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9:05 AM ET, February 19, 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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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Gen. Barry McCaffrey: Trump can't find a Flynn replacement because no one wants to ‘risk their career’  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Appearing on MSNBC, retired Gen. Barry McCaffery said the Trump administration is having difficulties replacing ousted National Security Adviser Mike Flynn …
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:   Senior White House Officials Support Bolton To Replace Flynn
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Flynn replacement pick dropped out over Trump's press conference: report
Discussion: Politico and IJR
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.
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New York Times:
Breaking the Anti-Immigrant Fever  —  Americans have been watching the Trump administration unfold for almost a month now, in all its malevolent incompetence.  From morning tweets to daytime news to late-night comedy, many watch and fret and mock, and then sleep, sometimes fitfully.
Discussion: Snopes.com
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.”
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
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Breitbart:
Breitbart senior editor MILO, also known as the “Dangerous Faggot,” …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
'That's how dictators get started': McCain criticizes Trump for calling media ‘the enemy’ … Sen. John McCain spoke out Saturday in defense of the free press after President Trump lashed out against the news media several times over the past week, at one point declaring it “the enemy of the American People!”
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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 …
Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
Top Democrat says Trump's calling media ‘the enemy’ is something ‘you hear tin-pot dictators say’
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump takes feud with press to campaign rally in Florida  —  MELBOURNE, Fla. - President Trump took his feud with the press to his first major campaign rally in a steamy airplane hangar outside of Orlando, Fla., on Saturday, vowing to achieve his legislative agenda despite the “lies …
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump gets what he wants in Florida: Campaign-level adulation
Washington Post:
Trump attempts a reset with a rally, new staff and a renewed fight with the media
Discussion: NPR
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
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.
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:   Lawmakers say Trump's words matter — and hurt the country's standing abroad
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Are Liberals Helping Trump?  —  Jeffrey Medford, a small-business owner in South Carolina, voted reluctantly for Donald Trump.  As a conservative, he felt the need to choose the Republican.  But some things are making him feel uncomfortable — parts of Mr. Trump's travel ban, for example …
David Chazan / Telegraph:
Workmen's cafe overwhelmed with customers after it is accidentally awarded a Michelin star  —  A workmen's café in central France was overwhelmed with gourmet customers and TV crews after it was awarded a Michelin star — by mistake, it later turned out.
The Guardian:
Chaos in the White House: 'There's never been anything like this'  —  After the fastest, most furious week yet for the Trump administration, America's elder statesmen say they have never seen such turmoil or ineptitude  —  hen press officers at the White House glance up from their desks …
Discussion: The Mahablog
George Takei / CNN:
On this Remembrance Day, I hear terrible echoes of the past  — George Takei recalls his family being taken by soldiers from their home in LA and forced to live in an internment camp in 1942  — Sunday is the 75th anniversary of FDR executive order that allowed this discrimination against Japanese-Americans, he says
Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
After 8 Years of Campaigner-in-Chief Obama, NPR Accuses Trump of ‘Permanent Campaign’  —  After eight years of Barack Obama putting his office into permanent campaign mode while keeping his campaign machinery in constant operation, NPR is accusing Donald J. Trump of waging a “permanent campaign.”
New York Times:
Trump, an Outsider Demanding Loyalty, Struggles to Fill Top Posts  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — During President Trump's transition to power, his team reached out to Elliott Abrams for help building a new administration.  Mr. Abrams, a seasoned Republican foreign policy official …
 
 
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Thomas Escritt / Reuters:
Wilders at Dutch campaign launch vows to crack down on ‘Moroccan scum’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
German defense chief hits Trump attitudes on torture, Russia and Muslims
Discussion: Power Line and Booman Tribune
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Scott Pruitt's Back-to-Basics Agenda for the EPA
Breitbart:
MILO to Bill Maher: It's Now Breitbart Publishing the Exciting Gay Editorials
Fox News:
F-15s scramble to intercept unresponsive aircraft over restricted airspace over West Palm Beach
Discussion: The Last Tradition
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Report: Carson ‘speechless’ after top aide fired from HUD over anti-Trump op-ed
Discussion: CNN
 Earlier Items: 
Fox News Insider:
Trump FL Campaign Rally Coordinator: ‘This Is His 1st Re-Election Rally’
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
CNN host abruptly ends segment after guest makes ‘fake news’ claim
Discussion: RedState
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Poll: Americans want Democrats to work with Trump
Discussion: RedState
Wtvf Web / KTNV:
Company fires 18 employees after they participated in ‘A Day Without Immigrants’
Discussion: TheBlaze and RedState
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Will Pence's loyalty to Trump be returned in full by the president?
Discussion: Politico and The Week