Top Items:
New York Times:
Dan Coats to Step Down as Intelligence Chief; Trump Picks Loyalist for Job — WASHINGTON — President Trump announced on Sunday that Dan Coats would step down as director of national intelligence after a fraught tenure marked by tension with the Oval Office, and he tapped one of his staunch defenders …
Discussion:
The Hill, New York Post, Financial Times, Fortune, Bloomberg, The Gateway Pundit, Mother Jones, ABC News, Rolling Stone, The Week, Politico, Fox News, UPI and Mediaite
RELATED:
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
John Ratcliffe: AG William Barr will deliver justice to any Obama officials who committed crimes — A top Republican investigator said accountability is coming for any of those individuals who may have committed crimes during the Trump-Russia investigation.
Discussion:
RedState
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe to replace Dan Coats as DNI — President Trump announced on Twitter Sunday that he will nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) to replace Dan Coats as director of national intelligence, confirming Axios' earlier reporting that Ratcliffe was favored for the job.
Discussion:
KTLA, NPR, CNN, New York Times, The Gateway Pundit, Slate, Washington Post, Vox, twitchy.com, Hullabaloo, New York Post, Splinter, Mediaite and The Guardian
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is leaving office after clashing with Trump on national security
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is leaving office after clashing with Trump on national security
Discussion:
Axios, The Atlantic and POLITICUSUSA
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
With Sunday surge, nearly half of House Democrats back impeachment inquiry — Four more rank-and-file Democrats called for opening an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump on Sunday, inching lawmakers closer to a significant symbolic milestone: a majority of all House Democrats.
Discussion:
Mediaite
RELATED:
Laurence H. Tribe / USA Today:
We are finally on the path to Trump impeachment and saving what our Founders gave us — Nancy Pelosi spared moderate Democrats a floor vote on impeachment, but she has unleashed her committee chairs to do exactly what needs to be done. — CONNECT — Don't let anybody fool you …
Discussion:
Washington Post
Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
No. 3 Senate Democrat calls for House to begin impeachment proceedings against Trump
Paola Chavez / CNN:
Nadler says Trump should be impeached because 'he's violated the laws six ways from Sunday'
Nadler says Trump should be impeached because 'he's violated the laws six ways from Sunday'
Discussion:
Law & Crime and twitchy.com
Patrick Reevell / ABC News:
Vladimir Putin critic Alexey Navalny hospitalized with suspected poisoning, doctor says — A doctor for Russia's most prominent opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, has suggested the activist has been poisoned after he was hospitalized Sunday after falling mysteriously ill in a Moscow jail.
Discussion:
Political Wire and Radio Free Europe/Radio …
RELATED:
Nataliya Vasilyeva / Associated Press:
Nearly 1,400 detained in Moscow protest; largest in decade — MOSCOW (AP) — Nearly 1,400 people were detained in a violent police crackdown on an opposition protest in Moscow, a Russian monitoring group said Sunday, adding that was the largest number of detentions at a rally in the Russian capital this decade.
Discussion:
New York Times, Splinter, BBC, The Week and Radio Free Europe/Radio …
Hot Air:
Tapper To Rashida Tlaib: Why Do You Only Want To Boycott Israel And Not, Say, Egypt Or Pakistan Or Saudi Arabia? — I would happily boycott Egypt or Saudi Arabia for human rights violations, Tlaib insists, responding to Tapper's question. — Okay, he says. Then why don't you?
RELATED:
Kevin M. Kruse / New York Times:
The Real Problem With Trump's Rallies — There are a lot of similarities between the president and George Wallace of Alabama. But there's also one big difference. — Mr. Kruse is a professor of history at Princeton. — President Trump's political rallies are certainly a spectacle, but a spectacle we've seen before.
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fox's Chris Wallace Calls Out Mulvaney for Saying Trump's Baltimore Tweets Have ‘Zero to Do With Race’ — White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney insisted this morning that President Donald Trump's tweets going after Baltimore and Congressman Elijah Cummings have “zero to do with race.”
Discussion:
Daily Wire, Washington Post and BizPac Review
RELATED:
Dom Calicchio / Fox News:
Bernie Sanders blasted Baltimore as ‘Third World country’ and ‘disgrace’ in past comments
Bernie Sanders blasted Baltimore as ‘Third World country’ and ‘disgrace’ in past comments
Discussion:
Townhall, Front Page Magazine, NB Blog, New York Times, Washington Times, Axios, The Daily Caller and Sara A. Carter
Dan Rodricks / Baltimore Sun:
People who refuse to see or hear Trump's racism in attack on Baltimore are beyond reach, but here goes
People who refuse to see or hear Trump's racism in attack on Baltimore are beyond reach, but here goes
Discussion:
Hullabaloo
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
‘Everything that Donald Trump says is offensive to some people,’ Mulvaney says
‘Everything that Donald Trump says is offensive to some people,’ Mulvaney says
Discussion:
CNN, Breitbart, BizPac Review and Slate
Kate Sullivan / CNN:
Bernie Sanders: 'It's unbelievable' Trump ‘attacks American cities’
Bernie Sanders: 'It's unbelievable' Trump ‘attacks American cities’
Discussion:
Breitbart, fox8.com and Front Page Magazine
Justin Wise / The Hill:
Trump doubles down on attacks against Cummings and Baltimore district
Trump doubles down on attacks against Cummings and Baltimore district
Discussion:
Breitbart, The Daily Beast, Washington Examiner and Axios
New York Times:
Federal Inquiry of Trump Friend Focused on Foreign Lobbying — WASHINGTON — As Donald J. Trump was preparing to deliver an address on energy policy in May 2016, Paul Manafort, his campaign chairman, had a question about the speech's contents for Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a top campaign fund-raiser and close friend of Mr. Trump.
Kate Briquelet / The Daily Beast:
When Epstein Was Cosmo's Bachelor of the Month — In July 1980, the predatory financier was featured as the magazine's “Bachelor of the Month” seeking a “cute Texas girl.” — Long before Jeffrey Epstein boasted of his billionaires-only client list—and long before his arrests …
Discussion:
Instapundit, Law & Crime and Front Page Magazine
Rebecca Tan / Washington Post:
Kushner owns lots of Baltimore-area apartments. Some are infested with mice. — In a now-viral tweetstorm on Saturday, President Trump characterized Rep. Elijah E. Cummings's Baltimore-based congressional district as a “rodent infested mess” where “no human” would want to live.
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo
Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
Rick Scott on ‘Meet the Press’ admits he hasn't read new Senate report on Russian election hacking — Maybe ask Marco Rubio for a copy? — A new report from the Senate Intelligence committee on Russian hacking has raised more serious questions about Florida election security in 2016.
Discussion:
Florida Politics