memeorandum: Fake news is killing people's minds, says Apple boss Tim Cook (Allister Heath/Telegraph)

3:00 PM ET, February 11, 2017

Top Items:

Reports of Raids Have Immigrants Bracing for Enforcement Surge — In Austin, Tex., undocumented women working in a laundromat cowered in the back of the room, petrified after seeing a video and a photograph of apprehensions outside a local grocery store and burger joint.

Discussion: Latino Rebels, ABC News, New York Magazine, Fusion, Business Insider, Around the Nation, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, The Atlantic, PRI, ThinkProgress, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, Mother Jones and CityLab

Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Protests erupt in NYC over immigration enforcement raids

Discussion: ThinkProgress, neo-neocon, BizPac Review, LAist, Hot Air, The Week, CAIR COALITION, RedState and Hit & Run

Spokesman.com: Federal agents conduct sweeping immigration enforcement raids in at least 6 states

James Queally / Los Angeles Times:
ICE says L.A. immigration arrests were planned long in advance, not tied to new crackdown

Discussion: LAist, Fox News, The Gateway Pundit, NBC News, The Guardian and KTLA

NBC News:

Russia Considers Returning Snowden to U.S. to ‘Curry Favor’ With Trump: Official — U.S. intelligence has collected information that Russia is considering turning over Edward Snowden as a “gift” to President Donald Trump — who has called the NSA leaker a “spy” and a “traitor” who deserves to be executed.

CNN:

US investigators corroborate some aspects of the Russia dossier — Washington (CNN)For the first time, US investigators say they have corroborated some of the communications detailed in a 35-page dossier compiled by a former British intelligence agent, multiple current and former US law enforcement and intelligence officials tell CNN.

Karoli Kuns / Crooks and Liars:
U.S. Intelligence Officials Able To Corroborate Parts Of Russia-Trump Dossier

Discussion: alan.com

Josh Dawsey / Politico:

CIA freezes out top Flynn aide — A top deputy to National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was rejected for a critical security clearance, effectively ending his tenure on the National Security Council and escalating tensions between Flynn and the intelligence community.

Discussion: New York Daily News, BizPac Review, TheBlaze, NO QUARTER USA NET, alan.com, Towleroad, Politicus USA, Informed Comment, Mother Jones, Washington Post and Media Matters for America

Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill: Top Flynn aide rejected for key security clearance: report

Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Flynn holds call with Pence amid calls for probes of contacts with Russian ambassador

Discussion: Politicus USA, Balloon Juice, Defense One, Daily Kos, New York Times, The Hill, Fox News Insider, AOL and The Atlantic

Lisa Riley Roche / Deseret News:

Chaffetz says town hall crowd tried ‘bullying and intimidation’ — SALT LAKE CITY — Rep. Jason Chaffetz said the raucous reception he received at Thursday evening's town hall meeting was “bullying and an attempt at intimidation” from a crowd opposed to President Donald Trump's election.

Discussion: Daily Kos, The Verge, Hit & Run and Grist

Kristin Salaky / Talking Points Memo:

Chaffetz Said He Believes Town Hall Protestors Were Paid, Not From Utah — Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) said that the thousands of protestors who swarmed his town hall on Thursday night were not actually from his state and were “paid” to protest, the Deseret News reported Friday.

Discussion: Joe.My.God.

Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Swarming crowds and hostile questions are the new normal at GOP town halls

Discussion: Infowars, the daily howler and Outside the Beltway

Larry Celona / New York Post:

Woman falls to her death at World Trade Center's Oculus — A woman trying to grab a hat dropped by her twin sister fell to her death from an escalator at the World Trade Center's soaring Oculus transit hub on Saturday. — The 29-year-old Kearny, NJ resident, identified by law enforcement sources …

Brooke Seipel / The Hill:

Newspaper uses photo of Alec Baldwin on ‘SNL’ instead of Trump — Dominican newspaper El Nacional on Friday printed a photo of Alec Baldwin doing his impression of President Trump on “Saturday Night Live” in an article about Trump and Israel. — The photo was used side-by-side with a photo …

Discussion: Gizmodo, RedState, BizPac Review, Mediaite and The Week

Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:

Trump: Border wall price ‘will come WAY DOWN’ when I negotiate — President Trump on Saturday responded to reports that the cost of his proposed border wall is much higher than expected, insisting that it will be much cheaper after he gets involved in negotiations.

Discussion: RedState, ThinkProgress, KTLA, Sputnik International, AOL, Mediaite, Washington Post, Business Insider, Joe.My.God., Axios, Politico, The Week, Common Dreams, Refinery29 and FiveThirtyEight

Diane Bartz / Reuters: Trump says he will bring down the price of wall on Mexico's border

Aaron Blake / Washington Post:

Al Franken to Maher: GOP senators privately express ‘great concern’ about Trump's temperament — Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) said Friday night that his Republican Senate colleagues privately express “great concern” about President Trump's temperament, and he joked about the GOP eventually impeaching Trump.

Wall Street Journal:

Internal Nordstrom Data Show Sales Decline for Ivanka Trump Brand — Brand's 32% tumble occurred even as the chain's overall sales rose — Dueling social-media movements are urging people to boycott and buy brands based on their affiliation with President Donald Trump …

Discussion: Political Wire and Axios

Santiago Pérez / Wall Street Journal:

Mexicans Vow to Fight Trump by Jamming U.S. Courts — Group says it will urge compatriots targeted for extradition to fight in court; government allocates funds — MEXICO CITY—Influential Mexicans are pushing an aggressive and perhaps risky strategy to fight a likely increase in deportations …

Discussion: TheBlaze and Axios

Allister Heath / Telegraph:

Fake news is killing people's minds, says Apple boss Tim Cook — Tim Cook, the boss of Apple, is calling for governments to launch a public information campaign to fight the scourge of fake news, which is “killing people's minds.” — In an impassioned plea, Mr Cook, boss of the world's largest company …

Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:

DOJ nixes request to halt order against trans student protections — On the day after Jeff Sessions was confirmed as U.S. attorney general, the U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn its request to halt partially an order against Obama administration guidance protecting transgender students …

Discussion: RedState, Washington Post, LGBTQ Nation and Human Rights Campaign

Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed: The Justice Department Is Taking A Step Back From Efforts To Protect Transgender People Under Existing Law

Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:

Ex-spy chief: I don't know of any intel that proves need for travel ban … The former director of national intelligence says he's unaware of any intelligence that proves the need for a travel ban on nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries. — “I don't — we in the [intelligence community] …

Discussion: alan.com

Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:

Stephen Miller: A key engineer for Trump's ‘America first’ agenda — As a young conservative in liberal Santa Monica, Calif., Stephen Miller clashed frequently with his high school, often calling in to a national radio show to lambaste administrators for promoting multiculturalism …

Aimee Green / Oregonian:

Guilty: Man who pulled gun out at 'Don't Shoot PDX' protest — A man who pulled out a gun at a Don't Shoot Portland march and pointed it at a crowd of protesters in downtown Portland was found guilty Friday of 21 felony and misdemeanor crimes. — Multnomah County Circuit Judge Thomas Ryan …

Discussion: Bearing Arms and Little Green Footballs

Natasha Korecki / Politico:

States find new ways to troll Trump — A California lawmaker is demanding Melania Trump's immigration records. New Hampshire lawmakers have introduced a resolution demanding a federal probe into Trump University and “illegal financial or business dealings in which President TRUMP may have been involved.”

Joel Connelly / seattlepi.com:

Website for disabled kids disappears as DeVos takes office — Washington senators Murray, Cantwell demand Trump education chief restore site — A U.S. Department of Education website, empowering families of students with disabilities, has disappeared — and already embattled Trump education chief Betsy DeVos may be to blame.

Discussion: Raw Story, Politicus USA and United States Senator …