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3:20 PM ET, August 3, 2016

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NBC News:
Trump Allies Plot Candidate Intervention After Disastrous 48 Hours  —  Key Republicans close to Donald Trump's orbit are plotting an intervention with the candidate after a disastrous 48 hours led some influential voices in the party to question whether Trump can stay at the top …
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Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Senior GOP Officials Exploring Options if Trump Drops Out  —  Republican officials are exploring how to handle a scenario that would be unthinkable in a normal election year: What would happen if the party's presidential nominee dropped out?  —  ABC News has learned that senior party officials …
John Harwood / CNBC:
Ally of Trump staffer Paul Manafort: The staff is ‘suicidal,’ he's mailing it in  —  Donald Trump's behavior in recent days, from criticizing the parents of a fallen American soldier to declining to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan, has strained the nerves of his campaign staff as he falls behind in the polls.
NBC News:
GOP Reels After Unprecedented 24 Hours From Trump  —  First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.  —  GOP, Trump go from ‘unraveling’ to ‘break glass’ mode
Washington Post:
Donald Trump transcript: The Republican nominee in his own words  —  Republican nominee Donald Trump sat down with The Post's Philip Rucker for an interview at Trump National Golf Club on Aug. 2 following a rally at a nearby high school.  This is a lightly edited transcript of the 50-minute interview.
John Harwood / CNBC:
Former top Gingrich ally calls Trump nom ‘mistake of historic proportions’  —  Vin Weber, a key early lieutenant in the Newt Gingrich revolution that transformed the U.S. House of Representatives and the GOP, rejected the candidacy of Donald Trump on Wednesday as “a mistake of historic proportions” for his party.
CNN:
Sources: Trump-world frustrated by their candidate  —  (CNN)Donald Trump aides and people close to his campaign are increasingly frustrated by his insistence on waging various fights that steer him off message.  —  Sources close to the campaign are describing a series of missteps that are trailing …
Washington Post:
GOP reaches ‘new level of panic’ over Trump's candidacy  —  The Republican Party was in turmoil again Wednesday as party leaders, strategists and donors voiced increasing alarm about the flailing state of Donald Trump's candidacy and fears that the presidential nominee was damaging the party …
Discussion: Politicus USA and The Week
Nick Gass / Politico:
Gingrich blasts Trump's ‘very self-destructive’ behavior  —  Donald Trump's behavior over the past week has been “very self-destructive” to his campaign, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday, comparing the Republican nominee to a Hall of Fame quarterback who is in the midst of an interception-throwing slump.
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Mike Pence ‘strongly’ endorses Paul Ryan, as Trump refuses to do the same
Katy Tur / NBC News:
RNC Chairman Priebus ‘Apoplectic’ Over Trump's Refusal to Endorse Ryan
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Meg Whitman, Calling Donald Trump a ‘Demagogue,’ Will Support Hillary Clinton for President
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Pence: Trump ‘strongly encouraged me to endorse Paul Ryan’
Discussion: RedState
Ivan Levingston / CNBC:
What happens if a candidate—say Donald Trump—drops out of the presidential race
Discussion: RedState and Talking Points Memo
Martinlongman / Washington Monthly:
With Trump, Every Day is a New Buffet
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Trump denies asking why nukes aren't used  —  's presidential campaign denied a report on Wednesday that the Republican presidential nominee had three times asked a foreign policy adviser why the U.S. could not use its vast nuclear arsenal.  —  “There is no truth to this,” …
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Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
Trump asks why US can't use nukes: MSNBC
Media Matters for America:
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough: Trump Asked “Three Times In An Hour Briefing, 'Why Can't We Use Nuclear Weapons?'”
Wall Street Journal:
George W. Bush Delivers Critique of Donald Trump's Policies  —  Former president stops short of putting his remarks in the context of the 2016 presidential campaign  —  Without naming Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, former President George W. Bush delivered an incisive critique …
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:   George W. Bush criticizes Trump's policies at GOP fundraiser: report
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Obama Commutes Sentences Of More Than 200 People Serving Federal Sentences  —  Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Images  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama commuted the sentences of 214 people serving federal sentences on Wednesday — the most commutations issued by a president in a single …
Discussion: New York Times, Daily Kos and The Week
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Neil Eggleston / Blog Daily Listings RSS:
President Obama Commutes the Sentences of 214 Additional People
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Politico
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Freedom Caucus Blasts House GOP Leaders For Kansas Rep's Primary Loss  —  Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) released a scathing statement Wednesday morning blasting House GOP leaders for the primary loss of fellow Freedom caucus member Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS), a fifth generation farmer who found himself without …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
A Tea Party Defeat in Kansas
New York Times:
Voices From Donald Trump's Rallies, Uncensored  —  “Trump that bitch!”  —  “Build a wall — kill them all.”  —  New York Times reporters have spent over a year covering Donald J. Trump's rallies, witnessing so many provocations and heated confrontations at them that the cumulative effect can be numbing …
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Boy's Crude Chant Draws Attention at Trump Rally
Discussion: Mediaite, ThinkProgress and TalkLeft
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Clinton's Dueling Mandates: Praise Obama Record but Promise Change  —  Listen to Hillary Clinton, and it can seem like the best of times and the worst of times all at once.  —  In Omaha, Neb., on Monday, she ticked through facts and statistics showing how life has improved since the Great Recession …
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Ed Rogers / Washington Post:   The Obama economy is trouble for Hillary Clinton
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Sent Cash to Iran as Americans Were Freed  —  Obama administration insists there was no quid pro quo, but critics charge payment amounted to ransom  —  WASHINGTON—The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release …
Jim Galloway / Political Insider blog:
Georgia Republican says he might withhold electoral college vote from Donald Trump  —  I just finished a highly unusual telephone conversation with Baoky Vu, a naturalized U.S. citizen and longtime GOP activist in Georgia.  —  Vu will be on the November ballot as an elector …
Wall Street Journal:
Wal-Mart in Talks to Buy Web Retailer Jet.com  —  Jet.com launched one year ago and raised more than $500 million  —  Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is in talks to buy online discount retailer Jet.com Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, in what would mark a disappointing end …
The Intercept:
How a Top GOP Lawyer Guided a Chinese-Owned Company Into U.S. Presidential Politics  —  Six days after the Supreme Court lifted restrictions on corporate money in U.S. elections with its January 21, 2010, ruling in Citizens United, President Obama warned in his State of the Union address that it would …
Discussion: Mother Jones
ABC News:
DC Metro Cop Arrested for Allegedly Trying to Assist ISIS  —  A veteran police officer with one of the nation's most prominent transit systems has been arrested for allegedly trying to help ISIS, ABC News has learned exclusively.  —  Authorities believe that while working …
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
How Clinton Could Knock Trump Out
Ryan Cross / MIT Technology Review:
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Joe Bob Briggs / Taki's Magazine:
Donald, You Ignorant Slut
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Tom Williams / Associated Press:
Pastor suspects racial motivations behind termination
Discussion: The Root, Raw Story and LawNewz
Daniel Dalewashington / Toronto Star:
No, Donald Trump did not eject a baby
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Trump Tells Virginia Town It's Failing, Cites the Wrong Place
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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Clinton and Trump lay groundwork for pitched battle over Colorado
Discussion: Politico, Guardian and CNN
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
A Trump Victory Is a Scary Thought. A Disputed Loss Might Be Scarier.
Discussion: Salon and Mediaite
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Trump and Putin: A Love Story
Discussion: Hot Air and Political Wire
Justin Raimondo / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed To fight Trump, journalists have dispensed with objectivity
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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