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5:00 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
Discussion: Townhall, Don Surber and The Atlantic
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 …
Discussion: twitchy.com
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   Bret Kavanaugh Is A First Rate Hypocrite and Political Judge
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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CNN:
Sources: Trump unsettled by McGahn's 30 hours with the special counsel  —  Trump: I allowed McGahn to cooperate in probe  —  Washington (CNN)White House counsel Don McGahn's 30 hours of conversations with special counsel Robert Mueller's team have unnerved President Donald Trump …
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
“Truth isn't truth.”  —  Rudy Giuliani's instant meme is even worse …
Discussion: Hot Air, MSNBC and Popular Information
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Giuliani tries to explain what he meant by 'truth isn't truth'
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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Mariah Haas / Fox News:
Harvey Weinstein responds to Asia Argento allegations: This ‘reveals a stunning level of hypocrisy’
Discussion: Gothamist, France 24 and Hot Air
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 …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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.
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Tom Hays / Associated Press:
AP sources: Prosecutors preparing charges against Cohen
Discussion: Political Wire
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
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Politico Takes Heat for Blaming Roy Cohn's Death by AIDS on His ‘Decadent Homosexual Lifestyle’  —  “I don't understand how Politico had enough [gall] to publish this very homophobic/HIV stigmatizing piece,” one commenter writes  —  Politico came in for a storm of criticism after a senior staff writer …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Pruitt called the White House once from his $43,000 phone booth, records show  —  The $43,000 phone booth that former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt installed in his office may not have been worth all the headaches it caused him.  —  He only placed one phone call to the White House, newly released records from the agency show.
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
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.”
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
Lisa Miller / New York Magazine:
David Hogg, After Parkland Furious and unflinching, an NRA enemy, an accused “crisis actor,” and a high-school grad trying to figure out what's next.  —  At 2:30 on February 14, David Hogg was not yet a spokesperson for radicalized young America or a renowned media savant or a resistance fighter or …
Discussion: Politico, twitchy.com, Mediaite and AOL
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.
Mya Frazier / Bloomberg:
Amazon Isn't Paying Its Electric Bills.  You Might Be  —  The company's rate discounts have pushed up utility costs for everyone else.  —  For a little while earlier this year, it seemed as though 87-year-old Rosie Thomas and her neighbors in the small town of Gainesville, Va., had beaten Amazon.
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 …
Chelsea Clinton / Press Association:
Chelsea Clinton says she has not ruled out running for office  —  Daughter of Bill and Hillary says a move into politics in future is a ‘definite maybe’  —  Chelsea Clinton has said she has not ruled out running for office one day, describing a move into politics as a “definite no now” but a “definite maybe” in the future.
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
ICE Wanted To Deport A Man Who Said He Was A US Citizen.  After A Long Fight, A Court Says He Was Right.  —  Levy Jaen wakes up some nights in his Queens home drenched in sweat, panicking after dreaming that he was still in jail, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers telling …
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 …
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
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.
Michael Burke / The Hill:
Miami Herald endorses House candidate who claims aliens took her aboard a spaceship  —  The Miami Herald is endorsing a congressional candidate who claims to have communicated with aliens throughout her life and says extraterrestrials once visited her.  —  The newspaper on Sunday endorsed …
Bloomberg:
Trump Complains to Donors in the Hamptons About Powell's Rate Hikes  — President laments interest rate increases at GOP fundraiser  — Federal Reserve has raised rates five times in Trump's term  —  President Donald Trump said he expected Jerome Powell to be a cheap-money Fed chairman …
 
 
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Associated Press:
Second former Walker official comes out against him
Juliet Linderman / Associated Press:
In the city that claims him, Ben Carson falls from grace
Sarasota News:
Mexican state confirms ICE detainee wanted for homicide
Discussion: The Daily Caller
CBS Chicago:
At Least 58 People Shot In Chicago This Weekend; 6 Dead, 52 Wounded
Discussion: Breitbart, CNN and KFOR-TV
Sheelah Kolhatkar / New Yorker:
Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor
Bill Scher / Real Clear Politics:
The Case for Nancy Pelosi
Sam Sutton / Politico:
Sweeney: We have the votes to pass marijuana bills
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Rachel Swan / San Francisco Chronicle:
BART, dogged by fare cheats, may replace all 600 gates — but it won't be cheap
 Earlier Items: 
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Papadopoulos Told Feds He Received $10,000 From Foreign National He Believed Was A Spy
Samuel Hammond / National Review:
Elizabeth Warren's Corporate Catastrophe
Chris Deaton / Weekly Standard:
What Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talking About?
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Wire
Yeganeh Torbati / Reuters:
Exclusive: Pentagon raises alarm about sharp drop in Iraqi refugees coming to U.S.
Lawrence Chung / Politico:
United States ‘plays Taiwan card’ with Tsai Ing-wen's trip to NASA's mission control center
Al Smith / Popula:
NYT Fact Check: Bret Stephens
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Fox News
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Says He Has ‘Obliterated’ ISIS. The Terror Group Seems Not To Have Noticed.
Discussion: Shakesville