NEW: THE PRESIDENT’S WEEK AHEAD: MONDAY: The president will hold a Cupboard assembly. He could have lunch with VP Mike Pence. WEDNESDAY: Trump will ship remarks at the ninth Annual Shale Perception Convention in Pittsburgh. THURSDAY: Trump will participate within the Diwali ceremonial lighting of the Diya. He'll current the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Roger Penske. FRIDAY: Trump will converse at the 2019 Second Step Presidential Justice Forum in Columbia, S.C.
THE BIG NEWS OF THE WEEKEND … TRUMP CANCELS G-7 AT DORAL -- “Trump says his Doral golf resort will not host next yr’s G-7 summit, bowing to criticism,” by WaPo’s Philip Rucker and David A. Fahrenthold: “President Trump announced abruptly Saturday night time that he would not host subsequent yr’s Group of Seven summit at the Trump Nationwide Doral Miami resort in Florida, bowing to criticism for having selected his personal property because the venue for a serious diplomatic occasion.
“Trump was buffeted by two straight days of allegations of self-dealing and exasperation from lawmakers on Capitol Hill, including some Republican allies who stated the choice of Doral as the venue for a gathering of world leaders was indefensible.
“The decision — while it lasted — was an unprecedented one in trendy American politics: The president awarded a huge contract to himself. The White House promoted Doral as the only greatest venue in america to host the G-7 summit in June, and the meeting would have brought hundreds of visitors within the offseason to a resort that's struggling financially.” WaPo
-- TRUMP’S ANNOUNCEMENT: @realDonaldTrump at 9:18 p.m.: “I assumed I used to be doing something excellent for our Nation by using Trump National Doral, in Miami, for internet hosting the G-7 Leaders. It's massive, grand, on a whole lot of acres, subsequent to MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, has super ballrooms & meeting rooms, and every delegation would have...
“.....its own 50 to 70 unit constructing. Would arrange better than different options. I introduced that I might be prepared to do it at NO PROFIT or, if legally permissible, at ZERO COST to the USA. But, as normal, the Hostile Media & their Democrat Companions went CRAZY!
“....Subsequently, based mostly on each Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility, we'll not think about Trump National Doral, Miami, because the Host Website for the G-7 in 2020. We'll begin the seek for another website, together with the risk of Camp David, instantly. Thank you!”
-- “Mulvaney: Trump ‘surprised’ over Doral pushback,” by Maya Parthasarathy
-- ANITA KUMAR: “Trump cannot stop bragging to overseas leaders about his resorts”: “Trump continuously brags about his properties around the globe when he speaks with overseas leaders in individual or by telephone, much more than the general public situations witnessed out within the open, in accordance with three individuals acquainted with Trump’s conversations with overseas officials. The remarks are permeating every membrane of his presidency a lot that they’ve left aides and allies mastering verbal jiu-jitsu to defend his unprecedented strategy to fusing private business interests with his position in excessive workplace.
“The interactions have led Home Democrats — who have already launched an impeachment inquiry into whether or not Trump is illegally profiting off the presidency — and typically even his personal employees to query whether or not his namesake companies are influencing U.S. overseas policy.” POLITICO
THE STEPBACK -- WAPO’S PHIL RUCKER: “Trump’s season of weak spot: A president who prizes power enters key stretch in a fragile state”: “President Trump, whose paramount concern long has been displaying power, has entered probably the most challenging stretch of his time period, weakened on nearly each entrance and in danger of being pressured from office because the impeachment inquiry intensifies.
“Trump now finds himself mired in a season of weak spot. Overseas leaders feel emboldened to reject his pleas or to contradict him. Officers inside his administration are brazenly defying his wishes by collaborating within the impeachment probe. Federal courts have dominated towards him. Republican lawmakers are criticizing him. He has lost management over major conservative media organs. Polling exhibits that People increasingly disapprove of his job performance and help his impeachment.” WaPo
SUNDAY BEST -- CHRIS WALLACE spoke to Appearing White Home Chief of Employees MICK MULVANEY on FOX NEWS’ “FOX NEWS SUNDAY”: MULVANEY on what he stated throughout his press briefing this week: “Right here’s what I stated. I’ll say it again. Uh. And hopefully individuals will pay attention this time. There are two reasons that we held up the help. Um. We talked about this at some size. The first one was the, the rampant corruption in Ukraine.
“Ukraine, by the best way, Chris, is so dangerous in Ukraine that in 2014 Congress handed a regulation making it – making us, requiring us to ensure that corruption was shifting in the appropriate course. So corruption is an enormous deal. Everyone knows it. The president was also involved about whether or not or not other nations – particularly European nations – have been helping with overseas help to the Ukraine, as properly. We’ve talked about that, uh, for fairly a while.
“I did then point out that previously, the president has mentioned to me now and again concerning the DNC server. He’d mentioned the DNC server to different individuals publicly. He even mentioned it to President Zelensky within the telephone name. However it wasn’t related to the help. And that’s the place I feel individuals acquired sidetracked this weekend at that press conference.”
-- ON QUID PRO QUO: WALLACE: “You have been, you have been asked by Jonathan Karl … described a quid pro quo and also you stated that occurs all the time.” MULVANEY: “And, once more, reporters will use their language all the time. My language never stated ‘quid professional quo.’”
-- BEHIND THE SCENES: “Mulvaney confronted White House ouster menace before impeachment crisis took over,” CNN’s by Kaitlan Collins, Dana Bash, Jim Acosta and Gloria Borger: “Appearing White House chief of employees Mick Mulvaney confronted inner efforts to oust him earlier than Home Democrats moved ahead with their impeachment inquiry towards President Donald Trump, a number of sources inform CNN.
“Prime aides including Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner have been in the strategy of reaching out to at the very least two potential replacements for the highest West Wing job shortly earlier than Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced in late September that she would transfer ahead with an impeachment inquiry.
“These previously unreported efforts did not come to fruition, however underscore the weak spot of Mulvaney's position even before his headline-generating performance in the briefing room final week. One individual accustomed to Mulvaney's considering stated the search came as Mulvaney himself was in search of an exit after ten months within the position, although individuals close to Mulvaney have denied he needed to go away.” CNN
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS spoke with Secretary of State MIKE POMPEO on ABC NEWS’ “THIS WEEK”: POMPEO on Syria: “The counter-ISIS marketing campaign, I'm pleased with the work that our group has achieved beneath President Trump's leadership, not solely encountering ISIS in Syria -- you already know, George, Syria's been a multitude for an terrible very long time, however encountering ISIS all all over the world. We've been critical about it. We have been considerate. We have been strategic. And we'll proceed to ensure that we take the main effort, which is to ensure we hold the American individuals protected from the threats from radical Islamic terrorism wherever we find it.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “But did not the president put these positive aspects at risk by pulling the troops out? We noticed the preventing instantly.” POMPEO: “I'm very assured that this administration's efforts to crush ISIS will proceed.”
-- ON THE CEASE-FIRE: STEPHANOPOULOS: “The Turks stated they obtained the whole lot they needed.” POMPEO: “Yeah, I used to be there. It positive didn't really feel that means once we have been negotiating. It was a tough fought negotiation. It began before the vice chairman and I even arrived in Ankara. It lasted hours while we have been there. We achieved the result that President Trump sent us to obtain.”
-- More from POLITICO on contentious back-forth with Stephanopoulos and Pompeo over Ukraine probe
MEANWHILE, ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST … GOP Rep. FRANCIS ROONEY (Fla.), who made waves this week for criticizing President DONALD TRUMP announced on “Fox Information” that he wouldn't run for reelection. The choice comes after the two-term congressman, who represents a conservative district, stated he would contemplate impeachment. He has additionally referred to as on departing Power Secretary Rick Perry to adjust to a subpoena and to cooperate with the Home impeachment investigation.
"I assumed the thought was you do your public service and left, you accomplish what you need to accomplish and I am additionally uninterested in the extreme partisanship that stops us from carrying out what must be solved," Rooney stated on “Fox Information.” More from POLITICO
THE LATEST IN SYRIA … TROOPS NOT ACTUALLY COMING HOME -- “Pentagon chief says US troops leaving Syria for western Iraq,” by AP’S Lolita C. Baldor in Kabul, Afghanistan: “U.S. Protection Secretary Mark Esper says that underneath present plans all U.S. troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq and the American army will continue to conduct operations towards the Islamic State group to stop its resurgence.
“Esper, who arrived within the Afghan capital on Sunday, did not rule out the concept U.S. forces would conduct counterterrorism missions from Iraq into Syria. But he informed reporters traveling with him that these details shall be worked out over time.
“His feedback have been the primary to particularly lay out where American troops will go as they depart Syria and what the counter-IS battle might seem like. Esper, who flew in a single day to Afghanistan, stated he has spoken to his Iraqi counterpart concerning the plan to shift the greater than 700 troops leaving Syria into western Iraq.” AP
-- “Pelosi Visits Jordan to Talk about Syria Disaster Amid Shaky Stop-Hearth,” by NYT’s Patrick Kingsley in Istanbul: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi has traveled to Jordan to satisfy with the Jordanian king for “very important” discussions concerning the Turkish incursion into Syria and other regional challenges, amid uncertainty about whether or not an American-brokered cease-fire with Turkey in northern Syria was holding.
“The visit by senior United States officers came as sporadic clashes continued on Sunday morning alongside the Turkish-Syrian border, where, based on the Turkish Protection Ministry, a Turkish soldier was killed by Kurdish fighters within the Syrian border city of Tel Abyad. Confusion and continued shelling have marred the cease-fire deal announced by Vice President Mike Pence final week, with both Turkey and Kurdish leaders accusing every other of violating the truce.
“Ms. Pelosi, a California Democrat, led a nine-member bipartisan congressional delegation to Jordan that included Representatives Adam Schiff, Democrat of California; Eliot L. Engel, Democrat of New York; and Mac Thornberry, Republican of Texas. The group met with King Abdullah II of Jordan on Saturday night.” NYT
Good Sunday morning. It’s official: The Nats have an opponent for the World Collection, the Houston Astros. Recreation one might be Tuesday evening at 8:08 p.m. in Houston. They’ll be back in Washington on Friday.
MORE SUNDAY BEST -- CHUCK TODD interviewed PETE BUTTIGIEG on NBC NEWS’ “MEET THE PRESS”: BUTTIGIEG on the future of Syria: We all know that we have to promote stability, that we have to stand by our allies, and that there will probably be official Turkish safety considerations that may even be a part of the equation. But right now what is occurring is the longer term over there is being determined by everyone however the USA, Russia, Iran, Turkey, and we're nowhere because American management has been withdrawn.
“And the implications of this aren’t just the regional safety image within the Middle East, it’s the credibility of the USA ourselves. And the primary order of business will be to revive U.S. credibility, not just with regard to the Center East, however globally.”
TODD: “Does Turkey belong in NATO?” BUTTIGIEG: “Properly, what we all know is that they don't seem to be behaving in a approach that is in keeping with stability, and I feel in the event that they proceed to behave in this approach, there should be penalties, but proper now —”
TODD: “Is kick – a suspension or kicking out, some form of suspension from NATO, a type of consequences?” BUTTIGIEG: “Properly proper now what we have now acquired to do is interact Turkey as an ally. You understand, I served alongside Turkish troops in Afghanistan. That alliance is essential and it’s leverage for us to ensure that we use our influence to stop dangerous outcomes just like the one that Donald Trump inexperienced lighted that they’re doing proper now. If they don’t act like an ally in the long term, that is going to have consequences.”
-- TODD additionally spoke with Michigan Rep. JUSTIN AMASH (I): TODD: “100% you are operating for Congress? Or might you still run for an additional office?” AMASH: “No, I would not say 100% of something, you recognize—” TODD: “Right. However there had been talking a few Libertarian presidential candidate.” AMASH: “Yeah. I am operating for Congress, however I hold issues open and I would not rule something out.”
-- JAKE TAPPER interviewed BUTTIGIEG as properly on CNN’S “STATE OF THE UNION.” BUTTIGIEG response to Trump calling what’s occurring on the Syria-Turkey border because the “ultimate answer”: “My response is that those sorts of phrases have the darkest rhymes in world historical past. We don't speak about cleaning out individuals, especially when there's an ethnic minority that has confronted atrocities and seems to be dealing with crimes towards humanity and atrocities, perhaps beginning right now.”
2020 WATCH ...
-- “Trump Campaign Floods Web With Ads, Raking In Cash as Democrats Struggle,” by NYT’s Matthew Rosenberg and Kevin Roose
-- “'I'm back': Sanders tops Warren with large New York Metropolis rally,” by Holly Otterbein in Lengthy Island Metropolis, New York: “Bernie Sanders one-upped Elizabeth Warren. In his first rally since he suffered a heart assault, the Vermont senator delivered a speech Saturday to a crowd his marketing campaign estimated at 26,000 individuals, the most important quantity any presidential candidate has drawn this yr. And he was joined by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the star liberal congresswoman who made her endorsement official onstage.
“It was a triumphant second for Sanders, coming after his hospitalization triggered questions about his candidacy. The crowd apparently eclipsed the 20,000 people who Warren's group stated attended her September rally a couple of miles away in Washington Sq. Park, in addition to the estimated 20,000 at Kamala Harris' marketing campaign kickoff in January.
“Towards the backdrop of the Queensbridge Homes, the largest public housing complicated within the nation, Sanders railed towards President Donald Trump, revenue inequality, racial disparities, established order politics and the economic elite.” POLITICO
-- “‘It’s not like she hates lobbyists’: Warren’s Senate document doesn’t match her campaign rhetoric,” by Theodoric Meyer: “[W]hile Warren’s campaign rhetoric has made the affect business nervous, many lobbyists who’ve labored with the Massachusetts senator’s workplace say she’s far from antagonistic with regards to doing business with Okay Road. Six lobbyists who interacted together with her workplace stated they’d never had hassle getting conferences.
“Several of them stated that while they’d be reluctant to convey company shoppers to satisfy with Warren’s leading progressive rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), they’d haven't any qualms about having them sit down with Warren.” POLITICO
-- “Inside Joe Biden’s brawling efforts to reform Ukraine — which won him successes and enemies,” by WaPo’s Matt Viser and Paul Sonne
TRUMP’S SUNDAY -- The president has nothing on his public schedule.
NAHAL TOOSI: “The revenge of the State Division”: “They’ve been derided as a ‘Deep State,’ slurred as ‘Obama holdovers,’ threatened with draconian price range cuts and informed that President Donald Trump doesn’t even want them. Now, America’s diplomats are taking their revenge. In current days, present and former Overseas Service officers have defied Trump administration orders and trudged to Capitol Hill to testify earlier than House committees investigating whether to question the president. Colleagues inside the State Department and their allies within the broader overseas policy group are quietly hailing them as heroes, with special praise for these testifying regardless of still being on the federal government payroll.
“In their testimonies, the diplomats have described being sidelined on Ukraine policy as Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and other Trump political appointees — apparently on the president’s course — pursued a ‘shadow’ overseas policy that included withholding some $400 million in army assist to Kyiv. Their boss, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, has attacked the House course of as ‘troubling’ and defended the legitimacy of Giuliani’s efforts.
“General, the diplomats’ testimony has bolstered allegations that Trump tried to improperly strain Ukraine to examine former Vice President Joe Biden, a political rival. But some additionally used the platform to air long-held grievances over Trump and his aides’ remedy of the State Division’s career staffers, several of whom have been demoted or sidelined following attacks by the conservative media.” POLITICO
ABOUT THAT BREXIT DEAL -- “UK MPs pressure Boris Johnson to seek a Brexit extension,” by POLITICO Europe’s Emilio Casalicchio and Eleni Courea in London: “Boris Johnson was so close — however nonetheless up to now.The British prime minister achieved what many stated was unimaginable and secured a brand new Brexit cope with the EU, and was ready to put that deal to MPs in the Home of Commons for a so-called ‘meaningful vote.’
“It even seemed as if he may just win that vote, and could then get on with passing the legislation required to put the deal into regulation with a strong mandate from parliament. However he was thwarted as soon as once more. In the first Saturday sitting of the Commons for 37 years, MPs backed an modification that compels the federal government to request a Brexit delay from the EU until all the legislation required to go away has been ratified.
“Ambassadors from the 27 remaining EU nations are due to satisfy Sunday morning to debate the end result. EU leaders can be exasperated by what they see as yet extra political instability in the U.Okay. They might refuse to grant an extension to negotiations but shall be eager to avoid a no-deal Brexit and the uncertainty that might convey.” POLITICO Europe
-- “Monetary Markets Face Recent Wave of Political Uncertainty: ‘There’s Actually Nowhere to Cover’,” by WSJ’s Steven Russolillo: “The U.Okay. Parliament’s choice on Saturday to postpone a remaining vote on the nation’s exit from the European Union marks the newest geopolitical improvement more likely to swing monetary markets, highlighting the acute ranges of uncertainty that some buyers worry isn’t being correctly accounted for with U.S. shares near all-time highs.” WSJ
N.Y. POST: “Steve Bannon says Trump may be impeached ‘in six weeks,’ face challenge from Bloomberg, Clinton”
BONUS GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman (@dlippman):
-- “The China Connection: How One D.E.A. Agent Cracked a International Fentanyl Ring,” by Alex W. Palmer within the NYT Magazine: “Fentanyl is shortly turning into America’s deadliest drug. However regulation enforcement couldn’t trace it to its supply — until one teenager overdosed in North Dakota.” NYT Magazine
-- “My Years in the Florida Shuffle of Drug Habit,” by Colton Wooten in The New Yorker: “Biking by way of relapse and recovery, and the business that permits each.” New Yorker
-- “Have You Seen My Dog?” by Lauren Paige Kennedy in the September 2001 challenge of Washingtonian: “Newcomers to Washington, we discovered our Georgetown neighbors distant. However that each one modified when Ruby ran away.” Washingtonian
-- “No One Actually Is aware of Why People Can Stroll,” by Invoice Bryson in Lithub: “Critical, dogged, long-distance operating is the one thing we do superlatively nicely. We aren't the speediest of creatures: The very fastest humans can run about 20 miles an hour, although just for brief bursts. However put us up towards an antelope or wildebeest on a scorching day and we will run it into the bottom. Most giant animals can’t run for more than about nine miles before they drop.” Lithub (hat tip: TheBrowser.com)
-- “TheRealReal’s Online Luxury Consignment Shop,” by The New Yorker’s Susan Orlean: “How the reseller brings designer items into the ‘round..
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