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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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Pelosi / Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Statement on Special Counsel Indictment and Arrest of Trump Campaign Advisor Roger Stone — Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after Special Counsel Mueller released a seven-count indictment of top Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone, for lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstruction:
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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Politico, The Guardian, Hit & Run, New York Times, The Week and Bloomberg
Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
“We Can See Collusion”: With the Stone Indictment, Mueller Begins Making His Case — The special counsel's office didn't charge Roger Stone with conspiracy. Between the lines of the indictment, however, legal experts see a giant red arrow pointing to the president.
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TheBlaze, The Guardian and Mediaite
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.
Zachary Basu / Axios:
House Intelligence to hand over transcripts to Mueller investigation
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
‘I Will Piss on Your Grave’: Emails Reveal Roger Stone's Abuse of Frenemy Randy Credico
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BuzzFeed News
John Podesta / Washington Post:
It might now be Roger Stone's time in the barrel
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National Review, Politico, Bloomberg and Raw Story
Power Line:
Roger Stone's Arrest: What's Scandalous, and What Isn't
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RedState, Breitbart and The Rush Limbaugh Show
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
What did the president know, and when did he know it?
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USA Today, Salon, Shareblue Media and Raw Story
Todd S. Purdum / The Atlantic:
Trumpworld Follows a Godfather Script—Literally
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Washington Post and Raw Story
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What we've learned post-shutdown — DRIVING THE DAY — THE SHUTDOWN IS OVER. One can believe that this is what PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP needed to do — reset the negotiations — but you cannot make a coherent argument that it's not a cave to accept an agreement …
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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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ThinkProgress, New York Daily News, The Resurgent, Fox News Insider, NPR and IJR
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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USA Today, Raw Story, ABC News, The Daily Beast, Shareblue Media, Outside the Beltway and Breitbart
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
‘Complete, total surrender’: Why Trump waved the white flag
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Washington Post, New York Times, POLITICUSUSA, RedState and Hit & Run
Washington Post:
‘Prisoner of his own impulse’: Inside Trump's cave to end shutdown without wall
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Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times and The American Conservative
John Bresnahan / Politico:
'She's not one to bluff': How Pelosi won the shutdown battle
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Washington Post and Outside the Beltway
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump warns border security compromise ‘will not be easy’
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CNN, Breitbart, Mediaite and Sputnik International
New York Times:
Trump's Shutdown Was a Cruel Joke
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POLITICUSUSA, Macleans.ca, Vox and Washington Press
New York Times:
A Bruised Trump Faces Uncertain 2020 Prospects. His Team Fears a Primary Fight. — With his approval rating sinking, and foes within the party wooing potential Republican challengers, aides to the president are working to shore up his support. — Mr. Trump, close associates acknowledge …
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Axios, Talking Points Memo and Joe.My.God.
Telegraph:
Melania Trump - An Apology — Following last Saturday's (Jan 19) Telegraph magazine cover story “The mystery of Melania”, we have been asked to make clear that the article contained a number of false statements which we accept should not have been published.
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Kelly Gilblom / Bloomberg:
Telegraph to Pay Melania Trump ‘Substantial’ Damages for Article — The Telegraph agreed to pay U.S. First Lady Melania Trump “substantial” damages after running an article in its magazine a week ago that it said included “a number of false statements” and shouldn't have been published.
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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Washington Free Beacon, Front Page Magazine and Instapundit
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
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 the Democratic Party were basically the same, and the only way to make real change was to ditch them both.
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Political Wire
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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Michael Cavna / Washington Post:
Another cartoonist loses his job. This does not bode well for the future of newspaper cartooning. — Another Pulitzer-winning cartoonist has been shown the door. — Steve Benson was laid off Wednesday by his longtime employer, the Arizona Republic, as part of larger cuts by the Gannett company.
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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Washington Post:
The shutdown was proof of Trump's stark incapacity for leadership — PRESIDENT TRUMP'S temper tantrum over Congress's refusal to fund a border wall paralyzed much of the government for five weeks, sapped the morale and wallets of hundreds of thousands of federal workers and low-wage contractors …
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CNN, Raw Story, Washington Press, Jamie Dupree - AJC and Toronto Star
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's self-inflicted slump — Yesterday was a devastating day for President Trump as he heads into his reelection campaign and an era of divided government. — As Axios' Jonathan Swan puts it: He blinks; he disappoints the people who still love him; he gets no credit for reopening the government …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Another shutdown in 3 weeks? Only if Trump truly owns Republicans. — The government shutdown is coming to an end. After more than a month, President Trump has relented and agreed to reopen government without funding for his wall on the southern border. — For three weeks.
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Outside the Beltway, Power Line, The New Civil Rights Movement and IJR
Los Angeles Times:
California's big, but South Carolina may be key in Kamala Harris' presidential run — For Kamala Harris, the road to the White House began amid the sequins, satin gowns and crystal chandeliers of a ballroom in the capital city of South Carolina. — The California senator made her debut …
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