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4:40 PM ET, March 7, 2019

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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
New cracks emerge in Dem unity  —  House Democrats are showing more cracks in their united front just two months into the new Congress.  —  Leaders are scrambling to contain high-profile rifts between liberals and centrists on everything from the Green New Deal and “Medicare for all,” …
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Rahm Emanuel / The Atlantic:
I've Faced the Charge of Dual Loyalty  —  I'm all for new voices in the U.S. Congress.  But lately, some of those new voices have been voicing some very old canards.  —  I'm talking about Representative Ilhan Omar, one of the newly elected Democrats who populate the 116th Congress.
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Ilhan Omar Knows Exactly What She Is Doing  —  The Minnesota Democrat is bringing Corbynism to the Democratic Party.  —  There's an old joke about upper-class British anti-Semitism: It means someone who hates Jews more than is strictly necessary.  Ilhan Omar, the freshman representative from Minnesota …
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Jim Clyburn's defense: Ilhan Omar's experience is ‘more personal’ than Jews who had parents in the Holocaust  —  As Democrats line up to defend Rep. Ilhan Omar and come up with her excuses for her anti-Semitism, House whip Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., tried to minimize he comments by arguing …
Politico:
Omar uproar swamps Pelosi  —  The longtime Democratic leader is struggling to unite her warring factions.  —  With the fallout over Rep. Ilhan Omar's controversial comments paralyzing House Democrats, Speaker Nancy Pelosi found herself on the floor Wednesday afternoon asking some of her closest allies what exactly she should do.
New York Times:
Democrats Put Off Anti-Semitism Resolution After Fierce Backlash
Alex Griswold / Washington Free Beacon:
Schakowsky (D) Defends Omar's Anti-Semitic Comments: ‘She Comes From a Different Culture’
Discussion: Townhall and The Hill
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Embassy Staffers Say Jared Kushner Shut Them Out of Saudi Meetings  —  When a member of the administration travels overseas, the embassy often helps coordinate the trip.  Not when Jared Kushner meets his buddy MBS.  —  Officials and staffers in the U.S. embassy in Riyadh said they were not read …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
John Kelly, Out of White House, Breaks With Trump Policies  —  The former White House chief of staff, John F. Kelly, on Wednesday declined to answer questions about the existence of a memo he wrote saying that President Trump had ordered officials to give his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a security clearance in May 2018.
Discussion: The Root, Hit & Run, ABC News and The Wrap
Reid Standish / Foreign Policy:
U.S. Cancels Journalist's Award Over Her Criticism of Trump  —  Jessikka Aro was to receive a “Women of Courage” prize.  Then officials read her Twitter feed.  —  Jessikka Aro, a Finnish investigative journalist, has faced down death threats and harassment over her work exposing Russia's …
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
That Time Trump Got $18.3 Million in Palm Beach  —  Scrutiny of his business dealings is just the start of a long and possibly harrowing experience for the president and his entourage.  —  A series of hurricanes tore through Florida in 2005, and Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump's business …
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Bloomberg:
Cohen Fires New Shot at Trump With Suit for Millions in Fees  — Ex-Trump lawyer claims he's owed at least $3.8 million  — Cohen says he appeared before Congress, Mueller for the firm  —  Michael Cohen sued the Trump Organization, claiming the president's family company stiffed …
Discussion: Splinter, The Daily Caller and The Week
Bernard Condon / Associated Press:   Out of the shadows: Loyal money man swept into Trump probes
New York Times:
Biden's 2020 Plan is Almost Complete.  Democrats Are Impatient.  —  WASHINGTON — The pieces for a Joseph R. Biden Jr. presidential campaign are falling into place: His nucleus of advisers has begun offering campaign positions to seasoned Democratic strategists.
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Biden's tough talk on 1970s school desegregation plan could get new scrutiny in today's Democratic Party  —  When Joe Biden was a freshman senator in the mid-1970s, his home state of Delaware, like other hotspots across the country, was engulfed in a bitter battle over school busing …
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Biden in 1993 speech pushing crime bill warned of ‘predators on our streets’ who were ‘beyond the pale’
Discussion: Splinter
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
It's time — high time — to take Fox News's destructive role in America seriously  —  Chris Wallace is an exceptional interviewer, and Shepard Smith and Bret Baier are reality-based news anchors.  —  Now that we've got that out of the way, let's talk about the overall problem of Fox News …
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Vindicator:
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown will not run for president in 2020  —  U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown will not run for president in 2020.  —  Brown, a Cleveland Democrat, announced today that he has “decided the best place for me to continue fighting for Ohio and for the dignity of workers across the country …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
Sherrod Brown's plan to win back Trump-voting, working-class voters, explained
Discussion: Politico
Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed News:   Sherrod Brown Won't Run For President, After Months Of Planning For The 2020 Race
Washington Post:
Sen. Sherrod Brown, Democrat from Ohio, won't run for president
Discussion: Axios and LifeNews.com
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Wilbur Ross broke law, violated Constitution in census decision, judge rules  —  Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross acted in “bad faith,” broke several laws and violated the constitutional underpinning of representative democracy when he added a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Discussion: Mother Jones and East Bay Times
Axios:
The biggest political scandal in American history  —  Even without seeing Robert Mueller's report, or knowing what prosecutors with the Southern District of New York have unearthed, or what congressional investigators will find, we already have witnessed the biggest political scandal in American history.
Wall Street Journal:
Martin Shkreli Steers His Company From Prison—With Contraband Cellphone  —  The disgraced pharmaceutical executive dubbed “Pharma Bro” remains the shadow power at the drug company that became a national lightning rod for jacking up the prices of rare drugs.
KNSD-TV:
Source: Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Government Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates Through a Secret Database  —  The documents detail an intelligence-gathering effort by the United States and Mexican authorities, targeting more than 50 people including journalists, an attorney, and immigration advocates
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Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Report: US government kept secret dossiers to monitor journalists covering migrant caravans
Discussion: Breitbart, ThinkProgress and CBS News
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Eric Holder Says Next Democratic President Should Consider Court Packing  —  The former attorney general made the comments Thursday during a chat with the Yale Law National Security Group.  —  Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that the next Democratic president should …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Why I am critic, not a NeverTrump absolutist  —  CNN commentator Matt Lewis recently observed the bitter fights breaking out on social media among conservatives who in an earlier era might have seen themselves as ideological allies.  —  “We are at the stage where the (last?) …
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Read more: The Definitive Net Worth of Donald Trump  —  The other assets that make up Trump's $3.1 billion ­fortune are down $600 million since he became president, by our count, largely because of a slump in retail real estate and an increasingly toxic brand.
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook Will Block Anti-Vax Ads And Reduce Vaccine Misinformation In The News Feed, Pages, And Groups  —  Facebook announced Thursday that anti-vax misinformation will appear less frequently across people's News Feeds, public pages and groups, private pages and groups, search predictions, and in recommendation widgets around the site.
Konstantin Kakaes / MIT Technology Review:
Zuckerberg's new privacy essay shows why Facebook needs to be broken up  —  In a letter published when his company went public in 2012, Mark Zuckerberg championed Facebook's mission of making the world “more open and connected.”  Businesses would become more authentic, human relationships stronger, and government more accountable.
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
White House pressures Republicans to vote against national emergency rebuke  —  Senators predict more to vote against national emergency  —  Washington (CNN)The White House has been quietly pressuring Republicans in recent days not to buck President Donald Trump and vote in favor of a resolution …
Discussion: IJR, FOX News Radio and Shareblue Media
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Trump Settles on His Reelection Message  —  In his marathon speech to a gathering of conservative activists last weekend, Donald Trump unloaded more than 16,000 words, according to the official White House transcript.  —  But amid all the meandering and asides, the belittling taunts …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
The Only Democrat Running to Challenge Trump on National Security  —  Democrats running for president have been so busy talking about how they'd change the country that they've barely talked about protecting it.  —  They're campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire on health care and climate change.
 
 
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Randall Chase / Associated Press:
Delaware may require Electoral College votes to go to national, not state winner
Discussion: Political Wire
Andrew M Harris / Bloomberg:
Russian Firm Spars With Mueller Over Ability to See Documents
Discussion: Raw Story
Scott Calvert / Wall Street Journal:
Philadelphia Is First U.S. City to Ban Cashless Stores
Discussion: Eater
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
Stacey Abrams, Star Trek Nerd, Is Traveling at Warp Speed
Discussion: NB Blog
Andrew McCarthy / Fox News:
Would Mueller indict Trump for ‘attempting’ to fire Mueller?
Discussion: Daily Wire
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Netanyahu's Opposition Offers Bibiism Without Bibi
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Why Birthrates Among Hispanic Americans Have Plummeted
Discussion: Mother Jones
 Earlier Items: 
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Trump-Kim Summit Opinion Flat; 2-In-3 Oppose Border Wall ‘Emergency’
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Eric Swalwell wants to be president, and why the heck not?
The Hill:
Schultz recruiting GOP insiders ahead of possible 2020 bid
Elizabeth Landers / CNN:
Lindsey Graham tells CNN: Judiciary Committee to hold gun control hearing March 26
Luke O'Brien / HuffPost:
Swastikas Show Up At Sidwell Friends School, Bastion Of Progressivism
Discussion: Slate
Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
Signs of economic strain emerge in Trump's home base
Discussion: Raw Story
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Attorney Says Cohen Directed His Lawyer to Seek Trump Pardon, Contradicting Testimony
 

 
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