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Washington Post:
Upstairs at home, with the TV on, Trump fumes over Russia indictments  —  President Trump woke before dawn on Monday and burrowed in at the White House residence to wait for the Russia bombshell he knew was coming.  —  Separated from most of his West Wing staff — who fretted …
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The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon Tells Trump To Bring In New Lawyers as He Looks For Ways to Kneecap Mueller … Steve Bannon spoke on the phone with his old boss, Donald Trump, on Monday and offered a message: get yourself some new lawyers.  —  The former White House chief strategist has grown increasingly concerned …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Associated Press:
Trump fumes as Mueller probe enters new phase with charges  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Robert Muller's charges Monday against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and two other aides marked a new phase in his sprawling investigation into Russia and President Donald Trump …
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 …
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Trump Campaign Got Early Word Russia Had Democrats' Emails  —  WASHINGTON — The indictment of a 30-year-old campaign aide — so green that he listed Model United Nations in his qualifications — shifted the narrative on Monday of the Trump campaign's interactions with Russia …
NBC News:
Sources: Podesta Group, Mercury Are Companies ‘A’ and ‘B’ in Indictment  —  WASHINGTON — The lobbying firms the Podesta Group and Mercury Public Affairs are the unnamed companies in the grand jury indictment of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates …
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Robert Mueller Is Just Beginning to Put the Pressure On  —  The White House talking points must have gone out early on Monday morning.  Because, before the charges filed against Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, and Rick Gates, Manafort's longtime deputy, had been unsealed …
Discussion: Raw Story, New York Times and Bloomberg
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.
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 …
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.
Sam Thielman / Talking Points Memo:   First Charges In Mueller's Russia Probe Stem From Trump Admin's Earliest Days
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Republican Judiciary chairman: Trump should let Mueller do his job
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Paul Manafort's Ambition Set the Stage for His Downfall
Discussion: The Guardian and CNN
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Pat Robertson Says Trump Should Issue ‘Blanket Pardon’ for Indictments: 'He's Got to Shut This Down'
CNN:
Trump ‘seething’ as Mueller probe reaches former aides
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
How bad will Mueller probe get for Trump? The Papadopoulos plea may be a big tell.
New York Times:
Is the White House Scared Yet?
J.J. Gallagher / ABC News:
Trump ex-adviser ‘probably’ discussed Russia with staffer charged in Mueller probe
Discussion: Politico, Associated Press and Axios
Associated Press:
Trump campaign aide steps to center of Russia probe
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller team won battle to force testimony from lawyer for Manafort and Gates
Discussion: Business Insider and Axios
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 …
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Washington Post:
Russian content on Facebook may have reached 126 million users — far more than first disclosed, company testimony says
Discussion: Mother Jones
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Twitter will tell Congress that Russia's election meddling was worse than we first thought
Discussion: Reuters and IJR
Dave Lawler / Axios:
Kelly wants investigation into allegations surrounding Clinton  —  In a Fox News interview, John Kelly said he thought an investigation was needed into funding from Hillary Clinton's campaign and the DNC for the research behind the Trump/Russia dossier, and Clinton's involvement in the Uranium One deal.
Discussion: ABC News and Vanity Fair
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Kelly defends Confederate statues: 'History's history'
Discussion: Politico
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 …
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump pollster: Sanders would have won general election  —  The pollster for President Trump's campaign says that he believes Sen. Bernie Sanders  —  (I-Vt.) would have defeated Trump in the general election had he secured the Democratic nomination.  —  Tony Fabrizio said at a Harvard …
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.
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Key GOP Senator Susan Collins Lays Out Her Demands for Tax Bill  —  Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine said Monday she's opposed to two tax breaks for the wealthy that her party leaders are pushing for, indicating that her vote won't be easy to win on President Donald Trump's top legislative priority.
Discussion: Axios, The Week and Business Insider
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Peter Dreier / Los Angeles Times:
Trump is ‘very intelligent.’ Just ask him  —  During an impromptu news conference outside the White House last Wednesday, a reporter asked Donald Trump whether he should be more civil.  —  “Well, I think the press makes me more uncivil than I am,” the president said, and then quickly switched the topic from his manners to his mind.
 
 
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