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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) was frustrated this week when he learned that the Obama administration planned to take more refugees in 2017 than it had in 2016, TPM’s Lauren Fox reported. When asked if he was concerned, Roberts said: “Well, hell yes. Why wouldn’t we be. We are at a place now where we aren’t vetting anybody.”
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “What you can see is that regardless of the winner in this election, the contours of the map itself look significantly different. Broadly speaking the Democrats bridgehead in the upper coastal South seems to be expanding into areas where populations are younger and less white—also arguably more educated and economically dynamic. That brings in Georgia, Arizona and at least blunts GOP leads in states like Texas. At the same time, the Democrat hold has weakened in states that are older and whiter. At the moment Trump’s margin in Iowa is bigger than it is in Texas, though only by half a percentage point. Just as notable is that the race was close to tied even when Clinton was at her post-Convention peak.”
Say What?!
“I think that you have a lot of negativity in these questions.”
– Donald Trump’s famously composed eldest daughter, Ivanka, accused a reporter of trying to “editorialize” by asking for specifics.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “Soon after Watergate, a journalist asked some big-time criminal lawyers what Nixon should have done to save himself. They pretty much all said ‘burn the tapes.’ In this case the coverup was deemed more survivable than the crime. In the same vein, I suspect we will not see [Trump’s] tax returns. What is in there that is stopping him. I’d have to speculate. I’m favoring his relationship to Deutsche Bank, whose other projects include money laundering with mirror trades for Russian oligarchs.”
Related: Donald Trump Jr. said that one reason his father has yet to release his taxes is that they would provoke too many questions.
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What We’re Reading
Typecasting in auditions and at the airport. (The Guardian)
How Elizabeth Holmes’ house of cards came down. (Vanity Fair)
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