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8:55 AM ET, October 17, 2017

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CNN:
CNN poll: Trump approval steady, but more say he's leading in the wrong direction  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's approval rating holds steady in a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, but that overall stability belies declining views on how things are going in the country today.
Discussion: Axios
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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.
Discussion: ABC News
Bloomberg:
Trump Seeks a Truce Between Republicans to Save Their Tax Plan  —  A Rose Garden embrace for McConnell, epitome of establishment  —  Pleads for Bannon to back off threatened party purge  —  Steve Bannon won't abandon his war against congressional Republican incumbents …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's alternative reality  —  President Trump “goes there, on just about every topic imaginable,” as NBC's Brian Williams put it, during a pair of Q&As, two hours apart yesterday — one in the Cabinet Room and one with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the Rose Garden .
Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story:
‘The empathy of a cockroach’: Phil Mudd shames Trump's self-centered response to fallen soldiers  —  On Monday, President Donald Trump lamented from the Rose Garden about how difficult it was to call the families of fallen soldiers when discussing his plans to finally call the families of four military members in Niger over a week ago.
Discussion: CNN and Reuters
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Mitch McConnell warns Trump that Steve Bannon threatens their agenda  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday told President Trump that Steve Bannon's midterm insurgency was detrimental to tax reform and other key elements of the administration's agenda.
Discussion: Political Wire
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Trump said to want bipartisan Senate Obamacare deal
Discussion: ABC News, Political Wire and Axios
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump White House fed up with the Senate
Discussion: FOX6Now.com
CNN:   Post-Maria, Trump's approval rating on hurricanes down 20 points
Dave Zirin / The Nation:
‘A Soulless Coward’: Coach Gregg Popovich Responds to Trump  —  In an exclusive here at The Nation, the Spurs coach speaks about Trump's latest outrage.  —  We've all seen San Antonio Spurs' future Hall of Fame coach Gregg Popovich in a state of exasperation on the sidelines, or in post-game news conferences.
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump Falsely Claims Obama Didn't Contact Families of Fallen Troops  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump falsely asserted on Monday that his predecessor, Barack Obama, and other presidents did not contact the families of American troops killed in duty, drawing a swift, angry rebuke from several of Mr. Obama's former aides.
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump forced to walk back ridiculous falsehood about Obama  —  Part of the problem with Donald Trump's presidency is his profound ignorance of history.  This tends to get him into trouble because, when Trump does something he's proud of, he boasts that he's the first president to do it …
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump claims Obama, other past presidents didn't call families of fallen soldiers
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:   ‘Categorically false’: MSNBC's Katy Tur smacks down Trump lie that Obama never called soldiers' families
Tara Fowler / ABC News:
McCain slams ‘half-baked, spurious nationalism’ sweeping US in passionate speech  —  Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., slammed “half-baked, spurious nationalism” in an impassioned speech while accepting the Liberty Medal in Philadelphia this evening.  —  McCain, who was presented with the medal …
Discussion: Axios, Politico and The Daily Caller
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John McCain:   Remarks At The 2017 Liberty Medal Ceremony
Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story:   ‘Unpatriotic’: Watch John McCain torch Trump and Bannon's ‘half-baked nationalism’ during Liberty Medal speech
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.
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Melissa Etehad / Los Angeles Times:
Jesus Campos, Vegas security guard shot before rampage, appears to have vanished  —  A security vehicle blocks an entrance at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on Oct. 4 in Las Vegas.  (David Becker / Getty Images)  —  The story seemed straightforward: The unarmed security guard approached …
Edith M. / Associated Press:
North Korea says ‘a nuclear war may break out any moment’  —  A U.S. F-35 stealth fighter is seen during the press day of the 2017 Seoul International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition at Seoul Airport in Seongnam, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017.  South Korean and U.S. troops launched five days …
Discussion: CNBC and The Daily Signal
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Financial Times:   Donald Trump to meet Japanese Emperor Akihito in Tokyo
Manu Raju / CNN:
Corker: Trump criticism had been ‘building for some time’  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)He called the White House “an adult day care center.”  He suggested President Donald Trump was setting the nation on a course to “World War III.”  And he said Trump “concerns me,” …
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
President Trump's mysterious absence from conservative talk radio  —  President Trump has invited The New York Times into the Oval Office.  He's granted behind-the-scenes White House access to Time magazine.  And he's sat for interviews with the network news.
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Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
How Donald Trump is negotiating like a hostage-taker  —  (CNN)As a candidate, Donald Trump sold himself as a deal maker.  As president, he's governing more as a hostage taker.  —  Across an array of domestic and foreign challenges, Trump's go-to move has become to create what amounts to a political hostage situation.
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
For each scene of his presidency, Trump casts a villain (or two, or three ...)  —  Hillary Clinton is not running for president again in 2020 — she has said so, her aides know it, and there is no political rationale that would argue otherwise.  But for President Trump, facts like those simply miss the point.
Kaitlin Menza / Esquire:
57 Things I Need You to Stop Doing to the Women You Work With  —  I'm begging you: Don't be a creep at work.  —  A female friend of mine went on a foreign business trip early in her career with two colleagues who were both male, married, and senior to her at the company.
Discussion: Althouse
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Trump approves oil pipeline expansion across Canadian border  —  The Trump administration on Monday approved a proposed expansion of an oil sands pipeline that crosses the Canadian border.  —  Enbridge Energy's Line 67, also known as the Alberta Clipper, now has State Department approval …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Lindsey Bever / Washington Post:
A 2-year-old's kidney transplant was put on hold — after his donor father's probation violation  —  A father in Georgia who had prepared to donate a kidney to his 2-year-old son said last week that he is being forced to wait after a recent stint in county jail.
Discussion: AOL
Jason La Canfora / CBSSports.com:
Colin Kaepernick's collusion grievance against NFL centered on Trump's influence  —  Trump's tweets, rallies and contact with NFL owners will be a major part of Kaepernick's legal case  —  The influence and power of President Donald Trump will be a central element in Colin Kaepernick's collusion grievance …
Discussion: Raw Story
Thomas Franck / CNBC:
CBS earnings to disappoint due to weak NFL ratings, Credit Suisse says  — Credit Suisse cut its third-quarter EPS estimates on CBS by 5 percent, citing the company's softer Sunday NFL ratings.  —  Declining NFL television ratings will lower CBS earnings, according to Credit Suisse.
Discussion: Daily Wire
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
 
 
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Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The Method to Trump's ‘Madness’
Jeannie Suk Gersen / New Yorker:
How Anti-Trump Psychiatrists Are Mobilizing Behind the Twenty-Fifth Amendment
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Washington Post
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
‘Beautiful Girls’ Scribe Scott Rosenberg On A Complicated Legacy With Harvey Weinstein
Discussion: Daily Wire
Sarah Ferguson / ABC:
Hillary Clinton: How losing to Donald Trump changed her
Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com and twitchy.com
Alice Speri / The Intercept:
Top Trump Official John Kelly Ordered ICE to Portray Immigrants as Criminals to Justify Raids
Discussion: Raw Story
Renuka Rayasam / Politico:
Undocumented pregnant girl in Texas tests Trump policy to stop abortions
Discussion: Rewire
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's dumbfounding, expansive press conference with Mitch McConnell, annotated
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Legal marijuana is saving lives in Colorado, study finds
Discussion: The Cannabist and Balloon Juice
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
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Discussion: The Mahablog and Mother Jones
 

 
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