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5:55 PM ET, April 10, 2019

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Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Pelosi: 'I don't trust Barr; I trust Mueller'  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday she doesn't trust Attorney General William Barr and suggested his statements alleging President Donald Trump's campaign was spied on undermine Barr's independence as the nation's top law enforcement officer.
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Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
What the President May Now Fear Most in Mueller Report  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report is predicated, as far as we know, on a potentially explosive assumption.  —  Consider a head scratching set of conclusions.  The Special Counsel wrote that “the evidence does not establish …
Discussion: Raw Story
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Bill Barr Is Trying Hard to Be President Trump's Roy Cohn  —  It's not that bad.  Yet.  —  LISTEN TO ARTICLE  —  5:57  —  SHARE THIS ARTICLE  —  Share  —  Tweet  —  Post  —  Email  —  The attorney general of the United States is, we now know, quite sure of himself.  —  Exhibit A: Spying
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:   William Barr Sends Troubling Signals Ahead of Mueller Report Release
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Barr walks back claim that law enforcement spied on Trump campaign  —  Attorney General Bill Barr told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday that he believes spying by law enforcement officials on the 2016 Trump campaign “did occur,” before clarifying at the end of the hearing …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
William Barr's highly questionable use of Trump's ‘spying’ talking point  —  From almost the moment he was nominated as President Trump's attorney general, the question has been whether William P. Barr would do Trump's bidding.  He was assuming an important post in which Trump had grown frustrated …
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Barr Confirms Multiple Intel Agencies Implicated In Anti-Trump Spy Operation
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Washington Post:
Attorney general says he believes ‘spying did occur’ in campaign probe of Trump associates
Discussion: CNN, Talking Points Memo and The Week
Wall Street Journal:
Hush-Money Probe Gathered Evidence From Trump's Inner Circle  —  Federal investigators, looking into payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, questioned longtime aides of the president and amassed more evidence than previously known  —  The Manhattan U.S. attorney's office has gathered …
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Trump Hush Money Probe ‘Gathered Evidence From Hope Hicks’ and Others Close to President
Sarah Grossbart / E! Online:
Broken Friendships, Family Fights and Prison Sentence Anguish: How Lori Loughlin Is Coping With Her New Normal  —  Whatever happened to the woman who once declared her family wasn't interesting enough for prime time TV?  —  “We've been asked to do a reality show a couple times,” …
Discussion: Daily Wire and Vanity Fair
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
A Texas bill would make it possible to put women to death for having abortions  —  Men and women, young and old, native Texans and immigrants, they rose to ask lawmakers to protect life, describing a “genocide” and foreseeing the arrival of “God's wrath.”  —  The act of public atonement …
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David Crary / Associated Press:
Abortion foes mount direct challenges to Roe v. Wade
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Amid Trump's immigration crackdown, the administration is silent on whether the president's own company is being scrutinized  —  President Trump has shown he is willing to take dramatic steps to stop the flow of illegal immigration into the United States, but his administration has been silent …
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Washington Post:
Miller and Kushner on a potential collision course in Trump's border crisis
Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos and Arizona Mirror
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Trump's ‘truly bizarre’ visit to Mt. Vernon  —  President Donald Trump had some advice for George Washington.  —  During a guided tour of Mount Vernon last April with French president Emmanuel Macron, Trump learned that Washington was one of the major real-estate speculators of his era.
John Solomon / The Hill:
The single-sentence Russia bombshell that Attorney General Barr delivered to Congress  —  Sitting in the hot seat of a high-profile congressional hearing has a way of unmasking the mettle of any witness.  —  Attorney General William Barr showed us Tuesday, in his first testimony since the end …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
FBI brass discussed possibility Trump fired Comey ‘at the behest of’ Russia
Discussion: Raw Story
MJ Lee / CNN:
Elizabeth Warren's campaign announces $6 million first-quarter haul as it makes huge hires in early states  —  Warren: I'm tired of a Washington that works for the rich  —  (CNN)Sen. Elizabeth Warren raised more than $6 million for her presidential bid in the first quarter of 2019 …
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Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targeted in 2016  —  Joint Intelligence Bulletin issued in March says Russian hacking efforts were wide-ranging.  —  A joint intelligence bulletin (JIB) has been issued by the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation …
Noa Landau / Haaretz:
Discussion: Political Wire
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Steve Mnuchin tried to tell Maxine Waters how to run a congressional hearing.  It did not go well.  —  “Please cancel your meeting and respect our time.”  —  During a hearing on Tuesday, an exasperated Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin made House Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters …
Discussion: Common Dreams, ABC News, IJR and The Root
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Hosts Back Mnuchin in His Testy Exchange With Maxine Waters
Discussion: Politico, CNN and Contemptor
Lawfare:
Memo to the Press: How Not to Screw Up on the Mueller Report  —  Back in February, writing with Susan Hennessey and Mikhaila Fogel, we laid out “Four Principles for Reading the Mueller Report.”  The report was then still vapor, a document whose preparation was widely hypothesized by most analysts …
CNN:
Tiny bees found in woman's eye, feeding off tears  —  (CNN)Doctors treating a Taiwanese woman for a swollen eye were shocked to find four tiny bees living under her left eyelid.  —  The miniscule insects, known as sweat bees, are 3 to 4 millimeters (0.12-0.16 inches) in length, according to CNN affiliate CTS.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Guardian
New York Times:
Mick Mulvaney Tries Letting Trump Be Trump  —  WASHINGTON — When President Trump met with his embattled homeland security secretary on Sunday to force her out after months of stormy eruptions over immigration policy, the only other person in the room was Mick Mulvaney, who made no effort …
Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
The Smear Of Roger Scruton  —  The attempt to remove Roger Scruton from an honorary advisory role on the U.K. government's “Building Better, Building Beautiful” commission failed when it was tried last November.  But it succeeded today.  —  “You expect people who spend their lives on Twitter …
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The Guardian:
Government sacks Roger Scruton after remarks about Soros and Islamophobia
Discussion: New Statesman and The Sun
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Is This the Dumbest Moment in Congressional History?  —  A Kentucky congressman's impossibly daft line of questioning left John Kerry flabbergasted  —  Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) may have studied robotics at MIT, but he is now responsible for one of the most asinine moments in congressional history.
Washington Post:
If Trump has his way, this major federal agency is on the way out  —  The White House is moving to do what no president has accomplished since the end of World War II: eliminate a major federal agency.  —  If the Trump administration succeeds at dismantling the Office of Personnel Management …
Discussion: CNN, Daily Wire, TheBlaze and Axios
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Inside the (semi-)secret society for young Trump staffers  —  On the first Wednesday evening in February, Anthony Scaramucci entertained a packed house of like-minded souls at Rewind, a retro diner off Dupont Circle.  —  There, the former White House communications director fielded friendly questions …
Abby Vesoulis / TIME:
Donald Trump Inadvertently Killed the Pentagon Press Briefing.  Here's How That Hurts the Public  —  Gerard Butler's last action movie was about Navy SEALs rescuing a kidnapped Russian president to prevent World War III.  But the least realistic part may have been when the burly Scottish actor stood …
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Look at the Forest, Not the Trees: What We Do and Don't Know About 2020  —  In this age of constant stimulation and news and information overload, it is harder than ever to get perspective.  I am as guilty as anyone of getting sucked into the vortex of political twitter, only to emerge hours later with little to show for it.
Discussion: New York Times
Daily Mail:
Starr (pictured in 1998) admitted he ‘did not want to inflict further pain’ on Hillary by revealing that her humiliation of Foster had pushed the White House lawyer over the edge, he told Ronald Kessler  —  In interviews for my book The First Family Detail, the FBI agents who worked the case …
Discussion: Daily Wire
Jonathan Van Meter / Vogue:
The Awakening of Kim Kardashian West  —  WHEN I ENTER Kim Kardashian West's sprawling family home in Hidden Hills, California, on a warm afternoon in January, the first things I notice are boxes of Huggies sitting just inside the door.  They are reminders, if I need one …
Trisha Thadani / San Francisco Chronicle:
SF supervisors reject housing complex that would cast shadow on SoMa park  —  The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously rejected a 63-unit apartment complex, including 15 below-market-rate units, because it would cast an evening shadow on a South of Market park.
 
 
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Scott McCaffrey / INSIDENOVA.COM:
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Ashe Schow / Daily Wire:
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Why House Democrats' budget drama could portend a larger problem for the party
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
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