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12:45 PM ET, December 8, 2017

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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 …
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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 …
CNN:
Exclusive: Previously undisclosed emails show follow-up after Trump Tower meeting
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
Roy Moore accuser Beverly Young Nelson ‘scared to go anywhere’ since her sexual assault allegation  —  One of the women accusing Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual misconduct, Beverly Young Nelson, told ABC News it “sickens” her to think what might happen if Moore is elected to the U.S. Senate.
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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.
John Haltiwanger / Newsweek:
ROY MOORE: LAST TIME AMERICA WAS ‘GREAT’ WAS DURING ‘SLAVERY’  —  Roy Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate under fire for alleged sexual misconduct with teenage girls when he was in his 30s, apparently believes America was a better place at a time when slavery was still legal.
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Moore accuser says she added notes below Moore's yearbook signature
Discussion: RedState
John Nolte / Breitbart:
Bombshell: Roy Moore Accuser Beverly Nelson Admits She Forged Yearbook
Discussion: Breaking
Fox News:   Roy Moore accuser admits she wrote part of yearbook inscription attributed to Alabama Senate candidate
David Weigel / Washington Post:   Anti-Trump conservatives place $500,000 ad buy against Roy Moore
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
How to beat Roy Moore, according to the guy who nearly did
Discussion: Washington Post, Axios and Daily Kos
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.
Discussion: Washington Post
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Kurt Bardella / USA Today:
Roy Moore is the last straw, you can now call me a Democrat  —  The GOP would rather elect a sexual predator who preys on teenagers than a prosecutor who happens to be a Democrat.  That's it, I'm switching parties.  —  My first exposure to politics was at the local level.
Discussion: Vox
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Republican War on Children
Discussion: American Prospect
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 …
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Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Arizona Congressman Resigns for —Wait, What Was That Again?  —  When word got around this afternoon that Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) was about to resign for “inappropriate behavior,” it was generally assumed it involved sexual harassment, abuse, assault, or some other misconduct toward women.
Bridget Bowman / Roll Call:
Arizona's Trent Franks to Resign Jan. 31
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
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
BREXIT talks move to phase 2 — SHUTDOWN AVERTED, problems punted to the end of the month …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Allies Urge Harder Line as Mueller Probe Heats Up  —  President's legal team had predicted investigation would clear Trump by year's end  —  A Russia investigation that Donald Trump's legal team predicted would clear the president by year's end looks to stretch into 2018 …
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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.”
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:   Obstruction of Congress  —  Mueller, the Justice Department …
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.
Bella DePaulo / Washington Post:
I study liars.  I've never seen one like President Trump.  —  He tells far more lies, and far more cruel ones, than ordinary people do.  —  President Trump speaks at the White House on Wednesday.  (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)  —  I spent the first two decades of my career …
Discussion: Politicus USA
Rebecca Shapiro / HuffPost:
Poll Shows Trump's Support Dropping Among White Evangelicals  —  The president's approval rating continues to fall in his first year in office.  —  A new national Pew Research Center poll released Thursday shows that President Donald Trump's approval rating is declining among demographic groups …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Axios and Joe.My.God.
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Lindsay Kornick / NewsBusters:
Sarah Silverman ‘Felt Very Weird,’ ‘Scared,’ ‘Shaken’ By Seeing American Flag Flown in Yard  —  We're only one episode away from finishing the first season I Love You, America With Sarah Silverman, and the end can't get here fast enough for me.  Until then, we still must suffer through yet …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Vox Popoli
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Collins' Obamacare deal faces moment of truth  —  House conservatives thumb their nose at the Maine moderate's bid to slow the demise of the health law.  —  Sen. Susan Collins is barreling toward yet another health care showdown with her own party.  But this time, she might not have the leverage to get what she wants.
Discussion: Axios
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 …
BBC:
Jerusalem row: Clashes erupt over Trump move  —  Violence has flared between Israeli forces and Palestinians protesting at Donald Trump's contentious recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.  —  Clashes erupted in the occupied West Bank and over the Israeli-Gaza border, where one Palestinian was killed.
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Benjamin Brown / Fox News:
Al Qaeda calls for attacks against US and its allies over Jerusalem policy
Discussion: BillMoyers.com
Los Angeles Times:
Inside a secret 2014 list of hundreds of L.A. deputies with histories of misconduct  —  It was a critical piece of evidence: an inmate's shirt, bloodied from a jailhouse brawl.  —  When it went missing, Deputy Jose Ovalle had an idea.  —  He picked out a similar shirt …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Raw Story
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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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:
Lord's Prayer: Pope Francis calls for change  —  Pope Francis has called for a translation of a phrase about temptation in the Lord's Prayer to be changed.  —  The current wording that says “lead us not into temptation” is not a good translation because God does not lead humans to sin, he says.
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Lauer's “Double Life”: Inside NBC, the Network Is Trying to Expunge the Lauer Era  —  NBC executives have moved swiftly and adroitly to clean up Lauer's mess.  The question that remains, however, is if they are in for any surprises.  —  By Friday evening, for the employees of NBC News …
Discussion: AOL and TVNewser
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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Heather Wilhelm / National Review:
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Washington Post:
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MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:
Democrats look to 2020 with proposals to change superdelegate and primary system
Discussion: Politicus USA
Tory Newmyer / Washington Post:
The Finance 202: GOP drive to repeal estate tax risks making its tax plan more unpopular
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Trump's ‘fake news’ mantra a hit with despots
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Nina Martin / NPR:
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Jennifer E. Duffy / The Cook Political Report:
Bredesen Announces, Putting the Race in Toss Up
David Freedlander / Politico:
Kirsten Gillibrand's Moment Has Arrived
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
2 Times Reporters Will Write Book on Sexual Abuse Scandals
Washington Post:
Trump's richest friends are asking for changes to the GOP tax plan, and he's listening
Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
Zinke booked government helicopters to attend D.C. events