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NEW: Sen Cory Booker, Rep Emanuel Cleaver & Rep Ron Kind-key Dems in Opportunity Zone effort-call today for Treasury Inspector General to investigate potential political influence in selection of areas that benefit from tax break, citing NYT & ProPublica reporting.
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Eric Lipton
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THREAD: Let's take a look through words/pictures at the unusual ties between 3 powerful sons in law who are helping shape US Turkey relations. We start with Trump Towers Istanbul. That's then Prime Minister Erdogan cutting the ribbon in 2012. Also pictured is Mehmet Ali Yalçındağ
Yalçındağ moves from the point person on this TRUMP family real estate project to becoming a key intermediary between Turkey & the United States, after Trump is elected president. Here he is with Commerce Sec Wilbur Ross recently
Jared Kushner was there for the 2012 launch of Trump Istanbul. Once Trump is president, he begins to handle key meetings with counterparts in Turkey, like this. That is President Erdogan of Turkey, and his son-in-law, Berak Albayrak from Feb. 2019.
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Eric Lipton
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Did u read @LFFriedman A1 NYT piece today on how EPA is moving to limit science used to write public health rules? Here is a case study from last yr of feared impact this rule will have re a pesticide blamed for lower IQs among children. (with
@dannyhakim) nytimes.com/2018/08/24/bus…
@LFFriedman @dannyhakim This is the kind of study--which in the past has been FUNDED BY EPA and other federal agencies--that could now soon be banned to use in deciding if a pesticide or chemical is a public health threat.
@LFFriedman @dannyhakim And here is the piece this week by @LFFriedman describing the move to make the so-called "Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science" a final rule. nytimes.com/2019/11/11/cli…
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Trump spends a rare night tonight at Trump Tower in NYC. From the pool report: "After a ride through the barricaded city, the motorcade stopped at Trump Tower. We did not see POTUS exit his vehicle so could not give an exact time. But it was close to 10:30" @Noahbierman
@Noahbierman Here again is the NYT running account of visits to Trump properties. Will have to be updated with this most recent stop. Thanks @karenyourish for the effort involved in maintaining this. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
@Noahbierman @karenyourish Trump is in NYC to attend the Veterans Day parade on Monday. Here is a NYT piece. nytimes.com/2019/11/06/nyr…
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New York Times report from May on Biden, Ukraine and Burisma Holdings:

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Remember the Feb 28 “unity” dinner between AG Jeff Sessions, Deputy AG Director Rod Rosenstein, and Inspector General, Noel Francisco? In light of #McCabe’s firing - this gets a second look.

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