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ABC News:
Over 60 Trump-related documents to be requested from WH: House Judiciary Chair — Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., is interviewed on “This Week.” — 1h ago
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CNBC, Political Wire, Joe.My.God. and Breitbart
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Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
House Judiciary chair: “It's very clear” Trump obstructed justice — House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), whose committee would be responsible for starting impeachment proceedings, told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Sunday that “it's very clear” that President Trump obstructed justice.
Christian Vasquez / Politico:
Nadler: Dozens of document requests to be sent in Trump probe
Nadler: Dozens of document requests to be sent in Trump probe
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Breitbart
Mark Murray / NBC News:
NBC News/WSJ poll: 2020 race will be uphill for Trump, but he has strong party loyalty — NBC News/WSJ poll finds President Trump facing headwinds on Russia investigation and border wall but bolstered by strong GOP support and a good economy. — WASHINGTON — A year and a half …
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Politico, The Daily Caller and Political Wire
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Job-Approval Rating Ticks Up, Along With Warning Signs — President Trump's job-approval rating has ticked up, but many of his party's policy positions are viewed as out of the mainstream, the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds.
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
A BuzzFeed Reporter Explains His Controversial Reporting on Michael Cohen and Donald Trump — In January, BuzzFeed published perhaps the clearest accusation against President Trump in all of the reporting about the Russia investigation. Under the headline “President Trump Instructed …
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The Gateway Pundit
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Washington Post:
Lawmakers exploring possible pardon talks involving Michael Cohen — Lawmakers are investigating whether President Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was involved in any discussions about possible pardons — which they view as a potentially ripe area of inquiry into whether anyone sought …
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Axios, Political Wire, Splinter, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
Trump Just Might Have Won the 2020 Election Today — It's way too early to be thinking this, much less saying it, but what the hell: If Donald Trump is able to deliver the sort of performance he gave today at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the annual meeting …
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Hullabaloo, Outside the Beltway, Tennessee Star, Washington Monthly and IJR
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New York Times:
How the Trump-Kim Summit Failed: Big Threats, Big Egos, Bad Bets
How the Trump-Kim Summit Failed: Big Threats, Big Egos, Bad Bets
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Hullabaloo and Outside the Beltway
Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Trump lets loose at CPAC in longest speech of his presidency
Trump lets loose at CPAC in longest speech of his presidency
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AOL
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Saudi Arabia Is Said to Have Tortured an American Citizen — A dual citizen of Saudi Arabia and the United States had been imprisoned in the Ritz Carlton in Riyadh for about a week when he heard a knock on his door. — Guards dragged Walid Fitaihi, a Harvard-trained physician, to another room …
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KBZK, Human Rights Watch and Al Jazeera
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Jared and the Saudi Crown Prince Go Nuclear?
Howie Carr / Boston Herald:
Smirking media bias against GOP couldn't be clearer — Have you ever noticed how differently Republicans are treated in the media than Democrats? — Every newsroom in the country used to have what was called the “AP Stylebook” to use in writing news stories.
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
'We're not going to turn on our own': Republicans rally around Trump as threats mount
'We're not going to turn on our own': Republicans rally around Trump as threats mount
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The Hill, Raw Story and No More Mister Nice Blog
Don Sergent / Daily News:
Sen. Paul vows to vote against giving Trump ‘extra-Constitutional’ power — The Republican Party cheerleading session that is the Southern Kentucky Lincoln Day Dinner veered slightly off course Saturday with this pronouncement by U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Bowling Green: “I can't vote to give extra-Constitutional powers to the president.”
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Axios, Politico and Political Wire
Renuka Rayasam / Politico:
Texas GOP races to shore up the suburbs for 2020 — AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Republicans barely escaped a colossal defeat last year. Now the party is scrambling to avoid a repeat in 2020. — Facing a rapidly changing voter base, anti-Trump fervor and a more motivated Democratic Party …
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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Andrew Cuomo's Case for 2020—No, Really — NEW YORK—Here's how Andrew Cuomo ends our first interview at the beginning of January, sitting in a chair in his office, after eating cookie No. 4 from the tray his staff prepared. I put a simple question to him: “Would you like to be president?”
Devon Ivie / Vulture:
Steven Spielberg Is Reportedly Continuing His Quest to Ban Netflix at the Oscars — The success of Alfonso Cuarón's Roma at this year's Oscars has royally pissed off Steven Spielberg, so much so he's reportedly doubling down on banning streaming films from awards contention once and for all.
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Deadline, Breitbart, news.avclub.com and Complex, more at Mediagazer »
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Nevada 2020 caucus ‘free-for-all’ heats up — The Democratic 2020 fight for Nevada — the oft-forgotten but critically important early presidential nominating state — is rapidly ramping up. — While the lion's share of media attention is focused on Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina …
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Emily Heil / Washington Post:
At Gridiron dinner, Ivanka tries laughs: 'As if being Donald Trump's daughter isn't the hardest job in the world' — There were several crucial questions surrounding Saturday night's Gridiron dinner, that exclusive, annual white-tie gathering hosted by a club made up of Washington's most elite journalists …
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Associated Press and Axios
Vegas Tenold / The Guardian:
The neo-Nazi plot against America is much bigger than we realize — Lt Christopher Hasson is the product of traditions in white supremacist circles, and experts say there are ‘thousands like him’ — In the early summer of 2017, US coast guard lieutenant Christopher Hasson had an idea.
Melanie Mason / Los Angeles Times:
How California's early primary illustrates the state's political inferiority complex — California loves to talk about itself in superlatives: The nation's most populous state. The fifth-largest economy in the world. Producer of tech titans and Hollywood blockbusters and a whole lot of fruits and veggies.
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Politico
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