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10:05 PM ET, December 16, 2018

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Washington Post:
New report on Russian disinformation, prepared for the Senate, shows the operation's scale and sweep  —  The report, a draft of which was obtained by The Washington Post, is the first to study the millions of posts provided by major technology firms to the Senate Intelligence Committee
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Silicon Valley may have done ‘bare minimum’ to help Russia investigation, Senate Intel Committee told  —  Sen. Warner ‘deeply disappointed’ Google not on Capitol Hill  —  (CNN)The Senate Intelligence Committee has been advised that social media companies might have provided the “bare minimum” …
The Daily Beast:
Giuliani Said on ABC That President Knew Cohen Pushed Trump Tower Moscow ‘Up To November 2016’  —  Rudy Giuliani claimed in an ABC interview that President Donald Trump knew that his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was working on the Trump Tower Moscow deal “all the way up to...November of 2016.”
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David Edwards / Raw Story:   Giuliani melts down defending Trump lies about Cohen: 'Unless you're god, you'll never know what the truth is'
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani blasts former personal attorney Michael Cohen as pathetic
Discussion: Splinter and Breitbart
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:   ‘Over my dead body’: Giuliani dismisses prospect of Trump interview with Mueller
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Giuliani: ‘I can produce 20 witnesses’ to defend hush money payments
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Washington Post
New York Times:
A Shutdown Looms.  Can the G.O.P. Get Lawmakers to Show Up to Vote?  —  WASHINGTON — Just days before a deadline to avert a partial government shutdown, President Trump, Democratic leaders and the Republican-controlled Congress are at a stalemate over the president's treasured border wall.
Discussion: Washington Post, CBS News and Raw Story
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Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Schumer: Trump's ‘temper tantrum’ over wall funding is leading to shutdown
Discussion: Vox
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 12-16-18: Rudy Giuliani, Sen. Dick Durbin and Sen. Susan Collins
Discussion: The Daily Beast and emptywheel
John Harwood / CNBC:
Voters are growing uneasy over the probes swirling around Trump, as a clear majority believe he hasn't been honest: NBC-WSJ poll  — A robust 62 percent majority say Trump has not been honest about the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign, up from 56 percent in August.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: 62 percent say Trump isn't telling the truth in Russia probe
Discussion: Hullabaloo and POLITICUSUSA
Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
Americans Have Mixed Feelings About Economy, Trump Presidency, WSJ/NBC News Poll Finds
Discussion: TheStreet
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
The police officer who arrested a president  —  Amid President Trump's mounting legal problems, TV talking heads and bar-stool philosophers from Boise to Britain have been pondering one of the great mysteries of the U.S. Constitution.  —  Can the president of the United States actually be indicted?
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
I Have Seen the Future of a Republican Party That Is No Longer Insane  —  This week, the Niskanen Center, a libertarian-leaning Washington think tank, held a conference on the future of the Republican Party, called “Starting Over: The Center-Right After Trump.”
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
More Powerful Than a Russian Troll Army: The National Enquirer  —  The most powerful print publication in America might just be The National Enquirer.  It functioned as a dirty-tricks shop for Donald J. Trump in 2016, which would have been the stuff of farce — the ultimate tabloid backs …
William Petroski / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Trump has big fan base among Iowa Republicans, but they welcome challengers  —  President Donald Trump remains popular among Iowa Republican voters, but they want the door politely held open for GOP challengers.  —  A new Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows Trump …
New York Times:
They Grabbed Her Baby and Arrested Her at a Welfare Office.  Now She's Speaking Out.  —  Jazmine Headley took her baby boy to a public benefits office in Brooklyn on a recent Friday to find out why the city had abruptly stopped paying for him to go to day care while she worked cleaning offices.
Dillon Collier / KSAT-TV:
Inmate who died in BCSO custody had been held since July on $300 bond  —  Janice Dotson-Stephens, 61, died Friday  —  SAN ANTONIO - Court records confirm that an inmate who died while in the custody of the Bexar County Sheriff's Office on Friday had been held in jail on a $300 bond since July.
The Sub Beacon Podcast:
Introducing the Sub Beacon  —  Each week, geek out with Victorino Matus, Jonathan V. Last, and Sonny Bunch for a podcast about movies and pop culture.  The guys behind the Substandard are back and worse than ever.
Washington Post:
‘Crisis level’: Republican women sound warning after election losses  —  Republicans lost the House in November as droves of female voters spurned the party, a reflection of the gaping gender gap.  The election devastated the GOP's already meager group of congresswomen.
Discussion: Raw Story
Kurt Bardella / USA Today:
I became a Democrat a year ago and found my own voice.  It changed everything.  —  I wrote my truth, held my breath and waited.  I now care about lots more things than I used to, and I've finally embraced my Asian-American identity.  —  CONNECT  —  One year ago, I published a column …
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Trump adviser: We will ‘do whatever is necessary to build the border wall’  —  White House senior adviser Stephen Miller on Sunday said the Trump administration would “do whatever is necessary” to build its signature wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, even if it means shutting down the government.
Discussion: Breitbart, Axios and Associated Press
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CBS News:
Sunday: Miller, Klobuchar, Barrasso, Davis, Potter
Discussion: Raw Story and Mother Jones
Roxanne Roberts / Washington Post:
Robert Mueller is the most unknowable man in Washington  —  Mueller.  Mueller.  Mueller.  Mueller.  Mueller.  Mueller.  Everywhere, at any hour, it's Mueller time.  —  Special counsel Robert Swan Mueller III is the second-most famous man in Washington.
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
'The Worst I've Ever Seen It': Lean Stone Crab Season Follows Red Tide in Florida  —  A prolonged red tide in Southwest Florida has hurt the iconic stone crab — and the fishermen, whose family businesses go back generations, who catch it.  —  EVERGLADES CITY, Fla. — On a good day …
Erin Allday / San Francisco Chronicle:
Trump's travel ban keeping mother from dying 2-year-old son  —  The Yemeni mother of a 2-year-old boy on life support in an Oakland hospital is being prevented from coming to the country to say goodbye to her son by the Trump administration ban on travel from certain Muslim countries, the child's family says.
Axios:
Bob Corker on primarying Trump: “What is happening right now is not the standard Republicanism”  —  Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), nearing the end of his time in the Senate after his decision to retire, was mum on whether or not he'd support a primary challenge against President Trump in 2020 during …
Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
The Fall of the House of Ghosn  —  Not everybody at Nissan was happy with their rock-star chairman, Carlos Ghosn.  His high-living ways gave the company ammunition to take him down.  —  The house that helped trigger the downfall of Carlos Ghosn is a rose-colored mansion in one of Beirut's most expensive neighborhoods.
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Trump says he'll review case of Matt Golsteyn, a Special Forces veteran who faces murder charge  —  The Army veteran is accused of killing an alleged Taliban bombmaker without permission.  —  President Trump tweeted Sunday that he will review the case of a former Special Forces officer …
 
 
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Alex Thompson / Politico:
DNC Chair Tom Perez goes to war with state parties
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
So, I Asked People in Saudi Arabia About Their Mad, Murderous Crown Prince
Nick Cohen / The Guardian:
Why are Labour's leaders so quiet on Europe? Maybe it's the lure of disaster
Kip Hill / Spokesman.com:
Washington Women's March group disbands amid anti-Semitism controversy at national level
Discussion: twitchy.com and Breitbart
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Democrats eyeing 2020 presidential bids test simple pitch: Have some money.
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
No glory in James Comey getting away with his abuse of FBI power
Ben Sales / Haaretz:
Netanyahu's Son Says He'd ‘Prefer’ if ‘All the Muslims Leave the Land of Israel’
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Henry Foy / Financial Times:
Davos bows to Moscow pressure to lift ban on Russian trio
Tom Gara / BuzzFeed News:
Here's How The Chief Palestinian Negotiator Described His Last Meeting With Jared Kushner
Siobhán O'Grady / Washington Post:
In Cameroon, journalists are being jailed on charges of ‘fake news’
Washington Post:
White House prepares for shutdown as GOP lawmakers struggle for an alternative
Discussion: The Hill and Townhall
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The Impossible Job: How John Kelly Failed to Tame the West Wing
Discussion: Politico
Emily Gillespie / Fortune:
Mueller Investigation Cost $25 Million So Far, Report Says.  It's Pulled in $48 Million From Tax Cheats
Discussion: CBS News and POLITICUSUSA