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Buttigieg plans to campaign on Monday. 'The Biden campaign has been notably 
absent.'" 
-- Sanders's loyal voters could keep him in the race for months. From the Journal: 
"Sanders's campaign has made it clear that to win the nomination, he would have to pull 
off an ambitious expansion of the electorate. His campaign says it is banking on turning 
out a coalition of young, working-class and minority voters. But polls show the Vermont 
independent's base is more loyal than that of any other 2020 Democrat, and in 
interviews over the last four months, Mr. Sanders's supporters [have said] that they 
wouldn't support any other candidate as long as he is running. Those backers—and his 
massive fundraising—mean that, unlike many of his rivals, Mr. Sanders might not need a 
marquee win in an early state to stay in the presidential race for months." 
- Sen. Cory Booker keeps winning praise for his presidential campaign. What he's 
not winning is much support. Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and 
Scherer report: "As 
he struggles with low-single-digit polling and the prospect of missing the cut for next 
month's debate, Booker has become a symbol for the harsh reality of this year's 
nominating process. It is just not enough to win plaudits for performance, as he has after 
multiple events, or to execute a clear campaign strategy. In the shadow of Trump's 
potential reelection, Democratic voters have become focused on winning and are 
unforgiving with their doubts. Booker has sought to answer that concern by preaching 
the power of empathy. He appeals to white Iowa and New Hampshire voters by talking 
about the problems of inner cities and poverty. He has confronted Trump by explaining 
his compassion for his supporters. And unlike other campaigns that have pivoted on 
message and policy, he has made clear he will not change his strategy to win." 
Sanders left Washington less than six months ago. Now the former White 
House press secretary has returned to Arkansas in search for a new political role. 
From the Times: "'There are two types of people who run for office,' Ms. Sanders said 
over breakfast tacos at a diner in downtown Little Rock last week. 'People that are called 
and people that just want to be a senator or governor. I feel like I've been called.' ... As 
the daughter of Mike Huckabee, who served as governor from 1996 to 2007 and twice 
ran for president, she is seen as political royalty in Arkansas, and Mr. Trump himself 
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urged her to run for governor when she left the West Wing. That job will open in 2023, 
when Gov. Asa Hutchinson's term is up, and Ms. Sanders is giving every indication that 
she plans to run. ... 
"In the 23 months that Ms. Sanders served as Mr. Trump's chief spokeswoman, her 
battles with the White House press corps were epic. ... Ms. Sanders's relationship with 
reporters reached a nadir in April after it was revealed that she had admitted under oath 
to investigators working for the special counsel, 
S. Mueller III, that her claim at a 
press briefing that 'countless members of the F.B.I.' told her they had lost confidence in 
the bureau's director, 
B. Comey, was a 'slip of the tongue' that was not based on 
any facts. ... 'I was attacked for everything, not just my performance,' she said of her 
time in Washington. 'I was called a fat soccer mom, my kids were threatened, my life 
was threatened. It was a lot. I hate harping on it, but to be in the position I'm in and to 
have Secret Service, that's not normal.' Ms. Sanders paused. 'I don't like being called a 
liar,' she said." 
-- Doctors who previously worked at the White House and those who are currently 
in touch with the White House said the mysterious and unannounced visit Trump 
made to the hospital last weekend was highly unusual. From CNN's Dr. Sanjay 
Gupta: "Given that the White House had previously given plenty of advance notice about 
the President's past physical exams, last weekend's visit to Walter Reed reportedly took 
everyone by surprise, including much of the staff at the hospital itself. Whenever the 
President is planning a visit to Walter Reed, an institution-wide notice goes out, making 
staff aware of certain road and corridor closings. According to a person familiar with the 
matter, that didn't happen last weekend. Also striking: the fact that the president's 
physician, Dr. Sean Conley, rode with Trump in the presidential motorcade. 
Typically, the doctor rides separately from the President for security reasons. A 
former White House doctor [said] it had never happened during their time there. ... 
"All tests Conley described could've been performed at the White House instead 
of the hospital. Many blood tests require the patient to fast overnight and are thus 
performed first thing in the morning -- not in the middle of the afternoon, as apparently 
happened with the President. And remember, the President had these tests just nine 
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months ago. One of the reasons doctors wait a year to order labs for a routine physical 
is to better assess the impact of medication and lifestyle changes over a consistent 
interval of time. There is no benefit to drawing the blood early, unless there is a concern 
about something. Finally, there is no such thing as a phased physical exam, as Trump 
had described it in his tweet from last weekend." 
-- Another health scare: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from the 
hospital on Sunday after going in with chills and a fever. 
Barnes reports: 
"The court announced in a news release Saturday evening that the 86-year-old had 
been seen at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington and then transferred to Johns 
Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where doctors were more familiar with her medical 
history. She was treated for a possible infection. 'With intravenous antibiotics and fluids, 
her symptoms have abated,' the court said in the Saturday release. The court provided 
no other details." 
SOCIAL MEDIA SPEED READ: 
The Intelligence chairman reacted to The Post's scoop: 
The Post's Shane Harris had this reminder after an assertion by Sen. John Neely 
Kennedy (R-La.) on "Fox News Sunday": 
On Saturday, Rudy Giuliani made this comparison: 
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This scandal from a decade ago seems so quaint: 
Bernie Sanders went out dancing: 
It's almost Thanksgiving, which means a pair of turkeys are having the time of their lives 
in D.C.: 
And border officials detained a shipment of illegal cold cuts, which led to this killer lede: 
VIDEOS OF THE DAY: 
Taylor Swift broke 
Jackson's record for winning the most American Music 
Awards of all time. Jackson won 24. Swift has 29 after last night: 
(Find the complete list of winners here.) 
"Saturday Night Live" spoofed last week's Democratic debate: 
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"Weekend Update" pointed out that testimony on impeachment concluded in the House 
last week and "now the debate will shift to your house for Thanksgiving": 
"The Daily Show" set out to investigate who will win the black vote in 2020: 
And Trevor Noah interviewed Hillary and Chelsea Clinton: 
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The Daily 202: The budget deal shows how unserious the GOP is about deficits in the 
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The budget deal shows how unserious the 
GOP is about deficits in the Trump era 
President Trump, accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, visits the 
Capitol in March for a lunch with the Republican caucus. (Melina Mara/The 
Washington Post) 
BYE 
HOHMANN 
with Mariana Alfaro 
THE BIG IDEA: Mitch McConnell told President Trump 
privately last month that no politician has ever lost an 
election for spending more money. That mind-set —
caring more about the next election than the next generation 
— helps explain why the Senate majority leader and the 
president endorsed a budget deal last night, which still 
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needs to pass Congress, that will raise spending limits by 
$320 billion while suspending the federal debt ceiling until 
after both men's 2020 reelection fights. It also illustrates 
how hollow so much of the rhetoric from McConnell, Trump 
and other Republicans was during Barack Obama's 
presidency. 
Discretionary spending is growing at a faster clip 
under Trump than Obama. The budget deficit and the 
national debt are growing at even more distressing 
rates, however, because the Republican tax cuts have 
reduced revenue even more starkly than the dire 
forecasts. The Trump administration estimates the deficit 
this fiscal year will top $1 trillion, up from $779 billion last 
year. It was $587 billion in 2016, Obama's last full year in 
office. The national debt was $19 billion when Trump took 
power and surpassed $22 trillion this month. Even with rock-
bottom interest rates, the federal government will pay out 
more than $350 billion this year to service that debt. 
If we're running these kinds of deficits when the 
economy is supposedly booming, think about how bad 
they'll become when a recession arrives and revenues 
inevitably shrivel. "This agreement is a total abdication of 
fiscal responsibility by Congress and the president," said 
Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee 
for a Responsible Federal Budget. "It may end up being the 
worst budget agreement in our nation's history, proposed at 
a time when our fiscal conditions are already precarious." 
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personally cares that the federal balance sheet is 
drowning in red ink. Undoubtedly, many people who work 
in the White House — led by acting chief of staff Mick 
Mulvaney — want spending cuts. And these administration 
officials insist that Trump has told them he wants to make 
big cuts in 2021 if he wins a second term. But watch what 
the president does, not what his aides say. Trump also 
promised before he took office that he'd balance the budget 
and pay off the entire national debt by the end of a 
hypothetical second term. 
Trump, who has referred to himself as "the king of debt," 
drove multiple businesses into bankruptcy before becoming 
the first president in U.S. history with no prior governing or 
military experience. Earlier in his term, advisers presented 
him with a chart that projected a hockey stick spike in the 
national debt unless major changes are made. Trump 
shrugged. "Yeah, but I won't be here," he reportedly said. 
Lately, the president has been recounting the advice 
he got from McConnell about spending money to West 
Wing aides. Two people with direct knowledge confirmed to 
my colleagues recently that the Kentucky Republican 
delivered that message during a private phone call last 
month. 
-- Republican leaders are quick to blame Democrats, 
noting that Speaker Nancy Pelosi negotiated the deal 
with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. They say they 
needed to agree to higher spending levels to get support in 
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the House. That's true to some degree, of course, but 
Republicans were also on their borrowing binge when they 
had unified control of government during the first two years 
of the Trump presidency. This will forever taint Paul Ryan's 
legacy as speaker. 
To be sure, the Trump administration has proposed 
steep spending cuts in each of his budget blueprints, 
and some of the deficit hawks on his staff tried to 
insist on cuts during this most recent round of 
negotiations. "Acting budget director 
Vought 
sought last week to force Democrats to commit to $150 
billion in budget changes in exchange for the new spending, 
but his demand was rejected. Instead, negotiators agreed to 
$77 billion in accounting changes that probably wouldn't 
constrain any future spending," 
Paletta and Erica 
Werner report in their story on the deal. "But the deal locked 
in more spending for the military, something Trump has tried 
to make a hallmark of his first 30 months as president." 
But the only thing the president has really gone to the 
mat for on Capitol Hill — triggering the longest-ever 
government shutdown — was to get billions in 
additional spending to build his proposed border wall. 
When he couldn't get the money that way, he diverted it from 
the military construction budget — the legality of which 
continues to be challenged in court. 
Trump on debt ceiling: 'We can never play with it 
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they tried to sell their members on the bill. "Democrats 
have always insisted on parity in increases between defense 
and non-defense, and we are pleased that our increase in 
non-defense budget authority exceeds the defense number 
by $10 billion over the next two years," Senate Minority 
Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Pelosi (D-Calif.) said 
in a joint statement. "It also means Democrats secured an 
increase of more than $100 billion in funding for domestic 
priorities since President Trump took office." 
House Minority Leader 
McCarthy (R-Calif.) made a 
contrary claim as he endorsed the deal. "Given that 
sequestration cut defense spending more than non-defense, 
we are pleased that the agreement provides $20 billion more 
for defense than non-defense over two years," he said in a 
statement. "While this deal is not perfect, compromise is 
necessary in divided government." 
McConnell emphasized the new spending he got for 
Kentucky for military installations in his state, citing 
Fort Knox, Fort Campbell and the Blue Grass Army 
Depot. Missing from his statement was any mention of 
the debt or the deficit. "While the reality of divided 
government means this is not exactly the deal Republicans 
would have written on our own, it is what we need to keep 
building on that progress," he said. 
-- This new deal, assuming it passes before Congress 
leaves town for the month-long August recess, will end 
the Budget Control Act, which Obama signed into law 
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after House Republicans pushed the government to 
the brink of defaulting on its debt in 2011. "That law, 
once seen as the Republicans' crowning achievement in the 
Obama era, set strict spending caps, enforced with 
automatic spending cuts," the New York Times notes. "But 
since 2014, a succession of budget deals have waived 
those caps, and the new deal not only lifts them again but 
also allows the whole law to expire in 2021. And this time 
around, the approach of the debt limit hardly caused a ripple 
of consternation about the rising red ink." 
• "I've seen no evidence that it's even being discussed," 
said Sen. 
Lankford (R-Okla.). "That's the hard 
part for me." 
• "It's pretty clear that both houses of Congress and both 
parties have become big spenders, and Congress is no 
longer concerned about the extent of the budget deficits 
or the debt they add," said Club for Growth President 
McIntosh, a former Republican congressman. 
-- A few members of the House Freedom Caucus 
strategized last night about ways to tank this deal, 
which they see as a betrayal of the tea party principles 
that they got elected on and warn will "sabotage the 
fiscal future of our nation." Freshman Rep. Chip Roy (R-
Tex.), who was formerly Sen. Ted Cruz's chief of staff, is 
circulating a letter around Capitol Hill offices to collect 
signatures before sending it to the White House. "You 
should veto this bill because it is fiscally irresponsible," the 
letter says, "indulging our national spending addiction." 
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"Other likely backers include GOP Reps. Andy Biggs of 
Arizona, 
Cloud of Texas and Debbie Lesko of 
Arizona, who, like Roy, are members of the hardline House 
Freedom Caucus," Politico reports. "Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-
FLa.), a top Trump ally on Capitol Hill, is also expected to 
sign on to the letter." 
Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor and 
congressman who lost reelection last year after Trump 
endorsed his primary challenger, suggested last week that 
the growing debt and government spending would be a 
centerpiece of the long-shot primary challenge that he's 
mulling against Trump. 
-- Other fiscal conservatives who don't need to worry 
about running for reelection lamented the direction 
that the GOP has taken under his stewardship. "There 
are no small government conservatives left in Washington," 
tweeted Joe Scarborough, who represented the Florida 
Panhandle in Congress as a Republican from 1995 to 2001 
and now hosts a morning show on MSNBC. "If Newt 
Gingrich agreed to this deal, we would have run him out of 
DC on the same day. We balanced the budget four years in 
a row. These Big Government Republicans are bankrupting 
US. 
Conservative talk radio host Erick Erickson from Georgia 
noted that his party demands fiscal discipline only when 
Democrats are in the White House. "This is a bad deal that 
puts us many steps closer to bankruptcy," he tweeted. "No 
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leaders in Washington want to restore any fiscal sanity. Why 
is it always only a [Democrat] in the White House and 
[Republicans] in Congress that get us fiscal sanity, i.e. [Bill] 
Clinton balanced budget & sequestration under Obama?" 
-- Social media buzzed about the deal: Nancy Pelosi was 
spotted negotiating while sitting on a delayed flight: 
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An editor for the Bulwark, a conservative publication, noted 
how Trump has changed his tune entirely on the debt 
ceiling: 
Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.) criticized the deal by sharing a 
GIF of the Joker lighting a pile of money on fire from the 
2008 Batman movie "The Dark Knight." In the scene, the 
Joker says: "All you care about is money. This town 
deserves a better class of criminal. And I'm going to give it 
to them." 
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Cruz, who has already abandoned in the Trump era several 
of what he used to call his core principles, refused to talk 
about the deal when approached by CNN: 
There was also criticism from the left: 
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WHILE YOU WERE IN YOUR MORNING MEETINGS: 
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, who is trying to kick millions off food stamps, 
arrives at the White House in May to watch Trump announce billions in bailouts for 
farmers in red states who are suffering because of the president's trade wars. (Jabin 
Botsford/The Washington Post) 
-- The U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed new 
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rules this morning to limit access to food stamps for 
households with savings and other assets, a measure 
that officials said would cut benefits to about 3 million 
people. 
Reiley reports: "In a telephone call with 
reporters, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and 
Acting Deputy Under Secretary Brandon Lipps said the 
proposed new rules for the Supplemental Nutritional 
Assistance Program (SNAP) were aimed at ending 
automatic eligibility for those who were already receiving 
federal and state assistance. Forty-three states now grant 
automatic eligibility to low-income people already receiving 
other government benefits, without undergoing income or 
asset tests. Lipps said the proposal would result in an 
annual budgetary savings of $2.5 billion." 
Putting the numbers in perspective: "Current rules give 
states latitude to raise SNAP income eligibility limits so that 
low-income families with housing and child care costs that 
consume a sizable share of their income can continue to 
receive help affording adequate food. This option also allows 
states to adopt less restrictive asset tests so that families, 
seniors and people with a disability can have modest 
savings or own their own home without losing SNAP 
benefits. ... To be eligible for SNAP, a household's gross 
income must be below 130 percent of the federal poverty 
line. In 2019, that works out to $32,640 a year for a family of 
four. Democrats pointed out that the benefit amounts to 
$1.40 per person per meal." 
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), the top Democrat on 
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the Senate Agriculture Committee, says Trump is 
making an end run around Congress, which blocked 
his earlier proposals to slash food stamps in the farm 
bill. "This rule would take food away from families, prevent 
children from getting school meals, and make it harder for 
states to administer food assistance," she said. 
Former vice president Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event in an electrical workers 
union hall in Las Vegas. (John Locher/AP) 
-- Another huge flip-flop: After spending half a century 
advocating for capital punishment, former vice 
president Joe Biden this morning proposed abolishing 
the death penalty at the federal level and offering 
incentives for states to follow suit. It's one 
of several ideas in a new criminal justice plan that are 
at odds with the 1994 crime 
bill he quarterbacked. "Convicted criminals who would 
face execution under current law would instead be 
sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of 
parole," Sean Sullivan reports."Biden's plan also would 
decriminalize marijuana and expunge past cannabis-related 
convictions; end the disparity between sentences for powder 
and crack cocaine; and do away with all incarceration for 
drug use alone. ... Biden's proposal also calls for ending 
cash bail and terminating the federal government's use of 
private prisons. ... The plan would invest $1 billion annually 
in juvenile justice reform. It also would seek to give states 
incentives to stop incarcerating minors." 
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-- In a profile for the New York Times Sunday 
Magazine, Biden says that the general election will be a 
"referendum" on Trump and his fitness for 
office. 
Steinberger reports: "I asked if he thought 
he would have beaten Trump in 2016. 'I don't know,' he said. 
'Everybody says that. But look, I don't know. You've got to be 
in the game. I thought Hillary would have made a good 
president.' ... Biden prefers to talk about next year's face-off 
with Trump — 'a battle for the soul of America' — in place of 
the ongoing fight for the soul of the Democratic Party. 
... When I caught up with him in New Hampshire this 
month, he dismissed claims of a rift between hard-line 
progressives and less strident ones as an 'artificial division.' 
He also spoke admiringly of [Rep. Alexandria] Ocasio-
Cortez, describing her as 'smart as the devil.'" 
Boris 
speaks in London. (Simon Dawson/Bloomberg News) 
-- Boris 
is the next British prime 
minister. William Booth and Karla 
report from 
London: "The bombastic, Latin-quoting, Oxford classicist 
with the mop of intentionally mussed yellow hair, who made 
his name as an over-the-top journalist in Brussels and then 
as London mayor and galvanized the successful Brexit 
campaign in 2016, will likely walk through the black 
enameled door of 10 Downing Street on Wednesday —
fulfilling what his biographers describe as his relentless 
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the top spot. ... On Wednesday, Theresa May will deliver 
her last remarks at a question-and-answer session in the 
House of Commons and then she will travel to Buckingham 
Palace to resign. 
will follow her to the palace, 
where Queen Elizabeth II will name him prime minister and 
ask him to form a new government. 
will be 14th 
prime minister during the queen's long reign. ... 
"Writing in Monday's Telegraph, 
said, `it is 
time this country recovered some its can-do spirit.' He 
said that if the Americans could land men on the moon 50 
years ago using hand-sewn bits of computer code, then 21st 
century Britain could imagine a way to provide for frictionless 
trade across the Northern Irish border, which has been one 
of the stumbling blocks of the Brexit deal. 'Things are really 
about to kick off again in a massive way because the 
irresistible force of Boris 
ego is about to meet the 
immovable force of the House of Commons,' said Rob Ford, 
a politics professor at the University of Manchester." 
Black Hawk helicopters carry U.S. troops in Afghanistan. (Rahmat Gul/AP) 
GET SMART FAST: 
1. The Army revealed that it is conducting a secret 
mission that requires Black Hawk helicopters to fly 
around the D.C. area. The classified operation was 
disclosed when the Pentagon asked Congress for 
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approval to sniTT Tunas To provide more aircraft 
maintenance. (Bloomberg News) 
2. As homophobic and transphobic sentiments 
proliferate under Brazilian President Jair 
Bolsonaro, LGBT people are taking personal 
defense into their own hands. Many members of the 
LGBT community are joining self-defense courses 
because they don't feel as safe as they did in the past. 
(Terrence McCoy) 
3. Thousands of California women and teenagers 
seeking free or discounted reproductive health 
services through a federal program could find 
themselves in clinics that focus on abstinence and 
natural family planning as methods of birth control. 
Operated by the California-based Obria Group, the 
centers encourage young clients to use online 
apps developed with funding from religious 
conservatives. Some of these centers participating in 
the federal family planning program, known as Title X, 
also offer "abortion pill reversal," which experts say is 
not supported by scientific research. (Ariana Eunjung 
Cha) 
4. Centrist Democrats are worried that Medicare-for-
all will imperil their chance to keep control of the 
House. The current debate over the health-care 
proposal that's playing out in the 2020 field shows how 
tricky it is to find a balance between exciting voters and 
reassuring them. (Sean Sullivan and Emily Davies) 
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5. Swimmer Katie Ledecky withdrew from two races 
at the FINA world championship, citing unspecified 
medical issues. The announcement that the Olympic 
gold medalist, who is now studying at Stanford, was 
pulling out of the race came 90 minutes before she was 
scheduled to hit the pool. (Rick Maese) 
6. Hong Kong police have faced protester anger for 
weeks. But some officers would rather be on the 
other side of the picket fence. Once respected as 
"Asia's Finest," members of the Hong Kong Police 
Force are thinking of quitting after being caught between 
the government's pro-Beijing stance and the fury of the 
people they swore to protect. (Shibani Mahtani and 
Tiffany Liang)
7. The Vatican appointed a new bishop to lead a West 
Virginia diocese rocked by allegations of sexual 
harassment and financial abuse under its previous 
bishop. Bishop Mark Brennan will take over the 
Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston 10 months after 
Bishop 
Bransfield retired in the face of serious 
allegations of wrongdoing. (Chico Harlan) 
8. A woman bled to death in Utah after her family was 
told that her open-heart surgery was a success. 
The 62-year-old patient, who was getting a metal heart 
device removed, was in "severe distress" after the 
surgery because surgeons failed to notice that the blood 
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