Good morning. 
Halloween in Whitewater will be snowy with a high of thirty-three. Sunrise is 7:28 AM and sunset 5:48 PM, for 10h 19m 43s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 14.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand eighty-seventh day.
On this day in 1940, the Battle of Britain ends in victory over the Luftwaffe.
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The AP reports Wisconsin GOP leader Robin Vos says climate change is ‘probably’ real. Alternative headlines: GOP leader Robin Vos says world probably round, water probably wet, and apple pie might taste good.
Craig Gilbert and Christal Hayes report Ron Johnson says his involvement in Ukraine will not cause him to recuse himself from a Senate impeachment trial:
The senior senator from Wisconsin has taken on a unique role in the impeachment saga, largely because of his own close involvement with Ukraine issues, as chair of the foreign relations subcommittee on Europe and as a member of the Senate’s bipartisan Ukraine Caucus. That placed him in conversations and meetings that are being scrutinized by House investigators. As a senator, he has also looked into unproven claims that Ukraine assisted Democrats in the 2016 election.
House Democrats on the three investigative committees (Oversight, Intelligence and Foreign Affairs) say they are open to hearing from Johnson, though they were cautious about how to request the testimony of a fellow member of Congress.
“Let’s put it this way, it would be nice to have more explanation from and about Ron Johnson’s activities with respect to Ukraine,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., a member of the House Oversight Committee. “What was his role? What did he see as his role? And what did he do? And why did he do it?”
(Accomplices aren’t supposed to be jurors.)
Kate Brannen reports White House Ignored Pentagon Warning on Ukraine Funding:
As the summer wore on, and President Donald Trump would not budge on his decision to withhold almost $400 million in military aid for Ukraine, the Pentagon warned the White House: If its portion of the money wasn’t released quickly, the Defense Department would not be able to spend it before the fiscal year ended on September 30.
The Pentagon even gave the White House a deadline. In late July, as panic spread within the administration over the president’s worrisome decision, the National Security Council led a series of interagency meetings to discuss what to do about the military assistance to Ukraine. At one of these meetings, Defense Department officials told the White House that if the $250 million in security assistance was not released by August 6, it would not be able to spend it all by the end of the fiscal year, according to two sources familiar with the deliberations.
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And the Pentagon was also clear that providing Ukraine the security assistance was in the national security interests of the United States, on that point Trump’s Cabinet agreed.