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10:40 AM ET, December 7, 2018

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Sergio Chapa / Houston Chronicle:
Rex Tillerson makes rare public appearance in Houston  —  Russia interfered with the 2016 U.S. elections, former Secretary of State and Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson said during a Thursday evening visit to Houston.  —  Making his first public appearance in nearly nine months …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Rex Tillerson on Trump: ‘Undisciplined,’ 'doesn't like to read' and tries to do illegal things  —  Rex Tillerson came a little bit closer Thursday to saying what he actually thinks of President Trump.  —  The fired secretary of state, who while in office reportedly called Trump a “moron” …
Discussion: Political Wire
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Rex Tillerson Lets Loose on Working For ‘Undisciplined’ Trump: He 'Doesn't Like to Read' … Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered some revealing comments about President Trump on Thursday in a rare interview with CBS New' Bob Schieffer.  —  As the former Exxon Mobil CEO partook …
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
White House chief of staff John Kelly expected to resign soon  —  Washington (CNN)John Kelly is expected to resign as White House chief of staff in the coming days, two sources familiar with the situation unfolding in the West Wing tell CNN.  —  Seventeen months in, Kelly and President Donald Trump …
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Axios:
Trump's trio of traps ahead of 2020  —  President Trump faces three clear and imminent threats as he heads toward his 2020 reelection race — the economy slipping, Congress flipping and a Russia probe drip, drip, dripping.  And few inside the White House feel he is yet prepared or staffed for the hell about to hit them.
Bloomberg:
Trump to Pick Nauert to Replace Haley as UN Ambassador, Sources Say  — Nauert has been State Department spokeswoman, Fox News anchor  — Maintaining North Korea sanctions, defending Israel key jobs  —  President Donald Trump has decided to nominate State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert …
CNN:
Inside the frantic decision to open a Trump obstruction probe before Mueller got the job  —  Washington (CNN)In the hectic eight days after President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and top FBI officials viewed Trump as a leader who needed to be reined in …
Discussion: Breitbart, Raw Story and The Week
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Ryan Lucas / NPR:
Trump Says He'll Nominate William Barr To Return As Attorney General  —  President Trump said on Friday he intends to nominate William Barr, a prominent Republican lawyer and former attorney general, to lead the Justice Department.  —  Barr, who served as George H.W. Bush's attorney general …
Discussion: Bloomberg, Breitbart and Daily Wire
Politico:
Trump to nominate William Barr as attorney general
Discussion: Axios, Daily Kos and New Republic
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump ally who served on voter integrity panel expresses concern about fraud in North Carolina
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Republican officials had early warnings of voting irregularities in North Carolina
Wall Street Journal:
Only the Best Candidates for Federal Courts  —  We should stop bringing candidates with questionable track records on race before the full Senate for a vote.  —  Over the past two years the Senate has confirmed a record number of judicial nominees.  I have proudly voted for more than 99% of them …
Discussion: Politico
Associated Press:
Democrats speeding up their 2020 campaign launches  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Democrats are hitting fast forward.  —  The first major presidential campaign announcements could come before year's end.  The Democratic National Committee plans to announce a debate framework by then featuring 15 to 20 candidates.
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BostonGlobe.com:
Deval Patrick knew when to call it quits on a presidential bid. Other politicians take note
Fredreka Schouten / CNN:
Beto O'Rourke lands big Obama fundraiser — but many elite donors are playing the field in 2020
Discussion: KBZK
Tucker Carlson / Die Weltwoche:
Trump is not capable  —  Weekday nights Fox News Channel star, Tucker Carlson, can be found merrily berating hapless guests, grilling liberal pundits, and defending America's working and middle classes.  Puckish and pugilistic, the 49-year-old insists the Washington elites among whom he grew up despise America's “normal people.”
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Deanna Paul / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson says Trump is ‘not capable’ and hasn't kept his promises
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Poll: Republicans Are Only Group That Mostly Sees Mueller Probe As A ‘Witch Hunt’  —  President Trump continues to rail against special counsel Robert Mueller and his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Rick Klein / ABC News:
The Note: Mueller takes center stage after week remembering Bush's GOP
Discussion: Politico
Kristopher Tapley / Variety:
Kevin Hart Refuses to Apologize, Despite Academy Ultimatum, for Past Anti-Gay Comments  —  It appears the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences may be looking for a new host for the upcoming Oscars ceremony very soon.  —  In a new Instagram video, Kevin Hart, who was tapped to emcee …
Discussion: Hot Air, The Root and The Week
Jack Suntrup / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Missouri Secretary of State Ashcroft launches investigation into Josh Hawley  —  • Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft has launched an investigation into the way Attorney General Josh Hawley ran his attorney general's office, Ashcroft's deputy general counsel wrote to the Democratic-allied American Democracy Legal Fund on Thursday.
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Kansas City Star:   Missouri Secretary of State begins investigation into Josh Hawley
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Millennials aren't breaking traditions.  They're just broke.  —  Millennials are a murderous bunch, a generation of homicidal maniacs.  —  At least that's the impression you get from reading news stories about my generation.  —  According to the headlines, we've wreaked carnage across the economy with our fickle, selfish tastes.
Discussion: The Atlantic
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
I'm not calling to revive WASP culture.  Just to learn from it.  —  The death of George H.W. Bush has occasioned a fair amount of nostalgia for the old American establishment, of which Bush was undoubtedly a prominent member.  It has also provoked a heated debate among commentators about that establishment …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
We're now seeing the Trump economy  —  I'm old enough to remember when President Trump boasted about the stock market.  No more.  As of this writing, the Dow Jones industrial average is sharply down, again, the fall triggered this time by the arrest in Canada of Huawei Technologies' chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou.
Carla Marinucci / Politico:
State GOP chairman warns California is ‘canary in the coal mine’ for national party  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The outgoing chair of the California GOP — the nation's largest state Republican Party — has issued a dire warning that his state represents “the canary in the coal mine” …
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
At ‘60 Minutes,’ Independence Led to Trouble, Investigators Say  —  For decades, “60 Minutes” has reigned at the top of television news, bringing in hundreds of journalistic awards, not to mention weekly ratings for CBS that are the envy of the industry.  The success has allowed “60 Minutes” …
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump advisers fear 2020 nightmare: A recession  —  President Donald Trump's economic officials are reassuring investors about recent white-knuckle stock market volatility, while Trump's political advisers are increasingly alarmed that the economy could present a stiff 2020 campaign headwind.
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed News:
Reporters At Bloomberg News Are Worried About Michael Bloomberg's Potential Presidential Run  —  Reporters at Bloomberg News are on edge after their boss announced that if he chooses to run for president in 2020 — a decision he will have to finalize relatively soon — it could mean the end of the news outlet's political coverage.
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Making President Trump's Bed: A Housekeeper Without Papers  —  At the president's New Jersey golf course, an undocumented immigrant has worked as a maid since 2013.  She said she never imagined she “would see such important people close up.”  —  BEDMINSTER, N.J. — During more than five years …
Chuck Schumer / Washington Post:
No deal on infrastructure without addressing climate change  —  Chuck Schumer,a Democrat from New York, is Senate minority leader.  —  Now that Democrats will soon control one branch of Congress, President Trump is again signaling that infrastructure could be an area of compromise.
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Your Tax Dollars Help Starve Children  —  The famine in Yemen could become the worst the world has seen in a generation.  —  ADEN, Yemen  —  He is an eight-year-old boy who is starving and has limbs like sticks, but Yaqoob Walid doesn't cry or complain.  He gazes stolidly ahead …
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Trump is a political vampire  —  They wander the halls of public buildings and haunt receptions like the ghosts of the GOP past — the cohort of Republican senators and House members who will be leaving office with the arrival of the new Congress.  Some chose retirement because they did not …
Discussion: Raw Story
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Anti-Zionism Isn't the Same as Anti-Semitism  —  American Jews have nothing to fear from the new congressional critics of Israel.  —  On Monday, in an interview with The Intercept, Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat who in November became the first Palestinian-American elected to Congress …
 
 
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Abby Livingston / Politico:
The Hardest Glass Ceiling in Politics
Ashe Schow / Daily Wire:
It's Now Racist To Ask Students To ‘Be Respectful In Class’
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Ten questions for James Comey
Discussion: Power Line
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
With at least 16 members running, Congress will be another staging ground for 2020 presidential race
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Fox News Insider:
Nunes: FBI Email Chain May Provide Evidence of FISA Abuses
Nicole Chavez / CNN:
CNN's New York offices evacuated due to bomb threat
Pema Levy / Mother Jones:
Florida Voted to Give Ex-Felons the Franchise.  Now Republicans Are Throwing a Wrench in That Process.
Discussion: Splinter
Wall Street Journal:
Prosecutors Looking at Turkey Lobbying by Michael Flynn's Ex-Firm
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Maria Butina plea deal may be near
Isabel Wilkerson / New York Times:
Isabel Wilkerson on Michelle Obama's ‘Becoming’ and the Great Migration
BuzzFeed News:
A Mysterious Imposter Account Was Used On Facebook To Drum Up Support For The Migrant Caravan
Mark Follman / Mother Jones:
Documents Point to Illegal Campaign Coordination Between Trump and the NRA
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