• UPDATE: Lindsey Graham on defensive after tampering with a witness
  
• Saturday Morning and Night Massacre: Oliver North Ousted Hours Before NY State Att’y General Launches Probe into NRA Money
  
• Here’s why it’s high time to disbar Rod Rosenstein
  

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• The salacious Mueller Report revelation that should sink Trump for good
  
• Mueller: Trump Tried to Thwart
  Fully Justified Russia ProbeA damning portrait of Trump’s inept, corrupt presidency (washingtonpost.com)Key quotes from U.S. Special Counsel Mueller's report (feeds.reuters.com)Mueller Left Door Wide Open to Charging Trump After He Left Office (nytimes.com)Mueller Report: Congress could make (cbsnews.com)Mueller Report: Assange Smeared Seth Rich to Cover for Russians (thedailybeast.com)Mueller Report: Trump backer Erik Prince's account of Russian banker contact differs from Mueller report (hint: lying to Congress is a felony) (feeds.reuters.com)Mueller Report: Press secretary Sarah Sanders admitted to lying to reporters (theguardian.com)Mueller Report: There Are Yuuuuge, Unanswered Questions About Contacts Between Russians and Trump Aides (nytimes.com)QAnon Believers Crushed After Mueller Report Fails to Lead to Hillary Clinton’s Arrest (thedailybeast.com)What Attorney General Barr buried, misrepresented or ignored in clearing Trump (washingtonpost.com)Analysis: Mueller Hands Dems a Gift and They’re Already Fumbling It (thedailybeast.com)
  
• Notre Dame de Paris still stands; massive fire extinguished; experts assess structure, massive fire damagePolice question Notre Dame workers about cause of fire (theguardian.com)The aftermath: live updates at Guardian (theguardian.com)Paris Firefighters Had to ‘Surround and Drown’ the Blaze (thedailybeast.com)Notre Dame Cathedral fire: more at Guardian (theguardian.com)Notre Dame Cathedral fire: more at NY TImes (nytimes.com)
  
• Shooting gallery America: 13 slaughtered in California dance hall (nytimes.com)Suspected Thousand Oaks shooter Ian David Long used a Glock .45-caliber handgun and likely shot himself: sheriff (rawstory.com)Gunman threw smoke bombs and rained bullets on a crowd of hundreds (latimes.com)'It’s never going to be normal': California city in shock after gunman kills 12 (nytimes.com)
  
• Attack on the press: White House revokes CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s credentials after furious exchange with Trump and false accusation that Acosta touched a White House aideAcosta row triggered social media, exposed Sarah Sanders lie (theguardian.com)White House Press Secretary Sanders used a doctored Infowars video to justify banning Acosta (wlrn.org)
  
• Wednesday Afternoon Massacre:
  Attorney General Sessions Resigns
  Under Pressure from TrumpDemocrats warn Trump on ouster of U.S. attorney general (feeds.reuters.com)House Intel Democrats’ New Mission: Protect Mueller, Use Subpoena Power (thedailybeast.com)
  
• Morning after: DC reels as Blue Earthquake hits House

  It's a massive repudiation of Trump, bigger than most people realize — and he had best fear what his coming his way…

  

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• Game Day 2018: Blue Earthquake Hits DCYES, it's a blue wave! (politicalwire.com)

  Dems take House. GOP keeps Senate. Dems make gains in Governors' mansions.
  PLUS: Results of the top Senate, Gubernatorial, and House races!

   

  
• Game Day -1: The youth vote surging and backing Democrats in midterms (theguardian.com)It’s All Coming Down to Turnout (dcreport.org)Majorities of millennials who plan to vote support Democrats — except among white men (washingtonpost.com)Trump, Obama press importance of midterms in last-ditch campaign effort – live (theguardian.com)
  
• Game Day -2: Closing Arguments in Pennsylvania and Across the U.S. (nytimes.com)Democrats lead in House preferences, but positive views of the economy and concern about border security may buoy Republicans, poll finds (washingtonpost.com)
  
• Another James O’Keefe ‘Project Veri-shady’ ambush backfires, reveals Beto O’Rourke campaign is compassionateRaw Story ties O'Keefe dirty trick to insane Ted Cruz tweet (rawstory.com)
  

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• Michael Cohen Tells Vanity Fair’s Emily Jane Fox That Trump Repeatedly Used Racist Language Before His Presidency (vanityfair.com)Michael Cohen claims Trump said ‘black people are too stupid’ to vote for him (theguardian.com)Anecdotes about Trump's racist outbursts become increasingly believable (washingtonpost.com)
  
• Trump turns racially divisive spew up to 11 as he panics over potential midterm ‘blue tsunami’ (washingtonpost.com)Trump mourns loss of ‘tremendous momentum’ for GOP due to pipe bombs, synagogue shootings (thedailybeast.com)Meanwhile, two weeks into journey across Mexico, migrant refugees face illness, exhaustion and danger (theguardian.com)Trump Lifted 'Jobs Not Mobs' Ad from Anonymous YouTube User Who Says He Was Sick Of Seeing GOP Efforts 'Flounder' (newsweek.com)Convicted Cop-Murderer in Trump Ad Came to U.S. Under Bush, Used AR-15 Republicans Refuse to Ban (newsweek.com)
  
• Tantrum! Rep. Steve King loses it as questioner compares his immigration views to those of Pittsburgh synagogue terroristSteve King Says Ted Cruz Called Him to Reaffirm Support Amid White Supremacy Scandal (alternet.org)
  
• Worse than Willie Horton: Trump’s New Campaign Ad Is Breathtakingly RacistErik Wemple Opinion CNN correctly calls Trump’s new immigration-fear ad ‘racist’ (washingtonpost.com)Rolling Stone declares Trump the 'Racist-In-Chief' (rollingstone.com)

• Spokane GOP leader faces smackdown for ‘Biblical Basis for War’ manifesto that calls for ending abortion, banning same-sex marriage, death to dissenters
  
• Kanye quits politics amid ‘Blexit’ brouhaha: ‘My eyes are wide open’ (theguardian.com)
  
• Inside The Crazy Cabal Trying To Smear Robert Mueller (thedailybeast.com)Buried lede: Guess who Mueller interviewed — again — last Friday?Watch MSNBC's Ari Melber interview the law professor approached to lie about Mueller in exchange for money (mediamatters.org)The greatest grifter story ever told: Krassenstein brother busts Jacob Wohl over Mueller plot (thinkprogress.org)Twitter explodes with mirth over Jacob Wohl’s alleged attempt to smear Mueller (rawstory.com)
  
• Trump Wants to End Birthright CitizenshipTrump’s Birthright Citizenship Stunt Panders to Zealots Like Alleged Pittsburgh Shooter Robert Bowers (thedailybeast.com)House Speaker Paul Ryan rejects President Trump’s idea of ending birthright citizenship by executive order (washingtonpost.com)Craven ploy to galvanize Trump's bigot base (csmonitor.com)Buried lede: Guess who Mueller interviewed — again — last Friday?

• Pittsburgh Mayor Peduto to Trump: Cancel Your Tuesday Visit, Families Are Burying Their Dead

• MAGAbomber Cesar Sayoc had a hit list — naming HUNDREDS of people (nydailynews.com)
  

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Top wire stories

• U.S. Treasury’s Mnuchin: No discussion with White House on Trump’s taxes (feeds.reuters.com)
• Infrastructure Week: Trump Walks Out on Democrats After 3 Minutes (nytimes.com)
• Pelosi Accuses Trump of a ‘Cover-Up’ (nytimes.com)
• Trump to Congress: Stop Probing Me or I’m Done Talking (thedailybeast.com)
  
• Virginia governor’s role in blackface yearbook photo unclear, school says (feeds.reuters.com)
• Ben Carson Blames Democrats’ ‘Alinsky’ Tactics for His ‘Oreo’ Moment (thedailybeast.com)
  
• Nigel Farage discussed fronting far-right group led by Steve Bannon (theguardian.com)
• Trump lawyers to appear in court over subpoenas for financial records (theguardian.com)
• Justice Dept. Says It Will Share Some Mueller-Related Intelligence With House Committee (nytimes.com)
• House panel chief Schiff delays subpoena against Barr after Justice Dept offer (feeds.reuters.com)
• Purdue Pharma accused of ‘corrupting’ WHO to boost global opioid sales (theguardian.com)
• Trickle of Democrats contemplating impeachment has become a flood (cbsnews.com)
• Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Unveils First 100 Day Plan (thedailybeast.com)
  
• Cory Booker Vows to Create a White House Office for Reproductive Freedom (thedailybeast.com)
  
• White Nationalists in Estonia Have Learned Some Big Ugly Lessons From Trump (thedailybeast.com)
  
• Accused Thief Taunted Disney World With Photo of Stolen Robot’s Mutilated Head (thedailybeast.com)
  
• Border Vigilante Was Accused of Running Child-Cancer Charity Scam (thedailybeast.com)
  
• Howard Stern Dishes to Colbert on Trump’s Attraction to His Daughter: ‘He Was Wild’ (thedailybeast.com)
  
• Who Is Andrew Yang, the Internet’s Favorite Candidate? (nytimes.com)
• Kamala Harris in new push to reduce mothers’ mortality rate among blacks (cbsnews.com)
• US may blacklist Chinese surveillance kit firm Hikvision (theguardian.com)
• Huawei’s U.S. Restrictions Expose a High-Tech Achilles’ Heel for China (nytimes.com)
• Revealed: 21,000 US women order abortion pills in six months (theguardian.com)
• Climate crisis more politically polarizing than abortion for US voters, study finds (theguardian.com)
• Democrat O’Rourke unveils new plan to protect abortion rights as he seeks to halt slide in polls (feeds.reuters.com)

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