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8:20 AM ET, September 6, 2018

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New York Times:
I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration  —  We work for the president but we have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. … President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.  —  It's not just that the special counsel looms large.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
‘The sleeper cells have awoken’: Trump and aides shaken by ‘resistance’ op-ed  —  President Trump and his aides reacted with indignation Wednesday to an unsigned opinion column from a senior official blasting the president's “amorality” and launched a frantic hunt for the author …
Axios:
Exclusive: Trump's nightmare: “The snakes are everywhere”  —  President Trump is not just seething about Bob Woodward.  He's deeply suspicious of much of the government he oversees — from the hordes of folks inside agencies, right up to some of the senior-most political appointees …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
The story behind the New York Times' anonymous op-ed blasting Trump  —  Several days ago a senior official in the Trump administration used an intermediary to contact New York Times op-ed page editor Jim Dao.  —  Through the go-between, the senior official expressed interest in writing …
David Frum / The Atlantic:
This Is a Constitutional Crisis  —  Impeachment is a constitutional mechanism.  The Twenty-Fifth Amendment is a constitutional mechanism.  Mass resignations followed by voluntary testimony to congressional committees are a constitutional mechanism.  Overt defiance of presidential authority …
BuzzFeed News:
I Am Part Of The Resistance Inside The New York Times Opinion Desk  —  BuzzFeed News today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous, and entirely satirical, op-ed essay.  We have done so at the request of the author, a senior editor for the New York Times Opinion page …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump, alone  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  ALONE.  —  THAT IS WHAT PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP must be feeling this morning.  In the last two days, the Washington establishment has pummeled him like no president has been pummeled before.  BOB WOODWARD's book “Fear” …
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
We're Watching an Antidemocratic Coup Unfold  —  The title of Bob Woodward's new book, Fear, contains a multitude of meanings.  For one thing, it describes the attitude of many of President DonaldTrump's own aides toward his judgment.  —  It's not just that many sources were willing …
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Staff's Resistance Can't Avert a Crisis.  It Is One.  —  Unelected officials may block a rogue president from doing his worst, but that's not what the Constitution had in mind.  —  The New York Times published an extraordinary column this afternoon by an anonymous contributor identified as a …
Associated Press:   Trump rips searing Times op-ed from unnamed senior official
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
An Insider's Lament About Trump Serves No Public Good
Discussion: Raw Story, CNN and Washington Post
NBC News:
Trump admin rejected report showing refugees did not pose major security threat
Discussion: Splinter
Jessica Roy / Los Angeles Times:
No, anonymous Trump official, you're not ‘part of the resistance.’ You're a coward
New York Times:
Trump Lashes Out After Reports of ‘Quiet Resistance’ by Staff
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Want to Be the Next Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?  Be Careful What You Wish.  —  Politics, like Hollywood, often looks to repeat a good thing: Find a formula that works, and stick with it.  —  That strategy has led Democrats across the country, in races large and small, to search for candidates …
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Politico:
Liberal insurgency targets Delaware senator next
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Monthly
David Siders / Politico:
‘This is the first wave of an invasion’
Marc Caputo / Politico:
DeSantis to name Nuñez as Florida's first Cuban-American female running mate
Discussion: Florida Politics
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The White House is discussing potential replacements for Jim Mattis  —  Well before this week's revelations about President Trump's interactions with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in Bob Woodward's new book, officials inside the White House have been actively discussing who will replace Mattis …
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Molly Ball / TIME:
Nancy Pelosi Doesn't Care What You Think of Her.  And She Isn't Going Anywhere  —  Nancy Pelosi stopped caring about what people think of her a long time ago, so she has no qualms about eating ice cream for breakfast with a stranger.  Dark chocolate, two scoops, waffle cone.
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Politico:   Pelosi vs. McConnell could dominate Congress in 2019
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
McCain's former chief of staff says he's considering Senate bid as a Democrat
Discussion: Political Wire
Ellen Barry / New York Times:
From Mountain of CCTV Footage, Pay Dirt: 2 Russians Are Named in Spy Poisoning  —  LONDON — In March, when British detectives began their investigation into the poisoning of Sergei V. Skripal, the former Russian spy, they had little to work with but mounds of CCTV footage.
Discussion: New York Times
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Zachary Young / Politico:
UK security chief: Putin ‘bears responsibility’ for Skripal attack
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Trump Hits Campaign Trail as Prospect of Midterm Defeat Looms  — Democrats need to pick up 23 seats to gain control of House  — President to hold rallies in Montana, Dakotas this week  —  Donald Trump takes his fight to keep his party in control of Congress to the Great Plains this week …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Reuters:
In quick reversal, Trump threatens shutdown over border wall
Discussion: HuffPost
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Jerome Corsi, Conspiracy Theorist, Is Subpoenaed in Mueller Investigation  —  Jerome Corsi, a conspiracy theorist and political commentator with connections to the former Trump adviser Roger J. Stone Jr., has been subpoenaed to testify on Friday before the grand jury in the special counsel investigation …
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John Solomon / The Hill:
The Mueller probe's troubling reliance on journalists as sources
Discussion: American Greatness
David Nather / Axios:
Exclusive poll: Big GOP majority fears bias in search engines  —  Data: SurveyMonkey online poll conducted Aug. 30 to Sept. 3, 2018 among a total sample of 2,698.  Margin of error of ±2.5 percentage points; Poll methodology; Chart: Andrew Witherspoon/Axios
Discussion: Political Wire
Danielle Decker Jones / Virginian-Pilot:
A campaign to beat cancer  —  YOU OR SOMEONE in your life has been touched by cancer.  Ideally you have celebrated successes: the cures cooperated, science and prayer prevailed, and you or your loved one “beat cancer.”  —  Likely you've also witnessed someone “lose the fight” …
Johnathan Silver / Austin American-Statesman:
Unapproved O'Rourke text message asks for ‘undocumented immigrant’ vote  —  A person who a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke's Senate campaign said was pretending to be a “texting team” volunteer sent an unauthorized message to voters Wednesday asking them to help “transport undocumented immigrants” to the polls.
CNN:
State Department's top candidate to lead efforts countering disinformation: A Fox News reporter  —  (CNN)A Fox News correspondent is a leading candidate to head the State Department agency tasked with combating propaganda and disinformation from foreign adversaries, CNN has learned.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Kavanaugh stumbled over two critical tripwires  —  More than abortion or gun control or health care, what is at stake in the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh is the security of our constitutional system and the rule of law.  We've not had such a Supreme Court battle …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
Phil Bredesen Might Win a Deep-Red Senate Seat for Democrats. But He Doesn't Want to Talk About It.
Discussion: The Atlantic
Daily Mail:
Four UFOs are spotted flying over US president's Scottish golf course
Zachary Young / Politico:
Seehofer: Migration is ‘mother of all problems’
Houston Chronicle:
Out of Control: Houston's roads, drivers are nation's most deadly
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon, in His $1,400 Hotel Suite, Rails Against the ‘Elite’
Will Baude / Reason:
The Best Parts of the Kavanaugh Hearing
Kristin Smith / WRIC-TV:
Parents outraged after man installs electric fence near Henrico County bus stop
Discussion: Breitbart, Fox News and abc7chicago.com
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Witnesses in Paul Manafort's D.C. trial may include consultant who admits foreign money …
 Earlier Items: 
Scott Martelle / Los Angeles Times:
Now Trump is targeting Vietnamese refugees
Carrie Dann / NBC News:
NBC/Marist poll: Democrat Joe Donnelly has slight edge in Indiana Senate race
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Lyz Lenz / Columbia Journalism Review:
The mystery of Tucker Carlson
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Prime Video users will be able to watch local PBS stations and PBS Kids for free in coming months, and two new free PBS channels with ads starting November 26

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

 
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