POLITICO Playbook: Cuomo: ‘hatred exploding’ after stabbing at Hanukkah gathering

BREAKING OVERNIGHT ... AP: “Gov: 5 stabbed at Hanukkah gathering was act of intolerance,” by Ryan Tarinelli in Monsey, N.Y.: “A person stabbed and wounded five individuals as they gathered at a rabbi’s house north of New York City to rejoice Hanukkah, in an attack that the governor stated Sunday was fueled by intolerance and evidence of a “cancer” in American politics.

“The Saturday night time stabbings north of New York City on the seventh night time of Hanukkah come on the heels of a string of assaults concentrating on Jews in the region, including a bloodbath at a kosher grocery retailer in New Jersey earlier this month. The rabbi’s home is in Monsey, a town not removed from the New Jersey state line and one in every of a number of within the Hudson Valley that has seen an inflow of Hasidic Jews in recent times. The Rockland County town is about 35 miles (56 kilometers) north of New York Metropolis.

“One individual was very critically wounded, the governor advised reporters, and remained in important situation. The rabbi’s son was additionally injured, Gov. Andrew Cuomo stated. His standing and that of the opposite victims was not clear. Authorities have not offered a motive for the attack, however Cuomo stated it was an example of larger issues. ‘This is an intolerant time in our nation,’ he stated to reporters outdoors the rabbi’s house on Sunday morning. ‘We see anger, we see hatred exploding.’

“He added: ‘It is an American most cancers on the body politic.’ He stated he thought the crime was an act of domestic terrorism and anticipated it to be prosecuted that means.” AP

-- SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-N.Y.) tweeted: “The assault last night time in Monsey was an act of pure evil. The cascade in anti-Semitic assaults is outrageous all through metropolitan New York and America, and should not be tolerated. We'd like a radical federal investigation of this particular assault and all the current attacks.”

-- PIX11: “There were alleged attacks on Jewish New Yorkers almost every day last week” (h/t @jaketapper)

THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMMM … A DAY AFTER saying he wouldn’t comply with any subpoenas in President DONALD TRUMP’s impeachment trial within the Senate, JOE BIDEN reversed himself, saying on the campaign trail that he would now obey “any subpoena that was despatched to me.”

NYT’S THOMAS KAPLAN in Fairfield, Iowa, has the play-by-play: “Joseph R. Biden Jr. backtracked on Saturday from his said position that he would not adjust to a subpoena to testify in President Trump’s impeachment trial within the Senate. As an alternative, he declared that he would abide by “any subpoena that was sent to me” whilst he insisted there was no justification for calling him as a witness.

“A day after reaffirming that he wouldn't comply with a subpoena, Mr. Biden tried twice on Saturday to make clear his remarks, asserting that there can be no ‘legal basis’ for such a subpoena but left it unclear, for much of the day, if he would finally comply with one. Then, questioned by a voter about the difficulty of compliance with subpoenas, Mr. Biden answered unequivocally.

“‘I might obey any subpoena that was sent to me,’ he stated at a town hall-style occasion in Fairfield. Mr. Biden’s 180-degree turn on whether he would comply with a subpoena was one of the starkest and swiftest reversals by a candidate in the Democratic main marketing campaign, and came after he faced questions and criticism about whether or not his preliminary stand would run counter to the rule of regulation.” NYT

OUT TODAY: BIDEN OP-ED in Religion News Service: “At this time’s politics are too toxic, mean and divisive. Individuals are too quick to demonize and dehumanize, too ready to dismiss all that we now have in widespread as People. That’s beneath us as a country. It doesn’t mirror our values; it’s not who we're. That’s why, since I first declared my candidacy for president, I’ve stated: I’m operating to restore the soul of our nation.” RNS

MEANWHILE … Democrats have been holding out hope that their impeachment effort will rein in TRUMP and his more erratic conduct, but the president has been on a Twitter spree of late, retweeting the identify of the alleged whistleblower and this morning tweeted conspiracy theories about Speaker NANCY PELOSI’S household.

-- WAPO’S COLBY ITKOWITZ: “Trump retweets a submit naming the alleged whistleblower”: “President Trump retweeted a publish naming the alleged whistleblower who filed the grievance that turned the catalyst for the congressional inquiry that resulted in his impeachment by the Home of Representatives.

“On Friday night time, Trump shared a Twitter submit from @surfermom77, who describes herself as ‘100% Trump supporter,’ together with his 68 million followers. That tweet prominently named the alleged whistleblower and steered that he had committed perjury.

“By Saturday morning, the publish didn't appear on Trump’s timeline, although it was seen to sure customers and by way of direct link. On Saturday evening, Twitter acknowledged that a technical glitch made Trump’s retweet seem seen to some users but not others. Twitter stated the discrepancy was the results of a system error that affected tweets from hundreds of thousands of customers, together with the president.” WaPo

-- HOUSE MINORITY WHIP STEVE SCALISE (R-La.) on “FOX NEWS SUNDAY” did not immediately handle Trump’s determination to retweet the alleged whistleblower. SCALISE: “Look the whistleblower ought to have testified a long time ago the truth is they don’t really meet the definition of the whistleblower, they by no means noticed a criminal offense. Personally, from every little thing we now have seen this individual had a political vendetta towards the president and supposedly worked for Joe Biden, so he has a political axe to grind.”

SCALISE also stated he's sure Trump will probably be acquitted. More from Rishika Dugyala

Good Sunday morning. THE PRESIDENT’S WEEK AHEAD: TRUMP will probably be at Mar-a-Lago all week and has nothing on his public schedule until Friday when he'll ship remarks at an “Evangelicals for Trump” coalition launch in Miami.

SUNDAY BEST … IVANKA TRUMP spoke with MARGARET BRENNAN on CBS’ “FACE THE NATION”: BRENNAN: “Each time anyone hears you speak concerning the importance of being together with your youngsters, additionally they think about your personal- and also you have been vocal in your opposition to the household separation policy when it got here to immigration … and the U.S. border. You stated that was a low level for you.” TRUMP: “Right.”

BRENNAN: “We went and appeared and Homeland Security says there are nonetheless round 900 youngsters who stay separated from their families. Is that one thing you continue to stay engaged on when it involves immigration?”

TRUMP: “Properly, immigration is just not a part of my portfolio, clearly. I feel everyone ought to be engaged. And the complete drive of the U.S. government is- is dedicated to this effort to border security, to protecting probably the most weak. That includes these being trafficked across our border, which this president has dedicated to countering and combating human trafficking in an incredibly complete, aggressive approach. So the complete United States authorities has been targeted on this problem, beginning with the president.”

-- DEPT. OF NOT GOING THERE: SEN. JOHN KENNEDY (R-La.) to JAKE TAPPER on CNN’S “STATE OF THE UNION” about Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska) distinction of opinion with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in terms of an impeachment trial: “I feel Senator McConnell is entitled to his opinion and his and his strategy. So is Senator Murkowski. So is Senator Schumer. So is Senator Blumenthal.” More from David Cohen on Tapper’s interview with Kennedy

-- JON KARL interviewed ANDREW YANG on ABC’S “THIS WEEK” where the two discussed Yang’s new “Medicare for All” plan: KARL: “I am confused. Your ad is specific. Your advert says, Medicare for all. Your plan is just not Medicare for all. It isn't even Medicare for some because in your plan there -- there's not even a public choice.” YANG: “Our plan is to broaden a common health care system to all People. Medicare for all just isn't the identify of a invoice. Medicare for all … Is universal health look after all People. And that's our imaginative and prescient.

KARL: “But Medicare for all is Medicare for all, proper? I mean…” YANG: “Nicely, our -- our health care plan can be -- can be based mostly on Medicare and expanding it over time to increasingly more People. You'd lower the eligibility age and then you definitely make it extensively accessible.”

THE LATEST IN NORTH KOREA -- “N. Korea begins key meeting earlier than year-end deadline for U.S.,” by AP’s Hyung-Jin Kim in Seoul, South Korea: “North Korea has opened a high-profile political convention to discuss the right way to overcome “harsh trials and difficulties,” state media reported Sunday, days earlier than a year-end deadline set by Pyongyang for Washington to make concessions in nuclear negotiations.

“The ruling Staff’ Get together assembly is a spotlight of keen attention as some observers predict North Korea may use the convention to announce it will abandon faltering diplomacy with the U.S. and raise its moratorium on main weapons check.

“The Korean Central News Agency reported that leader Kim Jong Un presided over a plenary assembly of the get together’s Central Committee convened in Pyongyang on Saturday. It referred to as the gathering the ‘first-day session,’ suggesting it might continue for at the very least another day.” AP

-- KARL spoke with White Home Nationwide Safety Adviser ROBERT O’BRIEN: KARL: “Christmas has clearly come and gone. Are you continue to expecting some type of a Christmas present from Kim Jong-un?” O'BRIEN: “Yes, we all the time monitor the state of affairs. And Chairman un has stated that there can be something over Christmas. I feel the president has engaged in private diplomacy at a very excessive degree with him through the years. They usually have a very good relationship personally. So perhaps he's reconsidered that. But we should wait and see. We will monitor it intently. It's a state of affairs that considerations us, in fact.”

KARL: “And what will be the consequences if North Korea resumes both long-range missile checks or nuclear checks.” O'BRIEN: “You recognize, I do not need to speculate about what will occur.

However we've plenty of tools in our toolkit, and extra strain could be delivered to bear on the North Koreans.”

THE TRUMP EFFECT -- “‘Nothing Less Than a Civil Struggle’: These White Voters on the Far Right See Doom With out Trump,” by NYT’s Astead W. Herndon in Golden Valley, Ariz.: “[I]f any group stays singularly loyal to Mr. Trump, it's the small however impassioned variety of white voters on the far right, typically in rural communities like Golden Valley, who extol him as a cultural champion reclaiming the country from undeserving outsiders.

“These voters don’t passively tolerate Mr. Trump’s ‘construct a wall’ message or his ban on journey from predominantly Muslim nations — they’re what motivates them. They see themselves in his fear-based id politics, bolstered by conspiratorial rhetoric about caravans of immigrants and Democratic ‘coups.’” NYT

WSJ’S MICHAEL BENDER and REBECCA BALLHAUS on PAT CIPOLLONE: “White House Counsel Drives Aggressive Trump Impeachment Protection”: “Though Mr. Trump has solicited recommendation elsewhere, resulting in a competing bids for affect by aides, the president has mainly relied on Mr. Cipollone for impeachment strategy, officers say. He has been a near-constant presence in Mr. Trump’s office in current weeks.

“The 2 have developed an in depth bond and typically converse with a shorthand born of their familiarity, one official stated: ‘They're stapled to one another’s aspect.’ …

“Mr. Cipollone, a longtime litigator with little political expertise, is reserved and sometimes keeps his playing cards close to the vest. Until lately, he was reluctant to share particulars of his authorized strategy with Republicans on Capitol Hill and even inside the White Home, in response to officials in each locations.

“Initially, he advised senators little past promising to move alongside their factors to the president, while telling associates he needed to avoid making an attempt the case till he obtained in front of a jury, in response to officers. More just lately, he has been prepared to acknowledge potential problems for controversial witnesses, based on individuals conversant in the talks.” WSJ

2020 WATCH …

-- “‘Florida is just too necessary to blow off’: Late main gained’t dim state’s main standing,” by Maya King and Matt Dixon in Tallahassee: “Florida Democrats are used to being wooed by presidential candidates hungry for endorsements and native fundraising early in main season. This yr, the love is late in coming.

“The state and its 219 get together delegates have long loved a front-row seat to electoral brawls. The 2020 election calendar, nevertheless, has dimmed the highlight on the state’s superstar after the Legislature, beneath strain from national leaders of each parties, adopted a March 17 main. By the time that date rolls around, 25 states and four U.S. territories already may have voted and almost half the Democratic Celebration’s four,051 delegates shall be spoken for.

“However a crowded Democratic area and an expected cut up in early voting states might inject some adrenaline into Florida after its sleepy start in the presidential election. Democratic front-runners Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden — and deep-pocketed, not-so-front-runners Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer — slowly have begun making their presence felt within the state.” POLITICO

-- NYT’S JEREMY PETERS: “Contained in the Largest 2020 Promoting Conflict Towards Trump”: “Hillary Clinton tried. So did 16 rival Republicans. And after a whole lot of tens of millions of dollars have been spent on advertisements attacking Donald Trump in 2016, the outcomes have been the same: They by no means did much injury. Now Michael R. Bloomberg is making an attempt — his method — spending hundreds of thousands each week in an internet advertising onslaught that is guided by polling and knowledge that he and his advisers consider provide unique insight into the president’s vulnerabilities.

“The trouble, which is concentrating on seven battleground states where polls present Mr. Trump is more likely to be competitive in November, is just one piece of an advertising campaign that is unequalled in scope and scale. On Fb and Google alone, where Mr. Bloomberg is most targeted on attacking the president, he has spent $18 million on advertisements during the last month, in line with Acronym, a digital messaging firm that works with Democrats.

“That is on prime of the $128 million the Bloomberg marketing campaign has spent on tv advertisements, in accordance with Promoting Analytics, an unbiased agency, which tasks that Mr. Bloomberg is more likely to spend a mixed $300 million to $400 million on advertising across all media earlier than the Tremendous Tuesday primaries in early March.” NYT

-- “‘We have the resources’: Democratic presidential candidates propose trillions in spending amid debate over what’s doable,” by WaPo’s Toluse Olorunnipa

TRUMP’S SUNDAY -- The president has nothing on his public schedule.

IN MEMORIAM -- POLITICO MAGAZINE is out with an impressive package deal on “The deaths that shook 2019” with articles on Supreme Courtroom Justice John Paul Stevens by Jeff Greenfield … Ross Perot by John Harris … John Dingell by Zack Stanton … Ellen Tauscher by Hillary Clinton … John Conyers by Rochelle Riley … Kay Hagan by Claire McCaskill … Elijah Cummings by Nick J. Mosby … Paul Volcker by Lawrence Summers … Cokie Roberts by Linda Wertheimer and lots of more.

BUSINESS BURST -- “Gross sales-Tax Ruling Strains Small On-line Sellers,” by WSJ’s Ruth Simon: “Eighteen months after the Supreme Courtroom gave states the inexperienced mild to tax on-line transactions, small corporations that sell things as numerous as recycled yarn and gold bullion are struggling to adjust. …

“In its June 2018 ruling, the Supreme Courtroom held that states had the authority to make online retailers acquire gross sales taxes even when they didn’t keep a retailer, warehouse or different bodily presence. Earlier than the choice, shoppers have been purported to pay what is called use tax on out-of-state purchases, however most didn’t.

“The choice got here in a lawsuit filed by South Dakota towards home-furnishings retailer Wayfair Inc. and other online sellers. What's taxed and the way typically those taxes are paid varies from state to state. Some states, similar to Colorado, permit localities to manage their very own taxes. Some states share definitions and procedures to make it easier for corporations to comply, however a few of the largest jurisdictions have their own guidelines.” WSJ

WEST WING COMEBACK -- “They Can’t Get Enough of ‘The West Wing’ Right Now,” by NYT’s Sarah Lyall: “A lot as individuals might return to the film ‘It’s a Fantastic Life’ to remind themselves that feeling nugatory doesn't mean you haven't any value, or to the youngsters’s e-book ‘Goodnight Moon’ to keep in mind that bedtime once meant being enveloped in a cocoon of love, followers revisit ‘The West Wing’ to recall an era — even a fictional one — when it appeared attainable for the three branches of authorities to be populated by public servants of integrity, intellect and wit.”

MEDIAWATCH -- CHUCK TODD interviewed WaPo’s MARTY BARON and NYT’s DEAN BAQUET for a particular version of NBC’S “MEET THE PRESS” on the weaponization of disinformation. Highlights: BARON on reality checking: “[W]e still have the duty for, for determining what's true and what's false and, particularly, holding our authorities officers accountable for what they say and telling individuals whether or not they're telling the reality, or they are not telling the truth. That is elementary to the duties that we have now as a journalistic establishment.”

-- BAQUET on the need to market journalism: “Journalists took without any consideration and believed that folks believed the whole lot we stated. They believed that, if I, if I filed a story from Afghanistan, that we have been there. They believed -- we believed that everybody thought we have been in warzones. And we believed that individuals trusted us. And we went by way of generations of just assuming everyone believed us.

“What I feel we will need to get very aggressive at is to be really clear, to imagine nothing, and to ensure individuals know the place we're, how we do our work, to show our work extra aggressively. That is a unique muscle for us.”

BONUS GREAT HOLIDAY WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman (@dlippman):

-- “The Miseducation of the American Boy,” by Peggy Orenstein on the duvet of the Jan./Feb. concern of The Atlantic: “Why boys crack up at rape jokes, assume having a girlfriend is ‘homosexual,’ and nonetheless can’t cry—and why we have to give them new and better models of masculinity.” Atlantic

-- “On land, Australia’s rising warmth is ‘apocalyptic.’ Within the ocean, it’s worse,” by WaPo’s Darryl Fears in Bruny Island, Tasmania as a part of the paper’s collection “2C: Past the Limit”: “Over current many years, the rate of ocean warming off Tasmania, Australia’s southernmost state and a gateway to the South Pole, has climbed to just about four occasions the international common, oceanographers say. More than 95 % of the big kelp — a dwelling high-rise of 30-foot stalks that served as a habitat for a few of the rarest marine creatures on the earth — died.” WaPo

-- “Is Nuclear Power Well worth the Danger?” by Carolyn Kormann in The New Yorker: “The Fukushima catastrophe sparked a worldwide phaseout of nuclear reactors. As local weather change worsens, it might be time to reconsider.” New Yorker

-- “Drug Check,” by Stuart Stevens in Outdoors Journal in Nov. 2003: “Everyone knows that many athletes cheat through the use of performance-enhancing medicine like steroids, testosterone, and EPO. However what's it wish to take these banned substances? Do they really allow you to win? To seek out out, we sent an novice bike owner into the again rooms of sports activities drugs, the place he simply stated yes to probably the most controversial chemical compounds in sports.” Outside ... Stevens on skiing in Finland

-- “My Semester With the Snowflakes,” by..

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