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9:10 AM ET, September 6, 2018

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New York Times:
I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration  —  We work for the president but we have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. … President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.  —  It's not just that the special counsel looms large.
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Axios:
Exclusive: Trump's nightmare: “The snakes are everywhere”  —  President Trump is not just seething about Bob Woodward.  He's deeply suspicious of much of the government he oversees — from the hordes of folks inside agencies, right up to some of the senior-most political appointees …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
‘The sleeper cells have awoken’: Trump and aides shaken by ‘resistance’ op-ed  —  President Trump and his aides reacted with indignation Wednesday to an unsigned opinion column from a senior official blasting the president's “amorality” and launched a frantic hunt for the author …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
The story behind the New York Times' anonymous op-ed blasting Trump  —  Several days ago a senior official in the Trump administration used an intermediary to contact New York Times op-ed page editor Jim Dao.  —  Through the go-between, the senior official expressed interest in writing …
David Frum / The Atlantic:
This Is a Constitutional Crisis  —  Impeachment is a constitutional mechanism.  The Twenty-Fifth Amendment is a constitutional mechanism.  Mass resignations followed by voluntary testimony to congressional committees are a constitutional mechanism.  Overt defiance of presidential authority …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump, alone  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  ALONE.  —  THAT IS WHAT PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP must be feeling this morning.  In the last two days, the Washington establishment has pummeled him like no president has been pummeled before.  BOB WOODWARD's book “Fear” …
BuzzFeed News:
I Am Part Of The Resistance Inside The New York Times Opinion Desk  —  BuzzFeed News today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous, and entirely satirical, op-ed essay.  We have done so at the request of the author, a senior editor for the New York Times Opinion page …
Washington Post:
Trump's reputation precedes him.  So does Woodward's.  —  BOB WOODWARD'S new book, “Fear,” does not paint a different picture of the early Trump White House than the one that has already emerged from credible news organizations in daily reporting on President Trump.
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The White House is discussing potential replacements for Jim Mattis  —  Well before this week's revelations about President Trump's interactions with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in Bob Woodward's new book, officials inside the White House have been actively discussing who will replace Mattis …
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Staff's Resistance Can't Avert a Crisis. It Is One.
Associated Press:   Trump rips searing Times op-ed from unnamed senior official
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
An Insider's Lament About Trump Serves No Public Good
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and Washington Post
NBC News:
Trump admin rejected report showing refugees did not pose major security threat
Discussion: Splinter
New York Times:
Trump Lashes Out After Reports of ‘Quiet Resistance’ by Staff
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Want to Be the Next Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?  Be Careful What You Wish.  —  Politics, like Hollywood, often looks to repeat a good thing: Find a formula that works, and stick with it.  —  That strategy has led Democrats across the country, in races large and small, to search for candidates …
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Politico:
Liberal insurgency targets Delaware senator next
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Monthly
David Siders / Politico:
‘This is the first wave of an invasion’
Marc Caputo / Politico:
DeSantis to name Nuñez as Florida's first Cuban-American female running mate
Discussion: Florida Politics
Molly Ball / TIME:
Nancy Pelosi Doesn't Care What You Think of Her.  And She Isn't Going Anywhere  —  Nancy Pelosi stopped caring about what people think of her a long time ago, so she has no qualms about eating ice cream for breakfast with a stranger.  Dark chocolate, two scoops, waffle cone.
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Politico:   Pelosi vs. McConnell could dominate Congress in 2019
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
McCain's former chief of staff says he's considering Senate bid as a Democrat
Discussion: Political Wire
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Revealed: Trump inauguration crowd photos were edited after he intervened  —  Exclusive: documents released to Guardian reveal government photographer cropped space ‘where crowd ended’  —  A government photographer edited official pictures of Donald Trump's inauguration …
Ellen Barry / New York Times:
From Mountain of CCTV Footage, Pay Dirt: 2 Russians Are Named in Spy Poisoning  —  LONDON — In March, when British detectives began their investigation into the poisoning of Sergei V. Skripal, the former Russian spy, they had little to work with but mounds of CCTV footage.
Discussion: New York Times
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Zachary Young / Politico:
UK security chief: Putin ‘bears responsibility’ for Skripal attack
Daily Mail:
Four UFOs are spotted flying over US president's Scottish golf course  —  Trump's visitors!  Four UFOs are spotted flying over US president's Scottish golf course  —  Four UFOs were spotted flying over US President Donald Trump's golf course in Scotland.  —  A golf fan shared a picture …
Sean Wilentz / New York Times:
Why Was Kavanaugh Obsessed With Vince Foster?  —  He needs to explain why he followed right-wing conspiracy theories about the White House aide's suicide.  —  Mr. Wilentz is a professor of history at Princeton.  —  Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's nominee to replace Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:   Kavanaugh stumbled over two critical tripwires
Danielle Decker Jones / Virginian-Pilot:
A campaign to beat cancer  —  YOU OR SOMEONE in your life has been touched by cancer.  Ideally you have celebrated successes: the cures cooperated, science and prayer prevailed, and you or your loved one “beat cancer.”  —  Likely you've also witnessed someone “lose the fight” …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Jerome Corsi, Conspiracy Theorist, Is Subpoenaed in Mueller Investigation  —  Jerome Corsi, a conspiracy theorist and political commentator with connections to the former Trump adviser Roger J. Stone Jr., has been subpoenaed to testify on Friday before the grand jury in the special counsel investigation …
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John Solomon / The Hill:
The Mueller probe's troubling reliance on journalists as sources
Discussion: American Greatness
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Trump Hits Campaign Trail as Prospect of Midterm Defeat Looms  — Democrats need to pick up 23 seats to gain control of House  — President to hold rallies in Montana, Dakotas this week  —  Donald Trump takes his fight to keep his party in control of Congress to the Great Plains this week …
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Reuters:
In quick reversal, Trump threatens shutdown over border wall
Discussion: HuffPost
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Exclusive: FBI Kept From U.S. Spy Court Russian View of Carter Page as ‘an Idiot’  —  The FBI omitted from its application to spy on Carter Page the fact that Russian spies had dismissed the former Trump campaign adviser as unreliable - or as one put it, an “idiot” - and therefore unworthy of recruiting …
Johnathan Silver / Austin American-Statesman:
Unapproved O'Rourke text message asks for ‘undocumented immigrant’ vote  —  A person who a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke's Senate campaign said was pretending to be a “texting team” volunteer sent an unauthorized message to voters Wednesday asking them to help “transport undocumented immigrants” to the polls.
CNN:
State Department's top candidate to lead efforts countering disinformation: A Fox News reporter  —  (CNN)A Fox News correspondent is a leading candidate to head the State Department agency tasked with combating propaganda and disinformation from foreign adversaries, CNN has learned.
 
 
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Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
Roy Moore sues Sacha Baron Cohen, CBS and Showtime for $95 million, claiming ‘extreme emotional distress’
Rose Minutaglio / Cosmopolitan:
The Intern Who Yelled ‘F*ck You’ at Trump Does Not Regret It
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Steve Goldstein / MarketWatch:
Sanders rolls out ‘Bezos Act’ that would tax companies for welfare their employees receive
Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
Phil Bredesen Might Win a Deep-Red Senate Seat for Democrats. But He Doesn't Want to Talk About It.
Discussion: The Atlantic
David Nather / Axios:
Exclusive poll: Big GOP majority fears bias in search engines
Discussion: Political Wire
Zachary Young / Politico:
Seehofer: Migration is ‘mother of all problems’
 Earlier Items: 
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon, in His $1,400 Hotel Suite, Rails Against the ‘Elite’
Will Baude / Reason:
The Best Parts of the Kavanaugh Hearing
Kristin Smith / WRIC-TV:
Parents outraged after man installs electric fence near Henrico County bus stop
Discussion: Breitbart, Fox News and abc7chicago.com
Scott Martelle / Los Angeles Times:
Now Trump is targeting Vietnamese refugees
Carrie Dann / NBC News:
NBC/Marist poll: Democrat Joe Donnelly has slight edge in Indiana Senate race
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Lyz Lenz / Columbia Journalism Review:
The mystery of Tucker Carlson
 

 
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has met with Hollywood talent representatives to propose a new performance-based compensation regime, as Amazon and Netflix work on similar plans

Neal Mohan / The Hollywood Reporter:
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan argues that creators should be eligible for Emmys, as the awards “should reflect what viewers are actually watching on their TV screens”

Max Tani / Semafor:
Hunterbrook Media's publisher failed to disclose its ownership stake in a rival to a company that was recently the subject of a critical Hunterbrook article

 
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