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11:50 AM ET, March 5, 2019

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ABC News:
Ex-Trump White House lawyer calls Mueller ‘hero,’ says probe is no witch hunt  —  On Congressional investigations into the White House, Ty Cobb said, “It's never gonna be over.”
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ABC News:
TRANSCRIPT: Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb on ‘The Investigation’
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
Terrence Dopp / Bloomberg:   Ex-Trump White House Lawyer Says Mueller Probe Is No Witch Hunt
David Morgan / Reuters:   Ivanka Trump could be on next target list from House Democrats: panel chairman
Ryan Saavedra / Daily Wire:
Ocasio-Cortez: U.S. Should Not Have Authorized Use Of Force Against 9/11 Perpetrators  —  Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made radical statements Monday night on Twitter, suggesting that the United States should not have authorized the use of force against those who perpetrated …
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Alana Goodman / Washington Examiner:
AOC's chief of staff ran $1M slush fund by diverting campaign cash to his own companies
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Ocasio-Cortez balks at Dem leadership's rebuke of Omar
Discussion: Breitbart
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Adam Schiff Hires a Former Prosecutor to Lead the Trump Investigation  —  Representative Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, has hired a veteran prosecutor with experience fighting Russian organized crime to lead his investigation of the Trump Administration.
Discussion: Axios
Wall Street Journal:
Lawyer for Cohen Approached Trump Attorneys About Pardon  —  An attorney for Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, raised the possibility of a pardon with attorneys for the president after federal agents raided Mr. Cohen's properties in April, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Tim Mak / NPR:
Elderly Trump Critics Await Mueller's Report — Sometimes Until Their Last Breath  —  Expectations among Democrats are sky-high as reports have emerged about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation coming to an end.  —  In fact, expectations are so intense among some elderly …
bronx.news12.com:
'I'm not running': Hillary Clinton rules out 2020 bid for first time on camera in exclusive interview with News 12  —  NEW YORK -  —  Hillary Clinton ruled out a 2020 presidential run for the first time on camera in an exclusive interview with News 12, pledging instead to take an active role …
Tim Wu / New York Times:
The Oppression of the Supermajority  —  The defining political fact of our time is not polarization.  It's the thwarting of a largely unified public.  —  Mr. Wu is a law professor.  —  We are told that America is divided and polarized as never before.  Yet when it comes to many important areas of policy, that simply isn't true.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Trump's Judicial Nominees Aren't Just Ideologues.  They're Really Young.  —  Republicans are about to confirm lifetime federal judges ages 37, 40 and 46.  —  WASHINGTON Senate Republicans voted Monday night to advance the nomination of Allison Jones Rushing, yet another …
Discussion: Shakesville
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Lee Davidson / Salt Lake Tribune:   The lengthy legal fight over Utah election law is over as U.S. Supreme Court refuses to accept GOP appeal
Politico:
Trump makes low-energy push to halt GOP border revolt  —  The president is doing little to stem Republican defections on his national emergency declaration.  —  President Donald Trump is taking a surprisingly low-key approach to a bipartisan rebuke on his border wall and the first likely veto of his presidency.
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Gary Fineout / Politico:
Inside the Gaetz-Scott Florida feud  —  MIAMI — A feud between Rep. Matt Gaetz and Sen. Rick Scott has broken into the open, putting two of Donald Trump's closest Florida allies at war with each other in a state that's pivotal to the president's reelection campaign.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Hillary says she won't run, Stew leaving the Senate and Tim Alberta releases his book cover
James Comey / Washington Post:
Republicans are wrong.  Transparency is possible in the Mueller investigation.  —  James Comey is a former director of the FBI and a former deputy attorney general.  —  Attorney General William P. Barr will decide how much of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's findings and conclusions …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Barr won't recuse himself from Mueller oversight
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
John Bolton May Save Us All  —  on the afternoon I met John Bolton, in October, he had just arrived in Tbilisi, Georgia, and wanted to spend a few minutes at leisure.  Bolton has traveled widely, but this trip to Tbilisi was his first, so I volunteered to show him the city.
Discussion: The Week, Washington Post and IJR
Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic:
The Anger of Amy Klobuchar  —  Amy Klobuchar has a problem.  Apparently it's been an open secret in Washington and Minnesota, but because she didn't have much of a national reputation, the press lacked occasion to expose it.  But when she made a name for herself during the Kavanaugh hearings …
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Trump friend and inaugural chair Tom Barrack plans to cooperate with House Judiciary Committee requests  — Longtime friend of President Donald Trump's Tom Barrack will be cooperating with the House Judiciary Committees requests to hand over their requested documents.
Discussion: IJR
Ben Collins / NBC News:
On Amazon, a Qanon conspiracy book climbs the charts — with an algorithmic push  —  The book is currently No. 9 in all books about politics and No. 1 in all books about “Censorship,” one slot ahead of Ray Bradbury's “Farhenheit 451,”  —  A book that pushes the conspiracy theory Qanon climbed within …
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Trump's Rating on Economy Still Top Strength, Hits New High  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's rating for handling the economy, 56%, is the highest of his presidency and the highest of his approval ratings on any of 14 domestic and foreign issues tested in the latest Gallup poll.
David Brooks / New York Times:
‘Medicare for All’: The Impossible Dream  —  There's no plausible route from here to there.  —  The Brits and Canadians I know certainly love their single-payer health care systems.  If one of their politicians suggested they should switch to the American health care model, they'd throw him out the window.
Kate Smith / CBS News:
12 detained babies have been released from ICE custody in Dilley, Texas  —  ICE officers have released 12 of the infants that were being held at a rural Texas detention center, where immigrant advocates claim they dealt with dirty water, limited baby food and a lack of medical care.
Discussion: VICE News and Shareblue Media
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Ilhan Omar is the Steve King of the left  —  Rep. Ilhan Omar has, yet again, angered many House Democrats and Jewish groups by making anti-Semitic comments over the weekend.  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the rest of the leadership need to realize that Omar (D-Minn.) has become their party's version of Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa).
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
H.I.V. Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient, a Milestone in the Global AIDS Epidemic  —  Scientists have long tried to duplicate the procedure that led to the first permanent remission 12 years ago.  With the so-called London patient, they seem to have succeeded.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Disputed N.S.A. Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says  —  WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has quietly shut down a system that analyzes logs of Americans' domestic calls and texts, according to a senior Republican congressional aide, halting a program that has touched off disputes …
Washington Post:
T-Mobile acknowledges its patronage of Trump's Washington hotel increased sharply after announcement of merger with Sprint  —  T-Mobile's patronage of President Trump's Washington hotel increased sharply after the announcement of its merger with its Sprint last April, with executives spending …
Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
American Woman, Divorced From Saudi Husband, Is Trapped in Saudi Arabia  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon — At first, Saudi Arabia was an adventure for Bethany Vierra.  —  An American from Washington State, she taught at a women's university, started a company, married a Saudi businessman and gave birth to a curly-haired daughter, Zaina.
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Pelosi says Democrats to introduce bill to bring back net neutrality this week  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced Monday that Democrats will introduce a net neutrality bill to replace the open internet rules that were repealed in 2017.  —  In a letter to her Democratic colleagues …
Discussion: Axios and The Root, more at Techmeme »
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
America the Cowardly Bully  —  What the world has learned from Trump's trade war.  —  This is the way the trade war ends.  Not with a bang but with empty bombast.  —  According to multiple news organizations, the U.S. and China are close to a deal that would effectively end trade hostilities.
 
 
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James Nord / Star Tribune:
Noem offers bills aimed at possible Keystone XL protests
Discussion: Instapundit
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Trump's witches' brew has made America sick
Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
The Guy Trump Called ‘Fat Jerry’ Is Chairman Nadler Now
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Big Tech, Once a CPAC Sponsor, Is Now Its Boogeyman
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Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:
Mark Kelly is running as a Democrat for the Senate. In 2012, he voted in a GOP primary
Susan Chira / New York Times:
Stacey Abrams, After Narrow Loss, Has Some Decisions to Make
Discussion: Shakesville
Charles Fain Lehman / Washington Free Beacon:
Kavanaugh Comes Out Strong for Religious Liberty in Comment
Discussion: Washington Post and New York Times
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Sen. Jeff Merkley opts out of Democratic presidential contest and will run for reelection to Oregon seat
Discussion: Politico and Roll Call
ustr.gov:
United States Will Terminate GSP Designation of India and Turkey
Discussion: Bloomberg and Axios
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Fusion GPS Founder Had Contact With State Department Official During 2016 Campaign
Lawrence H. Summers / Washington Post:
The left's embrace of modern monetary theory is a recipe for disaster
Discussion: Bloomberg and The Week
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

 
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