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11:50 AM ET, April 10, 2019

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Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
What the President May Now Fear Most in Mueller Report  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report is predicated, as far as we know, on a potentially explosive assumption.  —  Consider a head scratching set of conclusions.  The Special Counsel wrote that “the evidence does not establish …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Bloomberg:
Barr Forms Team to Review FBI's Actions in Trump Probe  — Inquiry comes as House GOP pushes claims of anti-Trump bias  — Issue pursued as Democrats emphasize getting Mueller's report  —  Attorney General William Barr has assembled a team to review controversial counterintelligence decisions …
John Solomon / The Hill:
The single-sentence Russia bombshell that Attorney General Barr delivered to Congress  —  Sitting in the hot seat of a high-profile congressional hearing has a way of unmasking the mettle of any witness.  —  Attorney General William Barr showed us Tuesday, in his first testimony since the end …
Discussion: CNN
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
FBI brass discussed possibility Trump fired Comey ‘at the behest of’ Russia  —  James Baker, the former top lawyer of the FBI, said senior bureau officials — including at least one deemed to be free of anti-Trump bias — discussed the possibility in May 2017 that President Donald Trump had fired James Comey …
Discussion: Political Wire
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Comey memos contained far more sensitive info than previously known, FBI filing reveals
Discussion: RedState
Wall Street Journal:
Hush-Money Probe Gathered Evidence From Trump's Inner Circle  —  Federal investigators, looking into payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, questioned longtime aides of the president and amassed more evidence than previously known  —  The Manhattan U.S. attorney's office has gathered …
New York Times:
Mick Mulvaney Tries Letting Trump Be Trump  —  WASHINGTON — When President Trump met with his embattled homeland security secretary on Sunday to force her out after months of stormy eruptions over immigration policy, the only other person in the room was Mick Mulvaney, who made no effort …
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Washington Post:
Twelve days of chaos: Inside the Trump White House's growing panic to contain the border crisis  —  He had threatened to close the southern border and ordered a halt to foreign aid for three Central American nations.  But as President Trump weighed his next move to respond to a mounting immigration crisis …
Washington Post:
Miller and Kushner on a potential collision course in Trump's border crisis  —  In President Trump's latest blowup over immigration, senior adviser Stephen Miller hovered omnipresent in the background — goading him in his threats to close the border, warning him of the dangers of looking weak …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Nielsen's allies trying to rehab her image for life after Trump
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Why Democrats aren't saying much about immigration
Discussion: Raw Story
Franco Ordoñez / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump picks Miller, setting up potential clash with Kushner on immigration
Discussion: Politico
John Burnett / NPR:
Trump Administration Mulls Tougher Immigration Policies Amid DHS Shake-Up
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Trump's ‘truly bizarre’ visit to Mt. Vernon  —  President Donald Trump had some advice for George Washington.  —  During a guided tour of Mount Vernon last April with French president Emmanuel Macron, Trump learned that Washington was one of the major real-estate speculators of his era.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders, Now a Millionaire, Pledges to Release Tax Returns by Monday  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Bernie Sanders, whose $18 million fund-raising haul has solidified his status as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Tuesday that he would release 10 years …
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Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders set to unveil new ‘Medicare-for-all’ legislation, a key component of his 2020 presidential bid
Associated Press:
Bernie Sanders relaunches ‘Medicare for All’ amid 2020 glare
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Axios:
Trump calls Netanyahu's election victory “a good sign for peace”  —  President Trump told reporters Wednesday morning that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's election victory was “a good sign for peace.” … Driving the news: Netanyahu scored a fifth term in office with his election win yesterday …
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Dominic Green / Spectator USA:
After yet another election win, what's next for Benjamin Netanyahu?
Discussion: The Guardian
The Times of Israel:   Netanyahu lauds ‘incredible victory’ as results show clear win
Washington Post:
In tightly fought election, Netanyahu appears set to clinch fifth term in office
BuzzFeed News:
Warner Bros. Shut Down Trump's 2020 Video For Using The “Dark Knight Rises” Score  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday posted a video on Twitter that appeared to be part of his 2020 reelection campaign.  In less than three hours, it had already amassed over 1 million views, but by late Tuesday night, the video was no longer available.
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Trish Turner / ABC News:
Attorney general faces 2nd day of grilling by Democrats over his handling of Mueller report  —  Barr has declined to say whether he's spoken with the White House.  —  Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday faced a second day of grilling on Capitol Hill for his handling …
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Barnini Chakraborty / Fox News:
Dershowitz praises Barr's testimony before Congress, says he's working hard to ‘depoliticize’ DOJ
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
Democrats prepare border bills, say Trump enflamed problem
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Washington Post:
If Trump has his way, this major federal agency is on the way out  —  The White House is moving to do what no president has accomplished since the end of World War II: eliminate a major federal agency.  —  If the Trump administration succeeds at dismantling the Office of Personnel Management …
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
Haley Byrd / CNN:
McConnell privately advises Republicans to tell Trump about Cain concerns  —  Herman Cain: Let them go out and dig up old allegations  —  (CNN)Senate Republican leaders are sending a message to members troubled by President Donald Trump's controversial Federal Reserve picks: Speak up.
Discussion: Shareblue Media
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Inside the (semi-)secret society for young Trump staffers  —  On the first Wednesday evening in February, Anthony Scaramucci entertained a packed house of like-minded souls at Rewind, a retro diner off Dupont Circle.  —  There, the former White House communications director fielded friendly questions …
Luke O'Neil / New York Magazine:
What I've Learned From Collecting Stories of People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox News  —  It was somewhere around the 100th response that my brain turned to mush.  —  Last week, I devoted an installment of my newsletter Welcome to Hell World to a dozen stories from people who …
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Look at the Forest, Not the Trees: What We Do and Don't Know About 2020  —  In this age of constant stimulation and news and information overload, it is harder than ever to get perspective.  I am as guilty as anyone of getting sucked into the vortex of political twitter, only to emerge hours later with little to show for it.
Discussion: New York Times
Ryan Petty / USA Today:
Parkland victim's father: Traumatized students shouldn't have been flung into politics  —  After the Parkland shooting, there was a maniacal emphasis on hashtags and photo-ops.  My community never got the help it needed to actually heal.  —  CONNECT  —  More than a year has elapsed since 17 students …
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
‘Are you serious?’:  John Kerry's climate change credentials challenged by GOP lawmaker  —  Former secretary of state John F. Kerry responded in disbelief when a Republican congressman challenged his credentials on climate change, prompting the veteran politician to ask, “This is really happening here?”
Discussion: Political Wire
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USA Today:
AOC to Republicans: Stop fixating on Green New Deal and read it
Discussion: Townhall, Daily Wire and twitchy.com
Gerren Keith Gaynor / Fox News:
Mnuchin has fiery exchange with Rep. Maxine Waters during hearing  —  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin got into a fiery exchange with U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters on Tuesday during a committee hearing with lawmakers on Capitol Hill.  —  At the end of a three-and-half-hour testimony …
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Washington Post:
Mnuchin, Waters engage in angry exchange with cameras rolling on Capitol Hill
Mae Rice / Vox:
The best $20,000 I ever spent: Starbucks every day of my adult life  —  Paying for a tiny dose of luxury doesn't make me an irresponsible millennial.  —  I'm in Starbucks right now, drinking what I always get: a venti iced coffee with hazelnut, soy, and caramel drizzle.
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has book coming in the fall  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Haley, the former United Nations ambassador and South Carolina governor, has a book deal.  —  St. Martin's Press announced Wednesday that Haley's book, currently untitled, will come out this fall.
 
 
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Chris Vance / The Seattle Times:
End Constitutional Catch-22 and impeach President Trump
Tyler Pager / New York Times:
‘Monkey, Rat and Pig DNA’: How Misinformation Is Driving the Measles Outbreak Among Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
Exclusive: Second Hassan Staffer Allegedly Helped Aide Steal Massive Amounts Of Senate Data
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Trump digs in on false claim that he stopped Obama's family separation policy
Stuff.co.nz:
Man wearing a Trump T-shirt abuses people at Christchurch mosque where more than 40 people died
Discussion: The Daily Beast
 Earlier Items: 
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Gary Cohn says Trump's proposed cuts to Social Security would be ‘political suicide’
Discussion: Raw Story and Politico
Joel Kotkin / Quillette:
The End of Aspiration  —  Since the end of the Second World War …
John Gartner / USA Today:
Trump's cognitive deficits seem worse. We need to know if he has dementia: Psychologist
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
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