Subject: FW: Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing for Monday, November 19, 2018
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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*Monday, November 19, 2018 8:00 AM EST*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden Adopts A Shelter Dog. <#S1>

• WHYY Documentary Focuses On Biden. <#S2>

• Weekly Standard Writer Has Biden Outside The Top Six Rankings Of
Potential 2020 Democrats. <#S3>

• Politico: For Biden, 1994 Crime Bill Could Be Hurdle In A 2020 Democratic
Primary. <#S4>

• Brown: Exposing Trump’s “Phony Populism” Key To Winning Ohio In 2020.
<#S5>

• Biden Praises University Of Pennsylvania President Gutmann. <#S6>

• Two Men Arrested In Theft Of Naomi Biden’s Credit Card. <#S7>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump Says He “Will Not Get Involved” In Mueller Probe, Insists Whitaker
“Will Do What’s Right.” <#S8>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump Says He Doesn’t Want To Hear Recording Of Khashoggi’s Killing. <#S9>

• Trump Calls North Korea Most Difficult Obstacle Of His Presidency. <#S10>

• Trump Slams McRaven, Says It Would’ve “Been Nice” If US Killed Bin Laden
“Sooner.” <#S11>

• Trump Pushing Allies To Contribute To Their Defense. <#S12>

• Taliban, US Envoy Hold Talks In Qatar. <#S13>

• Netanyahu To Assume Israel’s Defense Minister Post. <#S14>

• French Approval For Macron Dips To 25% As Fuel Tax Hike Protests Erupt.
<#S15>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Jerry Brown: Trump Has Promised “Substantial” Funds, Has California’s
“Back.” <#S16>

• Trump Says He’s Weighing Handful Of Senior Personnel Changes. <#S17>

• Trump On Acosta: “If He Misbehaves We Will Throw Him Out.” <#S18>

• Trump: Caravan Causing “Crime And Big Problems” In Tijuana. <#S19>

• Trump: Media Reports About Post-Election Anger “Disgusting Fake News.”
<#S20>

• Nelson Concedes Florida Senate Race After Manual Recount. <#S21>

• Abrams: Georgia Election Results “Legal” But “Wrong.” <#S22>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• Married Medical Professionals Receive NCI Grant For Breast Cancer Imaging
Research. <#S23>

• MRI Technology Provider Receives NCI Grant. <#S24>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S25>

• Washington Post. <#S26>
Biden in the News
Biden Adopts A Shelter Dog.

News over the weekend that former Vice President Joe Biden has adopted a
German Shepherd from a shelter in Delaware drew widespread media coverage.
In a brief item, the CBS Weekend News
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(11/18, story 14, 0:15, Quijano) on Sunday reported that Biden “has a new
running mate – the furry, four-legged kind. He’s a German Shepherd named
Major. Biden and his wife, Jill, adopted him from a shelter in Delaware.
The Biden’s have another German Shepherd named Champ.”

        USA Today
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(11/18, Haller) reported that Major “had a rough beginning, surrendered
from a life-threatening toxic home. But now he’s going home with” the
Bidens. USA Today adds, “The Delaware Humane Association announced the news
this weekend on Facebook, with photos of the [former Vice President and
Major] spending time together. Major is from a litter of six other German
shepherd puppies, who were given ‘life-saving medical care’ after exposure
to ‘something toxic in their home,’ the Delaware Humane Association news
release said.”

        In a dispatch that appeared on the websites of numerous media
outlets, the AP
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(11/17) reports that Delaware Humane Association Director of Animal Care
Kerry Bruni on Saturday “said the Bidens had been providing foster care for
the dog in their home for several months and were ready to make the
adoption official. Bruni said the former vice president reached out to see
if he could help after the association posted on social media earlier this
year that it had received a litter of sick German Shepherd puppies. Biden
recently returned to the campaign trail to stump for Democratic candidates
and has said he expects to decide whether to seek the 2020 presidential
nomination by early next year.”

        The Delaware News Journal
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(11/18, Peterson) reported that Major “is a playful, affectionate and
outgoing puppy, so Bruni said he is a good match for Biden. ‘The fact that
former vice president wanted to come into our agency and adopt was really
special,’ the director said. ‘I am glad he to wanted to be a part of
rescuing a dog.’” In an online article, CBS News
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(11/17, Linton) reported that Delaware Humane Society Executive Director
Patrick Carroll said in a statement, “It was such an honor for us to adopt
a puppy to Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden.”

        In an online article, CNN
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(11/17, Tatum) reported that Biden “is considered a top potential 2020
Democratic presidential candidate. As vice president, he would hand out
stuffed-animal versions of his other dog, Champ, to kids.” The Huffington
Post
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(11/17, Hanson) reported, “When the family got Champ in 2008, Joe Biden
received some criticism from animal welfare advocates for going to a
high-volume breeder rather than a shelter or rescue group. On Saturday,
though, many were praising the Bidens for opting to adopt from a shelter.”
Among the other media outlets reporting on the story are TIME
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(11/17, Martinez), People
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(11/17, Mizoguchi), The Hill
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(11/17, Gstalter), Fox News
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(11/17, Zwirz), the Washington Examiner
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(11/17, Gualtieri), BuzzFeed News
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(11/18, McNeal), Vogue
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(11/18, Allaire), and Inquisitr
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(11/17, Walker).
WHYY Documentary Focuses On Biden.

In his column for the Delaware County (PA) Daily Times
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(11/18), Neal Zoren discussed WHYY-TV’s documentary “Delaware’s Joe Biden,”
which aired Sunday night “on Channel 12” in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Zoren wrote that WHYY Assistant Vice President for News Operations John
Mussoni says that the documentary “is not a critique or overview of Mr.
Biden’s political career. It doesn’t, Mussoni adds, delve into big issues
or big moments of his life as a senator and vice president.” Said Mussoni,
“It’s about a man from Delaware who is Joe to the people who live [in
Delaware]. ... He’s just Joe to them, a guy who will pose for a selfie at
Christiana Mall or go for coffee on Saturdays at a favorite local spot.”
Weekly Standard Writer Has Biden Outside The Top Six Rankings Of Potential
2020 Democrats.

Writing for the Weekly Standard
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(11/19), Jonathan Last offered his rankings of the field of potential 2020
Democratic presidential candidates. Topping the list is Sen. Bernie Sanders
(I-VT), followed by Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Kamala Harris (D-CA),
Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Cory Booker (D-NJ). As
for the rest of the potential field, Last says, “Lots of people are going
to take a good, hard look at running. Joe Biden, Andrew Cuomo, Terry
McAuliffe, Michael Bloomberg, Amy Klobuchar, Eric Garcetti. And don’t sleep
on Michael Avenatti. Or Oprah. The field is so wide open than anyone could
run. Everyone might run.”
Politico: For Biden, 1994 Crime Bill Could Be Hurdle In A 2020 Democratic
Primary.

Politico
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(11/19, Thompson) reported, “White and nonwhite Democratic hopefuls are
talking more explicitly about race than the party’s White House aspirants
ever have – and shrugging off warnings that embracing so-called identity
politics could distract from the party’s economic message and push white
voters further into Donald Trump’s arms. While the 2020 primary will
feature debates about Medicare for all and college affordability, the
Democratic base also wants to know how candidates will address systemic
racism and what they think it means to be an ally to people of color.”
Consequently, adds Politico, “white potential candidates, such as former
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Vice President Joe Biden, are
receiving renewed scrutiny over their records. Bloomberg stirred
controversy this fall when he defended his controversial stop-and-frisk
policy as mayor.” And Biden, if he enters the race, “will almost certainly
be asked about the 1994 crime bill he helped write as a senator.”
Brown: Exposing Trump’s “Phony Populism” Key To Winning Ohio In 2020.

The Washington Times
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(11/18, Howell) reports that Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) on Sunday told NBC’s
Meet the Press
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that he is still considering the “intensely personal decision” of whether
to seek the presidency in 2020, but the Times says he has “devised a
playbook for defeating President Trump.” Brown “said Sen. Elizabeth Warren,
former Vice President Joseph R. Biden or whoever the nominee is” needs to
focus on “the dignity of work” to win Ohio. Brown said, “Make the contrast
between the phony populism of Donald Trump, where the White House looks
like a retreat for Wall Street executives, and the real populism, where
populism is not racist. It’s not anti-Semitic. It doesn’t push some people
down to lift others up. ... I think any one of them can win my state, if
they make that contrast between the phony populism of Donald Trump and the
dignity of work and all that we stand for.” Breitbart
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(11/18, Key) reported that Brown was responding to “Meet the Press” host
Chuck Todd, who asked, “Do you think an Elizabeth Warren could carry Ohio,
Joe Biden could carry Ohio, with your message?”
Biden Praises University Of Pennsylvania President Gutmann.

Philly (PA)
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(11/19, Snyder) profiles University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann,
saying that in 2016, she enlisted former Vice President Joe Biden “to
lecture at the school and run a Washington D.C.-based center on diplomacy
and global engagement.” And more recently, “she reached out to Jeb Bush,
former Florida governor,” who has now “joined Penn as a ‘presidential
professor of practice.’” Philly says that Biden “praised Gutmann as having
‘incredible vision and determination’ and supported her decision to bring
on Bush. ‘We need to set an example for our future leaders about how to
talk to one another – and, more importantly, disagree with one another –
with respect,’ Biden said. ‘…In a country as big and boisterous and diverse
as ours, compromise is essential to being able to govern.’”
Two Men Arrested In Theft Of Naomi Biden’s Credit Card.

The New York Post
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(11/16, Rosner, Hirsch, Musumeci) reported, “The Biden women can’t seem to
escape credit card troubles. Former Vice President Joe Biden’s
granddaughter, 25-year-old Naomi Biden, was ripped off last month by a pair
of men who swiped her credit and debit card from her lost wallet and went
‘on a shopping spree,’ authorities said.” Biden discovered “she had been
scammed when she checked her bank records and learned that her credit card
was used that day at a V.I.M. clothing store in Manhattan’s Hamilton
Heights, officials said.” Two men have been arrested in the case – “Stephen
Flanagan, 28, and 30-year-old Michael Echavarria, 30.” Earlier this year,
“Joe Biden’s niece, 31-year-old Caroline Biden dodged jail time for using a
stolen credit card to rack up over $100,000 in goods at a Greenwich Village
pharmacy.” The Daily Mail (UK)
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(11/16, Simpson) also reported on the story.
Leading the News
Trump Says He “Will Not Get Involved” In Mueller Probe, Insists Whitaker
“Will Do What’s Right.”

In an interview with Fox News Sunday
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(11/18), the President discussed the impact of naming Matt Whitaker as
acting Attorney General on the Robert Mueller investigation. Said Trump, “I
will not get involved. All of these people say I’m going to end the
investigation. They have said that for a long time. This is going on
forever. How long have I been looked at? From the day I announced I was
looked at as a candidate with nothing, no proof. With people like McCabe
and Peter Strzok and his lover and Lisa Paige, his lover, those people were
looking at me. They wanted an insurance policy just in case I won or held
or lost. And this is their policy: it is a scam. There was no collusion
whatsoever. And the whole thing is a scam.” Reuters
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(11/18, Becker) notes the President “said he was unaware of Whitaker’s past
statements about Mueller’s probe and that he would ‘not get involved’ if
Whitaker moved to curtail it.” The President stated[image: Image removed by
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“It’s going to be up to him. .. I think he’s very well aware politically. I
think he’s astute politically. ... He’s going to do what’s right.”

        Most mainstream media reports cast Trump’s comments as potentially
ominous for the future of the investigation. ABC World News Tonight[image:
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(11/18, story 3, 2:05, Palmeri) said, for example, that “when it comes
to...Whitaker, the President saying he has free reign to limit the Mueller
probe.” The CBS Weekend News
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(11/18, story 5, 0:55, Barnett) reported, meanwhile, that
“should...Whitaker move to limit or scuttle the Mueller probe,” the
President “said he would not intervene.”

        Politico
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(11/18, Warmbrodt) says “Trump defended Whitaker’s criticism of the Mueller
probe,” and the New York Times
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(11/18, Haberman) that he “claimed that he had no idea that his acting
attorney general...viewed the Mueller investigation skeptically, despite
reports that the two had multiple conversations about the inquiry over the
past year.” The Daily Caller
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(11/18, Ross) recounts that “as the head of a conservative think tank,
Whitaker gave numerous interviews in which he called the investigation a
‘witch hunt’ and said that he had seen no evidence of collusion between the
Trump campaign and Russian government.” Trump said yesterday, “I did not
know that. I did not know that he took views on the Mueller investigation
as such,” but “if he said that there is no collusion, he’s right.”

        The Washington Times
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(11/18, Miller) reports “Trump’s pick of Mr. Whitaker...ignited renewed
accusations that the president was trying to squelch the investigation,”
and the Washington Post
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(11/18, Sonmez) that “Whitaker has faced calls from Democrats to recuse
himself from oversight of the probe given his previous criticism of the
investigation.” Bloomberg News
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(11/18, Jacobs), among other news outlets, runs a similar report this
morning.

        On NBC’s Meet the Press
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(11/18), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said, “It would be a disaster for the
Republican Party, for the Mueller investigation to be terminated or shut
down or played with. It’s close to the end, let’s see what he finds. I can
understand why the President doesn’t like the investigation. He feels
wronged by it. I remember the Clinton/Ken Starr episode pretty well. This
is standard practice. But I think most Republicans on Capitol Hill and
Democrats believe that Mr. Mueller should be allowed to do his job and I
have no indication he’s going to be interfered with at all.”

        Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) talked about Whitaker’s appointment on ABC’s
This Week
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(11/18). He said, “Well, what we really need is a permanent attorney
general. We need to move as quickly as we can beyond the acting attorney
general to the attorney general who’s going to be there for a much longer
period of time. We’ll see. I don’t know Matt Whitaker well. I’ve known him
for sometime. I met him in Iowa when he was US attorney. On the occasions
I’ve had with him he’s been very responsive and has seen that the Justice
Department responded to the things I asked about. In terms of an acting
capacity he seems to me to be the person who has the ability to do the
acting job.”

        Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) discussed the appointment on CBS’ Face
the Nation
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(11/18). He said, “We’re going to certainly look at every angle. I’m hoping
that I would love to see him recuse himself, because I think the things
that he has said about defunding the special probe and the many things that
he has talked about with regard to his opinion, his negative opinion with
regard to the special counsel in the process. I don’t think he’s the proper
person to be in that position. But again, I think almost anything he does
in the position of the interim may very well be tainted, because we’re not
clear, it’s not clear that he is an legitimate appointment to that
position.”

        *Trump Says He Answered Mueller’s Written Questions “Very Easily.” *The
Washington Post
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Trump “essentially shut the door to sitting down with Mueller, telling host
Chris Wallace that his written answers mean ‘probably this is the end’ of
his involvement in the probe into Russian interference in the 2016
campaign.” Said Trump, “I think we’ve wasted enough time on this witch hunt
and the answer is probably: We’re finished.” The President added that “he
had given ‘very complete answers to a lot of questions’ and that ‘that
should solve the problem,’” and that he had done so “very easily.” The
President also “told Wallace in Sunday’s interview that it “wasn’t a big
deal” and that he expects his legal team to submit the answers ‘at some
point very soon.’”

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(11/18, Haberman), Trump’s comments “marked an apparent reversal from a
year of claiming that he was willing and eager to be interviewed by the
special counsel.” The Times adds “Trump’s legal team has blanched at the
idea, fearing that the president might lie under oath, and has steadily
narrowed the path for such an interview.”

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(11/18), “The President tells allies he’s convinced the special counsel is
gunning for him and gunning for his son, Don Jr. His lawyers wrestled with
the answers, I’m told, because of the specificity of some questions about
then candidate or President-elect Trump’s calls and meetings. And while the
President’s spoken words were fairly calm, his tweets made clear his
anxiety.”

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(11/18), “I think that’s why we’ve seen the President’s agitation
resurface, primarily because he had several hours of meetings with these
lawyers, including on Monday when he got that criticism for not going out
to Arlington cemetery. He has been meeting with them and so it is back on
his mind. And during ahead of the midterms, he was able to push it off
until after the midterms because they didn’t believe the special counsel
would make any moves ahead of the election.”

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(11/18), “The President and his lawyers don’t have 100 percent visibility
into this investigation but the questions themselves that came to the
President are probably the best indication, or move that ball forward in
the sense of communicating to trump and his lawyers, you know, some of the
detailed stuff that the special counsel has been assembling. And that has
got to be unnerving to them. When you all of a sudden are forced to answer
not sort of generality questions about did you or didn’t you, is there or
isn’t there collusion but rather specific questions, did you participate in
this meeting at this specific time or on this call? It’s clear by the
question that they have detailed records that the special counsel has been
looking at. That’s got to be what they’re trying to be very careful about.”

        Mo Elleithee, executive director of the Georgetown University
Institute of Politics, said on Fox News MediaBuzz[image: Image removed by
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(11/18), “The President’s frustration, I guess I get it. His reactions, I
don’t. It doesn’t serve him well politically, frankly. If he were to sit
back and say fine there is nothing there, but I will fully cooperate and
show you that there is nothing there, I think he would take it away this
concern. But that’s not how he’s wired.”

        *President Mocks “Little Adam Schitt” Over Criticism Of Whitaker
Appointment. *The President went on to tweet
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yesterday, “So funny to see little Adam Schitt (D-CA) talking about the
fact that Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker was not approved by the
Senate, but not mentioning the fact that Bob Mueller (who is highly
conflicted) was not approved by the Senate!”

        Rep. Adam Schiff had earlier discussed the Whitaker
appointment on ABC’s
This Week
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(11/18), saying, “I think the appointment is unconstitutional.
Constitutionally it has to be subject to confirmation. I think they lose
that case when it goes to the Supreme Court. It’s also in conflict with a
more specific statute. There’s a succession statute for the Justice
Department which makes the Justice Department different from other
agencies. It doesn’t say you can use the Vacancy’s Act to avoid the success
plan. It’s a flawed appointment. The biggest flaw is he was chosen for the
purpose of interfering with the Mueller investigation. He auditioned for
the part by saying he could hobble the investigation. Ethically he should
have nothing to do with the investigation.”

        USA Today
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(11/18, Cummings) says Trump “crudely mocked” Schiff, the AP
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(11/18, Press) that he “is name-calling...Schiff,” and Politico
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(11/18, Forgey) that he “may have coined his crudest nickname yet for a
political rival.” Politico adds “the White House did not immediately
respond to a request for comment on whether the president’s misspelling of
Schiff’s name was intentional.” Moreover, “the office of first lady Melania
Trump, who has championed anti-cyberbullying efforts through her ‘Be Best’
initiative, also did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.” The Washington
Examiner
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(11/18, Lim) describes Trump as “setting Twitter alight as pundits quickly
pointed out the similarity between ‘Schitt’ and an expletive,” and Breitbart
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(11/18, Wong) notes Schiff “is expected to become chairman of the House
Intelligence Committee.”

        The New York Post
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(11/18, Moore) reports that Schiff later “took to Twitter
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to fire back at Trump,” writing, “Wow, Mr. President, that’s a good one.
Was that like your answers to Mr. Mueller’s questions, or did you write
this one yourself?”

        The New York Times
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(11/18, Mervosh) reports “the White House did not immediately respond to a
request for comment Sunday evening: Was it a nickname? A typo? Both?” To
the Times, “history offers little guidance,” as “Trump is...known for typos
and spelling errors in his tweets.” The Times points out that “perhaps most
famously, Mr. Trump incited a worldwide mystery with a middle-of-the-night
tweet that introduced a new word to the language: ‘covfefe.’ We still don’t
know what that means.” On the other hand, “as we debate this new mystery,
we can tell you this: Mr. Trump’s profanity-adjacent tweet went up Sunday
afternoon and had not been deleted by Sunday night.”

        *Flake Pushing For Legislation Protecting Mueller. *On CNN’s State
of the Union
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(11/18), Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) discussed potential legislation to protect
the Mueller investigation. Flake said, “This legislation was passed in
April and on a bipartisan basis, which we don’t often get out of the
Judiciary Committee, including our chairman voting for it. ... What I’m
saying is that this has to be priority now. We have a situation where the
President has fired the attorney general and given authority of the
investigation by someone who has not been confirmed by the Senate and has
expressed hostility to the investigation. How my colleagues don’t see this
as priority now, I don’t understand. It needs to come to the Senate floor
and is worth using a little leverage here.” Flake went on to say, “I would
sure like to see it as part of the spending plan, because that will make it
law.”

        *Nunes: Documents Will Show Officials Misled FISA Court To Launch
Russia Probe. *The Washington Examiner
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(11/18, Chaitin) reports “House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin
Nunes, R-Calif., revealed the existence of a ‘fourth bucket’ of information
related to potential misconduct by the FBI that he wants declassified.”
Nunes “said his panel’s investigation into the Justice Department and FBI
is largely complete. Still, he said the public release of these ‘buckets’
would help give his efforts a sense of ‘finality.’” The Examiner adds Nunes
said “the last tranche of documents...pertains to emails showing knowledge
about withholding information from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act court.” Nunes told Fox, “The new fourth bucket that we’re asking to be
declassified now is – for months we have been reviewing emails between FBI,
and DOJ, and others that clearly show that they knew about information that
should have been presented to the FISA court.”

        On Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures[image: Image removed by sender.
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(11/18), Nunes said of the House probe, “We are largely done. We finished
our investigation. We have three buckets we would like declassified. We
have a fourth bucket to be declassified. We sent a list of 40 names to our
task force that Chairman Goodlatte is heading up. They won’t get through
the names because they haven’t had enough time. Look, this begs an
investigation by the Department of Justice. They can investigate the dirty
cops and their connections to the Russians and the Clinton campaign. It’s
the special council or DOJ that has to do that. That’s the way this will be
solved. The American people know...many of the Trump campaign people were
targeted. They used the dossier. We need these buckets of information to be
declassified and give finality to the investigation.”

        Nunes also talked about the impact of the change in leadership on
the collusion investigation on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures[image:
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(11/18), saying, “I’m actually looking forward to our first open hearing.
For two years the Democrats on the committee and through Congress have been
saying they have more than circumstantial evidence that the Trump campaign
colluded with Russians. At the first open hearing I’m looking forward to
them releasing this information. We know that the only thing that hasn’t
leaked is this information about the Trump campaign. They promised it. They
have the majority. Finally they will present theory evidence.”

        *Trump, Conservatives Say Mueller Should Prosecute Steele Under
FARA. *The Washington Times
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(11/18, Scarborough) reports “Trump’s frustration last week over...Mueller
not investigating the Democrats’ links to Russia election meddling is aimed
at Christopher Steele,” a “paid Democratic Party operative who spread among
Washington power elites pre-Election Day Trump gossip originating from
Moscow.” Mueller “has made a theme of enforcing the Foreign Agent
Registration Act (FARA), which requires people working on behalf of
foreigners to register with the Justice Department or face criminal
liability.” But “an attorney for one indicted Russian firm, Concord
Management and Consulting LLC, accused Mr. Mueller of selective
prosecution. Why is Concord charged with election interference, but Mr.
Steele is not? asked Washington attorney Eric Dubelier.” Mueller “responded
by saying Mr. Steele’s actions are not on a par with elaborate Russian
social media trolling and computer hacking,” but “his court argument didn’t
explicitly say Mr. Steele is innocent of interference.” District Judge
Dabney L. Friedrich “rejected the Concord argument,” but “some
conservatives disagree.”

        *Mueller To Interview Credico Again After Thanksgiving. *The Daily
Beast
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(11/17, Woodruff) reports that “Mueller has unanswered questions for a
long-time associate of Roger Stone’s.” Randy Credico, “a lefty comedian and
activist who has known Stone for decades, testified before Mueller’s grand
jury in September, but his work with the Mueller probe is not done,
according to Credico’s lawyer.” Attorney Marty Stolar “confirmed to The
Daily Beast that his client will speak with Mueller in the future,” though
“Credico has already met with the Special Counsel’s team ‘a number of
times.’” The Daily Beast adds that “Credico’s next interview with Mueller’s
investigators is expected to come after Thanksgiving – a sign the Special
Counsel’s investigation of Stone will not conclude in the immediate
future.”
Foreign Policy
Trump Says He Doesn’t Want To Hear Recording Of Khashoggi’s Killing.

In an interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday[image: Image removed
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that was recorded Friday and broadcast Sunday, President Trump discussed
the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The AP
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(11/18, Riechmann, Lemire) reports Trump “made clear that the audio
recording, supplied by the Turkish government, would not affect his
response to the Oct. 2 killing of Khashoggi.” Said Trump, “It’s a suffering
tape, it’s a terrible tape. I’ve been fully briefed on it, there’s no
reason for me to hear it. ... I know everything that went on in the tape
without having to hear it.” Trump also “noted to ‘Fox News Sunday’ that”
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “has repeatedly denied being
involved in the killing inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.”

        Bloomberg News
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(11/18, Jacobs) reports that “Trump said Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman has denied to him perhaps five times any role in the killing,” and
that “the US may never know whether he was involved in the murder.” Trump
told Wallace, “Well, will anybody really know? All right, will anybody
really know?”

        “‘He told me that he had nothing to do with it,’ Trump said, adding
that ‘many people’ also said the crown prince had no knowledge of the
killing,’” Reuters
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(11/18, Lange) reports. Trump also “said he wants to maintain a close
alliance with Saudi Arabia despite Khashoggi’s death and questioned the
alleged role” of the crown prince, “who is known as MbS and is the
kingdom’s de facto ruler.” According to Reuters, the interview was taped
just “hours before government sources said the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) had briefed the Trump administration on the murder and its belief
that MbS ordered it.” On Saturday, Trump had called the CIA’s assessment
“very premature.”

        The CBS Weekend News
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(11/18, story 4, 1:15, Quijano) reported Trump “said an assessment on who
is responsible will be released soon,” while the Wall Street Journal
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(11/18, Gordon) says the CIA’s assessment linking Khashoggi’s killing to
Crown Prince Mohammed is the most direct challenge that the Administration
has faced on its policy toward Saudi Arabia. Neither Trump nor his aides
have signaled that they intend to withdraw their support for the crown
prince, widening the divide between the Administration and Congress on the
issue.

        The Los Angeles Times
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(11/18, King) says Trump “sided Sunday with the kingdom’s de facto ruler,
distancing himself from reported US intelligence assessments that the crown
prince had ordered the assassination.” The Times adds that Trump is “under
increasing pressure from lawmakers to punish Saudi Arabia” over the
assassination. ABC World News Tonight
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(11/18, story 5, 2:15, Llamas) reported that “members of Congress from both
parties [are] now speaking out saying they also believe the Crown Prince
was behind the murder plot.”

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(11/18), “I think the evidence is overwhelming that the Crown Prince was
involved,” and “I think sanctions are pretending to do something without
really doing anything. Most of these people are in prison other than the
Crown Prince. But the Crown Prince runs the country, and we deal with him.
If we put sanctions on people who are in prison, are we really doing
anything to punish them?” He stressed, “We need to punish who ordered this,
who is in charge, and really the only thing they understand over there is
strength. I think they will see sanctions as weakness on the part of the
President, and if the President wants to act strongly, he should cut off
the arms sales.”

        On NBC’s Meet the Press
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(11/18), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said, “If you know anything about Saudi
Arabia and anything about MBS, the fact that he didn’t know about it is
impossible for me to believe. If he is going to be the face and the voice
of Saudi Arabia going forward, I think the Kingdom will have a hard time on
the world stage. They’re an important ally, but when it comes to the crown
prince, he’s irrational, he’s unhinged, and I think he’s done a lot of
damage to the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia. And
I have no intention of working with him ever again.” Calling MBS “a
destructive force” and “a wrecking ball when it comes to the Mideast and a
relationship with the United States,” Graham asserted: “I hate to say that
because I had a lot of hope for him for being the reformer that Saudi
Arabia needs. But that ship has sailed as far as Lindsey Graham is
concerned.”

        On ABC’s This Week
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(11/18), Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said, “I can’t discuss the briefing. I can
tell you, at least my opinion and given how we know the Saudi government
operates and the crown prince’s essential role in that, it’s difficult for
me to perceive of a murder of a prominent journalist and critic being
carried out without the crown prince’s knowledge. It’s testing the
proposition that the enemy of our enemy is our friend. Iran is an enemy.
Saudi Arabia is important in pushing back against Iran. That doesn’t make
Saudi Arabia our friend. Our friends don’t murder journalists.” Schiff went
on to say, “The President needs to listen to what our intelligence
community has to say, what our professionals’ best assessment is. It’s
important this administration not allow itself to become a part of any
Saudi cover up.” He added, “The Saudis have already undermined their
position in the world, undermined their standing. The administration needs
to make sure it doesn’t undermine its own standing.”

        Also on ABC’s This Week
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(11/18), Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) said, “A smoking gun would certainly help,”
but “the economy is not a reason to worry about the relationship.” He went
on to say, “Let’s see what the President says on Tuesday. High confidence
doesn’t mean you actually have what you need if that’s the term the CIA is
using. I’m not talking about what we heard this week, but what we read in
the paper this morning. If that is accurate, it means we don’t quite have
all the information we would like to have.” He stressed, however, “We need
to be absolutely sure we know exactly what we’re talking about and not what
the first step is, but also what the second and third step that that first
step would lead you to really determines.”

        On CNN’s State of the Union
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(11/18), Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said that “you have to deal with the truth
here and it looks more and more like the truth is that the crown prince was
involved, that he likely ordered it. So to just deflect and say it’s a
spectacular ally when, in fact, some of the bloom has been coming off that
rose for a while, particularly given the war in Yemen. There are things
that we’ll have to confront here soon. And I hope we do it based on the
truth, not in something that we simply want to see because we have a lot
invested in the relationship with the crown prince now.”

        In an analysis, the New York Times
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(11/18, Landler) says the President’s remarks Sunday “were a vivid
illustration of how deeply Mr. Trump has invested in the 33-year-old heir,
who has become the fulcrum of the administration’s strategy in the Middle
East – from Iran to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process – as well as a
prolific shopper for American military weapons, even if most of those
contracts have not paid off yet.” His comments “also showed how stubbornly
Mr. Trump has decided to stick with his ally.” To the Times, “The
president’s defense of the prince is reminiscent of how he deflects
questions about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election by saying that
President Vladimir V. Putin always denies it when he asks” – and as with
Russia, “those statements have become increasingly unpersuasive.”

        Likewise, the Washington Post
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(11/18, Deyoung) says in an analysis that during his summit meeting with
Putin in July, “Trump appeared to side with the Russian leader over US
intelligence officials on the matter of Moscow’s interference in US
elections,” and “further muddied his stance in later comments on the
issue.” Trump’s aides have said that the President “has been looking for
ways to avoid pinning the blame on Mohammed, a close ally who plays a
central role in Trump’s Middle East policy,” but the Post says this “goal
has been complicated by shifting, contradictory stories from Riyadh, the
Saudi capital, and the emergence of evidence pointing to Mohammed,
including the recording.”
Trump Calls North Korea Most Difficult Obstacle Of His Presidency.

On Fox News Sunday
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(11/18), President Trump called North Korean denuclearization the toughest
obstacle in his presidency. Asked about the potential for new North Korean
nuclear facilities, Trump said, “Maybe they are, maybe they are not. I
don’t believe that. That is the way it goes, that’s the way goes! You know,
I go with the way we have to go. But so far it’s been good. Have a very
good relationship. I think we have some great decisions for the people of
the country. And I do, I put America first. And other countries should put
themselves first. It is not like we should put everybody else – other
countries are proud of their countries and their leadership first. But we
put our country in many cases last. We are worried about the world and that
is not going to happen with me.”
Trump Slams McRaven, Says It Would’ve “Been Nice” If US Killed Bin Laden
“Sooner.”

ABC World News Tonight
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(11/18, story 4, 1:00, Llamas) reported President Trump is “making news”
for his response to retired Adm. Bill McRaven’s “claims that his attacks on
the media are the greatest threat to democracy that he has seen in his
life.” Noting that McRaven commanded the operation that killed Osama bin
Laden, ABC showed Trump in a an interview with Fox News Sunday[image: Image
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calling McRaven a “Hillary Clinton backer” and “an Obama backer.” ABC then
showed Fox News’ Chris Wallace noting that McRaven is a Navy SEAL. Trump:
“Wouldn’t it have been nice if we got Osama bin Laden sooner than that?
Wouldn’t it have been nice. Living – think of this. Living in Pakistan.
Beautifully in Pakistan. In what I guess they consider a nice mansion. I
don’t know. I have seen nicer.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(11/18, Lim) says Trump “took shots” at McRaven, while the New York Post
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(11/18, Schwab) describes “a volley of criticism” from Trump against
McRaven. The Post says when Wallace “pointed out that McRaven, who didn’t
endorse a presidential hopeful in 2016, had been a Navy SEAL for 37 years,”
Trump “ignored him and continued his attack.” The Washington Post
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(11/18, Sonne) says the comments “represent the latest point of tension
between Trump and a group of retired general officers who have criticized
the commander in chief publicly for his handling of national security and
military matters.”

        In an analysis, the Washington Post
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(11/18, Sonne, Rucker) says Trump “has risked alienating parts of the
military community by escalating a fight with one of its most revered
members...amid other recent remarks and decisions that have fanned
controversy in the ranks and among some who served.” Trump’s comments
“escalated a war of words that began last year when McRaven called Trump’s
description of the news media as the ‘enemy of the people’ the greatest
threat to American democracy he had ever seen.” The Post adds that the
comments “came amid broader questions about Trump’s relationship with
military matters.”
Trump Pushing Allies To Contribute To Their Defense.

The Washington Times
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(11/18, Muñoz) reports that the Administration “has embarked on a quiet
bilateral campaign to extract more defense dollars from several countries,
including South Korea and Saudi Arabia, saying they must pay more to fund
American security missions and bases in their countries.” As with President
Trump’s trade strategy, the Times says, “the defense spending talks are a
bid to put meat on the bones of the president’s ‘America First’ foreign
policy, and upend longstanding practices that Mr. Trump says burden
American taxpayers while giving a pass to countries that can easily
contribute more to their own safety.” Despite this “sharp rhetoric,”
defense analysts believe that “Trump’s frustrations have been shared by
both Democratic and Republican presidents.” What is “new, they say, is the
openness with which Mr. Trump is demanding a rebalancing.”
Taliban, US Envoy Hold Talks In Qatar.

The AP
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(11/18, Gannon) reports the Taliban and US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad
have held three days of talks in Qatar, “a Taliban official and another
individual close to the group said Sunday.” While he did not explicitly
mention the talks, Khalilzad told a news conference Sunday in Kabul, “I am
talking to all interested parties, all Afghan groups... and I think there
is an opportunity for reconciliation and peace. ... The Afghan government
wants peace. ... The Taliban are saying they do not believe they can
succeed militarily, that they would like to see the problems that remain,
resolved by peaceful means, by political negotiations.”
Netanyahu To Assume Israel’s Defense Minister Post.

Axios
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(11/18, Basu) reports Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday
said that “he will take over as defense minister after Avigdor Lieberman,
the official who previously held the position, resigned over his opposition
to a cease-fire with Palestinian militants in Gaza, reports AP
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Axios explains, “All members of Lieberman’s party quit Netanyahu’s
government coalition after his resignation, leaving the prime minister with
a one-seat majority in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament.” Netanyahu has
“rejected calls from the remaining coalition partners to hold early
elections.” According to Axios, “Any decision on whether an early election
takes place or not will likely have an impact on the White House’s decision
to roll out its peace plan for the region.”
French Approval For Macron Dips To 25% As Fuel Tax Hike Protests Erupt.

Reuters
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(11/18, White, Louet) reports French President “Emmanuel Macron’s
popularity took a further hit in recent weeks, according to a poll on
Sunday, as fuel tax protests rumbled on across France in the latest sign of
discontent with the president’s economic reforms.” In an Ifop poll
conducted between Nov. 9-17, only 25 percent of nearly 2,000 respondents
“said they were satisfied with Macron, down from 29 percent in October.”
Macron “has brushed off slumping ratings to push through a series of
reforms,” but his government’s fuel tax increases aimed at encouraging
“drivers to embrace less-polluting cars” touched “a nerve with voters” as
“the extra cost began to bite in October when global oil prices surged.” At
least 400 people were injured when irate “motorists and other
demonstrators, many accusing Macron of being out of touch with ordinary
people, blocked roads across France on Saturday in a grassroots campaign
dubbed the ‘Yellow Vests’ that drew nearly 288,000 protesters.”
Domestic Policy
Jerry Brown: Trump Has Promised “Substantial” Funds, Has California’s
“Back.”

USA Today
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(11/18, Bacon) reports California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) told CBS’ Face the
Nation
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that President Trump has promised “substantial” funds to help the state
following the deadly fires that have swept the state. Brown called the
pledge a “big, big win” for California. He added, “The president not only
has signed a presidential declaration giving California substantial
funding, but he said and pledged very specifically to continue to help us,
that he’s got our back. And I thought that was a very positive thing.” USA
Today adds that Brown acknowledged the contentious “back and forth” between
Trump and state leaders, but added that “in this, in the face of tragedy,
people tend to rise above some of their lesser propensities. So I think
we’re on a good path.”

        The CBS Weekend News
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(11/18, lead story, 0:50, Quijano) reported in its lead story that the
President “saw the devastation for himself, again suggesting better forest
management could prevent such disasters.” Brown responded in his CBS
interview Sunday. Brown: “And the President has talked about how our
forests are management managed, that’s an element, but there is also the
way the houses are built, the materials, what kind of vegetation is around,
and then there is also the changing climate and the increasing drought and
the lowered humidity and water vapor.”

        Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) told ABC’s This Week[image: Image removed
by sender. Video]
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(11/18), “Listen, I’m glad [Trump is] there. I’m glad he’s offering federal
funds. That’s what he should do. That’s what a President is expected to do.
Of course, I think all Californians were upset with the statements he made
early in the week, when people were facing utter devastation. But, we need
to focus on putting these fires out. We need to protect ourselves because
all too often when the fires are out and rains are coming mudslides follow
and other tragedy follows. We need to get through this period. Our hearts
are going out to those affected. We’re so grateful for the responders out
there.”

        Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) said on MSNBC’s Politics Nation[image:
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(11/17), “The President is, at least partially correct. We do have a forest
management problem. The national forest and the state forest, they are
under serious stress as a result of climate change. The number of dead
trees, dying trees in our forests both national, state and private is
over-the-top in the probably the hundreds of millions of trees. That is
definitely a forest management problem caused by climate change.”

        Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) said on MSNBC AM Joy[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(11/18), “It is unfortunate that we have a President that doesn’t appear to
believe in science. If preventing wildfires were as easy as raking leaves,
we would have done that by now. But it is a very complicated issue. Climate
change does play a large role. ... So, I hope the President consults some
experts, maybe talks to his folks who actually know something about
wildfires. and stops believing these bizarre theories that he has.”

        On Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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(11/18), Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) said, “The tragic part is years ago we had
timber mills in the state. We used to take this wood out of the state. What
the American people need to know is if you don’t remove the wood and brush
eventually it burns. You either forcefully pull it out or it burns. It’s
frustrating to hear the left who have blocked the access to these forests
off. You no longer build fire breaks. You no longer take the trees that
have fallen and remove them. That’s fuel. Once it ignites it burns really
hot and tragic things happen like we have here. This will be one of the
biggest catastrophes in history.”

        *More Than 1,200 Unaccounted For In Paradise. *Meg Oliver reported
on the CBS Weekend News
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(11/18, story 2, 2:10, Quijano) that the number of people unaccounted for
in Paradise, California “has soared to more than 1,200.” Meanwhile, the
Camp Fire “has burned over 149,000 acres. 9,700 homes have been destroyed,
more than 46,000 people were evacuated. At least 76 people were killed.
Sunday hundreds of displaced residents for FEMA assistance, many of them
lost everything.”

        *Smoke Has Made Northern California Air Quality The Worst In The
World. *The CBS Weekend News
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(11/18, story 3, 1:15, Quijano) reported that “smoke from the wildfires has
made the air quality in Northern California the worst in the world. Rain
later this week could provide relief, not just for firefighters, but for
millions struggling to breathe.” CBS (Watts) added, “The forecast does
remain unhealthy air quality for the entire Bay Area and much of Northern
California through at least Monday.”
Trump Says He’s Weighing Handful Of Senior Personnel Changes.

President Trump discussed upcoming personnel moves in a Sunday morning
interview with Fox News. The CBS Weekend News[image: Image removed by
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(11/18, story 6, 0:25, Barnett) reported Trump “said he wants Kirstjen
Nielsen, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary, to be much tougher.
He also highlighted weaknesses in his Chief of Staff John Kelly.” The
President “said that he is happy with both of them,” but “he made it clear
that it’s possible they could both move on.”

        On Fox News Sunday
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(11/18), Trump said on Nielsen, “I like her and respect her. She’s very
smart. I want her to get much tougher and I will see what happens there.
But I want to be extremely tough.” About Kelly, Trump said, “I wouldn’t –
look, we get along well. There are certain things I love that he does and
certain things I do not like that he does. That are not his strength. It is
not that he doesn’t – he works so hard, he is doing an excellent job in
many ways. There are a couple of things where it is not his strength. It’s
not his fault, it is not his strength.” Trump went on to say, “Look, I have
three or four or five positions I am thinking about. Of that, maybe we’ll
end up being two. I need flexibility.”

        To the AP
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=065-d5b&t=c>
(11/18, Lemire), “Trump isn’t committing to a previous pledge to
keep...Kelly for the remainder of his term,” and to the New York Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=066-e02&t=c>
(11/18, Schwab) he offered him and Nielsen “a lukewarm endorsement as he
signaled that he’s likely to shakeup as many as five White House posts.” The
Hill
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=067-50b&t=c>
(11/18, Samuels) reports “Trump said Sunday he’s considering making a
change to as many as five Cabinet positions,” and the Daily Caller
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=068-f17&t=c>
(11/18, Enjeti) that he “tempered his criticism of Nielsen at the beginning
of his answer, noting, ‘she’s very smart,” and added that “that there is a
‘chance’ he could retain” her “in her position, but also told Wallace that
it was normal to have people come in and out of government.” Said Trump,
“That’s what happens in government – you leave. You make a name, you go.
The people that have left have done very well.”
Trump On Acosta: “If He Misbehaves We Will Throw Him Out.”

President Trump mentioned on Fox News Sunday[image: Image removed by
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(11/18) the situation with CNN reporter Jim Acosta after a federal judge
ruled that the White House must restore his credentials. Trump said, “It is
fine, it’s not a big deal. What they said there was that we have to create
rules and regulations for conduct, etc. We are doing that. It’s not a big
deal. And if he misbehaves we will throw him out.”

        Chris Wallace, who interviewed the President, said on Fox News
MediaBuzz
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(11/18), “Like a lot of things in life, there can be two things that are to
both true. One, I think Jim Acosta...embarrassed himself. I thought he
misbehaved,” but “pulling his pass was clearly a bridge too far and it was
a mistake. The President in his answer to my question about it – ‘no big
deal.’ I think they were stunned by the fact they lost and to a certain
degree were trying to downplay a defeat.”

        Emily Jashinsky of The Federalist said on Fox News MediaBuzz[image:
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<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=06b-753&t=c>
(11/18), “I wouldn’t say it’s a win for press freedom. I think it’s a win
for CNN. The President, politically, I think is smart to downplay it. It
was about due process. I was about: we are going to implement rules for
conduct at the briefings, which I hope to God take because they have turned
into such big circuses, and Acosta is a big part of that. Moving forward,
this can be a good thing, because the White House will implement rules and
reporters will know that they have to abide by them.”

        *Bernstein Suggests Cable News Stop Carrying White House Briefings
In Full. *The Washington Examiner
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(11/18, Lim) reports journalist Carl Bernstein told CNN’s Reliable
Sources[image:
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Sunday that “cable news networks should stop broadcasting White House press
conferences and briefings in their entirety.” Bernstein said, “I don’t
think we should be taking them live all the time and just pasting them up
on the air because they’re basically propagandist exercises because they
are overwhelmed by his dishonesty and lying. ... Maybe we should be there,
edit, decide as reporters what is news, and after the press conference or
briefing is over then go with that story with clips rather than treating
the briefing or press conference as a campaign event, which they really
are.” Bernstein added, however, that “it was important to still record the
events and make them available online for the record.”
Trump: Caravan Causing “Crime And Big Problems” In Tijuana.

The Washington Post
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(11/18, Partlow) reports Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastélum has described
the caravan of mostly Central American migrants “as a problem for Tijuana
and dismissed the claim that many are fleeing violence and political
persecution.” President Trump “seized on the mayor’s comments” Sunday.
Trump tweeted
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Sunday, “The Mayor of Tijuana, Mexico, just stated that ‘the City is
ill-prepared to handle this many migrants, the backlog could last 6
months.’ Likewise, the U.S. is ill-prepared for this invasion, and will not
stand for it. They are causing crime and big problems in Mexico. Go home!”

        In fact, the Palm Springs (CA) Desert Sun
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(11/18, Plevin) reports that a “group opposed to what they described as the
‘chaos’ of the migrant caravan and another group supportive of the Central
Americans prepared to hold dueling demonstrations on Sunday in the border
city of Tijuana.” Roughly “2,400 members of a caravan of mostly Central
American migrants arrived in Tijuana during the past week, and more than
1,000 in nearby Mexicali are expected to travel to Mexico’s westernmost
border city in the coming days.” Their presence “has already caused
divisions” among residents of Tijuana, where the Washington Times
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(11/18, Watson) reports migrants “said they do not feel welcome.” The Times
reports that “while many in Tijuana are sympathetic to the migrants’ plight
and trying to assist, some locals have shouted insults, hurled rocks and
even thrown punches at the migrants.”

        The New York Times
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(11/18, Malkin), meanwhile, reports that while the caravan is now just “a
few yards from the border wall that divides Mexico and the United States,”
it is dawning on many of the migrants that the Tijuana shelter where they
are currently living “could be their home for months if they decide to seek
legal entry into the United States.” City officials, “who fear that as many
as 10,000 migrants from this caravan and two more behind it may ultimately
alight in Tijuana in the coming weeks, are scrambling to provide for them.”
Trump: Media Reports About Post-Election Anger “Disgusting Fake News.”

President Trump gave a lengthy interview on Fox News Sunday[image: Image
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(11/18) in which he referred to reports about him feeling dejected and
angry since the election. Trump said of his mood, “It is very light. It is
fake news, disgusting fake news.” Reporters “never called me, no one ever
calls me. I don’t even think they have sources. I think they just make it
up. I will tell you, I am extremely upbeat. The White House is running like
a well-oiled machine. It is doing really well. ... I will tell you that it
is so wrong, the reporting about me is so wrong. I’m loving what I’m
doing.”

        Trump also reiterated his comments about the “fake news” media
being the enemy of the people, telling Fox News Sunday[image: Image removed
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<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=074-85a&t=c>
(11/18), “It is fake news, it is the enemy, it is fake, it is phony. I do
not mind getting bad news if I do something wrong. ... I’m saying fake
news, false reporting, dishonest reporting of which there is a lot, and I
know. I know it because I am a subject of it.”

        *Trump Claims “Tremendous Victory” In Midterms. *USA Today
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(11/18, Cummings) reports Trump “still claims” the midterm elections were a
“tremendous victory” for him and Republicans despite “Democrats’ strong
performance.” In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday[image:
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<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=076-844&t=c>,
the President “touted the fact that Republicans gained seats in the Senate,
a rare feat by the party occupying the White House during a midterm.” Trump
said, “I won the Senate, and that’s historic too. ... That’s a tremendous
victory. Nobody talks about that. That’s a far greater victory than it is
for the other side.” Trump added, “I have people that won’t vote unless I’m
on the ballot, OK? And I wasn’t on the ballot.” Trump added, “I won against
President Obama and Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama in a great state
called Georgia for the governor.” Trump said “it was all stacked against”
Republican Brian Kemp, despite, USA Today says, “the fact that the state
has not elected a Democratic governor since 1998 and that he was running
against an African-American woman in a state that has never elected an
African-American governor.”

        Bloomberg News
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(11/18, Brody) reports Trump also “took credit” for Gov. Rick Scott’s (R)
victory in the Florida Senate race. Trump said, “Rick Scott won and he won
by a lot,” but would have lost “if I didn’t put a spotlight on that
election.”

        *In Several States, Voters Split Ticket In Key Races. *The Washington
Post
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(11/18, Johnson) reports that some 188,000 of the “more than 2.3 million
Arizonans who voted in the midterm election” voted for Democrat Kyrsten
Sinema in the State’s US Senate race and Gov. Doug Ducey (R) in the
gubernatorial race. The Times adds, “A handful of other states also elected
leaders from a mix of parties.” According to strategists, voters “seem to
have different motivations as they pick which politicians they want to send
to Washington, where many assume not much will get done, and which ones
they want running their state and making decisions on taxes, the state
budget and education that they feel have more impact on their lives.”

        *Flake Says Republicans Are Losing The Suburbs. *Discussing the
results of the midterm elections on CNN’s State of the Union[image: Image
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(11/18), Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said, “Arizona is still nominally a
Republican state. We have a voter registration advantage still of 200,000
statewide. But you cannot run as someone who is tied at the hip with the
President and win statewide. Voters in Arizona are rejecting that. And I
think we’re seeing that elsewhere in the country as well. We’re losing the
suburbs. If we had a mass movement from the suburbs, for people to move
back to rural areas then perhaps our Republican party would have more of a
future but not the way that we’re going now. I’m very concerned about where
we are in Arizona and the rest of the country.”
Nelson Concedes Florida Senate Race After Manual Recount.

Democrat Bill Nelson yesterday conceded the Florida Senate race to
Republican Rick Scott after the conclusion of a statewide manual recount.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel
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(11/18, Rohrer, Bryan) reports the “hand recount showed” Scott “with a
10,033-vote victory in one of the closest, and at nearly $200 million, the
most expensive statewide races in Florida history.” The Washington Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=07b-33b&t=c>
(11/18, Sonmez) points out that “the outcome of the recount means Florida,
the nation’s third-most-populous state, will be represented by two GOP
senators” – something that, according to a recent Tampa Bay (FL) Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=07c-b21&t=c>
(11/6, Bousquet) story, hadn’t occurred since Reconstruction. President
Trump took to Twitter
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after Nelson’s concession, writing, “From day one Rick Scott never wavered.
He was a great Governor and will be even a greater Senator in representing
the People of Florida. Congratulations to Rick on having waged such a
courageous and successful campaign!”

        The Washington Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=07e-233&t=c>
(11/18, Press) reports “Scott issued a statement Sunday saying Nelson
‘graciously conceded,’” and the Palm Beach (FL) Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=07f-4b8&t=c>
(11/18, Musgrave) that the senator-elect “said he thanked Nelson for his 46
years of public service.” Said Scott, “We must do what Americans have
always done: come together for the good of our state and our country. ...
My focus will not be on looking backward, but on doing exactly what I ran
on: Making Washington Work. I know change is never popular in Washington
and that I’m just one person – but we have to start somewhere.”

        Florida Today
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(11/18, McCarthy) reports Nelson also “conceded via a video statement
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=081-dbb&t=c>,
cutting off any further legal challenges in the race.” In his message, says
the Washington Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=082-3d8&t=c>
(11/18, Varney), Nelson “took a parting shot at...Trump,” saying, “We have
to move beyond a politics that aims not just to defeat but to destroy. ...
Where truth is treated as disposable, where falsehoods abound, and the free
press is assaulted as the ‘enemy of the people.’”

        Reuters
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(11/18, Woodall) reports Nelson “became the latest incumbent Democratic
senator toppled in the midterm congressional election in which...Trump’s
fellow Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate but lost control
of the House of Representatives.” Axios
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=084-577&t=c>
(11/18, Atkinson) says “Nelson was one of 10 Senate Democrats running for
re-election in a state...Trump won in 2016,” and that “his defeat at the
hands of Scott...will help Republicans consolidate their Senate majority.” CQ
Roll Call
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=085-b5d&t=c>
(11/18, Lesniewski) indicates that “while there is a run-off still to come
in Mississippi, the Scott win makes it most likely the Senate Republicans
will hold a 53-47 majority in the 116th Congress.”

        The AP
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(11/18, Fineout) calls Nelson a “Florida political icon whose career
highlight may have been a trip on the space shuttle,” and the Tampa Bay
(FL) Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=087-d21&t=c>
(11/17, Bousquet, Contorno) says he “won three terms as a Democrat in the
US Senate seemingly without breaking a sweat, and for good reason: He faced
one weak opponent after another.” However, he “finally met his match
in...Scott, whose vast personal fortune, trademark aggressiveness and
single-minded discipline has proven to be just enough to produce an
excruciatingly narrow victory – Scott’s third, close statewide win in eight
years.” In fact, the New York Times
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(11/18, Mazzei, Robles, Astor) says this morning “no politician in recent
Florida history has proved to be as formidable as Mr. Scott, who can now
boast of an unbeaten election record in the nation’s largest presidential
battleground.”

        During the recount period, the Tampa Bay (FL) Times
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(11/17, Bousquet, Contorno) points out, “the Nelson campaign managed to
secure only one win in court.” US District Judge Mark Walker “gave voters
until 5 p.m. on Saturday to fix their ballots if they haven’t been counted
because of mismatched signatures,” but “nearly 5,700 ballots were rejected
because signatures on ballot envelopes did not match signatures kept on
file by election officials.” Walker “rejected a request by Democrats to
automatically count all the ballots with mismatched signatures.” Politico
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=08a-ac3&t=c>
(11/18, Dixon) also reports “the Nelson campaign had filed a stream of
lawsuits that it predicted would produce thousands of additional votes for
the three-term senator,” but “those efforts failed.” The Hill
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=08b-026&t=c>
(11/18, Greenwood) recounts that the recount “touched off a round of
litigation from both campaigns and ignited a bitter fight in the court of
public opinion, in which Republicans raised the prospect of rampant
election fraud and Democrats accused the GOP of voter suppression.”

        The Washington Post
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(11/17, Gardner) similarly reports says that “as they slogged through the
vote counts, party operatives and lawyers wielded the tactics they are
honing for the next contest.” The Post adds that “for Democrats, who
typically perform better in high-turnout elections, that meant pushing to
count as many votes as possible and accusing Republicans of trying to
suppress the vote.” For Republicans, meanwhile, “the goal was to limit the
number of eligible votes and claim Democrats were trying to steal the
election.” The Post continues, “The tone was set by Trump, who fired a
series of tweets after Election Day exhorting the GOP to ‘expose the
FRAUD!’ and asserting without evidence that Democrats were rigging the
election.” Townhall
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=08d-99b&t=c>
(11/18, O'Brien) reports, “It’s finally over,” and Bloomberg News
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(11/18, Edgerton, Levin) and the Wall Street Journal
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=08f-596&t=c>
(11/18, Jamerson, Duehren), among other news outlets, also report the
recount’s results.

        The New York Times
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(11/18, Thrush, Peters) reports that “to the combatants in both parties
fighting over impossibly tight races for governor and senate, the 2018
election was less about revisiting past political traumas than about
setting the stage for the bitter 2020 campaign ahead.” The Times adds
“Florida emerged from the 2018 midterms with a fortified reputation as the
nation’s most competitive battleground, a state whose political culture
most closely reflects the slashing political style of its adopted son,”
Trump, “with candidates focused on energizing voters with visceral, at
times over-the-top, messages.”

        In an editorial, the Wall Street Journal
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(11/18) derides Democratic attempts to have ballots in seeming violation of
election rules counted. The Journal goes on to urge Florida to tighten its
regulations regarding provisional ballots.

        *Gillum Conceded Gubernatorial Contest Saturday. *The CBS Weekend
News
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018111901biden&r=email-5196&l=092-ec5&t=c>
(11/18, story 7, 2:00, Dokoupil) reported that also in Florida, “Democratic
nominee Andrew Gillum conceded Saturday night to Republican Ron DeSantis.”
Gillum was shown saying, “Nobody wanted to be governor more than me. This
was not just about an election cycle. This is about creating the kind of
change in this state that really allows for the voices of every day people
to show up again.” Gillum said on MSNBC AM Joy[image: Image removed by
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(11/18), “If I had advice for DeSantis, it would be very quickly to bring
in a diverse set of people. ... Mr. DeSantis, I hope, will take this as an
opportunity to acknowledge that half the people in this state voted
differently, and they wanted a different outcome and that if he really
means to be the governor for all of the people of the state of Florida and
not just those that voted for him, that he’s going to have to make some
outreaches, that he is going to have to show some willingness to lean into
some of the issues that we talked about.”

        The Washington Times
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(11/18, Varney, Dinan) says that “nearly two weeks after voters had their
say, the final pieces of the election map are falling into place and the
GOP is getting some desperately needed good news, after a spate of other
races didn’t go their way.” The Times adds “some House races are still
being tallied, including in Utah, where Republican Rep. Mia Love has now
taken the lead in her re-election bid, after trailing in the count since
election night.”

        *Snipes Submits Resignation After Recount. *The South Florida Sun
Sentinel
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(11/18, Man) reports that “just hours after finishing a tumultuous election
recount, Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes submitted her
resignation, ending a 15-year tenure full of botched elections, legal
disputes and blistering criticism.” The Miami Herald
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(11/18, Smiley) says “Snipes was attacked as corrupt by...Trump and other
Republicans, accused without evidence of trying to steal the US Senate
election by...Scott and maligned as ‘incompetent’ by US Sen. Marco Rubio.”
The Herald adds that “egged on by the allegations, Republican protestors
spent days outside Snipes’ Lauderhill headquarters during a state-mandated
recount claiming that she was rigging the elections.” The Washington Times
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(11/18, Morton), among other news outlets, also reports the story.

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(11/18, story 6, 2:05, Ramos) said that there was “chaos and questions
plaguing Broward County...when election officials discovered more than 2000
ballots missing.” Snipes was shown saying, “The ballots are in this
building. There would be nowhere else for them to be.” The Miami Herald
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(11/18, Harris) reports, however, that Snipes later “told reporters that
2,040 ‘missing ballots’ were never missing, just misfiled.” They “weren’t
counted in the machine recount, but they were included in the totals sent
to the state from the first count.” The CBS Weekend News[image: Image
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(11/18, story 7, 2:00, Dokoupil) reported “Snipes admits there is room for
improvement.” Said Snipes, “It’s a big operation. But there are some things
that need to be tweaked on all sides in terms of the process that make up
elections.”
Abrams: Georgia Election Results “Legal” But “Wrong.”

Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) told CNN’s State
of the Union
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(11/18) she believes there was deliberate interference in the election.
Abrams said, “I believe it began eight years ago with the systematic
disenfranchisement of more than a million voters. It continued with the
underfunding and disinvestment in polling places, in training and in the
management of the county delivery of services. And I think it had its
pinnacle in this race.” The Washington Post
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(11/18, Wootson) reports that when host Jake Tapper asked Abrams if Kemp
was “the legitimate governor-elect,” Abrams “pivoted to her concerns about
irregularities, voter suppression and a last-minute investigation during
her campaign for her state’s highest office.” Tapper “pressed,” seeking to
determine “whether she thought Kemp had a legitimate claim on the office.”
Abrams said, “Yes, when he takes the oath of office, he will be the legal
governor of the state of Georgia. ... But what you are looking for me to
say is there was no compromise of our democracy and there should be some
political compromise in the language that I use, and that’s not right.
What’s not right is saying that something was done properly when it was
not. ... Will I say that his election was not tainted, was not a
disinvestment and a disenfranchisement of thousands of voters? I will not
say that.”

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(11/18) if she believes the result was legitimate. Abrams said, “I think
that it’s legal. I think it’s wrong. I think that what happened is that we
have watched systematic erosion of our democracy and over the course of
time that was overseen directly by my opponent in the race who also
happened to be responsible for the administration of fair elections, and he
didn’t do so.”

        *Brown: Kemp “Put His Thumb On The Scale” In Georgia Governor’s
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(11/18) if he believes the Georgia gubernatorial race was stolen. Brown
said, “I was a secretary of state in Ohio 30 years ago, I know what you do
as secretary of state. You encourage people to vote. You don’t purge
millions of voters. You don’t close down polling places in rural areas
where voters have difficulty getting to the polls which were mostly low
income areas. You don’t do what Republicans are doing all over the country.
... You have seen the kind of voter suppression all over this country. You
end with the Secretary of State of Georgia should have recused himself from
running that election, as...former President Jimmy Carter said he should.
And clearly he did everything he could to put his thumb on the scale, and
won that election, quote-unquote, won that election by only about a point.”

        *Hollywood Actors Call For Boycott Of Georgia’s Film Industry.
*The Daily
Caller
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(11/18, Hopkins) reports several Hollywood actors are calling for a boycott
of Georgia’s film industry following Kemp’s victory. The hashtag
#boycottgeorgia began to trend after Abrams announced “that she would no
longer challenge the Georgia Secretary of State’s election results.”
Cancer Research
Married Medical Professionals Receive NCI Grant For Breast Cancer Imaging
Research.

The Radiology Business Journal
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(11/16, Walter) reported the National Cancer Institute has awarded a
five-year grant, $1.8 million grant to married researchers Timothy
Showalter, MD, and Shayna Showalter, MD, of the University of Virginia
Cancer Center to support “their work on improving care for early-stage
breast cancer patients.” The Showalters, a radiation oncologist and breast
cancer surgeon, respectively, “led the development of a new technique
called Precision Breast intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT), which
reduces weeks of radiation treatments for patients by adding high-powered
imaging to radiation therapy.”

        HealthImaging
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(11/16, Rohman) reported they plan to use the grant “to evaluate Precision
Breast IORT regarding five-year breast cancer recurrence rates, whether it
can improve immune system effects, cost effectiveness and how these
outcomes compare with existing radiation techniques.”
MRI Technology Provider Receives NCI Grant.

Boulder Valley (CO) BizWest
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(11/16, Werley) reported MRI technology start-up QalibreMD has received a
$1.72 million grant from the National Cancer Institute “to test and mature
its quantitative MRI technology.” It will be tested at 12 clinical sites
through a partnership with the University of California at San Francisco
and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which will
facilitate the development of a platform called qCal-MR that “aims to
standardize and quantify MRI images so that assessments can be made
independent of what device is used to do the MRI.”
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

The New York Times did not publish any editorials on Monday.
Washington Post.

*“Facebook Deserves Criticism. The Country Deserves Solutions.”* In an
editorial, the Washington Post
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(11/18) says that in the wake of “the New York Times’s troubling
investigation into Facebook’s response to Russian interference on its
platform,” there has been “sharp criticism of the company from all
quarters, and Facebook deserves the blowback. But Americans deserve
solutions.” The Post calls on Congress “to keep pushing, even as Facebook
takes strides of its own in policing its platform and keeping the public
apprised of what that work looks like. ... Congress’s role is to continue
applying pressure to Facebook to ensure the company lives up to its
promises – and to step in when it does not.”

        *“The Selfless Courage Of This Year’s Press Freedom Award Winners
Is An Inspiration – And A Reminder.” *The Washington Post
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(11/18) editorializes that this year’s International Press Freedom Award
recipients “no doubt share the same bittersweet combination of pride in the
recognition of selfless work and sadness at how dangerous that work remains
in so much of the world.” Their stories, the Post says, serve as “a
reminder of how fragile that freedom can be, and how precious it is.”

        *“To Win Amazon, Higher Ed Was Virginia’s Secret Sauce.” *The
Washington
Post
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(11/18) says in an editorial that while it is not mentioned in the
agreement Amazon signed with Virginia to place its new headquarters in the
Commonwealth, Virginia’s plan “to invest heavily in higher education” seems
“to have been a key component of the package, and one that may have been
just as enticing to the executives at Amazon headquarters who were focused,
first and foremost, on the availability of future tech talent for its new
headquarters, both in Virginia and in New York.”

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