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U(DF463D)X+z!$!%!#!} WASHINGTON — President Trump doubled down on one of the biggest gambles of his presidency on Tuesday night with a televised appeal to pressure Congress into paying for his long-promised bor- der wall, even at the cost of leav- ing the government partly closed until lawmakers give in. Embarking on a strategy that he himself privately disparaged as unlikely to work, Mr. Trump de- voted the first prime-time Oval Of- fice address of his presidency to his proposed barrier in hopes of enlisting public support in an ideo- logical and political conflict that has shut the doors of many federal agencies for 18 days. In a nine-minute speech that made no new arguments but in- cluded multiple misleading as- sertions, the president sought to recast the situation at the Mexi- can border as a “humanitarian cri- sis” and opted against declaring a national emergency to bypass Congress, which he had threat- ened to do, at least for now. But he excoriated Democrats for block- ing the wall, accusing them of hy- pocrisy and exposing the country to criminal immigrants. “How much more American blood must we shed before Con- gress does its job?” Mr. Trump asked, citing a litany of grisly crimes said to be committed by il- legal immigrants. Asking Ameri- cans to call their lawmakers, he added: “This is a choice between right and wrong, justice and injus- tice. This is about whether we ful- fill our sacred duty to the Ameri- can citizens we serve.” Democrats dismissed his talk of crisis as overstated cynicism and, with polls showing Mr. Trump bearing more of the blame since the partial shutdown began last month, betrayed no signs of giving in. The White House earlier in the day dispatched Vice President Mike Pence and others to Capitol Hill to try to shore up Senate Re- publicans, who are growing in- creasingly anxious as the standoff drags on. In their own televised response TRUMP APPEALS DIRECTLY TO U.S. FOR BORDER WALL NO NATIONAL EMERGENCY Sees Humanitarian Crisis — Democrats Say He Is Stoking Fear By PETER BAKER The president hoped to re- frame debate about the wall. POOL PHOTO BY CARLOS BARRIA Continued on Page A13 Migrants at a shelter near the border in Tijuana, Mexico, watching President Trump’s address from the Oval Office on Tuesday night. KITRA CAHANA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES COLUMBUS, N.M. — Just min- utes from the border in rural New Mexico, the Borderland Cafe in the village of Columbus serves burritos and pizza to local resi- dents, Border Patrol agents and visitors from other parts of the country seeking a glimpse of life on the frontier. The motto painted on the wall proclaims “Life is good in the Borderland.” “This is the sleepiest little town you could think of,” said Adriana Zizumbo, 31, who was raised in Co- lumbus and owns the cafe with her husband. “The only crisis we’re facing here is a shortage of labor. Fewer people cross the bor- der to work than before, and Americans don’t want to get their hands dirty doing hard work.” President Trump has shut down part of the government over bor- der security and his plan to build a wall along the border with Mex- ico, and in a prime-time speech on Tuesday night he painted a bleak picture of life in towns like Colum- bus. He said border residents were suffering through a “humanitar- ian crisis,” and he described a landscape scarred by violence and prowled by “vicious coyotes and ruthless gangs.” But that is not how Ms. Zizumbo sees it. Peo- ple in Columbus, she said, op- posed the idea of a wall by about a “90-to-10 margin.” “Enough about the wall al- ready,” she said. “We have other problems here that need fixing.” Extending nearly 2,000 miles from southern Texas to a fence jut- ting out into the Pacific Ocean in San Diego, America’s border with Continued on Page A15 No Crisis Here, Say Neighbors Close to Mexico This article is by Simon Romero, Manny Fernandez, Jose A. Del Real and Azam Ahmed. BEIJING — China is buying American soybeans again and has cut tariffs on American cars. It is offering to keep its hands off valu- able corporate secrets, while also allowing foreign investors into more industries than ever before. Beijing hopes all of that will be enough to let President Trump de- clare victory and end the trade war between the two largest econ- omies. But the offer combines some real concessions, like lower tariffs, with nebulous promises, and it will be hard to ensure that China sticks to its commitments. That could make it a tough sell in Washington. The Trump admin- istration’s trade hawks are still pushing for a lot more, while even the doves fret that the new prom- ises need effective enforcement to make sure that China follows through, according to people with a detailed knowledge of American policymaking. Many American officials and businesses complain that China has long wiggled out of commit- ments — accusations that China China Budges on Tariffs. Will U.S. Budge Back? By SUI-LEE WEE and KEITH BRADSHER Some Real Concessions, but Also Hazy Pledges Continued on Page A8 When Susan Zirinsky takes over CBS News in March, she will be the first woman to hold the job. She will also be the oldest person to assume the role, at 66. Her appointment was an- nounced just days after Nancy Pelosi, 78, was re-elected Speaker of the House of Representatives — making her the most powerful elected woman in United States history — and Representative Maxine Waters became the first woman and African-American to lead the Financial Services Com- mittee, at age 79. News of Ms. Zirinsky’s ascen- sion broke on the same evening that 71-year-old Glenn Close bested four younger women to win the Golden Globe for best ac- tress. It seems that older women, long invisible or shunted aside, are ex- periencing an unfamiliar sensa- tion: power. There are more women over 50 in this country today than at any other point in history, according to data from the United States Cen- sus Bureau. Those women are Older and in Power, Unwilling to Remain Unseen By JESSICA BENNETT Women Over 60 Grow in Number and Clout Continued on Page A17 WASHINGTON — As a top offi- cial in President Trump’s cam- paign, Paul Manafort shared poli- tical polling data with a business associate tied to Russian intelli- gence, according to a court filing unsealed on Tuesday. The docu- ment provided the clearest evi- dence to date that the Trump cam- paign may have tried to coordi- nate with Russians during the 2016 presidential race. Mr. Manafort’s lawyers made the disclosure by accident, through a formatting error in a document filed to respond to charges that he had lied to pros- ecutors working for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, af- ter agreeing to cooperate with their investigation into Russian interference in the election. The document also revealed that during the campaign, Mr. Manafort and his Russian associ- ate, Konstantin V. Kilimnik, dis- cussed a plan for peace in Ukraine. Throughout the cam- paign and the early days of the Trump administration, Russia and its allies were pushing vari- ous plans for Ukraine in the hope of gaining relief from American- led sanctions imposed after it an- nexed Crimea from Ukraine. Prosecutors and the news me- dia have already documented a string of encounters between Rus- sian operatives and Trump cam- paign associates dating from the early months of Mr. Trump’s bid for the presidency, including the now-famous meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan with a Rus- sian lawyer promising damaging information on Hillary Clinton. The accidental disclosure ap- peared to some experts to be per- haps most damning of all. “This is the closest thing we have seen to collusion,” Clint Watts, a senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, said of the data-sharing. “The question now is, did the president know about it?” The document gave no indica- tion of whether Mr. Trump was aware of the data transfer or how Mr. Kilimnik might have used the information. But from March to August 2016, when Mr. Manafort worked for the Trump campaign, Russia was engaged in a full- fledged operation using social me- dia, stolen emails and other tac- tics to boost Mr. Trump, attack Mrs. Clinton and play on divisive issues such as race and guns. Polling data could conceivably have helped Russia hone those messages and target audiences to Continued on Page A16 MANAFORT GAVE A RUSSIA LIAISON 2016 VOTER DATA DOCUMENT’S REVELATION A Hint at Coordination Between Foreigners and Trump’s Team This article is by Sharon LaFra- niere, Kenneth P. Vogel and Maggie Haberman. RUSSIAN INDICTED A lawyer pivotal to the Mueller inquiry was charged in a separate case show- ing her Kremlin ties. PAGE A17 ABOARD SEA-WATCH 3, Off Malta — Four years ago, he es- caped jihadists in West Africa. Last year, he survived slavery in Libya. But for Daouda Soumana, a 20-year-old trader from Niger, one of the cruelest experiences of his quest for safety occurred this week — within sight of the south- ern shores of Europe. From the deck of the Sea-Watch 3, a rescue ship owned and run by a small German charity, Mr. Soumana can see the white cliffs of Malta gleaming in the sunlight, and even the outlines of seaside buildings. The German crew members can reach that coast within 45 minutes by speedboat. Not Mr. Soumana. He is one of 49 migrants stranded onboard a pair of rescue ships whose requests for safe har- bor have been ignored or refused by every national government bordering the Mediterranean Sea since December. “We are crying,” Mr. Soumana said in an interview on the boat this week. “We can see Malta with our own eyes, but we are still stuck on this ship.” The uncertain fate of the Sea- Watch crystallizes the effect of Europe’s hard-line shift on migra- tion — a desperate rescue boat tossed about and unable to dock, not for reasons of stormy seas but of tempestuous politics. For years, the Italian Coast Guard would have coordinated with the Sea-Watch to quickly lo- cate a port in southern Italy, or to transfer its passengers to a boat that was heading there. But as Eu- rope seeks to deter asylum seek- ers, Italy’s right-wing interior minister has ordered his country’s ports closed to migrants rescued outside the maritime border. Since last June, when Interior Minister Matteo Salvini entered office, the Coast Guard has been instructed by Italy’s new populist government not to take part in the rescues. That has emboldened neighboring Malta and other countries to do the same. In tandem, Italian, Maltese and Greek officials have harried chari- ties that once operated rescue missions off the coasts of Libya and Turkey — launching criminal investigations against them and sometimes impounding their boats. The Sea-Watch is now one of just three private boats left in the Mediterranean conducting Survivors of War and Slavery, Listing at Sea By PATRICK KINGSLEY Europe’s Harder Stance Denies Harbor to Migrant Ships Migrants on the Sea-Watch 3 on Monday. They have been stranded on the vessel since last month. SERGEY PONOMAREV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A7 Rich in flavor and history, the dish is no longer a fixture of restaurants in New Orleans. Some chefs see that as a chance to give it a new twist. PAGE D1 FOOD D1-8 Reinventing Gumbo Jeremy Pope, right, with Caleb Eber- hardt, soars in “Choir Boy,” a play about a gifted gay teenager. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-8 A Sensational Broadway Debut With customers troubled by “blood diamonds,” jewelers like Tiffany are divulging their supply chains. PAGE B1 BUSINESS B1-6 Cut, Carat and Now Origin Athletic Bilbao is loyal to its mission of using only homegrown players. But retaining them isn’t easy, and the Span- ish soccer club is struggling. PAGE B7 SPORTSWEDNESDAY B7-10 Dilemma in Basque Country President Recep Tayyip Erdogan snubbed the American national security adviser in the Turkish capital. PAGE A8 INTERNATIONAL A4-9 Turkey Denounces Bolton The Drama Book Shop, squeezed by soaring rent, gets help from the “Hamil- ton” creator and his friends. PAGE C1 Lin-Manuel Miranda, Rescuer The imprisoned former Nissan chief says his actions were approved by other executives and directors. PAGE B1 Ghosn Offers His Defense Bernice Sandler, the driving force be- hind the creation of the 1972 civil rights law, changed the landscape for women in academic settings. PAGE B10 OBITUARIES B10-12 ‘The Godmother of Title IX’ Frank Bruni PAGE A23 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23 Ex-felons in Florida began registering to vote, after a ballot measure restored their right. PAGE A10 NATIONAL A10-17 Free to Vote Again New York City announced a $100 mil- lion plan to help the poor and undocu- mented get medical care. PAGE A19 NEW YORK A19-21 Mayor’s Free Health Care Plan VOL. CLXVIII . . . 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Page 1: FOR BORDER WALL DIRECTLY TO U.S. TRUMP ......2019/01/09  · lead the Financial Services Com-mittee, at age 79. News of Ms. Zirinsky s ascen-sion broke on the same evening that 71-year-old

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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump doubled down on one of thebiggest gambles of his presidencyon Tuesday night with a televisedappeal to pressure Congress intopaying for his long-promised bor-der wall, even at the cost of leav-ing the government partly closeduntil lawmakers give in.

Embarking on a strategy thathe himself privately disparagedas unlikely to work, Mr. Trump de-voted the first prime-time Oval Of-fice address of his presidency tohis proposed barrier in hopes ofenlisting public support in an ideo-logical and political conflict thathas shut the doors of many federalagencies for 18 days.

In a nine-minute speech thatmade no new arguments but in-cluded multiple misleading as-sertions, the president sought torecast the situation at the Mexi-can border as a “humanitarian cri-sis” and opted against declaring anational emergency to bypassCongress, which he had threat-ened to do, at least for now. But heexcoriated Democrats for block-ing the wall, accusing them of hy-pocrisy and exposing the countryto criminal immigrants.

“How much more American

blood must we shed before Con-gress does its job?” Mr. Trumpasked, citing a litany of grislycrimes said to be committed by il-legal immigrants. Asking Ameri-cans to call their lawmakers, headded: “This is a choice betweenright and wrong, justice and injus-tice. This is about whether we ful-fill our sacred duty to the Ameri-can citizens we serve.”

Democrats dismissed his talk ofcrisis as overstated cynicism and,with polls showing Mr. Trumpbearing more of the blame sincethe partial shutdown began lastmonth, betrayed no signs of givingin. The White House earlier in theday dispatched Vice PresidentMike Pence and others to CapitolHill to try to shore up Senate Re-publicans, who are growing in-creasingly anxious as the standoffdrags on.

In their own televised response

TRUMP APPEALSDIRECTLY TO U.S.FOR BORDER WALL

NO NATIONAL EMERGENCY

Sees Humanitarian Crisis— Democrats Say He

Is Stoking Fear

By PETER BAKER

The president hoped to re-frame debate about the wall.

POOL PHOTO BY CARLOS BARRIA

Continued on Page A13

Migrants at a shelter near the border in Tijuana, Mexico, watching President Trump’s address from the Oval Office on Tuesday night.KITRA CAHANA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

COLUMBUS, N.M. — Just min-utes from the border in rural NewMexico, the Borderland Cafe inthe village of Columbus servesburritos and pizza to local resi-dents, Border Patrol agents andvisitors from other parts of thecountry seeking a glimpse of lifeon the frontier. The motto paintedon the wall proclaims “Life is goodin the Borderland.”

“This is the sleepiest little townyou could think of,” said AdrianaZizumbo, 31, who was raised in Co-lumbus and owns the cafe withher husband. “The only crisiswe’re facing here is a shortage oflabor. Fewer people cross the bor-der to work than before, andAmericans don’t want to get theirhands dirty doing hard work.”

President Trump has shut downpart of the government over bor-der security and his plan to build awall along the border with Mex-ico, and in a prime-time speech onTuesday night he painted a bleakpicture of life in towns like Colum-bus.

He said border residents weresuffering through a “humanitar-ian crisis,” and he described alandscape scarred by violenceand prowled by “vicious coyotesand ruthless gangs.” But that isnot how Ms. Zizumbo sees it. Peo-ple in Columbus, she said, op-posed the idea of a wall by about a“90-to-10 margin.”

“Enough about the wall al-ready,” she said. “We have otherproblems here that need fixing.”

Extending nearly 2,000 milesfrom southern Texas to a fence jut-ting out into the Pacific Ocean inSan Diego, America’s border with

Continued on Page A15

No Crisis Here,Say NeighborsClose to Mexico

This article is by Simon Romero,Manny Fernandez, Jose A. Del Realand Azam Ahmed.

BEIJING — China is buyingAmerican soybeans again and hascut tariffs on American cars. It isoffering to keep its hands off valu-able corporate secrets, while alsoallowing foreign investors intomore industries than ever before.

Beijing hopes all of that will beenough to let President Trump de-clare victory and end the trade

war between the two largest econ-omies. But the offer combinessome real concessions, like lowertariffs, with nebulous promises,and it will be hard to ensure thatChina sticks to its commitments.

That could make it a tough sell

in Washington. The Trump admin-istration’s trade hawks are stillpushing for a lot more, while eventhe doves fret that the new prom-ises need effective enforcement tomake sure that China followsthrough, according to people witha detailed knowledge of Americanpolicymaking.

Many American officials andbusinesses complain that Chinahas long wiggled out of commit-ments — accusations that China

China Budges on Tariffs. Will U.S. Budge Back?By SUI-LEE WEE

and KEITH BRADSHERSome Real Concessions,

but Also Hazy Pledges

Continued on Page A8

When Susan Zirinsky takesover CBS News in March, she willbe the first woman to hold the job.She will also be the oldest personto assume the role, at 66.

Her appointment was an-nounced just days after NancyPelosi, 78, was re-elected Speakerof the House of Representatives —making her the most powerfulelected woman in United States

history — and RepresentativeMaxine Waters became the firstwoman and African-American tolead the Financial Services Com-mittee, at age 79.

News of Ms. Zirinsky’s ascen-sion broke on the same evening

that 71-year-old Glenn Closebested four younger women towin the Golden Globe for best ac-tress.

It seems that older women, longinvisible or shunted aside, are ex-periencing an unfamiliar sensa-tion: power.

There are more women over 50in this country today than at anyother point in history, according todata from the United States Cen-sus Bureau. Those women are

Older and in Power, Unwilling to Remain UnseenBy JESSICA BENNETT Women Over 60 Grow

in Number and Clout

Continued on Page A17

WASHINGTON — As a top offi-cial in President Trump’s cam-paign, Paul Manafort shared poli-tical polling data with a businessassociate tied to Russian intelli-gence, according to a court filingunsealed on Tuesday. The docu-ment provided the clearest evi-dence to date that the Trump cam-paign may have tried to coordi-nate with Russians during the2016 presidential race.

Mr. Manafort’s lawyers madethe disclosure by accident,through a formatting error in adocument filed to respond tocharges that he had lied to pros-ecutors working for the specialcounsel, Robert S. Mueller III, af-ter agreeing to cooperate withtheir investigation into Russianinterference in the election.

The document also revealedthat during the campaign, Mr.Manafort and his Russian associ-ate, Konstantin V. Kilimnik, dis-cussed a plan for peace inUkraine. Throughout the cam-paign and the early days of theTrump administration, Russiaand its allies were pushing vari-ous plans for Ukraine in the hopeof gaining relief from American-led sanctions imposed after it an-nexed Crimea from Ukraine.

Prosecutors and the news me-dia have already documented astring of encounters between Rus-sian operatives and Trump cam-paign associates dating from theearly months of Mr. Trump’s bidfor the presidency, including thenow-famous meeting at TrumpTower in Manhattan with a Rus-sian lawyer promising damaginginformation on Hillary Clinton.The accidental disclosure ap-peared to some experts to be per-haps most damning of all.

“This is the closest thing wehave seen to collusion,” ClintWatts, a senior fellow with theForeign Policy Research Institute,said of the data-sharing. “Thequestion now is, did the presidentknow about it?”

The document gave no indica-tion of whether Mr. Trump wasaware of the data transfer or howMr. Kilimnik might have used theinformation. But from March toAugust 2016, when Mr. Manafortworked for the Trump campaign,Russia was engaged in a full-fledged operation using social me-dia, stolen emails and other tac-tics to boost Mr. Trump, attackMrs. Clinton and play on divisiveissues such as race and guns.Polling data could conceivablyhave helped Russia hone thosemessages and target audiences to

Continued on Page A16

MANAFORT GAVEA RUSSIA LIAISON2016 VOTER DATA

DOCUMENT’S REVELATION

A Hint at CoordinationBetween Foreigners and Trump’s Team

This article is by Sharon LaFra-niere, Kenneth P. Vogel and MaggieHaberman.

RUSSIAN INDICTED A lawyerpivotal to the Mueller inquiry wascharged in a separate case show-ing her Kremlin ties. PAGE A17

ABOARD SEA-WATCH 3, OffMalta — Four years ago, he es-caped jihadists in West Africa.Last year, he survived slavery inLibya. But for Daouda Soumana, a20-year-old trader from Niger, oneof the cruelest experiences of hisquest for safety occurred thisweek — within sight of the south-ern shores of Europe.

From the deck of the Sea-Watch3, a rescue ship owned and run bya small German charity, Mr.Soumana can see the white cliffsof Malta gleaming in the sunlight,and even the outlines of seasidebuildings. The German crewmembers can reach that coastwithin 45 minutes by speedboat.Not Mr. Soumana.

He is one of 49 migrantsstranded onboard a pair of rescueships whose requests for safe har-bor have been ignored or refused

by every national governmentbordering the Mediterranean Seasince December.

“We are crying,” Mr. Soumanasaid in an interview on the boatthis week. “We can see Malta withour own eyes, but we are stillstuck on this ship.”

The uncertain fate of the Sea-Watch crystallizes the effect ofEurope’s hard-line shift on migra-tion — a desperate rescue boattossed about and unable to dock,not for reasons of stormy seas butof tempestuous politics.

For years, the Italian CoastGuard would have coordinatedwith the Sea-Watch to quickly lo-

cate a port in southern Italy, or totransfer its passengers to a boatthat was heading there. But as Eu-rope seeks to deter asylum seek-ers, Italy’s right-wing interiorminister has ordered his country’sports closed to migrants rescuedoutside the maritime border.

Since last June, when InteriorMinister Matteo Salvini enteredoffice, the Coast Guard has beeninstructed by Italy’s new populistgovernment not to take part in therescues. That has emboldenedneighboring Malta and othercountries to do the same.

In tandem, Italian, Maltese andGreek officials have harried chari-ties that once operated rescuemissions off the coasts of Libyaand Turkey — launching criminalinvestigations against them andsometimes impounding theirboats. The Sea-Watch is now oneof just three private boats left inthe Mediterranean conducting

Survivors of War and Slavery, Listing at SeaBy PATRICK KINGSLEY Europe’s Harder Stance

Denies Harbor toMigrant Ships

Migrants on the Sea-Watch 3 on Monday. They have been stranded on the vessel since last month.SERGEY PONOMAREV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Continued on Page A7

Rich in flavor and history, the dish is nolonger a fixture of restaurants in NewOrleans. Some chefs see that as achance to give it a new twist. PAGE D1

FOOD D1-8

Reinventing GumboJeremy Pope, right, with Caleb Eber-hardt, soars in “Choir Boy,” a play abouta gifted gay teenager. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

A Sensational Broadway DebutWith customers troubled by “blooddiamonds,” jewelers like Tiffany aredivulging their supply chains. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-6

Cut, Carat and Now Origin

Athletic Bilbao is loyal to its mission ofusing only homegrown players. Butretaining them isn’t easy, and the Span-ish soccer club is struggling. PAGE B7

SPORTSWEDNESDAY B7-10

Dilemma in Basque CountryPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogansnubbed the American national securityadviser in the Turkish capital. PAGE A8

INTERNATIONAL A4-9

Turkey Denounces Bolton

The Drama Book Shop, squeezed bysoaring rent, gets help from the “Hamil-ton” creator and his friends. PAGE C1

Lin-Manuel Miranda, RescuerThe imprisoned former Nissan chiefsays his actions were approved byother executives and directors. PAGE B1

Ghosn Offers His Defense

Bernice Sandler, the driving force be-hind the creation of the 1972 civil rightslaw, changed the landscape for womenin academic settings. PAGE B10

OBITUARIES B10-12

‘The Godmother of Title IX’

Frank Bruni PAGE A23

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23

Ex-felons in Florida began registeringto vote, after a ballot measure restoredtheir right. PAGE A10

NATIONAL A10-17

Free to Vote Again

New York City announced a $100 mil-lion plan to help the poor and undocu-mented get medical care. PAGE A19

NEW YORK A19-21

Mayor’s Free Health Care Plan

VOL. CLXVIII . . . No. 58,202 © 2019 The New York Times Company WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2019 Printed in Chicago $3.00

Mostly cloudy north and east. Straysnow flurries in northern Indiana.Partly to mostly sunny elsewhere.Highs in teens to 30s. Patchy cloudstonight. Weather map, Page A18.

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