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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump lawyers want second special counsel appointed now — President Trump's legal team believes Attorney General Jeff Session's Justice Department and the FBI — more than special counsel Robert Mueller himself — are to blame for what they see as a witch hunt.
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The Guardian:
Robert Mueller is closing in on Trump. Congress must protect his investigation — Mueller is coming. — The investigation into Trump campaign coordination with Russia appears to be closing in on the president. The three indictments earlier this month of Trump campaign chairman …
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Will the Senate Still Protect Robert Mueller From Donald Trump's Ax? … Remember the first round of gossip about whether President Trump would fire special prosecutor Robert Mueller, back during the summer? Republican senators were quick to say what a grave error this would be.
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CNN, Hullabaloo, Salon and Washington Post
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Inside Trump's legal team: Trying to protect the president from Mueller's ‘killers’
Inside Trump's legal team: Trying to protect the president from Mueller's ‘killers’
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Roll Call
Peter Holley / Washington Post:
‘Brothers in arms’: The long friendship between Mueller and Comey
‘Brothers in arms’: The long friendship between Mueller and Comey
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RedState
Andy Metzger / WBUR:
Baker Backing Democrat Jones In Alabama Senate Race — Gov. Charlie Baker supports the Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Alabama against Roy Moore, the controversial Republican who has been dogged by multiple accounts that he made sexual advances towards teenage women well into his adult years.
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
‘How is my daughter a pervert?’: Alabama dad's plain-spoken rebuke of Roy Moore strikes a nerve — Perhaps it was the man's strong but plain-spoken rebuke outside a Roy Moore rally on the campaign's final night, condemning the candidate's past comments lambasting homosexuality.
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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Some good reasons to vote for Roy Moore
Some good reasons to vote for Roy Moore
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CNN, Vox, Right Wing Watch, New York Post and Hullabaloo
David French / National Review:
The Comprehensive Case against Roy Moore
The Comprehensive Case against Roy Moore
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Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:
Doug Jones and Sir Charles Urge Alabamians to Break With History
Doug Jones and Sir Charles Urge Alabamians to Break With History
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The Week and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Speaker at Moore event says he accidentally went with Moore to a brothel with child prostitutes — Roy Moore, who is running for U.S. Senate in Tuesday's special election, is facing multiple allegations of child sex abuse. He has largely avoided the campaign trail since these allegations first surfaced.
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New Republic, No More Mister Nice Blog, Shareblue Media and The Root
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Roy Moore Emerges From Hiding for Election Eve Rally, and Good Lord, Was It Weird — Have you ever traveled down a dirt path in rural southeast Alabama in December and arrived at a barn in the woods to find Steve Bannon, Representative Louie Gohmert, Sheriff David Clarke, Roy and Kayla Moore …
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Politico, The Guardian, Taylor Marsh, Daily Kos and VICE News
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Roy Moore's Wife: We're Not Anti-Semitic, ‘One of Our Attorneys Is a Jew’
Roy Moore's Wife: We're Not Anti-Semitic, ‘One of Our Attorneys Is a Jew’
Evan Siegel / The Daily Beast:
Alabama Special Election Results: Roy Moore vs. Doug Jones
Alabama Special Election Results: Roy Moore vs. Doug Jones
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ABC News
Bloomberg:
NFL Harassment Suit Alleges Groping by Top Executive, Ex-Players — Former employee says ex-producer sent several nude photos — NFL Network says employees suspended pending investigation — A former executive producer at the National Football League's TV network and ex-players including Marshall Faulk …
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Emma Baccellieri / Deadspin:
NFL Network Suspends Marshall Faulk, Ike Taylor, Heath Evans After Sexual Harassment Lawsuit — NFL Network has suspended Marshall Faulk, Ike Taylor and Heath Evans while investigating claims of sexual harassment from a lawsuit filed by one of their former colleagues.
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ProFootballTalk
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Suspect in Times Square Bombing Leaves Trail of Mystery — On the surface, Akayed Ullah seemed to be an ordinary member of a Bangladeshi enclave in Brooklyn. He often prayed at a mosque in an unassuming brownstone in the Kensington section of the borough, where a few thousand of his countrymen reside.
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
This is the list of ‘eyewitnesses’ the White House says exonerate Trump — On Monday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders promised that she would produce a list of eyewitnesses to exonerate President Trump from allegations of sexual harassment and assault.
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The White House, New York Daily News, Daily Kos, Mediaite, Raw Story, Vox, TheBlaze, Mother Jones, CNN, ABC News and Washington Post
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Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
What Happened to the 19 Women Who Accused Trump of Sexual Misconduct
What Happened to the 19 Women Who Accused Trump of Sexual Misconduct
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thecut, Media Matters for America, Shareblue Media, Washington Post, New York Times, Townhall.com, CNN, TODAY.com, AOL and Breitbart
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
MeToo spotlight increasingly pointed at past Trump conduct
MeToo spotlight increasingly pointed at past Trump conduct
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The Hill, Washington Post, Raw Story, Weekly Standard, Sputnik International, The Week, Mediaite, Political Wire, ThinkProgress, RedState and Axios
Fox News:
FBI's McCabe ‘has an Ohr problem,’ will not testify on Tuesday, source says — Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who was reportedly scheduled to testify behind closed doors in front of the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, will instead meet next week due to a “scheduling error,” Department of Justice officials told Fox News.
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The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and The Last Refuge
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Fox News:
Wife of demoted DOJ official worked for firm behind anti-Trump dossier
Wife of demoted DOJ official worked for firm behind anti-Trump dossier
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IJR, The Daily Caller, Fox News Insider, The Last Refuge, The Gateway Pundit, Power Line, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, TheBlaze and The Right Scoop
James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
Is CNN Protecting Adam Schiff?
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Tawdry Tales Depict a Texas Congressman's Frat House on the Hill — WASHINGTON — When Lauren Greene, a former communications director for Representative Blake Farenthold, sued him claiming sexual harassment, among her complaints was that he “disclosed that a female lobbyist had propositioned him for ‘a threesome.’”
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Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
Amid sexual harassment controversy, U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold faces tough re-election
Amid sexual harassment controversy, U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold faces tough re-election
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Roll Call, Off the Kuff and The Week
San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee dead at 65 — San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee died early Tuesday morning at age 65, his office said. — The sudden news came in an email from the office at 2:23 a.m. It read: “It is with profound sadness and terrible grief that we confirm that Mayor Edwin M. Lee passed away …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
A running list of the eyewitnesses who prove Trump's innocence on sexual misconduct — President Trump is frustrated. He sees the 2016 election as having vindicated him on any number of things: his often-acidic politics, his disparagement of traditional campaign tactics …
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The Week, ThinkProgress and The Daily Beast
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Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
Sean Spicer announces book to ‘set the record straight’ about Trump's campaign, presidency
Sean Spicer announces book to ‘set the record straight’ about Trump's campaign, presidency
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Sean Spicer inks book deal, will bash media's anti-Trump bias
Sean Spicer inks book deal, will bash media's anti-Trump bias
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The Daily Caller and Washington Free Beacon
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
What The Hell Is Happening With These Alabama Polls? — Somebody's going to be wrong in Alabama. — We've already urged caution when interpreting polls of Alabama's special election to the U.S. Senate, which will be held on Tuesday. Some of that is because of the media's usual tendency …
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The Hill, Vox, The Week, Index, New York Times, Change Research, Political Insider, Jamie Dupree - AJC, Weekly Standard, Axios, The Atlantic, The Gateway Pundit, Politico, The Moderate Voice, Mashable, New York Magazine, ThinkProgress, Townhall.com, No More Mister Nice Blog, Monmouth University, Washington Post, National Review, Washington Monthly, The Daily Caller, CBS News, The Mahablog, IJR, AOL, Business Insider, TheBlaze, Outside the Beltway, Fox News, Political Wire and WHNT-TV
Zephyr Teachout / New York Times:
I'm Not Convinced Franken Should Quit — I care passionately about #MeToo. Women are routinely demeaned, dismissed, discouraged and assaulted. Too many women's careers are stymied or ended because of harassment and abuse. In politics, where I have worked much of my adult life, this behavior is rampant.
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Governor Arne Carlson, IJR and The Daily Caller
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Inside Steve Bannon's #War Against Twitter — For more than a year before he became Donald Trump's campaign manager, Steve Bannon sought to wage war against Twitter, tasking Milo Yiannopoulos and other Breitbart News employees to look into editorial, financial, and legal ways they could harm the Jack Dorsey-led social network.
Washington Post:
Congress could finalize deal to reconcile House and Senate tax bills as soon as today, top Republican says — Lawmakers are on the verge of striking a tentative agreement that would reconcile tax bills passed separately by the House and Senate, and an announcement could come later Tuesday …