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8:45 AM ET, February 18, 2019

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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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Quint Forgey / Politico:
McCabe: ‘I was fired because I opened a case against the president’  —  Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said he was ousted from the bureau in March 2018 because he opened two investigations into President Donald Trump 10 months earlier.  —  “I believe I was fired because I opened …
CBS News:
McCabe's “bizarre” job interview with President Trump and other clips  —  More of 60 Minutes' interview with Andrew McCabe.  Plus, Overtime reaction from Scott Pelley  —  “It's absolutely astonishing,” says Scott Pelley when 60 Minutes Overtime asked for his reaction to Andrew McCabe's recollections …
Discussion: Mediaite
Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Former acting FBI director: Trump's ‘own words’ prompted counterintelligence investigation  —  (CNN)Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe outlined on Sunday the reasons top officials decided to open a counterintelligence probe and obstruction of justice investigation into President Donald Trump.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Graham Vows to Investigate Whether ‘Bureaucratic Coup’ Tried to Oust Trump
Discussion: NPR and The Daily Caller
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Former top FBI lawyer: 2 Trump Cabinet officials were ‘ready to support’ 25th Amendment effort
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
“We're going to go to the edge on everything”: Trump pushes governing to the brink  —  A senior government official who was involved in the spending negotiations over the past few weeks told me the experience taught them something disturbing.  —  “We're going to go to the edge on everything …
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Aris Folley / The Hill:
Protests planned across US on Presidents Day in response to Trump's national emergency for border wall  —  Protesters have planned demonstrations across the U.S. for Presidents Day in response to President Trump's decision to declare a national emergency for border wall funding.
Discussion: USA Today
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:   Fox News' Chris Wallace Repeatedly Nails Stephen Miller on National Emergency: ‘Answer My Question!’
BBC:
Seven MPs leave Labour Party in protest at Jeremy Corbyn's leadership  —  Seven MPs have resigned from the Labour Party in protest at Jeremy Corbyn's approach to Brexit and anti-Semitism.  —  They are: Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Gapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffey.
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
An off-key Pence sings from the Trump hymnal to a stony European reception  —  MUNICH — Even inside a hotel so secure that it has body scanners at the entrance and snipers on the roof, Vice President Pence travels with a vast security detail.  Its main function, it seems …
Discussion: New York Times
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
The Democrats have an Israel problem — and it's not Ilhan Omar  —  The Democratic Party has problems with Israel.  But Reps. Ilhan Omar (Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), the new members of Congress who have attracted attention with toxic tweets and support for boycott, are not the main protagonists.
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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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Republicans Already Are Demonizing Democrats as Socialists and Baby Killers  —  WASHINGTON — In the 116th Congress, if you're a Democrat, you're either a socialist, a baby killer or an anti-Semite.  —  That, at least, is what Republicans want voters to think, as they seek to demonize Democrats …
Axios:
Trump wants to keep car tariffs in his back pocket  —  Today is the deadline for the Commerce Department to send the White House its auto tariffs report.  —  Why it matters: The report will recommend whether Trump should follow through on his threat to use a “national security” …
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Democrats' new remote caucus option could expand participation by nearly a third, results suggest  —  Proposed new Democratic caucus rules would allow people to participate who can't be present at their precinct site at 7 p.m. Feb. 3, 2020.  Six virtual caucuses would be held in the previous six days.
Nana Efua Mumford / Washington Post:
I doubted Jussie Smollett.  It breaks my heart that I might be right.  —  Nana Efua Mumford is the executive assistant to The Post's editorial board.  She lives in Virginia with her family but will always call Chicago home.  —  “Empire,” Fox's drama about a family-run hip-hop label …
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
The populist sledgehammer kills Amazon jobs that Middle America would love to have  —  YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Tito Brown can't imagine driving a perfectly good thing out of a town that hasn't had a perfectly good thing come its way in a very long time.  —  At least, a perfectly good thing …
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Facebook ‘intentionally and knowingly’ violated U.K. privacy and competition rules, British lawmakers say  —  British lawmakers on Sunday accused Facebook of having “intentionally and knowingly violated both data privacy and anti-competition laws” in the country, and they called for investigations …
 
 
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Tim Graham / NB Blog:
On PBS, David Brooks Warns Democrats ‘Somewhere to the Left of Che Guevara’
Discussion: Daily Wire
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Stumbled With Black Voters in 2016. Can He Do Better in 2020?
Emerson College Polling:
Majority of Americans disagree with Trump's national emergency despite a plurality agreeing with border wall extension
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Louisa Loveluck / Washington Post:
Syrian military linked to more than 300 chemical attacks, report says
Rukmini Callimachi / New York Times:
The English Voice of ISIS Comes Out of the Shadows
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Juana Summers / Associated Press:
‘Carer-feeder’: Gillibrand plays up motherhood in 2020 race
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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
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
How sexist will the media's treatment of female candidates be? Rule out ‘not at all.’
New York Times:
‘It Is Not a Closet. It Is a Cage.’ Gay Catholic Priests Speak Out
Emma Platoff / The Texas Tribune:
Sen. Angela Paxton files bill that would allow her husband, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton …
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

 
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