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9:40 AM ET, September 6, 2018

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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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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 …

Discussion: CNN, Washington Post, MSNBC, The Guardian, Hit & Run, Wall Street Journal, Political Wire, Washington Times, Raw Story, Mediaite, ABC News, Breitbart, Townhall, Althouse, POLITICUSUSA, The Last Refuge, New York Times and The Gateway Pundit

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 …

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 …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »

Washington Post:

Trump's reputation precedes him. So does Woodward's. — BOB WOODWARD'S new book, “Fear,” does not paint a different picture of the early Trump White House than the one that has already emerged from credible news organizations in daily reporting on President Trump.

Discussion: CNN, Raw Story, The Guardian, Breitbart and HuffPost

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” …

Discussion: Washington Post, HuffPost and Wall Street Journal

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 …

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 …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Breitbart, The Atlantic, CNN, Defense One, Slate, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Hot Air, Raw Story, Fox News Insider, Investor's Business Daily and AOL

Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Pence and Pompeo Deny Writing Op-Ed Critical of the Trump Administration

Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and Axios

Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Staff's Resistance Can't Avert a Crisis. It Is One.

Discussion: Washington Post, MSNBC, BloombergQuint and Vox

David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
We're Watching an Antidemocratic Coup Unfold

Discussion: Washington Post, The Guardian, Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit

Associated Press: Trump rips searing Times op-ed from unnamed senior official

NBC News:
Trump admin rejected report showing refugees did not pose major security threat

Discussion: Splinter

Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
An Insider's Lament About Trump Serves No Public Good

Discussion: Media Matters for America, CNN and Raw Story

Jessica Roy / Los Angeles Times:
No, anonymous Trump official, you're not ‘part of the resistance.’ You're a coward

Discussion: Washington Post, Breitbart and POLITICUSUSA

Jon Swaine / The Guardian:

Revealed: Trump inauguration crowd photos were edited after he intervened — Exclusive: documents released to Guardian reveal government photographer cropped space ‘where crowd ended’ — A government photographer edited official pictures of Donald Trump's inauguration …

The Daily Beast:

Government Photographer Edited Inauguration Pics to Make Crowd Look Bigger: Documents — A U.S. government photographer edited the official pictures of Donald Trump's January 2017 inauguration to make the crowd appear bigger, following a personal intervention from the president …

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.

Discussion: Raw Story

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

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 …

Discussion: Front Page Magazine, The Forward and Vox

Politico:
Liberal insurgency targets Delaware senator next

Discussion: The Hill and Washington Monthly

David Siders / Politico:
‘This is the first wave of an invasion’

Discussion: Washington Post and illegal immigration …

Marc Caputo / Politico:
DeSantis to name Nuñez as Florida's first Cuban-American female running mate

Discussion: Florida Politics

Washington Post:

Trump administration to circumvent court limits on detention of child migrants — The Trump administration said Thursday it is preparing to circumvent limits on the government's ability to hold minors in immigration jails by withdrawing from the Flores Settlement Agreement …

Daily Mail:

Four UFOs are spotted flying over US president's Scottish golf course — Trump's visitors! Four UFOs are spotted flying over US president's Scottish golf course — Four UFOs were spotted flying over US President Donald Trump's golf course in Scotland. — A golf fan shared a picture …

Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:

Senator Ben Sasse On Day Two Of The Kavanaugh Hearings — Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, a member of the Judiciary Committee, joined me this morning: — 09-06hhs-sasse — Transcript: — HH: Joined by Ben Sasse, Senator from Nebraska. Senator, welcome back.

Will Baude / Reason: The Best Parts of the Kavanaugh Hearing

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” …

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: HuffPost, Raw Story and Front Page Magazine

Reuters:
In quick reversal, Trump threatens shutdown over border wall

Discussion: HuffPost

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

Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:

Exclusive: FBI Kept From U.S. Spy Court Russian View of Carter Page as ‘an Idiot’ — The FBI omitted from its application to spy on Carter Page the fact that Russian spies had dismissed the former Trump campaign adviser as unreliable - or as one put it, an “idiot” - and therefore unworthy of recruiting …

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 …

Discussion: Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, New York Daily News, ABC News, emptywheel, Talking Points Memo, The Gateway Pundit, Law & Crime, Right Wing Watch, NBC News, Raw Story, Washington Times and Political Wire

John Solomon / The Hill:
The Mueller probe's troubling reliance on journalists as sources

Discussion: American Greatness

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.

Discussion: The Texas Tribune, Splinter, Dallas Morning News, Roll Call and New York Times

Rose Minutaglio / Cosmopolitan:

The Intern Who Yelled ‘F*ck You’ at Trump Does Not Regret It — In an exclusive interview, Caitlin Marriott talks about her decision to shout profanity at the president of the United States. — When Donald Trump walked past the Capitol Rotunda to meet with Republican lawmakers …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

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.