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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
FISA warrant application supports Nunes memo — The weekend release of a highly-redacted version of the FBI's application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to wiretap onetime Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page has renewed the argument over the Nunes memo …
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David Stamp / Reuters:
Trump says Carter Page documents show DoJ and FBI misled courts — (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Sunday that documents about his former presidential campaign adviser Carter Page confirmed with little doubt that the Department of Justice and FBI had misled the courts.
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The Daily Caller, RedState, France 24, The Hill, BBC, USA Today, Power Line and The Week
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Associated Press Lies About the FISA Application
The Associated Press Lies About the FISA Application
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Fox News, RedState and New York Times
New York Times:
As Trump Struggles With Helsinki's Fallout, Congress Faces a New Charge: Complicity
As Trump Struggles With Helsinki's Fallout, Congress Faces a New Charge: Complicity
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Raw Story, CNN and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Without Evidence, Trump Claims Vindication From Release of Carter Page Documents
Without Evidence, Trump Claims Vindication From Release of Carter Page Documents
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Mediaite, Hit & Run, Jamie Dupree - AJC, Florida Politics, Chicks On The Right, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Political Wire and twitchy.com
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
With the release of new documents, Devin Nunes's memo on Carter Page has gotten even less credible
With the release of new documents, Devin Nunes's memo on Carter Page has gotten even less credible
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Instapundit, emptywheel, Daily Kos, ThinkProgress, Vox, CNN, The Mahablog, The Week, Joe.My.God., Axios, Lawfare, New York Times and Judicial Watch
Washington Post:
Responding to FISA release, Carter Page calls spying allegations ‘ridiculous’
Responding to FISA release, Carter Page calls spying allegations ‘ridiculous’
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Breitbart, Talking Points Memo and Sputnik International
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Carter Page was ‘more like Inspector Gadget than Jason Bourne,’ Gowdy says amid FISA release
Carter Page was ‘more like Inspector Gadget than Jason Bourne,’ Gowdy says amid FISA release
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Mediaite
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
Exclusive: Accused Russian agent Butina met with U.S. Treasury, Fed officials — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accused Russian agent Maria Butina had wider high-level contacts in Washington than previously known, taking part in 2015 meetings between a visiting Russian official and two senior officials …
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Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg:
The Accused Russian Agent as Trump Republican — Maria Butina is charged with infiltrating the party. She also reflects it. — LISTEN TO ARTICLE — 6:30 — SHARE THIS ARTICLE — Facebook — Twitter — LinkedIn — Email — Here are some things we know about Maria Butina.
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Mediaite and Hullabaloo
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Russian billionaire with U.S. investments backed alleged agent Maria Butina, according …
Russian billionaire with U.S. investments backed alleged agent Maria Butina, according …
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Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, Splinter, Raw Story and Political Wire
Daniella Cheslow / NPR:
GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick: ‘The President Was Manipulated By Vladimir Putin’ — A GOP Congressman and former FBI agent says he thinks President Trump was manipulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Brian Fitzpatrick told NPR's Michel Martin on All Things Considered that he drew …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Chris Wallace on Interviewing Putin, and Why He Isn't Afraid to Visit Russia
Chris Wallace on Interviewing Putin, and Why He Isn't Afraid to Visit Russia
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Mediaite
Garry Kasparov / New York Daily News:
Congress, contain Trump: We cannot let him continue to bend to Vladimir Putin
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump's Approval Rating Inches Higher, Buoyed by Republican Support — In the latest WSJ/NBC News poll, the president's job approval rose to 45% but remains among the lowest of any modern president at this point his first term — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump's approval rating …
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National Review, Breitbart, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
NBC/WSJ poll: Public gives Trump thumbs down on Russia, thumbs up on economy — ‘The more Trump gets criticized by the media, the more his base seems to rally behind him,’ pollster Fred Yang says. — WASHINGTON — After an eventful and tumultuous month in American politics …
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
THE TRUMP GOP-RUSSIA ALLIANCE IS A NATURAL ALLIANCE — Many Republicans must be asking themselves how their party came to be led by a pawn of the Russian government. Russians must be similarly surprised that Vladimir Putin has found an ally in an American political party …
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Eli Okun / Politico:
Gowdy: Trump advisers should consider quitting over Russia
Gowdy: Trump advisers should consider quitting over Russia
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Associated Press, Breitbart and ABC News
Eli Okun / Politico:
Kerry calls Trump's Helsinki performance ‘disgraceful’
Kerry calls Trump's Helsinki performance ‘disgraceful’
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Breitbart and Joe.My.God.
Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:
Judgment days — In a small Alabama town, an evangelical congregation reckons with God, President Trump and the meaning of morality — Clay Crum opened his Bible to Exodus Chapter 20 and read verse 14 one more time. — “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” it said. — He prayed about what he was going to do.
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The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal:
Tesla Asks Suppliers for Cash Back to Help Turn a Profit — Electric-car company, in memo, requests supplier returns meaningful portion of money spent since 2016 — Tesla Inc. TSLA -2.08% has asked some suppliers to refund a portion of what the electric-car company has spent previously …
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Investor's Business Daily
Michael Anton / Claremont Institute:
Birthright Citizenship: A Response to My Critics — expected the reaction to a recent op-ed I published calling for the end of birthright citizenship to be cantankerous. I even expected it to be hysterical—from the Left. I did not expect self-described “conservatives” …
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Power Line
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Sanders' wing of the party terrifies moderate Dems. Here's how they plan to stop it. — Party members and fundraisers gathered for an invitation-only event to figure out how to counteract the rising progressive movement. — Ocasio-Cortez joins Sanders to rally for Kansas Democrat, progressive values
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Common Dreams and New York Times
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: World leaders turning Trump tricks against him — World leaders are learning to play President Trump using his own set of predictable negotiating tricks. The most vivid example of this: French President Emmanuel Macron bragging to Trump that he was jamming him by stealing “The Art of the Deal” techniques, Axios has learned.
Samantha J. Gross / Dallas Morning News:
Defending Donald Trump, First Baptist's Robert Jeffress compares him to ‘known womanizer’ Ronald Reagan — Rev. Robert Jeffress went on Fox News Friday night to defend President Donald Trump amid the news that the president's longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, recorded him discussing payment of a Playboy model.
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National Review, Mother Jones, AOL and RedState
Luis Martinez / ABC News:
US commander in Middle East hesitant to cooperate with Russians in Syria on refugees — The commander of U.S. military forces in the Middle East has expressed reservations about America possibly working with Russia in Syria to help Syrian refugees return to their war-torn nation …
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Olivia Goldhill / Quartz:
“Nanette” and why a new wave of comedians don't want to be funny — In Hannah Gadsby's highly acclaimed comedy special Nanette, she announces that she's quitting comedy. Jokes are too simplistic, she says: they convert her trauma into humor and obscure the ugly truth of her story.
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Althouse and twitchy.com
Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
Leader of the Persistence … It was unremittingly hot at the farm in Natick, Massachusetts, where 1,500 people had gathered on the Sunday after the Fourth of July. Remarkably, this crowd had assembled under a blistering sun not for a free concert, or outdoor theater, or even a protest, exactly.
Harry Siegel / New York Daily News:
Why we need local journalism: Look around at how vulnerable we are right now — No one lives in America, exactly. We all live somewhere in America, like the nearly 9 million of us in New York City. — The thing I love about local news is that it doesn't scale.
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
The G.O.P. Stands By as Trump Upends American Security — In the aftermath of Helsinki, there has been outcry, but no real action, from the Republican establishment. — Fifty years ago, America was in agony. Its unity at home, and its standing abroad, were deteriorating.