Top Items:
Charlie Rose / CBS News:
Breitbart's Bannon declares war on the GOP — Steve Bannon, Trump's ex-chief strategist, tells 60 Minutes why he's out at the White House and criticizes the GOP for not supporting the president. “They're gonna be held accountable,” he says — Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, Slate, Washington Post, Political Wire, New York Magazine, The Guardian, Daily Wire and The Daily Caller
RELATED:
CBS News:
Steve Bannon's not done... More from Charlie Rose's 60 Minutes interview with Steve Bannon, the controversial former chief strategist and campaign architect for President Trump — President Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon left the White House on August 18 after a turbulent tenure …
Discussion:
New York Times, Talking Points Memo, AOL and The Daily Caller
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Bannon plotting primaries against slate of GOP incumbents — President Donald Trump's closest allies are planning a slate of primary challenges against Republican senators, potentially undermining the party's prospects in 2018 and further inflaming tensions between GOP leaders and the White House.
Discussion:
Washington Post, Weekly Standard, ABC News, The Resurgent, Business Insider and Media Matters for America
Manu Raju / CNN:
Republican Sen. Bob Corker weighs whether to retire in 2018 — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, the influential chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee who was once considered for a spot in President Donald Trump's Cabinet, is weighing whether to call it quits next year.
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump tamed by storms but how long will it last?
The Note: Trump tamed by storms but how long will it last?
Discussion:
Politico
David Cohen / Politico:
Bannon: Hill Republicans said Obamacare would be replaced by Easter
Bannon: Hill Republicans said Obamacare would be replaced by Easter
Discussion:
Washington Post and Axios
CBS News:
Hillary Clinton on why she lost and “the most important” mistake she made — Hillary Clinton has spent the last 10 months trying to figure out why she isn't the president of the United States. — “I am good,” Clinton told “Sunday Morning” anchor Jane Pauley.
Discussion:
Political Wire, Bloomberg, Grabien News, Mashable, MichelleMalkin.com, Splinter, The Daily Caller and twitchy.com
RELATED:
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Was So Confident of Victory She Bought Second Home in Chappaqua to Accommodate White House Staff
Clinton Was So Confident of Victory She Bought Second Home in Chappaqua to Accommodate White House Staff
Discussion:
IJR
Alison R. Parker / Shareblue:
“A cry from the white nationalist gut”: Clinton knew Trump from day one
“A cry from the white nationalist gut”: Clinton knew Trump from day one
Discussion:
IJR
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Clinton: ‘I am done with being a candidate’
Clinton: ‘I am done with being a candidate’
Discussion:
Liberal Values, TheBlaze, twitchy.com, AOL, RedState and Political Wire
Sean Rossman / USA Today:
Dozens of dogs abandoned, left unable to escape as Irma bears down … The streets of Miami, Florida were mostly empty as thousands of people huddled in shelters or battened-down homes as Hurricane Irma approached. Video provided by Reuters Newslook — CONNECT
RELATED:
J.J. Gallagher / ABC News:
Irma approaching Tampa Bay area with hurricane-force winds; 5 dead, 3.5M without power
Irma approaching Tampa Bay area with hurricane-force winds; 5 dead, 3.5M without power
Discussion:
USA Today, National Review, Associated Press, Raw Story, abc7ny.com, Mother Jones, IJR, TVNewser and twitchy.com
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Jeff Sessions' lie detector idea — Attorney General Jeff Sessions has told associates he wants to put the entire National Security Council staff through a lie detector test to root out leakers. It's unclear whether this will ever happen, but Sessions floated the idea to multiple people, as recently as last month.
Discussion:
CNN, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, New York Magazine, Splinter, The Gateway Pundit and RedState
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Democrats give away the Rust Belt by alienating Catholics — OHIO VALLEY — A clip of Martha Plimpton's exuberance over the “best” abortion she ever had played out on the television overhead of a gas-station counter somewhere along U.S. Route 422 between Ohio and Pennsylvania.
RELATED:
Howie Carr / Boston Herald:
For Democrats, no Catholic guilt
Katie Shepherd / Willamette Week:
Nobody was hurt in the incident, but the echoes of Charlottsville are hard to miss. — Police in Vancouver this afternoon arrested a man after a Patriot Prayer rally when he nearly ran his truck into a crowd of antifascist counter-protesters. — After a rally organized …
Discussion:
Splinter
Caroline Orr / Shareblue:
Miami airport busts Trump social media director for spreading fake news in midst of storm — White House social media director Dan Scavino took on a new role this weekend as a storm watcher. It didn't turn out well. — Trump's social media director, Dan Scavino, got caught making a little fake news.
Discussion:
CNBC, Washington Post, Mother Jones, Raw Story, Business Insider and Mediaite
New York Times:
Where Trump's Hands-Off Approach to Governing Does Not Apply — The Trump administration opened the door to allowing more firearms on federal lands. It scrubbed references to “L.G.B.T.Q. youth” from the description of a federal program for victims of sex trafficking.
Discussion:
Lawyers, Guns & Money
Kambiz Foroohar / Bloomberg:
Haley's UN Brinkmanship Comes With Advice by Long-Time Pollster — Jon Lerner helped get Haley elected South Carolina governor — UN envoy wants to ratchet up sanctions on North Korea's regime — As Nikki Haley confronts her biggest test so far as U.S. envoy to the UN …
Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Sixteen Years After 9/11, How Does Terrorism End? — The current spasm of international terrorism, an age-old tactic of warfare, is often traced to a bomb mailed from New York by the anti-Castro group El Poder Cubano, or Cuban Power, that exploded in a Havana post office, on January 9, 1968.
Michael Tanglis / Salon:
Trump Inc: Inside the president's not-so-blind trust — Trump's run for president likely started as a marketing pitch. The problem is, he won — Seven days after Donald Trump announced his intention to seek the highest office in the land, he formed more business entities than he had on any previous day …
Caroline Orr / Shareblue:
Florida residents want to know why Trump isn't opening his resorts to hurricane victims — As shelters filled to capacity ahead of Hurricane Irma's imminent arrival in South Florida, some residents are asking why Donald Trump isn't stepping up to help them.
Discussion:
Splinter, The News-Press, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Independent
RELATED:
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump: Hurricanes are helping the Coast Guard improve its ‘brand’
Trump: Hurricanes are helping the Coast Guard improve its ‘brand’
Discussion:
Raw Story
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
A Month Has Passed Since Trump Declared an Opioid Emergency. What Next? — When President Trump announced in early August, following a presidential commission's recommendations, that the opioid crisis was a “national emergency,” he called it “a serious problem the likes of which we have never had.”
Discussion:
Jamie Dupree - AJC
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Muted backlash to Trump's bipartisanship signals warning for GOP — Republicans who dared to cut deals with Democrats have long had to fear retribution from conservative activists like Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government. He had railed against a 2015 debt-ceiling compromise as …
Eli Watkins / CNN:
John McCain: 'I'm facing a challenge' — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)Sen. John McCain acknowledged the severity of his cancer prognosis Sunday on CNN's “State of the Union,” saying in his first national interview since receiving the diagnosis that it is the latest test in a lifetime of tough fights.
Discussion:
KTLA, KFOR-TV and Political Wire
RELATED:
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
McCain says he is facing ‘very vicious’ form of cancer
McCain says he is facing ‘very vicious’ form of cancer
Discussion:
IJR