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Barack Obama:
Immigration can be a controversial topic.  We all want safe, secure borders and a dynamic economy, and people of goodwill can have legitimate disagreements about how to fix our immigration system so that everybody plays by the rules.  —  But that's not what the action that the White House took today is about.
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
The Trump Administration Now Has Tons Of DACA Data And Is Poised To Weaponize It … DACA recipients - often called DREAMers - are facing a new nightmare.  According to the Trump administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers may use the information these people gave …
New York Times:
Trump Moves to End DACA and Calls on Congress to Act  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to the Obama-era executive action that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation and called on Congress to replace the policy with legislation before it fully expires on March 5, 2018.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Staffers worried Trump didn't fully grasp consequences of ending DACA: report  —  Trump administration officials worried ahead of the announcement Tuesday of a phaseout of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that President Trump didn't fully understand what the move would mean.
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Majority opposes deporting Dreamers
Discussion: Associated Press, CNBC and Mediaite
Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues:
Urgent DACA legislation is both an economic imperative and humanitarian necessity
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:   Dem lawmaker: Kelly is a ‘disgrace to uniform’
Senator Heidi Heitkamp:
Today, the president and U.S. Attorney General said they will end …
Discussion: New York Times
Edward Graham / Morning Consult:   Trump's DACA Move Comes as Most Voters Back Citizenship for ‘Dreamers’
BuzzFeed:
A Mexican-Born DREAMer Is Taking Legal Action To Halt Trump's Reversal Of DACA
Discussion: Mother Jones and YouTube
George Prayias / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
My Analysis of the Hurricane Irma Panic  —  RUSH: The hurricane is what I want to lead off with, though, folks.  And I've gotta be very careful here because I am not a meteorologist, and nothing I say today should be considered to be a forecast or a prediction.  I am not the National Hurricane Center.
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Washington Post:
Catastrophic Hurricane Irma — now a Cat 5 — is on a collision course with Florida  —  Hurricane Irma is an “extremely dangerous” Category 5, barreling toward the northern Lesser Antilles and Southern Florida.  It's already the strongest hurricane ever recorded outside the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico …
Washington Post:
Florida officials begin ordering evacuations as Hurricane Irma intensifies to a Category 5 storm … Authorities in Florida have begun bracing for the potential arrival of Hurricane Irma, a roiling storm that intensified into “an extremely dangerous Category 5 hurricane” as it churned toward the United States.
CNN:
Hurricane Irma is a ‘potentially catastrophic’ Category 5 storm
NHC Webmaster / NHC Atlantic Wallet 1:
Hurricane Irma Public Advisory
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Boston Red Sox Used Electronic Devices to Steal Signs Against Yankees  —  WASHINGTON — For decades, spying on another team has been as much a part of the gamesmanship of baseball as brushback pitches and hard slides.  The Red Sox have apparently added a modern — and illicit — twist …
Discussion: The Ringer - All and Mashable
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
House committee subpoenas FBI, Justice over Trump dossier  —  In the most significant escalation yet in the wrangling between Congress and the FBI over the Trump dossier, the House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed the bureau and the Justice Department for documents relating to the dossier …
Discussion: Power Line and IJR
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John Crudele / New York Post:
Proof that investigating Trump is starting to backfire for Democrats  —  MORE FROM: … There's a lot going on in the Hillary Clinton/Donald Trump/Russia investigation that all the highfalutin' newspapers that cover politics are still trying to ignore.  —  Well, investors had better …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Peter Overby / NPR:   Professor: 37 Historic Dictionaries Disagree With Trump's Definition of ‘Emolument’
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside Steve Bannon's meeting with Mark Meadows  —  Steve Bannon met with Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows on Monday afternoon at the “Breitbart Embassy” — the Capitol Hill townhouse so-named because those who work at the right-wing website like to think of themselves as the ambassadors for “real America” in Washington, D.C.
Discussion: Politico and The Gateway Pundit
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Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Freedom Caucus chair: Expect DACA vote in February
Discussion: IJR
Axios:
Trump: DACA decision will “work out very well”  —  President Trump took a question on his DACA decision following remarks to reporters about tax reform and, per pool reports, said he had “great heart” and “great love” for the DREAMers affected by his move:
Discussion: ABC News and Political Wire
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Lucy Pasha-Robinson / The Independent:
Russian politician says 'let's hit Trump with our Kompromat' on state TV  —  Claims made in explosive Trump Russia dossier, though unproven, have led many to speculate Kremlin could be holding sensitive information on former real estate mogul  —  A Russian politician has threatened to “hit Donald Trump with our Kompromat” on state TV.
Discussion: Political Wire, Raw Story and Towleroad
Auburn Seminary:
Rev. Robert Wright Lee IV Statement On Leaving His Church After Speaking Out Against White Supremacy at MTV Video Music Awards  —  I'm writing this statement to make sure that people are able to read in my own words what has happened to me over the last three weeks so that the events …
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Nicole Hensley / New York Daily News:   Descendant of Robert E. Lee quits as church pastor after criticism for attacking racism in VMA speech
Lucas Ward / The Harvard Crimson:
Lewandowski to Join IOP as Visiting Fellow  —  Attendees leave the JFK Jr. Forum in 2016.  Corey R. Lewandowski, President Donald Trump's embattled former campaign advisor, will join the Institute of Politics as a visiting fellow this semester, the IOP announced Tuesday.
New York Times:
At CNN, Retracted Story Leaves an Elite Reporting Team Bruised  —  Created with much fanfare, CNN's investigative unit was reshaped and its focus narrowed in the wake of a story that led to a retraction and an apology.  —  Late on a Monday afternoon in June, members of CNN's elite investigations team …
John Fund / National Review:
Christie for Senate?  —  If a Democratic senator is convicted of corruption, the governor doesn't rule out taking his place.  —  Governor Chris Christie refused to rule out the possibility that he could replace New Jersey's U.S. senator Bob Menendez if the Democratic lawmaker is convicted …
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Matt Friedman / Politico:
Prosecutors challenge jury instructions proposed by Menendez
Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com
RADAR:
Huma SOBBED Over FBI Probe Into Hubby Weiner Sexting Minors, Hillary Reveals  —  ‘This man is going to be the death of me!’  Clinton says Abedin cried.  —  Huma Abedin broke down in tears when she learned her boss Hillary Clinton's emails were once again under scrutiny …
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Clinton book: Abedin broke into tears after learning Weiner sexting restarted email probe
Discussion: The Daily Caller
The Moscow Times:
Putin Says Trump Is Not His Wife  —  Actors in prosthetic make-up portraying Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump  —  President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday it would be misplaced to talk of “disappointment” in the context of U.S. President Donald Trump, because the two leaders are not married.
Discussion: AOL, Business Insider and IJR
David Wasserman / FiveThirtyEight:
2018 Could Be The Year Of The Angry White College Graduate  —  Even with the political winds at their back, Democrats enter the 2018 congressional midterms at a historic geographic disadvantage.  They also face demographic hurdles: Midterm electorates tend to be older and whiter than those that show up in presidential years.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Daily Caller
Dan Merica / CNN:
New Clinton book blasts Sanders for ‘lasting damage’ in 2016 race  —  Sanders booed after voicing support for Clinton  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Hillary Clinton casts Bernie Sanders as an unrealistic over-promiser in her new book, according to excerpts posted by a group of Clinton supporters.
 
 
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Ella Nilsen / Vox:
4 lies Jeff Sessions told to justify ending DACA
The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump Aides Think Manafort Will Be Indicted For Financial Crimes
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Very Bad Economics of Killing DACA
Discussion: The Atlantic and Hit & Run
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CNN:
Intensifying Russia probes could pit Hill against Mueller
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