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11:50 AM ET, September 9, 2019

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Jim Sciutto / CNN:
Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017  —  Washington (CNN)In a previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017, the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government, multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge told CNN.
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Air Force leaders order probe of Trump resort stays  —  The U.S. Air Force has ordered a world-wide review of how it chooses overnight accommodations on long flights following revelations that air crews had occasionally stayed at President Donald Trump's Scotland resort while refueling at a small commercial airport nearby.
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
On Trump, Sharpiegate, Turnberry, the Taliban and Chaos  —  Good government decays when compromised by a cult of personality.  —  Close to midnight on Saturday, the leader of the free world tweeted a loopy and nearly inscrutable video that included his doctored, Sharpie-enhanced weather map …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Has Figured Out How to Corrupt the Entire Government  —  Donald Trump came to the presidency a complete novice to government and often found his corrupt, authoritarian impulses frustrated by its bureaucracy.  But he is slowly learning how to control the machine that has stymied him.
Discussion: Raw Story, Gizmodo, Mediaite and RedState
Arnold Schwarzenegger / Washington Post:
Trump can't erase a decade of clean air progress with a Sharpie
Discussion: The Guardian
Washington Post:
NOAA's chief scientist will investigate why agency backed Trump over its experts on Dorian, email shows  —  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration acting chief scientist said in an email to colleagues Sunday that he is investigating whether the agency's response …
Brandon Ambrosino / Politico:
'Someone's Gotta Tell the Freakin' Truth': Jerry Falwell's Aides Break Their Silence  —  At Liberty University, all anyone can talk about is Jerry Falwell Jr. Just not in public.  —  “When he does stupid stuff, people will mention it to others they consider confidants and not keep it totally secret …
New York Times:
How Trump's Plan to Secretly Meet With the Taliban Came Together, and Fell Apart  —  WASHINGTON — On the Friday before Labor Day, President Trump gathered top advisers in the Situation Room to consider what could be among the profound decisions of his presidency — a peace plan with the Taliban …
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Daniel DePetris / The Federalist:
Don't Believe These Tired Myths About Ending The 18-Year War In Afghanistan
Discussion: Bloomberg and Instapundit
Chas Danner / New York Magazine:
Trump's Canceled Meeting With Taliban Was a Failed Attempt to Rush a Peace Deal
Discussion: BizPac Review, Bloomberg and fox8.com
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Mark Halperin ‘Threatened’ MSNBC Chief Phil Griffin for Nixing His Comeback  —  Sources said the disgraced political reporter became hostile in a phone chat with his ex-boss after reports emerged that MSNBC brass axed plans for Halperin to return to punditry.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Elena Schneider / Politico:
'It's a deceptive lead': Why Biden's rivals are planning around his big collapse  —  He continues to outdistance the rest of the Democratic primary field in most polls.  And his head-to-head lead over President Donald Trump are stronger than anyone else's.  —  No one should be surprised next year if Joe Biden becomes the nominee.
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Privately Tells Confidants That ‘Socialism’ Won't Be ‘So Easy’ to Beat in 2020
David Catanese / McClatchy Washington Bureau:   With Warren and Sanders on his heels, Biden ramps up Iowa organization
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Congress returns to McConnell's legislative ‘graveyard’  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing criticism that the Senate has become little more than what one member calls an “expensive lunch club,” Congress returns for the fall session Monday with pressure mounting on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The push to impeach Trump just got more serious. But there's a problem.
Discussion: New York Times and Slate
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Heir  —  The empire begins with a brothel.  It stands, sturdy and square, at the heart of a gold-rush boomtown in northwest British Columbia, a monument to careful branding.  The windows of the Arctic Restaurant have no signs offering access to prostitutes—even in a lawless Yukon outpost in 1899 …
Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Not Well  —  During the 2016 campaign, I received a phone call from an influential political journalist and author, who was soliciting my thoughts on Donald Trump.  Trump's rise in the Republican Party was still something of a shock, and he wanted to know the things I felt he should keep …
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Elizabeth Warren endorses Texas U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar's Democratic primary challenger  —  The Democratic presidential candidate backed Jessica Cisneros, the immigration lawyer running to unseat Cuellar. … Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren is wading into one of Texas …
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Trump heads to N.C. for House special election — and 2020 test run  —  WEDDINGTON, N.C. — The last, lingering piece of the 2018 election is about to preview the fundamental dynamic shaping the fight for the White House in 2020.  —  Tuesday's do-over election for a congressional seat marred …
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:   In North Carolina Do-Over Vote, a Reliable Republican District Is Up for Grabs
Trent Spiner / Politico:
Internal Kamala Harris document acknowledges ‘Summer Slump’  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. — A briefing memo accidentally left behind at a restaurant here showed Kamala Harris' staff expected her to be grilled on her lack of presence in the state as well as her campaign's “summer slump.”
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:   Kamala Harris, Confronting Critics, Releases a Criminal Justice Plan
CNN:
Harris draws upon background in unveiling criminal justice plan
Discussion: BuzzFeed News
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Kamala Harris rolls out broad plan for criminal justice reform
Matti Friedman / New York Times:
The One Thing No Israeli Wants to Discuss  —  The decisive factor in next week's election — and the reason for Benjamin Netanyahu's durability — is a repressed memory.  —  Mr. Friedman is a contributing opinion writer and the author of “Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel.”
Discussion: Jewish Insider
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
How Elizabeth Warren Raised Big Money Before She Denounced Big Money  —  Ms. Warren wooed wealthy donors for years, stockpiling money from fund-raisers, and has used $10.4 million from her 2018 Senate race to underwrite her 2020 bid.  —  On the highest floor of the tallest building in Boston …
Lessig / Medium:
On Joi and MIT  —  A couple of weeks ago, I signed a petition (the site has since been taken down, but you can see it at archive.org) expressing my support for Joi Ito.  Not unexpectedly, that signing produced anger and outrage among many, and among some of my friends.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Democrats, Stop Helping Trump  —  The 2020 election is too important.  —  How important do Democrats think it is to beat President Trump in 2020?  —  Obviously, most Democrats would say it's vitally important.  Four more years of the Trump presidency could allow him to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court.
Richard L. Hasen / Vox:
Michigan has a smart idea for fixing gerrymandering.  Conservatives want to crush it.  —  Michigan state Rep. Dan Kildee speaks outside the Supreme Court against partisan gerrymandering on Oct. 3, 2017.  Olivier Douliery/Getty Images  —  The legal threat against independent redistricting commissions, explained.
Mark Hemingway / RealClearInvestigations:
Trump-Russia and Clinton-Libya: A Story of 2 Probes and the FBI  —  Records recently posted online by the FBI indicate that it did little to investigate allegations from private sources connected to Republicans about a scheme in which associates of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried …
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Mnuchin says administration will consider new round of tax cuts in 2020  —  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Monday that the Trump administration would consider proposing a package of tax cuts in 2020, trumpeting the strength of the U.S. economy despite the ominous financial indicators of recent weeks.
Kevin Landrigan / UnionLeader.com:
Sununu vetoes ‘no excuse’ voting by absentee  —  CONCORD — Gov Chris Sununu vetoed the so-called “no excuse” absentee voting bill Friday, warning it would erode the state's vaunted political tradition of in-person participation at the polls.  —  Advocates of the bill had wanted New Hampshire …
Discussion: Political Wire
Joy Pullmann / The Federalist:
How Long Must American Kids Emit ‘Primal Screams’ About Family Chaos Before We Hear Them?  —  As Mary Eberstadt's ‘Primal Screams’ painfully illustrates, there is no such thing as ‘what happens in the bedroom stays in the bedroom.’ Private choices about sex have public consequences.
 
 
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The Atlantic:
Fox News Isn't Worried About Trump's Attacks
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Biden's claim that he opposed the Iraq War the ‘moment it started’
Discussion: Political Wire
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The Trump administration's new plan to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, explained
The Guardian:
Brexit: John Bercow to step down as Speaker by 31 October - live news
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump hopes his made-up approval rating will scare potential primary challengers
Thomas Franck / CNBC:
Trump says it's ‘great news’ activist investor involved with AT&T because CNN is ‘bad for the USA’
Discussion: Political Wire
Washington Post:
Poor and middle-class Americans are much less likely to survive into their 70s than the wealthy, federal report says
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Marc Bennetts / Politico:
Putin's party takes hit in Moscow election
Jennifer Peltz / Associated Press:
At 9/11 memorial, new recognition for a longer-term toll
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump takes aim at Mark Sanford, his newest GOP challenger
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham and far-right leader Geert Wilders were photographed smiling together
Discussion: DailySabah
Washington Post:
Americans of both parties overwhelmingly support ‘red flag’ …
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Trump Raids Funds Meant to Deter Russia to Pay for His Wall
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Inside the Democrats' massive trove of Trump 2020 opposition research
Discussion: RedState, The Hill and Townhall
 

 
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