Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
7:05 PM ET, September 2, 2017

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
CNN:
Justice Department: No evidence Trump Tower was wiretapped  —  (CNN)The Justice Department said in a court filing Friday evening that it has no evidence to support President Donald Trump's assertion in March that his predecessor, Barack Obama, wiretapped the phones in Trump Tower before last year's election.
Discussion: Axios and Shareblue
RELATED:
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Justice Dept: No evidence of Trump Tower wiretapping  —  The Justice Department confirmed in a court briefing filed late Friday that neither it nor the FBI has evidence that Trump Tower was the target of surveillance efforts by the Obama administration during the 2016 presidential election.
Robert King / Washington Examiner:
Justice Department confirms no evidence Obama wiretapped Trump Tower  —  The Department of Justice has acknowledged in a court filing no evidence of any wiretaps on Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign, directly contradicting a claim President Trump made in March.
Discussion: RedState
Mkahn / Lawfare:
DOJ Filing Says No Evidence that President Obama Wiretapped Trump Tower
Discussion: Raw Story
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump preparing withdrawal from South Korea trade deal, a move opposed by top aides  —  President Trump has instructed advisers to prepare a withdrawal from the United States' free-trade agreement with South Korea, several people close to the process said, a move that would stoke economic tensions …
Discussion: Politico, Wall Street Journal and Axios
RELATED:
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump considering ending South Korea trade pact  —  President Trump is considering withdrawing from the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS), sources familiar with the matter tell Axios.  We've not been able to establish how serious this threat is, or how far along in the process it is.
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Trump jokes his hands are ‘too big’ while serving food to Harvey victims … President Trump joked that his hands were “too big” while putting on plastic gloves to serve food to victims of Hurricane Harvey in Houston on Saturday.  —  Video broadcast by Fox News shows Trump working at a food serving line at NRG Stadium in Houston.
Discussion: Splinter, Raw Story and Politicus USA
RELATED:
Alice Ollstein / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Cites ‘Happiness’ At Texas Shelter As Harvey Death Toll Climbs  —  President Donald Trump returned to the Houston area on Saturday to meet with survivors of Hurricane Harvey and participate in relief efforts—which he did not do during his first visit to the disaster-stricken region earlier this week.
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
President Trump returning to Texas to meet with ‘families’ affected by Harvey  —  President Donald Trump returns to Texas today, this time to meet with families whose lives have been upended by Hurricane Harvey as well as volunteers with the rescue and recovery efforts.
Associated Press:
AP EXCLUSIVE: Toxic waste sites flooded; EPA not on scene  —  https://apnews.com/27796dd13b9549b0ac76 aded58a15122  —  Link copied!  —  HIGHLANDS, Texas (AP) — As Dwight Chandler sipped beer and swept out the thick muck caked inside his devastated home, he worried whether Harvey's floodwaters …
New York Times:
Waiting for a Perfect Protest?  —  Media outlets and commentators representing a range of political persuasions have called attention to recent outbreaks of violence in Berkeley, Calif., Boston and other locations where anti-racist and anti-fascist demonstrators have gathered.
New York Times:
Long List of Top Democrats Have 2020, and Money, on Their Minds  —  WASHINGTON — Aides to Senator Kamala Harris of California say that her fund-raisers in Martha's Vineyard and the Hamptons this summer have been all about helping Democrats in 2018.  Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s allies …
Melissa Gray / CNN:
'I've done nothing wrong': Utah nurse's arrest prompts police apology  —  (CNN)Salt Lake City police apologized Friday for arresting a nurse who, citing hospital policy, refused to let officers draw blood from an unconscious crash victim.  The arrest of Alex Wubbels, who was later released without charge …
RELATED:
Luke Ramseth / Salt Lake Tribune:
SLC mayor, police chief apologize for officer who arrested nurse; criminal investigation to follow
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and TheBlaze
Jana Winter / Foreign Policy:
Fire Spotted at Russian Diplomatic Building in D.C.  —  First San Francisco.  Now Washington.  —  A fire could be seen burning in the back of the Russian diplomatic building in Washington Friday evening, just one day after President Donald Trump ordered Moscow to scale back its diplomatic presence in the United States.
RELATED:
Emma Anderson / Politico:
Far-right German candidate promises to get rid of Arabic numerals  —  A mayoral candidate for the far-right, anti-immigrant NPD party promised to get rid of Arabic numerals if elected, German media reported Friday.  —  Otfried Best, who is hoping to become mayor of Völklingen …
Colin Fleming / New York Times:
Maybe Colin Kaepernick Is Just Not That Good  —  Whether or not Colin Kaepernick plays another down in the N.F.L., I'm going to say that he can achieve more off a football field than he — or anyone else in the sport — can achieve on one.  —  Football, in the larger scheme of things, is not that important.
Discussion: Deadspin
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 7:05 PM ET, September 2, 2017.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Aaron Moselle / Newsworks.org:
After recent protest at Philly cop's home, hundreds gather in Northeast to ‘Back the Blue’
CNN:
Pentagon accidentally miscalculates number of troops deployed to Harvey relief efforts
Discussion: The Hill
Anne-Marie Slaughter:
When The Truth is Messy and Hard
Discussion: Balloon Juice
David Bernstein / Washington Post:
Georg Vanberg: Democracy in Chains and James M. Buchanan on school integration
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
Adam Shaw / Breitbart:
White House Not Pushing Congress for Border Wall Funding, Won't Shut Down Government
Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic:
Hurricane Harvey's Public-Health Nightmare
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Sen. Feinstein called for ‘patience’ with Trump.  Now she faces a liberal backlash as she ponders reelection
Discussion: Althouse
 Earlier Items: 
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Moment of truth arrives for Obamacare repeal
Discussion: Political Wire
Joseph Serna / Los Angeles Times:
San Francisco sets all-time heat record downtown at 106 degrees during state's hottest recorded summer
Mike Kessler / New Republic:
Antifa Broke My Camera
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The Nation issues editor's note on story questioning whether the DNC was hacked
Chicago Tribune:
Richard Posner announces sudden retirement from federal appeals court in Chicago
Stephen Galloway / Hollywood Reporter:
Matt Damon Talks Clooney, Trump, ‘Suburbicon’ and Racism in America
 

 
From Techmeme:

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Filing: Trump asks SCOTUS to pause the law that could ban TikTok, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute

OpenAI:
OpenAI says its board of directors is evaluating its corporate structure, including a plan to turn its for-profit arm into a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation

Bloomberg:
Montenegro says Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon will be extradited to the US, potentially ending a standoff over competing demands by the US and South Korea
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page