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Mike Allen / Axios:
A huge clue about Mueller's endgame — Axios has learned that special counsel Robert Mueller has focused on events since the election — not during the campaign — in his conversations with President Trump's lawyers. The top two topics that Mueller has expressed interest in so far …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Newly Emboldened, Trump Says What He Really Feels — For months, President Trump's legal advisers implored him to avoid so much as mentioning the name of Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, in his tweets, and to do nothing to provoke him or suggest his investigation is not proper.
Bob Bauer / Lawfare:
The President and His Lawyers, Part II: The Attorney General and the Saturday Night Pre-Massacre — As President Trump moves closer to an all-out assault on Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the question is: How will the lawyers around him respond? They understand that the president sees …
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American Prospect, New York Times and Media Matters for America, more at Mediagazer »
Alex Ward / Vox:
Andrew McCabe's firing and Trump's anti-Mueller tirade, explained — “The president of the United States is unhinged.” — President Donald Trump's unprecedented attacks on federal law enforcement turned even more vindictive over a series of jarring events last weekend.
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The Daily Beast:
Team Trump: Expect Trump to Attack Mueller More Directly
Team Trump: Expect Trump to Attack Mueller More Directly
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Washington Post, Raw Story, Oxford Mail, ABC News, Fox News, Politico, Al Jazeera English, Shareblue Media, Mediaite and New York Magazine
Mark Warner / USA Today:
Congress must draw ‘red line’ to protect Mueller, warn Trump against firing and pardons: Mark Warner
Congress must draw ‘red line’ to protect Mueller, warn Trump against firing and pardons: Mark Warner
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
‘You Will Not Destroy America’: A Trump Battle Is No Longer One-Sided
‘You Will Not Destroy America’: A Trump Battle Is No Longer One-Sided
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Washington Post, Latest from Crooks and Liars and RedState
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Steps Up Attacks on Mueller Investigation
Trump Steps Up Attacks on Mueller Investigation
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Talking Points Memo, Axios, KTLA, Fox News Insider, Raw Story, CNBC, CNN and Just Security, more at Mediagazer »
Financial Times:
Cambridge Analytica scrambles to halt Channel 4 exposé — Cambridge Analytica, the data firm alleged to have used the personal information of millions of Facebook users without their knowledge in its work for Donald Trump's election campaign, is trying to stop the broadcast …
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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Under Pressure Over Data Breach — Demands follow report that Cambridge Analytica violated rules — Lawmakers seek more than ‘false reassurance’ on data safety — Government officials in the U.S. and Europe are demanding answers from Facebook Inc. after reports …
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Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Facebook shares slump amid continued fallout from Cambridge Analytica scandal
Facebook shares slump amid continued fallout from Cambridge Analytica scandal
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Washington Monthly, Zero Hedge, Philly.com, Mashable and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
Matt Rosoff / CNBC:
Facebook is facing its biggest test ever — and its lack of leadership could sink the company
Facebook is facing its biggest test ever — and its lack of leadership could sink the company
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Outside the Beltway
Josh Meyer / Politico:
Democrats fume over Parscale's limited answers on Russian digital meddling
Democrats fume over Parscale's limited answers on Russian digital meddling
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Political Wire
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
What Hope Hicks Knows — The departure of the Trump whisperer has left the White House in even deeper chaos. Which surely pleases some outsiders angling to get back in. — On the morning of Wednesday, February 28, Hope Hicks arrived at the White House just after 8 a.m. Within a week …
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Roberto Villalpando / Austin American-Statesman:
LATEST: Trip wire would show ‘different level of skill’ of bomber, Austin police chief says — 8 a.m. update: If police confirm that Sunday night's bomb in Southwest Austin was triggered by a trip wire, the device would be “showing a different level of skill above what we were already concerned …
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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Two injured in explosion in Austin, police say
Two injured in explosion in Austin, police say
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New Republic, New York Times, The Root and Outside the Beltway
Dakin Andone / CNN:
Austin bombs were ‘meant to send a message,’ authorities believe
Austin bombs were ‘meant to send a message,’ authorities believe
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Wil Cruz / ABC News:
Explosion in Austin injures 2 men, authorities say; fourth incident this month
Explosion in Austin injures 2 men, authorities say; fourth incident this month
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New York Times, NPR, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Wire, twitchy.com and WIS-TV
New York Times:
Sons of Rich Black Families Fare No Better Than Sons of Working-Class Whites — Black boys raised in America, even in the wealthiest families and living in some of the most well-to-do neighborhoods, still earn less in adulthood than white boys with similar backgrounds, according to a sweeping …
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Trump had senior staff sign nondisclosure agreements. They're supposed to last beyond his presidency. … Back in April 2016, when the notion of Donald Trump in the White House still seemed fanciful, The Post's Robert Costa and Bob Woodward sat down with Trump, and Costa, at one point …
Bernard Condon / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Kushner Cos. filed false NYC housing paperwork — NEW YORK (AP) — When the Kushner Cos. bought three apartment buildings in a gentrifying neighborhood of Queens in 2015, most of the tenants were protected by special rules that prevent developers from pushing them out, raising rents and turning a tidy profit.
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Splinter, The Real Deal New York, Axios and Political Wire
Washington Post:
D.C. lawmaker says recent snowfall caused by ‘Rothschilds controlling the climate’ … A D.C. lawmaker responded to a brief snowfall Friday by publishing a video in which he espoused a conspiracy theory that Jewish financiers control the weather. — D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. …
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Chad Blair / Honolulu Civil Beat:
Why I'm Leaving The GOP — The former Republican congressman from Hawaii says he can no longer remain in a party led by Donald Trump. — Today, after much consideration, I abandon my party because I am unwilling to abandon my principles. I can no longer stand with a Republican Party …
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Raw Story
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Public Troubled by ‘Deep State’ — Bi-partisan concern that government is tracking U.S. citizens — West Long Branch, NJ - A majority of the American public believe that the U.S. government engages in widespread monitoring of its own citizens and worry that the U.S. government could be invading their own privacy.
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Majority in new poll: ‘Deep state’ manipulating policy
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Republicans bet their Senate majority on Trump — His approval rating is perpetually underwater, and the pandemonium surrounding his presidency only grows the longer he's in the job. — But Senate Republicans are nevertheless making a counterintuitive, all-in bet that President Donald Trump …
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Axios
Washington Post:
Kushner Companies confirms meeting with Qatar on financing … Jared Kushner's father met with Qatar's finance minister three months after President Trump's inauguration, a New York City session at which funding for a financially troubled real estate project was discussed, the company acknowledged Sunday.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Inside Apple's Secret Plan to Develop and Build its Own Screens — The company has a secret manufacturing facility in California — Apple Watch to be first Apple product with MicroLED technology — Apple Inc. is designing and producing its own device displays for the first time …
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Hillary Clinton:
During an interview last week with an Indian news publication, I was asked about 2016, and whether Trump is the “virus” or a “symptom” of something deeper going on in American society. Like most Americans, people overseas remain shocked and dismayed at what they are witnessing daily.
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit, bizpacreview.com and IJR
Toronto Star:
Disney to ask Toronto court to seal documents in Harvey Weinstein sex assault lawsuit — A Toronto courtroom on Monday will hear Disney argue for a publication ban on its employment agreements with the disgraced Miramax executive. — What was the nature of Walt Disney Co.'s dealings with disgraced Miramax executive Harvey Weinstein?
Abby Aguirre / Vogue:
Kamala Harris Is Dreaming Big — Photographed by Zoe Ghertner, Vogue, April 2018 — IT'S A COLD JANUARY NIGHT in D.C., and I'm at the Hart Senate Office Building, trailing U.S. Senator Kamala Harris into a conference room. Inside, a group of young Latino congressional staffers has gathered …
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
‘I Thought There Would Be More Jeff Flakes, More John McCains, More Bob Corkers’ — What was it like inside the partisan hot mess that was the House Intelligence Committee's investigation of President Trump and the 2016 Russian election meddling? — Republicans abruptly shut down the probe last week …
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Congressman suggests Second Amendment as means of opposing Trump — A Democratic congressman from Long Island implied that Americans should grab weapons and oppose President Trump by force, if the commander-in-chief doesn't follow the Constitution. — Rep. Tom Suozzi made the remark …
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