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12:15 PM ET, November 25, 2018

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Roey Hadar / ABC News:
Mueller report will be ‘devastating’ for the president: Frequent Trump defender  —  Alan Dershowitz, a frequent defender of President Donald Trump, said special counsel Robert Mueller's report will be “devastating” for the president.  —  The Harvard Law professor emeritus told ABC News Chief …
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David Taylor / The Guardian:
‘He has moved incredibly quickly’: Mueller nears Trump endgame  —  A new urgency surrounds the Russia investigation, with Donald Trump Jr and longtime Trump ally Roger Stone in legal peril  —  Donald Trump only has himself to blame for Robert Mueller's return to public life.
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 11-25-18: Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Gov. John Kasich, Sen. Sherrod Brown  —  A rush transcript of a special edition of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” airing on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018 on ABC News is below.  This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
Discussion: Political Wire and POLITICUSUSA
Economist:   Donald Trump is attacking the rule of law and may well get away with it
Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers  —  Parliament has used its legal powers to seize internal Facebook documents in an extraordinary attempt to hold the US social media giant to account after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly refused to answer MPs' questions.
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S. Matthew Liao / New York Times:   Do You Have a Moral Duty to Leave Facebook?
Haley Britzky / Axios:
Congressmen who've seen classified intel dispute Trump on Khashoggi killing  —  Senators Mike Lee (R-Utah), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), and Adam Schiff (D-CA) all disagree with President Trump's assertion that the CIA has not concluded that crown prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
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Katie Paul / Reuters:
Senior Saudi prince says CIA cannot be trusted on Khashoggi conclusion
Discussion: middleeastmonitor.com
Christal Hayes / USA Today:   Finland, Denmark and Germany stop arm sales to Saudi Arabia after Khashoggi's death
CNN:
Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith pushed resolution praising Confederate soldier's effort to ‘defend his homeland’  —  Photo surfaces of Senator with Confederate artifacts  —  (CNN)Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith once promoted a measure that praised a Confederate soldier's effort to …
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Washington Post:
Ex-Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos must report to prison Monday, judge orders  —  A federal judge on Sunday ruled that George Papadopoulos must report to prison as scheduled on Monday, rejecting a bid from the former Trump campaign adviser to delay the start of his prison sentence …
BBC:
Migrant caravan: Mexican officials deny US border deal  —  Mexico's incoming foreign minister has said discussions on how to deal with migrants travelling to the United States are continuing despite reports a deal has been reached.  —  Marcelo Ebrard denied reaching an agreement …
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Kate Linthicum / Herald-Mail Media:   A border clash turns deadly
Reuters:   Mexico has no deal with U.S. to overhaul asylum rules: incoming minister
James Arkin / Politico:
Alabama GOP: Sessions not guaranteed to win back his old seat  —  Republicans are certain they can win back the Alabama Senate seat they lost in spectacular fashion last year.  They just aren't sure whether Jeff Sessions is the one to do it.  —  Sessions' name surfaced as a potential candidate immediately …
Discussion: Raw Story
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CNN:   The race to control the Senate in 2020 has already started
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
‘Never Trump’ Republicans went Democrat in 2018.  Are they gone for good?  —  Mocked as irrelevant after President Trump's election, voters who leaned Republican in prior races handed Democrats huge wins in suburban districts.  —  WASHINGTON — Kristin Olsen, who until 2016 led …
David Siders / Politico:
New Hampshire political legend falls prey to Trump effect  —  Secretary of State Bill Gardner has had a decades-long run as the legendary, hard-nosed guardian of New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary.  But he may not make it through the Trump era.  —  Gardner, a fixture …
Discussion: Raw Story
Kris Schneider / ABC News:
Ohioans eyeing 2020?  Kasich, Brown ‘very seriously’ consider runs against Trump  —  As the race to challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 general election kicks off, two Ohioans addressed speculation that they would mount runs for the White House in 2020.
Discussion: Breitbart, Washington Times, IJR and Axios
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
First caravan-related violence reported in U.S. as rocks thrown at Border Patrol  —  The Border Patrol reported the first major instance of migrant caravan-related violence Saturday, saying a Honduran man threw rocks at agents to try to keep from being arrested Friday in Arizona.
Mihir Zaveri / New York Times:
Black Man Killed by Officer in Alabama Mall Shooting Was Not the Gunman, Police Now Say  —  The police in Alabama said an officer fatally shot a 21-year-old black man on Thursday night who they said shot at least one person at a mall near Birmingham, turning a Thanksgiving holiday shopping scene into chaos.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
New book by Trump advisers alleges that the president has ‘embedded enemies’  —  Two of the president's longest-serving advisers allege in a new book that scores of officials inside the White House, Congress, the Justice Department and intelligence agencies are “embedded enemies of President Trump” …
Discussion: Axios, POLITICUSUSA, HuffPost and Raw Story
Juliet Linderman / Associated Press:
Memos to Nobody: Inside the work of a neglected fed agency  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Mark Robbins gets to work at 8:15 each morning and unlocks the door to his office suite.  He switches on the lights and the TV news, brews a pot of coffee and pulls out the first files of the day to review.
BBC:
EU leaders agree UK's Brexit deal at Brussels summit  —  EU leaders have approved an agreement on the UK's withdrawal and future relations - insisting it is the “best and only deal possible”.  —  After 20 months of negotiations, the 27 leaders gave the deal their blessing after less than an hour's discussion.
Discussion: BBC, Politico and Associated Press
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Bloomberg:
Theresa May Bets the House on Campaign to Win Brexit Deal Vote
Discussion: New York Times
 
 
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Peter Berkowitz / Real Clear Politics:
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Washington Post:
Trump demands action to reduce deficit, pushes new deficit spending
Ruth Whippman / New York Times:
Everything Is for Sale Now. Even Us.
Discussion: Althouse
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
A Little Free Library honored Michelle Obama. Vandals tagged it 'Trump's'.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan D. Salant / New Jersey Online:
Cory Booker says ‘I will consider running for president’ after just campaigning for Democrats in 24 states
Catherine Bosley / Bloomberg:
Swiss Firmly Reject Plan That Risked Worsening EU Relations
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
When it comes to undermining faith in democracy, another low point
New York Times:
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WRAL-TV:
Dozens arrested after ICE detains undocumented man living in Durham church for 11 months
Rob Merrick / The Independent:
Brexit: High Court to rule if referendum vote ‘void’ as early as Christmas after Arron Banks investigation
Katelyn Massarelli / Tampa Bay Times:
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Michael Stratford / Politico:
House Democrats pile on to scrutinize DeVos
Discussion: Washington Press and Raw Story