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3:20 PM ET, August 20, 2018

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Adam Entous / New Yorker:
John Brennan's Choice to Confront Trump  —  Just before noon on January 20, 2017, John Brennan, the outgoing C.I.A. director, drove to the home of a former colleague to watch Donald Trump take the oath of office.  President Obama's most trusted intelligence advisers had come together …
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Jack Goldsmith / Lawfare:
The Dangers in the Trump-Brennan Confrontation
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
John Bolton and GOP senators are enabling Trump's attacks on dissent
Discussion: Raw Story and Fox News
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
‘Revoking’ a security clearance is not as simple as Trump made it sound. …
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Brett Kavanaugh memo detailed explicit questions for Clinton  —  Brett Kavanaugh wrote in a strikingly explicit 1998 memo that he was “strongly opposed” to giving then-President Bill Clinton any “break” in the independent counsel's questioning about his sexual relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky …
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Washington Post:
Brett Kavanaugh, now a Supreme Court nominee, proposed graphic questions for Bill Clinton about the Lewinsky affair in 1998 memo  —  A memo just released by the National Archives reveals that Brett Kavanaugh laid out in explicit language the questions President Clinton should have been asked …
Kevin Freking / Associated Press:   Kavanaugh in memo pushed graphic sex questions for Clinton
Politico:
Liberals crushed in SCOTUS spending war
NBC News:
Team Trump still isn't telling the truth about that 2016 Trump Tower meeting  —  First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.  —  WASHINGTON — For all the attention to Rudy Giuliani's …
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
“Truth isn't truth.”  —  Rudy Giuliani's instant meme is even worse …
Discussion: Hot Air, Popular Information and MSNBC
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Giuliani tries to explain what he meant by 'truth isn't truth'
Discussion: New York Times, Deadline, CNN and The Root
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.
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Abid Rahman / Hollywood Reporter:
Asia Argento Paid Off Sexual Assault Accuser (Report)  —  Argento was one of the first and most vocal accusers of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.  —  Asia Argento, the Italian actress who was one of the first to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault …
Melissa Batchelor Warnke / Los Angeles Times:
Do the claims against Asia Argento invalidate the #MeToo movement?  —  On Sunday, the New York Times revealed that Asia Argento, one of the leaders of the #MeToo movement, paid her own accuser hundreds of thousands of dollars, beginning in April.  This is a terrible revelation …
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
The most intense and dangerous period of the Trump presidency is about to begin  —  Over the past year and a half, life in politics has often felt like an ongoing circus in which the madness never ceases.  But for all that, the next 11 weeks could be the most intense and consequential of Donald Trump's presidency.
Discussion: New York Post, The Guardian and IJR
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Tom Hays / Associated Press:
AP sources: Prosecutors preparing charges against Cohen  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, could be charged before the end of the month with bank fraud in his dealings with the taxi industry and with committing other financial crimes …
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Cohen, Trump's Ex-Lawyer, Investigated for Bank Fraud in Excess of $20 Million
John Harwood / CNBC:
A leading Republican urges reform for Medicare and Social Security as deficits balloon after the GOP's tax cut  —  Rep. Steve Stivers , R-Ohio, has the toughest job in politics right now: trying to stop a Democratic “blue wave” at the polls this fall.  Stivers, chairman of the National …
David Wasserman / New York Times:
Why Even a Blue Wave Could Have Limited Gains  —  The divergent geography of 2018 means we will really have two midterm elections, and one favors Republicans.  —  Mr. Wasserman is the House editor at The Cook Political Report.  —  The proper way to view the 2018 midterms might not be as one event …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
“A blue wave is obscuring a red exodus”
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Media Keeps Giving Trump the Benefit of the Doubt on Collusion  —  Throughout the Russia scandal, President Trump has acted flamboyantly guilty, most recently by comparing himself implicitly with Richard Nixon during Watergate, and dismissing informants as “rats.”
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Says He Has ‘Obliterated’ ISIS.  The Terror Group Seems Not To Have Noticed.  —  New reports estimate as many as 30,000 ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria about the same as a few years ago.  —  WASHINGTON While President Donald Trump claims he has “eradicated,” “wiped out” and even …
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Stars & Stripes:   American servicemember killed in Iraq helicopter crash after raid on ISIS
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Papadopoulos Told Feds He Received $10,000 From Foreign National He Believed Was A Spy  — Special Counsel Robert Mueller revealed that George Papadopoulos received a $10,000 cash payment from a man that the former Trump aide believed was a spy.  — The pair were in contact last year about an energy consulting agreement.
Tennessean.com:
Republicans slam Jason Isbell, Ben Folds as ‘the unhinged left’ ahead of Phil Bredesen rally  —  Phil Bredesen and Marsha Blackburn are the leading candidates to replace Bob Corker in the U.S. Senate Michael Schwab/USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee  —  The political arm of U.S. Senate Republicans …
Frank Chung / NEWS.com.au:
South Africa begins seizing white-owned farms  —  SOUTH Africa has targeted the first two farms for unilateral seizure after the owners refused an offer of one-tenth of the land's value.  —  Silent slaughter - Farm attacks in South Africa1:54  —  A record 400 farmers attacked in 2017, between one or two murdered a week.
John Wagner / Washington Post:
First lady Melania Trump warns of ‘destructive and harmful’ side of social media  —  As her husband continued to rip into his adversaries on Twitter, first lady Melania Trump on Monday warned that social media can be used in a “destructive and harmful” manner during remarks at a conference on preventing cyberbullying.
Discussion: ABC News and Axios
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Here Are the Lobbying Emails Cuomo Fought Hard to Keep Secret  —  ALBANY — In January 2016, as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was preparing his annual State of the State address, some high-placed state officials knew they had a problem.  —  A pair of business executives — partners in multimillion-dollar …
Discussion: National Review, The Week and IJR
Vatican News:
Pope Francis: Letter to the People of God (full text)  —  Pope Francis has responded to new reports of clerical sexual abuse and the ecclesial cover-up of abuse.  In an impassioned letter addressed to the whole People of God, he calls on the Church to be close to victims in solidarity …
Yeganeh Torbati / Reuters:
Exclusive: Pentagon raises alarm about sharp drop in Iraqi refugees coming to U.S.  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Military officials are sounding the alarm inside the Trump administration about the sharp drop in admission to the United States of Iraqi refugees who have helped American troops in battle …
Annie Lowrey / The Atlantic:
America's Invisible Pot Addicts  —  The proliferation of retail boutiques in California did not really bother him, Evan told me, but the billboards did.  Advertisements for delivery, advertisements promoting the substance for relaxation, for fun, for health.  “Shop.  It's legal.”
Discussion: Vox
Al Smith / Popula:
NYT Fact Check: Bret Stephens  —  Re: Column on whether or not America is “great”  —  After a number of reader complaints about inaccuracies in your previous columns, I've been asked by the Department of Corrections to get in touch with you regarding your latest piece.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Fox News
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform:
Top Democrats Seek Information on Bolton's Security Clearance After Revelation That He Worked With Russian Citizen Now Exposed as Spy  —  “We are writing regarding recent reports that National Security Advisor John Bolton, in his former capacity as a top official with the National Rifle Association …
Discussion: Roll Call
Sam Baker / Axios:
Court rejects Kentucky governor's Medicaid lawsuit  —  Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin cannot sue the Kentuckians who are trying to stop him from adding work requirements to the state's Medicaid program, a federal court said today.  —  The big picture: Bevin's latest loss is not a surprise.
Sam Sutton / Politico:
Sweeney: We have the votes to pass marijuana bills  —  TRENTON — The state Legislature has yet to produce a pair of bills to legalize recreational marijuana and expand the state's medical cannabis program, but Senate President Steve Sweeney says he has the votes lined up to pass both measures by the end of September.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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Chelsea Clinton / Press Association:
Chelsea Clinton says she has not ruled out running for office
Chris Deaton / Weekly Standard:
What Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talking About?
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Wire
CBS Pittsburgh:
Cardinal Wuerl's Name Spray-Painted Over On North Catholic H.S. Sign
Lawrence Chung / Politico:
United States ‘plays Taiwan card’ with Tsai Ing-wen's trip to NASA's mission control center
Winnie Hu / New York Times:
Harlem's Trash Bins Were Overflowing. So the City Took 223 Away.
Discussion: National Review
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Scott Nover / The Atlantic:
The Sunday Shows Set the Agenda in Trump's Washington
Eric Felten / Weekly Standard:
The NYT's Strange Insistence That Bruce Ohr Is a Big Nobody
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Manafort trial Day 15: Jury meets for third day as Trump-fueled political cacophony grows
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