memeorandum: Hillary's Plan to Respond to Unjustified Price Hikes for Long-Available Drugs (Hillary Clinton 2016)

3:25 PM ET, September 2, 2016

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The Revenge of Roger's Angels — How Fox News women took down the most powerful, and predatory, man in media. — It took 15 days to end the mighty 20-year reign of Roger Ailes at Fox News, one of the most storied runs in media and political history. Ailes built not just a conservative …

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Media Matters for America:

Media Matters President Bradley Beychok Responds To Report That Fox Sought Our Reporter's Phone Records — Fox News sought the phone records of Media Matters senior reporter Joe Strupp through “legally questionable means” in order to identify his anonymous network sources, according to a new report.

Discussion: Mediaite and LawNewz, more at Mediagazer »

Federal Bureau of Investigation:

FBI Releases Documents in Hillary Clinton E-Mail Investigation — Today the FBI is releasing a summary of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's July 2, 2016 interview with the FBI concerning allegations that classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on a personal e-mail server she used during her tenure.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Townhall.com, ABC News, Politico, Hot Air, Washington Free Beacon, Engadget and Talking Points Memo

Nick Gass / Politico:
Powell warned Clinton about using a BlackBerry

Discussion: Political Wire

CNN:
FBI releases Hillary Clinton report

Discussion: Politico, Power Line, Business Insider, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Daily Caller, Associated Press, CBS New York and LawNewz

Nick Gass / Politico: Clinton told FBI she relied on others' judgment on classified material

Jamie Dupree / AJCJamie Dupree:
FBI releases Clinton email documents

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Vessel News and twitchy.com

Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:

The New York Times Screws Up Its Clinton Coverage, Part Infinity — Hey, look, there goes the plot. — Oh, for the love of god, mother Times. Are you freaking kidding me? — It's long past the point where many of our major news publications be sent to the dogtrack with their names pinned …

Discussion: Washington Post, Media Matters for America and Eschaton

Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:

Hillary Clinton was right about the vast right-wing conspiracy. Here's why it exists. — The epic battles between the Clintons and their tormentors on the right have shaped American politics for nearly a quarter century. — But there was a moment early on when the toxic course …

Discussion: Politico

Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:

Emails Raise New Questions About Clinton Foundation Ties to State Dept. — WASHINGTON — A top aide to Hillary Clinton at the State Department agreed to try to obtain a special diplomatic passport for an adviser to former President Bill Clinton in 2009, according to emails released Thursday …

Discussion: Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Wall Street Journal, Hullabaloo, Associated Press, Media Matters for America, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Judicial Watch, Vox, Daily Kos, Washington Free Beacon, Hot Air and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times

Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:

Donald Trump Revised Immigration Speech After Mexican Leader's Tweet — Republican added wording about border wall at last minute after President Enrique Peña Nieto said his nation wouldn't pay for it — As Donald Trump arrived in Phoenix late Wednesday, fresh from a visit …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politico, Fox News, The Right Scoop, The Daily Caller, New Urban Legends, The Resurgent, Daily Kos, Raw Story, Breitbart, Gothamist and LifeZette

Nick Gass / Politico:
Eric Trump: ‘Pretty amazing’ that Hispanic surrogates withdrew support after speech

Discussion: Washington Post

Jessie Hellmann / The Hill: Report: Trump edited speech after Mexican leader's wall tweet

Steven Shepard / Politico:
GOP insiders: Trump's trip was a hit

Discussion: Hullabaloo and The New York Observer

Meghan Keneally / ABC News:

Presidential Debate Moderators Announced — The Commission on Presidential Debates has announced the names of the moderators of the four showdowns that are scheduled in the coming weeks. — The first presidential debate will be moderated by NBC's “Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt.

Discussion: Politico, Towleroad, Joe.My.God. and twitchy.com

Commission on Presidential Debates:

Format — The format for the debates, announced on July 7, 2016, will be: — First presidential debate — The debate will be divided into six time segments of approximately 15 minutes each on major topics to be selected by the moderator and announced at least one week before the debate.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Washington Examiner, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Morning Consult, Vessel News and Hot Air

New York Times:
Presidential Debate Moderators Are Set, With Lester Holt for the First

Discussion: New York Magazine, Outside the Beltway and BizPac Review, more at Mediagazer »

CNNMoney:
Presidential debate moderators announced

Discussion: Media Matters for America, RedState and The Right Scoop

Randy Ludlow / The Columbus Dispatch:

Green Party presidential candidate's Capital University speech delayed after she flies to wrong city — Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was scheduled to speak at Capital University in Bexley at noon today but it looks like she's running a little late.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politicus USA, Guardian, Raw Story, Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon, twitchy.com and CBS Boston

William Wan / Washington Post:

Inside the Republican creation of the North Carolina voting bill dubbed the ‘monster’ law — RALEIGH, N.C. — The emails to the North Carolina election board seemed routine at the time. — “Is there any way to get a breakdown of the 2008 voter turnout, by race (white and black) …

Discussion: Vox and Mother Jones

Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
North Carolina May End Up Back In Court Over Its Foot Dragging On Early Voting

Discussion: ThinkProgress and Off the Kuff

Gabrielle Union / Los Angeles Times:

Op-Ed ‘Birth of a Nation’ actress Gabrielle Union: I cannot take Nate Parker rape allegations lightly — Gabrielle Union arrives at the 47th annual NAACP Image Awards at the Pasadena Civic Center. (Los Angeles Times) — Twenty-four years ago I was raped at gunpoint in the cold …

Discussion: Mashable, AOL, Mediaite, New York Magazine, Clutch Magazine, Refinery29, CBS San Francisco, theGrio and IndieWire

Philip Bump / Washington Post:

The national economic implications of a taco truck on every corner — A supporter of Donald Trump appeared on MSNBC's “All In” on Thursday night to offer a vision of a bleak, delicious future. … “My culture is a very dominant culture, and it's imposing — and it's causing problems,” …

Discussion: New York Times, The Hill, NBC News, The Stranger …, Daily Wire, The San Diego Union …, fox13now.com, Vox, Business Insider, CNN, Boing Boing, NOLA River, Talking Points Memo and twitchy.com

Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Latinos for Trump founder warns of ‘taco trucks on every corner’

Discussion: Fusion, Washington Post, Guardian, Daily Kos, ThinkProgress, RedState, Real Clear Politics, Hot Air and New York Magazine

Annie Karni / Politico:

Clinton's advisers tell her to prep for a landslide — Advisers to Hillary Clinton's campaign have identified so many paths to an Election Day victory they are now focusing not only on the one or two battlegrounds that would ensure a win but on opening up the possibility of an Electoral College landslide.

Discussion: RedState, Daily Kos and Althouse

Bloomberg:

Putin Says DNC Hack Was Public Service, Russia Didn't Do It — Stepan Kravchenko John Micklethwait Jake Rudnitsky — ‘Listen, does it even matter who hacked this data?’ Putin says — Putin says he 'couldn't imagine' DNC bias was newsworthy — Vladimir Putin said the hacking …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, RT, Engadget, CANNONFIRE, The Verge, Talking Points Memo, Politico and The Atlantic

Bloomberg:
Putin Blasts Trump and Clinton for ‘Shock’ Campaign Tactics

Discussion: War in Context, Politico and Joe.My.God.

Reuters:

One secret of Trump's low-cost campaign: free labor — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has run an unusually cheap campaign in part by not paying at least 10 top staffers, consultants and advisers, some of whom are no longer with the campaign, according to a review of federal campaign finance filings.

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon and Lawyers, Guns & Money

NBC News:

Colin Kaepernick Pledges $1 Million to Charity as Anthem Protest Spreads — FROM AUG. 29: Kaepernick's Protest Sparks National Uproar 1:57 — San Francisco 49ers star Colin Kaepernick is putting his money where his mouth is — pledging to donate $1 million to community organizations Thursday.

Discussion: alan.com, ProFootballTalk, The Atlantic, Raw Story, NBCSports.com, Common Dreams, NOLA River, Niners Wire, Bleacher Report, Niners Nation, USA Today, KNBR-AM and Mediaite

New York Times:

This small Indiana county sends more people to prison than San Francisco and Durham, N.C., combined. Why? — LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. — Donnie Gaddis picked the wrong county to sell 15 oxycodone pills to an undercover officer. — If Mr. Gaddis had been caught 20 miles to the east, in Cincinnati …

Discussion: Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times

Hillary Clinton 2016:

Hillary's Plan to Respond to Unjustified Price Hikes for Long-Available Drugs — Today, Hillary Clinton is offering a plan to protect Americans from unjustified price hikes in lifesaving treatments that have long been on the market. Over the last year, we've seen far too many examples …

Discussion: Mother Jones, Morning Consult, TheStreet.com and The Federalist

Daily Mail:

Melania Trump: A retraction — On August 20, 2016, an article was published in the Daily Mail newspaper titled 'Racy photos, and troubling questions about his wife's past that could derail Trump.' — The article discussed whether allegations being made about Melania Trump could negatively affect …

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John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:

Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Are Tied In Latest IBD/TIPP Poll — In a sharp turnaround in an already volatile election season, support for Hillary Clinton tumbled as Donald Trump made gains over the past month, leaving the race a virtual tie. — The latest IBD/TIPP Poll shows that Clinton …

Discussion: The American Spectator

news khpg.org:

Russia's Supreme Court rules that the USSR did not invade Poland in 1939 — Russia's Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of Perm blogger Vladimir Luzgin for reposting a text which states that both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland in 1939.

Discussion: Instapundit