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New York Times:
Manafort's Lawyer Said to Brief Trump Attorneys on What He Told Mueller  —  WASHINGTON — A lawyer for Paul Manafort, the president's onetime campaign chairman, repeatedly briefed President Trump's lawyers on his client's discussions with federal investigators after Mr. Manafort agreed …
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Anna Schecter / NBC News:
Mueller has emails from Stone pal Corsi about WikiLeaks Dem email dump  —  “Word is (Julian Assange) plans 2 more dumps...Impact planned to be very damaging,” Jerome Corsi said in email to Stone, say draft court documents.  —  Two months before WikiLeaks released emails stolen from the Clinton campaign …
The Guardian:
Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy  —  Exclusive: Trump ally met WikiLeaks founder months before emails hacked by Russia were published  —  Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London …
CNN:
Stone's efforts to seek WikiLeaks documents detailed in draft Mueller document  —  Washington (CNN)Draft court filings obtained by CNN outline significant insights into what special counsel Robert Mueller may know about Roger Stone's efforts to seek documents from WikiLeaks in 2016.
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
Robert Mueller's Endgame May Be in Sight  —  HISTORY MAY SHOW that Monday ranks among the most consequential days yet of Robert Mueller's 18-month special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.  —  As George Papadopoulos, one of the most enigmatic characters …
Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
Unkempt, Heavily Bearded Julian Assange No Longer Has Embassy Cat For Company
Washington Post:
Corsi provided early alert to Stone about WikiLeaks release, according to draft special counsel document
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Associated Press:   Manafort allegations throw new uncertainty into Russia probe
Washington Post:
Draft Jerome Corsi statement of offense
Discussion: Vox and Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:   Jerome Corsi Says Roger Stone Sought ‘Cover Story’ for 2016 Tweet
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
MSNBC declines to allow Sarah Sanders to dictate its programming  —  It had been nearly a month since Sarah Sanders had held what was once known as a “daily” briefing.  So when the White House press secretary — along with White House officials Larry Kudlow and John Bolton …
Discussion: New York Times
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Julian Borger / The Guardian:
White House prevents Gina Haspel from briefing Senate on Khashoggi murder  —  Mike Pompeo and James Mattis are due to give a briefing on US relations with Saudi Arabia to Senate on Wednesday  —  The White House is preventing the CIA director, Gina Haspel, or any other intelligence official …
Mike Pompeo / Wall Street Journal:
The U.S.-Saudi Partnership Is Vital  —  We don't condone Jamal Khashoggi's murder.  But the kingdom is a powerful force for Mideast stability.  —  The Trump administration's effort to rebuild the U.S.-Saudi Arabia partnership isn't popular in the salons of Washington …
Washington Post:
Trump slams Fed chair, questions climate change and threatens to cancel Putin meeting in wide-ranging interview with The Post  —  President Trump placed responsibility for recent stock market declines and this week's General Motors plant closures and layoffs on the Federal Reserve during an interview Tuesday …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
President Trump's full Washington Post interview transcript, annotated  —  President Trump sat for an interview Tuesday with The Washington Post's Philip Rucker and Josh Dawsey.  Below is the full transcript, with key segments highlighted for fact-checking and analysis.  —  RUCKER: Thanks for taking some time with us.
Washington Post:
Trump on climate change: 'People like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but we're not necessarily such believers.'  —  President Trump on Tuesday dismissed a landmark report compiled by 13 federal agencies detailing how damage from global warming is intensifying throughout the country …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jenny Odell / New York Times:
A Business With No End … Part I: Zooming Out  —  Recently, one of my students at Stanford told me a strange story.  His parents, who live in Palo Alto, Calif., had been receiving mysterious packages at their house.  The packages were all different shapes and sizes but each was addressed to …
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The Khashoggi killing had roots in a cutthroat Saudi family feud  —  Behind the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi lies a power struggle within the Saudi royal family that helped feed the paranoia and recklessness of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.  Eventually, this rage in the royal court led …
Discussion: New Republic
Washington Post:
Trump says he's considering a Plan B if Congress rejects his demand for $5 billion in border wall funding  —  President Trump said he is considering a backup plan if Congress rejects his demand for $5 billion in funding for his border wall, potentially including the continued use of troops …
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Google chief executive Sundar Pichai set to testify to Congress in December
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why not build a border barrier? It's the law
Discussion: The Hill and twitchy.com
David Roth / The Concourse:
Please Enjoy This Enormous Australian Cow  —  What you're looking at here is a cow named Knickers, a Holstein Friesian that lives on a farm in Western Australia with a bunch of other regulation-size cows that honestly look laughably small—like a child's toys, like a dull child's stupid playthings—in comparison.
Discussion: PerthNow and Jezebel
Associated Press:
US waived FBI checks on staff at growing teen migrant camp  —  TORNILLO, Texas (AP) — The Trump administration has put the safety of thousands of teens at a migrant detention camp at risk by waiving FBI fingerprint checks for their caregivers and short-staffing mental health workers …
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Molly Langmuir / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump Is Destroying My Marriage  —  “Shortly after the election is when I became aware of it,” says Lois Brenner, a New York-based divorce attorney.  “People were thinking about splitting up their marriages because of political differences.”  She'd never encountered this before …
David French / National Review:
Flawed Media Coverage of Obama Hurts America Still  —  Right and Left both have reasons to exaggerate how ideological a president is.  —  I knew it.  I knew the instant I saw Twitter erupt in outrage at the use of tear gas to disperse a crowd of people charging our southern border that someone …
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
The NRA Just Reported Losing $55 Million in Income  —  The gun-rights group has its biggest champion in the White House.  But its financial situation has worsened in the age of Trump  —  The nation's leading gun-rights organization saw its income drop by $55 million last year …
Discussion: OpenSecrets.org, Axios and Splinter
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
The Chevy Volt Is A Dream Car And Now GM Is Killing It  —  Even some of America's best engineering couldn't save it.  —  General Motors just killed the best car you've never owned.  —  I am talking about the Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid GM has been producing since 2010.
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump trashed new Pompeo aide as ‘major loser’  —  Mary Kissel often took a dim view of President Donald Trump's foreign policy.  As a Wall Street Journal editorial writer, she tweeted about his “frightening ignorance,” criticized his approach on Syria and China, and said Putin …
Discussion: Daily Wire
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
With McCain's replacement likely to leave, GOP is split over appointing this year's loser in Senate race  —  Days after the midterm election, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey spoke privately about a sensitive topic with far-reaching implications …
ProPublica:
A Defendant Shows Up in Immigration Court by Himself.  He's 6.  —  It was shortly before Thanksgiving in an immigration court in San Antonio, and the third defendant to come before Judge Anibal Martinez walked into the courtroom without an attorney, wearing a gray winter hat that was stitched …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Ginger Thompson / ProPublica:
Families Are Still Being Separated at the Border, Months After “Zero Tolerance” Was Reversed
Discussion: Splinter
Jim Morrill / The Charlotte Observer:
NC elections board refuses to certify 9th District race, leaving it in limbo  —  The state board of elections Tuesday declined to certify the results of the 9th Congressional District election after one board member cited what he called “unfortunate activities” in the eastern part of the district.
Martin Walsh / The American Mirror:
VIDEO: Hillary suffers massive coughing fit during first tour stop  —  The Clintons kicked off their speaking tour with Hillary suffering from an uncontrollable coughing fit.  —  While addressing a half-empty crowd at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Canada, on Tuesday night, the former secretary of state
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Brett Kavanaugh worried that scandal would end his coaching days.  Now the Supreme Court justice is back on the basketball court.  —  Brett M. Kavanaugh has his new day job on the nation's highest court but is still “Coach K” on the basketball court.  —  The Supreme Court's newest justice …
Discussion: twitchy.com
Madeline Berg / Forbes:
The World's Highest-Paid TV Hosts 2018: Judge Judy Presides With $147 Million  —  For the first year ever, Judy Sheindlin—more commonly known as Judge Judy—reigns supreme not only in her own courtroom, but also across all of television.  Pocketing $147 million pretax last year …
Discussion: Mashable
Chris Peters / Omaha World-Herald:
Hundreds of people stood in the chilly air of Omaha National Cemetery on Tuesday to honor a Vietnam veteran who died with few known family members.  —  A line of cars stretched from the cemetery along Highway 50 to Interstate 80 at 2 p.m. Tuesday, the scheduled start time for the interment.
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Linda Sarsour uses the blood of murdered Jews to line her pockets  —  In Linda Sarsour's recent statement of nonapology to the public, she defended her anti-Semitic embrace of Louis Farrakhan and the BDS, or boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement, by mentioning that her organization …
Discussion: twitchy.com, Townhall and Jihad Watch
Will Leitch / New York Magazine:
The Weird Dwight Howard Saga Shows the NBA Still Has a Problem With the Closet  —  Will Leitch's Games column runs weekly.  Email him at will.leitch@nymag.com.  —  This past September, it was seven years since I wrote, in this magazine, “The Last Closet,” a feature about the total insanity that …
Ed Whelan / National Review:
Third Circuit to Flip?  —  With the news that Judge Thomas Vanaskie will take senior status this Friday, the Third Circuit is poised to be the first federal court of appeals to flip from a majority of Democratic appointees at the outset of the Trump administration to a majority of Republican appointees.
Discussion: Power Line
Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
Proposal to rename D.C. street outside Saudi Embassy for Khashoggi gains support  —  A neighborhood advisory panel in Washington that typically focuses on liquor license applications and other local concerns is inserting itself into the international furor prompted by the murder …
 
 
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