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highs," Bruenig writes in a thoughtful essay. "In some sense it seemed 
that Trump is able, by being less Christian than your average 
Christian, to protect Christians who fear incursions from a hostile 
dominant culture. But that paradox also supplies a handy solution to 
the question of whether Christians should direct their efforts to worldly 
politics or turn inward, shunning political life for spiritual pursuits. By 
voting for Trump — even over more identifiably Christian 
candidates — evangelicals seem to have found a way to outsource 
their fears and instead reserve a strictly spiritual space for 
themselves inside politics without placing evangelical politicians 
themselves in power. In that sense, they can be both active political 
agents and a semi-cloistered religious minority, both of the world and 
removed from it, advancing their values while retreating to their own 
societies." 
-- For a separate story, religion reporter Julie Zauzmer interviewed 
more than 50 evangelical Christians in the battleground states of 
Florida, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin: "In conversation, evangelical 
voters paint the portrait of the Trump they see: a president who acts like 
a bully but is fighting for them. A president who sees America like they 
do, a menacing place where white Christians feel mocked and 
threatened for their beliefs. A president who's against abortion and gay 
rights and who has the economy humming to boot. ... The allegations 
that Trump sexually assaulted numerous women are not a moral 
concern, many Christians say. ... Opponents decry his attitude 
toward people of color, his approach to immigrants detained at the 
border, his answers to violence in American cities, and on and on. 
But in Appleton, Wis., the Rev. Dennis Episcopo hasn't felt the 
need as a religious leader to denounce any of it in front of his 
congregation, which includes more than 5,000 attendees on a typical 
Sunday. The megachurch that he has led for 22 years is almost entirely 
white and conservative, like the lakeside region where it is located. 
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Episcopo has not seen any behavior from Trump in the past three years 
that would prompt him to openly dissuade churchgoers from supporting 
this president. 'There could be something, where society really crosses 
the line on something, that I feel as a pastor I have to get up and say 
something,' he muses. `But it hasn't happened yet.-
-- Former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper (D) is considering 
ending his presidential bid to run for the Senate. From the New York 
Times: "Hickenlooper, who is mired at the bottom of public polling of the 
presidential race, hopped into Senator Michael Bennet's car on Friday 
night in [Iowa] to discuss his impending decision. [They drove around 
together for 20 minutes in Clear Lake before the Wing Ding dinner.] ... 
Officials who have been in discussions with the Hickenlooper campaign 
said Tuesday that the former two-term governor is giving serious 
consideration to switching to the Senate race but stressed that a final 
decision has not yet been made. Short of a massive change in political 
momentum, Mr. Hickenlooper is certain to fail to qualify for the next 
round of presidential debates in September, an additional blow to a 
campaign struggling to attract attention and financial contributions. ... 
"Recent days have brought unsubtle messages that high-ranking 
Democratic officials in Colorado and Washington believe Mr. 
Hickenlooper is in the wrong race. The Denver Post on Sunday 
published polling done on behalf of 'a national Democratic group 
involved in Senate races' that showed Mr. Hickenlooper holding a 51-
point lead over two other Democrats in the state's 2020 Senate race. On 
Monday, the 314 Action Fund, a super PAC that backs candidates who 
are scientists, announced a 'Draft Hick for Senate' campaign along with 
a poll it commissioned showing Mr. Hickenlooper leading Senator Cory 
Gardner, a Colorado Republican seeking re-election, by 13 percentage 
points in a head-to-head matchup." 
-- Beto O'Rourke, who returned to his hometown of El Paso after 
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the mass shooting there, may resume his 2020 campaign as early 
as this week amid persistent calls for him to run for Senate 
instead. Supporters of the former congressman want him to challenge 
Sen. John Cornyn (R). (Politico)
-- Republican donors are being advised by allies of Mike Pompeo 
to hold off on contributing to any of the current Senate candidates 
in Kansas as the secretary of state weighs whether to run for the 
open seat of retiring Sen. Pat Roberts. From Bloomberg News: "A 
Pompeo ally has been advising potential contributors to wait until after 
the secretary of state makes his decision ... The top U.S. diplomat and 
former CIA director, who served as a congressman in Kansas's 4th 
district from 2011-2017, has until June to enter the race." 
-- Trump is trying to turn Joe Biden's gaffes into a major liability. 
Matt Viser reports: "Over the last few days, Biden has made a string of 
small missteps while campaigning during a crucial stretch in Iowa. ... He 
has bungled oft-repeated lines, saying 'truth over facts' rather than truth 
over lies. ... He spoke of meeting with Parkland students when he was 
vice president, even though the Florida school shooting occurred a year 
after he left office. ... On their own, none of these mistakes significantly 
alter the race. ... Some say the gaffes pale in comparison to things 
Trump says. ... That hasn't stopped Trump and his allies from seizing 
on Biden's comments. ... On Friday, he said 'Joe is not playing with a 
full deck' and that 'something's going wrong with him.-
-- Biden can learn a few lessons from Mitt Romney's 2012 
presidential campaign, writes Dan Balz: "He continues to lead in the 
polls, nationally and in early states. He has led those polls from the start 
of the year to today. Still, he is treated as being in a precarious position, 
a vulnerable candidate not at his best and a few mistakes away from a 
real fall. Just like Romney through much of 2011. Romney was the 
disrespected front-runner in the 2012 Republican field. He could be 
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awkward as a candidate and paid a price for it in the coverage of his 
campaign. But as with Biden, he led in most — not all — surveys ahead 
of the primaries and caucuses." 
-- A new survey finds support for abortion rights remains steady, 
despite a growing partisan divide. Ariana Eunjung Cha and Scott 
Clement report: "No more than a quarter of residents in any state 
supports a total ban despite the increasing political divide on the issue. 
The Public Religion Research Institute survey released Tuesday 
involves an extraordinarily large sample of 40,292 interviews measuring 
abortion attitudes throughout 2018, allowing it to produce nuanced 
results for individual states and for very small demographic groups. It 
found that Americans remain generally supportive of abortion rights, 
with 54 percent saying it should be legal in all or most cases and 40 
percent saying it should be illegal." 
A chaotic day in Hong Kong ends with specter of more violence to come 
THE NEW WORLD ORDER: 
-- The Hong Kong protest movement is facing a tipping point as 
demonstrators seek the sympathy of the international community. 
Gerry Shih and Timothy McLaughlin report: "After late-night mob scenes 
marred a demonstration that paralyzed this city's airport, protesters on 
Wednesday issued apologies seeking the international public's 
sympathy and forgiveness as they fought to regain control over a 
narrative that seemed to be tilting in Beijing's favor for the first time. The 
appeals, which included apologies to the police force, come as the 
struggle over public opinion reaches a climax. While Hong Kong's 
protest movement has become steadily radicalized and fractured, the 
Chinese government has sharply ramped up a propaganda effort in 
state media and on social networks to discredit and deflate a movement 
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that to this point enjoyed wide support across Hong Kong society. 
"Hong Kong's airport ground to a near-halt for a second day Tuesday 
after protesters assailing police brutality and government indifference 
occupied departure halls, sparking tense but largely peaceful 
confrontations with frustrated passengers, many of them stranded. The 
mood turned darker by nightfall after protesters seized two men —
one a reporter for Chinese state media, another they claimed to be 
a Chinese government agent — and clashed with police and 
paramedics who tried to evacuate the pair. At one point, protesters 
surrounded and kicked a police van, sparking hand-to-hand clashes with 
riot police who fired pepper spray near the departure terminal. 
"On Wednesday, police warned that protesters arrested during the 
terminal fracas could face life in prison. Seven men aged 17 to 28 
years old were detained, five for unlawful assembly and two for 
assaulting police officers and possession of offensive weapons, said 
Mak Chin Ho, assistant police commissioner. ... Threats of such severe 
punishment fit with an approach by Beijing, and its supporters in the 
Hong Kong government, to dramatically raise the potential cost for 
taking part in demonstrations." 
-- China is threatening to use military-style force in Hong Kong, 
hoping that threats alone will disperse protests, as students 
plan to continue protesting once universities resume classes next 
month. Anna Fifield reports: "That would take the protests 
uncomfortably close to celebrations planned on Oct. 1 to mark the 70th 
anniversary of the foundation of the People's Republic of China, which 
was established with the goal of unifying greater China under the 
leadership of the Communist Party. ... That concern, combined with 
increasingly strident rhetoric from Chinese officials, has raised fears 
about the possibility of military intervention in Hong Kong. This week, 
state-affiliated media outlets tweeted ominous videos of Chinese tanks 
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carrying out exercises in Shenzhen, the southern Chinese city that 
borders Hong Kong, while authorities in Beijing portrayed the protests 
as 'terrorism.' China already stands accused of sending in thugs from 
local gangs to try to deter the protesters in Hong Kong, and there are 
growing concerns that it will send in the People's Armed Police, a 
paramilitary force responsible for internal security and 'stability 
maintenance.' Or perhaps even the People's Liberation Army." 
How an eye patch became a symbol of the Hong Kong protests 
-- Bloody eye patches have become the latest symbol of the Hong 
Kong protests after a young woman was hit in the face with a 
projectile that many protesters believe was fired by police. Katie 
Mettler reports: "Authorities said at a news conference that there was no 
proof to back up that claim. From the tension, a new rallying symbol was 
born. 'Eye for an eye,' some protesters shouted as they continued their 
sit-in ... Demonstrators also spray-painted `eye for an eye' throughout 
the airport in Chinese and in English and covered their faces with mock 
eye patches made of gauze. Some colored them red, to signify blood." 
-- China asked the Trump administration to back off after U.S. 
lawmakers, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House 
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), condemned the violence 
against pro-democracy activists. From Reuters: "The United States 
has denied Chinese suggestions that it has a hand in the unrest. But 
China's foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the 
lawmakers' comments have `provided new and powerful evidence to the 
world.-
-- Meanwhile, Trump said the "thing" in Hong Kong — which he 
called a "riot" last week — is "very tough" but stopped short of 
criticizing China. From the Times: "In comments to reporters and in a 
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series of afternoon tweets, Mr. Trump took no strong position on the 
demonstrations that have gripped Hong Kong for weeks and have 
drawn an increasingly brutal response from local security forces. He 
echoed none of the defenses of freedom and democracy coming 
from both Democrats and Republicans. ... 'We'll see what happens. 
But I'm sure it'll work out,' he said. He added: 'I hope it works out for 
everybody, including China. I hope it works out peacefully. I hope 
nobody gets hurt. I hope nobody gets killed.' The president later tweeted 
that intelligence reports indicated that China's government 'is moving 
troops to the Border with Hong Kong.-
Mitch McConnell walks to his Senate office earlier this year. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) 
-- Follow the money: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-
Ky.) had quarterbacked the effort on Capitol Hill to lift sanctions on 
Russia's largest aluminum producer, a company that soon 
afterward backed the creation of the first new aluminum-rolling mill 
in the U.S. in nearly four decades — built in McConnell's home 
state. Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman report: "In January, 
as the Senate debated whether to permit the Trump administration to lift 
sanctions on Russia's largest aluminum producer, two men with millions 
of dollars riding on the outcome met for dinner at a restaurant in Zurich. 
On one side of the table sat the head of sales for Rusal, the Russian 
aluminum producer that would benefit most immediately from a 
favorable Senate vote. ... On the other side sat Craig Bouchard, an 
American entrepreneur who had gained favor with officials in Kentucky 
... By the next day, McConnell had successfully blocked the bill, despite 
the defection of 11 Republicans. 
"Within weeks, the U.S. government had formally lifted sanctions on 
Rusal, citing a deal with the company that reduced the ownership 
interest of its Kremlin-linked founder, Oleg Deripaska. And three months 
later, Rusal announced plans for an extraordinary partnership with 
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Bouchard's company, providing $200 million in capital to buy a 40 
percent stake in the new aluminum plant in Ashland, Ky. — a project 
heralded by Gov. Matt Bevin (R) 'as significant as any economic deal 
ever made in the history of Kentucky.' A spokesman for McConnell 
said the majority leader did not know that Bouchard had hopes of a 
deal with Rusal at the time McConnell led the Senate effort to end 
the sanctions. ... Democratic senators have called for a 
government review of the deal, prompting a Rusal executive in 
Moscow last week to threaten to pull out of the investment." 
-- Russian villagers were told to leave their town following a 
missile test explosion. Will Englund reports: "It took most of Tuesday 
for officials to realize how damaging this looked given the nuclear 
materials involved in the accident. Arkhangelsk Gov. Igor Orlov insisted 
it wasn't an evacuation but a `routine measure.' ... About 450 people are 
said to live in the village, which abuts a military testing range. ... A 
resident of Nyonoksa told ArkhangelskOnline that the village has been 
evacuated before, presumably because of the hazards of tests or other 
military activity nearby. ... Local officials conducted a study of soil, sand, 
river and seawater samples from several points in the region and 
reported no excess levels of radiation, according to media reports." 
-- Russia said the explosion caused a 16-fold spike in 
radiation. From the BBC: "Readings for gamma radiation at six testing 
stations in Severodvinsk, a city of 180,000 people, ranged from 4 to 16 
times the normal rate of 0.11 microsieverts per hour," Russia's weather 
sevice said. 
-- Donald Trump Jr. visited Indonesia to tout his family's new 
resorts and defend his father. Stanley Widianto and Joshua Partlow 
report: "'We have turned down a lot of deals,' Trump Jr. said at a news 
conference in the capital city of Jakarta. 'We made a very conscious 
decision of the family not to do that right now.' The Trump Organization 
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has promised it would make no new foreign deals during President 
Trump's time in office. Plans for the two Indonesia resorts predate the 
Trump presidency but appeared to have stalled in recent years. Trump 
Jr. called it 'nonsense' that the president's foreign policy might be 
swayed by his business interests. 'He wouldn't make decisions that 
affect a country based on a real estate deal,' Trump Jr. said of his 
father. 
1.1 
-- Pakistan moved to ban single-use plastic bags. Anyone in the 
capital region of 1.5 million who uses, sells or manufactures the 
bags will face a fine. Pamela Constable reports: "The ban is the latest 
project in Prime Minister Imran Khan's green initiative, which began last 
year with a campaign to plant 10 billion trees to fight deforestation. ... 
The fines in Pakistan will also be steep — $31 for using a single bag, 
$63 for selling one and up to $31,000 for manufacturing them. The 
national per capita income is $1,200 per year. Shoppers are not likely to 
be aggressively pursued, but companies that make and supply the bags 
have been warned that they will be inspected to enforce the ban." 
-- In a bid to retain power, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is 
cracking down on his own military. From the Times: "Top military 
leaders have repeatedly declared their allegiance to the Maduro 
administration. But over the past two years, as the oil-rich economy 
crumbled and a majority of Venezuelans were left without sufficient food 
and medicine, factions within the security forces have staged at least 
five attempts to overthrow or assassinate the president. The 
government claims to have foiled at least a dozen more plots in that 
period ... Mr. Maduro's Socialist Party is resorting to this siege mentality 
to justify ubiquitous surveillance, arbitrary detentions and the torture of 
perceived enemies, including those inside Venezuela's 160,000-strong 
armed forces." 
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Trump wants 'full investigation' into Epstein's death 
THE DOMESTIC AGENDA: 
-- The Justice Department reassigned the warden of the federal 
detention center where sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died. Two 
staffers were placed on leave. From Devlin Barrett, Matt Zapotosky 
and Aaron C. Davis: "The move to transfer 
, who had 
only recently begun working as the MCC's warden, came a day after 
Attorney General William P. Barr decried 'serious irregularities' there 
and a 'failure' to keep Epstein secure. ... Barr appointed 
, who has been running a federal prison in nearby Otisville, 
N.Y., as the facility's new acting warden. The MCC is run by the Bureau 
of Prisons, which is part of the Justice Department and falls under Barr's 
authority. ... Epstein was being held in a special housing unit of the 
MCC called Nine South and should have been checked on by the staff 
every 30 minutes. But correctional officers had not done so for 'several' 
hours before he was found by staff as they delivered breakfast to 
inmates, a person familiar with the matter said ... 
"To those who have worked in or around the MCC, Epstein's death 
is viewed as a symptom of long-term problems there and, more 
broadly, within the Bureau of Prisons. 
Hood, a former chief of 
internal affairs for the bureau, said the MCC has had longtime problems 
with overcrowding and understaffing. But in recent years, he said, the 
bureau has been afflicted by a lack of leadership, with a significant 
number of senior positions filled by temporary appointments. ... 
Sometimes, incompetence in the building reaches alarming 
proportions, observers said. In May 2017, for instance, a bank robber 
named David Evangelista was accidentally released from the MCC, 
even after he told staff he still had years left on his sentence ...Still, the 
MCC is considered one of the safest and most secure lockup in the 
federal system. When Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, the drug 
kingpin better known as 'El Chapo,' was brought to New York, he was 
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jailed there." 
-- The two prison staff members who were guarding Epstein fell 
asleep and failed to check on him for three hours, per the Times, 
which adds that the staffers — both working overtime — falsely 
recorded in a log that they had checked on the financier every 30 
minutes, as was required. The paper notes that such false entries in an 
official log could constitute a federal crime. 
-- The news of Epstein's death was posted on 4chan more than half 
an hour before it became public, leading the New York City Fire 
Department to look into whether an employee shared the details 
improperly. From BuzzFeed News: "Almost 40 minutes before ABC 
News first reported Epstein's death on Twitter, someone posted still-
unverified details on 4chan, the anonymous message board popular 
with far-right trolls and white nationalists. ... After publishing the post, 
other 4chan users egged on the author. When they expressed doubt, 
the original poster added more information to the discussion thread, 
including a detailed breakdown of the procedures allegedly used to 
resuscitate Epstein, which suggest the poster may have been a first 
responder, medical worker, or otherwise privy to details about efforts to 
resuscitate the disgraced financier. ... After telling BuzzFeed News the 
post was `under review,' an FDNY spokesperson said authorities 
`determined this alleged information did not come from the Fire 
Department.-
-- Trump defended his promotion of the baseless conspiracy 
theory connecting the Clintons to Epstein's death. John Wagner 
reports: Trump said he "retweeted a 'very highly respected conservative 
pundit' who is a `big Trump fan.' On Saturday, Trump retweeted a 
message from conservative actor and comedian Terrence K. Williams 
that suggested former president Bill Clinton might have been involved in 
the death of Epstein, the politically connected financier who had been 
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facing multiple charges of sex trafficking involving underage girls. 'He's 
a very highly respected conservative pundit,' Trump told reporters in 
New Jersey, referring to Williams. 'He's a big Trump fan. That was a 
retweet, that wasn't from me. That was from him, but he's a man with 
half a million followers, a lot of followers. And he's respected.-
-- England's Prince Andrew is facing fresh scrutiny for his past 
friendship with Epstein. Adam Taylor and Karla Adam report: 
"Buckingham Palace has never explained the photograph. It shows a 
middle-aged Prince Andrew, Duke of York, smiling with his arm around 
the bare waist of 
, then 17, who claims she was later 
paid by Jeffrey Epstein for sexual encounters with the prince. In the 
background stands Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite who accusers 
say was Epstein's girlfriend and madam. The photo was reportedly 
taken at Maxwell's London home in 2001. ... With Epstein now dead 
after a suspected suicide Saturday and Maxwell apparently outside the 
reach of investigators, hiding from the limelight she once embraced, the 
Duke of York may be the highest-profile member of Epstein's circle from 
the time of the allegations against him. On Friday, newly unsealed legal 
documents from a defamation suit 
brought against Maxwell 
resurfaced old accusations and elaborated on the account of 
inappropriate behavior. In the documents, 
, now 
says she was `trafficked' to Andrew, with whom she claims to have had 
three sexual encounters." 
-- David Boies, the Democratic lawyer who once worked for Al Gore 
but who has been criticized for the methods he used to defend 
Theranos, will once again confront Alan Dershowitz, the 
intellectual bulwark on O.J. Simpson's defense team, in a separate 
legal fight over Epstein's actions. From Tom Jackman, Deanna Paul 
and Manuel Roig-Franzia: "In this long-running melodrama, Boies and 
his partners at Boies Schiller Flexner represent one of Epstein's 
accusers, 
— who was a teenage locker-room 
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attendant at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort when she met 
Epstein. 
has alleged that Epstein demanded that she have sex 
with him repeatedly when she was underage and lent her for sex to his 
friends, including Dershowitz. 
Dershowitz's effort to counter the 
accusations has been made all the more nettlesome because his long-
ago representation of Epstein has come under greater scrutiny following 
Epstein's arrest last month. Dershowitz, an emeritus Harvard University 
law professor, is also fending off a defamation suit filed by 
, set 
for key oral arguments next month, in which Boies has become a vital 
player. Because Epstein's death will end his criminal case, the 
defamation action against Dershowitz could be one of the dwindling 
number of cases that would allow for the full public airing of numerous 
accusations against Epstein that his alleged victims have long sought." 
Trump 'tired' of taxpayers paying for immigrants 
-- The "Send her back!" chant continues to reverberate in 
Greenville, N.C., where Trump held a rally weeks before the El Paso 
shootings. For some voters there, the chant echoes as a prelude to 
murder. Griff Witte reports: "Samar Badwan, a Greenville resident, 
watched that day as 8,000 neighbors and fellow citizens jammed a local 
basketball arena to serenade the president with chants of 'Send her 
back,' a response to Trump's insistence that a Muslim, Somali American 
congresswoman should 'go back' to the land of her birth. ... Before that 
day, Badwan had never had to question whether her hijab was 
incompatible with her Southern drawl. She never had to fear that her 
North Carolina neighbors might hold her Palestinian heritage against 
her. She never had to think that in Greenville — a city she has been 
proud to call home for 30 years, raising three children along the way —
her faith would mark her as an unwanted outsider. Then the president 
came to town." 
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-- A little girl begged for her father's release after he was captured 
during the ICE raids in Mississippi. A week later, he's still detained. 
From CNN: "Andres Gomez-Jorge is being held at the Adams County 
Correctional Facility in Natchez, Mississippi. His family spoke on the 
phone with him briefly Tuesday for the first time since his arrest. The call 
came hours after CNN published a story saying that the family didn't 
know his whereabouts and feared for his well-being." 
-- U.S. citizens are lining up for jobs in rural Mississippi that have 
opened up because of the ICE raids, which resulted in the arrest of 
hundreds of immigrant workers. Jonnelle Marte reports: "In a state 
where the poultry industry is one of the biggest drivers of the economy, 
some of the job applicants said they hoped the opportunities at Koch 
Foods, one of the meatpacking plants targeted by the raids, would 
improve their finances in both substantial and incremental ways. They 
arrived seeking a steadier paycheck. A slightly higher wage. A more 
accommodating schedule. ... Even as many of the job hunters pondered 
the ways the chicken-processing jobs might bring them more stability, 
many of the workers — who were required to bring two forms of 
identification to the job fair — said they sympathized with the [detained 
employees] ... Their sentiments challenge the narratives that typically 
drive the immigration debate in the United States, pitting undocumented 
workers against Americans seeking opportunity." 
-- D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) said she will not accept a federal 
government plan to house unaccompanied migrant children in 
Washington. Fenit Nirappil reports: "Bowser was reacting to an 
application from Dynamic Service Solutions, a federal contractor, to 
open a temporary shelter for children in the District. The company has 
been advertising job listings for educators, caseworkers and medical 
staff members to work with 'unaccompanied alien' children in the 
nation's capital. ... The proposed facility would house as many as 242 
children, according to a person familiar with the contractor's application 
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to the city. Some members of the D.C. Council said they were under the 
impression that the shelter would be located on private property in 
Takoma, a Northwest D.C. neighborhood near the Maryland border." 
-- A House panel with jurisdiction over firearms is expected to 
return early from recess to vote on new gun-control measures. "But 
there's one problem: Democrats are privately sparring over what 
exactly to approve," Rachael Bade and Paul Kane report. "House 
Democrats universally agree on expanding background checks, 
legislation they easily passed in February. They've also coalesced 
around proposals restricting high-capacity magazines, instituting 'red 
flag' laws that keep guns from individuals showing warning signs of 
violence, and potentially even legislation on hate crimes — ideas the 
House Judiciary Committee is expected to consider the week of Labor 
Day, according to two people familiar with the plan, a week before the 
full House is officially scheduled to return. But there's still disagreement 
on whether the House should advance legislation reinstating an assault 
weapons ban that expired 15 years ago." 
-- Gun-control groups are trying to build on the momentum after El 
Paso and Dayton. Amy B Wang, Tom Hamburger, Josh Dawsey and 
Marissa J. Lang report: - People are fed up. This keeps on happening,' 
Christian Heyne, vice president of policy for the Brady Campaign to 
Prevent Gun Violence. `The response to this from a small few people in 
one body of our federal government of Congress is the same. That's 
unbelievably frustrating.' Simultaneously, the groups are emboldened by 
what they see as a vacuum created by turmoil within the National Rifle 
Association. (The NRA denies its influence is slipping and has been 
talking directly to the president and others in the White House.) Gun-
control activists are also aware of - if not completely reassured by —
Trump's comments that he would support expanded background 
checks." 
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-- FBI agents found 25 guns and 10,000 rounds of ammunition in an 
Ohio teen's bedroom after he threatened to assault a law 
enforcement officer. From WGN-TV: "According to court documents, 
the user posted a threat to assault federal law enforcement officers 
writing, 'shoot every agent on sight,' in a discussion about the Branch 
Davidian standoff in Waco in 1993." 
-- "It's been 5 years since a police officer killed my son, Michael 
Brown. Nothing has changed." Lezley McSpadden, the chief 
executive and founder of the Michael O.D. Brown Foundation, writes in 
an op-ed for The Post: "For many young black and brown people, the 
police too often feel like an occupying force in their neighborhoods 
instead of a force for good. A new study of young adults from the 
GenForward Survey at the University of Chicago found that while most 
white young adults believe you can trust the police 'always' or 'often' to 
do what is right, less than a third of young African Americans believe the 
same. Similarly, nearly half of African Americans ages 18 to 36 say they 
'always' or 'often' go out of their way to avoid contact with the police or 
other law enforcement, compared with slightly more than a quarter of 
white young adults." 
-- The New York Times demoted its congressional editor after he 
made problematic comments on Twitter. Paul Farhi reports: "The 
editor, Jonathan Weisman, came under fire for tweets questioning 
whether Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) 
actually represented the Midwest and whether Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-
Tex.) and John Lewis (D-Ga.) represented the Deep South, given that 
their districts are primarily urban and heavily minority. Weisman said he 
was questioning whether the districts truly reflected the broader politics 
of their regions, which are predominantly white and more rural. He 
deleted the tweets after they were roundly criticized as racist. He later 
asked author and Times contributor Roxane Gay for an 'enormous 
apology' in an email after she called him out for those tweets and for 
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criticizing him for identifying another congresswoman as African 
American without mentioning that her primary challenger is also African 
American. Gay posted Weisman's email to her and her assistant and 
criticized him for his 'audacity and entitlement' for contacting her and her 
publisher to demand the apology. A Times spokeswoman, Eileen 
Murphy. said Weisman had apologized to Executive Editor Dean Baguet 
for 'his recent serious lapses in judgment.' but that he has been 
demoted and will no longer edit the newspaper's coverage of Congress. 
The Times didn't specify what Weisman's duties will be. The paper also 
said he would no longer be active on social media." 
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Give me your tired and your poor who can 
stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public 
charge," said Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship 
and Immigration Services, in a twist of Emma Lazarus's famous 
words etched on the Statue of Liberty. Cuccinelli added that "all 
immigrants who can stand on their own two feet, self-sufficient, pull 
themselves up by their bootstraps" would be welcome in the U.S. (Colby 
ltkowitz and Felicia Sonmez) 
SOCIAL MEDIA SPEED READ: 
Stephen Colbert mocked Cuccinelli for his comments: 
The New York mayor's office also responded to Cuccinelli's words: 
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Trump lashed out at critics who he said are "blaming him" for the crisis 
in Hong Kong: 
The top House Republican expressed support for the islanders: 
So did the speaker: 
South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg had a grim conversation with a 
voter in Iowa: 
Buttigieg also went down the giant slide: 
After seeing a segment on Fox News, Trump endorsed Curt Schilling's 
possible congressional campaign in Arizona: 
And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) wished lefties a happy 
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Can you please have him seen for his request fo 
I understand he has not expressed 
any 
concerns in the past, but he is facing the death penalty and is currently in SHU facing 
disciplinary charges. Thanks! 
Supervisory Staff Attorney 
CLC New York 
Metropolitan Correctional Center 
150 Park Row 
New York, New York 10007 
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> » Bruce Barket < 
> 7/19/2019 6:39 AM > » 
Good morning, 
I was able to see Nick last night. Thank you for arranging a room for him. He reports that he has not 
had his hearing yet and the conditions in his cell remain the same. He was told by a guard that he is 
going to be denied visits, phone calls and commissary for a year, in addition to being held in SHU for 90 
days. Water is constantly leaking into the cell, which he now shares with another inmate. He still has 
not received the updated discovery hard drive. He has only been given three short books which he 
read several times, despite having new books sent to him (we have the receipts indicating that MCC has 
received them). He does not have the paper discovery he had prior to being placed in SHU. Recently, 
he found a dead rodent in his bed. Apparently he accident) smothered it while slee in . The li hts in 
the cell are fre uentl off durin the da and on at ni ht. 
I understand that the cell phone justifies some sanction, but the troubling conditions in the cell should 
be rectified. Lastly, I hope the guard who told Nick about his punishment is mistaken. 
Bruce A. Barket, Esq. 
Barket Epstein Kearon Aldea & LoTurco, LLP 
666 Old Country Road , Ste. 700 
Garden Ci , NY 11530 
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