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Oct 29, 2019

Good morning from Washington, where patriots celebrate the U.S. special forces raid leading to the demise of the founder of the murderous Islamic State. Middle East expert Jim Phillips assesses what it means for the terrorist army also known as ISIS. Fred Lucas reports on the allure of vote harvesting and on the president’s combative pro-police speech in Chicago. Plus: Kevin Pham on the dismal reality of “Medicare for All,” Jackson Elliott on “sanctuary cities for the unborn,” and Jarrett Stepman on an unusual political gathering. Ninety years ago today, the stock market crash of Black Tuesday plunges the industrialized world into the Great Depression.

	News ‘Dangerous and Foolish’: How Legal Vote Harvesting Prompts Illegal Conduct by Political Operatives By Fred Lucas Ballot harvesting, allowed in 27 states and the District of Columbia, gained much attention when corrupt handling of absentee ballots led to an invalidated U.S. House election in North Carolina. More Analysis The Future of ISIS After the Death of Baghdadi By Daniel Davis “Although Baghdadi may be replaced as the top leader, it’s unlikely that any successor will have the same degree of effectiveness that he had,” says The Heritage Foundation’s Jim Phillips. More Commentary 3 Takeaways From a Conference for Liberals and Conservatives By Jarrett Stepman Attendees of the event certainly crossed the political spectrum, from Bernie Bros. to MAGA hat-wearing Trump supporters. More News In Chicago, Trump Fires Back at Police Chief Who Boycotted His Speech By Fred Lucas “All over the world, they are talking about Chicago. Afghanistan is a safe place by comparison,” says President Trump. More Commentary ‘Medicare for All’ Actually Isn’t Medicare at All By Kevin Pham One of the most misleading aspects of “Medicare for All” is that it is not Medicare at all. More News Why These 6 Towns Became ‘Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn’ By Jackson Elliott If people think abortion is better for mothers and babies than a hard life is, a pastor warns, they also will think death is preferable to facing struggles in their own lives. “It adds to this suicide culture. People want to end their lives,” he says. More

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View this email in your browser “Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.” HERACLITUS Good morning,  Thousands were evacuated on Monday as a new wildfire threatened parts of Los Angeles.  According to Mayor Eric Garcetti, five homes have been burned down so far. The latest wildfire comes on top of wildfires raging in northern California that have resulted in the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people.  Click here for full article   AG Barr Defends Durham’s Trump-Russia Probe, Criticizes Former FBI Leadership Trump Says He May Release Video of Raid on al-Baghdadi’s Compound Trump Declassifies Photo of Military Dog Hurt in al-Baghdadi Raid Trump: ‘Ahead of Schedule’ on China Trade Deal   President Donald Trump told reporters in Washington that the White House didn’t notify the House Intelligence Committee about a raid against the leader of the ISIS terrorist group because of concern that the information would be leaked by committee Chairman Adam Schiff. Read more Chinese leader Xi Jinping opened the fourth plenary session of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s 19th Central Committee with a speech about the need for Beijing to “modernize its state governance,” which observers say could be part of the CCP’s strategy to export the Chinese socialism system to the world. Read more Attorney General William Barr will soon reveal a new initiative to fight violent crime, President Donald Trump said at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Chicago. Read more A Roman Catholic charity that objects on religious grounds to having to provide health insurance that covers birth control, sterilization, and abortifacients for its employees under the Obamacare law has lost the latest round of a long-running legal battle in a federal appeals court. Read more The wealth tax proposed by Democratic presidential candidates has sparked a fierce debate in the country about whether the proposal is unconstitutional and would encourage capital flight, according to a panel of experts. Read more New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into state law that bars nonprofits from endorsing or opposing political candidates, as part of the Democrats’ ongoing suppression of Empire State nonprofits and watchdog groups. Read more   See More Top Stories GQ Imagines a World Without Men By Nicole Russell GQ, that arbiter of truth, fashion, and manhood, has decided it’s not that men aren’t man enough, it’s that they’re too manly. Most recently, the men’s fashion magazine proposed solutions to this problem in their “New Masculinity” issue. Read more Class Size Is Not the Most Important Thing By Michael Zwaagstra If you asked a group of teachers whether they would rather teach a class with 20 students or one with 30 students, most would pick the smaller class. All things being equal, it is easier to teach smaller classes than larger ones. Read more   See More Opinions Why You Shouldn’t Believe China’s Latest Trade Data By Valentin Schmid (January 13, 2016) If you believe the latest headlines, China’s trade data for December 2015 was simply excellent: Exports rose 2.3 percent compared to December of 2014, and imports only dropped 4 percent. This is good because exports collapsed 3.7 percent in November and the market expected imports to decline 8 percent. Investors like… Read more Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz turned in his report into potential FISA abuses to Attorney General William Barr almost four weeks ago. During this time, nothing has leaked, which is quite telling in itself. If there was anything that could be leaked from this report that would mitigate the coming fallout, we’d have seen it by now. This points to the report being incredibly damaging to the Obama administration. While Russiagate Was Fake, Spygate Is Real, and Horowitz Is About to Prove It 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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View this email in your browser Tuesday, October 29, 2019 Katie Hill Resigns “Freshman Rep. Katie Hill, a rising Democratic star in the House, announced her resignation amid an ethics probe, saying explicit private photos of her with a campaign staffer had been ‘weaponized’ by her husband and political operatives.” AP News Redstate first reported the allegations last week. RedState From the Left The left argues Hill is being held to a double standard, and criticizes the release of the photographs. “If, as has been alleged, she had a consensual sexual relationship with a staffer in her congressional office, the 32-year old Democrat should have earned a slap on the wrist. To show how seriously Congress has taken that sort of thing (not), it wasn’t even until last year that the House changed its rules to prohibit sexual relationships between members and their employees. And wouldn’t you know it — the first lawmaker to fall afoul of the new House rule is a woman, and an unabashedly bisexual woman at that…  “Quite apart from the harsh double standards faced by female politicians — they can’t be too shrill, they have to be likable, on and on — Hill is also being punished, or punishing herself, for one colossally fantastically unbelievably stupid move: Posing for nude photographs, alone and with a woman who appears to be a lover, while running for Congress.” Robin Abcarian, LA Times “Revenge porn is a scourge that some legislators, including those in Hill’s home state of California, have criminalized. In revenge porn cases, an angry ex (usually, though not always, a man) publicizes nude or sexual photos of someone (usually a woman) they want to humiliate and whose reputation they seek to damage. While we don’t see sexually active men as morally questionable, we still live in a world where sexually active women are branded as sluts and shamed them for their sexuality — which is exactly what’s happening to Hill… “Publishing sexualized photos of a U.S. congresswoman to facilitate her former partner’s revenge fantasy crossed a bright line. If nothing else, this moment should push legislators all over the country to institute stiffer penalties for revenge porn — both for those who release these photos and for those who publish them.” Jill Filipovic, Medium “I am not saying that Katie Hill didn’t show a serious lack of judgement. Any sexual relationship with a subordinate is almost always unethical… It would have been right of her to publicly apologize for this lack of transparency and ensure a fairer course moving forward… [But] Katie Hill is a not a predator. She is not a rapist or sexual assailant… “Her crime is far worse than that in our society: she is a woman — a bisexual woman at that — who has lived beyond the ludicrous, impossible restraints we put on women’s sexuality, particularly those in the public eye. Men in power, particularly white men, are permitted a hero’s journey in their indiscretions, a moral arc in which they can make mistake after mistake — because even the most horrible transgressions are called ‘mistakes’ when you’re a white male — and transcend to a higher plane of humanity that better informs their leadership style. Women who transgress even slightly are pilloried and burned at the public stake as an offering to whatever moral gods our society supposedly worships.” Elizabeth Anora, The Independent “Former Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana? In 2007, he admitted to having been previously involved in a Washington prostitution ring while in office. In 2010, he was reelected to the Senate. Republican 2020 presidential candidate Mark Sanford? He completed his second term as the governor of South Carolina after he admitted in 2009 that he’d had a taxpayer-funded affair. In 2013, he once again ran for and won a seat in Congress. Physician and Republican Rep. Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee? A divorce trial transcript released in 2012 documented that he’d previously had multiple affairs with patients and had pressed one of them to have an abortion…  “And this is to say nothing of President Donald Trump, who has remained unscathed by the allegations that more than a dozen women have publicly leveled against him, ranging from unwelcome advances to sexual harassment and assault… There’s plenty to parse regarding the news about Hill. But one of the most important elements is this: Forgiveness, when it comes to the messiness of politics, is a privilege not evenly distributed. More specifically, it’s disproportionately withheld from women and Democrats.” Brandon Tensley, CNN From the Right The right condemns Hill’s behavior, and accuses her defenders of hypocrisy. “Flip Hill’s gender, and we wouldn’t even be discussing it. This was a clear abuse of power by a powerful person over a subordinate… The pattern of behavior here indicates that Hill didn’t just wind up in a one-off affair with someone who happened to be younger than her. She deliberately began relationships with people she had the power to hire and fire, and then she violated House ethics rules while doing it…  “The conclusion of this unsavory saga isn’t a slut-shaming indictment of third-wave feminism. If Hill happened to have a promiscuous personal life with people not under her pay or in violation of ethics, there’s little doubt that she’d be able to ride out the storm… this is, in fact, a #MeToo success story, one that proves that the powerful, even women, can still be held to account.” Tiana Lowe, Washington Examiner “There is simply no denying that if a photo leaked of a male congressman, in the nude, brushing the hair of his 22-year-old staffer, and if leaked text messages revealed that that staffer felt like a ‘toy’ for said congressman, none of Hill’s defenders would be standing in that congressman’s corner…  “The media demand that we see Hill as a casualty of patriarchal oppression. This would be hard enough to stomach in its own right, but its downright vomit-inducing when you consider that Hill’s defenders are the very same people who have spent the last several years insisting that consent is murky, if not impossible, when one of the people involved in the act holds significant power over the other. But of course, these MeToo crusaders only meant for that principle to apply when it is a man who is in the position of power. Which is another way of saying that it’s not a principle at all.” Matt Walsh, Daily Wire “By claiming that Hill was the victim of a political smear, she and her supporters showed no concern for the vulnerable 22-year-old who was preyed upon by her boss… The same people who demonize males for far less gave Hill a free pass for her egregious abuse of power. The Guardian even helpfully has explained the ethical distinction between men and women committing the same offense: ‘When Hill engaged in an affair with a campaign aide, she did not do so in the context of millennia of men’s sexual violence against women.’ Seriously? This despicable sophistry undermines everything the ‘MeToo’ movement is meant to be about.” Miranda Devine, New York Post “If Hill wants to crusade against revenge porn and hold her husband accountable for whatever alleged violations he committed, good for her. It’s a scourge for its victims and should carry significant penalties for those who traffic such images without full consent. However, ‘revenge porn’ — if it was that at all — was only at best the mechanism for Hill’s downfall. Hill made the decision to have a sexual affair with her subordinate in clear violation of House rules…  That’s why she finds herself on her way out of the House, not ‘right wing media’ — with Nancy Pelosi’s boot right behind her.” Ed Morrissey, Hot Air “It’s true men often get away with bad behavior, albeit less so in the past few months. Feminism should not reinvent itself to mean women can get away with the same bad behavior. That’s not the kind of optimistic, aspirational, morally infused gender equality we need… Nancy Pelosi this week once again proved her understanding of how normal Americans think about these sorts of contentious issues. In the wake of Hill’s resignation, while the progressive Twitterati has been quick to defend the soon-to-be-former congresswoman, and slow to acknowledge her missteps, Pelosi has been brief but clear…  “As for the tired notion that it’s conservatives who get away with everything and Democrats who always rush to valiantly own their mistakes and, when necessary, step down, let us remember how half the senior politicians in Virginia stand credibly accused of either sexual assault or having dressed in blackface and calls for them to resign have dwindled and died. Men, women, Republicans, Democrats — we should expect more of everyone.” Daniella Greenbaum Davis, Spectator USA On the bright side… This woman and her pet otters have spent the last 40 years protecting the species from extinction in England. Good News Network Our volunteer team spends hours each night scanning the news, fact-checking, and debating one another, so your 5 minutes each morning can be well spent. 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By Mike Allen

🎃 Good Tuesday morning. Today’s Smart Brevity count: 1,371 words … 5 minutes.

If you’re in Chicago: Please join me tomorrow at 8 a.m. at the Merchandise Mart for conversations on criminal justice reform and other top issues in American cities.

• I’ll sit down with Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker … Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx … and Eddie Bocanegra of READI Chicago, a “violence interrupter” who brings the lessons of 14 years in prison to helping vulnerable people.
• RSVP here.

1 big thing: The GOP’s nightmare scenario

A growing number of Republicans are privately warning of increasing fears of a total wipeout in 2020: House, Senate, and White House.

• House Republicans in swing districts are retiring at a very fast pace, especially in the suburbs of Texas and elsewhere. (Republicans talk grimly of the “Texodus.”) Rep. Greg Walden — the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and the only Republican in Oregon’s congressional delegation — yesterday shocked the party by becoming the 19th GOP House member to not seek re-election.
• The Republican Senate majority, once considered relatively safe, suddenly looks in serious jeopardy. Democrats are raising more money, and polling better, than Republican incumbents in battleground after battleground.
• President Trump trails every major Democratic candidate nationally and in swing states — and his favorable ratings remain well under 50%.

Why it matters: All of this is unfolding while the economy still looks strong, and before public impeachment proceedings have officially begun.

The biggest recent change is Republicans’ increasingly precarious hold on the Senate.

• National Journal’s Josh Kraushaar writes in his “Against the Grain” column (subscription) that “the pathway for a narrow Democratic takeover of the upper chamber is looking clearer than ever”: “If Trump doesn’t win a second term, Democrats only need to net three seats to win back the majority.”

Scott Reed, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce senior political strategist, tells me that third-quarter fundraising reports showing three Republican senators being out-raised by Democratic challengers (in Arizona, Iowa and Maine) “are a three-alarm fire.”

• “The party was shaken by that,” Reed said. “We’re all worried.”
• The well-funded Chamber started TV ads in Arizona last week, launches an ad today in Maine, and will add a third state next week.
• That’s the earliest the group has ever gone on the air: Ads typically begin after Thanksgiving or New Year’s.
• “We have to spend early because the climate stinks,” Reed said. “All these incumbent senators have terrible job approvals and terrible favorables.”
• But Reed thinks Trump has a better than 50-50 chance of hanging on: “He’s still wildly popular in the middle of the country.”

Between the lines: Axios’ Alayna Treene reports that, across the board, struggling Republican Senate campaigns are more concerned about lousy fundraising than they are with poor polling.

• Republican strategists and campaign staffers said that with the polarization of the Trump era, key House and Senate races will depend even more than usual on the presidential race.

What to watch: Senate races look so tight that control could be decided by a January 2021 runoff in Georgia.

2. Exclusive: Steve Bannon’s $1 million deal linked to a Chinese billionaire

Steve Bannon has made China his signature issue since leaving the White House. Now we’re seeing the beginning of a money trail behind it, Axios’ Jonathan Swan and Erica Pandey scoop.

• The mystery of who’s funding the former Trump official’s work has been at least partly solved: Guo Media, a company linked to a Chinese billionaire, has contracted Bannon for at least $1 million for “strategic consulting services,” according to contracts obtained by Axios.

Why it matters: The billionaire fugitive — a man named Guo Wengui, also known as Miles Kwok — is embroiled in the U.S.-China conflict.

• Guo has been living in New York while he awaits a decision on his U.S. asylum application. The Chinese government has asked the Trump administration to extradite him.

A contract, signed between Bannon and Guo Media, gives Bannon $1 million for one year of consulting services beginning in August 2018.

• Bannon is contracted to introduce Guo Media to “media personalities,” and advise the company on “industry standards.”
• Bannon declined to comment.

Daniel Podhaskie, a spokesperson for Guo, tells Axios by email: “Mr. Bannon’s work in these areas was complete and he is currently not retained.”

• “Mr. Guo has no financial interest in Saraca Media Group or its media platform known as ‘Guo Media.’ Mr. Guo is merely the face of Guo Media.”

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3. 📊 Kids’ appetite for online video doubles in 4 years

Photo: Jenny Kane/AP

A survey out today says the number of American kids watching online videos every day has more than doubled, and they’re glued to them for nearly an hour a day — twice as long as they were four years ago, AP’s Martha Irvine reports.

• “It really is the air they breathe,” said Michael Robb, senior director of research for the nonprofit Common Sense Media, which issued the report. The group tracks young people’s tech habits and offers guidance for parents.

The survey of American youth included the responses of 1,677 young people, ages 8 to 18.

• It found that 56% of 8- to 12-year-olds and 69% of 13- to 18-year-olds watch online videos every day.
• In 2015, the last time the survey was conducted, those figures were 24% and 34%, respectively.
• The margin of error was +/- 3 points.

Overall screen time didn’t change much in those four years:

• The average tween (8 to 12) spent 4 hours, 44 minutes with entertainment media on digital devices each day.
• For teens, it was 7 hours, 22 minutes.
• That didn’t include time using devices for homework, reading books or listening to music.

What to watch: YouTube said that, in the coming months, it will share details on ways the company is rethinking its approach to kids and families.

4. Cover du jour

Courtesy N.Y. Post

President Trump tweeted the photo above:

• “We have declassified a picture of the wonderful dog (name not declassified) that did such a GREAT JOB in capturing and killing the Leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi!”

What’s next: “Pentagon leaders indicated Monday that the United States could carry out more operations targeting Islamic State figures, aided by video and other information gathered during the raid in Syria that led to the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,” the WashPost reports.

5. ⚖️ White House official to testify today about sounding alarm on Ukraine

President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump hand out pre-Halloween candy at the White House yesterday. Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images

“A White House national security official who is a decorated Iraq war veteran plans to tell House impeachment investigators [today] that he … considered [Trump’s call for Ukraine to investigate political rivals] so damaging to American interests that he reported it to a superior,” the N.Y. Times’ Danny Hakim reports.

• “Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman of the Army, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, twice registered internal objections about how Mr. Trump and his inner circle were treating Ukraine, out of … a ‘sense of duty,’ he plans to tell the inquiry, according to a draft of his opening statement.”

Why it matters: “He will be the first White House official to testify who listened in on the July 25 telephone call” between Trump and Ukraine’s president.

• Read the 6-page opening statement.

6. Pic du jour

A helicopter drops water on the Getty Fire just off the 405 in Los Angeles. Photo: David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images

🗞️ L.A. Times lead headline today:

The Getty Fire “licked the edges of the Getty Center campus … but the art and archives are safe,” per the L.A. Times.

• “The deleterious effects of air pollution on the art is the main concern, but the museum’s sophisticated air filtration system is doing its job just fine, the museum said.”
• “The system works something like a reverse air conditioner, forcing filtered air through the galleries while maintaining the necessary temperature and humidity levels.”

7. ✈️ Boeing CEO: “We made mistakes”

On the anniversary of the first of two deadly crashes of Boeing 737 MAX jets, CEO Dennis Muilenburg will tell Congress that the company is throwing everything into fixing the plane, AP’s David Koenig writes:

• “We have learned and are still learning from these accidents,” Muilenburg says in his opening statement for the Senate Commerce Committee.
• “We know we made mistakes and got some things wrong. We own that, and we are fixing them.”

Read the 7-page statement.

8. Juul to cut jobs in reset effort

Bracing for a ban on flavored vaping products, “Juul Labs Inc. plans to cut roughly 500 jobs by the end of the year,” writes the Wall Street Journal’s Jennifer Maloney (subscription).

• Why it matters: “The cuts are part of a broader reorganization aimed at mending the company’s damaged relationship with regulators.”

9. ⚡ Breaking: What we’re hearing about a comeback play

Well-wired Republicans tell Axios that former Attorney General Jeff Sessions is making calls in Alabama, and will decide soon whether to enter the Republican primary to take back his old Senate seat from Sen. Doug Jones (D).

• What we’re hearing: Sessions could lose the primary.

Trump, who soured on Sessions amid the Mueller probe, can be expected to attack him.

• “He couldn’t help himself,” an outside adviser said.

The context: Politico calls Jones, who won in the deep-red state against the disgraced Roy Moore, “the Senate’s most vulnerable incumbent.”

• Sessions would upend an already competitive primary that includes U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne, former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill, Moore and others. (AP)

10. 1 sink thing

Photo: Darrell Sapp/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP

This bus, partially swallowed when a sinkhole opened during morning rush hour in downtown Pittsburgh, has been removed from the hole by two cranes.

• See the video.

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View In BrowserOctober 29, 2019chicagotribune.comDaywatch1On first Chicago visit as president, Donald Trump and city trade insults over values as protesters take to streets to demonstrateTUESDAY, OCT 29Donald Trump’s first visit to Chicago as president turned into a fusillade of insults as he excoriated police Superintendent Eddie Johnson over gun violence while Mayor Lori Lightfoot backed her top cop and assailed the nation’s chief executive for bringing his “ignorant buffoonery” to the city.Johnson boycotted the president’s address, saying it was not in line with his or the city’s values. Later, at a news conference at police headquarters, Johnson defended his department and the “Chicago turnaround” by saying double-digit percentage declines in homicides and in shootings through mid-October were significant factors in a nationwide drop in violent crime.Trump just made his first visit to Chicago as president. Here is how the day unfolded.A ‘strong-looking guy’ on a motorcycle: President Trump resurrects tale of mystery cop who could clean up Chicago almost overnightTrump’s speech grabbed the most attention for his full-on attack of Eddie Johnson, but he also took a moment to honor another Chicago cop who was wounded in a shootout last monthA Trump supporter whose Nazi salute photo went viral in 2016 returned to Chicago to ‘protest the protesters’When Trump talks about Chicago, we track it: ‘I want Eddie Johnson to change his values and change them fast’2Classes canceled again; sides still ‘fundamentally far apart’ on big issues, school official saysTUESDAY, OCT 29The Chicago teachers strike will continue and classes in Chicago Public Schools are canceled again Tuesday despite another marathon session in contract negotiations, a CPS official said Monday.Following over 16 hours of bargaining, Chief Education Officer LaTanya McDade expressed disappointment over the failure of the sides to reach a deal, meaning the strike will now extend into its ninth school day. CTU’s general counsel, Robert Bloch, said the sides are inching closer toward a figure for total funds for the district.When the White Sox thanked Chance the Rapper for representing the South Side team when he appeared on “Saturday Night Live,” they sparked a flurry of online criticism for cropping out the CTU shirt he was wearing. On a scale of overreactions, this ranks somewhere around a 3-year-old’s tantrum, writes Shannon Ryan.  3Feds allege state Rep. Luis Arroyo caught on undercover recording paying $2,500 bribe. ‘This is the jackpot.’TUESDAY, OCT 29State Rep. Luis Arroyo was supposed to be with his fellow lawmakers in Springfield for the first day of the busy fall veto session.Instead, the Chicago Democrat was ducking reporters as he left the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago, where he was the latest elected official to be charged in what’s become a sprawling federal public corruption investigation. House Speaker Michael Madigan and House GOP leader Jim Durkin of Western Springs both called on Arroyo to step down or each vowed to begin the process to remove him from office under House rules.4Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s budget staff talks possible property tax increase, hike to downtown parking meter ratesTUESDAY, OCT 29Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s budget team started defending her 2020 spending plan on Monday against aldermen worried they’ll eventually be called on to raise property taxes if the mayor doesn’t get the financial help she needs from Springfield. Lightfoot is counting on $50 million in 2020 via a graduated real estate transfer tax that charges more for more expensive property sales, a change she wants state lawmakers to approve this fall in their veto session.Chicago sets lottery for recreational pot businesses to choose locations  5Some suburban workers face long, tricky commutes. Communities are grappling with how to fill in transit holesTUESDAY, OCT 29The long, tricky commutes for some suburban workers pose a regional conundrum — how to fill in the last mile between where a job is and when and where transit ends. It can be especially tough for blue-collar workers, who often do shift work at unusual hours when public transit availability slows and may not be able to afford a car.Local officials are looking at ways to fill the “first mile/last mile” gap, which could include shuttle buses, bikes, scooters, better sidewalks, ride-share vehicles and, eventually, autonomous or self-driving vehicles.6‘I know what winning looks like’: Highlights from David Ross’ first press conference as the new Cubs managerTUESDAY, OCT 29David Ross held his first press conference as the Cubs new manager.“There are many ways to get experience,” said Ross, who has never managed before. “But I’m ready for this. … I know what winning looks like.Here are the highlights of Ross’ comments from the press conference.David Ross was hired to kick some assets. The new Cubs manager will have to prove he’s nobody’s puppet, writes Paul Sullivan.  7Meet the woman leading the charge to ban horse-drawn carriages in Chicago: ‘She’s relentless — in a good way’TUESDAY, OCT 29In the past four years, Jodie Wiederkehr has helped push an obscure issue into the spotlight with protests, an active Facebook page and dozens of “monitoring sessions” in which volunteers descend on the Magnificent Mile to document alleged mistreatment of carriage horses.And her cause is gaining ground. A proposed horse carriage ban that she supports has 26 sponsors in the City Council, or enough votes to pass.8City Water is Chicago’s first local craft hard seltzer — and immediately one of the best anywhereTUESDAY, OCT 29It’s remarkable it took this long, but here it is: Chicago’s first locally made hard seltzer.After a summer of hard seltzer — ahem, the summer of hard seltzer (“Ain’t no laws when you’re drinking Claws!” didn’t become a Facebook sensation for nothing) — City Water debuts this week.It is, in a sense, the anti-White Claw, writes Tribune’s Josh Noel.Fallout from a racial discrimination lawsuit continued to intensify for Founders Brewing as its diversity and inclusion director publicly rebuked the brewery while quitting and a prominent Chicago restaurant chain pledged to stop carrying the brand.advertisement Unsubscribe   |   Newsletters   |   Privacy Policy   |   Terms of ServiceCopyright © 2019 | Chicago Tribune | 160 N. 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• Dear GOP, Some Scary Advice on How to Survive Your Impeachment Nightmare By Charles Sykes
• What Holocaust Restitution Taught Me About Slavery Reparations By Stuart E. Eizenstat
• Don’t Bet on John Bolton to Be an Impeachment Hero By John Gans
• What’s Good for Putin Is Not Always Bad for America By Robert Wright

POLITICO Playbook: Democrats think they’ve found an impeachment hero

By ANNA PALMER and JAKE SHERMAN 

10/29/2019 05:57 AM EDT

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DRIVING THE DAY

EVERY MAJOR INVESTIGATION has its breakout witness — someone who helps bury the target or changes the course of the investigation. Democrats think they might have that in Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who will testify today.

VINDMAN — a Ukrainian-born, two-decade veteran of the U.S. Army with a Purple Heart from fighting in Iraq — will testify today that “he believed President Donald Trump undermined U.S. national security when he appealed to Ukraine’s president to investigate his political rivals,” POLITICO’s summary of his dramatic opening statement says.

SHOULDN’T THIS END ALL DISCUSSION OF THE WHISTLEBLOWER? There is now a named person who heard the call with Volodymyr Zelensky, was concerned about its contents and reported it to a government attorney.

ANDREW DESIDERIO and KYLE CHENEY: “‘I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen, and I was worried about the implications for the U.S. government’s support of Ukraine,’ Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a National Security Council official overseeing Ukraine policy, plans to tell investigators, referring to Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to look into Joe Biden and his son.

“Vindman, who will become the first White House official to testify as part of the impeachment inquiry, also plans to say that he reported Trump’s July 25 phone call with Zelensky to the NSC’s top lawyer after listening in on the conversation from the White House situation room alongside other U.S. national security officials.

“It was the second time Vindman had raised concerns to the NSC’s lead counsel about a campaign by Trump, his associates and some U.S. officials to pressure Ukraine to launch investigations intended to benefit Trump politically.

“‘I realized that if Ukraine pursued an investigation into the Bidens and Burisma, it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play which would undoubtedly result in Ukraine losing the bipartisan support it has thus far maintained,’ Vindman plans to say. … ‘This would all undermine U.S. national security,’ Vindman adds. ‘Following the call, I again reported my concerns to NSC’s lead counsel.’” POLITICO … The opening statement

— BTW: NBC’S MONICA ALBA and CAROL LEE: “Internal White House debate stifles release of Pence-Zelenskiy call”: “It’s been almost three weeks since Vice President Mike Pence said he had ‘no objection’ to releasing a reconstructed transcript of his phone call with the leader of Ukraine. But as House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry continues moving swiftly into its second month, the White House still has not made a decision on whether to make those details of Pence’s call public.” NBC

DEMOCRATS’ NEW PLAY … SARAH FERRIS, HEATHER CAYGLE and KYLE CHENEY: “[A House Democratic resolution that will get a vote this week] will grant investigators authority to sidestep traditional time limits on questioning witnesses in public hearings and spell out specifics of the due process rights Democrats intend to provide Trump and his legal team once the probe moves into the public domain. …

“‘This is a resolution on how to proceed in the committee,’ Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday evening. ‘This resolution gives us more opportunity in the committee, spells out protection of the rights for the president and his counsel. They should welcome this.’ …

“The Democrats’ move is in some ways an answer to the White House’s Oct. 8 letter declaring the president’s refusal to cooperate with an impeachment inquiry they describe as ‘constitutionally invalid’ and ‘a violation of due process.’” POLITICO

MAKE NO MISTAKE: THIS RESOLUTION will be positioned as a proxy vote for impeachment. Republicans say they will not vote for this, and instead will hang this vote around every Democrat’s neck. A vote for this, they tell us, will be viewed as a vote approving the entirety of the Democrats’ impeachment effort. The GOP will try to make Democrats who vote yes own every element of the impeachment process from here on out. Democrats tried to sidestep a vote just a week or so ago, and Republicans have been urging a vote, so both sides have reversed their positions here.

WE ARE TOLD THAT THIS RESOLUTION will also enumerate the findings of the probe so far — but that’s not certain because it’s not wrapped up yet.

DEMOCRATS ARE TAKING THIS VOTE in a very public and transparent way. If they wanted less attention on what they are terming a rule change, they could’ve tucked this into an unrelated bill and it probably would’ve gotten through the House with little fanfare.

WSJ ED BOARD: “Pelosi Concedes on Inquiry Vote”: “Vindication is overrated, but we’ll take it in the case of a House vote to authorize an impeachment inquiry. We’re referring to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s letter Monday to fellow Democrats that she’ll offer a resolution on the House floor this week that will set the terms of its impeachment investigation. …

“The Speaker’s letter asserts that no such vote is needed but nonetheless says the House will have one. This is what you say when you know your critics have been right but you don’t want to admit it. Thanks also to the Speaker for embarrassing the many media apologists for her previous skip-the-vote stance.” WSJ

BY THE WAY … IT’S PRETTY NOTABLE how quickly the news has turned from Trump directing the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi back to impeachment.

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CAN-KICKING UPDATE … NYT: “Possible Impeachment Trial Could Complicate Congress’s Spending Debate,” by Emily Cochrane: “With just a handful of legislative days before the current short-term spending bill expires, lawmakers have begun to discuss extending that funding into early 2020 to avoid running out of money later this year if senators are mired in an impeachment trial with little time for legislative work.” NYT

POLITICO SCOOP: “Sessions strongly considering bid for old Senate seat in Alabama,” by James Arkin, Burgess Everett and Jake Sherman: “Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions is strongly considering jumping into the race for his old Senate seat in Alabama, according to multiple Republican sources familiar with the matter.

“Sessions would scramble the already crowded field of Republicans seeking to take on Democratic Sen. Doug Jones, who won a 2017 special election to fill the remainder of Sessions’ term and is widely viewed as the most vulnerable senator on the ballot next year. …

“Five Republicans are already in the race: Rep. Bradley Byrne, former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville, Secretary of State John Merrill, state Rep. Arnold Mooney and Roy Moore, the former state Supreme Court judge who lost the special election in 2017 amid allegations of sexual misconduct.” POLITICO

— HOW WILL THE PRESIDENT HANDLE THIS, and will it matter? By dint of his $2.5 million cash pile, SESSIONS will probably be the prohibitive favorite in this race. He’s a known entity in Alabama, a deeply red state, and has an identity outside his tumult with the president — we think! THE QUESTION to us: Does Trump try to sink him?

Good Tuesday morning. 1-0, ONE MORE TIME! THE WASHINGTON NATIONALS face a do-or-die game tonight in Houston, where they play the Astros after losing three straight at home. Stephen Strasburg is pitching for the Nats, and Justin Verlander gets the ball for the ’stros.

MEMORIES ARE SHORT! … ZACH WARMBRODT: “A decade after massive bailout, AIG celebrated on Capitol Hill”: “American International Group — once one of the most scorned corporations on Capitol Hill for its pivotal role in the financial crisis — got a Washington birthday bash on Monday night with help from House lawmakers.

“Little more than a decade after the U.S. government committed $180 billion to avert the collapse of the insurance giant, AIG used the hearing room of the House Ways and Means Committee to host a ‘centennial congressional reception’ to mark the New York-based company’s first century in business.

“Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) presided over the event, which featured AIG CEO Brian Duperreault and other company leaders. ‘We believe in the power of relationships to make a better world for everyone,’ AIG said in an invitation obtained by POLITICO.

“The packed reception had waiters offering trays of snacks, an open bar serving a signature ‘Centennial Smash’ cocktail and an a cappella group that closed with the Pharrell Williams hit ‘Happy.’” POLITICO

— SPOTTED at the event: Neal, Reps. John Larson (D-Conn.), Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), Bill Foster (D-Ill.), Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), Mark Takano (D-Calif.), Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) and Juan Vargas (D-Calif.), AIG CEO Brian Duperreault, Irish Ambassador Daniel Mulhall and CFTC Commissioner Dan Berkovitz.

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WSJ: “Tough Questions, Anger Await Boeing CEO in Congress,” by Andrew Tangel: “Boeing Co. Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg is set to tell lawmakers the company made mistakes that contributed to two fatal airplane crashes, as the aerospace giant struggles to regain public trust.

“Ahead of Mr. Muilenburg’s appearance this week before two key U.S. House and Senate panels, Boeing released a draft of his planned remarks including an outline of steps Boeing is taking to return its 737 MAX jets to passenger service following the crashes that claimed 346 lives and left the aircraft grounded world-wide for more than eight months.

“The first hearing on Tuesday before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation comes exactly a year after the crash of a Lion Air MAX into the Java Sea. It will be Mr. Muilenburg’s first congressional appearance as CEO. ‘We know we made mistakes and got some things wrong,’ he said in the prepared remarks. ‘We own that, and we are fixing them.’” WSJ

BURGESS EVERETT: “The new Democratic senator irritating the left and delighting the GOP”: “She rarely goes to party lunches and skipped Senate votes to run the Ironman. She endorsed a primary challenger against one of her own colleagues and hobnobs with Republicans at least as much as she does with her own caucus.

“Kyrsten Sinema doesn’t really fit in with her fellow Senate Democrats. Don’t even ask her whether she watches the Democratic presidential debates. ‘I’m not missing anything. I prefer happiness,’ Sinema declares in a 25-minute interview, a rare extended conversation with an outlet not based in Arizona. ‘Look how happy I am.’

“Arizona’s first Democrat to win a Senate race in 30 years has done little to raise her profile in Washington; she’s more focused on trying to balance her extreme workout regime with a moderate record on par with West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin’s.

“Sinema has long cultivated a bipartisan posture. But her support for Donald Trump nominees like Attorney General William Barr and her lack of zeal for impeachment are part of a political profile drawing blowback from progressives and cheers from the GOP. Yet Sinema is also setting herself up to be a pivotal vote the next time the Democrats are in power. And her radical breed of centrism could be a headache for the party.” POLITICO

BIG HOUSE NEWS … CHARLOTTE OBSERVER: “New maps ordered for NC 2020 congressional races, in win for Democrats,” by Will Doran: “The legislature must now redraw the state’s 13 U.S. House districts. The [judges] — two Democrats and one Republican from different parts of North Carolina — wrote that the maps show signs of ‘extreme partisan gerrymandering’ which ‘is contrary to the fundamental right of North Carolina citizens to have elections conducted freely and honestly to ascertain, fairly and truthfully, the will of the people.’

“Monday’s ruling, a preliminary injunction, said the state may not hold any elections for Congress using the current maps passed in 2016. Those maps replaced a different set of maps from 2011, also drawn by the Republican-led legislature, which were struck down as unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. The judges ruled that if there aren’t new maps in time for the primary elections on March 3 then they could delay all or some of the primaries until later in 2020.” Charlotte Observer

2020 WATCH — DAVID SIDERS and JEREMY WHITE in Los Angeles: “‘The West barely exists’: California primary falls flat”: “Kamala Harris is running a distant fourth in her home state of California. Julián Castro, who rested much of his candidacy on making inroads in Nevada, remains a polling asterisk there. Three Westerners — former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and California Rep. Eric Swalwell — have already dropped out of the Democratic presidential primary, and two more — Montana Gov. Steve Bullock and Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet — are still trying to find their footing.

“In their wake, the region’s marquee contests in Nevada and California — one small early state, and one massive, Super Tuesday primary — have emerged as wide-open races. And the promise of an early California primary tilting the balance of the Democratic primary westward has fallen short.

“Most campaigns are still spending far more time — and resources — in Iowa, the first caucus state, leaving Westerners to watch the campaign unfold primarily on TV. When Harris joked last month that she was ‘f—ing moving to Iowa,’ it only underscored the uncertainty about what role — if any — the West will play in determining the nominee.

“For the purposes of the presidential election, said Jerry Brown, California’s former governor and a three-time presidential candidate, right now, ‘The West barely exists.’ ‘Iowa and New Hampshire and then South Carolina — that is going to reshape the race, or shape it in some way,’ Brown said, adding that the overall contest has not yet ‘sharpened in the way that those early elections sharpen it.’” POLITICO

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Speaker Pelosi’s drug pricing plan could lead to the permanent loss of roughly 1 million jobs. .

TRUMP’S TUESDAY — THE PRESIDENT will have lunch with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at 12:45 p.m., and will meet with recipients of the Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking at 1:45 p.m.

AT 6:20 P.M., the president will go to the Trump Hotel for a Take Back the House 2020 fundraiser. He’ll be back at the White House around 8:30 p.m.

— BTW: THIS FUNDRAISER is expected to net $13 million for the House GOP. There will be 315 people in attendance.

PLAYBOOK READS

JARED IS ON IT — “White House Brings Lessons of Mueller Investigation to Impeachment Response,” by WSJ’s Mike Bender and Catherine Lucey: “Top White House officials have been urging a cautious approach to the escalating impeachment proceedings in the House, operating under the belief that because President Trump withstood the Mueller investigation he can overcome the threat posed by the latest round of scrutiny.

“That circumspect White House view, in the face of growing criticism from some Republican allies, has most clearly been articulated by Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and adviser and one of the few senior aides remaining in the West Wing since Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel in May 2017. …

“During impeachment-related meetings inside the White House, Mr. Kushner has urged officials to remain calm, homing in on one of the president’s often repeated lines: that the impeachment inquiry is the latest in a long line of partisan attacks the West Wing has had to endure. Mr. Kushner’s message has been that the facts are in the White House’s favor, and that reduces the need to be on the defensive, according to White House officials familiar with the conversations.” WSJ

— NBC’S JOSH LEDERMAN and DAN DE LUCE: “The White House was alerted as early as mid-May — earlier than previously known — that a budding pressure campaign by Rudy Giuliani and one of President Donald Trump’s ambassadors was rattling the new Ukrainian president, two people with knowledge of the matter tell NBC News.

“Alarm bells went off at the National Security Council when the White House’s top Europe official was told that Giuliani was pushing the incoming Ukrainian administration to shake up the leadership of state-owned energy giant Naftogaz, said the sources. The official, Fiona Hill, learned then about the involvement of Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two Giuliani associates who were helping with the Naftogaz pressure and also with trying to find dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden’s son.

“Hill quickly briefed then-National Security Adviser John Bolton about what she’d been told, said the individuals with knowledge of the meeting.” NBC

BILL BARR SPEAKS: “Attorney General Bill Barr, in an interview with Fox News, defended the independence and integrity of the politically contentious probe being led by U.S. Attorney John Durham into the handling of the Russia investigation – while taking a swipe at James Comey’s past leadership of the FBI.

“Barr … rejected Democrats’ claims he is acting as Trump’s personal lawyer. ‘That’s completely wrong and there is no basis for it, and I act on behalf of the United States,’ Barr said.” Fox News

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BEYOND THE BELTWAY … NYT’S CHRISTINA GOLDBAUM: “A Taco Truck in Buffalo Served Lunch to ICE Workers. Then Came the Backlash.”

BREXIT UPDATE — “Boris Johnson loses election vote — unveils plan B,” by POLITICO Europe’s Eleni Courea: “U.K. MPs have once again rejected a snap election — but Boris Johnson could still get the ballot he craves.

“The prime minister on Monday evening failed to get the House of Commons to support his call for an election, his third unsuccessful attempt since taking office in July.

“The latest defeat for Johnson came on the same day as EU leaders agreed to delay the Brexit deadline until January 31, removing the immediate threat that the U.K. would leave the bloc without a deal. The prime minister, who repeatedly promised to pull the country out by the previous deadline of October 31, now hopes to run on a platform that blames the U.K. parliament for blocking Brexit.” POLITICO Europe … London Playbook: “Anyone smell toast?”

FOR YOUR RADAR … REMEMBER IRAQ? … AP/BAGHDAD: “Iraqi security forces wearing masks and black plainclothes opened fire at protesters in the Shiite holy city of Karbala on Tuesday, killing 18 people and wounding hundreds, security officials said, in one of the deadliest single attacks since the country was engulfed by protests this month.

“The attack, which happened overnight, came as Iraqis took to the streets for a fifth consecutive day, protesting their government’s corruption, lack of services and other grievances. …

“At least 72 protesters — not including the latest fatalities in Karbala — have been killed since anti-government protests resumed across Iraq on Friday, after 149 were killed during an earlier wave of protests this month.” AP

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Speaker Pelosi’s plan is the wrong approach for patients, the U.S. health care system and American innovation.

HONG KONG LATEST — “Hong Kong Bars Pro-Democracy Icon Joshua Wong From Election,” by WSJ’s Natasha Khan: “In a letter dated Tuesday, Mr. Wong was informed that his candidacy in District Council elections had been declared invalid in accordance with the Basic Law, the city’s mini-constitution. In a separate statement, which didn’t name Mr. Wong, officials said support for Hong Kong self-determination was inconsistent with the law.” WSJ

VALLEY TALK — “This man is running for governor of California so he can run false Facebook ads,” by CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan: “A San Francisco man is going to extreme lengths to call out Facebook’s controversial policy of allowing politicians to run false ads on its platform. On Monday morning, he registered as a candidate in California’s 2022 gubernatorial election — not with the primary goal of becoming governor, but so he can run false Facebook ads of his own. …

“Adriel Hampton, a political activist who runs his own marketing firm in San Francisco, registered at his local post office on Monday morning as a candidate for governor of California. Hampton told CNN Business that he will use his new status as a candidate to run false ads on Facebook (FB) about President Trump, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and other Facebook executives.” CNN

— NYT’S MIKE ISAAC: “Dissent Erupts at Facebook Over Hands-Off Stance on Political Ads”

— “China Investors Keep Making Deals in Silicon Valley Amid Washington Pushback,” by WSJ’s Heather Somerville: “Chinese investors are pressing ahead with investments into startups and venture-capital funds, emboldened in part by ambiguities in U.S. efforts to limit foreign access to technology deals.

“Key rules for implementing a 2018 U.S. law intended to curb foreign access to sensitive technologies are yet to be defined, often leaving investors and entrepreneurs to determine which deals are permissible. For their part, U.S. tech entrepreneurs want to nurture connections to China.

“Investment ties between the two countries thus remain tight despite political and trade tensions, say technology investors, entrepreneurs, attorneys, and current and former government officials.” WSJ

MEDIAWATCH — “What’s Left of Conde Nast,” by New York magazine’s Reeves Wiedeman: “As David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, put it to a fellow media executive in 2017, Condé was facing the same daunting challenges as the rest of the media business and seemed to be in ‘a dignified state of panic’ as it belatedly adapted to low-margin, constantly pivoting digital realities, closed and sold titles, and underwent a ‘restacking’ — the chosen euphemism for squeezing everyone onto fewer floors so Condé could sublet some of the fancy real estate it now realized it could no longer afford.” New York

— VANITY FAIR’S JOE POMPEO: “John Heilemann’s new venture is betting people want more political video on their phone”: “Recount Media is coming out of beta mode this week with eight seed investors kicking in nearly $10 million between them. The initial round was led by veteran New York financier Fred Wilson, who cofounded the company with Heilemann and Battelle. Other backers include Jay-Z’s Arrive venture fund, Kevin Durant’s Thirty Five Ventures, Robert Wolf’s 32 Ventures, Jon Callaghan’s True Ventures, Ron Conway’s SV Angel, and a couple of individuals whose names remain under wraps.

“In addition to Heilemann and Battelle, who are Recount Media’s editor in chief and CEO, respectively, the company’s leadership team includes Disney vet Kenny Miller as president, BuzzFeed vet James Burns as CTO, and Viacom vet Nomi Leidner, who becomes Recount’s executive vice president of programming and development after nearly five years running Vice Media’s struggling cable channel, Viceland. Slade Sohmer, formerly of Mic and CNN video startup Beme, manages the newsroom of roughly 20, overseeing the daily flow.” VF

— FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: Laura Jarrett — whose birthday is today — will be moving to New York to anchor CNN’s “Early Start” with Christine Romans starting in January. She currently is a correspondent for CNN covering the Justice Department. She will be replacing Dave Briggs, who will remain as a co-anchor until the end of the year.

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TRANSITIONS — Josh Martin is joining American Defense International as VP for government affairs. He most recently was chief of staff to Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas). … Claudia Sahm will be director of macroeconomic policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. She currently is a section chief at the Federal Reserve Board. … Gabe Ramos will be national press secretary at New Politics. He previously was press secretary at the New York City Department of Veterans Services.

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Katherine Timpf, host of “Sincerely Kat” on Fox Nation. How she got her start in journalism: “I was in the journalism program in college and had some internships in print journalism during the summers. The plan was to go to Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism to learn broadcasting after I graduated. I was enrolled and everything, but ultimately decided that I could never afford to pay back the loan I’d have to take out. Instead, I took a series of internships in Los Angeles to learn those skills for free, and worked in restaurants to pay the bills. It was hard and tiring and I was so, so broke, but it was worth it.” Playbook Q&A

BIRTHDAYS: Jim Messina is 5-0 … former acting A.G. Matt Whitaker is 5-0 (hat tip: Samantha Dravis) … David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, is 61 … Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) is 67 … CNN’s Laura Jarrett … Bob Stevenson … WaPo White House editor Dave Clarke … N.Y. Daily News’ Robert George … former Sen. Connie Mack III (R-Fla.) is 79 … Washington Examiner’s Jamie McIntyre … Geoff Turley … Andy Weitz, Aon’s chief marketing officer … POLITICO’s Steve Heuser, Nick Yaeger, Cam Debro and Safi Majid … former Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne is 68 … Nelson Cunningham, president and co-founder of McLarty Associates … WSJ editorial writer Kate Bachelder Odell … Isabelle James … Mike Saccone … Washingtonian’s Mimi Montgomery … Steve Smith, deputy chief communications officer at the ACLU (h/t Lauren Weiner) … Coby King is 59 …

… Kate Bedingfield, deputy campaign manager and communications director for Joe Biden’s campaign (h/t Biden junior advisers Hugh and Margot) … Seth Schuster of the Biden campaign … Noah Dion, New Hampshire organizing director for Pete Buttigieg’s campaign … CNN’s David Siegel (h/t Kevin Bohn) … Justin McCartney of Rep. Jennifer Wexton’s (D-Va.) comms team is 23 (h/t Aaron Bennett) … Deloitte’s Jon Pool … Max Yoeli … Leigh Helfenbein … Susan Mercandetti … Daisy Letendre … Sonia Colin-Reed … Diana D’Abruzzo … Peter Albrecht, VP at DSPolitical … former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is 81 … Kerry Hannon (h/t Jon Haber) … Gary Gould … Nick Powell … Michael Slaby … Jeff Hillery … Yangyang Cheng … Bill Jaffee … Aaron Jacobs … WSJ’s Samantha Zeldin … Thompson Warren … Mark Olingy … Rachel Barinbaum … Steve Lynch … Sophie Bauer

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Speaker Pelosi’s plan is the wrong approach for patients, the U.S. health care system and American innovation. The projected economic impact of the plan could represent a tipping point that would shift biopharmaceutical R&D, manufacturing investments and jobs abroad. We do not need to blow up the pipeline for future treatments and cures to make medicines more affordable. Instead, policymakers should pursue practical policy solutions that foster continued research and development and share negotiated savings with patients at the pharmacy counter.

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Sign up for this newsletter Read online The morning’s most important stories, curated by Post editors.       (AFP/Getty Images) White House official to testify he feared Trump’s Ukraine demands would undermine national security Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, a top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, was part of a small group of officials assigned to listen in on President Trump’s July 25 call with the Ukrainian leader. By Greg Jaffe  ●  Read more »   Democrats take most tangible step yet to impeach Trump, with planned vote on inquiry The House’s first vote on the impeachment probe of President Trump, slated for Thursday, will force lawmakers to go on record in support or opposition of the investigation and will dictate the rules for its next phase. By John Hudson, Karoun Demirjian and Mike DeBonis  ●  Read more »   Andrew Yang was groomed for a high-paying job at an elite law firm. He lasted five months. Walking away from wealth and prestige dismayed his immigrant parents. But it made Yang into the entrepreneur running for president. Campaign 2020  ●  By Kevin Sullivan  ●  Read more »     Baghdadi hid among rivals and enemies in rebel-held Syrian province  Idlib, dominated by a jihadist movement hostile to the Islamic State, is a reminder of the misery and threats still radiating from the country’s civil war. By Kareem Fahim and Sarah Dadouch  ●  Read more »   More operations targeting ISIS possible after Baghdadi raid, officials say The United States is holding two men captured during the operation and poring over video and other information. By Dan Lamothe and Karen DeYoung  ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   As fires rage, California refines an important skill: Evacuating Cities, businesses and residents are acclimating to a punishing new regimen that will reshape life as the nation’s most populous state adjusts to what could be years of record wildfires. By Heather Kelly, Scott Wilson and Joy Lanzendorfer  ●  Read more »       Opinions Trump’s newest impeachment defense was devised by … Al Gore? By Dana Milbank  ●  Read more »   The White House touts Trump’s deregulation. It’s actually been a bust. By Catherine Rampell  ●  Read more »   The Baghdadi raid is a success that may be unrepeatable By Editorial Board  ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Baghdadi’s death is accompanied by demands for change in the Arab world By David Ignatius  ●  Read more »   A nightmare scene for 2020: A tie that can’t be broken. It’s conceivable. By Charles Lane  ●  Read more »   Evangelicals have been reshaped into the image of Trump himself By Michael Gerson  ●  Read more »     More News Hong Kong bars democracy activist Joshua Wong from elections, underlining fears over freedoms Wong hasn’t taken the lead in the current unrest roiling the city, but he remains Hong Kong’s most internationally recognized democracy activist. By Shibani Mahtani  ●  Read more »   Sessions mulling bid for former Senate seat from Alabama The former attorney general is said to have been meeting with consultants, retired senators and allies to plot out a potential 2020 campaign. By Josh Dawsey and Felicia Sonmez  ●  Read more »   As the Max Scherzer wait continues, Nats prepare for Game 6 as if it’s Game 7 On Sunday, doctors told the veteran pitcher it should take 48 hours to alleviate the nerve irritation in his neck that caused him to miss Game 5. Scherzer’s status for Game 7 on Wednesday could impact how Manager Dave Martinez uses his pitchers in Game 6. World Series  ●  By Jesse Dougherty  ●  Read more »   Wild fall freeze: Utah falls close to minus-35 as West shivers, while bitter cold moves east A number of other locales are forecast to plunge below zero this week. Meanwhile, a strong storm is expected along the chilly air’s leading edge, bringing a soggy Halloween to the East. By Matthew Cappucci and Chris Bianchi  ●  Read more »   She had ‘total control’ of her boyfriend, prosecutors say. Now she’s charged in his suicide. Authorities say Inyoung You used text messages and threats of self harm to manipulate her boyfriend, Alexander Urtula, who killed himself on the day of his college graduation. By Reis Thebault  ●  Read more »     We think you’ll like this newsletter Check out Carolyn Hax for Post columnist Carolyn Hax’s latest advice column every day. Sign up »

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Sign up for this newsletter Read online Stories from all over.       (Screengrab via CBS) ‘We all root, root, root for impeachment’: Late-night hosts mock Trump over World Series booing “It has been a long time since Donald Trump faced anything other than a crowd of handpicked supporters, and I have a feeling it’s going to be awhile before he does that again,” Stephen Colbert said Monday. By Allyson Chiu  ●  Read more »   ‘This happened’: A grad student refused to recant her rape accusation even after police arrested her for lying A 30-year-old graduate student told police she had been raped by a classmate. The officers didn’t believe her. By Katie Shepherd  ●  Read more »   A taco truck apologized for serving ICE workers. Now the owners are apologizing for the apology. “We make lunch and dinner, not policy,” Pete Cimino, one of the owners of Lloyd Taco, said on Monday. By Antonia Farzan  ●  Read more »     ADVERTISEMENT   A sheriff’s assistant accused him of sexual assault. Prosecutors say he pursued her on the taxpayer dime. I couldn’t call 9-1-1. He was ‘9-1-1,’” the victim wrote in a since-deleted blog post. “I couldn’t tell anyone higher up, because he was the top.” By Meagan Flynn  ●  Read more »   Native American volleyball players were called ‘savages.’ They walked out of the match for safety reasons. After a bad dive from the away team, a group of boys in the stands began imitating Native American dances and rituals. By Teo Armus  ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   ‘Putting dozens of lives at risk over $2.75’: NYPD slammed for pulling guns on fare-hopping teen New York police pointed their weapons into a crowded subway car, searching for a suspect with a gun. Instead, they arrested a 19-year-old for fare evasion. By Katie Shepherd  ●  Read more »     A cop was told to ‘tone down your gayness.’ Now, he could get nearly $20 million, jury says. “We wanted to send a message,” the jury foreman said. “If you discriminate you are going to pay a big price. … You can’t defend the indefensible.” By Allyson Chiu  ●  Read more »     A man went viral for snubbing Mitch McConnell at Elijah Cummings’s memorial. He says there’s more to the story. Many assumed that Bobby Rankin, a close friend of Cummings, had acted out of loyalty to the late congressman. Rankin said his reasons were much more personal. By Allyson Chiu  ●  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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Washington Examiner’s Examiner Today Newsletter View this as website   ADVERTISEMENT HIGHLIGHTS ‘Quid pro quo’: Bernie Sanders wants to end ‘carte blanche’ aid to Israel Biden says people support Trump ‘because he’s racist’ Top Bush economic adviser leaves GOP over its handling of Trump ‘misdeeds’   House GOP to move from the criticizing process to fighting impeachment on the facts   House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy previewed a shift in the party’s impeachment strategy during a private meeting with senior Republican aides, saying a sharper focus on defending President Trump against allegations behind the inquiry would begin when Democrats open the process.     Katie Hill resignation creates new opportunity for GOP in California   Rep. Katie Hill’s sudden resignation from Congress may give the GOP a chance to regain a seat long held by Republicans.     Democrats feel whiplash as Buttigieg veers from left lane to the middle Pete Buttigieg’s claim to a share of the “moderate” lane occupied by Joe Biden in the primary has some fellow Democrats seeing opportunism knocking.     Judge revives Covington Catholic student’s libel suit against Washington Post   A federal court in Kentucky revived the lawsuit brought by Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann’s family against the Washington Post.   ADVERTISEMENT   Democratic donor says Biden is ‘going to kick Donald Trump’s ass’   Joe Biden was feted Monday in Florida by well-heeled donors who boasted that he’d beat President Trump easily in a general election.     ‘I like Republicans’: Biden calls George W. Bush ‘a decent guy’   Joe Biden told a group of high-dollar donors George W. Bush is a “decent guy,” adding the former president to the list of Republicans whom he has praised.     Biden says Trump should not be impeached ‘if it can be avoided’   Joe Biden rued how the country is in the grips of impeachment but said President Trump’s actions leave House Democrats with no choice.     Trump ‘wouldn’t be surprised’ if Democrats impeach for hiding Baghdadi raid from Pelosi   President Trump hit back at Democratic critics complaining that he kept them in the dark about the raid that killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi.     Graham claims victory with impeachment vote   Sen. Lindsey Graham, who introduced a resolution condemning secretive impeachment proceedings in the House, claimed victory Monday after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she’ll hold a formal vote and open up the hearings to the public.     ‘Go kill yourself’: Review of girlfriend’s 47,000 texts led prosecutors to charge her with encouraging suicide of Boston College student   A Boston College student is being charged after prosecutors determined she had encouraged her boyfriend and fellow college student to commit suicide.     Washington Post columnist issues correction after claiming Baghdadi not a coward   The Washington Post was forced to issue a correction after columnist Max Boot said Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was not a coward because he evaded capture by committing suicide.     ‘Trojan horse’: Catholics face deepening divisions as bishops call for married priests   Catholic bishops over the weekend called for allowing married priests and the possibility of female deacons, sharpening a rift among theologians and church leaders on the two controversial subjects.   THE ROUNDUP As California burns, firefighters strain to keep up Baghdadi hid among rivals and enemies in rebel-held Syrian province NSC official to testify Trump undermined national security with Ukraine pressure ADVERTISEMENT

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The Resurgent’s Morning Briefing for October 29,2019 View this email in your browser Share Tweet Forward Good morning, Here is all the news conservatives need to know to start their day.  At 4pm ET, you can catch me on radio to bring you up to speed on developments throughout the day.  You can listen live here.   Scary: 70% of Millennials Would Vote for a Socialist Today A new poll from Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation revealed startling results: 70% of Millennials are likely to vote for a socialist. The 4th Annual Report on US Attitudes Toward Socialism, Communism, and Collectivism was conducted in conjunction with YouGov. The poll also revealed increased support for communism (36%) among Millennials compared to 28% from […] The post Scary: 70% of Millennials Would Vote for a Socialist Today appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » Al-Bagdadi’s Death Does Not Mean War Against ISIS Is Over President Trump won the battle, but will he stick around to win the war? The post Al-Bagdadi’s Death Does Not Mean War Against ISIS Is Over appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » LIVE: The Erick Erickson Show – Al Baghdadi, World Series, And The Algorithmic Civil War The Erick Erickson Show is live! Here’s the plan for today: Hour 1 President and Baghdadi Operation named for Kayla Mueller Kayla was assisting in a hospital in Northern Iraq President’s statements Vice President Administration statements Lindsey Graham Booed at the Nationals Game With David Perdue Chris Coons opposed the booos Media Coverage Media and […] The post LIVE: The Erick Erickson Show – Al Baghdadi, World Series, And The Algorithmic Civil War appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » If Rep. Katie Hill Did Nothing Wrong, Why is She Resigning? I’m confused. Rep. Katie Hill “with a broken heart,” resigned her seat as the representative for the 25th District in California’s delegation to the House of Representatives. Yet if you search Twitter, you’ll see a phalanx of claims that Hill did nothing wrong, because, you know, it was a just a consensual sexual relationship. There […] The post If Rep. Katie Hill Did Nothing Wrong, Why is She Resigning? appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser » The President Booed by Nationals Fans the Day Al Baghdadi Captured President Trump went to the Nationals game last night and watched the DC team get crushed by a Texas team. In November next year, President Trump will win in Texas and lose DC. Washington, DC is increasingly hated and a good portion of the nation is undoubtedly delighted its baseball team got crushed last night. […] The post The President Booed by Nationals Fans the Day Al Baghdadi Captured appeared first on The Resurgent.  Read in browser »   Recent Items: Orange Man Bad The Coming Algorithmic Civil War Washington Post Headline Writers Change Baghdadi Obit From “Terrorist-in-Chief” to “Austere Religious Scholar” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Rests in Pieces. Good Riddance. James Younger is the Victim of Bad Science Remember, you can listen to the Erick Erickson Show anytime and anywhere via WSB Radio, iTunes, Stitcher, and Soundcloud. As always, you can find pretty much anything and everything I’m writing about throughout the day via The Resurgent. Thanks for reading and tuning in. Erick Erickson THE RESURGENT Facebook Twitter Instagram Copyright © 2019 The Resurgent Media Group, LLC, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

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View this email in your browser   October 29, 2019 Trending now     Iowa grandmother killed by homemade ‘pipe bomb’ at gender-reveal party     WaPo columnist rejects Trump’s description of terror leader’s suicide, and gets massive blowback     These German hearing aids are going viral, try risk-free today! Sponsored More from TheBlaze     Trump tweets declassified photo of hero dog who cornered terrorist al-Baghdadi     Following weeks of criticism, Nancy Pelosi announces House vote on impeachment probe     14-year-old punches man in Trump costume while friends recorded — police say she could face charges     Joe Biden denied Holy Communion in South Carolina because of his abortion stance Listen live to Blaze Radio Tune in to the next generation of talk radio, featuring original content from hosts like Glenn Beck, Pat Gray, Stu Burguiere, Steve Deace and more! Start listening One last thing … ‘It’s just not true and Joe Biden knows that’ — CNN’s John King issues a devastating fact check CNN’s John King gave presidential contender Joe Biden a brutal fact check over a blatant lie he told about his failure to stay competitive in the fundraising campaign. King was responding to comments made about Biden trying to justify his campaign turning to super PAC money after not being able to raise enough on his own for his presidential ca … Read more Got friends? Forward this email     © 2019 Blaze Media LLC. All Rights Reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in to receive emails from Blaze Media. Privacy Policy | Manage your preferences | Unsubscribe 8275 S. Eastern Ave, Ste 200-245 Las Vegas, Nevada, 89123, USA

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Connect: Facebook Twitter YouTube View this email in your browser “But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand,” (Isaiah‬ ‭64:8‬, ESV‬‬). Scholten Supports Medicare for All, Unclear On How to Pay for It By Shane Vander Hart on Oct 28, 2019 05:26 pm J.D. Scholten, the Democratic challenger in Iowa’s 4th Congressional District supports Medicare for All, but wasn’t clear on how to pay for it. Read in browser » Indoctrinating Future ‘Drag Queens for All’: Starting with Your Local Library By Anne Taylor on Oct 28, 2019 02:10 pm Anne Taylor: I initially thought Drag Queen Story Hours were a hoax and simply unfathomable until I experienced one myself. Read in browser » Recent Articles: Trump and the Evangelicals The Avengers and the Pro-Life Universe A Caffeinated PSA: Grind Your Own Coffee Two Vastly Different Campaign Announcements Ernst: House Democrats Need to Pass USMCA Launched in 2006,  Caffeinated Thoughts reports news and shares commentary about culture, current events, faith and state and national politics from a Christian and conservative point of view.  Caffeinated Thoughts P.O. Box 57184 Des Moines, IA 50317 (515) 321-5077 Editor, Shane Vander Hart Connect: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. Share Tweet Share Forward Copyright © 2019 Caffeinated Thoughts, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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CDN’s Daily News Blast delivers the day’s news first! View this email in your browser CDN Daily News Blast 10/29/2019 Excerpts: President Trump Is Challenging California’s Sanctuary Law In The Supreme Court By Kevin Daley – The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to toss a California law barring state authorities from cooperating with federal immigration officials.  The California Values Act, or SB 54, bans law enforcement from transferring criminal aliens to immigration authorities or sharing personal information about migrants. The parties in the case … President Trump Is Challenging California’s Sanctuary Law In The Supreme Court is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Houston Homeland Security Investigations warns to beware of counterfeit World Series tickets, merchandise By R. Mitchell – HOUSTON — With the 2019 Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series set to return to Houston for game six and possibly game seven, the Houston office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Monday warns the public to beware of purchasing counterfeit sports apparel, tickets, and … Houston Homeland Security Investigations warns to beware of counterfeit World Series tickets, merchandise is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Are Democrats Trying to Snuff Out Love? By Amanda Alverez –   Has anyone else noticed since the 2016 elections the Democrat promotions/goals are mostly extreme freak and horror shows rather than sane presentations? Do Democrats ever listen to voters? If it is anything outside of norms and standards, the Democrats are all in for it. So, how does this happen … Are Democrats Trying to Snuff Out Love? is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » President Donald Trump’s Schedule for Tuesday, October 29, 2019 By R. Mitchell – President Donald Trump will have lunch with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, greet the awardees of the 2019 Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking, receive his daily briefing, and attend a series of fundraisers. Keep up with Trump on Our President’s Schedule Page. President Trump’s Itinerary for 10/29/19 … President Donald Trump’s Schedule for Tuesday, October 29, 2019 is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Watch: President Trump and the First Lady Participate in Halloween at the White House By R. Mitchell – President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump participate in a Halloween celebration at the White House. The event is scheduled to begin at 5:45 PM EDT. Content created by Conservative Daily News and some content syndicated through CDN is available for re-publication without charge under the Creative Commons license. Visit … Watch: President Trump and the First Lady Participate in Halloween at the White House is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Armed Services Republican Explains Why Killing Al-Baghdadi May Be ‘More Significant’ Than Bin Laden By Jason Hopkins – Jim Banks, a military veteran and U.S. congressman from Indiana, made the case that the killing of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is, in some ways, more “significant” than the killing of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Ladin. “This is big news. It’s been minimized by so many of the Trump … Armed Services Republican Explains Why Killing Al-Baghdadi May Be ‘More Significant’ Than Bin Laden is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » William Barr Says US Attorney Investigating Trump-Russia Probe Origins Is Making ‘Great Progress’ By Jason Hopkins – Attorney General William Barr said Monday that the federal prosecutor leading an investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe has made “great progress.” In an interview with Fox News, Barr defended the prosecutor, John Durham, as having a “great reputation for non-partisanship.” “He’s a by-the-book kind of guy. He’s … William Barr Says US Attorney Investigating Trump-Russia Probe Origins Is Making ‘Great Progress’ is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Loose Lips – A.F. Branco Cartoon By A.F. Branco – ISIS leader Baghdadi has been killed during an operation ordered by President Trump but he withheld it from Pelosi and Schiff due to past Democrat leaks. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2019. See more Branco toons HERE Loose Lips – A.F. Branco Cartoon is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Public Pensions: An Economic Time Bomb [Video] By R. Mitchell – Who cares about public pension liability? Well, you should – after all, it’s the reason entire cities and even states are facing bankruptcy. Joshua Rauh, professor of finance at Stanford and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, paints a startling picture of just how broken the public pension system really … Public Pensions: An Economic Time Bomb [Video] is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Watch Live: President Trump Speaks at the International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Conference By R. Mitchell – President Donald Trump delivers a speech Monday at the Annual International Association of Chiefs of Police being held in Chicago, Illinois. The president is scheduled to speak at 11:25 AM EDT. Content created by Conservative Daily News and some content syndicated through CDN is available for re-publication without charge under the … Watch Live: President Trump Speaks at the International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Conference is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Kayla Mueller’s Parents Say They’re Grateful After US Raid Results In Terrorist Leader’s Death By Chris White – The family of a woman who was repeatedly abused and terrorized by Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi say they are grateful after President Donald Trump confirmed terrorist’s death. Baghdadi reportedly raped and tortured Arizona aid worker Kayla Mueller, who was taken hostage in 2013. Kayla Mueller’s family is thankful … Kayla Mueller’s Parents Say They’re Grateful After US Raid Results In Terrorist Leader’s Death is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Dems Are Panicking, But Will True Justice Be Done? By Jim Clayton – Right before the election in 2016 two former FBI agents Lisa Page and Peter Strzok were having an affair while both being married to other people. They sent hundreds of text messages to each other that have since been made public. The most famous is when Lisa page said “Hillary … Dems Are Panicking, But Will True Justice Be Done? is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on »       See all breaking news, conservative commentary, political cartoons and more posted to CDN at our Home Page.       Follow on Twitter Friend on Facebook Add on Google Plus Copyright © 2019 Conservative Daily News, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

ROLL CALL

Morning Headlines How the OMB used its powers to delay Ukraine aid An obscure agency with outsized sway over federal spending is at the center of the House’s impeachment inquiry into an alleged “quid pro quo” orchestrated by President Donald Trump trading domestic political aid for security assistance against a common foe. Read More…   Democrats control narrative in impeachment inquiry House Democrats haven’t revealed their strategy for persuading a sharply divided public that President Donald Trump needs to be impeached, but they hold plenty of advantages as their fast-moving inquiry unfolds mainly behind closed doors for now. Read More…   Is a Democratic wave building for 2020?  
ANALYSIS — While the 2020 election is still more than a year off, Republicans ought to be concerned about some early signs, both at the national and state levels. Read More…   Click here to subscribe to Fintech Beat for the latest market and regulatory developments in finance and financial technology.       There’s got to be a ‘Morning After’ for American democracy  
OPINION — Impeachment, especially if the Senate verdict is a mostly party-line affair, will be a wrenching moment that will further divide America into warring factions that would make the Hatfields and the McCoys seem like blood brothers. But the only worse outcome would be for Congress to avert its eyes from Trump’s impeachable behavior. Read More…   Cryptocurrencies complicate effort to stop opioid dealers  
The fight against the opioid crisis is facing a growing problem: Criminals are getting better at hiding the cryptocurrency transactions they use to buy drugs online. Read More…   Saga is not over for Katie Hill’s office, staff and constituents  
Timing, even in resignations, is everything. Rep. Katie Hill has announced she will resign from the House, but the timing of her exit will determine a range of next steps — including her staffers’ future plans, how her constituents will be served in her absence and even her final paycheck. Read More…   Dave Chappelle’s Mark Twain Prize comes at comedic crossroads  
Washington, D.C., native Dave Chappelle was in town Sunday night at the Kennedy Center to receive comedy’s highest honor, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The lifetime achievement comes as the outspoken social critic is earning praise and criticism from unlikely political quarters, a sign of how political taboos have shifted since Chappelle began his career. Read More…   Ratings update: No change for California seat Katie Hill is giving up  
There’s scant evidence that the political environment in California or nationally has improved for Republicans since Katie Hill won her seat in 2018 by unseating Rep. Steve Knight by 9 points. And history is working against the GOP in the Golden State. Read More…   Budget deficit nears the $1 trillion mark  
The fiscal 2019 deficit was up 26 percent over the 2018 level. Paul M. Krawzak unpacks what accounts for the rising red ink. Listen here…   Capitol Ink | No News Is Good News  
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Presented by Better Medicare Alliance     © Getty Images     Welcome to The Hill’s Morning Report. Happy Tuesday! Our newsletter gets you up to speed on the most important developments in politics and policy, plus trends to watch. Alexis Simendinger and Al Weaver are the up-early co-creators. Find us @asimendinger and @alweaver22 on Twitter and CLICK HERE to subscribe!   The House will hold its first formal vote on the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s actions regarding Ukraine as House Democrats look to enter a new phase of their investigation and move to take it public.   Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made the announcement in a letter to House Democrats amid complaints from across the aisle that the behind-the-scenes nature of the inquiry has made the process a “sham.” The vote will take place on Thursday.   “This resolution establishes the procedure for hearings that are open to the American people, authorizes the disclosure of deposition transcripts, outlines procedures to transfer evidence to the Judiciary Committee as it considers potential articles of impeachment, and sets forth due process rights for the president and his counsel,” Pelosi told her caucus.     As Cristina Marcos writes, the resolution will not launch the impeachment investigation, as Democrats continue to say there is no reason to hold such a vote. It will, however, affirm the ongoing investigation and establish procedures for public hearings, authorize the release of witness deposition transcripts and outline the process for transferring evidence to the House Judiciary Committee, which would be tasked with drafting and approving articles of impeachment.    The move marks a shift in thinking on the Democratic side as many had thought there was no reason to vote on anything at this point, and doing so could harm members in battleground districts (The New York Times).    Pelosi said in the letter that claims by the GOP that the investigation is not valid have “no merit,” noting that a federal district court judge confirmed that the House did not need to hold a vote. Republicans, however, continued to argue that the Democratic process is flawed.   “It’s been 34 days since Nancy Pelosi unilaterally declared her impeachment inquiry. Today’s backtracking is an admission that this process has been botched from the start. We will not legitimize the Schiff/Pelosi sham impeachment,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said.    With the vote on Thursday looming, investigators are expected to continue their witness interviews behind closed doors today. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the director for European affairs at the National Security Council, is scheduled to speak before the relevant committees at 9:30 a.m. This will take place after they were spurned by Charles Kupperman, the former deputy national security adviser who defied a House subpoena for testimony.   The New York Times: Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the White House National Security Council, is expected to tell Congress he raised concerns with his superiors after hearing Trump’s July 25 call with Ukraine’s president: “I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen.”   The Washington Post: John Bolton’s former deputy fails to show up for Hill deposition as he seeks court ruling to resolve dispute over testifying.   The Wall Street Journal: White House brings lessons of Mueller investigation to impeachment response.   Over in the Senate, the impeachment fight is taking a toll and presents a fresh challenge to the GOP’s hold on the chamber.    As Alexander Bolton reports, the non-stop negative headlines for the president have already presented issues for a number of Republican senators, including Sens. Cory Gardner (Colo.), Susan Collins (Maine), Martha McSally (Ariz.), Joni Ernst (Iowa) and Thom Tillis (N.C.). Of the five, Collins is the only one who did not sign onto a resolution condemning the House impeachment effort and calling for a vote in the lower chamber (Politico).     Democrats would have to gain three seats and the White House to take back the majority, and would have to gain four seats if Trump wins reelection. That hurdle would become five seats if Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) loses in deep red Alabama. Still, Democrats believe their chances are rising given growing support for impeachment, and the difficult choices GOP senators will have to make in terms of backing the president.   The Washington Post: “It feels like a horror movie”: Republicans feel anxious and adrift defending Trump.   The New York Times: How a month of impeachment ads foreshadow the 2020 ad wars.      LEADING THE DAY CONGRESS: Rep. Greg Walden, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Oregon’s only Republican in Congress, announced Monday that he will retire in January 2021 (The Oregonian). Walden is the 19th GOP House member who has announced a desire to exit. In some cases, House Republicans want to retire because rules limit their time as committee chairmen, but Walden said if his party recaptured the House next year, he could have served two more years as chairman. GOP House members profess confidence in the party’s chances to seize control of the House in next year’s elections, but privately most give that prospect long odds (The Hill).   > No sooner had freshman Rep. Katie Hill (D-Calif.) announced her resignation this week under the dual pressures of a nasty divorce and a House ethics investigation of accusations that she had relationships with subordinates than politicians expressed interest in the upcoming special election. California state lawmaker Christy Smith, a Democrat, announced she will run to fill the seat (The Hill). Roll Call’s Nathan Gonzales explained there’s “scant evidence that the political environment in California or nationally has improved for Republicans since Hill won her seat in 2018 by unseating Rep. Steve Knight by 9 points. And history is working against the GOP. Republicans haven’t taken over a Democratic House seat anywhere in California since 1998. (Republicans won two open seats that cycle.)”   > Beefs over briefings: Democrats in Congress are furious the administration did not advise them in advance about Saturday’s commando raid in Syria, which resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the most wanted terrorist in the world. Lawmakers asked for after-action details following Trump’s Sunday announcement to the nation, and Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Gen. Mark Milley briefed reporters on Monday, describing two men taken into U.S. custody on Saturday and the subsequent disposal of al-Baghdadi’s remains following DNA verification (Bloomberg). Democrats commend the Pentagon and the intelligence community for a successful mission but continue to argue the U.S. withdrawal of troops from northern Syria and the forced exodus of ISIS-fighting Syrian Kurds into territory defined by Turkey hand the Islamic State openings to recover (The Hill).   > Mining in the Grand Canyon? Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) wants the House to pass legislation to stave off what he says is “an imminent threat” of mining in the Grand Canyon. He says a White House advisory group could soon recommend that commercial mining be restarted near one of the country’s most visited national parks (The Hill).   © Getty Images     > Former North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan (D), 66, died Monday in her home state. Hagan, who lost her Senate seat in 2014 to Tillis and served one term, was diagnosed two years later with Powassan virus, a type of encephalitis linked to tick bites (NBC News).   IN FOCUS/SHARP TAKES POLITICS: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has taken a cautious approach with the press throughout her presidential bid, but it’s paid off, as she sits in the top tier of the Democratic primary with wind at her back as she seeks the party’s nomination.   As Amie Parnes reports, while Warren has done gaggles repeatedly on the campaign trail, she has largely steered clear of the kind of big sit-down interviews that are often part and parcel of a presidential campaign, including the Sunday show circuit. She hasn’t sat down for one Sunday show since announcing she was running for president.   “She’s been smart about picking and choosing her spots,” said one Democratic strategist who is unaffiliated with a campaign. “But she hasn’t done many interviews where she’s been pressed in great detail about her positions. … I think that’s 100 percent intentional.”   Additionally, Warren has stopped for impromptu chats with reporters at airports and train stations while on the trail. But more importantly, the strategy has been a rousing success for her campaign trail, as she continues to be the recipient of favorable media coverage.      “For the past several months, I think Warren’s gotten the most friendly stretch of media coverage of any presidential candidate since Barack Obama in 2008,” FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver said in a chat on the website this month.   © Getty Images     The Hill: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) floats leveraging aid to Israel to push for policy changes with Palestinians.   The Hill: Former Vice President Joe Biden staffs up in Super Tuesday states.   Politico: “The West barely exists”: California primary falls flat.   > Alabama: Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, 72, is considering a bid to win back his old Senate seat in Alabama, according to sources.       Sessions, who departed the administration almost a year ago, is considering a run in what has turned into a crowded primary to challenge Democrat Jones. Multiple sources indicated there has been increased chatter in recent weeks about a possible bid by the longtime former senator.   It does not appear Sessions is being courted by national Republicans, and the former Cabinet member departed the administration on rocky terms with Trump. According to one GOP source, Sessions has not discussed entering the race with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) or the National Republican Senatorial Committee.    “No poll that’s taken today reflects the actual views of the electorate after the president ruins his credibility,” one GOP strategist said of the impact of a Sessions bid. “If the president decides not to do it, that’s a different dynamic, but Jeff Sessions’s fate is entirely in President Trump’s hands if he decides to run.”   The last time Sessions was on the ballot in 2014, he won reelection unopposed.     Sessions has until Nov. 8 to file paperwork to become a candidate. Among those in the primary race are Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.), former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville, Alabama Secretary of State Jim Merrill and Roy Moore.    A person familiar with Sessions’s considerations declined to comment. Politico was the first to report news of a possible run.    > North Carolina: A state court on Monday threw out North Carolina’s congressional map, labeling the state’s 13 districts as an example of “extreme partisan gerrymandering” in a decision that is likely to have major ripple effects in the 2020 elections.   The panel of three judges imposed a preliminary injunction on the state using the map, saying the current congressional districts could violate the “fundamental rights” of certain voters. The ruling also allows the state’s general assembly to redraw the map for the upcoming election in an “expeditious” fashion.   “The Court respectfully urges the General Assembly to adopt an expeditious process … that ensures full transparency and allows for bipartisan participation and consensus to create new congressional districts that likewise seek to achieve this fundamental constitutional objective,” the ruling said (The Hill).   The Hill: Expensive Virginia elections set stage for redistricting fight.   ****   WHITE HOUSE: Political experts on the right and left appear to agree that Trump’s success in achieving the demise of Islamic State leader al-Baghdadi on his watch is unlikely to change his domestic political fortunes, reports Niall Stanage.   > Trump ventured to heavily Democratic Chicago on Monday, his first trip to the Windy City as president. He did some political fundraising and told an international conference of chiefs of police that Afghanistan is safer than Chicago, slamming the city for a high crime rate. The president also announced that the Justice Department will begin a “surge” to crack down on violent crime, targeting gang members and drug traffickers in high-crime areas (The Associated Press).   © Getty Images     > Trump said Monday he is considering releasing portions of classified video of the U.S. military raid in Syria conducted on Saturday. “We’re thinking about it. We may,” he told reporters. “We may take certain parts of it and release it, yes.”   Trump described the raid in northwest Syria in great detail when announcing al-Baghdadi’s death on Sunday. Trump said he watched much of the Delta Force operation in the White House Situation Room, likening it to “watching a movie.” Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters he had no direct knowledge of “crying” and “whimpering” by al-Baghdadi before his death, as described by the president (The Hill).   NBC News: Officials wince as Trump spills sensitive details from weekend raid in Syria.   > The president’s assertions on Sunday that Syrian oil, now safeguarded by a small number of U.S. troops, could be confiscated and the petroleum wealth “shared” are legally dubious, according to experts interviewed by The Washington Post. “The United States will retain control of oil fields in northeast Syria,” Esper said on Monday, adding that at the height of al-Baghdadi’s rule, the oil fields provided the bulk of the Islamic State’s income. “We’re keeping the oil,” Trump said Monday during his Chicago speech. “Remember that, I’ve always said that. Keep the oil. We want to keep the oil — $45 million a month — keep the oil. We’ve secured the oil.” Esper said the purpose of securing Syria’s oil region is to deny income to the Islamic State. But a reporter asked whether the mission includes preventing Russian and Syrian government forces from entering that area east of the Euphrates River. “The short answer is yes, it presently does,” he responded (The Associated Press).   OPINION There is no prize in Syria for the United States, by Jerrod A. Laber, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/36ct3rj   It’s Joe Biden versus the Trump economy, by Liz Peek, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2Js7n0G   SPONSORED CONTENT — BETTER MEDICARE ALLIANCE The Health Insurance Tax would impact seniors on Medicare Advantage (MA). MA keeps costs low, provides additional benefits & protects seniors. Co-sponsor H.R. 1398 & S. 172. Talk to leadership. Learn more.   WHERE AND WHEN 📺Hill.TV’s “Rising” program features Charlie Kirk, founder and president of Turning Point USA; author Seth Siegel, who talks about his book, “Troubled Water: What’s Wrong with What We Drink”; Omeed Malik, founder and CEO of Farvahar Partners, who offers some insight about presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s (D-Hawaii) Wall Street fundraiser; and Claire Tacherra-Morrison, organizer with the Sunrise Movement, who shares some thoughts about Biden’s candidacy. Watch at 9 a.m. ET at http://thehill.com/hilltv or on YouTube at 10 a.m. at Rising on YouTube.   The House will begin work at 10 a.m. with plans to debate and vote on imposing sanctions on Turkey. The House is also expected to consider a resolution about the 1915 Armenian genocide.   The Senate meets at 10 a.m. and resumes consideration of fiscal 2020 appropriations. The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hear testimony about the safety of the Boeing 737 Max plane from Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg, chief engineer for the company John Hamilton, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman Robert Sumwalt and former NTSB Chairman Christopher Hart.   The president will have lunch with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Trump will greet this year’s recipients of the Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking at 1:45 p.m. The president meets this evening with GOP supporters and will deliver remarks at a joint fundraising committee reception held at the Trump International Hotel in Washington.    Pompeo will chair the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at 2 p.m.   Vice President Pence is in Texas, where he will visit the U.S. Army Fort Hood base today. He’ll talk with veterans, deliver remarks and observe a training exercise this morning with U.S. Army uniformed and civilian personnel. He’ll fly to Austin this afternoon to headline a Trump reelection fundraising luncheon. The vice president will return to Washington tonight.   Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is traveling through Nov. 5 to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, India and Qatar.   The Business Forward Foundation will release a report focused on five Midwestern states titled “Answering America: The Business Case Against Trump’s Agenda” from 9 to 11:30 a.m. in Washington with Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.). The event, open to the public, includes a panel discussion with Business Forward Foundation President Jim Doyle, Center for American Progress President and CEO Neera Tanden, and Roche Enterprises founder and President Robert Roche. Information is HERE.   ELSEWHERE ➔ Wildfires: High winds are battering both ends of California and threaten to turn any spark into a devastating inferno. Celebrity homes in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles have not been spared. Schools have temporarily closed. One firefighter was seriously injured in the Sonoma County fire, which exploded in size to 103 square miles. Tens of thousands of residents evacuated their residences, and additional deliberate blackouts are possible this week (The Associated Press). Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti warned that property losses could rise, urging residents in the mandatory evacuation zone, which encompasses more than 10,000 homes and businesses, to get out quickly (Reuters).   ➔ Federal Reserve: The nation’s central bank is poised to cut interest rates on Wednesday for the third time in three straight meetings, which is expected to have economic and political impacts. Here’s what to look for (The Hill).   ➔ Cloud computing: Amazon is likely to take the Pentagon’s decision to award a $10 billion “war cloud” contract to Microsoft to court. Democrats and industry watchers suggest the government’s review was inappropriately swayed by Trump, who dislikes Amazon owner Jeff Bezos and publicly called on the Defense Department over the summer to investigate the pending contract (The Hill). Amazon’s challenge could come as early as next week (Reuters). Analysts called the contract a major boon for Microsoft. “We expect a degree of hand wringing among congressional Democrats, given the political and practical dimensions of this issue, but our sense is that lawmakers are unlikely to wade too deeply into these waters,” Compass Point’s Marshall Senk said (Reuters).   ➔ Facebook: The company’s hands-off stance toward the content of political advertising, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg described in a recent speech in Washington and during testimony before Congress, has sparked a bitter backlash within Facebook. More than 250 employees among the company’s 35,000 workers objected in an internal letter, arguing that acceptance of political advertising on the platform — including ads that are false or misleading — poses “a threat” to the company (The New York Times).    © Getty Images     THE CLOSER And finally … We may not know the Army’s Delta Force commandos who flew low into northwestern Syria through tense darkness on Saturday, but we have one tongue-drooping official snapshot of a member of the special operations team, thanks to a tweet on Monday from the president.   The Pentagon reported that a slightly injured, specially trained military canine, which had been sent into an escape tunnel to chase ISIS leader al-Baghdadi, has returned to service. Trump on Sunday described the dog, whose name remains classified, as hurt when the most-wanted terrorist detonated his suicide vest inside a “dead-end tunnel” (Task and Purpose).   “The dog is a war veteran and a valued member of the team,” a currently serving soldier assigned to Delta Force told The Washington Examiner. “The injury to the dog is an injury to one of us. These dogs are a special breed of courageous.”   © Twitter     The Morning Report is created by journalists Alexis Simendinger and Al Weaver. We want to hear from you! Email: asimendinger@thehill.com and aweaver@thehill.com. 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Pelosi: House to Vote on Formalizing Impeachment Inquiry Yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal.) sent a letter to Democratic lawmakers announcing a vote this week on a resolution to formalize the parameters of the impeachment inquiry. According to reporting from Fox, the resolution is set to be vote upon on Thursday. The vote does not represent an article of impeachment but rather attempts to “codify” various aspects of the process associated with the impeachment inquiry. From Fox News: “Pelosi made clear in her letter that the vote is being conducted because of the Republican complaints. She accused Trump and his GOP allies of holding the position that “because the House has not taken a vote, they may simply pretend the impeachment inquiry does not exist.”… The White House argued Monday that the move proves Democrats have been conducting an “unauthorized” inquiry.   “We won’t be able to comment fully until we see the actual text, but Speaker Pelosi is finally admitting what the rest of America already knew – that Democrats were conducting an unauthorized impeachment proceeding, refusing to give the President due process, and their secret, shady, closed-door depositions are completely and irreversibly illegitimate,” White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement.”   Just A Good Pup Saving Lives On Monday evening, President Trump tweeted out a photo of the military working dog that helped to chase ISIS leader Abu Bakhr al-Baghdadi to his death.  The Belgian Malinois, whose name remains classified, suffered severe injuries after Baghdadi blew himself up in an attempt to avoid being captures. According to reporting at The Federalist, the pup has already returned to work.    Another GOP House Representative Announces Retirement Rep. Greg Walden (R-Or.) announced he would not be seeking re-election in 2020 and would be officially retiring from Congress. His departure will mark the 19thGOP House member to exit in 2020. The 62-year old Walden first entered Congress in 1998 and currently serves as the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. From POLITICO:   “Walden — a former radio station owner with a booming voice — is well respected by colleagues from both sides of the aisle, who describe him as both a savvy politician and serious legislator who likes to dig into the nitty-gritty policy details. Walden, a former chief of the House GOP’s campaign arm who earned a reputation for party loyalty over his past two decades in Congress, has been quietly picking and choosing his battles with Trump this year, fueling speculation he might be eyeing the exits. The Oregon Republican rebuked the president over the hugely controversial border wall project, backed Russia sanctions over Trump’s objection, voted with Democrats to end the historic 35-day government shutdown and has been vocal about addressing climate change. But Walden also has stood by Trump throughout the Ukraine scandal and fallen in line on other key issues.”   What I’m Reading Today There Is No Basis for Barr to Recuse Himself Over Ukraine (National Review) How the Obama Administration Set In Motion the Democrats’ Coup Against Trump (The Federalist) Elizabeth Warren Wants To Trans Public Schools Harder than Obama Did (The Federalist) Kanye West’s Conversion Could Be a Cultural Wrecking Ball (National Review) The Caliph Is Dead, Now Here’s How the US Can Exit From Syria (Fox News)   Beauty Recommendations of the Week Tarte, Tarteist PRO Glow Highlight and Contour Palette, $45   This palette is on the more affordable end of palettes, despite offering a whopping six shades. The smell of the palette is pleasant, the colors are blendable and buildable, and the shades offer enough variety to go from subtle to dramatic. While a few shades are pure highlights, there are two shades that seem to operate as a cross between a highlight and a bronzer. The two pure contour shades vary in consistency—one is cream-based, the other is a powder. I preferred the powder personally, but I also tend to prefer lighter makeup on top of my foundation. The highlighters also double great as eyeshadow. I used this for a few days and swapped out my Kim K palette. It is a lot of fun and HIGHLY recommend.    Sephora Collection, Rouge Lip Tint, $12   This is a really great lip tint, and the price tag makes it even better. I wore it over the weekend and wasn’t disappointed. No feathering, very little reapplication, and not much drying out (*cough cough* Kylie lipkits). It’s not SUPER pigmented, which is something to keep in mind. More of a sheer tint, rather than a true, full-blown lip stain. As with the Kylie lipsticks, you will need makeup remover to get this stuff off.  BRIGHT is brought to you by The Federalist.

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View this email in your browser Recent Articles The Walls are Closing In — but Not on Trump Oct 29, 2019 01:00 am Barr and Durham unleash the hounds of hell on those conspiring to thwart and then overturn a presidential election. Read More… Tesla’s Fatal Strategy Oct 29, 2019 01:00 am Elon Musk is learning that an over-reliance on government subsidies simply is not a viable business strategy. Read More… Budget Fun and Games for Halloween Oct 29, 2019 01:00 am Since the budget was issued late on Friday the 25th, you know there was bad news. Read More… Ensuring Defense of Syrian Kurdish Forces Helps Maintain US Deterrence Oct 29, 2019 01:00 am President Trump and the United States would benefit from protecting the Kurds. Read More… Israel’s Political Stalemate Oct 29, 2019 01:00 am The long-predicted conflict between religious and secular Jews has now started. Read More… Death by Islamophobia Oct 29, 2019 01:00 am Great Britain and now most of Europe behave in classic dhimmi fashion, falling prey to the imaginary racism called Islamophobia. Read More…   Recent Blog Posts Trump unloads on Chicago’s top cop and his pal ‘wise guy’ Jussie Smollett Oct 29, 2019 01:00 am When the drunk-driving Chicago Police Superintendent, Eddie Johnson, announced his decision to boycott the president’s speech in Chicago because of his “personal values,” POTUS made the most of it.  Read more… China’s president’s daughter is at Harvard. That’s a big warning sign Oct 29, 2019 01:00 am Could a palace coup be not far off in Beijing?  Read more… Boot, meet mouth… again Oct 29, 2019 01:00 am Max steps in it again.  Read more… Trump vs. the barbarians at the gates Oct 29, 2019 01:00 am The Left today stands for corruption, amorality, gender fluidity, anti-religiosity, injustice and open borders.  Read more… How America’s justice system is beginning to crumble Oct 29, 2019 01:00 am Here are seven warning signs, present today, that we ignore at great peril.  Read more… Iran, the domino effect of Trump’s sanctions Oct 29, 2019 01:00 am The Trump Administration’s sanctions against Iran have unexpected – and positive – side effects for security and peace in the world.  Read more… How Canadian provinces could get out from under Trudeau Oct 29, 2019 01:00 am It’s a long shot, but it’s the sort of deal Donald Trump would love to make.  Read more… It was the Washington Post, not the Babylon Bee Oct 29, 2019 01:00 am What happened at the Washington Post?  Read more… An informed Democrat cannot support American values Oct 29, 2019 01:00 am The current liberal-Democrat agenda is simply anti-American. Here’s why.  Read more… Was it Trump’s magic wand that turned the Washington Post into a laughingstock? Oct 28, 2019 01:00 am What makes a supposedly respected newspaper write the kinds of al-Baghdadi headlines it couldn’t stop writing?  Read more… Fear strikes deep into the woke Oct 28, 2019 01:00 am An unintended revelation.  Read more… Iran’s mullahs begin to move billions from their collapsing ‘New Slavery’ country Oct 28, 2019 01:00 am They’re getting nervous as the economy implodes and the human rights violations mount.  Read more… Happy Halloween, Argentina! Oct 28, 2019 01:00 am A bad conservative is being replaced by an expert socialist. This won’t end well.  Read more… Trump-hating NBC portrays Mitt Romney as suffering for opposing Trump Oct 28, 2019 01:00 am Stand by for the JFK Library to give its next Profile in Courage Award® to Mitt Romney.  Read more… Lamest presidential field ever is giving Dems nightmares over a possible Hillary run Oct 28, 2019 01:00 am A possible Hillary Clinton run for president terrifies many Dems, but whom else have they got?  Read more… View this email in your browser American Thinker is a daily internet publication devoted to the thoughtful exploration of issues of importance to Americans.

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Your daily update of new content from The Federalist Be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray October 29, 2019 The Nations In America’s Backyard Are Falling Apart While The U.S. Remains Stuck In The Middle East By Sumantra Maitra If the Republicans win a second term, they need to stop worrying about the Middle East and start focusing on the United States’ own backyard in Latin America. Full article Judge To Reconsider Covington Catholic Teen’s Defamation Lawsuit Against Washington Post By Margot Cleveland Yesterday, the Post saw the victory it had achieved earlier this year evaporate in the defamation suit brought by Covington Catholic teen Nick Sandmann. Full article Trump Was Right To Keep The Baghdadi Raid Secret From Schiff By Erielle Davidson Rep. Adam Schiff has spent the vast majority of Trump’s presidency peddling unfounded (and debunked) conspiracy theories and ‘leaking’ false information to countless media outlets Full article Study: Paid Leave May Lower Women’s Fertility, Employment, And Wages By Georgi Boorman A new study on the long-term effects of California’s Paid Family Leave Act indicates the leftist policy may be leaving mothers in a less favorable position than they were in before the policy was enacted. Full article What Netflix’s ‘Raising Dion’ Can Teach Us About Fear, Superheroes, And Parenting By Libby Emmons ‘Raising Dion’ thrives on character development, not cliffhangers — and its heartwarming mom-kid team will give you something to root for the whole show. Full article 5 Things Other Politicians Can Learn From Andrew Yang’s Campaign By Chrissy Clark Andrew Yang’s campaign has been relatively successful given his limited political experience. Here are five things Democrats can learn from Yang’s campaign. Full article Kanye West’s Life Transformation ‘Is A Free Man Talking’ By Noelle Mering Reactions from conservatives and Christians to Kanye West’s new leaf have ranged from overblown to overly cynical. I understand both. Full article Why Pete Buttigieg’s ‘Medicare For All Who Want It’ Is A Sham By Christopher Jacobs While Buttigieg may moderate his tone to get elected, don’t think for a second he would moderate his policies or do anything other than sabotage private health coverage once in office. Full article No, Retired Military Officers Don’t Check Their Free Speech At The Door By Matthew Bucella The suggestion that retired military officers cannot fully exercise their First Amendment rights is loathsome and a direct affront to our country’s representative form of government. Full article Bluff City Boondoggle: New Legal Drama Leaves Taxpayers On The Hook For Liberal Spin And Poor Ratings   By Clark L. Hildabrand NBC’s ‘Bluff City Law’ stands as yet another reminder that film and television subsidies fail to deliver on their promised benefits Full article Dolly Parton Jumps Into Electronic Dance Music In New Collaboration With Galantis By Tristan Justice ‘I thought, ‘Why can’t I fit in there? I’ve been everywhere else. Why can’t I go there?’ Parton told ET on set near Nashville, Tennessee. Full article Christians Used To Do Halloween Better Than Pagans By Holly Scheer The honest weight of historical records rests with these being Christian traditions, and not even from Celtic areas. These are not derivatives from Samhain and never have been. Full article Washington Post Columnist: Blowing Up Three Children With A Suicide Vest Proves Baghdadi Wasn’t A Coward By Chrissy Clark Risking and taking the lives of three, innocent children is cowardly. Washington Post columnist Max Boot is arguing otherwise. Full article Lee Introduces Bill To Let Courts Instead Of Bureaucrats Settle Labor Disputes By Tristan Justice ‘For far too long the NRLC has acted as judge, jury, and executioner, for labor disputes in this country,’ Lee said in a statement. Full article Meet The Very Good Dog Who Chased A Cowardly Terrorist To His Death By Madeline Osburn Meet the military working dog, and very good boy, who played a key role in the killing of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Full article Three Far-Left Economists Are Influencing The Way Young People View The Economy And Capitalism By Chrissy Clark The three most influential economists in the 2020 election, working with Warren and Sanders promulgate falsehoods and lies about the American economy. Full article Will Pete Buttigieg’s Sexuality Be A Problem For Him In Southern Primaries? By Tristan Justice As the Democratic primary moves south, Pete Buttigieg’s sexuality might be an issue for the candidate attempting to court African-American voters. Full article Trump Is Right To Fight Impeachment On The Merits, Not The Process By David Marcus Donald Trump did not do what Democrats alleged he did. And he is right to defend himself on that basis. Full article Joe Biden Claims He Started Out At A Historically Black College. He Didn’t By Tristan Justice Joe Biden claimed to have began his long career at Delaware State University, an HBCU in his home state as opposed to the University of Delaware. Full article The Real Reasons Why Legacy Media Are Freaking Out Over Trump’s Successful Baghdadi Mission By Mollie Hemingway The successful strike against ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi complicated media and Democratic efforts to destroy Trump. Full article THE BLOB IGNORED TRUMP, AND THAT’S WHAT GOT US HERE Aaron Stein: U.S. Officials Ignored Trump on Syria and We Are All Paying the Price. http://vlt.tc/3skq “The worst part of this collective, predictable, and predicted failure is that, despite the thousands of hours people spent to try and shape a policy around Trump’s incoherent Twitter feed, and to stage-manage an increasingly angry Turkey committed to invading (whether Trump sanctioned it or not), Washington never seriously grappled with how to leave Syria in a way that satisfied Trump and maximized U.S. interests.” Read more of The Transom by signing up for a free trial today.  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2019 The Federalist, All rights reserved.  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences