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New York Times:
Trump Lawyers' Sudden Realization: They Don't Know What Don McGahn Told Mueller's Team  —  President Trump's lawyers do not know just how much the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, told the special counsel's investigators during months of interviews, a lapse that has contributed …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Michael Cohen's attorney says he's talking to lawyer who brought down Nixon  —  Lanny Davis, an attorney for former longtime Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, said he has been reaching out regularly over the last few months to John Dean, the former White House counsel who helped bring down the presidency of Richard Nixon.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
John Dean: “I am actually honored” to be insulted by Trump  —  President Trump tweeted this morning: “The failing @nytimes wrote a Fake piece today implying that because White House Councel Don McGahn was giving hours of testimony to the Special Councel [sic], he must be a John Dean type “RAT.
Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite
Politico:
Giuliani: 'Truth isn't truth'
Julian E. Zelizer / The Atlantic:   The New Enemies List  —  Reacting to The New York Times' story …
Axios:
Trump's epic Mueller gamble
Discussion: Politico, Raw Story and Vox
Politico:
Cabinet secretaries: They're just like us!
NBC News:
Meet the Press - August 19, 2018
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and The Week
New York Times:
Cohen, Trump's Ex-Lawyer, Investigated for Bank Fraud in Excess of $20 Million  —  Federal authorities investigating whether President Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen, committed bank and tax fraud have zeroed in on well over $20 million in loans obtained by taxi businesses …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
“A blue wave is obscuring a red exodus”  —  Dave Wasserman, the Cook Political Report's House analyst, says the most under-covered aspect of 2018 is that “a blue wave is obscuring a red exodus.”  Republican House members are retiring at a startling clip — a trend that senior White House …
Discussion: Associated Press
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's “red wave” could sink GOP  —  The president's contempt for mainstream polling and the media may come back to haunt him in November.  Several top Republican operatives working on the midterm elections told me Trump's fanciful “red wave” predictions could depress Republican turnout and …
CBS News:
Democrats in stronger position to take the House: CBS News Battleground Tracker
Discussion: Mother Jones, Bloomberg and twitchy.com
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Speechwriter who attended conference with white nationalists in 2016 leaves White House  —  (CNN)A speechwriter for President Donald Trump who attended a conference frequented by white nationalists has left the White House.  —  CNN's KFile reached out to the White House last week about Darren Beattie …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump speechwriter fired amid scrutiny of appearance with white nationalists  —  A White House speechwriter for President Trump was terminated last week after revelations that he had spoken at a conference attended by well-known white nationalists, according to three people familiar …
Discussion: Raw Story
Kim Severson / New York Times:
Asia Argento, Who Accused Weinstein, Made Deal With Her Own Accuser  —  The Italian actress and director Asia Argento was among the first women in the movie business to publicly accuse the producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault.  She became a leading figure in the #MeToo movement.
Discussion: twitchy.com, AOL and Deadline
New York Times:
Zephyr Teachout Is the Right Choice as Attorney General for Democrats  —  The office is a potential firewall against an out-of-control president and a historically corrupt New York State government.  —  The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher.
Megan Keller / The Hill:
Hayden: Relationship between Trump, national security community ‘dangerously close to being permanently broken’  —  Former CIA Director Michael Hayden said Sunday that he thinks the relationship between the national security community and President Trump  —  is on the edge of shattering.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Trump adviser John Bolton floats formal review of security clearances for former officials
Discussion: Breitbart, HuffPost, AOL and Politico
Chris Smith / New York Magazine:
Cuomo, Again?  Heavy is the head that wears this crown.  —  Governor Andrew Cuomo asks the pilot to swing the state helicopter around so he can have a second look.  About 1,000 feet below us, in a patch of Atlantic Ocean two miles south of Shinnecock, Long Island, a cargo ship equipped …
Discussion: New York Post
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Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:   Andrew Cuomo doesn't see America's greatness because he doesn't know where to look
Miami Herald:
Our recommendations in the District 27 congressional race to replace Ros-Lehtinen  —  DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY  —  A wealth of candidates, bringing new names, unexpected faces and diverse talents, signed up to be the Democrat who would replace Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in Congress.
Discussion: twitchy.com
Anne Helen Petersen / BuzzFeed:
Beto O'Rourke Could Be The Democrat Texas Has Been Waiting For  —  Beto O'Rourke's grassroots campaign to unseat Senator Ted Cruz is blazing across Texas.  But can it convert energy into actual votes?  —  Beto O'Rourke is a prolific, prodigious sweater.  We're talking shirt-soaking …
Axios:
Scoop: Trump said one-state solution would lead to Israeli PM named Mohammed  —  President Trump told King Abdullah of Jordan that a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict might lead in a few years to someone named Mohammed becoming prime minister of Israel, according to several sources briefed on the meeting.
Virginia Heffernan / Los Angeles Times:
How Donald Trump made me love privileged men  —  A black-and-white photograph from 1962 shows special counsel Robert S. Mueller III when he was a student at the St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H.  —  It's a hockey-team photo.  Mueller, dark-haired number 12, sits front row, close to the center.
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Rebuffs Effort to Tether Bank Fine to Pastor's Release  —  Trump administration says U.S. minister must be set free before other issues are addressed  —  WASHINGTON—The Trump administration has rejected an effort by Turkey to tie the release of a U.S. pastor with relief …
Charlotte Graham-McLay / New York Times:
Pregnant Minister Cycles to Hospital to Give Birth  —  WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Since taking office, New Zealand's prime minister has broken boundaries and made headlines by becoming only the second sitting world leader to give birth, taking six weeks of parental leave and returning …
Discussion: Althouse
Bill Estep / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Coal jobs have dropped in Eastern Kentucky.  Income has followed, new report shows  —  Personal income has gone down in several Eastern Kentucky counties where coal employment has been decimated in recent years, according to a report from the Appalachian Regional Commission.
David Gelles / New York Times:
Interviewing Elon Musk  —  For our Corner Office columnist, an hour with a deeply emotional Mr. Musk was not just another C.E.O. interview.  —  Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times.
Discussion: CNNMoney, FOX6Now.com and Vox
Reuters:
Exclusive: Saudi PIF in talks to invest in aspiring Tesla rival Lucid - sources  —  (Reuters) - PIF, the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund that Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) CEO Elon Musk has said could help him fund a $72 billion deal to take his electric car maker private, is in talks to invest …
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Brennan: I Did Not Mean Trump Was Treasonous When I Said His Actions Are “Nothing Short Of Treason”  —  I have been critical of the decision of President Donald Trump to rescind the clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan and to release a list of other officials to be reviewed …
 
 
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CNN:
Iranian foreign minister says the US has a disease of an ‘addiction to sanctions’
Amber Athey / The Daily Caller:
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Fox News:
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New York Times:
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
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