memeorandum: NRA on bump stocks: 'We don't believe bans ever worked on anything' (Julia Manchester/The Hill)

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Corker calls White House ‘an adult day care center’ in response to Trump's latest Twitter tirade — Sen. Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, on Sunday called the White House “an adult day care center” after President Trump attacked him in a morning Twitter tirade.

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Politico:

Trump claims Corker 'didn't have the guts' to run for reelection — The president also says the Senate Foreign Relationship chairman ‘begged’ him for an endorsement. — President Donald Trump on Sunday claimed that Sen. Bob Corker “begged” him for an endorsement and decided to not seek reelection …

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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:

In a switch, GOP deserts its budget-cutting mantra — The Republican Party has largely abandoned its platform of fiscal restraint, pivoting sharply in a way that could add trillions of dollars in federal debt over the next decade. — Cutting spending to balance the budget was almost religion …

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Associated Press:

The Latest: Miffed Trump aims stinging tweets at GOP senator — The Latest on President Donald Trump and Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. (all times local): — Sen. Bob Corker is hitting back against President Donald Trump after a series of Trump tweets attacked the Tennessee Republican.

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Erik Prince, Blackwater Founder, Weighs Primary Challenge to Wyoming Republican — WASHINGTON — Erik Prince, the founder of the security contractor Blackwater, is seriously considering a Republican primary challenge for a Senate seat in Wyoming, potentially adding a high-profile contender …

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Julia Manchester / The Hill:

Trump: I want to focus on North Korea not 'fixing somebody's back' — President Trump praised health care block grants on Saturday, saying they allow the states to focus on health care, but said he would rather focus his energy on tensions with North Korea than “fixing somebody's back or their knee.”

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Sam Kim / Bloomberg: Kim Jong Un Boosts Sister Within North Korea's Inner Circle

Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Trump on North Korea: ‘Only one thing will work’

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Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:

‘We will keep coming back:’ Richard Spencer leads another torchlight march in Charlottesville — Richard Spencer, who in August led white nationalists and white supremacists in a torchlight march across the University of Virginia campus that touched off a weekend of deadly clashes, returned Saturday night to Charlottesville.

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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
White nationalists return to Charlottesville

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Julia Manchester / The Hill:

NRA on bump stocks: 'We don't believe bans ever worked on anything' — The executive director of the National Rifle Association (NRA) said on Sunday that the organization is open to “regulating differently” bump stocks on guns but not necessarily to banning the devices.

Discussion: Politico

The Hill:

GOP leaders look to avoid a fight with base over guns — Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are signaling that they want the Trump administration to write new regulations for a gun accessory that may have allowed the Las Vegas shooter to fire hundreds of rounds per minute.

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David Siders / Politico:

Feinstein ‘close’ to announcing reelection bid — Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) says she is “close” to announcing a reelection campaign — the 84-year-old's firmest suggestion yet that she will seek a fifth full term in the Senate. — “I'm ready for a good fight,” Feinstein told NBC News' …

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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:

Trump zeroes in on 2020 battlegrounds — President Donald Trump's campaign operatives and other allies have begun surveying the political landscape for his 2020 reelection bid, viewing a handful of upcoming midterm races as especially insightful to his strategic path three years from now.

Charles J. Sykes / New York Times:

N.R.A. and G.O.P., Together Forever — FOR years, Republicans have effectively outsourced their thought leadership to the loudmouths at the end of the bar. But perhaps the most extreme example of that trend has been the issue of guns, where the party has ceded control to a gun lobby that has built its brand on absolutism.