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3:15 PM ET, January 5, 2018

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New York Times:
Republican Senators Recommend Charges Against Author of Trump Dossier  —  WASHINGTON — More than a year after Republican leaders promised to investigate Russian interference in the presidential election, two influential Republicans on Friday made the first known congressional criminal referral …
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Obstruction Inquiry Shows Trump's Struggle to Keep Grip on Russia Investigation  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump gave firm instructions in March to the White House's top lawyer: stop the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, from recusing himself in the Justice Department's investigation into whether …
Washington Post:
The FBI is investigating the Clinton Foundation … The FBI has been quietly investigating the Clinton Foundation for months, reviving a probe that was dialed back during the 2016 election amid tensions between Justice Department prosecutors and FBI agents about the politically charged case, according to people familiar with the matter.
John Solomon / The Hill:
FBI launches new Clinton Foundation investigation  —  The Justice Department has launched a new inquiry into whether the Clinton Foundation engaged in any pay-to-play politics or other illegal activities while Hillary Clinton  —  served as Secretary of State, law enforcement officials and a witness tells The Hill.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Why Trump and Sessions are now in a heap of legal trouble  —  Michael S. Schmidt's report in the New York Times contains so many blockbusters that it's hard to know where to begin.  Here are the most critical claims:  — Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has evidence …
Washington Post:
Senior Republican refers Trump-Russia dossier author for possible charges … The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee recommended Friday that the Justice Department investigate for possible criminal charges the author of the now-famous “dossier” alleging the Trump campaign coordinated …
CNN:
Feds actively investigating Clinton Foundation  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  — The investigation, led by the FBI field office in Little Rock, Arkansas, is being overseen by the US attorney's office in the state  —  (CNN)Federal authorities are actively investigating allegations of corruption related …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Schiff: The case that Trump obstructed justice just got stronger  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  The New York Times's blockbuster new report last night adds extensive new detail to our understanding of just how far President Trump and the White House went to try to derail the probe into Russian sabotage …
Discussion: The Hill, Politico and Washington Press
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
EPA chief Pruitt is said to be eyeing attorney general job  —  A nomination would face strong resistance from Democrats over his weakening of environmental protections.  —  Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has told friends and associates that he's interested …
Discussion: Political Wire
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Senate Judiciary Republicans refer dossier author Chris Steele to DOJ for criminal investigation
Discussion: The Week
Sara Carter / Sara A. Carter:
Mueller's “Pit Bull” Andrew Weissmann under scrutiny as Rosenstein agrees to turn over documents to Nunes
James Bovard / USA Today:   Cliven Bundy-FBI debacle: Another example of why the feds need to be leashed
Josh Delk / The Hill:
Pruitt wants to be Trump's attorney general: report
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:
Amid Calls from Trump, F.B.I. Renews Questions Over Clinton Foundation
Discussion: Mother Jones and Los Angeles Times
Mike Allen / Axios:
The Wolff lines on Trump that ring unambiguously true  —  There are definitely parts of Michael Wolff's “Fire and Fury” that are wrong, sloppy, or betray off-the-record confidence.  But there are two things he gets absolutely right, even in the eyes of White House officials …
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Kimberly Leonard / Washington Examiner:
Michael Wolff: Trump had little interest in repealing Obamacare, floated ‘Medicare for All’  —  A book detailing the first year of President Trump's time in office claims he floated the idea of covering all Americans through Medicare and had little interest in repealing Obamacare.
Discussion: The Week and Common Dreams
Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:
Michael Wolff says he ‘absolutely’ spoke to President Trump for his tell-all book
Peter Baker / New York Times:   For Trump, Book Raises Familiar Questions of Loyalty and Candor
Sarah Rumpf / RedState:
Furious Trump Fires Off Tweet With New Nickname for Bannon
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
‘Fire and Fury’ author Wolff calls Trump least credible person who has ever walked on earth
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Michael Wolff's Withering Portrait of President Donald Trump
Eliza Barclay / Vox:
The psychiatrist who briefed Congress on Trump's mental state: this is “an emergency”  —  The case for evaluating the president's mental capacity — by force if necessary.  —  The longer Donald Trump is in office, the more he shocks and alarms us with his strange and extremely unpresidential behavior.
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CNN:
Tillerson says he's ‘never questioned’ Trump's mental fitness
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Politico
CNN:
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson: ‘I intend to be here for the whole year’
Discussion: CNBC
The Hill:
New scrutiny for Trump's mental fitness after book, tweets
Discussion: Mediaite
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Steve Bannon's strange “obsession” with Andrew Weissmann  —  Sources who've spoken to Steve Bannon tell me they're perplexed by his apparent fixation on Andrew Weissmann — the Russia investigation prosecutor described as Robert Mueller's “pit bull.”  —  The intrigue: What's raised the eyebrows …
Discussion: Mediaite
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Matthew Gertz / Politico:
I've Studied the Trump-Fox Feedback Loop for Months.  It's Crazier Than You Think.  —  On Tuesday night, I, along with many Americans, was shocked when President Donald Trump tweeted that his “Nuclear Button” is “much bigger & more powerful” than North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un's.
Scott Wartman / Cincinnati.com:
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel drops out of U.S. Senate race  —  Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel quit the race Friday, citing his wife's health.  —  He hoping to unseat U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat.  The Enquirer will update this story.
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Top GOP candidate drops out of Ohio Senate race
Discussion: Politico
CNN:
Exclusive: Top Pence aides quietly depart in new year  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence's chief lawyer and domestic policy director are leaving his office at the beginning of the New Year, according to four sources familiar with the staff turnover.
Discussion: Political Wire
Liz Moyer / CNBC:
Black unemployment rate falls to record low  — The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 6.8 percent unemployment rate for black workers in December, the lowest in the 45 years the data has been tracked.  —  Unemployment among black workers is at its lowest since at least the early 1970s, when the government began tracking the data.
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ESPN:
For Kraft, Brady and Belichick, is this the beginning of the end?  —  THE PROBLEM WITH living your life under the spotlight is that the camera captures only the public eruption, not the months of silent anger.  On Dec. 3, when the New England Patriots played the Buffalo Bills …
Discussion: AOL, The Daily Caller and The Week
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Nominee to Lead Indian Health Services Faces Claims of Misrepresentation  —  Former workers at a Missouri hospital question leadership roles claimed by Robert Weaver, a 39-year-old member of Quapaw tribe, who says he is qualified to lead agency  —  President Donald Trump's nominee …
Discussion: CNBC and The Week
Ciro Scotti / The Daily Beast:
The Trouble With Kirsten Gillibrand … Back when she had an A rating from the NRA, Kirsten Gillibrand used to brag that she and her family shot their own turkeys for Thanksgiving.  —  But in her relentless positioning for a possible presidential run in 2020, was she too quick on the trigger …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
 
 
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Washington Post:
Nationwide, police shot and killed nearly 1,000 people in 2017
Discussion: Common Dreams and The Daily Caller
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