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FILE - In this March 20, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a working lunch with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Cabinet Room of the White House with Energy Secretary Rick Perry. Long after more flamboyant Cabinet colleagues fell out of Trump’s favor amid ethics scandals, low-profile Perry, the folksy former Texas governor, survived in part by steering clear of controversy as energy secretary. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Impeachment inquiry puts spotlight on Perry, who shunned it
FILE - In this March 20, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a working lunch with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Cabinet Room of the White House with Energy Secretary Rick Perry. Long after more flamboyant Cabinet colleagues fell out of Trump’s favor amid ethics scandals, low-profile Perry, the folksy former Texas governor, survived in part by steering clear of controversy as energy secretary. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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  • FILE - In this March 20, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a working lunch with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Cabinet Room of the White House with Energy Secretary Rick Perry. Long after more flamboyant Cabinet colleagues fell out of Trump’s favor amid ethics scandals, low-profile Perry, the folksy former Texas governor, survived in part by steering clear of controversy as energy secretary. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
  • FILE - In this July 10, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump holds up an executive order on kidney disease care during an event at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington. Trump is now three for three. Each year of his presidency, he has issued more executive orders than did former President Barack Obama during the same time-span. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, file)
  • Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks to supporters during a rally on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019 in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
  • Hillary Clinton lectures on foreign policy at Rackham Auditorium, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019 in Ann Arbor, Mich.(Jacob Hamilton/Ann Arbor News via AP)
  • International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks during a news conference after the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) meeting, at the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
  • FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2019, file photo, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., second from left, poses during a ceremonial swearing-in with Rep. Francis Rooney, R-Fla., right, on Capitol Hill in Washington. said out loud Friday, Oct. 19, what others in his party are not, namely that White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney acknowledged a “quid pro quo” was at work when Trump held up U.S. aid to Ukraine in exchange for Kyiv’s investigation of Democrats and the 2016 elections. Mulvaney later claimed his comments had been misconstrued, but Rooney says he and other Republicans heard them clearly. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
  • FILE--In this Thursday, July 11, 2019, file photograph, southbound Interstate 25 traffic lanes bog down to a crawl at the interchange with Interstate 70 just north of downtown Denver. To address the complications of an aging road system and a fast-growing population, Coloradoans will decide at the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 5, if the state can permanently keep tax revenue that otherwise would be refunded under limits set by a constitutional amendment called the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, or TABOR. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
  • FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2019, file photo, Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill holds a press conference in South Bend, Ind. Lawyers for Hill are trying to block two women from testifying about previous sexual misconduct allegations as he faces claims that he drunkenly groped four women at a bar last year. The state's attorney disciplinary commission wants the women to testify about Hill's actions when he was the Elkhart County prosecutor before becoming attorney general in 2017. (Robert Franklin/South Bend Tribune via AP, File)
  • Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg speaks to supporters at Iowa State University during a town hall style meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, in Ames, Iowa. (Bryon Houlgrave/The Des Moines Register via AP)
  • In this Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 photo, Virginia Del. Nick Freitas hugs a supporter prior to a town hall in Lake of Woods, Va. Freitas is running a write in campaign after a paperwork error left his off the November ballot. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
  • Andy Sansom walks on his property as he talks about a proposed new natural gas pipeline that would pass through his ranch in the Texas Hill Country near Stonewall, Texas Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. A proposed pipeline is a 430-mile, $2 billion natural gas expressway that pipeline giant Kinder Morgan has mapped from the booming West Texas oil patch to Houston. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
  • Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., right, participate in a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by CNN/New York Times at Otterbein University, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, in Westerville, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
  • Actress Jane Fonda talks to fellow activists in Washington, Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. A half-century after throwing her attention-getting celebrity status into Vietnam War protests, 81-year-old Jane Fonda is now doing the same in a U.S. climate movement where the average age is 18. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
  • FILE - In a Dec. 13, 2018, file photo, then-Ohio Gov. John Kasich sits for an interview with The Associated Press in Columbus. Kasich, who ran against President Donald Trump in the 2016 Republican primary, says he supports impeachment. Kasich said Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, on CNN that the final straw was when acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney acknowledged that Trump's decision to hold up military aid to Ukraine was linked to his demand that Kyiv investigate the Democratic National Committee and the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shakes hands with his supporters after Friday prayers, in Istanbul, Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. Erdogan says his country "cannot forget" an unusual letter that U.S. President Donald Trump sent him, but says the mutual "love and respect" between the leaders prevent him from keeping it on Turkey's agenda.(Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool )
  • FILE- In this Dec. 15, 2015, file photo, A U. S. Air Force F-15 fighter jet takes off from Incirlik Air Base near Adana, Turkey. Frayed U.S. relations with Turkey are raising a sensitive question rarely discussed in public: Should the United States remove the nuclear bombs it keeps at a Turkish air base? There is no known evidence that the weapons are at direct risk, but President Donald Trump has threatened to “obliterate” Turkey’s economy if it does not halt its invasion of Syria, and some American arms control experts say the bombs would be safer elsewhere. (AP Photo)
  • House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, of Calif., leaves a closed door meeting where Michael McKinley, a former top aide to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, testifies as part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
  • FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2019, file photo, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., second from left, poses during a ceremonial swearing-in with Rep. Francis Rooney, R-Fla., right, on Capitol Hill in Washington. said out loud Friday, Oct. 19, what others in his party are not, namely that White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney acknowledged a “quid pro quo” was at work when Trump held up U.S. aid to Ukraine in exchange for Kyiv’s investigation of Democrats and the 2016 elections. Mulvaney later claimed his comments had been misconstrued, but Rooney says he and other Republicans heard them clearly. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
  • FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2018 file photo, people gather around the Ben & Jerry's "Yes on 4" truck as they learn about Amendment 4 and eat free ice cream at Charles Hadley Park in Miami. A federal judge has temporarily set aside a Florida law that barred some felons from voting because of their inability to pay fines and other legal debts. The ruling handed down Friday, Oct. 18, 2019 by U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle means thousands of felons who were denied the right to vote will be able to cast ballots unless the state gets a higher court to intervene or if Hinkle later upholds the constitutionality of the state law. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
  • FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2017, file photo, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein speaks to reporters in Raleigh, N.C. Negotiations aimed at reaching a major settlement in the nation's opioid litigation reached an impasse Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. Stein, who was one of the negotiators, said late Friday that local governments did not accept a deal worth $48 billion in cash, treatment drugs and services. (AP Photo/Emery Dalesio, File)
  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shakes hands with his supporters after Friday prayers, in Istanbul, Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. Erdogan says his country "cannot forget" an unusual letter that U.S. President Donald Trump sent him, but says the mutual "love and respect" between the leaders prevent him from keeping it on Turkey's agenda.(Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool )
  • FILE - In this July 26, 2019 file photo, Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel, second left, and former President Raul Castro, raise their arms in unison during an event celebrating Revolution Day, accompanied by Commander of the Cuban Revolution Ramiro Valdes, left, and Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, second secretary of the Central Committee, in Bayamo, Cuba. Cuba’s top legislative body will no longer include members of the country’s historical generation of former rebels, part of a broader political reform that started to go into effect on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. (Omara Garcia/Agencia Cubana de Noticias via AP File)
  • FILE--In this March 26, 2019, file photo, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson speaks during a news conference in Chicago. On Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, Johnson said he has asked the department to conduct an internal investigation on himself after he was found lying down in a car. A passerby found Johnson early Thursday, and called 911. Police department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says officers checked on Johnson's well-being and didn't observe any signs of impairment. Johnson drove himself home. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford, File)
  • In this Oct. 17, 2019 photo, unidentified gunmen block a street in Culiacan, Mexico. An intense gunfight with heavy weapons and burning vehicles blocking roads raged in the capital of Mexico’s Sinaloa state Thursday after security forces located one of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s sons who is wanted in the U.S. on drug trafficking charges. (AP Photo/Augusto Zurita)
  • FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 11, 2019 file photo, a bystander watches the Saddleridge fire in Sylmar, Calif. California's largest utility Pacific Gas & Electric Corp pledged to improve communications but reminded state regulators that its "difficult decision" to pre-emptively shut off power to more than 2 million people last week may have prevented deadly wildfires. (AP Photo/David Swanson, File)
  • FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2019, file photo, a Mexican immigration officer gives instructions to migrants who are applying for asylum in U.S. as they wait on International Bridge 1 as they prepare to leave Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and enter Laredo, Texas. Mexicans are increasingly the face of asylum in the United States, replacing Central Americans who dominated last year's caravan and a surge of families that brought border arrests to a 13-year high in May. It is unclear precisely what is driving the change, perhaps a mix of U.S. policies and violence in Mexico. U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures show fewer Mexicans are crossing, but the drop in Central Americans is much sharper, making Mexicans a bigger part of the mix. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)
  • Protesters wear masks of Chinese President Xi Jinping in Hong Kong, Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters are donning cartoon/superheroes masks as they formed a human chain across the semiautonomous Chinese city, in defiance of a government ban on face coverings. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
  • FILE - In a Dec. 13, 2018, file photo, then-Ohio Gov. John Kasich sits for an interview with The Associated Press in Columbus. Kasich, who ran against President Donald Trump in the 2016 Republican primary, says he supports impeachment. Kasich said Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, on CNN that the final straw was when acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney acknowledged that Trump's decision to hold up military aid to Ukraine was linked to his demand that Kyiv investigate the Democratic National Committee and the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
  • President Donald Trump waves after stepping off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, early Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, in Washington. Trump is returning from a campaign rally in Texas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
  • Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, participates in a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by CNN/New York Times at Otterbein University, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, in Westerville, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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