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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
How a Trump Decision Revealed a G.O.P. Memo's Shaky Foundation — WASHINGTON — When President Trump declassified a memo by House Republicans in February that portrayed the surveillance of a former campaign adviser as scandalous, his motivation was clear: to give congressional allies …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
FISA warrant application supports Nunes memo — The weekend release of a highly-redacted version of the FBI's application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to wiretap onetime Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page has renewed the argument over the Nunes memo …
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Daily Kos, The Mahablog and ThinkProgress
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Associated Press Lies About the FISA Application — The Associated Press carries on a daily vendetta against the Trump administration, systematically misleading the American people in articles that appear in hundreds or thousands of newspapers. Thus, it is no surprise that the AP's story …
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and Fox News
Eli Okun / Politico:
Graham: Carter Page wiretap ‘not at all’ justified
Graham: Carter Page wiretap ‘not at all’ justified
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Chicks On The Right and Breitbart
Christine Todd Whitman / Los Angeles Times:
Calling my fellow Republicans: Trump is clearly unfit to remain in office — President Trump's disgraceful performance in Helsinki, Finland, and in the days since is an indication that he is not fit to remain in office. Trump's 2016 “America First” platform might be more aptly named …
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Daniella Cheslow / NPR:
GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick: ‘The President Was Manipulated By Vladimir Putin’
GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick: ‘The President Was Manipulated By Vladimir Putin’
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Luis Martinez / ABC News:
US commander in Middle East hesitant to cooperate with Russians in Syria on refugees
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Chris Wallace on Interviewing Putin, and Why He Isn't Afraid to Visit Russia
Chris Wallace on Interviewing Putin, and Why He Isn't Afraid to Visit Russia
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Mediaite
Austin Ramzy / New York Times:
Trump Threatens Iran on Twitter, Warning Rouhani of Dire ‘Consequences’ — President Trump threatened Iran late Sunday, warning of severe “consequences,” as rhetoric between the two countries' presidents escalated dramatically. — Mr. Trump, in an all-caps message on Twitter addressed …
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Reuters:
Iran's Rouhani warns Trump about ‘mother of all wars’
Iran's Rouhani warns Trump about ‘mother of all wars’
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Hassan Rouhani / Al Jazeera English:
'Do not play with lion's tail': Rouhani warns Trump
'Do not play with lion's tail': Rouhani warns Trump
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Raw Story, Associated Press, The Week, Daily Wire, VICE News and Politico
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump's Approval Rating Inches Higher, Buoyed by Republican Support — In the latest WSJ/NBC News poll, the president's job approval rose to 45% but remains among the lowest of any modern president at this point his first term — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump's approval rating …
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
NBC/WSJ poll: Public gives Trump thumbs down on Russia, thumbs up on economy
NBC/WSJ poll: Public gives Trump thumbs down on Russia, thumbs up on economy
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Political Wire, No More Mister Nice Blog and Bloomberg
Chris Megerian / Los Angeles Times:
Trump's former campaign chairman faces trial in first court test of special counsel prosecution … With his well-coiffed hair, tailored suits and keen ability to charm the powerful, Paul S. Manafort spent decades wheeling and dealing with U.S. politicians and foreign despots …
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The Daily Beast:
John Kelly Signed Off on a ‘Purge’ of Scott Pruitt Loyalists From EPA … The Trump White House has moved quickly to force out a trio of staffers loyal to former, scandal-plagued Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Karen Ruiz / Daily Mail:
PICTURED: Hillary Clinton dining with Harvey Weinstein after her loss — Photos of Hillary Clinton having dinner with longtime pal Harvey Weinstein weeks after her election loss have emerged.
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Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Just How Far Will the Left Go?
Tod Lindberg / Weekly Standard:
Why the success of the Federalist Society is unlikely to be replicated. — With President Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court seat Justice Anthony Kennedy is vacating, the influence of the Federalist Society—the membership organization of conservative and libertarian lawyers …
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
GOP Lawmaker Jason Spencer Strips Down, Screams ‘N-Word’ on Sacha Baron Cohen's ‘Who Is America?’ … This past week, Jason Spencer, a Republican state representative from Georgia, revealed that Sacha Baron Cohen had tricked him into shouting “provocative language” during what he thought was a real anti-terrorism training video.
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Bustle, New York Times and The Blast
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Gowdy: If There Was Evidence That President Trump Committed Any Crime, “Adam Schiff Would Have Leaked It” — Rep. Trey Gowdy told FNC's Bret Baier on FOX News Sunday that while there are documents he has not seen, he knows that if there were any evidence that President Trump committed any crime …
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Michael R. Pompeo / US Department of State:
U.S. Department of State — Search Input — Supporting Iranian Voices — Remarks — Secretary of State — Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library — Simi Valley, CA — SECRETARY POMPEO: Thank you all. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you very much.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: World leaders turning Trump tricks against him — World leaders are learning to play President Trump using his own set of predictable negotiating tricks. The most vivid example of this: French President Emmanuel Macron bragging to Trump that he was jamming him by stealing “The Art of the Deal” techniques, Axios has learned.
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New York Post:
Cuomo had the MTA waste $30M on tunnel vanity project — Gov. Cuomo ordered the cash-strapped MTA to waste up as much as $30 million on his latest vanity project — retiling two city tunnels in the state's blue-and-gold color scheme — instead of using the dough for desperately needed subway repairs, The Post has learned.
Michael Anton / Claremont Institute:
Birthright Citizenship: A Response to My Critics — expected the reaction to a recent op-ed I published calling for the end of birthright citizenship to be cantankerous. I even expected it to be hysterical—from the Left. I did not expect self-described “conservatives” …
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Washington Post, The Federalist and Power Line
Liz Alderman / New York Times:
Portugal Dared to Cast Aside Austerity. It's Having a Major Revival. — At a time of mounting uncertainty in Europe, the country has defied critics who insisted on austerity as the answer to the Continent's economic and financial crisis. — LISBON — Ramón Rivera had barely gotten …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Mark Zuckerberg is a horror show. But there's a glimmer of truth hidden in his latest blunder. — To follow Mark Zuckerberg's utterances is to constantly cringe. — Last week was no different. The Facebook founder — fresh off his failed fake-news apology tour — seemed to give support to Holocaust deniers.
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Alexandra Hutzler / Newsweek:
Southern Nationalist Group Creates Russian Language Website Page To Foster Relationship Between the ‘Two Natural Allies’ — The League of The South, an organization described by analysts as a neo-confederate hate group, has launched a Russian language page on their website to explore shared ideas on “Southern nationalism.”
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