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| Good morning from Washington, where we’re recovering from an influx of climate activists who figure that disrupting commutes is the way to win sympathy for their cause. Kara Brown, Aaron Credeur, and Jackson Elliott have some highlights. President Trump was at the U.N. to champion religious freedom, reports Fred Lucas, who also has the lowdown on past attempts to impeach Supreme Court justices. Plus: John York on the diverse demands of the Electoral College, and Lee Edwards on what motivates the Hong Kong protesters. On this date in 1789, President George Washington signs the Judiciary Act creating a six-member Supreme Court and appoints the first justices. |
| News Before Kavanaugh, 3 Previous Attempts to Impeach Supreme Court Justices Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase, who went through an impeachment trial, was known for his open partisanship in public forums and on the bench. While on the high court, he publicly campaigned for the reelection of Adams over Jefferson in the 1800 election. More Commentary Electoral College Encourages Candidates to Get to Know All Kinds of Americans Sen. Elizabeth Warren proposed killing the Electoral College on the grounds that the presidential selection mechanism leads candidates to focus on just a handful of “swing states” that are most likely to determine the election. More Commentary Why the Hong Kong Protesters Keep Marching According to Marxist doctrine, which recognizes only the material side of man, the residents of Hong Kong should be the most contented citizens of the People’s Republic of China. More News Mike Pence to Headline First-Ever Heritage Honors Gala The vice president’s speech will be part of The Heritage Foundation’s annual President’s Club Meeting, which runs Oct. 21-23 in Washington, D.C. The event is Heritage’s largest annual gathering of supporters, drawing hundreds of attendees each year. More News In UN Address, Trump Makes International Call: ‘End Religious Persecution’ “The religious freedom enjoyed by American citizens is rare in the world. Approximately 80% of the world’s population live in countries where religious liberty is threatened, restricted, or even banned,” says President Trump. More Analysis For Bureaucrats, It’s ‘Christmas in September’ “It’s the largest extravaganza of taxpayer abuse going on right now in the history of our country,” says Adam Andrzejewski of Open the Books. More News We Went to the DC Climate Protest. Here Are 5 Things We Saw. “We’re coming here to declare a climate emergency,” Nick Brana, 30, says. “We’re taking the streets, because everything we’ve tried to do by democratic means has failed.” More | ||
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“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.” BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Good morning! The United Nations—for the first time in its history—hosted a discussion on religious freedom and persecution, during the 74th session of the General Assembly. President Donald Trump, who had initiated the meeting, urged world leaders to respect religious freedom. “Too often, people in positions of power preach diversity while silencing, shunning, or censoring the faithful,” Trump said. Click here to read the full story Department of Homeland Security Announces End to ‘Catch and Release’ Late Hotel Magnate Barron Hilton Donated 97 Percent of His Wealth to Charity US Must Confront China for Its ‘War on Faith,’ Says Religious Freedom Ambassador Brownback Trump Praises British Prime Minister for Calling for New Iran Nuclear Deal Former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe unequivocally claimed in a memo written for the record that then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein offered in a 2017 meeting to wear a wire secretly to record President Donald Trump in the White House. Read more As Taiwan anticipates an unprecedented campaign by the Beijing regime to meddle in the island’s presidential and legislative elections early next year, local lawmakers have created legislation aimed to deter foreign interference. Read more Then-acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe opened a criminal investigation of President Donald Trump on May 16, 2017, one day before then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel, according to a memo by McCabe. Read more The British-flagged tanker detained by Iran in July, along with the vessel’s crew, will soon be released, an Iranian maritime official announced. Read more Some 46,000 General Motors employees have refused to work for their eighth day running as their union negotiates with the automaker’s leadership over pay hikes and job losses. Neither side reported any progress over the weekend. Read more Bowing to pressure from student protesters, Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University announced it is ending a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to provide emergency medical training to federal agents. Read more See More Top Stories Trump and the Whistleblower By Brad Johnson Last month, The Washington Post broke the story that an unidentified person filed a whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump based on a phone call to Ukraine, during which Trump requested the completion of an investigation started long ago regarding former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter… Read more What Justin Trudeau’s ‘Brownface’ Tells Us About Political Theocracy By Joshua Philipp Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was publicly shamed by the machines of social justice recently, after photos emerged of him wearing “brownface” nearly two decades ago. Of course, this is only news because of this new politically correct culture and its contradictions—most conservatives only care because it shows the hypocrisy of those who push race politics, and many socialists seemed to not care because… Read more See More Opinions Saudi Economic Woes Involve More Than Low Oil Price By Valentin Schmid People in the West perceive that money in stable Middle Eastern oil countries grows on trees. Or, to be precise, it’s pumped out of the ground. Case in point: Saudi Arabia. In 2008, the country had a fiscal surplus of 29.8 percent, which means the government raised $1.30 for every $1 it spent. The kingdom also had stable to nonexistent unemployment for decades, massive trade surpluses, and government debt to GDP of 1.4 percent at the end of 2014. Things could not have been better—so they had to get worse. Read more At the 48th annual Phyllis Schlafly Eagle Council, we sit down with Heritage Foundation economist Stephen Moore, who played a major role in developing President Trump’s economic policy. He is also the co-author of the book, “Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy.” We discuss the US-China trade war and how the policies of the Democratic candidates would impact the US economy if they were enacted. How the 2020 Election Impacts the US China Trade War [Eagle Council Special] 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. |
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 Warren Rising in Iowa In a recent Iowa Democratic primary poll conducted by the Des Moines Register, “[Elizabeth] Warren, the U.S. senator from Massachusetts, now holds a 2-percentage-point lead, with 22% of likely Democratic caucusgoers saying she is their first choice for president. It is the first time she has led in the Register’s poll. Former Vice President Biden, who had led each of the Register’s three previous 2020 cycle polls, follows her at 20%. Sanders, the U.S. senator from Vermont, has fallen to third place with 11%. No other candidate reaches double digits.” Des Moines Register From the Left The left thinks Warren’s chances to gain the nomination have risen, but worries about some of her far-left policies. The headlines “largely focus on the fact that Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is now at the top tier of the 2020 field in the crucial Iowa caucuses. That notion drastically undersells how strong a position Warren is actually in… Warren gained 7 points from the June DMR/CNN poll and has almost tripled her support in the state from a December 2018 poll. Biden, meanwhile, has lost support in each of the four DMR/CNN polls between December 2018 and now… “Warren is [also] the first or second choice of 42% of those polled. That’s well in front of Biden (30% first/second combined), Sanders (21%), South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg (18%) and California Sen. Kamala Harris (16%)… Iowa is now Warren’s to lose.” Chris Cillizza, CNN “Biden has three advantages in this primary: association with former president Barack Obama, relative policy moderation and perceived electability. It’s basically impossible for anyone to detract from or surmount those first two qualities… But Biden’s other strength — electability — is assailable. The easiest way to prove that a candidate isn’t electable is to beat them in an election. And Warren could do that in Iowa… “Warren tends to do well with white voters who think of themselves as more liberal. Contrary to farm belt stereotypes, the Iowa Democratic Party is full of the sort of white liberals who might like Warren. If Warren were to follow up an Iowa win with a victory in New Hampshire, another state with a solid number of white liberals, she might be able to simultaneously drive her opponents on the left out of the race and damage Biden’s electability argument.” David Byler, Washington Post “Biden is trying to bridge reassurance to the wealthy with outreach to energized progressives… If two Obama terms were not enough for you, he’s offering something resembling a third — Obamacare Plus; a possible increase in capital-gains tax to address inequality… “Will this fine-tuning be enough in an agitated America, whiplashed by President Trump? I doubt it. The under-30s, maybe under-40s, are underwhelmed by Biden, even angry that this honorable man has not chosen dignified retirement. He’s the emblem of the permanent political class, the one that created the conditions for Trump… What created Trump cannot oust Trump. It will demand a new politics, and a new integrity, such as the one Warren has set out and embodied with greater vigor, persuasiveness and coherence than anyone else.” Roger Cohen, New York Times “Warren has cultivated a reputation as a smart, detail-oriented policymaker, and on the 2020 campaign trail she’s rolled out a litany of policy blueprints… But her time at the CFPB reveals a fundamentally more ideological, confrontational figure who did not come to Washington to make friends. The federal government had, in her eyes, let big business run wild for decades, and that had wreaked havoc on everyday Americans. Wall Street had just gotten away with murder, and she wasn’t going to let that happen again — even if that meant alienating powerful members of the party establishment… “Her supporters and detractors describe her as ruthlessly committed to her ideals — and ruthlessly effective at making them real.” Emily Stewart, Vox “Among all the 2020 Democratic candidates, [Warren] is now the top-tier candidate who the largest amount of registered voters (17%) are ‘enthusiastic’ about. While that number has grown from just 8 percent in March, the percentage of voters who are enthusiastic about Trump has remained the same at 26%. Biden, however, has seen the opposite trend. In March, 17% of voters were enthusiastic about him, but now the former VP has slipped to 12%… Donald Trump has every reason to be concerned about taking on former Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 election… But Trump’s greatest threat may in fact come from Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.” Dean Obeidallah, CNN Some note that Warren “portrays herself as the candidate of dreaming big and fighting hard. That is working well when it comes to her signature promise of fixing what she calls a rigged economic system that favors rich people and corporations at the expense of much of the rest of America… [Her] support for ‘Medicare for All’ and the phaseout of almost all private insurance, however, is working much less well… “There are lots of people with marginal insurance or no coverage at all. But there are also lots of people [who like their insurance plans]. That has become increasingly clear as unions, a core Democratic constituency, defend the private health insurance plans they have negotiated, sometimes giving up higher wages in exchange… This may be a matter of trying to keep the focus on the highest, most aspirational goal, much as Republicans did when they ran on killing the ACA while Obama was in the White House with a veto pen. The difference is that their rallying cry mobilized the GOP base. Warren’s runs the risk of alienating even many liberal Democrats.” Jill Lawrence, USA Today From the Right The right is skeptical of claims that Warren is now the frontrunner, and critical of her policies. Warren’s “poll lead is not large — 22 percent to 20 percent — but it gives those covering the race their first significant lead change to hype, and those not-so-closeted Warren fans who have been itching to write their ‘Warren is now the real frontrunner’ column now have the excuse they’ve been looking for… “In addition to whatever other conscious and subconscious biases are at work in those covering the race, reporters, editors, and producers in the national news media desperately want an exciting Democratic primary race to cover. Twists, turns, lead changes, surprises, drama, suspense — they want an ongoing news story that is unpredictable and exciting that gets viewers, listeners, and readers to tune in day after day. This primary has been, by many measures, something of a dud.” Jim Geraghty, National Review “We’re still a long way from fully consolidating the Democratic vote in Iowa, and around the country for that matter. In Iowa, Harris, along with Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and Cory Booker still account for a combined 21% of the total. And there’s an additional 24 percent scattered among the rest of the massive field. When larger numbers of |
[candidates]
begin following Bill de Blasio out the door, they’ll all
have to go somewhere… Biden and Warren may be leading with around 20%,
but that’s not going to tell us a thing until the rest of the Democratic
chickens come home to roost.”
Jazz Shaw, Hot Air
Republican political advisor Sarah Isgur notes that “unlike
Elizabeth Warren, who has developed her following based on her
progressive appeal and solid debate performances, Biden’s standing with
the Democratic electorate seems largely driven by fear—fear of losing again to Donald Trump.
If she can assuage that fear—or if another candidate can prove more
viable—Joe Biden could be looking at a swift and total collapse… but
the growing partisan divide around Donald Trump and the fear of losing
to him in 2020 means electability will only grow in importance to
Democratic primary voters. And that’s bad news right now for every
candidate whose name doesn’t rhyme with Schmiden.”
Sarah Isgur, CNN
“Warren’s recent rise and the persistence of ‘Bernie or Bust’ voters says more about the Democratic Party than how left-wing it has become… the Democratic campaign is being shaped significantly by populism.
That Sanders is not only a socialist but also a populist was
well-understood during the 2016 primary campaign… Warren had a rocky
start, but has risen as her campaign has become more overtly populist.
She may market herself as the candidate with plans for everything, but
she does so within the frame that her plans are needed to address a
system rigged in favor of the wealthy, big corporations and their
lobbyists…
“The
culmination of these populist trends is a Democratic Party whose
candidates are largely beyond its control… It would be tough to top the
chaos of 1968, and the odds of an actual contested convention are
probably less than one-in-three, but Democrats should be uncomfortable
with those odds.”
Warren Henry, The Federalist
“One
of [Warren’s] latest plans would restrict corporate takeovers and
restructurings. It’s similar to a plan that caused the largest stock
market crash in our history the last time it was considered by Congress…
Her plan would place restrictions on corporate takeovers and
restructurings and repeal the tax breaks related to mergers and
acquisitions. This same type of plan was responsible for the stock market crash of 1987.
On Monday, Oct. 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average crashed 508
points, a 22.6% drop. That’s the equivalent to a more than 6,000-point
drop today…
“Although
some blamed the crash on program trading, trade deficits, or other
factors, a study by economists from the Securities and Exchange
Commission in 1989 found that ‘the fundamental factor that initially
started the market decline’ was the takeover restriction in the proposed
House bill.”
Bruce Thompson, Washington Examiner
Warren “was a Harvard law professor and prizes her reputation as a very serious policy wonk. And yet vast swaths of her proposed agenda are either illegal or unconstitutional.
For instance, she has vowed to implement a total ban on fracking once
she’s elected. The only problem: The president doesn’t have that power.
Congress passed a law in 2005 giving wide latitude to states to allow
fracking… Warren’s wealth tax is almost surely unconstitutional, so is
her plan for creating a national statutory right for abortion…
“None
of these sweeping promises has any chance of surviving contact with
Congress, never mind the voters. But that’s beside the point. The
Democratic primary is an emotive contest to prove who cares the most…
One of the reasons our politics are so ugly is that politicians and
activists insist the impossible is not only possible, but easy. When the
inevitable failure materializes, the same politicians blame it on
nefarious special interests and a rigged system. This in turn, leads not
just to more cynicism but a desire for leaders who will tear down
everything, the Constitution be damned.”
Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
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We should hope that when the adults around her stop finding her useful that she will still find good use and value in the world. But we should absolutely not set global policy based on the demands of a fearful and angry child who has been fed a bunch of lies and half-truths. We should absolutely not give into the ideas of authoritarianism to impose dark age environmental policies on western society. The post We Should Not Set Global Policy Based on a 16 Year Old With a Developmental Disorder appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » On Ukraine: Paging John Bolton. This is a disturbing new revelation about the President related to Ukraine. President Trump told his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to hold back almost $400 million in military aid for Ukraine at least a week before a phone call in which Trump is said to have pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate the […] The post On Ukraine: Paging John Bolton. appeared first on The Resurgent. 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| Sign up for this newsletter Read online The morning’s most important stories, curated by Post editors. (AP) Trump ordered hold on aid to Ukraine days before calling its leader, officials say President Trump’s order to withhold aid to Ukraine a week before his July 25 call with Volodymyr Zelensky is likely to raise further questions about the exchange with Ukraine’s new leader and Trump’s desire to see Joe Biden’s son investigated. By Karoun Demirjian, Josh Dawsey, Ellen Nakashima and Carol Leonnig ● Read more » Pelosi quietly sounding out House Democrats about impeachment, officials say The speaker, a longtime skeptic of impeachment, is gauging whether to pursue proceedings after a whistleblower’s complaint raises new allegations against the president. By Rachael Bade and Mike DeBonis ● Read more » Senate Republicans dodge questions on Trump-Ukraine whistleblower complaint Some Republicans on Monday responded as if they were unaware of the matter, while others disparaged the whistleblower or ignored reporters’ questions. By Felicia Sonmez, Mike DeBonis and Erica Werner ● Read more » Trump turns U.N. into backdrop for attacks on Biden President Trump used his meetings with heads of state at the United Nations to flay Joe Biden, celebrate his personal attorney’s altercations and tend to his media feuds. By Anne Gearan, Philip Rucker and Ashley Parker ● Read more » British Supreme Court rules Johnson suspended Parliament illegally Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s critics say that the break — the longest since 1945 — was an attempt to thwart lawmakers’ ability to scrutinize the government’s Brexit plans ahead of Britain’s scheduled departure from the European Union on Oct. 31. By William Booth and Karla Adam ● Read more » ADVERTISEMENT The circuit preacher was an idea of the frontier past. Now it’s the cutting-edge response to shrinking churches. Each Sunday, these married pastors in West Virginia perform acrobatics of military-precision timing and long-distance driving to preach at five churches in remote areas of the state. By Julie Zauzmer ● Read more » Opinions The latest allegations against Trump are a threat to all we have sworn to protect By Gil Cisneros, Jason Crow, Chrissy Houlahan, Elaine Luria, Mikie Sherrill, Elissa Slotkin and Abigail Spanberger ● Read more » Sorry I ruined your Monday commute, but our planet is on a highway to hell By Mike Tidwell ● Read more » Trump isn’t the only person responsible for the demise of American democracy By Catherine Rampell ● Read more » ADVERTISEMENT What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell’s surrender By Dana Milbank ● Read more » This is my final column. I’ve been lucky. By Richard Cohen ● Read more » In Ukraine, Trump’s allies are corrupt oligarchs and Russian stooges By Editorial Board ● Read more » More News FAA misled Congress on inspector training for Boeing 737 Max, investigators say The findings of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel have added to questions about the effectiveness and transparency of the Federal Aviation Administration’s safety oversight. By Michael Laris ● Read more » In Trump’s attacks on Biden, Democrats see a worrisome reprise of 2016 Mindful of what happened to Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden’s campaign has been more aggressive in countering President Trump’s falsehoods than Clinton was in 2016. Campaign 2020 ● By Matt Viser and Isaac Stanley-Becker ● Read more » As police shootings in Rio rise, children are caught in the crossfire Years into a violent experiment to restore order to one of the world’s most dangerous cities, this is one grim consequence: dead children. By Terrence McCoy and Marina Lopes ● Read more » For some with chronic pain, the problem is not their backs or knees — it’s their brains Prompted by the opioid crisis, federal agencies, universities and drugmakers, among others, are trying to find new ways to predict and prevent an ancient malady that afflicts 50 million U.S. adults. By Lenny Bernstein ● Read more » An accused teacher, 8,000 dirty images: School’s exploitation shows no place is safe from hidden cameras Technology allows voyeurs to invade spaces once seen as safe, and create online communities, where they share and sell work, trade tips and egg each other on. In the process, victims are often exposed to exponentially more eyeballs. By Justin Jouvenal ● Read more » We think you’ll like this newsletter Check out By The Way for tips and guides that will help you travel better and make you feel like a local wherever you go. Delivered every Thursday. Sign up » |
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POLITICO Playbook: How the ground is shifting on impeachment
By JAKE SHERMAN and ANNA PALMER
09/24/2019 06:00 AM EDT
DRIVING THE DAY
IN THE LAST 24 HOURS, the political ground has shifted quite drastically on impeachment. The operative question seems to have shifted from “Will the Democrats impeach President DONALD TRUMP?” to “When will they impeach the president?” — and what approach they will use to begin those proceedings.
PERHAPS THE CLEAREST SIGN of the shifting dynamics is what Speaker NANCY PELOSI’S closest allies are saying. On Monday, after the latest news of the conversation between the Ukrainian president and TRUMP broke, Connecticut Rep. ROSA DELAURO — one of the speaker’s closest allies and friends –said that “an impeachment inquiry may be the only recourse Congress has if the president is enlisting foreign assistance in the 2020 election. Congress must meet this pivotal moment in our nation’s history with decisive action.”
Michigan Rep. DEBBIE DINGELL said it this way: “This country is divided. We cannot be divided on the rule of law. As an elected official my oath is to protect national security and the Constitution. After recent revelations, I support an impeachment inquiry because we must follow the facts and hold the president accountable.”
ANOTHER SIGN: Seven seat-flipping, frontline Democratic freshmen with backgrounds in national security published an op-ed in The Washington Post that says, “If these allegations are true, we believe these actions represent an impeachable offense.” The WaPo op-ed, by Reps. Gil Cisneros, Jason Crow, Chrissy Houlahan, Elaine Luria, Mikie Sherrill, Elissa Slotkin and Abigail Spanberger… FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH: Luria released another statement, taking it a step further, and explicitly calling for impeachment. Her statement
— The op-ed is not quite calling for impeachment, but it’s showing openness to it, and that is new. The leadership has said they were holding off on impeachment to protect frontliners. Now those frontliners are becoming more aggressive.
— KYLE CHENEY: “18 of the 44 Democrats considered vulnerable frontliners now favor impeachment proceedings.” Kyle’s tweet
COMING UP: THE HOUSE WILL vote on a resolution condemning TRUMP. Senate Minority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER will take to the floor of the Senate this morning to try to pass, by unanimous consent, a “simple one-sentence resolution urging the release of the whistleblower complaint,” an aide told us.
OUR COLLEAGUES HEATHER CAYGLE, SARAH FERRIS and JOHN BRESNAHAN have this headline on their story: “‘Seismic change’: Democratic hold-outs rush toward impeachment”
— IMPORTANT FROM THEIR STORY: “Pelosi spent all weekend and Monday working the phones, including reaching out to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, as she sought to take the temperature of the caucus on impeachment. She’s set to meet with the six committee chairmen investigating Trump on Tuesday afternoon to discuss Democrats’ next steps.
“Pelosi is expected to make a statement on the issue Tuesday and has seemed more open to the idea of an impeachment investigation than ever before, according to lawmakers and aides. Democratic leaders have also called a full caucus meeting for Tuesday afternoon, where the discussion is expected to center on their response to the episode, and which comes after a dozen new lawmakers embraced an impeachment inquiry.” POLITICO
HEADS UP … HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP is considering creating a SPECIAL COMMITTEE to investigate Trump’s conversation with the Ukrainian president about JOE BIDEN, according to multiple top-level sources. Heather Caygle and John Bresnahan noted this was bubbling in June, but the Ukraine story has given the idea new life.
DETAILS have not yet been worked out, and the plan is not yet finalized, but this would be a way to give special import to the probe and remove it from day-to-day committee jurisdiction. It would carry a tight deadline — as to not stretch out this process, and to signal that this isn’t an endless investigation. Some Democrats are already pointing to historic precedent: the Watergate special committee.
IMPACTS: Pelosi gets to hand-select who is on this committee — ahem, Jerry Nadler — and can exert lots of control over its comings and goings. It could help the leadership continue to methodically build the case for impeachment.
DESPITE THE RUSH TOWARD IMPEACHMENT, there’s still plenty of healthy skepticism among the top ranks of House Democrats. You can’t have a conversation with top people in the leadership without hearing about the potential political impact of proceedings to remove the president. They bring up polls, the 2020 election and how it might affect keeping the House.
WE ASKED A FEW OF THEM that if impeachment is the right thing to do — as many Democrats think it is — perhaps the political impact was secondary. Many of them said that this isn’t a moral decision; it’s a political and policy decision. Several people in and around the leadership told us: If one body impeaches the president and the other swiftly acquits him, what good does that do besides but an asterisks next to Trump’s name in history books?
THE LINGERING QUESTIONS … Thursday has immediately become the most important day this week. Acting DNI JOSEPH MAGUIRE comes to the House Intelligence Committee for open testimony, where he’ll be grilled about releasing the whistleblower report.
— IF IT’S NOT TURNED OVER voluntarily, will it be leaked? House Democrats believe it will be. Absent the whistleblower report, this will be a more difficult process. It’s hard to run an impeachment inquiry from news reports alone.
THE CALENDAR: There are just 32 days left in session for the House this year. After next week, the House goes out of session for two weeks. The schedule could obviously change, but time is limited, which will probably force Democrats into a decision quite quickly.
TO SAY NOTHING OF THE SENATE, DUH: “Senate Republicans sidestep Trump’s Ukraine mess,” by Burgess Everett, James Arkin and Marianne LeVine
WHAT THE RIGHT IS SAYING … The buzz among Trump allies is: Wait until you see what this turns up about Biden and his son. It will make this conversation between Trump and the Ukrainian president look like small potatoes.
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MORE DETAILS … NOT GOOD FOR THE PRESIDENT — “Trump ordered hold on military aid days before calling Ukrainian president, officials say,” by WaPo’s Karoun Demirjian, Josh Dawsey, Ellen Nakashima and Carol Leonnig: “President Trump told his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to hold back almost $400 million in military aid for Ukraine at least a week before a phone call in which Trump is said to have pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate the son of former vice president Joe Biden, according to three senior administration officials.
“Officials at the Office of Management and Budget relayed Trump’s order to the State Department and the Pentagon during an interagency meeting in mid-July, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. They explained that the president had ‘concerns’ and wanted to analyze whether the money needed to be spent.
“Administration officials were instructed to tell lawmakers that the delays were part of an ‘interagency process’ but to give them no additional information — a pattern that continued for nearly two months, until the White House released the funds on the night of Sept. 11.” WaPo
— THE PULL BACK … NYT’S PETER BAKER on A1: “Instead of ‘No Collusion!’ Trump Now Seems to Be Saying, So What if I Did?”
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HOW BIDEN WORLD IS REACTING — “Biden wages war on Hunter-Ukraine reporting,” by Natasha Korecki, Marc Caputo and Michael Calderone: “Disparaging the press as Donald Trump’s ‘unwitting accomplice.’ Shaming journalists for spending too much time on Twitter. Pointedly telling a reporter to ‘ask the right question.’
“Joe Biden‘s presidential campaign is waging a media offensive to control the Ukraine narrative, a display of targeted force designed to head off a repeat of what the campaign refers to as ‘Hillary 2.0.’ Since Friday alone, Biden’s team has adopted a new in-your-face approach, including repeatedly singling out journalists behind unfavorable coverage, tweeting out taunts that accuse reporters of carrying Trump’s water and rolling out a series of fact-checking memos.
“It’s all designed to focus coverage squarely on allegations that Trump asked a foreign leader to investigate the Biden family — and away from the president’s attempts to highlight Biden’s son Hunter’s business activities in Ukraine. Biden himself has taken on a more confrontational tone in addressing the subject, including in a fiery, finger-pointing exchange with a Fox News reporter caught on camera.” POLITICO
MEANWHILE, IN TURTLE BAY — “U.N. opens annual leaders’ meeting encircled by troubled world,” by AP’s Edith Lederer: “Navigating a troubled era’s choppy waters, world leaders gather for their annual meeting at the United Nations on Tuesday to grapple with climate change, regional conflicts and a dispute in the Middle East that could ripple across the entire planet.
“U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will open the General Assembly proceedings with a ‘state of the world’ speech. He’ll be followed immediately by the traditional first speaker — Brazil, represented by its new president, Jair Bolsonaro — and the United States, represented by President Donald Trump.
“The United Nations, designed to promote a multilateral world, has struggled in the face of increasing unilateralism by the United States and other nations that favor going it alone over the brand of collaboration that the global body advocates.” AP … U.N. Playbook
— SPOTTED: new national security adviser Robert O’Brien, U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Kelly Craft having dinner at Smith & Wollensky in New York.
2020 WATCH … NYT’S MARK LEIBOVICH in Keene, N.H.: “With Beto O’Rourke on the Couldn’t-Care-Less Campaign Trail”: “Beto O’Rourke began his rally with a non sequitur. He told a story of how he was killing time at a park a few hours earlier when he happened upon a woman pounding on a set of drums, with her car parked next to her, and the radio blasting ‘Any Way You Want It’ by Journey. ‘And I thought, that is so punk rock!’ Mr. O’Rourke effused.
“Mr. O’Rourke, the pin-balling presidential candidate from Texas, told the audience that he felt fortunate to have witnessed such ‘a beautiful, powerful, transcendent moment.’ He then got to the point of his story. Or not: ‘I don’t even know why I’m telling you this,’ he acknowledged. ‘Except that I had to share this with somebody.’ Mr. O’Rourke’s entire campaign sometimes feels like one giant non sequitur. Where was this story going? Was there a point to it? And did he even care if anyone was taken aback?
“The answer that last question would seem to be ‘no,’ and has become especially resonant since Aug. 3, when 22 people were killed in a mass shooting in Mr. O’Rourke’s hometown, El Paso.” NYT
— “Inside Pete Buttigieg’s live-tweeting, all-access bus tour,” by Elena Schneider in Waterloo, Iowa: “The South Bend mayor’s bus tour — leaning into the ultimate press access that fueled his early rise last spring and propelled him into the middle of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary — is more of a Live Tweet Express than its original inspiration, John McCain’s 2000-era Straight Talk Express.
“Entering the fall months outside the top three spots in the polls, Buttigieg’s campaign is betting again on that transparency, and a rush of headlines and social media posts from reporters transcribing all of his on-the-bus musings, to boost him in Iowa and draw a strong contrast with other candidates less inclined to engage the media.” POLITICO
TRUMP’S TUESDAY: The president and first lady Melania Trump will leave Trump Tower at 9:25 a.m. for U.N. headquarters. Trump will address the U.N. General Assembly at around 10:15 a.m. Afterward, he will hold bilateral meetings with British PM Boris Johnson and Indian PM Narendra Modi and participate in a pull-aside with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.
Trump will then attend a lunch hosted by Guterres. He will participate in a pull-aside at 3 p.m. with UNGA President Tijjani Muhammad-Bande of Nigeria. He will depart at 3:15 p.m. en route to Lotte New York Palace, where he will participate in a bilateral meeting with Iraqi President Barham Salih. He will participate in a multilateral meeting with the Middle East Strategic Alliance at 4 p.m. Afterward, Trump will return to Trump Tower. He and the first lady will leave at 7:05 p.m. to return to Lotte New York Palace to attend a diplomatic reception before returning to Trump Tower.
HAPPENING TODAY: Pelosi is due to appear at the Atlantic Festival in D.C. at around 2 p.m., in what the magazine is billing as “a conversation with The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg.” Tuesday’s lineup
PLAYBOOK READS
INLAWS, AMIRITE — “Trump snubs Jared Kushner’s signature accomplishment,” by Gabby Orr and Daniel Lippman: “For months, the president has glossed over his son-in-law’s signature legislative achievement at his campaign rallies. If he brings up criminal justice reform, it’s almost always to mock his predecessors for their inability to get it done. Otherwise, as he did at his three most recent campaign events, he skips over it entirely, indulging in long-winded rants about unresolved issues like trade and immigration instead of plugging one of the few bipartisan triumphs of his administration.
“The subject’s notable absence from Trump’s 2020 stump speech offers a raw look at the president’s political instincts, which strongly veer toward partisan fights and away from the soaring appeals to national unity of past White House incumbents. And it lacks appeal to his base of rural and older white voters, who often respond better to hard-line rhetoric on the topic of law and order.” POLITICO
KNOWING MICHAEL ATKINSON — “The intelligence watchdog at the center of Ukraine firestorm,” by Natasha Bertrand and Daniel Lippman:“President Trump appointed Michael Atkinson, a widely respected career DOJ official, to keep the intelligence community accountable. Now, he’s unexpectedly in the middle of a presidential scandal.” POLITICO
UNGA LATEST — “Macron, Merkel and Johnson blame Iran for Saudi oil attack,” by POLITICO Europe’s Rym Momtaz and David Herszenhorn in New York: “The leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom on Monday blamed Iran for an attack on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia earlier this month. … ‘It is clear to us that Iran bears responsibility for this attack,’ the leaders said. ‘There is no other plausible explanation. We support ongoing investigations to establish further details.’” POLITICO Europe
— POLITICO EUROPE’S EMILIO CASALICCHIO: “Boris Johnson hugs Trump close — for now”
— ANITA KUMAR: “Four big questions (and answers) about Trump’s big address to the U.N. General Assembly.”
EYES EMOJI … Judge Andrew Napolitano on Fox Business: “I think this is the most serious charge against the president, far more serious than what Bob Mueller dug or dragged up against him.” (hat tip: The Daily Beast)
DEEP DIVE — “How Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Took Hold in the United States,” by NYT’s Jan Hoffman
SCOOP — “Federal Prosecutors Conducting Criminal Probe of Juul,” by WSJ’s Jennifer Maloney: “The investigation by the U.S. attorney’s office of the Northern District of California is in its early stages, the people said. The focus of the probe couldn’t be learned. … The FTC’s probe is focused on whether Juul used social-media influencers and other marketing techniques to appeal to minors, while the FDA is conducting a more wide-ranging investigation, covering marketing and outreach as well as the high nicotine content of Juul’s refill pods.” WSJ
WHAT PETER HAMBY IS READING — “Snap Detailed Facebook’s Aggressive Tactics in ‘Project Voldemort’ Dossier,” by WSJ’s Georgia Wells and Deepa Seetharaman: “A number of Facebook’s current and former competitors are talking about the company’s hardball tactics to investigators from the Federal Trade Commission, as part of its broader antitrust investigation into the social-media giant’s business practices, according to people familiar with the matter.
“One of them is Snap Inc., where the legal team for years kept a dossier of ways that the company felt Facebook was trying to thwart competition from the buzzy upstart, according to some of those people. The title of the documents: Project Voldemort.” WSJ
MEDIAWATCH … NYT PUBLISHER A.G. SULZBERGER TAKES AIM AT TRUMP: “The Growing Threat to Journalism Around the World”: “Over the last few years … something has dramatically changed. Around the globe, a relentless campaign is targeting journalists because of the fundamental role they play in ensuring a free and informed society. To stop journalists from exposing uncomfortable truths and holding power to account, a growing number of governments have engaged in overt, sometimes violent, efforts to discredit their work and intimidate them into silence.
“This is a worldwide assault on journalists and journalism. But even more important, it’s an assault on the public’s right to know, on core democratic values, on the concept of truth itself. And perhaps most troubling, the seeds of this campaign were planted right here, in a country that has long prided itself on being the fiercest defender of free expression and a free press.”
— MORE FROM SULZBERGER: “To give you a sense of what this retreat looks like on the ground, let me tell you a story I’ve never shared publicly before. Two years ago, we got a call from a United States government official warning us of the imminent arrest of a New York Times reporter based in Egypt named Declan Walsh. Though the news was alarming, the call was actually fairly standard. Over the years, we’ve received countless such warnings from American diplomats, military leaders and national security officials.
“But this particular call took a surprising and distressing turn. We learned the official was passing along this warning without the knowledge or permission of the Trump administration. Rather than trying to stop the Egyptian government or assist the reporter, the official believed, the Trump administration intended to sit on the information and let the arrest be carried out. The official feared being punished for even alerting us to the danger.
“Unable to count on our own government to prevent the arrest or help free Declan if he were imprisoned, we turned to his native country, Ireland, for help. Within an hour, Irish diplomats traveled to his house and safely escorted him to the airport before Egyptian forces could detain him.” NYT
— Longtime columnist Richard Cohen is leaving The Washington Post. His final column
PLAYBOOKERS
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SPOTTED: Donna Brazile at Des Moines International Airport on Sunday afternoon. … Jeff Denham — newly registered lobbyist — crossing the street at 16th and K on Monday afternoon. Pic … Bill Weld walking up 6th Avenue at 43rd Street in New York on Monday. … Marc Lotter, Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) and Kraig Kayser at the Trump hotel Monday night.
SPOTTED, ACELA EDITION: Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and John Kerry separately on the 1 p.m. from New York to D.C. on Monday. … Chris Wallace in first class on the 2 p.m. from D.C. to New York on Monday. … Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) on the 6 p.m. from New York to D.C. on Monday.
SPOTTED at a dinner hosted by Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan to kick off U.N. General Assembly week in New York on Monday night: Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Tina Brown, Anne Finucane, Imran Khan, Maureen Dowd, Peggy Noonan and Mike Barnacle.
TRANSITIONS — K2 Intelligence, founded by Jules and Jeremy Kroll, is acquiring Financial Integrity Network, an advisory firm that includes former White House and Treasury officials and is led by Juan Zarate. … Calli Norton is now digital comms director for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. She previously was an associate at Targeted Victory.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Gil Alterovitz, director of AI at the VA and a White House presidential innovation fellow, and Wei-Lun Hsu Alterovitz, a senior bioinformatics data scientist at the FDA, welcomed Avil Alterovitz on Sunday. Pic
BIRTHDAYS OF THE DAY: Hope Hall, senior adviser for video/senior road videographer at Warren for President and former Obama W.H. videographer. How she got her start: “My story, like that of my boss, takes many twists and turns, but essentially I went from being a modern dancer with a side gig as a still photographer to contributing film as projection design to some of the dance theater performances I was in, and — once liberated from the single frame — was hooked on motion picture. And it also felt great to move my focus to social justice work, so eventually I became a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer.” Playbook Plus Q&A
— Mike Morey, managing director at SKDKnickerbocker. How he’s celebrating: “Playing cornhole in the backyard with friends, taking my 8-year-old daughter to a Joan Jett concert and having dinner with my family at a great Caribbean restaurant.” Playbook Plus Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: Lou Dobbs is 74 … former Defense Secretary Ash Carter is 65 … Lara Barger of Hadron Strategies … Connolly Keigher … Katie Burke, senior strategist and global chief of staff at Edelman … Michael J. Kennedy … POLITICO’s Lisa Leonard, Olivia Altman, Brian Kidd and Jalyn Sanders … Katherine Hess … former Rep. Joseph Kennedy II (D-Mass.) is 67 … Sharon Yang of Facebook government and politics outreach … Jessica Schumer … Suzanne Mackowiak … Chris Altchek … Debra Masters … Will Booher … Craig Shirley is 63 … CNN’s Nicky Robertson is 24 … Andrew Bower … Will Nuckols (h/t Jon Haber) … Kim Fuller … Curt Viebranz …
… AP’s Alexandra Jaffe is 3-0 … Will Allison,senior consultant at FTI Consulting … Shawn McCoy, publisher of InsideSources, is 35 … photojournalist Mike Kamber is 56 … David Nelson of the National Restaurant Association is 31 (h/t Mitchell Rivard) … Patrick Davis … Alan Popovsky … Missy Owens … Morgan Jackson … WSJ’s Katy Stech Ferek … CAP’s Phil Wolgin … Kelsey Coates … Derek Pangallo … Joe DeSantis … Sara Dubois … Katherine McLane … Taryn Rosenkranz … Ericka Andersen … Jason Putorti … Page Austin … Moe Tkacik … Daniel Buk … Stevens C. Berry … Katrina Mendiola … Michael Teter … Jon Davidson … Dave Contarino (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … Sam Parker … Tony Anthony
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| Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has been unstinting in her criticism of President Trump
and what she says is his “abusiveness” of the Constitution and mounting
allegations of presidential wrongdoing. On Monday, the ground she’s
held for months against impeachment lurched inside her caucus in
response to detailed reporting that the president held back almost $400
million in military aid for Ukraine over the summer and then urged the
country’s president to investigate Joe Biden, a Democratic political rival he wants to defeat. House
Democrats are scheduled to meet at 4 p.m., and congressional aides
believe the collective march toward impeachment is unstoppable. “It will happen this week,” one House Democrat told The Hill late on Monday. “Mark it down. Take it to the bank. …The last 48, 72 hours, the ground has absolutely shifted. Substantially.” Pelosi
continued Monday night to phone allies and leading House Democrats to
gauge their thinking about embracing the removal of the president from
office. Many leadership aides who once thought Trump’s impeachment was
unlikely now think it’s almost inevitable. Among House Democrats, the
chorus for impeachment now extends beyond the party’s liberal base to
many Democratic presidential candidates to moderate lawmakers in
competitive House seats (The Washington Post). Seven
freshman House Democrats penned an Op-Ed today to raise the alarm about
new allegations that the president allegedly withheld foreign aid as a
form of leverage during a conversation with President Volodymyr Zelensky to
try to urge an investigation of Biden’s 2014 activities in Ukraine as
vice president, seeking to damage a political opponent. A formal
impeachment investigation, the lawmakers wrote, is warranted to uphold
the oaths they took to protect the Constitution. Freshman Democratic Reps. Gil Cisneros of California, Jason Crow of Colorado, Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, Elaine Luria of Virginia, Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey, Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Abigail Spanberger of Virginia wrote “these
allegations are stunning, both in the national security threat they
pose and the potential corruption they represent. …If these allegations
are true, we believe these actions represent an impeachable offense” (The Washington Post). Trump, according to The Washington Post, issued orders to his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, and the Office of Management and Budget to withhold aid to Ukraine. Pelosi
and Biden, who have collaborated on Democratic aims for decades, over
the weekend demanded a thorough congressional investigation. The Speaker
and her Democratic colleagues in the Senate want to see a
whistleblower’s August complaint to the intelligence community’s
inspector general about the president’s actions tied to Ukraine and his
focus on the former vice president. House and Senate Democrats are also
rejecting the refusal of the acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, to turn over information to Congress. The Hill: Pressure on Pelosi grows to impeach Trump. The Hill: Impeachment statements from Democratic Reps. Dean Phillips and Angie Craig of Minnesota on Monday indicate a House shift. Trump,
engulfed by a controversy he downplays as a partisan “witch hunt,” has
said he would weigh whether to release a transcript of his conversation
with Zelensky, which he says would show that his discussion with the new
president about past corruption in Ukraine, and his admitted mentions
of Biden, were “perfect.” Trump is scheduled to meet with Zelensky on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), urged in a letter by Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to help secure the release of requested information about the whistleblower complaint, lamented what he called partisanship before handing the task on Monday to Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.). Burr and his staff began negotiations with Maguire and intelligence community watchdog Michael Atkinson to get them to brief the panel this week (The Hill). While
House and Senate Republicans have largely remained silent about where
they believe the latest Trump imbroglio could lead, there is unanimity
that if substantiated, it’s an unwelcome development for Republicans,
even if Trump’s hyperbolic attacks on Biden and his son end up damaging
the former vice president’s chances of becoming his party’s nominee. The Hill: Five things to know about the whistleblower’s filing and next steps. Reuters: Key dates in the political controversy involving Trump and Ukraine. The Daily Beast: Veterans of Clinton’s pummeling by Trump in 2016 say Biden and his campaign have stumbled in countering the president’s attacks. |
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| LEADING THE DAY |
| POLITICS: The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced new thresholds for inclusion in the party’s debate in November, making it likely that the 2020 field will further winnow in the coming months ahead of contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. The DNC boosted the unique donor figure to 165,000, up from 130,000 in the September and October debates, while giving candidates two avenues to qualify through polling. Candidates can make the stage by polling at least at 3 percent in four DNC-approved polls or 5 percent in two single-state polls of voters in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina or Nevada. According to Politico’s Zach Montellaro, 11 Democratic candidates have hit the 165,000 donor mark, with Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) being the only one who participated at the most recent debate to not yet reach the figure. Polls will count if they were publicly released between Sept. 13 and midnight seven days before the debate. The DNC has not yet announced a location or host network (The New York Times). > Warren rising: A new poll shows Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) pulling ahead of Biden in Iowa, and insiders across the Democratic Party are gaming out what it means a little more than four months out from the first-in-the-nation caucuses. As Niall Stanage and Amie Parnes write, Biden is in a difficult spot. His team has been downplaying expectations in Iowa for most of September, and one unnamed adviser said that the state was not a must-win contest for the campaign. However, if he falters in Iowa, the schedule does him no favors, as the New Hampshire primary takes place the next day, with Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) the natural favorites there given the proximity of their states. In that situation, Biden would likely be looking ahead to South Carolina, the fourth contest, as a potential firewall, banking on his support among African American voters. One Biden ally seemed to be preparing the ground for such an outcome on Monday, saying Biden’s “coalition can’t be shown in states that are primarily white.” The Associated Press: “Way too extreme”: Some Democrats warn against moving left. |
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© Getty Images > Kennedy questions: Democratic lawmakers are expressing frustrations over Rep. Joe Kennedy III’s (D-Mass.) decision to challenge Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) in next year’s primary election, with some saying they do not understand why the rising Democratic star sees the need to primary the longtime progressive senator. Strategists worry that the primary bid will further exacerbate divisions at a time when fissures between establishment and progressive Democrats continue to plague the party, as evidenced more often at the House level in contentious primaries. The Massachusetts congressman launched his primary bid against Markey on Saturday, calling the race the fight of his generation. However, Kennedy’s Democratic colleagues in the House are not as convinced, with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) throwing her weight behind Markey, largely because of his support for the Green New Deal (The Hill). The Wall Street Journal: Primary challenges complicate GOP’s hold on the Senate. > Read of the Day: Wondering how some Republicans are surviving the “Trump vortex”? Writing for Vanity Fair, David M. Drucker takes a deep dive to explain how GOP lawmakers and strategists have come to grips with a Republican Party led by Trump. One unidentified GOP strategist said, “Do I think Trump a horrible person? Yes; but that’s so beyond the point. As a Republican, I hate him because he’s making us lose when we should be crushing it. It’s his stupid personality. If you were slightly less terrible, we’d be winning. The Democrats are nuts. They’re going to fundamentally [ruin] this country, all because some guy can’t control his two-year-old tantrums. This is what I hate about the guy.” |
| IN FOCUS/SHARP TAKES |
| TRUMP & INTERNATIONAL: Great Britain, France and Germany joined with the U.S. on Monday to blame Iran for the attacks on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia’s last week as world leaders gather in New York at the United Nations. Leaders of the three European nations issued a statement on Monday saying that “there is no other plausible explanation” than that “Iran bears responsibility for this attack.” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said late Sunday while en route to New York that the U.K will consider getting involved in U.S. military efforts to aid Saudi Arabia. “I can tell you that the U.K. is attributing responsibility with a very high degree of probability to Iran for the Aramco attacks,” Johnson said of the attack on the world’s largest oil processor. Iran continues to deny any involvement in the attack, saying Houthi rebels in Yemen are the responsible party. The rebels claimed responsibility for the attack, with Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif saying that if the Iranians had carried out the attack, “nothing would have been left of this refinery” (The Associated Press). Meanwhile, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrived in New York on Monday as he continues to push for support against the U.S.’s “maximum pressure” campaign, which Rouhani said is “cruel” (AFP). While Rouhani is scheduled to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron and Johnson during his stay in New York, a meeting with Trump is unlikely to take place, especially after the U.S. imposed more sanctions on the Iranians after last week’s attack. While Trump left the door open earlier Monday, Zarif slammed the door on any meeting (CNN). Despite the lack of a U.S.-Iran meeting, there remain some who want Trump to re-engage. Johnson pushed for a new nuclear agreement with the Iranians during an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, adding that Trump is the “one guy” who can make a better deal than the previous agreement, which all of the European sides continue to adhere to. “Let’s do a better deal,” Johnson told the “NBC Nightly News” anchor. “I think there’s one guy who can do a better deal … and that is the president of the United States. I hope there will be a Trump deal.” The Associated Press: Trump out to square America First with united front on Iran. France 24: Iranian leader Rouhani’s New York travel restricted. > Brexit: The U.K. Supreme Court ruled early Tuesday morning that Johnson’s suspension of Parliament earlier this month was unlawful, with Judge Brenda Hale saying the decision is “void and of no effect” (The Associated Press). “The effect on the fundamentals of our democracy was extreme,” Hale said of Johnson’s decision. The court’s ruling means that Parliament was never officially suspended and, technically, remains sitting despite Johnson’s move to end it for five weeks. The next decision lies with the Speakers of the Commons and Lords regarding how to proceed. Commons Speaker John Bercow applauded the ruling, adding that Parliament “must convene without delay” (BBC). > Israel: Israeli President Reuven Rivlin made a push to end the deadlock between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz, a former general, as the trio met at the president’s official residence, with neither Netanyahu or Gantz proving able to put together a winning coalition to lead the country. Rivlin brought Netanyahu and Gantz together for a photo at the beginning of the meeting, with both men looking “tense and uncomfortable,” according to The Associated Press, while Rivlin forced a smile. In a joint statement following the sit-down, the sides said that negotiators would continue talks Tuesday, with Rivlin inviting the two party leaders back to meet with him on Wednesday evening. At the moment, Netanyahu’s coalition sits at 55 seats of the 120-seat Likud, and Gantz holds 54 seats, with neither proving able to reach the needed 61-seat prerequisite. |
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© Getty Images > North Korea: Trump indicated on Monday that he is open to holding a fourth summit with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un as negotiations have slowed to a halt between the two sides over the North Korean nuclear program. Trump told reporters that another meeting “could happen soon,” but there was no indication of any concrete movement toward another high-profile gathering after meetings in Singapore, Hanoi and the Demilitarized Zone. Since the last gathering, the impasse between the two sides has grown over Kim’s nuclear program, which continues to test short-range missiles. Leaders in Japan and South Korea are interested in whether the U.S. and North Korea can settle differences that have led to the stalemate; however, low-level negotiations have yet to begin, raising questions of the likelihood of another meeting. The North Koreans are seeking relief from the sanctions that have crippled their economy, but the U.S. has hesitated to do so until they wind down their nuclear program, which North Korea has balked at (The Associated Press). More during UNGA … The Hill: Trump and 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg from Sweden crossed paths in a U.N. hallway on Monday following the teenager’s blistering speech to world leaders. Thunberg’s stare chilled the planet, and it went viral. Reuters: U.S.-Japan trade deal hits snag as Tokyo seeks assurances on car tariffs. |
| OPINION |
| Trump’s Iran strategy: Maximum pressure, minimum impact, by John Glaser, Christopher Prebel and A. Trevor Thrall, opinion contributors, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2l3EQFN Warren hasn’t secured the lead, but polls show she’s gaining momentum, by Brad Bannon, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2mcIHkd |
| WHERE AND WHEN |
| Hill.TV’s “Rising” at 9 a.m. ET features Khadija Khokhar, an organizer with #FridaysForFuture, to discuss school strikes to call attention to climate change; David Weissman, who supported Trump in 2016 but is backing Warren this year; Julia Manchester, political reporter for The Hill, talks about how 2020 Democrats woo younger voters this cycle; and Renaldo Pearson, a pro-democracy activist and director of external affairs for RepresentUs, will discuss a “democracy walk.” Find Hill.TV programming at http://thehill.com/hilltv or on YouTube at 10 a.m. The House returns to Washington today and meets at noon. Pelosi will be interviewed during The Atlantic Ideas Festival at 2 p.m. in Washington. The Senate meets at 10 a.m. The president is in New York and will deliver an address at 10 a.m. to the U.N. General Assembly. Trump will be the guest of honor at a luncheon hosted by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. The president will participate in bilateral meetings with Johnson of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with whom he held a rally on Sunday in Texas, and Iraqi President Barham Salih. Trump will host a diplomatic reception this evening for the heads of the delegation. GOP Politics: GOP presidential primary candidates Joe Walsh, a former member of the House from Illinois, and former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld are scheduled to debate from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. during a political event hosted by Business Insider at its headquarters in New York City. Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who also is challenging the president for the GOP nomination, declined to participate, as did Trump. Information is HERE. The event will be exclusively live-streamed on Business Insider Today’s Facebook Watch page and at BusinessInsider.com. |
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| And finally … This is a story that may leave readers misty-eyed. After Mission Police Department Cpl. Joe “Speedy” Espericueta was shot and killed in the line of duty in Texas in June, his colleagues promised his family they would be there for them when needed. Before his death, Espericueta told his coworkers how much he wanted to watch his 13-year-old son, Joaquin, play in his first football game. So, on Saturday, a “sea of law enforcement” personnel — from the Mission Police Department, the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Customs and Border Protection — turned out at Cathey Middle School in McAllen, Texas, to watch a seventh grade football game and cheer Joaquin on. “We gathered agencies from across the valley to let him know that we’re still there, even though his dad’s not,” Mission police officer Javier Lara told CNN on Sunday. (Video from KGBT is HERE.) |
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 Think of the Children Yesterday, teen climate activist Greta Thunberg gave a rousing, if not disturbing speech before the U.N. Climate Action Summit, declaring, “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words — and yet, I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying.” Thunberg also declared that we were facing “mass extinction” and that “all [we] can talk about is money and fairytales of economic growth.” Aside from the fact that global poverty has decreased by 50% in the last 40 years, mostly due to economic growth from liberalizing market reforms in places like China and India, Greta’s speech did not garner praise across the board. In fact, many saw her speech as evidence of the Left using “child soldiers” in its culture war and often at the expense of the children themselves. From Noah Rothman at Commentary: “One potent agitator is 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, a famously precocious climate activist who has the temerity to insist that the children alone speak truth to power while she lectures her elders from behind podiums at the United Nations Climate Change Conference and the British Parliament…Thunberg, who has been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, OCD, and selective mutism, says the prospect of catastrophic climate change sent her into a crippling depression at age 11, which compelled her to stop talking and eating. The therapy she’s been prescribed by her custodians is to immerse herself in the subject that has been so paralyzing…. These children have been transformed into sanctimonious clarions, advocating outcomes preferred by the adults in their lives, and it’s a tragic waste of youth. There will be time enough to cheapen the national political debate with sentiment and histrionics.” As David Harsanyi of The Federalistwrote in his piece titled “The Tragedy of Greta Thunberg,” “Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg lives in the healthiest, wealthiest, safest, and most peaceful era humans have ever known. She is one of the luckiest people to have ever lived.” Democrats Calling for Impeachment—Again Since the whistleblower complaint was leaked to the media, some Democrats have taken the opportunity to call for impeachment—again. But it’s unclear these attempts will pay off after the debacle that was the Trump-Russia investigation, which found no evidence of collusion, despite two years of hysteria from the Left. Seven freshman House Democrats put together an op-ed in the Washington Post, claiming that if the allegations in the whistleblower complaint were true, it would be an impeachable offense. But as Josh Hammer from The Daily Wire writes, it would be wise for the Democrats to stop crying impeachment at every turn: “The latest calls for Trump’s impeachment are not only premature — they also threaten to exacerbate the already well-worn Democratic Party playbook of gussied up impeachment allegations based on hugely embellished and/or distorted underlying conduct. But even worse for the sanity of our public discourse, the latest cries for Trump’s impeachment directly follow recent leftists calls to impeach U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh based on conduct that allegedly transpired decades ago — and which federal authorities investigated and dismissed one year ago during the absolute nightmare that was Kavanaugh’s confirmation process. The Left and the mainstream media are doing their best to so sully the term “impeachment” so as to strip it of any cognizable meaning. 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Beto O’Rourke’s White House run tests limits of early strategy
For some, Beto O’Rourke’s approach to the presidential race is similar to one he took in 2012, when he wore out two pairs of shoes knocking on doors on his way to an upset win in a Democratic House primary against Rep. Silvestre Reyes, who had the backing of both President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton. Read More…
US ambassador with coal ties arrives as UN begins climate talks
As world leaders gathered at the United Nations in New York for a climate change summit Monday, America’s new ambassador to the global body was focused on other business. Read More…
Trump, Biden offer 2020 preview as president’s team eager to fan flames
Has the 2020 general election already started? No, but it suddenly feels that way. President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden’s back-and-forth about which one might have abused his office over Ukraine is giving the world a preview of a possible future electoral brawl. Read More…Click here to subscribe to Fintech Beat for the latest market and regulatory developments in finance and financial technology.
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Lawmakers will be looking for redemption when they, along with a few retired football pro friends, hit the gridiron against the Capitol Police in their biannual football game Tuesday. Read More…
Economic warning signs give Democrats an opening in 2020. They may not take it
ANALYSIS — Whether voters believe the economic cure is worse than the disease will do much to shape next year’s presidential race. In one corner, ongoing trade war and a possible recession; in the other, higher taxes and energy bills, and the possible end of employer-based health insurance as we know it. Read More…
Capitol Insiders Survey: Democratic congressional aides prefer Warren
In almost every poll, former Vice President Joe Biden has led the Democratic presidential field. But among the Democrats who work for representatives and senators, he’s behind. Read More…
We sure hope the Rayburn &pizza has plenty of dough
The &pizza inside the Rayburn House Office Building will sell $3 pies on Tuesday and Thursday in light of former Washington National-turned-Philadelphia Phillie Bryce Harper’s return to D.C. The catch? He has to strike out against his former home team for staffers to get a piece of the pie. Read More…
Climate change activists take to the streets to demand action
More protests erupted throughout D.C. on Monday in the wake of the Global Climate Strike that saw students and adults descend upon the Capitol steps. Watch the video here…
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Cryptocurrencies are increasingly the tool of choice for drug dealers and corrupt actors. Prosecutors say they have seized nearly $1 billion worth of digital coins in busts around the world. But how is crypto treated as a matter of U.S. law — and what does the IRS do with its seizures? Listen here…
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| View In Browser September 24, 2019 chicagotribune.comDaywatch 1.) Prosecutors describe wild shootouts as shooting suspect wounds Chicago cop, fires at three other officers hours later TUESDAY, SEPT 24 Cook County prosecutors described two wild shootouts over the weekend as the alleged gunman was ordered held without bond on charges he wounded one Chicago police officer and shot at three others during the separate incidents on the South Side. Prosecutors said Michael Blackman continued to fire at officers after he was himself wounded in the gun battle and fell to the ground.Blackman also faces charges for shooting a woman in broad daylight in the upscale Fulton River District on the Near West Side while he rode a motorized bicycle. At a news conference at police headquarters, department brass said surveillance video captured the shooting and played a critical role in Blackman’s capture.A father buys sweets for his daughters before telling them about a fatal carjacking outside their Logan Square home: “We are good people. This place is a good place.” 2.) Time to start paying attention: Strike vote for Chicago Public Schools teachers begins today TUESDAY, SEPT 24 Jesse Sharkey was second-in-command when he helped lead Chicago teachers off the job seven years ago. The first teachers strike in a quarter century lasted seven days and was widely viewed as a union win, with the city making more concessions than it agreed to in contract talks. The victory emboldened teachers and other union workers near and far to stage strikes of their own. Now the Chicago Teachers Union is facing that decision once more, with members to start voting today on whether their leaders can call a strike. 3.) Conservative groups blamed a Chicago immigration advocate for migrant caravans in online attacks. Then they showed up at her church. TUESDAY, SEPT 24 For months, longtime Chicago immigration activist Emma Lozano has been at the center of right-wing attacks blaming her for Central American migrants who have fled their countries to seek asylum in the U.S.Conservative Glenn Beck went on national television earlier this year to blame a Chicago church for the migrant caravans, arguing it all added up to an “assault” on the country. Lozano’s name and her church for months have been tied through social media posts to the caravans, but the attacks took a turn when a group of men from California wearing “Make America Great Again” T-shirts and hats showed up with cameras at the Pilsen-area church. Five workers were detained by ICE at a pizzeria on the city’s Southeast Side, according to Mayor Lori Lightfoot and immigration advocates. 4.) Chicago brewery posts Beto O’Rourke photo, triggers Facebook users TUESDAY, SEPT 24 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke came to Chicago over the weekend. He was hungry. And thirsty. So he stopped into Haymarket Pub & Brewery for dinner and a beer.Haymarket used the unexpected opportunity to post a photo of O’Rourke with brewery co-founder John Neurauter to Facebook, along with a nod to the reason O’Rourke was in town: a roundtable discussing gun violence. In an era of hyper-partisanship, certain corners of social media didn’t care for the post. But the truth is that breweries have become quite comfortable with spouting their politics — especially lefty politics here in Chicago. Nevertheless, Haymarket co-founder Pete Crowley chuckled at the blowback and said the photo “wasn’t a political statement.”In Chicago, Beto O’Rourke says he’s “all in” on working to curb city’s gun violence. But an activist mom is circumspect. 5.) Tipping your servers 15-20% is standard. 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Given the wild fluctuations Chicago has seen from year to year, you may be wondering — on a scale of iced coffee to pumpkin spice lattes or hot chocolate — just how fall-like this fall in Chicago is going to be. Anthony Artusa, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center, said there’s a slight chance the season, on the whole, will be warmer than average. While you are at it, might as well check today’s weather forecast. Did you witness Chicagohenge? Here is a glimpse of the Chicago phenomenon through the years. 8.) Didn’t stay up to watch the Bears on ‘Monday Night Football’? Here’s what you missed. TUESDAY, SEPT 24 Ha Ha Clinton-Dix signaled it was going to be a good night for the Bears five minutes into Monday night’s game against the Redskins at FedEx Field. The Bears safety snared an overthrown pass and returned it 37 yards for a touchdown, his first pick-six in a Bears uniform. 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Let’s not repeat the mistakes of the past.’ Full article Why Bernie Sanders’ Nationwide Rent Control Proposal Is Nuts By Erielle Davidson There are few principles in economics that receive near-universal consensus from economists, and the truth that ‘rent control is bad’ is one of them. Full article I’m Watching My Father Die By David Marcus The pain of death is brutal. But it must never extinguish the absolute beauty of life. Full article Since Obamacare, Waiting Lists For Care For Disabled People Have Grown 40 Percent By Christopher Jacobs Each of the Democrat candidates’ proposals would expand Washington’s role, and sabotage private insurance to move more and more Americans on to government-run health care. Full article 5 Ways ‘Saturday Night Live’ Could Actually Appeal To Conservatives By Ellie Bufkin If SNL thinks casting a midwestern comic in the image of Larry the Cable Guy is the way to reconnect with conservative America, they are in store for a ratings disappointment. Full article Jobs Are Everywhere. So Why Aren’t More Young People Working? By Georgi Boorman There is no better time to get into entry-level positions, especially outside major cities. But a lot of young adults don’t seem to realize how easy they have it right now. Full article While Twitter Locks Down Satire Like Titania McGrath, It Lets Lefties Promote Hate Scot-Free By Seth King As these prominent leftist figures used Twitter to promote violence, Twitter stood by and did nothing, while instead holding a harmless parody account by a known satirist to a different standard. Full article Critics Slam ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ For Making Sex Traffickers Look Bad By Michael Saltis One could argue that the film creates sympathy for Mexicans who only wish to flee what are often hellish conditions in the more dangerous regions of their country. 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Full article The Tragedy Of Greta Thunberg By David Harsanyi Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg lives in the healthiest, wealthiest, and safest era that humans have ever known. Full article NeverTrump Candidate Suggests Trump Should Be Executed Over Ukraine Call By Tristan Justice Former Massachusetts Republican governor Bill Weld argued that the president could face execution for treason over a conversation with the Ukrainian president. Full article Like Russian Collusion, Ukraine Hysteria Is Pure Projection By Media And Democrats By Sean Davis The only 2016 campaign that colluded with Russia was Hillary Clinton’s, and the only 2020 candidate who bragged about threatening Ukraine ito fire a prosecutor investigating corruption is Joe Biden. Full article Elizabeth Warren’s Lemonade Stand Purchase Was Donated To March For Life By Chrissy Clark Elizabeth Warren purchased $10 worth of a lemonade from two 11-year-old girls. 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FIRST READ: Impeachment now seems more likely than ever
After the news over the last 24 hours, it sure seems that impeachment proceedings against President Trump are more likely than ever before.
- At 9:00 pm ET last night, seven freshmen House Democrats – all representing districts the party flipped last year – wrote in the Washington Post that if the allegations that Trump withheld Ukraine’s aid to help him in the 2020 election are true, “we believe these actions represent an impeachable offense.”
- An hour and a half later, the Post – later followed by the Wall Street Journal and New York Times – reported that Trump instructed acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to hold back almost $400 million in aid from Ukraine at least one week before his July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s new president.
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has been resistant to impeachment against Trump, has been asking colleagues if the Ukraine story is a tipping point, per NBC’s Kristen Welker, Geoff Bennett and Alex Moe. House Democrats have a members-only meeting set for 4:00 pm ET.
- Politico reports that House Democratic leaders are considering creating a special committee to investigate this Ukraine story – to consolidate all the potential competing committees that might have jurisdiction over the matter.
- And last night and this morning, more House Democrats – Reps. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., and Haley Stevens, D-Mich. – came out for impeachment proceedings against Trump, bringing NBC’s count to 149 House Dems who have expressed support for some type of action on impeachment.
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It’s time break out that old Ron Paul GIF.
Because it’s all happening. Or it at least looks that way this morning.
By the way, of those seven freshmen Democrats who wrote that WaPo op-ed, all flipped seats previously held by Republicans. Four won by less than 4 percentage points, and four also currently hold seats won by Trump in the 2016 election.
Gil Cisneros (CA-39): Won in 2018 by 3.2 percent. Clinton won district by 8.5 percent.
Jason Crow (CO-6): Won in 2018 by 11.2 percent. Clinton won district by 8.9 percent.
Chrissy Houlahan (PA-6, redistricted): Won in 2018 by 17.8 percent. Clinton won district by 9.3 percent.
Elaine Luria (VA-2): Won in 2018 by 2.2 percent. Trump won district by 3.4 percent.
Mikie Sherrill (NJ-11): Won in 2018 by 14.7 percent. Trump won district by 0.9 percent.
Elissa Slotkin (MI-8): Won in 2018 by 3.8 percent. Trump won district by 6.7 percent.
Abigail Spanberger (VA-7): Won in 2018 by 2.0 percent. Trump won district by 6.5 percent.
But the GOP side hasn’t budged – at least for now
Notably, however, all of that recent impeachment action is on the Democratic side.
For Republicans – outside of the concerns by Mitt Romney, Pat Toomey and maybe Lindsey Graham – it’s been a much different story.
Vice News’ Elizabeth Landers asked Republican Sen. Ben Sasse if he had concerns about the Trump-Ukraine-whistleblower story: “You’re welcome to talk to James in my office.”
Another reporter yesterday asked Sen. Shelley Moore Capito if a U.S. president should be talking to foreign leaders about domestic political opponents. The senator’s response: Probably not.
HuffPost reporter Arthur Delaney asked Sen. Josh Hawley if it was OK for a president to ask a foreign government to help him win an election. “Is that what he did?” Hawley responded. “He asked them for help with an election? Can you send me that?”
And Marco Rubio said that Trump shouldn’t have raised Biden with Ukraine’s president.
He added, however: “But that in and of itself is not an impeachable offense, as some people claim. Now, the second thing you raise, [a quid pro quo], he denies, and so do the Ukrainians. If alternative information emerges, we have a different set of circumstances, but that’s not before us right now.”
2020 VISION: A race that’s about to get frozen in place
Several months ago – during the Russia investigation – we told you that if impeachment did happen, it would freeze the Democratic race in place.
Well, guess what’s going to happen if House Democrats go down Impeachment Road?
Answer: It’s going to remove the contest from the main stage – at least for a while.
Outside of that, we only have questions to pose:
- Is a frozen race a good thing for the party (because it minimizes the internal fights and policy debates)?
- Or is it a bad thing (because the Dem campaign seems so small by comparison)?
- Does the story help Biden (because he gets his one-on-one contest with Trump)?
- Or does it hurt him (because Dem voters think the story damages him)?
- Can anyone who’s name isn’t Biden or Elizabeth Warren break through?
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On the campaign trail today: Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg continue their tours through Iowa… Mark Sanford also is in the Hawkeye State… Beto O’Rourke is in Ohio… And Bill Weld and Joe Walsh participate in a GOP primary debate sponsored by Business Insider.
Dispatches from NBC’s embeds: Pete Buttigieg yesterday campaigned in Iowa, where he endorsed the DNC’s new debate requirements. NBC’s Priscilla Thompson reports Buttigieg’s remarks: “There’s been a fair amount of time now for candidates to make our case and to demonstrate the kind of strength that is required. We can quibble over where we’re going to draw the line, we know they’ve got to draw a line somewhere so there’s a manageable number.”
Bernie Sanders spent the day on his “Bernie beats Trump” tour, where hit President Trump for manufacturing goods in other countries, per NBC’s Gary Grumbach. “Donald Trump who is telling corporations to hire American workers does his clothing line in Mexico. Donald Trump who loves American workers makes his furniture line in Turkey,” Sanders said. “So, I say to Trump before you tell corporations all over the world to come back to America, why don’t you lead by example.”
TWEET OF THE DAY: Just sitting back and taking it
DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is … 21 percent.
21 percent.
That’s the share of all voters OTHER THAN Democratic primary voters who say they want the eventual Democratic nominee for president to propose larger scale policies that bring major change on issues like health care, climate change and college affordability, even if they may cost more and be harder to pass.
A larger share of all voters, 34 percent, say they prefer proposals on those issues that would create less change but be easier to pass.
And 41 percent say they prefer neither small nor large scale policies on those issues to bring about change at all.
That’s according to our recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, which also found that a majority of Democratic primary voters — 56 percent — said they prefer large scale change, compared to 40 percent who prefer policies on a smaller scale.
THE LID: Bad Blood
Don’t miss the pod from yesterday, when we reported on Trump’s historically low personal likeability ratings — and why they matter.
ICYMI: News clips you shouldn’t miss
The newest calls for impeachment could give Nancy Pelosi “cover” to take the next step, per NBC’s Heidi Pryzbyla, Geoff Bennett and Alex Moe.
And the New York Times, on Trump: “Instead of ‘No Collusion!’ Trump Now Seems to Be Saying, So What if I Did?”
A federal judge [v]has ruled that the Trump administration violated the law by failing to resolve visa applications for Afghans and Iraqis who worked with American troops and diplomats.
Meanwhile, across the pond: Britain’s highest court has ruled that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s suspension of Parliament was illegal.
Here are the new DNC qualification rules for the November debate.
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09/24/2019 Share: Carl Cannon’s Morning Note Fisher Investments Presents: Dems’ Diversity; Climate Strike; the Good Doctor By Carl M. Cannon on Sep 24, 2019 09:11 am Good morning, it’s Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. Twenty-eight years ago today, Americans lost a doctor, albeit one without a medical degree, who showed us for decades that laughter is often the best medicine. His name was Theodor Geisel and his writing also demonstrated that it is possible to sound silly while making piercing political points. Born on March 2, 1904, Geisel was called “Ted” by his friends and family. Generations of Americans came to know him as Dr. Seuss. He passed away on this date in 1991, in La Jolla, Calif., leaving an entire nation immeasurably richer. In a moment, I’ll have more on this children’s book author, whom I’ve been written about before. 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: * * * Poll: Dem Voters Span Diverse Views, Benefiting Biden. David Brady and Brett Parker have the details. Socialism, Not Climate Change, Is the Real Threat. Emma Roberts counters the message of last week’s youth climate strike. Climate Strike Coverage Eclipses That of Hong Kong, Paris Protests. Kalev Leetaru breaks down the numbers. How Many Spy Targets in Russiagate? One…or Four? In RealClearInvestigations, Eric Felten examines a little-publicized Capitol Hill exchange suggesting that Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort and George Papadopoulos were surveilled along with Carter Page. As GM Fights for Its Future, Unions Hold It Back. In RealClearMarkets, Allan Golombek warns workers that increased automation is coming and the company’s production model must change. “Reclaiming Common Sense.” Also in RCM, John Tamny reviews Robert Curry’s new book. MLB’s Growing Gap Between the Best and Worst Teams. In RealClearSports, Evan Bleier spotlights the disparities laid bare by the number of teams with 100 wins vs. those with 100 losses. * * * Ted Geisel was born and raised in Springfield, Mass., a town that gave his father a job when he needed one. All four of Ted’s grandparents were German immigrants, and Geisel’s father had the bad timing to inherit the family brewery the year before Prohibition outlawed the sale of alcohol. So his dad became the public parks overseer in Springfield, the city that inspired Geisel’s first book, “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.” Geisel wrote and illustrated the book, which makes use of the distinctive red Indian motorcycles used by the city’s police force. After rejections from 27 other houses, Vanguard Press published the book in 1937, the same year that Geisel and his wife, Helen, learned they couldn’t have children. The author’s public reaction to this news about kids? “You make ’em,” Dr. Seuss quipped, “I’ll amuse ’em.” He did more than that. “The Cat in the Hat,” the book that made him rich, was partly a story about the Red Scare. “The Cat in the Hat Comes Back” had allusions to nuclear winter. The name Dr. Seuss wasn’t entirely whimsical. Seuss was his middle name and his mother’s maiden name and he began using it as a nom de plume while at Dartmouth after being banned from extra-curricular activities — including writing for a campus humor magazine — when he was caught drinking gin in his dorm room with nine friends. (Prohibition was still the law of the land.) After college he went into advertising and then into political cartooning, disciplines he straddled easily. He was discovered in 1928 after drawing a magazine cartoon depicting a knight in armor. “Darn it all, another dragon,” the knight says. “And just after I’d sprayed the whole castle with Flit!” Flit was a household insecticide popular and effective for the same reason — it contained DDT. The story goes that the wife of an advertising executive saw the cartoon and figured Seuss could write real ad copy for Flit. Her hunch was right, and Seuss employed his trademark sense of humor and knack for simple phrasing to help create an enormously successful ad campaign. Oversized mosquitoes would descend on a child at a picnic and the kid’s mother would call out, “Quick, Henry, the Flit!” The phrase would enter the nation’s lexicon. Also present even back then was Seuss’s sense of the absurd. In one cartoon, a ventriloquist’s dummy notices a bug coming toward him. To the ventriloquist’s surprise, the dummy shouts, “Quick, Henry, the Flit!” As a political cartoonist and occasional commentator, his views were aligned with the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, perhaps to a fault. I say that not as a criticism of the New Deal or what came later but because while remonstrating against isolationism and racism in the 1940s, he rather casually accepted the Roosevelt administration’s mistreatment of Japanese-Americans. In the summer of 1974, Dr. Seuss sent famed newspaper columnist Art Buchwald a copy of a 1972 book he wrote called “Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!” In the new version, the author had replaced “Marvin K. Mooney” with “Richard M. Nixon” (perhaps that was the idea all along). To some readers, these verses will have a contemporary feel to them. In any event, Art Buchwald reprinted them in his column: Richard M. Nixon will you please go now! The time has come. The time has come. The time is now. Just go. Go. Go! I don’t care how. 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- Michael J. Knowles was right to note Greta Thunberg is, indeed, mentally ill
- AOC’s fracking alarmism called out by Democrat as fake news, false science
- Start paying attention to Arnold Mooney
- Wake up call
- Sheila Jackson Lee tells bald-faced lie about AR-15s to mislead her constituents
- Why isn’t ‘Beto’ doing better?
- Could President Trump establish a real Iran Nuclear Deal?
- 20 killed, 70 hurt in protests in Indonesia’s Papua province
- Does Bible prophecy point to climate change ALARMISM as the real existential threat?
- The two reactions to Greta Thunberg
| Michael J. Knowles was right to note Greta Thunberg is, indeed, mentally ill Posted: 24 Sep 2019 05:57 AM PDT Say what you will about the climate change activism of Greta Thunberg, her use as a pawn by her parents and the world’s climate change alarmists, or her passionate speech. But if you say she is “mentally Ill,” as The Daily Wire’s Michael J. Knowles did on Fox News yesterday, you will get a swift […] The post Michael J. Knowles was right to note Greta Thunberg is, indeed, mentally ill appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| AOC’s fracking alarmism called out by Democrat as fake news, false science Posted: 24 Sep 2019 03:57 AM PDT Full-time climate change alarmist and part time Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seemed quite proud of herself for exposing the toxic gases being emitted by a fracking site in Colorado. But as questions started coming in about the location, the soundness of the “science” she was spouting, and the conclusions she was reaching, even Democrats had to scratch […] The post AOC’s fracking alarmism called out by Democrat as fake news, false science appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Start paying attention to Arnold Mooney Posted: 24 Sep 2019 03:20 AM PDT When looking at Republican Primaries, endorsements can be a good indicator if candidate is conservative or not. It’s not perfect, but it helps. RINOs endorse RINOs which can help prematurely expose them. And conservative voices often land on conservative candidates. The problem is forming formidable campaigns with conservative candidates because the decks are stacked against […] The post Start paying attention to Arnold Mooney appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Wake up call Posted: 24 Sep 2019 03:14 AM PDT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Pacific island nation of Kiribati has just switched allegiances from Taiwan back to the People’s Republic of China which is anticipated to soon re-establish a missile tracking station on Tarawa Atoll which was dismantled in 2003. This is only 617 miles from the U.S. Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on […] The post Wake up call appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Sheila Jackson Lee tells bald-faced lie about AR-15s to mislead her constituents Posted: 23 Sep 2019 10:46 PM PDT Reactions to Representative Sheila Jackson Lee’s statement about the AR-15 she supposedly held in her hands have been almost certainly incorrect. Conservatives have said she must be extremely misinformed about firearms to so blatantly mischaracterize them, going so far as to invoke armor-piercing .50 caliber ammunition as the rounds fired by the “scary” weapon. Many […] The post Sheila Jackson Lee tells bald-faced lie about AR-15s to mislead her constituents appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Why isn’t ‘Beto’ doing better? Posted: 23 Sep 2019 10:19 PM PDT Gun confiscation is all the rage according to the left, so why isn’t Robert Francis O’Rourke surging in popularity? According to Robert Francis and his merry band of liberty busters, patriots around the country cannot wait to shred and burn their Modern Day Muskets in a funeral pyre worthy of a Viking princess. AR-15’s are […] The post Why isn’t ‘Beto’ doing better? appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Could President Trump establish a real Iran Nuclear Deal? Posted: 23 Sep 2019 06:53 PM PDT Iran is in trouble. They’re desperate. They’re lashing out against the world in an effort to get attention and, somehow, turn the tide on their economic woes. But while they posture to present a stance of strength, most of the world realizes their strength is only on the surface. Their bank accounts, infrastructure, and economic […] The post Could President Trump establish a real Iran Nuclear Deal? appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| 20 killed, 70 hurt in protests in Indonesia’s Papua province Posted: 23 Sep 2019 06:17 PM PDT JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — At least 20 people were killed Monday, including three shot by police, in violent protests by hundreds of people sparked by rumors that a teacher insulted an indigenous student in Indonesia’s restive Papua province, officials said. An angry mob torched local government buildings, shops and homes and set fire to cars […] The post 20 killed, 70 hurt in protests in Indonesia’s Papua province appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Does Bible prophecy point to climate change ALARMISM as the real existential threat? Posted: 23 Sep 2019 05:20 PM PDT There are many apostasies happening in the modern western church today. Christians are being pulled in every direction away from proper Biblical teaching, whether through the prosperity gospel, the rise of church-based social justice warriors, or the coexist movement that tries to homogenize the various religions into Christianity (and visa versa). But one topic that […] The post Does Bible prophecy point to climate change ALARMISM as the real existential threat? appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| The two reactions to Greta Thunberg Posted: 23 Sep 2019 03:11 PM PDT 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg spoke before the United Nations today at the 2019 Climate Action Summit. Her passionate plea for action and condemnation of capitalism has been widely shared on social media and the hot takes have been as opposite as reactions can possibly be. There may be many perspectives about the nuances […] The post The two reactions to Greta Thunberg appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
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Slouching toward Impeachment?
Jim Geraghty
Making the click-through worthwhile: For the love of God,
Democrats, stop telling us how seriously you’re thinking about
impeaching the president, and just do it or drop the issue; how Trump’s
accusations about Hunter Biden help Joe Biden in the Democratic primary;
why some people can’t perceive irony; and straw-gate.
Go Ahead, Democrats. Rip Off the Band-Aid of Impeachment. Get It Over With.
How many times since January 20, 2017 have we heard promises,
pledges, and predictions that congressional Democrats would impeach the
president? The Washington Free Beacon gathered all of those “the walls are closing in”
statements. For months, Democratic members of Congress have contended
that Trump’s lawbreaking is self-evident, that he’s trying to “make
America white again,” that he’s created a constitutional crisis, and
that “this man and his family are the greatest threats to democracy of my lifetime” . . . but then …
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The Ukraine Story Isn’t a Story about the Media
David French
A president should not use the awesome power of his
office to coerce or pressure a foreign government to investigate a
domestic rival.
No, Don’t Listen to Greta Thunberg
Rich Lowry
Greta Thunberg is the leading edge of a youth
movement against climate change that is being promoted and celebrated by
adults who find it useful for their own purposes.
U.K. Supreme Court Declares PM Johnson’s Suspension of Parliament Unlawful
Zachary Evans
The
11-judge panel ruled unanimously to overturn Johnson’s suspension,
upholding the verdict of the highest civil court in Scotland.
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Closing Schools Works — If It’s Done Right
Marcus A. Winters
Closing bad schools can be helpful, though the
resulting disruption of students’ lives can cause problems of its own.
Our Privileged Scolds
Victor Davis Hanson
These spread-the-wealth progressive politicians
apparently feel guilty about their singular privilege — at least all the
way up until the moment when they have to dispense with any of it.
If You Can’t Sell Your Hysteria to Adults, Try Kids
Dennis Prager
If the Left didn’t tell kids the world is going to end, they wouldn’t
worry about it. They’d be enjoying their young lives, maybe even
learning to appreciate that they live in the freest country at the most
prosperous time in human history.
Kyrsten Sinema Narrowly Escapes Progressive Censure
Alexandra DeSanctis
Arizona Democrats declined to formally rebuke one of
the national party’s few moderates, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, over the
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Pressure Builds on Pelosi to Back Impeachment Proceedings
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The shift comes in the wake of the current whistleblower scandal.
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