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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News* <#SECTION_1>

• Poll: Voters Cool To Notion Of Socialist President Or President Over 75
Years Old. <#S1>

• CPAC Straw Poll Labels Biden As Biggest Challenge To Trump Reelection.
<#S2>

• Biden’s Lengthy Ruminations On A 2020 Run Have Ripple Effect On
Democratic Field. <#S3>

• The Hill: Biden Seeking To Lock In Donor Support Ahead Of Likely 2020 Run.
<#S4>

• Media Analyses: “Electability” Would Likely Be A Key Focus Of Biden Bid.
<#S5>

• WPost’s Rubin: Biden’s “Sensibility” Would Appeal To Voters. <#S6>

• Brad Bannon: Experience Is Biden’s “Greatest Asset” And “Biggest
Liability.” <#S7>

• Carper Hoping Biden Enters 2020 Race. <#S8>

• Warren Disagrees With Biden’s Assessment Of Pence As A “Decent Guy.” <#S9>

• Writer Critical Of Hunter Biden’s Reported Equity Deal With China-Owned
Bank. <#S10>

• Daily Caller Says Biden Has “History Of Making Racially Charged Remarks.”
<#S11>

• CNN Analyst Likened Trump To Hitler Over A Phrase Identical To One Biden
Used In 2011. <#S12>

• Cuomo Waiting On Biden’s Announcement Before Deciding On 2020 Run. <#S13>

• Sanders Officially Launches 2020 Presidential Campaign. <#S14>

• Hickenlooper Announces 2020 Bid. <#S15>

• Inslee Launches Presidential Campaign Focused On Climate Change. <#S16>

• California Paid $1.1M In Settlements In Harassment, Retaliation Claims
While Harris Was State AG. <#S17>

• Bloomberg Aides Interviewing For Staff In Iowa, New Hampshire Ahead Of
Possible 2020 Bid. <#S18>

• Democratic Presidential Contenders Mark Anniversary Of “Bloody Sunday” In
Selma. <#S19>

• WPost A1: Centrist Democrats Pushing Against Far-Left Policies Ahead Of
2020. <#S20>

• WPost A1: 2020 Democrats Prioritize Black Voter Outreach. <#S21>

*Leading the News* <#SECTION_2>

• Trump Claims “Presidential Harassment” As Democrats Step Up
Investigations. <#S22>

*Foreign Policy* <#SECTION_3>

• Trump Suggests Cohen Hearing Contributed To North Korea “Walk.” <#S23>

• Pompeo: Trump Confronting Obama’s Foreign Policy Failures. <#S24>

• Reports: US, China Close To Trade Deal. <#S25>

• Bolton Discusses Fight Against ISIS In Syria. <#S26>

• American-Born ISIS Spouse Says She Has Right To Return To US. <#S27>

• ISIS Fiercely Defends Last Enclave Against US-Backed Syrian Forces. <#S28>

• US Probes Whether Pakistan Used American Jets To Down Indian Warplane.
<#S29>

*Domestic Policy* <#SECTION_4>

• Media Analyses: Paul’s Backing Of Disapproval Resolution Sets Stage For
First Trump Veto. <#S30>

• Warner, Nadler Criticize Trump Ordering Security Clearance For Kushner.
<#S31>

• Lawmakers Investigating Whether Cohen Had Role In Pardon Discussions.
<#S32>

• NYTimes Report: Intelligence Officials Revamp Trump’s Briefings To Focus
On Trade. <#S33>

• Bloomberg Analysis: Trump Using Complaints About Fed To Stir Base. <#S34>

• House To Vote On Anti-Corruption Measure This Week. <#S35>

• Enhanced Background Checks Act Sponsors Urge Trump, Senate GOP To Back
Measure. <#S36>

*Cancer Research* <#SECTION_5>

• “Tech Health Sprint” Collaborates With NCI To Apply AI To Federal Health
Data. <#S37>

• Review Article Finds Several Explanations For Low Cure Rates For B-Cell
Lymphoma In Lower- And Middle-Income Countries. <#S38>

*Editorials/Op-Eds* <#SECTION_6>

• New York Times. <#S39>

• Washington Post. <#S40>
Biden in the News
Poll: Voters Cool To Notion Of Socialist President Or President Over 75
Years Old.

Bloomberg
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(3/3, Krasny) reports that an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll
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of 720 US voters, taken Feb. 24-27, finds that “Americans are least
favorable toward a presidential candidate who’s a socialist or one who’s
older than 75.” Just “25 percent of respondents ranked ‘socialist’ as a
desirable trait for a candidate. Only 37 percent said ‘someone over 75’ was
desirable, according to the” poll. Bloomberg adds, “Early polls have shown
that among front-runners for the Democratic nomination are former Vice
President Joe Biden, 76, who is still deciding whether to run, and Vermont
Senator Bernie Sanders, 77, who has announced another presidential bid.
[President] Trump is 72.”

        *NBC News/WSJournal Poll: 41% Would Vote To Reelect Trump. *In an
online article, NBC News
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(3/3, Murray) reported that the poll shows Trump “faces formidable
obstacles in his bid for re-election.” Of those surveyed, 41 percent “say
they would re-elect him next year; 58 percent don’t think he’s been honest
and truthful regarding the Russia probe; and 60 percent disapprove of his
recent national emergency declaration to build a border wall.” Even so,
Trump’s “job rating remains stable with nearly 90 percent of Republicans
approving of his job. And a majority of Americans remain confident in the
economy.” Politico
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(3/3, Vasquez) reported that in the poll, 41 percent of those surveyed
“said they would definitely or likely vote for Trump in 2020; 48 percent
said they would definitely or likely vote for the Democratic nominee
instead.”
CPAC Straw Poll Labels Biden As Biggest Challenge To Trump Reelection.

The Hill
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(3/2, Wong) reported “grass-roots activists at the annual Conservative
Political Action Conference” are “confident Donald Trump will win a second
term, but many attendees of the nation’s largest gathering of conservative
activists agreed that Joe Biden poses the greatest threat to the president
in 2020.” The Washington Times
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(3/2, Sherfinski, Dinan) reported that Biden “was the most feared opponent
by nearly 40 percent of voters” at CPAC, while “Sens. Bernard Sanders and
Kamala Harris were a distant second and third.” According to the Washington
Times/CPAC straw poll, “between 11 and 12 percent picked the two senators,
out of a list of more than 22 possible candidates.” The Times added that
ex-Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) “trailed far back in fourth place at 4.5
percent,” with other lagging even further behind.
Biden’s Lengthy Ruminations On A 2020 Run Have Ripple Effect On Democratic
Field.

Under the headline “Biden’s Hamlet Act Ripples Across 2020 Field,” Politico
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(3/4, Caputo) reports this morning, “The Democratic presidential primary is
waiting on Joe. Candidates-in-waiting admit former Vice President Joe Biden
is a factor in their decision-making. Democratic donors and bundlers are
sitting on their wallets,” and a “pool of seasoned campaign hands” are “in
wait-and-see mode, closely attuned to Biden’s next move. The shadow Biden
casts over the Democratic field is a sign of his stature within the party”
and “a reflection of the lane he would occupy if he chose to run. Biden’s
appeal to the white working class and moderates puts him squarely in the
path of” potential contenders such as ex-New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg (D) and ex-Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-VA), “coloring their
deliberations about the race. Biden said last week that he is ‘very close’
to a decision, and that it might come as early as April.”
The Hill: Biden Seeking To Lock In Donor Support Ahead Of Likely 2020 Run.

The Hill
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(3/3, Parnes) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden “is trying to
get donors to commit to his presidential campaign before launching a
much-anticipated bid in the coming weeks. Sources close to Biden expect him
to enter the race, but they say he is trying to get his fundraising in line
in an effort to start strong out of the gates.” The Hill quoted a “Biden
ally” as saying, “It’s a priority. If you don’t have a good second quarter
showing that could be problematic.” The Hill added that Biden “has been
making the rounds in recent weeks, calling donor after donor to earn their
support.” Biden “has a pitch: He explains how he intends to win in a
competitive Democratic Party and then go on to beat President Trump.” Those
“pitches for support from Biden are important, allies say, since
fundraising has been a weakness for the former vice president.”
Media Analyses: “Electability” Would Likely Be A Key Focus Of Biden Bid.

Writing for the Washington Post
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(3/2), Dan Balz said, that if former Vice President Joe Biden runs for
president, he “must count on electability as by far the paramount question
on the minds of voters – in the primaries and the general election –
because of [President] Trump.” Balz added, “The case he is likely to make,
if he runs, would focus on two aspects of electability. First, that a
majority of voters have grown weary of an experiment with a president who
came to office with no experience and whose tenure has produced nonstop
turmoil. Biden could argue that he has the experience to be president on
day one and the temperament to calm the nation. Second, and vitally
important, that he can win where Democrats must win to defeat Trump, in
Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(3/1, Hook) reported that Democratic voters currently “share one top
priority: Picking a nominee who will beat President Trump in 2020.”
Consequently, ahead of the fight for the Democratic presidential
nomination, “much of the debate seems certain to focus on the elusive
quality labeled ‘electability.’” The Times said that Biden would “likely
lean heavily on the case that his long experience makes the 76-year-old the
party’s safest bet to win the White House.” However, some “Democrats
believe the party must put up a candidate better equipped than” Biden “to
speak to and harness the energy of the younger generation of voters that
helped deliver victory to the party in the 2018 midterm elections.”

        Under the headline “Biden Leans Toward Another Run, While The Heart
Of His Party Has Shifted,” the Wall Street Journal
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(3/1, Thomas, Epstein) quoted ex-Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) as saying that
Biden “feels it is so important for the country that the Democrats nominate
someone who can win the election and end the Trump presidency. I believe
Joe feels like this is his time.”

        In their syndicated column that appears on, among others, the
website of the Greenville (NC) Daily Reflector
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(3/2), Eleanor Clift and Douglas Cohn write of a possible Biden bid, “There
are no great exposés coming out about him and his family. Will Democrats
place their confidence in the tried and true? It’s a gamble Biden appears
ready to make, and, as of now, the majority of his fellow citizens agree,
apparently driven by their desire to return honor, dignity, and experience
to the White House.”

        In a piece for the Cavalier Daily (VA)
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(3/4), “Viewpoint Writer” Thomas Driscoll says that “both the midterms in
2018 and Hillary Clinton’s failed Presidential campaign in 2016 have
demonstrated that Democrats will need to a nominee whose message and style
appeals to a broad and inclusive segment of the American electorate.
Instead of nominating someone who is merely idealistic, Democrats will need
to find a candidate capable of regaining the trust of the American
electorate and whose message will serve to provide a renewed sense of hope
and optimism in contrast to the current political climate. In short, what
Democrats will need the most in whoever they choose to nominate for
president is someone like...Biden,” whose “greatest strength has always
been his ability to relate with ‘middle America,’ a segment of the
electorate which overwhelmingly favored Trump in 2016 and ultimately cost
Clinton the election.”
WPost’s Rubin: Biden’s “Sensibility” Would Appeal To Voters.

In a blog post on the website of the Washington Post
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(3/3), Jennifer Rubin said that former Vice President Joe Biden “is not any
less committed to universal health care or anti-climate-change measures or
raising take-home pay for working-class families than others in the race.
What would set him apart is a certain wiliness and a sensibility that
voters, even those who oppose his policies, analogize to a pair of
comfortable shoes. The race could use someone who knows how one gets things
done (like Obamacare, he’ll tell voters) and some sense of proportion. When
Biden says, ‘We can fix these things’ or ‘We can do this,’ he reduces
problems to manageable size and offers the promise that solutions are
attainable.”
Brad Bannon: Experience Is Biden’s “Greatest Asset” And “Biggest Liability.”

In an op-ed for The Hill
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(3/3), Democratic pollster Brad Bannon said that in terms of foreign
policy, “Biden would be a steady hand in a tumultuous world after
[President] Trump’s erratic tenure. Biden has a wealth of experience in the
world arena,” which “is invaluable in a world full of threats to American
national security.” However, Bannon said that Biden’s “experience is his
greatest asset and his biggest liability,” adding that Biden “served 38
years as a US senator from Delaware and eight as Vice President,” working
“effectively within a system that most Americans don’t think works for
them.”
Carper Hoping Biden Enters 2020 Race.

In an online article, Delaware Public Media
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(3/3, Mueller) reported that Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) says he’s hoping former
Vice President Joe Biden enters the 2020 race for president. In an
interview, Carper said, “Hopefully Joe will listen to the voices of myself
and a bunch of other people. People say to me everyday ‘Do you think he’ll
run, do you think he’ll run?’ Around the country people say to me ‘Do you
think he’ll run?’ There’s a lot of support for him doing that.” Carper
“said he hears support for Biden across the country. ‘There’s a belief that
he could win and that he would bring civility in this country and unite our
country in a way that frankly we’re about ready for,’ he said.”
Warren Disagrees With Biden’s Assessment Of Pence As A “Decent Guy.”

The Des Moines (IA) Register
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(3/2, Hardy) reported that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-IA), campaigning in
Iowa, “criticized Vice President Mike Pence Saturday morning, saying he is
not a decent man because of his stance on LGBTQ rights.” A journalist
“asked Warren if she agreed with former Vice President Joe Biden’s recent
defense of Pence after the sitting veep received a cool reception at a
foreign policy summit in Munich.” Biden last week “characterized Pence as a
‘decent guy.’ ‘I’m sorry, I followed Pence’s history on LBGTQ Americans and
I don’t think that is a decent position,’ Warren said. ‘You don’t think the
vice president is a decent man?’ the reporter pressed. ‘No,’ Warren said.”

        Drawing from the Register story, the Huffington Post
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(3/3, Golgowski) reported on Warren’s remarks, then added that Biden “late
last week quickly sought to walk back his praise of Pence after called out
by former ‘Sex and the City’ star-turned-activist Cynthia Nixon. She
criticized him on Twitter and in a Washington Post op-ed
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(3/3) on Saturday for dishing out ‘hollow civility.’”

        *Cillizza Analyzes Flap Over Biden Remark. *In an online “analysis”
for CNN
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(3/1), Chris Cillizza identified what he said “are three things” Biden’s
remark abut Pence being a “decent guy” and his subsequent “apology” for the
comment “tells us: 1) Biden is a creature of a totally different political
time.” The comment is “a reflection of the general collegiality that
reigned in politics when Biden came up in the game.” Cillizza added, “2)
Biden is definitely running for president. ... 3) Biden is going to try to
placate the left.”
Writer Critical Of Hunter Biden’s Reported Equity Deal With China-Owned
Bank.

In a Daily Caller
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(3/2) op-ed, Take Back Our Republic Executive Director John Pudner
criticized what he described as said that ahead of “the release of Robert
Mueller’s report, it is worth noting the hypocrisy of many progressive
campaign reform advocates who ignore much more obvious pay-for-play
politics on the left, a major point when the nation debates whether Russia
meddled in the 2016 presidential election. Progressives lose credibility if
they fail to applaud President Trump’s company for returning the $191,538
in total profits it received from foreign officials using Trump properties,
or fail to criticize Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe
Biden, for not returning the $1.5 billion equity deal that Hunter
reportedly arranged with China’s state-owned bank as a joint investment
fund. Hunter, who runs Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, secured the deal in
2013 at the same time that President Xi Jinping was in Washington meeting
with his father.”
Daily Caller Says Biden Has “History Of Making Racially Charged Remarks.”

Writing for the Daily Caller
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(3/3), Peter Hasson highlighted what he said are examples of former Vice
President Joe Biden’s “history of making racially charged remarks.” For
example, Hasson said that Biden “expressed a separate-but-equal view toward
racial desegregation efforts in schools during a 1975 interview with US
News & World Report.” Biden “made similar arguments against busing in a
1975 NPR interview the Washington Examiner resurfaced in January. Biden
called busing ‘a rejection of the whole movement of black pride.’” And
speaking “with the Philadelphia Enquirer that same year, Biden praised
notorious segregationist George Wallace.”
CNN Analyst Likened Trump To Hitler Over A Phrase Identical To One Biden
Used In 2011.

Under the headline “CNN Analyst Compared Trump To Hitler For Something Joe
Biden Said First,” the Daily Caller
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(3/2, Kruta) reported, “CNN analyst Sam Vinograd claimed that part of
President Donald Trump’s CPAC speech on Saturday ‘made her sick.’ What she
failed to mention was that former Vice President Joe Biden had said it
first.” Vinograd said “that one line in particular, where the president
called for Americans to ‘reclaim our heritage,’ reminded her of Hitler.”
The DC added that Vinograd “also happens to be a senior advisor at the
Biden Institute – and what she left out was that the institute’s namesake,
Joe Biden, used that exact same call to action in a 2011 speech.” Townhall
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(3/3, Meads) reported, “In 2011, Biden told a crowd of people, ‘It’s time
to fight back! It’s time to reclaim our heritage!’” In an online article, Fox
News
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(3/3, Re) also reported on the story.
Cuomo Waiting On Biden’s Announcement Before Deciding On 2020 Run.

Writing for The Atlantic
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(2/28), Edward-Isaac Dovere said that in a January interview, he asked Gov.
Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), “Would you like to be president?” Dovere said that
Cuomo, responding to the question, “dodges it over and over by talking
about how much he wants to do his job as governor well. Finally he says,
Well, Joe Biden is running anyway.” Asked what he’d do if Biden doesn’t
enter the race, Cuomo replied, “Call me back.” Dovere added that Cuomo is
“waiting on Biden. Other than that, Cuomo clearly thinks he has a stronger
case to make than any of the people running right now. But not so strong
that he’s ready to actually make it.”
Sanders Officially Launches 2020 Presidential Campaign.

The New York Times
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(3/2, Ember) reported “many of the words” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) “used
in Brooklyn on Saturday as he kicked off his second run for president were
familiar: ‘revolution,’ ‘economic justice,’ ‘prison-industrial complex.’
But one word was not: ‘I.’” The Times said that “during his last
presidential campaign, and throughout his political career, Mr. Sanders has
offered a policy-focused message almost entirely devoid of personal
details. At Saturday’s rally, however, he did something new: He talked
about himself.”

        The Washington Post
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(3/2, Sullivan) similarly reported that Sanders made a “new emphasis on his
life story, a strategy designed to help him stand out from his Democratic
rivals and President Trump.” The Post added that Sanders “highlighted the
financial strains his family faced during his childhood, his father’s
flight from poverty and anti-Semitism in Poland and his own involvement in
the civil rights movement.” Sanders also “sought to contrast his upbringing
with Trump’s, saying, he ‘did not have a father who gave me millions of
dollars to build luxury skyscrapers, casinos and country clubs.’” The CBS
Weekend News
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(3/2, story 4, 0:45, Ninan) and NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(3/2, story 11, 0:20, Alexander) provided similar coverage in brief
broadcasts.

        *Sanders Seeks To Retain Control Over Campaign. *The New York Times
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(3/1, Ember, Martin) reports that as he makes his second White House run,
Sanders “is at least attempting to mount a different kind of campaign.” The
Times said that “even as he builds a more sophisticated and modern
organization, Mr. Sanders’s iconoclasm and possessiveness over his brand of
democratic socialism has created turmoil in his own ranks.” However, “in
interviews over the last week, his aides and advisers said” Sanders “has
consented to some strategic changes as he tries to win over a party that in
the Trump era is not singularly focused on economic inequality.”
Hickenlooper Announces 2020 Bid.

The AP
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(3/4, Riccardi) reports that ex-Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) this morning
announced a 2020 bid for president, “casting himself as a can-do uniter who
is used to overcoming adversity and accomplishing liberal goals in a
politically divided state. ‘I’m running for president because we need
dreamers in Washington, but we also need to get things done,’ Hickenlooper,
66, said in a video announcing his campaign. ‘I’ve proven again and again I
can bring people together to produce the progressive change Washington has
failed to deliver.’”

        The Denver Post
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(3/4, Garcia) reports that in the video, Hickenlooper framed “himself as a
proven leader with a list of progressive policy wins. ‘I’m running for
president because we’re facing a crisis that threatens everything we stand
for,’ Hickenlooper says in a taped announcement while the image of
President Donald Trump flashes across the screen.” The Washington Post
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(3/3, Weigel) reports that in announcing his bid, Hickenlooper touted “his
accomplishments in a state that moved to the left during his” two terms as
governor. He “presided over steady economic growth, the legalization of
marijuana – which he initially opposed – and a surge that put Democrats in
full control of a once-conservative state.”

        Politico
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(3/4, McCaskill) reports, “After a kickoff rally in Denver on Thursday,
Hickenlooper’s next stop as a presidential candidate will be a two-day tour
through Iowa.” He “begins at a disadvantage there, with low name
recognition and a smaller campaign infrastructure than most rivals.”
However, “Iowa Democrats say there’s precedent for a candidate like
Hickenlooper to do well in the caucuses – only it was nearly a half-century
ago, when then-Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter was largely unknown before he
finished ahead of the four other candidates here in 1976.” The Los Angeles
Times
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(3/4, Stokols) reports that Hickenlooper’s “strategists hope to build on”
his “identity as a non-Washington candidate in a field heavy with
Washington figures. Even that distinction will have to be shared, however,
as” Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) entered the presidential race “on Friday,
becoming the first governor to join the race.”
Inslee Launches Presidential Campaign Focused On Climate Change.

The New York Times
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(3/1, Johnson) reported that Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) on Friday “jumped into
the crowded field of 2020 Democratic contenders for president.” The Times
said that “in a video released by his campaign titled ‘Our Moment,’ Mr.
Inslee spares no time getting to his core environmental message, with the
word ‘climate,’ mentioned at least 10 times in just over 80 seconds.” To
the Washington Post
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(3/1, Wagner), Inslee “made it clear that his bid would be built largely
around” fighting climate change, which he called “the most urgent challenge
of our time.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(3/1, Epstein) said Inslee becomes the 13th Democrat to jump into the 2020
campaign for president, while the CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(3/1, story 5, 0:25, Mason) briefly reported that he is the first governor
to join the race.

        Inslee discussed his plan to address climate change during a Sunday
appearance on ABC’s This Week
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(3/3), saying, “We’re the optimists in this debate and we know we can
invent and create and build a clean energy economy. We know we can do that,
because we’re doing it in my state where we built the wind turbine industry
from $0 to $6 billion in 12 years. My legislature passed my 100 percent
clean grid bill. We’re making progress like crazy in my state, but what we
need is a president to do what presidents do, which is to blow the bugle
and really call the country to a higher mission. ... We’re growing jobs in
all kinds of sectors because of my clean energy development fund, a $100
million fund that we have. We are putting people to work in software,
dealing with the integration of batteries, new battery technology.”

        In an editorial, the Wall Street Journal
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(3/1) said Inslee’s 2020 bid seems to be mostly an attempt to draw
attention to climate change, rather than a viable attempt to win the
presidency.
California Paid $1.1M In Settlements In Harassment, Retaliation Claims
While Harris Was State AG.

“The California Department of Justice paid more than $1.1 million to settle
claims with employees who alleged they were sexually harassed or retaliated
against by co-workers during the tenure of then-state Atty. Gen. Kamala
Harris from 2011 to 2017, according to documents obtained by” the Los
Angeles Times
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(3/1, Mai-Duc). The Times said that the disclosures “come weeks after
Harris launched her presidential bid, bringing new scrutiny to her record.”
The Times added that “the incidents included allegations that DOJ employees
sexually harassed and retaliated against co-workers, including claims
involving inappropriate touching and cases in which workers felt
uncomfortable with the comments and actions of others.” However, “Harris, a
Democrat who was elected to the Senate in 2016, did not know about the
cases settled by the DOJ until they were brought to her attention by The
Times, said her spokesman, Chris Harris.”
Bloomberg Aides Interviewing For Staff In Iowa, New Hampshire Ahead Of
Possible 2020 Bid.

Sources told CNBC
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(3/1, Schwartz) that ex-New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s (D) “closest
advisors have been interviewing potential aides in early caucus and primary
states as the billionaire considers a 2020 run for president.” A source
stated, “Bloomberg has the money and smart people around him, but they’re
preparing to build a larger campaign apparatus to compete against the other
2020 candidates if he decides to run.”
Democratic Presidential Contenders Mark Anniversary Of “Bloody Sunday” In
Selma.

NBC Nightly News
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(3/3, story 11, 0:25, Snow) reported, “This was an emotional day in Selma,
Alabama. Activists and politicians gathered, despite the rain, to mark the
54th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday.’ That’s when peaceful demonstrators
were beaten as they marched for civil rights across the Edmund Pettus
Bridge back in 1965. Today, Hillary Clinton, Senator Cory Booker, and the
Reverend Jesse Jackson were among those who linked arms to follow in their
footsteps.” ABC World News Tonight
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(3/3, story 9, 0:25, Llamas) offered a similar report.

        The Washington Post
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(3/3, Viser) reports that Booker, a presidential candidate, wasn’t the only
2020 contender to appear in Selma. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), an announced
candidate, and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), who is mulling a bid, also took
part in “the day’s events.” The AP
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=031-dc2&t=c>
(3/3, Whack) reports that during a Sunday address at Brown Chapel AME
Church in Selma, Booker spoke “of a looming threat to American democracy
and called for protecting the legacy of the civil rights movement with love
and action.” Said Booker, “It’s time for us to defend the dream. It’s time
that we dare to dream again in America. That is what it takes to make
America great. It is up to us to do the work that makes the dream real.”

        Reuters
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(3/3, Jackson) reports that in his speech, Booker said “that the United
States is still failing many Americans, citing poverty and gun violence as
constant threats.” Said Booker, “We live in a nation that is failing its
moral obligations to its children, to its people.” The Washington Examiner
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=033-3e9&t=c>
(3/3, Lim) reports that during his speech, Booker “responded to a
congregation member who shouted that” Hillary Clinton, Democrats’ “2016
presidential nominee, ‘won’ the 2016 election against President Trump. ‘She
got more votes,’” Booker “replied, referring to Clinton’s popular vote
victory. ‘She got more votes.’”

        *Clinton Says Absence Of Parts Of Voting Rights Act Contributed To
Her Loss To Trump. *The Washington Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=034-d3c&t=c>
(3/3) reports that Hillary Clinton, speaking Sunday at Brown Chapel AME
Church, said “that the absence of crucial parts” of “the Voting Rights Act
contributed to her 2016 defeat to Donald Trump. The Supreme Court in 2013
struck down a part of the law that required the Justice Department to
scrutinize states with a history of racial discrimination in voting.
Congress has yet to address the issue. She said ‘it makes a really big
difference.’”

        *WPost’s Tumulty: Booker Setting Himself Apart With “Appeal To Our
Better Selves.” *In her Washington Post
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(3/3) column, Karen Tumulty says, “In the most acrid and divisive political
environment in recent memory...Booker is gambling his presidential hopes on
the unlikely proposition that it is still possible to summon people to
grace.” In campaign speeches, says Tumulty, Booker “weaves a spellbinding
argument with his call to unity and collective decency.” Tumulty adds that
Booker’s “appeal to our better selves sets him apart in a combative
Democratic field. ... And he stands in even sharper contrast from the utter
lack of grace that has defined the presidency of the White House’s current
occupant.”
WPost A1: Centrist Democrats Pushing Against Far-Left Policies Ahead Of
2020.

Centrist Democrats “are beginning to push back against the wave of liberal
energy and shoot-the-moon policy ideas that have captured the party’s
imagination over the last two months,” the Washington Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=036-999&t=c>
(3/1, Debonis) reported on its front page. The Post said the push-back
comes amid worries the policies “could alienate centrist voters in the 2020
election.” Targeted policies include “Medicare for All,” with some
centrists warning the issue is a non-starter in Congress and proposing
alternatives including lowering the age for Medicare eligibility.

        *Ahead Of 2020, Some Pennsylvania Democrats Worry About Party’s
Leftward Lurch. *The New York Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=037-9b2&t=c>
(3/3, Gabriel) reported that despite a strong 2018 cycle for Democrats in
Pennsylvania, “there are widespread worries that the momentum” there, “and
in other key Rust Belt states, could screech to a halt if the issues in the
2020 presidential primaries and the party’s eventual nominee stray too far
left for the region’s many centrist voters.” Said ex-Gov. Ed Rendell
(D-PA), a former DNC chief, “The more we have presidential candidates or
newly elected congresspeople talking about the Green New Deal, talking
about ‘Medicare for all,’ talking about socialism, the more that plays into
the Trump campaign’s hands.”

        In his New York Times
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(3/3) column, David Leonhardt writes, “The energy in the 2020 Democratic
campaign has been coming from the left,” with contenders “pushing Medicare
for All, a Green New Deal, a wealth tax and other ideas that are more
progressive than anything a recent Democratic nominee has favored. Much of
this shift — which has been focused on economic policy — is smart,” as “the
American public leans decidedly left on economics.” However, “there are
also risks in the Democrats’ move to the left.” Polling “suggests that the
2020 Democratic field would benefit from more candidates who made an effort
to appeal to both the left and the center. ... I understand why the
Democrats have been focusing their attention on the left. It has a newfound
– and welcome – energy. But the best strategy for beating Trump in 2020
doesn’t involve only the left. And beating Trump is terribly important.”
WPost A1: 2020 Democrats Prioritize Black Voter Outreach.

In a front-page article, the Washington Post
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(3/2, A1, Viser, Wootson) reports that “in the early stages of the 2020
Democratic presidential contest, one with a historically diverse field,
including” Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) “as prominent
African American candidates, black voters have quickly become a highly
sought-after electoral prize.” According to the Post, “The courtship is
playing out in complex ways throughout the early voting states, a dynamic
that will become more visible Sunday as several candidates appear in Selma,
Ala., taking part in a remembrance of Bloody Sunday, when civil rights
marchers in 1965 were viciously attacked by police as they crossed the
Edmund Pettus Bridge.” The Post adds “Booker will speak at a church, and,
in a twist, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will attend a ‘unity breakfast’
honoring Hillary Clinton, despite ongoing tensions between their two camps.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who’s contemplating a presidential run, is
also attending; Harris, who attended last year, won’t be at the event.”
Leading the News
Trump Claims “Presidential Harassment” As Democrats Step Up Investigations.

President Trump blasted the ongoing Russia investigation in a barrage of
tweets throughout the day on Sunday. In a pair of tweets
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early Sunday, Trump wrote, “After more than two years of Presidential
Harassment, the only things that have been proven is that Democrats and
other broke the law. The hostile Cohen testimony, given by a liar to reduce
his prison time, proved no Collusion! His just written book manuscript
showed what he ...
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=03b-4bc&t=c>
said was a total lie, but Fake Media won’t show it. I am an innocent man
being persecuted by some very bad, conflicted & corrupt people in a Witch
Hunt that is illegal & should never have been allowed to start – And only
because I won the Election! Despite this, great success!”

        In another tweet
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Sunday, Trump highlighted comments from Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), writing,
“‘Look how they’re acting now and how we act when we’re in the majority.
What the Democrats are doing is an abuse of power. They couldn’t find
anything...they took a Fake Dossier & couldn’t find any Collusion. Now they
have a fake witness in Cohen.’ Congressman Mark Green, (R-TN).” Later in
the day, Trump tweeted
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=03d-746&t=c>,
“Presidential Harassment by ‘crazed’ Democrats at the highest level in the
history of our Country. Likewise, the most vicious and corrupt Mainstream
Media that any president has ever had to endure – Yet the most successful
first two years for any ...
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=03e-2e1&t=c>
President. We are WINNING big, the envy of the WORLD, but just think what
it could be?”

        Late Sunday afternoon, Trump tweeted
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=03f-369&t=c>,
“For the Democrats to interview in open hearings a convicted liar &
fraudster, at the same time as the very important Nuclear Summit with North
Korea, is perhaps a new low in American politics and may have contributed
to the ‘walk.’ Never done when a president is overseas. Shame!”

        In addition, Trump replied to a tweet
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=040-4de&t=c>
from Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal, who posted a press
release
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=041-6d8&t=c>
from House Minority Leader McCarthy in which he questions an effort by
House Democrats to change the House rules and poses some questions to House
Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff concerning his panel’s questioning of
Michael Cohen. Strassel wrote, “These questions from @GOPLeader for
@RepAdamSchiff deserve attention and answers. Schiff looks to be doing a
whole lot of freelancing. Voters deserve to know why he is communicating in
secret with witnesses/subjects in investigations.” In his reply, Trump wrote
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=042-89b&t=c>,
“And also illegally leaking to Fake News CNN & others?”

        Trump retweeted
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a post from Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist who wrote, “Man,
conservatives haven’t been this united on Twitter since the Kavanaugh
confirmation!” as well as a reply
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=044-d79&t=c>
from one of his followers, who wrote, “President Trump made America great
again! #MAGA Now it’s up to us to help him keep America great. #KAG
#TRUMP2020”. Trump also retweeted
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a post by RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, who wrote, “I completely agree
with Kevin McCarthy. While @realDonaldTrump was in Vietnam, Democrats were
making bogus attacks back in DC.”

        The Hill
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=046-281&t=c>
(3/3, Conradis) highlights some of Trump’s tweets in a brief story, while
the Washington Times
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(3/3, Howell) says Trump “fumed at the people probing every aspect of his
life shortly after” House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler said his panel
“planned to request documents from 60 people close to Mr. Trump’s inner
circle.” Similarly, the Washington Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=048-8c1&t=c>
(3/3, Bade) says Trump “lashed out anew” at the investigation following the
comments from Nadler, who Reuters
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=049-bb7&t=c>
(3/3, Ahmann) reports told ABC’s This Week[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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(3/3) Sunday that his panel will seek to obtain documents from the
Department of Justice, President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and Trump
Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg “as it begins investigations into
possible obstruction of justice and abuse of power” by the President.
Nadler said, “We are going to initiate investigations into abuses of power,
into corruption...and into obstruction of justice. ... It’s our job to
protect the rule of law. ... It’s very clear that the President obstructed
justice.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(3/3, Ballhaus, Volz) reports Nadler said his committee would also request
documents from the President’s son Eric, and senior White House advisers
Jared Kushner and his wife, the President’s daughter, Ivanka. In addition,
the panel could seek documents from Rhona Graff, the President’s assistant
at the Trump Organization, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly,
and former White House counsel Don McGahn. The New York Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=04c-f77&t=c>
(3/3, Thrush, Fandos) reports Nadler “said...that he planned to request
documents from more than 60 people with ties to President Trump” with a
goal of presenting “the case to the American people about obstruction of
justice, corruption and abuse of power.” Nadler also said it would be an
“impeachable offense” if Trump participated in an effort to “sabotage a
fair election,” but he warned, “impeachment is a long way down the road.
... We don’t have the facts yet.” The AP
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=04d-7cd&t=c>
(3/3, Yen) says Nadler “isn’t calling the inquiry an impeachment
investigation but said House Democrats, now in the majority, are simply
doing ‘our job to protect the rule of law.’”

        Politico
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(3/3, Vasquez) reports House Minority Leader McCarthy, also appearing on ABC’s
This Week
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(3/3), said Nadler “decided to impeach the President the day the President
won the election. ... Nadler is setting the framework now that the
Democrats are not to believe the Mueller report. They’re now saying we have
to do our own investigation.”

        Meanwhile, Errol Barnett said on the CBS Evening News[image: Image
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(3/3, story 4, 1:40, Begnaud) the “blistering testimony from the
President’s former fixer Michael Cohen before the House Oversight Committee
has given Democrats a road map for expanding their oversight investigation
into Mr. Trump’s business practices,” and Tara Palmeri said on ABC World
News Tonight
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=051-c64&t=c>
(3/3, story 2, 1:50, Llamas) that House Democrats are “preparing to launch
a sweeping investigation, deep into the President and his inner circle.”

        The Washington Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=052-82c&t=c>
(3/3, Jalonick) describes Democrats as “emboldened by their new majority,”
and says they are “undertaking several broad new investigations into
President Donald Trump and setting the stage for a post-Robert Mueller
world.” Democrats “in charge of a half-dozen House committees are planning
to flood the administration with document requests, calls for testimony and
even subpoenas if necessary. The investigations reach far beyond Mueller’s
focus of Russian interference and collusion in the 2016 campaign.” Bloomberg
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=053-642&t=c>
(3/3, Niquette, Strohm) says House Democrats are “gearing up for
investigations and hearings that they say will go beyond whatever Mueller
finds in his investigation” including, “contacts with Russia and questions
about foreign funding for the Trump Organization and the president’s
inaugural committee.” House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff told CBS’
Face The Nation
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=054-de0&t=c>
(3/3) Sunday that it would be “perilous” for the country “if questions
about Trump’s finances were ignored.” Schiff “cited concerns about the
proposed Trump skyscraper development in Moscow that Trump was pursuing
during the presidential campaign, and allegations of Russians laundering
money through the Trump Organization that are being investigated.” He said,
“There are any number of witnesses that can shed light on whether America’s
national security is compromised because the President has been pursuing
financial interests with the Russians.”

        The Washington Examiner
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=055-5b5&t=c>
(3/3, Jativa) reports Schiff also told CBS’ Face The Nation[image: Image
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<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=056-541&t=c>
(3/3) there is “direct evidence” of collusion between the Trump campaign
and Russia. Schiff said, “I think there is direct evidence in the e-mails
from the Russians through their intermediary offering dirt on Hillary
Clinton as part of what is described in writing as the Russian government
effort to help elect Donald Trump. They offer that dirt. There is an
acceptance of that offer in writing from the President’s son Don Jr. and
there is overt acts in furtherance of that. ... That is the meeting at
Trump Tower and all the lies to cover up that meeting at the Trump Tower
and apparently lies that the President participated in. That, to me, is
direct evidence, but there’s also abundant circumstantial evidence.”

        Similarly, Politico
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=057-f80&t=c>
(3/3, Tamborrino) reports Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the top Democrat on the
Senate Intelligence Committee, told NBC’s Meet The Press[image: Image
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(3/3) Sunday that lawmakers have found “enormous amounts of evidence” of
possible collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia. Warner told CNN’s
State Of The Union
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=059-ac0&t=c>
(3/3) that “we have this whole question where, again, Mr. Cohen put out the
fact that he believes that Mr. Trump knew about the meeting in Trump tower
that included Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, the campaign manager, Paul
Manafort. Clearly a meeting that was not about Russian adoptions but what
about the idea of turning over dirt on Hillary Clinton. You add that on top
of Paul Manafort giving campaign materials. So anyone that says there’s no
evidence of collaboration, there’s plenty of evidence. The question is,
what kind of full conclusion do we reach, and I’m going to reserve my
judgment on that conclusion until we finish our investigation.”

        Julie Pace of the AP said on CNN’s Inside Politics[image: Image
removed by sender. Video]
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=05a-a26&t=c>
(3/3), “The Mueller report has hung over this White House for months. But
they are now having to come to grips with the reality that once that is
done, that doesn’t end these legal questions around him. If anything, I
think the Southern District investigations are his greater problem. It
seems to more directly touch his business, his associates, and potentially
Trump himself. That doesn’t mean there won’t be something in the Mueller
report that won’t be damaging to him. We just don’t know. That ultimately
is more of a political question, probably for Congress. But this is a
President, I think, who is having to come to grips with the fact that the
next two years of his presidency are going to continue to look probably
even worse in terms of these legal questions than the first two.”

        Toluse Olorunnipa of the Washington Post said on CNN’s Inside
Politics
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=05b-b2b&t=c>
(3/3), “Think about all the different crimes that Michael Cohen alleged the
President engaged in. ... There are a number of different areas where
Democrats can pull on those strings and decide how much they want to
investigate. I think that even after Robert Mueller wraps up his report and
says whether or not there was Russia collusion, you are going to have
Democrats in Congress spending months if not years, investigating all of
those various areas, getting the President’s tax returns, which may even
provide more information about other things the President might have done
as a businessman. So he’s in for sort of a world of hurt when it comes to
the Democratic investigations.”

        *Bloomberg Analysis: Mueller Report Will Start An “Explosive Chain
Of Events.” *Bloomberg
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(3/3, Strohm, Liebert) reports in an analysis that when special counsel
Robert Mueller submits his final report, it will touch off “an explosive
chain of events,” including “a struggle in Congress, on cable TV and social
media and probably in the courts over how much must be disclosed from what
will begin as a secret report” to Attorney General Barr. Moreover, there
will be “an epic political fight over whether the findings implicate
President Donald Trump in wrongdoing that may even merit his impeachment,
as some Democrats say, or clear him after a 21-month investigation that he
and other Republicans call a ‘witch hunt.’”

        *Stone Suggests Mueller “Framed” Him. *CNBC
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(3/3, Mangan) reports on its website that Roger Stone, in an Instagram post
Sunday “that appeared to run afoul” of a judge’s gag order barring him from
criticizing the prosecutors in the case against him, “suggested” he was
“framed” by special counsel Robert Mueller. Stone “deleted the only image
in that multi-image post that included ‘Who framed Roger Stone’ language
shortly after CNBC emailed his lawyer to ask about it.”

        *Khanna: Southern District Investigation Could Be Trump’s Biggest
Legal Problem. *Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said on MSNBC’s AM Joy[image: Image
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(3/3), “It’s important for people to understand the President did this as
President. This is not going after the President’s financial records before
he assumed the office. This is the President sitting in the Oval Office
writing checks personally to Michael Cohen and directing a conspiracy with
Alan Weisselberg and his son Donald Trump, Jr., to cook the books and
reimburse Michael Cohen and it goes on for a year while he’s President.
It’s deeply concerning. The Southern District of New York’s investigation
is perhaps where the President is in the greatest legal jeopardy.”

        *Nunes Wants To Interview 32 People About 2016 Campaign. *The
Washington
Examiner
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(3/3, Chaitin) reports Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the top Republican on the
House Intelligence Committee, “has a tall list of people he still wants to
interview about the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton, and the Russian
interference. The list of 32 names has been submitted to the Democratic
majority of the panel, and includes the likes of Sidney Blumenthal, a key
Clinton ally, former Clinton adviser Jake Sullivan, and Robby Mook,
Clinton’s 2016 campaign chairman.” Nunes told Fox News’ Sunday Morning
Futures
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(3/3) Sunday “it is imperative to speak with them because of their ties to
the infamous Trump dossier.” Said Nunes, “Why would people in the Clinton
campaign be tweeting out messages about [President] Trump’s involvement
with Russia? It’s because they had the dossier. They were promoting this
message, this dirt, out there in 2016, and we need to ask these Clinton
campaign people where they got it from.”
Foreign Policy
Trump Suggests Cohen Hearing Contributed To North Korea “Walk.”

Bloomberg
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(3/4, Sebenius) reports President Trump said Sunday that the House hearing
of his former lawyer Michael Cohen “contributed to his decision to walk
away from negotiations with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, in a new explanation
for the collapsed talks between the leaders.” Trump tweeted
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=062-ca8&t=c>,
“For the Democrats to interview in open hearings a convicted liar &
fraudster, at the same time as the very important Nuclear Summit with North
Korea, is perhaps a new low in American politics and may have contributed
to the ‘walk.’ Never done when a president is overseas. Shame!” Bloomberg
says “Trump’s account on Sunday differed from his explanation last week,
when the president said that he walked out of talks with Kim because the
North Korean leader’s request for sanctions relief was unacceptable.”

        Earlier Sunday, Reuters
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(3/3, Spetalnick) reports, Trump tweeted
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“the reason he wanted to curb military drills with South Korea was to save
the United States hundreds of millions of dollars in costs, and suggested
it could also reduce tensions with North Korea.” Wrote Trump, “The reason I
do not want military drills with South Korea is to save hundreds of
millions of dollars for the U.S. for which we are not reimbursed. That was
my position long before I became President. Also, reducing tensions with
North Korea at this time is a good thing!”

        *Bolton Touts Summit As “A Success.” *Geoff Bennet reported on NBC
Nightly News
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(3/3, story 4, 2:10, Snow) that National Security Adviser Bolton is
“defending the dramatic collapse” of Trump’s summit with Kim, saying that
he considers the summit “a success.” Bennett said Bolton is “downplaying
concerns that the President walked away empty-handed,” saying, “He’s not
desperate for a deal, not with North Korea, not with anybody, if it’s
contrary to American national interest.” To the AP
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(3/3, Freking), Bolton “tried to make that case that Trump advanced
America’s national security interests by rejecting a bad agreement while
working to persuade Kim to take ‘the big deal that really could make a
difference for North Korea.’”

        The Washington Post
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(3/3, Sonmez) reports Bolton said the President “was right not to make a
deal that wasn’t in the best interests of the United States.” Bolton told Fox
News Sunday
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(3/3), “I don’t agree at all that it was a failed summit. I think the
obligation of the President of the United States is to defend and advance
American national security interests. And I think he did that by rejecting
a bad deal and by trying again to persuade Kim Jong-un to take the big deal
that really could make a difference for North Korea.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(3/3, Jativa) reports Bolton also told Fox News, “What North Korea has done
consistently in the past is promised to denuclearize and then, by the way,
not do it to get economic benefits which will provide their economy a
lifeline, get them out of the trouble they’re in and allow them to go back
to the nuclear program. That kind of mistake is exactly what President
Trump said he would not permit in his administration.”

        The Washington Times
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(3/3, Meier) reports Bolton told CBS’ Face The Nation[image: Image removed
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(3/3) that the President is “ready to keep talking” with North Korea and
“is fully prepared to keep negotiating at lower levels or to speak to Kim
Jong-un again when it’s appropriate.” Politico
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(3/3, Tamborrino) reports Bolton told CNN’s State Of The Union[image: Image
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(3/3), “I think it was unquestionably a success for the United States
because the President protected, defended American interests. ... I think
he made a very important point to North Korea and to other countries around
the world about negotiating with him. He’s not desperate for a deal – not
with North Korea, not with anybody – if it’s contrary to American national
interests.”

        In an interview with USA Today
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(3/3, Shesgreen), Secretary of State Pompeo “also rejected the idea
that...Trump’s summit with the North Korean dictator had resulted in
stalemate and said the Trump administration would not resume joint military
exercises with South Korea.” Pompeo, it says, “reacted angrily” when asked
about the North Korean foreign minister’s statement, made hours after the
talks dissolved, that the offer Kim made in Hanoi was final. Said Pompeo,
“That’s not what the North Koreans said. ... What they said is they’re
prepared to continue conversations with us and that’s what we intend to
do.”

        Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures[image:
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(3/3), said, “I think the President is doing the right thing by trying to
figure out how we make our country safer by sitting down with him, saying
you need to denuclearize and this is why you and your citizens will be in a
better position. Now in business, you know that you have to walk away from
deals a lot. That’s the way it happens often before you get the deal you
have to walk away from it. I think the President did the right thing. He
walked away because he’s not getting what he wanted out of the deal and I’m
proud of him for doing that.”

        On CBS’ Face The Nation
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(3/3), Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said, “The President did give up a great
deal by going to that summit, by enhancing Kim Jong-un’s prestige on the
world stage, by giving up those military exercises in the last summit, and
getting nothing for it. And this is, I think, the result of a President who
is not prepared for these kinds of negotiations, a staff that is not well
prepared and that is essentially flying by the seat of its pants and has
real world consequences those reactors continue to spin on as you point out
producing more material that can threaten us and our allies, and I think
that this was a spectacular failure but made all the worse by the
President’s obsequious comments when it came to the murder of an American
citizen Otto Warmbier.”

        Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune said on Fox News’ MediaBuzz[image:
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(3/3), “I hope [Trump] has learned a lesson: prepare yourself. Whether it’s
personal or group or delegation, you need to prepare yourself before the
big event occurs, and know pretty well what’s going to happen before it
happens. I think both Trump and Kim misjudged what was going to happen. And
I think Trump did the right thing to walk away from a bad deal.”

        Lisa Lerer of the New York Times said on CNN’s Inside Politics[image:
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(3/3) that Trump “ran his business for decades based on personal
relationships. ... Now, that’s how he views these negotiations. But, in
fact, it’s not the same, right? He’s not cutting a deal with his pal Kim
Jong-un. He’s negotiating on behalf of the United States of America. That’s
a very different thing and that does require...this delicate balance
between the personal dynamic that you may have with the leader and what is
in the best interest of the entire country and the people who elected you
to represent them. And that’s a distinction we’ve seen get blurred quite a
bit.”

        Toluse Olorunnipa of the Washington Post said on CNN’s Inside
Politics
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(3/3), “The President is stroking the ego of a brutal dictator and he
doesn’t have much to show for that over the last year. The President and
Kim Jong-un have been trading love letters to one another for the past year
but during that time, yes, we know there haven’t been missile tests but the
North Koreans have not broken down their nuclear program. They have not
allowed inspectors in. There’s a lot of credible reporting that shows that
they are continuing to develop their program covertly, and the President is
seemingly sort of casting aside all of the intelligence that he gets from
our intelligence agencies to listen to Kim Jong-un and just believe or at
least try to get the American people to believe that he’s done what no
other President has done. We’ve not really seen very much progress.”

        *Bolton: North Korea Should Give “Full Accounting” Of What Happened
To Warmbier. *NBC Nightly News
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(3/3, story 4, 2:10, Snow) said Bolton also addressed Trump’s comments on
Otto Warmbier, who returned to the US in a coma and died after 17 months in
a North Korean prison. Said Bolton, “When he says I’m going to take him at
his word, it doesn’t mean that he accepts it as reality. It means that he
accepts that’s what Kim Jong-un said.”

        USA Today
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(3/3, Cummings) reports Bolton said North Korea should give a “full
accounting of what happened” to Warmbier while in the regime’s custody and
said Trump “made it very clear he considers what happened to Otto Warmbier
an act of brutality that’s completely unacceptable to the American side.”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(3/3, story 3, 0:40, Palmeri) reported that over the weekend, Trump himself
defended his handling of the situation in regards to Warmbier, saying, “I’m
in such a horrible position because, in one way, I have to negotiate. In
the other way, I love Mr. and Mrs. Warmbier, and I love Otto. And it’s a
very, very delicate balance.”
Pompeo: Trump Confronting Obama’s Foreign Policy Failures.

In an “exclusive interview Saturday” with USA Today
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(3/3, Shesgreen), Secretary of State Pompeo “blasted the Obama
administration repeatedly” for its foreign policies. Said Pompeo, “Each of
the problems that we’ve spoken about today...the Obama administration did
nothing to address any of them.” Pompeo added, “We have taken these on in a
serious way, and they are difficult problems.” On Venezuela, “Pompeo said
the Trump administration has made progress in addressing the political and
humanitarian crisis there,” but “he would not say if the US was working
with [interim President Juan] Guaido on his return.” On Afghanistan, Pompeo
stressed, “We are working to get a reconciliation agreement that will be
good for every Afghan – men, women, children.” Asked about China, “Pompeo
said the Trump administration is making good progress in its trade
negotiations.” He also “sharply rejected any suggestion that the talks were
taking a long time to produce a deal, pivoting again to Trump’s
predecessor.”
Reports: US, China Close To Trade Deal.

Citing two unnamed sources, Bloomberg
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=078-197&t=c>
(3/3, Leonard) reports the US and China are “close to a trade deal that
could lift most or all US tariffs as long as Beijing follows through on
pledges ranging from better protecting intellectual-property rights to
buying a significant amount of American products.” The sources said “one of
the remaining sticking points is whether the tariffs would be lifted
immediately or over a period of time to allow the US to monitor whether
China is meeting its obligations.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(3/3, Wei, Davis) likewise reports that a deal is close, but says sources
cautioned that hurdles remain in the talks. According to sources, the deal
would include an agreement by China’s state-owned China Petroleum &
Chemical Corp., known as Sinopec, to buy $18 billion of liquefied natural
gas from Texas-based Cheniere. The CNBC
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=07a-2d3&t=c>
(3/3, Mangan) website also reports the story, citing Bloomberg and the
Journal.

        The New York Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=07b-2b8&t=c>
(3/3, Swanson, Bradsher) reports the deal “would roll back tariffs on both
sides of the Pacific but may do little to achieve the substantive changes
to China’s economy that the United States initially set out to win, people
with knowledge of the talks said.” According to the sources, the agreement
“under discussion would expand markets for American financial services
firms and farmers, in part by requiring that China buy large amounts of
energy and farm goods, like liquid natural gas and soybeans. But early
details indicate it would do little to substantively change the way China
has long done business and would not force Beijing to curtail cybertheft or
the subsidies that the administration complains create an uneven playing
field for American companies.”
Bolton Discusses Fight Against ISIS In Syria.

National Security Adviser Bolton discussed the situation with ISIS on CNN’s
State Of The Union
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(3/3). Bolton said, “We’re talking about an area the size of Central Park
in New York. And the negotiations have been under way to let some
noncombatants out, some of the ISIS fighters want to visit Allah. That’s
what they’re there to do. And the Syrian opposition is about to accommodate
them. But we’re talking about an insignificant piece of real estate here,
and it will happen very, very soon.”

        Asked “whether the US would put captured fighters on trial, Bolton
said, ‘It’s a possibility, but we’re not eager to simply pick up that
responsibility. We think that others have the responsibility, too, and
that’s the approach we’re taking,’” Bloomberg
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=07d-755&t=c>
(3/3, Czuczka) reports. The Administration “is seeking to conclude a deal
on the region’s status partly so the captives could remain imprisoned in
northeastern Syria ‘for the foreseeable future,’” Bolton added. According
to Bloomberg, “The fate of the estimated 800 to 1,000 captives taken by
Kurdish militias in northeastern Syria has been a sore point since
President Donald Trump tweeted in February that the UK, France, Germany and
other European countries should ‘take back over 800 ISIS fighters” or “we
will be forced to release them.’”
American-Born ISIS Spouse Says She Has Right To Return To US.

The CBS Weekend News
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=07e-1fc&t=c>
(3/3, story 9, 2:20, Begnaud) interviewed ISIS spouse Hoda Muthana, an
American-born woman who joined ISIS five years ago and is now asking to
return to the US. According to CBS, while Muthana was born in New Jersey,
“the Trump Administration does not consider her a citizen.” Muthana told
CBS, “I know I am an American citizen and I know I have the right to come
back.” Muthana added that, if President Trump tells her she is not welcome
to return, she “would tell him to study the legal system because apparently
I am allowed back.” Regarding her actions in Syria, Muthana said only, “I
ruined my life. I ruined my son’s future, but I wouldn’t have had a son if
I didn’t come. That’s the only regret I don’t have.” Charlie D’Agata
reported a federal court in Washington will consider Monday whether to
allow Muthana to return to the US with her son.

        The Washington Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=07f-169&t=c>
(3/3, Scarborough) reports the Middle East Media Research Institute
(MEMRI), a “research group that monitors jihadi social media,” has
“assembled a detailed dossier” on Muthana based on her “Twitter and
Instagram war cries over four years.” MEMRI Executive Director Steven
Stalinsky told the Times, “The most troubling aspect of her time in Syria
was her becoming a high-profile advocate for ISIS, tweeting regularly from
Syria in late 2014 and 2015, urging Americans to come join the jihad and to
‘wake up u cowards.’” He added that since Muthana publicly issued her
repatriation request, many American “media outlets have published
sympathetic images of her with her child.”

        The Washington Post
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(3/3) says in an editorial that “President Trump’s hypocrisy seldom comes
packaged in such a neat bundle as it did recently when he insisted that
European governments ‘take back’ hundreds of their citizens captured while
fighting for the Islamic State,” only to “proudly” assert five days later
that the US “refuses to do the same in the case of an American woman.” Yet,
the Post says, Trump “is not alone in struggling to balance the competing
demands of security, international law and morality in this matter.” The
Post argues that the “least bad option is to subject as many of the
fighters as possible to prosecution in functioning and fair courts.” The
Post acknowledges that repatriating and prosecuting ISIS figherts “is
likely to be expensive, difficult and politically unpopular for European
nations and the United States,” but nations “are ultimately responsible for
their own citizens, even when those citizens are a danger.”

        *Dutch ISIS Fighter Wants British Wife, Child To Live In The
Netherlands. *The Washington Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=081-30e&t=c>
(3/3, Tamkin) reports Yago Riedijk, a Dutch national who joined ISIS in
2014, told the BBC that “he wanted to bring his wife and child to the
Netherlands so they could lead a ‘moderate Muslim life.’” Riedijk married
his wife, British national Shamima Begum, “in 2015, days after she arrived
in territory controlled by the Islamic State in Syria.” Begum was 15 at the
time. With the militant group’s “self-proclaimed ‘caliphate’ crumbling and
two of her three children dead,” the 19-year-old Begum now “says she wants
to return to Britain.” British Home Secretary Sajid Javid last month said
“that he would move to strip her of her British citizenship, although he
later said he would not render any individual stateless.” The Post says
“while Riedijk may see Begum as having gotten married on her own accord,
the Netherlands may not recognize their union, because she was underage at
the time.”

        The New York Times
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(3/3, Magra) reports Riedijk is currently “being held at a Kurdish
detention center in northeastern Syria.” Riedijk “is on a terrorist watch
list in the Netherlands, but he currently retains his citizenship.”
According to the BBC, if Riedijk returns to the Netherlands, “he could face
a six-year jail term for joining a terrorist organization.” The Times adds
that it remains “unclear if he has a right to return to the Netherlands,
and if it would be possible for Ms. Begum and their son to accompany him.”
ISIS Fiercely Defends Last Enclave Against US-Backed Syrian Forces.

The AP
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(3/3, El Deeb) reports the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Friday
“resumed an offensive to recapture the area in Baghouz” in eastern Syria
from ISIS militants, who “are desperately fighting to hang on to the last
tiny piece of territory” by “deploying snipers, guided missiles and
surprise tunnel attacks.” The fighters’ “resistance prompted a fierce
pounding Sunday by the US-led coalition and its ground allies in their
final push to end the extremist group’s territorial hold.” The militants’
defeat “would be a milestone in the devastating four-year campaign to end
IS’ self-proclaimed Islamic caliphate that once straddled vast territory
across Syria and Iraq,” but the AP cautions that ISIS “continues to be a
threat,” with “sleeper cells in scattered desert pockets along the porous
border between” Syria and Iraq. Reuters
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(3/3, Francis, Abdallah) similarly says that recapturing “the besieged
village in eastern Syria will be a milestone in international efforts to
roll back the jihadists,” but “it is universally accepted that the group,
which has been in territorial retreat since then and suffered its major
defeats in 2017, will remain a security threat as an insurgent force with
sleeper cells and some remote pockets of territory.”

        *WPost Analysis: US Blocking Efforts To Reintroduce Assad Into Arab
Fold. *A Washington Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=085-ba9&t=c>
(3/3, A1, Sly) analysis says a “decision late last year by the United Arab
Emirates to reopen its embassy in Damascus and overtures being made” to
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “by other Arab states gave rise to
expectations that he would soon be welcomed back into the Arab fold, eight
years after the rebellion against his rule isolated him from most Arab
countries.” Yet, the Administration “has pressed its allies to hold back,
warning that any moves to participate in the rebuilding of Syria would
trigger US sanctions designed to pressure Assad into accepting political
reforms, US officials say.” Since “Iran has gained influence in Syria by
helping Assad win the war,” many Arab states “are unsure whether they want
to rehabilitate a leader who remains bound to Iran by a long and close
alliance, according to diplomats in the region.”
US Probes Whether Pakistan Used American Jets To Down Indian Warplane.

Reuters
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(3/3, Jorgic, Bukhari) reports the US Embassy in Islamabad “said on Sunday
it was trying to find out if Pakistan used US.-built F-16 jets to down an
Indian warplane, potentially in violation of US agreements, as the
stand-off between the nuclear-armed Asian neighbors appeared to be easing.”
Pakistan “has denied using F-16 jets during a dogfight that downed an
Indian Mig-21 warplane over Kashmir on Wednesday,” but “it has not
specified which planes it used, though it assembles Chinese-designed JF-17
fighter jets on its soil.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(3/3, Jativa) quotes an embassy spokesperson as saying, “We take all
allegations of misuse of defense articles very seriously.” According to the
Examiner, “The Pakistani government released a captured Indian pilot Friday
in an effort to de-escalate recent hostile relations between the two
nuclear-capable nations,” but “if one of the American F-16 aircrafts was
used against India by Pakistan, the move would be in violation of the
international arms agreements between the US and Pakistan.”

        *WPost Analysis: Subsiding India-Pakistan Tensions Seen As
Temporary Respite. *A Washington Post
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(3/3, Naseem) analysis says tensions between India and Pakistan “began to
subside when Pakistan announced Thursday that it would release the Indian
fighter jet pilot it had captured in the clash a day earlier,” but “even as
the fear of outright war recedes, no one expects calm at the place where
India and Pakistan face off on a daily basis: the 460-mile long unofficial
border in Kashmir, known as the Line of Control.” The Post explains that
both nations “use the Line of Control as a ‘venting mechanism,’” which has
resulted in “a deadly, low-grade conflict that persists even when there are
not heightened tensions between the two nations – so much so that some
experts have dubbed it ‘a war by other means.’”

        *NYTimes Analysis: Dogfight Underscores “Alarming” State Of India’s
Military. *A New York Times
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(3/3, Abi-Habib) analysis says the “aerial clash” between the captured
Indian Air Force pilot and a Pakistani Air Force pilot, “the first by the
South Asian rivals in nearly five decades, was a rare test for the Indian
military – and it left observers a bit dumbfounded.” The Times explains
that India’s “loss of a plane last week to a country whose military is
about half the size and receives a quarter of the funding” underscores how
“India’s armed forces are in alarming shape.” The US “is determined” to
make India “a key ally in the coming years to hedge against China’s growing
regional ambition,” but US officials “tasked with strengthening the
alliance talk about their mission with frustration: a swollen bureaucracy
makes arms sales and joint training exercises cumbersome; Indian forces are
vastly underfunded; and the country’s navy, army and air force tend to
compete rather than work together.”
Domestic Policy
Media Analyses: Paul’s Backing Of Disapproval Resolution Sets Stage For
First Trump Veto.

The Saturday evening announcement by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) that he will
back a resolution opposing President Trump’s declaration of a national
emergency at the US-Mexico border receives straightforward coverage
focusing on the fact that Paul’s support for the resolution gives it enough
Republican support to pass the Senate, making the first veto of the Trump
presidency likely.

        Errol Barnett reported on the CBS Evening News[image: Image removed
by sender. Video]
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(3/3, story 5, 0:35, Begnaud), “On Saturday, Sen. Paul made it clear he
would vote against the President’s executive action for more border wall
money, making him the fourth Republican to do so, and that’s key because
when you add that to the 47 Senate Democrats and independents who also said
they would pass this resolution of disapproval,” the “table is set for
what’s expected to be the first veto of the Trump Administration.”

        The AP
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(3/3) reports opponents of the national emergency declaration “appear to
have enough Senate votes to reject” the President’s move. Sens. Susan
Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) have also
announced plans to vote for the resolution of disapproval. The Wall Street
Journal
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(3/3, Peterson) reports that Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) has also warned
against the reallocation of funds, but has not said how he will vote on the
resolution. USA Today
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(3/3, Glowicki) also says Paul’s decision “giv[es] Senate opponents enough
votes to send the resolution to the president’s desk.”

        Reuters
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(3/3, Pamuk) reports Paul said at a Republican event in Kentucky on
Saturday, “I can’t vote to give the President the power to spend money that
hasn’t been appropriated by Congress. We may want more money for border
security, but Congress didn’t authorize it. If we take away those checks
and balances, it’s a dangerous thing.”

        The Washington Post
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(3/3, Sonmez) says that “while the resolution is likely to clear the
Senate, an embarrassing rebuke to Trump, lawmakers in both chambers lack
the votes to override a threatened presidential veto.” Senate Majority
Leader McConnell “spent weeks warning against a national emergency only to
declare his support for the move last month.”

        Two Republican senators expressed their support for the President
on Sunday morning political talk shows. Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said on CNN’s
State Of The Union
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(3/3), “There is a National Emergencies Act statute and there are other
statutes, I think over 100 of them, that give the President this authority.
Look, he’s not using any authority that Congress hasn’t already given him.”
On Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures
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(3/3), Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said, “I’m going to vote for border security.
I’m going to vote with the President. ... The Democrats don’t want border
security. The American public wants border security, they want results. I
know a lot of people don’t like the process, none of us like this process.”

        However, on CNN’s State Of The Union[image: Image removed by
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(3/3), Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) said, “We have a separation of powers under
the Constitution. … There’s been discussions about border wall or fencing.
We’ve passed appropriations bills. The President has signed the bills. He
hasn’t vetoed the bills. If he wanted to say that there was a crisis, he
could have vetoed the legislation.”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(3/3, King) reports “Trump’s relations with Congress took a sharp turn for
the worse Sunday as his emergency declaration for a border wall hit a
roadblock in the GOP-controlled Senate.” The Washington Times
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(3/3, Howell) reports, “The House already moved to overturn Mr. Trump’s
declaration. The 245-182
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vote was a major rebuke” of Trump. A “similar scenario is now set to play
out when the Senate votes.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(3/3, Jativa) headlines its report “Rand Paul Sets Up Trump For His First
Presidential Veto In Fight Over National Emergency On The Border” while a
story in The Hill
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(3/3, Carney) is headlined “Congress Poised To Reject Trump Border
Emergency.” A brief report in Townhall
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(3/3, Baumann) is similarly headlined “Trump May Be Forced To Issue His
First Veto.” Breitbart
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(3/3, Munro) says Democrats “need support from 20 GOP Senators to get the
67 votes needed to override Trump’s veto.”

        NPR’s Scott Detrow tweeted
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=09a-b13&t=c>,
“Rand Paul will vote for resolution blocking Trump’s border emergency,
giving measure votes it needs to pass. How many other Rs will follow now
that they aren’t THE deciding vote?” Immigration attorney Greg Siskind
tweeted
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=09b-2af&t=c>,
“So Trump will be forced to issue his 1st veto – itself an embarrassment.
We shall see if Paul’s vote leads others to join him.” Bloomberg
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(3/3, Litvan, Moy), Politico
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(3/3, Everett), CQ Roll Call
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(3/3, Lesniewski), and Axios
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(3/3, Atkinson) also have straightforward reports on Paul’s announcement.

        *AEI’s Wallison: Blame Congress, Not Trump, For Use Of Emergencies
Act. *In a Wall Street Journal
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(3/3) op-ed, Peter Wallison of the American Enterprise Institute says anger
over the national emergency should be directed at Congress for giving the
Executive such unchecked power with the 1976 Act, not with the President
for using it.
Warner, Nadler Criticize Trump Ordering Security Clearance For Kushner.

Politico
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(3/3, Tamborrino) reports Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the top Democrat on the
Senate Intelligence Committee, told CNN’s State Of The Union[image: Image
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(3/3) Sunday that he was bothered “a great deal” by a report
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from the New York Times that the President ordered a security clearance for
his senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner. Warner said, “What I think
is inappropriate is, these security clearances should be given after the
review of the national security officials. ... The fact that he, in effect,
chooses to give a family member, overriding the recommendations of the
community, bothers me a great deal.” Warner added that while it is the
President’s right to give security clearances to anyone he sees fit, they
are normally awarded only after procedures are followed. Said Warner,
“Security clearances have not normally been used as political footballs.
... But again, this as in so many other areas, the President is not
adhering to traditional procedures.” The Washington Examiner
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(3/3, Chaitin) reports House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler was asked
about the Times report on ABC’s This Week[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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(3/3). Nadler said, “Yes, I think it was an abuse of power. Look, the
president has the right to do a lot of things but he can abuse his power in
doing that.”

        House Minority Leader McCarthy took a different view, telling ABC’s
This Week
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(3/3), “The President has the legal authority to do it. The President has a
right to pick his national security team around him. Who is going to work
with him. And you know what? This week, Gallup just came out with a new
poll looking at how does America think they are viewed around the world? We
are now at the highest level we have been. Fifty-eight percent since 2003.
The President is doing a very good job. The President has the legal
authority to do it. The President has to trust the people around him.”

        *Bolton Says He Trusts Kushner. *The Washington Times
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(3/3, Howell) reports National Security Adviser Bolton said Sunday that he
is not worried about Kushner having access to classified information.
Bolton told Fox News Sunday
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(3/3), “I don’t have any concerns. I deal with Jared all the time on the
Middle East peace process and a number of other issues. I trust him.” Asked
about his own security clearance on CBS’ Face The Nation[image: Image
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(3/3), Bolton said, “One day I will be a private citizen again and I would
be delighted to take this nonsense on in detail, but as a White House
official right now, threatened with subpoenas, with a lot of other things
that is going on in Congress, I’ll take guidance from the White House
counsel’s office and the Justice Department and just wait for the day when
I am a private citizen.”
Lawmakers Investigating Whether Cohen Had Role In Pardon Discussions.

The Washington Post
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(3/3, A1, Demirjian) reports lawmakers are looking into whether President
Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen “was involved in any discussions
about possible pardons – which they view as a potentially ripe area of
inquiry into whether anyone sought to obstruct justice, people familiar
with the matter said. Cohen has said publicly he never asked for – and
would not accept – a pardon from Trump. But people familiar with the matter
said his knowledge on the topic seems to extend beyond that statement.”

        *Lawmakers Weigh In On Cohen Testimony. *Lawmakers’ views on
Cohen’s testimony to Congress last week broke along party lines Sunday. For
example, The Daily Caller
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(3/3, Ross) reports Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) said on Fox News’ Sunday
Morning Futures
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(3/3) that Cohen “totally debunked” the Steele dossier. Nunes said, “It was
totally debunked this week, and it will be totally debunked next week.”
Nunes argued, “Cohen was great for Republicans, he was great for Donald
Trump because we now know that the dossier was total bunk, there was no
truth to it, and we know that because of the Cohen has testified now
publicly that he wasn’t in Prague, and there was no truth to anything in
the dossier. ... No collusion, my conspiracy, no obstruction.”

        On CNN’s State Of The Union
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(3/3), Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) said, “As I said at the hearing, I’m not
sure we should believe him. He’s had a very checkered past. I do think that
he deserves the opportunity to be believed. So that’s why I asked those
questions. I wanted to hear from him. I wanted to give him a chance to
provide answers to more open-ended questions rather than conducting a
hearing where we’re just yelling at him or trying to grandstand or make
political statements during the hearing. I think the purpose of an
oversight hearing is to gather information for investigative purposes. And
that’s what I was trying to do.”

        On NBC’s Meet The Press
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(3/3), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said, “The President is surrounding himself
with people that maybe he shouldn’t, I don’t know, but when he was running
his campaign Mr. Manafort was there, part of the campaign, had been
involved with Republican politics before. Why he selected him I don’t know.
What I’m most concerned about is what took place at the highest levels –
our committee is supposed to be the government oversight committee, we are
supposed to look at abuses when government agencies do the kind of thing I
think that they did at the top levels of the FBI, that’s what we’re
supposed to be focused on.”

        Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), on CNN’s State Of The Union[image: Image
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(3/3), also discussed Cohen’s testimony. Kennedy said, “Mr. Cohen has
accused the President of violating our banking laws, of violating our
campaign finance laws. I feel confident that he’s given all that
information to Mr. Mueller. We’ll see what Mr. Mueller has to say. I think
any fair-minded person would have to question Mr. Cohen’s checkered past.
He’s an angry man. He’s bitter. That much is clear. As I said the other
day, I’m not saying he’s on the pipe crazy but he’s a little unbalanced.
But I don’t know who is telling the truth, who isn’t. I’m sure Mr. Mueller
will get to the bottom of it. My personal opinion about Mr. Cohen is he has
an ax to grind and most Americans will understand his checkered past.”

        Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said on MSNBC’s Politics
Nation[image:
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(3/3), “I believe Michael Cohen because a number of the things that he told
us are checkable. I mean, he indicated in his answers to my questions, for
example, that it was likely that – particularly because the lies about the
Trump Tower in Moscow being executed and negotiated during the campaign,
and that Ivanka and Don Jr. and Jared could be compromised as a result of
their involvement, those are all things that we can bring them in for or
ask them for written testimony or private testimony and check on those. And
he pulled his punches. There were a number of times when he could have
really gone after Trump and seemed to answer in the way that a questioner
might have wanted but he didn’t do that. That’s why I felt he was being
truthful. He has a lot to lose for not being truthful as well.”

        On Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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(3/3), Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) said, “I thought that his [Cohen’s]
testimony was alarming, because it did point to possible crimes and
campaign finance violations, ethics violations, and possible tax and
insurance crimes, and he gave a list of people that he thought could lead
to other possible crimes, and this really was the first hearing, oversight
hearing that the Democrats had, on the White House, and holding them
accountable for alleged crimes and trying to influence and disrupt an
election.”

        Lisa Lerer of the New York Times said on CNN’s Inside Politics[image:
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(3/3), “This is a President who feels very invested in personal
relationships. And this is a betrayal of one of his most intimate personal
relationships. This is not like some low-level guy at The Trump
Organization getting up there. This is his personal lawyer, the guy who, as
he points out, was doing his bidding for years and years and years by his
side, up there laying out all the dirty laundry that he can lay out in
front of Congress and the country and we don’t even know what he said in
the private sessions.”
NYTimes Report: Intelligence Officials Revamp Trump’s Briefings To Focus On
Trade.

The New York Times
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(3/3, Barnes, Schmidt) reports that in “an effort to accommodate President
Trump, who has attacked them publicly as ‘naïve’ and in need of going ‘back
to school,’ the nation’s intelligence agencies have revamped their
presentations to focus on subjects their No. 1 customer wants to hear about
– economics and trade.” According to the Times, intelligence officials,
“steeped in how Mr. Trump views the world, now work to answer his repeated
question: Who is winning? What the president wants to know, according to
former officials, is what country is making more money or gaining a
financial advantage.” While presidents “have long shaped their intelligence
briefings based on their interests and the issues of the moment,” the Times
says intelligence officials “question whether [Trump’s] interests are
crowding out intelligence on threats like terrorism and the maneuvers of
traditional adversaries, developments with foreign militaries or
geopolitical events with international implications.”
Bloomberg Analysis: Trump Using Complaints About Fed To Stir Base.

Bloomberg
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(3/3, Mohsin) reports President Trump’s “attempts to blame Federal Reserve
Chairman Jerome Powell for any hiccups in the US economy have made a
comeback – this time directed at his conservative base as he gears up for a
tough 2020 re-election campaign.” On Saturday at CPAC, Bloomberg says Trump
“laid out the same old gripes, ending a period of quiet from him on the
Fed.” Trump, it says, “took a swipe at Powell” as someone who “likes
raising rates” and a “gentleman that likes a very strong dollar.”
House To Vote On Anti-Corruption Measure This Week.

Axios
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(3/3, Treene) reports the House will vote this week on a “sweeping” bill
“that would strengthen federal ethics laws, expand voting rights and
require presidential nominees to release their tax returns.” The “For The
People Act” was the hallmark of several Democratic candidates in the 20128
campaign. It is “expected to easily pass in the House” but “will likely die
in the Senate” where Senate Majority Leader McConnell and “other
Republicans have already vowed to block it.”
Enhanced Background Checks Act Sponsors Urge Trump, Senate GOP To Back
Measure.

In a Washington Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019030401biden&r=email-58fd&l=0b6-e79&t=c>
(3/3) op-ed, House Majority Whip Clyburn and Reps. Joe Cunningham (D-SC)
and Peter King (R-NY), sponsors of the Enhanced Background Checks Act,
which passed the House last week, argue that President Trump and Senate
Republicans should get behind the legislation. The bill would extend
“mandatory background checks to sales at gun shows and other transactions,
not just those by licensed dealers.” They say their measure offers “small
steps, but they are important steps.”
Cancer Research
“Tech Health Sprint” Collaborates With NCI To Apply AI To Federal Health
Data.

Politico
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(3/1, Ravindranath) reported on a “tech health sprint” by the Presidential
Innovation Fellows that aimed “to demonstrate how artificial intelligence
can be applied to open federal health data.” Teams collaborated with the
National Cancer Institute and other agencies, as well as patients and
private companies to “help solve complex challenges ranging from cancer to
tick-borne diseases,” and other tasks.
Review Article Finds Several Explanations For Low Cure Rates For B-Cell
Lymphoma In Lower- And Middle-Income Countries.

Cancer Therapy Advisor
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(3/1, Moench) reported a review article “addressed some of the underlying
causes of poor survival of children with mature B-cell lymphoma (ie,
Burkittlymphoma) from lower- and middle-income countries (LMIC), and
summarized potentially feasible interventions for improving the cure rates
of these children.” The analysis found “the incidence of Burkitt lymphoma
in children varies greatly depending on geographic region,” and “cure rates
of approximately 90% have been achieved in higher-income countries (HIC)
through administration of high-dose, intensive chemotherapy regimens,
consisting of widely available, relatively inexpensive agents, tailored
according to patient risk.” Meanwhile, “cure rates of only 20% to 70% are
achieved in this patient population in LMIC. Reasons include lack of
diagnosis, misdiagnosis, advanced disease, treatment abandonment (related
to many factors including lack of logistical support for families of
patients living far from the treatment center), and toxic death from
comorbidities, such as malnutrition and infections.” The analysis
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was published in published in the British Journal of Haematology.
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“Venezuela’s Hunger Games.”* The New York Times
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(3/3) editorializes against a US military invasion in Venezuela, and says
the “best outcome would be a negotiated deal between Mr. Guaidó and Mr.
Maduro, possibly mediated by the United Nations, leading to free,
internationally monitored elections.” For “Maduro and his cronies,”
however, “that is tantamount to surrendering power.” The Times argues, “It
may take more time, and it may require cutting a deal with Mr. Maduro that
would grant him and his cronies safe passage to refuge elsewhere, but
maintaining a vociferous front of the Venezuelan opposition and a broad
array of countries of all ideological leanings remains, for now, the best
available option.”
Washington Post.

*“Trump Tells Other Nations To ‘Take Back’ Islamic State Fighters. But Not
The U.S.”* The Washington Post
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(3/3) editorializes that “President Trump’s hypocrisy seldom comes packaged
in such a neat bundle as it did recently when he insisted that European
governments ‘take back’ hundreds of their citizens captured while fighting
for the Islamic State,” only to “proudly” assert five days later that the
US “refuses to do the same in the case of an American woman.” Yet, the Post
says, Trump “is not alone in struggling to balance the competing demands of
security, international law and morality in this matter.” The Post argues
that the “least bad option is to subject as many of the fighters as
possible to prosecution in functioning and fair courts.” The Post
acknowledges that repatriating and prosecuting ISIS fighters “is likely to
be expensive, difficult and politically unpopular for European nations and
the United States,” but nations “are ultimately responsible for their own
citizens, even when those citizens are a danger.”

        *“A Man-Made Disaster Looms Over Puerto Rico.” *In an editorial,
the Washington Post
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(3/3) criticizes the First Circuit Court of Appeals’ February decision to
invalidate the 2016 Promesa Act’s Financial Oversight and Management Board
on the grounds of unconstitutionality because the board “offered Puerto
Rico a chance to reform its government and resume growth.” Plaintiffs hedge
fund Aurelius Investment LLC and bond insurer Assured Guaranty Corp “argued
the board and its debt-reduction actions to date are illegitimate because
its members were chosen by a special process, prescribed in the Promesa
Act, involving both houses of Congress and the president.” The Post calls
on the Supreme Court to grant Puerto Rico relief.

        *“YouTube Used To Be A Haven For Misinformation. That Might Now Be
Changing.” *In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(3/3) praises YouTube’s recent commitment to edit the website’s
recommendation algorithm, which has previously allowed misinformation to
spread by automatically directing users to other questionable videos. The
Post writes, “YouTube’s commitment to openness is valuable, but the
platform’s power also comes with a responsibility to avoid real-world
harm.” It calls on YouTube to expand its anti-misinformation efforts to
ensure that fringe theories do not gain popularity going forward.

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