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| Good morning from Washington, where today’s the day House Democrats’ impeachment drive against President Trump becomes a nationally televised public process. Check out our guide to who’s set to testify, about what, and other key aspects of the proceedings. On the podcast, a leader of the effort to preserve the Electoral College describes what’s at stake for presidential elections. Plus: China’s foothold in Ukraine, Supreme Court arguments on the DACA program, and an unfortunate valentine to the Soviet Union. On this date in 1982, officials dedicate the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. |
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News 4 Things to Expect as the Trump Impeachment Inquiry Goes Public By Fred Lucas Here’s what you need to know about today’s hearing, who the key lawmakers and witnesses are, and what facts are in dispute. More Commentary Socialism Is Rising and Now So Is Soviet Revisionism By Jarrett Stepman Brian T. Brown, author of “Someone Is Out to Get Us: A Not So Brief History of Cold War Paranoia and Madness,” tries to convince readers that the Soviet Union wasn’t really that bad after all, and if it was bad, America is to blame. More Analysis 5 Key Exchanges From Supreme Court’s DACA Hearing By Elizabeth Slattery One of the points that the justices returned to throughout the argument was the claim that the Department of Homeland Security felt compelled to roll back DACA because it was illegal. More Analysis China Poised to Benefit If Ukraine’s Western Relationships Fray By Nolan Peterson China has been steadily increasing its economic clout in Ukraine through a broad gamut of infrastructure investments and other economic initiatives. This year, China overtook Russia as Ukraine’s top trading partner. More Analysis ‘Save Our States’ Is Fighting to Keep the Electoral College Alive By Daniel Davis In 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote—and lost the election. Since then, 15 states and the District of Columbia have joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. More Commentary Young People Might Reject Socialism If They Knew These Facts By Walter E. Williams Countries in the top quartile of economic freedom had an average per capita gross domestic product of $36,770 in 2017, compared with $6,140 for countries in the bottom quartile. Poverty rates are lower. More | ||
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“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” MARK TWAIN Berkeley Instructor: ‘Rural Americans’ Are ‘Bad People Who Have Made Bad Life Decisions’ Cardinal Pell Granted Leave to Appeal in High Court 25,000 Pounds of Sausage Recalled Over Listeria Fears: USDA Mike Espy to Run for Mississippi US Senate Seat, Setting up Rematch With Cindy Hyde-Smith A Hong Kong university turned into a battleground on the evening of Nov. 12 as riot police fired water cannon, tear gas, and rubber bullets amid intense standoffs with protesters. At nightfall, police approached the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the New Territories area, firing volleys of tear gas at students who built makeshift barricades to prevent officers from entering. Students threw bricks and petrol bombs at the police in response. Read more Former President Barack Obama’s program that temporarily shielded young people who came to the United States illegally from being deported should be struck down as unconstitutional because it was never authorized by Congress, the Trump administration told the Supreme Court on Nov. 12. Read more President Donald Trump said the United States is “close” to reaching a phase one trade deal with China, while warning that he would “substantially raise” tariffs if the deal collapses. “They are dying to make a deal. We’re the ones that are deciding whether or not we want to make a deal,” Trump said during a speech at The Economic Club of New York on Nov. 12. Read more Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said on Nov. 12 that the situation in Hong Kong displays Beijing’s real intention, which is to push the United States out of the Indo-Pacific region, and that current U.S. foreign policy is inadequate to address the “dangers at hand.” Speaking at the Center for a New American Security, a bipartisan think tank, Hawley called for a change in foreign policy approach in light of a new era of competition with China. Read more Political corruption is so deeply embedded in all sectors of Ukraine’s government that witnesses called by Democrats in the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence impeachment inquiry agreed that President Donald Trump was right to worry that U.S. aid would be wasted. Read more Alexandra Chalupa, a contracted opposition researcher working in 2015 and 2016 for the Democratic National Committee with extensive Ukrainian sources, met with multiple officials in President Barack Obama’s administration in the White House, according to visitor logs examined by Judicial Watch. Read more See More Top Stories We can’t predict the future, but we can always prepare for the unexpected. At Wise Company, we specialize in long-term food storage and dehydrated food along with other survival gear to help you get through whatever life brings your way. Our meals are healthy and flavorful and when the time comes to prepare them, you can do so in mere minutes — all it takes is a little water. These ready-made, affordable meals are just as convenient for life’s pleasures, like camping trips, as they are for life’s inconveniences, like floods or disasters. Click here or on the banner below to claim your complimentary copy of our exclusive survival guide, and be entered to win a free month supply of food! Pelosi’s Green Light to an Impeachment Investigation Is a Sign of Weakness, Not Strength By Tom Borelli For most of 2019, Pelosi opposed impeaching the president. In March, Pelosi opposed impeachment telling the Washington Post the action “is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country.” Read more China and the Other Kind of Disinformation By Ronald J. Rychlak There’s a great deal of talk today about fake news and disinformation. Almost always, the object of the disinformation is someone or something that’s receiving allegedly undeserved criticism. That’s not the only way disinformation can work, however. Sometimes it can “frame” an object in a positive manner. Read more See More Opinions This Time Is Not Different: China Faces ‘Internal Debt Crisis’—Carmen Reinhart By Valentin Schmid (November 23, 2015) Can an economist be a celebrity? Usually not. There are a few exceptions and Carmen Reinhart is one. Certainly after her book “This Time Is Different,” came out in 2009. “Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff came as close to celebrity status as an economist can ever come,” writes professor Randall Wray. Why the unusual attention? The answer is… Read more Did you know the international airport in Anchorage, Alaska is the second busiest cargo airport in the US and the fifth busiest in the world? Just what are the prospects for economic development in Alaska? How has Alaska been affected by the border crisis? And what are the parallels between the recall faced by Alaskan Governor Mike Dunleavy and the impeachment inquiry faced by President Trump? Gov. 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Wednesday, November 13, 2019 ImpeachGate Update Unfortunately for us all, this will likely be a regular section. From AP News: “When the gavel strikes at the start of the House hearing Wednesday morning, America and the rest of the world will have the chance to see and hear for themselves for the first time about President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine and consider whether they are, in fact, impeachable offenses… Impeachments are rare, historians say, because they amount to nothing short of the nullification of an election. Starting down this road poses risks for both Democrats and Republicans as proceedings push into the 2020 campaign. Unlike the Watergate hearings and Richard Nixon, there is not yet a ‘cancer on the presidency’ moment galvanizing public opinion. Nor is there the national shrug, as happened when Bill Clinton’s impeachment ultimately didn’t result in his removal from office. It’s perhaps most like the partisanship-infused impeachment of Andrew Johnson after the Civil War.” Even more fun, Jonathan S. Tobin suggests over at the New York Post that a fair inquiry must include questioning Hunter Biden, and a candidate for Senate in New Hampshire opines in Real Clear Politics that impeachment is grinding the business of the U.S. government to a halt. Are we done with this national trauma yet? WaPo Applauds the Deep State Lisa Rein’s column at The Washington Post is the latest in media defenses of the power of the Deep State. Because as long as they agree with the left and hate Donald Trump, who cares if a bunch of unelected people make major decisions for the country? “But historians say this is the first time in modern history — including in previous impeachments of U.S. presidents — that career public servants are serving en masse as protagonists in a Washington political drama… The system is built, in theory, on the goodwill of the political appointees and career staffers working together. Until six weeks ago, the impeachment witnesses were anonymous outside Ukraine policy circles. They’re used to keeping their heads down. They’re used to a national security culture steeped in policy, protocol and chains of command common in government. But now their expertise has put them close to the action in the Ukraine drama. Trump has often said he has no use for experts…. But as he tries to discredit the impeachment investigation, Trump has ushered in a radical shift in presidential rhetoric, denigrating cooperating public servants by name… Rubin said he is in ‘personal touch’ with State Department leaders to plead: ‘Please don’t hurt our people when they didn’t do anything wrong. Please believe that they are nonpartisan people serving their country.’” Woooo boy. Let’s get a few things straight. First, it is nearly impossible to fire a federal employee even for the most egregious wrongdoing. It’s so hard to get rid of poor performers that Congress had to pass a special law to circumvent the protections in order to make watching pornography on government computers during work hours a fireable offense. Second, the federal bureaucracy is not staffed by magical fairy beings who mysteriously have absolutely no political opinions of their own. In reality, 95 percent of donations from federal employees went to Hillary Clinton in 2016 (99 percent in the State Department). President Trump is not wrong when he says most of the people working in the executive branch are not his friends. Third, the way Rein writes, you would think that bureaucratic expertise was the legitimate foundation of power in our system of government. As long as we still pretend to have a Constitutional republic, that’s not a power that ought to be handed to unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats, even if you don’t like the President of the moment. The American people did not elect random GS-13s in the State Department to set U.S. Foreign policy. For better or worse, they elected Donald Trump, and he’s the man who will have to stand before them in 2020 to account for his actions. It’s called democratic accountability. I guess at the Washington Post, democracy dies in the darkness of the deep state. Fashion Moment of the Week Over at her blog Memorandum, influencer and classy work-style maven Mary Orton is in the middle of her annual 30 Dresses in 30 Days roundup. She suggests a dress for each major holiday season occasion on your docket, from Friendsgiving, to several different wedding dress codes, to business meetings. It’s like a fashionista’s advent calendar to carry you through the rest of 2019! Wednesday Links The Supreme Court appears unlikely to do Congress’ job for them on DACA by reversing the Trump administration’s decision to end the program. Live by the pen and phone, die by the pen and phone. (AP News) Buttigieg’s ad buy must be working: Mayor Pete soars to head of new Iowa poll. (The Federalist) Some good news for an American Dream sorely in need of a lift: America is still the place to come seek a better life and do better than your parents. (City Journal) Is Millennial-friendly “pod housing” just a 21st-century update on the traditional boarding house? 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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. New Poll Shows Mayor Pete Leading In Iowa Is Buttigieg the new flavor-of-the-month? The post New Poll Shows Mayor Pete Leading In Iowa appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Sanford Ends Primary Campaign Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has ended his long shot attempt to challenge President Trump in the Republican Primary the AP reports. “You’ve got to be a realist,” Sanford said in New Hampshire. “What I did not anticipate is an impeachment.” “It was a longshot, but we wanted to try and interject this issue […] The post Sanford Ends Primary Campaign appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Recent Items: Did Anyone Notice What Kamala Harris Just Said About Democrats? Watching The Movies: ‘Midway’ Is Fitting Homage To Heroes The Cult of Political Belonging Comes to Washington (Sports) Bernie Sanders: Mandatory Gun Buyback Is ‘Essentially Confiscation’ The Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month 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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| Sign up for this newsletter Read online The morning’s most important stories, curated by Post editors. (Reuters) Trump suggested firing envoy to Ukraine after hearing from Giuliani associates, one of them told others At a 2018 dinner for super PAC donors, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman told President Trump that they believed the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was unfriendly to the president and his interests, according to an account Parnas gave associates. Impeachment Inquiry ● By Rosalind Helderman, Matt Zapotosky, Tom Hamburger and Josh Dawsey ● Read more » House set for impeachment showdown as public hearings start The memos show the parties are fundamentally at odds over everything from key pieces of evidence to the legitimacy of the process. Impeachment Inquiry ● By by Toluse Olorunnipa, Karoun Demirjian and Rachael Bade ● Read more » How the decline of public trust shaped Trump’s, Nixon’s and Clinton’s endgames After a century without impeachments, now there’s one every generation. Impeachment Inquiry ● By Marc Fisher ● Read more » Aides are counseling Trump not to fire Mulvaney amid high-stakes investigation President Trump has expressed particular anger at his acting chief of staff over a news conference related to aid to Ukraine. Impeachment Inquiry ● By Carol Leonnig, Tom Hamburger, Josh Dawsey and John Hudson ● Read more » Trump offers trade deal, sanctions workaround to Erdogan The offer is likely to infuriate some of the House majority that voted to impose sanctions on Turkey over its assault into Syria, and a group of senators who introduced a similar bill. By Karen DeYoung, Missy Ryan and Kareem Fahim ● Read more » ADVERTISEMENT Kushner proposes creating live video feed of border wall construction to rally public support The plan has been met by objections from U.S. Army Corps and border officials. By Nick Miroff ● Read more » In Hong Kong, white-collar professionals become pro-democracy foot soldiers This cohort’s political evolution demonstrates the breadth of anger in Hong Kong. Where previous upwellings of public fury were often led by students, the authorities now face a scenario where workers with stable jobs and promising careers have been loosed on a path to radicalization. By Shibani Mahtani ● Read more » Opinions It’s hard to imagine an all-male ticket. But there’s still work to be done. By Ruth Marcus ● Read more » The case against Trump in seven words Impeachment Diary ● By Dana Milbank ● Read more » ADVERTISEMENT Republicans shouldn’t blindly protect Trump during hearings By Editorial Board ● Read more » Reagan helped bring down the Berlin Wall. Now he’s not even welcome there. By Marc Thiessen ● Read more » The Arab world faces more challenges than just toppling autocrats By Ezzedine Fishere ● Read more » People died while Trump played games with Ukraine’s military aid By David Ignatius ● Read more » More News Justice Dept. inspector general invites witnesses to review draft of Russia report, signaling public release is close Several witnesses have been scheduled to review sections of the report dealing with their testimony in the next two weeks. By Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett ● Read more » Leaked Stephen Miller emails shows Trump’s point man on immigration promoted white nationalism, SPLC reports The Southern Poverty Law Center drew its report from a trove of more than 900 leaked emails that Miller sent to a Breitbart writer between 2015 and 2016. By Kim Bellware ● Read more » Russian hackers behind DNC email heist failed at social media — then WikiLeaks stepped in A report found that the hackers sought to publicize the documents as early as June 2016 through a Facebook post but it generated just 11 “likes,” 17 shares and zero comments. By Craig Timberg ● Read more » She inflated her resume and peddled a fake Time cover. Trump appointed her to the State Department. It has been a persistent problem for President Trump’s administration: an apparent failure to recognize red flags when vetting potential hires and appointees. By Reis Thebault ● Read more » There are many cons and few, if any, pros. Here are the rules for those stuck in the middle seat. It’s a curse that can plague a third of passengers on any given flight, and aside from parents and people flying in groups, few fliers choose to sit there. By The Way ● By Natalie Compton ● Read more » We think you’ll like this newsletter Check out Lean & Fit for expert advice on how to eat right, get lean and stay fit, including curated healthy recipes every Wednesday. Sign up » |
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019 Supreme Court Hears DACA Case “The Supreme Court’s conservative majority signaled support on Tuesday for President Donald Trump’s bid to kill a program that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants – dubbed ‘Dreamers’ – who entered the United States illegally as children… The court’s ideological divisions were on full display as it heard the administration’s appeal of lower court rulings that blocked the Republican president’s 2017 plan to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.” Reuters From the Left The left worries about the consequences of rescinding DACA, and calls for a legislative solution. “The Trump administration has filed a 57-page brief defending DACA’s rescission in the Supreme Court, and it says not a single word about DACA’s supposed unconstitutionality… Presidents dating back to Dwight Eisenhower have granted deferred action status to immigrants who would be otherwise removable, including on the scale presented by DACA: A 1987 Reagan administration program authorized relief to some 1.5 million undocumented people… “Trump himself made clear that he did not believe DACA exceeded his constitutional or statutory authority. After all, on the exact day the Department of Homeland Security announced DACA’s rescission, the president tweeted that if Congress would not legalize DACA, he would ‘revisit this issue’ himself.” Aaron Tang, Slate “Until now, every administration over the past 60 years has adopted similar humanitarian policies. In 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower protected tens of thousands of Hungarian refugees from deportation after they fled Soviet Union rule; Presidents Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon protected more than 600,000 Cuban immigrants escaping an oppressive regime; and President Bill Clinton established a deferred action program for those petitioning for relief under the Violence Against Women Act of 1994… To date, five federal courts have found the administration’s decision to end the [DACA] program arbitrary and capricious.” Janet Napolitano and John A. Perez, USA Today “One principle of administrative law, codified in the Administrative Procedure Act, is that ‘legislative rules’ are to be announced in advance, giving the public a chance to comment before a final rule issues… DHS had not used notice and comment to announce DACA. But rescinding a program may be different from announcing one, because of what lawyers call ‘reliance interests’… “The day before DACA was announced, no one had a right to expect it, and no one had made use of it. But after DACA went into operation, nearly 900,000 people took advantage of it. Relying on the government’s description of the program, they risked eventual deportation by revealing their personal information to DHS; in exchange, they received ‘work authorization,’ which meant they could apply for driver’s licenses, attend school, and hold jobs like other residents. Rescinding the program without warning would jerk the rug out from under them.” Garrett Epps, The Atlantic “The administration’s core argument is that the decision to end DACA is not reviewable in court in the first place, that it is the type of decision that is ‘committed to agency discretion’ and so not open to challenge under the Administrative Procedure Act. As the plaintiffs’ briefs point out, that is a strange argument, because if the administration is right that DACA was illegal from the start, then ending it is a matter of legal compulsion rather than discretion; in any event, legality is quintessentially a question for judges… “The court’s eventual decision in the case… is obviously of vital importance to the young people who in the seven years since DACA began have been able to study, work legally and start families. But the decision will also be important in defining the court’s relationship to a president who behaves as if he has the Supreme Court in his pocket. It will indicate whether the Roberts court — more specifically, the chief justice himself — will continue to insist on believable explanations from an administration that often appears incapable of giving one.” Linda Greenhouse, New York Times “No matter how the U.S. Supreme Court rules… the fact that the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program came down to an up or down vote of six men and three women is itself a lesson in how Washington works — which is to say, not well. Only the most anti-immigrant extremist believes the 700,000 or so individuals eligible for the DACA program — straight-arrow young people with no criminal record, a high school degree and, in some cases, a record of U.S. military service — should be expelled from this country, the only home many of them have ever known.” Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun “In the expansive realm of congressional dysfunction, there are few recent examples that surpass the failure to shield from deportation hundreds of thousands of unauthorized migrants, now in their 20s and 30s, who have grown up, studied and entered the job force after being brought to the United States as children… It was August 2001 when then-Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, a Utah Republican, and Sen. Richard J. Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, introduced the Dream Act, outlining a pathway to legal permanent residency for migrants who entered the United States as minors, usually with their parents. Since then, repeated iterations of that measure have become enmeshed in the broader partisan impasse over immigration, even as lawmakers, including many Republicans, voiced ritual sympathy for dreamers… “An attempt to break the logjam last year, with a compromise pairing a long-term fix for the dreamers with funding for border security, including President Trump’s wall, fizzled in the Senate when he threatened a veto. Now that the president is building portions of the wall anyway, by diverting funds appropriated by Congress for the military, what possible justification can lawmakers find to avoid doing the moral and humane thing by guaranteeing a normal life for dreamers?” Editorial Board, Washington Post From the Right The right believes the administration should win on the legal merits, and calls for a legislative solution. “In September 2017 Mr. Trump ordered the program wound down and gave Congress six months to protect [DACA] recipients with an option to renew work permits for two years. The goal was to use the time to negotiate a political compromise, but Democrats walked away after lower courts enjoined the rescission and removed an impetus for compromise… Remarkably, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Administration could end [DACA] for valid policy reasons, but that the justification it gave was arbitrary and capricious… “This is a case of judges deciding when a President can enforce laws or reverse actions by a previous executive. Will a Democratic President next have to go through notice and comment to alter Mr. Trump’s border enforcement or rescind his ‘national emergency’ at the border? Congress would likely have come to a sensible compromise to protect the young immigrants if judges had not short-circuited the legislative process. [DACA] recipients who in good faith identified themselves to the government should be protected, but this is for Congress and the President to negotiate—not for unelected judges to pre-empt.” Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal “A similar program — ‘DAPA,’ for the illegal-immigrant parents of citizen and permanent-resident kids — was actually struck down in a lower court as illegal. (In 2016, the Supreme Court deadlocked 4–4 on the question of DAPA’s legality, making the lower court’s ruling the final say.) But this case isn’t even a direct challenge to the legality of DACA. The Court is being asked to refuse to let the Trump administration end the illegal program voluntarily, on the grounds that the administration didn’t adequately explain its decision to do so… “The administration’s initial explanation may have been terse, but how much more of a reason does one need than that the program is flagrantly illegal and runs an obvious risk of being struck down in court?” Robert Verbruggen, National Review “Even if you think the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was legal… it was not enacted through the notice-and-comment process mandated by the Administrative Procedure Act for issuing regulations — it was just a memo from then-DHS secretary Janet Napolitano ostensibly outlining prosecutorial-discretion guidelines to her three subordinates who handled immigration matters. The idea that a subsequent administration can’t issue a superseding memo without going through notice-and-comment is ludicrous… “Assuming the Court rules in favor of the administration in, say, June 2020 — what then?… One possibility might be to stop issuing renewals immediately but let existing work permits continue until they expire, at an average rate of about 1,000 a day. Then call on Congress to finally pass a targeted package that gives DACAs green cards in exchange for, say, mandatory E-Verify (to make it less likely we’ll have DACA situations in the future) and ending the visa lottery (to partly offset the extra legal immigration represented by the amnesty). Alternatively, the White House could punt until after the election: announce that renewals will continue to be processed, but only through the end of 2020, after which work permits will begin expiring, leaving it to the new Congress and the new (or incumbent) president to work out a deal.” Mark Krikorian, National Review Some argue that “it’s true that Mr. Trump campaigned in 2016 on ending DACA, but he also promised to ‘take care’ of the Dreamers. They deserve to be protected, not treated like suckers… The program now affects roughly 700,000 people, including close to 1,000 members of the military. They volunteered to come forward because the U.S. government promised them safe harbor. They were trying to do the right thing. To qualify, they paid a fee, revealed their home address, underwent a criminal-background check and were fingerprinted… “These immigrants currently pay more than $3 billion in taxes every year, according to an analysis of census data by researchers at New American Economy, and are contributing to retirement programs like Social Security at a time when 77 million baby boomers are in the process of exiting the workforce.” Jason L. Riley, Wall Street Journal Nonetheless, the court should rule that “DACA is an unlawful delegation of, or usurpation of, legislative power. DACA is more than a mere expression of prosecutorial discretion. It is a full-fledged policy that gives recipients—some 800,000 so far—lawful status in the United States along with work authorization and access to various benefits such as health care and driver’s licenses. It deals with matters already covered by federal statutes, principally the Immigration and Nationality Act, that can be amended only by act of Congress. It was intended to replicate the essential features of DREAM Act legislation that Congress had considered but failed to approve… “If federal law grants the president ‘broad discretion’ to make up his own rules for nearly 1 million Dreamers, then Congress has written itself out of immigration policy. Progressives should be equally concerned about the scope of this purported discretion. Under DACA’s conception of prosecutorial discretion, there is no principled reason why Trump cannot direct the EPA to stop enforcing environmental laws against certain classes of industry, or to order the IRS to stop collecting capital-gains tax.” Adam Freedman, City Journal On the bright side… Rabbit-sized ‘mouse deer’ rediscovered in Vietnam after being lost to science since 1990. 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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POLITICO Playbook: We know how the impeachment show ends, but we’re still watching
By ANNA PALMER and JAKE SHERMAN
11/13/2019 05:51 AM EST
DRIVING THE DAY
THE HOUSE’S IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS KIND OF LIKE WATCHING the newest season of “Jack Ryan” on Amazon Prime Video. Sure, the twists and turns are exciting. You know the dude is going to get chased, shot at or stabbed — and do it all in exotic locales. Every episode makes you sweat as Jack gets into one pickle or another. In the end, though, you also know the showrunners probably won’t kill him off.
IMPEACHMENT IS KIND OF SIMILAR. Yes, the hearings these next two weeks are momentous and historic. They will highlight just how unusual this White House is: The president’s personal lawyer was running around the globe trying to get a foreign country to investigate a political rival, and the U.S. government was dangling meetings and money as enticements. We’ll hear from longtime foreign servants, a military official and White House insiders, all of whom have the same view of this administration’s behavior: improper, immoral and wrong-headed.
BUT, AT THE END OF THE DAY, we all have a pretty good idea how this movie is going to end: a nearly party-line vote, with most every Democrat voting to impeach the president, and nearly all Republicans voting against it. But in the middle — the next nine days — you’ll get nonstop, white-knuckle action.
— TODAY: Bill Taylor and George Kent. FRIDAY: Marie Yovanovitch. NEXT WEEK’S WITNESSES: Tuesday: Pence aide Jennifer Williams … Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman … Kurt Volker … Timothy Morrison. Wednesday: Gordon Sondland … Laura Cooper … David Hale. Thursday: Fiona Hill. More from Kyle Cheney and Andrew Desiderio
TAKE IT A STEP FURTHER: Is it impossible to envision 20 Republicans in the Senate voting to remove TRUMP? No, but it seems close to impossible to envision it when GOP lawmakers like Sen. JOHN CORNYN (R-Texas) are telling BURGESS EVERETT and MARIANNE LEVINE that he won’t even watch the proceedings because they are a “political sideshow” and Sen. DAVID PERDUE (R-Ga.) says “nothing rises to the level of impeachment.” Burgess and Marianne’s story
TODAY BEGINS WHAT MANY ARE DESCRIBING as an impeachment process that could stretch to three months. That’s a long time. Will the public be swayed by Democrats’ arguments? Or will it tire of the process? POLITICO/Morning Consult poll: “Most voters remain unmovable in impeachment views,” via Steve Shepard
A FEW THINGS WORTH KEEPING AN EYE ON …
— HOUSE REPUBLICANS — especially some of the lawmakers on this committee — have a tendency to dive down rabbit holes. Read the transcripts and see how often they end up talking about the Steele dossier, or other ancillary issues. Will they continue that, or will they stay narrowly focused on the issues at hand? Will DEVIN NUNES follow ADAM SCHIFF’S lead, and allow his staff counsel to take the lead in questioning? Will they flail around, or stay tightly focused on what Republicans consider their most effective line to date: How was this a quid pro quo if Ukraine got the money without issuing a statement about investigating the Bidens?
— HOUSE DEMOCRATS have, so far, conducted this hearing in private, but the transcripts show a precise, lawyerly demeanor. With the cameras now rolling, will Democrats have the ability to keep at bay their extreme distaste for the president, and allow the mostly nonpartisan witnesses to carry the day?
— ONE OF THE DEMOCRATS’ self-described challenges is articulating exactly what TRUMP did that was so wrong. Rep. JIM HIMES (D-Conn.) suggested they stop calling it a quid pro quo, because, put simply, the Latin phrase was hard to understand. Will Democrats be able to explain what they see as an extortion plot by the president to damage a political rival? Heather Caygle, Sarah Ferris and John Bresnahan on the message
— REPUBLICANS have spent much of the last month or so railing on Democrats for what they view as process fouls. Now that the hearings are public — and will be covered wall to wall by network and cable television — will they shift strategy, or stand pat? Will they try to discredit the witnesses personally, or will they seek to discredit their arguments?
A message from the Stop The HIT Coalition:
The Health Insurance Tax will take a toll on hardworking Americans by increasing health care costs by $500 a year per family, with more than half the total cost falling on those making less than $50,000. Congress needs to act now to Stop The Health Insurance Tax.
INTERESTING POINT … ONE QUESTION we got Tuesday is why neither side called any of the Ukrainian players to testify.
THE TIMELINE THAT’S RATTLING AROUND (this is all subject to change, and is just the mind-share of some senior aides and lawmakers) …
— HOUSE INTEL will spend the next two weeks — this and next week — in public hearings.
— THEN CONGRESS is out for Thanksgiving. Action seems unlikely — although not impossible — that week.
— CONGRESS returns Dec. 3. For the two weeks after that — week of Dec. 2 and week of Dec. 9 — we expect HOUSE JUDICIARY to have some action in the impeachment realm.
— THE MOST LIKELY SCENARIO seems to be a House impeachment vote the week of Dec. 16 — the same week government funding expires.
… WHAT CAN GO WRONG?
AP’S JONATHAN LEMIRE in New York: “Trump to face limits of his power in impeachment hearings”: “For three years, Donald Trump has unapologetically defied the conventions of the American presidency. … Now a parade of career public servants will raise their hands and swear an oath to the truth, not the presidency, representing an integral part of the system of checks and balances envisioned by the Founding Fathers.”
NANCY COOK notes that TONY SAYEGH, the former Treasury official who has been rehired to run point on impeachment communications, was on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, meeting with aides about messaging as Democrats seek to remove TRUMP from office. More from Nancy and Gabby Orr on the White House’s impeachment power matrix
JOHN HARRIS’ ALTITUDE COLUMN: “What Impeachment Will Cost the GOP”: “The conventional appraisal of Trump’s prospects—the House will likely convict, the Senate will likely acquit and Trump will claim vindication—might well be true. But this glosses over a larger point: On the current trajectory, Republicans are engaging in a battle with their own long-term costs that they will be paying for the next generation.
“Based on Clinton’s precedent, those costs will be paid against Trump’s agenda—things he wants to do but won’t achieve because of the distorting effects of impeachment on his political options and room for maneuver.
“They will be paid by his associates—people whose reputations and ambitions will be permanently dented because of their proximity to him. And they will be paid by conservatives who follow him—who will discover their own principles have lost credibility and power in the public mind because of their connection to Trump.”
RYAN LIZZA: “The impeachment calculus Democrats don’t want to talk about”: “The degree to which the Democrats in Congress who are running the impeachment inquiry are disconnected from their colleagues running for president cannot be overstated. Impeachment and the presidential primary are like two planets slowly pulled together by gravity that are finally about to collide — nobody seems to know who will survive impact.”
BRIEFLY NOTED … UKRAINIAN BILLIONAIRE IHOR KOLOMOISKY to Anton Troianovski of the NYT in Kyiv: “‘They’re stronger anyway. We have to improve our relations,’ he said, comparing Russia’s power to that of Ukraine. ‘People want peace, a good life, they don’t want to be at war. And you’ — America — ‘are forcing us to be at war, and not even giving us the money for it.’” NYT
Good Wednesday morning.
JARED’S GOT IT! … WAPO: “White House to use webcams to create live feed of border wall construction,” by Nick Miroff: “Jared Kushner and other senior Trump administration officials are planning to set up web cameras to live-stream construction of President Trump’s border wall, going against objections from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and senior U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, according to four people familiar with the White House proposal.
“‘There will be a wall cam, and it’ll launch early next year,’ said a senior White House official involved in the initiative, which aims to rally public support for hundreds of miles of new border barrier Trump wants in place by next year’s election.
“The project, which already has cost $10 billion in taxpayer funds, is behind schedule and faces major hurdles, including the need to acquire miles of privately held land in Texas where barriers are slated to be built.
“Kushner floated the idea during meetings in July, part of a messaging effort to push back against criticism that Trump has failed to deliver on the signature proposal of his 2016 campaign. The Army Corps and CBP have told Kushner that construction contractors do not want their proprietary techniques visible to competitors, according to four people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the internal discussions.” WaPo
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ON TRUMP’S AGENDA TODAY: ERDOĞAN … “Trump, Erdogan to meet as thorny issues stress relations,” by AP’s Deb Reichmann: “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Donald Trump will meet as relations between the two NATO allies are at their lowest point in decades, with Turkey rebuffing the U.S. and turning toward Russia on security issues and Ankara facing a Washington backlash over attacks on Kurdish civilians during its incursion into Syria last month.
“Erdogan and Trump have a difficult agenda Wednesday that includes Turkey’s decision to buy a Russian air defense system and its attack on U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in northern Syria. Their scheduled afternoon news conference, however, will give Trump a stage to counter the first public hearings in the House impeachment inquiry.” AP
— WAPO: “Trump offers trade deal, sanctions workaround to Erdogan for better U.S.-Turkey relations,” by Karen DeYoung, Missy Ryan and Kareem Fahim: “President Trump has offered Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, due to visit the White House on Wednesday, a package of inducements for better U.S.-Turkey relations that is virtually identical to those the administration proposed last month in a failed effort to stop Turkey’s invasion of Syria.
“In a new letter to Erdogan last week, Trump told the Turkish president that a $100 billion trade deal, and a workaround to avoid U.S. sanctions over Turkey’s purchase of Russia’s S-400 missile defense system, are still possible, senior administration officials said. The offer is likely to infuriate at least some of the overwhelming House majority that voted last month to impose sanctions on Turkey over its assault into Syria, and a bipartisan group of senators who introduced a similar bill.” WaPo
ABOUT THAT WHISTLEBLOWER REPORT … “Trump Has Considered Firing Intelligence Community Inspector General,” by NYT’s Maggie Haberman and Mike Schmidt: “President Trump has discussed dismissing the intelligence community’s inspector general, Michael Atkinson, because Mr. Atkinson reported a whistle-blower’s complaint about Mr. Trump’s interactions with Ukraine to Congress after concluding it was credible, according to four people familiar with the discussions.
“Mr. Trump first expressed his dismay about Mr. Atkinson around the time the whistle-blower’s complaint became public in September. In recent weeks, he has continued to raise with aides the possibility of firing him, one of the people said.” NYT
MULVANEY ON THE BRINK? — “Aides are counseling Trump not to fire Mulvaney, as acting chief of staff changes course again,” by WaPo’s Carol Leonnig, Tom Hamburger, Josh Dawsey and John Hudson: “President Trump has been threatening for weeks to fire acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, but senior advisers have counseled him to hold off on such a drastic step amid a high-stakes impeachment probe, according to three people familiar with the discussions. …
“Senior advisers have cautioned Trump that removing Mulvaney at such a sensitive time could be perilous, the people said — both because Mulvaney played an integral role in the decision to freeze the aid, and because of the disruption that would be caused by replacing one of Trump’s most senior aides.” WaPo
— WAPO: “At donor dinner, Giuliani associate said he discussed Ukraine with Trump, according to people familiar with his account,” by Rosalind Helderman, Matt Zapotosky, Tom Hamburger and Josh Dawsey: “Lev Parnas, has described to associates that he and his business partner, Igor Fruman, told Trump at the dinner that they thought the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was unfriendly to the president and his interests.
“According to Parnas, the president reacted strongly to the news: Trump immediately suggested that then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, who had been in the Foreign Service for 32 years and served under Democratic and Republican presidents, should be fired, people familiar with his account said. Parnas declined to comment. Todd Blanche, a lawyer for Fruman, declined to comment. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
“Parnas’s account of personally discussing Ukraine with Trump more than 18 months ago suggests that he and Fruman had more personal interaction with the president — and potentially more influence over his views on that country — than the White House has acknowledged.” WaPo
2020 WATCH …
— NYT’S ALEX BURNS and JONATHAN MARTIN: “Why Bloomberg and Deval Patrick Changed Their Minds About 2020”: “Both men have concluded in recent weeks that Mr. Biden, the former vice president, is not the imposing adversary they had expected him to be, interviews with aides and allies show. Both also believe there is room in the race for a more dynamic candidate who is closer to the political middle than Mr. Biden’s two most prominent challengers, Ms. Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders.
“Should Mr. Bloomberg and Mr. Patrick enter the race, they would test that proposition in different ways: Mr. Bloomberg with a powerfully funded campaign that would take on President Trump directly and contest the biggest states on the primary map from the start; Mr. Patrick with an insurgent candidacy that would begin in next-door New Hampshire and run through South Carolina, where black voters are likely to decide the primary.” NYT
— MARC CAPUTO and DAVID SIDERS: “Michael Bloomberg, Deval Patrick blindside Dem primary field”: “The center of the Democratic Party is throwing a fit. The party’s moderate wing has suddenly produced back-to-back threats of Michael Bloomberg and Deval Patrick entering the presidential primary, revealing its determination to have an imposing presence in a race shaped by unrestrained liberal policy prescriptions and candidates.
“The two potential candidates are expressions of the deep concern voiced by Democratic Party insiders and donors that the moderate frontrunner in the race, Joe Biden, is flawed and in danger of losing to a progressive alternative, Sen. Elizabeth Warren. At a bare minimum, Bloomberg and Patrick stand to complicate — and potentially lengthen — the campaign.” POLITICO
A message from the Stop The HIT Coalition:
Americans want Congress to improve health care affordability –raising taxes on their health care isn’t what they have in mind.
TRUMP’S WEDNESDAY — The president and first lady Melania Trump will participate in the arrival of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his wife Emine Erdoğan at noon on the South Portico. Afterward, the four of them will meet in the Oval Office. Trump and Erdoğan will participate in a bilateral meeting at 12:30 p.m. in the Oval Office followed by an expanded working lunch in the Cabinet Room.
At 2 p.m., Trump will meet with senators in the Oval Office. WAPO’S SEUNG MIN KIM notes in a tweet that the meeting will also include Erdoğan. At 3:10 p.m., Trump will participate in a joint press conference with Erdoğan in the East Room. The Trumps will bid farewell to Erdoğan and his wife at 3:45 p.m. in the Diplomatic Reception Room.
PLAYBOOK READS
NO SURPRISE HERE — “Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Triggers Federal Inquiry,” by WSJ’s Rob Copeland and Sarah Needleman: “Google’s project with the country’s second-largest health system to collect detailed health information on 50 million American patients sparked a federal inquiry and criticism from patients and lawmakers.
“The data on patients of St. Louis-based Ascension were until recently scattered across 40 data centers in more than a dozen states. Google and the Catholic nonprofit are moving that data into Google’s cloud-computing system—with potentially big changes on tap for doctors and patients.
“At issue for regulators and lawmakers who expressed concern is whether Google and Ascension are adequately protecting patient data in the initiative, which is code-named ‘Project Nightingale’ and is aimed at crunching data to produce better health care, among other goals. Ascension, without notifying patients or doctors, has begun sharing with Google personally identifiable information on millions of patients, such as names and dates of birth; lab tests; doctor diagnoses; medication and hospitalization history; and some billing claims and other clinical records.” WSJ
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KNOWING JOHN SOLOMON — “The Man Trump Trusts for News on Ukraine,” by NYT’s Jeremy Peters and Ken Vogel
TOP-ED … RUDY GIULIANI in the WSJ: “The Case for the Impeachment Defense”: “Mr. Trump requested that Ukraine root out corruption; he didn’t demand it. His words were cordial, agreeable and free of any element of threat or coercion. Mr. Trump offered nothing in return to Ukraine for cleaning up corruption. If you doubt me, read the transcript. Allegations of Burisma-Biden corruption weren’t even a major part of the conversation. The focus was on Ukrainian corruption broadly speaking and out of a five-page transcript Mr. Trump spent only six lines on Joe Biden.” WSJ
— BILL TAYLOR, one of today’s impeachment witnesses, published an op-ed of his own in a Ukrainian newspaper this week. It contains this eyebrow-raising line: “As in all democracies, including the United States, work remains in Ukraine, especially to strengthen rule of law and to hold accountable those who try to subvert Ukraine’s structures to serve their personal aims, rather than the nation’s interests.”
A message from the Stop The HIT Coalition:
It’s time for Congress to Stop The Health Insurance Tax.
2020 MOVES — “Trump campaign staffs-up press team as public impeachment hearings set to begin,” by ABC’s Will Steakin and Rachel Scott: “The moves include the campaign elevating Erin Perrine to principal deputy communications director after initially joining back in April as deputy communications director. Perrine, a Capitol Hill veteran, moved over to the campaign after most recently serving as national press secretary for House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy of California. …
“Ali Pardo is also joining the campaign as deputy director of communications for press. Like Perrine, Pardo joins with years of Capitol Hill experience including serving as the National Press Secretary for the House Republican Conference under Chairwoman Liz Cheney.” ABC
MEDIAWATCH — “Politico’s Founder Is Launching a Tech Site—Into a Very Crowded Market,” by Vanity Fair’s Joe Pompeo: ‘Now he wants to replicate Politico’s playbook, as it were, with Protocol, which he will officially announce this week. The digital-only venture plans to lift off with roughly the same level of manpower and investment as its predecessor did more than a decade ago: several dozen journalists and business employees and a little more than $10 million under the hood. ‘I would love for this to be as big as, if not larger than, Politico is right now,’ [Robert] Allbritton told me.” Vanity Fair … Protocol.com… Launch staff
— WAPO’S SARAH ELLISON: “Fox News host Tucker Carlson is loudly ignoring impeachment. It ‘is not only dumb, it’s boring’”
— CNN’S BRIAN STELTER: “Anonymous anti-Trump book is already a hit and it’s not on shelves until next week”: “While the book won’t be out for another week, the Twelve imprint at Hachette Book Group says ‘A Warning’ has ‘garnered more pre-orders than any other nonfiction book at any imprint in the history of Hachette.’ The publisher provided the peek at pre-order sales in a press release on Tuesday. While exact numbers were not provided, pre-orders have totaled ‘well over 100,000 and climbing,’ according to a publishing world source.” CNN
— Olivia Petersen has been named managing director of communications at Morning Consult. She most recently was global corporate communications director at Whole Foods and is an NBC and POLITICO alum.
PLAYBOOKERS
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SPOTTED: Gordon Sondland on an Alaska Airlines flight from Portland to DCA on Tuesday. … Howard Dean and George Will separately at Union Station on Tuesday.
SPOTTED at a book party for Donald Trump Jr.’s ”Triggered” ($17.98 on Amazon) at the Trump Hotel: Donald Trump Jr., Kim Guilfoyle, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.), Katrina Pierson, Brad Parscale, Tony Sayegh, Arthur Schwartz, Andy Surabian. Stephen Cheung, Kaelan Dorr, Larry Solov, Tom Joannou, Matt Wolking, Rich Higgins, Matt Boyle, Jeff Miller, Kash Patel, Taylor Budowich, John Pence, Josh Steinman, Paul Packer, Sergio Gor and Emerald Robinson.
SPOTTED at a book party for Sen. Michael Bennet’s (D-Colo.) “The Land of Flickering Lights: Restoring America in an Age of Broken Politics” ($19.99 on Amazon), hosted by Linda Douglass and John Phillips, Greg and Derry Craig, and George and Liz Stevens: Anne and Mark Shields, Anne Fleming and Gordon Peterson, Betsy Fischer Martin, Byron and Kim Dorgan, Bill Press, Ed O’Keefe, Jane Harman, Jane Mayer, John Harwood, Al Hunt, Karen Tumulty and Paul Richter, Mara Liasson, Margaret Carlson, Melissa Moss, Nina Totenberg and David Reines, Patrick Steel, Stephanie Cutter, Susan Brophy and Marcia Hale.
SPOTTED at the Barbara Bush Foundation’s National Celebration of Reading and National Summit on Adult Literacy at the Kennedy Center on Tuesday night: Laura Bush, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Jonathan Capehart, Ann and Lloyd Hand, Lynda Webster, Chuck and Lynda Robb, Jean Case, Coach “Kathy” Kemper, Doro Bush Koch, British Robinson, Sandra and Jeb Bush Jr., Margaret and Marvin Bush, Jon Meacham, Tim McGraw, Susan Orlean, Eric Motley and Jesse J. Holland.
SPOTTED at the “It’s Not Too Late Show” with Billy Eichner and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, hosted by Swing Left at the Eaton Hotel: Reps. Angie Craig (D-Minn.), Elaine Luria (D-Va.), Harley Rouda (D-Calif.), Cindy Axne (D-Iowa), Chris Pappas (D-N.H.), Kim Schrier (D-Wash.) and TJ Cox (D-Calif.), Ethan Todras-Whitehill, Michelle Finocchi, Tori Taylor, Yasmin Radjy, Wendi Wallace, Ivan Cheung, Leslie Martes, Ross Morales Rocketto, Justin Myers and Paulette Aniskoff.
SPOTTED at a reception celebrating Campbell Soup Company’s 150th anniversary, where guests enjoyed grilled cheese with tomato soup shooters and other signature Campbell products: Reps. Donald Norcross (D-N.J.), Bob Latta (R-Ohio), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Trey Hollingsworth (R-Ind.), Andy Kim (D-N.J.), Jerry McNerney (D-Calif.), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.) and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.).
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — Brad Bauman’s Harta Communications is rebranding as Fireside Campaigns with new partners Julia Rosen and Ryan Alexander, who joined from GPS Impact.
TRANSITIONS — C. Nicole Mason has been named president and CEO of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. She previously led the Center for Research and Policy in the Public Interest and the Women of Color Policy Network at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. … Jesse Barba will be senior director of external affairs at Young Invincibles. He previously was a VP at Cassidy & Associates.
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Dominique Mann, writer, consultant and Obama White House alum. A trend she thinks doesn’t get enough attention: “We read about climate change, but not a lot on the disproportionate effect it has on communities of color. If covered at all, conversations and narratives often frame this reality as an afterthought, unfortunately. Even beyond news or academic articles, images on different platforms about the great outdoors and its benefits rarely show inclusion or diverse groups of people.” Playbook Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is 62 … Texas first lady Cecilia Abbott … Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) is 55 … Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is 63 … Peter Arnett is 85 … Addie Whisenant, senior director at Bully Pulpit Interactive … Joe Cirincione, president of Ploughshares Fund (h/t Ben Chang) … CNN’s Eric Bradner … POLITICO’s Joyce Liu, Mariana Fernandez Aponte and Cole Thomas … Ken Rudin … Michael Schwab is 33 … Geoff Freeman, president and CEO of the Grocery Manufacturers Association … Lindsay Drewel … Harry Hurt III is 68 … Jonathan Topaz, Skadden fellow staff attorney at the ACLU Voting Rights Project … Zach Gillan, associate at S-3 Public Affairs … Jared Goldberg-Leopold … Jared Parks, VP at the Herald Group, is 36 …
… Bradd Jaffy of NBC News … Jeff Blattner, president of Legal Policy Solutions (h/t Jon Haber) … Ken Klukowski … Deloitte’s Meg Lombardo (h/t Chris Tucker) … Lindsay Drewel (h/t Kiki Burger) … Jon Wadsworth … Nochi Dankner is 65 … Saul Kripke is 79 … Ayaan Hirsi Ali is 5-0 … Leah Breen … Ruth Wattenberg … Tim Alford, media relations manager at U.S. Travel Association … Robert Arlett … Kevin Pailet … Ari Morgenstern … Brad Clark … Nikki Blank … Miranda Moreno … Camille Uzel … David Alexander … Sherine El-Nahas … Robert Hastings … Chuck Thies … Marion Steinfels … Washington Times’ Seth McLaughlin is 43 … Boeing’s Terry Adamson … John Lapp … Martha McKenna (h/ts Teresa Vilmain)
A message from the Stop The HIT Coalition:
The Health Insurance Tax (HIT) hurts tens of millions of Americans, including seniors, working families and 28.8 million small businesses and their 56.8 million employees. Unless Congress suspends the Health Insurance Tax, families will face the return of a $500 tax on their coverage, driving up health care costs even further. Americans want Congress to lower health care costs – raising taxes on their health care isn’t what they have in mind. It’s time for Congress to Stop The Health Insurance Tax.
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1 big thing … Scoop: The GOP’s ditch-Rudy strategy
A photographer sets a white balance in the hearing room yesterday. Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Top House Republican sources tell Axios’ Jonathan Swan and me that one impeachment survival strategy will be to try to distance President Trump from any Ukraine quid pro quo, with Rudy Giuliani potentially going under the bus.
- A Republican member of one of the impeachment committees told Swan: “[T]his is not an impeachment of Rudy Giuliani, it’s not an impeachment of Ambassador Sondland. It’s an impeachment of the president of the United States.”
- “So the point is as long as this is a step removed, he’s in good shape. … If it’s a step removed from the president, he doesn’t lose any Republicans in the House.”
A top House GOP leadership aide told me: “Substance is focus. [The co-leadoff witness, Bill] Taylor says [he had a] ‘full understanding.’ But from who? Not POTUS. That’s big.”
- An uber-connected Republican added: “Rudy will be cut loose because he was rogue.”
House Republicans prepped from 1 to 3:30 p.m. in the Capitol, going over questions members plan to ask, Axios’ Alayna Treene reports.
What the president is thinking: “Trump is frustrated with the slippery slope it creates [by] saying it’s bad but not impeachable,” the GOP member told Swan.
- “Then it gets to bad but impeachable. I think the real problem becomes the slippery slope. … It’s more just a function that he believes there ought to be a strong defense based on the merits of what happened, not on the process.”
A top Democratic aide told me the party’s goal for the hearings is “Mueller on steroids”: “Simpler crime witnessed by credible people. Mueller did exceptional work but nobody read his 400+ page report (except a few of us masochists).”
- A Democratic official who helped shape the strategy told me the narrative will be: “The president abused his power to rig and fix elections in his favor. Our challenge is to keep it that simple: What kind of democracy do we want?”
- Look for Democrats to say Trump would do it again if not held accountable.
🥊 P.S. Republican senators are “too busy” to watch today, per AP’s Alan Fram:
- Millions of Americans will be watching. But of eight Senate Republicans questioned, seven said they wouldn’t be watching or that it wasn’t a priority.
- “Tomorrow I’m going to be paying attention to what we’re doing in the Senate,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.
👀 Keep checking Axios.com today for our constantly updating impeachment “speed screen” with “what matters” from testimony, tweets and talk.
2. 🍿 Impeachment viewer’s guide
The American public has been left out of most of the impeachment process so far. Beginning at 10 a.m., we’ll be looking live at the fourth attempt in U.S. history to remove a president from office, Axios’ Alayna Treene writes.
Testifying today (side-by-side):
- Ambassador Bill Taylor: The top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine says it was his “clear understanding” that President Trump wouldn’t release military aid to Ukraine until its president promised to conduct investigations Trump wanted.
- Deputy Assistant Secretary George Kent: He says Trump wanted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to go to the microphones and say three words: “investigations, Biden and Clinton.”
Testifying Friday: Former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch.
Testifying next week:
Tuesday:
- Jennifer Williams: An aide to Vice President Pence.
- Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.
- Kurt Volker, former special envoy to Ukraine.
- Former National Security Council adviser Tim Morrison.
Wednesday:
- EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland.
- Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian Affairs Laura Cooper.
- Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale.
Thursday:
- Former Russia aide Fiona Hill.
Democrats want appearances by several people who have refused:
- Bolton.
- Mulvaney.
- Former deputy national security adviser Charles Kupperman.
- Acting Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought.
Republicans also want to call Hunter Biden and the whistleblower.
- But an official working on impeachment told Axios that the House Intelligence Committee said Hunter Biden and the whistleblower as witnesses are “absolute nonstarters.”
3. ⚖️ Impeachment in 1 screen
Roger Stone arrives yesterday with his wife, Nydia Stone, at the federal courthouse in Washington. Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images
The RNC is lining up supporters to publicly defend the president, including a conference call tomorrow for regional reporters with presidential son Eric Trump that is aimed at putting pressure on vulnerable House Democrats. Many of them represent districts that the president won in 2016. (AP)
- Other Trumpworld trouble … Testimony in the colorful Roger Stone trial — featuring talk of dognapping and “Godfather” references — ended with former campaign official Rick Gates telling jurors that Stone wanted contact info for Jared Kushner to “debrief” him about hacked emails about Hillary Clinton. (AP)
4. Pic du jour
Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
“Home is here” rally: Dreamers cheer on the Supreme Court steps after attending DACA arguments.
- “The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared ready … to side with the Trump administration in its efforts to shut down a program protecting about 700,000 young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers,” per the N.Y. Times’ Adam Liptak.
5. 📊 2020 milestone: Pete tops an Iowa poll
Pete Buttigieg loads his luggage onto his bus in Dubuque. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images
A Monmouth University poll has Pete Buttigieg leading the Democratic race in Iowa for the first time, up 14 points since August, per Axios’ Jacob Knutson.
6. 21 years ago: Clinton impeachment
On Nov. 19, 1998, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) presides over the President Clinton impeachment hearing. Photo: Joe Marquette/AP
Lanny Breuer, a White House lawyer who tried to defend President Clinton against impeachment in 1998, tells the N.Y. Times’ Peter Baker for a front-pager, “Same Venom and Drama. But That’s About All”:
It feels like our experience 20 years ago was “Mayberry R.F.D.,” and Andy Griffith was our sheriff. … As bad as we thought it was — and it was terrible, it was crazy, it was a rough and tough time — but for some reason it seems much simpler than today.
7. 🗞️ 46 years ago: Watergate hearings open
From the N.Y. Times front page the day after the Senate Watergate hearings began on May 17, 1973:
New York Times Times Machine
8. Wall-cam?
The Trump administration is considering setting up “web cameras to live-stream construction of President Trump’s border wall, going against objections from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and senior U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials,” the WashPost’s Nick Miroff reports.
- Why it matters: The plan “aims to rally public support for hundreds of miles of new border barrier Trump wants in place by next year’s election.”
9. Roula Khalaf named FT editor
Photo: Financial Times
The Financial Times named Roula Khalaf as editor, succeeding Lionel Barber, who has held the position since 2005 and will step down at the beginning of 2020, ending a 34-year career at the publication, per an FT announcement.
- Why she matters: “Khalaf has been the FT’s deputy editor since 2016, … leading a global network of over 100 foreign correspondents.”
- “She … has been a driver of diversity initiatives in the newsroom, in particular those focused on increasing the FT’s female readership and talent.”
10. 1 🏈 thing
Viewers flocked to Saturday’s showdown between LSU and Alabama, making it the top-rated regular season college football game on any network in eight years, per AP.
- Nielsen said 16.6 million people watched on CBS as LSU held off the Tide’s late charge. At 7 p.m. ET, just before the end, the audience topped 20 million.
6.7 million people watched Minnesota beat Penn State earlier in the day on ABC — the network’s biggest audience for a noon college football game in three years.
- On network TV, the NFL held spots 1-5 for the week, led by 22.99 million watching NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” (Minnesota at Dallas).
P.S. A shoutfest with Don Jr. gave “The View” its biggest audience since Vice President Biden appeared six months ago.
- For the week, Fox News Channel averaged 2.59 million viewers in prime time, to MSNBC’s 1.89 million.
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THE DISPATCH
| The Morning Dispatch: Cameras! Just What Impeachment Needed.Plus: The GOP “primary” shrinks by one, Erdogan comes to visit, and Florida workers might get a raiseNov 13Public postHappy Wednesday! It’s
a big day for the House’s impeachment inquiry and for the Trump
administration’s Middle East foreign policy. Let’s get right to it.Quick Hits: What You Need to KnowLawmakers are scrambling to hash out a short-term government funding bill, without which the government will shut down in nine days.A handful of 2020 shakeups: Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick mulls a late 2020 entry. Hillary Clinton claims “many, many, people” are asking her to run again. A new poll suddenly finds Pete Buttigieg in the lead in Iowa. Mick Mulvaney will officially defy the House’s impeachment subpoena.Among campus conservatives, a fight is breaking out
over who carries the true banner of Trumpism: the “own the libs” types
of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, or the out-and-out white
nationalist “groyper army” figures like YouTuber Nick Fuentes.Turkey is deporting captured ISIS fighters back to their countries of origin, stoking tensions with the European Union, which would rather not have them back.Trump Has a Strategy for Impeachment. Will His Caucus Cooperate?The
next stage of the House impeachment inquiry—open hearings—begins today,
with testimony from two State Department officials: William Taylor,
America’s top diplomat to Ukraine, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State George Kent. Some congressional Republicans are entering the
proceedings determined to serve as aggressive defenders of the
president, regardless of what facts emerge. Others are taking their
roles more seriously, open to weighing evidence and in spite of what
they see as a partisan process, open to a vote to impeach. One
thoughtful Republican framed the decision this way: “Ultimate question
is proper vs. improper motive. There are legitimate reasons they could
have been delaying aid: corruption, wanting others to do more. There is
also an improper/illegal reason they could have been doing it: to
pressure Ukraine to dig up dirt on Biden.”GOP talking points circulated on Capitol Hill embrace a partisan version of this argument:
Regardless of whether Trump acted improperly, he ought not be impeached
because it has not been demonstrated that he acted with a corrupt
“state of mind.”One
advantage of this approach is that it centers the debate around an
entirely subjective claim. Time and again, the president’s Republican
supporters have been burned by making arguments that later collapsed
under the weight of subsequent testimony by officials involved in
Ukraine policy-making. That
messaging friction is now more pronounced than ever. By retreating to
the safer ground of “no corrupt intent,” many House Republicans are
tacitly admitting that the president’s previous “no quid pro quo”
defense has been rendered inoperable by earlier testimony. Trump, not
surprisingly, has taken the opposite tack: If the transcripts indicate
he didn’t behave “perfectly” toward Ukraine, then plainly something’s
fishy about … the transcripts.“Shifty Adam Schiff will only release doctored transcripts,” Trump tweeted on Tuesday. “We haven’t even seen the documents. … Republicans should put out their own transcripts!” He followed that up Wednesday: “Just like Schiff fabricated my phone call, he will fabricate the transcripts that he is making and releasing!”Even
by Trump’s standards, this is a gargantuan whopper: Dozens of
Republicans had access to the House’s secret depositions, and not one of
them has accused Schiff of doctoring their transcripts. (Asked about
the accusation, a House GOP aide told The Dispatch only that “our biggest concern has been the inconsistency in redactions.”)Meanwhile, the president continues to command Republicans not to give an inch.Trump is clambering ever further out onto a branch and haranguing a divided caucus to follow him. Should be interesting. Happy TrailsPresident Trump will need a new nickname for his Republican primary opponents, because “The Three Stooges”
now overcounts them by 33 percent. Mark Sanford formally ended his
quixotic campaign Tuesday, telling supporters in an email that
“impeachment has made our goal of making the debt, deficit and spending
issue a part of this presidential debate impossible right now.”Sanford,
the former governor of South Carolina who served two separate stints in
the House of Representatives and whose infamous trip to Argentina with a
mistress in 2009 nearly derailed his career, announced his long-shot
bid on September 8, not on stylistic grounds, but policy ones. From the
outset, his campaign was laser-focused on the national debt, an
important issue that, if 2016 was any indication, many Republican
primary voters couldn’t care less about.Maggie Haberman@maggieNYTMark Sanford kicked off his presidential campaign against Donald Trump in Philly. One person showed up. Mark Sanford kicked off his presidential campaign against Donald Trump in Philly. One person showed up.“Nobody knows me in Philadelphia. I get it,” the former governor of South Carolina said. “I think in life we all do what we can do.”inquirer.comOctober 18th 2019159 Retweets549 LikesSanford
was never going to unseat Trump in a primary, and neither will Bill
Weld or Joe Walsh, the president’s two remaining competitors. Some
pollster with way too much time and/or money actually surveyed the race,
and the incumbent is winning
by about 83 points. But that hasn’t stopped the Trumped-up
institutional Republican Party from going into overdrive to prevent them
from even trying.The South Carolina Republican Party voted in September to skip its presidential primary. So, too, did Kansas, Alaska, Arizona, and Nevada. There’s going to be only one name on the ballot in Minnesota. The Republican National Committee decided
back in May 2018, just over a year into Trump’s term, that
party-sanctioned primary debates wouldn’t be necessary. (There have been
unsanctioned debates between Weld, Sanford, and Walsh, but they have
been truly disheartening affairs streamed primarily on Facebook Watch.)None
of this is surprising. State parties have no legal obligation to put
primary challengers on ballots, and Trump’s support from Republican
voters, though not at 95 percent like he claims (and claims, and claims, and claims, and claims, and claims, and claims), remains reasonably
stout. But we’re edging closer to “the lady doth protest too much”
territory. If the party feels compelled to erect such artificial
barricades to fend off these guys, maybe Trump isn’t as strong they’d like everyone to believe.Making Nice With TurkeyPresident
Trump will host Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White
House Wednesday for diplomatic meetings, a working lunch, and a press
conference. The meeting comes just weeks after Erdogan’s military seized
a long swath of territory belonging to our Kurdish allies in northern
Syria, provoking a storm of international protest and a new wave of
sanctions legislation in Congress.The White House’s message going in: Look, none of that means we can’t be friends.Trump reportedly
reached out to Turkey last week to tell Erdogan that a $100 billion
trade deal, which the U.S. had pulled back from when Turkey invaded
Syria, was back on the table. A senior administration official told
reporters that “Turkey’s cooperation is critical [sic] protecting U.S.
interests in the region and beyond.”“This
is nearly a 70-year alliance. … We are not going to throw it away
lightly if there is a way forward,” the official said. “This
administration believes in engagement. We are engaging.” Since
last month’s invasion, the Trump administration is trying to thread a
difficult needle: communicating its displeasure with Turkey’s actions
while trying to maintain the diplomatic relationship and avoid
motivating Turkey to strengthening its friendship with Russia.
Wednesday’s meeting, meanwhile, will have its own complications—Trump
and Erdogan are sure to be asked about the attack on the Kurds, and, if
past bilaterals with strongmen Trump likes are any indication, the
president may get chippy with the press in defense of Erdogan—and, by
extension, his war.Florida Man Gets a Raise?In all of the craziness of the past few weeks, you’d be forgiven if you missed the following: a petition drive in Florida garnered enough signatures
to add a minimum wage constitutional amendment to the state’s 2020
ballot. The measure—spearheaded by wealthy Orlando trial attorney John
Morgan, a longtime Democratic fundraiser who left the party
to become an independent in 2017—would raise Florida’s current hourly
minimum wage of $8.46 to $10 in 2021, subsequently increasing it $1
annually until $15 is reached in 2026. Assuming Florida’s Supreme Court
approves the official ballot language, 60 percent approval from voters
next November could make it law.And
with Florida (and its electoral votes) likely to play a key role in the
2020 presidential campaign, the implications of this ballot initiative
aren’t just economic, they’re political. Brian Swensen, a veteran
Florida Republican who served as deputy campaign manager for Marco
Rubio’s 2016 Senate bid and political director for the state’s
Republican Party, told The Dispatch he believed the measure to
be a ploy by Democrats to boost voter turnout on their side. It’s an
increasingly common tactic that has accompanied the proliferation of
ballot initiatives in states across the country. A
$15 minimum wage polls well—a July 2019 survey found 67 percent of
voters (including 43 percent of Republicans) favored the raise; if it’s
left up to voters it very well might pass. Swensen pointed out that a
previous ballot initiative looking to legalize medical marijuana was
intended to serve a similar purpose. That measure, which failed in 2014
with 58 percent of the vote but passed in 2016 with 71 percent, was also
backed by John Morgan, who did not respond to a request for comment.
But despite receiving a majority and supermajority for what many would
deem a “liberal” cause, Republicans won every statewide election in
Florida those two cycles. We’ll see if 2020, in which there are no
Senate or gubernatorial races on the ballot, is any different. Florida
is the latest in series of states and localities to consider raising
the minimum wage. It’s an issue that Democrat elected officials favor
with few exceptions and one on which they believe the new, more
populist-GOP risks charges of hypocrisy by opposing. The
federal minimum wage currently sits at $7.25 per hour and hasn’t been
adjusted since the third stage of the 2007 Fair Minimum Wage Act went
into effect in July 2009. To account for inflation ($7.25 in 2009 is
equivalent to $8.68 in 2019) and variable costs of living ($7.25 in
Montgomery, Alabama, goes a lot further than it does in San Francisco),
lots of states and municipalities have implemented their own standards
that supersede the national one. D.C.’s is currently perched atop the
bunch at $13.25 per hour (live look at us Morning Dispatchers),
but several other states—Illinois, Massachusetts, and New York among
them—have mapped out increases to $15 over the next few years, with some
indexing the rate to the Consumer Price Index after that.With its Florida for a Fair Wage-sponsored ballot initiative, the Sunshine State may soon join these ranks. But such a policy is not without its drawbacks.A highly publicized study
from researchers at the University of Washington released in 2017 and
revised in 2018 found that Seattle’s landmark minimum wage increase—from
$9.47 an hour to $11 in 2015, and up to $13 in 2016—yielded some
adverse effects in the labor market. Hours worked in low-wage jobs fell
by 6.9 percent in the three quarters the minimum wage was set at $13,
and the average low-wage employee lost a net $74 a month due to these
reduced hours. On an individual basis, of course, the results are highly
variable: Workers who keep their job and maintain a steady stream of
hours benefit from a higher minimum wage. But those who see their hours
cut significantly, or can’t find work at all, lose out on much more than
$74 per month. The trick is finding a rate that maximizes the former
while minimizing the latter.As Florida endeavors to do just that, The Dispatch
reached out to one of the authors of that study, Bob Plotnick, to see
if the results could be extrapolated to other locales. While Plotnick, a
University of Washington professor, argued cities and small governments
that “raise the minimum wage should really worry about the labor market
impacts,” the same might not be true on a state or federal level. “It’s
much easier for a company to move across a city line than across a
state line, and it’s easier for customers to move across a city line
than a state line if they think goods are cheaper elsewhere because of
lower wages.”Worth Your TimeIn the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this week,
Karl W. Smith unpacks an economic oddity of the first three years of
the Trump administration: The biggest working-class beneficiaries of the
strong economy have been service workers in cities, not the
manufacturing and agriculture workers in small towns and rural areas
that formed the backbone of his 2016 campaign: It
is ironic, of course, that this is all occurring under a president who
ran on a not-so-subtle campaign to revive the white working class. Mr.
Trump’s policies, however, have worked against those goals. The effects
of the administration’s tax cuts—and the strong consumer spending they
spurred—have been felt most in metropolitan areas with a high proportion
of wealthier households. The spending has gone largely to services,
which are provided by local workers.Rural
areas and the industrial heartland, by contrast, are far more dependent
on exports of agricultural and manufacturing products—and as such, have
been hurt by the president’s trade war.At The Atlantic, Caitlyn Flanagan has written an uncompromising and jarring but deeply humane look at the current sorry state of the abortion debate, and what is swept aside with its trite sloganeering: “Most
abortions happen in the first trimester,” a very smart and very kind
friend reassured me. I didn’t need to worry about those detailed images
of babies—by the time they had grown to such recognizably human
proportions, most of them were well past the stage of development in
which the majority of abortions take place. And I held on to that
comforting piece of information, until it occurred to me to look at one
of those images taken at the end of the first trimester. I often wish I
hadn’t.Presented Without CommentSeung Min Kim@seungminkimWhite House to use webcams to create live feed of border wall construction White House to use webcams to create live feed of border wall constructionThe Jared Kushner proposal has been met by objections from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and border officials.washingtonpost.comNovember 13th 201913 Retweets21 LikesSomething FunJeopardy! contestant Dhruv Gaur caught Alex Trebek by surprise with this show of support after the host announced he was resuming chemotherapy for his pancreatic cancer. Alex is far from the only one who choked up.Yashar Ali @yasharThis is so touching. November 12th 201921,342 Retweets131,949 LikesToeing the Company LineDavid’s
Tuesday column zigzagged from the whistleblower’s irrelevant identity,
to why DACA is good policy but bad law, to the dangers of “workism,” to
Tigers. Lots of Tigers. Give it a read here.Jonah had AEI’s Matt Continetti on The Remnant for a discussion on the philosophical history of conservatism (with some rank punditry to boot). Get the podcast here.Let Us KnowWhat else should the RNC do to grease the skids for President Trump’s re-election bid?Chew his food for him so he can save all his energy for Making America Great AgainSet up Home Alone-style
booby traps in Bill Weld and Joe Walsh’s homes that cause them burn
their hands on doorknobs and get hit in the face by swinging paint cans,
leading them to drop out of the race for presidentThreaten
to withhold congressionally approved military aid to pressure a foreign
government into publicly declaring an investigation into one of his
political rivalsPetition
to hold all general election debates at the Trump National Doral—so the
president can host the G7 summit at the same timeReporting by Declan Garvey, Andrew Egger, and Steve Hayes.You’re on the free list for The Dispatch. For the full experience, become a paying subscriber.Subscribe© 2019 The Dispatch Unsubscribe PO Box 720263, San Francisco, CA 94172 |
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