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• Resume building inside, so that when inmates come out it's all 
ready to go. 
• Interview skills and mock interviews should be held on the inside 
to prepare them with appropriate answers to explain their time 
gaps on resume. 
• Education inside on aptitude testing; Workplace vocabulary. 
• Develop programs with data entry computer software and 
keyboarding skills: with emphasis on general office equipment, 
mail room equipment. 
• More Janitorial and forklift vocational certification programs 
inside. 
• Customer service telephone and related computer software 
skills. 
• Work/vocational programs for non labor jobs to older or disabled 
releasing individuals, also emphasizing the above "desk job" skills 
needed. 
If there was a way for BOP and BOP Wardens to partner with local 
businesses to come in and do these programs, training and mentoring it 
could be a tremendous success. This should also be a part of the 
programming as per the First Step Act. But if there's a way to start this 
sooner than later I think it would be tremendous and would certainly be 
in line with what the President stressed on Monday that he wants to 
reduce unemployment for former inmates. 
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Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg chit-chat during a television break in the debate. 
(Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post) 
BYE 
HOHMANN 
with Mariana Alfaro 
THE BIG IDEA: Amy Klobuchar questioned last week whether a 
woman with Pete Buttigieg's level of experience would be on a 
presidential debate stage. With the two Democratic candidates 
standing on such a stage last night in Atlanta, NBC's 
Mitchell tried to tee up fireworks between the senior senator from 
Minnesota and the mayor of South Bend, Ind. But Klobuchar 
took a pass. 
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"Pete is qualified to be up on this stage, and I am honored to be 
standing next to him," she responded. "But what I said is true. Women 
are held to a higher standard. Otherwise we could play a game called 
name your favorite female president, which we can't do because it has 
all been men." 
Then Klobuchar delivered the most memorable line of the night. "If you 
think a woman can't beat Donald Trump," she said, "Nancy Pelosi does 
it every single day." 
The crowd roared, and Buttigieg wasn't asked to respond. It was a 
great moment for Klobuchar, who has struggled to translate impressive 
debate performances into grass-roots support, but her answer also 
spared a relatively untested candidate who has surged in the polls 
from what could have become a quite uncomfortable back-and-forth. 
Buttigieg, an openly gay white man, is seeking to become the 
standard-bearer of a diverse party whose most vocal activists have 
increasingly embraced identity politics. 
The 37-year-old prepared for a barrage of intense attacks that 
didn't materialize in the debate, which was hosted by The 
Washington Post and MSNBC. But now the presidential race will 
move to the backburner for the next few weeks as the national media, 
and many undecided Democratic voters, turn their focus back to the 
impeachment proceedings in Washington. The next debate doesn't 
take place until Dec. 19 in Los Angeles. 
A similar dynamic played out with Kamala Harris. On Monday, 
she criticized Buttigieg for using a stock photo of a mother and child 
from Kenya to promote his proposal for helping black Americans. She 
called it a "big mistake" that suggested he's not ready to lead our 
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polyglot republic. "I don't have words to describe that," Harris said. 
Another moderator, NBC's Kristen Welker, brought up the topic and 
tried to get Harris to say more. But the junior senator from California 
declined. She said Buttigieg has apologized for the error, essentially 
letting him off the hook, and quickly pivoted to talk about her own plans 
to help black women. 
And so it went. Buttigieg has been eating Joe Biden's lunch in Iowa, 
yet the former vice president chose not to come after him. Cory 
Booker, plainly jealous that Buttigieg has seized the mantle of 
generational change that he hoped to carry in 2020, noted at one point 
during the debate that he too was a Rhodes Scholar and previously 
served as a mayor of Newark before representing New Jersey in the 
Senate. In a subtle dig, Booker mentioned that he led "the largest city 
in my state." (South Bend is the fourth-most-populous city in Indiana.) 
Gabbard and Buttigieg spar over military strategy and foreign policy 
-- The only candidate who decided to really go after Buttigieg in 
an aggressive way was Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, perhaps the 
most useful possible foil for Buttigieg who was onstage. She 
claimed that he wants to send U.S. troops to fight drug cartels in 
Mexico. "That is outlandish," Buttigieg replied. He accused her of 
taking him out of context. Then he attacked Gabbard for visiting Syrian 
dictator Bashar al-Assad, which he cited as proof of her poor judgment. 
Earlier in the debate, after Gabbard criticized the Democratic Party for 
being overly interventionist, Harris ripped her for palling around with 
Assad and trekking to Trump Tower during the transition for a meeting 
with Steve Bannon amid speculation she might land a Cabinet 
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appointment. "I think that it's unfortunate that we have someone on the 
stage ... who during the Obama administration spent four years full 
time on Fox News criticizing President Obama," Harris said. This laid 
the groundwork for Buttigieg's clapback more than an hour later. 
-- The debate underscored just how fluid the race remains. No 
one dominated this debate, including Buttigieg. The clashes were less 
ideological than before and more focused on electability. Former New 
York mayor Mike Bloomberg and former Massachusetts governor 
Deval Patrick have taken steps to join the field because Biden has 
been a weaker candidate than they expected. The race has already 
been frozen in some important respects by the impeachment inquiry, 
making it harder for candidates to unveil new plans or to generate 
coverage for talking about anything other than President Trump's 
conduct toward Ukraine. 
A Des Moines Register poll released over the weekend showed 
Buttigieg capturing the support of 25 percent of likely Democratic 
caucusgoers, followed by essentially a three-way tie for second place 
between Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who all drew 15 
percent. None of the other candidates are in double digits. But most 
voters say they're not wedded to anyone. A more surprising Saint 
Anselm College poll released this week put Buttigieg up 10 points 
among likely Democratic voters in New Hampshire, as well, with 25 
percent to 15 percent for both Warren and Biden, albeit with a smaller 
sample size. 
Democrats tackle impeachment, Trump and more at fifth Democratic debate 
— Every candidate has distinct incentives with 75 days to go until 
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Iowa caucuses. Because the field is so scattered, Warren, 
Sanders and Biden seemed more focused on promoting 
themselves than attacking anyone else. The senior senator from 
Massachusetts was barely attacked last night, certainly compared to 
last month's debate, possibly because her rivals see her as wounded. 
Some wind has been coming out of her sails as she's struggled to 
detail how she'd pay for her Medicare-for-all plan without raising taxes 
on the middle class. 
Biden, celebrating his 77th birthday, struggled once again to 
deliver a decisive performance. One illustration of just how unsettled 
the race remains came when billionaire Tom Steyer accused Biden of 
not taking climate change seriously enough. The former vice president 
slammed Steyer for making millions off coal at a time when he was 
championing environmental legislation in the Senate. If Biden was 
more confident about his standing, he might have brushed off Steyer —
a non-factor in this race — and merely touted his own record or plans 
for rejoining the Paris climate accord. 
-- Even though Harris didn't attack him on Wednesday night, 
Buttigieg has failed thus far to make inroads with African 
Americans, a struggle that continues to cast a cloud over the 
long-term viability of his candidacy. Despite those polls in Iowa and 
New Hampshire, two of the whitest states in the country, Quinnipiac 
University's new South Carolina survey shows Buttigieg garnering less 
than one percent support among black voters — raising new questions 
about whether he can go the distance when the nominating contest 
moves to the South and, if he's the nominee, whether he'll be able to 
re-activate black voters who backed Barack Obama twice but stayed 
home when Hillary Clinton was on the ballot in 2016. 
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Buttigieg watched his words carefully, but he referred to being 
openly gay as he discussed racism. "While I do not have the 
experience of ever having been discriminated against because of the 
color of my skin, I do have the experience of sometimes feeling like a 
stranger in my own country," he said. 
Last night, though, no one mentioned the police shooting in his 
city that dogged him during a previous debate. But Buttigieg 
touted his stewardship of South Bend. "I welcome the challenge of 
connecting with black voters in America who don't yet know me — and 
before I share what's in my plans, let me talk about what's in my heart 
and why this is so important," he said. "As mayor of a city that is 
racially diverse and largely low-income, for eight years, I have lived 
and breathed the successes and struggles of a community where far 
too many people live with the consequences of racial inequity that has 
built up over centuries but been compounded by policies and decisions 
from within living memory." 
'Black voters are pissed off: Watch the fiery exchange between Booker and Biden 
Booker went after Biden, not Buttigieg, on the black vote. 
Perhaps because Biden actually has black support. He criticized 
Biden's comments from the weekend about the dangers of legalizing 
marijuana as an example of how he doesn't understand the issues 
affecting people of color. "I thought you might've been high when you 
said it," Booker quipped. Biden said he wants to decriminalize 
marijuana. Biden then touted his support from the black community, 
but he mistakenly claimed that "the only black African American 
woman who had ever been elected to the United States Senate" 
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supported him. "That's not true," Harris declared. Biden corrected 
himself to say that he meant "the first" black female senator supported 
him. 
The political journey of Pete Buttigieg 
Buttigieg was pressed harder by the moderators than his rivals 
on his relative lack of governing experience. The mayor is 
wrapping up his second term as the chief executive of a city with just 
over 100,000 residents. Mitchell noted that Buttigieg was elected 
mayor with fewer than 11,000 votes, and he lost by 25 points when he 
ran for state treasurer. He also finished third in the race to chair the 
Democratic National Committee just last year. "Why," Mitchell 
wondered, "should Democrats take the risk of betting on you?" 
"Because I have the right experience to take on Donald Trump," he 
answered. "In order to defeat this president, we need somebody who 
can go toe-to-toe who actually comes from the kinds of communities 
that he's been appealing to." Buttigieg boasted that a recent Forbes 
magazine list showed he's "literally the least wealthy person on this 
stage." 
Buttigieg wants to position himself as the leading outsider 
candidate in the race, noting that his opponents onstage have 
served in Washington cumulatively for more than 100 years. The 
ongoing impeachment drama will give him an opportunity to sharpen 
this message, but that may resonate more in the context of a general 
election than a primary. Five of the 10 candidates onstage were 
senators who would be jurors in any impeachment trial. A sixth 
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continues to essentially camp out in New Hampshire as he tries to 
make some magic happen. 
The conventional wisdom among the chattering classes — and across 
most of the campaigns - is that the trial could become a frustrating 
distraction that keeps the senators away from Iowa and New 
Hampshire on the eve of voting. Perhaps that might become a problem 
if the trial really drags on. But it's also possible that these races have 
become so nationalized — even in the early states — that all eyes would 
be on whatever's happening in the Senate. And the six senators could 
get a helpful platform to showcase how they're standing up to Trump, 
which is undoubtedly helpful in the context of a primary. In that way, it 
feels like an impeachment trial could become very beneficial for lower-
tier candidates like Harris and Booker who are struggling to catch a 
break. 
"I know that from the perspective of Washington what goes on in 
my city might look small, but frankly, where we live, the 
infighting on Capitol Hill is what looks small," Buttigieg said. 
"The usual way of doing business in Washington is what looks small. 
And I believe we need to send somebody in who has a different kind of 
experience." 
Fact-checking the November Democratic presidential debate I The Fact Checker 
-- More team coverage: Glenn Kessler, Sal Rizzo and Meg Kelly fact-
checked 10 dubious statements made by the candidates during the 
debate. Matt Viser, Annie Linskey and Toluse Olorunnipa lead with the 
"squabble over black voters." 
Scherer's analysis looks at 
how beating Trump. rather than beating up on each other, was the 
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,., 
focus of the debate. Our liveblog rounds up all the highlights. Read the 
full transcript here. 
-- What pundits are saying: The Fbes Aaron Blake picks Buttigieg 
and Klobuchar as the winners, and he writes that Biden and Gabbard 
were the losers. CNN says Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Harris and Andrew 
Yang won while Biden and Steyer lost. Vox calls the debate for 
Buttigieg, Warren and Booker. Their loser is Biden. USA Today reports 
that Klobuchar, Buttigieg and Harris won while "the lower tier" lost by 
failing to break through. Democratic strategist Mary Anne Marsh has a 
counter take on Fox News: Klobuchar is her "biggest winner" while 
Biden and Harris are "surprise winners." The Boston-based consultant 
thinks Gabbard, Buttigieg, Warren, Sanders, Booker, Steyer and Yang 
lost. 
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Hill: Ukraine 2016 election interference is 'false narrative' 
THE LATEST ON IMPEACHMENT: 
-- Fiona Hill, the former White House adviser on Russia, opened 
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her testimony before the impeachment inquiry this morning with 
withering criticism of Republican attempts to sow doubt that 
Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. "Hill's 
testimony sets the stage for an extraordinary development in the 
impeachment hearings, with Trump's former top adviser on Russia 
essentially telling the public under oath that his refusal to accept the 
reality of Moscow's intervention in 2016 is wrong," Greg MI reports. 
"This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and 
propagated by the Russian security services," Hill said in her 
opening statement. "Some of you on this committee appear to 
believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a 
campaign against our country. ... The unfortunate truth is that Russia 
was the foreign power that systematically attacked our democratic 
institutions. It is beyond dispute." 
Gordon Sondland's impeachment inquiry testimony, in 5 minutes 
-- In the most damaging testimony yet for Trump, U.S. 
Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland said yesterday that 
there was a quid pro quo "with regard" to Ukraine. He explicitly 
linked the president, the vice president and other senior officials 
to what he described as a widely understood campaign to 
pressure a foreign government to investigate Joe Biden. Rachael 
Bade, Aaron C. Davis and Matt Zapotosky report: "More forcefully than 
he has before, Sondland declared that the Trump administration would 
not give Ukraine's newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky, a 
chance to visit the White House — unless Zelensky agreed to 
announce investigations that could help the president politically. 'I 
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complicated issues in the form of a simple question: Was there a 'quid 
pro quo'?' Sondland said. `With regard to the requested White House 
call and the White House meeting, the answer is yes.' ... 
"Sondland acknowledged that he and others were the ones 
pushing Ukrainians to announce investigations, but asserted 
they had merely `followed the president's orders,' communicated 
through Trump's personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani. Sondland 
testified that top-level officials — including [Vice President] Pence, 
acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Secretary of 
State Mike Pompeo — were made aware at various points of what was 
happening, and he provided emails to back up his assertions. 
`Everyone,' Sondland testified, `was in the loop.' ... 
"In his defense, Trump zeroed in on one favorable, but 
misleading, part of how Sondland described a September phone 
call between the two. Sondland at the time had just received a text 
message from the acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, worried that the 
White House was conditioning nearly $400 million in aid on the country 
committing to the investigations targeting Democrats. Sondland later 
replied in a text message ... that the president wanted 'no quid pro 
quo's of any kind.' Sondland testified last month, and again on 
Wednesday, that the phrase came directly from Trump in a phone call 
before he sent the text. ... `I want nothing. I want nothing. I want no 
quid pro quo. Tell Zelensky to do the right thing,' Sondland recalled 
Trump saying in the phone call. Trump carried with him handwritten 
notes of Sondland's words as he spoke to reporters outside the White 
House. ... Sondland testified Wednesday that he wished he'd typed 
the text differently back in September, using quotation marks to make 
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artfully written,' he said. ... 
"Sondland said that he, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Kurt 
Volker, at the time a special envoy to Ukraine, worked with 
Giuliani in pressing Ukraine 'at the express direction of the 
president of the United States' — even though they were 
reluctant to do so. At least initially, though, Sondland said he did not 
believe he was engaging in anything `improper' — in part because he 
claimed he did not understand that Trump wanted an investigation of 
Biden. Other witnesses have disputed that account. ... Sondland said 
Giuliani seemed more focused on getting Ukraine to publicly reveal the 
investigations, rather than actually carry them out, though he 
conceded official announcements would hold foreign officials to their 
word. ... Sondland revealed an email showing that he asked Pompeo 
to help him orchestrate a face-to-face encounter between Trump and 
Zelensky, off to the side of a World War II commemoration ceremony 
that the two were scheduled to attend in Poland on Sept. 1. ... Days 
later, Trump decided not to travel to Warsaw ... Pence made the trip in 
place of Trump. Sondland claimed he informed the vice president 
before the meeting 'that I had concerns that the delay in aid had 
become tied to the issue of investigations.- (Pence's chief of staff 
denies that this happened.) 
Sondland's testimony left Trump's Republican allies 
scrambling. Seung Min Kim, Josh Dawsey and Kayla Epstein report: 
"As he traveled on Air Force One to Texas, Trump called members of 
the House to argue that the testimony was good for him, according to 
an aide ... Trump also professed to reporters that he had little 
familiarity with Sondland, a major donor to his inauguration who 
testified that he had spoken with the president about 20 times. ... 
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On Sondland, key Republican allies sought to undermine the 
ambassador's credibility, while insisting that the basic facts had not 
changed as to whether Trump had committed an impeachable offense 
by pressuring Ukraine to investigate [the Bidens]. 'I say that he's 
changed his story several times and one needs to be suspicious of 
that. But having said that, take what he says, compare it to the facts,' 
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said Wednesday of Sondland. 'I just 
know this: That [Ukraine] got the money, and Hunter Biden and Joe 
Biden weren't investigated. That's what I do know.' ... 'Mike Turner's 
ability to get Ambassador Sondland to say that he had not heard from 
anyone in the administration that would suggest that aid was tied to 
any investigations was really powerful and compelling,' said Rep. Mark 
Meadows (R-N.C.), one of Trump's most ardent defenders in the 
House. ... 
"The White House sent 14 different sections of talking points to 
congressional Republicans, coming in at more than 3,300 words 
... Included was a list of 10 times Sondland said he believed or 
presumed information to be true but could not prove it. ... Other 
Trump allies sought to argue that, even if there was a quid pro quo as 
Sondland had testified, there were other factors to consider. `I don't 
think the quid pro quo is the issue. If you're talking about an 
illegal quid pro quo, there are legal and illegal quid pro quos,' 
said Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.). `And an illegal quid pro 
would be based on a president's intent.' ... White House aides said 
Sondland was the most damaging witness so far because he actually 
had interactions with Trump and described key issues in nefarious 
terms." 
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How Gordon Sondland undercut Trump's defenses 
-- Sondland appeared to embrace his role in history with 
nonchalance. Aaron C. Davis, Rachael Bade and Josh Dawsey 
report: "As Sondland warmed up, sometimes smirking, joking and 
announcing casually that, yes, there had been a quid pro quo, it soon 
wasn't clear what gravity he saw in the moment. ... There was no 
somber rhetoric, no cancer on the presidency in his eyes — but rather 
a businessman for a president who had a transactional issue to solve: 
Trump wanted certain things from Ukraine, and vice versa. took,' 
Sondland said, 'we tried to fix the problem.' ... At some points, he even 
appeared to be having a good time. Asked about a phone call in which 
he was overheard giving Trump an encouraging report about the 
pressure campaign, Sondland seemed amused when read back an 
account of having told Trump that the president of Ukraine 'loves your 
ass.' Sounds like something I would say,' Sondland quipped. 
`That's how President Trump and I communicate, a lot of four-
letter words.' Republicans took turns reading statements issued by 
[Perry] and Pence challenging Sondland's testimony in near-real time. 
The ambassador sat still, smiling slightly, seemingly unfazed. At one 
point earlier this fall, Trump had praised Sondland as 'a great 
American.' On Wednesday, a lawmaker read Sondland the latest 
presidential comment: 'This is not a man I know well.' Sondland 
seemed unperturbed, saying with a chuckle, `Easy come, easy 
go.'" 
-- By providing the committee with emails showing top 
administration officials were personally aware of or directly 
involved in the alleged quid pro quo, Sondland validated many 
Democratic suspicions. He also highlighted how much evidence 
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nas not neen turnea over, wnicn gives Democrats usanie 
evidence to substantiate a likely article of impeachment based 
on obstruction. Karoun Demirjian reports: "'Based on a sample of the 
documents attached to Ambassador Sondland's statement .. . we can 
see why Pompeo and [Trump] have made such a concerted and 
across-the-board effort to obstruct this investigation,' Intelligence 
Committee Chairman 
B. Schiff (D-Calif.) said at Wednesday's 
hearing. 'They do so at their own peril: I remind the president that 
Article III of the impeachment articles drafted against President Nixon 
was his refusal to obey the subpoenas of Congress.' ... 
"Sondland's revelations implicated senior members of the Trump 
administration, and he made clear there are emails, phone records and 
documents that could have a bearing on the House impeachment 
investigation. But it is not clear whether House Democrats will run 
down all the new leads, as doing so would likely require them to 
issue new subpoenas and double down on existing ones in the 
courts. Democrats have repeatedly expressed a reluctance to get 
bogged down in legal proceedings, and leaders are committed to not 
losing the momentum of the public impeachment hearings, which are 
on course to feature a dozen witnesses in less than two weeks. Senior 
Democrats have indicated that the House is on track to vote on 
impeachment next month. Yet several members have 
acknowledged that there could be value in securing the 
testimony of holdouts like Pompeo and [Bolton], neither of 
whom have yet been subpoenaed for testimony." 
Sondland's dramatic testimony undercut the president's 
version of events, writes chief correspondent Dan Balz: "He arrived 
for Wednesday's hearing facing an obvious dilemma, which was to risk 
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had taken place after his prior statements, or openly disputing the 
president's version of events and thereby risking the wrath of the 
president's allies as well as many with whom he serves in the 
administration. He chose to take on the president." 
-- Trump told Sondland there was "no quid pro quo" on Sept. 9. 
That's the same day the whistleblower complaint was filed, after 
several White House staffers expressed alarm to the National Security 
Council's top lawyer, after the CIA general counsel was alerted to 
concerns by an employee of the agency and after multiple lawmakers, 
including Republican senators, inquired about why the aid was being 
held up. 
Sondland said he could not rule out the possibility that Trump 
emphatically said there was "no quid pro quo" only because the 
president had already learned about the complaint. "He was in a 
very bad mood," Sondland said during his closed-door deposition last 
month. "It was a very quick conversation." 
-- If Sondland was an agent of Trump's alleged plot, he portrayed 
himself as a reluctant one, writes the New Yorker's Susan Glasser: 
"By 10:15 a.m., when Sondland finished reading out his twenty-three-
page opening statement, it was all over but the shouting, of which 
there would be much over the next seven hours. But that was later. For 
nearly forty-five minutes, the impeachment hearings were compelling 
enough to bring the relentless Washington news cycle to a halt, at 
least temporarily. There was no hate-tweeting from the Oval Office, no 
spin in the corridors of Capitol Hill. Just people listening, watching, 
wondering what it would mean." 
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