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Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden, Trump Hold Dueling Rallies In Nevada Amid Critical Senate Race.
<#S1>

• Visiting Newport News, Biden Campaigns For VA2 Hopeful Luria. <#S2>

• At Trio Of Florida Rallies, Biden Will Seek To Boost Gillum, Nelson,
Other Democrats. <#S3>

• Biden To Attend Fundraiser In Ohio, Rally Support For Cordray On Oct. 29.
<#S4>

• Biden To Appear With NY19 Democratic Hopeful Delgado On Friday. <#S5>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump Bemoans “Onslaught Of Illegal Aliens,” Calls Caravan Democratic
“Disgrace.” <#S6>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Bipartisan Calls Grow For Saudi Arabia To Face Repercussions. <#S7>

• Russia Warns Of “Military-Technical” Retaliation If US Leaves INF Treaty.
<#S8>

• US-Led Coalition Airstrike Targets Syrian Mosque Used By ISIS Fighters.
<#S9>

• Afghan Elections Take Place Despite Nearly 200 Terror Attacks. <#S10>

• Jordan Reclaims Lands Used By Israel Under 1994 Peace Treaty. <#S11>

• Dissident Group Ties Iranian Actions Abroad To Terror Campaign. <#S12>

• Graham Applauds Trump, Pence For Standing Up To China. <#S13>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Durbin Says Healthcare Motivating Independent Voters. <#S14>

• Administration Weighs Move To Define Gender “On A Biological Basis.”
<#S15>

• New Infrastructure Planned To Boost US Oil Exports. <#S16>

• Obama DOJ Official Says Chicago “Wants” Consent Decree. <#S17>

• Mueller Examining If Stone Knew WikiLeaks Would Release Democratic Emails.
<#S18>

• Facebook, Reddit Move To Combat False News, Hacking Ahead Of Midterms.
<#S19>

• Scaramucci Accuses Kelly Of Having “Hissy Fits,” Suggests Chief Of Staff
Doesn’t Like Trump. <#S20>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• NCI Moonshot Award Supports La Jolla Institute, UC San Diego Cancer
Research. <#S21>

• Tumors In Majority Of Patients Respond To Entrectinib. <#S22>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S23>

• Washington Post. <#S24>
Biden in the News
Biden, Trump Hold Dueling Rallies In Nevada Amid Critical Senate Race.

The AP
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(10/21, Miller) reports, “Campaigning on opposite sides of” Sen. Dean
Heller’s (R) closely watched reelection race against Rep. Jacky Rosen (D),
President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday “appealed
to party loyalists” in Nevada. In Elko, Trump rallied support for Heller,
“considered the most vulnerable GOP senator on the Nov. 6 ballot.” Biden,
meanwhile, “headlined a Las Vegas rally at a union local to promote” the
candidacy of Rosen “and other Democratic candidates, as he encouraged
Nevada residents to get out and vote.” Trump “referenced Biden’s appearance
in Las Vegas, mocking the smaller crowd drawn by his potential 2020 rival,
compared with the thousands he gathered on an airport tarmac in the more
sparsely populated part of the state.”

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(10/20, story 3, 0:35, Ninan), Errol Barnett reported that Trump “has been
out West holding rallies in support of Republican candidates fighting close
midterm races,” and Biden was also in Nevada “supporting Democratic
candidates and fueling speculation of a potential 2020 presidential run.”
Politico
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(10/20, Arkin, Siders) reported that the “dueling rallies” attended by
Biden and Trump offered “a preview of what could potentially become a nasty
2020 matchup in a critical swing state.” Trump “labeled the Democrat
‘Sleepy Joe Biden and ‘One Percent Joe,’ mocking both the size of the crowd
at Biden’s event and the former vice president’s past failed presidential
campaigns. Biden responded in kind,” saying “that Trump was ‘shredding’
basic decency and making a deliberate effort to divide the country.”

Breitbart
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(10/20, Spiering) reported Trump “said that Biden only had 193 people at
his campaign rally in Las Vegas. ‘We love Elko, but in all fairness, it’s
easier to draw a crowd in Las Vegas,’ Trump said. Trump claimed there were
6-7,000 people who couldn’t get into his rally in Elko.” The Daily Beast
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(10/20, Resnick) reported, “This is not the first time the two potential
2020 opponents have found themselves rallying the troops in the same state
within hours of each other. Just over a week ago, Biden and Trump paid a
visit to Kentucky to boost the opposing candidates in a close House race in
the state.” The Las Vegas Review-Journal
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(10/20, Giwargis) reported that Biden, “expected to be a 2020 presidential
candidate, told the crowd at the Culinary Union’s headquarters that
Washington Republicans are choosing their party over their country. But if
Democrats can” take Congress, “Biden said, many GOP lawmakers will start
‘voting their conscience when they know it can matter.’”

The Las Vegas Sun
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(10/20, Gonzalez) reported that Biden spoke “about the importance of unions
and said Nevada’s candidates say what they mean and do what they say, which
DC needs.” Biden “said Republicans are going after health care, with
possible cuts to Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare, because the GOP
tax plan is adding an unsustainable $1.9 trillion to the deficit. ‘It’s
time to getup, lift our heads up, remember who the hell we are,’ Biden
said. ‘This is America, let’s take back the Senate and we will change the
world as we know it.’” In its report on the dueling rallies, CQ Roll Call
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(10/20, Bowman) reported that “in some respects,” Biden and Trump “had
different intentions. Biden was in town to fire up members of the powerful
Culinary union, which has proved to be the engine of the Democratic ground
game. In contrast to the diverse group of workers behind the Las Vegas
tourism business, when Trump asked his Elko rally crowd about Hispanic
turnout there, the response was less than tepid. ‘Eh, not the most, not the
most. I’d give it 5 percent,’ he said.”

*Biden: Trump’s Handling Of Khashoggi’s Death “Embarrassing” And
“Dangerous.” *Mother Jones
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(10/20, Leber) reported that during Saturday’s rally, Biden criticized
Trump’s “handling of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as
‘embarrassing’ and ‘dangerous.’” Biden is quoted as saying of Trump, “My
Lord! He’s making excuses. By the way, you know that whole expression, you
don’t bring a knife to a gun fight? Well you don’t bring bone saws to
fights. What is going on here? It’s embarrassing. But it’s also dangerous.
... They’re undermining our worldwide reputation for decency.”
Visiting Newport News, Biden Campaigns For VA2 Hopeful Luria.

The Newport News (VA) Daily Press
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(10/18, Hammond) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden “shook a lot
of hands, took a lot of selfies and pointed workers leaving Newport News
Shipbuilding Friday afternoon toward his ‘friend’ standing behind him,”
Navy veteran Elaine Luria (D), who is challenging VA2 Rep. Scott Taylor
(R). Biden told the workers, “Help Elaine out here. This is not about Joe.”
However, added the Daily Press, “as Biden greeted workers at the 46th
Street gate, it did seem to be a lot about him. Members of the United
Steelworkers Local 8888 union, hosting Biden for the afternoon, held signs
with photos of his face that thanked him for his time serving as vice
president under Barack Obama.”

*Jill Biden Christens USS Delaware Submarine. *The AP
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(10/20) reported that Dr. Jill Biden on Saturday “christened the US Navy’s
newest Virginia-class attack submarine.” The former second lady “is the
sponsor of the new USS Delaware. On Saturday, she broke a ceremonial bottle
across the submarine’s bow at a Virginia shipyard. In her Saturday speech,
Biden honored the submarine’s 136 officers and crew, saying they were ‘the
very best our Navy has to offer.’ During World War II, her father served as
a Navy signalman.”
At Trio Of Florida Rallies, Biden Will Seek To Boost Gillum, Nelson, Other
Democrats.

Florida Politics
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(10/19, McAuliffe) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden “will make
three stops in” Florida this “week to rally for Democrats up and down the
ballot.” Today at noon, Biden “will be in Tampa holding a get-out-the-vote
rally alongside US Sen. Bill Nelson, Democratic gubernatorial candidate
Andrew Gillum, Attorney General hopeful Sean Shaw and nearby Congressman
Charlie Crist.” In the afternoon, “Biden, Gillum and Nelson will headline a
similar rally in Jacksonville, this time joined by local congressional
candidate Nancy Soderberg.” Next, will be a “rally on Tuesday in Orlando,”
where “Biden will be joined by Nelson and Democratic Congresswoman
Stephanie Murphy, along with Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer.” Florida Politics
added, “A news release announcing the appearances notes that Biden will
make stops at college campuses ‘to encourage young people to vote early,
and promote Democrats up-and-down the ballot.’”

TBReporter (FL)
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(10/20) quoted Biden as saying in a release, “This election is a battle for
the soul of America, and Florida has the chance to decide the future of
this country. I am honored to stand with Sen. Bill Nelson and Mayor Andrew
Gillum as they work to restore our nation’s democracy.” This morning, an AP
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(10/22) dispatch reports on the story, citing “a news release from the
Florida Democrats.” The Tampa Bay (FL) Times
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(10/19, Mowrer) and the Orlando (FL) Sentinel
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(10/19, Lemongello) also highlighted the scheduled rallies.
Biden To Attend Fundraiser In Ohio, Rally Support For Cordray On Oct. 29.

The Youngstown (OH) Vindicator
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(10/21) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden “is scheduled to
visit the Mahoning Valley to head a major Democratic Party fundraiser Oct.
29 at the Lake Club and attend a rally to stump for the party’s candidate
for Ohio governor, Richard Cordray.” Mahoning County Democratic Party chief
Dave Betras said, “We’re excited that Biden is going to be here. Everybody
in the Mahoning Valley likes Joe Biden.” Cordray is battling state Attorney
General Mike DeWine (R) in the race to succeed term-limted Gov. John Kasich
(R). The Warren (OH) Tribune Chronicle
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(10/21) briefly reported that Biden “will be at a major fundraiser at the
Lake Club in Poland from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., according to Greg Hicks, the
local coordinator for Cordray’s campaign.” The Cordray camp “is looking for
a public venue to hold a rally earlier in the day on Oct. 29, Hicks said.”
Biden To Appear With NY19 Democratic Hopeful Delgado On Friday.

The Poughkeepsie (NY) Journal
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(10/20, Schutzman) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden will
appear with attorney Antonio Delgado (D) – who is challenging NY19 Rep.
John Faso (R) – “at a ‘get out the vote’ rally in Kingston” this “Friday at
11:30 a.m.” Biden, in a statement, said, “We need people like Antonio in
Congress. ... I know that he has what it takes to make a real difference
for people in upstate New York.” In response, Delgado “said he’s grateful
for the former vice president’s support. ‘Vice President Biden grew up just
south of here, in Scranton, and understands the struggles and concerns of
the working folks in our region,’ Delgado said in the statement. ‘He knows
what it takes to bring about real positive change, and to seek out
bipartisan solutions.’” The Kingston (NY) Daily Freeman
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(10/20, Doxsey) and Hudson Valley One (NY)
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(10/20) offered similar reports on Biden’s coming appearance for Delgado.
Leading the News
Trump Bemoans “Onslaught Of Illegal Aliens,” Calls Caravan Democratic
“Disgrace.”

President Trump tweeted
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yesterday, “Full efforts are being made to stop the onslaught of illegal
aliens from crossing our Souther Border. People have to apply for asylum in
Mexico first, and if they fail to do that, the U.S. will turn them away.
The courts are asking the U.S. to do things that are not doable!” Trump
later added
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“The Caravans are a disgrace to the Democrat Party. Change the immigration
laws NOW!” The Washington Times
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(10/21, Dinan) reports, meanwhile, that “Homeland Security Secretary
Kirstjen Nielsen warned Sunday that the illegal immigrant caravan heading
toward the US could be exploited by cartels that control most of the
illegal flow of people through Latin America.” Nielsen said in a statement,
“While we closely monitor the caravan crisis, we must remain mindful of the
transnational criminal organizations and other criminals that prey on the
vulnerabilities of those undertaking the irregular migration journey.” USA
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(10/21, Bacon) adds that Nielsen also “said the United States was working
with ‘our partners in the region’ to investigate and prosecute anyone
making a profit from the migration.”

Media reports cast the Administration as seeking to turn the
caravan into a winning issue for Republicans in the upcoming election
contests. Some analysts, in fact, said Democrats may have “played into
this” during the campaign. Jonathan Martin of the New York Times, for
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(10/21) “Democrats have played into this by veering to the left on the
immigration issue, talking about...abolishing ICE, which has given” GOP
“candidates an issue, frankly.” Julie Hirschfeld Davis, also of the New
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(10/21) that “Democrats don’t want to touch this issue. We don’t hear
push-back” to Trump’s rhetoric “from the Democratic leadership, even from
Democratic candidates,” because “they want to pivot to healthcare, they
want to pivot to economic issues, friendlier terrain for them.” To Davis,
“that may be correct, but they are also seeing poll numbers that...tell
them that this an issue that scares people.”

The Washington Post
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(10/21, Sieff) reports “Trump seems to hope that the migrant caravan will
galvanize his base ahead of next month’s midterm elections,” and “he played
up the threat as he stumped for GOP candidates this past week.” The
President said Friday, “These are some bad people coming through. These
aren’t babies, these aren’t little angels coming into our country.” Along
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(10/21, story 2, 2:20, Palmeri) last night cast Trump as “riling up his
base on immigration.” Trump was shown saying, “A Democrat victory in
November would be a bright, flashing invitation to every human trafficker,
drug trafficker.” ABC added that the President is “blaming the Democrats
for causing the border crisis without any proof.” Said Trump, “It’s openly
inviting millions of illegal aliens to break our laws, violate our borders,
and overwhelm our nation. The Democrats want caravans. They like the
caravans.” ABC also reported that “in a dueling rally, former Vice
President Biden punching back on Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration
policy.” Biden was shown saying, “What the hell is going on in America?
Ripping infants from their mothers’ arms at the border. What are we doing?”

Meanwhile, the AP
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(10/21, Stevenson, Perez) reports the “growing throng of Central American
migrants resumed their advance toward the US border...overwhelming Mexican
government attempts to stop them at the border.” The AP adds “their numbers
swelled to about 5,000 overnight,” and “it was not immediately clear where
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(10/21, story 3, 2:05, Gutierrez) said the reason is “many Mexicans are
joining in,” and USA Today
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(10/21, Bacon) that “Mexico had been trying to slowly process asylum
requests in small groups, in some cases providing 45-day visitor permits,”
but “thousands of the migrants grew impatient, circumventing the
bureaucracy and crossing over on makeshift rafts or just swimming into
Mexico undeterred by border authorities.”

The New York Post
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(10/21, Moore) also reports that “after being denied entry into Mexico,
many of them began jumping off the bridge to swim to shore while many
others headed downriver where they tried to use makeshift rafts to float to
the Mexican border.” Reuters
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(10/21, Schrank) recounts, meanwhile, that “as a military helicopter
circled overhead, migrants who said they were fleeing a toxic mix of
violence, poverty and corruption in Central America wondered if police
would seek to turn the caravan back.” Reuters adds “most said they felt
safer advancing as part of a large group.”

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(10/21, story 3, 2:10, Dukoupil) reported members of the caravan “are
determined to make it to the US to seek asylum despite...Trump warning that
they will be turned away.” Adriana Diaz, who “is traveling with them,”
added that “what we have been hearing over and over again” is that they
“simply have no choice. They ‘say we have no option.’”

The Washington Times
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(10/21, Dinan) indicates that “local news reports said once the migrants
broke into Mexico, authorities there did not try to stop them.” They “left
the migrants to prepare for the long journey across the country and to the
US, where they plan to test the administration’s resolve.” The Wall Street
Journal
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(10/21, Montes) runs a similar story, and the Washington Examiner
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(10/21, Higgins) reports that “it is unclear what the Mexican officials
will do should the caravan reach the US-Mexican border.” Administration
“officials have said they are counting on [outgoing Mexican President] Pena
Nieto’s government to address the situation.” Secretary of State Pompeo
“met with Pena Nieto in Mexico City on Friday to press the president to
stop the caravan.”

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(10/21, lead story, 3:30, Gutman) reported Trump is “vowing if Mexican
authorities don’t stop them, he will.” Trump was shown saying, “If that
doesn’t work out, we’re calling up the military, not the guard. We’re
calling up the military.” ABC also reported, “Everyone you see here has
rejected asylum,” which “was offered multiple times by the Mexican
government. They fear it’s a ruse to deport them back to Honduras.” They
“say they’re going to continue to march northward to the United States,
which means there will likely be a confrontation with Mexican authorities.”

*US Deportees Joining Caravan. *The Washington Post
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(10/21, Sieff) reports from inside the caravan that the group includes
“deportees.” The Post adds that “many of the migrants here had previously
lived in the United States, for years or even decades,” and are “joining
the caravan to reunite with their children, or to resume old jobs.” These
deportees “were undeterred by the American authorities who had apprehended
them or the US president who promised to keep them out again.”

*AP, NYTimes: Democrats “Alarmed” Over Lack Of Intensity Among
Hispanic Voters. *The AP
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(10/21, Riccardi) reports that “many Democrats presumed that
Latinos...would be better-positioned to flex their muscles and punish the
president for his actions and rhetoric targeting Latino immigrants – most
recently when he pledged to send troops to the border to block a northbound
caravan of Central American migrants.” However, recent “polling shows it’s
more affluent and predominantly white college-educated women with whom
Democrats have made the most inroads, while Latinos haven’t fully turned
against Trump and his Republican Party.” The AP adds, “The relatively tepid
showing for Democrats so far from some Latino voters was evident this month
when” the DCCC “trimmed its financial support from candidates trying to
oust Republican congressmen in one west Texas district and another in
California’s Central Valley.”

The New York Times
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(10/21, Real, Martin) similarly reports Democratic “strategists hope Latino
voters...will help deliver resounding victories in many of the races that
will decide political control in Washington,” but “interviews with dozens
of Hispanic voters in Nevada and Arizona...showed a more complicated
picture that is deeply alarming to Democratic Party officials.” Voters
“said they felt disempowered rather than emboldened,” and “expressed
feelings of cynicism, apathy and fear.” The Times adds the “election-year
intensity gap between whites and Hispanics is one of the biggest worries
for the Democrats heading into the midterms.”

*O’Rourke Advocates Increased US Aid To Region To Prevent Mass
Migration. *Breitbart
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(10/21, Key) reports that “Sunday on ABC’s ‘This Week,’ US Senate candidate
Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) said America needed to send financial aid to
stabilize Central America to decrease asylum-seeking immigrants.” Said[image:
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O’Rourke, “If things are so desperate in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador,
that someone would risk their lives to come here than what can we do to
improve situations there? We have invested trillions of dollars for wars in
the Middle East. Could we invest some fraction of that to provide the
stability in Northern triangle counties of Central America make sure people
have a reason to stay and raise their families where they were born?”
Foreign Policy
Bipartisan Calls Grow For Saudi Arabia To Face Repercussions.

The New York Times
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(10/21, Landler, Stolberg) reports that “members of Congress from both
parties made clear on Sunday that they wanted to see Saudi Arabia punished”
for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Washington Post
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(10/21, Demirjian) likewise says Saudi Arabia’s “belated explanation” for
Khashoggi’s death of “drew deep skepticism Sunday from congressional
lawmakers and mounting bipartisan calls for the kingdom — and possibly
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally — to face severe
repercussions.” Both senior Republicans and Democrats “proposed sanctions
on the longtime US ally, the expulsion of the Saudi ambassador and the
cutting of arms sales, among other possible punishments.” Appearing on CNN’s
State of the Union[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) said, “It’s my thinking that MBS was involved in
this, that he directed this and that this person was purposefully
murdered.” He went on to call for a “collective response” by the US, UK,
France and Germany, including sanctions. On NBC’s Meet the Press[image:
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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) “said the Saudi ambassador should be formally
expelled from the United States if an investigation reveals the crown
prince’s involvement,” which “echoed a call from Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) a
day earlier.” Also appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press[image: Image removed
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Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said, “In Saudi Arabia, you don’t do something of
this magnitude without having clearance from the top. We need to find out
who that is and hold them accountable.” On Fox News’ Sunday Morning
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) “said he believes the Crown Prince is ultimately
responsible — and should pay a price.” Said Graham, “You’ll never convince
me that he didn’t do this. Saudi Arabia is an ally, but this behavior is
outside the norm to the point that the people involved need to be removed,
in my view. Saudi Arabia is a country. MBS is a person. And I am willing to
separate the two.”

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(10/21), Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) said, “We don’t do arms sales for the
purposes of the profit from arms sales. We do arms sales because we want to
be aligned with different countries around the globe that believe in our
values and have a long-term sense of what we’re up to together and why we
have that alliance. Saudi has a lot of explaining to do and everything
should be on the table.”

Citing comments made Sunday, Politico
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(10/21, Temple-West) reports the Crown Prince “is facing an increasing
threat of US sanctions...following rare bipartisan agreement from lawmakers
on his likely culpability” in Khashoggi’s death. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said
on Fox News Sunday[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(10/21), “I think it crushes credulity to believe the Crown Prince wasn’t
involved in this. ... There’s no way 15 people were sent from Saudi Arabia
to Turkey to kill a dissident without the approval of the Crown Prince. And
that’s why I say we have to be stronger than just saying we are going to
sanction a few of these people and pretend like we’re doing something. I
think we really need to discontinue our arms sales to Saudi Arabia and have
a long and serious discussion about whether or not they want to be an ally
or they want to be an enemy.”

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said on ABC’s This Week[image: Image
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(10/21), “Ultimately, the President is going to accept the Crown Prince’s
denials, but it’s hard for me to imagine that these orders would have been
carried out without the knowledge of the Crown Prince. This ought to be a
relationship altering event for the US and Saudi Arabia. We ought to
suspend military sales and security assistance and we ought to impose
sanctions on any of those directly involved in this murder. This ought to
be something that causes us to do a re-examination of our relationship with
Saudi Arabia.”

The Washington Post
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(10/21, Hamburger, Reinhard, Moyer), meanwhile, profiles what it calls the
“sophisticated Saudi influence machine” that “is now being tested amid a
global condemnation of the killing” of Khashoggi, and an AP
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(10/21, Gambrell) analysis says Khashoggi’s killing is “unlikely to halt
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s rise to power, but could cause
irreparable harm to relations with Western governments and businesses,
potentially endangering his ambitious reform plans.” The Crown Prince “had
hoped to galvanize world support for his efforts to revamp the country’s
oil-dependent economy,” but Saudi Arabia now faces “possible sanctions”
over Khashoggi’s killing. While Saudi Arabia has “threatened to retaliate
against any punitive action,” analysts say that “wielding its main weapon —
oil production — could backfire, putting the prince’s economic goals even
further out of reach.”

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(10/21) Bret Baier, “The US-Saudi relationship is a historically strategic
one. We have great interests that we share together. We have a great trade
relationship. We have security issues that are particularly important to
both of us. ... I believe that when the investigation is over and the facts
are revealed, and people know who is responsible and see those individuals
being punished, and see procedures put in place to prevent this from
happening, that the relationship with weather this.”

*Trump Now Referring To Saudi “Deception” In Khashoggi’s
Killing. *While
Khashoggi’s slaying continues to receive significant media coverage,
President Trump’s latest remarks on the case are not drawing much attention
in the press. In its lead story, the CBS Weekend News[image: Image removed
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(10/21, lead story, 1:50, Dukoupil) briefly noted, “Deception and lies,
President Trump is now using those words to describe Saudi Arabia’s
ever-shifting story about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.” To ABC World
News Tonight[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(10/21, story 5, 2:30, Llamas), Trump is now “taking a tougher stand,
telling ‘The Washington Post,’ ‘Obviously, there’s been deception, and
there’s been lies.” The Washington Post
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(10/21, El-Ghobashy, Morello) reports that while Trump “initially said the
Saudi explanation of Khashoggi’s death was credible,” in an interview with
late Saturday, he conceded that “there had been deception.” Still, “he
defended Saudi Arabia as an ‘incredible ally’ and expressed hope” that
Crown Prince Mohammed in Salman was not involved. To the New York Times
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(10/21, Landler, Stolberg), Trump “shifted his tone again on the issue and
joined the lawmakers in expressing doubt about the Saudi government’s
account of the death.”

A Washington Post
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(10/21, Dawsey) analysis says that for Trump, “little is more important
than appearing to project strength,” and the challenge facing him now “is
that his waffling public response” to Khashoggi’s killing and “his
consistent acclaim for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman could leave a
lasting impression of weakness.” The Post says that “despite a growing body
of evidence suggesting Mohammed ordered the ghastly killing,” Trump has
“declined so far to take action to punish the Saudis. In fact, he has
showered praise on the crown prince.” In an interview Saturday with the
Post, Trump said of the Crown Prince, “He’s a strong person. He has very
good control ... He’s seen as a person who can keep things under check. I
mean that in a positive way.”

Julie Hirschfeld David of the New York Times said on CNN’s Inside
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(10/21), “This is the contradiction we hear from the President a lot. He
admires leaders who he feels have a strong reign on their country, who have
strong control over their people. That has included in the past Kim Jong-un
of North Korea, that has included Vladimir Putin. He has praised all of
them for being strong leaders. What do they have in common? They brutalize
their people. He is clearly trying to make a distinction here and hoping
that distinction can stick between what happened to this journalist and
what MBS may have done himself.” But “what that also does is make a very
strong statement to the rest of the world and to this country that it is
not intolerable for him to imagine that a leader would sanction and,
indeed, carry out the capturing of journalist, brutal interrogation of a
journalist and ultimately the killing of a journalist.”

Emily Jashinsky of The Federalist said on Fox News MediaBuzz[image:
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(10/21), “We have seen an eagerness as this has played out over the past
2-3 weeks to use this as a way...to tie this to some of the anti-Trump
forces’ favorite narratives about him, that he cozies up to autocrats, that
his rhetoric against the press is encouraging violence. So I think it
reason we are seeing so much coverage of this, some of which I think
exceeds the proportion it should be because there is an eagerness to tie it
to some of these attacks on President Trump.”

*Saudi FM: Khashoggi Killed In “Rogue Operation.” *NBC Nightly
News[image:
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(10/21, story 4, 0:40, Snow) reported that Saudi Arabia “issued new denials
today in the killing of ‘Washington Post’ columnist Jamal Khashoggi. As new
security pictures were released of Khashoggi before he entered the Saudi
Consulate in Istanbul, the Saudi foreign minister again denied in an
interview with Fox News that any of those involved had ties to Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman.” Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir: “This was an
operation that was a rogue operation. This was an operation where
individuals ended up exceeding the authorities and responsibilities they
had. They made the mistake when they killed Jamal Khashoggi in the
Consulate, and they tried to cover up for it.”

In what ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/21, story 5, 2:30, Llamas) called “the ever-shifting story from the
Saudis,” after “first saying Khashoggi died in a fistfight, the Saudi
official now making a stunning new claim that ‘a physical altercation
ensued when Jamal tried to leave. In order to prevent him from calling for
help, one of the accused suspects placed him in a choke hold position. He
died as a result.’” But the Saudis are “standing by the claims that King
Salman and the Crown Prince knew nothing.”

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(10/21, lead story, 1:50, Dukoupil) reported, “Today, Saudi Arabia’s
foreign minister told Fox News Channel it was a rogue operation, and those
responsible would be punished. ... But the foreign minister says he does
not know where Khashoggi’s body is, and he rejected involvement from Crown
Prince Mohammad Bin Salman.”

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(10/21) Bret Baier, “We are determined to uncover every stone. We are
determined to find out all the facts and we are determined to punish those
responsible for this murder.” Asked if the Crown Prince knew “anything
about it if there were people closely tied to him involved in this
operation,” Al-Jubeir said, “There weren’t people closely tied to him
involved in this operation. There were pictures of some security officers
who may have been part of his security detail from time to time. ... The
Crown Prince has denied this. The Crown Prince is not aware of this. ...
This was an operation that was a rogue operation. This was an operation
where individuals ended up exceeding the authorities and responsibilities
they had. They made a mistake when they killed Jamal Khashoggi in the
consulate and they tried to cover up for it.”

USA Today
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(10/21, Cummings) reports al-Jubeir told Fox News that Khashoggi was killed
in a “criminal” act that he characterized as an “aberration” that did not
fit with the behavior of the Saudi regime. To USA Today, the foreign
minister “became defensive when asked why it took Saudi Arabia more than
two weeks to confirm that Khashoggi was killed in the consulate, arguing
that his government wanted to wait until it had the most accurate
information possible.”

The Washington Post
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(10/21, El-Ghobashy, Morello) reports Jubeir “spoke shortly after Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday he will soon be revealing
details of his government’s investigation into the killing of Khashoggi, a
move that could directly contradict Saudi Arabia’s official account of what
happened inside its consulate in Istanbul.” The Saudis’ explanation, says
the Post, has “also been met with skepticism by European nations and US
lawmakers who have expressed concern that the Saudi investigation is solely
designed to shield Mohammed from any culpability.”

Reuters
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(10/21, Rashad), meanwhile, reports that elsewhere on Sunday “a senior
government official laid out a new version” of Khashoggi’s death “that in
key respects contradicts previous explanations.” The latest account,
provided by “a Saudi official who requested anonymity, includes details on
how the team of 15 Saudi nationals sent to confront Khashoggi on Oct. 2 had
threatened him with being drugged and kidnapped and then killed him in a
chokehold when he resisted.” A member of the team then “dressed in
Khashoggi’s clothes to make it appear as if he had left the consulate.”

*Mnuchin Defends Trip To Saudi Arabia In Wake Of Killing. *The New
York Times
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(10/21, Rappeport) reports Treasury Secretary Mnuchin on Sunday “defended
his decision to meet with Saudi officials this week, saying his trip was
aimed at reinforcing ties at a critical moment, as the United States tries
to ratchet up pressure on Iran.” Mnuchin, speaking during a visit to
Jerusalem, “said the economic and strategic relationship between the United
States and Saudi Arabia was too important to be derailed by an
international uproar over the Saudis’ killing” of Khashoggi. Mnuchin
described what happened to Khashoggi as a “terrible situation” and said the
US would not go easy on human rights violators. Said Mnuchin, “I think the
human rights issues are very important issues, and I think that the United
States needs to play a leadership role on human rights.”

The Wall Street Journal
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(10/21, Talley) reports Mnuchin also said it was too early in the
investigation of Khashoggi’s death to discuss sanctioning the kingdom.
Mnuchin said his message would be the two countries “have very important
issues that we continue to focus on,” including combating terrorist
financing and countering Iran. “We will continue in that relationship,
while we also simultaneously want to get to the bottom of what the facts
are about the Khashoggi situation, which is obviously a terrible
situation,” Mnuchin added.

Regarding Saudi Arabia’s handling of Khashoggi’s death, Bloomberg
News
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(10/21, Mohsin) says Mnuchin said that while the investigation is ongoing,
“the information that’s coming out is a good first step, but it’s obviously
not enough.”

*Erdogan Vows To Detail Khashoggi Death “In Full Nakedness.” *The New
York Times
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(10/21, Gall, Hubbard) reports Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
“turning up the pressure on Saudi Arabia, promised Sunday to reveal
everything his country knows about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi” inside
the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. In a speech broadcast live, Erdogan said,
“We said that we will reveal it. God willing, I will make my statement
about Jamal Khashoggi in the parliamentary group on Tuesday.” As Turkish
investigators continued to search Sunday for Khashoggi’s body, Erdogan
said, “We are searching for justice and it will be revealed in full
nakedness. Not with ordinary steps, but in full nakedness.”

The AP
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(10/21, Torchia, Bilginsoy) reports that while Saudi Arabia over the
weekend “finally acknowledged” that Khashoggi had died in the consulate in
what it called a “fistfight,” Turkish sources have “reported a different
narrative, saying a Saudi hit squad of 15 people traveled to Turkey to
kill” Khashoggi. Said Erdogan, “Why did these 15 people come here? Why were
18 people arrested? All of this needs to be explained in all its details.”

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(10/21, story 5, 2:30, Llamas) reported that an unnamed official said
Khashoggi’s body “was handed over to someone local for disposal. But still,
no detail about who that was or where the body is now.”

Meanwhile, a “former high-level official” told the Washington Times
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(10/21, Taylor) that “American intelligence has a clear picture of what
happened to Mr. Khashoggi, but declined to say whether it aligns with the
Saudi version or Turkish claims.”
Russia Warns Of “Military-Technical” Retaliation If US Leaves INF Treaty.

A day after President Trump said the US will withdraw from the
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, Russian officials were quick to
warn of potential consequences – even as NATO ally Germany expressed its
displeasure with the Administration’s decision. The CBS Weekend News[image:
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(10/21, story 2, 2:00, Saberi) said last night that “since 2014, the US has
declared Russia in violation of the treaty by developing prohibited
weapons.” Russia, however, “denies that charge.” Reuters
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(10/20, Mason) reports “Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said
on Sunday that a unilateral withdrawal by the United States would be ‘very
dangerous’ and lead to a ‘military-technical’ retaliation.” Moreover, “a
Kremlin spokesman said Russian President Vladimir Putin would seek answers
about the planned withdrawal when he meets John Bolton, Trump’s national
security adviser, for scheduled talks in Moscow this week.”

TASS
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(10/21, TASS) quotes Ryabkov as also saying, “We condemn the continuing
attempts to achieve Russia’s concessions through blackmail, moreover in
such an issue that has importance for international security and security
in the nuclear weapons sphere [and] for maintaining strategic stability.”
To Ryabkov, the New York Post
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(10/21, Moore) reports, “it’s Washington that has been violating the
treaty.” The Deputy FM is said, “These are the attempts to portray this
situation as if Russia violates the treaty. But it’s not just that we do
not violate it, but we strictly observe it. And we are tolerant when
pointing to US blatant violations of the agreement for many years.”

The AP
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(10/21, Heintz), which says National Security Adviser Bolton “faces two
days of high-tension talks in Moscow,” reports that “Konstatin Kosachev,
head of the foreign affairs committee in Russia’s upper house of
parliament, said on Facebook that a US withdrawal from the treaty would
mean ‘mankind is facing full chaos in the nuclear weapons sphere.’” The New
York Times
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(10/21, Kramer) reports Trump’s decision also “drew sharp criticism Sunday
from one of the men who signed it – Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who called the
decision reckless and not the work of ‘a great mind.’” Said Gorbachev,
“Under no circumstances should we tear up old disarmament agreements.”

Politico Europe
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(10/21, Hanke) reports “European politicians have warned that canceling the
treaty could lead to a new arms race on the Continent that would threaten
European security.” The German government said yesterday “the deal was
important for Europe’s security interests and called on its NATO allies to
discuss the consequences of the decision.” Said the German government in a
statement, “The federal government regrets the announced withdrawal … The
INF treaty is an important element of arms control, which serves European
interests especially.” Bloomberg News
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(10/20, Chandra) reports, meanwhile, that “NATO has credited the INF treaty
with playing a crucial role in ensuring security for 30 years by ending the
proliferation of ground-launched intermediate-range nuclear missiles.”

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(10/21, story 6, 2:10, Snow) reported, however, that “under...Putin,
something changed” with regard to the treaty, and “NATO says flatly,
‘Russia is in violation of the INF treaty.’” NBC adds that “in Helsinki in
July,” Putin nonetheless “complained about US missile launchers positioned
in Europe, calling that a dangerous situation.” NBC added that “White House
officials say they expect another one-on-one meeting between...Trump
and...Putin sometime in the next few months, but nothing is set in stone.”

*UK Sides With US. *The AP
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(10/21) reports, “Britain’s defense secretary says his country stands
‘absolutely resolute’ with the United States as...Trump says he’ll pull out
from a landmark arms control agreement with Russia.” Gavin Williamson
“blames Russia for endangering the treaty,” and is “calling on the Kremlin
to ‘get its house in order.’”

*Corker Backs Move If It’s Negotiating Ploy, Says Russia In
Violation Of Treaty. *The Wall Street Journal
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(10/21, Simmons, Grove, Leary) reports Sen. Bob Corker, who chairs the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Trump’s move could be part of a
strategy to push Russia to renegotiate the treaty. Corker told CNN’s State
of the Union, “This could be somewhat like the fact that they were going to
end Nafta, and then ended up negotiating some small changes. ... So this
could be something that is just a precursor to try to get Russia to come
into compliance.” Corker also said, “I hope we’re not moving down the path
to undo much of the nuclear arms control treaties that we have put in
place.” Also on CNN’s State of the Union[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/21), Corker said “there’s no question that for years, Russia has been
violating” the INF Treaty. Corker added, however, that, “We’ve also
heard...maybe” the Administration wants “to end the New START treaty. That
would be a huge mistake. That has worked.”

*Paul Calls It “Big, Big Mistake” By Trump, Blames Bolton For Move.
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(10/21), Sen. Rand Paul called in “a big, big mistake to get out of this
historic agreement,” which is “a big part of [Ronald] Reagan’s legacy and
we should not get rid of it.” Paul went on to say, “I think...Bolton is the
one advising the President to get out of the INF treaty and I don’t think
he recognizes the important achievement of Reagan and Gorbachev on this.”

The Washington Post
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(10/21, Demirjian) reports that “though it takes a two-thirds vote of
Congress to ratify a treaty, there is no constitutionally mandated
congressional role in tearing one up – leaving critical lawmakers,
including one of the president’s staunchest defenders on foreign policy,”
Paul, “little recourse but to plead with Trump to pursue negotiations to
update and broaden the INF Treaty instead of declaring it dead.” Paul also
“encouraged Trump to appoint nuclear negotiators to work on updating and
expanding the pact and ‘have a rational discussion with experts on this and
see if we can resolve it,’” but “he insisted that Bolton play no part in
that treaty discussion.”

*Graham: “Absolutely The Right Move.” *Sen. Lindsey Graham told Fox
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(10/21), “Absolutely the right move. The Russians have been cheating. The
Chinese are building up their missiles. I like President Trump being tough.
... I like being tough on Russia. The Russians never honored their
bargain.”

*Russia Seeking More Influence Over European Food Supply. *The New
York Times
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(10/21, Apuzzo) reports that “a Russian fertilizer giant that has ties to
the Kremlin” is supporting EU legislation that would place tighter
regulations on fertilizer. According to the Times, the legislation “would
reset regulations in a way that could help the company, PhosAgro, push
aside rival firms and give it greater influence over the European food
supply.” The Times says that while fertilizer “might not seem an obvious
source of geopolitical tension,” with Moscow “working openly and covertly
to widen its sphere of power, the prospect of a politically connected
Russian firm cornering a key part of the European agricultural market has
raised sharp concerns.”
US-Led Coalition Airstrike Targets Syrian Mosque Used By ISIS Fighters.

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(10/21, Baldor) reports the US-led coalition fighting ISIS “says an
airstrike on a mosque in Syria last week targeted an insurgent command and
control center and killed a dozen fighters.” Last week, Syrian state-run
media outlets and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights alleged “that a
series of strikes in Sousa near the Iraq border killed and wounded dozens;
civilians as well as IS fighters.” In a statement released Sunday, the
US-led coalition “said monitoring of the building ‘made us aware’ of when
only IS fighters were present and the strike took place Thursday when it
was being used to coordinate attacks on the coalition and on US-backed
Syrian Democratic Forces.” The coalition “did not acknowledge or refute the
reports of civilian deaths from coalition airstrikes in the area,” but said
“that while the law of war protects mosques, the use of the building as a
headquarters by IS caused it to lose that protected status.”
Afghan Elections Take Place Despite Nearly 200 Terror Attacks.

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(10/21, story 4, 0:15, Dukoupil) reported that a “wave” of nearly 200
terror attacks that left more than 50 people dead “did not stop four
million people from voting this weekend” in Afghanistan’s parliamentary
elections. The results “are still being tallied.”

*US General Wounded In Attack In Kandahar. *The Washington Post
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(10/21, Lamothe) reports Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Smiley “was wounded in an
attack last week in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province that killed two senior
Afghan provincial officials and targeted a group that included the senior
US commander in the country, four people with knowledge of the assault
said.” US military officials have thus far “declined to comment on the
attack or identify the wounded, describing them only as an American service
member, an American civilian and a contractor who is part of the military
coalition.” The Post says that American “officers are rarely in situations
where they face attack, and even more rarely wounded the assault,” but last
week’s assault “caught the US military by surprise.”
Jordan Reclaims Lands Used By Israel Under 1994 Peace Treaty.

“Under internal political pressure,” Jordanian King Abdullah II “announced
on Sunday that he was cutting off Israelis’ free access to two tracts of
land along the border that fall in sovereign Jordanian territory, but where
Jews historically had private land use rights,” the New York Times
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(10/21, Kershner, Sweis) reports, adding that the arrangement was “part of
the 1994 peace treaty between the two former foes.” The arrangement “has
not been popular with ordinary Jordanians, who are still struggling
economically,” and Jordan’s relations with Israel “have also been strained
by years of impasse in the Palestinian peace process.” While Abdullah’’s
decision “was not likely to touch off any immediate diplomatic crisis,” it
“exposed underlying tensions in the region” and “came as an unwelcome
surprise to Israelis.”

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(10/21, Eglash, Luck) similarly says that Abdullah’s “decision to downgrade
its arrangement with Israel sparked celebrations” in Jordan, but was
“received with surprise” in Israel. Israeli analysts cast the decision as a
“populist move by the king aimed at opposition groups,” but Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu “appeared unruffled” and “said relations with Jordan
were still strong.”
Dissident Group Ties Iranian Actions Abroad To Terror Campaign.

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(10/21, Scarborough) reports that the National Council of Resistance of
Iran, a dissident coalition affiliated with “MEK, which operates far-flung
spy networks in Iran,” released a report that “presents a big-picture
assessment of Iran’s foreign interventions in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and
Yemen,” and outlines how Tehran “places terrorist operatives abroad under
the cover of diplomacy.” Titled “Iran Doubles Down on Terror and Turmoil,”
the 57-page report “contains the tale of ruling Muslim mullahs on the
march, unleashing abroad a number of state organs and paid militiamen to
wage war.” The National Council wrote, “The mullahs’ regime has funneled
billions of dollars to finance its belligerent war agenda in the Middle
East while the majority of Iran’s people are living in poverty.” It warned,
“As the regime’s officials have conceded, if the regime fails to inflame
wars outside Iran’s borders, it would have to fight for survival within
Iran’s borders. This is because external conflicts draw attention away from
domestic crises.”
Graham Applauds Trump, Pence For Standing Up To China.

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(10/21), said, “Thank God for Donald Trump and Mike Pence. We tell the
truth. We stand up to China. They are building islands overland, we are a
stronger economy. We need to write rules that recognize China is a
developed nation and not a developing nation. Mike Pence is right. When we
stand up for our values and enemies we are better off then when we ignore
the problem. I had eight years of ignoring the problem under Obama. It’s
time for someone should take China on.”

*Sources: Trump Wants China To “Suffer More” To Gain Leverage.
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Swan writes for Axios
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(10/21) that President Trump “has no intention of easing his tariffs on
China, according to three sources with knowledge of his private
conversations. Instead, these sources say he wants Chinese leaders to feel
more pain from his tariffs – which he believes need more time to fully kick
in.” Swan quotes one “source” as saying, “He wants them to suffer more”
from tariffs, and believes the longer his tariffs last, the more leverage
he’ll have.

*Mnuchin: US Open To Changes In Definition Of Currency
Manipulation. *Bloomberg News
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(10/21, Mohsin) reports Treasury Secretary Mnuchin said Sunday in an
interview that the Administration is “open to changing how the US
determines which nations are gaming their currencies,” a move that
Bloomberg says could give President Trump “the chance to officially brand
China a foreign exchange-rate manipulator.” Said Mnuchin, “We may at some
point look at whether the tests should be changed. We always look at these
things.” In a separate interview with Reuters
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(10/21, Wroughton), Mnuchin “dismissed concerns that China’s weakest
economic growth since the global financial crisis could spill into other
emerging markets and destabilize US financial markets.” Said Mnuchin, “I am
not concerned about that destabilizing our markets. Broadly, right now, I
don’t see a contagion risk.” Asked whether the slowing economy in China
underscored the need for talks, Mnuchin said, “No, the importance is that
we are focused on having a more level playing field in our economic
relationship with them.”

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