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4:30 PM ET, March 2, 2019

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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump delivers scorched-earth speech as he tries to regain footing  —  President Donald Trump on Saturday delivered a scorched-earth speech to conservative activists, calling the Russia investigation “bullshit,” adopting a southern accent to mock his former attorney general …
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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
Trump announces executive order that could strip colleges of funding if they don't ‘support free speech’  —  A new executive order from the White House will aim to make federal research funding for colleges and universities contingent on their support for “free speech,” President Trump said Saturday.
Washington Post:
Trump derides Mueller probe, mocks Democrats and his former attorney general  —  President Trump capped a tumultuous week by reveling in the embrace of conservative activists on Saturday, deriding investigations of him as “bullshit,” repeatedly complaining about coverage of his crowd sizes …
Discussion: Breitbart
John W. Dean / New York Times:
I Testified Against Nixon.  Here's My Advice for Michael Cohen.  —  My appearance before Congress helped take down a president.  Will the same thing happen to Trump?  —  Mr. Dean was a White House counsel under Richard Nixon.  —  There are several parallels between my testimony before Congress in 1973 …
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Axios and Raw Story
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Top House Democrat: Hannity should testify under oath about hush-money scheme  —  (CNN)A member of House Democratic leadership says it may be time to hear from Fox News host Sean Hannity — under oath.  —  Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline, who chairs the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee …
Washington Post:
Two days in July: As Republicans convened in Cleveland, did Trump receive a heads-up about WikiLeaks?
Discussion: The Hill
Matthew Sheffield / The Hill:
Poll finds 37 percent found Cohen testimony credible
Discussion: SARAH PALIN, Breitbart, TheBlaze and IJR
Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
How a black man ‘outsmarted’ a neo-Nazi group — and became their new leader  —  Without notifying his followers or even his inner circle, the longtime president of a legacy neo-Nazi group has signed over its control to a black civil rights activist from California.
Discussion: Boing Boing and The Week
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
How Jeff Bezos Went to Hollywood and Lost Control  —  Jeff Bezos amassed the world's greatest fortune by relying on what he has called a “regret minimization framework.”  He built an $800 billion company with 14 codified principles and a brutally exacting culture.  His annual salary of $81,840 has not budged since 1998.
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Judge orders Roger Stone to explain imminent release of book that may violate gag order  —  Republican operative and longtime Trump friend Roger Stone faced fresh legal trouble Friday after a federal judge ordered his attorneys to explain why they failed to tell her before now about the imminent publication …
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Christian Vasquez / Politico:   Judge demands answers from Roger Stone on book that could violate gag order
Bloomberg:
Roger Stone Judge Wants to Know Why She Wasn't Told About Book
Discussion: Splinter and Raw Story
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Manafort hears from one judge, appeals to another as he awaits sentencing
Discussion: Splinter and Axios
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
White House Ambitions Cloud Democratic Hopes to Win the Senate  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders are convinced that Steve Bullock, the popular governor of Montana, would give the party its best shot at unseating Senator Steve Daines, a freshman Republican, when he stands for re-election next year …
The Guardian:
Revealed: Facebook's global lobbying against data privacy laws  —  Social network targeted legislators around the world, promising or threatening to withhold investment  —  Facebook has targeted politicians around the world - including the former UK chancellor, George Osborne …
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
No Place for ‘Soy Boys’ at ‘Tribute to Men’ Outside CPAC  —  One organizer, upset that the Boy Scouts now accept girls, dubbed them “the soy scouts.”  —  Some attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference took a break Friday to sing the praises of men.  All of them.
Amber Sipe / Associated Press:
UPDATE |  W.Va. GOP responds to controversy over anti-Muslim display  —  West Virginia Republican Party Chairwoman Melody Potter is speaking out after a war of words broke out at the West Virginia Capitol Friday over a controversial poster that was displayed during a “Republicans Take the Rotunda” event.
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
GOP's anti-Muslim display likening Rep. Omar to a terrorist rocks W. Virginia capitol
Casey Tolan / Mercury News:
Xavier Becerra doesn't rule out legal action against journalists over police conviction data  —  Berkeley-based journalists received the list from a state commission through routine public records requests  —  California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Friday didn't rule out the possibility …
Politico:
Brussels awaits London move in Brexit talks  —  The Brexit talks remain locked solid, but Brussels expects London to make a move — potentially in the next week and with a new text laying out changes to the controversial Northern Ireland backstop.  —  For all the spin from U.K. ministers …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
The Democrat Who Wants to Stop the Rage  —  POLK CITY, Iowa—Sitting under a framed ticket from an old Obama town hall meeting, down in the basement of a farmhouse surrounded by snowy fields of corn and soybeans, I tell Michael Bennet that an Iowa Democrat who'd come to hear him speak compared him to pea soup.
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Anti-Muslim Activist Laura Loomer Banned From CPAC After Harassing Reporters  —  Loomer, who has already been banned from Twitter and Uber, was banned from conservative gathering on Saturday shortly before President Trump was supposed to take the stage.  —  The Conservative Political Action …
Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
WikiLeaks Veteran: I ‘Cooperated’ With Feds ‘in Exchange for Immunity’  —  A grand jury probe that began nine years ago is ongoing.  And one of Julian Assange's old crew is now talking.  “I'm on the street... not in an embassy,” he tells The Daily Beast.  —  Chelsea Manning isn't alone.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Aaron Colen / TheBlaze:
Man arrested for assault on conservative activist at UC Berkeley  —  A suspect was identified and arrested Friday in connection with the assault of a conservative activist on the campus of the University of California-Berkeley, according to Berkeley News.  —  Zachary Greenberg was arrested …
Discussion: SFist, PJ Media Home and Berkeley News
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Los Angeles Times:
Harassment and retaliation claims during Kamala Harris' time as California's top cop led to $1.1 million in settlements
Discussion: The Guardian and KTLA
Washington Post:
The ‘heartbreaking’ decrease in black homeownership
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Nepotism rules exist for a reason. Jared Kushner shows why.
Discussion: Raw Story
Andy Campbell / HuffPost:
Proud Boys Plead Guilty To Charges Stemming From NYC Attacks
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Daniel Estrin / NPR:
As U.S. Jerusalem Consulate Shuts, Pro-Israel Envoy Takes On Palestinian Relations
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Pence rips 2020 Democrats as ‘socialists,’ threat to freedom
Discussion: SARAH PALIN
 Earlier Items: 
Joe Schoffstall / Washington Free Beacon:
Rashida Tlaib Paid Herself $45,500 From Campaign Funds
Discussion: The Daily Caller and TheBlaze
Joshua Espinoza / Complex:
Spielberg Expected to Propose an Oscars Rule Change That Would Disqualify Netflix Films
Washington Post:
Centrist Democrats push back against party's liberal surge
Joel Kotkin / Tablet Magazine:
Why Social Justice Is Killing Synagogues and Churches
Samer Kalaf / Splinter:
Bret Stephens Tried to Teach Me How the World Works Because I Called Him Remarkably Dumb
Discussion: Mediaite
Washington Post:
Editor's note related to Lincoln Memorial incident
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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Bloomberg:
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

 
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