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10:05 AM ET, December 5, 2018

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CNBC:
Mueller says Michael Flynn gave ‘first-hand’ details of Trump transition team contacts with Russians  — Former national security advisor Michael Flynn has given special counsel Robert Mueller “first-hand” details of contacts between President Donald Trump's transition team and Russian government officials …
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Mueller's Flynn Memo Should Worry Kushner and Trump  —  The former national security adviser provided information about interactions between the presidential transition team and Russian officials.  —  Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser who pleaded guilty …
Discussion: Washington Post
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
From fishy beginning, Mueller case against Michael Flynn nears end with no jail recommendation  —  Michael Flynn has been waiting for more than a year to be sentenced.  The retired three-star Army general, who spent 24 days as the Trump White House national security adviser, pleaded guilty on Dec. 1 …
Washington Post:
Mueller seeks no prison time for former national security adviser Michael Flynn, citing his ‘substantial assistance’  —  Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III on Tuesday recommended that former national security adviser Michael Flynn serve no prison time, citing his “substantial assistance” …
Gregg Jarrett / Fox News:
Mueller strikes out trying to nail Trump - Flynn sentencing memo is a big nothing  —  A sentencing memo that Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed in U.S. District Court in Washington Tuesday recommending little or no prison time for President Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn …
Discussion: Power Line
New York Times:
Michael Flynn Should Serve Little Time, Mueller Says, Citing Cooperation
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Meadows tells Hannity that Flynn report is ‘good news for President Trump’
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller: Flynn gave ‘substantial assistance’ to probe, deserves little to no prison
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
New White House counsel to arrive as Democrats, Mueller close in
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
BuzzFeed News:
Inside The North Carolina Republican Vote Machine: Cash, Pills — And Ballots  —  BLADENBORO, North Carolina — The allegations that Republicans tampered with absentee ballots in a close North Carolina election represent the most serious federal election tampering case in years …
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Nick Ochsner / WBTV-TV:
Handwritten notes show efforts to collect absentee ballots in exchange for money in Bladen Co.
Discussion: Daily Kos
The Daily Beast:
Feds Target Butina's GOP Boyfriend as Foreign Agent  —  Paul Erickson served as accused Kremlin spy Maria Butina's guide as she penetrated the American conservative movement.  Now he's under investigation as a Russian agent, too.  —  BETSY WOODRUFF, ERIN BANCO12.5.18 8:00 AM ET
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
The Latest: Wisconsin Senate limits governor's power  —  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on Wisconsin Republican lawmakers moving to limit the powers of the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general (all times local):  —  The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate has passed …
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Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Wisconsin Republicans Approve Bills Stripping Power From Incoming Democratic Governor  —  MADISON, Wis. — After a rancorous, sleepless night of debate, Republican lawmakers early Wednesday pushed through a sweeping set of bills that will limit the power of Wisconsin's incoming governor, a Democrat.
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Fate of The Weekly Standard is uncertain, editor tells staff  —  New York (CNN Business)The fate of The Weekly Standard, the conservative magazine that has staked out a position as a publication on the right still critical of President Donald Trump, is uncertain, Editor-in-Chief Stephen Hayes told staff …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Why We Miss the WASPs  —  Their more meritocratic, diverse and secular successors rule us neither as wisely nor as well.  —  The nostalgia flowing since the passing of George H.W. Bush has many wellsprings: admiration for the World War II generation and its dying breed of warrior-politicians …
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Beto O'Rourke met with Barack Obama as he ponders a 2020 presidential campaign  —  Beto O'Rourke, weighing whether to mount a 2020 presidential bid, met recently with Barack Obama at his post-presidency offices in Washington.  —  The meeting, which was held on Nov. 16 at the former president's offices …
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Roger Stone won't shut up  —  Defying the advice of pretty much every defense lawyer in America, Roger Stone won't stop talking.  —  The longtime political adviser to President Donald Trump gives lengthy interviews about his role in the 2016 presidential election.
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg to meet with Senate Intelligence Committee in January
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and HuffPost
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Stone pleads the Fifth to snub Senate document request
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, USA Today and RT
Washington Post:
‘Chaos breeds chaos’: Trump's erratic and false claims roil the globe.  Again.  —  After his Argentine steak dinner last weekend with Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Trump announced that they had reached an “incredible deal” to temporarily suspend his trade war.
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New York Times:
You Don't Understand Tariffs, Man
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
President Trump traveled 250 yards to greet George W. Bush.  He used a stretch limo and an eight-vehicle motorcade to make the trip.  —  President Trump traversed a wide political chasm Tuesday evening when he personally welcomed George W. Bush, his occasional foil, to Blair House …
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“Everyone's for Sale”: A Generation of Digital-Media Darlings Prepares for a Frigid Winter  —  Vice, Vox, and BuzzFeed, among other companies that once heralded the dawn of a new media age, are now grappling with decidedly old-media problems.  —  It was around this time last year that things …
Discussion: CNN, more at Mediagazer »
Stephanie Murray / Politico:
Deval Patrick to announce he won't run for president, sources say  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is calling close allies and informing them he is not running for president in 2020, sources close to the governor tell POLITICO.  —  Patrick informed staff and advisers of his decision Tuesday …
Washington Post:
Facebook allegedly offered advertisers special access to users data and activities, according to documents released by British lawmakers  —  A key British lawmaker alleged Wednesday that Facebook maintained “whitelisting agreements” that gave select companies preferential access to valuable user data …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Washington Post:
How Trump appointees curbed a consumer protection agency loathed by the GOP  —  Mick Mulvaney struck a jovial tone as he introduced the political appointees who would run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.  One was nicknamed Dreamboat, he said in an email.  Another was Mumbles.
William Neuman / New York Times:
New York's Vanishing Mayor  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio spends far less time at City Hall than he once did, leading some city officials to ask: Has the mayor lost focus?  —  When the New York City commissioner who oversaw a much-criticized response to a recent snowstorm was told to resign late last week …
Discussion: www.wnyc.org
Chantal Da Silva / Newsweek:
Michelle Obama Tells a Secret: ‘I Have Been at Every Powerful Table You Can Think of... They Are Not That Smart’  —  Former first lady Michelle Obama confessed she still suffered from “imposter syndrome,” even as her memoir, Becoming, broke sales records last month and became the year's best-selling book 15 days after it was published.
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
14 Trump and Russia Questions Robert Mueller Knows the Answers To  —  MICHAEL FLYNN'S SENTENCING memo, filed yesterday with the most intriguing and interesting parts redacted by special counsel Robert Mueller, provided yet another frustrating glimpse into an investigation that seems at times almost maddeningly opaque.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
America's Two Political Parties Are Asymmetrical  —  Michael Avenatti was never going to be president.  The Avenatti boomlet, which began in August, lasted for a little less than three months, until the attorney officially took himself out of the running on Tuesday, citing concerns about his family.
Associated Press:
Michigan Legislature OKs gutting wage, paid sick time laws  —  LANSING, Mich. — The Republican-led Michigan Legislature on Tuesday passed bills that would delay a minimum wage hike and scale back paid sick leave requirements, an unprecedented lame-duck strategy that was endorsed legally …
Andy Shain / Post and Courier:
Nikki Haley sells SC home, plans to stay in New York, reportedly writing book  —  COLUMBIA — Former Gov. Nikki Haley is not coming straight back to the Palmetto State after she leaves the United Nations at year's end.  —  She plans on staying in New York where her son attends high school.
Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Rudy Giuliani Says Twitter Sabotaged His Tweet.  Actually, He Did It Himself.  —  To Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York mayor who is one of President Trump's lawyers, it was an example of how low Twitter would stoop to carry out its anti-Trump agenda.  —  It was, decidedly, no such thing.
John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
The Clintons Are Now The Spinal Tap Of The Political World  —  Prices: Bill and Hillary Clinton thought they were in high demand around the country.  Collapsing ticket prices to their “Evening With The Clintons” show how wrong they were.  It is, as the saying goes, a teachable moment.
Camille Paglia / Spectator USA:
‘Hillary wants Trump to win again’  —  Camille Paglia is one of the most interesting and explosive thinkers of our time.  She transgresses academic boundaries and blows up media forms.  She's brilliant on politics, art, literature, philosophy, and the culture wars.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Hill watchdog report: Rep. Garrett misused staff  —  The House Ethics Committee on Tuesday released a watchdog report accusing Rep. Tom Garrett of inappropriately using his congressional staff — allegations the panel is probing and that POLITICO first reported.
Lara Bazelon / New York Times:
I'm a Democrat and a Feminist.  And I Support Betsy DeVos's Title IX Reforms.  —  There is an uncomfortable truth in the current system.  No one wants to talk about it.  —  Ms. Bazelon is the director of the criminal juvenile justice and the racial justice clinics at the University of San Francisco School of Law.
Discussion: Chalkbeat and Althouse
 
 
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Discussion: Splinter and New York Times
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