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Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden On Pittsburgh Shooting: US “Core Values...At Risk.” <#S1>

• At Connecticut Rally, Biden Decries Fear, Hatred. <#S2>

• Biden Stumps For Delgado. <#S3>

• Biden To Campaign With Cordray In Ohio Today. <#S4>

• Biden To Campaign For Blum, Hubbell In Iowa Tomorrow. <#S5>

• Biden To Help Heitkamp Kick Off Statewide Tour On Thursday. <#S6>

• Biden To Attend Get Out The Vote Rally With McCaskill On Wednesday. <#S7>

• Biden To Stump For Underwood, Kelly In Illinois On Thursday. <#S8>

• Biden Endorses Shalala. <#S9>

• WPost’s Rubin: Biden Setting Tone 2020 Democratic Candidates Should Take.
<#S10>

• Al Hunt: Biden Decision On Bid “Will Frame The 2020 Contest.” <#S11>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Media Commentators: Trump Rhetoric Contributed To Pittsburgh Shooting.
<#S12>

• Trump Slams “Wacky Tom Steyer” For Accusing Him Of Sparking “Political
Violence.” <#S13>

• Trump: “Fake & Dishonest Reporting” To Blame For Atmosphere Of Division.
<#S14>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Mattis Presses Saudi FM For Probe Into Khashoggi’s Death. <#S15>

• Mattis: Talks With Europeans On INF Withdrawal Yielded No Alternatives.
<#S16>

• Zarif Says US Has Made Wrong Choices In Middle East. <#S17>

• “60 Minutes”: US Battle Against ISIS In Syria Entering Final Phase. <#S18>

• WPost A1: Russian Disinformation On Facebook Targeted Ukraine Before US.
<#S19>

• Bolsonaro Elected President Of Brazil. <#S20>

• Sen. Johnson Says China Stealing Industrial, Military Secrets. <#S21>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Nielsen: Migrant Caravan Will Be Denied US Entry. <#S22>

• Trump Interviews Indian-American Woman For Kavanaugh’s Spot On DC Circuit
Court. <#S23>

• Ratcliffe Says Papadopoulos Has No Russian Contacts. <#S24>

• Brady: Trump Tax Cut Plan Unlikely To See Action Before Next Year. <#S25>

• Amid “Overdose Epidemic,” Some ERs Now Offer Addiction Treatment. <#S26>

• Democrats Focus On Healthcare In Midterms’ Closing Argument. <#S27>

• Analysts: Democrats Likely To Retake House <#S28>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• NPR Highlights Work Of Children’s Cancer Therapy Development Institute.
<#S29>

• FDA Grants Priority Review For Metastatic Gastric Adenocarcinoma Drug.
<#S30>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S31>

• Washington Post. <#S32>
Biden in the News
Biden On Pittsburgh Shooting: US “Core Values...At Risk.”

CNN Newsroom[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(10/28) reported, “Following the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, former Vice
President Joe Biden released this statement: ‘We will either stand against
this hate now and wipe it out or we will rue the day we allowed it to grow
and fester. Our values, our core beliefs, all that have made this nation a
beacon to the world is at risk. Words matter and silence is complicit.’”

In talking about Biden’s tweet in reaction to the synagogue
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(10/28) host Ed Henry said, “Clearly at the end there a reference to
Charlottesville where he said that good people could be found among this
hate. He’s clearly going after President Trump within hours of the murder
of these 11 people.” Host Rachel Campos-Duffy said, “Former Vice President
Biden absolutely knows he’s at the top of those polls and I think that’s
probably what’s fueling that tweet.” Host Pete Hegseth said, “Howard Dean
he said before the shooting, but still he said Donald Trump is evil and now
Joe Biden moments after the shooting says this is hate. Those words justify
the dehumanization of another and the dehumanization of the people that
support them.”

*NYTimes Notes Biden Saturday Comments Among Reactions To Recent
Violence. *The New York Times
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(10/28, Dias) reports that the last days before the midterm elections are
“unfolding amid a cascade of horrors and rounds of finger-pointing that
reflect the deep fault lines in dozens of competitive House races and a
handful of Senate races nationwide.” Many voters “have been divided over
national identity and who gets to define values in America,” and “the
climate has intensified” even as “escalating violence and fear are
exacerbating divergent viewpoints among voters.” The Times cites reactions
by voters and political figures to the recent violence, including comments
by former Vice President Joe Biden. “‘Pipe bombs against public officials,
African-Americans killed in Kentucky, continued physical threats against
the press, an all-out campaign of fear directed at immigrants signal that
hate is on the march in America,” Biden “said on Saturday. ‘We’re facing a
battle for the soul of this nation,’ added Mr. Biden, who is considering a
run for president in 2020. ‘Words matter. And silence is complicity.’”
At Connecticut Rally, Biden Decries Fear, Hatred.

The AP
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(10/26, Haigh) reported former Vice President Joe Biden “was the main
attraction at a rally Friday in Hartford,” Connecticut, at which he
expressed concerns “about the sense of hate and terror he sees gripping the
country, urging the Democratic party faithful in Connecticut to elect
leaders who will help ‘reset the moral compass of this nation.’” He also
“urged the packed magnet school gymnasium to support the full Democratic
slate of candidates in Connecticut, especially gubernatorial candidate Ned
Lamont.” The rally also allowed “Democrats to build support for U.S. Sen.
Chris Murphy and 5th Congressional District candidate Jahana Hayes.”
The Hartford
(CT) Courant
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(10/26, McWilliams) reported Biden said, “This hatred, this ugliness has to
come to an end...I really want to make this crystal clear, we are better
than this.” He added, “This is not America. This is not who were are.”

In contrast, the Connecticut Mirror
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(10/26, Pazniokas) reports, “Conciliation was a fleeting message at an
event built around anger directed at President Trump and Republicans in
Washington,” with “Biden and the Democratic ticket repeatedly return[ing]
to a need to resist the GOP.” Among the local TV segments reporting on
Biden’s visit were WCTX-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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New Haven, CT (10/26, 11:05 p.m. EDT) and 12-TV[image: Image removed by
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New Haven, CT (10/28, 9:05 a.m. EDT). The New York Times
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(10/29, Foderaro), Manchester (CT) Journal Inquirer
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(10/27, Brindley), and Yale University (CT) Daily News
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(10/29) also report on Biden’s appearance.
Biden Stumps For Delgado.

The Mid-Hudson (NY) News
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(10/27) reported former Vice President Joe Biden appeared at a rally in
Kingston, New York, for Antonio Delgado (D), who is challenging Rep. John
Faso (R). Biden told the crowd of over 1,000, “We are in a battle for the
soul of America.” He added, “It’s time to stand up dammit; there is nothing
we are not capable, but we have to come together.” Spectrum News Hudson
Valley (NY)
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(10/26, Landers) reports that with a Spectrum News-Siena College poll
showing Faso leading Delgado by one percentage point, the “razor thin
margin” drew Biden to stump for Delegado. Faso said in a statement, “It is
not a surprise that a prominent Democrat is endorsing my opponent. However,
most people in our district don’t support higher taxes and the government
run healthcare scheme promoted by my opponent.”

Hudson Valley 360 (NY)
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(10/26, Moody) reports, “Biden took the opportunity to comment on the
unfolding events that started early this week when 13 suspicious packages,
now known to have contained potential explosive devices, were delivered to
Biden” and others. He said, “The country has to come together. This
division, this hatred, this ugliness, it really has to end. And words
matter.” Spectrum News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(10/27, 2:15 p.m. EDT) also reported on Biden’s visit in several similar
segments.
Biden To Campaign With Cordray In Ohio Today.

The Youngstown (OH) Vindicator
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(10/29) reports former Vice President Joe Biden “is taking a starring role
in the Democratic Party’s quest to elect a wave of Democrats in next week’s
congressional and state elections nationwide. He’s in the midst of a
juggernaut aimed at giving Democrats control of Congress and statehouses
this week, with a stop today in Youngstown at a 4 p.m. rally with” former
CFPB chief Richard Cordray (D). In a statement tweeted on Sunday, Biden
said, “Ohio needs a champion – a Governor with a back bone – and that’s
Rich Cordray. He’s ready to fight for working families, and I’m ready to
help get him elected.” Also covering Biden’s visit are WTVG-TV[image: Image
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Toledo, OH (10/28, 9:06 a.m. EDT), WKBN-TV
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Youngstown, OH (10/29), WFMJ-TV
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Youngstown, OH (10/23), and a brief in the New York Times
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(10/29, Martin, Flegenheimer)
Biden To Campaign For Blum, Hubbell In Iowa Tomorrow.

The Hill
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(10/25, Axelrod) reports former Vice President Joe Biden will campaign
Tuesday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to support Abby Finkenauer (D) who is
challenging Rep. Rep. Rod Blum (R), and Fred Hubbell (D), who is
challenging Gov. Kim Reynolds (R). “Iowa’s First District is one of the
Democrats’ most watched possible pick up opportunities in the House,” and
the race is in the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Red to
Blue program. The Sioux City (IA) Journal
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(10/28, Lynch) reports, “Republicans suggest Biden’s visit signals
Democratic nervousness about candidates who once looked like they had
comfortable leads.” However, both Hubbell and Finkenauer “are downplaying
suggestions they need help from former Vice President Joe Biden to get
their campaigns cross the Election Day finish line.” WHO-TV
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Des Moines, IA (10/26) also reports on Biden’s scheduled visit to Iowa.
Biden To Help Heitkamp Kick Off Statewide Tour On Thursday.

The AP
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(10/26) reported that on Thursday former Vice President Joe Biden will help
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D) launch a five-day statewide tour that “will hit
more than 20 communities and cover more than 2,000 miles.” The Hill
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(10/26, Hagen) reports, “Biden will kick off the ‘Bring it Home, Heidi!’
five-day statewide tour in Fargo.” Meanwhile, “the race has been trending
more toward Republicans,” and “recent public polls show Heitkamp trailing”
Rep. Kevin Cramer (R) “by double-digit margins.” In a statement, Biden
said, “Heidi is the real deal – she stands up to both parties to do what’s
right by the people she serves, and I hope you’ll help get out the vote and
send her back to be North Dakota’s independent voice in the U.S. Senate.”
Also reporting on Biden’s scheduled appearance are WDAY-TV[image: Image
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Fargo, ND (10/27, 8:07 a.m. CDT) and a brief in the New York Times
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(10/29, Martin, Flegenheimer).
Biden To Attend Get Out The Vote Rally With McCaskill On Wednesday.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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(10/28, Raasch) reports that on Wednesday former Vice President Joe Biden
will attend a get-out-the-vote rally with Sen. Claire McCaskill (D). Among
local TV mentions of Biden’s visit are KSHB-TV[image: Image removed by
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Kansas City, MO (10/28, 6:39 a.m. CDT), KRCG-TV
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Jefferson City, MO (10/28), and KMOV-TV[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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St. Louis (10/28, 6:34 a.m. CDT), as well as the website of KTVI-TV
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St. Louis (10/29).
Biden To Stump For Underwood, Kelly In Illinois On Thursday.

The AP
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(10/27) reported that on Thursday, former Vice President Joe Biden will
host a rally for Lauren Underwood (D), who is challenging Rep. Randy
Hultgren (R). In a release Biden said that as a nurse Underwood has
“devoted her life to serving others.” Later in the day, Biden also will
appear with Brendan Kelly (D), who is challenging Rep. Mike Bost (R). The Kane
County (IL) Chronicle
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(10/28) reported that in a release, Biden said, “We need more people like
[Underwood] in Washington.” The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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(10/26, Schlinkmann) reports that Biden’s rally with Kelly, along with
Bost’s recent event with President Trump, “underscore the importance that
both parties have placed on the Kelly-Bost race in the national battle for
control of Congress in the Nov. 6 election.” The Chicago Tribune
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(10/28, Riopell) also reports on Biden’s upcoming events, and among the
local television segments reporting on Biden’s appearance are WFLD-TV[image:
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Chicago (10/28, 8:08 a.m. CDT), WBBM-TV[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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Chicago (10/28, 7:06 a.m. CDT), WLS-TV
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Chicago (10/28), and WREX-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Rockford, IL (10/27, 10:04 p.m. CDT).
Biden Endorses Shalala.

Florida Politics
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(10/27, Nicol) reported former Vice President Joe Biden endorsed Donna
Shalala (D) in the race to replace retiring Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R).
Biden said, “Few candidates running for Congress have as much experience as
Donna Shalala.” He added, “Donna’s a fearless progressive leader who has
served our country and the South Florida community with integrity, vigor
and passion,” and she is “uniquely qualified to take on the biggest issues
facing our communities like health care, gun control and climate change.”
WPost’s Rubin: Biden Setting Tone 2020 Democratic Candidates Should Take.

Jennifer Rubin, in a column in the Washington Post
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(10/26, Rubin), wrote that most Democrats considering a 2020 presidential
run “seem to lack weightiness” and “would be wise to get away from the
laundry lists and the Trump attacks, no matter how satisfying and deserved
the latter are.” Meanwhile, former Vice President Joe Biden, is calling on
Republicans “to defend their own principles and live up to their oaths.”
Rubin added, that as we “fight for our democracy and our decency...defend
objective reality and the norms and institutions that we foolishly took for
granted,” potential 2020 candidates should follow Biden’s “lead in
appealing to the better angels of our nature.” Rubin said that she isn’t
looking for specifics on how to address issues like climate change or
government debt, but instead she wants “to hear candidates defend our
democratic values.” Rubin concludes, that the way to beat President Trump
is “to remind Americans of those causes and ideals that are greater than
party.”
Al Hunt: Biden Decision On Bid “Will Frame The 2020 Contest.”

Albert R. Hunt, in a column on Bloomberg View
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(10/28), writes that former Vice President Joe Biden’s decision on whether
to run for president “will frame the 2020 contest.” There is a “compelling
case for” Biden to run, as by being “knowledgeable, honest and decent” he
is “an antidote to Donald Trump.” However, he also “would be the oldest
major-party nominee in U.S. history,” and “the age issue won’t go away.”
Additionally, “a number of the candidates he’s stumping for are calling for
a new generation of leaders and new ideas.” Hunt concludes, Biden is “not
there yet. And three months is a short time to get there.”
Leading the News
Media Commentators: Trump Rhetoric Contributed To Pittsburgh Shooting.

Some media analysts and opinion writers are accusing President Trump of
having used his rhetoric to make tragedies such as the one in Pittsburgh
more likely in today’s America. Under the headline “Trump’s America Is Not
A Safe Place For Jews,” for example, Dana Milbank writes in the Washington
Post
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(10/28) that “George Washington, in his 1790 letter to the Touro Synagogue
in Newport, R.I., told Jews they would be safe in the new nation,” but
“now...Trump has violated Washington’s compact” by giving “sanction to
bigotry and assistance to persecution. ... I had been dreading and
expecting this day, and more like it, for two years. This was more than
predictable; it was predicted.” ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed
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(10/28, story 3, 1:40, Thomas) reported that shooter Robert Bowers was no
fan of Trump, of whom he wrote that he “is a globalist, not nationalist,”
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(10/28, story 3, 2:15, Pegues) that “using derogatory language, he
said...Trump was surrounded by Jewish people.” Julia Ioffe writes in
the Washington
Post
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(10/28), however, that though “Trump’s allies were at pains to point out
that...the alleged shooter, was in fact anti-Trump,” Trump “has had enough
to say about the Jews that his supporters may easily make certain
pernicious inferences.”

As Charles M. Blow puts it in the New York Times
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(10/28), “even Trump appears to have been too mild a racist and
‘nationalist’ for the synagogue shooter,” but “white nationalists,
neo-Nazis and alt-right are energized by Trump’s election.” The New York
Times
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(10/28) similarly writes in an editorial that Trump “has failed to
consistently, unequivocally reject bigotry, and he has even encouraged
violence at some of his rallies” and is “setting a low, coarsening standard
for how Americans should speak to and about one another.”

The major network newscasts devoted a combined 43 minutes to the
Pittsburgh attack, which included five minutes and 40 seconds of combined
airtime on the potential role played by Trump’s rhetoric in bringing about
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(10/28, story 5, 1:45, Glor) said, for example, that “Trump did not waiver
in his condemnation of the synagogue attack,” but “then he kept talking.”
CBS (Reid) showed Trump saying in Indiana, “Maybe I should cancel this
arrangement because I have a bad hair day.” CBS added that “critics argue
the President has consistently failed to show moral leadership in the wake
of hate-filled incidents, such as the August 2017 white supremacist rally
in Charlottesville.”

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(10/28, story 4, 1:45, Karl) reported, meanwhile, that “Trump condemned
what he called ‘an act of hate,’ but he did not mention the victims.” In
Illinois Saturday, he “veered between tightly scripted, sober-minded words
about the massacre and classic Trumpism.” Trump was shown saying, “If you
don’t mind, I’m going to tone it down just a little bit. Is that okay?” NBC
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(10/28, story 5, 2:10, Holt) reported Trump called “for civility” Saturday
night, “just nine days before the midterm elections.” Trump was shown
saying, “And it doesn’t mean that we can’t fight hard and be strong and say
what’s on our mind, but we have to always remember those elements. We have
to remember the elements of love and dignity and respect.” NBC added
“public officials are divided over how much a toxic campaign climate could
embolden the dangerous.”

Meanwhile, the New York Times
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(10/28, Baker, Haberman) indicates that “for months, Republican officials
have complained privately that...Trump lacks the ability to confront
moments of crisis with moral clarity, choosing to inflame the divisions
that have torn the country apart rather than try to bring it together.” To
the Times, “it took the importuning of his Jewish daughter and son-in-law
to craft a powerful statement of outrage at anti-Semitism,” but “then Mr.
Trump went back into partisan mode, assailing his enemies.”

The Washington Post
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(10/28, Costa, Sonmez) reports “Trump and his Republican allies remained
defiant Sunday amid allegations from critics that Trump’s incendiary
attacks on political rivals and racially charged rhetoric on the campaign
trail bear some culpability for the climate surrounding a spate of violence
in the United States.” The Post adds that “the GOP’s defensive posture,
following Saturday’s deadliest attack on Jews in US history, came as some
Trump allies sought to shift blame to others, including media figures and
Democratic leaders, arguing that recent attempts by liberal protesters to
challenge GOP officials in public were perhaps more responsible for the
national unrest than the president’s combative politics or the rise of
conspiracy theories on the right.” However, “those theories appear to have
driven the suspects behind the bombs sent to Democratic officials and the
mass shooting Saturday at a Pittsburgh synagogue.”

To the New York Times
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(10/28, Dias), “the campaign’s finale is unfolding amid a cascade of
horrors and rounds of finger-pointing that reflect the deep fault lines in
dozens of competitive House races and a handful of Senate races
nationwide.” The Times adds that “if many voters appear set to back
politicians from their own parties, according to interviews and polling,
they also often defended or blamed politicians – particularly...Trump –
based on the same partisan lines.” The Wall Street Journal
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(10/28, Jamerson) runs a similar analysis under the headline “Pittsburgh
Shooting, Pipe-Bomb Arrest Colors Campaigning For Midterm Election.”

USA Today
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(10/28, Cummings) reports, meanwhile, that Vice President Pence “denied
that...Trump’s habit of attacking his opponents contributed to the shooting
that left 11 people dead at a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday or the bombs
that were mailed to a number of political figures last week.” Pence told
NBC Saturday, “Look, everyone has their own style. And frankly, people on
both side of the aisle use strong language about our political differences.
... But I just don’t think you can connect it to threats or acts of
violence, Vaughn. And I don’t think the American people connect it.”
The Washington
Post
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(10/28, Kane) said “several other Trump administration officials, lawmakers
and others weighed in on the shooting in appearances on the Sunday morning
news shows.” On Fox News Sunday[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(10/28), DHS Secretary Nielsen “called the shooting ‘a pure act of evil,’”
adding, “You’ve heard that from the President and Vice President yesterday;
that’s what it is. ... We all condemn this in the strongest terms
possible.”

The Military Times
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(10/28, Copp) reports Defense Secretary Mattis also weighed in, telling
reporters “the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter...is ‘the poorest excuse for a
man you could ever come up with.’” Added Mattis, “This is a coward. He is
not a man by any definition that we use in the Department of Defense.”

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), on CBS’ Face the Nation[image: Image
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(10/28), resisted the suggestion that Trump’s rhetoric influenced the
shooter. Lankford said, “I don’t, because this particular shooter also
condemned President Trump saying he was a globalist that he was allowing
some of this to happen. I don’t see any connection where you would connect
the President to this particular shooting, just like I wouldn’t see
connecting Democrats to a person who walked up to baseball game last year
and said, ‘is this where the Republicans are practicing?’ then opened fired
on them simply because they were Republicans.”

On CBS’ Face the Nation[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(10/28), Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) said, “I think those of us in national
office, our President, those who hoped to be President, those of us in
Congress, who have louder microphones who are heard from and seen more
regularly, need to take responsibility for ways in which we lower the
temperature.” Coons added “our President and a number of other national
political leaders of both parties have used their megaphones in order to
inspire and instill and energize folks based on division rather than based
on unity.”

Former Clinton campaign director of strategic communications
Adrienne Elrod said on Fox News MediaBuzz[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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(10/28), “The media coverage, the media blaming is not unfair.” Trump’s
“divisive and hateful rhetoric” is “a big problem here.” Elrod added that
there is “a divisiveness in this country that the President of the United
States has created. ... He is not doing anything to try to being this
country together.”

John King said on CNN’s Inside Politics[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(10/28), “The problem is the President’s unscripted thoughts and tweets
undermine the calming words his aides feed into his teleprompter. Not long
before he read that unity script on Friday, a tweet with bombs in
quotations channeling right wing conspiracy chatter about a liberal hoax.
In that same tweet, other unscripted remarks, complaints that late campaign
attention is being diverted from the migrant caravan. The facts are obvious
here, but the real plot in the President’s thinking is somehow against
him.”

Correspondent Manu Raju said on CNN’s Inside Politics[image: Image
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(10/28), “The Trump brand of politics is to stoke a division and anger.
That’s what drives his base. That’s what he believes essentially helped him
win the presidency. ... When he says to unify, we need to unify, it rings
hollow, because afterwards he’s stoking division and anger at these
rallies. One way to do that is to direct the anger towards what his
supporters believe is a common enemy, the media and he uses the anger
against the media. When the President says he wants unity, really what he
is saying is he wants nobody to criticize him.”

Jenna Johnson of the Washington Post said on CNN’s Inside
Politics[image:
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(10/28), “I think that quite often even when the President says the right
thing, when he reads the words on his teleprompter, when issues the
statements, when sends the tweets that have he right things in them, the
things people expect to hear from a President during a moment of crisis or
during a moment of fear, so often they get quickly forgotten because he’ll
say what he really means. ... We’ve come to learn that this is not a
comforter in chief. This is not uniter in chief. Donald Trump never stops
campaigning. He’s always looking for what the news of the day can do for
him, what it can do for the midterms.” He’s always kind of looking ahead
and viewing things very politically. Not through the view of what does this
mean for all of us as Americans.

Meanwhile, the AP
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(10/28, Scolforo, Lauer, Breed) reports, “tributes rolled in Sunday to the
victims,” and “officials released the names of all 11 of the dead, all of
them middle-aged or elderly. The victims included intellectually disabled
brothers and a husband and wife. The youngest was 54 and the oldest was
97.” NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(10/28, lead story, 2:40, Almaguer) reported, “Investigators say it could
take up to a week to process this crime scene behind us. They call it
complex and also horrific.” NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(10/28, story 2, 1:40, Mott) showed Scott Brady, US Attorney for the
Western District Of Pennsylvania, saying, “There’s no indication that he is
working with anyone else, and so we have charged it and are treating it as
a hate crime, but continue to investigate.”

ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(10/28, lead story, 4:30, Gutman) reported that Bowers was heard “hurling
words of hate against Jews even as he murdered them,” and the CBS Weekend
News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(10/28, lead story, 3:45, Begnaud) that “even in custody police say” he
“continued to spew his hateful rhetoric.” The CBS Weekend News[image: Image
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(10/28, story 3, 2:15, Pegues) also said “Bowers’ social media footprint
shows he was stirring with hate. He had an account on Gab.com, a website
popular among the alt-right and white nationalists,” and “about a month
ago, he posted a picture of three glock handguns calling them ‘my glock
family’. In his bio he wrote ‘Jews are the children of Satan.’”

ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(10/28, story 6, 0:40, Muir) went on to report on the “first responders”
who “were on the scene within minutes of the first chilling calls, rushing
inside to engage the gunman.” ABC noted “four of them wounded during the
attack,” and “three of them are still in the hospital. One of them, a SWAT
team member who is in critical condition.” The CBS Weekend News[image:
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(10/28, story 2, 2:05, Glor) and NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(10/28, story 3, 2:00, Holt) also ran a story on the victims as well as another
one[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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on the first responders.

*Sarah Sanders Accuses WPost Of Exploiting Tragedy To Attack Trump.
*The Daily Caller
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(10/28, Kruta) reports White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders “lashed
out at The Washington Post Sunday, criticizing the outlet for editorially
tying...Trump to the events of the past week.” Tweeted
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Sanders, “Is there any tragedy the Washington Post won’t exploit to attack
President @realDonaldTrump? The evil act of anti-Semitism in Pittsburgh was
committed by a coward who hated President Trump because @POTUS is such an
unapologetic defender of the Jewish community and state of Israel.”

*Schiff: Trump “Often” Sets National “Tone” Of “Hatred.” *The
Washington
Times
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(10/28, Howell) reports “Rep. Adam Schiff of California on Sunday
said...Trump preaches unity in the wake of the tragedy but flirts with
danger every morning by stoking divisions on Twitter and mocking George
Soros, a prominent Jewish donor for Democrats and target of political
attacks from the GOP.” Said Schiff, “Honestly, I think this president’s
whole modus operandi is to divide us.” Schiff also told CNN’s State of the
Union[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(10/28), “The problem is not how he’s [the president] handling the
aftermath, Although I don’t agree that this could have been avoided or
mitigated if someone was armed in the synagogue. That’s not the answer. ...
I think the President has a pivotal role there. No one sets the tone more
than the President of the United States. And the tone that he sets is one
of division. Often one of hatred.”

*Nielsen: DHS Advised Pittsburgh Synagogue On Security “As Recently
As March.” *Politico
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(10/28, Mueller) reports Nielsen said yesterday that “a Department of
Homeland Security adviser visited the Pittsburgh synagogue that was the
site of a mass shooting Saturday ‘as recently as March.’” Added Nielsen,
“We actually conducted a site visit there with our protective security
adviser in the area. ... This is something we often do. ... We feel that
the best way to help communities support their efforts in terms of
protection is to be there, to be there on the ground, to listen to them, to
understand their needs.”

*Pittsburgh Mayor: Armed Guards Not The Answer To Synagogue
Shooting. *The Washington Post
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(10/28, Sonmez) reports “Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said Sunday that
armed guards in places of worship are not the solution, one day after 11
people were killed and six wounded by a gunman at the Tree of Life
synagogue in the city.” Peduto told NBC’s Meet the Press, “I don’t think
that the answer to this problem is solved by having our synagogues, mosques
and churches filled with armed guards or our schools filled with armed
guards.” The New York Times
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(10/28, Robertson, Tavernise, Zaveri) notes Peduto also “called the attack
the ‘darkest day of Pittsburgh’s history’ but vowed that the city would
move forward.” Peduto, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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(10/28, Bradbury, Murray) reports, also “said the city will need to ‘work
together,’” as “he and other city officials praised the region’s response
to Saturday’s massacre, saying Pittsburgh police officers saved lives by
stopping the suspected shooter.”

ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(10/28, story 5, 2:30, Raddatz) showed Peduto saying, “We will not try to
figure out ways in order to lessen the degree of crimes such as this. We
will work to eradicate it. Hatred will not have a place, anywhere.” ABC
World News Tonight[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(10/28, story 2, 4:30, Muir) also reported that “the people of Pittsburgh
were walking up to us this afternoon at the memorial, a beautiful building
across town, because they wanted to speak out and tell us that this city is
far stronger than that horror, and there’s no question about that tonight.”

*Brooklyn Borough President Urges Off-Duty Cops To Bring Weapons To
Services. *The New York Times
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(10/28, Schweber, Newman) reports that “as the nation reeled from
Saturday’s synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh, the borough president of
Brooklyn – home to more Jews than any county in the country – said on
Sunday that off-duty police officers should bring their weapons into
religious services.” Eric L. Adams, a “retired New York police captain,”
said, “From now on...I will bring my handgun every time I enter a church or
synagogue.” Adams, “a Democrat and 22-year veteran of the Police
Department, made his remarks at a news conference outside a Jewish family
services center in the Midwood neighborhood, home to one of New York City’s
highest concentrations of Orthodox Jews.”

*Prosecutors To Seek Death Penalty. *The Washington Examiner
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(10/28, Chaitin) reports US Attorney Scott Brady said federal prosecutors
are seeing Attorney General Sessions’ approval “to pursue the death penalty
for...Bowers.” Sessions “opened the door to the death penalty Saturday when
he said the DOJ was filing federal hate crime charges against Bowers.”

*Increasing Number Of Hate Crime Incidents. *The Washington Post
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(10/28, Sellers) says the Pittsburgh shooting “has renewed calls for the
federal government to update its laws to put the kind of violence targeting
minorities, religious groups and the public in the same category as
terrorists inspired by overseas groups.” In 2016, “hate crimes reached
their highest mark since 2012 – with the FBI recording 6,121 criminal
incidents motivated by bias against race, religion, sexual orientation,
disability or gender.” Crimes “against both Jews and Muslims increased”
over the previous year, “as did the number of crimes targeting lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender people.” Meg Oliver reported on the CBS
Weekend News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(10/28, story 6, 2:00, Glor) that “in 2016, more than one in five hate
crimes were prompted by religious bias. Out of those 1,538 offenses, more
than half were anti-Jewish. That’s far more than hate crimes targeting
Muslims, Catholics or any other religious group.”

*Muslim Community-Organized Crowdfunding Campaign Raises $77,000
For Shooting Victims. *The Washington Post
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(10/28, Klein) reports that the Muslim American community has organized a
crowdfunding campaign that has raised more than $77,000 for victims of the
Pittsburgh shooting. In its first six hours, the effort “called Muslims
Unite for Pittsburgh Synagogue, reached its initial goal of $25,000.” At
some points on Sunday, it was “taking in about $2,000 per hour.”

*Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Right “Must Accept A Changing World,”
Left “Must Accept The Results” Of 2016 Election. *In an editorial, the
Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette
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(10/28) writes, “If we demand respect for each other’s viewpoints and that
we not call each other names, be the name ‘racist’ or ‘snowflake,’ a
measure of humility will come, and maybe a modicum of understanding and
empathy.” Accordingly, “the right must accept a changing world,” and “the
left must accept the results of the last presidential election. ... No it
is not too soon to talk about reasonable gun control measures.”
Trump Slams “Wacky Tom Steyer” For Accusing Him Of Sparking “Political
Violence.”

President Trump tweeted
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yesterday, “Just watched Wacky Tom Steyer, who I have not seen in action
before, be interviewed by @jaketapper. He comes off as a crazed & stumbling
lunatic who should be running out of money pretty soon. As bad as their
field is, if he is running for President, the Dems will eat him alive!”
Trump’s tweet followed comments by Steyer on CNN’s State of the Union[image:
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(10/28) on whether he blames Trump for the bomb that was sent to him.
Steyer said, “There’s obviously no direct link,” but “I am absolutely
associating and blaming him for creating the atmosphere that exists. The
reason I started and have been running an impeachment petition drive is
because, in my opinion, he is corrupt and lawless and dangerous.” Steyer
called the President’s “response to the tragedy” in Pittsburgh
“appropriate,” but went on to criticize “the atmosphere that he’s created
and that the Republican Party has created in terms of political violence.”

As examples of that, The Hill
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(10/28, Keller) reports, Steyer cited “‘voter suppression,’ political
gerrymandering and ‘violent rhetoric.’” Axios
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(10/28, Atkinson) notes that on Friday, moreover, “Steyer called for the
president’s impeachment citing ‘a systematic attack on our democracy that
extends much further than just one isolated terrorist in Florida.’”
The Washington
Examiner
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(10/28, Lim) calls Steyer “a Trump critic and potential 2020 Democratic
candidate,” and the New York Post
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(10/28, Schwab) that he replied to Trump on Twitter
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018102901biden&r=email-1bc3&l=064-e40&t=c>,
writing, “It is unthinkable that in the midst of the horrible political
violence our president would resort to name-calling instead of repairing
the damage to the fabric of our country.”

Media analyses cast Trump’s broadside against Steyer as a sign that
he has no intention of easing on his denunciations of his opponents.
To the Washington
Times
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(10/28, Howell), for the example, the President “showed no signs of pulling
back on his strident political attacks.” Bloomberg News
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(10/28, Niquette) reports that “Trump, who held a relatively restrained
campaign rally in Illinois on Saturday night, was back to mocking political
opponents on Twitter Sunday,” and Politico
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(10/28, Forgey) that Trump’s comments came “hours after calling for a more
civil national discourse in the wake of a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh
synagogue.”

The Washington Post
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(10/28, Kane) says “Steyer, a philanthropist and former hedge fund manager,
is best known for his ‘Need to Impeach’ campaign, calling for Trump’s
removal from office.” The Post adds “Trump’s attack on Steyer came in the
midst of a broader debate over the role of political rhetoric following the
mail bombs, as well as Saturday’s deadly shooting at a synagogue in
Pittsburgh.” Breitbart
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(10/28, Pollak) reports Steyer “was the Democrats’ single largest donor in
the 2014 midterm elections, and has spent tens of millions of dollars
pushing for the impeachment of...Trump.”

*Steyer: McCarthy Tweet “A Straught-Up Anti-Semitic Move.” *Tom
Steyer was asked on CNN’s State of the Union[image: Image removed by
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(10/28) about a now-deleted tweet from House Majority Leader McCarthy
accusing him, George Soros, and Michael Bloomberg of trying to buy the
election. Steyer said, “I have no idea what Congressman McCarthy, was in
his mind. ... In terms of interpreting what he said, that seems to me like
a straight-up anti-Semitic move. I think that is a classic attempt to
separate Americans. I think that absolutely falls into the category of what
I’m describing as political violence. And I believe that what we are
looking for in America is something completely different from that.” Reuters
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(10/28) notes McCarthy had written, “We cannot allow Soros, Steyer, and
Bloomberg to BUY this election! Get out and vote Republican November 6th.
#MAGA.”

Breitbart
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(10/28, Pollak) reports Steyer is in fact not Jewish, and instead is a
member of the Episcopalian church. Breitbart also reports “the charge that
billionaires are trying to ‘buy our democracy’ is routine in American
politics. For years, Democratic Party leaders like then-Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) accused the Koch brothers of trying to ‘buy our
elections,’” and “just this year, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who is
Jewish, accused billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who is also Jewish, of the
same.”
Trump: “Fake & Dishonest Reporting” To Blame For Atmosphere Of Division.

President Trump also tweeted
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last night, “The Fake News is doing everything in their power to blame
Republicans, Conservatives and me for the division and hatred that has been
going on for so long in our Country. Actually, it is their Fake & Dishonest
reporting which is causing problems far greater than they understand!”

*In Tweet Today, Trump Continues To Rail Against Media As “True
Enemy Of The People.” *Trump tweeted
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this morning, “There is great anger in our Country caused in part by
inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News
Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility
& report the news accurately & fairly. That will do much to put out the
flame...”

*NYTimes’ Rutenberg: Trump Attacks On Media Working. *Jim Rutenberg
writes in the New York Times
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(10/28) that in the aftermath of last week’s pipe bombs, Trump made “the
not-so-veiled suggestion that the news media was exaggerating the story
because of some political motivation. Even in a national crisis, he was
sticking with his anti-media strategy.” But “the question is, Is it
working? The short answer is yes. Increasingly, the president’s almost
daily attacks seem to be delivering the desired effect, despite the many
examples of powerful reporting on his presidency.” Trump “has succeeded in
casting journalists as the prime foils on his never-ending reality show,
much to the delight of those who cheer him on at rallies.”

*Scaramucci Urges Trump To “Deescalate A Little Bit,” Improve
Relationship With Media. *Former White House Communications Director
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(10/28), “I think there’s problems on both sides. But I’ve also been very
clear on this. I’ve said it to the President and members his staff and I’ll
continue to say it. There’s no need to have a war with the media. You know,
as far as I’m concerned, you can have an adversarial relation but we should
de-escalate it.” Scaramucci said on Fox News MediaBuzz[image: Image removed
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(10/28), “You can’t link madmen or people that have mental illness and say
it’s because of the President. ... But if you are asking me could the
President deescalate a little bit and have his approval ratings go up and
been seen a little bit differently, I absolutely believe that.”

Emily Jashinsky of The Federalist said, also on Fox News
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(10/28), that the media blaming the President for the pipe bombs sent to
his critics is “unfortunate and it takes responsibility away from where it
belongs, with the sick and twisted individuals who are committing these
heinous crimes. ... It was tough to watch some of the media coverage this
week.”

*Nielsen: “We Will Not Allow Political Violence To Take Root” In
US. *Asked about the arrest Friday of Cesar Altieri Sayoc in connection
with a series of pipe bombs sent to prominent Democrats, DHS Secretary
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(10/28) said, “The investigation is still underway but I can assure you
that if there are additional perpetrators, they will also be brought to
justice. The President has directed all federal resources to be on top of
this.” Nielsen went on to say, “I think the President has made it
extraordinarily clear that we will never allow political violence to take
root in this country. I firmly believe in the first amendment but anybody
who uses the first amendment as a cover to threaten or commit an act of
violence will not be tolerated. There’s no place for hate in this country.
Hate is hate, violence is violence. We will do all we can at the Department
of Homeland Security that such attacks are not perpetrated.”

*Moore Releases Footage He Claims Shows Bomb Suspect At Trump
Rally. *Beth Baumann writes on Townhall
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(10/28, Baumann) that filmmaker Michael Moore has “released raw, unedited
footage he captured for his latest film, ‘Fahrenheit 11/9.’” Moore claims
he has footage of Cesar Sayoc, who is suspected of sending bombs to several
Democrats and CNN. In a blog post
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Moore “detailed how he acquired the footage in a blog post on his website”
and “place[d] blame on Trump for Sayoc’s actions.”

*Angry Protesters Forcibly Removed From Blackburn Rally. *The
Tennessean
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(10/28, Ebert) reports “seven protesters were forcibly removed Sunday from
a campaign event” hosted by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R), who is running to
replace retiring Sen. Bob Corker (R). Tennessee Republican Party press
secretary Gillum Ferguson “said some of the protesters were quietly asked
to leave the event but declined.” Said Ferguson, “They said you’re going to
have to call the cops and we called the cops.” Breitbart
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(10/28, Leahy) says the “angry liberal protesters attempted to disrupt” the
rally “where Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was the featured speaker.”
Blackburn “spoke for about ten minutes to the enthusiastic crowd of 500
that had been infiltrated by a small left-wing group.” When she “called for
a moment of silence to remember those killed at an attack on a synagogue in
Pittsburgh, the crowd’s silent respect was interrupted by one of the
protesters who shouted at Blackburn.”

The Washington Examiner
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(10/28, Lim) reports Blackburn issued a statement, saying, “This Sunday
afternoon, the liberal angry mob made it clear they are active in Tennessee
and will stop at nothing to disrupt civil political discourse. ... They
resisted law enforcement, and they interrupted a moment of silence.
[Democratic Senate candidate] Phil Bredesen is their leader, and their
behavior is despicable.”

*WPost: Supporters Of “Openly” White Nationalist King’ Unconcerned
About His Positions. *The Washington Post
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(10/28, Zauzmer) reports that while Rep. Steve King (R-IA), “the US
congressman most openly affiliated with white nationalism,” has “become
better known for making incendiary remarks about immigration and race than
for passing a bill,” at the annual Oktoberfest in Remsen, Iowa, “no one
questioned whether” he “might be contributing to anti-Semitism or racism
through his unapologetic embrace of white nationalist rhetoric and his
praise of far-right politicians and groups in other nations.” In an
interview Saturday, King “said he was not anti-Semitic” and “said the
groups he’s associated with that are criticized as having neo-Nazi views
were more accurately ‘far right’ groups.” The Post adds that King “remains
popular; many voters do not consider his positions disqualifying,” and he
“has widespread support” across his district.
Foreign Policy
Mattis Presses Saudi FM For Probe Into Khashoggi’s Death.

During his visit to Prague for talks with Czech Prime Minister Andrej
Babis, Defense Secretary Mattis told reporters that he spoke with Saudi
Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir at a private dinner during the Manama
Dialogue security conference in Bahrain “and urged a full and complete
investigation into the killing of writer Jamal Khashoggi,” the AP
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(10/28, Baldor) reports. Mattis said Jubeir “‘had no reservations at all’
about the need for the kingdom to be transparent about the death of the
Washington Post columnist at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.”

The Washington Post
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(10/28, Sonne) reports Mattis “said he received assurances from Saudi
Arabia’s top diplomat that the kingdom would conduct a full and complete
investigation into the slaying” of Khashoggi. According to the Post,
Mattis’ “lunchtime discussion came after Jubeir called the global reaction
to Khashoggi’s killing ‘fairly hysterical’ in response to questions about
the murder at the security conference.” Asked whether the kingdom could
successfully determine whether Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, “a
target of Khashoggi’s criticism,” knew in advance about the plot, “Mattis
emphasized that evidence Turkish authorities have gathered would also be
taken into account.” The Turkish probe, Mattis said, “will ensure that
there is more than one review of what is going on here.”

Fox News correspondent Gillian Turner said on Fox News MediaBuzz[image:
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(10/28), “I think what the media was reacting to was the fact that the
President did not come straight out and blame, condemn the Saudis and the
royal family. The media is very prickly about this. ... When they feel he
is hedging and he is not forceful enough in condemning America’s enemies,
they get mad. You saw that with Kim Jong-un, with Vladimir Putin, now with
the Crown Prince.”

*WTimes: Khashoggi Killing Undermines US Support For Saudi War In
Yemen. *The Washington Times
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(10/28, Muñoz) says in an analysis that the “furor” over the alleged Saudi
plot to kill Khashoggi “could have some serious blowback for one of Saudi
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s signature foreign policy initiatives:
the increasingly troubling war in neighboring Yemen.” With Riyadh “reeling”
over the allegations, “Washington has leverage to increase international
pressure for Saudi concessions to end the Yemen war, analysts say.”
Lawmakers critical of the Saudi-led “war in Yemen are wasting no time
increasing pressure on the kingdom,” but the Administration “has made the
oil-rich kingdom a centerpiece of its economic, diplomatic and military
strategy for the region.” As such, there is little that the “lawmakers can
realistically do to force the administration’s hand on Yemen, a US
government official told The Washington Times.”
Mattis: Talks With Europeans On INF Withdrawal Yielded No Alternatives.

The Washington Post
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(10/28, Sonne) report Defense Secretary Mattis on Sunday “said his talks
with European allies so far have not resulted in any suggestions for
addressing Russia’s violation” of the Cold War-era Intermediate-Range
Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, “other than for the United States to
withdraw.” Mattis consulted with European allies “for ideas at a North
Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting in Belgium earlier this month, about
two weeks before President Trump announced that the United States planned
to pull out” of the pact. During those consultations, “Mattis said, he
reiterated his position that the status quo – with Russia violating the
treaty and the United States abiding by it – was unsustainable and wouldn’t
last.” The Post says despite Mattis’s consultations, “it’s unclear how many
of them were aware in advance that Trump was going to announce a decision
by the United States to withdraw from the pact.”

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