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Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Friday, November 9th. In today's news, Matt Whitaker's associates say he won't let Bob Mueller subpoena Donald Trump.

The president moves to formally deny asylum to migrants as the Ninth Circuit

Thorts has moved to Endaka.

And the shooter in Thousand Oaks was an ex-marine

who had fought in Afghanistan.

But first, the big idea. As Nancy Pelosi expressed total confidence that she will retake the

speaker's gavel, fellow Democrats who oppose her scrambled to organize an alternative.

Pelosi's opponents are especially focused on a sizable group of incoming

Democratic freshmen who expressed opposition to the San Francisco Congresswoman

on the campaign trail.

Some of those members have said they won't vote for Pelosi under any circumstance,

whether in an internal party vote this month or in a floor vote in January to choose a speaker. Others have been more

circumspect calling for new leadership but stopping short of ruling out supporting Pelosi

eventually. But arithmetic is everything. With Democrats on track to claim a

roughly 12 seat majority as votes

continue to be counted, those members and their resolve could be decisive.

In past elections Pelosi's been able to rely on the niceties of Capitol Hill politics, which dictate

that after any internal party vote, lawmakers drop objections that they might have and

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