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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.
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Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
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 …
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Althouse and New York Magazine
Washington Post:
Trump, Schumer agree to pursue plan to repeal the debt ceiling — President Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have agreed to pursue a deal that would permanently remove the requirement that Congress repeatedly raise the debt ceiling, three people familiar with the decision said.
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.
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.
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, Politico, RedState, Mediaite and Political Wire
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
How Democrats Rolled Trump on the Debt Ceiling
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Hill, FiveThirtyEight and Townhall.com
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump suggested scrapping future debt ceiling votes to congressional leaders
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Washington Post, Axios and Politicus USA
Alayna Treene / Axios:
The Freedom Caucus' plan to push the WH into action
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Political Wire, Politico and Business Insider
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Ryan Says Trump Cut Deal With Democrats to Avoid Partisan Fight Over Hurricanes Aid
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Washington Post, The Atlantic, RedState, Talking Points Memo, Politico, Mother Jones, Business Insider, KTLA, CNBC, Shareblue, IJR, Raw Story, The Daily Caller and ABC News
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Upbeat Trump raves to Schumer, Pelosi about news coverage of their deal
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Politicus USA, The Federalist and New York Times
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Pelosi asked Trump to issue tweet reassuring DACA recipients
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RedState
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Conservatives mount opposition to Trump's deal with Democrats, but derailing it seems unlikely
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RedState, Shareblue, The Atlantic, Reuters, Mediaite, Conservative News Today, twitchy.com, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Washington Monthly
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Inside the Freedom Caucus' tax plan
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Politico, Daily Kos, The Gateway Pundit and The Hill
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: Powerful House Republican group opposes Trump debt ceiling deal
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zerohedge.com/fullrss2 … and Politico
New York Times:
Trump Jr. Says He Wanted Russian Dirt to Determine Clinton's ‘Fitness’ for Office — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump Jr. told Senate investigators on Thursday that he set up a June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer because he was intrigued that she might have damaging information about Hillary Clinton …
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Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Axios, Political Wire, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, Politicus USA and Mediaite
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 …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Clinton's score-settling frustrates Democrats — is settling old scores in a campaign tell-all book — and angering some Democrats in the process. — Excerpts from “What Happened,” the Clinton campaign memoir scheduled to be released next week, find her letting loose on the Democratic Party's …
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Conservative News Today, Daily Wire, IJR, The Daily Caller and Washington Free Beacon
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Hillary Clinton: I Should Have Gone Nuclear on James Comey
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Washington Free Beacon
CBS News:
Steve Bannon says Catholic Church has “economic interest” in “unlimited illegal immigration” — In his first extensive interview since leaving the Trump administration, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is speaking out about President Trump's decision to end the DACA program.
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Bannon breaks with Trump on DACA: Conservatives ‘are not happy with this’ — Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said he doesn't agree with President Donald Trump's decision to end the DACA program and blasted the Catholic Church's support for undocumented immigrants because “they need illegal aliens to fill the churches.”
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Graydon Carter to End 25-Year Run as Vanity Fair's Editor — Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, plans to step down from the magazine in December after a 25-year tenure, leaving the role that established him as a ringmaster of the glittery spheres of Hollywood, Washington and Manhattan media.
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Talking Points Memo and Balloon Juice, more at Mediagazer »
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.
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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.
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The Root and The Daily Caller
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Elise Labott / CNN:
The UN ambassador is the breakout star of Trump's Cabinet. But will she succeed?
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The Hill and Talking Points Memo
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 …
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Betsy DeVos: The Era of Weaponized Title IX in Campus Rape Cases Is Over — “Through intimidation and coercion, the failed system has clearly pushed schools to overreach,” says DeVos. — In a major speech assailing the deprivation of due process protections under the Obama administration …
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Betsy Klein / CNN:
The ‘Ivanka drop-by’: Trump's not-so-secret meeting trick — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)President Donald Trump has a longtime habit in high-profile meetings that's no “Art of the Deal” secret: a casual drop-by from daughter Ivanka Trump. — Take Wednesday's meeting with congressional leaders …
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
CNN's Powers: Trump thinks daughter Ivanka is ‘his prized possession’
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Raw Story, Politico, Towleroad, RedState and Political Wire
Ted Nordhaus / USA Today:
Impossible Environmentalism: Green groups promote utopian fantasies — Green groups need to make peace with modernity and technology and abandon pastoral nostalgias and utopian fantasies. — CONNECT — You would be hard pressed to find a better example of the ways in which contemporary …
Oren Dorell / USA Today:
Alleged Russian political meddling documented in 27 countries since 2004 — Russia has meddled in the affairs of at least 27 European and North American countries since 2004 with interference that ranges from cyberattacks to disinformation campaigns, according to an analysis by a surveillance organization.
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Facebook, Raw Story and IJR, more at Mediagazer »
Detroit News:
GOP pressures Stabenow about Menendez trial — As the corruption trial of New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez got underway in Newark on Wednesday, the Republican National Committee launched a digital ad campaign pressuring his fellow Democrats to call for his resignation if he's convicted.
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