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11:15 AM ET, February 6, 2018

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New York Times:
Trump's Lawyers Want Him to Refuse an Interview in Russia Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Trump have advised him against sitting down for a wide-ranging interview with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, according to four people briefed on the matter …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Reality is catching up with Trump — everywhere  —  President Trump, in his State of the Union address last week, boasted to the nation about stock market gains: “The stock market has smashed one record after another, gaining $8 trillion and more in value in just this short period of time.”
Discussion: New York Times and Daily Kos
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CNBC:   Dow turns positive as stocks try to recover from steep sell-off
Ben White / Politico:
‘The president clearly set himself up’: Trump's stock market miscalculation
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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:   The FISA-Gate Boomerangs  —  Many questions remain, but Democrats …
Fox News:
Carter Page: Who is he and how is he linked to Trump?
Discussion: Just Security
Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
US trade gap hits $566 billion in 2017, highest since 2008  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit hit the highest level in nine years in 2017, defying President Donald Trump's efforts to bring more balance to America's trade relationships.  —  The Commerce Department said Tuesday …
Discussion: Axios and Reuters
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Doug Palmer / Politico:
Trade ‘disaster’ worsens under Trump  —  President Donald Trump came into office promising to reduce the U.S. trade deficit — and by that measure alone, his first year might be considered a dud.  —  The U.S. trade deficit increased more than 12 percent in 2017, to $566 billion …
Sho Chandra / Bloomberg:   U.S. Trade Deficit Is Wider Than Any Month or Year Since 2008
Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Sessions calls for ‘fresh start’ at FBI  —  Sessions: Rosenstein is leadership we want  —  Washington (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he believes the FBI needs a “fresh start” following FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's decision to step down.  —  “Well, I have believed …
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Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Jeff Sessions: FBI needs ‘to have a fresh start’
Discussion: Political Wire
Sarah Karlin-Smith / Politico:
Kellyanne Conway's ‘opioid cabinet’ sidelines drug czar's experts  —  President Donald Trump's war on opioids is beginning to look more like a war on his drug policy office.  —  White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has taken control of the opioids agenda, quietly freezing out drug policy professionals …
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
Bob Mueller's Investigation Is Larger—and Further Along—Than You Think  —  PRESIDENT TRUMP CLAIMED in a tweet over the weekend that the controversial Nunes memo “totally vindicates” him, clearing him of the cloud of the Russia investigation that has hung over his administration for a year now.
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Quentin Tarantino Explains Everything: Uma Thurman, The ‘Kill Bill’ Crash & Harvey Weinstein  —  EXCLUSIVE: Since Saturday morning when The New York Times published Uma Thurman's depiction of assault at the hands of Harvey Weinstein, the writer/director most closely associated with her biggest successes …
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Madeleine Davies / Jezebel:
Here's Audio of Quentin Tarantino Defending Roman Polanski: 13-Year-Old Girl ‘Wanted to Have It’
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Reuters:
Bannon will not testify before House committee on Tuesday: sources
Discussion: RedState
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
White House Official Called Trump a ‘Deplorable’  —  Before joining the Trump administration, the White House principal deputy press secretary, Raj Shah, called President Donald Trump “a deplorable” and referred to the release of the Access Hollywood tape as “some justice,” …
New York Times:
FEMA Contract Called for 30 Million Meals for Puerto Ricans.  50,000 Were Delivered.  —  The mission for the Federal Emergency Management Agency was clear: Hurricane Maria had torn through Puerto Rico, and hungry people needed food.  Thirty million meals needed to be delivered as soon as possible.
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Pennsylvania Republican launches effort to impeach state supreme court to save GOP gerrymander  —  In a direct attack on the rule of law, Pennsylvania state Rep. Cris Dush (R) sent a memo to his colleagues Monday evening asking them to cosponsor articles of impeachment against five of the state's seven supreme court justices.
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Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Denies Bid to Keep GOP-Friendly Districts in Pennsylvania
Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
Is Trump Serious About “Treasonous” Democrats?  —  By now, we're all familiar with President Trump's remarkable gift for saying outrageous things that create controversy entirely for its own sake.  These controversies generally feature his liberal critics overreacting by many orders of magnitude …
Ali Vitali / NBC News:
Trump: Democrats' muted State of Union reaction ‘treasonous’  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday called Democrats' stone-faced reaction to his State of the Union address last week “treasonous” and “un-American” during a visit to a manufacturing plant in Cincinnati.
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Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
This Mutant Crayfish Clones Itself, and It's Taking Over Europe  —  Frank Lyko, a biologist at the German Cancer Research Center, studies the six-inch-long marbled crayfish.  Finding specimens is easy: Dr. Lyko can buy the crayfish at pet stores in Germany, or he can head with colleagues to a nearby lake.
National Journal:
The GOP's Misguided Midterm Optimism  —  Recent polls have made some Republicans feel better about November.  They shouldn't.  —  All of our national elections are important, but there is always a special significance to the last midterm elections before the congressional and state-legislative redistricting processes take place.
Discussion: NBC News
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
North Korean State Media: ‘Old Lunatic’ Trump ‘Cannot Deodorize Nasty Smell From His Dirty Body’  —  North Korean state media is getting personal in its attacks on President Donald Trump.  —  According to CNN's Will Ripley, North Korean state media took a shot on Trump's hygiene on Tuesday …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Kimberly Hutcherson / CNN:
Driver who hit Colts linebacker was an undocumented immigrant, police say  —  NFL player killed in drunk driving accident  —  (CNN)Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson and another man were struck and killed in a suspected drunken driving accident early Sunday morning.
Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
Rachel Crooks, who accused Trump of sexual harassment, is running for office … Last December, as the Trump presidency chugged toward the close of its first year, a woman from western Ohio named Rachel Crooks appeared on CNN.  —  More than a year earlier, Crooks had been one of a handful …
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Trump Evangelical Adviser Says You Don't Need Flu Shots When You Have Jesus  —  “Inoculate yourself with the word of God,” says Gloria Copeland.  —  A controversial minister linked to President Donald Trump said flu shots aren't necessary when you have Jesus.
Discussion: Jezebel and Political Wire
Sarah Pulliam Bailey / Washington Post:
'I wasn't hearing any call from God': Michele Bachmann opts out of running for Al Franken's Senate seat … Former U.S. representative Michele Bachmann has decided not to run for the U.S. Senate seat recently vacated by Al Franken, just weeks after she told a televangelist she was mulling the decision.
Discussion: Right Wing Watch and Raw Story
New York Times:
The Dating Blues?  #MeToo  —  I'm single this year for the very first time.  —  All I want is a man who's not committed a crime.  —  But that feels very unlikely in this landscape we're in,  —  much to my chagrin.  —  And so I'm going on dates,  —  And I'm truck'n along,
Stuart Leavenworth / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump ripped this judge as ‘hater.’ Now he'll hear environmental case on border wall.  —  WASHINGTON  —  A federal judge in California who Donald Trump once derided for his ethnicity will hear a case Friday that could determine the president's latitude to waive environmental laws, paving the way for his “big, beautiful” border wall.
Discussion: Washington Post and Splinter
Emily Cadei / Sacramento Bee:
Tied to Trump, these two California Republican congressmen lag in poll  —  California Republicans' hopes for re-election in 2018 may rest on separating themselves from the unpopular President Trump.  A new poll shows that's not happening as the year begins, at least in two of the state's most competitive congressional districts.
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Solomon Messing / Pew Research Center:
Use of election forecasts in campaign coverage can confuse voters and may lower turnout
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Sound the alarm: National GOP breaks glass in Pennsylvania race
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Lee DeVito / Detroit Metro Times:
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Lorenzo Tondo / The Guardian:
Attacks on immigrants highlight rise of fascist groups in Italy
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ComProp / The Computational Propaganda Project:
Polarization, Partisanship and Junk News Consumption over Social Media in the US
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New York Times:
Stock Markets Sink, Suggesting Global Rout Will Last
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Comic sues Upright Citizens Brigade for reverse gender discrimination
Discussion: Jezebel and thecut
Chris Jones / Chicago Tribune:
John Mahoney, Steppenwolf and ‘Frasier’ actor, dead at 77
Discussion: NPR
Matt Viser / BostonGlobe.com:
The seeds of Mitt Romney's US Senate bid were planted in a Marriott meeting with Orrin Hatch
Discussion: Roll Call
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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