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New York Times:
Trump Invites TV Representatives to Lunch Ahead of His Prime-Time Speech — WASHINGTON — President Trump has invited representatives from cable and broadcast news channels to an off-the-record lunch at the White House ahead of his prime time speech Tuesday night, an address in which he is expected …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
As shutdown effects loom for normal Americans, Trump is feeling pressure to solve the stalemate — White House officials are increasingly concerned that the impending real-world effects of the shutdown could swamp Republicans if they don't find a way to make a deal fast.
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Politico, NBC News, Daily Wire, Media Matters for America and IJR
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Why Mike Pence Couldn't End the Shutdown — Mike Pence was set up to fail. — It seemed that way a lot over the past three weeks. In the days ahead of the federal funding deadline in December, it was the vice president who told Senate Republicans that the president would back a short-term spending bill to keep the government open.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
The next juicy White House memoir comes out in 3 weeks, and ABC scored the first interview with its author
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Joe.My.God.
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Undecided on Emergency Declaration for Border Wall, Officials Say
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Talking Points Memo and Patterico's Pontifications
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Trump vs. Schumer and Pelosi
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Arizona Republic and NBC News
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
House GOP leaders fear support eroding for Trump's shutdown fight
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Daily Kos, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, Talking Points Memo and The Week
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Veselnitskaya, Russian in Trump Tower Meeting, Is Charged in Case That Shows Kremlin Ties — [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] — Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who in 2016 met with Trump campaign officials in Trump Tower …
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Washington Post:
Russian lawyer at Trump Tower meeting charged in separate case — A Russian lawyer whose role at a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower has come under scrutiny from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III was charged Tuesday in a separate case with obstructing justice in a money-laundering investigation.
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Raw Story
DailySabah:
A soft coup against Donald Trump — If U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton thought yesterday's visit was going to be a walk in the park, he must have had a rude awakening thanks to the lukewarm reception in the Turkish capital Ankara. In retrospect, it was probably a bad idea …
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New York Times:
Bolton Walked Back Syria Statement. His Disdain for Debate Helped Produce It. — WASHINGTON — John R. Bolton found himself last weekend in a familiar but dangerous spot for any White House aide: cleaning up after his boss, President Trump, announced the withdrawal of 2,000 troops from Syria …
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Kareem Fahim / Washington Post:
Turkish leader Erdogan scolds and snubs Bolton over Kurdish fighters
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Margaret Brennan / CBS News:
U.S. envoy working on Qatar dispute resigns from State Department — Anthony Zinni, a retired Marine Corps general and former head of U.S. Central Command who has been working as an envoy for the Trump administration to resolve a dispute with Qatar, has resigned from his position with the State Department.
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Task & Purpose and The American Conservative
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Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
U.S. Downgraded E.U.'s Diplomatic Status (but Didn't Say Anything) — BRUSSELS — The Trump administration downgraded the diplomatic status of the European Union's delegation to the United States last year without making a formal announcement or informing the bloc about the change, a European official said on Tuesday.
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The Gateway Pundit
Ilya Somin / Reason:
Eminent Domain, Emergency Powers, and Trump's Wall — President Donald Trump claims he can use an “emergency” declaration to secure funding to use eminent domain to acquire land for his border wall, even without any additional congressional authorization. The validity of this claim is dubious at best.
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Just Security, Hot Air, Patterico's Pontifications, Vox, Lawfare, Outside the Beltway, Little Green Footballs and The Hill
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Andrea Pitzer / Washington Post:
If Trump declares a state of emergency, he might actually cause one
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Raw Story
Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
Can Trump Build a Wall Under a National Emergency?
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Breitbart, Raw Story and Washington Post
Ryan Struyk / CNN:
Trump's wall would be the 32nd active national emergency
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twitchy.com, Raw Story, Washington Post and Mediaite
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Receives New Filing in Apparent Mueller Case — A new U.S. Supreme Court filing suggests the public may soon get more information about a mystery case believed to be tied to the criminal investigation being conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
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Shakesville, Raw Story and BloombergQuint
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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Ginsburg misses second day in a row at Supreme Court
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The Gateway Pundit, Daily Wire and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Hugo Daniel / The Daily Beast:
Protesters Chant ‘Arrest Him Now’ After Second Man Dies Inside Home of Wealthy Democratic Donor — Two men have died in 18 months inside the West Hollywood apartment of a Democratic donor that's been described as a ‘death chamber’ for black men. — By HUGO DANIEL1.8.19 9:16 AM ET
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Joe Bruno / WSOC-TV:
Emergency Exit: Mark Harris trips alarm trying to evade Channel 9 in uptown — CHARLOTTE, N.C. - After Republican 9th Congressional District candidate Mark Harris finished addressing Mecklenburg County Republicans at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Government Center Monday night, reporters …
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Political Wire, Raw Story, Joe.My.God. and Talking Points Memo
Kurt Bardella / USA Today:
News networks should not air Trump Wall speech without fact-checking first — On the same day Donald Trump asked broadcast networks for air time, he attacked the news media as ‘the enemy of the people.’ — President Donald Trump announced Monday that he “will Address the Nation …
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Washington Post, TMZ.com, Daily Wire, The Nation, IJR, KTLA, The Daily Caller and Reuters, more at Mediagazer »
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump's border address sparks extraordinary debate inside and outside TV networks
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Townhall, Washington Post and Vox, more at Mediagazer »
Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone — T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers' location data, and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to posses it, letting them track most phones in the country.
Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
Trolls and Grifters: David Reaboi and Charlie Kirk Edition — “The crazies have started rolling into Kandahar like it's a f—king bathtub drain.” — It is axiomatic that while change creates opportunity, chaotic change creates the most dramatic opportunities for the most unsavory actors.
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Brad Plumer / New York Times:
U.S. Carbon Emissions Surged in 2018 Even as Coal Plants Closed — WASHINGTON — America's carbon dioxide emissions rose by 3.4 percent in 2018, the biggest increase in eight years, according to a preliminary estimate published Tuesday. — Strikingly, the sharp uptick in emissions occurred …
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Kellyanne Conway Corrects Sarah Sanders' Border Terrorist Claim: ‘Unfortunate Misstatement’ — Kellyanne Conway said her colleague, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, made an “unfortunate misstatement” on illegal immigration at the border on Fox News.
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Washington Post, Vox, Splinter and Los Angeles Times
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
A bulwark against Trump and Trumpism — In December, the Weekly Standard — regarded as among the premier conservative news outlets and certainly the one least under the spell of the current president — was closed by its owner, Clarity Media Group. The loss of a punchy …
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Antonio Olivo / Washington Post:
Corey Stewart, the firebrand Virginia Republican, will leave politics in December — Corey A. Stewart, the Republican firebrand whose fights to crack down on illegal immigration and preserve Confederate monuments reflected the nation's increasingly polarized political landscape …
Associated Press:
The Latest: Pence says Trump's wall claim was ‘impression’ — WASHINGTON — The Latest on President Donald Trump's claim that his predecessors endorsed his idea of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border (all times local): — Vice President Mike Pence says President Donald Trump's recent claim …
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
U.S. Still Leans Conservative, but Liberals Keep Recent Gains — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' assessment of their political ideology was unchanged in 2018 compared with the year prior when 35% on average described themselves as conservative, 35% as moderate and 26% as liberal.
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Washington Post:
New plans for Afghanistan would have Trump withdrawing fewer troops — The U.S. military is drafting plans to withdraw a few thousand troops from Afghanistan while continuing all major missions in the longest war in American history, U.S. officials said, three weeks after President Trump sought options for a more drastic pullout.
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Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
'It's Just Too Much': A Florida Town Grapples With a Shutdown After a Hurricane — MARIANNA, Fla. — A federal prison here in Florida's rural Panhandle lost much of its roof and fence during Hurricane Michael in October, forcing hundreds of inmates to relocate to a facility in Yazoo City, Miss., more than 400 miles away.
James Arkin / Politico:
Romney gets chilly reception from GOP senators after Trump attack — Sen. James Lankford will occasionally take issue with President Donald Trump's tactics and rhetoric. But he's not sure what Mitt Romney was thinking with his biting condemnation of the president before he was even sworn into office.
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Breitbart and American Thinker
NPS.gov:
Joshua Tree National Park to Temporarily Close for Cleanup and Repair — Joshua Tree National Park will temporarily close effective 8 am on Thursday, January 10, to allow park staff to address sanitation, safety, and resource protection issues in the park that have arisen during the lapse in appropriations.
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Ex-Border Patrol Agent Suggests Trump Admin Lying About Only Six Suspected Terrorists Detained — National Border Patrol Council president and Fox News regular Brandon Judd bashed NBC on Tuesday for their report on how many terrorists U.S. Customs and Border Protection supposedly stopped at the southern border.
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