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2:05 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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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Fox News' latest ‘bombshell’ on Obama 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 …
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 …
Discussion: NewsBusters
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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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Speier on Trump's desire for military parade: ‘We have a Napoleon in the making’
Discussion: Breitbart
The Intercept:
Former Wives of Top White House Aide Rob Porter Both Told FBI He Abused Them  —  As the FBI conducted a background check on an incoming senior White House official last year, the bureau learned of the man's history of domestic abuse.  Rob Porter, a top aide to President Donald Trump …
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: ANOTHER ex-wife of Trump aide Rob Porter - who is dating Hope Hicks - tells DailyMail.com he choked, punched and belittled her about her weight her during their five-year marriage  — Colbie Holderness, 37, a senior analyst for the U.S. government and the first wife of Rob Porter …
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:   Senior White House official to resign following allegations of abuse
Daily Mail:   Hope Hicks, 29, was spotted stepping out of her D.C. apartment with White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter ten days ago
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.)
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Democrats flipped a Missouri state legislature seat that Trump won by 28 points  —  Special elections are painting a bleak outlook for the GOP.  —  Democrats had another good Tuesday night of special elections, this time in Missouri, where Mike Revis won a 3-point victory in House District 97 …
Discussion: Politico
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Jack Suntrup / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Democrats snag Missouri House seat, Republicans hang onto 3 others in special election
Discussion: Splinter and Political Wire
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:   Democrat Flips Deep-Red House Seat in Missouri
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump's Hair Illusion Came Undone and We All Missed It  —  Last Friday, at the end of one of those frenetic weeks of news that now happen every week, President Trump boarded Air Force One.  The wind whipped across the tarmac with unusual force.  Trump, who normally has a MAGA hat for such occasions, was unusually unprepared.
Discussion: The Sun, The Root and theGrio
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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 …
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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CNN:
Former CIA analysts: We can't trust Devin Nunes
Discussion: New York Times and New Republic
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Trumping of the FBI  —  President Trump and his allies …
Discussion: Reason
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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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Left seethes as Senate nears budget deal
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 …
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
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
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 …
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 …
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: CNN, bizpacreview.com and Raw Story
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E&E News:
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Discussion: New Republic and Mediaite
Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
Treason, Trump, and the Democrats  —  RESPONSE TO...  TRUMP AND THE T-WORD  —  My piece on Trump's “treasonous” comments and the many examples of Democrats doing something similar over the past decade kicked up a lot of responses, some thoughtful like Jonah's, and many more reflexively partisan.
Discussion: bizpacreview.com
Sarah Aswell / Splitsider:
How Facebook Is Killing Comedy  —  Last month, in its second round of layoffs in as many years, comedy hub Funny or Die reportedly eliminated its entire editorial team following a trend of comedy websites scaling back, shutting down, or restructuring their business model away from original online content.
 
 
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Lanny J. Davis / Kirkus Reviews:
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