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7:50 PM ET, January 8, 2019

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Washington Post:
Paul Manafort shared 2016 polling data with Russian employee, according to court filing  —  Paul Manafort shared 2016 presidential campaign polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, a former employee whom the FBI has said has ties to Russian intelligence, according to a court filing.
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New York Times:
Manafort Shared Trump Campaign Data With Russian Associate, Prosecutors Say  —  WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort shared Trump campaign polling data with an associate tied to Russian intelligence during the 2016 campaign, prosecutors alleged, according to a court filing unsealed on Tuesday.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Campaign Manager Gave Polling Data to Russian Agent  —  The idea that Donald Trump's campaign did not collude with Russia always rested on an implausible scenario, in which every single one of the many trails connecting Trump Tower to Moscow ended short of contact.
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Manafort accused by Mueller of sharing 2016 polling data with Russian linked to Moscow intelligence
Discussion: Shareblue Media and POLITICUSUSA
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Manafort allegedly lied about sharing 2016 polling data with Russian operative
Discussion: Politico, Wired and Vox
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:   Mueller believes Manafort fed information to Russian with intel ties
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
A new link between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence that's more evocative than definitive
Discussion: Mother Jones, ThinkProgress and Axios
New York Times:
Trump Invites TV Representatives to Lunch Ahead of His Prime-Time Speech  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump has invited representatives from cable and broadcast news channels to an off-the-record lunch at the White House ahead of his prime time speech Tuesday night, an address in which he is expected …
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Undecided on Emergency Declaration for Border Wall, Officials Say
Washington Post:
Trump to make public case for border wall but not expected to declare emergency in Oval Office address
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump's job: Convince nation there really is crisis at border
Heather Caygle / Politico:
GOP in the dark as Trump weighs emergency declaration
Discussion: Axios and IJR
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Why Mike Pence Couldn't End the Shutdown
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court turns down mysterious Mueller subpoena fight  —  The Supreme Court has declined to intervene in a mysterious subpoena fight that apparently involved an unidentified foreign-government-owned company and special counsel Robert Mueller.  —  Last month, the unknown firm asked …
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Washington Post:
Supreme Court rules against mystery corporation from ‘Country A’ fighting subpoena in Mueller investigation
Discussion: Vox and Joe.My.God.
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:   Supreme Court Rejects Mystery Company in Case Linked to Mueller
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Veselnitskaya, Russian in Trump Tower Meeting, Is Charged in Case That Shows Kremlin Ties  —  [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]  —  Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who in 2016 met with Trump campaign officials in Trump Tower …
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Washington Post:
Russian lawyer at Trump Tower meeting charged in separate case  —  A Russian lawyer whose role at a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower has come under scrutiny from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III was charged Tuesday in a separate case with obstructing justice in a money-laundering investigation.
Discussion: Raw Story and Lawfare
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:   Russian Lawyer Linked To Trump Tower Meeting And Fusion GPS Is Charged In New York Case
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
A growing number of Americans blame Trump for shutdown: Reuters-Ipsos poll  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A growing proportion of Americans blame President Donald Trump for a partial government shutdown that will cut off paychecks to federal workers this week, though Republicans mostly support …
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Kate Smith / CBS News:
Every congressperson along southern border opposes border wall funding  —  Nine congressional representatives serve the districts that line the 2,000-mile southern border.  They are men, women, freshman politicians and Washington veterans.  The Democrats among them span liberal ideologies, while one of them is a Republican.
Julie K. Brown / miamiherald:
Broward Sheriff Scott Israel tells staff he's being suspended over Parkland response  —  It appears that Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel is preparing to pack up his office.  —  The two-term sheriff, the object of fierce criticism over BSO's handling of the Parkland massacre …
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Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
Trolls and Grifters: David Reaboi and Charlie Kirk Edition  —  “The crazies have started rolling into Kandahar like it's a f—king bathtub drain.”  —  It is axiomatic that while change creates opportunity, chaotic change creates the most dramatic opportunities for the most unsavory actors.
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Why Men Find the New Congresswomen So Frightening
Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Ocasio-Cortez called Trump a racist. The White House response may have proved her point.
Discussion: Breitbart
Joe Bruno / WSOC-TV:
Emergency Exit: Mark Harris trips alarm trying to evade Channel 9 in uptown  —  CHARLOTTE, N.C. - After Republican 9th Congressional District candidate Mark Harris finished addressing Mecklenburg County Republicans at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Government Center Monday night, reporters …
Andy Campbell / HuffPost:
Gavin McInnes' Wife Threatens Neighbors Over ‘Hate Has No Home Here’ Signs  —  The Proud Boys founder's newest battleground is his neighborhood; his new enforcer is his wife, Emily McInnes.  —  Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes usually fights his own battles, by way of inciting his membership to commit acts of violence.
David Siders / Politico:
‘Not a whole lot of red lights’: Beto O'Rourke leaning toward 2020 run  —  The former Texas congressman's radio silence is becoming increasingly awkward.  —  Beto O'Rourke is leaning toward running for president, according to four people who have spoken with him or his advisers in recent days.
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Fingers crossed, strategists plan a Beto O'Rourke presidential campaign — without O'Rourke's input
Discussion: Politico
DailySabah:
A soft coup against Donald Trump  —  If U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton thought yesterday's visit was going to be a walk in the park, he must have had a rude awakening thanks to the lukewarm reception in the Turkish capital Ankara.  In retrospect, it was probably a bad idea …
Discussion: The Right Scoop and New York Times
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Trump Reportedly Keeps Calling His National Security Advisor John Bolton ‘Mike’
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Donald Trump Was Just Handed a Chance to Supercharge Voter Suppression in 2020  —  In a short unpublished opinion so far garnering only slight media attention, the United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit decided on Monday what may be one of the most consequential cases poised to affect the 2020 elections.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Politico
Stephanie Valera / Geek.com:
Rare Penny Found in Boy's Lunch Money Could Fetch Up to $1.7 Million in Auction  —  A rare 1943 copper Lincoln cent — found by a Massachusetts teenager in his change after he paid for lunch at a school cafeteria — is expected to fetch up to $1.7 million when it is auctioned off.
Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300.  Then He Located Our Phone  —  T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers' location data, and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to posses it, letting them track most phones in the country.
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
ABC's Jon Karl Grills VP Pence on Trump's Lies About Immigration: ‘This is About Credibility!’  —  Vice President Mike Pence gave an interview to ABC's Jon Karl on Tuesday, during which, he was pressed hard on President Donald Trump's credibility amid the ongoing immigration debate.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and ABC News
Margaret Brennan / CBS News:
U.S. envoy working on Qatar dispute resigns from State Department  —  Anthony Zinni, a retired Marine Corps general and former head of U.S. Central Command who has been working as an envoy for the Trump administration to resolve a dispute with Qatar, has resigned from his position with the State Department.
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: NC election fraud probed long before 2018 race  —  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Long before accusations of absentee ballot fraud in a small North Carolina county cast doubt on the results of a heated 2018 congressional race, a state elections investigator spent weeks probing whether …
Discussion: Political Wire
Mark Zuckerberg:
Every year I take on a personal challenge to learn something new.  I've built an AI for my home, run 365 miles, visited every US state, read 25 books, and learned Mandarin.  —  Last year, I focused almost all my time on addressing important issues around elections, speech, privacy, and well-being.
Washington Post:
How a little-known Democratic firm cashed in on the wave of midterm money  —  The solicitations piled into voters' email accounts — sometimes multiple times a day.  And they carried alarming messages, often in blaring capital letters.  —  “We're on the verge of BANKRUPTCY.”
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
Inside Facebook's ‘cult-like’ workplace, where dissent is discouraged and employees pretend to be happy all the time  — More than a dozen former Facebook employees detailed how the company's leadership and its performance review system has created a culture where any dissent is discouraged.
Brad Plumer / New York Times:
U.S. Carbon Emissions Surged in 2018 Even as Coal Plants Closed  —  WASHINGTON — America's carbon dioxide emissions rose by 3.4 percent in 2018, the biggest increase in eight years, according to a preliminary estimate published Tuesday.  —  Strikingly, the sharp uptick in emissions occurred …
Cynthia Vinney / CBR:
RUMOR: Joker Contains ‘Pointed Commentary on Donald Trump’  —  Plenty of photos and video from Joaquin Phoenix's upcoming The Joker film have surfaced online, but the movie may be very different from what these leaks indicate.  —  According to Revenge of the Fans, certain scenes and sequences …
Stephanie Ebbs / ABC News:
Shutdown will not impact February food stamp benefits: USDA  —  Food stamp recipients will have access to their full benefits for February, even if the partial government shutdown continues, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials announced Tuesday night.  —  USDA said they will work …
Discussion: Politico
NBC New York:
NYC Mayor Guarantees Comprehensive Health Care for All in Historic Surprise Announcement  —  It's not health insurance; it's the city paying for direct comprehensive care for those who can't afford it or are undocumented, a spokesman said  —  NYC Mayor Guarantees Comprehensive Health Care for All
 
 
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David French / National Review:
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Axios:
Eight Trump Cabinet members expected to attend Davos
CNN:
Exclusive: TSA official warns of shutdown impact on security operations at California airport
Discussion: Raw Story
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Rashida Tlaib Is Becoming the Michele Bachmann of the Left
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Daily Mail:
Kellyanne Conway called CNN reporter Jim Acosta a ‘smart ass’
Discussion: IJR and The Gateway Pundit
Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr / Purdue University:
Annual Open Letter to the People of Purdue from Mitch Daniels
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Why the Networks Are Broadcasting Trump
TMZ.com:
R. Kelly Under Criminal Investigation in Georgia Thanks to ‘Surviving R. Kelly’