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11:10 AM ET, October 3, 2018

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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
FBI expands inquiry into Ford allegations  —  (CNN)The FBI is expanding its inquiry into sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh beyond the initial four interviews that the White House directed to be conducted.  —  The efforts come as anticipation builds …
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Margot Cleveland / USA Today:
Christine Blasey Ford's changing Kavanaugh assault story leaves her short on credibility  —  Put aside Christine Blasey Ford's emotional performance.  Her testimony revealed her as a witness whose memories change at her convenience.  —  CONNECT  —  When Christine Blasey Ford testified …
NBC News:
Dozens of potential sources of information have not been contacted by the FBI in Kavanaugh investigation  —  With the investigation winding down, multiple individuals who have tried to contact the bureau have not heard back.  —  WASHINGTON — More than 40 people with potential information …
Fox News:
Christine Blasey Ford ex-boyfriend says she helped friend prep for potential polygraph; Grassley sounds alarm  —  In a letter released Tuesday and obtained by Fox News, an ex-boyfriend of Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault …
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
Republicans on Senate panel release explicit statement about Kavanaugh accuser's sex life  —  In an unprecedented move, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday released an explicit statement that purports to describe the sexual preferences of a woman who has accused Supreme …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP senators use Kavanaugh to beat back 2020 primary challengers  —  Senate Republicans are making an aggressive play to ward off primary challenges in 2020, digging in behind embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and showing the GOP base that they are fighting on behalf of President Donald Trump's court pick.
Wall Street Journal:
Friend Rejects Claim That Ford Helped Her on Polygraph Test  —  Monica McLean, a friend of Christine Blasey Ford, rejected the assertion that Dr. Ford had coached her on how to take a polygraph test, as alleged by a former boyfriend of Dr. Ford in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Political Wire
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD'S EX-BOYFRIEND TOLD SENATE JUDICIARY HE WITNESSED HER COACH A FRIEND ON POLYGRAPHS
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Rachel Mitchell expertly eviscerates the case against Kavanaugh
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
FBI in the eye of Senate storm
Discussion: Washington Post
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:   Flake Reacts To Trump's Mockery Of Blasey Ford: 'It's Kind Of Appalling'
Scott Thistle / Press Herald:
Collins walks a political tightrope with Kavanaugh decision
Discussion: Daily Kos
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Does it matter what Kavanaugh did in high school? Well, yes.
Discussion: The Atlantic and Vox
NBC News:
FBI could wrap up Kavanaugh probe as early as Tuesday night
New York Times:
Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father  —  The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today's dollars from his father's real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.
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Melina Delkic / New York Times:
How Times Journalists Uncovered the Original Source of the President's Wealth  —  Three reporters spent over a year digging through more than 100,000 pages of documents and chasing down key sources familiar with President Trump's father and his empire.  —  Times Insider delivers behind …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump rips into The New York Times over tax schemes report  —  President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized a New York Times investigation that alleged the president perpetuated a number of tax schemes and fraud during the 1990s to bolster the inheritance he received from his parents.
Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Even Inherited His Self-Made Myth  —  His wealth had everything to do with his father, including the fable of how it happened.  —  “I had zero borrowings from the estate,” Donald Trump told me back in 2004.  “I give you my word.”  —  The estate the future president was referring …
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
‘Art of the Deal’ writer says New York Times report ends myth of Trump as ‘self-made man’  —  Tony Schwartz, who as the co-author of “The Art of the Deal” helped Donald Trump cement his reputation as a man of economic acumen and moxie, said in an interview Tuesday that a New York Times report documenting …
Daily Mail:
YOU'RE HIRED! Trump earned $200,000 a year at age three, and was a millionaire by eight
Discussion: Chicks On The Right
New York Times:
11 Takeaways From The Times's Investigation Into Trump's Wealth
New York Times:
Kavanaugh's 1983 Letter Offers Inside Look at High School Clique  —  The beachfront property was rented, the guests were invited and an ever-organized Brett M. Kavanaugh had some advice for the seven Georgetown Preparatory School classmates who would be joining him for the weeklong escapade.
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Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed News:
This Ohio Woman's Run-In With The FBI Gives Us A Window Into Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia Probe  —  WASHINGTON — Cassandra Ford tends to stay online late into the evening and then sleep in.  So when two FBI agents dispatched by special counsel Robert Mueller's office pounded on her boyfriend's door …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Meritocracy Against Itself  —  How Ivy League resentments took over the Kavanaugh debate.  —  A week ago, Elizabeth Bruenig of The Washington Post wrote a column about the dreadful feeling of being yanked back, thanks to the allegations of teenage sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh …
Jillian Kay Melchior / Wall Street Journal:
Fake News Comes to Academia  —  How three scholars gulled academic journals to publish hoax papers on ‘grievance studies.’  —  The existence of a monthly journal focused on “feminist geography” is a sign of something gone awry in academia.  The journal in question—Gender, Place & Culture …
Discussion: National Review and Eduwonk
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Richard Baldwin / Areo:
Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship
Discussion: National Review
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Bar Association Questioned Kavanaugh's Temperament and Honesty in 2006  —  WASHINGTON — When Brett M. Kavanaugh was preparing for his second confirmation hearing for a seat on a federal appeals court in 2006, he got some unwelcome news.  The American Bar Association, which had earlier given him its highest rating, had reconsidered.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Orrin Hatch / Wall Street Journal:   Brett Kavanaugh's Righteous Anger
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
‘Rip-roaring hot’ jobs market sees private payrolls surge by 230,000, highest since February  — Private payrolls rose by 230,000 in September, according to the most recent count by ADP and Moody's Analytics.  — Moody's economist Mark Zandi said the current pace suggests an unemployment rate of close to 3 percent in a year.
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
GOP gloom: Republicans predict House majority will be swept away by Democratic ‘spending tsunami’  —  Five weeks before critical midterm elections, House Republicans are outgunned and outmanned as a constellation of well-resourced Democratic groups dedicated to winning the majority overwhelm GOP defenses.
Harriet Sherwood / The Guardian:
The chosen one?  The new film that claims Trump's election was an act of God  —  More than 1,000 US cinemas are screening The Trump Prophecy - which posits that God chose the philandering billionaire to restore America's moral values  —  It was, everyone agreed, a miracle.
Discussion: Political Wire
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
You Idiot Reporters Are Making It Worse  —  Every 15 seconds, you're demonstrating why millions of people love it when Trump calls you the fake news.  —  Before I get started, let me clarify something.  Groupthink, mob behavior, panic, etc. have a powerful capacity to make smart people dumb.
Axios:
Trump's 2020 dreams  —  President Trump is increasingly fantasizing in public and private about his 2020 campaign, using midterm rallies to talk as excitedly about his own re-election in 2020 as he does about the 2018 races that are just 34 days away.  —  What he's saying: Last night in Mississippi …
 
 
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