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8:05 AM ET, April 6, 2019

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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
The Reluctance of Bernie Sanders to Release His Damn Tax Returns Is Part of a Bigger Issue  —  Why hasn't Bernie Sanders just released his damn tax returns already?  —  It's a question that's something of a Rorschach test for Democratic primary voters.  For veterans of the great war of 2016 …
Discussion: CNN, TheBlaze and Washington Post
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CNN:
Trump lawyers issue letter fighting tax return request  —  Trump on releasing his tax returns: Speak to my lawyers  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump continues to hold his ground against Democratic efforts to obtain his tax returns, with one administration official telling CNN …
David French / National Review:
The Trump Era Should Make Libertarians of Us All  —  Democrats' quest for Trump's tax returns once again highlights the distortions in American law.  —  Democrats and many other Trump opponents are thrilled that House Ways and Means Committee chairman Richard Neal has “formally requested” six years of Donald Trump's tax returns.
Nancy Cook / Politico:   Mnuchin losing two senior Treasury aides
New York Times:   Trump Lawyer Asserts President's Right to Keep Tax Returns Private
Brian Faler / Politico:
Democrats face minefield if they get Trump's tax returns
Discussion: Raw Story
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump's Lawyer Urges IRS to Reject Democrats' Tax-Return Demand
Discussion: Law & Crime
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump raises eyebrows by saying, ‘We should get rid of judges’  —  A reporter asked Donald Trump this morning why, after all of his rhetoric, he didn't close the border like he said he would.  The president replied: … On the first point, the idea that Mexico is suddenly implementing policies …
Discussion: The Guardian and The Daily Beast
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Washington Post:
‘Our country is full. .  . . So turn around,’ Trump warns migrants during border roundtable
Discussion: Breitbart
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump's border threats jam up Pence's trade tour
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
‘Our country is full’: Trump says migrants straining system
Discussion: CBS San Francisco
The Babylon Bee:
Joe Biden Appointed As Head Of TSA  —  WASHINGTON, D.C.—Amid a flurry of accusations of inappropriate touching and crowding people's personal space leveled at former vice president Joe Biden, President Trump announced Friday that Biden is his appointment to the Transporation Security Administration.
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Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
Joe Biden Is Betting The Democratic Party Hasn't Changed
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Joe Biden makes joking reference to controversy over touching women
Discussion: Balloon Juice, Quartz and Politico
Marcy Wheeler / Washington Post:
We already knew Barr's summary was too easy on Trump.  Public records prove it.  —  Court filings and congressional testimony show the attorney general left out a lot of Mueller's findings.  —  When Attorney General William P. Barr released a four-page memo two weeks ago opining that …
Discussion: Raw Story
Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski might have been a woman or intersex  —  Researchers noticed the Polish officer's delicate bone structure after the skeleton was extracted from the Pulaski monument in Savannah, Georgia.  —  Casimir Pulaski, hero of the Revolutionary War and the pride …
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Ex-spy Valerie Plame eyeing return to Washington — as a member of Congress  —  Valerie Plame, the former CIA officer whose identity was leaked in 2003 by members of the George W. Bush administration, is seriously considering running for Congress in New Mexico in 2020.
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Associated Press:
Ex-spy Valerie Plame eyes run for Congress in New Mexico
Discussion: twitchy.com and Axios
ProPublica:
The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy.  It Didn't Go Well.  —  Ten years ago, the tax agency formed a special team to unravel the complex tax-lowering strategies of the nation's wealthiest people.  But with big money — and Congress — arrayed against the team, it never had a chance.
Discussion: Raw Story
Hell World:
I hate what they've done to almost everyone in my family  —  Progress is made one funeral at a time  —  Mom don't read this one.  I love you very much and I will call soon I promise but don't read this one ok because it's about me jacking off just kidding it's about a sore spot …
Associated Press:
The Latest: Jury rejects Harry Reid therapy band injury case  —  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid's injury lawsuit against the maker of an exercise band (all times local):  —  A jury in Las Vegas rejected former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid's lawsuit against an exercise band maker …
Discussion: twitchy.com
Liz Mair / USA Today:
Free speech means I don't have to be nice to Devin Nunes on Twitter.  So why's he suing me?  —  I didn't act like Miss Congeniality toward a member of Congress.  He's upset that I did my job, so now he's trying to stifle my free speech and yours.  —  CONNECT
Associated Press:
Ex-US Congressman's Russian bank stripped of license  —  MOSCOW (AP) — A small Russian bank owned by former U.S. congressman Charles Taylor was stripped of its license Friday after allegedly breaking anti-money laundering rules.  —  Russia's central bank said that Commercial Bank of Ivanovo committed …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Ruling on grand jury records could affect release of Mueller report details  —  Mystery grand jury in Mueller probe explained  —  (CNN)The federal appeals court in Washington, DC, sided with grand jury secrecy on Friday, ruling that federal district judges don't have the power …
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. to Designate Iranian Guard Corps a Foreign Terror Group  —  The Trump administration is preparing to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization, U.S. officials said, a step that would vastly escalate the American pressure campaign against Tehran but which has divided U.S. officials.
David Jackson / USA Today:
Donald Trump says he will again skip the White House correspondents dinner  —  At the 2018 White House Correspondents' dinner, comedian Michelle Wolf delivered a number of racy jokes.  Her main target seemed to be Press Secretary Sarah Sanders.  —  CONNECT
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Is Pete Buttigieg a Transformational Candidate?  —  One of the reasons I thought Donald Trump would win in 2016 was not just that he was focusing on the core issues roiling the middle classes (immigration and globalization).  It was because he had the perfect foil for his persona in Hillary Clinton.
Discussion: Front Page Magazine and Vulture
Gerard Baker / Wall Street Journal:
The Deep Rot Exposed by the Biden Flap  —  The problem isn't too much hugging but the rancor and triviality of our political debate
 
 
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Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
Dear Citizen Collusion Truther—You Own This, Too
Sonia Nazario / New York Times:
‘Someone Is Always Trying to Kill You’
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Elizabeth Warren just called for eliminating the filibuster. She's got a point.
Discussion: Vox and The Mahablog
Stephanie Baker / Bloomberg:
Where Rudy Giuliani's Money Comes From
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The Trumps were once one of many immigrant families in the working-class Bronx
Nick Wilson / Quillette:
What They Don't Teach You at the University of Washington's Ed School
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
Trump visits his for-profit golf course during California trip for dinner with son, local officials
Michael R. Sisak / Associated Press:
Ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner ordered to register as sex offender
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
‘Why are you crying, Mami?’ In Venezuela, the search for water is a daily struggle.
Damian Carrington / The Guardian:
Why the Guardian is putting global CO2 levels in the weather forecast
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
That Fox-y feeling? The nation's largest TV station owner hires some familiar Fox News names
Tim Chitwood / ledger-enquirer:
Exclusive: Teresa Tomlinson is taking first official step toward a US Senate bid
Washington Post:
Trump ditches his nominee to lead ICE, says he wants someone ‘tougher’ for top immigration enforcement role
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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