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5:50 PM ET, September 1, 2017

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New York Times:
Mueller Has Early Draft of Trump Letter Giving Reasons for Firing Comey  —  WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has obtained a letter that President Trump and a top political aide drafted in the days before Mr. Trump fired the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey …
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Washington Post:
Mueller examining Trump's draft letter firing FBI Director Comey … Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is reviewing a letter drafted by President Trump and a top aide in the days before the firing of FBI Director James B. Comey laying out in detail why the president wanted to get rid …
CNN:
Comey drafted Clinton exoneration before finishing investigation, GOP senators say
CNN:
Longtime Trump aide Keith Schiller tells people he intends to leave White House  —  Meet the man who delivered the Comey letter  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's longtime aide and current director of Oval Office operations Keith Schiller has told people …
Discussion: Axios and Mediaite
Stand With Dreamers:
Leaders of American Industry on DACA  —  Entrepreneurs and business leaders from across the country are releasing an open letter encouraging President Trump to preserve the DACA program and calling on Congress to pass the bipartisan DREAM Act or similar legislation that provides …
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Philip Wegmann / Washington Examiner:
Roy Moore, leading candidate in Alabama Senate race, doesn't know what DACA is
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Paul Ryan, other GOP congressional leaders urge Trump not to terminate DACA
Discussion: Shareblue, Mother Jones and Infowars
Pamela Manson / Salt Lake Tribune:
Video shows Utah nurse screaming, being dragged into police car after refusing to let officer take blood from unconscious victim  —  A nurse says she was assaulted and illegally arrested by a Salt Lake City police detective for following a hospital policy that does not allow blood draws from unconscious patients.
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Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
‘This is crazy,’ sobs Utah hospital nurse as cop roughs her up, arrests her for doing her job  —  By all accounts, the head nurse at the University of Utah Hospital's burn unit was professional and restrained when she told a Salt Lake City police detective he wasn't allowed to draw blood from a badly injured patient.
New York Times:
Software Glitch or Russian Hackers?  Election Problems Draw Little Scrutiny  —  The calls started flooding in from hundreds of irate North Carolina voters just after 7 a.m. on Election Day last November.  —  Dozens were told they were ineligible to vote and were turned away at the polls …
John McCain / Washington Post:
It's time Congress returns to regular order  —  (FILES) This file photo taken on March 23, 2017 shows a view of the US Capitol dome on Capitol Hill in Washington,DC.  The top ‘AAA’ long-term debt rating of the United States will be in danger if lawmakers do not raise borrowing limits in a timely fashion …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Hurricane Harvey Shifts Political Winds in Washington  —  WASHINGTON — In swamping large swaths of Texas and Louisiana, Hurricane Harvey also forged a new reality for President Trump and the Republicans governing Washington.  —  Gone are the confrontational talk of a government shutdown and the brinkmanship over the debt limit.
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
‘Send prayers’: Texas Republican turns down donated blankets, beds, manpower from Canada
Discussion: Friendly Atheist and The Root
Josh Delk / The Hill:
Trump requesting initial $6B in aid for Harvey
Josh Meyer / Politico:
FBI, Homeland Security warn of more ‘antifa’ attacks  —  Federal authorities have been warning state and local officials since early 2016 that leftist extremists known as “antifa” had become increasingly confrontational and dangerous, so much so that the Department of Homeland Security formally classified …
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Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
BOMBSHELL: FBI, DHS Warned About Antifa In Early 2016. Obama Said Nothing.
Discussion: IJR, Infowars and The Daily Caller
Beth Kowitt / Fortune:
The Maker of the Infamous $400 Juicer Is Shutting Down  —  Juicero has run out of juice.  —  The San Francisco-based maker of counter-top cold-press juicers said today that it is shutting down operations and suspending the sale of its presses and produce packs immediately.
Discussion: VICE News and SFist
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Associated Press:
Smoke seen pouring from Russian consulate in San Francisco  —  https://www.apnews.com/9549026d1ed946e9 8d5119c785f2a388  —  Link copied!  —  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Acrid, black smoke was seen pouring from a chimney at the Russian consulate in San Francisco Friday, a day after the Trump administration ordered …
Discussion: Hullabaloo, SFist and Raw Story
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump pulls back threat to shut down government over border wall — for now  —  The White House has signaled to congressional Republicans that it will not shut down the government in October if money isn't appropriated to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, potentially clearing a path …
Discussion: CNBC, Business Insider and Mother Jones
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
A National Guard vehicle vanished near Houston.  Soldiers used Snapchat to find it.  —  KATY, Tex. — A soldier commanding a vanished Humvee was not answering calls.  No one in the unit had his driver's phone number, worsening the situation of an Army vehicle and two soldiers missing somewhere …
Daily Mail:
L'Oreal's first transgender model is SACKED by the cosmetics giant after claiming ‘ALL white people’ are racist in extraordinary Facebook rant  — But days after she was announced as L'Oreal's first transgender model, Munroe Bergdorf launched an extraordinary rant declaring all white people racist
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Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Mick the Knife  —  Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump's budget director, walked into the Oval Office in early May on a longshot mission.  The slash-government conservative wanted to persuade the president to break one of his most popular campaign promises.
Discussion: Raw Story, Political Wire, Vox and Axios
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Jeff Sessions' DOJ To Put Woman Who Laughed At Jeff Sessions On Trial Yet Again  —  Desiree Fairooz's brief chuckle during the attorney general's confirmation hearing in January has turned into a nine-month ordeal, and it's not over yet.  —  WASHINGTON Jeff Sessions' Justice Department plans …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Caroline Orr / Shareblue:
Leader of Trump's voter suppression scheme exposed as a paid columnist for Breitbart  —  Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the head of Donald Trump's so-called commission on “Election Integrity,” has a new gig as a paid columnist for the inflammatory right-wing pro-Trump website Breitbart.
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Former aides to GOP lawmaker describe toxic work environment  —  https://apnews.com/e072b685bc0e4fec97cd 2e455a3fbae9  —  Link copied!  —  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Staffers in tears.  Pay cuts for small mistakes.  Aides who walked out of the office — and never came back.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Leah Barkoukis / Townhall.com:
Obama Is Now the Most Costly Former President  —  After his pension, an office space, and other perks, former President Obama is costing taxpayers the most to support out of all the ex-presidents.  —  Next year, the American people will be footing his bill to the tune of $1,153,000, according to a Congressional Research Service memo.
Matthew Chapman / Shareblue:
“Hung from a tall tree”: Second Republican calls for lynching critics of white supremacy  —  Ever since the deadly neo-Nazi riot in Charlottesville, which centered on a condemned statue of Robert E. Lee, efforts to remove Confederate monuments have intensified.
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Treasury inspector general to review Mnuchin's flight to Fort Knox  —  The U.S. Treasury's Office of Inspector General is reviewing the flight taken by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife, Louise Linton, last week to Louisville and Fort Knox, Ky., following criticism of their use …
Common Cause:
Kid Rock has been running for Senate all summer long, violating federal law  —  Nonpartisan watchdog group Common Cause files complaint with the FEC and Department of Justice  —  Known as “American Bad Ass” to legions of fans, music star Kid Rock is living up to the nickname in his fledgling campaign …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
john pavlovitz:
Dear Joel Osteen,  —  Over the past few days you've faced an unrelenting wave of Internet shaming, and you've experienced the wrath of millions of people who watched the week unfold and determined they were witnessing in you and your megachurch's response to the hurricane …
Discussion: IJR and Raw Story
Jackson Landers / The Daily Beast:
‘Crying Nazi’ Christopher Cantwell's Lawyer Says He's Just Kidding About Killing Jews … CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia — Christopher Cantwell's lawyer says his client's comments disparaging blacks and Jews is just a comedic act of a “shock jock,” comparing him to the Jewish comedian Jackie Mason.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Donald Trump Jr. is getting $100,000 for university speech sponsored by GOP donor's company
Alison Sider / Wall Street Journal:
Gasoline Prices Jump in Harvey's Wake
Discussion: Washington Post
Laura Litvan / Bloomberg:
Repealing Obamacare Just Got Even More Complicated
Discussion: New York Magazine
John Irish / Reuters:
France says powers must impose transition on Syrians, no role for Assad
Marianne Schaefer Trench / The Daily Beast:
When I Filmed Sheriff Joe Arpaio, He Was Cooperative and Horrifying
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Libby Watson / Splinter:
Now CNN Can Read Its Reporters' DMs
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Trump Flaunts His Indifference to the Rule of Law
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 Earlier Items: 
Joe Uchill / The Hill:
Talk of Assange pardon worries intelligence community
Discussion: Raw Story and The Resurgent
Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
Army general's racy texts with subordinate's wife prompt official probe
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Candid? Yes. Presidential? Not so much. Voters describe Trump
Discussion: Political Wire and The Hill
Richard Florida / New York Times:
The Urban Revival Is Over  —  TORONTO — For all the concern …
Discussion: CityLab
Ernie Suggs / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Cobb officer who said ‘we only shoot black people’ says he'll retire
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Vox and WSB-TV