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12:20 PM ET, April 6, 2018

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New York Times:
Job Changes for E.P.A. Officials Who Questioned Scott Pruitt  —  WASHINGTON — At least five officials at the Environmental Protection Agency, four of them high-ranking, were reassigned or demoted, or requested new jobs in the past year after they raised concerns about the spending and management …
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USA Today:
Donald Trump needs to fire EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, not promote him
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Ana Navarro hilariously mocks Scott Pruitt's Fox News interview: ‘He made Betsy DeVos look like Einstein’
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
What's Driving Trump's Attacks on Amazon?  It's Personal  —  President's attacks on e-commerce company stem from its CEO Jeff Bezos's ownership of the Washington Post, which Trump says covers him unfairly, say people close to the White House  —  Early in President Donald Trump's term …
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Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Trump says trade war is “already lost,” and he “probably won't” attend White House Correspondents Dinner  —  President Trump said in a radio interview aired Friday that the U.S. isn't in a trade war because the trade war is “already lost,” and said he “probably won't” attend …
Discussion: Splinter and ThinkProgress
Associated Press:
Inside a White House in tumult, John Kelly's clout dwindles  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump made a congratulatory phone call to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, White House chief of staff John Kelly wasn't on the line.  —  When Trump tapped John Bolton to be his next national …
Axios:
Trump skipping White House Correspondents dinner
Discussion: Breitbart
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:   Johnny One-Note  —  The monomaniacal White House talking points.
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Designates Russian Oligarchs, Officials, and Entities in Response to Worldwide Malign Activity  —  WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), in consultation with the Department of State, today designated seven Russian oligarchs …
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Sanctions Billionaire Deripaska and Other Russian Oligarchs
Discussion: New York Magazine
USA Today:
U.S. imposes new sanctions on 7 Russian oligarchs and 17 government officials
Discussion: 89.3 KPCC
Michael Crowley / Politico:
Trump sanctions Putin's inner circle
Discussion: mid.ru, NBC News and IJR
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook retracted Zuckerberg's messages from recipients' inboxes  —  Facebook says it was for security, but is it a breach of user trust?  —  You can't remove Facebook messages from the inboxes of people you sent them to, but Facebook did that for Mark Zuckerberg and other executives.
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Koch network growing frustrated with the GOP's 2018 agenda
Discussion: The Week
Phoebe Weston / Daily Mail:
What is Mark Zuckerberg hiding? …
Dennis Romboy / Deseret News:
Trump threat of $100 billion tariffs will ‘wake up’ China, Mitt Romney says  —  SANDY — U.S. Senate candidate Mitt Romney sees President Donald Trump's proposed $100 billion in new tariffs on China as a shot across the bow but doesn't think it would lead to trade war.
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Trump says ‘pain’ from China tariffs will make US ‘much stronger’
Discussion: CNBC and The Week
Madeleine Albright / New York Times:
Will We Stop Trump Before It's Too Late?  —  Fascism poses a more serious threat now than at any time since the end of World War II.  —  On April 28, 1945 — 73 years ago — Italians hung the corpse of their former dictator Benito Mussolini upside down next to a gas station in Milan.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Shakesville
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
For Trump and his generals, ‘victory’ has different meanings … President Trump's pronouncement that he would be pulling troops out of Syria “very soon” has laid bare a major source of tension between the president and his generals.  —  Trump has made winning on the battlefields of Iraq …
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YouTube:
Republican Trey Gowdy Was Known For Being Hyperpartisan — Until Trump (HBO) … South Carolina Republican Trey Gowdy is retiring from Congress an unhappy man.  He's even counting the number of trips to the airport he has left until he can leave DC for good.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Alayna Treene / Axios:   Trey Gowdy says being in Congress was largely a waste of time
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
April House Overview: Ratings Changes in 13 Districts  —  The good news for Republicans is that President Trump's approval rating has, on balance, ticked up from 38 percent to 40 percent since January as attention has shifted from unpopular GOP proposals on healthcare and taxes to the economy, tariffs and Stormy Daniels.
Pierre Thomas / ABC News:
Mueller has evidence that Trump supporter's meeting with Putin ally may not have been a chance encounter: Sources  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained evidence that calls into question Congressional testimony given by Trump supporter and Blackwater founder Erik Prince last year …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Mueller probe tracking down Trump business partners, with Cohen a focus of queries  —  WASHINGTON  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators this week questioned an associate of the Trump Organization who was involved in overseas deals with President Donald Trump's company in recent years.
Discussion: Raw Story, The Mahablog and The Week
Sarah McCammon / NPR:
‘Concerned’ Evangelicals Plan To Meet With Trump As Sex Scandals Swirl  —  As allegations continue to swirl about the president and a payout to a porn star to cover up a sexual encounter, evangelical leaders are organizing a sit down with President Trump in June, four sources with knowledge of the planned meeting tell NPR.
Discussion: Political Wire, CNBC and Raw Story
Daily Mail:
Saudi crown prince says Jared Kushner handed him U.S. intelligence  —  Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman bragged of receiving classified US intelligence from Jared Kushner and using it as part of a purge of ‘corrupt’ princes and businessmen, DailyMail.com can disclose.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller seized bank accounts in Manafort probe  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office moved to seize bank accounts at three different financial institutions last year just one day before former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was indicted, prosecutors disclosed in a court filing Thursday.
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Anthony Scaramucci on Bannon and back-stabbing in DC  —  It has taken a Herculean effort to pin down Anthony Scaramucci.  Our lunch was originally scheduled for last November.  Then Scaramucci stumbled on an old tweet by the FT's editor, Lionel Barber, which compared the language he used …
BBC:
Russian spy poisoning: Sergei Skripal ‘improving rapidly’  —  Russian former spy Sergei Skripal is no longer in a critical condition after being poisoned by a nerve agent, doctors have said.  —  Salisbury District Hospital said Mr Skripal is responding well to treatment and “improving rapidly”.
Discussion: Politico, CNN and VICE News
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The Daily Beast:
Poisoned Spy Sergei Skripal No Longer in Critical Condition
Discussion: RedState
Politico:
Kander hires Des Moines Register scribe amid 2020 buzz  —  The Missouri Democrat raised his profile in a failed 2016 Senate bid.  —  Potential 2020 presidential candidate Jason Kander is hiring an Iowa-based communications director as his national organization staffs up.
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Discussion: Power Line
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