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Capital Journal
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Good morning from the WSJ Washington Bureau.
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Trump's Day: President Trump is in California, where he'll deliver remarks at joint fundraising committee gatherings and visit the border wall before returning to Washington in the evening.
Fed: The Federal Reserve releases a policy statement at 2 p.m. ET. It is expected to cut its short-term benchmark by another quarter percentage point. Markets will seek clues on the outlook for further reductions.
Health-Care Policy: Tennessee released a draft plan to overhaul funding for its Medicaid program. It's the first proposal since the administration encouraged states to pitch Medicaid funding overhauls.
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Smoke from a fire at the Abqaiq oil processing facility in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia, is seen in this image from a video broadcast on Saturday. PHOTO: AL-ARABIYA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Republicans are split on whether U.S. military action against Iran should be under consideration, while some Democrats said it should be ruled out and that they would try to block any military response for Iran's purported role in attacks on Saudi oil facilities, reports Lindsay Wise.
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Saudi Arabia is increasingly confident that Iran directly launched a complex missile and drone attack, report Summer Said and Dion Nissenbaum. Iran has denied that it carried out the attacks and accused the Trump administration of spreading misinformation.
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Saudi Arabia's oil production will fully recover within weeks, its oil ministry said. The swings in oil prices this week have reminded investors that the cost is still largely driven by Saudi Arabia.
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Fallout from the incident is set to dominate the annual United Nations General Assembly next week.
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Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, center, testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in Washington on Tuesday. PHOTO: AL DRAGO/BLOOMBERG NEWS
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Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski stonewalled lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee about his conversations with President Trump for nearly six hours on Tuesday, after the White House sought to impose limits on the scope of his testimony, Rebecca Ballhaus and Siobhan Hughes report.
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Lawmakers are considering a move to sidestep the debate over border-wall funding, Andrew Duehren reports. Officials on Capitol Hill crafting spending legislation are considering extending current funding for the Department of Homeland Security—which oversees construction of the wall—for another year, thus skipping the contentious process of negotiating one of President Trump’s central legislative priorities.
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Tensions have escalated between a congressional panel and the overseer of spy agencies, after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence withheld from the House Intelligence Committee details of a whistleblower’s complaint, report Warren P. Strobel and Siobhan Hughes. The nature of the whistleblower’s complaint isn’t known.
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Last Friday night, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) issued a subpoena to acting intelligence director Joseph Maguire, seeking to force him to turn over the complaint.
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In a letter the DNI’s general counsel told him the agency “has complied fully with all applicable law” in handling the complaint.
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Foreign investors who want to put money into U.S. businesses that rely on sensitive technology, infrastructure and data could face greater scrutiny. The proposed rules, released yesterday by the Trump administration, were sparked by congressional concern about acquisitions by Chinese companies, Katy Stech Ferek reports.
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Democrat Borrows GOP Playbook, Blasts His Primary Challenger's Ties to AOC
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), the first-year lawmaker with a national progressive following, quickly became a caricatured figure in Republican politics. A recent endorsement will indicate if she could also become the villain in a Democratic primary contest.
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Marie Newman, who is running against Rep. Dan Lipinski, an eight-term Democratic congressman from Illinois. Mr. Lipinski is one of the few anti-abortion Democrats remaining in Congress, and he narrowly beat Ms. Newman in a primary challenge in 2018.
After Ms. Ocasio-Cortez announced her support for Ms. Newman on Tuesday, Mr. Lipinski issued a harshly critical statement.
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement of Marie Newman makes crystal clear that Ms. Newman is an extreme candidate who is completely out of step with the voters of Illinois’ Third District who do not want to be represented by a fifth member of the ‘Squad,’” Mr. Lipinski said, citing his opponent's support for progressive causes such as the Green New Deal and Medicare for All.
Republicans, and especially President Trump, have repeatedly directed their ire at Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, along with three other women who make up the so-called “squad” of lawmakers. They have sought to tie Democrats to the progressive House members in an attempt to portray the entire party as dangerously extreme, to the dismay of some of the party’s more centrist members.
By emphasizing his opponent’s “extreme” political affiliations, Mr. Lipinski is also adopting elements of that GOP strategy—though in this case, Ms. Newman welcomed the comparison with Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and embraced her endorsement.
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement follows other prominent progressive lawmakers, including Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders, in endorsing Ms. Newman in her primary challenge against the more conservative Mr. Lipinski.
How well Mr. Lipinski’s line of attack resonates in a Democratic primary setting—as opposed to conservative media and political circles—could provide guidance to other centrist Democrats facing their own primary challenges from the left.
Write to Andrew Duehren at andrew.duehren@wsj.com
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Former Vice President Joe Biden with Sen. Elizabeth Warren at last week’s Democratic primary debate in Houston. PHOTO: MIKE BLAKE/REUTERS
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Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren have gained support since the summer in their fight for the Democratic presidential nomination. A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds that both candidates are beginning to separate themselves from the rest of the party’s sprawling 2020 field, Ken Thomas reports.
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Mr. Biden was the top choice of 31% of Democratic primary voters, while Ms. Warren was favored by 25% in the poll. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was the only other candidate with double-digit support, at 14%.
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Mr. Biden wants to improve programs, not create new ones. Is that enough for today’s Democratic Party? His economic platform is a tricky balancing act, an attempt to bridge big differences between the party’s left wing and moderates, report Jacob M. Schlesinger and Ken Thomas.
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While executives in some industries have gravitated toward Donald Trump, those in tech have mostly stayed away, Rebecca Ballhaus reports. And those in Silicon Valley who do support him, try to keep it under wraps. The location of his Bay Area fundraiser, for example, was a closely guarded secret.
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A person familiar with the event told WSJ that former Sun Micro CEO Scott McNealy was the mystery host.
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“I’ve always said, the worst CEO is a thousand times better than the best politician in this job in the White House.”
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— Scott McNealy on CNBC in 2017
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Hillary Clinton says Democrats could lose due to hacking. (Full story)
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Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden criticize one another over how their health care-plans would affect union members. (Full story)
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Internal GOP poll shows Republican Kobach trailing Democrat Grissom by 10 points in Kansas Senate race. (Full story)
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Can Biden successfully appeal to his party’s left wing and a general election audience at the same time? (Weigh in)
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Elizabeth Warren backers hope the decision by the Working Families Party could shake loose other endorsements from left-wing groups. (The Nation)
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The key leaders in the confrontation over the attack on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities--the heads of Saudi Arabia, Iran and the U.S.--are all headstrong and prone to taking risks. (Financial Times)
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Former President Jimmy Carter said he doesn't think he could have handled the duties of the presidency at age 80, which both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders would reach in office if elected. (Associated Press)
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