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Good Tuesday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today. Read the story. • On Monday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein traveled with Mr. Trump on Air Force One, with his fate at the Justice Department hanging in the balance. But their politics are sharply different. • A day after the United Nations’ urgent call for action on climate change, Mr. Trump headed to Florida, a state directly in the path of yet another natural disaster — and said nothing about it. Read the story. • Climate change is already a costly reality for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Read the story. • When Will Haskell began his campaign for State Senate in Connecticut, he was 22 — the same number of years his Republican opponent has been in office.

From Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s all-but-assured confirmation to revelations about President Trump’s wealth, here are some of this week’s biggest stories in American politics. Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation is all but assured. After devastatingly divisive confirmation hearings and an F.B.I. review of sexual misconduct allegations, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court was secured Friday after Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Joe Manchin III of West Virginia said they would back him. [Here’s how they voted Friday on advancing the confirmation.] [Read Friday’s On Washington here.] [Read the story] New York officials said on Thursday that they had joined state regulators in investigating whether taxes had been underpaid on the elder Mr. Trump’s wealth. [Read the story] Additional Reading • Sanders Dismisses The Times’s Trump-Tax Story as ‘Very Boring’ • How the Trump Family Got Rich • 11 Takeaways From The Times’s Investigation Into Trump’s Wealth No more Nafta: The United States, Canada and Mexico signed a new trade agreement. [Read the story] The president’s advisers are planning an aggressive campaign schedule for Mr. Trump to help woo voters — and are warning candidates against distancing themselves from him. • Everything You Need to Know for the Midterm Elections • How to Vote Early in the 2018 Midterm Elections Other Washington updates: Melania in Africa, Pence on China, and Trump in rallies.

Democratic Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia signals his attention to vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, appearing to give Kavanaugh enough 'yes' votes to be confirmed. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news…

Red and blue are no longer mere colors, but the war paints of choice of America’s dueling tribes. America’s emerging divisions were coming into focus. Enter Newt Gingrich, an army brat, small college history professor, and conservative trend-threader. When Ken Starr supplied congressional Republicans with ammunition to impeach President Clinton, Gingrich, the congressional GOP, and the Republican base eagerly drank from the poisoned chalice—even as it ended an ethically-addled Gingrich’s congressional career and to Republican defeat in the 1998 midterms, a historic rarity for the “out party” in the sixth year of a presidency. The Red and the Blue also captures the other players and hot-button issues that shape the politics of our day. Kornacki also notes Trump’s prior disdain for Buchanan in the context of the 2000 presidential contest where Buchanan ran on the Reform Party line. At the time, Trump and Buchanan both contemplated running for the party’s nomination. Fittingly, The Red and the Blue ends by circling back to Gingrich and Clinton. What he didn’t count on was that it would do the same for the Democrats. Like their party they could see where their future was.” But as the 2016 election teaches us, that’s not enough for the Democrats to get to 270.

The FBI has reached out to a second woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault -- a day after President Trump ordered the bureau to conduct a new background investigation. "We can confirm the FBI has reached out to interview Ms. Ramirez and she has agreed to cooperate with their investigation," attorney John Clune said in a statement. "I would expect it's going to turn out very well for the judge," he said. The president also voiced confidence in the investigative process. On Thursday Kavanaugh testified to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing after Christine Blasey Ford testified that he had assaulted her at a high school party in 1982. On Friday, the committee voted to recommend Kavanaugh to the Senate for confirmation to the high court post, but Flake requested the “limited” weeklong background check. But her lawyers apparently refused to convey to their client numerous offers by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley to conduct a public or private interview in a location of her choosing. Republicans have accused Democrats of trying to delay the vote until after the midterms, when Democrats are hoping to have retaken control of the Senate. Democrats, in turn, have assailed what they say has been a rush toward confirmation regardless of the allegations against the judge. As with the other cases, the judge has maintained his innocence.

The Ford-Kavanaugh hearings were both a moment the country watched together but also one that seemingly drove us further apart. President Trump yesterday, before heading to a rally in West Virginia, expressed only support for Brett Kavanaugh as the FBI investigates sexual misconduct allegations into his Supreme Court nominee. GARCIA-NAVARRO: For more, I'm joined by NPR's national political correspondent Mara Liasson. LIASSON: All in for Kavanaugh. LIASSON: Things stand right now - I think Republicans don't yet have the votes. But every Republican I've talked to doesn't expect the FBI investigation to turn up anything new. So this all does really depend on what happens this week and with the FBI. Women saw a credible woman, a kind of everywoman. It wasn't just Kavanaugh who embraced the kind of Trumpist style of politics. GARCIA-NAVARRO: That's NPR's national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) -- with a shotgun in hand -- calls his Republican opponent "dead wrong" on pre-existing conditions in a recently released campaign ad.

Donald Trump has mounted another extraordinary attack on his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, blaming him for charges against two congressmen that he said jeopardised Republican chances in the forthcoming midterm elections. Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff...... But last month Duncan Hunter, a California representative, was charged with misuse of campaign funds while Chris Collins of New York was indicted for insider trading – over a share tip alleged to have been made in 2017, when Trump was in power. The two men were Trump’s first supporters in the House. Sessions made that call after it was revealed he did not disclose to senators meetings with the Russian ambassador during the election campaign. “These two men have been charged with crimes because of evidence, not because of who the president was when the investigations began.” Trump’s positive remarks about supporters charged with criminal wrongdoing echoed his comments about the case of Paul Manafort, his former campaign chairman who was convicted last month on eight counts of tax and bank fraud brought by Mueller’s team. Trump’s implication that the Department of Justice runs politically motivated investigations is contrary to stated DoJ policy. Really sick!” The firing of Comey, which led to the appointment of Mueller, is one aspect of the special counsel’s investigation of whether Trump has attempted to obstruct justice in the Russia affair. Every Day is Extra review: John Kerry on Vietnam, Syria, Paris, Iran … and Trump Read more Many election models predict that the Democrats will take back the House in November, with the votes of supporters eager to see Trump impeached.

MONTEZUMA, Iowa -- The disappearance of a well-liked college student from America's heartland had touched many people since she vanished one month ago while out for a run. President Trump seized on the man's arrest in the death of Mollie Tibbetts on Tuesday to call the nation's immigration laws "a disgrace" that will only be fixed by electing more Republicans. Iowa's Republican governor, facing a tough re-election challenge in November, blasted an immigration system that "allowed a predator like this to live in our community." And Iowa's two U.S. senators, both Republicans, called the death a tragedy that "could have been prevented." Within hours, Mr. Trump noted the arrest at a rally in West Virginia on a day when his former personal lawyer and ex-campaign chairman both faced major legal problems. Illegally in our country. The immigration laws are such a disgrace, we're getting them changed, but we have to get more Republicans. CBS Des Moines affiliate KCCI-TV reports Iowa Gov. In a statement late Tuesday, Yarrabee Farms said Rivera had worked at its farms for the last four years and was an employee in good standing. Investigators said they believed Rivera had lived in the area from four to seven years.

President Trump will hold a campaign rally in Charleston, WV, just hours after his former lawyer plead guilty to the FBI and his former campaign chair, Paul Manafort, was found guilty of tax evasion. Trump visits the state on behalf…