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3:30 PM ET, August 23, 2018

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Wall Street Journal:
David Pecker Granted Immunity in Cohen Case  —  Federal prosecutors granted immunity to David Pecker, CEO of the company that publishes the National Enquirer and a longtime friend of President Trump, in the Michael Cohen investigation.
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Holy Shit, I Thought Pecker Would Be the Last One to Turn”: Trump's National Enquirer Allies Are the Latest to Defect  —  David Pecker and Dylan Howard corroborated Michael Cohen's account implicating the president in a federal crime.  And Cohen's lawyer Lanny Davis says there are more revelations to come.
Wall Street Journal:
Why Michael Cohen Agreed to Plead Guilty—And Implicate the President  —  Prosecutors had reams of evidence and a long list of counts, which also could have included the lawyer's wife  —  Michael Cohen had many reasons to play ball last weekend when his legal team sat down to talk to federal prosecutors.
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Morning Joe Gets Heated: Michael Cohen ‘Wrapping Himself in the Holocaust’ to Explain Situation
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Not just misleading. Not merely false. A lie.
Sky News:
Rudy Giuliani: Impeaching Trump would mean 'people's revolt'  —  Donald Trump's lawyer has said “the American people would revolt” if the president was impeached.  —  In an interview with Sky News Rudy Giuliani claimed there was “no reason” for an impeachment and called Mr Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen “a liar”.
Discussion: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
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Salena Zito / New York Post:
Why Trump's supporters won't care about Cohen and Manafort's convictions  —  ZANESVILLE, OH — Last week, a woman in her mid-40s who lives in a tidy suburban enclave just outside of Columbus, Ohio, summed up her continued support for President Donald Trump despite his morals …
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump declares ‘market would crash’ if Democrats impeached him  —  President Trump, in an exclusive interview with Fox News' Ainsley Earhardt, warned that the “market would crash” if he's ever impeached while questioning why Democrats would even consider that course in the future.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: Michael Cohen told Congress he doesn't know if Trump knew about Russia meeting  —  Michael Cohen told lawmakers last year, in sworn testimony, that he didn't know whether then-candidate Donald Trump had foreknowledge of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians, three sources with knowledge of Cohen's testimony tell Axios.
Bloomberg:
Will the Market Crash If Trump Is Impeached? Here's What Analysts Say
Discussion: Weekly Standard, CNBC and Raw Story
The Guardian:   If Trump shot Michael Cohen in broad daylight, here's what Republicans would say
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump says longstanding legal practice of flipping should almost ‘be outlawed’
Discussion: New Republic and The Daily Banter
CNBC:
Trump wants to make ‘flipping’ illegal
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Key Republicans Give Trump a Path to Fire Sessions After the Election  — Sessions defends his performance in advancing Trump's agenda  — A new attorney general could take control of the Mueller probe  —  Two key Republican senators signaled to President Donald Trump …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Sessions defends himself from President Trump's criticism, saying the Justice Department ‘will not be improperly influenced by political considerations’  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions pushed back forcefully Thursday against fresh criticism from President Trump, saying the Justice Department would not be …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Let's play softball: Read all 18 questions Fox News asked Trump  —  Stelter: Fox & Friends is a Trump infomercial  —  Fox News, the favored network of President Trump, has had 30 interviews with him since inauguration day.  This week's sit-down may have been the most important one yet, given the increasing legal peril Trump is in.
Discussion: The Root and twitchy.com
CNN:
Sessions hits back at Trump: DOJ won't be ‘improperly influenced’
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Jeff Sessions Rejects Trump's Latest Attack, Says Justice Dept. Will Not Be Influenced by Politics
Discussion: MSNBC
Fox News:
Manafort juror reveals lone holdout prevented Mueller team from convicting on all counts  —  NORTHERN VIRGINIA - Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team was one holdout juror away from convicting Paul Manafort on all 18 counts of bank and tax fraud, juror Paula Duncan told Fox News in an exclusive interview Wednesday.
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Manafort juror Paula Duncan: Manafort is guilty, but Mueller probe is a witch hunt
Discussion: The National Memo and MSNBC
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo:
White House blocks bill that would protect elections  —  WASHINGTON — A bill that would have significantly bolstered the nation's defenses against electoral interference has been held up in the  —  Senate at the behest of the White House, which opposed the proposed legislation, according to congressional sources.
CBS News:
Reality Winner, who pleaded guilty to leaking secret U.S. report, gets 63-month sentence  —  AUGUSTA, Ga. — A former government contractor who pleaded guilty to mailing a classified U.S. report to a news organization was sentenced to more than five years Thursday as part of a deal with prosecutors …
Discussion: Axios
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Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Ex-NSA Contractor Reality Winner Sentenced to 63 Months for Leak
Discussion: RedState
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Trump tweets the word ‘Africa’ for first time as president — in defense of whites in South Africa  —  President Trump on Wednesday night said he was directing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to “closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures,” as well as the “killing of farmers.”
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Reuters:
Inside the progressive movement roiling the Democratic Party  —  Frustrated by a string of defeats at the polls, a progressive wing of the Democratic Party pushes a populist platform across the country.  Amid wins and losses, the movement aims to reshape a party in flux.
RealClearInvestigations:
Despite Comey Assurances, Vast Bulk of Weiner Laptop Emails Were Never Examined  —  When then-FBI Director James Comey announced he was closing the Hillary Clinton email investigation for a second time just days before the 2016 election, he certified to Congress that his agency had …
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:   The Weiner laptop revisited
BuzzFeed News:
Mollie Tibbetts' Family Is Pushing Back Against Trump And His Allies After They Seized On Her Death  —  Family members and friends of Mollie Tibbetts are pushing back against President Trump and his allies after they seized on the young Iowa student's killing as evidence that the US is suffering the consequences of lax immigration laws.
Discussion: Common Dreams
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Michael Burke / The Hill:
Newt Gingrich suggests slain Iowa student could help GOP in midterms
Discussion: CNN, Joe.My.God. and POLITICUSUSA
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Education Secretary Considers Using Federal Funds to Arm Schools  —  Updated Aug. 23, 2018: The education community has responded to Secretary DeVos's policy proposal.  Read the latest here.  —  WASHINGTON — The Education Department is considering whether to allow states to use federal funding …
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed News:
Think Elizabeth Warren And Bernie Sanders Are The Same?  She Doesn't.  —  They are friends, partners in the Senate, and leaders of a progressive movement.  But Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are not the same.  “He's a socialist, and I believe in markets.”
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:   Loyal Democratic donors: We're done with the DNC ‘until they get their act together’
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump speechwriter's ouster sparks racially charged debate  —  It took just 80 minutes after racially incendiary emails started flying for the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank, to shut down an email Listserv connecting hundreds of high-profile conservatives.
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Wants to Ban Flipping Because He Is Almost Literally a Mob Boss  —  Last November, a person close to the Trump administration speaking to the Washington Post invoked a chilling metaphor.  “This investigation is a classic Gambino-style roll-up,” the source said.
Discussion: Common Dreams
 
 
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Axios:
Scoop: Trump won't endorse criminal justice bill before midterms
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Major prison strike spreads across US and Canada as inmates refuse food
Roque Planas / HuffPost:
It's Time To Decriminalize Immigration, Say Top Texas Dems
Stephen Gutowski / Washington Free Beacon:
Amazon Bans Gun Book
Discussion: NewsWars
Daily Mail:
A pod of heroic dolphins have been captured on video defending a humpback whale and her calf …
John Tunison / MLive.com:
Man accused of urinating on girl, 5, and calling her racial slur: police
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
Tim Elfrink / Miami New Times:
ICE Handcuffs Immigrant Kids on Their 18th Birthdays, Drags Them to Jail
Discussion: Eschaton
 Earlier Items: 
Adam Smith / Tampa Bay Times:
Florida Insider Poll: Here are the final primary predictions
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Cuts Off Immigration Analyst's Mic After Getting Bested in Debate
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Alex Amend / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Suspect who fatally stabbed black man in Pennsylvania ‘liked’ nearly 50 racist alt-right Facebook pages
John Sides / Washington Post:
A new poll shows 5 big challenges facing the Republicans in November
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
 

 
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Financial Times:
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