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8:30 AM ET, November 30, 2017

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Variety:
Matt Lauer Accused of Sexual Harassment by Multiple Women (EXCLUSIVE)  —  As the co-host of NBC's “Today,” Matt Lauer once gave a colleague a sex toy as a present.  It included an explicit note about how he wanted to use it on her, which left her mortified.
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TMZ.com:
Matt Lauer Caught on Video Telling Meredith Vieira, ‘Keep Bending Over, Nice View’ (UPDATE)  —  Matt Lauer creepily whispered to Meredith Vieira ... “Keep bending over like that.  It's a nice view” — and it happened on set, while cameras were rolling.  —  This all went down in October 2006 …
Anna Palmer / Politico:
TAX BILL clears key hurdle, problems linger — UPDATE on D.C.'s Dec. — SPOTTED: Reince and Christie at Cap Grille — TRUMP feuds with U.K. PM over his promotion of hate group — LONDON MAYOR tells him to stay home  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Good Thursday morning.
New York Times:
It Started as a Tax Cut.  Now It Could Change American Life.  —  The tax plan has been marketed by President Trump and Republican leaders as a straightforward if enormous rebate for the masses, a $1.5 trillion package of cuts to spur hiring and economic growth.
Discussion: Washington Post, Axios and The Week
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Ahead of Vote, Promised Treasury Analysis of Tax Bill Proves Elusive
Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Joint Committee on Taxation: 60 percent of households will get at least $100 tax cut
Discussion: bizpacreview.com and Politicus USA
John Bowden / The Hill:   AARP: 5.2 million seniors could see taxes increased by GOP bill
CNN:
CNN Exclusive: Jared Kushner met with special counsel about Flynn  —  Washington (CNN)Jared Kushner met earlier this month with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team as part of the investigation into Russia's meddling in the election, according to two people familiar with the meeting.
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CNN:
Special counsel delays grand jury testimony amid signs of Flynn deal talks  —  Flynn lawyers cut off talks with Trump team  —  (CNN)Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team has postponed an anticipated grand jury testimony linked to his investigation into Michael Flynn amid growing indications of possible plea deal discussions.
Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:   Mueller's Prosecutors Are Said to Have Interviewed Jared Kushner on Russia Meeting
Washington Post:
Trump veers past guardrails, feeling impervious to the uproar he causes  —  The Debrief: An occasional series offering reporters' insights  —  President Trump walks across the South Lawn of the White House to board Marine One on Nov. 29, 2017, as he heads to Missouri to pitch the Republican tax plan.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
The White House expects Trump to get even more outrageous  —  Exhausted by the Trump presidency?  Brace yourself: White House officials expect Trump to be even more outrageous and cocksure in coming months.  —  What we're hearing: Officials tell us Trump seems more self-assured …
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
John Hinderaker / Power Line:   How Hateful Are the Democrats? This Hateful
Editorials / New York Daily News:
Donald Trump is a madman: The President's Wednesday Twitter spasm confirms what many Americans have long suspected
Discussion: Mediaite, Balloon Juice and CNN
Annie Karni / Politico:
John Kelly's losing battle with Trump's Twitter feed
Discussion: Business Insider and BuzzFeed
Washington Post:
Woman's effort to infiltrate The Washington Post dated back months … The failed effort by conservative activists to plant a false story about Senate candidate Roy Moore in The Washington Post was part of a months-long campaign to infiltrate The Post and other media outlets in Washington and New York …
Brandy Zadrozny / The Daily Beast:
Trump Bragged: ‘Nothing in the World Like First-Rate P**sy’ … In a previously unreported comment to the now-defunct Maximum Golf magazine, Donald Trump singled out a “young socialite” at his club at Mar-a-Lago by telling a reporter, “there is nothing in the world like first-rate pussy.”
Addy Baird / ThinkProgress:
Textbook co-authored by Roy Moore in 2011 says women shouldn't run for office  —  Alabama Republican Senate Candidate Roy Moore co-authored a study course, published in 2011 and recently obtained by ThinkProgress, that instructs students that women should not be permitted to run for elected office.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Matthew Chapman / Shareblue Media:
Roy Moore recently argued that women aren't morally suited for public office
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
MJ Lee / CNN:
Army veteran says Franken groped her during USO tour in 2003  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)An Army veteran says Sen. Al Franken groped her in December 2003, telling CNN that while she was deployed in Kuwait, the Minnesota Democrat cupped her breast during a photo op.
Discussion: RedState
CNN:
New York radio personality was Roger Stone's WikiLeaks contact  —  (CNN)President Trump's longtime associate Roger Stone was in contact with a New York radio personality who had conversations with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during the 2016 campaign season, according to sources familiar with the situation.
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Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
Political humorist identified as Roger Stone's link to WikiLeaks: Sources
Discussion: Political Wire
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Russia Investigators Subpoena a Comedian. No, Seriously.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Angie Andresen / Minnesota Public Radio:
STATEMENT FROM MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO REGARDING GARRISON KEILLOR AND A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION  —  ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) is terminating its contracts with Garrison Keillor and his private media companies after recently learning of allegations of his inappropriate behavior with an individual who worked with him.
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Garrison Keillor / Washington Post:
Al Franken should resign? That's absurd.
Neal Justin / Star Tribune:
Garrison Keillor fired by MPR: 'I put my hand on a woman's bare back,' he says
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Dan Vergano / BuzzFeed:
Trump's Counselor Kellyanne Conway Is Now His Opioids Czar  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced pollster Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, will lead White House initiatives against the opioid overdose epidemic.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC
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Eric Boehlert / Shareblue Media:
Kellyanne Conway officially under investigation for endorsing alleged pedophile
Discussion: The Hill and Joe.My.God.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Meet the man who deactivated Trump's Twitter account  —  s Twitter tries to figure out how to lock down the parts of its platform that enable harassment, as well as the spread of misleading information and illicit content, there have been a number of moments that highlight how the service …
Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo:
People Are Getting Robocalls About Their “Derogatory” Trump Posts  —  Brett Vanderbrook was driving for Uber last week when he got a call from an unfamiliar number.  He let it go to voicemail and when he listened to it later, he got a shock: It was a recorded message telling him to stop making …
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Magazine
Jeet Heer / New Republic:
Resign Right Now  —  As Donald Trump embraces Roy Moore, Democrats should take a zero tolerance stance against sexual harassment.  —  Representative Kathleen Rice walked out of her party's conference meeting on Wednesday, complaining that sexual harassment allegations against fellow Democratic …
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Damon Root / Hit & Run:
Trump Administration Lawyer Pummeled by Sotomayor and Gorsuch in Cellphone Tracking Case  —  Fans of the Fourth Amendment got a rare treat today at the U.S. Supreme Court.  During oral arguments, both the liberal and conservative sides of the bench delivered a thorough pummeling …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The case for normalizing impeachment  —  Impeaching an unfit president has consequences.  But leaving one in office could be worse.  —  In recent months, I have grown obsessed with a seemingly simple question: Does the American political system have a remedy if we elect the wrong person to be president?
Discussion: New York Times
Tully Borland / The Federalist:
Why Alabamians Should Vote For Roy Moore  —  I have a 14-year-old daughter.  If I caught Roy Moore doing what was alleged, for starters I would kick him where it counts.  That said, I don't think it's wrong to vote for Moore.  —  I am going to argue for the very unpopular, even shocking …
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Moore says lesbians, gays, socialists behind sexual misconduct allegations … Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore appeared to blame members of the LGBT community, liberals and socialists for the sexual misconduct allegations leveled against him.  —  Speaking at Magnolia Springs …
Discussion: RedState
 
 
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Our political foundation is rotting away
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
An 11th-Hour Raid by the Wealthiest Baby Boomers
Andrew Johnson / The College Fix:
Brown University to allow students to ‘self-identify’ as persons of color
CBS News:
DOJ shuts down question from CBS News about affirmative action
Bloomberg:
Bitcoin's Wild Ride: A Rally, a Rout and Outages on the Exchanges
Discussion: New York Times and Axios
USA Today:
Flashback editorial from '98: Bill Clinton should resign
Discussion: IJR
David Smith / The Guardian:
Donald Trump attacks Theresa May over her criticism of his far-right retweets
 Earlier Items: 
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Fox refuses to air tax ad with Trump impersonator
Discussion: Politicus USA
Hadas Gold / CNNMoney:
Charlie Rose staffers, in limbo, told they will be paid through the end of December
Alan Simpson / Washington Post:
A moment of truth for our country's financial future
Pew Research Center:
Europe's Growing Muslim Population
Discussion: RT and The Guardian
Anthony Watts / Watts Up With That?:
Study: no acceleration in global warming, climate sensitivity to CO2 too high
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Climate Depot
Hadas Gold / CNNMoney:
Congressional press office yanks RT's credentials