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12:55 PM ET, August 5, 2017

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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Defends McMaster as Conservatives Seek His Dismissal  —  President Trump defended Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, his embattled national security adviser, on Friday in the face of a full-bore campaign by the nationalist wing of his political coalition accusing him of undermining the president's agenda and calling for his dismissal.
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Amir Tibon / Haaretz:
Far-right Bannon Affiliates Attack McMaster for Being ‘Controlled by Jews’ and ‘Hostile to Israel’  —  Campaign against McMaster intensified after he fired a number of mid-level officials from the National Security Council, who were considered loyal to Bannon and to the former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump defends McMaster in wake of criticism on the right
Discussion: Politico and The Week
CNN:
H.R. McMaster faces attacks from conservatives
Karen Ocamb / Los Angeles Blade:
Trump's Trans Military Ban Now Policy  —  President Donald Trump may be on a 17- day vacation but his White House has been scrambling to hand him a “win” by the time he returns.  Trump's tweets last week announcing a ban on transgender individuals serving openly in the U.S. military was turned into a …
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Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Dems to Mattis: Don't comply with Trump's ‘unconstitutional’ transgender ban
Discussion: ThinkProgress, AOL and TheBlaze
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
John Kelly's big challenge: Controlling the tweeter in chief
Discussion: RedState and Joe.My.God.
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Fox News Host Sent Unsolicited Lewd Text Messages To Colleagues, Sources Say  —  Eric Bolling, a co-host of “The Specialists,” said through an attorney that he “does not believe he sent any such communications.”  —  Eric Bolling, a longtime Fox News host, sent an unsolicited photo …
New York Times:
Mueller Seeks White House Documents on Flynn  —  Investigators working for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, recently asked the White House for documents related to former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, and have questioned witnesses about whether he was secretly paid …
Louise Matsakis / Motherboard:
Google Employee's Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes ‘Internally Viral’  —  At least eight Google employees tweeted Friday about a document that was circulated within the company calling for replacing Google's diversity initiatives with policies that encourage “ideological diversity” instead.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
The GOP has become the party of the grotesque  —  Southern Gothic is a literary genre and, occasionally, a political style that, like the genre, blends strangeness and irony.  Consider the current primary campaign to pick the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
US Department of State:
Communication Regarding Intent To Withdraw From Paris Agreement  —  Media Note  —  Office of the Spokesperson  —  Washington, DC  —  Today, the United States submitted a communication to the United Nations, in its capacity as depositary for the Paris Agreement, regarding the U.S. intent …
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Devin Henry / The Hill:   Trump files notice with UN to withdraw US from Paris climate deal
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:   U.S. to Join Climate Talks Despite Planned Withdrawal From Paris Accord
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Fledgling Presidency Has Already Collapsed  —  President Trump's approval rating has dropped by about one percentage point per month and now sits in the mid-30s.  At the current rate, it would hit zero in September 2020.  (A highly unlikely possibility, though with Donald Trump, anything is possible.)
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
What the Trump-Russia Grand Jury Means  —  Hours after news broke that Robert Mueller, the special counsel in the Russia probe, has impanelled a grand jury as part of his investigation, President Trump declared at a rally in West Virginia that “the Russia story is a total fabrication.
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Jordan Sekulow / American Center for Law and Justice:
DOJ Document Dump to ACLJ on Clinton Lynch Meeting: Comey FBI Lied, Media Collusion, Spin, and Illegality  —  We have just obtained hundreds of pages in our ongoing investigation and federal lawsuit on former Attorney General Loretta Lynch's tarmac meeting with former President Bill Clinton …
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Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
Emails show Washington Post, New York Times reporters unenthusiastic about covering Clinton-Lynch meeting
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Kel McClanahan / Politico:
Jeff Sessions' Attack on the Media Is Worse Than You Think  —  Equating the free press to spies is dark and dangerous.  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions held a press conference to announce how avidly the Department of Justice was going to investigate and prosecute leakers of classified national security information.
Mike Allen / Axios:
The Mooch's replacement could be Stephen Miller  —  Stephen Miller, the Trump senior policy adviser who just tangled on-camera with CNN's Jim Acosta, is under consideration for White House communications director, top Trump sources tell me.  —  The effort to find a Mooch successor is still …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Bill Scher / Politico:
Memo to Mark Zuckerberg: So You Want to Be President ...  You've road tripped to meet with real Americans in a quest to visit all 50 states.  You've hired Barack Obama's pollster along with his first campaign manager to advise your philanthropic fund.  You've given a flat “no” …
Discussion: Althouse
New York Times:
Republican Shadow Campaign for 2020 Takes Shape as Trump Doubts Grow  —  WASHINGTON — Senators Tom Cotton and Ben Sasse have already been to Iowa this year, Gov. John Kasich is eyeing a return visit to New Hampshire, and Mike Pence's schedule is so full of political events that Republicans joke …
Greg P. / twitchy.com:
Keep deleting, morons: Everyone who thinks Dana Loesch said ‘fist’ owes her an apology  —  A bunch of blue-checkmarked journalists are busy deleting tweets right now after wrongly accusing NRA spox Dana Loesch of saying she and the NRA were going to “fist” the New York Times over the paper's horrible coverage of guns in the past.
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John Sexton / Hot Air:   NY Times Reporter Claims NRA Wants To Sexually Assault The NY Times (Not Kidding)
Ruth May / Dallas Morning News:
Tangled web connects Russian oligarch money to GOP campaigns  —  Party loyalty is often cited as the reason that GOP leaders have not been more outspoken in their criticism of President Donald Trump and his refusal to condemn Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election.
David Siders / Politico:
Democrats fear Russia probe blowback  —  ALISO VIEJO, Calif. — Democrats are increasingly conflicted about how forcefully to press the issue of possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.  —  Fearful of alienating voters who appear more concerned about the economy and health care …
 
 
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Sadie Gurman / Associated Press:
Huff, puff, pass? AG's pot fury not echoed by task force
Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
Iran Gains Ground in Afghanistan as U.S. Presence Wanes
Jamie Glazov Productions:
McMaster's Firing of Higgins: Crippling America in the Face of Jihad — Glazov Gang
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Carli Teproff / miamiherald:
He shoots a shark to death and laughs. It's caught on video. Now it's under investigation.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jack Stubbs / Reuters:
Russia's Kislyak: talks with Trump's ex-security aide ‘absolutely transparent’
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Duane Patterson / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
National Security Advisor General H.R. McMaster on MSNBC with Hugh
Robert Laszewski / National Review:
Is Part of the Health-Insurance Market Entering a Death Spiral?
Discussion: ACASignups.net
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Ken Starr killed irony today
Discussion: Political Wire
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Washington Post:
Uber's search for a female CEO has been narrowed down to 3 men
Discussion: NPR
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump may host visiting leaders at his N.J. golf club during upcoming U.N. gathering