memeorandum: WHY VLADIMIR PUTIN'S RUSSIA IS BACKING DONALD TRUMP (Kurt Eichenwald/Newsweek)

9:40 AM ET, November 4, 2016

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FBI finds emails related to Hillary Clinton's State Department tenure — The FBI has found emails related to Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state on the laptop belonging to the estranged husband of Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner, according to a U.S. official.

Discussion: True Pundit, Scared Monkeys, Infowars, The Geller Report, Townhall.com, New York Magazine, Independent Journal Review, Power Line, CBS New York, The Week, Fox News, MichelleMalkin.com, CBS Philly, TheBlaze and Hot Air

Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:

'He's got to get control of the ship again': How tensions at the FBI will persist after the election — Deep divisions inside the FBI and the Justice Department over how to handle investigations dealing with Hillary Clinton will probably fester even after Tuesday's presidential election …

Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
‘The FBI is Trumpland’: anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaks, sources say

New York Times:
Sorting Through the Clinton Email Case and What the F.B.I.'s Options Are

Discussion: Gothamist

Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Presidential Election: Any Surprises Left?

Discussion: Althouse

Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
FBI fear of leaks drove decision on emails linked to Clinton: sources

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Week and Talking Points Memo

Kurt Eichenwald / Newsweek:

WHY VLADIMIR PUTIN'S RUSSIA IS BACKING DONALD TRUMP — THE SCOOP VLADIMIR PUTIN DONALD TRUMP — In phone calls, meetings and cables, America's European allies have expressed alarm to one another about Donald Trump's public statements denying Moscow's role in cyberattacks designed to interfere with the U.S. election.

Discussion: The New Civil Rights Movement, The Week, Mediaite and CANNONFIRE

New York Times:

Donald Trump's Impeachment Threat — Donald Trump and other embattled Republican candidates are resorting to a particularly bizarre and dangerous tactic in the closing days of the campaign — warning that they may well seek to impeach Hillary Clinton if she wins, or, short of that …

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:

America and the Abyss — The most frustrating aspect of the last 12 months has been the notion that we have been in a normal, if truly ugly, election cycle, with one extremely colorful and unpredictable figure leading the Republican Party in an otherwise conventional political struggle over policy.

Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Who Broke Politics? — As far as anyone can tell, Paul Ryan …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog

CBS News:

Sources: U.S. intel warning of possible al Qaeda attacks in U.S. Monday — NEW YORK — CBS News has learned about a potential terror threat for the day before the election. — Sources told CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton that U.S. intelligence has alerted joint terrorism task forces …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Infowars, AOL, Mediaite, CBS New York, CBS Dallas, WTVR-TV and CBS Philly

Gary Langer / ABC News:

Hint of Momentum for Clinton, With Issues a Defining Factor (POLL) — A hint of momentum for Hillary Clinton has produced a 3-point race in the latest ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll results, with wide leads for the Democrat in trust to handle the economy and health care among likely voters focused on those two issues.

Discussion: RedState

Scott Clement / Washington Post:

Clinton up 47-44 in Post-ABC Tracking Poll, despite Trump's 9-point edge on dealing with corruption — Hillary Clinton holds a narrow three-point edge over Donald Trump as supporters of each candidate lock in to their candidate as the best equipped to handle a variety of national issues …

Discussion: The New Civil Rights Movement

Stuart Rothenberg / Washington Post: Is the Clinton cake still baked?

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

Election Update: Why Clinton's Position Is Worse Than Obama's — There's been a potential breach of Hillary Clinton's electoral firewall. And it's come in New Hampshire, a state that we said a couple of weeks ago could be a good indicator of a Donald Trump comeback because of its large number of swing voters.

Discussion: Business Insider, Instapundit, Raw Story, Vox, The Week and Althouse

Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Donald Trump has never been closer to the presidency than he is at this moment

Discussion: Guardian, The American Spectator, New York Magazine, Vox and Daily Wire

Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Obama: Donald Trump Would Tolerate Klan If Elected President

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Gateway Pundit

Michelle Jamrisko / Bloomberg:

Payrolls in U.S. Rose by 161,000 in October as Wages Accelerate — U.S. jobs continued to gain at a steady pace in October and wage gains accelerated, signs that the labor market and economy made steady progress at the start of the fourth quarter. — Payrolls climbed by 161,000 …

Discussion: Politico

Patrick Gillespie / CNNMoney:

U.S. unemployment falls to 4.9% before election — America's economy stayed on track before the U.S. election. — The U.S. economy added 161,000 jobs in October, a solid gain, yet below the 191,000 jobs added in September, according to the Labor Department.

CNNMoney:

Media refutes baseless Fox News report on FBI Clinton Foundation ‘indictment’ — Several of the nation's leading news outlets have rebutted a report from Fox News stating that the FBI is pursuing an indictment of the Clinton Foundation. — On Thursday, NBC News, ABC News and CNN all reported …

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ABC News:
Despite Trump's Claims, Evidence From FBI's Clinton Foundation Probe ‘Not Impressive,’ Sources Say

Discussion: Mediaite, The New Civil Rights Movement, Media Matters for America, Media Matters for America and TVNewser

David Edwards / Raw Story:
Oops: Fox anchor retracts claim of ‘likely’ Clinton indictment after conservatives sites go wild

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Federalist, Towleroad, Occupy Democrats, RedState, The New Civil Rights Movement, Infowars, Daily Kos, Liberty Blitzkrieg, The Hill, Media Matters for America, Washington Free Beacon, Scared Monkeys and Joe.My.God.

Steven Shepard / Politico:

Democratic insiders: Clinton's ground game will sink Trump — The presidential race may be tightening, but Democrats are convinced they have an Election Day ace-in-the-hole: Hillary Clinton's ground game. They're confident it will withstand Donald Trump's late surge in key battleground states.

Callum Borchers / Washington Post:

Melania Trump leaves the media scratching its head — again — After Melania Trump delivered a partially-plagiarized speech at the Republican National Convention, journalists wondered whether she would speak on the campaign trail again. On Thursday, more than three months later …

Discussion: Daily Kos, Mediaite, CNN, Politicus USA, Raw Story, The Week and The Stranger …

Daily Mail:
Melania speaks - and tells how she will battle the online bullies from the White House.

Discussion: The Hill and The American Spectator

Mark Hosenball / Reuters:

FBI examining fake documents targeting Clinton campaign: sources — The FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies are examining faked documents aimed at discrediting the Hillary Clinton campaign as part of a broader investigation into what U.S. officials believe has been an attempt by Russia …

Discussion: RedState, Mother Jones, Reuters and Balloon Juice

Carla Field / WYFF-TV:

Woman missing since August found ‘chained like a dog,’ sheriff says … A woman reported missing in August along with her boyfriend has been found held captive “chained like a dog” since her disappearance, the sheriff said, and a registered sex offender has been arrested in connection with the investigation.

Discussion: Independent Journal Review, FOX6Now.com and WREG-TV

Daniel González / Arizona Republic:

Arizona leads nation in early-voting surge by Latinos — Vice-presidential candidate Tim Kaine will be trying to sway Hispanic voters, but many have already cast their ballots — Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine will deliver a campaign speech entirely in Spanish in Phoenix …