Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
3:15 PM ET, May 3, 2019

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Trump, Putin discussed Mueller report and agreed no collusion, White House says  —  White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the two leaders spoke by phone for an hour on Friday.  —  President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke Friday and both agreed …
RELATED:
CNN:
Trump and Putin spoke by phone, discussed Mueller report  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone Friday morning for “over an hour,” during which they briefly discussed special counsel Robert Mueller's report and other issues, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
The 2019 governor's race that has Trump's team sweating  —  Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin is a presidential phone-buddy and White House regular who's become one of President Donald Trump's loudest surrogates.  —  He's also one of the most unpopular governors in the country, facing a treacherous reelection in November.
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump Says He Discussed the ‘Russian Hoax’ in Phone Call With Putin  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Friday that he discussed the “Russian Hoax” with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, in their first conversation since the release of the special counsel's report, which found that …
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Trump and Putin Discuss Venezuela, Mueller Report
Discussion: Political Wire
Sarah Longwell / USA Today:   Robert Mueller told us everything we need to know
Washington Post:
Trump says he and Putin discussed outcome of Mueller probe as part of hour-long phone conversation
Discussion: The Week
CNN:
Nadler threatens to hold Barr in contempt if DOJ doesn't comply with new Democratic offer on Mueller report  —  Sarah Sanders: Nadler ‘incapable’ of asking Barr questions  —  Washington (CNN)House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler on Friday sent his latest offer Attorney General William Barr …
Discussion: RedState, IJR, Raw Story, Joe.My.God. and Slate
RELATED:
House Judiciary Dems / House Committee …:
House Judiciary Chairman Sends DOJ Detailed Counter Offer for Mueller Report Redactions and Underlying Evidence  —  Nadler Sets 9 a.m. Monday Deadline  —  Washington, D.C. — Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
William Barr's 2 strangest defenses of Trump haven't gotten enough attention  —  Democrats have accused Attorney General William P. Barr of shilling for President Trump and effectively acting like his defense lawyer.  The Post reports Friday morning on the question of whether that is really what is going on …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Nadler delivers ultimatum to Barr before holding AG in contempt
Discussion: Axios, The Hill and The Guardian
Adam Schiff / USA Today:
William Barr lied to Congress about the Mueller report. He should resign
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump, Wrecker of Reputations
CNN:
READ: New Democratic letter to Barr on Mueller report
Discussion: Daily Kos and Shareblue Media
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
House Judiciary chairman gives ultimatum to AG Barr, could move to contempt proceedings
Discussion: Townhall and Joe.My.God.
Anna Sanders / New York Daily News:
De Blasio expected to announce 2020 presidential run next week: sources  —  Mayor de Blasio is expected to announce he's running for president next week, according to three sources with knowledge of the plans.  —  The 2020 announcement could come as early as de Blasio's birthday on Wednesday, when he'll turn 58, said one source.
Barbara Allen / Poynter:
Letter from the Editor  —  Dear readers:  —  On Tuesday, April 30, Poynter posted a list of 515 “unreliable” news websites, built from pre-existing databases compiled by journalists, fact-checkers and researchers around the country.  Our aim was to provide a useful tool for readers to gauge …
RELATED:
Liam Quinn / Fox News:
Poynter forced to scrap ‘unreliable news’ list targeting conservative outlets after outcry
Dan Sewell / Associated Press:
Judges declare Ohio's congressional map unconstitutional  —  CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal court ruled Friday that Ohio's congressional map is unconstitutional and ordered a new one be drawn for the 2020 elections.  —  A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court in Cincinnati ruled unanimously …
Discussion: Axios and Joe.My.God.
RELATED:
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Ohio congressional map tossed out for partisan gerrymandering
Discussion: Washington Post
Charlie Savage / New York Times:   The Coming Subpoena Fights Between Trump and Congress, Explained
Fedor Indutny / BostonGlobe.com:
Remarkably unremarkable: Pete Buttigieg rises in the polls as the first major openly gay candidate for president  —  SOMERVILLE — It was both a remarkable and entirely unremarkable sight: Pete Buttigieg's husband shaking hands with voters who had lined up outside the Somerville Theatre to hear …
Discussion: twitchy.com
RELATED:
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Pete Buttigieg Is Exposing Tensions In The LGBTQ Movement
Discussion: Friendly Atheist
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Inside Bernie Sanders's 1988 10-day ‘honeymoon’ in the Soviet Union  —  Bernie Sanders was bare-chested, towel-draped, sitting at a table lined with vodka bottles, as he sang “This Land Is Your Land” to his hosts in the Soviet Union in the spring of 1988.  —  The just-married socialist mayor …
RELATED:
Matthew Cole / The Intercept:
How Erik Prince Used the Rise of Trump to Make an Improbable Comeback  —  When Erik Prince arrived at the Four Seasons resort in the Seychelles in January 2017 for his now-famous meetings with a Russian banker and UAE ruler Mohammed bin Zayed, he was in the middle of an unexpected comeback.
Discussion: Splinter and Raw Story
RELATED:
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
Erik Prince Set Up Intel Training for Project Veritas, James O'Keefe: Report
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Watergate had the Nixon tapes.  Mueller had Annie Donaldson's notes.  —  The notes, scribbled rapidly on a legal pad, captured the fear inside the White House when President Trump raged over the Russia investigation and decreed he was firing the FBI director who led it: “Is this the beginning of the end?”
Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos and Raw Story
Media Matters for America:
Study: Major media outlets' Twitter accounts amplify false Trump claims on average 19 times a day  —  Major media outlets failed to rebut President Donald Trump's misinformation 65% of the time in their tweets about his false or misleading comments, according to a Media Matters review.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Raw Story
RELATED:
Alexandria Neason / Columbia Journalism Review:   On Twitter, news outlets amplify Trump's false statements: study
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Jobs surge in April, unemployment rate falls to the lowest since 1969  —  KEY POINTS  —  US added 263,000 jobs in April, vs 190,000 expected  —  The U.S. jobs machine kept humming along in April, adding a robust 263,000 new hires while the unemployment rate fell to 3.6%, the lowest in a generation …
RELATED:
Associated Press:
U.S. jobless rate drops to 49-year low
Alex Thompson / Politico:
‘Lock her up’ redux?  Biden's son becomes the right's new target  —  President Donald Trump's political allies and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani have begun mobilizing to cast a legal cloud over Joe Biden and demanding that the Justice Department should open an investigation that could ensnare …
RELATED:
Jessica Kwong / Newsweek:
Kellyanne Conway Broke the Law Attacking Joe Biden in White House Driveway and Should Be Fired: Bush Ethics Chief
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Press
The New York Times Company:
Sarah Kliff of Vox to Join Investigations  —  Sarah Kliff, a versatile journalist who has used a variety of media to explain complex health legislation, will be based in Washington.  Read more in this note from Rebecca Corbett, Dean Murphy and Carolyn Ryan.
Associated Press:
Cohen's prison reality: ‘The Situation’ and Shabbat services  —  NEW YORK (AP) — “The Situation” and the Fyre Festival fraudster are already there.  President Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, is up next.  —  It's not reality TV.  It's a federal prison 70 miles …
Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite
Jeremy Roebuck / Philly.com:
Bob Brady's political guru, Ken Smukler, sentenced to 18 months in prison for campaign finance violations  —  Former U.S. Rep. Bob Brady's top political strategist, Ken Smukler, was sentenced to a year and a half in federal prison Friday for repeated violations campaign finance laws in back-to-back congressional races he oversaw.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 3:15 PM ET, May 3, 2019.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
KABE-LP:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump vineyard also hired undocumented workers
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Bill Barr is going to expose Spygate, and the Democrat-Media Russia Collusion Complex is panicking
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
William Barr Made A Major Disclosure In His Senate Hearing That Hardly Anyone Noticed
emptywheel:
Did Rod Rosenstein Pressure Mueller to Enter the Plea Deal with Paul Manafort?
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Mike Gonzalez / New York Post:
Wrong, Rep. Omar: Socialism, not America, caused Venezuela's suffering
Tom McTague / Politico:
Brexit tears through UK's political landscape
Discussion: BBC and Breitbart
Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Dying Is No Reason to Stop Fighting
Angie Martoccio / Rolling Stone:
John Lewis Looks Ahead
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Sasha Pezenik / ABC News:
Gov. Jay Inslee unveils sweeping initiative to combat climate change
Reveal:
CFPB moves to limit home loan data
Christopher Jacobs / The Federalist:
The CBO Report On Single Payer Isn't The One We Deserve To See
Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Senate Democrats ask NRA execs, PR firm for documents related to alleged self-dealing
Discussion: The Trace
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
The Economy and the Election  —  For as long as I've covered politics …
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
She's Asian and female. But she's not me.
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Gannett fires an experienced editor overseeing 26 community newspapers for “sharing proprietary information” with a “competing media company”, which was Poynter

CNBC:
Sources: Sinclair is looking to sell 60+ of its 185 TV stations, in markets including Minneapolis and Austin, and is exploring options for the Tennis Channel

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Nexstar Q1: revenue up 2.1% YoY to $1.28B, net income up 89.8% YoY to $167M, losses for The CW were cut by $50M, or about half 2024's projected loss reductions
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page