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12:35 PM ET, November 23, 2018

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democrats must hold Trump accountable on Saudi Arabia.  Adam Schiff explains how.  —  President Trump has again brushed off the horrifying murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, blithely claiming that the Saudi crown prince “vehemently denied” any role in the killing.
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New York Times:
Saudis Want a U.S. Nuclear Deal.  Can They Be Trusted Not to Build a Bomb?  —  WASHINGTON — Before Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was implicated by the C.I.A. in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, American intelligence agencies were trying to solve a separate mystery …
Reuters:   CIA Has Recording of Saudi Crown Prince Ordering Khashoggi Silenced, Turkish Media Reports
United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations:   Menendez, Corker Demand Determination on Saudi Crown Prince Role in Murder of Jamal Khashoggi
Reuters:   Turkish paper: CIA had recording of Saudi prince demanding Khashoggi be ‘silenced’
Washington Post:
Stone associate Jerome Corsi is in plea negotiations with special counsel, according to a person with knowledge of the talks  —  Conservative writer and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi is in plea negotiations with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, according to a person with knowledge of the talks.
Rafael Carranza / Arizona Republic:
Migrant caravan: Tijuana declares humanitarian crisis, asks for international help  —  The mayor of Tijuana declared an international humanitarian crisis on Thursday over the arrival of more than 5,000 mostly Central American migrants traveling in a caravan.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Wendy Fry / sandiegouniontribune.com:
Small group breaks from caravan to press within 500 feet of U.S. border in Tijuana
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Daily Wire
Tom Elliott / Grabien News:   Trump Warns: We May Close ‘the Whole Border’ with Mexico if Things Get ‘Uncontrollable’
Randall Eliason / Sidebars:
Judge in Mueller Case Upholds Legal Theory that Makes Collusion a Crime  —  Is collusion a crime?  Since the beginning of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, allegations of “collusion” have dominated the debate.  President Trump regularly claims there was “no collusion” …
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Warning signs mount for Trump reelection bid  —  Donald Trump insists the GOP's midterm election shellacking had nothing to do with him.  Things will be different, he says, when his name is actually on the ballot in 2020.  —  While it's true that most presidents who see their party suffer major losses …
CNN:
Young, rich and loyal: Nick Ayers could be Trump's next chief of staff  —  Washington (CNN)As President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence prepared to gather for their weekly lunch in August 2017, the President told his staff to add two more plates.  —  Both men had just welcomed …
Discussion: Mediaite
Elana Schor / Politico:
Sherrod Brown sets his sights on Trump in 2020  —  Democrat Sherrod Brown just won reelection resoundingly in a Trump state running on Trump's issues — taking a hard line on trade and helping blue-collar workers.  —  Now the Ohio senator is talking increasingly like he's prepared to take on the president himself.
Discussion: Political Wire
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John Russo / American Prospect:   Ohio: Another Brick in the Red Wall?
Page Six:
National Enquirer editor writing book about ‘Trump and his women’ … The National Enquirer's long-held secrets about Donald Trump may be about to get substantially less secret.  —  Page Six is told that the longtime executive editor of the tabloid, Barry Levine, is penning a book for Hachette about the president.
Discussion: Raw Story, Hill Reporter and Mediaite
Louisa Loveluck / Washington Post:
One of Syria's most famous activists killed by assassins in rebel stronghold  —  BEIRUT — One of Syria's most famous activists was assassinated by gunmen, according to associates, underscoring the mortal threats facing a dwindling pool of dissidents who still openly oppose government and extremist forces there.
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Alex MacDonald / Middle East Eye:
Prominent Syrian opposition activist Raed Fares shot dead in Idlib
Discussion: The Guardian and Al Jazeera
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Is a Recession Coming?  —  In December 2007, Larry Kudlow, then a talking head for the business network CNBC, proclaimed, “There's no recession coming.  It's not going to happen.”  That same month, the economy plunged into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider:
‘We are not robots’: Thousands of Amazon workers across Europe are striking on Black Friday over warehouse working conditions  — Thousands of Amazon workers across Europe were striking and protesting on Black Friday in anger at the company's warehouse working conditions.
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Associated Press:   Amazon staff in Europe protest to coincide with Black Friday
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
When Mike Pence met Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping  —  Vice President Pence was not planning to meet with the leaders of Russia or China during his Asia trip last week, but they sought him out anyway.  In several conversations with Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang …
Discussion: emptywheel, Mediaite and Raw Story
Associated Press:
Impeach the president?  House Democrats saying not so fast  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Whatever happened to trying to impeach President Donald Trump?  —  As House Democrats begin laying out the vision for their new majority, that item is noticeably missing from the to-do list and firmly on the margins.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Miriam Herschlag / The Times of Israel:
Israeli named by Trump Russia probe convict dismisses ‘absurd’ spy allegations  —  After George Papadopoulos, the first Trump official to plead guilty in Mueller probe, dragged him into the headlines, businessman Charles Tawil gives his side of the story  —  DUBAI — Israeli businessman Charles Tawil …
Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Disapproval of Trump's handling of race relations hits 60 percent  —  One of the first polls published after the midterm elections gives President Trump low marks in an area where he has been viewed negatively since the days before he occupied the Oval Office: race relations.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Karen Townsend / NewsBusters:
‘Murphy Brown’ Threatens ICE Agents: ‘I Will Spatchcock You,’ Tries Intimidation to Stop Raid  —  Nothing says “Thanksgiving” like some virtue-shaming dialogue about illegal immigration recited by a liberal Hollywood feminist, am I right?  The Thanksgiving episode of CBS's Murphy Brown …
Discussion: Breitbart
 
 
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders: Lion of the Left, but Not the Only One Roaring
Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
Senate clash looming over nation's longest judicial vacancy
Carol Robinson / al.com:
Riverchase Galleria Thanksgiving shooting: 2 injured including girl, 12; suspect killed by Hoover police
Discussion: Townhall, fox8.com and KRON
Patrick Wintour / The Guardian:
US media must ‘get smarter’ to tackle Trump, says Hillary Clinton
Discussion: Mediaite
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Why the Announcement of a Looming White Minority Makes Demographers Nervous
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Multimillionaire Trump Fan and Fox News Advertiser Jumps Into Film Financing
Discussion: Daily Wire
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Media Availability with Secretary Mattis
Discussion: Military Times and Washington Post
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
How Democrats Can Deliver on Health Care
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RFE / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
One-Fifth Of Russians Live In Poverty, 36 Percent In ‘Risk Zone,’ Study Finds
CNN:
After his politicized Thanksgiving call, maybe Trump should not visit the troops
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TPUSA Staffer Shut Down by Fox News Host After Comparing Hillary to Herpes: ‘Not Appropriate’
 

 
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