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Washington Wire: Vice President Pence raised concerns that the release of a rough transcript of Mr. Trump's call with Ukraine's president would set precedent, but eventually backed Mr. Trump's decision.

Trump's Day: The president participates in a High Holy Days call with Jewish faith leaders and delivers remarks at the Hispanic Heritage Month reception at the White House.

Impeachment Inquiry: Mr. Trump this morning called on Adam Schiff, chairman of House Intelligence Committee, to resign, and accused him of distorting a rough transcript of his call with Ukraine's president.

Congress: With the House moving forward with an impeachment inquiry of the president, some politicians fear policy goals could slip out of reach.

President Trump sought to use the powers of his office to push Ukraine to investigate a political rival, and White House officials acted to conceal the effort, a newly released whistleblower complaint alleges, Dustin Volz, Warren P. Strobel and Siobhan Hughes report.

• The complaint was made public amid widening scrutiny of a July phone call between Mr. Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a controversy that has become the biggest political danger to Mr. Trump’s presidency.
• Democrats pressed America’s top intelligence official to explain his handling of the whistleblower complaint in three-hour hearing.
• The highly secure computer system where White House aides reportedly stashed details of Mr. Trump's July call is usually reserved for America's biggest intelligence secrets.

A key figure at the heart of the burgeoning impeachment probe is former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who as personal attorney to Mr. Trump pressed Ukraine on pursuing an investigation of one of his boss’s political rivals, Rebecca Ballhaus, Alan Cullison, Georgi Kantchev and Brett Forrest report.

Everyone in Washington is reading the whistleblower complaint— except Senate Republicans. Many GOP senators—who wrapped up legislative business on Thursday before a two-week recess—seized the chance, at least for a moment, to sidestep a growing political morass, Lindsay Wise reports.

• Read the Whistleblower Complaint

The WSJ's Gerald F. Seib examines key points from the newly released whistleblower report over Mr. Trump's interactions with Ukraine.

The Trump administration will cap the number of refugees allowed in the U.S. at a record-low 18,000 for the next fiscal year, and allow states and cities to opt out of accepting refugees, Michelle Hackman and Andrew Restuccia report.

The Senate confirmed Eugene Scalia as labor secretary in a party-line vote, installing a well-known corporate attorney who built a practice challenging Obama-era regulations. The department is the focus of several Trump administration priorities, Andrew Ackerman reports.

The Senate passed a short-term funding measure to stave off a possible government shutdown after the end of the month, sending the legislation to President Trump’s desk. The stopgap bill would keep the government open through Nov. 21 as lawmakers of both parties try to pass new annual spending legislation, Andrew Duehren reports.

The confirmation of President Trump’s pick to run the ATF, the head of the national Fraternal Order of Police, is in trouble as some Republican senators express concern that he would restrict the rights of gun owners, report Sadie Gurman and Michelle Hackman.

President Trump intends to nominate Peter Gaynor to lead the FEMA. He's currently the deputy administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and has served as the acting head of the agency since March.

A new U.S. intelligence assessment says Syrian government forces carried out a chlorine attack in May, the first confirmed violation of the international accord banning chemical weapons since President Trump authorized a U.S. military strike on Syria in 2018 over its alleged use of poison gas, reports Michael R. Gordon.

• The administration imposed sanctions on a Moscow-based firm and five vessels the Treasury Department said shipped fuel to Syria used to support the Assad regime’s bombing campaigns against civilians.

The U.S. will send an antimissile battery, radar systems and just over 200 additional U.S. service members to Saudi Arabia in response to the suspected Iranian attack this month against Saudi oil facilities, Gordon Lubold reports.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman denied any role in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, in a PBS interview, while acknowledging it happened under his watch. A CIA assessment concluded last year that Prince Mohammed ordered the killing.

• Saudi Arabia’s image has languished in the U.S. despite a well-funded lobbying campaign.

The Navy plans to name Aaron Weis as its new cyber chief in an attempt to better shield its military secrets from Chinese hackers and other thieves, report Gordon Lubold and Dustin Volz. An internal audit earlier this year found that repeated compromises of national-security secrets threatened the U.S.’s standing as the world’s top military power.

• Mr. Weis is a senior adviser for the Pentagon’s chief information officer.

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R., N.C.) wants the Federal Reserve to be more open about its cybersecurity preparations, introducing legislation that would compel the Fed to report annually to House and Senate banking committees on its cybersecurity strategy.

• Public support for impeachment is up slightly after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's announcement of a formal impeachment process, a new poll finds. (Huffpost)
• To combat the impeachment drive, the White House is dusting off the playbook it used to respond to special counsel Robert Mueller. (Associated Press)
• Sen. Kamala Harris is using her tough questioning of Attorney General William Barr at a hearing earlier this year to help revive a flagging campaign. (Daily Beast)

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