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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*Friday, January 11, 2019 8:00 AM EST*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News* <#SECTION_1>

• Media Analyses: Biden’s Record Would Be An Albatross In 2020 Bid. <#S1>

• HuffPost Examines Twitter Followers Of Biden, Other Potential 2020
Candidates. <#S2>

• Reid Says He’s Met With Biden, Other Potential 2020 Candidates. <#S3>

• Cuomo Expects Biden To Enter 2020 Race. <#S4>

• RCP Analysis: White Male May Have Trouble Winning 2020 Democratic
Nomination. <#S5>

• Democratic Strategist: Party Should Listen To Voters Who Want “Someone
Entirely New” As Nominee. <#S6>

• Sanders Apologizes Again After New Accusation Of Campaign Staff
Harassment. <#S7>

• Warren Hoping To Increase Her Momentum With Weekend Visit To New
Hampshire. <#S8>

• Potential 2020 Hopeful Harris Using Memoir, Book Tour To Introduce
Herself To Voters. <#S9>

• AP: Gillibrand Eying Troy, NY As Potential Headquarters For A 2020 Run.
<#S10>

• Politico: Brown Planning Trip To Iowa As Key Aide Works To Set Up
Campaign. <#S11>

• Mulling 2020 Bid, Inslee To Visit New Hampshire This Month. <#S12>

*Leading the News* <#SECTION_2>

• Trump Visits Border Region Amid Talk Of National Emergency Declaration.
<#S13>

*Foreign Policy* <#SECTION_3>

• Pompeo Criticizes Obama’s Policies, Declares US Now “Force For Good” In
Mideast. <#S14>

• Moon: Kim’s Trip To China May Signal Second Summit With Trump Imminent.
<#S15>

• Trump Cancels Trip To Davos. <#S16>

• Trump Says US-China Trade Talks Have Been A “Tremendous Success.” <#S17>

• US Military Preparing For Syria Withdrawal Despite Shifting Timetable.
<#S18>

• Pompeo Calls For “Free And Fair” Elections In Venezuela As Maduro Starts
New Term. <#S19>

• Ghani Shakes Up Government Amid Taliban Attacks, Peace Talks. <#S20>

*Domestic Policy* <#SECTION_4>

• As Trump Says They Back Him, Federal Workers Rally To End Shutdown. <#S21>

• Cohen Will Testify Before House Panel Next Month. <#S22>

• Mnuchin Defends Decision To Lift Sanctions On Russian Firms. <#S23>

• Barr Meets With Judiciary Committee Democrats In Attempt To Reassure On
Russia Probe. <#S24>

• Powell Says Fed Can Be “Patient” As It Decides On 2019 Rate Hikes. <#S25>

• Surveyed Economists Say US Recession Risk Is Growing. <#S26>

• Sanders, Cummings Introduce Bill Addressing Price Of Drugs. <#S27>

*Cancer Research* <#SECTION_5>

• NCI Researchers’ Algorithm Shows Promise In Detecting Precancerous
Changes In Cervix. <#S28>

• Melanoma Tumor Mutation Variation May Impact Treatment Response, Research
Suggests. <#S29>

*Editorials/Op-Eds* <#SECTION_6>

• New York Times. <#S30>

• Washington Post. <#S31>
Biden in the News
Media Analyses: Biden’s Record Would Be An Albatross In 2020 Bid.

Under the heading “Joe Biden Is The Hillary Clinton Of 2020,” Matthew
Yglesias wrote for Vox
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(1/10) that some in the Democratic Party establishment think Hillary
Clinton “lost in 2016 because she was not ‘likable’ enough. ... Their
solution in 2020 is good old Joe Biden.” However, Yglesias argued that the
reason Clinton lost was due to “extended public scrutiny of every detail of
a decades-long career in public life,” which “is the exact same problem
Biden will inevitably face as a presidential candidate. Americans like
outsiders and fresh faces, not veteran insiders who bear the scars of every
political controversy of the past two generations.” Of Biden’s record,
Yglesias said, “Add it all up and you get a negative portrait of” him –
“the buckraker who failed to protect a sexual harassment victim [Anita
Hill] and spent the aughts boosting the Iraq War and bank deregulation
after fueling mass incarceration and anti-gay discrimination in the 1980s
and ‘90s.”

        Writing for the Daily Intelligencer (NY)
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(1/10), Ed Kilgore highlighted the Yglesias piece and a 2015 article
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by Jamelle Bouie who “noted...Biden stuck with the tough-on-crime tradition
even after it was obvious the collateral damage in ruined lives far
outweighed the public benefit.” Kilgore added, “Every examination of
Biden’s life and record, positive or negative, will reinforce the public’s
realization that he’s been in the highest levels of government for nearly a
half-century. Aside from his advanced age and the risks that involves for
his party, it’s not an enviable background in a country that doesn’t much
trust career politicians. That could be the item of baggage among so many
others than really drags down Joe Biden if he chooses to run for
president.”

        In his column for WGBH-FM
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Boston (1/10), David S. Bernstein predicted that a Biden White House run
wouldn’t fare well, saying that “in the spotlight of a Presidential
campaign,” the former Vice President’s “loose lips and guileless manner
will inevitably reveal outmoded attitudes that just won’t fly with today’s
Democratic Party activists.” Bernstein said Biden will “be forced to
address sensitive topics, whether he wants to or not,” such as “his strong
support for the 1994 crime bill, now seen as exacerbating racial
criminal-justice disparities.” Bernstein added, “A more disciplined,
rigorous campaigner might be able to tamp down his out-of-touch rhetoric
and stay out of trouble. That’s not Biden; never has been, and it’s hard to
imagine him changing now. “
HuffPost Examines Twitter Followers Of Biden, Other Potential 2020
Candidates.

The Huffington Post
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(1/10, O'Malley) reported on a statistical analysis it conducted of the
Twitter “followers of six front-running [2020] Democrats – Sens. Elizabeth
Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Kamala
Harris (D-Calif.), as well as former Vice President Joe Biden and former
Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas).” HuffPost said “the candidate whom Bernie
followers are least interested in is Biden,” although “the former vice
president is still followed by 30 percent of Sanders’ followers. The
relative disinterest in Biden, however, does appear to be mutual. According
to this data, only 20 percent of his 3.2 million followers are also
following Sanders.” HuffPost added that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) “is
well-positioned to be hugely influential in the primary. Over 50 percent of
O’Rourke’s followers also follow” Ocasio-Cortez, “as do over 40 percent of
the followers for both Warren and Sanders. Only Biden’s followers seem less
interested in what she has to say.”
Reid Says He’s Met With Biden, Other Potential 2020 Candidates.

The AP
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(1/10, Price) reports on a Thursday interview
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Las Vegas (1/9) KNPR-FM conducted with ex-Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), in which
he blasted President Trump as “amoral” and said he’d like to see Sen. Mitt
Romney (R-UT) mount a 2020 primary challenge to Trump. The AP adds that
Reid, “who is seen as a political kingmaker and remains a sought-after
endorsement among Democrats, said he has met with many candidates
considering a run for president in 2020, including former Vice President
Joe Biden. Reid said that it’s well-known that Biden is thinking about
running and would be the front-runner. But the only thing that may be
holding him back is the 76-year-old’s age, Reid said. ‘Everyone is waiting
to see what Joe Biden is going to do,’ he said.” Reid “said he has also
discussed potential bids with Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, California Sen.
Kamala Harris and California billionaire Tom Steyer, who bowed out
Wednesday.”
Cuomo Expects Biden To Enter 2020 Race.

The New York Post
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(1/10, Campanile) reports that during a Thursday interview with WAMC radio,
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), “who last week talked up former Vice President
Joe Biden to run for president in 2020, predicted he would run. But he
sidestepped questions on whether he would serve as his running mate –
saying Biden would be more interested in naming a candidate from a
battleground state rather than blue New York.”
RCP Analysis: White Male May Have Trouble Winning 2020 Democratic
Nomination.

Reporting for Real Clear Politics
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(1/10), Adele Malpass said, “In the age of identity politics and increasing
demands for diversity, especially on the left side of the political
spectrum, can the Democrats nominate a male Caucasian for president in
2020? In a recent CNN poll of registered Democrats the top three choices
were all white men: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Beto O’Rourke. If the
2018 midterms are a guide to Democratic voter sentiment, however, this may
not cut it.” Political analyst Kyle Kondik is quoted as saying, “It’s hard
to imagine the Democrats would end up with a straight white male” as the
2020 nominee.
Democratic Strategist: Party Should Listen To Voters Who Want “Someone
Entirely New” As Nominee.

In a USA Today
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(1/11, Thompson) op-ed, veteran Democratic strategist Phillip Thompson
writes, “A new USA Today national poll shockingly showed that Democratic
voters and Democratic leaning independents overwhelmingly prefer ‘someone
entirely new’ to any of the current field of potential presidential
candidates.” Perhaps, says Thompson, those voters “are right. A strong
Democrat, without the baggage of lengthy time in Washington or a recent
statewide election loss, is the best bet to defeat the most divisive
president in recent memory.” Voters “have taken a look at the current field
and decided that someone else entirely new would be the best nominee for a
diverse Democratic Party. The Democratic Party would be better off to
listen, before it’s too late.”
Sanders Apologizes Again After New Accusation Of Campaign Staff Harassment.

The Washington Post
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(1/10, Sonmez) reports that “for the second time this month,” Sen. Bernie
Sanders (I-VT) “has apologized to female staff members from his 2016
presidential campaign who have said they were sexually harassed by
co-workers – including one who was expected to play a role in a potential
2020 bid.” Earlier Thursday, “after Politico reported
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that Sanders’s former Iowa campaign manager Robert Becker had been named in
a $30,000 federal discrimination settlement with two former employees,
Sanders told reporters that he thanked the women ‘from the bottom of my
heart for speaking out’ and formally apologized to them.” Sanders “said
that his 2018 Senate reelection campaign in Vermont had operated under
‘some of the strongest sexual harassment policies in the country’ and that
he had not been aware of the $30,000 settlement.”

        The AP
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(1/10, Schor) reports Sanders on Thursday “apologized to women who have
shared experiences of harassment by male supervisors while working on his
2016 presidential campaign, a controversy that has raised fresh questions
about his potential second run in 2020.” Sanders said “the alleged
misconduct by male aides ‘was absolutely unacceptable and certainly not
what a progressive campaign or any campaign should be about,’” adding “that
rhetoric about ‘ending sexism and ending all forms of
discrimination...cannot just be words.’ ‘To women in our campaign who were
harassed or mistreated, I apologize,’ Sanders said.”

        The New York Times
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(1/10, Ember, Martin) reports that while Sanders “has not yet announced he
is running for president, allegations of harassment, sexism and gender
discrimination that have emerged in recent weeks have already threatened to
impede a potential 2020 bid.” He “is especially vulnerable on
gender-related issues because so many of his top aides were men and some of
his most outspoken supporters, derided as ‘Bernie Bros’ by supporters of
Hillary Clinton, were often caustic and sexist in their criticism of the
Democratic Party’s eventual nominee. The issue is just as acute because of
President Trump’s widely criticized derogatory comments about women and the
number of female candidates who could also join the 2020 race.”

        In an online article, CNN
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(1/10, Krieg) reported, “On January 2, following a New York Times report in
which several female employees from the 2016 campaign alleged sexual
harassment, disparities in pay and a workplace environment they described
as either uncomfortable or inappropriate, Sanders first apologized.”
However, Sanders’ response “when asked if he had been aware of the issues
at the time – he had been ‘a little bit busy running around the country
trying to make the case,’ he said – worried allies who were concerned that
those words would undermine the apology.”
Warren Hoping To Increase Her Momentum With Weekend Visit To New Hampshire.

Politico
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(1/11, Korecki) reports, “As the senator from the state next door,” Sen.
Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) starts “with a built-in advantage in New Hampshire.
But her proximity to the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state is
also creating soaring expectations that could haunt” Warren, as the
previous “three Massachusetts Democrats who ran in New Hampshire all
finished first. That history forms the backdrop for Warren’s weekend visit
to New Hampshire,” where she “will attempt to build on the momentum from
her first campaign foray trip last week. Warren held at-capacity events in
stops across Iowa, drawing a cross section of Democrats curious about the
2020 field and eager to get the primary underway. In New Hampshire,
Democratic party leaders say enthusiasm is also high – and large crowds are
expected.”
Potential 2020 Hopeful Harris Using Memoir, Book Tour To Introduce Herself
To Voters.

The Washington Post
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(1/10, Janes) reports on Sen Kamala Harris’ (D-CA) tour to promote her new
memoir, “The Truths We Hold,” ahead of a likely 2020 run for president. The
Post says, “In her book and on her tour, Harris is introducing herself as a
candidate of nuance, a child of immigrants, a woman of color, capable of
bridging the cracks in the country’s foundation because she has seen their
effects firsthand.” The Post adds that “eventual presidential candidates
have long used books and tours like hers to stir national attention and
establish a narrative — which is of particular importance for someone like
Harris, whose national profile has grown in recent years but remains
blurry.”
AP: Gillibrand Eying Troy, NY As Potential Headquarters For A 2020 Run.

The AP
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(1/10, Summers, Pace) reports that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) “is
looking at basing a potential 2020 presidential campaign in Troy, New York,
a small upstate city on the banks of the Hudson River, according to
multiple” sources. Gillibrand’s “search for a headquarters is the strongest
signal yet that” she “will soon” launch a White House run. If she chooses
Troy, says the AP, it “could allow Gillibrand to highlight her roots in
upstate New York, where she was born and later represented in Congress
before being appointed to the Senate.”

        *Politico: Gillibrand Planning Visit To Iowa Next Weekend. *Politico
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(1/10, Korecki, Schneider) reported that Gillibrand “is pursuing a trip to
Iowa next weekend,” according to “three sources.” Gillibrand “is planning
events in Iowa as well as courting on-the-ground staffers in the first
presidential caucus state.”
Politico: Brown Planning Trip To Iowa As Key Aide Works To Set Up Campaign.

Politico
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(1/11, Strauss) reports that Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) “is preparing the
biggest step yet toward a potential presidential campaign: a trip to Iowa
in the coming weeks, which is in the final stages of planning and will soon
be announced, according to four” sources. Visiting “Iowa would be the
latest signal from Brown and his wife, Connie Schultz, that he is
considering a White House run organized around the ‘dignity of work,’ the
theme of his reelection campaign last year.” In addition, “Brown’s longtime
aide and current chief of staff, Sarah Benzing,” is working behind the
scenes “to set up a campaign – with a particular focus on Iowa, where she
grew up and worked on a series of congressional, Senate and presidential
efforts earlier in her career.” She’s “in line to manage Brown’s
presidential campaign, should he pull the trigger, according to” sources.
Mulling 2020 Bid, Inslee To Visit New Hampshire This Month.

Politico
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(1/10, Strauss) reported that Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) “will hold a
fundraiser and a pair of public events in New Hampshire later this month,
as he considers” a 2020 White House bid. Inslee will visit New Hampshire
“the week of Jan. 21, when he will headline a fundraiser to benefit the
League of Conservation Voters, according to an invitation” to the event,
which “is hosted by former New Hampshire Rep. Paul Hodes and a handful of
other Democrats. The next day, Inslee will speak at a roundtable event on
climate change at Saint Anselm College and will address the Dartmouth
College Democrats on climate change.”
Leading the News
Trump Visits Border Region Amid Talk Of National Emergency Declaration.

While coverage of President Trump’s visit to the US-Mexico border region in
McAllen, Texas leads reporting on the ongoing partial government shutdown,
stories focus less on the trip than on rising speculation that the
President will soon declare a national emergency in order to circumvent
Congress to build a border wall.

        ABC World News Tonight
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(1/10, lead story, 3:20, Muir) reported, “The President with Border Patrol
officers in Texas, calling it a crisis. It’s now Day 20 of the government
shutdown.” House Speaker Pelosi “saying the President likes this, saying
it’s because it’s a distraction from what else is happening in Washington.”
ABC’s Matt Gutman: “President Trump traveling far from Washington and those
stalled shutdown talks, trying to drum up support for his wall, by warning
of a national security crisis at the border.” Trump: “If you don’t have it,
it’s going to be nothing but hard work and grueling problems. And by the
way, and death.” Gutman: “The President is dug in. Even before taking off,
he was sounding ready to declare a national emergency so he can go around
Congress and use the military to build his wall. ... Pelosi pointing out
even many Republicans dislike that idea.” Pelosi: “I think he’s going to
have to answer to his own party on usurping that much power.”

        The CBS Evening News
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(1/10, lead story, 3:40, Glor) reported, “A trip to the border and
government shutdown about to tie a record. President Trump flew to the Rio
Grande Valley to push for border wall funding today. Without it the partial
government shutdown continues it, and tomorrow will tie the longest ever.
... About 800,000 stand to miss paychecks tomorrow. Jerome Powell, Chairman
of the Federal Reserve, said today the US economy could suffer if the
shutdown lasts much longer.” CBS’ Major Garrett: “President Trump surveyed
the US-Mexico border near McAllen and the people who protect it, part of
his ongoing campaign to portray the border as overrun by migrants, drugs,
and human trafficking. ... Before leaving for Texas, the President,
frustrated by Democratic opposition to wall funding, said he is seriously
considering declaring a national emergency and seizing unspent Pentagon
construction funds.”

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(1/10, story 3, 1:50, Holt), Peter Alexander reported, “From President
Trump tonight, a show and tell aimed at creating urgency to get his
long-promised border barrier built...praising those on the front lines.”
Trump: “They have done a fantastic job. Never so many apprehensions ever in
our history.” Alexander: “In fact, nationwide, apprehensions are way down
from their peak in the early 2000s. About that signature campaign promise
--” Trump: “Who’s going to pay for the wall?” Unidentified Speaker:
“Mexico!” Trump: “When I say Mexico’s going to pay for the wall, do you
think they’re going to write a check for $20 billion or $10 billion or $5
billion or two cents? No. They’re paying for the wall in a great trade
deal.”

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a clip of his remarks in Texas, as well as an eight-second clip
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of then-President Obama discussing border security. He later tweeted
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“We lose 300 Americans a week, 90% of which comes through the Southern
Border. These numbers will be DRASTICALLY REDUCED if we have a Wall!”

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(1/10), Trump said, “We built a lot of wall. We have renovated tremendous
amount of wall with money that we have already gotten. And we are
continuing that. But now we just really want to get it going and finish it
up. We are going to build the new wall. And it’s common sense. It really is
when you think of it.”

        The AP
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(1/11, Lucey, Mascaro, Kellman) reports the President “edged closer
Thursday to declaring a national emergency in an extraordinary end run
around Congress to fund his long-promised border wall. Pressure was
mounting to find an escape hatch from the three-week impasse that has
closed parts of the government, cutting scattered services and leaving
hundreds of thousands of workers without pay. ... Asked about the plight of
those going without pay, the president shifted the focus, saying he felt
badly ‘for people that have family members that have been killed’ by
criminals who came over the border.”

        The New York Times
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(1/10, Tackett, Ferman) says Trump arrived in McAllen “to dramatize his
desire for a border wall, a hardened position that has caused the partial
shutdown of the federal government. He surrounded himself with border
agents, victims of horrible crimes, a display of methamphetamine and
heroin, an AK-47 and an AR-15 rifle, and a trash bag stuffed with $362,062
in cash that had been confiscated by law enforcement officials. In his
view, it all added up to a single word, ‘crisis,’ with a lone solution,
building a wall.” The Dallas Morning News
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(1/10, Corchado) reports, “At a briefing intended to help drum up support
for the wall, customs and Border Patrol officials showed the president
heroin, cash and weapons seized at ports of entry – doing little to
reinforce the case that unfenced sections of the border are a problem that
justifies a disruptive government shutdown or costly construction project.”

        USA Today
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(1/10, Jackson, Fritze, Collins) reports the President “blasted Democrats
and touted his proposed border wall during a visit to Texas on Thursday
hours after making his most explicit threat yet to declare a national
emergency and sidestep Congress on the issue.” The Washington Post
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(1/10, Rucker) reports, “The visit came one day after Trump abruptly walked
out of budget negotiations with Democrats in Washington aimed at ending the
government shutdown.”

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(1/10), “I think the President’s advice to us is to stay strong and we
will. We are not going to fold. We are on the right side of this argument.”
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(1/10), “I think this trip was very valuable. I was pleased to come down
with the President to meet with Border Patrol but also to meet with victims
whose family had lost their lives to illegal immigration. There are real
human tragedies and when you see Chuck Schumer and the Democrats force a
government shutdown because they are so adamantly opposed to securing the
border, that’s really out of touch.”

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(1/10), “If we don’t make a deal with Congress, most likely I will do that.
I would actually say I would. I can’t imagine any reason why not because
I’m allowed to do it. The law is 100 percent on my side.” Politico
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(1/10, Everett, Caygle, Morin, Bresnahan) says the President “gave the
strongest signal yet that he will declare a national emergency” in the
interview.

        On NBC Nightly News
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(1/10, story 5, 1:50, Holt), Kristen Welker reported, “White House lawyers
are now preparing the legal justification.” Trump: “We’re either going to
have a win, make a compromise, because I think a compromise is a win for
everybody, or I will declare a national emergency.” Welker: “Democrats
already threatening legal action.” Senate Minority Whip Durbin: “That
raises a serious constitutional issue that can be only resolved in the
courts.” The Washington Post
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(1/10, Kim) also reports “the White House has begun laying the groundwork.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(1/10, A1, Peterson) reports under the headline “White House Aides Explore
Alternative Ways To Pay For Border Wall” that the Administration is also
seeking alternative routes short of declaring a national emergency to
finance the wall. The New York Times
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(1/10, Tackett, Davis) reports, “The White House has directed the Army
Corps of Engineers to examine emergency supplemental funds allocated last
year after devastating hurricanes and wildfires that could instead be used
to pay for the wall, according to congressional and Defense Department
officials with knowledge of the matter, who insisted on anonymity to
discuss the possibility.” The New York Post
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(1/10, Jaeger) reports Trump “could dip into a $13.9 billion Army Corps of
Engineers fund intended for public works.”

        Jonathan Swan of Axios said on Fox News’ Special Report[image:
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(1/10), “It does seem from everything I’m hearing from inside the
Administration, that they have basically given up on a congressional
solution, which means it’s either declare the emergency, which will take
them into a court fight, or OMB, the budget office, has been looking for
creative ways to find other pots of money that they can move around. Most
of it comes out of the Pentagon.”

        Bloomberg News
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(1/10) reports Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Thursday that Trump “should
invoke emergency authority to fund construction of the wall.” Graham said,
“It is time for President Trump to use emergency powers to fund the
construction of a border wall/barrier. I hope it works.” Politico
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(1/10, Everett) reports Graham, who had been leading an effort to try to
reach a compromise on the shutdown, said, “I think we’re stuck. I just
don’t see a pathway forward. I don’t see a way forward. I have never been
more depressed about moving forward than I am right now. I just don’t see a
pathway forward.” CQ Roll Call
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(1/10, Shutt) also reports on Graham’s remarks.

        The Wall Street Journal
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(1/10) advises against declaring a national emergency in an editorial,
saying it would set a dangerous precedent and defy conservatives’ stance on
the separation of powers. Erica Newland, “a former attorney adviser in the
Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel,” writes in the Washington Post
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(1/10), “If my former colleagues at OLC, and throughout the Justice
Department, are now working on the possible declaration of a national
emergency, I dearly hope they are as meticulous in their review of the
president’s justifications as they are in their review of the actions he
plans to take.”

        However, Brandon Judd of the National Border Patrol Council writes
in USA Today
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(1/10), “Trump has expressed a strong preference for using normal budget
procedure, but he has also made it clear that he is very much prepared to
do whatever it takes to secure the border.” He “is making a sincere effort
to address a genuine crisis.” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) writes in the Wall
Street Journal
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(1/10) that border security is a serious concern that Trump is addressing,
and that Democrats are denying the problem.

        The New York Times
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(1/10) editorializes, “Negotiations to end the shutdown prompted by Mr.
Trump’s wall fixation have gone nowhere – despite the president’s storming
out of his Wednesday huddle with lawmakers – and his show at the border
won’t change that.” The President “loves to boast that he leads with his
‘gut.’ He really can’t be bothered with all the humdrum details of
governing, remaining proudly ignorant of how anything works in Washington.
... For the sake of the millions being hurt, let’s hope he manages to
blunder himself back out of this mess soon.”

        Eugene Robinson writes in his Washington Post
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(1/10) column, “Trump is afraid of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Matt Drudge,
Laura Ingraham and the rest of the far-right echo chamber. (He sees Sean
Hannity as more of a house pet.) He’s afraid of his shrunken but loyal
base, which could abandon him if he doesn’t give them a wall. ... He sees
this as an existential fight and, so far, he’s losing.”

        Reuters
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(1/10, Holland, Zengerle), McClatchy
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(1/10, Ordoñez), the Washington Times
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(1/10, A1, Dinan, Boyer), and The Hill
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(1/10, Fabian) are among the other outlets also reporting on the border
visit.

        *WPost’s Givhan: Trump “Was Dressed For A Natural Disaster.”
*Washington
Post
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(1/10) fashion editor Robin Givhan writes that the President “was dressed
for a natural disaster...yet there was no wildfire, earthquake or rogue
hurricane bearing down on either of these places.” Givhan says Trump “is a
creature of sartorial habits. He likes his suits baggy and his red ties
extra long. And when he has traveled to sites where nature has wreaked
havoc, he typically arrives wearing khaki trousers, an open-collar white
shirt, a navy windbreaker with the presidential seal on the chest and a
baseball cap.”

        *Fact-Check Pieces State Trump Did Say Mexico Would “Make A
One-Time Payment.” *The Los Angeles Times
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(1/10, Stokols) reports the President “in remarks at the White House as he
departed for Texas also put a new spin on the discrepancy between his
famous, often-repeated campaign promise that Mexico would pay for a border
wall and the fact that Mexico is not doing so.” He said, “When, during the
campaign, I would say, ‘Mexico is going to pay for it,’ obviously, I never
said this and I never meant they’re going to write out a check.” The Times
writes, “Trump did specifically assert that Mexico would make direct
payments, threatening at one point to halt remittances that Mexican
American workers send to relatives in Mexico as a tactic to force Mexico to
‘make a one-time payment of $5 [billion] to $10 billion.’”

        Jim Acosta said on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image removed by
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(1/10) that the President is “trying to rewrite history. ... His campaign
released various proposals to force Mexico to fund the wall stating, ‘It’s
an easy decision for Mexico, make a one-time payment of $5 to $10
billion.’” Jake Tapper said on CNN’s The Lead[image: Image removed by
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(1/10), “Donald Trump did, indeed, say that he would force Mexico to make a
direct payment to the United States. We reported it on this very show,
April 5, 2016.” USA Today
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(1/10, Cummings) runs a fact-check piece headlined “Trump Says He
‘Obviously’ Never Said Mexico Would Pay Directly For The Wall. But He Did.”
The Washington Post
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(1/10, Nakamura) headlines its own piece “‘The Story Keeps Changing’: Trump
Falsely Asserts He Never Promised Mexico Would Directly Pay For The Border
Wall.”

        *Steel Slat Prototype Could Be Breached With Saw. *On NBC Nightly
News
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(1/10, story 4, 1:10, Holt), Jake Soboroff reported on a DHS test that
“shows how vulnerable President Trump’s wall could be. ... Eight prototypes
were created to help the President determine what kind of wall to build.
The military and Border Patrol were tasked with breaching them using
various tools. ... This steel slat prototype, sliced with a saw. Critics of
President Trump’s border policy say no barrier, including steel just like
this, will do anything to solve the humanitarian or security crisis. ...
While previous Administrations did use the design, the prototypes were
built during the Trump Administration. All eight were breached during
testing.”

        *Pence: DACA Protections Will Not Be Part Of Agreement. *The Washington
Post
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(1/10, Wagner) reports Vice President Pence on Thursday “ruled out any
agreement” on border security “that involved protections for ‘dreamers’
brought to the country illegally as children.” Pence told reporters, “When
we get the resources that we need to build a wall and secure our border,
this is a President that also wants to...fix our broken immigration system.
We believe the opportunity after the Supreme Court case will be the time to
do that.” Reuters
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(1/10, Becker) reports Pence did say Trump “is ‘very amenable’ to change
laws to allow for in-country asylum processing of minors.” The Washington
Times
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(1/10, Dinan) also reports on Pence’s comments.

        USA Today
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(1/10, Hayes) reports, “Long before [Trump] considered declaring a national
emergency to free up money for a wall along the southern border, his vice
president criticized the idea of the White House making an end run around
Congress.” In 2014, then-Indiana Gov. Pence “attacked the idea of using
presidential powers to act unilaterally in the face of congressional
opposition.”

        *Shutdown Exacerbates Backlogs In Immigration Courts. *The AP
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(1/10, Taxin) reports the partial government shutdown “is playing havoc
with the nation’s already backlogged immigration courts, forcing the
postponement of hearings for thousands of immigrants.” While the impasse
could mean “years more of waiting – and prolonged separation from loved
ones overseas – until they get a new court date” for some seeking asylum,
for “those immigrants with little chance of winning their bids to stay in
this country legally, the shutdown could help them stave off deportation
that much longer – adding to the very delays the Trump administration has
railed against.”

        *Media Analyses: Acosta Inadvertently Makes Case For Border
Wall. *CNN’s
Jim Acosta is drawing fire from conservative media outlets after he tweeted
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a video of himself walking along a section of steel slats on the US-Mexico
border in McAllen, Texas. Acosta wrote in the tweet, “I found some steel
slats down on the border. But I don’t see anything resembling a national
emergency situation.. at least not in the McAllen TX area of the border
where Trump will be today.” Acosta made similar claims on the air Thursday,
telling CNN’s Situation Room
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(1/10) that there is “no sign of a crisis” on the border. Acosta added that
the President “declared that the nation is under attack here on the border.
But I can tell you, we’ve been standing here all day long. We don’t see any
sign of an attack, no sign of an invasion down here on the border.”

        Conservative outlets pointed out that the calm along the section of
the border from which he was reporting was due to the fact that the steel
slats the President has been advocating are there. Townhall
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(1/10, O'Brien) says many on social media “noted, Acosta just pretty much
just proved the president’s point.” Under the headline “CNN’s Jim Acosta
Says There’s No Border Crisis Near Texas Border Wall,” the Daily Caller
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(1/10, Johnson) says Acosta “inadvertently made a case for the construction
of a border wall,” and Breitbart
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(1/10, Moons) also says “Acosta appeared to inadvertently make the case on
Thursday for a steel version of President Donald Trump’s border wall.”

        Late Thursday afternoon, the President tweeted
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another post
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in which Acosta said, “The steel slats don’t run the entire length of the
border in the McAllen area,” and, “Occasionally migrants come thru but
residents say their community is quite safe.”

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(1/10) Thursday evening, saying, “Just so you know, there is not a wall all
along McAllen, Texas. There are various spots where there is no wall at
all. There is fencing. There is chain-link fencing. I went to an RV park
this evening where there are RVs right along the river where people can
play shuffle board and drive around in their golf carts, and they’re not
being besieged by convoys and caravans of migrants coming in and causing
all kinds of crime and mayhem. So, what you saw earlier today is the
President hyping this case for a wall on the border, just as he has been
spreading other misleading statements.”

        *Some Border Landowners Vow To Resist Eminent Domain Claims.
*The Washington
Post
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(1/10, Berman) reports about 100 landowners in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley
have “received surprise letters from the federal government in recent
months, requests from officials who are seeking access to their properties
for surveys, soil tests, equipment storage and other actions. It is,
lawyers and experts say, the first step in the government trying to seize
private property using the power of eminent domain” for wall construction.
The Post reports some of the landowners it spoke to vow to fight any such
action.

        *Twenty-One Dead In Mexican Gang Battle Near US Border. *Reuters
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(1/10, Schrank) reports Mexican authorities are investigating “a battle
between two suspected gangs that left 21 dead” in the city of Ciudad Miguel
Aleman, near where President Trump “visited on Thursday to win support for
his plan to build a wall.”
Foreign Policy
Pompeo Criticizes Obama’s Policies, Declares US Now “Force For Good” In
Mideast.

Reuters
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(1/10, Wroughton, Masri) reports in Cairo Thursday, Secretary of State
Pompeo “accused Barack Obama...of sowing chaos in the Middle East by
failing to adequately confront Islamist militants in a blistering critique
of [Obama’s] policies.” Reuters notes that it was in Cairo “where Obama
gave a major speech in 2009 in the first year of his presidency.” Pompeo
“argu[ed] that [Obama] had in effect misread and abandoned the Middle
East.” Said Pompeo, “We learned that when America retreats, chaos often
follows. When we neglect our friends, resentment builds. And when we
partner with our enemies, they advance.” To Reuters, the comments “raised
eyebrows in the United States and abroad not the least because Trump
himself is being criticized for his ambiguous plan announced last month to
pull US troops out of Syria.” AFP
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(1/10) reports Pompeo pledged the US “will use diplomacy and work with our
partners to expel every last Iranian boot” from Syria and bolster efforts
“to bring peace and stability to the long-suffering Syrian people.”

        To the AP
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(1/10, Lee), Pompeo “delivered a scathing rebuke of the Obama
administration’s Mideast policies...accusing the former president of
‘misguided’ and ‘wishful’ thinking that diminished America’s role in the
region, harmed its longtime friends and emboldened its main foe: Iran.”
Pompeo “laid the blame notably on [the] vision outlined by...Obama in a
speech he gave in Cairo in 2009 in which he spoke of ‘a new beginning’ for
US relations with countries in the Arab and Muslim world.” Said Pompeo,
“Remember: It was here, here in this very city, another American stood
before you. He told you that radical Islamist terrorism does not stem from
ideology. He told you 9/11 led my country to abandon its ideals,
particularly in the Middle East. He told you that the United States and the
Muslim world needed ‘a new beginning.’ The results of these misjudgments
have been dire.”

        On Fox News Special Report
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(1/10), Bret Baier said Pompeo issued “a scathing rebuke” of the Obama
Administration’s Middle East policy. Correspondent Trey Yingst said
Pompeo’s visit marked “a turn in the US’ Middle East policy,” laying out
the Administration’s plan to counter Iranian influence in the region and
“leaving open the door for future rebuilding assistance for Syria’s Assad
regime” on the condition that Iranian and Iranian-backed forces withdraw.

        Bloomberg News
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(1/10, Wadhams) says Pompeo “accused the Obama Administration of
underestimating the threat posed by Islamic extremism and Iran,” and
declared the US a “force for good” in the region. According to the Washington
Post
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(1/10, Raghavan), “To many of those listening, Pompeo appeared to have
ignored decades of collective angst in the region towards the United States
and its policies, seemingly rewriting historical perceptions.”

        Likewise, the New York Times
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(1/10, Walsh, Sanger) also says “the seeming contradiction between Mr.
Trump’s impulsive announcement that United States forces would leave Syria
and Mr. Pompeo’s declaration that ‘when America retreats, chaos follows’
confounded many in the region.” To the Times, Pompeo “laid out a new
manifesto for American action in the Middle East,” telling a university
audience in Cairo that “the age of self-inflicted American shame is over”
and vowed the US “would take a far more activist role in the region.”

        The Washington Post
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(1/10, Raghavan) says Pompeo vowed the US will “continue airstrikes in the
region ‘as targets arise’ and continue its mission of overseeing the full
defeat of the Islamic State and the expulsion of Iranian forces from Syria,
a job that analysts said would take much longer than an initial 120-day US
timeline for withdrawal.”

        The Washington Times
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(1/10, Taylor) reports Pompeo said the Administration is pushing to
“establish the Middle East Strategic Alliance to confront the region’s most
serious threats and bolster energy and economic cooperation.” While he “did
not explicitly say the focus of such an alliance would be to counter Iran,”
US officials “have suggested during recent background briefings that it
would be a core goal.” To the Washington Free Beacon
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(1/10, Kredo), Pompeo’s remarks “signal that while the Trump administration
is not wholly removing America’s presence from the region, it is applying
greater pressure on Arab allies to contribute their fair share to the
fight, particularly against the Iranian regime.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(1/10, Malsin, McBride) notes Pompeo didn’t mention Obama by name, while USA
Today
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(1/10, Shesgreen) says he “delivered a blistering rebuke to...Obama’s
Middle East policy” and argued that the Trump Administration has
“reinvigorated” America’s leadership role in the region. To NPR
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(1/10, Chappell), the speech was “most notable for the determined attacks
on the previous US administration.”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(1/10, Wilkinson), Pompeo used the speech “to take aim at two favorite
targets – Iran and former President Obama – as he sought to reassure Middle
East allies of Washington’s commitment to the region.” Ahead of the speech,
Pompeo met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi, but “speaking briefly
to reporters, Pompeo sidestepped the issue of human rights.” ABC News
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(1/10, McLaughlin) likewise says on its website that while Pompeo
“challenged Middle Eastern countries to take on new responsibilities in the
fight against extremism, he failed to call out human rights abuses in
places like Egypt and Saudi Arabia and did not mention the murder of
Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.”

        A New York Times
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(1/10, Specia, Yuhas) analysis says Pompeo’s speech “was strikingly at odds
with a famed speech made by President Barack Obama in the same city nearly
a decade ago.” The Times, for example, notes that while Obama “adamantly
supported a two-state solution,” Pompeo “said little about the peace
process and made no mention of a two-state solution.” It also says that
while “Obama tried to walk a line between promoting democracy and
supporting authoritarian leaders,” Pompeo “made little mention of democracy
and no mention of human rights.”

        In a second analysis piece, the New York Times
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(1/10, Landler) says that while President Trump “has long claimed that he
puts ‘America first’ overseas,” in two “remarkable statements on Thursday,
Mr. Trump and...Pompeo explicitly favored foreign autocrats over elected
American leaders.” In Cairo, Pompeo “paid tribute to Egypt’s repressive
president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, for his courage in supporting Mr. Trump’s
alternative approach.” About an hour later, Trump “said that China’s
Communist Party bosses negotiated in better faith than the Democratic
leaders in Congress.” Said Trump, “I find China, frankly, in many ways to
be far more honorable than Cryin’ Chuck and Nancy. I really do. China is
actually much easier to deal with than the opposition party.”

        BBC World News
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(1/10) reports “Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif mocked Mr. Pompeo’s
speech, saying that wherever the US interferes, ‘chaos, repression and
resentment follow,’” while Reuters
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(1/10, Abdallah) reports that a “senior United Arab Emirates’ official
welcomed...Pompeo’s speech in Cairo on Thursday, saying it was a message of
support for allies and friends.” Politico
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(1/10, Toosi, Oprysko) and the Washington Examiner
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(1/10, Gehrke), among other outlets, also report on the speech.

        *WPost: Administration About To Repeat Obama’s Mistakes. *A Washington
Post
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(1/10) editorial says “Pompeo muddled the message of his own
administration’s national security adviser, John Bolton,” who “roll[ed]
back statements by Mr. Trump, earlier this week spelled out ‘objectives’ he
said had to be met before US troops left Syria.” While Pompeo “dismissed
accounts of these contradictions as ‘made up by the media,’” the Post says
“not only reporters are confused.” The Post also laments that none Trump’s
advisers “seem to understand that while denouncing Mr. Obama’s mistakes,
they are, in Syria, about to repeat them.”
Moon: Kim’s Trip To China May Signal Second Summit With Trump Imminent.

The New York Times
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(1/10, Sang-Hun) reports South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Thursday
that Kim Jong-un’s trip to China this week “heralded an imminent second
summit meeting between Mr. Kim and President Trump to negotiate the terms
of denuclearizing the North.” Moon held his New Year’s news conference in
Seoul just “hours after Mr. Kim wrapped up a four-day trip to China, which
included his fourth summit meeting with President Xi Jinping.” Said Moon,
“I think both sides know what the other side wants,” and Kim’s trip to
China “indicates that a second North Korea-US summit has come close.” Moon
added, “If they agree to hold a second North Korea-US summit in a
not-too-distant future, we can see this as a rather optimistic sign that
both sides have narrowed their differences on this issue.”
Trump Cancels Trip To Davos.

President Trump announced on Twitter
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Thursday that he is canceling his upcoming trip to Davos, Switzerland to
attend the World Economic Forum. Trump wrote, “Because of the Democrats
intransigence on Border Security and the great importance of Safety for our
Nation, I am respectfully cancelling my very important trip to Davos,
Switzerland for the World Economic Forum. My warmest regards and apologies
to the @WEF!”

        Reuters
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(1/10, Holland) reports that it “was unclear whether the partial government
shutdown, now in its 20th day, would end before the start of the global
economic meeting, which is scheduled for Jan. 22 to 25.” The cancellation,
however, “quashes any opportunity for Trump to meet with other world
leaders about economic issues, including trade.” Treasury Secretary
Mnuchin, however, still plans to attend the forum, leading “a small US
delegation.” The New York Times
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(1/10, Sullivan) reports “the White House had not disclosed a specific
agenda for Mr. Trump during the forum in Davos,” but officials have said
“it might have been a setting for high-level trade discussions between the
United States and China.” To USA Today
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(1/10, Jackson), “Trump’s tweet is a sign the shutdown could last at least
another 11 days – he was scheduled to leave on Jan. 21” for Davos.
Trump Says US-China Trade Talks Have Been A “Tremendous Success.”

Reuters
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(1/10) reports that President Trump said his Administration is “having
tremendous success in its trade negotiations with China, a day after U.S.
and Chinese officials concluded three days of talks in Beijing.” Trump is
quoted as saying, “We’re negotiating and having tremendous success with
China.” According to Reuters, the President “did not elaborate,” but “added
that he found” Chinese officials “to be in many ways ‘far more honorable’
than” Congressional Democrats. Trump said, “I think that China is actually
much easier to deal with than the opposition party.”

        *Chinese Vice Premier To Visit Washington For Trade Talks. *The Wall
Street Journal
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(1/10, Wei) reports people briefed on the matter say that Chinese Vice
Premier Liu He is scheduled on Jan. 30 and Jan. 31 meet with USTR
Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin in Washington for trade
negotiations, although the people warn that the government shutdown could
delay the trip. The people said that talks in Beijing this week saw both
sides make progress on purchases of American goods and services and greater
market access, but lacked a breakthrough on more challenging issues,
including reducing Chinese subsidies.

        *Observers Recommend Ways To Limit Chinese Technology Theft. *The Wall
Street Journal
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(1/10, Mauldin, Cameron) reports that as China seeks to gain technological
parity with the US it backs is manufactures as they take technology from US
rivals. Some following the US-China trade fight say that the US needs to
push for measures to slow China’s intellectual-property theft. One move is
opening more Chinese sectors to foreign investment; current requirements
for joint-venture arrangements with Chinese partners allow those partners
to steal trade secrets. Another change would be for China to expose and
punish the companies that take foreign technology.

        *Chinese Ambassador Accuses Canada Of “Double Standards” In Huawei
Case. *The New York Times
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(1/10, Zhong) reports that Lu Shaye, China’s ambassador to Canada, wrote in
an op-ed
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for a Canadian newspaper that “Western egotism and white supremacy” are
“behind calls for Beijing to release two detained Canadians.” Lu accused
Canadian authorities of “applying ‘double standards’ to the cases,” and
objected to Canadians who “argued that their country was merely enforcing
the law when it arrested Meng Wanzhou, the finance chief of the Chinese
technology giant Huawei, but insisted that Beijing was out of line when it
detained two Canadians soon after.”

        *China Mobilizes Missiles In Response To US Warship Passage In
South China Sea. *The Washington Free Beacon
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(1/10, Gertz) reports China has “mobilized nuclear-capable
intermediate-range missiles in response to the passage of a Navy warship
near disputed islands in the South China Sea this week, according to
state-run Chinese media.” The “long-range, anti-ship ballistic missile
known as the DF-26...was moved in northwestern China, China Central
Television reported Wednesday.”

        *Chinese Police Jailing Increasing Numbers Of Twitter Users. *The New
York Times
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(1/10, Mozur) reports that Chinese police, “in a sharp escalation of the
country’s online censorship efforts, are questioning and detaining a
growing number of Twitter users even though the social media platform is
blocked in China and the vast majority of people there cannot see it.”
According to the Times, “The crackdown is the latest front in President Xi
Jinping’s campaign to expand the government’s suppression of internet
activity beyond China’s borders. In effect, the authorities are extending
their control over Chinese citizens’ online lives no matter where they
post.”

        *Olsen Praises Trump On China Trade Policy. *Ethics and Public
Policy Center Senior Fellow Henry Olsen, in an op-ed in the Washington Post
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(1/10), writes that signs suggest that President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese
goods “could prove a master stroke.” US free trade efforts means that, “in
our blinkered worship of market fundamentalism, we were the saps giving
away...subsidies” from the American people to foreign countries. In
contrast, Americans know Trump is “willing to walk away from bad deals” in
an effort to protect “their jobs, their wages and their towns.” The tariffs
were meant to be “the stick that would push China to the bargaining table,”
and business leaders, economists, and politicians need to have “a wake-up
call”: that “tough talk backed by tough action can get results.” Olsen
casts Trump as putting his country and citizens before shareholders and
concludes, “the signs give people hope that leaders can be responsive to
their citizens and that elections can produce change.”
US Military Preparing For Syria Withdrawal Despite Shifting Timetable.

The Wall Street Journal
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(1/10, Youssef, Nissenbaum) reports the Pentagon is moving ahead with plans
to withdraw all US troops from Syria even as a US-Turkey rift appears
likely to delay the pullout, defense officials said. National Security
Adviser Bolton said this week that the US wouldn’t leave Syria until Turkey
promised not to target US-allied Kurdish forces. However, defense officials
said the Pentagon has not received new direction from the White House and
until it does, officials are proceeding with withdrawal plans.

        *Trump Urged To Bring Jihadists To US To Face Trial For American
Deaths. *Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Diane Foley, the mother of James
Foley, an American journalist murdered by the Islamic State, write in an
op-ed in the Washington Post
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(1/10) call on President Trump “to continue prioritizing justice for the
Americans lost in Syria” and bring the men responsible for the death of
James Foley and other Americans to the US for trial. Two members of the
group allegedly responsible for those deaths, Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee
Elsheikh, are being held by Syrian Democratic Forces. However, Trump’s
decision to withdraw US troops from Syria “betrayed the trust the SDF put
in the United States,” and it could mean “the prospect of justice for James
and other Americans murdered by the group could disappear.” Additionally,
“the sudden and undefined nature of this withdrawal also undermines the
United States’ role in holding accountable other war criminals in the
region.”

        *Trump Warned Middle East Withdrawal Will Lead To Resurgence In
Terrorism. *Georgetown University Professor Bruce Hoffman and the Center
for Strategic and International Studies’ Transnational Threats Project
Director Seth G. Jones, in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal
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(1/10), write that America’s move to outsource to others the rest of the
fight against ISIS is dangerous and could destroy the country’s current
counterterrorism progress. ISIS prepared to lose the territory it held and
many of its fighters have disappeared or moved to other conflict zones, and
al Qaeda remains a threat. Withdrawing US military forces and intelligence
capabilities from the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia will leave those
areas ripe for a resurgence in terrorism. Previously the US has used lulls
in terrorism to shift its priorities to other areas, allowing terrorists to
regroup, reorganize, and threaten the country again. Hoffman and Jones warn
that the Trump Administration’s planned Middle East withdrawal would force
the country to learn this again.
Pompeo Calls For “Free And Fair” Elections In Venezuela As Maduro Starts
New Term.

Reuters
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(1/10, Ellsworth, Castro) reports Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro began
a second term on Thursday, “defying critics in the United States and Latin
America who called him an illegitimate usurper of a nation where economic
chaos has wrought a humanitarian crisis.” In a statement, Secretary of
State Pompeo said, “It is time for Venezuela to begin a transitional
process that can restore the constitutional, democratic order by holding
free and fair elections that respect the will of the Venezuelan people.”
Also on Thursday, Paraguayan President Mario Abdo said his country was
shutting its embassy and pulling out all diplomatic personnel due to what
it called a “rupture of constitutional order.” The AP
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(1/10, Smith) reports that while “a dozen Latin American governments and
Canada in a coalition have rejected the legitimacy of Maduro’s next term,”
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Bolivian President Evo Morales
attended Thursday’s ceremony in Caracas.

        The Washington Post
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(1/10, Faiola) says Maduro “began a new six-year term Thursday even as
opponents – at home and abroad – sought new leverage to weaken his rule and
attempt to drive him from power.” While his critics “have long been divided
and outmaneuvered by Maduro,” his inauguration for a second term “appeared
to stir new gambits by Maduro’s opponents.” The opposition-controlled
National Assembly declared him an “usurper,” and opposition leaders “called
a meeting for Friday to discuss their next steps.”
Ghani Shakes Up Government Amid Taliban Attacks, Peace Talks.

The Washington Post
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(1/10, Constable) reports Amrullah Saleh was appointed Afghan interior
minister two weeks ago as “part of a high-level shake-up ordered by
President Ashraf Ghani as his government floundered on all fronts.” It has
“failed to beat back Taliban attacks, has been excluded from international
peace talks with the Taliban and been unable to set a date for national
polls in which Ghani hoped to win reelection.” By putting Saleh in charge
of the national police, Ghani “hired a vocal and acerbic critic from the
largest opposition party. At the same time, he named another former spy
chief, Asadullah Khalid, as the new defense minister.” The Post says Ghani
“has made high-level shuffles in the past when crises struck,” but this is
“the first time the president, long viewed as isolated and reliant on a
small group of loyalists, has deliberately sought to bring in a mix of
critics, competitors and loyalists.”

        *NYTimes Analysis: Afghan Air Force Still Reliant On US Support. *The
New York Times
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(1/10, Zucchino) reports that “eleven years after the United States began
building an air force for Afghanistan at a cost now nearing $8 billion, it
remains a frustrating work in progress, with no end in sight.” According to
the Times, “Some aviation experts say the Afghans will rely on American
maintenance and other support for years,” which “could complicate President
Trump’s moves to extricate the United States from the 17-year-old war
against Taliban insurgents – a war in which they lately appear to be
gaining ground.” The Times says US military officials “have been warning
that the Afghans remain dangerously unprepared.” The article notes Marine
Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, who has been nominated to head the United States
Central Command, said last month, “If we left precipitously right now, I do
not believe they would be able to successfully defend their country.”
Domestic Policy
As Trump Says They Back Him, Federal Workers Rally To End Shutdown.

In an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News’ Hannity[image: Image removed
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(1/10), President Trump said, “Many of the people that aren’t getting their
check, they get it they are going to get it soon. Many of the people, they
are with us 100 percent. They want us to win this battle. These people want
us to win. Everybody wants us to win this battle. It’s common sense.” On ABC
World News Tonight
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(1/10, story 2, 2:10, Muir), Steve Osunsami said, “The people we talked
with today answered that question tactfully, saying that their concerns are
more immediate than a wall, such as paying for child care, paying the power
bill and they want the President to solve this.”

        Meanwhile, Lester Holt said on NBC Nightly News[image: Image
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(1/10, lead story, 2:15) that “the pain hits home [Friday] for hundreds of
thousands of federal workers who won’t receive their scheduled paychecks,
pawns in a political tug of war.” On Thursday, “government workers from
across the country took to the streets to draw attention to their own more
immediate crisis.” Tom Costello added, “From D.C. to Utah to Kentucky,
thousands of demonstrators were...demanding an end to the shutdown.”

        The Washington Post
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(1/10, Lang) reports “hundreds of furloughed federal workers, contractors,
union representatives” rallied at the White House Thursday to call on
government leaders to “end this shutdown.” The Post says some of the
workers “said they support Trump’s push for a new wall and increased
security along the U.S-Mexico border,” while others “scoffed at the idea.
But they all agreed on one thing: They need to get back to work.”

        The CBS Evening News
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(1/10, story 3, 1:50, Glor) reported on the impact of the shutdown on
members of the Coast Guard, who “aren’t getting paid because though they’re
part of the military, they fall under the Department of Homeland Security.”

        *Morale At Federal Law Enforcement Agencies “Horrible” Amid
Shutdown. *Jeff Pegues reported on the CBS Evening News[image: Image
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(1/10, story 2, 1:30, Glor), “Nearly 13,000 FBI agents will not get
paycheck tomorrow, and the FBI Agents Association told the White House and
Congress today that without it, agents face financial insecurity that could
lead some to find other work.” In addition, ongoing FBI investigations have
been “hampered by the shutdown, a lack of personnel at FBI’s lab at
Quantico could lead to backlogs on critical cases.” Pegues cited “similar
concerns within other federal law enforcement agencies like the DEA and
ATF. Sources tell CBS News that morale is ‘horrible.’”

        *FBI Agents’ Group Says Shutdown Puts National Security At Risk. *The
Washington Post
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(1/10, Miroff) reports the FBI Agents Association “warned Thursday that the
partial government shutdown is threatening national security as thousands
of federal law enforcement professionals, working without pay, grow anxious
that personal financial hardships may jeopardize their security clearances
and as furloughs of their support staffs slow investigations.” Association
President Thomas O’Connor said, “It’s uncharted territory, as this shutdown
is going to be the longest in history. ... For special agents, financial
security is national security.”

        *Aviation Workers Warn Safety Suffers Amid Prolonged Shutdown. *
Politico
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(1/10, Gurciullo, Mintz, Beasley) reports there is growing pressure on
lawmakers from “virtually every segment of the aviation industry” to
“reopen the government, suggesting that a prolonged shutdown could
seriously harm passengers and business.” During a rally outside the Capitol
Thursday, air traffic controllers and other aviation industry argued that
“safety suffers when air traffic controllers, baggage screeners and Federal
Aviation Administration technicians and inspectors are either furloughed or
forced to work without pay as the shutdown enters its third week.”

        *Communities Move To Help Federal Workers. *The CBS Evening News[image:
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(1/10, story 11, 1:05, Glor) reported that in the wake of its story on
“John Siciliano, the federal prison officer in New Jersey who says he’s
about to miss a mortgage payment, nearly a dozen strangers have offered to
help.” At an apartment complex in Oklahoma City, “as many as 100 federal
workers won’t have to worry about rent or utilities for as long as the
shutdown lasts. At Java Joe’s Cafe on Michigan’s upper peninsula, free
breakfast is being served for Coast Guard workers. And in the shadow of the
nation’s capital, one restaurant is flipping free burgers for anyone on the
government payroll, including elected officials.”

        *Federal Contractors Also Going Without Pay. *In a separate story,
Holt reported on NBC Nightly News
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(1/10, story 2, 1:50), “It’s not just those federal workers going without
pay. So many others who do business with the government or rely on its
services are caught in the pinch too.”

        *Freshman Lawmaker Was Furloughed In 2013 Shutdown. *In its “Eye on
America” segment, the CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by sender.
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(1/10, story 6, 4:05, Glor) profiled freshman Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL),
who, as a federal employee in 2013, was furloughed as part of the
government shutdown and “forced to stay home for about three weeks without
pay.” Underwood: “It is the role of the Congress, it is the role of the
President to keep government functioning. President Trump has shut down
this government.”

        *Shutdown Impacting White House’s Full-Time Staff. *The New York
Times
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(1/10, Rogers) reports that “the pain of this partial shutdown bit into all
corners of America – even the White House, where there is often very little
sympathy for those whose job it is to keep Washington running.” Of the
White House’s 359 full-time employees, “only 156...are allowed to report
for duty because their work is considered essential, according to a
government contingency plan.” However, “multiple administration officials
have stressed this week that despite the shutdown, it is still business as
usual.” While Administration officials “emphasize the normality, others who
have endured lengthy shutdowns warned of the broader effects on the White
House staff, including an inevitable slowdown in accomplishing important
policy decisions with fewer workers.”

        *Senate Passes Bill To Provide Back Pay For Federal Employees. *The New
York Post
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(1/10, Italiano) reports the Senate on Thursday “voted unanimously to
authorize the eventual post-shutdown funding of back pay” for federal
employees. Senate Majority Leader McConnell said, “I had an opportunity to
talk to President Trump a few moments ago, and wanted to indicate to our
colleagues that he will sign the bill that we’ve been discussing here to
guarantee that government workers who’ve been displaced as a result of the
shutdown will ultimately be compensated.”
Cohen Will Testify Before House Panel Next Month.

ABC News
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(1/10, Avram, Hill) reports on its website that President Trump’s former
attorney, Michael Cohen, “has accepted an invitation to testify in an open
session before Congress next month.” ABC says House Oversight and
Government Reform Chairman Elijah Cummings announced the February 7 hearing
Thursday afternoon. The AP
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(1/10, Jalonick, Tucker, Day) says Cohen, “a pivotal figure” in special
counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, said in a statement that he
accepted the invitation to testify “in furtherance of my commitment to
cooperate and provide the American people with answers.”

        Reuters
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(1/10, Hosenball) reports Cummings “said the committee has no intention of
interfering in ongoing criminal probes.” He said, “To that end, we are in
the process of consulting with Special Counsel Mueller’s office.” Mary
Bruce said on ABC World News Tonight
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(1/10, story 3, 2:20, Muir) that “the chairman of the committee tonight is
stressing that there will be limitations on the questions asked of Cohen,
because they do not want to interfere with his ongoing cooperation with the
special counsel.”

        USA Today
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(1/10, Collins, Hayes) reports Cohen’s appearance “is likely to air
potentially embarrassing details about his now-fraught relationship with
the president,” and Politico
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(1/10, Gerstein) says the “high-profile hearing” is “one of the first
examples of how Democrats will use their new oversight powers and control
of House committees to arrange events that could be embarrassing and
distracting for the White House.”

        The New York Times
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(1/10, Haberman, Fandos) says it was not clear if Cohen’s “agreement to
testify before the Oversight Committee will preclude appearances, in public
or private, before other House panels.” According to the Times, the
chairmen of the House Judiciary and Intelligence panels “have said they
want to speak with Mr. Cohen about his work on behalf of Mr. Trump.”
The Washington
Post
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(1/10, Demirjian, Zapotosky) reports House Intelligence Chairman Adam
Schiff said in a statement, “Mr. Cohen has expressed an interest in telling
his personal story in open session, and we welcome his testimony before the
Committee on Oversight and Reform. ... It will be necessary, however, for
Mr. Cohen to answer questions pertaining to the Russia investigation, and
we hope to schedule a closed session before our committee in the near
future.”

        NBC Nightly News
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(1/10, story 6, 1:15, Holt) said Cohen’s testimony “could be one of the
most dramatic moments of the Trump presidency,” and CNN crime and justice
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(1/10), “This is going to be a day, certainly, that is going to not sit
well with the White House. They should be worried about this day.” However,
the Washington Times
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(1/10, Mordock) says the President “brushed off the news” that Cohen would
testify to the committee. Speaking to reporters Thursday, The Hill
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(1/10, Fabian) reports, the President said, “I’m not worried about it at
all, no.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(1/10, Strobel, Ballhaus) says House Oversight Committee ranking member
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) was skeptical of the decision to have Cohen testify
before the panel, arguing it runs counter to Democrats claims that they did
not want to get ahead of Mueller’s probe. The CBS Evening News[image: Image
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(1/10, story 4, 0:25, Glor) also reported briefly on Cohen’s planned
testimony.

        *Trump Says He Did Not Know Manafort Shared Polling Data With A
Russian. *The AP
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(1/10) reports that President Trump said he “did not know anything about
allegations his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, shared polling
data during the 2016 presidential campaign with a business associate
accused of having ties to Russian intelligence.” According to the AP, “When
a reporter asked about Manafort, Trump said: ‘No, I didn’t know anything
about it.’” The Washington Post
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(1/10, Wagner) also notes the President’s response to the question about
Manafort. ABC World News Tonight
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(1/10, story 7, 0:30, Muir) also reported briefly on Trump’s comment.

        *Mueller’s Investigators Met With Trump Pollster Last Year. *CNN
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(1/10, Murray, Polantz) reports on its website that special counsel Robert
Mueller “sought information directly last year from” Tony Fabrizio, “one of
Donald Trump’s campaign pollsters who is also a former business associate
of Paul Manafort’s.” According to CNN, “Mueller’s team met with...Fabrizio
in February 2018, an interview that has not been previously reported and
takes on new significance after Manafort’s attorneys revealed Tuesday that
Mueller’s team is still interested in how Manafort shared polling data with
his Russian intelligence-linked colleague.”

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(1/10) that the fact that Fabrizio was called to testify before the special
counsel “obviously does take on new significance following the revelations
that Paul Manafort shared internal campaign polling data with...an
associate of his who has known ties to Russian intelligence. Now, it’s not
entirely clear if Mueller’s team asked Tony Fabrizio about that exchange or
if he was aware of it but, having said that, the reason why Tony Fabrizio
is someone who is significant is he was actually recruited by Paul Manafort
to join the Trump campaign based on his prior work with Manafort in
Ukraine. So, he is someone who not only has intimate knowledge of the Trump
campaign but he is also familiar with Paul Manafort’s business dealings in
eastern Europe.”

        *Democrats Warn Against Trump Team Trying To Block Mueller’s
Report. *CNN senior justice correspondent Evan Perez said on CNN’s
Situation Room
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(1/10), “One of the things that we expect to happen when” Mueller produces
a final report, is that “it’s going to move to a new phase, essentially a
new political and legal fight here in Washington over what and what
portions of the report become public, what portions get even turned over to
members of Congress. And so we expect, perhaps, some more political and
legal fighting, perhaps some of this going back to the courts before the
public gets to see any of this.”

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(1/10) how Democrats would respond to the President’s lawyers trying to
block Mueller’s report. Hirono said, “It’s not surprising that the
President would try to hide everything that he can, but we’re going to do
everything we can to make sure that not only is the report given to members
of Congress, but that it is made public.”

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(1/10), “There are safeguards in place to make sure that the President
can’t cover up this entire report. Think about what he is suggesting.
There’s no executive privilege over presidential deliberations with respect
to possible obstruction of justice, no executive privilege to hide
potential witness tampering or the potential coverup of the commission of a
federal crime in order to get elected President of the United States. What
we’re going to do is to make sure that the President and his lawyers,
however many lawyers there are, can’t be allowed to proceed with arguments
that aren’t permitted by law and we will continue to stand by that.”
Mnuchin Defends Decision To Lift Sanctions On Russian Firms.

Reuters
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(1/10, Zengerle) reports Treasury Secretary Mnuchin insisted Thursday that
the Administration “would keep tight control on Russian companies linked to
Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, despite last month’s decision to ease
restrictions on the firms.” In a statement released ahead of a closed-door
hearing with lawmakers, Mnuchin said, “Treasury will be vigilant in
ensuring that En+ and Rusal meet these commitments. If these companies fail
to comply with the terms, they will face very real and swift consequences,
including the reimposition of sanctions.”

        The New York Times
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(1/10, Rappeport) reports Mnuchin argued “that the penalties had fulfilled
their intended effect and that there would be ‘swift consequences’ for any
future violations.” Congress, the Times notes, is “reviewing the
administration’s decision – announced in December by the Treasury
Department – to lift sanctions” against the companies, which “came after an
aggressive lobbying campaign by companies controlled by Mr. Deripaska, a
close ally” of President Vladimir Putin.
Barr Meets With Judiciary Committee Democrats In Attempt To Reassure On
Russia Probe.

The Washington Post
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(1/10, Demirjian) reports Attorney General-designate Barr “tried Thursday
to assuage Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats’ concerns that he might be
too biased to oversee the special counsel’s Russia probe,” but lawmakers
“said they would need to see public proof to back up his closed-door
assurances before they could consider backing his nomination.” Sen. Dianne
Feinstein (D-CA) said, “He reassured to some extent. The hard questions
have to get asked in the public and get on the record.”

        Politico
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(1/10, Levine) reports Senate Minority Whip Durbin and Sen. Amy Klobuchar
(D-MN) “raised concerns” that they were unable to meet individually with
Barr ahead of the meeting. Durbin said, “It’s the first time, there have
been seven people aspiring to be attorney general who have come by my
office, make a courtesy call, and they’ve decided not to...I don’t think
it’s helpful to his nomination.”

        *Barr Reportedly Supports New Criminal Justice Reform Law. *Reuters
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(1/10, Lynch, Sullivan) reports that Barr is “expected to tell a Senate
panel next week that he supports a new law easing prison sentences for some
criminals, even though he advocated for decades for just the opposite.”
According to Reuters, Barr, “for much of his career, championed a get-tough
approach to crime,” but is “expected to say that he will support the new
law when he appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for confirmation
hearings next week.”
Powell Says Fed Can Be “Patient” As It Decides On 2019 Rate Hikes.

Reuters
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(1/10) reports that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday that
the Fed “has the ability to be patient on policy given inflation is stable,
allowing it to assess whether the US economy will slow this year as some in
financial markets worry.” Powell is quoted as saying, “Especially with
inflation low and under control, we have the ability to be patient and
watch patiently and carefully as we ... figure out which of these two
narratives is going to be the story of 2019.” According to Reuters, “While
those initial comments boosted stocks, they later slipped when Powell said
the Fed would shed significantly more assets than it already has.”

        *Powell Warns A Long Shutdown Would Harm US Economy, Dilute Fed
Data. *The Los Angeles Times
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(1/10, Puzzanghera) reports Powell “warned on Thursday that an extended
partial government shutdown could damage the US economy and starve the
central bank of key data it needs to make monetary policy decisions.”
Powell said, “If we have an extended shutdown, I do think that would show
up in the data pretty clearly. If government shutdowns don’t last very
long, they have typically not left much of a mark on the economy. There’s
plenty of personal hardship that people undergo, but the aggregate level of
the economy generally doesn’t reflect much damage.” The Times adds Council
of Economic Advisors Chair Hassett “has estimated the partial shutdown will
reduce the nation’s total economic output by about a tenth of a percentage
point every two weeks.”

        *Stocks Continue Rally In Response To Mixed Comments From Powell. *USA
Today
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(1/10, Davidson) reports Powell’s new and more explicit remarks “largely
echoed his assertion at a forum in Atlanta last week that the Fed ‘will be
patient’ as it weighs future rate hikes – a message that has helped drive
stocks higher.” Reuters
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(1/10, Randewich) reports stocks indexes continued a five-day rally
Thursday “in a session of whipsaw trading as investors responded to mixed
comments” from Powell. The comments agreed with other policymakers “that
the Fed would be patient about interest rate hikes,” but “major stock
indexes temporarily moved into negative territory after Powell said the
bank’s balance sheet would be ‘substantially smaller,’ and after he raised
concerns about the size of US debt.” Reuters adds that “reports from Macy’s
and American Airlines added to concerns that growth of corporate profits
would slow.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(1/10, Nassauer) reports Macy’s shares fell by nearly 19 percent Thursday
after the store lowered its fiscal year guidance after weak sales in
December indicated it and other mall-based stores continue to lose
customers to e-commerce. Macy’s strategy to invest in magnet locations and
pull back from less-promising locations failed to accelerate growth past
1.1 percent from November to December.
Surveyed Economists Say US Recession Risk Is Growing.

A Wall Street Journal
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(1/10, Torry) survey of economists shows most economists believe there is a
growing risk of a US recession, though few indicated evidence of a specific
trigger. Survey results indicate economists believe there is a 25 percent
risk of recession in 2019 and a 50 percent risk for 2020. More than
two-thirds of surveyed economists said domestic growth is exposed to
slowdowns in other major economies, such as the EU, China, and Japan.
Sanders, Cummings Introduce Bill Addressing Price Of Drugs.

Reuters
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(1/10, Abutaleb) reports that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Elijah
Cummings (D-MD) have “introduced legislation...aimed at lowering the cost
of prescription drugs for American consumers.” According to Reuters,
“Democrats have been critical of efforts by the Trump administration to
bring down drug prices after Trump...promised to do so during his 2016
campaign and since being elected.” Reuters says “the Sanders and Cummings
bill would peg U.S. prescription drug prices to the median price from five
countries – Canada, Britain, France, Germany and Japan – where drug costs
are typically far lower because of government price controls,” which
Reuters says is “similar to a proposal the Trump administration said it
plans to put forth in the coming months that would create an ‘international
pricing index’ to help the cost of prescription drugs to Medicare more
closely align with other countries.”

        The AP
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(1/10, Alonso-Zaldivar) reports the bill would also “open up generic
competition to patent-protected U.S. brand-name drugs that are deemed
‘excessively priced,’” and “allow Medicare to directly negotiate with
drugmakers.” According to the AP, “Medicare negotiation is a political
nonstarter for most Republicans, who favor a free-market approach to the
U.S. pharmaceutical industry and prize its capacity for innovation.”
Cancer Research
NCI Researchers’ Algorithm Shows Promise In Detecting Precancerous Changes
In Cervix.

FierceHealthIT
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(1/10, Richman) reports researchers at the National Cancer Institute
published findings
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in the Journal of the National Cancer Institue on an algorithm they trained
to “accurately identify precancerous changes in the cervix.” The findings
were verified with the National Library of Medicine, “showing the algorithm
actually outperformed human experts reviewing the files.” Senior author
Mark Schiffman, MD, MPH, of the NCI’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and
Genetics, said, “Our findings show that a deep learning algorithm can use
images collected during routine cervical cancer screening to identify
precancerous changes that, if left untreated, may develop into cancer.” He
added, “In fact, the computer analysis of the images was better at
identifying precancer than a human expert reviewer of Pap tests under the
microscope (cytology).” In the release, NIH said, “Because of the
prospective nature of the study, the researchers gained nearly complete
information on which cervical changes became precancers and which did not.”

        HealthImaging
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(1/10, O'Connor) reports “the automated system achieved an area under the
curve (AUC) score of 0.91, more accurate than the 0.69 AUC achieved by
human readers and Pap testing (0.71).” The algorithm may be effective in
low-resource countries with minimal infrastructure for cervical cancer
screening, which is also where 80 percent of annual cervical cancer cases
occur.

        Health IT Analytics
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(1/10, Kent) reports “the NCI research team plans to further train the tool
on representative images of cervical precancers and normal cervical tissue
from women around the world, using a variety of cameras and other imaging
options...to develop the best possible model for open, common use.”

        HealthDay
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(1/10, Gordon), UPI
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(1/10, Dyson), and the Daily Mail (UK)
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(1/10) also report.
Melanoma Tumor Mutation Variation May Impact Treatment Response, Research
Suggests.

GenomeWeb
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(1/10) reports research
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published in Clinical Cancer Research suggests “melanomas with different
types of BRAF alterations appear to differ in their response to two
treatment approaches.” The majority of cutaneous melanomas carry a V600E
mutation in the BRAF gene, while “20 to 30 percent have V600K alterations.”
The study revealed that while “more patients with V600K mutations were
treated with combined BRAF-MEK inhibitors, they were less likely to respond
to the treatment or achieve a complete response.” The researchers found
“patients harboring V600K mutations had lower expression levels of DUSP6, a
transcription target of ERK that is also involved in its regulation,” and
“confirmed this decreased DUSP6 expression using RNA sequencing data from
the Cancer Genome Atlas.”
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“What Trump Could Learn From His Shutdown.”* The New York Times
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(1/10) editorializes, “Negotiations to end the shutdown prompted by
[President] Trump’s wall fixation have gone nowhere – despite the
president’s storming out of his Wednesday huddle with lawmakers – and his
show at the border won’t change that.” The President “loves to boast that
he leads with his ‘gut.’ He really can’t be bothered with all the humdrum
details of governing, remaining proudly ignorant of how anything works in
Washington. ... For the sake of the millions being hurt, let’s hope he
manages to blunder himself back out of this mess soon.”
Washington Post.

*“Mike Pompeo Lambastes Obama – And Then Embraces Obama’s Syria Strategy.”*
A Washington Post
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(1/10) editorial says Secretary of State Pompeo “muddled the message of his
own administration’s national security adviser, John Bolton,” who “roll[ed]
back statements by [President] Trump, earlier this week spelled out
‘objectives’ he said had to be met before US troops left Syria.” While
Pompeo “dismissed accounts of these contradictions as ‘made up by the
media,’” the Post says “not only reporters are confused.” The Post also
laments that none Trump’s advisers “seem to understand that while
denouncing Mr. Obama’s mistakes, they are, in Syria, about to repeat them.”

        *“Congress Gave The President Too Many Powers. Now It Must Scale
Them Back.” *The Washington Post
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(1/10) editorializes that Congress should review the “potentially serious”
constitutional implications posed by the executive branch’s “surprising
amount of emergency or quasi-emergency power.” The Republican Senate and
the new Democratic House majority should convene “hearings on this area of
law, with an eye toward cleaning it up,” as the rise of President Trump
“has reminded everyone of the potential danger from unchecked power in the
executive.”

        *“California Gets It Right With Its New Healthcare
Initiative.” *A Washington
Post
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(1/10) editorial praises moves by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) to undo
“Republicans’ Obamacare sabotage” by reintroducing the individual mandate
for Californians in an effort to counter high rates of uninsured state
residents, predicted to reach 23 percent by 2023. Newsom’s “approach would
go a long way toward stabilizing the Obamacare system nationwide,” and
“with the federal government doing nothing helpful, states must act.”

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