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4:35 PM ET, March 1, 2018

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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
As Trump Spirals, Many Of His Staffers Are Looking To Exit  —  Even for this chaotic administration, the last few weeks have taken a toll on President Donald Trump and his staff.  A tragic mass shooting, big-name staff departures, and a series of scandals — all in the growing shadow …
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CBS News:
Hope Hicks' “white lies” testimony becomes a flashpoint for House Intel Committee  —  In a rare, on-the-record accounting of some of the House Intelligence committee's secret, closed-door proceedings, two members of the House Intelligence Committee explained to CBS News what led White House …
Nicolle Wallace / NBC News:
White House preparing for McMaster exit as early as next month  —  WASHINGTON — The White House is preparing to replace H.R. McMaster as national security adviser as early as next month in a move orchestrated by chief of staff John Kelly and Defense Secretary James Mattis, according to five people familiar with the discussions.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Axios:
The wild wars within the Trump White House  —  After a crazy 24 hours, sources close to President Trump say he is in a bad place — mad as hell about the internal chaos and the sense that things are unraveling.  —  The big picture: Hope Hicks leaving is obviously a huge blow to him.
New York Times:
Kushner's Business Got Loans from Companies After White House Meetings  —  Apollo, the private equity firm, and Citigroup made large loans last year to the family real estate business of Jared Kushner, President Trump's senior adviser.  —  Early last year, a private equity billionaire started paying regular visits to the White House.
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The White House Didn't Break Hope Hicks Overnight  —  Hope Hicks entered American politics at its fringes, in the early stages of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, a grinning 26-year-old member of the Trump Organization's public-relations team who'd been rerouted from her task of helping Ivanka Trump develop a lifestyle brand.
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Hope Against Hope  —  Hope Hicks is kidding herself if she thinks that her tenure in the Trump White House will be judged only for harmless, situational untruths.  —  Presidents are in the habit of lying—often with bloody consequences.  The Bay of Pigs, the Gulf of Tonkin, Watergate …
Daily Mail:
Revealed: How Hope Hicks was ‘trapped’ …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
A telling anecdote about Trump and the opioid abuse crisis
Discussion: Axios and ABC News
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:   Scaramucci Says He Fears John Kelly Will Thwart SkyBridge Sale
Matt Glassman / New York Times:   The Root of White House Chaos? A Weak President
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
John Kelly jokes (?) that ‘God punished’ him when he left DHS to be Trump's chief of staff
Discussion: RedState, AOL and CNN
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Senate Intelligence Leaders Say House G.O.P. Leaked a Senator's Texts  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee were behind the leak of private text messages between the Senate panel's top Democrat and a Russian-connected lawyer …
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Joe Cunningham / RedState:
It's Time for Devin Nunes To Go - for Good  —  Representative Devin Nunes has become an incredibly controversial figure in the era of Donald Trump.  —  As chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Nunes has been a central figure in the Congressional investigation into what exactly …
Discussion: Politico
Patrick Gillespie / CNNMoney:
Beer and cars could get more expensive because of Trump tariffs  —  U.S. trade moves could spark Chinese retaliation  —  Beer, baseball bats and cars could get more expensive after President Trump imposes tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum.  —  And that's only the beginning.
Discussion: CNN and Washington Post
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump declares his trade war: targets steel, aluminum
Discussion: ABC News and Breitbart
Bloomberg:
Trump Says He'll Impose Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum Imports
Discussion: Axios, Daily Wire and Reuters
Fred Imbert / CNBC:   Dow sheds 550 points after Trump says steel and aluminum tariffs coming next week
Thomas Heath / Washington Post:   Dow drops more than 500 points on news of Trump's steel tariffs
CNN:
See HUD's $31,000 mahogany dining set  —  Washington (CNN)A $31,000 dining set the Department of Housing and Urban Development purchased, which raised eyebrows when first reported Tuesday, includes a table, sideboard, breakfront — all in mahogany — and 10 mahogany chairs with a blue velvet finish …
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CNN:   White House furious at embarrassing stories about HUD, Secretary Ben Carson
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
HUD: Carson Directs Agency To Cancel Order For $30,000 Dining Set
Discussion: Daily Kos and Joe.My.God.
Pew Research Center:
1. Generations' party identification, midterm voting preferences, views of Trump  —  Millennial voters continue to have the highest proportion of independents of any generation.  But when their partisan leanings are taken into account, they also are the most Democratic generation.
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USA Today:
Voters vow to elect a Congress that stands up to Trump, poll shows  —  WASHINGTON — Americans are mad, and that is putting Republicans at risk.  —  A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds voters looking toward the midterm elections are overwhelmingly unhappy with the country's direction …
Discussion: Political Wire
Pew Research Center:   4. Race, immigration, same-sex marriage, abortion, global warming, gun policy, marijuana legalization
Azam Ahmed / New York Times:
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico to Quit Amid Tense Relations Under Trump  —  MEXICO CITY — The United States ambassador to Mexico plans to resign from her post in May, according to a memo circulated on Thursday to embassy staff, the latest in a string of senior diplomatic departures from the region …
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
U.S. ambassador to Mexico stepping down
Discussion: American Thinker
Andrew Roth / The Guardian:
Putin threatens US arms race with new missiles declaration  —  President says Russia has new line of nuclear-capable weapons that can breach US defences … Vladimir Putin has announced that Russia has developed and is testing a new line of strategic, nuclear-capable weapons that would be able …
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Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
Questions linger about how Melania Trump, a Slovenian model, scored ‘the Einstein visa’  —  In 2000, Melania Knauss, a Slovenian model dating Donald Trump, began petitioning the government for the right to permanently reside in the United States under a program reserved for people with “extraordinary ability.”
Associated Press:
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen charged over IS photos  —  PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors filed preliminary charges Thursday against far-right leader Marine Le Pen for tweeting brutal images of Islamic State violence, in a new blow to a woman long seen as the face of Europe's anti-immigrant populism.
Michael Dimock / Pew Research Center:
Defining generations: Where Millennials end and post-Millennials begin  —  For decades, Pew Research Center has been committed to measuring public attitudes on key issues and documenting differences in those attitudes across demographic groups.  One lens often employed by researchers …
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Russia “Previewed” Plan to Disseminate Emails with Trump Campaign  —  A significant recent revelation in the Russia investigation has been largely overlooked in the rush of several breaking news stories over the past few days.  A nugget of information is contained in the memo written …
Discussion: Shareblue Media, Salon, Raw Story and AOL
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Fights Worth Having  —  For my money, the best op-ed published in The Times this week was Mona Charen's Feb. 25 barn-burner, “I'm Glad I Got Booed at CPAC.”  Charen is a movement conservative who worked for Nancy and Ronald Reagan and is a longtime contributor to National Review.
 
 
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BostonGlobe.com:
State trooper involved in shooting has history of racist online posts
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Emma Burrows / CNN:
Russian model in Thai jail promises to spill Trump-Russia secrets
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Perry Stein / Washington Post:
D.C. Public Schools graduation rate on track to decline this year
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Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:
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Ema O'Connor / BuzzFeed:
The Trump Official Who Blocked Undocumented Teens From Getting Abortions Said He Doesn't Believe …
Discussion: Vox
Howard Koplowitz / al.com:
Shelby says he'd leave Trump if he were Sessions: 'I wouldn't be anybody's whipping boy'
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