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2:00 AM ET, February 25, 2018

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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Democratic memo: FBI was investigating Trump campaign associates weeks before receiving dossier  —  The FBI team investigating the 2016 Trump campaign's contacts with Russians had already opened inquiries into multiple people connected to the campaign when it received a controversial dossier …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Nunes Memo Is Fake and the Russia Scandal Is Very Real  —  More than a month ago, conservatives rose up in coordinated demands to “release the memo.”  The memo, supposedly, contained breathtaking evidence of corruption in the Justice Department.  The agents of the Deep State had allegedly used …
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Trump urges national unity, investigation of ‘the other side’ amid Russia probe  —  Saying there were “no phone calls, no meetings, no collusion,” President Donald Trump on Saturday pushed for an investigation of “the other side” amid the FBI probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election …
Discussion: Political Wire, Breitbart and Axios
Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Dems' rebuttal to GOP FISA memo is released; Trump deems it a ‘bust’  —  President Trump on Saturday dismissed a Democratic rebuttal to the GOP memo outlining government surveillance abuses in the 2016 campaign as a “total political and legal bust,” claiming that it only confirms the …
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
The Democratic rebuttal to the Nunes memo tears it apart  —  Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff brought receipts.  —  Late on Saturday afternoon, House Democrats surprised the country by releasing their rebuttal to the so-called Nunes memo — the document, prepared by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) …
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
2 Weeks After Trump Blocked It, Democrats' Rebuttal of G.O.P. Memo Is Released  —  WASHINGTON — The House Intelligence Committee released a redacted Democratic memorandum on Saturday that counters Republican claims that top F.B.I. and Justice Department officials had abused their powers in spying on a former Trump campaign aide.
Lawfare:
Takeaways From the House Intelligence Democrats' Memo  —  President Trump lost no time dismissing the memo released Saturday by the House intelligence committee Democrats in response to the earlier memo prepared by Rep. Devin Nunes on the origins of the Carter Page surveillance:
U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Selection …:
Intel Committee Ranking Member Schiff Releases Democratic Response Memo  —  f t # e  —  Washington, DC - Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement:  —  “After reviewing the memorandum drafted …
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Democratic rebuttal to GOP House Intelligence memo released
Discussion: RedState, CBS News and TheBlaze
Washington Post:
House panel releases Democrats' memo defending FBI surveillance of ex-Trump campaign aide
Washington Post:
After testy call with Trump over border wall, Mexico's president shelves plan to visit White House … Tentative plans for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to make his first visit to the White House to meet with President Trump were scuttled this week after a testy call between …
Gabby Morrongiello / Washington Examiner:
CPAC speaker Mona Charen stuns with fiery rebuke of Trump, Le Pen  —  A conservative columnist was escorted out of the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday after slamming President Trump and conservatives for behaving like “hypocrites” when it comes to women's issues.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and RedState
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Alice B. Lloyd / Weekly Standard:
Mona Charen Slams Sexist Hypocrisy, Racism at CPAC: ‘You cannot claim that you stand for women’
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Mueller Is Gaining Steam.  Should Trump Worry?  —  WASHINGTON — In a fiery speech to supporters on Friday, President Trump went after his vanquished opponent from 2016.  “We had a crooked candidate,” he declared.  The crowd responded with a signature chant from the campaign trail: “Lock her up!”
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Corey Lewandowski returns to the Oval Office  —  Two days before President Trump gave his unchained, campaign-style speech at CPAC, he had a secret visitor in the Oval Office.  —  You didn't see it on the president's schedule, and the news hasn't leaked out until now …
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Chris York / HuffPost UK:
Michael Wolff Says Donald Trump And Jared Kushner ‘Will Throw Each Other Under The Bus’
Discussion: Raw Story
Davis Richardson / The New York Observer:
Michael Steele Responds to Racial Insult Hurled by CPAC Communications Director  —  Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) communication director Ian Walters sparked controversy with a racially charged insult hurled at former RNC chair Michael Steele on Friday night.
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Watch ex-RNC head Michael Steele unleash holy hell on CPAC exec over ‘black guy’ slur
Discussion: CBS News
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Michael Steele Confronts Matt Schlapp Over CPAC Official's Racial Insult: ‘What the Hell?!’
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
David Brody / New York Times:
In Donald Trump, Evangelicals Have Found Their President  —  Last August, President Trump sat behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office and looked me straight in the eyes.  With a look of reflection and purposefulness, he discussed his upbringing and fondly recalled a vivid childhood memory from the 1950s …
Ana Cerrud / Washington Post:
Police, yelling, power turned off: Confrontation over Trump's Panama hotel escalates … PANAMA CITY — The majority owner of President Trump's only hotel in Latin America abruptly ordered Trump employees out of the property on Thursday, triggering a confrontation in which Trump employees refused …
Brett T. / twitchy.com:
Law professor says NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch ‘loves watching Americans die’  —  How much do you want to bet that even if CNN held its town hall on guns this Saturday night, well after information emerged about how the Broward County Sheriff's Office took up positions outside the school and waited …
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Dana Schuster / Page Six:
Inside the toxic atmosphere at ‘Megyn Kelly Today’  —  Megyn Kelly has fashioned herself as a champion of the #MeToo movement, filling her NBC talk show, “Megyn Kelly Today,” with brave women fighting injustice.  —  But a former colleague says it's all an act.
Discussion: Mediaite
Andrew Husband / UPROXX:
Many Are Calling For NRAtv To Be Removed From Amazon Prime, Apple TV, And Google Chromecast  —  #GUN CONTROL #POLITICS #AMAZON #GOOGLE #APPLE  —  There is a growing list of companies who have decided to end their respective partnerships with the National Rifle Association following …
Discussion: AOL, The Daily Caller and USA Today
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Maxine Waters: Time ‘to get ready for impeachment’  —  (D-Calif.), who has been a leading opponent of President Trump  —  on Capitol Hill, told thousands of Democratic activists and officials “to get ready for impeachment.”  —  Speaking at the California Democratic Party's annual convention in San Diego …
Discussion: Political Wire
Mark SchlabachESPN Senior / ESPN:
FBI wiretaps show Sean Miller discussed $100K payment to lock recruit  —  FBI wiretaps intercepted telephone conversations between Arizona coach Sean Miller and Christian Dawkins, a key figure in the FBI's investigation into college basketball corruption, in which Miller discussed paying $100,000 …
 
 
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Kurt Erickson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Prepping for impeachment: Here's what Greitens and lawmakers face in the coming days
Discussion: Political Wire
Reece Ristau Tulsa / Tulsa World:
Police identify armed robber shot by Tulsa liquor store clerk
Discussion: smokeroom.com, Breitbart and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Melania Trump's parents will soon be citizens. They can thank ‘chain migration.’
Discussion: Power Line
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump would like to see a military parade on Veterans Day with ‘a lot of plane flyovers’
Discussion: Political Wire
Kathianne Boniello / New York Post:
Disgraced deputy in Florida shooting once named ‘officer of the year’
Carla Marinucci / Politico:
Democrats fear California crack-up
New York Times:
Left to Louisiana's Tides, a Village Fights for Time
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Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Judge dismisses coal mogul's defamation lawsuit against John Oliver
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Bernie Sanders promoted false story on reporting Russian trolls
CNN:
NRA slams gun-background system flaws it helped create
Washington Post:
United and Delta cut ties to NRA as boycott movement spreads to global corporations
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Teen survivor's ultimatum to NRA attack dogs: “We will outlive you”
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

 
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