Border Wall / Immigration / Trump Address
- Trump Opts For Gravitas Of The Oval Office As He’s In Need Of A Game-Changing Moment by Ron Elving (NPR)
- Can Trump Really Use Emergency Powers to Build a Wall? by Robert Kuttner (The American Prospect)
- Networks Will Air Trump’s Surely Inflammatory Immigration Speech . . . Why? by Laura Bradley (Vanity Fair)
- Six Immigration Lies Trump Might Tell in the Oval Office Tonight by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
- Democrats Set To Counter Trump After Oval Office Address by Kelsey Snell (NPR)
- Wall of Lies by León Krauze (Slate)
- Can the U.S. Military Build a Border Wall Even as It Struggles to Rebuild Itself? by Joe Sexton (ProPublica)
- GOP in the dark as Trump weighs emergency declaration by Rachael Bade, Eliana Johnson, Burges Everett, Heather Caygle (Politico)
- Legal and practical hurdles would await emergency declaration by Wesley Morgan (Politico)
- Trump to make case for wall in TV address; Democrats to respond (Al Jazeera)
- The Networks Blew the Call by James Fallows (Atlantic)
- Analysis: Your fact-checking cheat sheet for Trump’s immigration address by Salvador Rizzo by Glenn Kessler and
Meg Kelly (Washington Post) - Donald Trump falsely claims former US presidents told him they wished they’d constructed border wall by Shira Tarlo (Salon)
- Opinion: An ‘emergency’ power grab would only add to Trump’s problems by Jennifer Rubin (Washington Post)
- Pelosi, Schumer will respond to Trump Oval Office speech by Lindsey McPherson (Roll Call)
- Democrats could sue if Trump declares national emergency over wall, Hoyer says by Lindsey McPherson (Roll Call)
- Trump’s Claim of Terrorists Streaming Over Border ‘Simply Isn’t True,’ Experts Say by Eric Schmitt, David E. Sanger and Glenn Thrush (NY Times)
- Analysis: Trump’s Speech to the Nation: Live Updates and Fact Checks (NY Times)
- Trump Pushes For Wall Amid Shutdown, Says There’s ‘A Crisis Of The Heart’ At Border by Jessica Taylor (NPR)
- In His First Oval Office Speech, Trump Falsely Depicts Immigrants as Violent Criminals to Justify Shutdown by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
- Here Is the Democrats’ Response to Trump’s Border Wall Address by Mother Jones (Mother Jones)
- FACT CHECK: Trump’s Oval Office Pitch For A Border Wall by Scott Horsley, Joel Rose, Jim Zarroli (NPR)
- What Was the Point of Trump’s Oval Office Address? by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- Full text: Donald Trump’s immigration address (Politico)
- Full text: Pelosi and Schumer respond to Trump’s immigration speech (Politico)
Government Shutdown
- DOJ, Largely Shut Down, Nonetheless Issued Statements On Southern Border Cases by Carrie Johnson (NPR)
- Why Mike Pence Couldn’t End the Shutdown by Elaina Plott (The Atlantic)
- TSA union: Some screeners have quit as shutdown stretches on by Stephanie Beasley (Politico)
- Joshua Tree National Park Will Close After Visitor Damage During Government Shutdown by Richard Gonzales (NPR)
Russian Investigations / Manafort / Trump Tower
- Russian Lawyer At Trump Tower Meeting Charged In Connection To Money Laundering Case by Ryan Lucas (NPR)
- Russian Lawyer at Trump Tower Meeting Lied About Kremlin Ties, Prosecutors Charge by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
- Supreme Court turns down mysterious Mueller subpoena fight by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
- Manafort Allegedly Shared 2016 Polling With Associate Linked To Russian Intelligence by Carrie Johnson (NPR)
- Paul Manafort’s Lawyers Tried—and Failed—to Redact This Sensitive Legal Filing by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- Paul Manafort’s Botched Redactions Reveal New Details on Trump-Russia Interactions by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
- Manafort shared Trump polling data with Ukrainian associate during 2016 campaign by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
- Manafort Filing Suggests Mueller Has Evidence of Something That Starts With C and Rhymes With Schmollusion by Ben Mathis-Lolley (Slate)
- Analysis: A Paul Manafort court filing just accidentally connected some big dots between the Trump campaign and Russia by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
- Supreme Court rules against mystery corporation from ‘Country A’ fighting subpoena in Mueller investigation by Robert Barnes, Devlin Barrett, and Carol D. Leonnig (Washington Post)
- Mueller protection bill reintroduced in the Senate, but still no prospects for floor time by Niels Lesneiwski (Roll Call)
Other News
- US downgrades EU diplomatic status in Washington (BBC)
- Trump summons advisers to White House over drug price hikes by Dan Diamond, Adam Cancryn, Sarah Owermohle (Politico)
- Bolton leaves Turkey on sour note over Trump’s Syria plans by Elise Labott (Politico)
- Trump’s plan to get out of Syria is collapsing already by Alexandra Ma (Business Insider)
Analysis
- What Would It Take For Trump To Get Primaried? by Perry Bacon Jr. (FiveThirtyEight)
- The U.S. Has Been in a Constant State of National Emergency Since 1979. Here’s Why by Olivia B. Waxman (TIME)