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11:15 AM ET, January 17, 2019

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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Poll: Trump Approval Down, Slips With Base  —  While the longest government shutdown in U.S. history continues, President Trump's approval rating is down, and there are cracks showing with his base.  —  A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds Trump's approval rating down and his disapproval rating up from a month ago.
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PBS NewsHour:
57 percent of voters say they won't support Trump in 2020  —  With the 2020 presidential election already underway, 57 percent of registered voters said they would definitely vote against President Donald Trump, according to the latest poll from the PBS NewsHour, NPR and Marist.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Shutdown Is Hurting Trump's Approval Rating. But Will It Hurt Him in 2020?
Discussion: Raw Story
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Rudy Giuliani just contradicted nearly all the Trump team's past collusion denials  —  This is at least the 10th time the denials have been watered down.  It might be the most significant rollback.  —  President Trump's legal spokesman Rudolph W. Giuliani on Wednesday night appeared to grant …
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Caroline Kelly / CNN:
Rudy Giuliani says Trump didn't collude with Russia but can't say if campaign aides did  —  (CNN)Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that he never denied President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with the Russian government during the 2016 campaign, only that the President himself was not involved in collusion.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Crisis
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
Rudy Giuliani: ‘I never said there was no collusion’ between Trump campaign and Russia
Ivan Pentchoukov / theepochtimes.com:
EXCLUSIVE: In Closed-Door Testimony, Papadopoulos Identified Alleged Spy in Trump Campaign
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Michael McFaul / Washington Post:   Sorry, but Trump is not ‘tough on Russia’
Wall Street Journal:
Poll-Rigging for Trump and Creating @WomenForCohen: One IT Firm's Work Order  —  Behind the scenes, Michael Cohen hired RedFinch Solutions, then allegedly stiffed it—and his boss  —  In early 2015, a man who runs a small technology company showed up at Trump Tower to collect $50,000 …
New York Times:
In a West Wing in Transition, Trump Tries to Stand Firm on the Shutdown  —  In a West Wing in transition, President Trump is trying to stand firm on the shutdown.  —  White House Redefines Who Is Essential to Get Parts of Government Moving Again  —  The administration is opening …
Yoni Appelbaum / The Atlantic:
Impeach Donald Trump  —  On January 20, 2017, Donald Trump stood on the steps of the Capitol, raised his right hand, and solemnly swore to faithfully execute the office of president of the United States and, to the best of his ability, to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Barbara Starr / CNN:
Trump is fraying nerves inside the Pentagon  —  Washington (CNN)Two years into his presidency, Donald Trump is fueling unprecedented uncertainty and anxiety inside the Pentagon.  In private conversations over the past month, many of them unsolicited, more than a dozen key military officers …
Discussion: Defense One, Townhall, FOX59 and Vox
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox's Griffin: Was told by diplomat that Syria attack was ‘direct result’ of US pullout decision
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
GOP Congressmen Meet With Holocaust-Denying Troll Chuck Johnson  —  The two Republican lawmakers say they didn't know about the alt-right troll's past.  —  Notorious alt-right figure and Holocaust denier Chuck Johnson met with two Republican lawmakers in Congress on Wednesday.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Key Justice Department officials, including Mueller deputy, knew about dossier
Discussion: New York Times and twitchy.com
Josh Gerstein / Politico:   Judge won't dismiss libel suit against Fusion GPS over dossier
Lara Bazelon / New York Times:
Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor’  —  The senator was often on the wrong side of history when she served as California's attorney general.  —  Ms. Bazelon is a law professor and the former director of the Loyola Law School Project for the Innocent in Los Angeles.
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Catherine Thorbecke / ABC News:
Potential 2020 presidential candidate Kamala Harris shares advice for young women: 'Don't let …
Discussion: twitchy.com
Michael Levenson / BostonGlobe.com:
As they head to Harvard, Gary Cohn and Heidi Heitkamp criticize shutdown  —  Gary Cohn, President Trump's former top economic adviser, and Heidi Heitkamp, a former Democratic senator from North Dakota, got to know one another when he was president of Goldman Sachs and she was on the Senate Banking Committee.
Politico:
'She's satin and steel': Pelosi wages war on Trump  —  Her move to derail Trump's State of the Union address underscores her aggressive challenge to the president.  —  Donald Trump may have finally met his match in Nancy Pelosi.  —  As the partial government shutdown grinds on with no end in sight …
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Washington Post:
‘She wields the knife’: Pelosi moves to belittle and undercut Trump in shutdown fight
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Top HUD official's departure follows disagreements over housing policy and Puerto Rico disaster funds  —  A top Department of Housing and Urban Development official is leaving the agency Thursday following disagreements with other members of the Trump administration over housing policy …
Facebook:
Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from Russia  —  Today we removed multiple Pages, groups and accounts that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.  The two operations we found originated in Russia, and one was active in a variety of countries while the other was specific to Ukraine.
Russell Worth Parker / New York Times:
I'm Prepared to Talk About the Things I Did in Iraq.  Are People Ready to Listen?  —  In Iraq I had a device called a Phraselator, an unwieldy specimen of 2004 military technology that resembled a cross between a fancy walkie-talkie and an early model PalmPilot.
Kate Sullivan / CNN:
House Judiciary chair says they'll subpoena Mueller report if necessary  —  Barr promises skeptical Democrats he'll be an independent AG  —  (CNN)The House Judiciary Committee chairman said Wednesday that his panel would subpoena special counsel Robert Mueller's final report if William Barr …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and KAJ-TV
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Tim Cook / TIME:
You Deserve Privacy Online.  Here's How You Could Actually Get It  —  We all deserve control over our digital lives.  That's why we must rein in the data brokers  —  In 2019, it's time to stand up for the right to privacy—yours, mine, all of ours.  Consumers shouldn't have to tolerate another year …
Erin Mansfield / Tyler Morning Telegraph:
Tyler Congressman Louie Gohmert says Steve King raised a fair question  —  A congressman from East Texas says his colleague raised a fair question about Western civilization and is being treated unfairly.  —  U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert said that U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa …
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Trump administration separated thousands more migrants than previously known  —  The Trump administration separated thousands more migrant kids at the border than it previously acknowledged, and the separations began months before the policy was announced, according to a federal audit released Thursday morning.
CREW:
Presidential Profiteering: Trump's Conflicts Got Worse in Year Two  —  INTRODUCTION  —  President Trump's January 11, 2017 announcement that he would not divest from his interests in the Trump Organization while serving as president caused an ethics uproar.
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Generation Z may be most liberal demographic yet  —  A generation of post-Millennials is poised to enter the electorate as perhaps the most liberal age cohort ever, fueled by unprecedented diversity and expansive views of the role of government.  —  On issues ranging from the treatment …
Discussion: Pew Research Center
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
White House inches toward allowing Cuban Americans to sue for island properties left behind  —  A street scene in Havana's district of Regla.  —  MATIAS J. OCNER  —  WASHINGTON  —  The White House took a step closer to allowing thousands of Cuban Americans to sue foreign companies …
Discussion: Babalú Blog
Erin Brodwin / Business Insider:
A controversial startup that charges $8,000 to fill your veins with young blood now claims to be up and running in 5 cities across the US  — A startup called Ambrosia that charges $8,000 to fill your veins with the blood of young people is now accepting PayPal payments for the procedure online.
Discussion: AOL
Stacey Solie / The Daily Beast:
Louis C.K. Jokes About Sexually Harassing Women: 'I Like to Jerk Off, and I Don't Like Being Alone'  —  The disgraced comic, who masturbated in front of comediennes, continued to offend on the latest leg of his new tour.  —  SAN JOSE, California—When Louis C.K. stepped onstage to a standing ovation …
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Shutdown has dropped grenade onto Trump's 2020 team  —  President Donald Trump's insistence on shutting down much of the government inadvertently handed his reelection team the opening issue of the 2020 campaign.  It's one many Trump political advisers would rather avoid.
Ben White / Politico:
Recession warnings pile up as shutdown wraps up fourth week  —  The partial government shutdown was supposed to be a brief non-event for the economy.  Now it's starting to look like a serious crisis that could nudge the U.S. toward recession and threaten President Donald Trump's economic message during his reelection campaign.
Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Everything You Need to Know About Milo and Eric Metaxas  —  Eric Metaxas invited Milo Yiannopoulos on his show because we live in the worst possible timeline.  —  Want to check in on the state of American Christianity?  Look no further than the radio show of pop theologian Eric Metaxas …
 
 
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Ilan Wurman / Claremont Institute:
Originalism's New Critics, Part 2: Faith
Washington Post:
Nearly 10,000 companies contract with shutdown-affected agencies, putting $200 million a week at risk
Victor Skinner / EAGnews.org:
VIDEO: LA teachers surround cars, block parking lot, scream ‘scum!’ at subs
Discussion: Daily Wire and TheBlaze
Associated Press:
2020 Democrats face a choice: Fight Trump or ignore him?
Andrew Joseph / STAT:
Purdue cemented ties with universities and hospitals to expand opioid sales, documents contend
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Times:
White House Redefines Who Is Essential to Get Parts of Government Moving Again
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Liberals are reading way too much into Trump news stories
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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
There's Nothing Wrong With Open Borders
Discussion: Mediaite
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: Cumming man threatened to attack White House, authorities say
Philly.com:
John Bogle, who founded Vanguard and revolutionized retirement savings, dies at 89.