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CNN:
Exclusive: Email shows effort to give Trump campaign WikiLeaks documents  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Candidate Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and others in the Trump Organization received an email in September 2016 offering a decryption key and website address …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Political Wire
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CNN:
Exclusive: Previously undisclosed emails show follow-up after Trump Tower meeting  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)The British publicist who arranged the June 2016 meeting with Russians and Donald Trump Jr. sent multiple emails to a Russian participant and a member …
Washington Post:
Russian social media executive sought to help Trump campaign in 2016, emails show … An executive at a leading Russian social media company made several overtures to Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016 — including days before the November election — urging the candidate to create …
Bridget Bowman / Roll Call:
Arizona's Trent Franks to Resign Jan. 31  —  Updated 7:24 pm |  Arizona Republican Trent Franks said Thursday he is resigning from Congress effective Jan. 31 amid an Ethics Committee investigation into discussions he had with two female staffers about surrogacy.
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona, who asked staffers if they would bear his child as a surrogate, says he will resign  —  Rep. Trent Franks, an Arizona Republican who is among the most conservative members of the House, said he would resign his seat after House officials learned that he had asked …
Jeremy Herb / CNN:   Ethics Committee clears Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes
Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio Not Interested in Trent Franks' Seat …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
BREXIT talks move to phase 2 — SHUTDOWN AVERTED, problems punted to the end of the month …
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Exclusive: Former Congressman Harold Ford Jr. Fired For Misconduct By Morgan Stanley
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Ethics Committee launches investigation into Farenthold sexual harassment allegations
New York Times:
Congressional Democrats Left Out of White House Hanukkah Party  —  WASHINGTON — The latkes were fried and the kosher lamb chops were prepared on Thursday, just as in past years, for the first White House Hanukkah party of the Trump era.  But there was one prominent break with tradition …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Dossier author was in contact with Obama Justice Department  —  It's been ten months since Washington learned that former British spy Christopher Steele, author of the so-called “Trump dossier,” took the Hillary Clinton-funded opposition research document to the FBI, which considered sponsoring …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:   Obstruction of Congress  —  Mueller, the Justice Department …
Mike Levine / ABC News:
Less-guarded Sessions spars with interns in internal DOJ video
Eric Lach / New Yorker:
Al Franken's Resignation and the Selective Force of #MeToo  —  On what he called the worst day of his political life, Senator Al Franken articulated two points that are central to understanding what has become known as the #MeToo moment.  In an eleven-minute speech, in which Franken announced …
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Was Al Franken's punishment fair?
John Fund / Fox News:   Democrats forced Franken out to ramp up their strategy to bring down Trump
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Fox's pro-Trump hosts are working overtime to discredit Robert Mueller  —  This is why Trump loves ‘Fox & Friends’  —  What's President Trump hearing when he watches Fox News?  —  He's hearing that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation is “illegitimate and corrupt.”
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Roy Moore Believes America Was Great During Slavery.  Twitter Users Detonate.  —  “Families were united” then, the Senate candidate actually told an African-American person.  —  GOP Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore stunned some listeners when he said he thought America was “great” during the era of slavery.
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
How to beat Roy Moore, according to the guy who nearly did
Discussion: Washington Post, Axios and Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Trump's richest friends are asking for changes to the GOP tax plan, and he's listening … Some of President Trump's wealthiest New York friends have launched a last-minute campaign to pressure him for changes to the GOP tax bill, telling the president personally that the current plan would drive up their taxes and hurt his home state.
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New York Times:   On Tax Bill, It's Trump vs. His Hometown
Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
Zinke booked government helicopters to attend D.C. events  —  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke spent more than $14,000 on government helicopters this summer to take himself and staff to and from official events near Washington, D.C., in order to accommodate his attendance at a swearing-in ceremony …
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David Choi / Business Insider:
Secretary Ryan Zinke reportedly spent $6,250 on a government helicopter ride so he could go …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Rhonda Schwartz / ABC News:
George Papadopoulos' fiancee: He's a patriot, not a Trump campaign coffee boy  —  The Italian fiancee of George Papadopoulos offered the first public defense of the embattled former Trump campaign adviser, who in October was revealed as the first campaign adviser to plead guilty and cooperate with the special counsel's Russia probe.
David Brooks / New York Times:
The G.O.P. Is Rotting  —  A lot of good, honorable Republicans used to believe there was a safe middle ground.  You didn't have to tie yourself hip to hip with Donald Trump, but you didn't have to go all the way to the other extreme and commit political suicide like the dissident Jeff Flake, either.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Republican War on Children
Discussion: American Prospect
Pew Research Center:
Stark Partisan Divisions Over Russia Probe, Including Its Importance to the Nation  —  Trump's style, Twitter use top ‘disappointments’ among supporters  —  A majority of Americans say they think senior members of Donald Trump's administration definitely or probably had improper contacts …
Jennifer E. Duffy / The Cook Political Report:
Bredesen Announces, Putting the Race in Toss Up  —  In a recruiting victory for Democrats, former Gov. Phil Bredesen announced today that he will run for the open seat created by the retirement of GOP U.S. Sen. Bob Corker.  Bredesen's announcement puts the race into the Toss Up column …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:   Ex-Governor's Run Gives Democrats a Bit More Hope of Retaking the Senate
Sewell Chan / New York Times:
Nearly Every Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Disagrees With Trump's Jerusalem Decision  —  All but two of 11 former United States ambassadors to Israel contacted by The New York Times after President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital thought the plan was wrongheaded, dangerous or deeply flawed.
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Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Trump's embassy decision isn't diplomacy. It's pandering.
Discussion: Ynetnews
Aram Roston / BuzzFeed:
Private War: Erik Prince Has His Eye On Afghanistan's Rare Metals  —  BuzzFeed News is publishing the slide presentation by the founder of Blackwater to privatize the Afghan war and mine Afghanistan's valuable minerals.  He pitched the proposal to the Trump administration.
BBC:
Brexit: ‘Breakthrough’ deal paves way for future trade talks  —  PM Theresa May has struck a last minute deal with the EU in a bid to move Brexit talks on to the next phase.  —  There will be no “hard border” with Ireland and EU citizens in the UK, and UK citizens in the EU, will see their rights protected.
David Freedlander / Politico:
Kirsten Gillibrand's Moment Has Arrived  —  The Washington sky was darkening outside her window, and Kirsten Gillibrand slumped down in her chair.  It had been a long day.  In the morning, the New York senator hosted a news conference with a mother whose twin 6-year-old daughters …
Discussion: Political Wire
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
The Bitcoin Whales: 1,000 People Who Own 40 Percent of the Market  —  A few massive investors can rock it with a shrug.  —  On Nov. 12, someone moved almost 25,000 bitcoins, worth about $159 million at the time, to an online exchange.  The news soon rippled through online forums …
Discussion: BloombergQuint
 
 
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CNN:
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Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Collins' Obamacare deal faces moment of truth
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Inside the Opposition to a Net Neutrality Repeal
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Julian Borger / The Guardian:
North Korea is ready to open direct talks with US, says Russia's Sergei Lavrov
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 Earlier Items: 
Sarah D / Los Angeles Times:
California's vulnerable GOP members watch closely as final tax bill is negotiated
Discussion: KTLA
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
2 Times Reporters Will Write Book on Sexual Abuse Scandals
Blair Miller / TheDenverChannel.com:
Former Colorado GOP chairman Steve Curtis found guilty of voter fraud, forgery
Discussion: Politicus USA
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Steele Dossier on Trump and Russia Is Looking More and More Real
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Associated Press:
Trust no one: Scholar risked all to document Islamic State