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Trump's Day: President Trump discusses the economy at Economic Club of New York's lunch event and attends a fundraiser in New York. 

Supreme Court: The court hears arguments on whether the Trump administration's decision to wind down DACA is lawful. 

Syria: U.S. military officials watched live drone feeds last month that appeared to show Turkish-backed Arab gunmen targeting civilians during their assault on Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria.

Carter: Former President Carter was admitted to a hospital on Monday evening for a surgery to relieve pressure on his brain.

A Pentagon official told House impeachment investigators that a White House budget aide said at a July 26 meeting that nearly $400 million in aid to Ukraine was on hold because of President Trump’s concerns about corruption in the country. Laura Cooper’s testimony describes the confusion and concern at the Pentagon about the hold on the security assistance over the summer, which she said was “unusual,” reports Andrew Duehren.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is being tested as his impeachment role draws outcry from diplomats and staffers, reports Jessica Donati. Mr. Pompeo has sided at key junctures with President Trump, prompting at least one high-level resignation.

• Some staff members complain that Mr. Pompeo has described Mr. Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s president as “appropriate” even though he disparaged the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.

Attorneys for acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said  he will file his own lawsuit asking a federal court to determine whether he is immune from being forced to testify in front of Congress as part of the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry. Mr. Mulvaney tried to join a different case already in progress but that move drew opposition from other parties, reports Byron Tau.

The impeachment inquiry is shifting from being held behind closed doors to being broadcast publicly across the country. Here are three things we don’t know about the impeachment inquiry process.

• Impeachment Hearings: What’s Been Said Behind Closed Doors

A vulnerable House Democrat is fundraising off her support for an impeachment inquiry as public hearings begin this week.

Rep. Elaine Luria (D., Va.), who last year flipped a district President Trump won in 2016, released a new advertisement Monday that shows how Democrats are trying to turn impeachment—long considered a political vulnerability—into an advantage for the moderate wing of the party.

The Veterans Day ad focuses on Ms. Luria’s time in the Navy, where she served for two decades before running for Congress in 2018, and casts supporting impeachment as a patriotic duty.

In a sign of the targeted audience for the two-and-a-half minute clip—which could be spliced into several, shorter ads—the ad features Rachel Maddow, the liberal cable news host, commending Ms. Luria for supporting impeachment. While that indicates that Democrats in moderate districts may be seeking to harness the anti-Trump fervor of liberal donors across the country, the ad’s emphasis on military service may also appeal to more centrist supporters.

“I didn’t come to Washington to impeach the president, but I also didn’t spend 20 years in the Navy to allow our Constitution to be trampled on,” Ms. Luria says in the ad, which is interspersed with cable news coverage of the Ukraine scandal.

Republicans have long salivated at the prospect of Democrats attempting to impeach Mr. Trump, confident that the politics of the issue would be dramatically unfavorable for Democrats like Ms. Luria in districts that supported the president in 2016. The Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with House Republicans, launched an advertisement attacking Ms. Luria for supporting impeachment soon after Democrats began the inquiry.

Whether Republican efforts to paint vulnerable House Democrats as extremists who hate the president work may not be clear until November 2020. Before then, though, we’ll know whether Democratic efforts to turn impeachment into a cash cow for vulnerable members are successful.

Write to Andrew Duehren at andrew.duehren@wsj.com

The absence of a "Remain in Mexico" program in Arizona draws migrants hoping to stay in the U.S., reports Alicia A. Caldwell. Shelters in Arizona say the number of migrants being dropped off by border authorities has been constant for the past few months, while shelters in other Southwestern states say the number has fallen significantly.

• Some migrants are heading to Arizona as word spreads that they are far more likely to be allowed to stay in the U.S. there.
• Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said in September that virtually all asylum-seeking families would be either quickly deported or sent to Mexico to wait for their cases to be resolved.

With the federal government at a standstill, leading a city may be a better proving ground for showing you can get things done, writes Jerry Seib. The hottest Democratic presidential candidate right now is South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and the newest one, at least potentially, is Michael Bloomberg. That isn't a coincidence.

The furniture industry is one of many caught up in the Trump administration’s tariff campaign against China, and the financial risks are growing, reports Katy Stech Ferek. From 2014 to 2017, furniture prices fell about 1 percentage point a year, but began to rise in 2018 as the tariffs took effect. Furniture prices rose 2.3% for the year ended Sept. 30.

Seaborne imports into the largest U.S. gateway for trans-Pacific goods plummeted last month in the latest sign of volatility in supply chains from the U.S.-China trade war. The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach handled 120,077 fewer loaded inbound containers in October than a year ago, a 14.1% drop, Paul Page reports.

• A new book by an anonymous senior administration official describes President Trump as obsessed with using his office to settle personal scores, according to excerpts obtained by CNN. (CNN)
• Census Bureau figures show there is a middle-class economic boom underway. (Fox Business)
• The difficulty women candidates have had in rising into the top tier of Democratic presidential contenders has set off a debate about whether sexism is at work. (Associated Press)
• Correction: Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said that "the failures of the old normal" helped produce President Trump. He did not blame the failures of the "Obama era." The Los Angeles Times corrected its article.

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