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10:00 AM ET, December 1, 2017

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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 …
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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 …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and The Week
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: ABC News, Axios and Politico
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.
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:   Michael Flynn charged with making false statement to the FBI
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 …
Elizabeth Zwirz / Fox News:
Kate Steinle's accused killer found not guilty of murder  —  Jurors have found Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty of killing Kate Steinle on Pier 14 in San Francisco in July 2015 in the trial that sparked a national debate over illegal immigration.  —  Jurors reached the decision Thursday …
CNN:
US to deport undocumented immigrant acquitted in Kate Steinle death  —  San Francisco (CNN)A Mexican man will be deported after he was found not guilty in the killing of Kate Steinle, whose death while out walking on a San Francisco pier reignited a national debate over immigration policy.
Anna Palmer / Politico:
TAX DEBATE scheduled to resume at 11 a.m. …
Discussion: New York Times
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: BloombergQuint
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CNN:
Uncertainty looms over Senate's tax bill
Discussion: Political Wire and KTLA
Jim Puzzanghera / Los Angeles Times:
Inspector general launches inquiry into whether Treasury hid Republican tax bill analysis
Heather Long / Washington Post:   Contradicted by deficit study, Republican tax plan in disarray
Saleha Mohsin / Bloomberg:
Treasury Watchdog Probes Mnuchin's Missing Tax Analysis
Discussion: The Hill, The Week and Daily Kos
Colin Wilhelm / Politico:
Republicans rewriting tax bill hours before expected vote
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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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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Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
DACA advocates see efforts gaining steam in the House  —  Immigration advocates are increasingly optimistic that a deal can be reached in the House before year's end to provide permanent protections for young undocumented immigrants brought to the country illegally.
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Tax bill could trigger historic spending cuts
Discussion: Daily Kos
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
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.
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 …
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.
Bill Chappell / NPR:
Walmart Pulls T-Shirts That Hint At Lynching Journalists  —  Walmart has removed a controversial T-shirt with a simple message — “Rope.  Tree.  Journalist.  SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED” — from its website, after the Radio Television Digital News Association sent the largest retailer in the U.S. a note flagging the shirt's message.
Justin Fishel / ABC News:
Congress secretly paid near $100,000 to settle harassment claims against disgraced congressman  —  The Congressional Office of Compliance secretly paid close to $100,000 in taxpayer funds to settle sexual harassment claims from at least two young male staffers who worked for disgraced former …
Ben Riley-Smith / Telegraph:
Donald Trump's ‘working visit’ to UK dropped as tensions with Theresa May grow over president's far-Right retweets  —  US diplomats have dropped plans for Donald Trump to conduct a visit to Britain in January amid a war of words between the two countries' leaders.
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Obama: If I watched Fox News 'I wouldn't vote for me'  —  joked Friday that if he watched Fox News, he wouldn't have voted for himself.  —  Speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi, Obama took shots at the network, which is widely criticized for its negative coverage of Democrats.
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Federal Contractors Are Offshoring at a Fast Clip Under Trump  —  Despite President Donald Trump's promises to bring millions of jobs back to the U.S., corporate contractors for the government have been “outsourcing” positions at a speedy pace, according Good Jobs Nation, an organization that advocates for contract workers.
Andrew Ferguson / Weekly Standard:
To Be Sure, Nazis Are Evil  —  The New York Times's needy readers.  —  It's not always easy to sympathize with reporters for the New York Times, because so many of them act like .  .  . how to put it? .    .  . like reporters for the New York Times.
CNNMoney:
Why Twitter didn't delete anti-Muslim tweets  —  Outrage after Trump retweets anti-Muslim videos  —  President Trump has been heavily criticized for his decision to retweet three graphic anti-Muslim videos.  —  But why did Twitter allow them in the first place?
 
 
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Katie Leslie / Dallas Morning News:
Rep. Joe Barton: I will not seek re-election
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
Alana Semuels / The Atlantic:
The Neverending Foreclosure
Sam Baker / Axios:
GOP may have no choice but to try health care again after taxes
John Bresnahan / Politico:
House GOP leaders preparing to bring gun measures to the floor
Discussion: Political Wire and The Daily Beast
Pierre Thomas / ABC News:
Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation tops $5 million
Discussion: Political Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Maybe Trump knows his base better than we do
ABC News:
Officials: Trump might declare Jerusalem the Israeli capital
Discussion: Axios, RedState and Associated Press
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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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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