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| Good morning from Washington, where House Democrats’ impeachment hearings continue tomorrow. Among Republicans insisting on fairness to President Trump is a new face on the Intelligence Committee: Rep. Jim Jordan. We tell why he bears watching. On the podcast, a Texas pastor talks about why many young Americans don’t need to attend college right after high school to succeed. Plus: a web designer is punished for her views on marriage, some in Congress want to revive ideologically motivated science at the EPA, and one teen’s transgender nightmare. On this date in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln takes a train to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to deliver a short speech that lives on. |
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After Sex Change, This Teen Regrets His ‘Frankenstein Hack Job
By Walt Heyer Less than a year after having gender surgery, Nathaniel now says, “This whole thing was a bad idea. I am 19 years old, and I feel as though I have ruined my life.” More Commentary You’ll Be Surprised Who Is Trying to Empower the Deep State at EPA By Steve Milloy In a nutshell, a bill requires that federal agencies set up formalized grievance procedures for federal scientists who claim they are being silenced by senior bureaucrats and political appointees. More News 7 Things to Know About Rep. Jim Jordan as He Leads GOP’s Defense of Trump By Aaron Credeur Rep. Jim Jordan is temporarily reassigned to the House committee driving the impeachment process. The Ohio Republican already is questioning witnesses sharply and voicing his party’s frustration with the partisan process. More Commentary This Web Designer Shouldn’t Have to Wait to Be Free to Create By Joanna Duka The fact that Lorie Smith wants to make artistic decisions consistent with her faith makes her a target for punishment by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. More Analysis New Program Aims to Help Young Adults Grow in Faith, Maturity Before College By Virginia Allen Tommy Nelson, a pastor, has created GAP, a nine-month leadership program where high school graduates can learn theology, life skills, job skills, and more before attending a university. More Commentary We Hear You: Oberlin College’s ‘Lawsuit Mess’ With a Local Bakery By Ken McIntyre “I am an alumna of Oberlin College, class of ’92, and have watched with dismay, but not surprise, the lawsuit mess with Gibson’s Bakery. I have received Oberlin’s emails and letters on the subject, which were very one-sided,” writes Keely A. Dien, Fountain Valley, Calif. More | ||
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POLITICO Playbook: House GOP group spending millions to beat up Democrats on impeachment
By JAKE SHERMAN and ANNA PALMER
11/18/2019 06:00 AM EST
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DRIVING THE DAY
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK … THE BIG HOUSE GOP ANTI-IMPEACHMENT CAMPAIGN … THE AMERICAN ACTION NETWORK, part of a cluster of center-right groups that promote House Republicans and their policies, is launching a $7 million advertising blitz in 37 districts, criticizing Democrats for impeachment, terming it a “politically motivated charade” and arguing that elections should be decided by voters.
THE AD CAMPAIGN — the most expansive, coordinated ad campaign on impeachment to date — criticizes Democrats for promising to be “different,” but instead impeaching the president instead of working on other legislative items, such as securing the border and fixing health care. The spot is current — it starsRep. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-N.Y.), who is shown on CNN saying that the impeachment process is “preventing a potentially disastrous outcome from occurring next year.” That comment ran last week on CNN. The 30-second spot, as shown here featuring Rep. Joe Cunningham of South Carolina… The list of districts
WHAT THIS MEANS: There’s much focus on polls that show the overall support for impeachment sitting in the high 40s. But Republicans are focused on the handful of Dem-held districts that President DONALD TRUMP won in 2016. They believe those districts are ripe for the picking, and impeachment is a political loser there. This campaign is an attempt to position Democrats as maniacally focused on removing the president — and nothing else.
— THE BIG BUYS: $500,000 against Rep. Max Rose of New York, who got his own specialized ad that you can see here… and $500,000 against Reps. Collin Peterson of Minnesota and Susie Lee of Nevada. Michigan Reps. Elissa Slotkin and Haley Stevens will have $400,000 against them. The district-by-district spend
— EACH DISTRICT will have at least 800 points, a measure of the size and frequency of an ad campaign compared to the audience, on air. Reps. Anthony Brindisi (N.Y.), Kendra Horn (Okla.), Jared Golden (Maine), Xochitl Torres Small (N.M.) and Cunningham all have 1,200 points.
FLIP-FLOP ALERT … NYT’S ANNIE KARNI, MAGGIE HABERMAN and SHEILA KAPLAN: “Trump Retreats From Flavor Ban for E-Cigarettes”: “It was a swift and bold reaction to a growing public health crisis affecting teenagers. Seated in the Oval Office in September, President Trump said he was moving to ban the sale of most flavored e-cigarettes as vaping among young people continued to rise.
“‘We can’t have our kids be so affected,’ Mr. Trump said. The first lady, Melania Trump, who rarely involves herself publicly with policy announcements in the White House, was there, too. ‘She’s got a son,’ Mr. Trump noted, referring to their teenager, Barron. ‘She feels very strongly about it.’
“But two months later, under pressure from his political advisers and lobbyists to factor in the potential pushback from his supporters, Mr. Trump has resisted moving forward with any action on vaping, while saying he still wants to study the issue. Even a watered-down ban on flavored e-cigarettes that exempted menthol, which was widely expected, appears to have been set aside, for now.” NYT
— WAPO’S JOSH DAWSEY and LAURIE MCGINLEY: “[O]n Nov. 4, the night before a planned morning news conference, the president balked. Briefed on a flight to a Lexington, Ky., campaign rally, he refused to sign the one-page ‘decision memo,’ saying he didn’t want to move forward with a ban he had once backed, primarily at his wife’s and daughter’s urging, because he feared it would lead to job losses, said a Trump adviser who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reveal internal deliberations.” WaPo
NEW EMAILS … MICK MULVANEY, CALL YOUR OFFICE … WSJ’S REBECCA BALLHAUS: “Sondland Kept Trump Administration Officials Apprised of Ukraine Push”: “The emails reviewed by the Journal show that … Mr. Sondland urged Mr. Morrison to schedule the call between Mr. Trump and Mr. Zelensky before Ukrainian parliamentary elections on July 21. ‘Sole purpose is for Zelensky to give Potus assurances of “new sheriff” in town. Corruption ending, unbundling moving forward and any hampered investigations will be allowed to move forward transparently,’ Mr. Sondland wrote. Mr. Morrison replied that he was ‘tracking.’
“On July 19, a day before the president was initially scheduled to speak to Mr. Zelensky, Mr. Sondland emailed a group of administration officials including Mr. Mulvaney and Mr. Perry to say that Mr. Zelensky was prepared to assure the president that he would open investigations.
“‘I talked to Zelensky just now. He is prepared to receive Potus’ call,’ Mr. Sondland wrote. ‘Will assure him that he intends to run a fully transparent investigation and will “turn over every stone.”’” WSJ
Good Monday morning of what will be an epic week for the impeachment inquiry, with eight witnesses due to testify in open hearings before the House Intelligence Committee, including the most anticipated — Gordon Sondland — on Wednesday.
THE SCHEDULE, via Andrew Desiderio — TUESDAY: Morning session:Jennifer Williams and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman. Afternoon session: Kurt Volker and Tim Morrison. WEDNESDAY: Morning session: Sondland. Afternoon session: Laura Cooper, David Hale. THURSDAY: Fiona Hill.
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WAPO’S TOM BOSWELL: “What once seemed impossible is now undeniable: The Redskins have lost Washington”: “Washington has discovered that champions can live here. So why tolerate, let alone support, an atrociously run and constantly embarrassing franchise with a moral compass that is as twisted as a corkscrew?”
BREAKING OVERNIGHT … ANOTHER SHOOTING … FRESNO BEE: “4 dead, 6 wounded in mass shooting in southeast Fresno home. No arrests, police say”: “At least four men were killed and six others were wounded Sunday night in southeast Fresno when gunmen sneaked into a backyard party and opened fire on dozens of people watching football. It was the third mass shooting in California in less than a week.
“In an update just before 10 p.m., Fresno police said 10 people had been shot just before 8 p.m. in the backyard of a home on the 5300 block of East Lamona Avenue near Caesar Avenue. The neighborhood of single-story homes remains cordoned off and nearby roads including Peach and Olive avenues were closed to traffic at 11 p.m.” Fresno Bee
LITTLE ROCKET MAN … AP/SEOUL: “North Korea says it won’t give Trump a summit for free”: “North Korea on Monday responded to a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump that hinted at another summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying it has no interest in giving Trump further meetings to brag about unless it gets something substantial in return.
“The statement on Monday by Foreign Ministry adviser Kim Kye Gwan is the latest call by North Korea for U.S. concessions ahead of an end-of-year deadline set by Kim Jong Un for the Trump administration to offer mutually acceptable terms for a deal to salvage nuclear diplomacy.
“Following a U.S. decision over the weekend to call off joint military exercises with South Korea to create space for diplomacy with the North, Trump in a tweet urged Kim Jong Un to ‘act quickly, get the deal done’ and hinted at another summit between them, saying ‘See you soon!’
“But Kim Kye Gwan reiterated his government’s stance that Washington must discard what North Korea sees as ‘hostile’ policies to keep the negotiations alive.” AP
BIG THOM TILLIS PROFILE … BURGESS EVERETT in Raleigh, N.C.: “Trump’s new best friend in North Carolina”
A CHECK ON THE PRESIDENT’S CAPITAL … NYT: “President Trump Bet Big This Election Year. Here’s Why He Lost.”
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2020 WATCH …
— NYT’S ALEX BURNS in Las Vegas: “How Moderates Are Seizing the Moment in the Democratic Primary”: “After spending months in anxious passivity, staking their hopes on Joseph R. Biden Jr. and little else, moderate Democrats appear suddenly determined to fight for control of their party in the 2020 elections.
“The shift in attitude has come in fits and starts over the last few weeks, seemingly more as an organic turn in the political season than as a product of coordinated action by party leaders. But each assertive act has seemed to build on the one before, starting with a debate-stage clash last month over ‘Medicare for all’ and culminating in recent days with the entry of two new moderate candidates into the primary, Michael R. Bloomberg and Deval Patrick, and a gentle warning from former President Barack Obama that Democrats should not overestimate voters’ appetite for drastic change. …
“For months the Democratic race was defined in terms of which candidate could promise the most daring policy reforms — a contest in which Mr. Biden, the former vice president, was struggling to keep pace with Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont. As the most liberal candidates set the agenda, many in the party establishment squirmed, anxious about alienating moderate voters.
“Now the primary has become an increasingly jumbled contest, shaped by Democrats’ competing appetites for visionary ideas, tactical realism and sheer political novelty. Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., appears to be harnessing those tensions to his advantage, at least in Iowa, where for the first time he emerged as a clear front-runner in a CNN/Des Moines Register poll this weekend.” NYT
— HOLLY OTTERBEIN and DAVID SIDERS in Long Beach, Calif.: “‘Scared to death’: The left sees an establishment plot to take down Warren, Sanders”
— MAGGIE SEVERNS: “Meet the people who woo big donors for Elizabeth Warren”
— BOSTON GLOBE: “Trump promised Wisconsin’s farmers his trade wars would pay off. They’re still waiting,” by Jess Bidgood in Bloomer, Wis.: “Trump’s promise to restore US trade dominance won him deep support in farm country, which helped him secure his narrow victory in Wisconsin in 2016. As the trade skirmishes Trump has triggered have hurt farmers directly, the president’s message has been simple: Trust me, it will all pay off.
“They are still waiting. But the wave of new and steeper tariffs has yet to fray many farmers’ faith in a president who promised to even the playing field.” Boston Globe
DISPATCH FROM MILWAUKEE … ANNA was in Milwaukee last week and caught up with several of the key figures involved in putting on the upcoming Democratic National Convention. While the 30-degree, snowy weather was a far cry from what it will be in July, the Democrats’ operation is up and running focused on logistics, housing and media.
THREE THINGS TO WATCH:
— HOUSING: Limited hotel inventory was one of the biggest concerns when Milwaukee got the convention bid. The issue is still top of mind for folks looking at making the trip out to Wisconsin, but convention organizers say they have tried to assuage worried delegations about having to stay far away from the convention hall.
Part of their strategy: telling state parties in August (six months before they would typically get their hotel information) where they will be based to allow more time for planning. They also made sure each state party is staying at one hotel (even if it is in Rosemont near O’Hare airport) and have created seven delegate geographic “clusters” to allow for better-organized security and transportation.
What we don’t know: Where will the big-donor Dems be staying? How many rooms will the nominee be allotted and where? Where will the media be staying?
— MONEY: Raising cash is always difficult for political conventions, but the Dems may have a harder time than usual in pulling together the $70 million needed by July. Some challenges: Companies are wary of investing in a convention that could have a candidate like Elizabeth Warren as the nominee, and Milwaukee doesn’t have a huge number of corporate headquarters. There was also a shakeup earlier this month on the fundraising front when host committee fundraising director Marcus Switzer was replaced by Leah Israel.
Still, sources close to the fundraising effort say they expect to raise $20 million by January. The big question will be if they can secure commitments and checks beyond the typical institutional donors who pony up for the event every four years as the convention gets closer.
— MEDIA: The DNC is looking to shake things up when it comes to media presence at the convention and try to take advantage of emerging technology and the growing prominence of podcasts. One thing under consideration includes allowing space for newer outlets like The Skimm and others to have a set-up inside the conventional hall to capture more behind-the-scenes content.
— MISC.: Don’t expect any big changes with credentialing. Organizers still plan on having hard passes for attendees to get into the convention hall, and those will change daily, as in past years. Scooters: This will be the first convention where the motorized, two-wheeled vehicles will help convention-goers get around. But scooters will not be allowed in the perimeter. The arena has fewer skyboxes, so look for the DNC to capitalize on other entertainment spaces.
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OBAMA THE DEPORTER — “The Trump administration’s immigration jails are packed, but deportations are lower than in Obama era,” by WaPo’s Abigail Hauslohner: “Though President Trump has made cracking down on immigration a centerpiece of his first term, his administration lags far behind President Barack Obama’s pace of deportations. Obama — who immigrant advocates at one point called the ‘deporter in chief’ — removed 409,849 people in 2012 alone. Trump, who has vowed to deport ‘millions’ of immigrants, has yet to surpass 260,000 deportations in a single year.” WaPo
TRUMP’S MONDAY — THE PRESIDENT will meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at 4:15 p.m., but he has nothing else on his public schedule aside from the usual intelligence briefing.
THE WHITE HOUSE announced Sunday night that the president is awarding a number of National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal awards. National Medal of Arts: Allison Krauss, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, the musicians of the U.S. military and Jon Voight. National Humanities Medal: the Claremont Institute, Teresa Lozano Long, Patrick J. O’Connell and James Patterson.
PLAYBOOK READS
TELL THEM TO READ PLAYBOOK — NYT: “‘No One Believes Anything’: Voters Worn Out by a Fog of Political News,” by Sabrina Tavernise and Aidan Gardiner
QUOTE DU JOUR: “U.S. businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri said on Monday that she had ‘a very special relationship’ with Prime Minister Boris Johnson while he was mayor of London but declined to say if it amounted to an affair.” Reuters
BIG IN BRUSSELS — NATO foreign ministers are gathering in the Belgian capital, with the future of the transatlantic alliance very much on their minds after French President Emanuel Macron said recently, “What we are currently experiencing is the brain death of NATO.” POLITICO Europe’s David Herszenhorn and Zoya Sheftalovich have a preview
DOCUMENT DUMP — “The Iran Cables,” a series of stories published by The Intercept: “In an unprecedented leak from one of the world’s most secretive regimes, an anonymous source provided 700 pages of Iranian intelligence reports to The Intercept, saying they wanted to ‘let the world know what Iran is doing in my country Iraq.’” Intercept
— THE FIRST ARTICLE in the series, co-published with the NYT, outlines how the new trove shows the sweeping scope of “Tehran’s vast influence in Iraq, detailing years of painstaking work by Iranian spies to co-opt the country’s leaders, pay Iraqi agents working for the Americans to switch sides, and infiltrate every aspect of Iraq’s political, economic, and religious life.” Intercept
BOOK CLUB — On Tuesday, Michelle Obama is releasing a “guided journal” meant to accompany her memoir, “Becoming.” According to its Amazon blurb, the hardback book features “an intimate and inspiring introduction by the former First Lady and more than 150 inspiring questions and quotes to help you discover—and rediscover—your story.”
— ALSO TUESDAY: “A Warning” by the anonymous current or former senior Trump administration official goes live. Most of its revelations have already been reported, however.
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DEPT. OF EVERYONE HAS A PODCAST! … THE NRSC is starting a podcast with Republican senators. It will be called “20 for 20,” and you can preview it here.
MEDIAWATCH — “Denver Radio Host Fired in Mid-Show After Criticizing Trump,” by NYT’s Vanessa Swales:“Craig Silverman had clearly worn out his welcome on KNUS, a conservative talk-radio station in Denver. Midway through his three-hour show on Saturday, after a segment criticizing President Trump, the station suddenly cut away to a news report, and the station’s operations manager walked into the studio and told Mr. Silverman, ‘You’re done.’
“But it was less clear which had bothered his employers more — the negative views of Mr. Trump that he voiced on the air, or the fact that he had also gone on competing stations’ programs to express them. …
“Mr. Silverman said in an interview on Sunday that he sees himself as an independent analyst, not a partisan conservative — and that may have made him increasingly unwelcome at KNUS. Mr. Silverman said the station’s owner, the Salem Media Group, which focuses on conservative and Christian programming, is ‘100 percent behind Donald Trump.’” NYT
— “McCarthy Sends Letter To ABC Demanding Information On Killed Epstein Story,” by the Daily Caller’s Shelby Talcott
— FEDEX VS. THE TIMES: You don’t see this often. First, the NYT wrote about how FedEx, the shipping company, had engineered paying zero taxes. Then, FedEx sent a blistering statement accusing the Gray Lady of doing exactly the same thing. And CEO Fred Smith challenged NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger to a debate on tax policy. The Times article … The FedEx statement
— Emily Ngo is joining NY1 as a politics reporter. She most recently has covered national politics for Newsday.
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SPOTTED: Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin in first class on an American Airlines flight scheduled from LaGuardia to DCA on Sunday afternoon — which ended up deplaning at LaGuardia over possible engine fire concerns.
SPOTTED at the American Portrait Gala at the National Portrait Gallery on Sunday night: awardees Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeff Bezos, Anna Wintour, Frances Arnold, Earth, Wind and Fire, and Indra Nooyi; Michelle Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, James Corden, Gayle King, Annie Leibovitz, Kathy Bates, Norah O’Donnell, Terry McAuliffe, Preston Bezos, France Córdova, Clive Davis, Alberto Ibargüen and Stephanie Cutter.
SPOTTED at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service’s centennial gala celebration at the National Building Museum on Saturday night: former President Bill Clinton, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, King Felipe VI of Spain, Jack DeGioia, Joel Hellman, Madeleine Albright, Nancy Soderberg, Ivo Daalder, Yo-Yo Ma, David Strathairn, Stéphane Dujarric, Ben Chang, Colin Fenton, Glenn Nye, Dan Grant, Erin Conaton, Matt Gobush, Tony Arend, Mark Lagon, Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Jill Dougherty, Alexander Marquardt, Spencer Boyer, Chad Griffin, and Marc and Debra Tice.
ENGAGED — Cate Martel, national political reporter and author of The Hill’s 12:30 Report, and Danny Vinik, a second-year Georgetown Law student, got engaged Thursday. They met while studying abroad in Florence in college and are both POLITICO alums. He proposed at their apartment and then took her to Acqua Al 2 — the D.C. restaurant whose original Florence location they went to in 2011. Their families surprised them for dessert and champagne. Pic
WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Julie Radford, deputy assistant to the president and COS to Ivanka Trump, and Wynn Radford, director of state and local government affairs at BP America and a Bush White House alum, welcomed Wynn Long Radford V (“Wyler”) on Nov. 11.
BIRTHWEEK (was Saturday): POLITICO Europe’s Judith Mischke
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Brian Forest, director of strategic messaging at the National Association of Manufacturers. How he thinks the Trump presidency is going: “It’s like a national Rorschach test. Depending on which channel you watch or feed you follow, it’s either the greatest of all time or the worst ever. I’m hopeful that we can finally get past these bubbles and start evaluating all of our political leaders for who they really are — human beings, flawed by definition, but usually trying to do what they think is right.” Playbook Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: Megyn Kelly is 49 … Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) is 48 … Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) is 52 (h/t Tim Griffin) … Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.) is 55 … NYT’s Sheryl Gay Stolberg … NBC’s Heidi Przybyla … POLITICO’s Matt Wuerker, Theo Meyer and Trisha (Farr) Kolb … Gregory Lemos … Carrie Matthews of Hamilton Place Strategies … Dan Sadlosky, policy adviser to Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) … Andrea Stone … Tom Namako of BuzzFeed … Cassi Gritzmacher … Paige Hutchinson, COS for Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas), is 29 (h/t Jeremy Nordquist) … Waldo Tibbetts … Barry Jackson (h/t Tim Burger) …
… Drew Brandewie, communications director for Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), is 35 … Robert Dougherty, legislative director for Rep. Anthony Brindisi (D-N.Y.) (h/t Samantha Greene) … Tim Doyle … David Rain … former Rep. J.C. Watts (R-Okla.) is 62 … Abby Tinsley … Jacob Cassady … Karen Dunn of Boies Schiller Flexner … Richard Maopolski … Nick Ragone … Arshad Hasan is 39 … Gregory Kallenberg … David Frank … Noelia Rodríguez … Hanna Skandera … Meg Gage … Ace Smith is 61 … Jon Kaplan … Erica DeVos (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … Brian Knapp … Max Nides is 25 (h/t dad Tom)
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Monday, November 18, 2019 Yovanovitch Testifies “President Donald Trump launched a Twitter attack on a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine on Friday while she was testifying to an impeachment hearing in Congress… Trump’s tweet about former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch during her testimony on Friday drew a furious response from Democrats who accused him of witness intimidation.” Reuters During Yavanovitch’s testimony Trump tweeted, “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started off in Somalia, how did that go? Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. It is a U.S. President’s absolute right to appoint ambassadors.” Twitter From the Left The left criticizes Trump’s firing of Yovanovitch, arguing that it was detrimental to US foreign policy interests, and contends that the tweet was highly inappropriate. “As Yovanovitch herself affirmed numerous times over the course of her testimony, US ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the president. But it can also be newsworthy if the president removes an ambassador because he’s been duped by a campaign of lies being pushed by corrupt foreign officials — which is what Yovanovitch’s defenders (and Yovanovitch herself) believe happened.” Andrew Prokop and Alex Ward, Vox “President Trump and his defenders have been arguing, weakly, that his actions toward Ukraine, including demands for the investigation of his political opponents, were somehow consistent with U.S. national interests. There is no way to make that case about his treatment of Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. In compelling testimony during the House’s impeachment inquiry on Friday, she described how the president’s firing of her was orchestrated by corrupt Ukrainian actors whom the United States had been trying to neutralize — and how that reversal damaged U.S. diplomacy around the world.” Editorial Board, Washington Post “Despite Republican efforts to throw up a smokescreen, despite their complaints that they are being muzzled even as they pose questions, it is clear that the president was putting his own political interests — looking for dirt on Hillary and the Bidens — above national security and using shady henchmen to do it… Reagan would be stunned to find Republican members of the House at war with the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. — all to bolster Trump’s tender ego.” Maureen Dowd, New York Times “Never before, in our experience or frankly in the history of US foreign policy, has a President publicly sought to intimidate a career public civil servant… Friday’s testimony by former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and President Donald Trump’s threatening tweets — sent while she was testifying — provide a devastating window into the administration’s preternaturally destructive campaign to politicize the Department of State, undermine US diplomacy, and smear the reputations of career State Department officers for upholding the oath they take to defend the Constitution and American national interests… “Three career foreign service officers have now testified before Congress in public impeachment inquiry hearings — in direct defiance of both the White House and the Department of State. They are alone and exposed. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has failed to discharge his duty to support, protect and defend the Department or these dedicated professionals.” Aaron David Miller and Richard Sokolsky, CNN “Whether this is technically witness tampering, it’s undeniably appalling. Even on Fox News, Ken Starr called Trump’s attack on Yovanovitch during her testimony ‘extraordinarily poor judgment.’ What it shows — as does all of the former ambassador’s testimony, along with lots of other evidence we have seen — is that Trump has been running a thugocracy, one in which the president talks and acts like a Mafioso and so do the people who have the greatest influence over him… “There’s an irony here, which is that Yovanovitch’s story is tangential to the case for impeachment. Trump’s firing of her was disturbing, undermined U.S. interests and was despicable in many ways, but it wasn’t in and of itself impeachable. It doesn’t bear directly on the pressure campaign to strong-arm Ukraine into helping Trump’s reelection by launching a sham ‘investigation’ of Joe and Hunter Biden.” Paul Waldman, Washington Post “This kind of petty and nasty attack put [Republicans] in a position of defending the indefensible… [and] undermined the big talking point that the White House had pushed and Republicans had repeated on Wednesday, the claim that the hearings were boring. Providing supporters with safe ground is important to Trump’s future. Most politicians are willing to go pretty far out on rhetorical limbs to advance what they see as their political interest. What they don’t like is to be exposed as fools soon after doing so. The real importance of the ‘smoking gun’ tape that ended Richard Nixon’s presidency was that it discredited his supporters for repeating what turned out to be lies, and convinced them that Nixon would go on doing that to them as long as they were willing to stick with him… “Trump is repeatedly giving Republicans that same choice. So far, they’ve been willing to go along. But each time he pushes them, it makes it a little more likely they’ll eventually make the same choice that Republicans made in August 1974.” Jonathan Bernstein, Bloomberg From the Right The right dismisses Yovanovitch’s testimony as irrelevant to the issue at hand, and argues that Trump’s tweet was counterproductive but not intimidation. “Yovanovitch was not the ambassador to Ukraine during the period when the Trump administration withheld military aid. She has no knowledge as to why the aid was held up. That’s the only issue of relevance to the impeachment proceedings. The proceedings aren’t about whether Yovanovitch should have been removed as ambassador. Schiff’s committee isn’t a human resources body or a personnel review board… “Democrats may say that Yovanovitch’s removal is relevant because it was the first step in making U.S. policy towards Ukraine subservient to Trump’s political interests. It set the stage, so to speak. But this argument collapses the moment one remembers that Yovanovitch was replaced by Bill Taylor (officially, he’s the chargé d’affaires, but he acts as ambassador). If there’s one thing on which Democrats and Republicans on Schiff’s committee agree, it’s that Taylor is an exemplary diplomat.” Paul Mirengoff, Power Line Blog Some are critical of firing Yovanovitch. “Trump was given bad advice, and unfortunately, he listened. It’s not clear exactly why Trump chose to recall Yovanovitch, but it’s likely his decision was influenced by Giuliani and others in Ukraine who wanted Yovanovitch gone. Now let’s be clear: As president, Trump has every right to recall a foreign diplomat for any reason he sees fit. Yovanovitch, as she’s admitted, served at the pleasure of the president. But as of yet, no one has offered a good reason for why Yovanovitch should have been removed, defaulting instead to a political ‘because I said so.’ Trump should not have listened to Giuliani, whose sole concern while meddling in Ukrainian affairs was self-advancement.” Kaylee McGhee, Washington Examiner Others contend, “For any readers persuaded by former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch’s congressional testimony today that she was the key to a free and independent Ukraine free of corruption, it’s worth noting |
[that]
… the Obama administration helped [Yovanovitch] prepare to field
questions at her Senate confirmation hearing in June of 2016 about
Hunter Biden’s role on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma. The
company was then under investigation in Ukraine…
“[But after her confirmation] even though the Bidens have been
unable to explain what exactly Hunter Biden was doing for his lucrative
compensation and have pledged never to do such deals again, it seems
that the vaunted anti-corruption champion Ms. Yovanovitch didn’t think it was worth pursuing. In her earlier House deposition she said it ‘wasn’t a front burner issue at the time.’”
James Freeman, Wall Street Journal
Regarding
Trump’s tweet, “Trump is angry over the hearings and their lack of due
process. The tweet was not intended as intimidation and obviously had no
such effect. It was, instead, an impulsive attempt to influence public opinion
— this being, first and foremost, a political controversy. The real
problem is that the tweet’s effect, if any, was the opposite of what
Trump intended: The public saw Yovanovitch, not the president, as the
victim of an unfair attack…
“[Impeachment]
has always been a political stratagem. The Democrats’ real objective is
to render the president so battered and bruised that his reelection
becomes inconceivable. Those who say Yovanovitch’s testimony did not
‘move the needle’ on impeachment are entirely correct… But if you see
this as I do, not as an impeachment gambit but as a 2020 campaign
strategy, the Democrats had a pretty good day.”
Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review
“Trump’s tacky tweets don’t constitute witness intimidation,
not by any true legal standard and certainly not by any metric the
public cares about. For starters, the entire nation has known for the
better part of a year that Trump disdained Yovanovitch. He berated her
publicly for months before pulling her from her post in Ukraine, and
Trump going on an incoherent rant is obviously not a threat…
“Democrats
have an actual case to prove to the public on their hands, and instead
of maintaining laser focus on the central question (Did Trump abuse the
powers of the presidency to extort a foreign government into harming his
domestic political foe?), they’re wasting a precious day of public
testimony fulminating about a fake process crime. Republicans should
care if the president committed an impeachable abuse of power. But with
Democrats melting down over yet another one of Trump’s tacky tweets, can
you blame them for being a bit cynical about this clown show?”
Tiana Lowe, Washington Examiner
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| ‘A Mission, Not a Show’ Over the weekend Kanye West made a surprise appearance at the Harris County Jail in Houston, Texas. From the Houston Chronicle: “After kicking off with one performance for more than 200 men at the 701 San Jacinto building, West ducked down into the underground tunnel and turned up in the main Baker Street jail to do a second show for a smaller crowd of women. “This is a mission, not a show,” he told the jailhouse crowd repeatedly. Men in orange put their hands up and smiled as they watched the singer and his gaggle of dancers, wearing navy jail-like scrubs for the show. Looking down from the second tier, men pressed up against the glass as they listened to hits from his gospel-themed Jesus is King album, according to video released by the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.” Texas Governor Greg Abbott tweeted, “What 28,000 Last week the Dow Jones Industrial Average went over 28,000 — a new record. After a week of impeachment hearings and political theater, it might just be the indicator of what is happening outside of DC. David Marcus of The Federalist wrote: “There are few things telling about this situation. First, it is yet another indicator that experts in myriad fields believe the Trump presidency will survive. Democrats, and progressives in the media are now claiming they always knew the Senate would never convict, but only a few weeks ago they were waxing poetic about how televised hearings would sway public opinion and pry loose enough GOP senators to sink Trump. This is also an indicator that the Trump economy continues to chug along creating jobs and growth. The market’s sigh of relief and record highs as the fear of possible removal of Trump subsided show that investors are comfortable with Trump in the White House, and still feel rather bullish.As hard as they tried, House Democrats were not able to pull off the potent impeachment effort that experts had feared would tank Wall Street. Instead, as their public hearings plod along the stock market is soaring and America is going about its business.” On Face the Nation on Sunday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi leaned into impeachment and said, “The president could come right before the committee and talk, speak all the truth that he wants if he wants. He has every opportunity to present his case.” The President seems to prefer talking directly to the people via Twitter and rallies and there doesn’t seem to be much evidence he (or the economy!) would be better off changing course. What I’m Reading This Week As many people know I’ve been on a weight loss journey for the last year. I’ve had some success and I’m crossing my fingers that this book will help keep me motivated — Chasing Cupcakes: How One Broke, Fat Girl Transformed Her Life (and How You Can, Too). From the description: “I’m missing out on my life. What’s wrong with me? If that’s ever crossed your mind, and if you know there’s more to life than what you’ve been living, this book is for you. It sucks to acknowledge that you are what’s keeping you from the life you want. You sacrifice what you want most for what you want in the moment. You know everything you’re supposed to do, and yet you feel stuck–limited by your past, overwhelmed by your future–in a purgatory of your own behavior. After decades of feeling trapped by this mindset, Elizabeth Benton shifted her whole life by proving her own stories wrong. In this book, Elizabeth will help you live a new story, in which you can, you will, and you already have everything you need to make it happen.” A Case of the Mondays Dog sworn into Illinois state’s attorney’s office to provide support for sexual assault victims (ABC News) Company wants to pay one person $1,000 to watch 24 Hallmark movies before Christmas (WJLA) Free love bites at your local animal shelter (Twitter) After observing how students buy food, clever dog uses leaves as money to ‘pay’ for cookies (Good Times) |
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All black, a stylish coat and badass (flat!) boots. More from John Binder’s Fashion Notes:
“First Lady Melania Trump is spending her winter in mostly black
ensembles thus far, with subtle touches of her Euro-centric luxury
style.
This
week, Melania Trump embodied a streamline American sportswear aesthetic
but with the sensibilities of her favorite Made-in-Italy staples.
While boarding Air Force One alongside President Trump, Mrs. Trump wore a
black swear, black J Brand skinny jeans, and a double-breasted wool
herringbone coat by Valentino that hinted at the mid-1980s. The coat retails for $790.”
I found similar boots! Check these out: G by GUESS Granted Boot from Zappos, $54.99 Olivia Miller Larson Motorcycle Bootie from DSW, $69.99 Ugg Lorna Waterproof Bootie from Nordstrom, $189.95 Frye Veronica Bootie from Nordstrom, $327.95 Vince Camuto Windy Moto Boots from Macy’s, $118.30 If you’re ready for a break from Casual Melania, it was announced this week that Queen Elizabeth will be hosting a reception at Buckingham Palace for the President and First Lady in early December. Mondays with Melania is a weekly feature that highlights what the First Lady is doing and wearing. |
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The Morning Dispatch: The Growing War on the Right
Plus: Roger Stone’s conviction prompts a look back at the Russia investigation, and unrest in Iran.
Happy Monday! The Morning Dispatch’s resident Bears fan feels nothing inside after watching another four quarters of football comparable only to a debilitated whale slowly washing up on shore with the tide. There was no sense of hope, no ragtag group of bystanders banding together to drag the humpback into the ocean. No, to the extent that there were witnesses to this tragedy they simply sighed, shrugged their shoulders, and averted their gaze.Declan Garvey@declanpgarvey(Pablo Picasso, The Tragedy, 1903) November 18th 20191 Retweet6 Likes
Anyhow, the news!
Quick Hits: What You Need To Know
- Former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch testified publicly on Friday in the House’s impeachment inquiry, laying out her understanding of why she was removed from her post in Ukraine. President Trump criticized Yovanovitch as she was testifying in a tweet, in a move that Democrats billed as witness intimidation and even Trumps supporters decried as misguided.
- Several more key witnesses testify this week:
- Tuesday: Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and Kurt Volker
- Wednesday: Gordon Sondland and Laura Cooper
- Thursday: Fiona Hill
- Demonstrators and state police clashed at a Hong Kong university Sunday in the most violent conflict to date of the year’s pro-democracy protests. Meanwhile, new anti-regime protests broke out in Iran—more on that below.
- John Bel Edwards was re-elected Louisiana governor on Saturday night, edging out Republican challenger Eddie Rispone by about 40,000 votes.
- Pete Buttigieg surged to the top of the Democratic field in a new poll of Iowa voters released by the Des Moines Register and CNN.
- President Trump announced yet another round of cash payouts to farmers hit by his trade war with China, payments that are approaching $30 billion since the dispute began—all while farm bankruptcies continue to soar.
- Attorney General William Barr delivered a speech at a Federalist Society conference on Friday criticizing the “resistance” to President Trump and making the case for stronger executive authority.
- President Trump on Friday pardoned three military personnel accused or convicted of war crimes, raising some concerns within the military community.
- In an interview with BBC, Prince Andrew denied salacious allegations related to his connections with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
- At least four people were killed, and a half-dozen more were injured, after one or more gunmen ambushed a Fresno, California, family watching football in their backyard.
The Growing War on the Right
An institution long at the heart of the conservative movement issued a statement Sunday denouncing “holocaust deniers, white nationalists, street brawlers and racists,” and is re-evaluating its relationship with one of its speakers after she defended all of the above. YAF@yafThere is no room in mainstream conservatism or at YAF for holocaust deniers, white nationalists, street brawlers, or racists. Our full statement below: November 17th 2019436 Retweets2,209 Likes
Young America’s Foundation (YAF), a conservative youth organization founded in 1969, told The Dispatch in an email on Sunday that it has launched an “internal review” of its relationship with right-wing provocateur Michelle Malkin to determine whether she is “compatible with our goals as we go forward.” The controversy is another example of the growing tension between traditional conservatives and the so-called alt-right.
This divide—which has been festering just below the surface for some time—came to the fore last week when Donald Trump Jr. was booed at a UCLA event promoting his book. Now, “person named Trump shouted down on college campus” is about as much of a story as “the sun rose today.” But Junior wasn’t heckled by a liberal social justice mob; his antagonists alleged to be criticizing him for not adhering to Trumpism strongly enough.
These alt-right protesters—who refer to themselves as “groypers” for reasons that both have to do with a cartoon frog and could not be less important—were upset the Q&A portion of the UCLA event was canceled, thwarting their opportunity to inject anti-Semitic and racist bile into the conversation. Spearheaded by 22-year-old “leader” Nicholas Fuentes, these “groypers” (we’re going to exhaust our scare quote quota) descend upon institutional conservative events asking “leading questions about Israel, immigration, and LGBTQ issues” in an attempt to “reveal” speakers’ lack of conviction, as Vox’s Jane Coaston reported. It even happened to Jonah last week!
Which brings us back to YAF. Though it doesn’t mention her by name, its statement on Sunday can be viewed as a not-so-subtle shot at Malkin, who has long been affiliated with the group as a speaker. Malkin has long been an immigration hawk, but in recent years she has defended the views of alt-right figures like Fuentes—who attended the 2017 Unite the Right neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, and more recently referred to the Jim Crow South as “better for them, it’s better for us.” In a recent speech, Malkin not only refused to disavow Fuentes (along with a laundry list of other garden variety racists), but stood with him. (She was, however, willing to disavow Republicans who support “open borders sellouts.”) And now her page on YAF’s website can’t be found.
A spokesman for Young America’s Foundation told The Dispatch the organization released its statement “because we wanted our students and activists to know YAF hasn’t changed its long-standing practice of opposing racists who fly false flags as conservatives.” (The group still features Dinesh D’Souza—who once wrote that the American slave was treated “pretty well” and responded to a picture of President Obama taking a selfie by saying “you can take the boy out of the ghetto,”—prominently on both the YAF website and Twitter. The spokesman declined to comment when asked if YAF would characterize these D’Souza comments as racist.)
For decades, YAF has brought core conservative principles to campuses, in many cases providing students with an introduction to ideas that they would otherwise never know. In some cases, the speakers YAF sponsors have been controversial because they say genuinely controversial things. In many others, they’re controversial simply because they bring an ideological perspective that isn’t wanted on the supposedly tolerant campuses populated by “woke” students, “woke” professors and “woke” administrators.
At a time when too many non-conservatives conflate the right and the alt-right, a job made easier by conservatives too willing to tolerate the repugnant views of alt-right provocateurs, it’s encouraging to see a clear repudiation of those views represented in the statement from YAF.
A Stone, Unturned
Roger Stone’s luck has run out. The former Trump adviser was convicted Friday of seven federal crimes related to his work on the Trump campaign, all involving various types of dishonesty: lying to Congress, obstructing a congressional investigation, and tampering with other witnesses who were testifying before Congress.
The verdict is an ignominious end for the professional dirty trickster. It’s also an opportunity to look back, with the benefit of hindsight, on the Russia investigation.
Some of the earliest murmurs of weirdness between the Trump campaign and Russia came during the 2016 general election, as the candidate exploited the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server. You’ll likely recall Trump’s famous line from a press conference that July: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.” That raised some eyebrows, coming just days after WikiLeaks released a trove of DNC emails from a hack that experts suspected—even then—had been orchestrated by the Kremlin.
It was WikiLeaks that got Stone in trouble. That’s because Stone thought he had an in with Julian Assange through a mutual friend, conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi. Through Corsi, whose exact connection to Assange remains unknown, Stone occasionally got a look at the well-hidden process of how WikiLeaks would release the stolen information.
More importantly, he spent the next few months strutting around Trumpworld, talking up his insider status to anyone who’d listen. Earlier this month, Steve Bannon testified at Stone’s trial that Stone had sold himself to the campaign as an access point to Assange. Deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates testified that Trump apparently got information about future WikiLeaks releases from Stone during at least one phone call for which he was present.
But if trumpeting his proximity to Assange was an asset for Stone during the campaign, it became a very distinct liability once Trump was elected and the Russia investigation was underway—with intense scrutiny of whether the campaign played a role in the WikiLeaks releases. When Stone went before Congress in late 2017, telling the truth wouldn’t necessary have implicated the campaign in any crimes, but the optics would have been terrible. Stone refused to turn on Donald Trump. So he lied.
The wildest accusations of Trump-Russia collusion remain unproven, some of them no doubt wishcasting from the president’s most fervent foes. But those wild fantasies would come to overshadow what was actually concerning about Trump’s relationship with Russia. It wasn’t that he helped direct an incredibly elaborate, labor-intensive, top-secret conspiracy to get foreign election help, but something much simpler: he was willing, even eager, to accept foreign election help if he saw an opportunity and determined it would be useful.
Hey, Roger Stone has an in at WikiLeaks? Hey, maybe that’d be helpful! Say, a Russian lawyer says she has dirt on Hillary? Seems worth checking out!
Trump isn’t shy about admitting this. In an interview with ABC this summer, he said: “If somebody called from a country, Norway, ‘we have information on your opponent’—oh, I think I’d want to hear it.” As he said these words, Rudy Giuliani was leading an effort on Trump’s behalf to extract information from the newly elected leader of Ukraine that could damage Joe Biden’s likely candidacy.
Donald Trump sees no problem with looking for foreign help in an election. And he seems to have convinced some in the Republican Party that he’s right.
Uncertainty in Iran
This weekend, sudden unrest in Iran. Here is what happened: In the face of economic hardship brought on in part by stern U.S. sanctions, Tehran on Friday moved to reduce its domestic gasoline subsidies, causing prices across the nation to jump 50 percent overnight. The action sparked nationwide protests, with citizens shutting down highways and demonstrating in the streets in more than 20 cities. A few protests have descended into violence, with protestors clashing with police forces armed with tear gas.
Ayatollah Khamenei’s regime has responded aggressively, taking much of the country’s internet offline to keep news of the protests and revolutionary fervor from spreading on social media. In a televised speech backing the gas hikes Sunday, Khamenei denounced demonstrators as “thugs” and suggested—as he has during past mass protests—that they were in league with foreign enemies of the state.
While the sudden gas hike provided the spark for the protests, the tinder has been piling up for some time—particularly since the Trump administration pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal last year, damaging Iranian economy and sending the rial into a slow-motion death spiral.
As was the case during past moments of Iranian unrest, there’s evidence that plenty of that anger has transformed into wholesale hatred for the regime—videos have been trickling out of protesters apparently chanting “death to the dictator” and “death to Khamenei.”
The Trump administration’s policy on Iran is complicated, pulled in opposite directions by two of Trump’s policy instincts. On the one hand, the president has frequently ridiculed his predecessor Barack Obama for being too soft on the mullahs and has gone after Tehran with several aggressive sanctions packages. On the other, Trump has distanced himself from previous Republican administrations’ advocacy for the spread of democracy abroad, decrying the appetite for “regime change” that, he says, has embroiled America in “endless wars” across South Asia and the Middle East.
Accordingly, the administration responded slowly to the news over the weekend, gradually moving into a position of strong solidarity with the protesters. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, one of the more hawkish remaining members of the Trump national security team, tweeted on Saturday: “As I said to the people of Iran almost a year and a half ago: The United States is with you.” Then, on Sunday afternoon, the White House issued a strong statement of its own: “The United States supports the Iranian people in their peaceful protests against the regime that is supposed to lead them,” it read in part. “We condemn the lethal force and severe communications restrictions used against demonstrators.”
What comes next is unclear. Iran has squashed protests before; whether the regime will be able to do so again will largely depend on how quickly these demonstrations grow, and where. According to Reuel Gerecht, a former CIA operative in Iran and now at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the regime has leaned on two strategies in the past for quelling dissent: deploying Iran’s various ethnic groups against one another and dispatching elite security forces to particularly quarrelsome areas. But the former is difficult when protests are not limited to one ethnic group and the latter is more complicated when protests are strong in the state’s central cities.
According to Gerecht, Iran learned during a previous period of unrest in 2009 that it was difficult to rely on its local Basij peacekeeping forces to quell mass unrest in the cities—“you’re essentially asking people who grew up in the same neighborhoods to beat people from the same neighborhood.” That leaves the state’s mobile riot police forces—but there’s only so many of those to go around.
Protesters may have to hold out for a while if they hope to see any direct aid from Washington. That’s partially due to Trump’s lack of interest in meddling too much in foreign affairs: Gerecht said that “there’s nothing on the drawing board” when it comes to the complicated process of providing technical support. More than that, there’s this simple fact: “Washington never does anything quickly.”
Worth Your Time
- The Intercept and the New York Times obtained a series of Iranian intelligence cables depicting the country’s vast influence operation in Iraq, including “years of painstaking work by Iranian spies to co-opt the country’s leaders, pay Iraqi agents working for the Americans to switch sides and infiltrate every aspect of Iraq’s political, economic and religious life.”
- For those of you following the undoing of WeWork, Katrina Brooker’s dive into the relationship between CEO Adam Neumann and Softbank’s Masa Son for FastCompany is a must read: “At 6-foot-5, with long jet-black hair and chiseled cheekbones, Neumann stood out. So did his words.”
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- Before Spain, Wisconsin, and Vegas, Jonah was also in Texas, where he recorded this conversation with Rep. Dan Crenshaw on the state of conservatism, the art of persuasion, and how young people can promote free market principles.
- Correction: InFriday’s Morning Dispatch, we said that John Bel Edwards was the only Democratic governor in the Southeast. North Carolina also has a Democratic governor, Roy Cooper.
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🏀 Congrats to heroic ODU basketball coach Jeff Jones on his 500th career win.
- Top Hampton Roads sportswriter Harry Minium: “When I texted Jones to ask him to talk about winning his 500th game, he called back and said ‘I thought it was 400.'”
1 big thing: California’s boardroom “women quota”
California’s unprecedented law requiring all public companies headquartered there to have at least one female board member by 2020 is drawing lawsuits, reports Axios’ Courtenay Brown.
- Why it matters: Pressure to diversify corporate boards has historically come from shareholders and special interest groups. With California’s law poised to take effect — and at least three states weighing similar legislation — critics are raising the question of government overreach.
The law sets a penalty of $100,000 in fines for public companies that don’t have at least one woman on their board by the end of 2019.
- Opponents are hoping to block the law before it gets stricter: By 2021, companies with five-person boards will have to have at least two women, while boards of six or more will have to have three.
- Companies that refuse to comply more than once will be fined $300,000 per seat that should be filled by a woman.
The other side: A coalition led by the California Chamber of Commerce, said in a letter to lawmakers that by focusing “only on gender,” the law “potentially elevates it as a priority over other aspects of diversity.”
- In one of the ongoing lawsuits, the lead lawyer told the AP: “The law mandates exactly what the equal protection clause forbids — taking into account things like sex or race” in hiring.
The big picture: Most big companies subject to the law — like Google, Wells Fargo and Disney — have had women on their boards for years, prodded, in some cases, by backlash against all-male boardrooms.
- 70 of the 602 publicly traded companies headquartered in California were not in compliance as of July, according to research by Clemson University and the University of Arizona.
What’s next: Lawmakers in other states, including Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Washington, hope to follow California’s lead.
2. ⚖️ Impeachment sneak peek: House Rs seek senator’s account
Rep. Devin Nunes (left) speaks with Rep. Jim Jordan during the first public impeachment hearing, as GOP counsel Steve Castor leans out. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
House Republicans are asking Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) for “firsthand information” about Ukraine-related meetings, briefings and conversations with President Trump and EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland.
- A letter from Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, who’s leading the GOP case, and Rep. Devin Nunes of California, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, asked Johnson for his recollections after attending the inauguration of Ukraine’s president in May.
The senator said yesterday on “Meet the Press” that he had received the letter, and said he’d be working over the weekend on preparing his “telling of events.”
- “I will lay out what I know,” Johnson said. “They’re not going to call me, because certainly Adam Schiff wouldn’t want to be called by the Senate. There’s going to be a separation there. But I think I will reply to that.”
3. FAA may change plane certification
“U.S. air-safety regulators are considering ways to alter fundamentally how they certify aircraft in the wake of Boeing Co.’s 737 MAX crisis,” FAA Administrator Stephen Dickson told the Wall Street Journal (subscription).
- Dickson floated the idea of “the FAA being involved in the design of a new plane from the outset.”
- “The current approach is you’re answering all these questions and then it’s, ‘OK FAA, here’s my final exam. Grade my paper.’ … The holistic approach is more of a dialogue as you go through the process,” he said.
4. Trail pics du jour
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Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spoke at Nevada Democrats’ event for 2020 candidates yesterday at the Bellagio in Vegas, ahead of its Feb. 22 caucuses.
Photo: John Locher/AP
Above: A cardboard Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) — who also appeared live.
Below: The real Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.)
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And this is the cover of today’s N.Y. Post:
5. Trump vaping reversal
President Trump reversed course on a plan to ban most flavored vaping products “because he feared it would lead to job losses,” report WashPost’s Josh Dawsey and Laurie McGinley.
- Why it matters: “It was the latest example of the chaotic way policy is made — and sometimes unmade — in a White House where the ultimate decider often switches gears after making a controversial vow.”
“He didn’t know much about the issue and was just doing it for Melania and Ivanka,” a senior administration official told the Post.
- “Officials said the blowback to Trump’s vow to ban most flavored e-cigarettes had rattled him.”
- “His campaign manager, Brad Parscale, privately warned the ban could hurt him in battleground states.”
6. “The Iran Cables”: Hundreds of leaked intelligence reports
Screenshot: The Intercept
The Intercept tells the storybehind its publication of a trove of secret Iranian intelligence cables: “The source said they wanted to ‘let the world know what Iran is doing in my country Iraq.’ They sent … 700 pages of secret intelligence reports from Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security.”
- “[W]e approached the New York Times and proposed a reporting partnership. The article we jointly published with the Times is the product of months of collaboration, in which Intercept and Times reporters verified the authenticity of the documents.”
Why they matter, per the Times: The documents expose “Tehran’s vast influence in Iraq, detailing years of painstaking work by Iranian spies to co-opt the country’s leaders, pay Iraqi agents working for the Americans to switch sides and infiltrate every aspect of Iraq’s political, economic and religious life.”
7. 🇨🇳 Ian Bremmer warns of “tech Cold War”
Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group, warned at the consulting firm’s annual GZERO Summit in Tokyo today that a rising “tech Cold War” between China and the West poses “the greatest threat to globalization since the end of World War II.”
- “Beijing is building a separate system of Chinese technology — its own standards, infrastructure, and supply chains — to compete with the West,” Bremmer said.
- “Make no mistake: This is the single most consequential geopolitical decision taken in the last three decades.”
Bremmer says these “parallel technology systems” are more worrisome than China’s military threat, which is “smaller than many in Washington believe”:
China has even less interest in going to war with the U.S. than the U.S. has in going to war with China. China is a regional, but not a global, military power. …
The greatest source of U.S.-China conflict comes from technology. Here, China is, today, a true superpower. Here, the U.S. does have an interest in seeing China fail, because China’s technological development poses a foundational challenge to the values on which global stability and prosperity depend.
8. Global warming’s debate stage
The real debate on climate change is happening in the courtrooms, writes Axios’ Amy Harder in her “Harder Line” column.
- The big picture: With federal policy gridlocked, advocates are pushing an ever-growing list of long-shot lawsuits blaming Big Oil companies and the government for the planet’s hot mess.
Three big cases to watch:
- A ruling is expected next month on a closely watched fraud lawsuit from the New York attorney general alleging ExxonMobil misled investors on its handling of climate-change costs. Massachusetts’ AG just filed a similar lawsuit.
- Several lawsuits blaming a handful of Big Oil companies for rising temperatures are moving forward across the country.
- A three-judge federal panel has yet to rule on a high-profile case where children are alleging the government failed them on climate change.
9. 🏈 Shakeup atop college football
Data: AP. Table: Axios Visuals
10. 1 car thing
Ford unveiled a high-performance electric SUV, the Mustang Mach-E, ahead of the LA Auto Show, a sign of its new approach to electrification, reports Axios’ Joann Muller.
- Why it matters: Instead of building econo-boxes no one wants, Ford says its strategy going forward is to “play to its strengths” by adding electric powertrains to its best-selling vehicles, including the Mustang, F-150 pickup and its extensive lineup of SUVs and commercial vans.
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FIRST READ: Three lessons we learned from the 2019 gubernatorial races
So maybe all politics isn’t national after all.
That’s one of the three lessons we learned from this month’s gubernatorial contests in Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi – where Democratic candidates won in two of the states (Kentucky and Louisiana).
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Here are those three lessons:
1. All politics isn’t national just yet
Earlier this month, we wrote about how nationalized our politics has become, whether it was that mostly party-line House procedural vote on impeachment, or the Trump-heavy GOP ads in these red states, or President Trump’s aggressive campaigning in these races.
Our argument: American politics is increasingly breaking along attitudes about Trump.
That’s definitely happening, but it doesn’t explain how Democrats won in Kentucky (a state Trump carried by 30 points in 2016) and Louisiana (which Trump won by 20 points).
2. Good candidates still matter
That brings us to our second lesson: Good candidates matter – and bad ones do, too.
In Kentucky, ousted GOP Gov. Matt Bevin was highly unpopular (the other statewide Republican candidates won their contests), and Democratic challenger Andy Beshear wasn’t too far outside the state’s ideological mainstream, despite the GOP messaging tying him to Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and AOC.
And in Louisiana, Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards also wasn’t too liberal for his state (he signed an anti-abortion bill into law), while GOP challenger Eddie Rispone ultimately wasn’t well-known enough.
3. Republicans are getting thrashed in the suburbs
And in maybe the most applicable lesson for 2020, Republican candidates are losing the suburbs. Big time.
We saw it on Saturday in Louisiana, where
Rispone lost the parishes
outside of New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
And we saw it earlier in Kentucky, where Bevin underperformed in the suburbs outside of Cincinnati.
“If you had any doubt that Trump was a human repellent spray for suburban voters who have a conservative disposition, Republicans getting wiped out in the suburbs of New Orleans, Louisville and Lexington should remove it,” Tim Miller, a GOP strategist whose a critic of the president, told the New York Times.
Obama’s warning to Democrats
Speaking of the lesson that good candidates matter, former President Barack Obama issued a warning to Democrats.
Pragmatism and improvement are more important than ideology and revolution.
“This is still a country that is less revolutionary than it is interested in improvement,” Obama said on Friday in Washington, D.C., per NBC’s Alex Seitz-Wald. “They like seeing things improved. But the average American doesn’t think that we have to completely tear down the system and remake it. And I think it’s important for us not to lose sight of that.”
More from Obama: “Voters, including Democrats, are not driven by the same views that are reflected on certain left-leaning Twitter feeds, or the activist wing of our party. And that’s not a criticism to the activist wing—their job is to poke and prod and text and inspire and motivate. But the candidate’s job, whoever that ends up being, is to get elected.”
Trump vs. Pompeo
Turning to the impeachment inquiry, with more public hearings on the way tomorrow, NBC’s Carol E. Lee, Courtney Kube and Andrea Mitchell report that the proceedings have created a rift between President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
“Trump has fumed for weeks that Pompeo is responsible for hiring State Department officials whose congressional testimony threatens to bring down his presidency, the [four current and former administration] officials said. The president confronted Pompeo about the officials — and what he believed was a lackluster effort by the secretary of state to block their testimony — during lunch at the White House on Oct. 29, those familiar with the matter said.”
More: “Trump particularly blames Pompeo for tapping Ambassador Bill Taylor in June to be the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, the current and former senior administration officials said.”
AP/Patrick Semansky
2020 VISION: Buttigieg’s now your official frontrunner in Iowa
On Saturday night, the gold-standard Des Moines Register/CNN poll of Iowa confirmed last week’s Monmouth poll of the Hawkeye State: Pete Buttigieg is ahead.
The numbers among likely Iowa caucus-goers: Buttigieg 25 percent, Elizabeth Warren 16 percent, Joe Biden 15 percent, Bernie Sanders 15 percent and Amy Klobuchar 6 percent. That 9-point lead for Buttigieg is outside the poll’s margin of error of plus-minus 4.4 percentage points.
No one else got more than 3 percent in the poll.
A CBS/YouGov poll of registered voters in Iowa, however, showed a slightly different race in the state: Biden 22 percent, Sanders 22 percent, Buttigieg 21 percent and Warren 18 percent.
Carlo Allegri/Reuters
On the campaign trail today: Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Julian Castro address a Black Community Summit in Nevada… Deval Patrick, in Iowa, tours flood damage and meets with Democrats in Des Moines… Steve Bullock also is in the Hawkeye State… Pete Buttigieg holds an event in Atlanta… Amy Klobuchar also is Atlanta, where she discusses voting rights… And Julian Castro holds a town hall in Minden, Nev.
Dispatches from NBC’s campaign embeds:
In Las Vegas yesterday, Elizabeth Warren responded to the Des Moines Register poll finding that a majority of likely Iowa caucus-goers prefer a nominee fighting for changes that have a better chance at becoming law, even if those changes aren’t as big.
“Look, I don’t do polls. But I know what I’m fighting for and I know that we need ideas that match the problems in this country,” Warren said, per NBC’s Deepa Shivaram. “I believe that 2020 is our chance to do that. It’s our chance to get in the fight and make this country work not just for billionaires, not just for corporate executives, but make it work for everyone. I’m not willing to give up on democracy and what we can do together.”
And Biden warned Nevada voters about electing someone who can’t get their legislation through Congress, or who can’t beat President Trump, NBC’s Marianna Sotomayor reports.
“So ask yourself, you got to ask yourself who can get these things done? Who gets the idea? Who you know, there’s a lot of people out there, we all have a vision for health care. We all have a plan. But who actually has done anything to get anything passed?” Biden quipped.
He added, “I’m not being pejorative about my colleagues, but part of the deal here is that, you know, you actually have to get the hard work getting things passed through the Congress. Well, I’m the only one who has actually gone out and done it.”
DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is … minus-39
Minus-39 points.
That’s Michael Bloomberg’s net favorable/unfavorable rating from this week’s Des Moines Register/CNN poll of likely Democratic Iowa caucus-goers.
Nineteen percent view Bloomberg favorably, versus 58 percent who see him in an unfavorable light (-39).
That’s compared to Buttigieg at +56, Warren at +46, Biden at +31 and Sanders at +26.
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ICYMI: News clips you shouldn’t miss
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The president is now blasting a Pence aide who testified that his Ukraine call was unusual and inappropriate’
North Korea says it won’t hold another meeting with President Trump unless they receive “our end of the bargain.”
Michael Bloomberg apologized for the controversial “stop-and-frisk” program that defined his criminal-justice record as mayor.
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