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Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Michael Cohen Is the Latest Former Trump Ally to Talk to Mueller  —  In the wake of Manafort's plea deal, sources confirm that it is now common knowledge among Cohen's inner circle that Trump's former lawyer has been in contact with the special counsel's office.  —  BY - EMILY JANE FOXSeptember 14, 2018,
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CNN:
Federal prosecutors weigh charges against Democratic powerbroker in Manafort-linked probe  —  (CNN)Federal prosecutors in New York are weighing criminal charges against former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig as part of an investigation into whether he failed to register as a foreign agent …
emptywheel:
Checkmate: The Manafort Cooperation Is Pardon Proof  —  I was virtually certain that the plea deal Manafort is pleading to today would include cooperation — and I was correct.  Andrew Weissmann told Amy Berman Jackson that the deal does require Manafort cooperation.
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
What Paul Manafort Knows  —  What kind of threat does Paul Manafort now pose to Donald Trump?  Robert Mueller's indictment of the fallen lobbyist is a masterful portrait of a craven man and his methods.  But the chronology contained in the document filed this morning takes us right up to the eve …
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Paul Manafort has agreed to cooperate with Robert Mueller  —  The former Trump campaign chair appeared in court and pleaded guilty Friday.  —  It finally happened — Paul Manafort flipped.  —  The former Trump campaign chair appeared in court in Washington on Friday and pleaded guilty to a reduced set of charges.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Robert Mueller may have just eliminated one of Trump's biggest complaints  —  Trump likes to complain about the cost of the Mueller probe.  It might just have paid for itself.  —  It's not just that the investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is, in President Trump's estimation, a biased partisan “witch hunt.”
Washington Post:
Trump cannot use a pardon to stop Manafort's cooperation  —  Paul Rosenzweig is a senior fellow at the R Street Institute, a policy research organization and a former Whitewater prosecutor under Kenneth W. Starr.  Justin Florence is the legal director of Protect Democracy …
Discussion: Vox, CNN, Weekly Standard and Hullabaloo
New York Times:
Manafort Folds.  Now What?  —  His cooperation agreement with Robert Mueller is the start of a new chapter in the special counsel's investigation.  —  Mr. Bookbinder is the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.  Mr. Berke is a co-chairman …
Discussion: Raw Story
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Manafort to cooperate with Mueller as part of plea deal  —  President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has agreed to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller under a plea agreement revealed Friday.  —  Manafort appeared in a Washington, D.C., courtroom Friday morning …
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
‘Paul Manafort will tell the truth,’ Trump's legal team said. Minutes later, they took it back
Discussion: Politico, Vox and Talking Points Memo
USA Today:
‘I plead guilty’: Paul Manafort enters cooperation deal with Mueller team
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Manafort plans to plead guilty to second set of charges
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
Former Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort Is Expected To Plead Guilty And Avoid A Second Trial
New Yorker:
A Sexual-Misconduct Allegation Against the Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Stirs Tension Among Democrats in Congress  —  On Thursday, Senate Democrats disclosed that they had referred a complaint regarding President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, to the F.B.I. for investigation.
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BuzzFeed News:
Here's How That Letter From 65 Women Supporting Brett Kavanaugh Came Together So Quickly  —  A group of women who have known Brett Kavanaugh since his high school days decided on Thursday to put together the letter of support for him — a day after rumors of allegations against him first became public …
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Kavanaugh Classmate Named in Letter Strongly Denies Allegations of Misconduct  —  Mark Judge says he learned he was named in the letter during an interview with the New Yorker.  —  On Friday morning, The New Yorker's Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow reported on a letter alleging possible sexual misconduct …
Virginia Hume / Weekly Standard:
About That Letter From Women in Support of Brett Kavanaugh  —  I signed it.  Here's how it went down.  —  On Thursday afternoon, Dianne Feinstein released a cryptic statement saying she had submitted to federal investigators a letter about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Discussion: Power Line
New York Times:
Letter Claims Attempted Assault by a Teenage Brett Kavanaugh
Elana Schor / Politico:
Anita Hill: Kavanaugh accuser deserves ‘fair and neutral’ process
Discussion: ABC News, The Daily Caller and Vox
Anna North / Vox:
The striking parallels between Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas
Discussion: NBC News, HuffPost and Daily Wire
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
White House Considered Replacing FEMA Chief as Florence Was Gathering Steam  —  Internal investigation is looking into Brock Long's use of federal resources during frequent travel to his North Carolina home  —  WASHINGTON—As Hurricane Florence was barreling toward the East Coast …
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:   ‘There never is a strategy’: Trump confronts twin Manafort and Kavanaugh crises
CNN:
Hurricane Florence is trudging across the Carolinas, submerging homes, with days of rain in store
Washington Post:
A solar observatory in New Mexico is evacuated for a week and the FBI is investigating.  No one will say why.  —  SUNSPOT, N.M. — At a small solar observatory tucked away in the woods of a national forest here, scientists and other personnel were commanded last week to leave at once.
Discussion: TheDrive
Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Why Did the New York Review of Books Publish That Jian Ghomeshi Essay?  —  Well before the world associated the phrase #MeToo with sexual assault, Jian Ghomeshi was a popular Canadian radio host and musician.  In 2014 and 2015, however, he became the subject of numerous allegations of sexual assault …
Milan Schreuer / New York Times:
Russians Planned Attack on Lab Testing Salisbury Nerve Agent, Swiss Say  —  BRUSSELS — Two Russian spies caught in the Netherlands and expelled had been plotting cyber sabotage of a Swiss defense laboratory analyzing the nerve agent used to poison a former Russian agent in Britain, Swiss officials said Friday.
Discussion: NPR
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Lauren McGaughy / Dallas Morning News:
Texas board votes to eliminate Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller from history curriculum  —  Updated at 11:30 a.m. to include the board's vote, at 1:20 p.m. with comment from board member Barbara Cargill and House Democratic Caucus Chairman Chris Turner and at 4:10 p.m. with comment from a Christian advocacy organization.
Lawfare:
The Watergate ‘Road Map’ and the Coming Mueller Report  —  According to countless media accounts and President Trump's own lawyers, Special Counsel Robert Mueller is writing some kind of report on allegations of presidential obstruction of justice.  Exactly what sort of report this may be is unclear.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:   Legal Experts Urge Release of Watergate Report to Offer Mueller a Road Map
Mario J. Pentón / miamiherald:
‘This is Hialeah!’  Taco Bell employee refuses to help client who doesn't speak Spanish  —  A video of an argument with a Taco Bell employee in Hialeah has unleashed a wave of indignation on social media.  —  The incident happened on Wednesday night, when Alexandria Montgomery was trying …
Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept:
Google China Prototype Links Searches to Phone Numbers  —  Google built a prototype of a censored search engine for China that links users' searches to their personal phone numbers, thus making it easier for the Chinese government to monitor people's queries, The Intercept can reveal.
Heidi Bond / Slate:
I Received Some of Kozinski's Infamous Gag List Emails.  I'm Baffled by Kavanaugh's Responses to Questions About Them.  —  Kavanaugh has said repeatedly that he does not remember whether he received inappropriate emails from the now-disgraced judge.  Has he looked?
Discussion: CNN
Jack Hellner / American Thinker:
Average worker's pay has actually risen much faster than average CEO pay  —  On a continuing basis, Democrats, including the media, are playing the race, sex, and class cards while they pretend they want to unite the country.  One of the talking points is the bald-faced lie that CEOs …
Discussion: Power Line and Instapundit
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Shame of the MeToo Men  —  I feel bad for them.  Do they feel bad for women?  —  Here's a confession: I feel bad for a lot of the men caught out by the #MeToo movement.  —  Not all of them — not Harvey Weinstein or former CBS chief executive Leslie Moonves — but the slightly less powerful …
Discussion: Boing Boing and Harper's
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
The threat to democracy — from the left  —  For several years now, scholars have argued that the world is experiencing a “democratic recession.”  They have noted that the movement of countries toward democracy has slowed or stopped and even, in some places, reversed.
Discussion: Mediaite
 
 
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
The Government Can't Love You  —  We are weaponizing norms …
Sasha Savitsky / Fox News:
Jim Carrey called out by Venezuelan journalist over support of socialism
Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Former Trump Lawyer Says President's Legal Team Erred in Cohen Reversal
Discussion: Mediaite
Bloomberg:
Trump Wants $200 Billion in China Tariffs Despite Talks, Sources Say
Discussion: Axios, AOL, CNBC and Vox
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
A private letter from Ronald Reagan to his dying father-in-law shows the president's faith
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Veteran GOP operative Bill Kristol is building a political war machine and seeking a Republican …
Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite
Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Why even moderate Democrats are moving left and changing what it means to be centrist
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Bob Woodward On His New Book “Fear”
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The opposite of Trump isn't Bernie Sanders. It's this guy.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republican Extremism Is Turning Democrats Left on Health Care
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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