In unearthed audio, Tucker Carlson makes numerous misogynistic and perverted comments  —  During interviews on Bubba The Love Sponge, Carlson said he “love[s]” the idea of young girls sexually experimenting, used sexist terms to refer to a number of women, and defended statutory rape

Scoop: Trump lied to RNC donors about “Tim Apple” video  —  Republican donors in attendance called it one of Trump's weirdest lies ever.  On Friday night, under a tent erected over the pool at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, President Trump claimed the media were spreading “fake news” …

Yes, Trump is target of ‘presidential harassment’  —  President Trump often complains that he is the victim of “presidential harassment” — or, as he sometimes puts it, “PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!”  —  “Presidential Harassment by ‘crazed’ Democrats at the highest level in the history of our Country,” Trump tweeted on March 3.

Exclusive: In budget, Trump to ask Congress for $8.6 billion for border wall  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday will ask the U.S. Congress for an additional $8.6 billion to help pay for his promised wall on the U.S-Mexico border to combat illegal immigration and drug trafficking …

Katrina Pierson Responds to WH Diversity Question By Asking How Many Black Staffers Abraham Lincoln Had  —  When MSNBC host Al Sharpton confronted Trump campaign senior adviser Katrina Pierson about the lack of black staffers in Trump's West Wing, Pierson offered a jaw-dropping excuse …

Trump tells RNC donors: “The Democrats hate Jewish people”  —  So leakers had to rely on their memories.  Trump entered to Lee Greenwood's “Proud to Be an American,” then launched into one of his trademark stream-of-consciousness speeches, according to three people who were there.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says ‘we should be excited about automation’  —  Robots aren't the problem, she says — economics are  —  New York congressional representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes that people should welcome robots taking their jobs — but not the economic system that can make it financially devastating.

Footage Contradicts U.S. Claim That Maduro Burned Aid Convoy  —  CÚCUTA, Colombia — The narrative seemed to fit Venezuela's authoritarian rule: Security forces, on the order of President Nicolás Maduro, had torched a convoy of humanitarian aid as millions in his country were suffering from illness and hunger.

U.S. Airstrikes Kill Hundreds in Somalia as Shadowy Conflict Ramps Up  —  WASHINGTON — The American military has escalated a battle against the Shabab, an extremist group affiliated with Al Qaeda, in Somalia even as President Trump seeks to scale back operations against similar Islamist insurgencies elsewhere …

Trump Pushes Team to Stick Up for ‘Brave’ Paul Manafort  —  Manafort is facing a tough judge, and a possible ten-year sentence.  But his perils have produced one potential advantage: the increasing sympathies of the man who could pardon him.  —  Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former campaign chairman …

I'm so, so, so sorry: A Baby Boomer apologizes on behalf of his generation  —  As a professor and dean for the last 30 years, I have sought, with varying degrees of success, to prepare some of you for the world into which you were to graduate.  My generation has been curating that world …

Presidential hopeful Buttigieg calls Pence a “cheerleader for the porn star presidency”  —  Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg called Vice President Pence a “cheerleader for the porn star presidency” during a CNN townhall event Sunday. … Details: Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend …

The Massage Parlor Owner Peddling Access to Trump Has Ties to Chinese Government-Linked Groups  —  Li Yang, the Florida massage parlor entrepreneur who created and operated a business that sold Chinese business executives access to President Donald Trump and his family at Mar-a-Lago, has yet another intriguing line of work.

Dark Money Org Gave $2 Million To Group Working With Fusion GPS, Steele  — A dark money group based in California contributed $2 million to The Democracy Integrity Project, the organization that has contracted with Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele to investigate President Donald Trump.

Justin Amash is the loneliest Republican in Congress  —  Washington (CNN)For most Republicans, life in the House minority is a big change.  But for Rep. Justin Amash, in a sense, it's more of the same.  —  “It's just a different set of people doing the wrong thing,” the Michigan Republican said in an interview with CNN.

Trump's massive reelection campaign has 2016 themes — and a 2020 infrastructure  —  President Trump and his advisers are launching a behemoth 2020 campaign operation combining his raw populist message from 2016 with a massive data-gathering and get-out-the-vote push aimed at dwarfing …

In Minnesota, Rep. Ilhan Omar's comments cause pain and confusion  —  In Minnesota's Twin Cities, Jews and Somali immigrants have been partners for decades.  —  When Somali refugees arrived in Minnesota starting in 1993, Jewish leaders saw echoes of their forebears who faced virulent anti-Semitism …

Fox shifting from partisanship to propaganda?  —  Jane Mayer, the author of The New Yorker's detailed look at Fox News, tells Brian Stelter that the relationship between Fox and President Trump is “incestuous.”  She also says Trump needs Fox as much as it needs him.  —  Source: CNN

Iran's Rouhani seeks to boost ties on first visit to Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrived in Baghdad on Monday, making his first official visit to the nation that Tehran once fought a bloody war against and later backed in the battle with the Islamic State group.

GOP meddles in Democratic nomination with takedown of O'Rourke  —  A prominent conservative group is thrusting itself into the Democratic primary with a TV ad assailing Beto O'Rourke — a move that comes as Republicans consider a broader campaign to meddle in the opposing party's contest to take on President Donald Trump.

Schiff says it's a ‘mistake’ for Mueller not to interview Trump  —  The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III was making a “mistake” by not demanding that President Trump testify as part of his investigation, which by many accounts may soon be nearing its end.

Democrats Push to Make Washington, D.C., the Fifty-first State  —  In the coming days, the House will vote on, and likely pass, H.R. 51, a bill that would make Washington, D.C., the fifty-first state.  The bill, which has two hundred co-sponsors, was introduced by Eleanor Holmes Norton …