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Margaret Brennan / CBS News:
Brett McGurk, top U.S. envoy in ISIS fight, resigns — Brett McGurk, special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, had been planning to exit his post in February 2019. But sources tell CBS News that he informed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that he will accelerate …
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
US envoy to anti-IS coalition quits over Trump's Syria move — WASHINGTON (AP) — Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy to the global coalition fighting the Islamic State group, has resigned in protest to President Donald Trump's abrupt decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria …
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New York Times:
For Trump, ‘a War Every Day,’ Waged Increasingly Alone — At the midpoint of his term, the president has grown more sure of his own judgment and more isolated from anyone else's than at any point since he took office. — WASHINGTON — When President Trump grows frustrated with advisers during meetings …
Washington Post:
U.S. envoy to coalition fighting ISIS resigns in protest of Trump's Syria decision — Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy to the international coalition fighting the Islamic State, has resigned in protest of President Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria.
New York Times:
Brett McGurk, Top U.S. Diplomat Leading Fight Against Islamic State, Resigns — Brett McGurk, the special presidential envoy to the coalition fighting the Islamic State, has accelerated his resignation, telling colleagues this weekend that he could not carry out President Trump's newly declared policy of withdrawing from Syria.
The Daily Beast:
Bolton's Hawkish Syria Plan Backfired, Pushing Trump to Get Out — The national security adviser expanded U.S. goals in Syria to challenge Iran. But Trump wasn't on board, senior officials say, and Turkey took an opportunity to push the U.S. out. — A fateful decision by national security …
Stephen M. Walt / Foreign Policy:
Good Riddance to America's Syria Policy
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Dear Anonymous Inside the Trump Administration
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Bloomberg:
Trump Discusses Firing Fed's Powell After Latest Rate Hike, Sources Say — Advisers warn ousting Fed chairman would lead to market rout — President's legal authority to remove Powell is unclear — President Donald Trump has discussed firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell …
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Brendan Murray / Bloomberg:
Fed Scholar Expects Immediate ‘Market Chaos’ If Trump Ousts Powell
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Washington Post:
Trump's shutdown stunt is an act of needless stupidity — “IT'S ACTUALLY part of what you do when you sign up for any public service position.” So said Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) when asked about the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who will have to work without pay …
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Inside the frantic negotiations that failed to avert a shutdown
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Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Government Shuts Down Ahead Of Holiday Over Stalemate On Border Wall Funding
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Plan to Win the Shutdown: A Noun, a Verb, and ‘Caravan’ — The White House intends to send surrogates on television to hammer Democrats and to accuse them of wanting drugs, terror, and ‘trafficking’ pouring over the southern border. — With the latest government shutdown …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Slat man: Trump's Christmas shutdown spooks GOP — President Trump's self-inflicted shutdown before Christmas has left Republicans with a debacle as their last act in control of the House. And now the party is even more worried about the outlook beginning Jan. 3, when Democrats take over.
Robert Windrem / NBC News:
Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump win election, reports say — Building support for Stein was one of a “roster of themes” the Moscow-sanctioned internet trolls “turned to repeatedly,” report says. — Two days before the 2016 presidential election …
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Antonia Noori Farzan / Washington Post:
A reporter's dispatch from Trump country featured a ‘Mexicans Keep Out’ sign. But he made it all up. — When an out-of-town journalist showed up in Fergus Falls, Minn., in February 2017, Michele Anderson couldn't help but feel skeptical. Claas Relotius had been telling residents …
New York Times:
Trump Policy Gyrations Threaten Fragile Republican Coalition — WASHINGTON — President Trump's near-simultaneous decisions this week to force a government shutdown over his demand to fund a border wall and withdraw American troops from Syria and Afghanistan have imperiled the fragile Republican coalition …
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Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Abrupt Syria Withdrawal Thwarted ‘Major’ Operation Targeting ISIS, Sen. Bob Corker Says
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump sees dangerous cracks in Hill GOP support
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BuzzFeed News:
Cory Booker Is Building A 2020 Campaign That's Just Like Him: Vegan, Hyperactive, And Unapologetically Unconventional — French fries with Iowans in Newark. Eager big donors. A clearly defined message of “radical love.” Cory Booker has spent a year laying the groundwork for an ambitious possible presidential bid.
CNN:
Trump lashed out at Whitaker after explosive Cohen revelations — Cohen says he lied about project in Moscow — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has at least twice in the past few weeks vented to his acting attorney general, angered by federal prosecutors who referenced …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Americans have a different view about indicting a sitting president — Much has been made of the Justice Department's standing opinion that a sitting president cannot be indicted while in office. That's an opinion, not settled law, and one that is the subject of lively debate among legal scholars.
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
You Can't Serve Both Trump and America — The story is told of Jim Mattis, when he was the commanding general at Quantico, relieving a young lance corporal on Christmas. The rest of that wintry day, those entering the front gate of the Marine base were startled to see that the sentry was a general …
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Karen Zraick / New York Times:
Student Targeted by ‘Troll Storm’ Hopes Settlement Will Send Message to White Supremacists — An African-American student leader who was targeted by a racist “troll storm” says she hopes an unusual legal settlement with one of her harassers will send a strong message to white supremacists …
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