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1:30 PM ET, April 10, 2019

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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
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Barr walks back claim that law enforcement spied on Trump campaign  —  Attorney General Bill Barr told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday that he believes spying by law enforcement officials on the 2016 Trump campaign “did occur,” before clarifying at the end of the hearing …
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 …
Washington Post:
Attorney general says he believes ‘spying did occur’ in campaign probe of Trump associates
Discussion: The Week
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
William Barr's highly questionable use of Trump's ‘spying’ talking point
Discussion: The Federalist
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
FBI brass discussed possibility Trump fired Comey ‘at the behest of’ Russia
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
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
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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 …
CNN:
How Stephen Miller tightened his grip over Trump's immigration and border policy
Discussion: Political Wire and WGN-TV
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Nielsen's allies trying to rehab her image for life after Trump
John Burnett / NPR:
Trump Administration Mulls Tougher Immigration Policies Amid DHS Shake-Up
Discussion: New York Times and Just Security
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.
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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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Why Democrats aren't saying much about immigration
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The growing signs of a rift between Trump and the Senate GOP
Discussion: The Week, CNN and Booman Tribune
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren becomes latest presidential hopeful to release 2018 tax returns  —  Warren paid nearly $231,000 in federal taxes in 2018.  —  Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren who on Wednesday became the latest candidate to release her 2018 federal tax returns …
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Washington Post:
Mnuchin, Waters engage in angry exchange with cameras rolling on Capitol Hill
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
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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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 …
Discussion: NB Blog
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 …
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 TheBlaze
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
New York Times:
The Border Is Broken.  And There's No Plan to Fix It.  —  For years, there have been warnings that America's immigration system was going to fail.  That time may be now. … It was never like this before.  —  The migrants come now in the middle of the night or in the bright light of day.
Jesse Drucker / New York Times:
$7 Million Trump Building Condo Tied to Scandal-Scarred Foreign Leader  —  The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Manhattan, near the southwest corner of Central Park, is a 44-story building with a mix of luxury condominiums and hotel suites that go for more than $2,500 a night.
Discussion: Raw Story
Stuff.co.nz:
Man wearing a Trump T-shirt abuses people at Christchurch mosque where more than 40 people died  —  A man wearing a Donald Trump T-shirt has yelled abuse at members of the Muslim community gathered at one of the mosques targeted in the Christchurch terror attack.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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 …
John Gartner / USA Today:
Trump's cognitive deficits seem worse.  We need to know if he has dementia: Psychologist  —  We see signs that the president's abilities are declining, but the only way to find out for sure is to give him a full neuropsychological evaluation.  —  CONNECT  —  If Donald Trump were your father …
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Joel Kotkin / Quillette:
The End of Aspiration  —  Since the end of the Second World War, middle- and working-class people across the Western world have sought out—and, more often than not, achieved—their aspirations.  These usually included a stable income, a home, a family, and the prospect of a comfortable retirement.
 
 
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Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
Mitch McConnell Just Brought Scott Pruitt Protégé Patrick Wyrick One Big Step Closer …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Michael Luo / New Yorker:
The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News
Chris Vance / The Seattle Times:
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
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Dominic Green / Spectator USA:
After yet another election win, what's next for Benjamin Netanyahu?
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Gary Cohn says Trump's proposed cuts to Social Security would be ‘political suicide’
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Haley Byrd / CNN:
McConnell privately advises Republicans to tell Trump about Cain concerns
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

Mia Sato / The Verge:
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