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12:45 AM ET, February 9, 2018

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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“He Was F—ing Pissed”: With Rob Porter Gone, the Heat on John Kelly Is Increasing  —  Trump is not happy with the chaos; Jared and Ivanka are trying to right the ship; and even Hope Hicks, one of the president's closest confidants, is in trouble.  —  A day after White House Staff Secretary …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump White House Fingered Corey Lewandowski in Rob Porter ‘Smear Campaign’ … Late Tuesday night, senior White House officials reached out to Sen. Orrin Hatch's (R-UT) office with an urgent request.  They needed the Utah Republican to put together a statement praising his former chief …
Washington Post:
Top White House officials knew of abuse allegations against top aide for months  —  White House Counsel Donald McGahn knew one year ago that Staff Secretary Rob Porter's ex-wives accused him of domestic violence but allowed him to serve as an influential gatekeeper and aide to President Trump …
MJ Lee / CNN:
Email to FBI: Porter's friend ‘actively working to quell’ background check issues  —  White House aide's ex-wife details alleged abuse  —  Washington (CNN)The current husband of one of Rob Porter's ex-wives emailed the FBI last January expressing concern that a close friend …
New York Times:
Unwelcome Attention for John Kelly, the Man Enlisted to Bring Calm  —  WASHINGTON — Among the many people agitated this week over John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, was President Trump.  And among the people the president called to express dissatisfaction, according to those close to him …
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Kelly knew before abuse reports that Porter would be denied security clearance  —  White House chief of staff John Kelly was told several weeks ago that the FBI would deny full security clearances to multiple White House aides who had been working in the West Wing on interim security clearances.
Discussion: Associated Press
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The ‘family values’ crowd is mute on Rob Porter
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Rob Porter scandal: Everywhere but Fox News
Fox News Insider:   Jonah Goldberg: John Kelly's Initial Defense of Rob Porter Indicative of ‘Bunker Mentality’ at WH
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Hope Hicks, elusive Trump aide, in the spotlight amid Rob Porter scandal
Discussion: Business Insider
Associated Press:
Used to scuffles, Rand Paul takes on Senate, risks shutdown  —  The last time Sen. Rand Paul was in the news for a scuffle, it involved a neighbor who allegedly tackled him in his yard over a lawn dispute.  Thursday night, the Kentucky Republican took on the entire U.S. Senate …
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Congress stumbles into second shutdown  —  Washington stumbled into another federal government shutdown at midnight Thursday, after GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky refused to allow a vote on a bipartisan budget deal before the funding deadline.  —  It's the second shutdown in three weeks.
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
The dumbest shutdown ever
Discussion: The Week
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Rand's latest stand puts government on brink of shutdown
Discussion: CNBC, VICE News and The Week
Reuters:
Fiscal hawk Paul slows budget deal, shutdown looms
Discussion: CNN and Splinter
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:   The U.S. Government Will Shut Down (and May Reopen) While You Sleep
Ed Henry / Fox News:
Democratic Sen. Mark Warner texted with Russian oligarch lobbyist in effort to contact dossier author Christopher Steele  —  EXCLUSIVE - Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee who has been leading a congressional investigation into President Trump's alleged ties to Russia …
CBS News:
House Intel Republicans plan to wall off their aides from Democratic staffers  —  In a sign of increasing partisan hostilities, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee plan to construct a wall - a physical partition - separating Republican and Democratic staff members in the committee's secure spaces …
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CNN:
Clash with witness shows Nunes' drive to discredit dossier  —  Nunes' hometown split on FBI memo controversy  —  Washington (CNN)Last month, an attorney expressed his outrage with leaders of the House Intelligence Committee: He demanded to know why a committee official shared …
David Ovalle / miamiherald:
Bad info from Spirit Air led me to flush pet hamster down airport toilet, student says  —  Before Belen Aldecosea flew home from from college to South Florida, she twice called Spirit Airlines to ensure she could bring along a special guest: Pebbles, her pet dwarf hamster.  No problem, the airline told her.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
FBI surveillance of Carter Page might have picked up Bannon  —  The FBI was monitoring Carter Page when the former Trump campaign adviser says he spoke with Trump adviser Steve Bannon about Russia in January 2017, raising the strong possibility that the FBI intercepted a conversation between the two men.
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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:   Republicans Won't Say if Spying on Carter Page Was Wrong
Carla Marinucci / Politico:
MeToo movement lawmaker investigated for sexual misconduct allegations  —  SAN FRANCISCO — California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia — whose high-profile advocacy of the #MeToo movement earned her national media notice — is herself the subject of a state legislative investigation in the wake …
Hollywood Reporter:
Jill Messick's Family Issues Blistering Statement on Harvey Weinstein and Rose McGowan  —  “Seeing her name in headlines again and again, as part of one person's attempt to gain more attention for her personal cause, along with Harvey's desperate attempt to vindicate himself, was devastating for her,” the family said.
Hannah Levintova / Mother Jones:
Russian Activist Alleges New Link Between the Kremlin and Paul Manafort  —  A story involving a Norwegian yacht, an escort, and her Instagram posts featuring a prominent oligarch are capturing Russia's attention—and may represent a new and bizarre twist in the story behind Moscow's links to the Trump campaign.
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Alec Luhn / Telegraph:   Oligarch met with top Russian official after Trump aide ‘offered briefings’
Dara Lind / Vox:
Exclusive: Trump's draft plan to punish legal immigrants for sending US-born kids to Head Start  —  Or getting insured through the Children's Health Insurance Program, or getting assistance to heat their homes.  —  The Trump administration is working on new rules that would allow the government …
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Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Another longtime Comey aide leaving FBI  —  The longtime head of public affairs at the FBI — who was a confidant of former director James Comey — is planning to retire, Fox News has learned.  —  A notice went out this week for a retirement get-together for Michael Kortan scheduled for Feb. 15.
Discussion: The Last Refuge
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Two more officials cited in FBI texts step down
Discussion: twitchy.com and Raw Story
New York Times:
Stocks Plunge as Market Enters ‘Correction’ Territory  —  The market correction does not mean that the bull market in stocks — which have been roaring since March 2009 — is over.  Markets also experienced a correction in early 2016 before shaking off their jitters and continuing to climb.
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Maggie Severns / Politico:
Former Cato employees describe years of harassment  —  Three former employees of the famed Cato Institute say they were sexually harassed by Ed Crane, the 73-year-old co-founder and president emeritus of the think tank and one of the most recognizable figures in the libertarian movement.
Media Matters for America:
Fox News executive VP rails against diversity of US Olympians: “Darker, Gayer, Different”  —  Fox News' John Moody, who serves as the network's executive vice president and an executive editor, criticized the diversity of Team USA in an op-ed a day before the 2018 Winter Olympics were scheduled to open in PyeongChang, South Korea.
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
Ratings Changes in 21 Districts  —  The first two months of 2018 have given both parties reasons for optimism.  Republicans have cut Democrats' lead in the FiveThirtyEight average of generic congressional ballot polls in half, from roughly 12 points in December to about six points today.
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Graham Vyse / New Republic:
The Left's War Against The New York Times
Discussion: New York Magazine
Bloomberg:
Trump Administration Is Weighing Emergency Aid for Some Coal Plants
Elana Schor / Politico:
Grassley: Trump Jr. interview transcript release likely to take weeks
Discussion: Daily Kos
Madeleine Aggeler / thecut:
Katie Roiphe's Man Seems to Be Tweeting Angry Responses at Her Critics
Taylor Lorenz / The Daily Beast:
‘We Are Not Testing a Dislike Button,’ Facebook Says to Questions About the Dislike Button It Is Testing
Travis Fedschun / Fox News:
Florida boy gets trapped inside arcade claw machine
Discussion: VICE, New York Post, KDFW and CBS 4
Bloomberg:
Trump's Soaring Budget Deficit Risks Intensifying Market Frenzy
Discussion: New York Magazine
Philip Wegmann / Washington Examiner:
Sebastian Gorka fully supports Danny Tarkanian (whose campaign paid Gorka $5,000)
Discussion: ThinkProgress
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Far From Winding Down, Syria's War Escalates on Multiple Fronts
Eric Katz / GovExec.com:
Allegations of Rampant Sexual Harassment and Rape Roil Federally Run College
Discussion: Raw Story
Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney:
Twitter failed to remove hundreds of Russian propaganda videos aimed at Americans
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans Stopped Sabotaging the Economy Because They Have the White House Now
Taffy Brodesser-Akner / New York Times:
Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle
Discussion: Hit & Run and Longreads
CNN:
‘Pillar of the community’ deported from US after 39 years to a land he barely knows
Discussion: Daily Kos
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount is planning for what happens if no big deal happens, mulling cutting $2B in costs, selling BET and TV stations, starting a streaming JV, more

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Some founders say TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platforms after Trump tried banning it in 2020

 
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