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what the FBI is investigating in its request to question the whistleblower, or whether it did 
so with the approval of Justice Department officials." 
-- Federal prosecutors in Manhattan issued subpoenas in recent weeks to Trump 
fundraisers linked to Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, the two indicted Giuliani 
associates. From the Times: "The subpoenas went to a lobbying firm run by a top fund-
raiser for Mr. Trump, Brian Ballard, and to two people who have helped raise money for 
America First Action, a super PAC created to support the president and allied candidates 
... Mr. Ballard and the America First fund-raisers worked to varying extents with [Parnas 
and Fruman] ... Prosecutors also arranged a voluntary interview in New York as soon as 
this week with Andrew Favorov, an executive with the Ukrainian state-owned gas 
company Naftogaz whom Mr. Parnas and Mr. Fruman tried to enlist in an effort to win 
business, potentially through Global Energy Producers." 
Parnas, an indicted Giuliani associate, helped arrange meetings and calls in 
Europe last year for Rep. Devin Nunes, Parnas's attorney told The Daily Beast: 
"Nunes aide Derek Harvey participated in the meetings, the lawyer said, which were 
arranged to help Nunes' investigative work. ... The travel came as Nunes, in his role on 
the House Intelligence Committee, was working to investigate the origins of Special 
Counsel 
Mueller's probe into Russian election-meddling. Parnas' assistance to 
Nunes' team has not been previously reported. A spokesperson for Nunes did not 
respond to requests for comment." 
-- Trump is aggressively courting some of his Republican critics - including Mitt 
Romney -- ahead of a likely Senate trial. From Politico: "By day's end, the president 
will have hosted more than 40 Republican senators at the White House since autumn 
began, mostly for weekly lunches that address a series of issues but also usually include 
a side of impeachment. ... Romney has said it would be 'wrong and appalling' for Trump 
to request foreign countries to dig up dirt on Joe Biden, prompting Trump to call Romney 
a 'pompous ass.' But the Utah Republican seemed to be keeping an open mind heading 
into the meeting, even if impeachment comes up. 'It's the president's meeting. Whatever 
he wants to talk about, he can talk about,' Romney said. 'I wasn't expecting an invitation, 
but I'm happy to hear what the president wants to talk about.'" 
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- Life at the impeachment "kids table" for new committee members sometimes 
means waiting hours for the spotlight. Paul Kane reports: "All told, six members, four 
Democrats and two Republicans, are new to the panel, but only [Jordan], installed this 
month by GOP leaders wary of the performance by their senior committee members, 
has a prime seat. These are the lawmakers who have to wait, wondering whether their 
preferred topic will already be covered by someone with an earlier spot. That's a normal 
tradition in any committee in Congress, but these stakes could not be higher, with cable 
news networks covering every single question late into the evening. In addition, special 
rules for this inquiry gave the chairman and the ranking member a combined 90 minutes 
of questions at the top of the hearings, leaving members of this 'kids table' stewing 
sometimes for four or five hours before getting a word in edgewise." 
— New York Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D) will become the next chairwoman of the 
Oversight and Reform Committee. She succeeds the late congressman Elijah E. 
Cummings (D-Md.). Mike DeBonis reports: "As the most senior member of the panel, 
Maloney has been serving as acting chairman since [Cummings's death]. But she faced 
a challenge from Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (Va.), who argued to his colleagues that he 
was better equipped to handle the rigors of impeachment and battling Republicans intent 
on protecting the Trump administration from scrutiny. In the end, Democrats chose to 
respect seniority, electing Maloney on a 133-86 vote. ... As the most senior member on 
the Oversight panel, Maloney got a boost from key sectors of the Democratic caucus 
that prize the seniority system — including the 53-member Congressional Black Caucus. 
... Also playing to Maloney's advantage were diversity concerns: Maloney is the only 
woman among the three committee chairs who have taken a lead role in the 
impeachment inquiry." 
Commentary from the opinion page: 
• Dana Milbank: "In Gordon Sondland, Trump has met his match." 
• The Post's Editorial Board: "'Everyone was in the loop': Gordon 
Sondland makes two stunning points." 
• Alexandra Petri: "Foolproof ways to be not guilty of crimes." 
• Max Boot: "Sondland was devastating. But Republicans don't care 
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about the facts." 
• Henry Olsen: "Republicans won't impeach Trump. But they should 
punish him." 
• Deputy editorial page editor Ruth Marcus: "The House is now fully 
entitled to hear from Pence, Pompeo, Mulvaney and Giuliani." 
• Jennifer Rubin: "If Pompeo doesn't testify, he should be 
impeached." 
• Kathleen Parker: "It looks like Republicans are trying to impeach 
the media — not Trump." 
On the coverage: As Sondland testified, a misleading Ukraine story quickly 
spread among conservatives on social media. From NBC News: "The incorrect story, 
first disseminated by the finance blog ZeroHedge, claimed that Mykola Zlochevsky, the 
head of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, had been indicted over money 
laundering related to the Biden family. ... In fact, there was no announcement of an 
indictment. Ukraine's chief prosecutor, Ruslan Ryaboshapka, announced in October his 
office would conduct a wide-ranging review of all previous cases involving Burisma, and 
Wednesday said he was including possible embezzlement in the investigation, according 
to Reuters." 
— Lawyers for Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman sent a letter to Fox News asking the 
network to retract a "false and defamatory" segment that suggested the National 
Security Council's Ukraine expert committed espionage. From CNN: "The request 
for a retraction centers around an October 28 segment on 
Ingraham's prime time 
show, 'The Ingraham Angle.' During that segment, Ingraham seemed to suggest 
Vindman, a decorated military officer, was perhaps more loyal to Ukraine than the United 
States. Vindman was born in Ukraine but grew up in the US. 'Isn't that kind of an 
interesting angle on this story?' Ingraham asked her guest John Yoo, a law professor 
who served in President George W. Bush's administration. 'I find that astounding,' Yoo 
replied. 'Some people might call that espionage.' Vindman's attorney, 
Pressman, 
characterized the segment in his letter as 'false and defamatory' and 'deeply flawed and 
erroneous,' noting espionage is punishable by death. ... A Fox News spokesperson 
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pointed to Yoo's clarifications when asked for comment on Pressman's letter to the 
network. 'As a guest on Fox News, John Yoo was responsible for his own sentiments 
and he has subsequently done interviews to clarify what he meant,' the Fox News 
spokesperson said." 
Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, went to New York for a 
Time 100 Health Summit in October. (Brian Ach/Getty Images) 
THE TRUMP AGENDA THAT SHOULD NOT BE OVERLOOKED: 
— Trump health-care adviser Seema Verma spent $3.3 million of taxpayer money 
to hire a stable of high-priced image consultants, who tried to get magazines like 
Glamour to profile her and encouraged Verma to go to social events to boost her 
personal brand. Amy Goldstein reports on what would almost certainly have been a 
massive scandal in any past administration: "Earlier this year, a top Republican 
communications operative delivered a plan to boost the profile of ... Trump's top 
appointee overseeing health insurance for the elderly and poor. The 'Executive Visibility 
Proposal' was a month-by-month blueprint to have her grant interviews to Women's Day 
and other magazines, speak at prominent conferences and appear at Washington's 
most prestigious social events. ... This work over 19 months that provided 'strategic 
communication' services by a network of politically connected contractors and 
subcontractors, first reported by Politico, came as Verma spoke about the importance of 
fostering individual responsibility and self-reliance among the nation's needy. As chief of 
[the] Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services within the Department of Health and 
Human Services, Verma has forged a far more partisan and outspoken brand than 
almost any of her predecessors. Typically, CMS administrators are visible on Capitol Hill 
and elsewhere but focus on the wonkish details of public insurance programs. Verma, in 
contrast, has emerged as one of the administration's champions of conservative health 
policies ... 
"Offstage but irksome to some CMS staffers, the strategic communications 
consultants— at least two dozen of them, documents show — formed an 
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extragovernmental team that helped guide Verma where she wanted to go 
politically, oversaw some decisions by communication staff and attempted to elevate 
her profile in ways that go beyond what federal consultants usually are hired to do —
and possibly beyond what contracting law permits, according to the documents, 
individuals familiar with the team's role and an expert on government ethics. ... HHS 
ordered an end to the contract, and work stopped the evening of April 3, after Politico 
first disclosed the contours of the arrangement. Afterward, Verma told multiple people 
that she wanted the contract restarted ... HHS's Office of Inspector General has been 
conducting a review of the contracts and the contractors' role since June, and an office 
spokeswoman said it expects to finish early next year. ... 
"The main contract was with Porter Novelli, a multinational public relations firm 
based in Washington. Some of the work was carried out under a subcontract to 
another firm, Nahigian Strategies, led by two brothers with strong GOP ties ... 
Both of them billed at $380 an hour ... At one point, CMS asked HHS to approve a 
multimillion-dollar contract for a national bus tour for Verma that was organized by 
Nahigian Strategies, but then decided not to move forward with it ... Still, the Nahigian 
brothers and their employees continued to work as advance staff for Verma's out-of-
town appearances — a role that does not typically exist for federal officials below the 
level of Cabinet secretaries but was important to Verma." Verma's spokesman said that, 
of the recommended magazines and news outlets that consultants thought could write 
about her, only AARP and Politico did. Sounds like a not-very-good return on 
investment. 
-- Barry Myers, the White House's pick to lead the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration, has withdrawn from consideration due to health 
concerns. Andrew Freedman and Jason Samenow report: "Myers' nomination had 
languished in the Senate since it was first announced in November 2017, due in part to 
conflict of interest concerns regarding his family's continued ownership stake in 
AccuWeather, the private weather forecasting company he led until stepping down on 
Jan. 1. ... Before his nomination, Myers had served as the CEO of AccuWeather since 
2007. AccuWeather has had a history of advocating for expanding the role of 
private forecasting companies at the expense of the taxpayer-funded National 
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Weather Service, which is part of NOAA. Concerns had also been raised regarding 
AccuWeather's record of sexual harassment lawsuits and settlements during 
Myers' time at the company. ... Myers' nomination had twice been favorably reported 
out of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, but was never 
brought up for a floor vote." 
-- Fox News television personality Pete Hegseth, who convinced Trump to pardon 
disgraced service members charged in war crimes cases, has also been tapped by 
for-profit colleges to defend a lucrative loophole. From ProPublica: "Under the law, 
for-profit colleges can't receive more than 90% of their revenue from federal education 
funds. The logic, according to the staffer who drafted the provision, was that the 
education should be good enough that at least some students are willing to pay. But 
veterans' benefits, such as GI Bill stipends, don't count as federal education funds (even 
though they also come from the federal government). This '90/10 loophole' means that 
for every veteran enrolled, a school can admit nine more students using federal loans. 
Veterans advocates and congressional investigators say this loophole leads to predatory 
and deceptive marketing tactics that sometimes leave veterans with unexpected debt 
and useless degrees if schools lose their accreditation or go out of business." 
- Trump hosted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel, the pro-Trump 
billioniare who sits on the company's board, for a secret dinner at the White 
House last month. From NBC News: "Facebook confirmed the meeting ... on 
Wednesday. ... It is unclear why the meeting was not made public or what Trump, 
Zuckerberg and Thiel discussed." 
-- So swampy: Dozens of Facebook lobbyists are tied to members of Congress, a 
new investigation shows. From the Guardian: "So far this year, Facebook has 
employed 68 federal lobbyists, 12 in-house employees and 56 from K Street firms —
spending nearly $12.3m on federal lobbying through 30 September. ... The Facebook 
lobbyists have worked for 29 current members of Congress - 18 representatives 
and 11 senators — including key Democratic party leaders. Four of the lobbyists 
have worked in the office of [Pelosi]. Two have worked in the office of Hakeem Jeffries, 
chair of the House Democratic Caucus. Other Facebook lobbyists have worked for the 
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majority leader Steny Hoyer, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, Senator Mark 
Warner, who is vice chair of the chamber's Democratic caucus, and [Klobuchar]. Some 
of these lobbyists have recently donated to their former bosses ... Thirty-two Facebook 
lobbyists worked for Democratic members of Congress, Democratic White 
Houses, or were hired by Democrats to serve as committee staffers, and 30 more 
worked for Republicans. In contrast to the Democratic connections, no 2019 Facebook 
lobbyist has worked for current members of the Republican House and Senate 
leadership. However, several have worked for powerful GOP Senate committee 
chairmen." 
-- The Trump administration has secretly begun carrying out its plan to deport 
people seeking asylum from the U.S. to Guatemala without giving them a chance 
to see a lawyer first. From BuzzFeed News: "Two sources with knowledge of the 
process and emailed guidance sent to asylum officials ... reveal new details of the 'third 
country' agreement — including a crucial part of the process where asylum-seekers are 
not entitled to a lawyer. ... [USCIS] officials emailed guidance to asylum officers 
across the country on Wednesday morning to notify them that implementation of 
the plan would begin ... The first phase of the plan will take place in El Paso. Border 
officials will, on an expected daily basis, refer a small number of adult asylum-seekers 
from El Salvador and Honduras who arrived on or after Tuesday to asylum officers for 
interviews, according to two sources with knowledge of the process. A few dozen asylum 
officers who had already been trained on the process will handle the interviews. ... 
Before this interview with an asylum officer, immigrants have no access to legal counsel 
— unlike their initial asylum screening, when they first arrive at the US border." 
-- Not a single refugee was resettled in the U.S. last month. From Quartz: "The 
nosedive is the result of a State Department freeze on admissions, according to a World 
Relief press release, resulting in hundreds of canceled flights and yet more uncertainty 
for the thousands of refugees hoping to resettle in the US. The department has issued 
an admissions ceiling of 18,000 for the financial year 2020—the lowest in almost 30 
years, and well below the number of displaced people already in the pipeline to be 
resettled in the US." 
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— The Arizona activist who gave Central American migrants humanitarian aid has 
been acquitted on charges that he illegally harbored them. From the Guardian: The 
activist, Scott Warren, "was stoic after the verdict was read. His supporters were crying 
at the news of the decision. Warren, 37, testified that neutrality guides his work near the 
border and denied he has ever helped migrants hide or instructed them how to avoid 
authorities. ... Warren was arrested in January 2018 by US agents who were staking out 
a humanitarian aid station in Arizona known as The Barn, where two Central American 
men had been staying for several days. The prosecutor Nathaniel Walters said the men 
didn't need medical attention and questioned the authenticity of Warren's claim that he 
was 'orienting' them before they left the camp. The camp is run by a group that tries 
to prevent immigrants from dying in the desert." 
— Five American journalists sued the U.S. government, alleging that border 
authorities violated their First Amendment rights by inspecting their cameras and 
notebooks and questioning them about their coverage of last year's migrant 
caravan. From the AP: "Mark Abramson, a photographer working for The New York 
Times, said two CBP officers patted him down when he returned to the U.S. at the San 
Diego border crossing on Jan. 5. They emptied his pockets and searched his bag, which 
contained notebooks with 'confidential source material,' the names and contact 
information of people he encountered while working, personal reflections and receipts to 
be submitted to his editor for reimbursement, the lawsuit said. After being taken to 
another room and patted down again, Abramson said another officer asked what was in 
his 'book,' who was leading the caravan, whether they were for or against the U.S. 
government and whether he knew of any groups helping the caravan." 
— A judge blocked the scheduled executions of four death row inmates, delaying --
at least for now -- Trump's efforts to resume capital punishment in the federal 
system. From Politico: "The order issued Wednesday night by U.S. District Court Judge 
Tanya Chutkan halts four executions that U.S. officials planned to carry out starting next 
month. The only other execution that officials had put on the calendar, also for 
December, was blocked last month by the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. In July, 
Attorney General William Barr announced plans to resume executions at the federal 
penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind. He suggested the practice had been allowed to languish 
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for too long and said it would deliver justice in cases involving what he called the 'worst 
criminals.'" 
- Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) continue their quest for 
answers in the killing of Bijan Ghaisar by two U.S. Park Police officers in 2017 
after the Justice Department decided last week not to charge the officers. Tom 
Jackman reports: "The two senators requested a briefing from FBI Director Christopher 
A. Wray about the case, and they also sought answers in a series of letters they have 
sent the FBI beginning last year, which the FBI has previously declined to provide. In 
addition, three members of Congress have asked the FBI to allow the release of the 911 
call made at the beginning of the incident, which may shed light on why the officers 
repeatedly approached Ghaisar's Jeep Grand Cherokee with guns drawn after Ghaisar 
left the scene of a minor fender bender in Alexandria on Nov. 17, 2017." 
-- Trump urged Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) to appoint Rep. Doug Collins (R) to 
fill a Senate seat left vacant by Johnny Isakson. From the Atlanta Journal-
Constitution: "It's the second time in two weeks that Trump directly appealed Kemp to 
appoint Collins, who was long considered a top contender to fill [Isakson's seat] before a 
multimillionaire financial executive applied. Kelly Loeffler submitted her application hours 
before the Monday deadline, apparently scrambling Collins' calculations. Loeffler, a 
financial executive who co-owns Atlanta's WNBA franchise, is widely considered 
by GOP insiders to be Kemp's favorite for the coveted post. When Collins was 
pressed ... earlier Wednesday about whether he was contemplating a bid for the office 
regardless of whether he's selected, he confirmed his interest." 
Trump says he's 'looking' at exempting Apple from China tariffs 
THE NEW WORLD ORDER: 
-- Trump said China isn't "stepping up," as the trade talks show new signs of 
languishing. 
J. Lynch reports: "Trump's comments, made while touring an Apple 
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supplier facility in Texas, came as investors appeared to be growing impatient with his 
inability to deliver the promised accord. Asked by a reporter if the deal would be 
completed this year, the president said: `I haven't wanted to do it yet because I 
don't think they're stepping up to the level that I want.' After nearly a year of 
bargaining, negotiators remain stuck on several core issues, including the extent of 
Chinese commitments to buy American farm products and U.S. willingness to reverse its 
tariff plans. ... 'We continue to talk to China. China wants to make a deal. The question 
is: Do I want to make a deal? Because I like what's happening right now. We're taking in 
billions and billions of dollars,' Trump told reporters in a misleading reference to his 
tariffs on Chinese products, which are overwhelmingly paid by American companies. 
Privately, Trump is more eager to announce a finished agreement and is being 
counseled by his trade advisers to lower his expectations, according to a senior 
administration official." 
-- Hong Kong has now taken center stage in the U.S.-China showdown after 
Congress passed a bill intended to protect human rights on the island amid 
months-long protests. Simon Denyer and Tiffany Liang report: "Hong Kong's stock 
market slid more than 1.5 percent, with shares across Asia and U.S. equity futures also 
falling, amid concerns the intensifying dispute over the city's future could delay or derail 
an interim U.S.-China trade deal. ... The prospect that the bill's passage could harm 
U.S.-China relations and dent prospects of a trade deal appeared to undermine investor 
confidence. China summoned the U.S. Embassy's acting chief, William Klein, in Beijing 
to express its condemnation of the bill, and vowed 'strong countermeasures' to defend 
its sovereignty. ... The slide in shares eased slightly after China's chief trade negotiator, 
Liu He, said he was 'cautiously optimistic' about reaching an interim trade deal with the 
United States." 
-- The Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 30 soldiers this 
week in the West African nation of Mali. Danielle Paquette reports: "In a statement 
late Wednesday, the group's West Africa arm said it wounded another 30 soldiers while 
mentioning no deaths among its fighters. The Malian army, which routinely tangles with 
extremists in the country's restive north, said Tuesday that 17 enemy militants were 
killed in the fight at Tabankort in the Gao region, which borders Burkina Faso and Niger. 
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U.S. officials say the Sahel region, which lies south of the Sahara Desert, 
threatens to become a safe haven for terrorists to plot and launch attacks 
worldwide. Mali, which is twice the size of Texas, is a particularly troubling hot 
spot. ... More than 100 soldiers have died in Mali since October in near-weekly clashes 
as the resource-strapped country tries to shake off a scourge that took root after the 
Libyan government collapsed in 2011." 
-- Benny Gantz, the former Israeli army chief, failed to put together a governing 
coalition, prolonging Israel's political gridlock and making it likely that voters will 
have to vote in a third national election in less than a year. Steve Hendrix and Ruth 
Eglash report: "Gantz, who has rocketed to the top tier of Israeli politics, caused a stir in 
October when he became the first person other than Benjamin Netanyahu to be given a 
chance to form a government here in a decade. Twenty-eight days later, his mandate to 
try is expiring with no parliamentary majority in sight. ... Gantz said in a statement 
Wednesday that he had informed Israeli President Reuven Rivlin that it was not possible 
to form a government. 'I left no stone unturned. I sifted through every grain of sand,' 
Gantz said in a televised address. He accused Netanyahu, the prime minister, of 
negotiating not in good faith over a possible unity government but 'with childish videos 
and slogans.' For the next three weeks, the law allows any member of the Knesset, 
Israel's parliament, a chance to do what Gantz and Netanyahu could not: cobble 
together the 61 votes needed to form a government. If this, too, falls short, as most 
analysts predict, the country's deja-vu nightmare will continue with another election, 
probably in March." 
-- Britain's Prince Andrew is quitting his public duties "for the foreseeable future" 
after a chaotic interview during which he defended his relationship with convicted 
sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Karla 
and William Booth report: "Essentially, the 
Duke of York will now go dark — as sponsors of some of the 200 charities he endorses 
had already begun to abandon him, concluding that he no longer casts a royal glow but 
controversial shade. In a statement Wednesday, Andrew, the second son of Queen 
Elizabeth II, said: 'It has become clear to me over the last few days that the 
circumstances relating to my former association with Jeffrey Epstein has become a 
major disruption to my family's work.' He added: 'I continue to unequivocally regret my ill-
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judged association with Jeffrey Epstein. His suicide has left many unanswered 
questions, particularly for his victims, and I deeply sympathise with everyone who has 
been affected and wants some form of closure." 
-- Six Iranian environmentalists were sentenced to prison for "collaborating" with 
the U.S. Erin Cunningham reports: "The defendants, part of a group of eight imprisoned 
environmentalists, were arrested and jailed by the elite Revolutionary Guard Corps early 
last year for their work tracking the critically endangered Asiatic cheetah. The trial 
sparked outrage among conservationists worldwide." 
-- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro shrugged off a government report that 
deforestation in the Amazon reached an 11-year high on his watch. Marina Lopes 
reports: "'Deforestation and fires will never end,' the pro-development president told 
reporters in Brasilia. 'It's cultural.' The comments were quickly condemned by 
environmentalists, who fear that the Amazon is approaching a tipping point at which 
large swaths of the rainforest will be irrevocably lost. ... The Brazilian Amazon lost 3,769 
square miles of rainforest between August 2018 and July 2019, Brazil's National Space 
Research Institute reported this week, an area almost 11/2  times the size of Delaware. 
That was up 30 percent from the previous year." 
-- An increasingly popular product has sparked a bloody cartel war in Mexico: the 
avocado. From the Los Angeles Times: "Mexico's multibillion-dollar avocado industry, 
headquartered in Michoacan state, has become a prime target for cartels, which have 
been seizing farms and clearing protected woodlands to plant their own groves of what 
locals call 'green gold.' More than a dozen criminal groups are battling for control of the 
avocado trade in and around the city of Uruapan, preying on wealthy orchard owners, 
the laborers who pick the fruit and the drivers who truck it north to the United States." 
▪ Myanmar's government announced that its leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, will 
head a legal team it will send to the International Court of Justice to contest a 
charge of genocide filed against the regime. From the Times: "The country's military 
has been accused of carrying out mass rapes, killings and the torching of homes during 
a counterinsurgency campaign launched in western Myanmar in August 2017 after rebel 
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attacks. The violence sent more than 700,000 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority 
fleeing to neighboring Bangladesh. Myanmar's population is overwhelmingly Buddhist. 
... The head of a U.N. fact-finding mission on Myanmar warned last month that 'there is 
a serious risk of genocide recurring,' and the mission also said in its final report in 
September that Myanmar should be held responsible in international legal forums for 
alleged genocide against the Rohingya. Myanmar has strongly denied carrying out 
organized human rights abuses." 
SOCIAL MEDIA SPEED READ: 
Trump's notes on Sondland's testimony quickly caught the Internet's attention: 
This picture of Sondland at the hearing by Post photographer Matt McClain also went 
viral: 
The look from Nunes as he turned off his microphone after the first stretch of Sondland's 
testimony went viral: 
Rep. Justin Amash (I-Mich.), a Trump critic who left the GOP on July 4, joked about it: 
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In his testimony, Sondland further pushed the notion that Trump didn't really care about 
corruption in Ukraine; 
A Post foreign affairs columnist argued that we still don't have enough information about 
Rick Perry's role in this scandal: 
A Vox editor noted this troubling detail: 
And a Bloomberg reporter noted this one: 
The Post's fact-checker dug out email proof that contradicted a State 
Department defense of Pompeo: 
Sondland mentioned rapper ASAP Rocky in his testimony, and no one batted an eye: 
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After testifying, Sondland made it to his flight: 
Sondland, by the way, wasn't the only high-profile figure flying out of Dulles 
yesterday: 
Giuliani denied ever meeting Sondland: 
And he asked for an apology: 
An NBC correspondent shared this throwback: 
And a Vox reporter shared this other throwback: 
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Here are 
Schiff and Jim Jordan back in high school, via a CNN reporter: 
And a Democratic senator observed that none of the oversight being conducted by the 
House Intelligence Committee would be happening if not for the outcome of last 
November's midterms: 
Andrew Yang missed a former candidate's presence onstage in last night's debate: 
And Marianne Williamson reminded her followers that she's still running: 
The other candidates who did not qualify for the fifth debate also tried to make their 
absences noticeable: 
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "My whole day has been like this," Sondland said at 
Dulles, after accidentally placing his carry-on bag into the wrong overhead 
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bin on his flight back to Brussels. (CNN) 
VIDEOS OF THE DAY: 
Stephen Colbert joked that Sondland "spilled the tea" about Trump and Ukraine: 
Seth Meyers thinks yesterday might have been the most devastating day of the Trump 
presidency... so far: 
Sam Bee has concluded that all the president's men colluded: 
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Not a problem. I will add them to the list. Do you have everyone's titles? 
I will advise the Warden of the request that he accompany us on the tour. 
Thank you, 
M. 
Supervisory Staff Attorney 
CLC New York 
Metropolitan Correctional Center 
150 Park Row 
New York, New York 10007 
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Two additional people from DOJ will join the visit: 
Ed 
In addition, Geoff has asked that the new acting warden join the tour. Let me know if you 
have any questions, thanks. 
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Subject: RE: MCC Visit Thursday 
If it is not too much of an imposition, we ask that all visitors come to our front lobby for 
screening before admission. Thanks! 
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Subject: Re: MCC Visit Thursday 
Hi M, 
It should not be a problem. Does 10 am work for Mr. Berman and the rest of his staff? 
Thank you, 
M. 
Supervisory Staff Attorney 
CLC New York 
Metropolitan Correctional Center 
150 Park Row 
New York, New York 10007 
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> 8/13/2019 2:05 PM 
The list of visitors from our office is below: 
Geoffrey Berman 
Audrey Strauss 
As discussed, we would like to see the 2nd floor pscyh observation and suicide watch area; 
the 9th floor SHU, and Epstein's cell, which we understand to still be cordoned off. As 
discussed, we would appreciate if only MCC legal would escort us, and we will not speak 
to any of the guards present given the ongoing investigations. Please give me a call with 
any questions, and let us know what time and where we should go, and if it would be 
easier for us to enter via the 3rd floor bridge. 
Thanks, 
Assistant United States Attorney 
Southern District of New York 
Tel: 
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