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David Brooks / New York Times:
We've All Just Made Fools of Ourselves — Again — The awful corruption of scandal politics. — “You have a president who, in my opinion, beyond a shadow of a doubt, sought to, however ham-handedly, collude with the Russian government, a foreign power, to undermine and influence our elections.”
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Obstruction, not collusion, worried Trump's legal team — By the time Martin and Jane Raskin joined Trump's defense, Mueller's prosecutors were rarely asking probing questions about Russia, sources said. — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's lawyers — including the ones who don't appear …
New York Times:
Disappointed Fans of Mueller Rethink the Pedestal They Built for Him — The sense of mourning started to take hold over the weekend, after Attorney General William Barr said that Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, had not found coordination between President Trump's campaign …
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NBC News:
House committee chairs demand full Mueller report by April 2 deadline — In a letter to Attorney General Barr, the Democratic lawmakers said his summary of the special counsel's report “is not sufficient for Congress.” — WASHINGTON — Six Democratic committee chairs in the House sent …
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emptywheel:
Rod Rosenstein Didn't Even Clear Trump on All the Topics He Hired Mueller to Investigate
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Alex Shephard / New Republic:
Give It Up, Democrats. The Russia Investigation Is Over.
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John Solomon / The Hill:
Trump-Russia collusion did affect an American election — the one in 2018
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
William Barr has made this a win for Moscow
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USA Today, The Atlantic, Conservative News Today and CNBC
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell blocks resolution calling for Mueller report to be released publicly
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Shareblue Media, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, TheBlaze, ThinkProgress, The Gateway Pundit, The Week, USA Today and RT
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
The Critical Part of Mueller's Report That Barr Didn't Mention
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Raw Story
New York Times:
Barr's Declaration on Trump Puts Justice Dept. Back in Political Crucible
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The Nation and American Greatness
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Mueller told Barr, Rosenstein 3 weeks ago he would not make decision on obstruction
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MSNBC, Shakesville and RedState
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Thanks to Mueller, 2020 won't be about 2016
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CounterPunch and Raw Story
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Larry Hogan says Mueller report makes no difference to his potential 2020 challenge to Trump
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The Daily Caller, Raw Story and Townhall
CNN:
Trump administration now says entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down — (CNN)The Trump administration on Monday said the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down, in a dramatic reversal. — In a filing with a federal appeals court, the Justice Department said it agreed …
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Dan Diamond / Politico:
In shift, Trump administration backs judge's ruling that would kill Obamacare — The Trump administration on Monday said it supports a federal judge's ruling that the entire Affordable Care Act should be thrown out, signaling a shift in the Justice Department's position and alarming Democrats who vowed to oppose the move.
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Sam Baker / Axios:
The Trump administration's ACA strike-down stance raises the stakes — In a stunning escalation, the Justice Department wants the courts to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act — not just its protections for people with pre-existing conditions. — Why it matters: It raises …
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Justice Department sides with court ruling Obamacare invalid — The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday announced that it is siding with a district court ruling that found the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. — The move is an escalation of the Trump administration's legal battle against the health care law.
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Now Trump Wants Judges To Throw Out The Entire Affordable Care Act
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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Trump administration asks court to completely invalidate Obama's Affordable Care Act
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NBC News, CNBC, Splinter, Fox News and Common Dreams
Dylan Scott / Vox:
The Trump administration wants all of Obamacare overturned by the courts
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NBC News:
Mike Pence talked Dan Coats out of quitting the Trump administration — Whenever Trump is souring on Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, whom he calls “Mister Rogers,” Pence encourages him to stick with Coats. — WASHINGTON — The country's intelligence chief was on the verge …
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
After Mueller Report, News Media Leaders Defend Their Work — There have been tipping points and bombshells, walls closing in and turning points. And there have been so, so many declarations of “The beginning of the end!” that the comedian John Oliver had a recurring “We got him!” …
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
The Reckoning Finally Arrives for the Trump Resistance — With Mueller's investigation over, Democrats, the news media and the national security state have a lot to answer for. — “The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated …
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The Week, Townhall, New York Magazine, NB Blog, Daily Wire and New York Times
Washington Post:
Pentagon announces $1 billion transfer for border barriers, angering Democrats — The Pentagon announced Monday night that it has authorized the transfer of up to $1 billion to the Army Corps of Engineers to build additional barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, a move that drew sharp objections from Democratic lawmakers.
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NPR, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, POLITICUSUSA and VICE News
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Sohrab Ahmari / New York Post:
Mueller Madness: The media pundits who got it most wrong — Special counsel Robert Mueller has definitively put to rest the collusion theory of President Trump's election. That's not a little embarrassing for the many journalists, talking heads, celebrities and instant-experts who spent …
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
GOP congressman quotes Hitler's ‘Mein Kampf’ to slam Trump's adversaries as liars — Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) took to the House floor on Monday to portray President Trump's detractors as Nazis, but ended up slurring them using an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory drawn verbatim from Adolf Hitler's writings.
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Stephen Moore could inflict more long-term damage than any of Trump's other nominations — President Trump has made a lot of ill-advised nominations. But perhaps no single choice could inflict more long-term damage than the one he announced Friday: Stephen Moore, Trump's pick to join the Federal Reserve Board.
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Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal:
Former Trump Adviser Says He Didn't Lie to FBI — George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign adviser who helped trigger what became the Mueller investigation, says in a new book he didn't lie to investigators, contradicting what he told a federal judge under oath.
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New York Times:
In Test of Boeing Jet, Pilots Had 40 Seconds to Fix Error — During flight simulations recreating the problems with the doomed Lion Air plane, pilots discovered that they had less than 40 seconds to override an automated system on Boeing's new jets and avert disaster.
Wall Street Journal:
Attorney Avenatti Arrested, Charged With Bank Fraud, Extortion Over Alleged Threats to Nike — Attorney Michael Avenatti, who seized the spotlight last year as a lawyer for adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, was arrested Monday and charged in two federal cases with wire fraud …
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CNBC:
Stormy Daniels' ex-lawyer Michael Avenatti arrested for alleged $20 million extortion scheme …
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
German billionaire family that owns Einstein Bros. Bagels admits Nazi past — The German family whose holding company owns controlling stakes in companies such as Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Panera Bread, Pret a Manger and Einstein Bros. Bagels profited from the horrors of the Nazi regime …
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:
Rep. Ruben Gallego, averting primary bloodbath, won't run for the Senate — Rep. Ruben Gallego will not run for the U.S. Senate in 2020's special election, he told The Arizona Republic on Monday, clearing the path for retired astronaut Mark Kelly to take on incumbent Republican …
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Joe Perticone / Business Insider:
Despite Mueller's findings of no collusion, freshman Democrat Rashida Tlaib is privately urging colleagues to join effort to impeach Trump — Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan has sent a letter asking her fellow Democrats to join a resolution urging the House Judiciary Committee …
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Duke University Agrees to Pay U.S. $112.5 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations Related to Scientific Research Misconduct — Duke University has agreed to pay the government $112.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting applications …
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NPR, CNN and Retraction Watch
TMZ.com:
Elizabeth Warren's Energized by Campaign Trail, Runs to Catch Train — Sen. Elizabeth Warren is in great shape to run ... and not just for President in 2020. — Senator Warren bolted through NYC's Penn Station Monday afternoon trying to catch a train — even as reporter Adam Glyn tried …
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New York Post
Douglas Ernst / Washington Times:
Ex-CIA chief offers mea culpa on Trump: 'I don't know if I received bad information' — Former CIA chief John O. Brennan now says his months of attacks on President Trump may have been based on “bad information.” — One of the president's harshest critics had a muted tone on Monday …
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New York Times:
As Special Counsel, Mueller Kept Such a Low Profile He Seemed Almost Invisible — WASHINGTON — Most Friday nights as he conducted his investigation, Robert S. Mueller III drove seven miles from his offices by the Capitol to Salt & Pepper, a dimly lit, mostly empty restaurant near his home …
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