Tipsheet: Anger at Mueller burns hot on the right

View in your browser     Anger at Mueller burns hot on the right By Jonathan Easley   Anger at Robert Mueller is burning white-hot on the right and in conservative media, where calls for the special counsel to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian election meddling have reached a fever pitch. President Trump has largely held his fire on Mueller, even as the probe into his campaign officials has intensified. White House lawyers are hopeful that the investigation will end soon and absolve the president and his inner circle of wrongdoing. But the influential conservative media outlets that Trump is known to follow closely have been building an expansive case against Mueller. Read the full story here     Rival appointments set up showdown to lead agency By Sylvan Lane and Tristan Lejeune   President Trump on Friday announced that he is appointing Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney as acting director of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB), setting up a potential fight over the agency's future.  Earlier Friday, CFPB head Richard Cordray announced that he was stepping down at the end of the day and elevated his chief of staff, Leandra English, to deputy director. Read the full story here     Trump: I turned down Time's 'Person of the Year' By John Bowden President Trump said Friday that he turned down being named Time's "Person of the Year" after the magazine only told him he "probably" would be selected. Read the full story here     Five things to watch in the new Keystone fight By Devin Henry Nebraska's approval of the Keystone XL pipeline was a key step in supporters’ years-long fight to build the controversial project. Read the full story here       Abortion providers brace for new Trump funding fight By Jessie Hellmann The Trump administration has a new opportunity to target the funding of Planned Parenthood and other groups that provide abortions. Read the full story here     Trump slams NFL: Anthem protesting ‘continues without penalty to the players’ By Alicia Cohn President Trump slammed the National Football League on Friday for not implementing penalties for players who protest during the national anthem. Read the full story here     Senate vote on tax cut looms next week By Katie Bo Williams Republicans have struggled to give Trump a signature legislative achievement to sign his name to during the first year of his presidency. Read the full story here     Trump pushes border wall, travel ban after Egyptian mosque attack By Max Greenwood President Trump on Friday revived his calls for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and a travel ban targeting certain countries after an attack on a mosque in Egypt left at least 235 people dead. Read the full story here     Capitol Police investigating whether nude photo of House Republican was a crime By Alicia Cohn The Capitol Police are investigating whether the unauthorized release of a nude photo of Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) online was a crime. Read the full story here     US reverses, says Palestinians can keep DC office open By Max Greenwood The U.S. will allow the Palestinian Liberation Organization's (PLO) office in Washington to remain open, despite threatening last week to shutter it. Read the full story here     Sex scandals may be old, but victims' power is new By former Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) OPINION | Once we were a country known for reaching across the continent, then for the moon. Read the full story here     This obscure law can help correct misinformation in Trump's White House By Stuart Shapiro OPINION | This seemingly obscure action could pave the way for greater use of another tool that could be useful for groups hoping to highlight distortions of facts by the Trump administration. Read the full story here     The Washington Post: Mueller might be the one who’s ‘draining the swamp’ By Matt Zapotosky and Tom Hamburger  President Trump famously promised that, if elected president, he would “drain the swamp” — upending the culture in Washington that favors the well-connected. Read the full story here     The Associated Press: Trump and Time magazine dispute Person of the Year plans By The AP Staff President Donald Trump says he’s not playing ball with Time magazine as it decides its Person of the Year. The magazine counters that Trump has it all wrong. Read the full story here     The New York Times: Diplomats Sound the Alarm as They Are Pushed Out in Droves By Gardiner Harris   Of all the State Department employees who might have been vulnerable in the staff reductions that Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson has initiated as he reshapes the department, the one person who seemed least likely to be a target was the chief of security, Bill A. Miller. Read the full story here     The Wall Street Journal: Black Friday Kicks Off, With Upbeat Shoppers and Fewer Discounts By Suzanne Kapner and  Laura Stevens   After a year of struggling to keep up with consumers’ shift to e-commerce, many retailers found themselves in unexpectedly good shape on Black Friday with pared-down inventories and less need to slash prices to lure shoppers. Read the full story here     CNN: Egypt mosque attack death toll climbs above 300 By Hamdi Alkhshali, Laura Smith-Spark and Susannah Cullinane The death toll in a bomb and gun attack on a Sufi mosque in northern Sinai has risen to 305, with 27 children among the dead, Egypt's state prosecutor said Saturday. Read the full story here         Did a friend forward you this email? Sign up for The Hill Tipsheet       Forward this Tipsheet     You might like         Privacy Policy  |  Manage Subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe  |  Email to a friend  |  Sign Up for Other Newsletters   The Hill 1625 K Street, NW 9th Floor, Washington DC 20006 ©2016 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc.