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1:00 PM ET, February 7, 2018

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Jake Gibson / Fox News:
FBI lovers' latest text messages: Obama ‘wants to know everything’  —  Newly revealed text messages between FBI paramours Peter Strzok and Lisa Page include an exchange about preparing talking points for then-FBI Director James Comey to give to President Obama, who wanted “to know everything we're doing.”
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hsgac.senate.gov:
Chairman Johnson Releases Interim Report Including Strzok-Page FBI Text Messages  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a majority staff report Wednesday titled “The Clinton Email Scandal …
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Fox News' latest ‘bombshell’ on Clinton and the FBI is a total fraud  —  Early Wednesday, Fox News published an explosive new story alleging President Obama sought detailed briefings about the Clinton email investigation.  The report is based on texts between FBI agents Peter Strzok …
Lanny J. Davis / Kirkus Reviews:
Kirkus Review  —  The former special counsel to former President …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and twitchy.com
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
FBI texts reveal admiring view of then-director James Comey
Discussion: RedState
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Trump's ‘marching orders’ to the Pentagon: Plan a grand military parade … President Trump's vision of soldiers marching and tanks rolling down the boulevards of Washington is moving closer to reality in the Pentagon and White House, where officials say they have begun to plan …
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CNN:
Trump tells Pentagon to plan a military parade  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has asked for a military parade and the Pentagon is reviewing potential dates, Pentagon spokesman Charlie Summers said Tuesday.  —  The spokesman described the planning process as being in its “infancy.”
Rick Noack / Washington Post:
Why Trump's military parade won't be ‘like the one in France’
Discussion: Bracing Views, Mediaite and twitchy.com
Brett Samuels / The Hill:   Speier on Trump's desire for military parade: ‘We have a Napoleon in the making’
David Marchese / Vulture:
In Conversation: Quincy Jones  —  In both music and manner, Quincy Jones has always registered — from afar, anyway — as smooth, sophisticated, and impeccably well-connected.  (That's what earning 28 Grammy awards and co-producing Michael Jackson's biggest-selling albums will do.)
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
No, Trump has not been ‘contained.’ He's still as big a threat as ever.  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  Here's where we are today: President Trump's allies fear that refusing an interview with the special counsel, as his lawyers want, could trigger a destructive showdown that could go all the way to the Supreme Court.
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Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Democrats Win Special Election In Missouri District That Went Big For Trump  —  Democrats have dominated at the ballot box during Trump's time in office.  —  Democrats flipped a Missouri state House seat Tuesday, marking the 35th seat that has changed from red to blue since Donald Trump became president.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Democrats flipped a Missouri state legislature seat that Trump won by 28 points
Discussion: Politico
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:   Democrat Flips Deep-Red House Seat in Missouri
CNN:
Former CIA analysts: We can't trust Devin Nunes  —  Jeff Asher was a counterintelligence analyst for the CIA for five years.  He is currently a New Orleans-based crime analyst and consultant.  Nada Bakos is a CNN national security analyst, former CIA analyst and Templeton Fellow with Foreign Policy Research Institute.
Discussion: New York Times, Reason and New Republic
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:   The Trumping of the FBI  —  President Trump and his allies …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:   Republicans and those ‘attacks’ on the FBI
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Scheming, speculation behind scenes as Democrats push intel memo
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Meets Rosenstein About Democratic Surveillance Memo
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Russian Trolls Ran Wild On Tumblr And The Company Refuses To Say Anything About It  —  Tumblrs run by Russian trolls generated hundreds of thousands of interactions with anti-Hillary Clinton, pro-Bernie Sanders content.  —  Russian trolls posed as black activists on Tumblr and generated hundreds …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Senate budget deal would bust budget caps, raise debt limit  —  It seems increasingly likely that a debt-ceiling increase will be attached to a budget deal that Senate negotiators from both sides hope to announce as soon as today.  —  The big picture: This means DACA will likely be dealt with …
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Sara Murray / CNN:
Trump wants to talk to Mueller despite lawyers' concerns  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's lawyers have aimed to hit the brakes on a potential sit-down with Robert Mueller, but Trump remains eager to speak with the special counsel, according to his allies.  —  One person familiar …
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump allies urge compromise with Mueller
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Video Shows Trump's Beloved Hair Swept Away By Wind To Expose Scalp  —  President Donald Trump's carefully coifed hairdo suffered a setback on Friday as he boarded Air Force One on a windy day.  —  A video posted on Friday that did not surface until Tuesday shows the hair …
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The Daily Beast:
Cash for Coalition Against Trump Going Into Consultants' Pockets Instead … Omar Siddiqui couldn't make it to an August fundraiser in Beverly Hills for the Democratic Coalition Against Trump.  But he ponied up the $2,000 ticket price after the group's senior adviser, Scott Dworkin, sent him a personal invitation.
Discussion: Splinter and Eschaton
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Holder won't rule out presidential run  —  refused to rule out running for president while speaking to reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast in Washington on Wednesday.  —  “We'll see,” Holder said in response to a question about whether he could run for the White House.
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:   Democratic Group Targets All-G.O.P. States to Attack Gerrymandering
Christine Brennan / USA Today:
Openly gay figure skater Adam Rippon declined chance to speak with Vice President Pence  —  PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - Vice President Pence is set to arrive here soon to lead the official U.S. delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympic opening ceremony, a delegation that is making a strong political statement …
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong reaches deal to buy L.A. Times, San Diego Union-Tribune  —  Biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong has agreed to purchase the Los Angeles Times from its parent company Tronc, restoring local ownership and perhaps ending a turbulent period for the storied 136-year-old institution.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Los Angeles Times owner will sell paper, ending a long-troubled relationship
Gabriel Bell / Salon:
Here's what the critics are saying about “Black Panther” — it's a “masterpiece”  —  The first reviews of the Marvel film are streaming in, and they're even better than expected  —  “Black Panther,” the new Marvel film starring Chadwick Boseman, was always going to make history …
E&E News:
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Discussion: New Republic and Mediaite
Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
Are Banks Worthless?  —  Why banks?  —  Here is a hilarious paper from Juliane Begenau of Stanford and Erik Stafford of Harvard called “Do Banks Have an Edge?”  No, is their answer.  You'd be better off just passively buying Treasuries than buying the complicated mix of stuff that banks actually own:
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
David Daley / Salon:
How the Republicans rigged Congress — new documents reveal an untold story  —  Exclusive: Insider documents unveil Republicans' years-long scheme to gerrymander America and undermine democracy  —  Delegates to the 2009 Republican Legislative Campaign Committee's national meeting stayed …
 
 
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Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
Treason, Trump, and the Democrats
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Nicole Chavez / CNN:
1942, 1946: New York parades  —  Crowds of people filled …
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Tal Kopan / CNN:
Democrats confront Kelly over DACA comments in closed-door meeting
Discussion: Washington Post, The Root and Daily Kos
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump campaign releases ad calling Dem State of the Union response ‘disgraceful’
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US B-52 bomber unleashes record-setting payload
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Lauren Dezenski / Politico:
In fight against Trump, Democratic AGs take a page from GOP
Alana Goodman / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Schiff sent his staff to try and collect 'classified materials for the FBI …