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4:40 PM ET, March 10, 2018

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Sam Dolnick / New York Times:
The Man Who Knew Too Little  —  The most ignorant man in America knows that Donald Trump is president — but that's about it.  Living a liberal fantasy is complicated.  —  GLOUSTER, Ohio — At first, the experiment didn't have a name.  —  Right after the election, Erik Hagerman decided …
Discussion: Mother Jones, Althouse and CANNONFIRE
New York Times:
Trump Talks With Clinton Impeachment Lawyer About Aiding in Mueller Response  —  President Trump is in discussions with a veteran Washington lawyer who represented Bill Clinton during the impeachment process about joining the White House to help deal with the special counsel inquiry, according to four people familiar with the matter.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Cristina Alesci / CNN:
White House scolds Cabinet officials after embarrassing ethics reports  —  (CNN)The White House held private meetings with four Cabinet-level officials last month to scold them for embarrassing stories about questionable ethical behavior at their respective agencies, sources familiar with the sessions tell CNN.
Washington Post:
Trump administration studies seeking the death penalty for drug dealers  —  The Trump administration is studying new policy that could allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty for drug dealers, according to people with knowledge of the discussions, a sign that the White House wants …
Discussion: The Hill, TheBlaze, RedState and IJR
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Christopher Liddell Is Front-Runner to Become Trump's Top Economic Adviser
Discussion: Axios and CNBC
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
White House gearing up for Trump midterms blitz
Discussion: Political Wire
Jeffrey Lewis / Foreign Policy:
The Trump-Kim Summit Won't End Well  —  This is no way to run nuclear diplomacy.  —  It's like Richard Nixon going to China, but if Nixon were a moron.  —  By now, you've heard that Donald Trump is meeting with Kim Jong Un by May.  You've probably also seen the White House walking it back.
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The Guardian:
Republican candidate's North Korea experience may not be all he claims
Discussion: Mediaite
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Three Key Questions About Donald Trump's Summit with Kim Jong Un
Discussion: CNBC, Raw Story, New York Times and Vox
Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
Steve Bannon: ‘Let them call you racist ... Wear it as a badge of honor’  —  Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Saturday told a crowd of far-right French politicians to let people label them as “racist,” and to consider it “a badge of honor.”
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Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Steve Bannon Is Done Wrecking the American Establishment.  Now He Wants to Destroy Europe's.  —  MILAN — Stephen K. Bannon leaned back in an armchair opposite a copy of a painting by an Italian old master and explained his modest efforts to build a vast network of European populists to demolish the Continent's political establishment.
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Mediaite, CNN and Althouse
Kim Willsher / The Guardian:
Steve Bannon tells French far-right ‘history is on our side’  —  Former Trump adviser addresses Front National as Marine Le Pen attempts to relaunch her party … Donald Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon has told France's far-right Front National that, “history is on our side and will bring us victory” …
Alexander Smith / NBC News:
Putin on U.S. election interference: 'I couldn't care less'  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin has told NBC News that he “couldn't care less” if Russian citizens tried to interfere in the 2016 American presidential election because, he claims, they were not connected to the Kremlin.
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Mark Follman / Mother Jones:
Trump Spoke to a Russian Activist About Ending Sanctions—Just Weeks After Launching His Campaign
Anton Troianovski / Washington Post:
The Putin Generation  —  Young Russians are Vladimir Putin's biggest fans
Discussion: National Review
Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
Former Trump aide speaks to Mueller, believes Russia probe is ‘not a witch hunt’  —  Five and a half hours after testifying before a grand jury in the Russia probe, a former political adviser to Donald Trump told ABC News exclusively that he believes the investigation is “warranted.”
Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
Sweet Jesus, Will the NYT's Conservatives Ever Write About Anything but the “Intolerant Left” Ever Again?  —  David Brooks published a column in the New York Times on Friday complaining about the manner in which “[s]tudents across the country,” having become obsessed with “group identity,” …
Discussion: Eschaton
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
How Stormy Daniels could impact the Russia investigation  —  (CNN)Porn star Stormy Daniels and special counsel Robert Mueller are among the most talked about figures in Washington these days.  At this point, they are central figures in separate stories, but could it be long before their paths intersect?
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Denver Nicks / Rolling Stone:
One Night with Stormy Daniels, the Hero America Needs
CNN:
Gunman and victims identified in deadly standoff at California veterans home  —  (CNN)A gunman and three female hostages were found dead at a military veterans home in Northern California on Friday evening, officials said, a grim end to a standoff that lasted nearly eight hours.
New York Times:
Out of Public View, Trumps and Kushners Are Talking Business  —  LONG BRANCH, N.J. — Jared Kushner's family company recently began construction on an oceanfront development in this Jersey Shore city, a project that has the strong backing of local officials, who agreed to support it with $20 million in bonds.
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
World watches as Tillerson admits he doesn't care about imploding State Dept  —  More than 60% of career diplomats have left in the past year, but Tillerson says he doesn't “lose a wink of sleep” over it.  —  One of America's top Latin American diplomats left the State Department this week …
Discussion: CBS News
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Washington Post:   A top U.S. diplomat in Latin America leaves in protest, swelling an exodus
U.S. Department of Justice:
Department of Justice Submits Notice of Proposed Regulation Banning Bump Stocks  —  Today the Department of Justice submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a notice of a proposed regulation to clarify that the definition of “machinegun” in the National Firearms Act …
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Luis Sanchez / The Hill:
Trump administration takes first step to ban bump stocks
Discussion: Louder With Crowder
Katie Kilkenny / Hollywood Reporter:
Nun Embroiled in Katy Perry Legal Conflict Dies at 89  —  Sister Catherine Rose Holzman reportedly “collapsed and died” during a court appearance related to the case.  —  Sister Catherine Rose Holzman of the Archidiocese of Los Angeles, one of the nuns embroiled in a legal battle over the sale …
Discussion: Raw Story
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Trump Rollbacks Target Offshore Rules ‘Written With Human Blood’  —  Drillers seek to gain from an easing of Obama-era safety and environmental regulations that were adopted after the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 people.  —  PORT FOURCHON, La. — A dozen miles off the coast …
ABC News:
Trump tariffs may imperil a delicate global economic rebound  —  Things had been going along so nicely.  —  Over the past year, the major regions of the world finally shed the scars of a global financial crisis and grew in unison for the first time in a decade.
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Ana Swanson / New York Times:   The Little-Known Trade Adviser Who Wields Enormous Power in Washington
 
 
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Mike Allen / Axios:
The full Trump, unrestrained
Discussion: Raw Story
Ryan Ellis / Forbes:
Democrats Release Tax Hike Plan
Bloomberg:
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Pro-gun rights Parkland student Kyle Kashuv meets President Trump
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New York Times:
Statues Across India Are Vandalized as Political Tensions Rise
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
John Kelly Reportedly Stopped Trump's EPA Chief From Holding Public Debates Challenging Climate Change
Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Dems still wrestling over superdelegates - a 2016 issue
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
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