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1:30 PM 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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The Guardian:
Robert Mueller is closing in on Trump.  Congress must protect his investigation  —  Mueller is coming.  —  The investigation into Trump campaign coordination with Russia appears to be closing in on the president.  The three indictments earlier this month of Trump campaign chairman …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Inside Trump's legal team: Trying to protect the president from Mueller's ‘killers’
Discussion: Roll Call
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Will the Senate Still Protect Robert Mueller From Donald Trump's Ax?
Discussion: CNN, Hullabaloo and Salon
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Justice Department won't disclose details on Mueller ethics waiver
Discussion: Washington Post and RedState
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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Evan Siegel / The Daily Beast:
Who Won the Alabama Special Election? Watch the Live Results Here
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Kayla Moore: ‘One of our attorneys is a Jew’
Discussion: The Daily Caller and VICE News
Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg:
Pence Stays Silent on Roy Moore in Rare Break From Trump
Discussion: Shareblue Media
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 …
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Emma Baccellieri / Deadspin:
NFL Network Suspends Marshall Faulk, Ike Taylor, Heath Evans After Sexual Harassment Lawsuit  —  NFL Network has suspended Marshall Faulk, Ike Taylor and Heath Evans while investigating claims of sexual harassment from a lawsuit filed by one of their former colleagues.
Discussion: ProFootballTalk
John Bowden / The Hill:
3 NFL Network analysts suspended amid accusations of sexual harassment
Discussion: RedState
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.
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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 …
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Roy Moore's Wife: We're Not Anti-Semitic, ‘One of Our Attorneys Is a Jew’
Leonard Greene / New York Daily News:
Why Melania, Ivanka and Jared's mayoral election votes didn't count  —  Good thing last month's mayoral election wasn't close because if New Yorkers needed the Trump family to decide the outcome, they would have been out of luck.  —  President Trump and his family of New Yorkers …
Discussion: Splinter
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 …
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New York Times:   Ed Lee, San Francisco Mayor, Dies at 65
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
This is the list of ‘eyewitnesses’ the White House says exonerate Trump  —  On Monday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders promised that she would produce a list of eyewitnesses to exonerate President Trump from allegations of sexual harassment and assault.
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.’”
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Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
Amid sexual harassment controversy, U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold faces tough re-election
Discussion: Roll Call, Off the Kuff and The Week
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Sixth senator says Trump should resign  —  A sixth senator on Tuesday called on President Donald Trump to resign amid renewed attention to past allegations of sexual harassment and assault.  —  Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) told NBC News that Trump is a “misogynist,” “admitted sexual predator” …
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
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New York Times:
Ken Friedman, Power Restaurateur, Is Accused of Sexual Harassment  —  Natalie Saibel, a longtime server at the Spotted Pig, a West Village restaurant with celebrity investors, didn't quit in 2015 after the owner, Ken Friedman, ran his hands over her buttocks and then her groin in a room crowded …
Connor Sheets / al.com:
State Supreme Court stays order directing Alabama not to destroy voting records  —  Update - 9:05 a.m. Dec. 12, 2017: Late Monday night, the Alabama Supreme Court stayed the Montgomery County Circuit Court's order earlier that day directing Alabama election officials to preserve digital ballot images during Tuesday's Senate election.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Rex Tillerson, In Meeting With U.S. Diplomats, Says Russia ‘Interfered’ in Election … Beleaguered Secretary of State Rex Tillerson acknowledged in a closed-door meeting with U.S. diplomats on Tuesday that Russia “interfered in democratic processes here,” something President Trump still describes …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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Associated Press:   Amid low morale, Tillerson says changes coming to State Dept
Karma Allen / ABC News:
Boy behind viral anti-bullying video amazed by support, celebrity responses  —  A young Tennessee boy whose story gained national attention after his mother posted a heart-wrenching video of him addressing his bullies said he is amazed by all the support he's received on social media this week.
Susan Cornwell / Reuters:
U.S. House Democratic women seek probe of Trump misconduct accusations  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 50 female Democratic lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives called on Monday for a congressional investigation into allegations by various women of sexual misconduct …
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Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
What Happened to the 19 Women Who Accused Trump of Sexual Misconduct
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Inside Steve Bannon's #War Against Twitter  —  For more than a year before he became Donald Trump's campaign manager, Steve Bannon sought to wage war against Twitter, tasking Milo Yiannopoulos and other Breitbart News employees to look into editorial, financial, and legal ways they could harm the Jack Dorsey-led social network.
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.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
A running list of the eyewitnesses who prove Trump's innocence on sexual misconduct  —  President Trump is frustrated.  He sees the 2016 election as having vindicated him on any number of things: his often-acidic politics, his disparagement of traditional campaign tactics …
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel:
Our View: Collins should drop support for tax bill  —  Republican leaders in Congress could be doing the nation a big favor by reneging on the promises they made to Sen. Susan Collins when they were trying to secure her vote on the tax bill.  —  When she gets another chance …
Christina Carrega / New York Daily News:
Brooklyn teen used her last breaths to tell cops who shot her after she rejected man's advances  —  A Brooklyn teenager used her last few breaths to tell cops the name of the man who shot her after she spurned his advances — as she struggled through an agonizing 20-minute wait for an ambulance, according to police testimony Monday.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root
 
 
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Douglas Busvine / Reuters:
Ex-contractor says he shut Trump's Twitter account by accident
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
A Campaign Memoir That Shows Trump, at Least Partly, as He Is
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
North Korea's prisons are as bad as Nazi camps, says judge who survived Auschwitz
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Week
New York Times:
A Nasty, Nafta-Related Surprise: Mexico's Soaring Obesity
Discussion: Cafe Hayek and Axios
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Why No One Knows What Will Happen in Alabama
Discussion: Vox and twitchy.com
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Emails: Disney annoyed by Obama push to use ‘Frozen’ brand
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Congress could finalize deal to reconcile House and Senate tax bills as soon as today, top Republican says
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Michelle Fox / CNBC:
People are taking out mortgages to buy bitcoin, says securities regulator
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CNN:
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Angie Drobnic Holan / PolitiFact:
2017 Lie of the Year: Russian election interference is a ‘made-up story’
James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
Is CNN Protecting Adam Schiff?
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