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1:55 PM ET, September 6, 2019

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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Trump called Fox News correspondent into Oval Office to argue he wasn't wrong about Alabama  —  (CNN)Fox News senior White House correspondent John Roberts had just finished his 3 p.m. live shot on Thursday when President Donald Trump beckoned him into the Oval Office.
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump drags his Alabama hurricane claims into 6th day  —  Donald Trump isn't letting it go.  —  The president on Friday continued to defend his misleading prognostication for the path of Hurricane Dorian, assailing the news media and in the process, digging in and reviving the controversy for a sixth day.
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Mr Never Wrong: Storm spat underscores Trump's mindset  —  NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump doesn't make mistakes.  At least according to him.  —  Trump's relentless justifications of his erroneous warnings that Hurricane Dorian was threatening Alabama on Sunday …
Washington Post:
‘What I said was accurate!’:  Trump stays fixated on his Alabama error as hurricane pounds the Carolinas
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump is the Sharpie president
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
'It's Kind of Like an Addiction': On the Road With Trump's Rally Diehards  —  Libby DePiero is almost always one of the first few people in line at the president's campaign events, part of the self-described group of ‘Front Row Joes’ who routinely travel to see the president perform.
Discussion: Splinter and Raw Story
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Republicans to scrap primaries and caucuses as Trump challengers cry foul  —  Four states are poised to cancel their 2020 GOP presidential primaries and caucuses, a move that would cut off oxygen to Donald Trump's long-shot primary challengers.  —  Republican parties in South Carolina …
The Daily Beast:
RIP ThinkProgress: The Top Progressive News Site Has Shut Down  —  A search had been underway for a new publisher.  But none was found.  —  ThinkProgress, the influential news site that rose to prominence in the shadow of the Bush administration and helped define progressivism during the Obama years, is shutting down.
New York Times:
Trump Administration Considers a Drastic Cut in Refugees Allowed to Enter the U.S.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House is considering a plan that would effectively bar refugees from most parts of the world from resettling in the United States by cutting back the decades-old program that admits tens …
Discussion: GovExec.com
Washington Post:
Boris Johnson visits a farm, steers bull into police officer  —  LONDON — The steaks have never been so high for Boris Johnson, who has vowed to steer Britain out of the European Union and lead the country forward.  —  But things haven't quite gone to plan for the new prime minister.
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Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Boris Johnson's statements about the state of Brexit negotiations bear little relationship to reality …
Discussion: Lawfare and The New Neo
Washington Post:
Former Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz announces he will not run for president  —  Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz formally abandoned his pursuit of an independent campaign for president Friday, telling his supporters in a letter that he found it tougher than he expected to capture …
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Washington Examiner:
The Washington Post's lost summer  —  It's been a lost summer for the Washington Post.  —  From Memorial Day to Labor Day, the Post had some pretty embarrassing moments.  Whether it was incorrectly stating that presidents do not deliver remarks on the Fourth of July, ignoring speeches by Presidents Reagan …
Discussion: Fox News, Raw Story and Mediaite
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell sinks to new lows in enabling Trump's corruption  —  The diversion of military funds to pay for President Trump's border wall obsession — which is taking money away from more than 100 military projects around the country, just as a junkie's habit might take money from the grocery kitty …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Slate
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Military Base Loses Funding for New School to Trump's Border Wall
Discussion: Daily Kos
CNN:
Democrats widen impeachment probe as they confront roadblocks  —  Impeachment may be tough sell for Dems in red districts  —  (CNN)Faced with a time crunch ahead of the 2020 election season, the House Judiciary Committee is broadening its investigation beyond special counsel Robert Mueller's findings …
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
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New York Times:
Trump Aides' Poll Finds Gun Control Politically Problematic for the President  —  President Trump assured Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, on Thursday that he was still considering legislation that could include background checks for gun buyers.
Rani Molla / Vox:
One Trump fundraiser was all it took to slash SoulCycle's attendance  —  New data shows attendance dipped in the weeks following the boycott.  —  Last month, cancel culture came for SoulCycle.  —  The stationary bike exercise company's liberal user base was outraged at news …
Discussion: Splinter and Out Magazine
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James Hamblin / The Atlantic:   People Actually Quit SoulCycle
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
The jobs report is even weaker than it seems, shows an economy on tenterhooks at Trump's trade war  —  On it's face, the August jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn't look too bad for the economy.  The economy added 130,000 jobs, missing the 150,000 mark expected by economists.
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Reade Pickert / Bloomberg:
U.S. Payrolls Rise 130,000, Boosted by 25,000 for Census Count
Discussion: CNBC, The Week and Political Wire
Peter Suderman / Reason:
Sohrab Ahmari Is a Joke  —  The emptiness of conservative nationalism.  —  Not too long ago, Sohrab Ahmari, the editor of the New York Post op-ed page, wrote a jeremiad against National Review's David French, succinctly titled “Against David French-ism.”  At its core, it was an argument …
Discussion: The Bridgehead
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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:   David French DESTROYS Sohrab Ahmari (and the idea of 'illiberal conservatism')
BuzzFeed News:
“The Most Immoral, Unethical Thing I've Ever Seen In My 15 Years Of Politics” — Inside A Small City Mayor's Campaign For President  —  Wayne Messam's unlikely 2020 campaign has been chaotic from the start.  “It's like we were in some D-list version of The Sopranos.”
Timothy Puko / Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Launches Antitrust Probe Into Four Auto Makers  —  Government seeks to determine if Ford, Honda, BMW, VW violated competition law by agreeing with each other to follow emissions standards beyond those proposed by Trump administration  —  WASHINGTON—The Justice Department …
Discussion: The Verge, Raw Story and Political Wire
Sonam Sheth / Business Insider:
Trump may have committed tax fraud by fabricating a loan to avoid paying income taxes on nearly $50 million  — A bombshell investigation by Mother Jones found that President Donald Trump may have invented a loan to avoid paying income taxes on nearly $50 million.
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Buttigieg launches TV ad campaign in Iowa  —  Pete Buttigieg began a TV blitz in Iowa on Friday, starting his first serious paid advertising effort in the first caucus state.  —  Buttigieg's new ad, which is running on TV and digital platforms, leans into his biography as a veteran and a mayor.
Discussion: CNN and Washington Times
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:   Buttigieg's first television ad calls for ‘real solutions,’ not polarization
Washington Post:
Trump tries to force Ukraine to meddle in the 2020 election  —  UKRAINE'S NEOPHYTE president, Volodymyr Zelensky, took a big step this week toward proving that he will be, as he promised, the most pro-reform president in Ukraine's history.  On Monday, he laid out a breathtakingly ambitious …
Alexander Agadjanian / Washington Post:
How Joe Biden attracts both black voters and racially ‘resentful’ voters  —  Racism and sexism are shaping the Democratic primary in some surprising ways.  —  By many measures, the two major political parties are moving in opposite directions when it comes to racism and sexism.
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
'I don't see any path for Biden to win the nomination without South Carolina'
Windsor Mann / The Week:
Mike Pence will get nothing for his humiliation  —  Vice President Mike Pence is the rare servant who pays his master.  —  This week he visited Ireland, where he stayed at one of President Trump's properties, the Trump International Golf Links and Hotel in Doonbeg.
Discussion: New York Times, Yahoo News and Splinter
Jeff Weiner / Orlando Sentinel:
Florida man arrested in Walmart shooting threat called himself white nationalist in Facebook post, cops say  —  FBI agents waited more than an hour at the Winter Park home of Richard Dean Clayton's parents before the 26-year-old entered unannounced through the back door.
Discussion: Raw Story
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Dare We Dream of the End of the G.O.P.?  —  In a new book, the pollster Stanley Greenberg predicts a blue tidal wave in 2020.  —  Toward the end of his new book, “R.I.P. G.O.P.,” the renowned Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg makes a thrilling prediction, delivered with the certainty of prophecy.
David Brooks / New York Times:
And Now, a Word From a Fanatic  —  Inside the mind of an internet extremist.  —  I am a sick man.  I am a spiteful man.  I am an unattractive man.  I believe my liver is diseased.  —  I am one of those fanatics on the alt-right and the alt-left, the ones who make online forums so vicious …
James Poniewozik / New York Times:
The Real Donald Trump Is a Character on TV  —  Understand that, and you'll understand who he is and what he's doing in the White House.  —  Mr. Poniewozik is the chief television critic of The Times and the author of “Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television and the Fracturing of America.”
Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:
‘You need to ask first’: Iowa teacher blasts Biden for grabbing her hands when she asked him a question  —  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Joe Biden left an Iowa teacher unimpressed with his canned response to her question about collective bargaining, but what she resented more was how he abruptly seized her hands and clung onto them.
Discussion: WayneDupree.com
 
 
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
CNN's 7-Hour ‘Climate Change’ Town Hall was a man-made disaster for Democrat presidential candidates
Discussion: The Federalist and Power Line
Jason Sattler / USA Today:
Dismissing Trump as a crumbling, unfit fool will get us four more years. Don't buy it.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Winning His War on the FBI
Sam Wood / Inquirer.com:
Haverford student who came this close to hacking Trump tax returns will plead guilty.  Here's how he did it.
Reuters:
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Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
Reuters:
Farm Loan Delinquencies Surge in U.S. Election Battleground Wisconsin
Discussion: Althouse
Jay Weaver / Miami Herald:
American Airlines mechanic in Miami charged with sabotaging plane. It aborted takeoff.