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*Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden: Trump “More Like George Wallace Than George Washington.” <#S1>

• Biden To Rally Support For Lamont, Other Connecticut Democrats On Friday.
<#S2>

• Trump Endorses Faso For Reelection; Biden To Stump For Delgado On Friday.
<#S3>

• Biden To Stump For Cordray In Youngstown On Monday. <#S4>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• DHS Says It “Can Confirm” Caravan Includes Gang Members, Mideast Citizens.
<#S5>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump: Khashoggi’s Murder One Of “Worst Cover-Ups In The History Of
Cover-Ups.” <#S6>

• Trump Suggests Possible November Meeting With Putin. <#S7>

• Treasury Dept. Announces Sanctions Against Taliban Actors, Iranian
Sponsors. <#S8>

• Appeals Court Upholds Life Sentence For Abu Hamza. <#S9>

• HRW Condemns Palestinian Authority, Hamas Detention, Torture Of
Journalists. <#S10>

• EU Rejects Italy’s Proposed 20119 Budget Over Deficit Concerns. <#S11>

• Trump “Billions” Coming Into US “Coffers” From Tariffs. <#S12>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Trump Says His Nationalism Not Linked To Race, Means He “Loves Our
Country.” <#S13>

• NYTimes, WPost: Transgender People, Families Feel Like Political “Pawns.”
<#S14>

• To Media Skepticism, Brady Confirms He’s Working With Trump On
Middle-Class Tax Cut. <#S15>

• Kudlow Rejects Obama’s Claim Of Credit For Economy’s Strength. <#S16>

• Azar: Overdose Deaths Have “Begun To Plateau.” <#S17>

• Pence Will Not Rule Out Deployment Of Nuclear Weapons In Space. <#S18>

• FBI Investigating Pipe Bomb Found At Soros’ Home In New York. <#S19>

• WPost Survey Of 69 House Battlegrounds Shows Narrow Democratic Lead.
<#S20>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• Researchers See Better Outcomes With RT For Black Patients With Prostate
Cancer. <#S21>

• Tall People At Greater Risk Of Cancer, Study Suggests. <#S22>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S23>

• Washington Post. <#S24>
Biden in the News
Biden: Trump “More Like George Wallace Than George Washington.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s second straight day of campaigning in
Florida for Democrats continued to draw significant media coverage,
particularly from Sunshine State outlets. In an online article, CNN
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(10/23, Saenz) reported that Biden, during a rally in Orlando, criticized
President Trump “for embracing a strategy of fear ahead of the midterm
elections and compared him to George Wallace, a former governor of Alabama
who supported segregation and was a vocal opponent of the Civil Rights
movement.” Referencing “a Washington Post article titled, ‘Trump and
Republicans settle on fear – and falsehoods – as a midterm strategy,’”
Biden said, “No president has ever led by fear. Not Lincoln. Not Roosevelt.
Not Kennedy. Not Reagan. This president is more like George Wallace than
George Washington!”

Breitbart
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(10/23, Key) further quoted Biden as saying, “Democrats have to choose hope
over fear, unity over division. We have to choose our allies over our
enemies. We have to choose truth over lies. We have to choose a brighter
future for Americans over this desperate grip of the darkest elements of
our past in our society.” The Washington Examiner
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(10/23, Caralle) also reported on Biden’s remarks, drawing from the CNN
story.

The Independent (UK)
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(10/24, Mindock) reports that Biden delivered “a fiery speech” in which he
offered “a scathing assessment of...Trump’s first two years in office and
said that there were no mysteries about the man who has been running the
country. ... ‘Folks, not a joke. Our children are listening, and silence is
complicity,’ Mr Biden said, referring to the events in Charlottesville and
the Trump administration’s immigration policies that have led to children
being separated from their parents at the US border.”

The Orlando (FL) Sentinel
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(10/22, Lemongello) reports, “In what could be a preview of a presidential
campaign of his own,” Biden, rallying support for Sen. Bill Nelson (D),
blasted Trump and Gov. Rick Scott (R), who is challenging Nelson. Biden
“called Florida ‘the epicenter of the political universe’ going into the
Nov. 6 midterm election, which includes Nelson’s heated race with Scott,
whom Biden called ‘a handmaiden of the President of the United States.’”

Florida Politics
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(10/23, Powers) reported that during his appearance in Orlando, Biden “laid
out his attacks in sometimes thundering oratory, while also reserving much
of his speech for soft and contemplative thoughts on the issues dividing
the parties: health care, climate change, the future of Social Security and
Medicare, foreign affairs alliances, and reactions to waves of alt-right
white nationalism. ‘I’m afraid that this is not your father’s Republican
Party,’ Biden said, adding that he had vowed to give Trump time, until the
Charlottesville demonstrations. ‘I couldn’t remain silent any more. I wrote
an article for Atlantic magazine saying, we’re in a battle for the soul of
America.’”

In an online article, WKMG-TV
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Orlando, FL (10/23, Askin) reported that Biden “said it’s time for change
in Florida and...that the I-4 corridor plays a huge factor in deciding who
takes home the win in the state. ‘Our path to winning back the House runs
directly through – and the Senate – runs through Orlando,’ said Biden.” In
an online article, WMFE-FM
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Orlando, FL (10/23, Prieur) reported that Biden concluded the Orlando
“event with a story about his Pennsylvania grandparents. Whenever he left
their house his grandfather would yell: ‘Joey keep the faith. And my
grandmother would yell, No Joey spread it. That’s what we need to do. Go
out and spread it.’ Biden urged Democratic voters to turn out in November
to help flip Republican control of” Congress.

The Tallahassee (FL) Democrat
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(10/23, Call) reports that Biden, joined on Tuesday in Tallahassee by
Nelson, “unexpectedly popped into a midtown coffee shop and while he held
forth on the current state of politics, he was encircled by a crowd of more
than 40, ranging in age from the mid-20s to the late 40s.” The Democrat
says Nelson “brought Biden to Tallahassee to get out the university vote.
‘If people age 18 -25 voted in the last election in the same percentage as
the rest of the population there would have been 5.7 million more votes
cast,’ Biden said to a midday crowd at the RedEye Coffee shop.” Biden
added, “You can own this election. Take it back.”

The Florida State University View
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(10/23, Anderson, Wheeler) reports that Nelson’s “campaign originally
planned to stop at the Sweet Shop Cafe adjacent to Florida State
University’s campus, but an unexpected protest and growing crowds pushed
the campaign to change the location” to RedEye. The article says Biden
“believes that this election is much bigger than any single issue. ‘The
rest of the world is looking at us,’ Biden cautioned attendees.” Among the
local TV stations broadcasting reports this morning on Biden’s Tuesday
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Tallahassee (FL)'s ABC 27 News at Sunrise (10/24), WOGX-TV[image: Image
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Gainesville, FL (10/24), WKMG-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Orlando (FL)'s News at 6AM (10/24), WFTV-TV[image: Image removed by sender.
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Orlando, FL (10/24), and WCTV-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Tallahassee (FL)'s Good Morning Show (10/24).

*Fox News: Biden Appears At Public Events As Hillary Clinton
Maintains Low Profile. *On its website, Fox News
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(10/23, Keating) reported that Biden and Hillary Clinton “are back in the
Sunshine State, doing what they spent decades of public life doing:
campaigning and fundraising.” However, while Clinton is maintaining a
relatively low profile, Biden “is attending a public rallies all across the
state.” Clinton attended “a private luncheon on Tuesday in Palm Beach
County, raising money for Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum,” the Democratic
gubernatorial nominee. Today, Clinton “will be in Coral Gables for a public
fundraising” event benefiting ex-Clinton Administration official Donna
Shalala, a Democratic House hopeful. Biden, meanwhile, has been rallying
support for Gillum and Nelson at events across Florida.

*Video Clip Shows Biden Discussing National Security Threat Posed
By Climate Change. *On its website, ABC News
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(10/23) posted a video of Biden speaking at a rally in Florida about the
national security threat posed by climate change.

*Biden Endorses Fried’s Bid For Florida Ag Commissioner. *Florida
Politics
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(10/24) reported that Biden on Tuesday endorsed Nikki Fried’s (D) bid for
state Agriculture Commissioner. Biden “joins fellow possible 2020
presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts U.S. Senator, in
endorsing Fried.”
Biden To Rally Support For Lamont, Other Connecticut Democrats On Friday.

The AP
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(10/23) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday is slated to
visit Connecticut, where he’ll “headline a Democratic rally.” The “event is
planned for 3:30 p.m. at the Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy. Biden
will be joined by U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, 5th Congressional District
candidate Jahana Hayes, governor candidate Ned Lamont and likely other
Democrats appearing on the November ballot.”

The Hartford (CT) Courant
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(10/23, Altimari) reports that Biden “has been traveling the country to
stump for Democratic candidates, including this week in Florida, where
there are close races for governor and US Senate. ‘Ned Lamont has dedicated
his life to making sure middle-class families have a fighting chance to get
ahead and stay ahead,’ Biden said earlier this month when he endorsed
Lamont. ‘He’s a person of character and integrity, who is in the public
arena to make a positive difference.’”

The Stamford (CT) Advocate
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(10/23, Munson) reports, “The high-level Democrat’s visit signals how close
the gubernatorial race is just two weeks before election day. A new poll by
Sacred Heart University and Hearst Connecticut Media released Tuesday found
Lamont and Republican Bob Stefanowski are in a statistical dead heat.”
Trump Endorses Faso For Reelection; Biden To Stump For Delgado On Friday.

President Trump on Tuesday endorsed the reelection bid of NY19 Rep. John
Faso (R), saying in a tweet
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“Congressman John Faso of New York has worked hard and smart. Strong on
Crime, Borders and our 2nd Amendment, John is respected by all. Vote for
John. He has my complete and total Endorsement!” The Kingston (NY) Daily
Freeman
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(10/23, Zangla) reports that Faso is being challenged by attorney Antonio
Delgado (D), who “has received the endorsements of former President Barack
Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden.” In addition, “Biden is
scheduled to appear in Kingston on Friday to stump for Delgado.” The
Poughkeepsie
(NY) Journal
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(10/23, Schutzman) reports that the NY19 “has been deemed a ‘Republican
toss up’ district by the non-partisan Cook Political Report. ... In a Siena
College poll released Monday, Faso and Delgado were separated by a single
percentage point among likely voters.”
Biden To Stump For Cordray In Youngstown On Monday.

The AP
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(10/24) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday “will try to
rally Democratic support in a northeast Ohio area where Republican Donald
Trump drew cross-over voters.” The campaign of ex-federal consumer
protection chief Richard Cordray (D), who is bidding to succeed
term-limited Gov. John Kasich (R-OH), “said Tuesday that Biden will
headline an Oct. 29 rally at Youngstown State University.” The AP says that
Trump “did unusually well for a Republican presidential candidate in the
area in 2016, boosted by blue-collar voters who traditionally went
Democratic.”

In a brief item, the Youngstown (OH) Vindicator
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(10/23) reports that the event “will be in the Chestnut Room at YSU’s
Kilcawley Center, and is open to the public. Doors will open at 3 p.m. and
the event is expected to start at 4 p.m.” Business Journal (OH)
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(10/23) reports that Biden “will discuss what is at stake for Ohio voters,
and Cordray and Sutton’s ‘focus on putting more money back in the pockets
of middle class families by lowering health care costs, expanding
vocational training, and spreading out economic opportunity around the
state,’” according to a release from the Cordray camp.
Leading the News
DHS Says It “Can Confirm” Caravan Includes Gang Members, Mideast Citizens.

DHS spokesman Tyler Q. Houlton tweeted
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yesterday afternoon, “@DHSgov can confirm that there are individuals within
the caravan who are gang members or have significant criminal histories. ...
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Citizens of countries outside Central America, including countries in the
Middle East, Africa, South Asia, and elsewhere are currently traveling
through Mexico toward the U.S. ...
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Stopping the caravan is not just about national security or preventing
crime, it is also about national sovereignty and the rule of law. Those who
seek to come to America must do so the right and legal way.” The tweets
received very limited media attention. For example, the caravan garnered a
combined six minutes and forty seconds of coverage on the major network
newscasts – but none of the reports mentioned the DHS statement supporting
President Trump’s assertions. The DHS statement came on the heels of
coverage that accused Trump of making his claims in a cynical attempt to
scare voters into supporting Republicans in the midterm elections.

Axios
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(10/23, Kight), which noted Houlton’s statement, reported DHS had “not yet
responded” to its “request to confirm that those people from other
countries were traveling with the caravan. A department official said they
could not release the data behind their confirmations as it ‘is law
enforcement sensitive.’” Fox News
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(10/23, Dedaj) said, however, that “the statement by the DHS reinforced an
earlier tweet
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from...Trump, in which he maintained that the caravan included ‘criminals
and unknown Middle Easterners.’” The Washington Examiner
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(10/23, Giaritelli) also states DHS “defended claims by...Trump and Vice
President Mike Pence that violent criminals are a component of the Honduran
caravan making its way through Mexico toward the US, after reporters at the
White House questioned how they know that.”

DHS’ statement was also picked up by a handful of local TV
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Dallas (10/23, 6:06 p.m. CDT) said, for example, that DHS “confirmed that
some individuals in the caravan are gang members or have significant
criminal histories,” and “that backs up a similar claim by...Trump.”
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Chicago (10/23, 9:16 p.m. CDT) reported, meanwhile, that the “spokesperson
for the Department of Homeland Security said preventing the caravan from
entering the US is about sovereignty and migrants should enter the country
the legal way.”

To Politico
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(10/23, Schor), DHS “sought to reorient its condemnation of the migration
away from alleged terrorism and toward other alleged criminal activity,”
but “did not respond on the record to a request for data supporting that
claim.” In a story headline “‘In The Service Of Whim’: Officials Scramble
To Make Trump’s False Assertions Real,” meanwhile, the Washington Post
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(10/23, Parker) does not mention the DHS statement, and says that while
Trump’s “claim received extensive news coverage, but administration
agencies did not immediately provide information supporting it.”

Reporting from Guatemala, however, Fox News contributor Sara Carter
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(10/23), “We ran into people that were part of MS-13. It appears that there
were other people, as well, other gang members from various different
groups. And there was an enormous amount of men. ... I can tell you what I
saw were very few women and children, and an enormous amount of men. . ...
I saw over 1,000 men, many of them highly organized, wearing the same
backpacks. A few of them told me that it was an organized movement that
they have people contact them and their villages, that is why they were
part of this. ... This is very important for people to understand, this was
not a spontaneous movement. This was a very organized event.”

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(10/23, story 2, 1:10, Holt) reported, “Trump is stoking anxiety over
illegal immigration” but “we’re fact-checking his warnings.” NBC Nightly
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(10/23, story 3, 1:25, Welker) also said Trump “is using the caravan as a
critical midterm closing argument,” and is “undeterred by fact checkers who
questioned his claims – like saying criminals and unknown Middle Easterners
are mixed into the caravan.” Trump was shown saying, “Over the course of
the year, over the course of a number of years, they’ve intercepted many
people from the Middle East. They’ve intercepted ISIS.” NBC added that
yesterday there was “this stunning acknowledgment, when asked if he has any
proof.” Trump said, “There’s no proof of anything. There’s no proof of
anything, but they could very well be.” NBC also cited “a former senior
intelligence official briefed on the caravan” who says “there is no
evidence that any Middle Eastern terrorists are hiding in the caravan.” ABC
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(10/23, story 4, 0:40, Muir) reported reporters insisted, “But you don’t
have any proof? The President said, again, another quote, there is no proof
of anything. There is no proof of anything, but it could very well be.”

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(10/23, story 4, 1:05, Jiang), meanwhile, shows Trump saying, “I have very
good information. I have very good information.” CBS added that yesterday
afternoon, “Trump insisted he has proof to back up the controversial claims
he has made about the caravan of migrants heading to the southern border.”
Trump said, “And in that caravan, you have some very bad people. We’re
going to mind MS-13. You’re going to find Middle Eastern, you’re going to
find everything.”

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(10/23), Jim Acosta referred to Trump’s “racially loaded suggestion that
there are terrorists hiding in the middle” of the caravan, while CNN
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(10/23, Vazquez) reports Trump “defended his unsubstantiated assertion”
despite the fact that “there have been no reports, in the press or publicly
from intelligence agencies, to suggest there are ‘Middle Easterners’
embedded in the caravan.” Politico
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(10/23, Hesson) says Trump has “stirred up a political frenzy – in the
process distorting reality and ignoring basic facts,” and The Hill
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(10/23, Rodrigo) that he “did not shy away from his earlier declarations
about the caravan, saying he had frequently spoken with people who work for
the Border Patrol and that they had told him of intercepting Middle Eastern
people passing through the southern border.” Said Trump, “They have
intercepted many people from the Middle East. ... They’ve intercepted good
ones and bad ones. They have intercepted wonderful people for the Middle
East. And they have intercepted bad ones.” The AP
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(10/23, Long) reports, meanwhile, that “the caravan comes on the heels of a
surge in apprehensions of families at the border, rankling Trump.”

The Washington Post
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(10/23, Wagner) reports Pence, meanwhile, “said Tuesday that it is
‘inconceivable’ that people of Middle Eastern descent have not joined” the
caravan. Pence stated that “it’s inconceivable that there are not people of
Middle Eastern descent in a crowd of more than 7,000 people advancing
toward our border,” asserting “there are statistics on this.” The Post adds
that “in a statement after his remarks, a Pence spokeswoman made no mention
of terrorists being stopped at the US-Mexico border,” but said, “In 2017
alone the US apprehended on average between 10 suspected terrorists a day
attempting to enter the country illegally. ... And those are just the ones
we catch. It’s inconceivable that this caravan – which is being broadcast
around the globe – hasn’t already been infiltrated with ties to extremism.”

Breitbart
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(10/23, Caplan) and the Daily Caller
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(10/23, Enjeti) both report “Pence defended...Trump’s assertion,” and
Washington
Post
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(10/23, Blake) that he “vouched...for...Trump’s dubious, unfounded claim,”
but “to do so, he had to use a previously debunked statistic that directly
contradicts his own administration.” Pence said, “In the last fiscal year,
we apprehended more than 10 terrorists or suspected terrorists per day at
our Southern border from countries that are referred to in the lexicon as
‘other than Mexico’ – that means from the Middle East region.” The Post
adds that “unfortunately for Pence, the stat quickly falls apart upon
further inspection,” and Pence spokeswoman Alyssa Farah “tacitly
acknowledges that Pence misstated the stat, and that it’s actually for all
ports of entry.”

The New York Post
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(10/23, Fredericks) notes that “in June, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
used a ‘10 per day’ number for terrorists and suspected terrorists trying
to enter the US,” but she “wasn’t talking solely about the southern border”
when she said, “In fact, on average, my department now blocks 10 known or
suspected terrorists a day from traveling to or attempting to enter the
United States.” Moreover, “in July 2017, the State Department issued a
report that said there was ‘no credible information that any member of a
terrorist group has traveled through Mexico to gain access to the United
States.’”

The AP
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(10/23, Miller, Colvin) reports its journalists have been “traveling with
the caravan for more than a week” and have “spoken with Hondurans,
Guatemalans and Salvadorans, but have not met any of the ‘Middle
Easterners’ that Trump claimed had ‘mixed in’ with the Central American
migrants.” However, the AP adds that “it was clear, though, that more
migrants were continuing to join the caravan.”

Sean Hannity said on Fox News’ Hannity[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(10/23), “One of the shadowy left-wing organizations now involved, their
name is Pueblos Sin Fronteras, explains that its dream is to quote, ‘turn
down border walls imposed by greed.’ Think about what that means. This
group is calling you, we, the American people, greedy for wanting a border
wall or believing in our constitutional republic, our sovereignty, the rule
of law in this country, for wanting to control immigration, for wanting to
know exactly who wants to come into our country, and what reason they want
to be here.”

Jeff Zeleny said on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(10/23), “The President is clearly trying to have Republicans win the
midterm elections and he is trying to use a scare tactic or a fear
mongering tactic to awaken Republicans to an immigration crisis that
exists, but it certainly is not as urgent as he presents it.”

Dana Milbank, in his Washington Post
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(10/23), mocked the notion that “a caravan of unarmed, destitute
people...snaking its way through Mexico toward the United States at the
breakneck pace of about three miles per hour” and “still 1,000 miles from
America” could be “a national emergy! So urgent Trump doesn’t have time to
add three letters to make it ‘emergency’! This is bad. Unpresidented, even.
Covfefe!” Adds Milbank, “The genius in Trump’s pre-election emergency: The
asylum seekers, if they reach the border at all, won’t arrive until after
the election. Therefore, he can frighten everybody about the menace they
pose, and voters will be none the wiser.”

*Pence: Honduran President Told Him Caravan Organized By
Venezuela-Funded “Leftist Groups.” *The Washington Times
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(10/23, Dinan) reports Pence also said yesterday that “Venezuela is funding
the illegal immigrant caravan.” The Times adds that “standing with Mr.
Trump in the Oval Office,” Pence “reported he’d spoken earlier in the day
with the Honduran president, who’d told him the caravan was organized by
‘leftist groups’ and funded by Venezuela, a country deeply at odds with the
administration.”

*Media Analyses: Trump Appears Focused On Peddling “Falsehoods”
With “Racially-Tinged Rhetoric.” *On NBC’s Today Show[image: Image removed
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(10/23), Peter Alexander reported from the White House that “what is
striking” about Trump’s rhetoric at his rallies is that although “the
economy is strong” and “unemployment is low...instead of talking about his
achievements,” Trump “really is leaning into this message of fear.”
According to Alexander, Trump’s “closing argument focuses on stoking these
fears of illegal immigration, MS-13, shadowy middle-eastern figures.”
Alexander added, “We’ve witnessed in recent days a pace of falsehoods
coming from the President.” At the opening of CNN’s New Day[image: Image
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(10/23), Alysin Camerota similarly asserted that Trump is “waging a
fact-free campaign of fear ahead of the midterm elections. ... There is
racially charged rhetoric and it seems tailor-made for his base.” John
Berman added, “There is no evidence for some of these claims, which might
be the very point. ... The fib is the feature, it’s not a bug. The
falsehood or, in some cases, the lie is meant to scare you. the idea is the
more it is repeated, the more it frightens. The very argument about the
details does some of the work for it.”

Mika Brzezinski said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(10/23) that Trump’s midterm strategy has been described as “a bet on fear,
falsehoods, and lies.” Brzezinski maintained that Trump’s “claims about the
Honduran ‘caravan’ heading towards the US are steadily being debunked.” Fox
News’ Shepard Smith was then shown saying, “President Trump is calling the
caravan a national emergency and he’s claiming ‘criminals and unknown
middle easterners are mixed in with the crowd.’ An important note: Fox News
knows of no evidence to suggest the President is accurate on that matter
and the President has offered no evidence to support what he has said.”

The Washington Post
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(10/23, Phillips) reports that ahead of the midterms, Trump is “falling
back into his trademark hard-line anti-immigrant rhetoric.” The Post adds
that “what Trump is saying in the past few weeks makes some of his 2016
rhetoric look fairly tame.” According to the Post, “Whereas Trump in 2016
allowed for some nuance that, say, ‘some’ immigrants in the country
illegally might be good people, in 2018, he routinely describes cities
‘overrun’ with violent, illegal immigrant gangs.”

The New York Times
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(10/23, Davis) reports that when Trump “began tweeting warnings and threats
about a caravan of migrants headed for the border, his own government could
not explain what he meant.” According to the Times, “Like many of the
president’s tweetstorms, this one appears to have been inspired at least in
part by a report on Fox News – the morning show ‘Fox and Friends,’ a Trump
favorite, to be precise – and included attacks on Democrats, immigrants and
foreign countries.” Under the headline “Fox News And Trump Reboot A
Fearmongering TV Drama From 2014,” the New York Times
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(10/23, Poniewozik) reports, “This has been the year of the TV remake:
reboots of ‘Charmed’ and ‘Magnum P.I.,’ revivals of ‘Murphy Brown’ and
‘Roseanne.’ So maybe it should not be surprising to find Fox News remaking
a hit from 2014: “Terror at the Border,” with a significant role
for...Trump.” Adds the Times, “There’s a reason, after all, TV is full of
remakes. You rarely go broke falling back on a formula that’s worked
before.”

The Los Angeles Times
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(10/23) reports, “This is Trump at his most Trumpy, two weeks before an
election. The salesman is out pitching promises, fear, riches – anything to
make the sale, never mind if it’s true, and to get Republicans out to
vote.” Trump “not only presents himself and his party as the safeguard
against the Democratic dystopia he conjures, he also promises to lower drug
prices, end opioid addiction and hand out additional tax cuts.”

Frank Bruni writes in his New York Times
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(10/23) column, “If I listened only to...Trump and those Republican
candidates who follow his example, I would be petrified. I would be living
in a bunker. I would have cyanide capsules at hand.” Bruni adds that “to
prevent a blue wave...the president and his puppets are traveling
audaciously far from the truth and shockingly deep into the gutter. I’ve
seen bad before, but not this. The midterms aren’t just a referendum on
which direction the country will go. They’re also a test of where the
limits of decency and shamelessness are drawn.”

*Scarborough Appears To Suggest Hitler’s Psychological Profile
Resembles Trump’s. *On MSNBC’s Morning Joe[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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(10/23), after accusing Trump recently lying about the threat of illegal
immigration, among other topics, read from what he said was the United
States Office of Strategic Services’ description of Adolph Hitler’s
“psychological profile.” According to Scarborough, it reads: “His primary
rules were never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or
wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave
room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a
time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a
big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough,
people will sooner or later believe it.”

*Castro: Caravan Shows Trump “Has Been A Total Failure.” *Former
HUD Secretary Julian Castro said on CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time[image: Image
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(10/23) that the caravan “shows that...Trump has been a total failure when
it comes to immigration. He told us, he told all of us, he and his Attorney
General, that if we would just abuse these families by taking away the
little children from their parents, that it would deter more families from
coming over. And look at how many folks are trying to come over. He was
completely wrong.” Castro added that Trump has been “the biggest failure as
a President on immigration that we can imagine. And so perhaps instead of
buying what he’s selling again, everybody should step back and realize that
he doesn’t have a plan.”

*Caravan To Continue North Through Mexico As Second Caravan Forms
In El Salvador. *Coverage of the migrant caravan heading towards the US
border continues. The CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/23, story 7, 2:20, Glor) reported that the “mass exodus, organized by
activists in Honduras, is believed to be the largest migrant caravan on
record. An estimated 7,200 people, five times the size of the last one in
April. Most tell us they’re fleeing extreme poverty, but that’s not a
condition for asylum or refugee status in the US.” CBS mentioned that while
the US last year sent more than $308 million in foreign aid to Honduras,
Guatemala, and El Salvador, that aid was “slashed significantly” this year.
At any rate, the caravan stopped in Huixtla, Mexico for a day’s rest. It is
still “more than 900 miles and several weeks from the nearest US border
crossing.” NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(10/23, story 2, 1:10, Holt) reported, meanwhile, that some of the migrants
slept in tents, “but most of them out on the street. Aid organizations are
bringing food and water, but these are squalor conditions.”

The New York Times
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(10/23, Semple, Correal, Averbuch) runs a similar report titled “Migrant
Caravan Driven By Hope But Uncertain Of Success,” in which it describes the
group, “some wearing whatever they had on when they decided to leave behind
Central America, many walking in flimsy shoes and flip-flops, are
determined to make it to the border of the United States.” Adds the Times,
“Traveling in such a large group, they say, is much safer than braving the
many dangers of the road alone.”

Reuters
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(10/23, Schrank, Menchu) reports that “a group of more than a thousand
Central Americans in Guatemala headed toward the Mexican border on Tuesday
as the first caravan of migrants paused in southern Mexico on its planned
journey toward the US border.” The Wall Street Journal
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(10/23, Pérez, De Córdoba) also reports on the caravan’s progress.

*1,700 From Caravan Have Reportedly Applied For Asylum In Mexico. *The
AP
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(10/23, Stevenson) reports that “nearly 1,700 from the current caravan have
already dropped out and applied for asylum in Mexico, according to Mexican
authorities, and another 500 have decided to voluntarily return home to
Honduras.” The AP adds that “the numbers could thin out far more as people
decide to take their chances in Mexico or strike out on their own.”

*Trump Highlights Obama Comments Opposing Illegal Immigration. *The New
York Post
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(10/23, Lapin) reports Trump “used President Obama to make a point on the
immigration issue Tuesday, as he tweeted
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a video of the former president talking about stopping illegal
immigration.” Trump wrote, “I agree with President Obama 100%” above a clip
of then-Sen. Obama “giving a speech in 2005 that contained some
tough-sounding talk on immigration.” Obama said in the clip, “We are a
generous and welcoming people here in the US, but those who enter the
country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law
and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law. ... We
simply cannot allow people to pour into the US undetected, undocumented,
unchecked and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently,
diligently and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.”

The Washington Times
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(10/23, Morton) says Obama is not “alone among recent Democratic presidents
in talking a tough game on immigration that would instantly earn a shunning
in today’s party. According to a video clip posted earlier this year on the
Republican National Committee website, President Bill Clinton denounced
illegal immigration in his 1995 State of the Union address, even using the
now-verboten term ‘illegal aliens.’”

*More Than 500,000 Caught Entering US Illegally In Fiscal 2018. *The
Washington Examiner
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(10/23, Giaritelli) reports government data released Tuesday show Trump’s
“vow to secure the border is proving to be a problem.” According to US
Customs and Border Protection, “100,000 more people were caught by federal
law enforcement officers while attempting to illegally enter the United
States from Mexico in fiscal 2018 than the previous year.” From Oct. 1,
2017 through Sept. 30,2018, “a total of 521,090 people were apprehended
between ports of entry as well as denied entry at the ports along the
southwest border from Oct. 1, 2017,” the data show. In a phone briefing
with reporters Tuesday, The Examiner says, “an official” said, “We have a
border crisis that consists of individuals who are family units and
unaccompanied children.” The Washington Times
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(10/23, Dinan) says, “More than 107,000 illegal immigrant parents and
children traveling together were caught by the Border Patrol in fiscal year
2018, shattering the old record of about 78,000 set in 2016.”

*Unaccompanied Migrant Children Overwhelming Texas Shelters. *
Breitbart
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(10/23, Price) reports that “the massive numbers of unaccompanied minors
who crossed the border from Mexico in recent months” are “overwhelm[ing]
Texas immigration shelters.” Brietbart adds that “immigration officials
placed 5,385 mostly Unaccompanied Alien Children into shelters in Texas,”
as of Oct. 18. That marks an increase “from 5,099 in the previous month.”
According to the Texas Tribune, shelter operators “are asking Texas HHS
officials to approve increases in the number of beds authorized for their
facilities.”

*Accused Murderer Arrested Illegally Crossing Border With Minor
Son. *Breitbart
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(10/23, Price) reports a Salvadoran migrant who “illegally crossed the
border with his minor son and a large group of families” was arrested by
Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande Valley Sector. According to
Rio Grand Valley Border Patrol officials, agents located “court records
from the sheriff’s office in Richland County, South Carolina, indicating
the Salvadoran national is wanted for murder.”

*Texas Secretary Of State Asks AG To Investigate Democrats Asking
Non-Citizens To Register To Vote. *The Washington Times
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(10/23, Dinan) reports that Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos has
confirmed that he has asked state Attorney General Ken Paxton to
investigate “the Democratic Party’s attempts to ask non-citizens to sign up
to vote.” The state Democratic Party sent out mail “urging people to sign
up to vote, and warning of deadlines if they didn’t act quickly.” The mail,
some of which went to non-citizens, who are ineligible, “included a voter
application that already had the boxes for age and citizenship status
pre-checked.”

*San Francisco To Allow Non-Citizens To Vote In Local Election. *The
AP
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(10/23, Rodriguez) reports that next month, San Francisco will become the
largest US city, “and one of only a handful nationwide to allow
noncitizens, including people in the country illegally, to vote in a local
election.” The AP adds that noncitizens “are only allowed to vote in the
city school board race, and the fear that their information may reach US
officials appears to be stronger than the desire to have a say in their
children’s education” as “only 35 noncitizens have signed up to vote as of
Monday, the registration deadline in California.”

*NH Judge Blocks Law Requiring New Voters To Provide Proof Of
Residency. *Reuters
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(10/22, Bernstein) reports a New Hampshire judge has “put on hold a law
requiring some voters to present proof of residency when they register,
saying it would lengthen lines at polling places and make it difficult for
students, disabled voters and others to cast ballots.” The law “required
those seeking to register within 30 days of an election to present
documents proving that they live in the area where they intend to vote.” If
such proof is not provided, “they must agree to either send it in within 10
days or the state will seek to verify their domicile.” Presiding Justice
Kenneth C. Brown wrote in his decision for the Hillsborough Superior Court
Northern District in Manchester, “Where the law threatens to disenfranchise
an individual’s right to vote, the only viable remedy is to enjoin its
enforcement.”
Foreign Policy
Trump: Khashoggi’s Murder One Of “Worst Cover-Ups In The History Of
Cover-Ups.”

The AP
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(10/23, Press) reports President Trump on Tuesday told reporters the Saudi
operation that killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi was one of the “worst
cover-ups in the history of cover-ups.” Trump told reporters in the Oval
Office, “They had a very bad original concept,” and it was “carried out
poorly.” He added that the events after Khashoggi’s death were “the worst
cover-up ever.” Reuters
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(10/23, Mason) reports Trump “told reporters he wanted to get all the facts
on Khashoggi’s death...before agreeing” with Turkish President Tayyip
Erdogan’s assessment of the Saudi government’s role in the killing. NBC
Nightly News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(10/23, story 6, 1:40, Holt) said “Trump accused Saudi Arabia not of
murdering the journalist, they admitted that, but doing it badly.”

The Wall Street Journal
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(10/23, Journal) also briefly reports Trump’s comments, and the CBS Evening
News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(10/23, story 3, 2:25, Glor) said he “weighed in” on Tuesday, “sharply
criticiz[ing] Saudi Arabia for its deception. ... But once again, he
stressed the importance of the US-Saudi relationship.” Jim Acosta said on CNN’s
Situation Room[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(10/23) that while Trump “went further than he has in days in laying out
his frustrations with Saudi Arabia,” the question remains as to “whether
the President will actually deliver any kind of trouble to the Saudi
kingdom.” The New York Times
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(10/23, Landler, Wong) says “the president still appeared to be playing for
time, complaining about how the Saudis botched the crime rather than about
who was behind it.”

To USA Today
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(10/23, Shesgreen, Jackson), “Trump’s comments represented another reversal
from his initial statements that he found the Saudis explanation of
Khashoggi’s death to be credible,” while the Washington Post
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(10/23, Dawsey) says he “has come under bipartisan criticism for taking a
soft stance on the Saudis and as recently as last weekend called the
government’s story ‘credible.’”

*Pence Says There Will Be US Response To Khashoggi’s Murder. *The AP
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(10/23, Riechmann) reports Vice President Pence said Tuesday that
Khashoggi’s murder “will not go without an American response,” but
“declined to discuss what punitive action the US might take in response.”
Pence said Trump “will make a decision that reflects the values and
national security interests of the nation and will also ‘make sure the
world knows the truth.’” Pence, “who spoke in Washington at an event hosted
by The Washington Post, said whatever US response the president decides to
make will keep in mind the importance of US relations with Saudi Arabia.”

*Pompeo: US Revoking Visas Of Saudis Involved In Khashoggi’s Death.
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(10/23, story 3, 2:25, Glor) reported Secretary of State Pompeo said
Tuesday that the State Department is revoking the visas of “21 Saudi
officials who have now been implicated in the death of...Khashoggi.” Fox
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(10/23) reported Pompeo announced the US is “taking steps to revoke the
visas of all those accused in the killing,” along with “other measures in
conjunction with the Congress and US allies.” Fox showed Pompeo saying, “We
are making very clear that the United States does not tolerate this kind of
ruthless action to silence Mr. Khashoggi, a journalist, through violence.”
To the Washington Post
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(10/22, Fahim) the move “represent[s] the Trump administration’s first
concrete step to punish Saudi Arabia.” Pompeo, it notes, also said he is
“also working with the Treasury Department on whether to impose other
sanctions against those responsible for the journalist’s death.” Said
Pompeo, “These penalties will not be the last word on this matter from the
United States.”

Politico
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(10/23, Sadiq, Toosi) calls it “the first significant step the US has taken
to punish Saudi Arabia over the Khashoggi case,” and on NBC Nightly News[image:
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(10/23, story 6, 1:40, Holt), Richard Engel said, “Without citing direct
evidence, US intelligence officials tell us it’s inconceivable Saudi
Arabia’s crown prince had no connection to the journalist’s murder.” ABC
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(10/23, story 8, 1:40, Muir) reported that US “lawmakers from both sides of
the aisle claim the orders” to kill Khashoggi “must have come from the
top,” but “so far,” there’s “no indication that the US is holding the Saudi
crown prince responsible.”

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(10/23), “I think we do need to reassess our relationship with Saudi
Arabia.” She said she agrees with Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), who “said we
should stop our refueling assistance to Saudi planes as they’re attacking
in Yemen. We should not...approve any more sales of offensive arms to Saudi
Arabia. And we should have an independent body investigating what happened
to Mr. Khashoggi.”

*Erdogan Demands Saudi Arabia Turn Over Khashoggi’s Alleged
Murderers. *The AP
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(10/23, Torchia, Gambrell) reports Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
says Saudi Arabia “must identify those who ordered the murder of journalist
Jamal Khashoggi and turn over the suspects for trial.” According to the AP,
Erdogan “delivered a sharp rebuttal of Saudi Arabia’s widely criticized
account that the writer for The Washington Post died accidentally in a
brawl, saying Saudi officials had planned the killing for days.”

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(10/23, Bulos) says that while Erdogan vowed Sunday that “the truth” would
be “revealed in full nakedness,” it “remained mostly clothed.” Speaking to
parliament, Erdogan declared that Khashoggi’s slaying had been a “planned
operation,” but “did little to resolve major questions surrounding
Khashoggi’s death” and “stopped short of implicating Crown Prince Mohammad
bin Salman.” The New York Times
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(10/23, Gall, Pérez-Peña) says that while Erdogan “offered some new details
and confirmed others, the speech mainly served to make clear that Mr.
Erdogan had no intention of dropping a case that has created an
international furor.”

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(10/23) editorial says that while Erdogan “promised he would deliver the
‘naked truth’...for the most part he failed to deliver, appearing less
interested in revealing what really happened to the Saudi journalist than
in leveraging the murder for political gain. That only sharpens the
argument for an impartial international investigation.” On its editorial
page, the New York Times
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(10/23) praises Turkey’s actions in the case, which it says “has furthered
the cause of justice by refusing to let Saudi Arabia evade responsibility”
for Khashoggi’s killing. The Times acknowledges that “perhaps Mr. Erdogan
sees an opportunity...to use the murder to extort money from the Saudis to
shore up Turkey’s failing economy in exchange for eventually helping to
shift the blame away from the Saudi regime,” but says he has also “created
an opening for improving relations with Mr. Trump and beginning to reverse
its economic decline.”

*Crown Prince Opens Investment Conference After Meeting With
Khashoggi’s Son, Brother. *The AP
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(10/23, Batrawy) reports that Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative
opened Tuesday, “providing an early indication of Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman’s shifting fortunes” after Khashoggi’s killing. The AP notes that
“top Western executives and officials withdrew from the conference after
Saudi officials killed Khashoggi...in circumstances that are still
disputed. But Russian and Asian investors rushed in, pledging $50 billion
in new deals.” The Crown Prince appeared at the conference “shortly after
he and King Salman received Khashoggi’s son, Salah, and his brother,
Sahel,” and “expressed their condolences, according to the state-run Saudi
Press Agency.”

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(10/23, Torchia, Rashad) points out that “the event is being held at the
opulent Ritz-Carlton, where scores of princes, businessmen and officials
were detained in a crackdown on corruption soon after last year’s
conference ended, unnerving investors and raising concern about
transparency.” Reuters says “Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal,
who was among those detained, appeared at the forum beside MbS, who led the
anti-corruption drive.”

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(10/23, Rappeport), “While the biggest American banks did not send their
top leaders, institutions such as Citigroup and Morgan Stanley sent
midlevel regional executives.” The Times says “many bankers kept their name
tags obscured behind their ties or decided that this was not the year to
speak to the news media.” The Washington Times
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(10/23, Sands) reports that Russia, however, is “not letting the
international furor over the fate of...Khashoggi disrupt its ties with the
oil-rich kingdom.” As US and European “officials and corporate titans were
canceling their travel plans, Russian officials were out in force on the
opening day” of the conference.

*Arabs Fear Khashoggi Case Could Trigger Regional Instability.
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Post
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(10/23, Deyoung, Mekhennet) reports that governments in the region fear
Khashoggi’s killing “may be the most serious threat to the kingdom’s power
and stability in a generation.” What worries the Arabs most, “regional
officials and experts say, is what they see as the danger to their own
stability and security should Saudi Arabia’s status — and its close ties
with the United States — be seriously undermined.” A “senior official from
a Persian Gulf country” told the Post that if the Administration “decides —
or is pressured by Congress and public opinion — to seriously step back
from its alliance with Riyadh, ‘our security is at risk. Iran might see
another opportunity to destabilize.’”

*Politico Profiles “Unofficial Saudi Ambassador” In Washington. *
Politico
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(10/23, Toosi) reports that “even as evidence mounted last week that a
Saudi Arabian hit squad had murdered and dismembered his friend, Jamal
Khashoggi,” Ali Shihabi — who it calls “a kind of unofficial Saudi
ambassador to the US” — took to Twitter “to do what he does best: defend
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.” Shihabi tweeted, “Leaders and governments
make mistakes, sometimes horrible ones. … But one horrible murder cannot
and will not be allowed to put the country further at risk.” Shihabi, “who
may be the country’s most effective defender in the US capital,” has
“relationships with prominent journalists, Trump administration officials
and think tank experts throughout Washington. The Saudi ambassador left
Washington earlier this month and reportedly may not return, but it matters
less given that many already consider Shihabi, who is close to the Saudi
leadership, to be the kingdom’s unofficial envoy.”

*Saudis: OPEC To Replace Any Shortages Due To Iran Sanctions.
*Bloomberg
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(10/23, Robinson, Summers) reports Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih
said Tuesday that OPEC members are in “produce as much as you can mode” to
meet demand and replace any looming shortages due to Iranian sanctions.

*Researchers Link Cyberattack On Saudi Petrochemical Plant To
Russia. *The New York Times
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(10/23, Sanger) reports that a new study by the cybersecurity firm FireEye
of the “malicious computer code used in a botched attack on a Saudi
petrochemical plant concludes that much of the effort was coordinated from
inside a state-owned Russian scientific institute, one of the most direct
links between official Russian hackers and a hostile intrusion on a major
piece of infrastructure.” FireEye’s report identifies “the Central
Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics, a technical
research institute in Moscow with ties to Russian governments,” but “leaves
unanswered the question of why Moscow would target a Middle Eastern plant,
even given Russia’s rivalry with Saudi Arabia in the petroleum
marketplace.”

The Wall Street Journal
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(10/23, Volz) reports John Hultquist, director of intelligence at FireEye,
said, “What seems to be clear here is the Russian government has a strong
hand behind this and was heavily involved. It affirms the concern that the
Russians could get into the safety systems, which are sort of the last line
of defense for a lot of these facilities.” The Washington Post
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(10/23, Gregg) reports that “during the attack, the malware triggered a
safety system that shut do