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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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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 …
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.
Melissa Gomez / New York Times:
Giuliani Says 'Truth Isn't Truth' in Defense of Trump's Legal Strategy  —  First, the facts were alternative, Kellyanne Conway, a counselor to President Trump, suggested last year.  —  And now, Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, said “Truth isn't truth,” …
Discussion: CNN, Talking Points Memo and Axios
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
John Dean: “I am actually honored” to be insulted by Trump
Discussion: Political Wire
Julian E. Zelizer / The Atlantic:   The New Enemies List  —  Reacting to The New York Times' story …
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 …
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.
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: Raw Story
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:   Trump's “red wave” could sink GOP
Associated Press:
Steve Bannon says GOP must rally behind Trump to survive
Discussion: ABC News and POLITICUSUSA
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 …
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Stephanie Murray / Politico:
Shots reported outside US embassy in Turkey  —  Three bullets hit a security booth outside the U.S. embassy in Turkey early Monday morning, according to an Associated Press report.  —  No one was hurt, the AP reported.  —  According to the Ankara governor's office, suspects …
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Kareem Fahim / Washington Post:
Erdogan capitalizes on Trump's effort to break and isolate Turkey
Discussion: Forbes and Daily Wire
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.
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Brennan says he's willing to take Trump to court over security clearances  —  Former CIA director John O. Brennan said Sunday that he is willing to take President Trump to court to prevent other current and former officials from having their security clearances revoked, escalating a battle …
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Megan Keller / The Hill:
Hayden: Relationship between Trump, national security community ‘dangerously close to being permanently broken’
Discussion: Political Wire
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
America is slouching toward autocracy  —  In their book, “How Democracies Die,” political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt write: “How do elected authoritarians shatter the democratic institutions that are supposed to constrain them?  Some do it in one fell swoop.
Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and CNN
Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Inside Trump's Judicial Takeover  —  How conservative operatives and Senate Republicans are helping the president pack the courts at a record pace  —  One evening last November, Don McGahn, the top lawyer in the Trump White House, walked onstage in an opulent ballroom at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington …
Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal:
Videogame Developers Are Making It Harder to Stop Playing  —  Videogames have gotten harder to turn off, mental-health experts and parents say, raising concerns about the impact of long gaming sessions on players' lives.
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
Pulling Their Clearances Is Only the Start - It's Time to Stamp out Elite Privilege  —  Help, I'm being oppressed!  My freedom of speech was been utterly stripped from me because when I retired from the Army those fascist monsters took away my TOP SECRET security clearance.
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
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Nixon, Clinton and Trump  —  The more Trump is cornered, the more he mirrors Richard Nixon.  —  Twenty years ago last Friday, President Bill Clinton testified before Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and a grand jury about his sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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: pluralist and Raw Story
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Jesse Johnson / Japan Times:
North Korea alludes to confrontation with U.S. over secret nuclear sites during negotiations
Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
John McCain and the End of Romantic Conservatism
Weekly Standard:
Keith Ellison, A Radical's Radical
Eylon Aslan-Levy / i24NEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Corbyn's secret trip to Israel to meet Hamas
Discussion: Telegraph
Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Pulls Illegal Apps Targeted by Chinese State Media
Discussion: The Verge
Politico:
Manafort trial Day 15: Jury meets for third day as Trump-fueled political cacophony grows
Discussion: The Hill
CNN:
Iranian foreign minister says the US has a disease of an ‘addiction to sanctions’
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Saudi PIF in talks to invest in aspiring Tesla rival Lucid - sources
Charlotte Graham-McLay / New York Times:
Pregnant Minister Cycles to Hospital to Give Birth
Discussion: Mashable and Althouse
Virginia Heffernan / Los Angeles Times:
How Donald Trump made me love privileged men
Axios:
Scoop: Trump said one-state solution would lead to Israeli PM named Mohammed
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
The media's hatred of Trump is only hurting itself
Discussion: Instapundit
Bill Estep / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Coal jobs have dropped in Eastern Kentucky. Income has followed, new report shows
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
As Trump Dismantles Clean Air Rules, an Industry Lawyer Delivers for Ex-Clients