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New York Times:
Trump Lawyers' Sudden Realization: They Don't Know What Don McGahn Told Mueller's Team — President Trump's lawyers do not know just how much the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, told the special counsel's investigators during months of interviews, a lapse that has contributed …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Michael Cohen's attorney says he's talking to lawyer who brought down Nixon — Lanny Davis, an attorney for former longtime Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, said he has been reaching out regularly over the last few months to John Dean, the former White House counsel who helped bring down the presidency of Richard Nixon.
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New York Times, Raw Story, AOL, The Week and POLITICUSUSA
Politico:
Giuliani: 'Truth isn't truth' — President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Sunday claimed “truth isn't truth” when trying to explain why the president should not testify for special counsel Robert Mueller for fear of being trapped into a lie that could lead to a perjury charge.
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New York Times:
Cohen, Trump's Ex-Lawyer, Investigated for Bank Fraud in Excess of $20 Million — Federal authorities investigating whether President Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen, committed bank and tax fraud have zeroed in on well over $20 million in loans obtained by taxi businesses …
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Axios, Political Wire, POLITICUSUSA and Mediaite
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Speechwriter who attended conference with white nationalists in 2016 leaves White House — (CNN)A speechwriter for President Donald Trump who attended a conference frequented by white nationalists has left the White House. — CNN's KFile reached out to the White House last week about Darren Beattie …
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Talking Points Memo, Axios and Political Wire
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump speechwriter fired amid scrutiny of appearance with white nationalists — A White House speechwriter for President Trump was terminated last week after revelations that he had spoken at a conference attended by well-known white nationalists, according to three people familiar …
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Raw Story
Megan Keller / The Hill:
Clapper: Brennan's rhetoric is becoming an issue — Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper — said Sunday that he thinks former CIA Director John Brennan — 's rhetoric is becoming an issue “in and of itself.” — “John and his rhetoric have become an issue in and of itself …
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The Guardian and The Moderate Voice
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Megan Keller / The Hill:
Hayden: Relationship between Trump, national security community ‘dangerously close to being permanently broken’
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Political Wire
Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
The Untouchables vs. The Deplorables
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Talking Points Memo, TheBlaze and The Daily Caller
Axios:
Scoop: Trump said one-state solution would lead to Israeli PM named Mohammed — President Trump told King Abdullah of Jordan that a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict might lead in a few years to someone named Mohammed becoming prime minister of Israel, according to several sources briefed on the meeting.
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Brennan: I Did Not Mean Trump Was Treasonous When I Said His Actions Are “Nothing Short Of Treason” — I have been critical of the decision of President Donald Trump to rescind the clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan and to release a list of other officials to be reviewed …
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The Hill, twitchy.com and HuffPost
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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Johnson: Brennan didn't misuse security clearance, but abused privilege
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Breitbart
Anne Helen Petersen / BuzzFeed:
Beto O'Rourke Could Be The Democrat Texas Has Been Waiting For — Beto O'Rourke's grassroots campaign to unseat Senator Ted Cruz is blazing across Texas. But can it convert energy into actual votes? — Beto O'Rourke is a prolific, prodigious sweater. We're talking shirt-soaking …
Virginia Heffernan / Los Angeles Times:
How Donald Trump made me love privileged men — A black-and-white photograph from 1962 shows special counsel Robert S. Mueller III when he was a student at the St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. — It's a hockey-team photo. Mueller, dark-haired number 12, sits front row, close to the center.
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
As Trump Dismantles Clean Air Rules, an Industry Lawyer Delivers for Ex-Clients — WASHINGTON — As a corporate lawyer, William L. Wehrum worked for the better part of a decade to weaken air pollution rules by fighting the Environmental Protection Agency in court on behalf of chemical manufacturers …
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TheBlaze and Common Dreams
Bill Estep / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Coal jobs have dropped in Eastern Kentucky. Income has followed, new report shows — Personal income has gone down in several Eastern Kentucky counties where coal employment has been decimated in recent years, according to a report from the Appalachian Regional Commission.
Susan Ferriss / Washington Post:
In horrifying detail, women accuse U.S. customs officers of invasive body searches — Tameika Lovell was retrieving luggage at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport when Customs and Border Protection officers detained her for a random search. It was Nov. 27, 2016 …
CNN:
Iranian foreign minister says the US has a disease of an ‘addiction to sanctions’ — Iran FM: US has ‘addiction to sanctions’ — Tehran, Iran (CNN)The United States is addicted to applying sanctions on Iran, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Sunday in an exclusive interview from Tehran.
CBS News:
Democrats in stronger position to take the House: CBS News Battleground Tracker — Democrats have improved their standing in the fight for control of the House of Representatives. Our House model now shows the party poised to win 222 seats if the election were today, up from our estimate of 219 earlier this summer.
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Mother Jones, twitchy.com and BloombergQuint
New York Times:
Zephyr Teachout Is the Right Choice as Attorney General for Democrats — The office is a potential firewall against an out-of-control president and a historically corrupt New York State government. — The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher.
Scarce / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Kevin McCarthy Mocked For Tweet Complaining Of Conservative Censorship On Twitter — The GOP Leader, and would-be Speaker-in-waiting, joined the other Trump cultists in accusing Twitter of censoring them. — It was later pointed out pretty much immediately that he [was being a dumbass] …
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Charlotte Graham-McLay / New York Times:
Pregnant Minister Cycles to Hospital to Give Birth — WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Since taking office, New Zealand's prime minister has broken boundaries and made headlines by becoming only the second sitting world leader to give birth, taking six weeks of parental leave and returning …
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Althouse
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Blake Farenthold Blames ‘F-Tards,’ Me Too Campaign For His Downfall — Months after quitting Congress in disgrace, the Texas Republican insists his sexual harassment scandal was everyone's fault but his own. — WASHINGTON Four months after abruptly quitting Congress amid a sexual harassment scandal …
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ThinkProgress
Fox News:
Rudy Giuliani on McGahn's testimony, origins of Russia probe — Rudy Giuliani, attorney for President Trump, speaks out about the Russia investigation on ‘Sunday Morning Futures.’ … MARIA BARTIROMO, HOST: Good Sunday morning. Thanks for joining us. — President Trump responding …
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Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
'Truth isn't truth': Giuliani weighs risks of possible Trump interview in Russia probe
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
The media's hatred of Trump is only hurting itself — This month marks the two-year anniversary of one of the most important articles ever written on journalism. On Aug. 7, 2016, after Donald Trump formally secured the Republican nomination and the general election was underway …
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