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10:50 AM ET, February 19, 2018

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David Willman / Los Angeles Times:
Former Trump aide Rick Gates to plead guilty; agrees to testify against Manafort, sources say … A former top aide to Donald Trump's presidential campaign will plead guilty to fraud-related charges within days - and has made clear to prosecutors that he would testify against Paul J. Manafort Jr. …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
A non-alarmist reading of the Mueller Russia indictment … There's been no shortage of breathless reaction to Trump-Russia special prosecutor Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russians and three Russian organizations for their efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Blake Hounshell / Politico:
Confessions of a Russiagate Skeptic  —  If, like me, you've been following every twist and turn of the Russia investigations, you've probably wrestled with the same question that has been gnawing at me for more than a year now: What if there's nothing there?
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Trump is ignoring the worst attack on America since 9/11  —  Imagine if, after 9/11, the president had said that the World Trade Center and Pentagon could have been attacked by “China” or “lots of other people.”  Imagine if he had dismissed claims of al-Qaeda's responsibility as a “hoax” …
Washington Post:
Trump lashes out over Russia probe in angry and error-laden tweetstorm … WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump lashed out with fresh anger about the intensifying Russia probe over the weekend, accusing Democrats of enabling a foreign adversary to interfere in the 2016 election and attacking …
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New York Times:
Trump's Evolution From Relief to Fury Over the Russia Indictment  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump began the weekend believing that something good had just happened to him.  An indictment leveled against 13 Russians for interfering with the 2016 election had not accused him or anyone around him of wrongdoing.
Washington Post:
Top U.S. officials tell the world to ignore Trump's tweets … MUNICH — Amid global anxiety about President Trump's approach to world affairs, U.S. officials had a message for a gathering of Europe's foreign policy elite this weekend: Pay no attention to the man tweeting behind the curtain.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump surveyed Mar-a-Lago members over gun control in wake of school shooting: report
Discussion: RedState
CBS News:
Oprah follows up with the partisan voters in Michigan  —  Last fall, Oprah Winfrey spoke with 14 Michigan voters, seven of whom voted for Donald Trump.  Winfrey sat down with the voters again to get their thoughts on Trump's first year in office  —  Oprah Winfrey
New York Times:
How Does Trump Stack Up Against the Best — and Worst — Presidents?  —  Where does Donald Trump rank on the list of American presidents?  —  We surveyed presidential politics experts to sketch out a first draft of Trump's place in presidential history.  —  Since our previous survey in 2014 …
Discussion: Raw Story and Althouse
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Conservatives urge Trump to grant pardons in Russia probe  —  After months of criticizing special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, President Donald Trump's supporters are issuing increasingly bold calls for presidential pardons to limit the investigation's impact.
Discussion: Axios and Raw Story
Jill Abramson / New York Magazine:
Do You Believe Her Now?  —  With new evidence that Clarence Thomas lied to get onto the Supreme Court, it's time to talk seriously about impeachment.  —  Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas testifying before the Senate in 1991.  Paul Hosefros/The New York Times/Redux (Hill); Jose R. Lopez/The New York Times/Redux (Rhomas)
Discussion: National Review and thecut
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Rush Limbaugh attacks Parkland students for marching and ‘bashing’ NRA: ‘This is totally political’  —  Radio host Rush Limbaugh attacked a group of students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida for organizing marches after 17 were killed in a mass shooting at their school.
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Christine Yared / New York Times:
Don't Let My Classmates' Deaths Be in Vain
Discussion: Washington Post
Washington Post:
Florida students plead with Congress: It's about the guns
Associated Press:   Trump fumes about Russia investigation as nation mourns
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Whatever Trump Is Hiding Is Hurting All of Us Now  —  Our democracy is in serious danger.  —  President Trump is either totally compromised by the Russians or is a towering fool, or both, but either way he has shown himself unwilling or unable to defend America against a Russian campaign to divide and undermine our democracy.
New York Times:
Tools of Trump's Fixer: Payouts, Intimidation and the Tabloids  —  As accounts of past sexual indiscretions threatened to surface during Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign, the job of stifling potentially damaging stories fell to his longtime lawyer and all-around fixer, Michael D. Cohen.
Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
“The Canaries Are Dying”: How Trump Is Making Republicans Pick Their 2018 Poison  —  Caught between the president's rabid, loyal base and suburban women, Republican candidates may not survive a blue wave election.  —  “These races are like canaries in the coal mine,” Steve Israel …
Discussion: Raw Story
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National Journal:   Democrats Hoping for a Shocker in Trump Country
Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump open to improving background checks, spokesman says  —  West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN)President Donald Trump “is supportive of efforts to improve the federal background check system” for gun purchases, less than a week after the Florida school shooting that killed 17 people.
Discussion: Political Wire, theGrio and CBS Miami
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Trump's Miss Universe Gambit  —  For years, he used his beauty pageants to boost business interests abroad.  A 2013 contest, in Moscow, may also have helped give him the Presidency.  —  The first-round results of the 2013 Miss Universe pageant seem to have come as a surprise …
 
 
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David Sharp / Associated Press:
Trump once again wants to cut energy assistance to the poor
Discussion: Axios
Carla Marinucci / Politico:
‘Spin the bottle’ and a kegerator: #MeToo movement lawmaker faces new sexual misconduct allegations
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Attacking the ‘Woke’ Black Vote
Margaret Brennan / CBS News:
Rex Tillerson opens up in rare, wide-ranging interview
Discussion: Business Insider
Wall Street Journal:
Russian Curler Fails Drug Test, Authorities Explore Sabotage Possibility
Discussion: New York Magazine
Mark L. Rosenberg / Politico:
What's Missing From the Gun Debate
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Kelly skeptical of Ivanka's paid family leave push
Discussion: Splinter
David Ferguson / Raw Story:
Eric and Don Jr. egged on Trump's weekend Twitter tirade against the FBI: CNN
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Matt Philbin / NewsBusters:
NBC Hires Anti-Pence Gay Skater
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
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