Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:00 PM ET, December 1, 2017

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
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 …
RELATED:
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 …
Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
Flynn pleads guilty, reaches deal on charge of lying to FBI  —  Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, once a member of President Donald Trump's inner circle of advisers, pleaded guilty Friday to lying to the FBI about back-channel conversations with the Russian ambassador as part of a deal …
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 …
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:
Stocks fall sharply on report that Michael Flynn was directed by Trump to talk to Russians  —  Stocks fell Friday on a report that Michael Flynn was directed by President Trump to talk to Russians.  —  ABC News reported that Flynn, the former national security adviser …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Politico
CNBC:
Michael Flynn, Trump's ex-national security adviser, is expected to plead guilty Friday to lying to the FBI
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
RELATED:
Alice Ollstein / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Leaders Claim They've Sewn Up 50 Votes For Tax Bill  —  When you're ramming a massive tax bill through Congress at record speed, there are bound to be a few speed bumps.  —  But after some drama on the Senate floor Thursday night, with a handful of Republican deficit hawks withholding …
Discussion: Slate and Balloon Juice
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 …
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
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Tax bill could trigger historic spending cuts
Discussion: Daily Kos
CNN:
Uncertainty looms over Senate's tax bill
Discussion: WTVR-TV, Political Wire and KTLA
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.
RELATED:
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 …
Jake Gibson / Fox News:
DOJ weighing federal charges in Kate Steinle murder case, after not guilty verdict
Discussion: IJR and The Daily Caller
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
RELATED:
Associated Press:
The Latest: Tillerson says reports of his demise ‘laughable’
Fox News:
White House releases ‘explosive’ tally of green cards issued in ‘chain migration’
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.
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.
Sam Baker / Axios:
GOP may have no choice but to try health care again after taxes  —  Republicans have been asking themselves what they'll turn to next, after their tax overhaul wraps up.  If they repeal the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate, there's a good chance the answer will be health care — whether they like it or not.
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.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 12:00 PM ET, December 1, 2017.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Ben Strauss / Politico:
The Trick-Shot QB Who Played His Way Into Trump's Inner Circle
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Black lawmakers wonder why Conyers has to go — but not Franken
Discussion: Power Line, Axios and ABC News
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Erik Prince testifies before House Intelligence Committee
Discussion: ABC News
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Federal Contractors Are Offshoring at a Fast Clip Under Trump
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'
Discussion: Raw Story, ThinkProgress and RedState
 Earlier Items: 
Alana Semuels / The Atlantic:
The Never-Ending Foreclosure
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Maybe Trump knows his base better than we do
Discussion: The Week and TalkLeft
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
 

 
From Mediagazer:

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
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page