memeorandum: Russian Lawyer in Trump Tower Meeting Says Mueller Hasn't Called (NBC News)

9:20 AM ET, September 7, 2017

Top Items:

Republican leaders ‘visibly annoyed’ after Ivanka Trump enters Oval Office during debt ceiling talks — Negotiations between Republican and Democratic congressional leaders and President Trump broke down when first daughter Ivanka Trump entered the Oval Office to say hello during the Wednesday meeting …

Discussion: CNN, New York Magazine and Splinter

Robert Costa / Washington Post:

Freedom Caucus leaders vent to Paul Ryan after talks with Steve Bannon — Leaders of the Freedom Caucus met with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday to candidly express their frustrations with his leadership and his handling of the Republican legislative agenda, according to two people familiar with the discussion.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, RedState, Mediaite and Political Wire

John Bresnahan / Politico:

GOP livid after Trump cuts deal with Democrats — President Donald Trump's and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's tête-à-tê te on Tuesday — after a summer of sniping between the two — lifted Republican hopes that the GOP was finally back in sync ahead of a brutal fall of fiscal deadlines.

Discussion: Washington Post, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, CNBC, Bloomberg, Mother Jones, Axios and Business Insider

Mike Allen / Axios:

Inside Trump's head-scratching deal with “Chuck and Nancy” — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is perplexed, with no idea what President Trump thinks he was gaining. — In fact, McConnell rather doubts the president has a strategy, a close source tells Axios.

Discussion: Associated Press, Townhall.com and IJR

Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Scoop: Inside the Freedom Caucus' tax plan — The House Freedom Caucus — a group of around 35 ultra-conservative House Republicans who can block their party's leadership on key legislation — is in the final stages of drafting its own tax plan, according to sources familiar with the process.

Discussion: Daily Kos, The Gateway Pundit and The Hill

New York Times:

To Allies' Chagrin, Trump Swerves Left — WASHINGTON — Republican congressional leaders perched on the couches in the Oval Office froze in mid-smile on Wednesday afternoon when they realized President Trump was bypassing them to cut a short-term spending and debt ceiling deal with Democrats, and not them.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Real Clear Politics, Jamie Dupree - AJC, WWLP-TV, Daily Wire and Washington Post

Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Trump's Art of the Deal? Not so much — President Trump handed Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer the deal of the century this morning. — One top Republican described the move to me as the legislative equivalent of giving an entire stockpile of weapons to Democrats and inviting them to take the entire Republican Party hostage.

Discussion: Washington Post, Breitbart, CNN, The Resurgent, JustOneMinute, The Atlantic, Politicus USA, ABC News, Business Insider, Mediaite, IJR and Washington Free Beacon

Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
The Pivot Is Real, And It's Spectacular

Discussion: The Atlantic, Axios, Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon and Politico

Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
How Democrats Rolled Trump on the Debt Ceiling

Discussion: The Hill and FiveThirtyEight

NBC News:
Trump Gets His Payback Against McConnell and Ryan

Discussion: Washington Post and NBC News

Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump sides with Democrats in debt limit, funding, Harvey deal

Discussion: ABC News, Mediaite, Shareblue, CBS News, The Atlantic, Balloon Juice, Axios, Business Insider, IJR, The Hill, Washington Free Beacon, National Review, The Gateway Pundit and Daily Kos

Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Meet the Swamp: Donald Trump Punts September Agenda to December After Meeting with Congress

Discussion: Washington Post and New York Times

New York Times:
Trump Bypasses Republicans to Strike Deal on Debt Limit and Harvey Aid

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, Politico, CNN, New York Magazine and Mother Jones

Bloomberg:
Trump Sides With Democrats on Interim Debt-Limit Fix, Harvey Aid

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Scared Monkeys and Patterico's Pontifications

Facebook:

An Update On Information Operations On Facebook — There have been a lot of questions since the 2016 US election about Russian interference in the electoral process. In April we published a white paper that outlined our understanding of organized attempts to misuse our platform.

Discussion: Salon, RedState, CNNMoney, Politico, Business Insider, ABC News, TheBlaze, Axios, Politicus USA, VentureBeat, The Verge, Mashable, Talking Points Memo, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Gizmodo and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »

Washington Post:

Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election … Representatives of Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that it has discovered it sold ads during the U.S. presidential election to a shadowy Russian company seeking to target voters …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Mashable, IJR, The Daily Caller, Axios, Hullabaloo, Towleroad, New York Magazine, TheStreet, Politicus USA, Boing Boing and Engadget, more at Mediagazer »

Michelle Castillo / CNBC:

Facebook gave special counsel Robert Mueller data on Russian ads, report says — An internal Facebook investigation has found it is “likely” Russian operatives spent $100,000 on ads with “divisive messages” — Though most of the ads did not reference the U.S. presidential election …

New York Times:
Fake Russian Facebook Accounts Bought $100,000 in Political Ads

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Politicus USA and Washington Post

Blair Shiff / ABC News:

Hurricane Irma destroys 90 percent of structures, vehicles on Barbuda — Hurricane Irma ripped into the Caribbean island of Barbuda Wednesday morning, killing at least one person and destroying 90 percent of its structures and vehicles, according to Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Root, Associated Press and RT

miamiherald:

Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Caribbean with Florida at center of projected path — Hurricane Irma — with its ferocious 185 mph winds — made landfall in the Caribbean early Wednesday, slamming into Barbuda and Antigua as it headed for Puerto Rico, with Florida now directly in the center of the projected path by the weekend.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, ROMPER, Grist, The Root, CBS News, NPR, CNN and Common Dreams

New York Times:
Hurricane Irma Reaches Puerto Rico: ‘There Is Nothing Like This’

Discussion: Salon, Newsweek, Telegraph, ROMPER, Gizmodo, CNN, NPR, RedState, Mashable, RT, Metro, Politico, The Guardian, Business Insider, The Last Tradition, Talking Points Memo, CBS New York, Washington Post, abc7ny.com, Grist and TheStreet

Washington Post:
Extreme Category 5 Irma crashes into Caribbean, sets sights on Florida and Southeast U.S.

Discussion: ABC News, New York Times, The Gateway Pundit, ROMPER, Mediaite, Mashable, The Verge, Reuters, The Atlantic, Daily Kos and Faithwire

Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Rush Limbaugh's dangerous suggestion that Hurricane Irma is fake news

Discussion: The Rush Limbaugh Show, TheBlaze, Media Matters for America, Hullabaloo, Raw Story, The Resurgent and TVNewser

CNN:
Deaths reported as Hurricane Irma batters northern Caribbean islands

Discussion: fox13now.com, myfox8.com, WTVR-TV, FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV and CBS Philly

Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:

Democrats dread Hillary's book tour — President Donald Trump may be the only person in politics truly excited about Hillary Clinton's book tour. — Democratic operatives can't stand the thought of her picking the scabs of 2016, again — the Bernie Sanders divide, the Jim Comey complaints …

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Clinton's score-settling frustrates Democrats

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon

Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:

GOP leaders ‘visibly annoyed’ over Ivanka visit to Oval Office: reports — Republican leaders on the Hill were “visibly annoyed” that Ivanka Trump joined an Oval Office meeting to “say hello” during their Wednesday meeting with President Trump on a must-pass spending bill, according to reporters who spoke with an aide.

Discussion: Metro, Politico, Towleroad, RedState, Mediaite, Political Wire, Mercury News and CNN

Joe Concha / The Hill:
CNN's Powers: Trump thinks daughter Ivanka is ‘his prized possession’

Discussion: Raw Story

Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:

President Trump Unlikely to Nominate Gary Cohn to Become Fed Chairman — Cohn's chances dropped after he criticized Trump's response to the Charlottesville protests, according to people familiar with the president's thinking — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump is unlikely to nominate Gary Cohn …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Reuters, The Daily Caller, CNBC, New York Magazine, Business Insider, Political Wire and Mediaite

Jacob Pramuk / CNBC: Trump is reportedly unlikely to pick Gary Cohn as next Fed chair

CBS News:

Steve Bannon says he's “a street fighter,” vows to support Trump — Steve Bannon's “60 Minutes” conversation with Charlie Rose is the former White House chief strategist's first extensive interview since he left the Trump administration. — The founding board member of the conservative …

Discussion: CNBC

Stephen Ide / providencejournal.com:

Tom Perez, former U.S. labor secretary, to teach at Brown — Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee and former U.S. labor secretary under President Barack Obama, will join Brown University as a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for Public Affairs, the university has announced.

Kaitlan Collins / CNN:

(CNN)President Trump is expected to return to Camp David again this weekend — but this time with his full Cabinet in tow. — CNN has learned that the President will host the members of his Cabinet at the secluded government-owned retreat in Maryland starting Friday.

Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:

Donald Trump Jr. to Meet With Senate Russia Investigators — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son, is set to meet with Senate Judiciary Committee investigators behind closed doors on Thursday to answer questions about his June 2016 meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer, committee officials said.

Discussion: Splinter

NBC News: Russian Lawyer in Trump Tower Meeting Says Mueller Hasn't Called

New York Times:

New York City Offers Free Lunch for All Public School Students — Lunch at New York City public schools will be available free of charge to all 1.1 million students beginning this school year, Carmen Fariña, the schools chancellor, said on Wednesday in the basement cafeteria of a Hell's Kitchen elementary school.

Discussion: Chalkbeat