Subject: FW: Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing for Tuesday, November 27, 2018
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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*Tuesday, November 27, 2018 8:00 AM EST*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden Endorses Espy. <#S1>

• Biden, Carpenter Call For Action Against Foreign Dark Money. <#S2>

• Biden To Speak In San Francisco Bay Area As Part Of Book Tour. <#S3>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump Demands Mexico Deport Caravan, Warns He Will Close Border
“Permanently If Need Be.” <#S4>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump Says He Does Not Like Russia-Ukraine Tensions. <#S5>

• Trump Slams Brexit Deal As “Great For The EU.” <#S6>

• US Promises Israel It Will Press IAEA On Iranian Atomic Archive. <#S7>

• Sorkin: Trump’s Support For Saudi Crown Prince “Backfired” With Lawmakers.
<#S8>

• Violent Protests Over Arrest Of Anti-Taliban Commander Continue. <#S9>

• US Prosecutors Object To Request For Unsealing Of Assange Indictment.
<#S10>

• Honduran President’s Brother Charged In US With Drug Trafficking. <#S11>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Trump On Climate Report’s Economic Warnings: “I Don’t Believe It.” <#S12>

• Trump Blasts GM, Says Company “Better Get Back To Ohio And Soon.” <#S13>

• Trump: Russia Probe Partisan, Mueller Ignoring Witnesses Who Dispute
Collusion Charges. <#S14>

• Trump Campaigns For Hyde-Smith On Eve Of Mississippi Senate Runoff. <#S15>

• White House Aims To Secure Several Years Of Border Wall Construction In
Lame Duck. <#S16>

• Trump To Move Ahead With Boost On China Tariffs. <#S17>

• Social Security Paid Out More Than it Took In This Year. <#S18>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• FDA Approves Drug For Cancers Driven By Shared Mutation. <#S19>

• Breast Implants Linked To Cancer. <#S20>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S21>

• Washington Post. <#S22>
Biden in the News
Biden Endorses Espy.

WATN-TV
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Memphis, TN (11/26, 10:03 p.m. CST) broadcast that former Vice President
Joe Biden is endorsing Mississippi Senate candidate Mike Espy (D). In a
recorded video, Biden told Mississippians, “You have a chance, Mississippi,
to speak up and be heard Tuesday, November 27th.” Biden was shown saying,
“Mike Espy is running for the United States Senate. He need everyone of
your to get out and vote. So make sure you have a plan to vote.” Espy
thanked Biden in a tweet. WJKT-TV
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Jackson, TN (11/26, 9:04 p.m. CST) also ran a segment on Biden’s
endorsement.
Biden, Carpenter Call For Action Against Foreign Dark Money.

In an op-ed in Politico Magazine
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(11/27), former Vice President Joseph Biden and Penn Biden Center for
Diplomacy and Global Engagement Senior Director Michael Carpenter warn,
“America’s democratic institutions are highly vulnerable to foreign
influence,” with a “significant vulnerability” to foreign dark money due to
“the lack of transparency in our campaign finance system combined with
extensive foreign money laundering.” To address the problem, Biden and
Carpenter call for requiring that the beneficial owners of LLCs be
disclosed and implementing “more comprehensive disclosure requirements in
high-end real estate and prohibiting all-cash sales above certain
thresholds.” They concludes, “As matters of national security, these are
issues that should be of interest to both Democrats and Republicans who
want to reduce our vulnerability to foreign corrupt influence.”
Biden To Speak In San Francisco Bay Area As Part Of Book Tour.

At least four television stations ran over 14 segments on former Vice
President’s visit to the San Francisco Bay area on a book tour. Some
examples: KTVU-TV
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San Francisco (11/26, 4:55 p.m. PST) broadcast, “Former Vice President Joe
Biden is in the Bay area this week on a book tour” to promote his book,
“Promise Me, Dad,” which “focuses on how he struggled all through the year
of 2015 to balance his political career while his son, Beau, was dying from
brain caner. He also talks about how his family has changed since Beau’s
death.”

        KNTV-TV
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San Francisco (11/26, 11:34 a.m. PST) broadcast that this week’s MPFF
speaker series’ “featured speaker is former Vice President Joe Biden. He’s
hosting engagements over the next four days at all three venues: San
Rafael, Oakland, San Mateo, and back in San Rafael. Each engagement is
already sold out.”
Leading the News
Trump Demands Mexico Deport Caravan, Warns He Will Close Border
“Permanently If Need Be.”

President Trump took to Twitter
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yesterday to write, “Mexico should move the flag waving Migrants, many of
whom are stone cold criminals, back to their countries. Do it by plane, do
it by bus, do it anyway you want, but they are NOT coming into the U.S.A.
We will close the Border permanently if need be. Congress, fund the WALL!”
Reuters
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(11/26, Heavey, Diaz) reports Trump’s tweet came “a day after US
authorities shut the country’s busiest border crossing and fired tear gas
into a crowd there.” The President also addressed the situation at the
border in a brief exchange with reporters yesterday. The Washington Times
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(11/26, Dinan) notes he “defended border authorities’ use of tear gas to
prevent a mob from overrunning a US border crossing over the weekend,
saying ‘some very tough people’ were trying to break in.” NBC Nightly
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(11/26, story 3, 2:00, Willarreal) showed Trump saying, “Here’s the bottom
line: Nobody is coming into our country unless they come in legally.”

        The Hill
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(11/26, Samuels) points out the President “has for weeks painted the
caravan of Central American migrants as an imminent security threat,” and
the Washington Times
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(11/26, Muñoz) that he “ranted about the migrant caravan throughout the
Thanksgiving weekend.” According to Bloomberg News
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(11/26, Dopp, Curtis), meanwhile, “Trump made similar threats in October
ahead of the midterm elections,” but “so far, he hasn’t followed through on
those threats.” At any rate, the Wall Street Journal
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(11/26, Youssef, Caldwell) reports, US military and immigration officials
are already mulling plans to extend the border troop deployment. On ABC
World News Tonight
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(11/26, story 4, 2:00, Muir), meanwhile, Matt Gutman said the Pentagon is
sending “three hundred additional troops to California, bringing the total
there to 1,800.” The Washington Post
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(11/26, Lamothe) also reports the troops “have been shifted...to work in
California, near the caravan.”

        The measures taken by US border agents Sunday – particularly the
use of tear gas – are sparking criticism from media analysts and Democrats,
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(11/26), “US Border Patrol agents deployed tear gas on Central Americans
seeking asylum, this includes women and children.” On ABC’s Good Morning
America
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(11/26), George Stephanopoulos drew attention to a “photo shared around the
world [that] shows the family running from the [tear gas] fumes,” and on CBS
This Morning
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(11/26), Gayle King reported that “US Customs and Border Patrol agents
fired teargas at hundreds of people, including women and children.”
The Washington
Post
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(11/26, Horton) reports that Kelsey Davenport, director of nonproliferation
policy at the Washington-based Arms Control Association, said “chemical
weapons such as CS gas are indiscriminate and ‘uniquely terrorizing in
their application,’ which necessitated their ban in combat in 1993.”

        The New York Times
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(11/26, Chokshi) reports on a photograph showing a woman clutching “two
children in diapers, one of them barefoot, as they run from a smoking tear
gas canister fired by American border officials.” That “arresting image,
taken in Tijuana, Mexico, by the photojournalist Kim Kyung-Hoon of Reuters,
spread rapidly online,” and “prompted outrage after a peaceful march by
Central American migrants in Mexico veered out of control.”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(11/26, story 4, 2:00, Muir) reported “the images of the tear gas used at
the US-Mexico border” were “seen across the country and the world.” NBC
Nightly News
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(11/26, story 3, 1:05, Gutierrez) said “US authorities fired tear gas at
mostly adult males but some of it hit women and children including Maria,
her escape captured in this photo. We caught up with her today. ‘When I see
that photo, I just want to cry’, she says claiming that she wasn’t crossing
the border illegally, but trying to reach it to apply for asylum.” The
Washington
Times
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(11/26, Dinan) indicates, meanwhile, that “Mexico’s National Commission of
Human Rights on Monday condemned American authorities’ use of tear gas and
force to prevent a mob from overwhelming the US border crossing in San
Diego over the weekend, saying it was an ‘unnecessary risk.’” Also weighing
in was Hillary Clinton. The Hill
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(11/26, Keller) reports she “decried the use of tear gas against immigrants
attempting to storm the border Sunday,” tweeting
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“This is wrong.” Dana Milbank, in his Washington Post
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(11/26) column, writes that “Trump loves kids. This is why his border
guards are firing tear gas at them.”

        Amid the criticism, Administration officials yesterday defended US
law enforcement personnel. The Washington Post
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(11/26, Miroff, Jan) reports that yesterday, “critics of the Trump
administration denounced border agents’ use of force on groups that
included families with children, but US officials praised what they called
‘quick and effective action’ against crowds of stone-slinging young men who
pried open the border fence at multiple locations to squeeze through.”

        The Washington Post
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(11/26, Sonmez) notes, for example, that DHS Secretary Nielsen “said in a
statement that some of the migrants had ‘sought to harm CBP personnel by
throwing projectiles at them,’” and the New York Post
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(11/26, Steinbuch) that she “said US authorities will continue to have a
‘robust’ presence along the southwest border.” Added Nielsen, “DHS will not
tolerate this type of lawlessness and will not hesitate to shut down ports
of entry for security and public safety reasons.” Townhall
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(11/26, Rosas) quotes Nielsen as saying, “We’ll seek to prosecute to the
fullest extent of the law anyone who destroys federal property, endangers
our frontline operators, or violates our sovereignty.”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(11/26, Hennessy-Fiske) reports CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan “praised
agents’ response, including the use of tear gas, during clashes on Sunday
at the San Ysidro border crossing, saying their actions avoided serious
injuries on both sides and ‘effectively managed a potentially dangerous
situation.’” McAleenan “defended the use of what he called ‘less than
lethal devices’ by agents who responded as caravan members – who he said
appeared to be grown men – hurled dozens of rocks.” Added McAleenan, “It
was done consistent with all of our law enforcement training and policy.”
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(11/26), “We had over 1,000 individuals involved in large group attempts to
rush the border. ... That was a dangerous situation. Our border patrol
agents responded with professionalism.”

        Appearing on CNN’s New Day
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(11/26), Rodney Scott, Chief of Border Patrol agents in San Diego, said, “I
kind of challenge that this was a ‘peaceful protest’ or that the majority
of these people were claiming asylum.” Instead, Scott said “the vast
majority [of the migrants] we’re dealing with are adult males” who
“immediately started throwing rocks and debris at our agents, taunting our
agents. ... At least three agents were actually struck by rocks.” Scott
added, “Forty-two crossed the border and were arrested.” The Daily Caller
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(11/26, Smith) quotes Scott as adding, “What I saw at the border yesterday
was not people walking up to Border Agents and asking to claim asylum.
Matter of fact, one of the groups that I watched…they passed 10 or 15
marked Border Patrol agents walking…west to east, numerous uniformed
personnel, as they were chanting, waving a Honduran flag and throwing rocks
at the agents. If they were truly asylum seekers, they would’ve just walked
up with their hands up and surrendered, and that did not take place.”
Townhall
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(11/26, Pavlich) similarly reports that “Scott pushed back on the narrative
that his agents are tear gassing women and children,” and Breitbart
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(11/26, Munro) quotes extensively from the interview.

        On CNN’s Situation Room
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(11/26), Kaitlan Collins said Trump “falsely claimed that children were not
teargassed during that border crossing that was closed yesterday, at one of
the nation’s busiest border crossings, despite photos showing that children
were teargassed as US border agents tried to break up the caravan that was
rushing the border.”

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(11/26), “What is remarkable to me about this – isn’t this episode
yesterday exactly what...Trump was worrying that would happen and caused
him to make that show of force along the border? You remember when he got
that question from that CNN guy, Acosta, in which Acosta asserted that
migrants would not be rushing the border, charging the border, and Trump
said we have a difference of opinion about that. Well, this episode
yesterday suggested that the very thing that the President said he was
concerned about can indeed happen. And, it is not the first time. Five
years ago on Thanksgiving weekend at San Ysidro...a bunch of migrants broke
loose and rushed the border and they were subdued with teargas, and the
other nonviolent methods used yesterday. No howls of outrage at the Obama
Administration about that...so I think we kind of know what is going on
here, don’t we?”

        In an editorial, the Wall Street Journal
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(11/26) also warns that violence by the caravan runs the risk of turning
American public opinion against the country’s current asylum policies.

        *Trump Says Some Who Were Tear Gassed Were “Grabbers.” *The Washington
Post
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(11/26, Rucker, Sonmez) reports the President “suggested without evidence”
Monday “that some of the migrants who were tear-gassed at the US-Mexico
border on Sunday were ‘grabbers’ who took others’ children in order to
protect themselves.” Trump said, “In some cases, you know, they’re not the
parents. ... These are people, they call ‘em ‘grabbers.’ They grab a child
because they think they’ll have a certain status by having a child. You
know, you have certain advantages in terms of our crazy laws that frankly
Congress should be changing.”

        *Nielsen: More Than 600 Members Of Caravan Convicted Criminals. *The
Washington Examiner
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(11/26, Giaritelli) reports that Nielsen said in a Facebook post that “more
than 600 members of the 10,000 migrants traveling from Central America to
the US are convicted criminals.” Wrote Nielsen, “We cannot confirm the
backgrounds and identities of all caravan members which possess a national
security and public safety risk to our country. However, at this point we
have confirmed that there are over 600 convicted criminals traveling with
the caravan flow. This includes individuals known to law enforcement for
assault, battery, drug crimes, burglary, rape, child abuse and more. This
is serious. ... Additionally, Mexico has already arrested 100 caravan
members for criminal violations in Mexico.”

        *Obama Administration Used Same Tear Gas Agent As Trump At Border. *The
Washington Times
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(11/26, Dinan) reports Homeland Security data show that the tear gas agent
the Administration is facing criticism for using “against a border mob this
weekend is actually used fairly frequently – including more than once a
month during some years under President Obama.” Customs and Border
Protection has used the agent, 2-chlorobenzylidene malononitrile, or CS,
“since 2010, and deployed it 26 times in 2012 and 27 times in 2013. The use
dropped after that, but was still deployed three times in 2016, Mr. Obama’s
final full year in office.” Its use “rose again in 2017, which was split
between Mr. Obama and Mr. Trump, and reached 29 deployments in fiscal year
2018, which ended two months ago, according to CBP data seen by The
Washington Times.”

        *Mexico To Shore Up Security At Border, Prepares To Deport 98
Migrants. *The AP
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(11/26, Sherman) reports that the Mexican government “looked set to shore
up security near its border with the United States on Monday, as police
lined up outside a shelter in the city of Tijuana and told Central American
migrants they couldn’t walk toward the border area.” The AP also reports
that Mexico’s National Migration Institute announced that “98 migrants were
being deported after they tried to breach the US border.” According to the
AP, Mexico’s Interior Department “said about 500 migrants were involved in
the attempt to rush the border, while US authorities put the number at
1,000.”

        The Washington Post
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(11/26, Partlow) says “nine bus loads of Mexican federal police took up
positions around the Tijuana sports complex where more than 5,000 migrants
are camping out” Monday, “with many waiting for the chance to apply for
asylum in the United States.”

        *NYTimes Analysis: López Obrador Must Choose Between Trump,
“Defending The Poor.” *The New York Times
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(11/26, Ahmed, Malkin) reports “the new president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel
López Obrador, has built his entire political career on defending the
poor,” but “days before he takes office...Trump is testing how firmly he
will live up to that.” The Times adds that “after more than 15 years of
campaigning as a leftist firebrand, Mr. López Obrador must swiftly decide:
Will he stand up to Mr. Trump and defend the migrants’ pleas to be allowed
into the United States, even if many of their asylum requests will
ultimately be rejected? Or will he acquiesce to Mr. Trump’s demands and the
economic imperative of good relations with the United States?”

        *Lara Trump: President Is Dealing With “Terrifying” Situation On
The Border. *Lara Trump, appearing on Fox News’ Fox & Friends[image: Image
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(11/26), said the situation on the border is “terrifying.” According to
Trump, “The reality is you have people saying, ‘we don’t care about your
border, we don’t care about the rules. We’re coming to your country, and
you’re going to let us in, and we’ll do whatever we want.’ The President is
taking this very seriously. I think all Americans can rest easy at night
knowing that this is a President who is addressing the situation, who
understands how critical it is to make sure that something happens down
there.”
Foreign Policy
Trump Says He Does Not Like Russia-Ukraine Tensions.

Reuters
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(11/26, Mason) reports President Trump on Monday “said he does not like
what is happening between Russia and Ukraine,” a day after Russian crews
seized three Ukrainian vessels near Crimea. Speaking to reporters outside
the White House, Trump said, “We do not like what’s happening either way.
And hopefully it will get straightened out.” He added that European leaders
were working on the situation, saying, “They’re not thrilled. We’re all
working on it together.”

        In an editorial, the Wall Street Journal
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(11/26) says Trump criticized former President Obama for tolerating
Russia’s seizure of Crimea, but now the Kremlin is testing Trump. Trump,
the Journal says, should make clear during the G20 summit later this week
that such aggression will be met with more arms sales to Ukraine and
tougher sanctions on Russia.

        A Washington Post
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(11/26) editorial says “at a minimum, Mr. Putin’s aggression ought to
affect the reception he receives from Mr. Trump at the G-20 summit in
Buenos Aires.” Trump, it argues, “could send a message by refusing to meet
Mr. Putin; if he does go ahead with a bilateral meeting, he ought to begin
it by telling the Russian leader that his assault on Ukraine is
unacceptable and will have consequences. A failure to do so would simply
confirm Mr. Putin’s evident belief that further aggression against Ukraine
will cost him nothing with this US president.”

        *US, Allies Condemn Russia For Seizing Ukrainian Ships At UN
Meeting. *The CBS Evening News
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(11/26, story 8, 0:20, Glor) reported Secretary of State Pompeo on Monday
“accused Russia of violating international law when its Navy seized three
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(11/26) likewise said Pompeo “condemned this aggressive Russian action,”
and at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, UN Ambassador Haley
similarly “called it yet another reckless Russian escalation.” NBC Nightly
News
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(11/26, story 8, 1:40, Holt) reported, “The US warned Russia today that it
has committed a quote ‘outrageous violation’ after firing upon and seizing
three Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea.” NBC (Neely) added, “Russia [is]
claiming these waters as its territory and blaming Ukraine for provoking
the incident. In Ukraine’s capitol, fury and at the United Nations, Russia
condemned.” Haley: “The United States would welcome a normal relationship
with Russia, but out law actions like this one continue to make that
impossible.”

        Reuters
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(11/26, Nichols) reports that Haley “warned Russia...that its seizure of
three Ukrainian vessels was an ‘outrageous violation of sovereign Ukrainian
territory’ and urged Moscow to reduce tensions caused by its ‘arrogant’
act.” Haley said she “had spoken with” Trump and Pompeo and that “her
statement ‘reflects the concerns at the highest level.’” The Washington Post
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(11/26, Morello) reports Haley said, “The United States will maintain its
Crimea-related sanctions against Russia. Indeed, further Russian escalation
of this kind will only make matters worse.” The Post adds that Haley
“pointedly noted she had spoken with...Trump and...Pompeo before coming to
the Security Council. “

        The New York Times
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(11/26, Schwirtz) reports that other “western countries rose to Ukraine’s
defense” during Monday’s emergency session as “Russia’s attempt to use the
session to blame Ukraine for the violence backfired.” Ambassadors from the
US, Britain, France “and others accused Russia of recklessness and
violating Ukraine’s sovereignty.” British Ambassador Jonathan Allen “warned
that the confrontation could presage further efforts by Russia to gain full
control of the waters it currently shares with Ukraine.” The Washington
Times
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(11/26, Wolfgang) reports that the US and its allies “promised serious
consequences” for Russia, they “struggled to find concrete” measures.
Russia, Reuters
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(11/26, Osborn, Zinets) says, is “ignor[ing] Western calls to release three
Ukrainian naval ships and their crews it fired on and captured near Crimea
at the weekend and accused Kiev of plotting with its Western allies to
provoke a conflict.”

        Amid what ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by sender.
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(11/26, story 8, 0:15, Muir) called “a dangerous escalation between Russia
and Ukraine,” Ukraine’s parliament voted Monday “to impose martial law on
areas bordering Russia.” According to the AP
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(11/26, Isachenkov), the martial law measure “contained vaguely worded
steps such as ‘strengthening’ anti-terrorism measures and ‘information
security.’”
Trump Slams Brexit Deal As “Great For The EU.”

Axios
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(11/26, Lawler) reports that with British Prime Minister Theresa May
“working desperately to sell her Brexit deal to a skeptical Parliament,”
President Trump “slammed it” on Monday as “a great deal for the EU” that
could keep the UK from securing a trade deal with the US. The New York Times
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(11/26, Barry) reports that as May “continued her effort on Monday to sell
her agreement...to skeptics in Parliament, she was blindsided by President
Trump,” who called the agreement “a great deal for the EU,” and warned
that, if it were adopted, it might obstruct a free trade deal between the
United States and Britain. The Times says Trump’s comments “suggested that
Britain might never be able to conclude a bilateral trade deal with the
United States, creating new difficulties for Mrs. May.”

        May, the AP
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(11/26, Lawless) reports, “made a blunt appeal to skeptical lawmakers on
Monday to back her divorce deal with the European Union: It isn’t perfect,
but it’s all there is, and the alternative is a leap into the unknown. In
essence, she urged Parliament: Let’s agree and move on, for the sake of the
voters.”
US Promises Israel It Will Press IAEA On Iranian Atomic Archive.

Citing unnamed State Department officials, Axios
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(11/26, Ravid) reports the Administration has “promised Israel it will put
pressure on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to examine
revelations from Israel about Iran’s nuclear program.” Two weeks ago, US
special envoy for Iran Brian Hook “visited Israel and met with [Prime
Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, officials from the Israeli foreign ministry,
the Mossad and military intelligence.” During the meeting, “Israeli
officials told Hook the IAEA was dragging its feet over Israel’s
disclosures, and the political director of Israel’s foreign ministry, Alon
Ushpiz, told Hook Israel was angry the IAEA didn’t take the Israeli
intelligence seriously.”

        *Iran To Export Warplanes Despite US Sanctions. *Breitbart
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(11/26, Mora) reports Iran is “ready to export domestically designed and
manufactured fighter jets and training aircraft despite sanctions” imposed
by the US, the managing director of the Iran Aviation Industries
Organization (IAIO) announced Monday. State-run TV news reported that
Iranian Brig. Gen. Abdoklarim Banitarafi, the IAIO head, “indicated that
the Islamic Republic would showcase the homemade military aircraft it
expects to export to potential buyers during the four-day 9th International
Iran Air Show, which opened on Iran’s southern island of Kish on Monday.”
Sorkin: Trump’s Support For Saudi Crown Prince “Backfired” With Lawmakers.

Andrew Ross Sorkin writes for the New York Times
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(11/26) “DealBook” blog that President Trump’s “forceful support of Saudi
Arabia’s crown prince may have backfired by prompting members of Congress
to promise investigations of their own.” Trump’s “strong support for the
crown prince, whom he will almost certainly see this week when he flies to
Buenos Aires for the Group of 20 meeting, may have the opposite effect to
the one intended. Rather than end the conversation, it has invited a new
one that could go on for months, if not years.” Congress, he adds, “is now
making noises about doing what the president would not: a public
investigation that could lead to real sanctions.”

        *Turkish Prosecutors: Saudi Agent Discussed Hiding Khashoggi’s
Remains Before His Death. *The Washington Post
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(11/26, Fahim) reports Turkish prosecutors said Monday that a Saudi agent
involved in Khashoggi’s killing “discussed concealing Khashoggi’s
dismembered remains during a telephone call the day before the killing.”
During a telephone discussion on Oct. 1 between the agent, Mansour Othman
M. Abbahussain, and “a Saudi businessman who owns a villa” in Turkey, “the
conversation was regarding what would be done to destroy/hide the body of
the killed journalist” after it was dismembered, a prosecutor’s statement
said. The Post says the phone discussion, “if confirmed, bolsters Turkey’s
repeated assertions that Khashoggi’s killing had been planned.”

        The New York Times
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(11/26, Gall), meanwhile, reports that Turkish police “searched a
Saudi-owned mansion south of Istanbul on Monday as part of the
investigation into the murder of...Khashoggi, whose remains have not been
found.” According to the Times, “Irfan Fidan, the chief prosecutor of
Istanbul and the leader of the Khashoggi investigation, ordered the search
of the mansion...in the village of Samanli, about 60 miles south of
Istanbul.”

        *MBS Arrives In Egypt On His Way To G20 Summit In Buenos Aires. *
Reuters
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(11/26) reports Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Egypt on
Monday, “continuing his first trip abroad since the killing of journalist
Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul drew global
condemnation.” Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi “received Prince
Mohammed at Cairo airport on what was the third leg of a tour through the
Arab world by the prince after visits to Bahrain and the United Arab
Emirates.” MBS is “also expected to participate in a G20 meeting in Buenos
Aires at the end of the month.”
Violent Protests Over Arrest Of Anti-Taliban Commander Continue.

The Washington Post
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(11/26, Constable, Hassan) reports that “violence escalated” Monday in
Kabul during “a second day of protests by minority ethnic Hazaras over the
arrest of an anti-Taliban militia leader. Officials called him an abusive
rogue, but supporters said he was a hero who had defended Hazaras from
insurgent attacks.” Afghan officials said “at least 19 people were
wounded,” and there were “unconfirmed media reports that four others were
killed when police confronted hundreds of demonstrators, firing into the
air and barricading routes out of the Hazara-dominated west Kabul area.”
US Prosecutors Object To Request For Unsealing Of Assange Indictment.

Reuters
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(11/26) reports federal prosecutors “have told a United States District
Court judge that they oppose a request by a journalists’ group for the
unsealing of any pending US criminal indictment against WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange, and declined to admit whether such charges exist.” In a
filing submitted on Monday to Judge Leonie Brinkema, prosecutors “said a
recent disclosure in a court document filed in an unrelated criminal case
that prosecutors had obtained a sealed indictment against Assange was an
‘unintentional error.’” Prosecutors “said the erroneous filing does not
constitute a confirmation or denial by them as to whether sealed criminal
charges against Assange exist, and argued that neither the US constitution
nor US common law ‘require that the government provide such a confirmation
or denial.’”
Honduran President’s Brother Charged In US With Drug Trafficking.

In what the New York Times
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(11/26, Ernst, Malkin) calls a “blow” to Honduran President Juan Orlando
Hernández, American prosecutors on Monday announced drug charges against
his younger brother, describing him as a “large-scale drug trafficker” who
spent a dozen years moving cocaine shipments bound for the US through
Central America. Juan Antonio Hernández was “deeply involved in all aspects
of the drug trade – arranging security and protection for shipments, taking
bribes from traffickers, and assuring government contracts for
money-laundering front companies – according to Geoffrey S. Berman, the
United States attorney in Manhattan.” The Times says the “details of the
allegations cast an unwanted spotlight on the influence that drug
traffickers exert over the Honduran state, and threatens to tarnish the
reputation of President Hernández,” a US ally.
Domestic Policy
Trump On Climate Report’s Economic Warnings: “I Don’t Believe It.”

The AP
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(11/26) reports the President “is rejecting a central conclusion of a dire
report on the economic costs of climate change released Friday by his own
administration.” Reuters
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(11/26, Mason) notes “the congressionally mandated report
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that climate change will cost the country’s economy billions of dollars by
the end of the century, but Trump said he does not believe the economic
impacts will be devastating.” The President told reporters, “I’ve seen it,
I’ve read some of it, and it’s fine.” Pressed about “severe economic
impacts,” however, Trump replied, “I don’t believe it.”

        Axios
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(11/26, Kight) says “the report, known as the National Climate Assessment,
warned of ‘hundreds of billions of dollars’ in annual losses to some
economic sectors without scaled up actions to adapt to current changes and
slash emissions to avoid future warming.” USA Today
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(11/26, King) similarly points out that “in a worst-case scenario, top
scientists from 13 federal agencies say in the report, climate change –
primarily caused by human activity – could deliver a 10 percent hit to the
nation’s GDP by the end of the century.” Trump said, however, “it makes no
sense for the United States to take drastic steps to combat climate change
when other countries, such as China and Japan, have not done so.” Said
Trump, “Right now we’re at the cleanest we’ve ever been. It’s very
important to me. ... If we’re clean and everyone else is dirty, that’s not
so good.”

        Politico
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(11/26, Oprysko) reports “Trump has long openly doubted climate science,
and his administration has rolled back many of the regulations put in place
by his predecessor aimed at mitigating some of the effects of climate
change.” The President also “has sought to prop up industries seen as major
contributors to harmful emissions, such as coal.” The Hill
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(11/26, Cama) notes Trump tweeted
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in 2012, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese
in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive.”

        NBC Nightly News
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(11/26, story 5, 0:35, Jackson) reported on the “devastating new report,”
and added that Trump’s stance “puts him at odds with the vast majority of
experts, including those inside his own Administration.” ABC World News
Tonight
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(11/26, story 7, 1:45, Muir) referred to “a bombshell report on climate
change from 13 US agencies put out the day after Thanksgiving,” and added
“many are questioning the timing of the release,” whether it was “meant to
bury it.” ABC’s Jonathan Karl continued, “It sure looked that way.”

        In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(11/26) writes, “If you did not hear about the major new federal climate
change report, the Trump administration will be pleased.” The report “was
released the day after Thanksgiving...probably because it contradicts
practically everything...Trump has said and done on global warming.” The
Post adds “the White House responded to the report by misrepresenting
scientists’ work and promising ‘fuller information’ in the next analysis,”
and warns that “cooking the next report will not change the facts.”

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(11/26), the government study says “the Earth’s climate is changing faster
than any point in the history of modern civilization – primarily as a
result of human activity – and it could kill thousands of Americans and
cost the US economy hundreds of billions of dollars.” Mike Emmanuel
reported on Fox News’ Special Report
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(11/26) that the 1,600-page report includes “dire predictions” but was
“essentially met...with a shrug from” Trump. At any rate, critics are using
the report to “go after” the President for withdrawing from the 2015 Paris
Climate Accord. The White House, however, “notes the development of the
report began under President Obama, and says that the next one will provide
more transparent and data-driven information.”

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(11/26), “A devastating climate report by all the best scientists came out
in the Trump Administration when fossil fuel stooges are just crawling
everywhere through the Administration. If there was a shred of doubt about
the credibility of this report, about the credibility of real climate
science, what a perfect time to mount an attack on this report and get all
these fossil fuel stooges to go after it. The fact that they ducked that
fight, that they tried to bury the report on Black Friday and hoped that it
would be low news is the most significant admission in all of this. ...
These guys don’t believe that their climate denial stuff is true. And they
more or less just admitted it by refusing to tangle with this report,
instead trying to bury it. So what Trump claims to believe or not believe,
that’s pure politics.”

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(11/26), “It is unimaginable that the President of the United States would
put at risk this nation, this world by simply refusing to deal with climate
change. It is a fundamental worldwide problem. We have to get on it and the
President, every day he delays, every day he says it’s not a problem is one
more step towards the disaster that’s coming to this nation and to this
world.”

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(11/26) that Trump’s comments are “all part of a pattern that you’re
familiar with, I’m sure, where the President disregards facts in favor of
whatever reality he finds most politically or personally expedient at the
moment.”

        A New York Times
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(11/26) editorial says that while “Trump is determined to weaken Mr.
Obama’s rules restricting greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and
power plants – the chief culprits in the warming climate,” one “important
Obama policy decision still stands, at least in part because it has been
largely ignored” – the 2016 Kigali amendment to the 1987 Montreal Protocol.
The Obama Administration “signed it 2016, but the Trump White House has not
sent it to the Senate for ratification. The question is how best to engage
Mr. Trump’s interest.” The Times argues that “selling it to him as a
climate measure could be a serious problem, since he is copiously on record
as dismissing global warming as a problem. Presenting it to him as a jobs
and trade measure would be much smarter, since he talks about both all the
time.”

        In his Washington Post
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(11/26) column, Eugene Robinson writes that the report “provides stunning
new evidence for what we already knew: President Trump’s climate-change
policy – ignore, obfuscate, delay, deny – amounts to environmental
vandalism on a tragic scale.” Robinson adds that Trump “is determined to
accelerate climate change by boosting the production and use of coal...and
keeping oil prices low. This is the dumbest, most shortsighted policy
imaginable.” Robinson concludes, “The world is on fire. We have a president
who plays with matches.”

        In his New York Times
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(11/26) column, Paul Krugman writes that “denying climate change...has
become a core Republican principle.” Krugman adds that while the President
“is a prime example of the depravity of climate denial, this is an issue on
which his whole party went over to the dark side years ago. Republicans
don’t just have bad ideas; at this point, they are, necessarily, bad
people.”

        *House Democrats Poised To Hold Hearings On Trump’s Climate
Policies. *USA Today
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(11/26, King) reports, “Capitol Hill Democrats who soon will be running the
House are prioritizing climate change nearly a decade after their attempts
to slow global warming helped whisk them out of power.” USA Today adds that
“party leaders are vowing to hold hearings on...Trump’s aggressive efforts
to undo Obama-era climate rules and already are demanding internal
documents on administration decisions to scale back restrictions on fossil
fuels that contribute to global warming.” Moreover, House Minority Leader
Pelosi, “who is vying to regain her role as House speaker, said she planned
to revive a special congressional panel designed to examine climate
change.”
Trump Blasts GM, Says Company “Better Get Back To Ohio And Soon.”

A number of media reports are casting yesterday’s announcement by GM as
potentially hurting the President’s reelection plans. Moreover, some news
accounts suggest that among those headwinds faced by GM are the cost of the
tariff imposed by the Administration on imported steel and aluminum, as
well as general uncertainty concerning the impact of the ongoing “trade
war” between the US and China. Reuters
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(11/26, White, Carey) reports GM announced that it intends to “cut
production of slow-selling models and slash its North American workforce in
the face of a declining market for traditional gas-powered sedans, shifting
more investment to electric and autonomous vehicles.” GM “plans to halt
production next year at three assembly plants: Lordstown, Ohio; Hamtramck,
Michigan; and Oshawa, Ontario.” In addition, “Plants in Baltimore,
Maryland, and Warren, Michigan, assembling powertrain components will have
no products assigned to them after 2019 and are at risk of closure.”

        USA Today
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(11/26, Fritze, Jackson) notes the President told reports that “he spoke
with General Motors CEO and Chairman Mary Barra, insisting he was ‘very
tough when I spoke to her.’” The CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by
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(11/26, lead story, 2:30, Van Cleave) showed Trump saying, “I spoke with
her when I heard they were closing, and I said, you know, this country has
done a lot for General Motors. You better get back in there soon.” Politico
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(11/26, Restuccia) reports Trump “said his administration is putting ‘lot
of pressure’ on GM to come up with alternatives to the cars that aren’t
selling well, like the Chevrolet Cruze.” The Washington Times
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(11/26, Boyer) reports that recounting his conversation with Barra, the
President said, “They say the Chevy Cruze is not selling well. ... I said,
‘well, get a car that is selling well and put it back in.’ I think you’ll
see something else happen there. I’m not happy about it.”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(11/26, story 3, 2:00, Pilgrim) reported Trump was “also asked if increased
tariffs due to a trade war are to blame.” Trump was shown saying, “No, not
tariffs. That has nothing to do with tariffs. He said the car was not
selling.” ABC added that “GM acknowledges the tariffs aren’t to blame for
the cuts, but in June issued a stark warning that, quote, ‘increased import
tariffs could lead to a smaller GM’, and tonight say the trade policy has
cost them 1.4 billion dollars.” NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by
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(11/26, lead story, 2:10, Thompson) described GM as “already squeezed by
the President’s tariffs adding $1.4 billion to” its costs.

        In an interview with the Wall Street Journal
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(11/26, Colias), meanwhile, Trump said of GM’s Ohio plans, “They better
damn well open a new plant there very quickly. ... I love Ohio. ... I told
them, ‘You’re playing around with the wrong person.’” Bloomberg News
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(11/26, Sink, Olorunnipa) and The Hill
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(11/26, Lane, Samuels), among other news outlets, also note Trump’s
comments yesterday.

        Chris Cillizza said on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image removed by
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(11/26), “How does...Trump win the presidency in 2016? He does it in the
Midwest in places that we didn’t think he could by really mobilizing white,
– I’m being broad here, but white men who were lower educated and lower
income, who wanted a saving of that manufacturing industry. . ... So
looking in that space and remember that for all of...Trump’s [talk] about
how he won with a massive amount, you take one of those Midwestern states
away, and his path becomes a lot more problematic.” Charles Lane of the
Washington Post said on Fox News’ Special Report[image: Image removed by
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(11/26) that Republicans are tying to make Ohio “into a red state and they
are making a lot of progress, but if you start laying people off on Trump’s
watch, not so good for them.”

        Axios
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(11/26, Brown) points out that “at a 2017 Ohio rally, Trump promised
residents that manufacturing jobs would be returning to the state, telling
the crowd: ‘Don’t move. Don’t sell your house.’” Axios then contrasted
those comments with GM’s announced plans. To CQ Roll Call
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(11/26, Bennett), GM’s “decision to halt production in two states that were
key to Donald Trump’s 2016 victory could complicate the president’s
re-election bid.”

        The Washington Post
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(11/26, Telford) reports that Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), “who represents
Lordstown...also blamed President Trump for the job losses, pointing out
that Trump had promised workers in the region that jobs were ‘all coming
back’ when he visited last year.” The Post says “continued declines of new
car purchases have troubled auto companies, especially as they...brace for
the impact of the Trump administration’s trade dispute.” The Post says that
when Trump “announced tariffs last summer,” GM, Ford and Fiat Chrysler “all
trimmed their profit forecasts for the rest of the year, citing the rising
commodity costs that would lead to hikes in prices and manufacturing
costs.” The Post adds that GM “took a hard stance, warning of the fallout
within the auto industry and saying that the tariffs risked ‘undermining
GM’s competitiveness against foreign auto producers by erecting broad brush
trade barriers that increase our global costs.’”

        The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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(11/26, Eaton) reports Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) “described the decision to
shutter the plant in March as ‘corporate greed at its worst.’” Brown
“criticized the company for using the tax breaks it got in last year’s
Republican tax bill to eliminate jobs instead of investing in US workers.”
The Detroit Free Press
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(11/26, Spangler) reports that Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) “put out a statement
saying he was ‘deeply frustrated with General Motors’ decision’ to close
Lordstown and would continue to work with the company to try to increase
employment in the state.” The Hill
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(11/26, Lane) notes, meanwhile, that Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI), “who
represents parts of the Detroit suburbs, called on Congress to ‘work
together on bipartisan policies that keep manufacturing jobs in this
country, develops clean energy, and supports infrastructure to transform
our mobility future.’”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(11/26, Krisher) reports, meanwhile, that “the reduction includes about
8,000 white-collar employees, or 15% of GM’s North American white-collar
workforce. Some will take buyouts; others will be laid off.” The Times adds
that “at the factories, about 2,600 blue-collar workers could lose jobs in
the United States and 3,300 in Canada, though some US workers could
transfer to truck or SUV factories that are increasing production.” CNBC
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(11/26, Ferris) says “the reorganization is estimated to save about $6
billion a year by the end of 2020.” USA Today
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(11/26, Bomey) reports “the automaker will no longer make the Volt
semi-electric car and the Cruze compact sedan for sale in North America
beginning in March, Chevy spokesman Kevin Kelly confirmed.”

        Reuters
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(11/26) reported that Barra was “set to meet with” NEC Director Kudlow, and
“was also making calls to key members of Congress and administration
officials.” The AP
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(11/26, Krisher, Gillies) reports that GM “will lay off up to 14,000
factory and white-collar workers in North America” as part of the
restructuring. Bloomberg News
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(11/26) reports that Barra is “trying to make the company leaner as US auto
demand slides from a record in 2016 and sales in China – GM’s other profit
center – are also in a slump.” Bloomberg News notes that GM shares “jumped
as much as 7.9 percent to $38.75, the highest since July,” after today’s
announcement.

        The New York Times
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(11/26, Boudette, Austen) reports that GM’s restructuring plan “also drew
protests in Canada” where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “said he had
expressed his ‘deep disappointment’ about the closing to Ms. Barra.”

        *Kasich Slams Trump. *The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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(11/26, Eaton) reports Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) “described the closure as
‘painful’ and pledged to work with GM ‘to see if anything can be done to
preserve a future for the plant.’” Kasich later said on CNN’s Anderson
Cooper 360
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(11/26), “I think the President challenged Harley-Davidson and got into it
and was arguing and yelling at them and they’re now building plants
overseas. And then there was the famous case of going to Indianapolis
trying to save that company and we find out that the promises there is were
not made. You don’t get this done by just sort of bluster. This is hard
work. I think the President probably knows that but you have to be careful
with your rhetoric. One thing you don’t want to do with people in that part
of Ohio or any part of the country is to make a promise to them that you
can’t keep. False hope leads to big problems.”
Trump: Russia Probe Partisan, Mueller Ignoring Witnesses Who Dispute
Collusion Charges.

The President took to Twitter
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yesterday to write, “When Mueller does his final report, will he be
covering all of his conflicts of interest in a preamble, will he be
recommending action on all of the crimes of many kinds from those ‘on the
other side’ (whatever happened to Podesta?), and will he be putting in
statements from...
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hundreds of people closely involved with my campaign who never met, saw or
spoke to a Russian during this period? So many campaign workers, people
inside from the beginning, ask me why they have not been called (they want
to be). There was NO Collusion & Mueller knows it!”

        To the Washington Post
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(11/26, Selk), Trumps tweets were “what some interpreted as a preemptive PR
attack” against Mueller’s “final report – a day after one of Mueller’s most
prominent critics,” Alan Dershowitz, “said he expects the investigation’s
conclusion will be politically ‘devastating to the president.’” The Washington
Times
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(11/26, Boyer) reports the President said “Mueller’s work is partisan and
one-sided,” and adds “a spokesman for Mr. Mueller had no comment about the
president’s accusations.” The Times also reports that “earlier this year,
Mr. Mueller referred to federal prosecutors in New York possible action on
Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta, brother of former Hillary Clinton
campaign chairman John Podesta, for failing to register his work supporting
the Ukrainian government.” The Washington Post
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(11/26, Wagner) says Trump “did not describe” the Mueller conflicts of
interest he alleges though “aides have pointed in the past to an alleged
dispute over membership fees at Trump National Golf Club in Northern
Virginia.”

        CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel said on CNN’s Situation
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(11/26), “If...Trump has lost...Dershowitz on this one, who has been
defending him and defending him, he should be worried. And I think looking
at Trump’s Twitter feed...he is worried because he was back out there going
after Mueller. Expect two things.” Dershowitz “says the White House is
already preparing a response. That will be a legal response. But also
expect the political response from the man who likes to fight more than
anybody else, and that’s...Trump. There is going to be an avalanche of
insults and exclamation points and capital letters like nothing you’ve
seen.”

        *Corsi Says He Is Rejecting Plea Deal Offered By Mueller’s Office. *The
AP
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(11/26) reports that conservative author Jerome Corsi, described as a
“conspiracy theorist and associate of Trump confidant Roger Stone,” that he
is “rejecting a plea offer in the special counsel’s Russia investigation.”
According to the AP, Corsi claims he was “offered a chance to plead guilty
to one count of perjury. But he said he plans to reject the deal because it
would force him to admit to willfully lying, which he said he did not do.”
The AP says Robert Mueller’s team “questioned Corsi as part of an
investigation into Stone’s connections with WikiLeaks.”

        USA Today
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(11/26, Cummings) reports “the special counsel has sought to determine if
Corsi alerted the Trump presidential campaign through Roger Stone...to the
timing of the WikiLeaks release of the emails, which the US intelligence
community has determined were stolen by Russian intelligence operatives.”
Corsi “told One America News Network
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on Monday that he had ‘zero contact’ with [Julian] Assange and that he knew
‘no intermediary who was in contact with him.’” USA Today notes Corsi also
“told NBC News
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Monday that he initially told investigators that he had no communication
with...Assange ahead of the email dump, but changed his testimony after
being confronted with a collection of his own emails from 2016.” However,
“he insists that he did not intentionally lie to Mueller’s team, telling
NBC News he had simply forgotten ‘almost everything about emails in 2016.’”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(11/26, story 10, 0:50, Thomas) showed Corsi saying, “I have to go to jail
for the rest of my life, I will not tell a lie to a federal judge or
anybody else. They want to send me to prison the rest of my life, so be it,
have at it. But they will not get me to commit a crime.”

        Politico
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(11/26, Cheney) says that what Corsi knew “is now at the center
of...Mueller’s probe into whether the Trump campaign had preemptive
knowledge that Russia hacked the Clinton campaign.” Also reporting the
story are Reuters
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(11/26, Layne, Hosenball), the Washington Post
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(11/26, Roig-Franzia), The Hill
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(11/26, Thomsen) and the Daily Caller
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(11/26, Ross), among other news outlets.

        Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) was asked on CNN’s Situation Room[image:
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(11/26) if he expects Corsi to be indicted. Whitehouse said, “It would be
hard not to expect it given the circumstances. When you’re negotiating a
plea deal with somebody. if you’re operating in good faith and when the
individual refuses to agree to the plea agreement, you tend to go forward
and not just drop everything. It’s rare for a prosecutor of Mueller’s
stature to make up that he has a case some kind. So, I think at this point
you go forth and you test the proposition and you get the grand jury to
indict, and you go on from there.”

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(11/26), “It’s step by step. There’s absolutely no doubt that Mueller is
progressing right up the line. Starting here with a very low level person.
The next one is going to be Stone and then we are going to go from there.
He’s got a lot of information. He has hours and hours of testimony from
dozens of people. Matching stories, who’s lying, who’s telling the truth.
Bottom line, the President has a very serious problem.”

        *Papadopoulos Begins Two-Week Prison Sentence. *The AP
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(11/26, Yen) reports “former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George
Papadopoulos began serving his two-week prison sentence on Monday after a
judge rejected his last-minute bid to remain free.” Papadopoulos “arrived
at a minimum-security camp in Oxford, Wisconsin, according to the Federal
Bureau of Prisons.” USA Today
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(11/26, Cummings), among other news outlets, also reports the story.

        The Washington Times
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(11/26, Mordock) notes that “in an early morning tweet Monday, Papadopoulos
insisted he had no connections to Russia,” writing
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“Still can’t believe the day I am going to a federal prison camp,
mainstream media says am going for my Russia contacts. I have never met a
single Russian official in my life. I have, however, met many western intel
sources – Joseph Mifsud – who people still call ‘Russian.’ Facts. USA.” ABC
World News Tonight
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(11/26, story 9, 0:15, Muir) and NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by
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(11/26, story 7, 0:10, Holt) briefly noted the story last night.

        *Prosecutors Say Manafort Violated His Plea Agreement By Lying. *In
what the Washington Post
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(11/26, Weiner) calls “the latest stunning turnaround” in former Trump
campaign manager Paul Manafort’s case, Mueller’s prosecutors said Monday
that Manafort “breached his plea agreement by lying repeatedly as they
questioned him.” The “apparent collapse of Manafort’s cooperation
agreement” exposes him “to more than a decade behind bars after pleading
guilty in September on charges of cheating the Internal Revenue Service,
violating foreign lobbying laws and attempting to obstruct justice.”

        USA Today
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(11/26, Johnson) reports prosecutors said in a court filing Monday, “The
government will file a detailed sentencing submission...that sets forth the
nature of the defendant’s crimes and lies, including those after signing
the plea agreement herein. ... As the defendant has breached the plea
agreement, there is no reason to delay his sentencing.” The New York Times
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(11/26, Lafraniere) says prosecutors said that as a result of Manafort’s
“crimes and lies” about “a variety of subject matters” they are relieved of
the promises made to him in the plea agreement. However, “under the terms
of the agreement, Mr. Manafort cannot withdraw his guilty plea.”

        The AP
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(11/26) calls the prosecutors’ claim “an extraordinary allegation that
could expose him to a lengthier prison sentence – and potentially more
criminal charges.” However, Politico
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(11/26, Gerstein) says that although prosecutors claim “that Manafort
committed new crimes by lying to the FBI, Mueller’s team stopped short of
saying that it intended to actually seek new charges. Instead, prosecutors
appear intent on urging the judges to impose stiffer sentences than they
might have otherwise.” The Wall Street Journal
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(11/26, Viswanatha) says both sides have asked that a sentencing date be
set.

        *Stone Friend Told Grand Jury Credico Was Backchannel To WikiLeaks.
*The Daily Caller
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(11/26, Ross) reports former New York gubernatorial candidate Kristin M.
Davis, “a longtime friend” of Roger Stone, “testified over the summer to a
grand jury in the special counsel’s Russia investigation that she overheard
left-wing comedian Randy Credico admit that he was a back channel between
Trump confidant Roger Stone and WikiLeaks.” Davis “told The Daily Caller
News Foundation that she testified” that she “heard the tail end of a
conversation where Credico was trying to impress upon Roger not to disclose
his name.”

        *House Democratic Leadership “Urging Restraint” In Regards To
Potential Trump Probes. *Under the headline “Senior House Democrats Tap
Brakes On Investigating Trump,” Reuters
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(11/26, Gibson, Hosenball) reports, “After capturing the U.S. House of
Representatives with a campaign that spoke of holding” Trump “accountable,
some powerful House Democrats are now urging restraint and a focus on
policy, at least at the outset.” Democratic leaders are trying “to chart a
measured path” and “will seek to avoid igniting political battles, for now,
over matters such as Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential
election, as well as possible collusion between Moscow and the Trump
campaign and obstruction of justice.” Nevertheless, Reuters says “many
Democrats” say they “want to dig into Trump’s property holdings, son-in-law
Jared Kushner’s businesses and daughter Ivanka Trump’s use of private
emails for official business.”
Trump Campaigns For Hyde-Smith On Eve Of Mississippi Senate Runoff.

President Trump made two stops in Mississippi on the eve of the final
federal election of 2018, the runoff in which appointed Sen. Cindy
Hyde-Smith (R-MS) faces Clinton Administration Agriculture Secretary Mike
Espy, a former Democratic congressman from the state. Polling has been
limited in the race, but one survey
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found Hyde-Smith with a 10-point lead. Still, the contest has been more
competitive than anticipated due to several controversies surrounding
Hyde-Smith.

        On ABC World News Tonight
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(11/26, story 6, 1:50, Muir), Tom Llamas reported that Hyde-Smith has
“appear[ed] to embrace the state’s racist past” in a “Facebook photo from
2014, posing in a Confederate cap. Her caption, ‘Mississippi history at its
best.’ And earlier this month, joking with a supporter about public
hangings. ... The President, campaigning with Hyde-Smith today, addressed
her comments on his way to Mississippi.” Trump: “She felt very badly. She
certainly didn’t mean that, and as I understand it, she’s already
apologized and very strongly.” Llamas added that Trump is “hoping to tip
the scales in her favor in a state where he won by 18 points in 2016.”
Trump: “Don’t take any chances. A lot of people think we’re going to have a
big win. Don’t take any chances. That’s happened many times before.”

        Ed O’Keefe reported on the CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by
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(11/26, story 5, 1:45, Glor), “President Trump threw his weight behind
[Hyde-Smith] today in Tupelo, hoping to add to the Republican majority in
the Senate. ... But Hyde-Smith is under fire for racially charged comments
recently caught on camera.” On NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by
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(11/26, story 6, 1:30, Holt), Kristen Welker reported, “Tonight, President
Trump in Mississippi, making the final pitch for Cindy Hyde-Smith. ... This
morning a disturbing reminder [that] this race has become all about race:
two nooses found at the state capital.” NBC News Senior Political Editor
Mark Murray: “Mississippi is one of the reddest states in the country. The
President has a 60 percent job approval rating, so his formula is very
simple: getting his people out to the polls to help the Republicans win.”

        The AP
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(11/27, Colvin, Amy) reports that Trump “rallied voters” for Hyde-Smith,
“who has found herself in a closer-than-expected runoff contest after
comments she made about attending a public hanging drew condemnation. ...
At rallies in Tupelo and then in Biloxi, Trump praised Hyde-Smith and
called on voters to send her back to Washington.” The President said in
Tupelo, “She votes for us and she votes for ‘Make America Great Again.’”
Hyde-Smith, “who has made the Trump rallies a highlight of her runoff
campaign, told the crowd in Tupelo: ‘I worked very, very hard for you. I
have stood up for you and you know I will continue to stand up for the
conservative values of Mississippi.’”

        The Memphis (TN) Commercial Appeal
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(11/26, Burgess) reports that in Tupelo, Trump “repeatedly linked support
for [Hyde-Smith] to support for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.” The
President said, “Brett Kavanaugh, he was beaten up so badly and so unfairly
by the Democrats, but we got through it. There were a lot of lies, a lot of
lies.” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who also spoke at the rally, addressed
the same theme, saying, “When Kavanaugh needed your senator, she was there.
If you like Kavanaugh, vote for Cindy Hyde-Smith.”

        The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
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(11/26, Bedillion) reports that the President’s Tupelo speech was “marked
at times by a dark tone and dire warnings.” The President “didn’t endorse
Hyde-Smith till August, but has since gone all-in on her campaign. He
rallied for her in Southaven in October. The president left the Tupelo
event bound for Biloxi, where he was also scheduled to speak.”

        The Biloxi (MS) Sun Herald
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(11/26, Douglas) reports that in Biloxi, the President said that a vote for
Espy “is a vote for ‘socialism and open borders.’” He told the crowd of
about 10,000, “If you let Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, and Chuck Schumer
win the Mississippi Senate seat they will try to erase all our gains,
reverse all our progress, and impose their extreme, job-killing agenda.”

        WDBD-TV
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Jackson, MS (11/26, 9:32 p.m. CST) described “a MAGA rally aimed at staving
off what some consider impossible in Mississippi and that is a US Senate
seat win by a Democrat.” WDBD added Trump hit “all the talking points,
including the caravan and his accomplishments, bringing up [Hyde-Smith]
briefly to introduce her and let her talk.” WTVA-TV[image: Image removed by
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Columbus, MS (11/26, 10:01 p.m. CST) reported that Trump said the election
“would be all about jobs, the border, and also judges.” Trump: “I’m here to
ask the people of Mississippi to send Cindy Hyde-Smith back to the United
States Senate so we can make it great again, so we can make it great for
all Americans.” WDAM-TV
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Hattiesburg, MS (11/26, 10:02 p.m. CST) reported Trump “says if voters want
more jobs and less crime, they should vote Republican.” Trump: “Vote
tomorrow. you know. Your going to have, you got an election tomorrow. It’s
going to be, I think, a very big day for Cindy and for the Republican Party
and for the country.”

        USA Today
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(11/26, Jackson) reports that during the two rallies, the President “made
little reference to a Democratic takeover of the U.S. House in this month’s
congressional elections, saying ‘I can only make so many stops’ for the
numerous House GOP candidates. Instead, he took credit for Senate victories
that enabled Republicans to maintain control in that body. If Hyde-Smith
defeats Democrat Mike Espy in the Mississippi runoff, Republicans will
control 53 of the 100 seats.”

        The New York Times
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(11/26, Cochrane, Blinder) reports that the President offered “an unabashed
endorsement of a Republican candidate under fire for comments that critics
said embraced the state’s segregationist history,” and the Washington Post
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(11/26, Rucker) says that he “inserted himself into a searing racial debate
here in the cradle of the Confederacy, barnstorming Mississippi on the eve
of a Senate runoff election riven by divergent attitudes here about the
legacy of segregation and lynching. ... By yoking himself with Hyde-Smith,
Trump is backing a politician who said she would sit with a supporter in
the front row of a public hanging, donned a Confederate uniform to promote
tourism at Jefferson Davis’s homestead, and graduated from one segregation
academy while sending her daughter to another.”

        The Washington Post
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(11/26, Viser, Weigel) reports that Democrats “have unleashed an
extraordinary effort to energize African American voters” in the special
election. Espy “faces steep odds as he seeks to become the first black
senator from deeply conservative Mississippi since just after the Civil
War. ... But African Americans make up a larger share of the electorate
here than they do in any other state, and in recent days, Espy and groups
backing him have flooded the state with volunteers, radio ads and social
media posts – seeking out potential voters in churches and on historically
black college campuses.”

        Lara Trump writes in the Daily Caller
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(11/26) “November 6 has come and gone, but the midterms aren’t over for
Mississippi quite yet, and President Trump needs you to get out to the
polls one more time. ... My father-in-law’s pro-growth policies are clearly
working for Mississippi, and keeping Hyde-Smith in the Senate is vital to
ensuring that partisan gridlock doesn’t bring our great American revival to
a halt.”

        Vice President Pence, who campaigned with the President, tweeted
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018112701biden&r=email-d734&l=0a9-131&t=c>,
“Mississippi needs to send @cindyhydesmith back to the U.S. Senate!
President @realDonaldTrump and I are proud to STAND with Cindy Hyde-Smith
because she’s stood strong for the #MAGA Agenda! Be sure to get out & Vote
for @CindyHydeSmith in Tuesday’s election Mississippi!”

        The Washington Post’s Matt Viser tweeted
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“How Republicans view this race: The Mississippi GOP sent out a mailer
urging supporters to get to the polls. It has Trump’s image and quotes on
both sides. Never once does it mention Cindy Hyde-Smith’s name or whom
voters are supposed to be supporting.” CNN’s Harry Enten tweeted
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“One thing about Roy Moore in 2017 is that he was already a damaged
candidate going into the race... The allegations merely sealed the deal...
In MS, Hyde-Smith didn’t have that same baggage coming in...”

        Politico
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(11/26, Arkin) headlines its report “Trump Drags Hyde-Smith Across The
Finish Line.” Reuters
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(11/27, Holland) also has a report.
White House Aims To Secure Several Years Of Border Wall Construction In
Lame Duck.

Politico
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(11/26, Bresnahan, Everett, Ferris) reports House GOP leaders will visit
the White House this afternoon to “try to placate” President Trump “and
avoid a partial government shutdown on Dec. 7.” According to “two
Republicans familiar with internal discussions,” Senate Republican leaders
“have discussed with the president the possibility of providing Trump with
$5 billion in guaranteed money for the wall but spread over two years.” A
“Republican senator” said the President has not ruled that out, but “it’s
unclear whether Democrats will go along with that minor concession.”
Politico cites “multiple Senate Republicans” who said the White House’s top
priority “is guaranteeing several years worth of wall construction before
the GOP loses full control of Congress.”

        *Yoder A Key Player In Fight Over Border Wall Funding. *McClatchy
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(11/26, Lowry) reports that Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-KS), who chairs the House
committee that helps set funding levels for DHS, “is one of the key players
in the border wall drama that will Congress and the White House over the
next few weeks – a drama that is also likely to define Yoder’s career.”
Yoder, whose “association with Trump helped sink the congressman’s chances
in a district he had won by double digits in each of the previous four
elections,” is “one of four principal negotiators on the bill” along with
Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Jon Tester (D-MT), and Rep. Lucille
Roybal-Allard (D-CA). How he “navigates this process will become an
important part of his political resume if he pursues a comeback in 2020 or
seeks to land a lobbying job after his term ends. It’ll also have major
stakes for Trump’s re-election campaign.”

        *Donald Graham: Congress Should Pass Wall Funding, Path To
Citizenship For Dreamers. *In an op-ed for the Washington Post
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(11/26), Donald Graham, chairman of Graham Holdings and co-founder of the
scholarship fund TheDream.us, writes that during the lame-duck session,
Congress should “pass a simple bill” that includes “an appropriation for
the wall, alongside an eventual path to citizenship for DACA recipients and
long-term legal status for the rest.” Such a move “would give each party
something it badly wants.”
Trump To Move Ahead With Boost On China Tariffs.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal
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(11/26, Davis), President Trump said Monday, just days before a summit with
Chinese President Xi Jinping, that he expects to move ahead with boosting
tariff levels on $200 billion of Chinese goods to 25 percent, calling it
“highly unlikely” that he would delay the increase. Trump also suggested
that if negotiations with Beijing don’t produce a favorable outcome for the
US, he would put tariffs on the rest of Chinese imports. Said the
President, “If we don’t make a deal, then I’m going to put the $267 billion
additional on” at a tariff rate of either 10 percent or 25 percent.

        *AP Analysis: G20 Is Trump’s Opportunity To Prove Deal-Making
Skills. *The AP
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(11/26, Wiseman) says Trump, “who calls himself a supreme dealmaker, will
have the opportunity this week to put himself to the test. The question is
whether he can defuse a trade war with China that is shaking financial
markets and threatening the global economy – and perhaps achieve something
approximating a breakthrough.” Trump and Jinping will meet during the G20
summit in Buenos Aires on Friday and Saturday. According to the AP, “Unless
the two leaders can achieve a truce of sorts, their conflicts will likely
escalate: On Jan. 1, the tariffs Trump has imposed on many Chinese goods
are set to rise from 10 percent to 25 percent, and Beijing would likely
retaliate.”

        Writing in the Wall Street Journal
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(11/26), Hudson Institute senior fellow Thomas J. Duesterberg argues that
it is in both countries’ interest to strike a deal during talks Friday in
Buenos Aires. Reaching a deal, he adds, will require both sides to make
some concessions.
Social Security Paid Out More Than it Took In This Year.

The New York Times
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(11/26, Span) reports Social Security “hit a worrisome milestone” this
year. The Social Security Administration “reported that the retirement
benefits paid out each month exceeded the tax revenues and interest that
fund the program,” which “necessitated the first dip into the Social
Security Trust Fund in 35 years.” The agency estimated that by 2034, “it
will have depleted those reserves, and its revenues will cover only about
four-fifths of its promised benefits.” The Times adds that fixes to the
program “will likely include changes designed to bring more money in and
pay less out.”
Cancer Research
FDA Approves Drug For Cancers Driven By Shared Mutation.

The Washington Post
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(11/26, McGinley) reports the FDA on Monday approved Vitrakvi
(larotrectinib) “for a wide range of cancers based on a shared mutation,
rather than the tumors’ locations.” The drug is for “patients with advanced
solid tumors containing what’s called an NTRK gene fusion, a hybrid of two
genes that can promote uncontrolled cell growth.” It is for patients “whose
cancer has spread or who would experience severe complications by
undergoing surgery and have no satisfactory alternatives.” The Post calls
the approval “an advance for the sometimes controversial field of
‘precision medicine.’”

        Reuters
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(11/26, Beasley) reports larotrectinib will be priced at $32,800 per month,
according to a partnership between manufacturer Loxo Oncology, Inc and its
partner Bayer AG. The companies “said that they expected most insurers to
cover the drug and patients’ out-of-pocket costs to be $20 or less per
month. Bayer said it would offer payment assistance to patients who need it
and would refund the cost of the drug to payers and patients if the drug
doesn’t provide clinical benefit in the first three months.”

        Forbes
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reports a reason why the drug is so expensive is because “patients who will
benefit are rare. Bayer estimates 2,500 to 3,000 patients in the U.S.
develop cancer due to a TRK fusion each year.”

        STAT Plus
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(11/26, Garde) reports larotrectnib is a “cancer drug that can treat an
array of tumors regardless of where they are in the body.” The drug was
developed by Loxo Oncology, which touted the approval as a
“first-of-its-kind.”

        Newsweek
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(11/26, McDonald) also reports on this story.
Breast Implants Linked To Cancer.

NBC Nightly News
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(11/26, story 10, 3:00, Holt) reported on its investigation that uncovered
evidence breast implants “could be linked to a deadly cancer that is more
common than doctors and patients may realize.” According to the
investigation, some women who have had implants are reporting “cancer of
the immune system, linked to breast implants called ALCL, only first
identified by the FDA in 2011.” The agency has “414 reported cases of ALCL
and believe it has caused at least nine deaths. They have considered it
rare with odds of one in 30,000 women at risk, but an NBC News
investigation with the ICIJ found data from other countries suggesting the
risk could be as high as one in 10,000 or even one in 1,000.”

        NBC News
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(11/26) reports on its website that “there doesn’t seem to be a difference
between silicone or saline filling in the implants.” There is “some
evidence that making them rougher...may raise the risk.” Some plastic
surgeons opt for the “so-called texture version because there’s evidence it
reduces the risk of capsular contracture.” The FDA said in a statement,
“There may be multiple factors involved in the development of
breast-implant-associated ALCL, such as patient characteristics, operative
procedure history, breast implant characteristics – including surface
characteristics – and duration the breast implant is in place.”

        The AP
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(11/26, Hoyer) reports that starting last fall, “thousands of problems with
breast implants flooded the FDA’s system. More than 4,000 injury reports
filed in the last half of 2017. Another 8,000 in the first six months of
2018.” The spike in reports “came to light after the FDA instructed
manufacturers in mid-2017 to go back and file individual reports in each
case of patient injury, in response to a lawyer’s discovery that reports
from his clients weren’t represented in the agency’s data.” According to
the AP, Mentor and Allergan, two of the largest breast implant
manufacturers, “said they stood behind the safety of their products, citing
years of studies that have led to inconclusive evidence that autoimmune
problems are linked to breast implants.”
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“A Trump Win For The Environment? Maybe.”* A New York Times
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(11/26) editorial says that while “Trump is determined to weaken Mr.
Obama’s rules restricting greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and
power plants – the chief culprits in the warming climate,” one “important
Obama policy decision still stands, at least in part because it has been
largely ignored” – the 2016 Kigali amendment to the 1987 Montreal Protocol.
The Obama Administration “signed it 2016, but the Trump White House has not
sent it to the Senate for ratification. The question is how best to engage
Mr. Trump’s interest.” The Times argues that “selling it to him as a
climate measure could be a serious problem, since he is copiously on record
as dismissing global warming as a problem. Presenting it to him as a jobs
and trade measure would be much smarter, since he talks about both all the
time.”
Washington Post.

*“Our Climate Reality Will Catch Up To Us, No Matter How Hard Trump Tries
To Bury The Evidence.”* In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(11/26) writes, “If you did not hear about the major new federal climate
change report, the Trump administration will be pleased.” The report “was
released the day after Thanksgiving...probably because it contradicts
practically everything...Trump has said and done on global warming.” The
Post adds “the White House responded to the report by misrepresenting
scientists’ work and promising ‘fuller information’ in the next analysis,”
and warns that “cooking the next report will not change the facts.”

        *“Russia’s Escalation Against Ukraine Shows How Little Putin
Worries About The West.” *A Washington Post
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(11/26) editorial says “at a minimum, [Vladimir] Putin’s aggression ought
to affect the reception he receives from Mr. Trump at the G-20 summit in
Buenos Aires.” Trump, it argues, “could send a message by refusing to meet
Mr. Putin; if he does go ahead with a bilateral meeting, he ought to begin
it by telling the Russian leader that his assault on Ukraine is
unacceptable and will have consequences. A failure to do so would simply
confirm Mr. Putin’s evident belief that further aggression against Ukraine
will cost him nothing with this US president.”

        *“The Deaths Of Two Children Should Underscore The Need To Rein In
Juvenile Life-Insurance Policies.” *In an editorial the Washington Post
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(11/26) cites the “chilling” case of a California man who “killed two of
his children for the insurance proceeds,” and says “other children are at
risk because of the loose standards and lax practices that make it so easy
to insure a young life.” The Post argues that there is “rarely if ever a
legitimate reason to insure a child’s life for a large sum. But only a few
states...have established standards or set limits on the amount of
insurance that can be taken out on a child’s life.” The Post says the
deaths of the two children in California “should serve as a wake-up call”
to “states that have no safeguards to protect vulnerable young lives from
those who would profit off them.”

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