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10:55 PM ET, January 31, 2018

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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 …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The FBI Has “Grave Concerns”?  So Do I  —  Most of us are eagerly awaiting the release of the House Intelligence Committee's memo on abuse of the FBI by the Obama administration.  It should happen in the next couple of days.  Meanwhile, the Bureau is worried, as always, about its public image.
Discussion: Associated Press
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 …
Alex Pappas / Fox News:
John Kelly says anti-military teacher should ‘go to hell,’ vows swift memo release in interview  —  White House chief of staff John Kelly, in a wide-ranging interview with Fox News Radio, said the California teacher who has made headlines for bashing the military in a profane classroom rant should …
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.
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 …
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
FBI Launches Preemptive Strike on Nunes Memo
HuffPost:   What A Year This Month Has Been  —  All of these things happened in January 2018.
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:   The month of January felt like a year and the pilot episode for the 12-part series to come
Orin Kerr / Lawfare:
The Dubious Legal Claim Behind #ReleaseTheMemo
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Kos
Eric Boehlert / Shareblue Media:
In rare public rebuke, FBI humiliates GOP for Mueller smear campaign
Discussion: Raw Story
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
FBI warns it has ‘grave concerns’ about omissions in Nunes memo
Discussion: Townhall.com
New York Times:
Mueller Zooms In on Trump Tower Cover Story  —  WASHINGTON — Aboard Air Force One on a flight home from Europe last July, President Trump and his advisers raced to cobble together a news release about a mysterious meeting at Trump Tower the previous summer between Russians and top Trump campaign officials.
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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Wall Street Journal:
FBI Officials Knew of New Clinton Emails Weeks Before Alerting Congress  —  Andrew McCabe learned of thousands of emails found on Anthony Weiner's laptop at least a month before alerting lawmakers  —  Top FBI officials were aware for at least a month before alerting Congress …
Noah Bookbinder / Politico:
Trump's Saturday Night Massacre Is Happening Right Before Our Eyes  —  The FBI issued an extraordinary statement on Wednesday, pushing back on the release of a partisan congressional memo alleging the bureau used improper evidence to obtain legal permission to surveil a Trump campaign adviser.
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 …
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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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.
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.
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 …
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Gowdy finally had it with Washington  —  Trey Gowdy is done with politics.  —  The House Oversight Committee Chairman for years has joked privately about quitting Congress and returning home to South Carolina.  On Wednesday, he finally pulled the plug — likely for good.
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.
Joe Otterson / Variety:
TV Ratings: Trump's First State of the Union Down From 2017 Address in Early Numbers  —  UPDATED: Viewership of President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address is down slightly in the early Nielsen ratings compared to his first televised address to Congress last February as well as President Barack Obama's first such address.
Discussion: Axios, Vox, Joe.My.God. and CBS News
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Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:   TV Ratings: Trump's First SOTU Dips From 2017 (and Obama) With 45.6 Million Viewers
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 …
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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Lena H. / Washington Post:
CDC director resigns because of conflicts over financial interests
Elizabeth Zwirz / Fox News:
Texas girl, 9, that Trump said he'd pray for, is out of ICU after brain surgery, family says  —  On behalf of President Trump, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders asked the nation on Jan. 23 to pray for a little girl in Texas who was prepping for an upcoming surgery for a rare brain condition, KFOR reported.
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.
Tampa Bay Times:
The campaign is over.  The candidate might be dead.  But the spending never stops.  —  ★★★  —  WASHINGTON, D.C.  —  I T'S BEEN MORE THAN A DECADE since South Florida Rep. Mark Foley was forced out of Congress for sending sexual text messages to teenage boys.
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.
Discussion: NBC News
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Republicans see hope for midterms, despite Trump's unpopularity
Discussion: TheBlaze
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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Orange County Register:
3 dead, 2 injured after helicopter crashes into Newport Beach home
Discussion: Whittier Daily News and KTLA
Department of Homeland Security:
Secretary Of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen Announcement On Temporary Protected Status For Syria
Discussion: The Guardian
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Joe Kennedy: Read My Message, Not My Lips
Discussion: Breitbart
Bloomberg:
Pressure Rises on Congress to Raise Debt Ceiling in Coming Weeks
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
Molly Osberg / Splinter:
How to Not Die in America  —  On the second Tuesday in June, I start to feel fluish.
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Bill O'Reilly's Triumphant Return to Cable News Absolutely Tanked in the Ratings
Discussion: Splinter
Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News:
LULAC president to retract letter to Trump backing immigration plans
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Splinter
Allison P. Davis / thecut:
How Union Pool Became the Horny Utopia of 2000s Williamsburg The enduring charm of a dive bar …
Discussion: Eater NY
 Earlier Items: 
Barbara Starr / CNN:
Officials: US missile defense test failed in Hawaii
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Axios and The Week
Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Roger Stone Says He Visited the Ecuadorian Embassy in London Where Julian Assange Is In Hiding
Nick Magrino:
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Yascha Mounk / Slate:
Donald Trump Just Asked Congress to End the Rule of Law
Washington Post:
‘Using his position for private gain’: HUD lawyers warned Ben Carson risked running afoul …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Mother Jones
Shane Harris / Washington Post:
Russian spy chiefs met in Washington with CIA director to discuss counterterrorism
 

 
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