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CNN:
Exclusive: Trump asked Rosenstein if he was ‘on my team’ — Washington (CNN)Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein visited the White House in December seeking President Donald Trump's help. The top Justice Department official in the Russia investigation wanted Trump's support …
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Bloomberg:
FBI's Wray Opposes GOP Memo Release, Citing Inaccuracies — Trump overheard saying memo ‘100 percent’ should be released — Republicans say memo raises doubts about Russia probe — FBI Director Christopher Wray has informed the White House of his opposition to releasing a controversial …
Federal Bureau of Investigation:
FBI Statement on HPSCI Memo — The FBI takes seriously its obligations to the FISA Court and its compliance with procedures overseen by career professionals in the Department of Justice and the FBI. We are committed to working with the appropriate oversight entities to ensure the continuing integrity of the FISA process.
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Adam B. Schiff / Washington Post:
Rep. Nunes's memo crosses a dangerous line — Adam B. Schiff, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, represents California's 28th District. — Even during the most difficult of times, when Congress had seemingly lost the capacity to govern and partisan storms raged across Capitol Hill …
U.S. House of Representatives Permanent …:
Nunes Statement on FBI, DOJ Objections to Release of HPSCI Memo — f t # e — House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes issued the following statement today: — “Having stonewalled Congress' demands for information for nearly a year, it's no surprise …
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Eric Boehlert / Shareblue Media:
In rare public rebuke, FBI humiliates GOP for Mueller smear campaign
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
DOJ gives special counsel internal docs on thwarted Sessions resignation, source says
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
FBI Publicly Savages Nunes Memo For ‘Material Omissions Of Fact’
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New York Times:
F.B.I. Condemns Push to Release Secret Republican Memo
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Orin Kerr / Lawfare:
The Dubious Legal Claim Behind #ReleaseTheMemo
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Showdown escalates between Trump, Nunes and the FBI
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CNN:
Exclusive: Controversial FBI agent co-wrote initial draft of explosive Comey letter reopening Clinton email probe — GOP Rep.: FBI texts most biased I've ever seen — Washington (CNN)Emails obtained by CNN show the FBI agent at the center of a Capitol Hill storm played a key role …
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Signature line from Trump's speech is already a white nationalist rallying cry — Donald Trump's first State of the Union was a largely banal speech with few policy details and none of his signature asides and bravado. Overall, the reception to the speech has been cool.
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CBS News:
Viewers approve of Trump's first State of the Union address - CBS News poll — Views of the speech — Three in four Americans who tuned in to President Trump's State of the Union address tonight approved of the speech he gave. Just a quarter disapproved. — How did the speech make you feel?
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Joe Otterson / Variety:
TV Ratings: Trump's First State of the Union Down From 2017 Address in Early Numbers
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Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Josh Hawley blames sex trafficking on ‘sexual revolution’ of 1960s in leaked audio — During a speech to pastors in Kansas City in December, Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley linked the problem of sex trafficking to the sexual revolution of the 1960s. — Hawley, the top Republican prospect …
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NBC News:
Train carrying GOP Congress members hits garbage truck, one dead — A chartered train carrying Republican lawmakers to a retreat collided with a trash truck in Virginia Wednesday morning and left at least one person dead. — White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders …
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CNN:
Train carrying members of Congress — including House Speaker Paul Ryan — hits a truck
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Monmouth University:
Trump Rating Ticks Up; Support for Tax Plan Increases — GOP gains on Dems in generic House ballot — West Long Branch, NJ - Donald Trump's job approval rating has bounced back from the record low registered in last month's Monmouth University Poll , as more Americans now see the president …
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Ted Sherman / New Jersey Online:
In shocking move, feds drop all charges against Sen. Bob Menendez — Menendez speaks after jury deadlocked, mistrial declared — In a shocking turnaround, the U.S. Justice Department has dropped its case against Sen. Robert Menendez. — In a court in Newark today …
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Ryan Hutchins / Politico:
Justice Department drops corruption case against Menendez
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Evan Sernoffsky / San Francisco Chronicle:
SF will wipe thousands of marijuana convictions off the books — San Francisco will retroactively apply California's marijuana-legalization laws to past criminal cases, District Attorney George Gascón said Wednesday — expunging or reducing misdemeanor and felony convictions going back decades.
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Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:
Kellyanne Conway Botched Trump Damage Control Meeting With African Ambassadors — But Conway didn't discuss much on Africa at all, leaving participants bewildered. — In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's disparaging comments about immigration from countries he considered undesirable …
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Caitlin Yilek / Washington Examiner:
Michael Wolff: Nikki Haley ‘embraced’ rumors of affair with Trump … Controversial author Michael Wolff is hitting back at Nikki Haley after the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations denied having an affair with President Trump. — In an interview with theSkimm, Wolff said Haley “seems to have embraced” the rumor that he started.
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Carter Sherman / VICE News:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump officials discussed “reversing” abortion for undocumented teen — The Trump administration official in charge of the Office of Refugee Resettlement discussed trying to use a controversial, scientifically unproven method to reverse an undocumented teen's abortion, according to documents reviewed by VICE News.
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Shane Harris / Washington Post:
Russian spy chiefs met in Washington with CIA director to discuss counterterrorism … Two top Russian spy chiefs traveled to Washington last week to discuss counterterrorism issues with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, but the unusual visit also raised concerns among some U.S. officials that Moscow …
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Washington Post:
White House seeks 72 percent cut to clean energy research, underscoring administration's preference for fossil fuels … The Trump administration is poised to ask Congress for deep budget cuts to the Energy Department's renewable energy and energy efficiency programs, slashing them by 72 percent overall …
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Yascha Mounk / Slate:
Donald Trump Just Asked Congress to End the Rule of Law — Donald Trump's first State of the Union was a deeply dangerous speech. — It was deeply dangerous because he finally followed in the footsteps of European leaders like Hungarian President Viktor Orban who have long ago learned …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resigns amid tobacco stock furor — Fitzgerald's departure comes less than a day after Politico revealed she bought stock in a tobacco company within a month of taking her job.
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Ryan Hass / Axios:
Signs of progress in Trump's North Korea pressure campaign — Even as fears of open conflict have increased in recent months, the Trump administration has in fact made strides in its strategy against North Korea. — The North Korean economy is contracting, trade volume with China is plummeting …
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Victor Cha / Washington Post:
Giving North Korea a ‘bloody nose’ carries a huge risk to Americans
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The Daily Beast:
Florida (Congress)Man Invited Infamous Troll Chuck Johnson to Trump's State of The Union … Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), a conservative Republican firebrand, was the lawmaker responsible for inviting the controversial internet troll Chuck Johnson to Tuesday night's State of the Union address.
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ABC:
The Cabinet Files reveal national security breaches, NBN negotiations, welfare reform plans — Hundreds of top-secret and highly classified cabinet documents have been obtained by the ABC following an extraordinary breach of national security. — This was not a leak — here's what it took to unlock national secrets
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Washington Post:
‘Using his position for private gain’: HUD lawyers warned Ben Carson risked running afoul of ethics rules by enlisting son … Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson allowed his son to help organize a “listening tour” in Baltimore last summer despite warnings from department lawyers …
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New York Times:
A Paper Tears Apart in a City That Never Quite Came Together — LOS ANGELES — When an ambitious Civil War colonel from Ohio seized control of a fledgling daily newspaper here in the late 19th century, Los Angeles was a rough-hewed frontier town with no paved streets and a population of a few thousand people.
Philly.com:
Bob Brady is not running for reelection — Bob Brady, the larger-than-life leader of Philadelphia's Democratic Party, announced on Wednesday that he is not running for reelection to the U.S. House. — He revealed the news in a way that seemed all too perfect for the decades-long party boss …
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Making 2018 Much Harder for Republicans — Like colliding storm systems, the three central dynamics shaping the 2018 electoral battlefield converged in President Trump's first State of the Union address on Tuesday. And control of Congress may turn on which one of these forces voters weigh most heavily.
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