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9:45 PM ET, November 30, 2018

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CNN:
Cohen believed Trump would pardon him, but then things changed  —  Washington (CNN)Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney for President Donald Trump who is now a key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, was under the impression Trump would offer him a pardon …
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Philip Ewing / NPR:
Cohen's Account Of Russia Talks Raises Questions About Trump Jr. 2017 Testimony  —  Updated at 4 p.m. ET … This week's guilty plea by Donald Trump's ex-attorney Michael Cohen has raised questions about Donald Trump Jr.'s testimony to Congress regarding his family's real estate negotiations with powerful Russians.
Ben Wolfgang / Washington Times:
Sen. Richard Burr on Cohen plea: 'If you lie to us, we're going to go after you'  —  Senate Intel chairman says committee has made multiple referrals for criminal prosecutions to Mueller  —  AUSTIN, Texas — A day after President Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty …
John R. Schindler / Observer:
As Trump Panic-Tweets, Putin Cracks His Whip and Shows Him Who's Boss  —  This was the week that the bottom fell out of Donald Trump's presidency.  After almost two years of White House denials that Candidate Trump had any ties to Russia in 2016, that turns out to be just one more Trumpian lie.
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
What long-ago ‘favor’ made Trump keep Michael Cohen around?  Here are my guesses.  —  Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about a real estate project in Moscow that the president was pursuing while he campaigned for office.
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Conservatives, Prepare Yourself Now for What Mueller May Find  —  How we react in the aftermath of the special counsel's findings will determine the future of the Republican Party and, possibly, the country.  —  Matt Lewis  —  Things are speeding up in Robert Mueller's universe.
David French / National Review:
NPR Takes a Big Swing at Donald Trump Jr., Misses Badly  —  Earlier today NPR published a report entitled “Trump Jr.'s 2017 Testimony Conflicts with Cohen's Account of Russian Talks.”  —  That's big news . . . if true.  —  If Trump's testimony is in conflict with Cohen's new version …
Discussion: Mediaite and twitchy.com
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
NPR Blatantly Lies About Donald Trump Jr.'s 2017 Senate Testimony
Discussion: twitchy.com
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Michael Cohen's plea deal shows that Russia did have something on Trump
Bloomberg:
Acting AG Appears to Have Misled FTC Over Actions at Miami Firm  — FTC emails show Whitaker denied communicating with customers  — Officials also expressed surprise at AG's hiring of Whitaker  —  New documents released by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission suggest …
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Washington Post:
Trump's acting attorney general once referred to the president's behavior as 'a little dangerous …
Associated Press:
The Latest: AP retracts call in North Carolina Congress race  —  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on a North Carolina congressional race that remains in dispute more than three weeks after election day (all times local):  —  The Associated Press is retracting its call of a winner for U.S. House …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
There's something very weird going on with this House election in North Carolina  —  State officials refuse to certify the results of a US House race in North Carolina.  It's a wild story.  —  North Carolina election officials have declined to certify the winner of the state's Ninth …
New York Times:
Dodging Friends, Chased by Legal Troubles, Trump Navigates G-20  —  BUENOS AIRES — He didn't sit down with two of his favorite strongmen.  He downgraded a meeting with one ally and postponed one with another.  He exchanged icy smiles with the prime minister of Canada …
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Michael Sykes / Axios:
In photos: Trump, Putin and MBS collide at the G20
Raul M. Grijalva / Associated Press:
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke must resign.  His multiple scandals show he's unfit to serve.  —  Ryan Zinke needs to resign immediately as Secretary of the Interior.  —  I take no pleasure in calling for this step, and I have resisted it even as questions have grown about Mr. Zinke's ethical and managerial failings.
Arjun Singh / wgbh.org:
Moulton Calls Ocasio-Cortez's Tweet Defending Nancy Pelosi ‘Offensive’  —  Moulton: Ocasio-Cortez's Criticism Was Offensive  —  Salem Democrat Seth Moulton could be considered one of the rising stars of the Democratic Party.  After doing four tours of duty in Iraq, Moulton splashed onto …
Discussion: Townhall and Splinter
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Aída Chávez / The Intercept:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Leads Opposition to Coal Puppet Joe Manchin for Top Senate Energy Slot
Discussion: Politico and BuzzFeed News
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
A low-key Colorado Democrat is trying to settle the Nancy Pelosi speaker dispute
Discussion: Politico and Daily Herald
New York Times:
Louisiana School Made Headlines for Sending Black Kids to Elite Colleges.  Here's the Reality.  —  T.M. Landry, a school in small-town Louisiana, has garnered national attention for vaulting its underprivileged black students to elite colleges.  But the school cut corners and doctored college applications.
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Six White House officials reprimanded for violating the Hatch Act  —  Six White House officials violated a federal law that prohibits public employees from conducting political activity in their official roles when they used their official Twitter accounts to send or display political messages …
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Government watchdog finds six Trump staffers violated Hatch Act
Discussion: Axios, IJR and The Gateway Pundit
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Mia Love pans Trump and the GOP for failure to make women and minorities feel welcome  —  Having lost her reelection bid, Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, is unloading on the Republican Party and its leader, chiding President Trump for making women and minorities feel unwelcome and warning …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP governors call out Trump after midterm drubbing
TMZ.com:
KC Chiefs Cut Kareem Hunt Over Video of Him Brutalizing Woman  —  6:27 PM PT — Hunt just made a statement to ESPN about our video, saying, “I want to apologize for my actions.  I deeply regret what I did.  I hope to move on from this.”  —  5:50 PM PT — The Chiefs have cut Kareem Hunt …
Anchorage Daily News:
Large earthquake, aftershocks, strike Southcentral Alaska, damage reported around region  —  A large earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 struck Alaska near Anchorage early Friday morning, damaging roads and buildings, knocking out power and sending people fleeing from buildings and to safety beneath door jambs.
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Trump defender Alan Dershowitz is deeply involved in the sordid Jeffrey Epstein scandal  —  Attorney Alan Dershowitz's name appears 19 times in an investigative report on the ways billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein manipulated the legal system to torment his accusers and escape serious punishment.
Discussion: The Intellectualist
Women in the World:
Dominatrix specializes in turning ‘white, right-wing men’ into socialists  —  A growing wave of sex-positive feminists are working to usher in what they describe as a “pleasure revolution” in which women's sexuality is embraced, rather than stigmatized, by both individuals and society at large.
Peter Granitz / NPR:
McCaskill Blames Senate Defeat On Democratic ‘Failure’ With Rural America  —  Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., is about to head home after losing her bid for re-election, and in defeat she's blaming her own Democratic Party for abandoning moderates.  —  McCaskill has represented Missouri in the Senate since 2007.
Max Read / New York Magazine:
Why Is Tucker Carlson Mad About Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?  A Guide to the Content Cycle.  —  On Thursday night, Tucker Carlson, his brow furrowed in a perfect imitation of a human facial expression, devoted a segment to the beloved children's Christmas special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer …
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Scott suspends Broward's controversial election chief before she can quit early  —  MIAMI — Before she could retire early in January, Gov. Rick Scott decided Friday to suspend Brenda Snipes, Broward County's troubled election supervisor, from office following a series of voting …
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Exclusive: Homeland Security chief issues unusual plea for help against ‘caravans’  —  Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has requested the deployment of civilian law enforcement officers from several other Cabinet departments to the U.S.-Mexico border as early as next week, according to an internal memo obtained by POLITICO.
Discussion: Townhall, Axios and Bloomberg
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Mueller could hit Manafort with retrial, new charges  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller's office is considering retrying former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on a slew of federal charges that resulted in a hung jury over the summer.  —  At a hearing in federal court Friday morning …
Justin Rohrlich / GovExec.com:
Trump's Secret Service May Have Just Set A Spending Record For Presidential Golf Carts  —  The Secret Service has allocated more than $90,000 for golf cart rentals in South Florida this winter, ostensibly to protect president Donald Trump while he hits the links.
Luppe B. Luppen / Yahoo News:
How one accountant links Whitaker's nonprofit to network of dark money groups  —  The offices of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), the nonprofit once headed by acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, are located at a shared workspace on K Street in Washington, D.C., a couple blocks from the White House.
 
 
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