memeorandum: Republicans wind up one last Hail Mary to repeal Obamacare (Dylan Scott/Vox)

7:40 PM ET, September 12, 2017

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John Hudson / BuzzFeed:

Russia Sought A Broad Reset With Trump, Secret Document Shows — A Russian proposal obtained by BuzzFeed News reveals Moscow's ambitious plan to break with the past and launch a major rapprochement with the United States. — Reporting From Washington, D.C.

Discussion: The Hill, Business Insider, Raw Story, Daily Kos, Axios and The Week

RT:
US DOJ uses WWII-era legislation to demand that RT supplier register as a ‘foreign agent’

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Yahoo:
Russian news agency RT now under scrutiny as foreign agent

Discussion: IJR and RT, more at Mediagazer »

The Daily Beast:

How Omarosa Became the Most ‘Despised’ Person in the Trump White House … Omarosa Manigault made her name as one of reality TV's most notorious and hated personalities: the breakout star on season one of Donald Trump's NBC series The Apprentice. — Thirteen-years later, she is in the White House, not on a makeshift television set.

Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story

Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller: Trump Has Always Backed Amnesty, White House Says

Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
White House spokeswoman: Justice Department ‘should certainly look at’ prosecuting Comey

Discussion: Media Matters for America

Louis Nelson / Politico:
White House weighs in on Hillary Clinton's new book: ‘Sad’

Discussion: ABC News

Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
White House downplays Malaysian prime minister's stay at Trump Hotel

Discussion: Mother Jones, Washington Post, ThinkProgress and The Guardian

Wall Street Journal:
Steve Bannon Says He Talks to Donald Trump Every Two to Three Days

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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Scandal-plagued foreign leader gets surprise invite from Trump, checks into Trump's hotel

Discussion: Associated Press, IJR, The Diplomat and Washington Post

The Seattle Times:

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigns after fifth child sex-abuse allegation — Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has resigned hours after a fifth man — a relative — made public allegations Murray molested him when he was a child. — Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigned Tuesday, just hours after new allegations …

Discussion: RedState, IJR, Daily Wire, Associated Press, Raw Story, Clayton Cramer, Washington Free Beacon and The Week

The Seattle Times:

Mayor Ed Murray's cousin: He sexually abused me, too — Joseph Dyer, a younger cousin of Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, says he wants Murray punished, alleging he repeatedly molested him in the 1970s in New York. “I have had enough ... Something has got to be done.” Murray denies abusing Dyer, blaming a yearslong family rift.

Discussion: Fox News, seattlepi.com, Associated Press, NPR, PinkNews, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite and GeekWire

Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:

Kris Kobach watches his voter fraud lie get fact-checked. It didn't go well. — Several Democratic voting experts including New Hampshire's secretary of state on Tuesday repudiated White House voting commission co-chair Kris Kobach's claim that thousands of out-of-state voters …

Discussion: Washington Post, The Atlantic, Talking Points Memo, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, USA Today and Raw Story

Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:

Heritage lamented Dems, moderates on Trump voter fraud commission — Allowing Democrats or moderate Republicans to serve on President Trump's voter fraud commission “would guarantee its failure,” a top Heritage Foundation employee wrote to the Justice Department in an email that eventually made its way to Attorney General Jeff Sessions

Discussion: Politico and Heritage Foundation

Campaign Legal Center:
FOIA Response Reveals True Partisan Intent of Pence-Kobach Commission

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Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Jeff Sessions Was Lobbied to Exclude Democrats From Trump's Election Fraud Panel

Discussion: Rewire, Politico and NPR

Jennifer Senior / New York Times:

Hillary Clinton Opens Up About ‘What Happened,’ With Candor, Defiance and Dark Humor — Hillary Clinton has written a book. Have you heard? — Choice quotes have been seeping out for weeks, and I'll admit that I reacted to one of them — “Now I'm letting down my guard” …

Discussion: Washington Post, USA Today, NewsBusters, IJR, Refinery29, Jacobin, Washington Examiner, Sputnik International, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon, FiveThirtyEight and Politico

Jon Meacham / New York Times: ‘What Happened’? They Lost. With Her Memoir, Hillary Clinton Joins a Haunted Club

Clare Foran / The Atlantic:
Women Aren't Responsible for Hillary Clinton's Defeat

Discussion: Vox

Conor Beck / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton: I Think Democrats Will Continue to Face a ‘Very Difficult Media Environment’

Discussion: NewsBusters and MichelleMalkin.com

New York Daily News:
Here's who Hillary Clinton blames for her defeat in campaign memoir ‘What Happened’

Discussion: RedState, Townhall.com, Sputnik International and The Daily Caller

Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:

Conservative Democrat Open to Single-Payer Health System — The Senate's most conservative Democrat said Tuesday Congress should consider adopting a single-payer health-care system, a sign of how fast politics are shifting on what was once seen as a fringe issue on the left.

Discussion: Vox, Daily Kos, Common Dreams, Political Wire, Washington Free Beacon, Washington Post and Politico

Associated Press:
Bernie Sanders' health care plan puts Democrats on the spot

Discussion: Vox and New York Times

Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Pelosi: Single-payer isn't a litmus test for Democrats

Discussion: Politico, Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Caller and STAT

Chauncey DeVega / Salon:

Harvard psychiatrist Lance Dodes: Donald Trump is a “sociopath” and “a very sick individual” — Harvard professor and psychoanalyst on the “antiquated” Goldwater rule and our president's “serious mental illness” VIDEO — The president of the United States is a global celebrity whose every action …

Discussion: Raw Story, Daily Kos and Campus Reform

Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:

Russia probes pose loyalty test for Team Trump — Lawyers representing Donald Trump's current and former aides are giving their clients one simple piece of advice: Don't lie to protect the president. — As special counsel Robert Mueller and congressional investigators prepare …

Discussion: Daily Kos, The Week, Politicus USA and Raw Story

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's new book blasts Republicans and Russia. She's 100 percent right.

Discussion: USA Today, NewsBusters, The Federalist, Shareblue, IJR, Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Caller

Mike Allen / Axios:
Mueller haunts the West Wing

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, The Gateway Pundit, Vox, New York Magazine and Balloon Juice

Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:

Edith Windsor, Whose Same-Sex Marriage Fight Led to Landmark Ruling, Dies at 88 — Edith Windsor, the gay-rights activist whose landmark Supreme Court case struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013 and granted same-sex married couples federal recognition for the first time and rights …

Discussion: Vox, Advocate, Axios, KTLA, The Daily Caller, Mashable, Common Dreams, Daily Kos, Gothamist, Mother Jones, Splinter, New York's PIX11, Above the Law, CBS New York, The Week and AOL

Joe Concha / The Hill:

Bannon to appear at Berkeley ‘Free Speech Week’ with Yiannopoulos, Coulter — Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon will join conservative firebrands Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter and more than a dozen speakers at “Free Speech Week” on the University of California, Berkeley campus later this month.

Discussion: Politico, Los Angeles Times and IJR

David Moye / HuffPost:
No, ‘60 Minutes’ Didn't Purposely Make Steve Bannon Look Like A ‘Bleary-Eyed Drunk’

Discussion: Althouse, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Wire and The Last Tradition

US Census / census.gov:

Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2016 — SEPT. 12, 2017 — The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that real median household income increased by 3.2 percent between 2015 and 2016, while the official poverty rate decreased 0.8 percentage points.

Discussion: NPR, New York Times, The Daily Caller, Pacific Standard and CNBC

Heather Long / Washington Post: Middle-class income hit highest level on record in 2016, Census Bureau reports

Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:

There's Blood In The Water In Silicon Valley — The bad new politics of big tech. — BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief — The blinding rise of Donald Trump over the past year has masked another major trend in American politics: the palpable, and perhaps permanent, turn against the tech industry.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, Eater and Wall Street Journal, more at Techmeme »

NewsBusters:

Study: The Liberal Media's Summer of Pummeling Trump — The broadcast network evening newscasts remain as hostile as ever towards President Trump and his agenda, although the networks appear to be easing up on their obsessive wall-to-wall coverage of the administration.

Discussion: Washington Post, Fox News Insider, Daily Wire, Washington Times and The Daily Caller

Ernice Gilbert / viconsortium.com:

Trump To Visit U.S. Virgin Islands In Wake Of Irma; More Police, National Guard, Arrive On St. John — President Donald Trump will visit the U.S. Virgin Islands “within the next six or seven days,” Governor Kenneth Mapp said during a press conference at Government House late Monday.

Discussion: Politico and Axios

BuzzFeed:
“It's Like A Bomb Went Off”: What Life Is Like On The US Virgin Islands After Hurricane Irma

Discussion: New York Times, ThinkProgress, Business Insider, The White House and The Week

MSNBC:

An excerpt from Katy Tur's ‘Unbelievable’ — I'm about to throw up. — I'm standing on the press riser at Donald Trump's New York City Election Night headquarters. Fox News is playing on two big-screen televisions, framing a stage covered with American flags and punctuated by two glass cases …

Discussion: The Daily Caller and IJR

Eliza Relman / Business Insider:
‘My body freezes — my heart stops’: Journalist Katy Tur describes receiving an unwelcome kiss …

Discussion: IJR, RedState, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite

Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:

The Trump Campaign Has Begun Turning Over Documents to Mueller … The Trump campaign has begun handing over documents to Bob Mueller as his investigators probe potential interference by Russia in the 2016 election. — A team of attorneys at Jones Day, the firm representing the Trump campaign …

Discussion: Raw Story

Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:

Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush Take the Next Step with Trump — The New York Times' masters of West Wing insider detail just made a book deal with Random House. But they want it to be more than the book version of the reality show. — The announcement that New York Times White House …

Discussion: Mashable

Dylan Scott / Vox:

Republicans wind up one last Hail Mary to repeal Obamacare — Cassidy-Graham faces a tricky schedule and tough politics. — At least a handful of Republican senators will fight to repeal Obamacare until the last possible moment. They have less than three weeks. — The path forward is improbably narrow.

Discussion: Politico and New York Magazine

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

White House: Border wall funding doesn't have to be tied to DACA legislation — White House legislative affairs director Marc Short told reporters on Tuesday that President Trump would not demand that border wall funding is tied to a legislative fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).