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Exclusive: CNN obtains secret Trump-Cohen tape — (CNN)Presidential candidate Donald Trump is heard on tape discussing with his attorney Michael Cohen how they would buy the rights to a Playboy model's story about an alleged affair Trump had with her years earlier, according to the audio recording …
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Wall Street Journal:
National Enquirer's Years-Long Dealings With Trump Lawyer Fall Under Federal Scrutiny — Michael Cohen and tabloid publisher traded favors over many years; the Omarosa mediation — Michael Cohen and the publisher of the National Enquirer forged an alliance over the years, looking out for the interests of Donald Trump and each other.
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Talking Points Memo
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Former Lawyer Michael Cohen Formed Delaware Company to Purchase Former Playboy Model's Story — Attorney created shell firm in September 2016 to buy rights to Karen McDougal's story of having affair with Trump; rights weren't ultimately purchased — President Donald Trump's former …
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Talking Points Memo and CNBC
Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive: Lanny Davis says “there's more to come” on Trump-Cohen tape — Lanny Davis — a lawyer for Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer and fixer — tells me that, following last night's release of a secret Trump-Cohen recording, we'll soon learn more “about what Michael Cohen saw and heard.”
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The Trump-Michael Cohen tape transcript, annotated — We finally know what's on that tape in which then-candidate Donald Trump and Michael Cohen reportedly discussed paying for the rights to Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal's story of an alleged affair with Trump.
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Trump blasts Cohen over tape disclosure — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump blasted his former attorney Michael Cohen on Wednesday, the morning after CNN aired the audio of a recording Cohen made of the two. — “What kind of a lawyer would tape a client? So sad! Is this a first, never heard of it before?
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Michael Cohen's secret tape raises five crucial questions
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Vox, Media Matters for America and Daily Wire
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
No, the White House didn't intentionally edit a question to Putin out of a video — MSNBC's Rachel Maddow led her show Tuesday night with an explosive allegation: The administration of President Trump had intentionally buried a question asked of Russian President Vladimir Putin during last week's news conference in Helsinki.
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Rachel Maddow / MSNBC:
Trump White House cuts Putin support for Trump out of transcript
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Daily Kos
New York Times:
Spotting CNN on a TV Aboard Air Force One, Trump Rages Against Reality — WASHINGTON — On the first couple's recent trip overseas, Melania Trump's television aboard Air Force One was tuned to CNN. President Trump was not pleased. — He raged at his staff for violating a rule …
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump will watch ‘any channel she wants,’ spokeswoman says — (CNN)First lady Melania Trump will watch “any channel she wants,” according to her spokeswoman in an apparent rebuke to the report President Donald Trump was upset to find her Air Force One television tuned into CNN.
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New York Times, Daily Wire, Bustle, The Daily Caller, Raw Story and Mediaite
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump pushes 25 percent auto tariff as top advisers scramble to stop him — Several of President Trump's senior economic advisers believe he plans to impose a 25 percent tariff on close to $200 billion in foreign-made automobiles later this year, three people briefed on discussions said.
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Tara Palmeri / ABC News:
Europeans offer Trump 2 options to diffuse trade war
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Washington Post, Weekly Standard, Bloomberg and One America News Network
Terrence Dopp / Bloomberg:
Trump Blames Tariff Critics for Weakening U.S. Bargaining Power
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BloombergQuint
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: Ga. lawmaker who used racial slurs in TV show resigns — The Georgia lawmaker who exposed himself and yelled racial slurs during an episode of Sacha Baron Cohen's Showtime series is resigning his seat in the state Legislature, according to House Speaker David Ralston's office.
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HuffPost, Washington Post, IJR and Axios
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NBC Southern California:
Pickax-Wielding Vandal Smashes President Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star to Pieces — Witnesses say a man pulled a pickax from a guitar case and destroyed the star near tourist hot-spot Hollywood and Highland — President Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame …
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Politico, New York Times, IJR, Joe.My.God., The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon and Vox
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Washington Post:
Federal judge allows emoluments case against Trump to proceed — A federal judge on Wednesday rejected President Trump's latest effort to stop a lawsuit that alleges Trump is violating the Constitution by continuing to do business with foreign governments. — The ruling, from U.S. District …
Vera Bergengruen / BuzzFeed News:
These Emails Show What Happens When The White House Keeps The Pentagon Out Of The Loop — “The Pentagon was caught off guard” stories have become a staple of news coverage of the Trump administration. — It's no secret that time and time again, officials in the Defense Department …
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Task & Purpose, Raw Story, NPR and Defense One
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Without the Russians, Trump wouldn't have won — President Trump is willing, under duress, to briefly and begrudgingly admit that Russian “meddling” took place in 2016 before reverting to calling it a “big hoax.” But he always maintains that the plot against America had no impact …
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Wall Street Journal, POLITICUSUSA and NPR
David Crouch / The Guardian:
Swedish student's plane protest stops man's deportation ‘to hell’ — Elin Ersson refused to sit down on Gothenburg flight until man being sent to Afghanistan was removed — Play Video — A lone student activist on board a plane at Gothenburg airport has prevented the deportation …
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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Republicans Largely Abandon Running on Trump's Tax Cuts … Voters being inundated with television and digital ads in the upcoming Ohio special election would be excused for not having a particularly favorable view of President Trump's signature legislative achievement.
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Raw Story, New York Times, HuffPost and The Democrats
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Martha Bebinger / WBUR:
Chakrabarti And Folkenflik Will Be New ‘On Point’ Hosts — On Point, WBUR's syndicated weekday talk show, will hit the reset button with two new hosts. — Meghna Chakrabarti will be the voice and face of the national two-hour morning program Monday through Thursday. David Folkenflik will host on Fridays.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner / New York Times:
The Big Business of Being Gwyneth Paltrow — Inside the growth of Goop — the most controversial brand in the wellness industry. — On a Monday morning in November, students at Harvard Business School convened in their classroom to find Gwyneth Paltrow. She was sitting at one of their desks …
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Althouse
Lissandra Villa / BuzzFeed News:
A Top Democrat Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Would Need To Wait Her Turn For Leadership — South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn sent a warning shot on Wednesday toward a likely incoming freshman who beat one of Clyburn's fellow members of House leadership in a primary, suggesting she may have a long wait …
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Daily Wire
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
America's Most and Least Popular Governors — Gov. Phil Scott's (R-Vermont) approval falls far amid re-election run — The popularity of Republican governors in solidly blue Northeastern states has been a thematic mainstay of Morning Consult's quarterly Governor Approval Rankings since their launch in 2016.
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InsideSources and Capitol Fax.com
Mahita Gajanan / TIME:
'What You're Seeing... Is Not What's Happening.' People Are Comparing This Trump Quote to George Orwell — President Trump drew comparisons to George Orwell's 1984 in an attack on the media during a speech at the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention Tuesday.
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The Hill, Raw Story, HuffPost, The Daily Beast, The Week and ThinkProgress
Walter Shapiro / Roll Call:
No, Dems Aren't Disarrayed, Riven, Imploding, Eating Their Young or Battling for the Soul of the Party — OPINION — “Democrats in disarray” is one of those alliterative phrases beloved by pundits and political reporters. Database searches can trace it back to the Eisenhower administration …
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Monmouth University …, Shadowproof and POLITICUSUSA
Emily Stewart / Vox:
Maxine Waters corrects the record: she doesn't want to abolish ICE — The California Democrat suggested her colleagues who want to abolish ICE might not have thought it through. — Unlike many other big-name Democrats, California Rep. Maxine Waters is not on board with calls to abolish ICE.
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The White House and The Daily Caller
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Exclusive: White House stops announcing calls with foreign leaders — Washington (CNN)The White House has suspended the practice of publishing public summaries of President Donald Trump's phone calls with world leaders, two sources with knowledge of the situation tell CNN …
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Meet the Eastern European Mystery Donors Behind the Trump-Allied Super PAC … A mysterious company that made a huge contribution to a pro-Trump political group this year is run by two Soviet-born businessmen, one of whom was feted at a donor retreat at Mar-a-Lago in March.
Martha Raddatz / Washington Post:
I reported alongside soldiers in foxholes. The president can't take that away. — Martha Raddatz is chief global affairs correspondent for ABC News, co-anchor of ABC's “This Week” and author of “The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family.” — Like so many of my colleagues …
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Stanley Kay / Sports Illustrated:
The Highest Court in the Land — A converted storage room on the top floor of the Supreme Court building has become a place for justices and their clerks to get a run in—and a source of a great many tales. — Karl Tilleman first encountered Michael Jordan during the 1983 Pan American Games …
Washington Post:
Before her arrest as an alleged Russian agent, Maria Butina's proud defense of her homeland drew notice at American University — On a campus full of ambitious students aiming to land influential U.S. government and policy jobs, Maria Butina cut an unusual profile.
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Politico
Jennifer E. Duffy / The Cook Political Report:
Kemp Victory Puts Contest Into the Lean Republican Column — Yesterday's Republican run-off in Georgia's gubernatorial contest is as good an example as there is as to why parties hate run-offs. They are risky propositions that can produce results that change the trajectory of a general election.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump fears Biden 2020, losing Pennsylvania — Advisers to President Trump say Joe Biden is the Democrat he most fears running against, and that Pennsylvania is the state he worries most about flipping against him. — Trump's calculation is based partly on how weak he sees …
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Outside the Beltway, The Week and Joe.My.God.
Haley Byrd / Weekly Standard:
This Former British Spy Exposed the Russian Hackers — The Justice Department has charged 12 Russian officials with hacking the DNC. Matt Tait helped shine a light on their meddling in 2016. — On Friday, July 13, the Justice Department charged 12 Russian military intelligence officials …
Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
Seattle's $52M streetcar fiasco the latest setback for city's anti-Trump mayor — Seattle's anti-Trump mayor, Jenny Durkan, may be on track for a political backlash: Her city's $52 million money splash on public transit appears doomed because new taxpayer-funded streetcars apparently won't fit the existing tracks.
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The Daily Caller and Q13 FOX News
Lewis Evan Fischer / New York Times:
New Zealand to Australia: Get Your Own Flag — SYDNEY, Australia — The acting prime minister of New Zealand accused Australia this week of copying his country's 116-year-old flag, and demanded that Australians come up with a new design. — “We had a flag that we've had for a long time …
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