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2:00 PM ET, February 15, 2019

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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:
‘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 …
Washington Post:
Trump's border emergency: Democrats criticize declaration, vow action  —  President Trump on Friday declared 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.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump Keeps Doubling Down On The Same Failed Strategy  —  President Trump will declare a national emergency and seek money to build a border wall, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday, moments before the U.S. Senate passed a compromise spending bill that didn't include wall funding.
Victoria Albert / The Daily Beast:
Ann Coulter: National Emergency Designed ‘for Trump to Scam the Stupidest People in His Base’  —  Conservative provocateur Ann Coulter fired shots at Trump on Friday for saying he'll sign a bill that would avert another government shutdown and instead declaring a national emergency to build his Mexico border wall.
Discussion: Mediaite, ThinkProgress and Contemptor
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: USA Today, Talking Points Memo and Vox
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Declares National Emergency to Build Border Wall  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump declared a national emergency at the border on Friday to access billions of dollars to build a border wall that Congress refused to give him, transforming a highly charged policy dispute into a fundamental confrontation over separation of powers.
Sally Kohn / The Daily Beast:
From Executive Time to Emergency Time: It's a Desperate Act of a Desperate Man
Discussion: Politico and Washington Press
NBC News:
Trump announces national emergency to obtain billions for border wall
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The national emergency, and how it messes up Washington for Trump
Discussion: Washington Post and Hill Reporter
Associated Press:
Trump declares national emergency to build border wall
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Trump shocks GOP with emergency declaration
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
We have a national emergency, all right. Its name is Donald Trump.
Discussion: Vox, Townhall, CBS News and Just Security
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 …
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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.
Washington Post:
Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld announces plan to challenge President Trump for Republican nomination
Discussion: OpenSecrets.org, NPR and FITSNews
John DiStaso / WMUR:
Live: Republican William Weld announcing launch of presidential exploratory committee
Discussion: Axios, Washington Times and Hit & Run
Stephanie Murray / Politico:
Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld exploring primary challenge against Trump
Discussion: Reuters, TheBlaze and WMUR
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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, LewRockwell, Townhall and Splinter
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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.”
Renae Merle / Washington Post:
Mel Watt attempted to ‘coerce’ relationship with employee while FHFA director, IG report says  —  “Standing up for myself” against the director of a federal agency “has not been an easy thing to do,” the woman said.  —  Former congressman Mel Watt misused his position when he was director …
Discussion: Politico, Axios and Political Wire
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.
Jacob Bacharach / Hmm Daily:
America's Signature Mode of Transportation Is High-Cost Rail  —  On February 12, California's governor Gavin Newsom announced to the state legislature that plans for America's first high-speed rail project would have to be scaled back.  The projected costs of the project …
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
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 …
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
The President Is Hallucinating and I Think We Should Be Concerned  —  Trump is declaring a fictional emergency to complete a wall he hasn't started in response to an incursion that doesn't exist.  It's Wayne Hays in the White House.  —  Season three of True Detective follows Wayne Hays …
Discussion: New York Magazine
 
 
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Ted Cruz / Washington Post:
Make ‘El Chapo’ pay for the border wall
Larry O'Connor / Washington Times:
A revealing two weeks for the Democrats
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
Twitter Suspended A DC Think Tank For Violating Its Rules Against Fake Accounts
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Sanctions Officials Aligned with Former President Nicolas Maduro and Involved in Repression and Corruption
Ahmed Awad BinMubarak / Wall Street Journal:
Keep Your Revolution to Yourself, Iran
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg returns to Supreme Court for first time since cancer surgery, spokeswoman says
Arya Sundaram / The Texas Tribune:
Shutdown deal includes language to protect a butterfly sanctuary and other landmarks from border barrier
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
Trump's company officially halts hotel expansion
Discussion: Daily Kos, CNN and Dinesh T Chawla
NBC Chicago:
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Discussion: Political Wire
Jeremy Ben-Ami / The Atlantic:
Stop Alleging Anti-Semitism Just to Score Political Points
Discussion: The Daily Caller and FITSNews
Tucker Carlson / The American Conservative:
Why Are These Professional War Peddlers Still Around?
NBC News:
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The Daily Beast:
Boyfriend's Email: Butina ‘Manipulated’ Russian Spy Agency for NRA Trip
Discussion: Raw Story
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
We're entering a new phase of the Trump-Russia investigation
Discussion: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
 

 
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