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6:30 PM ET, March 3, 2019

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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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Khorri Atkinson / Axios:
Rand Paul to vote to block emergency declaration, forcing Trump veto  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) disclosed on Saturday that he will vote in support of a resolution this month to block President Trump's emergency declaration, reports the Bowling Green Daily News.
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Rand Paul's vote likely gives Senate enough to oppose national emergency declaration  —  (CNN)The Senate likely now has enough votes to pass a measure blocking President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration after Sen. Rand Paul signaled his support for the resolution of disapproval.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and KBZK
Burgess Everett / Politico:   Rand Paul to oppose Trump on national emergency
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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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.
New York Times:
To Woo a Skeptical Trump, Intelligence Chiefs Talk Economics Instead of Spies  —  Intelligence officials who brief the president have warned him about Chinese espionage in bottom-line business terms.  They have used Black Sea shipping figures to demonstrate the effect of Russia's aggression in Ukraine.
Discussion: Raw Story
Garry Kasparov / New York Daily News:
Two sides of the globe, one painful lesson: Trump is debasing America  —  No matter how low your opinion may be of President Trump, he'll always find a way to lower it.  On Wednesday, he outdid himself, breaking even the laws of physics by reaching new depths in two places at once.
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Kelsey Tamborrino / Politico:
Warner: ‘Enormous amounts of evidence’ of possible Russia collusion  —  The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday lawmakers have found “enormous amounts of evidence” into potential collusion between the presidential campaign of Donald Trump and the Russians during the 2016 election.
Discussion: Breitbart
Ross Douthat / New York Times:   The State of Russiagate  —  How the Steele dossier's scenarios look …
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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Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
House Judiciary chair: “It's very clear” Trump obstructed justice
Discussion: IJR
Christian Vasquez / Politico:
Nadler: Dozens of document requests to be sent in Trump probe
Discussion: Breitbart
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 …
Discussion: Axios and Associated Press
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Sarah McCammon / NPR:
Being Trump's Daughter Is The ‘Hardest Job In the World,’ Ivanka Jokes At Dinner
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Star Tribune:
Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she will ‘do better’ in treatment of staffers
Discussion: IJR and Politico
Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
CPAC Threatened to Ban Mediaite After Seb Gorka Complaint: ‘The F*cking Thinnest of F*cking Ice’  —  Conservative Political Action Conference organizers threatened to ban every Mediaite reporter after a private complaint from ex-White House official Seb Gorka, who was caught on video shoving …
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 …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Daniel Jativa / Washington Examiner:
John Bolton: 'We're not afraid to use the word Monroe Doctrine'  —  John Bolton, the U.S. national security adviser, says the Trump administration is returning to the foreign policy principle of the Monroe Doctrine.  —  Pressed on why he has chosen to pressure Venezuela under Nicolas Maduro …
Michael Graham / Boston Herald:
Socialist Bernie Sanders is Trump's dream Democrat  —  In a single sentence in his CPAC speech on Saturday, President Trump laid out the entire 2020 campaign.  Trump couldn't have made his message more clear if he'd stood on stage and literally hugged the American flag.
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 …
Jeff Metcalfe / Arizona Republic:
Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema breaks 13 hours, sets personal record at Ironman New Zealand  —  Sen. Kyrsten Sinema set a personal record for an Ironman race on Saturday, breaking 13 hours at Ironman New Zealand.  —  Sinema, 42, finished in 12 hours, 59 minutes, 57 seconds …
Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
‘You Have to Pay With Your Body’: The Hidden Nightmare of Sexual Violence on the Border  —  MCALLEN, Tex. — It was dark in the stash house where they kept her, the windows covered so no one could see inside.  At first, the smugglers had her cook for the other migrants who had recently crossed illegally into the United States.
Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
A Bulwark of Liberal Clichés  —  In keeping with the annual custom, a progressive journalist attended this year's Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington, D.C., with the sole purpose of mocking the event.  —  The self-admitted liberal posted an ongoing Twitter screed …
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.
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?”
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 …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
 
 
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Fox News:
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Joseph P. Fried / New York Times:
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
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Discussion: Instapundit
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Pennsylvania Democrats Wonder How Far Is Too Far Left in 2020
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Melanie Mason / Los Angeles Times:
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Discussion: Politico
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
Where does America find such sad excuses for elected leaders?
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
The Republican Party is dead: GOP strategist stunned by reception to Trump's ‘unhinged’ CPAC speech
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Biden seeks donors as he eyes presidential bid
Discussion: Washington Post and POLITICUSUSA
Vegas Tenold / The Guardian:
The neo-Nazi plot against America is much bigger than we realize
Devon Ivie / Vulture:
Steven Spielberg Is Reportedly Continuing His Quest to Ban Netflix at the Oscars
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Saudi Arabia Is Said to Have Tortured an American Citizen
Discussion: CNN, Al Jazeera and Human Rights Watch