Evening Edition: Trump waffles on corporate tax cut, hours after Senate bill meets his demands

Graphic: 7 differences the GOP must resolve between House, Senate bills; Democrats fume over 'absurd' bill full of last-minute handwritten edits

Democracy Dies in Darkness     The day's most important stories   Trump waffles on corporate tax cut, hours after Senate bill meets his demands President Trump suggested for the first time that he would consider significant changes to the emerging tax overhaul plan, including setting the corporate tax rate at 22 percent, higher than the red line he had drawn for weeks during negotiations. He did not explain why he was now considering allowing a different rate. By Damian Paletta  •  Read more » Graphic: 7 differences the GOP must resolve between House, Senate bills The two tax bills have a lot in common — including dramatic cuts in corporate tax rates and the elimination of a number of personal tax deductions — but they also have crucial differences that must be reconciled before a final version can be sent to the president. By Jeff Stein, Kim Soffen, Reuben Fischer-Baum and Kevin Uhrmacher  •   Read more »   Democrats fume over 'absurd' bill full of last-minute handwritten edits "This is Washington, D.C. at its worst," one Democratic senator wrote on Twitter. By Amy B Wang  •   Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT EXCLUSIVE Former Trump aides reveal a campaign filled with screaming fits, constant rivalries, Big Macs The Washington Post obtained an advance copy of "Let Trump Be Trump," scheduled for release Tuesday. Written by former aides Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, it paints a portrait of a campaign with an untested candidate and staff rocketing from crisis to crisis, in which a cast of mostly neophyte political aides learned on the fly and ultimately accepted Donald Trump's propensity to go angrily off message. By Michael Kranish  •   Read more »   Inside the secretive nerve center of the special counsel's Russia inquiry In the past two months, Robert S. Mueller III and his team have received private debriefs from two dozen current and former Trump advisers, each of whom has made the trek to the special counsel's secure office suite. Among the topics of keen interest to investigators: how foreign government officials and their emissaries contacted Trump officials, as well as the actions and interplay of Michael Flynn and the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. By Robert Costa, Carol D. Leonnig and Josh Dawsey  •   Read more »   Top FBI official in Mueller probe was removed after anti-Trump texts The person assigned to Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election was taken off that job this summer after his bosses discovered that he and another member of Mueller's team had exchanged texts described as supportive of Hillary Clinton, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. By Karoun Demirjian and Devlin Barrett  •   Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT The Fix: Did Trump just admit something he shouldn't have in a tweet about Flynn? Some say the president tweeted an admission to obstruction of justice. One prominent watchdog said it would have been the end of any other president. By Aaron Blake  •   Read more »   U.S. Senate race in Alabama is neck and neck, with voters divided over Roy Moore allegations, poll finds With less than two weeks to go, most respondents said Democrat Doug Jones had higher personal moral standards. By Michael Scherer and Scott Clement  •   Read more »   Project Veritas received $1.7 million last year from charity associated with the Koch brothers The donations highlight the prominent spot the activist group occupies in a national network of conservative nonprofit oganizations that supported Donald Trump in the 2016 election. By Robert O'Harrow Jr.  •   Read more »   After mass shootings, retired military commanders urge Congress to address 'gun violence crisis' Sixteen of the nation's top military leaders argue that there are many steps that can be taken to curb gun deaths that do not violate the Second Amendment. By Katie Zezima  •   Read more »   Civil rights attorney Charles Ogletree's mind is a weapon. Now, it's fighting him. The renowned attorney and Harvard law professor represented Anita Hill against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas and was a longtime moderator of a 1990s PBS series on ethics. Now he's battling Alzheimer's disease. By Keith L. Alexander  •   Read more »   North Korean soldier's survival is 'truly a miracle,' says U.S. rescue crew The evacuation team did not know it, but their patient was a North Korean soldier who had been shot five times and laid in a pile of leaves for 30 minutes while South Korean soldiers crawled to him and dragged him to safety. 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