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9:25 AM ET, December 12, 2017

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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump lawyers want second special counsel appointed now  —  President Trump's legal team believes Attorney General Jeff Session's Justice Department and the FBI — more than special counsel Robert Mueller himself — are to blame for what they see as a witch hunt.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Inside Trump's legal team: Trying to protect the president from Mueller's ‘killers’ … Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and his team of a dozen-plus lawyers and investigators have proven stealthy in their wide-ranging Russia probe.  They have surprised the White House with one indictment after another …
Discussion: Roll Call
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Will the Senate Still Protect Robert Mueller From Donald Trump's Ax? … Remember the first round of gossip about whether President Trump would fire special prosecutor Robert Mueller, back during the summer?  Republican senators were quick to say what a grave error this would be.
Discussion: CNN, Hullabaloo, Salon and Washington Post
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Speaker at Moore event says he accidentally went with Moore to a brothel with child prostitutes  —  Roy Moore, who is running for U.S. Senate in Tuesday's special election, is facing multiple allegations of child sex abuse.  He has largely avoided the campaign trail since these allegations first surfaced.
Discussion: New Republic and The Root
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Roy Moore Emerges From Hiding for Election Eve Rally, and Good Lord, Was It Weird  —  Have you ever traveled down a dirt path in rural southeast Alabama in December and arrived at a barn in the woods to find Steve Bannon, Representative Louie Gohmert, Sheriff David Clarke, Roy and Kayla Moore …
Discussion: The Guardian and Daily Kos
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
What The Hell Is Happening With These Alabama Polls?  —  Somebody's going to be wrong in Alabama.  —  We've already urged caution when interpreting polls of Alabama's special election to the U.S. Senate, which will be held on Tuesday.  Some of that is because of the media's usual tendency …
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New York Times:
Alabama Senate Race, Unlikely Nail-Biter, Races to Finish Line
Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:
Doug Jones and Sir Charles Urge Alabamians to Break With History
Discussion: Mediaite and The Week
Andy Metzger / WBUR:
Baker Backing Democrat Jones In Alabama Senate Race  —  Gov. Charlie Baker supports the Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Alabama against Roy Moore, the controversial Republican who has been dogged by multiple accounts that he made sexual advances towards teenage women well into his adult years.
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
‘How is my daughter a pervert?’:  Alabama dad's plain-spoken rebuke of Roy Moore strikes a nerve  —  Perhaps it was the man's strong but plain-spoken rebuke outside a Roy Moore rally on the campaign's final night, condemning the candidate's past comments lambasting homosexuality.
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
MeToo spotlight increasingly pointed at past Trump conduct  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump sailed past a raft of allegations of sexual misconduct in last year's presidential election.  —  Now the national #MeToo spotlight is turning back to Trump and his past conduct.
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump angered by Haley saying his accusers ‘should be heard’: report
Discussion: RedState and Mediaite
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Tawdry Tales Depict a Texas Congressman's Frat House on the Hill  —  WASHINGTON — When Lauren Greene, a former communications director for Representative Blake Farenthold, sued him claiming sexual harassment, among her complaints was that he “disclosed that a female lobbyist had propositioned him for ‘a threesome.’”
Discussion: Politico and Houston Chronicle
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Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
Amid sexual harassment controversy, U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold faces tough re-election
Discussion: The Week and Off the Kuff
James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
Is CNN Protecting Adam Schiff?  —  Journalists continue to air his fact-free allegations without requiring evidence.  —  We're certainly living in strange times when the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee is among the most media-friendly lawmakers in Washington.
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Washington Post:
‘Journalism for rent’: Inside the secretive firm behind the Trump dossier
Bloomberg:
NFL Harassment Suit Alleges Groping by Top Executive, Ex-Players  —  Former employee says ex-producer sent several nude photos  —  NFL Network says employees suspended pending investigation  —  A former executive producer at the National Football League's TV network and ex-players including Marshall Faulk …
San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee dead at 65  —  San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee died early Tuesday morning at age 65, his office said.  —  The sudden news came in an email from the office at 2:23 a.m. It read: “It is with profound sadness and terrible grief that we confirm that Mayor Edwin M. Lee passed away …
Jonathan Randles / Wall Street Journal:
Ex-Gawker Employees Launch Crowdfunding Drive to Buy Website  —  If successful, relaunched Gawker.com would be funded by readers, operated through a nonprofit foundation  —  Former employees of Gawker.com's defunct publisher are raising money through a new crowdfunding campaign in a bid …
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J.K. Trotter / Washington Post:   If you miss Gawker, don't let Peter Thiel buy its archives
YouTube:
Jimmy Kimmel Returns with Baby Billy After Heart Surgery … Jimmy's baby Billy had his second open heart surgery last week so Jimmy had guest hosts fill in for him while he was out.  Thankfully the surgery was a success and Jimmy returned to the show tonight with Billy in tow to show everyone how well he is doing.
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Emily Yahr / Washington Post:
Jimmy Kimmel holds his baby son, post-heart surgery, in emotional health-care monologue
Discussion: Splinter
Zephyr Teachout / New York Times:
I'm Not Convinced Franken Should Quit  —  I care passionately about #MeToo.  Women are routinely demeaned, dismissed, discouraged and assaulted.  Too many women's careers are stymied or ended because of harassment and abuse.  In politics, where I have worked much of my adult life, this behavior is rampant.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Former top spy rethinks: Maybe we shouldn't have attacked a new president  —  “Mr. Trump continues to exhibit paranoia about American intelligence agencies,” wrote the “Never Trump” conservative Max Boot in the New York Times a week or so before the president took office.
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Suspect in Times Square Bombing Leaves Trail of Mystery  —  On the surface, Akayed Ullah seemed to be an ordinary member of a Bangladeshi enclave in Brooklyn.  He often prayed at a mosque in an unassuming brownstone in the Kensington section of the borough, where a few thousand of his countrymen reside.
CNN:
How a Democrat could win in Alabama, in charts  —  (CNN)It hasn't happened in more than a decade, but it might just happen on Tuesday.  —  The last time a Democrat won a major statewide election in Alabama was in 2006, when Jim Folsom Jr., a former Alabama governor, won the lieutenant governorship …
The Guardian:
Macron awards US scientists grants to move to France in defiance of Trump  —  France's president awards millions of euros to 18 American scientists to relocate in effort to counter Donald Trump on the climate change front … Eighteen climate scientists from the US and elsewhere have hit …
Discussion: Politico, The Week and Axios
Amber Athey / The Daily Caller:
CNN Walks Back Jeff Sessions-Russia Bombshell  —  CNN has quietly walked back more of their “bombshell” reporting on the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, and this time it's a story relating to Attorney General Jeff Sessions' security clearance forms.  —  In May, CNN reported that Sessions …
 
 
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Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Picks Korea Expert as Ambassador to Seoul
Jacey Fortin / New York Times:
Federal Appeals Court Judge Is Accused of Sexual Harassment
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
‘Feminism’ is Merriam-Webster's 2017 word of the year
Discussion: Axios
Angie Drobnic Holan / PolitiFact:
2017 Lie of the Year: Russian election interference is a ‘made-up story’
Discussion: Raw Story
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Piers Morgan / Daily Mail:
It's true, we've NEVER had a president like Trump …
Discussion: Washington Times
Sophie Tatum / CNN:
Sean Spicer announces he's writing a book
Discussion: Political Wire
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Woke Conservatives And The Awesome Power Of Not Caring
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
The New Yorker Fires Star Reporter Ryan Lizza Over ‘Improper Sexual Conduct’
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CNN exclusive: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand calls on Trump to resign
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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