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party to the talks, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, said Monday morning that there 
was a deal and he planned to meet with his executive committee Monday afternoon to 
discuss it," Erica Werner and 
Lynch report. "Support from the AFL-CIO, which 
opposes the existing North American Free Trade Agreement and blames it for 
destroying millions of good-paying manufacturing jobs, would likely ensure support from 
a majority of House Democrats if the deal is brought up for a vote. Backing from the AFL-
CIO would also indicate that Democrats had succeeded in negotiating stronger 
enforcement mechanisms and protections for labor than existed in the agreement signed 
by Trump and the leaders of Mexico and Canada a year ago." 
Overwhelming and uncontested': Democrats defend impeachment case, predict articles by end of week 
THE CASCADING INVESTIGATIONS: 
-- Rudy Giuliani pressed administration officials to dump Trump's nominee for 
ambassador to Qatar and replace her with someone else in late 2018. Josh 
Dawsey, Rosalind S. Helderman, Tom Hamburger and Devlin Barrett scoop: "Trump had 
nominated a career Foreign Service officer to ... a key post in a Middle Eastern country 
with tricky regional relationships, an important U.S. military installation and vast oil 
reserves. Giuliani, who has said he had held a cybersecurity contract with Qatar in 2017 
and early 2018, proposed replacing her with someone he said would be a better fit -
Scott W. Taylor, a Trump-supporting former congressman from Virginia defeated in his 
reelection bid in November 2018 ... 
"Scott Taylor, who wrote a 2015 book called 'Trust Betrayed: Barack Obama, Hillary 
Clinton, and the Selling Out of America's National Security,' had ... served as a security 
contractor for Hunt Oil in Yemen from 2008 to 2010 ... Giuliani offered to promote Taylor 
as candidate for the post and help guide him through the process ... During a night at a 
cigar bar in Friendship Heights in December and a lunch meeting the following day at 
the Trump hotel, Giuliani described a plan to promote Taylor for the job ... Giuliani told 
Taylor that he had done work in Qatar, but it was unclear why he was interested in 
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shaping the ambassador pick. In subsequent calls to administration officials, Giuliani 
argued that Taylor would be a better choice than [Mary Catherine Phee] ... When asked 
about his advocacy for Taylor in a November interview, Giuliani laughed and ended the 
call. ... Phee's nomination expired when Congress adjourned last year and Trump has 
not renominated her." 
Two more scoops from their story: "In several conversations in recent months, 
Attorney General William P. Barr has counseled Trump in general terms that 
Giuliani has become a liability and a problem for the administration, according to 
multiple people familiar with the conversations. In one discussion, the attorney general 
warned the president that he was not being well-served by his lawyer ... Giuliani has 
assured the president that he is not in legal trouble ... And Trump has so far resisted 
entreaties to distance himself from the former New York mayor, telling others that he 
appreciates Giuliani's combative media appearances on his behalf ... In recent weeks, 
prosecutors subpoenaed a consulting firm founded by former FBI director Louis 
J. Freeh, which hired Giuliani to write an August 2018 letter to Romanian officials 
calling for an amnesty for people prosecuted for corruption, a policy change that 
would have benefited a Freeh client..." 
The bigger picture: Giuliani has taken on clients from Turkey to Venezuela to Romania 
to Ukraine since Trump took office. He's said he doesn't need to register as a foreign 
agent: "But since the start of the administration, his actions have caused persistent 
alarm among Trump's advisers, who worry that it is often not clear who Giuliani is 
representing — the president, his private clients or his own foreign policy views 
— in his meetings at the White House and in foreign cities ... In one meeting with a 
prominent Ukrainian political figure in early 2018, Giuliani was explicit that hiring him 
would provide a route to the president, according to a person in attendance. 'It was just 
so clear what he was peddling. He was pushing for business, and his pitch was, "I'm 
close to the White House, I'm close to Trump. If you want to get in there, I'm your guy," ' 
the person said. In that case, the Ukrainian did not hire Giuliani." 
— Giuliani's old friends worry that his legacy as New York's mayor will be 
forgotten because of his stint as Trump's fixer. From the Times: "Working on a 
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laptop at a restaurant table in the Trump International Hotel in Washington, he has 
bathed in the warm acclaim of friends and strangers who recognize him from his 
television advocacy. 'I enjoyed the fact that people were coming by and tapping me 
on the back,' Mr. Giuliani said. He was there so often, he said, that he set up a 
plaque. Rudolph W. Giuliani Attorney at law. 'He doesn't just like the spotlight,' his 
estranged wife, Judith Giuliani, said in an interview. 'He craves it, for validation' ... 
There are conflicting accounts of why Mr. Giuliani did not get the State Department 
position he campaigned for in 2016, and of whether anyone other than himself even 
thought it was a real possibility, but his years of lucrative consulting payments from 
foreign governments since leaving City Hall would certainly have made for a complicated 
Senate confirmation. ... Anthony Carbonetti, a City Hall aide to Mr. Giuliani and a 
longtime friend, said he worried that what he saw as Mr. Giuliani's groundbreaking years 
as New York mayor would be forgotten behind the sky-filling spectacle of Mr. Trump. 
'The fact that this is what he'll be known for is painful,' Mr. Carbonetti said. 'His public 
persona has been dominated by his representation of the president for the last two 
years, so that has become the public perception of him. I don't think anyone goes back 
in time.'' 
-- The House Judiciary Committee may vote to advance articles of impeachment 
by the end of this week. From the Journal: The committee will hear today from a lawyer 
for the Intelligence Committee about the constitutional grounds for impeachment. 
"Democrats haven't decided on what the articles of impeachment will be, a 
congressional aide working on the impeachment inquiry said Saturday. A report issued 
by Judiciary Committee Democrats on Saturday, echoing reports issued for the cases 
against Richard Nixon in 1974 and Bill Clinton in 1998, examined the Constitution's 
impeachment provision to lay the groundwork for drafting articles of impeachment. Mr. 
Nadler, asked on NBC's 'Meet the Press' how many articles of impeachment the 
committee would file, said: `I'm not ready to decide that.' House Intelligence 
Committee Chairman MI 
Schiff (D., Calif.) on CBS's 'Face the Nation' suggested he 
favored a more narrow approach to the articles of impeachment. He said that as a 
former prosecutor, his inclination is to target charges where there is 'the strongest and 
most overwhelming evidence' and 'not try to charge everything, even though you could 
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charge other things.'" 
Joe Biden still doesn't have a good answer: The former vice president insists 
that his son did nothing wrong by buckraking in Ukraine — but he also admits he 
has not dug into what Hunter Biden actually did for Burisma. "I don't know what he 
was doing. I know he was on the board. I found out he was on the board after he was on 
the board and that was it," Biden told Axios for an interview that aired last night on HBO. 
Asked whether he wants to get to the bottom of it, Biden said, "No. Because I trust my 
son." 
Meanwhile, speaking to NPR, Biden blamed his staff for not flagging potential 
conflict of interest concerns about his son's work for Burisma. "Nobody warned 
me," he said. "They should've told me." In fact, the New Yorker reported earlier this year 
that at least one staffer raised the issue with Biden. And other stories have said that 
staffers were intimidated to broach the issue with the then-vice president. 
— The Justice Department's inspector general is set to release his report today 
concluding the FBI was justified in opening an investigation into the Trump 
campaign's relationship with Russia. The report is also expected to detail 
numerous shortcomings in how the bureau conducted the investigation. In light of 
this, FBI's Chris Wray is trying to steer the bureau away from politics. From the 
Journal: "Mr. Wray took over an agency buffeted by recriminations over those two 
politically charged investigations after Mr. Trump in spring 2017 fired the FBI's former 
director, 
Comey ... Where Mr. Comey embraced a public persona, Mr. Wray has 
continued to maintain an unassuming and detail-oriented persona, bent on avoiding the 
spotlight and keeping the FBI out of the political fray as much as possible ... Mr. Wray 
has quietly pursued some policy changes, including deciding not to run any 
investigations out of the offices of senior leadership at FBI headquarters, as the Clinton 
investigation largely was in 2016, and reinstituting annual ethics training, according to 
people familiar with the matter. Some current and former officials have wanted Mr. Wray 
to more publicly defend the FBI. But people close to him said he recognizes that a 
vociferous pushback could imperil his job at a time when his main goal is he wants to 
steady the agency." 
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-- Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) peddled the debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine 
interfered in the 2016 election. Katie Shepherd reports: "In a fiery back-and-forth on 
NBC's 'Meet the Press' on Sunday, [Cruz] declared that there is 'considerable evidence' 
that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election, echoing debunked claims recently spread by 
other GOP leaders. The show's host, Chuck Todd, asked the senator if he believed 
Ukraine had attempted to sway the 2016 election. `I do,' Cruz said. Todd's eyes 
grew wide and he raised his eyebrows in surprise: `You do?' ... 'Senator, this sort of 
strikes me as odd,' Todd said. 'Because, you went through a primary campaign with this 
president. He launched a birtherism campaign against you. He went after your faith. He 
threatened to, quote, 'spill the beans' about your wife. ...Is it not possible that this 
president is capable of creating a false narrative about somebody to help him politically?' 
he asked. 'Except that's not what happened,' Cruz replied." 
— As the impeachment inquiry moves forward, there is a push underway to raise 
money to help cover the legal bills of the career government witnesses who have 
gotten caught up in this donnybrook. Lisa Rein reports: "With the House hurtling 
toward a full chamber vote before Christmas, the diplomatic community is gearing up for 
Phase Two of potential testimony. The White House has announced that President 
Trump plans to bring forward 'serious witnesses' in his likely trial early next year in the 
Republican-led Senate. That could mean more questioning of witnesses from Senate 
Democrats, or cross-examination by Republicans — and with it more steep legal fees. 'A 
few weeks ago I was hoping we wouldn't need to raise more money,' Eric Rubin, a 
former ambassador to Bulgaria who is now president of the American Foreign Service 
Association, told the group. 'But as of now,' Rubin said, 'we have a very clear statement 
that the White House will call witnesses, and that includes our colleagues.' ... The group 
has raised more than $250,000 for a legal-defense fund for nine of the 17 witnesses who 
testified about whether Trump and the White House pressured Ukraine to investigate the 
president's political opponents." 
- Trump skipped the Kennedy Center Honors this weekend for the third year in a 
row. Roxanne Roberts reports: "On one hand, this is a bad thing: The president and first 
lady traditionally bring glamour and prestige to the annual celebration of American art 
and culture, highlighting the power of art to bring us together regardless of political 
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differences and the importance of support and philanthropy. On the other hand, the 
absence of Trump — under threat of impeachment and quick to take offense — is a 
relief to almost all involved. Not that anyone will say it out loud, but the odds that 
someone (an honoree, a performer, an audience member) might say or do something 
political at this nonpartisan evening is, frankly, uncomfortably high." 
-- Case in point: Kennedy Center honoree Linda Ronstadt threw shade at 
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during the annual dinner for honorees at the 
State Department. Peggy McGlone reports: "Pompeo congratulated the singer and 
wondered aloud when he would be loved — a reference to the Ronstadt hit 'When Will I 
Be Loved.' According to Sam Greisman, son of actress Sally Field — another of the 
evening's honorees — the singer responded, 'Maybe when you stop enabling Donald 
Trump.-
Five dead, several injured after volcanic eruption on New Zealand island 
THE NEW WORLD ORDER: 
-- At least five people died and many more remain unaccounted for after a volcano 
erupted on an island off the coast of New Zealand. Allyson Chiu reports: "Fewer than 
50 visitors were on or near White Island, which is also known as Whakaari, at the time of 
the eruption, and 23 people have been rescued so far, New Zealand Police Deputy 
Commissioner John Tims said a media briefing Monday night. Among the people 
transported to shore, many had burn injuries and a number were taken to area hospitals, 
Tims said. He confirmed that five people have died and said he didn't know how many 
people are still unaccounted for, estimating that figure to be in the 'double digits.' 
Dangerous conditions have prevented police and rescue services from reaching the 
island, Tims said, citing experts who found that the area is unstable and said more 
eruptions could be possible." 
— The World Anti-Doping Agency executive committee voted Monday to bar 
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Russia from competing at the next two Olympic Games. Rick Maese reports: "The 
decision means Russia will have no formal presence at next year's Summer Games or 
the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing. Similar to the 2018 Winter Olympics in 
PyeongChang, Russians who have not been implicated in the country's state-sponsored 
doping scheme will be allowed to compete in Tokyo as unaffiliated athletes. In 
PyeongChang, 168 Russians competed as 'Olympic Athletes from Russia.' After being 
banned from the 2018 Games, the country and its Russian Anti-Doping Agency were 
conditionally reinstated in September 2018, but Russian officials were caught earlier this 
year manipulating data from its Moscow anti-doping laboratory and misleading WADA 
investigators, prompting a new chapter in a years-long doping scheme that continues to 
roil the international sports community." 
Investigators in Florida and Saudi Arabia are digging deeper into the 
background of the Saudi aviation student who fatally shot three people and 
wounded eight others at a naval base in Pensacola, Fla. The FBI is investigating 
the incident as an act of terrorism. Devlin Barrett, Carol Morello and Hannah Knowles 
report: "Officials sought to reassure Pensacola residents that they knew of no ongoing 
threat to the area, saying that while investigators pursue a wide variety of interviews and 
evidence, there was only one gunman behind Friday's violence. On the third day of the 
investigation into the attack at a base where the U.S. military trains pilots from foreign 
forces, details on what has been learned so far were sparse, tentative and sometimes 
contradictory. The gunman, a Royal Saudi Air Force member named Ahmed 
Mohammed al-Shamrani, was shot dead by a sheriff's deputy responding to the 
rampage. Shamrani apparently left hints that he was motivated at least in part by his 
hatred of American foreign policy and military might. ... Investigators say they believe 
Shamrani was the author of an anti-American screed posted on Twitter shortly before 
the shooting, according to a law enforcement official." 
— Trump's impulse to defend the Saudi regime after one of the kingdom's officers 
killed Americans has isolated him from members of his own party, especially in 
Florida. Toluse Olorunnipa and Josh Dawsey report: The president "used his 
appearances before television cameras — and his Twitter account — to repeatedly offer 
cover for the Saudis, conveying Riyadh's condolences with more fervor than he used in 
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relaying his personal feelings about the shooting. ... Trump's defense of the Saudi 
government, which began just hours after Friday's shooting, steadily became a more 
isolated position over the weekend as more information trickled out about the gunman 
and other Saudi nationals who were receiving training at the base. ... Rep. Matt Gaetz 
(R-Fla.), normally a staunch Trump ally, was among several officials from the state 
pushing for more stringent scrutiny of foreigners who come to the United States for 
military training. Gaetz, who earlier called the killing an act of terrorism, also suggested 
the incident should change America's relationship with Saudi Arabia. ... 
"Trump, who often jumps to label shootings by foreigners from Muslim-majority 
countries as terrorism, had not done so as of Sunday evening. ... Florida Sen. Rick 
Scott (R), who immediately labeled the shooting terrorism, has called for a halt in the 
military program that brings hundreds of foreign nationals to U.S. bases to train 
alongside American troops. ... Several other Saudis who were also training on the 
base have been questioned by the FBI and Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said 
Sunday that some of the trainees filmed the shooting. Speaking on Fox News, Scott 
called on the Saudi government to provide more support for the investigation. ... 
"The president has personally chafed at the idea of not being able to sell arms to 
Saudi Arabia, even as lawmakers have repeatedly condemned the kingdom's human 
rights record in the wake of the grisly murder of Washington Post contributing columnist 
Jamal Khashoggi and civilian casualties from the Saudi-led coalition's bombing 
campaign in Yemen. ... Democrats tried to restrict arms sales to Saudi Arabia as part of 
a military budget deal negotiated this week, but the White House pushed back and 
rejected the idea ... Trump has shown little interest in Saudi Arabia's human rights 
record, according to current and former aides. The president has been especially blunt in 
describing his transactional approach to foreign affairs, particularly in the Middle East 
where his interests in oil, arms deals and terrorism intersect." 
-- North Korea claims to have carried out an "important" test at a rocket launch 
site. Simon Denyer and Min Joo Kim report: "The test paves the way for North Korea to 
launch a satellite or intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) around the end of this year, 
experts said, fulfilling a threat to give the United States an unwelcome 'Christmas gift.' A 
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spokesman for North Korea's Academy of National Defense Science said the test was 
carried out Saturday at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station in Tongchang-ri, a site 
near the Chinese border that has been used to launch satellites into space in the past. 
The United Nations bans North Korea from launching satellites, viewing it as a cover for 
testing ballistic missile technology." 
-- Chinese officials are literally burning books that diverge from Communist Party 
ideology. Gerry Shih reports: "The book-burning incident, with all its dark historical 
precedents from this country and Nazi-era Germany, has heightened alarm at a time 
when Chinese intellectuals see their society tipping further into authoritarianism. The 
incident gained widespread attention on Sunday after Chinese social media users 
noticed a report on the Library Society of China's website from a library in Zhenyuan 
County, which declared it had removed 'illegal publications, religious publications and 
deviant papers and books, picture books and photographs' in an effort to 'fully exert the 
library's role in broadcasting mainstream ideology.'" 
-- China has ordered that all foreign computer equipment and software be 
removed from government offices and public institutions within three years. From 
the Guardian: "The government directive is likely to be a blow to US multinational 
companies like HP, Dell and Microsoft and mirrors attempts by Washington to limit the 
use of Chinese technology, as the trade war between the countries turns into a tech cold 
war." 
-- Large and peaceful protests in Hong Kong show that the pro-democracy 
movement is still going strong. Shibani Mahtani reports: "Hundreds of thousands of 
people showed up in the park where the movement began in June, waving signs calling 
for the end of Chinese Communist Party rule and for the Hong Kong government to meet 
protesters' four outstanding demands. The march, approved by authorities, was one of 
the biggest peaceful protests in the city in months — organizers counted at least 
800,000 participants — and demonstrated the strong support that still exists for greater 
democratic freedoms despite a crackdown in which police have fired more than 10,000 
tear gas canisters and arrested about 6,000 people." 
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-- A 34-year-old transportation minister will become Finland's youngest prime 
minister ever -- and its third female leader. From the AP: "Finland's ruling Social 
Democratic Party council voted 32-29 late Sunday to name Sanna Marin over rival Antti 
Lindtman to take over the government's top post from incumbent Antti Rinne. Having 
emerged as Finland's largest party in the April election, the Social Democrats can 
appoint one of their own to the post of prime minister in the Nordic nation of 5.5 million." 
— The U.S. ambassador to Denmark barred an American NATO expert critical of 
Trump from speaking at an international conference hosted by the embassy and a 
Danish think tank, effectively cancelling the Copenhagen event. From the Times: 
"The expert, 
R. Sloan, was scheduled to give a keynote speech at the 
conference, which was celebrating the 70th anniversary of NATO, on Tuesday. ... One 
day before he was set to leave for Copenhagen, Mr. Sloan was informed that the United 
States Embassy in Copenhagen had vetoed his participation because of his previous 
criticisms of [Trump], Mr. Sloan said on Facebook on Saturday. Carla Sands, the United 
States ambassador to Denmark, did not want Mr. Sloan to participate, and the Danish 
Atlantic Council 'had no other option' than to revoke his invitation to speak, Lars Bangert 
Struwe, the secretary general of the council, said in a statement." 
-- British voters in the middle of an already messy election say they don't like 
either Boris 
or Jeremy Corbyn. William Booth and Karla 
report: "Many 
voters confess unease with the erudite but untrustworthy Prime Minister ... and his plan 
for a hard, swift Brexit, and also with Labour leader [Corbyn] and his own hard-left plan 
to remake the British economy under a socialist banner. As the two main parties have 
moved away from the center and toward what many consider the extremes, voters in the 
middle are wondering where to go. This is especially so for the half of the country that 
doesn't like Brexit." 
Reddit uncovered a Russian interference campaign in the U.K. ahead of 
Thursday's election. (Gizmodo) 
-- Personal animosity between Argentina's and Brazil's leaders is complicating the 
relationship between South America's largest economies. Marina Lopes reports: "As 
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South America melts down — Colombia the latest nation to erupt in mass protests, 
Bolivia searching for a consensus leader, Venezuela lurching into another year of 
economic, political and humanitarian crises - its two largest economies have been 
relative oases of calm, run by like-minded leaders cooperating on finance, trade and 
security. Now, the growing personal animosity between [Jair] Bolsonaro and [Alberto] 
Fernandez is threatening that stability. Bolsonaro, a right-wing populist, has called 
Fernandez and his vice president, 
Fernandez de Kirchner, 'leftist bandits,' and 
said their election threatens the Mercosur regional trading bloc. Fernandez, a Peronista 
with ties to the region's leftists, has labeled Bolsonaro a misogynist and racist." 
A nativity scene depicting Jesus, Mary and 
as a refugee family separated was displayed Saturday at 
the Claremont United Methodist Church in California. (Rev. Karen 
Ristine) 
DOMESTIC DEVELOPMENTS THAT SHOULD NOT BE OVERSHADOWED: 
— A nativity scene outside a church in Southern California displays Jesus, Mary 
and 
in cages, separated at the border. Kimberly Winston reports: "The nativity 
display from Claremont United Methodist Church, a suburban congregation east of Los 
Angeles, is raising both praise and ire for its depiction of the biblical story of Jesus's 
family fleeing to Egypt in the context of controversial U.S. immigration policies. The 
nativity is meant to highlight the plight of migrants and refugees, a longtime cause for 
this 300-member congregation, said the Rev. Karen MI Ristine, the church's senior 
pastor. ... Biblical interpretations suggest that after Jesus's birth, his parents took him to 
Egypt fearing King Herod would have him killed. ... Ristine rejected the notion of the 
nativity as a political statement. 'A nativity is the theological equivalent to public art, and 
the role of public art has always been to offer awareness,' she said. 'Jesus taught us 
kindness and mercy and the radical welcome of all people.-
- The administration wants to expand migrant family detention, despite expert 
warnings. From the Times: "The administration wants to expand the system of secure 
facilities where migrant families can be incarcerated for months or longer. In late 
November, Justice Department lawyers appealed a federal judge's decision that blocked 
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the government's attempt to eliminate a 20-day time limit on most family detentions. ... 
Facilities like the one at Dilley [Texas], which is run by the private prison company, 
CoreCivic, could multiply to incarcerate more than 15,000 parents and children across 
the country. ... Research at existing family detention centers found heightened 
levels of stress, which can damage neurons and lead to smaller brain masses in 
children who have been detained for long periods." 
-- A county in North Dakota may become the first in the U.S. to bar new refugees 
after Trump issued an executive order making such a move possible. From the AP: 
"Reuben Panchol was forced to leave war-torn Sudan decades ago as a child, 
embarking on an odyssey that eventually brought him to the American Midwest and left 
him eternally grateful to the country that took him in. 'I am an American citizen, a North 
Dakotan,' said Panchol, a 38-year-old father of four. `And without North Dakota, I 
couldn't have made it.' Panchol hopes to share his story on Monday with members of a 
local commission who are set to vote on whether their county will stop accepting 
refugees. If they vote to bar refugees, as expected, Burleigh County — home to about 
95,000 people and the capital city of Bismarck — could become the first local 
government to do so ... The county postponed a vote last week when more than 100 
people showed up and overflowed the commission's normal meeting space. Monday 
night's meeting will be held in a middle school cafeteria to accommodate public interest 
that Chairman Brian Bitner said is the most intense he's seen in more than a decade on 
the commission. Though he declined to predict which way the commission would go, 
Bitner said he would vote against accepting additional refugees." 
-- Democrats used Trump's fixation on creating a Space Force to get a parental-
leave policy that, if approved, would be the biggest victory for federal employees 
in nearly 30 years. Jeff Stein, Lisa Rein and Josh Dawsey report: "Some Democratic 
aides say the proposed federal benefits package would cost about $3 billion, though 
there is disagreement about whether those costs would span five or 10 years. The 
expansion would give federal employees a rare victory after the Trump administration 
has sought to cut their benefits for three years. Many of them also endured the longest-
ever government shutdown under the current administration about a year ago. 
Congressional Republicans were less determined to get the Space Force approved than 
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the White House because it hadn't been a GOP priority before Trump took office. They 
were undercut by the Trump administration, as the president had told advisers he 
wanted to be able to trumpet the creation of the Space Force as part of his reelection 
bid. The tentative agreement would fall short of what Democrats had hoped for: They 
wanted to secure paid leave not only for the birth, adoption or foster placement of a 
child, but also to care for a spouse, child or parent with a serious health condition or 
when a family member is deployed for military duty." 
— Elizabeth Warren earned nearly $2 million working as a consultant for 
corporations and financial firms while she was a law professor at Harvard 
University, the University of Pennsylvania and other law schools, according to 
records her campaign abruptly released Sunday evening. Annie Linskey reports: 
"Her campaign had been asked repeatedly for the information and had declined to 
release it multiple times.Her work for some of the companies doesn't fit neatly with her 
current presidential campaign brand as a crusader against corporate interests.For 
instance, the documents released Sunday show that Warren made about $80,000 from 
work she did for creditors in the energy company Enron's bankruptcy and $20,000 
as a consultant for Dow Chemical, a company that was trying to limit the liability it 
faced from [faulty] silicone breast implants that were made by a connected firm. 
"Earlier this year, Warren had released a list of about 50 cases that she worked 
on, but the descriptions of the work were at times misleading and the amount of 
income and dates for her work were not included. While the cases released by Warren's 
campaign stretch over more than three decades, the figures disclosed Sunday show that 
nearly all of the money was made from cases filed after she got her job at Harvard in 
1995. (Warren was elected to the Senate in 2012.) The income includes about $212,000 
for representing Travelers Indemnity Co. in 2009, and $190,000 for what her campaign 
described as representing a chain of department stores owned by PA Bergner & Co. in 
the mid-1990s. ... Warren's campaign did not release compensation information for all of 
the cases, reporting in some instances — including a case involving First Commercial 
Bank — that 'the campaign has no compensation records for this case.-
- The brave new world: A geneticist at Harvard Medical School is working on an 
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app that compares DNA between potential sexual partners and screens out 
matches that would result in a child with an inherited disease. "You wouldn't find out 
who you're not compatible with. You'll just find out who you are compatible with," the 
geneticist George Church told "60 Minutes" reporter Scott Pelley about his project many 
criticized as an experiment in eugenics. Church was one of the Harvard professors who 
met with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein years before his jailing and death, 
meetings that have been presumably related to genetics research. Epstein donated $6.5 
million to Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics in 2003, per NBC News. 
-- One of President George 
Bush's grandsons will enter an already crowded 
GOP primary for a suburban Houston congressional seat. From the Texas Tribune: 
"Nonprofit executive Pierce Bush will announce his candidacy for Congress on Monday 
morning, according to an email written by his father, Neil Bush. Bush will enter an 
already crowded GOP primary for Texas' 22nd District, the suburban Houston-area seat 
retiring U.S. Rep. Pete Olson currently holds. The development is something of a 
surprise; Bush was considering running for the neighboring 7th Congressional District, a 
seat once held by his grandfather." 
SOCIAL MEDIA SPEED READ: 
The president went on a tweeting and retweeting spree last night, sharing more than 100 
messages. The majority were attempts at discrediting the impeachment inquiry, but he 
made a passing comment about his time at the NATO summit last week: 
He seemed excited for today's FBI inspector general report: 
Protesters showed up at a Pete Buttigieg campaign event with posters pointing out his 
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polling record with black voters: 
Joe Biden revealed that his son Beau, who passed away, was burdened by the cost of 
his education: 
Several presidential candidates marked the first anniversary of the death of Jakelin Caal 
Maquin, the 7-year-old who died in Border Patrol custody. Five more children have died 
in custody since then: 
Rep. Devin Nunes accused this man of stalking him without pointing out that he is a 
reporter for The Intercept who asked him about his calls to Giuliani associate Lev 
Parnas: 
A Vanity Fair reporter weighed in on the powerful nativity scene outside a California 
church: 
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The Kennedy Center Honors were last night, and "Sesame Street" was among those 
celebrated for lifetime achievement in the arts. Many of the long-running show's 
performers honored puppeteer Caroll Spinney, who died Sunday. Spinney gave life to 
Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch: 
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I didn't plan on running this time. For real," Joe 
Biden said in New Hampshire. "I'd planned on running last time, but my 
son was dying." (Bloomberg News) 
VIDEOS OF THE DAY: 
"Saturday Night Live" envisioned what the NATO summit would've looked like in a high 
school cafeteria: 
The show also tried to answer the question: "How would the president's supporters 
respond to the impeachment inquiry if Trump were black?" 
"The Daily Show" correspondent Jaboukie Young-White tried to get in touch with the 
Founding Fathers to talk about impeachment: 
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2020 bid, Steyer readies a plunge he initially said he wouldn't make I Dems push to make 
McConnell their 2020 boogeyman I Trump delivers energy speech to tout his 
environmental policies I Barr says Trump has an executive path to add citizenship question 
to 2020 census I Iran verifies it breached 2015 nuclear accord I Labor Secretary Acosta 
back in spotlight following Epstein arrest in New York 
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The Hill's Morning Report - House Dems remain at loggerheads after 
border funding flareup I Congress at standstill in spending, debt ceiling 
negotiations I As Swalwell drops 2020 bid, Steyer readies a plunge he 
initially said he wouldn't make I Dems push to make McConnell their 
Subject: 
2020 boogeyman I Trump delivers energy speech to tout his 
environmental policies Barr says Trump has an executive path to add 
citizenship question to 2020 census I Iran verifies it breached 2015 
nuclear accord I Labor Secretary Acosta back in spotlight following 
Epstein arrest in New York 
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Just over a week after internal discord spilled into the open, tensions still 
simmer within the House Democratic Caucus over how to tackle the 
situation at the border including abysmal conditions for the detention of 
some migrants. 
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As Rafael Bernal and Juliegrace Brufke report, the battle over the $4.6 
billion border bill supplemental funding that passed the House on June 27 
left wounds within the conference. Progressives and moderates disagree 
within the party, as evidenced by a high-profile back-and-forth skirmish 
between Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-
Cortez (D-N.Y.). 
The two Democratic heavyweights have clashed since the speaker made 
dismissive remarks about the influence of the freshman lawmaker in an 
interview with The New York Times, suggesting the firebrands are "four 
people" in the House Democratic caucus, adding that "they didn't have any 
following" outside of Twitter. 
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a top left-wing 
organization, blasted Pelosi for her remarks, saying Ocasio-Cortez is "more 
of a true leader" than the speaker. 
Pelosi has since tried to turn the page and work toward addressing the 
situation for migrants at facilities such as the one in Clint, Texas, a focus of 
media attention after Ocasio-Cortez and 20 other House Democrats toured 
the facility early last week. 
"Whether or not the President responds to our request to improve medical 
care standards for the health and safety of children, and while Senator 
McConnell still refuses to help the children suffering in these deplorable 
conditions, we must lead a Battle Cry across America to protect the 
children," Pelosi wrote in a note to her colleagues. 
While the two Democrats duke it out, a larger and potentially more 
consequential fight is playing out between members of the Congressional 
Progressive Caucus (CPC) and the Problem Solvers Caucus, a main 
vehicle for the party's moderates. After the votes to approve supplemental 
funding for needs at the border, progressive members believe it will be 
tough to work with moderate colleagues, and some have threatened to 
retaliate by slowing committee momentum for select bills. CPC members 
chair many of the committees, including Judiciary, Rules, Oversight and 
Reform, Homeland Security, Small Business, and Natural Resources. 
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"I mean, it's just gonna be a lot harder for us to care enough to help deliver 
votes, "said Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), co-chairman of the CPC, who 
recently referred to the Problem Solvers Caucus as the "Child Abuse 
Caucus" over its support for the border supplemental. 
The Washington Post: House to vote on new border bill amid outcry over 
conditions at migrant detention centers. 
> As Democrats debate what to do next, the Department of Homeland 
Security is continuing its crackdown of the border and asked the Pentagon 
to authorize 1,000 additional Texas National Guard troops to the region "to 
provide supplemental holding and port of entry enforcement support." 
The increase would be in addition to the 1,900 National Guard members 
already at the border and 2,300 active-duty troops who are on border-
related missions. The request was made on Wednesday (CNN). 
Meanwhile, the House is back to work today after a 10-day July Fourth 
recess, set to resume negotiations on spending caps and a hike in the debt 
ceiling. Those congressional talks are in limbo with less than three months 
left before a fiscal deadline looms. Half of that time is expected to be spent 
away from Washington as House members return to their districts for a six-
week August recess. 
As CNN's Phil Mattingly reports: 
"The preferred method is to strike an all-encompassing two-year budget 
deal. At this point, after several meetings of top negotiators, things have 
moved further away from a deal. The internal dynamics of the Democratic 
caucus laid bare by the immigration funding fight two weeks ago have only 
served to exacerbate concerns about any path to a final resolution." 
Bloomberg: Debt limit, USMCA clocks ticking as Pelosi wrangles her party. 
The Hill: White House repeatedly blocks ex-aide from answering Judiciary 
panel questions. 
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