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11:50 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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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
In a Divided Washington, Congress Averted a Shutdown — but at a Price  —  WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, went to bed Wednesday night cautiously optimistic that a shutdown crisis that had stretched back to December had finally ended.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The national emergency, and how it messes up Washington for Trump
Discussion: New York Times and Hill Reporter
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:   The New Republican Strategy for Dealing with the Emergency That Is Trump: Pray
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.
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Washington Post:
Trump's border emergency: Pelosi, Schumer call declaration ‘unlawful’  —  Speaking in the Rose Garden, President Trump confirmed that he will declare a national emergency as a means to circumvent Congress and build additional border barriers.  He is seeking to secure about $6.5 billion more in funding than Congress has approved.
NBC News:
Trump announces national emergency to obtain billions for border wall  —  The White House said Trump intends to redirect money from the military and the Treasury to fund his wall — a plan likely to meet with swift legal challenge.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared …
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.
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump asked for a wall.  He's forcing a constitutional crisis.  —  Analysis: The president made his move.  Now, the courts will decide who really has the power over the wall.  —  WASHINGTON — Congress knew President Donald Trump thought there was a border crisis when it voted to curb his wall Thursday.
ABC News:
National emergency will be blocked by courts temporarily, DOJ warns White House
Discussion: Shareblue Media and POLITICUSUSA
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
We have a national emergency, all right. Its name is Donald Trump.
Washington Post:
Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld says he will challenge President Trump for the Republican presidential nomination  —  The president remains popular with Republican voters, but Weld said he would attempt to defeat him or at a minimum hurt him with a primary challenge.
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Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Bill Weld launches GOP presidential exploratory committee  —  Announces in NH he's eyeing run against Trump  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld is launching a presidential exploratory committee to challenge President Trump in the Republican primaries, saying the country is …
Washington Post:
Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld announces plan to challenge President Trump for Republican nomination
Discussion: FITSNews
Stephanie Murray / Politico:
Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld exploring primary challenge against Trump
Discussion: One America News Network and WMUR
John DiStaso / WMUR:
Live: Republican William Weld announcing launch of presidential exploratory committee
Discussion: Axios, Washington Times and Hit & Run
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:   In Wielding Emergency Powers, Trump Paves a Dangerous Path Forward
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Trump Declares a National Emergency. What Happens Next?
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.”
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
Discussion: Mother Jones and Raw Story
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
The massacre Trump's envoy to Venezuela wants us to forget  —  Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter.  —  “I fail to understand,” the congresswoman said at a hearing Wednesday, “why members of this committee or the American people should find any testimony that you give today to be truthful.”
Discussion: Vox, The Week and LewRockwell
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Fox hosts are so mad at Rubio for opposing Trump's emergency declaration they want his resignation  —  Two Fox hosts said on Friday that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) should resign his Senate seat after suggesting that the president should not violate the U.S. Constitution to build a border wall unilaterally.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, USA Today and Vox
The Daily Beast:
Boyfriend's Email: Butina ‘Manipulated’ Russian Spy Agency for NRA Trip  —  According to her boyfriend, Russian agent Maria Butina had major sway with the FSB officers “assigned” to her.  —  The boyfriend of confessed Russian agent Maria Butina wrote that she “manipulated” …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump's company officially halts hotel expansion  —  President Trump's company officially shelved plans Friday to create two hotel chains aimed at reaching customers mostly in places where the president has become politically popular.  —  The president's eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump …
Discussion: Dinesh T Chawla
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Jeremy Ben-Ami / The Atlantic:
Stop Alleging Anti-Semitism Just to Score Political Points  —  There's little doubt that Israel is shaping up to be one of the hottest of hot-button issues in the 2020 presidential-election cycle.  While one might hope that a presidential campaign could feature a productive discussion …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and FITSNews
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Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:   Anti-Semitism has spread through the Islamic world like a cancer
Brian Krassenstein / Hill Reporter:
“A Profound Mistake” - New Mike Pence Video Surfaces Implying His Real Thoughts Towards Executive Action  —  With the president expected to officially declare a national emergency, allowing him to pillage other Congressionally allocated funds and repurposed those fund for a wall, a new video has just ironically surfaced.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Contemptor
CNN:
Top US general disagrees with Trump over Syria troop pullout  —  Muscat, Oman (CNN)The US commander who has been leading the war against ISIS told CNN Friday that he disagreed with Donald Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria and warned that the terror group was far from defeated, in a stark public break with the President.
Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
After the Coup is Gone  —  As the perpetrators of one of the most shameful scandals in American political history begin slowly to retreat, we are left to ponder one overarching question:  —  What now?  —  The tale we've been told for more than two years—that Donald Trump's campaign team …
 
 
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
The President Is Hallucinating and I Think We Should Be Concerned
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NBC Chicago:
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Discussion: Political Wire
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
U.S. cyber force credited with helping stop Russia from undermining midterms
David Siders / Politico:
Beto heading to Wisconsin and Illinois as 2020 decision nears
Discussion: Hot Air and Talking Points Memo
Miho Watabe / American Prospect:
Affirmative Action Isn't a Binary Choice for Harvard's Asian Americans
Tucker Carlson / The American Conservative:
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