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Guns and the ‘New Class’ By Matthew Continetti SoulCycle-Obsessed Kamala Harris Silent on Boycott By Brent Scher German Refusal to Join American Anti-Iran Coalition Rankles U.S. Diplomats By Adam Kredo Harris ‘Proud’ of CA Governor’s Misspent Relief Money By Collin Anderson The Palestinians Do Not Want Equal Rights By Aaron Kliegman Vox Sheds Light on Heartbreaking Plight: White Liberals Suffering from Wealth Anxiety By Andrew Stiles Ocasio-Cortez Hits Former Chief of Staff for ‘Divisive’ Tweet About Moderate Democrats By Cameron Cawthorne A Batty Week at MSNBC By David Rutz Biden: ‘We Choose Truth Over Facts’ By Jeffrey Cimmino You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website. Copyright © 2019 Free Beacon, LLC, All rights reserved.  To reject freedom, click here. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.

THE DAILY SIGNAL

Aug 09, 2019

Good morning from Washington, where the Department of Education enters the fray over transgender athletes in high school sports for girls. Carmel Kookogey reports. What do House Democrats want with Trump’s former White House counsel? Kevin Daley smells an impeachment effort. Let Kaylee Greenlee introduce you to the new ambassador to the U.N. On the podcast, a former terrorist explains his new mission. Plus: Hans von Spakovsky on a victory for clean elections, and Ben Shapiro on standing together when madmen strike. On this date in 1974, Gerald Ford becomes president when Richard Nixon resigns. Enjoy the weekend.

	News Department of Education to Probe Athletic Program Allowing Transgender Females to Compete With Girls The agency’s Office for Civil Rights opens an investigation into whether female high school athletes are discriminated against because Connecticut allows males who identify as females to compete with the girls. More Commentary Voter ID Opponents Lose Again. This Time in North Dakota. Advocates of election integrity win the latest in a long string of cases as a three-judge appeals panel reinstates North Dakota’s voter ID requirement and tosses out an injunction issued by a lower court. More News House Democrats Hope to Force Former White House Counsel to Testify A House committee takes a step toward impeachment proceedings against the president by filing a lawsuit in federal court to force former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify. More Analysis Youngest Person in US Prosecuted for Terrorism Now Fights Islamist Extremism At 15, Mohammed Khalid became the youngest person in America to be prosecuted as a terrorist. Don’t miss his story of what happened next. More News ICE Arrests 680 Illegal Immigrants in Biggest Raid in Decades Roughly 600 special agents were involved in the operation, spreading out to plants owned by five different companies. More News 5 Things to Know About Our New UN Ambassador Kentucky’s Kelly Knight Craft replaces the popular Nikki Haley, a former governor of South Carolina, in the U.N. post. More News Employee Accuses Google of Discriminating Against Pregnant Women A memo by the unnamed Google employee, who says she won’t return from maternity leave, has been read by over 10,000 fellow workers at the tech giant after going viral on internal message boards. More Special Feature 13 Photos of a Presidential Visit to Comfort Shooting Survivors Here are some of the photos capturing the emotional trips by the president and first lady to Texas and Ohio. More Commentary Why Can’t We Unify in the Face of Evil? When a white supremacist terrorist shoots up a Walmart filled with innocents in El Paso, Texas, we should all be on the same side. More

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THE EPOCH TIMES

View this email in your browser “You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.” LEONARDO DA VINCI Good morning,  The U.S. State Department said China acted like a “thuggish regime,” after a pro-regime newspaper released the identity and personal information—including the names of children—of a U.S. diplomat who had met with Hong Kong protest leaders. An official also told The Epoch Times that the ongoing mass protests in Hong Kong “reflect the sentiment of Hongkongers and their broad concerns about the erosion of Hong Kong’s autonomy.” Protesters in Hong Kong have been taking to the streets for more than two months now. Read the full story here   Border Numbers Drop Below 100,000 for First Time in Months Trump Says Deputy National Intelligence Director Resigning More Than 220 in Guam Sue Over Alleged Clergy Sex Abuse Trump Again Considering Pardon for Rod Blagojevich   ICE conducted its largest single-state enforcement operation in history, in six central Mississippi cities: 680 illegal immigrants at seven meat processing plants were swept up. Agents also seized business records at all plants. Read more Parents across the country are living in fear of being reported to social service agencies for neglect if they don’t comply with school regulations. In the latest case, schools in a Georgia county sent a letter notifying families that they will be reported to the government if students rack up charges for failing to bring lunch money to school. Read more Leslie Wexner, the billionaire founder and CEO of Victoria’s Secret parent company L Brands, has accused indicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein of misappropriating over $46 million of his fortune. Read more President Trump is working on a policy action, possibly an executive order, to address claims of social media companies’ politically biased censorship. Read more President Trump’s relocation of two small offices from the nation’s capital to Missouri, may have been done illegally because the move lacked prior congressional approval, according to the USDA Inspector General. Read more President Trump renewed his demand for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates to help U.S. companies compete on the global market. Read more   See More Top Stories Reusing and Recycling is Part of Traditional Culture By Timothy Wahl Twentieth century American poet T.S. Eliot’s classic poem “The Waste Land” deplored the loss of traditional culture in the United States. It explored the misery that erupted as Americans forgot their roots, a simpler time when frugality was the norm. That was when “a penny saved is a penny earned” was practiced; “haste makes waste” had meaning… Read more How Our Constitution Was Supposed to Work: New Evidence Comes to Light By Rob Natelson Judging by the promises of presidential candidates, you might think the federal government is designed to fix whatever ails us: health care, education, crime, infrastructure, the common cold. But the Constitution doesn’t grant the federal government such unlimited authority. And neither Congress nor the presidency nor the courts were created to exercise… Read more   See More Opinions Is Bitcoin Just a Brilliant Wealth Redistribution Scheme? By Valentin Schmid (December 7, 2017) Normally, the concept of wealth redistribution involves government using force to take from some people and give to others. But the bitcoin revolution is redistributing wealth differently. For the sake of simplicity, and to avoid confusion, we will talk about only the original bitcoin in this article and avoid the likes of cryptocurrency products such as ethereum and… Read more A researcher who has spent more than half a decade monitoring Google’s influence said he believes the tech giant will “actively interfere” in the 2020 elections. On Aug. 6, President Donald Trump said his administration is watching Google “very closely.” How Google Will ‘Actively Interfere’ in 2020 Elections Copyright © 2019 The Epoch Times, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can unsubscribe from this list or remove my account.

THE FLIP SIDE

View this email in your browser Friday, August 9, 2019 2020 Update According to a Monmouth University Poll released Thursday, “Former Vice President Joe Biden maintains a lead in [Iowa], but Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is hot on his heels while Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has slipped down the leaderboard… Biden continues to lead the Democratic field with 28% support… Warren is now closing the gap at 19% support, up from 7% four months ago. Support for Sanders has gone in the opposite direction, now at 9% compared with 16% in April.” Monmouth University From the Left The left sees Biden as the current frontrunner and is generally optimistic about the Democratic nominee’s chances against President Trump. “Was the former vice president great in the CNN debate? He was not. Was he better than in the first debate at the end of June? He was — by a significant amount. After a polling slide in the wake of the first debate, Biden appears to have stabilized in the low 30s, which gives him double the support of his next rival. We still have doubts as to whether his message — Trumpism is a fever that will break and politics will be good again — is one that an angry Democratic base will buy. But for now, Biden remains the frontrunner — and clearly so.” Chris Cillizza and Harry Enten, CNN   “If [Biden’s] rivals want to take him down, they need to take him down with the kind of arguments that could hurt him in a general election. And that means embracing right-wing talking points… he’s an old guy who’s served in the senate forever as a member of a corrupt political establishment… Trump is going to run these arguments no matter what happens in the primary — and Biden’s numbers will go down somewhat…     “Maybe Biden will prove to be a highly effective counterpuncher, in which case they won’t go down very much, his head-to-head polling against Trump will still look super-strong, and his electability argument will likely carry the day. Or maybe he won’t, in which case his head-to-head polling will plummet and his electability argument will collapse. Either way, the country will be better-served by having this argument sooner rather than later.” Matthew Yglesias, Vox   Regarding Warren, “[she] is not only among the most liberal candidates in the 2020 field; she’s also an older, white, intellectual woman running in the aftermath of the Hillary Clinton debacle, and she follows in a long line of failed presidential nominees from Massachusetts. Dukakis ’88. Kerry ’04. Romney ’12. It’s entirely too easy to caricature her as a liberal-elite former Harvard professor whom President Trump could drub with those oh-so-important working-class white voters…    “Polls suggest, for now, that Democratic voters are more concerned with beating Trump than with ideological purity. Warren’s job will be to convince them that she’s got enough of the former for people to vote for the candidate with the latter.” Aaron Blake, Washington Post   Dated but relevant: “Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are two of the most ideologically aligned candidates in the Democratic primary… But the fellow enemies of the 1 percent have surprisingly different bases of support. In poll after poll, Sanders appeals to lower-income and less-educated people; Warren beats Sanders among those with postgraduate degrees. Sanders performs better with men, Warren with women. Younger people who vote less frequently are more often in Sanders’ camp; seniors who follow politics closely generally prefer Warren.” Holly Otterbein, Politico “Right now I’d say there’s… a 45 percent chance of Trump winning reelection… 1) The economy will not get any better for Trump and probably will get worse… 2) Trump cannot count on Democratic apathy in 2020… 3) Democrats in 2020 are not Republicans in 2016. One of the more amusing elements of post-debate punditry has been to see right-wing commentators desperately trying to pump up Democratic presidential candidates who might roil the party, such as Marianne Williamson or Tulsi Gabbard… [But] Democrats seem both energized and pragmatic. Neither trend bodes well for the 45th president.” Daniel W. Drezner, Washington Post   “President Trump touches down in El Paso, Texas, today amid a national furor over racist gun massacres, a plummeting stock market, and growing signs that his trade war with China will fail to produce the historic deal he promised during his 2016 presidential campaign. Each of these three developments hurts his standing with a key voter group he’s counting on to win a second term… “Of course, Trump still has 15 months to go before Election Day and can count on the support of millions of diehards who won’t be swayed by racist massacres or sudden swoons in the Dow. But he’ll need to build a broader coalition to win a second term. Any week that he alienates farmers, suburbanites, and Upper Midwest voters makes it less likely that he can pull it off.” Joshua Green, Bloomberg From the Right The right sees Biden as the favorite in the Democratic primary and is generally optimistic about President Trump’s re-election chances. Biden “doesn’t want to fight with his Democratic rivals. He wants to draw contrasts with his rivals where necessary but sees no profit in turning on them the way they are turning on each other. He wants to be the person who unites the party without having to fight trench warfare to get there… the real question is whether the case he makes against Trump is effective enough to convince fence-sitting Democrats to move toward him in the primaries — and whether what he says resonates with the Democratic voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin who stayed home in 2016 and thereby handed Trump the presidency.” John Podhoretz, New York Post “The Iowa caucuses are still half a year away, and Biden has plenty of time to lose this race, but the very makeup of his support bodes well for his longevity. Yes, he has that pivotal support from black voters, but he also dominates among voters older than 50 and still wins with voters older than 35. His support is also constant across income brackets… “If Sanders eventually gives way to Warren in the left lane of the primary, there could be a head-to-head bloodbath between two candidates drawing stark ideological lines but both capable of courting the party elite. But if that left lane remains splintered, Biden could have this primary locked up pretty quickly.” Tiana Lowe, Washington Examiner “Black Democrats’ clear choice now is Biden (47% in Quinnipiac), with Sanders (11%) a very distant second. Warren, the white college grads’ favorite, lags behind with blacks at 8%. Quinnipiac has black candidates Harris and Booker receiving 1% and 0% from blacks – they do better in other polls, but always struggle to hit double digits. Their left-wing issue stances may not help; Echelon Insights polling shows that fewer black Democrats identify as liberal than their white counterparts (by 13 points).” Michael Barone, Washington Examiner In 2004 “[John] Kerry had been in the Senate for almost 20 years. He had done little as a senator and was a wooden and often sanctimonious insider. But he was considered a safe liberal option… The result was that the safe Kerry won the Democratic nomination, but the plodding candidate went on to lose to Bush in a close election. Something similar is shaping up for the Democrats in 2020…  “Biden, like Kerry, is an old political warhorse. For now, he poses as the Democratic establishment’s only safe bet. Like Kerry, Biden has lots of flaws, is an erratic campaigner and is gaffe-prone. Yet Biden continues to poll as the front-runner, mostly because the majority of Democratic voters realize that none of the scary hard-left alternatives have any chance against the hated Donald Trump… Democrats may have no choice but to try the 2004 formula again, even if it ends with the same close but ultimately losing result.” Victor Davis Hanson, National Review Some, however, suggest that “if [Republicans] want to win in 2020, it will require more than just pointing at Democrats and yelling, ‘Socialist!’ in a manner reminiscent of Donald Sutherland in ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers.’ Republicans have 15 months in which to build a positive case for why voters should return them to power. It is also 15 months in which Donald Trump’s tweets and public comments will be threatening to undermine their argument.”  David Thornton, The Resurgent  “At the moment, Democrats are faced with a problem they have not faced since 1988: running to take the White House from the Republicans at a time when the economy has clearly been growing… the Labor Department’s jobs report on Friday showed that unemployment has fallen to levels not seen in half a century and wages are growing. Inflation remains subdued. Since 2001, Gallup has been asking Americans if they think it’s ‘a good time to find a quality job.’ In May, a record 71% said yes… “Trump’s job approval rating, for obvious reasons, is lower than presidents with this kind of economic performance usually enjoy. But his rating on the economy is stronger than his overall rating. For Democratic presidential candidates, then, the best strategy on the economy is twofold: Switch the subject, and hope for a recession.” Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg On the bright side… Zombie Skittles is giving candy a terrifying, undead twist this Halloween. Refinery29 Our volunteer team spends hours each night scanning the news, fact-checking, and debating one another, so your 5 minutes each morning can be well spent. If you’ve found value in our work, we welcome you to help sustain our efforts and expand our reach. Any support you can provide is greatly appreciated! Share Tweet Forward Sign Up Here Copyright © 2019 The Flip Side, All rights reserved. You can unsubscribe from this list here.

THE WASHINGTON POST MORNING HEADLINES

Democracy Dies in Darkness

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Trump announces shakeup at top of U.S. intelligence President Trump said he will name Joseph Maguire, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, as acting director of national intelligence. Sue Gordon, the deputy to the director, will resign Aug. 15, Trump tweeted. By Shane Harris and Ellen Nakashima · Read more Mass Shootings in America After shootings, Democrats rethink reluctance to ban assault weapons The 10-year ban that expired in 2004 has long been considered the third-rail of gun politics for Democratic lawmakers. By Seung Min Kim · Read more   ‘Red flag’ measures to take guns from mentally ill people have uneven success History suggests that a national law could yield incremental results, depending on the enthusiasm with which local officials embrace the measure. By Peter Jamison and Peter Hermann · Read more   ICE defends secretive immigration raids as local, state officials decry effect on children The operation was so closely guarded that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials did not inform the White House before it began, according to Matthew Albence, the agency’s acting director, and other administration officials. By Tim Craig, Scott Wilson and Nick Miroff · Read more   Zombie debt: How collectors trick consumers into reviving dead debts Consumer advocates say there’s a growing effort in the $11 billion debt collection industry to recover debts previously written off by financial firms. By Renae Merle · Read more   As Venezuela’s crisis deepens, the most vulnerable are joining the exodus Tens of thousands of the most vulnerable Venezuelans — impoverished women and children, the elderly, ill and disabled — are pouring out, overwhelming neighboring Colombia. By Anthony Faiola and Rachelle Krygier · Read more       Opinions Trump made his visits to Dayton and El Paso all about him By Eugene Robinson · Read more Italians decided to fight a conspiracy theory. Here’s what happened next. By Anne Applebaum · Read more The Marines have set the bar for reform. Can the rest of the military follow? By David Ignatius · Read more It’s been seven years. Let Austin Tice go. By Editorial Board · Read more Iran has imprisoned a historian for three years. Here’s why his research matters. By Teresa Davis · Read more For Trump and his cronies, draining the swamp means ousting experts By Catherine Rampell · Read more     More News As summer camps turn on facial recognition, parents demand: More smiles, please Facial-recognition technology is becoming an accepted part of American life. Now camps across the country are giving parents an increasingly omniscient view into their kids’ home away from home. By Drew Harwell · Read more   FBI releases records of Justice Dept. official Bruce Ohr interviews about Russia probe The memos describe conversations Ohr had with the FBI about the man behind the dossier of allegations against Trump in 2016. By Devlin Barrett · Read more   ‘It’s like the Band-Aid keeps getting ripped off’: Pittsburgh reaches out to comfort El Paso and Dayton After each massacre, survivors across the country offer messages of empathy to the latest community affected — while coping with a new surge of sorrow at home. By Karen Heller · Read more   Retropolis | The Past, Rediscovered ‘Would not recommend’: Reviewers complain about focus on slavery at plantation tours “We didn’t come to hear a lecture on how white people treated slaves,” one visitor wrote in an online review. Screenshots of nasty reviews have gone viral on Twitter. By Gillian Brockell · Read more   What’s life like as a Kennedy now? A mix of fame, obscurity and trauma. The family history of both grief and greatness hovers over Saoirse Kennedy Hill, who died last week, and her cousins. But young Kennedys may go unnoticed until tragedy strikes, gossip erupts or someone runs for office. By Avi Selk and Lisa Bonos · Read more   An airport fell silent as a Vietnam airman’s remains finally came home. The pilot was his son. Bryan Knight was 5 years old when he waved goodbye to his father from Dallas Love Field Airport. He never saw him again. By Reis Thebault · Read more   A petty fight in a wealthy neighborhood ends with a home covered in giant emoji A California woman said she believes the emoji, painted on the house across the street from her, were designed to mock her. The homeowner has said she wanted to cheer up the neighborhood with her “happy house.” By Marisa Iati · Read more   Post Reports | Listen Now Forced from Paradise: Finding home after California’s Camp Fire Greg Miller unpacks the calls for a redirection of U.S. counterterrorism efforts. Frances Stead Sellers and Whitney Leaming on the residents being forced to leave home after California’s deadliest fire. And Monica Hesse pokes holes in the gender-reveal party trend. By The Washington Post · Read more

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POLITICO PLAYBOOK

POLITICO Playbook: 4 reasons why the gun debate is all noise

By ANNA PALMER and JAKE SHERMAN 

08/09/2019 06:04 AM EDT

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DRIVING THE DAY

SEVERAL THINGS HAPPENED LATE THURSDAY that, when taken together, give us a clearer picture of where the gun debate is:

— NO. 1: First, Speaker NANCY PELOSI wrote a letter to President DONALD TRUMP asking him to use his “powers in Article II Section 3 of the Constitution to” bring the Senate back to “consider House-passed bipartisan gun violence prevention legislation.” If you had any lingering doubt — which, if you read Playbook, you shouldn’t have — Pelosi is showing no signs of bringing her chamber back into session in the foreseeable future, and believes the onus is on Senate Majority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL. Pelosi letter

— NO. 2: MCCONNELL was on one of his favorite radio shows — Terry Meiners on Louisville’s WHAS — and he said that he would not call his chamber back into session, but said that background checks would be “front and center” in the gun debate when Congress returns. “There is a lot of support for that,” McConnell said. “The president called me this morning about this. … He’s anxious to get an outcome and so am I, and I believe the Democrats will have to admit it’s better to get a result than just engage in this sort of endless point-scoring that has the tendency to occur after one of these awful, awful incidents.”

MCCONNELL USED ONE OF HIS FAVORITE MANTRAS: A bill must “pass the House, it has to get 60 votes in the Senate and has to be signed by President Trump” in order to become law.

TRANSLATION: Yes, background checks will get talked about, that’s just a statement of fact, because they’re being talked about now! But you gotta talk to the big man — TRUMP — and see what he’s thinking. Because there are lots of cross-currents in the House, Senate and White House, so they need to figure out where everyone is and then decide a way forward.

— NO. 3: PELOSI and Senate Minority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER released a statement late Thursday relaying that they both spoke to the president, and that he said “he would review the bipartisan House-passed legislation,” H.R 8. That bill creates a background-check system for gun transfers.

— NO. 4: OH, AND THEN THERE’S THIS: NRA chief WAYNE LAPIERRE wrote in a statement that his organization opposes any new gun regulation that “unfairly infringes upon the rights of law-abiding citizens.” He called many of the proposals under consideration “soundbite solutions.” The NRA statement

PUT THIS ALL TOGETHER, and you’ll come to one conclusion: This entire debate — what happens, what doesn’t happen and what might happen — comes down to TRUMP. So, when he makes up his mind, makes it public and leans into it, that is what really matters. Until then, it’s all just noise. This is not one of these issues where Congress is going to act without the president. Many, many Republicans are going to take their cues on this from POTUS.

NEW, FROM THE JAKE/ANNA ARCHIVES: In an interview with us for “The Hill to Die On” (the book) in November 2018, the president went deep on guns, but we could not find a place for this material, so here it is, for the first time:

“I UNDERSTAND BOTH SIDES OF IT VERY, VERY WELL, but the one side is a little bit naive. You know? Let’s get rid of all your guns, because the bad guys are gonna have the guns, you know? …

“THE WORST CITY WE HAVE in terms of, you know, violence and killing is Chicago, and just take a look at what they … They have the toughest gun laws in the whole United States, by far. Some of the toughest in the world. It’s like a disaster. So, if you’re going to have somebody have a gun, your only protection is to have a gun on the other side. …

“WHAT I DO SEE IS I SEE REGISTRATION, certainly mental illness, that is a big thing, but that’s hard.”

NYT, A1: “Trump Weighs New Stance on Guns as Pressure Mounts After Shootings,” by Sheryl Stolberg, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin: “Mr. Trump talked up the idea of a signing ceremony in the Rose Garden and insisted that he believed it would be successful, according to those briefed on the call. Mr. LaPierre made clear that his members — many of whom back Mr. Trump — would not favor such a move.” NYT

— THE STEP BACK … ANITA KUMAR: “Donald Trump’s Nixon-to-China moment on guns”

AP’S JONATHAN LEMIRE: “Trump heads for golf club holiday – but summer storms loom”: “As Donald Trump prepares to leave Friday for his annual August holiday at his lush New Jersey golf club, he’s confronting a storm of crises, at home and abroad, that could set the course for his upcoming re-election bid. …

“The dark clouds are converging as the president’s bid for a second term takes on new urgency. Trump exudes confidence but as the two dozen Democrats eager to take his job sharpen their attacks, the White House — or, for the next 10 days, the clubhouse in Bedminster, New Jersey — will have to mount a multifront effort rooted in maintaining his base rather than trying to expand it.” AP

— CNN’S KAITLAN COLLINS: “Trump laments coverage as aides concede visits to mourning cities didn’t go as planned”

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SUE GORDON OUT … “Trump Names an Acting Spy Chief as No. 2 Intelligence Official Steps Down,” by NYT’s Charlie Savage and Maggie Haberman: “President Trump on Thursday abruptly decided to install Joseph Maguire, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, as the acting director of national intelligence after Dan Coats steps down from the post next week.

“Mr. Trump announced his decision to elevate Mr. Maguire, a retired vice admiral who once led the Navy’s Special Warfare Command, on Twitter shortly after confirming that Sue Gordon, the nation’s No. 2 intelligence official — who by law had been in line to temporarily take over as director — would instead depart with Mr. Coats on Aug. 15.

“Ms. Gordon, who served more than 30 years in intelligence posts at the C.I.A. and other agencies, informed Mr. Trump of her decision to retire in a letter on Thursday after it became clear that he would not permit her to rise to the position of acting director.

“‘As you ask a new leadership team to take the helm, I will resign my position,’ she wrote, adding: ‘I am confident in what the intelligence community has accomplished, and what it is poised to do going forward. I have seen it in action first-hand for more than 30 years. Know that our people are our strength, and they will never fail you or the nation. You are in good hands.’” NYT

— BACKSTORY via BLOOMBERG’S JENNIFER JACOBS: “Several Trump allies outside the White House had urged the president to remove Gordon, a career intelligence officer, describing her as too close to former CIA Director John Brennan. Brennan has publicly criticized Trump’s leadership, and the president in turn has called him ‘the worst CIA director in our country’s history.’” Bloomberg

— WAPO’S SHANE HARRIS and ELLEN NAKASHIMA: “Maguire is a retired Navy admiral not steeped in the inner workings of the intelligence community, but his appointment was seen as steadying in the middle of a tumultuous shake-up in the top ranks of the country’s spy agencies.” WaPo

— THE PRESIDENT noted that Maguire “commanded at every level, including the Naval Special Warfare Command. He has also served as a National Security Fellow at Harvard University. I have no doubt he will do a great job!”

— FROM MAGUIRE’S BIO: “He earned his bachelor’s degree from Manhattan College and master’s in Scientific and Technical Intelligence from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Maguire also served as a national security fellow at Harvard University.” Maguire was a security fellow at Harvard in 1994-1995.

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THE LATEST ON IMPEACHMENT via Andrew Desiderio:House Judiciary Chairman JERRY NADLER (D-N.Y.) told CNN, “This is formal impeachment proceedings.” From the interview: “We are investigating all the evidence, gathering the evidence. And we will [at the] conclusion of this — hopefully by the end of the year — vote to vote articles of impeachment to the House floor. Or we won’t. That’s a decision that we’ll have to make. But that’s exactly the process we’re in right now.” POLITICO

CNN’S MANU RAJU and JEREMY HERB: “Nadler presses ahead with impeachment probe as Pelosi keeps door open”: “[A]fter months of resisting formal impeachment proceedings, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s tone over impeachment has shifted in recent days, endorsing the House Judiciary Committee moves and making clear to her caucus that the panel is considering whether to use its constitutional power to try and remove Trump from office. What’s less clear is whether Pelosi is simply blessing the moves in an attempt to bolster the House’s court cases or if she’s seeking to set the stage for impeaching Trump. Publicly, she’s not ruling out impeachment.” CNN

THE INVESTIGATIONS — “Andrew McCabe sues DOJ, claims his firing was ‘retaliation’ directed by Trump,” by Kyle Cheney … The suit

2020 WATCH …

— NATASHA KORECKI in Des Moines, Iowa: “Biden defends remarks about Trump and white supremacists”: “Joe Biden on Thursday adamantly defended his assertions that President Donald Trump embraced white supremacists after a deadly demonstration in Charlottesville, Va., engaging in an animated exchange after his public remarks here.

“Following his turn on the soap box at the Iowa State Fair on Thursday, a Breitbart reporter confronted Biden, accusing the former vice president of mischaracterizing Trump’s remarks after the 2017 demonstrations. At the suggestion that Trump had condemned the actions of marching white supremacists, Biden grew adamant, wagging his finger as he described the demonstrators as hate-filled with ‘veins bulging.’

“‘No he did not, he walked out and he said — let’s get this straight — he said there were very fine people in both groups,’ Biden said as he slogged through a scrum of media and supporters at the fair. ‘They were chanting anti-Semitic slogans, carrying flags.’” POLITICO … Video of Biden clashing with Breitbart’s Joel Pollak

— YIKES: “Biden Says ‘Poor Kids’ Are Just as Smart as ‘White Kids,’” by Bloomberg’s Emma Kinery: “‘Poor kids are just as bright, just as talented, as white kids.’ He quickly added, ‘Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids, no I really mean it, but think how we think about it.’”

— “Hickenlooper faces buzzsaw if he drops out to run for Senate,” by James Arkin: “John Hickenlooper cracked the door open to a potential Senate bid last week — but it looks like many Democrats back home in Colorado have moved on. The former two-term governor would have scared off potential rivals earlier this year, but it’s doubtful now that he could clear the field of Democratic challengers who’ve been in the trenches for months already.”

NC-9 HEATING UP … THE CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP FUND dropped $594,873 on TV on behalf of Dan Bishop, the Republican running against Dan McCready.

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TRUMP’S FRIDAY — The president will leave the White House at 9:30 a.m. en route to Westhampton Beach, N.Y., where he will attend a roundtable with supporters and fundraising lunch. At 1:20 p.m., the president will depart for Water Mill, N.Y., where he will deliver remarks at another fundraiser. He will leave at 3:05 p.m. en route to Bedminster, N.J.

SUNDAY SO FAR …

• CBS “Face the Nation”: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) … Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) … Michael Bloomberg … House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.).
• NBC “Meet the Press”: Panel: Bob Costa, Hugh Hewitt, María Teresa Kumar and Kristen Welker.
• ABC “This Week”: Rahm Emanuel, Chris Christie, Patrick Gaspard and Sara Fagen.
• FOX “Fox News Sunday”: Panel: Charlie Hurt, Howie Kurtz, Donna Brazile and Kristen Soltis Anderson. Power player (re-run): Kathleen Kennedy Townsend on Robert F. Kennedy’s most famous speeches.
• CNN “State of the Union”: Panel: Mitch Landrieu, Mia Love, Xochitl Hinojosa and Adolfo Franco.
• CNN “Inside Politics”: Eliana Johnson, Mike Bender, Sahil Kapur and Molly Ball. (Phil Mattingly guest hosts)

PLAYBOOK READS

POLITICO MAGAZINE’S MICHAEL KRUSE: “How Kamala Harris Charmed the 1 Percenters”

THE HAMPTONS BEAT … NYT’S KATHERINE ROSMAN in Water Mill, N.Y.: “They Paid $42 for a SoulCycle Ride, Not for Trump: A look at what happens when politics enters every spandex-clad corner of life, especially in the Hamptons.”

IT’S ALL TRUMP — TED HESSON: “Border chief credits Trump policies for July drop in migrants caught crossing”: “Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan on Thursday credited President Donald Trump’s immigration policies for a July decline in migrant arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border.

“Border Patrol arrested roughly 72,000 migrants at the southwestern border in July, according to CBP figures published Thursday. The latest statistics represent a 24 percent drop compared with June and mark the second month in a row in which border arrests declined. Border arrests, which are used to estimate illegal crossings, have fallen from June to July in nine of the last 10 years.

“Still, Morgan argued Thursday that new Trump policies and agreements with Mexico and Guatemala led to the decline. ‘It’s unequivocally not the result of seasonal trends,’ Morgan told reporters during a briefing at CBP headquarters. ‘It’s a direct result of the negotiations of this president and this administration specifically with our international partners.’” POLITICO

BEN SCHRECKINGER: “Suit: Biden brother invoked political clout to further fraud scheme”: “A younger brother of Joe Biden invoked his political clout as part of a fraudulent scheme to bankrupt two medical firms and steal their business model, according to a lawsuit filed by the firms in federal court in Tennessee. The allegations further a decades-long pattern, detailed in a POLITICO investigation published Friday, in which relatives of Joe Biden have attempted or appeared to benefit from the former vice president’s name and political connections. …

“Neither the Biden campaign nor a lawyer for his brother James Biden and his associates immediately responded to a request for comment for this story.” POLITICO

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TRADE WARS … WSJ: “U.S.-China Trade Battle Is Crimping Global Oil Demand,” by David Hordari: “Worries about the health of the world’s economy and increasingly uncertain trade relations between the U.S. and China will put further pressure on global oil demand in 2019, the International Energy Agency said Friday.

“In its closely watched oil-market report, the IEA downgraded its forecast for global oil-demand growth for the third time in four months, lowering it to 1.1 million barrels a day from 1.2 million barrels a day. Demand for the January-to-May period was at its weakest since 2008.

“While geopolitical tensions remain elevated in the Middle East between Western and Iranian naval forces, the IEA’s main focus was the economy. The agency has expressed growing alarm over the impact of the trade battle between the U.S. and China on both economic and ‘very sluggish’ global oil-demand growth, having cut its forecast in May and June.

“‘Now, the situation is becoming even more uncertain: the U.S.-China trade dispute remains unresolved and in September new tariffs are due to be imposed,’ the report said.” WSJ

— “U.S. Sanctions Turn Iran’s Oil Industry Into Spy vs. Spy,” by NYT’s Farnaz Fassihi: “Since President Trump imposed sanctions on Iranian oil sales last year, information on those sales has become a prized geopolitical weapon — coveted by Western intelligence agencies and top secret for Iran. And the business of selling Iranian oil, once a safe and lucrative enterprise for the well connected, has been transformed into a high-stakes global game of espionage and counterespionage.” NYT

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HAPPENING TODAY … WAPO’S TONY ROMM: “Skepticism greets a White House meeting devoted to violent online extremism”: “The White House has invited tech giants including Facebook, Google and Twitter to a discussion Friday about the rise of violent online extremism, one of the Trump administration’s first major engagements on the issue despite years of warnings that racial and ethnic animus on social media is linked to some of the country’s deadliest attacks.

“But President Trump’s own attendance isn’t certain — he’s scheduled to be in New York raising campaign cash — leaving some to question the sincerity of the effort after months during which Trump has chastised social-media companies as his political foes.”

MEDIAWATCH — “Facebook Offers News Outlets Millions of Dollars a Year to License Content,” by WSJ’s Benjamin Mullin and Sahil Patel: “Facebook Inc. is offering news outlets millions of dollars for the rights to put their content in a news section that the company hopes to launch later this year, according to people familiar with the matter.

“Representatives from Facebook have told news executives they would be willing to pay as much as $3 million a year to license headlines and previews of articles from news outlets, the people said.

“The outlets pitched by Facebook on its news tab include Walt Disney Co.’s ABC News, Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones, The Washington Post and Bloomberg, the people said.” WSJ

— “Sketchy Facebook Ads Beg Boomers to Turn Away From Fox News,” by The Daily Beast’s Lachlan Markay: “The upstart conservative network One America News is trying to build a business model as a Fox News alternative. Publicly, that means begging President Donald Trump to tune in. But behind the scenes, someone is spending decent sums of money to convince boomers to ‘make the switch.’”

— CHUCK TODD is hosting “MTP Daily” today from Sioux City, Iowa, ahead of the famous “Wing Ding” dinner at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, halfway across the state. The event itself will be broadcast live on C-SPAN beginning at 7 p.m. Eastern.

— Savannah Behrmann will be a Politics NOW reporter for USA Today. She currently is a news associate at CNN.

PLAYBOOKERS

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TRANSITION — Vanessa Chan will be leaving Facebook as financial communications director after six years to start graduate school.

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Ann Selzer, president of Iowa polling firm Selzer & Company. A fun fact about her: “On my competitive trivia team (for charity), my contributions are some expertise in politics, Latin, French, choral music, and all things Regis Philbin. In two of the three years we’ve competed, there have been Regis Philbin questions. I came in very handy!” Playbook Plus Q&A

BIRTHDAYS: Rep. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) is 59 … Bill Burton, Obama alum and California managing director at SKDKnickerbocker, is 42 … Kathleen Matthews … NYT’s Julian Barnes … Michael Fletcher, senior writer for ESPN’s The Undefeated … Hoda Kotb is 55 … Chris Cuomo is 49 … Brian F. Keane, president of SmartPower … NYT’s Ken Vogel is 44 … Tim Tagaris … Isaac Lederman … Facebook’s Robert Traynham … Amanda Isaacson … Jarrett Morrell … T.J. Clark … Leila Sepehri Getto, deputy director of scheduling and advance at Interior … Lauren Maddox, senior policy adviser at Holland & Knight … Sharon Wagener … Christine Trippi … Brian Hart, founder and CEO of LightHouse DC (h/ts Jon Haber) … Reese Dickens … Kerry Troup … POLITICO’s Jordan Hoshko … BBC’s John Simpson is 75 … Romano Prodi is 8-0 …

… former Rep. John Sweeney (R-N.Y.) is 64 … former Rep. Charles Djou (R-Hawaii) is 49 … Fred Brown, senior director at Dezenhall Resources (h/ts Rebecca Schieber and Devin O’Malley) … Rebecca Kirszner Katz, founder of New Deal Strategies … Suzanne Elio … Mike Mears, RNC’s director of strategic partnerships and faith engagement … Mercury’s Dan Bank … William Smith … Gable Brady … Ryan Hampton … Karin Tanabe … Elise Aronson … Jamie Reno … Andrew Light … Isaac Levido … Mike Whatley … Catherine Tran … Eric Woolson … Rhonda Bentz … David Sours … Carla Baranauckas, project coordinator at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University … Richard Weiblinger … Brendan McDermott … Kate Leone … Ann E.W. Stone … Chris Sautter … Alen Salerian … Virginia Pancoe … Marcel Lettre … Connie Doebele … Jeff Berman, co-founder of Magnet Companies, is 48 … Paul Bradley … Tiffany Newton … Robin Pressman … Paul Vornholt (h/ts Teresa Vilmain)

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The Resurgent’s Morning Briefing for August 9,2019 View this email in your browser Share Tweet Forward Good morning, Here is all the news conservatives need to know to start their day.  At 4pm ET, you can catch me on radio to bring you up to speed on developments throughout the day.  You can listen live here.   A Tragedy. But Not Necessarily a Wrong Result. The case of Jimmy Al-Daoud is undoubtedly a tragedy. Al-Daoud is dead now. He is an immigrant from Iraq who never knew that country. He came here as an infant with his parents. He was deported not long ago and died in Iraq. The media and political progressives are blowing up this case and blaming […] The post A Tragedy. But Not Necessarily a Wrong Result. appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » You better figure out how to stop mass shootings or you’ll lose your gun rights. Whether through laws or corporate actions, the Left wants gun rights gone. And they’ll blame you for someone else’s evil acts. It seems that after every mass shooting, the Left and gun control advocates shout “DO SOMETHING!”. The laws they propose will change nothing, when they even have one to propose. Now it appears that […] The post You better figure out how to stop mass shootings or you’ll lose your gun rights. appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » Trade, Not Guns, Will Decide The Election While the debate over the trade war isn’t as sexy as the gun control debate, it does have more far-reaching effects. The post Trade, Not Guns, Will Decide The Election appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » If Liberals Are So Gun Shy, Why Does the NRA President Require Armed Deputies to Protect Her? The Democrats want you to think that the NRA president is reacting to postcards by hiring off-duty deputies to protect her house. I expect there’s more to it than that. The post If Liberals Are So Gun Shy, Why Does the NRA President Require Armed Deputies to Protect Her? appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » Murder Victims Are Flesh and Blood, Not Political Fodder People should consider the human cost before using someone else’s tragedy for political gain. The post Murder Victims Are Flesh and Blood, Not Political Fodder appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » Trump Stuck Between the NRA and a Liberal Agenda Well, I never thought I’d see it happen, given the perverse symbiotic relationship between Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association, but it appears the gun rights group has been caught off guard by the president’s sudden leftward turn on the topic of gun ownership. I mean, his executive order on banning bump stocks and […] The post Trump Stuck Between the NRA and a Liberal Agenda appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » We Can’t Go Back, Can We? The nation seems to be in the midsts of a hostage crisis. We, the people, are having to decide which political party will be the hostage takers. Do we stay with the Republicans and the erratic leader who has, at least, given us a good economy? Do we go with the Democrats who offer us […] The post We Can’t Go Back, Can We? appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » The Only “Red Flag” I’m Seeing Is Our Society’s Mutual Distrust I can’t think of a “red flag” scenario where another Waco or Ruby Ridge won’t happen. And they will likely happen more frequently. What then? Where do you go? After a number of these events, we will have proven the left’s theory that gun-toting people with “hateful” ideologies are inherently dangerous. And when Democrats control our government one day, that “common sense” fact will be used to limit everyone’s liberty and hand power to the government that the government should not have–namely, the power to convict and punish someone on the word of a “denouncer.” The post The Only “Red Flag” I’m Seeing Is Our Society’s Mutual Distrust appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser »   Recent Items: Nikki Haley Was Right, Trump Was Wrong – Why Is This So Hard? Disney to Offer Streaming Bundle Remember, you can listen to the Erick Erickson Show anytime and anywhere via WSB Radio, iTunes, Stitcher, and Soundcloud. As always, you can find pretty much anything and everything I’m writing about throughout the day via The Resurgent. Thanks for reading and tuning in. Erick Erickson THE RESURGENT Facebook Twitter Instagram Copyright © 2019 The Resurgent Media Group, LLC, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

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Nearly a week after the shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, Democratic lawmakers are pessimistic that gun reform legislation can pass Congress this year, despite pressure from members on both sides of the aisle. Lawmakers say they’re dubious because of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) position as gatekeeper and a presidential campaign that grows more polarizing and vitriolic by the month, according to Scott Wong and Mike Lillis.  “Nothing is going to happen,” predicted one Democratic senator, whose state has suffered a mass shooting. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) echoed that sentiment on Wednesday during a speech to the National Press Club, referring to instances over the past decade when proposed legislation stalled after shootings gripped the nation.  “After Sandy Hook — remember that? — and nothing happened,” Cummings said. “I think we really need to be careful when listening to politicians talk about what they’re going to do. Let me be clear, you have a lot of talk. … But in the end — in the end — nothing happens.” The Hill: Pelosi asks Trump to call back Senate on gun control. Chief among issues complicating momentum and working against consensus is Congress’s recess until Sept. 9. McConnell made clear Thursday he won’t ask senators to return to Washington before then, arguing it would be a political exercise. “If we did that, we would just have people scoring points and nothing would happen. There has to be a bipartisan discussion here of what we can agree on,” McConnell told Kentucky radio station WHAS. “If we do it prematurely it will just be another frustrating experience. … I think this is the best way to get a result.”  The Hill: McConnell rejects calls to bring Senate back early for gun debate. The Hill: McConnell, allies lean into Twitter, media “war.” Instead, McConnell has tasked three Senate Republicans to look for possible legislative remedies. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (S.C.), one of the three senators, is drafting “red flag” legislation with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), which would provide federal grants to “assist and encourage” states to adopt laws to allow courts and local law enforcement to remove guns from people “in situations where there is an imminent threat of violence.” An obstacle is the gun lobby, which has made its opposition clear. Although President Trump signaled his openness to legislation expanding background checks, National Rifle Association (NRA) CEO Wayne LaPierre pushed back.  “I can confirm that the NRA opposes any legislation that unfairly infringes upon the rights of law-abiding citizens,” LaPierre said. “The inconvenient truth is this: the proposals being discussed by many would not have prevented the horrific tragedies in El Paso and Dayton. Worse, they would make millions of law abiding Americans less safe and less able to defend themselves and their loved ones.”  The Associated Press: Scandal-ridden NRA leader digs in against gun control. Nevertheless, House Democrats are still looking at things they can do even if the Senate does not return to town. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) is talking about possibly recalling members of the panel to Washington in August to mark up gun violence legislation, according to Olivia Beavers.  On the 2020 scene, half a dozen candidates are expected to attend a gun safety forum on Saturday in Des Moines, hosted by Everytown for Gun Safety and two other organizations focused on preventing gun violence. Those on the agenda Saturday are Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julían Castro and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.

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POLITICS & CAMPAIGNS: Although he has yet to resume his 2020 campaign, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) is in the public eye as he becomes a vocal proponent for gun control legislation after the mass shooting in Dayton.  Before traveling to the Iowa State Fair on Friday, Ryan was leading a caravan of gun control activists to Louisville, Ky., to hold a rally in a push to get the attention of McConnell over his decision not to bring Congress back to Washington this month.  The rally is the penultimate stop after five events in Ohio, starting in the Cleveland suburbs and ending in Cincinnati before traveling to a stop in McConnell’s hometown. The rally was held at a city plaza adjacent to the Muhammad Ali Center. “These cities are all so similar. Same challenges. Same struggles. Same pride in their communities’ future. And so to have a tragedy like this is devastating,” Ryan said in a text message interview with BuzzFeed News.   “But then the response is so powerful. The connection of the community comes to the forefront,” he said, adding that he is “more inspired than ever to make change.” > Wealth tax: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) continues to gain altitude in her push for the Democratic nod, but her wealth tax proposal, a plan that has been a major talking point during her campaign, has failed to gain traction with many Democrats.    Warren’s plan to tax the wealth of people with more than $50 million in assets, taking 2 percent a year of their net worth beyond that threshold, has not gained steam among Democratic members of Congress, with many of them keeping their distance from it as they propose traditional forms of raising revenue. Unlike a traditional income tax, which focuses on money coming in, Warren’s plan focuses on money and assets that have already been accumulated. The tax, she says, could pay for a slew of programs, including student debt relief, universal pre-K, child care and increased pay for child care workers. Nevertheless, lawmakers have given the idea a chilly reception (The Hill).  The Hill: Monmouth Poll: Warren gains on Biden in Iowa. The Hill: Andrew Yang qualifies for fall Democratic debates. Politico: John Hickenlooper faces buzzsaw if he drops out to run for Senate.

© Getty Images  > 2020 troubles: Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) are coming under scrutiny over recent appearances they made with a Las Vegas pastor who has made controversial remarks about homosexuality.  As Julia Manchester reports, the two Democratic senators attended services held by the Rev. Robert E. Fowler Sr. last week at his church, Victory Missionary Baptist. While Fowler is an influential figure in Democratic politics in a key primary state, having hosted Hillary Clinton and Sanders in 2016, his past comments on homosexuality appeared in multiple outlets after visits by Booker and Harris last week. In one 2013 interview with Nevada Public Radio, Fowler compared homosexuality with child molestation. “Whether you commit adultery, whether you commit fornication, whether you’re a child molester, you gossip, you lie, you cheat on your taxes, you don’t pay your tithes, things of that nature — all of that is wrapped together as sin, along with homosexuality,” Fowler said.    “Any sin, if you break the law in one area, you’ve broken it in all areas. If you mess up in one area, that’s enough to send you to hell — so any sin is pretty bad for me,” he said.  Booker has now distanced himself from Fowler’s views, while Harris affirmed her support for LGTBQ issues in statements to The Hill. Neither campaign responded when asked to clarify if Booker or Harris knew about Fowler’s past remarks before appearing at the church.

IN FOCUS/SHARP TAKES

WHITE HOUSE & ADMINISTRATION: Trump, who established a rocky relationship with the intelligence community early in his first year, announced that Deputy Director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon will resign on Aug. 15, the same date as Director Dan Coats (The Hill). Trump named retired Adm. Joseph Maguire, director of the National Counterterrorism Center for the last year, as acting director of national intelligence, effective Aug. 15. “I have no doubt he will do a great job!” the president tweeted late on Thursday. Trump also praised Gordon when he announced her departure on Twitter.

© Getty Images  Morgan Chalfant reported last week that some lawmakers were worried in the wake of Coats’s resignation that Trump was prepared to bypass the experienced Gordon, who by law should have succeeded Coats in the event of a top vacancy. The president’s initial nominee to become director, Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), a Trump loyalist, withdrew his name from consideration five days into the process when senators raised objections about his lack of national intelligence experience and frowned on embellishments he made to his résumé. The Washington Post: Trump announces shakeup at top of U.S. intelligence. Trump’s Cabinet is stocked with officials serving in placeholder capacities, including acting secretaries at the departments of Homeland Security and Labor, Customs and Border Protection, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Office of Management and Budget and the Small Business Administration.  > Tech: The White House will host an event today with tech companies and senior government officials about eradicating violent behavior online. The president will not participate. The White House is focused on violent behavior rather than hate speech, according to an administration official (The Hill).  > Central America: The Trump administration’s strategy for the Northern Triangle of Central American countries is under fire, seen as worsening human rights problems in the region, reports Rafael Bernal.  > Justice Department: Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe filed a lawsuit in federal court to reinstate his full retirement benefits, claiming his termination one day before his official retirement was the work of Trump, carried out improperly. McCabe’s decision to sue was anticipated since last year (The Hill). > Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): Some Mississippi children were forced to sleep in a community gym after their parents were detained by ICE officers on Wednesday in what authorities called the “largest single-state immigration enforcement operation” in the country’s history (The Hill). Initially, ICE rounded up roughly 680 allegedly undocumented migrants working at seven Mississippi poultry processing plants. The raid was coordinated with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi and was so clandestine, ICE did not inform the White House for fear of leaks (The Washington Post). More than 300 of the workers detained were released on Thursday, sent home with notices to appear before immigration judges (The Associated Press). The raids are having a ripple effect through Mississippi schools, churches, businesses and financial institutions that serve the state’s poultry processing cities (The Associated Press). More related to the administration … Federal and state governments and schools are beginning to examine ways to fight back against cyberattacks on school districts (The Hill). … If an impeachment inquiry begins against Trump, House general counsel Douglas Letter, a 40-year veteran of the Justice Department, will be the key man behind the House curtain (The Hill).

OPINION

Are the Democrats jumping off the cliff? by Peter Fenn, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2YCutva  The terrifying link between misogynists and mass shooters, by Toni Van Pelt, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2Ticy7m

WHERE AND WHEN

Hill.TV’s “Rising” at 9 a.m. EDT features J.D. Scholten, Democratic candidate in Iowa’s 4th Congressional District, to talk about his potential rematch against Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa); Mark de Souza, CEO of Revolution, a multi-state cannabis company based in Illinois, to discuss cannabis legalization; and Bob Cusack, editor-in-chief of The Hill, for his weekly segment, “The Debrief.” Find Hill.TV programming at http://thehill.com/hilltv or on YouTube at 10 a.m. The House and Senate continue to meet in pro forma sessions but are not scheduled to return for votes until Sept. 9. The president will travel to Southampton, N.Y., this morning to address two groups of donors to his reelection campaign, after which he’ll travel to another fundraising event at a private residence in Water Mill, N.Y. The reelection haul today is expected to be $10 million (The Washington Post). From New York, Trump will fly to New Jersey to begin his summer vacation at his residence in Bedminster.    Vice President Pence has no public events today. Economic indicator: The Bureau of Labor Statistics will report on the producer price index in July at 8:30 a.m. Politics: Iowa’s traditional Democratic Wing Ding dinner, featuring candidates running for the White House, takes place in Clear Lake from 5-10 p.m. (C-SPAN is covering at 7 p.m.).

ELSEWHERE

➔ Homecoming: Passengers in a packed Southwest Airlines concourse at the Dallas airport fell silent on Thursday as a special incoming flight, bearing the recently identified remains of Col. Roy Knight Jr. of Texas, a fighter pilot shot down during the Vietnam War, landed on a runway to a hero’s welcome. As Knight’s flag-draped coffin was removed from the plane, Jackson Proskow, Washington bureau chief for Canada’s Global News, chronicled on Twitter what he just happened to witness as a Southwest gate agent told a moving story to a gathering crowd. In 1967, Knight’s young son waved good-bye to his dad as he went off to war from the same spot. Now a pilot, Southwest Airlines Captain Bryan Knight flew the plane that brought his father’s remains home after 52 years (The Hill). Read Proskow’s Twitter thread and see photos HERE. Col. Knight’s obituary is HERE. ➔ Wild cat too adorable to miss: A Spanish nature conservation center announced the first baby lynx was born in the Pyrenees in nearly a century. A Eurasian lynx was last seen in the Spanish and French Pyrenees in the 1930s and has been considered extinct there, until the new arrival was born in captivity (The Associated Press). ➔ Look up!:  An asteroid bigger than the Empire State Building is passing by Earth on Saturday. Scientists say we shouldn’t fret, although “Asteroid 2006 QQ23” has an estimated diameter of up to 1,870 feet (CNN). Let’s not forget that a “city killer” asteroid zoomed “uncomfortably close” to Earth last month and most scientists and astronomers were taken by surprise (The Washington Post).  ➔ If you build it, they will come: Major League Baseball announced to great fanfare on Thursday that it will play a game next August at the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, Iowa, the site of the iconic 1989 movie starring Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones and Ray Liotta. The Chicago White Sox will play the New York Yankees on Aug. 13, 2020, with the White Sox fittingly serving as the home team. For the game, MLB is building a temporary 8,000-seat stadium adjacent to the field where the cinematic Shoeless Joe Jackson played (ESPN).

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THE CLOSER

And finally … Kudos to this week’s Morning Report quiz winners! With some smart guesses (and perhaps a little deft Googling) about presidential vacations, these readers conquered our puzzle: Ki Harvey, Zev Lewis, Phil Kirstein, Lorraine Lindberg, Scott Wilber, Allyson Foster, Cheryl Gibson, Carol Katz, William Chittam, Anita Bales, John Donato, Rich Gruber, Luther Berg and Noel St. Pre. They knew that former President Clinton and his family enjoyed vacations in 1995 and 1996 in Wyoming, after being advised by pollster Dick Morris in the run-up to his reelection to get some R&R the way many American families did. “During the past week and a half, Chelsea, Hillary and I have been vacationing in two of our nation’s most spectacular national treasures, Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks,” Clinton said during a radio address in 1995. “We’ve seen buffalo, moose, elk, eagles, osprey, red hawks. No bears yet, but we’re still looking. We’ve seen breathtaking mountains, lakes, streams and meadows. And all of this belongs to you, the American people, for all time to come.” Former President George W. Bush reveled in clearing brush, driving his pickup truck and relaxing in the relative isolation of his Prairie Chapel ranch near Crawford, Texas, during his two terms. James Madison holds the record for the longest presidential vacation, from June to October 1816.  President Eisenhower, who played 800 rounds of golf while in office, hit the links at the famed Augusta National Golf Club during his first vacation in office, in 1953 (and many times after).

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So As It Turns Out, Gentrification Is Actually a Good Thing
From David Marcus for The Federalist:

“Two new studies have added enormous credence to the argument that, far from being a capitalist evil, gentrification is a social good, especially for the earlier residents of the neighborhood. Gentrification is generally known as the process whereby wealthier, better-educated residents move into a poorer, less-educated neighborhood. For years, progressives have claimed this has horrible negative effects on those replaced, but the new studies paint the opposite picture.

Separate studies at the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank and New York University showed that gentrification’s positive benefits for existing communities far outweigh the negative effects for the few who leave the neighborhood.

Kay Hymowitz sums up one important finding from the PDRB study here: “The first surprise? Gentrification displaces very few people. An influx of college-educated residents into formerly lower-income neighborhoods—the accepted definition of gentrification—increases the probability that vulnerable, less-educated renters move to another neighborhood by about 3 percentage points. The effect on resident moves to a neighborhood at least one mile away is higher, at about 5 percentage points.”

Hymowitz, who wrote the 2017 book, “The New Brooklyn; What It Takes To Bring A City Back,” deserves something of a victory lap here. In her book she describes almost everything revealed in the studies. Frankly, for anyone who lives in or close to a gentrified or gentrifying neighborhood, some of this should have been obvious. In almost all cases it looks less like people being replaced, and more like the population of the neighborhood being added to and becoming diversified in myriad ways.

Once that diversity begins, studies say that, “exposure to higher-income neighborhoods has important benefits for low-income residents, such as improving the mental and physical health of adults and increasing the long-term educational attainment and earning of children.”

As with any public policy, there are winners and losers, but both studies found more of the former in their dives into gentrification. What should happen next is for the term to lose its stigma and for gentrification  to be more aggressively pursued by cities looking to improve downtrodden neighborhoods.

Some leftist politicians such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have argued that gentrification is a bad thing. It explained at least some of her sadly successful opposition to Amazon building a headquarters in her district. Ironically, much of Ocasio-Cortez’s surprise victory over incumbent Joe Crowley relied on votes from gentrified Queens neighborhoods near Manhattan. Surely, she thinks her own election was a good thing for her constituents.

For too long, urban planning and local governments have been hamfisted about gentrification and its benefits. In her book, Hymowitz aptly lays out how it transformed Brooklyn under the leadership of mayor Michael Bloomberg, but she also offers some hope that it can help other struggling cities.

If we really care about places like Baltimore, and don’t simply want to use them as footballs in a game of identity politics, then gentrification has to be an important tool in the kit. We should no longer be hampered by antiquated ideas that seem obvious but turn out to be wrong.

The path to more vibrant and prosperous neighborhoods that are better for almost everyone turns out to be, at least in part, income integration. Should it really surprise us that cities do better when, rather than being segregated, all kinds of people live on the same blocks? Now we no longer have to guess if this is true.”

A Dedication to Cats
In lieu of my normal roundup of entertainment shouts from around the world, I’d like to take a moment to address the importance of cats. Yesterday was, apparently, international cat day. I had never heard of this before but thoroughly enjoyed the multitude of cat pictures shared across social media. I have two cats of my own, Maggie and Winston, and rarely get the chance to share how much joy they bring me on a daily basis. (Maggie is the little one).

Sadly, by the end of the day on Thursday, I got news from my dad that his beloved cat, McTavish, would have to be put to sleep at age 14 from cancer. I have known and loved McTavish as my own for most of his life. Most pet owners say this, but McTavish was special. He was much more than a pet. McTavish came into my dad’s life at a time when things were most difficult, and he has meant a tremendous amount to my family in his all-to-brief time on earth. 

This is a reminder that pets are so beloved, and we simply don’t get enough time with them. I encourage all readers to hug their pets tightly (no matter how much they object) and treat them like the angels that they are. 

I love you, McTavish. We will miss you every day for the rest of our lives and thank you for being the very best cat. 

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ScottRasmussen.com Launch – Check Out My All New Website No Images? Click here   Good morning,Following mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, 10% of voters now consider gun laws the most important issue facing the nation. That’s an increase from 4% a month ago.However, the top four issues concerning voters at this time remain the same: Health Care (17%), The Economy (15%), Immigration (12%),  and National Security (11%).In terms of who voters trust on these top issues, Democrats enjoy a double digit advantage on Health Care while the GOP has a similar edge on the Economy and National Security.On both immigration and gun laws, voters are evenly divided in terms of which party they trust.* On immigration, 32% trust Republicans, 30% Democrats, and 23% don’t trust either party.* On gun laws, 32% trust Democrats, 31% Republicans, and 22% neither.However, the intensity is quite different on these issues. Immigration is a bigger issue for Republicans while Gun Laws matter more to Democrats. Gun laws are now considered the top issue by 15% of Democrats, 10% of Independents, and 6% of Republicans.Among those who consider immigration the most important issue, Republicans are trusted more by 54% while Democrats are trusted by just 15%. The response for gun laws is the mirror opposite. Among those who consider it the top issue, Democrats are trusted more by 50% and Republicans by 15%.Voters strongly support modest restrictions on gun purchases and 31% believe private ownership of guns should be banned.Americans continue to rate the U.S. health care system poorly. Voters consistently express a desire for more choice and strongly reject the idea of requiring everyone to get coverage through the federal government.On immigration, eight-out-of-ten voters believe legal immigration is good for America but illegal immigration is bad.Finally, today’s Number of the Day notes that the Census Bureau is looking to hire 500,000 temporary workers for the 2020 census. They expect a much smaller pool of applicants for these jobs than for the 2010 census. That’s because the economy is so much stronger today than it was ten years ago.Thank you for your interest in our work,Scott     Stay Informed Up To The Minute and Share ContentDeeper CurrentsScott Rasmussen offers his personal insight, analysis, and opinion on current political races, issues, and controversy. Read more     Scott’s ColumnsPresident Trump has perfected the art of antagonizing his opponents with provocative tweets. He demonstrated this skill recently in declaring that the tax reform act,… Read more   SCOTT RASMUSSEN info@scottrasmussen.com https://www.scottrasmussen.com 142 W 57th Street, 11 Floor New York, NY 10023 ScottRasmussen.com Launch – Check Out My All New Website   Like    Tweet    Share    Forward  Preferences  |  Unsubscribe

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These days, the debt ceiling is a political football that everyone loves to hate and fight over, but when Congress conceived it, their goal was to make borrowing easier and less contentious. Click here to read more of this message, brought to you by Fisher Investments. 08/09/2019 Share: Carl Cannon’s Morning Note Presented by Fisher Investments: ‘Racist’ Rhetoric; Ohio’s ‘Red Flag’; Quote of the Week By Carl M. Cannon on Aug 09, 2019 08:37 am Good morning, it’s Friday, August 9, 2019, the day of the week I spotlight an inspiring quotation. Usually, these quotes are from an American; today’s poignant words were uttered to an American — — by a German soldier during World War II. Tall, blond, and handsome, Carl Ludwig Long was a 23-year-old champion long jumper who fit the Nazis’ Aryan stereotype, a notion that would plunge the world into untold carnage. The man himself — he was known in Europe as “Luz” Long — was a lawyer and a gentleman. Soon he would be a soldier, one not destined to survive the war. In a moment, I’ll have more on this man, and the words he imparted to a famous American he competed against on this date in 1936. First, I’d point you to RealClearPolitics’ front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion columns spanning the political spectrum. We also offer original material from our own reporters and contributors, including the following: * * * Calling Trump a “Racist” — a 2020 Dem Talking Point? Phil Wegmann explores the widespread use of the term by the presidential candidates. Dayton Tragedy Reawakens Push for “Red Flag” Law in Ohio. Julia Mullins has the story. Five Facts: Trump’s New Tariffs on China. No Labels has this primer on the implications of the trade war escalation. Transforming “Field of Dreams” for an MLB Game. In RealClearSports, Tanner Garrity sheds some light on plans for next summer’s White Sox-Yankees game amid an Iowa cornfield. RealClearHistory’s 10 Summer Reads. Brandon Christensen compiled this list.  * * * The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin were envisioned in Adolf Hitler’s twisted mind as a venue to showcase the superiority of the “master race.” With the largest delegation of athletes, Germany did win the most medals. But the glamorous events of track and field were dominated by an integrated U.S. team led by the incandescent Jesse Owens. It was 83 years ago today that Owens won the fourth of his gold medals in Berlin, simultaneously embarrassing Hitler — who had snubbed him — while refuting Der Fuehrer’s goofy beliefs about race. That summer, Jesse Owens filled Americans of all ethnic backgrounds with great pride. Some of this satisfaction was misplaced. As Owens himself noted, “When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn’t ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn’t live where I wanted. I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the president, either.” There was one man who did more than shake Jesse Owens’ hand. Luz Long hugged Owens in the stadium, then circled the track with him, arm in arm. And when Owens returned to the United States, he told people that Long had also given him invaluable advice during the competition. In the preliminary rounds of the long jump, Owens had fouled on his first two attempts. With one jump remaining, Long suggested to Owens that he play it safe by aiming for a takeoff point several inches before the line. Owen followed this advice and qualified for the final round, where he won the gold while Luz took silver. “It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler,” Owens said later. Although Owens told the story for many years, including to his children and grandchildren — and to Luz’s son Kai Long — doubts arose over time about the details. Famed American sportswriter Grantland Rice had his binoculars trained on Owens during the qualifying round and never saw him so much as speak to Luz Long. When sports historian Tom Ecker asked Owens in 1965 about the discrepancy, Owens conceded that he didn’t actually meet Long until the competition had been decided. But if the details in Owens’ morality tale were apocryphal, the gist of his story rang true. It did indeed take guts on Long’s part to embrace Owens in front of Hitler. And the two Olympians did become friends. Real friends. The kind who exchange letters for years, even after one of them joins the military and goes off to war. The kind of friend who goes and finds your son after you are killed in that war to tell him what a good man you were. Luz Long died in Sicily in a U.S. Army military field hospital after being wounded in battle while wearing the uniform of his home country. In his final letter to Owens, Long anticipated not returning from the front, and made a request of his American friend. “Someday find my son,” Luz Long wrote, and “tell him about how things can be between men on this Earth.” And that’s your quote of the week.  Carl M. Cannon   Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics @CarlCannon (Twitter) ccannon@realclearpolitics.com Like a summer blockbuster sequel, debt ceiling chatter is back, thanks partly to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s recent Congressional testimony. But, the debt ceiling has always been mostly symbolic: Keep it or lose it, reach it or exceed it, it doesn’t change much for the US economy. Click here to read more of this message, brought to you by Fisher Investments. Having trouble viewing this email? | [Unsubscribe] | Update Subscription Preferences  Copyright © 2019 RealClearHoldings, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email becuase you opted in at our website. 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• Justice Department releases Bruce Ohr’s interview records
• Michael Pillsbury on trade war: Get the easy stuff done now, the tough stuff in 2nd term
• Netflix throws $200 Million at bad writers
• Open borders activists storm Seattle ICE building
• Liz Wheeler: How to respond when Democrats claim Republicans are racist
• 10 reasons to oppose gun confiscation SWATing, aka red flag gun laws
• Joe Biden: ‘Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids’
• Armed citizen foils mass shooting: How many lives could have been lost in three minutes?
• If voter ID suppresses minority votes, background checks suppress minorities protecting themselves
• Antifa plans to wear MAGA hats and stage violence: Rumor

Justice Department releases Bruce Ohr’s interview records Posted: 09 Aug 2019 05:00 AM PDT After much effort by Judicial Watch and others to get the Justice Department to release crucial information regarding Bruce Ohr, Christipher Steele, and the investigations into Russian hacking as well as the Trump campaign’s involvement, a partial release has finally come out. It’s even more damaging than most anticipated. There’s a lot going on here […] The post Justice Department releases Bruce Ohr’s interview records appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Michael Pillsbury on trade war: Get the easy stuff done now, the tough stuff in 2nd term Posted: 09 Aug 2019 04:09 AM PDT Hudson Institute Fellow Michael Pillsbury joined Shannon Bream on Fox News last night to discuss warnings from experts who say if the President keeps up the pressure in his trade war with China, that the country could be in a recession in three quarters. These warnings are unlikely, a “worst case scenario,” according to Pillsbury. But […] The post Michael Pillsbury on trade war: Get the easy stuff done now, the tough stuff in 2nd term appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Netflix throws $200 Million at bad writers Posted: 09 Aug 2019 04:00 AM PDT After an earnings report that dropped Netflix stock price down to the low 300s, Netflix has reportedly been in the midst of several bidding wars in the Hollywood equivalent of free agency. In a previous article, it was noted that Netflix was willing to offer Eddie Murphy $70 million dollars for a standup special when […] The post Netflix throws $200 Million at bad writers appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Open borders activists storm Seattle ICE building Posted: 08 Aug 2019 11:21 PM PDT The outrage over ICE deportations and CBP detainment of illegal aliens has brought many new open borders activists to the forefront as efforts to protest U.S. immigration practices continue to escalate. One group took their protests to the point of storming the building where ICE hearings take place in Seattle, making it all the way […] The post Open borders activists storm Seattle ICE building appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Liz Wheeler: How to respond when Democrats claim Republicans are racist Posted: 08 Aug 2019 11:04 PM PDT Today’s political atmosphere can be broken down into one word: Racism. That’s the mantra and the rallying cry by Democrats who are desperately trying to paint President Trump, the Republican Party, and anyone who supports them as bigoted white supremacists even if they’re not white. This is going to continue until election day, 2020. As […] The post Liz Wheeler: How to respond when Democrats claim Republicans are racist appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

10 reasons to oppose gun confiscation SWATing, aka red flag gun laws Posted: 08 Aug 2019 10:36 PM PDT Congratulations President Trump. You figured out how to get both sides to despise you. In a move future historians will most assuredly call his “Read my lips: no new taxes”  moment, Trump has signaled to the knuckling under to the imposition of Gun Confiscation SWATing and Intergalactic Background Checks(Aliases: ‘Universal’ or ‘enhanced’). Spineless politicians were supposed to […] The post 10 reasons to oppose gun confiscation SWATing, aka red flag gun laws appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Joe Biden: ‘Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids’ Posted: 08 Aug 2019 07:54 PM PDT The gaffe machine is at it again and conservative Twitter is rolling on the floor laughing. But this particular gaffe may get him in some hot water with the unforgiving progressive wing of the Democratic Party that is surely going to take what he said and claim it’s indicative of his true feelings. They’re so […] The post Joe Biden: ‘Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids’ appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Armed citizen foils mass shooting: How many lives could have been lost in three minutes? Posted: 08 Aug 2019 07:37 PM PDT This is a story you will probably hear about because if you’re reading NOQ Report, chances are good you’re a patriot with your finger on the pulse of conservative news in America. It’s a story that is being widely covered by right-leaning media, though progressive legacy media is clearly hoping to suppress it. Why? Because […] The post Armed citizen foils mass shooting: How many lives could have been lost in three minutes? appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

If voter ID suppresses minority votes, background checks suppress minorities protecting themselves Posted: 08 Aug 2019 07:10 PM PDT As the left is wont to do, they use different arguments that often contradict each other in attempts to achieve their goals. The only consistency in their stances is that they’re driven by piecemeal logic; the argument they make for one preferred stance is the opposite argument they’ll make for another preferred stance. Let’s look […] The post If voter ID suppresses minority votes, background checks suppress minorities protecting themselves appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Antifa plans to wear MAGA hats and stage violence: Rumor Posted: 08 Aug 2019 01:40 PM PDT The destruction of the truth in America has been underway for decades, but until recent years the truth has had the upper hand. This can be attributed in large parts to conservatives, but the shift in media sentiment and the rise of Trump Derangement Syndrome has made it more challenging than ever in our history […] The post Antifa plans to wear MAGA hats and stage violence: Rumor appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

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FIRST READ: With six months to go, here’s the state of play in Iowa so far

Nearly the entire Democratic presidential field will be stopping by the Iowa State Fair (and its famed fried foods and Butter Cow) over the next few days.

It’s a good reminder that — no matter what’s going on at a national level — it will be Iowa Democrats who deliver the first real results of the 2020 election when they caucus on February 3.

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Here’s what we know about the landscape in Iowa so far (with more than 175 days to go):

• Joe Biden leads, but Elizabeth Warren is gaining ground fast

A new Monmouth poll of Iowa out yesterday showed Biden still leading among likely caucus-goers at 28 percent support, and Warren jumping by double digits into second place at 19 percent. Harris is third at 11 percent, with Sanders slipping to fourth at 9 percent.

It’s just a single poll, but it mirrors what we’ve seen in national surveys lately, too: Biden is holding steady after the first two debates, and Warren is closing the gap and enjoying the highest favorability rating in the field.
 

• Cory Booker is leading the endorsement race

Per our team on the ground in Iowa (NBC’s Maura Barrett, Priscilla Thompson and Ethan MacCumber), Cory Booker has the support of more than 40 Iowa elected officials and key activists, leading the rest of the pack by a pretty comfortable margin.

But that backing hasn’t yet translated into statewide polling yet; the Monmouth poll found him with just one percent support.
 

• Kamala Harris and Tom Steyer are going big on ads early

As NBC’s Deepa Shivaram reported yesterday, Kamala Harris is the first top-tier candidate to hit the TV airwaves in Iowa, reserving close to $200,000 for a 60-second ad running until August 14.  According to the ad trackers at Advertising Analytics, the only other candidate with future TV time scheduled is Tom Steyer, who’s booked $386,000 through early next week.

And the only other candidate who’s spent significantly on TV time so far in the state is John Delaney.
 

• The candidates spending the most time on the ground in Iowa aren’t necessarily seeing dividends — yet

Our Iowa team also reports that the candidate who’s appeared at the most individual events in Iowa (over 170!) is Delaney —although he’s been in the race since summer 2017, more than a year before any other candidates.

Also toward the top of the list are Beto O’Rourke (at least 67 individual events), Andrew Yang (66) and Amy Klobuchar (56). But so far, none of those candidates are seeing that time translated into a top-tier spot in polls.   
 

• The virtual caucus is still a big question mark

This cycle, for the first time, the Iowa Democratic Party will host six virtual caucuses, which means that participants won’t have to go in person to their designated caucus sites.

But so far, it seems that voters aren’t sure at all how the process will work, and campaigns are still trying to figure out how to target those who might participate.  (Not to mention it’s also a big challenge for pollsters trying to get their samples right.)
 

A word of caution: Reading into Iowa polls this early might turn out to be just spinning our wheels, so take it all with a Butter Cow-sized grain of salt.

Hillary Clinton’s dominance in 2016 Iowa polling wasn’t seriously in question until two months before the caucuses…

….the last Iowa GOP winner, Ted Cruz, mostly ran behind Donald Trump in public polling all the way until the caucus…

… and 2012 caucus winner Rick Santorum didn’t lead in a single Iowa poll in the run-up to his victory.  

What’s next on guns?

It’s looking more clear that there’s sufficient pressure on the White House and Congress to pass SOME kind of gun legislation.

But what shape that takes is still a big unknown — and it pretty much comes down to the president.

During an interview on a Kentucky radio program, Mitch McConnell signaled that he’s open to considering background check legislation along with possible “red flag” bills, acknowledging that “there is a lot of support for that.”

And he said this: “[W]hat we can’t do is fail to pass something. By just locking up, and failing to pass, that’s unacceptable.”

Meanwhile, Trump tweeted this morning that “Serious discussions are taking place between House and Senate leadership on meaningful Background Checks.”  

And/but: He also acknowledged that he’s been talking to the NRA, which made clear again yesterday where it stands on this.

(One thing about the NRA worth noting: With their current financial problems, this is probably a fight that they want — to fire up their members and reengage their donors.)

At the end of the day, whatever Trump’s willing to sign is what Republicans will try to do on the Hill. And the fact that they’re open to discussing background checks at all shows just how much pressure they’re feeling.

By the way, the White House is set to meet today with officials from tech companies including Facebook, Google and Twitter to discuss the rise of extremism online. But as the Washington Post writes, there’s lots of skepticism that the president’s taking that effort all that seriously.  

Confronting corruption is a winning 2020 issue. But neither party has it locked down.

Concern about political corruption may not be a central issue every day on the 2020 campaign trail, but it’s a thread that runs through Democratic candidates’ criticisms of Trump’s business dealings, their lamenting of money in politics, and their rejection of super PACs.

And it’s still sort of a talking point for Trump, whose “Drain the Swamp” call resonated with swing voters in 2016.

(Although we wonder what those voters think of his recent comments about a potential commutation for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.)

So… who’s winning on this issue for 2020?

Democratic-affiliated group End Citizens United argues that neither party has won the argument with voters.

A poll of likely 2020 voters in 12 battleground states, conducted by Global Strategy Group on behalf of End Citizens United, found that “cracking down on political corruption” was a top priority for 83 percent of voters — right up there with health care affordability.

But here’s how a series of messages tested when it came to which party is more trusted to take on the problem:

“Cracking down on political corruption”

30% trust Democratic presidential candidates more

31% trust Trump more

39% neither/don’t know

“Limiting the influence of money in politics”

27% trust Democratic candidates more

26% trust Trump more

47% neither/don’t know

“Draining ‘the swamp’ in Washington”

27% trust Democratic candidates more

35% trust Trump more

38% neither/don’t know

That’s sure a lot of “pox on both their houses” voters — or at least ones who aren’t confident that the Democratic field is addressing this issue adequately.

But if one party can win over voters on this between now and November, it could make a significant difference up and down the ballot box.

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2020 VISION: Up on the soapbox

It will be a busy few days at the Iowa State Fair, with almost all of the 2020 candidates making speeches at the famed Soapbox.

(Biden and Steve Bullock spoke there yesterday.)

Today, it’s Julian Castro (10am ET), Andrew Yang (11:30am ET), John Delaney (1pm ET), Marianne Williamson (2:30pm ET) and Tulsi Gabbard (3:15pm ET).

And tomorrow, it’s Jay Inslee (10am ET), Kamala Harris (11:30am ET), Amy Klobuchar (1:45pm ET), Joe Sestak (2:30pm ET), Kirsten Gillibrand (3:15pm ET), John Hickenlooper (4pm ET), Elizabeth Warren (4:45pm ET) and Cory Booker (5:30pm ET).

And Sunday, it’s Republican Bill Weld (12:15pm ET), Tom Steyer (2:30pm), Michael Bennet (4pm ET), Bernie Sanders (4:45pm ET) and Bill de Blasio (5:30pm ET).

Pete Buttigieg and Seth Moulton also appear there next week.

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On the campaign trail today: Aside from the fair, most of the other candidates campaign throughout Iowa as well… And at 6pm ET, Biden, Booker, Bullock, Castro, Delaney, Gillibrand, Harris, Hickenlooper, Klobuchar, Warren and Sanders all appear at the Democratic Wing Ding Dinner in Clear Lake, IA. 

On the campaign trail Saturday: Other than the state fair festivities… nine candidates are slated to speak at a gun reform town hall in Des Moines — Warren, Sanders, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Inslee, Castro, Biden and Harris. 

Dispatches from NBC’s embeds: While in Iowa, Sen. Elizabeth Warren was asked what would happen to individuals who are working in the private insurance industry under her Medicare for All plan, NBC’s Benjamin Pu reports: “Warren said that some people would be hired by the federal government to help administer the Medicare for all program, saying: ‘A lot of pieces to move but we can make it work.’”

DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is… nine. 

Nine.

That’s the number of Democratic candidates who appear to have qualified for the September debate — so far — after yesterday’s Monmouth University Iowa poll gave Andrew Yang the support he needed to make the cut.

The others who have qualified to date, per a tally by NBC’s Ben Kamisar: Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

Reminder: In order to qualify, candidates need to hit 2 percent in at least four qualifying polls, and they have to raise money from 130,000 unique donors.

THE LID: Fried food ’til the (butter) cows come home

Don’t miss the pod from yesterday, when we looked at the colorful political history — and cuisine — of the Iowa State Fair.

ICYMI: News clips you shouldn’t miss 

Joseph Maguire, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, will serve as the acting director of national intelligence rather than deputy DNI Sue Gordon, who’s resigning.

Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe is suing the agency and DOJ, saying his firing was political.

Bill Clinton is calling on lawmakers to reinstate the assault weapons ban.

What would a law that covers “domestic terrorism” look like?

NBC’s Alex Seitz-Wald reports that allies of “The Squad” are preparing to get primary challenges.

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