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Time to vote?
The lead story for Thursday’s morning exhibits: The approaching vote to advance Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court docket.
“That is it. They will go to vote,” Chris Cuomo stated on CNN Wednesday night time. “The FBI report is all however accomplished. Will it change votes? In all probability not. Why? Time, ways, the tenor of the entire course of. This has by no means been a fact marketing campaign — about ‘attending to the underside of the allegations.’ It is about getting Kavanaugh by way of at any value. It at all times has been.”
Per CNN’s newest, senators will be capable of learn the FBI’s findings on Thursday morning. Mitch McConnell filed cloture on Wednesday night time, organising Senate Republicans for a Friday vote to finish debate on the nomination. A remaining vote won’t happen till Saturday on the earliest.
In the meantime, listed here are the headlines…
— Banner on “The State of affairs Room” Wednesday night: “White Home denies Trump was mocking Kavanaugh accuser after Trump mocks Kavanaugh accuser.”
— Ronan Farrow tweeted Wednesday night time: “The FBI declined to interview major witnesses associated to the Kavanaugh allegations it was tasked with reviewing. A few of them resorted to sending in unsolicited sworn statements.” Jane Mayer and Farrow are out with a brand new story…
— On CNN.com proper now: “Yale roommate says Kavanaugh lied below oath about consuming and yearbook.” James Roche spoke out through an op-ed for Slate and an interview on “AC360…”
— An instance of the widespread conservative criticism of the information protection: “You Fool Reporters Are Making It Worse,” by NRO’s Jonah Goldberg…
Thursday planner
— Anti-Kavanaugh protests will happen in DC and different locales…
— Justice Stephen Breyer can be talking at The Atlantic Competition within the morning…
— Trump has a day fundraiser in Minneapolis and a night rally in Rochester…
“Her lasting impression”
That is the message on this week’s cowl of TIME — to be formally unveiled Thursday morning.
“Utilizing phrases and phrases from Ford’s testimony, San Francisco-based artist John Mavroudis recreated her likeness by drawing every letter by hand,” TIME says…
FOR THE RECORD, PART ONE
— There are deepening considerations about lacking Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday “to acquire paperwork associated to his upcoming wedding ceremony” and “has not been heard from since…” (WaPo)
— Nicaragua has deported Austrian-American reporter Carl David Goette-Luciak, who had been overlaying anti-Ortega protests for months… (The Guardian)
— Eli Rosenberg’s newest: “Fb blocked many gay-themed advertisements as a part of its new promoting coverage, angering LGBT teams…” (WaPo)
Connie Chung: “I, too, was sexually assaulted — and it is seared into my reminiscence perpetually”
Julia Waldow emails: Broadcast information legend Connie Chung revealed an especially highly effective letter to Christine Blasey Ford about her personal expertise with sexual assault, relationship again about 50 years. Her assailant, she writes, was her household physician. “Christine, I, too, am terrified as I reveal this publicly,” Chung wrote. “I am unable to sleep. I am unable to eat. Are you able to? If you cannot, I perceive. I’m frightened, I’m scared, I am unable to even cry.”
The letter was revealed by the WashPost. “I want I may neglect this truthful occasion, however I can not as a result of it’s the fact,” she wrote. “I’m writing to you as a result of I do know that precise dates, precise years are insignificant. We bear in mind precisely what occurred to us and who did it to us. We bear in mind the reality perpetually…”
FOR THE RECORD, PART TWO
— Two Fox Information personalities have books on Amazon’s high ten listing proper now: Tucker Carlson’s “Ship of Fools” is No. 2 and Steve Doocy’s household cookbook is No. 4. The forthcoming Trump parody guide by “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert” employees is holding regular at No. 1…
— Meantime, the weekly NYT bestseller listing got here out on Wednesday, and Bob Woodward’s “Worry” is No. 1 for a 3rd straight week…
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— NYT opinion author and editor Bari Weiss is writing a guide: “The New Seven Soiled Phrases.” Holt will publish it in winter 2020…
Barnes & Noble could promote itself
B&N fired its CEO just a few months in the past. Now its board has appointed a particular committee to think about a sale. It’s, as CNN’s Nathaniel Meyersohn writes, a troubled firm: “Gross sales have fallen at Barnes & Noble throughout every of the previous 4 years. New ways, equivalent to smaller retailer codecs and a kitchen idea, have struggled to win again consumers.” Extra right here…
Bianna joins “CBS This Morning”
The CBS morning present has at all times had a three-person format… till now. Bianna Golodryga was launched as a co-host on Wednesday morning, including a fourth co-host chair to the set. The transfer makes a number of sense: Golodryga is already on the present on a regular basis as a fill-in host and/or correspondent…
BTW: “She is going to proceed to work as a contributor to numerous CNN packages,” Selection’s Brian Steinberg notes…
CNNMoney (New York) First revealed October 4, 2018: 12:43 AM ET
