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8:20 AM ET, February 7, 2018

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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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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Trump's Parade: Greatest Troll Ever?  —  What a great headline: Trump's ‘marching orders’ to the Pentagon: Plan a grand military parade.  It is almost too good to be true: … President Trump has a unique ability to make liberal heads explode.  You can see this one coming …
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:   The military parade that Trump envisions was more common in another era
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Meets Rosenstein About Democratic Surveillance Memo  —  White House must decide whether to allow release of rebuttal to GOP document  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump met Tuesday with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to discuss a classified Democratic memo rebutting GOP allegations …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Devin Nunes' Trumpian media strategy  —  “You know the rules,” U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes told reporters on Monday, “we don't talk about committee business.”  —  But Nunes does talk about his work — with hand-picked interviewers from President Trump's favorite media outlets.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Scheming, speculation behind scenes as Democrats push intel memo
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
CNN:
House GOP gives Trump leeway over whether to block Schiff memo
Discussion: New Republic and RedState
Fox News:
Dems set Trump trap? Source says FISA rebuttal memo loaded with sensitive details
Discussion: bizpacreview.com
Washington Post:
Speak up, Paul Ryan
Discussion: Daily Kos and Shareblue Media
Alana Goodman / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Schiff sent his staff to try and collect ‘classified materials for the FBI’ after Russian pranksters told him Putin has NAKED blackmail pictures of Trump  — Adam Schiff, the ranking Democratic member of the House Intel Committee was recorded speaking to Russian pranksters who spun elaborate ‘kompromat’ tale
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Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Schiff apparently pranked by Russian radio hosts who promised ‘naked Trump’ photos
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC:
Steve Wynn is out as CEO of Wynn Resorts  — In a January report, the Wall Street Journal detailed allegations of decades of sexual misconduct by the gambling mogul.  — Wynn had earlier stepped down from his post as the Republican National Committee's finance chief.
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Mike James / USA Today:
Casino tycoon Steve Wynn resigns, citing ‘avalanche’ of bad publicity amid sex misconduct claims
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Los Angeles Times owner will sell paper, ending a long-troubled relationship … The Chicago-based owner of the Los Angeles Times is expected to announce it is selling the newspaper, according to people familiar with the company's plans, in a surprise move that likely spells the end …
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Biden: Trump should avoid Mueller interview, has ‘difficulty with precision’  —  Washington (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that if he were one of President Donald Trump's attorneys, he would suggest Trump not consent to a special counsel interview for fear of being caught misleading investigators.
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Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
Even Trump's Lawyers Are Worried He'll Lie to Mueller  —  Members of Trump's legal team are concerned the president could perjure himself if he speaks to the special prosecutor.  —  Asked more than a decade ago whether he had ever lied in public statements about his real-estate properties, Donald Trump gave a prophetic answer.
Associated Press:
Pence says US to unveil ‘toughest’ sanctions on N. Korea  —  Vice President Mike Pence said the U.S. is preparing to announce the “toughest and most aggressive” economic sanctions against North Korea in the coming days, boosting pressure on the bellicose government during the Winter Olympics.
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Yonhap News Agency:   (LEAD) N.K. to send leader Kim Jong-un's sister to S. Korea this week
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
North Korea to face harshest U.S. sanctions ever, Pence vows
Henry C. Jackson / Politico:
Trump After Dark: Shutdown Maybe Shutdown edition  —  Congress is on the verge of a budget deal.  President Donald Trump is implying he'd be happy to shut it all down if he doesn't get his way.  —  The House passed another stopgap funding bill that could avert a government shutdown …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and ABC News
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“He Wants a Killer”: Post-Bannon, Post-Nunes, Post-Kelly Friction, a Frustrated Trump Searches for a West Wing Reset  —  He pines for old campaign hands Jason Miller, Corey Lewandowski, and David Bossie—but will Ivanka have the final say?  —  After the much-hyped Nunes memo failed to deliver …
Discussion: Raw Story, AOL and Mediaite
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Ben Carson, or the tale of the disappearing Cabinet secretary … It was Christmastime in Washington, and Ben Carson couldn't stop talking about the apocalypse.  —  “Did you know,” the secretary of housing and urban development asked his acting chief of staff, Deana Bass …
Lanny J. Davis / Kirkus Reviews:
Kirkus Review  —  The former special counsel to former President Bill Clinton takes on the 2016 election and James Comey's effect on the outcome.  —  According to Davis (Close-Up: Twelve Months at Yale, 2017, etc.), the negative effect is indisputable, and he has the data …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and twitchy.com
New York Times:
As Trump Wavers on Libya, an ISIS Haven, Russia Presses On  —  Last March, the Pentagon's top general for Africa made a rare trip to Capitol Hill, bearing a sobering double-barreled warning.  —  “The instability in Libya and North Africa may be the most significant near-term threat to U.S …
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Rick Gladstone / New York Times:   Iran Returns Ailing U.S. Citizen to Prison in New Sign of Tension
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
The Cowboys rule a lot of land, but they're not unambiguously “America's Team.”  —  The New York Times called the baseball version of the map “unprecedented,” arguing that, for questions like this, there's no superior data set: “Fans may not list which team they favor on the census …
Bianca Padró Ocasio / Orlando Sentinel:
Rat infestation spoils food, donated supplies never sent to Puerto Rico  —  A rat infestation closed down a government office in Kissimmee that was storing donations destined for Puerto Rico, contaminating boxes of supplies that were never sent to the island.
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New York Times:
FEMA Contract Called for 30 Million Meals for Puerto Ricans. 50,000 Were Delivered.
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Democratic Group Targets All-G.O.P. States to Attack Gerrymandering  —  A Democratic group backed by former President Barack Obama intends to pour millions of dollars into an eclectic array of elections in a dozen states, in an effort to block Republicans from single-handedly drawing congressional maps …
Discussion: Political Wire
Lauren Dezenski / Politico:
In fight against Trump, Democratic AGs take a page from GOP  —  BOSTON — One year into the Trump presidency, the nation's 22 Democratic state attorneys general — including ambitious up-and-comers like New York's Eric Schneiderman, California's Xavier Becerra and Massachusetts' Maura Healey …
Discussion: Political Wire
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Gowdy implies Clinton friend Blumenthal fed information to Steele  —  Rep. Trey Gowdy implied Tuesday that information provided by longtime Clinton friend Sidney Blumenthal was used by former British spy Christopher Steele.  —  During an interview on Fox News' “The Story,” …
Jason Zengerle / New York Times:
The Happy Martyrdom of Carter Page  —  On Monday night, Carter Page was finally ready for his Fox News close-up.  It had been nearly a year since he began his one-man public-relations offensive to rebut accusations that, as a Trump campaign adviser, he colluded with Russia.
Discussion: RedState, Lawfare and Washington Post
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Inside Biden's 2018 — and possibly 2020 — plans  —  Joe Biden has started recruiting top donors for his PAC's finance committee — but some of them are resisting signing on, wary that he'll decide again not to pull the trigger on a presidential bid and that their money might be better spent elsewhere.
Discussion: Political Wire
Reena Flores / Politico:
Meghan McCain believes Trump won't mock her father  —  President Donald Trump won't be trashing Sen. John McCain anytime soon.  —  After months of criticizing the war veteran over his stance on a GOP health bill and more, the president called the Arizona Republican's daughter Meghan in the fall …
Discussion: Axios, Raw Story and Mediaite
 
 
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
‘It will be an intraparty war’  —  Nancy Pelosi is betting everything …
Discussion: ABC News
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
House passes bill to ease menu labeling rules under ObamaCare
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Fox News:
Russians already meddling in US midterms, Tillerson says
Discussion: New York Post and NBC News
David Caplan / ABC News:
Trump Jr. on charges his father is racist: 'All the rappers, all his African-American friends …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
 Earlier Items: 
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Adam SchefterESPN Senior / ESPN:
Josh McDaniels changes mind, jilting Colts to stay with Pats
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jason Noble / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Kim Reynolds leads all Democratic challengers in 2018 race for governor
Washington Post:
Hero or hired gun? How a British former spy became a flash point in the Russia investigation.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Federalist
Amber Jamieson / BuzzFeed:
Performers And Staffers At “Sleep No More” Say Audience Members Have Sexually Assaulted Them
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Jezebel
Washington Post:
Trump immigration plan could keep whites in U.S. majority for up to five more years