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12:50 PM ET, April 10, 2019

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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
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Bloomberg:
Barr Forms Team to Review FBI's Actions in Trump Probe  — Inquiry comes as House GOP pushes claims of anti-Trump bias  — Issue pursued as Democrats emphasize getting Mueller's report  —  Attorney General William Barr has assembled a team to review controversial counterintelligence decisions …
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 …
Discussion: The Federalist, Washington Post and CNN
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
FBI brass discussed possibility Trump fired Comey ‘at the behest of’ Russia  —  James Baker, the former top lawyer of the FBI, said senior bureau officials — including at least one deemed to be free of anti-Trump bias — discussed the possibility in May 2017 that President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Political Wire
Washington Post:
Attorney general says he believes ‘spying did occur’ in campaign probe of Trump associates
Discussion: 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 …
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 …
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Washington Post:
Twelve days of chaos: Inside the Trump White House's growing panic to contain the border crisis  —  He had threatened to close the southern border and ordered a halt to foreign aid for three Central American nations.  But as President Trump weighed his next move to respond to a mounting immigration crisis …
Washington Post:
Miller and Kushner on a potential collision course in Trump's border crisis  —  In President Trump's latest blowup over immigration, senior adviser Stephen Miller hovered omnipresent in the background — goading him in his threats to close the border, warning him of the dangers of looking weak …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Nielsen's allies trying to rehab her image for life after Trump
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Why Democrats aren't saying much about immigration
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
John Burnett / NPR:
Trump Administration Mulls Tougher Immigration Policies Amid DHS Shake-Up
Discussion: New York Times and Just Security
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The growing signs of a rift between Trump and the Senate GOP
Discussion: The Week, Booman Tribune and CNN
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.
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren becomes latest presidential hopeful to release 2018 tax returns  —  Warren paid nearly $231,000 in federal taxes in 2018.  —  Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren who on Wednesday became the latest candidate to release her 2018 federal tax returns …
Discussion: CNN, New York Times, Breitbart and Fox News
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders, Now a Millionaire, Pledges to Release Tax Returns by Monday
Washington Post:
Mnuchin, Waters engage in angry exchange with cameras rolling on Capitol Hill
BuzzFeed News:
Warner Bros. Shut Down Trump's 2020 Video For Using The “Dark Knight Rises” Score  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday posted a video on Twitter that appeared to be part of his 2020 reelection campaign.  In less than three hours, it had already amassed over 1 million views, but by late Tuesday night, the video was no longer available.
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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: Axios and TheBlaze
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
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 …
Anita Kumar / Politico:
GOP senators try to undermine Kushner's immigration plan  —  A group of Senate Republicans is moving to slash legal immigration, a plan designed to undercut a proposal by White House adviser Jared Kushner to boost the number of migrant workers admitted into the country.
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Franco Ordoñez / McClatchy Washington Bureau:   Trump picks Miller, setting up potential clash with Kushner on immigration
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
Democrats prepare border bills, say Trump enflamed problem
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Haley Byrd / CNN:
McConnell privately advises Republicans to tell Trump about Cain concerns  —  Herman Cain: Let them go out and dig up old allegations  —  (CNN)Senate Republican leaders are sending a message to members troubled by President Donald Trump's controversial Federal Reserve picks: Speak up.
Discussion: Shareblue Media
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Luke O'Neil / New York Magazine:
What I've Learned From Collecting Stories of People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox News  —  It was somewhere around the 100th response that my brain turned to mush.  —  Last week, I devoted an installment of my newsletter Welcome to Hell World to a dozen stories from people who …
John Gartner / USA Today:
Trump's cognitive deficits seem worse.  We need to know if he has dementia: Psychologist  —  We see signs that the president's abilities are declining, but the only way to find out for sure is to give him a full neuropsychological evaluation.  —  CONNECT  —  If Donald Trump were your father …
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Chris Vance / The Seattle Times:
End Constitutional Catch-22 and impeach President Trump  —  So far Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the leadership of the U.S. House Democratic majority have approached the issue of impeachment cautiously; with politics on their minds.  This is understandable, but also inconsistent with their constitutional duty.
Stuff.co.nz:
Man wearing a Trump T-shirt abuses people at Christchurch mosque where more than 40 people died  —  A man wearing a Donald Trump T-shirt has yelled abuse at members of the Muslim community gathered at one of the mosques targeted in the Christchurch terror attack.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
 
 
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Dominic Green / Spectator USA:
After yet another election win, what's next for Benjamin Netanyahu?
Discussion: The Guardian
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Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Trump digs in on false claim that he stopped Obama's family separation policy
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
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