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*Monday, November 5, 2018 8:00 AM EST*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Rallying Support For OH, PA Democrats, Biden Slams Trump. <#S1>

• Biden Worried His Granddaughters Might Have Picked Up Pipe Bomb. <#S2>

• Biden Backs Florida State Senate Candidate Murphy. <#S3>

• ABC News: Biden’s Stumping For Midterm Candidates May Presage A 2020 Run.
<#S4>

• Some Democrats Worry About Age Of Party’s 2020 Frontrunners. <#S5>

• Bustle: Experts Say Biden-Obama Body Language Reveals Their Close
Relationship. <#S6>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump Campaigns In Georgia And Tennessee, Turns Focus To Senate Races.
<#S7>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump: Saudi Arabia Misused US Weapons In “Terrible” Yemen War. <#S8>

• Pompeo: US Holding Saudi Arabia Accountable For Khashoggi Death. <#S9>

• Pompeo Defends Reimposed Sanctions On Iran. <#S10>

• Pompeo Discusses Upcoming Meeting With North Korean Counterpart. <#S11>

• Kudlow: Trump Wants Deal With China That Is In America’s Interest. <#S12>

• Merkel’s Decision Not To Seek Party Chairmanship Leads To Public Contest.
<#S13>

• Egypt Says It Killed 19 Militants Linked To Friday’s Ambush Of Christians.
<#S14>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Final-Stretch Polls And Analyses Show Democrats Leading For House, But
With Margin To Lose. <#S15>

• Trump Says Birthright Citizenship As Currently Practiced Must End. <#S16>

• Trump: Administration “Looking At” Regulating Facebook, Google, Amazon.
<#S17>

• Trump Defends Calling “Fake News Media” The “Enemy Of The People.” <#S18>

• Pittsburgh Mayor Angered By Trump’s Visit After Synagogue Shooting. <#S19>

• Roger Stone Denies He Was Link Between WikiLeaks And Trump Campaign.
<#S20>

• NYTimes Analysis: Far-Right Groups Look For, And Find Evidence Trump
Agrees With Them. <#S21>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• Researchers Develop Novel Two-Pronged Method Targeting Cancer Cells’
Telomerase And Chromosomes. <#S22>

• NCI Grants $10.8M To ASU Professor For Breast Cancer Atlas. <#S23>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S24>

• Washington Post. <#S25>
Biden in the News
Rallying Support For OH, PA Democrats, Biden Slams Trump.

Media coverage of former Vice President Joe Biden’s weekend appearances in
Ohio and Pennsylvania in support of Democrats running in Tuesday’s midterm
elections focus heavily on his criticism of President Trump and the GOP.
The Wilkes-Barre (PA) Citizens’ Voice
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(11/4, Mark) reports that Biden, rallying support for Sen. Bob Casey (D)
and Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA) during a Sunday appearance in Yatesville,
PA, delivered “a verbal whipping” to Trump and the GOP. Biden “criticized
Trump’s remarks about a white supremacist rally in Virginia last year...as
potential fuel to a fire of domestic terrorism.” Said Biden, “We watched
neo-Nazis spew the same hateful bile we heard in the streets of Europe in
the 1930s. The President assigned moral equivalence. The fruits came
swiftly. Pipe bombs sent to me and some of my friends...that my
granddaughter could have picked up.”

The Wilkes-Barre (PA) Times Leader
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(11/4, DuPuis) reports that Biden “offered an indelible message” during the
Yatesville rally: Focus “on sending more Democrats to Congress in 2018.
‘The very character of our country is on the ballot, and all the world is
looking,’ Biden said of Tuesday’s general election. ‘We are in a battle for
America’s soul, and I really mean it,’ he added.” The Wilkes-Barre (PA)
Times Leader
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(11/4, O'Boyle) reports that in Yatesville, rally attendees “chanted ‘Run
Joe Run’ when Biden, 75, took the stage, but the Scranton native didn’t
take the bait, deciding that a decision on whether he will take on Trump in
2020 is yet to be made.” In an online article, WNEP-TV
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Scranton, PA (11/4, Strub) reported, “Supporters hope Biden’s appearance
will add excitement leading up to the hotly-contested midterm elections
this week. ‘He was wonderful and inspirational, and I just want to tell
everyone to please go out and vote,’ Tish Last of Wilkes-Barre said.”

The Harrisburg (PA) Patriot-News
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(11/4, Thompson) reports that during an appearance earlier in the day in
Harrisburg, PA, Biden “did his best to nationalize” the PA10 House race,
offering “a searing critique of...Trump and his GOP Congressional
majorities. ‘We all know in our gut there’s something different about this
year’s elections,’ Biden” said, adding, “This is the most important
election you’ve ever been part of, no matter how old or how young you are.”
Pastor George Scott (D) is battling Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) in the redrawn
PA10.

In an online article, WPMT-TV
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Harrisburg, PA (11/4, Griffaton) reported that Biden delivered “a message
about hate and the current state of politics. ‘This distorted world view is
fueled online. It spread ladies and gentleman, and when the President of
the United States Of America assigns, as he did, a moral equivalence
between those dark forces and those opposing them, that puts fuel on the
fire of intolerance and legitimates people who should never be heard,’ said
Biden.” On its website, WHP-TV
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Harrisburg, PA (11/4, Cheung) quoted Biden as saying, “We have to reset the
moral compass in the nation. It’s time to get up, try to remember who we
are. This is the United States of America. We can take it back.”

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(11/3, Wagner) reported that Biden and Trump “issued dueling warnings
Saturday about the dire consequences of the other’s party emerging from
Tuesday’s midterm elections with control of Congress.” Campaigning for
Democrats in Parma Heights, Ohio, Biden “asserted that Republicans want to
strip insurance coverage from people with preexisting health conditions and
‘eviscerate’ Medicare and Social Security.” He also cast “the election as a
referendum on Trump’s leadership, relaying that foreign leaders with whom
he continues to speak have been taken aback by many of the president’s
actions.” Trump, during an appearance in Montana, “asserted that the real
danger would be a takeover of Congress by ‘radical Democrats.’”

The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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(11/3, Richardson) reported that in his address, Biden “emphasized to the
crowd of several hundred getting to the polls and voting by Tuesday. ‘We
have to reset moral compasses,’ Biden said. ‘And we can do that on Tuesday.
Because this year, I’m an optimist.’” Among those who appeared with Biden
at Saturday’s rally were Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), who is being challenged
by Rep. Jim Renacci (R-OH), and ex-federal consumer watchdog chief Richard
Cordray (D), who is battling state Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) in the
race to succeed term-limited Gov. John Kasich (R-OH).

Among the local TV stations that reported on Biden’s weekend
campaign activities in Ohio and Pennsylvania were WBRE-TV[image: Image
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Wilkes-Barre, PA (11/4), WYOU-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Scranton, PA (11/4), WGAL-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Lancaster (PA)'s News at 11PM (11/4), WPBN-TV[image: Image removed by
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Traverse City, MI (11/4), WHP-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Harrisburg, PA (11/4), WPGH-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Pittsburgh's Channel 11 News on FOX 53 at 10PM (11/5), WOIO-TV[image: Image
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Cleveland's News at 11PM (11/3), WTOL-TV[image: Image removed by sender.
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Toledo, OH (11/3), WBNS-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Columbus, OH (11/3), and WKYC-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Cleveland (11/3).

*Yatesville Rally Attendees Divided On A 2020 Biden Run. *Reporting
from Yatesville, the Wilkes-Barre (PA) Citizens’ Voice
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(11/5, Krawczeniuk) says, “Democrats who showed up Sunday night to
hear...Biden rally voters at Pittston Area High School warmly embraced him
with cheers, hugs and selfies, but gave mixed reactions about whether he
should run for president again.” For example, “Joe Walsh, 71, a West
Pittston Democrat and retired iron worker,” told the Citizens’ Voice, “I
like Joe Biden and always did,” but added of a potential Biden 2020 run, “I
think he’s going to be too old by that time.” And “Jenny Collier, 61, of
Bartonsville, Monroe County,” said of Biden, “As much as I like him, I
think it’s time for new blood, I think it’s time for people that are
younger.” However, West Chester University student “Noelle Race, 21,” wants
“to see Biden run for president. ‘Well, Trump is (72) so you can’t put age
into practice, especially when you have someone like Donald Trump in
office.’”
Biden Worried His Granddaughters Might Have Picked Up Pipe Bomb.

The Hill
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(11/2, Rodrigo) reported that while campaigning on Thursday for Michigan
House hopeful Elissa Slotkin (D), former Vice President Joe Biden said
“that the only thing that worried him about the pipe bombs sent to him” the
previous “week was that his granddaughters might have picked them up.”
Discussing “the explosives mailed to him and several other prominent
Democratic figures and former government officials,” Biden said, “Only
thing that worried me [about explosives] was whether my granddaughters
would pick any of them up.”
Biden Backs Florida State Senate Candidate Murphy.

Florida Politics
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(11/3, Wilson) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday
endorsed ex-Florida state Rep. Amanda Murphy (D) “in the hotly contested
race for Senate District 16 just three days before Election Day.” In
response, Murphy “thanked the former VP and possible 2020 presidential
candidate for his support on social media, saying ‘our campaign is proud to
announce Vice President Biden’s full support as we make our final case to
the voters in Senate District 16.’”
ABC News: Biden’s Stumping For Midterm Candidates May Presage A 2020 Run.

In an online article, ABC News
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(11/4, Nagle) reported on former Vice President Joe Biden’s appearance last
Tuesday in Iowa in support of state Rep. Abby Finkenauer (D), who is
challenging IA1 Rep. Rod Blum (R), saying that Biden’s “support among his
party’s base in [the] vulnerable [GOP] district was on full display – a
foreshadowing, in some ways of the 2020 speculation that will kick into
overdrive on Wednesday,” the day after the midterm elections. ABC News said
that Biden recently “held rallies in Ohio, Wisconsin, along with his visit
to Iowa, with scheduled stops in Illinois, Missouri, North Dakota and
Michigan before the week was over.” ABC News added, “Though not a candidate
‘at this point,’ Biden has cultivated a campaign message centered on
fighting for the middle class, which could be crucial to winning back
blue-collar Democrats who voted for President Trump in 2016.”
Some Democrats Worry About Age Of Party’s 2020 Frontrunners.

The Hill
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(11/4, Parnes) reported on “a question some Democrats are pondering as the
2020 presidential election inches closer: Can their party represent change
when three of its top candidates are not only familiar faces, but people in
their retirement years? Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) will enter her 70s in
June. Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) is 77. Former Vice Joe Biden will turn 76
later this month.” The trio “have emerged in early polls as favorites to be
the 2020 Democratic nominee. Some strategists say that might be a problem.
‘Democrats would be better off with a young candidate,’ said Democratic
strategist Brad Bannon, who argued that an electorate that seems to want
change might prefer someone from a younger generation.” However, “some
Democrats say the 2020 election won’t be so much about age at all,
particularly when Democrats will be competing to take on a 72-year-old in
President Trump.”
Bustle: Experts Say Biden-Obama Body Language Reveals Their Close
Relationship.

Bustle
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(11/4, Sathish) reports on the relationship between former President Obama
and former Vice President Joe Biden, saying, “The body language between”
the pair “reaffirms just how close the two men are, experts say, especially
because they challenge toxic masculinity and show more emotion than people
typically expect to see from politicians.” Bustle says that “according to
strategic communications consultant Ruth Sherman, using the word bromance
to describe their relationship ‘spares men from being too emotional and
intimate.’ Instead, Sherman [says] that Biden and Obama’s relationship came
to resemble that between a father and son over the years.” Said Sherman,
“They went beyond...a good working relationship. I certainly think they had
one, but it went beyond that to include a very deep affection.”
Leading the News
Trump Campaigns In Georgia And Tennessee, Turns Focus To Senate Races.

Media analyses and President Trump’s own words indicate that he is spending
the final hours of the midterm election campaign focusing on maintaining or
expanding GOP control of the Senate, and distancing himself from potential
losses in the House. Even so, the first of his two rallies on Sunday was on
behalf of a gubernatorial nominee, Brian Kemp of Georgia, before he moved
on to Tennessee on behalf of GOP Senate nominee Rep. Marsha Blackburn. As
he has at most of his recent rallies, the President focused his remarks on
immigration and other messages intended to appeal to his base supporters.

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(11/4, lead story, 3:25) by reporting on “the final sprint into one of the
fiercest and most consequential midterm elections in memory.” The President
is “storming through the South in the final days, [with] so much riding on
the line for him.” ABC’s Tara Palmeri: “The President making his final
push, barnstorming in critical states with his greatest hits of attacks.”
Trump: “We overcame the Democrats’ smear campaign and confirmed the newest
member of the United States Supreme Court, Justice Brett Kavanaugh. So, if
you want more caravans and you want more crime, vote Democrat. It’s very
simple.” Palmeri: “That caravan is still 700 miles from the border, but the
President is saying the migrants present an imminent threat. ... And in the
Trump-friendly state of Georgia, voters say immigration is their top
issue.”

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(11/4, lead story, 2:20, Quijano), Errol Barnett reported, “Trump has made
immigration his closing argument for the GOP, continuing a nationwide blitz
of rallies.” Polls show Kemp “is in a tight race with the Democratic
nominee Stacey Abrams, who could become the first African-American female
governor in American history. Today, Kemp’s state office announced a failed
attempt to hack Georgia’s voter registration system and an investigation of
the state’s Democratic party for possible cybercrimes. Abrams says it’s a
last-ditch effort.”

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(11/4, lead story, 2:30), “As of tonight, nearly 35 million voters have
already cast their ballots. That’s a record number for early voting.” NBC’s
Kelly O’Donnell: “President Trump putting some distance between himself and
the fate of House Republicans as he left the White House.” Trump: “The
difference is I can’t campaigned for all of those House members there’s so
many of them.” O’Donnell: “But claiming he’s been an asset to Republican
Senate races.” Trump: “I think I’ve made a difference of five or six or
seven. That’s a big difference.” USA Today
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(11/4, Jackson, Fritze) reports that Trump “is campaigning for a Republican
Congress like his presidency is at stake – and it may well be.” He said at
a weekend rally in Florida, “If they take power, they will try to wipe away
all that we’ve done.”

The AP
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(11/4, Miller, Colvin) similarly reports that Trump “appears to be
distancing himself from the fate of House Republican candidates two days
before Tuesday’s midterm elections.” Before leaving the White House early
Sunday, he told reporters, “I think we’re going to do well in the House.
But, as you know, my primary focus has been on the Senate, and I think
we’re doing really well in the Senate.” Jonathan Karl said on ABC World
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(11/4, story 3, 1:10, Llamas), “The President is focused almost entirely on
the Senate. ... In the final days of the campaign, he’s only going to
states that he won. ... In terms of the messaging, they are focused on
getting Republicans, getting the base, to the polls, with a hard-right
message of fear and loathing.” The New York Times
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(11/4, Shear) writes that Trump is campaigning “inside the presidential
bubble,” where his supporters “repeat his tweets,” vent their “fury at
Democrats and the news media using the president’s incendiary language,”
and “harbor Mr. Trump’s conspiracy theories and echo his dark fear of
immigrants.”

The Washington Times
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(11/4, Howell) reports that Trump “is focusing on the threat of illegal
immigration and bitter fight over Supreme Court Justice Brett M.
Kavanaugh’s confirmation to rally red state voters against vulnerable
Senate Democrats in 10 states that Mr. Trump won two years ago, even though
his economic message is better suited toward winning centrist, suburban
voters who will determine House control.” John King said on CNN’s Inside
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(11/4), “Midterm elections are always a referendum on the President. Some
presidents sort of go into the shadows. This President has the decided, if
it’s about me, let’s make it about me.”

However, Politico
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(11/4, Bade, Marinucci, Schor) reports that Republicans “are profoundly
worried” that Trump “went overboard” on immigration, “and that it could
cost them dearly in key suburban [House] districts, from Illinois to Texas.
Many of them have cringed at Trump’s threats to unilaterally end birthright
citizenship, as well as his recent racially-tinged ad suggesting that
immigrants are police killers.” One “senior House Republican aide” said,
“Trump has hijacked the election. This is not what we expected the final
weeks of the election to focus on.” Politico’s Blake Hounshell tweeted
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“House Republicans are in panic mode.”

*Trump Says Abrams Would “Have Georgia Turn Into Venezuela.” *The Macon
(GA) Telegraph
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(11/4, Douglas, Williams) reports that Trump campaigned for Kemp in Macon,
saying that a vote for Abrams “would take the state backward. ... The
president’s message was simple: If you like me, you’ll like Kemp.” He also
“rhetorically lashed out at Abrams, saying that she’ll bring a liberal
agenda to the governor’s mansion that will harm the state’s economy and
health care system.” Trump said, “You put Stacey in there and you’re going
to have Georgia turn into Venezuela.” The Washington Post
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(11/4, Gearan, Sonmez) reports that Trump also said that Abrams “would turn
Georgia ‘into a giant sanctuary city for criminal aliens’ and he accused
Democrats nationally of inviting illegal immigrants ‘to destroy our
country, basically.’”

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Atlanta (11/4, 11:03 p.m. EST) reported that “thousands gathered” to hear
Trump “give his endorsement of Brian Kemp. ... Experts believe Trump’s
endorsement of Kemp back in the spring helped him win the [GOP] runoff, and
Kemp’s campaign is hoping that that will happen again.” WFXG-TV[image:
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Augusta, GA (11/4, 10:05 p.m. EST) reported Trump “spent most of the rally
discussing national issues, but did bring it back to the state governor’s
race several times.” WTOC-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Savannah, GA (11/4, 6:33 p.m. EST) reported, “Both Kemp and the President
expressed why they feel Abrams would not be a good fit for governor.”
Trump: “You want to see Georgia prosperity end quickly? Vote for the
Democrat. She’ll end it quickly.”

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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(11/4, Hallerman, Bluestein) reports that both candidates “have drawn stars
from their parties to boost their campaigns,” but Kemp “hopes he’ll get the
biggest bump from Trump, whom his aides believe can motivate voters in a
state he won by 5 percentage points – even if it means alienating
independent voters who abhor the president.” The Washington Post
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(11/4, Rucker) reports on how the President has been “using Air Force One
as a campaign prop” at stops like the one in Macon. Trump “has been using
his plane with particularly high frequency in the home stretch of the
midterm campaign.”

Before the event, Trump tweeted
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video of the line outside the venue – Breitbart
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(11/4, Poor) reports that “several thousand lined up hours early” for the
event – and then tweeted
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after the rally, “Thank you Macon, Georgia! Get out on Tuesday, November
6th and VOTE for @BrianKempGA as your next Governor to protect your jobs,
defend your borders, fight for your values, and continue MAKING AMERICA
GREAT AGAIN!” Kemp tweeted
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“I’ll work with @realDonaldTrump and @mike_pence to keep Georgia working.
We will do our part in the Peach State to Make America Great Again!” The
latest RCP average
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shows Kemp with a 2.7-point lead, but below the 50% needed to avoid a
runoff.

Trump’s stop in Macon came amid a late-breaking controversy in the
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(11/4, story 3, 0:50, Snow) reported that Kemp is “accusing state Democrats
of launching a cyberattack on the voter registration system.” NBC’s Jeff
Bennett: “Voting has emerged as the central issue in this race. ... Kemp is
also Georgia’s secretary of state, and he’s pushed voting restrictions
which many Abrams supporters say are aimed at limiting turnout among
African-American voters. Now today Kemp’s office announced an investigation
into the state Democratic Party over an attempted hack of Georgia’s voting
registration system. Democrats call it a political stunt.” The AP
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(11/4, Barrow, Bajak, Nadler) reports that the statement from Kemp’s office
“offered no evidence for the claim and didn’t specify allegations against
Georgia Democrats. But it quickly became a last-minute flashpoint” in the
campaign.

USA Today
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(11/4, Cummings) reports that a spokeswoman for the Secretary of State’s
office “declined to comment on the inquiry but confirmed that the state
Democratic Party was under investigation for ‘possible cybercrimes.’”
Georgia Democratic Party Executive Director Rebecca DeHart “said Kemp’s
‘so-called investigation’ was ‘yet another abuse of power by an unethical
Secretary of State.’” The New York Times
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(11/4, Blinder, Fausset) says the investigation is “likely to further
inflame the rancorous national debate over Republicans’ allegations of
electoral fraud – many of which have proven to be baseless – and whether
those claims are being used to unfairly harm the Democrats’ electoral
chances.” Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution tweeted
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that Trump made “no mention of Kemp’s decision to investigate alleged
hacking by Georgia Democrats, an announcement Kemp made without disclosing
any evidence.”

The Washington Post
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(11/4, Selk, Williams, Gardner) reports on the investigation, and in a
related item, the Washington Post
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(11/4, Gardner) calls the controversy “the latest in a rash of concerns
that have flared across the country, as candidates in both parties have
traded accusations about threats to ballot integrity amid multiple reports
about voting irregularities. ... There is no evidence of widespread voter
fraud” in the US, and “study after study has shown that voter fraud is
exceedingly rare.”

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(11/4), Abrams said, “We have seen unprecedented turnout in this race from
people who normally do not engage and do not vote. Some of that has been
driven by the conversations of the voter suppression. One of the best ways
to encourage people to use something is to tell them someone is trying to
take it away.” The Washington Post
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(11/4, Wootson) reports that Abrams was also targeted this weekend with “an
11th-hour infusion of good old-fashioned racism” in the form of a racist
robocall featuring the voice of an Oprah Winfrey impersonator. The Abrams
campaign “called the robocalls a desperate and ‘vile’ attempt to sway
voters using ‘poisonous thinking.’”

Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates tweeted
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“Today President Trump brought his divisive scare tactics to a race already
plagued by voter suppression and misuse of office. Georgians have the
opportunity to reject the politics of fear and make history. Elect Stacey
Abrams!”

*Trump, Pence Rally For Blackburn In Tennessee. *Following the
Georgia event, the President moved on to the University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga, where he addressed a crowd of about 12,000. The Tennessean
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(11/4, Ebert, Allison) reports that the President “ripped into Democrat
Phil Bredesen during a raucous campaign-style rally.” Referring to
Blackburn, Trump said, “If you want to stop the liberal agenda of high
taxes and high crime, you need to vote for Marsha.” The Chattanooga (TN)
Times Free Press
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(11/4, Pace) reports that both Trump and Vice President Pence appeared at
the event. Pence told the crowd, “I’m here for one reason and one reason
only. Tennessee and America need Marsha Blackburn in the United States
Senate.”

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Knoxville, TN (11/4, 10:03 p.m. EST) reported that Trump “went through a
list of things from the economy and military to jobs and immigration, but
he also made a point to focus on the upcoming election and urge people to
vote” for Blackburn. WZTV-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Nashville, TN (11/4, 9:04 p.m. CST) reported that Trump “encouraged his
supporters to vote to keep the country’s strong economy on track. He also
poked fun at Democrats’ hopes for a ‘blue wave.’” WDEF-TV[image: Image
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Chattanooga, TN (11/4, 11:03 p.m. EST) reported that Pence “was also in the
arena. He shared a few remarks before introducing the President onto the
stage.”

Philip Rucker of the Washington Post
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(11/4) writes from Tennessee that the President “is painting an
astonishingly apocalyptic vision of America under Democratic control in the
campaign’s final days, unleashing a torrent of falsehoods and portraying
his political opponents as desiring crime, squalor and poverty.” Trump “is
claiming that Democrats want to erase the nation’s borders and provide
sanctuary to drug dealers, human traffickers and MS-13 killers,” while
“warning that they would destroy the economy, obliterate Medicare and
unleash a wave of violent crime that endangers families everywhere.”

Matt Viser of the Washington Post
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(11/4) writes that GOP candidates are running “overtly on racially tinged
messages” after “the 2016 election confirmed that a potential president
could run – and win – after stoking racism.” Charles Blow writes in his New
York Times
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(11/4) column, “Trump is openly trying to weaponize racism, to inflame
passions and stoke fear. He wants America to focus on a caravan of refugees
almost 700 miles away rather than to see clearly the corruption and
cravenness right in front of our faces.”

Maggie Haberman of the New York Times tweeted
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that Trump’s speech was “brief.” Trump tweeted
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video of the rally, and after it concluded, tweeted
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“In just 2 days, the people of Tennessee are going to elect @VoteMarsha
Blackburn to the United States Senate to protect your jobs, defend your
borders, and CONTINUE MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Get out on Tuesday and
VOTE for Marsha!” Blackburn tweeted
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“An incredible night in the Volunteer State with @realDonaldTrump, @VP & a
FULL HOUSE out here in Chattanooga! The ‘Blue Wave’ has nothing on the red
wall of Tennessee! Let’s finish the fight for Tennessee’s values at the
ballot box on November 6th!” Bredesen tweeted
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shortly after the rally, “If the President is for something that is good
for Tennessee, I need to support him in that. If it’s bad for Tennessee, I
need to oppose him. That’s what a senator ought to do.” The latest RCP
average
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shows Blackburn with a 5.2-point lead.

The Post’s Rucker tweeted
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“It’s been said a million times, but here’s a million and one – Trump’s
rallies are unlike anything else in politics. Currently, Rihanna’s ‘Don’t
Stop the Music’ is blaring in Chattanooga as aides toss free Trump T-shirts
into the crowd, like a ball game. Everyone’s loving it.” The singer, who
has nearly 89 million Twitter followers, tweeted
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in reply, “Not for much longer...me nor my people would ever be at or
around one of those tragic rallies, so thanks for the heads up philip!” The
Tennessean
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(11/4) is one of several outlets that covered her tweet.

*Hannity, Limbaugh To Join Trump At Monday Rally In Missouri. *Axios
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(11/4, Atkinson) reports that Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, “both staunch
supporters and ‘friends’ of President Trump, will join the president Monday
night at a rally for Republican Senate candidate Josh Hawley in Missouri.”

*McDaniel Says Trump Is Running On Economy As Well As Immigration. *The
Washington Post
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(11/4, Sonmez) reports, “Two days after President Trump declared that it’s
‘not exciting’ to talk about the booming economy, the chair of the
Republican National Committee on Sunday defended the president’s ramped-up
rhetoric on immigration and race in the final days of the 2018 midterm
campaign, arguing that it’s possible to focus on several issues at once.”
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(11/4), Ronna McDaniel said, “I think the President is closing on the
economy. He’s talking about, obviously, these great jobs numbers we saw on
Friday, the lowest in history, unemployment levels for the African-American
and Hispanic communities. We had wage growth above three percent for first
time in a decade. But the immigration issue is something that’s relevant
right now, with these caravans coming to our country. We’ve got to
recognize that we have not passed comprehensive immigration reform.”
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(11/4).

The Washington Times
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(11/4, Howell) reports that McDaniel also said she’s “‘absolutely not’
resigned to losing the House on Election Day.” On ABC’s This Week[image:
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(11/4), McDaniel said Republicans will remain competitive for the House,
“especially with the economic numbers that we saw on Friday. ... The
American voters are looking at what’s happened over the past two years.
They’re making more money. More jobs are coming back. That’s a great
closing argument in a lot of these House races within the margin of error.”

*Trump Cites “40% Approval Rating” Among African-Americans In
Tweet. *Politico
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(11/4, Forgey) reports under the headline “Trump Touts Dubious
African-American Support In Midterm Homestretch” that the President
“boasted of his support among African-Americans by citing questionable
polling data,” tweeting
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Sunday morning, “New Fox Poll shows a ‘40% Approval Rating by African
Americans for President Trump, a record for Republicans.’ Thank you, a
great honor!” The tweet was “an apparent reference not to a survey by Fox
News, but instead to a recent poll by Rasmussen Reports featured in a Fox
News segment on Sunday morning.” Politico says that “Rasmussen’s
methodology is frequently questioned by mainstream pollsters, and its work
has been accused of harboring a pro-Republican bias.”

*Anti-Trump Groups Use Postcards To Reach Out To Voters. *The
Washington
Post
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(11/4, Wan) reports that “for tens of thousands of resistance-minded
liberals in the age of Trump, the humble postcard has become a weapon of
choice.” Across the nation, “clubs devoted to postcard writing have popped
up in liberal bastions such as Boston and California and in conservative
strongholds in rural Alabama and Texas.” While many “write weekly to their
local representatives, federal judges, gun shop owners, immigration lawyers
and federal agencies,” others “write to voters in swing districts,
personally begging them to hold the Trump administration accountable via
upcoming midterm elections.”

*Jennings: Trump’s Midterm Situation Similar To Obama’s In 2010. *In
a Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal
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(11/4) op-ed, CNN contributor Scott Jennings compares Trump’s current
political situation to that of President Obama in 2010, writing that
Trump’s approval rating is actually “higher than Obama’s just before the
2010 midterm. ... While Republicans may lose their House majority in the
upcoming midterm (just as Obama’s Democrats did in 2010), the GOP seems on
track to hold the Senate.” While Democrats see Trump as a certain one-term
President, he concludes, “many Republicans couldn’t fathom Obama being
re-elected in 2012, either.”

*Axios Poll: Seven Female Democrats Lead Trump In 2020 Matchups. *
Axios
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(11/4, Hart, McCammond) reports, “Trump would lose the 2020 election
against every woman mentioned as a possible Democratic opponent, according
to an Axios poll
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by SurveyMonkey. ... Even though they’re unlikely to run, both Michelle
Obama and Oprah Winfrey would crush Trump if the election were held today,”
and Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, and Elizabeth
Warren “would all beat Trump, too,” as would Hillary Clinton. The
contenders’ margin over Trump ranges from Warren’s two-point advantage to
Michelle Obama’s 13-point lead. Harris leads Trump by 10 points.
Foreign Policy
Trump: Saudi Arabia Misused US Weapons In “Terrible” Yemen War.

Bloomberg News
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(11/5, Wayne) reports that “in an interview with Axios that aired Sunday on
HBO,” President Trump “said Saudi Arabia has misused U.S.-supplied weapons
in its bombing campaign in Yemen and that his administration is carefully
examining the conflict.” Trump called the situation in Yemen “terrible,”
and said the Saudi-led bombing of a school bus in August was “a horror
show.” The President “criticized Saudi conduct of the aerial campaign,
saying the government shouldn’t have people ‘who don’t know how to use the
weapons shooting at buses with children. We teach them how to use the
equipment.’” Bloomberg News says Trump “didn’t elaborate, and he declined
to say whether he’s reconsidering U.S. arm sales to the Saudis or active
support of its Yemen campaign.”
Pompeo: US Holding Saudi Arabia Accountable For Khashoggi Death.

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(11/4), Secretary of State Pompeo discussed US-Saudi relations amid the
growing controversy over journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s killing. Pompeo said,
“The Saudis have acknowledged that this was a premeditated attack,” and the
US has “begun to hold some officials accountable. We’ve revoked visas from
16 individuals that we have been able to identify that were in fact
connected to that.” He reiterated that the US will continue to “hold all of
those responsible for the murder of Jamaal Khashoggi accountable.” Pompeo
stressed, however, that the US “will continue to work to maintain that
important strategic relationship” with Saudi Arabia “while holding
accountable those responsible for this atrocious death.”

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(11/4), saying, “I still have lots of work do to figure out the full range
of persons that need to be held accountable. We’re working with the Turkish
government, with the Saudi government, and with anyone else who has
relevant facts for us to determine all of those who were responsible for
this atrocious murder of Jamal Khashoggi, which the Saudis themselves now
acknowledge was premeditated. We need to get to the bottom of it and find
out who was responsible and hold them accountable and do all of this, John,
while protecting the enormously important strategic interest that the
United States maintains with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We began our
conversation about Iran, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been an important
partner for the United States in attempting to change the behavior of the
world’s largest state sponsor of terror from that Islamic republic.”

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(11/4), “I have not received that full briefing,” but “I believe that the
evidence that the Turks have pointed out, that Khashoggi was brutally
murdered in the Saudi consulate,” is true. Warner said he does not thing
the incident would have occurred “under President Reagan, under President
Bush or Obama or Clinton,” because the Saudis knew “America at that point
stood for a free press and human rights. Again, the President’s words
matter, and I think that you’re seeing our so-called allies take pretty
unusual actions. I think Congress will act, whether it’s cut backs on arms
sales, whether it’s looking in terms of some of our nuclear accords. I do
think there is an opportunity here, and I commend Secretary Pompeo and
Mattis for trying to urge the Saudi Arabians to end this brutal war in
Yemen. And if there is an opportunity in this moment to get that done, that
would be a step forward.”

*WPost Analysis: Khashoggi Killing May Have Weakened MBS’ Ability
To Improve Relations With Israel Further. *The Washington Post
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(11/4, Mekhennet) reports, “U.S. and Israeli officials have expressed
concern that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may have less leeway to
pursue the gradual warming of relations between Israel and its Arab
neighbors” because of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi and that “has
implications for the Arab-Israeli peace package developed by the Trump
administration.” Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer,
said, “I think the administration, when they know all the facts, are going
to have to decide, how can they on the one hand make clear that this action
is unacceptable, but also not throw out the prince with the bathwater.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “What happened in the
Istanbul consulate was horrendous and it should be duly dealt with,” but,
he added, “I say that it is very important for the stability of the world,
of the region and of the world, that Saudi Arabia remain stable.”

*Saudis Allegedly Follow Policy Of Forcibly Repatriating
Dissidents. *The Washington Post
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(11/4, Morris) reports the killing of Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul “has
prompted fresh scrutiny of the kingdom’s pursuit of Saudi nationals
abroad,” beginning with the forced repatriation and subsequent captivity of
Faisal al Jarba “a leading sheikh in a large tribe,” who was seized by
“Jordanian security officers” after having left Saudi Arabia for Jordan and
“handed over to the Saudi authorities.” He is apparently being held,
according to the Post, but “there have been no charges filed against” him,
and “his family has received no proof that he is still alive.” The Post
adds that recently the Saudi government has, in an effort to repatriate
dissidents abroad “has tried to lure to them back or enlisted friendly
regional governments to arrest them or even carried out brazen kidnappings
in Europe.”

*US Consulting Firms Continue Active In Saudi Arabia. *The New York
Times
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(11/4, A1, Forsythe, Mazzetti, Hubbard, Bogdanich) reports that Saudi
Arabia this spring “signed an agreement with Booz Allen Hamilton...to help
train the kingdom’s growing ranks of cyberfighters.” And, adds the Times,
while the murder of Jamal Khashoggi has “prompted investors from around the
globe to distance themselves from the Saudi government, Booz Allen and its
competitors McKinsey & Company and Boston Consulting Group have stayed
close after playing critical roles in Prince Mohammed’s drive to
consolidate power.” The companies “have earned hundreds of millions of
dollars altogether on projects in Saudi Arabia.” The Times describes some
of the firms’ efforts including training the Saudi navy, identifying
dissidents, and numerous other matters.

*Prince Al-Waleed Discusses Saudi Modernization Plan. *In an
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(11/4), Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal discussed the murder of journalist
Jamal Khashoggi and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s modernization
program. Prince Al-Waleed said, “I assure it [the modernization plan] is
for real and all that he [MBS] is doing is changing Saudi Arabia in a very
revolutionary manner, socially, economically, financially. Saudi Arabia
right now is seeing huge development and changes and as you know, happily
so, I do not represent the government so I’ll be speaking to you freely and
openly and independently as usual.” He also said Khashoggi “was not only my
friend. He was working with me.” He added that “Jamal was a reformer, and
what took place in that Saudi consolate was clearly horrific, unspeakable,
and tragic, and I believe that Saudi Arabia is going to get to the bottom
of it.” He stressed, however, that “you have to give it some time” until
the kingdom’s “investigation is made public.”

In the second part of the interview on Fox News Sunday Morning
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(11/4), Prince Al-Waleed said, “Saudi Arabia is the vehicle of stability in
this region. Look at all our vicinity, look at Yemen, Iraq, Syria, look at
Iran. They’re all turbulent. Saudi Arabia is the vehicle of stability in
this region, so our alliance since 1945 when it’s well established and it’s
going to be intact and it’s going to be living for a long time to come.”
Pompeo Defends Reimposed Sanctions On Iran.

In appearances Sunday on the CBS’ “Face The Nation” and Fox News’ “Fox News
Sunday,” Secretary of State Pompeo discussed the renewed sanctions against
Iran to go into effect Monday. Coverage predominately focused on Pompeo’s
remarks, but some outlets examined whether the sanctions would yield the
Administration’s desired effect.

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(11/4) host Chris Wallace, “There are a lot of experts that said President
Trump’s policy wouldn’t have any impact because it was just the United
States and other countries were participating and in fact we have built an
enormous coalition to keep this world safe and to deny Iran money. I’m very
confident that the sanctions that will be reimposed this Monday, not only
the crude oil sanctions, the financial sanctions that are being put in
place by the Treasury Department, over 600 designations of individuals and
companies in Iran will have the intended effect to alter the Iranian
regime’s behavior. That’s our expectation, it’s the reason for President
Trump’s policy.” Pompeo added, “Watch the Iranians. That’s who really
understands the importance and the impact of the effort that we are
undertaking. An enormous impact already we are working diligently to make
sure we support the Iranian people and that our activity towards ensuring
that the Islamic Republic of Iran’s maligned behavior is changed.”

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(11/4, Morello) reports Pompeo told Wallace that the President was “putting
the world on notice that the terror regime which threatens Israel through
Iranian funding of Lebanese Hezbollah, that the terror regime that
attempted to conduct an assassination in Denmark over that past few weeks,
that the terror regime that continues to fund Houthis launching missiles
into Riyadh and into Dubai, that’s going to stop. That behavior must
change, and sanctions of the United States will be reimposed at midnight
tonight.” He also “defended the administration’s decision to grant
temporary waivers on oil sanctions to eight nations, including some of
Iran’s biggest oil customers.” While Pompeo has not publicly identified the
eight countries, “Turkey has said it has received notice and is among
them,” and “China, South Korea, Japan and India also are expected to get
waivers.” Pompeo “said all had made significant reductions in their Iran
oil purchases already but ‘need a little bit more time to get to zero.’”

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(11/4, Schwab) reports that three “Republican senators – Sens. Tom Cotton
of Arkansas, Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas – have said the
new sanctions aren’t tough enough and have drafted legislation that would
require the Trump administration to demand that Iran be suspended from the
international bank transfer system.” Asked by Wallace about the criticism,
Pompeo answered, “The Iranian banks that engage in sanctionable behavior
will be sanctioned by the Department of Treasury, period, full stop.”
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(11/4, Beavers) reports Pompeo stressed, “No one’s going to argue that
Secretary Pompeo isn’t tough on Iran,” and “no one is going to argue that
President Trump isn’t doing the same.”

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(11/4, Muñoz) reports Pompeo also “issued a thinly veiled warning to Russia
and China putting both countries on notice that it will suffer the
consequences if they continue to purchase Iranian oil,” although he
“refused to comment on what specific actions the Trump administration may
take against Moscow and Beijing, should both countries decide to continue
to do business with Tehran.”

Bloomberg News
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(11/4, Brody) reports that Pompeo “said hundreds of businesses have left
Iran since Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal, and any European companies
doing business there won’t do business with the U.S.” Pompeo told CBS’ Face
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(11/4), “European companies will not be permitted to do business with the
United States and with Iran. Frankly, since May, since the President’s
announcement of withdrawal from the ill-fated agreement, European companies
have fled Iran in great numbers, hundreds of businesses have departed Iran.
The whole world understands that these sanctions are real, that they are
important, that they drive the Iranian people’s opportunity to make changes
in Iran that they so desperately want and stop Iran from having the wealth
and money they need to continue to foment terror around the world.”

Pompeo’s remarks came as “thousands” of Iranians rallied “with
anti-American signs and chants, marking the anniversary of the Iran hostage
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(11/4, story 8, 2:00, Snow) reported. Reuters
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(11/4, Hafezi) reports that the demonstrations “are staged on the embassy
takeover anniversary every year,” but “rancour is especially strong this
time following Trump’s decision in May to withdraw from world powers’ 2015
nuclear deal with Iran and reimpose sanctions on Tehran.” Meanwhile, Iran’s
“military said it would launch two days of air defense drills on Monday and
assured Iranians that it could neutralize any threats, the state news
agency IRNA reported.” IRNA quoted coordinating military officer Habibollah
Sayyari as stating, “We can assure our people that the enemy will not be
able to carry out its threats against our country.” Also on Sunday, the CBS
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(11/4, story 7, 2:10, Quijano) reported, Ali Jafry, the head of Iran’s
Revolutionary Guards, “warned that the US was in decline, and that America
threatened Iran’s powerful military at its peril.”

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(11/4, Sanger) analysis says with the new sanctions to go into effect
“early Monday, President Trump is placing a series of bets.” The Times says
that the President “is gambling” that Iran “will not dare restart its
program to enrich nuclear fuel – the pathway to a bomb.” At the same time,
Trump is “betting” that “European banks, manufacturers and oil companies
will not violate the sanctions and risk being cut off from the far larger
American market.” Finally, the Times says, Trump “is wagering that the
Iranian government will crack in some way – that it will renegotiate the
nuclear deal more along Mr. Trump’s terms, or that it will collapse under
economic pressures that have sent the country’s exports and currency into a
tailspin.” While “outside experts who have dealt with Iran over the decades
say they believe that Mr. Trump may succeed at his first two bets,” they
predict that he will “fail on cracking the government of President Hassan
Rouhani.”

In an analysis, the Wall Street Journal
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(11/4, Gordon) says with senior Iranian officials have insisted that Tehran
will neither renegotiate nor retrench – and former US officials believe
Tehran may have more leverage. The Journal says an early test of the
Administration’s maximum pressure campaign will be in Syria, where US
officials hope the sanctions will force Iran to declare its mission
accomplished and withdraw.

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(11/4), Florida gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis said, “The President
is absolutely right, the sanctions are the right move, ever since he nixed
the Iran deal, the Iranian regime is on the defensive, the economy is
hurting this will continue to weaken them, and that’s exactly what you need
to do, they’re the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism they want to
annihilate Israel, they’re hostile to us, to their core, and this is the
right policy and I support the President on it 100 percent.”

In a Wall Street Journal
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(11/4, Perry) op-ed, Energy Secretary Perry says the reimposed sanctions
clearly convey to Tehran that it must change its menacing behavior or
suffer the consequences. Perry says the sanctions will hit Iran’s energy
sector particularly hard, but because the world’s leading producers have
taken anticipatory actions, global energy markets will be minimally
impacted by the move.

A Wall Street Journal
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(11/4) editorial dismisses domestic and foreign criticism of the
Administration’s approach, saying that the State and Treasury Departments
are imposing the new sanctions in a way that is diplomatic, yet still
pressures the regime. The Journal predicts some retaliation from Iran or
its terror proxies, and cautions that European leaders would do well to
rethink their resistance to the Administration’s call to renegotiate the
nuclear deal.

*Block: Improved Relations Between Israel, Gulf Arabs Due To Common
Fear Of Iran. *Joshua S. Block, CEO of the Israel Project, writes in the Wall
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(11/4, Block), on recent public acknowledgements of relations between
Israel and the Gulf Arab states, citing a tour by Israel’s culture and
sports minister, Miri Regev, of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi,
and the participation by Israeli athletes under Israel’s flag at the
International Judo Federation’s Abu Dhabi Grand Slam, as well as the recent
visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Oman. In addition, the
foreign ministers of Oman, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia, have all recently
called for normalizing relations with Israel. Block argues that the most
important reason for this is the common perception of the threat from Iran.
Pompeo Discusses Upcoming Meeting With North Korean Counterpart.

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(11/4), Secretary of State Pompeo confirmed, “I will be in New York City at
the end of this week meeting with my counterpart,” Kim Yong Chol, the
Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
During the talks, Pompeo said, “I expect we’ll make some real progress,
including an effort to make sure that the summit between our two leaders
can take place where we can make substantial steps toward
denuclearization.” Pomp