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The first signs came just after 7 p.m. on Election Night, a trickle of tepid polling returns out of Virginia. From there, things went sideways in a hurry.

Huge Republican turnout across rural Florida prompted a top Democratic Florida sage to phone Hillary Clinton's advisers before 8 p.m. to inform them that she had lost the Sunshine State. Within a few hours, the coronation was off, Clinton was prodded by Barack Obama into making an unthinkable concession call , and a campaign convinced it was on the brink of electing the first female president was left puzzling over how it had all gone awry.

This is the question at the heart of Shattered , a new autopsy of the campaign by authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. Told largely through background interviews with campaign staff and a tangle of Clinton insiders, the book is a comprehensive chronicle of how her quest for the White House lurched and sputtered toward ignominious defeat.

Richly reported, if not often revelatory, it portrays a campaign beset by strategic errors, a factional staff consumed with power struggles and a candidate with a poor feel for the electorate.

Here are seven takeaways from Shattered :

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CNNs Ana Navarro slammed Sarah Palin, Ted Nugent, and Kid Rock on Fridays New Day over their razzing pose in front of the White House portrait of Hillary Clinton.

I see it as immature, childish, foolish, and to be expected from that crowd, Navarro contended.

The commentator, who voted for Mrs. Clinton (despite her past Republican affiliation), continued by underling that one day, theres going to be a picture of Melania Trump hanging on those walls; and a picture of Donald Trump hanging on those walls; and folks are going to go and stick their tongue out at it. And people are going to say, well, but do you remember when Sarah Palin posed in front of Hillary Clinton, making fun of her?

Navarro also emphasized that as somebody who has been at the White House, I can tell you that you see a lot of pictures hanging there some people you agree with; some dont but theres this, you know, gravitas to the White House. Theres this respect for the place. Theres this respect for the office.

Earlier in the segment, pro-Trump guest Kayleigh McEnany asserted that this is overblown. They were having fun. They were taking a picture with Hillary Clinton. Theyre obviously not fans of her. You know, Hillary Clintons picture isnt shrouded with some sort of honor that has to be respected.

Anchor Alisyn Camerota interjected, We do generally afford first ladies respect. McEnany replied, And they respect her. I think they just wanted to take a fun picture. Oh, heres Hillary Clinton. You didnt make it to the White House. Were here. You never thought youd see this day.

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Donald Trump Jr. hopped on the Montana campaign trail Friday with tech entrepreneur Greg Gianforte, who is gunning for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's vacated House seat.

Don't forget: Last year Gianforte failed to win a bid for the governor's seat to a Democrat.

Why it matters: All eyes are on Montana after the GOP won by a narrower margin than usual in the Kansas special election and now that the Georgia special election is headed to a hotly contested runoff. Like Kansas and Georgia, the seat is usually a shoo-in for GOP candidates, but the DCCC announced their six-figure investment Thursday, ramping up the stakes for Gianforte.

Context: Trump Jr. is following in his father's footsteps; President Trump robo-called for both candidates in Kansas and Georgia.

Prairie dogs: You read that right. Trump Jr. and Gianforte are hunting prairie dogs later today Jr. is an avid hunter although the Humane Society of the United States condemned it, per the AP.

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Lissa Muscatine, a co-owner of Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, is finally ready to tell her story about working with Hillary Clinton.

Her upcoming book, titled Hillaryland, will describe the 25-year journey of Hillary and her closest advisors at the intersection of politics and gender dynamics, according to a statement released by Penguin Press.

This is a journey Muscatine experienced firsthand before and after she and her husband, Bradley Graham, bought Politics & Prose in 2011. Penguin Press President and Editor-in-Chief Ann Godoff said, Muscatine has intimately witnessed events that define who we are culturally and politically in a changing America through her close association with Hillary Clinton for the last quarter century.

[Clinton and Muscatine: From first lady and speechwriter to author and bookseller]

After working as a reporter and editor for the Washington Star and The Washington Post, Muscatine first met Hillary Clinton in 1993, when she was hired as a presidential speechwriter in the Clinton White House. Her work quickly shifted to Hillary. She wrote speeches for the first lady and then for Secretary of State Clinton in the Obama administration. She served as a senior adviser on Clintons 2008 presidential campaign and as an unofficial adviser during the 2016 campaign. And she collaborated on Clintons 2003 memoir, Living History, which garnered an $8 million advance.

The decision to step out from behind the curtain and write in her own voice was a significant step for Muscatine. Her parents were authors, her husband has written two books, and she helps run one of the countrys most famous indie bookstores, but, she says, I promised myself long ago that I would never write a book of my own unless I had something meaningful to say.

The rise of Donald Trump changed everything for her. The election was devastating, and Im still reeling from it, she said. After years of writing in someone elses voice, I just felt absolutely compelled to write this book. I hope that by telling this story in my own words, I can offer insights into an important slice of history a window into Hillarys world, and how that world is a mirror back on ourselves, our nation and our times.

Clintons cooperation with the book seems likely. When Clinton finished the manuscript for her second memoir, Hard Choices, she sent the manuscript to Muscatine to get her comments. At a joint presentation in Washington in 2014, Clinton said, Lissa has been my partner in some of the most important writing and speaking that Ive done, going back to the White House years.

Hillaryland will join a growing shelf of books about Clinton. Just this month, Susan Bordo published The Destruction of Hillary Clinton, and Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes released Shattered: Inside Hillary Clintons Doomed Campaign. Clinton herself plans to publish a collection of personal essays in September.

The title is a reference to the self-designated name of a group of about a dozen devoted supporters and staffers that includes Huma Abedin, Mandy Grunwald and Patti Solis Doyle, who is credited with coining the word.

A release date for Hillaryland has not yet been set.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is hitting back at Trumps CIA director Mike Pompeo following a speech last week in which Pompeo accused WikiLeaks of being a hostile nonstate intelligence agency operating outside of the protections of the First Amendment. We can no longer allow Assange and his colleagues the latitude to use free speech values against us. To give them the space to crush us with misappropriated secrets is a perversion of what our great Constitution stands for, Pompeo declared, adding an ominous assertion: It ends now.

Speaking from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been living since June 2012, Assange said Pompeo appeared to be issuing a threat. So how does he propose to conduct this ending? He didnt say. But the CIA is only in the business of collecting information, kidnapping people, and assassinating people. So, its quite a menacing statement that he does need to clarify, said Assange.

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Assange made the remarks during an exclusive interview for the Intercepted podcast. The reason why Director Pompeo is launching this attack, is because he knows were in this series exposing all sorts of illegal actions by the CIA, Assange said, referring to WikiLeaks ongoing publication of secret CIA hacking documents as part of its Vault 7 project. Pompeo, he said, is trying to get ahead of the publicity curve and create a preemptive defense.

When he watched Pompeos speech, Assange said he was struck by what he perceived as a lack of gravitas. We thought it was quite a weak speech in that it put Director Pompeo, it put the CIA, in a position where they looked like they were frightened and worried that we were the better intelligence service, Assange said.

Regarding Pompeos declaration that WikiLeaks was not entitled to First Amendment rights, Assange said: For the head of the CIA to pronounce what the boundaries are, of reporting or not reporting is a very disturbing precedent. The head of the CIA determining who is a publisher, whos not a publisher, whos a journalist, whos not a journalist, is totally out of line.

In the wide-ranging interview, Assange discussed the allegations that WikiLeaks was abetted by Russian intelligence in its publication of DNC emails, his allegedrelationship with Roger Stone and his newfound admirers on the right, from FOX News to Sarah Palin and Donald Trump.

Assange said that if WikiLeaks had obtained a cache of RNC emails, it would have published those as well. Just imagine if WikiLeaks had obtained information that it knew was true about the Democratic party and corruption of the primary process, and it decided that it was not going to publish that information, but suppress it it would be completely unconscionable, he said. We specialize in really big scoops. You cant go, Oh, we have this massive scoop about corruption in the DNC. Now we need to balance this with a massive scoop about corruption in the RNC. These things come along once every few years.

Questioned aboutWikiLeakss aggressive targeting of Hillary Clinton, Assange rejected the notion that he went afterherfor personal reasons. Ive never met Hillary Clinton, he said. I think Id probably like her in person. Most good politicians are quite charismatic in person. In some ways shes a bit like me, Shes a bit wonkish and a bit awkward. So maybe wed get along.

The entire conversation with Assange can be heard on the latest episode of Intercepted.

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