Subject: FW: Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing for Friday, November 16, 2018
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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 09:05:25 -0500

Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*To: Vice President Joe Biden*

*Friday, November 16, 2018 8:00 AM EST*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden Ripped Trump This Week During Private Fundraising Event In
Philadelphia. <#S1>

• Business Insider Highlights Biden-McCain Bipartisan Friendship, Others.
<#S2>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump To Visit With Victims Of California Wildfires This Weekend. <#S3>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Pence: Trump Likely To Meet With Kim Again Next Year. <#S4>

• Putin: Arms Control To Top Agenda For Meeting With Trump. <#S5>

• US Sanctions 17 Saudis Tied To Khashoggi Murder. <#S6>

• Senate Rejects Paul’s Bid To Block Arms Sales To Bahrain. <#S7>

• Ministers Exit May’s Cabinet In Protest Over Her Brexit Deal. <#S8>

• US Official: Chinese Offer Unlikely To Spur Major Trade Breakthrough.
<#S9>

• Pentagon: Troop Cuts In Africa Will Not Affect Counter-Terror Mission.
<#S10>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Trump Leaves Door Open To Government Shutdown Over Wall Funding. <#S11>

• Pentagon: Troop Presence At US-Mexico Border Has “Pretty Much Peaked” At
5,800. <#S12>

• Violence In Tijuana As Caravan Reaches US-Mexico Border. <#S13>

• Trump Slams “Total Witch Hunt” Led By Mueller And “His Gang Of Democrat
Thugs.” <#S14>

• Proposed Criminal Justice Overhaul Hits Senate, DOJ Snags Despite Trump
Endorsement. <#S15>

• Judge Delays Decision On CNN’s Suit Against White House Until Tomorrow.
<#S16>

• Trump Expresses Gratitude To Veterans, Touts Administration Efforts.
<#S17>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• HIV-Positive Hispanics In The US Have Higher Risk Of HPV-Related Cancers
Than General Hispanic Population, Study Suggests. <#S18>

• Cervical Cancer Rates A Significant Threat To Public Health In Haiti.
<#S19>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S20>

• Washington Post. <#S21>
Biden in the News
Biden Ripped Trump This Week During Private Fundraising Event In
Philadelphia.

In its “Clout” column, Philly (PA)
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(11/16, Brennan, Otterbein, Vargas) says that former Vice President Joe
Biden on Tuesday was the headliner at a fundraising event for Rep. Bob
Brady (D-PA) in Philadelphia, “where he preached about shared American
values while knocking President Trump as lacking them.” The event “was a
private affair. So, naturally, we had spies everywhere. The crowd, thick
with Democratic ward leaders, local politicians, and labor officials,” who
“cheered when Brady introduced Biden by asking, ‘Do you think he should
run?’ Biden denounced Trump for saying there ‘were very fine people on both
sides’ of a deadly 2017 clash between neo-Nazis and counterprotesters in
Charlottesville, Va.,” the former Vice President “cautioned that
Republicans ‘are not our enemies’ outside of rough-and-tumble campaigns.”

        *Loudell Discusses Trump’s Reported “Creepy Joe” Nickname For
Biden. *In a post on the website of WDEL-AM
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Wilmington, DE (11/15), veteran radio broadcaster Allan Loudell, citing a
New York Post story
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that was covered in yesterday’s briefing, wrote that President Trump “and
his aides are testing possible pejorative nicknames for potential
Democratic Presidential hopefuls, not to mention any Republican who would
dare challenge Mr. Trump during the primary/caucus season. And what now
appears to be the favored nickname for Delaware’s Joe Biden? ‘Creepy Joe.’”
Loudell added, “Of course, ‘Creepy Joe’ aptly summarizes that one
intangible trait of” Biden, “that he’s a little too touchy feely. ...
That’s what Trump does: Goes for the jugular with an insulting nickname
that nonetheless exposes something uncomfortable about a foe, and that
resonates at some level.”
Business Insider Highlights Biden-McCain Bipartisan Friendship, Others.

Business Insider
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(11/15, Panetta) highlighted what it described as “nine of the most famous
political friendships that crossed party lines.” Among those listed was the
friendship between former Vice President Joe Biden and the late Sen. John
McCain (R-AZ). Business Insider said, “While from different political
parties, McCain and Biden held a famously close friendship over the decades
they served in Congress together, and lasted when they ran on opposing
presidential tickets in 2008. ‘Above all, we understood the same thing: All
politics is personal,’ Biden said. ‘It’s all about trust. I trusted John
with my life, and I would, and I think he would trust me with his.’”
Leading the News
Trump To Visit With Victims Of California Wildfires This Weekend.

National and local media reports note the President’s plans to visit
California this weekend, as well as a joint tour of areas affected by the
wildfires by Interior Secretary Zinke and Gov. Jerry Brown. While a
partisan edge was largely absent from officials’ comments yesterday, the
news coverage continued to highlight the President’s past statements
criticizing the state’s forest management policies. In its story about
Trump’s upcoming visit, for example, Bloomberg News
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(11/15) reports that “last Saturday, when the sheriff’s department was
reporting nine fatalities in the Paradise area, Trump posted a tweet
blaming state officials and threatened to cut off federal funding unless
California improves its forest management.” Along similar lines, the Los
Angeles Times
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(11/15, Bierman) points out “this will be just Trump’s second visit to the
nation’s most populous state since his election.” The President, adds the
Times, “has had a particularly combative relationship with California, over
environmental, immigration and other policies,” and he “renewed tensions in
the midst of the wildfires with accusatory tweets that angered many in the
state.”

        To the Washington Post
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(11/15, Sonmez), “Trump’s response to natural disasters has typically
varied depending on the partisan makeup of the state or region affected,
and his initial reaction to the wildfires in California – a largely
Democratic state – was no exception.” The San Jose (CA) Mercury News
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(11/15, Tolan) says “Trump is still facing criticism over his statements
from some prominent Californians,” and adds that “former California first
lady Maria Shriver tweeted
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Thursday that she hoped Trump ‘doesn’t try to lecture or shame us’ during
his visit.” Added
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Shriver, “Tell us the money we need to rebuild is on the way. If not, don’t
come.” USA Today
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(11/15, Jackson) reports, however, that “in more recent days, Trump has
been more supportive, offering prayers for the victims, praise for
firefighters and emergency personnel, and pledges of federal help.”

        The New York Times
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(11/15, Medina) also reports Trump’s “visit will come a week after he
blamed state officials for the destructive blazes, erroneously attributing
the cause of the fires to poor forest management and threatening to
withhold financial payments to the state,” but “he has since praised the
state’s efforts.” According to Politico
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(11/15, Rodriguez), meanwhile, “state authorities have said the federal
government has been quick to grant their requests for federal aid, a
striking contrast with Trump’s handling of the natural disasters in Puerto
Rico, after Hurricanes Irma and Maria, and in Florida, in the wake of
Hurricane Michael.”

        KCRA-TV
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Sacramento, CA (11/15, 6:09 p.m. PST) reported that the President “will
travel here to California on Saturday. The White House says it is still
working out the details, but the President plans to meet with people
impacted by the fires. This week, he’s been thanking firefighters and first
responders for their courage, but over the weekend he criticized California
on Twitter, blaming the fires on the state’s forest management policies.”
KCBS-TV
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Los Angeles (11/15, 5:59 p.m. PST) similarly indicated “the White House
tells CBS News” Trump “will first visit the fire zone in Northern
California and then he will come down here to view the Woolsey Fire burn
area.” Trump’s visit was covered widely across the state. The reports were
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Los Angeles (11/15, 4:08 p.m. PST), KGPE-TV[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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Fresno, CA (11/15, 6:02 p.m. PST), KHSL-TV[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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Chico, CA (11/15, 5:34 p.m. PST), and KERO-TV[image: Image removed by
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Bakersfield, CA (11/15, 5:12 p.m. PST), among others. Reuters
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(11/15, Sylvester), the AP
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(11/15, Press), Washington Times
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(11/15, Boyer), CNN
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(11/15, Vazquez), CNBC
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(11/15, Roberts) and The Hill
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(11/15, Fabian), among other news outlets, also run brief accounts of the
President’s plans.

        Meanwhile, KEYT-TV
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Santa Barbara, CA (11/15, 6:30 p.m. PST) reported “Gov. Jerry Brown and
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke toured the Woolsey Fire devastation
zone...by air.” Zinke “said the fires are unprecedented and it is his role
to make sure the resources are available to California.” Zinke was shown
saying, “It’s unsustainable to have this happen year after year, or have a
season like this where you have hundred-thousand acre fires becoming
routine. We’re a great nation. This not a Republican or Democrat issue.
This is an American issue and we should address it as such.” Similar
reports aired on KCBS-TV
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Los Angeles (11/15, 5:59 p.m. PST), KESQ-TV[image: Image removed by sender.
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Palm Springs, CA (11/15, 5:01 p.m. PST), and KSBW-TV[image: Image removed
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Monterey, CA (11/15, 6:20 p.m. PST), among other stations.

        The Orange County (CA) Register
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(11/15, Valenzuela) reports Brown said yesterday “Californians should
understand that massive wildfires were the ‘new abnormal,’ repeating the
phrase he’s been using to describe the state’s increasingly year-round fire
season.” Brown also “said climate change would continue to make
temperatures hotter and the dry conditions fueling wildfires last longer.”
The Register adds “both Brown and Zinke spoke in Camarillo after meeting
with firefighters at the command post for about a half hour.” Zinke “said
now was not the time for ‘finger-pointing,’” and “encouraged land managers
at every level to work together, given that many of the state’s forested
areas area a ‘mishmash of federal and state land.’” The San Jose (CA)
Mercury News
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(11/15, Germain) and Santa Rosa (CA) Press Democrat
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(11/15, Ronayne, Selsky), among other news outlets, run similar stories.

        Two major network newscasts reported on the California fires last
night, but did not mention the President or Zinke. ABC World News
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(11/15, story 7, 1:35, Muir) reported on the “the desperate search under
way for family members still missing after the wildfires,” and on “family
members” who “have pinned images of their loved ones on a public wall.” ABC
(Carr) added, “Restaurants are giving free meals to both victims and first
responders. The Red Cross and other organizations are on the ground. One
mother told me she’s grateful, because she doesn’t know where her family
will be sleeping next week.” NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by
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(11/15, story 2, 1:40, Almaguer) said “there are search teams looking for
300 still missing, victims who may have died in homes and cars as a wave of
fire tore through here.”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(11/15, Serna) reports “When the Camp Fire barreled toward this Sierra
foothill town last Thursday morning, officials had a crucial choice to make
right away: How much of Paradise should be evacuated?” Officials “decided
not to immediately undergo a full-scale evacuation, hoping to get residents
out of neighborhoods closest to the fires first before the roads became
gridlocked,” but “it soon became clear that the fire was moving too fast
for that plan, and that the whole town was in jeopardy. A full-scale
evacuation order was issued at 9:17 a.m., but by then the fire was already
consuming the town.” The Times adds “it’s unclear how much a different
evacuation strategy would have changed the outcome of the fire,” but “the
level of destruction and death is sure to make Paradise a grim lesson for
agencies trying to improve emergency alerts and evacuations from fires as
well as floods, mudslides and other natural disasters.”

        The Washington Post
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(11/15, Craig) reports that “each morning...volunteers are broken up into
teams of eight to 10 people,” and “if they find suspected human remains,
the volunteers have access to anthropologists who help differentiate human
remains from animals. Coroner teams are then responsible for removing the
bodies.” Journalist Lou Cannon writes in the Washington Post
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(11/15, Cannon), “Californians are so accustomed to living on the edge that
many of us no longer want to know when we’re in danger.”
Foreign Policy
Pence: Trump Likely To Meet With Kim Again Next Year.

Reuters
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(11/15, Geddie) reports Vice President Pence said Thursday that President
Trump likely will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in 2019. The AP
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(11/15) reports Pence “said...that the meeting [between Trump and Kim]
would ‘put details on paper’ for denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula
and the US would continue putting ‘maximum pressure’ on North Korea until
then.”

        Pence also spoke with NBC News
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(11/15) Vaughn Hillyard about negotiations with North Korea, saying “now we
need to see results” on North Korea’s denuclearization. However, the Washington
Post
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(11/15, Gearan) reports Pence acknowledged in the interview that the
Administration “will not insist on a complete accounting of North Korean
nuclear-related assets ahead of a second summit” between Trump and Kim.
Asked whether a “complete list” of North Korean weapons and facilities was
a condition for the summit, Pence said, “I think it will be absolutely
imperative in this next summit that we come away with a plan for
identifying all of the weapons in question, identifying all the development
sites, allowing for inspections of the sites and the plan for dismantling
nuclear weapons.”

        *Pence: Trump Likely Will Bring Up North Korean Sanctions With Xi. *The
New York Times
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(11/15, Mullany) reports Pence also said Thursday that President Trump
likely will raise the issue of sanctions against North Korea when he meets
with Chinese President Xi Jinping this month in Buenos Aires. Pence said,
“We believe China is doing more than they’ve ever done before. ... The
president is grateful for that.” According to the Times, Pence “added that
he expected Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi to discuss the issue of ‘enforcement of
those sanctions – and really the unique role that China can play in
ensuring’ the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”

        *Kim Oversees Testing Of “Newly Developed” Weapon. *Reuters
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(11/15, Lee) reports North Korea’s state media announced Friday that leader
Kim Jong Un inspected the site for testing a “newly developed cutting-edge
strategic weapon.” North Korea’s Korean Central Television (KCTV) said
“without elaborating” that the weapon which Kim oversaw the testing of was
“researched and developed for a long time,” and that the test was
successful.

        The New York Times
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(11/15, Sang-Hun) reports state media “did not identify the weapon, and the
test did not appear to violate the voluntary moratorium North Korea imposed
on nuclear and long-range ballistic missile tests this year.” Still, the
Times says Kim’s “renewed activities at weapons test sites could complicate
the already stalled talks between North Korea and the United States over
how to remove the North’s nuclear weapons.”

        *South Korea Destroys One Of Its Own Border-Guard Posts. *The AP
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(11/15, Jun, Kim) reports that South Korea “exploded one of its own
front-line guard posts Thursday...in the most dramatic scene to date in the
rivals’ efforts to reduce animosities that sparked last year’s fears of
war.” The AP adds that last week, South and North Korea “finished
withdrawing troops and firearms from some of the guard posts along their
border before dismantling them.” The AP says these “steps are part of
agreements signed in September during a meeting between their leaders in
Pyongyang.”
Putin: Arms Control To Top Agenda For Meeting With Trump.

The AP
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(11/15) reports Russian President Vladimir Putin “briefly talked” with Vice
President Pence on Thursday “about issues that will likely top the agenda
of his planned meeting” with President Trump. Putin said he and Pence spoke
on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Singapore, “discussing arms control
and other issues.” Pence’s press secretary, Alyssa Farah, said in a
statement that the two “touched on the issues that will be discussed when
President Trump and President Putin are both in Argentina for the (Group of
20) summit.”

        *EU Court: Navalny’s Arrests Politically Motivated. *The Washington
Post
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(11/15, Troianovski) reports Europe’s top human rights court ruled Thursday
that Russian arrests of anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny “have been
politically motivated, delivering a broad-ranging if mainly symbolic rebuke
of the Kremlin’s methods of keeping domestic opposition at bay.” The upper
chamber of the European Court of Human Rights said seven arrests of Navalny
from 2012 to 2014 violated his rights and appeared to be part of a broader
effort “to bring the opposition under control.” The court ordered Russia to
pay Navalny about $72,000 in damages and expenses and “called on the
country to extend greater legal rights to people protesting peacefully.”
US Sanctions 17 Saudis Tied To Khashoggi Murder.

In what the CBS Evening News
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(11/15, story 8, 2:05, Glor) called “big developments” in Khashoggi’s
killing, “the US slapped economic sanctions on 17 Saudis accused of taking
part.” To Reuters
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(11/15, Zengerle, Kalin), the move marks “the first concrete response by
the Trump administration to the journalist’s death.” Among those sanctioned
were Saud al-Qahtani, “who has been removed from his position as a top aide
to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as well as the Saudi Consul General
Mohammed Alotaibi and members of a 15-person team Turkey has identified as
being involved in Khashoggi’s death.”

        The New York Times
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(11/15, Harris, Wong) says the Administration is “hoping to forestall
congressional proposals to restrict arms sales to or military operations
with Riyadh, which have arisen in large part because of growing fury at the
humanitarian crisis in Yemen during a Saudi-led military campaign there.”
Said Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, “The United States continues to diligently
work to ascertain all of the facts and will hold accountable each of those
we find responsible in order to achieve justice for Khashoggi’s fiancée,
children, and the family he leaves behind.”

        The Washington Post
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(11/15, Deyoung) reports that Mnuchin “indicated that the United States
would continue investigating to determine whether others were also
responsible and said that ‘the government of Saudi Arabia must take
appropriate steps to end any targeting of political dissidents or
journalists.’” Secretary of State Pompeo, “who has been the
administration’s point man on the Khashoggi matter, said in a statement
that ‘at the time of the killing,’ the sanctioned individuals ‘occupied
positions in the Royal Court and several ministries and offices of the
Government of Saudi Arabia.’”

        *Saudis To Seek Death Penalty For Five Suspects In Killing. *In
what the CBS Evening News
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(11/15, story 8, 2:05, Glor) called “big developments” in Khashoggi’s
killing, “a Saudi prosecutor said he will seek the death penalty against
five suspects.” The announcement, NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by
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(11/15, story 3, 1:30, Holt) reported, came as “Saudi officials revealed
the results of their investigation” into Khashoggi’s murder. NBC (Engel)
added, “Saudi prosecutors will seek the death penalty for five of 11
suspects indicted for Khashoggi’s murder, but Turkey doubts the alleged
Saudi hit team...simply winged it. Multiple US officials say the US
intelligence community believes it’s inconceivable the Crown Prince had no
connection to the death. ... But the question tonight, will the Trump White
House accept the Saudi explanation? The State Department is calling it a
good start, but critics say this is just the accused hit men becoming the
fall guys.”

        To the AP
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(11/15, Batrawy) reports, the Saudi announcement “appeared aimed at
distancing the killers and their operation from the kingdom’s leadership,
including Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.” The New York Times
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(11/15, Hubbard, Kirkpatrick) reports that the Saudi prosecutor’s “account
on Thursday appeared to contradict previous statements from both the Saudi
government and senior White House officials about Saudi conclusions
regarding the killing on Oct. 2 of Mr. Khashoggi,” but “reinforce[d]
previous claims that the team in Istanbul had acted without the consent of
the kingdom’s top leadership, meaning King Salman and his son Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman.” The Times adds, “While acknowledging that the killers
had quickly cut up the body, the Saudi prosecutor sought to portray the
dismemberment as a spur-of-the-moment decision after an unintended
killing.”

        Likewise, the Washington Post
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(11/15, Zakaria) reports that the Saudi prosecutor’s “conclusion – that the
killing was authorized by relatively low-level officials who disobeyed
orders and acted on the fly – contradicted assertions by Turkish
investigators, who have said it was a meticulously planned operation, with
elaborate preparations to cover up the crime that included scouting
locations where Khashoggi’s body could be disposed of in secret.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(11/15, Stancati), among other sources, also reports the Saudi
announcement, which a Washington Post
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(11/15) editorial calls “shocking in its audacity. Having previously
acknowledged that the journalist was the victim of premeditated murder,
authorities in Riyadh reverted to an earlier, discredited tale: that Mr.
Khashoggi was killed spontaneously inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul
by a team sent to return him to Saudi Arabia.” The Post says that “by
offering up this incredible account, the Saudi regime is baldly defying all
those, including leading members of Congress, who called for full
disclosure and accountability. Yet the Trump administration appears ready
to accept its stonewalling.”

        The New York Times
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(11/15) editorializes that “the truth may never be known, especially if the
Saudi public prosecutor succeeds in obtaining the death penalty that he
said he’s seeking against five of the Saudi suspects, thus eliminating the
main witnesses. But what is already clear is that the relationship between
the oil-soaked kingdom and the United States needs to change.”

        *NBC News Report: White House Wants To Hand Over Gulen To Turkey. *NBC
News
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111601biden&r=email-69ef&l=03d-ae8&t=c>
(11/15, Lee, Ainsley, Kube) reports on its website that the White House is
“looking for ways to remove an enemy of Turkish President Recep Erdogan
from the US in order to placate Turkey over the murder of journalist Jamal
Khashoggi.” According to NBC News, “Trump administration officials last
month asked federal law enforcement agencies to examine legal ways of
removing exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen in an attempt to persuade
Erdogan to ease pressure on the Saudi government.” NBC News says the
Administration’s “effort includes directives to the Justice Department and
FBI that officials reopen Turkey’s case for his extradition, as well as a
request to the Homeland Security Department for information about his legal
status.”

        The Daily Caller
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(11/15, Ross) says the US “has long opposed Turkish demands to extradite
the cleric,” and, according to the Daily Caller, “any push for extradition
would open...Trump to criticism for appeasing two nations accused of
repressing the press, free speech and other human rights.”
Senate Rejects Paul’s Bid To Block Arms Sales To Bahrain.

The AP
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(11/15) reports that the Senate “has blocked legislation to stop an
estimated $300 million in arms sales to Bahrain.” By a vote of 77-21,
senators “rejected a call by Republican Sen. Rand Paul to send a message
that the US is ‘done with the war in Yemen.’” Bahrain, the AP adds, is “a
member of the Saudi-led coalition at war with Iran-aligned rebels in Yemen
since March 2015.” The Washington Post
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(11/15, Demirjian) reports that “only 21 senators voted in support of the
effort to end the arms sale, suggesting that while lawmakers are
increasingly eager to punish Saudi Arabia over the murder” of journalist
Jamal Khashoggi, “most are not prepared to risk the United States’
relations with other Saudi allies over the conflict.”
Ministers Exit May’s Cabinet In Protest Over Her Brexit Deal.

The AP
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(11/15, Casert) says British Prime Minister Theresa May is “battling...to
save both her Brexit deal and her job, as ministers quit her government and
a growing list of lawmakers demanded her ouster over the divorce agreement
struck between Britain and the European Union.” Less than a day after May
won her Cabinet’s “grudging backing for the deal, two Cabinet ministers and
a handful of junior government members resigned, and a leading pro-Brexit
lawmaker from May’s Conservative Party called for a no-confidence vote in
the prime minister.”

        A front-page story in the Wall Street Journal
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(11/15, A1, Colchester, Douglas) reports that during a news conference
Thursday, May stood by her deal and suggested she would fight any
leadership challenge. Said May, “This is a Brexit that delivers on the
priorities of the British people,” adding that not moving forward with it
“would be to take a path of deep and grave uncertainty when the British
people just want us to get on with it. Am I going to see this through?
Yes.”

        The New York Times
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(11/15, Castle) reports that the “surprise resignation” of Brexit Minister
Dominic Raab was “not only unexpected but also deeply damaging to Mrs.
May’s authority.” The Times notes that “a second cabinet minister, Esther
McVey, the work and pensions secretary, resigned as well, adding to the
turmoil.” The Washington Post
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(11/15, Adam) says his resignation “sent shudders through London and
Brussels, raising the possibility that May does not have the support she
needs to pursue her deal for a softer, slower-moving Brexit, a plan loaded
with compromises that few in Britain like.” The Post says Raab wrote in his
resignation letter, “I cannot reconcile the terms of the proposed deal with
the promises we made to the country in our manifesto at the last election.”
According to the Post, “Specifically, Raab said he could not support May’s
plan because it treats Northern Ireland’s future trading and customs
relations with the European Union in a way that ‘presents a very real
threat to the integrity of the United Kingdom.’” Reuters
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111601biden&r=email-69ef&l=045-242&t=c>
(11/15, Piper, Maclellan, James) says “hostility from government and
opposition lawmakers raised the risk that the deal would be rejected in
parliament, and that Britain could leave the EU on March 29 without a
safety net.”

        A Washington Post
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(11/15) editorial says May’s “attempt to negotiate a settlement with the EU
represents her thankless, and hence courageous, effort to cope with the
inherent contradictions of Brexit, in the hope of minimizing its harms to
her people.” It argues that “whatever happens next, it’s doubtful anyone
will ever look back on the Brexit chapter of British history and say, ‘This
was their finest hour.’”
US Official: Chinese Offer Unlikely To Spur Major Trade Breakthrough.

A “senior Administration official” told Reuters
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(11/15, Mason, Holland) on Thursday that China’s written response to US
demands for trade reforms “is unlikely to trigger a breakthrough” at talks
between Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping later this month. Beijing provided
the Administration with its response earlier this week, which the official
said “was a good sign.” However, the official said a “best-case scenario
could be that the two leaders agreed to keep talking and declare the issue
is moving in a better direction.” A second Reuters
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111601biden&r=email-69ef&l=048-8f0&t=c>
(11/15) report, however, said USTR Lighthizer “told some industry
executives that another round of tariffs on Chinese imports has been put on
hold as the two nations pursue talks.”
Pentagon: Troop Cuts In Africa Will Not Affect Counter-Terror Mission.

Reuters
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(11/15, Ali) reports that the Pentagon announced today that the US military
“will withdraw hundreds of troops focused on counterterrorism operations in
Africa over the next several years to support the Pentagon’s increased
focus on countering threats from China and Russia. ... ‘The reduction of
military personnel is projected to be less than 10 percent of the 7,200
total military forces and will take place over the next several years,’
Commander Candice Tresch, a Pentagon spokeswoman, told Reuters.” According
to Reuters, Tresch “said the cuts would leave ‘counter-violent extremist
organization’ activities largely untouched in several countries, including
Somalia, Djibouti and Libya.”
Domestic Policy
Trump Leaves Door Open To Government Shutdown Over Wall Funding.

The Washington Post
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(11/15, Paletta) reports “President Trump did not commit Thursday to
avoiding a partial government shutdown next month if lawmakers don’t give
him money to build a border wall, a top Republican senator said, raising
the potential for a high-stakes budget battle as the GOP prepares to lose
its grip on Congress.” Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard C. Shelby
“and other GOP leaders met with Trump on Thursday about ways to fund the
government.” Shelby “said Trump did not commit to signing a bill that does
not give him all the money he wants to fund construction of a wall along
the Mexico border.” The Alabama senator “said Trump was noncommittal about
how he planned to proceed.” Senate Majority Leader McConnell “told
reporters: ‘We talked about border security and how to resolve all this,
and we’re optimistic we have a way forward.’” McConnell “declined to reveal
what that might be.” The Hill
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(11/15, Bolton) adds that when pressed on that point, McConnell said, “I’ll
tell you when we get it.”

        The New York Times
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(11/15, Cochrane) reports “Trump’s lingering threat to veto any bill that
does not have billions of dollars in funding for the border wall has raised
the tension around what could be routine spending measures.” The Times adds
“lawmakers and aides in both chambers say they want to avoid even a partial
shutdown, and they do not want to fall back on a stopgap spending bill to
keep the government open into the new Congress.” The President “has leveled
such threats before only to acquiesce to lawmakers and keep the government
open. (The president has also retreated from his vow during the 2016
campaign that Mexico would pay for the wall.)”

        *Cheney Says House GOP Will Attach Border-Wall Funding To Spending
Bill Next Month. *Appearing on Fox News’ Fox & Friends[image: Image removed
by sender. Video]
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111601biden&r=email-69ef&l=04d-e03&t=c>
(11/15), Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), the incoming House Republican Conference
chair, was asked about funding for the border wall promised by Trump.
Cheney said, “We have got the continuing resolution is going to expire
December 7. I think we are going to make sure, do everything we can in the
lame duck, to get that funding in there. I think Democrats, the more that
the American people see them stand up and explain why they don’t want to
secure our border, why they want to abolish ICE, why they want to leave us
in a situation where we’re completely vulnerable, I think more the American
people will say, ‘Wait a minute, we don’t want this. We want to go back to
having Republicans control in the House.’”

        *Feds Approve $324 Million Project To Replace Border Wall In
Arizona. *The Washington Examiner
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(11/15, Giaritelli) reports CBP announced yesterday “the Arizona border
will have 32 miles of existing wall replaced starting next April.” The
Examines adds “the $324 million project has been given the green light by
federal immigration officials. ... The undertaking, which will be paid for
by congressional funding for CBP from 2018 legislation, is part
of...Trump’s January 2017 executive order to secure the country by
improving barriers in vulnerable and high-traffic areas.”
Pentagon: Troop Presence At US-Mexico Border Has “Pretty Much Peaked” At
5,800.

The AP
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(11/15, Burns) reports that Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said
yesterday that “the number of US active-duty troops deployed to the
US-Mexico border has ‘pretty much peaked’ at the current total of 5,800,”
which the AP points out is “far below the 10,000 to 15,000” that President
Trump “initially said would be needed to secure the border against what he
called an ‘invasion’ of migrants.” The AP adds that Defense Secretary
Mattis “said that within a week to 10 days, the troops currently deployed
along the border in Texas, Arizona and California will have accomplished
all the tasks initially requested by Customs and Border Protection,
although he said additional requests were expected.”

        Reuters
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(11/15, Stewart) reports Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan, “the US commander of
the mission,” also said “the number of US troops at the border with Mexico
may have peaked at about 5,800,” and that “he would start looking next week
at whether to begin sending forces home or perhaps shifting some to new
border positions.” Said Buchanan, “It is a hard date. And we have no
indications that CBP is going to need us to do our work for longer than
that.” AFP
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111601biden&r=email-69ef&l=051-e2a&t=c>
(11/15, Afp), among other news outlets, also reports the story.

        Breitbart
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(11/15, Price) reports, meanwhile, that CBP “officers in the Tucson Sector
teamed up with Department of Defense (DOD) personnel to conduct training
exercises and harden ports of entry in advance of the anticipated arrival
of Central American caravan migrants,” as “officials estimate the region
could become saturated with thousands seeking asylum or crossing the border
illegally.”

        *Ruppersberger Says He Is Opposed To Funding Deployment. *Rep.
Dutch Ruppersberger writes in the Wall Street Journal
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(11/15) that he considers the President’s border troop deployment a
wasteful political stunt, and that he is opposed to funding it.
Violence In Tijuana As Caravan Reaches US-Mexico Border.

The Palm Springs (CA) Desert Sun
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(11/15, Plevin) reports, “Hundreds of people who arrived in Tijuana with
the first wave of the migrant caravan planned to spend Wednesday night in a
makeshift camp by the Pacific Ocean, steps from the tall border fence that
separates Mexico and the United States.” The Desert Sun adds that “during a
confrontation that lasted more than three hours, area residents sang the
Mexican national anthem and waved Mexican flags,” and that “pushing,
shoving, kicking and a couple of blows broke out between masses of
residents and migrants, illuminated by the crescent moon and mobile light
towers, set up by authorities on the beach on the US side of the border.”
The Desert Sun also reports that “after midnight, residents assaulted
journalists,” and that “the violent night marks the latest in rising
tensions as waves of migrants arrive in the border town south of San Diego,
culminating a month-long journey across Mexico.”

        Under the headline “‘Get Out’: Some Mexico Border Residents Reject
Migrant Arrivals,” Reuters
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(11/15, Diaz) reports that “members of Central American migrant caravans
now face a new threat: open hostility from some Mexicans on the US border.”
The AP
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(11/15, Spagat, Verza) reports that “about 100 migrants declined offers of
rides to shelters and had camped out late Wednesday by the steel border
fence at Tijuana’s beach area, when a similar number of local residents
marched up to the group shouting, ‘You’re not welcome,’ and, ‘Get out!’”
According to the AP, “Playas de Tijuana, as the area is known, is an
upper-middle-class enclave, and residents appeared worried about crime and
sanitation.” The AP adds that “one protester shouted, ‘This isn’t about
discrimination, it is about safety!’”

        Sean Hannity said on Fox News’ Hannity[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111601biden&r=email-69ef&l=057-42d&t=c>
(11/15), “I said I really believe the vast majority of people in this
caravan are probably people that are poor, they have good intentions, they
are looking for a life for themselves, their family, a good job, a better
future. There is for us a massive security risk. Criminals also will take
advantage of unchecked and unvetted migration into our country; we see it
every day. Look at what happened in Arkansas on Sunday. A 29-year-old
illegal immigrant opening fire on officers during a traffic stop outside of
Fayetteville.”

        The New York Times
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(11/15, Semple) reports, meanwhile, that “the vanguard of what President
Trump has labeled an invasion force formed an orderly line at about 6:45
a.m. on Thursday near a major border crossing between Tijuana and the
United States and waited patiently.” The Times adds that “about 80 lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender people who have been traveling with a large
migrant caravan had come to the crossing, with stories of victimization and
persecution, to make an appointment for asylum interviews in the United
States.” Meanwhile, “other than the line of migrants, it was mostly
business as usual along this westernmost stretch of the Mexico-United
States southwest border.”

        *DC Analysis: Despite Acosta’s Prediction, Caravan Members Seeking
To Climb Over Border Fence. *The Daily Caller
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111601biden&r=email-69ef&l=059-e01&t=c>
(11/15, Athey) reports, “Members of the migrant caravan are currently
trying to climb over the US-Mexico border wall, despite CNN’s Jim Acosta’s
claim that they would not ‘be doing that.’” The DC adds that “despite
Acosta’s assertion, Fox News reported on Thursday morning that dozens of
members of the migrant caravan had arrived at the US-Mexico border in
Tijuana and were arrested for trying to cross illegally.”
Trump Slams “Total Witch Hunt” Led By Mueller And “His Gang Of Democrat
Thugs.”

President Trump tweeted
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yesterday morning, “The inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a
total mess. They have found no collusion and have gone absolutely nuts.
They are screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening them to
come up with the answers they want. They are a disgrace to our Nation and
don’t...
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111601biden&r=email-69ef&l=05b-204&t=c>
care how many lives the ruin. These are Angry People, including the highly
conflicted Bob Mueller, who worked for Obama for 8 years. They won’t even
look at all of the bad acts and crimes on the other side. A TOTAL WITCH
HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY! ...
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111601biden&r=email-69ef&l=05c-35d&t=c>
Universities will someday study what highly conflicted (and NOT Senate
approved) Bob Mueller and his gang of Democrat thugs have done to destroy
people. Why is he protecting Crooked Hillary, Comey, McCabe, Lisa Page &
her lover, Peter S, and all of his friends on the other side?” Trump also
wrote
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111601biden&r=email-69ef&l=05d-f46&t=c>,
“The only ‘Collusion’ is that of the Democrats with Russia and many others.
Why didn’t the FBI take the Server from the DNC? They still don’t have it.
Check out how biased Facebook, Google and Twitter are in favor of the
Democrats. That’s the real Collusion!”

        Business Insider
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(11/15, Sheth) says Trump’s tweets follow “an uncharacteristic lull,” and
that he “did not provide any evidence for his statements.” Bloomberg News
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111601biden&r=email-69ef&l=05f-fc7&t=c>
(11/15, Dopp) similarly reports “Trump provided no examples” for his
charges, and the New York Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111601biden&r=email-69ef&l=060-cbb&t=c>
(11/15, Haberman, Schmidt, Sullivan) that he issued his criticism “fresh
off three days of private meetings with his personal lawyers.” The Times
adds that “for months, the president’s legal team and aides have pleaded
with him to avoid writing Twitter posts critical of” Mueller, and that it
is “unclear what may have motivated Mr. Trump’s Twitter posts on Thursday
morning.”

        Politico
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(11/15, Oprysko) reports Trump “erupted at...Mueller,” and the Washington
Post
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(11/15, Wagner) notes that it has been a week since the “installation” of
acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, which the Post says was “a move
many Democrats have said appears designed to curtail Mueller’s
investigation.” According to the Post, “Many of Trump’s complaints in
Thursday’s tweets were familiar, but they took on heightened significance
with Whitaker now overseeing Mueller’s probe, which is also examining
whether Trump has obstructed justice.” The Post also points out that “the
tweets also come as Trump spend time with his personal legal team this week
to prepare written answers to questions from Mueller’s team.” The Washington
Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111601biden&r=email-69ef&l=063-21e&t=c>
(11/15, Muñoz) similarly reports that “many critics of the president see
nixing” Jeff “Sessions and replacing him with Mr. Whitaker as a way to
curtail the Mueller investigation,” and the Daily Caller
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111601biden&r=email-69ef&l=064-4c4&t=c>
(11/15, Enjeti) that Trump’s legal team has “negotiated with Mueller to
restrict all questions to written answers from the president.” The special
counsel “previously sought to interview Trump in person.” Fox News
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111601biden&r=email-69ef&l=065-a85&t=c>
(11/15, Shaw) and the Wall Street Journal
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111601biden&r=email-69ef&l=066-ffb&t=c>
(11/15, Salama), among other news outlets, also report the story.

        Pamela Brown said on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111601biden&r=email-69ef&l=067-6a4&t=c>
(11/15), “It’s unclear if there was a particular trigger for this Twitter
tirade, but what is clear is that his anger over the probe is boiling
over.” CNN politics editor-at-large Chris Cillizza said on CNN’s Situation
Room
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111601biden&r=email-69ef&l=068-87c&t=c>
(11/15), “One hundred and ninety-one criminal counts, 35 people or entities
charged, six guilty pleas and one person found guilty in court. There’s no
fact basis to say that this is a witch hunt or a hoax.”

        CNN contributor Bianna Golodryga said on CNN’s Situation Room[image:
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<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111601biden&r=email-69ef&l=069-237&t=c>
(11/15), “This is all speculative when it comes to Robert Mueller. They
have been very closed off and nothing has leaked out of this investigation,
but we keep hearing time and time again that this investigation appears to
be closer to a conclusion than anywhere else throughout the process. So, if
the President is anticipating that we may be getting a report soon, that
may explain his behavior.”

        *Giuliani: Questions To Trump Posed By Mueller Include “Possible
Traps.” *The Washington Post
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(11/15, Hsu) reports “Trump and his legal team continue to review a list of
written questions posed by Mueller’s team, Trump attorney Rudolph W.
Giuliani said Thursday.” Giuliani said, “There are some that create more
issues for us legally than others,” while “some were ‘unnecessary,’ some
were ‘possible traps,’ and ‘we might consider some as irrelevant.’”
Giuliani also “said the special counsel has not imposed a firm deadline,
but he added that Trump’s answers ‘could be tomorrow.’”

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(11/15) if Giuliani’s comment that some of Mueller’s questions “could
create more issues for us legally,” is a suggestion that the President “may
be in some legal jeopardy.” Scannell said, “I think that’s a fair way to
interpret this, because we don’t often – we hear from Giuliani, but he is
sort of acknowledging in this that they have some issues that are
problematic for them legally. And so what this is telling us is that – he
is also according to the Washington Post mentioned there were two dozen
questions among these that had to do with issues before the election and
that could be this area where they’re potentially more problematic.”

        CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger said on CNN’s Situation
Room
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(11/15), “I’m sorry Mr. Giuliani doesn’t like the questions from the
special counsel, that they’re not to his liking. It’s amazing to me because
honestly, they’ve been working on these questions for weeks. They finally
negotiated a way where the President didn’t have to testify face-to-face on
the issues of collusion, that he actually got a take-home open book test
which they are writing answers to. And the fact that Rudy Giuliani is now
complaining about the questions leads me to believe, first of all, they
don’t know what everybody else is testifying and they’re a little worried
about that, and maybe they’re worried about their own client and whether
their client is actually telling the truth.”

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(11/15) if Giuliani’s claim that some of Mueller’s questions create legal
issues for the President is “an acknowledgment that the President may be
personally implicated in the Mueller investigation.” Castro said, “It
certainly could be. It’s hard to know that right now. But I guess to be
honest, it’s hard for me to understand that response by Rudy Giuliani
because as far as I know, this is the first time that President Trump will
be swearing answers to these questions. So, in other words, he should be
able to just tell the truth and not worry about having contradicted himself
under oath before. So, as long as he tells the truth, I don’t see how there
is a problem, and I don’t see how any particular question is a trap.”

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(11/15), “I think it’s brilliant the way Mueller is doing it, the patience
that he is showing. And the President is certainly not acting like an
innocent person. I think he’s just giving the President more and more rope
to hang himself.” Asked about Giuliani’s claim that some of Mueller’s
questions create more issues legally for them than others, Swalwell said,
“That’s what someone who would have a lot of exposure would probably say.
If you didn’t do anything wrong, you typically don’t have anything to worry
about.”

        *Sources Refer To “Deep Anxiety” At White House That Mueller Is Set
To Indict Trump Allies, Family. *Politico
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(11/15, Samuelsohn) reports that while attorneys for the President and his
son, Donald Trump Jr., “insist they aren’t worried about special counsel
Robert Mueller,” six people “in contact with the White House and other
Trump officials say a deep anxiety has started to set in that Mueller is
about to pounce after his self-imposed quiet period, and that any number of
Trump’s allies and family members may soon be staring down the barrel of an
indictment.”

        *After Meeting With Whitaker, Graham Says Mueller Probe Not In
Jeopardy. *The Hill
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(11/15, Bolton) reports Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says acting Attorney
General Matthew Whitaker has assured him that “he will not fire special
counsel Robert Mueller.” Graham met with Whitaker Thursday “and says the
man President Trump tapped to replace ousted Attorney General Jeff Sessions
says he doesn’t see anything wrong with Mueller’s probe.” Following the
meeting, Graham said, “As to the Mueller investigation, I’m confident that
it is not in jeopardy.”

        *WPost To Trump: “Hands Off The Special Counsel.” *The Washington
Post
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(11/15) editorializes, “Now more than ever, the president must get the
message: Hands off the special counsel.” To the Post, “Congressional
Republicans appear not to have learned the lessons from last week’s
elections,” as “their spineless appeasement of Mr. Trump proved unpopular.
More of the same will not save them – either from further electoral defeat
or from the judgment of history.”

        *Prosecutors Inadvertently Reveal Assange Has Been Charged.
*The Washington
Post
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(11/15, Zapotosky, Barrett) reports prosecutors “inadvertently revealed in
a recently unsealed court filing” that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
“has been charged under seal.” In a filing in a case not related to
Assange, Assistant US Attorney Kellen S. Dwyer, “urging a judge to keep the
matter sealed,” wrote, “due to the sophistication of the defendant and the
publicity surrounding the case, no other procedure is likely to keep
confidential the fact that Assange has been charged.” The Times adds that
“people familiar with the matter,” said that “what Dwyer was disclosing was
true, but unintentional.” The Wall Street Journal
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(11/15, Viswanatha, Dube) reports in a front-page story that people
familiar with the matter say the Justice Department is increasingly
confident it will be able to get Assange into a US court to prosecute him.

        *Stone: Text Messages Prove He Did Not Know Source Or Content Of
Emails Released By Wikileaks. *Roger Stone writes in an op-ed for the Daily
Caller
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(11/15, Stone) that text messages he directed his attorney to release this
week prove that “Randy Credico was the source of both the explosive
description and the October 2016 release date of Hillary Clinton materials
that Julian Assange described on CNN in June of that year.” Stone adds that
“nothing in these text exchanges suggests that I knew of the source or
content of any of the allegedly stolen or hacked material released by
Wikileaks. If Randy Credico testified contrary to this before the Mueller
grand jury, he committed perjury.”

        *Report: Facebook Was Not Forthcoming About Russia Misinformation
Campaign In 2016. *NBC Nightly News
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(11/15, story 8, 1:30, Holt) reported that Facebook “is under fire” in the
wake of a New York Times report
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which “accuses the social media giant of not being forthcoming about the
Russia misinformation campaign that played out on the platform during the
2016 election.” NBC (Kent) added that the article says Mark Zuckerberg and
Sheryl Sandberg “ignored warning signs and sought to conceal them from
public view.” NBC News confirmed that “the social network hired an outside
PR firm to deflect attention by spreading dozens of articles critical of
competitors Google and Apple.” ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed
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(11/15, story 11, 0:20, Muir) also reported briefly on the Times story.

        The New York Times
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(11/15, Isaac, Nicas) reports “a person familiar with the decision” says
Facebook has cut ties with the firm, Definers Public Affairs, “which spread
disparaging information about the social network’s critics and
competitors.” The decision came in the wake of the Times story, which
“described the kind of work that Definers did on Facebook’s behalf.”
Definers “worked to discredit activist protesters that were against
Facebook, in part by linking them to the liberal financier George Soros. It
also tried to deflect criticism of the social network by pressing reporters
to look into rivals like Google.”

        The Washington Post
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(11/15, Shaban) reports Soros “has called on Facebook to initiate an
independent, internal investigation of its lobbying and public relations
work” following the Times report. Patrick Gaspard, the president of the
Open Society Foundations, a philanthropic organization founded by Soros,
wrote “These efforts appear to have been part of a deliberate strategy to
distract from the very real accountability problems your company continues
to grapple with.”

        In an editorial, the New York Times
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(11/15) says that in the wake of its report, which “painted a damning
picture of how Facebook had handled the discovery of Russian misinformation
campaigns on its platform,” there are “familiar questions” that “remain
unanswered: How much did Facebook know, and when?” The Times argues that if
the incoming House “is looking to set the agenda for the next two years,
Facebook should be near the top. What ambiguities remain about what
Facebook knew and when are prime subjects for hearings.”

        *Judge Rules Against Russian Company Charged By Mueller. *Reuters
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(11/15, Lynch) reports that Judge Dabney Friedrich of the DC District Court
has “refused to dismiss criminal charges against a Russian company accused
by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller of funding a propaganda operation to
sway the 2016 presidential election in...Trump’s favor.” According to
Reuters, “lawyers for Concord Management and Consulting LLC argued the
indictment brought against it failed to properly allege a crime.”
Proposed Criminal Justice Overhaul Hits Senate, DOJ Snags Despite Trump
Endorsement.

Politico
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(11/15, Schor, Everett, Johnson) reports that “a bipartisan criminal
justice overhaul ran into fresh political obstacles in the Senate on
Thursday, mere hours after winning President Donald Trump’s endorsement.”
Supporters of the proposal, “which would change prison and sentencing laws,
see the current lame-duck session as their best chance for success on a
revamp that top senators in both parties have spent years negotiating,” but
“the deal already faced resistance from hawkish Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.),
and on Thursday the National Sheriffs’ Association joined two other law
enforcement groups in slamming the current version of the measure as
‘troubling,’” and “that’s on top of repeated skepticism from Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who had vowed to call up the criminal
justice package if it’s shown to have 60 yes votes – and Majority Whip John
Cornyn (R-Texas), the lead sponsor of a narrower bill that only tackles
prisons, not lowering sentencing requirements.”

        The Washington Post
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(11/15, Dawsey, Kim) reports acting Attorney General Whitaker “has
privately voiced concerns directly to President Trump” about the bill,
“according to a GOP senator Whitaker met with Thursday, amid growing
opposition to the legislation Trump endorsed with much fanfare this week.”
Whitaker “has concerns with the ‘drug part of the bill,’ according to Sen.
Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), and has spoken about the concerns with the
National Narcotic Officers’ Associations’ Coalition.” The Post adds,
“Whitaker’s particular concern is how the bill would change drug sentences,
and he told Graham that he has also expressed his issues with the bill to
the president. ‘He said he doesn’t want to kill it,’ Graham said Thursday.
‘He just wanted to express his concerns.’”

        Politico
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(11/15, Schor) reports, “Sen. Cory Booker is signing on as an original
backer of the criminal justice package backed by President Donald Trump,
giving the deal valuable momentum with Democrats even as it splits the
Senate GOP.” Booker’s support “for the carefully-crafted agreement to
overhaul prison and sentencing laws also puts him in rare alignment with a
president whom he’s openly considering challenging in 2020,” but Booker
(D-NJ) “said his decision to endorse the deal – which backers are pushing
to vote on during this year’s lame-duck session – has nothing to do with
those considerations. ‘I don’t give a damn about politics when thousands of
people are incarcerated unjustly,’ Booker told POLITICO on Thursday. ‘This
is about people, this is about justice, this is about righting wrongs. And
this bill does a lot in that.’”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(11/15) editorializes in support of the bill, arguing that Congress should
take advantage of this rare bipartisan effort to pass criminal justice
reforms that would correct unfair federal sentencing practices.

        *Grassley, Durbin Stuck Together On Criminal Justice Reform. *The New
York Times
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(11/15, Hulse) reports, “After a popular bill to improve prison education
and training programs breezed through the House last May, criminal justice
reformers in the Senate faced a crucial choice: run with it or hold out for
more far-reaching changes to sentencing laws.” According to the Times, “The
two main proponents of a sentencing overhaul,” Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA)
and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) “agreed between themselves to sit tight,” and
“they insisted that any final legislation must include proposals in a
Senate bill to cut the mandatory minimum sentences imposed in an antidrug
crackdown decades ago or there would be no legislation at all.” President
Trump on Wednesday “endorsed a measure that included the sentencing
provisions written by the two senators and a handful of others,” a “major
step forward for legislation that has united forces on the left and right
but has still struggled to overcome resistance from Republicans who believe
it goes against the party’s tough-on-crime image.”

        *Breitbart’s Binder: Trump Ignoring His Base And Instead Focusing
On Koch Bros’ Priorities. *In an article titled, “Billionaire Koch Brothers
Agenda Prioritized With Prison Reform While Trump’s Immigration Plans
Stall,” John Binder of Breitbart
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(11/14, Binder) writes, “The GOP megadonor billionaire Koch brothers are
set to seal another policy victory with President Trump’s announcement that
he will sign a prison reform bill that is opposed by his base of
supporters, conservatives, and law enforcement officials.” Binder notes
that on Wednesday, Trump announced that he intends to sign the First Step
Act, which has been “pushed by his daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband,
Jared Kushner...despite opposition among conservatives and his base of
supporters.” According to Binder, “The prison reform plan reduces sentences
and prison time for hardened drug traffickers just as the country is in the
midst of a massive opioid crisis and will immediately release 4,000 inmates
from prison.”
Judge Delays Decision On CNN’s Suit Against White House Until Tomorrow.

The AP
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(11/15, Khalil) reports “a federal judge has delayed his decision on
whether to order the Trump administration to return the White House press
credentials of CNN reporter Jim Acosta.” US District Court Judge Timothy
Kelly “had been expected to announce his decision on the matter Thursday
afternoon but delayed the announcement until Friday morning.” The AP adds
that “Kelly, a Trump appointee, heard arguments Wednesday from lawyers
representing CNN and the Justice Department.” Politico
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(11/15, Morin) says “the White House has argued that the president has the
power to limit any reporter’s access,” and that “CNN countered that the
White House was unfairly punishing Acosta for his coverage and said the
administration did not follow appropriate steps to revoke his security
credentials.”

        The New York Post
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(11/15, Jaeger) reports “the White House claims Acosta physically
interfered with an intern as she tried to take a microphone away while he
had a testy exchange with...Trump,” but “Acosta called the accusations ‘a
lie.’” The Hill
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(11/15, Wheeler), among other news outlets, also reports the story.

        *WHCA Files Amicus Brief Backing CNN. *Politico
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(11/15, Morin) reports “the White House Correspondents’ Association filed a
court brief Thursday backing CNN’s lawsuit against...Trump, arguing that
the president does not have the power to deny reporters access to the White
House.” The Washington Times
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(11/15, Dinan) says that “the association, made up of journalists and news
organizations that provide coverage of the president, said a judge should
order the White House to restore the press pass to...Acosta.” Said the
brief, “The White House is the People’s House, and the First Amendment does
not permit the president to pick and choose which journalists do – and do
not – cover him there.”

        *Larry King Criticizes CNN And Acosta, But Supports Lawsuit.
*The Washington
Free Beacon
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(11/15, Griswold) reports “Larry King criticized his network of 25 years on
Thursday for being ‘not [a] news network’ and chided his former
colleague...Acosta for his conduct at a White House press briefing.”
Interviewed on the Law and Crime Network, King “said the question of
whether the White House should have revoked Acosta’s hard pass was an
‘interesting’ one,” adding, “I’m a big supporter of free speech, but on the
other hand, there are 50 press passes at CNN to the White House.” He added,
however, “Of course I’ll stand with Acosta and CNN and Fox – even Fox is in
on it,” even if “Acosta ‘was a little out of line’ in refusing to yield the
microphone to a White House intern.” Added King, “To me, you know what this
was? Eighth grade. It was the playground, ‘That’s my ball and I wanna play
today on the team.’ It was childish.”

        *Poll Finds Voters See Media Bias Against Trump. *The Washington
Examiner
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(11/15, Bedard) reports that “in the latest McLaughlin & Associates media
survey...five times as many voters saw anti-Trump bias to those who saw a
pro-Trump tilt.” McLaughlin told the Examiner, “Our recent post election
poll found that among all voters the plurality 48 percent thought that the
media was unfair and biased against...Trump. Only 9 percent say they were
biased in his favor. So it’s pretty clear that in general the media is seen
as partisan and inherently divisive.”

        *Nauert Derides “Fake News,” “Inaccurate And Sloppy Reporting.” *The
Washington Examiner
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(11/15, Scarry) reports State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said
yesterday “so-called ‘fake news’ is a real problem in not just the US but
around the world, even as reporters suggested to her that the
administration’s position on press freedom may be in doubt.” Nauert “said
at a press briefing Thursday that the administration is fully committed to
freedom of the press, but that journalists do sometimes misreport, even
intentionally.” said Nauert, “I have seen, since taking on this role,
inaccurate and sloppy reporting. ... Sometimes I think it’s intentional
because of bias. Other times it may just be someone’s naivete. And so when
the president has spoken about fake news, when other world leaders have
spoken about fake news, there is such a thing.”
Trump Expresses Gratitude To Veterans, Touts Administration Efforts.

In a series of tweets Thursday, President Trump expressed the nation’s
gratitude to veterans and military families, and highlighted his efforts to
support service members and veterans. Trump wrote
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was my great honor to host a @WhiteHouse Conference on Supporting Veterans
& Military Families... To everyone here today who has served our Country in
uniform, & to every Veteran & Military family across our land, I want to
express the eternal gratitude of our entire Nation!” Trump followed that
tweet with another
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saying, “Last year, I signed the landmark VA Accountability Act to ensure
those who mistreat our Veterans can be held fully accountable. Since my
inauguration, we have removed more than 3,600 government employees who were
not giving our Vets the care they deserve....,” and a third
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saying, “It is our sacred duty to support America’s Service Members every
single day they wear the uniform – and every day after when they return
home as Veterans. Together we will HONOR those who defend us, we will
CHERISH those who protect us, and we will celebrate the amazing heroes...”

        The tweets came after the President “visited with Marines and spoke
at a White House veterans’ conference Thursday amid fallout over his
decision not to visit an American cemetery during his weekend trip to Paris
to commemorate the end of World War I,” the AP
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(11/15, Colvin) reports. The President and First Lady “spent about 40
minutes at the Washington, D.C. Marine Barracks compound, where about 150
Marines had gathered in an event space at tables set with mini pumpkin
pies. Trump later spoke at a conference with state and local veterans’
leaders, where he applauded his administration’s efforts to improve
veterans’ care.” Trump said, “The fact is I’ve done a lot.” The AP says the
events followed criticism of the President “for canceling a trip to an
American cemetery about 60 miles (99 kilometers) northwest of Paris on
Saturday after his helicopter was grounded by bad weather.” Trump “also did
not visit” Arlington National Cemetery “on Monday, the federal legal
holiday, after his return from France.”

        The CBS Evening News
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(11/15, story 7, 2:15, Glor) reported the VA said Thursday “it is trying to
speed up benefits of payments to thousands of veterans who are struggling
to cover education and housing bills.” CBS (Reid) added that “the payments
stopped in August because of a glitch in the antiquated computer system at
the Department of Veterans Affairs.” CBS pointed out that in his events
with veterans on Thursday, Trump “didn’t mention the latest VA crisis.”

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(11/15), “There’s a lot of things that he says that doesn’t square with
what he says he does to support the military. If he truly cared about the
troops, he would go visit them in a combat zone. He would go to the
cemetery whether it was raining or snowing to honor our heroic dead. He
certainly wouldn’t send 5,000 troops to Texas to defend against a caravan
that is on its way to Tijuana. We still have 80,000 veterans who have not
yet gotten their payments for their housing allotments while they are going
back to school on the GI Bill. He’s failed miserably when it comes to
supporting our troops and their families.”
Cancer Research
HIV-Positive Hispanics In The US Have Higher Risk Of HPV-Related Cancers
Than General Hispanic Population, Study Suggests.

MD Magazine
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(11/15, Roche) reports that a new study
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(10/22) published in the journal Cancer suggests Hispanic adults living in
the US “who are infected with human immunodeficiency virus face a greater
risk of cancers caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) than Hispanics in the
general public.” For the study, lead author Ana Patricia Ortiz, MPH, PhD,
of the University of Puerto Rico’s Comprehensive Cancer Center, “and
colleagues from the National Cancer Institute and other US cancer centers
reviewed data from the HIV/AIDS Cancer Match Study collected by state
registries,” examining “both the incidence and survival rates among
Hispanics, non-Hispanic whites (NHW) and non-Hispanic blacks (NHB).”
Cervical Cancer Rates A Significant Threat To Public Health In Haiti.

In a 4,700-word piece, the Miami Herald
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(11/15, Charles) reports cervical cancer continues to remain a leading
killer in Haiti, despite the fact that it is treatable. According to the
article, “There is just one MRI scanner in the entire country of 11 million
people. Radiation treatment does not exist – for any kind of cancer –
because there are no machines. Cancer screenings and early detection
programs are limited, and so is access to lifesaving care.” Estimates by
the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the World Health
Organization’s cancer arm, suggest “563 women will die from the disease in
Haiti this year,” and the mortality rate in Haiti “is six times that of the
United States.” The piece adds that among the factors compounding the
impediments to treatment is a lack of screening, which the piece discusses
as part of the country’s “broken” healthcare system.
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“How To Find Out What Facebook Knew.”* In an editorial, the New York Times
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(11/15) says that in the wake of its report, which “painted a damning
picture of how Facebook had handled the discovery of Russian misinformation
campaigns on its platform,” there are “familiar questions” that “remain
unanswered: How much did Facebook know, and when?” The Times argues that if
the incoming House “is looking to set the agenda for the next two years,
Facebook should be near the top. What ambiguities remain about what
Facebook knew and when are prime subjects for hearings.”

        *“Saudi Arabia After Khashoggi.” *The New York Times
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(11/15) editorializes that the truth about journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s
death “may never be known, especially if the Saudi public prosecutor
succeeds in obtaining the death penalty that he said he’s seeking against
five of the Saudi suspects, thus eliminating the main witnesses. But what
is already clear is that the relationship between the oil-soaked kingdom
and the United States needs to change.”
Washington Post.

*“The Unfolding Brexit Drama Is Not Britain’s Finest Hour.”* A Washington
Post
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(11/15) editorial says British Prime Minister Theresa May’s “attempt to
negotiate a settlement with the EU represents her thankless, and hence
courageous, effort to cope with the inherent contradictions of Brexit, in
the hope of minimizing its harms to her people.” It argues that “whatever
happens next, it’s doubtful anyone will ever look back on the Brexit
chapter of British history and say, ‘This was their finest hour.’”

        *“Hands Off The Special Counsel, Mr. President.” *The Washington
Post
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(11/15) editorializes, “Now more than ever, the president must get the
message: Hands off the special counsel.” To the Post, “Congressional
Republicans appear not to have learned the lessons from last week’s
elections,” as “their spineless appeasement of Mr. Trump proved unpopular.
More of the same will not save them – either from further electoral defeat
or from the judgment of history.”

        *“Saudi Arabia’s Latest Account Of Khashoggi’s Death Is Shocking In
Its Audacity.” *A Washington Post
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(11/15) editorial calls Saudi Arabia’s new account of journalist Jamal
Khashoggi’s death “shocking in its audacity. Having previously acknowledged
that the journalist was the victim of premeditated murder, authorities in
Riyadh reverted to an earlier, discredited tale: that Mr. Khashoggi was
killed spontaneously inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul by a team sent
to return him to Saudi Arabia.” The Post says that “by offering up this
incredible account, the Saudi regime is baldly defying all those, including
leading members of Congress, who called for full disclosure and
accountability. Yet the Trump administration appears ready to accept its
stonewalling.”

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