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1:15 PM ET, November 2, 2019

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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Smugglers are sawing through new sections of Trump's border wall  —  SAN DIEGO — Smuggling gangs in Mexico have repeatedly sawed through new sections of President Trump's border wall in recent months by using commercially available power tools, opening gaps large enough for people and drug loads …
Discussion: Slate, Axios, POLITICUSUSA and News Breaking
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Killed That Wall!  Smugglers Defeating Trump's New Replacement Border Fence with $100 Power Saws  —  President Donald Trump's replacement border barrier program — which includes zero miles of new barriers — isn't going so well, according to Washington Post reporting that drug smugglers are defeating the new design with power saws.
Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed News:
The Mueller Report's Secret Memos  —  BuzzFeed News sued the US government for the right to see all the work that Mueller's team kept secret.  Today we are publishing the first installment.  —  The 448-page report issued by then-special counsel Robert Mueller last March …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Kim Sengupta / The Independent:
'It's like nothing we have come across before': UK intelligence officials shaken by Trump administration's requests for help with counter-impeachment inquiry  —  As impeachment inquiries heat up, president's people are busy pursuing a counter offensive aimed at discrediting Mueller's findings that Russia interfered in 2016 election
Discussion: Daily Kos and POLITICUSUSA
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Jr. Critiques Mueller in New Book
Discussion: CNN, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Nancy Pelosi Is Worried 2020 Candidates Are on Wrong Track  — Speaker questions appeal of Medicare For All, Green New Deal  — Ideas could repel voters in swing Midwestern states, she says  —  Nancy Pelosi is issuing a pointed message to Democrats running for president in 2020 …
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
In Iowa, Biden confronts a growing threat: Pete Buttigieg  —  DES MOINES — Joe Biden dropped to fourth place in Iowa, according to a new poll released Friday, his worst showing to date in the pivotal early state.  —  A few hours later, at the largest gathering to date for any 2020 event, it was clear why.
Harry Enten / CNN:
Iowa is anyone's game in a historically messy field
Discussion: Vox
Giovanni Russonello / New York Times:
5 Takeaways From the Latest Iowa Poll
Discussion: DemCast, The Hill and Washington Times
New York Times:
In Trump's Twitter Feed: Conspiracy-Mongers, Racists and Spies  —  In September, an obscure Twitter account promoting a fringe belief about an anti-Trump cabal within the government tweeted out a hashtag: #FakeWhistleblower.  —  It was typical for the anonymous account …
Discussion: Political Wire and Mashable
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New York Times:
How Trump Reshaped the Presidency in Over 11,000 Tweets  —  With a single tweet last fall, Mr. Trump sent his administration into a tailspin.  “I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught,” he wrote in October 2018, angry about a caravan of migrants from Central America.
Discussion: The Hill and Althouse
Washington Post:
Growing number of GOP senators consider acknowledging Trump's quid pro quo on Ukraine  —  A growing number of Senate Republicans are ready to acknowledge that President Trump used U.S. military aid as leverage to force Ukraine to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his family …
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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
WaPo: WH Record Of Trump-Zelensky Call Put Words In Ukrainian Prez's Mouth, Official Testified
Discussion: The Mahablog and Washington Post
CNN:
Top White House official tried to find out if ambassador went rogue or acted at Trump's direction on Ukraine
Discussion: Alternet.org
Washington Post:
White House official who heard Trump's call with Ukraine leader testified that he was told to keep quiet
Jesse Dougherty / Washington Post:
Sean Doolittle on declining White House invite: 'I don't want to hang out with somebody who talks like that'  —  Ever since Sean Doolittle was traded to the Washington Nationals in the summer of 2017, the reliever was often asked whether he would visit the White House after winning the World Series.
New York Times:
The Whimpering Terrorist Only Trump Seems to Have Heard  —  President Trump offered a vivid account of the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi “crying and screaming” in the final minutes before his death.  The only problem: No one else knows what he's talking about.
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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump to Mississippi rally crowd: Impeachment is an affront to you
Discussion: Vox and Political Wire
Associated Press:   The Latest: Trump cites impeachment in Miss. campaign pitch
KCRW:   The al-Baghdadi raid  —  Listen 56 min MORE  —  In a near …
John McDermott / New York Times:
Those People We Tried to Cancel?  They're All Hanging Out Together  —  Depriving people of a platform works — in unexpected ways.  —  Katie Herzog was a largely unknown freelance journalist living in Seattle.  Then she published an article in The Stranger about trans people who halt or reverse transitions.
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Beto O'Rourke Drops Out of the Presidential Race  —  The former Texas congressman, who energized Democrats in a Senate race last year, began his White House run to great fanfare but failed to build significant support.  —  Former Representative Beto O'Rourke of Texas announced that he is dropping …
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Geoffrey Skelley / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Beto O'Rourke's Campaign Failed
Beto O'Rourke:
Thank you.  —  Our campaign has been about seeing clearly …
Tom McCarthy / The Guardian:
Experts on Trump's conduct: ‘Plainly an abuse of power, plainly impeachable’  —  Republicans may argue Trump's actions were not impeachable - but scholars say it's a solid example of a high crime  —  Was what he did really so bad?  And even if it was bad - was it truly impeachable?
Ema O'Connor / BuzzFeed News:
A Lawyer For Giuliani's Ukrainian Associate Tried To Argue He Was Not A Flight Risk.  It Did Not Go Well.  —  A lawyer for Igor Fruman, one of the men who had been working with Rudy Guiliani in his Ukraine campaign, tried to argue Friday that his client was not a flight risk and didn't need …
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ABC News:   Federal prosecutors examining possible contacts between Giuliani and former Rep. Bob Livingston over Ukraine: Sources
Everton Bailey Jr / Oregonian:
Baton attack during June protests in downtown Portland lands man in prison for nearly 6 years  —  June 29 2019 downtown Portland baton attack  —  A 24-year-old man who hit another man over the head with a baton in June during dueling downtown Portland demonstrations was sentenced Friday to nearly six years in prison.
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Adam Neumann and the Art of Failing Up  —  WeWork's chief risk-taker found a kindred spirit with an open checkbook: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son.  Now he's walking away from the wreckage with more than $1 billion.  —  Adam Neumann stood on the 57th floor of the Woolworth Building …
Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Virginia Is On The Brink Of Cementing Its Democratic Status  —  Republicans risk losing their last footholds of power in the Old Dominion.  —  Democrats are poised to take control of both of Virginia's state legislative chambers on Tuesday, bringing the state under unified Democratic control for the first time in a quarter century.
Axios:
GOP worries banned political ads could upend Trump's 2020 campaign  —  Top Republicans are privately worried about a new threat to President Trump's campaign: the possibility of Facebook pulling a Twitter and banning political ads.  —  Why it matters: Facebook says it won't, but future regulatory pressure could change that.
Discussion: BuzzFeed News
Yahoo News:
Children were told to ‘build the wall’ at White House Halloween party  —  WASHINGTON — A Halloween party on Oct. 25 at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building featured candy, paper airplanes and — concerning for some attendees — a station where children were encouraged to help “Build the Wall” with their own personalized bricks.
Discussion: The Hill
 
 
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Bobby Lewis / Media Matters for America:
The White House press briefing now takes place on Fox News
Discussion: HuffPost
Hanna Trudo / The Daily Beast:
Democrats Plan Political Siege on Trump's Sunshine State Move
Discussion: Raw Story
Radley Balko / Washington Post:
A Louisiana DA will let you out of your community service obligation — if you donate to his nonprofit
Politico:
Andrew Yang adds experience to his pirate-ship campaign
Discussion: Political Wire
The Hill:
GOP argues whistleblower's name must be public
Shaun Walker / The Guardian:
George Soros: ‘Brexit hurts both sides - my money was used to educate the British public’
CNN:
Facebook will allow UK election candidates to run false ads
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The NeverTrump Vindication
 Earlier Items: 
Justin Fishel / ABC News:
Rules of impeachment, then and now: ANALYSIS
Discussion: Vox and Breitbart
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
‘Divorced from the facts’: DOJ shoots down claims Strzok and the FBI trapped Flynn
Polina Ivanova / Reuters:
Exclusive: Overhaul of Ukraine prosecution agency buries Manafort inquiries - investigators
Discussion: Political Wire
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Record support for Trump impeachment
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Beto O'Rourke exits — and leaves broken hearts in his wake
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Trump says Chad Wolf now acting Homeland Security chief, adding to confusion about transition
Kate Irby / Fresno Bee:
Devin Nunes in Twitter lawsuit demands emails from Democratic strategist
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

 
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