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11:35 AM ET, December 1, 2017

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New York Times:
Flynn to Plead Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, will plead guilty on Friday to lying to the F.B.I. about a conversation with the Russian ambassador last December.  —  The plea was the latest indication …
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New York Times:
Trump Pressed Top Republicans to End Senate Russia Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump over the summer repeatedly urged senior Senate Republicans, including the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to end the panel's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election …
Jeremy Herb / CNN:
Flynn charged with one count of making false statement  —  Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller has charged former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn with “willfully and knowingly” making “false, fictitious and fraudulent statements” to the FBI regarding conversations with Russia's ambassador.
Justin Miller / The Daily Beast:
Michael Flynn Charged With Lying to FBI … Michael Flynn has been charged with making a false statement to the FBI, according to an indictment filed by the special counsel's office Friday.  Flynn will reportedly plead guilty to the charge, which alleges he misled FBI agents during …
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Axios
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Michael Flynn charged with making false statement to the FBI  —  Former national security adviser Michael Flynn was charged Friday with making a false statement to the FBI about his contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, marking another monumental development in the wide-ranging probe of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
CNBC:
Michael Flynn, Trump's ex-national security adviser, is expected to plead guilty Friday to lying to the FBI  — President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn is expected to plead guilty Friday morning to lying to the FBI.  — Flynn is the first Trump administration official …
Discussion: RedState and The Gateway Pundit
Pierre Thomas / ABC News:
Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation tops $5 million
Discussion: Axios, IJR and Political Wire
Bloomberg:
Senate GOP Working to Address Deficit Concerns (8:14 a.m.)  —  Senate Republicans made a lot of progress overnight in crafting a new approach to address deficit concerns in their sweeping tax legislation, according to a Senate GOP aide.  —  More work remains in the next few hours …
Discussion: Vox, Joe.My.God. and BloombergQuint
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Alice Ollstein / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Leaders Claim They've Sewn Up 50 Votes For Tax Bill
Discussion: Slate and Balloon Juice
Wall Street Journal:
Sen. Bob Corker Says Tax Bill Will Probably Pass
Discussion: Axios and RedState
Jim Puzzanghera / Los Angeles Times:
Inspector general launches inquiry into whether Treasury hid Republican tax bill analysis
CNN:
Uncertainty looms over Senate's tax bill
Discussion: WTVR-TV and Political Wire
Heather Long / Washington Post:   Contradicted by deficit study, Republican tax plan in disarray
Sarah Rumpf / RedState:
Have We Been Lied to About the Kate Steinle Case?  —  The illegal immigrant who killed Kate Steinle in 2015 was found not guilty of her murder by a San Francisco jury today.  Outrageous, right?  —  Before the killing, Garcia Zarate had been released from a San Francisco jail despite a standing federal deportation order.
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Vivian Ho / San Francisco Chronicle:
Kate Steinle trial: Garcia Zarate acquitted in San Francisco pier killing  —  A homeless man whose undocumented immigration status intensified a national debate over the ethics of sanctuary laws was acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges Thursday in the shooting of Kate Steinle …
John Diaz / San Francisco Chronicle:
Exclusive: Kate Steinle's family talks about the anguish and frustration  —  As they awaited the verdict in the trial of Kate Steinle's accused killer, her parents and brother had one overriding wish.  It had nothing to do with the severity of the defendant's conviction.
Jake Gibson / Fox News:
DOJ weighing federal charges in Kate Steinle murder case, after not guilty verdict
Discussion: IJR and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Trump tells confidants that a government shutdown might be good for him … President Trump has told others that a government shutdown could be good for him politically and is focusing on his hard-line immigration stance as a way to win back supporters unhappy with his outreach to Democrats this fall …
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Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Tax bill could trigger historic spending cuts
Discussion: Daily Kos
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump White House Faces Prospect of More Senior Departures  —  Secretary of State Tillerson is most likely to leave as first anniversary approaches, say officials  —  WASHINGTON—The White House is facing the prospect of another round of senior departures in the coming weeks …
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
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NPR:
Transcript: Paul Ryan's Full Interview With NPR's Steve Inskeep  —  President Trump wants a tax overhaul plan passed by Christmas.  Both the Senate and the House have versions of the plan with the goal of cutting taxes.  Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep talks to House Speaker Paul Ryan …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Week and NPR
Claire Spellberg / Decider:
Meredith Vieira Found A “Huge Bag Of Sex Toys” In Matt Lauer's Office  —  When it rains, it pours.  Today, TMZ unearthed a video of Meredith Vieira calling out ex-NBC host Matt Lauer for having a “huge bag of sex toys” hidden in his office closet.  —  Back in 2016, Lauer …
RTDNA Recent Articles:
Walmart pulls threatening shirt at RTDNA's urging  —  UPDATE: Less than 24 hours after Walmart removed the shirt from its website, Teespring.com, the third-party seller that had been offering the shirt on Walmart.com removed it from its site as well.  —  The nation's largest retailer Wednesday removed …
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
Trump's mind-numbing media manipulation machine  —  There is a very specific — and dangerous — formula for manipulating the media and hijacking the Twitter/cable/conventional media industrial complex.  Trump sets this formulaic trap increasingly often.  And news organizations keep falling for it.
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Matt Lauer's lawyers trying to get him $30M payout after firing  —  Lawyers for Matt Lauer are working on landing the shamed anchor a $30 million golden sexual parachute following his NBC firing.  —  Sources close to the disgraced newsman say his team is working on a plan to get him paid through …
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Michael Calderone / Politico:
NBC's shifting statements on Lauer draw scrutiny
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Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Erik Prince testifies before House Intelligence Committee  —  Erik Prince — the military contractor and Trump donor who attended a secret meeting in the Seychelles in January with a Kremlin-tied businessman — interviewed with the House Intelligence Committee for just over three hours on Thursday.
Discussion: ABC News
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CNN:
Erik Prince details Seychelles meeting with Russian banker
Discussion: Washington Post
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Conservative Megadonor Robert Mercer Funded Project Veritas  —  The Mercers, secretive billionaires who are among President Trump's most powerful donors, also helped to fund Project Veritas, the controversial activist organization, tax filings obtained by BuzzFeed News show.
 
 
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Mattis: There's ‘nothing’ to reports of Tillerson leaving
Discussion: RedState and Just Security
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Federal Contractors Are Offshoring at a Fast Clip Under Trump
Fox News:
White House releases ‘explosive’ tally of green cards issued in ‘chain migration’
Brian Lawson / WHNT-TV:
IRS complaint filed against Roy Moore's non-profit, alleges the foundation illegally promoted his campaign
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Obama: If I watched Fox News 'I wouldn't vote for me'
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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic:
The Never-Ending Foreclosure
Andrew Ferguson / Weekly Standard:
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Sam Baker / Axios:
GOP may have no choice but to try health care again after taxes
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Maybe Trump knows his base better than we do
Discussion: The Week, TalkLeft and Politicus USA
CNNMoney:
Why Twitter didn't delete anti-Muslim tweets
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Mulvaney: Authority I have at consumer bureau ‘should frighten people’
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Vice fires three employees amid investigations into sexual harassment
Emily Chang / Bloomberg:
Uber Investor Shervin Pishevar Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Multiple Women
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion
 
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