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Steven Arons / Bloomberg:
Mueller Subpoenas Trump Deutsche Bank Records  —  Mueller is said to ask about bank's dealings with president  —  Trump owes lender about $300 million for real estate loans  —  Special prosecutor Robert Mueller zeroed in on President Donald Trump's business dealings with Deutsche Bank AG …
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Arno Schuetze / Reuters:
Deutsche Bank receives subpoena from Mueller on Trump accounts: source  —  FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Special Counsel Robert Mueller has asked Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) to share data on accounts held by U.S. President Donald Trump and his family, a person close to the matter said on Tuesday.
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's Russia defense in disarray  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's legal defense against Robert Mueller's unrelenting special counsel investigation is beginning to look as chaotic as his early days in the White House.  —  A sequence of reflexive tweets and comments …
CNN:
FBI agent dismissed from Mueller probe changed Comey's description of Clinton to ‘extremely careless’  —  Washington (CNN)A former top counterintelligence expert at the FBI, now at the center of a political uproar for exchanging private messages that appeared to mock President Donald Trump …
Wall Street Journal:
Mueller's Credibility Problem  —  The special counsel is stonewalling Congress and protecting the FBI.  —  Donald Trump is his own worst enemy, as his many ill-advised tweets on the weekend about Michael Flynn, the FBI and Robert Mueller's Russia probe demonstrate.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Clinton Aides Went Unpunished After Making False Statements To Anti-Trump FBI Supervisor  —  The FBI agent who was fired from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation team for sending anti-Donald Trump text messages conducted the interviews with two Hillary Clinton aides accused …
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:   Trump's personal banking information handed over to Robert Mueller
Washington Post:
A bold new legal defense for Trump: Presidents cannot obstruct justice
The Intercept:
TRUMP WHITE HOUSE WEIGHING PLANS FOR PRIVATE SPIES TO COUNTER “DEEP STATE” ENEMIES  —  The Trump administration is considering a set of proposals developed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a retired CIA officer — with assistance from Oliver North, a key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal …
Discussion: AOL, Raw Story and Mother Jones
New York Times:
McFarland Contradicted Herself on Russia Contacts, Congressional Testimony Shows  —  WASHINGTON — An email sent during the transition by President Trump's former deputy national security adviser, K.T. McFarland, appears to contradict testimony she gave to Congress over the summer …
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Pence pleads ignorance as Russia probe deepens
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — RNC Jumps Back into Alabama Race Behind Judge Roy Moore  —  MOBILE, Alabama — The Republican National Committee (RNC) is now again backing Judge Roy Moore, the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate in Alabama.  The RNC's decision to now publicly support Moore again comes in the wake …
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Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:
Woman shares new evidence of relationship with Roy Moore when she was 17  —  Delray Beach, Fla. — Debbie Wesson Gibson was in her attic hauling out boxes of Christmas decorations last week when she noticed a storage bin she said she had forgotten about.  Inside was a scrapbook from her senior year …
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Matthew Chapman / Shareblue Media:
It took the GOP just 20 days to stop caring Roy Moore is an accused pedophile
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
God's Plan for Mike Pence  —  No man can serve two masters, the Bible teaches, but Mike Pence is giving it his all.  It's a sweltering September afternoon in Anderson, Indiana, and the vice president has returned to his home state to deliver the Good News of the Republicans' recently unveiled tax plan.
Yamiche Alcindor / New York Times:
Conyers Won't Seek Re-election in Wake of Harassment Claims, Relative Says  —  WASHINGTON — Representative John Conyers Jr., who faces allegations that he sexually harassed former employees, plans to announce Tuesday that he will not seek re-election, according to a family member who now plans to run for his seat.
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Abid Rahman / Hollywood Reporter:
John Oliver Gets Into Heated Argument With Dustin Hoffman Over Harassment at Film Panel (Report)  —  At a ‘Wag the Dog’ 20th anniversary screening, the ‘Last Week Tonight’ host questioned Hoffman over recent sexual harassment allegations against him.  —  John Oliver got into a testy argument …
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Rachel Leah / Salon:
“Alt-right” women are upset that “alt-right” men are treating them terribly  —  Some prominent “alt-right” women are calling for more equality and acceptance within the movement  —  There's trouble brewing in the MAGA world, as prominent women in the “alt-right” are upset that white nationalists are being misogynistic towards them.
Discussion: Right Wing Watch and Raw Story
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
MSNBC to Cut Ties With Sam Seder After Roman Polanski Rape Joke (Exclusive)  —  “Internally there was disgust over the tweet,” an individual familiar with the matter tells TheWrap  —  MSNBC has decided not to renew its contract with contributor Sam Seder after an old tweet emerged …
Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Pressing the legal celebrity on his Trump-approved, controversial stance on the Mueller investigation.  —  “I have been right more than any other pundit,” Alan Dershowitz exclaimed Monday afternoon.  “Do you know why?  Because I don't put hope over reality.”
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Manafort worked on op-ed with Russian while out on bail, prosecutors say  —  Washington (CNN)Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was ghostwriting an op-ed while out on bail last month with a Russian who has ties to the Russian intelligence service, Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Muller's team said Monday.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's survival plan  —  President Trump, his lawyers and his political team are telegraphing with increasing precision their strategy for fighting any charges against the president in the unfolding Russia investigation:  —  1. Wishful thinking: Cooperate with special counsel Bob Mueller, and tell Trump everything is fine.
Andrew Van Dam / Washington Post:
Is the GOP tax plan an unprecedented windfall for the wealthy?  We look at 50 years of data to find out.  —  The Democrats say President Trump's tax cuts are a massive giveaway to the rich, the most unequal overhaul of the U.S. tax system in modern history.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
A congressman's accuser: Blackballed and babysitting for cash  —  North Carolina native Lauren Greene aspired to a career in politics when she arrived on Capitol Hill as an intern in 2009.  She spent the next five years climbing the Capitol Hill ladder, ultimately becoming a communications director for a congressman in 2014.
PRRI:
One Nation, Divided, Under Trump: Findings from the 2017 American Values Survey  —  Current Controversies: Sexual Harassment, the National Anthem, Confederate Monuments, and Bias in the Media  —  Seven in ten (70%) Americans say that recent stories about women being sexually harassed …
Discussion: Political Wire
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
These are the women who could elect Roy Moore  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)If Republican Roy Moore wins next week's Senate special election in Alabama, it will be largely because of his support among women.  —  More specifically, Moore's ability to survive the allegations …
Discussion: Political Wire
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
High Six Figures for G.O.P. Infighting: Another Times Reporter Is Cashing in on Trumpian Chaos  —  Jeremy Peters's Insurgency will be the latest addition to the fast-swelling politics shelf.  —  As well as the Dow Jones Industrial Average has done in the last year, Donald Trump has perhaps …
Foreign Affairs:
How to Stand Up to the Kremlin  —  Defending Democracy Against Its Enemies  —  During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union faced off in an existential struggle between two antithetical systems.  Either the Soviet bloc would “bury” the West, as Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev threatened …
Discussion: Axios
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Three Obama tweets, no Trump posts make list of 2017's most retweeted  —  No tweets by President Trump made Twitter's list of the year's most retweeted posts.  —  But three tweets by former President Obama made the list.  —  Obama's tweets, on “The 9 Most Retweeted Tweets of 2017,” …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
BIG MCKAY COPPINS story on PENCE — WORLD TO U.S.: Don't name Jerusalem the capital of Israel — NYT: CONYERS retiring — SCOOP: Joint House-Senate GOP retreat will be at the GREENBRIER at the end of Jan.  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  BIG NEWS FOR DEMS — NYT'S YAMICHE ALCINDOR …
Discussion: Associated Press
Ken White / Popehat:
Everybody Lies: FBI Edition  —  You, dear readers, know my advice about talking to the FBI: don't.  If the FBI — or any law enforcement agency — asks to talk to you, say “No, I want to talk to my lawyer, I don't want to talk to you,” and repeat as necessary.  Do not talk to them “just to see what they want.”
CNBC:
Supreme Court allows full enforcement of Trump travel ban  — The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump's latest travel ban on six Muslim-majority nations to go into effect.  —  The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to fully enforce a ban on travel …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Trump's Threat to Take Down the GOP Still Stands  —  Subscribe to Off Message on Apple Podcasts here.  Subscribe via Stitcher here.  —  “First of all,” David Bossie recalls Donald Trump telling his inner circle, “I'm going to win.  And second, if the Republican Party is going to run away from me …
 
 
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Todd C. Frankel / Washington Post:
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Jack Phillips / USA Today:
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Elliot Spagat / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Border arrests plunge, deportation arrests soar
Jeet Heer / New Republic:
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CNN:
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
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 Earlier Items: 
Carrie Johnson / National Security:
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Discussion: Balloon Juice and NPR
Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
House Republicans Already Shooting Down Tax Bill's Promises
Zaid Jilani / The Intercept:
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NBC News:
Microwave weapon could fry North Korean missile controls, say experts
Discussion: Axios
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Sessions argued in Clinton impeachment that presidents can obstruct justice