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7:40 AM ET, February 15, 2019

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Washington Post:
‘Off the rails’: Inside Trump's attempt to claim victory in his border wall defeat  —  After three weeks of pained negotiations to keep the federal government open, President Trump almost blew the whole thing up again on Thursday.  —  Headed for another defeat on his signature promise …
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ABC News:
National emergency will be blocked by courts temporarily, DOJ warns White House  —  A senior official said the White House would win an appeal.  —  16m ago
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and The Week
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Trump shocks GOP with emergency declaration  —  The surprise announcement Thursday that President Donald Trump will use his emergency powers to try and build his border wall blindsided some Republicans, confused others and sent the Senate GOP into a general state of shock.
Bloomberg:
Trump Plans $8 Billion for Border Wall Invoking His Own Authority  — Plans to redirect nearly $7 billion approved for other uses  — Congress approved spending package averting second shutdown  —  Donald Trump plans to use unilateral authority to spend about $8 billion …
Washington Post:
An emergency declaration by Trump will lead to lawsuits.  Lots of them.  —  If President Trump declares a national emergency to construct a wall on the southern border, only one thing is certain: There will be lawsuits.  Lots of them.  From California to Congress, the litigants will multiply.
Discussion: The Week and Front Page Magazine
Matt Latimer / Politico:
Trump's National Emergency Is Great News for Future President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  —  I hope President Donald Trump and his short-sighted supporters have been enjoying the fun they've had at the Green New Deal's expense.  Unfortunately for them, the president's plan to declare a national emergency …
Discussion: IJR and Breitbart
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Trump Will Declare a National Emergency.  What Happens Next?  —  Congress has tools to override the president's declaration, but opponents most likely do not have the votes to overcome a veto.  —  WASHINGTON — In declaring a national emergency to try to build his long-promised border wall …
Discussion: Raw Story, The Week and The Nation
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump's Face-Saving Way Out of Crisis Raises Fears Over Rule of Law  —  WASHINGTON — The White House's announcement Thursday that President Trump would claim emergency powers to build his border wall without congressional approval was a way out of the political crisis he created over shutting down the government.
Discussion: Law & Crime, Reason and Vox
Foreign Policy:
Trump May Have $21 Billion in Military Funds Available for the Wall  —  The president plans to sign a federal spending bill and declare a national emergency to bankroll his long-promised border wall.  —  The announcement Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump plans to declare …
New York Times:
Trump Plans National Emergency to Build Border Wall as Congress Passes Spending Bill  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump will declare a national emergency to bypass Congress and build his long-promised wall along the nation's southwestern border even as he agreed to sign a spending package …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump liked the idea of a national emergency because it's the maximalist, most dramatic option  —  President Trump liked the idea of declaring a national emergency because it's the maximalist, most dramatic option.  —  Between the lines: Trump never gravitates towards complexity.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The national emergency, and how it messes up Washington for Trump
Allan Smith / NBC News:
NBC News, MSNBC, Telemundo to host first Democratic presidential primary debate
Discussion: Politico and The Week
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi warns GOP: Next president could declare national emergency on guns
Discussion: Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Ken Klukowski / Breitbart:
President Trump Must Ensure Spending Bill Does Not Cancel Emergency Powers
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump technically obese, despite doctor's clean bill of health
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump Keeps Doubling Down On The Same Failed Strategy
Discussion: Axios, The Daily Beast and CNBC
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:   Trump once called executive action on immigration dangerous, unconstitutional and impeachable
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Republicans pay the price for Trump's wall crusade
Sean Hannity / Fox News:
How Trump can take Congress' garbage deal, and stick the wall down their throats
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
USA Today:
Donald Trump's weight up, cholesterol down, president's doctor discloses after physical exam
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Andrew McCabe's disturbing account of working for Sessions and Trump  —  Greg Miller is national security correspondent for The Washington Post, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of “The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy.”
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Laura Stampler / Fortune:
Amazon Will Pay a Whopping $0 in Federal Taxes on $11.2 Billion Profits  —  Those wondering how many zeros Amazon, which is valued at a trillion dollars, has to pay in federal taxes might be surprised to learn that its check to the IRS will read exactly $0.00.
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Bloomberg:
Amazon Was Holding Talks Wednesday to Make NYC Deal Happen
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Brad Stone / Bloomberg:
Amazon's Escape From New York
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Amazon's Retreat on New York City Headquarters Followed Unexpected Backlash
Dylan Byers / NBC News:
'That's pretty firm': Why Amazon is done negotiating with New York
Discussion: Mediaite and National Review
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
We're entering a new phase of the Trump-Russia investigation  —  President Trump has been insisting for so long that any investigation of his personal finances would cross a “ red line ” that people may have overlooked the outrageousness of his claim.  But this self-declared immunity is about to change.
Discussion: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
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Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
The Senate's Russia Probe Is Facing a Reckoning  —  About two years ago, Republican Representative Devin Nunes, then the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, went on a “midnight run” to the White House that changed everything.  —  Nunes embarked on the late-night excursion …
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
AP Interview: Maduro reveals secret meetings with US envoy  —  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Nicolas Maduro said in an AP interview Thursday that his foreign minister recently held secret talks in New York with the U.S. special envoy to Venezuela, even as the Trump administration …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Francisco Toro / Washington Post:
Venezuela's regime is using death squads today. Where is Ilhan Omar's outrage?
New York Times:
Blaming Political Climate, Trumps Give Up on New Hotels  —  In the early months of the Trump administration, with the president no longer running his family business, his eldest sons embarked on a plan to roll out two new hotel lines in dozens of American cities.
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
NBC News:
‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy video posted to YouTube account of alleged arsonist's parents before fire  —  The video was posted to Ryan Jaselskis' parents' YouTube account an hour before he allegedly tried to burn down the restaurant at the center of the massive internet conspiracy theory.
 
 
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CNN:
Top US general disagrees with Trump over Syria troop pullout
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Diego Torres / Politico:
Spain's Sánchez calls snap election on April 28
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The New Republican Strategy for Dealing with the Emergency That Is Trump: Pray
Tucker Carlson / The American Conservative:
Why Are These Professional War Peddlers Still Around?
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Anti-Semitism has spread through the Islamic world like a cancer
Discussion: New York Times
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
O'Rourke says he'd ‘absolutely’ take down border wall near El Paso if he could
Breitbart:
Spending Bill Allows Mexican Cartel-Connected Texas Counties to Stop Border Wall
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Washington Post:
Howard Schultz' challenge to Democrats: Nominate a centrist for president and I'll abandon my independent campaign
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The Daily Beast:
Boyfriend's Email: Butina ‘Manipulated’ Russian Spy Agency for NRA Trip
Discussion: Raw Story
David Voreacos / Bloomberg:
Manafort's Russian Aide Communicated With Ex-U.S. Officials
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