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Release Detail  —  February 10, 2020 - Sanders Takes Top Spot In Dem Primary As Biden Falls, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Bloomberg Rises In Primary, Runs Strong Against Trump  —  In the wake of the Iowa caucuses and heading into the New Hampshire primary …
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The 2020 Democrats All Have the Same Problem
Philip Bump / Washington Post:   The billionaires may be accelerating a Biden collapse
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Did a debate actually make a difference for once?
Associated Press:   Joe Biden downplays New Hampshire amid last-minute scramble
George T. Conway III / Washington Post:
Trump is right.  We might have to impeach him again.  —  George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York and an adviser to the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump super PAC.  —  “So we'll probably have to do it again.”  —  So said the already-once-impeached President Trump on Thursday in the East Room …
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Jenni Fink / Newsweek:
Tulsi Gabbard Defends Donald Trump Firing Alexander Vindman: ‘Whether People Like It or Not, There Are Consequences to Elections’  —  In breaking with some of her opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination, Representative Tulsi Gabbard defended President Donald Trump's decision to fire Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Bigger than Vindman: Trump scrubs 70 Obama holdovers from NSC  —  President Trump is making good on his promises to “drain the swamp” and cut Obama-era holdovers from his staffs, especially the critical and recently controversial National Security Council.  —  Officials confirmed that Trump …
Washington Post:
Barr acknowledges Justice Dept. has created ‘intake process’ to vet Giuliani's information on Bidens  —  Attorney General William P. Barr acknowledged Monday that the Justice Department would evaluate material that Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump's personal attorney …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Lindsey Graham Implicates William Barr in Massive Scandal, on Live Television  —  Yesterday, Senator Lindsey Graham appeared on Face the Nation and blurted out an apparent confession of what, if true, would be a scandal of Nixonian proportions.  Graham reported he had spoken with Attorney General William Barr that morning.
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Prosecutors recommend Roger Stone serve 7-9 years in prison  —  Federal prosecutors recommended in a sentencing memo filed Monday that Trump associate Roger Stone serve 87-108 months in prison — or 7-9 years — for crimes that include obstruction of justice, lying to Congress and witness tampering.
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Washington Post:
Roger Stone deserves 7 to 9 years prison for lying to Congress in Russia probe, U.S. says in …
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:   Prosecutors ask for 7 to 9 years in prison for Roger Stone
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Trump vowed to not cut Social Security and Medicare — hours before proposing just that  —  President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a White House session with the state governors on February 10, 2020.  Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images  —  The president is either brazenly lying about his 2021 budget or doesn't know what's in it.
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Baltimore Sun:   Trump's proposed budget is a deeply cynical document | COMMENTARY
Ayesha Rascoe / NPR:
Trump Again Proposes Slashing Foreign Aid In Budget
Discussion: Vox and The American Independent
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
DHS Considered How To Punish States That Deny Access To Driver Records, A Memo Says  —  The Trump administration drafted a slew of plans to consider not only circumventing state laws limiting the Department of Homeland Security's access to driver records, but to retaliate against states …
Discussion: The Hill, Twitchy and Newsy
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Pentagon budget shows what new Air Force One paint job will look like  —  The Pentagon on Monday revealed the final paint job plans for the revamped Air Force One presidential aircraft — a red, white and blue style reminiscent of the planes in President Trump's former airline.
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Ryan McCrimmon / Politico:
The quirky, the odd and the baffling in the Trump budget shuffle
Discussion: The Hill, The Verge and Bloomberg
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
Exclusive: Justice Department anti-human trafficking grants prompt whistleblower complaint  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Justice Department anti-human trafficking grant program is facing internal complaints, after two nonprofits were denied funding in favor of two less established groups whose applications …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Quin Hillyer / Washington Examiner:
As Louisiana GOP censures Mitt Romney, David Duke laughs  —  The same Louisiana Republican Party that 30 years ago refused to censure former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke decided last Saturday to censure Sen. Mitt Romney.  —  The mind reels.  The stomach sickens.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge cancels Michael Flynn sentencing  —  A judge has indefinitely postponed former national security adviser Michael Flynn's sentencing on a charge of lying to the FBI as Flynn presses to withdraw the guilty plea he entered more than two years ago in a case prosecuted by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Reuters:
Exclusive: More than 100 U.S. troops diagnosed with brain injuries from Iran attack - officials  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military is preparing to report a more than 50% jump in cases of traumatic brain injury stemming from Iran's missile attack on a base in Iraq last month, U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday.
Discussion: CNN, Washington Post and The Week
HuffPost:
Trump's First 3 Years Created 1.5 Million Fewer Jobs Than Obama's Last 3  —  New Labor Department statistics show that despite Trump's repeated boasts, job creation was a lot higher during Barack Obama's final years.  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. - As President Donald Trump takes the stage …
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
Trump world's latest attack on Romney: Tie him to Burisma  —  The MAGA machine is attempting to turn President Donald Trump's latest nemesis — Sen. Mitt Romney — into the next Hunter Biden.  —  Trump in recent days took a new turn in his attacks on the Utah senator, veering from assailing …
Dylan Brogan / Isthmus:
When money is no object  —  Billionaire Mike Bloomberg recruits campaign staffers with high pay and iPhones  —  Actor Michael Douglas at the opening of the Bloomberg campaign office in Madison.  —  Two-time Academy Award winner actor Michael Douglas was the only speaker at the opening …
Discussion: The Hill
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Behind the scenes of Michael Bloomberg's “be boring” campaign
Discussion: CNN, Politico and The Hill
Michael Hobbes / HuffPost:
1 A Slow-Motion Looting  —  OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, nearly every institution of American life has taken on the unmistakable stench of moral rot.  Corporate behemoths like Boeing and Wells Fargo have traded blue-chip credibility for white-collar callousness.
The Daily Beast:
The FBI Makes a Bizarre Claim About Pro-Choice Terrorism  —  The bureau revamped its homegrown-terror efforts to include “people on either side” of the abortion debate.  But there's almost no evidence of pro-choice violence.  —  The FBI is expanding its focus on domestic terrorism …
W.J. Hennigan / TIME:
Exclusive: Strange Russian Spacecraft Shadowing U.S. Spy Satellite, General Says  —  A pair of Russian satellites are tailing a multibillion-dollar U.S. spy satellite hundreds of miles above the Earth's surface, a top U.S. military commander tells TIME, underscoring a growing threat …
Discussion: CNN, UPI and SpaceNews.com
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Bernie Bros and the Internet of Beefs  —  What if Bernie Sanders' internet mobs are an asset, and not a liability?  —  1. Bernie's Bros  —  I was reading the 417th piece about how Bernie supporters form online mobs that are basically the mirror-image of Twitter MAGA world.  —  It's this one, from CNN:
Discussion: CANNONFIRE, Raw Story and Mediaite
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Republicans vow ‘revenge’ at ballot box after volunteers nearly hit by van  —  TALLAHASSEE — Florida and Duval County Republican leaders on Monday vowed “revenge” at the ballot box after a man drove his van into a tent of GOP volunteers who were registering voters over the weekend.
Natasha Turak / CNBC:
There are Democrats who can win 2020 election, billionaire Trump-ally Tom Barrack says  — A Democrat could very well beat Donald Trump for the presidency in 2020, billionaire private equity investor and former Trump advisor Tom Barrack told CNBC.  — Barrack cited Joe Biden …
Discussion: CNN and The Hill
David Brooks / The Atlantic:
The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake  —  The scene is one many of us have somewhere in our family history: Dozens of people celebrating Thanksgiving or some other holiday around a makeshift stretch of family tables—siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, great-aunts.  The grandparents are telling the old family stories for the 37th time.
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Trump, looking to ‘shake up the Dems a little bit,’ hits ‘mumbling’ Pelosi in rally ahead of key NH primary  —  President Trump said he was looking to get under Democrats' skin Monday with a rally in New Hampshire on the eve of the state's first-in-the-nation primaries, and he wasted little time …
Discussion: Cincinnati.com, Breitbart and Raw Story
Sophia Tareen / Associated Press:
Voter registration error risks deportation for immigrants  —  CHICAGO (AP) — The day Margarita Del Pilar Fitzpatrick applied for an Illinois driver's license upended her life.  When a clerk offered to register her to vote in 2005, the Peruvian citizen mistakenly accepted, leading to long legal battles and eventually deportation.
 
 
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