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Jacqueline Alemany / CBS News:
Trump booked himself for his first TV interview in months  —  Last week, on his wife's birthday, President Donald Trump appeared on Fox News' “Fox and Friends” for a freewheeling phone interview — his first TV interview in months — where he made news on a variety of topics.
Discussion: Mediaite
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
Rudy Giuliani has hit rock bottom … To be a prelapsarian conservative in America today — as that creed was understood before 2016 — means getting used to heartbreak.  One after another, conservatives that I have admired and respected — Paul D. Ryan, Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, Bill Bennett …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Turns to Outsiders, Not White House Staff, for Key Advice  —  The perils of that approach were evident Friday when Rudy Giuliani clarified his comments on the$130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump is increasingly relying on longtime outside advisers rather …
Jeffrey Toobin / CNN:   Rudy's interview and Trump's lies create a crisis
FOX News Radio:   Rudy Giuliani: Michael Avenatti Is A Complete Jerk Who Should Turn In His Law License
Politico:
Full text: Rudy Giuliani issues statement clarifying his earlier remarks
David Marcus / The Federalist:   Rudy Giuliani Knows Exactly What He's Doing
Jake Gibson / Fox News:
Federal judge accuses Mueller's team of ‘lying,’ trying to target Trump: 'C'mon man!'  —  Giuliani: Mueller investigation should be dismissed  —  A federal judge on Friday harshly rebuked Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team during a hearing for ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort …
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Adam B. Schiff / New York Times:
Democrats: Don't Take the Bait on Impeachment  —  In 2010, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, I led the effort to impeach a federal judge from New Orleans named Thomas Porteous Jr. He was accused of multiple acts of corruption, some of which preceded his appointment to the federal bench …
CNN:
Judge in Manafort case says Mueller's aim is to hurt Trump  —  (CNN)A federal judge expressed deep skepticism Friday in the bank fraud case brought by special counsel Robert Mueller's office against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, at one point saying he believes that Mueller's motivation …
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:   Judge Questions Whether Mueller Has Overstepped His Authority on Manafort
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Federal judge in Virginia grills special counsel on Manafort investigation
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Shakesville
Angie Drobnic Holan / PolitiFact:
Donald Trump's NRA speech, fact-checked
Discussion: RedState
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Probes Cohen Over Cash He Built Up During Campaign  —  Trump's lawyer took out lines of credit to secure access to as much as $774,000 as race heated up  —  Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, gained access to as much as $774,000 through two financial transactions during …
Discussion: Axios, Mediaite, Raw Story and Lawfare
Matt Viser / BostonGlobe.com:
Kerry quietly seeking to salvage Iran deal he helped craft  —  WASHINGTON — John Kerry's bid to save one of his most significant accomplishments as secretary of state took him to New York on a Sunday afternoon two weeks ago, where, more than a year after he left office …
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Washington Post:
Trump thinks his North Korea strategy will work on Iran. He's wrong on both.
Discussion: Vox, Foreign Policy and Axios
Max Greenwood / The Hill:   Kerry making quiet play to save Iran deal with foreign leaders: report
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
2 F.B.I. Officials, Once Key Advisers to Comey, Leave the Bureau  —  WASHINGTON — Two top F.B.I. aides who worked alongside the former director James B. Comey as he navigated one of the most politically tumultuous periods in the bureau's history resigned on Friday.
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Viktor Vekselberg, Russian Billionaire, Was Questioned by Mueller's Investigators  —  WASHINGTON — When the United States sought to punish Russia last month for its election interference and other aggressions, it targeted some of Russia's wealthiest men, imposing sanctions on those viewed …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Pursuit of an Oval Office Meeting with Vladimir Putin
Discussion: Raw Story
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Trump administration will end protections for 50,000 Hondurans living in U.S. since 1999  —  More than 50,000 Hondurans who have been allowed to live and work in the United States since 1999 will have until January 2020 to leave the country or face deportation, the Department of Homeland Security …
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Mica Rosenberg / Reuters:
Trump administration moves to expel some 57,000 Hondurans
Discussion: National Review
Dara Lind / Vox:
Trump tells 57,000 Hondurans who've lived in the US for 20 years to get out
Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
Alex Jones: Trump Is Fighting A Computer Program That Has Decided To Kill Humans  —  Before Alex Jones headed to court to face his ex-wife today, he told Infowars listeners that President Trump is part of an effort to fight against a sentient computer program that has decided to kill all humans.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Pence doctor resigns after Jackson debacle  —  Vice President Mike Pence's physician has resigned, the latest fallout from the collapse of Ronny Jackson's nomination for secretary of Veterans Affairs.  —  Dr. Jennifer Peña, who like Jackson is a military physician detailed to the White House …
Rick Rojas / New York Times:
Connecticut Court Reverses Murder Conviction of Michael Skakel  —  The Connecticut Supreme Court, in a surprising reversal of its own decision less than two years ago, ruled on Friday to vacate the conviction of Michael C. Skakel, who had been found guilty of bludgeoning his neighbor with a golf club in 1975.
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Washington Post:
As a willing warrior for Trump, Sarah Sanders struggles to maintain credibility  —  The West Wing shouting match was so loud that more than a dozen staffers heard it.  —  White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders cursed and yelled at White House counsel Donald McGahn during …
Discussion: Mediaite and MSNBC
John Harwood / CNBC:
Most voters have become numb to each new Trump scandal because they don't believe what he says anyway  — Most Americans have considered Trump dishonest throughout his time in office.  They judge his character indecent.  But that no longer drives change in their judgments of his presidency.
Discussion: twitchy.com
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller seeks delay in case alleging Russians interfered in U.S. presidential election  —  Prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller's office are seeking to delay the first court hearing in a criminal case charging three Russian companies and 13 Russian citizens with using social media …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Molly Redden / HuffPost:
He Was Accused Of Attempted Rape.  He Became A Progressive Star Anyway.  —  For more than a decade, women alleged that Clay Johnson, a leader in political tech, physically and verbally abused them.  —  On April 28, 2008, Sarah Schacht received an email that terrified her.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
BREAKING: Embattled FBI Lawyer Lisa Page Has Resigned  —  The FBI attorney who exchanged anti-Trump text messages with another bureau official resigned on Friday, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.  —  The FBI confirmed that the lawyer, Lisa Page, tendered her resignation.
CNN:
Exclusive: Nunes demands Justice Department records.  Then he doesn't read them.  —  (CNN)House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes was livid.  —  For months, he had been demanding a fully uncensored version of a highly sensitive document from the Justice Department explaining …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Mediaite
Washington Post:
Behind Erik Prince's China venture  —  The Blackwater founder has cut a lucrative security-training deal with Chinese insiders.  But is it against U.S. interests?  —  Beijing's International Security Defense College, which boasts of becoming “the largest private security training school in China …
Discussion: Axios
Josh Delk / The Hill:
DeVos lost millions in embattled start-up: report  —  's family has reportedly lost tens of millions of dollars from their investment in embattled medical-testing startup Theranos, according to newly unsealed documents.  —  DeVos's family was among a list of prominent figures who lost a total …
New York Times:
Sex Abuse Scandal's Latest Casualty: The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature  —  STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in Literature, the world's most prestigious accolade for writing, will not be awarded this year, for the first time since 1949, as the fallout from a sexual abuse scandal that has battered …
Michael Isaac Stein / The Lens:
Actors were paid to support Entergy's power plant at New Orleans City Council meetings  —  Last October, about 50 people in bright orange shirts filed into City Hall for a public hearing on Entergy's request to build a $210 million power plant in eastern New Orleans.  Their shirts read, “Clean Energy.
Benjy Egel / Sacramento Bee:
Revolutionary data: California tops U.K., now world's fifth-largest economy  —  The Golden State is getting even richer.  —  California is now the world's fifth-largest economy, according to data released Friday morning by the U.S. Department of Commerce.  Its 2017 Gross State Product …
Discussion: American Greatness
 
 
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CNN:
American Muslims  —  We asked American Muslims to name …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Comey told lawmakers FBI agents saw ‘no physical indications of deception’ in Michael Flynn
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
When a stranger takes your face: Facebook's failed crackdown on fake accounts
Dustin Volz / Reuters:
Spy agency NSA collected 500 million U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise: official report
Cardiff Garcia / NPR:
Worker Shortage Hurts California's Agriculture Industry
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
It's time to normalize Karl Marx
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
The Daily Beast:
Senate Banking Chair Mike Crapo Set Up Campaign Shop in Scott Pruitt's Lobbyist Pad
Discussion: Politico
Allan Smith / Business Insider:
The Trump Organization just quietly announced it's collecting sales tax in a new state …
Discussion: Politico
 Earlier Items: 
Jane Kim:
No Filter  —  It's oppo dump time.  —  If you aren't familiar …
Discussion: CBS San Francisco
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Man Arrested for Illegal Guns Belongs to Neo-Nazi Group That Wants ‘Ethnostate Rape Gangs’
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Never mind the Nobel talk. Trump has a different mission on North Korea.
Discussion: HuffPost and Axios
The Daily Beast:
Report: Qatar Just Bought $6.5M Apartment in Trump Property
Discussion: The Guardian
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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