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8:10 AM ET, August 7, 2018

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New York Times:
Rick Gates Testifies He Committed Crimes With Paul Manafort  —  ALEXANDRIA, VA. — Rick Gates, Paul Manafort's right-hand man for years, began testifying against his former boss on Monday in federal court in Alexandria, Va. He is considered the most important witness in Mr. Manafort's trial on tax and bank fraud charges.
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Fox News:
Manafort prosecutors, Judge Ellis engage in 10-minute courtroom spat  —  Manafort trial judge says conspiracy can't be proved without testimony from Gates.  Peter Doocy reports.  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. - After jurors were dismissed Monday in the Paul Manafort trial Monday …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Manafort prosecution's frustration with judge leads to fiery clashes  —  For days, U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis has been cracking the whip at prosecutors in the Paul Manafort fraud trial, prodding them again and again to keep the case moving forward and to drop matters he considers irrelevant.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Cristian Farias / New York Magazine:
Paul Manafort's First Trial Is a Sideshow.  The Next One Won't Be.  —  Back in May, T.S. Ellis, the veteran federal judge who is overseeing Paul Manafort's first trial in Virginia, whipped the Fox News set into a frenzy when he seemed to berate prosecutors working for special counsel Robert Mueller.
Washington Post:
Rick Gates says he lied for years at Manafort's request and stole from him in the process
Discussion: The Week and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Giuliani preparing letter to Mueller expressing ‘real reluctance’ over obstruction questions  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump's lead attorney for the ongoing special counsel investigation, said Monday that Trump's legal team is planning to send a letter to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III …
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Rick Wilson / Rolling Stone:
Trump's Tweets May Actually Be His Undoing  —  The impulsive president has backed himself into a corner, and Robert Mueller knows it  —  President Trump's manic Twitter dysentery over the weekend contained more than a few nuggets that would have shamed, embarrassed or mortified normal presidents in a normal era.
Dana Bash / CNN:
President urged to stop tweeting on Trump Tower meeting  —  Did Trump Tower meeting violate this law?  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump has been urged to stop tweeting about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump's top advisers and several Russians, a source familiar with discussions tells CNN.
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
LISTEN: Don Jr.'s Line Drops After Ingraham Asks About Conflicting Statements on Trump Tower Meeting  —  President Donald Trump's wonderful son Don Jr. called into Laura Ingraham's radio show on Monday, and had some well-timed technical difficulties.  —  Ingraham questioned Don Jr …
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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:   AP Explains: Why the 2016 Trump Tower meeting matters
Bob Bauer / Lawfare:
How the Latest Trump Tower Tweet Damages the President's Legal Defense
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
This is the Way Paul Ryan's Speakership Ends  —  The Republican leader is walking away.  Don't ask him about Trump anymore.  —  Paul Ryan has a thing about punctuality and routine.  They bring a sense of order to the chaos that he otherwise must try to maneuver through.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: A clean test of the political climate in Ohio
Victor Morton / Washington Times:
West Hollywood City Council passes resolution to remove Trump Walk of Fame star  —  The West Hollywood City Council called Monday night for President Trump's star be removed from the Hollywood Walk of Fame, according to a tweet by the city's mayor.  —  “West Hollywood City council unanimously …
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Globe and Mail:
Saudi Arabia's bold move has nothing to do with Canada  —  Bessma Momani is Professor at the University of Waterloo and Balsillie School of International Affairs.  She's a senior fellow at Centre for International Governance and Innovation and non-resident fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington.
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Alex Lockie / Business Insider:
Saudi Arabia appeared to threaten Canada with a 9/11-style attack in a feud over human rights
William D. Ruckelshaus / Washington Post:
Only one other president has ever acted this desperate  —  William D. Ruckelshaus served as acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and as deputy attorney general in 1973.  He was also administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 1970 to 1973 and 1983 to 1985.
Discussion: Spectator USA
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
In a strikingly ignorant tweet, Trump gets almost everything about California wildfires wrong  —  No one would mistake President Trump for an expert on climate change or water policy, but a tweet he issued late Sunday about California's wildfires deserves some sort of award for most glaring misstatements …
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Mike Pence's moral case for removing a president from office  —  (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence once argued the president of the United States should be held to the highest moral standards to determine whether he should resign or be removed from office.  —  Pence made the argument in two columns …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed News:
Jared Kushner Used To Personally Order The Deletion Of Stories At His Newspaper  —  Jared Kushner personally ordered a software developer at his newspaper to remove stories critical of his friends and real estate peers.  —  Now a senior White House adviser and son-in-law to President Trump …
Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney:
West Virginia to introduce mobile phone voting for midterm elections  —  Why voting in the US is so hard  —  West Virginians serving overseas will be the first in the country to cast federal election ballots using a smartphone app, a move designed to make voting in November's election easier for troops living abroad.
Kate Wagner / Vox:
Betsy DeVos's summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell  —  Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of the education secretary.  —  Two weeks ago, somebody untied Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos's $40 million yacht from its mooring.
Discussion: Boing Boing
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
GOP fears steep losses in state legislatures  —  LOS ANGELES — Republicans hoping to hold on to their majorities in state legislative chambers across the country are nervously eying President Trump  —  's anemic approval rating, concerned that a wave of voter anger could undo years of gains.
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
New Details About Wilbur Ross' Business Point To Pattern Of Grifting  —  I write about Donald Trump, the people around him, and how they affect business.  Before he won the presidency, I covered billionaires, industrial America and sports.  My favorite stories focus on the hands-dirty businesses between …
Joe Otterson / Variety:
LeBron James to Produce Docu-Series ‘Shut Up and Dribble’ for Showtime  —  Showtime has ordered a three-part documentary series on the changing role of athletes in the current political environment that boasts LeBron James among its executive producers.  —  Showtime president and CEO David Nevins …
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Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:   LeBron James to Create Showtime Doc Series Called Shut Up and Dribble
David Larter / Defense News:
The US Navy's top acquisition priority stumbles out of the gate  —  The U.S. Navy's $122.3 billion Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine program is off to an inauspicious start after faulty welding was discovered in several missile tubes destined for both the Columbia and Virginia-class programs …
Financial Times:
Poor Iranians bear brunt of sanctions as food prices soar  —  Tehran's municipal markets used to be notorious for their long queues, as shoppers lined up to buy meat, vegetables and fruit in bulk at discounted prices.  But today the customers are far fewer.
YouTube:
Escape At Dannemora (2018) |  Official Trailer |  SHOWTIME Series … Based on a prison break in upstate New York that spawned a massive manhunt.  Starring Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano and Benicio Del Toro.  Escape At Dannemora premieres Sunday, November 18 at 10pm ET/PT.  —  #EscapeAtDannemora
Politico:
Dems launch lieutenant governors group to compete with GOP  —  Democratic lieutenant governors are forming a campaign group to rival the Republican Lieutenant Governors Association, the latest bid by Democrats to catch up to Republicans in down-ballot fundraising.
Discussion: Axios
Hamilton Nolan / Splinter:
Someone Is Going to Get Killed  —  Before too long, a reporter will become a direct casualty of the Trump era.  —  With the ever-present caveat that predictions are worthless: an American journalist is going to get murdered as a direct result of our current political climate.
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Exclusive poll: Trump's iron wall of defense  —  Data: SurveyMonkey online poll conducted August 1-3, 2018 among a total sample of 2,421 adults living in the United States.  Margins of error at the 95% confidence level are ±3 percentage points for Total, ±9.5 for African-American women …
Grace Schulman / New York Times:
The Nation Magazine Betrays a Poet — and Itself  —  I was the magazine's poetry editor for 35 years.  Never once did we apologize for publishing a poem.  —  Ms. Schulman was poetry editor at The Nation from 1971 to 2006.  —  During the 35 years that I edited poetry for The Nation magazine …
Discussion: The Atlantic
Politico:
What Ohio's special election will tell us about midterms  —  All eyes are on another tight House race in Ohio, and both parties are grappling with the next round of primaries.  —  Tuesday's special election in a central Ohio congressional district will provide tangible evidence of where the battle …
Discussion: CNN and ABC News
Manu Raju / CNN:
Trump Supreme Court pick: Presidents can ignore laws they think are unconstitutional  —  Kavanaugh reveals views on Mueller probe  —  (CNN)Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in 2013 asserted that it's a “traditional exercise” of presidential power to ignore laws the White House views as unconstitutional …
 
 
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New York Times:
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Marc Rod / CNN:
Dem questions whether Supreme Court would force Trump to comply with a Mueller subpoena
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Emily Feng / Financial Times:
Crackdown in Xinjiang: Where have all the people gone?
Zoe Greenberg / New York Times:
Phone Calls From New York City Jails Will Soon Be Free
 Earlier Items: 
Media Matters for America:
After Infowars is removed from various platforms, Alex Jones begs Donald Trump for help
Discussion: HuffPost
Ron Nixon / New York Times:
Trump's Border Wall Could Waste Billions of Dollars, Report Says
Discussion: Splinter and ThinkProgress
Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
New York race could spark new Trump investigation
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Amusing ourselves to Trump
Discussion: Raw Story and Balloon Juice
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Anonymous vows to take down, expose QAnon
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Mueller Secures ‘Firewall’ Counsel Over Evidence in Russia Case
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV
 
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