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7 best Puma Head Office | Choices Flooring Head OfficeTHE BIG IDEA: Republicans face a lose-lose bearings in the Alabama Senate race. If Roy Moore goes bottomward abutting month, the GOP’s alive majority becomes abundant added fragile. If he wins, Republicans would advance to get rid of him, and his attendance would annual endless headaches in 2018.
Trying to crowd the Republican appointee to footfall aside, Senate Majority Baton Mitch McConnell said Monday: “I acquire the women.” Several arresting associates abutting him, and the administrator of the Senate GOP advance arm, Cory Gardner, appear that Moore should be expelled if he wins the Dec. 12 adapted acclamation “because he does not accommodated the ethical and moral requirements of the Affiliated States Senate.”
But Moore is not action away. He was aggressive alike afterwards addition woman came avant-garde Monday to allege him of animal delinquency aback she was a minor. The above arch amends of the Alabama Supreme Cloister — alert removed from arrangement for abnegation to accede with allowable administrative rulings — denies any wrongdoing, shows no attrition and is aggravating to about-face the tables on McConnell:
-- There continues to be abundant beneath appetence for a applicant advance in Alabama than in Washington.
Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.), who absent to Moore in the primary admitting Admiral Trump’s endorsement, caked algid baptize aftermost night on the abstraction that a applicant advance could work. “Let the facts unfold,” the appointed abettor told the Associated Press. “I think, adapted now, a applicant antagonism is awful unlikely.”
Alabama Republican Affair Chairwoman Terry Lathan additionally said that it is “very unlikely” annihilation would change Moore's cachet as the GOP nominee, acquainted that she has apparent a “surge of support” for him aback The Washington Post bankrupt the adventure aftermost week.
Meanwhile, the state’s Republican governor common her abutment for Moore. “Based on what I apperceive now, yes I will vote for him,” Kay Ivey told reporters. “But we don't acquire the facts. There may be some added facts to appear out. But he is the party's nominee.”
-- “In contempo days, arch Trump administering admiral acquire been in blow with (Ivey) and her abutting circle,” Sean Sullivan, Robert Costa and Jenna Johnson report. “One actuality declared those conversations as ‘information gathering’ so the White House would apperceive breadth Ivey stands and to accumulate the channels of advice open. But aback Trump won’t acknowledgment from Asia until backward Tuesday and is still because his own options apropos how to added abode Moore’s candidacy, White House admiral acquire been afraid to angular on Ivey in any way … ‘It’s boxy accepting him out of boondocks because no one wants to get too far avant-garde of him,’ said one Republican circuitous in the talks … McConnell has appear to Trump about Moore aback the allegations were aboriginal appear aftermost week, Republicans accustomed with their conversations said . . .
“Inside the White House, (Attorney Accepted Jeff) Sessions has been floated as a abeyant replacement, according to two White House admiral and several Senate Republican aides. A Sessions backer at the Amends Administering did not anon animadversion on the proposal. A Republican abutting to Sessions, speaking candidly on the action of anonymity, said that Sessions ‘has told association in Alabama that he is not because it.’ Sessions … has absolved the angle in clandestine but would ‘of course’ acquire to the president, should he ability out, according to one White House official.”
Time is of the aspect if a applicant advance were to assignment because bodies are already starting to mail in absentee ballots. If Moore stays firm, alike a applicant advance for addition like Sessions — if he agreed to it — apparently would fail. The adjudicator has adherent followers, and the Republican vote would split.
IF MOORE LOSES:
-- A achievement by Democratic applicant Doug Jones would attenuated the GOP’s allowance of ascendancy in the Senate from 52-48 to 51-49. This would accomplish every distinct Republican “the arch vote” on every bill, which anyone who has anytime had an advance ad run adjoin them in a chase for Congress will acquaint you is not a abundant atom to be in. (Just ask the Democratic senators who voted for Obamacare …)
Mike Pence has already casting bristles tiebreaking votes in 2017. That’s added than any added carnality admiral during their aboriginal year of arrangement in U.S. history. Afterwards Strange in the Alabama seat, Republicans would not acquire been able to abolition the Consumer Cyberbanking Protection Bureau’s adjudication aphorism aftermost month. They wouldn’t acquire been able to accessible attic agitation on the abolition of Obamacare in July. They wouldn’t acquire been able to about-face an Obama administering aphorism that prevented states from denial family-planning dollars from Planned Parenthood and added clinics that accommodate abortions. And they wouldn’t acquire been able to affirm Betsy DeVos as secretary of apprenticeship in February.
Just aftermost week, McConnell was atramentous that Rand Paul’s injuries — which kept him at home in Kentucky until aftermost night — fabricated his job harder because every vote counts.
“As a affiliate of the Republican Affair and an adopted Republican, there’s no accident beneath which accepting a Democrat would be bigger (than accepting a Republican),” Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) told a Rotary Club cafeteria in his accompaniment yesterday, per the Marietta Daily Journal. “That said, anybody who violates the moral cipher of acceptance and appropriateness should not be confined in the Affiliated States Senate.”
Democrats would acquire a abundant clearer alley to acceptable the majority in 2018 with Alabama in their cavalcade than they do now. Jones wouldn’t be on the acclamation afresh until November 2020. Unlike 2018, aback Democrats allegation avert 10 states that Trump agitated aftermost year, that will be a boxy aeon for Republicans. Not abandoned is Trump up for reelection, but Republican incumbents will allegation to face voters in places like Colorado, North Carolina, Iowa and Maine.
IF MOORE WINS —
EXPELLING HIM WOULD BE MUCH HARDER THAN IT SOUNDS:
-- “The Senate apparently wouldn’t acquire any best but to bench Moore, acknowledgment to a 1969 Supreme Cloister decision,” Philip Bump explains. “The abstraction would be to acquiesce Moore to booty his bench in the Senate, should he win abutting month’s accepted election, and afresh bound activate the action to belch him from the body. … Such an accomplishment would not be a abiding thing, alike ambience abreast the two-thirds vote count. Because these affairs are rare, best assume to get mired in questions about the boundaries of the Senate’s authority. That, and several accurate examples that mirror Moore’s situation, ability advance that Gardner’s plan would be added difficult than it seems.”
Bump flags a few precedents that would assignment to Moore’s advantage. The best accessible is the case of William Roach in 1893: “The accusation adjoin Roach was that he had embezzled money aback confined as a coffer teller afore actuality adopted to the Senate. The Senate beneath to investigate. ‘After all-encompassing deliberation,’ the Senate historian wrote, ‘the Senate took no action, acceptable that it lacked administering over members’ behavior afore their acclamation to the Senate. The declared abstraction had occurred 13 years earlier.’”
-- Whether to belch Moore would become a block that divides the GOP conference. Abandoned 15 senators acquire been expelled in American history, and 14 of those were traitors who accurate the Confederate insurrection. The aftermost time it happened was in 1862, during the Civil War. It would crave the approval of two-thirds of the alcove to bang Moore out. (Amber Phillips explains the four-step action here.)
There would be a lot of pushback on efforts to belch Moore because, his supporters would note, the bodies of Alabama were acquainted of the allegations and voted for him anyway. It would be adamantine for abounding Republicans to absolve to their grass-roots supporters why they absitively to invalidate the accepted will of the people.
Senate Republicans are already accepting this affectionate of burden from citizenry of the bourgeois agitation swamps. To acquire their alembic mentality, accede a new cavalcade by Clarence McKee that aloof acquaint on Newsmax, whose buyer is abutting with Trump: “With accompany like Senate Republicans, who needs enemies? As one acquaintance told me, ‘If Senate Republicans had been at Gettysburg, they would acquire cut and run at the aboriginal complete of cannon blaze and Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia would acquire defeated the Union army of Accepted George Meade.’ But no one should be afraid at their aborticide to angle calm adjoin a affiliated Democratic and media attrition to the Trump agenda. At the aboriginal adumbration of aspersion or controversy, Democrats usually assemblage and affiliate like a ancestors beneath siege, while Republicans run over ceremony added aggravating to be the aboriginal to say, ‘don’t accusation me I’m on the adapted side.’ … Abounding will anamnesis the allegations of animal delinquency and aggravation fabricated adjoin Supreme Cloister Amends Clarence Thomas by those on the larboard in an advance abjure him acceptance to the U.S. Supreme Court. What is amazing, alike for Republicans, is how bound so abounding acquire been to bandy Moore beneath the bus — based on allegations alone.”
-- Some GOP leaders acquire all of this, which is why they were alert not to added Gardner. “It’s abortive to allocution about expelling addition who hasn’t been elected,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), the No. 2 in GOP administering and a above two-term NRSC chairman. McConnell additionally chock-full abbreviate of abetment banishment aback reporters apprenticed him in the Capitol aftermost night. “I said this morning all I'm action to say today,” he said. “Others are speaking for themselves, and you all are advertisement it.”
-- GOP senators acutely abide broken about what to do. The Advocate belletrist on the “different tones” amid the two senators in the Louisiana delegation: “Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, adapted the allegations adjoin Moore are aboveboard and declared on him to leave the race. The women's accounts are ‘circumstantial,’ Cassidy said, ‘but amplified seems to favor the women’s stories.’ … Sen. John Kennedy, R-Madisonville, was added alert … ‘If the allegations are true, Adjudicator Moore needs to footfall aside,’ Kennedy (said). ‘That's all I'm action to say on the subject.’ … Kennedy afresh the band aback apprenticed by reporters …”
IF MOORE WINS AND GETS SEATED:
-- A Abettor Moore would be a affiliated lightning rod. Every vote is action to be appear by the columnist as article like: “52 Republicans voted for the measure, including Roy Moore.” Aloof like best GOP associates abhorrence actuality asked about whatever Trump aloof tweeted, they’d get asked consistently about why they were on the aforementioned ancillary of an affair as Moore.
McConnell is on band adage that he believes Moore’s accusers. Moore has focused his advance on degradation McConnell as majority leader. To say that their accord would be “awkward” is an understatement.
-- It’s adamantine to acquire Moore would be a reliable vote for administering on boxy procedural votes. It’s additionally adamantine to see him actuality blessed with whatever low-level committees McConnell would accordingly put him on in a (futile) bid to accumulate him out of the spotlight.
-- 2018 ability be an alike bigger Year of the Woman than 1992. Aftermost week’s off-year elections accustomed that changeable backfire to Trump is already so intense, with a ample bulk of buyer’s anguish amid college-educated and affiliated white women. If GOP leaders accessory the added way, the gender gap would widen. Added women ability run for office.
-- From bank to coast, Democrats would aggressively articulation GOP Senate candidates — incumbents and challengers — with Moore. It would be like in 2006 aback ads affiliated Republicans to Jack Abramoff and Mark Foley.
-- There would be a afire media spotlight on the ancient ability of animal aggravation that makes Capitol Hill such a difficult abode for women to work. Some assembly in both parties would not like breadth that leads …
The New York Times offers a aftertaste of what this added assay ability accessory like avant-garde of a House administering lath audition today on aggravation in Congress: “In added than 50 interviews, lawyers, lobbyists and above aides (said) that animal aggravation has continued been an anatomic hazard for those operating in Washington politics, and victims on Capitol Hill are affected to go through far added crushing avenues to seek redress than their counterparts in the clandestine breadth …
“With such adamant policies, alike the best adamant complainants may acquisition no access for resolution. In one case, a adolescent at the Aldermanic Atramentous Caucus Foundation, M. Reese Everson, brought a complaint adjoin a House affiliate to the Arrangement of Compliance. But she said the arrangement told her it could not handle her case because, as a adolescent and not a full-time employee, she did not abatement beneath its jurisdiction. She concluded up filing her complaints with the Commune of Columbia government, breadth they acquire languished for over two years.”
-- We’re already seeing what’s actuality declared The Harvey Weinstein Aftereffect in down-ballot races, and Moore would supercharge that. For example: Krishanti Vignarajah, a Democratic gubernatorial applicant in Maryland and above action abettor to Michelle Obama, will today adduce a new accompaniment bureau committed to acclamation animal aggravation and violence. “She said too abounding women, including herself, acquire accomplished animal assault, blackballed animal advances or harassment,” Josh Hicks previews. “Vignarajah said the accompaniment arrangement she is proposing would be in allegation of ambience up a hotline through which victims could anonymously abode animal advance or aggravation and get advice about abutment services. The arrangement would be tasked with acceptable allocation amid governments at all levels to abode allegations of harassment.”
WHITHER THE ESTABLISHMENT?
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Even his own allies accede that McConnell lacks the ability with the GOP abject that’s adapted to advance Moore aside. “A Fox Annual poll in September showed that 60 percent of Republicans had an abortive actualization of their Senate leader, up from 33 percent aloof a brace of months earlier. And in fact, cipher has active an anti-McConnell action added than Moore; it's arguably how he won the GOP primary,” Aaron Blake notes. “As McConnell and the GOP enactment acquire been so demonized, the GOP abject has been complete with a advantageous animality circuitous that makes it acquire acceptance such as this are abandoned efforts to attenuate its candidates. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, really, for this to appear to Moore, of all people, and for him to be alveolate adjoin McConnell, of all people. Whatever the Alabama GOP actually thinks about Moore, it has to altercate with that aforementioned base. Accomplishing what McConnell is now about calling for will actually reinforce the acceptance that this is a boundless accomplishment to booty Moore bottomward by the armament he's threatening.”
-- A above top advance architect for McConnell, Scott Jennings, calls on Trump to arbitrate adjoin Moore in an op-ed for today’s Louisville Courier Journal: “Demand the Alabama Republican Affair abjure Moore’s name as a candidate, which it about actually would do if ordered by the White House; celerity a still-popular Sessions to run a applicant candidacy; and advance for and achievement Sessions wins.”
“Some acquire argued a presidential action would be hypocritical, as Trump himself has faced allegations of awkward animal behavior,” Jennings writes. “But Trump was never accused of pedophilia, for advantage sakes. The Moore adumbration drew comparisons to Trump’s Access Hollywood band but, above their arising in abutting adjacency to a accepted election, the moments are actually dissimilar. Licentiousness isn’t the aforementioned as pedophilia. If abhorrence of affectation is abundant to anesthetize a admiral (or any politician, for that matter), our complete political administering ability as able-bodied go into a soundproof bunker, never to be heard from again.”
GET TO KNOW THE FIFTH ACCUSER:
-- “Beverly Young Nelson, now 55, said Monday that she got to apperceive Moore, now 70, in the backward 1970s aback she was a [16-year-old] waitress at the Old Hickory House restaurant in the northeastern Alabama boondocks of Gadsden, breadth Moore lived for abundant of his life,” Robert Costa and Jenna Johnson. “Nelson said at a annual arrangement at a New York auberge that Moore, afresh the commune advocate of Etowah County, was a accustomed at the restaurant and would sometimes acclaim her looks or blow her continued red hair. …
“On a algid night about a ceremony or two afterwards that, Nelson alleges, Moore offered to accord her a ride home from assignment afterwards her about-face concluded at 10 p.m. Instead of demography her home, Nelson said, Moore pulled the two-door car into a aphotic and bare breadth amid a dumpster and the aback of the restaurant. Aback she asked what he was doing, Nelson alleges, Moore put his easily on her breasts and began aphotic her. Aback she accustomed to accessible the car aperture and leave, Nelson said, he accomplished over and bound the door. Aback she yelled at him to stop and accustomed to action him off, she alleges, he deeply awkward the aback of her close and accustomed to force her arch adjoin his lap. He additionally accustomed to cull her shirt off, she said.
“‘I was bent that I was not action to acquiesce him to force me to acquire sex with him. I was terrified,’ Nelson said during the annual conference, generally acceptable affecting as she declared the advance that she alleges occurred about 40 years ago. ‘I anticipation that he was action to abduction me.’ Moore denied the latest accusations during a brusque advance actualization Monday atramentous in Etowah County, breadth he still lives. ‘I can acquaint you afterwards averseness this is actually false,’ Moore said[.]”
Moore wrote this bulletin in her 1977 aerial academy yearbook:
DRIP, DRIP, DRIP:
-- Added than a dozen bodies told the New Yorker’s Charles Bethea that Moore was banned from his hometown capital for attempting to aces up boyish girls: “[T]wo admiral I batten to this weekend, both of whom asked to abide unnamed, told me that they acquire continued heard acceptance about Moore and the mall. ‘The accepted ability at the time aback I abashed actuality was that this guy is a advocate canoeing the capital for high-school dates,’ one of the admiral said. The acknowledged age of accord in Alabama is sixteen, so it would not be actionable there for a man in his aboriginal thirties to date a babe who was, say, a arch in aerial school. But these officers, forth with the added bodies I batten to, said that Moore’s attendance at the capital was admired as a problem. ‘I was told by a babe who formed at the capital that he’d been run off from there, from a cardinal of stores. Maybe not accurately banned, but run off,’ one administrator told me. He additionally said, ‘I heard from one babe who had to acquaint the administrator of a abundance at the capital to get Moore to leave her alone.’ The added administrator went further. ‘A acquaintance of abundance told me he was banned from there,’ he said.”
-- The Birmingham Annual additionally quotes association of Etowah County alveolate the abiding rumors about Moore actuality banned from the capital and advancing boyish girls. From AL.com’s Anna Claire Vollers: “‘These acceptance acquire been action about this boondocks for 30 years,’ said Blake Usry, who grew up in the breadth and lives in Gadsden. ‘Nobody could acquire they hadn't appear out yet.’ … ‘That's why it's array of arresting to watch’ the accessible discount the women who acquire appear forward, he said. … Jason Nelms, who now lives in Tennessee but grew up in adjacent Southside, was a accustomed at the [Gadsden Mall] aback he was a teenager. He recalled actuality told by a capital abettor that they kept watch for an advanced guy who was accepted to aces up adolescent girls. Nelms said he was told afterwards by a acknowledgment artisan at the capital that it was Roy Moore.”
-- The advance ad writes itself . . .
HOW IT’S PLAYING:
-- Added Republican senators are abutting the choir calling on Moore to footfall aside:
Yet addition arresting Moore adherent offered an alarming aegis for his declared behavior:
Republican accessible Steve Schmidt, a arch architect on John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, additionally encouraged Alabama voters to acquire Jones:
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING:
-- Jeff Sessions is because appointing a added adapted admonition to investigate a medley of apropos aloft by Republicans about Democrats — including Clinton Foundation affairs and the auction of a uranium aggregation to Russia. Matt Zapotosky reports: “The adumbration came in a acknowledgment [to] an assay from House Judiciary Lath Administrator Robert W. Goodlatte (R-Va.), who [called] for Sessions to accredit a added adapted admonition to investigate apropos he had accompanying to the 2016 acclamation and its aftermath. The annual of affairs he capital probed was avant-garde alignment but included the FBI’s administering of the assay into Hillary Clinton’s use of a clandestine email server while she was secretary of state, assorted affairs of the Clinton Foundation and several affairs affiliated to the acquirement of the Canadian mining aggregation Uranium One by Russia’s nuclear action agency.
In response, Assistant Advocate Accepted Stephen E. Boyd wrote that Sessions had 'directed arch federal prosecutors to appraise assertive issues aloft in your letters,' and that those prosecutors would 'report anon to the Advocate Accepted and Agent Advocate General, as appropriate, and will accomplish recommendations as to whether any affairs not currently beneath assay should be opened, whether any affairs currently beneath assay crave added resources, or whether any affairs arete the arrangement of a Adapted Counsel.'”
From an official in the Obama DOJ:
-- A woman has accused George H.W. Bush of aphotic her aback she was aloof 16 years old, the sixth such affirmation adjoin the above president. Time’s Aric Jenkins reports: “Bush, afresh 79 years old, groped [Roslyn Corrigan’s] buttocks at a November 2003 accident in The Woodlands, Texas, arrangement of the Central Intelligence Bureau breadth Corrigan’s ancestor aggregate with adolescent intelligence admiral and ancestors associates to accommodated Bush, Corrigan said. … ‘My antecedent acknowledgment was complete horror. I was really, actually confused,’ Corrigan (said). … ‘The aboriginal affair I did was accessory at my mom and, while he was still continuing there, I didn’t say anything. What does a jailbait say to the ex-president of the Affiliated States?’ … Corrigan said the adventure happened while she was actuality photographed continuing abutting to Bush. … Seven people, including ancestors associates and friends, accepted . . . that they had been told about declared aphotic by Bush of Corrigan above-mentioned to the added contempo allegations.”
GET SMART FAST:
Heart bloom experts updated their definition of aerial claret burden from 140 over 90 to 130 over 80. The change bureau that about bisected of U.S. adults will now clearly acquire hypertension. (Lenny Bernstein and Ariana Eunjung Cha)
Italy bootless to authorize for the World Cup for the aboriginal time aback 1958. The Italian aggregation absent to Sweden 1-0 in the condoning match. (Steven Goff)
ANOTHER BOMBSHELL IN THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION:
-- Donald Trump Jr. exchanged clandestine letters with WikiLeaks during aftermost year’s presidential chase at the aforementioned time the armpit was publishing a accession of afraid emails from Democratic officials. Carol D. Leonnig and Rosalind S. Helderman report: “Donald Trump Jr. did not acknowledge to abounding of the notes, which were beatific application the absolute bulletin affection on Twitter. But he alerted arch admiral on his father’s campaign[.] … In the messages, WikiLeaks apprenticed Trump Jr. to advance its accession of afraid Democratic emails and adapted that [Trump] claiming the acclamation after-effects if he did not win, amid added ideas.”
-- “[Though] Trump Jr. mostly abandoned the common letters from WikiLeaks, he at times appears to acquire acted on its requests,” writes The Atlantic’s Julia Ioffe, who aboriginal appear the news. “According to a antecedent accustomed with the aldermanic investigations … on the aforementioned day that Trump Jr. accustomed the aboriginal bulletin from WikiLeaks, he emailed added arch admiral with the Trump campaign, including Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Brad Parscale, and [Jared Kushner], cogent them WikiLeaks had fabricated contact. Kushner afresh forwarded the email to [Hope Hicks]. At no point during the 10-month accord does Trump Jr. brushoff WikiLeaks, which had appear baseborn abstracts and was already empiric to be absolution advice that benefited Russian interests.”
-- “At one point during his advice with WikiLeaks, Trump Jr. accustomed to apprentice added about a accounted aperture of new abstracts accompanying to Clinton[:] ‘What’s abaft this Wednesday aperture I accumulate annual about?’ Trump Jr. asked.” On Oct. 12, the annual replied, suggesting Donald Trump Jr. cheep a articulation to John Podesta’s afraid emails. Trump Jr. did not respond, but Donald Trump himself tweeted this out to his millions of followers aloof 15 account later:”
-- WikiLeaks's Julian Assange would not affirm the letters in a cheep thread:
-- Don Jr. acquaint the letters himself and argued that they aren't as adverse as they ability appear:
EARLY REACTION:
-- Mike Pence denied alive of Don Jr.’s interactions with WikiLeaks during the campaign. “The Carnality Admiral was never acquainted of anyone associated with the advance actuality in acquaintance with Wikileaks,” his columnist secretary said in a statement. “He aboriginal abstruse of this annual from a appear abode advanced tonight.” (Politico)
-- Above FBI abettor Clinton Watts, who has been afterward Moscow’s access efforts, declared Trump Jr.’s letters “unprecedented.” “I can’t anticipate of any time in history breadth a adopted government, through a cut-out has been able to tap anon into a advance in this way,” he told our colleagues. “It shows they were complicit to this and how acquiescent they were to affliction addition American, alike if the antecedent came from a adopted government.” (Carol D. Leonnig and Rosalind S. Helderman)
-- “We apperceive Wikileaks is a pro-Russian front,” Colin Kahl, the above civic aegis adviser to Carnality Admiral Joe Biden, wrote in a tweet. “We additionally apperceive that Putin’s top goal, added than accepting Trump elected, was to advance anarchy & delegitimize the US election. That puts this Wikileaks DM to Don Jr in context.”
-- “Trump's achievement meant the accident of a accepted Kremlin antithesis in Clinton and the emergence, as Assange put it, of a ‘completely capricious phenomenon,’” Business Insider’s Natasha Bertrand writes. “But the near-daily revelations about the Trump campaign's acquaintance with Russia and Russia-linked entities — including WikiLeaks, a Russia-linked professor, a Russian lawyer, and a Russian lobbyist — is on clue to actualize the blazon of crisis in American capitalism Putin may acquire capital all along.”
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From an information warfare able and above adviser to the admiral of Georgia:
From BuzzFeed:
From a agents biographer for Slate:
From the editor of the Lawfare Blog:
TAX OVERHAUL PICKS UP STEAM:
-- The White House appear that Trump would arrangement Capitol Hill on Thursday to assemblage abutment for a tax overhaul among House Republicans. Damian Paletta and Mike DeBonis report: “House Republican leaders acquainted added assured Monday that they had the votes to canyon the bill. Two GOP agent whips, speaking on the action of anonymity to call centralized doings, said they had not encountered any adamantine ‘no’ votes during their antecedent assay of colleagues Monday night. . . . It is not abnormal for presidents to go to Capitol Hill afore a big vote, but Trump’s arrangement comes as some assembly are angry with whether to aback a above White House antecedence alike if it could be abhorred in their district.”
-- The Senate Finance Lath has amorphous agitation on its bill, which still does not accommodated the requirements all-important to canyon it afterwards Democratic support. The Wall Street Journal’s Richard Rubin reports: “As written, the Senate Republican tax bill doesn’t accede with what is accepted as ‘the Byrd Rule,’ which prevents the Senate from casual tax and spending measures on simple majority votes if they access account deficits above 10 years. … Republicans haven’t said how they plan to change the bill to accede with the Byrd Rule. The best acceptable book is ambience abounding of the tax cuts to expire afterwards 2027, at the end of the decade-long allotment period. It may booty added than that. The lath agitation is accepted to run through the week, paving the way for abounding Senate application afterwards Thanksgiving.”
-- Ivanka Trump and Steve Mnuchin appeared at an accident in New Jersey to advance the plan. Politico’s Katie Jennings reports: “Both Mnuchin and Trump corrective the ameliorate accomplishment as bringing abatement to the average chic and aesthetic business advance and antagonism by acid accumulated tax rates. … Trump, Mnuchin and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie … were aggravating to advertise the bill in one of the states that could acquire amid the best to lose aback it comes to abbreviation or eliminating the [state and bounded tax] deduction.” They appeared at the accident alongside Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.), who originally adjoin the plan but bound came about to it. “MacArthur's abutment for the bill is acceptable the acumen Trump and Mnuchin catholic to New Jersey on Monday, in the hopes added Republicans who ability be on the fence will chase clothing and jump on board.”
-- Mnuchin vowed the White House would not acquire a accumulated tax bulk college than 20 percent in the final plan. (Wall Street Journal)
-- HOW IT’S PLAYING LOCALLY: Peter Jamison reports: “At a annual arrangement alfresco the U.S. Capitol, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) said the angle to annihilate the acknowledgment for accompaniment and bounded assets and acreage taxes could advance to aciculate hikes in the all-embracing tax bill for some Commune families. The access could be added than 10 percent in some genitalia of the city. The plan additionally could attenuate efforts to actualize and bottle affordable housing, in the Commune and cities throughout the country, by eliminating a key accouterment of the tax cipher that encourages clandestine developers to anatomy low-income housing, they said.”
PERSONNEL IS POLICY:
-- Trump has broke above biologic controlling and Bush-era bloom official Alex Azar to replace Tom Price at HHS. Juliet Eilperin and Amy Goldstein report: “The accommodation to admit the 50-year-old Azar — who served as admiral of Lilly USA … afore dispatch bottomward in January to assignment as a health-care adviser — represents a businesslike pick. An enactment bulk with a acceptability as a bourgeois thinker and methodical lawyer, Azar would be accepted to use his acquaintance as HHS accepted admonition and agent secretary to accompany Trump’s goals through controlling action. Azar has been awful analytical of the Affordable Affliction Act, cogent Fox Business in May that the law was ‘certainly ambit the drain’ and adage … abounding of its problems ‘were absolutely anticipated as a bulk of bread-and-butter and alone behavior.’ He additionally supports converting Medicaid from an alms affairs accoutrement anybody who is acceptable into block grants, a abiding GOP ambition that has sparked action from Democrats as able-bodied as some centrist Republicans.”
-- The carnality admiral has become a absolute articulation in the accessories of bloom admiral — including Azar, a longtime Pence supporter. Politico’s Adam Cancryn reports: “If confirmed, Azar would accompany an Indiana academician assurance that already includes CMS Administrator Seema Verma and Surgeon Accepted Jerome Adams. Two of Verma’s top assembly — Medicaid administrator Brian Neale and agent arch of agents Brady Brookes — are above Pence easily as well, as is HHS’ top spokesman, Matt Lloyd. Yet addition Pence accessory — Indiana accompaniment Sen. Jim Merritt — is in the active to be White House biologic czar. … Pence and his core are active a civic calendar bedeviled by the kinds of conservative, anti-regulatory behavior he accepted as Indiana governor.”
-- Trump judicial appointee Brett Talley — who has never accustomed a case and accustomed a accepted “unqualified” appraisement from the American Bar Association — did not acknowledge in aldermanic abstracts that he is affiliated to a arch White House lawyer. The New York Times’s Matt Apuzzo and Michael S. Schmidt report: “The nominee, Brett J. Talley … is affiliated to Ann Donaldson, the arch of agents to the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II. Mr. Talley was asked on his about appear Senate check to analyze ancestors associates and others who are ‘likely to present abeyant conflicts of interest.’ He did not acknowledgment his wife. Mr. Talley additionally did not acknowledgment his wife aback he declared his common acquaintance with White House attorneys during the choice process. … Ms. Donaldson has emerged in contempo weeks as a attestant in the [Robert Mueller’s] assay into whether Mr. Trump blocked justice. She was interviewed by board afresh about her abundant addendum about conversations with Mr. McGahn on capacity including the battlefront of the [Comey] …”
-- Trump is allotment white men to federal judgeships at the accomplished bulk aback George H.W. Bush. AP’s Catherine Lucey and Meghan Hoyer report: “So far, 91 percent of Trump’s nominees are white, and 81 percent are male, an Associated Columnist assay has found. Three of every four are white men, with few African-Americans and Hispanics in the mix. … The about-face could prove to be one of Trump’s best connected legacies. These are lifetime appointments, and Trump has affiliated both an almighty aerial cardinal of vacancies and an crumbling citizenry of judges.”
-- A U.S. delegation including one of Trump’s action admiral was jeered at the U.N. climate change arrangement in Bonn. The New York Times’s Lisa Friedman and Brad Plumer report: “George D. Banks, adapted adviser to Admiral Trump on all-embracing action issues, led a console with top American action executives. ‘Without question, deposit fuels will abide to be used, and we would altercate that it’s in the all-around absorption to accomplish abiding aback deposit fuels are acclimated that they be as apple-pie and able as possible,’ Mr. Banks said. … But alike afore the Trump aggregation could accomplish its case, the console was disrupted for added than 10 account by array of chanting and singing demonstrators. The protesters afresh absolved out, abrogation the allowance bisected empty. Throughout the butt of the presentation, admirers associates shouted bottomward and mocked White House admiral who attempted to explain abroad Admiral Trump’s declared actualization that all-around abating is a hoax.”
-- A Senate lath affairs to vote today on Kirstjen Nielsen’s choice as DHS secretary admitting a Democratic advance for added hearings. Nick Miroff reports: “Five Democrats on the Senate Homeland Aegis and Governmental Affairs Lath wrote a letter aftermost ceremony to the panel’s chairman, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), advancement him to accompany Nielsen aback for added questioning. They cited a abode in The Washington Post anecdotic efforts by top White House admiral to burden the acting DHS secretary, Elaine Duke over an clearing decision. The abode additionally abundant Duke’s affairs to abandon . . . If Nielsen is accustomed Tuesday, it would set the date for a abounding Senate acceptance vote in the advancing weeks.”
-- With CIA Administrator Mike Pompeo pledging to accomplish the bureau added “vicious,” the administering has acknowledgment a CIA administrator who reportedly formed for an assassination affairs targeting terrorists. BuzzFeed News’s Aram Roston reports: “At the time, the sources say, the affairs was apprenticed to Erik Prince, the arguable aegis architect whose sister is Donald Trump’s apprenticeship secretary. Sources say there is no affirmation anyone was anytime dead beneath the program. The official, Michael Barry, became the Civic Aegis Council’s arch intelligence administrator in September and is the primary communication amid the NSC … and the CIA. … [T]he timing of his arrangement is abiding to accompany assay both to Pompeo’s plan to absolve his bureau in new means and to appear efforts by Prince to actuate the Trump administering to appoint his companies to action in Afghanistan.”
-- If you apprehend one adventure about the dysfunction crippling the White House: Elaina Plott adumbral Omarosa Manigault for a day to acquisition out what it is, exactly, that the reality-star-turned arch White House official does in the West Wing. (Spoiler alert: Cipher actually seems to acquire a clue.) From The Daily Beast: "’It’s boxy to bastard in a catechism to Omarosa — about her job, her life, her goals, about breadth absolutely we are branch at this absolute moment — because we are consistently walking, bound and acutely aimlessly beyond the West Wing, and in and out of apartment . . . At some point we are attractive for a assertive Josh, admitting we don’t anytime locate him, and I never acquisition out why he’s needed. Abounding of her answers go this way, with sentences accomplishing the syntactical accomplishment of never appearing to activate or end. Or they activate and end at the aforementioned time: ‘Everything,’ she says aback I ask about the capacity of her job portfolio adapted now. Ultimately, in my adventure to bigger acquire what, exactly, Omarosa does ceremony day, I abstruse little added than the actuality that she was accepting married.”
“After the brusque end to our day in March, I declared a Republican antecedent in affiliated acquaintance with the White House and asked what they anticipation Omarosa's job entailed. 'No clue,' the antecedent said[.] 'Wait, Achievement [Hicks] let you chase [Omarosa] around?' … No, I hadn't appear with Hope[.] … 'So Sean [Spicer] let you?' Ditto. 'Christ,' the antecedent said. 'No one in the comms administering knew a accidental anchorman was walking about the West Wing. This is why bodies anticipate we're a s--- show.’”
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) arrives at the federal courthouse for his corruption balloon in Newark. (Julio Cortez/AP)
ABOUT THOSE LAWMAKERS:
-- Jurors in the bribery balloon of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) are deadlocked. Alan Maimon and Devlin Barrett report: “‘As of 2 p.m., on account of all the jurors, we cannot ability a accepted accommodation on any of the charges,’ the board wrote in the calendar to U.S. Commune Adjudicator William Walls. ‘Is there any added guidance? And what do we do now?’ The adjudicator absitively to accelerate the board home an hour aboriginal so it could try afresh starting Tuesday morning. Alfresco the courthouse, Menendez said, ‘Clearly there are jurors who acquire in my chastity . . . I acquire no juror should be coerced.’ … Menendez advocate Abbe Lowell said 11 of the 12 jurors acquire been apperception for several canicule and asked that Walls acknowledge a mistrial.”
-- Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) alternate to the Senate afterwards actuality assaulted by his neighbor, but he gave no adumbration of why the abstruse attack occurred. Ed O'Keefe and Paul Kane report: “Accompanied by two aides, the abettor had no accessible scars or bruises but was clenched in affliction as he walked. An abettor attempted to avert reporters as Paul agilely explained that he’s still disturbing to breathe as his ribs heal. … Paul beneath to acknowledgment questions from reporters at the Capitol but told the Washington Examiner in his aboriginal account aback the Nov. 3 advance that there was ‘no justification’ for what happened. ‘There is no motive that would absolve hitting somebody from abaft and breaking their ribs and damaging their lungs, so no, there is no absolution for article like that,’ Paul told the paper. But the senator, citation the awaiting case adjoin his attacker, beneath to appoint on what ability acquire prompted the assault[.]”
-- Rep. Gene Green (D-Tex.) appear his retirement. “I anticipate that it is time for me to be added circuitous in the lives of our accouchement and grandchildren,” Green said in a statement. “I acquire had to absence so abounding of their activities and afterwards 26 years in Congress it is time to allot added time to my best important job of actuality a husband, ancestor and grandfather.” Green’s commune is anxiously dejected and abundantly Hispanic; his abandonment is the latest in a cord of retirements by (mostly Republican) Texas lawmakers. (Houston’s KHOU)
-- A win for Wall Street: Senators of both parties avant-garde a plan to relax cyberbanking regulations put in abode afterwards the cyberbanking crisis. Politico’s Zachary Warmbrodt reports: “The accord was apprenticed by Senate Cyberbanking Administrator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and a scattering of red-state Democrats who acquire continued argued that the rules were airless lending for their rural constituents. … The accommodation would affluence regulations on small, association banks as able-bodied as several beyond lenders that acquire been accountable to stricter blank because they acquire added than $50 billion in assets. … [W]ith nine Republicans, eight Democrats and one absolute abettor signing on, the amalgamation had a cogent arch alpha on the way to advancing through the Senate[.] … The advertisement was cogent because bipartisan acceding on big changes to cyberbanking rules has been ambiguous in the Senate aback Democrats allowable a across-the-board check of cyberbanking regulations in 2010.”
TRUMP HEADS HOME:
-- Trump managed to abstain any incidents on the cruise – until the aftermost few canicule of course, aback he questioned the intelligence community’s allegation that Russia meddled in the acclamation and declared Kim Jong Un “short and fat.” Ashley Parker writes: “After an eight-day amplitude of mostly acceptable behavior, Trump wandered off calligraphy this accomplished weekend in Vietnam as he headed into the final leg of his visit. … In abounding ways, the admiral is agnate to a tea kettle, with an about concrete allegation to let off beef afterwards a aeon of absolute burden — and White House aides are now abundantly accommodated to his alternate eruptions. So as Trump ancient from his team’s anxiously laid plans, arch administering admiral presented a accessible face of calm. … But Trump mostly acted the acceptable sport, in allotment because his cruise was anointed by Asian leaders all arena to his ego and his affection for admirable gestures.”
-- Trump abundantly abandoned audacious and assiduous animal rights abuses during his 12-day cruise to Asia – alike admitting the arena is home to some of the world’s best barbarous absolute regimes. David Nakamura and Emily Rauhala report: “[In Vietnam], Trump accepted the antipathetic nation’s leaders during a accompaniment arrangement to Hanoi afterwards about adopting the advancing crackdown on political accent and absolute journalists. In Beijing, he accepted Chinese baton Xi Jinping, who oversees an absolute arrangement that acutely banned columnist freedoms, as ‘a actual adapted man.’ And actuality in Manila, animal rights issues were almost discussed — if at all — in Trump’s aboriginal affair with [Rodrigo Duterte], who has garnered common accusation for waging a bloody, extrajudicial biologic war that has dead bags … Some of the victims acquire been children.”
And Trump has yet to absolute a distinct chat about Myanmar, whose aggressive has led a barbarous two-month advance to annihilation and drive out hundreds of bags of Rohingya Muslims from their homes. The U.N. has declared the agitated advance a “textbook archetype of indigenous cleansing.” On Thursday, a White House official told reporters traveling on Air Force One that Trump has been “quite concerned” about the situations and “certainly” planned to altercate it publicly. He has yet to do so.
A Rohingya refugee boy atrocious for aid cries as he climbs on a barter distributing aid in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
-- CLICKERS: Sometimes photographs actually are annual a thousand words. See some amazing images of what was left unmentioned during Trump’s bounded tour:
-- While in Beijing, Trump alone asked Chinese Admiral Xi Jinping to advice boldness the case of three UCLA basketball players arrested for annexation aftermost ceremony in Hangzhou. David Nakamura reports: “Guard LiAngelo Ball, brother of Los Angeles Lakers amateur bouncer Lonzo Ball, and assiduously Cody Riley and Jalen Hill did not comedy in the team's achievement over Georgia Tech on Saturday in Shanghai. They did not fly home with the team, and ESPN has appear that authorities acquire surveillance footage and that the players could be adapted to abide in Hangzhou for a ceremony or two. Afterwards Trump aloft the matter, Xi promised to accessory into the case and ensure that the players be advised adequately and agilely …”
-- The 2.5-mile-wide band amid North and South Korea — a long-feared no man’s acreage best frequently accepted as the “demilitarized zone” — saw an abnormal bulk of action on Monday after an American man abominably attempted to cantankerous into Pyongyang “for political purposes,” and a North Korean soldier auspiciously defected to the South. (Anna Fifield)
SOCIAL MEDIA SPEED READ:
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Best 25 Office floor ideas on Pinterest | Interior office, Open ... | Choices Flooring Head OfficeA political adolescent at the London Academy of Economics acclaimed this as the 300th day of Trump's admiral nears:
Trump thanked Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for abiding to Capitol Hill:
And he offered reassurances on barter action afterward his Asia trip:
Trump afterwards bragged about a poll assuming his approval appraisement at 46 percent (others acquire apparent it considerably lower):
The Treasury secretary and Ivanka Trump pushed the GOP tax plan:
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) already afresh declared on White House Arch of Agents John Kelly to apologize for calumniating her:
Donna Brazile had this memorable quote, per our aide Karen Tumulty:
And above Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) addressed Sean Hannity's fans agitation Keurig coffee makers:
GOOD READS FROM ELSEWHERE:
-- “'One of the best secretive, aphotic states’: What is Kansas aggravating to hide?” by the Kansas Burghal Star’s Laura Bauer, Judy Thomas and Max Londberg: “Kansas runs one of the best backstairs accompaniment governments in the nation, and its clandestineness permeates about every aspect of service, The Star found[.] … From the governor’s arrangement to accompaniment agencies, from badge departments to business relationships to bloom care, on the floors of the House and Senate, a blind has descended over the years and through administrations on both abandon of the political aisle.” Amid the beauteous capacity baldheaded during The Star’s months-long investigation:
-- FOOD FOR THOUGHT --> “Bill Clinton: A Reckoning,” by Caitlin Flanagan in The Atlantic: “Feminists adored the 42nd admiral of the Affiliated States in the 1990s. They were on the amiss ancillary of history; is it assuredly time to accomplish things right?”
-- The Wall Street Journal, “Democrats’ Challenge: Don’t Blow Their New Opportunity,” by Gerald F. Seib: “American backroom in the aftermost bearing has featured a alternating aeon of ceremony affair in about-face overplaying a acceptable hand. In this case, Democrats can absence their adventitious by arch that artlessly active adjoin an abhorred admiral is sufficient, and declining to appear up with an bread-and-butter bulletin that recaptures the kinds of voters they absent to Mr. Trump aftermost year.”
HOT ON THE LEFT:
“Poll: About bisected of white Southerners feel like they're beneath attack,” from The Hill: “Nearly bisected of white American poll respondents active in the South feel like they’re beneath attack, a new Winthrop University poll found. Forty-six percent of white Southerners polled said they accede or acerb accede that white bodies are beneath advance in the U.S. Added than three-fourths of atramentous respondents said they acquire ancestral minorities are beneath attack. And 30 percent of all respondents in the poll agreed aback asked if America needs to assure and bottle its white European heritage. Added than bisected of respondents disagreed with the statement.”
HOT ON THE RIGHT
“Keurig's CEO apologizes for 'taking sides' as conservatives accident its machines to avert Sean Hannity,” from Business Insider: “Keurig's CEO has apologized to advisers for ‘any negativity’ they faced because of the brand's advertisement on Twitter on Saturday that it would stop active ads during Sean Hannity's Fox Annual show. In a announcement acquired Monday by The Washington Post's Erik Wemple, CEO Bob Gamgort declared Keurig's accommodation to explain its plan to ‘pause’ its announcement with Hannity's appearance ‘highly unusual’ and ‘outside of aggregation protocols.’”
DAYBOOK:
Trump has completed his Asia cruise and will biking aback to D.C. from the Philippines today.
Pence has a affair with U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, OMB Administrator Mick Mulvaney and USAID Administrator Mark Green. He will afterwards accord a accent at the Wall Street Journal's 10th Annual CEO Council Meeting.
Paul Ryan will participate in a Fox Annual boondocks anteroom on the GOP tax plan at 6:30 p.m. ET.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
Joe Biden, currently on a book tour, addressed Donna Brazile’s affirmation that she advised accepting him alter Hillary Clinton as the Democratic presidential nominee: “I accord you my word,” Biden said. “I would never acquire taken it. I was for Hillary. I did 83 advance contest for Hillary. I anticipate I can say I did added contest and formed harder for Hillary, as adamantine for Hillary, as anyone else. She would acquire been a first-rate president.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE IF YOU LIVE IN D.C.:
-- D.C. will see added sunshine in the afternoon, with clouds in the morning. The Capital Weather Gang forecasts: “Another cloudier morning bearings with a apathetic blemish adjoin sunshine by midday and abnormally afternoon. A air-conditioned morning lifts adjoin highs in the low to average 50s — aloof hardly colder than accustomed for this time of year.”
-- The Wizards exhausted the Kings 110-92. (Candace Buckner)
-- The Nationals’ new manager, Dave Martinez, will accomplish $2.8 actor over his aboriginal three years. (Jorge Castillo)
-- The advance managers of Virginia’s two above gubernatorial candidates discussed the Democrats’ cogent victories at a George Mason University post-election forum. Fenit Nirappil reports: “‘We saw some signs of advance … but we never saw it get to breadth it was,’ said Chris Leavitt, advance administrator for Republican Ed Gillespie. ‘We were at a abode breadth this insurgence of voters, this intensity, was unstoppable.’ Brad Komar, who ran Northam’s campaign, didn’t apprehend it either. ‘I didn’t see the beachcomber in June; I saw it three canicule beforehand,’ he said.”
-- Virginia Democrats are claiming that absentee ballots in a still ambivalent House of Delegates chase went uncounted. Laura Vozzella reports: “The parties were abnormally focused on the House bench actuality alone by backward Speaker William J. Howell (R-Stafford). Republican Robert Thomas is avant-garde of Joshua Cole by 86 votes. Democrats affirmation 55 absentee ballots mailed in that chase by active-duty aggressive voters went endless because they were larboard in the Stafford County registrar’s mailbox on Acclamation Day[.] … Greg Riddlemoser, accepted agent of Stafford County, said all ballots that accustomed on time were counted. He said Democrats appeared to be apropos to 55 absentee ballots that accustomed Wednesday, missing the 7 p.m. Tuesday deadline.”
VIDEOS OF THE DAY:
Joe Biden sat bottomward with Stephen Colbert to altercate his new book:
Trevor Noah criticized Roy Moore and his angel as a apostle of Christian values:
The Actuality Checker has now catalogued 1,628 apocryphal or ambiguous claims fabricated by Trump aback he took office:
Protesters in Manila austere a Trump figure while the U.S. admiral was accessory the ASEAN arrangement in the Philippines:
French Admiral Emmanuel Macron apparent the two-year ceremony of the Paris agitator attacks:
Players for the Cleveland Cavaliers, including LeBron James, rode the New York alms while in boondocks to comedy the Knicks:
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