memeorandum: Trump just saddled himself with a major campaign liability (Greg Sargent/Washington Post)

3:50 PM ET, February 10, 2020

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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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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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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 …

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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.

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Kurt Bardella / USA Today:
Trump retaliation: After purge, House Democrats need to unleash a tsunami of oversight

Discussion: Just Security, Washington Post and The American Independent

Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Schumer asks inspectors general to investigate whistleblower retaliation after Vindman firing

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Ezra Klein / Vox:

Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and America's politics of epiphany — Former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg during the Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa, on January 14, 2020. Scott Olson/Getty Images

CNN:

Bernie Sanders leads in final CNN New Hampshire tracking poll — (CNN)Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders holds on to his lead on the eve of New Hampshire's Democratic primary, the final CNN tracking poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center shows.

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CBS Boston:

Exclusive NH Primary Tracking Poll: Sanders First, Buttigieg Second, Surging Klobuchar Third — BOSTON (CBS) - This New Hampshire primary has been a rollercoaster ride, with one last hairpin turn in the final night of the exclusive WBZ/Boston Globe/Suffolk University tracking poll.

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NBC News:
Pay close attention to New Hampshire's independent voters

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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Did a debate actually make a difference for once?

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Mike Memoli / NBC News:
Biden, struggling in New Hampshire, looks to avoid a knock-out punch

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Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump's ‘dream scenario’ unfolds: Dem disarray ahead of 2020

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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Sanders in lead, Buttigieg slipping, Klobuchar surging in New Hampshire poll on primary eve

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NBC News:
Warren ramps up Buttigieg hits ahead of make-or-break New Hampshire vote

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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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Trump just saddled himself with a major campaign liability — President Trump is cruelly working overtime to gut health care for millions of Americans — while simultaneously demanding that we spend billions on the wasteful, useless, hateful border wall that he vowed to make Mexico pay for.

New York Times:
Trump's $4.8 Trillion Budget Would Cut Safety Net Programs and Boost Defense

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Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
Trump unveils a $4.8 trillion budget that seeks to balance the budget in 15 years

Discussion: Politico, The Daily Signal and IJR

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.

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Barbara Starr / CNN:
Over 100 US troops have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries following Iran strike

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Wall Street Journal:

Four Members of China's Military Indicted for Massive Equifax Breach — Disclosed in 2017, hack into the credit-reporting company compromised data on roughly 145 million Americans — WASHINGTON—Four members of China's military have been indicted by the U.S. government on charges of hacking …

Discussion: Raw Story

U.S. Department of Justice:
Chinese Military Personnel Charged with Computer Fraud, Economic Espionage and Wire Fraud …

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Associated Press:

Amazon wants to depose Trump over loss of military contract — WASHINGTON (AP) — Amazon wants to depose President Donald Trump over the tech company's losing bid for a $10 billion military contract. — The Pentagon awarded the cloud computing project to Microsoft in October.

Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Amazon wants to depose Trump in challenge over $10B Pentagon contract

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CNBC:
Amazon wants to depose Trump after losing $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract

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KCCI-TV:

Former Gov. Vilsack claims $150,000 Powerball prize — He never thought he would win, but it didn't stop him from playing. — Iowa Lottery officials said Monday that former Gov. Tom Vilsack has claimed a $150,000 Powerball prize Monday at Iowa Lottery headquarters in Clive.

Philip Joens / Des Moines Register: Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack wins $150,000 lottery prize

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.

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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.

CNN:

This man says he's stockpiling billions of our photos — If Hoan Ton-That is feeling the pressure, he isn't showing it. — Over the last month, fears about facial recognition technology and police surveillance have intensified, all thanks to Ton-That's startup, Clearview AI.

Gabriel Schoenfeld / USA Today:

Sanders has a bizarre radical past that Trump and Republicans would use to destroy him — Sanders has radical fringe skeletons dangling in closets without doors. He's destined to fail in a general election, perhaps in a 49-state rout. — The Iowa Democratic caucuses might have ended in fiasco …

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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.

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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:

How the Iowa Caucuses Became an Epic Fiasco for Democrats — The problems that beset the Democratic Party's first state caucus of the presidential race ran far deeper and wider than one bad app. — DES MOINES — The first signs of trouble came early. — As the smartphone app for reporting …