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9:10 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.”
Jeffrey Lord / The American Spectator:
Fascist Media Matters Moves to Silence Hannity
Discussion: Washington Post
Jeffrey Lord / The American Spectator:
MMF'S Angelo Carusone Responds
Discussion: Business Insider, IJR and Mediaite
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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Media Matters for America:
Fox analyst dismisses that millions would die in nuclear strike because “they'll be mostly North Koreans”  —  Thomas McInerney: “Mostly North Koreans” will die, “look how many weapons we dropped on Japan, then we were in there weeks later”  —  From the August 10 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show:
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Eschaton
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Graham: Trump doesn't need Congress's approval for North Korea strike
Discussion: Washington Post and ABC News
Susan E. Rice / New York Times:
It's Not Too Late on North Korea
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:   More drama in Trumpland: Gorka publicly shuns Tillerson's effort to scale back North Korea red line
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 …
Fox News:
Trump lawyer slams special counsel for ‘gross abuse’ in Manafort raid, challenges warrant  —  A top lawyer for President Trump slammed the special counsel's office over the FBI raid of former campaign manager Paul Manafort's Virginia home, accusing investigators of committing a …
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump ‘surprised’ by Manafort raid in Russia probe
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, infuriating State Department
Associated Press:
Hearing loss of US diplomats in Cuba blamed on covert device
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 …
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 …
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
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
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
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 …
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Tim Loh / Bloomberg:
Governor Says Trump Interested in His Plan to Prop Up Coal Mining
Discussion: Washington Post and Grist
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 …
Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:
Why Republicans Didn't Repeal and Replace Obamacare  —  The GOP's intra-party war continues, with Donald Trump blaming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for the failure of the Obamacare repeal effort.  —  On Twitter, Trump wrote, “Senator Mitch McConnell said I had ‘excessive expectations,’ but I don't think so.
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Gingrich: Trump deserves some blame for ObamaCare repeal failure
Discussion: RedState
German Lopez / Vox:
What declaring a national emergency over the opioid epidemic could actually do  —  President Donald Trump said he will declare a national emergency on Thursday.  Here's what that could mean.  —  President Donald Trump is gearing up to declare a national emergency on the opioid epidemic.
Discussion: Washington Post, Axios, IJR and CNBC
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 …
Fatima Hussein / Indianapolis Star:
Republicans limiting early voting in Marion County, letting it bloom in suburbs  —  Absentee voting in Hamilton County grew in 2016 with the addition of early polling places.  Why was Marion County limited to just one?  Stephen J. Beard / IndyStar  —  CONNECT
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 …
CNNMoney:
Trump immigration plan to cost 4.6 million jobs, Ivy League study finds  —  Acosta's full exchange with Stephen Miller  —  President Trump is endorsing an immigration plan that will hurt job growth and the U.S. economy overall, according to two recent studies.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Issues
 
 
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
You Heard It Here First: NY Times Editors Deny Reading Their Own Newspaper
Discussion: twitchy.com
Adam Johnson / FAIR:
Conspiracies Pushed by Atlantic's Editor Excluded From Atlantic's Denunciation of Conspiracy Theories
Discussion: Eschaton
ABC News:
Trump answers reporters' questions on Sessions, McConnell and Kelly
Discussion: Politico
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Trump D.C. hotel turns $2 million profit in four months
Discussion: Boing Boing
Pam Fessler / NPR:
Russian Cyberattack Targeted Elections Vendor Tied To Voting Day Disruptions
Discussion: emptywheel
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
 Earlier Items: 
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
The Guardian:
‘The perfect Alabama candidate’: Republicans warm to Vladimir Putin - video
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Whitney / Politico:
The Democratic Party's Looming Fundraising Crisis
Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg:
Trump's Legal Team Is No Match for Mueller's
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