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Will Mick Mulvaney be out of a job soon? The president’s acting chief of staff (that’s right, he’s still in an acting capacity) survived a year. But that doesn’t mean his job is safe, especially as the White House battles congressional committees investigating the president, Peter Nicholas reports. Earlier this year, Mulvaney told our White House reporters that everything was awesome; fun, even.

The Whistle-Blower Is Not the Story: A narrative is catching on in both right-wing media and the anti-anti-Trump left: The whistle-blower alleging Trump made an improper request of Ukraine’s president to open an investigation into the Bidens is politically motivated. So what if the whistle-blower was motivated by politics? Adam Serwer argues.

+ The White House is most definitely not going to be cooperating with any impeachment inquiry-related requests. A letter, signed by the president’s lawyer, is light on legal arguments, David Graham argues.

Our Reporters Are Also Reading

‣ Counterterrorism Analyst Arrested for Leaking to Two Journalists
(Aruna Viswanatha, Dustin Volz and Byron Tau, The Wall Street Journal) (Paywall)

‣ Kellyanne and George Conway’s Tawdry Love Triangle With All of Us (Monica Hesse, The Washington Post) (Paywall)

‣ Two Key Players In The Ukraine Controversy Spent Lavishly As They Dug For Dirt on Biden (Michael Sallah and Emma Loop, BuzzFeed News)

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