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President Trump reiterated his defense of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh following a new report of his alleged sexual misconduct, telling reporters at the UN General Assembly that the allegations are "totally political."
"Judge Kavanaugh is an outstanding person and I am with him all the way... There's a chance that this could be one of the single most unfair, unjust things to happen to a candidate for anything."
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Watch for President Trump to address Joe Biden as “the big guy” or “the chairman” at tonight's debate as a way of dramatizing the Hunter Biden emails. Hunter's former business partner Tony Bobulinski is expected to be a Trump debate guest.
The big picture: Trump's advisers universally view the first debate as a catastrophe — evidenced by a sharp plunge in Trump’s public and (more convincingly for them) private polling immediately following the debate.
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Energetic Bear, a Russian state-sponsored hacking group, has stolen data from two servers after targeting state and federal government networks in the U.S. since at least September, the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said on Thursday.
Driving the news: Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe announced Wednesday that Iran and Russia had obtained voter registration information that could be used to undermine confidence in the U.S. election system.