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Mike Kelly / USA Today:
Kellyanne Conway suggests even wider surveillance of Trump campaign — ALPINE, N.J. — The White House is offering yet another wrinkle in its attempt to support President Trump's allegation — unfounded, so far — that his campaign headquarters in Manhattan was wiretapped by the Obama administration.
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Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway: 'I don't have any evidence' of Trump wiretapping claim
Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway: 'I don't have any evidence' of Trump wiretapping claim
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Washington Post, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Hill, Associated Press and RedState
Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
House Intelligence Panel Wants Wiretapping Evidence by Monday
House Intelligence Panel Wants Wiretapping Evidence by Monday
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NBC News, Washington Post and The Week
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
The Big Winner in Donald Trump's Decision to Fire Preet Bharara Might Be Rupert Murdoch — Throughout his six-decade career working on three continents, Rupert Murdoch has used his media properties to advance the prospects of politicians whose policies help his business interests.
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Gothamist, Taylor Marsh, Reuters, The Week and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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Wall Street Journal:
Preet Bharara's Probes Likely to Continue After His Exit — Long-term direction of the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office is unclear — The sudden departure of Preet Bharara, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, isn't likely to change the course of several high-profile investigations …
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RedState and New York Times
Media Matters for America:
US Attorney Preet Bharara Was Investigating Fox News When Trump Fired Him
US Attorney Preet Bharara Was Investigating Fox News When Trump Fired Him
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CNBC, Vanity Fair, IJR, Raw Story, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, ABC News, CBS New York, Fox News Insider, FOX6Now.com and Gothamist
New York Times:
Preet Bharara Shunned Politics. His End Was Tinged by Them.
Preet Bharara Shunned Politics. His End Was Tinged by Them.
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Washington Post, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Week
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Fired U.S. attorney invokes shuttered New York corruption panel in tweet
Fired U.S. attorney invokes shuttered New York corruption panel in tweet
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Above the Law, New York Magazine, Reuters, Raw Story, TheBlaze, CNBC, CBS New York and Political Wire
Caitlin Yilek / Washington Examiner:
Sean Spicer ambushed while shopping at the Apple Store — White House press secretary Sean Spicer was accosted while shopping at an Apple store in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. — “How does it feel to work for a fascist? Have you helped with the Russia stuff? Are you a criminal as well?
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RedState, Raw Story, Associated Press, The Daily Caller and The Hill
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
‘How Does it Feel to Work For a Fascist?’: Sean Spicer Got Harassed at an Apple Store — Press Secretary Sean Spicer was spotted during a trip to the Apple Store, and a random shopper decided to come up and barrage him with a bunch of loaded questions about working for President Trump.
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IJR, TheBlaze, AOL and twitchy.com
Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
Is Trump Trolling the White House Press Corps? — At daily briefings, Sean Spicer calls on young journalists from far-right sites. The mainstream media sees them as an existential threat. — In normal times, White House press briefings make for boring television.
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump budget expected to seek historic contraction of federal workforce — President Trump's budget proposal this week would shake the federal government to its core if enacted, culling back numerous programs and expediting a historic contraction of the federal workforce.
Axios:
The risks Republicans are taking with Trumpcare — It was never a secret that Republicans would take a risk by repealing Obamacare, as unpopular as it was, and taking ownership of what happens next. But it's striking just how many political dangers they're putting themselves in — and how they're ignoring pretty much all of them.
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Tom Price is lying about the GOP health plan
Tom Price is lying about the GOP health plan
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story, bradford-delong.com, The Guardian, Hot Air and Booman Tribune
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Steve King Says Civilization Can't Be Restored With 'Somebody Else's Babies' — Representative Steve King, a Republican from Iowa who has a history of making inflammatory statements viewed by many as insensitive or outright racist, was roundly criticized on Sunday for his apparent endorsement of white nationalism.
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ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo, Politicus USA, Shakesville, The Hill, The Week, Hot Air, Daily Wire, New York Magazine, Washington Post, Booman Tribune, Mashable, TheBlaze, ABC News, Mediaite, Daily Kos, Axios and Raw Story
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Elliot Hannon / Slate:
GOP Congressman's White Supremacist Tweet: “We Can't Restore Our Civilization With Somebody Else's Babies.”
GOP Congressman's White Supremacist Tweet: “We Can't Restore Our Civilization With Somebody Else's Babies.”
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Washington Post and The Daily Caller
Andrew Malcolm / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump is doing what Obama didn't do: reach out and listen — Elements of Donald Trump's presidential style are already emerging and they must be discouraging to his critics. — It's easy to miss things that do not happen. But perhaps you too have noticed a decline of trivial Trump tweets …
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Leyla Hussein / The Guardian:
My vulva cupcakes were confiscated but I gained a sense of home — Campaigning against FGM around the world gets Leyla Hussein into some interesting situations. But she didn't expect to be so affected by going ‘home’ — muggling vulva-decorated cupcakes into the Somali region of Ethiopia …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
CNN hires Chris Cillizza — The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza is joining CNN Politics as a reporter and editor at large, with both a digital presence and an on-air role. — Cillizza is leaving behind the blog known as “The Fix” he built at the Post over more than a decade.
Axios:
Scoop: Trump to host Xi at Mar-a-Lago — President Trump plans to host Chinese President Xi Jinping at the gold-plated Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida next month for a lowering-the-temperature summit with vast economic and security implications, Axios has learned.
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The Daily Caller
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Texas state rep. proposes fines for masturbation — A Texas state representative has introduced legislation that would fine men for masturbating and require them to undergo counseling before obtaining a prescription for Viagra, in an effort to highlight anti-abortion laws that place restrictions on women.
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Daily Wire and The Daily Caller
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Want to Keep the President at Bay? Two Consultants Have an Inside Track — For a fee, Corey Lewandowski, President Trump's pugilistic former campaign manager, and Barry Bennett, a former Trump senior adviser, will protect you from “tweet risk” — what happens to the stock price and reputation …
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
No easy answers: why left-wing economics is not the answer to right-wing populism — On November 20, less than two weeks after Donald Trump's upset win, Bernie Sanders strode onto a stage at Boston's Berklee Performance Center to give the sold-out audience his thoughts on what had gone so disastrously wrong for the Democratic Party.
Austin Wright / Politico:
House investigators on a Trump-Russia ‘collision course’ — Adam Schiff says Russia's effort to sway the election for President Donald Trump is one of the most serious issues of our time. Devin Nunes isn't even convinced Russia tried to help Trump. — As Nunes and Schiff …