memeorandum: Ivanka should be a role model but Hillary's hateful losers are so bitter they will stoop to ANYTHING to get at her dad (Piers Morgan/Daily Mail)

1:15 AM ET, February 10, 2017

Top Items:

National security adviser Flynn discussed sanctions with Russian ambassador, despite denials, officials say — National security adviser Michael Flynn privately discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with that country's ambassador to the United States during the month before President Trump took office …

Discussion: alan.com, Mother Jones, The Daily Caller, The Week, Lawfare and Political Wire

Reuters:

Exclusive: In call with Putin, Trump denounced Obama-era nuclear arms treaty - sources — In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States …

Discussion: RedState, Occupy Democrats, Mother Jones, The Diplomat, AOL, The Guardian, IJR, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Daily Kos, Political Wire, The American Conservative, The Week, Washington Monthly, Axios and rubber hose

David Corn / Mother Jones:

The Mysterious Disappearance of the Biggest Scandal in Washington — The biggest election-related scandal since Watergate occurred last year, and it has largely disappeared from the political-media landscape of Washington. — According to the consensus assessment of US intelligence agencies …

Discussion: Daily Kos and emptywheel

New York Times:

Flynn Is Said to Have Talked to Russians About Sanctions Before Trump Took Office — WASHINGTON — Weeks before President Trump's inauguration, his national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, discussed American sanctions against Russia, as well as areas of possible cooperation …

Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Democrat moves to force House debate on Trump's alleged business conflicts and Russia ties

Discussion: Balloon Juice and Talking Points Memo

Adam Liptak / New York Times:

Court Refuses to Reinstate Travel Ban, Dealing Trump Another Legal Loss — WASHINGTON — A three-judge federal appeals panel on Thursday unanimously refused to reinstate President Trump's targeted travel ban, delivering the latest and most stinging judicial rebuke to his effort …

Discussion: Reuters, Boing Boing, Corey Robin, Engadget, Taylor Marsh, Media Matters for America and Mother Jones

Eugene Kontorovich / Washington Post:

The 9th Circuit's dangerous and unprecedented use of campaign statements to block presidential policy — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has just upheld a nationwide temporary injunction on President Trump's executive order relating to refugees and visas from certain countries.

Fox News:

Republicans push bill to split up ‘nutty 9th Circuit’ — As judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals weigh the legality of President Trump's immigration executive order, a Republican push to split up the controversial court — and shrink its clout — is gaining steam on Capitol Hill.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and TheBlaze

Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:

Federal appeals court rules 3 to 0 against Trump on travel ban — A federal appeals panel has maintained the freeze on President Trump's controversial immigration order, meaning previously barred refugees and citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries can continue entering the United States.

Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Cruz: Supreme Court ‘likely’ to uphold Trump order

Discussion: ABC News, Daily Wire, RedState, Washington Post, The Guardian, CBS Dallas, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller

CNN:
Threats against judges in immigration ban cases leads to increased security

Discussion: MyNorthwest.com and TheBlaze

Associated Press:
The Latest: Justice Department Says It's Weighing Options

Discussion: ABC News and Joe.My.God.

Associated Press:
Federal Appeals Court Refuses to Reinstate Trump Travel Ban

Discussion: Politico, The Atlantic, Washington Post, ABC News and Axios

Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
9th Circuit rules against reinstating travel ban

Discussion: neo-neocon, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and TheBlaze

Tara Palmeri / Politico:

Cooper withdraws from solicitor general consideration — Chuck Cooper, the conservative Supreme Court litigator, is withdrawing his name from consideration to be the next solicitor general, opening the door for the husband of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway to be appointed to the role.

Discussion: The Hill, Above the Law, Joe.My.God., Political Wire and SCOTUSblog

Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Solidcore gym founder calls out Ivanka Trump after workout

Discussion: Washington Times

Washington Post:
Conway may have broken key ethics rule by touting Ivanka Trump's products, experts say

Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Top oversight lawmakers ask ethics office to recommend discipline for Conway

Discussion: The American Conservative, TVNewser and RedState

Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
CREW FILES ETHICS COMPLAINTS AGAINST KELLYANNE CONWAY

Discussion: Mediaite, Hit & Run, Hot Air and ThinkProgress, more at Mediagazer »

Fox News Insider:
Kellyanne Conway on Ivanka Trump's Fashion Line: ‘Go Buy It Today!’

Discussion: New York Times, Cosmopolitan, NPR, Gizmodo, Vox, Racked, AOL, Politico, New York Magazine, CBS News, The Week, Raw Story, Occupy Democrats, IJR, TheBlaze, ThinkProgress, Mediaite, ProfessorBainbridge.com, BizPac Review, The Slot and DCist

ABC News:
White House: Trump ‘Absolutely’ Backs Conway Amid Criticism

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Associated Press

Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:

CNN host Chris Cuomo says ‘fake news’ insult is ‘equivalent of the n-word for journalists’ — CNN host Chris Cuomo said on Thursday that he believes hurling the “fake news” insult at journalists is similar to when individuals use racial slurs against minorities.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, AOL, RedState, TheBlaze, twitchy.com and Talking Points Memo

Gena Wolfson / Hear & Now:
CNN's Chris Cuomo: ‘I see being called fake news as the equivalent of the n-word for journalists’

Discussion: Daily Wire, Hot Air, Joe.My.God., RedState, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Mediaite, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Washington Free Beacon, Politico, Liberty Unyielding, The Federalist, The Week, Business Insider and TVNewser

Piers Morgan / Daily Mail:

Ivanka should be a role model but Hillary's hateful losers are so bitter they will stoop to ANYTHING to get at her dad — Six weeks ago, Ivanka Trump was sitting with her husband and their three young children aboard a commercial JetBlue flight departing from JFK airport.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Los Angeles Times

Courtney Reagan / CNBC:
Online sales for the Ivanka Trump brand fell 26 percent in January

Discussion: New York Times, The Guardian, Racked, CNNMoney, The Atlantic and Talking Points Memo

Karoli Kuns / Latest from Crooks and Liars:

Jason Chaffetz Town Hall Filled With Over 1000 Angry Constituents — Jason Chaffetz is having a rough week, capped off with an angry town hall meeting tonight with the venue filled to capacity and more chanting outside. — First, he was called to [the principal's] Trump's office …

Discussion: Vox, New York Magazine, The Week and Mediaite

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

Secrecy surrounds White House cybersecurity staff shakeup — The Obama-appointed chief information security officer was charged with keeping the president and his staff safe from cyber-threats posed by hackers and nation-state attackers. — The chief information security officer …

Discussion: Raw Story, Gizmodo, Talking Points Memo and New York Magazine

Aaron Blake / Washington Post:

John McCain's brutal rejoinder to Sean Spicer — Donald Trump took on Sen. John McCain's status as a war hero and won the GOP nomination anyway. — Sean Spicer took on John McCain's expertise on military matters and got this: … The White House press secretary took an extraordinary position Wednesday …

Discussion: New York Times

Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:

Exclusive: Syria's Assad tells Yahoo News some refugees are ‘definitely’ terrorists — Weighing in on one of the most contentious issues in American politics — the danger posed to host countries by the 4.8 million people who have fled from Syria's civil war — Syrian President Bashar Assad told Yahoo News …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and The Last Refuge

CBS News:

Mexican foreign minister helped Jared Kushner re-write Trump border wall speech — Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray personally made changes to President Donald Trump's speech announcing an executive order calling for the construction of a border wall, according to Mexican officials.

Discussion: Balloon Juice

New York Times:

Trump Tells Xi Jinping U.S. Will Honor ‘One China’ Policy — WASHINGTON — President Trump told President Xi Jinping of China on Thursday evening that the United States would honor the “One China” policy, reversing his earlier expressions of doubt about the longtime diplomatic understanding …

Discussion: Politico, The Week, Political Wire, Bloomberg and Reuters

The Independent:

Donald Trump has signed three executive orders to deal with “public safety”, including handing more authority to the police. — At the formal ceremony to appoint Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, the President outlined the new mandate that Mr Sessions would have, including tackling crime, drug cartels and terrorism.

Discussion: The White House, Lawyers, Guns & Money, AOL, New York Times, The Atlantic and Hit & Run

Olivia Marcus / Amino Blog:

The most disproportionately common injury in every state — What can medical codes tell us about getting hurt in America? — Every time you go to the doctor, your diagnosis is recorded as a medical code. They're notoriously complicated—more than 3,000 ICD codes are used just to describe physical injuries.

Discussion: STAT and Mother Jones

Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:

Saudis foot tab at Trump hotel — A lobbying firm working for Saudi Arabia paid for a room at Donald Trump's Washington hotel after Inauguration Day, marking the first publicly known payment on behalf of a foreign government to a Trump property since he became president.

Kyle Cheney / Politico:

Democratic division simmers at feel-good retreat — BALTIMORE — House Democrats ditched Washington this week to find their voice. But the rifts opened by their brutal Election Day defeat — and President Donald Trump's tumultuous ascension — keep drowning them out.

Discussion: ABC News, Hot Air and Washington Post

Cal Thomas / Townhall.com:

Major Media Remain in Denial — Since Donald Trump's election, the major media have been trying to figure out what they did wrong, given their fawning coverage of Hillary Clinton and their anti-Donald Trump stories. Didn't they help twice elect Barack Obama? Why didn't the formula work this time?

Jeremy Diamond / CNN:

Trump falsely accuses senator of misrepresenting Gorsuch criticism — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump falsely accused a Democratic senator Thursday of misrepresenting his Supreme Court nominee's words, according to several familiar with the incident.