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2:15 PM ET, September 7, 2018

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Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:
Newly Released Emails Show Brett Kavanaugh May Have Perjured Himself at Least Four Times  —  Formerly confidential emails have been released that show the Supreme Court nominee contradicting statements he made under oath to the Senate.  —  You can forgive Democratic senators for saying “I told you so.”
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Lisa Graves / Slate:
I Wrote Some of the Stolen Memos That Brett Kavanaugh Lied to the Senate About  —  Much of Washington has spent the week focusing on whether Judge Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed to the Supreme Court.  After the revelations of his confirmation hearings, the better question is whether …
John Wagner / Washington Post:
‘Unusual behavior’: McConnell says Booker could face Ethics Committee scrutiny  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in an interview that aired Friday that Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) could face scrutiny from the Senate Ethics Committee for violating a rule that prohibits the release of confidential material.
Discussion: Axios, Breitbart and Political Wire
Al Franken / USA Today:
Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings showcase Republican partisanship, hypocrisy
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:   Democrats bring in their closer against Kavanaugh: Felon and ‘master manipulator’ of Watergate, John Dean
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Booker to McConnell on ethics charges: ‘Bring it!’
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Breitbart
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:   Theater of the Absurd Has Taken Over the Senate
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
My Wife Has a Good Theory on Who the White House Mole Is  —  The family is in agreement.  —  As every room in the White House echoes with the sound of cocks crowing, I am going to subcontract the job of guessing who the Anonymous Op-Ed writer is to my wife, Margaret Doris—journalist,
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump Wants Attorney General to Investigate Source of Anonymous Times Op-Ed  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Friday that he wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate the source of an anonymous Op-Ed piece published in The New York Times, intensifying his attack on an article …
Mark Penn / The Hill:
White House in chaos — what's new?  —  The president decided the entire staff was working against him, running their own agenda, not his or the nation's.  Poll ratings had plummeted, with job approval in the 30s.  Leaks were commonplace as staffers hyped their own policy positions, even brazenly floated them in trial balloons.
William Saletan / Slate:
The Obvious Suspect  —  The quest to unmask the New York Times op-ed writer has been filled with speculation.  But the article's prose points to one person in particular.  —  Who wrote the anonymous op-ed against President Trump in Wednesday's New York Times?
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Melania's Lament Rings Hollow in Trump's Glass House
Axios:
Trump calls on Justice Department to investigate anonymous NYT writer
Discussion: Hit & Run and The Gateway Pundit
Loren DeJonge Schulman / Washington Post:
Civil servants can't stop Trump. Stop asking them to.
Discussion: Raw Story and Associated Press
Washington Post:
Trump says Justice Department should investigate who wrote anonymous New York Times op-ed …
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
'There's a new sheriff in town': Trump uses official events to wage campaign against press
New York Times:
'I Don't Talk' That Way, Trump Says.  Except When He Does.  —  President Trump said he has never used terms like “mentally retarded” or “dumb Southerner,” as he is quoted in Bob Woodward's new book.  But the record shows he has.  —  Numerous Trump officials denied writing the anonymous Op-Ed published by The New York Times.
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
'I don't talk the way I am quoted': Trump offers fresh criticism of Woodward book  —  President Trump took fresh aim Friday at Bob Woodward's forthcoming book on his presidency, calling it “a scam” and disputing quotes attributed to him.  —  “I don't talk the way I am quoted,” Trump said in a tweet.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:   Crazytown: A Bob Woodward Book, an Anonymous New York Times Op-Ed, and a Growing Crisis for the Trump Presidency
David Crow / Financial Times:
Opioid billionaire granted patent for addiction treatment  —  A billionaire pharmaceuticals executive who has been blamed for spurring the US opioid crisis stands to profit from the epidemic after he patented a new treatment for drug addicts.  —  Richard Sackler, whose family owns Purdue Pharma …
Discussion: STAT, The Daily Caller and Raw Story
The Guardian:
Tesla shares crash after Elon Musk smokes joint on live web show  —  Two senior executives quit electric carmaker as market value falls 8%  —  Play Video  —  Tesla shares crashed 8% on Friday as two of its senior executives quit, just hours after the electric carmaker's chief executive …
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Steve Kovach / CNBC:
Another Tesla executive leaves, this time it's HR boss Gaby Toledano: Report
Brandon Morse / RedState:
Beto O'Rourke's Campaign Requests VFW Hall Take Down American Flags Before His Rally There  —  Ted Cruz's Challenger, Beto O'Rourke has made a name for himself by saying that he can think of “nothing more American” than kneeling during the National Anthem.  We can now add stripping American flags …
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
Beto's Campaign Tries to Get a VFW Hall to Take Down Their American Flags
Discussion: The Navasota Examiner
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Cuomo Often Takes Taxpayer-Funded Planes and Helicopters, Far More Than Other Big State Governors  —  On a hot July day in 2017, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo visited a country club on Long Island to address business leaders about the future of rail lines that are the lifeblood of commerce and suburban commuters.
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama delivers full-throated rebuttal to Trump's presidency  —  In rare public speech, Obama says Trump poses such a threat to America that it forced him to speak out.  —  CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Barack Obama launched his midterm campaigning Friday at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign …
Discussion: Washington Post, Axios and twitchy.com
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Economy adds more jobs than expected in August, and wage growth hits post-recession high  — Nonfarm payrolls grew by 201,000 in August.  Economists surveyed by Reuters expected a 191,000 increase.
Denis Slattery / New York Daily News:
White House officials flagged Trump's behavior to psychiatrist last year  —  White House officials reached out to a noted Yale University psychiatrist last fall out of concern over President Trump's increasingly erratic behavior.  —  Dr. Bandy Lee, who edited the best-selling book …
Bryan Lowry / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Fearful mother in ad attacking Sharice Davids is a Kansas GOP official  —  A fearful mother stares into a camera and warns that Democratic candidate Sharice Davids will put her four children at risk.  —  In a new ad from a super PAC linked to House Speaker Paul Ryan, Alana Roethle of Leawood …
David Fickling / Bloomberg:
The Trade Slowdown Has Already Begun  —  As tariffs pile up, the world economy is starting to look holed below the waterline.  —  One of the paradoxes of this year's trade tensions is that in many parts of the world, it doesn't yet feel like a crisis.  —  For all the turmoil …
NBC News:
Yes, Democrats do have a legitimate path to win back the Senate  —  First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.  —  WASHINGTON — The takeaway from the trio of NBC/Marist polls we released this week is that …
New York Times:
Trump to Preside Over U.N. Security Council, Prompting Anxiety All Around  —  WASHINGTON — Three weeks from now, in New York, President Trump will find himself in the setting he most relishes: seated at the head of a polished table, calling on those seated around him, rewarding those he likes and cutting off those who displease him.
Sam Tanenhaus / Vanity Fair:
“I'm Tired of America Wasting Our Blood and Treasure”: The Strange Ascent of Betsy DeVos and Erik Prince  —  Since the 1970s, the DeVos family has been quietly advancing a plan to make government act more like a private business.  Now, they appear ready to take the next step.
Washington Post:
Florence is predicted to restrengthen and is a hurricane threat to the East Coast  —  The once powerful Florence took a hit Thursday, but its life as a major hurricane is likely not over just yet, and it has East Coast residents on the edge of their seats.  —  The tropical storm is predicted …
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Eagles Bring Out “Philly Special” To Win But NFL Kickoff Ratings Down From 2017  —  The Heavens did not seem well disposed to the official beginning of the NFL season last night as rain and possible lightening in the City of Brotherly Love pushed back the start of the Philadelphia Eagles gridiron battle against the Atlanta Falcons.
Discussion: Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Giuliani to AP: Trump will not answer obstruction questions  —  NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump will not answer federal investigators' questions, in writing or in person, about whether he tried to block the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Hannah Allam / BuzzFeed News:
For A Lot Of Muslim Republicans, Their Party's Over  —  Anwar Khalifa is about as Texan as you can get.  He speaks in a sharp twang and cruises around in a Chevy truck with real longhorns mounted on the front.  He never skips “worship day,” he taught his three daughters to shoot, and …
Discussion: Raw Story
Los Angeles Times:
How eight elite San Francisco families funded Gavin Newsom's political ascent  —  Gavin Newsom wasn't born rich, but he was born connected — and those alliances have paid handsome dividends throughout his career.  —  A coterie of San Francisco's wealthiest families has backed him at every step …
Discussion: Politico
Mike Schneider / Muck Rack Blog:
There are now more than 6 PR pros for every journalist  —  It's not exactly breaking news to say the journalism industry — and by extension media relations and PR — are in a state of flux.  However, new employment data from the US Department of Labor illustrates just how dramatically …
Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
The Plot to Bring Down Pope Francis  —  The pontiff's silence speaks volumes as powerful conservative Catholic clerics, some of them colluding with Steve Bannon, try to force his resignation.  —  ROME—Not long after Pope Francis took office in March 2013, he ran into a wall.
Discussion: Raw Story and Page Array
 
 
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Eli Clifton / LobeLog:
Alan Dershowitz's Deep Ties to Trump's Biggest Donors
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Modest premium hikes as ‘Obamacare’ stabilizes
Jeffry Bartash / MarketWatch:
U.S. adds 201,000 jobs as worker wages accelerate to nine-year high
Allum Bokhari / Breitbart:
Twitter Briefed Establishment Media Ahead of Alex Jones Blacklisting
Drew Van Voorhis / The College Fix:
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A Security Expert Tied to WikiLeaks Vanishes, and the Internet Is Abuzz
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Flashback: Obama prosecuted staff leakers, gave lie-detector tests, ‘paranoid’
David Wasserman / NBC News:
Record-breaking 100 women may be elected to the House in 2018
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems vow to grab Trump tax returns upon taking majority
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Wall Street Journal:
Russia-Linked Money-Laundering Probe Looks at $150 Billion in Transactions
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
In the Next Wave of Big Political Books, Mike Schmidt on Mueller, Jim Stewart on Trump and the Rule of Law
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Wall Street Journal:
Iran Defies U.S. Bid to Curb Its Middle East Influence
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Inside Washington's money machine
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Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
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