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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump considering Mark Meadows for chief of staff — Over the past 24 hours, President Trump has been privately asking many people who they think should be his new chief of staff, according to three sources with direct knowledge. — What's happening: Trump has asked confidants …
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's next chief of staff may be walking into a nightmare — (CNN)The job of White House chief of staff is close to impossible at the best of times, but President Donald Trump's new West Wing enforcer faces an even tougher mission — one that may eventually evolve into an effort to save his presidency itself.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Nick Ayers, Aide to Pence, Declines Offer to Be Trump's Chief of Staff — Nick Ayers, President Trump's top choice to replace John F. Kelly as chief of staff, has declined to take the job, according to three people familiar with the talks. — Mr. Ayers, 36, the chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence …
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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Pence Chief of Staff Nick Ayers Won't Be Next White House Staff Chief
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Steven Mnuchin is under consideration to become Trump's next chief of staff, but he has indicated …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Seeks New Chief After Ayers Roils Kelly Succession Plan
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CNN:
Ayers not taking job as White House chief of staff
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Mehdi Hasan / The Intercept:
John Kelly Was a Bully, Bigot, and Liar for Trump. Goodbye and Good Riddance.
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New York Times, Raw Story and PBS NewsHour
Nic Robertson / CNN:
'I can't breathe.' Jamal Khashoggi's last words disclosed in transcript, source says — Khashoggi messages reveal sharp criticism of MBS — (CNN)"I can't breathe." These were the final words uttered by Jamal Khashoggi after he was set upon by a Saudi hit squad at the country's consulate in Istanbul …
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Just Security:
Declassify the Khashoggi Assessment — There was no shortage of outrage on Capitol Hill this week when CIA Director Gina Haspel briefed a select group of Senators on her agency's reported judgement that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “probably” ordered the killing of U.S. resident …
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Mike Pompeo swaggers his way to failure — Mike Pompeo was supposed to rescue the State Department from its disastrous start in the Trump presidency. When he first turned up at Foggy Bottom on May 1, he promised to staff up a badly depleted bureaucracy, listen to its views and reinvigorate U.S. diplomacy after a year of dysfunction.
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Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
Diminished Saudi influence on display in Senate debate over Yemen
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Meet the Bottomless Pinocchio, a new rating for a false claim repeated over and over again — It was President Trump's signature campaign promise: He would build a wall along the nation's southern border, and Mexico would pay for it. — Shortly after becoming president, Trump dropped the Mexico part …
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New York Times:
Done With Michael Cohen, Federal Prosecutors Shift Focus to Trump Family Business — When federal prosecutors recommended a substantial prison term for President Trump's former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, they linked Mr. Trump to the crimes Mr. Cohen had committed in connection with the 2016 presidential campaign.
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump: Payments to silence women were a ‘simple private transaction,’ not illegal campaign contributions
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Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Michael Cohen Wanted to Cooperate in His Own Way. Prosecutors Had Other Ideas.
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Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Comey calls on Americans to ‘use every breath we have’ to oust Trump in 2020 — New York (CNN)Former FBI Director James Comey asked American voters Sunday night to end Donald Trump's presidency with a “landslide” victory for his opponent in 2020. — “All of us should use every breath …
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New York Times:
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not Keeping It Secret — Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it's anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is. — The millions of dots on the map trace highways …
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Paul Ryan's long con — He betrayed his promises and left a legacy of debt and disappointment. — House Speaker Paul Ryan's legacy can be summed up in just one number: $343 billion. — That's the increase between the deficit for fiscal year 2015 and fiscal year 2018 — that is …
Charles Duhigg / The Atlantic:
The Real Roots of American Rage — I. An Angry Little Town — Soon after the snows of 1977 began to thaw, the residents of Greenfield, Massachusetts, received a strange questionnaire in the mail. “Try to recall the number of times you became annoyed and/or angry during the past week,” the survey instructed.
Washington Post:
Russians interacted with at least 14 Trump associates during the campaign and transition — The Russian ambassador. A deputy prime minister. A pop star, a weightlifter, a lawyer, a Soviet army veteran with alleged intelligence ties. — Again and again and again, over the course …
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Robby Mook / Washington Post:
The sad truth about Russian election interference
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Alex Morales / Bloomberg:
May Said to Pull Parliament Vote on Her Deal: Brexit Update — U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has called off a crucial vote in Parliament on whether to approve her Brexit deal, after being warned she was on course for a devastating defeat, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Conspiracy theorist sues Mueller alleging illegal leaks and surveillance — An author and conspiracy theorist who says he's being threatened with indictment by special counsel Robert Mueller's team in the Trump-Russia probe filed a federal lawsuit Sunday night accusing Mueller …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Jerome Corsi suing Robert Mueller, claims he's being unfairly targeted
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren forges a 2020 machine — Sen. Elizabeth Warren has the core of her 2020 team in place if she runs for president. She has the seed money — there's $12.5 million ready to go, left over from her recent Senate run — and a massive email list she's amassed over years …
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
'His word isn't good': Dems don't trust Trump to make shutdown deal — Donald Trump's meeting Tuesday with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer may go a long way toward determining whether the government enters a partial shutdown before Christmas. — But as Democrats seriously re-engage with Trump …
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Ashley Southall / New York Times:
‘Appalling’ Video Shows the Police Yanking 1-Year-Old From His Mother's Arms — [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] — A video that shows police officers trying to remove a woman's 1-year-old son from her grasp as they arrested her in a Brooklyn …
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