memeorandum: For Stormy, controversy blows up into a club scene bonanza (Hadas Gold/CNN)

2:00 AM ET, March 12, 2018

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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:

Trump Lawyers Are Considering A Challenge To “60 Minutes” Airing Of A Stormy Daniels Interview — Anderson Cooper interviewed the adult film performer and director on Thursday. — Reporting From Washington, DC … Lawyers associated with President Donald Trump are considering legal action to stop …

Discussion: RedState, New York Times, The Daily Caller, Splinter, Common Dreams, BBC, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Outside the Beltway, IJR, Raw Story, Mediaite, Joe.My.God., The Moderate Voice and Political Wire, more at Mediagazer »

Hadas Gold / CNN:

For Stormy, controversy blows up into a club scene bonanza — POMPANO BEACH, FLORIDA (CNN)A propeller plane pulled an advertising banner across a darkening sky on Saturday afternoon. — “STORMY DANIELS LIVE TONIGHT @ SOLID GOLD POMPANO,” it said in large black letters.

Frances Stead Sellers / Washington Post:

Stormy Daniels uncertain about fate of her ‘60 Minutes’ segment — Porn star Stormy Daniels said in an email on Sunday “we will see what happens” to a taped segment she did with the CBS news show “60 Minutes,” as reports suggested that lawyers for Preisdent Trump are trying to block the broadcast.

Discussion: Breitbart

John Hinderaker / Power Line: Stormy Daniels and Ted Kennedy

Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Trump privately trashes Rick Saccone — There's a reason Trump said hardly anything about Republican candidate Rick Saccone during a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday night that was supposed to promote his candidacy. — The reason: Trump thinks Saccone is a terrible, “weak” candidate …

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Observer-Reporter:
EDITORIAL In 18th district election, Lamb is the best choice

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Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Trump: “Maxine Waters A Very Low I.Q. Individual”

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Washington Post:

White House vows to help arm teachers and backs off raising age for buying guns — The White House on Sunday vowed to help provide “rigorous firearms training” to some schoolteachers and formally endorsed a bill to tighten the federal background checks system, but backed off President Trump's earlier call …

Discussion: Mother Jones, New York Magazine and Gizmodo

Fox News:

White House backs off call to raise minimum age to buy long guns — The White House announced a series of recommendations Sunday night meant to stop school shootings, including a full audit and review of the FBI tip line after warnings about a student who killed 17 people at a Florida high school last month were not acted upon.

Discussion: Breitbart and IJR

Alizachasan / WPIX 11 New York:

East River helicopter crash leaves at least 2 dead, 3 in critical condition — MANHATTAN — At least two people were killed after a helicopter went down in the East River Sunday night, officials said. — The helicopter went into the water just south of East 86th Street around 7 p.m. Six people …

Discussion: FOX40, twitchy.com and HeraldScotland

New York Post:

Tour helicopter takes deadly crash into East River — A tourist helicopter plunged into the East River on Sunday night, killing two passengers and leaving three clinging to life after they were trapped inside the sinking vessel while the pilot scrambled to safety, police sources said.

Discussion: The Savage Nation

New York Times:
5 People Killed in Helicopter Crash in East River Off Manhattan

Discussion: ABC News, NPR, FOX 61 and KTLA

Michael Tackett / New York Times:

White Evangelical Women, Core Supporters of Trump, Begin Tiptoeing Away — GRAPEVINE, Tex. — Carol Rains, a white evangelical Christian, has no regrets over her vote for President Trump. She likes most of his policies and would still support him over any Democrat. But she is open to another Republican.

Discussion: Raw Story

Susan Shapiro / New York Daily News:

Liberal feminists for Farrakhan? Tamika Mallory is on the wrong side of a bright moral line — Imagine if I, a liberal white New Yorker, posted social media pictures with my arm around the KKK-loving David Duke, calling him a great man as he proclaimed that black people were degenerates responsible …

Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Putin condemned for saying Jews may have manipulated U.S. election

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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Why Tamika Mallory Won't Condemn Farrakhan

Discussion: NewsBusters and Power Line

Jonathan Lis / Associated Press:
Vladimir Putin: Maybe ‘Jews With Russian Citizenship’ Meddled in U.S. Elections

Discussion: Haaretz, Breitbart, The Mahablog and The Hill

Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times:

Trump loves winning, but in his presidency and business, California has gotten in his way … President Trump's well-documented clashes with California owe plenty to politics, culture and personality. But at bottom, what drives the president's toxic relationship with the nation's …

Carla Marinucci / Politico: Californians wish Trump would pay attention to more than just his border wall

Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Trump's giddy spree — His staff have whiplash, but Donald Trump is having the time of his life. He had one of his most joyous weeks of his presidency last week. — While senior officials and cabinet secretaries were struggling to keep up — and many eventually threw up their hands …

Lesley Stahl / CBS News:

Betsy DeVos on guns, school choice and why people don't like her — The secretary of education has been one of the most criticized members of President Trump's Cabinet, but DeVos says she's “more misunderstood than anything” — Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is a devout Christian grandmother …

Discussion: Raw Story and NPR

Michelle Castillo / CNBC:

Elon Musk, speaking at SXSW, projects Mars spaceship will be ready for short trips by first half of 2019 — Elon Musk held a surprise question and answer session at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas on Sunday. — The billionaire said SpaceX is on track to send …

Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:

After Appearing Before Mueller Grand Jury, Nunberg Urges Trump's Cooperation — Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg returned to cable television Sunday, following a Friday appearance before special counsel's Robert Mueller's grand jury, with a simple message for the President: Cooperate.

Avi Selk / Washington Post:

A New York Times columnist blamed a far-left ‘mob’ for her woes. But maybe she deserves them. … After retracting public comments three times in a little over a month, New York Times opinion columnist Bari Weiss defended her columns and tweets Friday, claiming a social media “mob” …

Discussion: NewsBusters

Axios:

Scoop: Trump told Netanyahu U.S. will pull out of Iran deal if big changes not made — President Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in their meeting at the White House last Monday that he won't show flexibility in the negotiations with France, Germany and the U.K. on amending the Iran nuclear deal …

Discussion: IJR and Mediaite

Talking Points Memo:

US Officials: No More Conditions Imposed On North Korea For Talks — Trump administration officials said Sunday there will be no more conditions imposed on North Korea before a first-ever meeting of the two nation's leaders beyond the North's promise not to resume nuclear testing and missile flights …