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2:50 PM ET, February 9, 2021

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Washington Post:
Trump's lawyers say he was immediately ‘horrified’ by the Capitol attack.  Here's what his allies and aides said really happened that day.  —  President Donald Trump was “horrified” when violence broke out at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, as a joint session of Congress convened to confirm …
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Politico:
Trump plans a reemergence and some retribution after impeachment  —  Three weeks ago may have been the nadir of Donald Trump's political influence.  A meager crowd of supporters gathered to send him off to Florida, he'd lost access to Twitter and the Senate's most powerful Republican …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump compares impeachment to ‘The Apprentice’  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  As Republicans get ready to beat back a DONALD TRUMP impeachment conviction for the second time, sources close to the former president say he's already imagining his comeback.
Adam Kinzinger / Washington Post:
My fellow Republicans, convicting Trump is necessary to save America  —  Adam Kinzinger, a Republican, represents Illinois's 16th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.  —  Winston Churchill famously said, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”
Politico:
‘They could have killed all of us’: Trump trial opens with gripping footage of Capitol violence  —  House Democrats opened their case Tuesday to convict Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection with a montage of harrowing scenes of violence wrought by the former president's supporters during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
Brian Naylor / NPR:
House Managers To Present New Evidence At Trump Impeachment Trial
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump incited Capitol riot further after it began, impeachment prosecutors will claim
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Live updates: Day 1 of Trump's second impeachment trial
Discussion: Politico, IJR and Vanity Fair
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Graham threatens to call Democrats as witnesses during impeachment trial
Discussion: Politico, Raw Story and RedState
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's trial set to rock Washington and echo through the ages
Norimitsu Onishi / New York Times:
‘Woke’ American Ideas Are a Threat, French Leaders Say  —  Politicians and prominent intellectuals say social theories from the United States on race, gender and post-colonialism are a threat to French identity and the French republic.  —  PARIS — The threat is said to be existential.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
CNN:
DOJ asks Trump-appointed US attorneys to resign  —  (CNN)The Justice Department on Tuesday asked US attorneys appointed by former President Donald Trump to submit their resignations, a turnover that spares two top prosecutors in Delaware and Connecticut overseeing two sensitive Trump-era investigations.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Partner Exploring Ways to End Relationship With Ex-President's Company  —  Vornado considers step after efforts to sell, refinance office towers misfired, possibly due to Trump stake  —  One of the nation's biggest real-estate investors, which is run by a longtime friend of Donald Trump …
New York Times:
Fox Files Motion to Dismiss Smartmatic's $2.7 Billion Defamation Suit  —  In a court filing, Rupert Murdoch's media company says it had the right to broadcast the debunked claims of election fraud promoted by President Donald Trump's legal team on Fox News and Fox Business.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Fox's effort to clean up its post-election misinformation is not terribly convincing
Discussion: Politico, Bloomberg and CNBC
American Greatness:
What Happened to Officer Brian Sicknick?  —  No one should discount the idea that Democrats and the news media would intentionally promote a totally fabricated story to destroy Donald Trump and vilify his supporters.  —  The claim is so pervasive as not to be questioned …
Discussion: The Hill
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Connie Hanzhang Jin / NPR:   The Capitol Siege: The Arrested And Their Stories
ABC News:
Pilot disorientation, flight rule violations blamed for crash that killed Kobe Bryant: NTSB  —  They were headed to a basketball game when the chopper crashed into a hillside.  —  Investigation into helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant  —  The National Transportation Safety Board …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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New York Times:
‘Its Own Domestic Army’: How the G.O.P. Allied Itself With Militants  —  Actions taken by paramilitary groups in Michigan last year, emboldened by President Donald J. Trump, signaled a profound shift in Republican politics and a national crisis in the making.
Discussion: Raw Story
Lauren Oyler / New York Times:
The Case for Semicolons  —  There are very few opportunities in life to have it both ways; semicolons are the rare instance in which you can; there is absolutely no downside.  —  For several years I have returned, frequently, to a vague memory of reading an article in which a woman recommended eating dessert after every meal.
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
Lincoln Project's avowed ignorance of Weaver texts undercut by leaked communications  —  The Lincoln Project's leaders, amid the unfolding scandal of co-founder John Weaver soliciting sexual favors from young men, have asserted they were unaware of his indiscretions until last month …
Discussion: Twitchy
Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
Hold Them All Accountable  —  The people who stormed the Capitol are facing the music.  It's up to us to make sure that the people who incited them do, too.  —  “Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?
Melissa Nann Burke / Detroit News:
Rep. Meijer avoids censure after GOP committee deadlock  —  GOP U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer avoided censure by Republican leaders in his west Michigan district after they deadlocked 11-11 Monday night, causing the censure resolution to fail.  —  Meijer, who represents the Grand Rapids area …
Discussion: The Hill, CNN, Deseret News and The 19th
Jack Evans / Tampa Bay Times:
Someone tried to poison Oldsmar's water supply during hack, sheriff says  —  Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said the attacker tried to raise levels of sodium hydroxide, also known as lye, by a factor of more than 100.  —  Local and federal authorities are investigating after an attempt Friday …
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Piers Morgan Hammers Sarah Palin for Refusing to Say Election Was Fair in Trainwreck Debate: 'You're Sounding Totally Bonkers!'  —  Former Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin is still trying to push claims that there were “shenanigans” in the 2020 election, while not acknowledging it was contested fairly.
Discussion: The Hill, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
White House confirms Biden will keep embassy in Jerusalem  —  The White House confirmed Tuesday that President Joe Biden intends to keep the U.S. embassy to Israel in Jerusalem, where it was relocated during the Trump administration.  The issue of where to locate the embassy has been a fixture …
Discussion: CNN
C-SPAN.org:
User Clip: House impeachment managers' opening video  —  Video presented by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D) of the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
Discussion: Insider
Richard Ruelas / Arizona Republic:
Jake Angeli, who wore a fur hat with horns while raiding U.S. Capitol, apologizes  —  The Phoenix man who took part in the Jan. 6 raid on the U.S. Capitol wearing a fur hat with horns, apologized on Monday for entering the building and expressed disappointment in former President Donald Trump, at whose behest he had traveled to D.C.
Discussion: Fox News and Raw Story
Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
This New York Times profile on Kamala Harris is why the media so often earn the ‘fake news’ title  —  Reporters in Washington to this day act like they've just come out of a war zone because former President Donald Trump called them “fake news.”  It escapes them that they might have earned the title.
Carlos Greer / Page Six:
CNN's Van Jones felt ‘ambushed’ by hosts of ‘The View’  —  CNN pundit Van Jones did not get the warm welcome he was expecting when he appeared on ABC's “The View” last Friday.  —  “He felt like they were rude, and he was completely blindsided by how they questioned him.  He was not happy about how the interview went.
Discussion: The Hill, TheGrio and National Review
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Republicans came within 90,000 votes of controlling all of Washington  —  The 2020 election was bad for Republicans, full stop.  For the first time since 1932, a president came into office with both chambers of Congress under his party's control, and lost both of them and reelection.
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
The debate over whether Senate can hear Trump's impeachment: an explainer  —  “This is not a trial of a president, but of a private citizen. ...  This proceeding ... violates the Constitution.”  — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), in remarks on the Senate floor, Jan. 26, 2021
Mark Preston / CNN:
CNN to host town hall with President Joe Biden  —  (CNN)Less than one month after taking office, President Joe Biden will participate in a CNN town hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, answering questions from Americans as the nation struggles to contain the coronavirus pandemic and jumpstart a troubled economy.
 
 
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Richard Read / Los Angeles Times:
Ammon Bundy, veteran of armed standoffs, builds militia network on COVID backlash
Josh Siegel / Washington Examiner:
Manchin pushes Biden to reverse Keystone XL pipeline rejection
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: NRSC raised $8.3 million in January
Discussion: Townhall and NRSC
Financial Times:
Senior Fed official shrugs off inflation risks from stimulus plan
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Democratic lawmakers push FDA to lift restrictions on abortion pill
Discussion: National Review
Bettina Makalintal / VICE:
Asian Americans Are Calling on Allies in Response to a Wave of Violence
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New York Times:
How Biden United a Fractious Party Under One Tent
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 Earlier Items: 
Jeff Stein / The Daily Beast:
The Intelligence Community's Massive January 6 Failure
Discussion: Raw Story, SpyTalk and New York Post
John Bowden / The Hill:
Germany, Poland and Sweden expel Russian officials in diplomatic tit-for-tat
Discussion: The Guardian and HotAir