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12:15 PM ET, October 16, 2023

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Washington Post:
Inside Jim Jordan's uphill battle to win the speaker's gavel  —  Good morning, Early Birds.  Rite Aid has filed for bankruptcy.  Tips: earlytips@washpost.com.  Thanks for waking up with us. … In today's edition ... What we're watching: Potential Biden trip to Israel …
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Kadia Goba / Semafor:
Moderate Democrats get behind temporary speaker fix  —  The News  —  With the House still paralyzed in the absence of a speaker, the idea of giving Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry more power to conduct normal business is picking up growing bipartisan support.
Politico:
Playbook: How the attack on Israel has scrambled U.S. politics  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Q3 CASH-ON-HAND LEADERBOARD — JOE BIDEN $24,785,201 ... DONALD TRUMP $24,535,602 ... RON DeSANTIS $11,160,604 ... ROBERT KENNEDY JR. $8,713,134 …
Discussion: NPR
CNN:
Senior House Republican says GOP members ready to block Jordan
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump faces reckoning as D.C. judge mulls gag order  —  At a court hearing Monday, a judge will consider special counsel Jack Smith's demand that Trump be formally ordered to stop attacking potential witnesses against him.  —  Can Donald Trump be gagged?  —  That's the question at the heart …
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
How Trump's Team Twisted His Bank Fraud Trial Into a Farce  —  The former president's lawyers may not be trying to win his New York trial—instead, they're dragging it out in hopes of solving his other political and legal problems.  —  Two weeks into Donald Trump's bank fraud trial in New York …
Discussion: The Messenger and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Live updates Judge to hear argument over Trump gag order in Jan. 6 case  —  Special counsel Jack Smith's office is in federal court in D.C. today asking for a gag order that would bar former president Donald Trump from maligning the judge, prosecutors, witnesses and potential jurors in his election obstruction case.
Nick Arama / RedState:
More on Disastrous Biden Interview: Scott Pelley Has to Help Him Finish Sentence, Says President ‘Tired’  —  I wrote earlier about a couple of the teaser clips from the “60 Minutes” interview with Joe Biden.  —  Those were bad, but the complete interview was even worse.
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Scott Pelley / CBS News:
President Joe Biden: The 2023 60 Minutes interview transcript  —  Rarely does a president confront so much peril; the catastrophe in Israel—the war in Ukraine—and no help from a paralyzed Congress.  Late Thursday, we met President Biden at the White House.  It had been a rough week and we could see it on him.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden Warns Israel Not to Occupy Gaza
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Scholastic's “bigot button”  —  Scholastic, the popular publisher of children's books, is a big business.  It is a publicly-traded company with a market capitalization of $1.15 billion.  Its CEO, Peter Warwick, collected a total compensation of $3,300,361 in 2023, and at least four other executives were paid over $1.3 million.
Politico:
Jordan to face a challenger in floor vote Tuesday  —  ‘There will be an alternative for the rational part of the Republican conference,’ an opponent of the hard-right congressman says.
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden  —  Jill and I were shocked and sickened to learn of the brutal murder of a six-year-old child and the attempted murder of the child's mother in their home yesterday in Illinois.  —  The child's Palestinian Muslim family came to America seeking what we all seek …
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon / The Messenger:
Two of the Trump Grand Jurors in Georgia Agree to Sit for Interviews With Defense Attorneys, Judge Says  —  Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said counsel for Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro will do the interviews on the record but not in public
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The GOP refusal to condemn Menendez speaks volumes  —  Public Notice just celebrated its second birthday.  Click the button to take advantage of our special anniversary offer.  —  Click to redeem 2nd anniversary special  —  As a general rule of politics, it should be easy to condemn …
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Kari Lake locks down a key GOP establishment endorsement  —  A member of the current Senate leadership is backing the failed gubernatoral candidate as she runs for Senate.  —  Kari Lake is making nice with the GOP establishment.  —  Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), the chair …
Discussion: The Messenger and The Hill
 
 
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Iran says Hamas ready to release hostages if Israel stops airstrikes as at least 199 now known taken
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