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1:45 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.
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
‘Inane and anti-Semitic’: Rep. Jerry Nadler blasts Rep. Jim Jordan for tweet using ‘$’ to spell Trump foe Tom Steyer's name  — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler on Monday blasted Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio for an ‘inane AND anti-Semitic’ tweet that spelled billionaire …
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
With Sweeping Document Request, Democrats Launch Broad Trump Corruption Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee delivered a flurry of document demands to the executive branch and the broader Trump world on Monday that detailed the breadth of the Democrats' investigation …
Discussion: ABC11
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 …
Discussion: Breitbart
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
House Democrats open sweeping corruption probe into Trump's world  —  A key House committee with the power to impeach President Donald Trump kicked off a sweeping new investigation on Monday with document demands from the White House, Trump's namesake company, charity, transition …
Discussion: Axios and One America News Network
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democrats are set to take a big step toward impeaching Trump  —  Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the New York Democrat who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, is set to demand documents from more than 60 people related to President Trump and his businesses.  As Nadler puts it, this is necessary because Trump has been …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
House Democrats send message: Impeachment is on  —  The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says there is no doubt President Trump has obstructed justice.  —  “It's very clear that the president obstructed justice,” Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler told ABC Sunday.
Discussion: VICE News, ABC News and Hullabaloo
Mike Allen / Axios:
House Democrats plan a slow-bleed strategy to publicly examine Trump's finances and presidency
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Committee on the Judiciary:   House Judiciary Committee Document Requests 3.4.19
CNN:
House Democrats announce broad probe into allegations of obstruction of justice
Discussion: KBZK
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.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell: Senate will pass resolution blocking Trump's emergency declaration  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday said that he expects a resolution blocking President Trump's emergency declaration to pass the Senate, but he does not believe lawmakers will be able to override a veto.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Politico
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
McConnell: Measure to block Trump's national emergency has enough votes to pass Senate
Discussion: Political Wire and POLITICUSUSA
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
John Hickenlooper, former Colorado governor, joins Democrats' 2020 slate
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.
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Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Bill Clinton has 2020 advice, but few candidates seeking it
Discussion: The Week and Daily Wire
Joe Lockhart / CNN:
Amy Klobuchar's funny speech gives her a lift
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
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
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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Del Quentin Wilber / Los Angeles Times:
Matthew Whitaker, former acting attorney general, leaves Justice Department … Matthew Whitaker, the former acting attorney general whose brief appointment generated intense controversy, resigned from the Justice Department over the weekend.  —  Justice Department officials said Whitaker's last day at the agency was Saturday.
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.
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
Katie Galioto / Politico:
Bernie Sanders: ‘Too many lives are being destroyed’ by pot policy  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that “too many lives are being destroyed” by federal laws banning marijuana use, telling a morning radio show that he supports decriminalizing the drug even though his personal experience with it is limited.
Discussion: Breitbart
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Elyssa Cherney / Chicago Tribune:   Bernie Sanders, campaigning for president in 2020 at Navy Pier, calls for change ‘from the bottom up’
Garrett M. Graff / New York Times:
How Giuliani Might Take Down Trump  —  The parallels between the Mafia and the Trump Organization are striking, and Giuliani perfected the template for prosecuting organized crime.  —  Mr. Graff is the author of “The Threat Matrix: Inside Robert Mueller's F.B.I. and the War on Global Terror.”
Discussion: Breitbart and Raw Story
Emily Cadei / Sacramento Bee:
Big-dollar donors, including Donald Trump, fueled Kamala Harris' political rise in California  —  Asked last week if she believes President Donald Trump is a racist, California Sen. Kamala Harris told The Root, “I don't think you can reach any other conclusion.”
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Trump Told Cohen to Lie to Congress About “Collusion” in General—Not just the Moscow Tower deal  —  Analysts are still picking through all the crimes in which Michael Cohen directly implicated his former boss, President Donald Trump.  Among the most significant crimes are those offences …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and New Yorker
 
 
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Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
Charlottesville mystery: Who are the last two attackers of a black man in a parking garage?
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 Earlier Items: 
David Siders / Politico:
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Victoria Jones / RealClearInvestigations:
Days After Comey Firing, McCabe's Team Re-Engaged Fired Dossier Author
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Coming for Your Hamburgers!
Discussion: New Republic and Vanity Fair
Matt Ford / New Republic:
Conservatives' Coming War on the Warren Court
Sen. Rand Paul / Fox News:
I support President Trump, but I can't support this National Emergency Declaration
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump friend Roger Stone suggests Robert Mueller ‘framed’ him in Instagram post that could violate gag order
Discussion: Towleroad Gay News
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Seb Gorka Out at Fox News, Berates Mediaite Editor Over Email: 'You Don't Have Any Friends'