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John Solomon / The Hill:
Robert Mueller soon may be exposed as the ‘magician of omission’ on Russia  —  While most of the political world focused its attention elsewhere, special prosecutor John Durham's team quietly reached out this summer to a lawyer representing European academic Joseph Mifsud …
Discussion: RedState and The Gateway Pundit
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: How to think about today's Mueller extravaganza  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THERE'S NO WAY to adequately encapsulate the gravity of today's pair of hearings with ROBERT MUELLER.  They're absolutely huge politically, substantively and optically.
Washington Post:
Live: ‘The president was not exculpated for the acts that he allegedly committed,’ Mueller tells House Judiciary Committee  —  This live story is being reported by Matt Zapotosky, Karoun Demirjian, Rachael Bade, Rosalind S. Helderman, Tom Hamburger, Shane Harris, Devlin Barrett, John Wagner and Rachel Weiner.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Mueller scrambles hearing by tapping top deputy as counsel  —  Robert Mueller's top deputy will appear alongside him for his highly anticipated testimony on Wednesday, according to congressional aides familiar with the preparations, a last-minute curveball that came despite the Justice Department's demand …
Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
While bemoaning Mueller probe, Trump falsely says the Constitution gives him ‘the right to do whatever I want’  —  President Trump believes the Constitution gives him a wide breadth of power.  That's the message he delivered ― not for the first time — on Tuesday while addressing a crowd …
New York Times:
Fireworks, Maybe, but Will Mueller Hearing Be a Turning Point?  —  WASHINGTON — After all the swearing at, finally comes the swearing in.  When Robert S. Mueller III takes the oath on Wednesday morning in the wood-paneled Room 2141 of the Rayburn House Office Building …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Rachael Bade / Washington Post:
‘A lack of urgency’: Democrats frustrated as House investigators struggle to unearth major revelations about Trump  —  Democratic frustrations with the House majority's oversight of President Trump are beginning to boil over, as longtime party strategists and liberals alike decry what they view …
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:   Welcome to our live analysis! 👋
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Democrats worry Mueller will be a ‘snooze fest,’ while Trump claims falsely he can ‘do whatever I want’
Discussion: Reason and Political Wire
Emily Guskin / Washington Post:
How Americans view Mueller and impeachment, in five charts
Discussion: Politico and The Week
New York Times:
Robert Mueller's Testimony Is Tomorrow. Here's What You Need to Know.
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Key Aide Will Appear Alongside Mueller During Hearings
Hannah Gilberstadt / Pew Research Center:
For the first time, majority of Republicans express confidence in the fairness of Mueller's investigation
Discussion: Politico
Chase Madar / BuzzFeed News:
Ilhan Omar's Anti-Semitism Is Becoming A Load-Bearing Myth For American Politics  —  When House Rep. Ilhan Omar's comments about the Israel lobby took over the news cycle earlier this year, they struck some as innocuously accurate, others as impolitic, while for others they were outrageous and inflammatory.
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Sarah Ferris / Politico:
House condemns Israel boycott over liberal objections
Discussion: Common Dreams
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Justice Ginsburg: ‘I Am Very Much Alive’  —  Toggle more options  —  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in an interview Tuesday that she does not favor proposals put forth by some Democratic presidential candidates who have advocated changing the number of Supreme Court justices if the Democrats win the presidency.
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Former Justice John Paul Stevens traveled to Portugal at age 99, Ginsburg reveals at his funeral
Discussion: The Week
New York Times:
Neil Armstrong's Death, and a Stormy, Secret $6 Million Settlement  —  When Neil Armstrong died in a Cincinnati hospital two weeks after undergoing heart surgery in 2012, his family released a touching tribute addressing the astronaut's millions of admirers around the globe.
Discussion: New York Post and Fox News
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Business Insider:
Joe Biden says he didn't think anyone thought Trump ‘would be as bad as he is’ during the 2016 presidential election  — Former Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview that he didn't believe anyone thought during the 2016 presidential election that President Trump would be as divisive as he turned out to be.
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Steven Overly / Politico:
FTC strikes $5B Facebook settlement against fierce Democratic objections  —  The FTC on Wednesday officially unveiled its $5 billion data privacy settlement with Facebook — adding to the outrage of Democratic lawmakers and regulators who called the provisions far too mild to hold …
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Toby Young / Quillette:
Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man: A Profile of Boris Johnson  —  I first set eyes on Boris Johnson in the autumn of 1983 when we went up to Oxford at the same time.  I knew who he was since my uncle Christopher was an ex-boyfriend of his mother's and he had told me to keep an eye out for him …
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Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
ICE releases US citizen, 18, wrongfully detained near border  —  HOUSTON (AP) — A U.S.-born 18-year-old was released from immigration custody Tuesday after wrongfully being detained for more than three weeks.  —  Francisco Erwin Galicia left a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Pearsall, Texas, on Tuesday.
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Bloomberg Law:
Sanders White House Campaign Hit with Federal Labor Complaint  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) 2020 presidential campaign has been hit with an unfair labor practice complaint alleging illegal employee interrogation and retaliation against staffers.  —  The July 19 complaint …
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The Babylon Bee:   Sanders Campaign Raises Pay To $700 Per Hour By Laying Off Everyone Except Bernie
CNN:
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló is expected to resign today, source says  —  (CNN)Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló is expected to resign Wednesday after more than a week of protests that rocked the island's capital city, a source familiar with the situation told CNN.
Anna Bauman / Detroit Free Press:
Dearborn burger franchise founded in Israel delays opening after backlash, threats  —  A franchisee has delayed the scheduled opening of his Burgerim restaurant in Dearborn amid backlash from the Arab-American community over the popular burger company's Israeli roots.
Project Veritas:
Current Sr. Google Engineer Goes Public on Camera: Tech is “dangerous,” “taking sides”  —  Insider: “It's time to decide, do we run the technology, or does the technology run us?”  —  “I really don't buy the idea that big tech is politically neutral.”  —  “Are we going to just let the …
Discussion: Breitbart and Daily Wire
Elizabeth Spiers / New Republic:
Beyond Pelosi  —  Every time I see Nancy Pelosi patiently spell out the higher political wisdom of refraining from impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump, I think of Alan Greenspan.  That's obviously not because the speaker of the House and the famously tight-lipped former Fed chair …
Washington Post:
The administration's last-minute attempt to bully Mueller is offensive  —  FORMER SPECIAL counsel Robert S. Mueller III already had made clear that he would not say much beyond what is in the report he released in March when he testifies to House committees Wednesday.
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Vox and The Guardian
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News:
The Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”  —  Developer Chris Wetherell built Twitter's retweet button.  And he regrets what he did to this day.  —  “We might have just handed a 4-year-old a loaded weapon,” Wetherell recalled thinking as he watched the first Twitter mob use the tool he created.
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
How Bill Barr Ran Circles Around Bob Mueller  —  The special counsel is likely to wind up as just another person with good intentions who got body-slammed by a savvier political operative wearing a sheriff's badge.  —  Robert Mueller, an unusually honorable and admirable law-enforcement official …
New York Sun:
Senator Franken Regrets  —  Al Franken's regrets over resigning from the Senate add up to a tragedy for our times.  They are relayed by Jane Mayer in an illuminating scoop in the New Yorker.  It's a long, reported dispatch to which it's hard to do justice in a short editorial.
 
 
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