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11:45 PM ET, February 8, 2018

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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“He Was F—ing Pissed”: With Rob Porter Gone, the Heat on John Kelly Is Increasing  —  Trump is not happy with the chaos; Jared and Ivanka are trying to right the ship; and even Hope Hicks, one of the president's closest confidants, is in trouble.  —  A day after White House Staff Secretary …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump White House Fingered Corey Lewandowski in Rob Porter ‘Smear Campaign’ … Late Tuesday night, senior White House officials reached out to Sen. Orrin Hatch's (R-UT) office with an urgent request.  They needed the Utah Republican to put together a statement praising his former chief …
MJ Lee / CNN:
Email to FBI: Porter's friend ‘actively working to quell’ background check issues  —  White House aide's ex-wife details alleged abuse  —  Washington (CNN)The current husband of one of Rob Porter's ex-wives emailed the FBI last January expressing concern that a close friend …
New York Times:
Unwelcome Attention for John Kelly, the Man Enlisted to Bring Calm  —  WASHINGTON — Among the many people agitated this week over John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, was President Trump.  And among the people the president called to express dissatisfaction, according to those close to him …
Washington Post:
Top White House officials knew of abuse allegations against top aide for months  —  White House Counsel Donald McGahn knew one year ago that Staff Secretary Rob Porter's ex-wives accused him of domestic violence but allowed him to serve as an influential gatekeeper and aide to President Trump …
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Kelly knew before abuse reports that Porter would be denied security clearance  —  White House chief of staff John Kelly was told several weeks ago that the FBI would deny full security clearances to multiple White House aides who had been working in the West Wing on interim security clearances.
Discussion: Associated Press
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The ‘family values’ crowd is mute on Rob Porter
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Rob Porter scandal: Everywhere but Fox News
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Hope Hicks, elusive Trump aide, in the spotlight amid Rob Porter scandal
Discussion: Business Insider
Fox News Insider:   Jonah Goldberg: John Kelly's Initial Defense of Rob Porter Indicative of ‘Bunker Mentality’ at WH
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Congress stumbles toward second shutdown  —  Washington readied itself for another government shutdown at midnight, as a budget deal stalled on Capitol Hill amid resistance from a cantankerous GOP senator and unhappy House Democrats.  —  The White House has urged federal agencies …
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
White House advises government agencies to prepare for shutdown as Congress struggles …
Reuters:
Fiscal hawk Paul slows budget deal, shutdown looms
Discussion: CNN and Splinter
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:   The U.S. Government May Shut Down (and Reopen) While You Sleep
Ed Henry / Fox News:
Democratic Sen. Mark Warner texted with Russian oligarch lobbyist in effort to contact dossier author Christopher Steele  —  EXCLUSIVE - Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee who has been leading a congressional investigation into President Trump's alleged ties to Russia …
CBS News:
House Intel Republicans plan to wall off their aides from Democratic staffers  —  In a sign of increasing partisan hostilities, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee plan to construct a wall - a physical partition - separating Republican and Democratic staff members in the committee's secure spaces …
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CNN:
Clash with witness shows Nunes' drive to discredit dossier  —  Nunes' hometown split on FBI memo controversy  —  Washington (CNN)Last month, an attorney expressed his outrage with leaders of the House Intelligence Committee: He demanded to know why a committee official shared …
David Ovalle / miamiherald:
Bad info from Spirit Air led me to flush pet hamster down airport toilet, student says  —  Before Belen Aldecosea flew home from from college to South Florida, she twice called Spirit Airlines to ensure she could bring along a special guest: Pebbles, her pet dwarf hamster.  No problem, the airline told her.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
FBI surveillance of Carter Page might have picked up Bannon  —  The FBI was monitoring Carter Page when the former Trump campaign adviser says he spoke with Trump adviser Steve Bannon about Russia in January 2017, raising the strong possibility that the FBI intercepted a conversation between the two men.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Federalist
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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:   Republicans Won't Say if Spying on Carter Page Was Wrong
Hannah Levintova / Mother Jones:
Russian Activist Alleges New Link Between the Kremlin and Paul Manafort  —  A story involving a Norwegian yacht, an escort, and her Instagram posts featuring a prominent oligarch are capturing Russia's attention—and may represent a new and bizarre twist in the story behind Moscow's links to the Trump campaign.
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Alec Luhn / Telegraph:   Oligarch met with top Russian official after Trump aide ‘offered briefings’
Dara Lind / Vox:
Exclusive: Trump's draft plan to punish legal immigrants for sending US-born kids to Head Start  —  Or getting insured through the Children's Health Insurance Program, or getting assistance to heat their homes.  —  The Trump administration is working on new rules that would allow the government …
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Carla Marinucci / Politico:
MeToo movement lawmaker investigated for sexual misconduct allegations  —  SAN FRANCISCO — California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia — whose high-profile advocacy of the #MeToo movement earned her national media notice — is herself the subject of a state legislative investigation in the wake …
Maggie Severns / Politico:
Former Cato employees describe years of harassment  —  Three former employees of the famed Cato Institute say they were sexually harassed by Ed Crane, the 73-year-old co-founder and president emeritus of the think tank and one of the most recognizable figures in the libertarian movement.
Matt Egan / CNNMoney:
Dow plunges 1,033 points and sinks into correction  —  Inflation fears driving market jitters  —  For the second time this week, the Dow plunged more than 1,000 points.  —  And it's now in a correction — 10% off its record high just two weeks ago.  —  Fears about the bond market …
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New York Times:
Stocks Plunge as Market Enters ‘Correction’ Territory
Discussion: Politico
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
Ratings Changes in 21 Districts  —  The first two months of 2018 have given both parties reasons for optimism.  Republicans have cut Democrats' lead in the FiveThirtyEight average of generic congressional ballot polls in half, from roughly 12 points in December to about six points today.
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Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Another longtime Comey aide leaving FBI  —  The longtime head of public affairs at the FBI — who was a confidant of former director James Comey — is planning to retire, Fox News has learned.  —  A notice went out this week for a retirement get-together for Michael Kortan scheduled for Feb. 15.
Discussion: The Last Refuge
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Two more officials cited in FBI texts step down
Discussion: twitchy.com and Raw Story
Philip Wegmann / Washington Examiner:
Sebastian Gorka fully supports Danny Tarkanian (whose campaign paid Gorka $5,000) … Danny Tarkanian made a new friend last year.  The insurgent candidate, who is running in the Nevada Republican primary to unseat incumbent Sen. Dean Heller, obtained the endorsement of former deputy assistant to President Trump, Sebastian Gorka.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Media Matters for America:
Fox News executive VP rails against diversity of US Olympians: “Darker, Gayer, Different”  —  Fox News' John Moody, who serves as the network's executive vice president and an executive editor, criticized the diversity of Team USA in an op-ed a day before the 2018 Winter Olympics were scheduled to open in PyeongChang, South Korea.
Discussion: Fox News, Hullabaloo and AOL
Bloomberg:
Trump Administration Is Weighing Emergency Aid for Some Coal Plants  —  Perry could use emergency authority to aid FirstEnergy plants  —  Perry has used such orders to keep other power plants online  —  After failing to win a bailout for cash-strapped coal plants, the Trump administration …
Taffy Brodesser-Akner / New York Times:
Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle  —  Jimmy Buffett awoke one morning last year in one of his many homes — he can't remember which one, there are a lot of them — and a panic gripped him in his throat.  His new Broadway musical, “Escape to Margaritaville,” was coming along nicely, but something was off.
Discussion: Hit & Run and Longreads
 
 
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Graham Vyse / New Republic:
The Left's War Against The New York Times
Discussion: New York Magazine
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Trio Of Harvey Weinstein Sexual Abuse Cases Sent To D.A. By LAPD
Discussion: thecut and Breitbart
Elana Schor / Politico:
Grassley: Trump Jr. interview transcript release likely to take weeks
Discussion: Daily Kos
Madeleine Aggeler / thecut:
Katie Roiphe's Man Seems to Be Tweeting Angry Responses at Her Critics
Taylor Lorenz / The Daily Beast:
‘We Are Not Testing a Dislike Button,’ Facebook Says to Questions About the Dislike Button It Is Testing
Travis Fedschun / Fox News:
Florida boy gets trapped inside arcade claw machine
Discussion: VICE, New York Post, KDFW and CBS 4
Bloomberg:
Trump's Soaring Budget Deficit Risks Intensifying Market Frenzy
Discussion: New York Magazine
U.S. Department of Justice:
Department of Justice Files Denaturalization Complaint Against Diversity Visa Recipient …
 Earlier Items: 
Eric Katz / GovExec.com:
Allegations of Rampant Sexual Harassment and Rape Roil Federally Run College
Discussion: Raw Story
Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney:
Twitter failed to remove hundreds of Russian propaganda videos aimed at Americans
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans Stopped Sabotaging the Economy Because They Have the White House Now
Yochi Dreazen / Vox:
Here's what war with North Korea would look like
CNN:
‘Pillar of the community’ deported from US after 39 years to a land he barely knows
Discussion: Daily Kos
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

 
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