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12:15 PM ET, January 9, 2019

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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Appeals to Nation for Wall: ‘This Is a Choice Between Right and Wrong’  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump sought to go over the heads of Congress to enlist public support for his long-promised border wall on Tuesday night, raising the stakes of an ideological and political conflict …
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Has Defeated Himself  —  Well, that was the shortest, most easily resolved national emergency in U.S. history.  Twelve hours ago, the president was preparing to set aside the regular process of law.  By 9 p.m. eastern time?  Not so much.  —  Perhaps somebody pointed …
Discussion: Washington Post and Bloomberg
Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed News:
People Bet On How Much Trump Would Lie In His Oval Office Address And Won $276,424  —  A gambling site is paying out thousands of dollars to people who correctly bet that President Donald Trump would tell more than 3.5 lies in his Oval Office address on Tuesday.
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
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 …
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Trump Gets Instant Fact-Check From Fox News' Shepard Smith After Oval Office Speech  —  The Fox News anchor did not let the president get away with his lies to the American people Tuesday night.  —  Matt Wilstein  —  Donald Trump not only preempted regularly scheduled broadcast network programming Tuesday night.
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Media's Angry Response To President Trump's Oval Office Speech Comes Up Short
Discussion: NPR, Politico, New York Times and The Week
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Trump's Oval Office Address Was Classic Stephen Miller
Discussion: CNN
John F. Harris / Politico:
Trump's Not-So-Bully Pulpit
Discussion: Washington Post
James Poniewozik / New York Times:
Who Paid for the Prime-Time Wall Debate? The American Viewer
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
7 Takeaways From President Trump's Oval Office Address
Discussion: Raw Story and CNN
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“There Is No Endgame”: White House Aides Fear Trump Has Turned the Border Wall into His Alamo
Pierre Thomas / ABC News:
Rosenstein expected to depart DOJ in coming weeks once new attorney general confirmed  —  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is expected to leave his role in the coming weeks, multiple sources familiar with his plans told ABC News.  —  Rosenstein has communicated to President Donald Trump …
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Associated Press:
AP source: Rosenstein expected to leave Justice in weeks  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed special counsel Robert Mueller and remains his most visible Justice Department protector, is expected to leave his position soon after William Barr is confirmed …
Discussion: USA Today and Law & Crime
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein is reportedly headed out the door. What does it mean for Mueller?
Discussion: BuzzFeed News
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Rod Rosenstein, who oversees Mueller's probe, plans to leave the Justice Department after new attorney general confirmed
Discussion: Vox and Politico
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
A few Republicans defend Article I of the Constitution.  So far, Romney isn't one of them.  —  My suggestion on Tuesday that “now would be a really good time for Mitt Romney to round up a few R's and step forward to say a declaration of emergency would be egregious violation of Constitution and …
Discussion: CNN
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
One more Russian contact: Here's why it matters  —  The Post reports, “Paul Manafort shared 2016 presidential campaign polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, an associate the FBI has said has ties to Russian intelligence, according to a court filing.”  We learned about the confab between Donald Trump's …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Not-So-Pretty Fine Print of the ‘Green New Deal’
Discussion: CNN and Mediaite
Jayme Deerwester / USA Today:
TSA union: Officers quitting over shutdown, posing threat to passenger safety  —  As the partial government shutdown continues, federal workers might miss this week's paychecks.  The federal agency tasked with guaranteeing U.S. airport security acknowledged an increase in the number of its employees calling off work.
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The Daily Beast:
TSA Officers Are Already Quitting Over the Shutdown, Union Says
Discussion: CBS News
Chelsea Davis / Hawaii News Now:
Tensions rise between 2 of Hawaii's Congressional leaders over ‘religious bigotry’ comments  —  HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard appears to have “called out” Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono over her questioning of a judicial nominee, accusing her and others of religious bigotry.
Discussion: The Hill
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Proud Boy Accused of Murdering ‘Lizard’ Brother With Sword  —  Prosecutors say Buckey Wolfe was convinced his sibling was a lizard.  —  A self-proclaimed member of the far-right Proud Boys group who also believes in the QAnon conspiracy theory allegedly murdered his own brother with a sword.
Discussion: KIRO and The Seattle Times
Tina Nguyen / Vanity Fair:
The G.O.P.'s Plan to Take Down Beto: Unleash the Bernie Bros  —  Republicans are digging into O'Rourke's voting record and Big Oil ties in an attempt to isolate him from progressives.  —  In the run-up to Texas's closely watched Senate election, Republicans' attempts to smear Beto O'Rourke centered …
Discussion: Hot Air, CNN, Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Public Policy Polling:
North Carolina Looks Like Battleground Once Again For 2020  —  PPP's first North Carolina poll of the 2020 cycle finds the state is likely to once again be a key battleground for President next year.  Voters in the state are closely divided on Donald Trump but split narrowly against him …
Discussion: Political Wire
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed News:
Elizabeth Warren Knows Something Other Presidential Hopefuls Don't: Exactly Why She's Running For President  —  In Council Bluffs, her mic went dead.  —  “No sound!” someone in the back yelled.  —  “I know!” she yelled back in a laugh, before continuing on with her speech.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump is still considering an emergency declaration to get the funds to build a border wall  —  A source close to President Trump tells Jonathan Swan that he thinks a declaration of a national emergency at the border — which Trump stopped short of last night — remains the most likely ultimate option …
Freddy Gray / Spectator USA:
Wrinkled, white, and wrong — this is the face of the Democratic party  —  Ignore the colorful and fresh-faced Democrats filling up your social media feed.  The new face of their party is the same as the old one.  It is a white, wrinkled face that no amount of plastic surgery can reconfigure.
Discussion: Breitbart and NTK Network
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
‘Chuck and Nancy’ present a united front in challenging Trump on border wall
Discussion: Politico and Talking Points Memo
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Turning Point Dissidents Turn on ‘Snowflake’ Founder and Fox News Darling Charlie Kirk  —  Memes included an altered photo of founder Charlie Kirk's face. … Campus conservative group Turning Point USA and its founder, Fox News darling Charlie Kirk, had a problem.
Discussion: Splinter
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Angela Davis Says She's ‘Stunned’ After Award Is Revoked Over Her Views on Israel  —  Angela Davis, the activist and scholar, said this week that she was “stunned” after a civil rights group in her native Birmingham, Ala., reversed its decision to honor her with an award amid protests over her support for a boycott of Israel.
Discussion: CityLab, NPR and middleeastmonitor.com
Sarah Kendzior / Globe and Mail:
Forget the wall.  Trump is the national security crisis  —  Sarah Kendzior is the author of The View From Flyover Country and the co-host of the podcast Gaslit Nation.  —  On December 22, 2018, the second-longest shutdown of the federal government in United States history began.
Discussion: Raw Story
Alyssa Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Trump tried to play a normal president on television.  The result was very strange.  —  Every day, the comedian Megan Amram tweets “Today was the day Donald Trump finally became president.”  It's a joke both on the people who hoped that Trump might grow into his office, and on the president himself …
Discussion: Breitbart, TalkLeft and Althouse
WRAL-TV:
Two women charged with assault on transgender person at Glenwood South bar  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — Two women have been charged with assaulting a 29-year-old transgender person in a bathroom at a popular Glenwood South bar last month.  —  According to investigators, the victim was inside …
Discussion: Raw Story, TheBlaze and The Daily Beast
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Jr. Says Border Wall Is Like A Zoo Fence Protecting You From Animals  —  Critics slammed the president's son over the Instagram message.  —  Donald Trump Jr. is getting called out for an Instagram message he posted that compared the proposed border wall to a zoo fence.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump has never known how to work with Congress  —  Two months after announcing his candidacy for the presidency, Donald Trump arrived at the Iowa State Fair in a “Trump"-emblazoned helicopter.  Over an hour-and-a-half, he pushed through the fairgrounds, surrounded by a clot of admirers and curious Iowans.
Discussion: Raw Story
Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Trump Campaign Consultants Cambridge Analytica Found Guilty of Breaking Data Laws  —  The British analytics company employed by the Trump campaign has been fined for refusing to disclose to an American voter how much data they held on him and how they used it.  —  Nico Hines
Dion Rabouin / Axios:
Powell's strategy to rebuild confidence in U.S. central bank has gone awry  —  Jerome Powell's goal since he became Chairman of the Federal Reserve has been to keep a low profile and rebuild trust and confidence in the U.S. central bank — among lawmakers and the public.
 
 
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Hank Berrien / Daily Wire:
WATCH: Ocasio-Cortez Goes Bonkers After Trump Speech
Discussion: Salon, New York Times and IJR
Tressie McMillan Cottom / TIME:
I Was Pregnant and in Crisis. All the Doctors and Nurses Saw Was an Incompetent Black Woman
US Department of State:
Secretary Pompeo's Meeting With Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abd al-Mahdi
Fox News:
DeSantis' office denies suspending Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel
Discussion: IJR and miamiherald
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Democrats Start Investigative Gears, but Slowly
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
The question Trump's border wall speech didn't answer: Why now?
Daniel Gordis:
The American ‘Zionist’ assault on Israel
 Earlier Items: 
Josh Campbell / CNN:
Presidential address: The one word Trump didn't say
Discussion: Breaking News USA
Rachel Rizzo / Politico:
What's Worse Than Brexit? This.
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Journalist Pelin Ünker sentenced to jail in Turkey over Paradise Papers investigation
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Jordan Peterson, Others Urge Portland State Not to Punish Peter …
Washington Post:
The partisan warrior leading the White House's shutdown response
New York Times:
On the Border, Little Enthusiasm for a Wall: ‘We Have Other Problems That Need Fixing’
Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
Americans Increasingly See The Government Shutdown As Serious
Discussion: Political Wire
Bari Weiss / New York Times:
Australians Have More Fun  —  What we can learn from “Canada in a thong.”
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