The Daily Herold: 10/19/26 - Putin’s Summit Pitch, California Voter Arrests & Toobin on Congress
Jon Herold opens the week with a Wall Street Journal report that Vladimir Putin floated a summit with Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at next month's APEC meeting in Shenzhen to talk about ending the war in Ukraine, with Zelensky left out of the room. He ties it to Trump holding off on new Russia sanctions and the deal to buy Russian diesel, and asks whether the meeting will actually happen. From there he turns to Operation Protect the Vote, the federal probe into foreign nationals accused of registering and voting illegally in California, including the arrest of Alexander Munoz in Commerce…
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