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2:50 PM ET, February 27, 2019

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New York Times:
Cohen Plans to Call Trump a ‘Con Man’ and a ‘Cheat’ in Congressional Testimony  —  WASHINGTON — Michael D. Cohen plans to tell Congress on Wednesday that President Trump is a “con man” and a “cheat” who knew a longtime adviser was communicating with WikiLeaks — and who implicitly instructed …
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Michael Cohen's Testimony: Live Updates  —  Michael Cohen's Congressional Testimony  —  Michael D. Cohen, the former lawyer and fixer for President Donald J. Trump, took the stand on Wednesday morning to testify publicly against Mr. Trump before the House Oversight Committee.  —  KB  —  KV
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
Roger Stone Says Michael Cohen Is Lying, After Stone Was Ordered Not To Comment On The Mueller Investigation  —  WASHINGTON - Roger Stone pushed back against Michael Cohen's claims that Stone told Trump in July 2016 that he had spoken to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange about an email dump …
Discussion: Politico
The Daily Beast:
Matt Gaetz Under Investigation By Florida State Bar Over Michael Cohen Threat  —  The Florida congressman tells The Daily Beast he is unaware of the inquiry.  —  The Florida Bar has opened an investigation into whether Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) violated professional conduct rules …
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Testimony from Cohen Could Create New Legal Issues for Trump  —  WASHINGTON — The dramatic public testimony to Congress on Wednesday morning by President Trump's former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, could intensify the legal issues facing the president in the criminal and civil investigations …
Discussion: Washington Post, Mediaite and Vox
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Early takeaways from the Cohen hearing  —  WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW FROM THE MICHAEL COHEN HEARING ...  COHEN said this to Republicans: If you continue to follow PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, you will “suffer the same consequences that I'm suffering.”
Discussion: New York Times and The Daily Beast
Wall Street Journal:
Cohen Reveals New Aspect of Southern District Investigation  —  Under questioning by Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D., Ill.), Michael Cohen testified that his last communication with Mr. Trump or one of his representatives was within two months after the FBI in New York raided his home, office and hotel room in April 2018.
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Cohen testimony on Trump: ‘He is a racist.  He is a conman.  He is a cheat.’  —  Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, will provide documents to the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday that he says prove Trump committed “illicit” acts, according to prepared congressional testimony obtained by POLITICO.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Michael Cohen's explosive opening statement about Trump, annotated
Discussion: ABC News, Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump believes the investigations against him weaken his standing with foreign leaders
Maria Abi-Habib / New York Times:
Pakistani Military Says It Downed Two Indian Warplanes, Capturing Pilot  —  NEW DELHI — Pakistan said Wednesday that it downed two Indian fighter jets and captured a pilot, escalating hostilities between the nuclear-armed neighbors a day after Indian warplanes struck inside Pakistani territory for the first time in five decades.
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Greg P. / twitchy.com:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is furious at these photos of her and a staffer eating a hamburger and killing the planet  —  Apparently, when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says that Americans will have to eat fewer hamburgers to save the planet from global warming, she meant Americans who don't work for her.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Perry Chiaramonte / Fox News:
Payments to Ocasio-Cortez boyfriend spur FEC complaint from Republican group
Discussion: IJR and Instapundit
Alex Morris / Rolling Stone:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants the Country to Think Big
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Alana Goodman / Washington Examiner:
AOC ‘living wage’ rules allow her staff to dodge financial disclosure laws
Discussion: IJR and National Legal & …
Washington Post:
White House bans four journalists from covering Trump-Kim dinner because of shouted questions  —  HANOI — The White House abruptly banned four U.S. journalists from covering President Trump's dinner here Wednesday with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un after some of them shouted questions at the leaders during their earlier meetings.
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David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Mainstream Media Blacks Out The Democrats' Infanticide Vote  —  There's no good way to spin the Democrats' vote.  So many in the MSM simply ignored it.  —  So I was going to have a little fun at the expense of CNN this morning, contrasting the news site's headline for the Democrats' gun restriction bill …
Discussion: National Review, CBS News and CNN
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Alexandra DeSanctis / National Review:   Why Did Senate Democrats Refuse to Protect Infants?
Ellen Page / Hollywood Reporter:
Ellen Page on Jussie Smollett Fallout: Hate Violence Is Not a Hoax (Guest Column)  —  While the media debates the ‘Empire’ star's case, it's critical that we not losesight of the real threats underrepresented communities face every day, writes the actress and activist.
Discussion: IJR, Breitbart, twitchy.com and Daily Wire
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Pew: Phone polling in crisis again  —  The percentage of Americans willing to participate in telephone polls has hit a new low, according to a new report, raising doubts about the continued viability of the phone surveys that have traditionally dominated politics and elections, both in the media and in campaigns.
Discussion: Pew Research Center
Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
The biggest threat: A President permanently excusing wrongdoings  —  Look, I get it: It's really hard to keep track of all the latest twists and turns in the investigations around Donald Trump.  —  But here's the big picture from today's news: Under oath and in an open session of Congress …
Tyler Dukes / WRAL-TV:
McCrae Dowless, central figure in 9th District election probe, indicted  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — McCrae Dowless, the Bladen County political operative who emerged as a central figure in the investigation into irregularities in the 9th Congressional District, was arrested and charged Wednesday …
R. Stickney / KNSD-TV:
Workers Begin Removal of President Trump's Border Wall Prototypes  —  The prototypes will need to be removed to make way for replacement fencing  —  Watch Live Video San Diego from NBC 7  —  Wall sections built more than a year ago as examples of a border wall between U.S. and Mexico were in the process of being removed Wednesday.
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Kellyanne Conway says House Republicans failed Trump on border wall funding  —  White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday sharply criticized House Republicans for failing to deliver sufficient border-wall funding to President Trump when they controlled the chamber and cited …
Discussion: Hot Air and Raw Story
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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
The Humiliation of the Freedom Caucus
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
 
 
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