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10:05 AM ET, February 25, 2018

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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Assessing the new Democratic intel memo  —  It took a while, owing to delays over classified information, but Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have finally released their rebuttal to the “FISA abuse” memo put forth earlier this month by committee Republicans.
Discussion: Power Line and Fox News
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
5 Takeaways From the Release of the Democratic Memo  —  WASHINGTON — An application to wiretap a former associate of President Trump's campaign in fall 2016 “made only narrow use” of information provided by a former British spy who compiled a notorious dossier about Mr. Trump and Russia …
Discussion: The Week
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Trump urges national unity, investigation of ‘the other side’ amid Russia probe  —  Saying there were “no phone calls, no meetings, no collusion,” President Donald Trump on Saturday pushed for an investigation of “the other side” amid the FBI probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Nunes Memo Is Fake and the Russia Scandal Is Very Real  —  More than a month ago, conservatives rose up in coordinated demands to “release the memo.”  The memo, supposedly, contained breathtaking evidence of corruption in the Justice Department.  The agents of the Deep State had allegedly used …
Lawfare:
Takeaways From the House Intelligence Democrats' Memo  —  President Trump lost no time dismissing the memo released Saturday by the House intelligence committee Democrats in response to the earlier memo prepared by Rep. Devin Nunes on the origins of the Carter Page surveillance:
Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Dems' rebuttal to GOP FISA memo is released; Trump deems it a ‘bust’  —  President Trump on Saturday dismissed a Democratic rebuttal to the GOP memo outlining government surveillance abuses in the 2016 campaign as a “total political and legal bust,” claiming that it only confirms the …
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
The Democratic rebuttal to the Nunes memo tears it apart
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Nunes gets conservative award for pushback on Russia probe
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Democratic rebuttal to GOP House Intelligence memo released
Discussion: RedState and CBS News
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Russian spies hacked the Olympics and tried to make it look like North Korea did it, U.S. officials say … Russian military spies hacked several hundred computers used by authorities at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, according to U.S. intelligence.
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Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
North Korea has expressed willingness to talk to the United States, South Korean presidential office says
Washington Post:
After testy call with Trump over border wall, Mexico's president shelves plan to visit White House … Tentative plans for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to make his first visit to the White House to meet with President Trump were scuttled this week after a testy call between …
Gabby Morrongiello / Washington Examiner:
CPAC speaker Mona Charen stuns with fiery rebuke of Trump, Le Pen  —  A conservative columnist was escorted out of the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday after slamming President Trump and conservatives for behaving like “hypocrites” when it comes to women's issues.
Discussion: RedState and The Gateway Pundit
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Tim Alberta / Politico:   Trump's Takeover of Conservatism Is Complete and Total
Alice B. Lloyd / Weekly Standard:
Mona Charen Slams Sexist Hypocrisy, Racism at CPAC: ‘You cannot claim that you stand for women’
Casey Tolan / Mercury News:
California Democratic Party declines to endorse Dianne Feinstein in re-election bid  —  SAN DIEGO — The California Democratic Party declined to make an endorsement in this year's U.S. Senate race early Sunday morning, snubbing Sen. Dianne Feinstein in her bid for a fifth full term.
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Politico:
California Democrats decline to endorse Feinstein
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
CNN:
CNN Poll: Trump approval slides, matches lowest point of presidency  —  WASHINGTON (CNN)President Donald Trump's approval rating in a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS stands at 35%, down five points over the last month to match his lowest level yet.  —  The slide follows a January bump …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
This Snake Can't Shed His Skin  —  On her way to work one morning, down the path along the lake, a tenderhearted woman saw a rich, coldhearted, frozen snake.  —  His tangerine skin was all caked with makeup and his bald spot was frosted with the dew.  —  “Poor thing,” she cried, “I'll take you in, and I'll take care of you.”
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David Brody / New York Times:
In Donald Trump, Evangelicals Have Found Their President
Kurt Erickson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Prepping for impeachment: Here's what Greitens and lawmakers face in the coming days  —  The Missouri Capitol stands at dusk on the final day of the 97th Legislature at the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City on Friday, May 16, 2014.  Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
Discussion: Political Wire
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
‘I do not know if the president is having an affair’: Michael Wolff squirms on Dutch TV … After several minutes of interrogation about a central drama surrounding his new book, Michael Wolff said this: “I will just clean this up. . . . I do not know if the president is having an affair.”
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Corey Lewandowski returns to the Oval Office  —  Two days before President Trump gave his unchained, campaign-style speech at CPAC, he had a secret visitor in the Oval Office.  —  You didn't see it on the president's schedule, and the news hasn't leaked out until now …
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Chris York / HuffPost UK:
Michael Wolff Says Donald Trump And Jared Kushner ‘Will Throw Each Other Under The Bus’
Discussion: Raw Story
Ana Cerrud / Washington Post:
Police, yelling, power turned off: Confrontation over Trump's Panama hotel escalates … PANAMA CITY — The majority owner of President Trump's only hotel in Latin America abruptly ordered Trump employees out of the property on Thursday, triggering a confrontation in which Trump employees refused …
The Guardian:
Colombia extradites ‘Pablo Escobar of Ecuador’ to US  —  Washington Edison Prado is accused of shipping hundreds of tonnes of cocaine to US … A suspected drug chief known as the “Pablo Escobar of Ecuador” was extradited to the US on Saturday, Colombia's chief prosecutor's office has announced.
 
 
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Katie Kindelan / ABC News:
US could be witnessing ‘end of a two-party system’: Republican governor
Discussion: Axios
Associated Press:
Transgender boy wins girls' state wrestling title for second time
Caitlin Emma / Politico:
Supreme Court could cripple public unions in run-up to 2018 midterms
Discussion: Political Wire and The Guardian
Bruce Fretts / New York Times:
Would You Swipe Right on Amphibian Man From ‘The Shape of Water’?
Reece Ristau Tulsa / Tulsa World:
Police identify armed robber shot by Tulsa liquor store clerk
Discussion: smokeroom.com, Raw Story and Breitbart
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump would like to see a military parade on Veterans Day with ‘a lot of plane flyovers’
Discussion: Political Wire
Kathianne Boniello / New York Post:
Disgraced deputy in Florida shooting once named ‘officer of the year’
 Earlier Items: 
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Maxine Waters: Time ‘to get ready for impeachment’
Discussion: Political Wire
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Team USA Strikes 1st Curling Gold But Olympics Ratings Slide To 2018 Low
Discussion: KXAN-TV and The Week
Brett T. / twitchy.com:
Law professor says NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch ‘loves watching Americans die’
Dana Schuster / Page Six:
Inside the toxic atmosphere at ‘Megyn Kelly Today’
Discussion: Mediaite
New York Times:
Left to Louisiana's Tides, a Village Fights for Time
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Mueller Is Gaining Steam. Should Trump Worry?
Discussion: The Atlantic
 

 
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