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8:55 AM ET, September 5, 2018

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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Trump Unleashes on Woodward, Accuses Him of Making Up Quotes and Being a ‘Dem Operative’  —  President Donald Trump is accusing veteran journalist Bob Woodward of running a “con” and being a “Dem operative.”  —  Earlier tonight, Trump tweeted out the statements from the White House …
Discussion: Townhall, CNN, Axios and Politico
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Gabriel Pogrund / Washington Post:
Southern Republican senators reject Trump's criticism of Sessions  —  Southern Republican senators defended Jeff Sessions after an explosive new book by Bob Woodward recounted how President Trump called his attorney general a “dumb Southerner” and mocked his accent.
Saagar Enjeti / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Says Bob Woodward Has ‘A Lot Of Credibility Problems’  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump addressed newly released excerpts from Bob Woodward's book on his administration, denying some specific allegations and accusing the author of credibility issues, in an exclusive Oval Office interview with The Daily Caller.
Axios:
Furious Trump trapped by hundreds of Woodward tapes  —  President Trump is livid at the betrayal and stunning allegations in Bob Woodward's forthcoming “Fear,” but limited in his ability to fight back because most of the interviews were caught on hundreds of hours of tape, officials tell Axios.
Dwight Garner / New York Times:
In ‘Fear,’ Bob Woodward Pulls Back the Curtain on President Trump's ‘Crazytown’  —  Nothing in Bob Woodward's sober and grainy new book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” is especially surprising.  This is a White House that has leaked from Day 1.  We knew things were bad.
Axios:
In Woodward's book, Trump erupts over Mueller
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Bob Woodward's new book reveals a ‘nervous breakdown’ of Trump's presidency
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Transcript: Phone call between President Trump and journalist Bob Woodward
Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News:
Parkland victim's father and Kavanaugh: The handshake that wasn't  —  “I guess he did not want to deal with the reality of gun violence,” Fred Guttenberg, father of slain Parkland student Jaime Guttenberg, wrote on Twitter.  —  The father of a student killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas …
Discussion: Guns.com, CBS News and ABC News
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Politico:
Schumer, Democrats wrestled over staging mass Kavanaugh walkout  —  The party decided that a made-for-TV moment could backfire, and instead opted for a strategy of maximum disruption.  —  Hours before Brett Kavanaugh arrived for his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday …
David French / National Review:
Ben Sasse Conducts a Two-Minute Master Class in American Civics
Discussion: RedState and Breitbart
Matthew Continetti / The Daily Beast:
The 40-Year Plan That Allowed Trump to Reshape the Courts
Discussion: Politico and Axios
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
The story behind the withheld documents of the Kavanaugh hearing
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Ayanna Pressley Upsets Capuano in Massachusetts House Race  —  BOSTON — Ayanna Pressley upended the Massachusetts political order on Tuesday, scoring a stunning upset of 10-term Representative Michael Capuano and positioning herself to become the first African-American woman to represent the state in Congress.
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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Ayanna Pressley Ousts 20-Year Incumbent Michael Capuano in Massachusetts Primary Shocker  —  She is the second progressive woman of color to defeat a long-term male white incumbent this cycle.  —  Another major upset of a Democratic congressman took place in Massachusetts on Tuesday night.
Stephanie Akin / Roll Call:
Ayanna Pressley Upsets Rep. Capuano in Massachusetts Democratic Primary
Discussion: CQ.com
New York Times:
Mueller Will Accept Some Written Answers From Trump  —  The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, will accept written answers from President Trump on questions about whether his campaign conspired with Russia's election interference, Mr. Mueller's office told Mr. Trump's lawyers in a letter, two people briefed on it said on Tuesday.
Associated Press:
The Latest: UK's May: poisoning suspects were Russian agents  —  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in Britain (all times local):  —  British Prime Minister Theresa May says the two prime suspects in the nerve-agent poisoning …
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BBC:   Salisbury Novichok poisoning: Two Russian nationals named as suspects
New York Times:   U.K. Charges 2 Russians in Novichok Attack on Skripals
The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Critical, But Says Nike's Kaepernick Deal ‘Is What This Country Is All About’  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Nike sent a “terrible message” this week by making former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick one of the faces representing the 30th anniversary of the company's “Just Do It” campaign.
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Now Twitter Edits The New Yorker  —  The venerable magazine hands the reins to the digital mob.  —  A common complaint of liberal journalists about conservative politicians is that the latter lack for courage.  As in: Paul Ryan knows that Donald Trump is a bigot and a danger …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
On Trump-Russia, too much secrecy keeps public in dark  —  National leaders of all stripes have complained for decades that Washington keeps too many secrets.  Too much of the government's information is classified, the argument goes, making it nearly impossible for Americans to know what their leaders are doing.
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NBC News:
FBI Director Christopher Wray becomes the latest target for Trump's ire
Salena Zito / New York Post:
The Twitter trolls attacking my work are all wrong  —  “Dad, it's not true,” I said, fighting to keep my voice steady through tears.  —  My 81-year-old father had just seen a Huffington Post headline — “Take Salena Zito Neither Seriously Nor Literally On Trump Voters” — with a picture of me next to it.
Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Gives $10 Million to Super PAC in First Major Political Contribution  —  Bezos and wife are supporting With Honor, a super PAC aiming to elect military veterans from both parties to Congress  —  Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife are making their first major foray …
Discussion: Political Wire and Axios
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Heavily spliced Ted Cruz video falsely depicts Beto O'Rourke saying he's ‘grateful’ for flag burning  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz's latest effort to inflame conservatives — a video in which Rep. Beto O'Rourke appears to express enthusiasm for flag burning — hinges on heavy splicing …
France 24:
Amid ‘bloodbath’ fears, US warns Assad against using chemical weapons  —  With the United Nations warning of a potential “bloodbath” in Syria's Idlib province, the United States warned President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday it would respond “swiftly and appropriately” if he uses chemical weapons against his own people.
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Omar Haj Kadour / Agence France-Presse:   Erdogan warns of ‘massacre’ in Syria's Idlib
John Carreyrou / Wall Street Journal:
Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve  —  Firm, tarred by scandal, will pay creditors its remaining cash  —  Theranos Inc., the blood-testing company accused of perpetrating Silicon Valley's biggest fraud, will soon cease to exist.  —  In the wake of a high-profile scandal …
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
A Daily Caller Editor Wrote For an ‘Alt-Right’ Website Using a Pseudonym  —  Former Daily Caller writer and editor Scott Greer has severed all ties with the conservative website after acknowledging that he had written under a pseudonym for the white supremacist Radix Journal.
Discussion: American Greatness
Jennifer Calfas / TIME:
‘Every Job is Worthwhile.’ Former Cosby Show Actor Speaks Out After Job-Shaming Photo Goes Viral  —  A former Cosby Show actor is speaking out after a photograph surfaced showing him working at a grocery store in what many perceived as an attempt to shame him for his job.
Discussion: NorthJersey.com and USA Today
Tom Nichols / Washington Post:
Want to save the GOP, Republicans?  Vote for every Democrat on this year's ballot.  —  If the GOP is going to be a credible, center-right party, Republicans have to treat the 2018 election as a parliamentary-style housecleaning.  —  Naval War College and Harvard Extension School professor
Discussion: Daily Kos
Politico:
Why Rahm bailed on reelection  —  The Chicago mayor might have won a third term, but only after a long, painful reelection slog.  —  CHICAGO — His polling numbers were sliding, and had even bottomed out in some city wards.  With Chicagoans weary of the violence playing out in their neighborhoods …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Gregory S. Schneider / Washington Post:
A Republican congressman helped a rival collect signatures to get on the ballot.  Some of those signatures were fake.  —  VIRGINIA BEACH — Rep. Scott W. Taylor (R-Va.) sat in the backroom of his campaign office in a strip mall.  Mini-blinds closed, a modest “Scott Taylor U.S. Congress” …
Andrew Perrin / Pew Research Center:
Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook  —  Significant shares of Facebook users have taken steps in the past year to reframe their relationship with the social media platform.  —  Just over half of Facebook users ages 18 and older (54%) say they have adjusted their privacy settings …
Discussion: BloombergQuint
 
 
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WashPostPR / Washington Post:
The Washington Post hires White House reporter Jacqueline Alemany to anchor new early-morning newsletter “Power Up”
Ashley Kirzinger / The Henry J. Kaiser Family …:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll - Late Summer 2018: The Election, Pre-Existing Conditions, and Surprises on Medical Bills
Discussion: Associated Press, CNN and HuffPost
Mark Zuckerberg / Washington Post:
Protecting democracy is an arms race. Here's how Facebook can help.
Discussion: Engadget
Adam Davidson / New Yorker:
Where Will the Trump Investigations Go Next?
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Trump suggests protesting should be illegal
Brian Murphy / Raleigh News & Observer:
NC congressional elections to proceed as scheduled with same maps, court rules
Discussion: Political Wire
Stars & Stripes:
Soldier killed in Afghanistan insider attack was on seventh deployment
Discussion: Newsweek and Task & Purpose
Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
The Kremlin Wants Information. To Get It, Agents Show Up With Flowers.
 Earlier Items: 
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Michael Cohen Prayed With Al Sharpton at Breakfast. But Other Democrats Stay Away.
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Anti-Obamacare Lawsuit Puts GOP on Defensive Before Elections
Discussion: Political Wire
Steven Shepard / Politico:
POLITICO race ratings: 60 GOP House seats in danger
Discussion: Political Wire
John Gray / Page Array - UnHerd:
The rise of post-truth liberalism
Anchorage Daily News:
Under pressure to withdraw, Begich reaffirms plan to stay in Alaska governor's race
Saagar Enjeti / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Prepped Lawsuit Against NBC Over ‘Access Hollywood’ Tape
 

 
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New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

New York Times:
Karlie Kloss' Bedford buys Life publication rights from Dotdash Meredith and plans to resume regular print publication in 2025; Josh Kushner will be publisher

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic is profitable, has 1M subscribers, and revenue grew 10% in 2023 thanks to a 50% price hike, a harder paywall, and a shift to in-depth reporting

 
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