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Secret Memo Hints at a New Republican Target: Rod Rosenstein — WASHINGTON — A secret, highly contentious Republican memo reveals that Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein approved an application to extend surveillance of a former Trump campaign associate shortly after taking office last spring …
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Mark Warner: 'We've Had New Information That Raises More Questions' — Congress late last year received “extraordinarily important new documents” in its investigation of President Donald Trump and his campaign's possible collusion with the 2016 Russian election hacking …
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An Article of Impeachment Against Donald J. Trump — There are good reasons to be wary of impeachment talk. Congressional Republicans show zero interest, and they're the ones in charge. Democrats, for their part, need to focus on retaking Congress, and railing about impeachment probably won't help them win votes.
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The Week and New York Magazine


THE MORNING PLUM: — The Sunday shows confirmed an alarming development: Republicans in Congress do not feel any urgency to protect special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation, even though it has now been confirmed that Trump tried to fire Mueller — and that the possibility …
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House Intel committee could vote on Nunes memo as soon as Monday
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NYT: GOP Memo Reveals Rosenstein Approved Surveillance Of Carter Page
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House Intel meets Monday and could vote on memo release — is Jeff Sessions softening his stance?
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Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and The Last Refuge

Memo claims Rosenstein approved application to extend surveillance of Carter Page: report
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RedState


CNN's Jeffrey Toobin: ‘I regret my role’ in Hillary Clinton false equivalence … So long as President Trump continues disgracing the Oval Office, thoughtful people will probe their own role in helping him get there. — Such appeared to be the motivation behind a mea culpa issued …
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Hillary Clinton Roasts Trump at the Grammys by Narrating ‘Fire and Fury’
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Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen announces retirement from House — (June 2017) Mitsu Yasukawa/NorthJersey.com — Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen announced Monday he will retire rather than seek another term in November, when he was expected to face the toughest campaign of his career in New Jersey's 11th District.
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The Steele Dossier Fits the Kremlin Playbook — The likely objective was to undermine Republicans, Democrats—and American democracy. — When the “Steele dossier” was first published a year ago, it looked like a bombshell. The document, drawn up by the British ex-spy Christopher Steele …
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Melania Trump's Military Flights Before Her Move to Washington Cost More Than $675,000 — First lady flew 21 flights in three-month period while living in New York after President Donald Trump's inauguration — First lady Melania Trump took 21 flights in a three-month period on Air Force jets …
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Talking Points Memo, AOL, Raw Story, The Week and Politicus USA


Omarosa Goes From White House to Cast of ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ — The former ‘Apprentice’ star, and adviser to President Trump, was the shock addition to the new season of CBS' reality show. — Omarosa Manigault, who left the White House under dramatic circumstances at the tail end of last year …
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Omarosa Manigault Newman: From the White House to the ‘Big Brother’ house
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Washington Free Beacon and CBS Los Angeles


'He's not God': In the wake of porn-star allegations, most evangelicals stand by Trump … When news first broke this month about President Trump's alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels, it seemed the kind of story that would devastate a group of voters once known as “The Moral Majority.”
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Raw Story and Political Wire


Beto O'Rourke outraises Cruz again, taking in $2.4M in latest quarter — Updated at 10:50 p.m. to include the latest fundraising figures from Sen. Ted Cruz. — WASHINGTON — The Texas Democrat hoping to oust Sen. Ted Cruz is posting his largest campaign fundraising haul yet: $2.4 million.
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IJR and Weekly Standard


Russian Attacks on 21 States in 2016 Election — Oversight Dems Ask Gowdy to Subpoena Documents Withheld by Trump Administration … On October 20, 2017, Ranking Members Cummings and Kelly sent a letter requesting copies of the notifications that the Department of Homeland Security provided …
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Raw Story

If Pelosi brings ‘Dreamers’ to the State of the Union, Trump should bring ICE agents — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and a number of other Democrats plan to fill the House gallery with illegal aliens when President Trump delivers his first State of the Union address on Tuesday.
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Talking Points Memo


Troubled Los Angeles Times Picking New Editor Amid Unrest — In an attempt to calm rising newsroom tensions at The Los Angeles Times, the paper was expected to name Jim Kirk, a veteran journalist and former editor and publisher of The Chicago Sun-Times, as its next editor in chief on Monday, according to two company officials.
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Jim Kirk to replace Lewis D'Vorkin as editor in chief of the Los Angeles Times
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Politico and L.A. Times Guild


Trump abuses show we must turn traditions into laws: Bharara and Whitman — It's not enough to fret. We're launching a bipartisan project to mend the gaps in our system and make sure our government is competent and trustworthy. — One year into the Trump presidency …


Trump is winning — Trump is making us a little more like him, and politics a little more like the tribal clash he says it is. — There are two Trump presidencies. — One of them is the official presidency of Donald Trump, leader of the Republican Party, driver of the legislative agenda, head of the executive branch.


Republican House ‘leaders’ are complicit in obstruction … While an occasional voice of sanity pops up now and then — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) (on a good day), retiring Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) (every day) — none of the voices urging strict oversight of President Trump …
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NBC News, Althouse and New York Times


Poll: Millennials say the country is on the wrong track, but they're not — Millennials think things in the country are off on the wrong track but at the same time, they're optimistic about their own futures, according to a new NBC News/GenForward survey. — Nearly two-thirds of millennials …
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Political Wire and The Week


Trump Tower Russian Lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, Exposed in Swiss Corruption Case … LONDON—The Moscow operation behind the now infamous Russian-Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 included a direct attempt to enlist a foreign country's law enforcement official as a virtual double-agent, according to a court case in Switzerland.


‘Fox & Friends’ host says the media's Trump coverage is ‘anti-American’ … “Fox & Friends” suggested without evidence Monday the New York Times sat for six months on last week's report that President Trump tried to fire special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in June 2017.
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