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2:35 PM ET, December 8, 2018

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The Daily Beast:
Mueller Is Telling Us: He's Got Trump on Collusion  —  The special counsel is connecting the dots and it doesn't paint a pretty picture for Trump.  —  For nearly two years, since the U.S. intelligence community released its report on the Russian campaign to assist Donald Trump in the 2016 election …
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New York Times:
Is This the Beginning of the End for Trump?  —  Sentencing memos reveal damning evidence about collusion and campaign finance violations.  —  Mr. Berke is a lawyer specializing in white-collar criminal defense.  Mr. Bookbinder is a former federal corruption prosecutor.
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
The Mueller Investigation Nears the Worst Case Scenario  —  WE ARE DEEP into the worst case scenarios.  But as new sentencing memos for Trump associates Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen make all too clear, the only remaining question is how bad does the actual worst case scenario get?
Ken White / The Atlantic:
Manafort, Cohen, and Individual 1 Are in Grave Danger  —  Federal prosecutors filed three briefs late on Friday portending grave danger for three men: the former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, the former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, and President Donald Trump.
Discussion: USAPP
Mike Allen / Axios:
When Russia approached, Trump officials gladly obliged  —  The flashing siren in the “known knowns” of the Russia probe is how often people close to Vladimir Putin approached people close to Donald J. Trump — and how often they gladly connected.  And then lied about it.
Discussion: Raw Story, Breitbart and Politico
Lawfare:
‘Totally Clears the President’?  What Those Cohen and Manafort Filings Really Say  —  President Trump responded to today's filings from federal prosecutors in the cases of Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort with a Twitter cry of triumph: … Don't spend a lot of time looking through …
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
A Home Run by Trump  —  In nominating William Barr for AG, the president could not have done better  —  In 2007, the Justice Department was in disarray.  Though it was largely exaggerated, a controversy over the firing of some United States attorneys, the intrusion of politics …
Just Security:
Mueller's Roadmap: Major Takeaways from Cohen and Manafort Filings  —  Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) and from the Office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed significant documents in the criminal cases of President Donald Trump's former personal attorney …
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
The latest filings show that nobody can save Trump now  —  At the end of the day Friday, we learned what federal prosecutors in New York think of Michael Cohen: … This is bad news for Cohen, but there's something else interesting in the filing: Prosecutors explicitly state that Cohen coordinated …
Discussion: The Week and HuffPost
Reuters:   Trump says prosecutors have found no evidence of Russia collusion
Elie Honig / CNN:
Mueller is putting the puzzle pieces together on Trump
Washington Post:
In corporate role, William P. Barr clashed with Justice Department that he now seeks to lead
The Daily Beast:
Michael Cohen Was Paid More Than $4 Million by Promising Access to Trump, Prosecutors Say
Discussion: NPR, HuffPost and Washington Press
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Mueller Weaves Trump, Manafort and Cohen Ever Closer
Discussion: emptywheel, NPR and CNN
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Prosecutors: Illegal hush-money paid at Trump's ‘direction’
Discussion: MyNorthwest.com
New York Times:
The Wooing of Jared Kushner: How the Saudis Got a Friend in the White House  —  Senior American officials were worried.  Since the early months of the Trump administration, Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and Middle East adviser, had been having private, informal conversations …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
How a chilling Saudi cyberwar ensnared Jamal Khashoggi
Discussion: Boston Magazine
Hisham Melhem / Deep State Radio Network:   Mohammed Bin Salman; A Prince Who Should Not Become A King
New York Times:
John Kelly, Trump's Chief of Staff, to Leave White House  —  WASHINGTON — John F. Kelly, the retired Marine general tapped as chief of staff by President Trump last year to bring order to his chaotic White House, will leave the job by the end of the year, Mr. Trump said on Saturday …
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Associated Press:
Trump says chief of staff John Kelly to leave at year's end  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that chief of staff John Kelly will leave his job by year's end amid an expected West Wing reshuffling reflecting a focus on the 2020 re-election campaign and the challenge …
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Chief of Staff John Kelly to leave White House by end of month, Trump says
Discussion: Political Wire
Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News:
Trump says John Kelly to leave chief of staff role by year end
Discussion: BuzzFeed News and CNBC
Anne-Elisabeth Moutet / New York Post:
In France, les deplorables strike back  —  PARIS — Glittering shops from Louis Vuitton to Dior are boarded up on both sides of the Champs-Élysées.  The Eiffel Tower and the Louvre will be closed.  Paris has hunkered down for the latest Yellow Saturday, the fourth in a row …
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Carol Matlack / Bloomberg:
Pro-Russia Social Media Takes Aim at Macron as Yellow Vests Rage
Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump's favorite pollster was the least accurate in the midterms  —  (CNN)First things first: The theme song of the week is the theme to Love, American Style composed by Charles Fox and Arnold Margolin.  —  Number of the week: A new Marist College poll finds President Donald Trump's approval rating at 43% among registered voters.
Christina Cauterucci / Slate:
I'm So Sorry to Report that Ted Cruz's New Beard Looks Great  —  I have no particular fondness for this subject and it brings me no pleasure to cover it.  But as a truth-seeking journalist, I feel I must write what follows: Sen. Ted Cruz's new beard looks great.
Discussion: Althouse
Mark Penn / Fox News:
House Democrats shouldn't impeach Trump - It will anger voters and the Senate won't remove him  —  If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, then perhaps the Democrats on a crusade to impeach President Trump should think twice about the road they are heading down.
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Eric Trump Weighs In on Kellyanne Conway's Husband.  He Doesn't Like Him.  —  WASHINGTON — George Conway, a prominent conservative lawyer, is married to Kellyanne Conway, a White House counselor well known to cable viewers as a passionate defender of President Trump.
Discussion: Chicks On The Right
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
GOP power grabs pour gas on ‘resistance’ in key Midwest states  —  Republican efforts to weaken incoming Democratic governors in Michigan and Wisconsin have reignited the grass-roots fervor that flipped both states in November, turning the typically sleepy post-election period …
New York Times:
Mattis Erupts Over Niger Inquiry and Army Revisits Who Is to Blame  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was livid last month when he summoned top military officials to a video conference at the Pentagon to press them about an investigation into a 2017 ambush in Niger that killed four Americans on a Green Beret team.
Discussion: Task & Purpose
 
 
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Adam O'Neal / Wall Street Journal:
The Anti-Bill Gates  —  How do poor countries get rich?
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“They Think the Bomb's Coming This Week”: In Trumpworld, They Know Someone Is Coming to Town, and It's Not Santa
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Raw Story
Jack Crowe / National Review:
DNC Chair Complains That Voters Are Influenced By The ‘Pulpit On Sunday’
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
McConnell resists pressure to move on criminal justice overhaul, angering some Republicans
Discussion: Breitbart, ThinkProgress and Politico
Maggie Parker / Yahoo:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mocked for linking racism to climate change
Discussion: Chicks On The Right
Emily Holden / The Guardian:
Ex-EPA chief Scott Pruitt used personal email for government work
Discussion: Bloomberg and Joe.My.God.
Washington Post:
Redskins, D.C. working with Congress to slip stadium provision into spending bill
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
ICE:
ICE arrests 105 in New Jersey operation targeting criminal aliens and public safety threats
Discussion: Daily Wire and IJR
 Earlier Items: 
Samuel Oakford / The Atlantic:
The U.S. Is Paying More Than It Bargained for in the Yemen War
Wesley Morgan / Politico:
Trump announces Army chief Mark Milley as pick for next Joint Chiefs chairman
Discussion: Washington Post
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
State Attorney General Mark Herring to run for Virginia governor in 2021
Dana Carvey / New York Times:
Dana Carvey Remembers George Bush, From Muse to Friend
James T. Areddy / Wall Street Journal:
American Entrepreneurs Who Flocked to China Are Heading Home, Disillusioned
Nick Ochsner / Popular Information:
Vice Chair of Bladen County Board of Elections abruptly resigns
Discussion: WRAL-TV
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Ammon Bundy Quits Militia Movement in Solidarity With Migrant Caravan
Discussion: Washington Post and BuzzFeed News