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8:55 PM ET, February 26, 2019

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New York Times:
On Eve of Michael Cohen's Testimony, Republican Threatens to Reveal Compromising Information  —  WASHINGTON — In an atmosphere of high drama and low tactics, Michael D. Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, prepared for his potentially explosive public testimony about the president …
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Trump Ally Rep. Matt Gaetz Insists He's Not Threatening Michael Cohen, Just ‘Witness Testing’  —  Gaetz told The Daily Beast that he was simply ‘challenging the veracity and character of a witness,’ and not trying to intimidate a witness.  —  One day before Michael Cohen appears …
Wall Street Journal:
Cohen to Testify That Trump Engaged in Criminal Conduct While in Office  —  Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer, will for the first time publicly accuse the president of criminal conduct while in office related to a hush-money payment to a porn star, a person familiar with his planned testimony before Congress said.
Emily Saul / New York Post:
Michael Cohen has been disbarred  —  President Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen has been disbarred.  —  The decision, which follows his felony conviction for lying under oath, was announced in documents released Tuesday by Manhattan's Appellate Division, First Department and the Attorney Grievance Committee.
Jason Chaffetz / Fox News:   Michael Cohen hearing's only purpose is to publicly flog Trump during meeting with Kim Jong Un
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
New Michael Cohen testimony may undermine Trump's spin on Mueller
Discussion: CNN, Daily Kos and Mediaite
Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP unloads border angst on Pence  —  Vice President Mike Pence faced a wall of resistance from Senate Republicans on Tuesday as he tried to sell President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration on the southern border, according to multiple GOP sources.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP leader unsure on legality of Trump's emergency declaration  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says he has yet to determine whether President Trump's emergency declaration to build border barriers is legal.  —  Asked for his legal opinion after meeting with a Department …
Washington Post:
House passes resolution to nullify Trump's national emergency declaration  —  The House on Tuesday passed a resolution to overturn President Trump's declaration of a national emergency on the southern border, as majority Democrats painted an apocalyptic portrait of a lawless chief executive out to gut the Constitution.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
After skipping nearly 1,100 mandated emergency reviews, Congress decides to do its job
Discussion: Politico
NBC News:
Twitter suspends conservative activist Jacob Wohl after he admits to making fake accounts  —  “It is not illegal, unethical, or untoward for Americans to steer an American election,” he said.  “I'm an American.”  —  Jacob Wohl, a conservative activist who infamously attempted …
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Gus Garcia-Roberts / USA Today:
This 21-year-old tweeted lies about Robert Mueller and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  Now, he's eyeing the 2020 election  —  COSTA MESA, Calif. - A false claim bubbled up from the internet last month that Sen. Kamala Harris, the recently announced presidential candidate, wasn't eligible for election …
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Jacob Wohl Proud to Be ‘Number-One Trending Topic’ After Twitter Ban  —  The 21-year-old pro-Trump troll said he would try to manipulate the 2020 election.  Oops.  —  Twitter banned notorious Trump supporter Jacob Wohl from its platform on Tuesday, alleging that Wohl broke the site's rules against creating fake accounts.
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
U.S. Cyber Command operation disrupted Internet access of Russian troll factory on day of 2018 midterms  —  The U.S. military blocked Internet access to an infamous Russian entity seeking to sow discord among Americans during the 2018 midterms, several U.S. officials said …
CNN:
Trump bets it all on friendship with Kim  —  Trump: Kim Jong Un and I see eye to eye  —  Hanoi (CNN)President Donald Trump was looking to flatter his new friend in Singapore when he struck upon an unusual compliment.  —  He had known plenty of people who had grown up wealthy and whose families …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Robby Mook's new gig
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
White House sours on Kris Kobach for Senate, Cabinet  —  Republican hardliner Kris Kobach's inner circle is hinting that he has President Donald Trump's support for either a Senate run or Cabinet position.  —  They're wrong.  —  White House officials have grown frustrated enough …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Terrell Jermaine Starr / The Root:
Exclusive: Kamala Harris Calls for Decriminalization of Sex Work, Unequivocally Calls Trump a Racist and Wants Reparations (Sort of)  —  U.S Sen. Kamala Harris, a frontrunner in the burgeoning 2020 race for the Democratic nomination for president, is addressing criticisms of her criminal justice record and …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
For Kamala Harris, a Strong Start, but With Some Notable Stumbles
Discussion: CNN and theGrio
Paul Heintz / Washington Post:
I've reported on Bernie Sanders for years.  A free press won't give him what he wants.  —  Paul Heintz is a staff writer for and political editor of Seven Days, a Vermont newsweekly.  —  In the fall of 1988, Bernie Sanders charged up the stairs of a Montpelier bar to the Vermont offices …
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Bernie Sanders staff shake-up: Top strategists leave his presidential campaign
Discussion: Daily Wire, TheBlaze, CNN and Axios
Washington Post:
North Carolina Republican in congressional race tainted by ballot fraud says he will not run in new election  —  Mark Harris, the Republican nominee in a North Carolina congressional race tainted by ballot fraud, announced Tuesday that he will not run in the new election for the seat.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell finds a novel villain after North Carolina's fraud-riddled election: Democrats
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Axios:
Thousands of migrant youth allegedly suffered sexual abuse in U.S. custody  —  Thousands of allegations of sexual abuse against unaccompanied minors in the custody of the U.S. government have been reported over the past 4 years, according to Department of Health and Human Services documents given to Axios by Rep. Ted Deutch's office.
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The Daily Beast:
CNN Assures Dems: Sarah Isgur Won't Have Editorial Control in Any 2020 Coverage  —  The cable channel continues damage control over hiring a long-time Republican operative for a high-ranking editorial gig.  —  Officials at CNN have told the Democratic National Committee that their new politics editor …
Discussion: twitchy.com
Ovetta Wiggins / Washington Post:
Md. lawmaker apologizes for allegedly using n-word with her colleagues  —  A white lawmaker from Har­ford County apologized to the leaders of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland for using a racial slur to describe a legislative district in Prince George's County …
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
64 percent say Democratic Party supports socialism, says poll  —  Nearly two-thirds of registered voters in a Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey released exclusively to The Hill believe that the Democratic Party supports socialism.  —  Sixty-four percent of respondents said that they believe …
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Christopher Newport / The Judy Ford Wason Center …:
Independent Candidate May Have Significant Impact on Democratic Party's Electoral Fortunes in 2020 Election
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
A Harvard Law Professor Is Representing Harvey Weinstein.  Students Say This Makes Them Unsafe, Demand His Resignation.  —  Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. is a law professor at Harvard University and faculty dean of Winthrop House, one of the college's 12 residential houses.
Julie K. Brown / miamiherald:
Calls grow for Acosta to resign as Epstein's sex abuse victims demand justice  —  Lawyers for victims who were sexually abused as minors by multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein have formally demanded that the government vacate Epstein's plea deal, void his federal immunity and reopen …
Discussion: Raw Story, Daily Kos and New York Times
Columbia Journalism Review:
Poll: How does the public think journalism happens?  —  For decades, we've known that Americans don't trust the press.  What we haven't known is how people view the makings of journalism, from the use of fact checkers and anonymous sources to the question of whether money skews journalistic decision-making.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Doug Jones taunts Roy Moore to run: 'Let's just do it again'  —  Sen. Doug Jones is all but daring Roy Moore for a rematch in the Alabama Senate race.  —  Moore, who was defeated in 2017 amid sexual misconduct allegations, said this year that he believes the election was “stolen” …
Victor Garcia / Fox News:
Ivanka Trump challenges Ocasio-Cortez platform, says Americans don't want ‘guaranteed minimum’  —  Ivanka Trump, President Trump's daughter and a White House senior adviser, lauded her father's economy and said the majority of Americans ideologically believe differently than Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller scores big win as court rejects challenge to his appointment  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller scored one of the biggest legal wins of his tenure on Tuesday, as a federal appeals court rejected claims that his appointment was unconstitutional.  —  In a unanimous ruling …
Discussion: Axios and ABC News
 
 
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Michael Sheetz / CNBC:
Boeing nominates former Trump UN ambassador Nikki Haley to board
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Mattathias Schwartz / New York Times:
Mike Pompeo's Mission: Clean Up Trump's Messes
J.M. Berger / The Atlantic:
The Dangerous Spread of Extremist Manifestos
Yeganeh Torbati / Reuters:
U.S. denied tens of thousands more visas in 2018 due to travel ban: data
Discussion: National Review
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
House Democrats to release ‘Medicare for All’ bill — without a price tag
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Politico:
Cuomo signs ‘Red Flag’ gun control bill, flanked by Pelosi and mother of Parkland victim
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Gwen Aviles / NBC News:
GOP lawmaker backtracks on anti-gay bill after daughter publicly shames him
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The GOP Just Used Crocodile Tears About Anti-Semitism to Abet Mass Murder in Yemen
Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
What the Failure of the Sasse Bill Says About Democrats
Discussion: Vox
Deanna Paul / Washington Post:
The popular vote could decide the 2020 presidential election, if these states get their way
Discussion: Raw Story and electionlawblog.org
Greg Rosalsky / NPR:
If a Wealth Tax is Such a Good Idea, Why Did Europe Kill Theirs?
Discussion: Power Line and Daily Wire
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Era of Limited Government Is Over
 

 
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