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10:55 PM ET, February 28, 2019

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New York Times:
Trump Ordered Officials to Give Jared Kushner a Security Clearance  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, a top-secret security clearance last year, overruling concerns flagged by intelligence officials …
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Washington Post:
Trump sought top-secret security clearance for Jared Kushner last year despite concerns …
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
House Intel Will Call Trump Org Moneyman Allen Weisselberg To Testify  —  The intelligence committee has indicated for months it intends to follow Trump's money.  Allen Weisselberg keeps the Trump Organization's receipts.  —  The House intelligence community intends to call …
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
House Oversight seeks interviews with Ivanka Trump, Don Jr.  —  The House Oversight Committee will pursue interviews with some of President Donald Trump's children and closest allies who were implicated in Michael Cohen's bombshell testimony before the panel, Chairman Elijah Cummings said Thursday.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:   Donald Trump Went to Vietnam, and Michael Cohen Made It Hell
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Trump's One Summit Win Was Over the Media
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
2016 video shows Michael Cohen lied to Congress about not wanting a Trump administration job
Billy House / Bloomberg:
House Democrats to Probe Trump Attacks on FBI, Courts, Media
Discussion: Raw Story
Samantha Vinograd / The Daily Beast:
Hanoi Summit Failed Because Trump Refuses to Prep  —  Trump hates to prepare and likes to negotiate from the gut.  The Hanoi humiliation with Kim Jong Un was the direct result.  —  Nothing about the Hanoi summit's outcome is a surprise.  The writing was on the wall, the president just refused to read it.
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The GOP performance at the Cohen hearing was a study in moral corruption  —  At the Hanoi summit, perhaps following a champagne toast officially welcoming North Korea to the nuclear club, I imagine President Trump and Kim Jong Un sitting down to watch the Michael Cohen hearing.
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump got played by Kim Jong Un — again  —  Trump administration officials constantly say the foreign policy establishment's decades-long failure with North Korea meant there was no choice but to give Trump's fresh, personal, top-down method a fair trial.  Today the verdict is in.
Discussion: Forbes, Breitbart, Politico and Vox
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
After Cohen's hearing, the BuzzFeed bombshell that Mueller disputed looks better — and worse  —  In mid-January, a BuzzFeed News report hit the news cycle like a mile-wide asteroid landing on Earth.  —  Its assertion was stunning: that President Trump had directed his fixer, Michael Cohen …
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Forget Hanoi. Trump has already done irreparable damage to America's reputation.
Discussion: Esquire
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
No, the North Korea summit was not a loss for Trump
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Trump's Talks With Kim Jong-un Collapse, and Both Sides Point Fingers
John Bresnahan / Politico:
‘This is not a day at the beach’: Pelosi tells moderate Dems to stop voting with GOP  —  House Democrats held an emotional debate behind closed doors Thursday over how to stop losing embarrassing procedural battles with Republicans — a clash that exposed the divide between moderates and progressives.
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HuffPost:
Behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Masterful Interrogation Of Michael Cohen  —  The questions that won the New York congresswoman praise were the combined product of committee staff expertise, collaboration and oratory skills.  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) went viral again yesterday.
Discussion: CNN, New York Times, CityLab and CNBC
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House Democrats explode in recriminations as liberals lash out at moderates  —  House Democrats exploded in recriminations Thursday over moderates bucking the party, with liberal Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threatening to put those voting with Republicans “on a list” for a primary challenge.
Discussion: Axios
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Ilhan Omar Accuses Israel Hawks of ‘Allegiance to a Foreign Country’  —  Earlier this month, Representative Ilhan Omar tweeted, “It's all about the Benjamins, baby!” in response to a report about AIPAC, a pro-Israel organization.  Omar's tweet echoed a longstanding anti-Semitic trope …
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Emily Larsen / checkyourfact.com:   FACT CHECK: Ilhan Omar Says It's A ‘Myth’ That Trans Women Have A ‘Direct Competitive Advantage’ In Powerlifting
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:   Unrepentant Ilhan Omar suggests Jews who criticize her anti-Semitic statements are doing …
Jeffrey Cimmino / Washington Free Beacon:
Omar on Anti-Semitic Tweets: I Did Not Apologize for Being Anti-Semitic
Discussion: RedState and The Intercept
NBC News:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicted on bribe and fraud charges  —  The indictment marks the first time in Israeli history that a sitting prime minister has been charged with a crime.  —  Israel's attorney general announced Thursday that his office had indicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …
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New York Times:
Prosecutor Moves to Indict Netanyahu on Corruption Charges
Washington Post:
GOP opposition to emergency declaration grows as Trump warns lawmakers  —  GOP opposition to President Trump's emergency declaration at the border grewin the Senate Thursday, even as Trump warned that fellow Republicans who vote to overturn it are putting themselves “at great jeopardy” politically.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Republicans pressure Trump to back down on border emergency
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, TheBlaze and Axios
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Tom Udall and Susan Collins introduce Senate disapproval of Trump's border security emergency
Discussion: Breitbart
Page Six:
Brian Williams may score top time slot after late-night rating success … Brian Williams could come back from TV news exile, Page Six is told.  —  The anchor was booted from the “NBC Nightly News” in 2015 after it was revealed that he'd embellished some stories with fictional details …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Electoral College Is the Greatest Threat to Our Democracy  —  It has not stood the test of time.  Quite the opposite.  —  It's still well under the radar, but the movement to circumvent the Electoral College gained ground this week.  On Sunday, Jared Polis, the governor of Colorado …
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Kyle Kondik / Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The 2020 Electoral College: Our First Look
Discussion: The Week
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Cuomo Speaks With Bezos, Furiously Trying to Win Back Amazon  —  [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]  —  Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who was staggered by Amazon's decision to pull out of its plans to come to New York City, is furiously working behind …
Jeryl Bier / The Script:
Joe Biden on Donald Trump, September 2016: 'He's Probably A Decent Guy' … The Script provides an alternative source for news that is routinely overlooked by the conventional media in hopes that the conventional media will integrate these stories into the mainstream.
Discussion: CNN, twitchy.com and The Daily Caller
 
 
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