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1:20 PM ET, February 12, 2018

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Axios:
Trump's real plan for 2018  —  President Trump today will unveil a $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan that his own aides don't think will pass, and a $4 trillion budget that Axios' Jonathan Swan calls “science fiction.”  —  It's the strangest of year-ahead plans for a party that controls …
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
A Reckoning with Women Awaits Trump  —  Donald Trump is the least mysterious figure in the history of the American Presidency.  His infantile character, duplicity, cold-heartedness, and self-dealing greed are evident not merely to the majority of the poll-answering electorate but …
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Rob Porter's ex-wife says she ‘was floored’ by Trump's response
New York Times:
Abuse Case Exposes Fissures in a White House in Turmoil
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
In big reversal, new Trump budget will give up on longtime Republican goal of eliminating deficit … President Trump on Monday will offer a budget plan that falls far short of eliminating the government's deficit over 10 years, conceding that huge tax cuts and new spending increases …
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Budget Director Warns Interest Rates May ‘Spike’ on Deficit  —  Mulvaney says Trump's economic moves ‘not a sugar high’  —  OMB is adjusting 2018, 2019 budgets after spending bill passed  —  The U.S. will post a larger budget deficit this year and could see a “spike” …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Trump plan will drop GOP's traditional goal of balancing budget within 10 years
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Reuters
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
White House budget proposes increase to defense spending and cuts to safety net, but federal deficit would remain
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Week
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Trump Proposes to Cut Medicare and Spend Big on Wall, Defense
Discussion: RedState and Reuters
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Obamas' official portraits unveiled  —  Washington (CNN)Barack and Michelle Obama re-emerged on the public stage Monday in Washington, only this time for an event that has nothing to do with politics.  —  The former first couple's official portraits were unveiled at the Smithsonian's National …
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CBS News:
Portraits of Obamas unveiled at Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Discussion: Mother Jones
Shane Savitsky / Axios:
Smithsonian unveils official Obama portraits
Discussion: Politico
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Exclusive: CIA Ex-Director Brennan's Perjury Peril  —  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes next plans to investigate the role former CIA Director John Brennan and other Obama intelligence officials played in promoting the salacious and unverified Steele dossier on Donald Trump …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump wanted to ‘lock her up’ for far less … Candidate Donald Trump used, more than any other issue, Hillary Clinton's home email server to argue that she was unfit for office and, moreover, that there were grounds for sending her to jail.  The eerie chants, more common in banana republics …
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:   Which is scarier — that Trump doesn't read his daily intel briefing, or that Jared Kushner does?
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Top Justice Department official Brand quit partly over fear she might be asked to oversee Russia probe  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's No. 3 attorney had been unhappy with her job for months before the department announced her departure on Friday, according to multiple sources close to Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand.
Discussion: Political Wire
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
First-class travel distinguishes Scott Pruitt's EPA tenure … Just days after helping orchestrate the United States' exit from a global climate accord last June, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt embarked on a whirlwind tour aimed at championing President Trump's agenda at home and abroad.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
PLAYBOOK SCOOP: PELOSI pulls in nearly 50 million bucks for House Dems in 2017 …
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis.  Now He's Worried About An Information Apocalypse.  —  In mid-2016, Aviv Ovadya realized there was something fundamentally wrong with the internet — so wrong that he abandoned his work and sounded an alarm.  A few weeks before the 2016 election …
New York Times:
Is Devin Nunes Obstructing Justice?  —  As public scrutiny exposes deep flaws in the memo from the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, about alleged F.B.I. surveillance abuses, the committee's Republicans are increasingly downplaying its significance.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Washington Post:
Trump takes ‘shackles’ off ICE, which is slapping them on immigrants who thought they were safe … A week after he won the election, President Trump promised that his administration would round up millions of immigrant gang members and drug dealers.  And after he took office …
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Pence: The United States is ready to talk with North Korea  —  Despite the mutual chilliness between U.S. and North Korean officials in South Korea last week, behind the scenes real progress was made toward a new diplomatic opening that could result in direct talks without preconditions between Washington and Pyongyang.
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Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
Kim Jong Un, North Korea's ‘10-Foot-Tall Baby’
USA Today:
Harvey Weinstein forced staff to manage his sexual conquests, civil rights suit says  —  Harvey Weinstein was once at the very top of Hollywood.  As accusations of his sexual predation came to light, it didn't just trigger his downfall.  It ushered in a tidal wave of exposure of sexual impropriety in the film industry.
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Steven Nelson / Washington Examiner:
Harvey Weinstein drivers ‘required to keep condoms and erectile dysfunction injections in the car at all times’: Lawsuit
Discussion: RedState
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
MeToo will have staying power, Ruth Bader Ginsburg insists  —  RBG says Clinton was criticized worse than men  —  New York (CNN)Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg believes the “#MeToo” movement will have “staying power” and that she doesn't worry about a serious backlash.
Discussion: Axios and NBC News
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Charles Riley / CNNMoney:
Unilever to Facebook and Google: Clean up ‘swamp’ or we'll pull ads  —  Social media giants grilled on ‘fake news’  —  Unilever is threatening to pull its advertising from digital platforms that it says have become a “swamp” of fake news, racism, sexism and extremism.
Ken White / Popehat:
Lawsplainer: “Fruit of The Poisonous Tree” And The Special Counsel Investigation  —  I have a question.  —  I deserve this. … Of course it is.  —  It's about fruits and trees and some kind of poison or something?  —  Where did you pick that up?
Wayne Drash / CNN:
CNN Exclusive: California launches investigation following stunning admission by Aetna medical director  —  Video by Elizabeth Cohen and John Bonifield, CNN  —  (CNN)California's insurance commissioner has launched an investigation into Aetna after learning a former medical director …
Jacey Fortin / New York Times:
Sony Apologizes After ‘Peter Rabbit’ Movie Exploits a Food Allergy, Upsetting Parents  —  Sam Rose has a son who loves Peter Rabbit, a character from a children's book by Beatrix Potter, but she won't take him to see “Peter Rabbit,” the new movie loosely based on it.  —  The issue?
 
 
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