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11:25 AM ET, February 5, 2018

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Lawfare:
‘I Hope This Is an Instance of Fake News’: FBI Messages Show the Bureau's Real Reaction to Trump Firing James Comey  —  Then-FBI Director James Comey meets with North Dakotan state, local, and tribal leaders in 2016 (FBI)  —  When President Trump fired James Comey as FBI director last May …
Wall Street Journal:
‘Dreamer’ Talks Aim to End Budget Impasse  —  Republican Sen. John McCain, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons say they will propose path to citizenship for DACA participants, but no wall  —  WASHINGTON—Congress is expected this week to pass yet another short-term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown …
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
McCain, Coons to introduce new immigration bill that omits wall funding: report
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
New bipartisan immigration plan to be introduced in the Senate
Discussion: Axios and NBC News
Bryan Bender / Politico:
Exclusive: Massive Pentagon agency lost track of hundreds of millions of dollars  —  One of the Pentagon's largest agencies can't account for hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of spending, a leading accounting firm says in an internal audit obtained by POLITICO that arrives …
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Jack Heretik / Washington Free Beacon:
Pentagon Agency Can't Account for Over $800 Million in Expenses
Discussion: Political Wire
Daniel Lippman / Politico:   EAGLES WIN: Is Philly still standing? …
Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Think California politics is on the far-left fringe?  Just wait for the next elections. … SACRAMENTO — For those who think California politics is on the far-left fringe of the national spectrum, stand by.  The next election season, already well underway here, will showcase a younger generation …
CNN:
Super Bowl anti-terrorism documents left on plane  —  (CNN)The Department of Homeland Security documents critiquing the response to a simulated anthrax attack on Super Bowl Sunday were marked “For Official Use Only” and “important for national security.”  —  Recipients of the draft …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Michael B. Mukasey / Wall Street Journal:
The Memo and the Mueller Probe  —  If the investigation arose from partisan opposition research, what specific crime is he looking into?  —  The memo released Friday by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence was the product of necessity, not choice.
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump calls Schiff ‘one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington’
Discussion: Washington Post, Axios and The Week
Patrick Rucker / Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice - sources  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mick Mulvaney, head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has pulled back from a full-scale probe of how Equifax Inc failed to protect the personal data of millions of consumers …
Discussion: New Republic and Axios
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
‘The Hairs Really Went Up on the Back of Our Necks’  —  By the summer of 2016, Victoria Nuland's “Spidey sense” told her something was very wrong.  —  That spring, Nuland, the top State Department official charged with overseeing U.S. policy toward Russia, was one of those who had …
Timothy Meads / Townhall.com:
Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Almost Every Talk Show Host Is Liberal’ Because ‘It Requires a Certain Level of Intelligence’  —  Jimmy Kimmel made an appearance over the weekend with former Barack Obama speech-writer, Jon Favreau, on a panel discussion for Favreau's podcast “Pod Save America.”
Sun-Sentinel:
President Trump heads back to D.C. after Super Bowl party  —  Staff and wire reports  —  President Donald Trump and his wife, first lady Melania Trump, hosted a Super Bowl watch party Sunday night at the Trump International Golf Club near West Palm Beach.  —  They were met by the Florida …
Discussion: thecut
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The Intercept:
Global Shipping Business Tied to Mitch McConnell, Secretary Elaine Chao Shrouded in Offshore Tax Haven  —  On June 6, 2016, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell joined his wife, Elaine Chao, now the U.S. secretary of transportation, at a ceremony on the Harvard Business School campus to dedicate …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
The cult of Trump  —  Rarely has a president changed his party as fast and profoundly as Donald J. Trump.  Love him or hate him, you can no longer argue his ability to bend an entire party to his will.  —  In the two and a half years since he announced his candidacy, he has moved the party away …
Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Las Vegas Review-Journal killed story in 1998 about Steve Wynn sex misconduct claims  —  Cocktail waitresses at The Mirage sued over sexual discrimination in the 1990's.  Jim Laurie Las Vegas Review-Journal  —  A 1998 fax.  —  The Mirage in Las Vegas on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018.
Discussion: The Week
Karla Adam / Washington Post:
Trump thought the British were protesting their health service.  They weren't. … LONDON — President Trump took a swing at Britain's beloved national health service on Monday, tweeting that Britons were taking to the streets because their universal health-care system was running out of money and not working.
Jonathan Rauch / The Atlantic:
Boycott the Republican Party  —  A few days after the Democratic electoral sweep this past November in Virginia, New Jersey, and elsewhere, The Washington Post asked a random Virginia man to explain his vote.  The man, a marketing executive named Toren Beasley, replied that his calculus was simply to refuse to calculate.
Chicago Sun Times:
Holocaust denier poised to claim GOP nomination in Illinois race for Congress  —  Sign-Up for our Newsletter  —  Arthur Jones — an outspoken Holocaust denier, activist anti-Semite and white supremacist — is poised to become the Republican nominee for an Illinois congressional seat representing parts of Chicago and nearby suburbs.
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Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story:
Ex-American Nazi Party leader runs unopposed for Republican congressional primary in Illinois
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Panic time: Democratic cash swamps House Republicans  —  Is it time for Republicans to start freaking out?  —  More than 40 House Republican incumbents were outraised in the final quarter of 2017 by one — or several — of their Democratic opponents, according to the latest round of fundraising numbers.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Catharine A. MacKinnon / New York Times:
MeToo Has Done What the Law Could Not  —  The #MeToo movement is accomplishing what sexual harassment law to date has not.  —  This mass mobilization against sexual abuse, through an unprecedented wave of speaking out in conventional and social media, is eroding the two biggest barriers …
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
A chemistry professor got his kids ready for school.  Then ICE arrested him on his front lawn. … On a recent Wednesday morning, Syed Ahmed Jamal was getting ready to take his daughter to school when he was stopped outside his home in Lawrence, Kan.  —  Officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement were on his front lawn.
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Constitutional Crisis in Slow Motion  —  Donald Trump will destroy this entire country — its institutions and its safeguards, the rule of law and the customs of civility, the concept of truth and the inviolable nature of valor — to protect his own skin.  —  We are not dealing with a normal person here, let alone a normal president.
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Congress weighs leaving Dreamers in limbo another year  —  Congress may just end up punting on its Dreamer dilemma.  —  As lawmakers grasp for a solution for the young undocumented immigrants, one option is a temporary extension — perhaps one year — of their legal protections paired with a little bit of cash for border security.
Discussion: The Week and Splinter
Justin L. Mack / Indianapolis Star:
Driver accused of killing Colts player Edwin Jackson is undocumented immigrant, has been deported twice  —  Police have confirmed that the driver who is held in the death of Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson and Uber driver Jeffrey Monroe was an undocumented immigrant who used …
 
 
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
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Katie Roiphe / Harper's:
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Rep. Adam Schiff / Esquire:
Memo to the Public: The President Wants to Make the FBI His Instrument
Discussion: CNN and KTLA
Wall Street Journal:
Pennsylvania Congressional Map Faces Supreme Court Call
Discussion: Washington Post and SCOTUSblog
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Dow futures shed 300 points as stocks resume Friday's ugly sell-off
Discussion: The Week
Jonathan Shorman / Wichita Eagle:
Kobach will represent himself in upcoming trial. Is it a smart move?
New York Times:
To Counter Russia, U.S. Signals Nuclear Arms Are Back in a Big Way
Katie Benner / New York Times:
Sessions Silent as Trump Attacks His Department, Risking Independence and Morale
Discussion: Raw Story