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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>

• Monmouth National Poll: Biden 28%; Sanders 25%; Harris 10%; Warren 8%.
<#S1>

• Biden Supporters Expect Him To Enter 2020 Race. <#S2>

• Biden Has “Significant Support” Among South Carolina’s African Americans.
<#S3>

• WPost’s Cohen: Other Than Biden, 2020 Democrats Lacking In Experience On
Foreign Affairs. <#S4>

• Politico Mag Examines Biden-Warren Clash On Bankruptcy Law. <#S5>

• Opinion Writers Weigh In On Biden’s Appeal, Baggage. <#S6>

• Klobuchar Refuses To Comment On Biden Quote About Busing. <#S7>

• HuffPost: Biden’s Stance On Filibuster Shifted When He Became Vice
President. <#S8>

• Snopes: Claim Biden Said He Was Conservative On Most Issues Except Civil
Rights Is True. <#S9>

• Article Examines Biden’s Net Worth. <#S10>

• Democratic Donors Worry Party Is Moving Too Far Left. <#S11>

• Emboldened African-American Women Flex Their Political Muscles Ahead Of
2020. <#S12>

• Potential 2020 Hopeful O’Rourke Reportedly To Make First Trip To Iowa
This Weekend. <#S13>

• Gillibrand Accused Of Mishandling Harassment Allegations Against Top Aide.
<#S14>

• Hewitt: With A Focus On National Security, Moulton “Perfect Challenger”
To Take On Trump. <#S15>

• Abrams On A Presidential Bid: “2020 Is Definitely On The Table.” <#S16>

• Politico: Those Close To De Blasio Pan Notion Of Him Mounting 2020 Bid.
<#S17>

• Democrats To Hold 2020 Convention In Milwaukee. <#S18>

*Leading the News* <#SECTION_2>

• Trump Budget Boosts Defense And Border Security While Cutting Many Other
Areas. <#S19>

*Foreign Policy* <#SECTION_3>

• Ex-VP Cheney Challenges Pence Over Trump’s Foreign Policy At Private
Retreat. <#S20>

• Pelosi Invites NATO Secretary-General To Address Congress. <#S21>

• US Envoy: Sanctions On North Korea Will Remain Until It Is Fully
Denuclearized. <#S22>

• Pentagon Begins Work On Missile Systems Banned By Treaty With Russia.
<#S23>

• Pompeo Denies Allegations US Caused Blackout In Venezuela. <#S24>

• Pompeo, Shanahan, Kushner Meet With Jordan’s Abdullah. <#S25>

• Netanyahu Opponent Thinks Trump Could Recognize Golan To Swing Israeli
Election. <#S26>

*Domestic Policy* <#SECTION_4>

• Trump Tells GOP Senators To “Get Tough” And Support Emergency Declaration.
<#S27>

• White House: Trump Will Decide On Any Manafort Pardon “When He’s Ready.”
<#S28>

• Pelosi Opposes Impeaching Trump, Who Is “Just Not Worth It.” <#S29>

• Sanders Declines To Confirm Whether Trump Believes Democrats “Hate Jewish
People.” <#S30>

• Trump Donor Claimed She Could Offer Access To President. <#S31>

• Book Casts Ivanka Trump, Kushner As Trump’s “Enablers.” <#S32>

• Plane Crash Brings Boeing Company Shares Down, Even As US Stock Market
Rallies. <#S33>

*Cancer Research* <#SECTION_5>

• Trump’s 2020 Budget Proposal Includes Cuts To Several HHS Agencies,
Including NIH, NCI. <#S34>

• CAR-T Therapy Reportedly Hurting Hospitals’ Finances. <#S35>

*Editorials/Op-Eds* <#SECTION_6>

• New York Times. <#S36>

• Washington Post. <#S37>
Biden in the News
Monmouth National Poll: Biden 28%; Sanders 25%; Harris 10%; Warren 8%.

In an online article, NBC News
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(3/11, Kamisar) reported that a Monmouth University nationwide poll
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of 310 Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters, taken March 1-4, shows
former Vice President Joe Biden leading a hypothetical 2020 Democratic
presidential primary field with 28%, followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
at 25%, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) at 10%, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) at
8%, ex-Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) at 6%, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) at 5%, Sen.
Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) at 3%, and others lagging further behind.

        *Michigan Poll: Biden 40%; Sanders 23%; Harris 12%; Warren 11%. *The
Hill
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(3/11, Burke) reported that an Emerson College poll
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of 314 Michigan Democratic voters, taken March 7-10, show Biden leading a
hypothetical 2020 Democratic presidential primary with 40%, followed by
Sanders at 23%, Harris at 12%, and Warren at 11%; no other contender topped
5%. In hypothetical general election matchups, the poll (743 Michigan
voters) shows “each of the leading Democratic candidates” leading President
Trump, with Biden topping the GOP incumbent “by the widest margin,” at
54%-46%.

        *Media Analyses: Biden, Sanders Clear Frontrunners In Democratic
Race. *Discussing the Monmouth College poll results in a blog post on the
website of the Washington Post
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(3/11), Philip Bump said that if Biden and Sanders “both lock up 15 to 20
percent of the Democratic electorate, it makes it very hard for them not to
do well in the primaries. In 2016, Trump won the Republican nomination in
part by enjoying a solid core of support in a crowded field. If 40 percent
of the vote is committed to Biden and Sanders, it would take a remarkable
consolidation from some other candidate to keep them from running 1-2 in a
lot of contests.”

        The Washington Post
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(3/11, Balz) reports that “for the past two months, the Democratic
nomination contest has been about newcomers, women and the image of
diversity in a new party,” but now, “suddenly, it’s about two older white
men,” as “the spotlight has fallen on” Biden and Sanders. The Post says,
“Every early poll – national and state – puts Biden and Sanders ahead of
others who are in the race or are seriously thinking about running.” The
latest “is a Des Moines Register-CNN Iowa poll” that “showed Biden and
Sanders with more than half the vote combined, and no one else in double
digits.” The Post adds that the early polls “suggest that as the contest
takes shape, the structure is Biden and Bernie vs. the field.”

        The Boston Globe
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(3/11, Prignano) says that if Biden launched a bid “soon, he may enter the
race as a front-runner,” with Sanders trailing “closely” behind, according
to the Monmouth and Des Moines Register/CNN polls. The Hill
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(3/11, Manchester) reported that GOP pollster Jim Hobart on Monday “told
Hill. TV that name ID has” provided Biden and Sanders “a financial leg up
in the 2020 race. ‘I think it’s very clear that right now Joe Biden and
Bernie Sanders are the front-runners,’ Hobart, a partner at Public Opinion
Strategies,” said, adding, “Does that have a lot do to with name ID? Sure,
but name ID, if you don’t already have it, it’s expensive to get, and it’s
difficult to get. So, I think that they have reasons to be happy with these
numbers.”

        Writing for the Los Angeles Times
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(3/11), Joshua Spivak, a senior fellow at the Hugh L. Carey Institute for
Government Reform at Wagner College, says that while “early polls” have
shown Biden atop the Democratic field, “there is another reason to believe
that” he “is a leading position: Recent history has shown that vice
presidents have a strong advantage in presidential primaries.” Spivak adds
that “seven out of 12 recent vice presidents have sought and won their
party’s nomination for the presidency.”

        Writing on the website of the Washington Post
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(3/11), Jennifer Rubin said that Biden’s “entry will establish him as the
undisputed front-runner, but unlike Hillary Clinton, a front-runner whose
nomination is far from certain. ... Biden will either be the Jeb Bush of
2020 (a favorite who crashed and burned), or the 2016 version of [Hillary]
Clinton – the dominant figure who marches to an inevitable primary
victory.”

        Writing for the Washington Examiner
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(3/11), Joseph Simonson said, “The arrival on Capitol Hill of young women
of color, such as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar, appeared
to signal the dawn of a new generation of Democrats. But, for now at least,
it is the old guard of the party that dominates its 2020 presidential
field. The two front-runners are white men with a combined age of 153 years
and a total of 87 years in politics,” Biden, 76, and Sanders, 77.

        Writing for Bloomberg Opinion
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(3/11), Jonathan Bernstein says, “With polls showing Biden and Sanders on
top – not just nationwide, but in the early-voting states as well – I’ve
seen a few pundits wondering whether the contest is less open than it once
seemed. I think that’s a mistake. ... Much of politics – debates,
advertising, electioneering – amounts to candidates trying to teach voters
a few good things about themselves, with most voters paying little
attention until the election is just around the corner. In other words:
Yes, it’s very possible that Biden, Sanders or both will still be in the
lead on caucus night in Iowa – but don’t count on it, and certainly don’t
assume that polling leads at this point are stable.”
Biden Supporters Expect Him To Enter 2020 Race.

Several media outlets continue to offer reports speculating on whether
former Vice President Joe Biden will enter the 2020 presidential race. The CBS
Evening News
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(3/11, story 4, 2:05, Glor) reported that Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) says
Biden “is likely to join the race for president.” Coons: “He’s someone who
I am confident is going to run. I’m optimistic he’s going to run.” The
Wilmington
(DE) News Journal
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(3/11, Newman) reports that Coons, speaking Monday on “CBS This Morning,”
said, “Everything is put in place but that last decision, which
understandingly is a big decision.” Coons added, “Joe Biden is someone who
sees the divisions in our country and inspires us, reminds us in the ways
we’ve overcome the past and will lift us up. I personally have witnessed
him comforting and encouraging Americans who have suffered great loss.”

        Politico
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(3/11, Morin) reported that Coons “said Biden’s experience is what will
push him ahead of the rest of the candidates. ‘He has more experience both
in the Senate and as vice president in the executive and legislative than
any other candidate running,’ Coons said. ‘Arguably than all other
candidates combined.’ ‘We don’t need someone who’s doing on-the-job
training,’ he said.”

        In an online article, ABC News
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(2/19, Nagle) reported that “some politicos close to” Biden, “who have
spoken with him in private, say they believe he will mount a bid. Robert
Wolf, a top Democratic donor and former economic adviser to former
President Barack Obama who has known Biden for over a decade, spoke with
him last week and believes Biden is ‘90 percent there’ on a run.” Said
Wolf, “It was clear that this was different than 2015. This was someone who
seemed ready to run and trying to figure out when best to announce.” Wolf
added, “He feels he’s coming off an incredible midterm and he’s sitting in
the best position to take on [President Donald] Trump across the country.”

        In an online article, NBC News
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(3/11, Memoli) reported, “For the first time since the midterm elections,”
Biden this week “will headline a pair of political events that may serve as
a final test drive of the message he could take into the 2020 campaign.”
Today, Biden “addresses the International Association of Firefighters for
what could amount to a pre-emptive endorsement event. ‘You’re going to see,
‘Run Joe Run,’ the gold and black ‘Firefighters for Biden,’’ IAFF General
President Harold Schaitberger told NBC News Monday.” Schaitberger “said
that while Biden is not officially a candidate, he sees the delay ‘as more
strategical about the timing of a likely announcement than maybe the actual
decision on whether to announce.’ ‘I’d be very surprised’ if he didn’t run,
he said.” Biden on Saturday will speak at a Delaware Democratic Party
dinner in Dover.

        Bloomberg
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(3/12, Epstein) reports that Biden today “will address a meeting of the”
IAFF, which “has long supported him and signaled it will back him if he
runs in 2020.” Biden “appears poised to enter the race unless he has a
last-minute change of heart, according to people who have spoken with him
in recent weeks. He would enter as a frontrunner, though it’s unclear
whether he’d be able to maintain that advantage on the campaign trail.
‘He’s going through this strategic process to consider everything that one
has to consider to make the decision,’ said...Schaitberger, who last spoke
with Biden just over a week ago. ‘If he pulls the trigger to run, so will
we,’ he said of an endorsement for Biden.”
Biden Has “Significant Support” Among South Carolina’s African Americans.

McClatchy
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(3/11, Glueck) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden “is a Caucasian
septuagenarian with decades of Washington experience in a party that prizes
youth and diversity and is clamoring for progressive change. But when it
comes to the contest for African-American support...in” South Carolina,
“Biden shouldn’t be underestimated. That’s the assessment of
African-American faith leaders, state legislators, voters and party
operatives in South Carolina, an early-voting state where black voters make
up the majority of the Democratic electorate. ‘There is still significant
support for the vice president in the African-American community,’ said
Rev. Joseph Darby, an influential Charleston pastor who calls Biden a
longtime friend.”
WPost’s Cohen: Other Than Biden, 2020 Democrats Lacking In Experience On
Foreign Affairs.

In his Washington Post
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(3/11) column, Richard Cohen says that a number of announced and potential
2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls “are personifications of the
contemporary phenomenon that the presidency can be an entry-level job.
Certainly that’s the case with Donald Trump, who held no previous political
position and has gone on to shred any belief in the gifted amateur.” Cohen
says that former Vice President Joe Biden is the only Democratic contender
with experience in “the one area where presidential authority is absolute:
foreign affairs.” Cohen adds, “I want someone with some experience under
the belt, at the least someone who has done some reading in the field. ...
The Democratic Party ought to take Trump not only as a foe but as a lesson,
too. Experience matters.”
Politico Mag Examines Biden-Warren Clash On Bankruptcy Law.

Under the heading “Biden Vs. Warren: Round 1,” Theodoric Mayer writes
for Politico
Magazine
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(3/12), “On a February morning in 2005 in a hearing room in the Dirksen
Senate Office Building, Joe Biden confronted Elizabeth Warren over a
subject they’d been feuding over for years: the country’s bankruptcy laws.”
After recounting how the pair jousted over “a bill meant to address the
skyrocketing rate at which Americans were filing for bankruptcy” –
legislation that Biden supported and Warren opposed – Mayer says that the
pair “are expected to find themselves facing off again, this time on a much
larger stage. And while a bill that passed in 2005 is unlikely to dominate
the 2020 Democratic primaries, the fight over the bankruptcy legislation
helped shape Warren politically and could be a surprising liability for
Biden in the” Democratic presidential primary.
Opinion Writers Weigh In On Biden’s Appeal, Baggage.

In his Wall Street Journal
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(3/11) column, William McGurn says that with his centrist approach and
sense of decency, former Vice President Joe Biden could pose a serious
threat to President Trump in 2020. However, McGurn chides Biden for – in
the wake of criticism for the left – backtracking on calling Vice President
Mike Pence a “decent guy.” McGurn says that if Biden is to win the
Democratic nomination, he’ll have to sport a tougher veneer in dealing with
criticism from the left than he displayed in the Pence episode.

        In his syndicated column that appears on the website of the Baltimore
Sun
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(3/11), Jules Witcover says that the decisions of ex-New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg (D) and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) to not mount 2020 White House
runs have “enhanced Mr. Biden’s hope to be the candidate of the party’s
broad moderate-to-liberal constituency.” While several contenders are
running “in the more progressive lane,” says Witcover, Biden “has had a
long political career of leading liberal causes, especially in the areas of
workers’ rights, protection of women and children and civil rights,
enabling him to compete also for that expanding Democratic flock. His early
strenuous opposition to school busing in his home state of Delaware in the
1970s, however, has already generated criticism of that prospect.”

        Writing for Slate
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(3/11), Josh Voorhees said that Biden “would face many hurdles if he gets
into the race – his age and his record chief among them – but it’s far from
certain any are the deal breakers that some pundits and prognosticators
have suggested. To be clear, I do not think Biden should win the Democratic
nomination; I simply fear that he will. Despite a record that looks
conservative in hindsight, a worldview that is troubling in the present,
and an identity that does little for the future, Biden appears to be too
well-known, well-liked, and well-connected to be denied the nomination.”

        In his New York Times
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(3/11) column, Jamelle Bouie says, “For decades Biden gave liberal cover to
white backlash. He wasn’t an incidental opponent of busing; he was a leader
who helped derail integration. He didn’t just vote for punitive legislation
on crime and drugs; he wrote it. His political persona is still informed by
that past, even if he were to repudiate those positions now. Biden could
lead Democrats to victory over [President] Trump, but his political style
might affirm the assumptions behind Trumpism.” On its website, Slate
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(3/12, Harris) provides a link to an episode of the “What Next” podcast, in
which Bouie discusses Biden’s record, particularly on race-related issues.

        Writing for National Review
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(3/11), Jim Geraghty highlighted Bouie’s column and other articles that
have offered critical assessments of Biden’s record on race-related issues.
However, Geraghty says that with Biden having served two terms as President
Obama’s vice president, “how much will African Americans, the
Democratic-primary electorate, and the voters as a whole buy into the idea
in 2019 that Joe Biden was somehow racist or pandered to racists?” Geraghty
adds that Biden appears well positioned to offer a strong rebuttal, if
attacked on race-related issues.
Klobuchar Refuses To Comment On Biden Quote About Busing.

The Tampa Bay (FL) Times
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(3/11, Contorno) provided a transcript of a Sunday interview the newspaper
conducted with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), a presidential candidate. The
interviewer said, “There’s a quote from the 1970s from Joe Biden that has
been circulating the last couple days about the efficacy of busing.”
Klobuchar replied, “Yea, I haven’t read that quote. You should ask Joe
Biden.” Asked, “Well do you believe that busing and desegregation of
schools should continue,” Klobuchar responded, “I think desegregation of
schools is very important but I’m not going to comment on Joe Biden’s
quote.”
HuffPost: Biden’s Stance On Filibuster Shifted When He Became Vice
President.

The Huffington Post
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(3/11, Bobic) reported that while serving in the Senate, former Vice
President Joe Biden “routinely joined Democratic efforts to sustain
filibusters of programs and nominations put forth by Republican Presidents
George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan,” speaking “out repeatedly about the
virtues of the” Upper Chamber “as a ‘cooling saucer’ for democracy, due in
large part to its long-standing supermajority requirement. But once he
joined Barack Obama in the White House,” Biden’s “appreciation for the
filibuster waned.” HuffPost said that when Senate “Democrats went nuclear
in 2013 to eliminate the filibuster on all nominations other than those to
the Supreme Court,” Biden supported the move.
Snopes: Claim Biden Said He Was Conservative On Most Issues Except Civil
Rights Is True.

Snopes
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(3/11, Kasprak) ran a “Fact Check” on the claim that former Vice President
Joe Biden once said, “When it comes to civil rights and civil liberties,
I’m a liberal but that’s it. I’m really quite conservative on most other
issues.” Snopes ruled the claim “True,” saying that Biden was quoted as
making the statement in a 1974 article published by Washingtonian.
Article Examines Biden’s Net Worth.

Go Banking Rates
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(3/11, Dennison) ran a piece offering “a look at the wealth of” Former Vice
President Joe Biden, saying that his “net worth is $900,000, according to
Celebrity Net Worth. Most of his wealth likely comes from his eight years
as vice president, during which he received an annual salary of at least
$230,700. However, his pension might total more than $248,000 per year.”
The article said, “By Biden’s own admission, he considered himself ‘the
poorest man in Congress’ and said that he had no listed investments, ABC
News reported in 2014. On the other hand, his 2015 tax return, which was
filed jointly with his wife, Jill Biden, also showed that they had an
adjusted gross income of $392,233.”
Democratic Donors Worry Party Is Moving Too Far Left.

The Washington Times
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(3/11, Miller) reports big Democratic donors are worried that the party “is
moving too far left.” Florida billionaire Marsha Laufer, “who bundled more
than $13 million for Hillary Clinton in 2016, is sitting on the sidelines
for 2020” and “other Democratic moneymen expressed similar concerns, though
they would not go on the record to criticize the pack of presidential
hopefuls occupying the far-left lane in the primary race.” The Times cites
“one prominent Democratic bundler,” who “privately conceded ‘real concerns’
that [Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)] were
providing fuel for President Trump to make his re-election campaign into a
run against socialism.”

        *NYTimes Analysis: Activists Dragging “Fringe” Issues “Into The
2020 Conversation.” *The New York Times
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(3/12, Ember, Herndon) reports that South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete
Buttigieg (D), a presidential hopeful, was asked at an event in February,
“Would you support a packing of the courts to expand the Supreme Court by
four members?” The Times says that query was “posed by a person involved
with Pack the Courts, a liberal activist group that favors adding judges in
order to flip the ideological tilt of the high court – known as
court-packing. The success of the strategy – pushing an issue that had
mostly thrived on the fringe into the 2020 conversation – illustrates how
activists are leveraging the early stages of the Democratic primary”
contest “to elevate their agendas” on issues ranging from “reparations” to
“ending the Senate filibuster.” Democratic hopefuls “are increasingly being
urged to address these topics in interviews, at events and during media
appearances.”
Emboldened African-American Women Flex Their Political Muscles Ahead Of
2020.

USA Today
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(3/11, Berry) reported that in the wake of “historic midterms, when they
helped Democrats recapture the House of Representatives, women of color are
moving fast to leverage their newfound political clout for the 2020
presidential election. They’re hosting a presidential forum” and “ramping
up get-out-the-vote efforts and preparing more women to run for Congress.
‘There’s never been a moment for women of color in politics like there is
now,’ said Aimee Allison, president and founder of She the People, a
national network.” The organization “will host a presidential forum in
Houston in April – the first by a group led by women of color.”
Potential 2020 Hopeful O’Rourke Reportedly To Make First Trip To Iowa This
Weekend.

The Des Moines (IA) Register
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(3/11, Pfannenstiel, Opsahl) reports that ex-Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX)
“will make his first trip to Iowa this weekend, further fueling
speculation” that he “will soon enter the 2020 presidential race. According
to an announcement video posted to Twitter, O’Rourke will join volunteers
on behalf of Iowa Democrat Eric Giddens, who is running in a special
election for a state senate seat against Republican Walt Rogers.”

        Politico
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(3/11, Siders, Strauss, Cadelago, Korecki) reported that O’Rourke “is
beginning to staff up in Iowa and has been in talks about visiting the
first-in-the-nation caucus state as early as this week.” Norm Sterzenbach,
“a former executive director of the Iowa Democratic Party, is assisting
O’Rourke in the state and was reviewing resumes from potential staffers as
recently as last week, according to two sources.” Paul Tewes, “who ran
Obama’s 2008 operation in the state, is also helping O’Rourke. So is
Margaret Jarosz, who was working for Sen. Sherrod Brown in Iowa before he
elected not to run for president, the sources said. David Plouffe, Obama’s
2008 campaign manager, has also made calls on O’Rourke’s behalf, according
to three Democrats.” In an online article, CNN
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(3/11, Buck, Bradner) offered a similar report.

        The CBS Evening News
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(3/11, story 4, 2:05, Glor) reported O’Rourke “is the subject of a
conservative attack ad in Iowa, even though he’s not yet in the race.”
The Dallas
Morning News
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(3/11, Gillman) reports that “the anti-tax Club for Growth will unleash an
ad blitz in Des Moines aimed at planting doubts among Democrats about”
O’Rourke’s “liberal bona fides --- not to weed out faux liberals from the
2020 pack, but because polls show that he would be a huge threat in Texas
if he wins the nomination. ... ‘We have internal polling that shows that
[President] Trump and Beto are statistically tied in Texas in a
presidential head-to-head, and that’s hugely significant,’ Club president
David McIntosh said by phone on Monday.”
Gillibrand Accused Of Mishandling Harassment Allegations Against Top Aide.

The New York Times
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(3/11, Saul) reports that a former aide to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
“resigned last year after accusing top aides to the senator of mishandling
a sexual harassment complaint she filed against a colleague.” Gillibrand’s
office “investigated the claim and kept the worker on staff, but dismissed
him last week after Politico presented new details about the allegations to
her Senate office.” The Times says “the allegations stand in contrast to
Ms. Gillibrand’s record as an advocate for women’s causes who has battled
sexual harassment in the workplace, a message she has made central to her
candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.”

        Politico
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=02a-df8&t=c>
(3/11, Thompson, Strauss) reported that in July, the female staffer alleged
one of Gillibrand’s closest aides, Abbas Malik, “repeatedly made unwelcome
advances after the senator had told him he would be promoted to a
supervisory role over her.” The female aide also said Malik “regularly made
crude, misogynistic remarks in the office about his female colleagues and
potential female hires.” However, he “kept his job” until last week, after
Politico “presented the office with its own findings of additional
allegations of inappropriate workplace conduct by Malik.”

        USA Today
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(3/11, Spector) reports Gillibrand spokeswoman Whitney Mitchell Brennan
said in a statement that despite this case, the Senator is “committed to
ensuring allegations are handled seriously, investigated, and followed by
appropriate punishment, which is why she helped pass stronger sexual
harassment protections in Congress and prioritizes proper harassment
training to better prevent these occurrences and encourage future
reporting.”

        The Washington Post
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(3/11, Sonmez) reports that Gillibrand “told reporters outside the Capitol
on Monday evening that she had no regrets about the way her office handled
the case. ‘As we do in all cases, we take these kinds of allegations very
seriously,’ Gillibrand said.” She added “that her staffers had conducted a
‘professional and thorough investigation’ last year during which they were
able to substantiate claims of derogatory comments made by Malik but were
‘not able to substantiate the sexual harassment claims.’”
Hewitt: With A Focus On National Security, Moulton “Perfect Challenger” To
Take On Trump.

In his Washington Post
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(3/11) column, conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt says that “if Marine
Corps veteran – four tours in Iraq and the recipient of a Bronze Star –
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.)” enters the 2020 race for president,
“Democratic voters in the primaries will be startled by his seriousness on
national security. They should notice he is the perfect challenger to
[President] Trump.” Hewitt says that “there are a lot of Republicans who
would have to give him a hard look, as they will any Democrat who spends
time making the case that he or she won’t spend a presidency apologizing
for the United States, but defending it.”
Abrams On A Presidential Bid: “2020 Is Definitely On The Table.”

In an online article, CNN
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(3/11, Watkins) reported that ex-state Rep. Stacey Abrams (D-GA), “a rising
star in the Democratic Party,” despite having lost last year to now-Gov.
Brian Kemp (R-GA), on Monday said “it was possible she could seek her
party’s presidential nomination next year. Abrams’ comment came after an
interview at the South by Southwest conference in Texas, where” she
“reportedly said she previously thought 2028 would be the earliest she
could run for president, but over Twitter, she clarified: ‘Now 2020 is
definitely on the table.’” Abrams is also considering a 2020 challenge to
Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) or a 2022 rematch with Kemp.

        The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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(3/11, Bluestein) reported that while at the South by Southwest conference,
Abrams spoke “about a spreadsheet she made years ago that had 2028 as the
earliest she could run for president. ‘In the spreadsheet, with all the
jobs that I wanted to do, 2028 was the earliest I would be ready to stand
for president because I would have done the work that I thought necessary
to be effective in that job,’ she said.” However, Abrams on Monday tweeted,
“Now 2020 is definitely on the table.”

        NBC News
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=030-583&t=c>
(3/11) reported that Abrams, “people familiar with her thinking say, thinks
it’s important that an African-American woman with her experience be seen
as a credible potential presidential candidate. After all, allies note,
former congressman Beto O’Rourke lost his 2018 campaign too, but that
hasn’t stopped the political world from seeing him as a potential top-tier
2020 candidate.” Politico
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=031-581&t=c>
(3/11, Arkin) reported that Abrams “has given a timeline of late March or
early April for a decision on her next moves, and she did not update that
timeline in the interview Monday.”
Politico: Those Close To De Blasio Pan Notion Of Him Mounting 2020 Bid.

Politico
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=032-37e&t=c>
(3/11, Nahmias, Goldenberg) reported that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D)
may be considering a White House bid, “but many of those closest to him
aren’t on board. As de Blasio touted his liberal record in Iowa and South
Carolina in recent weeks, nearly three dozen former and current aides,
consultants and allies who spoke to POLITICO panned the idea or doubted
that” he “would run for the Democratic nomination.” Politico added, “Some
say the 2020 field, a dozen-strong and growing, leaves no room for de
Blasio,” and a number argue “that he has too many glaring, unresolved
problems at home. Others say the never-truly-popular de Blasio...lacks
charisma. ... The idea of a de Blasio candidacy is ‘f---ing insane,’ said
one former aide, laughing out loud. Another self-described friend of the
mayor called the idea ‘idiotic.’”
Democrats To Hold 2020 Convention In Milwaukee.

The AP
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(3/11, Barrow, Bauer, Moreno) reports Democratic Party leaders announced
Monday that the 2020 Democratic National Convention will be held in
Milwaukee, “highlighting the battleground state of Wisconsin that helped
elect President Donald Trump.” DNC Chairman Tom Perez “chose Milwaukee over
Houston and Miami after deliberations lingered longer than party leaders or
officials from the three finalist cities had expected.”

        Reuters
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(3/11) reports the convention, which will be held July 13-16, marks “the
first time the party will hold it in a Midwestern city other than Chicago
in over a century, the party said in a statement.” The Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=035-03c&t=c>
(3/11, Glauber, Spicuzza) says the Democrats’ decision “was political.
Winning Wisconsin and other Midwestern states is critical if the party is
to unseat President Donald Trump.” Similarly, ABC World News Tonight[image:
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(3/11, story 10, 0:15, Muir) said that for Democrats, the selection of
Milwaukee “signal[s] their commitment to try to win back the Midwest.”

        In an “analysis,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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(3/11, Gilbert) reports that in choosing Milwaukee to host the convention,
Democrats are “saying that re-taking Wisconsin and Michigan and
Pennsylvania is a core strategic priority.” They “also are saying with
their convention pick that they are not content to lose rural and
blue-collar white voters by ever-bigger margins, since those voters make up
a huge segment of the electorate in the blue wall states. Historically,
Democrats have done better with these kinds of voters in these particular
states than they have done nationally. But Clinton lost rural and
blue-collar whites by far bigger margins in Wisconsin than Barack Obama did
in 2008 or 2012.”

        The New York Times
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(3/11, Lerer, Goldmacher) says Wisconsin “holds a searing place in the
Democratic Party psyche after Hillary Clinton, the party’s last
presidential nominee, opted not to campaign in the traditionally blue state
during the general election – a decision that some blamed for her
22,000-vote defeat in the state.” Moreover, “party officials worried about
the optics of hosting a convention in Houston, a city dominated by the oil
and gas industry, at a time when Democratic activists are focused on
combating climate change.”

        Politico
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=039-d66&t=c>
(3/11, Korecki, Thompson) reported, “In recent weeks, top Midwestern
Democrats and business leaders engaged in a frenzied effort to bring the
convention to their region, insisting that holding it in Wisconsin would
help repair the frayed relationship between the party and heartland voters.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and even Illinois
Gov. J.B. Pritzker were involved in the behind-the-scenes overtures to the
DNC.”

        A Wall Street Journal
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=03a-265&t=c>
(3/11) editorial says Democrats’ decision to hold the convention in
Milwaukee reflects their desire not to lose blue-collar liberals, rural
white, and older voters. The Washington Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=03b-a14&t=c>
(3/11, Wagner, Sonmez) reports Wisconsin GOP chief Mark Jefferson said it
“only fitting” that Democrats selected Milwaukee, which has “elected three
socialist mayors (the most recent of whom left office in 1960).” Said
Jefferson, “No city in America has stronger ties to socialism than
Milwaukee.”
Leading the News
Trump Budget Boosts Defense And Border Security While Cutting Many Other
Areas.

The White House unveiled President Trump’s budget proposal
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=03c-67e&t=c>
for the 2020 fiscal year on Monday. Coverage juxtaposes the President’s
request for more funding for defense and border security with the major
cuts proposed to many other departments and programs, and analyses stating
that the proposal is expected to go nowhere on Capitol Hill due to
Democratic control of the House and the inclusion of some proposals that
even Republicans have balked at in the past. Several outlets also highlight
the fact that even with the proposed cuts, the spending sought would break
records.

        On ABC World News Tonight
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=03d-140&t=c>
(3/11, story 4, 1:45, Muir), Jonathan Karl reported that “the White House
rolled out a new record-shattering budget proposal” on Monday, proposing
“more than $4.7 trillion in federal spending next year alone, and trillions
more in debt over the next decade, something candidate [Donald] Trump
promised he wouldn’t do. ... He also promised he would eliminate the
national debt within eight years. And as you know, the debt at the end of
his first year was at $20 trillion. Last year, it went to $21 trillion,
last month, $22 trillion.” OMB Acting Director Russ *Vought*: “The last
Administration nearly doubled the national debt. When this President ran
for office, he made a commitment to the American people that he would
attempt to tackle the debt within eight years.” Karl: “But he added $2
trillion, more than $2 trillion, to the national debt.” *Vought*: “He came
into office and had an economic recovery that was needed to put people back
to work.”

        The CBS Evening News
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(3/11, story 3, 0:30, Glor) reported, “Trump today sent Congress a record
$4.7 trillion budget that would boost defense spending by five percent to
$750 billion. He wants $8.6 billion for completion of a border wall,
perhaps setting up a new fight with Congress. The President would slash
funding for the Environmental Protection Agency by nearly a third,
education by 10 percent. His plan projects a $1.1 trillion deficit.”
*Vought* said on Fox News Special Report[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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(3/11), “We are facing a $22 trillion national debt, trillion dollar
deficits as far as the eye can see. This President has put forward record
spending reductions as an Administration to be able to get our fiscal house
in order.”

        Kaitlan Collins said on CNN’s The Lead[image: Image removed by
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(3/11), “The White House proposal is going nowhere on Capitol Hill, where
Democrats have declared it dead on arrival, claiming Trump hasn’t learned
his lesson from the government shutdown when he walked away without a
single dollar in new wall funding.” Reuters
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=041-640&t=c>
(3/11, Rampton, Gibson) reports House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita Lowey
said, “President Trump has somehow managed to produce a budget request even
more untethered from reality than his past two.” Senate Appropriations
Committee ranking member Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) “said in a statement
that Trump’s plan ‘is not worth the paper it is printed on.’” The Wall
Street Journal
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(3/11, Davidson) reports House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson
was also critical, saying, “The lack of seriousness that the President
brings to budget negotiations only further damages his relationship with
Congress. Democrats wholeheartedly reject his proposal.”

        The AP
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=043-197&t=c>
(3/11, Mascaro) reports that Trump has “proposed a record $4.7 trillion
federal budget for 2020...relying on optimistic 3.1 percent economic growth
projections alongside accounting shuffles and steep domestic cuts to bring
future spending into promised balance in 15 years.” USA Today
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=044-9dc&t=c>
(3/11, Fritze) says the White House “is eager to sell three messages with
the president’s third budget: that Trump hasn’t given up on building his
long-promised border wall, that he wants to increase military spending and
that he hopes to slash just about everything else.”

        The New York Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=045-cdb&t=c>
(3/11, Tankersley, Tackett) says the budget proposal “is replete with
aggressively optimistic economic assumptions and appeals to his core
constituents, and it envisions deep cuts to programs that Democrats hold
dear.” However, the Times points out that “a few domestic spending programs
would see increases, if Mr. Trump’s budget were to become law,” including
“efforts to reduce opioid addiction and a 10 percent increase in health
care spending for veterans.” The Times says the President also wants “a new
school-choice program, $200 billion in infrastructure spending and efforts
to reduce the cost of prescription drugs.”

        The Washington Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=046-3d3&t=c>
(3/11, Stein) says the President’s budget proposal “stands as a sharp
challenge to Congress and the Democrats trying to unseat him in 2020” in
that it “would dramatically expand spending on programs and initiatives
popular with Republicans, such as $750 billion in new defense spending and
$8.6 billion for barriers on the Mexico border.” Politico
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=047-02f&t=c>
(3/11, Emma, Scholtes) reports the plan “would impose mandatory work
requirements for millions of people who receive welfare assistance through
the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Medicaid and housing
programs.” The Hill
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=048-a89&t=c>
(3/11, Elis) reports it would also “raise overall defense spending to $750
billion, up from $716 billion in 2019, while slashing nondefense programs
to $567 billion, down from the $597 billion allocated in 2019.”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(3/11, Bierman) writes that “while past presidents used the release of
their annual spending plans as an opportunity to lay out short- and
long-term visions, and to influence subsequent negotiations on Capitol
Hill, Trump has taken the lack of regard for budgets to new lows,
reflecting his own lack of interest in policy details, his administration’s
thin staffing and its overall ambivalence about the nitty-gritty of
policy-making.”

        Heather Long of the Washington Post
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(3/11) writes that Trump’s budget “basically has no chance of getting
enacted. Even Republicans balk at some of Trump’s proposed cuts. But the
150-page budget reveals a lot about Trump’s top priorities as his
reelection campaign gets into full swing, and he looks to make it clear
there are big differences between his vision for America and that of his
Democratic rivals. In short, Trump wants more spending on the military and
veterans and less spending on education, housing, welfare, transportation
and science.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(3/11) says in an editorial that entitlement spending is overwhelming the
federal budget, and argues that the President is right to try to hike
defense spending despite this. However, the Journal says Trump’s argument
for cuts is hurt by his declaration of a national emergency in order to use
defense funds to pay for a US-Mexico border wall.

        USA Today
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=04c-81e&t=c>
(3/11) editorializes, “Amid all of the outrages of the Trump administration
and Congress, the fact that the federal budget deficit has surged by 77
percent above the same period last year somehow got lost. ... Many
Democrats are pushing have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too spending plans that
almost perfectly mirror Republicans’ have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too tax
cuts.”

        Bloomberg
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(3/11, Wasson, Sink) and CQ Roll Call
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=04e-82f&t=c>
(3/11, Lerman) are among the other sources reporting on the budget.

        *Trump Proposing “Sizable Reduction” Of Medicare. *In an article
titled “Trump Proposes Big Cuts To Health Programs For Poor, Elderly And
Disabled,” the Washington Post
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(3/11, Stein, Goldstein) reports that the budget plan proposes “a sharp
slowdown in Medicaid spending that would shift more than $1 trillion over
10 years by steering the entitlement program into a system of block grants
that would give states far more freedom to set their own rules about how to
cover the poor.” The Post says the budget plan “also calls for a sizeable
reduction for Medicare, the federal insurance for older Americans that
President Trump has consistently vowed to protect.” The Washington Examiner
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=050-a02&t=c>
(3/11, Leonard) reports the budget “does not outline specific cuts to
Medicare,” but “envisions spending reductions through Congress passing
prescription-drug legislation and through efforts to reduce improper
payments to healthcare providers.”

        *Budget Calls For Deep Cuts To State Department, USAID. *The Washington
Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=051-a43&t=c>
(3/11, Morello) reports the budget proposal would “slash” the budget for
the State Department and the US Agency for International Development “by
almost 24 percent, with particularly steep cuts to humanitarian aid,
refugee assistance and global health programs.” State Department officials
“defended the budget, saying the United States remains the world’s largest
contributor to global health and humanitarian efforts.”

        *Request Seeks 15% Cut To USDA. *Reuters
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(3/11, Pamuk) reports the budget plan “proposed a 15 percent cut for the
U.S. Department of Agriculture, calling its subsidies to farmers ‘overly
generous’ at a time they are going through the worst crisis in decades due
to depressed commodity prices and Trump’s trade tariffs.” According to
Reuters, the budget plan “requested $20.8 billion for the USDA, a $3.6
billion or 15 percent cut from the 2019 estimate.”

        *Plan Would Cut Education Department Budget By About 12%. *The
Washington
Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2019031201biden&r=email-c274&l=053-28c&t=c>
(3/11, Douglas-Gabriel) reports Trump “is again proposing to cut billions
of dollars from the Education Department, seeking to eliminate after-school
programs, teacher training and grants for other school needs.” But the
proposal would also “create a $5 billion program to help children attend
private schools.” The Post says the “request to cut more than $8.5 billion
– about 12 percent – from the Education Department budget is unlikely to
gain traction in Congress.”

        *Proposal Would Require Federal Workers To Pay More Toward
Retirement. *The Washington Post
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(3/11, Yoder) reports, “Federal employees would pay more toward their
retirement benefits from salaries that generally would be frozen” under the
budget proposal, which “repeats numerous ideas from President Trump’s prior
two budget proposals that failed to gain enactment even with Congress fully
under Republican control.” House Majority Leader Hoyer “called it a
‘nonstarter’ that ‘once again attacks our hard-working federal workforce by
freezing their pay and threatening their retirement savings.’”

        *Budget Does Not Include Funding For Rebuilding Of FBI
Headquarters. *The Washington Times
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(3/11, Mordock) reports Assistant Attorney General for Administration Lee
Lofthus said Monday that the Administration “will not ask for additional
funding for its $3.3 billion plan to tear down and rebuild the FBI
headquarters in downtown Washington,” postponing any request for new money
for the project “while it confers with Congress on the proposal.”

        *Trump Seeks To More Than Double DOD “War-Fighting Account.”
*The Washington
Post
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(3/11, Sonne) reports the budget proposal also calls for “a massive
increase in the Pentagon’s war-fighting account. ... Known as the Overseas
Contingency Operations budget, or OCO, the war-fighting account is excluded
from the spending caps set out in the 2011 Budget Control Act because it
funds ongoing war efforts such as the conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria and
Iraq.” The budget proposal seeks “$165 billion for the account in the 2020
fiscal year, up from $69 billion this year.”

        *NASA Budget Request Focuses On Moon Program. *The New York Times
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(3/11, Chang) reports, “In a shifting of priorities at NASA, the Trump
administration’s proposed budget for next year adds $600 million for an
outpost high above the moon and the beginning of development for landers to
take astronauts back to the lunar surface.” The proposal also “emphasizes a
more commercial approach for moon exploration.”

        *Media Analyses: GDP Unlikely To Grow Fast Enough To Meet Trump’s
Projections. *Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times
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(3/11) writes, “For President Trump’s budget to work, the economy will have
to grow at sustained rates not seen in years.” The President “calls it
‘MAGAnomics,’ saying he is convinced that Americans, with his leadership,
can defy the prognosticators and produce economic growth at an average of
about 3 percent each year over the next decade.” But budget analysts “said
there’s no chance that happens. They used words like ‘fantasy’ or ‘absurd’
to describe the White House’s predictions.” The CBO has said GDP “will grow
at an annual rate of 2.7 percent this year and drop below 2 percent the
rest of this decade.”

        Jim Tankersley similarly writes in the New York Times
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(3/11) under the headline “Trump’s Economic Outlook Is Rosy. That Could Be
A Problem” that “there are signs, in the indicators Mr. Trump watches
closely, that his economic policies are beginning to work against his
economic goals. Waning stimulus” from the 2017 tax cut “and economic damage
from his global trade war are undermining the president’s oft-stated
objective of increasing growth” and reducing budget and trade deficits.
Foreign Policy
Ex-VP Cheney Challenges Pence Over Trump’s Foreign Policy At Private
Retreat.

The Washington Post
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(3/11, Parker) reports that a “chummy discussion between Vice President
Pence and former vice president Richard B. Cheney quickly turned into a
vigorous back-and-forth over President Trump’s foreign policy at a private
gathering on Saturday, with Cheney comparing the president’s instincts to
those” of former President Obama, according to a transcript obtained by The
Washington Post. At the closed-door retreat hosted by the American
Enterprise Institute, Cheney “respectfully but repeatedly and firmly
pressed Pence on a number of the president’s foreign policy moves – over
which Cheney expressed concerns – from taking a harder line” toward NATO to
deciding to withdraw troops from Syria. The Post says Cheney’s questions
for Pence “provide a revealing glimpse into the churning and often strained
debates inside the Republican Party, where longtime GOP hawks such as
Cheney have increasingly balked at Trump’s engagement with autocrats and
his noninterventionist approach to US military efforts in the Middle East.”

        According to Politico
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(3/11, Johnson), “Cheney lit into...Pence behind closed doors over the
direction of the Trump administration’s foreign policy, flouting a set of
agreed-upon subjects and forcing Pence on the defensive over...Trump’s
foreign policy.”

        The AP
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(3/11, Miller) reports “Cheney warned that American allies were questioning
the dependability of the US as a result of the Trump’s public statements.”
Cheney also “raised alarm over news reports that Trump does not spend
sufficient time with his intelligence briefers as well as over frequent
staff churn in key national security postings.”

        *Boot: Trump Turning US Foreign Policy “Into A Protection Racket.” *Max
Boot writes in his Washington Post
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(3/11) column that President Trump has “become notorious for speaking like
a mob boss. He is acting like one, too, turning US foreign policy into a
protection racket and soldiers into a strong-arm squad that needs to be
paid off – or else.” Boot notes that “at the president’s insistence, the
administration is formulating plans to demand a vast increase in the
subsidies that allies pay to support US forces on their soil.” Boot says
Trump “is acting like a landlord demanding a rent increase from deadbeat
tenants. But our allies aren’t tenants – and they aren’t freeloaders. They
are partners in a collective security enterprise that benefits the United
States more than anyone else.”
Pelosi Invites NATO Secretary-General To Address Congress.

In what the AP
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(3/11, Kellman) calls “defiance” of President Trump, House Speaker Pelosi
on Monday invited NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to address a
joint meeting of Congress to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the
trans-Atlantic alliance. Pelosi, “in rare agreement with Republicans,
extended the warmly-worded invitation to speak April 3 as one of several
events in the US capital celebrating the treaty’s signing in 1949.” The AP
says that in both “tone and substance, the invitation is stiff pushback to
the NATO criticism Trump campaigned on in 2016.”

        According to the Washington Post
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(3/11, Costa), Senate Majority Leader McConnell and Pelosi “held quiet
talks about the idea of an invitation to...Stoltenberg as they eye ways to
honor NATO as it celebrates its 70th anniversary in April and underscore
the US commitment to the group’s values and importance in securing global
order, according to three people familiar with the discussions who were not
authorized to speak publicly.” Bloomberg
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(3/11, Edgerton) reports both McConnell and House Minority Leader McCarthy
are “supporting the invitation.” Bloomberg says “foreign policy is one area
where Republicans have been willing to challenge Trump, particularly in
support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.”
US Envoy: Sanctions On North Korea Will Remain Until It Is Fully
Denuclearized.

Reuters
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(3/11, Brunnstrom, Spetalnick) reports US special envoy Stephen Biegun said
Monday that “diplomacy is still very much alive” with North Korea in the
wake of the Hanoi summit. However, Reuters says Biegun also “cautioned that
Washington was closely watching activity at a North Korean rocket site,”
and said North Korea “needed to show it was fully committed to giving up
its nuclear weapons.” According to Reuters, Biegun “stressed that US-led
sanctions, which Pyongyang wants dropped, would remain in place until North
Korea completed the process of denuclearization.”

        The AP
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(3/11, Burns) reports Biegun said “the missing variable” in making a deal
is the North’s unwillingness to offer complete, verifiable
denuclearization. Said Biegun, “We are not going to do denuclearization
incrementally.” Under Kim’s proposal at the Hanoi summit, “We’d lift that
pressure in exchange for only a portion of those weapons of mass
destruction programs,” Biegun said. “That would have put us in a position –
a very difficult position – of essentially subsidizing what would
potentially be ongoing development of weapons of mass destruction in North
Korea. We need a total solution.”

        Axios
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(3/11, Lawler) reports that “in the lead-up to the Hanoi summit, US
officials seemed to hint at openness to a step-by-step process,” but the
“rhetoric has been more hawkish since.” Biegun, however, “denied the
position was shifting.” A Washington Post
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(3/11, Hudson) analysis too says the Administration “has taken a
harder-line approach to denuclearizing North Korea since the summit in
Vietnam last month, raising doubts about whether the two sides will reach a
deal on the centerpiece of President Trump’s foreign policy.”

        *UN Report: North Korea Evading Sanctions. *Andrea Mitchell
reported on NBC Nightly News
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(3/11, story 3, 1:40, Holt) that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has
apparently “found new ways to get around UN sanctions, raking in millions
by shipping coal and smuggling in oil.” Mitchell reported that, according
to the UN, “blacklisted North Korean ships are masquerading as legitimate
by repainting their names and stealing electronic tracking signals from
other ships thousands of miles away.” The report also warned that North
Korea’s nuclear and missile programs “remain intact.”

        *Charges Against Indonesian Woman Accused Of Killing Kim’s Half
Brother Dropped. *The AP
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(3/11, Ng) reports that “one of two women accused of killing [Kim’s] half
brother by smearing VX nerve agent on his face was freed after two years of
detention Monday when Malaysian prosecutors unexpectedly dropped the murder
charge against her.” According to the AP, “Indonesian Siti Aisyah and her
Vietnamese co-defendant, Doan Thi Huong, have said they thought they were
taking part in a prank for a TV show.” Malaysian prosecutors “did not give
any reason for the remarkable retreat in their case against Aisyah in the
killing of Kim Jong Nam at a busy Kuala Lumpur airport terminal.”
Pentagon Begins Work On Missile Systems Banned By Treaty With Russia.

Reuters
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(3/11) reports the Pentagon announced Monday that the US “will begin
‘fabrication activities’ on parts for ground-launched cruise missile
systems,...after Washington announced it plans to withdraw from the
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.” Army Lt. Col. Michelle Baldanza
said, “We will commence fabrication activities on components to support
developmental testing of these systems – activities that until February 2
would have been inconsistent with our obligations under the Treaty. ...
This research and development is designed to be reversible, should Russia
return to full and verifiable compliance before we withdraw from the Treaty
in August 2019.”
Pompeo Denies Allegations US Caused Blackout In Venezuela.

Manuel Bojorquez reported on the CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(3/11, story 5, 1:25, Glor) that “opposition groups say an estimated 17
people have died from lack of medical care” amidst an ongoing blackout in
Venezuela. According to Bojorquez, there is “no quick fix on the horizon”
and no estimate as to when power will be restored. Meanwhile, disputed
President Nicolas Maduro claimed the power outage is the result of a cyber
attack by the US, but provided no evidence of his allegation. Fox News
Special Report
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(3/11) reported Secretary of State Pompeo denied Maduro’s allegations on
Monday afternoon. Gabe Gutierrez reported on NBC Nightly News[image: Image
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(3/11, story 4, 1:15, Holt) that Pompeo also “partly blamed Cuba and Russia
for Venezuela’s problems.”

        The New York Times
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(3/11, Sanger, Kurmanaev, Herrera) reports Pompeo “accused Cuba and Russia
on Monday of propping up” Maduro in the Administration’s “most explicit
argument yet that his government is a dictatorial regime kept alive by two
American adversaries.” Responding to Maduro’s accusation that the US was
behind the blackout, Pompeo – “in comments laced with sarcasm” – said,
“When there is no electricity, thank the marvels of modern Cuban-led
engineering. When there’s no water, thank the excellent hydrologists from
Cuba. When there’s no food, thank the Cuban communist overlords.”

        Reuters
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(3/11, Buitrago, Guanipa, Parraga), meanwhile, reports that Venezuela’s
“state-run oil firm PDVSA has been unable to resume crude exports at its
primary port since last week’s blackout...indicating that the country’s
massive power outage is crippling the OPEC nation’s principal industry.” On
Monday, power “remained patchy in most of the country after a blackout on
Thursday that the government of President Nicolas Maduro claimed was a
US-backed act of ‘sabotage’ on the country’s principal hydroelectric dam.”
The AP
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(3/11, Smith) reports that “an explosion rocked a power station in the
Venezuelan capital early Monday, witnesses said, adding to the crisis
created by days of nationwide power cuts.” Interim President Juan Guaidó
“said three of four electricity transformers servicing the area were
knocked out and that state engineers were unable to fix them.”

        The New York Times
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(3/11, Kurmanaev, Herrera) reports that on Thursday, “the San Geronimo B
substation in the center of the country, which supplies electricity to four
out of five Venezuelans from the massive Guri hydropower plant, went down.”
According to the Times, “No date has been set to restart the plant and most
workers were told to stay home on Monday, said two of the substation’s
workers and a manager at the national power monopoly, Corpoelec.” The Times
adds that “the nearby San Geronimo A backup substation, which transmits
much weaker current from the smaller Matagua hydropower plant, operated
intermittently on Sunday. Supplies from Matagua and a few unreliable
thermoelectric plants allowed the government to send sporadic power to
Caracas throughout the day.”
Pompeo, Shanahan, Kushner Meet With Jordan’s Abdullah.

Reuters
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(3/11, Holland) reports Secretary of State Pompeo, along with White House
senior advisers Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, met with Jordan’s King
Abdullah Monday in Washington for 45 minutes. Reuters notes that Kushner
and Greenblatt “returned recently from a tour of Gulf states during which
they sought support from Arab leaders on the economic portion of a Middle
East peace proposal that” President Trump is “expected to unveil in coming
months.” Reuters reports that Abdullah also met today with Acting Defense
Secretary Shanahan.
Netanyahu Opponent Thinks Trump Could Recognize Golan To Swing Israeli
Election.

Barak Ravid writes for Axios
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(3/11) that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s “main political opponent”
Benny Gantz “thinks President Trump could recognize Israeli sovereignty in
the Golan Heights in order to help Netanyahu win the April 9 elections,
three Gantz aides told me.” Ravid says Gantz’s aides say “they think Trump
could announce US recognition of the Golan Heights during Netanyahu’s visit
to the White House two weeks from now,” which would “give Netanyahu a huge
achievement to campaign on.”

        *Graham: US Should Recognize Golan As Part Of Israel. *The AP
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(3/11, Debre) reports that in Israel on Monday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
“vowed to push for US recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan
Heights, in what would represent a new contentious political gift to Israel
from the Trump administration.” Graham, while visiting the region with
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said he “aimed to change the
current US-designation of the Golan, which Israel captured from Syria in
1967, as disputed territory.” Said Graham, “The Golan is not disputed. It
is in the hands of Israel and will always remain in the hands of Israel.
... My goal is to try to explain this to the administration.”

        *Attacks By Israeli Settlers On Palestinians Surge In West Bank. *The
Washington Post
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(3/11, A1, Morris, Eglash) reports on its front page that officials say
“attacks blamed on Israeli settlers...are spiking” in the West Bank, driven
by what Israeli monitoring groups say is “a lack of Israeli law enforcement
and a response to a rash of particularly distressing attacks by
Palestinians against Israelis.” In addition, “a more sympathetic US policy
toward settlements may have emboldened the extremist youths who carry out
reprisal attacks, according to Lior Amihai, executive director of Yesh Din,
an Israeli human rights group that tracks abuses against Palestinians in
the West Bank.” Israel’s security agency, Shin Bet, “documented 295 of what
it calls ‘Jewish terror’ incidents last year, a 40 percent increase.”
Domestic Policy
Trump Tells GOP Senators To “Get Tough” And Support Emergency Declaration.

As the Senate prepares to take up a resolution disapproving of President
Trump’s declaration of an emergency on the US-Mexico border, the President
in a tweet Monday morning, called on Republican senators to “get tough” and
support his declaration. Trump wrote
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“Republican Senators have a very easy vote this week. It is about Border
Security and the Wall (stopping Crime, Drugs etc.), not Constitutionality
and Precedent. It is an 80% positive issue. The Dems are 100% United, as
usual, on a 20% issue, Open Borders and Crime. Get tough R’s!”

        Politico
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(3/11, Everett, Levine) says GOP senators “are trying to head off a
collision” with Trump. Some “are discussing a potential compromise with the
White House in order to limit Republican defections on a vote this week to
overturn Trump’s emergency declaration, according to GOP senators and
aides.” Politico says GOP senators “queasy about the legality and precedent
of Trump’s unilateral move to fund his wall are exploring whether the
president will commit to signing a bill amending the National Emergency Act
and curtailing presidential power. In exchange, they would consider
standing with the president and potentially vote against the House-passed
disapproval measure.” While the matter “was unresolved as of Monday
evening,” Politico says “the discussions underscore the reluctance of the
GOP to fight with the president on the Senate floor.”

        *Trump Says He Doesn’t Want Immigrants Coming In To Be Dependent On
Welfare. *Breitbart
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(3/11, Marlow, Boyle, House, Spiering) reports that in an interview with
Breitbart News Monday, President Trump “said he does not want immigrants
coming to the United States to be dependent on welfare programs.” Trump
said, “I don’t want to have anyone coming in that’s on welfare. ... We have
a problem, because we have politicians that are not strong, or they have
bad intentions, or they want to get votes, because they think if they come
in they’re going to vote Democrat, you know, for the most part.” Trump also
said “that while it is his belief that some industries need more workers
brought in in various capacities, the Democrats and the left are pushing to
bring anyone and everyone into the country regardless of the consequences.”

        *Trump Losing Support Among ICE Officers. *The Washington Times
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(3/11, Dinan) reports while ICE officers endorsed President Trump in 2016,
they now say “he has failed to follow through on his get-tough promises,
saying catch-and-release of immigrants living illegally in the U.S. is not
only still happening, but has gone into ‘overdrive.’” ICE officers “say
they’re being roped into such mundane tasks as opening the doors on vans to
release immigrants already caught by Border Patrol agents,” which is
“dragging the officers from their usual duties of nabbing fugitives, or
scouring local prisons and jails for immigrant criminals who lived
illegally in the U.S. ready to be deported.” In a letter sent to Trump
Monday, leaders of the National ICE Council wrote, “Hundreds of man hours
are wasted each day at a time of crisis on the border.”

        *Newsom: Trump Administration Policies Are A “Complete Failure.” *Gov.
Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360[image: Image removed
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(3/11), “All of these efforts by the Administration are a complete failure.
Everything they’ve tried to do...is making things worse not better. There’s
no accountability for just simple governance, and humanity, and decency. I
think it’s incumbent on all of us, not just Democrats in California,
Republicans, human beings that care about the human condition to demand and
expect more and stop the politics and the tweets and let’s come to some
conclusion of the consequences of our failure in this country to advance
comprehensive immigration reform.”

        *Top Officials Resign From Texas Migrant Charity. *The New York
Times
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(3/11, Kulish, Barker, Ruiz) reports that, “on Monday, facing intense
scrutiny from his own organization and federal investigations over alleged
financial improprieties,” the founder, Juan Sanchez, of Southwest Key
Programs – a nonprofit that controversially housed migrant children taken
from their parents – stepped down after 32 years at the helm.” The
charity’s CFO, Melody Chung, “left last month after a New York Times
article outlined allegations of mismanagement and possible malfeasance at
the charity.” The charity “began an internal investigation after the
article was published in December” with “he Justice Department also
beginning an investigation.
White House: Trump Will Decide On Any Manafort Pardon “When He’s Ready.”

Politico
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(3/11, Choi) reports President Trump “hasn’t yet decided on a potential
pardon for former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and he’ll make that call
when he’s ready,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Monday.
According to Politico, “speculation about a presidential pardon grew” after
Trump told reporters Friday that he felt “very badly” for Manafort, saying
he’s gone through a “very tough time.” Speaking to reporters during a press
briefing Monday, Sanders said, “The President has made his position on that
clear. He’ll make a decision when he’s ready.”

        *Reuters Analysis: Mueller Battling “Relentless Campaign” By Trump,
GOP To Discredit Probe. *Reuters
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(3/11, Dunham) reports Robert Mueller “brought an enviable reputation as
the architect of the modern FBI and a force behind major criminal
prosecutions to his job as special counsel investigating Russia’s role in
the 2016 US election but has encountered a relentless campaign by President
Donald Trump to discredit the probe.” While Mueller, “a longtime
Republican, received bipartisan praise when he was named as special
counsel” in 2017, “Trump and allies in the Republican Party and
conservative media have sought to disparage Mueller...and paint the entire
Russia investigation as illegitimate and politically motivated.” Mueller,
however, has “remained silent throughout the investigation.”

        *Attorney Claims Cohen Hoped Trump Would Make Him Attorney General.
*On ABC’s Good Morning America
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(3/11), Tom Llamas interviewed attorney Keith Davidson, who “negotiated the
hush money payments for Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougall” with Michael
Cohen. According to Llamas, Davidson “says right after the election, Cohen
was very certain he was in line for top positions, including attorney
general or chief of staff, and he became irate at inauguration time when he
learned there were no prospects.” Davidson: “He confided in me that he was
just beside himself and in his words, he said, ‘Can you [bleep] believe it?
I just can’t [bleep] believe it? Can you [bleep] believe after everything I
have done, he’s not taking me to Washington? He felt it was a personal
embarrassment for him. He was – um – rejected.”

        *White House Rejects House Panel’s Request To Question Lawyers In
Stormy Daniels Probe. *Bloomberg
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(3/11, House, Pettypiece) reports the White House “has rebuffed a
congressional request to question a former deputy counsel about an
allegedly inaccurate account of a payment” to Stormy Daniels. In a letter
to House Oversight and Reform Chairman Elijah Cummings, White House Counsel
Pat Cipollone wrote, “Given longstanding law and practice, we are not
inclined to make the former deputy counsel to the president available for a
transcribed interview inquiring into his conversations and advice he
provided while serving as deputy counsel to the president.” Bloomberg notes
Cummings has been “seeking transcribed testimony from Stefan Passantino,
the former deputy counsel, and President Trump’s personal attorney Sheri
Dillon.”

        *Senate Investigators Question Papadopoulos’ Wife. *The Washington
Post
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(3/11, Demirjian) reports the Senate Intelligence Committee “met in private
Monday with Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos, whose husband unwittingly helped
prompt the FBI investigation of President Trump’s campaign, as part of its
ongoing probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election.” The panel
asked Mangiante Papadopoulos “about her former employer Joseph Mifsud, a
London-based professor with suspected ties to the Kremlin, she told The
Washington Post in a brief interview.” Mifsud, prosecutors have said,
offered to help George Papadopoulos broker meetings between the Trump
campaign and Russian officials. Mangiante Papadopoulos “said congressional
investigators were more focused on her experience working with Mifsud than
what she knew of her husband’s activities during the campaign.”
Pelosi Opposes Impeaching Trump, Who Is “Just Not Worth It.”

The Washington Post Magazine
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(3/11, Heim), in a lengthy interview with the Speaker under the headline
“Nancy Pelosi On Impeaching Trump: ‘He’s Just Not Worth It,’” reports that
when asked, “Do you feel that [President Trump] has done anything that has
been good for America?” Pelosi replied, “He’s been a great organizer for
Democrats, a great fundraiser for Democrats and a great mobilizer at the
grass-roots level for Democrats.” Pelosi adds, “I’m not for impeachment.
This is news. I’m going to give you some news right now because I haven’t
said this to any press person before. But since you asked, and I’ve been
thinking about this: Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless
there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t
think we should go down that path, because it divides the country. And he’s
just not worth it.”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(3/11, story 3, 0:50, Muir) reported that “for the first time, the Speaker
of the House flatly declared she is against impeaching President Trump.”
The CBS Evening News
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(3/11, story 8, 0:20, Glor) also briefly reported her comments, and NBC
Nightly News
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(3/11, story 2, 2:00, Holt) said Pelosi’s remarks “could divide Democrats,”
because “not everyone in her party agrees, possibly setting up a show down
with more progressive Democrats,” like Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and
Ilhan Omar.

        The New York Times
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(3/11, Fandos) likewise says Pelosi “has repeatedly made her aversion to
impeachment clear in the past. But her remarks to The Post were more
expansive than previous ones and are likely to irk some liberal
rank-and-file members of Ms. Pelosi’s party trying to build support for
it.” Politico
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(3/11, Ferris, Desiderio) reports Pelosi’s comments “divided Democrats,”
receiving “a strong endorsement from her top deputies,” while “some members
of her caucus pushed back on her comments, arguing that impeachment should
be based solely on facts and evidence – not political considerations.”

        Asked to comment on Pelosi’s remarks, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(D-NY) told the Washington Examiner
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(3/11, Ferrechio) Monday night, “I happen to disagree with that take. But
you know, she’s the speaker. … I think we’ll see.”

        Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) said on CNN’s Situation Room[image:
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(3/11), “I think Speaker Pelosi is being Speaker. I think she is lowering
expectations about the prospect of impeachment and reminding people of the
gravity of that move and the impact it could have politically in dividing
the country.” Connolly added, “I wouldn’t go as far as the Speaker.
Frankly, if we are presented with compelling evidence that the President
clearly committed impeachable offenses, then I think we have to vote for
impeachment.”

        Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) said on CNN’s Situation Room[image:
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(3/11), “We don’t need an impeachment at this moment. But there’s things
out there. The Mueller report’s not in. We’ve got three committees doing
investigations. As that work develops, it may very well be that we must
impeach. We don’t know right now. ... We do know there are major questions.
There’s a lot of smoke around this presidency and what does it all mean?
We’re going to find out over the next couple of months. Will that warrant
an impeachment? Could very well be. The President’s been accused of
criminal behavior. Is that impeachable? If it’s proven, certainly, it would
be.”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(3/11, Debonis) reports Pelosi said “she opposes moving to impeach
President Trump, even though she believes he is ‘unfit’ for office.” To the
Times, the “apparent contradiction shows that Pelosi is well aware of the
political risks of impeachment and how pursuit of the president could
energize Republican voters ahead of the 2020 election.”

        On ABC World News Tonight
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(3/11, story 5, 0:40, Muir), Jon Karl similarly called Pelosi’s comments “a
reflection of political reality. There are simply not the votes to impeach
the President. And Nancy Pelosi would much rather run against a wounded and
heavily investigated Donald Trump than wage a lost cause effort to remove
him from office through impeachment.”

        Mike Emanuel said on Fox News Special Report[image: Image removed
by sender. Video]
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(3/11), “This will likely put her at odds with even some of her own
committee chairs at a time when leading House Democrats has been quite
challenging.”

        Brit Hume said on Fox News Special Report[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(3/11), “It’s good politics to avoid impeachment. When the Republicans did
it to Bill Clinton, even though he clearly lied to a grand jury, it
backfired. He was not convicted in the Senate and left office in something
of a blaze of glory. I’m sure that’s what Nancy Pelosi is thinking about as
she looks ahead to the possibilities surrounding Donald Trump.”

        White House correspondent Abby Phillip said on CNN’s Situation
Room[image:
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(3/11), “I think it tells you a lot about how Pelosi sees the politics of
next several years. It seems that for some Democrats, the top priority is
voting Trump out and there has always been a concern that will happen with
Trump is what happened with Bill Clinton during his impeachment. His
approval rating could go up, causing Democrats to lose out on public
sentiment.” Pelosi “believes that if she loses public sentiment, they will
lose the entire effort here and that they could end up inadvertently
reelecting Donald Trump to a second term.”

        *Greenwald Speculates Putin Might Have Dirt On Pelosi. *The Washington
Examiner
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(3/11, Chaitin) reports Intercept journalist Glenn Greenwald “speculated
Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin might have some sort of dirt
on...Pelosi after she abruptly shut the door on impeaching President
Trump.” In a series of tweets
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Greenwald “also questioned the motives of the Democratic Party, who have
long questioned whether Trump has been compromised by the Russians over the
course of Russia collusion investigations by special counsel Robert Mueller
and congressional panels.” Wrote Greenwald, “If Trump is literally
controlled by Putin to the point where Trump is forced to act in the best
interests of Russia *at the expense of the US* – which has been the
prevailing claim not of Dem fringes but its mainstream – how can it be
morally justified not to impeach him???”

        *Judicial Watch Urges Ethics Complaint Against Schiff For Fusion
GPS, Cohen Contacts. *The Washington Examiner
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(3/11, Correll) reports that the “conservative watchdog group” Judicial
Watch is “urging the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate House
Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff regarding his communications with Fusion
GPS founder Glenn Simpson and President Trump’s former personal attorney
Michael Cohen.” In a statement Monday, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton
said, “Rep. Schiff has an ethics problem. His and his staff’s irregular
communications with anti-Trump witnesses reflect poorly on the credibility
of the House and its committees’ investigations.”
Sanders Declines To Confirm Whether Trump Believes Democrats “Hate Jewish
People.”

The Washington Post
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(3/11, Sonmez) reports White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders “declined
to say Monday whether President Trump believes Democrats ‘hate Jewish
people,’ arguing that reporters should pose that question to Democratic
lawmakers.” Sanders replied, “I think that’s a question you ought to ask
the Democrats.” Axios reported that according to an attendee, “Trump said
Friday at a Republican National Committee fundraiser at his Mar-a-Lago Club
that ‘the Democrats hate Jewish people.’”

        The New York Post
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(3/11, Moore) reports Sanders “pushed Democrats to condemn...’abhorrent’
comments” by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). The Hill
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(3/11, Fabian) reports Democrats “passed a resolution last week condemning
anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry, a measure Sanders and other
Republicans said was ‘watered down’ because it did not target Omar by name”
for recent remarks.

        The Daily Caller
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(3/11, Brest) focuses its report on the fact that CNN’s Jim Acosta posed
the question to Sanders as a follow-up to a first question from ABC’s
Jonathan Karl. Townhall
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(3/11, Pavlich) reports “Sanders sparred with the press” on the subject.
Politico
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(3/11, Oprysko) headlines its report “Sarah Sanders Sidesteps Questions On
Leaked Trump Comment That Democrats Hate Jews.” CQ Roll Call
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(3/11, Bennett) also has a brief report.

        *Tlaib Sees “Islamophobia” In Both Major Parties. *The Hill
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(3/11, Marcos) reports Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) said “Islamophobia is
‘very much’ a part of the Democratic and Republican parties” in an
interview that aired on Showtime’s The Circus this weekend. Tlaib said,
“Islamophobia is very much among the Democratic Party as well as the
Republican Party. And I know that’s hard for people to hear, but there’s
only been four members of Congress that are of Muslim faith. Three of them
currently serve in this institution.”

        *Fox News Criticizes Pirro Over Comments About Omar. *The New York
Times
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(3/11, Grynbaum) reports, “In an unusual reproach, Fox News on Monday
criticized one of its star personalities, Jeanine Pirro, after the host
questioned” if Omar’s Muslim beliefs “undermined her loyalty to the United
States.” On her program on Saturday night, Pirro asked, “Think about it:
Omar wears a hijab. Is her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of
her adherence to Shariah law, which in itself is antithetical to the United
States Constitution?” The Times says her comments “were widely condemned as
prejudiced, including by a Fox News producer, Hufsa Kamal, who wrote to Ms.
Pirro on Twitter: ‘can you stop spreading this false narrative that somehow
Muslims hate America or women who wear a hijab aren’t American enough? You
have Muslims working at the same network you do, including myself.’”

        The AP
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(3/11, Bauder) reports, “Omar, in a tweet, thanked Fox for the statement,
saying no one should question a person’s commitment to the Constitution
because of a person’s faith or country of origin.”
Trump Donor Claimed She Could Offer Access To President.

The AP
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(3/11, Colvin, Schneider) reports that a “company run by a donor to
President Donald Trump claimed it could provide Chinese clients with a
chance to mingle and take photos with the president, along with access” to
his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. The AP says it “remains unclear how much Li
Yang charged for the services and whether she was ever hired to provide
them. But the company’s claims and other eyebrow-raising activity, which
were first reported by The Miami Herald
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and Mother Jones
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mark the latest in a litany of complications and ethical issues stemming
from Trump continuing to own and operate a private club where dues-paying
members and their guests rub shoulders with the president of the United
States and his family, friends, White House staff and members of his
Cabinet.”
Book Casts Ivanka Trump, Kushner As Trump’s “Enablers.”

The New York Times
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(3/11, Karni, Haberman) reports the book “Kushner Inc.,” by journalist
Vicky Ward “seeks to tell the behind-the-scenes story of [Ivanka] Trump and
[Jared] Kushner’s rise to extraordinary power in the White House.” Ward’s
“account is not a flattering one, and White House officials have dismissed
the book and any coverage of it.” Ward casts Trump and Kushner “as two
children forged by their domineering fathers – one overinvolved with his
son, one disengaged from his daughter – who have climbed to positions of
power by disregarding protocol and skirting the rules when they can.” Ward
also “tries to unravel the narrative that the two serve as stabilizing
voices inside an otherwise chaotic White House, depicting them instead as
Mr. Trump’s chief enablers.” The account, “according to Mr. Kushner’s camp,
is far removed from reality.”
Plane Crash Brings Boeing Company Shares Down, Even As US Stock Market
Rallies.

Reuters
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(3/11, Valetkevitch) reports “US stocks jumped on Monday as the technology
sector led a broad-based rebound following five straight sessions of
losses, but a fall in Boeing’s shares limited the Dow’s advance after a
deadly airline crash in Ethiopia.” Reuters adds that Boeing – “the world’s
largest planemaker and best-performing Dow component this year by a wide
margin” – registered “its biggest one-day percentage drop since Oct. 29,
after many airlines grounded the company’s new 737 MAX 8 passenger jet
following the second fatal crash involving the aircraft in just five
months.” USA Today
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(3/11, Snider) also reports that “the Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane that nosedived
into the ground outside the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa is the same
model from a similar crash less than six months ago. On Oct. 29, an
Indonesian Lion Air flight plummeted into the Java Sea, killing all 189
passengers and crew members.” The Federal Aviation Administration “could
join in the grounding of the 737 MAX planes, which would worsen the near
term for Boeing,” according to one analyst, though this is likely to be a
short-lived problem. One Morgan Stanley analyst said to expect heightened
volatility among Boeing shares as investigators look into the recent
accidents.

        The Washington Post
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(3/11, Schemm) reports that “US officials expressed confidence on Monday in
the Boeing-made jetliner...and said they saw no reason so far to restrict
the planes from flying.” However, “airlines and regulators in Ethiopia,
China and other countries, meanwhile, said they were temporarily grounding”
the MAX 8. European regulators are monitoring the investigation before
taking any action. The Post also states that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
“wrote to acting FAA administrator Daniel K. Elwell asking that the
aircraft be grounded ‘until their safe use has been confirmed,’” and that
“Feinstein is the first US politician to make such a request.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(3/11, Tangel) reports that China and Indonesia are two of Boeing’s largest
markets, and China’s grounding of the MAX 8 took outside aviation
executives and officials by surprise. The 737 MAX 8 comprises an estimated
two-thirds of future deliveries from Boeing and provides 40 percent of the
company’s annual profit. The Journal notes that, despite tense US-China
trade talks, Boeing’s importance to Chinese airlines has kept it safe from
hostile Chinese moves against the company.
Cancer Research
Trump’s 2020 Budget Proposal Includes Cuts To Several HHS Agencies,
Including NIH, NCI.

This morning, there is extensive television and print coverage of President
Trump’s proposed 2020 budget. News outlets say the proposal includes some
significant cuts to science and safety-net programs, and they predict that
Congress will not approve many of those changes given the current political
climate.

        On ABC World News Tonight
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(3/11, story 4, 1:45, Muir), Jonathan Karl reported that “the White House
rolled out a new record-shattering budget proposal. More than $4.7 trillion
in federal spending next year alone, and trillions more in debt over the
next decade, something candidate Trump promised he wouldn’t do.”

        The Washington Post
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(3/11, Stein, Goldstein) reports “spending on the National Institutes of
Health, a longtime favorite of lawmakers of both parties, would be reduced
by $4.5 billion, with the National Cancer Institute proposed to absorb the
largest chunk of that cut.”

        The Washington Post
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(3/11, Dennis) reports that the proposed budget “seeks cuts to a number of
scientific and medical research enterprises, including a 13 percent cut to
the National Science Foundation, a 12 percent cut at the National
Institutes of Health and the termination of an Energy Department program
that funds speculative technologies deemed too risky for private
investors.” The article says NIH would be subject to “a roughly $4.5
billion budget cut, according to an HHS document.” If Congress were to
approve this budget, some of the “big losers...would be the National Cancer
Institute, dropping from $6.1 billion to $5.2 billion, and the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, going from $5.5 billion to
$4.75 billion.”

        The Washington Post
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(3/11, McGinley) reports that the “budget proposes a $50 million increase
for pediatric cancer research for the next fiscal year, while cutting
overall funding for the National Cancer Institute by almost $900 million.”
The article says cancer researchers and advocates warned that “the net
effect of cutting about 14.5 percent from the cancer institute budget, even
while adding the money for pediatric research, would hurt children and
adults.” For instance, Lisa Lacasse, president of the American Cancer
Society Cancer Action Network, said, “Childhood cancer research is
intertwined with all of cancer research and cuts to NIH (the National
Institutes of Health) and NCI funding will consequently have deleterious
effects on such research regardless of age.” Therefore, advocates are
calling “on Congress to rebuff the cuts – as lawmakers have in the past few
years.”

        Science Magazine
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(3/11) reports that the proposal “includes a $500 million, 10-year
childhood cancer initiative that Trump proposed in his State of the Union
address.” It “would involve a new effort to ‘learn from every child with
cancer’ – an apparent reference to a big data sharing project discussed by
National Cancer Institute Director Ned Sharpless that has gotten a mixed
response from pediatric cancer researchers and advocates.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(3/11, Burton, Armour) reports that congressional lawmakers’ recent actions
indicate they are unlikely to approve Trump’s proposed cuts to NIH funding.
The article says lawmakers from both parties in both chambers have long
supported NIH, which means the agency may receive a funding increase when
all is said and done.

        Brian Resnick writes in Vox
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(3/11) that the “2020 budget proposal is out, and one thing is obvious: The
administration doesn’t think spending at the National Institutes of Health
is a very good deal.” The proposal “suggests cutting $4.5 billion, around
11 percent of the agency’s 2019 budget. We should say that estimates of the
total cut reported by different news outlets range from $4.5 billion to $6
billion.”
CAR-T Therapy Reportedly Hurting Hospitals’ Finances.

STAT
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(3/12, Swetlitz) reports that “for about seven months, doctors at Virginia
Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center have been treating patients
with CAR-T therapy, a cutting-edge medical procedure that uses a person’s
own cells to fight against their cancer,” in a “last-ditch effort that can
cure patients who have run out of any other options.” The therapy is
expensive, though, as “the medicines themselves cost hundreds of thousands
of dollars, and the extended hospital stay can bring the total bill much
higher.” The piece describes how many hospitals are impacted by the high
cost of the therapy and other lifesaving cancer treatments, as they have
yet to be paid by insurers. In reference to these high costs, Dr. Henry
Fung, “who runs the CAR-T program at Fox Chase Cancer Center in
Philadelphia,” said, “Each case, hypothetically, lose[s] a quarter million
dollars to half a million dollars. ... How can you have this [be]
sustainable? And then all the community hospitals will never open a CAR-T
program. Never.”
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“Measles Is Making A Comeback. Here’s How To Stop It.”* The New York Times
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(3/11) says in an editorial that amid “anti-vaccine propaganda and vaccine
misinformation,” some “vaccine-preventable diseases are making a comeback.”
The “new rash” of measles outbreaks “has made clear that even small pockets
of vaccine hesitancy and refusal can have grave consequences. And health
officials say that if left unchecked, this outbreak crisis will only
worsen.”
Washington Post.

        *“Americans Shouldn’t Become Inured To Racial Animosity. They
Should Be Outraged.” *In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(3/11) says what is “so insidious about ambient bigotry” is that “in its
quotidian ordinariness, it is too easily ignored yet no less outrageous,
intolerable – or affronting to its victims.” The Post cites a number of
recent incidents and argues, “There is nothing new about the racial
animosity that gives rise to such abuses beyond the fact that they are more
likely now to be recorded by phone cameras and posted for all to see,”
which “simply provides overwhelming evidence that what might once have been
dismissed as anecdotal is in fact ubiquitous – even if President Trump, no
stranger to leveraging racial frictions for his own divisive purposes, is
unlikely to take notice.” The Post says “the exposure of day-in-day-out
racism, documented ad nauseum on social media,” should “shame Americans
into improved behavior. Failing that, there remains a role for the
government – and the Justice Department, among others, should play its
role.”

        *“Winston Scott Was Convicted Of Rape. He Was Exonerated Decades
Later – And He’s Not Alone.” *In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(3/11) says the exoneration of Winston Scott, who was convicted of rape in
1975, “cannot restore the years he lost but – like other exonerations –
provides the opportunity to learn from mistakes and make improvements in
the system to prevent future miscarriages of justice.”

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