memeorandum: Nunes sending eight criminal referrals to Attorney General William Barr (Jeremy Herb/CNN)

8:25 PM ET, April 7, 2019

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Paula Reid / CBS News:

DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigning after clashing with Trump on immigration — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is resigning, President Trump announced in a tweet Sunday. CBS News first reported Nielsen's impending departure, which Mr. Trump announced after a 5 p.m. meeting at the White House.

New York Times:

Kirstjen Nielsen Out as Trump's Homeland Security Secretary — WASHINGTON — Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, is leaving her position, President Trump announced on Sunday, ending a tumultuous tenure in charge of the border security agency that had at times made her the target of the president's criticism.

Discussion: CNN, Raw Story, NPR, The Guardian, CNBC, Big League Politics, 6abc, POLITICUSUSA, The Daily Beast, The Week and Mediaite

Wall Street Journal:

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Resigns — Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's resignation comes two days after she visited U.S. southern border with President Trump.

Dara Lind / Vox:

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigns as Trump rage continues — Nielsen was the most aggressive DHS secretary in history. It wasn't enough for Trump. — Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen submitted her resignation to President Donald Trump Sunday night …

Washington Post:
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen leaving Trump administration amid surge of migrants

Discussion: Axios, twitchy.com and The Daily Caller

Victoria Albert / The Daily Beast:
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to Resign Immediately: Report

Discussion: Politico, CBS News, New York Daily News and Splinter

Jeremy Herb / CNN:

Nunes sending eight criminal referrals to Attorney General William Barr — (CNN)California Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday he was planning to send eight criminal referrals to Attorney General William Barr as soon as this week.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Splinter and Raw Story

Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:

William Barr's Choices — Since Barr became Attorney General, he has narrowed the range of information about the Mueller report that he says he will allow the public to see. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the intellectual polymath who represented New York in the United States Senate for twenty-four years …

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and The New Civil Rights Movement

Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:

Scrutiny and suspicion as Mueller report undergoes redaction — The escalating political battle over special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's report centers on redactions — a lawyerly editing process that has angered distrustful Democrats eager to see the all evidence and conclusions …

Michael Burke / The Hill:

Mulvaney: Democrats will ‘never’ see Trump's tax returns — Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that Democrats will “never” see President Trump's tax returns. — “Nor should they. That's an issue that was already litigated during the election.

Discussion: Politico, No More Mister Nice Blog, Breitbart and Raw Story

Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
Trump attorney Jay Sekulow accuses Democrats of playing politics, 'The president has not asked …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, CNN and IJR

emptywheel:

The Carr Correction and the Barr Pseudo Exoneration — Last week, Buzzfeed released part of a package of materials that Michael Cohen's lawyers provided to Congress in what appears a last minute bid to stay out of prison. While it still represents just Cohen's self-interested view …

Discussion: Hullabaloo

Matthew Choi / Politico:
Giuliani: Let Congress see the Mueller report

Discussion: Washington Press, Daily Kos, Splinter, The Root and Breitbart

Catie Edmondson / New York Times:

House Democratic Campaign Arm Nears War With Liberals Over Primary Fights — WASHINGTON — The House Democratic campaign arm is on the verge of open warfare with the party's rising liberal wing as political operatives close to Speaker Nancy Pelosi try to shut down primary challenges …

David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:

In Israel Election, the Future of the West Bank Is Now on the Ballot — JERUSALEM — As Israelis get ready to go to the polls on Tuesday, a stark, fateful and long-deferred choice has suddenly reappeared to confront them after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's unexpected promise …

Discussion: Haaretz

Emily Shugerman / The Daily Beast:
Republican Jewish Coalition Has to Remind Trump: We Didn't Support Obama

Discussion: Axios

David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
Netanyahu Vows to Start Annexing West Bank, in Bid to Rally the Right

Discussion: New York Post, Slate and The Daily Caller

Chris Enloe / TheBlaze:

Did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez violate the Constitution with her latest action on Twitter? — On Friday, the Daily Wire's Ryan Saavedra broke the news that Ocasio-Cortez had seemingly changed her accent while speaking to a predominantly black crowd at Al Sharpton's National Action Network.

Discussion: Rolling Stone, IJR, Slate and The Daily Caller

Rick Reilly / The Atlantic:

Whatever Trump Is Playing, It Isn't Golf — More than any wife, more than any party, more than any opinion, President Donald Trump has remained fiercely loyal to golf. But I've played golf my entire life. Years ago, I even played with Trump once. Whatever sport he's playing, it isn't golf.

Gregory Wallace / CNN:

Aviation world faces moment of reckoning after 737 MAX crashes — (CNN)It was a moment the aviation world had been waiting for since a second deadly crash grounded the 737 MAX fleet: Boeing gathered hundreds of pilots, airline executives, and regulators to unveil a fix that would return the jetliner to the sky.

Gregg Re / Fox News:

Nunes to send eight criminal referrals to DOJ concerning leaks, conspiracy amid Russia probe — Rep. Devin Nunes announces he will send eight criminal referrals to Justice Dept concerning leaks, conspiracy amid Russia probe. — House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes …

Discussion: Trending Home, Hullabaloo, The Gateway Pundit, RedState and Mediaite

Damian Paletta / Washington Post:

How regulators, Republicans and big banks fought for a big increase in lucrative but risky corporate loans — Actions by federal regulators and Republicans in Congress over the past two years have paved the way for banks and other financial companies to issue more than $1 trillion in risky corporate loans …

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Politico

Kyle Balluck / The Hill:

Trump says some asylum seekers look like they're ‘fighting for the UFC’ — President Trump said on Saturday that some asylum seekers should be “fighting for the UFC,” calling the process a “scam.” — Speaking to the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas, Trump said some asylum seekers are …

Discussion: The Week and CNN

Julia Jacobs / New York Times:

U.S. Says It Could Take 2 Years to Identify Up to Thousands of Separated Immigrant Families — It may take federal officials two years to identify what could be thousands of immigrant children who were separated from their families at the southern United States border, the government said in court documents filed on Friday.

Discussion: Axios

NBC News: Reuniting thousands of migrant families will take up to 2 years, government lawyers say

Katy Waldman / New Yorker:

Joe Biden and the Perils of Good Intentions — Americans have been on a long road trip with Joe Biden. The former Vice-President's hot mikes, his “handsiness,” “gaffes,” and “loose-lipped and emotive manner” are all a matter of family lore. Everybody knows a story or two or ten …

Discussion: CNN, Vox and The Nevada Independent

Jared Malsin / Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Removes Troops From Libya Amid Fighting in Capital — American military leaves as country stands on precipice of civil war, battle for Tripoli continues with airstrikes — CAIRO—The U.S. military said it pulled a small contingent of American forces from Libya as the country teetered …

Discussion: Geller Report

Marc Santora / New York Times:

Poland's Populists Pick a New Top Enemy: Gay People — WARSAW — Growing up in a small city in southern Poland, part of a religious family and conservative community, Maciej Gosniowski was told again and again that something was wrong with him. — “It would be better if I changed myself,” he recalled teachers telling him.

Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:

Hunger and an ‘Abandoned’ Hospital: Puerto Rico Waits as Washington Bickers — VIEQUES, P.R. — A newborn's cries rarely echo anymore though the hallways of what passes as a hospital on the ravaged island of Vieques, off the coast of Puerto Rico. — “We miss it,” said Dennisse Bermúdez Colón, a nurse.

Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:

Reality Check for 2020 Democrats — This week offered more evidence that moderation is the key for the party to win back the blue-wall states that Trump carried in 2016. — This week offered a wake-up call to Democrats convinced that any presidential candidate, no matter how liberal …

Discussion: twitchy.com