of voters and swing state victories that
delivered him the White House – particularly on the same hard-line themes
he relied on during the 2016 campaign” and so far as President.

        *Clinton Aide Reines Predicts Trump Reelection. *Politico
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(11/6, Oprysko) reports that Philippe Reines, “a top adviser” to Hillary
Clinton, said on a podcast hosted by National Review’s Jamie Weinstein
“that at this point he would bet on Trump being reelected in 2020. ...
Reines said he thinks Trump would beat out what is sure to be a large field
of Democrats ‘for a lot of reasons. Also because moments in history like
this tend to not get resolved.’” Reines added, “The only two presidents in
the last 85 years that have been denied a second term: Jimmy Carter and
George H.W. Bush.”
Fox News Says Hannity And Pirro Should Not Have Appeared Onstage With Trump.

The AP
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(11/6, Bauder) reports that Fox News said yesterday it has “addressed the
‘unfortunate distraction’ of Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro speaking at
President Trump’s campaign rally in Missouri the night before, and that it
doesn’t condone such behavior.” FNC “did not say what, if any, discipline
that the two network personalities would face.” The AP says that on Monday,
FNC “resisted...when the Trump campaign had advertised to its followers
that Hannity would appear as a ‘special guest’ at the Missouri rally,
saying Hannity was only there to cover the event.” Isaac Stanley-Becker of
the Washington Post
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(11/6, Stanley-Becker) says that in Missouri on Monday night, Hannity
“delivered a lengthy campaign advertisement for the president, and for the
Republican Party, and then joined Trump onstage to recite his achievements
and thank him.” USA Today
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(11/6, Cummings) says “the network did not elaborate on how the matter had
been ‘addressed.’”

        The New York Times
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(11/6, Baker) says “the participation of the Fox hosts in a political rally
struck even executives at the network as inappropriate.” The Times says
Hannity “followed up with his own statement saying that Mr. Trump’s
invitation to come on stage was spontaneous, but the popular conservative
host expressed no regret about accepting. The only thing he lamented was
that some took his onstage attack on the ‘fake news’ at the back of the
room to include his colleagues from Fox who were covering the event.” The
Times goes on to report that “hanging around backstage on Monday night was
Bill Shine, a former Fox co-president now serving as deputy White House
chief of staff in charge of communications.” According to the Times, “As
the rally began, Mr. Shine and Mr. Hannity were spotted giving each other a
high five.”

        The Daily Caller
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(11/6, Athey) recounts that “in a series of tweets shortly after Fox’s
statement was released, Hannity asserted that he was not planning on
joining the rally,” and “clarified that he was not calling any of his
colleagues at Fox ‘fake news’ during his remarks.” The New York Post
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(11/6, Fredericks), among other news outlets, also reports the story.
US Troops Laying Razor Wire At Border Crossings.

The Wall Street Journal
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(11/6, Caldwell) reports US military personnel sent to the southwest US
border as part of Operation Faithful Patriot have begun placing razor wire
at locations along the border. Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Rob Manning
told reporters Monday that US Customs and Border Protection officials have
determined where razor wire was placed.
Kavanaugh Could Hold Key Vote In Death Penalty Case.

The New York Times
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(11/6, Liptak) reports that the Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in
an appeal from Russell Bucklew, “a death row inmate in Missouri with a rare
medical condition that he says will cause excruciating pain if he is put to
death by lethal injection.” This is Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s first death
penalty case, “and there is good reason to think that he holds the crucial
vote.” Five justices voted in March to stay Bucklew’s execution, with
Justice Anthony Kennedy, whom Kavanaugh replaced, joining the majority, and
“the court’s four more conservative justices were in dissent.” The Washington
Post
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(11/6, Barnes) says that as the Court “spent a gruesome hour...debating a
constitutional way to execute” Bucklew, Kavanaugh, “the likely decider,”
joined “the court’s liberals with tough questions for the state.”

        *Ginsburg Writes High Court’s First Opinion Of The Term. *In a
unanimous decision Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled “that the federal law
prohibiting age discrimination in employment applies to state and local
governments, regardless of their size,” the Washington Post
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(11/6, Barnes) reports. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the opinion,
marking “the third straight year Ginsburg authored the court’s first
opinion of the new term.” The case involved language in the Age
Discrimination Employment Act of 1967, which defines “employer” is defined
“as a person or entity with 20 or more employees,” but later says it “also
means” a “state or a political subdivision of a state.” Their was
disagreement among lower courts “about whether that meant any government
unit was covered by the law or only those with 20 or more employees.”
Ginsburg “said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit was correct in
ruling it was the former.”

        *WSJournal Lauds Supreme Court’s Caution In Two Recent Cases. *The Wall
Street Journal
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(11/6) editorializes that for all the concerns that the Supreme Court’s
conservative majority would rewrite laws according to the justices’ policy
preferences, a ruling by the court and questions from justices in oral
arguments this week portend a much more cautious approach by the court than
many expected. In Mount Lemmon Fire District v. Guido, the Court
unanimously ruled on Tuesday that small municipal employers could be sued
under federal law for age discrimination, deeming the meaning of the
federal law clear, and in oral arguments on Monday in Virginia Uranium Inc.
v. Warren, both liberal and conservative justices questioned a challenge to
Virginia’s moratorium on uranium mining, and seemed unwilling to substitute
a policy objective for the text of the law, or to try to deduce legislative
intent.
Stone Attorney Testified Before Mueller Grand Jury.

The Daily Caller
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(11/6, Ross) reports Tyler Nixon, an attorney for Roger Stone, “testified
on Friday before the grand jury being used in Special Counsel Robert
Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, the
lawyer told The Daily Caller News Foundation.” FBI agents contacted Nixon
“for the first time less than two weeks earlier, seeking an interview about
his comments in an Oct. 21 Washington Post article.” In the story, Nixon
was cited saying “he could provide information to Mueller’s grand jury that
would back up Stone’s claim that he learned about WikiLeaks’ plans to
release information on the Clinton campaign through Randy Credico, a
left-wing comedian and radio host.”
Farrakhan Leads “Death To America,” “Death To Israel” Chants In Iran.

The Washington Times
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(11/6, Richardson) reports Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan, who
recently referred to Jews as “termites,” is facing “renewed fire for
leading chants of ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel’ during a
solidarity trip to Iran.” At the University of Tehran law school Sunday,
Farrakhan led an audience “in anti-American and anti-Israeli chanting,
according to Iranian news agencies.” Farrakhan was quickly condemned by
conservatives. Donald Trump Jr. tweeted
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“When will the democrats disavow this guy? Answer: NEVER.” Rabbi Shmuley
Boteach, who is known as “America’s Rabbi,” said this was a “new low for
arch Jew-hater Farrakhan,” and called on former Presidents Obama and
Clinton, “both of whom have appeared with Mr. Farrakhan, to denounce him.”
Cancer Research
Women Who Wake Up Early May Have Lower Likelihood Of Developing Breast
Cancer, Research Indicates.

USA Today
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(11/6, May) reports that research indicates “women who wake up early have a
lower risk of developing breast cancer.” The findings were presented at the
NCRI Cancer Conference. Investigators looked at “data from 180,215 women
enrolled with the UK Biobank project, and 228,951 women who had been part
of a genome-wide association study of breast cancer led by the
international Breast Cancer Association Consortium.” The investigators,
“using a genetic method known as Mendelian randomization...found that women
who prefer mornings have a 40 to 48 percent reduced risk of developing
breast cancer.”

        CNN
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(11/6, Avramova) reports that the researchers also found that “women who
self-reported sleeping more than the average seven to eight hours per
night” had “a slightly increased risk of breast cancer, of 20% per extra
hour slept.”

        Also covering the story are HealthDay
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(11/6, Preidt), the Telegraph (UK)
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(11/6, Knapton), and BBC News Online (UK)
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(11/6).
Brain Cancer Risk Tied To Brain Size, Study Indicates.

HealthDay
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(11/6, Reinberg) reports researchers found that the risk of aggressive
brain cancer increases with the size of the brain, and that women with
large brains may be at greater risk than men with large brains. The findings
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were published in Neuro-Oncology.
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“America Votes (Or Tries To).”* The New York Times
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(11/6) editorializes, “American democracy has had a rough go of it lately,
but there was a lot to celebrate in Tuesday’s midterm elections. ... The
best part was that voters showed up,” with turnout numbers that “blew past
those of recent midterm elections.” However, there were logistical issues
across the country, and in New York, the average wait time to vote “in
parts of the state was three hours.”

        *“The Democrats Won The House. Now What?” *The New York Times
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(11/7, Board) editorializes, “With the House of Representatives in
Democrats’ control, the next two years will give them the opportunity to
show that there’s a better model of legislating.” The Times cautions,
“Given the dismal example set so far by President Trump, Democratic leaders
now have a political opportunity, and also a heavy responsibility. Winning
the House is one thing. Restoring some sanity to American politics and a
sense of higher, common purpose to American governance is yet another.”

        *“A To-Do List For Democrats In Albany.” *The New York Times
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(11/7, Board) editorializes, “Now that New York Democrats have regained
control of the State Senate, while retaining control of the Assembly, they
might want to take a look at how the election went down in New York City.”
The Times outlines the various problems, including long lines, broken
ballot scanners, and bad weather, and says this “dysfunction in what
residents like to think of as the most sophisticated city in the world was
an example of the broader dysfunction of the state’s electoral system.”
Washington Post.

*“A Great Day For Democracy.”* A Washington Post
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(11/7) editorial calls the Democrats “return to control over the House of
Representatives...a sign of health for American democracy.” The Post says
Republican majorities in the House and Senate have “failed to exercise
reasonable oversight,” and “now the constitutional system has a fresh
chance to work as intended.” The Post adds that the Democrats’ win is “a
sign of political health, to the extent it is a form of pushback against
the excesses, rhetorical and in terms of policy, committed by the Trump
administration and propounded by President Trump during this fall’s
campaign.”

        *“The Sane Center Can Hold. Just Look At Virginia And Maryland.” *The
Washington Post
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(11/6) says in an editorial that “voters in the states bracketing the
nation’s capital handed victories to relative moderates of both parties,
repudiating the most partisan and extreme candidates. The results in
Virginia and Maryland were a rebuff to both the Trumpian right and the
Sandersonian left.”

        *“When Government Pump Disinformation Into Their Own Elections.” *In
an editorial, the Washington Post
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(11/6) cites a “Freedom House report on digital authoritarianism” which
“found that global Internet freedom declined for the eighth year in a row
in 2018. In almost half of the countries where freedom declined, the
reductions occurred ahead of elections.” The Post says the report holds
“lessons for democracies, too. Some legislators in the United States and
elsewhere think platforms have failed in fighting misinformation” and they
“want to set rules of their own.” The Post adds that while “there is plenty
of work for tech companies to do before they become responsible stewards of
the public conversation,” the report “should serve as a warning: Government
intervention is often a disease disguised as a cure.”

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