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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 …
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Axios, The Daily Beast, Splinter and Breitbart
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 …
Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Former acting FBI director: Trump's ‘own words’ prompted counterintelligence investigation
Former acting FBI director: Trump's ‘own words’ prompted counterintelligence investigation
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The Hill
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Graham Vows to Investigate Whether ‘Bureaucratic Coup’ Tried to Oust Trump
Patrick Temple-West / Politico:
‘Evidence in plain sight’ of Trump collusion with Russia, Schiff says
‘Evidence in plain sight’ of Trump collusion with Russia, Schiff says
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Breitbart, twitchy.com and The Week
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Former top FBI lawyer: 2 Trump Cabinet officials were ‘ready to support’ 25th Amendment effort
Former top FBI lawyer: 2 Trump Cabinet officials were ‘ready to support’ 25th Amendment effort
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The Gateway Pundit and Hill Reporter
Dwight Garner / New York Times:
In ‘The Threat,’ Andrew McCabe Issues the Latest Warning Call About Trump's America
In ‘The Threat,’ Andrew McCabe Issues the Latest Warning Call About Trump's America
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RedState
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 …
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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.
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Washington Press, Raw Story, The Mahablog and Mashable
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Biden tells Europeans in Munich that America is ‘an embarrassment’
Biden tells Europeans in Munich that America is ‘an embarrassment’
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Power Line, IJR, TheBlaze and Vos Iz Neias
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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Raw Story
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 …
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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.
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USA Today
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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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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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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CNN, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, Booman Tribune and Axios
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
‘The Trump-Russia Story’: Cue the Stage Lights
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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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.
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The American Conservative, Outside the Beltway, Crux and The Week
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 …
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Raw Story, Splinter and Talking Points Memo
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Stumbled With Black Voters in 2016. Can He Do Better in 2020? — Shortly after Senator Bernie Sanders suffered a crushing loss in South Carolina's Democratic primary in 2016, his campaign's African-American outreach team sent a memo to top campaign leaders with an urgent warning.
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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 …