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12:05 PM ET, March 4, 2019

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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
The Making of the Fox News White House  —  Fox News has always been partisan.  But has it become propaganda?  —  In January, during the longest government shutdown in America's history, President Donald Trump rode in a motorcade through Hidalgo County, Texas, eventually stopping on a grassy bluff overlooking the Rio Grande.
Mike Allen / Axios:
House Democrats plan a slow-bleed strategy to publicly examine Trump's finances and presidency  —  House Democratic leaders worry impeachment proceedings against President Trump could backfire if they move too fast.  —  The state of play: They plan to pursue a slow-bleed strategy …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
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Tim Mak / NPR:
House Judiciary Launches Probe Of Allegations Of Obstruction By President Trump  —  The House Judiciary Committee launched a broad investigation into President Donald Trump's inner circle Monday, targeting figures who have worked in his administration and for the Trump Organization businesses.
Discussion: Mother Jones, ABC News and Daily Kos
CNN:
House Democrats announce broad probe into allegations of obstruction of justice  —  (CNN)House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler on Monday announced a sweeping investigation into President Donald Trump's campaign, businesses, transition and administration, a probe that would lay the groundwork …
Discussion: KBZK
Washington Post:
House Democrats demand documents from more than 80 people and institutions affiliated with Trump  —  House Democrats sent more than 80 letters Monday demanding documents from family members, business associates, political confidants and others with ties to President Trump …
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
With Sweeping Document Request, Democrats Launch Broad Trump Corruption Inquiry
Discussion: ABC11
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democrats are set to take a big step toward impeaching Trump
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:   House Democrats open sweeping corruption probe into Trump's world
David Weigel / Washington Post:
John Hickenlooper, former Colorado governor, joins Democrats' 2020 slate  —  John Hickenlooper, who served two terms as governor of Colorado, announced Monday that he is running for president, touting his accomplishments in a state that moved to the left during his time in office.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:   John Hickenlooper jumps into crowded 2020 field with ground to make up
ABC News:
Former Colorado governor, touting diverse background, joins 2020 field
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and twitchy.com
Eric H. Holder Jr / Washington Post:
Eric Holder: I won't run, but I will fight to elect the right Democratic president  —  Eric H. Holder Jr. was U.S. attorney general from 2009 to 2015.  —  There is in the United States today a crisis of leadership — caused and perpetuated by an administration that uses fear to stoke divisions and lies to support broken policies.
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:   Democrat Eric Holder Decides Not to Run for President
The Guardian:
Banking leak exposes Russian network with link to Prince Charles  —  Exclusive: investigation reveals how Troika Dialog channelled $4.6bn to Europe and US  —  A charity run by Prince Charles received donations from an offshore company that was used to funnel vast amounts of cash from Russia …
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RFE / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Multibillion-Dollar Money-Laundering Scheme Run By Russia's Largest Private Investment Bank Uncovered, Report Says  —  An almost $9 billion global money-laundering scheme allegedly set up and run by Russia's largest private investment bank and having close ties to the country's ruling elite …
Deirdre Shesgreen / USA Today:
Exclusive: Pompeo on the failed North Korea talks, Otto Warmbier and his own trip to Iowa  —  WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo refused to say if he believes that Kim Jong Un did not know about Otto Warmbier's mistreatment while the American college student was imprisoned in North Korea, as President Trump has asserted.
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Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
As Trump and Kim Met, North Korean Hackers Hit Over 100 Targets in U.S. and Ally Nations
Discussion: Reuters
BuzzFeed News:
WWF's Secret War: One Of The World's Biggest Charities Funds Guards Who Have Tortured And Killed People  —  The World Wide Fund for Nature funds vicious paramilitary forces to fight poaching.  A BuzzFeed News investigation reveals the hidden human cost.  —  Down the road from the crocodile …
Discussion: The Guardian
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Seb Gorka No Longer a Contributor at Fox News  —  Seb Gorka, pundit turned White House staffer turned pundit, is no longer a Fox News contributor, the network confirmed to Mediaite.  —  Gorka, a self-proclaimed national security expert, worked as a contributor for Fox News before he joined …
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Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:   CPAC Threatened to Ban Mediaite After Seb Gorka Complaint: ‘The F*cking Thinnest of F*cking Ice’
Reuters:
Exclusive: OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma exploring bankruptcy - sources  —  (Reuters) - OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP is exploring filing for bankruptcy to address potentially significant liabilities from thousands of lawsuits alleging the drug manufacturer contributed to the deadly opioid crisis sweeping …
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
“I'm Sorry for the Tweet That I Sent”: Inside the Bonkers Michael Cohen-Matt Gaetz Apology  —  The exchange proved that the perils of entering Trump's inner circle have been lost on his newest loyalists.  —  Michael Cohen was trying to decompress.  He'd just returned to his hotel room …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Kirstjen Nielsen digs in after surviving Trump's wrath  —  Shortly after President Donald Trump returned last March from a visit to the San Diego border, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen found herself in a familiar place — saying no to her boss.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
Charlottesville mystery: Who are the last two attackers of a black man in a parking garage?  —  CHARLOTTESVILLE — One man was sporting a red, bushy beard.  The second man, blond-haired, was wearing sunglasses and a tucked-in white, long sleeve shirt.  In footage seen hundreds of thousands of times …
Discussion: Axios
Simon van Zuylen-Wood / New York Magazine:
Pinkos Have More Fun Socialism is AOC's calling card, Trump's latest rhetorical bludgeon, and a new way to date in Brooklyn.  —  It's the Friday after Valentine's Day.  The radical publishing house Verso Books is throwing its annual Red Party, an anti-romance-themed banger.
Ottawa Citizen:
Kolga and Gold: How the Kremlin distorts the past to divide us  —  Putin's weaponization of the history of fascism and Nazism for propaganda purposes must be rejected.  —  Share Adjust Comment Print  —  The following is offered in rebuttal to a Feb. 25 blog from Citizen writer David Pugliese entitled …
Washington Post:
President Trump has made 9,014 false or misleading claims over 773 days  —  Powered by his two-hour stemwinder at the Conservative Political Action Conference on March 2 — which featured more than 100 false or misleading claims — President Trump is on pace to exceed his daily quota set during his first two years in office.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Task & Purpose
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Coming for Your Hamburgers!  —  Sebastian Gorka, late of the Trump Administration, stood before the annual gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference last week and made plain the inner frenzy of a party that must place its hopes for 2020 in a President …
Sen. Rand Paul / Fox News:
I support President Trump, but I can't support this National Emergency Declaration  —  In September of 2014, I had these words to say: “The president acts like he's a king.  He ignores the Constitution.  He arrogantly says, ‘If Congress will not act, then I must.’
 
 
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
A Better Way For Democrats To Run On Medicare For All
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
A Dose of Moderation Would Help Democrats
Tim Graham / NB Blog:
So Bitter! CNN Analyst Sam Vinograd Hears Echoes of Hitler, Putin in Trump CPAC Speech
Joe Lockhart / CNN:
Amy Klobuchar's funny speech gives her a lift
Garrett M. Graff / New York Times:
How Giuliani Might Take Down Trump
Discussion: Breitbart and Raw Story
Rachel Bovard / American Greatness:
Getting the Party of Infanticide on the Record
David Siders / Politico:
Just What Does Beto Believe?
Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Bernie Sanders sends a warning to 2020 rivals with rollicking weekend rallies
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Victoria Jones / RealClearInvestigations:
Days After Comey Firing, McCabe's Team Re-Engaged Fired Dossier Author
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
NBC News:
Trump admin to let Americans sue some foreign firms doing business in Cuba
Discussion: Babalú Blog
Salena Zito / New York Post:
Bill Maher's red-state hate will help get Trump re-elected
Matt Ford / New Republic:
Conservatives' Coming War on the Warren Court
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump friend Roger Stone suggests Robert Mueller ‘framed’ him in Instagram post that could violate gag order
Discussion: Towleroad Gay News
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
McGahn joins global law firm — and remains involved in Trump's judicial choices
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
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Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
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