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10:40 PM ET, September 8, 2016

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NBC News:
What Really Happened at Donald Trump's Intelligence Briefing  —  What ‘body language’ is Trump talking about?  —  As U.S. officials cast doubt on Donald Trump's claim he read the “body language” of intelligence officials at a recent briefing, NBC News has learned exclusive details …
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Clinton Slams Trump But Blabbed About Briefing in 2008  —  Clinton on the offensive following IAVA Forum 5:07  —  Hillary Clinton slammed Donald Trump for talking about an intelligence briefing he received — but she's done it, too.  —  “I think what he said was totally inappropriate …
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
It's unlikely Trump briefers disparaged Clinton or Obama, ex-intelligence officials say
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Behind scenes, NBC execs concede Matt Lauer forum performance was “disaster”  —  NBC News knows the “Commander-in-Chief Forum” was not Matt Lauer's finest hour.  —  One executive, speaking anonymously, was blunt about it: “Disaster.”  —  The morning after Lauer's back-to-back interviews …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Ok, I Admit It: I'm a Lauer Truther  —  The conventional wisdom has hardened to granite.  Matt Lauer was the worst debate moderator in history.  He was unprepared.  He hammered Hillary and devoted too much time to emails.  He let Trump lie like crazy without calling him to account at all.
Discussion: The Atlantic and Balloon Juice
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Welcome to the Club, Jonathan Chait: Part II  —  Last year, New York magazine's Jonathan Chait came to the conclusion that “political correctness” was a problem after all.  Why?  Because, as Kevin Williamson put it at the time, the tool was “now being used as a cudgel against white liberals …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Matt Lauer totally blew it on Trump's blatant lying about Iraq and Libya
True Pundit:
NYPD: Hillary Clinton Was Wearing “Invisible” Earpiece To Receive Stealth Coaching During Live NBC TV Town Hall  —  Hillary Clinton was sporting a mini earbud wired to receive stealth communications from her campaign handlers during Wednesday's Commander-in-Chief Forum carried live on NBC from New York City, True Pundit has learned.
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Paul Joseph Watson / Infowars:
Was Hillary Wearing an Earpiece During Last Night's Presidential Forum?
Donald J. Trump / Esquire:
Donald Trump: How I'd Run the Country (Better)  —  This is what it felt like to be Donald J. Trump in 2004, when The Apprentice was on the air, and he was bros with Regis, and the Iraq War was still at the top of America's collective consciousness.  Funnily enough, what he said 12 years ago helps us understand his (il)logic today.
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Trump: I Would've Captured Osama Bin Laden Before 9/11 Attacks  —  In a 15-minute effort to set the “terribly dishonest” media straight before a speech on school choice in Cleveland, Donald Trump claimed that with him at the helm, Osama bin Laden would've been captured even before the Sept, 11, 2001 terror attacks.
ABC News:
Donald Trump Responds to Accusations of Flip-Flopping on Iraq War
Discussion: Politico and Mediaite
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
‘What Is Aleppo?’  Gary Johnson Asks, in an Interview Stumble  —  Gary Johnson, the former New Mexico governor and Libertarian Party presidential nominee, revealed a surprising lack of foreign policy knowledge on Thursday that could rock his insurgent candidacy when he could not answer …
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Gary Johnson Stuns ‘Morning Joe’ Hosts By Asking ‘What Is Aleppo?’ (VIDEO)
MSNBC:
Gary Johnson asks: What is Aleppo?
RT:
Iraq, Hillary and baseball: Donald Trump talks to Larry King (RT EXCLUSIVE) … Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump tells RT's Larry King that he doesn't dislike Hillary Clinton, but that she's not the person to make America great again - and that their televised duel Wednesday was more fun than baseball.
Discussion: The Hill
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:   Presidential forum proves no matter who wins, America loses
Barry Petchesky / Deadspin:
Seahawks Considering National Anthem Protest As A Team  —  In the fourth week of the preseason, two other NFL players joined Colin Kaepernick in sitting out the playing of the “Star-Spangled Banner”: his 49ers teammate Eric Reid, and Seahawks CB Jeremy Lane.
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Steven Goff / Washington Post:
Megan Rapinoe: 'It's [expletive] unbelievable. Saddened by it'
Bob Condotta / The Seattle Times:
Seahawks' Doug Baldwin, Bobby Wagner considering expanding national-anthem protest
Matt Egan / CNNMoney:
5,300 Wells Fargo employees fired for creating over 2 million phony accounts  —  Everyone hates paying bank fees.  But imagine paying fees on a ghost account you didn't even sign up for.  —  That's exactly what happened to Wells Fargo customers nationwide.
Discussion: USA Today, U.S. Uncut and The Atlantic
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Inside the collapse of Trump's D.C. policy shop  —  The Trump campaign built a large policy shop in Washington that has now largely melted away because of neglect, mismanagement and promises of pay that were never honored.  Many of the team's former members say the campaign leadership never took …
Lauren Easton / The Definitive Source:
Statement on why AP deletes Clinton tweet  —  The Associated Press today is deleting a 2-week-old tweet about Hillary Clinton's meetings as Cabinet secretary after concluding the tweet fell short of AP standards by omitting essential context.
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PR Newswire:
Hillary's Health Concerns Serious, Say Most Doctors Polled by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)  —  Concerns about Hillary Clinton's health are “serious—could be disqualifying for the position of President of the U.S.,” say nearly 71% of 250 physicians responding …
Hannah Seligson / The Huffington Post:
One of the greatest enigmas of 2016, explained.  —  Not long after her parents' very public, very mortifying divorce, an adolescent Ivanka Trump sat with her father in the back of his private plane, waiting to leave New York for Palm Beach.  The doors were closed and the engines were on, but they were still missing Marla Maples.
Discussion: The Times of Israel
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Hillary Clinton Is a Flawed But Normal Politician.  Why Can't America See That?  —  In 2009, incoming Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked former Secretary of State Colin Powell how to handle her emails.  Last month, Powell denied having ever given Clinton this advice.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Guardian
Washington Post:
Prosecutors will drop case against former Va. governor Robert McDonnell  —  Federal prosecutors will not attempt to retry former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, on corruption charges, ending a years long saga that rocked the Commonwealth's political class and cut short the rise of a Republican star.
Emily Lane / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
‘Blue lives matter’ law used in arrest of New Orleans man who shouted slurs at police: warrant  —  Raul Delatoba was arrested Monday, Sept. 5, 2016, and charged with a hate crime and other offenses after New Orleans police say he verbally attacked NOPD officers and a witness who saw him damage a window at the Royal Sonesta Hotel.
Tom Wheeler / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed FCC chairman: Here are the new proposed rules for set-top boxes  —  Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler at the FCC in Washington.  (Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press)  —  There's never been a better time to watch television in America.
Tom Steele / Dallas Morning News:
Watch: San Antonio mattress store's ad for 9/11 sale spoofs towers falling  —  A San Antonio mattress store has drawn widespread criticism after posting a video on Facebook promoting a “Twin Towers Sale.”  —  In the video, Miracle Mattress manager Cherise Bonanno says that there's no better …
Discussion: New Urban Legends
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
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Shadia Nasralla / Reuters:
U.N. nuclear agency says Iran sticking to nuclear deal
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
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 Earlier Items: 
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump's Campaign Guru: Bill Clinton Did 9/11
Francesca Chambers / Daily Mail:
‘Read the reports’: Hillary Clinton refuses to explain what she told the FBI about how a concussion impaired her memory
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Fear of a Female President
Discussion: Vox and Hullabaloo
Daily Mail:
Summer haze!  Malia Obama is pictured ‘near a large bong at UPenn frat house’ wearing …
The Hill:
Media doesn't ask Clinton about emails
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Western Journalism
Associated Press:
Hawaiian seafood caught by foreign crews confined on boats
Discussion: Guardian and NPR
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