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11:50 AM ET, December 9, 2018

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New York Times:
Prosecutors' Narrative Is Clear: Trump Defrauded Voters.  But What Does It Mean?  —  WASHINGTON — The latest revelations by prosecutors investigating President Trump and his team draw a portrait of a candidate who personally directed an illegal scheme to manipulate the 2016 election …
Discussion: Law & Crime and Power Line
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Andrew McCarthy / Fox News:
Why Trump is likely to be indicted by Manhattan US Attorney  —  The major takeaway from the 40-page sentencing memorandum filed by federal prosecutors Friday for Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, is this: The president is very likely to be indicted on a charge of violating federal campaign finance laws.
Washington Post:
‘Siege warfare’: Republican anxiety spikes as Trump faces growing legal and political perils  —  A growing number of Republicans fear that a battery of new revelations in the far-reaching Russia investigation has dramatically heightened the legal and political danger to Donald Trump's presidency …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Trump 2020 Shaping Up to Be a Campaign to Stay Out of Prison  —  In 2016, Donald Trump claimed that America's presidential election would determine nothing less than whether a proven criminal would be sent to jail — or the Oval Office.  In 2020, that might actually be the case.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Common Dreams
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Whether a president can be prosecuted remains in dispute
Discussion: Axios and Hullabaloo
Harry Litman / USA Today:   Broken laws, Russia negotiations: Can Trump presidency survive latest court filings?
Adam Davidson / New Yorker:
The Michael Cohen Sentencing Memos Are Damning for Trump
Discussion: The Guardian
Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Pardoning Paul Manafort would be ‘terrible mistake,’ could ‘trigger a debate’ about pardon power: Sen. Marco Rubio  —  Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said repeatedly that President Donald Trump pardoning former campaign chairman Paul Manafort would be a “terrible mistake,” and that doing so could possibly …
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Bob Bauer / New York Times:
Is Mueller Building an Expansive Obstruction Case?
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 12-9-18: Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Chris Murphy
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Comey: I'm ‘not friends’ with Mueller  —  Former FBI Director James Comey told House lawmakers Friday that he and special counsel Robert Mueller are “not friends in any social sense,” dismissing President Donald Trump's assertion that the ousted bureau chief is “Best Friends” with the leader of the Russia probe.
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John Solomon / The Hill:
Comey's confession: dossier not verified before, or after, FISA warrant
Associated Press:   Comey: Russia investigation initially looked at 4 Americans
Fox News:
Comey transcript released: Ex-FBI boss claims not to know, remember key details in Russia case
Discussion: Power Line and HuffPost
CNN:
House Republicans release Comey interview transcript
Scott Gleeson / USA Today:
Old homophobic tweets from Kyler Murray's Twitter account surface after he wins Heisman  —  Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray had a Saturday to remember.  But the Oklahoma quarterback's memorable night also helped resurface social media's memory of several homophobic tweets more than six years old.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Axios AM  —  Subscribe  —  I am off to the beach for a few days.  Jim VandeHei, our CEO, and Justin Green, of PM fame, have the keys.  Send gripes & groans to jim@axios.  —  1 big thing: What we now know about Trump-Russia  —  Even before Robert Mueller reports his findings in the Russia probe …
Discussion: New York Times
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Kelly exit helps position Trump for 2020
USA Today:
John Kelly, hired to restore order for President Donald Trump, is out as chief of staff
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and RedState
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
We'll Always Have . . . Fort Worth?  —  Conservatives do not do well in the cities.  We assume, strangely, that this indicates a problem with the cities rather than a problem with . . . us.  We may as well be trying to sell New York City and Los Angeles Edsels full of New Coke …
Washington Post:
Domestic slayings: Brutal and foreseeable  —  The Washington Post found that nearly half of the women who were murdered during the past decade were, like Parnell and Cisneros, killed by a current or former intimate partner.  In a close analysis of five cities, about a third of the male killers …
New York Times:
Beto O'Rourke Emerges as the Wild Card of the 2020 Campaign-in-Waiting  —  WASHINGTON — The 2020 Democratic presidential primary, already expected to be the party's most wide open in decades, has been jostled on the eve of many long-plotted campaign announcements by a political threat …
Martin Matishak / Politico:
Hush money payments could be ‘impeachable offenses,’ top Dem warns  —  Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Sunday said that if accusations that President Donald Trump directed illegal payments during his campaign are true that it would “certainly” be an impeachable offense, but stopped short of saying such action would be taken.
Discussion: Associated Press
Martin Matishak / Politico:
Kudlow: U.S.-China trade talks ‘on track’  —  White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Sunday insisted that U.S.-China trade talks are moving in a “positive” direction, despite mixed signals from top Trump administration officials and the arrest of the chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei.
Discussion: Washington Post
Samantha Vinograd / The Daily Beast:
Trump Can't Settle on a Staff.  It's a Disaster For Him and a Goldmine for Opportunists.  —  If there isn't the necessary process in place, the institutional knowledge on a terrorist threat or covert outreach to a rogue regime official could be gone with the wind.  —  It's like the Hunger Games finally came to Washington.
Discussion: Vox and Raw Story
 
 
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The utterly lawless ‘Individual-1’
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Al Arabiya:
Details of calls to attack Trump by US ‘Muslim Sisters’ allied to Brotherhood
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School turns students' lunch debt over to collection agency