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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Michael Flynn's Guilty Plea Sends Donald Trump's Lawyers Scrambling — The President insists that the investigations into Russian meddling amount to nothing more than fake news. But the truth is now emerging. — Last June, less than a month after President Donald Trump fired James Comey …
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Is It Too Late for Robert Mueller to Save Us? — It might not be enough for the special counsel to hand us a smoking gun and an indictment. — We talk a lot these days about how the United States has sorted itself into two distinct media bubbles, and all the ways in which those bubbles become self-reinforcing and reality-denying.
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump keeps playing nice with Mueller, for now — President Donald Trump's lawyers have been counseling him since this past summer to play nice with special counsel Robert Mueller. — Cooperation with the Russia probe, the president's attorneys have argued, is the best path to the exoneration Trump …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Mueller Investigation: Politics, Not Law Enforcement or Counterintelligence
Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
Trump: I'm not worried about Flynn's guilty plea
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Miranda Green / CNN:
Trump on Flynn deal: ‘There has been absolutely no collusion’
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
ABC News corrects bombshell Flynn report
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New York Times:
Flynn Flipped. Who's Next?
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Washington Post:
Mueller's swift moves signal mounting legal peril for the White House
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New York Times:
Flynn's Guilty Plea Looms Over a White House on the Verge of a Tax Cut Success
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SHennessey / Lawfare:
The Flynn Plea: A Quick and Dirty Analysis
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Harry Litman / New York Times:
Michael Flynn's Guilty Plea: 10 Key Takeaways
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Washington Post:
Top FBI official assigned to Mueller's Russia probe said to have been removed after sending anti-Trump texts … The former top FBI official assigned to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election was taken off that job this past summer …
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New York Times:
Mueller Removed Top F.B.I. Agent Over Possible Anti-Trump Texts — Washington — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, removed a top F.B.I. agent from his investigation into Russian election meddling after the Justice Department's inspector general began examining whether …
New York Times:
A Historic Tax Heist — With barely a vote to spare early Saturday morning, the Senate passed a tax bill confirming that the Republican leaders' primary goal is to enrich the country's elite at the expense of everybody else, including future generations who will end up bearing the cost.
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David Faris / The Week:
The GOP's massive tax overhaul is a monstrosity — In a truly wild and dizzying Friday night and Saturday morning in Washington, Senate Republicans committed collective political suicide by passing a deeply detested tax bill they were still writing seemingly moments before they jammed …
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Senate GOP repeals ObamaCare mandate
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Matthew Chapman / Shareblue Media:
GOP passes deeply unpopular tax hike on middle class, sealing their fate for 2018
Washington Post:
Alabama race is neck and neck, with voters divided over Roy Moore allegations, poll finds — Alabama's closely watched U.S. Senate race is a neck-and-neck contest as voter concerns about personal moral conduct weigh on the candidacy of Republican Roy Moore, according to a new Washington Post-Schar School poll.
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Bloomberg:
Kushner Is Leaving Tillerson in the Dark on Middle East Talks, Sources Say — Tillerson worries secret plan could plunge region into chaos — White House rejects accusation State Department isn't informed — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is increasingly alarmed by what he sees …
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Jill Filipovic / New York Times:
The Men Who Cost Clinton the Election — Matt Lauer, like Charlie Rose and Mark Halperin before him, is a journalist out of a job after his employer fired him for sexually harassing female colleagues. It's good news that real penalties are now leveled on men who harass …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump Throws a Holiday Party for the Press. Awk-ward. — WASHINGTON — The affair felt dissonant from the start: a festive gathering in the East Wing of the White House, thrown by President Trump for the journalists whose work and profession he lambastes on a near-daily basis.
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BuzzFeed:
She Says She Quit Her Campaign Job After He Harassed Her. Now He's In Congress. — Last year, a 25-year-old woman left her job on Democratic Rep. Ruben Kihuen's campaign because of what she says were repeated unwanted propositions for dates and sex. Responding to these allegations …
Detroit Free Press:
Next Slide — The public trust is in jeopardy, he said, especially since the election of Republican Donald Trump as president last year. That was one of the worst moments of his lengthy congressional career, he said. — “I understood why some people voted for him, but I was worried …
Suki Kim / thecut:
Public Radio Icon John Hockenberry Accused of Harrassing Female Colleagues — This story starts differently than most sexual harassment accounts out there. It begins with the accused harasser honorably “retiring” after a successful career, which sets off an investigation—my own …
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Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story:
Steve Schmidt: If Trump pardons Flynn it will create a ‘constitutional crisis’ that will end the GOP — GOP strategist Steve Schmidt isn't optimistic about the Republican Congress' potential for impeaching President Donald Trump in the wake of former adviser Mike Flynn's guilty plea …
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