memeorandum: As Leslie Moonves Negotiates His Exit from CBS, Women Raise New Assault and Harassment Claims (Ronan Farrow/New Yorker)

6:05 PM ET, September 9, 2018

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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:

As Leslie Moonves Negotiates His Exit from CBS, Women Raise New Assault and Harassment Claims — Members of the board of the CBS Corporation are negotiating with the company's chairman and C.E.O., Leslie Moonves, about his departure. Sources familiar with the board's activities …

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Les Moonves is about to leave CBS, sources say

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
New Moonves accusations prompt reports of his imminent departure

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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
CEO Leslie Moonves will leave CBS without severance package; separate deal will reshape CBS board, sources say

Discussion: Vanity Fair

Cynthia Littleton / Variety: Leslie Moonves Poised to Depart CBS as New Sexual Assault Allegations Surface in New Yorker Report

David Faber / CNBC:
CBS is close to a settlement that will cut ties with Moonves, and end fight with National Amusements: Sources

Discussion: BloombergQuint and Deadline

CBS News:

Bob Woodward: “People better wake up to what's going on” in the Oval Office — Watergate journalist Bob Woodward made headlines once again this past week, with his new book about the Trump White House, entitled “Fear.” This morning, in his first TV interview, Woodward paints a picture …

Discussion: Raw Story, HuffPost, Splinter, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, Shareblue Media, PJ Media Home, The Guardian, Spectator USA, CNN and Al Jazeera English, more at Mediagazer »

Jamilah King / Mother Jones:

Trump Almost Sent a Tweet That Could Have Signaled War With North Korea — Bob Woodward reveals just how close the president came to a major provocation.

Mike Allen / Axios:

How “senior” is Anonymous? — The whodunit over the Trump administration's “anonymous” hinges on the word “senior.” The New York Times describes its mysterious Op-Ed contributor as “a senior official in the Trump administration.” — The big question: But how senior is “senior”?

Discussion: Fox News, Raw Story, Bustle, Fox News Insider, Talking Points Memo and Breitbart, more at Mediagazer »

Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Pence says he never discussed removing Trump from office

Discussion: Raw Story, Daily Kos, Splinter and Breitbart

Roger Kimball / Spectator USA:

Whining Serena Williams is tennis's Hillary Clinton … No one expected Naomi Osaka to win the US Open yesterday. Everyone favoured her opponent. The crowd was solidly with Serena Williams, as were the bookies. But the 20-year-old Japanese-Haitian, who became the first player representing Japan …

Discussion: twitchy.com

Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
It's shameful what US Open did to Naomi Osaka

Discussion: Daily Wire, Althouse and The Atlantic

Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
Serena Williams and the Game That Can't Be Won (Yet) What rage costs a woman.

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Sally Jenkins / Washington Post:
At U.S. Open, power of Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka is overshadowed by an umpire's power play

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Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Serena Williams Got What She Deserved

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New York Times:

Dirty Politics in New York — A last-minute mailer from Democrats wrongly describing Cynthia Nixon as anti-Semitic is a disgrace. — The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher. It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.

New York Times:

A Delayed Bridge Opening and an ‘Inappropriate’ Mailer Puts Cuomo on the Defensive — ALBANY, N.Y. — It must have seemed like such a fine idea. — On Friday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, was standing alongside his mother, Matilda, and Hillary Clinton celebrating “the grand opening” …

Axios:

Omarosa claims White House staffers had hashtag to discuss 25th Amendment — Former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman claimed on MSNBC Sunday that she and other members of the Trump administration texted each other the hashtag “#tfa,” referring to the 25th Amendment, “more than 100 times” …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Breitbart

Crispian Balmer / Reuters:
U.S. President Trump facing a ‘coup’: Bannon

Discussion: Axios

Politico: At-risk House Republicans say no to new tax bill

Vinnie Longobardo / Washington Press:

A new ethics complaint could have just put the fate of Brett Kavanaugh in Merrick Garland's hands — After watching Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testify under oath during his confirmation hearings about his knowledge of stolen Democratic emails when he was a White House lawyer …

Washington Post: Kavanaugh hearings didn't alter nominee's Supreme Court trajectory

Tamar Auber / Mediaite:
Perjury Complaint Filed Against Kavanaugh to be Reviewed by...Merrick Garland!

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, RedState and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Eric Talmadge / Associated Press:

North Korea stresses economy, not nukes, on 70th anniversary — PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea held a major military parade and revived its iconic mass games to celebrate its 70th anniversary on Sunday, but in keeping with leader Kim Jong Un's new policies the emphasis was firmly …

Josh Smith / Reuters:
North Korea military parade features floats and flowers, not missiles

Discussion: Vox, The Daily Caller, New York Times, CNN and Balloon Juice

Michael Burke / The Hill: Pence ‘more than willing’ to sit down with Mueller

Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz / USA Today:

Dolphins' Kenny Stills, Albert Wilson first NFL players in Week 1 to kneel during anthem — NFL players' protests weren't widespread in Sunday's first games, but the demonstrations had not died out in Week 1. — Miami Dolphins wide receivers Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson became …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, New York Times, abc7chicago.com, Washington Times and twitchy.com

Adam Schefter / ESPN:
NFL not expected to implement new national anthem policy this season

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Matthew Mosk / ABC News:

Trump campaign members were ‘fully aware’ of efforts to set Putin meeting: Papadopoulos — George Papadopoulos, the one-time foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump who became swept up in the special counsel investigation, says members of the Trump campaign team were “fully aware” …

Discussion: Washington Press, Politico, The Daily Beast, POLITICUSUSA, Law & Crime and Political Wire

Washington Post:

Florence strengthens to hurricane and poses extreme threat to Southeast and Mid-Atlantic — Florence is, again, a hurricane and is predicted to rapidly intensify to an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm by Tuesday as it starts to close in on the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic coast.

Discussion: CBS Chicago, NPR and The Daily Caller

Ben Jacobs / The Guardian:

Cory Booker places staff in Iowa ahead of potential 2020 White House run — According to multiple sources, Cory Booker has placed four staffers on the ground in Iowa, helping Democratic candidates, as he moves to position himself for a potential presidential bid.

Discussion: Political Wire and twitchy.com

Geoffrey Kabaservice / Politico:

Liberals Don't Know Much About Conservative History — And both sides suffer for it. — The growing tendency of late for liberals and conservatives to regard each other as not just opponents, but enemies, has been one of the most alarming in an alarming era.

Christian Davenport / Washington Post:

Sen. Ben Sasse said he thinks about leaving the GOP ‘every morning’ — Sen. Ben Sasse said Sunday morning that he probably thinks about leaving the Republican Party “every morning,” while decrying the way he said Republicans and Democrats get caught up in the political furors of the day instead of having a …

Discussion: Politico and Breitbart