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10:45 PM ET, February 10, 2020

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Release Detail  —  February 10, 2020 - Sanders Takes Top Spot In Dem Primary As Biden Falls, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Bloomberg Rises In Primary, Runs Strong Against Trump  —  In the wake of the Iowa caucuses and heading into the New Hampshire primary …
George T. Conway III / Washington Post:
Trump is right.  We might have to impeach him again.  —  George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York and an adviser to the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump super PAC.  —  “So we'll probably have to do it again.”  —  So said the already-once-impeached President Trump on Thursday in the East Room …
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Jenni Fink / Newsweek:
Tulsi Gabbard Defends Donald Trump Firing Alexander Vindman: ‘Whether People Like It or Not, There Are Consequences to Elections’  —  In breaking with some of her opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination, Representative Tulsi Gabbard defended President Donald Trump's decision to fire Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Bigger than Vindman: Trump scrubs 70 Obama holdovers from NSC
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Trump got rid of Vindman and Sondland. So what?
Discussion: USA Today and Raw Story
Clay Aiken / USA Today:
Clay Aiken on 2020 primary: Why I'm changing my vote from Joe Biden to Amy Klobuchar  —  It was difficult for me to move my support from Joe Biden.  But Amy Klobuchar is simply a better candidate for the 2020 race against Donald Trump.  —  For 2020, for Democrats, for America, Amy Klobuchar is the answer.
Discussion: Redstate
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The 2020 Democrats All Have the Same Problem
Washington Post:
Democratic candidates aim at a visiting Trump as they make last-day appeals to New Hampshire voters
Discussion: The Hill and Bloomberg
Philip Bump / Washington Post:   The billionaires may be accelerating a Biden collapse
Associated Press:   Joe Biden downplays New Hampshire amid last-minute scramble
Washington Post:
Barr acknowledges Justice Dept. has created ‘intake process’ to vet Giuliani's information on Bidens  —  Attorney General William P. Barr acknowledged Monday that the Justice Department would evaluate material that Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump's personal attorney …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Lindsey Graham Implicates William Barr in Massive Scandal, on Live Television  —  Yesterday, Senator Lindsey Graham appeared on Face the Nation and blurted out an apparent confession of what, if true, would be a scandal of Nixonian proportions.  Graham reported he had spoken with Attorney General William Barr that morning.
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Barr announces sweeping new sanctions, ‘significant escalation’ against left-wing sanctuary cities  —  Charging that so-called “sanctuary” cities that protect illegal immigrants are jeopardizing national security, Attorney General Bill Barr announced a slew of additional sanctions that he called a …
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Prosecutors recommend Roger Stone serve 7-9 years in prison  —  Federal prosecutors recommended in a sentencing memo filed Monday that Trump associate Roger Stone serve 87-108 months in prison — or 7-9 years — for crimes that include obstruction of justice, lying to Congress and witness tampering.
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Washington Post:
Roger Stone deserves 7 to 9 years prison for lying to Congress in Russia probe, U.S. says in …
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:   Prosecutors ask for 7 to 9 years in prison for Roger Stone
Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Trump Rallygoers Confident He Can Beat Any Democrat This November  —  “It's going to be a landslide,” one said Monday while waiting to hear Trump speak to an adoring throng in New Hampshire.  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. ― President Donald Trump's more rabid supporters aren't concerned …
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Pentagon budget shows what new Air Force One paint job will look like  —  The Pentagon on Monday revealed the final paint job plans for the revamped Air Force One presidential aircraft — a red, white and blue style reminiscent of the planes in President Trump's former airline.
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Ryan McCrimmon / Politico:
The quirky, the odd and the baffling in the Trump budget shuffle
Discussion: The Hill, The Verge and Bloomberg
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
Exclusive: Justice Department anti-human trafficking grants prompt whistleblower complaint  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Justice Department anti-human trafficking grant program is facing internal complaints, after two nonprofits were denied funding in favor of two less established groups whose applications …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Trump vowed to not cut Social Security and Medicare — hours before proposing just that  —  President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a White House session with the state governors on February 10, 2020.  Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images  —  The president is either brazenly lying about his 2021 budget or doesn't know what's in it.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump just saddled himself with a major campaign liability
Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
Mike Bloomberg doesn't want Silicon Valley's money.  He does want its employees.  —  Exclusive: Bloomberg gathered hundreds of tech leaders on a call to ask for their most talented friends.  —  Mike Bloomberg is not asking Silicon Valley leaders for their money as he ramps up his presidential campaign …
The Daily Beast:
The FBI Makes a Bizarre Claim About Pro-Choice Terrorism  —  The bureau revamped its homegrown-terror efforts to include “people on either side” of the abortion debate.  But there's almost no evidence of pro-choice violence.  —  The FBI is expanding its focus on domestic terrorism …
HuffPost:
Trump's First 3 Years Created 1.5 Million Fewer Jobs Than Obama's Last 3  —  New Labor Department statistics show that despite Trump's repeated boasts, job creation was a lot higher during Barack Obama's final years.  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. - As President Donald Trump takes the stage …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge cancels Michael Flynn sentencing  —  A judge has indefinitely postponed former national security adviser Michael Flynn's sentencing on a charge of lying to the FBI as Flynn presses to withdraw the guilty plea he entered more than two years ago in a case prosecuted by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
Trump world's latest attack on Romney: Tie him to Burisma  —  The MAGA machine is attempting to turn President Donald Trump's latest nemesis — Sen. Mitt Romney — into the next Hunter Biden.  —  Trump in recent days took a new turn in his attacks on the Utah senator, veering from assailing …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Bernie Bros and the Internet of Beefs  —  What if Bernie Sanders' internet mobs are an asset, and not a liability?  —  1. Bernie's Bros  —  I was reading the 417th piece about how Bernie supporters form online mobs that are basically the mirror-image of Twitter MAGA world.  —  It's this one, from CNN:
Quin Hillyer / Washington Examiner:
As Louisiana GOP censures Mitt Romney, David Duke laughs  —  The same Louisiana Republican Party that 30 years ago refused to censure former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke decided last Saturday to censure Sen. Mitt Romney.  —  The mind reels.  The stomach sickens.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Michael Hobbes / HuffPost:
1 A Slow-Motion Looting  —  OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, nearly every institution of American life has taken on the unmistakable stench of moral rot.  Corporate behemoths like Boeing and Wells Fargo have traded blue-chip credibility for white-collar callousness.
Michael Crowley / New York Times:
Some Experts Worry as a Germ-Phobic Trump Confronts a Growing Epidemic  —  When President Barack Obama contended with an Ebola oubreak, Mr. Trump demanded measures like canceling flights, forcing quarantines and even denying the return of American medical workers.
W.J. Hennigan / TIME:
Exclusive: Strange Russian Spacecraft Shadowing U.S. Spy Satellite, General Says  —  A pair of Russian satellites are tailing a multibillion-dollar U.S. spy satellite hundreds of miles above the Earth's surface, a top U.S. military commander tells TIME, underscoring a growing threat …
Discussion: CNN, UPI and SpaceNews.com
Reuters:
Exclusive: More than 100 U.S. troops diagnosed with brain injuries from Iran attack - officials  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military is preparing to report a more than 50% jump in cases of traumatic brain injury stemming from Iran's missile attack on a base in Iraq last month, U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday.
Discussion: CNN, Washington Post and The Week
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Republicans vow ‘revenge’ at ballot box after volunteers nearly hit by van  —  TALLAHASSEE — Florida and Duval County Republican leaders on Monday vowed “revenge” at the ballot box after a man drove his van into a tent of GOP volunteers who were registering voters over the weekend.
 
 
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Corey Lewandowski Endorses a Pablo Escobar Phone That Probably Isn't Real
Natasha Turak / CNBC:
There are Democrats who can win 2020 election, billionaire Trump-ally Tom Barrack says
Discussion: CNN and The Hill
Michelle Nichols / Reuters:
Exclusive: North Korea enhanced nuclear, missile programs in 2019 in breach of sanctions - U.N. report
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CBS News:
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