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2:40 PM ET, December 7, 2018

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CNN:
Exclusive: Mueller investigators questioned John Kelly in obstruction probe  —  Washington (CNN)White House chief of staff John Kelly was interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller's team in recent months, three people with knowledge of the matter told CNN.
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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 …
Dana Bash / CNN:
Giuliani says Mueller has accused Manafort of lying about Trump  —  Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has made clear to Paul Manafort's attorneys that they believe the former Trump campaign chair is lying to them about President Donald Trump, according to the President's attorney Rudy Giuliani.
Discussion: Washington Post and KBZK
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Kelly Is Expected to Leave Post as Trump Shakes Up Administration  —  Move comes amid new nominations for U.N. ambassador, attorney general  —  WASHINGTON—Chief of Staff John Kelly is expected to leave his post soon, people close to the White House said, as President Trump begins putting …
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
‘It violates the law’: Tillerson vents about having to repeatedly push back against Trump  —  Nearly nine months after his unceremonious firing by tweet, former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is breaking his silence on his time in the Trump administration, venting that he had to repeatedly …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Politico
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” …
Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:   Tillerson says he often had to tell Trump that his directive ‘violates the law’
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Rex Tillerson Lets Loose on Working For ‘Undisciplined’ Trump: He 'Doesn't Like to Read'
Discussion: CNN and The Week
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.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:   Robert Mueller's big Friday: The special counsel is set to release new details about former …
Ryan Lucas / NPR:
The Mueller Russia Investigation: A Full Docket Of Developments Set For Friday
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, HuffPost and Raw Story
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Mueller's new filings on Manafort and Cohen could reveal more about the investigation
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Times:
North Carolina Republican Owes $34,310 for Disputed Absentee Ballot and Turnout Work, Records Show  —  LUMBERTON, N.C. — The congressional campaign of Mark Harris disclosed late Thursday night that it owed more than $34,000 in connection with an absentee ballot and voter turnout operation …
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NBC News:   North Carolina GOP candidate owes $34,000 to scrutinized consultant
Nick Ochsner / WBTV-TV:   ‘I give it to them and they mailed it off’ Bladen absentee voter recounts casting his ballot
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 …
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Shane Harris / Washington Post:
Justice Department office issued guidance on Whitaker's role in Russia probe  —  A Justice Department ethics office has received requests for advice and issued guidance concerning acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker's involvement in the special counsel's investigation of Russian interference …
Discussion: Lawfare, ThinkProgress and Daily Kos
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed News:
The Justice Department Still Hasn't Told The Government Accountability Office That Jeff Sessions Quit
Discussion: Political Wire
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: Vox, Talking Points Memo and Politico
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.
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Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal:
As Trade Battle Unfolds, Trump Keeps Close Focus on Markets
Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed News:
Ammon Bundy Is Quitting The Militia Movement After Breaking With Trump On Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric  —  For more than six years Ammon Bundy and his family amassed hundreds of followers and supporters willing to pick up a gun at a moment's notice and rally to their side for a confrontation with the federal government.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Emily Jashinsky / The Federalist:
Kevin Hart Missed A Big Opportunity To Stare Down The Outrage Mob  —  Kevin Hart should be hosting the Oscars.  But now he won't, because of homosexuality-related jokes he made a decade ago.  —  Kevin Hart was supposed to host the Oscars.  The comedian was tapped by the Academy on Tuesday to preside over February's ceremony.
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Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“They're All Too Old”: Democrats Face a Generational Reckoning  —  The choice in the 2020 primary ultimately comes down to one thing: who is best prepared to beat Trump at a time when Trump owns the culture?  Someone who actually understands culture would be a start.
BBC:
TUI refunds holiday for ‘horrifying’ dead son tribute  —  Hotel staff created a “horrifying” effigy of a couple's dead son in a misguided attempt at a tribute.  —  Karen Baker had arranged for workers at a Jamaican resort to dress a room for friends Faye and Andrew Stephens, whose son Alex died in 2014.
Libby Watson / Splinter:
Access Journalism Must Die  —  In the Atlantic today, Elaina Plott published what she described as a piece about “why it's so annoying when people sneer at so-called ‘access journalism.’” She went there, folks.  —  Plott's piece is a defense of access journalism by way of praising Richard Ben Cramer's book What it Takes.
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Victorina Morales Spoke Out Against President Trump.  What Price Will She Pay?  —  Victorina Morales, a housekeeper at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., disclosed in an interview with The New York Times this week that she had been working illegally at the facility for more than five years.
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 …
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: Raw Story
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 …
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Readies Charges Against Chinese Hackers  —  Government-linked hackers allegedly engaged in a multiyear scheme to break into U.S. technology service providers  —  Federal prosecutors are expected to unseal criminal charges as soon as next week against hackers linked to the Chinese government …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Federal Judge: Hillary E-Mail Dodge “One Of The Gravest Modern Offenses To Government Transparency”  —  Yes, Virginia, there actually is a corruption scandal in Hillary Clinton's e-mail choices — or at least that's what Judge Royce Lamberth thinks.  In allowing a lawsuit by Judicial Watch to continue …
Discussion: Daily Wire and Politico
 
 
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Ted Cruz endorses John Cornyn for re-election
Jo Craven McGinty / Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: Weekly Standard
Vera Bergengruen / BuzzFeed News:
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Fox News:
Clinton Foundation whistleblowers have come forward with hundreds of pages of evidence, Meadows says
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Caller
Rory Appleton / Sacramento Bee:
Valadao concedes in California congressional race
Washington Post:
German conservatives pick a Merkel ally to be party leader, signaling continuity and a long goodbye
Washington Post:
Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch, who signed letter opposing Rep. Nancy Pelosi's speaker bid …
Discussion: Political Wire
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Millennials aren't breaking traditions. They're just broke.
Discussion: The Atlantic
Urs Gehriger / Die Weltwoche:
Trump is not capable  —  Weekday nights Fox News Channel star …
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
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