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7:40 AM ET, March 8, 2023

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Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson said he hates Trump ‘passionately’, Fox lawsuit documents show … Among the documents released Tuesday as part of the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems was an email from Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott …
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New York Times:
‘The Whole Thing Seems Insane’: New Documents Shed Light on Debate Inside Fox After Election  —  Messages and depositions from the network's stars like Tucker Carlson revealed serious misgivings about claims of election fraud even as some of the hosts told their audiences of millions a very different story.
Discussion: The Wrap and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Murdoch confided Trump was going ‘increasingly mad’ as Fox pushed false claims  —  The media executive's astonishingly candid assessments are found in thousands of pages of internal Fox documents released as part of a lawsuit by Dominion  —  In the weeks after the November 2020 election …
NBC News:
‘I hate him passionately’: Tucker Carlson was fed up with Trump after the 2020 election  —  On Jan. 4, 2021, Fox News host Tucker Carlson was done with Donald Trump.  —  “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights.  I truly can't wait,” he texted an unidentified person.
Washington Post:
‘Just a lie’: Senate Republicans blast Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 narrative  —  Speaker McCarthy, meanwhile, said he didn't regret allowing Carlson exclusive access to security footage and claimed it as a victory for transparency  —  Senate Republicans blasted Fox News on Tuesday for airing …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Breitbart
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The GOP backlash on Tucker Carlson  —  When some in the conservative movement baselessly pitched Jan. 6, 2021, as being fomented by antifa, Kevin McCarthy rebuked them.  “There is absolutely no evidence of that,” he said.  “Conservatives should be the first to say so.”
NBC News:
‘Bulls—’: GOP senators rebuke Tucker Carlson for downplaying Jan. 6 as ‘mostly peaceful’  —  WASHINGTON — A handful of Senate Republicans on Tuesday pushed back on conservative Fox News host Tucker Carlson after he characterized the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as “mostly peaceful chaos …
Politico:
House GOP faces a new Jan. 6 headache, courtesy of Tucker Carlson  —  House Republicans arrived in the Capitol on Tuesday facing a torrent of questions about the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.  —  This time it was a headache of their own making.  —  Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision …
CNN:
‘They scaled walls, they brought ropes’: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's own words contradict January 6 footage used by Tucker Carlson  —  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy once spoke about the violence at the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, in starkly different terms than the narrative Fox …
Richard Cowan / Reuters:
US Senator Schumer condemns Speaker McCarthy for supplying Jan.6 videos to Fox
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
Elon Musk Goes All In On Jan. 6 Denial
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Capitol Police chief blasts Tucker Carlson over ‘misleading’ Jan. 6 footage  —  Video aired by Carlson showed “QAnon shaman” Jacob Chansley accompanied by police, but not violence on the day rioters stormed the Capitol  —  After watching the first installment of Fox News host Tucker Carlson's look …
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NBC News:
Capitol Police chief tears into Tucker Carlson for claims about Officer Brian Sicknick  —  The Fox News host said that Democrats lied about Sicknick's death.  In a letter to Capitol Police officers, Chief Manger called Carlson's portrayal “offensive and misleading.”
CNN:
US Capitol Police chief rips into Tucker Carlson over ‘offensive’ use of January 6 footage
Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal:
FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk's Internal Communications, Journalist Names  —  Documents obtained by a House panel shed light on the probe into Twitter's compliance with settlement  —  Watch: Elon Musk Says a New Twitter CEO Could Be Named by Year-End
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James Clayton / BBC:
Worker asks Elon Musk on Twitter: Have I been fired?
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Biden FCC nominee withdraws, following bruising lobbying battle  —  Gigi Sohn notified the White House she would drop out after her nomination stalled for 16 months, amid industry opposition  —  Biden's pick to serve as a telecommunications regulator is withdrawing her nomination …
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Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Biden Is Set to Detail at Least $2 Trillion in Measures to Reduce Deficits  —  The president's proposals, included in the budget he will release on Thursday, are expected to heavily feature tax increases on corporations and high earners.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden on Thursday …
Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:
‘Sick and Twisted’: Women Describe Losing Pregnancies, Nearly Dying Because of Texas Laws  —  Five women are suing Texas, asking the state to clarify what constitutes a “medical emergency” under its abortion bans  —  AMANDA ZURAWSKI ENDURED 18 months of “grueling” fertility treatment …
Discussion: HuffPost and The Daily Caller
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Washington Post:
5 women denied abortions sue Texas in landmark post-Roe case
Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
Kyle Rittenhouse, the MAGA Star That Wasn't  —  Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.  —  Modern conservatives love to own the libs by supporting people who claim they've been “canceled.”
Discussion: Raw Story and Fox News
Kaya Yurieff / The Information:
TikTok Asks Creators to Help Win Over Lawmakers  —  TikTok sent a message to some creators this week inviting them to join top company executives in Washington D.C. in late March as the ByteDance-owned company continues to fight calls for a ban of the app in the U.S.
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Washington Post:
Available evidence still points to covid originating from spillover  —  Angela Rasmussen is a virologist and principal research scientist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan.  Saskia Popescu is an infectious-disease epidemiologist …
Catherine Clifford / CNBC:
A new nuclear reactor in the U.S. starts up.  It's the first in nearly seven years  — On Monday, Georgia Power announced that the Vogtle nuclear reactor Unit 3 has started a nuclear reaction inside the nuclear reactor.  Technically, this is called “initial criticality” …
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Is a Democrat really the favorite in the Kentucky governor race?  —  Donald Trump carried the state by 26 points, yet even Republicans admit knocking this popular incumbent off will be a challenge.  —  Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is entering his reelection contest in a rare position for a red state Democrat: the frontrunner.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Washington teeters on the brink of a Cold War over Social Security  —  Amending entitlements is a tall order for a Congress that disagrees on nearly everything.  Lawmakers are still wading into the mess, hoping to recreate a famed bipartisan deal that shored up the programs four decades ago.
Discussion: KFOR-TV
Washington Post:
Intelligence officials suspect Ukraine partisans behind Nord Stream bombings, rattling Kyiv's allies  —  A senior Western security official said an investigation had uncovered evidence that pro-Ukraine entities had discussed the possibility of carrying out an attack on the pipelines
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Twitter just let its privacy- and security-protecting Tor service expire … Twitter has allowed the certificate for its Tor onion site to expire, effectively killing off a privacy- and speech-protecting service that it introduced last year.  Visiting the Tor-specific onion site address …
New York Times:
Trump, Vowing ‘Retribution,’ Foretells a Second Term of Spite  —  In a speech before his supporters, the former president charged forward in an uncharted direction, talking openly about leveraging the power of the presidency for political reprisals.  —  Donald J. Trump has for decades trafficked …
Discussion: Mediaite and The Wrap
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
House GOP Chairman Calls It ‘A Mistake’ That Trump Didn't Bomb Meth Labs In Mexico  —  Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) appears to be the only House Republican wishing we had launched a military attack on a longtime U.S. ally.  —  The House Republican chairman with oversight of border issues …
Bill Chappell / NPR:
NYC Mayor Eric Adams is telling stores to have customers remove their face masks  —  Worries about the safety of New York City's deli clerks and bodega workers have Mayor Eric Adams making an unusual request: Members of the public should lower their face masks to reassure store workers they're not criminals …
Emily Wagster Pettus / Associated Press:
Mississippi Senate OKs bill affecting majority-Black city  —  The majority-white and Republican-led Mississippi Senate voted Tuesday to pass its version of a bill that would allow an expanded role for state police and appointed judges inside the majority-Black capital city of Jackson, which is led by Democrats.
Discussion: USA Today and Mississippi Today
Giulia Carbonaro / Newsweek:
Walgreens Stock Plummets After Gavin Newsom Vows to Cut Business Ties  —  The shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance, which owns the Walgreens retail pharmacy chain in the U.S., have dropped since California's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom announced the state won't deal with the company over its abortion pills stance.
 
 
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
No Labels Party qualifies for Arizona ballot in 2024
Discussion: Third Way, Political Wire and RedState
Emma Newburger / CNBC:
Treasury Secretary Yellen warns that losses tied to climate change could ‘cascade through the financial system’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Marc Racicot / Daily Montanan:
Marc Racicot's open letter to the Montana Republican Party
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:
House Republicans are taking steps to prepare for a possible debt ceiling default
Wall Street Journal:
U.S., China Plunge Further Into a Spiral of Hostilities
Discussion: The Diplomat
Jonathan Nicholson / HuffPost:
Oklahoma Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Effort To Legalize Recreational Marijuana
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Geoffrey Skelley / FiveThirtyEight:
The House Is About To Have 435 Members. That's Pretty Rare.
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
Chris D'Angelo / HuffPost:
NTSB Launches Special Investigation Into Railroad Behind Fiery Ohio Disaster
Kadia Goba / Semafor:
‘Our staff is working their tail off’: Jim Jordan responds to critics of his probe's slow start
Discussion: Fox News
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Intelligence contractor who praised Nazis found guilty in Jan. 6 riot
Discussion: CNN
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Edits Out Trump Saying He Might've Let Russia ‘Take Over’ Parts of Ukraine
Discussion: Raw Story
Axios:
Semafor's China problem
 

 
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Counterpoint Research:
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