memeorandum: Black teen who was handcuffed after false robbery report in Wauwatosa has retained an attorney (Karen Pilarski/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

11:55 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 …

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 …

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.

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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 …

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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 …

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.

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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
13 people who might be the author of The New York Times op-ed

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David Frum / The Atlantic:
This Is a Constitutional Crisis — Impeachment is a constitutional mechanism.

Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump, alone

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

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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Senior White House Officials Deny Writing Anonymous Op-Ed Piece

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Phelim McAleer / Townhall: Relax, President Trump: New York Times Has History of Exaggerating Seniority of Anonymous Officials

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

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

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Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Leaked Documents From Kavanaugh's Time in White House Discuss Abortion and Affirmative Action — WASHINGTON — As a White House lawyer in the Bush administration, Judge Brett Kavanaugh challenged the accuracy of deeming the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision to be …

Elana Schor / Politico:

Kavanaugh stumbles when grilled on whether he discussed Mueller probe — Nearly 12 hours into Brett Kavanaugh's Senate confirmation hearing, Kamala Harris opened with a tantalizing query: Has the Supreme Court nominee ever discussed Robert Mueller's probe with a lawyer at Kasowitz Benson & Torres …

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Stephanie Ebbs / ABC News:
Democrat releases ‘confidential’ Kavanaugh emails as Supreme Court confirmation hearings gets combative

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Sean Wilentz / New York Times: Why Was Kavanaugh Obsessed With Vince Foster?

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 …

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The Daily Beast: Government Photographer Edited Inauguration Pics to Make Crowd Look Bigger: Documents

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 …

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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:

Trump admin plans to hold migrant kids indefinitely, upending decades-old ban — DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said the new rule is necessary to enforce immigration laws. — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced a new rule Thursday that would allow immigrant children …

Daily Mail:

NY Democratic Senate hopeful Julia Salazar was accused of having affair with Mets Keith Hernandez — EXCLUSIVE: New York Socialist Democratic candidate, 27, who ‘faked her Jewish immigrant biography’ was accused of affair with Mets star Keith Hernandez, 64, and arrested over claim of stealing from his wife

Yair Rosenberg / Tablet Magazine: State Senate Candidate Julia Salazar Was Arrested in 2011 On Suspicion of Criminal Use of Personal Information

Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Want to Be the Next Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? Be Careful What You Wish.

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Karen Pilarski / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Black teen who was handcuffed after false robbery report in Wauwatosa has retained an attorney — Police handcuffed and questioned him before releasing him Sept. 2 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel — A young black man on his way home from church with his white grandmother was handcuffed …

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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

Tom McCarthy / The Guardian:

'I'm a popularist': Trump struggles with Bannon's coaching in Woodward book — Jared Kushner claims boss lacks cash and Melania Trump refuses to defend her husband in a tale of infighting and confusion — Before Donald Trump ran for president, he needed to build his political vocabulary.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, POLITICUSUSA and Political Wire

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 …

Phil Dawson / WZZM-TV:

Snyder not endorsing Scheutte for Governor — Governor Snyder says he is focusing on governing, not politics. — GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Two months before the November election, and Governor Rick Snyder says he is not endorsing any of the candidates to replace him. Not even fellow republican Bill Schuette.

Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:

D.C. Wise Man Had Early Access To Trump's Pro-Russia Speech — In the morning of April 21, 2016, a staffer at the Center for the National Interest, a Washington D.C., think tank, wandered into the office of Dimitri Simes, the group's president. — The staffer saw a pile of papers on the desk titled …

Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:

The Bullet in My Arm — I was shot on a Sunday. It was late and it was hot and I was 21, on my way home from dinner during summer break. I'd rolled the windows down because the breeze felt good. — I pulled up to a red light, about half a mile from my home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Jonathan Martin / New York Times:

Delaware's Heated Senate Race Threatens to Rip Apart Its Centrist Political Fabric — WILMINGTON, Del. — Senator Tom Carper is 13 for 13 in statewide races here, a record of success that dates to his election as state treasurer in 1976. And Mr. Carper's formula for victory has largely remained constant …

Discussion: The Intercept

Politico:
Liberal insurgency targets Delaware senator next

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Associated Press:

Abandoned trucks litter California highway as wildfire rages — REDDING, Calif. (AP) — An explosive wildfire closed down dozens of miles of a major California freeway only weeks after a nearby blaze that left neighborhoods in ruins and killed eight people.

David K. Li / New York Post:

Bookies place odds on anonymous White House official — SEE ALSO — Vice President Mike Pence - and “the field” - lead offshore bookmaking picks as the White House mole behind the anonymous bombshell New York Times op-ed blasting President Trump. — Pence was listed at 2-to-3 odds …

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