memeorandum: Trump expected to sign new travel order Monday: reports (Mallory Shelbourne/The Hill)

7:50 AM ET, March 5, 2017

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Trump mingles with Mar-a-Lago guests outside charity ball — President Donald Trump mingled with guests outside a charity ball at his Mar-a-Lago Club on Saturday night. — As attendees danced inside the ballroom where the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute held its gala, the president was spotted nearby …

Discussion: Politico

Jonathan Karl / ABC News:

Trump flashes anger over Sessions recusal, Russia stories in tense Oval Office meeting — Before heading off to his so-called “winter White House” in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday, President Donald Trump summoned some of his senior staff to the Oval Office and went “ballistic,” senior White House sources told ABC News.

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CNN:

Trump angry and frustrated at staff over Sessions fallout — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is extremely frustrated with his senior staff and communications team for allowing the firestorm surrounding Attorney General Jeff Sessions to steal his thunder in the wake of his address to Congress, sources tell CNN.

Discussion: Balloon Juice

Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump fumes over Sessions' recusal from Russia probe

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Ted Mann / Wall Street Journal:

Trump Faces Furor Over Unsubstantiated Claim Obama Wiretapped Him — President adds meeting with attorney general and homeland security secretary as allies and foes react to his claims on Twitter — PALM BEACH, Fla.—President Donald Trump called together several top advisers Saturday …

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Julian Sanchez / Just Security:

Tapping Trump? — Once again, Donald Trump has kicked off a media firestorm with a series of early-morning Tweets, this time leveling the serious accusation that “President Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower” just prior to the presidential election. — Terrible!

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John Hinderaker / Power Line:

The Associated Press Springs to Obama's Defense — After President Trump accused Barack Obama of wiretapping his phones during the election campaign, the Associated Press hurried into print a defense of the former president: … No one fits a lot of details into a tweet …

Discussion: Associated Press, The Last Refuge and National Review

Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Graham: 'I'm very worried' about Trump's wiretapping accusation

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CNN:
Trump falsely accuses Obama of wiretapping his phone

New York Times:
Trump, Offering No Evidence, Says Obama Tapped His Phones

Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Donald Trump was a conspiracy-theory candidate. Now he's on the edge of being a conspiracy-theory president.

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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Top Obama adviser to Trump: ‘No president can order a wiretap’

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Javier E. David / CNBC:
Trump accuses predecessor of ‘McCarthyism,’ wire-tapping during general election; Obama camp denies

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Nancy Cook / Politico:

Trump expected to sign new executive order on travel ban on Monday — President Donald Trump is expected to sign on Monday a new executive order on his controversial travel ban at the Department of Homeland Security, according to senior government officials familiar with the matter.

Discussion: Mediaite, Political Wire and Axios

Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill: Trump expected to sign new travel order Monday: reports

Bradley P. Moss / Politico:

Trump's Wiretap Rant Betrays Ignorance of the Law — President Donald Trump set the political and national security community on fire Saturday morning, starting the day with a four-part Twitter rant alleging that former President Barack Obama had “tapped” his phones during the presidential campaign.

Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:

Pentagon plan to seize Raqqa calls for significant increase in U.S. participation — A Pentagon plan for the coming assault on Raqqa, the Islamic State capital in Syria, calls for significant U.S. military participation, including increased Special Operations forces, attack helicopters and artillery …

Daily Mail:

Revealed: Tony Blair's secret White House summit as he launches astonishing bid to work for Donald Trump... as his Middle East peace envoy — Tony Blair has attended a secret meeting at the White House to discuss working for Donald Trump, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Discussion: The Guardian

The Seattle Times:

Sikh man in Kent says he was told ‘Go back to your own country’ before he was shot — Kent police are looking for a gunman who allegedly walked onto a man's driveway and shot him, saying “go back to your own country.”

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Post, Raw Story and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Jennifer Medina / New York Times:

Deportation Arrest Highlights Tensions in Los Angeles on Immigration — LOS ANGELES — Shortly after dropping off his youngest daughter at school, Romulo Avelica-Gonzalez saw lights flashing from a black car following him, signaling for him to pull over. The car was unmarked and Mr. Avelica …

Discussion: Associated Press

Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed:
A 13-Year-Old Girl Sobbed While Recording Her Immigrant Father Get Arrested By ICE Agents

Discussion: The Root

Andrea Castillo / Los Angeles Times:
Immigrant arrested by ICE after dropping daughter off at school, sending shockwaves through neighborhood

Discussion: AOL, Washington Post, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and KTLA

AP Story / Associated Press:

Pence fought against releasing records as Indiana governor … INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence repeatedly stonewalled media requests to view public records when he was Indiana's governor, including emails about state business distributed from a private AOL account that was hacked last year.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Mashable and IJR

Liam Deacon / Breitbart:

FAKE NEWS: Sweden's Integration Minister Admits Lying to BBC About Rape Stats — Sweden's ruling liberal party Integration Minister has been forced into an embarrassing U-turn after she falsely told BBC the number of reported rapes in the country was falling.

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News