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9:05 PM ET, October 16, 2017

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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump White House fed up with the Senate  —  President Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell stood side-by-side at the White House Monday afternoon to declare they're “together totally” and “very united” heading into this fall's tax reform battle.  —  But behind the scenes, Trump …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump gives his own performance a Trump-sized endorsement  —  Friends say President Donald Trump has grown frustrated that his greatness is not widely understood, that his critics are fierce and on TV every morning, that his poll numbers are both low and “fake,” and that his White House is caricatured as adrift.
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Inside the ‘adult day-care center’: How aides try to control and coerce Trump  —  President Trump listens as officials heap praise on him at a Cabinet meeting June 12.  From left, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
White House brushes off House investigators over aides' use of personal email
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Raw Story
Associated Press:
GOP Sen. Thad Cochran grappling with illness
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Axios
Sarah Karlin-Smith / Politico:   Trump renews attacks on high drug prices
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
The Danger of President Pence  —  Trump's critics yearn for his exit.  But Mike Pence, the corporate right's inside man, poses his own risks.  —  On September 14th, the right-wing pundit Ann Coulter, who last year published a book titled “In Trump We Trust,” expressed what a growing number of Americans …
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump claims Obama, other past presidents didn't call families of fallen soldiers  —  President Trump on Monday claimed former President Obama and other past presidents didn't call the families of fallen soldiers.  —  Trump made the remark after being asked about the four U.S. soldiers killed in Niger last week.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump, Chieftain of Spite
Discussion: Washington Monthly and MSNBC
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
You Need To Read This  —  The following is a rush transcript of President Trump's comments a few moments ago on Obamacare.  There may be small textual errors.  But it will give you a broad sense of what he said.  It's important to read.  —  Health care is moving along.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Steve Bannon totally undercuts Trump's claim about canceling Obamacare payments
Discussion: New York Times, Raw Story and Daily Kos
USA Today:   Trump sells out your health insurance
Bill Whitaker / CBS News:
Ex-DEA agent: Opioid crisis fueled by drug industry and Congress  —  Whistleblower Joe Rannazzisi says drug distributors pumped opioids into U.S. communities — knowing that people were dying — and says industry lobbyists and Congress derailed the DEA's efforts to stop it
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Trump promises to ‘look into’ report on drug czar nominee Marino in wake of Post/'60 Minutes' probe
Juliette Garside / The Guardian:
Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist  —  Daphne Caruana Galizia, a blogger whose investigations focused on corruption, was described as a ‘one-woman WikiLeaks’  —  The journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation into corruption in Malta was killed on Monday in a car bomb near her home.
Emily Smith / Page Six:
‘Today’ editor fired over Lawrence O'Donnell meltdown leak … NBC has tracked down and fired the staffer who leaked the infamous — and wildly entertaining — tape of Lawrence O'Donnell's meltdown during which he swore at his crew because of “insanity in my earpiece.”
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Carlos Greer / Page Six:
Megyn Kelly's ratings hit ‘possible all-time low’
Discussion: IJR and The Daily Caller
Elias Groll / Foreign Policy:
Here's the Memo the Kremlin-Linked Lawyer Took to the Meeting With Donald Trump Jr.  —  No dirt on Clinton, a passing mention of adoptions, and a lot on Bill Browder and the Magnitsky Act.  —  Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya arrived at a June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. armed …
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Jim Waterson / BuzzFeed:
Hillary Clinton Suggests Russian Interference In US Election Was A “Cyber 9/11”
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Clinton refers to Russian election interference as ‘cyber 9/11’
Discussion: Infowars and The Daily Caller
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Miami politician says aliens took her on a spaceship.  Now she's running for Congress.  —  WASHINGTON  —  Florida has a U.S. senator who once flew aboard the Space Shuttle.  —  A congressional candidate from Miami can go one better: Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera says she's been aboard a spaceship too.
CNN:
Bowe Bergdahl pleads guilty to desertion, faces up to life in prison  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Fort Bragg, North Carolina (CNN)US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl could spend the rest of his life behind bars after he pleaded guilty Monday to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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CNN:
Post-Maria, Trump's approval rating on hurricanes down 20 points  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  WASHINGTON (CNN)President Donald Trump's approval rating for handling the federal government's response to recent hurricanes has dropped 20 points in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
Geoff Pender / USA Today:
Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran's health issues raise questions  —  Sen. Thad Cochran's extended absence from Congress has brought renewed questions as to whether the Mississippi Republican and Appropriations chairman is healthy enough to continue to serve.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Cochran still out of commission because of health woes
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
The Mystery Of Wilbur Ross' Missing Billions  —  Dressed in a blue suit and red tie, Donald Trump's 79-year-old pick for Secretary of Commerce sat before a panel of senators for nearly four hours in January, deflecting dozens of questions with relative ease.
Discussion: Raw Story
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Jerry Brown Sides with Betsy DeVos on Title IX  —  Today Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill from the California state legislature that would have codified the previous Title IX “guidance” about sexual assault and harassment on college campuses.  Referencing a previously enacted California law imposing an …
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David Siders / Politico:   Efforts to pry loose Trump tax returns hit a wall
Lin-Manuel Miranda / New York Times:
Stephen Sondheim, Theater's Greatest Lyricist  —  Lin-Manuel Miranda speaks to the man who has consistently remade the American musical over his 60-year career — and who is trying to surprise us one more time.  —  Sondheim: I hope you don't mind doing this upstairs, I'm feeling a bit under the weather.
Discussion: Mediaite and Daily Wire
Daily Mail:
‘I was running downstairs in heels with a cup of coffee and fell backwards!’:  Hillary Clinton appears on British TV show to promote her book hobbling on crutches and wearing a protective boot after BREAKING her toe  —  Hillary Clinton hobbled away from filming a British TV show interview …
Bloomberg:
Kushner Plan for Fifth Avenue Tower Is Being Blocked by Partner  —  Vornado wants modest renovation and to rent out offices  —  The building has been losing money since it was bought in 2007  —  An ambitious plan by Jared Kushner's family to recast its indebted Fifth Avenue office building …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Raw Story
CNN:
Hill Russia investigators probe GOP operative who sought Clinton emails  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)House and Senate investigators are turning their attention to a Republican operative's hunt for Hillary Clinton's private emails from Russian hackers — and his possible connections to senior members of the Trump campaign.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
 
 
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Tracy Jan / Washington Post:
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Ben White / Politico:
Trump to interview Yellen as final decision nears on Fed chair
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Erik Schelzig / Associated Press:
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WPA2 security flaw puts almost every Wi-Fi device at risk of hijack, eavesdropping
Meduza:
An ex St. Petersburg ‘troll’ speaks out Russian independent TV network interviews former troll …
Discussion: Yahoo