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Authorities on Friday identified the suspect in the kidnapping of 13-year-old Jayme Closs as Jake Thomas Patterson. Patterson is also suspected of killing Jayme’s parents in their Wisconsin home in October. Source: CNN

Kristin Kasinskas, one of the women who first helped Jayme Closs, describes finding the missing 13-year-old at her front door and calling the police. Source: CNN

CNN’s Marshall Cohen explains what we know about President Trump’s role in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Source: CNN

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President Donald Trump is departing for the southern border to make the case for the wall on Thursday, the 20th day of the government shutdown, and as a congressional solution seems out of reach, it appears that Trump is moving closer to declaring a national emergency on the border. Source: CNN

CNN’s Alisyn Camerota and John Berman discuss how President Trump said “bye-bye” to end his meeting with Democratic leadership over border wall funding. Source: CNN

One law firm involved in a foreign government-owned company’s challenge of a mysterious grand jury subpoena related to the Robert Mueller investigation is Alston & Bird, CNN has learned, a firm that has previously represented Russian interests, including working for a Russian oligarch and a contractor of the Russian government. Source: CNN

On Tuesday we learned — thanks to a redaction error in a filing in the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference — that Paul Manafort met with a Russian-linked operative named Konstantin Kilimnik during the course of the 2016 campaign. And in that meeting, according to special counsel Robert Mueller’s office, Manafort discussed policies related to the Russia-Ukraine relationship and …