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Gabby Orr / Politico:
‘All for nothing’: Trump's wall retreat bewilders allies — Before President Donald Trump finished speaking from the Rose Garden, putting a temporary end to the five-week government shutdown, a running group text between several of his former aides lit up with complaints.
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
‘Complete, total surrender’: Why Trump waved the white flag — President Donald Trump touted GOP unity for 33 days of a partial government shutdown. But by the 34th day, it was clearly gone — and so was the shutdown by the end of the 35th. — Senate Republicans had finally …
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
'She's not one to bluff': How Pelosi won the shutdown battle — Two months ago, Nancy Pelosi was battling an internal Democratic rebellion trying to bar her from the speakership. — Pelosi faced doubts over whether she was the right person to lead the new Democratic majority …
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Washington Post:
‘Prisoner of his own impulse’: Inside Trump's cave to end shutdown without wall — His poll numbers were plummeting. His FBI director was decrying the dysfunction. The nation's air travel was in chaos. Federal workers were lining up at food banks. Economic growth was at risk of flatlining …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
For a President Consumed With Winning, a Stinging Defeat — WASHINGTON — President Trump famously declared that in his administration the nation would become tired of all the winning. So on Friday he tried a little losing. — After the longest government shutdown in history …
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
The vindication of Nancy Pelosi — How Pelosi delivered Trump the most humiliating loss of his presidency. — Flashback 40 days and Nancy Pelosi's return to the speakership was a hard-won prize marred by Democratic grumbling. — After the midterm elections, 15 House Democrats signed …
CNN:
Trump concedes to temporarily end shutdown — without wall funding
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Washington Post:
The shutdown was proof of Trump's stark incapacity for leadership
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump just caved. Democrats can now take control of the immigration debate.
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Washington Post:
Trump signs bill to open the government, ending the longest shutdown in history
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Washington Post:
Poll: Majority of Americans hold Trump and Republicans responsible for shutdown
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New York Times:
Trump and His Associates Had More Than 100 Contacts With Russians Before the Inauguration — Among these contacts are more than 100 in-person meetings, phone calls, text messages, emails and private messages on Twitter. Mr. Trump and his campaign repeatedly denied having such contacts with Russians during the 2016 election.
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CNN:
CNN NEWSROOM — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — [14:30:00] DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We do not have the necessary space or resources to detain, house, vet, screen and safely process this tremendous influx of people.
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Stone Indictment Underscores That There Was No Trump-Russia Conspiracy — Will the Justice Department ever correct the record? — Roger Stone is the shiny object. The obstruction charges in his long-anticipated indictment, made public on Friday, are not the matter of consequence for the United States.
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Power Line:
Roger Stone's Arrest: What's Scandalous, and What Isn't — Let's start with what isn't scandalous: the charges against Roger Stone. Scott embedded Robert Mueller's indictment here. Byron York has a good summary of the charges. — The salient point is that Mueller's indictment …
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John Podesta / Washington Post:
It might now be Roger Stone's time in the barrel
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Matt Ford / New Republic:
Uh-Oh — Criminal indictments are typically written in the dry …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
What did the president know, and when did he know it?
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Paul Seamus Ryan / Just Security:
Roger Stone Indictment Implicates Trump Campaign in Election Law Violations
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Jeremy Herb / CNN:
How CNN captured video of the Roger Stone raid
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
6 takeaways from the Roger Stone indictment
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Quinta Jurecic / Lawfare:
Document: Indictment of Roger Stone
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Michael Kruse / Politico:
Roger Stone's Last Dirty Trick
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Huge Trove of Leaked Russian Documents Is Published by Transparency Advocates — A group of transparency advocates on Friday posted a mammoth collection of hacked and leaked documents from inside Russia, a release widely viewed as a sort of symbolic counterstrike against Russia's dissemination …
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Pro-Trump Media Stars Despair After Trump Caves on Shutdown — ‘Trump is a broken man,’ lamented Mike Cernovich, while Ann Coulter called the president a ‘the biggest wimp.’ — President Trump's top supporters among right-wing media despaired on Friday after he agreed to a three-week deal …
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Media Matters for America:
Lou Dobbs slams Trump's shutdown cave: “Illegal immigrants are surely pleased” — VIDEO ››› January 25, 2019 ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF — From the January 25 edition of Fox Business News' Lou Dobbs Tonight: — Loading the player reg...
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Bernie Sanders set to announce 2020 presidential run — WASHINGTON—Three years after fighting a surprisingly competitive Democratic primary race against Hillary Clinton, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is making another run for the White House. — Two sources with direct knowledge …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
The Ex-Starbucks CEO Could Get Trump Re-elected — Before there was Jill Stein, there was Ralph Nader. Before there was Nader, there was Ross Perot. — None won. All argued that the Republican Party and Democratic Party were basically the same, and the only way to make real change was to ditch them both.
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Yes, Venezuela Is a Socialist Catastrophe — In the age of A.O.C., the lesson must be learned again. — Conspicuous by its relative absence in much of the mainstream news coverage of Venezuela's political crisis is the word “socialism.” Yes, every sensible observer agrees …
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Alex Pareene / Columbia Journalism Review:
The digital winter turns apocalyptic — This week, as a long-predicted collapse seemed to hit digital media, we saw a few of the tried-and-true ways managers use to explain to employees why they're laying them off. — BuzzFeed chose the language of corporation-as-family …
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Ben Collins / NBC News:
4chan trolls flood laid off HuffPost, Buzzfeed reporters with death threats — The threats are part of a coordinated campaign organized on the far-right message board. — Shortly after he tweeted the news of his own layoff, Nick Wing checked his inbox at the Huffington Post and saw an email with a few pictures from a troll.
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