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12:45 AM ET, August 15, 2017

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Policy@Intel:
Intel CEO leaves American Manufacturing Council  —  Earlier today, I tendered my resignation from the American Manufacturing Council.  I resigned to call attention to the serious harm our divided political climate is causing to critical issues, including the serious need to address the decline of American manufacturing.
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Ina Fried / Axios:
Intel CEO exits President Trump's manufacturing council  —  Intel said Monday that CEO Brian Krzanich was leaving President Trump's American Manufacturing Council, the latest executive to distance himself from the president following the weekend's events in Virginia.
Roger Yu / USA Today:
Under Armour, Intel CEOs quit Trump's job council over Charlottesville rally response  —  Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank said late Monday he's stepping down from President Trump's manufacturing job council, joining Merck and Intel in distancing his company from the administration following …
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Outraged in Private, Many C.E.O.s Fear the Wrath of the President
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Trump, Saying ‘Racism Is Evil,’ Condemns Violence in Charlottesville
Gregg Jarrett / Fox News:
Trump ‘seriously considering’ a pardon for ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio  —  EXCLUSIVE: President Trump may soon issue a pardon for Joe Arpaio, the colorful former Arizona sheriff who was found guilty two weeks ago of criminal contempt for defying a state judge's order to stop traffic patrols targeting suspected undocumented immigrants.
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Fox News host delivers speech arguing America isn't racist—seconds later, he proves himself wrong
Discussion: Mother Jones
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Justice demands 1.3M IP addresses related to Trump resistance site  —  The Department of Justice has requested information on visitors to a website used to organize protests against President Trump, the Los Angeles-based Dreamhost said in a blog post published on Monday.
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DreamHost.blog:
We Fight for the Users  —  For the past several months, DreamHost has been working with the Department of Justice to comply with legal process, including a Search Warrant (PDF) seeking information about one of our customers' websites.  —  At the center of the requests is disruptj20.org …
Ken White / Popehat:
Department of Justice Uses Search Warrant To Get Data On Visitors to Anti-Trump Site
Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Trump campaign emails show aide's repeated efforts to set up Russia meetings … Three days after Donald Trump named his campaign foreign policy team in March 2016, the youngest of the new advisers sent an email to seven campaign officials with the subject line: “Meeting with Russian Leadership - Including Putin.”
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Trump Job Approval Rating Now at 34%, New Low  —  President Donald Trump's job approval rating in Gallup Daily tracking is at 34% for the three-day period from Friday through Sunday — by one point the lowest of his administration so far.  —  It is difficult to pinpoint the precise cause …
Discussion: Mediaite and RedState
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
CNN: Trump wanted economic remarks at top of Charlottesville statement
Discussion: RedState
D.C. McAllister / The Federalist:
White Supremacists Were Not The Only Thugs Tearing Up Charlottesville
Derrick Lewis / WNCN:
Protesters pull down Confederate statue at old Durham County courthouse  —  DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) - A crowd of protesters gathered outside the old Durham County courthouse on Main Street Monday evening in opposition to a Confederate monument in front of the government building.
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Pearce Tefft / INFORUM:
Letter: Family denounces Tefft's racist rhetoric and actions  —  My name is Pearce Tefft, and I am writing to all, with regards to my youngest son, Peter Tefft, an avowed white nationalist who has been featured in a number of local news stories over the last several months.
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
‘You will have to shovel our bodies into the oven, too’: Father of Charlottesville neo-Nazi disowns him
Maura Judkis / Washington Post:
Charlottesville white nationalist demonstrator loses job at libertarian hot dog shop  —  A white nationalist who participated in the torch-lit march through the University of Virginia's campus this weekend has lost his job at a Berkeley, Calif., hot dog restaurant after Twitter users posted his photo and place of employment.
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Siva Vaidhyanathan / New York Times:
Why the Nazis Came to Charlottesville
Discussion: BuzzFeed and BillMoyers.com
John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
Explaining Trump's Charlottesville Behavior  —  The nucleolus of Trump.  —  You can choose to have whatever opinion you have on the president's statement today condemning white supremacists, but it's hard to believe he would have read it out if he'd had his druthers.
Discussion: NPR and Viking Pundit
Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Backs Off Guam Missile-Attack Threat  —  Kim Jong Un warns he could change his mind if the U.S. persists in ‘extremely dangerous reckless actions’  —  SEOUL—North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has decided not to launch a threatened missile attack on Guam, Pyongyang's state media reported …
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Jana Winter / Foreign Policy:
FBI and DHS Warned of Growing Threat From White Supremacists Months Ago  —  Trump doesn't want to call out white supremacists.  The FBI already did.  —  The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security in May warned that white supremacist groups had already carried out more attacks …
Scott Whitlock / newsbusters.org/feed/all:
CBS Excludes 9/11 to Claim Three Times as Many ‘Right Wing’ Terror Attacks  —  Other than 9/11, not much happened in 2001.  CBS This Morning co-host Norah O'Donnell on Monday excluded the September 11th terror attacks in order to conclude that there have been “three times” as many examples of “right wing” violence.
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John Harwood / CNBC:   GOP is more likely to vent ‘personal disgust’ for Trump after Charlottesville
Natalie Orenstein / Berkeleyside:
Worker resigned after white nationalist rally, Top Dog says
The Texas Tribune:
White nationalist rally at Texas A&M University has been canceled  —  The white nationalist rally planned on the campus of Texas A&M University has been canceled, officials confirmed Monday.  —  Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout.  —  Saying they're concerned about student safety …
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Emma Loop / BuzzFeed:
DC Hotels Kept Canceling On Richard Spencer, So He Had To Hold A Press Conference In An Apartment
Discussion: Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
Paul Manafort Sought $850 Million Deal With Putin Ally and Alleged Gangster … Paul Manafort partnered on an $850 million New York real estate deal with an ally of Vladimir Putin and a Ukrainian moneyman whom the Justice Department recently described as an “organized crime member.”
Discussion: Political Wire
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
On Twitter, Trump accuses blacks of racism three times as often as whites  —  During a White House speech on Monday, President Trump denounced racism as “evil” after facing two days of bipartisan criticism for declining to specifically condemn Nazis and white supremacists after a violent rally Charlottesville.
Discussion: Raw Story and USA Today
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Ronald A. Klain / Washington Post:
If Trump goes down, Pence will too  —  When Al Gore became vice president, legendary scholar Richard Neustadt — one of Gore's former professors — sent him a memo with advice.  One sentence stuck with me: “The White House staff lives in the present, the VP's staff in the future.”
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Charlottesville Victim's Mother To Trump: Thank You  —  Susan Bro provided a moment of extraordinary grace as she mourns the murder of her daughter, Heather Heyer, by trying to heal the divide in the nation after the Charlottesville terrorist attack.  While the political debate …
 
 
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