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8:15 AM ET, September 18, 2017

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New York Times:
Trump Lawyers Clash Over How Much to Cooperate With Russia Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's legal team is wrestling with how much to cooperate with the special counsel looking into Russian election interference, an internal debate that led to an angry confrontation last week between …
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Rolling Stone, Once a Counterculture Bible, Will Be Put Up for Sale  —  From a loft in San Francisco in 1967, a 21-year-old named Jann S. Wenner started a magazine that would become the counterculture bible for baby boomers.  Rolling Stone defined cool, cultivated literary icons …
Jim Carlton / Wall Street Journal:
Interior Report Recommends Cuts or Changes to Seven National Land Monuments  —  White House has yet to act on the recommendations  —  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has recommended cutbacks or other changes to nearly half the geographic national monuments he recently reviewed at the request …
Discussion: Washington Times
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Shrink at least 4 national monuments and modify a half-dozen others, Zinke tells Trump  —  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has recommended that President Trump modify 10 national monuments created by his immediate predecessors, including shrinking the boundaries of at least four western sites …
Discussion: The Week and East Bay Times
Shinzo Abe / New York Times:
Solidarity Against the North Korean Threat  —  TOKYO — The whole world confronts an unprecedented, grave and imminent threat from North Korea.  On Sept. 3, the regime carried out a reprehensible nuclear test.  Late last week, it launched a ballistic missile over my country, Japan, only two weeks after a similar missile launch.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's dark view of North Korea options
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump retweets GIF of him hitting Clinton with golf ball
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Senate GOP tries one last time to repeal Obamacare  —  Obamacare repeal is on the brink of coming back from the dead.  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his leadership team are seriously considering voting on a bill that would scale back the federal government's role …
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
How Graham-Cassidy redistributes federal money  —  Data: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis ; Cartogram: Andrew Witherspoon / Axios  —  There's a lot of skepticism in Washington over whether the latest Affordable Care Act repeal bill, proposed by Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy, can pass.
Discussion: Washington Post
Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
Tucker: Trump Thinks TV More Accurately Reveals The Public's Beliefs Than Polls Do  —  Fox News host and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson says President Trump told him that television programming is a more accurate reflection of the public's beliefs than polling is.  —  “I know that he watches a lot of television.
Max Abelson / Bloomberg:
Obama Goes From White House to Wall Street in Less Than One Year  —  Ex-president speaks to Carlyle, Cantor, Northern Trust  —  ‘If someone is willing to pay him to give a speech, God bless’  —  Follow @bpolitics for all the latest news, and sign up for our daily Balance of Power newsletter.
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Anthony Scaramucci Is Thinking About Running For President!  —  Anthony Scaramucci called a BuzzFeed News report about his political plans “fake news.”  The only fake thing was his denial, according to his own correspondence.  —  Anthony Scaramucci told a friend, in writing …
Discussion: ABC News
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
House Democrats Break Campaign Fundraising Record  —  WASHINGTON — The campaign arm of House Democrats has posted its highest off-year August fundraising haul ever, the group told NBC News.  —  While their Republican counterparts haven't yet released their August results …
Discussion: Political Wire
George Stephanopoulos / ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 9-17-17: British Prime Minister Theresa May, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster and Rep. Adam Schiff  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR SEPTEMBER 17, 2017 AND WILL BE UPDATED.  —  UNIDENTIFIED MALE: THIS WEEK with George Stephanopoulos starts right now.
Discussion: AOL and Politicus USA
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Haley: If diplomacy doesn't work, Mattis will ‘take care of’ North Korea
Mike Allen / Axios:
Both parties to move on Facebook and other tech giants  —  Members of Congress in both parties have begun exploring possible legislative action against Facebook and other tech giants, setting the stage for a potentially massive battle in the midterm election year of 2018.
Discussion: Political Wire
Luke Barnes / ThinkProgress:
Meet the racist birther Donald Trump just retweeted  —  It comes two days after Trump was rebuked by British officials for ‘speculating’ on Twitter.  —  President Trump retweeted an animated GIF on Sunday morning that showed him hitting a golf ball at Hillary Clinton and knocking her to the ground …
Discussion: The Guardian
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Alicia Melville-Smith / BuzzFeed:
Trump Retweeted A Video From An Anti-Semitic Account Showing Him Hitting Hillary Clinton With A Golf Ball
Discussion: Axios and Daily Kos
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Trump shares GIF of himself striking Hillary Clinton in the back with a golf ball
Kailani Koenig / NBC News:   Bernie Sanders on Some Supporters Not Voting for Clinton: ‘No Kidding!’
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Trump's team gunning for potential 2020 reelection rivals  —  Allies of Donald Trump have begun plotting to take down or weaken potential Democratic challengers in 2020, including several who will be on the ballot in next year's midterms.  —  The 2018-focused work ranges …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Sean Spicer's yucky cameo at the Emmys  —  Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer got a turn on one of Hollywood's glitziest stages Sunday night.  And he used it to laugh about the falsehoods he told the American people in an attempt to rehabilitate his image.  —  I'm all for a good laugh.
Discussion: Althouse and Mashable
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
The Fake Outrage Over Breastgate Shows Why We Must Not Play Liberals' New Rules Game  —  The Brooke Baldwin mammary mess is just another example of how liberals leverage their ability to create new rules out of thin air as a means of asserting their power over us normals.
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Feinstein: We intend for Trump Jr. to testify publicly  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday it was her and the Republican committee chairman's intention to bring Donald Trump Jr. before the committee for public testimony.
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CNN:
Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to appear before Senate panel Tuesday
Discussion: IJR
Reuters:
Cohen, close Trump business adviser, to testify in Senate on Tuesday
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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William Mathis / Associated Press:
Refugees Spend Weekend In Trump's Childhood Home In Queens
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Natalie Neysa Alund / Tennessean.com:
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Associated Press:
How Trump's advisers schooled him on globalism
David Siders / Politico:
California tears into Trump
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Caller
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
Stop acting surprised, America: Donald Trump is a white supremacist
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Four Boston College students attacked with acid in France
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump's divisive presidency reshapes a key part of his private business
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
How Rex Tillerson alienated every ally he needs
Discussion: israpundit.org
Joseph Morton / Omaha World-Herald:
Sen. Joni Ernst takes new swing at taxpayer-subsidized perks of former presidents
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