memeorandum: White House not ‘micromanaging’ FBI, Sarah Sanders says (Jacqueline Klimas/Politico)

6:40 PM ET, September 30, 2018

Top Items:

The F.B.I. Can Do This — Despite limitations and partisan attacks, the bureau can find out a lot about the Kavanaugh accusations in a week. — Mr. Comey is the former F.B.I. director. — The F.B.I. is back in the middle of it. When we were handed the Hillary Clinton email investigation in 2015 …

Discussion: Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story and Mediaite

New York Times:

Yale Classmate Accuses Kavanaugh of ‘Blatant Mischaracterization’ of His Drinking — WASHINGTON — Democrats reacted with anger on Sunday as it became clear that the White House and Senate Republicans had imposed a narrow scope on the new F.B.I. investigation into Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh …

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CNN:

FBI spoke with Deborah Ramirez, second Kavanaugh accuser — (CNN)The FBI spoke with Deborah Ramirez on Sunday in its investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a source familiar with the matter has told CNN. — Ramirez accused Kavanaugh of exposing himself to her at a party …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, POLITICUSUSA, Daily Wire, Jezebel and The Daily Caller

Daily Mail:

'I'm a victim of sexual assault': Kellyanne Conway chokes up as she makes shocking revelation on CNN while defending SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh — White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway made the revelation during an interview with CNN on Sunday morning

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Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Brett Kavanaugh is “too big to fail” — For the White House, it's Brett Kavanaugh or bust. They have no Plan B and there's not even discussion of one, according to five sources with direct knowledge of the sensitive internal White House talks. — What they're saying: “He's too big to fail now …

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NBC News:

Limits to FBI's Kavanaugh investigation have not changed, despite Trump's comments — Trump's Saturday night tweet has not changed the limits imposed by the White House counsel's office on the FBI's Kavanaugh investigation, sources say. — FBI begins new Brett Kavanaugh background investigation

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Associated Press:

3rd Kavanaugh accuser has history of legal disputes — WASHINGTON (AP) — Julie Swetnick, one of the women who has publicly accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, has an extensive history of involvement in legal disputes, including a lawsuit in which an ex-employer accused …

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Jacqueline Klimas / Politico:
Cotton: Feinstein to be investigated over leaked letter from Ford

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Kris Schneider / ABC News:
If Kavanaugh confirmed, ‘House will have to’ investigate if Senate doesn't: Democratic rep

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Politico:
The fight over the scope of the Kavanaugh probe

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ABC News:
Graham suggests no need for FBI to talk to Kavanaugh classmates on drinking: He's not a ‘stumbling, bumbling drunk’

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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Kellyanne Conway: 'I'm a victim of sexual assault'

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Wall Street Journal:
White House Questioned on Its Role in Kavanaugh FBI Probe

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Jacqueline Klimas / Politico:
White House not ‘micromanaging’ FBI, Sarah Sanders says

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Taylor Utzig / WREX-TV:
Winnebago County GOP headquarters vandalized overnight

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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Sen. Chuck Grassley asks FBI to probe false allegation against Kavanaugh

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Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:
Lindsey Graham promises ‘full scale’ probe into Democrats' handling of Ford-Kavanaugh allegation

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Alexandra Hutzler / Newsweek:
Kavanaugh Confirmation: Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Says We're Seeing The 'Death …

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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Warren Says She Will Take ‘A Hard Look’ at Running for President in 2020

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Reid Wilson / The Hill:

House GOP cancels Yoder ad buys — The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has canceled more than $1 million in planned advertising aimed at helping Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.) in the coming weeks. — The decision to cut advertising, described to The Hill by a source familiar …

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Caitlin Dickerson / New York Times:

Migrant Children Moved Under Cover of Darkness to a Texas Tent City — In shelters from Kansas to New York, hundreds of migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home …

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Nathan J. Robinson / Current Affairs:

How We Know Kavanaugh Is Lying — This man should not serve another day as any kind of judge... On Thursday morning, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Blasey Ford detailed under oath her claim that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh attacked her and sexually violated her when he was 17.

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El Paso Times:

Last Slide — AUSTIN — Roughly 55,000 people stood crammed together at Auditorium Shores in Austin on Saturday for the Turn Out For Texas rally, watching as U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke sang “On the Road Again” with country music legend Willie Nelson. — Attendees at the free concert …

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Associated Press:

California is 1st state to require women on corporate boards — SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California has become the first state to require publicly traded companies to include women on their boards of directors, according to a law signed Sunday by Gov. Jerry Brown.

Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:

The Republican Party Abandons Conservatism — Ignoring the dictum that if one is not of the left as a young person one has no heart, and not of the right in middle age one has no head, I have always been a conservative. I voted Republican most of the time, affiliated with the GOP …

Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:

APNewsBreak: Pentagon's immigrant recruit program stymied — WASHINGTON (AP) — Stricter Trump administration immigration policies have stymied Pentagon plans to restart a program that allowed thousands of people with critical medical or Asian and African language skills to join the military …

Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:

Kanye West Delivers Pro-Trump Rant on ‘SNL,’ Gets Booed By Audience — The rapper/entrepreneur delivered a pro-Trump speech in a red MAGA hat after his final performance—one that didn't make it to air. — Following his performance of “Ghost Town” during the 44th season premiere of Saturday Night Live …

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Matt Thompson / The Atlantic:

This Was Never About Finding Out the Truth — Let us fully dispense with the polite fiction that last week's Senate hearings on the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh were intended to bring us closer to a common understanding of the truth. This entire affair is not about truth, but power—who will wield it, and at whose expense.

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