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2:10 PM ET, November 27, 2017

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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
2 Bosses Show Up to Lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau  —  WASHINGTON — On Monday, Mick Mulvaney, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, brought in doughnuts.  Around the same time, Leandra English, the agency's other acting director, sent an all-staff email thanking employees for their service.
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David Dayen / The Intercept:
White House Memo Justifying CFPB Takeover Was Written by Payday Lender Attorney  —  The lawyer who wrote the Office of Legal Counsel memo supporting the Trump administration's viewpoint that the president can appoint Mick Mulvaney as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau represented …
Renae Merle / Washington Post:
At the CFPB, two acting directors show up to take command; one brings doughnuts, the other well-wishes
Discussion: The Guardian
Reuters:
White House's Mulvaney tells CFPB staff to ‘disregard’ Leandra English: memo
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
Lorraine Woellert / Politico:
Consumer bureau's top lawyer sides with Trump in leadership clash
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump wants to destroy Elizabeth Warren's brainchild. In a new interview, Warren hits back.
Renae Merle / Washington Post:
Leandra English, the woman at the center of a White House battle for control of the CFPB …
Patrick Rucker / Reuters:
Doughnuts, dueling memos factor in showdown over U.S. consumer agency
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Allie Malloy / CNN:
Cordray's successor sues Trump administration over Mulvaney's appointment to CFPB
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight, IJR, Daily Kos and Axios
Sen. Rand Paul / Fox News:
Here's why I plan to vote for the Senate tax bill (and my colleagues should step up)  —  One of the fundamental problems in Washington is the attitude that the money that people make belongs to the government.  That's why you hear arguments about how much a tax cut “costs,” …
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Heather Long / Washington Post:
Senate GOP tax bill hurts the poor more than originally thought, CBO finds  —  The Senate Republican tax plan gives substantial tax cuts and benefits to Americans earning more than $100,000 a year, while the nation's poorest would be worse off, according to a report released Sunday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump wants ‘a few changes’ to tax plan  —  President Trump on Monday appeared to call for changes to the Republican tax plan even as he claimed it has “great support.”  —  Trump tweeted that he wants “just a few changes” that would help “the middle class and job producers,” …
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
The Latest: Moore pushes back on allegations in new TV ad  —  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Latest on Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (all times local):  —  Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore is using a new television ad to push back on allegations of sexual misconduct against him.
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James LaPorta / The Daily Beast:
Marine Colonel Announces He's Running Against Roy Moore: ‘Hold My Beer’ … When retired Marine Col. Lee Busby read it was too late for a write-in candidate for the Alabama senate race, he said, “Hold my beer, we will just see about that.”  —  Busby told The Daily Beast on Monday he is launching …
Caroline Kenny / CNN:
Graham rues Trump's support for Roy Moore  —  Graham: Trump throwing Moore a lifeline  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  — “If you think winning with Roy Moore is going to be easy for the Republican party, you're mistaken,” Sen. Lindsey Graham said.  —  Washington (CNN)Sen. Lindsey Graham bemoaned …
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Retired Marine colonel to launch Senate write-in campaign in Alabama
Discussion: Political Wire
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
The case for Roy Moore
David Usborne / Esquire:
THE LAST DETAIL  —  When Donald Trump won the presidency, many Americans hoped John McCain would live up to his maverick image and resist his agenda.  But after the senator was diagnosed with brain cancer in July, his contrarian resolve revealed itself in unexpected ways that may shape his legacy—and our future.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
McCain: Trump doesn't have any ‘principles and beliefs’
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
Michael Flynn's lawyer meets with members of special counsel's team, raising specter of plea deal  —  The lawyer for President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn met Monday morning with members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team, the latest indication …
John Hilliard / BostonGlobe.com:
Tufts postpones Scaramucci event after he threatens to sue student, paper  —  Tufts University postponed a Monday event featuring Anthony Scaramucci, a former Trump White House spokesman, after he threatened to sue a student and the school newspaper for defamation following the publication of an op-ed column criticizing him.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump White House ethics lawyer exits  —  The ranks of former White House ethics lawyers available to comment on the ongoing controversies engulfing President Donald Trump's administration has just grown by one — an attorney who's certain to offer a much different perspective …
Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:
Claire McCaskill Took Action to Hide Travel on Private Plane From Public  —  Email records show FAA was asked to hide tracking data of Democratic senator's plane in April  —  Sen. Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.) took action earlier this year to make her family's private plane untrackable by the public …
Katie J.M. Baker / BuzzFeed:
More Than 180 Women Have Reported Sexual Assaults at Massage Envy  —  Across the US, people go to Massage Envy spas in search of a soothing, affordable escape.  More than 180 people say what they got instead was sexual assault.  But the billion-dollar company says that's not its problem to solve.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Morrissey: I would kill Trump ‘for the safety of humanity’  —  British singer Morrissey said in a new interview he would kill President Trump if given the option.  —  During an interview with Der Spiegel, Morrissey, the former The Smiths frontman, was asked: “If there was a button …
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Nazis: They're just like us!  —  Why should the New York Times have all the fun?  —  I spoke to the man who starts fires.  He thinks everything ought to be on fire.  He wants the whole world to burn.  (I live in a fireproof house.)  He wore a nice tie.  He had a tattoo of a smiley face.
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
CBS boss told me to sleep with coworkers to get ahead: suit  —  It's another black eye for Black Rock.  —  A week after CBS host Charlie Rose was outed as an alleged serial sex harasser, one of the network's former producers says she was told by a boss that she would have to sleep with coworkers to get anywhere in the company.
Discussion: bizpacreview.com and Mediaite
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Bernie makes moves pointing to 2020 run  —  Bernie Sanders is taking steps to address longstanding political shortcomings that were exposed in 2016, ahead of another possible presidential bid in 2020.  —  From forging closer ties to the labor movement to shoring up his once-flimsy foreign policy credentials …
Discussion: RedState and twitchy.com
 
 
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The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount CEO Bob Bakish steps down; Brian Robbins, Chris McCarthy, and George Cheeks will run Paramount on an interim basis as an “Office of the CEO”

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on the publisher's archived content and to let ChatGPT reply with short summaries of FT articles

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
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