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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Finds Loopholes in Chief of Staff's New Regime — Kelly establishes control, but the president's ‘workarounds’ show its limits — WASHINGTON—Chief of Staff John Kelly over the past five months has imposed discipline and rigorous protocols on a freewheeling White House.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump has given staffers assignments and told them not to tell Kelly: report — President Trump has reportedly given staffers direct assignments by calling them secretly to the residence in the evenings, in an attempt to circumvent chief of staff John Kelly
CBS News:
CBS News poll: Alabama Republicans call allegations against Roy Moore false — A new CBS News poll finds 71 percent of Alabama Republicans say the allegations against Roy Moore are false, and those who believe this also overwhelmingly believe Democrats and the media are behind those allegations.
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Yamiche Alcindor / New York Times:
McConnell Says He'll Let Alabama Voters ‘Make the Call’ on Roy Moore — WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, who has argued for weeks that Roy S. Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate, should leave the race, said on Sunday that he was “going to let the people of Alabama make the call.”
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Washington Monthly
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Is Roy Moore winning? Don't ask the pollsters
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America First Policies and Washington Post
Charles Kaiser / The Guardian:
Was Michael Flynn asked to wear a wire in Mueller hunt for evidence on Russia? — Plea agreement includes clause showing Flynn consented to participate in 'covert law enforcement activities" if required — The least-noticed sentence in Michael Flynn's plea agreement with special counsel Robert Mueller …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump lawyer's backstory for a stunning tweet — John Dowd, President Trump's personal lawyer, tells me that a Trump tweet that caused an eruption yesterday was “my mistake,” made in a tweet he had drafted and passed to White House social media director Dan Scavino.
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IJR and The Daily Caller
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Trump's lawyer: I wrote the president's ‘sloppy’ tweet about Flynn's dismissal
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The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, AOL, The Guardian, Business Insider, Shareblue Media, Hullabaloo and Mediaite
Daniel Dale / Toronto Star:
Oops: Trump's latest tweet about Michael Flynn could strengthen Mueller's case against president, experts say
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Did Trump's tweet about Michael Flynn's guilty plea just admit something it shouldn't have?
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Wrenched From Scandal to Success, Trump Looks Ahead, and Over His Shoulder
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Political Wire, Associated Press, The Daily Beast, Mediaite, Joe.My.God., IJR, New York's PIX11 and The Guardian, more at Mediagazer »
Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Critics react to Trump's tweet on firing Flynn
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Politico, AOL, The Hill, KTLA, Raw Story, Towleroad, RedState, CBS New York, IJR, Washington Times, Politicus USA and The Week
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Operative Offered Trump Campaign ‘Kremlin Connection’ Using N.R.A. Ties — WASHINGTON — A conservative operative trumpeting his close ties to the National Rifle Association and Russia told a Trump campaign adviser last year that he could arrange a back-channel meeting between Donald J. Trump …
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Kailani Koenig / NBC News:
Feinstein: Senate Russia probe building obstruction case against Trump — WASHINGTON — A Senate investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election has revealed a possible obstruction of justice case against President Donald Trump, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein said on “Meet The Press” Sunday.
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
McConnell: There will be no government shutdown — (R-Ky.) said Sunday that there will not be a government shutdown over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, arguing “there is no crisis.” — “Look, there's not going to be a government shutdown.
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Political Wire
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Alan M. Dershowitz / The Hill:
Why did Flynn lie and why did Mueller charge him with lying? — BY ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 12/02/17 03:50 PM EST THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL — The charge to which retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty …
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Althouse
Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
MSNBC Host Joy Reid Wrote Numerous Anti-Gay Articles on Her Old Blog — Recently resurfaced internet archives show political commentator Joy Reid wrote a dozen blog posts in 2007, 2008, and 2009 that contained homophobic conspiracies and anti-gay jokes. — The MSNBC weekend host ran …
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IJR, bizpacreview.com, thecut and Washington Free Beacon
The Daily Beast:
Report: FBI Agent Axed From Russia Probe Over ‘Anti-Trump Texts’ — Special counsel Robert Mueller removed a senior FBI official from his team in the Russia probe after learning of anti-Trump text messages that could be used to undermine the investigation's credibility, The Washington Post reports.
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Washington Post, Hullabaloo, The Week and Breaking
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Colum Lynch / Foreign Policy:
Trump Boycotts U.N. Migration Talks — The White House's ‘America First’ policy makers see little gain in setting the global rules for migration. — President Donald Trump has decided to boycott a global conference on migration scheduled to begin Monday in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico …
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CNN and The Daily Caller
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Bradford Betz / Fox News:
McMaster speaks to Trump's tweets, North Korea and Middle East peace
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CNN, Business Insider, Al Jazeera English and The Week
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
'I don't think it's going to help': In a pro-Trump area, many voters are skeptical of GOP tax plan — STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — On a busy weeknight at the 5 Star Lanes bowling alley in this Detroit suburb that voted heavily for President Trump, there was little excitement about the Republican plan to cut taxes.
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Raw Story
BostonGlobe.com:
Trump campaigned as a populist. He's not delivering as president — WASHINGTON — President Trump ran a campaign on lifting up the little guy. He was, in the words of his oldest son, “a blue-collar billionaire,” and it was his plain-spoken promise to be their warrior in Washington …
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New York Times:
Tax Bill Offers Last-Minute Breaks for Developers, Banks and Oil Industry — The overhaul by Republican lawmakers of the nation's tax laws percolated for weeks with virtually no public input, and by the end it turned into a chaotic mad dash with many last-minute changes on Friday night and Saturday morning …
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