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*Wednesday, October 31, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Stumping For Democrats, Biden Says He’s “Sick And Tired” Of Trump
Administration. <#S1>

• Biden To Rally Support For Illinois Democrats, McCaskill In St. Louis
Today. <#S2>

• Biden Endorses Maine Democratic Gubernatorial Nominee Mills. <#S3>

• Biden Backs MN8 Democratic Hopeful Radinovich. <#S4>

• Jill Biden Memoir To Be Published In May. <#S5>

• Beau Biden Foundation Revamps Website, Adds Online Store. <#S6>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Protesters Turn Out As Trump Visits Pittsburgh To Honor Shooting Victims.
<#S7>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Taliban Members Freed In Bergdahl Swap To Negotiate Afghan Peace Talks.
<#S8>

• Pompeo, Mattis Call For End To War In Yemen. <#S9>

• Denmark Accuses Iran Of Attempting To Assassinate Dissident On Its Soil.
<#S10>

• Turkish Planes Hit Kurds In Iraq With Airstrikes, Killing Seven. <#S11>

• Treasury Official: Venezuela A Threat To Regional Stability. <#S12>

• US Charges Chinese Spies, Hackers In Conspiracy To Steal Trade Secrets.
<#S13>

• Trump Says He Expects “Great Deal” With China. <#S14>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Trump Says He Will End Birthright Citizenship With Executive Order. <#S15>

• Fox & Friends Hosts Criticize Trump’s “Enemy Of The People” Comments.
<#S16>

• Mueller Asks FBI To Probe If Women Were Offered Money To Make False
Claims About Him. <#S17>

• Study: 62% Of Jobs Don’t Support Middle-Class Lifestyle. <#S18>

• NRCC Denounces King, “Will Not Play” In Tight IA4 Race. <#S19>

• Healthcare Edges Out Economy As Main Issue On Florida Voters’ Minds.
<#S20>

• WPost: Republicans Have Made Kavanaugh Election Year Rallying Cry. <#S21>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• NCI, NHGRI Award $20M To Duke For Breast Cancer, Genomic Research. <#S22>

• Researcher: New Treatment “Completely Eliminated Tumors In Pre-Human
Studies.” <#S23>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S24>

• Washington Post. <#S25>
Biden in the News
Stumping For Democrats, Biden Says He’s “Sick And Tired” Of Trump
Administration.

Media coverage of former Vice President Joe Biden’s Tuesday campaign
appearances in Iowa and Wisconsin, where he stumped for Democratic
candidates, in large part focuses on his criticism of President Trump.
The Washington
Post
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(10/30, Sonmez) reports that Biden “issued a sharp rebuke of...Trump’s
rhetoric, telling a crowd in Wisconsin days after Saturday’s mass shooting
at a Pittsburgh synagogue that ‘words matter.’ ‘I am sick and tired of this
administration. I’m sick and tired of what’s going on. I’m sick and tired
of being sick and tired, and I hope you are, too,’ Biden said.” In the lead
sentence of its report, the Washington Times
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(10/30, Boyer) highlights Biden’s “sick and tired” remark, further quoting
the him as saying in Wisconsin, “Three times this past week, the forces of
hate have terrorized our fellow Americans for their political beliefs, the
color of their skin, or their religion. Folks, this is not who we are. We
need to recognize that words matter. Words matter.”

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Madison, WI (10/30) showed a clip of Biden making his “sick and tired”
remark at the Madison rally. Under the headline “Joe Biden Says He’s ‘Sick
And Tired’ Of The Trump Administration,” the Huffington Post
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(10/30, O'Connor) reported that Biden, speaking in Madison, “took the
offensive against...Trump,” urging “the crowd to look beyond party and save
‘America’s soul.’” In an online article headlined “Biden, Stumping For
Dems, Says He’s ‘Sick And Tired’ Of Trump White House,” Fox News
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(10/30, Dedaj) offered a similar report. The Hill
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(10/30, Samuels) said that Biden, “a potential Democratic presidential
candidate for 2020, has been a vehement critic of the Trump administration,
particularly as he has made the rounds on the campaign trail for Democratic
candidates in recent weeks.”

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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(10/30, Beck, Glauber) reports that Biden “urged students in Madison and
workers in Milwaukee Tuesday to vote for candidates of character in what he
called a ‘battle for America’s soul.’” The Wisconsin State Journal
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(10/30, Sommerhauser) reports, “Invoking Saturday’s deadly shooting at a
Pittsburgh synagogue, Biden warned that political extremism is on the rise
in the US,” warning “that the international reputation of the US has
plummeted under the leadership of a GOP he said is ‘not your father’s
Republican Party.’” In an online article, Wisconsin Public Radio
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(10/30, White) reports that during the Madison rally, Biden “urged students
to vote. ‘Folks, this election is different than any election. This is
bigger than politics, this election. It really is bigger than politics. I
think we’re in a battle for America’s soul,’ he said. ‘Take back this
incredible country.’”

On its website, WLUK-TV
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Green Bay, WI (10/30) reported that Biden “said outcome of this election
will not only affect the policies put in place by lawmakers, but says a lot
about character of our Country. ‘You know we stand for giving Americans a
fighting change but to do it we have to re-set the moral compass here,’
said Biden.” The AP
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(10/29, Bauer) reports that in Biden “called for more civility and dignity
in politics during a rally with Wisconsin Democrats on Tuesday, offering a
sharp rebuke of...Trump while telling college students on the University of
Wisconsin-Madison campus they can ‘own’ next week’s election if they vote.”
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Wisconsin gubernatorial hopeful Tony Evers
(D) “joined with Biden at the event that organizers said attracted about
1,000 people, many of them college students.”

The Madison (WI) Capital Times
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(10/30, Opoien) reports that Biden “briefly brought Evers’ wife, Kathy, to
the stage as he acknowledged that ‘running for governor is a team sport.’
Biden joked that Evers ‘owes a lot to Wisconsin’s public schools’ since he
met his wife in kindergarten. ‘She was too young to resist,’ Biden then
quipped.” In an online article, WMSN-TV
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Madison, WI (10/30) reported that Evers “is challenging Gov. Scott Walker,
who weighed in on Twitter ahead of Biden’s speech. Walker tweeted, ‘Not
sure I’d believe much coming from Tony Evers today – he brought serial
plagiarist Joe Biden into Wisconsin, so between the two of them who knows
where they’re getting their facts?’” Walker was “referencing claims he made
that Evers plagiarized part of his state budget request at the Department
of Public Instruction, the organization he heads.”

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(10/30, Beaumont) reports that Biden, speaking later Tuesday in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, “bemoaned the tone of Trump-era politics,” offering a preview
during “his first trip to the leadoff caucus state how he might take on the
Republican president should he seek the 2020 Democratic presidential
nomination. ‘It’s our leaders who need to set the tone and dial down the
temperature and restore some dignity to our national dialogue,’ Biden
said.” The Des Moines (IA) Register
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(10/30, Pfannenstiel) reports that Biden “urged a return to decency and
moral leadership as he campaigned before a crowd of more than 1,000 people
in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.” The former Vice President “said political leaders
and ordinary citizens have a duty to speak out, particularly when ‘the
forces of hate and terror have descended on the American political scene.’
‘America is so much better than this,’ he told those in attendance.” Biden
was stumping in support of IA1 Democratic hopeful Abby Finkenauer (D) and
Iowa gubernatorial candidate Fred Hubbell (D).

The Quad-City (IA) Times
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(10/30, Lynch) reports, “Many of the 1,000-plus enthusiasts stood in the
showers Tuesday evening to get inside Veterans Memorial Building” in Cedar
Rapids, where Biden said that “voters are looking for ‘people with
character...with authenticity...people who treat everyone, like my dad did,
with dignity and respect...and tell the truth.’ ‘And we have three of them
here,’ Biden said about Hubbell, his running mate, state Sen. Rita Hart,
and Finkenauer, who he described as ‘smart as hell.’” On its website, Radio
Iowa
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(10/30, Henderson) reported that Biden beseeched the crowd “to help reset
the country’s ‘moral compass’ and choose candidates this November who will
‘dial down the temperature’ in politics.”

In a piece for The Atlantic
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(10/31), Edward-Isaac Dovere says that Biden’s “plan was to avoid Iowa
during his nationwide midterm campaigning – he didn’t want to feed the 2020
talk that he and his aides knew it would spark, and wasn’t sure what kind
of crowd it would bring.” When he arrived Tuesday, it had “been three and a
half years since he was in Iowa last, when he came on an official trip as
vice president that was all about keeping the flirtation with a 2016
campaign going.” And though Biden is mulling a 2020 run, he “did not stay
long. This isn’t a full campaign swing, the way the people who may soon be
his opponents have done. He didn’t even stay the night.” Dovere also tweeted
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that Biden said Tuesday in Iowa, “We have to make it clear as Democrats we
choose hope over fear. We choose unity over division. We choose allies over
enemies. This is America. Nothing’s beyond our grasp.”

A number of local TV stations in Iowa and Wisconsin broadcast
reports on Biden’s Tuesday visits, including KWWL-TV[image: Image removed
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Cedar Rapids (IA)'s News at 10 (10/30), WOI-TV[image: Image removed by
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Des Moines (IA)'s Ten at Ten on ABC5 (10/30), KGAN-TV[image: Image removed
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Cedar Rapids (IA)'s News at 10 (10/30), KCAU-TV[image: Image removed by
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Sioux City (IA)'s ABC News at 10PM (10/30), WHO-TV[image: Image removed by
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Des Moines, IA (10/30), WISN-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Milwaukee's News at 10PM (10/30), WJFW-TV[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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Wausau, WI (10/30), WKOW-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Madison, WI (10/30), and WBAY-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Green Bay, WI (10/30).

*Politico: Biden Has Solidified Role As Democrats’ “Ambassador To
The Working Class.” *Politico
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(10/30, Korecki) reported, “Two days into a big Midwestern push this week
that will take him to at least six states – five of which” were won by
Trump – Biden “was in familiar form” during his visit to Wisconsin,
“reminding Democrats of the lane he’ll occupy if he decides to run for
president in 2020: the party’s ambassador to the working class. With a
Youngstown, Ohio, visit Monday and two Wisconsin rallies Tuesday, Biden has
traveled to 22 states to campaign for 60 candidates,” highlighting “his
versatility as a surrogate.” Politico added, “The breadth of” Biden’s
“travel schedule is a testament to the broad-based appeal he’d bring to the
2020 race, as comfortable landing in Trump country as in a liberal college
town like Madison.”
Biden To Rally Support For Illinois Democrats, McCaskill In St. Louis Today.

In an online report, KSDK-TV
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St. Louis (10/30, Cole) said that former Vice President Joe Biden “will be
in St. Louis for two separate ‘Get Out the Vote’ rally events on Wednesday.
Biden will join Brendan Kelly, candidate for Congress in Illinois’ 12th
Congressional District, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (IL-17); J.B. Pritzker,
candidate for Illinois Governor; Juliana Stratton, candidate for Lieutenant
Governor; Kwame Raoul, candidate for Illinois Attorney General; Illinois
Treasurer Mike Frerichs; and others...at the Iron Workers Local 392 located
at 2985 Kingshighway in East St. Louis. Later that same day, Biden will
join Sen. Claire McCaskill for another vote rally at the Machinists’
District 9 at 12365 St. Charles Rock Road.”
Biden Endorses Maine Democratic Gubernatorial Nominee Mills.

The County (ME)
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(10/30) posted a release from Maine Attorney General Janet Mills’ (D)
gubernatorial campaign announcing that she has been endorsed by former Vice
President Joe Biden. Mills is bidding to succeed term-limited Gov. Paul
LePage (R).
Biden Backs MN8 Democratic Hopeful Radinovich.

On its website, KBJR-TV
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Duluth, MN (10/30, Moffett) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden
“released a video Tuesday encouraging people to” support ex-state Rep. Joe
Radinovich (DFL) in his bid to succeed retiring MN8 Rep. Rick Nolan (D).
Jill Biden Memoir To Be Published In May.

In an online article, People
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(10/30, Gillette) reported that Dr. Jill Biden “has announced a new memoir
that will delve into her personal journey and how she and her husband,
former vice president Joe Biden, ‘rebuilt’ their family. ‘I am thrilled to
tell a story that is such an enormous part of my heart – the story of how
we built and rebuilt our family,’ said Biden, 67, in an exclusive statement
to PEOPLE. Her book, Where the Light Enters, will be published by Flatiron
Books on May 7, 2019.” Biden further said in her statement, “This is also
the story of my personal journey, as a mother and wife, to support my
family while pursuing my career as a teacher. Life has held many surprises,
and I hope what I’ve learned along the way will resonate with readers.”

Drawing from the People article, The Hill
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(10/30, Kurtz) reported that the book “will also detail how she and Joe
Biden coped with the loss of the former vice president’s 46-year-old son,
Beau, who died in 2015 of brain cancer. Flatiron Books, the book’s
publisher, said in a statement that Biden’s ‘perseverance in the face of
tragedy, humility while living in the public eye, and unwavering love for
her family above all else comes together beautifully’ in her memoir.”
Beau Biden Foundation Revamps Website, Adds Online Store.

Technical.ly Delaware
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(10/30, Quinn) reports that the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of
Children “has a new online look, and new ways to support the nonprofit’s
work. ... To help reach a bigger audience, the organization just revamped
its online presence and added an ecommerce shop.” Beau Biden Foundation COO
Joshua Alcorn “said the nonprofit’s recently revamped website looks to
create a more user-friendly experience and a renewed energy around its
work. ‘We’re always happy to see someone wearing a hat with our logo,’
Alcorn said. ‘With the online store, folks can show their support and,
hopefully, spread the word about the work we do protecting the most
vulnerable among us – children who suffer from abuse or neglect.’”
Leading the News
Protesters Turn Out As Trump Visits Pittsburgh To Honor Shooting Victims.

All three broadcast networks opened their Tuesday evening newscasts with
coverage of President Trump’s visit to Pittsburgh to pay his respects to
the victims of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue and to meet
with survivors at a local hospital. Much of the coverage focuses on the
protests against Trump’s visit, unusual during such a presidential trip,
with demonstrators linking the Trump’s rhetoric to the violence. Analyses
also cast Trump as uncomfortable with the role of “consoler-in-chief.”

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(10/30, lead story, 3:10), David Muir reported, “Late today, the President
arrived, and he was greeted by protesters. ... The President and First Lady
arriv[ed] at the synagogue against the wishes of some community leaders who
said it was too soon. And there were protesters as far as you could see.”
ABC’s Cecilia Vega: “President Trump and the First Lady, his Jewish
son-in-law Jared Kushner, and daughter Ivanka traveled to the synagogue.
Rabbi Jeffrey Myers there to greet them. ... But it is a much different
trip than the White House had planned. Just a half block away, this scene:
Neighbors shouting down the President. ... Nearby, more than a thousand
protesters carrying signs, saying ‘Words Matter,’ ‘Stop Encouraging Hate,’
and ‘You Are Not Welcome In Pittsburgh Until You Fully Denounce White
Nationalism.’”

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(10/30, lead story, 2:45, Glor), David Begnaud reported, “President Trump
and the First Lady paid their respects today to the victims of Saturday’s
massacre as a grief-stricken community began to bury the dead. ... Less
than 50 yards away from the President, about 1,000 protesters were
chanting, many of them condemning him for divisive rhetoric. ...
Politicians, including the local mayor and the governor of Pennsylvania,
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(10/30, lead story, 2:30), Lester Holt called it “a journey shrouded in
sadness and controversy for President Trump. ... Along with First Lady
Melania Trump, the President [was] warmly received at the Tree of Life
synagogue, while demonstrators proclaimed he was not welcome in their
city.”

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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(10/30, Davidson, Lindstrom) reports Trump “visited Pittsburgh on Tuesday
to solemnly pay his respects to a city rocked by this weekend’s Tree of
Life synagogue massacre and meet with several people who survived it.”
Trump “was greeted by demonstrations in the city’s Squirrel Hill
neighborhood that drew more than 1,000 people and opposition from some
local officials who thought the president should have waited until after
funerals are held for all of the 11 people killed at Tree of Life. ... At a
couple of locations, people gave the president a thumbs-down or flashed
obscene gestures. One man holding a baby could be heard shouting, ‘We
didn’t invite you here.’”

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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(10/30, Routh, Smeltz, Mauriello) reports Trump and his family “made their
way down a line of 11 wooden Stars of David outside the Tree of Life
synagogue on Tuesday. On each, the President placed a stone, and the First
Lady a white rose.” They spent 18 minutes inside the synagogue amid
“protests and pushback from local officials who expressed discontent with
his appearance and chose not to attend.” Most of Trump’s time was spent
visiting the hospital where the injured are being treated. WPGH-TV[image:
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Pittsburgh (10/30, 10:01 p.m. EDT) reported that the Trump “spent about 30
minutes in the synagogue” and then “met with victims, first responders,
doctors, and staff members” at the hospital. WWCP-TV[image: Image removed
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Johnstown, PA (10/30, 10:07 p.m. EDT) reported, “Several local lawmakers,
including the governor and Pittsburgh’s mayor,” declined to meet with
Trump, though “others say he is welcome.” Rabbi Myers told WWCP, “The
President of the United States is always welcome. I am a citizen. He is my
President. He is certainly welcome.”

The AP
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(10/30, Miller, Breed) writes that Trump “stepped into the role of national
consoler, a title he wears uncomfortably, with his visit to the Squirrel
Hill neighborhood. More at home waging partisan warfare than assuaging
America’s grief, Trump has shied away from public displays of unity in the
wake of other tragedies. ... Questions have long swirled about the
president’s credibility as a unifier.” The AP writes that since his 2016
campaign, “Trump has at times been slow to denounce white nationalists,
neo-Nazis and other hate-filled individuals and groups that found common
cause with his nationalistic political rhetoric.” USA Today
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(10/30, Fritze, Jackson) similarly writes under the headline “Anger,
Controversy Follow Trump On Visit To Grieving Pittsburgh” that “the job of
uniting a grieving nation has proven especially daunting at times for
Trump, a combative former businessman who relishes sharp-elbowed rhetoric
often aimed at defining his opponents as ‘evil.’ ... Critics pointed to his
comments following last year’s deadly racial violence in Charlottesville,
Virginia, where he laid blame on ‘both sides.’”

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(10/30), “The President says his visit is to pay his respects to a
grief-stricken city and community. But the trip has become controversial,
because of the timing and frankly, because of the President’s incendiary
rhetoric.” WPMT-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Harrisburg, PA (10/30, 10:01 p.m. EDT) reported that Tuesday’s protesters
“say the commander-in-chief bears some of the blame for Saturday’s
shooting. Specifically, his recent declaration of being a ‘proud
nationalist’ and repeated attacks on marginalized groups, like immigrants.”

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(10/30) why Trump wanted to go to Pittsburgh, said, “The President never
hesitated. He wanted to be there with the Tree of Life community to express
his condolences along with the First Lady, his daughter and son-in-law. ...
I think it’s unfortunate people were out there politically protesting with
different messages today. That is their First Amendment right, but this
President was not about politics. He was about the mourning in Pittsburgh.”

The New York Times
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(10/30, Robertson, Davis, Gabriel) writes that if Trump’s visit “was
intended to bring healing, it instead laid bare the nation’s deep
divisions. Many protesters in Pittsburgh had no doubt of what one called
‘the dotted line’ between presidential rhetoric and violence. ... As the
president moved around Pittsburgh, a largely Democratic city, the signs of
discord were apparent.” Mayor Bill Peduto “neither met with Mr. Trump nor
joined the protests. The top four Republican and Democratic congressional
leaders who were invited to join him all declined.” The Washington Post
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(10/30, Dawsey) reports that Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA), who represents the
district, said, “The sense in the community is that they didn’t think this
was a time for a political photo shoot. There are strong feelings in the
community about him and the divisive nature of his rhetoric.”

The Washington Times
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(10/30, Boyer) headlines its report “Liberal Groups Play Politics As Trump
Pays Respects To Synagogue Shooting Victims” and writes, “President Trump
paid his respects Tuesday to the victims of a mass shooting at a synagogue
in Pittsburgh, while a coalition of liberal groups sought to gain partisan
advantage by blaming the president for the tragedy and urging the public to
‘vote against anti-Semitism’ on Election Day.”

Politico
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(10/30, Rodriguez, Restuccia) reports, “Though a swarm of journalists
tracked the president’s every move, he did not speak to them nor did he
make any public remarks – a rare moment of restraint for a president who
has a reputation for stepping on his own message.” White House Press
Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters, “He wanted today to be about
showing respect for the families and the friends of the victims as well as
for Jewish Americans.”

Greg Jaffe of the Washington Post
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(10/30) writes that “Pittsburgh and its surrounding suburbs are a
reflection” of a country “so divided that many here are asking whether the
president, his raucous ‘build the wall’ rallies and his most ardent and
angry supporters bear some culpability for one of the worst tragedies in
the city’s history. Others bristle with anger at the suggestion. That
dispute played out most publicly in the disagreement over whether Trump
should come to the city and play the traditional consoling role expected of
presidents in moments of tragedy.”

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said on CNN’s Situation
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(10/30), “We will see what comes after this visit, whether he offers words
of healing, words of unity, or whether he continues to divide us with his
speech and with his tweets. I think the ball is really in the President’s
court. ... Words matter, and the President so far has failed to find the
words to bring the American people together.”

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(10/30), “We need a consoler-in-chief right now. And I think back to the
different presidents in my lifetime. Whether it was Reagan after Beirut,
President Clinton after Oklahoma City, George Bush on September 11, or
Barack Obama throughout all the mass shootings he dealt with, they brought
the country together. And to see so many people protesting at a tragedy is
heartbreaking, because the office of consoler-in-chief is vacant right now
in America.”

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(10/30), “I think we all expect the President of the United States to play
the role of consoler-in-chief when acts call for it. The reason he’s being
faulted is because everything he has said beforehand, and everything he has
said since, makes this act seem like he’s checking off a box and just rings
hollow.”

In a brief, straightforward account, Breitbart
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(10/30, Spiering) reports the Trumps “visited the site of a horrific
synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh on Tuesday afternoon, just days after
eleven people were shot and killed during a service on Saturday.” Reuters
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(10/30, Resnick-Ault, Holland) also reports.

*Victim’s Family Declines To Meet With Trump. *Under the headline
“Shooting Victim’s Family Shuns President Trump In Pittsburgh As Top
Officials Decline To Join Him,” the Washington Post
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(10/30, Berman) reports that while Trump offered to visit with the family
of victim Daniel Stein, the family “declined in part because of the
comments Trump made in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, when he
suggested the synagogue should have had an armed guard.” One relative said,
“Everybody feels that they were inappropriate. He was blaming the
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(10/30, lead story, 2:30), Stein’s nephew, Stephen Halle, was shown saying,
“Donald Trump should have just said, you know, ‘our hearts and prayers go
out to the people of Pittsburgh and everybody involved,’ and kept his mouth
shut.” NBC’s Peter Alexander: “You felt like he was blaming this
community.” Halle: “That’s exactly what it felt like. A stab in the back.”

*NYTimes: Ivanka, Kushner Played Key Role In Shaping Trump’s
Response. *The New York Times
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(10/30, Rogers, Haberman) looks at the role that Jared Kushner and Ivanka
Trump, “who converted to Judaism to marry Mr. Kushner, have quietly and
persistently” played in shaping Trump’s response. Following the Saturday
shooting, “their conversation with the president led to a marked change in
his language. Within hours, his remarks went from a vague statement – ‘if
they had an armed guard inside, they might have been able to stop him
immediately,’ he said – to a plea to a rally crowd in Illinois to combat
‘the scourge of anti-Semitism.’” They also advised Trump to visit
Pittsburgh this week “despite the opposition of city officials and many
members of the Jewish community.”

*Pence Again Rejects Link Between Trump Rhetoric, Violence. *
Politico
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(10/30, Okun) reports that at a Politico event in Washington on Tuesday,
Vice President Pence again “rejected any link between [Trump’s] rhetoric
and recent hate crimes and political violence, saying ‘it’s important that
we don’t connect those acts to the public debate.’” Pence “said this
weekend’s Pittsburgh synagogue massacre and a spate of bombs sent to
prominent Democrats and CNN were ‘evil,’ but that the country needs to hold
the perpetrators accountable without choking off free speech.” Pence added,
“We will not let violence or anti-Semitism take hold in the United States
of America. We will condemn it wherever it rears its ugly head, and the
President and I have done that forcefully.”

The Washington Post
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(10/30, Stanley-Becker) reports that Pence is facing criticism for
appearing Monday at Michigan rally with “a religious leader who casts
himself as a ‘rabbi.’” Loren Jacobs “preaches Messianic Judaism, a
tradition central to Jews for Jesus, a group condemned by Jewish leaders as
faux Judaism that seeks to promote Christian evangelism.” The Post says
“the major Jewish denominations join the state of Israel in viewing
followers of Messianic Judaism as Christian, not Jewish,” and Jacobs’
appearance “drew outrage on social media.”

*First Funerals For Victims Held. *NBC Nightly News[image: Image
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(10/30, story 3, 1:30, Holt) reported on the first funerals for the
victims. The Wall Street Journal
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(10/30, Leary, Maher) reports that several of the protesters said Trump’s
visit took attention away from the victims during the mourning. The Jerusalem
Post
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(10/30, Wilner) reports that the funeral of brothers Cecil and David
Rosenthal was attended by “Jews of all denominations and non-Jews of all
stripes. ... Funerals were also held for Jerry Rabinowitz, 66, and Daniel
Stein, 71.”

*Netanyahu Rebuts Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Over Affiliation Of Tree Of
Life. *The AP
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(10/30) reports, “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday
that the 11 Jewish victims of the Pittsburgh shooting attack were killed in
a ‘synagogue,’ taking a veiled swipe at the country’s ultra-Orthodox chief
rabbi, who had refused to designate the Conservative Jewish congregation as
such.” The exchange “exposed some of the recent strains between Israel and
the more liberal Jewish Diaspora.” After Chief Rabbi David Lau “referred to
the Conservative synagogue merely as ‘a place with a profound Jewish
flavor’” in an interview with an Israeli newspaper, Netanyahu “seemed to
rebuff him,” saying, “Jews were killed in a synagogue. They were killed
because they are Jews. The location was chosen because it is a synagogue.
We must never forget that. We are one.”

*Steve Schmidt: Limbaugh, Levin Have “Blood On Their Hands” After
Synagogue Shooting. *The Hill
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(10/30, Keller) reports former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt
said on MSNBC’s
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Monday that conservatives like Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin have “blood on
their hands” in the wake of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. Schmidt
said, “The propaganda industry that [Kellyanne Conway] commands, with the
vile president that she serves, abetted by Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh and
Breitbart and NewsBusters and Judicial Watch and all the rest of them have
blood on their hands for the incitements that they have made that have
triggered and radicalized these crazy people.” Trump, Schmidt added,
“scapegoats minority populations. ... He alleges conspiracies. He creates a
sense of shared and virtuous victimhood, positions himself as the righteous
avenger.”

*Short Accuses CNN Of Ignoring Democratic Candidate’s Anti-Semitic
Campaign. *The Washington Examiner
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(10/30, Scarry) reports former White House Director of Legislative Affairs
Marc Short on Tuesday “accused CNN of ignoring comments by Minnesota
Democrat Ilhan Omar, who is running for Congress, which critics have called
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Short said, “In Minnesota’s fifth district, there’s a congressional
Democrat who’s running an anti-Semitic campaign. She has all sorts of
anti-Semitic language in her past and she’s going to be the nominee [sic].
How much has CNN covered that? Do you even know her name? Do you even know
who she is?” CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota “defended her network’s coverage”
of the race, saying, “We’ve reported on it,” and then “redirect[ed] Short
back to” Trump’s rhetoric, which “she said has inspired acts of violence.”
Camerota said, “But the point is that it trickles down from the top, or
does it not?”

*ATF: Bowers Purchased Guns Used In Attack Legally. *The New York
Times
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(10/30, Oppel) reports, “The accused synagogue gunman, Robert Bowers,
legally purchased the guns he used” in the Saturday attack in Pittsburgh.
Officials say Bowers used an AR-15 assault rifle and three Glock .357
handguns in the attack. An investigation “has concluded that the guns were
‘acquired and possessed legally by Bowers,’” the Philadelphia office of the
ATF said on Tuesday.
Foreign Policy
Taliban Members Freed In Bergdahl Swap To Negotiate Afghan Peace Talks.

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(10/30) reported that five members of the Afghan Taliban who were freed
from Guantanamo Bay military prison in exchange for captured US soldier
Bowe Bergdahl “have joined the insurgent group’s political office in
Qatar,” according to a Taliban spokesman. The five “will be among Taliban
representatives negotiating for peace, they say, in Afghanistan.” Fox’s
Bret Baier said some negotiators think this “indicates the Taliban’s desire
for a peace pact. Others fear the five will bring hard-line views that will
make peace more difficult.”

*Carlson: Best US Can Hope For Is “Stalemate” Where Taliban Remains
“Partly In Power.” *On Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight[image: Image
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(10/30), Tucker Carlson said, “It’s been 17 years since we first sent
troops” to Afghanistan “to topple the Taliban government. We still have
thousands of Americans in the country. So far this year, eight of them have
been killed. ... We as a country have almost nothing to show for what we
spent there, the lives and the money.” He added that the US is “no longer
even aiming at any kind of military victory. The best we can hope for is a
sort of stalemate that keeps the Taliban partly in power.”
Pompeo, Mattis Call For End To War In Yemen.

Reuters
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(10/31) reports Secretary of State Pompeo “on Tuesday called for a
cessation of hostilities in Yemen and said UN-led negotiations to end the
civil war should begin next month.” Pompeo said in a statement, “The time
is now for the cessation of hostilities, including missile and UAV strikes
from Houthi-controlled areas into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the
United Arab Emirates.” He added, “Subsequently, Coalition air strikes must
cease in all populated areas in Yemen.”

USA Today
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(10/30, Shesgreen) says while Pompeo “ratcheted up his push for an end to
the deadly war in Yemen,” his statement was “carefully worded.” Pompeo
“called on the Houthi rebels to stop their attacks on Saudi Arabia first –
and then on the Saudi-led coalition to stop bombing population centers in
Yemen.” He “also urged the warring parties to support a United Nations-led
effort to broker a political resolution to the war – an effort that has
proved unsuccessful over three years of bloody conflict.” USA Today adds
that Pompeo’s comments “echoed a similar statement from Defense Secretary
Jim Mattis on Tuesday.”

The Washington Times
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(10/30, Muñoz) reports that in an address to the US Institute for Peace,
Mattis “made a forceful call for all parties involved in the brutal war in
Yemen to come to the negotiation table within the next month, to bring to
an end to a conflict pushed by a Saudi Arabian-led coalition that has
devolved into a military stalemate that has produced one of the world’s
worst humanitarian crises.” Mattis stressed, “This has got to end. We have
to replace combat with compromise” in Yemen. The Times says the Pentagon
chief’s comments “represented a notable increase in Washington’s
unhappiness with the course of the war.” Despite “open speculation that
blowback from the apparent government-ordered killing of dissident Saudi
journalist Jamal Khashoggi” could “lead US officials to take a harder line
on the expensive and destructive war in Yemen,” Mattis “said the Khashoggi
affair was not the impetus behind his comments, calling them two separate
issues.”

Meanwhile, USA Today
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(10/30, Shesgreen) says Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) “has emerged as the Trump
administration’s biggest irritant when it comes to its Yemen policy.” Aside
from the civilian death toll, it was Yemen’s “famine that truly alarmed
him.” He told USA Today, “It offends my sensibilities – and I know it
offends the sensibilities of all Americans – that there are countries in
this day and age that are using food as a weapon of war.” He continued,
“And it further offends my sensibilities…that the United States has
partnered with these countries.” Young also warned that “starving people –
denying them basic humanitarian assistance – leads to radicalization. We
don’t want to create more terrorists.” According to USA Today, Todd
“blocked the confirmation of a key State Department nominee until he got
answers from the administration about the Saudis’ compliance with
international law.” He also “hand-delivered a missive to Trump’s first
secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, demanding a ‘comprehensive diplomatic
effort’ to address the humanitarian crisis.”

*Reuters: Contractor Forecasts Don’t Support Trump Claims About
Saudi Arms Deal. *Reuters
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(10/30, Stone) reports that when President Trump “mentions the $110 billion
arms deal he negotiated with Saudi Arabia last year, he quickly follows up,
saying ‘It’s 500,000 jobs.’” However, according to Reuters, “an internal
document...from Lockheed Martin forecasts fewer than 1,000 positions would
be created by the defense contractor, which could potentially deliver
around $28 billion of goods in the deal.” Reuters adds, “Lockheed instead
predicts the deal could create nearly 10,000 new jobs in Saudi Arabia,
while keeping up to 18,000 existing US workers busy if the whole package
comes together – an outcome experts say is unlikely.” Reuters goes on to
report that “a person familiar with US defense company Raytheon Co’s
planning said if the Saudi order were executed it could help to sustain
about 10,000 US jobs, but the number of new jobs created would be a small
percentage of that figure.”

According to the Washington Post
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(10/30, Fahim), the Trump Administration, “which depends on Saudi Arabia to
keep spending billions on US military equipment and to stabilize world
energy markets, has carefully cultivated” Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman
and his father, King Salman, “assigning them the leading regional role in
bringing Iran to heel and in forging an Arab-blessed Israeli-Palestinian
peace agreement.” The Post adds, “For now, as it combs through pending
defense purchases, the White House is scrambling to determine what level of
sanction it might mete out to appear suitably repulsed by” the murder of
Jamal Khashoggi, “while guarding those objectives.”

*Erdogan: Khashoggi Murder Trial Must Be Held In Turkey. *Reuters
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(10/30, Solaker) reports that President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said a
Turkish official investigating the murder of Jamal Khashoggi has asked
Saudi prosecutor Saud Al Mojeb “to disclose who sent the team involved in
the journalist’s killing.” Reuters says Mojeb “held talks with Istanbul’s
prosecutor on Monday and Tuesday about Khashoggi’s death in the Saudi
consulate in Istanbul.” According to Reuters, the Saudi government “says
that 18 suspects in the case will face justice in the kingdom, despite
repeated calls from Ankara for them to be extradited for trial in Turkey.
‘Yesterday, our prosecutor told the Saudi prosecutor that the prosecution
could be carried out in Turkey since the location of the crime is
Istanbul,’ Erdogan told reporters at Turkey’s parliament.”

The Washington Post
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(10/30, Loveluck) says that in his Tuesday remarks, “Erdogan appeared more
muted in his criticism of Saudi Arabia than in previous weeks.” Still,
Khashoggi’s case is “straining Ankara’s already fraught relationship with
Riyadh and pressing the Trump administration to defend its most prized
Middle Eastern ally.”

*Khashoggi’s Fiancee Wants Answers, Calls On World Leaders To
Ensure No Cover Up. *ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/30, story 7, 1:35, Muir) reported that in her first interview with
American television, the fiancee of murdered Washington Post writer Jamal
Khashoggi told ABC’s Ian Pannell that Khashoggi had actually visited the
Saudi Consulate in Istanbul just four days before he was killed there.
Pannell: “So, he didn’t want to go into the Saudi Consulate that day?
‘Yes,’ she says, ‘He was worried he could be captured and sent back to
Saudi Arabia.’ But instead, he was greeted warmly that day. So, when he
went back four days later, his guard was lowered.” Hatice Cengiz said she
didn’t know for sure that Khashoggi had been killed “until the Saudis
confessed they killed him.” She’s now “demanding to know where the body is
so she can bury her fiance. And also wanting to know who ordered the
killing.” Fox News’ Special Report[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(10/30) reported that Cengiz is “calling on President Trump and other world
leaders to ensure his death...is not covered up.”

*Senior Saudi Prince Critical Of MBS Returns To Riyadh. *The New
York Times
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(10/30, Kirkpatrick, Hubbard) reports Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, a “senior
member of the Saudi royal family,” returned “to Riyadh from London on
Tuesday in the most significant move in the royal family since the killing
of the dissident Jamal Khashoggi.” Prince Ahmed “had been afraid to return,
associates of his family said, since he had made public comments last month
that appeared to criticize Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 33, the king’s
favorite son and the de facto ruler of the kingdom.” According to the
Times, “It was unclear whether he now felt safe to return only because he
was needed to help bolster the crown prince against his Western critics.”
Prince Ahmed’s return, “which was confirmed by three Saudis close to him,
comes amid an international backlash against the kingdom after the brutal
death of Mr. Khashoggi.”

*WPost Editorial: Congress Must Demand Answers Over Khashoggi’s
Murder. *In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(10/30) says even though four weeks have passed since Khashoggi
disappeared, much about the case “remains undisclosed.” Instead of
answering these questions, the Post says, “the Saudi government – and its
de facto accomplices in the Trump administration – have gone silent,
evidently hoping that demands for accountability will fade away now that
the story has been pushed from the front pages. That should not be allowed
to happen.” The Post urges Congress to summon “senior US officials and
determine what they know about the killing.” The Post also calls on
Congress to “take decisive action to impose sanctions on those responsible
– including, if the available evidence points to him, Mohammed bin Salman –
and reshape US relations with Saudi Arabia.”

*AP: Saudis Have Given $354 Million To US Universities Since 2011. *The
AP
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(10/30, Binkley, Day) reports that “at least $354 million from the Saudi
government or institutions it controls has flowed to 37 American schools
since 2011.” The AP adds, “Much of the money was provided through a
scholarship program that covers tuition for Saudis studying in the US, but
at least $62 million came through contracts or gifts from the kingdom’s
nationally owned companies and research institutes.”
Denmark Accuses Iran Of Attempting To Assassinate Dissident On Its Soil.

Reuters
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(10/30, Nielson, Gronholt-Pedersen) reports that the government of Denmark
said Tuesday that it “suspected an Iranian government intelligence service
had tried to carry out a plot to assassinate an Iranian Arab opposition
figure on its soil.” Reuters adds, “The alleged plot, which Denmark’s
foreign minister said he believed the Iranian government was behind,
prompted the Nordic country to call for fresh European Union-wide sanctions
against the Islamic Republic.” According to Reuters, “A Norwegian citizen
of Iranian background was arrested in Sweden on Oct. 21 in connection with
the plot and extradited to neighboring Denmark.” Secretary of State Pompeo
tweeted
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“We congratulate the government of Denmark on its arrest of an Iranian
regime assassin,” and “call on our allies and partners to confront the full
range of Iran’s threats to peace and security.”

*Iranian Foreign Minister: Trump Has Failed To Win Support For
Reimposition Of Sanctions. *Reuters
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(10/30) reports that after a meeting Tuesday with his counterparts from
Turkey and Azerbaijan, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned
that US sanctions on Iran “will have ‘severe consequences’ for the world
order...days before new sanctions on Tehran’s oil exports take effect.”
Zarif is quoted as saying, “Americans have not achieved their goals by
imposing illegal sanctions against Iran. ... The world community has stood
up to the US sanctions.”

*Iranians Preparing For New Round Of US Sanctions. *The CBS Evening
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(10/30, story 5, 1:40, Glor) reported, “Iranians are bracing for a new
round of US sanctions that President Trump plans to impose as early as next
week.” CBS (Palmer) added that Iran’s currency has already “plunged 70
percent against the US dollar,” meaning “everything is more expensive.” The
White House – which says one of the main goals of the sanctions is to
“pressure the Iranian government into negotiating a new and improved
nuclear deal” – is getting “a lot of the blame” from Iran’s citizens.
However, “demonstrations across the country” indicate there is also “public
fury with Iran’s own inefficient, corrupt government.”
Turkish Planes Hit Kurds In Iraq With Airstrikes, Killing Seven.

Reuters
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(10/30) reports that the Turkish military “killed seven Kurdish militants
in air strikes in neighboring northern Iraq on Tuesday.” According to
Reuters, “Turkey has in recent months carried out strikes on bases of the
outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, especially its
stronghold in the Qandil mountains, where Ankara has also threatened to
carry out a ground offensive.”

*ISIS Claims Responsibility For Attack On Shi’ite Muslim Pilgrims
In Iraq. *Reuters
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(10/30, Hadi) reports ISIS claimed responsibility for a roadside bomb that
killed three Shi’ite Muslim pilgrims “as they walked to a holy site near
the northeastern Iraqi city of Khanaqin on Tuesday.” The claim of
responsibility “could not immediately be verified,” but Reuters says that
the “Sunni Muslim militants are active in the area and have targeted
Shi’ite pilgrims in the past.”
Treasury Official: Venezuela A Threat To Regional Stability.

“Venezuela poses a clear threat to regional stability and could drag down
key U.S. allies like Brazil, Argentina and Colombia, a senior Treasury
Department official” for terrorist financing, Marshal Billingslea, “said on
Wednesday,” Reuters
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(10/30, Wroughton) reports. Billingslea stressed, “This is a hemispheric
issue and the implosion of the regime there is a direct challenge for us.”
US Charges Chinese Spies, Hackers In Conspiracy To Steal Trade Secrets.

The Washington Post
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(10/30, Nakashima) reports the Justice Department on Tuesday “unsealed
charges against 10 Chinese spies, hackers and others accused of conspiring
to steal sensitive commercial airline and other secrets from US and
European companies.” According to the Post, the indictment “marks the third
time since September that the United States has brought charges against
Chinese intelligence officers and their recruits for stealing American
intellectual property.” Assistant Attorney General John Demers said, “This
is just the beginning. Together with our federal partners, we will redouble
our efforts to safeguard America’s ingenuity and investment.” The New York
Times
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(10/30, Benner) reports that “two Chinese intelligence officers and five
hackers repeatedly broke into corporate computer systems to steal
intellectual property and other information about the aerospace industry,
according to the indictment, which had been under seal since June.” From
January 2010 to May 2015, they “stole turbofan engine plans and other
confidential business information from 13 companies, according to court
documents.”

*Australian Report Details Chinese Military’s Access To US
Strategic Military Research. *The New York Times
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(10/30, Tarabay) reports that over the last decade, China’s People’s
Liberation Army “has sent 2,500 military scientists, researchers and
engineers abroad, according to the report from the Australian Strategic
Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research institution.” The Times adds,
“While they work with academics and scientists at institutions around the
world, they are especially concentrated in the United States, Britain,
Australia, New Zealand and Canada, the so-called Five Eyes nations that
broadly share intelligence.” The ASPI report says “the number of
peer-reviewed papers jointly published by Chinese scientists and their
Western counterparts has increased more than sevenfold...to 734 last year
from 95 in 2007.” According to the Times, “The research they conduct is
sometimes in areas with strategic military applications like navigation
technology, quantum physics and cryptography.”

“While tension has risen between the US and China in recent years,”
the Washington Times
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(10/30, Taylor) says, “analysts note geopolitical friction between
Australia and China may be notably hotter than that currently occurring
between Washington and Beijing.” The ASPI report’s claims “appear to
reflect Australia’s heightened concern over China’s increasing activities
around the world.”
Trump Says He Expects “Great Deal” With China.

Reuters
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(10/30, Ruwitch) reports President Trump said Monday night “he thinks there
will be ‘a great deal’ with China on trade, but warned that he has billions
of dollars worth of new tariffs ready to go if a deal isn’t possible.” In
an interview with Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle,” Trump said, “I think that
we will make a great deal with China and it has to be great, because
they’ve drained our country.” Trump also “said in the interview he would
like to make a deal now, but that China was not ready. He did not
elaborate.”

*Chinese Factory Growth Weakest In Two Years. *Reuters
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(10/31, Zhang, Qiu, Woo) reports China’s manufacturing sector “barely
expanded in October and missed expectations, as both domestic and external
demand ebbed, in a sign of deepening cracks in the economy from an
intensifying trade war” with the US. The official Purchasing Managers’
Index (PMI), released on Wednesday, “fell to 50.2 in October, the lowest
since July 2016 and down from 50.8 in September.” Reuters notes that it was
“a touch above the 50-point mark that separates growth from contraction for
a 27th straight month,” and “suggests a further slowing” in the nation’s
economy.

*NYTimes DealBook: Chinese Auto Tax Cut Wouldn’t Solve Car
Industry’s Problems. *Columnist Liam Proud and Pete Sweeney, Asia economics
editor at Reuters, write in the New York Times
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(10/30, Proud, Sweeney) “DealBook” blog that China “may try to dress the
wounds of global carmakers, but it will be able to provide little more than
a Band-Aid.” China’s “top economic-planning body is considering whether to
cut in half the 10 percent tax that customers pay on new cars there,
Bloomberg
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(10/29, Tian, Xie, Sachgau) reported on Monday, citing unidentified
sources.” Proud and Sweeney write, “That might help prop up falling demand,
but the industry has bigger problems,” including “sputtering sales,” which
the tax cut would only “offer a temporary fix.”

*China Attempting To Boost Renminbi As It Hits Weakest Point In
Decade. *The New York Times
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(10/30, Bradsher) reports the Chinese currency, the renminbi, “has been
gradually losing value since mid-April, and on Tuesday it was at its
weakest point in a decade.” If the currency weakens any further, “it could
fall below the psychologically important level of 7 renminbi to the dollar.
The last time it took more than 7 renminbi to buy a dollar was in May 2008,
as the world was slipping into a financial crisis.” According to the Times,
the Chinese government “has good reason to keep its currency from
weakening, and it appears to have acted in recent weeks to prop it up.”

*Report: US Steel Prices Increase By Double-Digit Percentages.
*The Minneapolis
Star Tribune
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(10/29, DePass) reports that “spurred by new trade tariffs, US steel prices
have increased by double-digit percentages this year while foreign steel
prices dropped, a trade research firm has found.” A new American Steel
Index report by Business Forward Inc. “said tariffs increased the prices on
American-made, hot and cold-rolled steel 11 percent since February. In
contrast, prices on foreign steel fell 4.8 percent on average.”
Domestic Policy
Trump Says He Will End Birthright Citizenship With Executive Order.

In an interview scheduled to air Sunday, President Trump told “Axios on
HBO” that