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10:05 AM ET, March 6, 2017

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Axios:
Towergate: Trump's great gamble  —  I have learned that some — though definitely not all — members of President Trump's inner circle share his belief that the Obama administration tapped his Trump Tower phones in October.  And a White House official told me President Trump not only doesn't regret …
Discussion: Politico
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Reuters:
Why Trump might suspect Obama bugged Trump Tower  —  President Trump's claim that his predecessor bugged Trump Tower during the election has sent the media into fits, wondering where on earth he could've gotten such an idea.  But it's all-too-obvious why Trump would be suspicious.
Fox News:
Conway challenges Comey to release info on Trump's wiretap allegation  —  Senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway challenged FBI Director James Comey Sunday to reveal any information he might have about President Trump's allegations that former President Obama ordered the wiretapping …
Discussion: The Hill and BizPac Review
Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
WH spokeswoman doesn't think Trump accepts FBI's reported denial of alleged wiretapping
Discussion: Hot Air and The Hill
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Here's the List: More Than a Dozen Proven Victims of Obama's Many Wiretaps
Discussion: Daily Wire
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
FBI asked Justice Department to reject Trump claim: report
Brian Ross / ABC News:
With tweetstorm, Trump may have exercised exclusive declassification authority
Discussion: RedState
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Inside Trump's fury: The president rages at leaks, setbacks and accusations  —  President Trump spent the weekend at “the winter White House,” Mar-a-Lago, the secluded Florida castle where he is king.  The sun sparkles off the glistening lawn and warms the russet clay Spanish tiles …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Knives are out for Reince  —  With the White House struggling to gain its footing almost two months into Donald Trump's presidency, administration officials are increasingly putting the blame on one person: Reince Priebus.  —  In interviews, over a dozen Trump aides, allies …
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:   The Eight Power Centers Of The Trump Administration
Jana Winter / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Warned of Foreign Intel Operations After Russian Met With Team Trump at RNC  —  The day Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak mingled with Trump campaign advisers—including then-Sen. Jeff Sessions—at a conference near the Republican National Convention, the Department of Homeland Security began preparing …
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Pause This Presidency!  —  The American people must immediately demand a cessation of all consequential actions by this “president” until we can be assured that Russian efforts to hack our election, in a way that was clearly meant to help him and damage his opponent, did not also include collusion …
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Riley / Bloomberg:
Russian Hackers Said to Seek Hush Money From Liberal U.S. Groups  —  Post-election crime wave by attackers demanding bitcoins  —  Center for American Progress said to be among victims  —  Russian hackers are targeting U.S. progressive groups in a new wave of attacks …
Discussion: The Week
David Marchese / Vulture:
In Conversation: David Letterman … Since retiring after 33 years on the late night television, David Letterman has kept a low public profile — aided by the growth of a truly impressive beard.  But that doesn't mean he hasn't been as fixated on politics as the rest of us.
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
State Dept. staffers have one question: Where's Rex?  —  The State Department resumes its formal press briefing on Monday — an event that offers Secretary of State Rex Tillerson an ideal setting to assert to the world that America remains a diplomatic force and reassure his jittery employees …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Bloomberg:
Fox Anchor Heather Nauert Said to Land Spokeswoman Job at State
Adam Davidson / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Worst Deal  —  The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran's Revolutionary Guard.  —  Heydar Aliyev Prospekti, a broad avenue in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, connects the airport to the city.
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
‘We are in crisis’: Morning Joe warns president's Twitter meltdown has ‘shaken this government to the core’  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  A deadly serious Joe Scarborough lambasted President Donald Trump on Monday morning over his outrageous accusations that President Barack Obama …
ABC News:
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Discussion: Politico
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New York Times:
Trump Expected to Issue New Travel Ban Excluding Iraq on Monday
Discussion: Washington Post, Hit & Run and NBC News
Axios:
Schumer's plan to stop the wall  —  Chuck Schumer has concluded that denying President Trump his wall is perhaps the surest major defeat Democrats can hand the President in his first year.  —  Trump needs 60 Senate votes to fund construction of his “great wall” along the Southern border.
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Elana Schor / Politico:
Liberals to Senate Democrats: Step up the Gorsuch fight
Discussion: SCOTUSblog
CNN:
CNN/ORC poll: Most back special prosecutor for Russia investigation  —  Washington (CNN)About two-thirds of Americans say a special prosecutor should investigate contacts between Russians and Trump campaign associates, according to a new CNN/ORC poll, and 55% say they are at least somewhat concerned …
Discussion: The Hill, Washington Times and The Week
Paulina Neuding / Weekly Standard:
The Truth About Sweden  —  As Saul Bellow said, ‘A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep’  —  Firemen extinguish a burning car on the third straight night of riots by immigrant youths around Stockholm, May 21, 2013.
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Chertoff on Trump's ability to handle a crisis: 'I'd be guessing'  —  When I ask Michael Chertoff, the secretary of Homeland Security during President George W. Bush's second term, whether he wakes up in the morning feeling safe, given what he's seeing out of the White House …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump's charge that he was wiretapped takes presidency into new territory
Roger Kimball / American Greatness:
The Middlebury Meltdown  —  Future historians of the liberal arts in American academic life will be able to pinpoint the time and place of its death with remarkable accuracy.  The fatal blow was delivered Thursday night, March 2, at Wilson Hall, Middlebury College, Vermont.
Discussion: Power Line
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