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9:35 PM ET, January 24, 2019

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CNN:
Exclusive: White House preparing draft national emergency order and identified $7 billion for wall  —  Washington (CNN)The White House is preparing a draft proclamation for President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency along the southern border and has identified more than $7 billion …
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Trump White House grows eager to escape losing shutdown fight  —  Now that the Senate has shot down President Donald Trump's compromise offer to end the month-long government shutdown, White House officials aren't sure of their next move.  —  But they do know one thing: they're losing, and they want to cut a deal.
Washington Post:
‘Am I out of touch?’:  Trump administration struggles to show empathy for workers.  —  On Day 34 of the government shutdown, with federal workers set to miss their second straight paycheck on Friday, the Trump administration was prominently represented by two denizens of Wall Street: Wilbur Ross and Larry Kudlow.
Washington Post:
Wilbur Ross says furloughed workers should take out a loan.  His agency's own credit union is charging nearly 9 percent  —  The Department of Commerce federal credit union is charging furloughed employees almost 9 percent interest on emergency loans to cover their missing paychecks …
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump aides set off furor with out-of-touch shutdown remarks  —  One of President Donald Trump's top aides likened the shutdown to a “vacation.”  Another called it a “glitch.”  And on Thursday, Democratic leaders pounced after Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said he didn't “really quite understand why” …
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Wilbur Ross doesn't understand why furloughed federal workers need food banks  —  Commerce secretary suggests they should be able to take out bridge loans  —  Chuck Grassley reminds U.S. Olympic Committee about requirements for its tax exemption Senate sets up Thursday test votes on ending shutdown …
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:   Commerce chief asks why furloughed workers using food banks
New York Times:
Another Loan? Furloughed Employees Balk at Wilbur Ross's Suggestion
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and The Guardian
Jeffrey Schweers / Tallahassee Democrat:
Florida Secretary of State Michael Ertel resigns after Halloween blackface photos emerge  —  Michael Ertel, the newly appointed Secretary of State of Gov. Ron DeSantis, has resigned after photos emerged of him posing as a Hurricane Katrina victim in blackface at a private Halloween party 14 years ago.
NBC News:
Officials rejected Jared Kushner for top secret security clearance, but were overruled  —  Jared Kushner was rejected for a top secret clearance by 2 career security specialists, but their supervisor overruled them and approved him, say sources.  —  WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner's application …
Discussion: Raw Story
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators read Pence riot act before shutdown votes  —  Frustrated GOP senators read Vice President Pence the riot act at a closed-door meeting Thursday, telling him the partial government shutdown needs to end soon, according to lawmakers in the room.  —  Republican senators …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump just lost a lot of leverage in the shutdown  —  Thursday's votes on President Trump's and the Democrats' plans to end the month-long government shutdown were never going to succeed.  But they sure seem to have reduced Trump's leverage.  —  Six Republican senators wound up voting …
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi: No Dem counteroffer on border security
Discussion: Politico, Vox and Daily Wire
Cameron Joseph / Talking Points Memo:   Six GOP Senators Buck Trump As Competing Shutdown Measures Fail
Washington Post:
Elizabeth Warren to propose new ‘wealth tax’ on very rich Americans, economist says  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will propose a new “wealth tax” on Americans with more than $50 million in assets, according to an economist advising her on the plan, as Democratic leaders vie …
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GQ:
The Unfinished Business of Bernie Sanders  —  He went from the rumpled bit player of the progressive movement to a legit presidential candidate and liberal kingmaker.  But now that Sanders wields such enormous power in Democratic politics, the question is, what's he going to do with it?
Discussion: Mediaite
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Is it time for journalists to sign off Twitter?
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Skripal poisoning: Trump admin yet to impose new Russia sanctions required by law  —  The European Union punished 4 Russians this week in connection with the Skripal poisoning, but the U.S. hasn't moved forward with its own penalties.  —  WASHINGTON — Nearly three months after deeming Russia …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
CNN:
Michael Cohen subpoenaed by Senate Intelligence committee  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was subpoenaed Thursday to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee in mid-February, according to a source close to Cohen.  —  It is not clear how Cohen will respond.
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Washington Post:
Koch network tells donors it plans to stay out of 2020 race, once again declining to back Trump  —  The conservative Koch political network has told donors that it plans to once again stay out of the presidential race and will not work to help reelect President Trump in 2020 …
Discussion: Axios, Political Wire and Raw Story
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
The Covington Boys and the Poison of Trumpism  —  For five days since the footage of an altercation between MAGA-clad Catholic school boys and the elder Native American activists Nathan Phillips near the Lincoln Memorial first caught fire online, the political Internet has been agonizing with itself …
Discussion: NB Blog, NBC News and New York Times
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Rich Lowry / Politico:
In Defense of the MAGA Hat
Discussion: Breitbart
Washington Post:
Witness in special counsel probe, former Stone associate, collected payments from Infowars through job Stone arranged  —  Over the past several months, author and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi has emerged as one of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's most vexing witnesses in his probe of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Sen. Michael Bennet slams Ted Cruz for ‘crocodile tears’ over the shutdown  —  Sen. Michael F. Bennet, typically a mild-mannered, congenial guy, on Thursday unleashed all of his furor over the partial government shutdown on Sen. Ted Cruz.  —  In a fiery exchange that played …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and The Week
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Trish Turner / ABC News:
Possible short-term compromise brewing on ending shutdown, Trump wants wall ‘down payment’
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and TheBlaze
Frank Jack Daniel / Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. to begin returning asylum seekers to Mexico on Friday - official  —  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States will return the first group of migrants seeking asylum in the United States to the Mexican border city of Tijuana on Friday, a spokesman for Mexico's president said on Thursday.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Dara Lind / Vox:   The US will begin sending some legal asylum seekers back to Mexico on Friday
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Disney Robot Obsession and Anthony Scaramucci's Dick Joke: Scenes From a White House Insider  —  They are who we thought they were.  —  Shortly after Donald Trump's election, a Disney crew was dispatched to the White House to record the new president's voice, which would be played through …
Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN's Jim Acosta is writing a book about Trump's war with the media  —  New York (CNN)CNN's chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta is authoring a book about the Trump administration and its battles with the news media.  —  The Harper imprint of HarperCollins Publishers announced the book on Thursday morning.
Washington Post:
Without a road map, Trump administration pins hopes on Venezuela's opposition  —  President Trump's bold decision to throw U.S. support behind a self-declared opposition government in Venezuela carries risks for a president whose foreign policy is staked on prizing American interests over others …
Discussion: USA Today, IJR and Common Dreams
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Alberto Luperon / Law & Crime:
Oregon Man Sentenced to 20 Months for Sexually Assaulting a Horse  —  Remember Kenneth Lijah Duyck?  Law&Crime wrote about him back in April of last year.  The Oregon man was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a horse.  That case closed this week.
BuzzFeed News:
Shoot Someone In A Major US City, And Odds Are You'll Get Away With It  —  A shocking number of shootings go unsolved.  In some police departments, hundreds of cases aren't investigated at all.  A joint investigation by The Trace and BuzzFeed News. … Devon Little was shot …
Discussion: The Trace
General Colin L. Powell:
Yesterday was a reassuring day for me.  I was on my way to Walter Reed Military Hospital for an exam.  As I drove along Interstate 495 my left front tire blew out.  I am a car guy and knew I could change it but it was cold outside and the lug bolts were very tight.
Discussion: CNN, KTLA, Task & Purpose and IJR
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon recently had private meetings with top Democratic Wall Street critic Maxine Waters  — J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon recently met in private with leading Wall Street critic Rep. Maxine Waters …
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Trump's Wall of Shame  —  It would stand as a lasting reminder of the white racial hostility surging through this moment in American history.  —  This is Jamelle Bouie's debut column.  —  The wall of Donald Trump's campaign and presidency has always operated both as a discrete proposal …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Hill
Aaron Gordon / Gothamist:
MTA Memo: Cuomo's L Train Plan Will Cause Crowding ‘Greater Than Anything Ever Experienced’  —  Just a few weeks ago, Governor Andrew Cuomo upended three years of transportation planning and shocked the city by announcing that L train service between Brooklyn and Manhattan would no longer need to be shut down for 15 months for repairs.
 
 
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Tracy Jan / Washington Post:
'It's like the real-life Hunger Games in America:' Shutdown threatens HUD's protections for vulnerable
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Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
Congress' Nonpartisan Research Arm Says Trump Could Build The Wall Without State of Emergency Or Funding
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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
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Sophia Bollag / Sacramento Bee:
California Republican Party gets even smaller: A GOP lawmaker defects to the Democrats
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
‘Trump will handle this’: Florida man tried to force Iraqi family out of his neighborhood, police say
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The political scientist Donald Trump should read
Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
This Time It's Russia's Emails Getting Leaked
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Voters see shutdown as bigger problem than border situation
 

 
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