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12:15 PM ET, August 24, 2017

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CNN:
Exclusive: Top Trump aide's email draws new scrutiny in Russia inquiry  —  Washington (CNN)Congressional investigators have unearthed an email from a top Trump aide that referenced a previously unreported effort to arrange a meeting last year between Trump campaign officials …
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Gordon Lubold / Wall Street Journal:
White House Sets Rules for Military Transgender Ban  —  Guidelines expected to direct Pentagon to stop admitting transgender people, gives Mattis power to remove those serving  —  Following President Donald Trump's announcement to ban open transgender service in the military …
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Will go-it-alone leave Trump empty-handed?
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Kelly moves to control the information Trump sees  —  Confronted with a West Wing that treated policymaking as a free-for-all, President Donald Trump's chief of staff, John Kelly, is instituting a system used by previous administrations to limit internal competition — and to make himself …
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Politico:
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: White House rapid response director is out  —  W.H. RAPID RESPONSE DIRECTOR IS OUT — ANDY HEMMING left his job on Monday as the White House director of rapid response, according to multiple sources.  A source familiar with the move told us it was a “mutually agreed upon” …
Discussion: Raw Story
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
SCOOP: ANDY HEMMING out at WH — TRUMP's heated calls with senators — THE JUICE: PERRY bringing family …
Elana Schor / Politico:
Trump clashed with multiple GOP senators over Russia  —  President Donald Trump privately vented his frustration over Russia-related matters with at least two other Republican senators this month, according to people familiar with the conversations — in addition to the president's public admonishments …
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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Good Riddance to Steve Bannon
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Kos
Bloomberg:
General Kelly Commands the White House, But He Can't Control Trump
Nassim Benchaabane / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Driver pushes into protesters in St. Louis street; 3 people sustain minor injuries … A car drives up to a group of protesters blocking Manchester Avenue, the car stopped and then accelerates through the protesters in St. Louis on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017.  Only minor injuries were reported by people on the scene.
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Nassim Benchaabane / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
ST. LOUIS  • Police and a witness gave differing versions of how protesters were injured …
Discussion: ABC News
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Trump retweets meme of his blocking Obama, labeled the ‘best eclipse ever’  —  President Donald Trump today retweeted a meme that showed a picture of his gradually blocking out an image of former President Obama with the caption “The Best Eclipse Ever.”  —  The meme was originally tweeted …
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Senator Lindsey Graham On President Trump's Tweeting At Congress  —  South Carolina's Lindsey Graham joined me this morning:  —  Transcript:  —  HH: I am joined now by United States Senator Lindsey Graham from the great state of South Carolina.  Good morning, Senator, how are you?
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
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New York Times:
Christopher Cantwell, White Nationalist, Surrenders to the Police  —  A white nationalist whose behavior at the violent gatherings this month in Charlottesville, Va., brought him notoriety after he was featured in a widely viewed documentary, has turned himself into the authorities in Virginia days …
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Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
White supremacist from Vice documentary surrenders to police
Discussion: RedState
Chuck Schumer:
After Charlottesville, It's Time to End the Assault on Voting Rights  —  the wake of the events in Charlottesville, President Trump's refusal to promptly and unequivocally denounce the radical, white-supremacist movement in this country was disgraceful.  It was shameful, un-American, and it was wrong.
Wfla Web / WFLA-TV:
93-year-old Confederate monument in Manatee County moved  —  BRADENTON, Fla. (WFLA) - It didn't take long for the 93-year-old Confederate war memorial outside the Manatee County Courthouse to be moved.  —  The monument was already gone from Bradenton Thursday morning.
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
White House has paperwork ready for Joe Arpaio pardon  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)The White House has prepared the paperwork for President Trump to pardon former sheriff Joe Arpaio when he makes the final decision to do so, CNN has learned.  —  An administration official …
Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Senate 2018: Republican Edge Runs Up Against Trump, History  —  Beyond president's poor numbers lies difficulty of beating out-of-power party incumbents  —  Ever since Donald Trump won the presidency, 2018's race for the Senate seemed to pit two powerful, competing forces against one another …
Discussion: Latino Rebels
Office of Media Relations:
New GW Battleground Poll Finds Widespread Public Concern About President Trump's Behavior  —  MEDIA CONTACTS:  —  Jason Shevrin: jshevrin@gwu.edu, 202-994-5631  —  John Brandt: johnbrandt@gwu.edu, 202-994-3199  —  Democrats Hold Edge on Health Care, Climate Change …
Discussion: Politico
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Office of Media Relations:
GW Battleground Poll
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Mike Allen / Axios:
Government shutdown chances rising by the day  —  Top White House and GOP leadership officials tell us the chances of a market-rattling government shutdown are rising by the day — and were even before Trump threatened at his raucous Phoenix rally on Tuesday night to use a shutdown as leverage to get funding for a border wall.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Odds of a government shutdown rise after Trump threat
Discussion: The Daily Caller and RedState
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Rabbis Protest Trump's Comments by Boycotting Conference Call  —  For years, the presidential conference calls were a nonpartisan holiday tradition: President Barack Obama would speak by phone with hundreds of rabbis in advance of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, in what participants described …
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Republican Establishment Stands Behind Trump  —  President Trump's response to the deadly white-supremacist protests in Charlottesville earlier this month sparked a fierce national backlash, drawing rebukes from elected officials, corporate executives, military leaders, clergy, and—according to a new poll—a majority of Americans.
Discussion: Washington Post
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
We're Journalists, Mr. Trump, Not the Enemy  —  Sigh.  If only President Trump denounced neo-Nazis as passionately and sincerely as he castigates journalists.  —  What could be an easier task than distancing oneself from Nazis or violent white supremacists?
Discussion: twitchy.com
CNN:
New Texas voter ID law discriminates, federal judge rules  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)A federal district court judge granted a permanent injunction against Texas' voter ID law Wednesday, holding that the state acted with discriminatory intent.  —  Attorney General Ken Paxton called the ruling …
Discussion: Houston Public Media
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Does Anybody Understand What These Never Trump Republicans Think They're Achieving?  —  What's the end game for these preening, posturing doofuses who call themselves Republicans, but who can't pass a CNN camera without slamming their party's president?  There is a lot of blue falconry …
Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Gingrich: Left's treatment of Trump is like ‘slave newspapers’ attacking Lincoln  —  Former Speaker Newt Gingrich on Wednesday compared liberals who are critical of President Trump to “slave newspapers” attacking Abraham Lincoln.  —  Speaking on Fox News's “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” …
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Menendez Is Denied Reprieve From Corruption Trial to Cast Senate Votes  —  NEWARK — When the 115th Congress returns to Washington on Sept. 5, Senator Robert Menendez will likely be absent: His federal corruption trial is set to begin here the following day.
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Even With Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago  —  +8 pts.  —  Over-  —  +4  —  Under-  —  Whites  —  Asians  —  Hispanics  —  Blacks … '15  —  +8 pts.  —  '80  —  Over-  —  +4  —  Under-  —  Whites
Fox News:
Gregg Jarrett: Trump vs. crooks, liars and the liberal media  —  President Trump's speech in Phoenix brought out the usual cast of misfits and miscreants.  —  And no, I'm not just referring to the “Antifa” anarchists who were, for the most part, denied their typical practice of wielding clubs …
Mark Curnutte / Cincinnati.com:
This immigrant mom had a permit to work at Amazon.  Now U.S. agents hold her in jail  —  Federal immigration police continued to move fast Wednesday in efforts to deport a mother with two young children despite her legal status.  —  Agents seized a 22-year-old Northern Kentucky mother …
Discussion: ThinkProgress, KABE-LP, Splinter and C4AD
 
 
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