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2:45 PM ET, December 7, 2021

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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Meadows: Trump considered yanking Kavanaugh over ‘I like beer’ comments and apologetic tone  —  During Brett Kavanaugh's controversial 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings, President Donald Trump “strongly considered” dropping the nominee and instead going with a “stronger candidate,” …
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CNN:
Mark Meadows to halt cooperation with January 6 committee  —  (CNN)Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows will no longer cooperate with the House select committee investigating January 6 insurrection, according to a letter from his attorney to the panel, which was obtained by CNN on Tuesday.
Associated Press:
Attorney says Meadows won't cooperate with Jan. 6 panel  —  Attorney George Terwilliger said in a letter Tuesday that a deposition would be “untenable” because the Jan. 6 panel “has no intention of respecting boundaries” concerning questions that former President Donald Trump has claimed are off-limits because of executive privilege.
Discussion: Insider and USA Today
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Meet the reporter who always seems to get a copy of the hottest tell-all Trump book first.
Discussion: Insider
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Mark Meadows will stop cooperating with Jan. 6 panel, attorney says
Discussion: Washington Times
Politico:   POLITICO Playbook PM: Jan. 6 committee dealt two big blows
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Tara Copp / Defense One:
Austin Rejects ‘Red Lines’ for Taiwan, Ukraine
Bloomberg:
U.S. Wants Nord Stream 2 Halted If Putin Invaded Ukraine
Discussion: Politico, Washington Examiner and CNN
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Yamiche Alcindor Joins NBC News as Washington Correspondent (EXCLUSIVE) … Alcindor, who is expected to start with NBC in March, will cover the Biden administration as well as the impact of federal policies on communities across the country and issues at the intersection of race …
Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
Voters Pessimistic About Economy, Biden's Leadership, WSJ Poll Finds  —  First survey in The Wall Street Journal's new polling effort shows Republicans in strong position, though Democrats have advantages in some policy areas  —  WASHINGTON—Voters are heading into the midterm election year in a sour mood …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Exclusive: WSJ taps Biden, Trump pollsters for 2022  —  The Wall Street Journal and its parent company Dow Jones are making big changes to its polling strategy ahead of the midterms, executives tell Axios.  —  Why it matters: The company had partnered with NBC News for the past three decades on polling.
Discussion: The Hill
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Trump's new media company is a $1.6 billion mirage  —  In October, former President Trump announced the creation of a new company, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG).  Its signature product is a new social media site, Truth Social.  According to an investor presentation …
Politico:
McConnell closes in on support for new debt ceiling strategy  —  Mitch McConnell is on the verge of selling a skeptical Senate Republican Conference on a path toward allowing Democrats to more easily raise the debt ceiling, a critical development as the country faces a mid-December debt cliff.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The media has given Republicans a free pass on assaulting democracy  —  The mainstream media's fixation with false equivalency between the two political parties and fear of criticism from the right has led to distorted coverage and misleading characterizations of the assault on democracy.
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
How is the GOP's coronavirus recklessness compatible with being pro-life?
Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors
ProPublica:
These Real Estate and Oil Tycoons Avoided Paying Taxes for Years  —  The Secret IRS Files … Here's a tale of two Stephen Rosses.  —  Real life Stephen Ross, who founded Related Companies, a global firm best known for developing the Time Warner Center and Hudson Yards in Manhattan, was a massive winner between 2008 and 2017.
Neal E. Boudette / New York Times:
A New Tesla Safety Concern: Drivers Can Play Video Games in Moving Cars  —  The feature raises fresh questions about whether Tesla is compromising safety as it rushes to add new technologies.  —  Not long after buying a Tesla Model 3 this summer, Vince Patton saw a YouTube clip highlighting …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Prosecutors say they can make their case against Bannon in a day  —  Federal prosecutors told a judge that they could present their case against Steve Bannon to a jury in a single day, pushing back on the former White House strategist's efforts to delay his criminal trial over his refusal to comply with a congressional subpoena.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Political Wire
Talmon Joseph Smith / New York Times:
Americans' Pandemic-Era ‘Excess Savings’ Are Dwindling for Many  —  The drop in cash reserves has vast implications for the working class and could dampen consumer spending, a large share of economic activity.  —  Infusions of government cash that warded off an economic calamity have left millions …
Discussion: Eschaton
Josh Israel / The American Independent:
New Mexico GOP lawmaker met with anti-immigrant hate group to discuss border policy  —  Rep. Yvette Herrell (R-NM) ran on a promise to ‘stand for every New Mexican.’  —  An anti-immigrant hate group is bragging about a recent meeting it had with first-term GOP New Mexico Rep. Yvette Herrell …
Real America's Voice News:
One Of The Most Anticipated And Talked About Books Of The Year Is On Store Shelves This Morning  —  America's Voice AM with Jessica Rivera and Terrance Bates December 7, 2021
Discussion: CNBC
Teo Armus / Washington Post:
Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue will be melted down by city's African American history museum  —  The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that once provoked a deadly weekend of violence in Charlottesville will soon be melted down and turned into a new piece of public artwork …
Discussion: New York Times
Daily Mail:
Fury as transgender UPenn swimmer who used to compete as a man smashes TWO US women's records and finishes one race 38 seconds ahead of her nearest rival  — Lia Thomas, 22, smashed two U.S. swimming records at an Akron, Ohio contest  — Thomas won the 1,650 freestyle in a record …
Discussion: TheBlaze, Breitbart and The Daily Wire
Eric Kleefeld / Media Matters for America:
Group's IRS filing reveals nexus of right-wing dark money and “critical race theory” media hysteria  —  A recently released IRS filing for the right-wing activist group Parents Defending Education (PDE), which was founded to promote the ongoing scare campaign against the supposed teaching of …
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Who is Jeffrey Clark and Why Does He Matter?  —  Clark wanted to do all the election subversion Bill Barr wouldn't.  —  There's no good reason you should know Jeffrey Clark's name.  —  Before the 2020 election, he was just another run-of-the-mill Republican lawyer with a cushy appointment in the federal government.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Georgia Republicans Face a Huge Decision  —  On the menu today: With David Perdue jumping into Georgia's GOP gubernatorial primary, Peach State Republicans face a huge and consequential choice; a report from South Africa indicates that the Omicron variant may not be all that virulent …
Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
A man planted bombs hours after a Black Lives Matter protest in Pittsburgh.  He was sentenced to probation.  —  No one could see the homemade bombs Matthew Michanowicz was carrying as he rode his bike in downtown Pittsburgh on May 31, 2020.  —  The city was a tinder box that afternoon.
Discussion: Raw Story
Tim Alberta / The Atlantic:
He Voted to Impeach.  Can He Survive in the GOP?  —  Late at night on the second Tuesday of January, Peter Meijer, a 33-year-old freshman congressman from West Michigan, paced the half-unpacked rooms of his new rental apartment in Washington, D.C., dreading the decision he would soon have to make.
Axios:
Scoop: Over 200 papers quietly sue Big Tech  —  Newspapers all over the country have been quietly filing antitrust lawsuits against Google and Facebook for the past year, alleging the two firms monopolized the digital ad market for revenue that would otherwise go to local news.
Tom Mashberg / New York Times:
Michael Steinhardt, Billionaire, Surrenders $70 Million in Stolen Relics  —  The hedge fund pioneer is barred for life from buying more antiquities.  He turned over 180 stolen objects that had decorated his homes and office.  —  Michael H. Steinhardt, the billionaire hedge fund pioneer …
 
 
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D. Patrick Rodgers / Nashville Scene:
Nathan Bedford Forrest Has Fallen
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
So you think Kamala Harris has it rough. Remember Dan Quayle?
Isaac Saul / Tangle:
Biden boycotts the Olympics.
David Nather / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Shrugging off Omicron
Discussion: Forbes, Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Joel Simon / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed: Arresting reporters in L.A. sends a dangerous message to repressive governments
Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
Who's in and who's out? Biden's ‘democracy summit’ snubs attract criticism
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
It Took 74 Days for Ahmaud Arbery's Murderers to Be Arrested. A Top ACLU Lawyer Is Decrying a ‘Cover Up’ by Local Prosecutors
Discussion: Raw Story
Zack Kopplin / American Prospect:
Cowboy Drugstore  —  Traces of a kleptocrat from Iraq to Delaware to Miami
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Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Fox News is Killing Us: Here are the Receipts
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Manchin and Sinema get star billing in Pa. Senate race
Discussion: Raw Story
Scott Reed / The Dispatch:
Not With Rhetoric, but With Deeds  —  The morning after he was named the Republican nominee …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Dean Obeidallah / MSNBC:
Media isn't partisan. Democrats need to stop claiming it is.
Discussion: CNN
New York Times:
On the Banks of the Furious Congo River, a 5-Star Emporium of Ambition
Gordon Lubold / Wall Street Journal:
Saudi Arabia Pleads for Missile-Defense Resupply as Its Arsenal Runs Low
Janelle Bitker / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. made parklets permanent — but added so many rules that many restaurants plan to tear them down
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts
 
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