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6:35 PM ET, February 28, 2017

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Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg:
In Video, Uber CEO Argues With Driver Over Falling Fares  —  Travis Kalanick tells a driver to take responsibility for his problems and boasts about a tough culture.  —  by  —  When Uber Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick takes an Uber, he prefers a black car, the high-end service his company introduced in 2010.
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Holder: Obama is ‘ready to roll’  —  Barack Obama is getting closer to making his public reappearance in politics, his friend and former Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday.  —  Holder said he's been talking to the former president about ways — including fundraising and interacting …
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Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
Insane Betsy DeVos Press Release Celebrates Jim Crow Education System as Pioneer of “School Choice”  —  Donald Trump met Monday at the White House with the leaders of a number of historically black colleges and universities.  Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos commemorated the meeting …
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Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
FBI once planned to pay former British spy who authored controversial Trump dossier  —  The former British spy who authored a controversial dossier on behalf of Donald Trump's political opponents alleging ties between Trump and Russia reached an agreement with the FBI a few weeks before the election …
New York Times:
Trump Says He's Open to Legal Pathway for Undocumented Immigrants  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump, signaling a potential major shift in policy, told news anchors on Tuesday that he is open to a broad immigration overhaul that would grant legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants who have not committed serious crimes.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:   Barring Reporters From Briefings: Does It Cross a Legal Line?
The Hill:
GOP leader: Leaked ObamaCare replacement ‘no longer’ viable  —  A day after House conservatives panned a leaked GOP draft ObamaCare replacement plan, a top Republican leader on Tuesday described the proposed legislation as “no longer even a viable draft that we're working off of.”
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The ‘Kellyanne Conway on the couch’ controversy is so incredibly dumb  —  On Monday night, this photo began making the rounds on the Internet:  —  The photo, taken Monday, shows White House counselor Kellyanne Conway perched on a couch in the Oval Office as President Trump stands behind …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump may be hinting that anti-Semitic incidents are false flags.  It wouldn't be the first time.  —  President Trump seemed to suggest Tuesday that the recent bomb threats and vandalism at Jewish community centers and cemeteries across the country might be false flags, according to a Democratic attorney general who met with him.
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Facebook:
Trump Says “Sometimes It's The Reverse,” When Asked About Anti-Semitic Threats And Attacks
Inae Oh / Mother Jones:
Report: Trump Says of Anti-Semitic Crimes, “Sometimes It's the Reverse”
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Trump passes blame for Yemen raid to his generals: ‘They lost Ryan’  —  Weeks after a U.S. naval officer was killed in a covert mission in Yemen, Trump has resisted accepting responsibility for authorizing the mission and the subsequent death of Senior Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Igor Bobic / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Blames SEAL's Death On Military: ‘They Lost Ryan’  —  The buck stops with ‘them.’  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday dodged responsibility for a botched mission he ordered in Yemen last month, placing the onus on the military and Barack Obama's administration instead.
CNN:
Source: Trump would like to see compromise immigration bill  —  Official: Trump eager for immigration bill  — The President envisions a bill where those who haven't committed any serious crimes could stay in the US legally  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump is eager to pass an immigration bill …
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
Does Stephen Miller Speak for Trump?  Or Vice Versa?  —  The 31-year-old is a driving force behind the White House's policies.  —  by  —  From Subscribe Reprints  —  Stephen Miller's corner office in the West Wing of the White House is utterly barren—no pictures on the walls …
Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
GOP senator: Trump budget ‘dead on arrival’ … Sen. Lindsey Graham  —  (R-S.C.) said Tuesday that President Trump's first budget was “dead on arrival” and wouldn't make it through Congress.  —  “It's not going to happen,” said Graham, according to NBC News.  “It would be a disaster.”
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Felicia Schwartz / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Proposes Cutting State Department Budget by 37%
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The White House's Politico slime job, from start to finish  —  Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt paid a certain price for his Sunday scoop about White House press secretary Sean Spicer's treatment of his underlings in the White House communications office.  Under the headline …
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
President plans to issue new executive order restricting travel at White House Wednesday  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump plans to sign a revised executive order banning travel Wednesday, which is likely to apply only to future visa applicants from seven majority Muslim countries tabbed as terror risks …
Discussion: Political Wire and Washington Post
Michael Kruse / Politico:
'He's a Performance Artist Pretending to be a Great Manager'  —  More than 27 years before Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, Bruce Nobles, then the president of the Trump Shuttle airline, assessed with some befuddlement the business and managerial practices of his boss.
Discussion: Shakesville, Hullabaloo and Raw Story
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Nancyl / Washington Monthly:
Trump Won't Be Filling Hundreds of Agency Jobs
Veit Medick / Spiegel Online:
Meet Donald Trump's Propagandist  —  Right-wing radio host Alex Jones is America's top conspiracy theorist.  He has millions of listeners, but his most powerful one happens to be the president of the United States.  DER SPIEGEL takes you inside his media empire in Austin.  —  Photos
Yoni Appelbaum / The Atlantic:
A Note About Rumana Ahmed  —  On Monday, the Weekly Standard published an article by Lee Smith titled “Fake News, Exposed.”  It alleged that Rumana Ahmed, a former National Security Council staffer and the author of an Atlantic essay about why she left the Trump administration, had misled readers about the nature of her position.
Rasmussen Reports:
Most Say Democrats Hurt Themselves With Anti-Trump Strategy  —  Most voters agree that it's bad for America and bad for the Democratic Party if Democrats continue to flat out oppose everything President Trump does.  Even Democrats are conflicted about their party's scorched earth policy.
Discussion: Mediaite and Washington Times
Politico:
New NSC chief pushed Trump to moderate his language on terrorism  —  What words the president uses from the podium tonight will give a hint about McMaster's clout.  —  President Donald Trump's new national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, advised him in a closed-door meeting last week …
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Female engineer sues Tesla, describing a culture of ‘pervasive harassment’  —  Exclusive: AJ Vandermeyden paints picture of a hostile work environment that promoted less-qualified men and retaliated against her for raising concerns  —  A female engineer at Tesla has accused Elon Musk's car company …
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump won't embrace specific Obamacare replacement plan in speech  —  President Donald Trump will not embrace a specific plan to replace Obamacare or overhaul the country's tax code in his major speech Tuesday night, White House press secretary Sean Spicer told GOP officials …
Discussion: Political Wire
Elizabeth Weise / USA Today:
Massive Amazon cloud service outage disrupts sites  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon didn't, quite, break the Internet Tuesday but an outage of one of the main storage systems for its AWS cloud computing company caused headaches for hundreds of thousands of websites across the United States.
Neil Irwin / New York Times:
Why the Trump Agenda Is Moving Slowly: The Republicans' Wonk Gap  —  When Republicans won in November, it looked as if 2017 would reflect a major legislative shift to the right.  But two months into the 115th Congress and six weeks into the Trump administration, progress …
Erin Cox / Baltimore Sun:
Former NAACP president Ben Jealous weighs run for Maryland governor … Former NAACP chief Benjamin Jealous is “actively weighing” a campaign to be Maryland's governor.  —  Jealous said Tuesday he is in the early stages of contemplating a Democratic challenge to popular Republican Gov. Larry Hogan …
 
 
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Sarah Posner / Rolling Stone:
How the Conservative Movement Went All in for Trumpism
Patrick McGeehan / New York Times:
New York Expects Fewer Foreign Tourists, Saying Trump Is to Blame
Cory Zurowski / City Pages:
U.S. Bank Stadium is a bird killing machine
Discussion: The Guardian
Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Donald Trump Lunches with Jake Tapper, George Stephanopoulos, Chuck Todd
Garrett Pelican / Florida Times Union:
Green Cove Springs police chief resigns after racially insensitive comments
Discussion: Raw Story and Associated Press
Fox News:
Trump previews joint address to Congress, takes blame for communication issues
Associated Press:
FACEBOOK POST ON VA TREATMENT OF PATIENTS CAUSES UPROAR
Discussion: Mediaite
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Congressman won't shake hands with Trump before speech
Discussion: Townhall.com and Politico
 Earlier Items: 
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Pelosi: No ‘You lie!’ moments during Trump's speech
Discussion: ABC News and Fox News Insider
Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
House Dem forces GOP to take recorded vote on Trump tax returns
Discussion: Daily Kos and Towleroad
Daily Mail:
Oscars sensation ‘Gary from Chicago’ …
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Slow to Submit Nominations for Top Administration Posts
Discussion: Business Insider
MSNBC:
New Commerce Secretary at nexus of lucrative Trump Russian deal
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Republican governors divided on Obamacare replacement
Discussion: People.com, CBS News and TheBlaze
Kansas City Star:
Trump's silence on deadly Olathe shooting is disquieting
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Fight for Obamacare Has Turned
 

 
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