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11:40 AM ET, March 18, 2019

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ProPublica:
Federal Authorities Raided Trump Fundraiser's Office in Money Laundering Probe  —  Federal authorities raided the office of Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy last summer, seeking records related to his dealings with foreign officials and Trump administration associates, according to a sealed search warrant obtained by ProPublica.
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David Siders / Politico:
Despite crowds, Beto campaign gets a rocky rollout
Discussion: Washington Post
Molly Hensley-Clancy / BuzzFeed News:
Twitter's Insiders Are Skeptical About Beto O'Rourke. Iowans Don't Seem To Care.
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Beto O'Rourke reports raising more than $6.1 million in first day of campaign, the highest total …
CNN:   Beto O'Rourke in talks with veteran Democratic strategist to become campaign manager
USA Today:
Poll: Half of Americans say Trump is victim of a ‘witch hunt’ as trust in Mueller erodes  —  After almost two years, Mueller's Russia investigation status can be confusing.  Here's an overview of the central question, and what we know.  —  CONNECT  —  WASHINGTON - Amid signs …
Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite
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Martin Lederman / Washington Post:
Why there may be much less — and much more — to the Mueller report than people expect  —  This piece has been updated.  —  Martin Lederman teaches constitutional law at the Georgetown University Law Center and has twice served in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department.
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Decrying court packing, Michael Bennet pleads with Democrats to care more about electability  —  THE BIG IDEA:  —  CONCORD, N.H.—Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) slammed his head on the table four times when I asked what he thought about other Democratic presidential contenders embracing …
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Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Exclusive: 7 U.S. Military Members Identified As Part Of White Nationalist Group  —  Leaked chat logs revealed active military servicemen with ties to the extremist group Identity Evropa.  —  Leaked chat logs have connected seven current members of the U.S. armed forces to a white nationalist group …
Discussion: Task & Purpose, Splinter and Raw Story
Laura Strickler / NBC News:
Ben Carson's schedule shows Friday trips to Florida, lunch with My Pillow founder  —  For 5 Fridays out of 31, Carson was off or had no appointments.  For 5 more he left before 2 p.m. to fly to South Florida, where he owns a mansion.  —  WASHINGTON — Ben Carson's daily schedule from 2017 shows …
Alana Goodman / Washington Examiner:
AOC group pushing left-wing candidates raked in ‘soft money’ she wants to ban  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., sat on the board of a political action committee that operated the type of “soft money” group she wants to abolish through a constitutional amendment, according to federal records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
Discussion: IJR
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Siena College Research Institute:
2/3 of Voters Say Amazon Cancelling Queens HQ Bad for NY
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Carl Campanile / New York Post:   Ocasio-Cortez is the ‘villain’ in Amazon HQ2 pullout: poll
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Michael Flynn's Family Is at War With Each Other Over QAnon  —  The retired general's brother and sister are fanning the flames.  His son is a public skeptic.  —  Michael Flynn's family members appear to be at war with each other over the QAnon conspiracy theory and whether Flynn himself is playing a role in it.
Princeton University News:
Alan Krueger, prominent Princeton economist, passes away  —  Alan Krueger, prominent Princeton economist, passes away  —  Princeton University is saddened to share that Alan Krueger, James Madison Professor of Political Economy, passed away over the weekend.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Ilhan Omar / Washington Post:
We must apply our universal values to all nations.  Only then will we achieve peace.  —  Ilhan Omar, a Democrat, represents Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.  —  Since I began my first term in Congress, I have sought to speak openly and honestly about the scale of the issues …
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Washington Post:   The meeting was supposed to ease tensions between Muslim and Jewish Democrats.  It ended with tears.
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
2020 Dems warm to expanding Supreme Court  —  After watching Mitch McConnell transform the judiciary over the past four years, liberals are demanding a bold response.  And Democrats are listening.  —  Sens. Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand told POLITICO they would not rule …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Ta-Nehisi Coates Is an Optimist Now A conversation about race and 2020.  —  In recent days, as Democrats debated the definition of “reparations,” Joe Biden rationalized his opposition to integration, and socialist congresswomen started demanding the rebirth of a nation, inquiring minds wanted to know: What would Ta-Nehisi say?
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
It Isn't Complicated: Trump Encourages Violence  —  He doesn't deserve blame for any specific attack.  He does deserve blame for the increase in white-nationalist violence.  —  The president of the United States suggested last week that his political supporters might resort to violence if they didn't get their way.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Eric Kaufmann / New York Times:
Americans Are Divided by Their Views on Race, Not Race Itself  —  It's a crucial difference — and grounds for optimism.  —  Mr. Kaufmann is the author of “Whiteshift: Immigration, Populism and the Future of White Majorities.”  —  Amid the uproar over the Ralph Northam blackface photograph …
Discussion: Althouse and Instapundit
Washington Post:
Inside YouTube's struggles to shut down video of the New Zealand shooting — and the humans who outsmarted its systems  —  SAN FRANCISCO — As a grisly video recorded by the alleged perpetrator of Friday's bloody massacres at two New Zealand mosques played out on YouTube and other social media …
Washington Post:
Trump was the face of the 737 probe  —  Several days after an Ethio­pian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed outside Ethio­pia's capital city, the Trump administration's senior air safety official was still defending the plane.  —  Acting Federal Aviation Administration chief Daniel K. Elwell …
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
GOP moves to rein in president's emergency powers  —  Republicans are digging in for a long fight over reining in the president's emergency powers, setting up a potential clash with both the White House and Democrats.  —  President Trump on Friday vetoed Congress's attempt to block …
Discussion: The Right Scoop, IJR and POLITICUSUSA
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Wisconsin swing voters tire of Trump  —  Wisconsin voters who supported Barack Obama in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016 are sick of Trump, saying in a focus group that they're getting tired of his “lies” and how he treats people, Axios' Alexi McCammond reports from Appleton.
Discussion: Raw Story
Gabriel Schoenfeld / The Bulwark:
Trump Supporters Say the Darndest Things  —  Or, what happens when one writes a negative review of Victor Davis Hanson's ‘The Case for Trump.’  —  Here at The Bulwark, I recently reviewed Victor Davis Hanson's new book, The Case for Trump.  Writing at National Review Online …
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Bernard-Henri Lévy on the Rights of Women and of the Accused  —  “The history of France, a permanent miracle, has the singular privilege of impassioning the peoples of the earth to the point where they all take part in French quarrels,” the French author André Maurois wrote.
New York Times:
Saudi Crown Prince's Brutal Drive to Crush Dissenters Began Before Khashoggi  —  WASHINGTON — Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia authorized a secret campaign to silence dissenters — which included the surveillance, kidnapping, detention and torture of Saudi citizens …
New York Times:
What Democrats Need to Know to Win in Rural America  —  The G.O.P. under President Trump has given liberals an opening in places like Iowa.  But they need to know how to speak to voters here.  —  Mr. Leonard is the news director for the Iowa radio stations KNIA and KRLS.
 
 
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Christina Goldbaum / New York Times:
Trump Crackdown Unnerves Immigrants, and the Farmers Who Rely on Them
Associated Press:
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USA Today:
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Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
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Shireen Qudosi / The Federalist:
Ilhan Omar Doesn't Represent American Muslims, She Represents Islamists
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Discussion: CNN
Washington Post:
'I haven't abandoned my principles': Hogan, pondering challenge to Trump, casts himself as a traditional Republican
CNN:
If Biden runs, he should commit to just one term
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Washington Post:
Age of victim in prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein, long a source of confusion, eased his obligations …
Discussion: The Week
Brynn Anderson / Post and Courier:
SC sheriffs fly first class, bully employees and line their pockets with taxpayer money
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
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