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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Graham: Stephen Miller makes immigration deal impossible — (S.C.) warned on Sunday that the White House staff is undercutting President Trump — and Congress's ability to get a deal on immigration. — “Every time we have a proposal it is only yanked back by staff members.
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Simon van Zuylen-Wood / New York Magazine:
Does This Man Know More Than Robert Mueller? — It's 10:45 p.m. Rio de Janeiro time. Glenn Greenwald and I are finishing dinner at a deserted bistro in Ipanema. The restaurant, which serves its sweating beer bottles in metal buckets and goes heavy on the protein, is almost aggressively unremarkable …
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Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
FBI ‘Failed To Preserve’ Five Months Of Text Messages Between Anti-Trump FBI Agents — The FBI “failed to preserve” five months worth of text messages exchanged between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the two FBI employees who made pro-Clinton and anti-Trump comments while working on the Clinton email …
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Politico, RedState, Power Line, TheBlaze, IJR and The Gateway Pundit
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Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Newly released texts between ex-Mueller team members suggest they knew outcome of Clinton email probe in advance — The Justice Department has given various congressional committees nearly 400 pages of additional text messages between two FBI officials who were removed from Special Counsel …
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The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze and IJR
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
More texts turned over from FBI agent taken off Mueller team
More texts turned over from FBI agent taken off Mueller team
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The Gateway Pundit
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Paul Ryan Collected $500,000 In Koch Contributions Days After House Passed Tax Law — That's peanuts compared with what the Koch brothers will save. — Just days after the House passed its version of the federal tax law slashing corporate tax rates, House Speaker Paul Ryan collected nearly $500,000 …
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Ryan Koronowski / ThinkProgress:
White House attempts to distance itself from incendiary ad approved by Trump. It didn't go well. — The ad literally concludes “I'm Donald Trump and I approve this message.” — On Saturday, Donald Trump's re-election campaign aired an incendiary, unhinged new ad claiming that Democrats …
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Little Green Footballs
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Complicit — Donald Trump was elected President to build the wall and keep American families safe from evil, illegal immigrants who commit violent crimes against lawful U...
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Emily Stewart / Vox:
Trump campaign ad says Democrats are “complicit” in murders committed by undocumented immigrants
Trump campaign ad says Democrats are “complicit” in murders committed by undocumented immigrants
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CNN, AOL, The Guardian, Outside the Beltway, Media Matters for America, Breitbart and NTK Network
Tommy Christopher / Shareblue Media:
Paul Ryan just claimed Obama delayed troop pay during 2013 shutdown. That's a lie.
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Eric Trump: The government shutdown is ‘good for us’ politically
Eric Trump: The government shutdown is ‘good for us’ politically
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Politico, Fox News Insider, ThinkProgress, Mediaite and Breitbart
Robert O'Harrow Jr / Washington Post:
Trump's 24-year-old drug policy appointee was let go at law firm after he 'just didn't show' — A former Trump campaign worker appointed at age 23 to a top position in the White House's drug policy office had been let go from a job at a law firm because he repeatedly missed work, a partner at the firm said.
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Balloon Juice
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Now on Stage, Stormy Daniels: A Strip Club and a Presidency Meet After Dark — GREENVILLE, S.C. — One by one, the patrons lurched to the stage's edge, summoned by the siren song of stale arena rock and toplessness — a sea of large men with small bills and slight smiles …
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bizpacreview.com, Mediaite, Instapundit and Business Insider
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Barton Deiters / WOOD-TV:
Kzoo doctor detained by ICE after 40 years in US — KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — Even as the issue of immigration has been central to the government shutdown in Washington, a respected doctor at Kalamazoo's Bronson Methodist Hospital who has been living in America for nearly 40 years finds himself …
The Daily Beast:
FBI: Devin Nunes Won't Show Us Memo Alleging Surveillance Abuses — The FBI has yet to see a controversial memo alleging the intelligence community engaged in grave abuses. And that could make friction between the Hill and the bureau even worse. — BETSY WOODRUFF1.21.18 4:17 PM ET
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Balloon Juice
Jen Yamato / Los Angeles Times:
Yes, Scarlett Johansson was calling out James Franco in her Women's March speech — Addressing the 500,000 Women's March attendees gathered in downtown Los Angeles Saturday and even more onlookers livestreaming it at home, Scarlett Johansson began her speech with a pointed barb aimed squarely at James Franco.
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Washington Post, CNN, Mashable, IndieWire and Just Jared
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Amid record low one-year approval rating, half of Americans question Trump's mental stability: POLL — A year in the presidential spotlight hasn't been kind to President Donald Trump: His approval rating is the lowest in modern polling for a president at this point, with deep deficits on policy and personal matters alike.
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Taylor Marsh
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New York Daily News:
Midtown alt-right bash turns violent after protester slugs, chokes partygoer — Violence erupted outside an alt-right gala in Midtown Saturday when a black-clad protester punched and choked a partygoer, cops said. — Far-right provocateur Mike Cernovich was inside the event at the FREQNYC nightclub …
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Breitbart, New York Post, Joe.My.God. and CBS New York
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump calls for Republicans to trigger ‘nuclear option’ if stalemate continues — on Sunday called for Senate Republicans to trigger the so-called nuclear option if the government shutdown continues and pass a long-term budget with 51 votes. — “Great to see how hard Republicans are fighting …
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Shutdown could hurt Democrats seeking reelection in Trump states
Shutdown could hurt Democrats seeking reelection in Trump states
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Politico
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
1 Son, 4 Overdoses, 6 Hours — Drug deaths draw the most notice, but more addicted people live than die. For them and their families, life can be a relentless cycle of worry, hope and chaos. — PEMBROKE, N.H. — The first time Patrick Griffin overdosed one afternoon in May …
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
The Shutdown Is About Who Gets to Be an American — Not many people wanted the government to shut down at midnight on Friday—surpassingly few Americans, according to polls, and not many more congressmen or senators. Still, no one could avert it. As negotiations progressed, morbidity set it.
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