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*Monday, September 10, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden Returns To Instagram, Gains One Million Followers. <#S1>

• Biden Noted Among Possible 2020 Democratic Candidates Mulling Iowa Visit.
<#S2>

• Biden Endorses Rhode Island Gov. Raimondo For Reelection. <#S3>

• NY: Biden’s Endorsement Of Cuomo Noted In Reports On Cuomo, Nixon. <#S4>

• BBC Notes Biden Support For Transatlantic Commission On Election
Integrity. <#S5>

• NY19 Hopeful Delgado Opens Campaign Office In Oneonta. <#S6>

• Biden Hot-Mic Moment Cited Among Examples Of Politicians’ “Salty”
Language. <#S7>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Pence Says He Never Discussed Invoking 25th Amendment. <#S8>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump Thanks North Korea For Staging Military Parade Without ICBMs. <#S9>

• Kerry: Trump’s Iran Nuclear Deal Withdrawal Was “Dangerous” Move. <#S10>

• US Officials: Assad Has Approved Use Of Chlorine Gas In Idlib Offensive.
<#S11>

• Bolton Expected To Warn ICC Over Possible Probe Into Afghan War Conduct.
<#S12>

• WSJournal: Bolton To Announce Closure Of PLO’s Washington Office Today.
<#S13>

• CIA Expanding Formerly Curtailed Drone Missions In Africa. <#S14>

• NSC Spokesman: US Position On Restoring Venezuelan Democracy “Unchanged.”
<#S15>

• Ford Disputes Trump’s Tweet, Says It Won’t Make Hatchback In US. <#S16>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Papadopoulos: Sessions Knew About Meetings With Russians. <#S17>

• Pence Expresses Confidence In Kavanaugh Confirmation. <#S18>

• Moonves Leaving CBS Amid Additional Sexual Assault Accusations. <#S19>

• GOP Congressional Leaders Moving To Avoid Shutdown. <#S20>

• WPost A1: Blue Collar Jobs Growing At Fastest Rate In 30 Years. <#S21>

• Texas Police Arrest Dallas Officer Who Killed Black Man In His Home.
<#S22>

• Trump Suggests NFL Ratings Could Improve If Players Stood For Anthem.
<#S23>

• Perez: Midterms “Most Important Election Of Our Lifetime.” <#S24>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• NCI Grants Univ. Of Arizona $2.5M To Study Easing Patient, Caregiver
Mental Stress. <#S25>

• New Perspective On Cancer Treatment Emphasizes Disease “Deescalation.”
<#S26>

• Leading Cancer Researcher Fails To Disclose Financial Ties To Industry.
<#S27>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S28>

• Washington Post. <#S29>
Biden in the News
Biden Returns To Instagram, Gains One Million Followers.

USA Today
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(9/9, Fritze) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden has returned to
Instagram “as speculation swirls about whether he’ll run for president in
2020.” On Friday, he posted two images “of himself and his wife, Jill,
taking part in a walk for wounded veterans in New York.” Since his return
on Friday, Biden has gained “1 million followers.” Former President Obama
recognized Biden’s return to Instagram “by posting a selfie on Saturday of
the two of them together” and writing in a post, “My brother and friend
@JoeBiden is back on Instagram. Welcome back, Joe – you’ll always be one of
the rare exceptions to my no-selfies rule.” The Daily Mail (UK)
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(9/8) reports that “among the thousands of comments” on Biden’s Friday post
“were many urging Biden to consider a presidential run.” According to
sources “who have spoken to him about his decision-making,” Biden has set a
January deadline for himself “to deliberate and size up potential
competition for the Democratic nomination.”

The AP
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(9/8) reported that Biden “is listening keenly to the supporters pushing
him to run for the White House in 2020,” and “is convinced he can beat
President Donald Trump, friends and advisers say.” However, while “the pull
toward another presidential bid is strong,” Biden “must weigh the realities
of jumping into a crowded primary full of up-and-comers eager to debate the
future of the party.” Also reporting on Biden’s return to Instagram are TMZ
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(9/9), PopSugar
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(9/9), Harper’s Bazaar
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(9/9), Bustle
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(9/8), and Elite Daily
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(9/8).
Biden Noted Among Possible 2020 Democratic Candidates Mulling Iowa Visit.

The AP
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(9/8, Beaumont) reported that Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) “is scheduled to
headline Iowa Democrats’ marquee fall banquet next month, raising his
national profile further on the heels of a spotlight role in confirmation
hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.” According to the AP,
“Booker is the first of the Democrats’ better-known potential 2020
presidential candidates to make plans to visit the leadoff caucus state
this year,” although “several lesser-known Democrats have already begun
making introductions.” The AP reported that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and
former Vice President Joe Biden, “who is also weighing a 2020 campaign,
have been in touch with Iowa Democrats but have not yet made plans to
visit.”

The Hill
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(9/9, Keller) reports “multiple sources told The Guardian” that Booker “has
sent four staffers to Iowa to help Democratic candidates campaigning in the
state,” which could be part of his “groundwork for a 2020 presidential
run.” The Hill adds that “Booker is one of several possible 2020 Democratic
hopefuls who are traveling to states crucial to a presidential election,”
Biden and Sanders “have both visited Iowa, in addition to other key
states,” and Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) “are
also making the rounds.” Also reporting on plans for the 2020 Democratic
field in Iowa are Breitbart
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(9/8, Caplan) and Politico
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(9/8, Dovere).
Biden Endorses Rhode Island Gov. Raimondo For Reelection.

The Providence (RI) Journal
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(9/8) reported that on Saturday, former Vice President Joe Biden endorsed
Gov. Gina M. Raimondo (D-RI) for reelection. Raimondo said the endorsement
“is a special one,” and cited an interaction that Biden had with her son at
the governor’s dinner at the White House as an example beyond politics that
“endeared President Barack Obama’s vice president to her.”
NY: Biden’s Endorsement Of Cuomo Noted In Reports On Cuomo, Nixon.

CNN
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(9/9, Krieg) reports that on Sunday Gov. Cuomo “denied any prior knowledge
of a mailing sent by state Democrats suggesting” that Nixon “would not
support Jewish communities in the face of anti-Semitism.” The New York
State Democratic Committee “paid for the flier, which falsely claimed Nixon
supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, which aims to
pressure Israel over its treatment of Palestinians, and accused her of
being ‘silent on the rise of anti-Semitism.’” CNN notes that Cuomo “has the
support of Hillary Clinton, former Vice President Joe Biden and the
national party establishment,” while Nixon “has been backed by the
progressive grassroots advocacy group Indivisible and multiple New
York-based chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America.”

The Hill
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(9/8, Axelrod) reported that San Juan, Puerto Rico Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz
on Friday endorsed Nixon in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. In a
statement, Cruz said, “Her plans to reform voting to give more people a
chance to be heard is a breath of fresh air in an era where voter
suppression, terrible as it may be, seems to be the guiding principle.” The
Hill reported that “Cuomo has garnered a number of high-profile
endorsements, including from The New York Times and prominent politicians
such as former Vice President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).”
BBC Notes Biden Support For Transatlantic Commission On Election Integrity.

BBC News Online (UK)
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(9/10) reports that the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity is
warning of the dangers of Deep Fake technology ahead of the 2018 Midterms.
The commission is “backed by former US vice-president Joe Biden and a raft
of former politicians and senior figures from Nato and other bodies,” and
it is planning “to produce tools to help elections progress without
interference.”
NY19 Hopeful Delgado Opens Campaign Office In Oneonta.

The Oneonta (NY) Daily Star
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(9/9) reports that NY19 Democratic candidate Antonio Delgado, who “was
recently endorsed by former President Barack Obama and former Vice
President Joe Biden,” on Sunday opened a campaign office in Oneonta. The
office is the sixth Delgado has opened in the district, which is described
as a “toss-up.”
Biden Hot-Mic Moment Cited Among Examples Of Politicians’ “Salty” Language.

The Houston Chronicle
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(9/7) – in an article about a new ad in Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R) relection
campaign that suggests Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D) “has a salty mouth” and
“loves to drop the F-bomb at campaign events” – sayd that such language has
“been way more commonplace” in the past 10 years. For example, “former
President Obama sprinkled some salt on his language at times,” while “his
Vice President Joe Biden called Obama’s healthcare bill a big f’ing deal on
a hot mic.”
Leading the News
Pence Says He Never Discussed Invoking 25th Amendment.

Vice President Pence appeared on two Sunday morning political talk shows,
where he was asked about last week’s anonymous New York Times op-ed
purportedly written by a top Trump Administration official. On the CBS
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(9/9, story 5, 2:15, Quijano) – the only network to cover the story – Ed
O’Keeffe reported that Pence “and other Administration
officials...dismissed” the op-ed “that said Cabinet secretaries once
considered using the 25th Amendment to remove” President Trump. CBS’
Margaret Brennan: “Have you ever been part of a conversation about that?”
Pence: “No, never. And why would we be?” Kellyanne Conway: “I will tell you
what happened this week: The team tightened up even more because of all of
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(9/9, Brennan), Pence said, “I truly believe that whoever penned this
opinion editorial should do the honorable thing and resign. The truth of
the matter is that the opinions that they expressed not only deceitful and
false, but they’re also un-American, and they represent an assault on our
democracy.”

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(9/9, Wallace) whether he would take a lie detector test to prove that he
did not write the piece, Pence said, “I would agree to take it in a
heartbeat, and submit to any review the Administration wanted to do.” The AP
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(9/9, Superville) reports that Pence “says he’s ‘100 percent confident’
that no one on his staff was involved” with the op-ed. The AP says that
“some pundits had speculated that Pence could be the “senior Administration
official” who wrote the opinion piece because it included language Pence
has been known to use, like the unusual word ‘lodestar.’” USA Today
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(9/9, Fritze) reports, “Pence is one of several White House officials who
denied writing the op-ed.” The Los Angeles Times
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(9/9, King) reports that Pence told CBS that he “did not ask his staff
explicitly whether they had written the op-ed, saying, ‘I know them. I know
their character.’”

The Washington Post
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(9/9, A1, Sonmez) reports on its front page that on CBS, Pence “said he was
never part of discussions” to invoke the 25th Amendment. Pence “argued that
the op-ed was ‘just an obvious attempt to distract attention from this
booming economy and President Trump’s record of success.’” The Washington
Times
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(9/9, Sherfinski) similarly reports that Pence “says he has ‘never’ been
part of a conversation about invoking the 25th Amendment to potentially
remove President Trump from office.”

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(9/9), “I looked at some of the things the Vice President wrote and
communicated, and [the op-ed] just seemed very, very similar. I don’t know.
I’m just talking about based on having access to internal memos that were
sent from the VP’s office.” USA Today
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(9/9, Fritze) reports Omarosa also said “that she and others used #TFA in
text messages, a reference to the 25th Amendment, when President Donald
Trump did something ‘insane’ or ‘so crazy.’”

*In Tweet Today, Trump Says White House “Smooth Running
Machine.” *Trump
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this morning, “The White House is a ‘smooth running machine.’ We are making
some of the biggest and most important deals in our country’s history –
with many more to come! The Dems are going crazy!” Trump also tweeted
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this morning, “‘I’m taking this book with a grain of salt & everyone should
do the same. Multiple sources, but almost every one of them has come out
and discredited the claims made by Woodward. You cannot take this book too
seriously.’ Katelyn Caralle, Washington Examiner.”

*Conway Expects Op-Ed Author To Reveal Herself Or Himself.
*The Washington
Times
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(9/9, Sherfinski) reports presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway said on CNN
that she thinks the op-ed author will eventually be revealed. Conway said,
“I think this person is going to suss himself or herself out. I think
cowards are like criminals, and eventually they confess to the wrong
person: ‘Shh – it was me but don’t tell anyone.’ And of course the person
will tell someone.” The Hill
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(9/9, Burke) reports that Conway “seconded Trump’s claim that the op-ed
might have jeopardized national security, [saying] that Trump ‘doesn’t want
this person in a meeting where he’s discussing China, Russia, North
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(9/9, Todd), Conway said, “If this person had the kind of courage and
skills that some of us do, they’d come forward.”

Several key lawmakers from both parties also discussed the op-ed on
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(9/9, Brennan), “I wish that whoever written the op-ed would have revealed
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(9/9, Todd), Senate Minority Whip Durbin focused on the content of the
op-ed, saying, “This is a matter of great seriousness and gravity. We
should not be dismissing it. It isn’t like his blizzard of bizarre tweets.
We are talking about consistent reporting over and over again about
unpredictable, unprepared, unstable behavior by this President.” On Fox
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(9/9, Bartiromo), House Majority Leader McCarthy said, “Whoever wrote it is
a coward. ... The New York Times allowed someone to claim things that are
not true.”

*Sasse Says He Has Not Heard 25th Amendment Discussion, Criticizes
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(9/9, Tapper), said, “I’ve not heard anything about the 25th Amendment but,
obviously, it’s an impulsive White House. There are really good people
around the President, and he has done a good job in a lot of the people he
has hired, but I think they would like to focus on a long-term
agenda.” On NBC’s
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(9/9, Todd), Sasse said of the op-ed, “I’ve reflected more on the op-ed in
the week since it came out or however many days it was. I don’t understand
the morality of the action, I don’t know why you would do it.”

The Daily Caller
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(9/9, Givas) reports that on NBC, Sasse called Trump’s “tenure at the White
House ‘a reality show soap opera presidency,’” and said that he has
considered leaving the GOP. The AP
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(9/9) reports that Sasse said on NBC that “he would like both major parties
‘to be healthier and be competing to be better than the other one amongst a
bunch of good ideas, instead of trying to be less bad than the other one.’”
On CNN, he said, “The main thing that the Democrats are for is being
anti-Republican and anti-Trump, and the main thing Republicans are for is
being anti-Democrat and anti-CNN. And neither of these things are really
worth getting out of bed in the morning for.” Politico
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(9/9, O'Brien) reports that Sasse said of leaving the GOP, “I probably
think about it every morning when I wake up, and I figure out why am I
flying away from Nebraska to go to D.C. this week.”

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(9/9, Tapper), Sasse said, “I think I’ve been saying for three years that I
conceive of myself as an independent conservative who caucuses with the
Republicans, but frankly neither of the parties have a long-term vision for
the future of the country.” The Washington Post
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(9/9, Kane) reported that Sasse on Saturday “acknowledged that he
periodically considers switching his party affiliation to independent,
after an Iowa woman with just 114 followers on Twitter told [him] that she
abandoned her Democratic registration this week because she dislikes both
parties.” Sasse replied
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“yep – regularly consider it (except the ‘from Dem’ part).” According to
the Post, Sasse, “a frequent” critic of President Trump, “has fashioned
himself as a conservative intellectual with an American history PhD from
Yale University.”

*Woodward Says He Would Not Have Published Op-Ed. *Reuters
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(9/9, Becker) reports that Bob Woodward, whose book about the Trump
Administration will be released tomorrow, “said on Sunday he would not have
published the anonymous op-ed.” He told CBS Sunday Morning, “It’s very
important who it is. It’s very important whether this is somebody who
witnessed and participated. ... I wouldn’t have used it.” The CBS Weekend
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(9/9, story 4, 0:30, Quijano) showed a clip of CBS’ David Martin asking
Woodward how many people he interviewed for his book. Woodward: “Oh, over a
hundred. I would say that maybe half of those are key people.” The Washington
Examiner
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(9/9, Williams) reports that Woodward added, “One person I interviewed nine
times and transcripts of these conversations are 700 or 800 pages long,
goes hundreds of pages.”

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(9/9, Tapper), Conway was asked about whether she attempted to bar Woodward
from interviewing Trump for his book. Conway replied that this was “not
true,” adding, “I don’t make decisions exclusively or ultimately.” On NBC’s
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(9/9, Todd), Conway added, “I’m on tape saying exactly what is true, which
is I brought the request back and it was rejected.”

The Washington Examiner
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(9/9, Lim) reports Trump “is reportedly furious at former White House aides
Gary Cohn and Rob Porter after the pair featured in excerpts” of the book.
Last week, Trump said that “a section in the book about how Cohn once took
a letter from his desk to prevent him from exiting a trade deal with South
Korea [was] ‘false’ and ‘made up.’” The Hill
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(9/9, Mitchell) reports that the release of the book is also stoking
concerns about whether Defense Secretary “Mattis can maintain a strong
relationship with President Trump in the wake of reports that the White
House has looked for a successor to the Pentagon chief.” While Mattis
“quickly put out a statement this past week describing Woodward’s book as
fiction and denying insults attributed to him regarding Trump...the public
comments have not quelled concerns about possible friction between the two
men.”

The AP
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(9/9, Woodward, Benac) says under the headline “Watergate Memories Spring
To Life With Trump’s Troubles” that “nearly every element in...Trump’s
trouble has a Watergate parallel. Special prosecutor Robert Mueller is
leading an independent investigation sparked by a break-in at the
Democratic National Committee, the same target that opened the Watergate
can of worms.” President Nixon fired Justice Department officials. And with
the Woodward book, even “some of the same reporters are causing the
president’s pique.”

Jonathan Swan of Axios
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(9/9) writes, “It’s hard to overstate the extremity and variety of
pressures bearing down on President Trump and his understaffed White House.
... Taken together, it’s a jaw-dropping list of problems, and Trump’s
‘fine-tuned machine’ is creaking under this stress. We’re at a hinge point
in the Trump presidency, and staff sound as unsettled as I’ve heard them in
the 19 months since he took office.”

*Bannon: Op-Ed An Indicator Of “Coup” Against Trump. *Reuters
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(9/9, Balmer) reports that in an interview, Steve Bannon said the op-ed was
an indicator that Trump “is facing a ‘coup.’” Bannon told Reuters, “What
you saw the other day was as serious as it can get. This is a direct attack
on the institutions. This is a coup, okay. ... The country has only ever
had such a crisis in the summer of 1862 when General McClellan and the
senior generals, all Democrats in the Union Army, deemed that Abraham
Lincoln was not fit and not competent to be commander in chief.”

*Pence Calls Obama’s Criticism Of Trump “Very Disappointing.” *On ABC
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(9/9, story 3, 2:15), Tom Llamas reported that Pence called former
President Obama’s speech last week “very disappointing.” On Fox News
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(9/9, Wallace), Pence said, “It was very disappointing to see President
Obama break with the tradition of former presidents and become so political
and roll out same tired arguments that he and liberals have made over the
last eight years.” Politico
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(9/9, O'Brien) reports that on his Friday speech, “Obama went on the attack
for the first time against Trump directly. The speech kicked off Obama’s
campaigning on behalf of fellow Democrats ahead of the midterm elections.
... Pence said Obama’s criticism would draw a favorable contrast between
Democrats and Republicans in the campaign.”

Charles Blow writes in his New York Times
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(9/9) column that though Obama “has made some tepid, often glancing,
remarks about Trump’s policies and rhetoric before,” the speech “was the
first time that he has blasted Trump by name. ... Nothing Obama said was
particularly new or revelatory. It was that he was saying it at all that
arrested attention.”
Foreign Policy
Trump Thanks North Korea For Staging Military Parade Without ICBMs.

President Trump tweeted
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yesterday, “North Korea has just staged their parade, celebrating 70th
anniversary of founding, without the customary display of nuclear missiles.
Theme was peace and economic development. ‘Experts believe that North Korea
cut out the nuclear missiles to show President Trump....[continuing tweet
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commitment to denuclearize.’ @FoxNews
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This is a big and very positive statement from North Korea. Thank you To
Chairman Kim. We will both prove everyone wrong! There is nothing like good
dialogue from two people that like each other! Much better than before I
took office.”

Reuters
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(9/9, Smith) reports North Korea’s “reduced display compared to past years
earned a thank you note from...Trump,” and the [image: Image removed by
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(9/9, story 8, 1:30, Quijano) said the “most notable” aspect of the event
was that Pyongyang “did not parade its intercontinental ballistic missiles
as it has done in other parades,” signaling that Kim “is serious about
denuclearization, that he wants to negotiate with President Trump.” [image:
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(9/9, story 5, 1:30, Snow) correspondent Janice Mackey Frayer said the
parade is “a read on where Kim Jong-Un stands diplomatically and the sort
of message he wants to get across to the US as talks over his nuclear
program have stalled.”

The New York Times
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(9/9, Sang-Hun) says the absence of intercontinental ballistic missiles
from North Korea’s parade on Sunday “is an encouraging signal for
Washington, which has been urging the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, to ease
tensions and focus on diplomacy aimed at ending his country’s nuclear
weapons program.” For weeks, “outside analysts had been scrutinizing
satellite imagery of North Korea’s preparations for Sunday’s festivities.”
If North Korea refrained from showcasing its ICBMs, they argued, “it could
be counted as a sign that North Korea was serious about its negotiations
with Washington.”

The Washington Post
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(9/9, Denyer) reports North Korea “devoted nearly half of the event to
civilian efforts to build the domestic economy,” which the AP
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(9/9, Talmadge) says coincides “with leader Kim Jong Un’s new policies”
that emphasize “building up the economy,” not the nuclear weapons program.
The AP adds that with US-North Korea “tensions once again on the rise, a
parade featuring the very missiles that so unnerved Trump last year, and
led to a dangerous volley of insults from both leaders, could have been
seen as a deliberate provocation.”

*Pence: Administration Expecting Kim To “Reaffirm Commitment To
Denuclearization.” *On CBS’ Face the Nation[image: Image removed by sender.
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(9/9, Brennan), Vice President Pence said, “We’re hearing, we’re expecting
a letter as we speak from Kim Jong un communicating again as he did last
week his- his reaffirmation of his commitment to denuclearization.” Later
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(9/9, Brennan) Pence said he “actually believe[s]” that Trump canceled
Secretary of State Pompeo’s planned meeting with North Korean officials “a
week ago because he wasn’t seeing enough progress in denuclearization, that
that may well have resulted in what Kim Jong un communicated to a South
Korean envoy just last week, and we’re anticipating the letter from Kim
Jong un and all the while our sanctions remain in place.”

*Graham Expresses Optimism Denuclearization Deal Can Be Reached. *Asked
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(9/9, Bartiromo) about progress between the US and North Korea on nuclear
negotiations, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said, “I think we have got a
chance here to end this in a peaceful way for the first time in 30 years
because of President Trump. I think North Korea and China believe, if he
had to, President Trump would use military force to protect the American
homeland,” but Trump has “offered a better way.” If “North Korea gives up
their nuclear weapons program,” Graham said, in return it would “get
security, prosperity and a peace treaty to end the Korean War.” According
to Graham, “That’s a darn good deal for Kim Jong-un. It’s a good deal for
the world. If I were North Korea and China, I would take this deal. I
wouldn’t play President Trump,” who he credited “for being strong, but also
for being smart.”

*Woodward: Trump Spooked Pentagon With Draft Tweet On US Troops On
Korean Peninsula. *AFP
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(9/9) reports Trump “spooked the Pentagon leadership with a tweet that –
had it been sent – North Korea would have read as a sign of an imminent US
attack, journalist Bob Woodward said in an interview” on “CBS Sunday
Morning.” Woodward alleged that Trump had drafted “a tweet saying ‘We are
going to pull our dependents from South Korea – family members of the
28,000 people there.’” Woodward explained, “At that moment there was a
sense of profound alarm in the Pentagon leadership that, ‘My God, one tweet
and we have reliable information that the North Koreans are going to read
this as ‘an attack is imminent.’”
Kerry: Trump’s Iran Nuclear Deal Withdrawal Was “Dangerous” Move.

Politico
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(9/9, Cohen) reports former Secretary of State Kerry told CNN’s “Fareed
Zakaria GPS” on Sunday that President Trump’s decision to withdraw the US
from the 2015 nuclear deal – which he described as the “single strongest,
single most accountable, single most transparent nuclear agreement anywhere
in the world” – was “a very dangerous and ill-advised move that is not
based on any broad strategy.” Kerry “said that the U.S. withdrawal from the
deal had empowered Iran’s hard-liners in their criticism of the United
States as untrustworthy,” and “Trump proved them right.” Politico says that
even as Trump weighed a possible withdrawal, “Kerry tried to work behind
the scenes to keep the deal in place, drawing a rebuke from Trump.”

*Iranian Nuclear Head: Construction Complete On Facility To Build
Centrifuges. *Reuters
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(9/9, Newsroom) reports that on Sunday, Iran’s official news agency IRNA
quoted the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Ali Akbar
Salehi, as saying that construction on the Natanz nuclear facility is
complete, and that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “had ordered us to
set up and complete a very advanced hall for the construction of modern
centrifuges, and this hall has now been fully equipped and set up.” He
“said Iran’s announced plans to build nuclear reactors for ships, while
staying within the limits set by its atomic deal with major powers, [were]
‘advancing well but would take 10 to 15 years to complete.’” Salehi
continued, “A third step (in reaction to the U.S. withdrawal) might be to
suspend some of the limitations within the nuclear agreement,” and “the
final scenario can be a complete exit from the nuclear accord, which I hope
will never happen, with the help of (remaining signatories), because
everyone would suffer.”

*US Navy Conducts Gulf Military Exercises Amid Escalating Iranian
Tensions. *Bloomberg News
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(9/9, Fattah) reports that the US Navy “is conducting exercises this month
to ensure its readiness to guarantee freedom of movement through Persian
Gulf and Red Sea waterways amid escalating threats from Iran to disrupt
shipping across important choke points.” From NAVCENT headquarters in
Manama, Cmdr. Scott A. Stearney told reporters that the combined exercises
“illustrate that the U.S. and our partners stand ready to ensure the
freedom of navigation and free flow of commerce wherever international law
allows.” He said Iran’s regional activities “are ‘promoting instability’
that’s ‘affecting the region significantly’ through its backing of Yemen’s
Houthi rebels.”

*WSJournal: Iran Creates Foreign Investment Firm To Circumvent US
Sanctions. *In an analysis, the Wall Street Journal
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(9/9, Faucon) says that when a French-Iranian scientist announced plans to
invest $3 million in a bankrupt French medical facility, the Iranian
government’s majority ownership stake through its foreign-investment arm,
the Iran Foreign Investments Co., was not disclosed. The Journal says the
incident underscores how Tehran is quietly leveraging the fund, which has
$5 billion in cash accounts and investments in 22 countries, to circumvent
US sanctions and mitigate their impact on Iran’s worsening economy.
US Officials: Assad Has Approved Use Of Chlorine Gas In Idlib Offensive.

The Wall Street Journal
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(9/9, A1, Nissenbaum) reports on its front page US officials said Sunday
that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has authorized the use of chlorine
gas in a forthcoming offensive on the northwestern province of Idlib,
raising speculation that President Trump may respond with another
retaliatory military strike. Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White would not
confirm whether Assad’s use of chlorine gas would trigger a new round of US
airstrikes, but said “Assad’s use of chemical weapons, sarin and chlorine,
and disregard for civilian lives is well documented and contrary to
regional stability.”

Vice President Pence told [image: Image removed by sender. Video]Fox
News Sunday
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(9/9, Wallace), “I want to make it very, very clear. There’s a wider world
watching. The United States of America and our allies will take swift and
decisive action against any use of chemical weapons in Idlib province.
Beyond that, I will tell you that we are watching very carefully as
resources are being marshaled along the border of the Idlib province.”
Pence added that he is “confident there will be a decision by” President
Trump, “but I’m confident that we will be monitoring that very, very
carefully to ensure that we don’t see another humanitarian catastrophe like
we did before.”

Meanwhile, the [image: Image removed by sender. Video]CBS Weekend
News
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(9/9, story 7, 1:35, Quijano) reported, Russian and Syrian warplanes
“stepped up their assault on Idlib, the last stronghold of rebels in
Syria,” after “a Turkish, Iranian and Russian power brokering summit failed
to agree on a cease-fire.” The warplanes dropped barrel bombs on villages
in the area, and “there are fears the brutal seven year war could end with
another mass slaughter of civilians.” The UN has “warned of a humanitarian
catastrophe and wants to set up safe corridors, while Turkey is concerned
about a new influx of refugees, which they have no capacity to deal with.”
Turkey for now has closed its borders, and has “sent in military
reinforcements to the area.”

*Russia Says US Dropped Phosphorus Bombs On Deir Al-Zor. *Reuters
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(9/9, Kiselyova) reports that the Russian military “said on Sunday that two
US F-15 fighter jets had dropped phosphorus bombs over Syria’s Deir al-Zor
province on Saturday, the TASS and RIA news agencies reported.” The
airstrikes “targeted the village of Hadjin and resulted in fires, but there
was no information about casualties, the Russian military said.”
Bolton Expected To Warn ICC Over Possible Probe Into Afghan War Conduct.

The Administration “will threaten Monday to punish individuals that
cooperate with the International Criminal Court in a potential
investigation of US wartime actions in Afghanistan, according to people
familiar with the decision” who spoke with the Washington Post
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(9/9, Ryan, Gearan). National Security Adviser Bolton, “a longtime opponent
of the court on grounds that it violates national sovereignty,” is
“expected to outline threats of sanctions and a ban on travel to the United
States for people involved in the attempted prosecution of Americans before
the international court in an address Monday” sponsored by the Federalist
Group. Bolton’s upcoming “announcement is closely related to concern at the
Pentagon and among intelligence agencies about potential US liability to
prosecution at the court over actions in Afghanistan, said a senior
administration official familiar with aspects of the forthcoming
announcement.”

*Four Separate Insurgent Attacks In Afghanistan. *The New York Times
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(9/9, Rahim, Nordland) reports on a “chaotic day of violence throughout
Afghanistan,” as, in four separate attacks, insurgents “overran a major
military base, killed a police chief, destroyed a police post and bombed a
memorial event,” resulting in the death of “scores of police officers,
soldiers and civilians.” The Afghan National Army base at Mangalha village
“was the second major base to fall to the insurgents in Baghlan Province in
the past month,” and local officials say their loss “put the entire
district at risk, and endangered travel on the country’s main north-south
highway between the capital and northern Afghanistan.” In Kabul hundreds
the streets were packed in annual “raucous and often violent processions”
in honor of Ahmad Shah Massoud, a northern leader killed by Al Qaeda in
2001, and “suicide bombers attacked celebrants.”

The Washington Post
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(9/9, Salahuddin) reports, “Thousands of young men brandishing knives and
assault rifles took to the streets and fired indiscriminately, mostly into
the air,” during the more than eight-hour celebration of Massoud’s death
anniversary. The Post says the event “further underscored the weakness of
US-backed President Ashraf Ghani’s government.” The CBS Weekend News[image:
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(9/9, story 9, 2:05, Quijano) briefly mentions some of the attacks.

*Survivors Of 2016 Taliban Attack On University In Kabul. *Charlie
D’Agata, on the CBS Weekend News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(9/9, story 9, 2:05, Quijano), reported in the survivors of a 2016 attack
on the American University in Kabul, “a ten-hour Taliban siege claimed the
lives of 16 students, faculty and police.” D’Agata concluded, “Despite the
tragedy of that night, there is one thing the Taliban could not destroy
here: hope.”
WSJournal: Bolton To Announce Closure Of PLO’s Washington Office Today.

The Wall Street Journal
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(9/10, Gordon) reports that US officials said Sunday that the
Administration is expected to announce Monday that it will close the
Palestinian Liberation Organization’s office in Washington. In prepared
remarks seen by the Journal, National Security Adviser Bolton is poised to
say that the Administration “will not keep the office open when the
Palestinians refuse to start direct and meaningful negotiations with
Israel,” a “friend and ally” of the US.

*Palestinian Hospital Director: US Funding Cuts To Have “Severe
Effect.” *The AP
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(9/9) reports the director of east Jerusalem’s Makassed hospital, Bassem
Abu Libdeh, on Sunday “said the US covers 40 percent of costs in six east
Jerusalem hospitals that provide care for Palestinians from the
Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip,” and so the US decision to
sever $25 million in funding for the hospitals will have a “severe effect.”
The Administration announced the move Saturday, “saying it would redirect
the money toward ‘high-priority projects elsewhere.’”
CIA Expanding Formerly Curtailed Drone Missions In Africa.

The New York Times
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(9/9, Penney, Schmitt, Callimachi, Koettl) reports that, in what would be
“aggressive use of powers that were scaled back during the Obama
administration and restored by President Trump,” the CIA is prepared to
conduct secret drone strikes from the newly expanded Dirkou airfield in the
Sahara. “The C.I.A. is broadening its drone operations, moving aircraft to
northeastern Niger to hunt Islamist militants in southern Libya,” although
security analysts said “it is not clear why the United States needs both
military and C.I.A. drone operations in the same general vicinity.”
Following the backlash from highly visible drone strikes and civilians
casualties, then-President Obama put the military in charge of drone
attacks in a move partly intended to increase transparency, as well as “to
end an often awkward charade in which the United States would not concede
its responsibility for strikes that were abundantly covered by news
organizations and tallied by watchdog groups.”
NSC Spokesman: US Position On Restoring Venezuelan Democracy “Unchanged.”

The AP
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(9/9) reports that after the New York Times
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detailed an alleged plot to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
that involved US officials, National Security Council spokesman Garrett
Marquis said Sunday that the Administration’s preference for Venezuela’s
peaceful, orderly return to democracy remains “unchanged.” He said
Venezuela’s political and economic crisis can only be resolved through the
“restoration of governance by democratic practices, the rule of law and
respect for fundamental human rights and freedoms.”
Ford Disputes Trump’s Tweet, Says It Won’t Make Hatchback In US.

On Sunday, President Trump tweeted
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“‘Ford has abruptly killed a plan to sell a Chinese-made small vehicle in
the U.S. because of the prospect of higher U.S. Tariffs.’ CNBC. This is
just the beginning. This car can now be BUILT IN THE U.S.A. and Ford will
pay no tariffs!” The AP
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(9/9) reports, however, that Ford said later on Sunday that “it won’t be
moving production of a hatchback vehicle to the United States from China –
despite...Trump’s claim that his taxes on Chinese imports mean the Focus
Active can be built in America.” In response to Trump’s tweet, Ford said in
a statement, “It would not be profitable to build the Focus Active in the
US” given forecast yearly sales below 50,000.

The Detroit Free Press
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(9/9, Howard) reports that “auto analysts groaned on Sunday in response to
tweets sent by President Trump that touted his tariffs on Chinese imports
and his claim that the trade war would inspire Ford Motor Co. to build its
Ford Active crossover in the US rather than overseas.” Jon Gabrielsen, a
“market economist who advises automakers and auto suppliers,” said, “This
is further evidence that neither the President nor his trade
representatives have any clue of the complexities of global supply chains.”

The New York Times
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(9/9, Boudette) reports that Trump’s tweet about the Focus Active “was his
second in two days aimed at American companies whose products face tariffs
because they are made in China. On Saturday, he called on Apple to make
iPhones in the United States if it doesn’t want to pay import tariffs.”

*US-EU Trade Talks To Resume Today. *The New York Times
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(9/9, Ewing) reports that “senior trade officials” from the US and the EU
will meet today in Brussels “in an effort to avert an all-out trade war.”
USTR Lighthizer and EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström “are trying to
reach an agreement on a plan to cut tariffs on industrial goods to zero and
prevent President Trump from carrying out a threat to impose 25 percent
levies on car imports.” According to the Times, “an accord is unlikely on
Monday, but businesses on both sides of the Atlantic will be looking for
signs that the two sides are making progress.”

*Trump Criticizes Disparity In US-China Auto Import Taxes. *On
Sunday morning, Trump tweeted
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“If the U.S. sells a car into China, there is a tax of 25%. If China sells
a car into the U.S., there is a tax of 2%. Does anybody think that is FAIR?
The days of the U.S. being ripped-off by other nations is OVER!”

*China’s Trade Surplus With US Hits Record $31 Billion. *The AP
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(9/9, McDonald) reports China’s trade surplus with the US “widened to a
record $31 billion in August as exports surged despite American tariff
hikes, potentially adding fuel” to Trump’s “battle with Beijing over
industrial policy.” Exports to the US “rose 13.4 percent to $44.4 billion,
ticking up from July’s 13.3 percent growth, according to customs data.”
Imports of US goods, meanwhile, “rose 11.1 percent to $13.3 billion,
decelerating from the previous month’s 11.8 percent,” which the AP says
“could help reignite US demands that Beijing narrow its trade gap.”

*Perdue: NAFTA Deal Must End Canada’s Milk Protein Scheme. *Reuters
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(9/9, Lawder) reports Agriculture Secretary Perdue said in an interview
Sunday that “Canada must end its low-price milk proteins policy to reach a
US-Canadian deal to update the North American Free Trade Agreement.” Perdue
told C-SPAN television, “Our farmers don’t have access to the Canadian
markets the way that they have access to us. Class 7 has to go. It can’t be
renamed something or called something else,” referring to a new milk class
created last year by Canada to price milk ingredients. A spokesman for
Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland “could not immediately be
reached for comment on Perdue’s remarks.”
Domestic Policy
Papadopoulos: Sessions Knew About Meetings With Russians.

ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(9/9, story 4, 1:25, Llamas) reported former Trump campaign advisor George
Papadopoulos, “speaking out to ABC News for the first time since being
sentenced for lying to the FBI, claims campaign members, including Jeff
Sessions, were fully aware of his efforts to broker a meeting with Vladimir
Putin.” ABC (Palmeri) added, “Papadopoulos is claiming Attorney General
Jeff Sessions supported his idea to broker a summit between then candidate
Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin...contradicting Sessions’ own
testimony.” Sessions: “I wanted to make clear to him that he was not
authorized to represent the campaign with the Russian government or any
other foreign government for that matter.” The Washington Examiner
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that he brought up his connection with Joseph Mifsud, a former Malta
official with ties to Russia, during a campaign meeting.” Mifsud offered to
help set up a summit between Trump and Putin, and when Papadopoulos brought
up that offer during the meeting, Sessions was “quite enthusiastic,” the
former aide said.

Politico
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(9/9, Forgey) reports Papadopoulos also said on Sunday that he felt
“pinned” during his interview with FBI officers in January 2017, and “that
he lied to investigators in an attempt to protect...Trump.” Papadopoulos
told ABC, “I found myself as somebody who worked incredibly hard over the
past year with the campaign to actually have the candidate Trump be
elected. And then I found myself pinned between the Department of Justice
and the sitting president and having probing questions that I thought might
incriminate the sitting president.” To The Hill
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(9/9, Keller), Papadopoulos “suggested...that his testimony could help
special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation demonstrate collusion
between the Trump campaign and Russia.” Asked if Mueller’s investigation
will prove collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians,
Papadopoulos said, “I have no idea. All I can say is my testimony might
have helped move something towards that.”

*Pence Says He Will Speak With Mueller If Asked. *Politico
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(9/9, O'Brien) reports Vice President Pence said Sunday that he would sit
down for an interview with Mueller if asked. Pence told CBS’ Face the
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“I would. I would be more than willing to continue to provide any and all
support in that. And we have outside counsel that will advise me
accordingly.” Pence added, “It’s just not been my focus, and it’s not the
President’s focus. The reason why we’re making the progress that we’re
making all across this country, rebuilding our military, restoring
America’s strength in the world, seeing the opportunity for peace emerge on
the Korean Peninsula.” The Washington Examiner
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(9/9, Williams) similarly reports Pence’s comments.

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Senate Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner said, “Well, seems to me that
Mr. Pence is doing the appropriate activity. There’s an ongoing
investigation that has now six guilty pleas, over 30 indictments. ... So
the fact that Vice President Pence is cooperating is great, I wish his
boss, Mr. Trump, would have the same level of cooperation. Donald Trump
continues to say he’s done nothing wrong, so he should sit down and talk to
the Mueller investigation.”

*Trump Expected To Declassify Documents From FBI’s Russia
Investigation. *Axios
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(9/9, Swan, Meier) reports Trump “is expected to declassify, as early as
this week, documents covering the US government’s surveillance of Trump
campaign adviser Carter Page and the investigative activities of senior
Justice Department lawyer Bruce Ohr.” The Washington Examiner
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(9/9, Chaitin) also reports the story, citing Axios and adding that
“Trump’s Republican allies in Congress have been clamoring for weeks to
lift the veil on these documents believing they would prove to the public
their concern that the federal Russia investigation...was began for faulty
or politically motivated reasons.”

*WTimes: Ohr Notes Show Simpson Pushes Debunked Story Of
Trump-Russia Bank Connections. *The Washington Times
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(9/9, Scarborough) reports Fusion GPS founder Glenn R. Simpson “pushed a
conspiracy theory to the Justice Department that posited Donald Trump
maintained a computer server in 2016 directly linked to the
Kremlin-connected Alfa Bank in Moscow, according to government notes” by
Justice Department official Bruce Ohr obtained by the Times. Ohr’s notes
“conflict with Mr. Simpson’s subsequent testimony to the Senate Judiciary
Committee,” in which he “told senators he didn’t know whether there was any
dedicated Trump-Alfa server and drew no conclusions.”

*DOJ Backtracks On Allegation Butina Offered Sex For Access. *The AP
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(9/9, Tucker, Day) reports federal prosecutors are “backtracking on their
allegation that a Russian woman accused of working as a secret agent
offered to trade sex for access, according to a Justice Department court
filing.” Prosecutors had earlier accused Maria Butina, a Russian woman in
US custody “on charges she worked as a covert agent and tried to establish
back-channel lines of communication to the Kremlin, of offering to exchange
sex for a position with a special interest organization.” The allegation
was based “on a series of text messages to and from Butina and other
information that prosecutors say they had obtained. But in a new court
filing late Friday, prosecutors said they misinterpreted the messages.”

*Stone Urges Trump To Dismiss Sessions, Rosenstein, Mueller.
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Examiner
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(9/9, Lim) reports former Trump adviser Roger Stone, speaking at the
right-wing “Mother of All Rallies” event in Washington, encouraged Trump to
fire “insubordinate hillbilly” Attorney General Sessions, according to the
Huffington Post. Stone also called for dismissing Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein and Mueller.

*AP: Trump Attacks Clouding Sessions’ Conservative Legacy. *In an
analysis, the AP
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(9/9, Tucker) reports that Attorney General Sessions “is the cabinet member
most clearly aligned with [President] Trump’s values,” and during his
tenure he has worked “on violent crime, illegal immigration and opioid
addiction,” but his “efforts are at risk of being eclipsed by his boss’
relentless verbal jabs that have made the attorney general seem like a
perpetual presidential punching bag” due to “Trump’s single-minded outrage
over the special counsel’s Russia investigation.” The attacks are “clouding
a legacy that in other times would be more broadly cheered in conservative
circles.” The AP adds this is “a role Sessions never sought but perhaps
could have anticipated.”

*Trump Won’t Seek To Enforce NDA With Daniels. *ABC World News
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(9/9, story 5, 1:20, Llamas) reported Trump is “backing away” from his
legal battle with adult film star Stormy Daniels, filing court papers in
California district court promising not to enforce the $130,000
nondisclosure agreement with her about their alleged affair, just as his
“lawyer and fixer” Michael Cohen has done. Cohen “may seek a refund of the
$130,000 hush payment.” However, Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, was
shown saying, “We’re going to put this President on trial one way or the
other, period.” The Washington Post
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(9/9, Viebeck) reports the filing “raised questions about the future of her
main case against the president” even as “Avenatti continued his push to
depose the president and Cohen.”

Politico
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(9/9, Gerstein) reports Avenatti “says the [filing] seems to be aimed at
preventing full disclosure about Trump’s role in the agreement.” Avenatti
wrote on Twitter that Cohen “is now pulling a legal stunt to try and ‘fix
it’ so that we can’t depose Trump and present evidence to the American
people about what happened.” Politico adds, “Citing public policy grounds,
courts typically refuse to enforce contracts aimed at facilitating criminal
activity, so the contract with Daniels may have been doomed anyway in the
wake of Cohen’s” a few weeks ago admitting “his guilt on eight felony
charges, including one that said the payment to Daniels violated federal
campaign finance law because it was intended to aid Trump’s presidential
bid.”

*Trump To Provide Written Answers In Summer Zervos Defamation
Lawsuit. *Reuters
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(9/9, Aubin) reports court papers show that Trump, in the defamation
lawsuit brought a