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10:20 AM ET, February 19, 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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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
A non-alarmist reading of the Mueller Russia indictment … There's been no shortage of breathless reaction to Trump-Russia special prosecutor Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russians and three Russian organizations for their efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Discussion: Betsy's Page
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.
Blake Hounshell / Politico:
Confessions of a Russiagate Skeptic  —  If, like me, you've been following every twist and turn of the Russia investigations, you've probably wrestled with the same question that has been gnawing at me for more than a year now: What if there's nothing there?
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 …
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New York Times:
Trump's Evolution From Relief to Fury Over the Russia Indictment  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump began the weekend believing that something good had just happened to him.  An indictment leveled against 13 Russians for interfering with the 2016 election had not accused him or anyone around him of wrongdoing.
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Trump is ignoring the worst attack on America since 9/11  —  Imagine if, after 9/11, the president had said that the World Trade Center and Pentagon could have been attacked by “China” or “lots of other people.”  Imagine if he had dismissed claims of al-Qaeda's responsibility as a “hoax” …
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump surveyed Mar-a-Lago members over gun control in wake of school shooting: report
Discussion: RedState
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:   Jill Stein Downplays Russian Meddling: Media and DNC Interfered in 2016 Election Too
CBS News:
Oprah follows up with the partisan voters in Michigan  —  Last fall, Oprah Winfrey spoke with 14 Michigan voters, seven of whom voted for Donald Trump.  Winfrey sat down with the voters again to get their thoughts on Trump's first year in office  —  Oprah Winfrey
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Rush Limbaugh attacks Parkland students for marching and ‘bashing’ NRA: ‘This is totally political’  —  Radio host Rush Limbaugh attacked a group of students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida for organizing marches after 17 were killed in a mass shooting at their school.
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Washington Post:
Funeral after funeral, an emotional marathon for survivors of the Parkland school shooting
Discussion: The FADER and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Florida students plead with Congress: It's about the guns
Christine Yared / New York Times:
Don't Let My Classmates' Deaths Be in Vain
Discussion: Washington Post
Associated Press:   Trump fumes about Russia investigation as nation mourns
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Conservatives urge Trump to grant pardons in Russia probe  —  After months of criticizing special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, President Donald Trump's supporters are issuing increasingly bold calls for presidential pardons to limit the investigation's impact.
Discussion: Axios and Raw Story
Jill Abramson / New York Magazine:
Do You Believe Her Now?  —  With new evidence that Clarence Thomas lied to get onto the Supreme Court, it's time to talk seriously about impeachment.  —  Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas testifying before the Senate in 1991.  Paul Hosefros/The New York Times/Redux (Hill); Jose R. Lopez/The New York Times/Redux (Rhomas)
Discussion: National Review and thecut
New York Times:
Tools of Trump's Fixer: Payouts, Intimidation and the Tabloids  —  As accounts of past sexual indiscretions threatened to surface during Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign, the job of stifling potentially damaging stories fell to his longtime lawyer and all-around fixer, Michael D. Cohen.
New York Times:
How Does Trump Stack Up Against the Best — and Worst — Presidents?  —  Where does Donald Trump rank on the list of American presidents?  —  We surveyed presidential politics experts to sketch out a first draft of Trump's place in presidential history.  —  Since our previous survey in 2014 …
Discussion: Althouse
Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
“The Canaries Are Dying”: How Trump Is Making Republicans Pick Their 2018 Poison  —  Caught between the president's rabid, loyal base and suburban women, Republican candidates may not survive a blue wave election.  —  “These races are like canaries in the coal mine,” Steve Israel …
Discussion: Raw Story
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National Journal:
Democrats Hoping for a Shocker in Trump Country
Discussion: Political Wire
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Trump's Miss Universe Gambit  —  For years, he used his beauty pageants to boost business interests abroad.  A 2013 contest, in Moscow, may also have helped give him the Presidency.  —  The first-round results of the 2013 Miss Universe pageant seem to have come as a surprise …
Wall Street Journal:
Russian Curler Fails Drug Test, Authorities Explore Sabotage Possibility  —  Aleksandr Krushelnitckii, who won a bronze medal in mixed doubles with his wife last week, has tested positive for a high dose of meldonium, the same medication that Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova was suspended in 2016 for using
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Gabrielle Tetrault-Farber / Reuters:   Russian medalist at Games suspected of doping: source
 
 
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Carla Marinucci / Politico:
‘Spin the bottle’ and a kegerator: #MeToo movement lawmaker faces new sexual misconduct allegations
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Attacking the ‘Woke’ Black Vote
Margaret Brennan / CBS News:
Rex Tillerson opens up in rare, wide-ranging interview
Discussion: Business Insider
Mark L. Rosenberg / Politico:
What's Missing From the Gun Debate
Discussion: The Federalist and NewsBusters
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Kelly skeptical of Ivanka's paid family leave push
Discussion: Splinter
David Ferguson / Raw Story:
Eric and Don Jr. egged on Trump's weekend Twitter tirade against the FBI: CNN
Discussion: HuffPost and The Hill
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NBC Hires Anti-Pence Gay Skater
Discussion: USA Today, RedState and Deadline
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Appeasing the Trigger Gods
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
 

 
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