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Key Mueller witness: I lied and I'm ready to die in jail — In a blockbuster interview, key Mueller witness and Roger Stone associate Jerome Corsi admits to MSNBC's Ari Melber that he lied to Congress, that he tried to get stolen Clinton emails back to the Trump campaign in 2016, that he …
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Washington Post:
Trump's night-owl calls to Roger Stone in 2016 draw scrutiny in Mueller probe — The calls almost always came deep into the night. — Caller ID labeled them “unknown,” but Roger Stone said he knew to pick up quickly during those harried months of the 2016 presidential campaign.
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POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, Booman Tribune, HuffPost, Washington Monthly, Mother Jones, National Review, Mediaite and Politico
CNN:
Exclusive: Two key answers from Trump to Mueller — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump told special counsel Robert Mueller in writing that Roger Stone did not tell him about WikiLeaks, nor was he told about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between his son, campaign officials …
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi Pushed Seth Rich Lie After Privately Admitting Hackers Stole DNC Emails — Newly released email shows the Russia truthers knew full well who supplied Wikileaks. They kept blaming a murdered staffer, even after his parents begged them to stop.
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Mediaite, Boing Boing, Raw Story, Washington Times, Vox and Law & Crime
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Jerome Corsi Told Roger Stone WikiLeaks Had Dirt on Hillary's Health. Then the Attacks Started.
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Washington Post, Business Insider and Hullabaloo
Bob Bauer / Lawfare:
Roger Stone's ‘Time in the Barrel’: Campaign Dirty Tricks, Political Sabotage and the Law
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Washington Post, The Resurgent and CNN
Wall Street Journal:
Manafort Lied About Business Dealings, Mueller's Team Believes — Statements, which the former Trump aide describes as truthful, led the special counsel to end his plea agreement — Paul Manafort's alleged misstatements to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators include comments …
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Raw Story, New York Times, CNN, Political Wire, Mediaite, Law & Crime, Talking Points Memo and Politico
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New York Post:
Trump says pardon for Paul Manafort still a possibility … He's never discussed a pardon for Paul Manafort, President Trump said Wednesday — but it's “not off the table.” — “It was never discussed, but I wouldn't take it off the table. Why would I take it off the table?” the president said during an Oval Office interview.
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New York Times:
Trump Talks of Pardon for Manafort and Escalates Attacks on Russia Inquiry
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The Guardian, Vox, RedState and Raw Story
Ken White / New York Times:
Why Did Manafort Cooperate With Trump Over Mueller?
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Salon, JONATHAN TURLEY, NBC News, Washington Press, Politico and Raw Story
John Santucci / ABC News:
Mueller asked Trump about 2016 RNC platform change regarding Ukraine: Sources
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New York Post:
Trump slams special counsel after retweeting image of Rosenstein behind bars … WASHINGTON - It was no accident that President Trump Wednesday retweeted an image of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein locked up. — When asked during an interview with The Post: “Why do you think he belongs behind bars?”
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New York Post:
Trump threatens to declassify ‘devastating’ docs about Democrats
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CNN, TheBlaze, The Gateway Pundit, Axios, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Trump on Rod Rosenstein: ‘He should have never picked a special counsel’
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New York Post
The Daily Beast:
Stormy Daniels: Michael Avenatti Sued Trump For Defamation Against My Wishes — The porn star also says her lawyer refused to give her information about how her crowdfunding money was being spent, and launched a second crowdfund without her knowledge. — Michael Avenatti sued Donald Trump …
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New York Times:
Deutsche Bank Offices Are Searched in Money Laundering Investigation — One hundred seventy officers searched the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and five other sites in the area early Thursday as part of a money-laundering investigation involving hundreds of millions of euros, prosecutors in Frankfurt said.
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Sonam Sheth / Business Insider:
Investigators are probing a letter that claims George Papadopoulos said he was pursuing a lucrative Russian business deal for himself and Trump after the election — Trump-Russia investigators are reportedly looking into an uncorroborated letter that claims George Papadopoulos was pursuing …
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Hullabaloo and Boing Boing
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Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Papadopoulos's Russia Ties Continue to Intrigue — George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents about his interactions with a Russia-linked professor in 2016, went to jail on Monday after fighting, and failing, to delay the start of his two-week prison sentence.
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Washington Press, Raw Story and Daily Torch
Phil McCausland / NBC News:
Veterans Affairs Dept. tells Capitol Hill it won't repay underpaid GI Bill benefits recipients — The news conflicts with a promise VA officials made to a House committee earlier this month that it would reimburse those veterans who received less than the full amount they were due.
Aaron Bandler / Jewish Journal:
ADL Responds to CNN Commentator Calling for a ‘Free Palestine from the River to the Sea’ — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called CNN political commentator and Temple University Professor Marc Lamont Hill's call for a “free Palestine from the river to sea” on Wednesday “divisive” and “destructive” in an email to the Journal.
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Conservative Review, Conservative News Today, Arutz Sheva and The Daily Caller
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David Marcus / The Federalist:
CNN COMMENTATOR CALLS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL. WILL LIBERALS REBUKE HIM?
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Breitbart and Instapundit
New York Times:
Mississippi's Era of Outsize Clout in Washington Is Waning — OXFORD, Miss. — It is difficult to miss Mississippi's trophies of power. — There is the Thad Cochran Research Center, standing just off the University of Mississippi's tailgating hub, and in Hattiesburg …
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Matt Vespa / Townhall:
Sen. Jeff Flake's Nauseating Obstructionism Over Protect Mueller Bill Delayed 21 Trump Judicial Nominations — Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MI) won her runoff election last night over Democrat Mike Espy in Mississippi, so Republicans have a solid 53-47 majority.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate Judiciary cancels nominee hearings over Flake's Mueller stand
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Washington Post, Breitbart, Raw Story, Axios and CNN
Tami Luhby / CNN:
More American children are uninsured despite strong economy — See the consequences of a town divided by healthcare — New York (CNN)For the first time in nearly a decade, the number of uninsured children in America has grown. — The reversal is unprecedented, particularly given …
Jason Bittel / Washington Post:
Meet Knickers, the giant cow that is neither a cow nor a giant — This week, a Holstein by the name of Knickers captured the heart of the Internet by standing horns and shoulders above a herd of cattle on a farm in Australia. — And there's no arguing that the lad is large.
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New York Times:
'If Bobbie Talks, I'm Finished': How Les Moonves Tried to Silence an Accuser — A trove of text messages details a plan by Mr. Moonves and a faded Hollywood manager to bury a sexual assault allegation. Instead, the scheme helped sink the CBS chief, and may cost him $120 million.
Wes Parnell / New York Daily News:
Holocaust scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University finds swastikas spray-painted on her office wall — A Jewish professor and Holocaust scholar at Columbia Teacher's College said she found two swastikas and an anti-Semitic slur spray-painted on her office wall Wednesday.
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Pelosi shuts down critics in tense meeting — Nancy Pelosi was having none of it. — A trio of her fiercest Democratic critics — lawmakers trying to bar her from reclaiming the speaker's gavel — were trying to pin her down on exactly when she planned to relinquish power.
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New York Times, Outside the Beltway and The Hill
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Democrats overwhelmingly nominate Pelosi as Speaker amid rebellion
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The Root, VTDigger, Daily Wire, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Free Beacon, Washington Post and The Atlantic
Washington Post:
How Donald Trump appeals to men secretly insecure about their manhood — From boasting about the size of his penis on national television to releasing records of his high testosterone levels, President Trump's rhetoric and behavior exude machismo. His behavior also seems to have struck a chord with some male voters.
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Raw Story
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
TJ Cox beats Republican Rep. David Valadao to give Democrats gain of 40 House seats, seven in California — TJ Cox defeated three-term Republican Rep. David Valadao on Wednesday, giving Democrats a gain of seven House seats in California and 40 nationwide — the party's strongest midterm showing since …
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New York Times:
At the White House, Even the Holidays Are Met With Grievances — Starting with the blood-red trees, it became abundantly clear this week that not even the frothiest of White House holiday events would be carried without the requisite Trump-era criticisms and presidential complaints.
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Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News:
Data Shows Tucker Carlson Is The Daily Stormer's Favorite Pundit — It's no secret that Andrew Anglin, among the United States' most prominent white supremacists, loves Tucker Carlson. — Enamored of the Fox News host's antagonistic interviews with liberals and people of color …
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Splinter and Contemptor
Erika Kinetz / Associated Press:
If your Tesla knows where you are, China may too — SHANGHAI (AP) — When Shan Junhua bought his white Tesla Model X, he knew it was a fast, beautiful car. What he didn't know is that Tesla constantly sends information about the precise location of his car to the Chinese government.
Mairead McArdle / National Review:
Border Patrol Arrests MS-13 Member Who Traveled with Caravan — U.S. Border Patrol agents have arrested a member of the infamous Salvadoran MS-13 gang who admitted to authorities that he traveled with a caravan of Central American migrants who were hoping to qualify for asylum in America.
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Townhall, cbp.gov, The Daily Caller and Front Page Magazine
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
U.N. ambassador hunt drags on as top candidate fades — The hunt for a new United Nations ambassador — a job for which State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert was once considered a lock but is now out of contention — has faced repeated delays and is running up against Nikki Haley's end-of-year departure date.
Jack Holmes / Esquire:
May Have Just Cracked the Code on Interviewing Trumpists — They showed Ivanka Trump the receipts—and made her answer the question. — One cornerstone of Donald Trump's political strategy is his belief that truth does not exist in the public discourse. The truth is whatever …
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