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9:30 AM ET, September 7, 2017

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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

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: New York Times, Associated Press, Townhall.com, IJR and New York Magazine

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, Splinter, Los Angeles Times, CNBC, Bloomberg, Mother Jones, Axios and Business Insider

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

Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:

How Democrats Rolled Trump on the Debt Ceiling — On Wednesday morning, Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, stepped before cameras on the Hill and spoke about the fraught negotiations on debt and spending that will consume Washington through the end of the year.

Discussion: The Hill and FiveThirtyEight

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

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: Politico, Washington Post, Breitbart, CNN, No More Mister Nice Blog, 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, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Scared Monkeys, Axios, Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon and Politico

NBC News:
Trump Gets His Payback Against McConnell and Ryan

Discussion: Washington Post and NBC News

Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump Unlikely to Nominate Gary Cohn to Become Fed Chairman

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

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

Discussion: Business Insider

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

Discussion: Washington Post and New York Times

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

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.

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, Politicus USA, Axios, Hullabaloo, Towleroad, New York Magazine, TheStreet, Boing Boing and Engadget, more at Mediagazer »

Michelle Castillo / CNBC: Facebook gave special counsel Robert Mueller data on Russian ads, report says

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

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

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon

Jack Shafer / Politico:
This Pro-Hillary Website Looks Like North Korean Agitprop

Discussion: RedState, Verrit, The Outline, The Ringer - All, New Republic, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Washington Post

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: Talking Points Memo and CNBC

CBS News:
Steve Bannon says Catholic Church has “economic interest” in “unlimited illegal immigration”

Discussion: Axios

Joe Concha / The Hill:

CNN's Powers: Trump thinks daughter Ivanka is ‘his prized possession’ — CNN's Kirsten Powers said Wednesday night that President Trump believes his daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump “isn't that impressive to people” and is treated as a “prized possession” by her father.

Discussion: Raw Story

Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
GOP leaders ‘visibly annoyed’ over Ivanka visit to Oval Office: reports

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

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.

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:

The First White President — It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump's predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of whiteness …

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.

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

Alex Zimmerman / Chalkbeat:
New York City unveils universal free lunch in time for the first day of school

Discussion: Mother Jones and AOL

NBC News:

Russian Lawyer in Trump Tower Meeting Says Mueller Hasn't Called — Natalia Veselnitskaya says she feels like a character in a movie. — American investigators are trying to determine whether it's a spy thriller or a farce. — Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who was at the center …