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2:40 PM ET, March 4, 2017

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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump, citing no evidence, accuses Obama of ‘Nixon/Watergate’ plot to wiretap Trump Tower  —  President Trump on Saturday angrily accused former president Barack Obama of orchestrating a “Nixon/Watergate” plot to tap the phones at his Trump Tower headquarters last fall in the run-up to the election.
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Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Mark Levin: Was Obama Using NSA Against Trump During 2016 Campaign?  —  Radio host Mark Levin spent most of his Thursday evening show discussing the alleged scandal surrounding Attorney General Jeff Sessions and what he says is the real scandal: A “silent coup” by the former Obama administration against President Trump.
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Top Obama adviser to Trump: ‘No president can order a wiretap’  —  A former policy adviser to President Obama is firing back at President Trump's claim that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, saying it didn't happen — at least not under Obama's orders.  —  “No President can order a wiretap.
New York Times:
Trump, Offering No Evidence, Says Obama Tapped His Phones  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump on Saturday accused his predecessor, Barack Obama, of having tapped his phones at Trump Tower the month before the election, calling Mr. Obama on Twitter a “bad (or sick) guy.”
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Graham: 'I'm very worried' about Trump's wiretapping accusation  —  (R-S.C.) on Saturday said he is “very worried” about President Trump's accusation that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.  —  “I'm very worried that our president is suggesting the former president has done something illegal …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Week
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Donald Trump was a conspiracy-theory candidate.  Now he's a conspiracy-theory president.  —  Donald Trump's political career was born amid the fever swamps of the far right.  He seized on a favorite conspiracy theories bubbling there — that then President Obama was not, in fact …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Trump Goes Nuclear With Claim Obama Wiretapped Him During Election [Updated]  —  Early this morning, President Trump unleashed a barrage of tweets accusing then-President Barack Obama of wiretapping his office in Trump Tower during the presidential election:
Discussion: Washington Post and CBS Philly
Alicia Melville-Smith / BuzzFeed:
Trump Repeats Talk Radio Rumor That Obama Wiretapped Him During Election  —  Trump provided no evidence to back up his claim.  —  Without offering a scintilla of evidence, President Donald Trump on Saturday accused former President Barack Obama of spying on him by wiretapping the phones …
New York Times:
Trump Team's Links to Russia Crisscross in Washington  —  WASHINGTON — During the 2016 campaign, Donald J. Trump's second campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, had regular communications with his longtime associate — a former Russian military translator in Kiev who has been investigated in Ukraine …
David Shepardson / Reuters:
Obama denies Trump claim he wiretapped him during campaign  —  A spokesman for Barack Obama on Saturday rejected claims from U.S. President Donald Trump that the former president had wiretapped him in October during the late stages of the presidential election campaign.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Russia investigations a ‘witch hunt’? Not according to polls
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Trump Inherits a Secret Cyberwar Against North Korean Missiles  —  WASHINGTON — Three years ago, President Barack Obama ordered Pentagon officials to step up their cyber and electronic strikes against North Korea's missile program in hopes of sabotaging test launches in their opening seconds.
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
A Special Prosecutor . . . For What?  —  There is no crime to probe in the matter of the Trump campaign's contact with Russians.  —  S  —  o, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recused himself.  Great!  —  Just one question: From what?  —  Yes, yes, Sessions is a good and decent man.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Sessions Controversy Heightens Trump's Feeling of Being Under Siege
Discussion: Axios
Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed:
A 13-Year-Old Girl Sobbed While Recording Her Immigrant Father Get Arrested By ICE Agents  —  Romulo Avelica-Gonzalez was arrested this week while dropping off his daughter at a school in Los Angeles.  —  A sobbing 13-year-old girl recorded the arrest of her undocumented immigrant father …
Discussion: The Root
Wall Street Journal:
The Mob at Middlebury  —  A mob tries to silence Charles Murray and sends a prof to the ER.  —  Once again a scholar invited to speak at a university has been shouted down by an angry mob clearly unable to challenge him intellectually.  On Thursday at Middlebury College …
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Addison / Addison County Independent:
Middlebury College professor injured by protesters as she escorted controversial speaker
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Decades-old mass grave of children of unwed mothers confirmed in Ireland  —  Between 1925 and the 1960s, in a tiny town called Tuam in western Ireland's County Galway, thousands of “fallen women” and their “illegitimate” children passed through the Mother and Baby Home operated by the Congregation of the Sisters of Bon Secours.
Discussion: The Week and NPR
Richard Cowan / Reuters:
U.S. suspends fast processing of high-tech visa applications  —  Foreigners aiming for temporary jobs at high-tech U.S. companies will undergo a longer visa approval process after the Trump administration announced it will temporarily suspend expedited applications for H-1B visas.
Discussion: The Week and Live: U.S. Politics
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James Kanter / New York Times:
E.U. Lawmakers Call for End to Visa-Free Travel for Americans
Discussion: Hollywood Life, Fox News and IJR
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
White House split on import tax puts Congress in limbo  —  A major split among senior White House officials over whether to effectively create a new tax on imported goods has stalled the broader tax overhaul effort on Capitol Hill, with Republicans looking to the Trump administration …
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Shelley Hepworth / Columbia Journalism Review:
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MSNBC:
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Discussion: Axios
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The Left Learns to Love Dubya
Discussion: Power Line
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Trump to Undo Vehicle Rules That Curb Global Warming
James Wolcott / Vanity Fair:
Why the Alt-Left Is a Problem, Too  —  Much of the media spotlight …
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The Texas Tribune:
Scientists say Trump's border wall would devastate wildlife habitat
Eric Garcia / Roll Call:
Richmond Under Fire for Kellyanne Conway Comments
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
White House proposes steep budget cut to leading climate science agency
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