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New York Times:
Trump Pressed Top Republicans to End Senate Russia Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump over the summer repeatedly urged senior Senate Republicans, including the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to end the panel's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election …
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New York Times:
Flynn to Plead Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, will plead guilty on Friday to lying to the F.B.I. about a conversation with the Russian ambassador last December.  —  The plea was the latest indication …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and The Week
Jeremy Herb / CNN:
Flynn charged with one count of making false statement  —  Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller has charged former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn with “willfully and knowingly” making “false, fictitious and fraudulent statements” to the FBI regarding conversations with Russia's ambassador.
Justin Miller / The Daily Beast:
Michael Flynn Charged With Lying to FBI … Michael Flynn has been charged with making a false statement to the FBI, according to an indictment filed by the special counsel's office Friday.  Flynn will reportedly plead guilty to the charge, which alleges he misled FBI agents during …
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and Axios
CNBC:
Michael Flynn, Trump's ex-national security adviser, is expected to plead guilty Friday to lying to the FBI  — President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn is expected to plead guilty Friday morning to lying to the FBI.  — Flynn is the first Trump administration official …
Discussion: Vox, RedState and The Gateway Pundit
Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Michael Flynn reaches plea deal on charges of lying to FBI in Russia probe
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:   Michael Flynn charged with making false statement to the FBI
Sarah Rumpf / RedState:
Have We Been Lied to About the Kate Steinle Case?  —  The illegal immigrant who killed Kate Steinle in 2015 was found not guilty of her murder by a San Francisco jury today.  Outrageous, right?  —  Before the killing, Garcia Zarate had been released from a San Francisco jail despite a standing federal deportation order.
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Vivian Ho / San Francisco Chronicle:
Kate Steinle trial: Garcia Zarate acquitted in San Francisco pier killing  —  A homeless man whose undocumented immigration status intensified a national debate over the ethics of sanctuary laws was acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges Thursday in the shooting of Kate Steinle …
Elizabeth Zwirz / Fox News:
Kate Steinle's accused killer found not guilty of murder  —  Jurors have found Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty of killing Kate Steinle on Pier 14 in San Francisco in July 2015 in the trial that sparked a national debate over illegal immigration.  —  Jurors reached the decision Thursday …
John Diaz / San Francisco Chronicle:
Exclusive: Kate Steinle's family talks about the anguish and frustration  —  As they awaited the verdict in the trial of Kate Steinle's accused killer, her parents and brother had one overriding wish.  It had nothing to do with the severity of the defendant's conviction.
Anna Palmer / Politico:
TAX DEBATE scheduled to resume at 11 a.m. …
Discussion: New York Times
Bloomberg:
Senate GOP Working to Address Deficit Concerns (8:14 a.m.)  —  Senate Republicans made a lot of progress overnight in crafting a new approach to address deficit concerns in their sweeping tax legislation, according to a Senate GOP aide.  —  More work remains in the next few hours …
Discussion: BloombergQuint
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Jim Puzzanghera / Los Angeles Times:
Inspector general launches inquiry into whether Treasury hid Republican tax bill analysis
CNN:
Uncertainty looms over Senate's tax bill
Discussion: Political Wire and KTLA
Heather Long / Washington Post:   Contradicted by deficit study, Republican tax plan in disarray
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump White House Faces Prospect of More Senior Departures  —  Secretary of State Tillerson is most likely to leave as first anniversary approaches, say officials  —  WASHINGTON—The White House is facing the prospect of another round of senior departures in the coming weeks …
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
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Washington Post:
Trump tells confidants that a government shutdown might be good for him … President Trump has told others that a government shutdown could be good for him politically and is focusing on his hard-line immigration stance as a way to win back supporters unhappy with his outreach to Democrats this fall …
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Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
DACA advocates see efforts gaining steam in the House  —  Immigration advocates are increasingly optimistic that a deal can be reached in the House before year's end to provide permanent protections for young undocumented immigrants brought to the country illegally.
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Tax bill could trigger historic spending cuts
Discussion: Daily Kos
RTDNA Recent Articles:
Walmart pulls threatening shirt at RTDNA's urging  —  UPDATE: Less than 24 hours after Walmart removed the shirt from its website, Teespring.com, the third-party seller that had been offering the shirt on Walmart.com removed it from its site as well.  —  The nation's largest retailer Wednesday removed …
Discussion: The Hill, Mediaite and CBS Philly
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Bill Chappell / NPR:
Walmart Pulls T-Shirts That Hint At Lynching Journalists
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Erik Prince testifies before House Intelligence Committee  —  Erik Prince — the military contractor and Trump donor who attended a secret meeting in the Seychelles in January with a Kremlin-tied businessman — interviewed with the House Intelligence Committee for just over three hours on Thursday.
Discussion: ABC News
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CNN:
Erik Prince details Seychelles meeting with Russian banker
Discussion: Washington Post
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
Trump's mind-numbing media manipulation machine  —  There is a very specific — and dangerous — formula for manipulating the media and hijacking the Twitter/cable/conventional media industrial complex.  Trump sets this formulaic trap increasingly often.  And news organizations keep falling for it.
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Conservative Megadonor Robert Mercer Funded Project Veritas  —  The Mercers, secretive billionaires who are among President Trump's most powerful donors, also helped to fund Project Veritas, the controversial activist organization, tax filings obtained by BuzzFeed News show.
NPR:
Transcript: Paul Ryan's Full Interview With NPR's Steve Inskeep  —  President Trump wants a tax overhaul plan passed by Christmas.  Both the Senate and the House have versions of the plan with the goal of cutting taxes.  Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep talks to House Speaker Paul Ryan …
Justin Fishel / ABC News:
Congress secretly paid near $100,000 to settle harassment claims against disgraced congressman  —  The Congressional Office of Compliance secretly paid close to $100,000 in taxpayer funds to settle sexual harassment claims from at least two young male staffers who worked for disgraced former …
Andrew Ferguson / Weekly Standard:
To Be Sure, Nazis Are Evil  —  The New York Times's needy readers.  —  It's not always easy to sympathize with reporters for the New York Times, because so many of them act like .  .  . how to put it? .    .  . like reporters for the New York Times.
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Obama: If I watched Fox News 'I wouldn't vote for me'  —  joked Friday that if he watched Fox News, he wouldn't have voted for himself.  —  Speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi, Obama took shots at the network, which is widely criticized for its negative coverage of Democrats.
 
 
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