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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*Monday, February 11, 2019 8:00 AM EST*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News* <#SECTION_1>

• “Post Pundit 2020 Power Ranking”: Harris Atop Democratic Field, Biden
Third. <#S1>

• Christie Says Biden Has Best Shot Of Defeating Trump. <#S2>

• Media Analyses: Biden Leading Potential Contender Among Moderate
Democrats. <#S3>

• WPost’s Roberts: Jill Biden Would Play A Key Role In Husband’s 2020 Run.
<#S4>

• McClatchy: Democratic Strategists “Deeply Pessimistic” About How Biden
Would Fare In 2020. <#S5>

• Daily Beast Article Hits Biden For “Cozying Up To Financial Industry
Titans.” <#S6>

• Newsweek Highlights Biden’s “Biggest Gaffes.” <#S7>

• Writer Says He, Like Biden, Decades Ago Opposed School Integration. <#S8>

• Biden, Bill Clinton To Speak At Dingell’s Funeral Masses This Week. <#S9>

• Biden Attends Funeral Of Dave Truitt. <#S10>

• NYTimes Analysis: Success With Small Donors Key To Democratic
Presidential Campaigns. <#S11>

• Democratic Presidential Candidates Sign On To Green New Deal. <#S12>

• Trump Mocks Klobuchar As She Announces Presidential Bid. <#S13>

• Warren Says Trump May Not Be “Free” By 2020 Election. <#S14>

• Trump, O’Rourke To Hold Competing Rallies In El Paso Today. <#S15>

• Bloomberg Says He’ll Make Decision On 2020 Race By Month’s End. <#S16>

• Ohio Media Analyses: Signs Of Momentum For Brown As He Visits New
Hampshire. <#S17>

• Booker Opens Campaign With Stops In Iowa. <#S18>

• Bennet Suggests He May Enter 2020 Democratic Race. <#S19>

• 2020 Democrats Already Seeking To Craft Strategy For High-Stakes
California Primary. <#S20>

• Detroit Free Press Analysis: Trump Faces Difficult Re-Election Fight In
Michigan. <#S21>

*Leading the News* <#SECTION_2>

• As Border Talks Stall, Trump And Mulvaney Hint At Emergency Declaration
To Build Wall. <#S22>

*Foreign Policy* <#SECTION_3>

• US, South Korea Sign Cost-Sharing Deal For Troops. <#S23>

• Trump: US Will Soon Control Remaining ISIS Territory In Syria. <#S24>

• Shanahan Makes Surprise Visit To Afghanistan. <#S25>

• Political Crisis Continues In Venezuela. <#S26>

• Menendez, Graham Introduce Legislation To Ban Saudi Weapons Sales. <#S27>

• Rouhani Says Iran To Continue Expanding Military Might. <#S28>

• Politico Analysis: Hungary, Slovakia And Poland See Pompeo Visit As US
“Seal Of Approval.” <#S29>

*Domestic Policy* <#SECTION_4>

• Trump, O’Rourke To Hold Competing Rallies In El Paso. <#S30>

• Millions Could Receive Smaller Tax Refunds Or Owe The IRS This Year.
<#S31>

• Mulvaney: Democrats’ Position On Green New Deal Unclear. <#S32>

• Swan: USMCA Has “Tough Row To Hoe” In Congress. <#S33>

• Graham Confident Barr Will Be Confirmed. <#S34>

• Trump Says He Works “More Hours Than Almost Any Past President.” <#S35>

• Trump: Burr’s Panel Has Found No Evidence Of Collusion. <#S36>

*Cancer Research* <#SECTION_5>

• Program Found To Reduce Racial Disparities In Early NSCLC Treatment.
<#S37>

• Biotech Launches With $61M To Target Cancer Relapse Cells. <#S38>

*Editorials/Op-Eds* <#SECTION_6>

• New York Times. <#S39>

• Washington Post. <#S40>
Biden in the News
“Post Pundit 2020 Power Ranking”: Harris Atop Democratic Field, Biden Third.

On its website, the Washington Post
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(2/8) offered its 2nd installment of the “Post Pundit 2020 Power Ranking”
of the field of announced and potential candidates in the race for the 2020
Democratic presidential nomination. Topping the list again is Sen. Kamala
Harris (D-CA), followed by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), up five spots from
last week, former Vice President Joe Biden, down one spot from Week One,
and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) holding steady. Rounding out the top five, is
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), up three points from the previous rankings.
Christie Says Biden Has Best Shot Of Defeating Trump.

On its website, WION (IND)
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(2/10) reported that ex-Gov. Chris Christie on Saturday said that former
Vice President Joe Biden “has the best chance of beating President Donald
Trump in the 2020 presidential election. ‘I think the one that the
President would be most afraid of if he can stay in his lane is Biden. And
the reason why [is] Biden could go to Ohio and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
and Michigan and appeal to white working-class voters. And if he does that,
he only has to peel off 7,000-10,000 votes in each one of those states, and
he only has to win two of them,’ said Christie during” an appearance on
HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

        *GOP Analyst: Biden Gives Democrats Best Chance At Winning Back
Blue-Collar Voters. *The Hill
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(2/8, Manchester) reported that during a Friday interview with Hill.TV, GOP
analyst Shermichael Singleton said that if Biden “enters the Democratic
primary, he could be the only candidate capable of bringing blue-collar
voters back to the party. ‘I think he’s probably the best person when you
think about someone who can potentially win states like Pennsylvania, a
state like Michigan,’ Singleton” said. He added, “We hear a lot of talk
about these blue-collar folks, who Donald Trump was able to take away folks
who voted for President Obama either in his first term or in some instances
both terms, voted for President Trump over Hillary Clinton in 2016. ... I
think Joe Biden is probably the only person if I look at the current pool
of candidates, who could bring those people back potentially to vote for
him.”
Media Analyses: Biden Leading Potential Contender Among Moderate Democrats.

In an online piece, Fox News
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(2/8) highlighted a commentary by Stuart Varney, adapted from his Feb. 6
“My Take” monologue on Fox Nation. Varney is paraphrased as saying, “If
you’re a moderate, a middle-of-the-road Democrat...who do you have for the
2020 race? Nobody. Your best hope is former Vice President Joe Biden,” who
“if he runs and wins...wouldn’t be sitting in the Oval Office until he’s
almost 79-years-old. His age would be a factor in a presidential election.
The rest of the field has left you behind.”

        Under the headline “Joe Biden May Be The Last Hurrah For Moderate
Democrats,” Ed Kilgore wrote for the Daily Intelligencer (NY)
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(2/10) that the progressive wing of the Democratic Party is ascendant and
that the clout of moderates is on the wane. Still, Kilgore said Biden could
find traction as “a living link to the whole era of moderate-dominated
Democratic politics, even as it passes from the scene, with particular
appeal to low-information voters who have nothing but pride and affection
for Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. And he won’t have to spend a minute
building his name ID.” However, Kilgore said that progressives are in a
position of power and their fortunes will hinge on the success or failure
of pushing and implementing a liberal agenda.

        Under the headline “Search Party: Moderate Dems Seek One Of Their
Own To Win 2020 Primary, Topple Trump,” NBC News
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(2/11, Seitz-Wald) reported on its website that unlike in 2016, “it’s
moderate Democrats who are left waiting and worrying about finding a
nominee who they think can beat...Trump.” NBC News said that while ex-New
York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (D), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and
ex-Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-VA) could fit the bill “everyone is living the
shadow of...Biden, who comfortably leads polls of the nascent Democratic
field. ‘That (moderate) lane would be secured if the vice president makes
the decision to get in,’ said Harold Schaitberger, the longtime president
of the International Association of Fire Fighters and vice president of the
AFL-CIO.”
WPost’s Roberts: Jill Biden Would Play A Key Role In Husband’s 2020 Run.

Writing in the “Style” section of the Washington Post
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(2/10), Roxanne Roberts largely focuses on former second lady Dr. Jill
Biden, saying that former Vice President Joe Biden “is deliberating one
last campaign. His wife of 42 years, one of his most trusted advisers,
would be the most visible and best-known candidate’s spouse on the trail.”
Roberts says, “According to those closest to the Bidens, he really wants to
run. Jill never aspired to be first lady (‘I say that I’m apolitical – if
that’s at all possible being married to Joe for 30 years,’ she told NPR in
2008.) But she supports his dream and respects him as a leader.” However,
adds Roberts, “there are plenty of Democrats – even those who admire and
personally like Joe enormously – who privately say that they do not want
him to join the race.”
McClatchy: Democratic Strategists “Deeply Pessimistic” About How Biden
Would Fare In 2020.

McClatchy
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(2/11, Roarty) reports that it “interviewed 31 Democratic strategists –
pollsters, opposition research experts, media consultants, ex-party
officials, and communications specialists – from across the country about a
potential” White House run by former Vice President Joe Biden. Those
interviews, says McClatchy, “yielded a similar view: The Democratic
political community is more broadly and deeply pessimistic about Biden’s
potential candidacy than is commonly known. While these strategists said
they respect Biden, they cited significant disadvantages for his campaign –
from the increasingly liberal and non-white Democratic electorate to policy
baggage from his years in the Senate and a field of rivals that includes
new, fresh-faced candidates.” A “Pennsylvania-based Democratic strategist”
is quoted as saying of Biden that “there’s a lot of reason to think he
would wind up a significantly weaker candidate than Hillary” Clinton in
2016.

        *McClatchy: Biden, Bloomberg Favorite Democratic Contenders Among
“Anti-Trump Republicans.” *McClatchy
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(2/11, Glueck) reports, “As Democrats debate which presidential contender
could” defeat President Trump in 2020, “anti-Trump Republicans – and recent
ex-Republicans – can think of a few” possibilities, but “not names that
thrill Democratic activists.” Former Republican Rep. David Jolly (FL) told
McClatchy, “Joe Biden is the type of candidate who could get me to actually
look at a Democratic candidate as opposed to an independent.” And Mike
Fernandez, “who was a GOP megadonor from the Miami area but left the party
the day after Trump’s election,” told McClatchy, “My preference would be to
support a man like Michael Bloomberg.” Fernandez’s second choice would be,
“Biden. Humbled, experienced, non-extremist.” McClatchy adds that “on
Election Day, those two Democrats would be best-positioned to earn the
votes of Republicans who rejected Trump in 2016 – not the candidates
tracking leftward to align with an increasingly liberal activist class that
has embraced self-described democratic socialists.”
Daily Beast Article Hits Biden For “Cozying Up To Financial Industry
Titans.”

The Daily Beast
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(2/9, Hauer, Egan) reported that with President Trump in the White House,
some “have argued that Joe Biden is the Democrats’ only chance at victory
in 2020,” contending he could appeal to “working- and middle-class voters
who might otherwise vote for Trump.” Though the argument is debatable, said
the Daily Beast, “at least one important figure has embraced this
interpretation: ‘Middle Class Joe’ Biden (his nickname, he assures us). It
is, therefore, puzzling that Biden is seemingly already betraying his
supposed working-class base by cozying up to financial industry titans like
Blackrock CEO Larry Fink,” according to a report
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(2/4) earlier this month from The Atlantic.
Newsweek Highlights Biden’s “Biggest Gaffes.”

Under the headline “Joe Biden’s Biggest Gaffes: Quotes, Blunders That Could
Hurt a 2020 Presidential Campaign,” Newsweek
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(2/9, Croucher) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden “has a
pattern of odd, ill-judged, plagiarized or politically problematic comments
and actions” that could prove to be troublesome in a 2020 bid for the White
House. With that in mind, Newsweek offer “a look at some of the standouts.”
For example, Newsweek reported, “As a senator in 1975, Biden opposed
‘busing,’ an effort to achieve racial desegregation in schools,” arguing
“that the policy would undermine black identity. It was, he said, ‘a
rejection of the entire black awareness concept, where black is beautiful,
black culture should be studied; and the cultural awareness of the
importance of their own identity, their own individuality.’”
Writer Says He, Like Biden, Decades Ago Opposed School Integration.

In a Marietta (GA) Daily Journal
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(2/9) op-ed, former Georgia state legislator Roger Hines said that when he
was a freshman college student at a small college in Mississippi in 1963,
“I chose to write about race for a required argumentative essay. I titled
the essay ‘A Defense of Legal Segregation.’” Hines said that his stances on
racial issues have changed greatly over the years, adding, “Recently, the
Washington Examiner reported that in 1975, Joe Biden defended segregation.”
According to the report, “Biden said, ‘Black culture is beautiful.
Desegregation will diminish black identity.’ This is the same fallacious
argument I made as a 19-year-old. If Biden had a sincere conversion as I
did, I’m glad. Just for the record, he was 33 when he defended segregation
and his state of Maryland was experiencing a huge backlash against busing.”
Biden, Bill Clinton To Speak At Dingell’s Funeral Masses This Week.

The Detroit News
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(2/10, Burke) reports that former President Bill Clinton and former Vice
President Joe Biden “are among those who will speak at funeral services for
former US Rep. John Dingell this week.” Biden is slated to “speak at
Dingell’s funeral Mass in Michigan on Tuesday, along with long-time Dingell
friends Reps. Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, and John Lewis, D-Georgia. Biden
wrote the forward to Dingell’s book last year.” Meanwhile, Clinton, “a
former hunting buddy of Dingell’s, will speak at the funeral Mass on
Thursday in Washington, along with former House Speaker John Boehner,
R-Ohio, and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland.”

        The Detroit Free Press
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(2/10) reports, “Both funeral masses are open to the public. There will
also be a public visitation in Dearborn at the Ford Community Performing
Arts Center from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday and a motorcade carrying
Dingell’s casket past the US Capitol on Tuesday. A World War-II era
veteran, Dingell will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery.” MLive
(MI)
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(2/10, Stanton) also reported on the story.
Biden Attends Funeral Of Dave Truitt.

In a brief item, the Cape (DE) Gazette
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(2/8, Forney) reported that as a Senate candidate in 21972, former Vice
President Joe Biden “stayed at the home of 37th District Democrat Committee
members Helen and Dave Truitt in Lewes. While his family stayed with the
Truitt family at their farm on Route 9, Biden drove around the area with
Dave who introduced him to a lot of people. Biden showed his gratitude
Friday morning when he attended the funeral for Truitt at Bethel United
Methodist Church.”
NYTimes Analysis: Success With Small Donors Key To Democratic Presidential
Campaigns.

The New York Times
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(2/9, Goldmacher, Lerer, Shorey) reported on small-donor fundraising among
potential and announced Democratic presidential candidates. The Times said
“small-dollar donations are expected to be a huge deal in 2020,” and Sen.
Bernie Sanders (I-VT), former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), and Sens. Kamala
Harris (D-CA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) all
have been successful in raising money from small donors. The Times said
that the strength of Sanders and O’Rourke in this area “has afforded them
the flexibility to wait longer before deciding to jump in.” The Times said
that former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) would
“begin far behind” the others because they have not shown the ability to
convert a following into donations. And while Biden has “access to the
Obama campaign’s vaunted email list,” it’s now “seven years old [and] is
seen as a relative relic.”

        In another report, the New York Times
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(2/9, Goldmacher) said that it “analyzed six years of online donations to
potential 2020 candidates through ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s main
donation-processing platform,” and found that having successful days of
donations is “about having a moment in the national spotlight – and then
capitalizing on it.”
Democratic Presidential Candidates Sign On To Green New Deal.

The Wall Street Journal
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(2/8, Duehren) reported on the Green New Deal, being offered as a
resolution rather than a bill, by Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). The resolution contains a number of goals, including
universal healthcare and universal employment. The resolution is being
cosponsored by presidential candidates Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kirsten
Gillibrand (D- NY), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), as well as potential
candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
Trump Mocks Klobuchar As She Announces Presidential Bid.

In a Sunday tweet
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President Trump mocked Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s (D-MN) presidential campaign
announcement, writing, “Well, it happened again. Amy Klobuchar announced
that she is running for President, talking proudly of fighting global
warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow, ice and freezing
temperatures. Bad timing. By the end of her speech she looked like a
Snowman(woman)!” The Hill
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(2/10, Rodrigo) reported that Klobuchar “hit back at...Trump Sunday after
he mocked her for launching her presidential campaign in wintry conditions,
telling him over Twitter that she was ‘looking forward to debating you
about climate change.’ ‘Science is on my side, @realDonaldTrump. Looking
forward to debating you about climate change (and many other issues),’
Klobuchar tweeted. ‘And I wonder how your hair would fare in a blizzard?’
she added.”

        USA Today
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(2/10, Cummings) reports Klobuchar “hopes her working-class, Midwestern
background will help her seize the middle ground in a Democratic primary in
which many of the candidates who have announced generally appeal to the
party’s more liberal wing.” Reuters
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(2/10, Gibson) says Klobuchar is “the first moderate in an increasingly
crowded field.” She “will seek to position herself as a contrast to
Trump...focusing on both policy differences but also style and tact.”
Klobuchar said, “I stand before you as the granddaughter of an iron ore
miner, the daughter of a teacher and a newspaperman, the first woman
elected to the United States Senate from the state of Minnesota, to
announce my candidacy for president of the United States.”

        NBC Nightly News
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(2/10, story 2, 0:20, Snow) reported Klobuchar said that on the first day
of her presidency, “the US would rejoin the climate agreement that...Trump
withdrew from.” Politico
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(2/10, Schneider) reported that the Democrat “announced her campaign amid
driving snow at Boom Island Park with a call to rebuild a ‘sense of
community’ in America, against the backdrop of the Interstate 35 bridge
that collapsed in 2007, killing 13, spurring Klobuchar and lawmakers from
both parties to secure funding to rebuild the span in a year. ‘We are tired
of the shutdowns and the showdowns, the gridlock and the grandstanding,’
Klobuchar said.”

        The Minneapolis Star Tribune
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(2/9, Condon) says Klobuchar put “herself forward as the opposite of
divisive” and “emphasized the US motto: ‘E pluribus unum:’ Out of many,
one.” Klobuchar said, “It is more than a motto, America, it is the North
Star of our democracy, it is the North Star of our effort. ... I am asking
you to join this campaign. It is a homegrown one.” The Washington Times
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(2/10, McLaughlin) reported that Klobuchar, 58, “said it is time to get
‘dark money’ out of politics, strengthen voting rights, combat climate
change, and to enact universal background checks for all gun purchases. She
called for universal health care, ‘comprehensive immigration reform’ and
closing tax loopholes that benefit the rich.”

        The Washington Post
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(2/10, Viser) describes Klobuchar as “a pragmatic Midwesterner,” and the New
York Times
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(2/10, Smith, Lerer) says she is “hopeful that her moderate politics,
Midwestern roots and carefully cultivated history of bipartisanship can
appeal to a broad swath of voters in contentious times.” However, the Times
adds, although Klobuchar’s “approach may appeal to centrists and moderate
Republicans in her home state, her breaks with liberal orthodoxy risk
alienating the ascendant progressive wing of her party.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(2/10, Thomas) says Klobuchar has frequently visited Iowa, which neighbors
her own state, and stressed during her announcement speech that her
closeness and familiarity with Iowa could help her reach rural voters.
Indeed, McClatchy
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(2/10, Roarty, Glueck) reports, “Polls indicate that even though she’s
received less national hype than” rivals such as Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA)
and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Klobuchar begins “with a foothold in Iowa. One
survey from December found Klobuchar with 10 percent support in the state,
putting her in fourth place. Other polls have found more modest support,
but Iowa Democrats say they expect the Minnesota native to easily connect
with voters there.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(2/10, Chaitin) reported that Klobuchar jabbed “at Hillary Clinton while
announcing her candidacy for president on Sunday,” vowing “not to neglect
Wisconsin – a swing state Clinton did not visit once during the 2016
general election and lost to...Trump. ‘We’re going to be in Iowa and in
Wisconsin,’ Klobuchar said. ‘I think we’re starting in Wisconsin, because
as you remember, there wasn’t a lot of campaigning in Wisconsin in 2016.
With me, that changes.’” ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(2/10, story 7, 0:25, Llamas) also reported on Klobuchar’s announcement. A Wall
Street Journal
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(2/10) editorial says Klobuchar may be the best Democrat to beat Trump in
2020.

        *Ex-Aides’ Complaints About Klobuchar’s Treatment Shadow Campaign
Announcement. *Meanwhile, Politico
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(2/10, Schneider) reported, “The run-up to Klobuchar’s expected
presidential campaign launch on Sunday was sidetracked by former aides,
speaking anonymously for fear of retribution, who described a toxic office
environment including demeaning emails, thrown office supplies and requests
for staff to perform personal chores for the senator.” Politico added,
“Klobuchar defenders, including some former staffers, have gone on the
record to push back against the reports, suggesting that the critique is
grounded in sexism against a woman who demands excellence from her
employees.” However, “Klobuchar’s campaign has not denied any of the
specific allegations detailed in recent news stories, and Democrats in the
first caucus state of Iowa...have said” her “treatment of staff has the
potential to sideswipe her campaign.”

        The Huffington Post
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(2/10, Cook) reported that Klobuchar on Sunday “offered a defense against
the recent reports that she has consistently mistreated members of her
staff. ‘Yes, I can be tough, and yes I can push people,’ Klobuchar told
reporters,” adding, “I have high expectations for myself, I have high
expectations for the people that work for me, but I have high expectations
for this country.” HuffPost said, “Accounts from several of her former
employees that surfaced in recent days describe a long history of Klobuchar
constantly berating her staff and creating a hostile work environment. At
least three people have withdrawn from consideration to lead her 2020
campaign, in part because of her behavior as a boss, HuffPost reported
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on Wednesday.” The Hill
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(2/10, Wise) said, “A BuzzFeed News report
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also included a number of accusations from former staffers about her
workplace demeanor. The ex-staffers told the news outlet that the senator
often berated employees over small mistakes and created a hostile work
environment.”
Warren Says Trump May Not Be “Free” By 2020 Election.

The AP
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(2/10, Pace) reports that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who on Saturday
officially launched her bid for president, on Sunday was in Iowa, where she
“took aim” at President Trump, saying he “may not even be a free person” by
the 2020 election. During the first of three events, Warren “said the
president shouldn’t be allowed to dictate the direction of the campaign
with divisive attacks.” Said Warren, “Every day there is a racist tweet, a
hateful tweet – something really dark and ugly. ... What are we as
candidates, as activists, as the press, going to do about it? We’re going
to chase after those every day? ... Here’s what bothers me. By the time we
get to 2020, Donald Trump may not even be president. In fact, he may not
even be a free person.”

        The Washington Post
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(2/10, Weigel, Sonmez) reports that Warren “had not previously hinted that
the scandals surrounding the president could keep him from seeking a second
term.” However, “her campaign, which has faced more direct attacks from
Trump than other Democratic candidates, appears to see the question about
Trump’s own viability as way to stop engaging with everything he says.
Asked to expand on her comments later in the day, Warren quipped: ‘Come on,
how many investigations are there now? It’s no longer just the Mueller
investigation, they’re everywhere. And these are serious investigations.’”

        The New York Times
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(2/10, Burns) reports that Warren’s “remark was an unusually blunt jab at
Mr. Trump, from a candidate who has largely declined to spar personally
with the president since her entry into the 2020 race. ... Aside from the
imprisonment crack, Ms. Warren spent little time in Iowa discussing Mr.
Trump’s legal issues and caustic persona. She downplayed talk of
impeachment and stressed to reporters that she was focused on ‘structural’
problems that ‘were broken long before Donald Trump got here.’”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(2/9, story 5, 2:10, Llamas) reported that a day earlier, Warren on
Saturday kicked “off her White House run at a rally in Lawrence,
Massachusetts.” Warren took “direct aim at the President, saying he has
made the system more rigged.” Warren: “Now, we all know the Trump
Administration is the most corrupt in living memory. We need to take power
in Washington away from the wealthy and well-connected.” ABC News added,
“Hours before the rally, the Trump campaign [released] a terse statement,
saying, quote, ‘Elizabeth Warren has already been exposed as a fraud by the
Native Americans she impersonated and disrespected to advance her
professional career.’” Trump was shown saying, “Pocahontas. Pocahontas.
Pocahontas, Elizabeth Warren.”

        The CBS Weekend News
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(2/9, story 4, 0:15, Ninan) reported that Warren “says that she will fight
against economic inequality and push for increasing corruption regulations
in Washington,” while NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by sender.
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(2/9, story 5, 1:25, Diaz-Balart) reported that Warren has “defined her
candidacy as a system-wide fight for economic opportunity, racial and
gender equality.” NBC News added that the Trump campaign “accused her of
fraud over claims of her Native American heritage.” The New York Times
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(2/9, Taylor) reported that Warren called the Trump Administration “the
most corrupt in living memory,” and said, “It won’t be enough to just undo
the terrible acts of this administration. ... Our fight is for big,
structural change.” The Times added that Warren “continues to face
questions about her claims to Native American ancestry,” adding that “Trump
has long branded her with the slur ‘Pocahontas,’” and Trump campaign
manager Brad Parscale responded to her Saturday speech by saying, “The
American people will reject her dishonest campaign and socialist ideas.”

        The Washington Post
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(2/9, Linskey, Struck) reported that Warren reemphasized “her signature
issues of fighting economic inequality and corporate wrongdoing, an effort
to move beyond new questions that arose in recent days about her previous
claims that she was a Native American.” The Post added that it had
published “a document that shows, for the first time, Warren’s handwritten
assertion that she was an ‘American Indian’ on a 1986 registration card she
filled out for the Texas bar.” Warren “offered apologies for claiming
Native American identity, first privately to the leader of the Cherokee
Nation and then publicly.”

        The AP
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(2/9, Schor) reported Warren is “grounding her 2020 campaign in a populist
call to fight economic inequality and build ‘an America that works for
everyone.’” She said that Trump “is not the cause of what’s broken,” but is
“just the latest – and most extreme – symptom of what’s gone wrong in
America.” Reuters
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(2/9, Gibson) reported that Warren is “struggling to move past criticism
over her claims of Native American heritage,” and “aimed for a fresh start”
in announcing her candidacy. Bloomberg
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(2/9, Kapur) reported that Warren said that “she’s running for president to
change a country she says is ‘rigged by the wealthy,’” and “quickly drew
the attention of...Trump’s re-election campaign.”

        Eliana Johnson of Politico said on CNN’s Inside Politics[image:
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(2/10), “I think the President would love to run against Elizabeth Warren,
which is why he is paying her so much attention. We simply haven’t seen him
afford any of the other nominees or potential nominees as much attention on
Twitter, which has raised her profile.”

        *Trump Mocks Warren. *The New York Times
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(2/10, Mervosh) says Trump responded to Warren’s announcement Saturday
“with a familiar line of attack.” Trump “mocked” Warren “for her claims to
Native American ancestry, again calling her by the slur ‘Pocahontas.’” and
“appeared to refer to the Trail of Tears, the infamously cruel forced
relocation of Native Americans in the 19th century that caused thousands of
deaths.” Trump tweeted
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“Today Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to by me as Pocahontas, joined
the race for President. Will she run as our first Native American
presidential candidate, or has she decided that after 32 years, this is not
playing so well anymore? See you on the campaign TRAIL, Liz!”

        *Liz Cheney: Warren Is A “Laughing Stock.” *Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY)
said on CNN’s State Of The Union
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(2/10), “I am concerned about somebody like Elizabeth Warren pretending to
be Native American. ... I do represent thousands of Native Americans here
in Wyoming and the notion that anybody of any political party would pretend
that they were a member of a tribe or pretend they were Native American and
would do it as she seems to have done it in order to get benefits, that is,
in my view, the disgrace. And so I think she’s made herself a laughing
stock.”

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(2/10), “It’s very interesting talking to, especially rank and file
Democratic voters about this issue because, yes, their highest priority is
beating Trump but they have no idea what that means. ... So to some
Democratic voters, Elizabeth Warren does look like what it will take to
beat Trump because she’s experienced and they like that she’s a woman and
that she is articulating a very precise policy vision. And others are
convinced that because of some of her baggage or because of other issues
that’s a significant negative for her.”
Trump, O’Rourke To Hold Competing Rallies In El Paso Today.

USA Today
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(2/9, Stanglin, Moritz) reports President Trump will visit El Paso, Texas,
today “to rally for a border wall.” At the same time, ex-Rep. Beto O’Rourke
(D-TX) – mulling a 2020 White House run – will lead a protest march in the
city. O’Rourke “plans to join a one-mile march past Trump’s rally on Monday
and speak across the street from the president at about the same time
Monday evening.” The Democrat “said he sees Trump’s campaign rally as an
opportunity for the city to take control of the narrative.” O’Rourke said,
“He’s offering us a chance to tell our story and we’re going to take that
chance, all of us.”

        *El Paso Residents Take Issue With Trump’s Wall Claim. *The AP
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(2/10, Weissert) reports that Trump claimed in his State of the Union
address that a “‘powerful barrier’ had cut crime rates in El Paso,” but
“many in [the] city...bristle at the prospect of their home becoming a
border wall poster child.” While Trump “said barriers turned El Paso from
one of the nation’s most dangerous cities to one of its safest...that’s not
true.” El Paso “had a murder rate less than half the national average in
2005, a year before the most recent expansion of its border fence. ... Many
residents say El Paso embodies a cross-border spirit that transcends walls
rather than proving more are needed.”
Bloomberg Says He’ll Make Decision On 2020 Race By Month’s End.

The AP
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(2/8, Peoples) reports that ex-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (D) on
Friday said “that he’ll decide by the end of the month whether to seek the
presidency.” Speaking with the AP, Bloomberg “said he has ‘three more
weeks’ to make his decision in line with his plan to announce his
intentions before the end of February. He also rejected a recent report
suggesting he likely would not run if former Vice President Joe Biden
enters the race.” Said Bloomberg, “My decision doesn’t depend on what other
people are going to do. My decision depends on whether or not I think I can
make a difference.”
Ohio Media Analyses: Signs Of Momentum For Brown As He Visits New Hampshire.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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(2/9, Richardson) reports, “After a full day blanketing the state of New
Hampshire” on Saturday, “it appears a presidential run” by Sen. Sherrod
Brown (D-OH) “is gaining momentum with voters.” The Democrat “was greeted
at several stops Saturday in the Granite State by his largest crowds to
date” as he continued “on a listening tour of the early-primary states to
test his message.” The article said, “It was arguably the most successful
quasi-campaign day for Brown yet and the latest sign he could be
competitive in a growing field of primary candidates.”

        The Cincinnati Enquirer
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(2/10, Wartman) reported that if Brown holds “an edge in the
already-crowded Democratic presidential primary, it comes down to four
letters: O-H-I-O.” During Saturday’s visit to New Hampshire, Brown “found
his middle America home holds a special mystique – and an advantage over
candidates from east or west coast states. Many New Englanders thought
Brown being a Buckeye added to his blue-collar bona fides. When asked why
they liked Brown, they described him as ‘genuine.’ When pressed why he was
genuine, several mentioned him being from Ohio.”

        *Brown To Booker: With Campaign Message, You “Sound Like Me.”
*Meanwhile,
The Hill
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(2/10, Samuels) reported that Brown on Sunday quipped that Sen. Cory Booker
(D-NJ) “had co-opted both his message and his voice on the campaign trail
in Iowa.” In a tweet, Brown wrote, “It’s one thing for you to talk about
the dignity of work, but to be willing to lose your voice to sound like me
while doing it, that shows real commitment @CoryBooker.” The Hill said that
Booker “spoke during a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa, about the need to
appreciate all professions. ‘I want to challenge everybody in this room to
understand that there is dignity in all work and career professions,’
Booker said.” That message “closely aligned with the title of Brown’s
previously announced ‘Dignity of Work’ tour across the country.”
Booker Opens Campaign With Stops In Iowa.

The AP
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(2/8, Beaumont) reported that Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) “took his campaign
message of social justice to Iowa, where he visited with residents and
black leaders Friday on his first trip as a Democratic presidential
candidate to the early 2020 caucus state.” Booker began “his first day of
campaigning in Iowa using the rhetoric reminiscent of the civil rights
movement to distinguish himself early in the race.” Bloomberg
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(2/8, McCormick) reported that Booker “made an appeal to voters in rural
and urban areas of the country as he called on his party to offer more
solutions and less criticism of Republicans to win the White House in
2020.” He “at times echoed former President Barack Obama’s campaign style
and frequent references to civil rights leaders.”

        *Booker To Reporter: “I Do Not Speak Swiss.” *The Washington Times
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(2/10, Morton) reports that in an “awkward exchange on the campaign trail
with a radio reporter in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,” Booker “first mangled Spanish
grammar” when he asked a reporter “Tu hablo espanol, si?” When the reporter
replied, “No, Swiss radio,” the senator replied, “Swiss! Yeah, I do not
speak Swiss. (Laugh) I cannot even say ‘Swiss cheese’ in Swiss.” The Times
says that “there is no such language as ‘Swiss.’”
Bennet Suggests He May Enter 2020 Democratic Race.

The Washington Post
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(2/10, Costa) reports that during a Sunday appearance on NBC’s “Meet the
Press,” Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) signaled that he may enter the 2020 race
for Democratic presidential nomination. Said Bennet, “We’ve got a million
people that are going to run, which I think is great. ... I think having
one more voice in that conversation that’s focused on America’s future, I
don’t think would hurt.” Bennet portrayed “himself as a centrist Democrat
who would bring business and managerial experience to the crowded field,
should he decide to run,” having “served as superintendent of Denver Public
Schools and worked for a large private company.”
2020 Democrats Already Seeking To Craft Strategy For High-Stakes California
Primary.

Politico
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(2/10, Siders) reported that “advisers to at least six Democratic campaigns
or prospective candidates have begun speaking to Democratic strategists
with California campaign experience — asking about the state’s delegate
math, ballot-collection practices and early voting. With California’s early
March primary date and roughly 500 delegates at stake – nearly as many as
Florida and New York combined – candidates’ need to” ensure that the
state’s “complex political landscape is in sharp focus as they look beyond
the launch phase.” The outreach signals that the crowded field of Democrats
are “reckoning with the significance of an early, high-stakes primary in
the nation’s most populous state.”
Detroit Free Press Analysis: Trump Faces Difficult Re-Election Fight In
Michigan.

The Detroit Free Press
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(2/10, Spangler) reports in an analysis that President Trump “faces serious
headwinds in Michigan” when he seeks re-election. The Free Press says there
is “evidence, based on polls, last year’s midterm elections and other data,
that he faces a tougher time taking Michigan again in 2020.” According to
some polls, “less than half of likely voters believe he’s doing a good
job...and many, if not most, plan to vote for someone else.” The Free Press
adds that GM “has laid off thousands of employees counter to what Trump
promised when he won in 2016.” Moreover, Trump is “running into trouble in
terms of getting congressional approval for a new North American trade
agreement to replace NAFTA, another key campaign promise that helped
energize a base of white, working-class voters in Michigan at a time when
Democratic enthusiasm seemed at a low point.”

        *Florida Democrats Fear Venezuela Crisis Could Drive Venezuelan
Immigrants To Trump. *The New York Times
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(2/10, Mazzei) reports that while Cuba has long been “the lifeblood of
Miami’s idiosyncratic politics,” Venezuela “now dominates Miami’s political
conversation.” As “Venezuela has sunk further into crisis and its leftist
president, Nicolás Maduro, has clung defiantly to power,” the “showdown in
Caracas is reshaping Latino politics in South Florida, home to the highest
concentration of Venezuelans in the United States.” Trump “is pushing Mr.
Maduro to step aside, and if he succeeds, Democrats fear it could transform
Venezuelan-Americans into loyal Republicans, much like Cuban-Americans.”
Leading the News
As Border Talks Stall, Trump And Mulvaney Hint At Emergency Declaration To
Build Wall.

Media reports indicate that Congressional border security talks have broken
down due to Democratic demands that the number of ICE detentions be capped
to Obama-era numbers as part of any agreement. NBC Nightly News[image:
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(2/10, lead story, 2:00, O'Donnell) reported in its lead story that “both
parties described [the] talks...as stalled and broken down,” and that “the
divide includes a new issue: Democrats want to limit the number of beds in
detention centers for undocumented migrants.” CQ Roll Call
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(2/10, Lerman) says “Democrats are seeking a cap of 16,500 beds for those
arrested inside the country,” with “a Democratic aide” saying yesterday
that “16,500 is the level of such arrests from the last three months of
President Barack Obama’s administration.” The Washington Times
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(2/10, Howell, Dinan) points out “Administration officials say ICE is
holding more than 20,000 criminal migrants arrested in the interior,” and
that “Democrats’ limits would mean releasing thousand of them out onto the
streets.” The Hill
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(2/10, Bolton) quotes an unnamed “Administration official” as saying of the
Democratic proposal, “This is ‘abolish ICE.’ That’s what it is.”

        Amid the latest dispute, President Trump and acting Chief of Staff
Mulvaney yesterday raised the possibility that the Administration will
build a border wall after issuing an National Emergency declaration.
Mulvaney told Fox News Sunday
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(2/10) that a national emergency declaration is “absolutely on the table”
and that the wall is “going to get built with or without Congress.”
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(2/10) that “the President does believe that there’s a national security
crisis and a humanitarian crisis at the border” and “he’s going to do
whatever he legally can to secure that border.”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(2/10, story 6, 2:05, Palmeri) reported, meanwhile, that “the President
heads back to the border [today] for the second time since this budget
battle began,” and that Sunday “he tweeted that he could legally declare a
national emergency to bypass Congress and build the wall himself.” On
Twitter
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Trump shared a comment by Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), who said, “President
is on sound legal ground to declare a National Emergency. There have been
58 National Emergencies declared since the law was enacted in 1976, and 31
right now that are currently active, so this is hardly unprecedented.”

        Trump also took to Twitter
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yesterday to write, “The Border Committee Democrats are behaving, all of a
sudden, irrationally. Not only are they unwilling to give dollars for the
obviously needed Wall (they overrode recommendations of Border Patrol
experts), but they don’t even want to take muderers into custody! What’s
going on? ...
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I don’t think the Dems on the Border Committee are being allowed by their
leaders to make a deal. They are offering very little money for the
desperately needed Border Wall & now, out of the blue, want a cap on
convicted violent felons to be held in detention!” Trump earlier tweeted
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“It was a very bad week for the Democrats, with the GREAT economic numbers,
The Virginia disaster and the State of the Union address. Now, with the
terrible offers being made by them to the Border Committee, I actually
believe they want a Shutdown. They want a new subject!”

        Politico
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(2/10, Levine, Caygle, Everett) reports the talks “abruptly fell apart,”
the Washington Examiner
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(2/10, Ferrechio) that they “have nearly collapsed,” Reuters
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(2/10, Chiacu, Cowan) that they “collapsed after Democratic and Republican
lawmakers clashed over immigrant detention policy,” and the AP
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(2/10, Lemire, Fram) that “bargainers clashed...over whether to limit the
number of migrants authorities can detain.” The Washington Post
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(2/10, A1, Werner, Paletta, Kim) says “the nation faces the real
possibility of another government shutdown” after talks “broke down” over
“Democrats’ insistence on limiting the number of unauthorized immigrants
who can be detained by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.”
That “breakdown in talks made it unlikely that lawmakers will be able to
finalize an agreement on Monday, as they’d hope to do so it could pass the
House and Senate before Friday night’s deadline.”

        The New York Times
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(2/10, Cochrane, Haberman, Schmitt) also reports “the hang-up was not
primarily the amount of funding for a border barrier, but a Democratic
effort to force Immigration and Customs Enforcement to focus on detaining
migrants with criminal records instead of people who have overstayed their
visas by limiting the number of beds it has in detention centers.” The
Washington
Times
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(2/10, Howell) notes “Mulvaney said proposed funding is all over the map
and that Democrats are pushing to cap the number of detainee beds for
people who cross into the US illegally, causing talks to stall.”

        Breitbart
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(2/10, Munro) similarly reports the talks “have stalled because Democrats
are trying to sharply limit the deportation of economic migrants” and are
requesting a “cap on detention beds.” Such a move “would not ‘Abolish ICE,’
as sought by some Democratic legislators, but would shackle ICE to the
establishment’s pro-migration policies.” The New York Post
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(2/10, Moore) also reports Democrats are “seeking to put a limit funding
for detention beds for people in custody of Immigration and Customs
Enforcement.” USA Today
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(2/10, Cummings) points out, meanwhile, that “Congressional Democrats have
steadfastly refused to approve the $5.7 billion requested by Trump for the
wall, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has insisted the wall won’t be built.”

        To the Los Angeles Times
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(2/10, King), “Trump sought Sunday to preemptively cast blame on Democrats
if an impasse over his demand for a border wall leads to a second partial
government shutdown,” and to The Hill
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(2/10, Samuels) he “sought to pin blame on Democrats for what lawmakers
described as faltering negotiations on border security funding.” Bloomberg
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(2/10, Wasson, Jacobs) and the Wall Street Journal
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(2/10, Davidson, Peterson), among other news outlets, run similar stories.

        Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) discussed border wall funding on Fox
News Sunday Morning Futures
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(2/10), and said “Trump cannot and will not sign any bill that is available
for violent criminals so they can be housed and deported that would
undercut any funding for the wall. I don’t want the President to shut the
government down, but continuing resolutions probably is where we will go. I
don’t see how in the world President Trump could sign a bill that reduces
bed space for violent offenders.”

        Sens. Richard Shelby (R-AL) and Jon Tester (D-MT) discussed the
talks on Fox News Sunday
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(2/10). Shelby said, “I think the talks are stalled right now,” as “we got
some problems with the Democrats dealing with ICE, that is detaining
criminals that come into the US and they want a cap on them. We don’t want
a cap on that.” Tester said, “We are still in negotiations and I think that
when you’re talking about border security it includes more than just a
barrier, it includes technology, it includes what we are going to do with
the manpower, aircraft, the works. We are not to a point where we can
announce a deal, negotiations are still going on,” but “I’m very hopeful,
not positive, but very hopeful we can come to an agreement.”

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(2/10), Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) was asked about the beds in ICE detention
centers. He said, “Well, this is the first I’ve heard of that,” and “I, for
one, and I think a lot of other people, aren’t for releasing violent
offenders in any regard and so I’ve got to look more into that but that
doesn’t sound like something that I would be supportive of or many
Democrats would be supportive of.”

        Reps. Tom Graves (R-GA) and John Yarmuth (D-KY) assessed the
negotiations on ABC’s This Week
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(2/10). Graves said, “I thought we were tracking pretty good over the last
week and it just seems over the last 24 hours or so the goal posts have
been moving from the Democrats and at the end of the day, we have an
obligation...to protect our nation and provide the proper border security.
As long as the goal posts continue moving, there is really no way we can
lock in on an agreement.” Yarmuth said, “Well, I think the goal posts have
shifted a lot on both sides. First of all, the President at one point
wanted $25 million and then it’s $1 billion and $5.7 billion, and they came
to the Hill, Mike Pence and Mulvaney and they said, we’ll take $2.5
billion. The numbers are all over the place.”

        On CNN’s State of the Union
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(2/10), Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) talked about the possibility of another
government shutdown over border wall funding. She said, “Well, I certainly
hope we’re not headed for another shutdown. I think the President has been
clear and the Republicans in the House have been clear that we absolutely
have to secure the border.” Cheney added, “You’ve seen the Democrats try to
suggest we want to build a 2,000-mile long wall. That’s absolutely not the
case. What we’re talking about is something that’s very practical, where
it’s necessary, where it’s needed, where our border patrol agents say it
will help us control and stop the flood of illegal immigrants across the
border. We need to have a border wall.”

        On CBS’ Face the Nation
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(2/10), Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) was asked whether he would support a
national emergency, saying, “I would reach out to my Democrat colleagues.
If once and for all you’re willing to work in a bipartisan manner to return
the power back to Congress, I’m willing, I’m willing to do that even now
with this President, with our President’s party in the White House, I’m
willing to do that, but until we do that, why should we allow a Democrat
President in the White House to use executive orders and not do the same
with a Republican President? I’ve put forth measures that would actually
eliminate some of the executive branch power. You know philosophically
that’s where I am, and yet at this point, we have a crisis. We have a
crisis with a need to secure the border that we have to do. And this
President is going to build a wall one way or another.”

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(2/10), discussed a potential shutdown. He said, “The budget bill that we
passed in the Senate through committee last year provided for $1.6 billion
in new border security money and, of course, members of the Senate have
voted in the past for border security money, including barrier funding. I
think the problem now is we’ve only got about seven months left on the
fiscal year. I don’t think the President can actually spend much more than
$2 billion, but, of course, we’re willing to compromise. Of course we’re
willing to put more money into border security. I’ll be interested to see
what the compromise looks like before I commit to voting for it or against
it. The real tragedy is we should be able to do a bigger comprehensive
policy. I hope we can have a bigger conversation some time soon.”

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(2/10), “The situation has changed for the President in that Republican
lawmakers largely backed him when he shut down the government. Now, the
President is cornered with Republican lawmakers unwilling to back another
shutdown and also unwilling to back a national emergency declaration. And
that really leaves the President with two unpalatable options. The first is
accepting whatever legislative solution lawmakers can come up with – but we
know that it will not contain the $5.7 billion in border wall funding the
President was demanding – or some sort of executive action that falls short
of a national emergency declaration.”

        Meanwhile, Mackenzie Eaglen, a defense fellow at the American
Enterprise Institute, and Rick Berger, a research fellow at AEI and a
former Senate Budget Committee aide, argue in the Wall Street Journal
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(2/10) that the President would hurt the military by diverting funding
toward a border wall under a National Emergency declaration.

        *“Democratic Aide”: White House Prefers CR To Deal Conferees Were
Closing In On. *Politico
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(2/10, Levine, Caygle, Everett) reports “the White House is open to signing
a continuing resolution, a change from its previous position, according to
White House and congressional officials.” According to “one Democratic
aide,” White House “officials signaled to lawmakers during a weekend
retreat at Camp David that it preferred a continuing resolution to the deal
the committee was likely to offer, which would have supplied between $500
million and $1 billion for border fencing in addition to the $1.3 billion
in the current stopgap bill.”

        *Ahead Of Friday Deadline, Federal Workers Fear Another Shutdown. *In
a 2,500-word article, the Washington Post
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(2/10, Saslow) profiles Vicki Ibarra, a 16-year veteran IRS employee. The
Post recounts her financial struggles during the 35-day government
shutdown, and says federal employees fear there could be another shutdown
if a deal on border wall funding is not reached by Friday’s deadline.
Foreign Policy
US, South Korea Sign Cost-Sharing Deal For Troops.

The US and South Korea on Sunday signed a new deal that increases Seoul’s
contribution to the cost of maintaining an American military presence in
the country. Media reports cast the deal as clearing a hurdle ahead of the
President’s upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but also
noted that it was only a one-year deal. The Wall Street Journal
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(2/10, Jeong) reports that under the deal, South Korea will pay roughly
$920 million, but a spokesman for the US Embassy in Seoul did not say how
much Washington will pay.

        To the AP
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(2/10, Kim), the two nations were able to “overcom[e] previous failed
negotiations that caused worries about their decades-long alliance” and Stars
And Stripes
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(2/10, Gamel) too says the deal “resolves a dispute between the longtime
allies at a crucial time, with a second US-North Korea summit due to take
place at the end of the month in Hanoi, Vietnam.”

        NPR
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(2/10, Kuhn), however, refers to it as “a hurried deal,” and the Washington
Post
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(2/10, Denyer, Kim) says that while the deal “remov[es] an irritant between
the allies,” it is “a stopgap agreement, only covering one year, instead of
the usual five-year-term.” The Hill
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(2/10, Samuels) says that because the new agreement is only for one year,
negotiators must “hammer out a new pact in the coming months.”

        The New York Times
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(2/10, Choe) likewise says the two allies “resolv[ed] a dispute...before
President Trump’s meeting this month with Kim Jong-un,” but the “one-year
deal only temporarily addresses an issue that has become particularly
contentious under Mr. Trump.” Reuters
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(2/10, Reuters) reports that the disagreement “had raised the prospect that
Trump could decide to withdraw at least some troops from South Korea.”

        The Korea Herald
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(2/10, Herald) reports that “US lawmakers had also urged the US to seek a
longer-term cost-sharing agreement.” Reps. Grace Meng and Norma Torres
wrote to Secretary of State Pompeo last week, “saying the one-year deal did
not sufficiently reflect the importance of the US alliance with South
Korea.”

        Breitbart
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(2/10, Hayward) reports that “South Korean officials described the new deal
as a compromise with President Trump’s request for a ‘huge increase,’” and
the South China Morning Post
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(2/10, Press) says the deal “must still be approved by South Korea’s
parliament.” According to the Korea Times
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(2/10, Ji-won), “a group of activists staged a rally Sunday in front of the
foreign ministry building against the agreement, claiming that
renegotiating the agreement would largely increase Seoul’s burden.”

        *US, North Korean Officials Plan Second Meeting Ahead Of Trump-Kim
Summit. *Bloomberg News
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(2/10, Kim) reports US and North Korean officials are scheduled to “meet in
the week starting Feb. 17 to resume discussions on a summit between
President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un later this month.” US special envoy
Stephen Biegun “traveled to Pyongyang from Feb. 6 to 8 to prepare for the
Trump-Kim meeting, which is set to be held on Feb. 27 and 28 in Hanoi,
Vietnam.” Biegun “described his talks in North Korea as productive even
though there was ‘some hard work’ left to do.”

        *Former US Negotiators Urge Kim To “Show Some Denuclearization,”
Clarify Demands. *The Washington Times
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(2/10, Taylor) reports that “two former top US negotiators in talks that
melted down with North Korea the last time around – back in 2009 – have
some sobering advice for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ahead of his
second summit with President Trump: Don’t blow this special chance, stop
foot-dragging and get specific about the denuclearization steps you’re
actually going to take and, be ready to clarify what you really want in
exchange for abandoning your nukes.” That is the message former Ambassadors
Christopher R. Hill and Joseph DeTrani “offered up in successive speeches
at a conference this weekend” in Seoul.
Trump: US Will Soon Control Remaining ISIS Territory In Syria.

President Trump on Sunday tweeted
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“The U.S. will soon control 100% of ISIS territory in Syria. @CNN (do you
believe this?).”

        The AP
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(2/10, Mroue) reports that Trump’s tweet came shortly after the US-backed
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced “they have launched a final push
to defeat the Islamic State group in the last tiny pocket the extremists
hold in eastern Syria.” According to SDF spokesman Mustafa Bali, “the
offensive began Saturday after more than 20,000 civilians were evacuated
from the ISIS-held area in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour.” The
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights “said SDF fighters are advancing
‘cautiously’ due to mines planted by ISIS gunmen,” and that “US-led
coalition warplanes are giving cover to advancing SDF fighters.” While US
officials have in recent weeks said “that ISIS has lost 99.5 percent of its
territory and is holding onto fewer than 5 square kilometers in Syria,”
they cautioned that “the group could stage a comeback if the military and
counterterrorism pressure on it is eased.”

        *Cheney: US Must Ensure Syria Withdrawal Will Not Allow ISIS To
Reconstitute. *In an interview Sunday, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) told CNN’s
State of the Union
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(2/10) “we can’t be fooled into thinking” a US withdrawal from Syria would
prevent an ISIS resurgence in the country. She told host Jake Tapper “the
issue is not the territorial control,” but “whether or not we’re able to
ensure that ISIS doesn’t reconstitute.” Cheney added that US troops have
“been doing crucially important work that you can only do there: providing
air support, providing some artillery support,” and working “with the local
forces to really help ensure the defeat of ISIS.” Still, Cheney said,
“President Trump has had tremendous success across the board on a whole
range of national security issues,” unlike former President Obama, who
“withdrew our forces from Iraq precipitously.” Obama’s move, Cheney said,
resulted in a “civil war in Syria” and “the rise of ISIS.” She added, “I
don’t want to see us go down that path again.”
Shanahan Makes Surprise Visit To Afghanistan.

The AP
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(2/10, Burns) reports acting Defense Secretary Shanahan “made an
unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Monday to meet with US commanders and
Afghan leaders amid a push for peace with the Taliban.” Shanahan “said he
has no orders to reduce the US troop presence, although officials say that
is at the top of the Taliban’s list of demands in exploratory peace
negotiations.” He also “said he is encouraged that President Donald Trump’s
administration is exploring all possibilities for ending a 17-year war,”
although he “stressed that peace terms are for the Afghans to decide.”
According to the AP, “Shanahan’s views on the Afghan war are not widely
known,” but he “said he would use this week’s visit to inform his thinking
and to report back to Trump.”

        *US Envoy Intensifies Afghanistan Peace Efforts With Taliban. *The
AP
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(2/10, Lee) reports US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad “is returning to the
country after stops in Europe and the Middle East for an extended
diplomatic tour aimed at pushing a US peace initiative.” The State
Department said Sunday in a statement “the trip is intended ‘to facilitate
a peace process that protects US national security interests and brings all
Afghan parties together in an intra-Afghan dialogue through which they can
determine a path for their country’s future.’” Khalilzad recently completed
“a similar trip during which his talks with the Taliban produced a
tentative framework agreement, but he warned last week that the
negotiations are far from finished.”

        USA Today
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(2/10, Board, Today) editorializes that the “rough draft” of the peace deal
Khalilzad reached with the Taliban “faintly traces the dark path that the
United States followed when it left the Vietnam War.” Khalilzad on Friday
said the Administration is seeking an “honorable and just peace,” but to
USA Today, that is “a welcome message” only if President Trump and the
Taliban “could be trusted.” USA Today adds that any peace deal “that paves
the way for the Taliban to reclaim control in Kabul, provide sanctuary for
anti-US terrorists and reverse women’s rights would be neither honorable
nor just.”

        In an op-ed for USA Today
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(2/10), Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) says while a “peace framework is an important
step in ending America’s longest war,” the Administration’s “strategy goes
beyond counterterrorism and is unwinnable.” Khanna argues that while the US
“should continue supporting the Afghan government financially and
diplomatically after leaving and include them in the peace process,” the
Afghan people “must eventually earn domestic legitimacy themselves.” Khanna
also cautions that “we will spend $90 billion in Afghanistan over the next
two years,” underscoring how the “biggest threat to democracy isn’t the
Taliban; it’s staying economically competitive with authoritarian
superpowers like China.”

        *US Airstrikes In Afghanistan Kill At Least 10 Civilians. *The New
York Times
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(2/10, Zucchino, Shah) reports that at least 10 civilians – including
“eight members of a single family” – were killed and at least six more were
wounded “over the weekend during American airstrikes in southern
Afghanistan” targeting “a Taliban operations center in Sangin, an insurgent
stronghold,” according to “local officials and residents in Helmand
Province” on Sunday. US military spokeswoman Sgt. First Class Debra
Richardson “said that American aircraft had conducted airstrikes in the
province late Friday night and early Saturday morning, but that she could
not confirm or deny that civilians had been killed.” She also “said
military officials were looking into the episode.” Kandahar Province
governor’s spokesman Aziz Ahmad Azizi “said he could not confirm reports of
civilian deaths or injuries,” but “said 25 Taliban fighters were killed and
10 captured during the operation.” According to the Times, “Civilian
casualties have dogged the American military effort for much of the war,
now in its 18th year.”
Political Crisis Continues In Venezuela.

In continuing coverage of the political crisis in Venezuela, Kerry Sanders
reported for NBC Nightly News
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(2/10, story 4, 2:00, Snow) that “tens of thousands” rallied in Venezuela
this weekend in support of Nicolas Maduro, while Venezuelan interim
President Juan Guaido was “mobbed by supporters” at church. Both Maduro and
Guaido “claim to be Venezuela’s president.” Meanwhile, “Maduro’s subsidized
food program has become erratic,” and much-needed medical aid from the US
is stuck across the border, with Maduro’s government refusing to let it in.
Sanders reported that, on both sides, there is “hope that this fight for
power ends peacefully and soon.”
Menendez, Graham Introduce Legislation To Ban Saudi Weapons Sales.

The Washington Times
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(2/10, Washington (DC), Times) reports that a “bipartisan group of
lawmakers, including Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, introduced legislation
Friday that would bar certain arms sales to Riyadh in response to” the
murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi “last October by Saudi
operatives, and its role in Yemen’s civil war.” The Times says the move
comes “amid growing bipartisan criticism of the president’s reluctance to
pin blame on the Saudi royal family.” In October, a bipartisan group of
senators urged President Trump to conduct an investigation into the killing
and render “a decision on sanctions under the global Magnitsky Human Rights
Act” by Friday. The Administration declined to send a report, and Secretary
of State Pompeo “instead sent a letter to Congress saying the president
‘maintains his discretion to decline to act on congressional committee
requests when appropriate.’”

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(2/10), “This isn’t an informal committee request. The law requires that
when the chairman and the ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee
ask the President to make a finding as to a human rights violation
overseas, he has to respond. He has to respond. That’s what the law says.
He doesn’t have an option here.” Murphy also warned, “Congress doesn’t have
to wait for the president to fulfill his duty. We can just make a
determination that Mohammed bin Salman ordered these murders and there
should be some kind of penalty and repercussion for that.”

        When asked about the Congressional request on NBC’s Meet the
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(2/10), acting Chief of Staff Mulvaney said, “I don’t know. I haven’t been
familiar and worked on the negotiations but I know there were some
requirements placed upon us by congress. I don’t know of the status of the
report. ... I can’t remember, I think it’s the State Department that was
supposed to do that. You have to ask Secretary Pompeo.”

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(2/10), Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir insisted that Khashoggi’s
murder “was a massive tragedy” – but the “Crown Prince had nothing to do
with this, and there was no order to murder Jamal Khashoggi.” He added that
eleven people suspected of involvement “have been charged by the public
prosecutor and trials have begun.” Al-Jubeir urged lawmakers to “wait until
the legal process plays out and then judge us, but don’t judge us before
the process is complete.” Still, he added, “I believe the positions of the
President and Secretary of State are very clear. They said there is no
evidence to point in that direction.”

        The Washington Times
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(2/10, Muñoz) reports al-Jubeir also “pushed back against Sen. Bob
Menendez’s legislation, saying its approval would only be a win for Tehran
and its agenda for the Middle East.” Said al-Jubeir, “I find it strange
that members of Congress would try to curtail allies, like Saudi Arabia …
in trying to push back against terrorist organizations.”

        *WPost: Saudi Arabia Must Be Accountable For Torturing Detained
Female Activists. *The Washington Post
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(2/10) editorializes that for months, roughly a dozen Saudi “women who were
arrested for advocating basic civil rights, such as the right to drive,”
have been “held in solitary confinement and subjected to beatings, electric
shocks, waterboarding and sexual harassment.” The Post says as in the case
of Khashoggi’s murder, it is “essential” that Saudi officials allegedly
involved in this abuse “face consequences.” The Post concludes in writing,
“The question every democratic government, would-be investor and celebrity
guest ought to address to the Saudi regime is this: Why are these women
still in prison while their torturer roams the royal court?”
Rouhani Says Iran To Continue Expanding Military Might.

Reuters
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(2/11) reports that in a speech at Tehran’s Azadi square on Monday marking
“the 40th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic revolution,” Iranian President
Hassan Rouhani told a crowd of “tens of thousands” that “Iran was
determined to expand its military power and ballistic missile program
despite mounting pressure from hostile countries to curb Iran’s defensive
work, state TV reported.” Said Rouhani, “We have not asked and will not ask
for permission to develop different types of ... missiles and will continue
our path and our military power.”

        *NYTimes Analysis Examines Social, Political Changes Since Iranian
Revolution. *A New York Times
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(2/10, Erdbrink) analysis says in the wake of Iran’s revolution 40 years
ago, what materialized was “an Islamic republic, a theocracy built on
ideological choices inspired to a great extent by Ayatollah Khomeini.”
Instead of newfound freedoms, ordinary Iranians were subjected to new rules
forbidding “anything that might lead people astray.” Those rules “became
negotiable” over time, and the changes “have been enormous.” While “Iran
today is closer than most outsiders generally appreciate to being that
‘normal’ country Iranians want,” its politics “are a different story,”
because “the group of people making the decisions has remained largely
unchanged.” One “big thing” that has changed in Iranian politics, however,
is the “Death to America” chant. Once “a bulwark of Iranian ideology from
the earliest days of the revolution,” the chant “now means something else:
Death to President Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the national
security adviser, John R. Bolton.”
Politico Analysis: Hungary, Slovakia And Poland See Pompeo Visit As US
“Seal Of Approval.”

Politico Europe
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(2/10, Bayer, Lippman) reports Secretary of State Pompeo this week is
traveling this week to Hungary, Slovakia and Poland “to counter growing
Russian and Chinese influence in areas as diverse as energy and
technology,” according to senior Administration officials. But Politico
says “his host governments, facing accusations at home and abroad of
backsliding on democracy and the rule of law, have seized on the trip to
brand it as a seal of approval from Washington.” During the trip, “Pompeo
will have to strike a balance between praising his hosts and addressing the
concerns of their critics.”

        *Pompeo To Raise Concerns Over China, Russia During Central Europe
Tour. *The AP
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(2/10, Lee) reports Secretary Pompeo on Sunday departed “on a five-nation
tour of Europe that will begin in Hungary and Slovakia where he will raise
those concerns and the importance of promoting democracy and the rule of
law to counter Beijing and Moscow’s efforts to pull the countries away from
the West and sow divisions in the European Union and NATO.” The
“centerpiece” of his trip “will be a conference on the future of the Middle
East in Poland on Wednesday and Thursday that is expected to focus on Iran
and will also be attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”
While “in Budapest and Bratislava on Monday and Tuesday,” however, “Pompeo
will specifically point to issues related to Central Europe’s reliance on
Russian energy and the presence of the Chinese high-tech telecom firm
Huawei, particularly in Hungary, according to the officials.” The officials
also “said Pompeo hoped to reverse what they called a decade of US
disengagement in Central Europe that created a vacuum that Russia and China
have exploited.” Likewise, Reuters
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(2/11, Wroughton, Szakacs) reports that when Pompeo “visits Hungary,
Slovakia and Poland this week he wants to make up for a lack of US
engagement that opened the door to more Chinese and Russian influence in
central Europe, administration officials say.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(2/10, Hinshaw, Woo) says the Hungarian and Slovakian governments have
stood by China, but Polish officials are struggling in their attempt to
balance a desire to assuage the US by limiting Huawei and desire to avoid
any sudden decisions that could anger China. In the Czech Republic,
officials also are divided on how to balance the Administration’s security
concerns and the country’s own desire for Chinese opportunities in trade,
investment, and business.
Domestic Policy
Trump, O’Rourke To Hold Competing Rallies In El Paso.

USA Today
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(2/9, Stanglin, Moritz) reports President Trump will visit El Paso, Texas
Monday “to rally for a border wall.” At the same time, former Rep. Beto
O’Rourke (D-TX) will lead a protest march in the city. O’Rourke “plans to
join a one-mile march past Trump’s rally on Monday and speak across the
street from the president at about the same time Monday evening.” The
former congressman “said he sees Trump’s campaign rally as an opportunity
for the city to take control of the narrative.” O’Rourke said, “He’s
offering us a chance to tell our story and we’re going to take that chance,
all of us.”

        *El Paso Residents Take Issue With Trump’s Wall Claim. *The AP
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(2/10, Weissert) reports the President claimed in his State of the Union
address that a “‘powerful barrier’ had cut crime rates in El Paso,” but
“many in this city of dusty desert winds and blistering salsa, bristle at
the prospect of their home becoming a border wall poster child.” While
Trump “said barriers turned El Paso from one of the nation’s most dangerous
cities to one of its safest...that’s not true.” El Paso “had a murder rate
less than half the national average in 2005, a year before the most recent
expansion of its border fence. ... Many residents say El Paso embodies a
cross-border spirit that transcends walls rather than proving more are
needed.”

        *Trump Cites Gallup Poll As Evidence Wall Is Necessary. *The New
York Post
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(2/10, Moore) reports the President, in a tweet Sunday morning, cited a
recent Gallup poll “that showed 42 million people living in Latin America
or the Caribbean would migrate to the US as evidence bolstering his demand
to build a wall on the southern border.” Trump tweeted
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019021101biden&r=email-0aab&l=091-74f&t=c>,
“Gallup Poll: ‘Open Borders will potentially attract 42 million Latin
Americans.’ This would be a disaster for the U.S. We need the Wall now!”

        *WTimes Analysis: Illegal Immigration On Pace For Worst Year Since
2007’s “Wall-Building Spree.” *The Washington Times
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(2/10, A1, Dinan) reports new Homeland Security numbers show that “illegal
immigration across the southwest border is on pace for the worst year since
2007 – or the last time the country began a massive wall-building spree.”
Border Patrol has “nabbed nearly 201,500 people” so far this fiscal year,
“compared to about 109,500 at the same point in the previous year. If that
84 percent surge holds, it works out to 733,000 immigrants crossing
illegally for fiscal year 2019, which would be by far the highest numbers
in more than a decade.”

        *Border Patrol Says Central American Families Taxing Their
Resources At Border. *Breitbart
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(2/10, Price) reports Border Patrol officials said during a conference call
Friday “that the surge of Central American migrant families are stretching
their resources thin.” The officials “said the large groups of migrant
families, mostly from Central America, are overwhelming their resources.”

        *WPost A1: Despite Trump Rhetoric, MS-13 Murders Plummeting Since
2016. *The Washington Post
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(2/6, A1, Miller) reports in a front-page story that “over the past two
years, in tweets and speeches, on the campaign trail and in the Oval
Office, President Trump has railed against the violent international street
gang MS-13.” The Post says that even as Trump “warned again and again about
the dangers posed by MS-13 members,” killings connected to the gang “were
plummeting in many of the areas where MS-13 has been most active.” In the
Washington region, for example, MS-13 murders have “fallen from at least 33
between 2016 and 2017 to seven last year, according to interviews with a
dozen law enforcement agencies and prosecutors.”
Millions Could Receive Smaller Tax Refunds Or Owe The IRS This Year.

The Washington Post
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(2/10, Long) reports millions of Americans may find they are receiving
lower-than-expected tax refunds or that they owe money to the IRS this
year. Social media is already seeing the hashtag #GOPTaxScam as many people
“blame President Trump and the Republicans for their shrinking refunds.
Some on Twitter even said they wouldn’t vote for Trump again after seeing
their refund slashed.” After the President and congressional Republicans
passed an overhaul of the tax code in December 2017, “the vast majority of
Americans did get a tax cut in 2018,” but “refunds are a different matter.
Some refunds have decreased because of the changes in the tax code made by
the law, such as a new limit on property and local income tax deductions,
and some have decreased because of how the IRS has altered withholding in
paychecks.”

        NBC Nightly News
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(2/10, story 5, 1:45, Snow) described “a disturbing reality setting in for
millions of Americans that the new tax law that took effect last year could
come back to haunt them this year.” ABC World News Tonight[image: Image
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(2/10, story 8, 1:40, Moton) reported that according to the IRS, “the
average refund for the first week of filing down eight percent compared to
the same time last year.”
Mulvaney: Democrats’ Position On Green New Deal Unclear.

Asked on Fox News Sunday
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(2/10, Wallace) about President Trump’s warning on socialist policies
during the State of the Union, acting Chief of Staff Mulvaney said, “That’s
one of the big questions of the day: where is the center of gravity in the
Democratic Party? ... Jon Tester...is widely perceived as being sort of a
conservative in the party. I would be curious to know where he is on the
Green New Deal. Roughly half of the announced presidential candidates, the
Democrats, have supported this even though they are not sure what it is,
the other half have not. I don’t know where the Democrat Party is on this.
I know where the Republican Party is.”
Swan: USMCA Has “Tough Row To Hoe” In Congress.

Jonathan Swan writes for Axios
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(2/10) that “a deputy to Trump’s top trade negotiator gave a shockingly
optimistic forecast on the political fate of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement
(USMCA).” C.J. Mahoney, USTR Lighthizer’s deputy, “to the bemusement of two
sources on the call,” said “he figured the USMCA could get through Congress
with huge bipartisan support by the end of April.” However, Swan writes
that “nobody we’ve spoken to on Capitol Hill thinks Mahoney’s prediction is
remotely possible.” The USMCA “has a tough row to hoe. Influential House
Democrats say they won’t even negotiate with the White House until Trump
stops threatening to withdraw from NAFTA and lifts his tariffs on Canada’s
and Mexico’s steel and aluminum” and Republicans “oppose important parts of
USMCA, including its weakening of the NAFTA provision that lets foreign
companies sue governments for mistreatment.”
Graham Confident Barr Will Be Confirmed.

On Fox News Sunday Morning Futures
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(2/10), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) discussed Attorney General-designate
William Barr’s prospects for confirmation. Graham said, “He’s one of the
preeminent lawyers of our time. He’s a steady hand. He did not get one
Democratic vote in the committee. I’m disappointed in that but he will make
it through confirmation this week on the floor. He’ll pick-up a handful of
Democrats, and he’ll be an outstanding attorney general for this country.”
Trump Says He Works “More Hours Than Almost Any Past President.”

The Washington Examiner
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(2/10, Quinn) reports President Trump Sunday “defended how he spends his
work days after facing criticism for the amount of unstructured ‘Executive
Time’ in his daily schedules, claiming he works harder than most of his
predecessors and puts in ‘very long hours.’”

        Trump tweeted
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“The media was able to get my work schedule, something very easy to do, but
it should have been reported as a positive, not negative. When the term
Executive Time is used, I am generally working, not relaxing. In fact, I
probably work more hours than almost any past President. .....
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The fact is, when I took over as President, our Country was a mess.
Depleted Military, Endless Wars, a potential War with North Korea, V.A.,
High Taxes & too many Regulations, Border, Immigration & HealthCare
problems, & much more. I had no choice but to work very long hours!”

        The New York Post
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(2/10, Moore, Schwab) says Trump “defended his use of ‘Executive Time’ to
watch television, read newspapers and call aides and lawmakers at the
beginning of his workday,” while the AP
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(2/10, Press) says he is “pushing back against criticisms that a leak of
his private schedule suggests he is not working hard.”

        *More Schedules Leaked. *Axios
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(2/10, McCammond, Swan), which exclusively reported the leaks last week,
says it has “obtained four of the president’s private schedules
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from last week.” According to Axios, the newly leaked schedules “show the
president spent 50% of the four days last week in non-structured ‘Executive
Time.’”

        *Mulvaney Concerned Over Leaks. *Acting Chief of Staff Mulvaney
addressed the leak of the President’s private schedule on Fox News
Sunday[image:
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(2/10, Wallace), saying, “Here’s why this is important to me as the acting
chief of staff: the stuff in the memos is not that confidential...it’s the
fact that someone within the White House spent three months collecting this
information, which is really hard to do. It also sheds light on the fact
that many people who work for us weren’t hired for us. It would be like
Maxine Waters taking over the Financial Services Committee in the House and
having to keep Jeb Hensarling’s staff. We need civil service reform so the
President can trust everyone working for him and we are not there right
now.”

        On NBC’s Meet the Press
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(2/10, Todd), Mulvaney said, “That executive time is on there to allow the
President to prep for the next meeting, to debrief from the previous
meeting. The phone calls start at 6:00 in the morning and go until 11:00 at
night, so I can assure you he’s working more than on the calendar.”
Trump: Burr’s Panel Has Found No Evidence Of Collusion.

In a tweet
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early Sunday morning, the President highlighted Senate Intelligence
Chairman Burr’s comment in an interview
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with CBS News that his panel has found no evidence of collusion between the
Trump campaign and Russia. Trump wrote, “Senator Richard Burr, The Chairman
of the Senate Intelligence Committee, just announced that after almost two
years, more than two hundred interviews, and thousands of documents, they
have found NO COLLUSION BETWEEN TRUMP AND RUSSIA! Is anybody really
surprised by this?”

        *NYTimes Analysis: Weissmann Hints At Evidence Of Collusion During
Closed Court Hearing. *The New York Times
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(2/10, Lafraniere, Vogel, Shane) reports Andrew Weissmann, one of special
counsel Robert Mueller’s lead prosecutors, gave a “hint...about evidence of
possible collusion between President Trump’s campaign and Russia” during a
closed-door court hearing. Weissmann’s comments “suggest that the special
counsel continues to pursue at least one theory: that starting while Russia
was taking steps to bolster Mr. Trump’s candidacy, people in his orbit were
discussing deals to end a dispute over Russia’s incursions into Ukraine and
possibly give Moscow relief from economic sanctions.” Weissmann offered the
theory “during a discussion of contacts between Mr. Trump’s former campaign
chairman, Paul Manafort” and Konstantin V. Kilimnik. Asked by the judge “to
say why Mr. Manafort’s alleged lies mattered,” Weissmann said, “This goes
to the larger view of what we think is going on, and what we think is the
motive here. ... This goes, I think, very much to the heart of what the
special counsel’s office is investigating.”

        *Schiff Says Mueller Hasn’t Sufficiently Scrutinized Trump’s
Finances. *The Washington Post
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(2/10, Miller) reports House Intelligence Chairman Schiff on Sunday
expressed concern that special counsel Robert Mueller “has not adequately
scrutinized President Trump’s finances and said House investigators plan to
probe Trump’s relationship with a bank implicated in Russian money
laundering.” Schiff told NBC’s Meet the Press[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019021101biden&r=email-0aab&l=0a8-45f&t=c>,
“We are not interested in our committee in whether he’s a tax cheat or not
worth what he says he is. ... What we are interested in is, does the
president have business dealings with Russia such that it compromises the
United States?”

        Politico
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(2/10, Warmbrodt) sways Schiff “raised doubts about the extent to
which...Mueller has probed President Donald Trump’s dealings with Deutsche
Bank, bolstering Democrats’ case for moving ahead with an investigation
into the German lender.” Schiff “cited reporting that Trump had had once
sought to fire Mueller over reports that investigators had subpoenaed
Deutsche Bank” but “backed down after being told the claims were
inaccurate.” Said Schiff, “If the special counsel hasn’t subpoenaed
Deutsche Bank, he can’t be doing much of a money laundering investigation.
... So, that’s what concerns me — that that red line has been enforced,
whether by the deputy attorney general or by some other party at the
Justice Department. But that leaves the country exposed.”

        The Washington Times
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(2/10, Howell) reports Schiff “said he doesn’t think his decision to
restart and expand the Russian-meddling investigation conflicts with”
Mueller’s probe. Schiff said, “We have a separate and an independent and
important responsibility and that is to tell the country what happened.
Mueller, ultimately, his job is to determine who broke the law, and who
should go to jail.”

        *Green To Call For Third House Vote On Trump Impeachment. *The Hill
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(2/10, Marcos) reports Rep. Al Green (D-TX) announced last week “that he
will call for a third vote on impeachment that is sure to divide
Democrats.” This, despite the fact that House Speaker Pelosi and Majority
Leader Hoyer “have long signaled caution on the issue,” and “the majority
of rank-and-file members are skeptical of pursuing impeachment before
special counsel Robert Mueller completes his investigation.” According to
The Hill, “Many Democrats therefore think that Green’s effort feels
premature.”

        *King: Whitaker Made Clear He Has Not Gotten In Mueller’s Way. *John
King said on CNN’s Inside Politics
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(2/10) that Democrats thought acting Attorney General Whitaker “was
prickly” during his congressional testimony. King added, “At times he was.
His demeanor with the Democrats was very different than his demeanor when
Republicans asked him questions. But on the substance, Matthew Whitaker
gave the Democrats zip and seemed to make clear, and I haven’t seen any
public evidence to the contrary, that he hasn’t gotten in Robert Mueller’s
way, that he hasn’t cut off his money, that he hasn’t tried to shut it
down.”

        *Jesse Jackson Jr. Says Mueller Is “Relentless.” *The Chicago
Sun-Times
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(2/9, Sweet) reports former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) “is blaming his
troubles on an over-zealous Robert Mueller.” Jackson, who is “on a national
media blitz to promote a book of letters his mother, Jacqueline, wrote to
him while in prison,” told
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CNN, “Robert Mueller was the head of the FBI during my investigation. ...
And he is relentless. If he doesn’t find something here, he looks for
something in another place.”
Cancer Research
Program Found To Reduce Racial Disparities In Early NSCLC Treatment.

MedPage Today
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(2/10, Swift) reports that research indicated “a three-pronged, race-aware
intervention dramatically closed the gap in treatment disparities between
black and white patients with potentially curable non-small cell lung
cancer (NSCLC), while at the same time improving outcomes for all.”
Researchers found that “crude treatment rates before the intervention were
69% for black patients versus 78% for white patients (*P*<0.001), but rose
to 96.5% versus 95%, respectively, after the intervention.” The data
indicated “the adjusted odds ratio (OR) was 2.1 for the intervention’s
effect on treatment for black versus white patients.” The findings
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were published in Cancer Medicine. Researcher Samuel Cykert, MD, “is
currently submitting a proposal to the National Cancer Institute to allow
the intervention model to cover all types of cancer patients at treatment
centers.”
Biotech Launches With $61M To Target Cancer Relapse Cells.

Crain’s New York Business
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(2/8, Henderson) reported a biotech company named HiberCell, which is
targeting dormant disseminated tumor cells, launched with nearly $61
million in Series A funding. HiberCell’s goal is to “prevent or delay
metastisis” of cancer by targeting those dormant cells. The funding round
was led by ARCH Venture Partners. Celgene also is an investor in HiberCell,
which is based in Manhattan.
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“No Winner In A New Arms Race.”* In an editorial, the New York Times
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(2/10) warns that the US-Russian joint abandonment of the 1987
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is a dangerous idea with grave
implications for international and domestic security. The INF treaty is
part of a larger web of Cold War nuclear arms treaties that led to 90%
reductions in US-Soviet nuclear warhead storage, but the threat of the
treaty’s nullification would result in an unregulated and unverifiable
period of nuclear weapons development. Armed Services Committee Chairman
Adam Smith already indicated his distaste for new congressional funding for
nuclear weapons development, and the Times calls on Congress to limit the
potential for unintentional destruction.
Washington Post.

*“Saudi Arabia Is Heinously Torturing Female Activists. It Must Face The
Consequences.”* The Washington Post
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(2/10) editorializes that for months, roughly a dozen Saudi “women who were
arrested for advocating basic civil rights, such as the right to drive,”
have been “held in solitary confinement and subjected to beatings, electric
shocks, waterboarding and sexual harassment.” The Post says as in the case
of Khashoggi’s murder, it is “essential” that Saudi officials allegedly
involved in this abuse “face consequences.” The Post concludes in writing,
“The question every democratic government, would-be investor and celebrity
guest ought to address to the Saudi regime is this: Why are these women
still in prison while their torturer roams the royal court?”

        *“Frustrated By Robocalls? Proposals In Congress Offer Some Hope.” *In
an editorial, the Washington Post
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(2/10) expresses Sunday its support for new congressional proposals that
aim to minimize the incidents of autodials and robocalls throughout the
country by updating legal language and granting the FCC additional
authorities. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr’s (D-NJ) proposal would close “the
loophole on autodialers who today take advantage of outdated legal
language,” while Sens. Edward Markey (D-MA) and John Thune (R-SD) seek to
“allow the agency to levy fines of $10,000 per call, up from $1,500.” The
Post encourages Democrats and Republicans to work in a bipartisan fashion
to secure a “win for every human against today’s most bothersome bot.”

        *“Remembering The Glorious Baseball Career Of Frank Robinson.”
*A Washington
Post
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(2/10) editorial.

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