memeorandum: Obama Goes From White House to Wall Street in Less Than One Year (Max Abelson/Bloomberg)

1:10 PM ET, September 18, 2017

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Trump Lawyers Clash Over How Much to Cooperate With Russia Inquiry — WASHINGTON — President Trump's legal team is wrestling with how much to cooperate with the special counsel looking into Russian election interference, an internal debate that led to an angry confrontation last week between …

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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:

Trump lawyers spill beans thanks to terrible choice of restaurant — next door to the New York Times — It is every Washington reporter's dream to sit down at a restaurant, overhear secret stuff, and get a scoop. It rarely happens. — Still, everyone in town important enough …

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Renato Mariotti / Politico:
How to Read Bob Mueller's Hand

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Max Abelson / Bloomberg:

Obama Goes From White House to Wall Street in Less Than One Year — Ex-president speaks to Carlyle, Cantor, Northern Trust — ‘If someone is willing to pay him to give a speech, God bless’ — Follow @bpolitics for all the latest news, and sign up for our daily Balance of Power newsletter.

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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Cohn Tells World Leaders U.S. Will Exit Paris Climate Deal

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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:

Sean Spicer's yucky cameo at the Emmys — Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer got a turn on one of Hollywood's glitziest stages Sunday night. And he used it to laugh about the falsehoods he told the American people in an attempt to rehabilitate his image. — I'm all for a good laugh.

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Chris Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Sean Spicer on His Wild Emmys Night: “I Thought It Was Kinda Funny” — The former White House press secretary, whose appearance at Sunday's show was widely criticized, talks to THR on his way to the Governors Ball: “I have a lot of respect for folks who do what they do in film and on television, so it's a real honor to be invited.”

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Christina Cauterucci / Slate:
Sean Spicer's Emmy Awards Cameo Was a Sickening, Cynical Laugh Grab

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Why did the Emmys help Sean Spicer rebrand?

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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Emmy Awards Ratings Hit Low On Trump-Bashing Night; ‘Sunday Night Football’ Dips

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Susan Hogan / Washington Post:

St. Louis officers chant ‘whose streets, our streets’ while arresting protesters — St. Louis police arrested more than 80 people Sunday after a peaceful protest turned violent as night fell. In a concentrated area downtown, some protesters smashed windows and overturned trash cans …

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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
St. Louis police officers chant ‘whose street, our street’ during protests

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Susannah Cullinane / CNN:
More than 80 arrested in third night of St. Louis protests

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Sean Moran / Breitbart:

Exclusive — Lindsey Graham Drives Obamacare Repeal Bill on Breitbart Radio: Melt Phone Lines to Congress, ‘Insist That We Have the Vote’ — Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) urged Americans to melt the phone lines into Congress on Monday morning, during an exclusive interview on Breitbart News Saturday …

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Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
The Health 202: The new GOP Obamacare repeal effort faces the same old math

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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
How Graham-Cassidy redistributes federal money

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CNNMoney:

Meghan McCain in talks to join 'The View" — Meghan McCain is in late-stage talks to join ABC's “The View,” three sources familiar with the matter told CNN. — McCain, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, announced last week that she was leaving Fox News.

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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:

Shrink at least 4 national monuments and modify a half-dozen others, Zinke tells Trump — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has recommended that President Trump modify 10 national monuments created by his immediate predecessors, including shrinking the boundaries of at least four western sites …

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Sewell Chan / New York Times:

Stanislav Petrov, Soviet Officer Who Helped Avert Nuclear War, Is Dead at 77 — Early on the morning of Sept. 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov helped prevent the outbreak of nuclear war. — A 44-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces, he had begun his shift as the duty officer …

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RT:
‘I was just doing my job’: Soviet officer who averted nuclear war dies at age 77

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Anna Fifield / Washington Post:

Trump's claim there were long gas lines in North Korea has residents puzzled — TOKYO — In his latest Twitter outburst against North Korea, President Trump said that “long gas lines [are] forming in North Korea,” adding an exclamatory “Too bad!” (In the same tweet, he bestowed a new nickname on Kim Jong Un: “Rocket Man.")

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Leah Singer / USA Today:

I moved from a blue state to a red state and it changed my life — Money ranked 100 cities to live in 2017. We based it off 170,000 data points. Here are the top 10. Time … 2631 — 35 — 46 — TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — I used to say I'd never move to a red state. And then I did.

Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:

House Democrats Break Campaign Fundraising Record — WASHINGTON — The campaign arm of House Democrats has posted its highest off-year August fundraising haul ever, the group told NBC News. — While their Republican counterparts haven't yet released their August results …

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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:

For those in the Party of Trump, the Republicans — not the president — are to blame — OXFORD, N.C. — During one of their usual morning gatherings at the Bojangles' restaurant in this rural town near the Virginia border, a group of retirees from a local Baptist church shook their heads …

Ali Vitali / NBC News:

The White House Women Who've Got Trump's Back — WASHINGTON — For Sarah Huckabee Sanders, chaos in President Donald Trump's White House has proven to be a ladder. — Not that she would call it that. — Just days after she replaced Sean Spicer as press secretary in July …

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Charles M. Blow / New York Times: Is Trump a White Supremacist?

Avi Selk / Washington Post:

Knife-wielding campus pride leader killed by police at Georgia Tech — Georgia Tech police fatally shot the president of the Pride Alliance student group Saturday night in full view of dorm residents. — Police encountered Scout Schultz, a 21-year-old computer engineering student …

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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:

Anti-Fascists Used Twitter To Find A Neo-Nazi Walking Around Seattle And Beat Him Up — On Sunday afternoon, a Twitter account called @bigotbasher posted a photo of a man apparently riding Seattle's D line while wearing a swastika armband. — Around the same time, the photo was posted to Reddit's Seattle subreddit.

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Bloomberg:

Equifax Stock Sales Are the Focus of U.S. Criminal Probe — U.S. attorney in Atlanta said to be leading investigation — Managers unaware of breach when they sold stock, company said — The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into whether top officials …

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Sydney Ember / New York Times:

Rolling Stone, Once a Counterculture Bible, Will Be Put Up for Sale — From a loft in San Francisco in 1967, a 21-year-old named Jann S. Wenner started a magazine that would become the counterculture bible for baby boomers. Rolling Stone defined cool, cultivated literary icons …

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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:

Trump's team gunning for potential 2020 reelection rivals — Allies of Donald Trump have begun plotting to take down or weaken potential Democratic challengers in 2020, including several who will be on the ballot in next year's midterms. — The 2018-focused work ranges …

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