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9:00 PM ET, February 18, 2018

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David Willman / Los Angeles Times:
Former Trump aide Rick Gates to plead guilty; agrees to testify against Manafort, sources say … A former top aide to Donald Trump's presidential campaign will plead guilty to fraud-related charges within days - and has made clear to prosecutors that he would testify against Paul J. Manafort Jr. …
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Blake Hounshell / Politico:   Confessions of a Russiagate Skeptic
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Gates agrees to testify against Manafort in Mueller probe: report
Discussion: Mother Jones and RedState
CBS News:
Rick Gates, ex-Trump aide and Manafort associate, expected to plead guilty in Russia probe
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump attacks everyone but Russia  —  President Donald Trump railed against the investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election Saturday night into Sunday, sending off a stream of tweets attacking the FBI, CNN, the Democratic Party, his own national security adviser …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Washington Post:
Trump lashes out over Russia probe in angry and error-laden tweetstorm … WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump lashed out with fresh anger about the intensifying Russia probe over the weekend, accusing Democrats of enabling a foreign adversary to interfere in the 2016 election and attacking …
David Frum / The Atlantic:
America Is Under Attack and the President Doesn't Care  —  As the rest of America mourns the victims of the Parkland, Florida, massacre, President Trump took to Twitter.  —  Not for him the rituals of grief.  He is too consumed by rage and resentment.  He interrupted his holidaying schedule …
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Jill Stein Downplays Russian Meddling: Media and DNC Interfered in 2016 Election Too  —  Days after the Russian indictments were handed down, Jill Stein appeared on MSNBC today to downplay Russian interference by pointing to American interference in the election.
New York Times:   Trump's Evolution From Relief to Fury Over the Russia Indictment
Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Florida teen shooting survivors announce ‘March for Our Lives’ demonstration in Washington  —  Teen survivors of the school shooting massacre in Florida last week are calling for a march on Washington to demand action on gun control.  —  Student organizers of the protest told ABC News' …
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Christine Yared / New York Times:   Don't Let My Classmates' Deaths Be in Vain
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
We've just hit a new presidential low … Donald Trump has taken the presidency to yet another new low.  —  In a remarkable set of tweets over the weekend, the commander in chief sounded off on new revelations about the extent of Russia's campaign to undermine our electoral system.
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
‘They are laughing their asses off in Moscow’: Trump takes on the FBI, Russia probe and 2016 election … West Palm Beach, Fla. — President Trump questioned the intensifying special counsel's investigation of his campaign and administration while attacking his own national security adviser …
David Ferguson / Raw Story:
Eric and Don Jr. egged on Trump's weekend Twitter tirade against the FBI: CNN  —  CNN's Boris Sanchez reported on Sunday that sources say President Donald Trump's weekend Twitter attacks on the FBI and special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation were spurred by his sons Donald Jr. and Eric.
Discussion: HuffPost
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Max Londberg / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Third-graders are selling AR-15 raffle tickets in Missouri  —  Third-graders in a Missouri community are continuing to sell raffle tickets for an AR-15 to benefit their traveling baseball team after the same type of rifle was used to slaughter and injure dozens at a Florida school.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Skirmish in Beijing over the nuclear football  —  On Thursday Nov. 9, when President Trump and his team visited Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Chief of Staff John Kelly and a U.S. Secret Service agent skirmished with Chinese security officials over the nuclear football.
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Whatever Trump Is Hiding Is Hurting All of Us Now  —  Our democracy is in serious danger.  —  President Trump is either totally compromised by the Russians or is a towering fool, or both, but either way he has shown himself unwilling or unable to defend America against a Russian campaign to divide and undermine our democracy.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:   Appeasing the Trigger Gods
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Reading the Mueller Indictment: A Russian-American Fraud
Discussion: Eschaton
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
'He's scared out of his mind': Ex-official nails Trump over blaming FBI for shooting to deflect from Russia probe  —  Appearing on AM Joy, former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi harshly criticized Donald Trump for attacking the FBI over the tragedy in Parkland …
Josh Delk / The Hill:
Dem senator warns Mueller against issuing Russia report near 2018 election  —  Jr. (D-Pa.) on Sunday warned special counsel Robert Mueller  —  against issuing a report on his findings in the ongoing investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election near the upcoming 2018 midterm elections.
Discussion: RedState and twitchy.com
Christine Brennan / USA Today:
Adam Rippon will work for NBC as a correspondent for remainder of 2018 Winter Olympics  —  PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — U.S. figure skater Adam Rippon, the openly gay Olympic team bronze medalist who has become one of the best-known names at these Games, has been hired by NBC to work …
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Matt Philbin / NewsBusters:
NBC Hires Anti-Pence Gay Skater
Discussion: Deadline and USA Today
Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
The Russian journalist who helped uncover election interference is confounded by the Mueller indictments … A 37-page indictment issued by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's team on Friday brings fresh American attention to one of the strangest elements of alleged Russian interference …
Frank Pallotta / CNNMoney:
‘Black Panther’ brings in a record-breaking box office weekend  —  The Marvel model for success  —  All hail the king.  —  “Black Panther,” Marvel's first film directed by an African-American, brought in an estimated $192 million for its three-day debut in North America this weekend.
Discussion: NPR
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Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter:
Weekend Box Office: ‘Black Panther’ Bounds to Record-Shattering $218M-Plus Bow
Discussion: The Root
 
 
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Kelly skeptical of Ivanka's paid family leave push
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Biden, in public and private, tiptoes toward a 2020 run
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Associated Press:
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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New York Times:
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