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

202 for Monday, November 19.

In today's news, the death toll rises in California's campfire.

President Trump won't listen to the recording of Jamal Koshoggi's murder.

And Florida's fraught Senate race finally has a winner. But first, the big idea.

President Trump has angered the military community by escalating a war of words

with one of its most revered members, retired Admiral Bill McRaven.

In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, Trump went after the retired Navy SEAL and Special Operations Commander who oversaw the killing of Osama bin Laden and the capture of Saddam Hussein during his 37 distinguished years in the military.

Trump decried McRaven as a Hillary Clinton fan and an Obama-Backer,

before suggesting that the four-star Admiral who recently left his post-is Chancellor at the University of Texas,

so that he could battle leukemia, should have caught bin Laden faster.

Last year, McRaven called Trump's description of the news media as the enemy of the people,

the greatest threat to American democracy he had ever seen.

This past summer, McRaven went to bat for John Brennan defending the former CIA director as a man of integrity after

Trump revoked his security clearance.

In a statement on Sunday, McRaven said he did not back Clinton or anyone else in the 2016 presidential election and that he is a fan of both

Obama and George W Bush, two presidents whom he worked for while in uniform.

He said quote I admire all presidents regardless of their political party, who uphold the dignity of the office and who use that office to bring the nation together in challenging times.

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