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7:35 PM ET, August 10, 2017

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
CNN severs ties with Jeffrey Lord  —  CNN severed ties with Jeffrey Lord on Thursday, hours after he ignited controversy by tweeting the words “Sieg Heil!” at a prominent liberal activist.  —  “Nazi salutes are indefensible,” a CNN spokesperson said in a statement.  “Jeffrey Lord is no longer with the network.”
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Media Matters for America:
CNN's Jeffrey Lord just issued a Nazi victory salute.  Really.  —  CNN contributor Jeffrey Lord tweeted the Nazi victory salute.  —  On August 10, the American Spectator published an attack piece by Jeffrey Lord against Media Matters.  The screed lashed out at what Lord describes as “Media Matters Fascists.”
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeffrey Lord / The American Spectator:
Fascist Media Matters Moves to Silence Hannity
Discussion: Washington Post
Bloomberg:
With Bank Subpoenas, Mueller Turns Up the Heat on Manafort  —  Investigators seek account records linked to Trump ex-adviser  —  Special counsel pressuring Manafort's son-in-law, associates  —  Follow @bpolitics for all the latest news, and sign up for our daily Balance of Power newsletter.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Manafort switching legal team as feds crank up heat on him  —  Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is changing his attorneys as a federal investigation heats up into his financial transactions, according to people familiar with the matter.  —  Manafort's case will now be handled …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Attorney Calls FBI's Raid on Manafort Home ‘Gross Abuse’
Discussion: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump ‘surprised’ by Manafort raid in Russia probe
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump says he was surprised by FBI raid of Manafort's home, which sent a ‘very strong signal’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
More drama in Trumpland: Gorka publicly shuns Tillerson's effort to scale back North Korea red line  —  For those worried that President Trump might get into nuclear war with North Korea, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson provided some solace Wednesday.  “Americans should sleep well at night …
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Washington Post:
Trump escalates rhetoric on threat from North Korea … BEDMINSTER, N.J. — President Trump escalated his rhetoric about North Korea's nuclear weapons program, threatening here Thursday that “things will happen to them like they never thought possible” should the isolated country attack the United States or its allies.
Susan E. Rice / New York Times:
It's Not Too Late on North Korea
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Graham: Trump doesn't need Congress's approval for North Korea strike
Discussion: ABC News
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump says he is ‘very thankful’ to Putin for expelling U.S. diplomats from Russia  —  BEDMINSTER, N.J. — President Trump said here Thursday that he is “very thankful” to Russian President Vladimir Putin for expelling hundreds of U.S. diplomats from Russia, because he said it helps him cut the U.S. government's payroll.
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump thanks Putin for expelling U.S. diplomats, dismaying State Department  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for expelling American diplomats from Russia on the grounds that “we're going to save a lot of money,” prompting dismay among some of the rank-and-file at the State Department.
Associated Press:
Hearing loss of US diplomats in Cuba blamed on covert device
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump thanks Putin for cutting US diplomats: ‘We want to reduce our payroll’
Discussion: ABC News, Axios, Mother Jones and The Week
Washington Post:
In a new poll, half of Republicans say they would support postponing the 2020 election if Trump proposed it  —  Critics of President Trump have repeatedly warned of his potential to undermine American democracy.  Among the concerns are his repeated assertions that he would have won …
Foreign Policy:
Here's the Memo That Blew Up the NSC  —  Fired White House staffer argued “deep state” attacked Trump administration because the president represents a threat to cultural Marxist memes, globalists, and bankers.  —  The memo at the heart of the latest blowup at the National Security Council paints …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge orders new searches for Clinton Benghazi emails  —  Nine months after the presidential election was decided, a federal judge is ordering the State Department to try again to find emails Hillary Clinton wrote about the Benghazi attack.  —  U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled …
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Judge orders new search for Hillary Clinton's Benghazi emails
Discussion: RedState
Nathan Heller / Vogue:
Chelsea Manning Changed the Course of History.  Now She's Focusing on Herself  —  “It's not like I'm living in fear or anything,” Manning says.  “I'm so glad to be out and about and walking around.”  Here, Manning in a Norma Kamali swimsuit.  —  Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, September 2017
Bob Dreyfuss / Rolling Stone:
Sebastian Gorka, the West Wing's Phony Foreign-Policy Guru  —  Gorka's a former Breitbart editor with Islamophobic views and ties to neo-Nazi extremists - and he has the ear of the president  —  The Breitbart News headline, back in November 2014, rang like a five-alarm fire bell: MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD OVERRUNS NATIONAL CATHEDRAL IN DC.
Discussion: Mediaite and IJR
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:   White House adviser says people should stop criticizing white supremacists so much
Dave Lawler / Axios:
Vacationing Trump tweets “get back to work” to Mitch McConnell  —  Donald Trump dialed up his criticism of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Twitter Thursday, tweeting from his club in Bedminster, New Jersey:  —  The backstory: This back-and-forth was sparked by the health-care collapse …
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Gingrich: Trump deserves some blame for ObamaCare repeal failure
Discussion: RedState
Michael Whitney / Politico:
The Democratic Party's Looming Fundraising Crisis  —  Halfway through Year One of the Trump presidency, the Democratic base is energized.  Its voters are showing up at rallies, crowding town hall forums, self-organizing into local groups and scaring Republican incumbents …
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Exclusive: The chaos behind the scenes of Fox News' now-retracted Seth Rich story  —  Lawsuit puts Seth Rich conspiracy inside the West Wing  —  For more than two months, Fox News has declined to explain the story behind one of its most high-profile journalistic disasters …
Dan Molinski / Wall Street Journal:
West Virginia Gov. Justice Asks Trump for $4.5 Billion to Save Eastern Coal  —  Miners in Western states say proposal goes against free market principles  —  West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is asking President Donald Trump to extend his support for the coal industry by providing some $4.5 billion …
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Study: Trump actions trigger health premium hikes for 2018  —  https://apnews.com/cc6b335865e24a4b843d c0e2c4cc6c7a  —  Link copied!  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration's own actions are triggering double-digit premium increases on individual health insurance policies purchased …
CNN:
Trump pick Sam Clovis stoked birther conspiracy, called Eric Holder a ‘racist black’  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Sam Clovis, Donald Trump's pick to be chief scientist for the Department of Agriculture, pushed unfounded theories about then-President Barack Obama's upbringing and called …
 
 
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Pam Fessler / NPR:
Russian Cyberattack Targeted Elections Vendor Tied To Voting Day Disruptions
Discussion: emptywheel
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
EPA head casts doubt on ‘supposed’ threat from climate change
Philly.com:
Paying the price for breakdown of the country's bourgeois culture
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Bill O'Reilly set to make first appearance on CNN
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Kelly Cohen / Washington Examiner:
Dana Loesch explains why the NRA didn't defend Philando Castile
Discussion: Raw Story
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
The ‘No-Nonsense’ Judge Who Could Decide Trump's Fate
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
More drama in Trumpland: Gorka publicly shuns Tillerson's effort to scale back North Korea red line
The Guardian:
‘The perfect Alabama candidate’: Republicans warm to Vladimir Putin - video
Discussion: Raw Story
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein / Slate:
Stop Equating “Science” With Truth
Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg:
Trump's Legal Team Is No Match for Mueller's
Discussion: Balloon Juice and emptywheel
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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