memeorandum: Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley expected to resign this week (John Archibald/al.com)

4:10 PM ET, April 10, 2017

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Video shows man forcibly removed from United flight from Chicago to Louisville — A video posted on Facebook late Sunday evening shows a passenger on a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville being forcibly removed from the plane before takeoff at O'Hare International Airport.

Alicia Melville-Smith / BuzzFeed:

A Man Was Dragged Off A United Plane After The Airline Overbooked The Flight — Several videos have been posted online of a man being dragged off a United Airlines plane after the flight was overbooked. — Facebook: video.php — Videos posted to Twitter and Facebook show a man being pulled …

Discussion: ThinkProgress and Daring Fireball

Avi Selk / Washington Post:

A man wouldn't leave an overbooked United flight. So he was dragged off, battered and limp. — United Airlines says a man wouldn't give up his spot on an overbooked flight Sunday. — So, according to witnesses and videos of the incident, he was pulled screaming from his seat by security …

Discussion: The Ring of Fire Network, View from the Wing, BGR, Mediaite, Mashable, CBS Pittsburgh, The Daily Caller and Outside the Beltway

Jeff Goldman / New Jersey Online:

WATCH: Man forcibly removed from overbooked United flight … A man who refused to surrender his seat on an overbooked United Airlines flight on Sunday was dragged off the plane by security, according to a video and an account provided by a witness. — Four passengers on a flight scheduled …

Audra D. Bridges:

Please share this video. We are on this flight. United airlines overbooked the flight. They randomly selected people to kick off so their standby crew could have a seat. This man is a doctor and has to be at the hospital in the morning. He did not want to get off. We are all shaky and so disgusted. #unitedairways

Discussion: The Guardian, Boing Boing and Raw Story

Brian Doherty / Hit & Run: Why Should Police Help United Airlines Cheat Its Customers?

Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:

Breitbart editors tell staffers to stop writing stories critical of Jared Kushner, sources say — Employees at Breitbart News have been asked by senior editors to refrain from writing stories critical of Jared Kushner, two people familiar with the matter told Business Insider.

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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:

White House on edge as 100-day judgment nears — President Donald Trump has far more than three years left in his first term. But inside his pressure cooker of a White House, aides and advisers are sweating the next three weeks. — The symbolic 100-day mark by which modern presidents …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Vox, ABC News, Balloon Juice, Business Insider, Raw Story, Daily Kos, The Guardian and Axios

Bloomberg:
In Trump's World, Family Always Comes First

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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Priebus made Bannon, Kushner make up: report

Discussion: Politico, No More Mister Nice Blog and RedState

CBS News:
Reince Priebus tries to broker peace between Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Washington Free Beacon

John Archibald / al.com:

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley expected to resign this week — It Is becoming clear that Robert Bentley will not last the week as governor. — Sources in Montgomery say his lawyers have been involved in negotiations to step down from the governorship and plead to lesser charges, allowing Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey to step up as governor.

Discussion: Mother Jones, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, New York Magazine, RedState, Hot Air, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Daily Kos, ABC News, The Daily Caller, WHNT-TV and Axios

Claire Aiello / WHNT-TV:

Multiple Sources: Gov. Robert Bentley to resign this afternoon — MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Multiple sources have confirmed to WHNT News 19 that Governor Robert Bentley will resign today, the same day a House committee began impeachment hearings. — Earlier today, we reported Bentley's office …

Discussion: New York Times, The Gateway Pundit and Hot Air

Eric Velasco / Politico: How Alabama's ‘Luv Guv’ Broke New Ground in a Scandal-Plagued State

Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo: 5 Of The Wildest Details In Report On Alabama Guv's Efforts To Hide Affair

Tracybloomktla / KTLA:

San Bernardino School Shooting: 2 Adults Dead in Classroom, 2 Students in Critical Condition After Suspected Murder-Suicide — Two adults were found dead in a classroom and two students are hospitalized in critical condition after a shooter walked on to the North Park Elementary School campus …

sbsun.com:
4 victims reported in San Bernardino school shooting at North Park Elementary

Discussion: CBS Los Angeles, Vox, Fox News, ThinkProgress and RedState

Veronica Rocha / Los Angeles Times:
2 adults killed, 2 children hurt in shooting at San Bernardino elementary school

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Boing Boing

NASDAQ.com:

Midday Update: Stocks Return Gains on Reports of Chinese Troop Deployments on N. Korea Border — The benchmark averages have surrendered earlier gains on news that China has deployed 150,000 troops to the North Korean border, and the U.S. is considering further sanctions against Russia.

Discussion: New York Times, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Gateway Pundit

Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml:

South Korean Paper Reports China Has Deployed 150,000 Troops To North Korea Border — While the catalyst is unclear, it appears the market dropped as headlines of further sanctions against Russia appeared and reports of China deploiying 150,000 troops to its North Korea border.

Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:

Susan Rice's claim that Obama got Syria to ‘verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile’ — “We were able to find a solution that didn't necessitate the use of force that actually removed the chemical weapons that were known from Syria, in a way that the use of force would never have accomplished.

Discussion: TheBlaze, Reuters, National Review, IJR, Fox News, Hot Air, Washington Free Beacon, twitchy.com and New York Times

Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Spicer: Trump's foreign policy is still ‘America first’

Discussion: ABC News

Susan B. Glasser / Politico:

‘People Just Flat-Out Lie’ — President Donald Trump called her “Hillary Clinton's P.R. person” when she got a scoop he didn't like last week. — Controversial Fox News host Bill O'Reilly called her “unruly” when she shouted questions at Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Discussion: Mediaite, Fox News Insider, The Daily Caller and IJR

John Sides / Washington Post:

Neil Gorsuch's confirmation shattered political conventions. Here is why. — The confirmation of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court has left shattered political conventions in its wake: the refusal to hold hearings for Merrick Garland, the first partisan filibuster of a high court nominee …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

Richard L. Hasen / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed In the future, John Roberts could be the Supreme Court's swing vote

Discussion: Politico

Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
What does the junior Supreme Court justice do? Kagan tells Gorsuch it starts in the kitchen

Discussion: New York Times, ABC News, Fox News, Outside the Beltway and RedState

CBS News:

What Americans think about U.S. strike on Syria — Fifty-seven percent of Americans approve of the airstrike against Syrian military targets - calling immoral the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons that led to the strike - but most are leery of any military involvement beyond airstrikes, a CBS News poll shows.

Discussion: Salon, Daily Kos, Hot Air, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, RedState, Politico, IJR, Washington Times, CBS New York, Washington Free Beacon and CNBC

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Publicity Stunts Aren't Policy — Does anyone still remember the Carrier deal? Back in December President-elect Donald Trump announced, triumphantly, that he had reached a deal with the air-conditioner manufacturer to keep 1,100 jobs in America rather than moving them to Mexico.

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story and twitchy.com

Financial Times:

China offers concessions to avert trade war with US — Xi affords Trump prospect of quick wins on market access in finance and beef — Read next … China will offer the Trump administration better market access for financial sector investments and US beef exports to help avert a trade war …

Discussion: Breitbart, RedState, CNBC, The Gateway Pundit, East Bay Times, The Daily Caller, Sputnik International and Axios

The Guardian:

Trump aide drew plan on napkin to partition Libya into three — Exclusive: Sebastian Gorka told proposal would be ‘the worst solution’ when he suggested it to senior European diplomat … A senior White House foreign policy official has pushed a plan to partition Libya …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Business Insider

YouTube:

Issa Wouldn't :30 — Congressman Issa promised to protect our health care, but when Congress tried to pass a disastrous repeal bill, Issa wouldn't oppose it. Stop trying to repeal our health care.

Discussion: ABC News, CNBC, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, Washington Post and Axios

Kyle Cheney / Politico:
TV ads slam Republicans over would-be Obamacare repeal

Discussion: Vox and Political Wire

Ekin Karasin / Daily Mail:

Now that's a VERY deep end: Glass bottomed swimming pool on 42nd floor jets out into thin air so brave swimmers can see busy street 500 feet below — Dubbed the Sky Pool, the infinity pool is on 42nd floor and extends 10 feet over side of Market Square Tower

Discussion: IJR

Polly Mosendz / Bloomberg:

The Seven Types of People Who Tweet at Trump — I love Twitter," Donald Trump once tweeted. That love is manifest in more than 34,000 tweets since he took up the mantle @realDonaldTrump and over 350 in the weeks since he became the U.S. president. Trump has more than 27 million followers on Twitter …

Discussion: Business Insider and Axios