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Senators
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Assessing the damage at Iraqi base
funds to be
insist on
diverted
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Trump seeks $7.2 billion
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counterdrug programs
GoP leaders rebuff
him on dismissal
BY NICK MIROFF President’s allies see
vindication in acquittal
President Trump is preparing
to divert an additional $7.2 bil-
lion in Pentagon funding for bor-
der wall construction this year, BY SEUNG MIN KIM,
five times what Congress autho- MIKE DEBONIS
rized him to spend on the project AND ELISE VIEBECK
in the 2020 budget, according to
internal planning figures ob- Top senate Republicans on
tained by The Washington Post. Monday rejected President
The Pentagon funds would be Trump’s call for outright dismiss-
extracted, for the second year in a al of the impeachment charges
row, from military construction against him, but continued to
projects and counternarcotics grapple with the shape of the
funding. According to the plans, senate trial that could begin as
the funding would give the gov- soon as this week.
ernment enough money to com- Most senate Republicans are
plete about 885 miles of new eager to stage a trial that ends
fencing by spring 2022, far more emilienne malfatto for the Washington post with Trump’s acquittal and vindi-
than the 509 miles the adminis- cation on charges that he abused
tration has slated for the U.s. U.S. troops stand near an installation that was hit in Iranian missile strikes last week at Ain al-Asad air base in Iraq. the power of his office in his
border with Mexico. dealings with Ukraine and ob-
The lack of serious casualties in the attack appeared to be partly a function of luck and was called “miraculous.”
Trump took $2.5 billion from structed a subsequent investiga-
military counterdrug programs tion in the House. But over the
for border barrier construction in weekend, Trump urged the senate
U.S. commanders say Iran’s Soleimani aftermath shows
2019, but this year his adminis- simply to dismiss the charges
tration is planning to take signifi- against him — without hearing
cantly more — $3.5 billion. missiles were meant to kill Trump’s credibility problem arguments from House prosecu-
Trump administration officials tors or his own legal team.
also are planning to take $3.7 bil- on Monday, senior Republi-
lion in military construction cans said immediate dismissal
funding, slightly more than the BY LOUISA LOVELUCK deep craters and the crumpled BY PHILIP RUCKER, sial order to kill a top Iranian could not win approval in the
$3.6 billion diverted in 2019. wreckage of living quarters and a JOHN HUDSON, general. chamber, where Republicans
The move would bring the AIN AL-ASAD, IRAq — U.s. com- helicopter launch site. At least SHANE HARRIS “They were looking to blow up hold a 53-seat majority. And even
total amount of federal funds manders at the Iraqi military two soldiers were thrown AND JOSH DAWSEY our embassy,” Trump said, refer- some staunch Trump allies ar-
allocated to border fencing to base targeted by Iranian missiles through the window of a meters- ring to the heavily secured Bagh- gued that the president’s legacy
$18.4 billion under Trump, who said Monday they believe the high tower, and several dozen The theory was born last dad facility that had become a would benefit from a robust trial.
made the border barrier a priori- attack was intended to kill Amer- U.s. troops were later treated for Thursday in the Roosevelt Room magnet for protesters. “I don’t think there’s any inter-
ty during his campaign for the ican personnel, an act that could concussions as a result of the of the White House, where Presi- Later that night, at a raucous est on our side of dismissing,” said
presidency in 2016. He also have pushed the two powers see iraq on a12 dent Trump stood before men in see trump on a13 sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), the
pledged to make Mexico pay for closer to outright war. hard hats and orange construc- fourth-ranking GoP senator.
the barrier, delighting crowds at The missile barrage last week protests continue in iran tion vests for an environmental twin hot spots, split responses “Certainly, there aren’t 51 votes
his rallies. against the sprawling Ain al- students and state journalists announcement and offered a trump goes all in for iran protests, for a motion to dismiss.”
see border wall on a2 Asad air base in western Iraq left voiced anger over flight 752. a12 fresh rationale for his controver- stays quiet on hong Kong. a13 see impeachment on a8
Astros fire manager, GM Bloomberg’s
big plans
in sign-stealing fallout
don’t stop at
Manfred fined the team $5 million nomination
Hinch, Luhnow had been and took away its top two draft
picks in both 2020 and 2021.
given one-year bans in
About an hour after MLB’s an-
baseball cheating scandal nouncement, Astros owner Jim BY MICHAEL SCHERER
Crane told reporters that he had
terminated Hinch and Luhnow, AKRON, OhIO — By the time Mike
saying: “We need to move forward Bloomberg sniffed the hydropon-
BY DAVE SHEININ with a clean slate. [We] will not ic basil growing in an old tire
have this happen again on my factory here, he had already trav-
The Houston Astros on Monday watch.” A ccording to a statement eled 1,700 miles in three hops on
fired manager A.J. Hinch and gen- from Manfred, Crane had been his chartered plane, met with the
eral manager Jeff Luhnow, an unaware of the scheme and was mayor of Chicago and climbed
hour after Major League Baseball “extraordinarily troubled and up- into a soybean tractor on the
suspended both for a year for their set” about his employees’ conduct. frozen plains of southern Minne-
roles in an extensive sign-stealing MLB’s investigation also spread sota.
scheme. It was a swift and power- to the 2018 Boston Red sox, whose It was a show of force — four
ful downfall for the duo who manager, Alex Cora, formerly the states in less than 17 hours on
turned the Astros into an analy - bench coach for the 2017 Astros, Wednesday, each event meticu-
tics-driven winning machine that could face significant discipline lously produced for local press,
produced a World series title in once that phase is completed in with separate rented motorcades
2017, now tainted by scandal. the coming weeks. Manfred’s and a button-down advance staff
An investigation by MLB found statement called Cora, as bench that choreographed his move-
the Astros used cameras and video coach, an active participant in the ted aljibe/agence france-presse/getty images ments like a ballet. no other presi-
monitors to steal the signs of op- 2017 Astros’ scheme and implied dential candidate in the Demo-
In the Philippines, fleeing a volcano
posing catchers at Houston’s Min- he had a role, as manager, in a cratic field would have tried to
ute Maid Park and t hen signaled similar electronic sign-stealing A youth living at the foot of the Taal volcano rides in a canoe as ash is seen from Tanauan in the pull this off in January.
those signs to their hitters before scheme allegedly perpetrated by As the cameras shuttered be-
Batangas province, south of Manila. Thousands of residents have fled as the volcano erupts for
pitches throughout the 2017 regu- see astros on a17 see bloomberg on a7
lar season and playoffs and at least the first time since 1977. Manila’s airport resumed operations Monday after being closed for
part of the 2018 season. In addi- a stain on the game about a day, and there have been no confirmed reports of casualties. Story, A10 booker quits presidential race
tion to the suspensions of Hinch thomas boswell writes that the the senator’s decision leaves the
and Luhnow, Commissioner Rob astros got what they deserved. d1 democratic field less diverse. a4
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eral said the December should get nearly five nomena such as fire tor- ahead of the signing of a
after doing good
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Barr: Pensacola air station shooting was an act of terror
BY DEVLIN BARRETT photographs of two severely dam- to the highest levels of the Saudi to open the two iPhones.
AND MATT ZAPOTOSKY aged devices, the attorney general government. For years, Apple has resisted any
publicly urged Apple to act. Justice Department officials efforts to alter the encryption on its
Attorney General William P. “So far, Apple has not given us said they had received an unprece- phones to make it possible for the
Barr said Monday that the Decem- any substantive assistance,” Barr dented level of cooperation from company to give government in-
ber shooting that killed three U.S. said, though aides later clarified the Saudi government in the Pensa- vestigators access to the data on
sailors on a Florida base was an act that Apple had, in fact, given inves- cola case. such phones, saying that doing so
of terrorism, as officials revealed tigators access to cloud data linked In a statement, the Embassy of would weaken the security of all its
harrowing new details about the to the gunman. “This situation per- the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia said: customers’ devices.
15-minute rampage and publicly fectly illustrates why it is critical “The disturbed and radicalized in- “Even though the shooter is
called out Apple Inc. to help them that investigators be able to get dividual who carried out this terri- dead, the FBI, out of an abundance
unlock the killer’s phones. access to digital evidence once they ble attack acted alone. He does not of caution, has secured court au-
At a news conference to discuss have obtained a court order.” represent the hundreds of thou- thorization to search the contents
the results of the FBI’s investiga- Barr did not say whether the sands of Saudis who have lived, of the phones in order to exhaust all
tion into the shooting at Naval Air Justice Department would seek a studied and trained in the United leads in this high priority national
Station Pensacola, Barr said inves- court order to force Apple’s compli- States over the past several de- security investigation,” Boente
tigators had found evidence that ance. The department filed legal cades, nor does his heinous act wrote to the company.
Ahmed Mohammed al-Shamrani, papers on a similar case in 2016, represent the values of Saudi Ara- “Unfortunately, FBI has been
a Royal Saudi Air Force member but the issue was never resolved by bia. . . . Saudi Arabia will continue unable to access the contents of the
training at the base, was motivated a higher court. Jim lo scalzo/ePa-eFe/shutterstock to cooperate with US authorities phones,” the letter said, even after
by “jihadist ideology” and had Officials said Shamrani inten- The Justice Department’s Ali Kjergaard straightens pictures of two should they require additional in- asking private technology experts
posted anti-American messages on tionally fired a round into one of iPhones said to belong to Ahmed Mohammed al-Shamrani. formation.” whether they could help agents
social media about two hours be- the phones during his rampage. Barr said the cadets’ anti-Ameri- crack them. “None of those rea-
fore his attack. In a lengthy statement, Apple tially reported that Shamrani ar- that while officials were confident can posts were “not enough” to chouts has shown us a path for-
FBI Deputy Director David disputed the attorney general’s de- rived to the shooting with others, Shamrani had no U.S.-based co- constitute a violation of law. There ward.”
Bowdich said that during the at- scription of its role, saying the com- who filmed it, those accounts conspirator, they were still inter- was no evidence they were affiliat- Asked Monday whether the
tack, Shamrani fired shots at pic- pany began responding within turned out to be incorrect. The ested in potential interactions he ed with terrorist activity or a partic- FBI’s technical experts on cell-
tures of President Trump and a hours of the first FBI request on shooter, he said, arrived alone, might have had with those in Saudi ular group, he said, and U.S. attor- phones had agreed with the deci-
past U.S. president, and witnesses Dec. 6 and has turned over “many though other cadets who hap- Arabia. neys had independently deter- sion to send the letter pressing
at the scene said he made state- gigabytes” of data in the case. pened to be in the area did film the Barr said investigators had mined the child porn did not war- Apple to open the phones, Bowdich
ments critical of American military “Our responses to their many ensuing commotion. found evidence that 17 Saudis had rant charges. Justice Department said he did not know.
actions overseas. Bowdich said requests since the attack have been Bowdich said the incident lasted through social media shared officials said the most significant An FBI spokesperson later said
that while Shamrani did not seem timely, thorough and are ongoing,” about 15 minutes, with authorities jihadist or anti-American material case involved a cadet who pos- the bureau’s “technical experts —
to be inspired by one specific ter- the company said. “The FBI only intervening to stop the attack after and 15 — including some of those sessed more than 100 images of as well as those consulted outside
rorist group, he harbored anti- notified us on January 6th that about eight minutes. Barr singled who had shared anti-American child porn and had searched terms of the organization — have played
American and anti-Israeli views they needed additional assistance out sailor Ryan Blackwell, who he material — were found to have had for child porn, according to his an integral role in this investiga-
and felt “violence was necessary.” — a month after the attack oc- said — despite having been shot contact with or possessed child browser history — but even that fell tion. The consensus was reached,
Bowdich said the gunman’s social curred. . . . Early outreach is critical five times — jumped on top of a pornography. below the normal threshold for a after all efforts to access the shoot-
media comments echoed those of to accessing information and find- fellow service member to prevent Barr said only one of those peo- case deemed worthy of prosecu- er’s phones had been unsuccessful,
Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Yemeni ing additional options.” her from being shot and helped ple had a “significant number” of tion by a U.S. attorney’s office. that the next step was to reach out
American cleric tied to the terrorist Even without the phone data, others get to safety. images, and U.S. attorneys had re- Barr stressed the importance of to start a conversation with Apple.”
group al-Qaeda who was killed in a investigators were able to review The gunman, who used a semi- viewed each case and determined military partnerships, such as the Apple and other companies
drone strike in 2011. Shamrani’s social media postings, automatic handgun he purchased such people would not normally be one that allowed the Saudi cadets have said encryption on phones is
Monday’s announcement of- which were critical to the officials’ legally via an exception that allows charged with federal crimes. He to train in the United States, and an important safeguard protecting
fered the most definitive account of determination. non-U.S. citizens with hunting li- said 21 cadets from Saudi Arabia said the Saudi government had millions of consumers against
the gunman’s actions and thinking. In declaring the incident terror- censes to do so, was fatally shot by a had been disenrolled from their been cooperative. But he said more hackers and other criminals.
Bowdich said investigators inter- ism, Barr noted that on Sept. 11, sheriff’s deputy. training and would be returning to vetting of prospective trainees was The courts have yet to rule on
viewed more than 500 people — Shamrani posted a message on so- Bowdich said investigators had the kingdom later Monday. Justice needed. whether companies such as Apple
including witnesses, base person- cial media saying, “The countdown not found evidence that the shoot- Department officials said 12 were The Justice Department an- can be forced to change their busi-
nel and friends and classmates of has begun.” Over the Thanksgiving er acted with anyone else — though from the Pensacola base, and nine nouncement appeared to settle ness practices to give law enforce-
the shooter — and collected more weekend, Barr said, Shamrani vis- officials said they had uncovered were from other military bases. many questions surrounding the ment agents access to phones and
than 42 terabytes of digital infor- ited the memorial in New York City troubling conduct by other Saudi U.S.-Saudi relations remain Pensacola attack, while leaving one other devices.
mation. to those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, military members training in the strained after the 2018 killing of large issue unresolved — the poten- [email protected]
But investigators have been sty- terrorist attacks. Fifteen of the 19 United States. Justice Department Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journal- tial battle over the killer’s phones. [email protected]
mied in trying to access two key hijackers who carried out those officials, speaking on the condition ist and Washington Post columnist The FBI’s top lawyer, Dana
pieces of evidence — the gunman’s attacks were Saudis. of anonymity to discuss the diplo- — in the Saudi consulate in Istan- Boente, sent a letter to Apple last kareem Fahim contributed to this
iPhones. Standing before giant Barr said that while it was ini- matically sensitive matter, said bul by men allegedly with close ties week asking for the company’s help report.
5 years after abortion, most women say it was right decision, study finds
BY ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA said they wondered about stigma percent had primarily negative regulating access to abortion pre- participate. Of those who agreed, that a 38 percent response rate
and how the women would reflect feelings. There was “no evidence” mised on emotional harm claims half dropped out. Those who re- among women seeking a “stigma-
There’s been quite a lot of on their decisions as time passed. of new negative or positive emo- (e.g. waiting periods).” ported the highest rates of relief tized” health service is in line with
research about women’s emotions What they found was a sur- tions, the authors said. “What this study is showing is and happiness were the ones most other studies and that they have
immediately following an abor- prise: Over time, all emotions, Immediately after their abor- that there is a small minority who likely to remain, he argued. Those “no reason to believe women
tion. Some experience sadness, good and bad, faded. tions, 95 percent of those who do regret their abortions,” Rocca who reported the least relief were would select into the study based
guilt and anger; others feel relief. “A really interesting finding is agreed to interviews said they had said. “I in no way want to reduce most likely to drop out, he said. on how their emotions would
For many, it’s a mix of all these and how the intensity of all emotions made the right decision. At five the struggles of those who regret The study sample “is clearly change over five years.”
more. But what about in the long is so low,” said Corinne Rocca, lead years, that percentage increased their abortions, but it is misguid- biased toward a subset of women Launched in 2008, the Turn-
term? author of the study and a UCSF to 99 percent. ed to take away the options for who expected the least negative away Study’s main goal is to
Researchers from the Universi- associate professor of obstetrics, Rocca pointed out that a wom- everyone based on this minority.” reactions to their abortion, expe- examine two disparate groups:
ty of California at San Francisco gynecology and reproductive sci- an’s feelings of regret and her That conclusion is unlikely to rienced the least stress relative to women who had abortions, and
delved into this question in an ences. judgment that an abortion was be accepted, however, by oppo- discussing their abortions, and those who sought to terminate
analysis of 667 women recruited A week after their abortions, the correct decision for her under nents of abortion rights, who have perhaps may even have experi- their pregnancies but were
from 30 sites across the country as about 51 percent of women ex- the circumstances are different criticized the Turnaway Study by enced therapeutic benefits from “turned away” because they were
part of the Turnaway Study — a pressed mostly positive emotions, things: “You can feel the emotion saying it uses an unrepresentative talking about their abortions with past the gestational limits set by
landmark body of research about 17 percent expressed negative of regret, yet feel you did what was sample. researchers who affirmed the the clinics and ended up carrying
how abortion affects women emotions, and 20 percent said right for you.” In a 2018 paper in Linacre ‘rightness’ of their abortion deci- to term. The average age of the
physically, socially, emotionally they had none or few. As time The study authors also weighed Quarterly, the ethics journal of the sions,” he wrote. women at the time of their abor-
and economically. went by, the number who felt few in on the political implications of Catholic Medical Association, an- The authors responded by say- tions was 25. Sixty-two percent
Starting one week after their or no emotions rose sharply. At their work. They wrote that their tiabortion activist David C. Rear- ing they recognize that the rela- were already mothers, and the
abortions and then twice yearly the five-year mark, 84 percent findings “challenge the rationale don described how more than tively low participation rate mean gestational age was 15
after that, the women were asked reported either primarily positive for state-mandated counseling two-thirds of the women ap- “might elicit questions about se- weeks.
about their feelings. The authors emotions or none at all, while 6 protocols . . . and other policies proached for the study refused to lection bias.” However, they wrote [email protected]
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In Iowa sprint, Buttigieg tries to erase doubts
Booker
drops out
of race for the experience, not in federal
With polls close, he government anyway,” Muhs said.
“Being a small-town mayor, I
hopes to woo moderates
president mean, even if he were a large-
— and some Republicans town mayor, to me that is still not
the same thing. You need that
experience.”
To combat those worries, Butt-
BY CHELSEA JANES igieg and his team are encourag-
Democratic field less AND HOLLY BAILEY ing their volunteers to reach out
to their friends and neighbors.
diverse without senator DES MOINES — A year ago, then- The campaign flew its national
who pitched optimism South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg caucus director, Travis Brock, to
took his first trip to Iowa as a conduct some trainings in per-
presidential candidate. He had son. Buttigieg organizers are
barely any staff, so he piled in a teaching precinct captains how to
BY AMY B WANG car with his husband and a couple build “empathetic bridges” to
AND DAVID WEIGEL of early hires to drive the 400 supporters of other campaigns in
miles west. the hopes of bolstering their
Cory Booker, the senator from Now, with just weeks until the ranks on caucus night.
New Jersey who pitched himself caucuses, Buttigieg’s Iowa staff At a recent precinct captain
as a candidate of hope and opti- numbers in the hundreds, along training in Ankeny, north of Des
mism, is suspending his presiden- with scores of volunteers eager to Moines, a Buttigieg staffer re-
tial campaign, he said Monday. knock on doors and phone-bank. minded the 90 people gathered
Booker, who recently an- He regularly draws big crowds. not to take an Iowa win for
nounced he had surpassed his And his fundraising haul has granted. One slide from a Power-
fourth-quarter fundraising goal, enabled him to blanket the state Point presentation showed a list
said his operation would not have with TV ads touting him as the of polls from this point in the
the money “to scale up and contin- candidate who can bring the Brian snyder/reuters 2004 Democratic election, when
ue building a campaign that can country together after President Pete Buttigieg holds a town hall Sunday in Des Moines. A recent Des Moines Register poll showed Howard Dean was leading. John
win,” particularly with a Senate Trump. Buttigieg in a near-tie with Joe Biden and Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in the state. F. Kerry went on to win Iowa, a
impeachment trial looming and Still, it is far from clear he will surprise comeback that helped
because he would be absent from be able to turn his momentum make him the most progressive — he has now assembled one of policy, which is now becoming a him clinch the Democratic presi-
Tuesday’s debate. into a win on caucus night. A president in recent memory. the largest operations in the huge issue in this election, which dential nomination.
“So I’ve chosen to suspend my recent Des Moines Register poll The message he has delivered state. none of us expected. And that “They were dating Howard
campaign now, take care of my showed Buttigieg in a near-tie in Iowa lately makes clear over- According to several Demo- does play to Joe Biden’s strength, Dean, and they married John
wonderful staff, and give you time with former vice president Joe tures to disgruntled Republicans cratic county chairs, Buttigieg’s and in many ways they are in the Kerry,” Shannon Sankey, a Butt-
to consider the other strong choic- Biden and Sens. Bernie Sanders — or what he calls “future former operation is second only to War- same lane.” igieg organizer overseeing Anke-
es in the field,” Booker wrote in a (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D- Republicans” — whom he argues ren’s. “When you see a Warren While Buttigieg seemed to ben- ny, told the group. The race now,
message to supporters Monday. Mass.). Voters — even those who he can attract. He suggests he will organizer, a Buttigieg organizer efit in the fall from heavy spend- she said, is just as fluid. “The polls
On the campaign trail, Booker like him — are worried about his be able to build bipartisan con- usually isn’t far behind,” said one ing on television, he has lost that are always lying to us,” she said.
preached the power of empathy, inexperience, electability and sensus. And he, more than any Democratic county chair, who advantage. In recent weeks, his “You never want to believe a poll,
saying he would beat Trump with struggles with black voters. candidate in the field, suggests spoke on the condition of ano- ads have been matched almost because it’s always changing.”
love. In his parting message, Book- In this unusually fluid race, that Republicans have co-opted nymity to give a candid assess- one-to-one by Biden spots, in- Around the room, volunteers,
er doubled down on that message. with a high number of undecided faith, arguing that religious cluding a new ad emphasizing many wearing navy-and-gold
“I believed to my core that the voters, Buttigieg acknowledges Americans can find a like-minded Biden’s foreign policy experience Buttigieg campaign pins, grew
answer to the common pain Amer- that he needs an Iowa win to leader in him. “I mean, even if he were against the backdrop of recent serious. Their game faces were
icans are feeling right now, the prove he can win nationally. For- There are signs that moderates tensions with Iran. on.
answer to Donald Trump’s hatred eign policy has abruptly vaulted are responding to that message. a large-town mayor, to Interviews with undecided vot- “We’re focusing on persuasion
and division, is to reignite our to the forefront of voters’ con- Longtime Iowa Democratic Party ers at candidate events in recent and mobilization,” said Matt Mc-
spirit of common purpose to take cerns, and Buttigieg has less of a activist Terri Hale, who endorsed me that is still not the days suggest there is still a lot of Coy, a former state senator and
on our biggest challenges and clear fallback than some of his Buttigieg last summer and calls goodwill for Buttigieg and that he early Buttigieg endorser who is
build a more just and fair country rivals should he stumble in the him “a realistic progressive,” re- same thing.” remains in consideration. But involved in Buttigieg’s Iowa
for everyone,” Booker wrote. caucuses. cently planned a small meet-and- many still are not convinced. “kitchen cabinet,” a regular strat-
“I’ve always believed that. I still “Iowa is very important be- greet for Buttigieg at her home Lynn Muhs, of newton, iowa “He’s too young,” said Lynn egy meeting of staffers and other
believe that. I’m proud I never cause it’s our opportunity to dem- near Des Moines. Muhs, 67, an undecided voter campaign members.
compromised my faith in these onstrate our strength to a lot of She invited only undecided from Newton, Iowa. She spoke McCoy said the campaign still
principles during this campaign voters I think are very pragmatic and Republican acquaintances, ment of the race. after attending a Sanders rally sees plenty of time to change
to score political points or tear — in places like South Carolina to try to sell them on her candi- But that may not be enough. In Saturday as part an effort to see minds. His preferred candidate
down others.” and Nevada — who above all want date. “We ended up having to recent weeks, some county chairs all the candidates in person be- agrees.
The senator plans to run for to see a candidate who can win,” move it to a bigger place because have sensed shifting feelings fore making a final decision on “What we’re seeing is every-
reelection, his campaign said. Buttigieg said Saturday in Las we had about 170 people,” Hale about Buttigieg. whom to support. thing from voters who have been
Booker is the latest candidate of Vegas. said. “Not everybody there was an Voters who had been leaning She praised Buttigieg as a coming out to events for a year
color to leave a Democratic field To try to bring home a victory, undecided or Republican, but I toward or even committed to him “good talker, a good speaker,” but and are narrowing down their
that started out as historically di- Buttigieg is sweeping across Iowa know a few Republicans for sure have reported new anxiety, rais- she worried about his lack of choices to people who are just
verse, exiting about two weeks af- this week, making at least 12 who are going to caucus for Dem- ing questions about his age, his Washington experience. In the now tuning in,” Buttigieg said
ter former housing secretary Ju- town-hall stops, including 10 in ocrats because of Pete who were lack of Washington experience past, she said, she thought an Saturday. “The message won’t
lián Castro said he was suspend- counties Trump carried in 2016. there.” and his struggle to win over outsider might have been good. change, because my values ha-
ing his campaign. The campaign prioritized red and The campaign is also doubling minority voters. But she looks at that question ven’t changed. But you will see us
Booker, 50, has been seen as a purple counties in two trips down on its robust organizing “I honestly think he peaked a differently considering Trump. continuing to build toward a clos-
potential presidential candidate through Iowa in late December, operation in the final weeks be- little bit too early, unfortunately, Whoever follows Trump, she said, ing argument that really brings
for most of his career. In 2002, a too. fore the vote. Though Buttigieg and people are kind of having needs to be able to restore order. home why I’m the best nominee
documentary crew followed his It is part of his strategy to pitch started far behind his Democratic buyer’s remorse,” the Democratic “I could imagine him as some- to defeat Donald Trump and why
upstart run for mayor of Newark. himself as a moderate who would rivals in building a ground game county chair said of Buttigieg. one who could win later down the I’d be the best president.”
Booker won i n a landslide four not alienate conservatives, even — waiting until around Labor “The second-guessing is starting. road, but . . . he doesn’t have the [email protected]
years later and was urged by Dem- as he argues his proposals would Day to begin opening field offices I think a big part of it is foreign background and he doesn’t have [email protected]
ocrats to run for higher office,
which he did by winning a special
Senate election in 2013. Without Pompeo, Democrats focus on Senate seat in Kansas
In the Senate, Booker has a lib-
eral voting record and took the
lead on criminal justice reform
legislation, such as the First Step
Act, which passed in 2018. Booker BY ANNIE GOWEN
has been an advocate for policies
to reduce incarceration rates and OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — Secre-
help poor families build wealth. tary of State Mike Pompeo’s deci-
He was also friendly with the sion not to run for the Senate has
financial industry at a time when enlivened Kansas Democrats, who
Democratic voters were turning think they have a shot at flipping
against it. In 2012, Booker criti- one of the few open Senate seats in
cized the Obama campaign’s at- the country this year — one that
tacks on Republican presidential has been in Republican hands for
nominee Mitt Romney’s business more than a century.
career, calling it “nauseating.” In Since Pompeo bowed out of the
2017, he opposed an amendment race, the leading Democratic con-
to a budget bill that would have tender, state Sen. Barbara Bollier,
supported reimporting cheaper has announced that she raised
pharmaceuticals from Canada, a more than $1 million in her first
move that drew protests in his quarter in the contest, unprece-
state, even though the amend- dented for a Democratic Senate
ment was largely for show. hopeful in Kansas. John hanna/associated Press charlie riedel/associated Press
As a presidential candidate, In the days following the Kansas state Sen. Barbara Bollier, pictured in April 2018, has Former Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach talks to reporters in
Booker was often stuck, unable to Pompeo news, Bollier has received raised more than $1 million for her U.S. Senate bid. Leavenworth in July after announcing his Senate candidacy.
convince left-wing voters that he call-outs on Twitter from Demo-
was on their side while turning crats such as Sen. Chris Murphy bid for the seat vacated by retiring senator for the first time since fending fellow Republicans. “Ko- cult, analysts say.
down donations and initially re- (Conn.) and had record online Sen. Pat Roberts (R), the National 1932. Pompeo could still change bach has done nothing to show us Even Kelly has said Kansas is
jecting super PAC support that fundraising, with more than Republican Senatorial Committee his mind, as the filing deadline that he has learned from his past not experiencing a “blue wave” b ut
could have helped him. $80,000 from 1,700 contributors, took the unusual step of denounc- isn’t until June 1. mistakes and, as the national map rather a “wave of common sense.”
He suffered from bad luck, too. according to her campaign. ing his candidacy, saying it put Kobach has vowed to “lead the becomes more competitive, he is a “We’re a generally Republican
After Booker criticized former vice “It’s very exciting,” said Vicki both the Trump presidency and charge” against illegal immigra- risk we can’t afford to take. There state that generally elects Republi-
president Joe Biden for having Hiatt, chairman of the Kansas the Senate seat “at risk.” An NRSC tion and socialism. He champi- will be a full-throttled effort to cans to statewide office,” said Pat-
touted his work with segregation- Democratic Party. “Several spokesman said this week that its oned a state law that required stop him — the only question is: rick Miller, a political science pro-
ists, the Democratic National months ago, we didn’t know position on Kobach has not voters to provide proof of citizen- Which primary candidate does fessor at the University of Kansas.
Committee’s randomized rules which direction things were go- changed. ship, a measure the courts over- that benefit the most?” “There is not going to be a radical
put the two candidates on differ- ing. Now it looks like Democrats Kobach — who built a national turned. Marshall, 59, an obstetrician shift here. We’re not going to be a
ent nights of the June debates. have a strong possibility of picking reputation as a campaigner He brushed aside the notion from western Kansas who has purple state all of a sudden.”
Sen. Kamala D. Harris (Calif.), who up a U.S. Senate seat.” against illegal immigration and as that he’s not the favored candidate been in Congress since 2016, has Bollier left the Republican Par-
appeared alongside Biden, criti- Democrats in Kansas, a state a proponent of Trump’s border of McConnell and the Washington raised more money than any other ty just over a year ago, shortly
cized those comments and briefly that has been reliably red in na- wall — beat then-Gov. Jeff Colyer establishment — or what he called candidate in the race, nearly before she announced her Senate
surged in the polls, as Booker tional elections, have experienced (R) in the 2018 gubernatorial pri- “the D.C. sort of insider armchair $2 million, including $250,000 in bid as a Democrat. She had dif-
stayed mired. a mini-surge over the past two mary. But in the general election, quarterbacking of races in the three days last week. He has em- fered with the GOP on gay and
Democrats who watched the years, with voters electing Laura he ran a disorganized campaign, Midwest.” phasized his conservative, anti- transgender rights, abortion and
candidates were often surprised Kelly governor and Sharice Da- raised little money and did not “I think McConnell would pre- abortion bona fides in ads, saying Medicaid expansion.
by Booker’s lack of traction. He vids, a lesbian Native American, to capit al ize on his endorsement fer someone more malleable, to do he has voted with the Trump agen- “I got to the point where I
scooped up endorsements in ear- the U.S. House in 2018. Three Re- from Trump, analysts said. what the Senate leadership wants da 98 percent of the time. thought: This is just not working. I
ly-voting states and received some publican state legislators recently Republicans fear that Kobach him to do,” he said. “I don’t take it Marshall said he met with Mc- have to do something different,”
of the loudest responses at early have changed their party affilia- could again prevail in a primary personally.” Connell on Jan. 7. Bollier said. She now says her Re-
multicandidate events. Polls taken tion from Republican to Demo- field of at least four and then lose McConnell has not commented “There is an atmosphere of ex- publican roots will better serve
after debates consistently found crat, including Bollier. the general for the Senate seat. for this article. citement around here. My phone her efforts to forge consensus on
voters rating Booker highly, and Pompeo was courted by Senate “Kansas is a liability Republi- An internal NRSC poll pub- is blowing up — in a good way,” he both sides of the aisle.
his favorable ratings rose in Iowa Majority Leader Mitch McConnell cans don’t need and can’t afford,” lished by the Wall Street Journal said. He said that his meeting with Kobach said that Kansas voters
and New Hampshire. (R-Ky.) for months and would have said Stewart Boss, spokesman for last year showed Kobach leading a McConnell was “phenomenal” may have gone blue in his last race
Yet Booker, who spent years entered the race as a hands-down the Democratic Senatorial Cam- Republican primary field without and that the leader counseled him in part because of anti-Trump sen-
building ties with black leaders, favorite for the seat. Now Republi- paign Committee. “McConnell is Pompeo by 43 percent, far ahead to “keep your head down, work timent. But they’ll be focused on
struggled badly with black voters. cans face a bruising primary battle panicking at the prospect of losing of his closest rival, Rep. Roger hard and go raise money.” the economy and immigration
Sagging in polls, Booker was cut between Kris Kobach, a former a state he thought he could take for Marshall, at 24 percent. But the Although Kansans have a histo- and angry about impeachment
from the December debate in Los secretary of state and ally of Presi- granted.” party leadership remains wary. ry of electing moderate and Demo- proceedings, he said, and not in-
Angeles. His campaign raised dent Trump who lost the gover- On Tuesday, McConnell told re- “There is widespread consen- cratic governors — Kathleen Sebe- clined to vote for a Democrat.
$6.6 million over the final months nor’s race a year ago, and a host of porters he felt that Pompeo made sus that a Kobach nomination lius was elected to two terms in the “I don’t foresee a blue wave in
of last year, far less than the candi- ho-hum establishment candidates the right decision to stay in his puts the seat in real jeopardy in 2000s before she became Presi- Kansas in 2020,” he said.
dates who made the stage. who have not inspired confidence current job, given world events, November,” said one Republican dent Barack Obama’s secretary of [email protected]
[email protected] in the Republican leadership. but said that did not mean Kansas strategist, who spoke on the condi- health and human services — the
[email protected] When Kobach, 53, declared his would be electing a Democratic tion of anonymity for fear of of- Senate seat will be far more diffi- Paul Kane contributed to this report.
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Trump, allies turn sights on Sanders amid polling jump
defeat Trump. Last year, Sanders
Coordinated attacks embarked on a “Bernie Beats
Trump” tour to highlight his
come as Democratic rival
strength against the president in
blasts handling of Iran key states.
“FACT: Bernie Sanders Is A
Wealthy, Fossil Fuel-Guzzling
Millionaire,” read one statement
BY TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA from the Trump campaign on
Thursday, a day after the cam-
President Trump and his cam- paign released a statement saying
paign have launched their most he “Can’t Be Trusted To Defend
sustained attacks yet on Demo- American Lives.”
cratic presidential candidate Ber- Sanders has cast doubt on the
nie Sanders, highlighting the Ver- Trump administration’s shifting
mont senator’s rising poll num- explanations for the strike that
bers and sharp criticism of the killed Soleimani, accusing the
White House’s handling of ten- president of concocting a reason
sions with Iran. to conduct an “assassination” of a
In a coordinated string of press foreign official.
statements, Twitter posts and “The difficulty that we have,
televised digs over the past week, and I don’t mean to be rude here,
Trump and his allies have trained is we have a president that’s a
their sights on Sanders, seeking pathological liar,” he said Friday
to tarnish his foreign policy cre- on NBC’s TODAY show.
dentials and commander in chief Trump’s campaign has re-
appeal. The attacks represent a sponded by trying to brand the
shift for Trump, who had previ- senator as soft on terrorism, a
ously devoted more of his energy scorched-earth tactic that has
to criticizing former vice presi- come to define the strategy of the
dent Joe Biden. president’s reelection bid.
Trump’s allies say the president “How many American children
drives the campaign’s political have to be left fatherless before
strategy, acknowledging that he is Bernie Sanders will defend Amer-
an avid consumer of the public ican lives?” Trump’s campaign
polling and the cable-TV punditry manager Brad Parscale tweeted
that has documented Sanders’s Sunday.
growing strength in the Demo- Some of Trump’s advisers say
cratic presidential primary. they are spoiling for a general
Trump mentioned Sanders by Melina Mara/the Washington Post election fight with Sanders, de-
name 10 times during his rally Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a candidate for president, speaks to voters in Newton, Iowa, on Saturday. President Trump and his reelection scribing him as a “socialist” who
last week in Ohio — more than campaign have amped up criticism of Sanders on issues including foreign policy.  For more, visit wapo.st/trumpbernie. turns off moderate voters.
any other candidate. He contin- “I’d rather face Bernie versus
ued the attacks on Twitter over ing a naive, dangerous policy of East, has used the conflict with funding for military conflict with Sanders raised $34.5 million in Biden,” said Bryan Lanza, who
the weekend and on Monday, appeasement toward Iran.” Other Iran to draw a contrast both with Iran, something he said would be the fourth quarter of 2019, a advised Trump’s 2016 campaign
singling Sanders out for more aides attacked Sanders on issues Trump and with his Democratic “disastrous.” massive sum fueled by his online and transition. “Let’s have the
direct criticism than other Demo- ranging from student loans to rivals. He has accused Trump of “At a time when we face the fundraising machine that bested real contrast of who these parties
cratic contenders. human rights. abandoning his 2016 pledge to urgent need to rebuild our crum- all Democratic contenders. are. Let’s have the real debate.”
“Wow! Crazy Bernie Sanders is Tim Murtaugh, a Trump cam- extract the U.S. from costly wars bling infrastructure, to build the Some Trump allies have de- Trump appeared to egg on a
surging in the polls, looking very paign spokesman, said the focus and has made a direct appeal to housing we desperately need, and scribed Sanders’s fundraising as battle between Sanders and Sen.
good against his opponents in the on Sanders is not a sign of fear of Trump voters who are disillu- to address the existential crisis of an impressive sign of his poten- Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on
Do Nothing Party,” Trump wrote the Vermont senator or any other sioned by the president’s perfor- climate change, we as a nation, tial staying power in the Demo- Monday, tweeting that the two
Sunday on Twitter. “So what does candidate, arguing that “Trump mance in office. must get our priorities right,” he cratic primary. liberals are fighting over voters.
this all mean? Stay tuned!” would beat any of them handily.” “Bernie, who has spent his en- said in a joint statement with And while most of the Trump He also turned his fire on former
Sanders, who has pilloried “Over the last year, the cam- tire life standing with the work- Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). campaign’s recent attacks on New York mayor Mike
Trump for authorizing the drone paign has engaged various Demo- ing class, is going to spend every Sanders has seen his poll num- Sanders have focused on foreign Bloomberg, who has been run-
strike that killed Iranian Maj. crats when the opportunities moment of the general election bers rise and his fundraising im- policy, the president’s surrogates ning ads targeting Trump on
Gen. Qasem Soleimani, had a curt have presented themselves,” Mur- reminding working Americans prove as he has campaigned on have ramped up their critiques of health care and other issues.
response: “It means you’re going taugh said. “In Sanders’s case, his that Trump was lying when he bringing about a “revolution” ca- his domestic agenda as well. “Bernie Sander’s volunteers
to lose.” surge in the polls coincided with said he would stand with them pable of ousting Trump from of- Aides said they expect the on- are trashing Elizabeth ‘Pocahon-
Trump’s campaign has re- his emergence as the chief apolo- and that he would end the endless fice. A poll released Friday by the slaught against Sanders to con- tus’ Warren. Everybody knows
leased three statements in the gist for the Iranian regime. We wars,” said Mike Casca, the Sand- Des Moines Register and CNN tinue and intensify, as Trump her campaign is dead and want
last week specifically attacking needed to point out that he would ers campaign communications showed Sanders narrowly lead- uses the liberal senator as a her potential voters,” he wrote,
Sanders on foreign policy, a sig- be dangerous as president since director. “He’s the most corrupt ing a close race in Iowa just three stand-in for the entire field of misspelling the slur he regularly
nificant escalation that has been he made clear he would appease president in American history, weeks before the Feb. 3 caucuses Democrats. uses against Warren. “Mini Mike
mirrored by top Twitter accounts terrorists and terror-sponsoring and Bernie Sanders is going to there. The survey is the first to Trump is scheduled to hold a B is also trying, but getting tiny
managed by campaign aides. nations.” sweep him out of the White have Sanders leading in the state, rally today in Wisconsin, a state crowds which are all leaving fast.
On Monday, the campaign ac- Sanders, who has been House.” and it showed that he enjoys where Sanders has said his ap- Elizabeth is very angry at Bernie.
cused Sanders of defending “the staunchly opposed to America’s Earlier this month, Sanders support from 20 percent of likely peal to working-class voters could Do I see a feud brewing?”
world’s top terrorist” and “push- entanglements in the Middle introduced legislation to block voters. put him in a strong position to [email protected]
Sanders-Warren feud takes a turn onto the dangerous turf of gender
BY ANNIE LINSKEY whose importance is heightened ter/CNN poll last week.
AND SEAN SULLIVAN by an unprecedented circum- “It’s not unexpected to have
stance: Soon after the debate, Iowans taking their time consid-
DES MOINES — The two leading three of the six participants — ering all the candidates. But
liberal presidential candidates Sanders, Warren and Sen. Amy when you have people saying
battled furiously Monday on the Klobuchar (D-Minn.) — will de- they’ve narrowed it down to
fraught topic of gender in Ameri- part for Washington as impeach- their top four or top three choic-
can politics as they prepared to ment trial of President Trump es, we’re in new territory,” said
meet in Iowa for a debate that begins. Matt Paul, who was Clinton’s
may be the last high-profile gath- The unpredictable impeach- Iowa state director in 2016.
ering before the state’s caucuses. ment schedule means the three “There’s going to be such high
The question of whether a probably will have only a limited interest in this debate.”
woman could be elected presi- amount of time in Iowa in the The effort to persuade
dent in the United States was three weeks before the Feb. 3 prompted disputes between the
fueled by a CNN report that cited caucuses, curtailing their ability candidates over the weekend.
sources saying Sen. Bernie Sand- to connect with voters here in the Sanders’s team tangled with
ers (I-Vt.) had told Sen. Elizabeth final stretch of the campaign. Biden’s team over Biden’s vote
Warren (D-Mass.) that a woman It was not immediately clear for the war in Iraq. Nina Turner,
could not win the White House how the gender dispute would be a national co-chair of the Sand-
in 2020. taken by those voters. Since Hil- ers campaign, wrote an op-ed
Sanders heatedly denied the lary Clinton’s 2016 loss to Donald published Sunday in a South
report, which his campaign man- Trump, many voters have ex- Carolina newspaper that Biden
ager Faiz Shakir told CNN was “a pressed a deep concern about the “has repeatedly betrayed black
lie.” odds of another woman defeat- voters to side with Republican
“It is ludicrous to believe that ing him for reelection. Former lawmakers and undermine our
at the same meeting where Eliza- vice president Joe Biden touched progress.”
beth Warren told me she was on the topic earlier this month But the fight between Sanders
going to run for president, I when he noted that Clinton faced and Warren, who previously had
would tell her that a woman “unfair” sexism during her cam- Melina Mara/the Washington Post criticized each other only in
couldn’t win,” Sanders said in a paign. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has disputed fellow liberal candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders’s account passing, eclipsed that feud.
statement. “That’s not going to happen of a 2018 dinner at which they discussed whether a woman could win the White House in November. Sanders said it was “sad that,
Two people with knowledge of with me,” Biden said. three weeks before the Iowa
the conversation at the 2018 Warren increasingly has chief make him the right choice. paign manager. sis on gender in recent weeks. caucus and a year after that
dinner at Warren’s home told worked to revive the anti-Trump “I think he will say Trump’s Sanders heads into the debate Pete Buttigieg, the former private conversation, staff who
The Washington Post that War- spirit of the 2017 Women’s March dangerous actions speak to why homing in on Biden’s foreign mayor of South Bend, Ind., is weren’t in the room are lying
ren brought up the issue by and persuade women to side it’s so important to hire someone policy record as well, but to make hoping to stay above the fray and about what happened.”
asking Sanders whether he be- with her. who, on day one, can start to pick the opposite point: Biden has a show he can attract voters who The fight followed a weekend
lieved a woman could win. One A September Washington Post up the pieces,” the Biden adviser history of making the wrong call left the party to support Trump. quarrel over a Politico report
of the people with knowledge of poll found 23 percent of Demo- said. “Biden has that experience. at key moments, Sanders has A spokesman for the Buttigieg that the Sanders campaign is-
the conversation said Sanders crats and Democratic-leaning in- He’s sat in the Situation Room. argued, including his vote to campaign declined to comment sued a script painting Warren as
did not say a woman couldn’t dependents said a man would be He has extensive experience on authorize war with Iraq. On the on debate strategy, but the candi- an elitist for volunteers calling
win but rather that Trump would more likely than a woman to the Foreign Relations Commit- electability front, Sanders has date has been drawing a few key voters.
use nefarious tactics against the defeat Trump in November. tee.” argued that his top fundraising points of distinction between Warren said she was “disap-
Democratic nominee. The broader question of elect- Biden, whose camp had long numbers, swelling crowd sizes him and his fellow candidates pointed” and warned of a repeat
“What I did say that night was ability has hung over the cam- downplayed his chances in Iowa, and lead in some polls show he over the past few weeks, includ- of what she referred to as the
that Donald Trump is a sexist, a paign since its inception. Going has ramped up his schedule in can excite the party and win. ing shots at Biden’s vote in favor “factionalism” that cost Demo-
racist and a liar who would into Tuesday’s debate, four of the Iowa, recently surpassing War- While it was unclear how of the Iraq War. crats the White House in 2020.
weaponize whatever he could,” top contenders have sharpened ren for the number of events held Sanders would approach the flap Only six candidates will be on Adam Green, a Warren ally,
Sanders said in the statement. their arguments about why they in the state. He has more than with Warren at the debate, his the debate stage, the smallest said Warren plans to make a
“Do I believe a woman can win in represent the strongest challeng- doubled his spending on televi- campaign advisers have signaled group so far to participate. It also broader closing argument on the
2020? Of course! After all Hillary er to Trump in November. sion ads — with his campaign in recent days that they are much will be the first debate featuring big themes of her campaign and
Clinton beat Donald Trump by 3 Biden is expected to highlight and a super PAC backing him more interested in drawing a only white candidates, a lack of focus the energizing nature of
million votes in 2016.” his foreign policy experience, spending more than anyone else contrast with Biden, particularly diversity underscored Monday her campaign.
Warren’s campaign issued a according to an adviser who over the past two weeks. He has pressing on his past comments when Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), “Warren’s closing argument is
statement late Monday saying spoke on the condition of ano- landed the state’s most coveted about cutting Social Security and who is African American, that she can best unite and
that the fate of a female candi- nymity to discuss debate deliber- endorsements, sent out-of-state building on an argument pushed dropped out of the race citing as energize all factions of Demo-
date was among the topics “that ations. The topic has risen in the surrogates in to campaign on his out by a top Sanders surrogate one reason his inability to qualify crats, plus win swing voters in
came up.” minds of many voters amid re- behalf and is planning signifi- over the weekend that Biden has for the debate. the general,” said Green. “This
“I thought a woman could cent skirmishes with Iran, and cant time in the state over the as spotty record on supporting Four candidates — Sanders, debate is all about big-picture
win; he disagreed,” she said, Biden has offered himself as a next week. African Americans. Biden, Warren and Buttigieg — vision and electability against
adding: “I have no interest in safe bet against a president many “We have long had a theory of Warren plans to paint herself are bunched at the top of the Trump.”
discussing this private meeting in the party loathe. the case in Iowa and elsewhere is as a unity candidate who would polls leading into the caucuses. [email protected]
any further because Bernie and I The senior adviser said Biden when push comes to shove, cau- be acceptable to both the liberal Yet, with three weeks to go, the [email protected]
have far more in common than will try on Tuesday to make the cusgoers fundamentally care and establishment wings of the race remains fluid — 45 percent
our differences on punditry.” case that his eight years of expe- about one thing above all else: Democratic Party. The leak of of Iowans said they could be Matt Viser, Cleve r. Wootson Jr. and
The dispute played out in rience in the White House stand- that’s beating Trump,” said Pete Sanders’s alleged comments also persuaded to back a different Chelsea Janes contributed to this
advance of a Des Moines debate ing next to the commander in Kavanaugh, Biden’s deputy cam- could play into her new empha- candidate in a Des Moines Regis- report.
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Nominee or not, Bloomberg aims to shake up the election
bloomberg from A1 against a similar spot purchased ever been created,” said campaign to emote and talk with his hands.
by Trump’s campaign. When manager Kevin Sheekey, using His campaign signs have the same
fore the purple grow lights of an Trump tweeted an attack on the political lingo for an indepen- blue-on-blue design used by the
urban farm, he asked whether Bloomberg on monday, the for- dent expenditure campaign, the 2012 obama campaign, and his
anyone knew the difference be- mer mayor’s team was delighted. super PAC-type efforts that entrance song at events, lifted
tween a good salesman and a “Glad to see you’re watching wealthy interests use to influence from John f. Kerry’s acceptance
great one. The good salesman, he our ads,” Bloomberg tweeted in elections. speech at the 2004 convention, is
explained, can face rejection at response. All parts of any campaign that U2’s “Beautiful Day.”
one door and move on to the next The extravagance is part of the have been run before — an aggres- His policy, though sometimes
just as convinced he will make the message, an attempt to demon- sive constituency operation, a nuanced on paper, is uncompli-
sale. strate his competence and show surrogate team, a Spanish-lan- cated in presentation, leaning
“The great salesman knocks on that he can manage something guage effort, local media teams in heavily on phrases known to
the same door,” he said with a sly big with good intentions. dozens of states so far — have move focus groups.
smile. “We also want people to know been built out. Top aides have “my pitch, I guess,” he told
The thing that makes that we are building a juggernaut been telling Bloomberg to give his more than 500 potential support-
Bloomberg different is that he can pointed at Donald Trump and the cellphone number to superdele- ers in ohio on Wednesday, read-
knock on all doors at once. republican Party,” said Tim gates whose support could play a ing from notes, “is if you want
Bloomberg is running aggressive- o’Brien, a senior adviser to the decisive role in a contested con- health insurance for everyone, if
ly to win the Democratic nomina- campaign who has been taking vention. you want to combat inequality
tion, but he is simultaneously the message to state parties His campaign is turning out a with fairer taxes and better jobs, if
building out a general election around the country. “one of steady stream of campaign swag you want to share my belief in
machine to defeat President mike’s goals is to make a machine FreDerIc J. BrOWn/agence France-Presse/getty Images — sold at cost, not to raise money opportunity for all, if you support
Trump, with a new structure — that lasts. This idea that he wants People leave Democratic presidential hopeful mike bloomberg’s — in the hopes of a coming de- a commitment to quality educa-
data, field organizing, advertising to do a vanity run or is just buying new field office in los Angeles on Jan. 6. With more than 800 mand for “I LIKE mIKE” and tion in this country for everybody,
and policy — that aims to elect exposure is belied by that.” employees and $200 million in ad spending so far, the billionaire’s “Democracy is not a witch hunt” if you want to clean out the White
Democrats up and down the bal- To begin with, that means run does not resemble a primary campaign in any traditional sense. T-shirts. House, clean out the oval office, if
lot even if the party’s voters reject building a fully staffed general His own social set has been you want to get things done, join
the former New York mayor this election campaign in January to tion about Trump’s failures that to incorporate expensive demo- taken care of, as well. Even though Team Bloomberg.”
spring. win primary contests in march, will continue through November. graphic and targeting data, parts Bloomberg will not accept cam- At an earlier event in Chicago,
The party he is moving to trans- with a suite of high-profile re- “I am looking forward to mak- of which can later be fed back into paign contributions, part of his only a couple hundred showed up,
form, which he only rejoined in cruits on the payroll, including ing a multi-month-long case to the party’s databases or repur- political operation, called Com- and some of them seemed less
october, has become little more former top executives for face- voters that will end on Election posed for the broader fight mittee for mike, is courting Wall than convinced. one group of a
than a bystander to his ambition. book, foursquare and Groupm, Day with his defeat,” says Howard against Trump and republicans. Street executives, New York phi- half-dozen younger attendees in
With more than 800 employees, the world’s largest advertising Wolfson, a top adviser overseeing The fact that he is a candidate lanthropists and other local lead- the audience said they found out
$200 million in ad spending so far media company by billings. No the paid media efforts. gives him greater access to party ers with special events and week- about the event through their em-
and a fully catered Times Square one at headquarters knows what New health-care spots that be- data than he would otherwise ly invite-only conference calls. ployer, which one young woman
office that houses hundreds of he will ultimately choose to gan airing monday focus nearly as have, and as a candidate, he also The request is influence. said she was “scared” to identify.
employees, “mike Bloomberg spend, but they operate for the much on attacking Trump as in- benefits from lower television ad “Amplify our message by acting But a few feet away, fear of a
2020, Inc.” does not resemble a moment without budgets, put- troducing Bloomberg. “America is rates in swing states before their as validators in the media, within different sort had produced real
primary campaign in any tradi- ting the 12th-richest person on sick of Donald Trump, and Ameri- primary contests than he would if your professional network, and support. “We are really scared,”
tional sense. It is an experiment in the planet on a path to spend ca is getting sicker,” begins one ad he simply advertised against other spheres,” the campaign said Brenda Gordon, a teacher of
what happens to democracy $1 billion or more. voice-over, as the screen shows Trump as a regular citizen. wrote in a recent email to the dentistry from Chicago, speaking
when a single faction operates He wants Democrats to know unflattering photos of the presi- The massive campaign staffs group, after Bloomberg invited of Trump. She said she came to the
without economic constraints. he is happy to spread the money dent. “There are 1 million more he has been bringing on in swing dozens to a campaign breakfast event after signing up for the
While most presidential efforts around. During a swing through uninsured Americans every year states — 60 in Arizona and more briefing at one of his Upper East email list for a man she believed
start early and poor, the Texas on Saturday, when his under Trump.” than 80 in North Carolina, for Side buildings. could win, whom she called “my
Bloomberg project exists in an campaign staged more than 150 In a sign of how closely Trump example, at a time when most Despite all the spending, his exception to the old white man
inverted dimension, a fact that events in 27 states in a show of is monitoring Bloomberg’s spots, candidates are focused in Iowa — primary hopes depend largely on rule.”
has caught the attention of organizing prowess, he cast him- the president responded monday have been promised jobs through factors well beyond his control. If “He is everything Trump wish-
Trump, who spent years closely self as a potential benefactor and to a new ad that denounced the July convention or November former vice president Joe Biden es he was,” she said. “He is a real
tracking Bloomberg’s political ca- mentor for all state and local Trump for supporting a Justice election, long after his primary performs well in the early states, billionaire.”
reer in New York. The president party organizations. Department lawsuit to overturn campaign closes up shop. Bloomberg’s moderate appeal As Bloomberg finished his re-
has been monitoring Bloomberg’s “I think you look at each,” protections for people with preex- on the walls of the campaign will likely be overshadowed. But marks in Akron, and prepared to
campaign, impressed by his ex- Bloomberg said, when asked isting conditions. headquarters in manhattan, on a in the case of a stumble, or a travel back to Queens, where his
traordinary spending and fearful whether he would boost them. “mini mike Bloomberg is floor previously occupied by the divided field, Bloomberg could day had begun, he admitted that
of his potential rise, according to “You look to see how well they’re spending a lot of money on false New York Times, two digital position himself as a party broker he was not looking forward to the
Trump confidants with whom the run, and if you tried to help, that Advertising,” Trump wrote, in a countdown clocks hang in pairs. with a minority of delegates, or as fourth flight.
president has discussed you’d be able to help. That’s num- tweet that was itself misleading. one ticks to Super Tuesday, a moderate unity candidate, aim- But he also wanted the crowd
Bloomberg. They spoke on the ber one. And number two would “I was the person who saved Pre- march 3, when Bloomberg hopes ing to bring together the party. to know that he is just getting
condition of anonymity to discuss be that your money would be used Existing Conditions in your to pick up delegates in 14 states on the campaign trail, much of started.
strategy. efficiently. And it’s not just mon- Healthcare.” after declining to campaign in the what he is doing in the meantime “Tomorrow, it starts again,” he
Bloomberg’s aides, in turn, ey. We can bring some advice.” (Trump argues that he will urge first four contests. The other aims is defiant in its vague appeal. An said. “I’m the luckiest guy in the
have delighted in trying to find Whether he wins or loses the Congress to reinstate the protec- at the general election in Novem- engineer by nature who likes to world.”
ways to get Trump’s attention and nomination, the ubiquitous tele- tions if he succeeds in court at ber. talk about delegating authority, [email protected]
increase his anxiety, such as the vision and digital ads he is run- removing them.) “Either it is going to be the best he is focused on process and effi-
recent purchase of an $11 million ning have benen crafted as tthe Beloombergr’s data operation, primary campaign in American cient message delivery. Despite 12 David Weigel, Philip rucker and Josh
Super BowWl ad that will run openingi exchange in a conversa- cryptically called Hawkfish, aims history, or the greatest IE that has years as mayor, he is still learning Dawsey contributed to this report.
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A8 eZ re the washington post .tuesday, january 14, 2020
Calif. boat fire was result of safety violations, lawyers say
deadly incident. Truth Aquatics on
Negligence by crew, Sept. 5 filed a claim for an exemp-
tion from liability, invoking a pre-
owner is alleged in blaze
Civil War maritime law that most
that killed 34 last summer notably was used in the 1912 sink-
ing of the Titanic and more recent-
ly after the Deepwater Horizon oil
spill.
BY MIRANDA GREEN Under the law, liability for dam-
ages to victims would be equiva-
LOS ANGELES — The owners of a lent to the current market value of
scuba-diving boat that caught fire the Conception’s burned-out hull:
off California’s Channel Islands $0.
last summer, trapping passengers In the filing, the boat’s owners,
below deck and killing 34 people, Glen and Dana fritzler, argued
failed to follow required safety that they “used reasonable care to
protocols and did not provide ade- make the Conception seaworthy,”
quate charging procedures for and that the boat was “at all rele-
electronic equipment, which vant times, tight, staunch, and
probably caused the blaze, accord- strong, fully and properly
ing to new legal claims on behalf of manned.”
four of the victims. mongeluzzi said the timing of
Several claims filed in U.S. Dis- the company’s filing, not long af-
trict Court in California on mon- ter the fire and before any results
day allege that crew and owner of the investigations had been re-
negligence were responsible for leased, was particularly alarming
the wrongful deaths on board the to the victims.
Conception, a well-known and “The defendants filed a limita-
popular vessel that had ferried tion of liability action 72 hours
divers and sightseers to coastal after this tragedy, before many of
spots off Santa Barbara since the the bodies had even been recov-
early 1980s. The Sept. 2 overnight ered, and before funerals even
fire in the galley area killed every- occurred,” mongeluzzi said. “I
one who was sleeping below deck thought it was outrageous, and
during the Labor Day weekend inhumane, and a slap in the face at
trip — the only survivors were the these grieving families.”
captain and four crew members The new legal actions join two
who had been in a sleeping area others already filed separately by
above. Ventura county Fire department/associated press victims and their families. ryan
robert mongeluzzi, a lawyer Firefighters respond to the fire on Sept. 2. according to new legal claims, the fire was probably started by lithium batteries in the boat’s galley. Sims, who had been a steward on
representing the victims, said an the boat for three weeks at the
initial investigation by authorities of the voyage. this voyage and not on other voy- ing the victims said the fire proba- in the blaze, Allie Kurtz, 26. Law- time of the accident and broke his
showed several lapses on the boat A National Transportation ages, and that their crew was not bly began as a result of the lithium yers aruge that the boat was un- leg while escaping, sued in Sep-
that allowed the catastrophe to Safety Board (NTSB) preliminary trained.” batteries for portable devices that seaworthy and that the owner and tember, arguing the company had
happen: Passengers and a crew report found that all six members The Conception had two exit were being charged in the boat’s operators were aware of the risks. failed to properly train employees.
member in the sleeping compart- of the crew were asleep at 3:15 a.m. routes from the sleeping area, one galley. The victims’ lawyers also aim to Christine Dignam, whose hus-
ment were unable to escape, the when the fire broke out in the up the main staircase into the Scuba divers on live-aboard encourage a case of criminal in- band, Justin, 58, died on the ship,
crew wasn’t prepared for such a galley. Government regulations galley and another through a boats often charge devices that eptitude against the ship’s cap- sued in November for wrongful
fire, and the boat did not have mandate that commercial ships small hatch above a top bunk. The include portable lights, camera tain, Jerry Boylan, using a statute death.
proper charging capabilities for must maintain a roving watch fire that began in the galley was equipment, laptop batteries and known as seaman’s manslaughter. The deadly Conception fire has
the devices on board. with someone awake aboard at all fully underway when crew mem- cellphones. The Conception — It dates back to the 19th century as opened up a broader dialogue
“There was no night watch, times. bers noticed it, and they were built in 1981, before personal de- a means to punish negligent about maritime safety regulations
there wasn’t adequate training, Lawyers for the four victims unable to get into the sleeping vices were common — allowed steamboat captains for deadly ac- for passenger ships, one that could
the location of the charging sta- argue that the Conception’s opera- area to attempt a rescue. equipment to be charged via a cidents. Such a charge must be significantly impact the diving in-
tions in a level above the sleeping tors routinely failed to abide by Douglas Schwartz, a lawyer for power strip located inside a bench brought against Boylan by the fed- dustry.
berth with multiple electronic de- that law and that if they had, the Conception’s owner, Truth in the galley above the sleeping eral government, which has yet to In December, Sen. Dianne fein-
vices with ion batteries was a passengers sleeping below deck Aquatics Inc., disputed the NTSB quarters, according to crew mem- file any formal actions. stein (D-Calif.) and two other Cali-
death trap,” mongeluzzi told The might have been alerted before report’s findings, calling the pre- ber accounts. Boylan has a sterling reputation fornia Democrats, reps. Salud
Washington Post. they became trapped in a fire that liminary conclusions “unfortu- mongeluzzi said the storage among the local diving communi- Carbajal and Julia Brownley —
The fire — one of the deadliest ultimately burned the ship down nate.” He has said that a crew and use of lithium batteries was ty in Santa Barbara, where Truth introduced a bill focused on boat
maritime accidents in modern to its hull. member had checked on the galley “the most likely culprit” behind Aquatics has been based for 45 safety that would in part mandate
history — happened after a night “first, federal law requires that at 2:30 a.m. Truth Aquatics did not the fire. years. Boylan did not respond to that all small passenger vessels
of celebrating three birthdays. there be a night watch to prevent respond to a request for comment The claim filed monday is on requests for comment. have at least two modes of egress.
Thirty-three passengers and one the very tragedy that occurred,” on the claims monday. behalf of three passengers — Yulia monday’s filings directly re- [email protected]
crew member retired to the tightly mongeluzzi said. “We believe that federal agencies have yet to Krashennaya, 40, Kaustubh Nir- spond to an earlier legal action
packed bunks below deck in the we’re going to be able to prove that release an official cause of the mal, 44, and Sanjeeri Deopujari, 31 taken by the Conception’s owners Green is a freelance journalist based
early morning hours of the last day there was no night watch, not on accident, but lawyers represent- — and the crew member who died in the immediate aftermath of the in california.
Top Senate Republicans reject Trump’s call for outright dismissal of charges
impeachment from a1 that he also retweeted on monday, done in writing. view echoed monday by his clos- strategy last week. tions by Democrats for witnesses
made clear that he was still press- Trump has been eager to use est allies and rank-and-file sena- As Senate GoP leaders work to before opening arguments but
Senate majority Leader mitch ing for the Senate to dismiss the the Senate trial on the campaign tors. finalize the resolution that would that later in the trial, “I presume
mcConnell (r-Ky.) has said that charges. trail as evidence that he has done Several closely watched repub- establish Trump’s trial, they also I’ll be voting in favor of hearing
he wants the trial — only the third “many believe that by the Sen- nothing wrong and that his im- lican senators said monday that began contending with a growing from John Bolton perhaps among
impeachment of a president in ate giving credence to a trial based peachment by the House was a they would reject immediate dis- chorus of republican senators others. That could change de-
U.S. history — to follow the format on the no evidence, no crime, read political “witch hunt” by Demo- missal of the charges against who could be influential swing pending on what happens in the
used 21 years ago in the trial of the transcripts, ‘no pressure’ Im- crats. Trump, including Sens. Lamar Al- votes on procedural matters on ensuing days and during those
President Bill Clinton. In that peachment Hoax, rather than an The House voted Dec. 18 to exander (Tenn.), mitt romney the question of witnesses. arguments, but I’m not going to
case, the Senate approved a reso- outright dismissal, it gives the impeach Trump, but House (Utah) and Susan Collins (maine). one of them, Collins, said last be voting for witnesses prior to
lution that would have allowed partisan Democrat Witch Hunt Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) “my understanding is most re- week that she has spoken with a the opening arguments.”
the Senate to vote to dismiss the credibility that it otherwise does has held the two articles of im- publicans wanted to have a full small circle of republican sena- Senior republicans stressed
charges. not have. I agree!” he wrote. peachment as she sought conces- trial and then have a vote on tors to ensure that the process for monday that such a vote would
But senior republicans sig- White House press secretary sions from mcConnell on witness- acquittal or a conviction, which is Trump hews as closely to the probably occur, with Senate ma-
naled monday that they are not Stephanie Grisham said during a es. He refused to budge and Pelosi at a 67-vote threshold,” said Sen. structure that Clinton was grant- jority Whip John Thune (r-S.D.)
inclined to include such a provi- fox News interview that while relented last week, signaling that John Cornyn (r-Tex.). ed during his trial. telling reporters: “I don’t think
sion in the resolution that will Trump is seeking a dismissal “be- the House would vote this week to Chatter about dismissing the on monday, Collins explained there’s any question that there’ll
kick off Trump’s trial, perhaps as cause he did nothing wrong,” if he approve a slate of impeachment charges began to ramp up last that her negotiations are not probably be that vote at some
soon as Thursday. faces a Senate trial, “he does want managers who will deliver the week after Sen. Josh Hawley about “specific witnesses” getting point in the process.”
“I think the only reason it it to be fair, which is all he de- articles to the Senate and prose- (r-mo.) introduced a measure to called but are merely an attempt “I think we should hear the
would be in there is if there’s just serves.” cute the case against Trump. alter Senate rules to allow for to make sure that no senator case. We have a constitutional
some argument for consistency,” meanwhile, a senior adminis- Senate republicans, most of dismissing articles of impeach- could short-circuit the trial with- duty to do that,” Alexander said.
Blunt said. tration official, speaking on the whom are prepared not to convict ment, but only if the House had out first letting all 100 senators “That means to me, number one,
Another GoP senator, speaking condition of anonymity to candid- Trump on the two charges, believe failed to transmit them to the vote on whether to call additional hear the arguments. Number two,
on the condition of anonymity to ly discuss strategy, said the White a vote to acquit will provide a Senate within 25 calendar days. witnesses. to ask our questions. Number
discuss legislation that is not yet House wants the dismissal option more emphatic statement to re- mcConnell announced last other like-minded senators on three, to be guaranteed the right
public, also said the inclusion of a “available to the president” and but the abuse-of-power and ob- week that he had the votes to monday echoed Collins’s view. to vote on whether we need addi-
provision to dismiss is unlikely. not necessarily tucked into the struction-of-Congress charges he proceed with Trump’s impeach- “I am working to make sure tional evidence following hearing
republicans were maneuver- organizing resolution. The official faces over his demands that ment trial without support from that we will have a process so that the case. Evidence could be wit-
ing behind the scenes about the also noted that a motion to dis- Ukraine launch investigations Democrats and within the param- we can take a vote on whether or nesses, it could be documents.”
vexing issue of witnesses as for- miss could come later in the trial, that would benefit him politically. eters that he sought: hours of not we need additional informa- [email protected]
mer national security adviser once the senators have had ample for that reason, mcConnell has opening statements for the House tion,” which could include wit- [email protected]
John Bolton said last week that he time to digest opening arguments long preferred a vote to acquit managers and Trump’s defense nesses, said Sen. Lisa murkowski [email protected]
would be willing to testify if he and ask questions. Trump, rather than a vote to dis- team, as well as a period for ques- (r-Alaska).
receives a Senate subpoena. Any senator can move to dis- miss that has a higher likelihood tioning from senators. No repub- romney said monday that he Josh dawsey, rachael Bade and paul
Still, Trump, in a post Sunday miss the charges, as long as it is of failure on the Senate floor — a licans signaled dissent from that plans to vote against early mo- Kane contributed to this report.
Oklahoma sues 3 opioid distributors Carter conviction will not be reviewed
BY LENNY BERNSTEIN refuse service to customers we BY ANN E. MARIMOW ings of culpability in cases of
State argues companies deem as a diversion risk.” Mass. woman who urged assisted suicide and cyberstalk-
The state of oklahoma, which Cardinal said late monday that The Supreme Court on mon- ing. Carter’s lawyers said her
played a role in U.S. drug boyfriend to kill himself
last year won a court verdict a trial would show “we take our day said it will not review the right to free speech shields her
against opioid manufacturer crisis, which they deny role and the responsibility that manslaughter conviction of a had petitioned high court from criminal responsibility be-
Johnson & Johnson, filed suit comes with it seriously, work massachusetts teenager who en- cause her involvement was limit-
monday against three mammoth hard every day to get it right, and couraged her boyfriend to kill ed to “words alone.”
drug distributors, accusing them make changes when we find ways himself. In response, massachusetts At-
of contributing to the drug crisis cal uses,” attorneys wrote in court to improve.” michelle Carter was convicted phone with Carter on that sum- torney General maura Healey
by indiscriminately sending bil- papers. “Defendants did so for Nearly every state, as well as in the 2014 death of her boy- mer day. She lived about 50 miles noted in court filings the scores of
lions of painkillers across the one reason: Greed.” more than 2,500 cities, counties, friend, Conrad roy III. She was 17 away. text messages, in which Carter
country. During a news conference an- Native American tribes and other at the time. Carter’s conviction was upheld and roy discussed the method
oklahoma State Attorney Gen- nouncing the lawsuit, which groups have sued parts of the Carter had asked the Supreme last february by the massachu- he’d chosen to kill himself. Carter
eral mike Hunter (r) said mcKes- seeks damages from the distribu- drug industry in state and federal Court to vacate the conviction on setts Supreme Judicial Court, “knew roy had previously at-
son Corp., Cardinal Health and tors, Hunter said: “To say these courts. They are seeking billions the grounds that her right to free which “rejected the defendant’s tempted suicide but had aban-
AmerisourceBergen delivered companies have blood on their of dollars to cope with the costs of speech under the first Amend- claim that her words to the vic- doned or foiled his own attempts,
more than 34 billion doses of hands is an understatement.” an epidemic that has taken more ment protected her from being tim, without any physical act on and she taunted him that he
narcotics to oklahoma and the In a statement, mcKesson said than 400,000 lives over two de- responsible for roy’s suicide. her part and even without her would purposely fail in killing
rest of the United States between “any suggestion that mcKesson cades. The court declined to review physical presence at the scene, himself again.”
2006 and 2012, failing to halt drove demand for opioids in this In the only case that has come the case, without comment from could not constitute wanton or Carter “carried out a ‘systemat-
suspicious drug orders because country reflects a fundamental to trial, oklahoma Judge Thad any individual justice, which al- reckless conduct sufficient to ic campaign of coercion’ that ‘tar-
they were making so much mon- misunderstanding and mischar- Balkman ruled against Johnson & lows the conviction to stand. support a charge of manslaugh- geted the equivocating young vic-
ey. acterization.” Johnson, ordering it to pay roy, who was 18, poisoned ter.” tim’s insecurities and acted to
“Defendants ignored their du- An AmerisourceBergen state- $465 million for one year of ef- himself with carbon monoxide in In her petition to the court, subvert his willpower in favor of
ties and responsibility to protect ment said that “beyond our re- forts to address the harm he said a Kmart parking lot in fairhaven, Carter called the conviction “un- her own’ in the last weeks of his
against oversupply and diversion porting and immediate halting of it caused. Both sides appealed. mass., after exchanging text mes- precedented” and pointed to life,” Healey wrote.
of opioids for illicit and nonmedi- potentially suspicious orders, we [email protected] sages and speaking twice on the states that have invalidated find- [email protected]
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At the ‘epicenter of global warming,’ a constant struggle
BY SARAH KAPLAN ing the winter months, instru-
ments showed energy going in
Not long after the Arctic sun both directions.
set for the final time last year, a “We don’t know yet what it
ferocious storm descended on the means,” Shupe said. “And, boy, I
isolated, icebound crew of the have no idea what’s going to
research vessel Polarstern. happen next.”
The polar night filled with the The unpredictability of the sys-
gunshot cracks of fracturing ice tem makes it difficult to predict
and the howls of 60 mph winds. the fate of MOSAiC as it drifts
The ship heaved, power cables with the ice pack across the North
snapped and a 100-foot meteorol- Pole.
ogy tower toppled. A tremendous Melinda Webster, a sea ice geo-
fissure opened in the floe to physicist at the University of Alas-
which the Polarstern was fixed, ka at Fairbanks, will be heading to
exposing the ocean waves. Re- the Polarstern in June, when
searchers scrambled onto the ice pools of turquoise meltwater
to retrieve and restore their in- make Swiss cheese out of the
struments. disintegrating ice.
Hundreds of miles from the “By the time I leave the
nearest source of help, the scien- Polarstern in mid-August,” she
tists were both unnerved and said, “there is a possibility that
utterly exhilarated. This was ex- the ice at the MOSAiC site could
actly the sort of drama they were be completely melted.”
seeking when they set out to The instability of the ice com-
document climate change at the pounds the hazards that have
top of the world. always been a part of Arctic expe-
The Multidisciplinary drifting ditions. There are polar bears that
Observatory for the Study of Arc- must be warded off by armed
tic Climate (MOSAiC), which be- guards who patrol the camp’s
gan in late September, is the perimeter. Curious bears can also
biggest Arctic research expedi- imperil experiments; Shupe sus-
tion in history. A rotating cast of pects one was responsible for
more than 300 researchers will yanking and chewing on the ca-
spend a year stuck in the sea ice bles of an atmospheric flux sta-
aboard the Polarstern, moving tion, damaging the instruments.
only at the speed of the ice’s Bonnie Jo Mount/the Washington Post Then there is the cold, bitter
natural drift. Their goal is to Chris Polashenski leads a group of researchers near a break in the ice in the Arctic Ocean beyond Utqiagvik, Alaska. and unrelenting. With the onset
understand the complex and rap- of the six-month polar night, tem-
idly changing Arctic system be- has provided vital protection for Research in Environmental Sci- polar expeditions, said he was from below. The scientists looked peratures are well below zero,
fore it collapses. What they dis- the planet. Sea ice reflects at least ences and co-coordinator for the surprised by the scarcity of older, at each other, then at the ice, and wind chill can make it feel
cover could help forecast the fu- two-thirds of light back into the MOSAiC expedition. thicker ice. The crew of the Polar- where a narrow, dark crack was like minus-50. Scientists’ exhala-
ture of the entire globe. atmosphere, whereas open ocean Shupe, who earlier this month stern struggled for weeks to find a racing toward the horizon. A shiv- tions condense in their face
Participants in the first leg of absorbs almost all of the sun’s returned to land — and cellphone floe to support their drift expedi- er of awed recognition went masks, then freeze, forming ice
the voyage recently returned to heat. reception — after a 2.5-month tion, which depends on wedging through the group, as they felt the crystals that irritate the skin.
land, bringing backstories of But the sea ice is shrinking. stint aboard the Polarstern, said the ship into ice that will last long environment change beneath Frostbite is a constant threat.
bears, brittle ice and a polar land- The amount of ice in summertime the start of the expedition was enough to carry it across the their feet. But the splendid desolation of
scape that was even more unsta- — when its reflective powers are characterized by constant strug- North Pole. “It is so cool to be embedded the polar landscape compensates
ble than anticipated. In some of most vital — is about 3 million gle with fragile and easily frac- Finally, on a frozen mass rid- right in the middle of this new for its challenges, Shupe said. Just
their first interviews since leav- square miles smaller than it was tured sea ice. New cracks and dled with dark melt pools, satel- Arctic state,” Shupe said. “That’s two days after he had returned
ing the ship, they said they were in 1980. At the current rate of fissures form in the ice daily, lite images revealed a patch of exactly why we want to be here.” home to Colorado, he found him-
stunned and occasionally sty- decline, year-round ice could van- throwing the carefully coordinat- thick white ice. The MOSAiC But the moving ice pulls on self reliving “magical moments”
mied by the very melting they ish in a couple of decades, desta- ed camp into disarray. team named this stable area “the power cables and crushes sen- from the voyage: the way swirls of
hope to understand. bilizing global weather patterns These conditions are manage- Fortress” and began to establish sors. Shoveled pathways to vari- blowing snow were illuminated
“The Arctic is the epicenter of and accelerating the pace of able — for now. But in the Arctic camp. ous research stations are fre- by the ship’s floodlights; clamber-
global warming,” said Markus warming. of the near future, when ice is The square-mile floe “is not quently rerouted to circumvent ing over car-sized blocks of ice so
Rex, an atmospheric scientist at As they intentionally drift with even scarcer, “this kind of project perfect,” said Rex, who spoke to weak spots in the floe. Once, compressed they gleamed blue;
Germany’s Alfred Wegener Insti- the ice pack across the North Pole, . . . setting up a ice camp for a The Washington Post in Decem- researchers had to kayak across a and the sheets of ice that sloshed
tute and leader of the 17-nation, MOSAiC researchers are racing whole year, is not going to be ber over a feeble phone connec- 150-foot-wide expanse of open atop the surging waves in an
$134 million expedition. “We against that rapid change to bet- possible,” Shupe said. tion from the bridge of the Polar- water when a crack separated almost psychedelic display.
have had to constantly adapt to ter understand the workings of MOSAiC began after a summer stern. “It is thin and keeps break- them from their instruments. “I tried to capture these mo-
the changing ice environment, the frozen Arctic — before it is of record-breaking heat in the ing, like all the other floes here in Detailed observations with a ments, to memorize them,” he
and we will continue to do so. But gone. Arctic; about 800,000 square the new Arctic.” fleet of high-tech instruments said. “These are experiences you
it is hard to predict what is going “We are teetering on the edge miles more open water was ex- One day in October, while have revealed subtler changes to can only find in the Arctic.”
to happen next.” of feasibility,” said Matthew posed in the middle of September working to set up a meteorology the ice. Though heat energy typi- It is not clear how much longer
For millennia, the constant cap Shupe, an atmospheric scientist than is typical for that time of tower near the ship, Shupe and cally moves from the relatively they will last.
of ice that covers the North Pole at the Cooperative Institute for year. Even Shupe, a veteran of his colleagues heard a “grumble” warm ocean to the frigid air dur- [email protected]
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Volcano eruption forces evacuations in the Philippines
Clouds of ash drift across the country as thousands seek higher ground and authorities warn of increasing danger that could reach a ‘Level 5’ incident
BY REGINE CABATO ized by a lava fountain, lightning
and thunder. The volcano pro-
MANILA — An erupting volcano duced at least 75 earthquakes.
spewed lava into the air and The eruption interrupted wed-
spread ash across the Philippines ding celebrations in Tagaytay City,
on Monday, as desperate residents a hilltop tourist destination that
packed up their belongings and overlooks the lake.
waited for help, while others fled John Dan Ramos, 25, was at-
so quickly they left behind their tending his cousin’s wedding Sun-
sandals. day when the guests noticed the
In one town, officials had to column of ash rising in the dis-
abandon evacuation centers and tance. By the time the wedding
rework their plans after its loca- ended, about 200 guests found
tion was deemed too risky. themselves stranded for the night,
Thousands have sought safer worried that the ashfall would
ground as the Taal volcano erupts make it perilous to leave.
for the first time since 1977, blow- “I slept under a table,” Ramos
ing clouds of ash as far away as said. “It was to each his own.”
Manila, 60 miles to the north. On Monday, with earthquakes
Officials have warned that the vol- increasing, they knew they had to
cano, which sits on an island in a flee. Ramos and his cousins man-
lake and is among the Philippines’ aged to get out by car, navigating
most active, could reach a hazard- steep and slippery roads, he said.
ous “Level 5” incident — involving At the lakeside town of Talisay,
an ongoing magma eruption — roughly 15 minutes by boat from
within hours or days. the island where the volcano lies,
The volcano’s ructions intensi- Mariel Ann Gabales, 30, managed
fied Sunday, prompting the pro- to leave late Sunday local time. She
vincial government in Batangas to and about 10 others, including her
declare a state of calamity. There grandparents and cousins, got
have been no confirmed reports of into a van sent by relatives. Clutch-
casualties. ing packed clothes and three dogs,
Manila’s airport resumed par- they arrived in Lipa City past mid-
tial operations Monday after be- night after a three-hour journey.
ing closed for about a day, affect- Electricity was out, and it was
ing hundreds of flights. President raining. Gabales said they drove
Rodrigo Duterte had been delayed slowly through the dark along
in returning to Manila from his slippery roads but noted the sense
hometown of Davao but was able TOP: People living near the erupting Taal volcano evacuate Agoncillo, a city in the Philippine province of Batangas. Evacuees of community as people tried to
to make the trip Monday, his without cars were making their way out by foot on muddy roads. ABOVE: A bird sits on an ash-covered roof in Talisay, Batangas. help each other.
spokesman told the AP. But she heard from friends in
Face masks were in short sup- the area that many residents had
ply across the capital. Govern- city, as it was too close to the Evacuees without cars were that more than 60 evacuees had Ring of Fire. According to the stayed behind, worried about
ment offices and schools closed volcano. Under a gray sky and with making their way out by foot on arrived, some from Taal. She said NASA Earth Observatory, Taal their houses.
early, and some suspended Tues- frequent tremors, many residents muddy roads, their children and there were a lot of children — one of consists of multiple stratovolca- “You know how some old [peo-
day classes as well, Reuters report- gathered their belongings and pets in tow. Some also ushered out whom she noticed had lost a flip- noes. Its primary feature is the ple] can be. Sometimes their hous-
ed. waited to be rescued. their livestock, while farmers la- flop during the rush of evacuation. three-mile-wide Volcano Island, es are more important than their
In the lakeside town of Taal, “The traffic [is at] a turtle’s pace mented to the local press that the Church workers were scouring which has 47 craters and is sur- lives,” she said. “I hope they get
where a mandatory evacuation or- because of the ashfall. It’s thick, loss of their animals would affect the town and collecting people rounded by water. rescued right away.”
der is in force, Mayor Pong Merca- almost zero visibility,” M ercado their livelihood. without anywhere else to stay. The Philippine Institute of Vol- [email protected]
do said Monday that his govern- said. “It’s okay for now because it’s At a school-turned-shelter in the Taal is among more than 20 canology and Seismology said
ment had to abandon 11 evacua- daytime — it will be harder to see town of Bauan, church volunteer active volcanoes in the Philip- magma eruptions occurred in the benjamin soloway contributed to this
tion centers and move to a larger at night.” Gia Pauline Fabie, 24, estimated pines, which sits on the Pacific volcano early Monday, character- report.
EGYPT meritless. Kassem, a New York City taxi corruption charges. immunity proceedings through security forces since December.
Jailed U.S. citizen dies Senior U.S. officials, including driver and father of two, was Netanyahu was charged in legal challenges and personal President Mahamadou Issoufou’s
Vice President Pence and convicted and sentenced in 2018 November with fraud, breach of attacks on legal officials. But action came after the death toll
after hunger strike
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a mass trial along with trust and accepting bribes in Sunday, the parliament’s legal from an attack by Islamist
repeatedly raised Kassem’s case hundreds of other defendants, three cases that involve allegedly adviser ruled that there were no extremists on the military last
A U.S. citizen detained in with the government of President according to the Freedom trading political and regulatory grounds for preventing the week rose to at least 89, making
Egypt for more than six years Abdel Fatah al-Sissi. Initiative. favors for positive news coverage formation of the committee that it the most deadly assault of its
died Monday after a lengthy Kassem was arrested in August — Carol Morello and accepting gifts from deals with immunity requests. kind in years in the West African
hunger strike and pressure from 2013 during a tumultuous period and Kareem Fahim billionaire friends. On Monday, lawmakers voted nation.
U.S. officials failed to secure his in Egypt, a month after the Netanyahu’s opponents make in favor of forming the House
release. military seized power following ISRAEL up a majority in the caretaker Committee. Court revokes Musharraf’s
Moustafa Kassem, 54, died of protests against the elected Setback for Netanyahu parliament, and his request for Court proceedings in death sentence: A court in
heart failure following his hunger government of Mohamed Morsi. immunity is expected to be Netanyahu’s cases cannot begin Pakistan overturned the death
in push for immunity
strike, according to Pretrial Kassem appears to have been rejected. Netanyahu has tried to until the Knesset, the parliament, sentence given to Pervez
Rights International, a nonprofit caught in a crackdown. He was delay the vote on immunity until settles his immunity request. Musharraf, the country’s ex-
organization that represented arrested at a shopping center, Israeli lawmakers on Monday after March 2 elections, when he — Associated Press military ruler and a former U.S.
Kassem. David Schenker, the where he had gone to exchange approved the formation of a hopes a more sympathetic slate of ally in the war against terrorism.
assistant secretary of state for money shortly before his return committee to consider Prime lawmakers will be chosen. Niger army chief fired after The Lahore High Court ruled
Near Eastern affairs, confirmed to the United States, according to Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s The prime minister, Israel’s attack kills 89: Niger’s president that the special tribunal formed
Kassem’s death and expressed the the Freedom Initiative, a group request for legal immunity, a longest-serving, has denied any has fired the army’s chief of staff to try him was not legal.
U.S. belief that the terrorism that advocates for Egyptian major setback for the embattled wrongdoing. Netanyahu’s Likud in the wake of attacks that have — From news services
charges against him were political prisoners. leader, who is seeking to fend off party has tried to delay the killed at least 174 members of the