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12:25 PM ET, August 10, 2017

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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 …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Poll: Half of Republicans would back postponing 2020 election if Trump proposed it
Kambiz Foroohar / Bloomberg:
U.S. Ambassador Haley Loses Two Key Aides at United Nations  —  Chief of staff and communications director both resigned  —  Haley said on Twitter the men were leaving for family reasons  —  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has lost two of her top aides …
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Susan E. Rice / New York Times:
It's Not Too Late on North Korea  —  North Korea's substantial nuclear arsenal and improving intercontinental ballistic missile capacity pose a growing threat to America's security.  But we need not face an immediate crisis if we play our hand carefully.  —  Given the bluster emanating …
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Fallout: Trump's ‘fire and fury’ sends officials scrambling  —  U.S. officials scrambled Wednesday to clarify the administration's position on North Korea after President Trump's warned that “fire and fury” would come to Pyongyang if it threatens the United States.
Benjamin R. Young / Washington Post:
The Reagan-era invasion that drove North Korea to develop nuclear weapons
Discussion: Liberal Values
Associated Press:
North Korea announces plan to fire missiles toward Guam
Discussion: RedState, Politico and The Hill
Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg:
Trump's Legal Team Is No Match for Mueller's  —  The president could learn from Bill and Hillary Clinton's years of litigation.  —  When news broke on Aug. 3 that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had begun using a grand jury in Washington to gather evidence related to his Russia probe, it appeared to catch the White House off guard.
Discussion: emptywheel
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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 …
Bloomberg:   With Bank Subpoenas, Mueller Turns Up the Heat on Manafort
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Feds sought cooperation from Manafort's son-in-law
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire, Shareblue, The Week and CNN
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Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
Obamacare Premiums Are Set to Rise. Thank Policy Uncertainty.
Discussion: RedState and Axios
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
White House Watch: Is Trump Preparing to Leave the Republican Party?  —  The president's latest fight with Mitch McConnell sure looks like he's laying the predicate to abandon the GOP.  —  President Donald Trump is inching closer to abandoning the Republican party, even as the GOP …
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Mitch McConnell's ‘Excessive Expectations’ Comment Draws Trump's Ire
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Republican progress grinds to halt with infighting at fever pitch
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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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:   Democratic Fight in California Is a Warning for the National Party
Associated Press:
Did Cuba launch acoustic attack on U.S. diplomats?  —  WASHINGTON — The two-year-old U.S. diplomatic relationship with Cuba was roiled Wednesday by what U.S. officials say was a string of bizarre incidents that left a group of American diplomats in Havana with severe hearing loss attributed to a covert sonic device.
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Ex-Trump staffers reveal love child after campaign trail sex scandal  —  The very first sex scandal of Donald Trump's presidency has just resulted in the birth of a love child.  —  Married former White House communications director Jason Miller has fathered a son with Trump transition adviser …
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Blowback from staffer scandal burns Wasserman Schultz  —  The chatter about a House leadership post is gone.  So is talk of statewide office.  After Hillary Clinton's defeat, there's no prospect of an administration job for Debbie Wasserman Schultz.  —  One year after the Florida …
Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney:
Walmart apologizes for sign marketing guns as back-to-school items  —  5 stunning stats about Walmart  —  Walmart has condemned a display inside one of its stores that appeared to market firearms as back-to-school items.  The company said Wednesday it was working to identify which of its stores put up the exhibit.
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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
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein / Slate:
Stop Equating “Science” With Truth  —  Evolutionary psychology is just the most obvious example of science's flaws.  —  It's 2017, and people are still debating whether or not women are intellectually inferior to men, and whether we are entitled to a workplace that isn't toxic to people simply based on their gender and sex.
Discussion: Althouse
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Politically Correct Hollywood Is Doomed  —  People say the movie industry has lost its way and alienated its audience, but I'm super-excited about the future of movies, especially in light of Tinseltown's current trend towards goose-stepping leftist conformity!  How can that go wrong?
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Trump's Immigration Agenda Makes a Fundamental Miscalculation  —  Like many of President Trump's policies, the White House's recent embrace of a plan to cut legal immigration in half rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of the economic relationship between “the brown and the gray.”
Discussion: Washington Monthly
CNN:
Poll: Trump finances fair game in Russia investigation  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Seventy percent of Americans believe the federal investigation into Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election in the US should be able to look into President Donald Trump's finances …
Nolan Finley / Detroit News:
No regrets among the Trump base  —  The Trump base is not as angry as I expected, not as defensive and certainly not as disappointed in how the presidency of the man they carried into office is unfolding.  —  In fact, when I stopped by a Michigan Republicans for Trump rally at a White Lake restaurant …
Discussion: Raw Story
Sarah Westwood / Washington Examiner:
Inside the White House's struggle to find a new communications director … President Trump's team has struggled to find candidates willing to take over the White House press shop after observing months of upheaval, the departures of two successive communications directors and the president's refusal …
Discussion: Shareblue
 
 
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