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The Week reports: On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, Oliver called the fact that Gitmo is still open one of Obama’s “inarguable failures.” A poll found that 52 percent of Americans think it should remain open, and while he sees the appeal — “potentially dangerous people are locked up and far away” — there are more reasons to shut it down. …

CNN reports: Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said Monday that he did not consider leaving Donald Trump’s presidential ticket, saying it’s the “greatest honor of my life” to be nominated by the Republican Party as Trump’s running mate. “You know I’ll always keep my conversations with Donald Trump and my family private. But it’s absolutely false to suggest that at any …

Via the Hollywood Reporter: Milo Yiannopoulos, an alt-right hero known for his banishment from Twitter, is preparing a bid to acquire his own social media firm: 4chan. Launched in 2003, 4chan is an imageboard Internet site that allows users to post anonymously. Its roots were in anime and manga, though it has evolved into much more and has facilitated some …

The Hill reports: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s remark at Sunday night’s debate about jailing Hillary Clinton was a “quip,” his campaign manager said Monday. “Whether she goes to jail is not up to Donald Trump. It’s up to whoever adjudicates whatever crime she has or has not committed,” Kellyanne Conway said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Trump bluntly warned Clinton …

If you’re not completely hammered yet (and even if you are), here’s our second open thread for tonight’s debate. Embedded below are the official live-streams from NBC, ABC, and C-SPAN. Watch along with us and join in.

The second presidential debate begins at 9PM Eastern from St. Louis with moderators Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz. Tonight’s event is town hall-style with questions provided in advance from allegedly undecided voters. Embedded below are the official live-streams from NBC, CBS, and C-SPAN as well as a bootleg stream of the pre-debate coverage on CNN. Fix a cocktail and join …

Buzzfeed News reports: A powerful Hollywood ally of Donald Trump has threatened staffers who could release potentially damaging outtakes of the show, a source close to Mark Burnett told BuzzFeed News. Burnett, the producer of The Apprentice, and his production company have not responded to requests for comment from BuzzFeed News and many other outlets since grotesque outtakes from another …

NPR reports: Reacting to the recent release of audio of Donald Trump making vulgar comments about women, President Obama called the candidate “insecure” and said he “pumps himself up by putting other people down – not a character trait I would advise for somebody in the Oval Office.” Obama spoke about Trump at a planned event Sunday in Chicago for …

CBS News reports: The song “You’re So Vain” wasn’t written about Republican nominee Donald Trump, but singer Carly Simon thinks it applies to him anyway. Simon’s well-known song appears in a new anti-Trump video from a Democratic super PAC—the first time she has given permission for its use in a political video. The 2.5 minute-long video, from the group Patriotic …

Video below. Via Mediaite: During a back and forth that included host George Stephanopoulos, fellow GOP consultant Alex Castellanos, Democrat Stephanie Cutter and ABC’s Matthew Dowd, Matalin went off on a tangent regarding what voters really want to talk about. “Three out of four voters said they will cast their vote based on health care,” Matalin stated. “What’s going on …