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9:15 AM ET, March 22, 2018

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Mark Zuckerberg:
I want to share an update on the Cambridge Analytica situation — including the steps we've already taken and our next steps to address this important issue.  —  We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can't then we don't deserve to serve you.
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Seth Fiegerman / CNNMoney:
Mark Zuckerberg to face questions in CNN interview exclusive  —  Zuckerberg's mentor: Crisis could destroy Facebook  —  Five days after a data scandal first upended Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to give a rare interview with CNN.  —  Zuckerberg will sit down with CNN's Laurie Segall …
Nicholas Thompson / Wired:
Mark Zuckerberg Talks to WIRED About Facebook's Privacy Problem
New York Times:
A Q&A With Mark Zuckerberg About Data Privacy
The Times & The Sunday Times:
Advertisers threaten to quit Facebook over Cambridge Analytica scandal
The Intercept:
Saudi Crown Prince Boasted That Jared Kushner Was “In His Pocket”  —  Until he was stripped of his top-secret security clearance in February, presidential adviser Jared Kushner was known around the White House as one of the most voracious readers of the President's Daily Brief …
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New York Times:
How a Witness for Mueller and a Republican Donor Influenced the White House for Gulf Rulers  —  A cooperating witness in the special counsel investigation worked for more than a year to turn a top Trump fund-raiser into an instrument of influence at the White House for the rulers of Saudi Arabia …
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Mueller probe witness who met Jared Kushner and was ‘best friends’ …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Why Is Trump So Afraid of Russia?  —  The former C.I.A. director John Brennan pulled no punches on Wednesday when he was asked why President Trump had congratulated his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for his victory in a rigged election, even after Mr. Trump's national security staff warned him not to.
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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Defends Congratulating Putin: ‘Getting Along ... Is A Good Thing’  —  In the wake of a report that he ignored his national security team's advice not to congratulate Russian president Vladimir Putin on Putin's recent re-election, President Donald Trump defended the exchange Wednesday.
Washington Post:
Trump's remark to Putin that they could meet soon caught White House advisers by surprise … President Trump's senior advisers were thrown when he told Russian President Vladi­mir Putin on Tuesday that he expected to meet with him soon, as briefings before the call to Moscow included …
Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times:
Ex-Chief of C.I.A. Suggests Putin May Have Compromising Information on Trump
Discussion: Fox News Insider
Mike Levine / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: Fired FBI official authorized criminal probe of Sessions, sources say  —  Nearly a year before Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired senior FBI official Andrew McCabe for what Sessions called a “lack of candor,” McCabe oversaw a federal criminal investigation into whether Sessions lacked candor …
Wall Street Journal:
China to Target Trump's Base in Tariff Response  —  Beijing prepares to deliver pain to President Trump's support base, including with tariffs targeting agricultural exports  —  China is preparing to hit back at trade offensives from Washington with tariffs aimed at President Donald Trump's support base …
Discussion: Weekly Standard
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
‘Trump blew it’: The president missed his best chance yet to get funding for his border wall … President Trump has long promoted and promised a “big, beautiful wall” along the southern border — a pledge he made at the start of his presidential campaign that helped fuel his unlikely rise to the White House.
Discussion: Breitbart
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's two-front war  —  President Trump is ending the week with a flop — nowhere close to the border wall funding he wanted in the DACA-less spending bill that congressional leaders released last evening.  But he's fulfilling one of his most aggressive campaign promises with his anti-China trade action.
Discussion: Washington Post
Wall Street Journal:
Charges Have Been Dropped Against Most Turkish Officers in D.C. Clash  —  Case had caused a rift between the U.S. and Turkey  —  WASHINGTON—Federal prosecutors have dropped charges against 11 of 15 members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security team who were accused in connection …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
CBS News:
60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels to be broadcast Sunday  —  The adult-film star and director describes the affair she says she had with Donald Trump in her first television interview about the alleged relationship  —  The 60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and TVNewser
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Behind the scenes: Fox News analyst's stunning note hit network ‘like a bombshell’  —  Fox News analyst denounces network as ‘propaganda machine’  —  On Tuesday afternoon, Fox News employees gathered in Studio F, the opulent new set on the ground floor of the company's Manhattan headquarters, for the network's quarterly meeting.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:   Fox News analyst's blistering critique of the network draws praise from critics, allies
Max Boot / Washington Post:
A conservative commentator revolts against Fox News
Discussion: New Republic and Mediaite
Megan Cerullo / New York Daily News:
Unarmed black man shot to death in own backyard after police mistake cell phone for weapon  —  Sacramento police fatally shot a 22-year-old black man holding a cell phone that was mistaken for a weapon.  —  Stephon Clark was in the backyard of the home he shared with his grandparents …
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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Police shot at a man 20 times in his back yard, thinking he had a gun. It was a cellphone.
Discussion: KFOR-TV, Common Dreams, Vox and The Root
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump fires back at Biden: He's ‘mentally and physically’ weak  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday called former Vice President Joe Biden “weak, both mentally and physically,” suggesting he could easily beat up Biden, in response to the former vice president's comment that he would have sought …
Discussion: Political Wire and The Daily Beast
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CNN:
Mueller team so far has indicated 4 main areas it wants to ask the President about  —  Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has so far discussed with President Donald Trump's lawyers four main topics they want to talk about with the President.
Bernard Condon / Associated Press:
NYC agency investigating more than a dozen Kushner buildings  —  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's buildings regulator launched investigations at more than a dozen Kushner Cos. properties Wednesday following an Associated Press report that the real estate developer routinely filed false paperwork claiming …
Lesley Clark / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Rand Paul on last-minute federal budget: ‘A rotten, terrible’ way to govern  —  WASHINGTON  —  With Congress teetering on the brink of its third government shutdown in three months, Sen. Rand Paul still hasn't seen the details of a new budget bill that's likely to be 1,000 pages long — and he's not pleased.
Austin American-Statesman:
THE SUSPECT: Family of Mark A. Conditt ‘grieving’ and ‘in shock’  — Sean Collins Walsh - Claire Osborn - Tony Plohetski - Jeremy Schwartz - Mary Huber , American-Statesman Staff  —  2:10 p.m. update: Relatives of Mark A. Conditt issued a statement Wednesday afternoon saying they are shocked …
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Soo Rin Kim / ABC News:
GOP-affiliated groups have spent more than $3 million at Trump properties  —  Republican-affiliated campaigns, committees and outside groups have spent more than $3 million at various Trump properties since just after the 2016 election through last month, with roughly $924,000 coming …
Washington Post:
Scarred by school shootings  —  More than 187,000 students have been exposed to gun violence at school since Columbine, The Washington Post found.  —  Many are never the same.  —  13 dead at Columbine. 26 dead at Sandy Hook. 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
Discussion: Vox and NPR
Don Walton / Lincoln Journal Star:
Sasse writing book on polarization  —  Sen. Ben Sasse is writing a book about the polarization of America.  —  The book is coming together during the 4 a.m. to 7 a.m. hours that Sasse devotes to reading and writing most days.  —  It's going to be titled “Them,” with a subtitle of …
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
YouTube:
Stephen Works Out With Ruth Bader Ginsburg … Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg invited Stephen to Washington, D.C., to settle the case of “Do you even lift?”  —  Watch The Late Show with Stephen Colbert weeknights at 11:35 PM ET/10:35 PM CT.  Only on CBS.  —  Get the CBS app for iPhone & iPad!
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Yes, Jordan Peterson Really Is That Smart … In the last year, or so, Jordan Peterson, the University of Toronto clinical psychologist turned internet sensation, has emerged as arguably the most important intellectual figure on the right today.  —  His new book, 12 Rules for Life, is currently number one on Amazon.
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
‘Elected to lead, not to proofread’: Typos, spelling mistakes are commonplace in Trump's White House … President Trump boasted during the campaign that he has the “best words.”  If the past 14 months in the White House are an indication, he and his team also have the worst spelling.
Discussion: New York Daily News
 
 
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Brian Eckhouse / Bloomberg:
Sunny U.S. Southeast Is Finally Becoming a Hot Spot for Solar
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Sorry: Facebook was never ‘free’
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Harry Enten / CNN:
It's official: NYC hasn't seen snow like this in 130 years
Rachael Bade / Politico:
House leaders' biggest 2018 fear: The lazy Republican
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump senior staff who signed non-disclosure agreements may have broken the law
Discussion: CNN and Outside the Beltway
Paul Starr / American Prospect:
The Democratic Emergency  —  President Donald Trump takes …
Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times:
Republican John Cox inches ahead of Antonio Villaraigosa for second place in California governor's race, new poll finds
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
'It's taken partisanship to a place it's never been.' Inside the House Intelligence Committee.
Harry Pettit / Daily Mail:
Underwater ‘fountain’ of magma is found beneath Yellowstone supervolcano sparking fears a deadly eruption is on the way
Discussion: LewRockwell
Mary Spicuzza / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Thousands of Milwaukee voters have been dropped from rolls, including some erroneously
Discussion: Political Wire
Luis Sanchez / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker: ‘Mueller should be fired’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and RedState
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
GOP Rep: The ‘Deep State’ is Responsible for Ordering Ben Carson's Dining Set