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7:30 PM ET, February 17, 2019

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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Mueller questions Cambridge Analytica director Brittany Kaiser  —  Second former employee of controversial data firm to be questioned by special counsel's inquiry into Russia collusion  —  A director of the controversial data company Cambridge Analytica, who appeared with Arron Banks …
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Patrick Temple-West / Politico:
‘Evidence in plain sight’ of Trump collusion with Russia, Schiff says  —  House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff said Sunday that there is ample evidence Donald Trump's presidential campaign colluded with Russia.  —  In an interview on CNN, Schiff rejected Senate Intelligence Chairman …
Discussion: Breitbart, twitchy.com and The Week
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:   ‘The Trump-Russia Story’: Cue the Stage Lights
Scott Pelley / CBS News:
Andrew McCabe: The full 60 Minutes interview  —  Former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe tells 60 Minutes about taking over for James Comey, starting investigations of President Trump, interactions with the president and his own firing  —  Tonight you will hear for the first time from the man …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Graham Vows to Investigate Whether ‘Bureaucratic Coup’ Tried to Oust Trump  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vowed on Sunday to investigate whether the top officials at the Justice Department and the F.B.I. plotted an “attempted bureaucratic coup” …
Investor's Business Daily:
Andrew McCabe Confirms: Deep State Plotted To Take Down Trump
Discussion: RedState and The Hill
Dwight Garner / New York Times:
In ‘The Threat,’ Andrew McCabe Issues the Latest Warning Call About Trump's America
Discussion: RedState
Mark Penn / Fox News:   To get Trump, FBI and Justice Department officials trampled the Constitution
New York Times:
Rift Between Trump and Europe Is Now Open and Angry  —  MUNICH — European leaders have long been alarmed that President Trump's words and Twitter messages could undo a trans-Atlantic alliance that had grown stronger over seven decades.  They had clung to the hope that those ties would bear up under the strain.
Discussion: Raw Story, The Mahablog and Mashable
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
An off-key Pence sings from the Trump hymnal to a stony European reception
Discussion: NPR and Mother Jones
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's go-it-alone presidency  —  Shortly after becoming President Trump's acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney conveyed a blunt message to several Cabinet secretaries.  According to a senior White House official with direct knowledge and another source briefed on the private conversations …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:   “We're going to go to the edge on everything”: Trump pushes governing to the brink
Reuters:
Japan's PM nominated Trump for Nobel Peace Prize on U.S. request: Asahi  —  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize last autumn after receiving a request from the U.S. government to do so, the Asahi newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Lia Eustachewich / New York Post:
Anthony Weiner released from prison, will register as sex offender … Convicted ex-congressman Anthony Weiner has been sprung from prison — and is now part of a federal re-entry program in New York, records show.  —  Weiner has been transferred from Federal Medical Center in Devens …
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TMZ.com:
Anthony Weiner Out of Prison Early, Enters Pre-Release Program
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Fox News' Chris Wallace Repeatedly Nails Stephen Miller on National Emergency: ‘Answer My Question!’  —  Fox News host Chris Wallace relentlessly pushed Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller on Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency on Sunday, and nailed him particularly hard …
Press Herald:
Maine paid for 40 rooms at Trump hotel for LePage, staff  —  Newly released receipts reveal nearly a dozen trips to the president's luxury hotel, part of $170,000 in out-of-state travel by the former Maine governor in recent years.  —  AUGUSTA — Former Gov. Paul LePage and his staff members paid …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Splinter
New York Times:
‘It Is Not a Closet.  It Is a Cage.’ Gay Catholic Priests Speak Out  —  The crisis over sexuality in the Catholic Church goes beyond abuse.  It goes to the heart of the priesthood, into a closet that is trapping thousands of men.  —  MILWAUKEE — Gregory Greiten was 17 years old when the priests organized the game.
Juana Summers / Associated Press:
‘Carer-feeder’: Gillibrand plays up motherhood in 2020 race  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Kirsten Gillibrand had a flurry of pots on the stove and steak, haddock, peas, steamed vegetables and rice on the menu.  —  She had a cable news appearance coming up in a few hours, but for now …
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
In Trump's World, He Never Loses  —  His Rose Garden speech declaring a national emergency and his decades of self-aggrandizement are more closely related than you might think.  —  Hanging on a wall behind the omelet bar at President Donald Trump's golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
How sexist will the media's treatment of female candidates be?  Rule out ‘not at all.’  —  If you think the media treatment of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign was not seriously marred by sexism, please proceed directly to social media, Fox News, my email or wherever trolls gather.
Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
How Pat Caddell's Political Life Took Him From Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump  —  The pollster who won Carter the White House and created Bulworth with Beatty ended his life a MAGA man.  —  I learned through the network of people who worked for Jimmy Carter that Pat Caddell …
Discussion: Townhall and New York Times
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Jon Ward / Yahoo News:
Patrick Caddell, pollster who helped Carter channel voter disaffection, dies at 68
Discussion: Breitbart
Bill de Blasio / New York Times:
The Path Amazon Rejected  —  It could have answered the concerns of citizens.  Instead it bolted.  —  Mr. de Blasio is mayor of New York City.  —  The first word I had that Amazon was about to scrap an agreement to bring 25,000 new jobs to New York City came an hour before it broke in the news on Thursday.
Discussion: Raw Story, Mother Jones and KBZK
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The Progressive Civil War
 
 
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Rukmini Callimachi / New York Times:
The English Voice of ISIS Comes Out of the Shadows
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Christine Emba / Washington Post:
Welfare for those ‘unwilling to work?’ It's not as crazy as you might think.
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Expected to Return to Supreme Court Bench Tuesday
Discussion: Axios
The National:
Top French officer raps West's tactics against ISIS in Syria, faces punishment
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Emma Platoff / The Texas Tribune:
Sen. Angela Paxton files bill that would allow her husband, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton …
Janet Hook / Los Angeles Times:
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Washington Post:
‘Finish that wall’: Trump seeks to turn his failure to build the wall into campaign rallying cry
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Bill Scher / Politico:
How Does a Straight White Male Democrat Run for President?
Discussion: CNN