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| Saudi Arabia's admission; Trump's response; the Post's reactions; Apple v. Bloomberg; Collier to Fox; Clegg to Facebook; 'Making a Murderer' is back Posted: 19 Oct 2018 07:52 PM PDT If I win the $1 billion Mega Millions jackpot, I promise I'll keep sending out this newsletter. Well... at least for a while... Good luck
If I win the Mega Millions jackpot, I promise I'll keep sending out this newsletter. Well at least for a while.
I'm hitting send on this edition at 10:50 p.m. ET... The drawing is at 11 p.m... And I'm sure someone on this list is going to win. Right?
Around the media desk, we had a fun discussion about which media company (or companies) we would buy if one of us won the $1 billion jackpot. I have a magazine and a website in mind... but I don't want to give away my plan. Alex Koppelman, who edited this edition of the letter, says he will be saving the Village Voice with his winnings.
What would you do? Would you buy a distressed hometown newspaper? A digital startup? A local TV broadcaster? Big brands like Fox News and the NYT are out of reach... But there's a lot you could do... Or you could just start your own news operation...
My wonkery aside, this is one of the reasons why ginormous lottery jackpots gain so much media attention and airtime. Money talks, and this "obscene amount of money" fuels peoples' imaginations and fantasies and fears. Frankly these moments are also a chance to point out how "the lottery snares the poor..."
Ben Jacobs responds to Trump
Rep. Greg Gianforte pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault after body-slamming Guardian US reporter Ben Jacobs in May 2017. He apologized AFTER initially lying about the crime. So President Trump's praise of Gianforte on Thursday night -- praise for being a body-slamming "kind of guy" -- "amounts to the celebration of a crime by someone sworn to uphold our laws and an attack on the First Amendment by someone who has solemnly pledged to defend it," the White House Correspondents Association said on Friday. "We should never shrug at the president cheerleading for a violent act targeting a free and independent news media."
Jacobs, in his only interview about Trump's comments, told Anderson Cooper on Friday night that it's a strange experience to "call up and tell your family that the president is mocking you when you've been a victim of a crime."
Cooper noted that Tump called Gianforte a "tough cookie." Jacobs: "A tough cookie doesn't attack somebody out of nowhere, without provocation, for asking a question about health care policy." | |
Trump's "blank check"
In the interview with Cooper, Jacobs quickly pivoted away from his own experience, saying he's much more concerned with journalists like Jamal Khashoggi and others who have lost their lives. "The signal this sends about how the U.S. -- and how the president of the U.S. -- views journalists, when 44 journalists have been killed this year, is what's really the concern," Jacobs said.
Trump's rhetoric is "a blank check for governments that want to crack down on the free press in places that don't have a First Amendment," he added.
Cooper made a provocative point afterward: "It's entirely possible, I mean, it's not out of the realm of possibility that the president might at one point say, 'Wow, MBS had a really strong reaction to Jamal Khashoggi. You know, it was a really powerful reaction...' There's no telling what this president actually thinks about what happened to Jamal Khashoggi."
That brings us to Friday night's news:
A Saudi Arabian admission in time for the American nightly news
| | I hesitate to use the words "news dump" in connection with the death of a brave journalist and writer. But that's what Saudi Arabia just tried to do: A Friday night news dump confirming Jamal Khashoggi's death. The Saudis admitted what the Turks alleged two weeks ago: That Khashoggi never made it out of the consulate alive on October 2.
What time did the Saudis make this important announcement? Saturday at 1 a.m. local time in Riyadh, Friday at 6 p.m. in Washington. CNN immediately went into breaking news mode. (Fox and MSNBC caught up a little while later.) The network nightly newscasts scrambled to rewrite their 6:30 p.m. intros. On CBS, Jeff Glor alluded to the "Friday night news dump" notion. Jeff Pegues called the admission a "stunning reversal for Saudi Arabia, which for days has been saying that Jamal Khashoggi left the consulate in Istanbul alive..."
--> CNN's John Berman tweeted: "The timing of the Saudi announcement is fascinating... and might tell us a lot about the intended audience. It's an AMERICAN Friday night news dump."
Details about the Saudi announcement CNN's Sarah Sirgany, Clarissa Ward and Salma Abdelaziz have all the details here. "According to the Saudis' explanation, discussions between Khashoggi and those who met him on his arrival at the consulate led to an argument and physical altercation... Those responsible then tried to cover up the death, state TV said." Multiple Saudi officials have been dismissed...
Where's the body? CNN's story notes that "none of the Saudi statements give any clue as to what happened to Khashoggi's remains." This question kept coming up on cable news all evening...
The W.H. doesn't seem skeptical at all In a milquetoast statement, Sarah Sanders said the US "acknowledges the announcement from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia" and will "closely follow the international investigations into this tragic incident."
Later in the evening, Trump called the Saudi announcement a "good first step" and said "I do" believe the Saudi explanation. But he also said "it's early" and "we haven't finished our review..."
Here's what Khashoggi's editor at the Post is saying
Karen Attiah says she's "freshly angry all over again." She tweeted out on Friday night, "Utter bullshit." Then she elaborated: "The stupidity of the Saudi explanation is mind boggling… Journalists and whistleblowers: Time to step up and find out the real truth of what happened..."
More reactions -- Jim Sciutto tweeted: "Having met Kashoggi, the idea of the 59-year-old bespectacled intellectual engaging in a physical fight with several intelligence agents is beyond the imagination..."
-- Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Robert Jordan on Chris Cuomo's show: "You'd have to believe in the Easter Bunny, to believe this story that they are concocting..."
-- Erica Orden tweeted an hour after the Saudi statement came out: "I am on a plane sitting on the tarmac. The couple behind me is reading each other the Khashoggi news out loud. Earlier I overheard an airport bartender talking about it. People are paying attention..."
The Post's latest editorial "Let's be clear," the WaPo editorial board says: Saudi's Arabia's so-called investigation "does not exist."
The Post's editorial came out a few hours before the Saudi admission. It said "the attempt by the Saudi leader and his U.S. accomplices to cover up and excuse an act of pure evil cannot be allowed to succeed..."
Pro-Trump media reactions to the case Tom Kludt emails: If you've followed the right over the last week, you might have noticed a steady refrain when it comes to the Khashoggi case: What happened to him was bad, the line goes, BUT. What follows the "but" varies -- Khashoggi had ties to radicals, his death is only generating an outcry because he was a journalist, the US can't compromise its relationship with Saudi Arabia -- but it all has the effect of downplaying the man's death.
The Daily Beast rounded up some choice examples from Fox News this week, but there have been plenty more. As WaPo's Steven Ginsberg put it on Twitter: "We're at the smear campaign stage of things."
Weekend reading -- Nicole Gaouette's latest: "Saudis admit Khashoggi is dead. What are Trump's options?"
-- On CNN Friday morning, Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro floated an outrageous conspiracy theory about Jared Kushner and the Saudi crown prince, leading anchor Poppy Harlow to push back. Later in the day, he sort of walked it back...
-- Louisa Loveluck and Ghalia al-Alwani's latest for the Post describes something I've been seeing in my Twitter mentions: "Saudi electronic army floods Twitter with insults and mistruths after Khashoggi's disappearance..."
-- Susan Glasser says the Khashoggi case is "the Trump Presidency distilled to its morally compromising, press-bashing, truth-denying essence..."
-- Robin Wright notes that in his death, Khashoggi "has galvanized global attention far more than he was able to do during his life. The horrific details of his murder and dismemberment have had an effect he would never have imagined..."
On this Sunday's "Reliable Sources"
I'll be joined by Carl Bernstein, Dara Lind, Max Boot, Charlotte Alter, Philip Bump, and Tim Dixon... And maybe a surprise or two... See you Sunday at 11 a.m. ET on CNN...
FOR THE RECORD, PART ONE
-- "AT&T's pruning of WarnerMedia continues," Todd Spangler says: "Turner announced that it is killing off Super Deluxe, its digital studio division..." (Variety)
-- Friday was Caroll Spinney's last day performing as Big Bird on the set of "Sesame Street..." (NBC)
-- Bloomberg scoop machine Lucas Shaw is relocating to Hong Kong "for a few months," covering media, entertainment and tech across the Asia-Pacific..." (Twitter)
-- Oliver Darcy emails: Fringe far-right writer Jerome Corsi was interviewed by investigators about his interactions with Roger Stone and WikiLeaks in September, a source told WSJ... (WSJ)
Apple wants a retraction from Bloomberg
This is big: Tim Cook is calling on Bloomberg Businessweek to retract its story about Apple being a victim of alleged Chinese spy attack. The story in question is this would-be blockbuster, "The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies."
Apple denied Bloomberg's mostly-anonymously-sourced findings before the story ran on October 4, and continues to deny it now. Cook's comments -- in an interview with BuzzFeed News -- further ratchet up the pressure on Bloomberg.
"There is no truth in their story about Apple," Cook said. "They need to do that right thing and retract it." There's no indication that Bloomberg is going to do that... Read BF's story here...
Charlie Collier to FOX
Friday night's big surprise in the TV biz: Charlie Collier, the president and GM of AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios, is jumping to the new FOX. He will be CEO of entertainment, running the FOX network, starting November 1.
"Lachlan Murdoch looked outside for a leader of the soon-to-be independent Fox broadcasting network that will emerge after Disney's acquisition of key Fox assets," Deadline's Nellie Andreeva wrote. Gary Newman had been in negotiations to stay on -- and was widely thought to be the man to beat -- but now Newman "will be leaving after helping with the transition." AMC did not immediately name a replacement for Collier...
Nick Clegg to Facebook
Last week FOX reached into the political world for PR help, hiring Hope Hicks... Now Facebook is doing something similar... But hiring someone much more senior. Former UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is FB's new VP of global affairs and communications. "After almost twenty years in European and British politics, this is an exciting new adventure for me," Clegg wrote in a FB post about the move.
Departing PR boss Elliot Schrage "will stay on at the firm as an advisor," CNN's story says...
Clegg should read this
The NYT editorial board is right: "Hey, Facebook, Don't Make Journalists Do Your Work."
This editorial is in Saturday's paper. It's about how reporters and academics and amateur sleuths keep uncovering social media scams and smears and botnets, "acting as unpaid content moderators for these platforms..."
FOR THE RECORD, PART TWO
By Julia Waldow:
-- FB wants you to know it's trying hard: This blog post is part of a new series, "The Hunt for Fake News," about how it detects false news... And comes one day after this skeptical WSJ story... (Facebook)
-- Issie Lapowsky profiles Brain Amerige and "Facebook's stormy debate over 'political diversity" -- Amerige is a former Facebook employee who left the company last week "over disagreements about the company's platform-wide hate speech policy..." (WIRED)
-- Dozens of McClatchy papers are hiking subscription rates for certain longtime subscribers, especially those in higher-income areas, Rick Edmonds reports... One of his sources called this practice "reverse redlining..." (Poynter)
Russian trolls and American media | | Donie O'Sullivan emails: A complaint filed on Friday against a Russian national for her alleged involvement with the famous St. Petersburg troll group gave us some insight into how they understand the U.S. media landscape. According to the DOJ, one member of the troll group advised in October 2017, "if you write posts in a liberal group… you must not use Breitbart titles. On the contrary, if you write posts in a conservative group, do not use Washington Post of BuzzFeed titles."
It should be noted that the same person is allegedly racist, writing according to the complaint, "Colored LGBT are sophisticated than white; therefore, complicated phrases and messages do not work." The complaint included examples of briefing notes that were distributed as talking points among the troll group on a dozen or so news stories. "Accuse CNN of yet another lie," one note read. Read the full complaint here... the notes on news outlets begin on page 14...
Now, from a Russian troll to an American troll... 😉
Clinton excites Drudge like no other
Oliver Darcy emails: Nothing gets Matt Drudge more excited than Hillary Clinton. On Friday afternoon, the conservative Internet news tycoon bannered his page with a "HILLARY 2020" logo and asked, "ONE LAST RUN?!" Over on Twitter, Drudge tweeted a screen grab of his website and captioned it with the praying hands emoji. The Politico report he linked to quoted a former Clinton aide saying the odds she runs again are "not zero." Of course, Clinton herself has said she won't in fact be running...
Alex Jones circumventing Twitter ban?
One more from Darcy: Alex Jones has been banned from Twitter, but as The Daily Beast's Will Sommer points out, some accounts connected to him -- which have been posting InfoWars content -- are still live on the site. Sommer notes that "all three Twitter accounts are listed on the InfoWars site as official InfoWars social media, meaning they wouldn't be hard for Twitter to find." But despite that, the accounts remained up. According to Sommer, Twitter did not respond to his requests for comment... | |
FOR THE RECORD, PART THREE
By Daniella Emanuel:
-- Rick Hutzell, the editor of the Capital Gazette, has been named the National Press Foundation's Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year. "Hutzell received the award for leading his newsroom through and beyond a mass shooting in the Capital Gazette offices..." (The Baltimore Sun)
-- The suspect in the murder of Bulgarian television journalist Viktoria Marinova told prosecutors on Friday that "he did not mean to kill her..." (The Independent)
| | "Candidates from both parties have learned what Mr. Trump and his digital campaign gurus figured out in 2016: Visceral anger travels further online than inspirational messages, and the way to get noticed on the internet is to be loud and provocative above all."
--Kevin Roose's latest NYT column on midterm candidates trying their best Trump impressions... | | Meet Tim Dixon
Daniella Emanuel writes: Cable news depicts a divided country, with talking heads fighting from the left and right on deeply polarizing political issues. But according to a new study, the US is not as split as the media portrays. More in Common, an initiative dedicated to understanding political polarization, recently released the results of their project called "The Hidden Tribes of America."
Key finding: Yes, co-author Tim Dixon says, there's "profound polarization between what we call the wings, the more extreme voices, the very strident voices of the right and left." But most Americans are in the "exhausted majority." And they feel "left out of the conversation."
Dixon is the guest on this week's "Reliable Sources" podcast. Listen to the pod via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or TuneIn...
The Cut's new podcast
The Cut celebrated the launch of its new podcast "The Cut on Tuesdays" on Friday night... Spotted downtown: Podcast host Molly Fischer, Stella Bugbee, Ben Sinclair, Alex Blumberg , Matt Lieber, Britney Luse, Jessica Pressler, Alex Steigrad, Chantal Fernandez, Oliver Darcy, Naomi Fry, Max Tani, Jazmine Hughes, Kevin Nguyen, Max Read, Maureen O'Connor and more...
Part two of "Making a Murderer"
Brian Lowry emails: "Making a Murderer" is back, and it remains fascinating, centering now on attorney Kathleen Zellner's efforts to get Steven Avery's conviction overturned. But a subscript to that is a media story about how the original documentary becoming a sensation influenced the entire process. As filmmaker Moira Demos told Indiewire's Michael Schneider in an interview with partner Laura Ricciardi, "we knew the story we were going to be documenting, the world, had changed since we had delivered Part 1. We knew there would be times where we were sitting down with a subject who would directly refer to 'Making A Murderer.'"
Stelter adds: Jamie and I just started watching the new season on Friday evening, and it's really striking how self-referential the first episode is -- how it HAS to be -- given the huge impact the first season had. We're hooked...
| | "Halloween" is here Why horror films make a killing at the box office
Frank Pallotta emails: Michael Myers returned to theaters Thursday night with a $7.7 million opening night for "Halloween." The Universal film is set for a scary good $60 million opening and it's easy to figure out why… Terrifying people is good business for Hollywood. "Horror really is the easiest sell," Amy Nicholson, film critic and host of The Ringer's "Halloween Unmasked," told me.
In an age of on-demand streaming from the comfort of a living room, horror films also bring people back to the theater... Read on...
Here's a scary thought
Jason Blum's comment to Frank earlier this year: Horror is having a moment right now "because the world is a particularly scary place. It's nice to go somewhere to see something that's scary, that's not real. I think it's as simple as that."
For Friday's story, Nicholson made this point: "Michael Myers is, in a way, one of the original angry young men, who is just mad for reasons we can't comprehend. That's a story we've been talking about a lot lately in the news, why are some people just angry and how do we reach them? Michael Myers is a man you can't reach, and that's terrifying."
Two more Lowry reviews
Brian Lowry emails with two more viewing recommendations this weekend: "My Dinner With Herve" is a flawed, deeply personal look at "Fantasy Island" star Herve Villechaize, directed by former journalist Sacha Gervasi, based on his experience with the actor in the 1990s. It's distinguished by "Game of Thrones" star Peter Dinklage's performance in the central role. It will premiere on HBO on Saturday night.
Also, "Wanderlust," a Netflix series – produced with the BBC – that stars Toni Collette and Steven Mackintosh as a middle-aged couple that seeks to escape the monotony of monogamy by sleeping with other people. It's one of those shows that seems to have a NYT Sunday Styles feature baked into it... | | A Super Bowl question
Brian Lowry emails: With reports that Rihanna has passed on the Super Bowl halftime show, citing solidarity with the players and Colin Kaepernick, have we reached the point where that made-for-TV showcase has become more of a potential headache for stars than it's worth?
That's a wrap on today's newsletter... See you Sunday on TV... Email me feedback anytime!
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| News Alert: Trump says Saudi arrests in Khashoggi killing are ‘great first step,’ doesn’t want any sanctions to include arms deals Posted: 19 Oct 2018 06:14 PM PDT President Trump said he wants to talk to the Saudi crown prince before next steps are taken. He says it's important that Saudi Arabia made the arrests. Trump says that he'll work with Congress on what the U.S. response should be, but that he'd prefer not to hurt American companies and jobs by cutting billions of dollars in arms sales to the kingdom.  |
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| Khashoggi is dead Posted: 19 Oct 2018 04:22 PM PDT TicToc Tonight | The day's most important stories and the social conversation around them.  Saudi King ousts top officials as Khashoggi death confirmed Saudi Arabia's King Salman has removed a key royal adviser and a senior intelligence official as the public prosecutor said an initial probe shows that journalist and government critic Jamal Khashoggi died in the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul. King Salman issued an order to remove Saud al-Qahtani, an adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, according to the state-run Ikhbariya television. The monarch also relieved deputy intelligence chief Gen. Ahmed al-Assiri. The public prosecutor said Khashoggi died after a fist fight in the consulate. He said 18 people have been detained in connection to the probe.  Watch more. Here's how the story unfolded on Twitter:       U.S. Charges Russian for 2016, 2018 election conspiracy A Russian national was charged by the U.S. Friday for allegedly being one of the masterminds behind a conspiracy to interfere in both the 2016 and 2018 elections. Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova of St. Petersburg, Russia, allegedly served as the chief accountant for an operation known as "Project Lakhta," the Justice Department said. The operation included the creation of thousands of social media and email accounts that appeared to be run by Americans to wage "information warfare against the United States." The charges represent the first meddling claims related to November's midterm elections.  For more tweets on this story, check out our thread. Mega Millions jackpot hits record high The Mega Millions lottery reached a staggering $1 billion on Friday, the day of the drawing for what is now the second-largest lottery in U.S. history, eclipsed only by 2016's $1.59 billion Powerball prize. Millions across the country lined up to purchase tickets amid declining odds to strike it rich in what is now the largest-ever Mega Millions jackpot. The drawing will take place on Friday at 11 p.m. ET from Atlanta, Georgia. There's also a $470 million Powerball drawing Saturday. So what are your odds of winning? One in 302,575,350.  Watch more. Migrant caravan breaks through Guatemala to reach Mexico A caravan of thousands of Honduran migrants continued its journey northward Friday despite calls from the U.S. to turn around. President Trump threatened to mobilize the military to close the southern border with Mexico to stop an "assault" on the nation by the caravan. Upon reaching the Guatemala-Mexico border, nearly 3,000 migrants in sweltering heat broke through a steel fence, prompting a chaotic response from Mexican police officers in riot gear to set off smoke canisters. The group is set to reach the southern Mexico border in the coming days.  Watch more. Facebook hires former U.K. Deputy PM Former U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is joining Facebook, he announced Friday, as the Vice President of Global Affairs and Communication. In a Facebook post, Clegg said he has "relished grappling with difficult and controversial issues" throughout his public life and "hopes to use some of those skills in my new role." Clegg is the former head of the Liberal Democrats and was deputy to David Cameron during the Conservative-led coalition between 2010 and 2015. He was knighted in 2018 after losing his parliamentary seat the previous year. He will move to San Francisco in 2019 and report to COO Sheryl Sandberg.  Watch more. Wanda Ferragamo dies at 96 Wanda Ferragamo, who turned her husband's Italian shoe company into a luxury-goods empire, died Friday at age 96. Upon her husband, Salvatore Ferragamo's death in 1960, she took over the company and was responsible for expanding the brand into clothing, perfume, handbags, leather goods, watches and eyewear. In her role, she produced custom-made shoes for actresses such as Audrey Hepburn, Greta Garbo and Marilyn Monroe. "I didn't think about myself at all — whether I was capable or not. I just went at it with such energy, such goodwill."  For more top stories, add this podcast to your evening commute. Subscribe to the TicToc podcast and listen every weekday at 5 p.m. ET for expert opinions on the day's most important stories. | |  If you believe this has been sent to you in error, please safely unsubscribe.  |
| News Alert: Saudi Arabia fires 5 top officials and has arrested 18 Saudis after saying Khashoggi was killed in a fight at consulate in Istanbul Posted: 19 Oct 2018 03:54 PM PDT Those fired included Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's adviser Saud al-Qahtani and deputy intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Ahmed al-Assiri. An initial investigation showed that Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi died in a fist fight, a Saudi statement said.  |
| BREAKING NEWS: Saudis confirm Khashoggi's death, claim he died in 'fist fight' Posted: 19 Oct 2018 03:51 PM PDT Saudi Arabia on Saturday confirmed for the first time that journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in the kingdom's consulate in Turkey, claiming his death occurred following a "fist fight" gone bad. Saudi Arabia's King Salman has ordered a committee of top government agencies to further investigate what happened to Khashoggi and to issue a full report on the subject within a month. The move buys the Saudis time as a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers continues to exert pressure on the Trump administration to sanction Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi's death. The kingdom's official foreign affairs ministry Twitter account published a series of tweets that said Khashoggi's death was preceded by a fist fight between him and others inside the Saudi consulate in Turkey, where he was last seen on Oct. 2. The ministry also said an investigation continues into 18 Saudi nationals who may be connected to the fight. Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/19/khashoggi-death-saudi-arabia-journalist-investigation-918622 To change your alert settings, please go to https://secure.politico.com/settings
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| News Alert: Saudi government acknowledges journalist Jamal Khashaoggi died while in that country's consulate in Istanbul Posted: 19 Oct 2018 03:29 PM PDT Khashoggi, a contributing columnist for The Washington Post, had disappeared after he entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 to obtain documents he needed for his upcoming marriage.  |
| BREAKING NEWS: HUD official resigns following reports of reassignment to Interior Posted: 19 Oct 2018 03:15 PM PDT A top official at the Department of Housing and Urban Development who had been announced as a candidate for the Interior Department's top watchdog position has resigned from the Trump administration, HUD said Friday. HUD Assistant Secretary Suzanne Tufts "has offered her resignation and it has been accepted," HUD spokesman Raffi Williams wrote in an email. The announcement closed a week of finger pointing by the White House, Interior and HUD on the choice of Tufts, a GOP operative with no experiencing investigating allegations of unethical behavior. The Interior Department's office of inspector general has opened several investigations into Zinke's actions, and a report obtained by POLITICO on Thursday faulted him for seeking to skirt or alter department policies to justify his taxpayer-funded trips with his wife. Earlier Friday, the White House denied that it had suggested Tufts as a candidate to lead the Interior watchdog. Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/19/hud-official-resigns-following-reports-of-reassignment-to-interior-918532 To change your alert settings, please go to https://secure.politico.com/settings
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| The GOP hides its true health-care position Posted: 19 Oct 2018 01:38 PM PDT Bloomberg Opinion Today Today's Agenda  The GOP's Health-Care Fantasy World Republicans have a problem this November: Health care is the biggest issue in the midterm elections, but their stance on it is wildly unpopular. So they're trying a bold political tactic: Making stuff up. Large majorities of voters want to keep the Affordable Care Act's protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions. President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have both recently claimed that all Republicans feel exactly the same way – even as they fight in court to vaporize those protections and vow to take yet another stab at killing the ACA entirely. For some perspective on why Republicans would rather you forget about that, here's a chart from Max Nisen:  There are 36 anti-ACA Republicans running in unfriendly congressional districts in November – more than enough to flip the House to the Democrats. The GOP could overcome this with an ACA alternative that did everything they claim they want to do: lowering regulations and costs while protecting patients. But this is a fantasy, thanks to another, even more difficult math problem, Max writes: All of this stuff involves trade-offs Republicans don't want to make. And it's not just health care. As Ramesh Ponnuru notes, Congressional Republicans really can't say what they'd do about much of anything, save "Cut taxes more" or "Try to kill Obamacare again." This reflects a Trump-era party that has no idea what it stands for any more, aside from nurturing cultural grievances. But at least in this one aspect the GOP message is honest, Ramesh writes: "If they win and do nothing, nobody will be able to call them on broken promises." We'll see in 17 days if it works. The Khashoggi Crisis' Energy Impact It was a relatively quiet day in the controversy over the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's position seems to be weakening, and the Trump administration seems to be bending to pressure to hold the Saudis accountable for Khashoggi's probable death. One complicating factor, though, is that Saudi Arabia still holds significant sway in the oil market, notes Meghan O'Sullilvan. Sure, the U.S. produces more oil than it once did; but it has also clamped down on Iranian oil exports, tightening supplies and raising prices. It can't afford to lose Saudi production on top of that, Meghan writes. Bonus energy independence reading: Trump wants to send Powder River coal to Asia. There are many reasons that won't work. – David Fickling Brexit's Threat to the Derivatives Market A decade ago, credit derivatives nearly blew up the financial system. Now the derivatives system faces its own threat, in the form of Brexit, warns Lionel Laurent. European banks are abandoning London ahead of Brexit, setting up a turf war over which jurisdiction will regulate some of the $400 trillion in annual trades. Just for giggles, the U.S. is getting into the squabble too. "Cooler regulatory heads could yet prevail," Lionel writes (news Theresa May might drop demands about the Irish border to strike a Brexit deal is heartening in that regard). But don't count out chaos just yet. Cali vs. Kansas California, with its high regulations and taxes, is an economic success story, as Matthew Winkler wrote yesterday. Kansas, with low taxes and lax regulations, is a disaster. You'll never guess which state Donald Trump wants to model the rest of the U.S. after. OK, you'll guess: It's Kansas. In fact, he's already started turning the U.S. into Kansas, writes Barry Ritholtz, and the economy is already starting to suffer. What Is 'Manipulation' Anyway? For all of Trump's complaints about China's unfair trade practices, which include kinda-sorta accusing the country of manipulating its currency to keep it weak against the dollar, China is strikingly … not manipulating its currency, according to a new Treasury Department report. Here's a chart from David Fickling:  David notes many of the countries at the top of that ranking are U.S. allies against Beijing, so they get little more than a finger-wag from the Treasury Department for their currency games. Trump could conceivably fiddle with the ranking criteria to get better results from the next report, David writes, but that would be … manipulation. Bonus China reading: Chinese officials are talking up China's stocks, which is "a flashing red sell signal." – Shuli Ren Picturing the Permian Shale Boom This hotel-room search, from Justin Fox's must-read account of his visit to the booming Permian shale basin, pretty much says it all:  Making Sense of Earnings Season Corporate earnings season is in full swing, giving Bloomberg Opinion writers a chance to show off how good they are with numbers and words and charts and stuff: Charty McChartface America's oil and gas pipelines are kind of shockingly old. No wonder the hot new energy investment is taking care of this plumbing, writes Liam Denning.  Some people are reassured by this chart of the spread between Italian and German bond yields. John Authers isn't.  Quick Hits The U.S. military is bad at keeping and nurturing talent in its officer ranks. – Editorial board Putin's worldview is becoming even more terrifyingly fatalistic. – Leonid Bershidsky Critics warned the Fed's post-crisis policy would spur wild risk-taking and dangerous bubbles. It didn't. – Noah Smith Facebook is smart to address political weaknesses by hiring Nick Clegg. But he may not change the culture. – Alex Webb Not too many investors have followed Yale's endowment into socially responsible investing. Maybe because nobody knows what that even means. – Nir Kaissar Why Netanyahu declined a military escalation in Gaza. – Zev Chafets The NBA is significantly jacking up its minor-league salaries. It's about time. - Joe Nocera ICYMI The Justice Department charged a Russian woman with conspiring to interfere in U.S. elections. Home sales are suffering from higher mortgage rates. A Tesla Inc. short-seller warned of "massive" supply-chain disruption. Kickers Baseball's playoffs amplify the worst of the sport, however entertaining they may be. If you thought the Weather Channel's storm-surge simulation was scary, get a load of its wildfire sim. (h/t Scott Duke Kominers) The most massive organism on Earth is shrinking. Does climate change mean you shouldn't have kids? Your real biological clock is you're going to die. A bicycle crash made a bilingual UK woman forget how to speak English. Cuttlefish wear their thoughts on their skin. Every John Carpenter movie, ranked. Photos of the week. Note: Please send simulations, suggestions and kicker ideas to Mark Gongloff at mgongloff1@bloomberg.net. *** New subscribers can sign up here. | |  If you believe this has been sent to you in error, please safely unsubscribe.  |
| Slow-motion apocalypse Posted: 19 Oct 2018 12:41 PM PDT Evening Briefing Brick-and-mortar stores die. Malls become ghost towns. Icons like Sears are laid low. "Retail apocalypse" is glib shorthand for a radical shift in consumer behavior, but reality tends to be more complex. Checkout, Bloomberg's new, one-stop shop on the future of consumerism, provides a global, nuanced and real-time window on the ultimate business force. It begins with Amazon's battle for India's 1.3 billion consumers, China's role as a retail laboratory, Prada's attempt at a comeback and how one chain in America's heartland is keeping e-commerce at bay. —David E. Rovella Here are today's top storiesA St. Petersburg woman by the name of Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova was charged with conspiracy as part of Russia's interference with the 2016 U.S. elections, and attempts to interfere with next month's midterms. The Pentagon is reviewing a Navy proposal to buy the third and fourth ships in the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier program. They're supposed to be less than $12 billion each, but cost overruns have Congress worried. President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff John Kelly and National Security Adviser John Bolton got into a shouting match outside the Oval Office about the administration's immigration policy. China's leaders find themselves under pressure on multiple fronts, from stock-market turbulence to a sharper-than-expected economic slowdown to Trump's trade war. U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May is ready to cave on EU Brexit demands tied to the Irish border, a move that could put her job at risk. Sales of previously owned U.S. homes slowed to the weakest pace in almost three years, a sign of rising prices and mortgage costs. What's Luke Kawa thinking about? The Bloomberg cross asset reporter is seeing daylight between a gung-ho Fed and investors who are bearish on global growth, and thus may not believe interest rates will go up as quickly as some predict. What you'll need to know tomorrow What you'll want to read tonightSure, you could head straight for the bars, but wouldn't those beers taste better after a hike through some ice tunnels? Night-skiing in St. Moritz. Sledding in Chamonix. Heli-skiing in Iceland. Bloomberg Businessweek has the ultimate luxury venues for snow-bound fun.  Have you started strategizing for 2019? We have. Don't miss the annual Bloomberg Businessweek special report, The Year Ahead, on the major trends, disruptions, breakthrough products, innovations and movements to watch in the coming year. Get Bloomberg All Access in time to receive this issue in print and much more. There's a new way to get the latest business news and analysis from Bloomberg. We're now on WhatsApp. Sign up here to get on-the-ground updates from reporters, breaking markets news, and more. Download the Bloomberg app: It's available for iOS and Android. | |   |
| The Continued Fragmentation of the Jordanian Brotherhood Posted: 19 Oct 2018 12:39 PM PDT | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | | | | Tareq Alnaimat | October 19, 2018 Torn apart by worsening internal conflicts, the Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood is struggling to avoid domestic isolation. | | | | | | |   |
| The Continued Fragmentation of the Jordanian Brotherhood / Lebanon’s Perfect Financial Storm / Policing and Protection for Syrian Refugees in Jordan Posted: 19 Oct 2018 12:37 PM PDT | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | | | | Tareq Alnaimat | October 19, 2018 Torn apart by worsening internal conflicts, the Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood is struggling to avoid domestic isolation. | | | Mona Alami | October 18, 2018 As Lebanon's debt grows and its traditional pillars of the economy stagnate, a drop in remittances from the Gulf may push the country over the edge into bankruptcy. | | | Jessica Watkins | October 16, 2018 In Jordan, internationally backed efforts to extend successful community policing programs beyond refugee camps face multiple challenges. | | | | | | |   |
| BREAKING NEWS: First criminal case filed over Russian interference in 2018 midterms Posted: 19 Oct 2018 11:54 AM PDT The Justice Department has brought its first criminal case over alleged Russian interference in the 2018 midterm elections. Elena Khusyaynova, 44, a St. Petersburg, Russia-based accountant, was charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy to defraud the United States for taking part in a scheme to spend in excess of $10 million since the beginning of the year on targeted social media ads and web postings intended "to sow division and discord in the U.S. political system." Khusyaynova, who is not in U.S. custody, allegedly works for a Russia-based firm that special counsel Robert Mueller's office indicted in February for alleged interference in the 2016 election. The unsealing of the new charge Friday appears to be a signal that U.S. law enforcement is not letting up in its efforts to investigate, deter and publicize alleged Russian interference in U.S. politics. However, the new case is being handled not by the special counsel but by federal prosecutors in Alexandria, Va. — an apparent signal to President Donald Trump that Mueller's investigation won't become an open-ended probe continuing through the 2018 election or beyond. Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/19/first-criminal-case-filed-over-russian-interference-in-2018-midterms-916787 To change your alert settings, please go to https://secure.politico.com/settings
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| Why Does Hezbollah Want the Health Ministry? (Ghaddar | PolicyWatch 3027) Posted: 19 Oct 2018 10:50 AM PDT WHY DOES HEZBOLLAH WANT LEBANON'S HEALTH MINISTRY? by Hanin Ghaddar PolicyWatch 3027
October 19, 2018 Iran's economic problems have reportedly decreased the flow of financial patronage to the group, forcing it to seek another slush fund at home. READ THIS ITEM ON OUR WEBSITE
Since the May parliamentary elections, Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri has been negotiating between Lebanon’s rival parties to form a new government, seemingly believing that he can establish a power-sharing cabinet similar to the past two national-unity governments. Yet Hezbollah and its allies participated in those previous governments as the minority—now that their coalition controls the majority, they appear less interested in sharing power. Rather than hoarding cabinet seats for itself, Hezbollah is taking a calculated approach to the situation, allowing its opponents to form a government headed by Hariri while giving its allies control over most of Lebanon’s sovereign ministries. This may help Beirut avoid some of the international pressure that could ensue if significant portfolios are directly controlled by a terrorist group; it could also help Hezbollah sidestep domestic blame if these ministries are mismanaged. Even as it yields sovereign portfolios to other parties, Hezbollah seems intent on directly controlling a key service portfolio itself: the Ministry of Public Health. A FINANCIAL ALTERNATIVE After the Defense, Education, and Interior Ministries, the Health Ministry commands Lebanon’s fourth-largest budget at $338 million per year. And while most of the money in the top three ministries is allotted to salaries, the majority of Health Ministry funds are given directly to the public. Hezbollah reportedly wants access to this cash flow because it is worried about losing some of its funding from Iran. To be sure, foreign Shia militias remain a top budgetary priority for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Yet Hezbollah seems unsure if the estimated $700 million it receives annually from Tehran can feasibly be maintained in light of tougher U.S. sanctions, more of which are scheduled to be implemented on November 4. Likewise, if the growing tension between Iran and Israel erupts into a regional war, Hezbollah may fear that Tehran will be unable to fund the reconstruction of destroyed Lebanese towns as it did in the aftermath of the 2006 conflagration. Another concern stems from the fact that Iran has made regional military operations its number one priority. As a result, a greater proportion of its funding to Shia militias has been diverted to military activities, so financial support for Hezbollah’s social services networks has been curtailed, leading to significant cuts in services. Today, Hezbollah soldiers and their families are the primary beneficiaries of such services, leaving out many noncombatant members and outside supporters who once received this largesse but now face the prospect of salary cuts and downsizing. Coupled with the draining war in Syria, these trends have stoked discontent among Lebanon’s Shia community. Some reports even suggest that Hezbollah has struggled to compensate families of fighters killed or injured in the war. For example, the Martyrs Foundation was established in part to provide financial assistance, health, and social support to the relatives of those killed in combat, while the Foundation for the Wounded was formed to help civilians injured during hostilities with Israel or other operations. Today, however, Hezbollah’s health services—which include five hospitals and hundreds of medical centers, infirmaries, dental offices, and mental health providers—can barely meet the needs of wounded soldiers and their families, according to many local reports. Based on the average ratio of killed to wounded in modern combat, the group may have upwards of 9,000 such casualties to take care of. This is the main reason why Hezbollah is so committed to taking control of the Health Ministry. Doing so would ease its financial burden, enabling the militia to run its own “veterans affairs” health system even if Iranian support is curtailed due to sanctions. INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE To be sure, the composition of the next government could have implications for foreign aid even if Hezbollah limits itself to managing the Health Ministry, since the group has been wholly or partly designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, some European countries, and various Gulf states. Thus far, Hariri has not publicly objected to Hezbollah taking the Health Ministry, though he noted last week that the World Bank or other international organizations might stop providing aid to the institution. The EU alone has been giving approximately 88 million euros per year to Lebanon’s public health sector under various instruments to help cope with spillover from the Syria war. If Hezbollah controls the ministry, it might be able to access some of these funds at the expense of Syrian refugees. For its part, the U.S. embassy in Beirut has reportedly threatened to cut any American or international assistance for ministries allocated to Hezbollah. Although Washington does not provide direct aid to the Health Ministry, it is a major player in the World Bank and other organizations that do just that. Hezbollah officials quickly reacted to these threats, stating that Hariri, Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, and President Michel Aoun had already agreed to give the ministry to the party, and that this agreement should not be breached under American pressure. Muhammad Fneish, a senior Hezbollah member who serves as youth and sports minister in the caretaker government, made similar arguments during a recent interview with the group’s al-Manar television network. Unwilling to oppose Hezbollah, Hariri seems to have conceded the ministry and is now focused on allocating other portfolios among rival parties. A BOTTOM-UP APPROACH? Of course, even if Hezbollah ultimately abstains from de jure control over major sovereign and service ministries, its coalition partners—the Free Patriotic Movement and Amal—will most likely take the defense, finance, foreign affairs, and energy portfolios. This would make Hezbollah the de facto decisionmaker in all of these ministries. Moreover, the group can access major state funds even without taking cabinet seats. Hezbollah officials have reportedly informed Amal that they will take charge of assigning half of the government jobs constitutionally allocated to the Shia community. Traditionally, Amal has used this privilege to maintain its own support base. Yet with fewer patronage dollars to distribute, Hezbollah can no longer afford to leave that significant windfall to Amal. In the end, this approach could yield three important benefits for Hezbollah: (1) alleviating its financial woes, (2) enabling it to provide jobs and salaries to its support base and fighters, and (3) creating a situation where the state’s security and military institutions protect the group and its base from international sanctions or even a military confrontation. POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS Hariri is right—allowing Hezbollah to control the Health Ministry and other state services will have international repercussions, including potentially unprecedented sanctions on state institutions beyond the banking sector. So far, Washington has refrained from sanctioning Hezbollah-controlled hospitals, but that does not mean it would hesitate to do so if the group takes over the ministry itself. Financial aid from international organizations may likewise see cuts. Just last week, Congress amended the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act (HIFPA) to include more restrictions on institutions and individuals that assist the group, and future amendments could target Hezbollah-controlled state institutions. U.S. military assistance to the Lebanese Armed Forces is not sacred either. Although U.S. Central Command continues to express support for the LAF, Congress is not blind to the national military’s ever-tightening relationship with Hezbollah. As mentioned previously, Hariri may not be strong enough politically to prevent Hezbollah from taking the Health Ministry. Yet Washington and the international bodies that assist Lebanon’s institutions should continue warning President Aoun, other policymakers, and lawmakers in Beirut that the health sector will face consequences for providing Hezbollah with yet another slush fund. Given its impending economic crisis and new U.S. legislation targeting Hezbollah’s domestic finances, the last thing Lebanon needs right now is to risk its health sector. Hanin Ghaddar, a veteran Lebanese journalist and researcher, is the Friedmann Visiting Fellow at The Washington Institute.
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| NEWS ALERT: Mainstream media joins the Honduran 'caravan' Posted: 19 Oct 2018 09:35 AM PDT  NEWS ALERT: Mainstream media joins the Honduran 'caravan' The caravan itself has become a complex political symbol that some observers say is yet another ploy by rival Democrats and a hostile news media ... | |  The Washington Times | NEWS ALERT | | | | | Friday, October 19, 2018 12:16 PM EDT | | | | | NEWS ALERT The caravan itself has become a complex political symbol that some observers say is yet another ploy by rival Democrats and a hostile news media to portray the president in a negative light as the midterm elections approach. Read More > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If you don't want to receive these emails unsubscribe | | 3600 New York Avenue NE Washington, DC 20002 | |  |
| Punk The Vote: Elle is sorry for saying Kim and Kanye split to trick followers into clicking a voter registration page Posted: 19 Oct 2018 09:20 AM PDT Plus: Rihanna reportedly turned down the Super Bowl halftime show over Kaepernick, and Nikki Haley headlines the Al Smith Dinner | | | | | President Trump waves to journalists Thursday as he walks across the South Lawn. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images | | | Nikki Haley Headlines Al Smith Dinner: Haley spoke out against calling political opponents "evil" and had some jokes
Punk The Vote: Elle is sorry for saying Kim and Kanye split to trick followers into clicking a voter registration page
Rihanna Reportedly Turned Down Super Bowl Halftime Show: The singer declined the offer because she supports Kaepernick, per Us Weekly | | | What America is Talking About: - It's 18 days until the midterm elections.
- There are debates tonight between candidates in Massachusetts' and Nevada's Senate races and in Wisconsin's gubernatorial race.
- President Trump holds rallies tonight in Mesa, Arizona, for Senate candidate US Rep. Martha McSally and Saturday in Elko, Nevada, for Senate candidate Dean Heller.
- At his rally last night in Montana, Trump joked about Rep. Greg Gianforte assaulting a reporter last year. "Any guy who can do a body slam ... he's my guy," Trump said. The Guardian, whose reporter Ben Jacobs was assaulted, was not amused, and the White House Correspondents Association said in a statement it amounted to "an attack on the First Amendment by someone who has solemnly pledged to defend it."
- Beto O'Rourke said in last night's CNN town hall that he's open to impeaching Trump, comparing it to an indictment. "There is enough there to proceed to a trial," he said, and he "would not prejudge the outcome of that trial."
- A New York Times analysis found Democratic candidates are getting more engagement on Facebook and Instagram than Republicans.
- LeBron James scored 26 points in his first regular season game as a Laker, but Los Angeles lost to the Portland Trailblazers, 128-119. Last year, James wore "Equality" sneakers for his opening game. This year, he wore Cavs colors, but the colorway was actually inspired by a 2003 Nike poster, the shoe's designer, Jason Petrie, said.
- Britney Spears announced her new Las Vegas residency, "Domination," opening in February at the Park MGM.
Poll of the Day:
The midterm election is all about T̶r̶u̶m̶p̶ ... health care. A Wesleyan Media Project study found that between September 18 and October 15, ads for nearly 46% of federal races and 30% of gubernatorial races mentioned health care. This is the first election since 2008 that Democrats mentioned it more than Republicans, per Wesleyan data. | | Credit: Wesleyan Media Project
Nikki Haley Headlines Al Smith Dinner:
The outgoing US ambassador to the UN delivered the keynote at last night's white-tie dinner in New York. During her remarks, Haley spoke about demonizing political opponents in America and sounded pretty un-Trumpian.
"In our toxic political life, I've heard some people in both parties describe their opponents as enemies or evil," she said. "In America, our political opponents are not evil."
What is evil, she said, was rape being used as a weapon of war in South Sudan or chemical weapons used to murder children in Syria. "In the last two years, I've seen true evil," she said. "We have some serious political differences here at home. But our opponents are not evil, they're just our opponents."
Haley also made jokes about Elizabeth Warren ("I get it. You wanted an Indian woman, but Elizabeth Warren failed her DNA test."), Jeff Flake ("Jeff Flake was going to be here, but he wanted to give the FBI a week to look into it."), and Paul Manafort ("With all of our differences, there is still one thing that unites all 193 [UN member] countries. At one point, every single one of them was paying Paul Manafort.").
The annual dinner is named for Al Smith, the first Catholic presidential nominee of a major party, in 1928, and it raises money for Catholic charities. | | Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Punk the Vote:
Elle upset some people on the internet yesterday when it tricked followers into clicking to a voter registration page. Elle tweeted that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were splitting and linked to an Elle-branded page for When We Vote, Michelle Obama's group. Kimye is still together, and neither partner has said anything about the post on social media, but Elle apologized about four hours later. "We made a bad joke," the magazine tweeted. "Our passion for voter registration clouded our judgement and we are sincerely sorry." | | Credit: @ElLLEmagazine/Twitter
Elle's tweet was part of a wider meme of rickrolling in the name of voter registration this week. Tim Cigelske, whose tweet Sunday linking to vote.org under the guise of explaining why Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson broke up was retweeted more than 46,000 times, wrote on Medium about watching his tweet, and the meme, spread.
"You may or may not care about Peter Davidson and Ariana Grande, but either way you deserve to vote -- and you should vote," he wrote. "If this serves as a reminder to 20,500 or so people (who'd clicked his link by that point), then it was worth it."
I just want you to know I will never trick you with fake celebrity news to get you to click a link, I promise.
J-Kush Has a New Sister-in-Law:
Karlie Kloss married Joshua Kushner, Jared's brother, yesterday in upstate New York. Per People, they wed in a small Jewish ceremony for 80 people and Kloss wore Dior. Ivanka Trump tweeted "So much love for you both as you begin forever together." It looks like Kloss buddy Taylor Swift was not there, because she has her opening Reputation Tour stop in Australia tonight, in Perth, and she posted an Instagram story complaining about jet lag. | | Credit: @karliekloss/Instagram
Rihanna Reportedly Turned Down Super Bowl Halftime Show:
Rihanna was offered the halftime show headliner slot but turned it down because of her support for Colin Kaepernick, Us Weekly reported, citing a source. So, I guess that means we can wave good-bye to this amazing tweet. | | Credit: @FlexinFerg/Twitter
Street Art Sighting:
This mural of a man in a red "USA! USA!" hat was spotted in Dallas' Deep Ellum neighborhood. | | Credit: Mark "LoveSun" Rodriguez
If you spot political street art, tweet me @hunterschwarz, tag me on Instagram @hunterschwarz, or email me at coverlinehunter@cnn.com with your sighting so I can feature it in COVER/LINE.
P.S.:
Guys, that Britney announcement last night was so weird. For those who missed it, they played Britney music vids, projected onto the Park MGM, shot off some fireworks, then Britney popped up on stage. She literally said nothing. She walked off, signed some autographs and left. Who else could announce a residency without saying a word? Your favs could never. 😂😂 Anyways, see you in Vegas in February. Happy Friday. | | Credit: Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images
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| News Alert: Mnuchin still plans to attend Saudi anti-terror financing meeting in wake of Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance Posted: 19 Oct 2018 08:26 AM PDT Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has decided to take part in an anti-terrorism finance meeting with Saudi security officials and their Middle Eastern counterparts in Riyadh later this month, opting to attend despite growing global outrage over the suspected murder of the U.S.-based journalist and Post contributor, according to three people familiar with his travel plans. The security gathering later this month is separate from "Davos in the Desert," a Riyadh financial summit next week that Mnuchin announced Thursday he would not attend. | |  | | Democracy Dies in Darkness | | | | | | News Alert | Oct 19, 11:17 AM | | | | | | Mnuchin still plans to attend Saudi anti-terror financing meeting in wake of Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance | Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has decided to take part in an anti-terrorism finance meeting with Saudi security officials and their Middle Eastern counterparts in Riyadh later this month, opting to attend despite growing global outrage over the suspected murder of the U.S.-based journalist and Post contributor, according to three people familiar with his travel plans. The security gathering later this month is separate from "Davos in the Desert," a Riyadh financial summit next week that Mnuchin announced Thursday he would not attend. | | Read more » | | | |  |
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