memeorandum: Trump's next move: Stick it to immigration hardliners (Mike Allen/Axios)

9:20 AM ET, September 8, 2017

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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:

The debt ceiling deal is a template for how Trump can get things done — Ignore Ryan and McConnell and make deals with Dems. — Having struggled mightily to get things done in Congress, Donald Trump did something new on Wednesday — direct talks with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.

Discussion: Politico and Mother Jones

Washington Post:

Gingrich or Santorum as speaker? House conservatives plot mischief for the fall … Several influential House conservatives are privately plotting ways to use the legislative calendar this fall to push their hard-line agenda — including quiet discussions about possibly mounting a leadership challenge to House Speaker Paul D. Ryan.

Discussion: Splinter, AOL, Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog, Business Insider, The Hill, Politico, Daily Kos, The Gateway Pundit, Conservative News Today, CNN, Bloomberg, NY State of Politics and Politicus USA

Robert Costa / Washington Post:

Republicans jolted by, and Democrats wary of, Trump's overtures to opposing party … Political tremors seized both major parties on Thursday in the wake of President Trump's sudden alignment with congressional Democrats, leaving Republicans alarmed about the unraveling of their relationship …

Discussion: Politico

Mike Allen / Axios:
No regrets: Trump exuberant in Oval Office after deal with Dems

Discussion: New York Times and Althouse

New York Times:
Energized Trump Sees Bipartisan Path, at Least for Now

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Axios, Washington Post, Mediaite, Business Insider, CNN, NBC News, The Daily Caller, KTLA, Shareblue, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Raw Story, IJR, RedState, CNBC, FOX6Now.com, twitchy.com, The Nation, Washington Free Beacon and AOL

Washington Post:
Trump, Schumer agree to pursue plan to repeal the debt ceiling

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Fox News, Reuters, Washington Free Beacon, New York Times, Business Insider, CNBC, Weekly Standard, Politico, TheBlaze, IJR, Outside the Beltway, New York Magazine, Daily Wire, Hullabaloo, Balloon Juice, CNN and The Daily Caller

Anders Melin / Bloomberg:

Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock Before Cyber Hack Was Revealed — Three Equifax Inc. senior executives sold shares worth almost $1.8 million in the days after the company discovered a security breach that may have compromised information on about 143 million U.S. consumers.

Discussion: RedState, Mashable, Raw Story, Gizmodo and CTVNews, more at Techmeme »

Ines Gutzmer / Cybersecurity Incident & …:

Cybersecurity Incident & Important Consumer Information — Equifax Announces Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information — No Evidence of Unauthorized Access to Core Consumer or Commercial Credit Reporting Databases — Company to Offer Free Identity Theft Protection and Credit File Monitoring to All U.S. Consumers

Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Equifax Says Cyberattack May Have Affected 143 Million Customers

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, The Daily Caller, CBS Los Angeles, FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV, Mashable, Gizmodo and KFOR-TV

Jose Lambiet / miamiherald:

Broward GOP uncovers a nasty secret about its young party secretary — The Broward County Republicans are in turmoil today after revelations that a freshly elected member of their executive board is a man who once was charged with attempted murder in the savage claw-hammer beating …

CNN:

Exclusive: Mueller seeks interviews with WH staff over Trump Tower meeting statement — Washington (CNN)Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team has approached the White House about interviewing staffers who were aboard Air Force One when the initial misleading statement about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting …

Discussion: AOL, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Kos, Hullabaloo, Politico, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine, Shareblue, Raw Story and Political Wire

Ali Watkins / Politico:
Notes from meeting with Russians said not to be damaging to Trump family

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story: WATCH: Jake Tapper walks through the many lies Donald Trump Jr. told about the Russian meeting

Alex Horton / Washington Post:

The military looked to ‘dreamers’ to use their vital skills. Now the U.S. might deport them. — Zion Dirgantara can easily recall his first day of school in the United States. It was a bright, sunny Tuesday, and terrorists hijacked four commercial planes.

Discussion: Duffel Blog and BuzzFeed

Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Koch Brothers Will Push Congress to Protect DREAMers

Discussion: Metro, Business Insider, Balloon Juice and Axios

Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Dreamers, Liars and Bad Economics

Discussion: Daily Kos and USA Today

Laura Olson / Morning Call:

Congressman Charlie Dent will not seek re-election in 2018 — Congressman Charlie Dent speaks during an open house and tour of Custom Diesel Service, LLC. in Allentown on Wednesday, August 16, 2017. /// (Harry Fisher / The Morning Call) mc-biz-diesel-repair-shop-financing (HARRY FISHER / THE MORNING CALL)

Discussion: ABC News, Axios and Raw Story

Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Rep. Charlie Dent, outspoken GOP moderate, will not seek reelection

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite

G Salisbury / City & State PA:
Congressman Dent will not stand for reelection

Discussion: Philly.com, Washington Post, Political Wire, Morning Call, Raw Story, PoliticsPA and Weekly Standard

Eric Holthaus / Grist:

Here's why Irma is a monster hurricane, in one GIF. — The last Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the United States was Andrew, which lashed South Florida with wind gusts of up to 177 miles per hour in 1992. It caused immense devastation and forever changed Florida's approach to hurricanes.

Discussion: Orlando Weekly and New York Times

CNN:
Hurricane Irma: Live updates

Discussion: FOX2now.com, The Verge, The Guardian, New York Times, FOX6Now.com, KTLA, KFOR-TV, Axios and Gizmodo

Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Hurricane Jose upgraded to Category 3 storm

Discussion: Fox News, Washington Post, CNN, RedState, The Daily Caller, ROMPER, IJR and KTLA

NBC News:

Homeland Security Plans Massive Roundups of Undocumented Immigrants — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security is planning nationwide raids to target 8,400 undocumented immigrants later this month, according to three law enforcement officials and an internal document …

Discussion: Business Insider, Splinter, The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story

Josh Delk / The Hill:
ICE denies plan for nationwide immigration raids

Discussion: ICE, New York Magazine and RedState

Kris W. Kobach / Breitbart:

Exclusive - Kobach: It Appears That Out-of-State Voters Changed the Outcome of the New Hampshire U.S. Senate Race — For years, the mainstream media has ignored the problem of voter fraud and belittled those of us who are trying to do something about it. And when secretaries of state …

Discussion: Washington Post and Mediaite

Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
More than 5,000 out-of-state voters may have tipped New Hampshire against Trump

Discussion: Washington Post, MelaniePhillips.com, Conservative News Today, The Gateway Pundit and The Last Tradition

Evan Osnos / New Yorker:

The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea — On the ground in Pyongyang: Could Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump goad each other into a devastating confrontation? — 1. The Madman Theory — The United States has no diplomatic relations with North Korea, so there is no embassy in Washington …

Discussion: Axios, The Daily Caller and Business Insider

Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:

Trump lawyer Ty Cobb, fooled by ‘email prankster,’ asks for ‘drone’ in private emails slamming reporter — White House special counsel Ty Cobb engaged in a lengthy email exchange with a prankster posing as White House social media director Dan Scavino, during which Cobb asked whether there was …

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Raw Story

The Daily Beast:

Russia's Facebook Fake News Could Have Reached 70 Million Americans … Russian-funded covert propaganda posts on Facebook were likely seen by a minimum of 23 million people and might have reached as many as 70 million, according to analysis by an expert on the social-media giant's complex advertising systems.

Discussion: Bloomberg, BuzzFeed, Politico, Washington Post, KQED News, Talking Points Memo and Business Insider, more at Mediagazer »

Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:

Bernie backers' attacks on Democrats infuriate the party — Prominent Democrats are increasingly riled by attacks from Bernie Sanders' supporters, whose demands for ideological purity are hurting the party ahead of the 2018 midterms and 2020 presidential election, they say.

Bill Scher / Politico:
Hillary's Message To Dems: Don't Give Bernie The Keys

Discussion: Slate, Splinter, CNN, BostonGlobe.com and Mediaite

New York Times:

Devastation in the Caribbean as Irma Heads Toward Miami — SAN JUAN, P.R. — One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded crescendoed over the Caribbean on Thursday, crumpling islands better known as beach paradises into half-habitable emergency zones and sideswiping Puerto Rico before churning north.

Discussion: NPR, Reuters, Mashable and ThinkProgress

Wall Street Journal:

Uber Faces FBI Probe Over Program Targeting Rival Lyft — Investigators looking at whether Uber's defunct ‘Hell’ internal program was used to interfere illegally with competitors — Federal law-enforcement authorities in New York are investigating whether Uber Technologies Inc. used software …

more at Techmeme »

Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:

Facebook's role in Trump's win is clear. No matter what Mark Zuckerberg says. — What a ridiculous notion, Mark Zuckerberg scoffed shortly after the election, that his social-media company — innocent, well-intentioned Facebook — could have helped Donald Trump's win.

Discussion: CNNMoney, Talking Points Memo and Media Matters for America, more at Mediagazer »

David Ferguson / Raw Story:
‘Fines or prison or both’: Dem senator implies Don Trump Jr. is criminally liable for lying to Congress

Discussion: CNN, The Daily Caller and IJR

Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times:

Harvey and Irma, Married 75 Years, Marvel at the Storms Bearing Their Names — Harvey and Irma Schluter have been married for 75 years. He turned 104 in July; she will be 93 in November. — They vividly remember many of the major events of the 20th century, from her first time spotting an airplane …