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11:30 PM ET, February 18, 2017

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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
White House dismisses NSC aide after harsh criticism of Trump  —  The White House abruptly dismissed a senior National Security Council aide on Friday after receiving reports that he had publicly laced into the president and his senior aides, including son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka …
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Flynn replacement pick dropped out over Trump's press conference: report  —  President Trump's pick to replace former national security adviser Michael Flynn turned down the position Thursday partly because of Trump's combative press conference that day, according to MSNBC's Chris Hayes.
Discussion: Politico and IJR
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Senior White House Officials Support Bolton To Replace Flynn  —  Senior White House officials and members of the National Security Council are pushing former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton as a replacement for ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn, according to multiple sources …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump and Candidates for National Security Adviser Spar Over Staffing
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Will Pence's loyalty to Trump be returned in full by the president?
Discussion: Politico and The Week
Julian E. Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
Petraeus Says National Security Adviser Should Hire Own Staff
Discussion: Mediaite and MSNBC
CBS News:
White House chief of staff says take Trump seriously when he calls press “the enemy”  —  Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, advised Americans to take President Trump's attacks on the media “seriously,” following the president's denunciations of the press as the “enemy.”
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Milo Yiannopoulos Tapped as Keynote Speaker at Conservative Political Action Conference (Exclusive)  —  The controversial figure, known as a harsh critic of Hollywood liberalism, will get more stage time at the conservative event than any other speaker, inlcuding VP Mike Pence and Sen. Ted Cruz.
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Christine Rousselle / Townhall.com:
CPAC Keynote Speaker Announced  —  It was announced on Saturday that Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos will deliver next Saturday's keynote address at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference.  Reports that he will be the keynote speaker leaked early Saturday morning on The Hollywood Reporter.
Discussion: The Guardian
Breitbart:
Breitbart senior editor MILO, also known as the “Dangerous Faggot,” …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump gets what he wants in Florida: Campaign-level adulation  —  Melbourne, Florida (CNN)President Donald Trump, after a month of arduous and, at times, turbulent governing, got what he came for Saturday during a dusk rally here: Campaign-level adulation.  —  Trump, who just months ago …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Washington Post:
Trump attempts a reset with a rally, new staff and a renewed fight with the media
Discussion: NPR
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump takes feud with press to campaign rally in Florida
Discussion: RedState, Vox and The Gateway Pundit
Joseph Menn / Reuters:
U.S. inquiries into Russian election hacking include three FBI probes  —  The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is pursuing at least three separate probes relating to alleged Russian hacking of the U.S. presidential elections, according to five current and former government officials with direct knowledge of the situation.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
New York Times:
Trump's ‘Winter White House’: A Peek at the Exclusive Members' List at Mar-a-Lago  —  On any given weekend, you might catch President Trump's son-in-law and top Mideast dealmaker, Jared Kushner, by the beachside soft-serve ice cream machine, or his reclusive chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, on the dining patio.
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Leaked Trump tape: ‘You are the special people’  —  President Donald Trump, living alone inside the White House, often hungers for friendly interaction as he adjusts to the difficult work of governance.  At his clubs, he finds what's missing.  —  That showed last November at a cocktail …
Eugene Scott / CNN:
McCain: Dictators ‘get started by suppressing free press’  —  (CNN)Sen. John McCain slammed President Donald Trump's attacks on the media this week by noting dictators “get started by suppressing free press.”  —  It was a startling observation from a sitting member of Congress against the President …
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Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
Top Democrat says Trump's calling media ‘the enemy’ is something ‘you hear tin-pot dictators say’
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Memos signed by DHS secretary describe sweeping new guidelines for deporting illegal immigrants  —  Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly has signed sweeping new guidelines that empower federal authorities to more aggressively detain and deport illegal immigrants inside the United States and at the border.
Discussion: Political Wire and CBS News
Breitbart:
MILO to Bill Maher: It's Now Breitbart Publishing the Exciting Gay Editorials  —  Breitbart senior editor MILO pointed out the fact that it's now Breitbart News who are publishing “interesting and provocative” and not the left-wing media, before arguing that free speech is now a conservative …
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Jerry Zremski / The Buffalo News:
Raucous crowds overwhelm Reed town hall meetings  —  Huge crowds of raucous progressives and quieter conservatives overwhelmed Rep. Tom Reed's town hall meeting in Ashville and Cherry Creek Saturday morning, with the progressives repeatedly interrupting and shouting down the congressman's comments …
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New York Times:
Republicans Charge Into Resistance at Tumultuous Town Halls
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
CNN host abruptly ends segment after guest makes ‘fake news’ claim  —  CNN host Don Lemon abruptly ended his show Friday night after a commentator continued to call a story they were discussing “fake news” while defending President Trump.  —  Lemon was moderating a discussion on the cost …
Discussion: RedState
Fox News:
F-15s scramble to intercept unresponsive aircraft over restricted airspace over West Palm Beach  —  Two F-15s caused a ‘sonic boom’ as they raced from their base in Homestead, Fla., Friday to intercept an unresponsive general aviation aircraft that flew near Palm Beach during a stay by President Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
Susan B. Glasser / New York Times:
Our Putin  —  Don't worry too much about whether Trump and the Russian leader are working together.  Worry about what they have in common.  —  WASHINGTON — On June 18, 2001, I attended Vladimir V. Putin's first meeting with the American news media.  We were seated at a large round table in the wood-paneled Kremlin Library.
Discussion: Business Insider
Emily Langer / Washington Post:
Norma McCorvey, Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, dies at 69  —  Norma McCorvey, who was 22, unwed, mired in addiction and poverty, and desperate for a way out of an unwanted pregnancy when she became Jane Roe, the pseudonymous plaintiff of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision …
 
 
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 More Items: 
New York Times:
Trump, an Outsider Demanding Loyalty, Struggles to Fill Top Posts
Discussion: The Guardian and The Mahablog
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Lawmakers say Trump's words matter — and hurt the country's standing abroad
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Senators Silent After Meeting With FBI Director Comey
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Hot Air
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Report: Carson ‘speechless’ after top aide fired from HUD over anti-Trump op-ed
Discussion: CNN
Fox News Insider:
Trump FL Campaign Rally Coordinator: ‘This Is His 1st Re-Election Rally’
CNN:
Tillerson presides over abrupt shakeup at State Department
Discussion: Townhall.com, TheBlaze and Daily Kos
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Ariz. sheriff ending policy of holding immigrants past release date
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Poll: Americans want Democrats to work with Trump
Discussion: RedState
 Earlier Items: 
Wtvf Web / KTNV:
Company fires 18 employees after they participated in ‘A Day Without Immigrants’
Discussion: RedState and TheBlaze
Marc Champion / Bloomberg:
Four NATO Nations Would Pick Russia to Defend Them If Threatened: Poll
Discussion: RT and Sputnik International
Emma Brown / Washington Post:
DeVos criticized teachers at D.C. school she visited — and they are not having it
Discussion: garnetnews.com, NPR and Townhall.com
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
John McCain the Republican vs. John McCain the Patriot
WNYW-TV:
Ivanka Trump brand tops Amazon Best Sellers list
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Media Matters for America:
Anti-Semites Praise Trump For Berating Jewish Reporter And Refusing To Condemn Anti-Semitism In Press Conference
Nicholas Schmidle / New Yorker:
Michael Flynn, General Chaos