memeorandum: Facebook, Google and Twitter will tell Congress that Russia's election meddling was wider than they first reported (Tony Romm/Recode)

7:20 PM ET, October 30, 2017

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Paul Manafort, Who Once Ran Trump Campaign, Told to Surrender — WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort and his former business associate Rick Gates were told to surrender to federal authorities Monday morning, the first charges in a special counsel investigation, according to a person involved in the case.

Anna Palmer / Politico:

Tony Podesta stepping down from lobbying giant amid Mueller probe — Democratic power lobbyist Tony Podesta, founder of the Podesta Group, is stepping down from the firm that bears his name after coming under investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller.

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Lawfare:

Robert Mueller's Show of Strength: A Quick and Dirty Analysis — The first big takeaway from Monday morning's flurry of charging and plea documents with respect to Paul Manafort Jr., Richard Gates III and George Papadopoulos is this: The president of the United States had as his campaign chairman …

Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:

The Manafort Indictment: Not Much There, and a Boon for Trump — Do not be fooled by the “Conspiracy against the United States” heading. — The Paul Manafort indictment is much ado about nothing . . . except as a vehicle to squeeze Manafort, which is special counsel Robert Mueller's objective …

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Marcy Wheeler / The Intercept:

Monday's Indictment is Very, Very Bad News For Attorney General Jeff Sessions — The biggest news of Mueller Monday — the roll out of a money laundering indictment against Trump's former campaign adviser, Paul Manafort and campaign aide Rick Gates, and the unsealing of a false statements plea deal …

Paul Waldman / Washington Post:

How bad will Mueller probe get for Trump? The Papadopoulos plea may be a big tell. — While the biggest news of the day is the indictments Robert S. Mueller III has handed down against former Trump aides Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, today he also released a plea bargain with a heretofore minor figure …

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Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Inside the White House as the first Russia indictments came out — Just minutes before the senior-most White House staff walked into Roosevelt Room for their morning meeting with Chief of Staff John Kelly, their phones lit up with news alerts of the first indictments in the Mueller probe.

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CNN:
Manafort to turn himself in to Mueller, source says

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NBC News:
Ex-Trump Adviser George Papadopoulos Pleads Guilty in Mueller's Russia Probe

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The Daily Beast:
Mueller Probe Appears to Hit Democratic Powerhouses, Too

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New York Times:
How the Russia Investigation Entangled a Manafort Protégé

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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
How Fox News is covering the toughest day of the Trump presidency

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Derek Robertson / Politico:
Manafort's clothing tab: $1.3 million

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Fox News:
Paul Manafort judges: Who are Deborah A. Robinson and Amy Berman Jackson?

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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
The Open Secrets Of The Russia Story

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Dominic Patten / Deadline:

Netflix Cancels ‘House Of Cards’, Says It's “Deeply Troubled” Over Kevin Spacey Claims — UPDATED with Netflix statement: As allegations of unwanted sexual advances in 1986 by Kevin Spacey against then-14-year-old Anthony Rapp have emerged, Netflix today decided to pull the plug …

Discussion: RedState, VICE, Washington Free Beacon and Mediaite

Adam B. Vary / BuzzFeed:
Actor Anthony Rapp: Kevin Spacey Made A Sexual Advance Toward Me When I Was 14

Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
‘House of Cards’ Ending With Sixth and Final Season at Netflix

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Daniel Holloway / Variety:
‘House of Cards’ Canceled; Netflix ‘Deeply Troubled’ by Spacey Assault Claim

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Michael Ausiello / TVLine:
House of Cards to End With Season 6

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Ira Madison III / The Daily Beast:
How Kevin Spacey's ‘Coming Out’ Grossly Conflates Pedophilia and Homosexuality

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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:

Facebook estimates 126 million people were served content from Russia-linked pages — Facebook will inform lawmakers this week that roughly 126 million Americans may have been exposed to content generated on its platform by the Russian government-linked troll farm known as the Internet …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite

Washington Post:

Russian content on Facebook may have reached 126 million users — far more than first disclosed, company testimony says — Facebook plans to tell lawmakers on Tuesday that 126 million of its users may have seen content produced and circulated by Russian operatives, many times …

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New York Times:
Russian Influence Reached 126 Million Through Facebook Alone

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Tony Romm / Recode:
Facebook, Google and Twitter will tell Congress that Russia's election meddling was wider than they first reported

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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:

Trump Campaign Adviser Met With Russian to Discuss ‘Dirt’ on Clinton — WASHINGTON — A professor with close ties to the Russian government told an adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign in April 2016 that Moscow had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails,” according to court documents unsealed Monday.

Discussion: Washington Post, Reuters, Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress and Outside the Beltway

Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:

'Putin's Niece' Catfished Trump Aide, Offered Kremlin Meeting … Days after becoming a foreign policy advisor for the Trump campaign in 2016, George Papadopoulos started meeting with a woman he believed to be Vladimir “Putin's niece,” according to a newly unsealed indictment by special counsel Robert Mueller.

Discussion: Balloon Juice and emptywheel

Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
George who? As Papadopoulos pleads guilty, Trump's team seeks distance from ‘this individual’

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Shane Harris / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Ex-Adviser Pleads Guilty to Lying to FBI on Russia Contacts

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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
A guilty plea from a former Trump campaign aide

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Hot Air:

Did George Papadopoulos Wear A Wire For Mueller? — I noted in the Papadopoulos post this morning that his plea deal says he's cooperating with Mueller's investigation. Brad Heath of USA Today made a nifty catch, though, about the possible extent of that cooperation.

Discussion: RedState, Mother Jones and The Gateway Pundit

New York Times:

Trump Is Expected to Name Jerome Powell as Next Fed Chairman — WASHINGTON — President Trump is expected to name Jerome H. Powell as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, replacing Janet L. Yellen, the current chairwoman whose term expires early next year, according to two people familiar with the plans.

Discussion: Weekly Standard, The Atlantic, Axios, Politico and Political Wire

Andrew Scurria / Wall Street Journal:

FBI Is Probing Puerto Rico Power Contract — Deal for $300 million to fix electrical grid after Hurricane Maria was made by the island's public-power monopoly known as Prepa — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a $300 million contract awarded by Puerto Rico's government power company …

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Seung Min Kim / Politico:

ABA deems another Trump judicial nominee ‘not qualified’ — Another one of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees — this time, to the powerful appellate courts — has been deemed “not qualified” by the American Bar Association. — Leonard Steven Grasz was nominated in August to fill …

Discussion: Political Wire and ProfessorBainbridge.com