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Scoop: Rob Porter telling different story than John Kelly — White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter is telling associates that some senior White House officials strongly encouraged him to “stay and fight,” and claims he “never misrepresented anything” to Chief of Staff John Kelly.
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Politico, ABC News, Political Wire, Washington Post and The Mahablog
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‘No Fire, No Fury?’ Trump Is on Board With a Jeanine Pirro Book to Rebut Michael Wolff — Jeanine Pirro, the Fox News personality and longtime friend and champion of President Trump, has discussed with him the possibility of a book project to counter the damning portrayal of his presidency …
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RedState, Business Insider, The Guardian, TheBlaze and Mediaite
Eric W. Dolan / Raw Story:
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro blames Barack Obama for Rob Porter wife-beating scandal — Fox News host Jeanine Pirro suggested that former President Barack Obama was to blame for the scandal surrounding ex-Trump aide Rob Porter. — Porter never received full security clearance and was ousted …
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John Kelly faces pressure over handling of Rob Porter allegations — White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is facing continued scrutiny over his handling of domestic abuse accusations against a former senior aide. — A GOP source told Fox News that President Trump spoke to former chief …
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The Hill
Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Conway on Porter's alleged abuse: ‘I have no reason not to believe these women’ — Washington (CNN)White House adviser Kellyanne Conway says she has “no reason not to believe” the women who accused White House aide Rob Porter of domestic abuse. — “In this case, you have contemporaneous police reports …
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ThinkProgress, The Daily Beast, Mediaite and fox13now.com
Jonathan Lemire / Talking Points Memo:
Conway: Trump Has Full Confidence In John Kelly Amid Rob Porter Fallout — Several of President Donald Trump's senior advisers fanned out on the Sunday morning talk shows to defend the response and seemingly to soften some of the president's comments. — Kellyanne Conway said on CNN's …
William J. Antholis / Politico:
Rob Porter Is a National Security Scandal, Too
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ABC News, The Guardian, Washington Post and Business Insider
New York Times:
New York Faces an Easy Test on Voting — In his proposed budget for the coming year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo says New York must at long last bring its elections into the 21st century by, among other things, joining the large majority of states that permit early voting. — He's right.
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Why the bond market is freaking out Wall Street — Dow plunges 1,000 points and sinks into correction — 1. Blame the bonds: The normally boring bond market is causing serious drama on Wall Street. — An avalanche of selling sent the Dow and S&P 500 careening 5% lower last week …
David Siders / Politico:
Devin Nunes creates his own alternative news site — LOS ANGELES — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, a relentless critic of the media, has found a way around the often unflattering coverage of his role in the Trump-Russia investigation — by operating his own partisan news outlet.
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Vox and Political Wire
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
The ‘Ivanka Trump of North Korea’ captivates people in the South at the Olympics … GANGNEUNG, South Korea — They marveled at her barely-there makeup and her lack of bling. They commented on her plain black outfits and simple purse. They noted the flower-shaped clip that kept her hair back in a no-nonsense style.
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Christal Hayes / USA Today:
‘Horrific murder spree’ leaves 5 dead in Kentucky: Sheriff — Five people, including a suspect, are dead after a string of killings Saturday in northeast Kentucky, authorities said. — Deputies in Johnson County, Ky., found two bodies in a home, then in the search for the suspect …
New York Times:
G.O.P. Squirms as Trump Veers Off Script With Abuse Remarks — WASHINGTON — President Trump's approval ratings have been nudging upward and his party's political standing is improving, but the president's unceasing habit of making inflammatory and insensitive remarks is galvanizing opposition against him …
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Gillibrand: If Trump wants due process, we'll have hearings on allegations against him
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
America shames Trump for smearing domestic violence victims
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New York Times, Business Insider, Raw Story, AOL, Dan Rather and Chicago Tribune
Brian Bennett / Los Angeles Times:
White House floats an offer to keep legal immigration at 1 million per year instead of cutting it … As the Senate prepares to begin a free-wheeling debate over immigration next week, White House officials have begun floating a possible compromise idea — a pledge to maintain legal immigration …
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Political Wire, The Week and Mother Jones
Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
Kentucky Rushes to Remake Medicaid as Other States Prepare to Follow — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — With approval from the Trump administration fresh in hand, Kentucky is rushing to roll out its first-in-the-nation plan to require many Medicaid recipients to work, volunteer or train for a job …
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