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Trump to China: Investigate Bidens
President Trump openly called on Chinese President Xi Jinping to consider investigating Joe Biden and his son, despite an ongoing impeachment inquiry into similar conduct surrounding his phone call with Ukrainian President Zelenskiy. Despite a lack of clear evidence for his corruption allegations against the Bidens, Trump told reporters, "China should start an investigation into the Bidens, because what happened in China was just about as bad as what happened with Ukraine." In a statement, Biden's campaign said the president was "desperately clutching for conspiracy theories that have been debunked and dismissed," adding, "It could not be more transparent: Donald Trump is terrified that Joe Biden will beat him like a drum."
News from around the world
In Hong Kong, the 18-year-old activist who was shot in the chest by cops earlier this week was charged with rioting and attacking police, as pro-Beijing lawmakers mulled a ban on wearing face masks while protesting.
In Paris, a civilian employee stabbed four officers inside police headquarters before he was fatally shot.
In Dehli, India, a judge ordered Facebook to reveal the owner of an anonymous Instagram account used to air #MeToo claims after a well-known artist filed a $70,000 defamation lawsuit.
Highly quotable
"Bernie is up and about." The Vermont senator's wife said he's in good spirits after he suspended campaign events when he underwent an artery blockage procedure and will participate in the next Democratic debate this month.
"Relieved of his duties." The New York Mets fired manager Mickey Callaway after the team fell short of making the playoffs during his two-season stint.
"Additional security personnel." Theaters across the U.S. are adding more police, both in and out of uniform, at opening weekend screenings of the "Joker" film due to potential safety concerns.
$ignificant figures
£9,879,500. Banksy's "Devolved Parliament" painting that depicts British MPs as chimpanzees sold at auction for a record price ($12,203,602), shattering his previous record set last year with the self-destructing "Girl With Balloon."
$800,000,000. MGM Resorts International agreed to pay up to that much to settle thousands of claims arising from the 2017 mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip that left 58 people dead and hundreds more wounded.
1,080. The number of vaping-related lung-injury cases across the U.S. increased from 805 last week, in what the CDC said may only be "the tip of the iceberg." Deaths linked to the ailment also rose to 18 from 12.
Spotted
Kurt Volker. The former Ukraine envoy arrived at Capitol Hill, coffee in hand, to give the first official testimony on the whistleblower charges against Trump to three congressional committees.
The future is now
Need a quicker way to JFK? New York Uber riders can now book a helicopter to the airport after the company opened its Uber Copter service between lower Manhattan and JFK Airport to any Uber user. A one-way ride costs up to $225 per person.
Viral alert
Extinction Rebellion. A plan by British climate protesters to spray fake blood on the U.K. Treasury building went horribly wrong when activists lost control of the powerful hose and, instead, showered the street with hundreds of gallons of red paint.
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry is expected to announce his resignation next month, according to three people familiar with his plans.
The former Texas governor largely avoided the controversies that pushed other Cabinet members out of the administration, but his contacts with Ukraine have drawn him into the impeachment inquiry engulfing President Donald Trump and his inner circle. However, the three people said the Ukraine affair is unrelated to Perry's departure.
Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette is expected to replace Perry, at least temporarily.
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Washington's reaction will have powerful implications not only in the Gulf, but everywhere that America and its allies face off against Iran and its proxies.
Soner Cagaptay, Amanda Sloat, Molly Montgomery, and Tomasz Hoskins
September 27, 2019
A lively discussion of how Ottoman history, pro-Western precedent, and regional setbacks shape the Turkish leader's shifting approach to foreign affairs.
By working effectively with the UN, Washington and Riyadh can help foster global consensus on Iran's culpability, creating a firm basis for multilateral censure.
The stabilization efforts brokered by Israel's defense establishment have kept a lid on things so far, but the hazards of this approach may be unsustainable.
Under the leadership of Josep Borrell, the newly-nominated High Representative of the European Union, the EU will continue its reactionary political approach to the Middle East peace process.
The First Law of Holes is that when you find yourself in a hole, you should stop digging. President Donald Trump is field-testing a corollary of that law: If you keep digging, you'll eventually come out on the other side of the Earth, solving your hole problem.
The trouble is that digging straight through the Earth from Washington, D.C., lands you in the Indian Ocean, which would turn your hole problem into a drowning problem. American kids think it takes you to China, which is where Trump tried to take his impeachment problem today. Yelling to microphones on the south lawn of the White House, he suggested China should investigate the Biden family, just after doubling down on his opinion that Ukraine should do the same. These suggestions alone break the law, writes Tim O'Brien, and they look even worse coupled with his warning moments before about how he could punish Beijing with "tremendous, tremendous power." Such remarks certainly confirm the concerns of the CIA whistle-blower's report that has Trump on the edge of impeachment.
The president may or may not be aware that what he said is problematic; he continues to insist his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was "perfect," though it included a similarly impeachable offense. Or maybe he thinks committing crimes right out in the open where everybody can see them is the perfect defense. Or maybe he feels shielded by Republican senators reluctant to even mention impeachment, much less criticize him. They ignored evidence of similar high crimes turned up by the Mueller Report. This Ukraine thing is much more perilous for Trump, though, suggests Jonathan Bernstein, partly because it involves fresh new crimes being delivered piping hot to the Senate's windowsill. It also makes Republicans who supported him through the Mueller thing look foolish. And Republicans being made to look foolish – by being lied to – is what brought down Richard Nixon, who was eventually forced to put down his shovel.
Recession Watch
Another day brought more bummer economic data; the Institute for Supply Management's index of U.S. service-sector activity fell to the lowest level in three years, just a couple of days after an even uglier ISM factory report. Stocks briefly threatened a third ugly sell-off in a row, until the BTFD crowd sprung into action. Rebound or no, the stock action has been ugly this week, particularly because U.S. stocks are bearing the worst of it, writes Robert Burgess. This suggests the world's lingering economic weakness is infecting the U.S., a recipe for more lingering. And unlike the 2001 and 2007 recessions, we can't expect China to pull us out of it with blockbuster growth this time, writes Dan Moss. It's growing much more slowly and seems much less inclined to burn the furniture to stoke its economy this time around.
Saudi Arabia Could Use a Friend
An iffy stock market is just the latest problem for poor old Saudi Arabia. It wants to IPO its state-run oil company, Aramco, at a $2 trillion valuation, which is a ridiculous number, particularly when the global economy is sinking and oil prices have already sunk. But gosh darn it, the kingdom seems determined to make it happen anyway, by strong-arming rich Saudi families into buying shares and also by giving up some money on the front end, writes Liam Denning (who did a Reddit AMA today about this and other oil stuff).
Not only does the kingdom need a hand with its IPO, it could really use some help protecting its oil facilities, which Iran and/or its proxies have attacked and/or threatened lately. But it's been especially hard to whip up sympathy for Saudi Arabia for roughly the past year, which is how long it has been since journalist and Saudi exile Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The kingdom thought people would forget about that murder, notes Bobby Ghosh. Fortunately, they haven't, and they won't until Saudi Arabia truly reckons with it.
The world's biggest cities have some serious housing problems; namely, there's not enough of it. One solution being thrown around a lot lately is the idea of capping rents, and Berlin is about to test-drive the idea. But rent controls usually backfire, leading to more shortages for the people who need housing most, writes Bloomberg's editorial board. A better solution is not rent controls but simply building more housing.
Climate change, meanwhile, keeps making housing along the coasts more scarce by washing it away. As flooding affects more coastal areas, lenders are using Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as de facto flood insurance, passing the costs of destruction and mortgage default on to taxpayers, write Matthew Kahn and Amine Ouazad. The government's got to crack down on this.
HEZBOLLAH PRIORITIZES ITS OWN INTERESTS, PUTTING LEBANON AT RISK by Matthew Levitt
PolicyWatch 3195 October 3, 2019
As demonstrators rail against economic problems, corruption, and sectarianism, the group's role in undermining the public's financial and physical security is coming under greater scrutiny.
Lebanese citizens took to the streets this weekend to protest the country’s acute financial crisis, which has been marked by one of the highest debt ratios in the world, a new currency crisis, and fears that a strike will close gas stations indefinitely. Many believe that deep-rooted corruption and sectarianism got them into this mess, and may now complicate efforts to get them out.
Against this backdrop, more criticism is being directed at Hezbollah, the widely designated terrorist organization that is simultaneously the most powerful party in Lebanon’s government and an aggressively sectarian movement that keeps its activities and weapons outside the government’s control. As the Treasury Department recently noted, developments over the past few weeks have underscored the extent to which the group’s actions “prioritize its interests, and those of its chief sponsor, Iran, over the welfare of Lebanese citizens and Lebanon’s economy.”
ASSASSINATING LEBANESE POLITICIANS
On September 16, the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon released details on a new indictment charging Salim Ayyash with helping Hezbollah carry out assassination plots against Lebanese politicians in 2004-2005. The tribunal tied these plots to its core investigation into the February 2005 murder of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri.
Specifically, the new indictment charges Hezbollah operatives with the October 2004 attempted murder of parliamentarian and Hariri ally Marwan Hamadeh, and the killing of his bodyguard, Ghazi Abou Karroum; the July 2005 murder of Khaled Moura, who worked as a driver for the attack’s primary target, Defense Minister Elias Murr; and the October 2005 murder of former Lebanese Communist Party chief George Hawi. For his role in the plots, Ayyash has been charged with homicide and committing terrorist acts. According to the tribunal, “at all times relevant to the indictment, [Ayyash] was a supporter of Hezbollah,” a relationship that included direct ties with the late operational commander Mustafa Badreddine.
PUTTING CIVILIANS AT RISK FOR ITS MISSILE PROJECT
On August 29, Israel revealed that Iranian operatives were working to give Hezbollah the equipment and know-how necessary for building its own precision missiles and retrofitting old missiles in Lebanese facilities. The revelations were no surprise given the September 2018 exposure of three such underground facilities, which the group had constructed in urban neighborhoods of Beirut unbeknownst to the Lebanese government or the local population it put at risk.
The August announcement came just days after Israel reportedly deployed drones to Beirut to destroy missile-related equipment that Iran had sent there. The message was clear: the Israel Defense Forces will not allow a terrorist group to use a neighboring country as a safe haven for developing game-changing weapons, and if the Lebanese state does not deal with the problem, the IDF will.
The strikes occurred against a backdrop of renewed Hezbollah threats. In a July interview, group leader Hassan Nasrallah emphasized the vulnerability of Israel’s population centers and critical infrastructure. Displaying maps showing the range of Hezbollah rockets, he told the group’s al-Manar television network that they “can target this entire region,” pointing to the southern city of Eilat and its environs. “We shall see who will turn the other into the Stone Age,” he concluded. The outrageous nature of such rhetoric becomes clear when one recalls what Nasrallah represents: a militia leader with no position in the Lebanese government, elected or otherwise, who repeatedly threatens a neighboring state and makes decisions that end the lives of Israeli and Lebanese citizens alike.
ATTACKING UN FORCES
The same day that Israel exposed Iran’s role in Hezbollah’s missile program, the UN Security Council voted unanimously to extend the mandate of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, the peacekeeping entity whose mission includes helping the elected government reestablish “effective authority” in the south. The council did so amid ample evidence that Hezbollah maintains independent military zones in wide swaths of the country and has intimidated and obstructed UN military and civilian personnel over and over again. In addition to attacking a UNIFIL convoy last year, Hezbollah continues to deny the force access to sites along the southern border, despite the discovery earlier this year that the group had built a series of attack tunnels into Israeli territory.
In renewing UNIFIL’s mandate, the Security Council “urged all parties to ensure that the freedom of movement of UNIFIL and the Force’s access to the Blue Line in all its parts is fully respected and unimpeded.” The UN specifically called out the Lebanese government, demanding that it “facilitate the mission’s access in line with Resolution 1701 (2006).”
UNDERMINING FINANCIAL STABILITY
Not to be outdone, the U.S. Treasury Department announced two actions on August 29 that underscored the extent of Hezbollah’s illicit financial activities in Lebanon. One action exposed Mohammad Sarur, a Beirut-based financial operative who is linked to Hezbollah and “is in charge of transferring tens of millions of dollars per year” from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force to the military wing of the Palestinian group Hamas. The second action targeted Jammal Trust Bank SAL, a midsize Lebanese institution accused of knowingly facilitating Hezbollah financial activities.
A few days prior to Treasury’s move, Fitch Ratings downgraded Lebanon’s long-term currency issuer default ranking, while Standard & Poor reissued its low ratings for the country and noted that the outlook remained negative. Hezbollah’s role in fostering these problems becomes all the more galling when one recalls what the IMF concluded in its January 2017 report on Lebanon: “The banking system has thus far proven resilient to domestic shocks and regional turmoil, but the materialization of severe shocks could expose vulnerabilities.” Hezbollah actions since then have increased the country’s exposure to shocks dramatically, whether by drawing heavy international sanctions, inviting Israeli military action, or scaring off investors.
The Jammal Trust case is particularly instructive. According to the Treasury Department, the bank provided financial services for Hezbollah’s Executive Council, its Martyr’s Foundation, and al-Qard al-Hassan, its de facto finance firm. Bank employees knowingly engaged in illicit practices to conceal such activities. For example, Hezbollah parliamentarian Amin Sherri is accused of coordinating the group’s financial activity with Jammal Trust management. And when Sherri himself was designated several weeks earlier, Treasury noted that he “threatened Lebanese bank officials and their family members” after one institution froze the accounts of a designated Hezbollah member. Such efforts “demonstrate the extreme steps” Sherri was willing to take in order to further Hezbollah’s violent agenda, even “at the cost of a legitimate sector that is the backbone of the Lebanese economy.” According to one senior U.S. official, these coercive practices extended as far as the Central Bank.
Hezbollah’s “deep coordination” with Jammal Trust reportedly dates back “to at least the mid-2000s,” with the Treasury Department describing in detail how their mutual schemes violated both basic anti-money laundering principles and U.S. designations. For instance, “when opening purportedly ‘personal accounts’ at Jammal Trust, al-Qard al-Hassan officials clearly identified themselves ...as senior members of the terrorist group. Jammal Trust then facilitated these accounts to be used to conduct business on al-Qard al-Hassan’s behalf.”
A MOMENT OF DECISION IN BEIRUT
Max Weber famously said that monopoly over the legitimate use of force is the core of the modern state. The question for Lebanon is whether its government is willing and able to assert that prerogative, since that would mean stopping Hezbollah from stockpiling military weapons, threatening neighboring states, or engaging in illicit financial activities with impunity. Some argue that Hezbollah has so penetrated the government that the two are one and the same. Tellingly, however, Washington, the UN Security Council, and Israel all caveated their recent actions with calls for Beirut to intervene, indicating there are concrete steps the government can still take to reassert control over Lebanon’s national and financial security.
Indeed, Lebanese officials must act now to protect the banking system from abuse and prevent Hezbollah from using the country as a military platform against Israel. Failure to act now would enable the group to hold Lebanon hostage to its own narrow interests. This is a decisive moment for Beirut, since the consequences of inaction—namely, war, a collapsed economy, or both—would be devastating.
Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Fellow and director of the Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at The Washington Institute.
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President Trump on Thursday suggested China should investigate 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter, despite the fact that House Democrats have launched an impeachment inquiry over Trump's request that the Ukrainian president do the same. Trump's allegations regarding Hunter Biden and China center on the younger Biden joining the board of an investment firm whose partners included Chinese entities while his father was vice president. The president and his allies have provided no evidence to back up their claims of wrongdoing.
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U.S. Senator Kamala Harris is funding the most new Facebook ads calling for President Donald Trump's impeachment among the 19 Democrats seeking their party's nomination to face the Republican president in the November 2020 election, a Reuters review of Facebook ad data shows.
Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday by a Texas jury that found her guilty of murder for walking into a neighbor's apartment thinking it was her own and shooting him as he ate ice cream.
A Dallas jury on Tuesday found former police officer Amber Guyger guilty of murder for accidentally walking into a neighbor's apartment while thinking it was her own and fatally shooting him as he ate ice cream.
A longtime U.S. diplomat who served as President Donald Trump's special envoy for Ukraine will tell his story to congressional committee staff on Thursday as part of a Democratic-led impeachment probe of the Republican president.
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THE BIG STORY
Three stories about the impeachment inquiry that you should know
A refresher for how we got here: A whistleblower complaint about a phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukraine's president was made public last week, alleging that Trump asked for help investigating former vice president Joe Biden. The complaint claims the White House worked to keep the call secret. The complaint and the call are now at the center of an impeachment inquiry.
The planned move is certain to anger civil liberties and immigrant advocates who argue the government should not draw sensitive personal information from people without being tied to a specific crime.
DHS's planning will examine which populations will have their DNA collected, privacy concerns, and the rollout.
Ex-cop Amber Guyger has been sentenced to ten years in prison for killing her unarmed neighbor in his apartment. A jury reached a unanimous decision on the sentence for the former Dallas police officer who was convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of her neighbor, Botham Jean. In court, Jean's brother hugged Guyger and forgave her, telling her, "I love you as a person and I don't wish anything bad on you."
The red liquid an anti-vax protester threw at California legislators was human blood, tests confirm. The incident happened in September on the California Senate floor as lawmakers were set to roll back vaccine exemptions. "That's for the dead babies," a woman yelled after she tossed what reportedly looked like a menstrual cup with red liquid onto the floor.
A beauty influencer is trying to defend the tough "hybrid" job of being an influencer, but not everyone is quite convinced. Amra Olević Reyes is taking a stand against what she's dubbed constant "influencer slander" — people who say being influencer is not a real job. Not everyone is buying her argument.
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DOCTOR'S ORDERS
Bernie Sanders now faces something he hates: physical limitations and a focus on himself
On Tuesday night, Sen. Bernie Sanders noticed some chest pain during a campaign event in Las Vegas. According to a brief statement released the next morning, doctors found a blocked artery and successfully inserted two stents. Sanders is now recovering.
There is no denying that two things Sanders hates are converging: real physical limitations, and a focus on his health and personal life that will distract from his "political revolution."
No time is ideal for heart surgery, but it's a particularly inconvenient time for Sanders: He's had to step off the campaign trail, halting his typically relentless schedule of town halls and rallies. And in Iowa, he's postponed a $1.3 million television ad, his first of the race.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson surprised a 100-year-old fan with a birthday video
Marie Grover has been a fan of The Rock for the last 30 years, which is roughly as long as I've been alive. Now that's a deep and dedicated fandom.
Jamie Klingler, a Philadelphia woman who lives in London, knows this. She told us that Grover, who is her best friend's grandmother, has always talked about her love for The Rock.
Klinger set a plan in motion to get the man himself to record a little video for Grover. And Johnson, being the people pleaser he is, responded by recording a birthday greeting and song.
All the president's "hatchet men" are coming under fire from Joe Biden.
The Democratic presidential candidate lodged a searing counter-attack against Donald Trump last night that offered a window into what a potential one-on-one face-off could look like as the House's impeachment inquiry reshapes the contours of the 2020 race.
"You're not going to destroy me," Biden said during a rally in Reno, Nevada, as the president and his surrogates continue to promote discredited allegations that the former vice president tried to thwart a Ukrainian investigation into his son. "And you're not going to destroy my family."
Biden, who once said that if he'd met Trump in high school, he'd have taken "him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him" for his treatment of women, has a history of colorful rhetoric that would make for a potentially hot-tempered showdown with Trump if Democrats choose him as their nominee.
But with rival Elizabeth Warren threatening to eclipse Biden as the front-runner (she's statistically tied in several recent key state and national polls), there's a question of whether the cloud Trump's trying to cast over Biden could ultimately help deny them both a fight they're itching for.
Demonstrators rally in support of impeaching Trump in late September. Kurt Volker, who stepped down last week as the U.S. envoy to Ukraine, will give a closed-door deposition today to three House committees.
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Global Headlines
Rare rule | Hong Kong will tomorrow enact an emergency ordinance for the first time in more than 50 years, forbidding face masks at public gatherings, local media report. It comes after a protester was shot in violent demonstrations this week, with some pro-China lawmakers calling for the mask ban to stop protesters hiding their identity from police. It could also mean they can't withstand the effects of tear gas.
Brexit Plan | Boris Johnson's much-anticipated proposal to take the U.K. out of the European Union by Oct. 31 has been unveiled and, while it probably gets Conservative party euroskeptics on board, it falls short of what Brussels is willing to accept. The prospect of yet another extension rears its head, but Johnson seems dead set on the departure date. Does he have another option?
New trade front| Prices for Scotch whisky and French cheese are set to rise in the U.S. with fresh tariffs slapped on billions of dollars of EU products. Trump got the go-ahead from the World Trade Organization to retaliate for illegal EU aid to plane-maker Airbus. The U.S. is already in a trade war with China, and a wider flareup of tit-for-tat levies with Europe could threaten a fragile global economy.
Airbus was spared the full impact of U.S. import tariffs as Trump took steps to exempt planes built at its Alabama plant. Read more here
Staying the course | Indonesian President Joko Widodo says protests sweeping the country over his controversial legislative agenda won't derail reforms aimed at bolstering growth. In an interview with Bloomberg's Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait yesterday, Jokowi, as he is known, said he has the authority to push through changes to labor rules by the end of the year and open up more sectors of the economy to foreign investment.
Meeting the general | Pakistan's already powerful military is taking an even greater role in running the country as the economy slows. Since early this year, army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa has privately met at least three top business leaders at heavily guarded military offices. The move appears to have the blessing of Prime Minister Imran Khan, Faseeh Mangi reports.
What to Watch
European officials are increasingly grim about the outlook for Iran after failed efforts at the UN General Assembly last week to ease tensions between the U.S. and Tehran.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has halted his grueling campaign schedule "until further notice" after receiving medical care for a blocked artery.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi met a Taliban delegation today in a bid to revive peace talks in Afghanistan with the U.S. Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. Special envoy for Afghanistan, plans to hold talks with Pakistani counterparts in Islamabad this week.
And finally ... President Emmanuel Macron's government is poised to make France the first European country to use facial recognition technology to give citizens a secure digital identity whether they want it or not. France will join nations around the world rushing to provide secure access to everything from taxes to utility bills. But as Helene Fouquet reports, the program, dubbed Alicem, is facing a challenge in the nation's highest administrative court, and the data regulator says it breaches the rule of consent.
Elsewhere in Europe….A facial recognition technology test at a station in Germany. Photographer: Steffi Loos/Getty Images Europe
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